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 was divided into two columns which were to attack the city on opposite sides simultaneously. One column ad- vanced hours before the other and was beaten off by the Garrison, which re- covered in time to hold the town against assaults of the second column.
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HE WEATHER
Weather Forecast

Washington, July 2O.-Forecast for Alabama, Georgia. Mississippi; Local thundershowers Friday and Saturday.
 Tennessee: Local thundershowers Fri day; Saturday probably fair.
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"DAyY CROCK FIT" ]"

DAVY CROCKETT.'
 Dustin Farnum and Winifre Kingston are co-stars in "Dav1 Crockett" a five-part Pallas-Par. amount feature. at the Strand thea tre today. Scenically and artisti cal1y "Davy Crockett is a won derful picture and will delight tn thousands of patrons of tn Strand theatre. It is a picture tha everyone can see.
 THE FLOWER OF NO MANS
 LAND.'
 Viola Dana, a former star of tf' Edison company, directed by Jof1 Collins, a former director of the Ed son company, is starred in ''The Flow CT of No Mans Land,' 8 five-pal Metro picture at the Rialto theat4 today. 1.-The Flower of No Man. Land' tells a pretty story and is ! picture fully up to the Metro standart THE SPIDER AND THE FLY."N Robert B. Mantell and Genevie, Hamper are the featured players the William l.. Fox production N ''The Spider and the Fly at the M: jestic theatre today. This is storI based on the theme that the penalt of sin is death. Sin in ''The Spider arr the Fly is portrayed by drunkei ness, rapine, sensuality and murder. "A MOTHERS CONFESSION" At the Odeon Two theatre today ''j Mothers Confession" a five-part Iva production. is booked. "A Mother Confession" concerns the dramat tale of two children of the san mother, but different fathers, who al prevented from marrying each otht by the confession of the mother ( her youthful mistake. As Shakespeai might have said: This is indeed raj art"
 UNBORN" Commissioner Arlie Barber ha placed his approval on Unborn picture dealing with the subject q birth control, which opens at the Ma jestic theatre on Sunday.
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Weather Conditions

Summary of observations made at the United States weather bureau stations during the "A hours ending at p. r11, 18th meridian time, July 20. 1916:
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-05-29

central council. Il will mean q
stimulus to the work and q greater
efficiency. - ~ ~:
These home and school associa-
tions are q feature Of Washington
public school activities which have
kept very much ont Of the limelight,
but which have been powerful in
struments for good. Working through
the schools with which they are con-
nected they have exerted a whole
some influence in their communities,
and IL Is reasonable to expect, when
they are affiliated. their central or
gsnization will be q force for good
in the city. ~-..~
They represent a form Of adult
activity in schools to which there can
be no possible objection. They do
not use the schools for their own
ends, but for the betterment Of the
children in them, but the reflex good
the adult members receive Is appre-
ciable. They grew up under the
superintendency Of A. T. Stuart, who
wisely encouraged them, and they
were fostered during their young
and untried days by school officials
and teachers.
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Congressn1en Tilt On
School Forum Issues
Last Meeting of Grover Cleveland Community Is En-
livened by Heated Debate on Limitation of Sub
jects-Miss Margaret Wilson Presides.

situations" He described how. in Den
mark. the schools were the centers of
all activity and around them had been
built cooperative movements.
Results In Denmark.
There the schools have resulted in
building up q democracy of farmers"
DIR. Howe said. and the farmers have
compelled legislation for old age PEN
sions. out OF. work insurance, rural
credits, ownership of railroads, educa-
ton. and have done more to eliminate
poverty than any country in Europe.
The school was the center of all these
movements"
Congressman James 8. Davenport. of
Oklahoma. praised the provisions OF the
Hollis-Johnson bill. and Congressman
Ragsdale said he believed In the prin-
cipie OF the open forum. but that he
could have given the trainers OF the bill
some pointers II they had consulted
him.
Miss Cecil b. Norton. secretary OF
the forum and director of many social
center activities at the Grover Cleve-
land School, read a report of the TO-
runs activities for the year. In open
ing the meeting. Miss Wilson read a
poem by Justice Wendell Phillips
Stafford. OF the District Supreme
Court. entitled The Forum"
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Miss Margaret Wilson. advocate of
the school forum movement, presided
at a meeting yesterday at which
members OF Congress INDUCED In
heated debate about propriety OF un-
bridled freedom OF speech In public
school buildings.
The meeting, neld at the Public
Library, was the concluding session
OF the Grover Cleveland Forum for
this season.
Congressman Thomas U. sisson of
Mississippi aroused the Ire OF Con.
gresham Jane: 4; Li csn n OF Ms' ins
deiism or you can preach anarchy In
public. for all ] care. SO long as you
hold to the principles of Thomas JET
ferson and another man has the right
to contradict you"
Keep Out "Blackguardism."
IT think Mr.. Sisson is little beside
himself when he says anyone should
come into the schools and say anything
he pleases," said Congressman Lloyd.
who followed the Mississippi representa-
tive. .,
houses for investigation and for discus
sion of proper subjects. with proper re-
straint. But IL black guardism or wrong
doing Is to be taught In schools am
against any law that makes such q
'Hh VI Simply wanted to convey the inn
preston that my friend Lloyd, nor
anyone else, has the right to censor
my remarks" retorted MT: sisson.
"when Patricn Henry said, Give me
l'berty or give me DEATH those words
that went shivering through the civ
liked world, he couldn't go to court
! house, SO he went to a church.
III / were to make a speech In a
school house l am unwilling to sub
nit my remarks to censorship
Miss Wilson Intervenes
Miss Wilson interviewed at this point
to say that both men, she believed
were partly wrong about the purpose
OF the Hollis ohnson forum bill; :,
0"The principle on which the bill Ia
founded is not that of the Boston
| Common, where everyone may say
anything" she said. But the forums
70 be orsSnIIIIed on Thu the s U,S
noWer TO deterrnine what is proper
and what is not would be determined
by a majority OF the people In tn.
community. J., for ion one T. w .nx ha ntS9
of censors. for the former course spell'
democracy" . A..
right to meet IN public schools -
This republic" and told of his earl,
life twenty miles from a RAILROAD
i where every breeze that rustled INK
a zephyr through trees breathed TIT
whispers of free speech
The Mississippian hearkened back Il
Milton and Jefferson as opponents Of
free speech, and then condemned cen
sorship Of motion pictures as being
akin to a censorship OF newspapers. -
Other speakers were DR.. Frederick &
Howe. United States commissioner o.
immigtation at New York city. and Con
FRESHMAN ]. Willard Ragsdale OF Souti
Carolina, who had questioned Miss WI
! son when she appeared at the Congress
siof1al hearing OIL the bill.
DR.. Howe said school forums are on
of the most Important agencies TO
widening the SWEEP OF democratic In
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GERMAN SHIPS AFTER THE WAR

10 the sponsors Of the Admins
sration shipping bill who seem i'm
pressed that all the United States
needs TO do is to build $50, 900 900 Of
ships, whereupon cur flag will be re-
stored to the seas and business
tumble into American bottoms with
out struggle, we recommend the d.
gestion Of the most recent indus
trial news from Germany. ... ,
A resolution he's been introduced
in the Reichstag asking the govern
ment to encourage and support the
shipbuilding industry-and that the
government viii! do just that Is a
foregone conclusion; It has fostered
its mercantile marine with conspicu-
Gus success in the past, and there is
every reason for strengthening the
policy after the war
"There is a general expectation
there will be a big boom in ship
building after the war;" says the dis
patch. Experts have no fear Of any
boycott being undertaken by Ger
many's present enemies"
Shipbuiljing concerns are making
preparations to handle big orders,
One plant has increased its capital
stock skiold and has arranged for a
heavy bond issue.
So much for Germany. No COM
ment is required on England's plans
other than the recent showing that
her loss in tonnage has been almost
exactly compensated by new ships
built under the tremendous disad.
vantnges Of war conditions, with
shortage Of labor snd high prices fol
material.
If under our present laws we can
not meet competition in norma
times, how, when the war is over
shall Government-built ships fare
any better unless Fundamental
handicaps are removed?
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ROCKIES" WALK OUT
AS PAC|F|ST ARGUES
Three Girls From Service Camp
Leave Theater When Call
Begins to Talk. Il


While Arthur ID. Call was presenting
the pacinst side OF the preparedness
d.h.t. ~ ro,i,. Theat.r ,,..,sra. .s
$500 -. 49,, ..,.,
ernoon' tnree hhsh ciao rookles
from the National Service Camp. seated
In a box, walked out. -
lust about that time II beos, -
,huna.r and vh.,hor ~. 1.ss,',
tnunoer' anu 'ne roohes
were AFRAID OF tne STORM, or were prof.
testing aRalnst MI. CaIrs peace argyll
ment the audience did not know. TheirI
departure caused considerable comment.
however;
The toint debate OF Mr.. Call. secretaryj
Of the American Peace Society, with
Col. Robert Il. Thompson, president Of
the Navy League. was uneventfui aside
from some Kisses that greeted the state
ment OF Mr.. Call that Rear Admiral
Victor Blue had told Congress that the
United States navy is the equal OF any
possible enemy.
When he heard the Misses Mr.. Call
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press, In keeping with an indecent,
unjust. and illegal publicity, by
which the accused are prejudiced
In their trial. and unnecessarily
s sa wrongly held up to public in
And these methods have been re-
sorted to and continued as ex-
amples of the rigid enforcement %
law, at the same time that this
community has been startled and
surprised by the frequent assaults
lie streets Of the city. and by the
number and frequency of daring
robberies in all parts OF the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Our criminal dockets are crowd
nication. most OF which have their
basis in revenge, malice. and black
mail; or are the result OF a hypo-
critical and Impractical knowledge
and administration OF public law
and morals.
Declares Men Regret Action.
may say. In Justice to the many
excellent and honorable men who
compose the police force of the
District that they regret the part
illegal and visionary crusade.
An honest policeman. as an hon.
est and decent man in any other
calling, resents the command
which would turn him into a
snAak-thief and n scoundrel in or
der to secure the conviction Of his
fellow-men of craps-shooting,
handbook making. or Of other Of
lenses.
Can there be any correct morale
can you establish an honorable
police system; can you maintain
respect for your force and respect
for law and order. when you by
such a system as I refer to resort
to all the methods of the venal
and criminal--methods that any
manly policeman would hesitate to
employ7 Can you expect to ad-
vance public Justice and secure
public morality II you shall en-
ploy the agents of the law In ma
grant and serious breaches of the
law and disregard the ordinary
feeling of men?
Yours very truly.
CHARLES BENEDICT CALVERT
Washington. May 20.
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The letter follows:

Dear Sir: Not In abuse. but with
honest criticism. I am writing TO you
about the administration of the
police department of the District Of
Columbia, during the last few years,
for which you are In part re-
sponsible.
The matter TO which I especially
refer. is the system Of lawless raids
and the indecent. illegal publicity of
them. that has received the active
sanction OF your administration.
but the other :, ,S Day read in s the
absolutely illegal in both It's con-
ception and execution, In a house.
In a private dwelling house on Four
teenth street northwest, where q
craps game, II Is alleged. was being
conducted.
This raid 10 but an instance OF
many other raids Of like character,
illegal and spectacular, authorized
by your department within the last
few years.
Private homes have been invaded
without warrant. and In open de-
obtained by use of fre-escapes. seal
ing ladders. burglar pass keys. and
In fact. by all the methods OF the
porch climber and sneak thief, TO fer
ret out minor ofenses, In q legal
sense; offenses that are more tho
matter OF private morals than OF
serious breach Of the public law.
Says Evidence Available.
Where evidence could have been
obtained and arrests made. in a
decent. legal and economical way.
whole squads of police. with SEN
sational use OF patrol wagons. etc.
have been employed. to intimidate.
terrorize, and disgrace. not only
those alleged to be guilty of the
offenses charged, but those who
are innocent and are connected
with them.
Tho heretofore sacred rights OF
q mans house have been ruthless
ly and criminally violated by the
officers OF the law, in the name
Of law and Justice: apartment
houses rendered vacant and other
property destroyed in value, and
the whole matter. with scandalous
details, given out to the public
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-05-29
MR.. FORD's NEWEST MOVE

Henry Ford it is announced, is
going to give a new direction to his
efforts to the betterment Of Euro
pean conditions. This time it will be
industrial rather than political; and
there is substance of sound reason to
believe Mr.. Ford is better equipped
for this sort Of service than he was
for that undertaken by his peace
mission.
1t is his program, according to re-
port, to invest several millions in
the manufacture Of his tractors in
different European countries. He be-
lieves that the machine is so far per-
fected that it is possible to go ahead
turning il out in large numbers for
the general market, and that he can
be ready for ;ts production in Europe
as soon as it is placed on the market
here. .-.. .
The Ford scale of extremely lib
eral wages, it is promised, will be
paid in European factories, of which
several may o. established.
Should European agriculture de-
termine that the tractor is practical
and economical, it would undoubtedly
work revolution in European till
age methods. It is hard to under
stand, however, how the tractor can
be effectively used there, on the very
small plots. of land, when in this
country it has been regarded as very
doubtful whether a tractor is eco
nomical if it will not do enough work
to displace four horses on a farm
| There are many services that car
only be rendered by. horses; no trac-
tor will ever be able entirely to take
their place. Tie ten-horse farm
might profit, and expert investiga'
ton has indie: ted that it does, by do,
ing away with four or six horses anG
employing a tractor But there are
few ten-horse farms in Europe, es
pecially western Europe. The aver
age farm in some countries that have
immense agricultural production il
little more than, a good-sized garder
spot, as dimensions are accounted
here. Moreover, .he tractor help
prove {ts value greatest where i
helps solve the problem of Limited
labor supplies. Europe may have in
sufficient labor after the war; but i
is training new industrial armie
now, to take the place of men VIII,
will be brought back in time from
the trenches; and tractors trying t.
compete, under European conditions
with cheap human lah or, would likel
have hard furrow to pillow.
However, Mr.. Ford may have fig
ured all these things and reached a
understanding decision as to jus
what he is doing. His intentions ar
excellent, as always his industrial
philanthropic invasion of Europ
should have at least a better chanc
, ! Of success than lid his peace effort.
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OUR HUGE PROSPERITY

Our national banks recently
showed almost $4,000, 10000 re-
sources, which is declared to exceed
the banking resources of England,
France, Germany, Russia, Holland,
Switzerland, and Japan. Yet our ma
tional banks do not represent half
the banking establishments Of the
nation. The national banks increased
their resources in 1915 by more than
two billions of dollars.
Along with this increase Of re-
sources went an increase in instru-
ments for circulation: per capita
circulation grew from $34.55 to
1884 in the year from March 1,
1915, to March 1, 1915.
And we have been spending it, too;
no doubt of that In a time when
conditions and prospects might well
have justified a realization that
there was need to be exceptionally
cautious, there has been instead a
feeling that prosperity would go or
indefinitely at the present tide. Easy
profits have been spent or speculated
with, and there has been little ap'
parent concern for the warnings per
sistently sounded.
After the war Europe will tug al
our gold stock, determined to get il
back; and will get a good deal Of it
That will decrease the means for in
fiation, and if it can be SO guarded al
to prevent any cataclysm, will do III
little harm. The fact il that tn,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-05-29
THE "PHRHIDY" OF ALBION

The British premier has said that
the first indication Of n readiness TO
make peace must come from France.
The German premier declares that
the war map Is the basis. =
SO everybody agrees that no peace
is in sight.
II will be observed that the chief
gamers by the war, IL peace should
be made now on the basis Of the
map, would be Germany and Eng
land. Germany has taken most Of
Belgium, a slice Of France, Poland;
Austria would get Serbia, Monte
negro, some fringe Of upper Italy.
England, on the other hand, whose
soil has not felt the tread of hostile
feet, would gain everything she has
taken from Germany; which means,
the German colonial empire.
Yet II is England, denounced by
her enemies as the chief malefactor,
the maker Of the war, the false
friend, that Is standing more than
any other country against peace on
these termsl .....
Berlin knows, or pretends to know,
that England is the real obstacle to
accommodation and adjustment, as
Berlin also claims to believe that
England, though without an army,
was the country that made war in
evitable twenty-five months ago.
Is it possible that there has been a
mistake? England has established
more firmly than ever her mastery
Of the seas. She has greater ter
ritory than before the war. She has
kept her business going and her
finances sound while her enemies and
her friends alike have sacrificed ev-
erything. She possesses domina-
ton Of the merchant shipping situa-
ton such as was never possessed by
her before. Her industrial and social
life has been stirred deeply; her un-
Outstanding has been awakened; her
empire has demonstrated its loyalty
and has been bound in a new and
magnificent loyalty of perfect
solidarity. In short, England stands
today, despite everything, to be the
greatest gamer by the war, with
Germany second, and no third in
sight.
Yet It is England that stands
against peace at this juncture, and
passes the privilege up to France
England that declines to quit the
game with her winnings intact and
let her partners stand the losses
England, that muddles along with o
stupid notion that she owes some.
thing to the allies whom she Joined
that she intends to see that they
come out whole and sound!
Is this the "perfdious Albion
that our school histories taught us tc
hate?
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A PARENTs.ScnoOL COUNCIL

Some years ago the various
agencies in Washington working for
child welfare fourd /: feasible to or
ganize a Children's Council. This
resulted in increased effectiveness
and in the avoidance of duplication
and overlapping of work.
To gain effectiveness the citizens
associations of the District organ
lied the Federation of Citizens As
sociations, and through this repre-
sentative central organization many
matters have been forcefully pre-
scented to Congress.
In Washington there are more
than forty parent-teacher organiza-
tions, home and school associations,
and-mothers' clubG. II is good news
that thSAe are to affiliate through a
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-05-29
WHAT MAKES THE FREIGHT

Going into a strange city, the Wis
itor is often tempted to wonder
"vhat all these people do; who lives
in these houses; what contribution
do they make to the social and bust
ness activities of the country"
Likewise, observing the teeming
traffic Of the railroads in such time
as the present, there is always dis
position to marvel, and to wonder
what It Is that requires to be moving
in such vast quantities.
Recently the Department Of Agri-
culture has been doing something
toward answering both these ques-
tions. It has BEN publishing statis-
tics Of movements Of certain crops,
which suggest the immensely Of
movements of articles hardly consid-
cred in q casual contemplation Of
freights. Here are some figures, for
instance, on the movement of straw
berries thus far this season; straw
berries, in thousands upon thousands
Of solid carloads; miles upon miles
of trains of them:
Ninety-five cars have been loaded at
Missouri points. The prospects are for
an unusually heavy crop.
Blk hundred and thirteen cars moved
from the Carolinas.
One thousand three hundred and nifty
seven carloads moved from west Ten
nessee. Heavy rains are bringing the
shipping season to an abrupt close.
East Tennessee reported 279 cars to
date. with a short crop In prospect.
Reports from Virginia show that $50
carloads. In addition to liberal boat
shipments. have been moved.
Delaware shipped 1874 cars In 1914. and
40 cars in 1915.
A large number Of estimates indicate
that shipments will be possibly % per
cent heavier than last year. The move
ment will begin about June l.
Maryland reports received indicate
that carload movement will begin BY
Indications at present point to ar
increase OF about 20 per cent over last
years movement. which was ljs cars
from Bowling Green. Ky.
The season has closed in all the Gull
States.
A few days ago the movement!
were from the Gulf States, which
sent even more impressive ship
ments than those indicated by tn,
foregoing bulletin Twenty Thousand
carloads Of strawberries moved il
one season is probably a modest es
innate; which takes no account o
the less-than-car!oad lots. ,
Small wonder that the railroad
are under pressure when so Incl
dental a commodity is demanding
not only service, but prompt, fast
uneSring service, lest the commodit,
perish in tranIit.
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HUNDREDS PRAY FOR
PEACE AT CATHEDRAL
Collection Taken Up for War
Sufferers.

Prayers for the restoration Of peace
in Europe were made yesterday after
noon about the Peace Cross in the
cathedral, close al Mt. st. Adams.
Two special prayers. one for univer-
sal peace, and the other for the re-
union of Christians abroad. were said
IN the presence OF the congregation OF
several hundred.
A collection was taken up. which will
be sent to the general fund for the re-
lief of sufferers from the war. The
adelphia. preached the sermon and the
services were in charge Of Dean Brate-
nahl. and Canons De Vries and Will
hams.
When the rain came the congregation
went into Bethlehem Chapel for the re-
mainder OF the services