Evening Star Newspaper, February 15, 1923, Page 6

= glutton. Dot birds in health have & sound appetite and gluttody is ‘& charge that has been brought against That a farmer or a score of farmers should speak against the sparrow. is jnot convincing. Farmers have been | wrong on birds before. Not long égo let @ farmer hear that a covey. of quail, or e flock of partridges, as we THE EVENING STAR, With Sundsy Morning Edition. WASHINGEON, D. C. THURSDAY ., .February 15, 1623 THEODORE W. NOYES.......Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Busi evivania Ave. e o Ot 10 a8 used to say in this neighborhood, was | Eurdper e S e s ingiand. | on his land and he would leave his plow, get his shotgun out of its cor- | The Evening Star, with the Sunday morntng | ner in the kitchen and go forth with' ion, fer it] the eity B0 ot ar meathy. datis. oay. 43 cants per | slaughter in his heart. Yet the par- Hlonth: B 50" veate.yei month. . OF- tridge has been proved to be the farm- | ders ‘may be sent by ‘mal, or teleplone Mala | 5000, Collection: is made by carriers at the | or's friend. The farmer, or at least end of each’ mouth. many farmers, had little use for the a good many Washingtonians who have learned more about soft coal and coke this winter thea they knew. be- fore. If the hard coal restrictions are modified on March 1 it may help the situation, for March is aptito give us cold weather and even April may not be altogether . warm. And here is a time to give thanks for the open win-' ter. A rigerous winter would have multiplied our coal and furnace trou- bles, - —————— Mid-Day Lenten Services. Four years ago a few Washingto- nians, churchmen and laymen, under- took to hold a series of Lenten mid- day services in Keith’s Theaer. Rate by Mail—Payable fn Advance. [wild pigeon, robin, blackbird and |92 It Maryland and Virginis. others except as a filling for ple. Peo-|¥28 & somewhat daring venture. Daily and Sunday..1 3T, $8.40; 1 mo., 702 | ple are being educated on this bird Many people were dubious-of the suc- 1yr,, $6.00; 1 mo., 50¢ Taily only. 4 13 i 1 mo., 20¢ Sunday only subject. Since the monstrous destric- tion of bird lite by farmers, and gun- ! men from the cities, the farmer is be- Al Other States. __iing eaten ‘out of house and home by | ajiy and Sunday..1 yr. $10.00: 1 M- ac | insects—that is, the crops in the flelds | Sunday oniy.... . 1¥r., $3.00;1 mo., 2c|are being caten by insects, and many scientific men say that this is because the birds are not there to eat the in- sects. This Anglo-American _sparrow, or Member of the Associated Press. The Assoclated Press is sxcinsively entitied te the upe for republication of all news dis- nnlr');’-. credited t«!‘ it ln! nfl.: o‘h!r?lne :! d"= i Vened uircia. “Rir iehte of poblieation of | all-American sparrow, 100-per-cent- spetial dispatehos lereln are aleo reserved. | American sparrow, may be an evil = ==—=—————====————""""land viclous bird. He may be & vul-! ture and vampjre in disguise, but he | 2 5 should ot be shot on suspicion. Many | Sate Supt. TFinegan of Pennsyl-|pep pave been shot in the United vania has completed his survey of the | givo "o Cicnieion, and some of us District school system With & Teport | pave come to belleve that it is & dan.| that has just been filed with the! gerous and injurious practice. i Jjoint _select —————————— committee of ('Oflzf'l‘ssi and published for' public information. | In it he points out deficiencies in the| Congress and Electoral Votes. houls of the capital, in rvespect to] Article XII of the Constitution. ! anization and equipment, deficlen- | known as the ' twelfth amendment. | cies that have Tong since been fully{ provides for the canvassing of the; recognized by the capital community | clectoral votes for President and Vice and have been doubtless vealized by | President, having been ratified in 1804, the cajal's legislature. Congress.!to correct a condition’ made possible by the original constitutional arrange- ment for the election of the executive. A School Prescription. i i There is. adeed, nothing surprising new in this finding. The District’s cess.of the plan. Washington is too busy, they said, to attend such serv- ices. Tt is not appropriate, said others, to_use a theater for a religious pur- pose. Denominational differences will militate against success. Despite these discouragements the pioneers in the movement proceeded. They met with #uccess. ‘The meetings were well at- tended, were conducted in a spirit of reverent appreciation of the time and the purpose, and undoubtedly had a most wholesome influence upon the community. Now for the fourth midday Lenten services are to be con- ducted, in the same place, under the same auspices in general. A list of speakers has been arranged, repre- sentative of all the denominations. Beginning Monday., these services wil i continue throughout Lent, except on Saturdays and Sundays. Last year there was an average daily attendance during the twenty- nine davs of over 750 persons, and on several occasions miore than 1.500 at- tended: It would be gratifying to find this record, which is so creditable paign to raise $35,000 for its 1923 schools are in need of more bulldings, | It requires that the electors shall cer- ::::h‘:::wh gEtICty. Hinordased a mo tematic course of provision | tify and transmit, sealed, their votes| ' > for present and future needs end aifor President and Vice President to | Bioanar nasis oF developmant the President of the Senate, who shall, | Over the Top. I respect to the school administra- {in the- presence of the Semate and| The Y. M. C. A. wins. In its cam- i | howev the Pennsylvania edu- | House of Representatives, open the! whose vision of the local sya-|certificates, and “the votes shall then | 1 respecting its equipment needs is | be counted. kecn, fal 0 an ervor that is mot; Under the Constitution heretofore unusual the part of those who | the expiring Congress, ceasing March | to prescribe for District con- vithout full understanding of iar conditions that prevail ommends control of the 4 following the election, has been the canvassing body for the electoral | votes. Under the proposed amend- ment, adopted by the Senate the other day, the newly elected Congress, chosen in November and assembling e President, completely budget it “went over the top,” which is the strictly modern and popular way of telling that this great Chris- tlan assoclation raised the money it needs and some besides. In other days a man writing current Ameri- canese might have set it down thus: “The Y. M. C. A. got what it went after, and then som Today, in- stead of. doing all this. it goes “over paraied n the “municipal and {on the first Monday in January, will, ; the top.” But no matter about the political affairs of the city.” presumably, serve in that capacity.|phraseclogy. The good people of Disenssion of the methodsof naming | Herein lies one of the possible compli- | Washington have given to the Y. M. beard of education has been active | cations and dangers of the proposed for riany vears. Formerly the “trus- | new arrangement. H tees” were named by the Commission- If the new Congress is to be the| Then the power was changed | canvassing bodv—and no other ar-| i © the justices of the Distriet ourt, where it now rests. of this divorcement of the appoifiting power there has grisen a rangement is poskible unless the old and expiring Congress is assembled in December, for that purpose—only a short time is available for the count-{ sharp difference of opinion respecting | ing of the votes. For the President e responsibility of” the Commisslon-|and Vice President chosen in Novem- ers over the schools, especially in the | ber are to take their seats on the watter of appropriation estimates, and | third Monday in January. Thus there handicapping disputes have frequently | is an interval of only two weeks be- arisen,” tween the meetirfg of the canvassing ucil a separation of authority u’bmrd, Congress,and the inauguration. Dr. Finegan proposes would not.cor-|In those two weeks Consress must vect any present faults in the rela- |organize and proceed to the eanvassing tion between the sehocls and Congress. | of the votes. ‘The District -hudget must be framed | It is conceivable that a deadlock by the Commissiono®s, transmitted to | may occur in the organization of the the budget bureau, and there, accord- | House of Representatives. Such dead- ing to the now prevalent practice, re- | locks have occurred in the past, with shaped to accord to the general lay-! neither major party in the majority | cut of appropriations. Presumably jand the balance of power held by a | an autoromous ‘echool board would | small but determined group. In case | carry - its .estimates to the budget|of such a deadlock e joint session of | bureau without consultation with the | the two houses for the canvassing of | Commissioners, " Thus there would be{the electoral votes might be itself | iwo competitive District budgets be-: deadlocked and rendered unable to| o director- and, so far as tb"!‘lfun(‘flon. In the event of a contest, poroved-and transmitted. before { gver the electoral votes, as in 1877,! Congre: the lack of time would be an element It is natural that the school Luurd{ror a dangerous complication. ould seek the largest possible ap-; It is well to consider such possibili- | e opriation” for maintenance and for | ties before definitely chunging the na- i vspamsion. -It is natural that the|tional government echedule. If there! Commigsioners, in shaping their | were any gasurance againat a blockade | budget estimates, shanld desire for the | of the congressional canvassing body.! schools, as for other branches of the | the proposed change woull be entirely * Distriet govértiment. ‘the largest pos-{safe. But, in the light of the past | e allowances. 1s the adjustment | cvents, no such assurance can be had. | betwecen these’cofpetitive requisitions | Unless the verdict rendered in Novem- | 10 be mado by the budget director,!ber is decisive by a good margin, a with presumably fess knowledge of {to both the presidential offices and local needs and conditions than that!the Congress, the provision of only a | nossesied now by the Commissioners? fortnight for the final determination Or is the whole matter to be thrown | of the resuit cuts the margin of safety | up to Congress, with the rivals for{down to the danger point, appropriations appearing before the | comiittee in the unnatural attitude | of each seekhiz (o lessen the -th(‘r'll purpose, but moderate attainmen He “may- find . satisfaction. in the. re- allowances in order to get the more? The Commissioners now sit as court {mark of Herbert Spencer after a de- ! feat at billla “Sir, a reasonably ; of first instandé in the adjustment ot 1he “competitive sts for funds. An gutonomous’ school board, mamed | 2 1 % ad good game represents the accompligh- | by the Pasident and responsible to| S0 F5Ne SRUEREH tE SOECIE AR no one in local authority, emmn{'eredlas you play can only suggest a mis. | 10 draft a budget and {o press it ln«|. o dependépitly, - would not. necessarily, | SPEnt youth- set more for the schools than ia.ob- | "—_"“"‘l y '!' d‘ e = tained at present. As for school ad-! The pastor who reminds people of ! ministration, nothing is to bhe gained | religious doubts becomes famous. but | by a comiplete separation of the edq-{the one who reminds them of Whm‘; catlonal system from the District gov-| they can and should believe is “the | ernment. “That proceds once started ; more usefui. { therc is M6 end to the disintegration | et i of the capital municipality. Tn the great drama of life, which S i {involves love and money, too much President Ebert-13 deprived ‘of ghgsprominence' is being assumed by the) privilege of waiving his salary in|snugglers and the smugglers. ! paper marks and taking a few tons of ; ! coal. President Tarding is rated in pii vate rumor as a golfer of enthusiastic i Public interest is beginning to de- ————— e { mand that the prop be pulled oul from | Publicity these days appears to be | under propaganda. much concentrated on Florida for | ——— pleasure as on the Ruhr for buflness.‘ Hard Coal Restrictions. i 1t has been proposed that in view of | the fmprovéd ‘coal outlook and. in-| creased shipments of anthracite some | of the restrictions on the delivery of hard coal te homes shall be lifted. It has been indicated that such action may be taken about March 1. Near the beginning of our present furnace season the Utilities Commission ruled that the Washington family would ihave to get along this ginter with 60 | per cent.of its usual winter consump- tion of hard coal, and having had that percentage in . one-ton , allotments, would havé to piece out the full win- France regards the letters “P. D. Q. as of equal importance with “I. 0. U. The Oppressed Sparrow. Attacks .on..the English sparrow continue. Battaliens, regiments, bri- gades of men go over the top at him, homb him with epithets-and bayoret him with their pens. A farmer gets out his ‘hammer, or perhaps his shot- gun; for -the English sparrow. The very name “English” .sparrow seems to get him in bad with some folk, vet this English sparrow has lived in the ! | Harve 5 o'clock tea may have been the fact ! C. A. the money it asked and all the giver: lookers-on are glad. May the Y. M. C. A. continue on its useful way for all tims ————— Freaks of publicity are myst For several thousand years Tutankha- men slept in oblivion. The opening of his tomb brought Wm to fame in a world wider than he had dreamed of, but not as the monarch and lawgiver: only as a scientific specimen, scarcely more important than the utensils and 1oaterials surrounding him. —————— One of the reasons for Ambassador ‘s internatiopal indorsement of that it can be secured without erm- barrassing questions involring. the three-mile limit. ————— The currency system 6f Germany compels a considerable loss of time and energy in the mere matter of fig- uring a restagurant bill and counting the change. —_———— Douglas Fairbanks says that Wil Hays is = fixer. Douglas has a popu- larity whi-h enables him to claim the superior advantage of being 2 fixture. ————— Electrical inventlon promises bring music and speech easily every home. All we need are tunes and the words, ——— Ambassador Harvey works like a man who paid ax much attention to to | the 6 a.m, alarm clock ae he does to! ti 5 o'clock tea. ————— The former kaiser might scare @ hit offering to go to the front. if need be, to fight for the present German republic. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNNON A Pleasant Place. “This world is still'a pleasant place. Baid Hezekiah Bings. “Though members of the human race Do some unpleasant things. The snowy crystals lightly fan And next the sunshine gleams To bring the blossoms, one and all, Forth from their land of dreams The rainbows prisoned by the frost Will find a glad release When skies that have heen tempest tossed. Their mutterings shall cease. Though Pride may struggle to efface ‘The good that Nature brings, This world is still a pleasant place,” Sajd Hezekiah Bings. Inspiring Interest. “It took me a long time to get ihe that extract from my-speech,” mnr- mured Benator- Borghum. “low did you manage it?" ““Wrote it in-a ietter addressed to somebody el but apparently put into the wrong envelope and raarked it ' conspicuously; ‘Not for -Publica- tion.! Jud Tunkins allows it's funny to see & man carryin' a bulgy brief case an’ tryin' to act as if it wasn't heavy. Causes of War, Some day the oil will all be drained. Some day the coal will all give out. When this-condition is attained, season these | 014 United States for more generations than many proud American families He speaks the -English- language ai ‘well a%-or no worse than many of our voters; and he sings as musically as some votalists-who eppear in public. The-sparrow, is:a busy; restless, noisy, hustling. and pugnhecious bird, and if these are ot . exclusive American traits of character they are traits that - we frequently find in other things than. birds. He iz also called n ter supply with soft coal or coke. To large numbers of persons the use of soft coal and coke would not spell diffculty, but the Waehington home. keeper {8 used to hard coal. He and she were brought up on hard coal. The home furnace was built to burn hard coal and the home owner knows how to feed that species of furnace and keep the fire going Wwith hard coal. Soft coal and coke present prob- lems that perplex him, but there are ) What will we have to fight abont? TInterviewing s Loser. “Who is the best poker player in Crimson Gulch?” “I ain't the best,” replied Cactus Joe. “But I'm the gentlest and kind- est s “Hope," said Uncle Eben, “is like some o' dem patent medicine adver- jsements—comfortin’ but misteadin’." 4 Have you as & boy, flown a kité? ' . ° Wasn't it fine fun to get it up in the air, to help it over. the treetops, to feel thé thrill of the tug on the | string as you paid out your line | You probably never thought that {grown men.would earn their Hving, day in and day out, by fiying kites. A boy would think it almost a shime to take money for doing a thing ke that. Yet grown men do make their liv- ing that way and in addition per- form most useful work—work that you and I and all the rest of us profit by, The United States government is in the kite-flying business and has been in it for many years. The activitie of the {nvornmnnt kite flyers are directed by the weather bureau, here in Washington, and the work they perform is of immense value in fore- casting the weather. 1 asked Dr. Charles F. Marvin, chief of the weather bureau, to tell me some- thing about the bureau's kite-flying activities. 2 or tmb‘{. ever | s the ‘Iden being to have them where the air currents are undisturbed. Some of the towns have picturesque |names, Broken Arrow, Okla.; Royal Center, Ind., and Due West, 8. C., for instance. “The Kkites are great big affairs, box kites, six or seven feet long, four or five feet wide and about two feet deep. They are powerful fellows {and when they get up they pull ter- irifically on the line. In a high wind {one of these kites could lift a weight of from 150 to 200 pounds.” “You probably anchor them, don't " 1 asked have to: otherwise they would be difficult to Landle. But let me tel] you first about the line. It {s not cord or rope, but steel wire. The wire is very fine'and very strong. I should say jiLls of about the thickness of an ordi- pin. We buy this wire In spools. The {[rire 1s five, six, or even seven miles {long, for the kites go high Into the air. We wind the wire on great drums. and these are placed on a con- {trivance firmly anchored to the ground. The wire is very tght; five miles of wire will welgh not more than fifteen or twenty pound “Then we send up the kite once a day at each station. BSome days, when the weather is fine, we make continuous obeervations, send- i at least {ing up kites and hauling them back all day. “Do ever send up in stormy 0: it is too dangerous. send them up at night. ‘How high do they go?" ach kite carries a lity But we do i set of in- 1 i i i all the givees and all the mere { i BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Princess Santa Borgheee, who is ar- riving in America at the end of this month for the purpose of delivering a eeries of lectures. under the au- spices of the Italy-America Soclety. of which Willlam Fellowes Morgan of New York is chairman, is the eldest and unmarried daughter of exceed- ingly distinguished parents, and, be- ing a perfect mistress of the English language and an accomplished public &peaker, ought to prove a great suc- cess in her mission. She comea with the warm approval of Italy'’s new Prime Minister Muyssolini, and will be in close touch, while here, with her relative, Don Gelasio Castani. son of the late Duke of Sermoneta, and who arrived here at Washington a couple of months age 24 Italian ambassador to the T'nited States. Princess Santa propos:s to lecture about the fascisti movement, about rhe Girl Scouts’ or- anization of Italy, of which she is of the leaders. and upon various | i s of eoecinl and cconomic he land of her birth. She is | twent: > veurs of age—has served ecretary to her father when he s head of ‘the ltalian mission in Russia_after the overthrow of the monarchy, and last, but not least, is. evelo] {1ifa in t, through her parents, possesscd of lgr- t wealth ‘or her father, Don Scipio Borghese, is the head of the historic house of | rghese. and, in addition o the pos- | of at ght Italian ti- of duke and sev nce, he 1so a French Duc Spanish Prince of Sulmona grand ass of A ! But her n | iat home and wbroad as N Lis marvelous oter in record time from of 10,000 w1 i Peking to Paris—a d i miles across the t nd unex- plored Gobi desert, t central ough primeval for- | Siherian piain, ! ests, mountains. i through hordes of Mongol fana packs of ravenous wolve: 1 on the trip amounted | firty days. znd the *f ched ite destina- | yet a radieal and Inti- Duke of the alian one— A patrician, . clean shaven of the royal Dul er whom Le served in | great warl he conveys the 1 Englishman or Amerfcan rather than of an Ttullan. For he (s reserved ! in manner, reticent in_speech. Sober 1 gesture, and yet with a nl!l!fln(. jand winning smitle. | ! ok E i Princess Santa’'s mother. Dona Anna | Borghese, so distinguished herselt in | ! the great war that at its close King | | Victor Emanuel bestowed upon her | i the great silver medal for valor. The atter is-to Haly what the Victoria cross i to the soldiers and salors of the British empire; what the medaille ! militaira is to these of Franoce; what | the cross of St. George Was to the military and naval services of Ruseiu in the days of thé monarohy, and what -the congressional medal ‘is to the. United States—namely, the badge of heroism, Possessed of colossal, wealth, Dona. Anna Borghese—that is to eay, the mother of Princess Santa—in her ca- ipacity as Red Cross nurme. founded | equipped and maintained several 1 opposilion editor ont Home to print{splendid field hospitals on the north- ern front during the great war. She BY WILLIAM PICKETT HELM. struments, a combination that will register height, temperature, humid- ity and wind movement. They g0 up often from two to three miles in the al - is the record height?’ ed. he record was made over at Mount Weather, Va., in the Blue Ridge. One of our kites went up about’ four miles.” Imagine a_ kite flying more than 20,000 feet above the earth’s surface! “ls there any danger from light- ning?" 1 asked. “Yes, sir,” Dr. Marvin answered, em- phatically. “We have had our kites struck by lightning out of a perfeoctly clear sky. That happens, of course, only when they get up to great heights.” 'What happens then?” *“The wire fuses—disappears. . 1t meits into the air. Once one of our men of the ground, largely through his own carelessness, was killed by such a bolt. Observers follow the kites with tele- scopes. This is necessary as well as desirable, for at great altitudes the kites disappear from the unaided gaze. The instruments record weather condi- tions on a moving strip of paper, which is read and digested when the kites are hauled Pbduk bokell-rfl;. Th:t.: records are used in making foreca In addition to kites, little rubber bal- loons are sent up daily by the govern- ment. TheBo are of two kinds, the pilot balloon and the sounding balloon. “The sounding balloon,” Dr. Marv, explained, ¥carries a set of Instruments, care fully packed to prevent breakage, and a parachute. till it bursts and the parachute brinj the instruments, with their recor back to earth. “Generally we color the parachute flaming red so that it will attract at- tention. A note is attached so that any one finding it may know where to send it.” D “How high do the balloons go?’ 1 asked. Dr. Marvin's reply was almost as- tounding. 3 “Some of them have gone higher than twenty miles,” he said. That means more than 100,000 feet, or two and one-half times as high as any airplane has ever been able to push its nose. “The use of sounding balloons has resulted in a great scientifio discov- ery.” Dr. Marvin continued. “When we leave the ecarth and mount into the air the temperature drops, as you know. The higher we %0_the colder it becomes. “When we get up between 30,000 and 40,000 feet the thermometers register somewhare between 80 and 90 degrees below zero. And here is where” the discovery comes in. “With the aid of those balloons we have found that there is a definite point where the air ceases to become colder. It is no colder at twenty miles high than it is at eight, or slightly less. “Between 30,000 or 40,000 feet and 160,000 feet there seems to be no change whatever in temperature.” Princess Borghese Coming to America Te Lecture on Italy’s Social Conditions fire, and on one occasion the bom- bardment was s0 heavy that her hos- vital had to be abandoned. She was quite badly wounded. but after hav- ing herseif bandaged up her own {njuries she entirely refused to permit her hurts to be cared for or to with- | draw from the range of the enemy guns until every one of her patients had been removed to a piace of safety. Unlike her husband. she cannot pride herself on the blueness of her blood. For her father was Gaetano DI Fer- rari of Genoa and his wife, her mother, was the Muscovite Maria Annenkoff, sister of that Russian Gen. Annenkoff, creator of the Trans- caspian railroad system. Old Ferrari had a dukedom of Lecchi—an island in Lake Garda—forced upon him by the late King Victor Emanuel II. who declared that it was quite indecent that a man so rich should have no title, his fortune having been ac- quired in financial and mercantile enterprises, notably the manufac- ture of silks and velvets. P At the time of the m only daughter to Don Secipio Borghese he settled upon her $10,000,000, set aside for her another $10,000,000 to accumulate at compound interest until they rriage of his had. In fact, today her fortune is estimated at some $50,000,000, and under the circumstances it is not sur- prising that soon after her wedding sh the grand old Borghese palace, which had been alienated by the tr tees of the disastrous bankruptey her father's father, the late Princ Paul. who died insane two years ago. il 5 e ot fact is that She proceeded to oust most of its:sold them or not” The fa ] Tenante. notably the Grand Orieat of | ArUSts as a rule are not commercial Italian Freecmasoury. j Their art means 0 much more to But the palace, with its three|them than mouey; they h;ue so_ex- courtyards adorned with three -monu- | Sellent a sense of real values Yed. mental bronz Jountains, it donble !\ fer urtists from some social enter- | 2 ad hundreds of £i- 10 inment in Rome, turning down a gantic granite columns, was too laree fur the sole use of the prince and princess. So they , let apartments, among their tenants Le- ing the British leg. re the Vatican, and M. Jonnart. bassador o? France to 11e hoiy Dona Anna Eorghere, who restored the shattered fortunes of her husband’s house. had one of the finest collections of jewels In the Iternal city, including ‘a well nigh priceless collar of pearls, a superb sapphire | ring worn by that Don Camillo Bor- ghese who reigned as Pope under the title of Paul V., and also a big r surmounted by diamonds, the setting and mount'ng being a masterpicce of the art o Benvenuto Cellini. _* The French dukedom of dates from 1503, when it by the first Napoleon in favor of Prince Camillo Borghese, on the oc- casion of his marriage to Pauline Bonaparte. the most beautiful of all the sisters of the great emperor. was this I'auline Borghese who the beautiful Vilia Borghese at Borglhiess 1 The balloon goes up | d doubled in value, while on | his death she inherited everything he | out reveral ; ited to as created H i | took steps to recover possession | i i | i ta 1ite The North Window Y LEILA MZCHLIN, In the Library of Congrees. on th landing of the stairs leading from th second floor to the gallery-of the ro tunda, is & large mosaic of Minerva, Goddess of Wisdom, the work of Elihu ‘Vedder, one of the great figures In American art of the latter half of the nineteenth century, who lately passed from thls world at his home in Rome. Vedder was a big man in more ways than one—physically and artistically he towered above his fellows. One thinks of him as a man of great size and strength, force and Individuality. t, like almost all great artists, he had a simple nature and the heart of a child; ndeed, for those who knew him, Vedder typified the successful accomplished artist at his best. Ho was born In 1836 in an old house on Varick street, New York city, and his family came from upstate. He often Jocosely claimed kinship with Nicho- las Vedder, the innkeeper in the well known tale of “Rip Van Winkle.” His boyhood was rather uneventful and commonplac when he was just twenty years of age he went to Parls, and from then on gave his entire time to the profession of art. He was only in Paris a few months, from April to July, moving on very shortly to Italy, Where he eventually made his home. From '61 to ‘66 he was back in New York, but in "67 he returned to Rome, where he really became a fixture. Samuel Isham says of him that “his Visits to America were numerous and long enough to keep him still a ‘good American.’” Vedder himself explains his long residence in the Eternal city, not by any deliberate intent, but through force of circumstance, tell- lnf‘, in his delightful autobiography— “The Digressions of V..” published in 1910, how for many years the furni- ture In his house was- fastened only with screws, 8o that it could be taken apart when the time came for going home, but finally “it had to be glued together.” Then it was that Rome became his home. ok % ok In a lecture on Emerson, given at the Central High 8chool last Thurs- day evening by Prof. Bliss Perry, mention was made of the lecturer's ‘Dresent-day habit, as head of the de- partment of English literature at Harvard University, to make yearly pilgrimages with his students to the Old Manse in Concord. Such a pil- grimage was made by Elihu Vedderand William Morris Hunt while Emerson was still living, not as to a shrine, nor to do homage to the sage, but to confute his remark and to answer his inquiry to the effect that “Nature being the same on the banks of the Kennebec as on the banks of the Tiber—why go to Europe?” Both ar- tists were riled and they intended to have it out with Emerson. Vedder was the spokesman, and what he said was this: “Mr. Emerson, I think there is a great difference between the jliterary man and the artist In regard to Europe. Nature is the same every- where, but literature and art are nature seen through other eyes, and ary man in Patagonia without books 10 consult would be at a great disadvantage. Here he has all that ix essential in the way of books; but o the artist, whose books are pictures, this land is Patagonia.” (And so it was at that time.) “Take from your shelves your Bible, Plato, Shake- speare, Dante, Bacon, Montagne, etc., and make it so that you could not consult them without going to Eu- rope, and 1 thiak it would soon be— o, for Europe!” Emerson agreed that | this was “an aspect of the question which should be taken into consider- atior.” That was back in the sixties, and what a change has come over America since then. But still it ex- plains most graphically the allure- ment of Europe for the artists of those days and these. However, Emerson must have made an im- presgion on the young painter, be- cause after registering his own con- victions on the subject, he journeyed to Kennebec to see for himself how it compared with the Tiber, and in his confessions he admits that he pre- ferred the latter. His conclusion was ive me the Tiber!” Vedder's biography is a chronicle of friendships and exemplifies that strong characteristic, that gift of friendlinees whic st in- variably a part make- He tells how amazingly kind liam Morris Hunt was to him, h0, having seen some of his work, wrote him in_ appreciation and arranged an exhibition in Boston for r, when Hunt went to Italy, still living in his lit villa at Capri, was a close com. when they sketched to- had an agreement that should set up claim to firs rewly discovered theme, cording to priority of discovery were both young men in those davs ke the artist that Archi- discovered enough but _youns the paint pretty good enough not to care much whether he pictures, dark street, at the end of which was seen the moon in all its glorious ra- iance, and being “‘almost shamed by its simple beauty.” When he was writing his blography many persons | aid to him, “How interesting it will be to hear about the eminent persons 1 have met’ The fact {8, how- ever, that not & large number of the so-called “great” seem to have im- pressed themselves upon his recollec- tion, in_explanation of which one re- calls his statement that he would rather “spend an evening in the Cen. tury Club, New York, than in the most brilliant court in JBurope.” To artists, art is never. a wornout tale, and talk of art is never “shop.” It is the favorite topic discussed behind “north windows.” The Minerva in the Library of Con- gress and the five wall paneis by the same artigt in this building were executed in 1896 and 1897. Of the lat- ter in his notebock he jotted down. “I made them to go with the architec- 1t ture, to look as if made for the place 0! they occupy, Rome. | ¢5rmer he sald, with his customary and this they do. Of the @ creation of Pope Paul V. sat as ainote of humor: “Not the greatest { thing in the world and not the worst. model for Canova's celebrated statue of Venus. and who, when whether she had not been render uncomfortable by the extreme scanti- ness of her costume, replied. “Oh, ho there was a good fire in the room.” The Borghese family itrolf from early in the thirteenth centor, and is related by ties of marriage with many of the greatest houses of the British, French, Spanish and Hungn- ! i and they were frequently under heavy I rian aristocracy. ; Remarkable Etching of Lincoln o the Editor of The Btar: Congratulations to The Evening Star for presenting' the first publica- {tion of the remarkable likeness.of Abraham Lincoln. The generally ac- cepted ided’is thdt he was very homely, I yet a great sculptor once declared, “His jhead and faces is -the handsomest I ever modeled,” and here look upom his magnificent ‘head. His features personify. the great intellect he pos-. sessed, ¢he ihward Beauty of his char- cter. E o 5 ‘“Born and bred” a demograt, 1 have always regarded Abraham Lincoln as the greatest man, in all senses of the . phrase, - this country has produced. He appealed to Congress to Show mercy toward the enemy, #nd {n his second inaugural addret he had “mahce toward none, ~with - charl for all” History can shaw mno sucl nobility of soul displayed toward a defeated enemy. 'His name and char- acter will-descend to posterity as the “Amerieans. greatest of all’Ame: e aisUIS. {Praises Education Is Urged As Mammy Monument o the Bditor of The & It was with much interest and sym- ked , It might have been a i mously populi i ! | {Khayyam.” dates “Auffy-ruffies’ posing as Minerva. About half the price went in expenses.” In 1884 Ved der illustrated the “Rubaivat of Omar A friend had brought him the poem and read it to him at Peru- sla. and it had left a tremendous im on on his mind. “Never before, gain quote Mr. Isham, “had a book Do: received a plctorial com- mentary €0 sympathetic. so-beautiful and so Iluniinative.” Ji was enor- - at the time; it is still selling. Tn order to live while he was making these drawings, Vedder bor- rowed money of a banker in Rome at 12 per cent intevest. But these draw- ings game him undying fame. . * ok ok K National Gallery of Art is a In pathy that I read Mrs. Terrell's protest | 1jti]e picture by Vedder, very charac- as to the erection of a monument in Washington to the black mammy and I; Cup of Death.” wish to emphasize her appeal. If those who wish to give expression to their appreciation of the kind service rendered in their Infancy and yduth would use the mioney a statue would cost in maintaining nureing or training classes for child welfare in the schools of the south (where lived the black mammy) it would be to raize a living _monument. - s Not only the fine spirit of the south would be shown thereby, but the depri- vations of the black mammy, race. li teristic, very excellent, entitled “The It shows, even bet- ter perhaps than the mural decora- tions in the Library of Congress, his individuality of style, the classic dis tinction of his work. Like the paint- ers of the renaissance, Vedder had a great respect for form.. He was not a colorist. His works are of an intel- lectual rather than a sensuous qual- ity. His kinship artistically is with ichaelangelo, et with Turner. In | another way Vedder was closely re- caused by slavery, would be compensated o her | hrg o ers & lated to the mrtists of that time, inas- much as he could turn his hand to sculpture or goldsmith work or any other craft, creating a bit of jewelry, ely decorated cup, model- or making a drawing, with equal facility. Yes, Elihu Vedder has “For T a man with men am linked | avery right to be called an artist, and and not a brick with bricks: no gain ¢ “one wishes to fully understand that 1 experience .must remain un- shared.” s MARCIA-&-P. FARRINGPON: what that means let him read “The Digressions of V."—“written for his own fun and that of his friends.” 1o | Some one suggests that we should abolish the office of Vice President, on | completed. the ground that it is a sort of vermi- CAPITAL KEYNOTES LY PAUL V. COLLINS, “I cannot say what proportion s It has taken a good dea! of time getting ready. We are now prepared to go on with the work form appendix to the constitutional | which will be finished in thres years " government. The critic fears that Congress may accept the offer of a homae for our Vice President, and that | not exceed 44,000,000 pounds “Will the expense exceed your first estimate?” “It will not. The entire cost wiit erling. that will carry with it the means for | The Suez canaj cost 20.000.000.” keeping the fires burning and the snow swept from the walks, etc., *® ok K * After writing the interview, it was which, in these days of normalcy,|taken to Comte de Lesseps and trans- might cost “$65,000 a year.” lated verbally to him, whereupon he Even while the above suggestion |indorsed the copy and signed it: was being made former Vice Presi- dent Marshall was making a speech {n a church, telling, in his facetious way, how nobody ltked to work, and he added, “I wouldn't work at all if Ididn’t have to. I hate work so much that I'm almost willing to be Vice Prosident again.” Many a truth is spoken in jest. Even though this announcement of Vice President Marshall, of his candidacy for a third term as Vice President was made in a jocular tone, and in a Mount Pleasant church, it is known that he would really prefer a drive against “vice” for he is a sincere church member. It was the “vice” of the office that rankled him. Drop that prefix and his real ambition may be satisfied. * * ¥ % But all the talk belittling the office of Vice President Is as baseless as the fashion of poking fun at red-headed girls and white horses. 1f Vice Presi- dents in the past have had little in- fluence on the administrations of their terms, they held honorable rank in the government, and as presiding of- ficers of the Sanate they were always in positions of great influence and responsibility, independent of dicta- tion by legislative “blocs.” The position might well be magni- fled Into much greater usefulness, as President Harding, for the first time in the history of the government, has undertaken to do. He has added 'Vice President Coolidge to his cabinet, thereby taking him into confidential relations with the adminlstration. The tendency of the future, un- doubtedly, will be toward magnifying, rather than lessening, the dignity and responsibility of the vice presidency. If political slate-fixers and conven- tions have underestimated the im- portance of the office in the past they will s0on discover the heinousness of the riek in the new order of things. Since tha Vice President is heir-ap- parent to the presidency, he ought never to be other than of presidential caliber. * % * % The rumors of cabinet discussions of a possible new transisthmus canal. {probably across Nicaragua, recall some Jof the strange delusions in the lear]y days regarding the building of ithe Panama canal. It chanced that the present writer was doing corre- spondence in 1585 from Paris for American dailles and Lad occasion to {interview Comte Ferdinand de Les seps soon after the latter's tour of ingpection of the progress of the | work on Panama isthmus. In re- Sponse to a question as to whether he had found the work progressing well, M. de Lesseps said: “Yes. There are now from 15,000 to 20,000 workmen régularly employed. I consider that number quite suffi- cient. ® ¢ * The canal will be fin- ished in three years.'" Tie question of extravagances som® contracts was broached, which M. de Lesseps replied: “There has been no extravagance Of course, there were a great many expenses in the beginning — houses, hospitals and workshops had to constructed—but now all that is done and everything is ready to go right on excavating.” “Were the early surveys well done?” i Of course. there are slight changes, but nothing {mportant. Th principal change is not building locks and levees, which were thought nec essary at first, owing to the differ- ence in the levels of the Atiantic and Pacific, which is so llttle that locks are not needed. There will be a slight current through the canal, but to not enough to interfere with Its ef- ficiency. ~ We <hall save 30,000,000 on locks and 5.000,060 on “As the work was begun six yea: ago and you expect its completion in three years, may I say that the canal is two-thirds finished ™" {All Political Rules Require Re- i nomination of President Harding. The statement by Senator Watson that President Harding will be re- nominated without opposition by the republi party, and that he will Le re-elected, is the subject of €x- tended editorial comment throughout the country. Editors, without regard to party affiliations, agree the initial 1 part of the statement is unchallenge- {able. As for re-clection, well, there | naturally they differ. Suggesting that all along it has been conceded Mr. Harding will be {the candidate. the Norfolk Ledger- { Dispatch (independent democratic) {teels that “whatever may be the i situation in 1924, it is too plain to be disputed that at this time the repub- {lleans are about as radically out of harmony as they coujd be. At pres- ent the situation is about this: The country is aweary of Congress, its | works and its lack of works, and it is rapidly losing confidence in the {administration’s willingness, or abil- to help in straightening out) ope’s affair That is very much | the viewpoint of the Cleveland Plain {Dealer (independent demogratic), | which is convinced “the Harding ad- ministration will be the issue and its head is the logical man to lead the fight.” Discussing Senator Hiram Johnson as a possible primary oppo- nent, the New York Times (demo- cratic) asserts he “seems to be noth- ling more nor less than an opportun- list. 1If he looks like iron close ob- {servers detect the laths underneath. It is alwafs curious to find mention of Hiram Johnson among the ‘pro- hammer of the Supreme Court; Mr. La Follette.” Holding that “it is not | time yet to choose the 1924 nominee,” |the Des Moines Register (independ- ient) asserts “Harding has time to | rige to ‘par,” while the Milwaukeo Journal (independent) insists that “the question is not so much the fu- | ture of Mr. Harding as it Is of avoid- ing disaster to the party that would come if it went before the people after it had repudiated the Presi- den! The Watson statement has aerved 2 definite purpose, the Colum- bus_(Ohio) State Journal (republican) thinks,. because if the inf be ! | gressives’ and ‘radicals’ like® Mr. {Borah, « Mr. Brookhart and that | matchless machine manager and President | ““The above interview bas been read to me and I vouch for its accuracy ir every particular. “FERDINAND DE LESSEPS. *x % x The venerable engineer became voluble in- discussing his Hobby, and time slipped by, hour after hour. It was in his palatial home, and home life showed in the clambering upon thé arm of his chair by a little girl- his grandchild--who looked wearily at the American, and finally put her baby arms about the old man’s neck with a reproachful side glance at the stranger, as she exclaimed: “Mais, granpere, vous parlez trop!” * % % x Subsequent decades confirmed the prophetic protest of the child, for none of the promoter's promises and optimism was fulfilled. The French did not finish the Panama in 1889, as ho guaranteed; locks were found es- sential, and it was many years before President Roosevelt cut the Gordian knot of inefficiency, and demanded that he should “see the dirt fly.” In 1913 there were employed under American management 44,733 in the work. ~ Cengress appropriated $375.- {200.900 to cover the entire cost. The actual union of the waters of the two oceans occurred October 10, 1913, and the formal opening of the canal was made nine years ago this month. ok o % The talk of the Nicaragua canal i8 for action at some future date, when, ft is thought, the accrued profits of the Panama canal will pay for the construction of the second ditch—some $400,000,000, according to estimates. It is to have locks at each end. * % ok The amazing disclosure by Mre. Thomas G.. Winter, president of the General Fedération of Women's Clubs, thet she had been offered, in writing, a bribe of $250,000 if she would come | to Washington and lobby for a *cer- itain measure,” is so serious that { Congress will not fail to probe the | proposed conapiracy. The federa- tion alro was to be tempted by the |offer from the same bribers that if |the measure paszed they would finance a federation headquarters building, to be erected in Washing- [ ton. at no cost to the clubs. The “certain bill” has not yet been presented to Congress, and is not likely to be introduced until the ex- posure has been forgotten. Mrs. Wi ter declines to tell what it is all { about. Then there comes the exposure of alleged waste and possible corrupti { amounting to millions in the Vet- { erans’ Bureau. * k¥ These are indications that, in spite of the armistice, and in spite, eve: of the return of our watch on the Rhine, the war spirit 1s not vet en- tirel forgotten. “There's million« in it!" If the alleged bribers werc ready to give a lobbyist tool a quar- ter of a million, and add, perhaps, million -or“more for a marble build- ing, ’ such _as the Federation of Women's Clubs would expect, match Continental Hall of the D. R. and to harmonize with the Red Crose bullding and the Pan-Amor can building—it wouid be an affront to offer less—what millions must_the promoters of the scheme expect? The first Inklings of the Veterans Bureau scandal are too horrible to contemplate. With veterans sick uffering and dying.for want of ade- | quate hospital care—thicves are | charged with looting the funds. | (Copyright, 1923.) | EDITORIAL DIGEST | privilege of running on the re the Harding administration?” On the | other hand, the Little Rock Democra (democratic) believes that it reed by all parties that the I'res dent has been bigger than his part The republican party Is not likely to drop its pilot, especially when he has won more personal approval thar any other man in the party.” There i8 unother constderation, as the Man chester Union (independent republi can) sees it, and that is “good times is,_a nece ¥ concomitant to re- publican success in 1924 This point iwarmly is indorsed by the Duluth |Herald (Independent),” which feels that such prosperity “must extend to Le farmers, because if by 1924 the [farmer is doing a very profitable business the heart of the revolt will be dissolved. 1f the farmers become peron d, above all, if the ent shows a tendency to release 1f fromm some of the more reac ary influences that surround him | there Would be a great change in the situation,” Looking from across the | neighborly border, the Toronto Star believes that the President, after Congress sdjourns, “will have nine months in which to act without a sit- ting Congress to hamper him in his policies. 1f between March and De- cember he can accomplish a few | Striking guccesses, especially in for IM’:.’: policy, without alarming the !country with the extent of the entan | slements he gets into, he may so im Dprove his personal standing that thera will be no question of setting him {aside. Put the democrats begin to feel confident that they can win the next presidential electio | Should the President not be re inominated, the Savannah Press (dem- ocratic) points out, “the man named in his place would-be obliged to sup- port the Harding polieles or meet de- feat. If this candidate should seel: election on a repudiation of the Hard- ing administration he wotld alienate the mass of regular republi: with- out whose support he could hope to win. »1In agreeing to this point the Springfield Union (independent) argues that, “even if a President doex not wish for a renomination for a' second term, the position of the party is weakened.” The Indlanapolis News (independent) feels' tho Prestdent's position is all right and “it will be easler for the republicans to defend Harding than to defend the record of Ceongress. At this period of the ad- miriistration {t is felt that Harding {has meant well. He has lacked some i qualities of leadership and has had Ino definite foreign policy.” Becauss !there was doubt that he would wan! to make the race once more the Des oines Tribune (independent) feelx all the potential jealousies, peraon.l {rivalries, backbiting and general acrimony of such a situation were be- I ginning to show in Congress. There ' was need of some sign of definiteness in the party’s prospects, some focus- {ing point. 'And the President, whose “stepped aside there would have been | potices and actsor want of police a great scramble of candidates,wise | and acts—will have to be defended in and. otherwise.” l: leor‘nl I( campaign, ‘ldnyt‘m. » wan “Senator Watson's logic is perfect 51.'6”5022 x':';f;':pe provide it Tas as squared with the book riles,” says|dence Tribune (independent), which the Knoxville Sentinel (democratic), | belleves there was no-particular need “The republican party must stand on fof any announcement at this time. the record it has made. It cannotland. that “it has no especial siz stand on the record of the adminis- | nificance. As the situation now tration and repudiate the head of the ! stands, of course. the plain fact ix administration.” Journal-Gazette (democratic), agre ing to this argument, asks, “Who but|nating Mr. I The Fort Wayne|that If the republican convention was held today, it couldn’t avoid renomi-, -digg, it it would, and o if it could."’ Mr. Harding would really crave the it wouldn't are