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The Washington times., 1916-02-10
WHAT'S ON PROGRAM
IN CAPITAL TO-DAY

"f'atLcrs night" Franklin Thomson Home
y. m.
Convention Chamber of Commerce Of lLa
United States. New Willard. 10 a. IN, -,
and = p. IN.
Shooting program, National Rife Association
Shooting Academy. Fifteenth street neow
tennsylvanta avenue northwest, 40 % II
p. m.
Entertainment beneft OF the orphans #
France. Belgium and AlsaCe- Lorraine l.,
dence OF MIR. and Mrs. Alexander Graham
Bell. Connecticut avenue northwest D. !.
Ball, fourth degree members of knights OF
Columbus. RausCher's. p. IN.
Messing Child's Welfare Association OF Ana
costa, KetCham School, Good Hope road
and Fifteenth street southeast, 3:l5 p. ~.
Concert, Home club, sis p. n.
Mass meeting for national defense Chen =
Chase Library, .. m.
by the Rev. Father Gafrney. Holy Trinity
william F. Hunt No 1s Eastern
star
knights Of Pythias--Harrnonv No a.
Odd Fclows--C Columhia. No. 10; Covenant Nu
Is: Excelsior, No l.; Salem, No. 20
knights OF Columbus-Fourth Degree bah
National tnon-Washington Council, FRA rr
nal Council
Socialist-Y. T. 8. L.. English branch
Banquet. G. A. r. encampment a the New
Willard.
Address Harry o. Sandberg Pan American
I'nion, before Ahavas Zion Society. 1"L2
SIKH street northwt At p. IN.
Donation party. Martha Home for Homeless
Women, 4lS Third street northwest. 70 Il
D. m
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need to do It, They may well listen
TO the counsels of men who assure
them that they cannot win the war.
II they did win it, they would do so
as the armies of revolutionary
France at first won their battles and
their wars--only to lose the more
when the time came for the final
reckoning.
Germany will do most of the win
ming, no matter IL she loses. She
will be more than ever the greatest
military power, even though she
may fail to conquer the coalition
p!tted against her. She will achieve
Pan-Germanism, Austro- -Germanism
through this war, as she achieved the
union Of what is now Germany
through the wars of 1866 and 1870.
After this war the central empires
will be in substance and effect the
central empire; Berlin will be its
capital, it's ultimate federation will
be insured, and it will stand as the
Vests great barrier against any
further incursions from the East. 1t
will be greater than ever before; but
it will never be great enough to rule
the world. That dream is not for
the realization Of. any conquering
king or people. Time may bring a
Parliament Of Man that can rule the
world; it will bring no man to do
that.
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DeplOres Lack of Publicity Given
To Anti-Preparednes

To the Editor OF THE TIMES.
AS reader Of your paper have
noted with satisfaction your far and
unbiased attitude on public questions.
Recently, however. you have abandoned
this worthy ideal and have becOm" woe
fully One-sidod on the subject or pre-
paredness. You are ready, apparently,
to offer your columns to any One-So
long as he advocates preparedness. But
anti-preparedneSs advocates are de-
barred entirely or else they are pigeon
holed in some obscure corner. For eN-
ample: In the 'hOme edition. of Janu-
airy 81 We find preparedness news and
arguments prominently featured OH pa 80
one. page two, the editorial page, and
one Of the sport pages. These are all
prominent locations in your paper. On
the other hand. no mention is made any
ness mass meeting held at Polis Thea
ter. January 80. when six members Of
Congress presented logical arguments
against preparedness. one OF these gen
tlemcn is leader OF the democratic eau
Gus N the House. another is on the
Military Affairs Committee. and another
is on the Naval Affairs Committee. Are
not the statements OF these gentlemen
that preparedness" is unnecessary and
dangerous worth printing? Why keep
the people in Ignorance? In AN obscure
corner on page thirteen We find a one
sentence account Of G. p. Taylor's anti
preparedness talk.
Total score for one issue:
For preparedness-Thrce and one-half
columns.
Against prepa aredneRs-One sentence.
There are two sides !" every question.
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is GERMANY AWAKENING?

A German publicist is quoted as
declaring that the German people are
awakening to the fact that they cam
not expect TO win the war, and are
anxious for peace. As merely
military feat. it is not impossible
that they may win the war Napoleon
is yet looked to as the greatest war
rior, though he lived at Elba and St.
Helena and died in exile. Germany
may win the war, but Germany can
not and will not win the world. Per-
haps it would be better for the world
II Germany should win it: there are
people who sincerely think so. Again,
no matter. Neither Germany, nor
Britain, nor Japan. will win the
world The world isn't so consti-
tuted that that sort Of thing happens.
On the other hand, peoples are
not destroyed; and Germany will not
lose the war, in the fashion that Mr..
Kipling would have US believe. Ger
many may lose a war and remain a
nation; it might even cease to be a
nation, and yet remain great
people. It might rise from a defeat
md become greater nation than if
had won. That is wherein Ger
man defeat seems likely to mean
less to the world than defeat for
the enemies of Germany; for it is
difficult to believe that if Germany
shall decisively win. to the extent of
being able to realize it's ambitions,
the defeated countries will be per-
mitted tu '~-r I've in that measure of
vigor, virility, independence, and use
fulness that they would leave to Ger
many if conditions were reversed.
Germany set out to conquer the
world: the world has not undertaken,
and does not now have in mind, to
conquer Germany in the same sense.
Germany has worked herself into a
frenzied purpose to destroy England
and in the German mind there is an
awful literalness about destruction
England has no such thought of de-
stroying Germany. England even is
able yet to realize that it would be
bad for all the world, including Eng,
Iand, to destroy Germany. Germany
can only believe that to wipe out
England would make a better world
because it would be a world more
dmenable to German purposes.
1t is time for Germans TO take
account Of themselves and THEN
wider relations to the world and to
civilization, They need not insist O.
wearing themselves out; they don't
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To the Editor Of THE TIMES,
VIII you kindly allow n daughter of
n civil war veteran. of Burnside Post,
little space on behalf OF the election
of DR.. A. J. Huntoon, a charter member
or that illustrious post, as commander
OF the Depa rtment of the Potomac.
Colonel Huntoun is graduate of the
medical college. has been identified with
the civil Service Commission since 1888,
and still one of its examiners. His
proudeSt record is that he was severely
wounded in battle. and promoted for
special gallantry and merit. This Is the
crown of a veterans life. and is the
strongest claim OH his comrades sup
port. He Is robust and vigorous. despite
the years that silver his h0nOred head.
At the open banquets of Burnside Post,
whenever ladies and children are ad-
mitted, Colonel HuntOon il always
chosen as the presiding officer. He is
an ideal tOastmastcr, witty. gracious.
and genial. His army service. brilliant
and distinguished in the ranks, and
later as an officer his splendid record
as Comradr. speaker and public and
privat" character without stain speCi-
ally commend him for the high honor
he seeks in his grand old age.
MRS. ANNA DALIElL MILL
HOUSER.
Washington. Feb. l.
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rcactionary, and not as conserVa-
tive, but as radical, he confronts
Brandeis in the Senate, and that he
indicts Brandeis before the Senate
not because Brandeis served radical
ism, but because, when he was pro-
fessionally engaged to serve radical
ism, Brandeis, Thorne believes and
charges, failed to perform, even de-
faulted upon, his duty to radicalism.
So there in the Senate itself and
among the official accusers of Bran
deis is the very point which this
paper has made against Brandeis-
that it's not a question of whether
he is liberal or conservative.
It cannot be, for he has served lib
erals and he has served conserva-
tivcs. His nomination is opposed by
conservatives and it is opposed as
well by liberals. No doubt as his
confirmation is approved by some
liberals it is approved by some con-
servatives and reactionaries who
have not had the same fault to find
with Brandeis as Thorne has.
The question before the United
States Senate--thc question before
the American people, with every
other one excluded-is, could Bran
deis. with his temperament, on his
record, be fit to exercise judicial
powers in the tribunal Of the su-
preme judicial authority of the
nation, whether in his previous life
he had been liberal or a conserva-
tive, a radical or reactionary, or,
on occasion. each and every one Of
them?
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Tomorrow.

Dance. Washington Chapter OF Trinity CO..
Iege Aluunae Association. Rauscher's.
I-arture. The Interpretation OF the Mas or
pieces OF English Literature Prof. samuel
j. MCWatlers, American University. aiteI .
Lecture. The British Labor Movement Con
sCription and the War" Cornelius lehar.,
Irish labor leader. Public Library. o. NJ.
concert. L; :. soldiers Home Band Stanle I
Hail. 6:i5 y. IN.
Lecture. THE Land That God Forgot" O J
Blanchard. Home CLUB. SIS y. m
Reception, Nebraska State Association, Ra
leigh. y m.
Memorial service to Lincoln. by the @. A. II .
Conversational church. p IN.
Meeting, Chemical Society OF Washington.
Cosmos club, p. IN.
Lecture. Great Britains Bread Upon tie
Matters: Canada and Her Orher Daura-
ters." William Howard Taft under ausplcr-
National Geographic Society, New Masonic
Temple. afternoon and evening
Masonic-St. Johns. No. Ii: Capitol No. H.
Mount Pleasant. No. L.. Royal Arch Char
ters; Takoma. No. u: Cathedral, No. ii
st Johns Lodge, No. IS Eastern star
knights OF Pvthias- -Rathbonr- Superior. 10
-; SyraCusians, No. 10; Rathbone Tempt
30 S. Pythian Sisters
Odd Fellows-Central. No. Phoenix. No ..
Metropolis. No. 16
National Uni"n-Nationsl Capital Council
Mckinney council, Georgetown Council
Socialist Party .ocal central. ,eCture Cor
ucNus Leblanc on Labor and the War =
Public Library.
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Fifteen YOUTHS SEEK
WEST POINT PLACES
File Applications to Take Part in
District Competitive
Examination.

Fifteen applications have been fled
with tho Comm iSsiOHers for permission
To take the competitive examination for
aDnointment from the 'listr~t to the
United States Military Aradrmy.
Rudolph William Z Glifnr John II
Stokes. ir.. Julian T.. RlSHond. :
Tencklo Wallis. Norman ! F'rkert.
JanlCs Tougstrcet Whclchol D0nali
I'tG G"rald. Emmanuel VIZ T.. Perry.
". +. Tufius Adolnh A DAILY Edward
". Young. benjamin. -NV0rd ir Fran
cis p. Dunlnn and John =. KCrnan.
The physical 'NAminHt, win be held
a" and 'i, '',' nHcnm" %'"S norrhH e!t Fnhrmory
I" 1T ~ O'Clock Tho mental ,.Nanina-
tion " III he hc'd a. nl, Trnrl.lm School
huijdin" "rTruarN l. and III. beginning
ut Z! o'clock.
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SAYS BEST FRIEND
STOLE HER HUSBAND

NEW YORK, Feb. 10-Mrs. Marian +.
Alexander, daughter of Menry w.
Eaton. manager of the London and I.iv-
crpool and Globe Fire Insurance Conn
pany. has fIed papers in the county
clerks Office in a suit for divorce from
Dr. Lawrence u. Alexander. Ir. DR..
Alexander is associated with DR.. II.
Holbrook Curtis and numbers among his
patients many society folk and operate
ana theatrical stars.
The papers were promptly sealed. and
IN ortS Will be made to keep s"Cl~ the
name Of the correspondent. said TO be a
Wnli-knOWn society woman, who recent
ly obtained a divorce
lie fell in love with my hest friend d"
said Mrs. Alexander. when asked for an
eHplanSiOn o the suit against her nus
band - wont give You her name
Pleas" keep her out Of il DrcauS,. she Is
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READY FOR NEW HORRORS

From both Berlin and London come
dispatches indicating that Germany
is getting ready to resume submarine
warfare just as soon as the United
States shall have agreed that it is
not "illegal" to kill people that way.
Germany is willing to pay for the
privilege of killing; just as some
hunters of game arc willing enough
to pay fines for the privilege of
shooting out of season. It's worth
the price.
1t will be noble triumph Of Ger
man diplomacy if after the better
part of year in negotiation settle
ment shall be reached on a basis that
will clear the way for Germany to
resume submarine war with assur-
ance that she can quote the United
States on her side. That, it is now
plain enough, is what Germany in
tends to do unless the United States
sticks for a disavowal and ironclad
assurances for the future. If sub
marine warfa is not declared lille
gal, after all the discussion of that
subject, and if the United States
shall accept a settlement that does
not include the stipulation that it is
illegal, then pretty manifestly it will
be regarded as legal by both the
United States and Germany. After
that much is gained by Berlin, it will
merely be a question for Germany to
receive and check up Washington s
bill for Americans killed, adjust the
itemized valuations in prompt and
businesslike fashion, and pay up.
What more should businesslike
community like the United States
want?
1t is barely possible that Berlin
rejoiced too soon over it's victory
| There has been great satisfaction
and the assurance that the hobbies
are being taken off the submarines.
1t is declared that new undersea craft
! have been built and are ready for
business; that the only thing neccs-
sary has been a settlement with the
United States that would remove the
embarrassment about turning them
out to get at their business.
1t is time that somebody in the
Administration think of the effect on
American public attention, if right
on the heels of settling the Lusitania
case Germany shall do this. There
will not be long to felicitate on the
settlement, if Germany construes a
settlement as favorable to her pur-
poses and gets busy once more with
the murder campaign. Washington
has proclaimed repeatedly and ar
IDENTIFY that it meant to get results
and real guarantees from Germany
If it shall prove that absolutely moth
ing has been gained, but that Wash
ington has been jobbed, there will be
very prompt reaction in sentiment
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Tribute To Author
Of ModeSty Bill

IN its editorial columns today the
New York World referring to the mod
cstv bill introduced in the Virginia leg
islature yesterday, says:
All hail to Capt. W. NJ. Meyers.
the sartorial solon OF the Virginia
Legislature.
TO protect the men of Virginia" ."
covering in coy diSmay amid the
sweet seductiVenesS Of ladies' fash
ions, the dauntless captain has iu-
uOduCed hill.
TO his powers Of sustained Research
We owe the first scientific determlna-
ton of where ladies must end and
fashions must begin. Ladies, ap-
parently, may safely extend from
the top of the head. all the way
down the face and three inches down
tho throat. Then fashion COniinurt
the charming work of artfiCC dOWV
down. ahySmally down, until lln"IN
when hope has almost pcriShcd. a.
four short inches from the SrOu,t,
fashion comes to alr ahrupt aud uH.
lamentcd end. and ladies may aga
diaphanOuslN ma nittSt thcm 'CIN". ,.it
the way down to the earth liut
mind you, between tn" three Nch'
Of larNnx and the four inches
undrrpinnng, fashion must este q
continuous and opaque. Ther" must
be no intrrsiiCcS nor tlanSparcncj"~
No. nor even translur"uri"s. for ;r-
COrding to tho captain shadows Il -
more sinful than shapes.
1t is a wonderful work Whi"h IT,"
caDtain has accomplished. Had -.
done no more than finally to cSl,'.-
liSh the innate ViciOusn"Ss Of two.
female COllarbon", he would d"scr,..
the gratitud" Of posiority. Eut wl,f.
W" think Of all IN" other SuSpiriuu.
sectors which n" had To S,ll'tmi5".
and aRllyZc hcC0r" condomning W
feel that ~" should like to TAX" an
hat off ia TING cnptaiu--if We felt sur.
that W. should not be oonHdered
guilty OF an indeCorouS exposure
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EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION

Maryland's Educational Survey
Commission has just published an
Illuminating budget of facts about
that States school system. Boiled
down, the report shows that the
State spends ample money for its
schools, but fails to get results be-
cause politics has been injected into
them. Maryland, according to the
census of 1910, ranks twenty-third
among the States in illiteracy, and
its percentage of illteracy is 72.
The District Of Columbia ranks
twenty-sixth and its percentage Of
iIliteracy is 40. But the District's S
condition is much better than these
figures show, because it has an 8 per
cent illiteracy among it's foreign
born whites. while the native white
population Of Washington shows an
illiteracy of only five-tenths of ! per
cent.
Now, when the Maryland commits
sion, unbiased and made up of dis
interested experts. comes to recon-
mendng means of improving the
standards it does not recommend
spending cent more money. But it
does urge that the schools be taken
out Of politics.
Neither does it suggest that a
State board be appointed by the
States supreme court Judges. What
does urge are the following pro-
ions:
\ State board appointed by the
Jernor. without confirmation Of
senate, on non-political lines.
Standardization of the qualifca-
Is of county superntendents
Coordination of the rules govern
issuance of teachers certificates.
Correlation and Capitalization Of
the supervisory. clerical, and ac-
counting departments of public edu-
cation.
In the District of Columbia the
second and third recommendations
are already operative along the lines
made necessary by different politi-
cal unit. Our supervising principals
might be compared to the county
superintendents, and the organic law
governing teachers salaries and
qualifications takes care of the third.
It is worth noting that the first
and fourth recommendations are
those supported by persons who
would have the Board of Education
here appointed by the Commission
ers. Washington schools show the
effectiveness of two Of the Maryland
commissions recommendations The
defects are resultant from the lack
Of application of the other two.
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Would Let Contract For Nations
Defense TO Naval Commander Or
Armament Manufactures.

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
We are paying $2j0,0OO0O0 annually for
preparedness, which Is five times too
much. Any military man. naval com
mander or armament manufacturer
would be glad to take the contract for
defending this nation at $0.0O1,UuJ per
annum. Then the people could spend
the $O0,0o0,O0o for building good roads
bridging streams. and establishing
more schools and universities, and other
essentials for the promotion of ciViliza-
ton, in place of savagery.
JAMES c. KENT.
The Washington times., 1916-02-10

The people must know both sides 10 de-
eide. For this they are in part depend-
ent on the honesty, fair mindedness and
freedom from hysteria of the daily
press. Any newspaper which boldly fea-
lures one side while suppressing the
other side OF this momcntous question.
which may change the whole structure
of this great nation, is undcniably and
absolutely unpatriotic.
I trust that you will see this matter
in tn" light mentioned above. for know
you are always striving to be patriotic.
NJ. A. POZEN.
WASHINGTON Feb
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Henry TaylOr Ratcliff.

Funeral services for Henry Taylor
Ratcliff who died Tuesday. age seven
tN, were held at the residence Of his
daughter. 473 | street southwest, today.
Interment WAS at Congressional.
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Miss Ellen HeasIey.

Funeral services for Miss Ellen He's
ley, who died Tuesday. dt 1909 TWrn-
tieth street northwest, We're neld at 81.
Matthew'S Church, today. lnterment
wass at Mt. OliVet.
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THE TIMES MAIL BAG

communications to the Mail
paper only be
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Mail Bag
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Henry X eltYp

Funeral services for AMaN NELLY.
who died yesterday Gs mo apvpert
Home, Anacostia. win be he2a ~ the
undertaking establishment f Norlas
r. Nalley. 1891 Eleventh street south
eas st, tomorrow at > o'clock.
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1t certainly would have added to
the gayety of nations if there had
been concerted international inter-
vention in Mex. two years ago, as
favored by Admiral Won Hintze.
The Washington times., 1916-02-10
Mrs. Anna 5. Gardner.

Funeral services for Mrs Anna :.
Gardner. who died Tuesday at her resi-
donCe, AlA Il street northeast, were nrid
at ~. Marks Church, today.
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AmusementS.

National-''rhe Masked Model" S:lI D w..
Relasco-''A World OF Pleasure" $40 y. ~
and &:l5 p. IN.
Ecith's-Vsudeville, 2I$and s:1B D. m.
IiaNetv-Burlesque 2:l0 and S:15 p. IN.
I.oeW's Columbia-Phot topiavs. 10 a. IN. to
The Washington times., 1916-02-10

Even the adversely of war famine
has its compensations. Now Italy is
killing cats.
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Funerals
John A, BickertOn.

Funeral services for John 4. BiCfer-
ton, who died Yesterday. will be held
at Gawler's funeral parlols, tomorrow
at 2 o'clock
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Was a Society Event.

Before her marriage, Mrs. Alexander
was Marian I.tCht"ld Eaton. lIer mar
rIage to the doctor. November ~. 1904
wa some of the social events OF that
season.
Wet lived happily until a year ago"
said Mrs. Alexander. "whcn this friend
played me false. | cou'd STAN! the
doctors actions no longer. ana We de
Cided to separate. All my fiiouLs knew
Of his acquaintance with thiH N0mHn
But she iS welcome to him nrW. | OnI,'
hope the doctor is happy, because Still
love him dearly"
According to Mrs. Alexander her hus-
band agreed to give her $lH 4 month
when she left his home to live II Tn"
st. Louis. For the last three months
she says. he has fallen off in his paw
ments, and has sent only 800 Il month.
Down To Her Last Resources.
This sum. she says, inadequate for
her need. and she is down to her last
resources. She declared yesterday that
il more money was not forthcoming she
would become a notion picture actress
to earn a living.
In fact, ,"-added Mrs. Alexander. Il
have signed n conditional agreement to
lie starred by hlm company. ! expect
To make a definite decision Az he mat
ter in n few days
Dr. Alexander refused To discuss the
case when seen at his OffiC". He said
he had placed the matter in tn" hands
Of his attorney.
The case is t. be rcgrrtt"d,' said
to defeat the suit"
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England now threatens to show
symptoms of intrepid perspicacity.
Movement on foot to send Kitchener,
a soldier, right out to the front.
The Washington times., 1916-02-10

Salutation in official Washington:
Howdy! How's your crisis today?
The Washington times., 1916-02-10
Gives An Appreciation of DIR. A. J.
HuntOOn

Washington, Feb. 3.
The Washington times., 1916-02-10

shington. Feb. 4.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-04

prove that the falling off in foreign
trade In the 1894 period was due
to the democratic tariff law and that
the vast increase in the next year was
caused only by war orders In point
of fact it proves much as to the effect
of the war after it came. and nothing
at all as to the effect of changes in the
tariff.
Having in this way presented fig
ures in place of argument, the state
ment resorts to probabilities, and saws
that there is a probability that II
there had been no war our export
trade for the 1914-15 period would not
have exceeded that of the 1884 per-
iod,' and that in all likelihood under
the depressing effect of democratic
free trade 1t would have been still
less. That is something which no
body can tell and anybody can guess
at or assume, and it is a pretty lame
effort at mixing up the tariff question
with more important issues at this
time in the hope Of political effect in
an approaching campaign. Such
methods are cheap and easy, but we
cannot believe they will have the in
tended effect. Certainly not, if the
American people have the sense US
ually credited to them"