Evening Star Newspaper, March 4, 1923, Page 40

a2 »THE EVENING STAR, + f_With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY. «...March 4, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Utfice: 150 wau St. Chicago Offce: Tower, Bullding. Raropean Office: 16 Regent St., London, Eagland. with the Sunday morning delivered by carriers within the city daily only, 45 cents per ; Sunday only, 20 cents per month. Or- fers Ty be sent By mail or teiephone Main 5000, Collection 1s made by carriers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Paily and Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1 mo., © Daily only.. B .1yr., $6.00; 1 mo. Sunday only C17yr. §2.400 1 mo., All Other States. Daily only Hunday only Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press in exclusively entitled fo the use for republication of all news dis- Ppatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- lished herein. ~ All rights of publication of al dispatches herein are also reserve Congress practically closed its ses- sion last night with much work done and much left undone. It is always thus. No Congress ever completes its full task. There is inevitably a great amount of “unfinished business.” This is due to the fact that although at the beginning of the session things start off at a good pace and committees get usy and push things along speedily. there ensues a stage of neglect marked by debate and maneuvering, and then, with the calendars choked with busi. ness, there comes the last rush and bills are pitchforked through hastily, some unwisely, and with a good many neglected. This Congress that has just closed is the sixty-seventh. For 134 years 1he national legislative body has been sitting, and every time the last gavel has fallen this phenomenon has been repeated of bills left over till “next session.” Every other year, the even numbered ones, this procedure leaves pe still remaining that next session wil] bring results, for the bills do not die. But the mass of business unfin- ished at the close of a session in an odd-numbered year is gone deflnitely and all the work that has been done on it counts as for naught. This Sixty-seventh Congress leaves undone a number of important mat- ters, notably the ship bill, which took up much time without final result. ‘The pity is that these bills that do not after much debate block the pas- of other measures, meritorious in most cases. No procedure has yet heen found in all this century and a third of American congressional pro- cedure whereby the undisputed items can all be disposed of regardless of the blockades and jams due to pro- tracted debate and 'consideration of finally unsuccessful measures. But taking it as a whole, consider- ing all the difficulties, Congress is an efficient body, a legislative model for the world. Those who are disappoint- ed in its results may call it a failure. But those who know the conditions realize that the men who are charged with the duty of conducting congres- sional affairs stri and con- scientlously to discharge tieir task. In the long run all measures of merit are enacted. Sometimes delay is good, making for perfection, or the avoldance of mistakes. Sometimes what seems like an immediate loss turns into a profit through postpone- ment. The American body politic as- similates its legislative food at about the rate that is required. It has its spells of indigestion and its periods of | indernutrition, but steadily. surely it! grows in strength. qual na th and in The March Lamb. i These warm days of early March{ +hat have just been experienced are | 10t to be taken as a sure index that | the spring season has opened, that winter has definitely passed and that no longer will it be needful to wear heavy wraps or maintain furnace fires. There are still seyeral weeks in which the season may turn its most disagreeable face toward us, when high winds may blow and cold may prevall, and even snow and ice may fall. March s a fickle month, a month of- surprises and discourage- ments, a faithless month, with allur- ing gentleness and punishing sharp- ness. i But these last few days have been helptul. They have saved the coal piles. They have added to the net of the winter’'s comforts and they give ause for thankfulness. Indeed, there is reason to be most grateful for the blessing of a very gentle winter in onsideration of the shortness of fuel. Had the winter been as severe as that of a year ago untold suffering would have resulted. Had it been as bad as that of five years ago doubtless many people would have died from exposure and lack of life-sustaining warmth. Nature has been merciful this year in view of the abnormal shortage of coal due to the folly of mankind. Washington has been spared & most Dbitter experience, and even though March may have in store some severe- iy trying days, the real spring cannot be far away, and then the problem of keeping warm will have been solved for this season at least. ————————— A plan for a 30,000-mile railroad con- solidation has just been proposed with a monchalance that is & true expres- sion of the spirit of big things that per- vades the American atmosphere. ——————— A few trips to the post office for mail are likely to cost more in shoe Jeather or car tokens than a box or a wloty 13 - ————————— An Ancient Skull Only a few days ago it was reported that & human skull had been dug up in the Isle of Jersey which anthro- pologists and .geologists believed to be that of @ man who lived 200,000 years ago. Later came news of the finding of & fossil skull in southern Patagonia believed to be much older than the Java skull of the Pithecanthropus erectus. Tt was given out.in the news dispatch that sclentists believed the -Patagonianajol to-be { ernment old, and they sald that it had been found 1n a deposit of the tertiary age. The time occupled in laying down geological deposits and the time elapsed since they were lald down is an estimate in which there may be an error of millions of years. The fossil skull may be that of & man who lived 500,000 years ago, e million years ago or ten million years ago. The length of time elapsed since the close of the tertiary and beginning of the quar- ternary ages is an estimate. The time when the tertlary began to succeed or did succeed the secondary age is an estimate. While some geologists call our age the quarternary, others con- sider it as a continuation of the ter- tiary. Geologlsts will discuss a® to what division of the tertiary age this fossil skull belongs. There is’ nothing new in the thought that man was on earth in the tertiary age, though his advent is generally given as the pliocene, which means *“more recent,” division of the tertiary. The tertiary age was the age in which the greater seas subsided and mountain chains were cast up. It was a time marked by a great increase in the number and variety of mammals and the appear- ance of tree forms and plant forms which are with us now. The immense reptiles passed away, as did tree forms which one now finds only registered in the rocks. Arlington City. The city of Arlington would be welcomed as a neighbor by Washing- ton. All those who would be citizens of Arlington are already friends and neighbors, and a great number of them are semi-citizens or work-day citizens of the capital. If they want to change the form of government un- der which they live, belleving that the change would bring them benefits, the wish of Washington is that they may “go to it.” To judge from ac- counts of meetings there is a strong sentiment favoring the incorporation of Arlington city, and a bill to effect the change from county to city gov- ernment will be put before the Vil ginia legislature. Whether the per- sons favoring the change are a major- ity of the population cannot be told now, but the proponents of the plan appear to be positive that it has the support of the majority of the resi- dents of the county. The population of Arlington county exceeds the population of some cities, and it is obvious that the population is growing fast. Advocates of the city form of government, and who are familiar with conditions in the county, predict that within ten years there will be 50,000 people living within the { boundaries of what is now Arlington county. Under a city form of govern- ment i said that the population will grow at a greater pace than it is now growing. There is a cluster of large towns, Clarendon, Cherrydale and i Ballston, which have grown together jand are spreading outward to join or be joined by fast-expanding settle- ments. The moving force behind the city plan is the Arlington County Civic Federation, which is largely repre- | sentative of the people of the county. There i3 mno hostility toward the county officers, the desire for the change being based on the argument that a county form of government cannot answer the needs of the group of towns and the settlements. It is set forth that under a county govern- ment there is no power to provide | playgrounds, parks, fire and police de- partments or to control public utilities. There is a demand for such powers by the people of the county. The form of charter which Arling- ton may adopt is & matter for future consideration. Some of the people ad- vocate the city manager plan of go some favor the commission- ship plan and others believe clder form of mayor and council. Tt is a ting question and its de- velopment is well worth watching. —_—————— in the | THE SUNDAY STAR, 'WARHINI public authorities put an end to that form of advertising. In the advertis- ing line the press agent has become more numerous, aggressive and wily, and the careful newspaper must keep steadily on guard to repel interesting news stories loaded with advertising, and the x it sometimes fails. ———————— A Quarter Century as Leader. Yesterday Capt. Willam H. Santel- mann observed the twenty-fifth anni- versary f his leadership of the United States Marine Band. Twenty- five years grasping the baton at the head of the most famous musical Think of the number of miles of marching in that time; of the notable occasions on which this band has been a con- spicuous feature! There have been six naugurations of Presidents; there Fave been other parades of historic rcmracter and funerals of noted peo- f 1 lurganlmliml in the world! ple. Hundreds of concerts have been given for the public delight in the parks, at the White House, at the Capitol and at the Marine Barracks. At the White House, too, Capt. San- telmann’s baton has directed the band on brilliant occasions of receptions. Millions of ears have heard the music of the band in this quarter century. But Capt. Santelmann has been a Marine bandsman longer than the twenty-five years of his leadership. He joined it thirty-seven years ago as a musician and in all, taking out a period of ‘“retirement,” he has been identified with this remarkable or- ganization for thirty-three years. The Marine Band is an American institution known everywhere. It has traveled widely and millions of Americans have visited Washington und have heard it here. No public occasion of ceremony is complete without it. Not many identify the leader of a band on the march. The man in front, sometimes with a tall bearskin hat and a big baton with a glittering ball at one end, is not the leader, gorgeous though he may be. He is an important personage, the drum major, and he marks the time and sets the pace. But, walking along in the back rank, on the right flank, is the real leader, almost un- distinguishable, save that he carries no instrument. There Capt. Santel- mann has walked for these twen five years, and the people of Wash- ington hope that he will walk there for a good many more years to come. Never Saw a,Cow. A domestic cow has been taken into Central Park, New York, as an exhibit, for the reason that many New York children do not know that milk comes from cows, and many of them have never seen a cow. Once in a while stories appear in connection with public outings for children of crowd- ed cities that there are children c up to their ‘teens, or perhaps in their 'teens, who have never scen grass. It seems remarkable, vet if one go into the densely crowded quarters of some cities one can understand that chil- dren do live and grow up in an en- vironment of dark little rooms, alleys, fire escapes, cobble pavements, trucks, noise and dirt. It is pitiful to think of childrenwho have never seen a meadow with cattle standing in the clover, grasses and the daisies, and who have. ing along between rail fences and trees hung with vines and climbing a hill in the distan think of human beings who have never roamed through woods and gardens or walked along in some pretty stream bordered with ferns and banks of moss and shaded by willows and alders. ———— Congress will adjourn today, the Congressional Record will { tinue for ten days or longer ! publish the debates e “leave ! print” privilege is often assailed. but { defies all attacks but o to 0 —————————— Gratified readers of the late issues | of the Congressional Record may be roughly divided into two classes, those who find greatest pleasure in the sen- tence, “The bill was read the third time and passed,” and those whose hearts leap with joy over the simple remark, “T object.” ———— Now the Russian crown jewels, which were not found in a soldier's grave in Brooklyn, have been located in a Pittsburgh cellar. Those baubles will eventually be as productive of adventurous research as Captain Kidd's buried treasure. P — That Newcastle consulate contro- versy having reached the stage of of- ficlal “he-told-me” and *I-told-him” exchanges, perhaps a way will soon open for a clearance of the misunder- standing and the rehoisting of the flag. —————————— Conan Doyle is8 coming back with more ectoplasmic proofs, but unless they throw light on the mystery of the next democratic presidential nominee the American people will not take much interest in them. —————————————— Advertising. The limit of advertising is the sky. There is no telling to what lengths or heights advertising may be carried. There have been proposals to paint the clouds, as it were, by projecting signs on them by means of a stereopti- con. Dropping “circulars” from air- planes is an old scheme—too old to be effective. People do not read ‘‘circu- lars” dropped from the clouds any more than when stuffed in the letter box or pushed under the door. Now an aviator is writing signs far up in the sky. He writes the signs in smoke to advertise a brand of “smokes.” At one of the big beach resorts, and no doubt at others, the sails of boats are painted with “ads” as some theater curtains are.’ Fronts of buildings are so cluttered with signs that few per. sons read any particular sign, and some merchants seek distinction and advertise themselves by not putting up signs at all. Signs are painted on the roofs of buildings that loungers in windows higher up may read them. Business firms paint their signs on top of their delivery wagons. They would paint their signs on the sur- face of the streets if the police and Commissioners would allow them. Once they strung sigus fn-the form-of tapestry cannot fail to make the con- sumers of gasoline wonder how much they have contributed to the cause of art in America. —_— It has been so long since the near eastern situation reached a fresh crisis that hope is entertained that Kemal Pasha has concluded that the word “ultimatum” has no equivalent in Turkish. SHOOTING STARS. i { BY PHILANDER JOHNSOA Parting. The time for parting Fate will set, However bright the scene. ‘We gayly greet the friends well met, ‘With confidence serene. The compliments, the lightsome jest, Are preludes to a sigh, For each acquaintanceship, at best, Must end in a good-bye. ‘We read philosophies and try To speak in wisdom's vein; Or, following fancies bright, contrive To sound a merry strain. 'he quip, the sermon or the song Makes moments swiftly fly. Then come, so brief, and yet so long, The simple words, good-bye. Adaptability. “Who is your favorite poet?” “Bill Shakespeare,” replied Senator Sorghum. “Do you read his works?” “No. But popular opinion seems to be in Bill's favor and I belleve in ‘bowing to the will of the majority.” [EY Jud Tunkins says he has heard of the happy barefoot boy, but he never saw one that looked comfortable. A Human Trait. There's not a man in all the throng ‘Who does not hint, in terms polite, “The other fellow's always wrong, ‘While I'm invariably right.” March of Progress. “Grimson Gulch has made some wonderful improvements.” “Yes,” replied Cactus Joe. “We haven't ®ny mere hoss thieves and laa.loonkeepers: nothin’ but auto ban- dits and bootleggers. “A man dat tries to mind his own business,” said Uncle Eben, “is liable to git de reputation of bein® terrible ose ! with a brook winding through it and | never seen an old country road wind- | It is pitiful to! Fears Lest Hatred of War May MakeU.S. Impotent for Defense BY THOMAS R. MARSHALL, Former Vice Presudent of the United States. NDER the code duello thers were certain persons with whom one need not fight. The knight of old was quite particular, in fact, to ascer- tain the character of the person offering insult before presenting a formal challenge, or. accepting one. No dignity nop prestige was lost by refusal to meet an unworthy adversary. Woodrow Wilson prob- ably had something of this kind in mind when he sald Amerfca was too proud to fight—a statement that inspired attack on its maker from many sources. Men who wished to fight were incensed at the thought of such a view being held by any one, particularly by the President of the United States, who was commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy as well. The former President was wise not to attempt explanation. He merely bided his time and demonstrated at the proper moment that as a warrior he was as valiant as the most warlike man in America. He was well within the line that sep- arates the gentleman from the bully when he held that a proud and “self-reliant man may well be content to suffer even an Intended insult rather than to lower him- self to the level of the man that offers it. At the moment of hi ut- terance, President Wilson had not vet satisfied himself that mad- dened Germany really intended to offer deliberate insult to America. It was weary weeks afterward that the people of the nation reach- ed conclusion that we should fight. None of the criticism dinected at the President was deserved. i * ok ox % The war is not long ended, either happily or unhappily 1 do not say, and I refer to the “too- proud-to-fight” incident only b way of illustration touching paci- fism. In the vears since the ar- mistice most of us have been say- ing, “It must not be again.” We feel that steps must be taken to guarantee the future against any recurrence of war. It is all right to feel that way and to hope that war will be no more, but we are foolish and are deluding ourselves if we have come to the conclusion that our hopes are realized, that the ideal condition toward which wo have turned our eyes has be- come actual. The most we should have striven for was unceasing effort on our part to minimize the chances of war and to spread the gospel of peace. The Christian may be justified in non-resistance under all cir- cumstances, but until the whole world becomes Christian the ques= tion as to how pacific a pacifst ought to be will continue to exist No one, I think, will accuse-me of being either quarrelsome or bel- | ligerent. and 1 do not.expect to { be called a jingo if I call attention to certain subtle and mysterious influences at work in our repub- lic. There is danger of our pass- ing the point of being too proud to fight and of reaching the point of not wanting to fight and of approaching the point of deciaring we will not fight. From various communities letters are coming to me asking if 1 do not deem it ad- visable that the young men of the country be trained to say, we are not going to fight. Thesi are so numerous as to preclude either thelr preservation or their answer, They have impressed me with the Dbelie? that education along peace- ful lines too strongly stressed without regeneration may lead not to the survival of the fittest, but to the survival of the strongest o In the course of my career at | the bar I met a man who felt that as a Christian he ought not to go to law. He had perfectly good title to eighty acres of land but no importunity upon my part could induce him to defend his title. He permitted his land vir- tually to be stolen from him rath- er than assert his right. And he died in the poorhouse. T do not i eriticize his conduct brought about by his consclence, but I fear that civil government would soon fall into disorder if half the world be- lieved as he did and the other half belleved and behaved as did the man that stole his farm. It is a difficult problem and I can see no solution to it unless the world be regenerated or those who believe in the doctrine of non-resistance shall voluntarily expatriate them- selves. Until then, most of us will have a fellow feeling with the old Quaker who pulled off his coat when confronted by a bully and threw it on the ground, saying, “Lay there, Quaker, 'til I lick this man.” I find myselt wondering how this view that young men should be achooled in a refusal to fight ob- tained its start. 1s it an American view exclusiveiy or is it interna- tional in its character? Can it be that it found its origin In the sen- timents avowed by many good women? Tt is a fact, though per- haps not a common knowledge, that when the International Worm- en’s Council met in Zurich in May, 1919, the women therc assembled solemnly swore a vow never to support_any war by direct or in- direct help. A great international strike of women against war was unanfmously agreed upon. Since then many women have been writ- ing to the effect that no cause jus. tified the organized destruction of human lives. They have advised pledges of passive resistance to war on preparation for war; urged members of their sex to speak and write and vote against war; to sarve notice upon the men that if they go to war they go without women and to notify congresses and parliaments, “we will not give you our children, nurse your sol- dlers, knit your socks, roll a ban- dage, drive a truck or buy a bond.” In the city of Washington in this vear a pledge was adonted as fol- lows, “In case my country is at war, T will not work for the Red Crosa nor make hospital supplies; 1 will not urge food conservation: T will not buy liberty bonds or any similar war loans: 1 will not make munitions; I will not take a man's place in order to let him g0 to war. P 1t is impossible to estimate ia how many woman minds in Amer- ica this sentiment has found an abiding place. 1t would be a mere guess, alsn, as to how many women would keep such a pledge In an emergency. This anti-war preach- ment may be reaching many or few women; it may or may not be establishing a permanent impress upon their conduct. 1 cannot af- firm or deny that it is responsible for the talk with reference to non- resistance on the part of the youth of the nation But it needs a watchful eye in every community in America. FEurope is still spend- ing money for armies and navies Let us pray and plead for peace Let us not provoke enmity mnor deal unjustly. Let us establish such a high standard of national conduct that we can well afford most_of the tinmie 1o be t0o proud to fight. Let us maintain® our jdea that we do not want to fight But until the gospel swaye more men than have yet - under its benign influence not indi- cate that barbarians may seize our civilization our govern- ment and reduce our people with- out a blow being struck Let the government, the colleges, univer- sities and high schools of America be training camps for officers. Let our young men be warned of the awful horrors of a military system. Let them be taught to hate war and to loathe it But let them also be taught not to fear it in a Just and righteous cause, Y T would not urge “it is a sweet and proper thing to die for one's country” for under some circum- stances it is a disgrace to die even for but there may arise peaceful and peace-loving people an oceaslon in which the most disgraceful thing is to live We can ac- complish what the women of the natlon wish by high-minded con- duct at home and abroad. But we cannot accomplish this by unjust conduct in relation to the world, coupled with the doctrine that un- der no oircumstances will we fight Yes, let us have peace hut let us keep an eye peeled in every com- munity for those who would have ft with dishonor. (Copyright. 1023, by Thomas R. Marshail.} MEN AND AFFAIRS BY ROBERT T. SMALL. HE passing of Bourke Cockran has robbed Washington as well as New York of a man whose voice was as golden in a way as Caruso's. He was another exemplification of the old adags that orators are born, not made. Bourke Cockran was intended for the prieflt- hood, and with his massive frame and |leonine features what a wonderful fig- ure he would have made in priestly robes. The ministry, however, did not appeal to him in the vim ana vigor of his youth Instead he chose to come out of Ireland to America, the land of opportunity. His path here was not always an easy one. His first employment was as a clerk in the department store of A. T. Stewart (now Wanamaker's) in |New’ York. ~His was not a soul of the shop and he soon took to teachfag while studying law. Being Irishand quick of thought and wit, it was not very long before Bourke Cockran drifted into politics, and once there his future was assured; not that he was a seeker of office—for he refused many—but through politics the op- portunity came to him to show his ability and his zeal as a disciple of Blackstone. ) Despite the fact that the priesthood failed to appeal to him, Mr. Cockran carried into his life many of its pre- cepts. There was no more devoted churchman than he and his intimacy with Pope Leo XIII was one of the most cherished things in his lite. Mr. Cockran fought prohibition and divorce with equal fervor and convic- tion. Divorce he regarded as one of the worst blots upon modern civiliza- tion and it Is reported of him that on one occasion he exclaimed: “If we are to choort betweeln dlv;m P.:)‘ olygamy, give us polygamy.” - Ribition he denounced as “fanaticism gone wild."” Since his sudden dcath on Thursday many of Mr. Cockran’s famous speeches have been recalled by his colleagues in Washington and New York and many of them have gone back to his opposition to Cleveland in 1892 for his master effort. Others have contended that when he broke with his beloved Tammany HalP i 1898 to supp -t Willlam ~McKinley against Willlam Jennings Bryan he attained the pinnacle of his oratori- cal powers in a speech at Madison Square Garden. To the writer it was in 1906, ten years later, that Bourke Cockran gave one of the most thrilling exhibitions of the power of real oratory over the muititude. It was at the New York democratic state convention in Buf- falo. The leaders of Tammany and the upstate forces had decided to nominate William Randolph Hearst for goverrior to make the run against Charles Evans Hughes. Most of the delegates dflldhnioz want H::.-u“fid they were fighting every step 0 him the nomines. _State convention was in an uproar. Tt w more lfka a rlof than & convention In the midst of the tumult Bourke Cockran fought his way to the stage. The delegates had refused to listen to half a dozen others who had attempt- ed to speak. At the sight of Cockran there was a hush. Whatever may have been their opinions, the dele- gates knew that here was a man with something to say. A year before in Tammany Hall Cockran had de- nounced "Hearst for all that was un- desirable. In a moment's time he was telling the delegates again that he did not like Hearst, but with his wonderful powers of persuasion he 8ot the convention to look at mat- ters as philosophically as he did. and Hearst was nominated, owing his vie- tory to one of his bitterest enemies, President Harding soon may have to adopt the famous battle cry of the lamented Champ Clark: It makes no difference if he i ' You gotta quit kicking my dawg amenc. They are taking liberties w die Boy, Who isnt a ~houn - But an aristocratic Airedale and a mighty nice dog. Mrs. Harding sent him to an afternoon tea a day or two ago given for the benefit of the Animal Rescue League. . That.was a very appropriate mission for Laddie Boy, and, aithough the metaphor may run contrary to nature, he was decidedly the lion of the occasion. This was altogether in keeping with Laddie Boy's station and breed, for it is re- lably reported that the Boy's pedi- BTee goes back to some of the dogs depicted on the walls of King Tut's tomb. But when penurious politi- olans come to making light of Laddie Boy in the halls of Congress and Washington sausage dealers seek to exploit the exclusive pup commer- olally, the Executive thinks it time to'call a halt. The penurious poli- ticlans raised the howl that the Ma- rine Band, which the government 8UDDOrts at rather large expense, wasn't functloning except to play at White House and” cabinet receptions. and they suggested that Laddle Boy with a can tied to his tail might greate any needed diversion on the White House or cabinet lawns this spring. That was bad enough, but Titesn by thE garany, 23, been, com. e sausage dealer who advertised “Laddis Boy hot dogss > Speaking of the White Houss, the new uniforms of the special police on duty there have been attracting much attention from native and visit- ing Washingtonians. On each coat lapel there are the letters “W. H." Lots of folks have wanted to know if_this meant “Warren Harding.” “No,” replied one of the policemen. “You see, we will have to continue to wear these same uniforms and use the same letters after Mr, Harding goes.” “Then they will do for Will Havs when he comes in,” suggested the visitor. ¥ qmen I have known. GTON, D. C, MARCH 4, 1923—PART 2. Capital Sidelights |Young Rockefeller’s Million-Dollar Tapestries Came From Noted Castle BY WILL P. KENNEDY, In seventh Congress, today adjourned “sine die” was enacted the most oligarchical domination of legislation ever witnessed in this republican gov- ernment which stands in history as a model for all republics. Repre- sentative Frank W. Mondell of Wyoming was House leader, in charge of the legisiative program. “Uncle Joe” Cannon, leaving Congress after nearly a half century's service, and some years ago caricatured in all the leading papers as “Czar Canno while he was Speaker, had the satl faction of seeing greater powers than he ever had in his palmiest days placed in the hands of the chairman of the rules committee, to which the power of deciding special-privilege legislation was (ntrusted when the Speaker was shorn of authority. As chairman of the rules committee, Representative Philip P. Campbell of Kansas carried around some fifteen speclal rules giving certain pleces of legislation privileged consideration. These were the measures that were to be given right of way, and the rules were to be called up on Camp- bell's option. Thus Campbell and Mondell were absolutely in charge of what legislation would be brought up 1 for consideration. Then Speaker Gillett was taken sick with influenza, and obliged to be absent from his duties at the Capitol. During the last six days, what fis known as_“suspension days” prevail 1 On those days the Speaker can recog- nize whomever he wishes, and can refuse to recognize any one desiring to call up some measure which the Speaker is unwilling to have come up. Speaker Gillett proposed that Chair- man Campbell should act as Speaker in his absence, and on the motion of House Leader Mondell Campbell was made substitute Speaker for the re- malnder of the session. Thus Campbell, with all those special lrules in his pocket to be called up w n and only when he sald so, was gliven the additional sole and supreme power to recognize for the purpose of calling up bills only the ones he him- wanted to recoguize, Never has Congress witneseed such monopoly of power. It was, of course, a great honor for Campbeil to finish out his twenty continuous years in the House as Speaker, and with such absolute authority—greater than Can- non ever enjoved. And don't overlook that Campbell was leaving Congress. as was aiso the man through whose motion he was given the authority, and who was the only member to shave with Campbell authority for legislation in the closing davs— Frank W. Mondell. R 5 an Tt's interesting psycological study how prome and susceptible to flattery are the run of men in public life. A member of Congress received from Col.-Guy D. Goff, assistant at- torney general, a letter which read “Will you be £0 good as to send me an autographed copy of your photo- graph? - My admiration for your cour- age and purpose and my personal re- gard for you will make this one of my most clherished possessions. shall add it with a feeling of genul: Pleasure to the collection of great e With the very jsiuoerest personal regards, T am, as always, very cordially yours 5 "’Rfl’)rbse;xlz'(\'o Charles E. Fuller of inois, chairman of the co vigorous speech on’the floor against reckless automobile drivers, and he thought that was the “courage” Col. (_m'f referred to Representativ George Holden Tinkham of Massa- chusetts and Representative i referred to their persistent fight : 2 ght for }1 beralization *of the ' Volstead act. House Leader Mondell thought E referred to his general attitude as party leader—and so it went ach and every one of the scores of | mb who received this form let- | ter. even though he might never have {met Col. Goff. thought a personal compliment was being paid to him and his “courage and purpose” appre- ciated and lauded—and they all sent autographed photographs, some of them costing as much as $14. After a while some of them got to comparing notes, and they found the letters were alike—and then they didn't, feel quite so flattered i * ¥ x ok { As a general thing handling his | correspondence is a pretty humdrum, {onerous and . vexatious job for a | member of Congress, but cccasionally {@ letter bobs up on the current of correspondence that attracts atten- j tion because of its originality. Such a one was read by Representative { Willlam A. Rodenberg of Illinols to his colleagues on the rules committee, causing congiderable merriment. This ¥as the letter: From “Carpet Alley,” New York city. * n.:: a lpeggr Armenian and, ‘llke my father and his father before him, I am a con- gclentious objector, and that is why I have no country today and why my people have been massacred by more virile people for some thousands of Ve Sing t ki “Owing to making carpets, we have ETOWN to feel we were just naturally meant to be walkad upon. And owing to _our holy antagonism to defend- ing ourselves and our women, our mothers and grandmothers have con- tributed every racial element known to history to our family tree—in fact we are aimost as mixed as the future population of America, north nd {south, give promise of becoming. That is what makes us such a desi able addition to future America—we are’ half assimilated already—and { though our skins, like our livers, and indeed our souls, are vellow, we feel the United States of America appre- ciates us since its churchmen are demanding our admissi. y s 5 on by the boat “In_your proposed bill T am s to see a numerical list and Indirect occupational barrier placed on the people of my race. I want to bring here my wife, my grandmother, my father, * seventeen children, twelve minor brothers and sisters, al! black- and-tan, but beautifully dressed in American clothes thoughtfully pro- provided for them. T hope to be able to support this group of relatives and near-relatives, but if not T know you noble people. whose tax- payers are already spending in some states of the northeast over 30 per cent of all money raised in taxes for the care and keep of foreign-born, will admit them to your almshouses, luna- tic asylums, jails and other public in- stitutions, so that they can be nearer e * ok % % ‘William Tyler Page, clerk of the House, & noted student and researcher along historical lines, has just found among the archives of the House the original “Wilmot proviso,” which he has ‘placed in the Congressional Library, under authority of law, to be part of the permanent files of the House of Representatives. This a rider on a bill winding up the Mexican war. It prohibits the exten- sion of the institution of slavery to newly acquired territories of ° the United States. * ¥ ¥ x ‘When Representative Nicholas J. Sinnott of Oregon, chalrman of the committee on public lands, went to the White House as chairman of a delegation urging the appointment of House Leader Mondell to be Sec- retary of the Interior, he said: “Mon- dell fs dean of our western delega- tion, having been in Congress twen- ty-six vears. The western member: have learned all that they know about the land laws from him. We have sat at his feet like Paul sat at the feet of Gamaliel.” The Presi- dent interrupted him with the com- *“You are getting close to home he didn’s appelst Mandall it {Philip Hill of Maryland thoaght 1t | the closing days of the Sixty-] BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. John D. Rockefeller, jr.’s, million- dollar tapestries—the finest that have ever crossed the Atlantic and which have been purchased from Count Gabriel de 1a Rochefoucauld—come from the grand old Castle of Ver- teull, which, situated on the River Charente, {s far more the ancestral home of the de la Rochefoucauld family than the Castle of Rochefou- cauld in the same department, and which is the seat of the Duke de la | Rochefoucauld and of his American wite, the former Miss Mattle Mitch- €ll of Portland, daughter of the late Senator Mitehell. For the Cha- teau of Verteuil is full of relics of this historical ducal and princely of the Duc de St. Simon. For he has written quite as sarcastically, as trenchantly and as fearlessly as he speaks. Indeed, there is no doubt that when the time comes to place his memoirs on the market his son and heir will be offered a hundred- fold more than he could expect to receive from any publishing house to withhold them from publication, owlng to the dread of those whoss pretensions and thefts of historic names, titles and heraldic frauds Almery de la Rochefoucauld has ex coriated. They would pay anj amount of money rather than be placed on lasting record in his pages As he is not very tall, he has some- times been described 4 pocket St. Simon” and as minfature Dangeau.” He is intolerant of mes alllances and is able to recall those which have taken place among the leading houses of the French nobility family, to which it has belonged for many centures. Anne Comtesse de la Rochefoucauld entertained there, with great splen- dor, Emperor Charles V, in 1539, and among others who have been the Euests of the de la Rochefoucaulds under this roof are Kings Francis I, Henry II, Henry III, Henry IV and Louis XIIT of France, as weil as King Antoine de Navarre, Queen Marie de Medici and Queen Anne of Austria. Of the treasures with which the castle is filled almost from cellar to garret In & superb portrait of the Grand Conde, which he presented to Francis, 8ixth Duke de la Rochefoucauld, who rg:lnstela at Vo;teull a oorps of 2,000 entlemen and kni; Ris service n wap s o Of France for * x % % Marguerite de Valois spent a con- siderable time at the Chateau de Ver- jteuil as the guest of that Count Francois de la Rochefoucauld, Prince | de Marsillac, who was killed in the sanguinary night of St. Bartholomew, and some notion of the antlquity ot the castle may be gathered from the fact that it figures in the pages of | the “Chronicles of Froissart” as one of the finest, strongest and oldest castles in Poitou. Strictly speaking, the castle its contents belong to the fatner of Count Gabriel de la Rochefoucauld, the octogenarfan Count Aimery de la Rochefoucauld, who up to the time of the great war bore, in addition to his other titles, thit of a Ba- varian prince. But, overtaken by the infirmitles of advanced age, his only son Gabriel is now in charge of the castle and of jts treasures and fully qualified to dispose of the latter as his own. Almery de la Rochefoucauld has been renowned in his day as the leading authority in France in all matters of ancestry, lineage, heraldry and etiquette. He has made a study of these and has been deferred to in this connection as the one man in France whose authority was un- questioned. Naturally he has been the terror of those who bear titles or heraldic devices to which they have no claim. For he is merciless in his denunciation of these piracles, for which there are no penalties in { France. save those of ridicule and contempt. * x % x It is known that he has devoted a considerable amount of his leisure end much care to the writing of the memoirs of his times, and those who for hundreds of years back. So kee: has he always been on this subject of pure blue blood. unadulterated by any| bourgeois strain, that it has been said of him that when he reaches thef gates of Paradise he would rather than accept admission at the hand of St. Peter, a mere fisherman, insts on waiting’ any length of time 1 order to be let in by a saint of mor illustrious birth, such as, for instance| St. Louls of France. * x ok ok Many of his views were shared b his very charming and gracious wife who up to the time of her death ifi 1913 was easily the leading membef: of the de la Rochefoucauld family. and the one to whom all of its mes bers, and, indeed, all the great worl of France, deferred. President of tHe ildren’s Protection Society ¢f nce, the salons of her great mas of the Rue de L'Universite were renowned as the most exclusive of the noble Faubours. It was the one housa from which the new rich and the foreign rasta quouere element was always Vigor- ously barred, and from which th Bonapartist aristocracy. such as the now pretentious Murats, ete., were xcluded, and_where the real old patriciate of France, titled and un titled, loved to foregather with for eigners of rank and birth equal fo their own. With all that, she was ex tremely kind, generous. gracious, as well as simple, and totally unaffected in her manner, retaining to the last traces of the famous blonde beauty of her younger davs. She belonged by birth to the great housc of de Mially-Nesle, the head of which, the Marquis de Mially-Nesle, ranks as the premier marquis of France. * ¥ k¥ K Among, her immediate an was the famous Marshal de Mially- Nesle who was-beheaded during the terror. It was he who, as he mount ed the scaffold in 1793 on what is now the Place de la Concorde in Paris, cried out proudly, “At fifteen 1 mounted the breach of the city walls of Keh! in the service of my king At elghty-five, T mount the scaf- fold in the gervice of my God.” The de la_Rochefoucauld family was founded In the tenth century by a younger son ¢f the famous Sire de Lusignan. His Christian name be ing Foucauld. d owning the castle of le Roche in th ironde, he styled it la Roche-Foucauld, from which his descendants have taken their name. His heir sixteen generations later, in the m t. was have been permitted to obtain a glimpse thereof declare that they surpass the famous “Reminiscences” Heard and Seen all mussed up by pesky robbers! Recently one of the contract postal stations In the District was robbed, {but owing to the hablt of the woman owner of the store in which the sta- tion was lodged, the robbers got no postal funds. This woman was in the habit of taking all the money and postage stamps home with her each night, as well as the receipts of her store, be- cause she had no safe or other place to leave them in the establishment. It perhaps should be explained that a “contract station” is merely a small ! post office branch located in a store, which the owner agrees to run on a contract basis. Well, when the oflicials at the city post office heard of the robbery of the store, but safety of postal funds and stamps, they interviewed the woman. “You must have a safe, by all means,” declared the officlals. “You not only need one for your own busi- ness, but you must have it to safe- guard Uncle Sam's money and stamps.” So the lady agreed to buy herself & safe. She got & nice, new one, really & fine affair, all enamel and gilt, with a shiny dial and all that sort of thing. “Now,” declared postal officlals, with a sigh of relief, when they glimpsed that brand-new safe. “No burglar can get In now, and you will be saved {the danger of taking all your own funds as well as postal moneys and stamps home each night.” Several nights later light-fingered gentry got into the store again. When postal inspectors hot-footed it to the establishment they found the new safe with its door wide open and not 2 single note, cofa or stamp in the safe. ' “Cleaned!” gasped the looking into the empty safe. didn't’leave a cent—took it all. Postal officials moaned. “How much did you leave in the safe’ they asked the woman pro- prietor. The latter smiled sweetly. “I didn’t leave anvthing,” she said. “What!” velled the postal inspect- ors. ou see, I was afraid the burglars would get in_ again,” explained the woman. “And I had read how they blow open_ safes. And my safe was so nice and shiny, T didn’t want them to hurt it when they blew it up.” 0 you—~" es, sir, I just took my money and stamps home with me each night, Just as I have always done, and left the door of the safe open a bit, so that if the burglars got in they would see it and not have to blow it all up,” ex- plained the woman. “It's such & pret- ty safe.” inspector, “They * * * Interesting things are always oc- curring on street cars. The other morning on a work-bound car people were standing in ranks like sardines, every seat filled, every strap grasped, every Inch of standing room occupled. And still the woman finsisted on getting in. She did, too, although how she ever managed It not even the conductor could tell. Down the aisle she pushed, bringing up at last by the side of a seat holding a man. The lady was smiling. But the man was not. “Madame.” he said. severely, “you are standing on my feet.” “I am sorry, sir,” she responded. «But there ‘s no place else to stand.” ‘Whereupon the man, amid the roar of the crowded car, got up and gave the lady her well .a:rnod séat - CHARLES She didn’t want her nice, new safe | noble of importance to be linvited to act as godfather to King | Francis T on the occasion of his christening. ‘Fifty Years Ago in The Star. Before the civil service rules, buscd on the apportionment of offices law were stricthy Washingtonians in ¢nforced Wash ingtonians ob the Departments. {peq s fair percentage of positions in the gov- ernment departments in this eity. Some of the spoilsmen objected, no tably Gen. B. F. Butler. To some of his observations The Star in its is- sue of February 25, 1873, rejoin; “Gen. Butler pays an unintentional compliment to the intelligency citizens of the Disirici of Columb'a when he asse most of the Vi in the departmenis These positione cancies occurrin |are ed by them, are filled by compet: participated in by | parts of the United es, an, X | citizens distance all other competitors |3t is certainly creditable not only to | themselves, but to the District. These |examinations are conducted withou: Ireference to states or territories and their object is to secure the best m, and women, morally and mentaliv. But we suspect the District is credit- ed with more than its share of clerks in the departments. There are hun- dreds of persons here from the states who are only temporary residents. but who, since they live here, write themselves as belonging to the Dis- trict of Columbia. Many of these re- tain homes in the states from which they have come and expect sooner or later to return to them. Such as these can hardly be set down as bona fide residents of the District and ought to be credited to the states where they belong. A few congressmen mayv oc- casionally attack the civil service re form to gratify the clamorous por tion of their constituents, but prot bly the majority are secretly rejofced at the interposition of a bar to the importunities of their office-seeXing friends.” The question of ‘the completion of the Washington Monument, which stood for many years Completion of in an unfinished con dition becausc of the Monument. .16 of funds from private sources. was agitated at this ( time fifty vears ago and final gress took up the mutter and vided for the assumption of the work by the United States. In The Star o February 26, 1872, is the following: “The select House committee thirteen on the Washington M ment, Gen. N. P. Chipman chair finding it impossible to get the floc this session, have addressed a letter to the committec on appropriations of the Senate, stating that the honor of the nation demands of Congress some_ald toward the completion of the Monument by the approaching centennial and asking that committes to report an amendmeft to the Sen- ate to the miscellaneous appropria- tion bill, appropriating $200.008 to be expended under the direction of the President of the United States, after having first caused an examination 13 be made of the foundation of tha Monument. The select committes are satisfied that with this aid the society could readily raise sufficient funds 1o complete the Monument. Thers is ho doubt that a large majority in both the Senute and House favor such an ppropriation, and we hope it ey pe-it may be It was not until later that the - ter was finally taken up ;mdm:;z through, but it was not then on the basis of an aiding appropriation, but with the government assuming the full burden of the cost. The examina- tion of the foundation. proved that extensive changes would have to be made to Insure @ perfect stability, any the old foundation was taken onf, bic¥ by bit, under-the direction of the lain Col. Thomas L. Casey (afterward.gen. eral and chief of eugincers of the Army), who replaced it with a much larger and stouter footing. Monument was' tompleted in -seaso: Hebruary 22, 1885, pro 1 ’