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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-10-21
Wiles To Trap the Unwary Hungry.

To the Editor Of the Mail Bag.
happen to be a person who or neces-
sitv has to eat many times at res
taurant. and If anyone deserves COM
miseration 1t is the person who eats at
a public feeding ground. do not ma
fault with the kind Of food served, but
NV grievance Is entirely an ethical
nerhaps a psychological, one.
Saw for instance, in a ravenous mooo.
,tt.r q delay of an hour or two over
the ordinary lunching time, you go INTO
INC rastaurant. and, hastily scanning the
1,ann order celery salad, keeping your
owe at the same time on the price, ano
shredded wheat. peaches and cream; Inc
food ia brought after considerable de-
law In which your hunger has oeen IN
crea sing. and you attack 1t without as
suring Yourself that what Is before you
will come to the amount that you mad
expected to pay. .x
The usual waitress or waiter. ruth
lessIy takes advantage Of this helpless
state of hunger. and corners the NOR
tai, made unwary by the weakness or
hunger, into all sorts OF little traps.
The celery salad, it turns out happens
to be the second one on the menu, tnat
costs 10 cents more than the one thaI
you saw: the shredded wheat, cream
and Deaches. were taken to mean sep
arate orders, so that instead of paying
the combination price which you had
expected, the fee Is doubled because
they were brought in separate dishes,
and your hunger prevented You from
getting the matter Strengthened out be-
fore the tempting food was tasted.
A. NJ. POAST.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-10-21
Now Has Vision of Creating a
New Shylock and Promises
in Time to Appear Clean
Shaver.

companies are striving to follow his
lead.
In the matter Of the stage Hebrew
his reform has been gradual. He ac-
cepted the ragged beard at first az
one Of the traditions that could not
be Immediately done away with. But
that has gone from his makeup now.
Watson wears a small mustache and
promises that In the course of time
he will probably discard this and
play his character clean shaven. Is
In addition to writing the books
for the shows in which he happens
to be engaged himself, Watson has
also taken up the work OF writing
other matter for other people. and
now there are several big burlesquo
companies on the road that are
using his stun. He Is his own pro-
Queer and stage director. and the
result is that the productions In
which he IL seen are more logical
and connected than the usual run
Of such forms Of entertainment
His changes have been gradual
and he admits himself that he still
has much to do. He has the sup
port of the organizations that are
engaged in stamping out the system
of disappearing the national
traits Of characters used in the
amusement business. however. When
he is through he hopes to be able
to advance to the regular drama
But though the boy who saw
real live chance In the writing OF
a parody on Under the Bamboo
Tree" and took II, has become
man he is stin looking for an op-
portuntty. This time. however. he
believes his chance Is held between
the bindings of the plays OF Mr..
Shakespeare, and one Of these days
he will put on-yes, he wants to
give the world-a new Shylocki
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-10-21
THE GUM TREES.

Perhaps if more people knew that
the lovely yellow and scarlet gum
trees that add so much to the wood
ed landscape of autumn, were first
cousins, at least, to the aristocratic
eucalyptus family of Australia, our
own most beautiful trees would be
better appreciated.
Go out into the country one of
these days and see the flashes Of
flame, the gorgeous glory that is a
scarlet gum tree for several weeks
in the early fall. Then wait till win
ter and see the same trees, bare cf
leaves, and note their sturdy con-
fguration. Next spring, when the
leaves are just beginning to put
forth, go again, and wonder how Co.
rot could have drawn trees if 5here
had been more of the wondrous gums
for him to study!
The gum trees arc at their perfec-
ton IN the latitude of Washington.
They may be seen among the native
fora of Rock Creek Park, and every
where else hereabollt. They are very
strong. firm of fiber, magnificent for
shade, mere decorative, at any sea-
son than an elm; yet we have almost
none of thcm planted on the streets
of the Capital.
Why should the unattractive and
undesirable Oriental plane trees be
brought here, while the most beauti-
fdl shade tree in the world, as many
people believe, is almost unknown on
the streets Of the best shaded city in
the world?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-10-21

given a place in one Of the Sam T.
Jack shows. At first he simply
sang PAROLES. Being a youth of In
curing mind, he made what were
termed many impertinent queries
about the way things were done by
some Of the headliners Of the COM
pany, and received answers that set
him thinking Of ways to change
the acts so as to make them more
plausible.
It was the burlesque Hebrew that
aroused his particular ire. He could
never see any excuse for 1t for the
simple reason that 1t was a burlesque
of thing that didn't exist and that
1t held Hebrews up to a ridicule that
was highly Objectionable to the fair
minded.
But here Is the difference between
Joseph X. Watson and most REFORM
ers: Watson didn't take any steps
to proclaim himself a reformer until
he had a perfectly good idea to Of
fer in place of the ones he sought
to destroy. He studied the life Of the
Hebrew people and their history. He
visited theaters where the best Of
such characters We're being shown.
He read all the great dramatic
works dealing with them.
With all his ammunition ready.
Watson launched his reform by
Offering to change the show for
the manager. He showed him
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-10-21
A CURE FOR LEPROSYt

With characteristic modesty the
United States Public Health Service
Iuts forward in an unassuming way
the story of some remarkably fine
research work which has been done
in the far-away Philippines. In the
examination of 5000 leprosy patients
treatment has been devised which
may be perfected into cure for this
mslady, which,, since Biblical times,
has been considered all that is re-
lcntless and terrible in disease.
Chaulmocgra oil, the ierivative of
an East Indian plant, has been used
for years as an alternative IF leprosy.
1t has beer used internally. Now
DR.. Heiser, the director of health of
the Philippines, and his aides have
perfected a method of applying 1t
hypodermically in a mixture with
camphor and resorcin. The result
has been that from an uncertain
agent, mcst difficult, through the
nausea it created, to continue in use
with any patient for more than three
months, chaulmoogra oil has been
advanced to the position where it
may, with few years further of
testing, be declared a specific for
lcprosy.
In the limited number of patients
thus far treated I'LL per cent have
shown apparent cures, 44.44 have
shown apparent clinical recoveries,
1888 per cent have shown marked
improvement, and I'LL have shown
only slight improvement. Twenty
PATIENTS who have become micro
scopically negative are now undergo
ing treatment.
DR.. Heiser is at pains to put his
claims carefully and make all allow
ances for failure, but It would seem
that real progress has been made in
the treatment of the di3ease.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-10-21
WORKING OUR GOLD.

1t is small wonder that European
fnanciers marvel a little at the fact
that the United States sticks so hard
to its stock of gold, despite that it
has more of the metal than any
other country, and just now fine
chance to make some especially at
tractive bargains in exchanging it
for the cancellation Of debts abroad.
But this country has never learned
the art of spreading IFS gold stock
out thin and making it do a great
deal of work. For the greater part
our gold is not a gold reserve at
all; it is merely gold stock, against
which warehouse receipts have been
issued. 1t gives no such elasticity
to our money system as the gold
stocks of France and Germany pro-
vide for those countries.
Great Brit&in calculates that she
has $500, n00, 900 coming from US, and
"NSlN w oCC oOlIlc LnaJ
we are Planning to pay up. II we
do pay, the gold will come back here
presently. To pay ou- debt to Brit
ain, indeed, would do more than any
ether ere thing to loosen up co~-
ditions and start England buying the
cotton. that we want so very much
&c cell. The gold would come back
in payment for the cotton, the food
stuffs, the thousand other things
that the British Empire needs, and
when the war was over thin country
would be well on the way TO emanci-
patton from the thralls of a debtor
nation.
Paying 6ebts is, TO- q nation, very
mitch like paying deots for an in
dividual. 1t is neve- so easy OF
AlssSnt as mourning them; but 1t
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-10-21

large number of these, it can be seen
the canal is starting with every in
Gication Of doing a land office bust
ness. In less than seven weeks of its
initial operation, the canal collected
$S69,0O0 of tolls. That is at a rate
considerably above $2,500,00O a year.
1t may confidently be expected,
therefore, that with normal con-
ditions restored in the world of
trade, the canal will enter at once
upon a career CT trade development
that will be no less astonishing than
was the record of the Suez canal
after it lad been definitely estab-
lished as practicable and economi-
cal trade route. In the case of PAN
anna there is no occasion to wait for
the business and shipping world to
learn the lesson, for Suez has taught
it. Conservatism objected to Suez
for a long time; that sort of con-
servatism no longer exists to place
Obstacles in the way of traffic
growth by way of Panama.
But the slides are going to be an
increasingly serious matter as the
canals traffic grows. It will not be
possible to close the ditch even for
few days. at a time when it will
be in daily and hourly demand, and
when congestion Of business will
easily result from stoppage for
week. The canals success evidently
is going to be determined within the
first two or three years, and to de-
pend on the management: Of the
Culebra problem.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-10-21

is a good deal more healthy and
wholesome. National credit will be
improved for all time, and national
opportunity extended for all The
future, if in this juucture it shall
be proved that the United States can
make the same practical use OF it's
gold stocks that ether countries
make. 1t is not extreme to say that,
if France or Great Britain, or
Germany for that matter, occupied
the same position that the United
States does today; if either of them
were the one great nation at peace;
if it possessed the one greatest
stock of basic money; if its bins
were filled with the things all the
rest of the world needei-in such
conditions, either one of those three
countries would by this time have
settled upon a general plan for ex-
panding it's business, paying its
debts, reaching out to seize the op-
ptrtunities of Latin-American bank
ing and commerce.; and in general
would be we'll on the way to absorb
ing the vast benefits Of one of the
greatest opportunities that ever
came to any nation. The United
States will surely not fail to find the
way to do, at least N considerable
part, the same thing.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-10-21
Thinks That "Suffragist" Was a Mere
Man.
70 the Editor OF the Mail Bag

To the Editor OF the Mail Bag.
So "A Sunrragist.' writing in this
afternoons Times. would have women
pay their way!
Listen to his plaint-"A woman who =,
economically independent must resent
having her way paid -. and IL puts
her under an obligation that detracts
from free and frank comradeship."
Hear the Great Ego hiding under a
feminine nom de plume,
His protest Is recorded with that Of
the virginia wife who came into court
only rev weeks ago asking release
and freedom. Ten years ago he gave
me cents, she said Undoubtedly
"A Suffragtst' is Of near kin to tn
husband.
Had "A Sufrragist" been capable e
free and frank comradeship' 30 raT0
between man and woman. his protest
would never have been written and Il
is safe to assume that any woman
whose escort he has ever been has never
been under obligations to him. Whether
economically independent or not, I ven
ture To guess, she has paid in full. IL
ONLY in the mere association with a man
OF dulled instincts for every quick lunch
room check he has taken to the cashier,
for every seat he has provided at the
movies and for every box of bargain
table chocolates he has carried across
her threshold
Are you as particular to insist on
Dutch treat with your male friends
or have you some other system for
evading payment when the check In
brought? JAMES.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-10-21
GERMAN STAYINGPOWER

The basis of German confidence
that the war can be sustained IN
definitely. and that in the end Ger
man economical power will be ample
to bring victory, is set forth in a most
impressive statement by Interior
Secretary Delbruck. The secretary
has been directly in charge of the
great business of co-ordinating the
industries Of the country md IF har-
monizing industrial conditions with
military necessities. He knows per-
heps better than any other man what
Germany plans to do by way of sus-
tanning herself through the crisis, and
what she has with which to effect
her purposes.
At the outset, Herr Delb.1ck fatty
lays down the proposition that Ger
raany cannot be starved. It does and
can, he says, raise practically all its
foodstuffs; and it can quickly and
surely increase the amount produced
by the simple expedient Of reducing
the outturn Of beet sugar and grow
ine other things more Immediately
necessary and available for food.
Perhaps the most striking part Of
the statement is that which deals
with the organization Of German in
dustry. The usefulness of the great
cartels or trusts, highly organized
and closely related to the govern
ment, was pointed out. The govern
ment believes these strong, highly
centralized organizations will be of
the greatest assistance in steering
the country through its crisis. On
this point he said:
II had a talk with gentlemen repre-
senting tho control Of thu sugar in
dustry, and in fifteen minutes we had
settled all the questions affecting It, I
met other men. and we quickly settled
the textile and chemical industries. I
met represe natives Of all the agri-
cultural organizations. and in an hour
to the food supply. Germany, as no
other country. Is centralized industrially
as we'll as economically. giving us an
organization which makes us uncon-
querable economically and industrially."
The vice chancellor declared that
the problem of unemployment had be-
come much less acute, that unemploy-
ment had decreased Sk per cent in
the last five weeks, and work had
been provided for 100000 in Prussia
alone in connection with new rail-
ways, drainage, canals, and reclama-
ton work. One of til. most serious
problems was the shortage of raw
material, and the vice chancellor
said:
I'VE are solving the problem by state
control Of existing supplies and state
of distribution in order to
prevent waste. The war ministry gets
what 1t needs first then the factories
for the government. and what
Is left is divided among the others. We
captured much raw cotton in France
and Belgium which has come in handy"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-10-21
GETTING RESULTS.

At last some observable results
IRE flowing from the efforts to i'm
prove working conditions in the
mines OF this country. 1t is an
nounced that in the metal mines last
year only 63s men were killed. out
of 193,O6S employed; that IS, 3.54 to
the thousand. The rate per thou
sand is less than in 1912, and tho
1912 rate was in turn less than that
for 1911. 1t is, therefore, safe to
assume that a steady, progressive
reduction in the death rate in mines
has been established by reason of the
legislation and administrative efforts
of recent years.
Better Grgani zation, safety app!i-
ances, and the like, are credited with
the results thus made visible in the
statistics. But more than any Of
these things, it is surnlised, is the
fact that everlasting Earpina on the
theme has brought about among
Americans a greater regard and re-
Fpect for human life. In the mine,
the factory, the county Jail, every
where, life is safer than it used to
he. So we have fewer hoiocausts,
fewer deaths in mines, fewer lynch
ings; and the ancient debate as to
whether a factory fire or lynchihg
lee is the greater reproach to our
civilization is being decided by the
gradual elimination of both.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-10-21

where his changes would beneft
both the actors and the audi
ences. 1t was not only the He
brew. but a number Of other
things about the performances
things that had been looked upon
as traditions of the burIesque
stage and were used simply as
traditions-they had nothing else
to recommend them.
He was given the contract for
revamping his first show the sec
ond season he was on the road.
And Watson has been writing
shows ever since. He stepped i'm
mediately into the forefront of tho
burlesque field and is now said to
be SO far ahead Of his competitors
that he is almost out of sight.
Clean Comedy Method.
The Watson method is the clean
comedy method. He plays his char
acters almost straight as the
stage people term it. His makeup Is
extremely limited and the costumes
he wears are practically the same
as he wears on the street in his every
day life. This Is one of the big re-
forms he thinks he has accomplished.
He has created a new type of
comedian - the comedian whose
clothes fit. And all the burlesque
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-10-21
More Car Ventilation Needed.

To the Editor Of the Mail Bag.
The advantages of the ''pay-as-you-
enter" type Of street car are gradually
beginning to dawn on the general pub
lie, but they have one great disad-
vantage. They are extremely badly
ventilated. This applies particularly to
the kind with the entrance in the mid
die. They are supposed to have some
system OF ventilation from the roof.
put II Is painfully inadequate, and
now that cold weather Is coming on.
tne WINDOWS appear to be Theoretically
sealed. 1t Is a known fact that street
cars are great carriers Of disease, but
the danger Of infection is many times
increased by bad air. Let US have a
modicum Of fresh air, and it should
come through decent ventilators, for In
really cold weather It is not comfort
able to have the windows open.
r. N. KELLY.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-10-21
Objects To Time of Delivering Mails.

To the Editor of the Mail Bag.
There should be a late mail in the up
town sections Of the city. On Connecti-
cut avenue, around M street, for in
stance. where business houses are rap
idly replacing residences there is no
mail delivered after 3 o'clock. There
are three malls before that time but
none later Why not spread out the de-
liveries, and have them further apart
so that people will receive their cor.
respondence around or o'clock? I
think every one is satisfied with the
number Of deliveries, but not the time.
r. D. WOODWINE-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-10-21
Water Front a Disgrace To City.

To the Editor OF the Mail Bag.
1t is to hoped that Congress, at Its
next session, will find time for the con-
sideration Of the recommendations OF
engineering officials of the District con-
corning the Improvement OF the water
front. We pride ourselves on tne iacs
that Washington is clasSed as one of
the most beautiful cities Of the world.
ond vet its harhor front was character
led by a former engineer commissioner.
Col. William V. Judson, as a disgrace
to the National Capital Inc wharves;
leased to private owners, are badly in
nsed of repair. The appearance of the
harhor should be in harmony with the
rnst ~ the city RESIDENT.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-10-21

avail nothing. In my Judgment II In
about time the Public Utilities Commits
sion forced better service IL such q
thing Is possible. Every morning cars
run by groups of Government en-
ployes and others intent on getting TO
work at 8 o'clock
Every car is crowded to the lam
point. but many Of us are now thank
ful to even get a car. to say nothing of
a seat on one Of the crowded cars. IL
might be well for The Washington
Ilmes TO make lusty boiler In behalf
of more cars and better service NOT
only on the Mt. Pleasant line but prac-
tically every other line In the District
during the morning rush.
STRAP-HANGER
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-10-21
The Silver
Lining
Edited BY ARTHUR BAER.

In spite Of the long drought, the banks
at Culebra continue to overflow the
canal.
Concert by Caruso for the benefit Of
the war sufferers netted 100000 lire,
which is money. but looks more like a
short conversation in the Senate.
Villas ambition to create a warless
Mexico brings to mind the man who
tried to perfect fshless fishcake.
To puzzled correspondents who in
quire rs to Just where the Army-Navy
game Will be played. We refer the map
Of the Western Hemisphere.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-10-21
DR.. D. S. Lamb to Lecture
At Library This Evening

Under tho auspices Of the Anthropo-
logical Society Of Washington and the
Medical Society of the District of
Columbia, DR.. D. s. Lamb will deliver
n lecture on Sanitation in Ancient
Civilizations" in the assembly room of
the Public Library this evening, start
ing at o'clock.
DR.. Lamb Is closely identified with the
Army Medical Museum and Is editor of
the washington Medical Annals. AS is
the case with all lectures at the library,
the public will be cordially welcomed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-10-21
What's on the Program in
Washington
Today.

Meetings. evening:
Observation-Disclosures Centennial. No. "A:
Osiris. No. rs: East Gate. No a. Column
bia. No. l; Brightwood. No 8: Potomac,
No. 3. Knights Templar: Twentieth and
Thirtieth degree. Scottish Rite: AreIne. No.
10 Eastern Star
knights of Pythias-Mount Vernon No 5:
Union. No. %: Friendship Temple. No. g.
Pythian Sisters.
Odd Fellows-Eastern. No. Z; Federal CITY
No. 20: Harmony. No. 8: Friendship No
u: Mount Nebo. No. 6.
p. +. o. Elks-Washington Lodge No 49,
Maccabees-Liberty Hive. No. 6. Lady Mac
Cabees.
National Union-Treasury and Congressional
Councils
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Tomorrow.
Meetings. evening

Meetings. evening:
Masonic-Potomac No. s: the New Jcrusa-
lem, No. .: George c. Whiting No %.
Temple Noyes. No 80: Washington. No .
Royal Arch Masons: Thirty-hrs and
Thirty-second degree. Scottish Rite: VIII
liam +. Hunt. No. 16. Eastern Star
knights of Pythias-Harmony, No q. Asca-
lon Temple. No. 81. knights OF Khorassan
Odd Fellows-Columbia. No. 10; Excelsior
No II: Salem. No. %
Macca bess-Dlstrict Tent No. s: Union Hive.
No 6. Lady Maccabees.
National Union-Bancroft and DahIKrsn
CNupcllS.
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the present war. 1t is not TOO late
tc begin recognizing our military
force, with a view to establishing
great reserve of trained soldiers.
That is the work needed without I'M
necessary delay.
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ADJUSTMENTS.

Belasco-"Omar. the Tentmaker" 2:2o md
$50 p. m
National-"The Misleading Lady" 2:l5 and
S:l5 D. m
Columbia-Chauncey Gcott in The Heart
of Paddy Whack." 8:1b p. m
Poli's-'"rhe Master Mind" 2:l5 and Sis D m
B. F. Keith,s-Vaudeville. 2:l5 and SIS D. m
Gayety-Burlesque. 2:l5 and S:15 p. m
Cosmos-Vaudeville. continuous
Casino-Vaudeville. afternoon and evening
Observation-Disclosures.
Crandalr s-Photoplays.
Moore's Strand-Photoplays
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