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The Washington times., 1916-06-27
GREAT FALLS

A section OF the American Ladies'
Orchestra began a weeks engage
ment at Great Falls Park. Va, yes
terday afternoon. They will give a
series Of concerts every afternoon
music. In connection with these con-
certs. dancing In the large pavilion
which overlooks the Falls is free to
all. Other amusements are furnished
The electrical display at night ilium-
mating the park and falls adds 10 the
attractiveness OF this delightful re-
sort.
The Washington times., 1916-06-27
Really 1t Is Sad That "The Conduc-
tors" Tribute to Wichita as
Potential Suburb of Washington
Should Re So .MiscOnstrued.

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
As a former resident Of and prop
erty owner in Wichita. Kan,.l feel
compelled to vigorously protest against
the slur cast this live city by Tho Con-
ductor" In column 1 page OF today's
Washington Times, which reads. Tho
pattern department proudly claims or
ders from Bernalillo. n. NJ, and Ok
mulgee. Okla. crhese are bone fde
towns Wichita is but a suburb COM
pared with them"
1t Is quite evident that The Cor
ductor' has never been west Of the Dis
trtct line or has even kept UP with the
progress of Western cities. otherwise
ne would know that Wichita, Kan. far
from being a suburb. is. In fact. a live
up-to-the minute city OF 6o.0oO people.
Tho towns mentioned cannot compare
In size or otherwise IL this ansas city.
1t even goes Washington. d. c.. one
better by having a. concrete building
calleS The Forum which seats near
ly SOD people.
II ''The Conductor desires any 7ur-
ther information concerning a real
Western city he should apply to Victor
Murdoch. the well-knSwn politician.
whose home Is In Wichita, Kan.
Very truly yours.
~s sASu~<nu Ns->-eS
The Washington times., 1916-06-27
Asks SIS, 900 Damages
For Permanent Injury

p. n. Wilmuth Of Prince George
county. Nd. has filed a Petition in the
probate court for letters Of administra-
tioon on the estate Of his uncle, Marion
estate as consisting OF S5.6S072 in cash,
deposited In Washington banks. loans
on Brooklyn, N. Y. real estate amount
Ing 10 ABOUT Tsn NSo M sSd . summer s
Attorney Robert T. Lang appeared for
the petitioner.
The Washington times., 1916-06-27
Amusements,

Belasco-"How Britain Prepared" $50 and
$3.50 d. m.
Polrs-"Rebecca of sunnybrook Farm" Sis
D. m.
2:lb and s:i5 D. m.
Loew's Columbia-Photoplays. 1880 a. m. to
IL p. m.
Lyceum-Stock buriesque. 2:i5 and Sis D. m,
Glen Echo-open-air amusements. dancing.
and free movies.
Chevy Chase Lake-Dancing.
Great Falls, Va.-Free concerts, dancing
popular amusements.
Garden Continuous motion pictures. 10 a. m.
to IL D. m.
Strand-Continuous motion pictures. 10 q. IN,
to IL d. m.
The Washington times., 1916-06-27
Nancy Atwood Asks to
Settle Uncle'S Estate

Nancy Atwood has filed q petition in
the probate court asking that she be
appointed Administrative OF the estate
OF her uncle, Oliver M. Atwood.
She says the estate consists or about
$4,000 In cash and stocks OF unknown
ss her Uncle vsa At s: ss as sIs
4 street northwest. for thirteen years.
She makes claim for board and nurs-
ing during that time. Attorneys M. n.
Richardson and Charles y. Shreve rep
resent the pstit1onsR
The Washington times., 1916-06-27
THE UNFIT MILITIA SYSTEM

OF the national guard to say that the
system under which It has beer
raised, organized, and drilled is ar
unfit one. The men Of the guard
doubtless represent better average
personnel than will be found in any
army Of the world. No man joins
the militia, in times of peace, who
lacks some considerable enthusiasm
for its work. He has been compelled
for many years to bear the jeers
and derision that fools have heaped
upon the citizen soldiery. That atti-
tude Of a large and disgustingly
vocal part Of the community has
been one of the chief causes Of the
perpetuation Of a bad system.
Out Of this present Mexican
mobilization experience there must
come some radical reforms. It is
impossible to create a great and
thorough fighting force under a sys-
TEN that is neither fish, flesh nor
fowl; system that leaves too much
to the States, while making the Ma
tonal Government the ultimate con-
trolling factor IN case Of war. Most
Of the guard units have never been
impressed even with the practical
conception Of what big field opera
tions might mean. A body as large
as a regiment is occasionally brought
together for few days. But the Of
ficers have no incentive to familiar
ize themselves with the management
of great bodies, because they have
no chance for experience.
Ever since the passage of the Dick
law there have been cheering reports
about the improvement of conditions
in the militia. Those reports are
in some wise justified by the expert
ence Of the present mobilization. To
a large degree they decidedly are
not.
Thus, it appears, that in the
vitality essential matter of horses for
cavalry, there has been no real or
ganization to meet any emergency. It
is pitiful to compare the mobilization
Of Germany's four million soldiers
inside a week. at the beginning of
the European war. with what is 60
ing on in our militia now. Even the
showing Of England in throwing her
first expeditionary force into France,
at the very outbreak Of the war, was
a lesson In preparedness compared
to what our State and Federal war
Offices are now able to do.
Modern wars do not give warning
Of their coming. They come over
night. Thus war came to Japan
and Russia, to France and Prussia
near fifty years ago, to Europe
two years past. Germany would
have conquered a continent in an
autumn's campaign if her enemies
had not been far better prepared to
bring forward their forces than Ger
many supposed they were.
At the bottom Of the troubles this
country now sees repeating them
selves eighteen years after the Span
lsh war mobilization, lies the bad
system. There has been a serious,
honest, painstaking, and expensive
effort to make good military force
out Of national guard organized
under wretched system. p, It has
been proved impossible. The system
must be discarded, and a modern
plan substituted for an
archaic and provincial one.
The Washington times., 1916-06-27
Three More to Quit
Cabinet, London Hears

LONDON. June N.-It is rumored the
resisnations from the cabinet of the
Marquis Of Lansdowne. Walter Long,
and Lord Robert Cecil will follow that
OF the Earl Of Selborne. because OF dis
satisfaction with the Irish situation.
There are already three vacancies in
the cabinet besides the Irish viceroy-
viii be held tomorrow to discuss the
The Washington times., 1916-06-27
Asks to Administer
Estate of His Uncle

Suit for 5000 damages was miled
against the Washington. Baltimore and
Annapolis Railway Company by Charles
II. Fink In the District Supreme Court
yesterday. The plaintiff alleges that he
Of the sudden starting OF car on the
line OF the defendant corporation at
Fifteenth and II streets northeast on
April Is last. Atorneyse N. g. Bowles
and John Ridout represent the plain
The Washington times., 1916-06-27
Urges q Pension for Widowed
Mothers

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
Why do not some Congressman get to-
gether and have law passed to PEN
sion poor widowed mothers? / hear
lot about the Government clerks being
put on the retired list, Why not our
mothers also? Did any one ever pass an
eight-hour law for mothers? l hope
this will be seen by other mothers and
they will give their views on the sub
ject "A MOTHER
Washington, June 26.
The Washington times., 1916-06-27
MAIL BAG
(FYom The Times Readers

be written on one side OF the paper
only: must not exceed 200 words In
length. and must be signed with name
and address OF sender. The publication
Of letters In The Times Mail Bag Toes
not mean the Endorsement by The Times
Of the opinions OF the writer. The Mail
Bs9 10 an open forum. where the citi-
zens Of Washington can argue most
questions.
The Washington times., 1916-06-27
Necessary to elect ..................
Need 40 Doubtful Votes.


Need 40 Doubtful Votes.
In the States OF the solid South that
is. In Alabama. Arkansas. Florida,
Georgia. louisiana. Mississippi. North
Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee.
Texas. and Virginia. there arc lss cleo
toral votes. - -
This means the Democrats to elect
Wilson again must get 40 electoral
votes outside the South.
II is admitted by the political wise
men that they may win the election IL
they can carry New York. Here, for in.
stance. 10 group Of electoral votes
The Washington times., 1916-06-27
Democrats Must Garry Ito
Win" This Year, Political
Wise Men Assert.
WILL CENTER THEIR ATrick
Followers OF Wilson to Move IN
Massed Formation Against
Threatened Landslide.

II remains true. a. II usually has been
in modern Presidential campaigns. that
year.
That Is. II will be 80 II the landslide
which some Republicans are predicting
Tor Hughes should not come TO pass.
IT Is conceivable that the Republicans
might develop such strength that New
York would not be necessary to them
In order to win. -
On the other hand. the indications now
are that President Wilson cannot be
elected again unless he wins New York.
the Empire State. with It's phalanx Of
forty-fve electoral votes. Here again,
landslides are not taken into account.
Politicians assert that, with Roose-
welt ana a large share Of the Bull
moose supporting Hughes, Wilson will
not have any such walk-away a. In 1919
even though he should be Destined once
more to win.
Will Center Attack.
The Democratic campaign manase-
10 not going to scatter It's ammunition
so far ~ the national campaign 10 con-
cerned.
II Will center on New York. New Ter.
sey. Ohio. Indiana and Q small mum.
Der Of other States.
Building on the foundation Of the solid
south. the. Democrats will try 10 can
S lure enousn electoral votes outside that
The electoral vote of the States fol-
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-03
The staff of Life

R~eathes 'he-c a man Nth soul
no dead DO never 20 himself has
said he would not pay a price for
bread beyond rhe profit thar main.
taiue tho dealers very lowest gains =
if such there be, 20 douse his gllm
srd take h'- breath away from him
Bread E No stan ~ lfe and what
~ means 20 Humankind is not q
moan whereby FREE makers may
compel the hungry ones 20 pay tho
r1- penny FOR. 10 make moro
rrog' 'or thr srlor sake let
other things increase ID price 20
maka human scrifoe bur bread
Ha'l broad different and even
IL rho government ho1ld DO com.
..jod to $3.50 tt- power iu working
1p tHo "hra' and -four 'ho sellers
orlf would camu'ai1 that bread wa
G9' a .oHrs" ~ gain. and hunger
80 mot quito chance Of profitable
r.rrGm lance w J. hampton. in
#an York Herald
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-03
1t Seems the Crossing of
Tracks at Grade Wasn't
What You'd Call "All Clear

Tie Crane Tra~k trucks cross Forest
peau.rsrs-.,
There ar. r.-.s there.
.rs-,
.-..- ..r crosses che trarl.
s.-..r ,.. $50 If a
TT .- .ro-- tracks a,
.- r.rar5a5 biz
s.-ga--.-
zl.-.
~.....--.-.. d.. ..r-.- car anrroa-be5
.s. .-r. -rs-s. At GRADE,
rr. ~ s.-. nor down
s..
-r ,.--~ ~ -fs street car ran
sa.,s and looked IN and down tb.
TRACK. and mo,.ane6 the motorman 10
come ahead with the car.
an clear
But sr-r crossing the track. the
stree, ear was struck by Grand Trunk
freigh. train. ten persons were killed
and a half hundred hurt. SO it appears
II waSnt all clear az all.
The coroner is going to hold an in
quest.
-, 80
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-03
Engaged Wen Fear
They've Picked q Lemon

Arnold n.,....
.h ra.a. III.
October Woman 0-u-.r.ar
H o f. n.t- au Ha~ u.r
.a.T tr.r -Eag a- r-E 0-
married They -,.r. ts. a.
.-.a a.ra- .. f4 ~
divine r-d3..ss- Uarr.--
ra. .-.g..s ., -..-.- r..
.-..a. ana r-.y....r. -.s.
.....,. 5...f....r vt..- r..-s com
.......'. --.
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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-03
BITS OF INFORMATION

s now French watch has single hand carry
ing a numcra that dcsiEnatcs The hour which
travels across scui-circular scale bearing the
minute marks then disappear and Is succeeded
by another hand Tor tho ucVt hour
A. tho auction Of Lucius Mckay business IN
Whrnsyjllc. Mass. hts horse was sold FOR 81 So
George l. Scarlps said There goes good
horse as over wore shoes Jim Kccy had him
for IS years and M Kelley has been dead for
~ years
Robert n Patterson ago So. ~ Tmmitsburg
Md. never saw baseball game When asked
10 attend q game ho says bur don't under.
stand 10 and wouldn't enjoy &c."
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-03
Sweetest of Names

4f ono OF -Er st its ~ the Empress
Eu-er.' uaIr fo be Paris hospitals
.4urg rIo cholera plague that AZ
r.'.rH France in 1866 tho following
pretty Incident g told AZ the Hos
bfaI r.1uion tho empress took the
ADD OBJ diving victim, Hho, 'nistak
lnf her idcnfg kIaead her hand
and uumuref - thank Won sister
Tho 0m thr accompanied tho en-
urs HuIsperrl "NOl are mistaken.
urH1 b. r1. !, but orr good ON
pres. who peaks" Say. sister,
rator'ed tho empires. quickly. che
fa given me the sweetest Of oil
names"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-03

some of our weak-kueci preachers to a
realization that thre Is great big is
sue up In TINS city that calls for real
weapons and ~, putty-a.owers,
The ministers of nJtro.t can cream up
Detroit and they ean 4a II FROM
THEIR PJLPITS.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-03
SHRINKING TT

Get down out Of hat tree" Gen PorshinR
ordered % Yankee trooper whom bee 7sW up In
porsimmun tree. Those green per7immous
aren't m for food"
I'm not using them for food replied the pri.
waite I'm eating them to draw ny stomach up
to a. my TatonA-
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-03
DISEASES

BY r. AOONGTON BRUCE
Psychology PArena'ot etc
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-03

British Honduras is "A natural green
house, il is said. and most anything will
grow there This would seen 10 be an
ideal place for them to take the Hughes
sentiment.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-19

And this sign is all-embracing. The Won
ans City Club is neither for nor against woman
suffrage. socialism, prohibition or any other
party principle.
The initial policy Of the club is 20 be
conservative one--one of general community
,crvice-say the women responsible for its
being.
Perhaps this caution is not the least OF the
wise moves of society whose individual mem
bers stand for one form or another OF pro-
gressive woman's work. Mrs Alice Duer Mil
ler first acting president of Are Women Peo-
pie fame; Mrs. Norman de K. Whitehouse'
chairman of the Woman Suffrage party of New
York State, promulgator Of most OF the start
ling suffrage stunts played in this city; Miss
Alice Carpenter, active in the financial world,
ond one Of the leaders in the present birth con-
troll agitation Miss Mary B. Upshaw, assistant
chief examiner in the Civil Service Commits
sion Miss Mary Dreier, formerly chairman Of
New York's Trade Union League for Women;
Dr. Helen Montague, who is advocating dras
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-19

tic measures in tie segregation OF delinquents,
and Mrs. Claudia Quigley Murphy, expert in
household efficiency are among the leading
spirits in the organization.
The Woman's City Club is 70 be lasting in
stitution. II is 70 be the parent OF innumera-
bic civic activities, say its members. It's key
note is democracy, and its aim must be
strength. II must establish for itself sound
reputation for clear thinking and action which
has as its basis political wisdom, a political
wisdom which must not exclude willingness
TO compromise, and must exclude prejudice
even for women. This will give to its name su-
thoritativeness. 1t hopes TO establish prece
dent OF success that will mean everything 10
the small group of insurgents that will neces-
sarily be part of it,
While the club is not a suffrage organiza-
ton, one suspects that it will be powerful
aid in converting women Of social minds 10
the suffrage side. It might properly say;
Come into this organization, you who are in
terested in seeing that school children are
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-19

properly led. We will place you on a COM
mttee You may gather all the statistics you
like. And then it is merely your duty TO do
something about it. II you are anti. so much
the better You will learn then very quickly
that indirect influence is very unpleasant
barrier and you will realize that perhaps your
vote is necessary for the accomplishment Of
your pet scheme"
The club is counting on suffrage. Its foun-
dation now is merely preliminary to It's work.
ings after the vote msterializes. Under its
roof, in the meanwhile, women will learn to
think, act, work and play together II will
give them a wider viewpoint, since the en-
forced discussion OF one snothers problems
will quicken their sense of proportion. I, will
educate the workers. and it will educate the
faddists who enlist for selfish glory or because
they have nothing better TO do. The Womsn's
City Club is notable monument TO the Shout
der-to-shoulder spirit which is animating
women of the United States, whatever their
divergence of opinion
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-19
The New Woman'S City Club Is Un-
dertakirg to ANSWER This Cues
tiOn NTH Its Hydra-Headed
Programme of Interest
in Civic Affairs.

When a little over two weeks ago the club
was beginning its work it sent to $50 women
postal card, asking them to designate in just
what branch OF civic work they were interested
labor, prison reform, transportation, court
work and so forth. Five hundred women re-
piled within six days giving definite informa
ton as to their particular interests. Mos, OF
these women, therefore. arc ready for active
service.
But the board of trustees has its eye firmly
fixed upon the $50 women who did not an
swer and upon the thousands of women who
were not sufficiently alive to affairs OF the day
to be favored with civic queries And to
tempt these it finds itself formulating definite
policy. 1t finds itself establishing itself as an
entity with decided color.
visit to the comfortable clubrooms dis
covers women of trades, professions, reform or
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-19

Hospital, where she was member OF the house
staff and also in the ambulance corps, she ire
quently went into East Side homes below
Grand Street and saw working mothers and
wives OF workingmen with child under the
most squalid circumstances. She often found
it necessary to visit homes in which children
are reared, at night, when it was necessary TO
step over and between the boardere lying on
the floor or sleeping on two chairs
Dr. Barringer's experience has made her be-
ieve strongly in the right OF child to birth
under proper surroundings, and she feels that
any measure which may better existing con-
ditions among working families is move in
the right direction
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-19

unmarried men or women can object to such
worthy use Of the Joint insurance fund
All children have as much OF right to be
born under proper circumstances as they have
a right to an education, and it is for the good
of the state. In the last analysis the people
are the only wealth the state possesses"
DR.. Emily Dunnng Bsrringer, who is one OF
the surgeons in the general surgical depart
ment Of the New York Inhrmary for Women
and Children, one of New YorSs women doc
tors of the very highest standing, is interested
IN insurance for mothers and inquiring into
the reasons for the exclusion of such a clause
in the recent Mills bill.
In her two years of work in Gouverneur
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-19
WHAT CAN WOMEN DO FOR THE GOVERNMENT"
The Boomerang of This Organize
tion'S Activities Will Be Wide
Social Education for Its Men,
berS and an Increasing
Feeling of Solidarity.

uplift practices gathered into groups which dis
cuss the disposal of high grade delinquents,
baby week and the rapid removal OF snow
with quite as much freedom as the latest labor
protocol or Brander Matthew's definition OF a
"highbrow.' Discussion, as foster parent to
thought and action, will be no little part Of the
value of the club, say its directors.
But first OF all the club formulates for itself
a powerful list of negatives. And this for the
greater good. There are many who suspect
this club 70 be den OF radicalism. They i'm
agine it place where women discuss birth
control. They see IT as testing field for most
OF the explosive theories Of the country
where every new idea will be tried out, where
every ancient feminine prejudice will be put
TO rout. But high above the portals | found
the invisible sign:
I'VE Are Non Partisan"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-19
Liberty.

0 Liberty. how many men there are
Who do you honor in flowing phrase,
In martial measures and in patriot lays
Invoking you as goddess and as star
Though FIRE and cruelty and bloodshed mar
Your pathways every deed of yours they praise
So they were done in long forgotten days.
Or rumored in strange lands, unknown and far;
But when you first approach them, when you turn
On their pale eyes your eyes unwavering light,
When they perceive you--enemy TO peace
And easy comfort dangerous and stern.
They fly before you. crying in their fright:
Arrest this wild eyed Jade! Police! Pocel
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-19

A News Item.

II seems tina, Mr.. Everett P Wheeler has been con-
rerted TO the principles of Woman Suffrage
Under the title, Personal Liberty" he writes in the
Mach rr,,b., Of the LAWYERS magazine Case and
Comment:
american freedom is the child OF American democracy
Il involves equal rights and equal duties The state
IN the one hand should refrain scrupulou,y from giving to
anv individual or association advantages which denied
o, others All should be on an equal plane OF opportunity
as far as the law give it
Nh We did not say that Mr. Wheeler believed in
,u,ar Suffrage We said he believed in its principles.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-19

she was there. In that country, too, the ma
ternity benefit aroused much preliminary OPP
position, but became measure OF the final
act There it has proved OF great Importance
in educating working mothers in the care OF
themselves and their children.
Sickness insurance" said DR.. Montague,
is working remarkably in England and other
European countries, especially in the way OF
prevention rather than paying the doctor
when sick 20 be made well. Health insurance