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The Washington herald., 1914-09-16
TO THE LADIES.

LADIES-A BEAUTIFUL COMPLEX
ion: skin like velvet: the easy, simple
quick, permanent removal OF wrinkles
crows feet. signs OF age, ETC., at home
BY you. Booklet mailed free. W. ALEX
BELL. LIS II st. NV.
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SEWING MACHINES.

WHY PAY THE UPTOWN MANS PRICE /
can give you the sane at IS les. Machina. .
and up; all in perfect order. Save money; buy of
CHEWING, S3 Pa ave. g.
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PERSONALS


wORKINGMEN we BEGIN THE
season early by having q full stock
new pants $3.50 TO 50; shows a vast Sc
lection; our way OF buying for cash: sure
10 please the buyer. and besides, think
OF u. save . per cent. One price.
JUSTH'S OLD STAND, 6l9 D.
LOUIS MAIER. CHIROPODY. MANI
curing. hair dressing, scalp treatment
and facial massage. Phone M. S0I2 3O9
henoiS Building. uth and G SITS
'GRIDIRON CLUB" EXTRA DRY
gtngerale is a beverage far superior to
the ordinary. Ask your dealer for this
particular brand. See that the crown Is
branded 'Gridiron Club extra dry.
MISS WELLS Manic-ins and Scalp Treat
ment Hour To s. 30
New York avenue. Apt- No L
MISS CAIN Manicuring and Scalp Treat
msnL 7l6 7th St NV. Apart
ment / Evenings by appointment. Phone
Main 7425
notice. Pawn Tickets Cashed. Second
hand Diamonds and Jewelry bought.
Louis AIEanams. SIS c. Opp. Pat Once.
PROPOSALS.
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PRESENTED.
GRADE SCHOOL Pupils.

An pupils N the ErIded schools last year. except
those prulsoted to the high chooz, viii report TO
their last year rooms from which those 10 be trans
ferTed will be sent to the higher Glass; Pupils
promoted 70 the high sehoOk will report az the
respective Schools al II a. m Monday.
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FOR SALE-HOUsES.

GREAT BIG BARGAIN.
For Sale-Fine store and dwelling situated nsAr
Sth and sts. ne exoslsnt location for cunfec-
tonsTy store or bakery; everything IN hrseiEss CO.
tition; Ef-edge investment a splendid business
opportunity. PRICE ONLY $500
II. X. HOWENSTEIN. COR. IJl4 st NV,
Tth and Il sta ne, Exclusive Agent
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o. B. ZANTZINGER,
903 N. Y. Ave.
COME OUT TODAY
81 Cash. 81 Month.
Own Your Own Home at
Greater Canitol Heiqhts
COME OUT TODAY
MOVING. PACKING & STORAGE.

FREE MOVING FOR sTORAGE-Cau \. 4Sl5 for
estimates 80 separate rooms. SMITHS TRANS
FER 4 STORAGE CO. % st NiEht Tel y @el
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FOR SALE-SUBURBAN
CAN YOU BEAT THIS?

A brand-new beautiful 5-room house.
on picturesque heights OF Virginia, One
minute from electric cars. Well Of
water on back porch; two large lots,
each 25XI2O: three already sold.
Price, SI,S5O.0O and interest. Terms.
S2l.nn mo. inc. int S ner cent.
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AGENTS WANTED.

AGENTS WANTED TO TAKE SUBSCRIPTIONS
for new monthly raEazine devoted 10 business
women; subscription. 8 pr gear; appeAls TO every
~ in 6uSncss, liberal commission paid Ad-
~ BUSINESS WOMAN'S MAGAZINE, 90
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Throw Up BrcnStwOrks.

north side Of the river. the crossing
of the French right and left support
was a comparatively easy task.
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FOR sALE-FURNITURE.

FOR SALE-COMPLETE FURNISH
ings OF 5-rOom apartment; electric
vacuum cleaner; winter robes for auto
mobile: Eastman kodak; gas radiator;
electric toaster and divers and sundry
The Washington herald., 1914-09-16

ROOMS WANTED BY TWO YOUNG
men: private family preferred. Address
BON 1. Herald.
The Washington times., 1914-04-11

likely the session of Congress will be
prolonged by reason of the drafts
which an impeachment and perhaps
a trial will make upon it's time. In
that event, the sentiment in favor of
further reforms in the procedure for
controlling the judiciary will be
strengthened. Congress has recently
had one long impeachment trial on
its hands; it now has two cases of
the same kind pending before it. 1t
will not require many more expert
ences of this kind to convince Con-
gress that a new method of handling
such cases must be devised. 1t has
been proposed that instead of having
impeachment cases tried by the full
Senate, they be turned over to a
committee to take the testimony,
which could subsequently be submit
ted to the Senate, and there consid-
cred and the case argued.
The Washington times., 1914-04-11
A STEVENS FAMILY TREE.

A writer in a Philadelphia paper
recalls the old story that Thaddeus
Stevens, once the most powerful pub
lie figure in Pennsylvania, was the
illegitimate son of Talleyrand. The
French diplomat made gay journey
from Philadelphia to New England,
and visited the town where the Stew
ems family lived. The most recent
biographer Of Stevens declares that
documentary evidence existed, that
Thaddeus Stevens was really the son
of Talleyrand. The 'charge" was not
infrequently made during his life.
The talents of Stevens were
marked and eminent enough to give
at least interest to such a theory of
his paternity: but surely they were
not of the Kind that would be ex-
rected to be inherited by the son of
Talleyrand. 1t would be difficult to
find two men of genius more differ
ent in intellectual, moral and tenn
Peramental qualities than the suave,
subtle, polished, and remorseless
oourtier, who could serve any mas
Ter at hand, and the rugged, acrid,
uncompromising Stevens. If Stevens
was the son Of lTalleyrand, there is
room for some new disquisitions on
the eccentricities of heredity.
The Washington times., 1914-04-11
THE RESERVE CLAUSE.

Protestations of those most init
matelv connected with organized
baseball to the contrary notwith-
standing, the whole plan under which
the national sport has been conduct
ed was staggered by the legal blow
dealt when United States judge in
Michigan declared the reserve clause
in the players contract invalid.
Under the contract which players
have been signing In the past, they
have practically bound themselves
through an indefinite contract to or
ganized baseball during all of their
careers in the game. They could be
shifted from one place to another at
the pleasure of the manager, and
failure to follow this command meant
suspension by all clubs working un-
der the national agreement.
The player was bound to the club
while the club reserved the right to
release him at any time, after ten
days notice.
Such contract not only lacked
mutuality, but was so utterly unrea-
sonable that it is truly surprising
that financiers in every part of the
country ever invested millions in the
game without receiving some assur-
ance of the validity of the papers
which they held.
Now it is up to the national COM
mission, the highest tribunal in the
game, to devise some other method
and means of holding players. Base
ball may be eventually benefited by
being placed on a firmer basis as a
result of the activities of the Fed
erals.
The Washington times., 1914-04-11
ONCE MORE, PLATFORMS

The chairman of the House Com
nittee on Appropriations insists on
taking his job seriously. He has an
old-fashioned idea that the business
of his committee is not to see how
much money it can appropriate, but
how little it can stretch over the
business necessities of the nation
That is, of course, a hopelessly ar.
chaic conception.
Chairman Fitzgerald persists IN
taking seriously the pledges that all
parties write into their platforms,
about keeping the expense of govern
ment down to the lowest possible fig
ures. That is a part of the business
of chairman on appropriations. If
he and his committee should get into
the habit of treating all demands as
seriously as do the men who intro
duce the bills, the Treasury wouldn't
have a chance to keep out of bank
ruptcy for single session.
But when Mr.. Fitzgerald appeals
to the supposed loyalty of partisans
to their platform, he forfeits all
chance Of being taken seriously. No
body on earth, least of all the people
nominated and elected on them, takes
political platforms seriously any
longer. Nobody will be able to taxa
them seriously SO long as they are
made in the way they are now made.
The degeneration of the platform
into a recognized formulation of the
most attractive bunch of bunk has
made it impossible TO conduct parties
or campaigns on principle. The
voters who would attempt to act in
telligently in casting their ballots
must look to the men who are run
ming. The platform means nothing;
there is, however, the chance to guess
which of the candidates is, on the
whole, the safer man, and if the
voter guesses right he may consider
himself lucky.
The Washington times., 1914-04-11
WHEN TEXAS GROWS UP.

1t appears from the statement
which the organization committee
has issued in explanation of the Sc
lection of reserve bank cities, that
it wasn't possible to get away from
Texas, when the South was dealt
with. Texas wanted bank in
Texas, and stuck for it. In the cir
cumstances, New Orleans was simply
crowded out. The only chance that
New Orleans had depended on the
possible division of Texas support
among two or more of the ambitious
cities of the Lone Star State, but
Texas was too wise for that. 1t gen.
orally has been, and that is why
Texas so frequently appears as the
butt-end of the whole South. 1t
sticks, and it sticks together.
Texas is about the same size as
the German Empire, and the German
Empire has about $4,000, 900 people.
But Texas is vastly better real es-
tate proposition than Germany, and
some day it will easily enough sup
port as many people as Germany
can. When that time comes, when
Texas shall really have grown up,
It will be the real Empire State of
the nation, as it is now of the South.
Texas has always been 4 leader, and
its destiny is to WELD a yet more
insistent leadership.
The Washington times., 1914-04-11
COLOMBIA APOLOGY

1t appears that a delicate distinc-
tion must be drawn in connection
with the reparation to Colombia for
our use Of the Canal Zone. There
is pretty general agreement that it
is all right to pay Colombia S25,000.-
600, but it must not be accompanied
by any apology. A few kindly en-
pressions of general amiability may
be forgiven, but they must not be
such that they can be construed as
apology.
Why not hand over the twenty
five millions with the understanding
that Colombia shall, in accepting
them, formally resolve that it does
not regard the payment, or the ex-
preston accompanying it, as an apol-
ogy? 1t occurs readily enough that
almost anybody would be willing to
take $25,0O0,00O on any terms that
might be demanded. If the payment
of that sum Of money does not in
effect constitute an apology, what
on earth is it being paid for?
The delicacy of those sensibilities
that are willing to separate our
Treasury from that much money,
but that insists that it shall be re-
garded as in no wise a confession
that we are paying the money for
anything in particular, is one of the
most amusing incidents lately pre-
sented in this era of edifying discus
Sions of national honor
The Washington times., 1914-04-11
MINIMIZING FIRE RISK.

The modern way to lower the death
rate is to prevent the spread of dis
ease. Similarly, the up-to-date
method of lowering the insurance
rate is to decrease the number of
fires through a campaign of preven-
ton.
This is the attitude taken by the
biggest insurance men in the country,
and indorsed by the fire departments
of our most progressive cities.
The day of cheap insurance will
not come until the day of the fire lit
by carelessness begins to wane. In
surance rates are based on losses
paid. Reduce the losses, say the in
surance experts, and the rates will
reduce themselves.
Progress already made here is the
best encouragement to redouble our
efforts. The useless, senseless, un-
necessary fire losses that occur every
year throughout the country are a
disgrace. They show that we are not
as far advanced in our civilization as
we would like to think. We do rot
hold ourselves as strictly accountable
as we should for the starting of fires.
Millions of dollars are lost annually
because of carelessness in disposal
of cigar stumps and cigarette butts.
Millions more are lost because our
laws are not generally strict enough
in regard to the erection of new
buildings, particularly dwe ling
The Washington times., 1914-04-11
Workers for the Blind
Will Confer Next Week

or the many important subjects to
be considered by tho Conference of
Workers for the Blind. April 1s. II and
IS. the prevention OF needless blindness
will be given most attention.
President Wilson will welcome the del
egates to the conference with n re-
ception at the White House Thursday
afternoon. The first session of the con-
ference will start az $50 o'clock, inI-
mediately following the reception at the
White Touse. The topic will be: THE
Prevention Of Blindness
Thomas F. Gore. the blind Senator
from Oklahoma. viii preside at the
Thursday evening conference. Among
some of the famous workers for the
blind who will participate in the con-
ference will be the Rev. Henry N. Cou-
den. the blind chaplain of the House
of Representatives.; Congressman San
ford Kirkpatrick Of Alabama, Charles
z. +. Campbell. secretary of the Ohio
Commission for the Blind, and DR.. C.
+. Fraser. superintendent OF the Hal
flax School for the Blind.
The Washington times., 1914-04-11
Redfeld Asks Fund to
Protect Sea Commerce

Secretary Redfeld. Of tho Department
or Commerce. in a letter to several
western members of Congress, has
made q plea for funds to protect the
sea commerce of the Pacific Northwest
before the Government railroad in
Alaska Is built and shipping increased.
There Is an imperative need Of surveys,
lighthouses ,and fog signal establish
lnents, he declaNr. and need for the
removal Of the \nnacle rocks which
have cost SO many lives.
He calls attention to the recent sink
Ing OF the steamer State of California
In Gambler bay. Alaska. with loss of
thirty-two lives. as one that could
have been prevented. Two fog stations
on the Alaskan coast. six new boats for
the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and
other boats for the fishery protection
service, to cost in all s625. 900 have been
requested by Secretary Redfield. Ad-
ditional facilities for steamboat inspec-
ton also are recommended.
The Washington times., 1914-04-11
THE WRIGHT IMPEACH-
MENT.

The House of Representatives,
without a vote cast in opposition, has
ordered the Judiciary Committee to
proceed to investigate the charges
2gainst Justice Wright, of the Dis
'rict Supreme Court. The resolution
ihus passed was introduced by Con-
FRESHMAN Park of Georgia, who rose
m his place and formally inpeached
nc jurist of high crimes and mis-
Gemeanors.
The charges against Justice Wright
ave been expressed in a document
hat was fathered by Wade II. Coop
cr, a Washington banker and a sub
tantial business man, and by him
aid before the President. Mr..
ooper has since been indicted for
bel by Federal grand jury, a pro-
eding which has brought the whole
'nsideration of Justice Wright's
"onduct to an anomalous pass. If
mere was any impression that the
Indictment of Mr.. Cooper would tend
% discourage the zeal of Judge
Wright's critics, it must by this time
ave been removed by the events
hat have transpired since the indict-
rent was found. Instead of discour-
giEg the criticism, it appears rather
have strengthened the feeling in
,ongress and in the local commun-
~, that the finding of such an in
ictment at such a time, when the
harges were pending in Congress,
as Al extraordinary proceeding.
The town has been full of rumors
Tor weeks past concerning this whole
udicial situation. The House has
AIKEN step which assures that these
II be investigated, and that the
ruth will at length become known.
he circumstances are so remarkable
hat it is altogether probable the in
restigation by the Judiciary Com
1ittee will extend over a consider
bic time, and take a very wide
ange. But there will hardly be Sc
.ious divergence from the opinion
hat the inquiry had become abso-
.utely necessary in view of, the de-
noralizing effect on local sentiment
nat was inevitably consequent on
ne circulation of the various reports
hat have gained currency. Not un-
The Washington times., 1914-04-11
THE FINANCIAL RESULTS

The two largest cities in the United
States are New York and Chicago.
Each has for many years been en-
gagged in a struggle with the prob
lem Of intramural transit. For many
years Chicago's situation was so ut
terly bad that its very badness COM
PEELED a revolt of public sentiment
that brought reforms. The street
car influence used to corrupt legis-
latures, own councils, and generally
dominate the nasty politics of a State
which sunk to the depths Of degrada-
ton largely because of the fight for
private control of immensely valu-
able public franchises.
New York finally brought reform
to its street railways, and a system
of co-partnership between the city
end the private interests was organ
lied, under which the city treasury
gets 55 per cent of the net income of
the properties. This is a very long
step toward public ownership, and in
connection with this partnership ar
rangement, the city has forced effec-
tive control of the operations of the
system. AS a result, the town has
vastly better traction service than
ever before, and is now planning a
system of subways, to be municipality
built and owned. It is found that
the city's credit, and the credit of the
city's traction properties, has vastly
enhanced since the city became the
dominating figure in the transit bust
ness. Consequently, very cheap
money can now be had to build the
subways.
Just this week the annual report
of the Chicago Railways Company
for 1913 has been published. 1t
makes a splendid showing, earnings
increasing almost $2,0OO,OOO and net,
income increasing almost 25 per cent
"a figure that would certainly graf
ify any management of a privately
owned utility.
On the very same day that this
splendid report on the workings of
Chicago's system was given out, the
story came from New York that the
great Interborough- Metropolitan sys-
tenn of that city was probably long
way, as yet, from resumption of divi-
dends on even it's preferred stock.
1t is not necessary to recall the mar
velous series of manipulations by
which Interborough Metropolitan
was brought into existence, and has
since been exploited. 1t is a fine ex-
ample of the possibilities of private
financiering. The concern, once
thought to be gilt-edged, has paid no
dividends on preferred stock since
1907, and now has an accumulation
of these amounting to 321s per cent,
which must be paid off before the
common stock can expect dividends.
Comparing these two cases of Chi
cago and New York, can there be
difficulty determining what is a
proper rapid transit policy for Wash
ington? 1t seems hardly possible.
The Washington times., 1914-04-11
University, Cleveland, o.

clared that the perfect man is mado
in the divine image.
Such are some of the suggestions
regarding the character of the re-
lision which believe should be
taught in American schools and
colleges. Such. too. is the religion
which the Bible presents. 1t is the
religion. sociological: So We be-
Ing many. are one body in Christ
and every one members one Of
another" II is the religion pcr-
sonal: What doth the Lord re-
quire of thee but to do Justly and
10 love mercy and to walk humply
with thy God"
In the presentation and Coaching
OF such n religion, broad withcu.
being thin, fundamental and essen
tisl, both Catholic and Jew and
Protestant should agree and CO.
operate.
(CopyriSht. Ina. BY Joseph B. 6owIesa.
The Washington times., 1914-04-11

is assisted by Mrs Chester Wells, Mrs
Theodore Jewell, Mrs. A. c. Fechteler.
Miss Emma Nourse. Mrs. Henry Jewett.
Mrs. Benjamin Boyan, Mrs. Stokes.
Mrs. J. Van Rensselaer, Hoff, and Mrs.
J. Livingston Bayard-
Mrs. George NJ. Sternberg. president
Of the league. will receive the guests
with Mrs. Garrison. Mrs. Daniels, Mrs.
Breckinridge, and Mrs. George Barnett
The Marine Band and the Engineer
Band will play through the evening. and
there will be continuous dancing.
The President and a party Of guests
win occupy tine center box The other
boxes have been taken by Brigadier
General Crozier. Admiral Dewey. Major
Gen. George Barnett. U. S. NJ. c.. Mrs.
Charles d. Foster, Judge Martin A.
Knapp. Mrs. Delos Blodgett. Col Robert
NJ Thompson. Brig. Gen. Gordon, Mrs.
Walsh.
Mrs. Henry T. Bauer announces the
engagement of her daughter. Elsa Ger
trude, to Carl C. Mueller. The wedding
VIII take place early in June
1uIS- DelO3 olOQSclI VIII p6 uOolce8
at number of informal parties for her
schoolgirl daughter, Miss Helen Blodg-
cit. her niece. Miss Daisy Peck. and
five of Miss Blodgett's schoolmates, who
are spending the Easter holidays with
her. On Monday evening she will have
guests for dinner and take them later
to the Army and Navy League bali at
the Navy Yard. On Tuesday Mrs
v,x-
cance in honor of Miss Maitland Mar
shall.
Mrs. Blodgett will not be at home next
Monday.
Mrs. William P. Reed will entertain at
a tea for Mrs. A. NJ. Blair on Tuesday
afternoon. Mrs. Blair will sail for
Europe next month.
Mrs. Dudley Corning. Of Johnston.
Pa, is spending some time In WASH
ington, the guest Of Mrs. Ruth Hensey,
at the Ontario.
-
Mrs. Charles Bennett Smith. wife OF
the CONGRESSMAN, has arranged a de-
lightful program for tomorrow even
ing for the guests and their friends
at Congress Hall The program VIII
be presented by Mrs. Lenore Sherwood.
contralto; Joseph NJ. Gill. violinist.
and Richard Barrett pianist The
closing number will be an Easter song,
the words of which were written by
Mrs. Kate Brownlee Sherwood, who
died two months ago. Mrs. Sherwood's
poem is set to the music Of Becker's
"Fruhlingzeit," the obligato OF which
will be played by Mr.. GILL
At the benefit to be given Monday
evening for the Continental Hall debt
Miss Janet Richards will speak on
High Lights of the Revolution"
Tho lecture will be at the homo of
Mrs. Charles W. Richardson. 1317 Con-
necticut avenue, and Is presented oy
the Major William Overton Calls
Chapter. D. A. r., through its regent.
Mrs. Margaret Monterio Berry. Pa
trcnesses include the members Of the
chapter, Mrs. Charles R. Davis. of Min
nesota. who is nominee for vice pres
ident general; Mrs. Horace NJ. Towner.,
Mrs. Claude Swanson, Mrs James
Gudger, Mrs. John W. Langley, Mrs
II. f. c. Bryant, and others
The Washington times., 1914-04-11

idea as an instrument Of education
has welded our neighborhood into q
common understanding Of its own
life. This same festival-play-idea
must have developed our imagina-
tions-since all of these festivals ccle-
brating the awakening of life at
spring time have been given on the
asphalt street for a stage-hemmed
in on either side by high brick
houses. with only the small vista, at
either end of this narrow street, of
the blue sky and green sward beyond
where our hopes and desires do not
lie buried, for we believe that some
day the white children and their
families will be given a park and
playground in lower southwest Wash
ington and that the children Of the
future will play the games we left
for them with the fragrance Of real
flowers about them.
The Washington times., 1914-04-11
What's on the Program in
Washington Today

Meetings tonight:
odd Fellows-Canton Washington. No 1,
drill.
knights of Pythias-GeneraI Relief Bureau.
monthly meeting.
National Union-Columbia Council Pythian
Temple.
Socialist Party-Luncheon Women's Commit
tee. Sll r; street northwest. $50 10 $50 D.
Home CiIb-Address on 'CiviI Service Retire
Tncnt," ~ Dr. Llewellyn Jordan.
Program by Mrs. Mary T.. ireland at Nh
tional Library for the Blind, s D. NJ
Story telling hour at House of Play n M