Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1922, Page 6

6 THE EVENING ST AR'ju!llty the sinking of the Lusitanta CWith Moruing Edition. jthat affidavits were offéred to prove ___________,_.__‘s‘“"” the presence on board of guns and WASHINGTON, D. C. explosives. It was contended that these high explosives, carried in large MONDAY December 4, 1922 sponsible: Hud he been in actun! com- mand the Germah dieaster would produbly have come sooner than it did. His fault, héwever, was that of intrepidity and rashness, and not, as in Andrew's case, that of timidity. z-officio military leaders are never entirely satisfactory. In olden ‘times royalty was competent at arms, but nowadays soldiership ls not synony- quantity, were the cause of the ship's epeedy destruction and, thesefcre, the THEODORE W. NOYES......Editor | heavy loas of life. c—————————————————| Just why this report has been s0 The Evening Star Newspaper Company’ , & o e e enylrania Ave, | 1018 Kept secret is not now plain. At 130 Na<tan Kt the time it was regarded as part of | mous with rank. The case of Andrew Earte e B Tt London. Eugtana, | the dlplomatic record, and perhaps|is not unusual, save In that he was there was good rcasen for withholding + moalng | it. The American pubiic mind was S Satty omy. w!".::.‘.'.“" | greatly inflamed over the destruction bt only. 20 conts pef awnth. OF | of the ship. The issue of war with e 1i, or telepiwne Main 3 r o BT e em 7 el % kTS e e | Germuny” was acute.” Publication at B8/ ofchehmanth that tine might have turned the scale Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. |[in favor of conflict earlier than it ac- Maryiand ard Virginia. tually eventuated. In other words, the actually intrusted with a responsible military duty. His plea of Ineom- petence has saved his skin, and inci- Gentally -has spared Gregce from an- other - shameful tragedy, although it leaves him a rather sorry figure be- fore the world. ——————— e B e Liis Eveni ing Star, with e Sund deltvared by re Daily and Sunday..1yr. $5.40; 1mo. 70c | United States might have -been . Conf Daily only. 157 $6.00: 1mo. 80 11 ugnt into the war twenty months STemObY Bun only $2.40; 1 mo., 200 There will be other conferences of earlier hud this explicit showing of the Lusitania’s character as a mer- chantman been spread before the peo- ple of this country. ! However ohstinate the opinion held {in Germany that the Lusitania was the so-called progressives.. The one Just closed was but a starter. * Necessarily. Mr. La Follette and bis friends hold that a good deal in our public affairs is awry. Their de- clared purpase ix to set all right, mo.. 850 mo., §0¢ mo., 2Be Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press in cxcinslvely entitled All Other States. to the uwe for republ'cation of mil news "'"—Izu‘lm‘d and therefore proper prey for 3 D Tt e o puby | the undersea boats, this report should |* Thi will take time. Even the cata: ¥ hetefn. Al rights of publication or]d,m. away all doubts in other minds | !08uing of the subfects to be taken aiaisal disontehen horeln are aisn recerved. | up will require research. These conferences qught all to be held in this town. In the truest sense, Washington Is headquarters. Not only does Congtess sit here, but many men of consequence in our natlonal busi-; ness life, our political life, our educa- tional life and our sociological life, gather here from time to time to con.| sider things for “the goud of the order.” And, of courde. these conferences will aecaslon conferences of those who differ with Mr. La Follette and his tefends. Conferences may tread upon each other's heels, o fast may be the and permit the writing of history re- garding this abominable crime. A service has how been rendered by the disclosure of ‘the official findings reached at the time with all eesential facts and records available. The District’s Business. In their annual teport to Congress District Coramissioners set forth interesting sutnmary the activities the municipal ge fiscal o Merchant Ships for Defense. part of the annual report of the Secretary of the Navy will be of mgre tnterest to the public than those sec tions which deal with the necessity of ade- quate merchant marine. Mr. Denby and the Navy general board consider this question. solély from thu- stand- | necessity of following. point of national defense. The need| No matter. The bloe systemn of do-l of an American merchant marine to!ing Lusiness is new, and should be @ive our industries a fair chance at|well Hlustrated. Let us all see how it world trade, or the necessity of sal-|is arranged and how it works. vaging our taree-billiondollar invest-! Tae Sixty-eighth Congress is certain ment in ships and lessening its pree-lto Le a strenuous body. On its card | ent enormous drain on the Treasury | will be many gquestions of ohe kind did not enter into their calculations. | or another. They arrived at the conclusion thit a|be politic ! aerchant marine is necessary because | with a presidential campaign opening, | ! fighting ships cease to be fig! un‘z!'xhsy will get and Keep busy is clear i 2 ships uniess supply shipes are available ) fence the more conferring ticre is dm_‘x‘i’o:‘ .";"“"‘:;;‘m:i‘n; o ;;:: to keep them in fighting condition. | the likeller will it Le that the lf:gisln-! propriations ameuniing to $22,620..1 rhere is, perhape. no subject tiot sceured will eome up to the needs | { more vital interest to the Na of the country at a time when the best | s ol dins 1 partment,” saye the Secretary. “nor i i cipts and expendi- ures with a minimum of spechic and d tecommendations. The District ‘nf Columbia has be- e a complex municipal crganiza- i, invelving the activities of several 1d porsons and calling for an ou annyal -expenditure of many miilions. It cares for a community of close 2 430,000 peopic, and it has in ad- ion, in effect, the carc of the in- & of the faderal government lo- cated here. For this is largely an offi- il community, and it is impossible 1otdifftorentiate beiween the strictiy 1 and the federal work of the ipal government. neral summary of the a. of the Disirict during tie fiscal year | ! e = vities 1 i {one to which more earnest attention : is given than the re-establishment of health and eanitation. & 3 ! the Aneric: highwa; £2.366.040.20: X e N ities and co ‘ahflfl) of the Nav 17 Two Veterans. Tt i geldom a state loses #o heavily | jat one time in the services of distin- 2uished sons as Tlinols has donhe in the retirement of Mr. Cannon and the miscelianeous, $115.485.4 public service enterpr iaterest and debt, $97 Administration of t compiex or- sanizalion is intrusted to a board of Commissioners, two of them residents ; death of Mr. Mann. Mr. Cannon's re- tirement is so near it muy be referred { to as almost an accomplished fact. Mr. Cannon dates back ko far, he is ican people heartily coneur, that the Urited States Naty should be second to none in the world. This govern- ment and people are willing to limit jo B8 oo | Maval armanients ag rapidly and associable with the fathers of the re- .f'the Dis.c{‘; m; lt!fl.un\]hh.an:‘ ‘ielrxi‘-nsh' 2s other nativns ure rubilcan party, and as a national| B e officerof e tomy M nese e » line with us, but ihey | leislator has had to do with much of f‘o'“f‘““‘l"“"” _""‘_‘ e _u'”'are net willing that. either through | tie Party’s congressional history. He BETEED el S e e e shortsighted: a mine of political information, Public Ctilities Commi ey en T pocs :erfean Navy | Which for vears has been at the erv. | N “f:f"t::: n’m Tmd heaith f Shail Grop o'a positiun of Inferiurity. | lev of his party and the country. Hiel ;:‘sdvefl‘;o,r-. &(‘du.r‘a:j Soaeon 14 Nart canst 1o any in the world Is | counsel has always been prized, and T vty Tins are ahaceed | TOW an established nationai progiam, |always available. He is leaving the Sm o0y b ciacily, They aredl &8} .1d no consequential voice ia raised | fleld with a unique record for gor- with & weighty rsjp:ns ility in Y‘i:l!r-- in opposition to it, jous and effective partisanship, and a o3ing the difficult financial poblem} =y ) o to have a Navy sccond to | personal popularity knowing no party all that the District in its peculiar re- 5 i Ui none fighting ships must be suppie, | lines ";“:""’ ‘:n:i” federal SOvernment| . .ted by ausMiary shipe. If they are| Mr. Mann als . was a veleran on} “.r’mm_”v'e‘” an annua: repart is sent| 70U 10 be so supplemiented, we had | Capitol Hll, a most usefal leglulator { i Cmg‘: 665 Fabilahed u\; Seani e | Detter construct our figiting ships oniand personally exceedingly popular. | & : a foundation of dry land out in the | For mastery of congreskional detail, ,,“;:: ‘:;‘x:‘ o gl;:z:a:p:rw;:‘: sk | prairie country. They could be equal-jand the abiiity to auply the treasure which these faithful public scrvante! 'y @dmired there as monuments tolat any time and in every emergency, Sl ")mr 4 | American ingénuity and enterprise, | e has probably not left his equal on Tack of the record Hes| > S = s = and would be about equaliy_ as effec-| cither side of the ehamber. a vast volume of details. The sum-| e s sz o Sty i tive as agencies of national defense. mary wlthin & (ew pinted paess df lchoson. and is of the sume political i . 3 e D 1 Algo, they would be safer from de- the year's work does not indicate the o (i n "ot the hands of a possible | falth. Mr. Mann's will be chosen in numerous hearings and conferences o o " | the spring. and will probably be a re- iHmE are hetd, the Eyeat smpenditwS| <ol publican. Both men will, of course, | f time and of energy required, the have to make their way as beginners, | wultitude of details that, despite the T Both WUl he Pomciate and Rabe subdivision of woek Wil &n cfieint reason to congratulate themeelves if administrative organization, must be they hold favor measurably as long as It is therefore appropriate|UrY: none of which would be returned plish measurably as much in the pub- 5 an cccasion for Washington |7 the way of peadetime eetvice: dut | lic's benalf. express anpreciation of thejUniess the American people have sud- T e of ite Commissioners and their | GeNIF been bereft of the common sensé | Abolition of the electoral college cing devetion of themselves to| Which Das made this nation great,; would deprive a number of estimable s jthat is not the way it will be done.| prominent citizens of their only oppor- 10n the whole, Secretary Denb¥’s Yé-|tunity of bringing themselves into na- = T ‘ |port and the recommendations of the | tignal attention. Crime is increasing in Washington. | Navy general board have given op- \s popul grows larger, metro-| jonente T ministration’s P . il dmasriages hed inill e et o eraer| ~1n the strict literal sense of the tropolitan benefits assert them- s word, everybody ought to be a pro- vee < Political recognition of .women in :;*f:‘;f;o;,‘;:‘;f‘?o“‘"“‘ thihelelrasd e e, Turkey glver rise to hopes of a new i ry mow and thén an eminent|system of government that will bs lawyer grows sb indignent with the | more reasonable. In no place on earth T'nited States Attorney General that|has the inferior male distinguished e feels as if he could hold the job{himself by more inferior results. Letter himself. 1 . we could scfap our mer- chant fleet and build and maintain ]!pe(‘ial naval auxiliarics, which would | serve no useful purpose except in the i emefgency of war, and would call for 0 work SHOOTING STARS. BY PRILANDER JOHNEON. The Mighty Myth. Old Santa Claus is but a myth; Ona to amuse the children With. Yet mortals come and disappear While Santa Claus is always here. The duel has long been abolished, ‘The Sultan of Turkey is still travel- ing on a “don't get hurt” schedule. The Lutitania Report. Tt is, perhaps, too much to expect that the publication of an official re- port made ut the time of the Lusi- tania’s destruction in 1915, regarding the question of her armament and cargo, should definitely close this mats as a cause of ¢ontroversy. For the rman mind has been so fully set on e subject that the charge that the ~hip carried guns and troops and ex- 1losives has become a tradition in that coutitry. The report just given out by 1he collector of the port of New York 2t the time, made to the Secretary of the Treasury in June, .1915, in re- i Bo long as little ones draw near, £0 long a8 grown folks hold them dear, 80 long as Nature keeps har laws, There’s bound to be & Santa Claus. Cherished Associations, “'Our defoated colleAgue will ut laaat have the pleasure of being home again among old friends.” “It'1l be no pleasure;,” replied Sana. tor Sorghum. “I c¢an think of nothing 1'd enjoy less than :not coming to Washington ' to be ‘among my old says the fact that there enemies.” Jud Tunkins ain't any use in kickin’ 16 one of the l 1 ; 1 but the physical perils of statesman- expected to face a fos's pistol bail, but any member of Congress fs likely to be hit by & friend's golf bail. *{The real things of earth are made Imagination’s cunning sufe. , motormaniacs with reminders of the|Creates the joys that must endure. speed attained by Eome star In space, where there are no traffic restrictions. number of acoldents, fifty-one more should be fmmediately provided for. R e Andrew Pleads the “Baby Act.” ishment more severe than banishment sponse to & réquest by tie President.|cess of his’plea -before the court- tes that when the Lusitania sailed | trartial that he was énly a figurehead from New York on- the 1st of May,fas a milltary leader, and that the re- of any caliber or description an an¥{itdops under his nominal command deck, mounted or unmounted, masked 'rested - upon others. Ho had been or unmask that she carrisdl tojhamed. to léad an army corps, he 1 | ship have not disappeared. No one is All unsubstantially to fade. Astronomers continue to depress tha If one Bafety week can reduce the ° Prince Andrew's escape from pun. from Greece is attributed to the wue: 1915, on her last trip, she had no nné{‘a gponsibility for the conduet of the troops“and no group or groups, no;urged, merely’ because he was brother things he’s kickin’ about. body or organization of passengers as|te the king, and pleaded that it was Musings of a Motor Cops: such, with or without uniforms, end|not fair to treat 'a prince the same|The ktuff called‘M“‘gas” which now ro explosives, the only munitions oflas a1 general. ‘The specific charge they sell SR 18 Weak in punch, but #trong in smell. And this is what, brings most regrete— The more it costs, the worse It gets. war on board being 5,400 cases of am- | against him was that during an ad- munition which did not contain cx»[\'ance in Asia Minor Prince Andrew plosives within the interpretation of jrefused to obey an order to attack. the statutes and the regulations as;The prosecution admitted that he was construed by the Départment of Coni- [ unable to realize the responsibilities nerce under rulings rendered in 1911.|of his position, and tonsequentis dermany contended, as @n excuse | could not be treated as a soldier. who for the sinking of.the Lusitania, with ; led ‘before tlfe enemy after disobey- the destruction of over 1,000 lives, in-{ing the order of his superior. «luding more than 100 Ameériomns,| During the great war the Crowh 1hat the ship carried guns. explosives | Prince of Germany was, supposed to and troops; that she was therefore a|be in command of, a section of the ship of war and hence @ legitimate | kaiser's army, but it was well knowa cbect of attack; that her passengers|that real soldiers were actually .the were on board &t their own risk, havs|directing factors. He rather faricied ¢ ing been warned that she was possible | himself as a soldier, it fs true, but 8¢<| néwadays,” said Uncle Ebén. “‘Hon- préy to the submarines. , | spite his rank there were ways of get-; esty is not only debest policy, but it's $0 persistent was the attéript tolting rosults for which ho was not re-14lso te best politics.” ) / b Nothing Gratis. “These city folks make a heap 0 fun of us agrioculturists,” said Sf Sim- 1 “Yes,” replied Farmer . Corntossel. “One o’ these days ‘we'll have to get together an' charge 'em extra for beln® entertainers as .wall as pro- ducers.” . i phe ““1t don't Beom easy to ‘buy. office : : . THE EVENING. STAR, WASHINGT HERE and THERE in WASHINGTON | tnto bemng. { Edisonian charge that jity Is representative of the 8Y “THE NE past few years have not been particularly happy ones for the majority of kings. One monarch, howsever, who has not been dethroned ta Homer P. 8ny- dor of the thirty-third congressional district of New York. He Is the bi- cycle king of the world today, and hag been for wome time pi back of this atatement is the story of a grim determination to occupy the leading place in the making of bieycies, a reallsation of the hope that came into being many years ago. The man who Is today the acknowl- edged leader of the bicyelé world was, lke a g00d many other men, born a poor boy. His birthplace Is Amsterdam, N. Y. He started to con. tribute to the famlly exchequer at the tender ags of nine, securing & fob, not & position, in the textile mill lo- cated in the town of his birth. The youngster knew ho hours. \When the allotted period of the day's work had been finished he was to bde found studylng the other pleces of ma- chinery in the mill. The result was that he waw foreman of the knitting department of the knit goods section at twenty years of age, and from that time on hix rise was raptd. At twen- tysthres he was superintendent ot the Saxony Woolen Company, which con- cefn was the first manufacturer of | the knit type of underwear for men and wotnen. Just beforé he was made | ‘superintendent he invented a device | that was an fmprovement on the knit- . ting wachines then fn use. This reully may be countéd as the turning point in his cureer, for from then on better knitting machines of all kinds sprank Many will remenber that it was' along in 1860 that the bicycle craze ' swept over the country. The little| Amsterdam lad, now in a position to : really do things, went into the manu- | facture of bicycles as u side line, but, appreclating the advantages that the bleycle offered not only as a means | | Ingx i tye dozens of enterprises ‘cesrful lines D. C., MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 19 MAJOR” bodles and as a splendid medium for healthful exercise, d2voted a large portion of his energy to the making 6f good bicycles. It was not long sefore his bicycle factory was turning out thousands of machines every year. Not only was he able to become the leader of this linc of industry, but he familiarized himself with every phase of the construction in bicycles and there was not a bench ‘in his great shops that he could not fill as an ex- pert workman. He is directly re- sponsible for many haprovements and refinements in the commodity he sells, and old-timers in the shops are prone to comment upon the excellent work that “Homer" always did, for today, as in the beginning, he is “Homer"” with them. Thé majority of men after having become'a King In any line of business ®encrally are content to it down and clip eoupona for the rest of their lives, but not the one who at the age of nine entered the ranka of l i, 'NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM James J. Da- THE IRON PUDDLER. i Com-+ vis. (The Bobbs-Merrill pany). H6é used to be an iron puddler. Today he {8 a member of President Hardiag's oabinet—Secretary of La- bor James J. Davis. : Much earlier he wis a reluétant emigrant from Wales, a small bundle of resixtant boy—aged eight—who had to bs pulled by the hetls out from under the bed to get his start for America. . x x % In this book, James J. Davis—cabi- net officer, master iron worker. immi- grant—links up these widely meparate points through the story of his own ife. EREE What is an “iron puddier”? Briefly, and most superficially, it is & man—in this particular case A boy—standing. atripped to the waist, sooty and sweaty, before the open door of & “seven-times heated” furhace. In his hand is & heavy iron rabble, a paddie. With thix he stirh end mixes And nries and prods the holling “plas. He Is simply helping the fierce heat whose work it s to hunt out each corner of the mass and to chase from labor in order that the money for |t averything that ia not the pure !ron the family budget might be forthcom- | itrelf. "Thia not done, iron would be ing. Being tho leader of one Induatry | brittie, unfit foe was just a simple thing to him, and AR noon s he was financially able he became Intercated fn different ven- tures. with the result that today he is fAinancinlly & part owner in dozens of different lines of Industry throughout the country. He &luo occuples a prom- inent posttion fn banking circles, and while it is true that all of his hold- are noi of the majority character, he is comfortably connected with many suc- of bukines: It sbme {human dynamo you will learn more about bleycles than you would if you read a dozen technical journals de- voted to the trade, and I perchance the conversation should turn around to the bieycle as a mefilum of preserve Ing the health or regaining the same, you will ind that inside of five mine utes he has convinced you that it is your duty to yourself to take up the Among the members wmiof quick transportation but also us sport that will bring the color back | ns of high rank; and that,|® developer of imperfectly formed \to your chesks, i EDITORIAL DIGEST The Jury Disagrees With Messrs. | Edison and See. t Sex equality has taken some preuty long strides In the pust few days. It} is now estabilshed thal college men | are lagy, uhlmaginative sud good-for- | nothing, and that coilege women are ignovant, swaggering and good-for- nothing. That seems to reduce them | to a common denominator once and for all. Provided, of course, tuat we accept as applying to college men the opinicn of one gentieman who, “as an authority on education.” is, according to the Worcester Telegram, “an elec- irical wizard,” and that of another gentleman who. the 6 maintains, “qualiies as aa expert onl educational matters by a long and ubeful career manufaciuver ui' soy ! as 3 college women are com Canvass of editorlal opinion. ed a3 Iaw and gospel on every o.her #udject.” and lems of culture” he is “sadly out of his field” The Detroit Free Pres also feels that hen he discusses | educational questions he is relatively | ian amateur.” For this reason editors ! g are not dlaposed to take seriously the | “the colisel men doesn't want a job with work in it, ekpecially If it is dirty work, | and trhen he does get a position he expects to be appointed foreman at the end of <ix week As the Pittsburgh Leader explains the broadside, “Mr. Edison has fun into eome college men who have kiven him a bad Impreasion. He translates that fmpression into a con- vietion that the college men Le has met are répresentative of college men | everywhere, and that thelr mental- | results | of colleglate educational methods.” ! Nevartheloss, the. Press of the same | city contends, s criticlsms of the colleges are something to be seri- ously pondered. not sneered at.” for, the ‘St. Paul Pioneer-Press says, in | his contention that “the college of | today is engaged in the manufacture | of dilettantes he is undoubtedly not far from the truth.” 1 But in that regard the colleges are certainly not wholly to blame, the Brooklyn Eagle replies, since it fs: because “the epirit of the age has! changed ana college boys are aftected | by it like other bo; that there is | & prevalent repugnance to hard work, ! for colleges do ndt “ehcourage idle- nese.” What Edison charges against the college in this matter, says the Columbus’ Dispatch, “is a human, not 4 college frallty.” “College train- ing does mueh for m man.* but the New Bedford Stahdard does not be- lieve It 18 “aqual to overcoming an aversion to work,” while the Bing- hamton Press adds that Edison ‘might just as well eniarge his In- dictment” to cover the “humansrace,” since “anybody who has had to em- ploy large numbers of young men of college age will tell the oracular old Inventor that the majority of wuch l&tn @re afraid of hard work, whether ey {o 0 college or compiete their equcation in a billlard parlor.” here are plenty of editors, how- ever, who hold with the Albany News that “to say that college men, as a rule, are unwilling to work s scarce- ly falr” The Peorla Transetipt re- CAlls tho recent caws of A “Student of the University of Michigan who asked the authorities to exouse him from Athletic thaining because he worked in a factory. from 6:30 ih the afte nvon until 4:30 the next wmernin, R&d the Ban Antonfo Light remarks that “in hearly every college In the countty &reé students working their way through by doing menlal tasks”: and “college graduates In nearly évery city who are employed in jobs and positions where real . physical required, ® ¢ e thelr eyes bloodshot with strein e and thelr hands ol such as only strong, willthg, determined men can do." And, the Omaha World-Herald adds, if, as Mr. Ealson charges, “they suffered undir the delusion that they would become forefien in a few weeks, they boon 10st that” If the Charleston’ (W. Va.) Mail “has read Mr. Edison’s life aright, he did not indké good ih Nis own shop in the mers few weeks which he allows to the college men.” _And go far as con- corna’ the 1acic. of ‘4 310,000 eering capacity which he deplores, how many young men who have gone from | there. | now famous See fulmination, lay u gfield Union | oq 8chool into the Edison shops, | !! indecen clothies. and whose mind js “twisted | by 6tudy ssychology, logle and_philoraphiy rnd 4 ot af | Peds othier KYUMT hot only utteriy usele Lut mbeolutely harmful - Indiet womeir's because etudenis snoke Eer and peint fs About on a par \with bieming men's colleges for lamineas. the W heeling Regleter thinks, Lecause the college irl “knows all he accuses her of earning In collegs bLefore she goes If £he doesn’t she's behind the time Like most _commentaters on well ae editorial, the Waterbury Republican findk “a setfous refutation hardly necessary.’ It ix more in- teresting, from the paper's viewpoint. “to Rpeculate upon what caused him to becume so bitter toward higher education for women. Our own zue: is that back in the "905 he one da never recove! lege woman “at w not need defending. women has been “its fallure to teach en Lo assalls “prob-{the young the use of the lpsticke and! high heels and other aide to hrant the development not of Sybarites hut of “too many young women who 1 learned to "weat square-toed shoes d ‘senkible’ elothes and other such things. If MF. See can pfove his case, the Globe suspects that “he will en couraze mahy who now sadly obsery. the wide gap between higher learn- | the Philadelphia oW - 'ublic Ledger declares. and xo far as | jever, develops an insurgent refusal to | thia colleges ara concerned, the 1 i {drummers that now and then camej iconcede that cither has proved his!Transcript 1= sure they *wil not in case. the least mind Mr. A. D. Sce's bull ecause Thomas A. Kdison “has|apainst thom blessed the world with numerous theve ix something electrical devices” it does not fol-|yiquant in the charge that appeals to| low, tie Lowell Courfer-Citizen in-:tne New York Globe. slace heratofore sist, 3 word must be regard- }um objection to higher edueation for {others grumble, ndustrial ukcs. The job of puddling eails for the muscies of Hercules and the heat reristanca of the fabled salamander. Beside thix one furnace there arc in the great in- closure many furnaces. The heat from these, the glare, the roar of the fire, the fiamiing eyr of each open door, the thunder of machinery. the shouts of men, the molten metal *un- {ning from red to silver, the dancing descence of escaping gases, the sur- nding sloom pierced by the lic thruste of many-coloted and Tre-god wielding h Ol thia Mr. Thavie painte a b calculuted to turs ke the polite murmur . thne you slt down and talk with this|of the Inferno of Dante, und to mak:. “Just' plain hell.” Puddling Is one of the high pointe of ironmaking. the fine art of the proc- e 80 to speak. Tts complexities pass from generation to generation, as all the old crafts used to do. The father of James Davis, his grand- her, und even further back, werc workers in iron over in \Walcs, the father in Ruseia. also. Ko it i eany (o Kee why being an iron puddier with a furhace of his own Lecanie a &onl for young Duvik, & peak in his cureer, ERE It took many little hills of effort, however, to reach this commanding t of fron puddiing® Jimm:e in commenced youn, No sooner the Immigrant family reach the iron flelds than the boy began his climbing. Rignt away he had some. thing on his mind that pushed him. e ham had ever gince. This partle- uiar “something” waf two feathcr Theae wers hik mother's houses “f1hold treumure, lost past finding at Garden, Wher: familx Nowad: upon this as a calumity. But these beds meant desire. and work. and thrift, and@ the final glory of beds. plucked, little by litlle, from live geese, with not a single ¢ontaminat- ing hen's feather about them. The bed eplsode is a sign. The boy be- ginx early to carry on for others. the the | S0 he fell to to replace the lost beds. He drove cowe to and from pasture for the hotel keeper—$1.25 a month. He blacked the rshoes of tiie dude to 8haron. He carried telegrams from the etation. From the last of these he came to see that he was invariably a_carrier of sorrow. In those daye, a telegram meant and grief and This fact drop- ped Into s mind, along with many f its kind, like eveds planted in the * ® % % Jimmie Davis went to echonl. he quit seheol. blovd. lure. Then The fron was in his The iron mills were too strong and the public echools were the gonds. In a Tew ver, he felt the demand for education and he here tells how he grabbed this along the ray—iow a nlght term, then a spe- 1al course. and all the time study, on e ithe side, in off moments and hours. L Finally, the familfar Odyssey of | the laborer was rounded out—the days. the slack days. the idle days,- leoking for a job, tinding it, ing and those frivolous attractions!lo®ing it and 5 on in regular repetis which women have long found valu-'ton. Out of these years Innumerable { able in deallng with mankind.” Territying Etiquette. With all du¢ gratitude to the com- pllers and publishers fquette, 2 humble reptresentative of ! fieial the's Reie ke utter- | reader to #tand merely as an uncom- the struggling public feel ing one wail of complaint. Cannot the advertisers of these life-saving works present their volumes without throwing such abject fear into the hearts and minde of eligible readers? One may have partaken of the leasing olfve—both green and ripe— for many vears: one may have riden countless miles on Pullman cars; one may have droppéd dally forks fn restaurants, or even accépted intro. duction with untutored sclf-assur- ance, without ever knowing oneself ridiculous, fonspleuous or a boob, Yet. when asked sudden and personal questions about thesc matters from the almbst huinan pages of an adver- tisement of & book on etiquctte, the hypnotized teader gazes at the words in awed fascination, and tie mischiel is dene. . From that day on, his banguets and travels and Rocial activities are haunted by the fear that he's going to slip up on some trickery little con- vention. Booner or later, the peychologista warh him on other ad- vertising pages, his mervelous pow- ers of concentration will lead him to efform the very acts he has been reading. _A Wew problem arikes. Should he purchase the six weeke' course in practical prychelogy and acquire poize and etiquetté by overcomipg this fear thought, of should he end it all by the handy etiquette volumes and leafning Aall the rules therein with the help 6f a de luxe memory course? Bome one should write a book to guide the public in this matter.— Tacoma News-Tribune. Why not buy father a ton of coal for Christmas?—San Antonlo Express: The first snow of the year is news but the next snow is nuisance—Al- bany News. 1f Any one really wants to gain the Nobel peace prize he ought to find & substitute for oil.—Worcester Tele- gram. “Intelligence tests” would undoub edly be all right if a little intellls oo were uséd in making them.— oston Transcript. Now that the flapper and jazz are disappearing, weé can resume the practice of blaming adenoids for éverything.—Indianapolls Star. Pola Negri's movie contract, it is revealed, requires thAt she remain single. Bhe still retains her con- stitutional right to loke her jewelry, however.—Philadelphia North Amer- fean. Somebody intensely interested in xternal application of water len 2 bathe t ch?” Th #sks' the Columbus Dispatch, are, at- Do we bathe too ? 3 the and of four years, “asked by other answer is: ot unan. 6Nnuerns to lur 1nto $10,000 positions on the basis of the experience which they gained in his servicat” But while Mr, Edison gonfines Bims ull'% lmelum another “sxpert” has, the New Yotk Tribune points out, “"“’X’“a"s“é“.“fifm’.?-“ conI:r"l:euv'ei“ Mr. A. , véry name,” the New York Herald observes, "':\lg- gests education in the yough,” would, if he had his way, “burn all the wo- men’s colleges in the country,” be- tausé he so Vvigofously, not to say belllgerently, ~disaporoves of their sees i 0 uct, as / Mr. is _an ignorant person who ‘sannot spell, who smokes, swaggers, uses slang, paint, powder and lip- sticks, wéars high-heeléd shoes and 4 City Journal-Post. Eighteen feeble-minded wards of Ohio have jJust been found mining eoal in Pannsylvania, Nobody feeble- minded or faint-h2arted ever goes into the operating and trading end of the coal industry.—Boston Traveler. It was back In the days when a meat dealer diGn’t charge for a piege of it that it gdt the name of “‘suét pudding.”"—Detroit News. Sometimes -we suspect that res ligion would become more popular if halt the enerey wasted In trying to get men to church were bestowed oh tting the church to men.—Colum- 6 Record. S e ’ 1 i | of bookr onlisteady progrérsion. human contacts were set up. And by procese of natural selection James Davis moved out of the fleld of iron into the field of men. From thia point on, the passage of Mr. Davis in to his present of- appears to tie distinction, monly complete ldentification of a man in his industrial and political outlook, with a perfed of fmportant industrial and political change. S Coming out of this story. one counts that the highest. achievement of its author has_been, and iwiil be, the reat school at Mootcheart, twith all at this school siguifies. For fifteen ears Mr. Davis traveled and lectured of reviving and en- larging the Loyal Order of Moose, a soclal organization whose possibili- tles fired his imagination as an In- strument peculiarly designed to satisfy man's fraternal instinct. This order raised to the half-million mark, the real purpose of Mr. Davis—that of the Mooseheatt &chool—stood clear. In the olty of Mooseheart, about thirty miled west of Chlcago, the Mooseheart School is a fact to- day.” A thousand fatherless echildren Iive there in home and school. The vision that projected this tchool, its industrial character, fhe direct bear- ing of its work upoh the facts and practices of indu&try, its ideal of citizenship, the happlhess which it creates and sustains—thege are cal- culated to add. in justi educator’ to the other titles of the Eecretary of Labor. * k% It is impostible to describe the simplicity of this story. Mr. Davis Is not a writer. He is & talker. And the story moves forward, talkingly, in a straight line, with never a flourish about it anywhere. It is, in its bare facts, a remarkable story—one that gives, ‘vithout intending to do so, a surpassing picture of achievement out of a sheer, stubborn determination to sueteed. To this is coupled a lust for work, a healthy body, a fflendly heart, an ability to see both €ldes of any question—as, for Instanee, the side of capital as well as that of la- bor. The native Welshmen, also, ¢omes out in this story—a touch of the mystic, 4 hint of the pagan, a good deal of orthodox bellef, mentl- ment, a keen sense of drama—all of these tied up in a perfectly good, stubborn, fghting Welshman. A book that, by fight, belongs at the head of that claes of books which embody Amerieéan ldeald in the life stories of well known American men. M Mrs. Felton’s Speech Like Bunch of Roses It is not wholly true that women llke compliments and men prefer power, but & good many teh who be- lleve it is tfue continle to pass out the compliments to the Wwomen and to keep the power for themselves. That 18 why the gallantry of Certain TUnited Btates senators in permitting the aged Mre. Rebecca Felton to rep- resent QGeorgia in the Senate for a single day is an exhibition of mascu- ihe politeness—and nothing more. InAl?:winf Senator Felton to take her seat i6 just about as important ms presénting her with a bunch of roses. ‘The really significant thing is that the Geor politicians make her ¢t out of hor seat immediately and flve i¢ up. 46 a man-—Biaghamton e8s, 's it s hard to look | There was immediate need. | [New Ambassador From Italy A Practical Mining Engineer ECOGNITION of the world's|%eived war honors. While working need for the ' engineering |In the high mountain mines of Colo- mind eupblanting the politi- Fado, in the San Juan district, Caetani cian in found in the coming | had become famillar with the method 'or Signor Gelaslo Caetani as Itallan |©f carrying supplies by wire-ro jambawsador, just as it was shown in tramways. He introduced this s ithe appointment of Herbert Hoover ;tem back of the Italian lines to sup- ias Secretary of Commerce. And Cae- | Py the posts in the high Alps. In tanl and Hoover are good old pals. the second place, he was the engincer Caetani 1s the son of the Duke of | Who Dlanned and constructed the up- Sarmentlo, the younger son of an old | derground works that blew the top off : 1nd aristocratic |the Col de Lana, a high peak in pos- family, distin-|Session of the Ausirfans which en- zuished for public |4Vled them to entilade the Italian service for many |lines. This was a very materlal fac- vears, with onoltor in enabling the Italians to hold s1der brother a|the high mountain line great parllamen-| Caetanl was slightly injured by = tarian, ahothee in }BYINE rock while preparing this wor: the army. }but othérwise came through un- This young rel. | harmed. ¥ low went inte en. . After the war, feeling the necersity gineering, gradu. |[°F new work in Italy and for help f{ ating from the In reconstruction. he gave up his work M University oriin America and undcrtuok the recla- Rome in civil m_}m-(lnn ot large swamp arcas in the gineering. He then | C2MPagna. thereby giving work to me to the United | ™®N @t & critical period in Italy’s his- States and gradu- ‘ tory and bringing into cultivation SIGNOR CAETANL ated from Columbia fn mining engi- i ¥ a5te 1ands. necring. Like a sensible young man, { ¢ 18 significant of the mew epiri: he next went west to learn the busi- |17, Jta1y that Museolini. the new pre- Ness by working In the mines of Calo. { ™IeF. Who han announced the slogan £ads aatioland lotier oot i that he will xive Italy “a government: Fin- ! ; ally he foined the tall of Frederick |70t & miniatrs.” has picked out this W. Bradicy of Ban Franclsco. one of | T0UNE €ngineer for diplomatic service the ablent and most eminent of Amer. i AtReT than, &g would naturaliy bae 1 béen expected, ! { lean mining engineers. He w sent 1o the Bunker Il and Sullivan mine, ; OVE, Y2ar8 of experien e AL mentery and pablic property in C Caeteni I8 Younz ¢ While there he designed ani re I;’\:k:"". ;:;:",:.:‘L ";:’:‘1,’, ,":,,';“‘ built the!r big concentratin, mill, H ’ venting sowme very !flil‘.h‘n‘; ;cree‘nslh”“e ot vivsbunkhopse i . and other apparutus. After finfshing | G 2Ve #ocil function. i this job he foi:cd a partnership tor i ! 2 conwulting mintng and metaiturgica |10, PININE-day assoclates. . work with two englneers in sami, C2°WPl is crroneously reporicd Francisco under the name of Eurch, {se 1 ro K¢ f John Hars Hammond. Cuctani & Hershey. This firm was i very succeasful and did a lot of high grade work throughout the western states, Mexico, Alaska and Canada. He was in the hevday of his pro- feseional success when the war broke out He promptly gave up his part- mership and went to Europe, where| Incidentally Caetani s courin to t he was at first engageéd with Herbert { Barl of Crawford in Engiand. Their Hoover on the Commission for Felier ' fathers having married sisters, Enp- in Belglum. Next he went into Red | 1'sh girls. The present earl's brother, Cross work, and when Italy went into | Maj. Lionel Lindbey, is a man of the the war Caetani volunteered as an!ecame (ype as Caelani. Ie alro cam engineer. Never having recefved mili- {to this country and werk>d in the tary traininz. because of being a | Mines, becoming x practical enzinec: younger son, he went into that spe- | He 2156 went back to his owa eour { {cialized branch. during the war. gave notable servic two notable feats, for which he re-! onutruction work. -wix), good- l d'Alene. i £1 cath good Tellow:” say some) of & 11t is true that Hammond's meteori- 1o persuad.- h carzer ped largely young Cactani’s mother to let {roungest son become a gri ineer. but there the patronage ended {He earncd Lis own way as man t» man. In this emergency work he achieved ! and remained there 1o casry on re- THE WAYS OF WASHINGTON | BY WILLIAM PICKBTT HELM. i Ten years ago the American consul | general at London wae a fine 0ld gen- jtleman named Griffiths. Mr. Gef- 1 fic numbered among Lis close | friends an upstanding younz Amer {can who was famed for two trait. i his wide knowledge of enginecring and his superiative d!flidence. tremendouely busy. In fact, his healt!. sagged and he eought out a Londua £peclalist. “What's the matter with mc? inquired. The &pecia! examined thumped and inspeeted “Smoking too mucl i was th Vi There was also a Navy League of dict. “Yowl] have to cut it out. the United States in London at thet{ Did he cut It out? Iic did not. 11 { time—it was before the world war—|fired the specialist. and the honor of being toastinaster) Then he got another specialist. That at the Navy League's big dinner on]ene found that nothing much was the ! Washington's birthday fell to the con- | matter, after all, and fixed Mr. Hoo- sul general. And the cohsul genera!{ver up in a few day: Nothing wi i coaxed his diffident young friend tosaid about sinoking. i coneent to make his malden speech at — | the ainner. MMr. Hoover has mmustered much of i The dinner was served and was well | his difidence, but he still Is embar- along in the steenth course, when the | rassed and uneasy When under the toastmaster discovered that the bash-! conversational barrage of a gushin: ful young American hadn’t shown up.| woman. Thefe ure many who can One more coursa, hé waited. Then;quality for such honors at Washing- he went by taxi to the rooms of hie|ton dinners. When they begin 3:7. !nbsenl friend. | Hobver's right shoulder goes up. Th Mr. Griffiths found the young man greater his embarrassment, il. sitting comfortably before his fire. | higher his shoulder rises. his shoes off, toasting his feet. Also| Do you like to read in bed? Hoove: 1 he was enjoying a cigar and working | does. out a dificult problem In engineeting. | “What in the worli—" began the lc"“‘" senean tn the dictionary of Willium R. Da:. The young man pulled out LiBje,. i, yne bright eunshine of h watck, scrambled Into hie evening ][O0 " B TR TGNl e ba | clothes and In about tio thifutes w541 passed from oficial seridom fato Uk on his way with the toastmaster back s izl jto the dinner. I “Sorry, awfully eory,” he apslogie- ed. clear forgot the time. Wa busy working ot a problem.” in Novembder 14 speiled ¥mancipation criep air of liberty. last to do something he had want-. to do for almost twenly years. At that capital-letter time Willian I Day ceased to be an associate jus- i The Yyoung man Was Ilerbert tice 6f the Supreme Court of the Hooker§ United States. le shed the ermin: i = and put on the regular coat and pants That is H6Overs way. Give him|of the private citizen. Iis Emanci- 2 big problem—and he has been given some tough ones during the ten yearsl jthat hove elapsed slice he made hislput, oh, boy! Wateh him in 1 maidén speech-—and he forgete the|{When the umpire sayes “Play ball” cn world, He goes to the heart of the|the opening day of the world serics problem and sticks at it till it's solv-: William R. Day is going to be there. éd. Mr. Day is 2 red-hot, sound-to-the- He disregards non-cssentials. He|core base ball Tah, and then some. is someéwhat impatient of pétty details{ But for about twenty Years he has that don’t bear on theé subjéet under | also becn an associate justice of the discussion.’ Supreme Court. ‘The Supreme Court He regards the business of what to|and the world &eries both get goinz wear as a ®ort of anhoying detall. Bo{ early 1n October. In & sense they are he set to work to settle that. And|yival attractions. You ¢an’t attend he'did it. How? both, especially it you happen to be Well, he went to a good tailor and{, printipal in ond. looked over the varfous kinds of| and that is Why Mr. Day, unrecon- clothes this tailor could meke. Helgirupted base ball rooter, has mever decidéd that & double-breasted cOMt|.pon the game's great classic. would be about the thing—something: in blue serge or worsted. “Make me & dogen of 'em,” he ofs dered. The tafior was aghest. same style?” he asked. Hoover nodded. “Well,” said the taflor, “what kind of cloth do yout wish e to usé In the other eleven?” “Blue serge,” directed Hoover. And that #ettled the problem of what kind of clothes to Wear—settled ft for life. Mr. Hoover wears only double- breasted blue Buits. He has been do- ing so for years and hopes to be Epared many Years to come during all of which he will continue to wear only double-breasted blue suits. None other, pation day came a little too late 1o achieve his heart's deeire this ycar. But for all that he had a system. unique In American law, for follow- “All tne|ing the games as they Were played. He got the returns ae he sat on the bench. Moreover, he got them inning by innlng. An obliging newspaper man got them over the telephone and gave them to the clerk; the cleri wrots them on & bit of paper: & page put the paper berore tha justice on the beneh. No matter how weighty the argu- ment, the judicial eyes dropped and scanned the paper. The note was then passed down the line to the oth- er justices. Thus the entire court, losing no whit of its impressiveness of dignity, wad seldom more than a few minutées behind the play. Me. Justice Day had another dis- tinction, as weil. He bought the first automobile that ever became the property of a Runteme Court Justice. He haw it still, too, & Pomewhat ei- derly electric that géts him w! wants to 80, letsurely, but surely. He Gldn't hava the troubls the late Chief Justiee TWRite had in welecting a car. The Chiet Justice deliberated tor months as to what kind of car he should buy. Finally. he came to court one day, his face wreathed In emiles. - “I've Dought a car,” he whispered. As director of the Atherican relief| He had. It was a Ford. The Cl work in Belgium during the early |Justice hire@ a man to drive i: for days of the world war, Moover was hlma, and used it till his deatd, Last fall when' the straw hat sea- Bon ehded his seéretary reminded him a day in advance: She reminded him somewhat pointedly by sending out and getting half a dozen different kinds of felt hats from Whith he made a selectlon. Then shé Lkept the old straw, Othérwiwe, tha chances mre fitty-fitty that the Setretary of Commerce would have Worn his straw hat long after the deadline date. - Mr. Hoover smokes inCessantly. The buster heé is, the mord he smokes. When he {8 dverwhelmed with worl one clgar réplacez another almost witheut interruption.