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r-geftr stf. 7 THE WASHINGTON TIMES, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1014 8 Ifteashmgton me TDBLISKED EVERT EVENING (Includlnc Sundays) By The Washington Times Company. THE Mt'ICEEY BUILDING. Pcnna. avc.

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Three Months. Me Entered at the postofflcc at Washington. as second class jnall matter. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1914. EDUCATION'S PROBLEM.

What is probably the greatest problem of education hasn't anything at all to do with the actual acquisition of knowledge. It is the problem of bridging the gap between school or college and the great world beyond. Molding a plastic mind to knowledge is comparatively easy. Assiduity and method are all that are required. But fitting the mold into the intricate mosaic of our civilization is quite another matter.

There should be a nice correlation of edges and a smoothness of surface to show that the fit was intended by nature and merely accentuated by art. Most folk that have adopted irrevocably their walk in life can look back upon a period of indecision when a slight thing would have swayed them in another direction; indeed, they carry a clear memory of the small thing that sent them on the way they have followed. Lucky man is the one who has his foot upon the road nature intended him to travel! To lessen as much as may be the difficulties of a proper choice of life work is the aim, in greater or less degree, of every college. "Williams has just announced an effort along this line of greater pretension than usual. A foundation has been established, through which lecturers will be brought before the undergraduates to set in as true a light as possible each of the leading callings.

The difficulties as well as the inducements of each will be set forth. WilliawHoward Taft, Frank A. Vanderlip William J. Burns these nai8ef lecturers already engaged give'an idea of the ground to be covered. Two weeks after each lecWre there will be a round table talk, at which the profession dealt with will be discussed under the direction of an authority.

The experiment will be watched with interest in professional as "well as scholastic circles, for it embodies a sound principle of selection by judgment rather than by chance. WAR'S TIDE-SWINGINGS As the war of nations goes on, with the tide of victory swinging now powerfully for, now as powerfully against, one side and the other in the western field of France and Belgium, and with exactly the same thing happening in the eastern field of Russia, Austria, and East Prussia, it seems to be clear that the Kaiser triumphs in the one quarter at his cost in the other. The German armies did not cease to hurl themselves as irresistibly as magnificently in the direction of Paris until the Emperor was compelled to withdraw perhaps nine army corps to send against the Russians pressing East Prussia hard and literally rolling over Austria. He was then able to beat back the Russians in the east, but his repulse by the allies in the west was so complete, at one time threatening his armies there with annihilation, that he undoubtedly found it absolutely necessary, whatever might happen to him in the east through leaving that frontier again naked to the Russian invasion, to make another of his sudden shifts, speeding several army corps back again, first to save his western armies and then to put a stone wall in the way of the advance of the allies. If the Russian army is again sweeping over East Prussia and Austria and there seems to no doubt that the Russian movement is an avalanche it is evident that there was no other way for the Kaiser to get the hundreds of thousands of men whom he has driven day after day, with such frightful losses, against the lines of the allie3 those ferocious battles, now going on for many days, before the channel ports.

This means that the Kaiser has not enough soldiers to fight, in the way he thinks the Germans must fight to get results, both France and England on his right and Russia on his left at one and the same time. Doubtless, too, he hoped that if the Turks could create a diversion against the Czar this would take some of that terrible Russian pressure off him in the east. But thus far at least it has not relieved hira. Those inexhaustible hosts of the Czar roll on as if there were no Turkey on the map. Can the Kaiser, in the hope of bursting the iron lines in Flanders, suffer those millipns of Russians to submerge his provinces in the east? If he cannot or will not suffer this, can he, after the way he has used up hundreds of thousands of his troops that vain battering-ram pounding along the coast, resist in his owns turn the allies when they fall upon him in the north of France as two months ago they fell upon him at the gates of Paris? THE PRICE OF MEATS.

There is sharp difference of opinion between the wholesale and the retail dealers in meats, as to the justi fication for an advance in the prices, That tne advance has started, and I that it is going to continue this week, is reported from big consuming centers, and the rapid extension of the quarantine against the foot-and-mouth disease is given as the reason. The quarantine has been carried already to ten States. Nevertheless the agents of the national packers insist that they have taken no steps that warrant a general advance of retail prices and they insist that plenty of dressed meat is coming from the big packing cities, and will continue to come. If there is a general increase of prices, they declare, the retailers will be to blame, and the public will be the victim of a gouge. This is the repetition of an old and too familiar story.

It is a remarkable fact that the advance in meat prices is very commonly the subject of sharp variation of opinion. Time and again, prices have been hoisted, while all the people among whom the responsibility seemed to rest were insisting that they didn't do it. The public manages to pay the or go meatless and wonders who has been doing the damage. Rather strange that invariably there is, such a difficulty locating the blame for a condition that would-seem easy to follow to its source. It is not always the upward movement of prices that seems illogical and inexplainable.

The course of prices for meat on the hoof has been startling this year, especially since the war opened, to many producers of stock. Their expectation of sharp advances and big and sudden profits, as a result of the war, have not been realized. On the other hand they have been distinctly disappointed, and not a few feeders of stock for the market have found themselves loaded up with animals on which they are in danger of losing money. Men who declined to buy feeders a few months ago, believing the market did not insure profits, are in many cases congratulating themselves now. The 'ultimate effect of such an epidemic as the foot-and-mouth outbreak is to increase prices because it must necessarily reduce supplies of stock.

Some will be sacrificed to the disease, some to the rigorous methods necessary for suppression, and some to the psychological conditions incident to such an outbreak: the fact that stock raisers lose their nerve about increasing their herds in the face of such a menace. But on the other hand the immediate effect is very apt to be a rushing of supplies to market, which in the natural course would bring about an immediate reduction of prices, to be followed by an ultimate advance. Analysis of the market results of hog cholera epidemics in particular communities bears out this view. Let cholera become widely epidemic, and farmers will hurry their hogs to market, many of them in unfinished condition. The poor condition, quite as much as the rush of supplies, will tend to bear prices.

Thus comes the immediate depression. But a few months later, when it is realized that the new generation of pigs has been to a considerable extent sacrificed, and when it is apparent also that a great number of hogs have been turned into meat at fractional weights then comes the reaction, and prices bound upward. But the rapidity with which these conditions compensate 'themselves is remarkable. The supply of hogs being much reduced, the price goes up. At the same time corn goes down, because corn's chief market is in the hog-feeding lots.

The farmer sees hogs high and corn low, which is his opportuntiy. He rushes out to buy corn, and strains all efforts to produce a new supply of pigs; and thus with marvelous celerity the balance is restored. It will be much the same in this instance of the foot-and-mouth epidemic. Compared to the whole national supply of cattle, the number immediately involved in this epidemic will not be important. But the psychological effects will be im portant in proportion to the public-! ity given to the trouble.

BIG DISEASE SCORE YET. After he nad been informed that more nersons die in their beds from illness than are killed by trains, Mark Twain once asserted his determination -tp avoid those deadly beds and forever live on the rail." The American Medical Association has compiled tables which indicate this country is losing more than 650,000 persons a vear by preventable diseases. This, as Dr. V. C.

Vaughn, president of that organization, reminds us, in spite of the last half century's progress in medicine. He says the life of man has been prolonged fifteen years. It may take many yaars to reduce our present rate, of deaths from diseases to a minimum, but last fifty years of advance suggest that science, which never rests, will some day make death from preventable disease New and important medical discoveries are made every year. Science, never pausing, never balked, pushes ever onward, and with each discovery adds something to man's longevity. The Medical Association's figures indicate that through carelessness, ignorance, and neglect we are losin more persons annually than are killed in the greatest war by design Ignorance of fhe elemental rules of good health accounts for most diseases; neglect by communities for many more.

The association's statistics should arouse every community to the necessity of stern sanUary legislation and rigid enforcement cf this legislation. Science can work wonders, but its theories will fail in practice unless our medical researchers have the co-operation of every community. Until this 'cooperation is a fact preventable diseases will continue to take away hundreds of thousands in this country. THE RED CROSS WORK. Washington is not contributing to the work of the American Red Cross in the war-stricken countries' in a manner at al creditable to the community.

The local committee placed dime banks in a large number of business establishments, and on Saturday these banks being opened, after five days, were found to contain $6.75. This is a pitiful showing. Inadequacy of the response by the people of Washington is the more impressed, in view of the fact that at the time of the floods In Ohio Washington made a magnificent demonstration of its interest. Is it possible that the WAV is so far away that people arc unable quite to visualize it and its horrors? Or does a general feeling cf antagonism to the war keep people from contributing? Certain it is that Washington has not shown its accustomed disposition to carry its share of humanity's burden. SAVING THE BABIES.

The education of mothers in the care of babies has worked wonders in reducing the infant mortality rate, according to figures issued by the New York department of health. In June, July, and August, of 1913, there were 3,209 deaths of babies. In the corresponding period of this year there were 2,735, a reduction of 474. Dr. Herman M.

Biggs, State commissioner of health, asserts 25,000 babies can be saved in the next five years. If last summer's successful efforts are extended 25,000 will be a low estimate. The rate of deaths to the thousand infants was 134 in June, July, and August, of 1913, outside New York city. In 1914 the rate had dropped to 111. Greater New York's record of deaths in 1913 was 111, and twelve less last summer.

Diarrhoeal diseases killed 1,630 infants last year and 1,139 in 1914. The reduction of deaths in these diseases, which are preventable causes of death, is believed to be due to the campaign of education and to milk stations. By sending nurses when possible, by lectures, and by pamphlets, the health officials have done much to awaken mothers to the fact their babies can easily be saved with proper care in nursing, better methods of preparing food, and increased use of pasteurized milk. Dr. Biggs points out the department's financial status may hamper this work of life saving unless the legislature provides funds for the work.

It is scarcely possible the legislature will fail to recognize the worthiness of the educational campaign. PLACING THE BELGIANS. Great Britain is demonstrating something more than a disposition to manufacture sympathy for its cause by pointing to its succor of the Belgian cause. In the most practical way possible, the British people are trying to help the Belgian refugees. Not only have they taken them into the British national home by tens of thousands, but they are now making organized effort to establish these same unfortunates in independent positions.

An inevitable con sequence will be that when the war is over a large number of Belgians will remain British subjects. Many will be sent to the colonies, where they are greatly needed to establish industrial interests that the colonies want more than anything else. The resources of the United King- 5 dom have never loomed so large and impressive as now. Millions were loaned early to the government of Belgium. It is anounced that a loan of $100,000,000 is to be turned over to Australia.

The huge task of caring for the dependents of soldiers, and the refugees from unfortunate countries, is being faced with confidence and success. We are learning less than we ought to know, about the economic management of the war's problems in the various In France the women, the children, and the old men are carrying on industry and agriculture as if nothing were inter- fering. Germany's wonderful na-, tional organization is doing work al-jmost unbelievable. The nations in i fact are all giving proof of the lim- itless capacity of a great people, i once determined to carry out a great enterprise to succeed. The economic sacrifices needed for such an operation as the war, are always met.

The possibility of meeting them is a moving illustration of the fact that in time of peace the processes of civilization must be extremely wasteful; else our world-wealth would increase vastly faster than it does. FALL OF TSING-TAO. From the beginning there was no room for grave doubt as to the outcome of that very little episode of the war which carried it into the China Sea. Germany had a small force of soldiery to defend its possessions onKiaochow bay, and it was inevitable that the post must fall. The German view was sensible: "the fate of German colonial possessions will be determined on the battlefields, of said a German statesman.

Tsing-tao has fallen before the combined Japanese-British attack, and the war in the Far East is about to enter on a new phase. It will not be safe to assume that Japan's part in it, however, will be any less important. In the first place, Japan's naval force is very much needed atj the moment to hunt down the German cruisers in the Pacific, and to retrieve the disaster that overcame Japan's ally in the fight off Chile. After that, a still more important part may be played by Japan. The Anglo-Japanese alliance is in truth the answer to the threat of a Moslem uprising in the east.

Japan's magnificent modern army is ready for use to suppress any such uprising. It is very plain, now, that Germany guessed wrong as to India. India is going to be loyal to Britain, unless the minority of India's population which is of the Mohammedan faith, can be induced to join the holy war. That is seemingly going to be avoided. If it should come to pass, then Britain would rely on the Japanese army, in the last extremity, to keep the peace.

Turkey and Japan are thus suddenly found face to face, fighting for the domination of the vast, mysterious east. Germany puts forward Turkey as her menace of an Oriental uprising against Occidental civilization and domination; and Britain answers by pressing forward Japan. There will be little uncertainty as to the outcome. Turkey will crumble to pieces, and its empire will be an affair of history, if that test of strength is pressed. Safety Association Hears Elliott's Talk With Commissioner Oliver P.

Newman presiding- the Washington Safety Association held a meeting last night at tho Chamber of Commerce and heard an Interesting talk on the safety first movement by Frederick H. Elliott, general secretary of the Safety First Association of New York. Mr. Elliott is Just concluding an automobile trip of more than 4,000 miles through sixteen States, "during which time be has aided in establishing safety first societies in many cities. He outlined the work of the parent organization in New York and gave many interesting facts and figures showing how many human lives could be saved annually by educating the public to obey the traffic regulations.

Youngest Soldier Has Fought in Seven Battles PARIS. Nov. 8. The youngest soldier In the war is said to be a Servian lad named Dragoljub Pelititich. Though only twelve years old, he Is bald to have already fought in seven engagements.

In tho last lie was wounded. Crown Prince Alexander of Servia learned of the boy's prowess and as a reward for valor nersonallv handed 'ittle Dragoljub his stripes as a corl-' oral, an honor which so pleased the boy that he Is itching to he baok at the front in the performance of his new duties. Nothing Doing. 'What did the doctor say" "He felt of Jones piirso and said there was no hope." Minnesota Minnc- ha-ha. What's on the Program This Week MONDAY.

Meotlnsii. evcnlnc" Alasonlc Dawson, No 16 htanaburv. No IM. Mt Wriion. No.

3 Hiram. No. 10. end An.icoBtla. No 12, Hoal Arch Temple.

No 13. and Columbia. No. 15. Eastern Star Odd Fellows fnlon.

No 11- Covenant. No l.t: LanKdon. No. 'J6. Beacon.

No ir: Esther. No 5. Rebekah IOdce Knizhts of Pythias Decatur. No. 3: Cal-anthe.

No 11: Equal. No 17 National Union East Capitol Council Socialist Party German branch TUESDAY evenlnc: Masonic Federal. No 1. caci.i. No l.

Talcoma. No 2S; Alt lloreb. No 7. and Potomac. No.

3. Rojal Arch Masons. De Alolav. No 4. KniKhts Templar.

Evangelist Chapter Rose Croix. Scottish Rite. Electa, No Bethlehem. No Friendship. No 17.

and Fldelltv. No 19, KnBtern Star Odd Fellows WashlnKton. No Golden Rule No Jl, Amity. No Fred D. Htuatt, No 7.

Encampment KnlRhts of Pythias Webster. No 7. Exiel-faior. No. 14 Capital.

No 24. No "5 Socialist Party Central Committee WEDNESDAY Meetincs. evenlnK: Masonic Harmony. No. KIiik Solomon.

No. 31: Grand Idge school of instruction Alt Pleasant. No. 13. Hoal Arch Alasons: WashlnBton.

No. 1 KniKhts Templar, monthly mectlnc St John's Allte Association Naomi. NO 3 BrooUland, No 11. Eastern Star. Odd FclIouB Eastern.

No. 7. Fedfral City. No 20. Harmony.

No. 9. Friendship. 'o 12. Columbia, No.

1. encampment. li O. Elks Washington Lodue. No 15 Knights of Pythias Mount Vernon No Union.

No. 22: Columbia. No. Frlend- FAVORS CITY FARM, ik XSmHw 'flKr PI 'm. 'Ib'b'b's'b'bIb'b'b'r 'b'b'b'b'H fs's'sW 'VbbbbbbHP J.

H. SHERMAN, Sealer of Weight3 and Measures, who has approved the idea of converting the Anacostia flats into municipal truck farms, the produce from which is to, be ziven inmates of District in-turions. Intimate Friends of Past Thirty-five Years Will Serve as Pallbearers. Funeral services for Henry 'Gannett, president of the National Geographic Society, will be hold this afternoon at 3 o'clock in Hubbard Memorial Hall. "With a room full of floral tributes and an attedance of members of the Cosmos Club, of which Mr.

Gannett was a founder, and of the Geographic Society, the last ceremonies will be Impressive. The pallbearers, who are Col. H. Z. Rlzor, U.

S. retired, H. W. Hen-shaw. Dr.

Frank Baker, Dr. F. W. Clark. S.

N. D. North, William H. Hall, and Walter H. Holmes, are men who have been intimate friends of Mr.

Gannett for the past -thirty-five years. The services will be conducted by the Rev. U. G. B.

Pierce, pastor of All Souls 'Church. The body will be cremated. A In addition to being the chief executive of one of the foremost scientific societies of the world, Mr. Gannett was chairman of tho geographic board and geographer of the Geological Survey, a member of the Royal Scottish Geographic Society, the Society of American Geographers, and other learned organizations. Pennsylvania Society Hears Talk on the War Members of the Pennsylvania Society who attended the meeting of the organization at Pythian Tempje last night were entertained with an interesting talk by the Rev.

Dr. John T. Huddle, pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, on his experiences In Europe after the outbreak of the war. Dr.

Huddle styled his talk "Innocents Abroad in War Time." Miss Anna McCausIand. Miss Elinor Slater, Miss Marie Church, Miss Genevieve Fegan, Miss Helen Hodges, Mrs. Melville Lindsay, and Arthur Middle-ton partlcpated in the musical program. Announcment was made that Frank L. Crilly is to be chairman of the committee In charge of the entertainment program for the meeting on December 5.

The committee in charge of the program last night included M. T. Brit-taln, chairman; Mrs. M. I.

Brittain, Charles E. Brown, John L. Brown, William P. Bucker. William E.

Buf-fington, Clarence W. Broomall, Mrs. M. L. Church.

Miss Gertrude Borst. Miss Kate G. Bright, Miss M. L. Buckley, Mrs.

Rebecca D. Byers, Miss Ollce Bailsman. Miss Gertrude Chalmers, and Mr. and Mrs. A.

Y. Casanova. Football Player Felled And Both Legs Broken NEW YORK, Nov. Unconscious from a blow on tho head and with both legs broken, Lnox Day, fullback of the Yonkors High school football team. Is in St.

John's Hospital He had tackled a plaor of the New Rochelle team at Columbia oval, yesterday, and other boys had fallen on top of them. Day Is eighteen, and lives at S3 Post street, Vonkcrs. ship Temple. No, Incton Company. 3.

Pvthlan Sisters: Wash-No 1. Uniform Rank, en- tertalnnlent and dance National Union -Postoffice Council. Councll: Interior Socialist Partv Italian branch THIKSDAY AltetltiRs. evenlnc: AIasonl The New Jerusalem. No 9 Georffe C.

Whitinir. No 21. Temple-Noyes. No Z2-Washington. No 2.

Royal Arch William Hunt. No 16. Eastern Star. Odd Fellows No. 10: Excelsior No 17 Knlchts of Pvthias Harmonj.

No. 21; Business meeting and rehearsal. Knights of Khorussan National Union Washington Council: Fraternal Council Socialist Parn- FRIDAY AleetinsK evenlnc Masonic St. John's. So.

11 Euieku No 4 Capitol. No 11. Royal Arch Aldsoiis Til konia. No 1-'. and i-t John's Eodse Cuap- ter.

No IS. Eastern Star Ond Fellow Central No 1C. und Phoenix No. 2S. 1- Jletropolis.

No. Knights of Pthias Svrarusians. No 10 Rathbone-Superior. No 20: Rathbone Temple. No.

S. Pvthlan Sisters National I'ntpn -National Capital Council. AloKlnlev Council; Georgetown Conn, il SATURDAY ovenltiK. Odd Fellows Canton Washington No 1. Patriarchs Alllltant Knights of Pythias Alonthlv meeting Relief Bureau National Union Columbia Council.

perell Council. Socialist Party Soelal and luncheon. FUNERAL FOfinn Week's Summary For Your Scrapbook SUNDAY, November I. Turkey prepares for battle and allies' ambassadors leave ISonstanlin.Qple, "TJie Russian troops are sixty-five miles from the Milesian Jjae the advance toward the west in pursujt of the Germans after Jfrejr retreat from the Vistula. The ministerial-crisis whjch caused he split in the Italian cabinet is repprted to have been bought bout by the proposal df the minister of finance hat jaxes jincreased one-tenth to meet the increased military expendtur.e.

Seyere fighting is reported around Ypres and to tfce sotttb ,9 Arr.as, MONDAY, NoVembe- 2.U&y and Qrm Britain decide to stand together to protect their Arjcan colonies against Turkey. Russians and Turks are repprje.d in battle near Trebizond, in Armenia. The battle jn west centers around Ypres. The French make advances jat seyer.al points on the line, notably to the north of Soissons. It is estimated that 1,000,000 homes in Belgium have been so rayaged by war that they are uninhabitable.

There is practically no food in the country. The.Rocke- feller Foundation announces the intention to spend millions to relieve war horrors in Belgium. TUESDAY, November 3, The English cruiser Good Hope is losf off the coast of Chile in battle with German fleet, and cruiser Monmouth is beached. Rear Admiral Cradock, in command of the Britishfleet, goes down with his ship. The British cruiser Minerva bombards and captures the Turkish port of Akabah and the allies' fleet begins the bombardment of the Dardanelles forts.

WEDNESDAY, November 4. English battleships and cruisers scour the North Sea for German squadron which slipped out from Wilhelmshaven for a raid on English coast. The torpedo gunboat Halcyon is fired upon by German warships off Yarmouth. New Italian cabinet is formed. THURSDAY, November 5.

Great Britain declares war on Turkey and the Island of Cyprus formally annexed. The Russians attack the Turks near Ardost, advance into Armenia, engage the Ottoman forces west of Kars and seize Khorassan, Karaderbent, Diyadin and Bayazid. The Germans are thrown back north of Arras. An artillery duel rages in center of French battle line. German and Turkish influences are reported strongly at work to bring Persia into active participation in the war' against Russia and England.

FRIDAY, November 6. Tsing-tao surrenders to Japanese and British. Russians report two victories, the recapture of Jaroslav' from the Austrians arfd defeat of the Germans in Poland, by which the Russians win base of River Warthe and are in position to threaten Breslau and Posen. German cruiser Yorck sunk by a German mine near Bremen with 266 men, the commander and 384 men being rescued by another ship. Turks reported to have seized two British ships at Smyrna and to be bombarding the port of Batum.

SATURDAY, November 7. German admiralty announces that a German cruiser shelled Yarmouth, England, on November 3. Germans maintain vigorous offensive at almost every point of the battle line in France and Belgium. The Japanese ambassador at Washington announces that his government will occupy Tsing-r tao jointly with the British and that the territory will not be.re-turned to China until after the close of the war. Poland is reported free of German forces.

Austria and Germany are said to have fallen back on the Silesian line to make a strong stand against the Russian advance. Evening Services in tbe Gburcbes ENEMIES OF ALCOHOL The Rev. Jay Stocking, First Congregational Church, Tenth and streets northwest, 8 p. m. SERMON The Rev.

Eugene A. Hannan, St. Martin's Roman Catholic Church, North Capitol and treets, 7:30 p. m. A BESIEGED MISSION The Rev.

F. M. McCoy, Waugh Methodist Episcopal Church, Third and A streets northeast, 7:30 p. m. SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF FIFTY YEARSEMBERSHIP IN UNION Judge A.

S. Taylor, Union Methodist Episcopal Church, Twentieth street near Pennsylvania avenue northwest, 8 p.m. OUR SEMI-BARBARIC CIVILIZATION The Rev. J. W.

Frizzell, Ingram Memorial Congregational Church, Tenth street and Massachusetts avenue northeast, 7:30 p. m. SERMON The Rev. John T. Huddle, St.

Paul's Lutheran Church, Eleventh and streets northwest, 8 p. m. MESSAGES OF THE MASTERS: DANTE, THE POET OF THE DAWN The Rev. Earle Wilfley, Vermont Avenue Christian Church, Vermont avenue north of street northwest, 7:30 p. m.

SERMON Canon Williams, Washington Cathedral, Bethlehem Chapel, Mt. St. Alban, 4 p. m. THE BOY THAT SPOILED THE HOME The Rev.

James Shera Montgomery, Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church, John Marshall place and street northwest, 8 p. m. SERMON The Rev. Henry H. Rancic, Grace Reformed Church, Fifteenth and 0 streets northwest, 7:30 p.

m. SHE JILTED HIM AND HE The Rev. E. Hez Swem, Northeast Baptist Temple and Twelfth streets northeast, 8 p. ra.

SERMON The Rev. Joseph E. Williams, St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Eighteenth street near Dupont Circle northwest, 5 p. m.

MISSIONS HOME AND FOREIGN R. B. Glenn, Central Presbyterian Church, Sixteenth and Irving streets northwest, 8 p. m. MOSES' DECISION The Rev.

George A. Miller, Ninth Street Christian Church, Ninth and streets northeast, 7:45 p. m. SERMON The Rev. Henry Anstadt, Luther Place Memorial Lutheran Church, Fourteenth and streqts northwest, 7 p.

m. THE MAN WHOM GOD CALLS A FOOL The ReV. Barnard Braskamp, Gur- ley Memorial Presbyterian Church, Fourteenth and Meridian streets northwest, 8 p. m. SERMON The Rev.

W. I. McKenney, Ryland Methodist Episcopal Church, Tenth and streets southwest, 8 p. m. THE PERSONAL TOUCH The Rev.

Hinson V. Howlett, Second Baptist Church, Fourth street and Virginia, avenue southeast, 7:30 p. m. SERMON The Rev. John E.

Briggs, Fifth Baptist Church, near Seventh street southwest, 7:45 p. m. WHAT SHALL WE BELIEVE ABOUT SALVATION? The Rev. H. E.

Brundage, Eckington Presbyterian Church, North Capitol, corner Florida avenue and street, 7:45 p. m. I'OJtXftY AND RELIGION W. D. MacKenzie, All Souls' Unitarian Church, ftwteenth and streets norihv est, r.

m. lfCtaf tO TELL A CHRISTIAN The Rev. F. W. Johnson, Grace Baptist Church, Ninth and streets southeast, 7:45 p.

m. THE PRIESTLY FORGIVENESS OF SINS The Rev. T. E. Davis, Westminster Memorial Presbyterian Church, Seventh and streets southwest 7:45 p.

m. MASTER OR MASTERING The Rev. J. J. Muir, Temple Baptist Church, Tenth and streets northwest, 7:45 p.

m. THE DAY IS AT HAND The Rev. Howard J. Bell, Fourth Presbyterian -Church, Thirteenth and Fairmont streets northwest, 7:30 p. m.

LESSONS FROM THE WAR The Rev. S. A. Bower, Northminster Presbyterian Church, Eleventh street and Rhode Island avenue northwest, 7:45 p. m.

THE QUESTION THAT PUZZLES PREACHERS The Rev. John Compton Ball, Metropolitan Baptist Church, Sixth and A streets northeast, 7:45 p. m. SERMON The Rev. H.

S. France, Trinity Methodist Episcopal ChuJi, Fifth street and Pennsylvania avenue southeast, 7:30 p. m. THE OLD SINNER ZACCHEUS The Rev. J.

Harvey Dunham, Western Presbyterian Church, near Nineteenth street northwest, 8 p. in. MAIL BAG (From The Times Readers.) ConaosBlcaitaa (a tha aCall Bs must fee written oa one aid at tiia papar only; nmat aot exed 200 words is lagtb and maat alcned with nam and address of th fender, Tha publication of letters la Tne Tlnioe Mall Baa; doea not mean tbe by The Times of the Spinions of tfce writer. Tse Kail Be Is sa opes tortaa where the dtteeas of Waanlnxtcm caa anas a-ae sueeUeaa. Aaother Smoker Heard From.

To the Editor of the Mall Bajcr Allow me to add another "Amen" to the plea appearing- in your columns ror PJ-TSlon for passengers who enjoy L. K. Another Bjost For a To the Editor of the Mall Bag: All honor to two other conductors on the Mt. Pleasant line who are courteous and helpful to the inflrm and women, but neither has anythfntr on No. ttl for being polite and aiding; man, woman or child needing any assistance while a passenger.

No. 131 is never addressed by a woman without his politely tipping his hat and no woman ever has to struggle aboard or from a car unaided if he Is around. There are a number of conductors on all the lines -who are a credit to manhood, but there are chances for improvement on all lines. BOOSTER. Tribute To Dr.

Gannett To the Editor of the Mall Bajc: It is a source of gratification to tbe thousands of friends and admirers of Henry Gannett to notice the eulogy In the editorial columns of The Times. To know Dr. Gannett as a friend was to love. him to appreciate-his marvelous iworkas a geographer was to admire him as a scientist. He was one of the greatest men of all time in his particular line of endeavor, and when he passed away the scientific world lost one.

of Its most valuable while Washington was deprived of a useful and thoroughly representative citizen. G. C. AKER. Spitting Menace In Buildings.

To the Editor cf tho Mall Bag: A. K. in last Sunday's Times, called attention to the condition of som of. our streets, sidewalks, and cars, due ta the noriobservance of the antl-splt-ting regulations. New, if there are regulations against spitting in the streets, cars, etc, there shovld be a.

regulation against the practice in public buildings. In one particular public building- I know that cuspi-dots are placed in the rooms and halls, but have seen some men who prefer to spit on the floor. In another room, where it is an "unsanitary" proceeding to dust with a feather duster, a young man is allowed to pass through, several times daily, and he rarely falls to spit on the bare floor. A clerk has to leave affairs of state and clean up after this man because many outsiders have business with this office and are received In this room. It seems to me that the Health Department should do something In this matter of spitting: in closed-up rooms In public buildings.

It Is rather amusing in a way that we are called on bo many times to subscribe to tuberculosis preventive organizations they should look after such conditions as are described above. DEPARTMENT WORKER. Urges Free Admission To Mt. Vernon. To the Editor of the Mall BaKi Can one of your correspondents possibly tell me why visitors and native-residents as well are.

forced to pay admission totrthe tomb of "Washington? When a newcomer starts out to see tbe sights he timidly inquiries, "How much must I pay to go into this or that building, or park, or. other point oc interest." And his eulde says, tut, tut. you pay everything is free in Washington. Of course, the first thine the visitor wants to ols to go to Mt. Vernon: and on arriving there Is held up for the admission fee.

"Oh, yes," you say, -I forgot to tell you that everything is free EXCEPT THE TOMB OF WASHINGTON." When asked why this is you say that the fees are used for the upkeep of the buildings and grounds. "Why doesn't the Government pay- theso bills as it does for other public buildings and grounds? why aren't less vital points of interest put on tho list? STRANGER Believes Chivalry StiU Lives. To the Editor of the Mall Ban: I cannot agree with George P. Cross iews regarding the removal of one's hat when in an elevator with a wvnan. It seems to me only an act of staple courtesy and unless a man is so oql or frail as to endanger his health by taking off his hat, there is no excuse for failure.

The world would be better if these little courtesies were more generally observed. As long" as they require so little effort, why not observe them? G. K. S. Insists That Milkmen Are Too Noisy.

To the. Editor of the Mail Bac: Just a word for "Washington Dairj-man." who writes in Friday's Times In reply to my letter regarding the unnecessary noises made by the milkmen of Washington. I know that the milk must be deli-ered In the early morning. "Washington Dairyman;" I also realize that a milK wagon Is not a rubber-tired limousine, and I have not the slightest doubt of your sincerity when you say "any one of the milkmen would take other jobs if they could get them." But since the "other jobs" don't seem to be forthcoming, should the Washington public be made to suffer? Delivering milk at 2 or o'clock in the morning necessitates no more noise than delievrlng It at ,2 or 3 o'clock in the afternoon, if the dairyman deliver it with their hands and not with th voices. And if the dairymen of ou-clty don't like their jobs I would suggest that they tell us in a more digr-nified way than this early mornimt sleep-Killlnjr domot3tration.

It is perfectly legitimate for us to hold on to our insomnia and our bad liver and nervousness and srouch and still ex pect to ome milk occasionally at "nine cents oer qi.Art because there's not much tjrass for the cattle now and we have to feed them." DISTURBED CITIZEN" Opposes Hat Raising in Elevators. To the lltor of the Mall The letter from a "Suffragist" published a few days ago was one of the moat sensible I have read for some time. The absurd custom of taking one's hat off in an elevator when a lady enters that conveyance has always appeared to me to be a symbol of exagseratn politeness. As A. B.

Beardsle sayw. "Does any one of the male population ever dream of taking off his hat when woman enters a street car or a rail-wav train?" Does he? Of course not. He' would be looked upon ns a lunatic. And is there any difference between a street cur and an elevator? They are both of them public conveyances. Before writing this letter I spoke to my wife on the subject.

She says it has niwnvs been a source of consider able embarrassment and annoyance to her whenever she has entered an eler ator half tilled witn men. none oi Whom she has ever met before, and Who, immediately upon her entry, remove their hats. In future, she says, she shall thank the gentlemen passengers for their courtesy, and request them to replace their headgear, as she Is- not in svmpathy with such a senseless COMMON SE.NSK, (V t'.