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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-06-22
SOLDIERS AND CITIZENS

Three husky citizens, all Of them
loo old to be accepted for military
service, stood on q street corner yes
terday while the National Guard Of
the District marched past on the
way to camp and service. They
saluted the flag whenever 1t passed.
Around them stood a group OF
men young enough for military
duty, and INDUCED sarcasms about
"tin soldiers" and the like variety
Of very bad wit.
Is It possible that there are still
people who call themselves Ameri-
cans, who do not realize that this
Is the time when every man in the
uniform is entitled to the fullest
measure Of praise, approval, and en-
enlargement from every citizen?
The man who has no better taste
or sense than to indulge ribaldry and
cheap humor at the expense Of the
flag and the uniform in such time
as the presenter indeed in any
other time-ought to be drafted and
put in the front rank, with better
men behind to see that he doesn't
get away.
Doubtless the particular incident
referred to is exceptional. Wash
ington people are well-nigh unani-
nous in loyalty and appreciation Of
the citizen soldiery. Those who rep
resent the exceptions should be made
to realize that they are not looked
upon by the community as desirable
citizens.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-06-22
WAR BEGINNINGS IN MEXICO

Though IL comes from Mexican
sources there Is nothing improbable
in the report Of the ambushing Of q
small detachment Of General Perish
ing's troops by part Of Carranza's
army. There is no doubt that in spite
Of Carranza's warning Pershing has
continued and will continue TO have
numerous scouting parties abroad.
That is an essential part Of opera
tons in an enemy's country, whether
the main body Of an army is advanc-
ing, retreating, or standing still. And
there is no doubt that wherever he
finds "hot trail" Of bandits PERISH
ing will continue to follow IL.
It would be easy enough, too, for
Carranza's troops under present cir
cumstances to meet, cut of, or cor
ner such a detachment. In q mill
tary sense there would be nothing
serious about an incident or repeated
incidents Of the kind.
But 1t is highly improbable that
any Of Pershing's men, responsibly
commanded, would fire upon q mes
senger Of Mexican general and so
deliberately bring on an engagement
with his greatly superior forces. The
story from Juarez, therefore, may
be set down as pure Mexican in
vention as to the cause Of the clash,
whatever its effect.
In any event, the business Of
Pershing will be to 60 on doing ex-
actly what he is doing with his
scouting and trailing parties. The
business of Funston will be to 20 on
backing him up in his necessary field
operations. The business of the
United States Government will be to
send Funston the men and supplies
he calls for as fast as they can be
delivered to him.
This all makes for war II Car
rama, after President Wilson's ulti-
matum, is determined to have war.
It is now up to him; he can have all
the war he wants whenever he wants
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-06-22
OIL COMPANY TRIED
TO MAINTAIN PRICES
Attorney for Standard Oil Of
Ohio Makes Admission Be-
fore Federal Commission.

Admission that the Ohio Standard OIL
Company has sought wherever pos
sible" to maintain uniform prices. fea-
tured today's session of the Federal
Trade Commissions hearing to learn
reasons for soaring gasolene prices.
w. T. Holiday. attorney for the COM
pany, said efforts to maintain uniform
prices were made ION advice of counsel,
and because of diversity of interpreta-
tions Of the Clayton act. pending some
definite opinion of the act"
Another feature was admission by A.
7. Coombs. president of the Ohio Com
pany, that II is the ultimate aim OF his
concern to maintain a permanent re-
serve OF at least 10000, 900 gallons, He
sad the company now has a reserve of
100000. Questioned by the Government
he insisted this reserve was being con-
centrated mot with a view of forcing
up prices, but to serve the people OF
Ohio"
Coombs Eaid profits OF the company
were considerably less in 1915 than in
1913, and also lower than the average
tor several years. Implying that prices
were advanced to their present level to
cover the loss In 1915 Coombs said II the
company did not take advantage OF the
rise at once. II would lose money
through the falling market. Coombs
resented imputation that the Ohio Com
pany is merely Jobber for the Stand
ard OF Indiana,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-06-22
WOMEN WIN AT YALE, TOO

The Yale corporation has decided
to permit women to attend the
Yale School of Medicine. They will
be admitted only in limited numbers
at present, apd must bring testi-
mony that their equipment will in
sure continuance Of the high stand
ards that have made this institution
famous. They will be graduates of
approved" medical colleges; which
means that they will not be admitted
from a good many institutions that
call themselves medical colleges and
assume to issue diplomas.
Women and Yale will gain in about
equal measure by this liberalization.
If there is any one profession to
which it would seem woman was by
nature peculiarly adapted it is that
of medicine. Some of the greatest
physicians and even surgeons have
been recruited from the ranks of
women in the short time since il
was made possible for women to
secure the best education in these
lines. Yale ought to have done il
earlier. but does well to do 1t now.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-06-22
THE SENATE TO THE REscUEi

Following a meeting Of the Senate
Committee on Naval Affairs, it is
announced with all confidence that
the House construction program will
be revised in a sweeping way. The
House provided for no new battle
ships; the Senate will write the re-
quirement for three or four of them
into the bill, and then will insist
that they be left in.
They certainly should be put in
and left in. The battle Of Jutland
came just in time to end all con-
troversy among sensible men. The
battleship continues the backbone
and the mailed fist of naval power
A few months ago there were quite
too many mercurial persons who got
the notion into their heads that the
battleship was obsolescent, If not OBJ.
solete; that the submarine and the
mine had written its quietus. Now
we know better.
The battleships must be ordered
II the American feet is to be main.
tanned in anything like its present
rank.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-06-22
TO BRING MARSHALL
BEFORE THE HOUSE
Kenneth .Romney, Acting Ser
qeant-at-Arms, Will Serve
Summons.

Kenneth Romney. a young man from
Montana, who is now acting Sergeant
alarms of the Souse of Representa-
tiyes. expects to make his first arrest
as an officer Of the House when he goes
TO New York to hale District Attorney
II. snowden Marshall before the bar OF
the lower branch Of Congress.
Mr.. Romney. who is husky West
erner, doesn't expect any trouble what
ever with his prisoner" In fact. re-
ports from New York say that MT
Marshall is ready to come to Washing
ton with any accredited representative
of the House, and Mr.. Romney. Acting
Sergeant. alarms. certainly will have
the credentials when he goes after Mr..
Marshall. Speaker Champ Clark. In
pursuance to the resolution passed by
the House late yesterday holding Mr..
Marshall In contempt Of the House. will
furnish Mr.. Romney with the necessary
warrant.
Acting sergeant-at-Arms Romney ex-
poets to leave Washington tonight for
Broadway and the district attorneys
Office.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-06-22

thinking youth, became inmates Of
truant schools or Of reformatories,
are ex-convicts.
Now, it seems that the medical
and legal professions have codes
which bar ex-convicts from practice,
and the civil service likewise frowns
on ex-convicts. II any such decision
is upheld the situation, right here in
our own city, for example, will be
direful to contemplate.
We shall be without physicians to
treat the abnormalities that brought
about our truancy, we shall be with
out lawyers to defend us against the
charge Of being ex-convicts; we shall
be shy on clerks to keep the Govern
ment machinery going.
Fortunately New York is now
seeing Justice" a play by John
Galsworthy, which sets forth why
courts cannot be expected to under
stand the psychic phenomena Of
crime, which truancy is now termed,
and perhaps the decision, like some
blue laws, will drift into the forgot
ten scrap heap of legal efforts to
define human impulses.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-06-22
PICNIC AT GLEN ECHO
BY CHRIST CHURCH
Sunday School Boys and Girls
Have Annual Outing.

One hundred happy children Of Christ
Church Sunday school. Georgetown, to-
day are enjoying the annual picnic and
outing of the school at Glen Echo Park.
The shady groves are alive with little
boys and girls, who are fighting bat
ties" housekeeping. playing hide-and-
seek. and doing all the many other
things that boys and girls do when out
on a picnic on a sunny June day. In
addition TO this the merry-go rounds.
roller coasters, slides. and other amuse-
ment facilities of the resort are being
kept busy most OF the time.
cred at the Sunday school room. loaded
down with lunch baskets. and toys. and
all eager TO get started. Many Of the
little girls brought their favorite dol
lies" while the boys were armed with
baseball bats. mitts. and other para
phernalia. From the school the children
marched up Thirty-first street to p
street where they boarded a special
car of the Washington Railway and
Electric Company for Glen Echo.
Superintendent N. w. Dorsey was In
charge OF the outing. He was assisted
by a corps of teachers, including the
Rev. James H. w. Blake, rector of
Christ Church and teacher OF the Bible
class; Miss Mary wilkins. Miss Lena
Wilkins. Miss Eudora De Land, Miss
Mary Radford. Miss v. Miller. Miss
Anette Mccartney, Miss Lucia Holle-
reth. Miss Anne Blackwood. Albert
Stearns, and Mrs. Johnson. director Of
christ Church choir
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-06-22
FOOL CUSTOMS REGULATIONS

The customs officials at New
York have just given new illustra-
ton Of how idiotic a good law may
be made to look if it is enforced too
technically. The law in question pro-
vides for duty-free introduction into
this country Of thoroughbred horses
intended for breeding. 1t is one Of
numerous efforts to improve the
equine stock. For many years
Uncle Sam has been trying to bet
ter our horses. He has established
Morgan stations In Vermont, and
stations Of other breeds in Colorado,
giving free service to horse owners.
Recently provision has been made
for spending large sum expanding
this service; all in the interest of
better horses.
OF course, it would be better if
private interests would bring the best
horses here for these purposes. The
only excuse for Government inter-
ference is that private interests will
not undertake it.
Recently a Londoner shipped five
magnificent thoroughbreds here, con-
signing them to an agent for sale.
The customs officers decided that the
horses are still the property Of the
London consignor, British citizen.
The law gives the privilege Of free
admittance only to American own
ers. So these horses must pay the
duty before the Government will re-
lease them and let them be sold
The consignee has refused to do this
and the horses are ordered sold by
the Government for the duty.
It seems a peculiarly silly con-
struction of law. The horses would
have been sold and in service long
before this time, but for the quarrel
over them on this technical ground
They would have had American own.
ers, and been making themselves
useful exactly as the law wanted
them to do, and as the Government
has been anxious they should do
Their importation, especially at g
time when Europe is thinning out its
supply of thoroughbred stock, would
have been regarded by most people
as a piece of real good fortune. One
stallion is the brother of Orby, the
Richard Croker Derby winner Of
1907.
To confiscate and sell these ami
mails for duty means to discourage
efforts at importation of such ami
mails; it means fatty to put an enc
to sending them here on consign'
ment for sale. The superior custom:
officials owe it to plain common sense
to interfere and stop the excuseles:
proceeding,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-06-22
ALL PLANS MADE FOR
.u|FE!SAV|NG CONTEST
Eleven Organizations To Be
Represented in Events
Scheduled for Sunday.

Eleven organizations will be repre-
sented in the series OF graded hfc-
saving contests under the joint aus
pices OF the Independent and the Aque-
duct Bridge Life-Saving Corps. affiliated
with the American Red Cross, at Demp-
sey's boathouse Sunday afternoon.
More than 800 entreis for the contests.
which will begin at 3 o'clock. have been
received
The following ORGANIZATIONS will COIN
pete: Independent Life-Saving Corps.
Western High School. st. Adams
School. Ketcham Public School,
Capital City Life-Saving Corps.
Scout Masters Life-Saving Corps.
Washington Canoe Club. Eastern Pow
FER Boat Club, Washington Swimming
Club. Police Department and one I'M
attached swimmer. j, +. Brian.
The members of the Police Depart
ment who took part in the life-saving
contests at the Municipal pools laHt
September are expected TO send in a
large entry list. as Major Pullman has
issued an order allowing them time or
from their regular duties.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-06-22
MEAT A REAL EVENT
ON GERMANS TABLE
Many Families Go Without
Flesh for Days at a Time In
Central Empire.
BY WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD.

ROTTERDAM. May q (by maiD.-
Many families in Germany go mcatlcss
for days and weeks at n time. This
have from q neutral business man of
Dresden:
ITS as bad a. housekeeping to get
meat. II upscts our whole household
omy. It's a dreadful operation, and we
don't 20 through Il oftener than wo
have to. In the last sixteen days we
Fave had meat thrice.
mst sss. ns s..,o sspars n,n. lust N the
crumbling war bread made largely Of
potato flour. make up our list OF edi-
bles. We get 20 tired Of II we hate to
go to the table, sometimes we even
meat. Then there's trouble"
He was requested to 10 into the de-
tails OF meat purchase In q German
town.
Good Cigars There.
well, it's like this" he said. light
ing good cigar Gin some mysterious
way a huge shipment of Havana cigars
direct from Cuba reached Berlin tho
other day.: When we decide to have
meat my wife and I talk Il over the
night before. II the next day 70 Tues
DAY or Friday we can't buy anything
bnt nsh. for those are meatiess days.
my wife calls our maid. and says:
Ellzabeth, We want you to buy
q heefsteak for us tomorrow Eliza
morning and 20 to the nearest butcher
shop and stand in line until her turn
comes to buy meat or until the butcher
comes to the door, and says to the
1T Ia always four or five-hour Job
for her, unless she wants TO get into
the line mt / o'clock in the morning,
as some maids do.
rVNN xnfNf AtaI N NxAA
beth n down at the butcher shop, and
so i have to make the fires while my
wife gets breakfast. 90 off to the Of
ice and Elizabeth comes home at or
Sometimes she has been able to get
meat. but more often than not she
comes back empty handed.
Many Meatless Days.
Officially there are only two meat
less days a week. but in reality you
find the butcher shops meatiess day
after day.
81 call up my wife some time during
the morning to find out whether we
are going to have meat for supper. II
You'd ' Ss .s to hSRpy how S %a
difference n little meat makes"
a beefsteakY'
Five marks and a half a pound.
How we linger over supper when we
have meat! Elizabeth hasn't done any
work all day. She has been upset by
her morning experience.
you read OF food riots In Berlin
That was only Elizabeth and her
fellow-maidsn fighting to keep their
places in the line.
But about supper time Elizabeth
wakes UP. cooks the meat and brings II
In with smiles all over her face. She
knows she'll get her share. but II we
asked her to go out for meat every day
she wouldn't stay with US.
That's where the rich folks come IN.
They can hire maids who have no other
| work but to 60 through the meat raid
daily. .-. -
There are inJustices galore about the
food distribution In Berlin. mat Is why
they have had food riots In front OF
the Reichstag and In front Of butcher
| shops"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-06-22
ALL-STORY WEEKLY
HAS GOOD TALE
Serial, THE Fugitive Sleuth, "
Starts This Week.

A powerful human and absorbing
detective serial story. Tho Fugitive
Sleuth." by Hubert Foctncr. author of
The Huntress." THE Fur-B-lngers, I"
The Sealed Valley" and other tales,
is the feature NJ this weeks issue OF
the All-Story Weekly.
Since the DAYS OF the brilliant NJ.
Vidocd there have been detectives Of
many kinds. but never has there been
such dete.tivee as the hero Of THE
BLACK Butterflies" 70 the contribu-
tion Of Elmer Brown Mason to the
Issue. II you read the A,l-Story
Weekly regularly. the mention of this
authors name II all that is necessary.
Other stories which will satisfy the
fiction are Whose Money! by Du
vermt Rabell: The Progressive Jinx. +"
by Octavius Roy Cohen: 1.-The Top
Rung." by Shelly Hamilton. aud skip
Wood.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-06-22
PLAYING "HoOKRY" A CRIMEi

Shades Of the old swimmin' hole,
the rod and tackle, the gun and dog,
the cool sweet meadows, the ripping
brook, and all the devices of spring
to lure the small boy away from
books and studies!
Not many moons ago we learned
that the truant was a defective, and
needed asylum treatment, He was
abnormal, and maybe needed to have
his adenoids cut out, or mental re-
adjustment. Jurists, bankers,
clergymen, and others, who had
boasted of their proclivities for
"playing hockey" were fiabber-
gasted.
The worst was yet to come. Ac-
cording to the most honorable Judge
of the appellate division of the SUI
preme court, second judicial district,
New York. men who, in their un-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-06-22
CITIZENS TO PLEAD.
FOR HALF7AND-HALF
Chamber Of Commerce and
Board Of Trade Represent
atives Before Subcommittee

Strong appeal for the preservation of
the haif-and-hah principle will BE-
made today by committee of oiti-
zens to the subcommittee OF the SEN
ate Appropriations Committee in
charge Of the District appropriation
bill.
The people of the District in the
hearing today ara represented by
President Edwin c. Brandenburg, OF the
Board Of Trade: Corcoran Thorn. Of the
Board Of Trade; A. &. Worthington, rep
resentatives Of the Chamber OF Com
merce. and Of large number Of ciu-
zens' associations.
II Is recognized that the real difficulty
is not In the COMMITTEES on .Appropria-
lions, however. II Is found in the fact
the House may refuse TO yield IL the
Senate does stand by the half-and-half.
This may fdrce a compromise.
Senator Martin. chairman Of the APP
propriations Committee. does not expect
the District bill will be disposed OF in
time to go into operation the first Of
the fiscal year.
A continuing resolution win probably
be needed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-06-22
PUPILS PRESENT
MUSICAL COMEDY
His Highness Folly" Given by
Miss Shreve's School.

ZulaIiia was definitely and positively
put on the map last night by $50 pu-
pills Of Miss Cora b. shreve at the Ma
tional Theater.
Being a place where musical comedy
Is rampant and all sorts OF dance steps
peared to the audience that packed the
theater to be a very desirable place.
The youthful inhabitants of the new
country appeared to be principally pref
ty girls and good looking young men
and boys.
There were no particular stars In the
entertainment. the $50 pupils forming a
constellation. the component parts OF
which appeared to have equal magni-
tude. The title of the comedy produced
by them was Oils Highness, Folly"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-06-22
WHAT'S GOING ON IN
WASHINGTON TODAY
Meeting Time and Place Of Social
and Fraternal Organizations.
Today.


Picnic. West Virginia Society. Great Falls.
Meeting, Business High School Alumni, A.
ISOLATION. school building. 8 D. M
Excursion. Letter Carriers Association Chea
apeake Beach. all day.
Church, Georgetown. Glen Echo ali day
Community night exercises. Park View Citi-
Gems Association Revere Theater Georgia
avenue and Newton street. 6:45. $40 and
Meeting. Commerce Club Chorus, room so,.
Commerce Department Building. $3.50 D. m
Eye Olde Time Dance" mems association
OF the Chapel OF the Nativity. parish hall
Fourteenth street and Massachusetts, ave-
nue. southeast $3.50 D. m.
George George c. Whiting. No. "a: Temple Moves Nov ~
No. 49, Washington. No, 2, OF tho Royal
Arch William r. Hunt. No. Is OF the
Knishts OF Pythias- Harmony. No n.
Odd Fellows-columbia, No. 10; Salem No.
National Union-Bancroft Council. Dahisrsn
Observation-Disclosures Tent.
Amusements.
Belasco-"Peace and Quiet" AIS and s:lS
Poii's-"The Belle Of Richmond" s;lb n. m.
2:1b and s:16 D. m,
Loew's Columbia-Photoplays. 1880 .. m. to
Lyceum"stock burlesqus. 2:iS ana Sis D. m.
Glen Echo-open-sir amusements. dancing,
and free movies.
Chevy Chase Lake-DancinE.
Great Falls. Va.-Free vaudeville ana dan
Gsrdsn-continuous motion pictures. 10 a. m.
strand-continuous motion pictures. 10 q. m.
to II .. m.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-06-22
SOLDIERS DEPENDENTS NEED
HELP, BUT NO CHARITY

To the woman's department, Ma
tional Civic Federation, goes the
credit for the first definite move to-
ward relief for dependent families Of
national guardsmen. A meeting has
been called for tomorrow afternoon
at the home of Mrs. Archibald Hop
kins to which heads of all organiza-
tions are invited to discuss plans for
giving such aid.
Nobody knows yet how much aid
needs to be given guardsmen's fami-
lies in this city. It already is known
in other cities that considerable as
sistance will have to be extended.
One point needs to be emphasized in
this movement; it should be Invested
of every semblance Of charity.
From what is known of the
guardsmen of the District it is APP
parent that their families would be
a long time asking for charity. II
help is to be given 1t must be in tact
full and delicate ways. Giving aid
to these families is not charity; it
is payment by the community for a
certain service the breadwinners are
performing which, owing to sudden
exigencies, is not rewarded as il
should be.
The invitation to Mrs. Hopkins
home affords an opportunity for con-
ference and cooperation which or
CARNATIONS will welcome. The whole
task is a big one, and not one for
any single body or group of people
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-06-22
HON. Democrats Shed
At Railroad Control
And G. o. Adopted II
Inside Story of How Issue Got Into Republican Plat
form and Subsequent Decision of Democrats
To Avoid Question at This Time.
By JUDsoN C. wELLIvER.

The story Of how the Republican platform happened contain
declaration in favor Of liberalization Of all instruments Of Govern
control the railroads. and Of how the Democratic platform
happened reference the last be told
has been dripping from high authorities both parties for
days.
The Republican plank drafted first by Senator George Suer
land Of Utah. laid before the subcommittee Of nine which had
been nusted with making the draft Of the platform There had been
preliminary discussions Washington elsewhere Of the ad
visibility Of such declaration.
Some other members the subcommittee had had this
ment in mind, and there real opposition to It,
There was however wide difference Of opinion to
whether the State rights interstate nsumenes
could abolished legislation without first amendment to the
Constitution initial belief Of Senator Sutherland that
amendment that the whole thing
could be accomplished by statute.
DISCUSSED POINT WITH BoRAH.