Evening Star Newspaper, February 13, 1923, Page 6

0 ['HE EVENING STAR, +-, 'With Sunday Morning Edition. ;.- WASHINGTON, D. C. WUESDAY.....February 13, 1833 THEODORE W. NOYES......Editor Ihe Evening Star Newspaper Company Bosiness Office, 11th Bt. and Peansylvasia Ave. Rew York Offca: 150 Nasean 8. Chlca ‘Tower Bulldin Waropesa Oiee: 16 Regent Bt London *"The Ervening Star, with the Sundsy moratag “aelfverad by Cherlers withia the €lty 0 cents per month; dally only, 45 cents per s "z cents per month. nt or telephor lection is’ made’ by carriers .m of each month. ,'Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Vlr‘lnh. ¥ ortane. Member of the Associated Press. a.The Awsociated Prews in exclusively entitled use for republication of all nows dls- nm- eredited 1o it of not otherwise credited b | secondary position. e e A Growing Force for Good. The inspiration of Lincoln’s name gains rather than diminishes with the passage of the vears. His words and works, his thoughts and deeds, his services and sacrifice for the nation are_ steadily more highly appreciated as time goes on. The national Lincoln nontlmull becomes thus steadily, year r, more definitely a part of the American civic spirit, recelving addi- tional impulses from the observances of his birthday, when the people as- semble and in one way or anather pay tribute to the great citizen who gave his life that the Union might be maintained. Yesterday many of these celebra- tions occurred, in all parts of the coun- try, participated in by representatives of all groups of the people, without wectional differences. Here at Wash- ington, the scene of Lincoln's four and & fraction years of official service, that wregnant period of crisis She supreme tragedy, the obser ©f the occasion took on an offic! acter, through the participation of representatives of the government. The chief event of a series of com- memorative gatherings was that un- der the auspices of the Lincoln Memo- rial University, an institution planned to carry out Lincoln's benevolent and constructive purposes for the educa- tion of the people. In his address on that occasion President Harding noted how in this present grave crisis of world affairs the eyes and the interest of men turn to Lincoln for comfort and help to the man “who manifestly was brought forth with the destiny or consecrated by an infinite hflnd to render a par- ticular service.” And the words of Lincoln, in speeches, in writings, in eayings, all bear upon the great prob- lem of the relations of mankind. If his spirit could be applied to world problems today and his wisdom and his charity and his justice accepted by all, there would be no difficulties. It is at once sad and inspiring to re- flect upon the brevity of the time in which Lincoln was a national figure in our affairs—really less than seven wyears in all, reckoning from the time of the great debate in Iliinois to his death. The first two years of that period were years of defeat and dis- eppointment, though years of prepara- ration for the task that was to be im- posed upon him and the sacrifice de- manded of him. And, as one speaker of the day remarked, in that time there were only a few months in which Lincoln regarded himseif as success- ful, those months that followed his re- election, when the end of the war was in sight. The loneliness and the sadness of Lincoln's last years, when he was forced to rely upon himself and his own judgment, add to the force of the example which he has set for the peo- ple he loved and for whom he gave his life. Americans of today do well to ‘measure fully that service and sacri- fice. Madness. There is a frenzy that prompts some smen—and women—to do wild and un- reasonable “stunts,” and which draws crowds to look on with the expectation of seeing @ man die. Take as an ex- ample the bit of news from far-off Montevideo that “an automobile race ‘Tbotween three cars in which the drivers | “were blindfolded resulted disastrously i ~when one of the drivers swerved from this course and plunged into a crowd of spectators, seriously injuring twelve of them.” It is said that the race was 1o test the capacity of the drivers for “orientation.” Each driver carried a woman passenger, who was “to warn him in case he lost his bearings.” All this was madness, and men and wom- en whose minds are correctly “orient- ed” will say it was madness of a silly kind. Still, one need not look as far as Montevideo for accounts of reck- Jess and senseless “stunts.”” We have them in our own United States. ———— There {s no angulsh regarding street car fares in the heart of the man who can afford to call a taxi. —_——— The Turk is in a habitual state of doubt as to whether he wants to make peace or make trouble. ————— High School Athletics. Consideration is being.given by the high school principals of the District o a proposal to suspend for two years il interschool athletic contests, in order to afford a greater degree of physical training to all the students of those institutions rather than to the few who are by their capacities best ‘qualified for participation in the or- =anized games. ‘Decision has been de- ferred, but the question will later be approached again, and e conclusion will be reached in time to affect next sreason’s activities. Undoubtedly there is a feeling that under present conditions, with the high schools engaged in strenuous rivalry for athletic honors, the atten- tlon of the physical instructors and directors is concentrated upon a com- ‘paretively small number of students. The rivalry between the schools is O:een. In the autumn in foot ball, in #he winter in baskst bell and én the spring in base ball and fleld and track sports the teams and squads of these institutions are kept in training, Natu- rally those boys and girls—for the girls are in the race as well—who are in the best condition, who have the greatest endurance, who are naturally the most athletic, get the maximum of attention in the gymnasium and on the flelds. The others are relatively neglected. It {s unfortunately neces- sary, in order to develop successful athletic competitors, to concentrate upon those who are best fitted for such work, and the staff of instructors and directors is not large enough, nor are the accommodations sufficlent, to give attention to everybody else. Care has been taken to safeguard against undue concentration upon these sports to the detriment of schol- astic duties, as rules have been adopt- ed to require the maintenance of cer- tain class averages as a condition of participation in the team work of the schools. Still a feeling prevalls among many parents that the high develop- ment of athletics {n the schools tends to put sport in first place with a large number of students, with lessons in It would perhaps be worth while trying the experiment for & couple of years of cutting off the intense competitions on the athletic fleld and observe the results upon the general scholastic activities of the stu- dent body, meanwhile maintaining an officient course of general physical in- struction and exercise applied to every student, irrespective of special talents and qualifications for particular games. —————— A Fake Detector of Reds. An amazing tale is told by a former detective assoclated with bureaus whose services were utilized by the governiaent in the search for radicals and mischief makers. In connection with the preparation of the defense of the twenty-two alleged communists arrested a few months ago in Michi- gan, he recites to counsel for the ac- cused a career of duplicity and deceit that suggests the heyday of the old Russian counter-esplonage system. According to this man there is no real radicalism in the United States save that which is faked for the pur- pose of being “detected.” The Indus- trial Workers of the World are not ac- tually bent upon destruction of indus- try. The anarchists are mere acade- micians playing with the theories of “no-government rule.” The com- munists are mild students of national peychology. All the wicked things that have been attributed to them, all the bombs and fires and sabotage, have been “planted” on them by men hired to “make cases.” ‘This man tells his story vividly and well. He relates happenings in detall, gives names and dates and places. He accuses the *higher-ups” in the de- tective world of plotting to meke a show of criminality among working- men’s organizations and associations of students of life and government, of engaging men to work their way into the inner councils and start things, so that the plots could be bared and great credit acquired by the detecting agen- cies. And it seems, actording to this account, that there was some rivairy on the part of the workers in this fleld to make the worst messes possible through their own machinations, so that their jobs could be perpetuated and multiplied. This is one man's tale. Unsupported, it will make no deep impression. Of course, it will be denied, promptly and explicitly. And yet it may be, in part, true. It is quite pdssible that there ere such unspeakable wretches as this man confesses himself to be, who are willing for & stipend to blast the good name of the American workingman, to bring honest citizens into the deepest disrepute and at the same time to thwart the really corrective work of the government in the pursuit of criminal anarchists. But however far this tale may be correct, it does not go to prove that there is no such thing in America as a propaganda for the destruction of the government, the wrecking of so- clety, the adoption of the bolshevik doctrine. It does not reach the root of the evil. It does not discredit the tons of inflammatory literature that have been discovered in cellars or in caches in the woods—as in Michigan— or the bales of record books and ros- ters of membership and circulars of instruction that have been captured in raids. It may play @ part at the trial of the communists, but it will not convince the American public that this red chase is all a fake. —————— District of Columbia motorists lre] looking forward to the day when extra license tags will be recognized as being no more useful than they are orna- mental. ——————— President Poincare placed e large order for coal from the Ruhr, and some of the French voters are begin- ning to wonder whether he can de- Uver it. ————— There is fear that @ number of ar- ticles of common commerce may be smuggled across the Canadian border, unless the smugglers are already too busy. ———————— Harry Thaw is esking a week's vacation. It should be accorded, if at all, at this time of year when there are no roof gardens‘in session. 1 ——— The Scramble for 0il. It is something of a paradox that oil, which will still the ocean’s angry waves, serves only to make more angry and more turbulent the seas of | international politics. What gold was to the questers of the fifteenth cen- tury oil has become today. It draws men into the far.places of the world to search for it, and when found it stirs. bitter animosities and jealousies among the nations. The galleons of old Spain are gone, but the oil tanker today carries riches overseas that would have seemed fatulous to the conquistador returning with his blood- won hoard. And as pirates lay in wait for the treasure-laden ships of that earlier time, so there is piracy in oil today; but its methods are more subtle. In the stead of long tom and cutlass it uses diplomacy as ns weapon. Light on this world-wide lcrum‘ole for oil is thrown by & report just sub- mitted by the Federal Trade Commis- sion 0 zempanst 10 & Ssnate Jesohs e l tion calling for information as to ‘for- eign ownership in the potroleum in. duatry. The report shows that while barring American explorers and ex- ploiters from foreign flelds, foreign capital {s gradually, but steadlly, gét- ting control of more and more of the oil resources of the United States. European oil interests, especlally Brit- ish and Dutch, are taking full advan. tage of this government's liberality of policy, but there is no reciprocal liber- ality when it comes to flelds under British and Dutch control. Nor does it appear that France and Italy are any more liberal toward Americans in their colonial and mandated terri- tories, These nations make agreéements among themselves for the exploitation of oll flelds over which the world war gave them some form of supervision, but the ‘No Trespass” sign is up against America. That this government is keenly alive to the situation is evidenced by occurrences of the recent past. The State Department has protested vigor- ously against the disposition to hog the world's remaining undeveloped oil resources, and while these protests have been more or less effective in specific cases, it is apparent there is continual play behind the scenes to selze and hold everything in sight. Americans have no particular com- plaint because other nations show a @isposition to look out first for them- selves, and they do not ask any ed- vantages they are not willing to ac- cord to others, but it does rub us a little on the raw to be treated as & rank outsider when it comes to ap- portioning the spoils of @ war to the winning of which we contributed so largely. Planting Trees. An sssoclation called the American ‘Tree Association has just been organ- ized, the founder being the former president of the American Forestry Association, Charles Lathrop Pack. One of the objects of the new soclety is to plant one million trees in the United States in 1933, and to keep up the work in succeeding years. All per- sons with any understanding of the re. lation between tree and man and be- tween woodlots or woodland and the United States will hope that this so- clety will set out and take care of the number of trees indicated and will in- crease its plantings year by year. It would be a great contribution to the wealth, prosperity and education of the country. It has been given out that “‘the new association will make every one who plants a tree and reg ters it with the association a member. It is said that there are no cash dues, and that the only way to join the as. sociation is by planting a tree. It is also said that another aim of the as- sociation is to make Washington city the national arboretum. ————— 8chools are seriously considering the desirabllity of extending gymnastic training to those whose physical con- dition needs it, instead of specializing on students likely to become athletic stars. —_———————— ‘War prophets, like cold-wave proph- ets, have their value in checking over- confidence in the future, buf'are most appreciated when their predictions do not come true. ——————— Any manifestation of German opti- mism is based on the assumption that matters are about as bad as they can be and will have to change for the better. ————————— Moscow statesmen appear convinced that should they decide to participate in military trouble it will be easy enough to start something. of -their own. Ancient Egyptian tombs réveal the | fact that robbers reached them many vears ahead of the scientists, There is no way to beat the profiteer. ————— No true musiclan will harbor the thought that Baltimore's sleeping epi- demic is the result of a season of ‘Wagnerian opera. ——————— Russia would have had less reason to complain if her statesmen had al- ‘ways been as reliably proficient as her ballet dancers, ——————— The fact that it is getting deeper and deeper is urged as a reason for dipping into the turbulent tide of European offairs. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Lincoln. Painters have striven to portray the face That shone with love of all the human race. Sculptors have sought to chisel into stone The personality that was m own. Poets have tried, {n reverential song To echo his appeal unto the throng. The painter, sculptor, poet, seek in vain To eid his thought; sublime, and yet so plain. Betterment. 1 « “Do you think you are getting bet- ter every day?" “Of course, I do,” answered Senator Sorghum. “The only difficulty is in convincing my audiences.” Jud Tunkins says tim have changed terrible. He wantstogotoa Shakespeare show and his wife insists on musical cemedy inueent Rmmwe ‘There is @ potency in guile Embittering life’s cup. The honest man keeps silent, wbuo ‘The grafter whoap- things up. The hlhlu Influence, *“Do you ‘think the French are pro- moters of peace?” . “Not in our famfily,” NpH.d Mies Cayenne. “Every time rhother gets a bunch of new gowns from Paris father goes on the warpath.,” “Don’t be too fur aheed of de tim said Uncle Eben, “De early bird-is supposed to ketch de worm, but de February robin don't git aufia’ but e WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Any hour now oan bring forth the the announcement of President Harding’s | % decisions with regard to oabinet dhanges, for his mind, this observer is authoritatively informed, has been made up for some time. Dr. Work is to succeed Secrstary Fall as Secretary of the Interior, and Senator New will become Postmaster General. New's appointment was riveted and sealed by the eleventh-hour drive against him by Indiana political enemies. President Harding has & penchant for standing by his friends when they are under fire. In the earliest hours of his career as President-elect the cam- y-ln- launched against Daugherty or Auornay General and Harvey for dor to Great Britain did al- m t much as the things In their favor to make their appointments a certainty. Dr. Work wins cabinet pro- motion on his Tecord at the Post Of- fice Department. Within less than a year he cut down its expenses $100,- i *xox % John Hays Hammond I8 understood to be slated for one of the eeveral im- portant plums about to be shaken from the White House tree. He may succeed Col. Warren as ambassador to Japan, though the President values highly Hammond's expert services at the head of the Coal Fact-finding Com- mission. Mr. Hammond visited Japan and China {n 1922. As a mining en- :lnur he has surveyed properties in quarter of the globe. He knows thoroughly. Although hs owns A beautiful Tudor mansion in Wash- ington and & summer home at Glou- cester. Mass, Hammond is a native son of California, and !‘\rohlblv ‘would be ace nom- inated as envoy to Tokio. Although in his_sixty-eighth yeas e is as virile and vigorous & man twenty years his junior. * ok % Amid the agitation over within-the- law tax-dodging indulged in by persons of means who invest thelr fortunes in tax-exempt federal, state and municipal securities, ft is whispered that Capitol Hill is the abode of one of the noblest of this plutocratic and cautious breed. He 18 & member of Congress. He has been In Washington a relatively short time. Ha s famed as a reformer. Hia private fortune is gaid to run into eight figures. And his friends aver he pava Uncle Sam practically not a copper of inoome tax, heing a canny soul who has tied up his fat stipend in coupons which are beyond the reach of Commissioner Blair's sleuths. * ok ok * Unless the proceedings of the pan- American conference in Chile next month are held bi-lingually—in English a8 well as Spanish—the American dele- gation will have rather rough sledding. Only Ambassador Fletcher, who ‘heads the delegation, and Dr. Rowe, who speaks Bpanish lfke a grandee of Madrid, know | 1 1 1an of Latin America. It is to be hoj I.)Il.t neither Senator Kel- bll nor Senator Pomerene will nnux the feat of a Washington soclal lead at years pan-American wmm' oonference. o1 manans, meaning ‘tomorrow,’ and pa- jama, meaning ‘tonight.’ * * ok MaJ. Gen, J. G. Harbord, U. 8. A., re- tired, claims among many distinctions the unique, record of having been the only Army officer ever to command United States marines. Harbord was in supregpe direction of the marine di- vision which won Immortality at Belleau ‘Wood in June, 1918. The Marine Corps has decided to commemorate its esteem for Harbord by having him “done in oll” Richard 8. Meryman, one of America's most promising portrait artists, was commissioned to paint Har- bord, ‘and the picture, recently com- Dleted, In on exhibition 1 Philadaiphia at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. It will eventually be hung in the Army and Navy Club at Washington. Just before taking command at Belleau Wood, Harbord was presented with the insignia of the marines and wore them throughout the month of sanguinary fighting. Ever since then the ‘leather riecks” have considered him one of their adopted own. * K k¥ Robert Woods Bliss, just promoted from the third assistant secretary- ship of state to the ministership to Sweden, has been the diplomatio liquor officer of the government. As it falls to the lot of third assistant at the State Department to deal with the personal affairs of forelgn embassies and legations, all requests for extra- territorial drinkables have been go- ing through Mr. Bliss' hands for the v Thel'a has been no lar functionary at our mintstry of forelgn affairs. The rd assistant secretary of state per- uties that used to be ex- roised at the kalser's court in Berlin by an official known as “introducer of ambassadors.” The last courtler to hold the ofMos hzd a peculiarly eppropriate name—Pfoertner von der oelle. Literally transiated, that means “doorkeeper of hell.” EE George Horton, American consul general at Smyrna, here on leave awalting a new assignment, deplores a loss held by him to outstrip in gravity the sacking and burning of all his goods and chattels by the Turks last autumn. A friend spent the evening with Horton one day this week, brought with him as a token of esteem a quart of undoubtedly pre- Volstead Scotch, tapped it and then, in a moment of absent-mindedness at parting, took the remnant with him. Horton says the Turks could hardly be more cruel. (Copyright, 1923.) EDITORIAL DIGEST “Another Lady With a Pen” Re- veals an “Ancient Grievance.” When the wife of a “lame duck” senator took pen {n hand and wrote & “plece for the paper” back home, mak- ing & few observations on social life as she has seen it in & dozen years' association with official Washington, she apparently. to mix metaphors & bit, fired & shot heard from Washing- ton state to Washington, D. C., and back again. While the Utlca Press ex- presses the belief that the geographi- cal locations just mentioned “are probably much more concerned over Mrs. Miles Poindexter’s ideas of social customs at the capital than in the rest of the country,” nevertheless the rest of the country, editorially repr sented, is taking considerable intere: even admitting that it is showing more amusement than concern. “No well regulated national house- hold,” the Burlington (Vt.) Free Press concludes, “is complete In this age without its ‘Margot. * Whether or not Mrs. Poindexter is getting in training to supply that need In the case of the United States of America {8 a matter for editorial speculation, contalning. occasionally, a suggestion of misgiv- ing. At any rate “another lady with a pen,” as one writer calls her, has come forward with a recital of “cabinet prerogatives” which the New York World says “constitutes an old griev- ance under which senators have long chafed, but about which they have for the most part kept silent. And the Knozxville S8entinel suggests that it is safe to assume “that she has sym- pathigers among the other ladies of the Senate, although they may not be so bold as outspokenly to avow their sentiments. Power boats on the Potomac for Mrs. Secretary of the Navy to enter- tain in, and the famous Marine Band for her dances and teas; botanical garden decorations for Mrs. Secre- tary of Agriculture's parties, and handsome Army officers to Insure enough men to go ‘round at Mrs. Sec- retary of War's balls—“there has been no secret about these things,” the Utica Observer-Dispatoh thinks; “everybody In Washington must know them.” But while that may be true, telling about it, according to the Al- bany News, “just happens to be one of those things that are ‘not done.” Folks on the inside circle are general- 1y not supposed to .Indulge in what the Chaldeans called ‘blabbing™ about what goes on in their own circle.” At the same time, the Brooklyn! Eagle feels that “so far as official Washington is concerned no sym- pathy is called for. A truthful pic- ture of life in the capital is badly needed. Sooner or later some genius will arise who will take that curious community serlously and turn out one of the most absorbing stories that can be written in America. ‘A flare-up of this kind from time to time,” as the New York Globe sees it.'“does us a world of good and while “Mrs. Poindexter's remark will be hard on the cabinet ladies, they will be a “source of unmixed joy to every one else.” The Baltimore Sun agrees that although “Mrs. Poin- dexter has not yet said anything very terrible, Washington and other cities have a sneaking hope that she will,” for “the leaders of Washington so- clety do not generally scalp each other in public. Reputations are burned at the stake, and characters tomahawked there as elsewhere, but gossip and slander are decorousiy conducted for the most part, and the general public is not admitted to these delightful assassinations.” Mrs. Poindexter's “indiscretions.” however, suggest to the Philad-Iphi Bulletin the force of “the epigram that w. e a senator may become rec- onciled to his defeat tor re-election, his wife never does,” and it interprets the letters as an effort “to settle some old scores.” Most of the cabinet pre- rogatives to which Mrs. Poindexter refers are “so petty they are laugh- able,” the Lansing (Mich.) State Journal holds, suggesting “small, jealous, neighborhood stuft.” as well as “that those in high places are troubled over the same personal af- fairs as worry the minds of the no- bodie: The Decatur Herald also recalls that heard when congressmen swarmed over Europe during and after the war on investigating committees, taking along wives, children, cousins and aunts. Few had anvthing to say even when a party of congressmen with a few hundred relatives and friends made a tour of the Pacific and the orient not long ago, Uncle Sam foot- ing the bill.” But, answers the Peoria Transcript, “petty graft is not resented because it is costly, or even extensive, but be- cause it involves persons who might be expected to be above such prac- tices.” Despite the popular idea that “the United States has no official class ¢ Washington has become a disease. Tt has afflicted many gov- ernment officials with an overweening sense of their privileges and Impor- tance. They indulge in petty irregu- larities which, in private lifs, would “no complaints were ve been bulld- n,” the Janesville tte “the Poindexter letters wnl have a good effect. They Tay result in Some ot the fo1ks at the National Capital taking themselves less seriously.” ECHOES FROM CAPITOL HILL THE POOREST LIGHTED CITY. e Does entleman realize Wuhln'%e the poorest lighted city of fts size in the country, an that owing to the (m-unt o, pedestrians have to in the way for such & t qrossing the strest thu it increases the danger. and that 80 per cent of e nooidents are en eecount of th Hegligence . of trians?—Repr: -enuuve MacLaffer ty, cullornu. T publican. NO FEDERAL JOBS FOR “LAME DUCKS.’ “1 do not like the idea of d'fOl‘t:; federal appointment: :h‘:’: tlH‘n in the Senate or the House expires, and I, for one, am not going to run after any federal appoint- —Representative Herrick, = Okla- nonu. republican. IN OLD BEN FRANKLIN'S DAY. amin Franklin never had any r or diplomatic training, but i considered the forgmost b it American diplomat.—Representative | Little, Kansas, nnll!llnln MUST SKIP THE CIVIL SERVICE. Anybody who has kept In touch with them will notice that most of England’s - great ministers were raised . in.some other service. In other words, you have got to skip the civil service and avold stere v.ypod types md take men of brains and force and character, trained in the wo! lu:cocmzlc! 'I‘HE RK ALL SECTIO! o I hopo to Ged I shall be able al- to remember that there are fmy-el:’h'. states In these United Stat nl-'n thla.éhen,ch one of them right as the particular section that I represent. p!.'lmye 1 never shall forget that it is no part i NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM THE REAL LINCOLN. By Jessé W. _Welk. Houghton Miffiin Company. meomv. By Nathanlel Wright Btephenson.” The Bobbs-Merrill Company. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Sumner. Harper & Upon the death of President Lin- coln his former law partner in Illi- nois, Willlam H. Herndon, imme- diately set out for the places where Linocoln's earllest years were passed. Mr. Herndon felt, rightly, that by professional association and per- sonal intimacy he was the one of all Sthers to write the true story of Abraham Lincoln. ‘Therefore, in upper Kentucky and lower Indiana he went over the ground of Lincoln's birth and boyhood and early man- hood. No doubt has ever been cast upon the results of that expedition. It 1s acknowledged everywhere that Mr. Herndon was untiring, that he ran to ground every sign of a Lincoln trail, that he was whole-souled for the truth and nothing else, that he was sym- pathetic and highly inelligent in his fronting upon both fact and legend. The material with which Mr. Hern- ?whl;ctumaa and which found place n his book has sinoe formed the foundation of much of the writing @bout Lincoln's youth. Jesse W. Welk collaborated “with Herndon in producing the life of Lincoln. At the author's request, Mr. Weik him- self went over the ground @lready scoured, in search of any item that might have escaped the original in- vestigator, and also for tha purpose of putting the test of another mind and pereonality upon the early Lin- ¢oln * situation. And, finally, the book was done. © Then came the judgment of the public. Gratified and enthusiastic, naturally. In the fgurflc of a short time, however, ere came a slight modification in this judgment from the personal friends of Lincoin, men of aftairs, ;nm of outlook and vision. No, no 20k here either in fact or its inter- pretations. It was the emphasts that '{'r?: led th little stress upon hose early years, those arucial and significant years, ‘that are to stand ;ul evidence and’{llumination of the ndamental 'rellnsll of Lincoln. A long story—but, { bstance, this is the story that deflne- the purpose 2nd points’ the value of Mr. Welk's ‘The Real Lincoln.” In deference to the judgment of these wise men and £ood friends of Lincoln, zealous to have him stand. complete, before pos- ferity, Mr. Weik undertook the work n hand. The story stretches from the birth of Lincoln to that day when, Chenery House, he roped his trunk and it a e ariifot @ card upon which he Byd.mn Brothers, A. LINCOLX, White House, Washington, D. C. The book is, in effect, a re-emphasis, & new stressing, of one part of the Lincoln career. "It makes use of facts that the “Life” could not find place for. And these factm are woven into a living tissue of incident and situ- ation through which the figure of the youth and young man, Lincoln, moves under the impulse of 'the mame spirit that vears later guided him through the momentous days of great history. Here {8 the prime value of Mr. Weik's work. Vivid, filled with the common interests of simple communities, it holds undeviatingly to the attitudes and actions of its central figure in various scenes and situations. 1t Sume 1o, & beok of Ciear fact, au- thentic fact. Chary of opinions, as it should be, ce the delivering of {udgments’ is not its business. An nvaluable foundation for much sub- sequent work in the study of charac- ter, its sources and elements, and in its application to the problems of politics and statesmanship. * x x % The Immediate and striking effect of Mr. Stephenson’s ‘Lincoln” is the beauty of it Just as writing; a minor point, perhaps, that belongs by right in an obscure postscript. But | here it is, off one's mind, leaving him free to say that this book sums to a remarkable and convinclng study of the character of Lincoln. Not an ab- stract study. Instead, it is a graphic picture of fact—the most of it his- tory—whose contacts with Lincoln, whose demands upon him, bring out those vital and deep-sourced re- sponses which, taken together, define a man’s character and prove his moral fiber. Where did Lincoln get that unalterable simplicity. that straight overlooking visio What are the roots of that peculiarly poetio imag- ination? Upon what does that brood- ing melancholy rest? What brought him that deep and sincere humility? And along what far strain of blood came that mystic sense, 0 indiffer- ent to form and ritual, so vibratingly sensitive to that other world within hand’s reach, if one only knew where and how? These, a foew of the im- plied questions under this etudy of Lincoln. For answer to the most of them the author goes back to the forest life of the boy, where the deep woods and the black shadows and all manner of four-footed things com- panioned and taught him. Quickly, then, Mr. Stephenson projects Lincoln into affairs—affairs that grew and grew in scope and significance until, as the head of the nation, he stood. almost at once, the central figure In the greatest of civil wars. Shameful- 1y, at the same time he proved the vietim of a hundred conspiracles. hatched by Jjealous and disloyal sub- ordinates. In long reaches the author thus links up the high points in the life of Abraham Lincoln. And he does this for the sake of showing that un- der all external circumstance—in a period of national disaster and possi- ble ruin, in & personal life of more than common hardship, more than the usual order of experience—the char- acter of Lincoln is of a piece, The essentials of the boy in the Kentucky Woods are the essentials of the man in the White House. A very compe- tent marshaling of the crltlcal points of the history of the period serves here as the groundwork for this keen and sympathetic study of the char- acter of Lincoln. * ok % X Mr. Sumner’s “Abraham Lincoln” is a companionable little book, which, be- fore it was & book, was a talk to one of the civic clubs. A body of men to whom the authop brought—just another man. An incident hers, a story there, served the purpose of showing how Lincoln behaved, and what he sald, and how he looked upon these occasions of of the duty of a senator to fight|the suthor’s summoning. He tells the everybody else for every dollar there is in the public Treasury, that it may be spent in his own particular lo. cality.—Senator Caraway, Arkansas, democrat. THE FORESIGHT OF THOMAS JEFFERSON. When Thomas Jefferson for $15.- | was. 000,000 bw[ht all the Louisiana pui from France Pecple opposed it, and senators In this body opposed f ZSenator Caraway, Arkaness demo- orat. THE ADMINISTRA' g FOREIGN POLICY. i The administration has worshiped lt the lhrlne of isolation and has to the tune of a of'm nefstlon. Deoision! The admin- mr:,t on x‘“t'm ng}a}mow that the word is in o — Harrison, Mississippi, dmr‘ienltor AS THE (‘flE)lls‘l' OF SENATE SEES IT. Speaking for myself, it is not hard to understand the fixation of the ni- trogen of the physical atmosphere, but I am frank to say that it is beyond me to comprehen of ‘our polici i s p e story, of course, of the Douglas-Lincoln debates, away back when Douglas was a somebody, and Lincoln was, by com- parison, pretty much of a nobody. And, it appears, that Lincoln won out be- cause he wasn‘t a shifter and Douglas Then he shows them Lincoln in the east, talking before a houseful of sophisticates in Cooper Union. You recall the story—the loss of a sheet of his notes and his dismay over it till, gotting his second wind, he threw the whole bundle of papers away and gave a spesch that brought the immense crowd up with cheers for the big, awk- ward man. Oh, he tells several stories, the most of them new, all of them fresh in this telling. One is the story of the passionate Stanton, who despised thcolll and then hated him and then loved him, the one who, on that desolate ight of April, 1865, sat outside Lin- f 's door till it was over. Mr. Sum- akes a little summary of Lin- as it came to him House, the Capitol, 's Theater, the little lmun across '10th street_ghrine, and S T ‘When will there be again a renals- sance of art? It cannot be claimed frankly that the fine arts are appre- clated today as they have been in the Dast ages. Yet by all the theories of art inspiration, the great world trage- dies, the most terrible war of history, the upheaval of soclety, the overturning of empires, should make for a reawak- ening of deep feeling and emotion and passion. These, in turn, should inspire expression in the language of the old masters. Art to them was religious expression. In conversation yesterday with per- haps the most successful landscapist of ‘Washington, Lucien W. Powell, mention was made of the famous artists of America of forty or fifty years ago. “Ah, that was when there was fine art appreciation in America,” declared Mr, Powell. ‘‘Chase, Kenvon Cox, Sar- tain the older, and William Sartain, John Sargent, 'J. Alden Weir, George De Forest Brush—where are their suc- cessors mow? The trouble is in the spirit of the age: It has no time for art. Jazz—jazz! Speed! People have gone crazy over speed. They want to ride in automobiles, &0 as 1o Ro fast, and presently that will not be fa: enough—they will go in airplanes. In art, the painters want futurist freaks that mean nothing. They can't inter- pret their own work, and say whet they are trying 10 depict.” * % ¥ ¥ ‘How many Washingtonians really ap- preciate the Turneresque colorist we have in our capital? Powell's canvases glow with real sunlight, which carries the beholder, breathless, outside his own environment into an atmosphere which fairly breathes the glory of sunrise, and into scenes which quiver with the splen- dor_of color—color—color. Yet t would be hard for any one to feel the protest made once by a lady, upon seeing a Turner sunset: ut, Mr. Turner, I never ses such colors in nature!” “Don’t you wish you could, madame?” retorted the great colorist, L the eyes of a real colorist, ke Powell, nature i revealed, but it is still natural as Hfe Itself. The biind- ness of unculture shuts our eyes to the beauty which the artist alone is capable of showing us is actually there. There is a loan exhibit of Powells at the Carnegie Library, at present through the kindness of Mrs. Hender- son, who ir a “chronic” collector of Powells, There is also another ex- hibit of his landscapes at the Art Center, 1108 ~Connecticut _avenue, where Lady Geddes, wife of the Brit. ish ambassador, declared last week she had found more besutiful pic- tures than even Turner had done. And that is praise from a Britisher. * %% A questionnaire discloses the sur- prising fact that many of the school children of large olties have never seen a cow—whether “purple” or any other tint. They are far more famil- far with the appearance of a giraffe, whose very possibility old Uncle Hay- seed denied, than they are with the animal which chews its cud, to grind up the white fluid which 'the milk wagon brings in bottles. Yet the keepers of the Philadelphia 200 re- fuse to install a harmless *‘moo” among the wild animals, because the cow is not classified as “wild.” They say that if they put in a cow the next thing would be a_demand that they go to market and buy a fat pig, and that they emulate Mary and keep a lamb, or tether a goat. That, they think, would spoil the family harmony of any quiet, peace- able, savage 200, What applies to the BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Herbert Pike Pease, assistant post- master general in the Lloyd George administration—that is to say, from 1915 until last fall—who has just been raised to the house of lords, bears a name that is familiar on this side of the Atiantic, not only because of his connection with one of the principal banking and mercantile houses in! England, having extensive business associations in America, but also as scion of an old Quaker family that has many afliations among the Friends in the United States. The founder of the Peace family may be said to have been Edward Pease, the old Quaker father of railroads, and the most intimate associate and partner of George Stephenson in the construction of the Stockton and Darlington railroad. the firat in Eng- land. His son Joseph was the creator of the now important industrial town of Middleborough. As the first Quaker member of parliament, his objection fo taking the oath of allegiance prior to assuming his seat in the house of commons led to many acrimonious de- bates in that chamber in 1832. His eldest son and namesake, Joseph W. Pease, was created a bumnel on the nomination of Gladstone In 1882 for his numerous philanthropies and for his thirty years of service in parlia- ment * Kk R ok He came in for no end of criticism in England, as well as among the Quakers here, for. accepting this baronetey at the hands of Queen Vie- toria—not only because all titular dis- tinctions are contrary to the spirit ana doctrines of Quakerism, but also by reason of the fact that baronetcies specifically entail the obligation to furnish the sovereign with a certain number of men fully armed for serv- ice in war—an obligation compounded for by the payment of & certain lump of the patent. This was held to be diametrically opposed to the prin- ciple of peace at all costs, which is one of the chief articles of the creed of the Society of Friends. However, old Sir Joseph turned a deaf ear to these remonstrances, and today the Pease family possesses no less than two baronetcies, and now a couple of peerages. The business of Sir Joseth was an extensive one, ocomprising banking, coal mining. iron works, limestone quarries, e and its collapse In 1903_created a world-wide sensation. 8ir Joseph was crushed thereby. In- deed, his death may be =ald to re- sult therefrom, since it broke not only his spirit, but also his health. His sons and grandsons however, he completely repaired the dis- and the fortunes of the con- Gern, and today the firm of Pease & Partners {s stronger and more pros- perous than ever. * Kk K % One of Sir Joseph's sons is Sir Al- fred - Pease, the Inheritor of his baronetcy, and who divides his time between Pinchinthorpe, his country seat in Yorkshire, and his huge and widely known Kilima ranch in Brit- ish East Afrioa. The ranch extends over some thirty to forty thousand acres, and while a portion of it is devoted to ostrich farming, the greater part is maintained as a pre- serve, literally swarming with game. It is there that Sir Alfred Pease en- tertained ex-Prestdent Roosevelt on the occasion of the latter's trip to Africa, and certainly no visiting sportsman could wish for a more hospitable and princely host or for a more experienced fellow hunter : ame in Asia, in Algeria, In the Tu- than Sir Alfred, who has shot big isian fiand, Ab’l- @ South Afrioa and Indla, sum to the throne on the registration { CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS. Philadelphia zoo would fit with equal force the Washington zoo. 'Plenty of monkeys and elephants and zebras and giraffes 'n everything. but a cow, @ sheep, a pig or a goat. Why is a z00? Why is all the money spent to feed the elephants, which toil not nor spin? Ts it simplv 50 that the wild beasts may look out at the strange humans who visit the show. and be thankful that they are not like men? They have true phar- asaical expressions upon their faces usually, but nobody can read their thoughts. At the Washington zoo there is an ourang-outang, or some- thing, which eats with a spoon and drinks out of a tin cup and has a napkin tucked under his chin to keen him from slobbering on his breast But how Instructive is all that mon- keyshine? Compare it. from the stand- point of practical education and cul- ture, with' the edifying sight of a cow chewing its cud and ruminating on how she is making butter for the boy to spread on his lunch for school Or let the growing generation watch the milker sit upon the three-legged stool, his head reclining against the hairy gide of the cow, while ke rapid- lv_vpulls on what a little girl once called the cow’s “pickles” How in- forming is the languake of the milker. when the cow cordially wraps her tail around his neck. in vain seareh for the biting filv! The rising genera- tion gets none of such diversions nor such erudition while merely watch- ing two monkeys at their favorite pastime. Every zoo should be an educational institution. R ke e We of the city complain that ths vounz men and women of the farms are flocking to the temntations and allurements of the deceitful metrop- olis. Here if an antidote for all that evil trend. Start a backfire of cit children to the delights of the dairy farm. Show them that a cow mav have horns like the devil. but other- wisa it resembles him not at all. In- still in the voung, a love of tame animals, rather than an awe at wild and savage beasts. I The Post OfMoe Department rules that the law forbids the mails from carrying intoxicating liquor, and that therefore a sheriff cannot mall a sample of confiscated liquor to the state chemist for analysis. Yet it is required by law that the analysis of the “evidence” shall be made by the state chemist before the prosecu- tion can make cut a case against the accused moonshiner. If that ruling is sustained, then the object of the prohibition of the mails defeats itself. The law might make an exception authorizing an arresting officer to mail an_officfal sample to the state chemist, only for analysis, with a penalty for any abues of the privilege, similar to tha penalty for abuse of the franking privilege of the mails. * % * There i3 sure to be a showdown March 1, on the order from the Wash- ington post office that unless the citizen installs a letter box at his front door ne will not have his mail | delivered. Thousands have not yet complied with the order. Representative Madden of Tilinois openly rebels, and declares that he | will 1ot put up a box and if his mafl s not delivered something _will happen. Just why anybody should object to that much co-operation with the carriers does not yet appear, for no partioular form of box is Rtlpu- lated. A cigar box will do. For a carrier to have to ring several hun- dred doorbells and wait for somc one to come to the door for letters is a_very great wasto of time and destroyer of efficiency. (Copyright, P. ¥. Oollins, 1923.) Herbert Pike Pease, Recently Titled, Is Descendant of Old Quaker Family celebrated throughout the length and breadth of the dark continent as a most ~successful and _daring lion hunter. His “Book of the Lion, from which the late Theodore Roose- velt quoted extensively in his ar- ticles in Scribner's Magazine on his African experiences, i8 a thrilling narrative of hairbreadth adventures undergone by the author in the chase of the lion, and fs also the generally |accepted standard work ~on the habits, the character and the pe- | culiarities of the king of beasts. fred's vounger brother, after ha\an n‘led the offices of postmaster general, of minister of education an@ lof chancellor of the Duchy of Lan- caster, was raised to the peerage on the nomination of Lloyd George ar Lord Gainford, in 1917. He has beer a frequent visitor to the United States, is married to the only daugh- ter of the late Gen. Sir Henry Have- look Allan, V. C.. and has an on son married to Miss Veronica Noble. ole child and heiress of Sir George Noble. * * ¥ % The new Pease peer—namely. the Right Hon. Herbert Pike Pease—has a beautiful place known as Merrow Croft near Guilford, and will, it is said, select as his titl. that of Lord Merrow. He is married to s Miss Allcs Luckock, daughter of the Dean of Lichfleld, and has one son and sev- eral girls. Another accession to the house of lords during the past week is the Hon Walter James of Evistone, Otter- burn, Northumberland, who has just succeeded to the peerage through the death of his fine old father, Lord Northbourne, who volunteered for service during the great war. when he was seventy-five, and, being re- jected on the score of his age for service overseas, contented himself by conacientious military work in the ranks of the territorial battalion of the Kentish regiment. A huge, big man—big in body and voice, big In his way of looking at things and big of heart—he never concealed his opin- ons. His bete noire was Llovd George. whom he abhorred in consequence of the extortionate burdens which ha had imposed upon land, &nd he did not hesitate to proclaim in the autumn of 1913, a vear before the war, that he would cheerfully roast an ox whola at Betteshanger Park, his beautiful place in Kent, on the day that wit- nessed his (Llovd George's) removal from the office of chancellor of the exchequer. * * k% His other bete noire was the ex- kaiser, to whom the old gentleman, in 2 public speech in 1915, issued a chal- lenge to single combat with pistols for two and coffes for one—the sur- vivor.. He was quite the man to havs been ready to follow up his challenge, and in his younger days had not hesi- tated to furnish satisfaction on the so-called fleld of honor to a Portuguese count whom he had bsen compelied to knock down while traveling in Spain. ‘The new Lord Northbourne, third of his line—served throughout the war—first as an officer of the Royal Engineers, and then as a commander of the Royal Naval lod To & daughter of Admiral Braest Kice he is an altogether remarkable artis speclalizing in etching. Indeed, he the president of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers. Lord Northbourne's family is very rich through possession of coal mines in the north. It originally bore the patronymic of Head. and figured prominently in the county history of Berkshire during the reign of Henry VIIL. The name was transformed into James on Sir Willlam Head's succeed- ing, a couple of centurles ago, tg the reat estates of his unclé, last main eir to the anciént Berkshire house James. GG