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THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JANUARY 14, 1923—PART 5. VVoman of 1950 to Retain Feminine [King George Is Finest Shot in England; Qualities, Prediction of Mrs. Huck BY JAMES A. BUCHANAN. EING a member of Congres: is not the easiest job in the world If you are consclentious, are true to your ldeals and have plans that vou believe should be | adopted. Your lot is not made any easfer by the fact that you are a woman who has been elected to Con- | gress and whose congressional dis- trict comprises @ whole state, as it does in the case of Mrs. Winifred Mason Huck, daughter of the late/ William E. Mason, who for & number of years occupled a prominent posi- sten in the House of Representatives 3nd United States Senate. It s true that Mrs. Huck is not| the first woman who bas been honored by her fellow citizens, but for many yoers she was “Billy" Mason's rignt Power, and from the early period of her lifo until the time of his death! the twaln were wont to confer on| matters that atfected the public weal. | The writer remembers a visit,| several years ago. at the Mason home ! when he listened to an argument be- tween father and daughter over a| bit of legislation. It was an g devate, for a debate it presenting his or her side of the case and then the other avswer- g The iather finaily was compelled | acknowledge that his daugh ts were bet | | ¥ the 1 ois the | of a the sound- sometimes opinion took one quest! order to prove ness of the other. * % ok % ‘ YHEN the news was ‘/ throughout the eountry that Huck had been nominated to *he race for congresswomen-a from Illino!s there w: a few thought that she would Washingten, {f elected, chlefly to en joy the mocial end of the game. but| oy reckoned on the doughyt! daughter of the one-time republictun | wheel horse, for her head ideas as to woman should rea took the stump during the campaign, | she convinced the voters that she w as | a candidate who. If clected, was comi- | ing to Washington and endeavor to| secure legisla that would be benefit to the ir ¥ result was, ac figures, the official fi being obtainable, that clean sweep of the state Ot course, the great novelty of a| woman sltting either branch of Congress had somewhat abated when | aho arrived, but there stood peintedly | forth the fact that Winifred Mason Tluck had mapped out definite | logislative program for herself and that she was going to sit there, not! a8 the wife of a successful engin not e rding to the 1 ures not she ma Representatives. It aleo was apparent | that she was going to ask no favors| on account of being a womav. She was 8 member of Congress and would | play the game accordinz 1o rules. When you go into Representative | Huck's office you don't see any fancy | sofa, pillows, doilles or other teminine simeracks cluttering up the place. There are desks and tables, filing cabinets and other articles of a useful nature. In her office there is an at- | mosphere of quiet yet forceful dig- nity, and she loses no time in getting at the meat of & proposition present- vd As she explained to one visitor, «he wanted to be courteous and just to all, but the many demands made | upon her time necessitated her belng | brief and to the polnt. She said it in | such an honest and frank way that | the visitor could not help getting her | viewpoint. | With the advent of women into| political life there naturally bas| arisen in the minds of thousands the| query as to just how this journey into | the unknown realm will affect the| woman of the future. The writer asked Mrs Huck a number of ques- tions, among which was this: “What effect will woman's emancipation have upon the woman of 19507 Mrs. Huck sald: | “I believe that the womar's eman- | cipation of today will be the founda- | tton of her real education, and, as a | result, the woman of 1860 will have a broader view and will be better equip- ped to meet her problems. “Wi1Il she be less feminine? In my ostimatlon she will not be less femi- nine. The history of the short time that she has been in politics shows | that the mannish woman s not popu- lar politically. I am speaking of the woman who is mannish in outward | appearance. 1am not speaking of the woman who has the intelligence and the force to handle the work that heretofore has been handled by men. Thero is no doubt that the mannish woman exists, but her kind will not be encouraged in the political world.” £ % % % HERE are those who have thought that perhaps woman's entrance in the political arena would cause her to forsake, in part, if not wholly, her attire, or porhaps would dim the ages- old love of pretty things, and while, of course, it is not possible for Mrs. Huck or any other mortal on the face of this earth to successfully prophesy what milady of 1950 will wear, vet sho is of the opinfon that women will dress pretty much as they do now. To put it into words, Mrs. Huck sald: “It 1s hard to say what tho mext change in woman's attire will be, but 1 am inclined to believe it will con- tinue along the lines of Bensibleness. Whatever the change may be, I feel very sure that she will always love the beautiful things, whether she express them in her clothes or mot.” There ago some feminists who de- elare that the advent of woman in Congress has had a beneficlal effect on legislation, and the more extreme feminists are llke campaign managers before election, claiming everything. Mre. Huck, however, does not hold this extreme view. Upon this sub- Ject she sald: “Although it is apparent that the woman'’s view has had some influence on legislation, I do not belleve that the woman representative has yet produced legislation that can be at- iributed solely to the woman. How- BTA Successful Contestant for Seat as Repre- sentative-at-Large From Illinois Expects No Favors in Congress Because She Is a Woman. Believes She Should MRS, WINIFRED MASON HUCK, FROM TLLINOIS, AND HER ( RLISLE HUCK. this ie that n so few women The mi aque the o pl the courtesy extended to women by me This, of course, I do not believe will change as time goes on and we be- come more civilized. “A fight to attain political position is a fight between mentalities, At least, that is the tendency of our progress. The women who enter politics must be prepared to fight mentally, for T believe that woman will not be given any political con- slderation except that which she can demand through her mentality.” Now and again a man or a woman asks how women differ from men regard ‘to matters of a political nature. The representative at large from Illinols answers this as fol- lows “I can answer this question bet- ter by giving two examples. The woman's club, unless It is organized primarily for the beneGt of one party or faction, is essentially fair. If the club is intercsted at all in politics and invites a candidate, as a candi- date, to speak before the club, the president manages to have the op- ponent or the opponent's side pre- sented. Although this is done in men's organizations, it has seemed to me to be a more prevalent method of procedure among the women's cluba, “From the other angle, T have no- ticed on the floor of the House of Representatives how men will fight | each other one day and work together | the next day, and how very imper- sonal their work for the country is. The enthuslasm with which these gentlemen fight each other, and the genlal way they then go to lunch with each other is something many women could study to their great benefit.” * % * HEN Mrs. Huck was asked as to the influence of woman in poli- tics on the ordinary conventlons of life, and whether or not the moral law ‘would remain the same or would be elevated or lowered, she replied: “I believe the moral standard of life of this country is continually ap- proaching a higher level. natural trend of education, and, of course, the education resulting from woman's émancipation is only an- other force in the right direction.” Mrs. Huck does not indorse the Woman's Party as a party, and If one reads carefully between the lines of her answer he will find that while she does not elther disapprove or indorse that organization, she does give credit to that body of emancipated women for having assisted in helping edu- cate politically the members of her sex. Her answer to the question What of the Woman's Party? was: “The Woman's Party is a natural outcome of the newly enfranchised women. Personally, I belleve that the more women's organizations there are the more channels we have of educating the womeén. Certainly the organizations so far have done a great deal of good. The thought has occurred to many throughout the country that perhaps when the woman plays the stellar role in politics of the nations she simply has to forego all the ties which heretofore bound her to husband and family, but when the writer pro- pounded the question, “Do You believe that woman in public lfe should maintain the same close contact with her family that she did -before -she went into office?” Mrs, Huck said: fn} That is the | Maintain Position as RN REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS HILDREN. WALLACE AND EDITH €upy right by Underwood & Underwood. wom and should contact with did before does t be resp ame posi cter bull ing o has always the s been of there the the past month or so a hue and cry anc the cancellation t Europe nwes us. Mrs. realizing that this money came from the pockets of the cltizens of | this country, many of whom made | sacrifices in order that the money might be raised during the time of that dreadful conflict, {cided stand against the cancellation |of these debts. Tpon this subject | she sata: “T am absolute |the European debt to us. It is a | natural Inclination for us to want | what belongs to us, but I believe | there Is a greater reason. If we do not pay for our mistakes it is easfer of ‘Where Heroes and Heroines Of Fiction Come From HE average reader often stops and puzzles his mind over the following questions: Where do authors get their charac- ters? How are they conceived and developed and clothed with manner j emotions and qualifications? Are they evolved from real life or created out of a full, rich imagination? Are they partly true to actual living person- | alities and partly figures of ‘fancy? Are they single predominant indivi ualities or a composite form of char- acteristics, like the celebrated Tom Sawyer of Mark Twain? These are natural questions which the inquiring reader and the aspiring | young writer should ke to have an- swered clearly and concisely. During Canadlan “Book week” they were submitted to a number of Canadlan authors, among whom John Murray Gibson was the first to reply. “If an author has any consider- ation for his personal comfort,” he !wrote, “he should not take his char- lacters from real lite. By the time a publisher has issued his novel the heroine has grown considerably older, and in order to live up to to the de- scriptions of exquisite beauty with which the guthor naturally endows 1all good heroines, she takes to cos- metics. For this the author s blamed by the hero, who marries her in the | beliet that he was golng to live happi- Iy ever after, but now realizes that the most herolc thing he can do is to pay the heroine's beauty parlor bills. “If the villain is still allve or out of fail he can make himself exceedingly unpleasant. If he is dead the author, Iot course, is safo to the end of time; ! that is to @ay, If he is a good author. | For villains go without question to the lower regions, whereas all good authors, as is well known, g0 to heaven.” Mrs. Isabel Mackay answers: “You ask me where I get the char- acters for my books and if I ever find out I will gladly tell you. But at present I do not know. They Seem to just happen—the way one hap- pens to meet a friend. There Is a feeling of recognition, of allurement, of growing Interest, of understanding. Never, perhaps, of ultimate under- standing, since neither in life nor in fiction does any one really understand any one else. But the book people one has met In this way are real, just as T $usn & bolieve the ealy reason fox *I s inclined to belisve that the newly met friends are real, and in the takes a de-| v against cancellng | to make them again. Bloodshed and violence do not seem to teach with any degree of efficlency the futllity of war and, in casting about to find & more vital spot through which to drive this reasoning home, I have | concluded that it is time to see what we can do for world peace by touche |ing the pockethooks of those who still glory {n war.” When Mrs. Huck was questioned about war she made an answer, the lonesty of which iy an excellent ex-, |ample to others. It was: “My knowledge of the English language is Insufficient to speak upon this question. The only way I can express my views upon thls will be through the actual work I am en- deavoring to do for world peace.” Pursuing the question of war, the writer asked: “What Is the greatest guaranty against war?’ She an- swered: “The greatest guaranty against war Is education—education of the heary as well as of the mind. This education, of course, includes the un- derstanding of other nations' points of vilew. Our International con- Ereeses are the great roads to this end."” P VIOUS to Mrs. Huck's nomina- tlon a friend commented the fact that it took a great deal of courage to enter a campaign against | seven well known men. . Huck's ! answer, a typical one, wa “I will admit that it did take some courage to enter the campaign, but, had T been lacking in courage to the extent of fearing a campalgn and the posaibility of defeat, I certalnly would never have the courage to stand in Congress for what I belleve is right.” As you slt in Mrs. Huck's office and talk with her you cannot help but notice a little white metallic shield on which were the words, *For a Ref- erendum on War, World War Vat- erans” Tt is an emblem of a new organization, composed of former service men who are endeavoring to sec that we participate in no forelgn wars unless the matter is first ap- proved by the dlrect vote of the pao- ple. As Mrs. Huck explained, if we were attackel we would be in war automatically The referendum, the direct-vo! proposition, would apply only to sending soldiers out of the country for a foreign war. Previous to Mrs. Huck's coming over from the Capitol to her office ter had an opportunity to chat ; with the male part of the firm. They operate as a firm. Fach has a line of human endeavor. Neither one in- | |fringes on the rights of the other. and thelr labors furnish a splendld example of eficlent team work. Some of Mrs. Huek’s characteristics, cording to her husband, are: “She i3 most careful about making appoiatments and when she makes them she keeps them. She insists on some one being in the oflice all the time, clatming that it is the right of cvery constituent to have some one at the office to recelve him. We were married in 1904 She is sincerity ft- self. She belleves In supporting the Dbest candidate, whether it be man or woman. She stands for her country rather than for her sex. She never |raised an objection about going to| {the places that my work called me. She knows no fear. does not tremble | under criticlsm, and the fact that she { got about a million votes shows, to |zom> extent at least, that the people have confidence in hei She Is a womanly woman and s tolerant, but does not belleve that it is essential to woman's success in | politics that she wear knickerbockers and chew tobacco. She feels deeply upon the subject of war, and finds that there are thousands, in this | country who do not believe in mak- |ing international policemen of the | youth of the country. % i 1 upon | { i ac- | same way does one's knowledge of | thelr personalities deepen. It g then the author's deep desire to make this ! reality apparent to others—that, 1 suppose, {8 why books are written,” Robert Allison Hood writes: “I belleve the novelist should draw |trom nis experience and take sug- | Bestions from folks he has met, from { which in part to create the people of his book. He may select traits of mannerisms or physical characteris- tics, but should not slavishly copy. | Nor 18 he likely to do this last unless | he not only paints the person from | ite, but borrows his story as well. | Otherwise the progress of his plot will ‘naturally develop the character in his book and make of him a differ- ent man from his prototype.” Thus the answers were given by those who had been requested to con- {fess the secrets of their craft. The seekers for more light updn the sub- ject are left just where they started from. The answers remind one of the replies given by politicians who are running for office when they are asked to state their views en prohi- bition. Alloy for Watches. TOT long ago there was announced a dlscovery described by the di- rector of the international buréau of | weights and measures as being capa- |ble ot revolutionizsing the watch- | making industry. A successtul method lof regulation, remedylng the varia- tions in time of a watch due to the | expanson and contraction of its parts { caused by variations of temperature, iis the result of the invention of C. E. Guillaum This so-called “secondary error” al- waye has been one of the great ob- stacles In the attainment of perfec- tion and precision in the watchmak- ing industry. The chief feature of the Gulllaume process 1s a change in the alloy used in the compensating parts. The mini- mum expansion of nickeled steel was found to be increased by the addition of 12 per cent of chrome as well as a small quantity of tungsten, man- ganese or carbon. By mounting & spiral of this steel-nickel-chrome al- loy in the watch, according to the French announcement, the problem of compensation has been solved and the “gecondary error” yymoved. | i i l l ias the king enters his dr i but | Columbia department of the legion. Believes in Duty; Fond of Simple Things MOST astonishing photograph of King George of England has just been published. It depicts the king In Highland sporting | garb, wearing kilt and ehort coatee, in- stead of the regulation glengarry on his head, a cap of the type known by Ameri- cans as a “sports cap.” ‘The effact on the British pul much the rame as if King George had strolled o 11 o'clock the morning wearing a morning coat and his coronation crown. Unitke his father, King Edward, who | was known as Furope's first and best dressed gentleman, King George lays | no claim to beau-brummellism. He has | not the knack of wearing his clothes with that careless manner which dls- | tingutshed his father; yet he probably | has more suits of clothes than any man in England, to say nothing of over ! ninety uniforms. He looks his best in the rough tweed shooting clothes which | his Scottish gun-bearers know so well. | King George is the finest shot in Iing- | land, bar none. If you saw him at the | butts bringing off thote remarkable right and left shots of his, saw him un- | flinchingly snap gun to shoulder with | the automatic swing of an expert, you would be inciined to say: “This lsn't: the King of England. 1 greatest shot, a man whose gun, clothes ' and eye ail move in unison to one ob- Ject, the head of his bird, Fow Englishmen lLnow King George | as he really is, a modest, hard-work! intensely punctiifous gent! motto, lived up to the last dot, is * Ho begins his day in a flowered dress- | ing gown at 7:30 every morning. when his valet brings him a cup of tea aud | turns on his bath—which, Iike all Eng- lishmen, the king takes cold. % %% NCE a week, while the king is having his bath, a little gray-hair- ed old man carrying a black bag lsad- | mitted to the palace. For years that ' little man has passed the red-coated sentries at the palace gates, walked | briskly through the courtyard, re- moved his hat and gloves in the cloak | room adjolning the lking's private | anteroom, and been ushered into the royal dressing room to awalt the king. 11~ is the king’s barber and ing room the'little man stands up. bows, says| “Good morning. your majesty, d pushes a chair in front of a long pier glass, whereupon the king sit to undergo the operation of trimming. After the beard is trimmed eatis- factorily the king eats alone the! simplest breakfast imaginable in a little room adjoining his dressing room, generally tea, a soft boiled cgg and the marmalade without which no Englishman feels he has breakfasted. A few personal letters are put on his plate by his private valet, the papers | spread out at an adjolning table.| Half an hour for these and then King George dresses himsclf for his morn- | ing ride in Hyde Park—dark coat., derby hat. riding breeches, long boots | —and with a riding crop in bis hand | goes down to the courtyard of the palace to mount his horse. Generall: be takes one of the princes with him or maybe one of his equerries—if| the Prince of Wales is home, or Prince Henry, they ride with him too, | few Londoners get up early enough to see thoir king galloping round Rotten Row. It {s a pity they miss it, for King George brackets his | down | beard | of Buckingham Falace at| % i SESESESS TR T A Day Spent With British Monarch Re- veals Interesting Routine in Royal Existence —Has Many Suits of ~ DA Y 0 ¢ Clothes, But Lays No Claim to Beau Brummel Distinction—Makes Appointments for Six Months Ahead— Smokes Briar Pipe—Admirer of Nathan Hale. KING GEORGE RIDES ALMOST As WE writing a personal letter with quill ven and ink. . At 12:30 more often than not he ia !deciding his dally charity subsorip= | tions—no small duty—and at 1 o'clock |he goes to his family lunch. This is {Just an ordinary family affair, with the most stinple menu. Indeed, since the war Buckingham Palace has be- come noted for {ts simple but well cooked meals The only outward display of royalty is thc red-coated footmen. Queen Mary sits at one end of the table, the king at the other. Frequently Queen /)| Alexandra, the king’s mother, comes .I. AS IIE SHOOTS—AND HE SHOOTS BETTER THAN MOST MEN IN ENGLAND. shooting superiority his horsemanship. which After the ride King G back to the palace and ta bath, thus excelling even punctilious Englishman two cold baths in one m orge husties ces another the most by monial King George dresses proi fn a dark blue or durk From 9 to 10 o'clock morning new he has half family, tal talks to h leaving for brown he reads be of in the mo! !ing. Punctua at 10:50 Lord & hamn: 1 the king’s prive tial secretar: brings with 1 answered, government doc perusal and lists of appoin be made and kept and whi of the guards play: courtyard as the king letters wh ments for to the band in the rd is be tng mounted with full ceremontal, the <es his appointments for six nhead, reads notes from his ninisters is of de- “cleans np* his s any bapk an “cleans up” Thes> dutles his appoin rd, and er, Queen Victor rined the habit of = people at with soldlers. who are launching nd po! Tit- King George, through one of the be: andmot pe wh - smoke, a briar. ng George is dictat- ional to this meal, also the Duke of Con- |naught, the king's uncle, or the queen’s favorite brother, Alexander of Teck, now Duke of Athlone, or else a cabinet minister, or an ambassador, or one of the few personal friends of the king. After lunch, unless there is an § |vestiture or other ceremontal function, |the king sperids an hour reading in jthe smoking room or talks with & triend. Ging George is an inveterate reader. He reads blus books by the |score, dives into nearly every impor- tant memoir published and revels in | history of Georgian times. His knowl- |edge of the American war of inde- | pendence 1s practically unrivaled, and he divides his admiration for Nathan Hale only with Maf. Andre, Reading, shooting, riding and stamy collecting are King George's hobbles: his stamp collection is probably the finest in the world and the only thing that really tempts the king to turn | from arduous duttes, By £:30 relaxation {s over and King George lcaves the palace on one of his many tours of factory inspection, hospital visiting or monument un- veiling. By 5 he is back, and from 5 till dinner time King George is fres to do more or less as he likes, * % %% ing has few int!mates. He is 1y man, very in- studious, with no very Ereat sense of humor and very quieg of voice. Ills best friends. with m he shoots, rides and talks, are the Hon. Harry Stoner. whom tha king vaturally calls Deshorough, formerly |fell: Sir Stdney Greville, the Duke of {Devonshire and Admiral Sir Seymour | Fortescue, his old shipmate in the isalloring days, when Victoria was queen Charles Cust, Sir Cliva Wigram and Maj Phillp Hunloke. | With these men the king takes his walks, plays cards and sometimes visits. They are all real friends of the king: they look on him first, of | course, ae their royal master, but be- neath they recognize in King George a man who is full of information, | fond of simple things. the last word in conscientiousness and a good com- King George devotes to After dinner, which is same in unpretentiousness as lunch, the king and his family Visit a theater, possibly, or sit around in the drawing room, talking and reading. Sometimes the king will |Pay a private call on one of his |friends who may be sick, in which case he drives off unostentatiously in closed brougham or motor car to make his call, followed, of course, by | the ever-present but self-effacing de- tectives. By 11 o'clock King George is ready v i to re Oldest U. S. Veteran of World War Talks With His Youngest Comrade ' Lieut. William N. §| fi Williams of This ) City, Nearly Eighty- ? Six, First Sought to ? Fight for Country at ¢ Time of Mexican 2) War, When He Was ‘, en Years Old— ¢ Record of Bravery in 0 R Days of '61. g Do BY LIEUT. STEPHEN F. TILLMAN. Youngest World War Veteran. HE oldest veteran of the wofld war by quite a maljority of vears is Lieut. Willlam N. Willlams, U. 8. A, retired, of | 700 Connecticut avenue. Lieut. Wil- | llams will observe his elghty-sixth] birthday anniversary on January Naturally he also holds the record | as the oldest member of the Ameri- can Legion and of George Washington | Post No. 1, the pioneer post in the | leglon. He attended the national| convention held at Kansas City | 1921 as the guest of George Washing- ton Post. He was to have attended | the convention fn New Orleans as the | aistinguished guest of the District of | Owing to illness of Mrs. Willlams, however, he was unable to go to New Orleans. It was the intention of Lieut. Willlams, if he had attended the conventlon, to seck the floor of the gathering and, in person, offer his resolution urging the legion to change the name of convention to en- campment, which he says would be more appropriate for a veteran or- ganization. However, his resolution was introduced by the District dele- gation. He is at present the surgeon of the post. “Dad” Willlams, as he is called by the boys of Washington Post, was born on January 1%, 1837, at Newton Btewart, County Tyrone, Ireland. He came to America with his parents when he was threc months old. At the outbreak of the war between the United States and Mexico in 1846 he tried to enlist as a drummer boy, but was repeatedly rejected, owing to his youth. In talking of his attempts to enlist during that war he tells an amusing incident of how his father found him In one of the recruiting stations and gave him a spanking In the presence of the Army officers. LIEUT. W, N. WILLIAMS (RIGHT). OLDEST WORLD WAR VET. ERAN, SHAKING HANDS WITH STEPHEN F. TILLMAN, THE YOUNGEST WORLD WAR VETER Willlams declares that he will never forget the spanking. * % ok I 1861, when President Lincoln cali- ed for volunteers for what was supposed to be thrce months' ser- vice, Willlams enrolled as a private with Company A of the 6th Indiana Volunteers. At first this was one of numerous three-month organizations. He enlisted on April 19, 1861, and was discharged on Sat- urday, August 2, of the same year. He left camp for his home, and the next morning, being Sunday, the young volunteer attended church with the members of his family, as had been the custom for years. That night, following supper, he bade farewell ‘to his father and mother and started back to cump, ar- riving early Monday morning. He re- enlisted for three years on August 4, 1861. He was a participant in the battle at Cheat river, in West Vir- giniagend it was there that he saw \ regiment { | Gen. Garnett of the Confederacy | meet his death in battle. Willlams | also served in the battle of Shiloh; the battle of Stone River, in Ten- { nessce; Chickamauga and Missionary | Ridge in Georgia. It was at the battle of Salem Church, Tenn., that he | was first wounded. skirmish between |and a detachment of Gen. Wheeler's forces of the Confederacy. At the time Wheeler, with his main body of men, was away. At this battle Wil- llams was on staff duty as a lieuten- ant of the 3d Indiana Calvary, having won his promotion in battle. He was under severe fire four times in the | first three months of his service. Then came the mustering out of the Unlon Army, following the surrender of Gen. Robert E. Lee. Williams, hav- ing acquired a taste for Army life, did not go out with the rest. but de- cidad to remain in the Army. He saw active service in the fights against the redskins of our; western frontie the Unfon forces This was a light | While se-ving v the 3d United States Infantry he was associated in everal fights with the gallant Gen. Custer of the 7th Cavalry. On June 28, 1878, he was retired from the Army "35 a secord leutenant and was pro- |moted to first leutenant in 1904, Tn 1talking of his civil war experlences | he objects to the term ‘civil war. {as he cannot sce anything “etvi” in war. He prefers the term, “war be- tween civilization.” | * % ok 3 IR ALIZING that the war between the United States and Germany | Was coming, he applied for restora- tion to active duty with the Army ©on the 3d dav of April, 1917, before | the formal declaration of war. On ac- |count of his advanced age, however, |hls request was turned down. Betmg |an Irishman, be would not acknow!. |edge defeat and kept after the War Department. Finally, the despera officials, fn order to pacify Willlams, {esslgned him to active duty with the Quartermaster Corps as & first leu- tenant. He was then in his eighty. third year. He served only about 2 month, when { the armistice was signed. “I may be getting along in years.” Williams told the writer, “but if the {United States goes to war tomorrow T will be one of the first to volunteer.” | His world war service was confined to | the precincts of Washington. This s the explanation that Wil- | iams gives for going in the Army at | his age: “I am an American, first, last and always; and when our country icalls no onc should be too old or too proud to answer, not even Bergdoll.” He jokes about being assigned to the Quartermaster Corps, as he is a graduate physician. He 18 the oldest member of the American Legion and a charter member of George Wash- ington Post, No. 1, of which he 18 the post surgeon. He and the youngest world war veteran are members of the same post and are close friends. The Quivering Earth. IT has been pointed out that, in ad- dition to the many tremors due to seismic, or earthquakes, influences, which modern delicato Instruments detect, there are certain pulsations which seem to have some otner origin. Some of ‘these are dlurnal, and are probably due to the influence of the sun and the’ weather on the ground. In wet woather the sides and bottom of a vaHey carry a heavler load than the bounding ridges; in dry weathor the case is reversed. en the transpiration of moisture by plants may produce perceptible effects upon the tilt of the ground. Thus the face of mother earth Iy almost ax sens!- tive to extérnal influences as the skin’ of a living creature: