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JEAN ELIOTTElLS
NEWS Of CAPITAL
Items Of Interest and lmpor-
lance Of Past, Present, and
Future.
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ding trip. Then they can 20 about the
rather trying business Of choosing lust
the apartment they want and selecting
their furniture at their leisure
Lieutenant Torrey has been ordered
TO Norfolk, and as Bessie and the kid
dies want TO join him there they are
charmed with the ARRANGEMENT.
The wedding. Hanna's and Ciay's,
was ever 10 pretty. with tepers in
ANTIQUE brass candelabra TO light the
ceremony, and I did like the Jolly old
fashioned way In which dancing wound
pp the evening. The bride looked 20
handsome. and her gown was OF iove'y
II was not thought best for Mr..
Taylor who has been i'll for some time.
10 undergo the fatigue OF the recep-
ton at Rauscher's. but he came down
riase.
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The Minister Of Uruguay and Madame
de Pena will occupy again the cottage
at Monterrey. where they have spent
the past three summers, and probably
will 20 to the mountains some time
In June. Manuela de Pena expects to
he with her family very little this sum-
mer. as she goes to Manchester to DO
the guest OF the Ambassador to ArRen-
tina and Madame Naon for several
weeks. Cariotta de Pena Is still having
trouble with her wrist. which she
broke while playing tennis q few weeks
ago. II Ia now on the mend. however.
and fortunately It IL her left wrist:
She IL keen for sports. and X would
be great pity to have anything mar
her prowess.
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when the Eiweu Club elected Mrs.
Fulton Lewis president last week. they
surely made wise choice. She not only
phys dandy game Of bridge. but has
real executive ability. Also she works
herself sick in the interests Of anything
OF the sort in which she Is interested.
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Business High Alumni
Reunion Arranged

The Business High School Alumni As
ISOLATION will 60 to Marshall Hall on
Jne for Its annual excursion.
An extensive program OF athletic
events has been arranged. and there
will be dancing in the evening. The
school will have a holiday so that
pupils may Join the "old grads" and
friends Of the institution. Richard d.
Daniels II in charge Of the excursion.
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Miss Violetta Mercer
Ill In War Hospital.

Mrs. Carroll MERGERS daughter. Vio-
letta. who has been nursing in the
Whitney Hospital In Paris for several
months. Is desperately Ill with diph-
liberia. according to the last reports.
She was moved to the contagious hos
pital. and is in a grave condition. Mrs.
Mercer Is at her apartment in the To-
ronto. with her younger daughter,
Lucy. Violetta studied to be a trained
nurse. and went to Paris In the early
days OF the war.
The MERGERS used to live years ago in
. fine big house In I street and gave
lovely parties. Carroll Mercer Is a
member Of the old Carroll family. which
occupied the hne mansion at Eighteenth
and r streets for generations.
II is quite a departure for the board
OF governors Of the House OF the Good
Shepherd to give their annual tea at the
Institution, at the corner OF Thirty-sixth
and Reservoir streets. instead of at
Rauscher's. but 1t would seem to be a
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wise departure. So many people are In
terested in seeing the house and in
fetting a really good idea of the work
that IL being accomplished.
The tea and sale will be held on
Thursday afternoon. and the entertain
the patronage Of some of the most dis
tinguished women In Washington. The
House Of Good Shepherd receives no APP
preparation and makes an appeal for
generous support.
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Over the heads of a circle Of men
who quite surrounded him at the Chevy
Chase Club several days ago. I recog-
nized James Vernon Long. of Pitts
burgh. who used to make his home In
Washington. It was nice to see, him
again after his prolonged absence. and
the friends who were not gathered
about him were busy looking for him.
He was stopping at the La Fayette. but
has now gone to the Grafton. believe.
Mr.. Long made quite record for HIM
self In the consular service. having
been consul at Venice. Florence. Malta.
q
Joe Letter, Jr,
A Game Youngster.
Little Joe Letter, jr.. was much
grieved because he didn't get a ribbon
at the horse show. I think he should
have had one just for the gameness he
displayed. To be sure his wee bit
pony's ring manners were not OF the
best. The beastie displayed desire to
escape into the paddock and had to be
pushed back into the ring at intervals.
but little Joe. who has just hve sum-
mers to his credit, hung on like a man.
At that he had only taken riding les
sons for a week.
The little Letter boy who took n RIB
bon or two with his entries Is Just a
little older. but the other entrants were
quite big children.
Mrs. Letter says that next year she's
going to put UP whole flock Of little
| silver cups. so that none OF the Riddles
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. ,.,,. between the line. on the follow
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ing morning.
Grants Reply To Lee.
To this letter OF Lee. Grant responded;
Headquarters Of the Armies Of the
U. s.. April .. 1850.
General r. p. Lee,
Commanding g. o. A.
Your note OF yesterday II receive
ed. As have no authority TO treat
on Spos es pI fcr 70 toS s conS
lead to no good. I will state. how
ever, general, that ! am equally pnx-
ious for peace with yourself, and the
whole North entertains the same
con be had he are revive we'll pp nnderstood. BY
the South laying down their arms
thcy will hasten that most desirable
event, save thousands OF human
lives. and hundreds Of millions OF
property not yet DESTROYED. sincere
may be settled without the loss Of
another life. subscribe myself,
etc. y. y. GRANT:
AZ Lieutenant General.
Grants headache had not gone when
day dawned. He was on his way to-
ward Appomattox Courthouse when the
white flag was put out by lee and hos
Titles continued because the Union
with by Meade or Sheridan.
Armistice Granted.
However. finally a suspension of hos
Titles was granted for two hours To
give an opportunity to. got into touch
with Grant. II was discovered then
that II would take longer than the al
lotted time to reach Meade and to re.
turn an answer unless the mossenger
should pass through the Confederate
lines. In consequepce Lee sent an cs-
cort through his lines to Grant with
the following note:
April ., 1855.
General: received your note OF
this morning on the picket line,
whittier / had come 70 meet you and
ascertain definitely what terms were
embraced In your proposal OF yea
terday with reference to the sur
render Of this army. I now request
an interview in accordance with tho
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Charming Mile. de Holthoir
Feted Much While Here.

Charming little Mile. de Holthoir was
no little feted during her short visit to
Washington as the guest of Mrs. J.
Borden Hartman. Mrs. Hennen Jcnn-
ings gave dinner for her: she renewed
q pleasant acquaintance with her old
friends. Mrs. Henry Cleveland Perkins
and Mrs. John Gibbons. and she was
voluminously lunched and tead. Also
she was presented to Madame Bakhme-
ten. who expressed herself pleased to
meet daughter of the late Lieut.. Gen.
Nicholas Holthoir. OF the Cars Inn
perial Guard.
For in spite of her French bringing
up and her typically French art, Mile.
de Holthoir Is actually Russian sub
thoir. who is one of the ministers of
the council of the empire at Petrograd.
Her "Bergerettes," which she presented
at Octagon house benefit. were received
with no end OF enthusiasm by the dis
eliminating.
For the autumn Mile. de Hoithoir
has most ambitious plans, the launch
ing of q dramatic organization in New
York, to be called 1.-THE Enthusiasts,
for the purpose of putting on French
plays and playlets as they are given
In Paris. Doesn't that sound interest
ing? Since she came to this country
this clever little lady has been assoc
ciated with the Band Box Players and
the Washington Square Players, and
probably she will cooperate with one
Of these organizations.
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President to Speak at
Arlington Memorial Day

President Wilson will deliver Me-
mortal Day address at Arlington Gene
terry. The exercises will be held under
the auspices OF the q. A. r..
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For a 2la-Cent Piece
tor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: | being a reader Of your paper for
years and knowing the interest you always
take in matters that are Of interest to the
majority Of the people, ] ask you to write
something in favor of the new 2h cent coin
proposed by the Director Of the Mint.
am a married man with large family
and know positively that my wife can save
part of my hard earned money through the
new coin. whereas at present she is com
PEELED TO give away from ten 10 twenty half
cents a week and gets no returns from them
For instance: My wife goes TO a drygoods
store for a yard of cambria at 1911 cents per
yard she must pay l3 cents. She needs lace OF
ribbon in the same store at IN cents per
yard-not needing any more; she is com
PEELED 10 pay s cents. She goes TO the butcher
and grocer and has TO give away a few halt
cents. In a year the saving Of these half
cents could buy her a good pair Of shoes or
something else.
There are, think, about 10000, 900 house
wives in this country who would profit in the
same way, which would amount to about s5o,-
600, 900 a year, and il would not hurt honest
storekeepers.
Another good reason is that all wholesalers
give and take on half pennies, while most
all retailers take them all from people who
work hardest and can least afford to give
them away. ". J. DTLE0.
HObOken, N. j., Dec. 6. 1915
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-09
HECKLING THE PRESIDENT
Diverse Views of Women on the Suffrage
Demonstration in Congress

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: The deepest and hardest prejudice IN
the public mind which the woman movement
has had TO overcome is the common acceptance
Of the idea that women are single class,
each individual possessing the same motives
same intelligence and the same Characters
tics as every other. II has required three
generations of agitation and OF demonstra-
ton in college and school, factory, workshop
home and club TO prove to the world that
there are as many kinds of women as there
are kinds of men. Yet the relic Of that old
belief arises continually to our amusement
or our discontinue.
So it happens that some Of the New York
press have FASTENED to scod sufraglsts in
general for what happened in the House OF
Representatives the other day on the occa-
sion of the Presidents address The Woman
Suffrage party Of the State of New York is Il
great organization, having hundreds OF thou
sands of members and numbering in that
membership many Of the best known men
and women in every departm ent Of its varied
life. That organization Is attempting to per-
suade the voters Of New York TO give the
women of this state the vote. That organi-
cation is New York's auxiliary Of the Ma
tional American Woman Suffrage Associa-
ton, which has forty-seven other similar
branches. Altogether these women are do
ing constructive educational work in the most
digniied and reasonable way possible. They
had nothing whatever to do with the demon
stration they do not approve of it, nor Of
similar demonstrations which without doubt
will come in the future.
The world looks to the press TO provide
data for accurate history. If the press OF
New York and of our country lives up to that
standard il must at the outset OF this de-
parture in suffrage methods make clear
distinction between the great body of organ
lied sutfrsgists who are making their appeal
to the reason of the country and the very
small minority which, growing impatient
with the hardness of favorable action by
Congress, resorts TO cheap publicity.
CARRIE CHAPMAN Gait.
New York, Dec. s, 1915.
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A NegIected Exercise

Il will be interesting to learn whether
the Health Department was able to collect
any statistics regarding the degree to
which its walk to work" day was OBJ
served. Casual inspection of the city's
streets in various sections showed no APP
probable variation from the regulation
stream of short-distance pedestrians. And
assuredly there was no appreciate dimnu-
ton of the subway and streetcar and
bridge brushes at the hours when most Of
the citys workers were hustling TO factory
and office and store.
New York is city of magnificent dis
tances and of late hours. The two facts
operate against the success of any walk
to work" movement. A walk home from
work" habit might more easily be en-
encouraged. Even now some hardy spirits
90 20 to the extent of taking the air by
riding on the platforms of the elevated
cars instead of inside.
But walking for any considerable dis
lance at any time, is not popular diver
sion in this city. Athletic young persons
of both sexes who would play tennis all
the afternoon, or dance all the evening,
without a sign of fatigue, take the street
cars rather than walk three or four blocks.
If the streetcar system doesn't suit their
itinerary precisely, they travel in taxicabs
or grumble at the hardships of getting
around town.
Thereby they deprive themselves Of a
fine, wholesome and inexpensive exercise,
the only disadvantage of which is the
slightly greater cost of upkeep in the shoe
department and the necessity for crafty
ing an increased appetite. New Workers
ought TO walk more. They'd feel better
and work better. But walking would take
that much time from the movies.
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taking a Personal Interest"

The mechanical theory of the human
race has been found convenient in politi-
cal science and in economies. But it never
has worked in practice, and it is refresh
ing to find the most expert of American
businesses turning sharply back to the
old-fashioned methods of personal rela-
tionship. The greatest mechanical skill
goes into the construction and upkeep Of
our telephone systems. The whole service
which it renders to us-constituting it as
much a twentieth century institution as
marriage or the cheap magazine-is a
triumph of invention and mechanics. Yet
at the crucial point of directly meeting
and serving human beings the telephone
is absolutely dependent upon
human efficiency for results. And in order
to put that personal efficiency on the
soundest basis it is conducting campaign
addressed to switchboard operators, en-
titled: take a personal interest in every
telephone call"
Campaigns for courtesy have become
a commonplace of public service. Those
railroads which are now taking the idea
up are finding themselves engaged on a
stern chase. The idea is spreading and
has come to stay. The present tele-
phone campaign is based on a subtle and
accurate analysis of the sources of cour-
tesy. Instead of simply preaching cour-
tesy with a capital C., the telephone COM
pany suggests the one way in which to
promote genuine courtesy. Take a per-
sonal interest in every telephone call you
handle" An illustration used is its
own schools for operators shows a GEN.
trial facing not board full of holes and
plugs but a crowd of faces. "See" your
telephone customers is the plea. Visualize
them, avoid the perfunctory tone Of voice
treat each call as a personal meeting.
Thus the huge, impersonal, machine-like
American business reaches the end of its
swing and turns back toward the methods
of the od-fashioned one-man country
store. Huge human assets of good will
of affection and interest were being wasted
To conserve these and foster them as the
fundamental basis of any institution deal
ing with human beings has become one OF
the first concerns Of this ultra-mechanical
q
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more Of the 1856 vessels authorized in the
,hree-year programme approved at the
last session. Sixty-six of those vessels
we're appropriated for last summer. But
the Secretary wishes TO reduce construc-
ton for l9l7-1S TO forty-two vessels. lie
cuts ont Of the General Boards list one
battleship, one battle-cruiser, one scout
cruiser. five destroyers, five fleet subma-
rines. four coast submarines, one fuel
shin. one gunboat and one transport.
Habit has too strong hold on Mr. Dan
icls. He cannot break away from his old
mistaken policy Of skipping and delaying
He cannot see that while the European
war lasts every moment should be utilized
TO strengthen our fleet. What will come
after the war is over nobody knows.
But. however the great contest ends,
our position will be much more exposed
than it has ever been. We shall have no
friends in Europe and many active III
wishers. We shall be isolated politically
and may be called upon 70 defend our
selves against aggressions threatening the
Monroe Doctrine and our hegemony OF
the American continents.
Now is the time to make use OF every
moment and to spend every ounce OF en-
ergy in building and equipping a navy
strong enough to command the respect OF
any possible antagonist. Why bubble
about the details Of the building pro-
gramme which the General Board of the
Navy has drawn up? Congress may again
have to go over Mr.. Daniels's head IN eX-
pediting construction work. But that IS
an old experience-an experience which
will have to be repeated year by year so
long as he remains at the head Of the de-
The public is more awake, more alert
to the navy's needs than he is or ever will
be. 1t will rightly regard as mere effront-
cry his attempts to curtain lecture 1t on
it's duty to support, sustain and modern
ize the navy.
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Janitors' Honest Graft"


4 phase of honest graft which would
have delighted the heart Of George Wash
ington Plunkitt, creator of that phrase
has been called anew to the public's atten-
ton through testimony given before the
Wicks legislative investigating committee.
Many janitors, it seems, receive commits
sions from milk dealers and icemen for
each new customer acquired in the apart
ment houses they serve. The janitors also
get their milk and ice and bread free, in
consideration of drumming up trade for
the dealers or Of furnishing the names of
new tenants. Even some physicians are
said to receive bonuses or commissions for
recommending raw milk instead of the
regulation pasteurized milk to patients
and then furnishing to milk companies the
names of those patients. And some real
estate firms appear not to be above turn
ing an honest penny by peddling to pro-
vision dealers the names of prospective
tenants in the apartments on their rent
ing lists.
All this, to be sure, is not new form
of graft, but the easygoing, unreiecting
public seldom realizes in how many differ
ent ways it can be stung. The process by
which the cook or butler has received COM
missions from provision dealers, to be
added into the householder's bills, has been
recognized, but never prevented. There
was considerable Indignation when an al
dermanic proceeding disclosed that club
and hotel starters and apartment house
superintendent stood in with taxicab COM
panies, obtaining commissions or annual
passes for business which they steered to
the taxicab concerns, and this was stopped
Temporarily, at least. Nevertheless, this
"honest graft" has continued in this place
and that, increasing the overhead charges
on business and adding thereby to the
total which the unfortunate body of con-
sumers has to pay.
1t may be that the esteemed SOlons to
whom this tale was told will be able to
devise a remedy for the condition. Anti
tipping laws more or less drastic in other
states have been enacted to deal with it,
but they have shown a notable lack of sue
cess, with few prosecutions and fewer con-
victions. A far more hopeful outlook for
relief would be for the dealers to agree to
ray no tips or commissions and to fight
attempts at extortion. But business is
business, and if the consumer pays the
somewhat illegitimate expenses Of obtain
ing it the dealer isn't going to lose sleep
worrying about the situation. And the
consumers can't go on strike against all
the dealers and janitors and landlords at
once. At present they are in the unen-
viable position of being the loser which
ever way the coin drops.
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WAR DEPENDENT ON HATE
Views Of Charles P. Trevelyan on Americas
Opportunity to Work for Peace
,r of The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The lrlDuhe
Sir: | have before me copy IN full OF
Charles p. Trevelyan's open letter. Great IN
terest has been aroused among many people
bv this letter, which is at once the utterance
~ n statesman and masterpiece Of English.
Ia il not an inspiration to read AFTER the
war tyranny and militarism may possibly be
burnt I'D in the wrath of instructive popular
reaction in Germany and Great Britain. nu'
in Germany they will cling with fierce tenac-
ity TO their strongholds, and IN Britain 10
their new found opportunities. II is in this
struggle that the profound effect OF America
NAV be felt. with its unbroken tradition OF
liberty. its existing democratic success, its
faith in peace. II in these things it remains
faithful il will not only secure It's own I'M
mense destiny, but remain a beacon 70 the old
nations in the hour of their agony and de-
pair
Governments all fear public opinion. The
art of forming, deluding, changing and on
raging public opinion has been cultivated dur
ing the war by the authorities of every bellig-
erent country as a principal department OF
their activity. The hatreds Of the people
have been cultivated by the exsggerstion OF
every wrong act and the SUPPRESSION Of every
decent act Of the enemy. For in the last re-
sort. the continuance of the war depends on
hate. If, however, some voice so loud that 1t
reyerbersted across the seas, so important
that the censorship could not exclude It,
spoke not to the governments, but TO the peo-
pies, a change would begin TO come. 9.
il will take the place of the fury Of war de-
nunciations, OF the threats Of annihilstion
and OF the rawlings OF revenge, Of which we
are all so weary.
This letter has been hope and an inspira-
ton to me, and trust that many will read
these quotations and rejoice that America
has such an opportunity of creating a sane
public opinion.
MARGARET LORING THOMAS.
New York Dee. g. 1915.
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DEAD OR SMOULDERING!
American Patriotism Is Questioned by Z
Critic Of Scraps Of Paper"
To The Editor Of The Tribune. ,

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: What does our President intend to do
Germany's last promise to US was that mo
ship would be sunk without warning and
ample time given TO passengers and crew TO
leave" unless escape was attempted, and now
during the last few weeks we have had their
SCRAP Of paper" (for such are all their
promises, it seems) violated again.
Must we American citizens suffer this un-
precedented humility without some adequate
definite. restitution being made or demanded
Is our patriotism dead or merely smouldering
Let US hope the latter, and also let US hope
that some one of our ablest men, who have
their country's honor at heart, first, last and
all the time. will have sufficient power TO far
it into fame large enough at least TO de-
mand redress from these cultured" fendS
and get il. H. II. b.
Derby, Conn, Dec. s, 1915