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The Washington times., 1915-01-12
C|TY'S BEST BABIES
FLOCK INTO CONTEST

Babies and still more babies kept
coming all yesterday afternoon int"
the FIVE Infant Welfare Stations 10
Gated in different parts of the CITY.
where the entries were made for tn"
Better Baby Contest.
Each baby seemed inner than ih"
Ia ST, until the attendants at the st.
tions ran out Of exclamations and had
TO confinc themselves to How old"
"How much does he weigh" and the
dozen other questions that come in
the baby cdtechism:
The babies will have rest TO-DAY
and tomorrow. except at the main
station. at 1922 Twenty-eighth street
northwest. where the examination is
now in progress.
The other stations will receive chill
dren on Thursday, Friday. and Satur
day afternoons.
At a comparatively new station on
Four-and- half street southwest
over fifty babies were registered. Eoth
colorcd and white besicecd the office
from to o'clock. The same popu-
lar interest is eNinCed at the old
stations as was shown in last years
contest.
The contestants for tho prize aud
the -four honor certificates tu ~"
awarded by Miss Margaret Wilson
neat week ~ th" Boston sitrlr audi
toriuni, viii be $7t IN number.
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News and Gossip of Washington
Society and Social Events

on Sunday for her home at Hamilton,
Mass. ,..
d
Miss Ruth walsh, who visited Miss
Katherine Hill, daughter of Mr.. and
returned to her home In New York
yesterday.
Miss Pauline Kindleberger will go to
Baltimore the first Of next week to at
tend the Monday German, and will be
the guest OF her cousin. Mrs. William
J. O'Brien.
Miss Frances Miller is the guest of
her cousins. Mr.. and Mrs. F. s. Tainter.
at BerIfardsvtlle, y. j., and will later
make a round Of visits. returning to
Washington about February I.
Mrs. Marion Butler will return OIL
plantation in Elliott, \. c.
Miss Constance Harrison. daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Fairfax Harrison. of vir-
ginia, who made a lengthy visit to for
mer Senator and Mrs. Marion Butler
returned home Yesterday.
Miss Helen Joseffy. daughter of Ra.
fael Joseffy. the celebrated New York
pianist is the guest Of Mrs. F.. John.
son and her brother. Norman Scala, al
1876 T street.
Mrs. T. Franklin Schneider and Mr..
Thomas G. Forney, jr.. will be at home
at the Cairo on Monday next and on
the hrst and third Mondays in F'ebru.
airy.
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informally at supper next sundav even
ing.
Mr.. ana Mrs. Leonard l.. Nicholson
ing at thcir apartment in Hammond
Court.
Alexander Graham Bell has cards out
fu' a dinner Of thirty covers on Thurs
day evening ats o'clock. at his home in
Douglas Ma wson. The guests will in
Ciudc the officers and board OF gov
ernors of-the National Geographic So
ciety.
The officers OF the /. s. S. Dolphin
will be hosts at dinner Thursday night
at the Army'Nayy . Club
Mr.. and Mrs. !. r. Mann will give a
dinner tomorrow evening at the Chevy
Chase club.
III" second dance Of the season will
be given by the Georgetown Assembly
nest Monday evening at Linthccum
Hall. 49,
Senator and Mrs. James A. o'Go,mai'
win entertain about 100 guests at .
dance this evening at their u street
homo. in compliment to their debutante
daughters. Miss Anna and Miss Agnes
OGorn,au. The dancing will take place
IN the rose bali room, the house will be
decorated with palms and cut flowers
and supper will be served at mid
night. Mrs. Dudley Field Malone and
Miss Mary Mulqucen. who are Mrs
O'Gormsn's house guests. and Miss Alice
lOGoiman will assist in receiving the
guests. -'
Mrs. Robert W. Patterson will enter
tain At dinner tomorrow evening ir
compliment to Miss julia. Meyer.
Miss AIareery Cotton Will be the guess
Of honor this evening at dinner giver
by Mr.. and Mrs. Perry johnson,
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The dinner which John r. McLrsl
will give on Thursday evening will be
followed by dancing. for which a mum
ber of additional guests have bcel
asked
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Teas and At Homes

Mrs. Dan {. kingman, wife Of Gem
eral Kinsman. and Mrs. John }. King
man. wife of Captain Kingman, will
give tea-dance at the Officers Club.
Washington Barracks. Saturday, jan
uary 70. from 4 to I o'clock.
Mrs. kinSman and Mrs. John King
man will be at home on Wednesday,,
February and 10. at 1875 y slror,.
s.
MTs. Iiannis Tavlor and Mss HaEn,h
Taylor will entertain at tea tomorrow
afternoon. January l$. instead Ct Jan
uarv a. as previously announced
Mrs. John Crayke Simpson will receive
this afternoon at the first of q series of
at homes.
Mrs. Ernest W. Roberts will receive
the first and fourth TUESDAYS in each
month.
Mrs. Horace Towner and Miss Leta
ToWner are at home this afternoon at
the Mendoza.
-t-
Mrs. Perry Heath will not receive to-
morrow. but will be at home the fol-
lowing Wednesdays until Lent.
Mrs. William r. Merriam will be a,
home today and on the remaining Tues
days during the month.
Mrs. Ben Johnson and Miss Nancy
johnson will receive on Tuesday after
moons during the season.
Mrs. George Clark and Miss Louis,
Clark were at home informally ast' Sun
day.
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Mrs. George Anderson. of t'huv,
Chase. is entertaining the Woman
club of Bethesda this afternoon. Aftc
the business is transacted and the pro
sram completed. tea will be served.
s.
Mrs Henry Allen Cooper will not re
ceiye today at the Richmond
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AMERICAN POTASH

Not every American realizes the
importance of the potash deposits
found not long ago at Searlcs Lake
in Death Valley. California. Cover
ing twenty square miles seventy-fivc
feet deep they will yield to the
United States for thirty years as
much as she has regularly imported
from Germany.
At present mines are being
equipped to turn out not much more
than a tenth of the annual imports
but if the product keeps up to the
commercial standard predicted, the
output will soon be multiplied. In
the meantime potash is being ex-
tracted by one firm from the giant
kelps of the Pacific coast. As a
more accessible substitute for Ger.
man fertilizer, ashes of cotton seed
bulbs, where they are available, and
elsewhere wood ashes are spread
over meadows and pastures and
! over lands planted to corn and root
| crops.
With the 'Searies Lake brine, 4
| per cent of which is potash, are
mingled some valuable salts. Among
them is ammonium sulphate, useful
to farmers as nitrogen fertilizer
Since August sulphate of ammonia
has been more plentifully produced
in America to replace that brought
from Germany, where it was oh.
tanned as a by-product of the Goa
tar industries.
The potash and other fertilizers
near Searles Lake will be trans
ported to the neighboring Pacific
and thence, by way, of the Panama
canal. up the Mississippi and it!
tributaries, up the Hudson anc
through the Barge canal and thu
Great Lakes to millions of lands
doomed to lapse into unproductive
ness without continual fcrtilizing.
Other loads will be shipped to fac
tories. Some will be stirred int
crucibles with sand and lead anc
then, after the mass has growr
molten in the furnace, will be blowr
or pressed or cut into tableware o.
optical glasses
Other tons will be ground int
gunpowder, for two important in
gradients of which we have hitherto
depended upon foreign countries
upon Chile for nitrate and upon Ger
many for potash.
Other cargocs, mingled with fatt.
acids and soda in pans of thirty-tol
capacity, will be boiled, salted
stirred. and variously TRANSFORMED
into soap.
Still other tons. dissolved o
dropped into flask, spread on glas
asSsss and delicately manipulated
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Personals.

Ecal Admiral j. r. Helm. of ThiIa-
dclphia. IS staying at the Hotel Pow
halan.
Lieut.. r.. {. Saufley, L. S ~. and
Mrs Saufiey. Of Frankfort, Ky, are at
tho New Willard Hotel.
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Congressman and Mrs. Samuel !. Trib-
bic, Of Georgia. will be at tho .Burling-
ton until February 8. after which they
will occupy an apartment in tho Coch-
ran Hotel.
Mrs. Sam Dick. OF Atlanta. Ca. for
merly Miss Ruth Tribble, will be with
her parents, Congressman and Mrs.
Tribole. during the month Of January.
Join JOY Edison. jr., returned to his
short visit with his parents at their
home on Sixteenth street.
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CAPT; ia e. Michic T. $. A.. and
a, the New Willard Hotel
Former Congressman and MIS-. Frank
.. Lowdcn have reached Washington
from their home in Illinois and are at
thc Shoreham Hotel
Mr: and Mas. Hampson Gary. Of
Tyler. leN.. lbNS taken apartments
for the winter at the Hotel Powha-
tan.
Miss Edith Noon, who is making all
extended visit in New York, will return
to her apartment in the Dresden about
January 20.
MI. and Mrs. Henry l.. kaufman. the
latter formerly Miss Hope Hamilton.
of New York, who have passed the
first few days Of their honeymoon at
t!s,,iSsv;, The SsM Willard Hotel; lstt TODAY for
!,-..
Mr.. and Mrs. Iucius .Esbrrr Gridley
are entertaining their niece, Mrs
Frank p. Thomas. formerly. Miss Ruth
Gridley, daughter Of the late Captain
Gridlcy. L. :. ~, Of Erie, Pa.
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Mrs. Abram Simon. OF Cathedral
avenue. Hil leave the city on Thurs
day for Chicago, where she viii pre-
side at tho biennial meetinS Of the
National Federation OF Temple Sister
hoods and deliver en- address ct the
tic Union of American Hebrew Con
SEeGa tions. Before returning home
Mrs, Simon will he the guest 81 the
Cleveland sisterhoods and also of the
Cincinnati section OF tie Council Ot
Jewish Women anA the local sister
hoods. who will entertain Jointly in
her honor
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Mrs. Andrew Morcland. Of Pitts
bur2h and Newport, who was expect
ed to arrive in Washington last week
to be the guest of her sisters, Miss
Callie Doyle and Miss Flora Doyle
who are spending the winter at the
home of the American Ambassador tc
Russia and Mrs. George Marye, on the
corner Of Connecticut avenue and
street, was delayed in New York Sh,
will reach Washington tomorrow.
Miss Julia Mcycr. who has bceI
tho guest IN turn Of Mrs. Thomas
Laughlu Miss MarCarct Pcrim an,
! Mrs Wolcott TUckcrmau, is now Will
iMra H"h'r; W. Patterson f"r few
'da!s. Miss Mc!ct eApects ~ leave
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The Silver
Lining.
Edited BY ARTHUR BAER.

When giving out the auTels for
strategic gcneralship. don't forget that
General Hucrta seems to have been the
Only Wa11lo" to reach gay Paree.
Excepting, OF course. Cipriano Castro
who arrived there before tho strict
censorship was stablished
Damage worse than al nrst sus.
pected. Every time "A Russian battle.
boat is sunk, half OF the alphabet Is
dragged down in the vortex.
BY way of variation. they might have
the inquiry first and the wreck after.
ward. Would revolutionize the indus.
try; but. then. look at the novelty.
Chance to be a charter member. Send
in your application for the Society for
HE Prevention OF Societies of PreNcn
th"n. Fills long felt wait,
Grand NIZicr has moved tho Turkisl
treasury. UU, kept tho destination
secret. Can't afford I" take an!
chances. 10" many South American
cX.Presidents in Europe.
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WANTED: AN UMBRELLA

The Piney Branch Citizens Asso.
citation has inaugurated an effort to
have rain shelter erected in front
Of the Union Passenger Station, ex.
tending out from the portico and
over the street car tracks. Perhaps
the initiators. Of the movement are
especially inspired, in selecting last
evening as the time to start their
project; at any rate, today has
brought a particularly fetching dem.
.onstration Of the need Of such an i'm.
provement.
The Times has for years been urg'
ing the need Of this work. Thou.
sands of people pass through the
Union Station every day to take
street cars; and on such day as
today, they can 60 from their car
seats to the front of the station in
perfect comfort, only N be drenched
in the transit from the portico to the
cars.
Perhaps the objection will be
raised that such a shelter will be a
disfigurement to the architecture OF
the Station. But the objection is
not valid. The Station is utility,
primarily; an ornament secondarily,
The people who have to use it in bad
weather have very little concern
about the esthetics Of it; they are
much interested in keeping their feet
dry. Artistic proportions are alto
sether desirable; but not when pneu.
monia is the price.
There is, moreover, architectural
authority for the assurance that such
an. addition to the Station as is
needed, if built of proper light
construction of steel and glass, need
not be a Disagreement. Certainly
the objection on architectural and
artistic grounds has no standing as
s4ainst the pressing need Of the pro.
teetion for the public.
The Washington times., 1915-01-12
MOTHER.TEACHERS WIN

The commissioner Of education for
New York State, DR.. John H. Finley,
has rendered the final ruling in the
remarkable controversy about
mother-teachers in New York public
schools, and it is sweeping deci-
sion in favor of teachers who be-
come mothers. 1t is handed down in
the now famous case of Mrs. Peix-
otto, and will determine the cases of
sixteen others who have been dis
missed from the schools in New
York city because they took leaves
of absence in order to bear children.
The board of education of the city
reached the conclusion that it had
the power, and that proper educa-
tional policy required, that it dismiss
teachers in these conditions. The
court of appeals. to which the case
was carried, declined to take juris-
diction on the ground that it was an
administrative question to be settled
by the proper school authorities.
This pointed to the State commits
sioner as the final arbiter, and there
the case went.
So much attention has been at
tracted to this case that the deci-
sion may be regarded as establish
ing a precedent so important as to
be of national significance. The
same questions have been raised in
other places, and have given no lit
tie embarrassment to school authori-
ties.
DR.. Finley bases his decision on
broad grounds Of public policy, and
he is doubtless supported by a large
preponderance of public opinion. In
a generation in which large share
of the women are economic pro-
ducers, and in which the schools have
to great extent been turned over
to their direction, it is not apparent
how such rule can be enforced
without holding out strong pre-.
sumption, at least, that the like rule
might be insisted upon in other oc.
equations; and that would be a de.
| parturc from what is now becoming
the beaten economic track. Not
many women arc likely to insist on
the rather poor privilege of being
wage earners unless there is good
economic reason for it; but surely
there is no good ground for denying
to so capable. efficient, and well
equipped aA,odysof women the privi.
lege of serving the state by becom
ing mothers of it's next generation
of citizens.
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will bear their necessary part in
photography.
The discovery of this potash bed,
the source of countless American in
dustries, illustrates the opportunities
now beckoning to mining experts to
spy out the yet unsupported re-
sources in their own infinitely varied
country, in Alaska and in the mys.
terious eXpanses of South America.
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SAYS BEST CITIZENS"
| BLOCK RELIEF PLANS
Amos Pinchot Flags Attitude
Preventing Employment on
Public Improvements.

NEW YORK, Jan. 1o-sharp cri,;
c1sm OF the appointment of Judge FL
pert IL. Gary and George W. Perkins on
.ne municipal committee investigating
Unemployment and high cost of living
vas voiced in letter addressed . to
mayor Mitchell today by Amos Pincho,
1nchot characterized the attitude of
the city administration toward the un-
employment problem as little short OF
frivolous He charges that a larse and
powerful group Of taxpayers made TN of
oest citizens have blocked the pro-
posal 70 put part Of the army Of 5oo,oo
nc improvements, a suggestion approved
py leading civic ORGANIZATIONS.
both the organized charities and the
uepartment ,si"h @ OF charities haye failed to
age Of the destitute. They never reach
more. But If the city should furnish
empioyinent to these people. the poor
Of caring for their own poor and the
taxpayers would largely assuns 4.
Why Bad Finance"
Thus the question narrows down 10
whether the employed poor shall con.
tinue to stagger under the impossible
load OF supporting the unemployed
poor. or, whether the communitys tax
roll shall bear this burden. This Is vhv
our best people are SO insistent tha,
IT is bad finance for the city to push
work on contracts and give employment
70 the fdle. II now becomes the priv
| ilege OF the city adninistratio to saw
whether 1t will stand with the Door or.
| the real estate interests.
l. MI. Perkins has issued number OF
heipful circulars in which he advises
those who cannot afford TO eat mea
| to eat fish," says Pinchot
| III the eXchequer does not extend TO
the sea.food point. the people should
eat the palatable but inexpensive lent,l
To the unemployed without even the
| means to buy lentils. the comfort is
orered OF reading the pamphlet How
to Use Left-Overs.' circulated by ire
committee"
Is Making Progress.
! Judge Gary. of the United States Steel
Corporation, head of Mayor Mitchels
committee on Unemployment, today re-
fused to comment upon Pinchots c,i,i-
| cism.
| The committee, Judge Gary said. IS
making progress toward a solution Of
| the Unemployment problem.
| 'Cnscientific distribution of labor un-
nuestionably is partly responsible for
| the present situation he said. ."rheir
are too many men in the larger cit: :cs
| of the country. but just now it seem
TO be a case of too many men for the
Jobs. Every employer in the country,
instead of laying off half Of his men
should put his entire force on half time
That's about the most sound suggestion
that has been advanced"
The Washington times., 1915-01-12

Napoleon said that an army moved
On its stomach. but apparently Nap
hasn't seen the latest pictures OF our
more stylish generals in their limou-
sines.
Nice idea tn let the f'iiipiuoS work
.rut their oN u SalN Natiou. Only dra wba OK
is the Filipino's Well-knoNn antipa thy
20 working out salvation or ANYTHING
Csc.
Billy sunday says froS can make
more noise than a whale. but, then. We
cant remember any froE that has had
the proud distinction OF being mistaken
for a submarine.
ContictinS dates. Looks as if the
European war was going to lap over
into the baseball season. Press agents
should come TO some terms
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WAR WILL BEGIN SOON!

Lord Kitchener. is quoted as say
ing that he "didn't know when the
war would end; but he did know that
it would begin next May"
That's a grim observation enough,
and it sounds like the grim old SOL
der who is credited with making it.
Kitchener with two million men and
Roumania with 100000 will be ready
then. Nobody can guess how many
Russia will have by that time, but
unquestionably more than ever be-
fore. Perhaps Ita ly with a million
and a half or thereabouts. will have
taken her place in the ranks of the
allies.
On both sides the winter will be
more or less devoted to preparation
for the titanic activities of the
spring campaign. Germany is get
ting more men under arms. Aus
tria's forces are being strengthened
and reorganized. May will bring a
reversal of the situation that August
saw. 1t will be the turn of the al
lies to attempt crushing pressure
upon the Germanic federation. Car
they bring force enough TO bear to
accomplish their end?
Preliminaries to the next stage of
the struggle are being perfected or
scale SO immense as hardly to be
appreciated from the small volume
of information that is permitted to
the outside world. Thus it is known
that in various places railroads are
being laid down by the allies, to
match the transport system that
thus far has given the Germans
vast advantage. So far as possible
the Germans are to be deprived of
the superior mobility. that has en-.
abled them to make one soldier dc
for them, at times, what two could
do for their enemies.
On both sides, the arsenals are
turning out every conceivable sort Of
war munitions in quantities never
before attempted. 1t is stated fol
instance that the allied countries
have now completed the arming and
equipment of the Roumanian army
of 100000, which, heretofore, was re.
strained from. participation in the
fighting because it would have beer
fatal to plunge it into hostilities
without assurance of supplies and
money to keep it serviceable. The
stress which is placed upon all the
countries, to build new factories TO,
the provision of guns, rifles, ammu
milton and the like, to train men tt
these trades, to find and bring to-
gether necessary materials-thest
are all features of the conduct of &
war, quite as important as enlist
ing, training, and fighting the men.
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Dinners and Dances.

Congressman and Mrs. Peter Goelct
Gerry will be hosts at one of the most
brilliant dinner dances of the season
this evening, when their guests will
assemble at the Country Club.
The Postmaster General and Mrs
Burleson will be the guests OF honor
this evening at the second OF a series
OF dinners which the Assistant Secrc.
ta,y Of Agriculture and Mrs. Carl Nroo,
man arc giving in honor of tho Nom,
hrrs of the Cabinet. Miss Itachae
rrothcrs. The playwright, who is Mrs
-,mman's housS cuCst. viii hr IN tho
ItriN
Mis-. Louise liiE. daughter al Iapt
suu Mrs. George Clsrh' will enI:rSLl
The Washington times., 1915-01-12

there is the testimony Of some mil
lions of Belgians, now eating Ameri-
can bread, that Belgium thinks
America has done right we'll.
The Washington times., 1915-01-12
NEUTRAL CARCOES FREE

When Sir Edward Grey submits as
proof that there has not been undue
interference with our foreign trade
ne fact that our sales Of COM
modify in one neutral quarter have
Increased to five times, say, what
they were before the war, and in an
other neutral quarter to seven
times, say, what they were, the OBJ
vious rejoinder is that we must be
selling in those neutral quarters
supplies which they formerly got
from markets in countries now BEL
ligercnt.
But if the commodity happens to
be coppcr--and those particular fig
ures did relate to copper-the re-
ipinder breaks down; for Germany
has never been a seller, but has al
ways been buyer of copper. There
u.s.. however, this to be said: whether
Italy is deliberately planning to 60
to war or not, Italy has been making
the largest possible preparations for
war. Getting on war footing, Italy
could require, not merely five or
seven, but ten OF fourteen times the
copper she had required when she
WAS not preparing for war.
OF course, if Italy is going to war
tomorrow she has the right, under
international practices, to buy today
and we have the same right to de-
liver to her. today all the copper. all
the arms. munitions or anything else
she may want. As between buying
nation at peace and selling nation
at peace there is no such thing as
contraband of war.
Also, if the Scandinavian coun-
tries, not at war, buy from US fifty
times as much copper as in times of
world peace there is always just as
good a chance that such copper is
destined for Russia as that it is des.
tined for Germany.
Nevertheless, it is clear to any
fair-minded observer that five o,
seven times normal shipments OF
material needed for wa. purposes tc
a. country at peace are open to sus.
picion by belligerent whose in.
terest and perhaps very existence
depend upon keeping such war ma.
terials from an enemy. And it is
equally self-evident truth that the
sincere neutral, though willing tt
sell contraband of war to an un,
limited quantity, will not maintain
that there ought to be no more cues
tion by belligerent about that con
craband than about non -contraband
After all, that issue leaves yer,
little real difference between Great
Britain and the United States. Thi.
Government does not mean to snug
gle contraband into a belligeren
country under the pretense that it il
not contraband.. The British gov
ernment does not doubt US as to that
Sir Edward Grey assures US that hi
government wishes to do only wha
we admit it has the right to do-in
rercept contraband destined to al
enemy. We need not doubt him.
II ought to be easy, therefore. I,
come to working arrangement ths
will satisfy both sides. and come {,
e w!lh dispatch. We can make sur