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The Washington times., 1916-03-03
COMING EVENTS ON
CAPITALS PROGRAM
Today's Amusements - Schedule
for Tomorrow.

Meeting. Local Northeast, Socialist party, Nl
street northwest. p. IN.
Lecture. 'Mesopotamia," .. =. Austin. Ma
tlonaI Geographic Society. new Masonic
the Fu.urst M %lnsfaes Sna S Rnsht, o, Co.
lumbus Dramatic Club. Gonzaga College
Melting. West Virginia Society OF the Dis
Address, Mrs. Henry Is. +. MacfaTiand, he
fore Women's InterdenominationaIM Mission
airy Union. st. Pauls Lutheran Church.
Address DR.. W. c. ElIenberser. before
Washington Veterinary Medical .Nssocia-
tion, United States College of Veterinary
Concert, Friday Morning Club. Raleigh. Ii
Dance. woman's Benefit Association of the
Meeting, Washington bakers, with supper,
Raleigh, o D. m.
Illustrated lecture. "A Trip to Africa. 4"
Annual banquet, Department OF Labor,
Rauscher's, s p. m.
Meeting. American waldensian Aid Society,
Church OF the Covenant. Connecticut ave-
nue. and n street northwest, 8 y. IN.
Address, Educational Problems Presented
In Immigration" DR.. u. II. Wheaton,
Mcmahon Hall, Catholic UnIyersity, 3 n m
"Rachel." a race play. Minor Normal School,
MasonicILebanon. No. I, school Of instruc.
son sCn' NO NOSas 20. "Sn East ha Gsts EHsfen,
Knights of Pythias-syracuSians. No. Io
Odd Fellows Central. No. l: Phoenix. No. 2s
| Metropolis, No. 1s; Magenenu. No. 4. en-.
| campment Miriam, No. g. Rebelah.
iinights OF Columbus-Intercouncil ball
Socialist party-Iocal Northeast party.
Meeting Waldensian Society, the Rev. Al
| berto Clot. speaker. Church Of the Cove
nant. Connecticut avenue and n street.
d. m.
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Rate Of Eighteen Miles an Hour
Within Fire Limits Of City Is
Provided.
20 TO "a MILES OUTSIDE
Congressman Miller, However,
Would Compel Greater Care
at Busy Street Corners.

Motor vehicles may legally IN
crease their speed from twelve to
oightesn miles an hour within the
fire limits OF the District. and from
twenty to twenty-four miles an hour
outside the fire limits n n bill intro
duced py Congressman Thomas w.
Miller OF Delaware becomes a law.
The measure also provides for n
slight increase in the speed with
which automobiles may cross inter-
secting streets or turn corners. II
provides for a much slower rate of
speed, however. for congeBted cross
ings like Ninth and F. Ninth and q.
Eleventh and +. Eleventh and @. and
Fifteenth street In front OF the Treas
ury building.
Delivery sulcmobiIes and trucks are
excepted I'm the provisions for an in
creased rate. and must continue tu
travel at the cid rate OF speed ns
provided in the act OF 1906.
Commenting upon the bill. Con-
cressmnn Miller said IL must he APP
parent TO every one who has anything
to do with automobiles that the gen
cral speed of twelve miles an hour is
ridiculous because no Gnc ever drives
at that speed even where he Is able
To- do so.
Miller, that arrests are very seldom
made unless a motor is going faster
than eighteen miles an hour. except
OF course. In a crowded district. The
pr esent law has been In force for over
ten years, and at the time OF It's pas
sage conditions were vastly differen,
from those existing today. II is es.
sential that traffic be expedited rath-
er than hindered by such a ridicu-
lously low rate of speed"
Mr. Miller has taken the matter u,i
with the District officials. He said ht
Understood that Congressman John
son OF Kentucky, chairman of the
House District Committee. was in IA :
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SCORE ONE FOR cuPIDi

A Philadelphia school authority,
DR.. George Founders, who has
charge of all examinations of teach
ers for the teaching corps, comes
forward with a fiat denial of the
charge that the woman teacher is
less efficient when she is in love. We
doubt whether any real significance
attaches to this pronouncement; but
at least it is entitled to classification
among the large class of things
that are true if important.
Teacher isn't going to give a pow
der-puff whether it makes her less
efficient to fall in love; she's going
to do precisely as she pleases about
that detail. The school board and
the parents association may plead
and expostulate with her, butt with
the willing cooperation of the Right
Young Man, she will attend to hel
own affairs of the heart.
However, it is good to see that
there is nowadays a willingness tc
make virtue out of necessity; to rec.
ognize that the inevitable is ineYi.
table. The Philadelphia authority
basing his conclusions on a wide OBJ.
servation of cases, declares that the
qualities that attract young men tc
young woman are the same quail
ties that draw the children to her
When she's in love, it's a state oi
being that affects her attitude to
ward the whole human race-excep
maybe the Wrong Young Man-anC
makes her universally a more de
sirable person. In other words, tn,
young woman who teaches school il
exactly like the rest of the yount
women; and, it may be added, ex
actly the reverse, in this regard, O.
all the men.
But why bother with the general
cations and the philosophy of tn,
bubject? AS we'll consider the neet
of preparedness against an unfortu
nate day when the force of gravit!
will let go and spill US all out int
chaotic space.
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THE NEED FOR UNITY

President Wilson's plea to the SEN
ate, delivered through Senator Owen,
is a plea for unity of purpose and
action based on the absolute neces-
sity that this nation shall stand to-
gether If it is to insure peace.
There can be no doubt that the
President is correct. Divided coun-
sells, or rather the suspicion of divi-
sion, have already given to Berlin
the impression that the United
States is hopelessly torn by differ
ences. 1t has been reported in the
German capital that Congress is op-
posed to President Wilson on the
question of submarine warfare by
five to one. 1t is probable that re-
versal of this figure would much
more nearly express the fact. But
so long as Berlin imagines that there
is dissension and discord here, every
day brings nearer the possibility of
situation in which relations may
be severed.
Germany has been guided by a
perfect genius for misunderstanding
the attitudes Of other countries. 1t
is of the most vital Importance, for
Germany, for this country, for CIV
ilization, that she shall not at this
moment base action on misconcep-
tion. The one way to clear away
possibility of such thing is to give
the President the proof of support
which he has asked.
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BRITISH TARIFF WALLS

In the midst of their struggles Of
war the belligerents of Europe pre-
pare for their labors of peace; and
in Great Britain a tariff is the first
thing thought of by all the great
commercial organizations, which
have been in conference with the
chancellor of the exchequer over
measures for building up trade after
the war, for protecting it from for
eign competition, and for making
the nation self-suffcient.
In that cradle of free trade there
is an ancient aversion to the word
"protection," so the resolution in
favor of protecting home industries
is made to read, "To foster "a
safeguard" The first resolution of
that conference, adopted unanimous
ly, declares:
The experience of the war has shown
| that the strength and safety OF the
British nation In time OF national peril
lie in the possession by this nation ~
u
from it's own soil and It's own factories
rather than In the possession OF values
which may be exported and exchanged
for products and manufactures OF for
| eign countries.
1t is in this cause that all Britons
can and will link arms. Tho free
trader who wouldn't listen to the
proposition of a tariff merely as ar
economic principle jumps at the
chance to take it as a measure tC
make the United Kingdom better
prepared for the next war.
And the British policy forecast il
that resolution, which is sure to q
into effect, is as important to thu
American people as to the British.
All Europe is going to do wha
Great Britain is now planning to do
The nations are going to set up bar
riers against economic invasion
Some will do It to establish potentia
war plants and then to keep then
running. Some viii do il TO prOvid
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In rights. and in treaties. It has given
l66 performances with twenty-eight
French works and four Italian. and has
deposited $4,000 francs for the assist.
ance publique. $1,000 francs to the au-
thors. and more than 5000 francs for
war funds.
The staf stiil comprises forty-cight
women aTticts. thirty-ninc men. eight
'hve chorus singers, -stxty-five orchestra
musicians, fifty dancers. 1i5 super
numeraries. thirty scene shifters, TWEEN
tiy-six "functioEaries," eighty workmen.
thirty-siN studio workers. and seventy
nine helpers of divers kinds. out of
the l3l mobilized from the Opera
nineteen wounded.
The whole OF the ordinary repertoire
is interpreted there, and repetitions OF
the Juli PSlonai$; doni,ni; saPh0o Ih0oreaG an
As new plays the bills indicate Les
CadearN dc Noel of l.. Fabre and
Bruncad. and lastly Mary Garden
to Paris during wartime, takes hel
place again in-.'I.a Tosca. "pellCas et
Melisande." and LA Traviata"
Regarding the opera 1t seems best
other lyric theaters have scarcely any
of thcm, even " provincial towns
ceased 10 give The usual performance
the grand opera, in spite of the great
tardily opened it's doors. and that Il
soectales which would better suit tn.
charming little Theatre des- Arts. di
rected ny NJ. Rancho.
In short. the music in France has moi
stopped, nor been transformed. bu;
already somewhat modified by circum
stances. one can forsee. once the wal
is over and life becomes normal again
that II will evolve In new direction
which will be interesting to not,. he
ginning even from the present time
j. MacB.
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ARMED FOR WHAT PURPOSE ?

II is a fact, as declared by Sir
Edward Grey, that submarines have
torpedoed unarmed merchantmen as
well as armed merchantmen. They
have torpedoed more unarmed than
armed merchantmen. Virtually no
British merchantmen plying between
the United Kingdom and North
America and South America have
been armed. No French merchant
men, so far as we are aware, ever
have been armed.
But this has nothing to do with
the problem which has arisen under
Berlin's new doctrine as to armed
merchantmen. Whatever the theory,
the early Won Tirpitz practice was to
torpedo anything from a battleship
to a houseboat, to kill or to attempt
to kill everybody on board from
enemy combatants to neutral babies.
But so far as concerns theory, and
if the Berlin pledges are worth any
thing so far as concerns the practice,
too, that is a dead issue. 1t is dead
issue because the Berlin proposal
now is to torpedo without warning
only armed merchantmen; but on its
face the proposal also is to torpedo
without warning, though the mer-
chantmen be filled with non-combat-
ant and neutral men, women, and
children
This question is, Can the United
States accept the Berlin doctrine as to
an armed merchantmen if that mer-
chairman is not armed for offense,
makes no attack upon submarine
and intends to make none? That is
the issue at this moment between
Washington and Berlin, our Govern
ment refusing to accept the doctrine.
Are such British merchantmen as
have been armed under instructions
from the British admiralty, or is it
their intent to attack a submarine
when they come up with it or it
comes up with them?
Now there can be in that particu-
lar situation an issue as to fact
whether they are or are not armed
for attack. There cannot be an is
sue as to principle, as to rule, and as
to law.
Any craft that is armed to meet
submarines and attack them, is a
ship of war, subject to attack by an
enemy submarine without notice.
There is no possible question as to
that. Sir Edward Grey, therefore
can add nothing to clearing this con
troversy when he answers that un'
armed merchantmen have been tor
pedoed in the past; he can add 6
great deal if he will show that wher
ever British merchantmen are armeC
they are not under instructions Il
attack, it is not their purpose to at
tack and in fact they are forbidden
to attack submarines.
Our Government sticks to the ole
law that just because merchantmen
is armed she does not thereby be
come liable to destruction withou
notice; whereas the Berlin contention
is that under their instructions ant
with their intent the armed mer
chaRtmen of the allies are war yes
sells and cannot be immune from tn
rules and practices governing othe
war vessels.
Americans can be fair to the Ger
The Washington times., 1916-03-03
ELMENDORF SHOWS
DIFFERENT HOLLAND
Takes Audience Through Sections
Seldom Seen by Travellers.

Carefully avoiding the course follow
ed by most travellers in their trips
through Holland. Dwight Elmendorf'
at the National Theater yesterday
afternoon, took large audience
through tho parts of the country sell
dom seen by Americans.
As In his lecture on the British, Mr..
Elmendorf avoided, as far as possible
nll reference to the war in which
Holland has successfully remained
neutral.
The lecturer illustrated the real Ire
Of the Dutch, and the fishing towns IN
the rural settlements and showeo pic
lures and told stories of the castles
of the medieval ares.
The dikes, too, received liberal con-
sideretion from the dirsctpr tor SiDenr 8G smC
dorr Iocturcs the still-colored and the
motion pictrres we're a feature.
Next Thursday afternoon MT SEi,uen
dorf will take his followers to Switzer-
land.
The Washington times., 1916-03-03
Foreigners Put More
Money in Postal Banks

OF the total deposits in the postal
savings banks OF this country, 72 per
cent. is owned by foreign-born deposit
tors, though this class represents only
50 per cent. of the whole number
This comparison Of the thrift of for
eign-born and native Americans was
made by Carter b. Keene in am address
before the Anthony League at the Pub
lie Library last night!
Mr.. Keene, who is director of postal
savings, gave the total figures as APP
proXlmately $TI.000.0 .000 owned by $50 dOU
depositors, lie spoke of the timeliness
OF saving during the worl6 strife. and
compared, the habits of thrift of leading
European nations.
Mrs. Elizabeth Gates presided.
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PRESIDENT PRAISES
GERMAN-AMERICANS
Expresses Confidence in Foreign
Publishers to Editor.

President Wilson yesterday expressed
confidence In the German-American pub
fishers Of the country.
lie conferred thirty minutes with Paul
j.. Mueller, president of the National
Association of German Publishers, and
editor Of the Chicago Abendpost. He
told Mueller lIc was firmly convinced of
the loyalty of great majority of
American citizens of German birth In
this country. lie feels. he said, that
eOmc who claim to speak for the
German-AmericAns do so without the
consent of the vast majority.
Following the conference Mueller
said:
II am delighted to have had the op-
portuuity TO talk with the President.
He Ia a fine and generous man. l be-
lieve the Germans IN this country are
loyal, and I know that for one am as
loyal as any American. born American"
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Tomorrow.

Address, philosophy Among the Chinese "
E T. Williams. before Society for Philo-
sophical Inquiry. Public Library. i:I5 o. m.
Annual banquet Georgetown alumni. Ra-
leigh, S b. m.
Banquet. rrowel Club, Ebbitt. 7;SO p, m.
Meeting. Holmes Safety First ARsociat ton,
Bureau OF Mines, p. IN.
Entertainment, beneht OF Troop T. Girl
Scouts. Masonic Temple 529 Eighth street
northeast, p m.
Organization OF Economic Club. dinner at
Willard. y: m.
Banquet. Southern Association OF Alumni OF
Philip Exeter Academy, Shoreham, 1850 D.
IN.
Address, "UntaXing improvements" William
n. McNair auspices WOman's Single TaS
Club Public Library. p. IN.
Debate, "Government Manufacture OF NUM-
tions," washington College OF Law, 3 D. m
Luncheon, benefit OF Home for the Blind c06t
II street northwest. Old Masonic Temple
Lecture ''old Belgium" Mrs. e. s. I.ougee
All Souls Church. Fourteenth and
streets northwest, 1880 n. m
Dance Home Club. $50 y. m.
Dinner sigma lambda, Raleigh, 1850 D. m
Social and supper. Socialist party. Sll
street northwest, y. M,
Odd FellOW s-Canton Washington. 40. I. en-
campment
| NationaI I'nion-G Government Printing Osae,
/ Council typographical Temple.
u. =. .. E.-LuneheOn By house COMMITTEES
for Eiks only.
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THE RIGHT TO ORGANIZE

It is reported with some circum-
stance, and denied very emphatically,
that certain street railway employees
have been dismissed by their en-
ployers because they were engaged
in organizing a union among their
fellow-workers. The charge is one
that ought not to be recklessly made;
having been made. it should be in
vestigated and the facts determined
beyond all uncertainty.
The right Of workers to organize
for mutual and general benefit is
no longer denied seriously. Some
corporations still oppose !organiza-
ton in every possible way; but the
more intelligent accept it as not only
right, but desirable. The organiza-
ton is likely to be comparatively
conservative. It deals in an organ
, lied capacity, speaks for the aver
age opinion Of members, is not as a
rule guided by extremists. Organi-
cations of labor have in recent dec
ades come to be the recognized me-
dium for dealing with employers. To
deny workers the right to organize
would be peculiarly senseless in a
generation in which capital, in cor
porate form, organizes itself in the
biggest and most closely controlled
units. It would never gain prSlic
approval to assume that dollars may
organize for larger profits, but men
may not.
If any public service corporation
in this town has adopted policy of
trying to stamp out the organization
of its employees by discharging men
who become prominent in the busi-
ness of organization, that corpora
tion is making a fearful mistake.
The legitimate, logical, and safe way
to keep relations straight between
employers and employees is by mutual
understanding, negotiation, adjust
ment; by mediation and even by ar
bitration if necessary. The strong,
permanent, responsible, and serious
purposed organization of employees
is the one that most effectively in
sures the public against disturbances
and disasters of labor trouble.
Whoever imagines, at this late
day, that he can crush out the tend
ency toward organization, is indulg-
ing an egregious mistake. The whole
temper and aim of the times is to-
ward organization and concentration.
Labor organizations were once
feared as menaces to industrial
peace; but experience has proved
that as they have been strengthened
and seasoned they have become the
means to stabilization and greater
security. They have improved the
condition of their members and like
wise have bettered their service to
the public.
Washington. of all places, is the
last in which public opinion would
consent that organization should be
put under the ban of corporate dis
approval. The Federal Government
has provided instruments for arbitra-
tion and determination of labor and
wage differences between employers
and employees. There is less danger
of labor disturbances here than per-
haps in any other jurisdiction; and
there would be vastly more of that
danger if the public service corpora
tions should commita themselves to
the archaic and impossible policy Of
either open or furtive hostility to or
ganization.
The Washington times., 1916-03-03

vor OF an Increase in the rate OF
speed such as Is provided for in his
bill.
Before coming 70 Congress. Mr..
Miller was secretary of state of
Delaware for several years. and in
that capacity he was charged with
the enforcement of the automobile
law which was passed by the general
assembly in 1915.
Mr.. Miller intends to introduce soon
another bill which wilf provide for
the annual registration of motor We
hicles and licensing of operators
Under the present District law a per
petual registration and operator
license is granted. This is contrary
TO the general practice, as In nearly
every State In the Union such regis.
tration and license must be renewed
annually.
The Washington times., 1916-03-03
MISS WILSON WILL
PLEAD FOR FORUM
Use Of School Buildings To Be
Discussed Next Sunday.

The Course of Procedure Necessary
to Secure for the Citizens OF the District
the Use of the Public School Buildings
as Community Forum Meeting Places
Will be the subject os Miss Margaret
Wilson's address at the meeting Sunday
afternoon of the Grover Cleveland Com
munity Forum.
The meeting will be held In the audi
torium OF the Public Library at
o'clock.
Congressman Crosser OF Ohio and the
address the meeting. DR.. Van Schaick
will take as his topic, THE Right OF
the People Regarding the Use OF Public
School Buildings as Meeting Place
at the Time When the People Desire"
The Washington times., 1916-03-03

mans without being in sympathy
with their war. Americans can abhor
the whole submarine warfare with
out questioning the exercise of any
right that under the rules of war
and the laws Of nations belongs to a
submarine, whatever the flag it flies.
So we must submit that SIR Edward
Grey has begged the question.
The Washington times., 1916-03-03
Col. Black Designated
Chief of Army Engineers

Col. William Black was designated as
chief of engineers of the United states
army by Acting Secretary Of War scott
yesterday.
lie will succeed Brig, Gen. Dan L.
kincman, who will retire March q.
Colonel Black is chief engineer OF the
Department OF the East, with headquar-
ters at Governors Island, n,
lie formerly was stationed in WASH
ington as District Engineer. lie VIA
advance TO the grade Of brigadier GO
eTal.
The Washington times., 1916-03-03
Labor Department to
Banquet Tomorrow

The Department OF Labor will hold It's
night secretary wilson will be Tho
only speaker. Robert G. Starr IL cha.i
man OF the committee on arrangements =
The other members are l.. l.. Schnar",
A. II. Deibert. j. Henry Wagner, and
A. v. Parsons.
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AmusementA

National-George Arliss. In "Paganlnl." Sis
y. m,
NatIonaI-Joint recital. Harold Bauer and
Pablo Casals. +:S0 y. m
Belasco-Frances Starr. In MARIE -Odile," 4"
500 .. m.
Beiasco-MusIcal fantasie, DO You Believe
in Fairies?" Direction Miss Hawke. a:.O
y. IN.
Poii's-"Kick In," 2;I5 and s:l5 p. m.
Keith's-Vaudevile. 2:l6 and S:l5 D. IN.
observation-disclosures. 2:i5 and Sl5 o. m.
Loew's Columbia-Photoplay II a, m, to II
D. m.
The Washington times., 1916-03-03

If the Griffmen get as chilly re-
ceptions everywhere as they did at
Charlottesville, somebody1l lose
money this year.
The Washington times., 1916-03-03

The tragedies of war embolden
even the weakest spirits. They let
Mrs. Pankhurst sit in with the mem
bers of Parliament yesterday.