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The Washington times., 1917-05-02
Interesting Events Of Importance
Scheduled for Today.

Baseball. Washington vs. New York Amsrf-
can League Park $50 D. M.
Annual linen shower, Methodist Home for the
Aged, sol N street northwest. $40 p. m.
Lecture by Stanley WEshburn before members
Of Hou.e. Senate and thetr families, House
Office Building, p. m.
Concert by United States Marine Band Po-
tonac Park. ) D. m.
Presentation day, anniversary exercises, Cal
lsudet College. Kendall Green, p. n
Illustrated lecture, Wakefield. the Birth
place Of Washington" by Col. Joseph i.
keifer. before Washington Association, No.
l, National Association Stationary En-
g1ncers, ls04 Pennsylvania avenue north
Meeting OF Board of Education, Franklin
school, $50 p. m.
Induction Of officers. Twentieth Century Club
All Souls Church, Fourteenth and L
streets northwest. II a. m.
Parliamentary law class. National American
Woman Suffrage Association, IL a. m,
afternoon tea, as p. m, lses Rhode Island
avenue northwest.
Pa;riOtic meeting. Third Baptist Church,
Fifth and . streets northwest. s D. m
Meeting Association Oldest Inhabitants,
Union Engine House, Nineteenth and II
streets northwest. 7:SO y. m.
Piano recital by Felix BarzigIia, under aus
pices Arts Club OF Washington, for bene-
nit Red Cross. clubs music rooms, s:I5 D. m
Masonic-WasEington Centennial Lodge. No.
u: King Solomon, No 3l: Brightwocd
Chapter, No. 3. Royal Arch.
order OF the Eastern Star-Areme Chaptar
No. 20, and United. No. 80.
Ouu iellONS-Eastefn Lodge, NO II; Federal
C:ty. No 20: Harmony, No. 3. and Friend
ship. No. y: Mt. Nebo Encampment. No. 9.
Eehckahs-Assembly Home Circle 34lI Four
heath street northwest.
Knights Of Pytlias-Mt. Vernon LodEs. No
,, and Equal, No IL: drill of washtnxtun
company. No. J. military department.
PytE:an Sisters-SOcial session, Friendship
Temple. No. 9.
Patriotic meeting and entertainments ef
Mothers Correspondence Club, First ConKre-
gutiUual Church. 5 p. IN.
Concert, United States Soldiers Home Band.
y.
Patriotic meeting Third Baptist Church Fifth
ana y streets northwest. D. m.
Address h. Miss Emma Gray, president o(
tie National New Thought Center, at Wash.
tngton Loan and Trust building. D. m.
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LETTERS TO THE TIMES
ON TOPICS OF THE DAY
Do We Intend to Keep Out Of the
War?
TO TIMES READERS

The Times Is receivin0 great mum
bers Of letters from its readers.
No communication tChich does not
carry the name and address Of the
contributor t0iH be used, but both
tciH be considered confidential u re-
guest Is made.
Publication tcil not be made OF
letters on untimeIy subjects or re-
Hgious questions. II t1iH not pub
hsh abusiUe personal attacks nor
criticism Uhich The Times deems
TntcdrTanted by the facts as Il knotos
them.
No record Is kept Of unpublished
letters and none tciH be returned M
less postage Is tnclosed.
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WOMEN BUY WAR BONDS.

Purchase of 10000 worth OF Gov
ernment war bonds by the Catholic
Women's Benevolent Legion was an,
nounced today by Miss Mary +. Nc
Carthy, trustee Of the several Wash
ington councils OF the legion, who
has just returned from a trustees
meeting in New York. "The bonds
were purchased" Miss Mccarthy said
today, ITO show that the Catholic
women of America are standing sol
idly behind the nation in this grave
crisis" The local councils. which Miss
Mccarthy represented Mt the New
York meeting, AZ" 7 betty. COrZnEa
st. Matthews. HC'E "Tin''v Washing.
ton. Father Y "'t"r. and 3thel Sal
uVan ".Ur"ils.
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To the Editor OF THE TIMES:

To the Editor OF THE TINES:
Kindly allow me to say that most
of those with whom / have talked
think volunteers should be at once
enlisted for service in France, or
ganized into companies, regiments,
brigades and divisions, put aboard
transports without delay and march
ed to the front.
General Joffre is correct in stating
that their best training will be in
France. During our civil war my
regiment and many others were
rushed to the firing line within a
week to a month after their regi-
ments were full. And they acted
like veterans.
We can do our best service with
our allies now-as soon as we can
reach them.
When the Central Powers see that
we really mean to fight they will Of
fer reasonable terms Of peace. But
IL they perceive that our present
plans contemplate keeping out OF it
for a year they will take heart
again.
II the draft goes into effect in
September, and organization and drill
ing occupies three or four months
more, a hundred thousand or more
conscripts ought to reach France,
say by February 1, 1918.
Will that be too late?
Or. will 1t be after our soldiers
are no longer needed?
Should Russia meantime make a
separate peace, some millions OF Ger
man and Austrian troops would be
let loose to swarm into Belgium.
France, Holland, and Switzerland,
turn the allied fianks and overwhelm
them.
In that case, we would have 70
fight the Central Powers almost
single-handed, or else make an
ignominious and costly peace upon
Germany's terms.
l am not an unqualified admirer OF
ex-President Roosevelt. But believe
he could enlist and put into France
10000 to 100000 stalwart American
soldiers with Government equip
ment and transportation before the
conscripts could be organized. This
would hasten victory and peace.
Why not commission him?
C. r
The Washington times., 1917-05-02
ARMY NEEDS VETERINARIANS
Horse and Mule Experts Can Re-
ceive Commissions.

Uncle Sans army is short of az
perts on horses and mules.
For that reason the War Depart
ment is anxious to secure the sery-
ices of graduates of recognized veteri-
nary schools and colleges, and Is will
ing to pay we'll for them. Applicants
who have the qualifications necessary
for this important branch OF military
service can be enrolled as second
lieutenants.
Offices have been opened at Nine
teenth street aud Virginia avenue,
with Major Griffin ard Lieutenant
Charming ia charge. Hours during
which applicants can present them
selves are from 10 to 3
The age limits r." veterinarians are
twCnty-cTc to trTy Ave years. Those
who errcli now will be rsquired TO
stay in the service only during the
war.
The Washington times., 1917-05-02

1nnocuous, We swear! Innocent as
the snowwhite hair that trembles un-
derneath the halo of a saint! And yet,
could we trust you with it? For its
innocence is Of that sort of awakened
innocence which is not by any means
ignorant: its innocence moves daint-
lily and delicately on the blushing feet
of knowledge past a little area OF less
harmless sophistication. shrinking and
mincing as the danger Is avoided. One
jOggle from a thought less generous
ly obtuse and the POEMS pink toes
might be stained.
We consign II to oblivion rather
than that II should be misunderstood.
DOG MARQUIS
The Washington times., 1917-05-02

"Monarchies are destroyed by pov-
erty, republics by wealth."
The French philosopher who said
that would study with interest the
official hirelings of this gigantically
rich republic solemnly discussing "in
an emergency" the notification of
the United States Constitution.
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The Washington times., 1917-05-02

monstrous whale, according to Dar-
win, lost the use of the legs with
which it once walked on the land?
That question is being threshed
out in the Senate and in the House,
and a most important discussion it is
for the people of the United States.
The Washington times., 1917-05-02

The dangerous feature of the es-
pionage bill consists in this. Its seri-
ous discussion in both houses of Con-
gress indicates that the Government
not only questions but denies the
right and ability of the people to
manage their affairs.
The study of mammoth forms in
extinct animal life proves that when
a creature grows too huge, fat, and
heavy, it can no longer care for it.
self and disappears.
Is the Democratic Administration
to prove that what was true of the
dinosaur in its day is true now of the
big, heavy. rich American republic?
Our nation can distribute billions
among its friends, and safely prom
Use billions more every year-has
that nation grown so big and rich
that it cannot govern itself, cannot
be trusted to speak or think for it.
self?
The Democratic Administration
and the Congressman that support
the espionage bill declare that the
United States has outgrown the abil-
ity to govern itself. When they, in
sist upon their espionage bill they
declare their belief that the people
can no longer be trusted with self
government.
The Washington times., 1917-05-02
The spicy times Of great Elizabeth
With sounds that echo stu.

Most of them contain, we aver,
more wit than Boccaccio's "Decam-
eron;" they are more chaste than
Belzac's "Droll StQries;" they are
more delicate than Smollett; they are
more candidly what they are than the
equlvocal Sterne. We fling them into
the waste paper basket, after having
considered some of them almost daily
for two or three years. with a sigh;
we do not quite dare to publish them
in a newspaper which may finally
line the pantry shelves and come to
the attention of some young Finnish
cook with an uniformed mind; after
all, we must try to be, in our modest
way, a guardian of public taste; in
thousands of homes today the young
of both SKIS are getting their first
impressions of life and literature
from this column, Heaven help them!
We must practice the circumspection
which Caesar recommended to his
wife. CParenthetically, we must sup
pose Caesars wife to have been
woman of great generosity. He said.
Caesars wife must be above sus-
picion." And she forbore to answer,
"Yes, Julius, and that will be easier
for me than for you. l have never
Travelled in Egypt."O
We fling these contributions away;
but the world has missed something.
Some OF them are so triumphantly
respectable--in spite of your wicked
mind, Some of them are 80 discreet!
Some of them skate with such com
posure over such thin ice! Some of
them smile at you with such demure
innocence up to the point at which
you begin to smile at them! We give
you our word, there is scarcely one
of them you would not enjoy and
repeat II our sternly puritanical cast
of mind did not deny them to you.
There is, for instance, the one which
goes:
There teds q young felloto from Frisco
Who never had eaten Ndbisco'
The Washington times., 1917-05-02

Back of this espionage bill you
will find:
The desire of ineficiency to es-
cape criticism.
The desire of dishonesty to avoid
exposure.
The desire of official power to es-
cape control by the public that Gre
ated it.
But dishonesty tempted by the
sight of seven golden billions, official
vanity eager for absolute power, and
incompetent conceit dreading just
criticism are minor details in this de-
grading and shameful discussion of
the espionage bill.
Here is the danger signal.
The greatest republic in the world
begins a war announcing that it is
fighting the fight of democracy. And
it begins that war by questioning
the very existence of democracy, de-
nying the wisdom of the constitu-
tional theory that the people are able
20 govern themselves, fit to control
the servants whom they employ, and
to be trusted with freedom of
thought and speech.
The Congressman who votes for
The Washington times., 1917-05-02

Very broad is the language of
these gentlemen in their official dec
laration that the United States
dinosaur has outgrown the Constitu-
ton.
AS Senator Borah has pointed out,
under this espionage bill citizens
would be imprisoned not for violating
the law, but for violating "REGU-
LATIONS." And the President. or
those to whom he might delegate
the power, could make any regula-
tions.
The espionage bill does away with
every democratic principle including
trial by jury. For, under that bill,
you can be fined ten thousand dollars
or imprisoned ten years or both, not
upon conviction by twelve of your
fellow-citizens, but upon the individ-
ual decision of the President of the
United States that it would be a
good idea thus to fine or imprison
you.
Eighty years ago when an Ameri-
can travelled in Turkey and a cross
legged Pasha asked him, "How far
have you come to see me?" the in
terpreter warned, "Just say you
have come a long way. Don't tell
him it's four thousand miles or he
will think you are a liar and put you
in Jail"
They don't do that, even in Turkey,
any more-are they going to begin it
in the United States?
Until lately, in Russia, the Car
individually could decide that it was
wise to Jail, fine, or execute his sub
jects.
Is the United States Congress
about to give to the President the
power that the Russian people have
Just taken from the Gar?
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Don Marquis
Column
Preface to a Book withheld.

The book to which this is the pref
ace will never get into type. 1t con-
sists, or would have consisted, of
some 1,sO0 jests, short poems, anec-
dotes, etc, which have been consider
ed too daring, on the whole, for this
column. The "art form" known as
the Limerick predominates.
We do not wish it to be inferred
that there is anything actually rtbald
in these jests and rhymes. swift
would have thought them slow; and
they would have lacked the pep to
The Washington times., 1917-05-02

Various interests are at work. The
cunningest men in the nation are in
Washington, gathered like flies
around a molasses jug, planning to
get their share of the golden stream
that gushes from the Treasury. They
object to the free speech that asks
questions, to the free press that
prints facts.
inexperienced men are handling
great problems for the first time. 1t
would relieve the inefficient to know
that press and public were forbidden
by law to criticise ineficiency. Burg
lars like dark streets. and dishonest
legislators, arrogant public servants
setting themselves above the peoples
will dislike the light of free discus
sion, free speech, and free press.
Every man who votes for a bill
that would nullify any clause of the
Constitution, without first submit
ting that notification to the people
in acc cJrdance with the Constitution,
VIOLATES HIS OATH OF OF
FICE. For each has sworn to sup
port the Constitution and this espio-
mage bill is an attack upon the Con-
stitution.
In voting for the espionage bill the
fraudulent public servant votes to
give to himself and b the President
power to put in Jail any citizen who
may tell an unpleasant truth or
formulate.a needed disagreeable criti-
cism concerning either of them.
The espionage bill would give to
the President or to any one of five
hundred understrappers power to i'm
prison any man for writing what you
have just read, power to imprison
YOU if you should say to your neigh
Dor that it is criminal for public SER
wants without public sanction to
abolish constitutional guarantees.
The Washington times., 1917-05-02
How to Win Respect

1t is significant that rumors OF a
Mexican decision to be good gain
currency the very day that the Con-
gress of the United States votes to
raise an army of 100000 men by
means of selective conscription. The
powers that be beyond the Rio
Grande are reported to have discov-
red, all in a fluster, not only that
they are going to stop harassing our
border and killing our people, but
also that they are likely to break off
diplomatic relations with Germany.
To be sure, the willy old Don
Venustiano Carranza has thus far al
lowed no such sentiments to escape
through his whiskers. But here a
general and there a general init
mates very anonymously that hence
forth his countrymen will do no more
fighting with Americans, unless it be
at their sides against the oppressive
power of Prussian Frightfulness.
How different this from the Carranza
manifesto of some time since ad-
vising President Wilson that he had
best mind his own, business and not
go to war with Germany!
The day that Uncle Sam exhibits
his muscles all the little ragamuffins
who have been making faces at and
sticking pins in him suddenly find
out how much he is to be respected.
The Washington times., 1917-05-02

the espionage bill expresses con-
tempt for those that put him where
he is.
The Washington times., 1917-05-02

Now the German-Brazilians indicate
that they really prefer the land of
their adoption to the land from which
they successfully escaped.
The Washington times., 1917-05-02
the risk, o.!

Truly, Il Is harmless thing. 1t
would not shock US were we the dean
of theological seminary. II you
took a girl to the play and 1t was re-
peated on the stage she would not,
necessarily. feel called upon to rush
from the place and report IL to her
mother. We have been on the verge
of printing it in it's entirety a dozen
times these last two years and
yet, now, we are too cowardly and
conservative. We compromise that
we may remain uncompromised.
How can we be quite sure what con-
struction might have been put upon
the interesting lines omitted if we
had not omitted them? We live in
an age so remarkably pure, because
IL is so frequently reformed whether
II likes 1t or not, that our apprehen-
sion OF the iniquity in the minds Of
others has become almost abnormalIy
acute. And we fear that all those
others who may not have iniquity in
their minds may have the same over
sharp perception of iniquity that we
have. This makes us finical. This
makes us cling tightly to appear
ances. This makes us discard many
a pretty little trihe that Rabelais
would not have hesitated over for an
instant.
There Is an anecdote. which goes:
"An Irishman named Pat, upon be-
ing asked, DO. Do............?' replied,
with a fash of Celtic wit. NO. yer
honor, but. .-.................
The thing is as essentially happy
and charming as the limerick which
preceded II. But we will say no
more about IL. Enough that we are at
one with our era and have the keen,
censorious rectitude which condemns
all these sprightly chirrupers to 81
lence.
II will not have escaped our readers
that in calling attention to our sup
preston of this book we have also
called attention to our own nice NOR
ality Many will incline to the opin-
ion that We might better have sup
pressed 1t and said nothing about the
suppression. There Is much to be said
for that opinion. But such reticence
is out Of fashion, and we are too thor
oughly in sympathy with present
times and present manners to seem to
critiCise them by affecting a super
Iority to them We suppress the book
and we call attention to the suppress
sion in order that our virtue may be
known to all men. The points OF taste
and ethics involved in this policy are
many and we hope to treat them
more adequately when We write our
article to he entitled: PREFACE TO
THE REPORT OF a COMMITTEE
FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF LIT
ERATURE.
More than that; we are seeking for
a particular job and We take this
means of advertising our fitness for
it, We wish the job Of editing and
rewriting all the worlds great liter
ary masterpieces so that they will be
acceptable to all the organizations
and individuals that are now a bit
suspicious OF them because they are
masterpieces. And unless we announce
our suita bility for the task how would
IT ever become known?
Just another quotation from the
slain book before we reluctantly drop
the last leaf OF it into the waste bas
ket:
There toas young feIlotO named :.
The Washington times., 1917-05-02

Average temperature for this date for ths
last g years. 90.
HIGH TIDES. LOW TIDES.
SO a. m: height 81 11:os a. m; height CO
4:44 p. M: height "a HE D. m: height or
Sun AND MOON TABLES.
Sun rose 5.07 a. m. Moon rises, $50 D. N.
sun sets I-O2 p. m Moon sets 2:33 g. m
Light automobile lamps at Ia p. m.
WEATHER CONDITIONS.
Observations at United States WsathsE
Bureau stations. taken at q. m today,
seVenty-nfth meridian time:
The Washington times., 1917-05-02

The nations at war in Europe have
spent about a hundred billions of
money, have lost millions of lives,
have been fighting desperately for
almost three years. Yet free speech
still lives among them.
Every day Northcliffe and a dozen
others in England; Harden and a
hundred others in Germany; repre-
sentatives of free speech in France,
Italy, Greece, and even Turkey, print
and say that which in the United
States under the espionage bill
WOULD PUT A MAN IN JAIL.
The Washington times., 1917-05-02

Have we really come to such a
pass? Must the people of this coun-
try be led like a tame bear with
ring in its nose, an elected public
servant holding and pulling the
string?
Have we, swimming in wealth, lost
the power of self-government, as the
The Washington times., 1917-05-02
Lutheran Clergyman Convert.

The spectacle Of John ID. Rookie
fslIer standing sponsor for Billy sun
days revival doesn't please Carl Beck.
director OF the Labor Forum. Mr..
Beck said as. much in a statement he
addressed to the evangelist yesterday.
He even intimated that the success
Of the campaign was being seriously
threatened because of the dominating
influence OF fiuanciers." He chal-
IenEed Billy ito bawl out corrupt and
greedy individuals"
Mr.. Beck had an interview with Mr..
Sunday yesterday, at the conclusion
of which II" said:
81 asked him il, in the event OF our
supplying him with facts concerning
the sale OF liquor by the Rockefeller
interests to Colorado miners and de,
tails surrounding the rioting at Lud,
low, Col, he would take issue and
talk these facts from the pulpit. He
said he would"
One of the notable converts OF the
afternoon was Rev. Junius +. Rem
ensnyder, pastor of st. James Luth,
eran Church. His hitting OF the trail
was hailed with glee by the Sunday
encourage, inasnuch as the LutherGns
are understood to be not entirely in
sympathy with the revival movement
Th" Rev pr. Lake. of Philadelphia
'aiI the prayer for the newly dedi
Gated.
The Washington times., 1917-05-02

LOCAL TEMPERATURES.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-04-28
ART CLUB ENTER
TAINED,

Mrs. Amanda. J. Bell, $751; st. An
thony avenue, entertained the After
noon Art Club at a delightful luncheon
last Tuesday afternoon, at which a
mild sensation was sprung, that added
considerably to the pleasure of the
occasion. The sensation was created
by the hand painted place cards on
which were to be seen little cupid
and bride in water colors and gold,
and on which was printed the follow
ing verse:
I've been keeping it a secret,
But, you're all so smart, you'll guess,
So may as we'll acknowledge
I've gone and answered "yes."
(Signed) A|breta Corrinne Bell.
And then the fun started and did
not end until the guests departed.
Miss Bell is one of our best must
clans as we'll as a. very handsome
and popular young lady, and the con-
gratulations that were showered upon
her on that occasion are echoed by
all her acquaintance every where.