Evening Star Newspaper, March 18, 1923, Page 40

THE EVENING STAR, __ With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY........March 18, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 150 Nassau' St Chicago Office: Tower Buflding. Eutopean Oftice: 10 Regent 8t., Londou, England. The Erening Star. with the Sunday morning edition, is delivered by carriers within the cit 8160 cents per mont month; Sunday only. e ders may he sent by mail or telephone’ Main 8000, " Collection 1s made by carriers at the end of each month. Rate hy Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Ay ; 1 mo. 1mo., 3 2.40 All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00; Member of the Associated Press. Ui Associated Press is exclusively entit to tie ‘use for republication of all newn dis patches credited to it or pot otherwise credited this paper and alse the local news pub linhed herein. Al rights of publication of pecial dispatches herein are Equalization. reclasstiication of federal becomes effective in July, wernment service will be in which to work. Not 4 now. There are many | service.in one of the gov- When the employes 24, @ zood place that things abou ernment departments or bureaus that are attra But when the service is actually re- and the new salary scale be- comes uality, a new era will d@awn for the thousands of people here | @nd throughout the country who have devoted themselves to the civil service of their cour it an ac ry. of the employes it ike a working heaven. With retivement provisions, leave and an unusually privitege, those in gov- then may feel that ttle more to be galned. his vesult will be attained, how- ever, only in the event that equal pay for equal work is the basis upon which the reclassified. Increase of sa ndamental. Making the | ) most er will seem per salar g va ¢ service | spection? All are working to the direct gral part of the an increase | his important | of reclassifi 1t must come | government employes nre} they have families to support { reach. It is so much | lish worth while ! v tietd | lity of pay fc st importa cd bonus e salary, and t, w “atior accom cqual service | thing to be | Smith is just the kind of man wanted by those who want that kind of a man. You know as well as we what will happen if a man with such a rec- ord es this should be nominated by the democratic party in 1924.” This may be called a “campaign of education,” but it smacks strongly of politics of a most practical nature. Participation in politics {s the most effective, indeed the only weapon the league has at command. It has been used to defeat some candidates for office and elect others. Any organiza- tion is within its rights to do that, but the question arises why should it not be amenable to the state and national laws governing the application of monies in its campaign, the same as political parties? By the same token, if this organiza- tion, whose object is to support and for- ward what a material element of the citizenship deem to be a movement in behalf of morality and reform, is classed as a political organization and made to render a financial accounting, why should not the same policy be ap- plied to the opposing organization maintained by the wets? They boast of their intention to raise as much or more money in a campaign avowedly to modify existing law so a8 to permit the use of wine and beer. Many of them confess their ultimate objective to be, if possible, repeal of the consti- tutional amendment itself; all to be done through theoelection: or defeat of candidates for office. They should also, in consistency, be required to tell whence they get their funds and how they spend them. Why not also, to be consistent, re- quire that greatest of organizations applied to political ends, the American Federation of Labor, to make similar counting? The federation makes no bones of its participation in the elec- tion and defeat of candidates for pub- lic office. Tt can be classed as a power in politics. as many a man has realized to his sorrow. Indeed, for that matter, why should not any band of citizens, united in an undertaking to accomplish certain ends through the elections, be clasi fied as on a par with a political na- tional or state committee and be com- pelled to open its books for public in- defeat or election of candidates for office At any rate there should be no dis- erimination in the matter which would classify an organization seeking to elect dry candidates as political and one secking to elect wet candidates as not political. Children Not Yet Saved. The great humanitarian work which THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO. : . % Impossible for the Government m¢ those memorials would ' not stand long enough to become historic or to become landmarks. Much human sentiment gathers around a landmark, as was shown by the popular demsnd that the Lincoln statue be replaced on ite site before the city hall. ‘The Washington statue naturally calls to mind the Jackson statue. Clark Mills, long a famillar figure in ‘Washingten, was the sculptor of each. He was a plasterer by trade, and came here from Charleston, 8. C., about 1850. It is sald that he had shown such talent as a sculptor in Charleston that several persons there made up a fund to enable him to go to Europe to study art. On his way to Europe he stopped here. And he stayed. In some way the proposal to erect an equestrian statue to Gen. Jackson came up among the members of the Jackson Democratic Associa- tion of this city, and that association gave to Mr. Mills the commission to make the statue. Mr. Mills had never studied art, that is, in the usual way, and he had never seen an equestrian statue. He modeled the group at his place on the Bladensburg road about half a mile beyond the toll gate at Maryland avenue and 15th street, and the statue was dedicated January 8§, 1833, the thirty-eighth anniversary of the battle of New Orleans. It is the oldest equestrian statue in the United States, and was the second erected in the present territory of the United States, the first being a lead statue, gilded, of King George 111, set up on Bowling Green, N. Y., August 21, 1 pulled down July 9, 1776, and cast into bullets, which were used by our revolutionary troops. Mr. Mills executed the Washington statue, which was unveiled Februa: , 1860. ————— Tt is a queer truth that those who most loudly protest the fact that a number of small items make a big ex- pense account are often unable to see that the same rule applies to savings. ——— Increased export demand for wheat | and soaring prices take considerable wind out of the sails of Senator Borah's argument for an economic conterence. —_———— In casting about for a successor to Lenin it is to be hoped the soviet authorities will not overlook conspi residents of this country. —_————— San Francisco wants both presiden- tial nominating conventions next vear. Have McAdoo and Hiram John- son formed a combine? ——————— The Georgian who walked nineteen several | To Pay Out \W BY THOMAS R. MARSHALL, Former Vice President of the U. S. | HERE is one trait common to | all the peoples of the earth, re- gardless of the form of govern- ment under which they may Every one of them must have a natlonal hero. A monarchy furnish- es the national hero to fits people without effort upon their part. That is one of the good things, perhaps the best, about a monarchy. On the other hand, a democracy puts in one-half of its time creating. and the other half destroying its national heroes. Sometimes it is a great warrior, like Grant; sometimes, a great patriot, like Lincoln; sometimes a great statesmen. like Webster; sometimes a great prize fighter, like Jeftries, or a base ball player, like Babe Ruth, or even a descredited movie clown: We tire of them all and seek a new face. A man who might have been the greatest American hero had he Itved in this day unfortunately has disappeared from public life. He was a child born out of due season. He made the proud boast that in twenty years' wervice as a public legislator he never failed to vote for an appro- priation, and never voted for a tax How sad it is that he is gone from our midst, If he were living today to explain to the people how they night {have all the appropriations they de- sired and yet pay no taxes to meet them his claim to fame would be en- during * * Tt is a far cry back to pre-revolu- tionary days, when our foréfathers raised a row over the imposition of a tax which now would be deemed so small not to merit contention. They could not understand the doc- trine of taxation without representa- | jtion. T wish who kicked Great B established which men w out representa as | up such a muss with | n over the question and n infant repdblic in & not to he taxed with- on conld come back and see the practical working of the government which they founded. I predict it would be somewhat diffieult for them to understand that in Atate and nation taxes are not lavied by the people who pay them. Well might they fear that national and state taxgtion had managed to bacome o | intartwined as to establish back of the system the danger of confiscation. Tt ia bec £ apparent to thought- ful men that if the present method of | procedure goes on we shall be driven to the single tax idea, whether we |11ke 1t or mot. Tank awo it was en [tabliched as the law that no state of ithe Union could tax the securities foued by Tnited States as tax ex- {empt, that the general govern- {ment 14 not tax the tax-exemnt | securitles of any state or of its aubdi- | {vislons. Under this arrangement hil- Piionafor: taecxembls cee it ravs bean iasued The states and their sev- eral subdivisions, animated by a de- sire for public buildings. highwa parks and other improvements, have | that these gentlemen [ i last 1$56.000.000 was America has done in the near east is not yet finished. and unless it is fin- {ished much of that already achieved | will be rendered vain. There would be | i no profit ving a child from rel ! tively merciful death by sieughter | estallished | only to have it endure the agonies of on | death from starvation. Yet that is the { fate which hangs over child refugees out of Asia Minor, already numbering { 60,000 and increasing steadily. To avert such an appalling catas- trophe, American womanhood has taken up the burden, and is resolved | that these children shall be saved salarics. whether | More than fifty leading American covertly. is one of the | women, under the chairmanship ot for | Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker, former | president of the General Federation of | Women's Clubs, have united to form during the war the national woman'’s committee of the Klayers were making | Near East Relief, and have appealed i money as she | to liberal-hearted Americans to give was drawing down for teaching the!the undertaking financial support. youth of the land. This is human na.| Five dollars a month, or 360 a year, ture, and nowhere does it crop up| Wil care for one of these refugee chil- more than in Uncle Sam's service. dren. Headquarters of the national to insure the the board in order suceess ¢ ged with tion ci t whereby an e ploye in one of the older departments gels § what an employe in an- other department is paid. although do- work, must be done ful nalk ¥ ie school teacher was not so displeased with her H ol salary shie read how unti sch miles to serve as a juror was giving | that “‘sense of duty which pursues us| ever” a good run for its money been duplicating the general govern- ment in the issuance of non-taxable bonde In cne eounty with which 1 lam familiar tax-exempt securities inaw extant exceed 25 per cen {taxable valu f pro, wonder ecratary alarmed —_—— Plates used for printing German bank notes, recently seized by the French, have been returned. Paper is expensive in Eurepe. { It is not a all surprising that the {business of the nation moves with {laggard footstaps. Taxes levied by state and nation are so high that a| {person investing his money | taxable sccurities stands to receive more income therefrom than he fs| likely to make in business with all its hazards. There must be a consti- | tutiona! amendment prohibiting the |insuance of tax-exampt securities or| e craze for public improvemen d is unruly and luation Indiana was in eighty years |ago when sha went wild over can 1d; 0 : o {and plank roads. Perhaps bankruptes No season could be impol {is the only thi ar will cure. the It isn't melodious, nor merry, nor mild ‘.'e\_r»hr of public improvement | ity ere are soma things that may Except to the poetry writer. {be done to lessen the evils of taxation | SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Disadvantage of Posing. On, Spring is a season of doubt and dismay, : Except to the poetry writer. You are struck with @ chill when vou try to be gay. Unless you're a poetry You know that the wi in non- And love without money seems risky at best, 0, MARCH 18,. 1923—PART 2. thout Taking In| .., without changing the Constitution. The general government has appealed to the cupldity of some of the states and formed a partnership with them in certain enterprises, then used this partnership to force in other states by indirect blackmall. States not favorable to joint enterprises with the government are compelled under the system to pay their share of the taxes whith go to less wealthy states. The government ald policy by which appropriations are made by the Con- gross contingent upon like appro- priations by the states, is distinct- ly bad. Hundreds of millions of dol- lars are being expended this fiscal year under the new device of match- ing federal dollars with state dollars. * x % The general government is inves- tigating everything under the sun, in- cluding, of course, the ever-present boll weevil and the lowly wood tick. Even a’cursory examination of the subjects of investigation will reveal that they are of only indirect interest to the American people at large and of primary interest’to some locality or class of citizens. Hundreds of milllons are being expended. Congress seems to think that an unjustifiable appropriation becomes justified when the state is required to spend &s much of its own money as of federal funds. Barberry and wheat rust may be exterminated by | a state in a fifty-fifty partnership with the general government albeit states which are not interested are taxed to pay the government's share of the cost. River and harbor improvements by the federal government eat up mil- lions of dollars annually, yet the benefits may be largely iocal. In some cases, the Army engineers re- port that only local interests would be served by the improvements, in which event the federal government pays only part instead of all of the cost. Just what is being done to Trinity river down in Texas just now i do not happen to know. The I heard was that promoters ot its improvement were still investi- gating whether a sufficient number of artesian wells could be dug to fill the stream bed after it was dug. For the next fiscal vear more than voted the Con- improvement internal by gress for of waterways. * % The people of the United States should do one of two things. either DUt a stop to federal aid for improve- ments and investigations and experi- ments of all kinds or quit complain- ng about high taxation. The govern- ment cannot build highways. look after prospective mothers, eradicate Pests, improve water transportation, increase production and what not without raising money. I do not ask that these activitics cease; I merely point out that if the people desire. they can cut down the taxes of the general government 25 per cent. Bob Toombs of Georgia made in the vears ago a speech which well may be repeated today. “1 have not been sent here to ask public money for my constituents he said. “For the eleven years have been in the two houses of Co: gress iy constituents have never asked me to introduce one bill for their benefit. or the benefits of their nursuits, neither special nor general, and I have never introduced one. If You are going to spend money wrong- fully. if vyou are going to spend it profligately, T wish rou to do it any- where else’ but within the borders of my state. When the system shall ave been finally established that the s are to enter into a miserable scramble for the most money for their local appropriations, and that senator is to be regarded the ablest representative of his state who can get for it the largest slice of the Treasury. from that day public honor and property are gone, and all the states ure disgraced and degraded.’” 1 _wish Bob Toombs could from his grave and speak again to the states in whose rizhts he believed Senate seventy and would beg them once morfe to, sert their rights, discharge their ities, become self-respecting. and cease to be mendicants begging at the federal Treasury. «op: come | While there must be left ample op- portunity for proper selection of (-nbi n and the widest I st be ves by chiefs tives, there no s of pay f N ny better worl zetting a great deal mor t he will not be satistied. The most careful attention must he ziven by the Reclassification Board to see to it that this matter of equal pay for equal work is carefully worked out in dealing with the civil personnel. It must be clastic enough to meet con- ditions, but not so much as to perpetu- ate the present inequalities, With proper equalization of pay for equal service performed, higher sal- aries, good annual and sick leave privileges and retirement, the govern- ment service after July 1, 1924, should offer a far more attractive life field for the young man or woman than it does tadn —_ ———— knows th Hughes denies the United wants France's West Indies in ement of war debts. We have ubles enough of that variety al- —_———— Poincare and Cuno indignantly deny any weakening. A hopeful sign that something may happen soon to end the Ruhr deadlock. —_——— One benefit from the recess of Con- that it gives the Congres- xional Record a chance to catch up on undelivered speeches. gress is “Political Organizations.” Following immediately the claim made by the Ant!-Saloon League that it is not e political organization, but @ constantly functioning educational institution, advanced in support of the «ontention that it should not be sub- ject to the law requiring publicity of its receipts and expenditures, comes o letter which may have a bearing upow the assertion, It is from William A. Anderson, state superintendent of the Anti-Baloon League of New York. It is addressed “To the Members of the Sixth-eighth Congre: and contains an attack upon the legislative and subernatorial record of Gov. Alfred E. Smith of the Empire state, together with a decided slur upon his supposed presidential aspirations. Inclosed in the letter is a four-page printed pamphlet setting forth his alleged course favoring the liquor interests, . upon which the letter comments as Tollow: “This record is sent for your in- formation, as part of e regular and uninterrupted campaign of educstion. 'The Anti-Saloon League of New York fpeeds to meke no suggestion, Gov, | east woman's committee are at 151 Gth ave- nue, New York. The story of the plight of these near | refugees is one of the most pathetic in all history. In order to es- cape from Turkish territory many of the children made pilgrimages of hun- mainly on foot. They mountains and across aterless deserts, through country in. fested with bandits. Able-bodied men had been detained by the Turks, so the caravans were made up of old men, women and helpless children. Hundreds perished by the wayside, and those who did finally manage to reach safety were in pitiable condi- tion. Two American relief workers sacrificed their lives in bringing the refugees out. ‘These children now are in friendly lands, safe from the ruthlessness of the Turks, but they must be fed or they will die. They are being gath. cred into orphanages where they may be restored to health, physical and { mental, and given elementary educa- ! tion and { will enable them, industrial training which in future years, to become useful men and women. It is a work which makes a practical as well as a sympathetic appeal, and it undoubtedly will be given the generous support it deserves. Americans are the only people in position to save these unfortunates, and having put| our hand to the plow we cannot now turn back. ———— The fact that President Harding has turned northward on his vacation trip will in no wise affect the warmth of the receptions extended him. ———— Bishop Manning asks the churches to help curb divorce, but would be willing for Dr. Grant to divorce him. self from the church. ————— 01d Statues. It has been found that the George Washington equestrian statue in Washington Circle has suffered be- cause of years and weather. It will be sent away for repair, and then re- stored to {ts pedestal, or by act of Congress will change places with the Jackson statue in Lafayette Bquere. A full measure of dispraise has been given by the critics to both statues, between which there is relation- ship. Art criticlsm is variable and inconstant. Practitioners of art divide on what is true, or eccurate, proper and beautiful. They leave In per- plexity non-practitioners of art and those persons who have never taken art instruction. It is feared that artists' conceptions of art vary with the times, and that what may be good art in one generation mey not be good art in another. It would follow, then, that if art crities ceuld pull down what they call bad statues and monu. Except to the poetry writer: On a small cozy cot your ideals don't rest, Unless you're a poetry writer. ‘These mutual expressions of lasting esteem Will ne'er make the board bill lock | brighter. And you know that a man ousht 1 toil and not dream. Unless you're a poetry writer ‘This world is a place that is teeming with fun, Except for the poetry writer. You can work at your task and be glad when it's done, Unless you're a poetry writer. And if somebody says that your wit is quite bad, Don’t you care, if it makes a heart lighter. Dig ahead, without pausing to pose, and be glad That vou are not @ poetry writer. The Rain, Give unto me my old umbrell, I never kick again. I'm very glad to see that this 1s plain old-fashioned rain, I'm glad it didn’t smite the earth And make the horses quail. That is, I'm gled it didn’t freeze And 8o turn into hail. I'm glad it didn’t come as snov And drift along the street, And freeze and linger while we gazed In misery complete. Thrice welcome, wet and chilly rain! For when your stress is spent, The streets are clean. You don't de- pend Upon the government. A Wireless. . ‘We've waited full long for & hint from the lady ‘That waiting shall not be in vain. We sigh for the spot all embowered and shady Where birds sing their sweetest re- frain. ‘We yearn, and our faith she has never been wronging, To greet her once more 'neath the moon. We are waiting with trust and with infinite longing For & wireless message from June. At last she has sent us the cherished assurance That she will turn homeward once more. The crocus looks up with its herdy endurance And bide the flowers smile as of yore. The south wind with whispering fra. grance draws nearer And breathes a prediction that soon ‘The world will be better and fairer and dearer— P 'Tis a. wireless message from Ilm-; Rulers of Scandinav SE DE FONTENOY. a gather- agen of the three rulers of Scandanavia, on the | occasion of the silver wedding of the | i King and Queen of Denmark, vet the | | government of the later country and jthat of Norway are at daggers' drawn, and it is hoped that the cele- bration may be signalized by some settlement of the differences which have recently had the effect of arous. {ing against one another thess two eister nations, speaking the same lan- guage, and united for so many hun- dreds of years. The issue at stake is the eclaim which Norway has lately put forward to a share in the sovereignty of Greenland. Tt may be remembered that, when the auestion arose as to the ownership of Greenland, whose rade has been a monopoly of the | BY THE WARQIU Although there | { Danish crown since 1774, the matter was referred to the great powers who agreed to what is now known as “the | American decclaration,” that Den- i mark’s soverelgnty over Greenland is omplete and absolute, and that the vhole of it was Danish territory. | Norway accepted this verdict, and for. {mally surrendered her pretentions to {any portion of Greenland, in return for Denmark's cndorsement of Nor- way's rights to Spitsbergen. ok k% Instead of abiding by this agree- ment, the Norweglans have with the | 1ast year put forward a demand to ownership of the northeastern por- tion of Greenland where they have managed to establish certain trading Iln!en:slu. Naturally, the Danes will not hear of anything of the kind, and some very sharp notes have recently agsed between the governmnts of Christiania and Copenhagen. Matters are somewhat complicated by the fact that the rulers of the two nations are brothers, King Haakon of Norway being the former Prince Charles of Denmark. The trou- ble about the affair is that alike in Norway and in Denmark, the people are very obstinate and unbending where they believe their material rights to be at stake and never at. any time particularly ready to listen! to the voice of their sovereign. In fact, it must not_be forgotten that when Norway seceded from Sweden and pro- claimed her independence and eum- moned a national convention to de- termine whether their new govern- ment should be a monarchy or a re- publie, the majority in favor of hav- ing & ki instead of a chief magis- ke of the commonwealth was very small. l * kR K King Gustave of Sweden, though no brother of the other two Scandina. wvian rulers, is bound to them by close ties of, relationship. For old Queen Loulse of Denmark—that is to say, the mother of both Christian X and of Haakon VII—is a daughter of Charles XV of Sweden, and derived most of her wealth from that coun- try. "Fhe meeting of the three kings will be remarkable for the fact that it i the first occasion on which all thre have come together since their con- ference about seven years ago, to de- termine upon their policy of neutral- ity, and the methods of preserving it during. the great war then in prog- an Countries To Meet for First Time Since War ess. Germany brought every posisble pressure to hear upon Sweden and ipon Denmark to induce them to join the cause of the central powers, and the three kings then resolved in con- junction with their respective gov- ernments to retain at all costs their neutrality and to preserve it if neces- sary at the.point of the sword against Germany. The agreement then reached on the subject proved a wise one, and the three countries, thanks to it, were enabled to emerge from that period of stress and strife with vastly en- hanced prosperity and prestige. All three of them, relatively small coun- when compared to the great powers, are weak {n themselves, but strong when united. That is why they should always pull together and never permit petty differences to be- come acute, * k¥ % As it was generally understood that Sir Henry Stanley, the great African explorer. who found the long lost Livingstone, and who rescued Emin Pagha, left no issue by his romantic marriage with Miss Dorothy Tennant, some surprise has naturally been cre- ated by the public and official an- nouncement that King Albert of Bel- glum had accorded a private audi- ence of some duration to Lieut. Den- zil Morton Stanley of the 14th Hussars (of the British army), son of the late Sir Henry Stanley, G, C. B., the friend and assoclate of thés late King Leopold of Belgium, in his creation of what was formerly the Congo Free State, which even before his death, had become the colonial empire of the Belgian crown. Now, it is perfectly true that Sir Henry and Lady Stanley had no chil dren.” But, a few years before Sir Henry's death, the couple adopted a little boy to whom.they both became deeply attached and who succeeded to their name and to all of their ex- tensive property. Lady Stanley's home on Richmond Terrace in Lon- don was both prior and subsequent to the death of Sir Henry a rendez- vouse for al] sorts of well known men —statesmen, scientists and explorers, including Nansen, who took a great fancy to the boy. * Kk % Of his actual parentage almost as much ignorance exists today as that which prevailed about that of his foster father, Sir Henry. Of course Lady Stanley's parentage is well known, though many are still under the false impression that she is related to Mrs. Asquith. But there have been no ties of kinmanship be- tween them, though curiously enough, each of them is & daughter of a Charles Tennant. Whereas, Mrs. As- quith’s father, the late Sir Charles Tennant, was the greatest manu- facturer of chemicals in the United Kingdom, Lady Stanley’'s father was a Charles Tennant who had amassed a large fortune out of & canal which he owned near Neath. She was a cousin of Hamlilton Alde, and like him could show descent from Oliver Cromwell through the latter's daugh- ter Frances who married Lord Rich. Dorothy Stanley was a painter of established reputation and even of fame, renowned for her portrayals of the London gamin in all his mant- festations, and was 2 Jurly ex- hibitor at the Royal .Academy. Her sister married Frederick Myers, the Cambridge poet and essayist, Capital Sidelights MBY WILL P. KENNEDY, siderable space in the public press has been devoted to the three women who sat in the House at the close of the Sixty-seventh Congress, setting a new record— Miss Alice Robertson, Oklahoma; Mrs. Winni- fred Mason Huck, Illinofs, and Mrs. John I Nolan, California. But the public has read nothing, until this 80od hour, about one woman who has done very important work behind the scenes for Congress for a quarter of Ia century and 'who, in the closing hours of the Sixty-seventh Congres: by a special resolution, was retained jin service. The House considers itself fortu- nate in being able to “hold” AMrs, Florence Donnelly, who came here with the late “Jim” Mann a quarter of a century ago, who hes been his “right-hand man” ever since, includ- ing the years he was republican lead- er. and in justice to whom Mr. Mann sald: “She” knows more than four- fifths of the members of Congress." It must be recalled that “Jim” Mann was one of former Speaker Cannon's so-called “cabinet,” and during those famous days of political and inter- party fighting had charge of the re. Lublican organization in the House, Jjust as when the present republican majority was organizing and Mann wae defeated for floor leader in favor of Mondell they suddenly woke up |and found that Mann was still con- trolling the organization. It was Mrs. Donnelly more than any member or group of members of Congress who helped Mr. Mann or- ‘The resolution | ganize committees. | Which provides for her being re- tained in the service of the House | technically places her under the su- |pervision “of Willlam Tyler Page, clerk, but she will in reality be a sort of legislative clerk to the re- publickn majority, where her years of service in keeping Mr. Mann post- {ed on all legislation before the House will be of inestimable value. She will continue to serve as clerk to “hr republican committes on com- mittees. For approximately twenty- five years no member of the House has been as well informed on all {Lills before the House as Mrs. Don- nelly, and withall she is self-effacing. and only the older members even know who she is. * ¥ ¥ * There's another woman employe at the Capitol who is likely to stay on the job—Mlss Stella Diffenbaugh, who has been “right-hand man” to ‘l’-‘rfln}\ W. Mondell during the four vears he was House leader. Miss Diffenbaugh was with Mondell for five years, and for seven vears before '(Yal with Representative Frank P. | Woods of Towa while he was chair- {man of the republican congressional committee. It was while she artracted the attention of Represen- tative Mondell, who was then chair- man of the auditing committee, It is reported on good authority about the Capitol that Miss Diffen will be found still on her old j { “right-hand man” to the floor leader when and {f Representative Nicholas Longworth is elected to that position as successor to Mondell. SR | Sons ofttimes follow in the foot- steps of their famous fathers, which lead to Congress, as witness |Joseph S. Frelinghuysen of New Jer- sey is the fourth member of his fam- ily o occupy a seat in the United States Senate: Representative Charles R. Crisp of Georgia was elected to fill out the unexpired term of his father, Speaker Crisp: Representative Fritz Lanham of Texas is occupying the seat his father had before him: 8o Representative Hamilton Fish York. and others too numer- Qus to mention “Now, coming into the Sixty-eighth Congress is Richard S. Aldrich. from the second Rhode Island district. He {was born in Washington, on New Hampshire avenue, while his father was United States senator. When- ever any member of the Rhode Island delegation is kidded by his colleagues about coming from the Emallest state in the Union, he promptly backs them |up by saving: “Yes. but remember. that vmallest state gave you Senator Aldrich, who was known ‘the manager of the United States.” * %> It any one thinks it is an easy job fo spend Uncle Sam’s, millions or bil- lions, he should restrain himself from isnap judgment. It costs Uncle Sam !a sizable penny even to decide how i his money shall be spent. There's the iexpense of maintaining the Senate |and House committees on appropria- tions. and the costs of the budget bureau and the accounting forces in the various government departments and the general accounting office {t- self, Take one insignificant item to illustrate: In its search for informa- tion to justify appropriations recom- mended by the budget bureau, the House appropriations committee had 7,000 printed pages of testimony taken during preparation of the eleven reg- ular annual appropriation bills and two deficiency measures. Here was the cost of stenographer hire and the subsequent cost of printing. * % % % The death of Samuel L. Gray and Fred Irland, nestors of the House of Representatives' reportorial corps, the former being burled on the same day the latter died, emphasizes the strain that is upon these men, whose minds are human sluices through which passed millions of words spoken on the floor of the House on countless subjects. There are six members of this House reportorial corps. and they re- ceive $6,000 a year each. All of this force are more or less run down, especially as both Gray and Irland were absent from their duties on count of sickness during the final jam. It is probable that their death will lead to & system of substitutes. These reporters now take down every word spoken on the floor, in twenty-minute “takes” and then 'dictate to expert tranacribers, which in itzelf is a try- ing task. Fred Irland was dean of the corps and just plain worked himself to deatt. He ran down just as a clock is said to run down. The oldest man n years on the corps is Reuel Small. " He was ap- pointed when Tom Reed was Speaker, as were also Irland_and Allister Cochrane. The other official reporters of debate are John D. Cremer and George C. Lafferty. The custom is that whenever it is possible vacancles on this reportorial staff are filled from the ofMclal corps of committee stenographers. Cremer was_the last so appointed. He came to Congress first when he was asso- ciated with “Uncle Joe” Cannon, then chairman of the appropriations com- mittee, where he saw service for ears. me»?ry );ru.nd had the reputation of being able to write 300 words a minute, and read his stenographic notes backward, a year afterwards, when they were “stone cold.” In telling of the work of the re- porters of debate the name of John (*Jake) Cameron cannot bs omitted. He is ofcially listed as “assistant official reporter.” His duties consist chiefly in watching copy, making in- serts and corrections. In other words, he keeps track of all copy for the Congressional Record, and this is a particular _job, because all the speeches are submitted, after being tranacribed, to the members making them, for corrections. Cameron was formerly understudy to John J. McElhone, who was dean of ‘the corps and one of. the most noted shorthand :writers in the his- tory of the country. He was a per- sonal friend of Samuel J. Randall at the time he was Speaker. When Mc. Elhone died the office of chief wai abolished and all the reporters put oy an equality, excep! fongest in sarvice was considered the dean, and that'was Fred Irland, |y L] thus employed that Miss Diffenbaugh | nomed i i | [ ber ‘'MEN AND BY ROBERT T was only bad weather that pre- vented President Harding engaging in about as dangerous and thrill- ing.an expedition as ever comes into the life of an occupant of the White House. Desp-sea fishing off the Florida coast is not hothouse amuse- ment. Theodore Roosevelt waited until he had completed his term of office be- fore braving the beasts of the African jungle. President Harding had hoped for the second time since his election to do battle with the man-eaters of tropical waters, The President has been fishing where the swift-striking barracuda, “tiger of the sea,” hits with deadly aim at anything that comes within his path. It was only last summer that a barracuda was credited with killing a girl swimmer in Tampa bay. When he was fishing over these same grounds two years ago Mr. Harding himeelf hooked a twelve- foot man-eating shark on his line. Fortunately the beast cut the tackle and made away without upsetting the presidential party. It can readily be seen, however, that in fighting game fish which measure from six fect upward rare skill with hook and line must be shown, and that a mis- step or awkward move might easily plunge a man overboard In the most dangerous waters of any part of the world. President Harding was to have been chaperoned on his fishing trip by veterans of the sea—men like Carl Fisher, Jimmie Allison of Indian- apolis, who lives with the fish in the wonderful aquarium at Miami Beach, | and by Capt. Charlie Thompson, who | knows more about fishing than some ! of the fish themselv The corre- spondents with the President have been having quite a little difficulty in identifying the scene of the Presi- dent's deep-sea exploits. They have called it Cocobolo bay, Cocobola bay, Cocoloba bay—everything but Coco- cola bay. The real name of the place is Cocolobo bay, and it was once the haunt of Black Caesar, as nasty a pirate as ever roamed the Spanish main. There still are evidence of | the pirate's days on the shores of Cocolobo bay. principally an old heavy wooden post with an iron | ring ‘where the pirate is supposed to victims when he hap- | pened to invite them ashore. The fishing grounds are off the| mouth of Caesar's creek, named for | the rakish old pirate himself. Here | thers is an old wreck which seems to be a sort of rendezvous or club- | house for the elite of the deep—th royalty of the sea. The fishing here is controlled by the members of the Cocolobo Club.” Fred Uphari, treas- urer of the republican national com- mittee, paid $1,300 to become a mem- of " the restricted club elrel Presidnt ijarding in 1821 was mad an honordry member and has b exercising his prerogatives as such. | About the wreck there are to- be | found barracuda. sail fish, ambe Heard and Seen When two messenger boys get to- gether, something may be expected to happen. The new messenger was being shown over the building by the older | boy.” They came to the suite of omce:i occupied by the officlals of the com- is the office of Capt.! said the older messenger, dicating the room with a flourish of his hand. “And this the office Jones,” he continued. The new boy looked at the office. with a name on the door. “Was he in the Army, too asked. No,” replied the boy “What's he got ‘private’ on his door | for, then?” asked the new one. | | Street car courtesy is progressing. | If you won't get up vourself, try to| make the other fellow give his seat| to the lady. | A voung man, probably twenty-five years old. was sitting next the win- dow in the car, when an older man, perhaps fifty years old, sat down be- side him. Farther down the street the Ca began to Al up with the usual crowd of government employes, men and women, young and old. 5 Soon & woman came down the aisle, and stopped directly beside the older man. He turned to the young man beside | the window. “Can’'t you make room for woman?’ he asked the young man Now that was pretty cool. In Wash- ington street cars in 1923 it is un- written_rule of the road that a man stting by a window is immune. He| sits pretty, and lets the fellow on the outside get up. When the old fellow pulled the above question, about can't-you-get-up-and- make-room-for-the-woman? the man | surprised. ou?" is of Maj. next the Street car motormen and conduc- tors have little methods of their own of getting their cars to the end of their trips on time. This is something that the average passenger never gives a thought to, but the train-, ‘men are in a different boat. Sometimes a lone rider on a car, at certain times of the day, is privileged to mee how it is done. in some cases. One “Unon Station” car running down Pennsylvania avenue toward | the Capitol was three minutes late, | according to the conductor. v “We'll go around the wrong way he cailed to the motorman. sl The conductor then turned the “14th ! and Decatur” sign on the front of the car, as the vehicle headed for Union, station. Now cars so marked take the ®ight hand turn, approaching the loading platforms in front of the station from the east. Cars marked “§th and F turn to the left, ap- proaching. the station from the west, E r city post office side. O'But this time the car took a left turn, ran rapidly around in front of the station. unloaded its one passen- ger, and then took out around to the east, siiding shortly onto the track Jeading toward the Capitol, and ul- timately to 14th and Decatur streets. As far as the former passenger could make out, this maneuver saved the car from standing at the usual loading platform, and waliting to take on the usual large crowd which wants_ to go out Pennsylvania av nue. Probably it helped make up that three minutes, but certainly not all of it. CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ————————— Nature Knows. From the Boston Transeript. A bald-headed man who made up in chatter what he lacked in hair said to another man, “Can you tell me why my head 18 80 bald when other peo- ple about me have plenty of hair? “I don't know,” was thallmlnng ly, “unless the reason gilven m ;.y’: farmer the other day would apply, that an empty barn is not worth shingling.” / 1- | e i travel, AFFAIRS T. SMALL. jacks, wahoos and many other fight- ing breeds. * ok ok * It was the.good fortune of the writer to be with President Harding on his 1921 expedition into Florida waters and to learn something of the fishing lore of Cocolobo bay s well as to record some of the valorou deeds of the presidential party. There were some tall fish stories told b fore the party disappeared into plratical ‘seclusion of Cocolobs but these stories were as notl compared to those which came with the party—stories vouched by no less veracious men than President himself, and Attorney ¢ eral Daugherty, and Sec Interfor Fall, a tells just who publican campa and George Chr to the Presider thepe may be som the credibility of Mr he may have inher his father, Col. Geo hri Marion. To the uninitiated let ated that there is a ud in Marion as to ‘ol. Christian or Dr. Geo ing, father of the President down the “rebellion” in 156 dent Harding says that have laid claim to tion. and frankly doesn't which one did it But to o Cocole is quite permissible to who have not fishcd ¢ have really never been fishing at all Here one baits one’s hook with a f some three or four feet Jong to catch & fi en or eight long. Occdsi the ei footer can be led in some big fish swoops along und swallows %0 one must wwift as well strong when on ng off t Florida coast r anywhere fro inch ing wha t s he 3 bay t those esars wreek S no te may event ate once the line is tossed overboar.! with a sparkling mackerel o hook &s tempting bait Th guide, . ph 1t is related of Capt Pre s fishing pher and friend, that he once caug a fish weighing 32,000 pounds. is no fish story—it is true. It eighteen to land the sizteeu ton monster and then he had to shot to death w bullets in his was towed a dock. W he k dock, the better part of valor to fight particular devil in the deep bluc he towed out ag eventually killed. In 1 eorge Christian was he considered to big fish—big he had eve ) river—when and be reeted bettar half Fifty Years The Star. When the Forty-second Congres had adjourned, fifty vears ago, wasg discovered that The Mileage one of the appropriz Adjustment. bills contained what was regarded S a “salary gral by w the pensation of creased in some cascs I of the mileage allowzanc of March 11, 1873, ti the facts in regard to A great deal if denuncia been expended upon membe Congress on account of the ext business, and all those who vot for it have been stigmatized in ur measured terms. It not denied that among. those in the afMirmutive on this proposition will be f names of Some of the best r of either house—men whos cill accuse of mercen It but just. theref Sentlemen “that & fection with members of C known. Q who voted report_took measure, not to incre. to equa them of mileage the grossest fnoquaiity it the compensation of members o Congress had always prevailed. Jus: before the war the father of t present Senator Bayard of Delaw: who received about §$200 mileage, sa by Duke Gwinn of California, whe got $19,000. To make the matter more unequal and unjust act was that, although receiving tl immense 'amount on account ot Mr. Gwinn did not actually g0 to Callfornla for vears. After tho war, when Reverdy Johnson was senator from Maryland, he received $128 mileage for a Congress, while Messrs. Nya and Stewart of Nevad received dbout $10.000 apfece “A few years ago so much com plaint was made about this unjust discrimination between members th a modification of the mileage rates was established. but it has still work- ed very unequally. It appears that fo the Congress just expired the mileage paid to semators from the states named was as follows: Californiu $4,029.60; Orcgon, $6,432.80: Nevada, $3.513.60; Texas,” $3,000; Louisi Arkansas, nesot < Nebrask $2.160. While vas the case, senators from cle to the capltal received but a hundred or two hundred dollars. equality, of course, has existc House “of Representatives thus be seen that not and representatives h been rec proximat per annum, and in a few exceeding that sum. The now stands by the conferenc abolishes mileage and all c ces and puts every me gress on exactly the samc This whole mileage business has a grand humbug fc members of Congress, near to or remote have always been with passes and have been unde: mere nom for travel is t that to adopt the view in the It will few senators e ¢ capital - provided a - P Newspaper illustrat ginning, fifty years ago, th: daily press being on Daily Picture tue rarest c cented with wood- Newspaper. ... pictures.” Wasi- ington, however, was given the bene- fit of & new process. as the following editorial note in The Star of March 11, 1873, indicates: “The new daily pictorial newspa c, the Graphlc, has many excellencies, but hardly comes up to the expecia- tion in the specialty announced—thit s, of ‘portraying accurately and fu 1y all leading events within twenty- our hours after their occt v peculiar application of photog o lithography. Up to this ti pictures, though spirited, been on this instantaneous cl and really the caricature cartoon paper is only a week old, it hardly r to make up a judgment upon merits, especially as the process by which the photograph is “transierred to the lithographic stone is a new one and probably requires a little time for suceessful developmenr N was just he n es ac