Evening Star Newspaper, March 11, 1923, Page 42

__ With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY. «..March 11, 1823 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 150 u St Bullding. London, England. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, is delisered by carsiers within the city &t 60 cents per month: daily only, 4 cents per month: Sunday only, 20 cents per month. Or- ders niay by sent by mail or telephoue Main 5000, Collection is made by carriers at the end of each month, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. and Sun 1mo, T0¢ All Other State: Daily and Sunduy.1yr., $10.0 D: only Sunday only. £3.00; 1o, Member of the Associated Press, The Associated Press is exclusively entitled tothe ‘ume. for repubiication of all news div patches credited to it or not otherwise credited 3 Whis Daper and ‘aiko ‘the local ews pu lished héretn. All rights of publication of apecial dispatches herein sre nlso reserved. Co-Operation in Reclassification. The announcement that the Person. nel Clas ion Board will follow tho intent of Congre rather than the wrrors that crept into the ¢ iflcation aw that tend to lower the salaries of the custodial service is reassuring. Its call for co-operation and assistance from the administrative otfice and its invitation of constructive sugges- tions in matters of procedure, not only from persons inside the government service, but from the public, are all avidences that the board is desirous of administering t law in a bread and liberal spirit, so that it will be at once ifair to the government and to the em- already Leen pointed out that act is firmly based the report of the joint congres. sional commission on reelassification., rds of that commission will tken over and used b is recalled that employed by the ¢ sion to secure the opinions of ployes was the organiz sentative comu s from the services or workers in a given profes- sion or in the government mmittees could easily d by the hoard and invited to submit recommendations that should represcnt their groups. Tentative al locations might also be submitted to such group committecs for their com. ments. No single step that the new hoard could take would do more to re- assure and give confidence than the adoption of a plan that would permit such participation in the work that 1y affects the livelihood of those participatin The Star also repeats its suggestions 1t the board secure expert advice from the outside, from the officers of the great national professional and scientific associations, from the expert personnel officers of great corporations and from the privately financed or- zanizations, national in scope, devoted to problems of personnel administra- tion. The use of some or all of such agencies might well be availed of, in order to do a job that will command confidence. Inasmuch as the Personnel Classifi- cation Board by its announcement and invitation is evidently wisely desirous of winning and holding the fullest public confidence, The Star would sug- gest @ further announcement that, if it can be truthfully made, would tend to create a feeling of security in the minds of the government workers. The first news of the board's plans after the act was signed seemed ta indicate that the allocations already made to the Bureau of Efliciency classification would be followed—that the fate of the government employes in Washington had already been fixed. The intent of the law is clear that heads of depart- ments shall allocate all positions to their appropriate grades in the com- nensation schedules, and that this shall o done in the case of the original -lassifying process. The law does true, direct the board to follow “as nearly as practicable” the classifica- tion made under the executive order of October 24, 1921, but this cannot be taken as meaning that the issue is al- ready closed. A specific announcement by the Personnel Classification Board that the case for the allocation of the smployes in the District is still open would be reassuring. — If the professor who recently wed most recalcitrant pupil teaches Shakespeare he has no doubt found new charm in those lines of “Love's Labor Lost” which run: “For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's € ———— A newspaper headline says “Both Governments Tire of Argument Over British Debt” Both publics are equally tired of the argument. ——————— Strangler Trees. Very often one species of things in nature seeks to oust another. This rivalry between species—this struggle for supremacy—ls observed in trees and smaller plants. One group seeks to get most food from the earth and to climb =o that it gets the lion's share, or the big tree’s share, of sun- shine and air even though it deprive another group of these lifo essentials. There are groups which will not live on terms of amity and good will with each other. They think, if they think at all, that the struggle for existence is too hard for friendship. It seems 0 be one of the laws of nature, but it seems to many men to be a law of {ll nature. Yet the fact stands. On the western slope of the hill on which the ruinous ditches, ramparts, traverses and embrasures of Fort de Russy lie in Rock Creek Park, a grove of cedars sprang up from the cleared land when the civil war was done. They grew to be fine trees and an out- standing, or an upstanding, feature of the landscape. They are now class- ed as old trees and have become fa- millar to thousands of persons who travel the Military and Daniel roads, for these splendid trees grow between the old fort and the Daniel road and in the northeast angle of that and the Military road. They are the red - cedar of the Potomac valley, & tree that gives as marked 2 touch to our birch to the north end the palm and palmetto to the south. They have been invaded and marked for exter- mination by strangler trees. Pines are growing tall and strong among them and threaten to dlspossess them of lands they have occupied for many years. These plnes have been de- seribed as white pines, but they are probably jack pines, common to cur region and of commercial importance mainly as firewood. They are no re- specters of the rights of other trees. They will grow where they list. Tt may seem cruel to thwart the natural ambition of the pines, but they ought not to be allowed to fileh the earth- food, air and sunlight from the cedars. The old cedars are the rightful pos- sessors of the land they live on, and the pines should be checked—perhaps they should be chopped. Save the Children. § Tho American Relief Administra- | tion, in an appeal signed by its ch mun, Herbert Hoover. asks financial support for the American Child Health Association, which is a reorganization of the American Child Hygiene Asso- ciation and the Child Health Organiza- tion of America consolidated with the Relief Administration. The important personnel of the latter organization, which during the last four vears has found the means of maintaining life in upward of 15,000,000 children in Eu- rope, thereby acquiring Invaluable ex- perience in the problems of child health, now proposes to devote that experience for the benetit of American childhood. It would Lo difficult to tmagine an undertaking more promi ing of beneficent results. How fmportant is the work to be un- dertaken is attested by the fact that whereas physicians report that over 80 per cent of all children in America are born normal, less than 20 per cent reach maturity in normal physical health. The necessity of the work nation-wide, but it is more particularly pressing fn backward sections and in the industrial centers of the country. “The matter is one of national im- portance and of urgent character,” s Mr. Hoover. “Much constructive work has been done by public agencies and by voluntary agencics in endeavor- ing to develop the proper care of nor- mel children as distinguished from those who have falien by the w and require medical treatm the fleld in many sections country is as yet untouched.” The generosity with which the American people responded to appesls to save the children in war-torn and famine-stricken Europe amazed the world and won its admiration. and the many millions of dollars which they gave it never has been charged that a dollar was spent unwisely or I dishon Now appeal is made by same agency for contributions to do a vitally needed work for Ameri- can children, and contidence is spired by assurance that the ‘money will be expended under the same ef- ficient auspices. The American peo- pie could make no better investment than to turn over to Mr. Hoover and those associated with him in this great undertaking all the funds required to carry out their comrrehensive pians. s of our tly. in- Arlington City. The bill to incorpora: Arlingtor county as the City of Arlington is be- fore the Virginia legislature. So far the plan for giving a city form of gov- ernment to the people of Clarendon, Cherrydale, Ballston and scores of set- tlements in the new county has moved fast. It is indicated that obstacles will be encountered in the legislature, yet it would seem that the points made in opposition to the plan to grant a city charter to the county are satisfac- torily answered by the incorporation committee of the Arlington County Civic Federation, which is the organ- ized force behind the city government plan. It is reported from Richmond that one point raised by those who do not favor the bill is that the change from county to city might deprive the peo- ple in that territory of a representa- tive in the legislature. The advocates of the plan answer that the bill pro- vides that the legislative districts shall remain the same, and that Arlington City would have the same representa- tion in the legislature as it has as & county. It is also set forth in oppost- tion to the change that it might be contrary to the desire of a majority of the people of the county. The bill provides that the will of the majority shall be ascertained. It contains a pro- wvision that the charter of the city shall not become effective until approved by a majority of the people who aro to live under it. The advocates of the change from county to city govern- ment seem to have been thoroughly over the ground, to understand their case and to be famillar with all the points to be made against it. This is natural, for the whole case has been under discussion throughout Arling- ton county for several months, and it 1is probable that no point for or against the change has been overlooked. It may be that the bill will not get through the legislature at its present session, but the city advocates in Ar- lington county promise to keep the question at the front until it is settled, and they say that it will never be set- ted until it is settled right, and their idea of right is that Arlington county shall become the City of Arlington. Senator Capper® says that agricul- ture is now on its way to permanent prosperity. Let us hope it will not insist on traveling alone. Examinations now induce high school boys to burn school buildings instead of midnight oil, The Cardinal. Among the advance notes of spring is that of the cardinal, and his loud, clear whistle and varied song may be heard not only in some of the parks and suburbs, but in old settled sections of the city. Not as numerous as birds of many other specles, he is conspicu- ous because of his plumage and voice. Because of the protection that the law has thrown about him and the greater popular appreclation of birds &is num- bers are increasing. A few years ago the cardinal had become rare. The bird cannot now be classed as com- mon, but it is permissible to set it down that it iz “frequent.” The car. HE SUNDAY THE EVENING ST AR’:L'Indlmpe as the fir, spruce and white | dinal is an all-theyear resident with | us, and members of the family are at home summer and winter from the gulf states to states considerabiy north of the Distriet. Just at this timo of year, even though it is the month of March, the cardinal is in excellent volce and his feathers are very bright, His mate, to whom he is now singing his best songs, dresses in much quleter toncs than he. Being a permanent resident, the cardinal has never been entered in the harbinger class, but when he beging to sing he tells it to the world that his winier rest is over and that the time of leaves and flowers is near. ———— Colorado’s Laureate. The woman poct laurcate the poctess laureate of Colorado comes in for'a measure of good-humored rail- ‘lery in the eastern press. Little is known of her poetry in the east, and perhaps some eastern writers are so deeply or narrowly eastern that they find it hard to believe that any good poetry can come out of the west, or t auy poetry can be good of which they have not heard. Then the whole idea of a poet laurcate—an of- ficial poet spointment from a king, governor or e strikes many persons on the funt Pocts are thought of as inspivational creatures dwelling in a higher atmosphere, and who should hold themselves above the acceptance of questionable favors from mere kings or politiclans. The laureate of Colorado sy of her appointment with good sense, and ma ch an oftice as official poet appear as justifiable as many other public oflic S that the de- tails of the office remain to be worked cut. Visiting the home of the Denver Art A she found the works of western as well as other painters and musiclans much in evidence, but no Lookshelf of Colorado writers. She will immediately 1 @ collection of the writings—pro poetry—of Colorado authors While every e cannot hope to have a list of authors comparable to those of M chusetts and Indiana, it might be well for cvery stata to hold in memory dear the written works of its sons and daughters. The laurcate says that in Colorado they do mnot write poems upon inaugural ceeasfons nor make them upon executive or s official poet she aspiring writers to com- to with her, and she says, “I e time to answer every letter from would-be writers, furnishing my own postage, directing them if the work is had and helping them to over- come defects. If the work is good it will be my great pleasure to give it encouragement and help it to find recognition. I hope that definite program of helpfulness may open up or ure ¢ bone. e srado is like other states the 1y will have some job in handling all the “would-be writers™ who apply for advice and other aid. She will prob- ably be busier than many other public The German prince who was ar- rested Ly the French for carrying a pair of brass knuckles supplies addl- tional evidence of the futility of the “nailed fist” policy. ————————— President Harding's zest for golf is reported to have carried him into the Florida jungles. Was it a hook or a slice, Mr. President? —————————— The league of nations had better look out. Senator Hiram Johnson is on his way to Europe. ————————— Poincare will talk only to Germany, but he will talk Turkey. i SHOOTING STARS. H Never Mind. When I useter stub my toe In the rocky road, Mother, she could soothe my woe: She’s the one that knowed How to banish my dismay With a word so kind. It stopped hurtin’ when “Sonny, never mind. she'd say: Arnicky, an’ lint an’ things Couldn’t stop the pain, But her gentle voice that rings Often an’ again In my dreamin’, had & charm Strong, though undefined. Jes’ them words ud help the harm— “Sonny, never mind.” If she only could be near ‘When I stumbled now, Maybe I could persevere ‘With a placid brow— If she jes’ could pat my heud As when she would bind Every boyish aurt, an’ said: “Sonny, never mind.” Unreality. Oh, an imitation dollar very often passes fine. And they give us imitations in our foodstuffs when we dine. An imitation beauty wins an imitation sigh. . You meet all kinds, except, perhaps, an imitation lie. There is imitation laughter that con- ceals a bitter sneer, And imitation pathos brings an imita- tlon tear; And certain somber cynics sometimes tell us that they saw An imitation justice with an imitation law. Ofttimes when you ere gloomy and you look into the stars,, And hear the wise ones hinting that there may be men in Mars, You wonder where the planet is, of simple, honest worth, That furnishes the pattern for this imitation earth. Consideration of Solace. The girl who loves to giggle Irritates the passer-by, But she's infinitely better Than the girl who loves to cry. The man who loves to flatter Oft may play a scurvy trick, But he's infinitely better Than the man who loves to kick. And so, throughout existence, This comfort we may nurse. There’s nothing so unpleasant But that it might be worse, *| Guards, STAR, \\'Asumu'r(‘m, D. C, MARCH 11, 1923—PART Holds Only World Peace Hope Lies in a League of Peoples BY THOMAS R. MARSIHALL ‘e President of the nited States. HO doubts that we would bos better off If we had less forment and more cement in the bullding of our na- tional life? [ have boen watching those who have heen most strenuous to avoid entangling alllances with the peoples of the old world. 1 hope I do | them 1o tnjustico when 1 say they are a free in their advice as to what should bo done in Kurope as those versons who think we should b over there helping to do it. [ never had any desire that the United States per- manently remain at Geneva. Put I did desire that we go there and r main until the ferment of the war had disappeared und the cement of good will had settled. It is usually those Christians having uo interest in for- elgn missions who take the ast in- terest in home miss; - To talk about the neutrality of the rican people is just to talk. ws we discuss the affairs of rope we are not neutral. We vest no woney and furnish no u- nition, but we are unc sciously tak- ing a hand. W ve not yet reach- od that high degree of idealism which would enable us to say that we are willing 1o submit the vital honor of the Amcrican people to the deter- mination of some tribunal. None of the great nations of the world has reached it. 1 doubt ‘the existence of 1 international o, realm of bauking. term offensively; I mean, for inst the kind of a mind which bel s that the bLest Amerlcan is one who would be willing to Luve his country rebuked when lis country is In the wrong; who w el even an un just decis t Bis count abido under cnominity of jt ra- ther than to shed his fellow country- men's blood for cash in hand or ther- ter to be paid. But we have no suel 8. ireat Brit- willings the smaller hey are not v banners A mi save in the 1 do not use this o, still perches heavy battal mind which ernational it to cultivato a natlonal thing we do not now possess. | 1 thought the wur w the last drop of Blood o of the Amer with t th ary suld drain Loof th people and fill them or of the gods, pulsating and ¢ t to aid in service, It no such going on out of t ancestry TR ope W ble b man B ine times | to fix the! who expresses of nations de good in restraining some of the little fellows, but it will only | accomplish its perfect: work when it{ ceases to be an organization of the IS eone s mEi e RElHi REte ola | {nopes, fears and ambitions. 1f it could become a league of peoples in- stead of rem: a leagun of the who s the destinies of | those people soon {t meet with the approval of m 1f there were only some way to have | It representative of the soul of the world rather than the budget of thel of the the le | BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Viscount Windsor's transfer to the | house of lords, through tho death of is father, the Larl of Plymoutn ctfll further increases the difficul { ties by which the Bonar Law admin- ! ictration is confronted. For he has {poen representing Ludlow in the i house of commons on tha consarva- tive platform, and there i every rea- son to apprehend that in the con- | test which will now take place for { hig seat it will be won by cne of the liberal or labor ocppoments of the { cabinet. ) " The mew Countess of Plvmouth. ¢ pretty woman, has on sScv o Yelona been In America, when her Prother, the Hon. Hugo Charteris, who fell in battle in Franee in 1816, | Was attached to the British embassy | {at Washington. She has imherited {fiuch of the charm aud comeliness iof her mother, now Countess ot | Wemyss, tiie one-time Mary Wynd- ham, whose features are o familiar to the public on both sides of the { Atiantlc, through one of John §. Sar- gent's masterpleces, the painting in fhestion representing her two 'sis- fors, Mrs. Charles Adeane and Lady Groy of Falloden. The picture was he teature of ome of the Royal ! tademy exhibitions a quarter of a century ago, whers it was designuted 1y King Edward, then Princa of { ! 1Wales, in his speech _at the Roy 1) Moademy, a# “The Thres Graces Lady Wemyss' hand was at one time | Smight by Earl Dalfour. Tt is stated That he never got over tho heart- break when she accorded her hand instead to Lord Wemyss, and it 1s on this account that he'is said to bave remained single until today, always retaining for her a romantic and chivalrous affection. * ok %k When her daughter Irene married the then Viscount Windsor a couple of years ago she was by reason of her eunny character popularly de- soribed as one of the “Merry Wives of Windsor.” As the union has thus far remainkd without issue, it looks very much ay if the earldom of Plymouth, which i of recent crea- n, were destined to become extinct, e tho " barony _of Windsor (though not_ the viscounty of that {lk), which dates from the reign of King Henry VIII, will go, on the death of Lord Plymouth, to his dis- tant cousin, Col. George Windsor- Clive, C. M. G., of the Coldstream since it is ome of those eerages which descend through the Pemale as well as through the male line. There is no prospect, there- fore, of the patronymio of Windsor, now held by the family of Lord Plymouth, becoming extinct, as the celonel has several children. This is of some importance to the reigning house of Great Britain, since in 1915 King George adopted the name of “Windsor” for his dynasty, in order to disassoctate it for all time from the German houses of Hanover, Brunswick and Saxe-Coburg, to which it had belonged. * % K X Lord Plymouth's family name of Windsor, on the other hand, was fn- herited from an ancestor, & Norman Knight, Walter Fitz Otho, appointed by his cousin, Willlam the Conqueror, to the office of castellan of Windsor Castle and of the royal forests of Berkshire. Fitz Otho's father, a mem- ber of the historio Florehtine clan of Gherardini, from whom the Fitzger- ald dukes of Leinster are likewise de- soonded, came to- England from Nor- mandy in the reign A! King Edv'lfl i v | {he compelled | that monarch ‘with so man 1world, how speedily might arms and armament be reduced! Tho league 18 doing good in fixing a limitation to the popularly con- ceived notion that there is & right of welf-determination inherent in man. It is to be hoped that its moral Influence, which, regrettably, is the only one it can use, will as- uago national pride and the doc- trine of relf-determination in the minds of the peopls of small Euro- pean nations. * ok k¥ More than sixty vears ago we wit nessed the most desperate effort of all history in defense of the doctrine of self-determina The beauty and the chivalry of the south re- olved to maintaln the institution of avery at any cost und to destroy the American Union regardless of consequences. And, in the north, be- lievers In this same doctrine of self- determination boldly advocated let- tng the erring sisters go in peace. But there were those who said the doetrine was being carried too far and for four years brother shot at brother to settle the question, and it was settled w the doctrine of self-determinatior . In o milder form th ine has bobbed np again. It is in the minds it is the consensus of ; it is the undoubted view 1 states. Now it is clf-determination as to Whit svstem of government we will “nd willing obedience to. as to wkat laws we will obey and what laws we will evade is the swme doct .hw carried to a farcical and, T pray God, not to a & * op But whether in free ica or In the countries of the old world, the prop difference what may their views to rights, would forego most of the in the in- terests of peace if it were mot for adership. As the hart panteth for brook, £o the souls of men cvery- re long for peace. ¢ive the peo- chance to say whether there slall be peace or war, and we shall have eliminated almost every danger of eonflic We shall not have peac nor permanent hope of pears £o long as men in authority are astuated by belief that their first duty is to maintain the integrity of their own country, their second duty is to ob- tain every political and economic ad- vantage possible, and their third duts is to talk, if any remains, about peace and gond will among men, Fret- & held in awe erpow e majesty ‘governments. but a fr exist until the by t larger feeling will ne fellow i§ conv he is governed is the law gov- ederick the Great made t upon Silesia has n avowed its intention r of aggression. . ships for de- 1s. , men —defense again at the time knows, but £oor the target is found, the ene covered. The expense which was gladly met for defense used for offens While the pr svstem continues there is n other to be done. It is vain to train our bovs 10 be too proud to fight, for they n to fight ars and their fl made the agg signing politicians soul of the world. xeam by the last conflict, is wh not’ the people take the world and to pro- i« until a future gen- cration de. another war? (Cuprright, 1923, by Thomas I, Mar<hall.) |Viscount Windsor’s Transfer to Lords Adds to Difficulties of Bonar Law riched by valuable estates, in the pos on of which he 1s confirmed by his kinsman, Wil- iam the Conqueror, recorded in Doomsday Book, as to excite the bit- jealousy of the Anglo-Saxon His son Walter, who lived the Confessor, was 110 a great old age, and who was kept on as castellan of Windsor Castle by King Menry I, and by his daughte Empress Maud, assumed the destgna- tion of “De Windsor” by virtue of his co, and it has ever since remained, the patronymic of his descendants. The late Earl of Plymouth inherite mother, who Was a pecress in her own right, and married the Ifon. Robert Henry Clive, youngest son of the sec- ond Jarl of Powis and grandson of {by death from jduring the last year, and they have {been replaced b ithe doorkeeper of the House to re- alpr the Windsor barony from his grand- | the great Tord Clive, the victor of the battle of Plassey, fought in 1757, and which established British dominion in India. It is because of their descent from this founder of England's vast em- pire of Hindustan that lord Ply- mouth bears the name of Clive in conjunction with that of Windsor. * K ok Young Lord Plymouth, who dis- tinguished himself as an officer of cavalry in France and in the Holy Land during the war, inherits great wealth. For his father was enor- mously rich, the entailed estates alone embracing some 80,000 acres in Shropshire, in Worcestershire and es- pecially in the county of Glamorgan, where much of it is in the form of dock property, slate and marble quarries and valuable coal mines. The late earl was one of those peers who believed that the possession of riches involved public responsibili- ties, and he was very charitable, generous and public-spirited. Thus a few years ago, when the popular subscription _organized to preserve the Crystal Palace and its extensive gardens at Sydenham, on the outskirts of London, from the hands of the wrecker proved a failure, he supplied out of his own pocket the million dollars needed for the purpose. Ho felt that the Immense glass palace, familiar to every visitor to London from these shores and originally built in 1851 for the first of those great international ~exhibitions that have been followed by so many others in all parts of the world, should not be permitted to disappear, but ghould be maintained with it spacious grounds, its lakes and its fountains, for the use of the overcrowded population of the metropolis. * x ¥ * The late earl likewise showed sim- ilar public spirit in Wales, where he presented parks and public institu- tions to the various towns identified ‘with his estates, among them the an- clent city of Cardiff. These estates in Wales, which have turned out so very profitable, came to his family through Henry VAIL who gave them to his ancestor in ex- change for his surrender of the an- cient lordship of the manor of Wind- sor. Young Lord and Lady Plymouth, like his parents, stand high in the regard and favor of the royal family, For Queen Alexandra could never forget that it was the mow widowed Lady Plymouth's father and mother, the late Sir Augustus and Walpurga Lady Paget, who brought about her marriage with Edward VII in 1863. ‘Walpurga Lady Paget, nee Countess of Hohenthal, still survives. Her hus. band, Sir Augustus, died as ambassa- dor at Rome, and both of them figure prominently and in a pleasing fash- ijop in several of the novels of “Ouida,” under transparent pseu- donymns, in token of her gratitude for the many kindnesses which she had recelved at their hands, P Capital Sidelights BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Mrs. John A. Logan, recently de- ceased, lovingly known here as “The Grand Old Lady of the Civil War," and who has been a leading spirit in charitable and social service activities for many years, won a notuble victory on her deathbed, as she neared her elghty-fifth birthday anniversary. In- cldentally, Representative Edward King of Illinols clinched his reputa- tion for rescuing statutes beloved by the people for their historic gssoclu- tion from the depredations of self- styled art critles and esthetic enthu- siasts, Representative Kin a three- year contest, finally succeeded in hav- ing the statue of Lincoln « d by the people of Washington restored to its pedestal in front of the courthousa after the federal beauty doctors had removed it as “unsight This Lin- coln statue had the distinction of having been the only one of the mar- tyred President carved by an artist who knew him. So, when Mrs. Logan received word from the South Park comn Chicago that they proposed to remove St. Gaudens’ famous cquestrian statue of her husband, noted soldier and statesman, who was the origin: tor of Memorial day, from the Chi Jake front, she appealed to Rep- atative King to help her maie her dying fight. 2 Tho reason ascribed for th posed removal was that this pa forded a gathering place for soc istic and archistic soap-box orators and their following. In the base of that statue a tomb was provided for tho remains of both Gen. and Mrs. Logan. Mrs. Logan first made her protest personally to John Barten Payne president of the Chicago park bourd, which was fathering the change; to Gov. Small and Mayor Thompson, and assed by |1 », which this statue f its kind in th the state tQ one of its foremost civil war heroes,” di pproving of any change or alteration in the statue. in il a bu tr tic m ta ac co as pe 1o in of kn an er to i W, th th pl th, tepresentative Frederick Lehlbach of Newark, N. J., on the day Congress adjourned, told this of a cobbler in his home town: This shoemaker trade, was living contentedly and in falrly comfortable circumstance when out of a clear sky one day fortuno of some $50,000 was Jeft to him. He promptly locked up his shop, bought himeelf some “glad rags” and bundie of railroad and steams ets i started out to sea the bright lights and tra ong the glud way. A coupie of s luter he woke up one cold winter morning to find his fortune had flow Then he hurried back to Newark and opened up his old cobbler's shoD. put on his leather apron and resumed the wor f carning his bread by the | sweat of his brow. So he stuck to his last for scveral years, ain came | 5 an tmportant looking missive, which | e ormed him that he had been left} another estate, even larger t one he had squandered. threw aside the shoe on which b working and impaled his awl in th opposite wall, As he store off his apron he swo have 1 got ough r again® mi Tl pro h 1 at a ha de re. 0 S0 on do te at t 0 cation bill thr. o1 legislatio The House has an intcresting inst tution known as “the soldiers’ roll” which carfles the names of fourteen o0ld soldiers who are on the pay rollas doorkeepers. Four names were wip, the “soldlers’ roll” 1k ee v four other veterans. This soldiers’ roll had its genesis « resolution offered fifty-four years ago by Gen. Logan, which directed in =P tain in service during the vacation of Congress all crippled soldiers then in his emplos, and that they e per-| mitted to return to their homes dur- & the vacation without 10oss of pay. It became the practice to provide for the fourteen such positions in like manner_until the ourth Con- gress, when an act was “n appropriation of $10,000 “to pay fourteen crippled and_disabled sol- diers” from December &, 1875, to June | 0, 18 At the same session an opriation bill for the fiscal yvear ending June 30, 1877, provided that the “fourteen messengers on the sol- diers' roll shall it ha or th w ceding $1,200 each.” made annual instead of ses- not ex: roll sional. In the Forty-fifth Congress a pro- viso was added requiring that “said |ofl messengers xerved in _the Union| Army Then was added the following substantive [ou provision: “And hereafter messen- gers on the soldiers’ roll shall not ba subject to removal except for cause reported and approved by the House.” | Slowiy. Since that time thero has been no|You in order to send a copy of the |advoc change in the law. let Junket, ac harsh words, indecd, It is a pity means muketh the wise legislato not to be, u among the members to see only the tery on its hi time ago Re Goft, T sione. rise a few day find that Representatives Tom. letters and holding their ches: Tntil continue to regale itself with anec- | dotes about this inimitable character, | typical of the great middle west fr Liberal Funds which he sprang. Postal officials tell the following story of Joseph G. Then there kicked about this. that or the other ' No matter what it lems. e employed during | take the current vear at a compensation | Office T Thus the | cerned. Pretty «oon the Post Office Depart- ment begin to be from Representativ in the Forty-eighth}of letters, T'nclo Joe.” Congress to the appropriation {item |takes a lot MEN AND AFFAIRS BY ROBERT T. SMALI. OME flew east, some flew west, and some flew over the cuckoo’s nest. They have gone, onr sen- ators and’ representatives. and the land at large th of | unket” has been ralsed. Every time congressionul party goes away on isiness, official or otherwise, the 1p immediately becomes a junket. ording to t ally means “a feast of convivial enter- inment, a plenic.” And a junketeer. cording fo the dictionaries, urse, one who junkets, These are 1 to apply raworking representatives They are <o lc @ rule as to lead the public to the nctusion that il trips | Wiste th puk conclusion, however, truth, that more ery stod maries, lite: errymaking, « the b nators arn of . Such - from th are not_provided 2 TImit its members to se c ry | r which they make th policies or There are entirely too many me Congress who have not been wi the Mississippi river. What do the now of the real needs of the g d growing w rn_empire? W N Twen are coming more and more the front in Congress for the sim- & reason that in order to reach achington they have to travel all e way ‘ross the country. Travel e s s and he meets peo- | e who omething to say. Fast- | senators and representatives 1y boast at times that they hav er been w » it is in the w at the problems of governm ings as he i tuday. It §s not so long ago that afjov.q he hud and had Yet this me< with manager of the | der of the Senate : Congresg 18 not, or at least o place for the narrow- nded or the narrow-visioned man. { \cre 19 too much of @ tenden: i oblems of thelr own States, their districts, their own communi- Congress necds to trav ere is no better investme © rd pald taxes tho to giv ors " and represeitatives a ruing by boat and ra x n . and our n son- shington h great mys- 3 which now at last 3 been happily solved. Some little resentative Frauk Mon- republican leader of the House, ceived a let Guy 1 assistar general s follows 1 be to send ) autograpl your pho- | graph? My s g | and” purpos nal regard for you wil i my most” cherished T shall add it with a genuine pleasure to the colicction | creat men 1 ha s Naturally the fio minant party fe red by thesa elo great expense re to Col. Goff. “Would y o of somewhat nt words nt a splendid pie- Tmagine his sur- later. however, to | Dick ntical some d Harry were displaving ic Heard and Seen | “Uncle Joe” has gone aws e Bonnis Prince Chariie, n come back again he does, Washington ¥, but he w will Cannon, one time | eaker of the House of Representa- | tives, all timo real American. Maybe 'gros has been told before, It makes no difference. | At ome [ House 1 time in his career in the Y & “I'ncle Joe” had a rd time with the people who tho other village in his district. were the folk who ing in connection with the d ir mail. Sometimes it was ory of lotters, or a letter lest, or Tive as, they alw cle Joo” w The latter, of course, matter up with the Post tment to appease all con- ent to 'L th ra ooded with letters Cannon. A high 1 took it up with him. writing us an awfal lot he said. “It| ne and 2 lot of n't there something you | i “You are rs. Now can do about it?” i “Uncle Joo” scratched his head. | “T don’t see as there is,” he rapliad, | “I have to take it up with | ter and show them that I am on This roll. as originally, has always | the job.” remained under the control of the doorkeeper, who has exerclsed the authority to make appointments to fill vacancies only, the power of re- moval belng with the House. troversy arose carly in the history of the soldiers’ roll as to which po- litical party was entitled to credit for its establishment. The facts ap- pear to be that Gen. Logan initlated the movement, and the proposition was later broadened through acqui. escence_of members of both parties, Both Gen. Garfleld (republican) and Representative Holman (democrat). respectively, claimed credit for the movement. The fourteen Unlon veterans mow on the “soldiers’ roll,” each of has u_distinguished war record, are Burr Maxwell. James H. Shouse, Da. | ° vid Beattie, Henry R. Thorpe, M. §. | t© Amos, Thomas H. McKee, Elnathan | pet Mead, Joseph Cassiday, Aaron Ii Frear, 3. 1. Richmond, Jamen Lina. an, Henry T. Duryea, L. B. Cousine and’ W. C. Allen, 2 cousius * ok kK 2 H Some people have been amazed re- no: an: ba. bes on cently by the discovery that some|humanity as they are, senators and representatives & their price”- “have —that when they are| in, asked to make speeches before some | worst, downward. organization paid for it. they expect to be That's all quite true and has been the practice for many |one car one morning last week, only one ker-chood into his handkerc! years. Thére are two reasons for it: (1) Self-defense, because prominent 1 members of Congress and men public life generally aro so besieged | th with calls upon them to make al 'h hy speeches here, there and everywhere | are, it is no wonder Washington Is that they could not possibly find|su time to do it. If they accept some | S and refuse others it causes hard feelings, and so they resorted to *a price”; (2) self-support, cannot support homes in their dis- tricts and in the National Capital and meet all demands upon their finances from their salaries of 37,600 & year, tor of so that they have found that by set”| tle Johnny or Mary do not hear what they say are better able to make both ends!in man: on the floor ting a price on their speeches thew meet. Vice President Marshall, Champ Clark, Senator-elect 8. D. Fess and many’ others of note in Congress have engaged in the practice. But this should be borne in mind—when | g1 these men consent to make an ad- dress for pay they generally have a|s: strict understanding that it will be at 8 time and place which will not/| th interfers with their legislative duties. or! ‘When you get a letter from m. ‘Joseph G. I mean that letter, so give it your| best attention.” At least 60 per cent of the people riding on street cars seem to ha suf. whom | fering with some form of cold or Certainly an unusually large num- And, many of them nothing af mauke in| her head and sneezing directly Into The cult of the optimistic must be because they | ;a¢her puzzling to the children. done entirely unconsclously part. Hb smiled. “But I will tell You what T'll do. from w on, signed ‘G. F. Cannon,’ why - {Just throw it into the waste-paper| A Lon- | baeket. & wrote it to be writing, ro don’t puy Youw'll know that I just| y attention to it ‘But if you receive @ letter signed Cannon,” vyou will know | \,nd they worked it sie, out on that - ugh these days. One is Inclined place it at 80 or 90 per cent, but rhaps that would be excessive. r of people display signs of colds. seem to think all of coughing into some- «_else’s face. With the street cars packed with every morn- every one should | sneezing or cough- | ndkerchief, or, at tho | But' do they do it? i They do not! Out of ten persons who sucezed on | g and evening, a practice o & into a ha 1. he others sneezed boldly forth over eir neighbors, one woman turning e face of a man sitting next her. 1f most colds are caused by germs, there seems every evidence the ffering from a sort of epidemid of 1ds, grip and influenza. * Their young ears take in an as- nishingly large amount of this sort thing. Parents who think that lit- are very much mistaken, ¥ instances. A child playing with his toys is the iginal eavesdropper, although it is on his | A lady called upon a little sick Tl “How are you?" the visitor asked, ‘mpathetically. “Oh, I'm all right,” briskly smiled e child. “I'm just.sick, that's all” CHARLES B. TRACEWELL. !spirit toward the District slow | ¢ i their prob- || had to |y two inches higher than normal. tors had gotten the lette nd_even cabinet members. What was the assistant attorne general up to, any Somo_ona Fuggested he waw sce w mort of linated rogues' galle Others erred that the colone o political fat to fry Eood fire in ac t may, it Col. wornd “niug it n direc LA ¢ granl in al = 1ad s build > that greed tha and v of 1} wore PLotos with many other w hotel in Clark restaurant of tie new decorations make a frieze £ ] with the autogr: idea from The adjourn i fts first I in eight vear Withi adjournme: two of porters tiv Fred Ir Jife by as they are no death.” memt and Fre nationally k tenography Few por cles of ¢ ness of the House pe ourned | @ Ereat ma partic master gressional Record. The looking forw jon in %o lon a period, hes 1 deaths was o plety elegance. R a we ns, but it js ms to greatest adventag i appeared as witness again the young man charged with the th of his automobile should b it was t of sartor derful dres: in the spring last summer. t the uipage wh the of the mint is using purple creation is ar-maker Every timo Kas 3 the porte cocl at Wardm ake a last lin the chauffeur drives ing with color Ray will affect violent ti son In all of t Fifty ook at it hefo In keen of the ts this s Years Ago in The Star. Congress showed « mor s U government than it of for District. Star of March 3. 157 menting upon the . e appropriations muc )y today for District improvem:: amount to the liberal sum of n two and a quarter millions of do ‘We congratulate our citizens gener ally on this auspicious result. It fully wanted to be postmaster of this, that [€Stablishes the principle general government shall be proportion of th vashington wh nEress s most « e future o s been the o since the trict government tosk control, it the commencement of the 1 t shall result in making Was ton fully worthy of the nation, @nid entitled to rank among the first cap: tals of the world. The people o Washington will hold in deserved re sard the encrgetic, public-spirited men who lahored so sturdily and ur Uringly to secure this aect of justics to_the District from Congress, will allot & proper measure of od to the marplots and miscreants who. in & spirit of revenge and to carry o their own selfish purposes, ha sought to defeat these appropriations and blacken the characters of all who ated them.” Washington was “all second inauguration of for Tresident rt and had rade claborate preparations. The Star of March 1873, thus speaks of the matter: “The re-inunguration of President Grant tomorrow will be accompanied DY the most interesting ccremonies pageants ever witnessed in con- ction with an affair of this Lin ho attendance will he larger. isplays vastly more Drilliant than ever before ant has had n the pres adop m Ready for the Inauguration. dential chair. the Constitut there twenty-one presidential te enteen men have served them out ‘ashington, Jefferson, Madison. Mo roc and Jackson h filled terms, amd. with the exception Washington, all of them lived s after they had.ret The only ex-Presi now living are Mr. Fillmore a Johnson. ~No President has ser L second term since Jackson the o was one of the cold ever Kuown in Washington 50 cold as to become Bitter Cold radition. The im mense crowd gath on March 4. cred here to witness the ceremonies and displays suffered keenly and some of the people lost their lives in consequence of the ex- posure to the weather, notably some o the West Point cadets, who marched and drilled despite the bitter air, The Star of March §, 1873, speaks highly of the management of the a all, which was held in a building_ erected ‘in Ju oblem of varming su a It one. The S What was demonstrated last nigh® s the necessity for having in shington a permanent building h a hall of proper dimensions ble of being well warmed in vere weather. The amount that been spent in Washington for these temporary wooden structures for i1 auguration balls _would _have bu! a magnificent edifice stone brick, with spaclous supper rooms etc., and every possible conveni - and also enough rooms for basiness purposes to bring a handsome. =tendy income in the w of rentat W, pa s of j