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The Washington times., 1914-06-25
BASEBALL AT. OLYMPUS.

True lovers of sport in America
will be pleased with the decision of
the International Olympic Congress
that baseball shall not be included as
one of the sports at the Olympic
games in Berlin in 1916.
There are several reasons for this
felicitation., In the first place, base
ball is not an international sport,
and to put it on the Olympic list
would be to give this country An
unfair advantage which no real
sportsman desires it to have. We
have been trained to baseball for a
half century, while those other coun-
tries which know anything at all
about it have adopted it only re-
Gently. Naturally they are away
behind US in excellence.
In the second place, picking IN
Olympic baseball team would kick up
a pother about professionalism which
would make such disturbances of the
past seem tame indeed. Baseball is
the sport above all others in which
it pays to be a professional, and
few, indeed, who have superior base
ball ability withstand the lure of the
'big leagues. Any attempt to get
together for the international con-
tests an amateur baseball team of
topnotch class would result in a
great deal of recrinination as one
after another candidate was put for
ward.
Anyhow, baseball is an American
sport. Let Americans play it in
America; that should be credit
enough for it.
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ditions agree 10 anything that the
third will ACCEPT! 1t is nonsense to
assume that this represents any real
forward step.
OF course. this bandying of words
serves to keep the mediation confer
ence alive, and to gain time; 1t post
pones the day waen there must be
agreement that nothing can be ac-
complished in this manner.
Doubtless the Carranzistas are
satisfied, for they are keeping their
couEtenance while at the same time
making splendid military progress.
They don't want to commit them
selves to anything that will deprive
them of eny part of the fruits of the
victory that they arc confident of
winning. On the other hand they
don't want to be ill-mannered, and
to break up a polite gathering that
will do them no harm SO long as it
does nothing at all. 1t looks, from
this distance, as if Carranza and
Villa had played their cards ex-
trcmeiy well.
Zacatecas has fallen before the
terrific onslaught of Villa, and the
inevitable is by that much nearer
than ever before. The news reports
bring estimates of very heavy losses
sustained by Villa; but in the past,
whenever he has won a battle at The
cost Of huge losses, he has promptly
turned up with bigger and stronger
army than ever before. He has prov
ed himself one of the greatest mill
tary geniuses that this continent, at
least, has prcdlced. Small wonder
that he is determined that diplomacy
shall surrender no part of that which
he is winning with his sword.
The Washington times., 1914-06-25
KING PETERS WITH
DRAWAL.

King Peter of Servia has with
drawn for the time being from his
country and designated his son as
regent in his absence. 1t is common
report that this is only preliminary
to definite aodication.
Modern times has known no more
revolving tragedy than the palace
conspiracy in Belgrade eleven years
ago, in which a cabal of military
men enjoying the intimate confidence
Of the sovereigns and easy access
to their apartments, murdered King
Alexander and Queen Draga in their
bed at night, and ut the same time
killed cabinet officers, members of
the royal family, and in all two
score or more of the most important
people in the capital. Then they of
fereG the throne to Peter, and he
accepted.
Without doubt, a most horrible
crime Yet from the outside it is
not easy to be certain that judgment
may not more or less err. King
Alexander by all accounts was just
the sort of sovereign under whom it
would have been impossible to make
Servia what it is today. Strong men
around him determined to put him
out Of the way, ard did. They ex-
terminated his immediate dynasty,
and gave the throne to the man
whom they believed they could man.
age. He accepted; and the decade
from that day to this has been a
most remarkable era for Servia.
The country mas been magnificent
ly prosperous. 1t has built up the
wonderful army that proved the
backbone of the allies strength in
the war against Turkey. 1t has
taken a leading part in the formation
of the alliance, and has got more
glory and more substantial benefits
from the war than any other of the
allies. 1t has seen Turkey and Bull
garia in turn defeated and we'll
nigh ruined; now it sees Greece and
Turkey about TO fly at each others
throats, in a desperate struggle tant
would almost certainly end in such
injury to both as would further en-
hance the prestige and power of Ser
via in the Balkan peninsula.
hing Peter has not been strong
ruler. He is understood to have been
putty in the hands Of the coterie of
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thew will not allow vice. crime
and disease to destroy thens-self
preservation is one Of the funda-
mental principles of the race.
''Oh, we'll" she said IN parting,
"of course, you may be able 20
modify conditions. but never viii
you abolish VICE"
Keynote of Discussion
"of course. you may be able to
modify conditions!"
This thought is the keynote Of our
talk. There is no limit to modifca-
ton. have studied her thought
and that part of the worlds who
never have faith to believe IN
change. those who will rot adopt
Why, may ask. II We can
modify to a certain extent, do We
not continue to modify until we are
satisfied with the result?
What Is the result OF closing the
segregated district" many ask OF
those who do not want to take part
in the struggle for humanity. 1T Is
worse than it was before. why.
now We have those very women IN
homes next to US, or the apartment
next to ours Is occupied with ques-
tionable women" CPlease note-nah
Is yet lrnmuneJ o ,or,a
70 live near my loved ones. and the
murmur and unrest Is growing INTO
a mighty whisper. which eventually
will burst forth into a mighty voice
of protest. and then-what next!
Education VS.. Legislation.
VIII we try to legislate! WIZ
Hesitation solve the prooiem'
From the standpoint of the male
LEGISLATORS too much has already
been done along this line. why
not educate? The turning OF the
women out a segregated dlstriSt
Classes Is good food for educa-
ton. Why not get acquainted
with our sisters of misfortune and
learn the causes that produced
this effect. The trend Is IN the
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COURAGEOUS STATES
MAN!

senator Works of California has
foduced and will press for action
Ia DILL prohibiting tips. The Sena-
has worked out a theory which
Eht to operate just as well as most
the theories under which the pow
Of Congress has been invoked to
kulate things.
Che measure attempts only to deal
h the tip as an incident to inter-
te traffic. l. wouldn't, for in
Enoe, put the tip out of a New
|rk MOTEL; but it would end the tip
interstate trains. The dining car
Fw would have to get their wages
pm the company. and-O, joy! o,
pture! the Pullman porter
buldn't be allowed to take nor the
ssenger to give a tip.
Here's hoping the Senator can
|rther stretch the commerce clause
that it will make the no-tip rule
|ply to persons in interstate travel.
pr instance, suppose he writes in a
|hnition which will define a hotel
a place where folks are enter
lined, presumably in interstate
'urneying? Couldn't the Supreme
ourt be induced to uphold that rule,
nd thus put at end to tipping in all
otels? 1t doesn't strike one that
le construction would be much
pre- difficult than some of those that
IVe been arrived at concerning
ltels and their conduct under the
arful and wonderful Raines law in
ev York.
Y Neanwhile, hats are off to the
atesman from California, most
of solons. If he doesn't
t ground glass in his sugar or
senic in his coffee it will be fur
er proof that there's q divinity
the fate of those whom
lraanity really needs for its service.
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JUST A MIOR1I[ENT
DAILY STRENGTH AND CHEER.

Compiled by John G. ouinius. The
Sunshine MANI
What a blessing that the author Of
our love is firmly fixed beneath the
cross of Christ, embedded in the cleft
of the Rock forever.-Hedley Wears.
Tn every life
There's a pause that is better than on
ward rush,
Better than hewing or mightiest doing:
'Tis the standing still at sovereign
will.
There's a hush that is better than ar
dent speech.
Better than signing or wilderness cry
ing;
'Tis the being still at sovereign will,
The pause and the hush sing a double
song,
In unison low and for all time long.
0. human soul. Gods working plan
Goes on. nor heeds the aid of man!
Stand still, and see!
Be still, and know!''
in very tiny things. such as pearls
and diamonds. that a baby's hand may
hide. great treasures are sometimes
held. We see displays of power, glory
and beauty in the immensities which
suggest the infinite; but these sugges-
fnitesimal. Size is not the measure of
value.
There are also in the world of
thought and literature little things that
souls with insight highly esteem, lit
tie books that outweigh whole libraries:
single sentences that for beauty and
wisdom transcend huge volumes of
science and philosophy. Sometimes the
best results Of century of history are
wrapped up in n single sentence; and
a poetic couplet or an apothegm may
contain a word Of thought and grace.
An appreciative soul. intent on SER
vice, may wander through these treas
uries of literature. and gather for the
profit of others. these living and life
giving sentences.-J. H. Vincent
The Washington times., 1914-06-25

right direction. Woman can not
much longer close her eyes to her
responsibilities because a menace
Is lowering over her loving brood.
about to strike.
Mime. Despard. president of the
Women's Freedom League, says in
The Woman's Movement"
THE family Is the unit of the state
and the source of its wealth That
must weaken and impoverisn The
state"
To rear q stroug, Intelligent, and
successfuI race of men. rs well as
of women, we need a ceneratiOn of
independent, vigorous, aud we'll
developed women. Women are
thinking. Women are restless and
discontented. Woman In awaken
lug to woman's possibilities. and
with II she recognizes the ruthless
waste man has laid upon her sex.
am reminded OF an acquaintance
who holds an official position say
ing. this winter:
How can you be Interested In
those people. 1t makes me shudder.
/ could not have such womSn in
nv home"
'.And yet" I calmly said. knowing
how extensive cne's acquaintance
with a constituency must be. land
yet, no doubt you have often found
IL necessary to entertain the mate Of
the woman you dread"
She was fair. and said: Yes. but
somehow, you know. we women have
condoned the excesses of men,"
Near the Awakening.
The woman's movement, which
even men say Is stronger than all
other movements. will never waver
In its pure conception of what Is
right for women, until single
standard of morality has been es-
tablished.
Woman will never cease in her
efforts to make reparation for the
past until men and women alike
realize there can be no separate
standards for one, in the cause of
childhood: what hurts one hurts
the other. That the fnmutable
Divine law Is for unity Of purpose.
II the universe is to be redeemed
and IT Is only through concerted ac-
ton Of each for all and all Tor each
that the Brotherhood of Man will be- p
come a realty, for the force Is at
work, and our tomorrows viii be
built upon the knowledge gained
through solving the problems or
yesterdays.
why do you weep. little sister,
asked one of our many newly found
friends.
She answered between sobs: 20.
II / had only had the early training
i am trying to give my little girls.
but no one told me anything-I am
weeping for the past"
az think you will be better
mother for your past" / answered.
''and / trust will develop your little
daughters to be powers to help
forget the mistakes OF the past
"Rrt n. what a difference knowl-
edge would have made in my life,
she answered.
The Washington times., 1914-06-25

The Boys and Girls Club project In
agriculture and home economies WAS
promoted and encouraged for the nrst
time two years ago as a nauon-"lde
movement to include the Northern
Central and Western States by the
limited States Department of Agricul-
ture Bureau of Plant Industry. The
work has been conducted largely
in cooperation with the colleges
OF agriculture through their extension
departments. More or less club work has
been conducted by the States and by
county superintendents of schools In
considerable number of the Northern,
Central and Western States tor the past
twerty years.
Club work is the performance of a
definite farm. garden. or farm home In
terest enterprise. ard Is based upon the
hest known farm and home economic
practice. Business methods should gov
ern the work and the members should
be orsanlzed into local clubs, this or
SANITATION to be federated with the
county. State ami national movements.
Club projects are usually outlined with
a view to cover n seasons work OF
from four to ten months. and when the
work is closely correlated with the
school exercises it will be an easy mat
ter 20 make the work cover the entire
calendar year. Corn, poultry. home
garden, canning. potato, market garden
and alfalfa clubs are Illustrations OF
the various types OF club projects.
In all of these club projects the MEM
pers should be permitted to receive and
keep the net profit on their investment
of time. money and energy and this
work will necessitate the careful study
of Instructions. making observations.
keeping careful records throughout
the season. making exhibits at the
fairs, gardening. grating and marketing
and In all demonstrate correct practi-
ce. Of farm, garden and kitchen values.
Some Objects of Club Work.
To offer to the young people OF rural
life careful guidance which will lead
eventually to 4 better type OF American
farmer and house builders.
To demonstrate through the boys and
girls what is right in farm and home
practices.
To enlist the interest and efforts of
the boys and girls In problems Of ef-
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The Washington times., 1914-06-25

assassins who made him King in
name, while they in fact held the
power. But the fact remains that as
a result of that horrible palace revo-
luton at Belgrade, and through the
power and abilities of the men who
directed it, Servia has been put on
the worlds map as power, coun-
try not to be overlooked, a very pos
sible arbiter of the future of the
Turkish peninsula. 1t is not to con-
done wholesale murder, to observe
these things; it is merely to call at
tention to facts as they are.
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By Way of Inducement.

certain youngster in washington
was one dav suffering greatly by rea-
son of an aching tooth. His mother was
endeavoring to calm him against the
necessary visit to the dentist.
You'll have il out, won't you.
dearie?'' the mother pleaded. 1T won't
hurt much. and then the ache will all
be over
But the unhappy child continued to
howl with pain. His brother. a year
older. was likewise distressed and add
"a his pleadings to those of the moth
Or.
DO have 1t out. dear" repeated the
mother.
Yes. Dick. have 1t out added the
brother. 1T will be one less to clean,
youu know."-Lippincott's
The Washington times., 1914-06-25
OUCATINC THE PUBLIC
TO FIGHT DISEASE.

One of the most healthful signs of
be times, spiritually as we'll as
physically, has been reflected in the
|roceedings of the American Medical
|[ssociation at Atlantic City. For
pine years preventive medicine. as
|cr trasted with merely curative
fe 1Iclne, has been the goal toward
Fh ch the progressive minds in the
|r. .fession have directed their en-
rg'es, and it now appears that these
Pc have rallied to their standard
he great body of professional opin-
pr and influence.
The education of the public" was
be keynote of the report and recon-
nendations of the council of health.
{ vas urged that advances in medi-
3 science be disseminated widely
j ough popular channels, so that
5 knowledge may be utilized "in
'e prevention of disease, the reduc-
t, Of the death rate, and the pro-
, CATION of human life"
ne use of the newspapers to carry
his information to the public re-
{ we'd distinguished Endorsement,
e ably from Col. Charles E. Wood
II, u. S. A, retired, who is one of
e editors of American Medicine.
said:
The trouble with ethical publica-
lons is that they do not reach The
aublic. The public is entitled TO
now as quickly as the profession
q an convey It anything that has
raring upon the public health.
Ethics" which would deprive the
eople OF knowledge of a great rIedi-
al o. surgical discovery which the
7ity might apply are d grave blum
Ier- Public education will mean a
eduction Of the death rate, and
mere is no greater duty before the
medical profession today than that
taking the great public into its
audience and supplying millions of
readers with information couched in
simple language, so that IL may be
ieadily understood and applied.
Distinguished members of the
1edical profession do not fear any
nger to thrust at the ancient and
Gnerable code of ethics, which
ood many of them have come to
.Iieve, with Colonel Woodruff, con-
tins some outgrown sections that
tsnd in the way of the public good.
cwspaper satisfaction with the new
loyement is personal as well as gen.
al, because the newspapers have
cen so extensively and uninterrupt-
iIy reformed by the doctors that a
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Women Demand
Single Standard
Full Recognition of Common Humanity Needed Be-
fore Feminist Movement Can Be Halted
Declares Mrs. Dubois, in Talk on
Parental Responsibilities.

Full recognition of the humanity of and
must before there be halt in the
declares Mrs Dubois There will wdpering single
morality established separate
ard the childhood
made repaaon for the and knowledge
of the child
may modify present conditions, then keep
until produce safety Legislation will suffice There be
education Woman close her responsible
the serpent of Indifference hopering child will be
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TOMORROW.
Meetings. evening:

Meetings, evening:
Masonic-St. Johns Lodge. No IL and z. A.
Hope, No. %; Eureka Chapter. No. T.
Royal Arch; Takoma Chapter. No. Il, Ca
thedral No. Il. and St. Johns Lodge Chap
ter. No. IS. Order Eastern Star.
Odd Fellows-Central Lodge. No. 1: Metropo-
lis, No. Is. and Phoenix. No s, and Martha
Washington Lodge. No. : RebeSah Lodge.
knights of Pythias-SyracusianS Lodge. No.
10 and RathbOne-Superior. No. y and
Rathbone Temple. No. S, Pythian sisters
National Union-East Washington CocnelL
and Mckinley Council.
The Washington times., 1914-06-25
Sizing Up Louis.

There recently came to a fashiona BILE
shoc-shop in Chicago a daughter of a
man whose wealth has been acquired
within very recent years. The young
woman was disposed to patronize the
clerk. and rejected a number of classy"
slippers he produced for her approval
Finally she said
Il think perhaps. ! shall take these
two pairs But Louis XIV heels are too
high for me. Give me a size luwer--Or,
stay-perhaps Louis XIII will be high
erouGh."-Harper's
The Washington times., 1914-06-25
A FISCAL COMMISSION.

From the House District Commit
tee comes assurance of a favorable
report on the Prouty resolution for
an investigation of the fiscal system
of the District of Columbia.
This resolution was introduced a
long time ago, and looks to the
creation of a body of seven, who
shall study in all necessary detail
the relations between the national
and the local government, the divi-
sion of expense, and the general
equities; reporting its conclusions as
to the desirability of this system or
of any other that the commission
deems preferable.
The commission is to be composed
of the chairmen of the House and
Senate Committees on District of
Columbia, the chairman of the Board
Uf Commissioners of the District,
and four other persons to be named
by the President, none of whom
shall be resident or property owner
here.
Perhaps some useful purpose
would be accomplished by having
this investigation undertaken; but
in present conditions it is not ap-
parent. The chairman of the House
District Committee would devote
himself to an effort to break down
the present fiscal arrangement of
the District. He would be quite in
capable of a serious, consecutive, in
telligent inquiry as to the matters
that would need illumination. Preju-
dice and animosities would rule him
to the exclusion of all possibility of
fair treatment of the question in
hand.
Between the Senate committees
chairman and the House committees
chairman there could hardly be any
effective cooperation. Even now, the
District appropriation bill hangs
like Mahomet's coffin, because the
House and Senate committees are
utterly at loggerheads. Why on
earth should more Of the delicate
and difficult affairs of the District
be thrust into that hopeless jam?
The President would be called to
name four out>ide members of the
commission, and these might within
some limitations save the day. But
sooner or later, long before the work
was finished, it would be found that
Johnson was determined to make the
inquiry a failure unless he could
completely dominate it. The outside
members of the commission would
be pretty certain not to sense the
peculiarly difficult aspects of the
Washington situation until they had
been brought under the influence of
the enemies of the Capital; and the
result very possibly might be a re-
port calculated to injure the Capital
and the national interest in the Cap
ital.
If such a report were brought in,
Congress would smother it, and there
would be the emo Of the whole affair.
Congress isn't much for taking the
advice of commissions and experts,
anyhow. Even when it could better
its legislative output by that course,
it prefers generally to do its own
and that is what it will ul-
ti.natcly do in the matter of Wash
ington's governmental scheme. There
isn't any use appointing the COM
mittee that is contemplated by the
Prouty resolution, because the sort
of committee it provides couldn't do
worth while, and another
doing something worth
while, couldn't get Congress to pay
any attention to what il did.
The Washington times., 1914-06-25

very human pleasure is afforded by
the transfer Of part of their at
tention to the task of reforming
themselves.
The Washington times., 1914-06-25
The Ways of Thrift

ficiency and greater economy in farm
and home
To offer 10 the young people the
proper leadership and direction 70: their
on personal conservation as we'll as
the conserN alton Of American agricul-
ture.
To fix habits OF industry and thrift.
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What S on the Program IN
Washington
TODAY.

Meetings, evening:
Masonic-The New Jerusalem Lodge. No 9.
George c. Whiting. No. -, and Temple
Noyes, No. g: Washington Chapter. No. }.
Royal Arch: Special Session Grand Chapter.
and William F. Hunt Chapter. No. IS. Or
der Eastern Star.
Odd FelIows-Columbia Lodge No. 10: Excel
siors No. II. and Salem. No. -.
Knights OF Pythias-Harmony Lodge. No. p.
National Union-Bancroft Council. and Dahp
Eren Council.
Meeting. Capital Poultry and Pigeon Asso.
ciation Public Library. s .. m.
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and there Is not
much chance to
C h a nge condi-
tons
"B ut condi-
tons are chang
ing" I said, and
"and when men
a n d w o m Q n
stand in their
proper relations
to one another.
and see things
as they are-not
as they seem.
7 foal yarv aIlra