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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-12-06
OA wsass.

$3.50 Oh woman.
Once you were sprightly mics,
Rosy were tour lips. and red
Harry, Johnnie, Bill, and Ned
TO you loving nothings said
And rye heard the old folk. tell.
Men would run for half a mile
lust 20 sec your sunny smile;
70 daily In your light awhile.
r. Old Woman.
But your day. Of youth h ois S %Sm.,
Now your step 10 sad and slow;
Mock your laugh so niled with woe.
-. Old Woman,
Now your hair is silver'touehsd.
Der your cheeks, once soft and fair.
Run the furrowed lines of care
Father Time has penciied there,
OLD Woman.
AS meet you on the street, w.
savage is your look, and dour;
Bitter are your words. and sour.
The sunny smile Is now a glover,
Old Woman.
SO must time deal with the fair.
A-I.sson have learned from thee:
i fain would shout, I'm glad I'm free,
No tinkiins wedding bells for me"
Richard c. Colburn, in Springfield
(Mass.) Union.
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BISHOP RUSSELL.

,The designation Of Rt. Rev. Mgr.
willian IT. Russell to DO bishop Of
Chssleston+ il Rome's recognition
Of . fact that Washington has long
realized. Mgr. Russell IN his long
psstorate at st. Patrick's has earn
ed wide repute as scholar, ecclesiast,
humanist, and administrator. He
has been able to do the. splendidly
useful. practical, works that the
Catholic Church rates so high,
without losing for a moment the
character Of the man apart and
above. He has been a verycreal and
tangible part Of the intellectual and
spiritual life Of Washington. In
eoing from the rich and attractive
field Of st. Patrick's to the less i'm
pressiye opportunities afforded by
his Southern diocese, he will merely
60 from one field Of service for
which he: was peculiarly qualified,
to- another for which his equipment
is no less distinguished.
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soLDT, OF THE WALDORF

Boldt, the hotel man, is dead.
That short statement carries in
telligence Of deep significance and
entails genuine sorrow among a
wide circle Of acquaintance.
Boldt made the modern hotel-and
in making the modern hotel con-
tributed as few men Of his time to
making what we call modern life,
outside Of pure business. He was to
the modern hotel about what Edison
was to electricity, Carnegie to steel,
Bell to the telephone. -.'
He made the hotel the central
point for service. However one
might regard the garishness. the
luxury, the sensuous appeal of the
modern hotel. there can be no doubt
as to its being based purely and sim
ply upon the idea of real service to
its guests. In the Boldt sort of
hotel the guest was the chief figure
in the house. His word was law. his
comfort the first thing in the mind
Of every employee.
In every section of the world the
Boldt idea has had. its effect. The
old tavern has passed. The modern
hotel with its intricate machinery is
firmly set in its place.. thanks to
Boldt.
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the great prize Of Constantinople. or
at least 4 free Dardanelles, nobody
in Russia would dare betray the
great ambition Of the nation for cen
turies. tf. IN. ~
David Lloyd George, It il. declared,
is an adherent Of the theory that
the war should be pushed in the Bal
kans. As great Liberal, this might
be- expected; for the Liberals have
long been willing to make such con-
cessions to Russia As would insure a
reasonable satisfaction Of, the Slav
aspirations and open the way to a
permanent adjustment Of all differ
ences between the worlds two great
est empires. t
The allies are not making progress
toward victory. Between the sub
marine campaign. and the blow at
Roumania, sthe central powers are
doing the business at present; and
the fact requires TO be looked square
" in the eye. British opinion has
been getting nervous about the whole
situation. The collapse Of the GEN.
tral powers might have come next
spring, by reason Of their shortage
Of food; for the potato supply 10 said
to be so short that no economy viii
make It stretch beyond March or
April. But with Roumania sub
jugated and at least some part Of It's
great stores Of food in control Of the
Germans and Austrians, . new lease
of economic life would be gained for
the blocksded central countries.
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LETTERS TO EDITOR
ON CURRENT TOPICS
Views OF Readers on Sub
jects Found in the
News.
To the Editor OF THE TIMES:

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
Madam. Bimont wishes to thank her
friends, the friends OF France, per
sonaiiy, before the official acknowl.
edgment by the directory OF the hos
pital reaches this country, TO the APP
peal In behalf OF the military hospital
-
The returns OF the French concert
M. going 60 buy the necessary rubber
goods which. owing TO the duration
OF the war, were worn or npn-eAistent
last September.
Dr, +. l.. Macdonald has agreed to
take charge or the purchase OF these
and a check In going to be sent to
NJ. Delbet that VIII bring cheer To the
wounded for Christmas.
Madame Bimont says that she would
love To taxi. these gifts over In per
son, as II would afford her again. the
comforting privilege OF witnessing
one OF those outbursts OF gratitude
from the French hearts To generous
and sympathetic America and Ameri'
(MMEJ BLANCHE J. BIMoNT.
Washington. Dec. =. 1915.
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MUNICIPAL GARBAGE DISPOSAL

No one would advocate a return to
tia contract system for cleaning the
streets of Washington. Reasons why
the city should collect garbage,
refuse, and ashes. are even more com.
polling; yet ii is difficult to get a
stfong popular demand for this re-
form. Fewer persons have studied
the subject, or realize the Importance
Of efficient methods for refuse dis
posal. 8 49,
Washington spends $40, 1873 year
ly under existing contracts on dis
posal of refuse. garbage, ashes, and
dead animals. On two of these items,
at Least, garbage and miscellaneous
refuse, it is estimated that a great
saving could be effected.
Take garbage. for which the city
now pays $69,840 annually to con-
tractors. Contracts may not be for
more than five years. An elaborate
plant is required to convert garbage
into by-products which make it
profitable Hence the District must
pay, every five years, for a new
plant.
When the Street Cleaning Depart
ment was taken over a duplication
of work Immediately was avoided
by removing the necessity for in
speetiouy In q measure this saving
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HOLDS ANNUAL MUSTER
Presidents Own Garrison Non,Inatss
Its Officers.

The annual muster and nomination.
OF officers fore the Presidents Own
Garrison. Army and Navy Union, was
held last night at G.. A. II, Hall Com.
mander W. l.. Hull presided and seven
new recruits were mustered In. Com
mander James V. Conroy, of'Guy ".
Mitchell made addresses.
The officers nominated include: For
commander, II. NJ. Knight: for senior
VIE sS% cnsries Gran h snd Nathan s
Schoemacher; for junior vice com.
mander, Capt. John J. Strain; adju.
tant, John II. J.. Foster: auartermas-
Hogue; officer of the day, S. C. Robin
and oliver Allen; officer OF tho
watch; orland Ingals and John Hollis:
Officer OF the guard, II. b. Williams:
Walter Mitchell, J. C. Hudson and w.
l., Hull.
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READING FOR THE BOYS

DR.. p. P. Clixton, head Of the
Bureau of Education, has been talk
ing about the sort Of reading. pro-
vided for boys nowadays. His views
deserve to be given a wide cirula-
ton, especially just at this season
when muItitudes Of well-intentioned
parents are about buying holiday
books for their boys that represent
worse than waste.
One leading difficulty about max
ing boys read good instead OF bad
literature, resides in the fact that
o boys reading habits are too far
formed before the teacher under
takes to instil good taste. The boy
who reads excuselessly bad stuff un-
ill he gets to the high school stage
where they begin teaching him "lit-
erature"-whatever that means, rs n
course Of study-has dissipated his
minds capacity to take hold on the
right sort Of reading. Too many
parents don't know better than to
let their children read drivel and
worse. Those who do know better
generally try to direct the reading;
but they need the help Of the teacher.
The average child's reading taste is
formed in n very few years between
the time he learns the alphabet III
they're teaching II nowadays; It Is
reported that they don't in the best
present day schools) and his en-
trance to high school. The parents
don't realize how fast and far he Is
developing; don't, concern themselves
in time; the teachers, in the higher
grades. take hold too late.
Most children from seven to bf-
teen will read just about what is
made available for them. Rightly
directed. they will absorb more good
literature in those years than in any
other period, double the length. in
their lives. Put healthy boy where,
IL he would read Mt all, he must con-
tent himself with "Thaddeus Of War
saw" "Ivanhoe," "The Cloister and
the Hearth" and like works, and he
will presently be devouring them.
Presently he will insist that he
doesn't care for any other kind. The
taste for good literature is as easily
acquired AS for trash. and harder to
eradicate. ...
The point to which is, get hold of
them young, start them right, keep
In touch with their reading. and
make the best most easily available.
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running. "A PROFESSION

Tbs other day a miscrcant tele-
phoned to. Washington business
man, asking him to come TO hotel
Tor = business talk. Arrived
there, the caller found himself look
ing down q gunbsrrel. Instead Of
holding up his hands, he held up
the hsldsr-pp, called for the police,
chucksd the maelfactor out, and
walled away.
About the same time a highway
man in Georgetown stood up an in
tended victim, at the point Of n
pistol, in the hallway 'of a building,
and was about going through him,
when the victim got peevish,
grabbed. the gun. and kicked the
highwayman out Of the place.
Last night a citizen living on
Eighth street awoke to find a burg
lar going through his house. He
grabbed the. intruder and threw him
out Of the second story window.
Seems as. IL this sort Of thing is
getting too common. The highway
men and burglars will be forced to
modify their systems, and 20 into
cold storage operations and such
like, which would be lots worse for
the public. The highwaying pro-
fession is being ruined. 90.
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STOPS WAY BILL ERRORS
Southern Adopt. Plan to eliminate
Inconvenience and Loss.

Errors in reading way bills. which
have been a prolific cause OF the mis-
carriage of freight, with consequent
inconvenience TO shippers and loss to
the railroads, practically have been
eliminated by the Southern railway
through the installation of specially
built way bill typewriters.
Machines having large aud easily
read letters and a capacity for max
operation have been Installed at the
Potomac yards
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PuxnIed.

She climbed that fence. one day, when
lust happened to be standing by;
As. NTH sort of awkward grace.
A Charming flush was on her face.
She squirmed across, with skirts awry,
1 cannot think I played the spy
"A CLEAN of silk, a Hash of lace
She climbed that fence!
She must have known the fence was
high.
She must have known that I was nigh.
The gate was In Its proper place
She used II, coming back. oh base
Suspicion! Yet, ] wonder why
She climbed that fence.
Ted. Robinson In Cleveland Plaia
Dealer, .....-.-.-.
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(MME.l BLANCHE J. BIMONT.
Washington. Dec. =, 1915.
Increase in Pay for Government
Workers ~ Seen From the "Other


Side"
To the Editor OF THE TIMES;
I read with interest your article
in the sunday evening edition OF The
Washington Times on John Smith,
Government laborer, trying TO live
on a salary OF $500 = year. 1 noticed
unclassified ranks and not eligible
20 promotion. And further. that he
had tried to get advancement through
Executive order.
Why did not John Smith take the
examination which the Civil Service
Commission requires to be advanced
from an unclarsified lsborar: The
question IL answered when the state
msnt In made that an Executive or
der was sought to give him AN In
The next point In my mind Is what
kind OF work Is performed by an un-
classified laborer? IL IL my under,
standing their duties consist of
kets in the various offices, filling
water bottles, washing Windows,
moving furniture, carrying supplies
TO various offices from the supply
division, and other duties OF a similar
For this sort OF work the laborer
gets 5000 a year, or $1.s3 a day. What
Is the pay for this class of service
on the outside? Not as much as
John Smith IL getting ri venture To
say. or he would have left Uncle
Sans employ long ago.
And again. John Smith gets thirty
days vacation. which he admits. when
he says he works during his vaca-
tion. lie is also entitled to thirty
days sick leave In most departments,
I believe.
/ am In sympathy with paying the
Government employees living wage,
but nobody seems to be able to ar
rive at an approximate figure for
that wage. Every grade of employees
In the Government service from $500
to $4,000 is complaining that they
are unable to make ends meet. and
claim they should have an increase
I'm salary.
I am not, however, in favor of
paying an unclassifjed laborer who
performs work similar to that above
referred to, SO day because he
works for the Government, and the
man on the outside gets $3.50 a day
and does not enjoy the advantages
that the Government lsboreE does.
r. l.. II.
Washinaton Dec
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Gay Life II Dpssklyn.

This. remarks tho Pittsburgh Post,
10 how . Brooklynite has spent the
thlrty-six years OF his life:
We are thirty-rix years OF age, and
this In how we have spent our time:
One year buttoninE our coAar.
Two years tying our necktie.
Seven years waiting In barber
shops.
Four years looking at punk musical
comedies.
SIX months sleeping.
Nine years lodging bill collectors.
Two years waiting for trains. ~.
to get dressed.
Two years chewing tough beef
steak.
-Four years looking for jobs.
Six months working.
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Tomorrow.

Meeting. Cranoh- Tyler Home ana school As
ISOLATION at cranoh school, . O'Clock.
Celebration, hfty first anniversary OF the
oldest Inhabitants. Ebbitt House. 9 y. IN.
Bazaar Ingram Memorial Church Union, In
gymnasium OF church, to 10 y. m.
Lecture. Banking and Finance" by Robert
r. Kern, before Washington Chapter, Amer
lean Institute OF Banking. at chapter rooms
p, m.
Meeting, Agricultural branch OF Federal En-
ployes' Union. al Perpetual Building Hail.
AT %. m.
Lecture Ministry OF Christ" by Nine. l.. NJ.
Mountford. at Douglas Memorial Methodist
Episcopal Church. p. m.
BANQUET az Ebbitt House by Oldest InhabIt-
ants Association to celebrate hfty-hrst an
niversary.
Address, Miss Leila Mechlin. "contemporary
American Painting" before meeting TWEEN
tieth Century club. at All Souls Church.
Cants,s. "Daughters OF Jalrus," presented
BY part OF choir OF Eastern Presbyterian
church at y. NJ. Z. A. rooms. Union sta
tion, 8 y. m.
Ma sonic-Naval, No Z: Hiram. No. 10; La
Fayette. No, 10, William II. Singleton, No.
ODD Fellows Columbia, No. 10: Covenant. No.
IS; Friendship. No. s. OF the Rebekahs.
knights OF Pythias-Franklin. No. J. T.
Coidwell Company No. !. OF the Uniform
Rank.
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WHAT'S ON PROGRAM
Many interesting Events Of 'mper
tanes Are Scheduled.


Reunion, aiumnse Of technical High School
Arcade hall room, 3 o'clock.
BazaAr, Ladies OF tn. Union Of InErsm Mem
orial Chsrch. Tenth street and Massachu-
setts avenue northeast. evening.
UonzaGa Smoker, ConzaGa Alumni Assocla.
tion, at the college. sp. IN.
Meeting, Citizens Association d Chevy
Chase. In Chevy Chase School house y. m.
Meeting. Oldest lnhabitsnts' Association. at
Union EnAin. House. 40 .. m.
illustrated lecture, French scenes and sx.
perience- at front, Dr. James ". Judd, at
Thscdorus Bailey Myers Mason HOUSE. n;eo
n. Ia,
Convention. District Of Columbia Division
rooms Of Confedsrst. Memorial HONS. at
i:Se and y. an. MIS-, ~. ~. smith. presid-
Ing,
Convention. National Rivers and Hsrbors
Congress.
Convention. National Association opposed To
Woman suffrage. rrrsident wiison. anu
William ". TAFT TO speak.
Ba Easr, hoard OF lady managers OF Wash.
inEton Eye. Ear, and Throat Hospital al
New Ebbitt. today and tomorrow from u
noon 10 10 .. ~.
Bazaaf, starmonI Aid for ConsumptiVss. al
willard today ana tomorrow.
Dance. Alumni Association OF Mckinley Man
ual Training School Ia Arcade ballroom. :
.. M,
sps.ch. Miss Mildred Gilbert. Of san Fran.
cisco. in parlorz of Lincoln Hotel. on What
Women did In the Presidential Election" al
y. M.
Fair aud dinner. women Of 81 Andrew
church. dinner from 10 =, IA.
Meeting. special committee OF Washington
Chamber 90 Commerce 10 investigate hiEh
cost OF wheat. ~ noon.
Meeting. Junior League. at home OF Aiiss lar
n.r. president TO discuss furnishing OF toys
10 sick childrn. . y. M.
Illustrated lecture. Mr.. Robert y. Yard. The
Uiscier National Park before Home CLUB
at S:lS y, "a,
Masonic-washingto Centennial No. II;
Osiris. No, e: Ring solomon, No. II: Fast
Gate. No. 81, Columbia. No. I. OF the Royal
Arch.
odd Fsllows-Eastern, No :, Harmony, No.
>: Friendship. No. II. Federal City. No. %.
Mount NebO Encsmpmsnt. No. 6.
Eo"ai No. II. 'Frtendship Temnis 40 a.
OF the pythian Sisters.
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With Due Credit
The Ess' striker.

The Egg Striker.
No, testers and japers, y
A truce to your capersl
We see by the papers
A wonderful Item: A
II seems that some squealers
Are sore at the dealers,
And now send out feelers
Preparing to smite 'em.
These householders, firing
OF holdups, are wiring
Their friends, and copspiring
With anarchist fury
The shops to abase for
A month "a disgrace, for
It's surely case for
A Federal juryO
Ho, Japers, cease jestingl
It's time to be testing
Tho laws-for arrosting
These furious ladies!
Oh, lift ND your regal
Beld head, Yankee Eagle!
The boycott's ILLEGAL
There's going to be Hades!
10y Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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pALLADE OF THE ADVERTISING
SECTION.

The Christmas magazines are on the
stands,
Bedizsned, as before, IN red ana
green,
In numbers like unto the oceans
sands,
EntIcing all the public with their
sheen.
with loads OF them ali my iimou.
Investing in them all. from bes, to
worst.
And take them home. where. with
contented mien,
! always read the advertising nr,t.
How Christmas L. Observed In For.
eiEn Lands"
'"rhe Romance OF the Beggar and
the Queen"
My Holiday on midas Coral
How santa Claus Came TO Little
These titles. and their like. I think.
have been
Flung a, me yearly rshsshed and
Teh-arSed,
Their everlasting ssmsness stifs my
always read the advertising nrst.
The advertising pages style com
mands
Ny close attention. keeps my In
terest keen,
The stories. treated with the deftest
Are always short and snsppy. crisp
and clean.
All. that might a host of readers
wean
From their old habits, and impart q
To do rs I do with a magazine
1 always read the advertising frst.
EAvst.
Prince. would ye auafr the only Hippo.
crepe3
And would ye In real genius be I'm.
marsed?.
Then chuck the stories In the soup
tureen.
And always read the advertising
.,- ..spaISane spokesmsn-Review.
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KNIGHTS TO Attend DANCE.

Washington Knights OF Columbus
have been invited To attend a dance
by the knights of Alexandria in the
auditorium of the Elks' hall in the
Virginia town December "a. The pro
ceeds will be applied to the fund being
raised for q new h. OF c, building.
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Women Vote on Equal Terms With
Men in Four Canadian Provinces.

To the Editor OF THE TINES:
A contributor to The Times stated
that in Canada women voted only at
municipal elections.
In the interest OF keeping history
straight. please state that III the Ca
madam provinces OF Albert. British
Columbia, Manitoba, and Sascatcha-
wan women vote ON equal terms with
men In all elections.
DOROTHY vosHEI.
Washington. December 3. 1916.
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On a day when the Supreme Court
hands down a few scores OF decisions
there's temptation to wish that Legis.
iatures could rush along their work
in the same fashion.
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British government has q crisis OF
the grayest political importance on
hand; but 1t will be observed that
parliament Is sppropriating two more
billions for the war without
quaver. .-.
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For a p&rty that didn't have .
Presidential candidate, II would seem
the Progressives are doing pretty
well. Those or them who went for
Wilson think they should be gener.
ousiy rewarded there, whils those who
returned 10 the Republican fold gueAs
they should be allowed to rsorganixe
that party.
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X street. out in George town. was
paved rather over a generation ago
with cobblestones, and Is recommend.
ed for resurfacing. Like another re
nowned highway. 1t win be paved
with good intentions for a decade or
two, and then maybe viii get asphalt.
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Ansuseaents.

BeIa,eo-' Passing show OF 1916. ..lS aud $50
n m. a. -.
NatIonal-Juiian Eiungs. s:A and $50 D. m.
PoIis-"The Miiionaire's Son and the shop
Girl" s:i5 y. IN.
Gayety-Burlesque. s;B and s;i5 D. m.
ISceum--Buriesaue. s:i5 and s:I5 d.. IN.
Losw's Columbia-Photoplays, II a. m. 20 1880
u. ~.
Garden-Photoplays 10 a. m. TO 1880 D. m.
Strand-Photopiays. 10 :, IN. TO 1850 D. IN.
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Among the coroliary discomforts in
this era OF high living costs, Is the
nervous strain incident TO seeing and
hearing the necessaries forever re-
fsrred TO as the necessities Of life
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-12-06

The cost OF living for the Govern.
ment is going up, too; estimates for
1918 run far above the record appro
for the current year.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-12-06

II appears that "oliver osborne's"
real name was Wax; and he was Just
about that tight. p
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-12-06

As we understand the cabinet crisis,
Mr.. Lloyd-George Is the Hiram John
son OF Great Britain. ..
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-12-06

Just q few modest millions would
be enough to do justice to the Gov
sSnmsntts employees. Why not3
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-12-06

Only nineteen more days for Christ
mas shopping: but they'ii be suffi'
cisnt TO spend IL all, this, season.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-12-06

Isn't Il time, also, to put an en-.
barge on the embargo bills?
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Washington, Dec. ..