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The Washington times., 1915-04-06
Jeopardizing Popularity.

To the Editor of THE TINES:
With the coming of the jitney bus and
the probable revolutionizing of street
transportation in the city of Washing
ton. 1t seems that the Capital Traction
Company has adopted a plan which will
have a tendency to cause public favor
TO drift toward the jitney buses. | refer
to the recent order issued to the
cashiers of the Navy Yard car barn, to
refuse to make change for anyone.
1t has in the past been a great con-
venience to employees of the Navy Yard
and of the Marine Barracks to get bills
changed at the car barn office on pay
days, and I am sure that it has made
many friends for the company, and an
other reason for getting change at the
car barn Is that the conductors very
seldom are able to change large bills
when you get on the car and generally
cause trouble for the passengers. Just
now, of all times, I think It is a bad
policy for them to incur the disfavor
of three or four thousand men en-
ployed in and about the Navy Yard. by
refusing courtesy that costs them
nothing, and which means so much to
us. CONSIANI READER.
Washington, April 4.
The Washington times., 1915-04-06
Plays and Players at Capital
.TheaterS This Week
BELASCO.

The filmization of THE Heart OF
Maryland" with Mrs. Leslie Carter dis
playing in the silent drama all her
eloquent emotions and delightful dra-
matte art. Is attracting large audiences
to the Belasco, where the four perform
ances Of the six-part photoplay is given
daily this week.
1t was in the role of Maryland CAL
vert that Mrs. Carter first achieved
success, and IL is interesting there
fore, that she can be seen in the
screen production. 1t is a part which
requires q capable emotional actress,
and Mrs. Carter once again proves that
she is an artist of high rank. The
supporting company is an excellent
one and includes J. Farrell Macdonald,
William e. Shay. Vivian Reed, and
Matt Snyder.
The production Is worthy OF the fame
OF the story. The pictures were taken
not only with regard to dramatic in
terest. but with fine regard for ar
tistic effects. The scenes taken of a
battle at sunrise are exceptionally beau
tiful.
There is an impressive funeral of a
general buried with military honors,
and remarkable scenes in an army
camp. The most dramatic moment in
the play-the belfry scene-surpasses
expectations. Afterward the church is
struck by a shell and burns to the
ground.
The Washington times., 1915-04-06
LAW AND CASE.MEMORIZlN0

DR.. Joseph Redlick, professor of
law and political science in the Uni
versity of Vienna, who was appoint
ed by the Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement of Teaching to
study methods of teaching law in
America, submitted his report yes-
terday. DR.. Redlich gives high praise
to the case method, which is in vogue
in this country, saying that neither
in England nor in the great English
colonies has systematic instruction
in law been developed so intensively
and comprehensively as in the United
States.
At best this is poor praise. 1t is
a compliment to the success Ameri-
can schools have attained in training
the memory, but it is sad tribute
to work in imparting true concep-
tion Of what law is and what its
functions are. When stress is placed
upon cases and not upon law, it deals
with the shell more than with the
kernel. One of the curses of the
country is the unlimited number of
cases, and burden is the increase
Of case lawyers. Almost anything
can be proved from cases. There is
no case that cannot be bulwarked
by other cases and cases ad infini-
tum. Cases have not only enmeshed
the people and the lawyers them
selves, but the very courts.
What the country needs is a rest
from cases. 1t needs a reorientation
to law, and adjustment of law to ex-
listing conditions. The United States
Supreme Court achieved both these
desirable objects in the Standard Oil
and Tobacco Trust decisions, when it
reoriented the statute law respecting
unlawful combinations to the ancient
common law of the rule of reason
and at the same time made the deci-
sion conform to present conditions
What the Supreme Court did was not
to legislate, and not to attempt the
impossible thing of seeking justice
in cases, but to apply an old prin.
ciple of law, which was law not.
withstanding that few lawyers at the
time knew it to be law.
The Washington times., 1915-04-06
CASINO.

Mar Elnc the famous ten-year-old
''Thanhouser Kid" fairly carried the
big audiences at the Casino Theater
yesterday afternoon and last night by
storm. Few who have seen the noted
little actress in Thanhouser film COM
edies. who could gain admission. lost
the opportunity to see her in real life.
The play is laid in the fifties in New
England. and the little screen star i'm
personates a New England farm girl
and a circus clown. She is assisted by
Eugene Blessing
Mile. Zinka Parma earned big volumes
of applause with her Hungarian Gym
beline offerings Jennings and Evers
added to the merriment with parodies
in b!ackface; James Cantwell made a
hit with his speciality. and Arthur
Huston and his company presented
scenic spectacle in Roosevelt in
Africa" introducing a number of live
monkies and rare birds. The added at
traction Is Olga Petrova. in the photo
play. The Tigress," a dramatic sem
sation.
Saturday morning at 10 o'clock Mary
Eline will give reception TO the or
phons under the Chaperonage of Mrs.
Daniels, wife of the Secretary of the
Navy, and Saturday afternoon she Will
give a general reception to the chill
drcn who attend the performance.
The Washington times., 1915-04-06
THE CHAMPIONSHIP

There are a great many people
who can see nothing except mex
cusIble and reprehensible brutality
in a prize fight; and they are en-
titled to the utmost consideration for
their humane attitude. On the other
hand there are a vast number of
others, who seem outwardly to be
quite reputable members of the COM
munity, who are elemental enough
to enjoy a prize fight. In a world
in which at this moment several mil
lions of men, representing the most
highly "civilized" nations, are shoot
ing each other to death by means
sometimes fair and sometimes foul,
it does not seem necessary to indulge
any extreme expressions about the
horrors of such an exhibition as
that which took place in Havana
yesterday.
Willard, young, magnificently con-
ditioned, and pretty thoroughly in
expert, defeated Johnson, older, i'll
conditioned, a victim of bad habits,
and yet perhaps the most finished
ring general of his time. 1t is the
old story of youth against advancing
age; and youth will be served. John
son feared; he knew that if he re-
mained in the ring, some younger
man would be certain to defeat him
sooner or later. But beyond that lies
the real lesson of this bout; the les
son that a mans habits of life will
at last tell, and perhaps decisively
in the shaping of his career. The de-
feated champion was widely regard
ed as the most wonderful fighter that
ever went into ring; yet he found
his master. That master was not
Willard, the cowboy giant, but back
of Willard, the fact that johnson
had dissipated his physical and mora
stamina by eXcesses in his mode OF
life.
The world has been getting some
sharp lessons of late in the relation
of personal habits to personal anC
community efficiency. While the Eu
ropean world, under stress of de-
mand for its last ounce of power
has been going on the water wagor
as a means to conserve it's strength
and it's resources, the United States
has been getting lesson in the dan
gers of another kind of indulgence
through the revelations following tn,
enactment of the antelope" law
There is material for a Billy Sunda!
sermon in any one of these thre,
demonstrations.
u A nation at war, a nation in peace
The Washington times., 1915-04-06
B. F. KEITH'S.

Intensive drama, that combination OF
literary and acting arts which seeks tc
Law bare the human soul and make It's
auivering send thrills through an au-
dience. Is made the important feature
of the weeks Keith program through
the skill OF Kalich and her company
in Interpreting the Americanized one
act play by Ossip Dymow, The VIC
tim"
The play has all of that sombre trag-
edy which the Sav and Scandinavian
authors delight to put into their work,
and in this case a theme which would
have ordinarily been used for three
act drama is crowded into few min
utes of swift, decisive action. The play
tells the story. Of what happened while
the husband of its heroine was on his
way to a railway station and back 10
his home after missing his train.
Kalich, as the wife, has a part that
easily proves her right to claim title
as one of the most accomplished OF
artists I'm purely emotional roles. None
Of the possibilities Of the part are over
looked in the building UP OF the story
TO its surprising climax. She is assisted
by a capable company including Aubrey
Beatty. Leonard Craske. and Robert
Stow Gin. The drama has been artistic
ally staged by Clinton Hamilton.
Scarcely less important than the dra'
matte feature of the program was the
appearance Of Carmine A Fabrizio. the
violinist, for the first time here In
| vaudeville. Mr.. FabriZlo has long beer
big favorite in Washington, and the
audience which greeted him last even
ing. including as 1t did President vii.
sons guests at the White House, and
box parties by Mrs. Lawrence Town
send and others of social prominence
showed plainly that his visits with the
Boston Symphony Orchestra and as 9
soloist at private musiCales are no.
forgotten.
The Long Tack Sam company OF Chi,
nese entertainers presented a species OF
entertainment that kept the audience ir
continual wonderment as to what they
| would do next, as we'll as how II would
! be possible to do the next thing better
! than the one before 1t had been done.
| good an individual entertainer as SHE
| was when associated with father
mother, and Paul, in the old days OF th'
| -Four Mortons: Ralph Dunbar's singini
bell ringers sang and rang bells in quite
| an entertaining manner: Jim Toney ant
| Ann Norman presented a musical mum
| ber; Viva Ford and Harry Hewitt hav'
! dancing speciality with an odd set
! ting. and the Avon Comedy Four pre-
sent a farce that suggests more a bur
lcsQue house than a big time vaudeville
! entertainment. although II seemed t
amuse the children that dominated yes
| tcrday's matinee. G. NJ.
The Washington times., 1915-04-06
THE AMERICAN NOTE

Secretary Bryan's note to the
British government protesting
against the allies embargo of trade
with Germany through neutral coun-
tries, is couched in spirit and tone
that ought entirely to satisfy the
British and French authorities. In
substance the Washington Govern
ment says: eve cannot refrain from
protest against the extremes to
which you are going, and we insist
that even if your enemies are doing
things which are in violation of the
law of nations, that fact ought not
to be urged by you as a justification
for doing other things equally vio-
lative of this code. But if unhap-
PLY regrettable incidents may hap
pen because of these unprecedented
conditions, then the American Gov
ernment will expect full and prompt
reparation for damage that our citi-
zens and their commerce may sus-
tain"
The British people, according to
the news dispatches, are we'll i'm
pressed with the tone of this COM
munication, which seems to 60 as far
as it could we'll go in admonition to
Great Britain, unless it were pur-
posed to indulge extreme measures
against both Britain and Germany;
a thing not to be thought of. The
concluding paragraph of Mr.. Bryan's
note will carry to English readers a
very plain understanding that this
Government understands and appre-
ciates the difficulties of the British
position. "You will reiterate to his
majesty's government" says Mr..
Bryan to Ambassador Page, "that
this statement of the views of the
Government of the United States is
made in the most friendly spirit, and
in accordance with the uniform can
dor which has characterized the re-
lations of the two governments in
the past, and which has been in large
measure the foundation of the peace
and amity existing between the two
nations without interruption for a
century" That concluding express
sion, read in the light of the recent
mysterious withdrawal of American
military observers from Germany
and placed alongside the sharp in
sistence of this Government, in its
correspondence with Germany, that
America must hold Germany to the
fullest accountability for the results
of it's submarine policy, certainly
makes apparent what is the drift of
our relations with the two sides in
the great war.
The Washington times., 1915-04-06
REAL VOCATIONAL TESTS

Probably the most hopeful sign
for the progress of vocational edu-
cation comes with the recent exhibi-
tion of interest in this subject by
business men. The United States
Bureau of Education reports new
organization of business men from
half dozen States which aims to CO.
operate with commercial and trade
bodies and school boards in each
State in placing commercial educa-
tion on a standardized and scientific
basis.
This movement is not at all in the
vague name of public spirit. 1t is a
businesslike effort to save business
houses money, as is indicated by the
statement that an the case of a re-
sponsible position experiments often
cost 5000 to $500, while to find a
capable person, even in lower posi-
tions, frequently costs $25 to $50"
competent and reliable public
school tests would, no doubt, save the
business world millions of dollars"
it also is stated. To avoid such costly
experimentation the business men
would have schools adopt standard
and practical tests for various sorts
of certificates and diplomas. These
tests would include typewriting
bookkeeping, stenography, knowl-
edge of short cuts in arithmetic,
punctuation, and English compost
ton. Not merely completion of
courses, but actual tests, would be
made the requisites of diplomas, and
these diplomas would indicate just
what work the holder could be ex-
pected to perform.
The Washington times., 1915-04-06
GAYETY.

One of the liveliest burlesque shows
Washington has seen this season Is at
the Gayety this week. THE Carnation
beauties" IL the title of the orSaniza-
ton.
Charles Robinson is the featured
comedian and his peculiar talents make
him easily one of the best funmakcrs
on the burlesque stage. The two-act
burlesque, in four scenes, Is entitled
"Thc Prize Beauty" and abounds in
musical numbers. Joe Feeney and Gus
Knoll, two clever dancers; James X.
Francis and Frank Mackey have premi-
nent parts. The feminine contingent
is attractive, and is headed by May
Bernhard and Mabel Lee, both of
whom can sing and dance in a manner
to please burlesQue patrons.
GLADYS Wilbur, billed as the Southern
singer, has a number of pleasing songs
in the second act. The city comedy
trio, in parodies; Fceney and Knoll, In
eccentric dancing. and Charles Robin
son. in what he styles "a bit of non
sense" comprise the olio.
The chorus is one OF the attractions
of the SHOW, and the Willingness ' ith
which lhcy respond to the numerous
Cncurcs was in pleasing contrast 10
some previous ChOruses heard here this
season.
The evening performance Wednesday
win be followed by a wrestling match
and on Friday night there VIII be a
number Of added features
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Tomorrow.

illustrated lecture. "a Summer in the Cana
dian Rockies rs.o Mrs charles aes ncr,Se d; Mas9't
Lecture Miss Susanna cocroft. small ball
room. New Willard, IL a. m.
Exhibition. Decorative Art Society blus
room. during . day rnu,,., ror, R,
Rehearsal. Rubinstein club. banquet harl.
Bufiet Tet e; supper Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany asens Ra1sish ESQ Iub p m small ban
Dance. nee '.i Chi Psi Fraternity. oak room,
Dance Crescent Club banquet hail. Raleigh.
EShibi,ion. Society Of Washington Artists.
hcmicycle, Corcoran Art Gallery. a. m.
Meeting, Citizens Association OF Chevy
MARYLAND annual conference of the Meth
odist Protestant Church, Rhode Island Ave
nue. Methodist Protestant Church. Rhode
Island avenue and First street northwest,
Meeting. Associa ton Oldest Inhabitants of
the District, Union Engine House, Nine
teenth and II streets northwest, 7:30 p. m
Meeting, District Daughters Of the American
Rev olution. Memorial Continental Hall. $3.50
Union Halvetia dance saengerbund Hall. sl'
c street northwest; ,sst,S p %sror M lima" T. y.
Newell. before Washington Society OF En-
,gineers, Cosmos Club, p ~ m; =, ~.
Confederacy. Confederate Memorial Hall. 8
n. m. -
| Osiris No. 26 King Solomon. No. 81: Co
lumbia; No. l: Brentwood No 81 Royal Royal
Templar: Areme No 10 Eastern Star.
Odd Fellows-Eastern, No; I; Harmony. No,
Q: Federal City, No. 20; Friendship. No.
| u. Mount Nebo. No. 6. Encampment.
| knights OF Pythias-Mount Vernon, No. S;
| Washington Company. No. l.. Uniform
| Rank; Friendship Temple. No. O. Pythian
Sisters.
Woodmen OF the word-Oak Camp, No 4.
Socialist Party-Workmens Circle, executive
| committee. S11 f street northwest.
! Elks installation OF officers.
! Improved Order of Red Men-White Eagle
| Tribe, No. IL
| Guardians OF Liberty, D. c. Court. No 4:
| Meeting, Gen. NJ. Emmett Urell Camp. No
| O. United Spanish War Veterans 1lol %
| street northwest. p. m.
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MOORE'S STRAND.

Fritzi' Scheff drew crowds all day
Yesterday to Moore's Strand Theater
upon her first local appearance In film
in Pretty Mrs. Smith," by oliver
Morosco and Elmer Harris. 1t was in
this play that Miss Scheff last ap-
peared in Washington. AS the heroine
who has taken unto herself at diff
ferent times three husbands, two of
whom have. to the best of her knowl-
edge, passed into the great beyond.
and at a most inepportune moment to
have all three almost simultaneously
return apparently from the grave, Eshe
has unlimited opportunities to display
her histrionic cleverness.
From Thursday to Saturday Rita
Jolivet will be seen In the latest
Laskey production, THE Unafraid."
from Elinor lngram's story. Miss
Jolivet reached histrionic stardom
through her splendid work in the lead
ing feminine role with Otis Skinner in
"kismet.
The Washington times., 1915-04-06
CRANDALL'S.

Washington theatergoers crowded
Crandalfs Theater at all performances
yesterday to witness a screen version OF
THE Man Who Found Himself" based
on George Broadhurst's drama. The
Mills of the Gods" Robert Warwick
has the role OF a thieving cashier, as
James Clarke. His crime is discovered
BY a compa mon. who blackmails him.
Both are found out and sent to Jail.
Paul McAllister formerly leading man
of the Poll Players. has the part of
FREDERICK Payton. another thief, and
Airline Pretty, another former local
stock favorite. is seen as the girl in the
play.
A strong cast il presented by the
World Film Corporation. and ample
scope is given Robert Warwick to dis
play dramatic ability. THE Man who
Found Himself" will be shown again to-
day as the main attraction.
The concerts OF Prof. Green's or
chestra in connection with the Crandall
pipe organ recitals were well enjoyed by
the audiences yesterday
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GARDEN.

Crowded houses were the order yes
terday at Moores Garden Theater. the
attraction being The Outlaws Re-
venge," featuring Mae Marsh. Robert
Harron and Spottiswoode Aitkin To-
day and tomorrow the headline feature
will be the latest Mutual master pic
ture, Megrew Willis The Quest"
with Margarta Fischer. Harry Pollard,
Joseph Singleton. and Robyn Adair in
the principal parts.
The newest film sensation. Protect
Us" direct from the Republic Theater,
New York. will be the steller attraction
Thursday. The piece tells how young
girls can best resist the temptations and
pitfalls of a great city.
Friday and Saturday the program Will
be headed by a film version of Tenny-
sons ballad "Enoch Arden" presented
by company OF Mutual stars, inClud-
ing Lillian Gish, Alfred Paget. and wal
lace Reid. This picture Is said TO be a
most artistic production,
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NATIONAL.

That good plays, like good books,
never grow out OF date, and bear close
scrutiny any number of times, was
proven manfestly last night, whom
George Arliss. at the National, played
"Dsraeli'' to a house crowded, not
alone with those to whom the perform
ance was a first night, but with many
who had witnessed the Parker play Of
the Sucz Canal incident In the life Of
Lord Beaconsfeld many times.
To those who bemoan the lack Of ex-
ceptional talent on the stage. and to
those who are oldfashioned enough to
shun the musical comedy and the farce
and stand up to see she Stoops to Con-
quer," which. by the way. Is never nee
essary, the fact that there Is still Dis
raeli," with Arliss in the title role, 10
be seen should be a great comfort.
Something. however, besides the mar,
velous characterization of Arltss and
the clever lines of the play itself, held
the audience spellbound last night. The
present situation of the powers or tne
world,N and our own relationship to the
Panama Canal. the possibilities invol-
we'd thereby and the magnitude of af-
fairs concerned seemed to sharpen the
interest, and draw the attention TO
finer point than ever before. For II was
impossible to miss the lesson II tne
purchase of the Suez Canal, and the I'M
portance Of that purchase to England,
as portrayed in the play.
or the Disraeli Of George Arliss much
could be said. but one sentence can
carry the whole meaning. Arliss on
the stage Is Disraeli; he does not act az
he might think the great premier acted
bue he Is him.
The work of the supporting company
is quite in keeping with the high stand,
ard set by George Arliss, and included
Margaret Dale as Mrs. Noel Travers
Mrs. Ariiss as Lady Beaconsfield. Ar,
thur Eldred as viscount Deeford. and
Leila Repton as the Duchess OF Gias'
tonbury. r. l.
The Washington times., 1915-04-06
Boston Religious Leaders
Would Keep Sunday Away

BOSTON, April e.-Influential religious
leaders of Boston are organizing
movement to keep BILLY" Sunday. who
has promised to come here, away. Two
of them, the Rev. George A. Gordon
of the New Old South Congregations
Church, and the Rev. Samuel A. Elioe
head of the American Unitarian Assos
ciation, have come out with terrihs
blasts against the evangelist.
Sunday does not argue" Dr. Eliot
declared. His slang is used to conceal
the fact that he does not think. or at
least lacks precise ideas. Sunday makes
up bv pulpit contortions and swearing
His preaching is merely scurrilous.
II am opposed to Sunday on three
grounds" Dr. Gordon said. What he
says is not true, tho way he says 1t Is
not fitting. and he makes too much
noise"
The Washington times., 1915-04-06
Keep OFF the Grass!

To the Editor Of THE TIME
AS this ia cleanup season and people
who have lawns and terraces TO care for
are anxious to have them look nice and
green. would it not be good time to
ask the children to help by walking on
the sidewalks instead of on the lawns ?
The boy scouts could help lot in set :
ting the example, and parents who have
ch ldren would also help by just a few
words on the subject. No matter Low
hard one tries TO have e pretty lawn. if
there are paths all through it. ii spoils
il. II you will give this a little space in
YOUR paper ! will thank YOU.
4 SUBSCRIBER.
Washington. April I,