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The Washington times., 1915-03-23
CRANDALL'S.

One Of the most amusing Of comedies
was presented by the World Film Cor
poration before crowded houses all DAY
yesterday at Crandall's Theater, in the
film version of What Happened 10
Jones'" by George Broadhurst. WIN
Fred Mace in the principal role SUP
porting Mr. Mace are Josie Sadisr ana
Mary Charleson. "
The locale of the piece is laid IN
young girls seminary. The professor
and his intended son-in-law attend
prize fight which is raided by the pG-
lice. Jones, a travelling salesman, Is
there also. The three escape and ma
themselves in the young ladies' dormi-
tory. The professor attempts to eject
Jones. but he demands protection un-
der threat of exposure. Jones IS IN
troduced as the bishop, and when inc
real bishop then arrives complications
ensue. This picture will be continued
today. 49,
Prof Green's orchestra pleased the
patrons with its popular concerts.
The Washington times., 1915-03-23
MOORE'S STRAND.

Marguerite Clark, in Grace Living
ston Furniss comedy. "Gretna Green"
attracted crowds to Moore's Strand
Theater yesterday. The piece derives
its title from the celebrated spot IN
Scotland where clipping couples were
quickly married. In "Gretna Green
Miss Clark Is assisted by Arthur Hoops,
Julia Walcott, Lowell Sherman, Helen
Lutrell Russell Bassett, and others.
"Gretna Green" will be shown today
and tomorrow.
Thursday and the remainder OF the
week Edith Wynne Mathison will be
seen In a film production of THE Gov
ernor's Lady" one of David Belasco s
stage presentations. This production
marks the camera debut of Miss Mathi'
son.
The special feature which met with
instant popularity was the initial Tre'
sentation of the latest novelty, the ami
mated song pictures. These som g pic
lures are especially we'll interpreted pS
recoqnized soloists. The Strand sym
nhony Orchestra furnishes appropriate
musical accompaniments.
The Washington times., 1915-03-23

brink. If il does, it will determine
that Germany can hope for nothing
from any of them; just as Vicks-
burg and Gettysburg settled that the
Confederacy could expect no direct
aid from European countries.
The siege of Przemysl required
more than a half year, and was
pressed with untiring persistence,
unfagging purpose, from the begin
ming. Interrupted once by an ir-
ruption of the enemy, it was pres
emily resumed; and despite threats
against Warsaw, despite the mighty
smashes of Won Hindenburg at Tan
nenberg and in the marsh and lake
country, despite the desperate eff
forts of the Austrians flowing
through the mountain barrier, Pre-
mysl has been held in the grip of a
big army that was. never withdrawn
for any temporary or incidental
service. Other Russian forces might
meet repulse or defeat; they could
reform and stand again; but the big
business of taking Przemysl was the
first affair in the mind of the Rus
sian staff, just as the capture OF
Vicksburg was the central point In
Grants strategy from the day he
took control in the West.
Cracow is yet long way west
from Przemysl; but it is the obvious
next important station on the line OF
the Russian advance. Thither the
Russians will push on, and it is un
believable that the German fielt
marshal will be able to continue hl'
demonstration against Warsaw
much longer. The Russian way il
now open far upon the southern
flank of Prussia. Galicia is lost, ant
it is through Galicia that the prac
ticable, usable road toward the hear
of Germany lies.
The Washington times., 1915-03-23
CASINO.

The Casino Theater has come back in
n its own. apparently, under the man
agement Of Harris w. Watkins. The
hiu this week is varied in character
and thoroughly entertaining throughout
including two innovations, the exhibit
ton of the photoplay. THE Nightin-
gale" by Augustus Thomas. with
Ethel Barrymore in the title role. and
the Hearst-Selig News Pictorial.
Eeomar and O'Brien offer Italian
character impersonations, introducing
dialect songs and jokes. Edith Mote,
the coincidence. sings nine songs ex-
cellently, and displays some beautiful
"A Day at the Circus furnish ma.
terial for laughter, and Burns and
Acker introduce good parodies and
amusing comedy
The house was we'll filled at all three
performances yesterday afternoon and
last night.
The Washington times., 1915-03-23
COSMOS.

Five entertaining acts OF varied Vau-
deville, some of them quite novel, with
the new Charlie Chaplin photoplay fea-
ture. I'm the Park" are offered in this
weeks bill at the Cosmos Theater. The
novelty of the bill is presented by the
Brightons, who make pictures Of ami
mails and landscapes with scraps of
rags in gilt frame settings.
Another novelty is offered by the TIL
Ter sisters. with a new kind of song
offering. Harris and Randall have a
rustic comedietta, Fifty Miles from No
where" and George ChOos' company of
nine present a novelty in Little Miss
L. S. A." with comedian and a
chorus far above the average.
4 change of bill is announced for
Thursday at the matinee.
The Washington times., 1915-03-23
THE BARBARlTIES

If at any time, on either side, any
real benefit had been derived from
the use of Zeppelins or aeroplanes to
lombard enemy cities, there might
be some excuse for continued use of
these contrivances in the war. But
nothing that could possibly compen-
safe for the expense of building and
operating them has been achieved.
Sundays raid on Paris has dem
onstrated again the uselessness of
such effort, even if it be conceded
that there is no improperly of thus
trying to kill the unsuspecting in
habitants of city not under siege.
The Zeppelin has degenerated, as a
result of experiments since the war
began, into mere demonstration
of ambition to devise new and ter
rifying methods of murder. 1t has
not been of any military value. If
its use had accomplished the destruc-
t1on of Dover, the capture of Calais
by the Germans, the evacuation of
Paris by the French, there might be
some excuse for it, even though end.
less horrors had marked these &C.
complishments. But in fact it has
just achieved a few desultory mur.
ders. Why not real protest by the
civilized neutrais, in the effort to gel
all sides to agree on suppressing thi:
particularly bootless brand of bar
barity?
The Washington times., 1915-03-23
LABOR AND WAR

The British government has one
idea, to which everything else is and
must be bent, and that is to finish
the big job in hand as expeditiously
as possible. When graft was scent
cd, the government notified the man
ufacturers they would be permitted
to make only 10 per cent profit on
army contracts. All in excess of
such earnings will go into the i'm
perial exchequer. When workmen
struck, the government organized a
labor advisory committee.
Especially troublesome were the
dockmen at Liverpool and other
ports, whose demands caused the de-
lay of sailings by the score, and
seriously interfered with the move
ment of military supplies as we'll as
of ordinary commerce. Lord Kitch-
ener finally declared drastic meas
ures would be taken to bring to
terms those responsible for the trou-
bles, which was followed yesterday
by the announcement that the Liver
pool dockmen had returned to work.
All these persuasive measures
have been taken within a week. The
government is determined that moth.
ing shall operate to embarrass the
military progress, and it stands
ready, if occasion require, to take
over and run all plants needful tc
equip and feed England's armie.
and navy. Both the secretary O:
war and the chancellor of the ex
chequer have complained of the dam
age to the country's interests in
f1icted by both mercenary manufac
turers and haggling labor advocates
who, if permitted to- go to extreme
might endanger the national vel
fare.
The amount of war munition
needed is almost beyond computa
tion,, and can barely be grasped b
the average mind. They are Eng
lands supreme need, now that he
armies are in the field. Munition
must flow in vast quantities and ur
interruptedly, and will flow, even
England has to invoke the constitu
tional right of issuing orders
council authorizing seizure of nece.
sary manufactures and compellin
men to work.
The Washington times., 1915-03-23
Why Kill the SparrOws

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
l regret that some people here think
that it is necessary for the peace and
dignity OF Washington to have the
sparrows eliminated from the citv by
death or expulsion. These little birds
are modest in dress and models of in
dustry. Millions of pestiferous bugs,
moths. worms. and parasites are de-
voured by them.
They do not seek sunny climes when
winter comes. but "stay on the job.
They do not stcratCh like the hen nor
crow like the rooster, nor otherwise dis
turb the slumbers of the sluggard 1t is
said that they have followed the sprea Il
of the English-spea people. and
that if nothing else. should warrant our
kindly consideration.
If they litter the caves with bits OF
straw and cotton, that fact should not
doom our little feathered helpers TO
death. for the hungry man will clean
II away for loaf or two of bread. Let
not the fastidious rob us Of our little
striped friends.
A FRIEND OF THE BIRDS.
Washington, March 90.
The Washington times., 1915-03-23
Would Link Rock Creek and Po-
tOmac Parks.

To the Editor of THE TIMES;
Is there no way by which The Times
can lend impetus TO the plan to link
Rock Creek and Potomac Parks? Con-
summation of this project probably
means as much to the Identification and
growth of Washington as any other i'm
provement proposed in years. The city
Is already becoming the mecca for the
countrys wealthy citizens. 1t grows in
importance each week as an ideal place
to live.
Linking of the beautiful Rock Creek and
Potomac reservations would mean the
establishment of miles of driveways
through shaded and grass-covered
acres. 1t would mean probably twenty
miles of bride paths. Where could
horse lovers indulge in their favorite
SPORT with more delight than in this
area. situated as it is in great part
along the banks of a beautiful river?
Where coul.l a more beautiful combina-
ton of park and river driveways for
automobiling be obtained in the West
ern Hemisphere? And right at the city's
elbow. Washingtonians realize tn i'm
portance of this step, and am sure
| would appreciate the efforts of such a
paper as The Times toward bringing its
near naturalization. w. w. G.
Washington. March q.
The Washington times., 1915-03-23
THE DARDANELLES

The Dardanelles have been sup
posed to be as impregnable as Hell
goland or Gibraltar. When the allies
announced that they proposed to
pass through this narrow passage
way to the Marmora, the announce
ment was accompanied by a warn
ing that an easy or cheap victory
was not anticipated, but that the
cost had been taken into account and
England and France stood ready to
pay it.
Reports from the scene of action
have been meager and conflicting
Until the recent frank statement of
the serious losses sustained by the
attacking fleet little light had been
thrown on what had been accom-
plished. One day report represented
the allies as not having got past the
entrance of the Dardanelles; the next
they would be said to be in position
to lombard the last of the defense.
in the narrows. Assuming that thu
latest official announcement, contain
ing the loss of three battleships, il
correct, the feet has now reached
the vital point in its undertaking
Once past the forts defending tn,
Harrowest part of the strait, tn,
Nay to Constantinople is PRACTICAL,
The Washington times., 1915-03-23
To Talk on Florence.

Miss Lila Van Kirk will give the Sec
ond of a series of travel talks. "A Walk
Through the Streets of Florence" to-
morrow morning at Woodward s& Lo-
throps, and on Thursday morning will
close the Italian series with Naples,
Pompeh. Venice by Moonlight. and the
Italian Lakes" The Consumers League
will receive a portion of the proceeds.
Today Miss Van Kirk spoke on Two
Weeks in Rome" and yesterday she
concluded her series of talks at the
Washington club, discussing Faris and
its environS.
The Washington times., 1915-03-23
Fears He Will Get String Halt.

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
Permit me sufficient space to regis
ter a good old-fashioned howl on the
sidewalks Of Washington, made, or all
legged to be made Of paving bricks.
Navigation on the sidewalks of wash
ington at night necessitates lifting the
rect to an abnormal height to keep from
caused by high bricks. Aside from the
unsightllness of the walks, consider the
danger of ones contracting string halt
from the double lockstep required TO
shy the obstacles.
know nothing of the cost of walks.
Neither care ]. But when I put down
walk, I'll build It of cement or some
other smooth material If it costs a doz-
en- times as much as paving bricks.
A SUFFERER.
The Washington times., 1915-03-23
Cure for Riggs Disease
Found at Johns Hopkins

BALTIMORE, March 23.-EXperiments
at Johns Hopkins Hospital looking to a
cure of pyorrhea-Rigg's disease-havc
reached a stage that reveals the source
of the disease is known and what form
Of treatment is necessary.
The experiments at the Hopkins were
begun at the instance of the United
States authorizes. who had found a par
tial cure for the disease.
Microscopic examinations have been
made of the materials collected about
the diseased tooth sockets and the in
vestigators have found a clue to the
cause of the affection. They have iso-
lated from the lower region the protO-
zOon This ameba is uniCellular or
ganism about one-t -thousandth of an
inch in diameter. Under microscope ii
was found that it bore certain relations
to the germs habitant to stagnant water
The Washington times., 1915-03-23
Amusements.

Bclasco-"Birds OF Paradise" 500 p m.
Belasco-Illustrated lecture. Twilight Sleep" "
p. m.
Columbia-"war in Europe" motion pictures.
2:l5 and Sl5 p. IN.
Poli's-'Paid In Full. o:1S and s:l5 p. m.
II. F. Keith's-Vaudeville 2:15 and S:lJ p. n
Casino-Vaudeville. continuous.
Cosnos-Naudeville, continuous
observation-disclosures. 2:l5 and S:l5 2. m.
Majestic-Burlesque. 2l5 and sl5 p. m.
Strand-Motion pictures IL a. m. TO II p. m.
Garden Motion pictures, II a. m. to II p. m.
Crandall's-MotIon pictures. IL a. m. to II
p M.
Arcade-Dancing, p. m.
The Washington times., 1915-03-23
"Flat Iron Murderer" Is
Moved for Safe Keeping

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. March ca
Vcrnie Lewis, who confessed to being
the flat-iron murderer of the BaldinG
family in Terre Haute, was brought
here today to escape almost certain
mob violence there.
Lewis declared he loved Mrs. viii
Balding. and that his fear that she
would move away with her family
er and her children.
The mother and three children died,
clifford, l2, and Irene, ). are unconsCI-
GUS after a week. Their skulls also
were crushed, and they probably will
die.
The Washington times., 1915-03-23
Today.


Meeting. Washington Grove Association. at
home of l.. Csbeil Williamson, "A Iowa
circle. 10 II p. M.
Meeting. Anthony League. the Portner 3
Lecture. The YELLOWSTONE" boneft OF Key
stone Chapter, Daughters OF the American
Meeting District Association of Osteopathic
patrick' pnniefianf The rarrasu3 nTs o. D. HS m' "
Illustrated lecture Twilight sleep" DR..
Kurt E. Schlossingk. Belasco Theater, 3
Recital. Miss Lila Van Kirk benefit Of the
Consumers League. auditorium OF Wood
Annual Baltimore conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church South. Mt Vernon
Place NJ E ch"TSh SRo South rs. a. r1r:, m Stem to
BE Taken by the Church Toward Corporate
Christian Unity the Rev. Herman Lii;
enthal, st. Johns Churcn. Sixteenth and
II streets northwest. s p. m.
Luncheon. Cornell Club. dutch room. Eb-
Meeting, Washington Auxiliary OF the Ma.
uonal Indian Association. at hope Of e
d. Merritt S532 Thirteenth street north
Open House. Home Club. u Jackson place
Meeting. Women's Movement for Construc.
tive Peace small ballroom. Willard. p. IN
| Masonic-Federal. No. !: Acacia. NJ. IS: Ia
H No. NO % fAi; Knshs Ga Ts 81 De Eees
| No. ?; bethlehem, No. Z: Friendship No
i; Fidelity. No. u. Eastern Star:
ODD FelloNs-Wa washington No b: AmltN. NO
g: Golden Rule. No. q; Fred d, Stuart
] No : Encampment: Ladies' Auxiliary o
Canton Washington, No. !. Patriarchs NIL
Knight. Knight Of Pythias- Webster ~ 7: Exec.
: sior. No. u: Capital No. -: Myrtle. No. :5
! Woodmen of tho World-Old Glory. No ;
Mount Vernon Grove. No. 6, Ladies
| Circle.
Ladies OF the Observation-Disclosures Hive. No
, ,.
, Roval Arcanum-Oriental Council
| Socialist Party-Workmens Circle organiza
| tion committee.
Luncheon. Washington Cuitus Club. oa
| room. Raleigh, ! p. m.
| Meeting Columbia Chapter, d. A. r.. Ca
room. Raleigh, p. m.
The Washington times., 1915-03-23
ONCE MORE, THE WHEAT

The curious notion about the
world starving to death some day |
for inability to produce enough on
which to feed itself, got jolt from
new quarter the other day, when
it was announced that new store of
over 100000 bushels of available
wheat for European consumption
had been "discovered" in the Tomsk
region of central Siberia. The town
of Tomsk is about halfway between
Vladivostok, on the Pacific, and Pc
trograd; by railroad, perhaps 5000
miles from each. 1t is pretty near
the center of the Eurasian continent;
yet there are very few people who
know anything about it beyond its
name. 1t is the center of probably the
greatest potential wheat-growing area
| in the world, but an area whose possi-
bilities are just beginning to be rec
ognized; not developed. 1t appears
that last year there was a big crop
in that section, as there was in the
United States; but the outside world
had so little conception of what a
supply was being produced there,
that there were no commercial or eff
fective transportation facilities to
bring it out. The trans-Siberian rail-
way runs through the city of Tomsk; !;
but this great trunklne is yet al
most without feeders, and to get the
wheat hundreds Of miles to the rail-
road was a task only larger than to
get cars to transport it while the
road was overburdened with the car
riage of war munitions that Russia
needed more pressingly than she
needed wheat. Russia didn't need
the Tomsk wheat; Europe did. 1t
could be hauled out by way of Vladi-
vostok; a little railroad pull of about
the distance across the North Amer,
!, ican continent at its greatest
breadth!
This big stock of surplus wheat
anyhow, has been "found" by some
enterprising person, and as soon az
possible the hauling of it to Vladi
:, vostok will begin. 1t will take two
;, or three months to get it there, will
= all the cars and power the railroad
company can possibly devote to th'
enterprise. Fortunately for the peo
pie in Europe who need it, the traf
fic on the trans Siberian road ha
- been much heavier westbound sine
the war began, because so much O
- war material had been going in b.
that route since the Baltic and tn
Dardanelles were closed. So tn
eastgoing cars can take on whea
:, and from Vladivostok it will be sen
- around to the other side of the worl
II via our own Panama canal.
~ While they are stumbling onto
few thousand trainloads of whea
~ where nobody has thought of lool
~ ing for it in Siberia, it is reported b
- the agricultural authorities in tn
=, country that the spring planting
ht going to break all records, just 6
h last falls planting in the wint,
o. wheat country did. Every 9th,
or country on earth that can raj.
. wheat is going to do it with a vel
y geance-and longing for a prof
80 and 1915 will see the records
~ breadstuffs production smashed in
Id sky-blue smithereens-whatever tn,
- are.
The Washington times., 1915-03-23
Judge Who Sentenced
Frank Dies of Cancer

NEW YORK, March 23.-Judge L. S.
Roam, who presided at the trial of Leo
NJ. Frank for the murder of Mary
Phagan. and who sentenced Frank to
death. died OF cancer at the Polytechnic
Hospital today.
Judge Roam became i'll several months
ago and was brought North for treat
ment His condition became alarming
on Monday and he failed to rally.
The Washington times., 1915-03-23
PROGR A Nj
(For Today and Tomorrow

Meeting Of fraternal. social. and other
organiza tons Of the Nations Capital,
together with a brief tabulation Of the
most important events scheduled Tor
today and tomorrow, and attractions at
the various playhouses BY reference
to this column the reader may find at
a glance the time and place of happen
ings in Washington today and tomorrow.
The Sunday issue OF The Times presents
a program of events for the ensuing
week,
The Washington times., 1915-03-23

Washington, March %.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1915-08-19
ARE SLAVES TO DRUG HABIT
Couple Ask to Be Sent to Montana
Insane Asylum, -

Helena, Mont, Aug. 18.-Slaves to
the drug habit more than twenty
years, AL Crowell and wife, Nal Gro
we'll, have appeared before County At
torney A. Mcconnell, with the request
that they be sent to the state insane
asylum at Warm Springs, so they may
be cured of their deadly fascination
for morphine, cocaine, opium, yentsie
and other kindred drugs.
Mrs. Crowell told the county attor-
ney pitiful story of how she had
married her husband to reform him.
She did everything possible to rescue
him until she, too, became a victim of
narcotics. =-.. -
But forty years of age, she looks
sixty, with gray hair, emaciated face
and twitching muscles. Crowe11, once
a prizefghter, is now wreck physi-
cally, but both have hope of redemp-
ton by confinement where it will be
impossible to obtain opiates. ~.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1915-08-19
ASKS -FOUR DAYS TO-
STUDY SITUATION
Former Greek Premier May Or
ganize New Cabinet.

London, Aug. 18.-King Constantine
OF Greece has requested Eleuthorios
Venizelos to form new cabinet and
the former premier has asked four
days in which to consider the situa-
ton before reaching a decision, ac-
cording to an Athens dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph company.
The retreat of the Russians from
Poland continues and it is believed
probable they will have to fall back
further than the Brest-Litovsk line,
as Berlin reports that General Lifts
mann has stormed and taken the
forts on the southwest front of Kov-
no, capturing $500 prisoners and 24O
guns. --~
This probably means the early fall
of the fortress itself, between which
and the capture of the Wilma Warsaw.
Petrograd railway there cannot be
much delay.
Another fort on the northeast front
Of Novogeorgievsk also has fallen and
the Gordon is being closed around the
fortress. Other armies from the west
and south are advancing toward the
Brest-Litovsk line. =.
There has been continued activity
among the diplomats in the Balkan
capitals and among the Balkan rep.
resentatives in other capitals
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1915-08-19
FOR LIFE
OF LAWSON HELD UP
Court Also Prohibits Judge From
Hearing Strike Actions.

Denver, Aug. 18-The United Mine
Workers of America won two victories
in the legal war which has succeeded
the strike of Colorado coal miners.
The state supreme court granted a
writ OF supersedeas, preliminary to a
review Of the John R. Lawson case,
and at the same time barred Judge
CRANKY Hillyer from presiding at fu-
ture trials growing out of strike dis
ORDERS
The Lawson supersedeas stays the
execution of the sentence of life i'm
prisonment pronounced by Judge Hill
yer upon the labor leader, convicted
of first degree murder at Trinidad.
Lawson is still in jail, the court hav-
ing deferred settlement of the ques-
ton of admitting him to bail.
By granting a writ of prohibition,
barring Judge Hillyer from hearing
three strike trials at Walsenburg, at
torneys believe Hillyer's connection
with strike cases has ended, as the
motion decided was admitted to be a
test of the supreme courts attitude
toward the jurist, who is accused of
bias because of having been an attor-
ney for coal mining companies.
Several hundred cases still are to
be tried in the Third judicial district,
which includes the coal mining fields
near Trinidad and Walsenburg.