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The Washington times., 1914-05-27

be effected. There are some unre-
constructed survivors Of the old
regime who are yet opposing them
selves to the policies and purposes
which alone are representing a meet
ing ground on which reunion can
take place; but they are not many,
and they are not powerful. There
are some such as Penrose in Penn
sylvania, Foraker in Ohio, and
Barnes in New York; but they are
not to be taken very seriously as
against the perfectly plain evidence
that the vast majorities of both op-
position parties want to get together,
and to get together on a progressive
program, constructive and forward
looking.
The battle of 1914 will be in large
part battle for elimination of such
figures, so that there may be no
doubt of the effective dominance Of
really progressive principles in the
reorganized party. Colonel Roose-
welt has made no move since his re-
turn to the country which even re-
motely suggests that he is going to
be in opposition to the manifest ten
dency of the times. lie is fighting
for the acceptance of those principles
which he has so long espoused, and
as the leading exponent of which he
is today stronger than ever. The
national attitude toward him, re-
fiected in the expressions of all class
es of people and interests, insures
that he will be met halfway and
more by a community that realizes
what it needs, and finds in his l,ad-
ership the necessary rallying power
to bring the forces together.
The enthusiasm which marked the
reception of the former President
during his appearance in Washington
yesterday, suggests the sentiment OF
the whole country. There is no uN-
certainty how he is going to be re-
ce;ved from ocean TO ocean this sum-
mer and autumn. He will be greet
ed as the great leader coming back
into his own. He will make no sac
rifice of principles, OF essentials, be-
cause he is not given to such sacri-
fees, and also because there will be
no necessity for such. The country,
with its eye on present conditions
and its mind on its future, is going
to take care of the developments OF
the next two years.
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pass, he said. that no man could now
be found willing to confess an ambi-
ton to attain the peerage.
One member of the upper house,
whose title had cost him Sl5O,000,
was at great pains to explain to his
friends that it was not he who
wanted to be lord, but his wife.
The existing order was cham
pioned vigorously in the same debate
by ]. NJ. Hogge, liberal, who insisted
that the supply of lords must be re-
plenished continuously from more
plebeian stock in order to meet the
demands of American heiresses. He
said the exchange Of titles for cash
was one of the most flourishing in
dustries of Mery England and. in
his view, one of the most profitable;
to seek to undermine it, he felt, was
almost unconstitutional.
. So long as the nobility was merely
attacked and denounced, we clung
tenaciously to the old theory of the
Englishman's enduring affection for
the institution and its representa-
tives, but when the nobility is
laughed at and derided we come re-
to the view that it is very
nearly upon its last noble legs.
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JACOB A. RIIS.

In a very different but not less ef-
fective way, Jacob A. Riis did for
the unfortunates Of our metropolis
what Charles Dickens did by telling
the British nation and the world
about the real conditions OF the peo-
pie who fell into the warehouses and
the debtors prisons Of England. Per-
haps the work that Dickens did in
Dickens way could not have been
done IN Riis' way; just as probably,
Dickens could not have done in New
York, and in Riis' time, what Riis
did.
Roosevelt described Jacob A. Riis
as the "most useful citizen Of New
York" 1t was high praise, but from
the point of view of very great
many people who benefited by his
hard and effective work, his sacri-
fees and his earnest purpose of serv-
ice, it was no doubt deserved. He
made people look into the slums;
made them realize that they-all Of
them-have a responsibility for the
conditions there. No American has
contributed more than Riis to arous-
ing and setting at work the new
idea of social responsibility, the new
thought Of social power to cure the
evils of poverty and degradation. His
work was for better politics, better
living, better religion, and a more
practical understanding of every
mans duty as his brothers keeper.
He is one man to whom New York
owes a monument in the metropolis,
and to whom the nation might well
give one in the National Capital.
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TRAFFIC IN TITLES.

There is something almost tragic,
as well as highly comic, in the dis
cussion now going on in England on
the subject of the political traffic in
titles and honors. 1t has reached a
Point where a bill has been intro
duced in parliament to prohibit The
practice, and the debate which fol-
lowed has furnished some of the
most Illuminating as well as the
most entertaining comment.
Oliver Locker-Lampson, the con-
seryative member who introduced the
measure for the abolition Of the traf-
fc in titles, gave it as his opinion
that a man who had made money
ought to be satisfied and that the
highly successful sale of sausages
was in itself sufficient reward of
perit.. Things had reached such a
The Washington times., 1914-05-27
LOSING THE COUNTIES.

Il is strange that nobody has ever
made a serious business of muckrak-
ing the counties. We don't recollect
how many counties there are in the
forty-eight States of the Union, but
there are altogether too many.
County government has strangely
escaped either the critical or the con-
structive attention it deserves. In
counties that include cities of con-
siderable size, the county govern
ment is in large part a duplication of
processes and official lists that must
be maintained by the city. There is
Inevitably a lot of waste effort and
money.
Moreover, while the city govern
ment is likely to be brought pretty
constantly under observing eyes, the
county government gets little atten-
tion. The fact that there is useless
duplication and expense is not even
appreciated by the average taxpayer.
Broadly speaking. the city hall and
the court house" in the average
large town represent the confession
Of inefhciency. There is no need of
having both of them; certainly no
need of having two separate admin
istrative Jurisdictions working side
by side.
Out in Los Angeles, Cal, they
have awakened to this simple fact,
and set about studying it. 1t is pro-
posed to consolidate the city and the
county of Los Angeles, a procedure
through which they will save about
millioa dollars a year. The experts
have been figuring on the reorgani-
Zation necessary to get the whole To-
cal administration under a single or
ganization, and it does not provo
very difficult. The economies that
can be wrought are, however, very
real and manifest. There is no un-
certainty about the big saving that
CAN be effected; and so an amend
ment to the State constitution, au-
thorizing such consultations where
the people want them, is to be sub
mitted to the people.
People gloom around a good deal
about the extravaganza of govern
ment, and overlook almost every
where so obvious an opportunity as
this to cut down the rates.
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SOMETHING IN PARTlC-
ULAR.

Iris Speaker, center fielder of the
Boston Americans, is said to draw a
salary of $4,000 a year. Our own
Walter Johnson is credited with
drawing down $4,000 a year, with
every prospect of making it consid-
erably larger another season, when
there will be real competition for his
signature.
The sinewy gentry who win the
big engagements in the fistic arena
get away with fortunes, win or lose,
and a man who can write a compost
ton with the pencil in his toes in
stead of his fingers is worth more
than the one who can do it with his
brains.
We are assured that next season
baseball salaries will take another
upward lunge, by reason of the Fed
eral Leagues need to engage a few
stars of first magnitude.
There are a good many stories
about the lawyers who have drawn
fortune in a single fee for winning
the right case at the right time; and
there is also the interesting, if per-
haps somewhat apocryphal, story
about the million a year that presi-
dent of a great manufacturing cor
poration drew for a number of years,
All of which suggests the general
advisability of doing something in
particular, and doing it particularly
we'll. 1t really doesn't seem so i'm
portant what one does, so it's some
thing that nobody else does or does
cutie so well. Specialize. That's the
rule of the age, and whether ones
speciality is the strong arm or the
high brow it applies about equally.
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THE TEAM AT THE TOPl

1t may be different in a very few
hours after this mild ebullition of en-
thusiasm shall appear in print; but
at the time of writing the figures
that don't lie show Washington at
the top of the percentage column Of
the American League. The team has
played better at-home ball, according
TO the sapient authorities of the
sporting room," than it ever did be-
fore. 1t is about to go away on a
long swing around the circle; and
this particular team has always been
a great tourist organization. If its
work away from home shall bear the
same qualitative relationship to its
work at home that it showed last
season, it will come home with a
good, firm grip on the pennant's flag
pole and a neat lead in the dash for
the worlds championship honors.
We don't choose to believe that
Washington's team plays better ball
away from home because Washing
ton gives poorer support and encour-
agement to its representatives than
other towns give. Maybe that's so,
but if we knew it we should still
kindly yet firmly refuse to believe
it. We prefer to opine that Wash
ington's team is greatest in the diff
iicult role of the grand tour, because
it is really = peculiarly superior team
in esprit, in fighting quality, and in
the individual habits ard character
of the men.
All success TO the valiant gladia-
tors of the diamond arena who have
placed the name of the Capital at the
head Of the list by such magnificent
work, thus early in the season! If
they come home at the top or lower
down, it will be all the same; Wash
ington will remain loyal to its team
and to its confidence that they are
yet going to land the honors of the
universe in the greatest of games.
The Washington times., 1914-05-27

the winds of heaven. A bread and
milk diet Is more nourlsning ana
less expensive than any other kind
Of food. and for young children ft-
tie more is needed For older per-
sons the addition Of meat or eggs.
or cheese, once q day, with fresh
vegetables and fruit in season. and
a reasonable amount of sugar. win
suffice to maintain health and vigor
at minimum cost.
When there Is a case of ttlber-
culosis in the household the imeor-
tance of cleanliness. free ventilation.
insisted upon This Is essential, not
only in the interest OF the patient.
but of other members OF the fanny
Children are especially liable TO be-
come infected with tuberculosis oy
close association with advanced
cases of the disease.
Among the INDECENT. where there -
apt to be overcrowding and often IN
sufficient noUrishulent. the danger
of such infection Is very great In
such cases free medical advice Win
nursing care Is provided by the As
sociation for the Prevention OF ~
bereulosis, in cooperation with the
Instructive Visiting Nurse Society
and the local chapter Of the Amers-
can Red Cross.
II good housekeeping Il not pos
sible In the home Of the patient
then he should accepe treatmenf
elsewhere. either In private sana~
torium or In the municipal Tuber-
culosis Hospital.
The patient simply must have
the three things about Wnicn We
have been talking. And what 10
important for the patient Is JUST
as important for the other mem.
housekeeping can protect tnen
from the danger OF infection
Cleanliness In the home. fresh air.
and good food may enable them
to resist the disease, even when
daily subject to exposure
Work Through Children.
There is nothing new in all thia
Fortunately. so well Is the educs-
tionaI work of anti-tuberculosts
societies being done that even the
children In our public schools are
taught how to protect themselves
Unfortunately these teachings are
not followed up in the home under
the direction of the school phystc-
ians, as they might be il Washing
ton had attached to its public
schools a corps Of school nurses
1t Is in the schools that We must
teach to the boys and girls those
lessons of domestic science and
personal hygiene that will guar,
antee good housekeeping In the
home. This teaching Is a part OF
that newer education which has
for Its object the training for LIE
and for living. Let US all speed
the day when our schools shall
send forth an army of men and
women prepared to practice the
teachings of personal cleanliness.
not only OF body. but of mind
boys and girls full Of confidencs
and hope, equipped to meet the
strenuous demands OF modern lifs.
The Washington times., 1914-05-27
The Silver
Lining
Edited by ARTHUR BAER.

SO far. Mag has been a perfect month
for the District Commissioners. Not one
complaint about their tardiness in re-
moving the snow from the streets.
And no ice gorges have threatened to
carry away the Aqueduct Bridge.
Still. We might blame them for the
transforms.
And for the sun thawinz out the as
phalt.
Last winter. Commissioners got all
the credit for the suns melting the
snow, 50 why give them the credit for
the suns melting the asphalt? &.
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JUST A MIONIIENT
DAILY STRENGTH AND CHEER.
Compiled by John G. Quinius, the
Sunshine Man.

No one ever wonders why a promise
does not follow him. An atmosphere
of promise surrouIds believers as the
air surrounds the globe. -Spurgeon. =
God never accepts a good inclination
instead of a good action where that
action may be done: nay, SO much the
contrary, that II a goSd inclination be
not seconded by. a good action. the
the more criminal and inexcusable.-
South.
The breadth of many a mans SYM
pathies can be measured by the broken
chain of self.
Death has nothing terrible which life
has not made so. Ch>Sstian fidelity to
the duties of this rfe is the best pre-
paration for the life that Is to follow
this. We will do well to always keep
this fact before us. and so be ever
succeed this.
Happiness and blessedness. like two
lovers. may always be found in each
others company.
Good inteptions will not save the man
who. despising the warning, steps over
the precipice.
The one who wilfully goes in the way
Of evil is as one who thrusts his hand
into a hornets nest or into the adder's
den.
A man who heeds not the call of his
brother in need will be disobedient to
the pleadings Of his own spirit
Begin each day by tarrying before
God and letting Him touch you.-Rev.
A. Murray.
The most of us pass by enough little
pleasures to fill our lives with happi-
ness. while looking and longing for
something great.
Golden Text-Take heed and beware
of covetousness.-Luke 12:l5.
Think right and you will be right; for
what a man thinks, that he Is.
The Washington times., 1914-05-27
Truths by Women Who
49, Housewife Can Check =
hIlOW White Plague
Society Fights Disease

Society for the tuberculosis undertakes
huge task accomplished much toward the end which
seeking
The president noteworthy organization Gen George M
Sternberg Working with him his we who tells
article knowledge which they have acquired by
The Washington times., 1914-05-27

Huerta leaves Mexico. a broken down
dictator, shorn of pomp. vanity and
power. But don't forget that million
he's got sunk in his jeans. You should
be shorn like that
The Washington times., 1914-05-27
What's on the Program, in
Washington Today

Meetings, evening:
Nasonic-Harmony Lodge. No Il: school OF
Instruction: Columbia Chapter, No / and
Mt. Pleasant. No. Il, Royal Arch: Naomi
Chapter. No. J. and Brookland No IL, Or
der OF the EasterRStar.
odd Fellows-Columbian Encampment, No
knights OF Pythias-Mt. Vernon lodge. No
& Union. No. -. and Columbia, NJ. %.
Friendship Temple, No. g. Pythian Sisters
Maccabees-Golden Rule Tent. No ?.
Recital by Edwin II. Droop the Home Club
IA jackson place.
Baseball Washington vs. Detroit, $50 n m
Amusements.
SationaI-"Carmen." 2:I5 and Sis n IN
CoIuIuLia-"Mrs. Temples Telegram Sis u,
IN.
PoIi's-"The Governors Lady" c:I5 and Sis
y. m.
Keith's-Naudeville. 2:I5 and SIS o. m.
Cnsmos-Naudeville. continuous
Casino-Feature photoplays, afternoon and
evening.
CrandsII's-Feature photopIays. afternoon and
evening,
Glen Eeho-An smusements
The Washington times., 1914-05-27

II Sylvia Pankhurst refuses to accept
the Nobel peace prize, it may go by
default to either Of the alternates,
Pancho villa or Vic Huerta.
The Washington times., 1914-05-27

Interest in the Mexican situation. at
present, extends no further south than
Augusta, Ga, where Ty Cobb is re-
covering from a broken rib.
The Washington times., 1914-05-27

Even a structural iron worker looks
effeminate trying to eat an ice cream
sundae with spoon the size of a
stunted dime.
The Washington times., 1914-05-27

Mediators desire to form a stable form
Of government in Mexico. That's not
nice way to speak about anybody.
Might have said garage
The Washington times., 1914-05-27

Cleveland's mediator is lonely at Nj
asara Falls. Jack Rockefeller refuses
to send an envoy to the conference.
The Washington times., 1914-05-27
OMAR HTERTA

All! Take the cash and let the credit GO
Nor heed the distant rumble of a drum.
The Washington times., 1914-05-27
THE OLDEST INHAB sEz-

pride goeth
before i AL, but
mediation goeth
before the Mag
ara Falls"
The Washington times., 1914-05-27

The breadth Of many a mans SYM
pathies can be measured by the broken
chain of self.
The Washington times., 1914-05-27

No one ever wonders why a promise
does not follow him. An atmosphere
of promise surrourGs believers as the
air surrounds the globe. -Spurgeon. =
The Washington times., 1914-05-27

Think right and you will be right; for
what a man thinks. that he Is.
The Washington times., 1914-05-27

Golden Text.-Take heed and beware
of covetousness.-Luke 12:l5.
The Washington times., 1914-05-27

The most Of us pass by enough little
pleasures to fill our lives with happi-
ness. while looking and longing for
something great.
The Washington times., 1914-05-27

Happiness and blessedness. like two
lovers, may always be found in each
others company.
The Washington times., 1914-05-27

The one who wilfully goes in the way
of evil is as one who thrusts his hand
into a hornets nest or into the adder's
dan
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-26
~ According to Custom
q

silk cord. $3.50; embroidery floss,
S2l5. stamping, twenty -fve cents
Total, s11.15. Now. if you'll tell me
why I couldn't have given him thai
little $3.50 scarfpin-
When mother recovered from the
shock she tremblingly inquired as to
the muffler Gladys was making for
Julius. You could see she chung to
that muller as her vindication.
" Oh said Gladys. the trifiing little
muffler? l have the figures some
where-here they are: Accordion
ribbed silk, s4S5: stamping initials,
80 cents; embroidery silk, so cents.
Total. s565. l did have in mind for
julius lovely watch fob. but you
said I mustn't give jewelry. It would
have cost s2.95.
A LITTLE DAZED.
Mother didn't say word. l no.
ticed that sre went around for 6
couple of hours with a dazed. Won
dering expression. as though life was
hard and she didn't know the answer.
But there you aTe-if you are a
girl you mustn't give a man tewelry
that costs q moderate sum--you must
spend ten times as much on some
handwoflS that he'll toss into the COR
ner and never look at again! That's
custom. You cant cay; Here. you've
treated me to the theatre a lot Of
times. now I'll treat you, Just TO show
you that I appreciate it, No, that
wouldn't be custom! So you have TO
get up a dinner party that will cost
about $40 instead OF your paying IS
for tickets and letting IL go at that
Isn't Il idiotic? I wish I dared fly in
the face OF CUSTOM
why don't you inquired htr
friend. who is fond OF seeing other
people get into trouble
The girl who likes to talk sighed.
ut isn't tho custom to do go" shs
mgrIDuTed sadlL, -
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-26

funds for the fireworks with which
some of his fiatterers were to cele-
brate the forthcoming event, and that
one form of illumination was si-
gantic frame which, set upon the SKY
Hill, Immediately in front of our
house. was intended to display in
brilliant lights the glowing words
God Bless the Happy Heir" Ger
tainly the birth was to be announced
by the ringing of the big bell of the
tower as signal to the country round
about that the appointed festivities
might begin.
Day by day through September into
October. news came from Castle Raa
by secret channels. Morning by morn
ing. DR.. Conrad was sent for to see
my mother. Never had the sun looked
down on a more grewsome spectacle
1t was a race between the angel of
death and the angel OF life, with my
fathers masterful soul between,
struggling to keep back the one and
to hasten on the other.
NV fathers Impotence affected
everybody about him. Especially 1t
communicated itself to the person
chiefly concerned. The result was
just what might have been expected.
My mother was brought to bed pre-
maturely, a full month before her
time
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-26

= AM often struck" said the girl who
l likes to talk, with the absurdity
OF custom. l know this is truly
original remark. because everybody
makes II some time or other My
sisters struggles and agonies during
the recent holiday season are the inn
mediate cause OF my having this hap
Ply thought Just now
Gladys is twenty and has a string
OF college boy beauN, who are nice TO
her, and there are two OF them whom
she wanted 10 remember at Christ
mas. Maybe one Of them will be my
brother Law some day Il his per-
sistence holds out The way those
benighted youths have sauandered
money on Gladys in the last year is
something awful. II 1t hasn't been
theatres and operas It has been boxes
OF candy big enough TO make her a
dyspeptic for life Il I hadn't sacri-
nced myself and helped her eat them
or II has been flowers sufficient to
carry on small but iourishins shop
Il tried 20 make r .tcker with
Gladys told her II she would guar
Rutee me so many punches OF flowers
week Ia rent that small vacant
shop near us and set up IN business
ana give her a percentage on every
thing sold II she wanted to in
crease her income all she had 10 do
was TO be extra agreeable to her
young men friends who would then
send bigger bouquets Gladys refused
my offer with the scors of twenty en-
compromising summers Far be Il
tgem ASH shs SAD, ~ Aabs NJ meg
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-26

cenary. self-seeking spirit. She liked
her friends for themselves.
NOT PROPER.
Then. ten minutes later, I heard
her joyously accept an opera invita-
ton from one man and Immediately
call up another, who had arranged
merely to call that evening, and can
eel his engagement. saying she was
going out to Evanston that day and
would stay there all night, And she
never even blushed with shame while
she did IT
Well Gladys troubles began when
she decided that she wanted TO give
Tom and Julius something for Christ
mas.
You can't give a single thing that
costs money mother told her 1t
isn't proper and It isn't donei can't
help IL II you did see a perfectly
wonderful scarfpin for two-ffty--a
girl can't give a man anything of
value unless she's next door to mar
ried TO him Make Tom n sofa pillow
or embroider him a muhler-some-
thing simple like that"
"Glodys decided TO do a pillow in
his college colors for Tom. She was
quite resigned to Il after ALL because
Tom has a den at his home ana \
man never can have too many pill
lows when she had the pillow I'm
ished she showed II to mother with a
queer little auirk around her lips
Mother surveyed II complacen1y
That is very pretty she said. and
appropriate II is simple and OF small
financial value, and
Gladys gave faint moan and
4 J
she, that you fancy I have not spent
money on a man when I make him a
sofa cushion / wish YOU would read
Just your thoughts Here Is the
itemized account of my simple. girlish
little present: Down pillow, seventy
ave cents hrocade n the hard to and
shade q blue Aad ~ have. SG.50: