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The Washington times., 1914-02-16
READY FOR FLYTIME.

This sort of weather, with a zero
thermometer succeeded by billiards,
we are sure to forget the fly pest OF
Iast summers "dog. days" But this
is the time to get ready for. our
campaign next spring, when the "hy
swatter" will be as common house
hold implement as the broom.
Over in Jersey, where mosquitoes
are the ancient but still unconauered
foe, the Camden County Freeholders
have been asked to appropriate s19,-
$50 for the spring mosquito cam
paign. Jersey folk, realizing from
the multiplied experiences Of many
active summer nights that "swat-
ting" the pests is about as effective
as attacking the sea with a spoon,
are willing to spend thousands OF
dollars eliminating mosquitoes
breeding places.
Various cities have had many Wig
orous fy-swatting campaigns. The
flies have died by legions, and By
legions their progeny have crawled
out Of the manure pits and the thou
sand-odd Lreeding places Of big
cities, as we'll as rural districts.
Before spring comes let all COM
munities take a leaf out of New Jer-
sey's book and appropriate a little
money for the elimination of the fly.
By all means, when flies begin to
appear, let us swat them with might
and main; but, better yet, before
there are flies to swat, let rs get
after their breeding places.
"Prevent the fly" is a better cam
taign slogan than "Swat the fly"
The Washington times., 1914-02-16
Japan A POWDER MINE

1t is now clear that thet inspi,s-
ton for the japanese Disorders is
not national sentiment against the
United States, but against crushing
taxation at home. The riots arc
not inf1amed by California insults
10 national pride, but by hunger.
An enormous proportion Of the
total production of the japanese is
devoured by the carrying charges of
the government. Even in prosperous
days this is almost insupport2ble; ;
and now Japan is gnawed by fam
inc. So the peoplc-the bread-win-
ners, earning not enough for food,
but still required TO send their i.-
cesSant tribute to the treasurv-he-
gir uprisings against the govern
ment.
That's story as old as govern
Tncnt. whether of the Or;ent o. cf
the Occident.
As old story, too, is II that when
government is hard pressed from
within by the discomfort, the disor-
der, and the menace of its people,
one Of two things is likely to hap
pen. Either the government starts
counter-movement to take the
minds of the people off their per-
sonal grievances-starting, for ex-
ample, a back fire of foreign ell
tanglements, against the revolution
ary blaze at home-or, on that is
sue rival politicians, seizing a git
tcring opportunity, attempt TO get
control OF the government itself.
That's why the eyes Of all nations
are upon Japan.
The japanese government doesn't
| want war with the United States
| over Mexico, or California, o. any
thlSG else. The Japanese govern
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Photo by D0ek.

evening in compliment TO Mrs Elmer
Black, OF New York, who Is a guest
Of Miss Flora Wilson at the Portland
The German Ambassador and Count
ess Won Bernstorff entertained at lun-
cheon yesterday at the embassy
-
Rear Admiral Charles T. Hutchins.
Z. s. ~. and Mrs. Hutchins have cards
cut for tea on Thursday afternoon at
5 o'clock to meet Miss Margaret Anshn.
Miss Helen SQUIRE has cards out for
a dinner tomorrow evening.
Il
Nine: Bakhmeteff, wife OF the Rus
sian Ambassador. will be hostess at q
luncheon on March II at the embassy.
-
Mrs Hennen Jennings will entertain
at a. luncheon party on Friday.
-
Mrs. Albert Janin has sent out INVITA-
tions for a tea on Thursday 3terno9n
from until 8 O'Clock in compliment %
the Misses Powell.
=.
The marriage of Miss Stella katzen-
stein. daughter of Mrs. Clara Katzen-
stein, to Max Hecht, Of Pittsburgh, Pa,
will take place next Sunday at the home
of the BRIDE 12G5 Girard street
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What S on the Program in
Washington Today

Meetings. cvelIins:
Acknowledgements Lodge, No. ;. BENJAMIN
Il French. No 10; Anacostla. No. y Pen
talpha No. g. and Mt: Pleasant No. %.
Hiram Chapter, No 10, Royal Arch; Wash
iugtou Council. No. /, Royal and Select
Masters; Orient Comrnandcry. No. 8.
knights Te.nplar: Ruth Chapter. No. !.
order OF tho Eastern star.
W. T.. Beacon, No. Il. and LanSdon. No.
-; Naomi. No. /. and Roth. No. :. Re
b"kfh tpiSCs.
AIaccabees- National Tent. No: l, M. Yer
non. No. 4. ard Anacostia. No.
National Inion-Poioms" Council. tc3traI
council National Union Chora! Societ!,
r;"I 5fcu-Usase Tribe. No .. Fifth and c
streets northwest.
L-righls Of PNthias-E9uaI Lodge, ". l..
Golden Jubilee committee, Pythian lem
pic S u'Clvcl-
Hearings. Interstate Commerce Commissio ioI
i.cZzaniI4c floor, Now Willard.
Dance. Georgetown University Junior fl ass
large ballroom, New Willard evening; buf'
fr.t supper small ballroom. l:50 p. n.
Concert. United States Soldiers Homo Band
Stanley Hall. 30 -.
Central Labor Union. TypoSra phicIi Temple
,.5-i-5 C street northwest p N.
AEEiScraury. Daughters o. the American
Eevolution, Continental Memorial Hall.
Memorial services obstruction of the battle,
lhip Maine, Arlington Cemetery. 80 p. M
Banquet Monday Evening Club, Eauschcr's
Lecture Dr. c. + Winbigler, w. c. r. U
Building, p. IN.
Meeting Georgetown Citizens Association
Potomac Savings Bank hall. Wisconsin ave
nuc and NJ street northwest, D. IN.
citation. 3if Pennsylvania avenue southeast
u
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AT HOMES

Mrs. d. Percy Hick ing Will receive
this afternoon and next Monday.
-
Mrs. Robert E. Peary and Miss Peary
have returned from Ithaca and will be
at home informally on Thursday for
the last time this season
Mrs. William NJ. Calder. wife OF Con
zressman Calder of New York, and Mrs.
Luther Wright Mott, wife Of Congress-
man Mott of New York, viii be al
home at the New Willard tomorrow af-
ternoon from until o'clock; They
will receive in the F street parlor. and
will be assisted by Mrs John J: Fitz-
gerald, Mrs George W. Fairchild, Mrs
Thomas B. Punp M Ssd AND 9Gs Y6sk eaa5Ies aad MIS-
Mary Temple, Of Tennessee
=
Mrs. William L. La Toilette VIII re
ceive tomorrow from 3 to . O'Clock al
1i59 Harvard street,
Mrs. Edward B. Olney and Miss Re
mona lander will receive today from
4 TO 7 at PHI o street.
They viii. be assisted by Mrs. j. EakIn
Gadsby. Mrs Joseph A. Arnold, MIS- U
/ Conway, Mrs. c. l. Curtis and Mi>s
Katherine Biruey.
Mrs George r. Smitn, Oh MiiuicsOl
Mrs. George NJ Young and Miss Norton,
or North Dakota: Mrs. p. III. Kelly. OF
Michigan. and Mrs. Edmund Platt. Oh
New York, will be at home with Mrs.
John Burke. the wife of the Treasurer
of the United states, at Fontant Courts'
tomorrow, from to D.
Mrs. Fred 4. Britten. wife OF Con-
sressman Britten, will be at home 10
morrow at the Highlands, from 5 10 o.
=
! Mrs. w. NJ Geddes, 1913 Columbia
road. and her house guest, Mrs. ID.
Davis, of Melbourne, Australia VII.
he al home tomorrow from 70 .
O'clock. assisted by Mrs. F. Carr
smith. Mrs. w. E. Andrews, MIS-. r
G SNYDER, Miss Joyce. Mrs w. b
Green, and the Misses Dorothy anu
Marsery Snyder. s,D%sr D%rrnG Will inp play the
piano and violin.
Mrs Mccoy. wife of Congressman
Mccoy will be at homie tcm"rre%
.ha wyoming. Mrs. John W. Davis.
S-s S,avden, ard Mrs Boyd Will as
| sst.
| Mrs lob Barnard will receive today
for the last time until after Lent as
she will be out or the CITY.
| ,,.s Daniel c. Roper. wife of the
-. Assistant Postmaster General
i,.i,I NOT receive today, but Will be aI
home next Monday:
| Mrs \ \. Jones. wife of the FIRST
| ,,s;siaut Secretary of the Interior
viii not receive today.
The Washington times., 1914-02-16
COL. WILLIAM G. OORGAS

The announcement that the PreSi-
dent has nominated Col. William e.
Gorgas as Surgeon General of the
Army of the United States with the
rank of brigadier general, will be
received with approval, not only by
The medical profession, but also by
the public. Probably not since the
days of the civil war has it been
possible for a President to make an
appointment that will cause so much
general satisfaction. The people OF
the United States justly regard the
construction of the Panama canal as
one of the great achievements in our
national history. From the point OF
view of the constructing engineer,
its completion, in advance of the es-
timated time and at less than the cs-
timated cost, is a triumph for Amer
lean engineering skill, for the army
engineer and for West Point train
ing.
For his mastery ability as an Of
"anizer and administrator, highest
praise is due to Colonel Goethais,
and any reward which Congress or
the President may see fit to ccnfCi
on him will ne well deserved; but the
mechanical construction of the Par
Hma canal differs from other engi-
neering feats only in size. The work
of the sanitary department under
Colonel Gorgas has not only been
the greatest task of sanitation that
has over been undertaken, but it is
also unique and epoch-making. For
the first time in human history a
region which, since the earliest ira
ditions of civilization, has been re-
garded as a plague spot in which il
was impossible for civilized man to
live and work, has been converted
into place fitted for enjoyable habi,
tation and labor. with death rate
below that of the mos. roderir
cities. Such ar achievement is not
only of tie most vital Importance ii
The Washington times., 1914-02-16
ANGUS THIEF CATCHER.

We shall probably need police IN
~ the millennium, and as long as we
have them the name of Alphonse
! :ertillon, who died in Paris last
week, is likely to be remembered.
le lived to see the system for iden-
flying criminals which bears his
anne adopted throughout the civil
zed world.
Bertillon embodied many of the
best traditions of the French police
and detective service. He was a
scientist as well as an investigator
If the mysteries Of crime, and he
rurned to good account his excep-
tional gifts in both fields. Before his
time it had been known that finger
orints, face measurements and hanG-
"riting characteristics do not
change after the individual reaches
adult life. He conceived the idea of
a worldwide system of practically
perfect identification based upon
these facts, and the world eagerly
9ccepted it
The criminal may shave his beard
or mustache, may change the fash
ION of wearing his hair, may make
transformations in his complexion or
clothing, but he cannot alter the
angle of his jaw or the print Of his
humb. His operations are attended
ny risks that he once laughed it, and
Bertillon made them so.
The Washington times., 1914-02-16
FOREIGN.
Knights of Pythias in
Session at Willard

4. forerunner of the jubilee ceic-
bration on Thursday of the fiftieth an
niycrsarv OF the founding OF the Wash
om,rterIv meeting of the insurance
branch board of control is being held
TODAY in the New Willard.
Among those who have arrived here
from Indianapolis. arc Union &. Hunt.
rrcsident of the insurance branch; l'r.
george G.. Mcconnell. medical eAarnln-
cr-ln-chief, insurance division; W. ..
Pow crs, secretary of the insurance di-
vision: s. T.. Henshaw. secretary OF the
claims department insurance division
and the following members of the board
of control; George L. Bangs, Grand
Forks. y. D.; Charles S. Davis, Den
Yer. Colo: w. o. owen. Covlngton.
Tenn, and w. ]. Duval. Hutchinson.
Thomas ]. Corlins. supreme chancel-
lor. X. OF p, Macon, Ga, will arrive
tomorrow to take part in the jubilee.
The Washington times., 1914-02-16
Congress Leaders Will
Hurry Legislation Now

Concerned lest Congress fail 10 ad-
journ bv June l. Administration leaders
in Senate and House are to begin 70
hurry things this week.
Every effort is 20 be Made IL hasten
appropr!atior bills. The Se"ai" will
TAX up the postoificc appropr!hti"n bill
this week, while the House is Oh the
Indian Dill. Other appropriation meas
ures are 10 be pushed ss rapidly as
possible.
The Washington times., 1914-02-16
OUT OF WORK.

Announcement that the United
States Commission on Industrial Re-
lations has undertaken an investi-
cation looking to action by the Fed
eral Government to relieve unem-
ployment cannot fail to command
the attention of thinking men and
women all over the country. The
thing which is credited with bring
irg it about directly is the report
that 35O,O00 men and women are
out of work in New York.
A survey will be made of leading
industrial centers from Boston to
Kansas City. The commission is
proceeding on the theory the prob
lem is a permanent one. The plan
the commission has iE mind as 4
sort Of superficial remedy is to es-
tablish a Federal bureau to serve as
clearing house for public and pri-
vate agencies to direct the move
ments of migratory workers. Co
operation to end casual employment
will be urged on employers.
Chairman Frank p. Walsh of the
commission, said:
Hundreds of thousands CT men, in
-dustrious and anxious to work, are
either out of employment or without
assurance that their jobs will continue
another week or another day.
Groups numbering from 100 to 1000
stand on the docks outside our great
industriat plants each morning at 6
o'clock hoping the foreman will pull
them out of line and put them to work.
They are thankful If they get only a
few hours employment.
Poorly nourished and thinly clad
these men gather each morning for
the foremans inspection, submit to his
rapid scrutiny, and then many drift
away to the cheap saloons or cheap
lodging houses to wait for another
chance.
"Nonc can see this spectacle without
realizing that here is something So
ciety cannot afford to tolerate. An
employer never thinks of laying off his
bookkeeper or clerk after employing
him three or four hours in a day or
three or four days in a week. The
problem of continuous employment for
laborers is more difficult, but II is a
problem that must be solved If we
are to check the increase in our great
army of hopeless, homeless men.
IT nothing else will avail it may
10 tn inc inc
employment"
Federal control of all employment
agencies doing an interstate bust
ness is urged by E. w. Carpenter
manager of the National Employ.
ment Exchange, in New York city
This bureau was organized by some
of the largest employers Of labor to
serve as a model, and it is said tina;
the evils from which migratory
workers suffer at the hands of Other
agencies have been eliminated in its
operation.
1t is to be hoped that out Of this
investigation good will come anL
that it will tend to lessen the vasi
numbers of the army out of work
1t cannot be forgotten that back oi
this army of men and women out oi
employment is another still greater
army, composed of shivering, suf
fering families of those dependent
on the bread-winners. An army Of
men out of work in any city or 10
cality represents an infnitude oI
suffering.
The commission may reach tbs
situation through employment agen
cies or through insurance agains
employment, but the probabilities
are it will not. 1t is likely the rem
edy will have to strike deeper int
| economic causes than either of thes,
The Washington times., 1914-02-16

making possible the construction Of
the canal, but it also has broader
and a far greater significance. 1t is
a practical demonstration on large
scale Of the possibilities of preven-
tive medicine and of the application
cf scientific discoveries of the past
fifty years in the prevention Of dis
ease,
The Washington times., 1914-02-16
THE OLDEST INHAB SEZ-

"Why, I kin re-
member when BIZ
cycle riders uster
be arrested fer
speedin'. Now they
get pinched fer
blockin' traffic"
The Washington times., 1914-02-16
Bv CHARLES NJ. MAIGNE.

supplied hurriedly. must De provid-
Cd against the tir1e of need.
according to the authorities. rough
material may be licked into the
scmblance of a pasable infantryman
in six months. II takes at least
twice as long 10 make an artillery
man, and even longer TO train an
aviator. If war springs upon US
out Of the fog Of the future, how are
We TO get these trained men and
their all important equipment:
Country Never Has Seen
Real Struggle At Arms.
The valliantly ignorant American
says, when war comes we will hold
olir own," with a pompous clearing
of throat. He does not know
The United States never has been
engaged in real war, at the start. .
In the Revolution, England, with her
hands fun abroad. sent what insult
ficient number of men she could
spare to quell the insurrection. Our
farmers. outnumberins His MajeStys
troops. and fired by the spirit Of the
home soil, successfully availcd against
the scarlet coated regulars. Won to
us a land aid in the forge OF For
tune, welded us into a nation
Had England been free to send the
Serried ranks of half her IN force
against us, the ST. Andrews cross
would be floating over our heads to-
dav instead OF our beloved Stars and
Stripes.
The Mexican war, while a sharp
ht,le campaign. was practically nil.
Al the beginning of the civil war.
When the halves of a divided country
sprang at each other. there was al
most no organized force. At Bull
Run. history shows US that in their
ignorance of war, II was question
of which sido would break and run
first 1t was i great war, but not
at first.
The Spanish-AmeriCan war found
us grossly unpre epared. Had weak
little Spain been oser to the Cuban
theatcr of operations, We would have
suffered severely for our lack OF
preparedness.
:. first class, active enemy at the
prcscn: day could cat US alive be-
fore We could raise and equip force
to meet him, for our guard. Is down
and our eyes not upon the roadway
which We traverse.
Tn" business man fails to compare
his personal affairs with those of the
nation. but the same principle ap-
plics. cIactll'.
Each year, in his wisdom, he pays
tribute to some Insurance com
pau,, TO protect his family from
want in the day of grief. Is not
the want just as real when the
r:rim form of War STALKS athw"rt
the land. when the train of the
sable and crimson skirts. flaming
artillery, leaves devastation and
death where it has passed:
Commute the cost of war and the
cost of the relatively small insur-
ance prcmiunv of preparedness
guns and air craft first, then men
Compare the proportion. making
allowances for the average num-
her OF wears Of peace. with the
Droportion OF the business man s
nreinium to the amount of the
noIicy which guards his own and
You will find that in our Govern
men poor business policy guards
us inadequatcly-
The Washington times., 1914-02-16
New Diphtheria Cure.

CHICAGO, Feb. 16.-The newest cure
for diphtheria is sour milk. DR.. S. #.
Nicholson. jr.. OF Baltimore. presents
in the current Journal Of the american
Medical Association, The history OF
more than a score OF dipntherid cases
which he and Dr. john +. Hogan have
treated with sour milk The milk is
used ~ EaiSle.
The Washington times., 1914-02-16
Evelyn Thaw Is Barred
From Carolina Hotels

CHARLOTTE. n. c.. Feb. 1G.-AIrs.
EVELYN Nesbit Thaw, who appeared
here in n theatrical performance. was
unable 10 secure hotel accommoda-
tious and spent tho night i'll sleep
ing car in the railroad yards. Nome
OF the other members of her COM
pany were thus inconveHicnced.
At every hotel IT. whi,n :'hc applied
for lodging she w;s told there were
no rooms tC spare.
The Washington times., 1914-02-16
The Incomplete
Genius Of
America

This first of series of articles which mill set forth the
lamenable pilots the erpice Of the United
States strange that this country which heavier
flight world should have failed to take advantage of
its prestige SCIENCE instead standing well to the top of the
of natons equipment and trained military apao stands four
teen of aeropanes against the six hundred
and eleven OF the leader France
The Washington times., 1914-02-16
AmuSementS.

NATIONAL 'Oh: Oh. D"IphInc.' p. uD
I'cumbia-" CrinOiinc Girl, S:l1 p IA.
BeI2.co -''TNNelfth Night s." y. III.
Polls Mar Jan"'s Pa. - Ill and ST." Z. ~.
kcitl's-l aUdc Vile afternoon and evening
Cosmos-VaudeviIle, continuous.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, afternoon and evening
Gayety-Bur!esque. Els ana Els y. N.
The Washington times., 1914-02-16

Folks who shivered on Friday the
Thirteenth will have a chance again in
March, and another in November.
$4,000 in gold was shipped to Haiti
last week. That's enough to pay Off
5000 ex-presidents. The rest Of them
can wait
Huerta has been on his last legs SO
often, we begin to suspect he must be
q centpede. Or, at the least. taran-
tula.
Statistical society meeting in Boston
predicts the United States will be three
fourths foreign in 1850. Predictions
from Boston Must be always discounted.
From a Boston viewpoint, the United
States is four-thirds foreign at the
present time.
English steamer sighted an island Of
ice over two hundred miles long. If
this was July. a lot Of thrifty icelnen
would be killed in the rush.
Advance information from Paris indi-
Gates that gowns this year will be loose
and floppy, so in all probability the
mems ewes will act the same way.
The Government has made a proffer
of moral support to the proposed aero
plane flight across the Atlantic, but
moral support will not be of much use
in the middle of the ocean. Govern
rnent might have offered a pint of gaso-
line instead.
New York was completely showed un-
der last week, but Tammany is used to
1t by this time.
1t costs New York $4,000 to get rid
of ten inches of snow. or $4,000 an inch
but the snow WAS removed. Under the
old regime. the contracts would have
called for the snow to have been re-
moved by July or August. and the con-
tractor would have divided profits be-
tween himself and the sun.
The Washington times., 1914-02-16
TheNeWSin
Tabloid
GENERAL.
1OR BUSY RyADERS.


John J. Kennedy. State treasurer of
New York, committed suicide by cut
ting mis- throat in the basement OF a
hotel in Buffalo. N Y. He had been
subpoenaed TO attend today the graft
investigation which District Attorney
Whitman is conducting in New York
city.
Many New York streets are still
filled with snow, the task of removal
having proved much more dificult
than the street cleaning department
expected.
Plans in the defense Of Senator
Thomas z. Gore. defendant in a suit
at Oklahoma City for $4,000 damages,
for an alleged attack on Mrs. Minnie
F. Bond. were for the Senator to tes-
tify today in his own behalf.
Henry Bruere. city chamberlain Of
New York. in an address at the PARK
Avenue Methodist Church. New York.
said the police force of that city was
a. handsome lot. but virtually useless
He spoke Of aims of the new admins
tration.
A plan to consolidate tie city and
county was favored by Los Angeles 8
city council members as means OF
stopping the present wasteful system
OF double taxation.
DIR. Anna Howard Shaw. the suffrage
I leader, WHO IAci al fNAS
while alighting from train in Jersey
City Saturday. sent 4 message from
| her apartments in the Hotel McAlpin.
New York. that her condition was
fine"
The Hebrew ShelterinS and ln!ni-
grant Aid Society, of New York as
sisted 1918 newcomers to America
| last year.
| Three WaddeIl-Mahong guards and a
| deputy sheriff were found guilty OF
manslaughter for the killing Of Steve
Putrich a striking copper miner: AT
SebervilIe, Mich; another deputy sher-
| iff was acquitted. under instructions
| from the court.
Shad fishermen gathered along the
lower Delaware expressed the opinion
the coming season would break all
| records.
FOREIGN.
: piOtCus Sc"ne u-cIrr-l III IT," Jap
anese diet. members of the opposition
destroying III" b,'Iorh''N - reNGnt
| the adoption % the business Ia-:-
\ return 20 The Empire st.'l's was
tic feature # The .as.''"n dIStlay ~
the first spring ra.s &l' etinS at M
tcuil. Paris.
The Er"nHh ei"ct3ra, campaign was
opened by a mass meeting held py
the BriandisLs at i,arr,.
Extra hospital facilities % care Tor
the wounded IN the event OF war
against hore rule are G''in%s PROVIDED
throughout ;'lst"r.
The Washington times., 1914-02-16
The Silver
Lining
Bss,sd BY ARTHUR Bl1k.

Immigration Commissioner claims that
Asia is a menace, but any one who is
following the Worlds Tourists knows
that it will be long time before the
Orientals figure in a Worlds Series.
Massachusetts, astronomer has discov-
cred another star. which makes forty
tiny planets he has discovered. And
that proves pavements in New England
are just as slippery as sidewalks in
Washington.