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The Washington times., 1915-05-07
MAY INVOLVE SOL0NS
IN RIGGS BANK CASE
Comptroller Williams Explains
His Side to House Banking
and Currency Committee.

Indications multiply that the contro-
and the Treasury officials is to be aired
in Congress. as we'll as in the courts.
While attorneys for the Treasury Of
acials are busy. comforting and getting
ready for the proceedings in court, dig
ging deep into the affairs OF the bank
Comptroller John Shelton Williams has
sent various documents bearing on the
case to members of the House Banking
and Currency Committee
These documents are understood to
set forth the Comptroller's side Of the
controversy and are intended to form
a basis for demand for legislation tc
extend the power Of the Comptroller
over national banks. Among the mat.
ters sent to members of the House
committee are the statement of Mr.. VIII,
liams issued to the press April II. fol
lowing the filing of the suit by the bank
the course he had taken, and a letter
which has also been published, coins
Into the transactions with the Crockel
National Bank OF San Francisco
Mr.. William has hitherto asked Con
gress. and will ask further next ses
sion. for legislation permitting him e
fine banks and individual officers 70,
violations OF instructions or admonition,
OF the Comptroller not now penaIized
for authority to oust any bank directo,
who falls to take the oath and forward
II to the Comptroller In thirty DAYS o
election: and for authority to remov,
directors violating major provisions o.
the law as well as to make ineligibl.
for reelection directors who fail to at
tend a majority of board meeting.
without tho special dispensation Of tn,
Comptroller.
The Washington times., 1915-05-07
HE SAID HE NEEDED
FOOD AND PROVED 1T
Twenty-three Rolls Only One Item
of the Breakfast That
This One Ate.

NEW YORK. May 7.-Twenty-three
rolls, eight scrambled eggs. two bowls
Of oatmeal. and three cups of coffee.
This is not the breakfast order of a
football squad. 1t Is Detective Daly's
statement of what one hungry man ate
in a Cortlandt street restaurant
The man, who said he was Charles
Uges, ifty-fve years old, was ar
rested by DAILY for begging from stores
along Broadway. He said he was no
ordinary beggar; that he had had a
good Job on the Panama canal. which
fever had forced him to give up; that
he had just money enough tc bring him
to New York. and that he could hardly
remember when he had had his last
meal.
After buying him a breakfast. the
policeman took the man TO the Tombs
court. He told Magistrate Marsh he
vas convinced that Uges was badly
in need of focd and medical attention.
The magistrate committed the prisoner
to the workhouse for thirty days.
The Washington times., 1915-05-07
UNIVERSITY PLANS
CONVOCAT|ON DAY
Chancellor Day To Be Orator
At First Anniversary To Be
Held on May 26.

With DR.. James Roscoe Day. chan
cellor Of Syracuse University. as the
orator. the first convocation day Of the
American University. which President
Wilson opened last year. will bs held
on May e.
Exercises will take place at the
grounds Of tho university. Mansaehu-
setts and Nebraska avenues. They will
be conducted in an open-alr ampithea.
ter now being constructed.
Preceding convocauon day. the board
OF award will meet as the university
up to the university anniversary. At
lo:So o'clock the trustees will meet. At
l o'clock the trustees luncheon will be
served, with Mrs Earl Cfanston as
hostess. Following the luncheon, the
procession will be formed for the march
OF the convocation assembly. Academic
costumes will be worn.
Headed by the United States Marine
Band, the procession will move from
the college Of history across the campus
to the sylvan theater. Chancellor Ham
ilton will preside. Announcement OF
the work and plans Of the graduate
school Will be made by the director OF
research, DR.. Frank w. Collier. Mrs.
Thomas H. Anderson. president Of the
describe nationwide campaign her
organization Is undertaking. DR.. Day
will be introduced by Bishop Cranston.
AT the close of the convocation exer-
cises. formal announcement will be
made of the first assignment OF the uni
Versity fellowships. A lawn reception
will be held. A general invitation to
served seats may be had upon applea-
ton. =
The Washington times., 1915-05-07
HERE
TO PENSION CLERGY
Closing Hours Of Diocesan
Convention Taken Up With
Discussion of Plan.

Adoption Of tho pension plan Endorsed
by the majority OF dioceses OF the
church marked the closing session OF
the annual diocesan convention OF the
Episcopal Church at Mt. st. Albans
late yesterday.
The pension problem took up most OF
the closing hours OF tho convention.
The plan adopted is an out and out
insurance, whereby the various do
ceses pay a premium to tho pension
fund, which Is to be set at 5000 900. and
when a clergyman reaches the retire
ment age of sixty-eight years he Is to
receive a pension worked out on a pro-
portional basis.
The balloting for members of the
standing committee resulted in the
election Of the Rev. Randolph H. Nc
Kim. the Rev. DR.. Herbert Scott Smith.
the Rev. DR.. Charles E Buck. and the
Rev George F. Dudley as the clerical
members of the committee and the lay
members are Ut. William G. Rives. w.
Mile Levin. and J. Holdsworth Gordon.
Severe criticism Of the business
methods Of the vestries was made in
the report read by the Rev. George II.
McGrew. Of Silver Spring. Md. The re-
port said that many able clergymen
had left Washington for other fields,
where they were assured that their sti-
pend would be forthcoming regularly.
1T is not often" said the report
that an humble and devoted man is
found. as one has actually been found
this year in the diocese of Washing
ton, who will decline an advantageous
call and stay with people who are SO
oblivious to his interests as TO keep him
before the community in the light OF
one whose grocers bills are never
maid"
The Washington times., 1915-05-07
Poet Noyes Shows Map
Flouting Monroe Doctrine

NEW YORK, May 7.-Addressing the
Pilgrims of the United States at a
luncheon to himself and Alfred Noyes,
the English poet. in the Whitehall Club
yesterday. Sir Walter Raleigh. profess
sor of literature in Oxford University.
asserted the European war had not vet
reached its highest point of carnage and
bloodshed
Noyes. who is visiting professor OF
literature at Princeton, condemned all
England's critics, even Bernard Shaw.
Germany" said Noyes. tells YOU
they have no intention of colonizing on
this continent. They WILL they say, re-
speCt the Monroe doctrine. Well, / have
German atlas which contains a map
Of South America, and on this map
there are thirty places inscribed in red
as German colonies"
To the astonishmcut Of his audience,
Noyos produced the map.
The Washington times., 1915-05-07
A PEACE PREREQUISITE

With even so pacific an assembly
as the Women's Peace Parliament
nearly broken up by bitterness over
the war, it is a relief to find some
one who traces the roots of war not
in the malice of European nations
toward one another, but in the un-
fairness of all toward subject peo-
pies. Such an observer is Mr.. Du-
bois, an authority on negro prob
lens, who explains his point of view
in q current magazine.
The wealth of China, of India, and
especially of Africa has tempted the
white nations to conquest; it still
offers fabulous returns for a success
full war-returns far greater than
could be obtained from even a con-
siderable gain of European territory
This incentive to war will appar.
emily defeat the efforts of peace ad.
vocates as long as the land inhabited
by colored races is recognized as the
legitimate spoil Of the white race
The white nations will always be or
the verge of fighting to determine
who shall appropriate that spoil
Treaties and balance of power have
proved insufficient to prevent war
The only thing which can prevent il
is the removal of the temptation
the recognition that the colorec
races have the right to self-govern.
ment and to the control of thei,
own natural resources.
China and Japan have so far kept
the Occident at bay; weak countries
in America have been protected b,
the Monroe doctrine; Africa, on the
other hand, still needs the help OF
all civilized peoples in obtaining
economic freedom, education, anc
self-government.
Mr.. DubSis believes the native
ssees capable Of using these thrs.
The Washington times., 1915-05-07
New Jerusalem Church
Convention Tomorrow

The general convention OF the Church
Of the New Jerusalem will be opened
tomorrow at noon when the president.
the Rev. Julian K. Smyth. of New York
city. will discuss "A Plea for the New
Church Doctrine of Life" prelimi-
nary meeting was held in the Church of
the New Jerusalem. Sixteenth and Cor
coran streets. last night, when the Sun
day School Association held its session.
The general convention will be in ses-
sion through next Tuesday. during
which time regular business sessions,
excursions to Great Falls. and a re-
ception at the White House will take
place.
The Washington times., 1915-05-07
NEW DELIGHTS FOR
"PRETT|EST GIRL :"
Fresh Features Added to Trip
As Judges Try to Decide
Times Beauty Contest.

While Washington admirers OF the en-
trants in The Times beauty contest
await the announcement Of the award
by the Judges, additional details Of the
journey mapped out for the winners
from this and other cities are available
today.
As the itinerary is rearranged the trip
to the Pacific coast becomes moro at
tractive and fortunate indeed will be
every girl declared a winner in her re-
spective section.
The Times publishes in its home en-.
ton today another page Of beauties.
This page furnishes renewed evidence
Of the difficulties the Judges are up
against in seeking to find the most
beautiful girl in Washington.
Hundreds of Photos.
The Judges will be lucky II they are
able to announce the award within a
week, for there are hundreds OF photo
graphs to examine and painstakins con-
alteration Is to be given.
The various newspapers interested IN
sending forty-odd beautiful Girls from as
many cities to California next month
are authorized to say that there has
been such general interest In the nation
wide beauty contest that It has been de-
cided to give the winners a surprise and
bring them back over a different route
than that followed to San Francisco.
The return journey will include a view
OF the Royal Gorgf. the Garden Of Gods.
the Feather River Canyon Country, the
Great Salt Beds. Salt Lake City, Skull
Valley, and the copper districts OF Utah
Other points of interest on the return
way eastward will be equally as at
tractive. Regarding the salt beds, one
test writes
To Cross Salt Beds.
Tho party will travel on to wend-
over. Utah. which is at the end of the
great salt beds. Hero the train enters
boldly upon the crossing Of the big salt
beds. long a tale for adventurers, but
only recently placed at the door Of less
hardy travellers. This deposit Of salt,
IS per cent pure. Is sixty miles In length
and eight in breadth. and its thickness
varies from one to fifteen feet The
Western Pacific tracks cross 1t about in
the middle, and the refractive rays OF
light cause remarkable mirages, depict
ing limpid. blue lakes and changing 1ut-
ty. crasgy cliffs of the shore line into
monsters and floating islands. salduro
It was here: on August II. 1914. that
Teddy Tetzlaff, the famous racing
driver. made a stralght-away mile in
Bitten Benz machine on these salt beds
in $50 seconds. which established
W wonderful salt formation viii make the
fastest and safest racing course in the
world
The Washington times., 1915-05-07
THE NEW OCCOQUAN

Even the name of the new institu-
ton at Occoquan, Va, apparently, is
not to be suggestive of a peniten-
tiary. 1t is announced that work has
been started for the new "reforma-
tory for long term prisoners"
Yet the reformatory is to accom-
modate those prisoners usually sent
to a penitentiary. And in staging
this experiment Washington is lead
ing the way in an enterprise which
will be watched with keenest interest
by students of penal methods from
all parts of the country.
Many already have come here to
witness the remarkable project that
already has made good at Occoquan
the District workhouse. There the
superintendent, despite criticism, had
faith enough in his idea to work out
the plan of self-government to a
marked degree, and to give prison.
ers about as much liberty as work.
ingmen would be allowed.
The success of the workhouse has
become a matter Of national knowl-
edge. It remains to be seen just
how far the same procedure can be
adopted in the case of "long term
ers" among whom the incentive to
escape is greater.
But even if liberty need be cur
tailed the other principles of the
workhouse can be followed, and
every effort made to guide and ad-
wise with intelligence these derelicts
and to furnish them with that sover-
eign panacea for turpitude, work
for which they are fitted and which
they enjoy. Beside that, the elimi-
nation of the cells and iron bars is
q minor matter. g..
The Washington times., 1915-05-07
Central High to Give
Theatrical Evening

Announcement was made today of the
program for the al !mni theatrical enter
tainment at Central High School next
Friday evening.
Fred Fishback. former president Of the
association, will be the principal figure
in farce, The erase Hopper" A
Curiosity Shop" and a new sketch will
be presented by Miss Dorothy McCleary.
The Central Dramatic Society will be
seen in a scene from Romeo and Juliet"
A sketch. How the Vbte Was Won"
will be enacted by the islumni. Mem.
bers of the cast will be teachers and
members of the alumni Association.
atrical, given by the association as .
compliment to the schooI faculty, are in
charge of Miss Airline Bullock
The Washington times., 1915-05-07
FURLOUdHINd THE JANITORS

The incident of the Treasury De-
partment ordering that all members
of the public buildings custodianship
force shall be furloughed for eight
days before July 1 in order that an
inadequate appropriation by Con-
gress may be stretched over the fis-
cal year, is more important as an
illustration than otherwise. Congress
fixes the salary basis for these peo-
pie, and Congress is informed in the
utmost detail, by the estimates OF
the department, of the number Of
employees who will be needed. There
is no good reason for such mix-up
as has been caused this year. The
simple process of multiplying the
salary figure by the number Of the
force would produce the amount Of
money needed; and that being so ac-
curately known, it is excuseless that
there should be a discrepancy be-
tween the force and the provision for
paying it.
It is not the fault of the admins
trative officers, but it is the fault of
Congress. Spending days and weeks
in debate to justify pork barrel
grabs, Congress has no time for the
dry business details of administra-
tion. It wants to save something,
somewhere, so that it can be spent
in barrel; and the Economy" that
makes it necessary to furlough a big
force Of underpaid people for want
of money to pay them, is the result.
The Washington times., 1915-05-07
A HOME MUSICAL EVENT

Those who complain of the lack
of musical opportunity in Washing
ton have chance to foster the
best in home musical talent in sup
porting the undertaking Of the
Washington Symphony Orchestra
and the Festival Chorus. These
with a group of distinguished solo,
lists, are to present national ode.'
entitled columbia Triumphant In
Peace" recently composed by q
Washington man, Heinrich Hammer
This presentation, set for the
Belasco Theater on May rs, is to be
in every sense a Washington affair
and if it serves to illustrate what
Washington talent can do in original
work of this sort, it will serve q
worthy purpose. For weeks the
chorus has been in training in the
auditorium of the Public Library
Even the soloists, with the exception
of David Bispham, are to be from
this city.
The complaints that Washington
will not support musical enterprise
fostered only by musicians of this
city are not justified, and probably
this production will disprove the
charge. The prediction seems safe
in view of the wide interest already
shown. The usual trouble has beer
that out-of- town capital has tried t.
exploit Washington talent, which il
not true in this case.
The Washington times., 1915-05-07
Kit Carson Post to Hold
Annual Memorial Service

Annual memorial services for mem
bers of Kit Carson Post. No. 2. Grand
Army of the Republic, will be held Sun
day night in the Lutheran Church of
the Epiphany. Sixteenth and U streets
northwest. under the command Of Past
Commander Capt. Thomas H. Mckee.
The Rev. Charles F. Steck pastor,
will open the services with prayer, af-
ter which the memorial exercises will
proceed In the form Of the official rit-
ual.
The comrades of the post who have
died since May l. 1914. include Richard
Bennett. Erastus c. Johnston, Samuel
S. Burdett. Morris Curry John E. Park
er. Andrew S. Burt. John A. Joyce.
Samuel H. Smith, John Grnstead, Ed
ward A. Duncan. Benjamin F. Ritten-
house. John H. Kingsbury. and Harvey
G. Ellis.
The Washington times., 1915-05-07
HOW TO WALK CORRECTLY

The New York police, sundry sur
gical authorities, and even the Off.
GERS Of the United States army, are
looking into the causes Of hat-foot
and inclining strongly toward the
theory that people ought not to "toe
out" They say that aboriginal peo.
pies, like the Indians, walk with
their feet parallel; that they pre-
serve more spring in their step, dis
tribute the weight strain more cor.
rectly, and do not break down the
arches of their feet.
More than this, one Of the investi.
gators comes along with tardy de-
fense Of the high heels women wear
which he says compel the ladies to
use the muscles of their feet, and
thus prevent their becoming semi
antrophied, as they do in the cases Of
folk who walk with their feet at ar
angle Of 45 degrees. None of the
authorities presented a good ana.
tomical reason for toeing out, and
the array of testimony seems con.
elusive in support Of the theory
that the practice is intimately re.
lated to the deformities of the foot
which injure so many people and
make walking the more difficult fo,
them.
Apropos Of the women's high
heels, it is to be said that these are
not indorsed as a proper walking
accoutrement; they serve to compel
women to use certain muscles more
than men, with low heels, use them
But none the less it is insisted that
the right way to walk is with low
heels and the feet parallel. 1t is
noted that people walking barefoot.
ed, or in moccasins, tend at once to
abandon toeing-out, even though
they may be accustomed to that
method of walking when wearing or,
binary shoes.
The Washington times., 1915-05-07
Maine Baker Gave AWAY
Real Booze With Bread

"ESTBRoOK. Me-. May 7.-Joseph
Bercovits has been arrested on a
charge of unlawful possession. Berco-
vitz is baker and sells bread to Polish
families and in some way men in the
sheriff's office in Portland discovered
that his wagon contained contraband
wet goods.
They phoned Officer Mitchell and he
located the outfit on Bracket street.
There were two men with the team.
were taken to the station, where the
charge of unlawful possession was en-
tered against Bercovitz. His wagon
contained boxes and barrels in which
there was a quantity of bread. Further
search revealed two dozen bottles OF
beer and two quarts OF brandy.
BercovitZ claimed that II his GUS
toners bought sufficient bread he gave
the liquor to them.
The Washington times., 1915-05-07
CONSUMERS LEAGUE
FOR MINIMUM WAGE
System of Conducting Business
In Which Women Are EN-.
ployed Is Called Vicious.

The present system Of conducting
business in which women are employed
in large numbers Is neither more nor
less than anarchy creating its own bad
results. in a vicious circle. according
to Constance d. Leupp, president OF the
Consumers League OF the Distrlct Oh
Columbia. She treats the subject ex-
tensively in the third annual report OF
her organization, which has Just been
made public.
Laborers who are inefficient when
oHerworked often gain astonishingly
In efficiency when the conditions un-
der which they are employed are read
Justed. the report continues.
Supporting Minimum Wage.
A campaign is being planned by the
league looking to minimum wage legis-
lation.
In answer to the arguments as to the
increased price OF products. the report
gives the figures Of the candy manu-
facturers secured by the New York
state Factory Investigating Commission,
which shows that to raise the wages OF
2.lOO women employed at an average of
s5.75 a week to IS week would In
crease the price of 100 pounds of candy
tust IS cents.
The law does not" the report con-
tinues. contemplate bringing into exist
ence n fiat rate Of wages for all work
ers. The law Is destined to create q
commission made up of employers. en-
ployes and the general public. this COM
mission in turn to appoint boards one
for each industry. composed as the COM
mission is composed. of representatives
of employing and employed classes and
the general public.
Has Been Tried Out.
Each Of these boards studies the cost
OF living and the conditions of pay In
this one industry and decides on what
the lowest legal wage shall bet not for
the untried worker, but for the adult
experienced girl and woman. For twcn.
ty years minimum wage legislation has
been tried out in Australia and found
good, in England for FIVE years and
for a shorter term in several Of ouI
Western states and Massa chusetts. The
results have been in every case salts.
factory to the employer and increased
efficiency of business methods and
work"
The Washington times., 1915-05-07
Meetings and Entertainments
To Be Held in Every Sec
ton of the City BY Various
Societies.
Today.

1Vuoys
Concert. Young Womens Christian As'o.
ciation. small ballroom, New Willard,
y. m.
Annual meeting Mary Lattimore Bible
Class of New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church. In Sunday school room OF church.
p, m.
Illustrated lecture. w. c. Allen. on Glacier
National Park" Home Club. II jackson
place northwest, s p. m.
Popular talk -on chess. L. B. Zapolean,
chessroom. Home Club. II jackson piace
northwest. p. m.
Final meeting of year of Current Events
Circle OF Home Club. II jackson place
northwest, s p. m.
Meeting American Peace Society. oakroorn.
Raleigh. 10 a. m.
pides," by Little Thester Company. under
auspices OF the Washington Branch. Wom-
ems Peace Party. Beasco. 4:So p. m.
Semi-annual meeting Of the Columbia Asso-
citation Of Baptist Churches: Petworth
Baptist Church. Seventh and Randolph
streets northwest. 2:3o p. m.
Reception to students OF George Washing
ton University by women's University
Meeting Park View Citizens' Association.
hall Of the Whitney Avenue Christian
Church. Park road and Georgia avenue
1es,n4s nST'n~e'! r5s fs0 R,5e.,o, 2; % tn. s..ro
Prior to 1851 DR.. Carter Goodwin Wood
son, under auspices Of ro-American His
tory Story Telling Association. Lincoln
Memorial Temple. Eleventh and r streets
northwest, s p. m.
Play pride and Prsjudic.." students OF
Western High School. Wilson Normal
Annual play festival. children Of tn. public
schools on grounds OF the National Mu-
scum. 10 a.. m.
Annual meeting women's Interdenomina-
tional Missionary Union. in American Uni
versity. II a. m.
Masonic-Lebanon, No. 7; Stansbury, No "a
School OF Instruction. Royal Arch Masons
The Washington times., 1915-05-07
Fifteen Men Accept
Jobs as HOuSemaids

NEW YORK. May 7.-"Fifteen men
have been placed out to do housework
during the last month" declares Wal
ter F. Sears. head of the municipal en-
ployment bureau. I'VE had applica-
tions for women. but could not get
them. These men are all Americans.
1t Is the first time in my experience
that such a thing has happened
There are thousands Of young won
IN out OF work, but, in common with
the men who amply, they all want light,
profitable positions.
81 believe women are better htted for
that work and Sul eventually regain
ShSss poAttanA"