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LETTERS FROM READERS
Comment on Current Topics In
Communication to the Editor.

Communlcdtions 70 the Editor.
To the Editor of THE TIMES:
The following question and answer
appears in the current number of the
Literary Digest. The question was
written by a correspondent in Spring
field, Mass, and the answer by the
editor of the Lexicographer's Easy
Chair Department, whose rulings on
what Is correct in the use OF English
are regarded by high authorities as
final.
Question-Is the following
sentence correct? "If Mary knew
1 were writing. she would join
me in good wishes to all the
family" Should not were" be
replaced by was?
Answer-The correct form Is,
'If Mary knew that I am writ
Ing" etc
Is not this answer wrong7 40
cordlng to the rule governing the Sc
Quence OF lenses, the verb in the
subordinate clause must agree In
tense with the verb in the clause
upon which 1t depends; and the SEN
tence should, therefore, read. "lf
Mary knew that / was writing" etc.
The form II was writing" Is also in
dIcative, the writing actually taking
place.
1 should appreciate a ruling from
the copy desk.
FRANCIS DE SALES RYAN.
Washington, February 81.
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say, "as a shower-bath." Such am
bitions are usually concealed, and
the means to the desired end are
more artfully designed. But the
point is that when a given plan of
life has been carefully marked out
for ones children, all handicaps,
even a high school education, should
be dispensed with. We have been
unable to determine whether the
joke is on the mother, the musicians,
or the millionaires.
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NAME STATES FAIR BOARDS.

Committees to cooperate in plan
ming a permanent States exposition
in Washington have been appointed
by the Governors of Arizona, Ken
lucky, Florida, New Hampshire, South
Dakota, and Texas. it was announced
today by Nathan B. Williams, chair
man of the joint committee of States
societies, and William Mex. Clayton,
chairman of the exposition commit
tee OF the Federation of Citizens As
sociations. Governors Thomas w.
Beckett OF North Carolina, Ernest
Lister OF Washington, and Thomas
G. Bilbo of Mississippi have indorsed
the project. Invitations to send rep
resentatives to the Governors confer
ence, here March 6, to make plans
for the exposition, have been sent
1000 trade organizations.
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HENS cAcKLE sPoILs CASE.

CHESTER, Pa, Feb. n.-"Betrayed
by a CacIlc" would have been a fitting
title for a scene enacted in the court
at West Chester. Lewis A Saddler was
on trial charged with the theft Of some
chickens from Mrs. Martha Washing
ton. Saddler had fair case until one
OF the hens was brought into court and
greeted its owner with a cackle Of effu-
siYe recognition.
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READY TO SERVE U. S. AGAIN.

At a meeting in C. A. r. Hall last
night, the members OF Presidents
Own Garrison, No. 104, OF the Army
and Navy Union, reiterated their will
ingness again to serve their country
in the event OF war.
The garrison also adopted resolu-
tions of regret at the sudden death Of
Maj. Gen. Frederick Funston
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LEGlNSKA IN NEW TRIUMPH
Wizard Of the Plano Heard In Re-
eItaI for Second Time.

Leginska is a wizard Of the plano.
For the second time this season this
little artist. whom some have called the
reincsrnation Of the spirit Of LIszt. was
heard in a plano recital at the Ma
tional Theater yesterday afternoon, and
held an audience spellbound by her
amazing mastery of her instrument and
by her uncanny power to create in her
music something different, that makes
senses the true Mcdowell idiom that
it is given to the few to reveal
One cannot separate the fantastic
from ones impression OF Leginska. She
might be tiny black-robed gnome. bent
low over her keyboard, with a magic
potion that brings forth spirit mes
cages from her wealth of exquisite
tones. For. over and above her superb
and finished art, Leginska's music is
mood. told with dramatic insight and
intensity. through which flows. as freely
and eloquently as her technical virtu-
Csity that seems to know no bounds,
new meaning full OF the touch of genius.
And genius cannot be explained.
MaeDoweIl Sonata Epic.
This It is that one finds in the
noble Kettle sonata OF MacDowell an
epic in tone. Immensity Is here. atmos-
phere full OF mystery. 1t Is in her
covered tones that Leginska creates an
indefinable spell In theme. too. she
1t thing of soul. Of inner depths. that
is so full of individual charm.
II was an admirably pia med y: ogram.
The Rameau and the Daquin were IL
Illuminated with crystal clear tone and
exquisite phrase Of almost gossamcr
weave. OF her Beethoven. subtlety OF
phrase and nuance, rhythmic graz and
again breadth and beauty in bold con-
trast, were shown in the Two Dances"
while the mastery in execution in tone
and mood Of the Wrath over the Lost
Farthing." was given with a delicious
freedom and humor. Into the realm
of emotion. which Is her forte, the
Chopin numbers took her. Yet with
all their feeling. the playing of Legln-
ska never sacrifices one single perfcc-
tion of :heme Of Chopin melody, TO the
dramatic spirit within them. 1t Is this
underlying richness tSat gives the at
mosphere OF indescribable charm
Display of Maryels.
With the majesty OF the MacDowcll
sonata between. the finaI group was a
brill ant display of pianistic marvels. OF
virt'osity. a multitude Of tone values.
and Of rarest shading. They held COM
nland and entertainments. The LIszt
was marvellous in IT'S
llghtness. freedom and surety, who the
"Blue Danube" arabcsducs held the
finest Of rhythmic subtleties.
For Ghcores LeGinsLI gave with AL
most psychic gradations of tone the
Chopin "1iaindrop" prelude. ID fiat. and.
TO 4 storm OF applause, resp Inded with
the eighth Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody.
She left ono in the clouds. bat when
asked. in a tone OF mystery. Where did
you come FROM" Legi lska replied.
"Only from Yorkshire.''
J. MacB.
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II, In the etiquette OF diplomacy,
extreme politeness is sign of
danger. the "aIde memolre" delivered
to Austria by Ambassador Penfieid
conveys a warning in every line.
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The resignation of Mrs. Harriet
Stanton Blatch from the Congress
sional Union should mark the begin
ming OF the end OF that too jealous
company. In the clash between pride
of opinion and the good of the cause,
1t should not be difficult to choose.
In this instance, success can only be
won by suicide.
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BIG ZINES FOR DUCKS.

WANTAGH, L. l.. Feb 21.-The AS
trapped black ducks found on Mil
lionaire Henry c. Phipps' estate by
State inspectors may cost the steel
man S15,315 In fines.
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Asinine criticism is thus resented
by the publicity department OF Ar
kansas. accused by the critics of ex-
sggerating the size of Arkansas prod
ucts: II all the donkeys in Arkansas
were one donkey, he could stand with
one fore-foot in Mexico. the other in
Canada, and with his hind feet, kick
the man out of the moon"
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Wants To Know Basis of THE star
SpanEIed Banners" Claims A Ma
tIonaI Anthem

tlonal Anthem
To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
II the orchestra in a theater plays
MY Country, 'Tis OF Thee" is 1t good
form to stand? Everyone used to do
this. Recently we have heard 80
much about the prior claim OF
The Star-Spangled Banner" as a ma
tional anthem that / notice there Is
usually a hesitancy about America"
which generally ends in a ''fifty-fifty"
decision, with about half an audience
standing and half remaining seated.
Even when The Star-Spangled Ban
ner" is played, many seem in igno-
rance OF the fact that 1t Is recognized
by the army and navy as the national
anthem, despite the fact that 1t is
played at the end OF every Marine
Band concert in Washington.
l would like to know upon what
The Star-SpangIed Banner" rests its
claim as a national anthem. Is IL by
an order of the heads of the Army
and Navy Departments, or by an ass
OF Congress? SUBSCRIBER
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In, the closing OF our ports, Port
Wine seems not to have been
Neglected, though moonshine may
still be able to run the blockade.
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At least the high cost of onions
Arings few tears to ones eyes.
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And he was on again. with an ex.
preston OF deep cunning on his face.
Cleggett is as crafty as the great
Louis the Eleventh. But he would
never. had he been King of France In
Louis place, have employed his craft
N cruelty. DON MARQUIS.
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TO HEAD
LINCOLN POST,'G. A. R.
Other Officers Will Also Be Installed
January 2.

oficers for the year have been
elected by Lincoln Post No. 3, G.
A. R.. and. Jointly with Lincoln
Corps. they will be installed Janu-
airy ..
They are:
James II. Perkins. commander; Arch
ibald Burgess, senior vice command
er; Edward BouIter. junior vice COM
mander; r. b. Harlow, surgeon:
George NJ. Rsse. chaplain; o. H.
oldroydr adjutant; George b. Rose,
quartermaster; George W. Street, Of
fieer of the day; a. II. Feathers.
officer Of the guard; James Z. Nc
Cabe, sergeant-major: Hazard
Wheeler, color bearer: George NJ.
Rowe, member department memorial
committee; jeremiah Wilt, member
department relief committee.
Executive comittee-J. N. Pipes,
John s. Walker, H. II. Martin.
Enjoyment committee - Jeremiah
Wilt, Archibald Burgess. Allen H.
Feathers, r. B. Harlow.
Relief committee-Edward Boulter.
Hazard Wheeler. II. Fl. Martin,
Ahram Myers
Finance committee-R. B. Harlow.
George w. Street. Hiram McGonegaI.
Conference committee-James E.
McCabe. George W. Street, Henry
Exley, George B. Rose
Entertainment committee-O II
oIdroyd. chairman: Allen II. Feath-
ersr r. B. Harlow, Abram Myers,
george N. Rowe. James Z. McCabe.
Hiram McGonegal William ]. Bal
ley, John A. Haskin.
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Tells HOW He shot
HAYTIAN GENERAL
Sergt. Barrett u. S. NJ. Killed Foe
at Remarkable Distance.

First Sergt. George Horton Bar
rett, L. S. N, IN charge of the main
recruiting station Of the United States
Marine Corps, 4G7 star Building. is the
grandson of Gentleman George Bar
rett," one of the old-time stage
faVorites of England.
Sergt.. Barrett has had a wide ex-
perience in the Marine Corps. and
yesterday told about staying a gen.
eral during the Haytian insurrection
on the islands two years ago.
I'VE had landed on the island to
put down the insurreetion, and was
with a accommodating force that pene-
trated some distance into the interior
over a rough, mountainous country.
"One day the insurrectos under
took to ambush Us, and quite Q skir-
mish occurred. I had charge Of the
rear guard, and We were being fred
on from all directions. The enemy
used the old-style Remington "A cal.
black powder rifle, which was not ef-
fective beyond a range of about 700
yards.
Il noticed one of the generals
standing on the side of q mountain
attired in khaki trousers and . black
shirt. The latter appeared to me to
be an excellent target, 50 got ready
for business with my KTag.
My superior officer told me to set
my sights for 2,200 yards, but I told
him the LEGO range would get him
all right, as I was shooting across
a deep ravine and the distance was
deceptive. Anyhow. l obeyed orders,
but he paid no attention to my shot.
and it must have gone over him.
Then set the sight for 1.6O0 yards,
and for a second or so after I had
fired there was no movement on the
part Of my target. Then he began to
topple over gradually, winding UP
with a plunge down the mountain
side. and that's the last saw of
him, but the chances are my shot
reached a vital spot"
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1917-12-22
Listing OF ALIENS
Will Begin JAN. |
Postofhce Department and Police to
Gather Germans Records.

Registration Of enemy aliens is to
begin January l. through the machin-
cry Of the Posteffice Department and
the police throughout the country.
Publication of the regulations will be
made next week. the Department Of
Justice stated yesterday afternoon.
Only Germans will be registered.
Registration Of Austro-Hungarian sub
iects, in accordance with the spirit
Of the Presidents proclamation con-
corning them, is not contemplated.
Means for indexing them, however. Ii
provided in the arrangements for the
Germans. The department has fornsu-
lated a special QUESTIONABLE for Ger
man aliens.
The regulations now are in the hands
of the Public Printer. and the work
Of recording the questionnaires already
10 fully organized by conferences with
local postmasters and police officials
by agents Of the department.
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Dusky Draft Evader
Fails in Dual Role
Of Eltinge and Bara

ST. Louis, Dec. a.-Here's the
story of a eolored Julian Eltinge-
Theda Bara:
To escape the draft, Jim Gibbon,
q, Mississippi negro, got a fancy
wig. soma beads, q dozen or more
pairs Of loud hosiery. and a flock of
dresses.
For more than q month he got
away" with the Julian Eltinge
stunt, but the Theda Bara YAM
piring" landed him in Jail today.
His dusky suitors were legion,
hut John Hamilton Brown had ''the
inside track"
Then Henry Washington came
into her-beg pardon, his life. To
prevent a carving feast between the
two. the colored heart smasher laid
bare the naked truth. John tipped
the police.
Ah'm dun with this female stuff,"
said Jim in his cell. Take me to
de trenches. Aid ruther battle
Germans than juggle lovers"
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HUMANE us.
now SUCCORS
HUNGRY Firms
Forty thousand Tons Of
Corn and Oats Soon to
Be Shipped.

$ Relief for the starving people Of Fin
land was started yesterday by the
United States Food Administration
and the War Trade Board. In the re-
lease of ten shiploads Of oats and corn.
cargoes aggregating @0e0 tons.
The food will be on its way Just as
soon ~ Or, Kaarle Isnatius, special
commissioner for Finland, can get his
ships loaded. The shipments will be
made by way Of Sweden.
The Ftnns are In o desperate con-
dition, DR.. Ignatius reports. Ordinarily
they raise only half Of the foodstuffs
they consume and the other half they
impart from Russia; frost killed their
entire summer cereal crop. and the dts
organisation of Russia cuts of relief
from that source.
Russ Looted Trains.
The Finnish government, says DR..
lgnatius. already has paid 81. 000, 900 to
Russia for grain that never arrived.
the trains being looted on the way
by Russians.
The Firms have been 80 impoverish-
ed by support Of the Russians in the
war that they have had no coal for
three years. say DR.. Ignatius.
The War Trade Board is sending one
Of its agents from Sweden to inves-
tigate conditions in Finland and to
see that American relief will not &C.
crue to the benefit Of Germany. The
Food Administration, through humane
reasons. has released gFain from
scanty stores much needed by the al
lies.
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PLAN CELEBRATIONS
FOR SOLDIERS HERE
Red Cross and Y. M. {. A. Make
Elaborate Plans for Monday.

Under the joint auspices Of the
American Red Cross and Y. n. c. A,
elaborate plans have been made for
giving the enlisted men OF the army
and navy a great Christmas send-off
next Monday afternoon and evening
at all the military camps and naval
stations herabout including the
Washington gun factory.
A community Christmas tree fifty
feet in height has been provided for
Camp Washington, Nd, from which
stockings, containing mostly edihles,
will be distributed among the men
in uniform, with appropriate eere-
monies marking the event. At this
function, Monday afternoon, II. @,
Green, camp secretary Of the Y. N.
c. A. will make the presentation ad-
dress.
At 8 o'clock In the evening there
will be 9 Christmas entertainment in
the gymnasium of Camp Washington.
under the direction of the Sunday
school there.
Committees from both the Red
Cross and Y. NJ. c. A. will have
charge of all these affairs. which are
similar in general characteristics. the
idea being to leave no stone unturned
to make all the enlisted men feel
that they are among friends and have
not been forgotten.
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D. c. Profits by 100000
Furnishing Delinquents
Police Courts Allowance by Congress Re-
mains at $4,000, Set Forty
Years Ago.

Crime and irregularities In wash
ington, while they show a profit over
the cost Of publishing, have been ex-
penstye for those drawn in the police
net.
From figures In the once Of Chief
Clerk Frank A. Sebring. of the Police
courtA the convicted In this city VIII
by the end Of this year have poured
into the District treasury near ss0.W0
more than they did all Of last year.
During all Of lsi6, the total amounts
OF fnes and forfeited collateral was
127, 6S7.6a To date for lal7 the amount
is a64,a45.A. Just 90 e07.s1 more than
last year. These last hgures represent
all Of 1917 up to last Monday night.
During 1915 arrests which got a. far
as the courts numbered a2,S9d Fer
1877 up until last Monday night the
figures are 1851. This makes a gain
In arrests Of asa ..
The last three months Of 1915 show
that 6,13l tnformations were filed on
the District side Of the Police Court.
On the United States side. AIS were
filed.
During the last three months Of lsl7
up until last Monday night the record
stands, for the District side, s,s7s, and
for the United States side. LASS.
Predicts 900 More.
Mr.. ssbring estimated that at least
coo more will be filed this year on the
District side and ct least 800 on the
United States side II his predic-
ton comes true. and Mr.. sebring has
been 30 years On the Job on the
United States side, 1t will make a
total gain of 1.554,
Mr.. Sebring estimates that at least
10 per cent Of informations filed are
either nolle pressed. or else with
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WILL FIRE" UNFIT
MEDICAL OFFICERS

Surgeon General Gorgas, whose dis
closures concerning disease ar army
camps was partly responsible for IN.
CONGRESSIONAL investigations of army
conditions, made the first move Iasr
nieht 10 clean up the Medical
Corps. He issued this order:
recognizing that a proportion of
medical officers are not fully qualified
to perform their duties because or
physical disability, mental incapacity.
eernperamental unfitness, laziness. in
ABILITY to command men, lack of edu-
cation or proper training, all division
surgeons, commanding officers of base
hospitals and other medical officers
having subordinates are directed To
list all those whose work has not
been satisfactory"
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1917-12-22
LET POTATOES SPOIL:
FIRM LOSES LICENSE

The revocation Of a food license be-
cause Of rejection of a shipment and
consequent spelling of five carloads OF
potatoes, was made public by the
United States Food Administra-
tion, in the case of Lester Brothers,
wholesalers, Of Newport News, Va,
They are ordered to cease business
December 81 and to deal thereafter In
no commodity covered by the Food
Control Act.
The report to the administration by
its Investigator indicated that Lester
brothers had been tempted by war
conditions to speculate in essential
foodstuffs. They had not obtained
their license until after they were in!
vestigated. The rejection OF food and
its spelling was the result of q falling
market and an attempt to throw the
loss on the seller, a practice now I'M
der investigation by the Federal Trade
Commission.
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BY THE OBSERVER.

Uncle Joe" Cannon was observed
wandering up and down the Senate
Office Building yesterday. Lookouts
for Senator Ham Lewis glanced fur
lively about. but they needn't fear.
Uncle Joe" said he'd stick to the
House Office Building as long as he
can. and not seek any change at this
period of life.
Representative Lobeck hit the trail
with BILLY" Sunday once upon q time,
and now Is only waiting the chance
to take Col. Osborne, former revenue
commissioner, with him to the Wash.
ington meeting and lead him to the
sawdqst. Watch them,
A report reached the city yesterday
that the muscles of one. former Rep
resentative johnson. of South Dakota
are very sore. Those who happened
to remember that he Is now Private
johnson at Camp Meade instantly
knew why-he'd been there less than
a week. Whose muscles wouldn't be
sore in changing from a lawmaker to
a gun-beareT?
Senator Frelinshuysen, of New Jer-
sey. "baby' member of the Senate
Military Affairs Committee. says that
body needs a little relaxation after
this weeks meetings and so. on Sat-
urday night. he will lead the entire
committee to Harry LADDERS show.
The studied silence of Senators KEN
.yen and kendrick. European visitors,
has not been broken. When it viii
no one knows-no enc but Jimmy"
Preston, and he won't tell.
Which reminds us-Joe O'Mahone>.
who is the Joe Tumulty of Senator
Kendrick's office, was asked a few
days ago to go down to the War De-
partment and get a commission for a
friend out West. Get Champ Clark,
Vice President Marshall and several
members of the Missouri delegation,
as we'll as Senators Warren and Ken
drfck. to go down there with YOU"
the friend wrote. Joe fainted-or did
he feint?
No college degrees decorate the
name Of Representative Woods, of
Iowa, but for political shrewdness he
AAoohtt uCbACo lIC uUl-
versity of hard knocks. Men have
wondered how he so persistently re-
turned to Washington after each POI
litical campaign. Those who know
him, however, do not wonder. They
say he Is a politician of the highest
degree. and that IL he took a notion
to capture something better than his
present position he'd likely find a way
to attain it.
A man who saw Medill Mccormick
last night for the first time in six
years recalled very pleasantly to a
friend that there is Rooseveit's
right-hand man." Mccormick did not
hear the remark-so there is no sequel
to this paragraph in the obituary no.
tees.
Senator Newlands and his fellow
'railroaders" have felt all along that
Presidential recommendation on the
railroad situation would be fortheom-
ing before February. 1t seemed Inn
possible to stave off any longer than
that a very definite and well-thought
out attempt to solve the problem of
American transportation.
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drawn or dismissed. The figures do
not OF course represent the total
number OF persons arrested.
At least Is per cent more are ar
rested, Mr.. Sebring says, making al
lowanees that sometimes more than
enc person 10 charged In an informa-
ton and brought to trial on IL.
No allowance IL made for persons
who are arrested and held for investi-
sation by the police department and
later released. Only those who
actually reach some stage In prosecu-
ton are accounted for.
100000 Profits.
Mr.. Sebring estimates that the
courts take in at least 10000 per
year more than It costs the gov
eminent to operate them. The care
lessness and wickedness of the city
means by this. that the government
profits on the weaknesses of Wash
ingtonians and visitors.
The sum Of $4,000 will take care
OF all court employees and expend-
itures for one year, according to n
table OF statistics which. although
more than forty years OF age, are
all that Congress allows for the op-
GRAFTON Of the courts and mainten-
ance expenses Out Of this $4,000
comes the expenses Of not only the
employees from the Judges down to
the janitor, but the cost of coal,
electricity. repairs. incidental and
emergency expenses.
Thus the Police Courts are work.
ing with q 4o-year-old suit of clothes
on. They are supposed TO take care
OF the business with an amount of
money stipulated in the District re-
port to Congress forty years ago
and not changed since.