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The Washington times., 1915-10-14
ASK COMM|SS|ONTO
FORCE SCHOOL WORK
Brightwood Citizens "Fired Of
Making Useless Appeals For
improvements"

The board of education came in for
ro small degree of criticism last night
at a meeting of the Brightwood Park
Citizens Association. members of which
said they have been trying for more
than two years to procure n number Of
improvements for the Brghtwood Park
School.
The school was built seven years ago.
and. according to members of the school
committee, 1t has had only emergency
repairs since that time. the walls. roof.
and grounds all needing attention. Brief
talks were made by +. J. Metcaf.
chairman of the school committee. and
e J. Ayers and J. 5. Walsmth. 1t was
agreed that the District Commissioners
should be approached Al the matter.
The annual election of officers of the
association resulted in the naming OF
William Nick. Clayton. president: A. W.
Felka. vice president IS NJ. Falconer.
secretary. and J. b. Simpson. treasurer
Mr.. Falconer succeeds himself.
A resolution was adopted asking the
District Commissioners to request Con-
gress to have an underground trolley
system installed in Georgia avenue. A
second resolution asks that Congress
make any traction company that might
have tracks In widcned streets pay half
the cost. Mr.. Clayton said that only
the presence of a street car line made
the widening Of streets necessary.
The Washington times., 1915-10-14
MUTUAL AID SOCIETY
FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Efforts Being Made to Induce
Low-Salaried Teachers and
Janitors to Join.

A newly organized mutual aid So
Getty in the public schools, launched
this week. Is to be known as the
Immediate Relief Association. This
body Is to act as a relief organiza-
ton In general and is to pay a sum
at the death Of its members. Efforts
are being made to get all low -salarieA
teachers and janitors to join II.
pTho present membership Is 40. As
sessments are so cents. Ten cents Is
retained for emergency calls and 40
cents from each member is paid in
case of death. With the present mem
bership. therefore, the association Is
prepared to pay s1SS upon the death
of any meVber. There are no paid
officers
Tho officers. selected at meeting
on Monday, represent every depart
ment of the school system. s. r.
Kramer, assistant superintendent Of
schools. is president: Frank Daniels.
principal Of Mckinley, is vice presi-
dent: a. T. stuart, dir ector Of inter-
mediate instruction. treasurer, and X.
20. Wilmarth. of the Business force.
secretary. The board of control Is
composed of Dr. +. q. Kimball. rep
iesenting the grade schools. Miss r.
i. $haI ley, fol the hiGh schools Miss
Emma Jacobs, for the special schools;
Miss 4, M GodIns for the normal
schools and all ethsx departments. =.
The Washington times., 1915-10-14
TILE FISH WILL HELP
J. ENDFo0D PROBLEM
United States Bureau Is Sponsor
For Latest Addition to List
. Of Seafoods.

The Bureau Of Fisheries today took
up campaign to give place In tho
sea food markets to the tile fish. whose
tragic history dating from It's discovery.
Its almost complete determination ana
its rapid re-cstablishment. all within
the space OF less than forty years IS
considered by bureau officials one OF
the remarkable stories of marine OIL
ology. 60,
p SO. Ear as IL known man had never
seen this fish until May. 1879, when Cap
tain Kirby. of the fishing schooner
William V. Hutchins. while fishing near
tho hundred-futhom curve. south of
Nantucket. caught several thousand
pounds of strange and handsomely
coiorcd fish" He sent n spec!men TO
the United States Fish Commission.
where 1t was found to be n new species
and was described and named "lopho-
latilus chnrnaclcon'icepes." The Cape
Cod fisherman shortened this to tile
fish"
There were millions of the fish within
Il short distance OF the coast. and Prof.
Baird. the then commissioner OF iish
cries. began invcstiga tions tC determine
tn, location of the fishing Grounds and
tho feasibility of iishcry. Before much
could be done the the fish was exterIni-
the edge OF the coastal slope.
The disaster was reported In March.
lSS2. by the master of a sailing vessel
who reported that he had sailed for
aiXty-mnc miles through II mass OF dedsd
end dymE Ash. Subsequent reports
proved that the dead hsh covered an
area 40 miles long and twenty nve
miles wide. and that upward OF it"."O.- :
C0J tilcnsh had pcrished.
Investigation showed that at tn time
OF the fish disaster tho Gulf stream
was rcccding. and these fish. accus-
toned to the warmer waters Of the
tropics. were killed by the cold wave
| that engulfed them when the Gulf
Stream moved ohshore.
Ten years later the Gulf Stream re-
turned to It's old course. and its return
vas coincidcnt with the recurrence Of
the tile FISH. which has yearly increased
| In numbers in It's old hauntS until now
IL is apparently as numerous as ever.
Two things appear essential to give
/ II the place which its economic and
eiIb,e qualities entitle II to-the ac-
, uuaintance OF the fishermen with its
| abundance. n ease OF capture and the ac-
ccssibility OF Its habitat. and the appre-
cistiOn OF the public of its excellence as
| food todays statement by the Bureau
) Of Fisheries saws. Fishermen are being
acquainted with the tile fish's ground,
| Ing the main beds south OF Nantucket
| Shoals. and another bed about nifty
| miles of the coast east of Atlantic city
/ The public Ia being Informed through
| today's bulletin. which contains twelve
recipes for cooking the tile FISH. anC
copies OF which will be sent by the bu.
! rCau on request.
The Washington times., 1915-10-14
COPPER AS AN INSTANCE

Russia, Britain, Italy, and France
in the week ended October . took
from the United States 1894 900
pounds of copper. The entire ex-
ports from this country that week
were 16,4S9 900 pounds.
There is significance in these fig
ures, far beyond their relation to
the price Of copper end copper
stocks. Modern war can no more
be fought without copper than with
out soldiers. Between n belllEerent
cut off from copper supplies and one
enjoying free access to them, odds
must be, other things equal, de-
cidedly on the side of the copper
using power.
Cotton is in a similar case; and
our cotton is going to the allies.
The other day, it was reported
that metal from the German I'M
perial palaces was being torn out
to be used for war purposes. A
little time earlier, the lion of Wa
tenoo field was taken away by the
Germans to be melted up for am
munition uses.
Economic pressure is beginning
to exert itself in telling ways.
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be effected within the newt five
years. Such a program is estimated
to cost about a billion and quarter
of dollars in the five years, or about
half a billion more than the expense
of carrying forward the naval estab-
lishment on the basis of present ex-
penditures. That is, $100,000,000 q
year is contemplated to be added to
naval expenditure. .,.
~ Along with the fighting craft of
the first class, this program would
add nearly 100 submarines, seventy
destroyers, colliers, and hospital
ships, and a sufficient number of
scout cruisers. For these there is
most urgent need, as has been dem
onstrated repeatedly in naval
Emaneuvers.
Ambitious as this scheme may ap-
pear, 1t does not mean imposing a
greater burden. than the country
ought to be and will be prepared tu
assume. o. Many of the ships, now
listed as of the battle line are obso-
lescent. 1t is not safe to assume
that even this program would pro-
vide a satisfactory fleet in each Of
our great oceans. A feet to be
most effective must represent a
homogeneity in its units, capacity
to travel together at good speed
The speed of a fleet is that of Its
slowest vessel; none may be lcf,
tagging when great operations are
impending. Therefore even with the
proposed building program executed
there would be about one up-to-date
feet, for one ocean, and Q second
rate one for the other.
The Washington times., 1915-10-14
.SELF-GOvERNMENT
F0RD|STR|CTA ASKED
Votes in Congress Sought As
Way Of Developing City AS
It Should Be Developed"

Washington 10 an unfinished city, in
that its suburbs. with the exception OF
Chevy Chase. have never been properly
developed, and concerted action 20 rem
edy this condition is imperative. said
Edward +. Coliadpy, president OF the the
addressed the Connecticut Avenue Citi-
Zens' Association last night.
A close study of landscape and tOpo-
graphical conditions in the subdivisions
along Connecticut avenue was suggested
by the speaker in order that they might
be further developed. He spoke par
tiCularly OF the need OF new Calvert
street bridge and an addition to the
Elizabeth '. Brown School.
Self-gorcrnment was proposed by Mr..
Colladay as a cure for the misgovern-
ment under which the District has suf-
fered." He believed the most feasible
plan was to give the District full
two Senators and proper apportion-
ment in the House.
An increasing number Of influential
men, said Mr.. COlladay, are advocating
such change in the District govern
ment. 1t would still allow Congress eX-
elusive control over the District. as
provided In the Constitution. but II
taxation without representation" that
row prevails.
resolution introduced by Arthur f.
Dowcll asking the Secretary OF the
Navy to bring the old frigate Constitu-
tion. to Washington II feasible. was
adopted, and a committee, of which Mr.
Dowell is one, was appointed to confer
approving a 10 per cent increase In tho
salaries OF school janitors was referred
to the school committee. Carl c.
Mueller was admitted as "A member.
The Washington times., 1915-10-14
DOUBLING THE NAVY

Unofficial announcement of the
new naval program indicates that
it looks not only to great increase
of the line-of-battle strength, but
to recognition of the necessity for
rounding out the establishment with
proper compliments of auxiliaries
1t has long been realized that our
group of fighting ships of the first
line is not supported by scouts, de.
stroyers, submarines, aircraft, and
GOLFERS, in the proper proportion
and that this detracts greatly from
the nominal effectiveness of the
fleet.
More than this, our fighting ships
are with a few exceptions not mod
ern; they are too slow. The battle
cruiser has been splendidly proved
in the present war; yet our nav!
has strangely ignored it. No navy
not even England's with the duty
of patrolling the seas that separate
and also unite an empire on whicl
the sun never sets, has greater neet
than our own of all the factors il
sea power which make for efficien
operations over great distances ant
wide areas of the sea. The differ
ence between two-power navy ant
a two-ocean navy is not obviou
enough to be easily defined; it is al
most as easy to name the two pow
ers, in our case, as to name the tw,
oceans.
There is only one way to remed,
our naval deficiencies, and that is t.
adopt, with the strong indorsemen
of the public, a continuing program
that shall have such backing an,
make such appeal that there will b.
mo danger of future Congresses in
terfering with its complete execu
tion. 1t is understood that the pro
gram now prepared calls for con
struction of from fifteen to twent,
of the greatest line-of battle ships
with the necessary complement o
auxiliariea Of all kipdsi. the task +
The Washington times., 1915-10-14

foreign portfolio to which he had
been called when the coalition gov
ernment was organized soon after
the war started. Premier Viviani
gives assurance that there has been
no discord, but has declined to tell
why his foreign minister withdrew.
Apparently something very grave
necessitated a change that must
widely concern the French people !;
but the deputies have, given their
confidence to the ministry despite
the change, and France stands united
as ever against the enemy. Del
casse is not unaccustomed to being
made a sacrifice for his country's
needs; perhaps that is what has
happened to him at this juncture.
The Washington times., 1915-10-14
MOVEMENT IS ON FOR
. TARIFF COMMISSION
Chamber Of Commerce OF United
States Also Urges a National
Budget,

Having ascertained the sentiment Of
the business organizations affiliated
with Il and found II to be practically
unanimously in favor Of permanent
tarin commission and national
budget. sthe Chamber OF Commerce Of
the United States today launched
campaign to obtain action on these sub
jects at the forthcoming session Of
Congress.
President John II. Fahey has been
authorized by the directors to appoint
n special committee. composed OF MEM
bers from every section OF the country,
to assist in obtaining industrial and
commercial facts necessary to tariff
legislation and to arouse interest in tho
proposed legislation. At the same time
Secretary Goodwin is asking each Of tho
nearly 700 commercial organizations az
filiated with the national chamber to
appoint n committee OF from three to
five members to cooperate with the spe-
cial committee.
Shortly after its formation the cham
Der took referenda which showed tho
commercial bodies affiliated with II to
favor both tariff commission and tho
budget. The commission proposed as
voted for on the referendum is to be
limited. preferably FIVE: the members
are to serve about six years. and, to
eliminate political bias as much as DOS
sio!e. no more than mere majority of
the commissioners shall belong to tho
The establishment Of a national bud.
Set. according to the chamber. would
mean that the President and his Cabi-
net would answer three questions OF
primary Importance regarding the ma
nj al
How much money will be needed for
ne conduct OF the Government during
the fiscal year,"
what money Is on hand. and from
what sources shall the balance be
What shall be the amour, appro-
priated to each function performed by
the Government"
The budget. its advocates claim,
would syStematiZc business OF the Gov
ernment. and put before the country at
large and the members OF Congress a
lFwcll-def1ned picture OF income and out
| go.
Il am confident that, with the many
| changes now takIre place as a result
OF the present war. which are bound
to affect the commerce of the United
states, and with the changes that arc
inevitable at the close of the conflict
| you Will agree that the time has sure
ly come when we should take the tariff
out Of politics so far as 1t Is possible
20 do so and provide for its consider
alton In the future from an economic
| standpoint" says Presidenty Fahey in
an appeal to the commercial organiza-
tions OF the United States. 1T Is ap-
parent that the subject will be an i'm
| portant one in the forthcoming Con-
gress. and surely the business men OF the
| I nited states are much concerned in
its proper solution. l will particularly
appreciate 1t II you will let me hear
from you on this subject as soon as
! convenient"
The Washington times., 1915-10-14
"ThE SECOND CHOICE"

In the good" old days of machine
politics out West a political boss
one night on the eve of the State
convention took account of stock
with his lieutenants. 1t developed
that certain big county with an
influential delegation was likely to
have the balance of power at a crit
ical juncture.
whats their second choice for
head of the ticket?" snapped the
boss.
Nobody knew; but they're under
ironclad instructions for Smith for
the first choice" echoed the chorus,
surprised that the boss should have
forgotten such an important detail.
81 don't care whom they are in
structed for" retorted the boss. 81
want to know if they honestly have
second choice. Don't you know
that any delegation that has a real
second choice, never has a first
choice ?"
Perhaps the point will not be
quite obvious to people who do not
recall, from personal experience, the
methods of old-time politics. Yet
it would seem that the same point
ought to have been brought home
to nearly everybody in this day of
second-choice allegiances, of hy-
! phenated Americanism.
The delegation that was instruct
ed for one man, but wanted to vote
for "second" choice, was always
looking for an excuse to do the
thing it wanted to do. 1t was never
to be trusted in a pinch. Just
when the instructed choice was
liable to be nominated, that delega-
ton could be expected to flop to its
second choice-which always was its
real choice-and break up the com.
bination.
1t is precisely so of hyphenated
Americans. The man whos is ar
Irish h-American, German -Ameri.
can, a British-American, a Swed.
ish-American, is first of all not ar
American at all. This does no,
mean that man cannot have beer
born outside the United States and
still be a good citizen of this coun.
try. There are millions of such
But it does mean that men whose
loyalty must be modified by a pre-.
fix and hyphen are not the kind
of citizens to be trusted in al
emergencies. And nowadays the
only citizens to be trusted at all are
those who can be trusted all the
time.
Colonel Roosevelt and President
Wilson, in recent addresses, have
made this point very clear, in theil
widely different ways. "You cam
hoist two flags on the same flagpol'
and not have one underneath tn,
other" declared the former Presi
dent. And President Wilson put i
in only another way when he de
clared that:
Those hyphenated Americans VIII,
terrorize American politicians b,
threats Of the foreign vote are engage,
in treason to the American republic
1t is not desirable that Their
should be new era of know
nothingism in this country. TIL
J people with hyphens in their al
legiance will be answerable if sucI
a calamity shall recur.
The Washington times., 1915-10-14
55l POStmasterS to Talk
To Frisco At Banquet

A feature OF the banquet at the
Raleigh Hotel October 81, at tho open
ing of the thrce-day convention OF the
National Association OF Postmasters OF
the first and second class was arrang-
ed today. when plans were made to
permit all the guests to telephone to
San Francisco. There will be 55l tele-
phones at the banquet tables. permit
ting each of the visiting postmasters
and their guests to exchange cross
continent messages
The banquet vii be the chief social
feature Of the convention. Sight seeing
trips will be arranged for the visitors
kt the close oS tha bpSineSS SeASlppA~
The Washington times., 1915-10-14

seemingly shown pretty conclustvely
tina. the older fighting ships are ex-
tremely useful when they are actually
States has put out Of commission some
vessels that. II they had been owned by
one CT the warning powers Of the old
world. would now be doing valiant SER
vice In some Of the various war zones.
At any rate. the naval authorities are
not going to be SO fast about scrap
ping the smaller. slower. and less pow
erful battleships. These are liable to
have an Increased Importance at the
navies will have suffered considcra BILE
losses. A great engagement between
the british and German navies would
probably end with victory for Britain.
ana IN such an engagement Germany
would likely be reduced so much in
woul drop once more Below the United
states In naval rank; AT present this
ond. Britain first. France is placed
fourth. and Japan fifth. But all these
figures are ante-bellum.
II Britain suffers no great naval dis
hstcf IN this war she will emerge with
n navy about three times as e as any
other In the world. France has turned
over to England :he task Of caring for
me seas: so England Is doing most OF
,hc navy building for the allies. while
France devotcs herself to her armies IN
the main. Nobody knows what the bat.
uc"l.ip. cruiser. and suhma rine strength
. OF Great Britain Is now: but IL is far
! Greater than when the war began, and
greater In proportion to other navies
I our own Included. than 1t was then.
In short. the naval specialists believe
trat. barring great misfortune. England
VIII nave bigger navy whCn the wal
ends than the next three or possibly
four powers combined. One of the in.
tcresting deductions from this is that
England might actually come out oi
spite that the allies should lose. To de.
feat France and Russia on land would
be one thing: after that, to defeat Eng.
land. Mt three to one. on the seas, would
/ be very different.
The Washington times., 1915-10-14
Wills Her Daughter to
Grandparents of Child

Custody OF her daughter, Elizabeth
Mary Lesch. born April Il. 1910. was
given to the child's grandparents in the
will of Hattie C. Liesch. filed by At
torney Wilton J. Lambert. for pro-
bate in the office of the register OF
wills. The deceased sets forth in the
WILL dated May 10, 1915. that she. gives
her daughter to her parents. James ana
Mary Childs, for the reason that my
parents have. on account of my cir
cumstances. from the tine Of her birth.
shared with me the care and manage
ment Of my child"
The Washington times., 1915-10-14
Building OF american
Navy Will Be. Cheaper
Than Was anticipated
War Has Shown That Supposedly Obsolete Battle
ships Are Still Useful in Feeling Out" Posi-
tions As Has Been Done in Cam
paign at the Dardanelles.
Bv JUDsoN C. WELLIvER.

Building navy worthy this country not going to cost so
much people, especially experts had supposed would
The developed the obsolete and absolescent battle
ships necessarily scrapped the end Of twenty
used assumed by the naval experts Of both the constuc-
ton navigation arms fighting vessel twenty years old
going longer might we'll be consigned
the junk heap
No longer
The Of age been doing of the business
Dardaneles campaign allies and has been discovered
they just useful for the purpose feeling positions
and being occasionally sunk by the modern vessels that
would be times useful the line
of battle
CALCULATIONS ARE UPSET.
The Washington times., 1915-10-14
.ZuckoWitzki Wants His
Name Changed to Zukoff

Asserting that his name Is unnro-
nounccable to most persons and that
confusion and misunderstanding ings Grosc
from the different RECOMMENDATIONS or
1t. jeremiah ZuCkowitzki. through MS
attorney, Richard j. Quigley, has
pctitioned the District Suprcm" Court
to change his name to jeremiah Iukor'
Hc declares the latter name Is more
suitable to his business OF tail )ring:
Zuckowitzki has lived IN the Dislrct
since July 49, 1872
The Washington times., 1915-10-14

The Government seismograph
keeps tabs on Mt. Lassen and Nosu-
vius, but we've got to take our own
chances in regards to the exact
spot where Mr.. Bryan will break
forth next.
The Washington times., 1915-10-14

The Chicago packers being III a
legal squabble with the English
prize court, at least oosterity will
ascertain just how many years fresh
beef is fresh beef.
The Washington times., 1915-10-14
WHAT'S ON PROGRAM
IN CAPITAL TODAY

Lecture on the "Nedic Age and the Ved,s &"
by prof. William Macon Coleman or,o,
tai University, 7:&5 p m.
Open house. Home Club, IA Jacks,, r,.,,
northwest. all evening
Meeting. Chemical Society of washi,r,o,
Bicber Building, S D. M
Meeting and Musicale. Washington E,ne.
ranto Club. Library. 8 p. m.
Lecture. The Evoluti lon OF Man In the I,irh,
OF Recent Discoveries and Their Relation
to Medicine. DR.. Ales HrdIicka Genr,a
pNva.n, wa.hins,on .na Medical School. p. m. &c
and W. H. Z. officers. New Ebbitt "a
y. m. '''N
Masonic-Thc New Jerusalem. No Q: Wash.
ington. No. ?. Royal Arch Masons: E"sn.
gelist Chapter. Rose Croix and Eohcr, d.
bruce Council. knights Kadosh Sco,,iss
Bite: William F. Hunt. No. i6. Eastern
Odd Fellows-Columbia. No. 10; Cave,,,,
No. Is; Excelsior. No, II: Salem, No. :"
National union-"ashington Council. Fra.
knights OF Columbus-Keane Council
Independent Order Sons OF onadab-Gra,d
Council. ""u
The Washington times., 1915-10-14

AS members of the Greek parlia
ment limit their social activities to
catcalls, it's easy to see lhey don't
follow the American custom of
wearing their inkwells loose.
The Washington times., 1915-10-14
Announce Three Changes
In Government Printery

But three changes were made IN the
personnel of the Government printing
Office Tor the week ending wednesday
October l3 They were as follows: APP
pointments. Edward Garrct,, temporary
unsliilled iaborCr. Separc tons, Willis
". Washington. skilled laborer. Trans
fcrs. James finnigan, helper in the
stagss aiyisi9n 70 storsxsspsss --.