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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-03-20
RESERVATION FOR GARDEN
Central Association Wants Tract at
North Capitol and q.

II the Central Citizens Association
has its way residents.of North Capt.
toll street and vicinity OF the post
office and Union Station will have
a vegetable garden at their very
doors.
Following a discussion OF a resolu-
ton suggested by the Columbia
Heights Citizens Association, urging
the cultivation OF back yards and va
cant spaces, the association directed
the secretary to write to Col. w. w.
Harris. superintendent of public
buildings and grounds, asking for the
use OF the public reservation at North
Capitol and G streets for garden pur-
poses.
Resolutions urging the enactment
OF legislation to provide for the com
pensation by the Federal Government
of owners whose property values are
affected by the prohibition bill were
adopted. NJ. ]. Sheehan, author OF the
resolutions, said that after November
1 many business houses will be va
Gated. Provision, he said, should be
made for such losses. The secretary
was directed to write to the other
associations asking the adoption of
similar resolutions.
Following a general discussion of
the street car strike, resolutions were
adopted indorsing the action OF the
Federation of Citizens Associations
in seeking legislation to prevent fu-
ture strikes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-03-20
new RUSSIA READY
TO SPEED UP WAR
Foreign Minister Says Nation
win Rebuild Whole Po-
IiticaI Edifice.

PETRoGRAD. March 2o-"Ths pro-
visional government which today
holds Russis's destiny In its hands,
will use every energy, with the unsni-
nous consent Of the nation. and will
effect q speedy victory" declared
Foreign Minister Miliukoff today.
Russia overturned in q few hours
q power detested by everybody. This
feeble, but tyrannical power, which
was incapable OF securing food for
the people or of organizing for the
future. and which was using all the
country's strength to vanqu1sh the
enemy now occupying our territory
no longer exists.
The problems now confronting
Russia are immense. She will have
to rebuild the whole political edihce.
and in so doing she win enormously
strengthen her moral forces to organ
ize and obtain q victory"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-03-20
HE SPEAKS FROM EXPERIENCE

For the benefit of those who have
reviled the supporters of adequate
preparedness in men, Mr.. Gerard's
assertion that eff we had 100000
men under arms we wouldn't be near
the very edge Of war" should be
more full of significance today,
thanks to the events which have &C.
Cured within recent hours, than on
the day he uttered it.
Mr.. Gerard has been in more inti-
mate relation with the German
mind than any one in the United
States. He realizes fully the in
ability of the German mind to grasp
any other argument than a club,
whether it is addressing others or
being addressed Herewith. But Mr..
Gerard need not try to educate the
pacifsts of this country; they "kHow
It all" already.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-03-20
TIMES GARDENING
CRUSADE ENDORSED
East Washington Citizens As
ISOLATION Adopts Resolution
on Subject.

Unqualified Endorsement of The
Washington Times gardening cam
paign was given by the East Wash
ington Citizens Association at 314
Pennsylvania avenue southeast.
A resolution was introduced by
President C. NJ. Emmons, which reads:
Resolved, That the East Washing
as indorsing the plan of the Depart
ment Of Agriculture, The Washing
ton Times, and the other newspapers
of Washington for reducing the high
cost of living in Washington during
the present summer by the means Of
an extensive gardening campaign"
Two resolutions aimed at the re-
Gently enacted prohibition bill were
adopted. Both were introduced by
John H. Adrians.
The first resolution says the law
is unconstitutional and therefore We
deem 1t conducive to the public that
test cases be instituted to solve
doubt"
The second resolution, dealing with
taxation, also pertains to prohibition
and says, "loss OF revenue so occas-
ioned-approximatel 100000 an
nually-shall be made good, not by
increasing the tax on taxable prop
erty, but by removing the exemption
from private non-taxable property;
and we favor the passage by Congress
OF the Stephens bill"
The necessity OF District control
in governmental affairs was discuss-
ed by DR.. Emmons- He said the
membership of citizens associations
had gradually decreased as a result
OF their "maltreatment by Congress
and the Commissioners"
DR.. Emmons urged some form OF
franchise for District citizens, whose
only present privilege, he declared.
was 'the right to fight for the Amer
lean flag"
A resolution was introduced call
ing for a uniform system OF pave
ments from the Congressional Ii
bray to Eighth street southeast.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-03-20
ANOTHER ARGUMENT SMASHED

Pacifsts pay no attention to past
history. They sweep that away with
a wave of the arm, saying, "The
world is different now" But along
comes old Field Marshal Fact and
turns their left wing before they
can say "Billbryan." One of their
bulwarks has been the idea that an
army was a mere tool of tyranny, a
prop of the lettering throne. Now
what will they do with the fact that
the Russian army has Joined with
the Duma in giving the nation con-
troll of its own destiny? This has
been the case more than once in the
past, but Russia's experience is too
near to be explained away. The
fact is that an army created by the
people and of the people is certain to
be also for the people in time Of
need, since even one created by and
for despotism cannot always be kept
from obeying the natural impulse
toward freedom.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-03-20
GARDEN MOVEMENT
GETSABIG BOOST
Citizens Associations Join
Movement and Line Up for
The Times Contest.
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back yards and vacant lots gardening
Is cited In a bulletin issued by the In
terror Department, containing an in.
terview with DR.. p. P. Claxton, CON-
missioner of Education: and.
Whereas as said interview en-.
courages school children to do such
gardening, there being boys and girls
between the ages OF nine and sixteen
most OF them idle more than half OF the
year, even during the vacation months
only about one-half Of one per cent OF
them having any profitable employ
ment; and.
Whereas as access to back yards.
side yards, front yards, and vacant
lots may be had by the older boys
and girls and adult men and women,
for whom an hour or. two each day
In q garden would be the best form
of recreation, supplying the best form
Of food supply without cost OF trans
portation or storage and without
profits OF middle men; therefore, be II
Resolved, That we, the members of
the Georgetown Citizens Association.
assembled in regular meeting this
10th day of March, 1917, do hereby in
dorse the plan OF DR.. P. P. Claxton,
commissioner OF education, and re-
quest of the owners OF vacant lots
that they grant the school children
the privilege OF the use Of the lots for
gardening purposes; and .H
1t Is further resolved, That II IL
hereby recommended that Congress
enact q law allowing the same privi-
lege to the Board OF District Commits
sioners as to members OF Congress
in Thanking garden and flower seed to
the residents OF the District of Co
lumbia, and that an appropriation be
made for the purpose OF the free dis
tribution OF garden and flower seed
to the residents OF the District OF
Columbia, as Is being done to other
citizens OF the United States; and
1t is further resolved, That by the
passage of such a law school children
would not have to pay for garden and
flower seed, and at the same time the
residents of the District Of Columbia
would reduce the high cost of living;
and
Be II further resolved, That copies
of this resolution be forwarded to the
District Committees in Congress, to
the District Commissioners, and to
the Board OF Education.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-03-20
PLAN CIVIC IMPROVEMENT
Takoma Park Organization to Co.
operate In Municipal Work.

Takoma Parks various civic organ
izations will be co-ordinated to work
for municipal Improvement during
the coming summer under the au.
spices Of the Takoma Park Citizens'
Association.
Plans to this end were formulated
at the meeting OF the association LAST
night, when President d. s. Fletcher
announced he soon will call a'mceting
OF q special joint committee repre-
senting the other civic bodies.
The committee is as follows: Isle
Morrison, Horticultural Improvement
Club: Mrs. c. B. Smith, Civic Study
Club: Herbert d. Lawson, Mems Club
OF Takoma Parish: Mrs. d. N. Shoe
maker, Home Interest Club: DIR. d. N.
Shoemaker. Social Study Club: Samuel
Cottrell, Young Mems Club, and Mrs.
w. w. Dyar, Neighborly Afternoon
Club.
A vote OF thanks was extended to
the committee on education because
OF its success in procuring the appro-
priation for a $4,000 eight-room
addition and assembly hall for the
Takoma Park, d. c. public school.
A resolution thanking the associa-
ton for its cooperation in the fight
against the location OF the Gallinger
Hospital at Fourteenth and Upshur
streets was received from the Piney
Branch Citizens Association.
Resolutions from the Columbia
Heights Citizens Association urging
legislation authorizing the distribu-
ton of free garden seeds by the Com
missioners to residents OF the Dis
trict were referred to the garden club
of the association.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-03-20
TAK0MA PARK APPROVES
Indorses Times Contest Offering
Prizes for Gardens

The Times contest, offering 500
In gold for the best gardens in and
around the District, was heartily in
dorsed last night by the Takoma
Park Citizens Association, which
unanimously adopted resolutions ap-
proving the contest and urging all
members of the association to enter
Takoma Park residents feel that that
community has a splendid chance of
winning one or more OF the prizes, as
many members OF the association are
high officials OF the Agricultural De-
partment, who have made gardening
their life work. Many members have
for years engaged In scientific gar
dening.
Indorse Campaign.
Those who spoke in favor OF the
contest and the gardening campaign
In Washington were Prof. H. C. Gore.
Wilmer G. Piatt, former president OF
the association: Homer Skeels, H B.
Hendricks, and w. T. Simmons.
Mr.. Simmons Is chairman OF the
committee on the Takoma Park Chill
dren's Garden Club, an association
conducted under the auspices of the
association, which is the pioneer OF
such organizations in the District,
having been in existence for four
years.
1.-THE Times contest goes far to-
ward making interest In gardening
general throughout the District" said
Mr.. Simmops last night.
VIII Interest Adults
"SInce its organization the Takoma
Park Children's Garden Club has
sought to stimulate interest in gar
dening among the children, but The
Times contest will awaken interest
among the adults. II someone will
offer a prize for the best club gar
den we will have all activities COW
cred.
1--WE now have nearly fifty children
enrolled in. the garden club, and ap-
plications are coming in rapidly.
Each child cultivates a square rod
OF ground, and reports monthly In
writing.
"In October prizes are awarded by
the association, and the achievement
badges offered by the Department OF
Agriculture are distributed.
illustrated Lectures.
THE first meetings OF the club,
which are held monthly. will take
the form of illustrated lectures, after
which the children will begin work in
earnest"
Mr.. Simmons also suggested that
prizes be offered for the best child
ren's club garden work, and that o.
Fl. Benson, garden expert OF the De
partment of Agriculture, or one of his
assistants, award the prizes after in
spection of the gardens.
% he
the children's garden club, besides
Mr.. Simmons, are H. B. Hendricks and
DR.. d. N. Shoemaker.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-03-20
$4,000 In Gold
For the Best
Gardens

The Times for the purpose
of encouraging the growing
of vegetables in back yards
and vacant lots offers 500
in gold for the best gardens
in the District, as follows:
For the best garden. $50
For the second best. .$25
For the third best. SIS
For the fourth best. . $40
Those who wish to contest
for these prizes should write
to the Garden Editor, Wash
ington Times, giving name of
contestant and location of
prospective garden. The
board of judges will be chos-
en- from well-known agricul-
tural authorities.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-03-20
WHATS ON PROGRAM
Interesting Events Of Importance
Scheduled Today.

OF Ienoenls Own 0arrison. No. 1G, Army
eno navy Union. Q. A r. Han, 1i13 Penn
synAnA avenue nortnWest, p. m
- meeung, IN advocacy OF the Booker =.
Masnngton memorial FUND, John Wesiey A
n + Church, Fourteenth and Corcoran
streets northwest, y. m
Aeetng 81 fetWortn Citizenr Association,
PetWorth school building, Eighth and Shop
nero streets. I:So p m
masked ball oenent Of HEBREW Home for The
aged, Oid Masonic Temple. p m
hegular monthly meeting, Gaelic Society Of
washington, hickman studio. 1eso New York
avenue, D. m
entertainment By choir. The Tale Of q
Hat At f1fth Baptist Church, p. m
Addresses py the Kew. william Z. Gardner,
secretary Of the general board. Of religious
eoac.1 ~ NJ ~ sonday school Institute, do
sess o. Wasnington. Epiphany Pzrish Hail,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-03-20
THE COURTS DECISION ON THE
ADAMSON LAW

Chief Justice Whites luminous
opinion on the constitutionality Of
the Adamson law, ewbodyhg the de-
cision of the majority of the court,
is another assertion of the practical
ly imitless power of Congress over
the whole subject of interstate COM
merce. A good many cobwebs are
brushed away. in the rendering of
this decision. The contention that
the law was one regulating the hours
of labor only, and the argument that
1t was wage question pure and SIM
pie, are both dismissed with the re-
mark that both contentious are right
and both are wrong, in so far as
they are mutually exclusive. The
power of Congress in the matter of
fixing the hours of labor is undis-
puted.
The question Of fixing wages was
a more difficult one to determine.
The learned Chief Justice seems to
place the right in this case on the
emergency which called for the ex-
ercise Of Congressional power. EN-
ployers and employees have failed to
agree. There was no standard by
which both could be guided in the
fixing of wages. Therefore, consid-
ering 'the entire interruption Of in
terstate commerce which was threat
ened, and the infinite injury to the
public interest which was imminent,
1t would seem inevitably to result
that the power to regulate neces-
sarily obtained, and was subject to
be applied to an extent necessary to
provide a remedy for the situation"
The theory was brushed aside as alb
surd that ~the existence of a public
right and the public power to pre-
serve it was wholly under the con-
troll of the private right to establish
a standard by agreement" Also the
theory that emergency cannot afford
a reason for the exertion of a power
of Congress.
The decision is a far-reaching one.
Justice McReynolds, in bowling to
the will Of the majority. though dis
senting. declares that the majority
decision gives Congress authority to
fix maximum and minimum wages
of the trainmen, and also the power
''to require compulsory arbitration
of labor disputes and to take meas
ures effectively to protect the free
flow Of commerce against any COM
bination whether Of operatives, own
ers, or strangers"
And the whole matter rests upon
the foundation principle that "the
business of a common carrier by rail
is in a sense a public business" The
street railway business is equally a
public business. Congress being the
law-making body for the District of
Columbia can now proceed to fix the
wages and the hours of street car
employees and prescribe any other
conditions of labor it sees fit to pre-
scribe. With public sentiment in the
District gradually accommodating mo-
mentum in favor of the side Of the
striking employees of one of the COM
panies, Congress will not be slow to
take action with reference to the
present situation, whichever side
may appear to win in the mean
time. Congress gave the District an
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-03-20
GRAND DUKE URGED ACTION
Nicholas Advised Royal Cousin to
Give Up Throne.

PETRoGRAD. March 1o-Grand Duke
Nicholas cemented his alliance with the
people in the Russian revolution today
when It became known 1t was he who
had really induced Gar Nicholas to alb
dictate.
II was revealed the grand duke urged
this step upon the Car prior to the
visit OF the revolutionary committee
bearing the abdication declaration
One other bit Of history made public
today was that the action Of the Rus-
sian duma In resolving to overthrow
the autocratic government was unani-
nous. with the exception Of fifteen
members who stood out for immediate
establishment Of a republic.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-03-20
TomOrrOw.

Concert, United States Soldiers Home Band
Orchestra, Stanley Hall. $50 .. m.
Sermon, Rev. DR.. Arthur r. Taylor, OF York,
Pa. at lenten services, All Souls Memorial
Church. Cathedral avenue northwest, p. m.
Illustrated talk. Battles Of the somms and
Verdun;" Frederick Palmer. Masonic Tenn
Address, American Military History and
Policy" Frederick L. Huidekoper, before
the American Revolution. Rauschsr's, 3 p.
RENDITION of japanese prints. Arts Club, ,o17
RED Cross work. Teachers Club, Mason
House, 1905 Twentisth street northwest.
Protest meeting against war, Anti-war
League OF the District, Raleigh, D. m.
Meeting, South Washington Citizens Anso-
citation, Jefferson School assembly ball.
stereopticon lecture on home gardens by Niles
Susan B: sipe, before Parents League;
Wilson Normal School.
ing" by Morris Pien. Of the Reclamation
Service, Home Club. s:l5 p. m.
Reception to members OF District National
Riding and Hunt Clubs frse-foraI, Bright
Illustrated frst aid lecture. Accidents: Pre-
Shields Continental Memorial Hall D. N.
Lecture. 'Lubricating Oils" by J. Gaub, be-
fore Washington Association No. l. Ma
tional Association OF Stationary Engineers,
1904 Pennsylvania avenue northwest, D. m.
Lecture on Pneumonia and Child Paralysis
by DR.; Mary E. Walker. white parlor. the
New EbbItt, p. m.
Meeting OF Board OF Education, Franklin
School, $50 p. m.
Address THE U. s. Sanitary Commission and
its services during the civil war" BY Dr.
Charles (. Munroe, woman's section NAVY
League, Mason House. II 30 a. m.
Lecture, The Law OF Vibration in Rerard
to Love, Marriage and Business" Mas
Louise Cults Powell, the Portland D. m.
Meeting Of Wellesley Club. the Concord D.
m.
Observation-Disclosures Centennial, No. "a:
Osiris No. IS; East Gate, No. "a; Bright
wood Chapter. No. 9, Royal Arch: Arems
Chapter. No. 10: and Unity, No. 2, Order
Of the Eastern Star.
knights of Pythias-Mt. Vernon Lodge. No. s,
and Equal. No. II.
Federal City. No. 20.
Pythian sisters-Friendship Temple, No. ..
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-03-20
Don Marquis
Column
KampaIa Of the Hills.

KampaIa of the Hills.
She mods beneath the MONDAY sun
And beckons and beguiles,
Her eyes are filled with merriment.
Her lips are wreathed in smiles;
She seems to wear a woman's FORM
She wreaks a womaD's wiles.
She nestles in the seven hills,
A dew-drop in a rose,
And dim at night beneath the stars
With mystery she glows:
But, phi another vision glides
Whene'er the West wind blows.
A quivering CLEAN of olden friends
And lands across the sea,
OF dear days nigh forgotten now
And days which ne'er can be,
It brings unbidden tears to eyes
OF wanderers like me.
A glimpse Of home-ah, God be kind
All, Land of wonder thrillsl
Ny heart but Graves the spring again
The yellow daffodils,
The love that calls necessarily
Beyond Kampala's hills!
Edmund Leamy.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-03-20
DIVORCE DISMISSAL UPHELD.

A Louisiana decree Diminishing a
suit for divorce instituted in that
State by Duke Francesca Massari
Zabagiie yesterday was upheld by
the United States Supreme Court The
court did not consider questions of
Italian and Louisiana divorce laws,
but merely the question disclaiming
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-03-20
Suffrage Maud aIuIIer..
TO REOPEN RECRUITING.

On Thursday morning the big re.
cruiting tent, removed to make room
for the inaugural decorations, will be
open for business. The tent is to be
placed at Seventh street and .Pennsyl-
vania avenue. Work on tho flooring
will start today.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-03-20
The Dance. Did It Say Hermiose.

We asked Hermione what she
thought OF the Russian revolution.
Wonderful" she exclaimed, "sim.
ply wonderful
THE dances areresponsible for It.
you know.
THE Russian Soul showed itself in
the dances-came 20 the surface. II
you get what 1 mean.
And once IL had come to the sur
face, why there was no putting II
back again."
This gave us an idea that the Rus
sian Soul must be something like a
rash, and that possibly the heat en-.
gendered' in dancing had brought II
out, as IL 1t were measles. But be.
fore we could ask about It FothergIl
Finch, who was present, said some
thing about the Siberian Steppes IN
connection with the Russian dances.
We do not care for Fothergil in his
moments of levity. His puns always
lack spontaneity; they have the air of
being carefully thought up before
hand-of being thought out by some
body else, too frequently.
"Fothy," said Hermione, has got
the whole thing into a poem"
And thus encouraged Fothy read
his poem on the Russian revolution:
Hol Hol Roiser.
Ho! Ho! HohensollerH!
What are you going to do notof
Democracy on the right Of you,
Democracy on the left Of you,
Democracy IN front Of you,
VoHeys and thUnders
But wait. Fothy." we said. That
Is little too much like The Charge
Of the Light Brigade"
Il don't doubt" said Fothy, that IL
is like a great many things. 1t is uni
versaL Things that are universal" he
continued. cuttingly, are apt to be like
other things" And he went on with his
poem:
RGus! RoIs Romdno6!
You and your pluHders!
Demos to right Of you,
Demos to left Of you,
Demos behind you,
VoIleys and thundersl
HoI EoI HohenkolleTH
"Fothy!" we said. "donrI 1t is pla-
giarism - unintentional. no doubt.
but
Il shall never" said Fothergil Finch,
drawing himself up to his full height,
which is five feet one with his insoles
ohN NOAh ACCl ILL., SpGhk 10 you
again. So there!'
A great many little groups Of intel
lectuals are being stirred to the pro-
duction of pers Hbre by the Russian
revolution. we discover upon opening
our mail this morning. Fair-minded
people will keep their balance and re-
fleet that this Is really nothing against
the Russian revolution.
The cost Of HuiH0 Is so high that
only an employee IN q munitions Jac-
tory con afford to lead double life
these days.
Henry Reuterdahl pictures the pos
sibility of a German battle cruiser
dropping a salvo or two of fifteen
inch shells into the Brooklyn Navy
Yard"
Citizens Of Brooklyn are now ask
ing themselves anxiously: How far
does a navy ward anlaah a..
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-03-20
Triply overt!

Japan has at last indicated com.
pIetely and finally her right to a
place in civilized nations. She is call.
ing for a movie censorship.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-03-20

Columbia has engaged former Sen.
atOr Sutherland OF Utah to lecture on
the powers of Congress. Some OF the
present Senators might give instruc.
tive talks on its disabilities.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-03-20

There's one thing Nicholas Romanof
and wife should be grateful for, any
how. Now that they're out of job
all those jests about the Car and the
Czardine will stop.