Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1922, Page 6

,! eral cnterprises were denied it, = ' finally here would be established an With Sunday-Morning Editlon. .. | gyj.pmerican parmanent induatriak dis- 0 play that would vividly present the WASHINGTON,D.C. |yean and the activittes end the THURSDAX ., Pecember 21, 1982 | achievements of our people. TN e If the plan now covered by the THEODORE W. NOYES. Senate resolution, which merely cre- Z —= - ates a commissiodi to consider the The Evenipg Star Newspaper Company | project, is carried into effect, such siness Ofee; 11th Nt. and-Penusylvanis AYe. | 3 permanent exposition will be estab- ark Office ;- 150- N Rt > "Cleaen oee: Tomer. uding. lished and maintained here. The im- zopean Office : 16 Ttegent St., London, ngland. | 110 qiate legisiative proposal’does not commit ‘the government, but provides for a survey of the plan by a commis- onth: Bunduy oniy. 29 exats 3ot montn. 0r- sion ‘g'o be appointed by the President, ders may be meat by ‘mali; or tel the Vice President and the ‘Speaker, 5008, Collection, s made by casriers at the 3 ead of i:?n"m"m.‘, oot . | to reptesent the execut! branches B.l‘ubhy .\hu-;hylble in Adv % of the government, the public and Maryland snd Virginia. ANCe- | Congress. Tpon the report_ of this Ay et commission . will depend whether in 50c | the judgmerit of ‘Congress it is feasi. -+ 20 | ble to establish such an institution here, whether the funds are sufftcient 85c | for its proper development and main- tenance, whether. the organization is assured of continuity and, in:short, Member of the Associated Press. whether the creation would be a % 1‘:.: Am;-rMJ’r::ll‘h‘ uel;.-m-lr nmfll: credit to the capital. , o news ?mfi,‘:::«.?& 'C;""x n?:n:!.o:h-nlvlr crediteg [ All of these facts may be. readily Ahiel Wnen o "r:"'.,.'.'.,r"";...,fl:.‘:h.“"a developed, and 3 protracted inquiry special 4} B are alen reserved,, | should’ not be recessary.. While it z > may not be possible for. such & com- < - . | mission to report in'season for action Another Job fcr Hoover. . at the present session, it-should be in According . to-- London dispatches, | g pogition to- make its recommenda- which appear. to have “semi-officlal’ | tiong 1o the next Congress, in time for confirmation, & Gegmar.trade commis.| ¢ne nedessary legislation at its first ses- sion, headed by Chancellor Cuno, has | gion, which, i2. enacted promptly, will requested that Secretayy Hoover and | pu¢ the enterprise upon the basis of o committee:-of Americhn - business] actual creation perhaps within a year. I AL Sy and make &|in. thiy connetion-it should be urged thorough survey of economic condl-|tnet in providing a site for the build- tions, which survey would be made|ng or bulldmgs proppsed the govern- the basis of a new reparstions treaty. | ment dhould: not trespass further upon Great Britdin, according to the dis-| the parks of Washington, .but: should patches, has consented to the proposal, | provide a setting outside of the res- and-it 1y stated that France also is ex-{ arvattons with_regard for public con- pected to gpprove of it. venience ahd access. Apparently ‘it is not intended that tais comniittee of American business The Tariff and lm ‘men should attempt to fix the amount 5 = of reparations,. ‘but rather that ft| Occasional mentiori .in Congress of should ;be a fact-finding’ commission | thé new fariff law sliows that that With @ view to having it determined|measure is still in the minds of legls- impartially hew much-it is ‘possible | lators—still under challenge” by the for Germany to pay in the way of democrats, and still defended by those reparations.- By undertaking merely | Who put it on the books. 4 to establish the facts, it is conccivable [ The tariff question is certain to en- that a very great service could be ren-| ter into the campaign of 1924. Its dered by such a cominittee. - The real | €nemies of toddy will' be its. enémfes dispute. which for four years has pre- | then, an@" its.friends of today its vented ‘Europe from making any sub- | friends then. - stantial progress. toward recovery is| But, mecessarily, the presetation not as to how much Germany ought | Of -the Question then, as {llustrated 10 pay, but s to how much she can | by the Fordney law. will differ from pay. WIith-that question definitely | the Presentation of the question in the settled, ‘and the settlement accepted | recent campaign. 2 by all the garties in interest, repara- When the vote was -talen”last tions ‘would soon cease to be the|month thelaw had not had time to stumbling: block~ they now present | demonstrate icsel?, It had been in and it would be possible to arrange | cperation anly a few,wecks, and was the other things, such as loans and | still under-the cloud: ‘8o b &gy, of"a credits, which Europe needs in order | heated and protracted debate in.Gon- to make recevery passible. - . | gress, during which the démocrats had Making of the refuést for appoint. | made heavy assaults on thé measure ment of the American survey com.|and the Tepublicans hdad not: at all mittee is understood to carry with it | times put up a united support. a pledge that Germany -would ‘abide| But by polling:day in ‘1924 the law by its findings and” make an honest ; Will have been in.opetation two year: attempt to meet reparations ~pay-|and, while bustness conditions will not ments on the basis fixed. Approval |in that time be such as. to: give the Ly the British government of the plan | 1aw full test,: they shoull, show ity presumably carries with it Great|Strong points‘and its weak points, Britain's agreement to abide by the |and enable voters'to pass a falr*judg: findings. Theso agreements, of:course, | ment_on . it. e E A would have ‘to be made explicit, as| However much some people desice would those of France and other rep- THE EVENING STAR, .Editor | ‘The Eve cdigon; 1§ nt 80 cants per month:_dally onty. 45 cen ning Star, with the Sunday thorning delivered by catriety within e ey Traly only. 0 relp. spatehes hereln are it, and however plaustble .the argu- aratlons clatmants, before the under-| menta they. advance, tie fariff wif taking would be worth while; but it]not be taken out of politics. :It i may be that a way has been opened | there to stay. ‘The power, of, taxation by which this country could be of | i» 8o great a'power Congréss will don- real service:in helping Europe out of | tinue to exercise 'it-under the consti. her difficulti 5 tuttonal provision, and ‘the majority With Mt Hooyer at the head of | Will always have its such an - American committee, - the | 9nd schedules. - world would accept its conclusions, not ornly as impartial, but.as. well Uncle George. based. .1t IS recognized that the Set| " fncie 8am fs most decldedly in ‘the retary of Commerce is exceptionally} gpotifght. Hé. is occupying by gen- well cquipped to handle such a-prob-feral consent the centér of the lstage. lem as thap of Téparations, andthe | A1 eyes, occidental and oriental, afe reputation* hé “enjo¥s. in ‘Europe far|turned to him. 2 disinterpsted _sérvide .is .ome of thé| 1f he is in action, unique progucts of .the war. Even|ject, and what will be -the’effeet? If the Germans. Who haVe né special|pnet, why is he inactivi, and when' cause to love Hoover, have ‘pald fre-| niqy action be expected? _. ° - quent tributes: to his. fairness and| As is evident, the .world would mental integrity. This _reputation | change the naime Sam to George. : It which Mr. Hoover enjoys 4as brought | wants George :to do it. 1f. mofiey’ is him about the greatest collection ofl jecessary for any purpese, let George miscellaneous jobs which ever fell- to| contributg it. His wallet.is crammed. the lot Of one man, and his jobs have| 1 some delicate .question between mainly involved'a Jat of hard work|iwo nations, or among' several, needs and little else besides. arbitration, Tet' George, arbitrate -it. ——~———tte—e————— . | A5 he s not; “oyt for ' the, stuff,” Stanislas Wojciechowski has: been | whether one thing or another, his chosen President of Poland. A maf| dectsion will “go.” - He is ‘both level- who csn suryi¥kr'a tiame like thal | headed and unselfish. - ok ought to b Proof against assassina-| If new homes-for’great nuinbers of ion. 3 ©hed A sfpeople In, distress are ‘needed, -let —————e—atpit——— " ' | George open wide his inviing: gates. Tt was crude, wirk for those Brook-| His is a great empire, and there Is 1yn navy yard men to steal supplies|Still plenty of room.” And then. from from the government instead of set.|long practice he has acquired the art ting up on & profiteer basis and selling | of handling strangers in; distress who supplies to the government. have embarked on & fiew venture. = This is all, quite flattering, but Pat- tery is. sbmetimes dangerous. -Lef Uncle 8am .take action, or. withbold action, as hls” constitutionafl 'limita: tions permit. “He has money, but none to burn of throw to the birds.” He has troubles enough of his own, shd does mot care to- shoulder those of others. And while there is still plenty into effect Wash- e 5 . ington will’ som¢ perhaps soon, | Of room in his empire, hé:1is. reserving. it for the right sort of people. be given its lgngdesired permanent |} B * industrial ; exposition. > An offer has| Let Uncle Sam declinie the new been made by .-tbe ‘Assoclation of |name. The one with' Whichhe’ wab American Arts and Industries to erect | Christened. should on no sccaunt be in this city a bylldifig to cost,’ it js|abandoned. Uncle Sarh it s, estimated, '$30,000,000, on land to be | Uncle Sam it should remain.- provided by the. United. States, to - serve as-a nationdl cénter for applied end industrial afts, The ‘funds for the censtruction will be advariced by the assoclation,’ so that apart from the site it will cost the government purpose is to provide a structure n which permanent exhibits in American, industrial arts and science will be displayed, with fea- tures suitablé for the perpetua) dem- onstration - béfore -the -people of the United States -as: they assemble at the capital;of the:national resources and their developuieht. For many years it hms -been the dresm ‘of Washingtoniane . and of others who recognize the true status of this city,as the federal- center to create here.a. permanent exposition. From time 40 time hope -has been cntertainéd ‘that there would bé held here one -gf"the.great- “fairs,” such as thoge @t -Philadelphia in: 1876, at Chicago in 1833, at Buffalo jn 1901 and, at ‘San Francisco and’ St. Louls in later. yearg. But- in every .case these big- egpositions ‘have beer :won' for and by other citles, and: it has remained for Washington to maintain ghe hope that,-although-these ephem- There is stilltime to shop early— for Easter gifts.- A Permanerit Exposition. It a -proposition which has just been made Before the Senate “in & Paris is_charjtably .fearful that if Germany is ever;again permittad ta have any money ‘she will‘only waste 1t, a8 usuel. - »EE President Wojclechowsky.of,Polénd will. pardon Americans ‘'who- are not thorough Jlinguists .if they call him Stanislas for short. = - The word “yule” comes into popu- larity at this time. : Meh it by the gilt-painted radiator in their high.pent flat and talk of 'yule and yule logs, though the “parlor”;of that fldt may neither be so.wide nor ‘so deep an many a fireplace in which the anéfent Christmas greetings “vule log” and “yuletide,” “or yuletime, _are- very prominent. - It is an' old. word that comes down from: Germanic gncestors, who dweit in the forésts of northern Europe. * What these rude ancesto: meant by .“yule” js; a query . which stumps_the philologists, le: ers and all wordmopgers, bt “‘yult as mistletoe, fir trees and holly, bore way ‘about rates wb;t’h his ‘o yulé log burnéd.. fn our mbchu"-'.ld] close Telation to the midwinter fes- i tival. The “good old Bedé"” and Caed- mon tried their hands at telling what “'yule” meant to the barBarians, and on their reasoning meh of todsy are inclined -te accept that the word “yule" stood for the months of De- cember and January, or certhin parts of them hefore and after the winter solstice.. In many ways those people of the far past-celebrated the _short- ening of the nights and the lengthen- ing of the days. That was centuries before the light of Christianity dawn- ed in northern Europe, and whilg the |shadows everything -eise, Phere are| He consulted hig records. uncouth ancestors still observed the custom of crushing e fellow man skull between two rocks or running him through with stone spears to show their regard for Thor, Woden and, Frie, atroclous pagan gods and goddess, from whose hames wa get the day-ncgmes of -Thursday, Wednesday and Friday. It is a ourlous thing that some ‘scholars have sought to tablish kinship between the words ule and “howl’” and they have Ictm(ended that yuletime was equal to howitime, or the time of revelry and ino‘t : 4 Harding and Smith. Gav.elect * Smith of New York should . communicate with President Harding. He might get a few tips of value at this time. Mr. Harding was elected by a rec: ord-breaking majority. Voters went to the polls,and plumped for him in enormous numbers. As a result, when he assumed the responsibilities of office his advisers were legion and the impossible was expected of him. Every supporter had .a suggestion for his ear, or a favor to ask. He was overwhelmed with importunities of one kind or an- other, and embarrassed by the colos- sal sise of ‘his triumph. . . Qov.-elect Smith swept the deck last month. No.majority of like size in a gubernatorial race anywhere is: of record. It was so large it overflowed party lines. Thousands of republicans must have voted for him. As a result, he is besieged with men and women offering suggestions or asking favors. He is crowded, and lacks ‘the time necessary to see the halt of them. As he takes up his duties on the first of the New Year he has an inaugural address and e legislative program to prepare. Com- pany, therefors, is in large measure out of the question. i Tammany, of course, is insistent. It usually is; and, as the governor- elect is a Tanimany man, the Tiger feels it has a special claim on his at- tention, and falls at once into a growl- ing mood when denfed free approach to him. Pity the sorrows of the most popu- lar man of the day surrounded by those who hate enthroned hi ————————— Rear Admiral Sims, at a New York banquet speech om our naval needs, says that “any one can spit on the Philippines who wants them.” .The edmiral- evidently took all-his vivid vocabuléry with him into his offictal retirement. . —te—————— . Extravagance in Germany is a counted for on a theory ‘that people are disposed to get rid of their paper marks .before there is enother drop in the price per hushel. Germany is still genercusly hearty in wishing luck to the statesmen jin varfous parts of the world whe are trying to think up some way to help. her out of debt. ! E Soctal gatherings of a certain type enhance the picturesque interest of the occasion by promoting doubt as to lwhe(her guests will leave in taxis or patrol wagons. 4 —sem——— There may be, as courts occasionally assert, people whoee affections are worth huyndreds of thousands of dol- lars. As’ a general proposition {t would be & hard standard to live up to. —— As America has most of the gold economists abroad regard the world’ great financial problem as one of di tribution. —_————————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOBNSON. Not Arguing. LAn investigation started—it was cen. . turles ago— Congcerning things that some one said the public ought to know. A long debate was plainly unavoid- able, because Of intimations that there wasn't any ¢ Santa Claus. Each generation took the topic up with strength and skill. The argument’s e feature of the an- hudl winter thrill. Yet the generous. Christmas spirit hovers round us as of yore, _ . Regardiess of the doubts that seek . to turn him from the door. The Yuletide Saint keeps busy to bring gladness to the lot those who love and trust him, and - of others.who do not. Lor @] 1t's @ grand Investigation, but as pre- cious moments fly, ‘m glad-frignd Santy doeantt stop his work to testify. : - Not Used. “Did your sntagonist use much. money in the recent campaign?”’ i ’'wouldn’t say he really used any, [replied Senator Sorghum, “He mere- 1y wasted a few hundred dollars.” Jud Tynkins says the motto of some moviestars should be “More to be pit- fed than censored.” No Fair Exchange, ‘When our farmers take positions, ~Volcing statesmanlike alarm, ‘We hope our politiclans ‘Wil not have to run the. farm. “Does _ your wite buy you bad “No.” : < “Then. why do. you make gurcasti “I've got -to restrain her. . I can’t afford to smoke the king she selects.” “Dé_world is’ gettin’ . better . every day,” gald Uncle-Eben, “but:dg ther. mometer don’t show it.” It's different in Washington. other city in the Unitedl States sends out Billg the Arst 6fthe wonth. Wash- Ington doeint; spve Lorrthe gaw com:- pany, the electric ootmdq 04’ the rétall storeg; ‘i " ko T Ay R But they are not the/hig 'qi'lnqniou; ‘Wishington. The governmnt gver- virtually no great manufacturing or jother industriés. The FoOVernmi employs most’.of the ' wWorkers™ of Washington—about 70,000, I bellevé. Instead of malling out Bils the. first of the month, the goveramenty.aends out; checks. Nearly 600,000 checks, several mall cars full of them, go to regidents of every state In the Union and every civilized country in the world. 2 n chapky., The hey are the pen total mor{ than.$20000.600 ‘a° rfont! Highest pension honors, measured In dollars and cents, -go to a lady who lives in Qyster Bay, N. Y. Her husband was a veteran of the war with Spain. Hé ‘organized a reg ment and took it to Cuba. The Rough Riders, it was calted. ' - - ° He afterwarfd’ Became President“of the United States. ' Whien he died Cond gress voted a’five-thousafd-dolaran. nual pension to his widew. Second honors go to” & lady’ whe lives in Washington: 'She may be seen often,’of & fine day, In the vi- cinity of Massachusetts avenue and 23d street. It |8 her custom to go there and look for a time’with affec- tignate regard “at a ‘great bronke statue. : X S The statue, which reposes in the cen- ter.of a terraced ‘circle. iy, that of<a horseman, lookinl to.the -south, As. one reads the name on the base ope! thinks of Winchester. Tt is Phil Sheridan®in bronze, and the lady ‘Who lingers there on bright days is his widow. ~ ; iy It Is a far ery bagk through the years to the war of 1812, but npt too far for the echo to come to us §iin through the thick ‘pages of the pen- sfon rolls. 3 v ou wouldn’t think wé would have any pensioners from that war, now, would you?" asked Gen. Gardiner, the commissioner. Well, swe have—for- ty-nine. to bé exact, ai ¢ the end of the last fiscal year.” “Not soldlers who fought in that war, general?’ T ashéd: “Oh, no.” he replied, soldlers who did. -And that was 110 yeurs ago, remembper. “They are all old, old women now, though they were Very young when they married and the men they mar- ried were very old.” - his ¢hief clerk! he $ald, * “th ‘but widows of et | 1812 J i | d ¢ well up in the ninetie: aren’t they?™ “Three of them” replied Mr. Hay- makér, “are riore than 100 years ofd.” “But 1t hisn't been so long.” Mr. HaydKer: continued, “since we had on tie roll§ a‘soldler who fought In 1812 i “The last veteran of the of he ‘sald, Dresently, “died oniy Seventeen yéars ago, in 1905. He was 109 year sola.’ But even thdi record was dimmed, 1t seems, for, at the.time of that: old soldler's death there wasestill llving & pensioner come down from the rev- olutionary war. She was a widow, living at Plymouth Union, Vt. ‘and her husband had camped with Wash- Ingtonat Valley Worge. & - -8bp digd fn 1908, at pinety-twd The last vetéran of the révolutionary war, Danlel Bakeman, died in '69, aged 109 years G months 8 days. He dicd, and is buried, at Freedom, N. Y. There are about 191,000 civil war veterans on the pension rolls. But | they are dying fast. Last year 25.000 of them answered the last roll call. To oftget this loss to:the pension rolls, however, veterans.of. the war with Spain arc now filing’ their ap- plications for pensions at the rate of mare than 3.000 a month. . There are about 225,000 eligible veterans of ‘that war. “They Iive all over the world, ®ose civil. war veterans,” Gen. Gardiner sald. “Upward of 200 live .injGer- many. 5 ‘During the world war wa quit seriding “checks to pensione! iving In Getmany and Austria-Hungpry. We had to, of cousse.” nd did they lose their pensions . “ONh, no; we just let the pensiom:pile’ up here. After the war was over we B < | sent the accumulated pensions of sev~ eral years to them.? Haymaker spoke up. % “Tell him ‘about our contributor, geperal,” he suggested. “Oh, yes," sg!d the commissioner. “We have been fecleving every month,” the general went on, “an en- velope containing a five-dollar It comes-in as regularly as our checks &0 out. It {sinclosed in a plain white envelope without any clue whatever to the Identity of the sender. For years this hus been going on; only for a time the remittance came quarterly, and then it was §15. We haven't the faintest idea as to who it s, >nd the money, of course, is turned into the conscience fund of the Treasury.” *The postmark on the envelope?” I One-Time Thrills in theé Life Of the Sp(;aker of the House|: R e O see Frederick H. Gillett, Speaker of the National House of Representatives, going with quiet, smiling dignity about- his responsible .dutles—most obylous among them that of preserying order . in the ' legislative ¢hamber, ‘ahd carrying the :pres- tige of -thirtyicas- | tinuous.. yearg ‘of seryvice-— you would ' fiot “Euéss that“hé 'has had & very thirillirig: 1ife: > he admits It In thre specific counts—“and "then | Count : 1. —"The | ‘earliest-ureat - and- vivid thrlll I re- SPEAKER GILLETT. member,” and the Speaker smiled in happy retrospec- tion, “was when I was probably about thirteen years old’ and captain and shortstop of the Wororoco base ball club ‘(in Westfleld, Mass.). We were to go to Springfield and play an ,equllly juvenal nine there. 1 was 8o excited that I could hardly sleep the | ! night before, for I had never contem- plated anything so remarkable ds go- ing out of town to play a game. The next morning we nine boys crowded into one carryall, with one Hotsé, and)| arove the ten milés to Springfield, where we defeated our rivals in a very close and stirring game, some of the details of which I féniember very accurately now.” But ‘modesty, which s one -of the ‘Speaker's ‘out- | standing characteristics, forbade that he should boast of certain brilllant plays in that game -“quotum, pars magna ful,” as he might have said. “It was one of the red-letter days of my’life;” he admits. Count 2.—"A vivid ‘recollection J also have of & college thcident wheh, 1 was a freshman at Amherst,” - the Spesker owned up, almcst ‘blushinj | Voteless Waéhingt “There was an annual declamation contest in: which .a prize was given to the freshman who wrote and’ d livered. the best vration. Six of us had been selected to compete and I Tiad for my subject, ‘The Death of Qustavus Adolphus’ The house was crowded with students and friends, among whom I remember was the Przulesl girl in town, who sent me bouquet.” Here we must interrupt the Speaker to state that he bashfully fefuses to g0 Into any further detalls this pofnt, beyond stating that he and.I _were both rewarded.by But’ 'tds wo, and Lthe. judges deciding that 1 was en- tifled to first prize, which was awatdeéd amidst ‘the enthusiastic plaudite of the audience. It stirred 13t me very extraordinary pleasdre.” Count 3.—“Another thrill which I shall never fotget -was on the occa- ston of my first argument, as & eub| ! Jawyer, before the supreme court of Magsachusetts. I had worked tre. imendously on the case. and under the excitement of ‘the occasion I found my brain'working with extraordinary clearness and -my vocabulary very fluent. I really enjoved making the rgument and was delighted when, shortly after It was over, the clerk of the court came to me and sald that Chief Justice Gray, of whom we al stood in great awe, had asked him to tell me that he was just writing a letter to his friend, my father, com- him on his son's first ap- ad very much erijoyed my argument, and were glad to see that I had in- herited my father's talents.” Great as were these thrills, such ut ohce in a lifetime” to most of us, Speaker Gillett is unwill ing_to admit that any one of them surpasbed. the thrill he got when elected Speaker of the House. aded as I am, 1 still enjoy applause when 1 think it is gpontaneous, and even of late years, during campaign speeches.and.-on such an lon as the welcome of- the Congress to Gen. shing, addressing that crowded very distinguished audience gathered from gll over the world, I still get a real thrill, and much of the ardent pleasure that pulsed through my veins over those earlier successes-on the base ball diamond, the college platform of in court.” on’s Campaign of Education The United Btatss Boes not know-that e District of ‘Coluribla 18 voteless. ‘If it could learn of the situation of the District the disabiiitiés we suffer: would be corrected. Notwithstanding yéars of agitation, it {8 no doudbt true that at a rough. estimate - 90 per cent of the people of the United Stites hdve nevel heard ‘that Americans at-the American ital are voteless. A very large pum- S?:.:I:. ‘who have heard of this con- dition have forgotten it Many of thém considered it unbelievable. They' could not understand that men and ‘womenat of government, where m{s sessions, where_the Pmflent has his office, Where the Supreme Court sits and where the originals’of the. Dec- laration of Independence and, tion are preee ; ADS -NO v:u. The situatiolf séemed too be accepted as fact. Thei mistake or mistmder e ne e By voted 2t 1 Jife—for they.- R 13, state and national electigna—that they could not think .of other people in the same eount:ly. l‘-‘n‘h‘ g.bcmlnclti Jf:}'"fi. Voting was a of ;people the Usnlud States. - It was an American st jon -for which the war of inde- e whs, Then how oould | goyernmant pendence fought." people live at the seat of the and not voge?: . - ¢ - -, It you talk with a’'dose en of & dogzen différent spheres of: fife, in @ train, boat, town or:at a cressroads, at any distance from Washington— beyond the lines of : 6ur .neighbars, ‘Mauryland and Virginia—you Thay, anad probably will, find* that not one of them - knows at - Wi ‘cannot.. ¥ote. qn;i(.nl. Boes know it he dods not know why it is o b t allowed to | ave 80, how it came about or’.why the strange condition should be permitted to continue. If you explain td him n:;{ yoy were’ borm ‘in -the. Unjted Si native parents, have.passed the age of twenty-one, work a living, pay burdensorhe .taxi houso, Tot, household furnitar g;gbn Jewelry and stocks, snle deposit-—if you 3 have no direct American-way of. e pressing your view# at the folls, is perplexed.. - If you tell him_ that the Congress of the United .Staf ;lfizhn yom‘l “Axi l';g: and “that yat iave no voice in ngre: ~N0,; 0 EoRgututionaily autRORESd: fobLHress the. majority sentimént—he is furth perplexed. o make h r on -dutp- ad em—ag thy his L3 s, - -Bi when he does understand that thers, ta. ing Amie igricans rno» not allowed to vote-apd want tp, ,to help H his s s he_will do what he i o 131 talk Wit i rt of those Americans’ that the of the i~ not vote do not vots. Théy believe ¢-the District are of some strangé Fsect-which does not believe in Yoting., Some of the others belleve that every- body In Washington works for the government and goes home to vote. ‘The campaign for the education of the. United States © subjest .of -.Vnt jess . Washington . should be. Ppressed. - tes |- Said & summer sojourner to a Glou- cester native: “Is that Tom Bmith the benker's cottage over there?” point- Ving across the moors. “No,” was the¢ Teply; that's one o' them artistses’ houses; don't yer see the big north winder?” Sure enough, there it was, the tall, many-paned window.on the north side of the attractive summer cottage, which instantly .40 the in. itiated gives evidence of a studio within. Queer - kind of windows, those—not meant to look outigf, and certainly not meant to look into, simply to admit Hght and, plenty of It, and a _parficular kind, of even strength and not too great intensity. Hawthorne says in his “Marble Faun” that religion {s like a stained glass windaw, beautiful to those from within, but quite uninteresting and incomprehensible to those from with- out. And so_ it {s with &ft, 'To:the outéider the north window means nothing more than an ugly patch In the wall, but behind these windows Eoes on continually the création by the hand of man of that which adds more beauty to the world. To many persons studlo is synonymous with Bohemia, but the fact is that more sense than nonsense would be heard through these north windows it one were provided with apparatus for “listening in.” It is not from Bo- hemia that the great works of art have come. As Mr. E. C. Messer once said, the real artist is one who sees not through & crooked isns but a little more clearly, a little more acutely, than the majority of his fellow men. = * % x4 There is & narth window in & house in Philadelphia, & house in the old residential section, -fn the Mght of which a well known ‘llustrator’ works ——a man whose work s found in some of our leading publications. He has traveled much and has brought horhe from time to ‘time récords of his journeyings, pictures of strange lands and peqples, and these picturcs have gone out. to thausands whose travels have not exceeded the confines of their own towns. He has not been content to merely do clever work, nor work which paid; he has always been trying to do work which was worth while as art, and his drawings have grown stronger and better.. He has an ideal and he is ever stretch- ing up to ft. £ This artist-llustrator teaches in ene of ti great schools of Philadelph! he is an officer of ope of the profes. slonal artints’ associations; he knows what Is gofng on in the world of art and in the world of affairs: he is in touch with the worid of modern Ht- erature; he is always to be found at the symphony orchestra eoncerts, and he is himself a musician of some skill. Quite receritly he has made a series of illustrations for a book that his wite has written, descriptive of a sec- tion of Europe in which they spent a summer two years ago—a place not yet much frequented by tourists, but a place of great natural beauty, 3 where life is still simple. It is 'the best work that hé has yet done, and had great joy in the doing. like going back and living those splendid summer days er |again, [ “It is so beautitul, 30 wonderful™ This beauty and this wonder he has visualized, and If T am not much mistaken, the ti been uppermost in his mi the while has been that his drawings might be worthy of the teaching of his master, the iate Howard Pyle. For Thornton Oakley was one of the students in Howard Pyle's schoo] and holds his master's teaching in Fe erent remembrance. On the shelves in bis studio are first editions of almost every book that Howard Pyle ever {llustrated. besides portfolios in which are assembled, according to the date of publication. {Jlustrations by this great American artist and teacher cut from the magasines. Mr. Oakley never tires of recalling the student days and Mr. Pyle's wise say- ings—Iinfarmal talks given the stu- dents behind his own north window. in Wilmington. It was quite easy to pass, in imagination, with the aid of the artist fllustrations,” frém China to Japan. India, Spain and Portugal, and when the portfolios were closed the winter sky had darkened, and through the great north window one could see the Quaker city, with its, twinkling Win- dow lights beneath the great dome of heaven, for all the world like a Whistler nocturne paifited by the hand of another master. * ¥ x % There are comparatively few north windows in Washington, because most of the studios are Improvised. but this does not mean that the same life, the same visions, the same fel- lowship are not to be found here as elsewhere in the little world of art. And, speaking of art, persons realized that two-thirds, if not more, of the charm, the beauty and the delightfulness of “The Mer- chant of Venice” as presented here last week by David Warficld, under the management of David Belasco, was derived through the Instrumen- tality of artists—llving_piotures cre- ated by consummate skill with the aid of the great mastcr painters. On a page, read by but few, of the pro- gram .of this gre-t performance the act was recorded that the costumes in this play were designed by Percy McQuold, that the scenes were paint- ed by Errest Gros, with the assls {ance of R. W. Rergmann and H. Rob- ert Law's studios. And who are they? They do' not exhibit in the great exhibitions; their names do not appear in the catalogues of the mu- | but for this reason are they artists? Some would say. less, but more. so.” a debt they acknowledge, these painters of scenes and makers of cos- tumes, to the great master painters of the past! How to them they have gone, not merely for their settings, but for the very patterns of ti ifabrics that they used! In this re- spect the master paintings of the past. preserved in the art museums of Europe and America, are the labo- ratory of the designers aad .manu- facturers of toda: In Europe this past summer was held a great international exhibition of theater art designs ahd models for the modern stage. This was as: sembled in: Amsterdam and later shown in London. It may yet come to this country. In that exhibition America was represented, and not un- worthily, by photographs and designs | by Robert Edmond -Jones, Raymond Jonson, Norman Bel Geddes, John Wen- ger. Ernest de Weerth and others. it is how much more art there is in the world than one com. monly thinks and how closely it is allfed with life on eyarv aide! LETLA MECHLIN. Urges All U_S. Employes Be Paid Semi-Monthly 18 | 7e the Baitor of The Btar: I am an employe jn one of the fed- Bhit once a month, while I know the ma- Sority of government employes are paid twice a month. 4 It seems to me that there should be & general order by the President that &l employes located here should be paid twice a month. try to borrow) for my which not only puts of troublo—even if I can me to. also | e of ng .2 high e NCHARLES JONESBURG. sketchbook, or usea’}St how many | . EDITORIAL DIGEST And | " CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL-V. COLLINS, 1TILESS PUBLICITY” s to be given to Tashington’s traffic rules. That's fine, for they deserve no camoufiag- ing, and when they bump into a prominent eitisen the rules ot the jcitizen must pay the penalty. Outin California they have a revival of the old-time “whipping b6y rule. For example, a former member of the Prestdent’s cabinet was caught racing along the highway at the. pace of fitty-onie miles an hour, and, when ar- rested, he announced that under no circumstances woyld he serve a term in jail; his chauffeur might, but not be. Df course hé was in the automo- bile ‘and owned the automobile, and he was riding behind the chauffeur at the rate aforementioned, but he hired his chauffeur to serve his jall sen- tence. Why should he bother? - * _That practice is not recognized in moré ' democratic Washington, for: here every tub stands on its own bot- | tom, or, that is to say, there are only | three or four thousand who are im- mune from arrest—all diplomatic at- taches, members of Congress and of the executive branch of the govern- ment. Former members of the cabi-{ net cannot pay vicarfously through their chauffeurs.. .. . « = Under the new order to the police of the capital, cvery officer is to carry a supply of cards bearing the traffic rules, and when he wess a citizen in confiict with any rule, the“officer will salute, and say, politely: “I merely stop you to call your attention, this time, to rule 7; the next time I de- teect you violating it, 1 shall have to arrest you.' But If the detained gentleman be- comes offended and replies: “I refer you to my chauffeur: don’t bother me,” the officer i likely to suspend the I‘;IIQU and proceed in executive se: sion.” 2 L A B / The report that National Com- mander Owsley, head of the American Legion, called on the Becretary of Labor, Mr. Davis, last week, and on behalf of the American Legion urged the Secretary to commit himself to support total exclusion of immigra- tion, seems incredible. The American Legion has not authorized any such action, and, therefore, if Commander Owsley did take such action. he rep- rescnted oply his personal views, and was most unfortunate in the use of his fnfluence upon a political issue. It may be that in his zeal to help veterans who are out of work. he overstepped the bounds of official propriety. Secretary Davis is reported to have adviged that all ex-soldlers who seek employment should regi: at the office of the United States ployment service, Washington, w they will be given the preference. it is reported that there is a scarcity of help, especlally of untrained help; 1f that be true, there in no réason Why registration as advised should no promptly result in an_opportunity to work. even though the task be’ not exactly such as the worker would prefer. = x x % United States Immigration Commis- sloner W. W. Husband, in the last number of the official magazine of the National Chamber of Commerce, the WNation's Business. advocates a modi- fying of the present quota Immigra- tion law, so that we may admit such olasses as the industrial situdtion may need from time to time, thoush he opposes a general opening of the immigration gates, “becsuse of the importance of. soolal and political phases of the immjgration question.” s generally understood that Ametica toflay needs more lahorers and more farm helpers, yet because of certain private class interests, and in order to maintain present wages for common labor, the quota of 3 per cent of each nationality based on the number of that nationelity that W here in 1910 still maintains. " The most practicy]l fuggestion that {hes baeh ‘made on the imimigratio problem - comes ‘fromy- Commissioner Husband. It §s that we should main- | tain information as to the available | pplies of labor in foreign coun- | tries walting to come to the United | ten, and whenever, we need such | 2o fill legitimate demands 4énd for | what we need. Last year the number | of ihcoming laborers just about offset the number outgoing. During -the first three months of this year we recelved 69,000 alicns of the laboring ! class and lost 17.600. so that gained a little over 51.000, fmproved industrial conditions quick- ly absorbed the increases and still | we meed- more—but more of & class | acceptable to American standards. * % kX% ‘} Senator Borah warns the country | that unless Congress passes legisla- ! tion promptly for the aid of the farm- ers, such as rural credit relief and freight reduction, there is likely to be a lessening of acreage next se: on that will be startli ‘The sam Press Demands Square Deal for Pueblo Indians. An incident which dramatizes the eternal vigilance that alone .assures liberty has aroused-deep interest and | teeling in American newspapers, fol- lowed by editorial Insistence on fair play for the Pueblo Indians. ‘I'ne Bursum Pueblo Indfan bill “slipped through the Senate” reports tne Christian Science Monitor (Boston)g No other phrase expresses the sul picious and sinister celerity with which it passed that body without de- bate.” But because “on the face ot the transaction it has the appear- ance of & conspiracy to rob the Pueblos of their holdings” as the Rochester Times-Unfon siates the case, it was protested by the press and by varlous organized bodies, in-| cluding the American Ethnological Soclety and the General Federation of Women's Clubs. As a result, “thanks to Senator Borah, the bill has been recalled from the House and "will not again be rallroaded through the Senate without discus- sion a3 & matter of routine merely because a senator from New Mexico gives-his word that it is all right or a Secretary of the Interior from New Mexioco calls it.an dministration measure’,” for “the Senate has been put on_its guard” the New York ‘World declare: Moreover, :the press has also been put on.its guard, and, after looking closely into the actual rovisions of the bill, it {s voicing a Jemand that the measure be emphati- ly defeated. ““L{.fi ng the red man of his rights as zhé‘leu American and a human i1s.a_sport -which seems never its popularity in certain quar- erves the Brattleboro Re- “It has led to" the greatest to the Indians individually o _the destruction of their 1 ters,” ol former. injustice and as a race, and of - characteriatic evidences clvilizations id which sl cherished and preserved for their in the history of this coi blll, deallng n‘t'l‘nut. rsum ith fi“na. in New Mexico .looks to the Asbdry Park Press “1lk¢ another a tompt at land-grabbing of akind per- petrated only tog often in the history of this country. But i thé wide- spread Teaction against the Bursum measure the Pre 0 sees “a whole- some sign. t lemst a dise It reveals jtion on the part of the fountry to mlt on justice to ¢ Ve- ment, the Chicago Journal declares _that “the Bursum bill onght to be en: "An act to starve the Puebfo | Capitol_a place’ where malé states- | ous provisions which show the legal- \ \ Wwarning may be given in the matter’ ©of wages for farm help; If the farm- ers must continue to compete with city wages for common I-g;rf.t ¥ to $5 a day of elght hpurs, the cost of food production will prohibitive, and the farmers will simply cease 0 raise it. beyohd what they will require for their own consumption. Food in Washington now costs 56 Por cent more than it did in 1913, and the cost increaséd 2 per cent at re- tail in the- Inst month, while farm produ; énerdlly Increased 3 cent wl ul!m- Mrln‘,(hrlt.n :fin::r‘: and $8% per cint in the fast year. ‘Woodrhan, spare tHat tree’” The Marylgnd law -'ulqn.‘u % . misde- meanor, puniskable with a fine of $25 or ninety days' imprisonment, for any one to remove a tree or shrub from another's land without the own- er's written or verbal consent. penklty is' tnsufclent. Christm: trees are”stolen at the risk of in- curring s0 #mall a pennity, &nd the actual value of some trees is many times the fine. g As trees become s year, they become more the law tection. rcer, year by preclous, xnd should give them better pro- ereon which have been develtp- ing for twenty to Xty Vears—or longer in some cases—and, through ignorance or & whim, he exercipes his “ownership” long enough.to destroy the irreplaceable trees, and, thep sells out or defaults on his payments? There should be laws Paking every tree, whether on private or public land, & public chargé, de- struction or injury & ny; unless flnrovrd by the sgpéfintépdent of rks or some unblased court. (In two decades more ere ‘will -be no forests—let uz xave, the few tites that grow along city #treets and in yards. We have societies for the preven- tion of cruelty to childran-and ani- mals; let us organize for tection of trees—not merel. assoclations whose objects tarfan in the saving of T other drainage and conser timber, but because fre nificent expressions of beauty. Stay the hand of the igno-, rant vandal. * X * x Representative Free of California makes some ugly charges against the District of Columbia's system of “children’s guardiane. Here is what some of his “cases” appear to be: A child of a struggling mother is no- ticed by a neighbor to be without good shoes or sufficient clothing Forthwith, he says. the child is haled before a court and sentenced into ‘slavery”—torn from its mother and ut into a home of strangers, where t must be subject to the commands of those.who hold no special jove for it, but who, perhaps. covet the pay for its keep given by the District. From that time, it is pointed out, which consigns the baby to loses jurisdiction—the baby iz whol under the autherity of the chiidrens guatdians, Representative Free cites one “case’ where such g child at the age of eighteen attrhcted the attention of well-to-do people, who offered to g1 the boy a gnod education, but the children's guardians forbade the nec- essary change of domicile, and so the hoy missed the chance of a lifetime The congressman has a card list of wome Bixty such cases, for he is in- terested in being human and in abolishing “slavery”—a sort of Abe Lincoln statesman. He believes tha some system of relief which would help the real mother to keep her child with her. while she continuec her struggle, would be nearer to standards of modern civilisation. Bills to change these alleged con- ditions are now being studled for early introduction in Congress, and it is hoped to have for the measure finally worked out the approyal of board .of charities, the Council of 1 Agencies and the District Com- missioners, O Representative jlice Roberteon, who will tetieé” from Congress March 4. complafng, thag "there fa.no place for a lady sepresentative to powder her the House" She adds; “Con- rets’d¥4 not ‘bufld a cloakréem tor mel 1 don't ‘think there would be much room in Congress for,women who powder théjr noses.” Now, ‘we. wonder why not. For years Congress thaintained ¢ in the men coilld “paint their noses.” though for sofite/ vears even before thne elghteenth amemiment the paint shop had been abolished. But why aboligh or fail to establish a mere nose- powdering, room? Even now there are congressional barber shops in the ‘apitol; let there be beauty shops as ell nd Ari- York ‘numer- s of New Mexico for, indeed, the Ne Tribune agrees, it contains ized ruthlessness which white men are willing to use when they covet !the land of their Indlan neighbors.’ s by The Tribune explains the me: nd 1s which possession of such sought under the bill. “Some of the Indians during the last generatfon allowed squatters to settle on their lands.” it says. “One section ; of the Bursum bill reads that all per- sons Who for more than ten years prior to June 20, 1910, have had ac- tual possession, ‘With or without color or title,’ of any lands within the exterior boundary of the Pueblo grants shall be entitied to a dccree T ‘thelr favor for the whote lands In return for these the go ed from the claimed. ernment shall have surv. ublic lands a tract as near ueblos ms possible ‘equal in area and value or equa) in value' to the land so seised. In case suitable gub- stitute lands cannot be foun government shall deposit the value of the seized lands to the credit of the . Pueblot This suggestion the f “manifestly hypocriti since “it is well known that all ‘thé public lands worth _ cultivating by the Pueblos have long since -been 'occupied by squatters. ch lands actually did exist thete is no.reason why they should mot be given to the squatters instead of to the Indians who have for centuries inhabited their present sites.” “There isn’t & white man in America today with a clearer title to his land than the Pueblo,” the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. asserts, a title d rived from Spanish grants dating as far back as 1690, “and confirmed by Mexico, then by the republic of Texas, and then once siore by the govern- ment of the United States during the administration of Adraham Lincoln. Through all these years these civil- ized red men have im ed these lands, cultlvn(ln{. {rrigating, making them worth while.” Pueblo Indlans; we learn from the “had a civilization of no the colonies ribune finds were born. customs they have contributed much that is distinctive to the achleve- ments of this continent.” In more detail the Christian Science Monitor adds: “From all over the world sci- ent and artists have tome to Ob- serve their customs and ceremonles. ‘The painter has found stimulus in the osphere of their villages; the mu- iration in their rude har- o° author ‘and ‘the arche- ologist fond . for reffection in.their customs and relfes. ¢ * ® Only the . m utter lack. gf intelligent recog- - tion of the rial advantage ac- cruing'to the southwest from the pro- tection and maintenance . of these Pueblo villages can explain the ai proval by public men of this legl: tion.’