Evening Star Newspaper, March 14, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, With Sundsy Morning Edition, T WASHINGTON, D, C. WEDNESUAY; . . .March 14, 1023 THEODORE W. NOYES.......Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th 8t. and Pennaylvania Ave. New York Office’ 150 Nassau Bt. Chicago Office: Tower Bullding. Ruropeas Ofbce: 18 Regeat 81 London, Eaglaad. The Evenlag Star, with the Sunday morniag ydition, {a dellvered by carriers within the eity 21,60 cents per month; daily only, 45 cents month: Sunday only, 20 cents per month. ders may be sent by mall, or telephone Main 5000 liection {s made by earriers at the ead of each month. - Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dally and Sunday..1 yr., $8.40; 1 mo,, 700 Dally only. 1 yr., $8.00; 1 mo., 60¢ Sunday only. 1yr., $2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ All Other States. . Dajly and Sunday..1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 85¢ Daily Onty.so-rors.1 yr, $7.00: 1mo., 800 Sunday oniy. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press s exclusively entitled | te the use for republication of all news dls- patches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local mews pub- Iished “herein. All rights of publication et ecial dispatches hereln are also resecved. e ————e—— America at Work. In his specch last night before the Republican State Voters' Association Tostmaster General New reviewed the ®chievements of two vears under the Harding administration, and the sum- mary is one calcuiated to cause gen- eral pride and gratification, regardless of where the political credit may fall. Mr. New spoke as a member of the administration and an active party leader and, naturally, he did not mini- wmize the part played by a republican Tresident and a republican Congress, Lut being a fair-minded man he did not overemphasize their role. He gave due recognition to the fact that in America the will to work has not been iost, and that it is through work that these splendid achievements have Leen brought about. It would be difficult to find in eco- nomic histery a more striking instance of rapid recovery from extreme indus- trial depression. Less than two years ago there were between 5.000,000 and 6.000,000 unemployed workers in the United States. Today that vast army of enforced idleness has been disband- ed, and there is & .demand for labor which cannot be supplied. Not only is there employment for practically all who want to work, but it is employ- ment at a wage which assures not only maintenance byt betterment in the American standard of living. With carpenters and bricklayers earning as high as $12 a day, and other workers in proportion, there is being built up a iremendous volume of purchasing power which will keep the wheels of factories turning and restore optimism fo the farmer and get him again in mood and in circumstance to buy. There is an old saying that e man cannot pull himself up by his own boot etraps, but that seemingly is what the United States has done in an industrial way. Only a minor part of the credit for restored prosperity can be traced to improvement in foreign trade conditions. The initiative which started the circle on its upward swing. began here at home, and its own mo- mentam carries it along. Whatever influences are exerted by foreign re- lationships generally are adverse, and it is mainly in spite of, rather than because of, our points of contact with other nations that we have come to better times. It is a phenomenon ich’ cannot be explained that in a land so blessed there are to be found those who preach discontent, and others so credulous as to listen to their pYeachments. But there is no need for great alarm. For every American who would like to try the experiment of Russia, there could be found thousands of Russians who would like to bide a while under the “capitalistic’” government of America. —_—— Come On, Shriners! The ved fez casts its glow before. All over the land from spruce forests and white birch thickets to palmetto groves, and from the tumbling surf of Atlantic to the shimmering Pacific, temples of the Mystic Shrine are mak- | ing ready for-their descent on Wash- fngton. And we are making ready to welcome the descent. The imperial potentate says that so far 129 out of @ possible 155 temples are booked for ‘Washington, and it may be that the invasion will be unanimous. The I. P. #ays that “Our parade will be one of the most unique and spectacular that ever trod historic Pennsylvania ave- nue.” That is a big order, but so be it! Washington has seen some memorable pageants, and if the Shriners are to make a record for the grand old Ave. noo they have their work cut out for them! But when the Shriners step out in-all their gold and green and scarlet glory and bring their bands along they ¢o make a great parade! They will daz- zle Washington till the town is dizzy. The Goddess of Liberty or “Freedom’ will doff her cap and the Monument will make a bow of greeting. Come on, Shriners! If it is true that Lenin has been stricken by paralysis his fate, typify- ing that to which he has brought Rus- sia, will be regarded by the civilized world as a just though terrible sub- stantiation of the words “Vengeance s mine.” “Oh, that mine enemy would writée a book!” is all right in its way, but when a friendly bootlegger does it that is enother story. Tighting the boll weevil with Army plenes is the modern adaptation of ‘beating one’s swords into plowshares. The Air Service. Reports of America’s inadequate armament come from many official mources, and stories of national short- sightedness and. lack of preparedness come to’the public every day. They do not appear to meke much of an im- pression on the public mind. The American people, when the blast of war blows in their ears, make their martial preparations with feverish speed, great waste and with singleness of purpose, but when the war is won, and ell our wars so far have been won, they lay by the sword, give it over tp yust-and quickly turn to other e things. In a time of peace it is hard to interest the people in the subject ot war. We do not like to pay the pre- miums on insurance against war or on Insurance for our success in the next war. We find it hard to steer a middle course or keep in the middie of the road. It is a current saying, and one that is quite widely indorsed by prac- tice, that one should make hay while the sun shines, bit our people never make ready for wer until the storm is close upon them. We now have @ re- port that the situation of our air serv- ice s bad, and that this service has fallen to so low a state that at its present rate of decline the United States will have on hand at the end of two years less than one-half the num- ber of aircraft necessary for its nor- mal peacetime work. It is seid that there will be no ajrcraft to equip, and that it will take & year to manufacture the material required to expand the service for war. It is @ dark picture. The air service is surely one branch of the national defense or national of- fense which should be kept in such a | condition that it can quickly be made Iready for any contingency. The need, says the report, is for a carefully drawn legislative program “to provide in time of peace the appropriations necessary for the accumulation in ade- quate volume of munitions of war and strategic raw materials.” This is clear- 1y common sense, but it often happens that common sense i{s an uncommon article. —_——————————— Militant Progressives. Activities of ‘‘progressive”. republi- cans of the House in their present undertaking will be watched with in- terest during the months preceding the assembling of the next Congress. The project is described “as a movement to weld republican progressive ele- ments of the next House into a com- pact working unit.” The unit is to be applied to the ac- complishment of certain specified aims, | principal of which is the generous al- location of the progressives to impor- tant committees, and especially to larger representation of that element on the committee on rules. A spokes- man for the progressives, describing in yesterday's Star this feature of the | plan, said, *'Legislation in the Heuse is controlled by the floor leader and the Speaker with the co-operation of the committee on rules.”” It may be ob- served, however, that the last word rests with the membership of the House. The committee on rules may propose, but the House disposes, and under the present system no proposi- tion advanced by the committee op rules becomes effective unless & ma- jority of the House, including demo- crats, progressives and ‘‘stand-pat- ters”—if there be any—gives sanction. It has been generally assumed since the Cannon overthrow in 1909 that the House is master of its destiny and that “tyranny” is no longer possible. It is discouraging to the democrate, supposed to be basing high hope upon @ split among the republicans in the next Congress being effected by this progressive move, to learn from the spokesman that the progressives will have no traffic with the democrats in achieving their ends. The movement is described as being -entirely within the- republican party, and does not hold out prospect of the election of a democratic Speaker with the aid of the progressives. . The progressive drive is interpreted as being inimical to the re- election of Speaker Glilett, on the ground that he is a “conservative.” It is freely admitted that he has been @ { fair presiding officer, however, and! | that “conservatism” is the only crime chargeable to him. What a twilight zone there is between the terms con- servatism and progressivism! Where does the one begin and the other end? { Every forward-looking measure sug- |gested in Congress is promptly | labeled ‘‘progressive,” and yet it is found that if it is genuinely forward- |looking and not merely radicalism | rampant, ‘‘conservatives” favor it. i It ought to be feasible for genuine i progressives and sincere conservatives to get together on committee assign-| | ments and legislation and present a | eolid front to the democrats, With | the scant republican majority there | | will be need of co-operation. or the re. pubican party will be threatened with | aisaster on the eve of the presidential ’campaig‘n. | Hospitality. A large and important Washington { council of the Knights of Columbus | has passed a resolution to turn over the knights' hall for the use of Shrin-| ers during Shrine week. The addption of the resolution by Potorhac Council does not carry the plan to finality, as it must be referred to the building | company of the organization. No matter what the final result shall be, the attitude of this councll in bidding such a cordial welcome to the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, to membership in which only Masons of & certain degree are eligible, will attract wide attention in and out of Washington. The knights are moved by the double purpose of giv- ing a splendid welcome to strangers and making good Washington’s claim to being the city hospitable. " “Life is a succession of ups and downs,” said the Washingtonian as he contemplated his thermometer on a March day. President Harding is finding Florida eand bars almost as troublesome as Senate filibusters. Children’s Health. Public interest in children's health is comparatively a new thing. Not many years ago the child’'s health was understood to be only.the concern of the child’s parents, and the wisest and most considerate of parents. knew lit- tle of hygiene, sanitation, food values and such things compared with what is known today. Most parents were ignorant. Infant mortality was very high, but this was accepted as 2 mat- ter -of course. In a great majority of families children were allowed to grow up, if they could, without any skilled attention to eyes, ears, nose, throat and teeth. If anything went wrong with a child that could not be cured with a flaxseed poultice, sassafras tea or paregoric the family dootor might be sent for. He was & worthy man, as learned perhaps as could be in his day and generstion, but Afty years ago his knowledge of children’s diseases and his knowledge of tonsils, adenolds, Bustachian tubes, teeth, diseases of the eye and all that was very small. The conception of the state’s duty or the nation’s duty‘toward children’s health as well as their schooling has grown to be'a big thing. It is e grand conception, and is being supple- mented by public philanthropic efforts. One of the important agencies is the American Child Health Assoclation, for which Herbert Hoover, chairman of the relief administration, issues an appeal for public support. Americans have been in the habit of giving gen- erously toward the work of saving the lives of children and helping them to grow up as able-bodied men and wom- en. The world is slowly winning against disease. The line of improve- ment may not be constantly upward. 'There are slumps here and there, but the general direction of the line is to- ward higher ground, better health and longer life. Statisticians compute that in Shakespeare’'s time the average length of life was about twenty-five years, and they now say that it is over fifty. Many desolating diseases have been brought under control, headway is being made against others, and it is believed that there is no disease that will not be mastered in time. Reducing Sea Dangers. The ice patrol has set to work, and this is one of the signs of spring. Northern ship lanes of the Atlantic will be patroled and information of icebergs, broken loose from the ice masses of the far north, will be wire- lessed to ships. This is a relatively new service for increasing safety of travelers by sca. The egreement un- der which American coast guard ves- sels patrol ship lanes between Amer- ica and Europe to give warning of ice. bergs was reached at London in 1913 at the international conference for the safety of life at sea. This patrol serv- ice, though it has not excluded danger of ship and iceberg collision, has with- out doubt considerably reduced the chance of such accidents. Another measure which seems to be taking shape for reducing danger to life and property at sea is an exten- sion of weather forecasting service. Weather data would be sent by radio from many ships to one or more ships at sea fitted up to make forecasts such as are made at our weather bu- reau, and the bulletins prepared at the central sca station would be dis- tributed by wireless to ships. Some- what more than a month ago a French ship, the Jacques Cartier, sailed from New Orleans for a French port on the channel. She carried with her one meteorologist representing the Amer- ican weather forecasting service and one representing the French meteor- ological service. They were to collect data from ships and prepare forecasts with especial reference to storms. The results of the adventure seem mnot to have been made public, or it may be that they have been noted without any display in the newspapers. ——— ‘The Gloucester fishing schooner that was defeated by e Canadian boat in the big series of races last summer e. few days ago rescued more than e dozen sailors in a terrific storm off the Grand Banks. After all, life-saving medals are more to be desired than silver cups. —————————— “I know, indeed, the cvil of that T purpose, but my inclination gets the better of my judgment,” wrote an honest philosopher more than 2,400 years before bootleg liguor was offered for sale. —_—————— Secretary Hoover will conduct his rubber inquiry under elastic authority granted 'y Congress. P —— Falls Church officlals are not to be deterred from punishing speeders by taunts of “rube’ justice. ————————— The Prince of Wales comes many a cropper, but still manages to hurdle matrimony. Aw this is not the canning and pre- serving season, it is difficult to under- stand the soaring price of sugar. SHOOTING STARS. * BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Man Drops the Hoe. A hat an’ a shirt an’ some overalls, Them's plenty of clothes fer me— An’ @ bit o' bread if the hunger calls, I'm off to be young and free. I've tended the crops an’ I've helped ‘em BTOw, An’ the cares from my back kin roll; I ain’t any longer the man with the hoe: I'm the boy with the fishin’ pole. A loaf an’ a fish are all T ask, An’ I know that they'll be enough To lighten the weight of tomorrow’s task An’ to brighten the road that's rough. My heart won't shrivel with envy's glow, Nor ponder on gold’s control: T ain’t any longer the man with the hoe; T'm the boy with the fishin’ pole. The jeweled waters are jes' the same As when me an’ my hopes were young; The birds hain't forgot the way’ to frame One note of the songs they sung. An’ my nerves will thrill as my line I throw Straight into the finny. shoal; T ain't any longer the man with the thoe; I'm the boy-with the fishin’ pole. One Evening. 1 hold her hands. The lamp's soft ray Lingers in iridescent play Among her tresses’ golden strands. Unheeded run the hour-glass sands ‘With which old Time seeks to dismay. 1 hold her bands. % Her gaze is pensive—far away. In silence—there content to stay: Like one who waits but for com- mands, 1 hold her hands. This is the picture that expands As memory sprites lift up their wands. If I let go—the truth' to say— On the piano she will play Those tunes she learned from the brass bands. 1 hold her hands, WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WIL| Opinion differs as to whether pub- lication of the names of prohibition Violators, real or alleged, serves s useful purpose or not. Enforcement officials think the pillorying of proved malefactors has its value. They be- lleve it is probably as powerful a deterrent statutory punishment. “Nobody wants to be publicly brand- ed as a lawbreaker,” is the conviction of high officlals at enforcement head- quarters. Many persons held up to mingled ridicule and obloquy In Washington this week, through dis- closure of a bootlegger's iist, take & different view. They aver the “hypoc- risy” of prohibition never was 8o flagrantly exposed and argue that s law commanding no respect from otherwise law-abiding citizens cannot be and should not be enforced. * % ok % If China’s appeal to Japan for abro- gation of the notorious twenty-one demands becomes a diplomatic inci- dent of interest to the United Btates, we have the right man In the right place at the head of our far eastern division. That branch of the State Department is headed by John V. A. MacMurray, than whom, though a youngster in looks and relatively In vears. there is no greater authority anywhere on Pacific affalrs. Mnc- Murray was secretary of the Ameri- can legation at Peking in 1915, when Japan imposed the demands on China. His far eastern service includes im- portant diplomatic assignments in Russfa, Stam and Japan. MacMurray's “Treaties and Agreements With and Concerning China,” two monumental volumes, was the official textbook of the Washington conference when it dealt with far eastern tangles. The young diplomatist is a Princeton man, class of 1902, * x5 % Not often is it given to men to gratify their.grand hobby by act of Congress. Joseph T. Frelinghuysen, retiring senator from New Jer and Representative Ernest R. Acker- man, who also hails from the Mosqui- to state, achieved that distinction in the dying hours of the Sixty-seventh Congress. Both are ardent stamp collectors. Frelinghuysen owns a collection said to be worth $100,000 and Ackerman's is even more valu- able. They joined hands in securing the passage of a bill authorizing the reproduction in four-fold size, for the promotion of professional traffic among philatelists. of postage stamps jof ali countries. The Jerseymen have a royal brother stamp fan in King George V of Great Britain. * ok ok % Fewer autograph letters of William Hpward Taft are said to be available than of any other American President. On the autograph market in New York there is now being offered a letter of Mr. Taft, dated at New Haven, October 27, 1919, reading as ollows: i l 1 EDITORIAL DIGEST What's “Dollar Gas” to the Pleas- ures of Autoing? “Let's not sell the old bus vet” recommends the Burlington (lowa) Gagzette, refusing to become alarmed over the prospect of dollar-a-gallon gasoline, of which a Senate investi- galing committee warns "if a few great oil companies are permitted to manipulate profits for the next few years as they have been doing since January, 1920 Many other papers also dismiss the prophecy as over- drawn, pointing out that such & course on the pert of ofl producers would mean economic sulcide, and they discount the findings of & com- mittee headed by Senator La Follette, whose prejudice against the Standard Oil Company, they sav, is ingrained However, other writers feel, with the Brooklyn Eagle, that “if the La ¥ol- Jette committee charges * * ® are even partly true something should be done about it,” and there is a con- siderable number who affirm the in- dictment which the Senate committee brings in against Standard Ol “The Senate subcommittee, headed by Robert M. La Follette, which has been investigating conditions in the petroleum industry.” the Cleveland Plain Dealer says, “doubtless found what It set out to find—complete domination by the Standard group. But, granting the poss! ty of preju- dice, the Wilkes-Barre Record holds that “the report will not be cast aside as another exhibition of La Follette perversity,” for, as the Duluth Her- A1 says, “though the name of the chairman of the committee will dis- credit the report with many, it will be a guaranty of truth to many lothers!” and “the findings do not |strain credulity.” since, to quote the {New London Day, “there Is a very natural tendency on the part of the Ipublic to be suspicious of any busi- iness as extensive as the Standard Oil Company, particularly when the enormous profits of that great or- | ganization are partially known and ithe cost of gasoline shows a& tend- {ency to climb without apparent rea- SBecause of this well known tend- ency “the public is vitally interested {n the question whether the legal dis- solution of the so-called Standard Oit trust has really beeh effectivein practice,” the Milwaukee Sentinel as- Rerts. Indeed, according to the Rochester Times-Union, it Is a seri- ous matter which ‘“concerns every User of gasoline and other petroleum directly, and indirectly fouches every one else” Certainly {pomething is radically wrong with the oil. kerosene and gasoline mar- kot the Jersey City Journal feels. in view of the fact that “a few years Flays “Heavy Brigade” Critic of Poem Insists on Its “Ob- scurity” and Shortcoming. To the Bditor of The Star: T am reluctant to obtrude further upon your space, but the criticism of Mr. Kauffmann in last.Evening’s Star upon my little screed about the charge of the Heavy -Brigade at Balaclava, which appeared in The Star of last Sun- day, seems to call for an explanation from me in the interest of historic ac- curacy. My good friend Kauffmann and I must continue to disagree respecting “the obscurity which even hides from common knowledge the equaily heroic and vastly more im| it achlevement of Gen. Scarlett and his daring dra- 00Nt at Balaclava. . His pgestion that I hunt up and read Tennyson's “stirring" poem, ““The Heavy Brigade,” is asking me to revive 2 heavy grief. 1 have access at home to only one copy of Tennyson’s poems, from which *“The Charge of the Heavy Brig- ade at Balaclava' is mercifully omitted. 1 doubt that ‘among ordinary readers e in one thousand has ever read the poem” through, or that one in a mil- lion hes ever read it twice except under protest. To my eorrow I am one of both Kinds. 2 If that is not “cbscurity,”” I am weak on definition. '50 my taste there is not 2 quotable line in ft. No one can make a more abject obei- sance than I to the transcendent genius that elaborated *“The Crossing of the Bar,” or “Break, Break, Break on Thy Cold Gray Rocks, Oh, Ses*; but the lines to the “Heavy Brigade” are such atroclous drivel that one is astounded pinidhfibcielininsdiad Sttt A e it e “My brother Horace, than whom there is no better man, has asked me to write you & letter so that you can hereafter identify me by my hand- 'rl!ln’ I am glad to do so. I have been interested to learn that there mine available. I suppose that ste- nography has become the bane of auto- graph collectors. It helps the dis- patch of correspondence, but it does not contribute to brevity or to a good style. I hope this may serve your purpose. The only way I can auto- graph letters is to write them. I have none in atock.” The owner wants $65 for that specimen of Taftian penmanship. * % ok ¥ This observer heard President Hard- ing criticized the other day for ap- polnting only “old men” to high office. The facts and figures don't justify the soft impeachment. Three men, all on the sunny side of fifty, were taken into the Harding cabinet fn 192i— Postmaster General Hays, who was forty-two; Secretary Hoover, who was forty-six, and Sccretary Davls, who was forty-seven. A babe In arms was appointed undersecretary of th Treasury in the person of S. P.! Gilbert, jr, who was only twenty- nine. Col.” Roosevelt, assistant sec- retary of the Navy, was thirty-three : when he recelved his commission, and { Richard Washburn Child was named ambassador to Italy at forty. Albert D. Lasker, chairman of the Shipping Board, was forty-five when he took command of the white elephant branch of the government All through the great executive depart- ‘ments are men of youth in charge of divisions and bureaus. * ok ok ok California, far-famed land of super- hospitality, has organized a junket de luxe from Washington to the coast in July. The city of Los Angeles and the “American historical revue and motlon plcture exposition” are the joint hosts. To the “Monroe doctrine centennial” in Los Angeles next summer, a speclal train will be | run from Washington, filled with| notables, who will be the guests of the city and the exposition “from the time they leave Washington until their return.” Those invited to enjoy this luxurious transcontinental ex- pedition are the President of the United States, the Latin American diplomatic corps, the Secretary of State, the director of the Pan-Amer- ican Union, and their ladies; a dele- gation from Coungress, and the United States Marine Band. * ok ok K 5 Lord Robert Cecil, who cables from London that he is overwhelmed with invitations to speak in America next month, has made one definite engage- ment. He will address the annual convention of the National League of Woman Voters at Des Moines. Re- gardless of superstition, he eelected Friday, the 13th, for his appearance. (Copyright. 1823.) back a good grade of gasoline could be purchased at the filling stations for “about 9 cents a galion.” And since “S-cent gasoline jumped over- night to 15-cent gasoline and 15-cent gasoline "later jumped to 29-cent gasoline,” the Reading (Pa.) Tribune suggests that it doesn't require “a nimble imagination to stretch the price even to the dollar mark.” “But such a possible price should be robbed of some of its terrors,” the| Memphis Commercial-Appeal thinks. “when it is realized that it would be self-defeating,” for, the Hartford | Courant explains, “if gasoline were to B0 to anything I that figure ne- tenths of the automoblles in would be put out of commission “one can figure out what that mean. If the company wants to com- mit suicide it will proceed to such a ridiculous extreme’ as dollar gas Admitting that “it may charge a that the traific will reasonably bear. if Standard Ofl “sets out on such & OUging spree Senat La Fol- ette’'s committee predic the timore News will then concede tb the compa: has lost its cunning.” | The New York Tribune also cannot| plcture Standard Oil willfully going | to such lengths as to “bring the wrath of the entire country down ! upon its head,” and the New York | Post suggests that “substitutes are already being produced at prices that threaten the position of oil in the market. and the competition would not be rendered less sharp by a jump in the price of il To the Norfolk an-Pilot the | prospect of doliar- gailon gasoling is not “a radical pipe dream.” but it it comes it will not be because of monopoly control: it will _come mainly because a limited natural re- | source can no louger meet an unlim- ited demand. Oil wells dry up, but the demand for oil is constantly in- creasing.” The Hartford Times agrees that “with the phenomenal in- crease in use the price of petroleum would be certain to jump if the in- dustry were on the most cut-throat competitive basi; As some writers view it, gas is actually cheaper because of the vast- ness of the Standard Oil organization, for, as the New York Globe explains it, “despite the fabulous returns| which the oil companies have made, it is probable that the public pays less than would be exacted if the industry were in the hands of my: small producers and _dis- Stating that the purpose of the report “is to break up and de- stroy the most efficient organization for production and delivery of oil and oll product what, the Chicage Tribune asks. “would it leave as sub- stitute?” The answer, according to the paper, is “numberless small con- cerns doing business inefficiently and with high overhead costs, which, without the competition of the Stand- ard, would Immediately force prices up, 'not down. In a Few Words. When a woman criminal is released from jail it is important that she have a remewed interest in life. Therefore she should be given a new hat. —MAJ. MARGARET DUFFY (Salva- tlon Army). It is everlasting true that, on the whole, the best guide to the future Is to be found in a proper understan ing of the lessons of the past —PRESIDENT HARDING. The women all love Rodolph because he appeals to their materpal in- stinct. —MRS. RODOLPH VALENTINO. This country is a hell of a success. Let that stand as all the interview 1 care to give out. “UNCLE JOE” CANNON. The great majority of wives, espe- clally those who have been married & long time, are always casting about, either consclously or subconsclously, for inside information about thelr husband’s outside life. —GILBERT FRANKAU. Every time a woman does some- thing that is going to make her look 'more attractive along will come some horror-stricken physician who will say she is permanently ruining her heal —DR, MARY HALTON. The fact that W. H. Anderson_is unpopular with the wets is dis- tinctly in his favor. I love him for . the enemies he has made. -DR. DAVID JAMES BURRELL. S i |had been Politics at Large Reports are current in political cir- cles of renewed activity among pro- gressive, independent and “{nsurgent” republicans in the House looking to BY PAUL V. COLLINS [ capmaL kEvNoTES | It may seem & too drastio punish-Istimulate only the clashing, nerve- ment for unruliness in school when a |racking missives, professor gives his warning to his the upbullding during the recess ofipupil that unless she behaves better are not many autograph letters of |2 compact force which will seek t0|he will have to punish her—and then make terms advantageous to the pro- gressive element in the organisation of the next House. The movement is understood to comprise representa- tives-elect from Wisconsin, North Dakota, Minnesota, Montana and other western states, and it 18 claim- ed that a sufficlent number have signed up to constitute a bloo which will have to be reckoned with in legis- lation and organization. No fusion with the demoorats is contemplated, it is sald, and party loyalty will be maintained to that extent. Progressive representation on important committees, especially the committee on rules and the steering” committee, is the princi- pal aim. L “On Guard for the People” is the slogan adopted by the People's Leg- islative Service, with headquarters in this city. Its director, Basil M. Manly, in a statement issued today asserts that “invisible government™ killed the Norrls amendment chang- ing the date of Congress. ‘The condition that permits a few members to control the House was never more strongly brought to the attention of the public than in the disposition of the Norris amendment and the bill to provide adequate school facilities for the children of Washington, both of which were kill- ed in the last days of the session,” says the statement. “The House is =0 large and unwieldy and the mass of legislation {8 so great that even after 4 measuro has run the gantlet mmittees and has been reported favorably it can yet be smothered on the House calendar by the arbitrary action of the majority leaders, espe- clally if the measure is delayed in committes and not placed upon the House calendar until late in the ses- slon. Formerly it was an easy mat- ter to let any measure sleep in the committee or on the House calendar unless the powerful few who control the House called the matter up on the floor. After the fight on Uncle Joe Cannon in 1909 an attempt was made to cure this situation by amend- ing the House rules so that the House calendar was required to be called on certain d But during the closing days of a session there is such a rush that the powerful com- mittee on rules takes charge of the procedure of the House and brings out what are known as special rules, which set aside all the rules of the House and provide for the considera- tion only of special legislation, which is that favored by the powerful few.” The statement goes on to charge, with respect to the Norris amend- ment, that “the committee on rules of the House smothered ft to death on that side of the Capitol, although it was openly stated that the mem- bership of the House stood more than 40 to 1 in favor of the amendment. ‘The story of the Norris amend- Mr. Manly's statement con- “'is important. not only in itself. but because it demonstrates how the rules of the House can be used to defeat the will of the people.” It looks as though a apecial drive {®ill be made by the progressives for a hold on the committee on rules in the next Congress. ok ¥ ¥ Forme Leader Mondell takes issue with the charge that the committee on rules smothered the Norris amend- ment. He calls attention to the fact that the resolution did not come over o1 he Senate until February 14, and on February 22 what purported to be a favorable report from the committee was presented in the House. But it was claimed that less than a quorum of the committes had reported the resolution. “The House did not .consider the resolution for a variety of reasons.” says Mr. Mondell, “First, because it could rot have been considered under the rules of the House, because it was not regularly reported out of committee; second, very few members of the House be- 4 it advisable to attempt to cof ider so important a measure so i n the session, when so little consid- eration had been or could be given to it; and. third, the condition of the business of the House was such tRat several of the important measures {that became laws the last two days of the session would have jeopardized, 4 been it not defeated, it time given for consideration of this measure.” x ok k% Here is a proposition for the poli- ticians and the lay public to consider, advanced by former Majority Leader {Mondell of the House of Representa- tives. Hearken to it: “The greatest menace of the day 1§ the menace of organized, militant, persistent minorities.” That is the deliberate utterance of a man after twenty-six years of service in the popular branch of Congress, during which time he has_felt the whip and spur of organized minori- ties and seen them drive men against their better judgment. “Minorities,” he continues, “which, dissociated from the particular object of their legisla- tive pursuit, may be among the best intentioned of our citizenship, but un- der the spur and spell of special {pleading and selfish appeal propose, suggest, urge and demand the most dangerous procedure. “I wish it were possible, with a view to neutralizing the effect of these minority Grives, to organize all these minorities and all the balance of the people Into the amalgamated society of the public interest, with their only effort and purpose that of shielding _ the representatives of the people from the drives of minorities seeking special favors and privileges, The accomplishment would be worthy of the highest praise.” * k¥ % The note of bitterness born of ex- perfence in the tone of Mr. Mondell's next assertion might well be appre- ciated by politician, layman and leg- islator: ve have reached a condition In which the political fortunes of a member of Congress do not wholly or in the main depend upon the basic soundness of his view, his faithful attendance upon the sessions of Con- gress, his earnestness and diligence and good faith in bearing his share in the performance and responsibility for the work of Congress, but to a very considerable extent upon the good will, the friendly attitude, of gentlemen who as legislative repre- sentatives sit in the galleries and, as the favored ones in the old Roman days decreed life or death to the struggling gladiator in the arena by thumbs up or thumbs down, deter- mine the political life and fortunes of members of Congres! low often have we noted here the effect of an organized propaganda and of its written, phoned and wired fruits. Without regard to all this pressure, those who have never ex- perienced it.will 8say: ‘“The member should ignore it if it does not square with his better judgment.’ Ah, there 8 the rub. Many a signature to those communications may have been grudgingly or carelessly given to be freed from Importunities or to avofd unfriendly comment. It may reflect neither knowledge nor opinion on the subject, but should a signer later be reminded in the adroit and insidious way of the propagandist of the fact that the representative has failed to respond to his appeal—well, many a man has learned, to his sorrow, that a recommendation lightly made may be the basis of the most intense op- position if not followed.” * % x % Tt is In ‘prollnct that the next Con- gress will show an increass in bloos and organized minorities, neverthe- less and notwithstanding the experi- ence of the .3 it, which many eminent statesman admit and deplore. A bloc is but another form of “organized minorities,” although the term. is not used as Mr. Mondell applied it. There 'will be political blocs and legislative blocs holding together for specific ends, then to resolve into their com- ponent eleme: ‘when aocomplished. A _bloc usually brings results. aotually carries out his threat by marrying her. Is there not some prohibition in the United States Con- stitution against “cruel and unusual punishments’ However, the saucy pupll may get even with her profes- sor yet. She will keep him in after school or she may tie him to her apronstring. They laugh best Who laugh last. The bride was a Miss Nations of Washington, and the pro- fessor is the first American to join the league of nations and hold his American citizenship. * ok XK The ohildren’s bureau of the Depart- ment of Labor brings a sad arraign- ment of the sins of omission of the Congress in its statistics, just issued, showing that in the industries of the United States, where child labor is not prevented by state laws, there are now employed. in long hours of tofl. 378,000 children under fourteen years of age. In 3292 factories there are 909 children under fourteen yearsand 3.189 under sixteen years. Hundrede of oases of violation of existing child labor laws will bs prosecuted. Congress refused to submit for state ratification a constitutional amend- ment_authorizing Congress to pass a law forbldding labor of children un- der sixteen years of age. Laws pas! ed without the authority of a con- stitutional amendment are declared by the Supreme Court unconstitu- tional. Children so emploved mnever got much echooling. They are doom- ed to hard and unrequited labor all thelr lives. * ok kX The chief of the woman's bureau of the Department of Labor, Miss Mary Anderson, advises that women bhe em- ployed as consulting engineers 1In housekeeping for all factories, laun- dries and restaurants. She thinks good homemakers could poke around such places and see many things to be improved, from a housekeeper's standpoint. Js she not right? It is not many decades since the presence of women as employves in factories and offices was rare. Now they constitute & majority of the help in many industrial lines, but men still boss the housekeeping. Thev have hardly “kept up with the Joneses”—at least with “Mrs. Jones” = They still imagine that a man can sweep and even dust and wash the windows, although he scarcely ever thinks it worth while 10 dig into the corners and clear under the desks. Of course, they sometimes employ charwomen to scrub; but when does the manage- ment think of hiring a housekeeper. Wuch as polishes the mahogany of their homes wr sees that Maggle does it right? * % ox % Dalrymen discovered years ago that music in the cow stable encouraged the gentle cows to “let down" more milk and make milking easier. It re- mains now for the new Postmaster General to emulate the dairy by !n- stalling radlo recelving sets in the post office of Washington, with the view to spgeding up the 1,000 workers in distributing or sorting the mall Good, sharp, martial music will play while all the monthly duns are being sorted, and something sweet and low will help find the love letters. Ap- propriate to the hunt for the letter that never came will be a verse or two of “The Lost Chord.” Just as different wave lengths pick out the various tune vibrations of the ether, which may be throbbing to a dozen songs at once and only the one melody becomes audible, so the sen- timental harmony will sort out only the letters of love and the jazz will i | and the chords affect but the pathetio. In this sweet harmony of the mai disappointments will become rarer and the letter carriere more popular, even though they drop their messages in the new letter boxes and fail to stop and chat as of yore. * % k¥ Not only has the number of auto- mobiles increased so that there are three times as many in America now as five yvears ago. but the proportion of fatal or serfous accidents has in- creased in geometric progression. Tn 1914 the number of victims killed amounted to 42.83 per millfon ponu- lation. ~In 1919 it amounted to 9361 per million population. In 1914 the number of ocoupants of autos who were {njured was 879: In 1021 it was 3,744, Pedestrians infured in 1914 numbar- ed $2,303; in 1917, 4,001, and in 1 6.524. These figures do not include all the fatalities nor all the infured. Thev cover only the specific classes named The problem applies to all cities, * k¥ Ok The alien property custodian has an art collection on hand belonging to rlien enemies of the world war and he 13 worrying about how to disposs of it. It wag the art exhibit loaned from Europes to the pan-American exposition and since then it has been 14 In etorage in California. Tt con- cists of fine paintings, sculpture, em- broldery and laces. What end is reached by hiding this collection in a dark storehouse in- stead of putting it upon exhibition in tha lareer citias throughout the country? Such exhibition would en- hance its value through making it better known. and in case the owners desired to sell any of its treasures profits would accrue to offset their past loss by reason of its baing held all thews vears. The greatest orofit however, would accrue to Americans. who would he given a rare oppor- tunity to study its beautles. Art is edurative and enfovable only when it is brought into light. * % ¥ * England i bewailing the extensiva purchases of art by Americans, but the consolation s offered that Amer- icans put their purchases on public view more liberally than do the ex- clustve English. The treatment of the pan-American collection in its sentence of four vears in a dungeon is an exception to the rule. * £ ‘minor The Senate committee to {nvesti- gate the Veterans' Bureau is espe- cially fortunate in securing as 1ts legal adviser, and practically its ex- ecutive officer, Maj. Gen. John O'Ryan, who commanded the 2 Division overseas. Gen. O'Ryan, as well as Senator Reed of the commit- tee, being overseas men. naturallv have the viewpoint of the overseas veteran and there will be given a svmpathetic hearing of the com- nlaints. such &s was not apparent 't ithe past, as the veterans thought he longed to the wounded or sick bud dies. * v As an illustration of the new spir:t may be cited an instance of seli- denlal in the case of Capt. Hahn, who has been in charge of the fourth dis trict from the beginning. He was promoted to assistant director ¥ before Director Forbes resigned, but because of his famillarity with con- ditions in_the fourth district. which includes Washington and adicining states, Capt. Hahn voluntarily sug- gested that he remain in his former position at present lest delays work to the disadvantage of the soldiers deserving prompt attentlon. (Copyright. 1923, by P. V. Oollins) King Edward and King George of England Both Against Lucy Stone League Theory, BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Former Attorney General George W. Wickersham &nd other eminent jurists and public men of equal light and leading. who. in response to in- quiries from the Lucy Stone League. have pronounced themselves SO strongly against the league's move- ment in favor of women declining to adopt the names of their husbands for fear of losing their own identity, may be interested to learn that their views are in complete sympathy with those of Edward VII, whose sagacity no one nowadays will deny, and of his extremely level-headed son and suc- cessor on the tfirone, George V. There are a small number of cases in England of peeresses in their own right in which nowadays the husband is precluded from sharing his wife's honors. Thus Lady Cromartie, who is a countess in her own right, is the wife of Col. Edward Blunt MacKenzie of the royal artillery and does not Share his name. Then there is Lady Burton of Bass brewery fame. She, too, is a peeress in her own right, and is 'therefore known by a different name to that of her husband. Col. James Baillie of Dochmour, Inver- ness. In olden times—that is to say, before the reign of the Stuar bands of peeresses in their own right not only bore their wives' titles, but also occupied their seats in the house of lords, reverting to the status of commoners and losing their wives’ titles on_the death of these ladle King Edward, however, did every- thing that he could to put an end to the very generally accepted practice of widows of peers, on marrying com- moners, refusing to_ bear the name of their new husbands and persisting in retaining the titles and names of their former mates. Thus he fssued a most peremptory order to the effect that any woman attending court or demanding presentation there should be restricted to the name and style of her actual or most recent husband and precluded from making use there of any titles of her former husbands. * ok kX Hence Cora Smith of New Orleans, after being married, first to Samuel Colgate of New York, and then to the fourth Earl of Strafford, and thirdly to Martyn T. Kennard, who persists in calling herself Countess of Straf- ford, is received at court only as Mr Martyn Kennard, as whom she also figures in the soclal register of New York, having forfeited all her rights. prerogatives and title as a peeress of the realm, not by the death of her second husband, the Earl of Straf- ford, but by her marriage after his death to & commoner—namely, the late Martyn Kennard. Then there 13 the widow of the late and twelfth Duke of Hamilton, a daughter of the seventh Duke of Man- chester. She has dropped her title of duchess and now styles herself Lady Mary Forster, having contract- d, after some years of widowhood, a cond merriage With a country gen- tleman «f the name of R. Carnaby Forster. Perhaps the best known instance of this kind is that of the mother of the resent and fifth Duke of Sutherland. Bhe is now the wife of Col. George Hawes, who won the distingulshed service order and the military cross in the great war. She no longer cally herself Duchess of Sutherland, but Lady Millicent Hawes, the prefix of 1ady to her Christian name being due 10 the fact that she is the daughter-of an earl—namely, of the late Earl of Rosalyn, 3 |sequently figured as In Spain—and only in Spain—hus- bands, instead of giving their names to thelr wives, take the names and nobiliary titles of the latter in the event of the women holding by birth and rank titles superfor to their own. In fact, several American citizens, as vell as Englishmen, Itallans anc/ Frenchmen, have completely lost their identity by securing the hand, and incidentally the nobillary titles, of some daughter and heiress of the Spanish grandezza. When Dona Pilar Osorio, who is Duchess of Fernan Nunez in her own right, married Manuel Falco of the Modena houeo of Dei Plo, an olg Jtalian family of no particular im portance, he became, ipse facto, Duka ¢f Fernan Nunez, and as such sub- ] Spanish am- bassador in Paris. He has been dead for a number of vears, but the eldest son born to the marriage Still re- mains Marquis del Mina and will not succeed to the dukedom of Fernan Nunez until his aged mothers death. He shares with her the superb Osoric Palace on the St. Isabel street at Madrid, Then there was a plain Cap€ Rosales of the artillery, the exceed- ingly good-looking son of one of the greatest wine-growers in Spain. As most of Rosales’ trade in his native sherry wine was with England, he sent his eldest Eon to Eton, whers, by reason of his fair hair, 8o unusuai in & Spaniard, he was known as “Golden Shersy.” His good looks won for him the hand of the Duchess ot Almodovar del Valle in her own right, and on marrying her he became through the union Duke of Almodovar. He will be remembered by former Ambagsador Henry White and by the other Amer- ¢ ican delegates to the international) icongress of Algeciras on the subject of Morocco, some fifteen years ago. as the courtly and impressive-looking president of the conferencs, and it is his son and helr, the present Duke of Almodovar, a boyhood chum of King Alfonso XIII, who is minister of com- merce in the new and present cabinet at Madrid. * ok o ¥ It is owing to this custom and law that &0 many ‘of the most historio titles of the old Spanish grandezza. founded by Emperor Charles V some 400 years ago, are now held by en- tirely different families than those to which they were originally conferred. The grandees were at the time of the foundation of the grandezza twelve in number, ranking 88 peers of the soverelgn and possessed of the ex! clusive prerogative of remalining with their hats on in the presence of tho monarch. For_ instance, the patro- nymic today of the original Dukes of Alba is Stuart. The Dukes of Infantando, who were the Mendozas when Charles V bestowed upon them the grandezza, are today the Ar- teagas. The Dukes of Medina Si- donia, who were formerly the Gus- mans, are today the Toledos. The Dukes of Medinaceli, who rank as the premier peers of Spain, who were 400 yeurs ago the Lacardas, are today the Cordovas. Indeed, the only family of the old grandezza of Charles V that has retained the same patronymic is that of the Astorgas. That was the family with which the late American-born Lord Astor claims to be connected, his pretensions in print being, however, vigorously re- pudiated by the Spanish grandees of the house of Astorga, {