Evening Star Newspaper, March 19, 1923, Page 6

i B! e e e THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. | that the sun shone brighter ard hot- | ter sixty years ago than it does now, that the swimming pools were wetter WASHINGTON, D. G, MONDAY. March 19, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES... Busizess Office, 11 New York Chicago Office: Haropean Offce: 16 Regent St., Loudon. The Evening Star, with tha Sunday meraing *dition, is deliversd by enrriers within tha ci 25,80 Cante per momth: daliy’ o, 43 coate per meuth; ot s .'D. foa, 'ge l'lu!. mait, or telephone Maln 0. e2d of exch-month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily ony. . Bunday ol’nly. All Other States. Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 85 Daily only. 1 Sunday onl Member of the Associated Press. The Assoctated Press is exciusively entitled te the use for republication of all news dis- tehes credited to it or not otherwise crodited | this_paper and also the local mews pab- lished “her All rights of publication ef snecial dispatches hereln are also reserved. e ) Mr. Hoover's Good Advice. In a letter to the President Secre: tary Hoover proposes that public build- ing operations of all kinds, including those of the federal government, be halted, and that private building be given first call on available supplies of materials and labor. If followed, this advice would help to avert the most serious danger which today threatens mational prosperity—a run- away-market, with soaring prices and the possibility of another ‘buyers' strik Tt is true that the country is in need of public buildings of many kinds, es- pecially of schools, but it is in still zreater need of homes, and if there is 10 be competitive bidding for inade- quate supplies of materials and labor. and particularly if the government is to be a bidder against private enter- prise, the cost of home building will hecome prohibitive. It is bad enough 10 erect public buildings at an exces- afve cost, but it is much worse where tho.cost of residence and business properties is excessive. The former .involves a waste of the taxpayers’ money, but when the tax has been levied and collected, and the charge paid, .the thing is done with. In the caseof residence and business proper- es there is involved & permanent ex- cessive charge against the cost of living and the o of doing, bu ss. And so. even if the government could fford to build regardless of cost, it cannot afford to do this lasting injury to private enterprise. Some public bullding must be done of course, both by the.federal and by the state and subsidiary governments, but any projects which can be post- noned without serious and permanent injury should be allowed to wait. Mr. ! hat pub. | lic bullding operations should be re- | Hoover advances the theory served as a curb on unemployment, to be undertaken and pushed at times when private operations are not mak- ing full use of labor and the sources of production. The result would be more continuous employment of labor in the building trades and in the trades which produce building ma- terials, and would exert a steadying influence on the entire economic struc- ture. 1f the federal, state and municipal sovernments will unite in carrying out the Hoover. program a long step will have been taken toward abolishing re- curring periods of business depres- sion, and -instead of coming in streaks of fat and lean our prosperity will be more evenly distributed, and being on " a more heajthful basis will be more enduring. The sciences of government and of economics are, after all, large- ¥ A matter of good common sense, and this is eminently a common sense sug- ghstion which Secretary Hoover. ad- vences. —— John B. Smallwood. The death of John B. Smallwood, news manager of The Star, is & blow severely feit by the many who knew and respected and loved him. The community, with The Star, has lost one who, with all the ability of an unusual mind and all the devotion of a loyal heart, served it unassum- ingly and with intense and unflag- ging zeal. Just a ‘little less than ‘eighteen yvears ago Mr. Smallwood, then twen- tv-two ‘years of age, came to The Star. Serving first es a reporter, then a8 assistant city editor-and city edi- tér, then actiig news editor and finally mews manager, he built for himself. @ reputation for those quali- tdes which make for the highest type of newkpaper man and citizen. He died just entering upon vears of even fuiler usefulness. The heritage which John Small- wood leaves to his fellow workers in the fleld of journalism is the memory and inspiration of his unfaltering adherence to the highest professional and personal ideals. That memory and inspiration will be-his monument in the city he served with unfailing devotion. —————— President Harding smiles when he reads that he is a candidate for re- nomination—the smile of the cat which already hes swallowed - the canary. ———— “‘Subconscious reaction" is the latest defense for. shoplifting in New York. Sounds like a more plausible excuse for bootleg purchasers. ———— Other Times, A weather forecaster puts a quietus on the old-fashioned' winter and the old-fashioned summer. He says that “if the slightest change has occurred in the normal temperature of- the United States it has been too smail for science’s modern instruments to measure.” Sometimes science is a dis. agreeable thing and the scientist a dis- agreeable man. Many of us like to think and many of us believe that win- 1er was colder and summer hotter in those times which 80 many call *the days of yore.” The scientist has the figures fo prove his case, but there are in Washington many elderly persons who, will say that figures lie, and that tie Torecaster ip & figurer. They know \ llection ts made by earriers at the | mo., 80c ! and copler, the shade of the trees more refreshing, that watermelons were sweeter and cherries and peaches of finer flavor, They know that in winter the ice was thicker and the lflkating better. Sleighing was more | common and sleighbells more melodic. They know that a fellow could coast down Good Hope hill, Asylum hill, Foxhall htil, Fourteenth Street hill and Capitol hill without being killed | I by an auto truck. They know that on ! j winter evenings taffy pullings, wal-| nut crackings,” apple roastings and chestnut roastings were more sociable | { | than bridge parties today, or this even- ! ing. Where are the popcorn parties of vesteryedr? Why, a man has ta go far down in the country to find a corn- shucking bée or a “‘corn husking,” and { when he finds one he will be served cider of the denatured sort. If a wom- an should give a quilting bee now her neighbors would not speak to her. Even though the winters of long 2go ! | were harder, not so many persons | found it necessary to go to Florida to escape the cold,-and in summer not 50 many ran away to the Adirondacks and the great lakes to get away from {the heat. In the good ©old summer time Glymont, White House Landing, | Green Spring, Analestan Island, Leon- ardtown, Piney Point, Blackstones Is- land and Point Lookout were good :onough, and in winter a latrobe red { with the Heat of real coal at $5 a ton. | {or a sheetiron stove fed withi sea- soned oak at about $4 a cord, sawed and split, did the work. —_———— President Harding’s Candidacy. Announcement by Attorney General Daugherty in Miami, Fla., that Presi- dent Harding will be a candidate for renomination is accepted on its face as a semi-official statement, in view of attending circumstances of the utter- ance. Mr. Daugherty was the pre- {convention campaign manager of Senator Harding when he was a candi- date for the presidential nomination; | he has been regarded as closer, politi- | {cally, to the chiet executive than any other member of the cabinet; he bas been his companion on the leisurely jaunt down the Florida streams, when | no doubt politics was discussed, and the hour is propitious for such a declaration. The time, the place and the man would seem to be in conjunc- ion for the announcement. Politicians will accept the sugges- tion of President Harding's standing for a second term as entirely appro- priate. Indeed, a declination, unless based upon ill health, would be re- { garded as political indecorum of the ! gravest character. approaching well | { nigh to desertion of his party. It would { be hailed by the opposition party and other elements as confession that the | republican party had failed in the mission of government intrusted to it by the electorate, through an over- | whelming majority of votes. Such a course would be unthinkable of War- ren G. Harding. 1t is generally assumed that the an- nounced candidacy will have the ef- fect, whether it was the purpose or not, of gerving notice upon other po- tential candidates for the nomination who may be hearkening to the buzzing ! of the presidential bee to bide their time until 1928 before shying their hats into the ring. It remains to be worked out whether they will take the | hint and relinquish for the time being any ambitions they may be secretly cherishing. : Opportunity for the advancement of rival candidacies will be afforded in| those states which elect delegates to the national convention by primaries and in states of “favorite sons,” but it is not to be expected that the Presi- dent’s friends will be idle meanwhile in those states, and the work of sus- taining the preseqt administration or-| ganization, it is said, will be pushed with vigor. i | i i i { The New Filter Plant. It is encouraging to note the meas- ures taken for bringing the Washing- ton water supply system up to re- quirements, What is being done will no doubt provide an adequate flow of water to meet the normal demand of our population for many years, and make us secure against water famine, conflagration or other disaster which might be due to the breaking of thé conduit. For something more than thirty years individuals and civic bodies have been calling attention to the need of a second conduit or a sec- ond means of supply that the eity should not be dependent on & single conduit, old, long taxed to its capacity, and which could not be repaired with- out exposing the city and its people to peril. Things now have a.happier face, Work on @ new conduit is under | way, and it is said that it should be | finished by January 1, 1925. New| i reservoirs are to be built that more | water may be held in storage, as the | present reservoirs hold only e few | hours’ supply, and Washington uses | water at nearly the rate at which it comes down from Great Falls through the old conduit. Now we have the news that the engineer officer in charge -is about to call for bids for the construction of a new filtration plant which is to cost approximately $2,000,000, and which will filter about 70,000,000 gallons of water a day, or ebout the same amount which passes through the present fliter. plant on the high land south of the Soldiers' Home grounds. Progress is being mads along the whole line. The people of Wash- ington will watch with interest all the steps taken in the vast needed en- largement of the capital's water plant. B e To those of gesponding hearts and little faith the weather man would ecommend thé glad “assurances of Margaret Elizabeth Sangster that thexe “Never vet was a springtime When the buds forgot to blow.” e —— For & Better America. To celebrate its fiftieth annual mest- ing, the National Conference of So- cial Work has chosen the National Capital for its assembling, May 16 to 23. Between 4,000 and 5,000 delegates from the country at large and Can- ada are expected to attend the meet- ing. The objective is the exchange of ideas and experiences on the way. so- cial work has permeated and affected permanent institutions of society, such u5 the homie, the school, the church; i i p |year the country will be thankful. {Things are favorable at this writing. | i on your own track’ is Iture of preliminary THE EVENING' -STAR, - health, industry, end government. The conference is described as “a great educational, harmonizing, pro- gressive force, with no element of coercion.” 1t is explained that the conference is the “only agency for bringing some degree of unity end mass effect out of what otherwise would be hopeless confusion and be- wilderment.” This year's progrém, it i9 explained by the president of the conference, Homer Folks, will try to accomplish three things—a review of the progress made during the past fifty years 'in the various fields of charities and correction; to measure the extent to which the ideals of so-! cial welfare have affected social con- ditions, constructively and on the pre- ventive side, and to determine how the ideals of social welfare may fur- ther reduce the necessity for relief and for correction. The selection of Washington for this gathering of men and ‘women noted for intellectuality and philanthropy was appropriate. They will find them- selves in a congenial, intellectual atmosphere at the National Capital and will sense the interest and atten- tion of officials who may be expected to be in sympathy with their ob- jectives. Prominent officials and well known citizens have in charge the arrangements by a local committee. The conference should prove an epochal occasion. ——————— The Fruit Crop. 1f there is a good fruit crop this public opinion, law but one can never tell what & few | hours will bring forth. The peach crop may be Killed and the apple crop may also be killed. Every spring such news comes over the wires especially in relation to the peach. The annual destruction of the peach crop has be- come a popular joke, but it is a grim joke and has become a little stale. There has seldom, or perhaps never, been a late spring freeze so general that the whole American peach crop has been killed, but neariy every spring this crop, the apple crop or the strawberry crop in some section is d stroyed. It means big loss in that sec tion. Hopes built on prospective sale of the fruit go a-glimmering and things the family were going to bu cannot be bought. Every item of erop- loss news tells of loss to a great or large number of people. Let us hope that for the benefit of country people and city people the fruit crop every- where will be bountiful. ——— France serves notice that she will regard any effort to mediate her affair with Germany as unfriendly. In | other words, she recommends to the | world at large a careful consideration of Plutarch's discovery that * a wise say —_——— One cannot but wonder if the broad smile of President Harding as he read | the semi-officlal announcement of his candidacy to succeed himself was re- flected upon the faces of the dozen or £0 “if-the-people-call-me” candidates. —_——— It develops that President Ifard- ing’s Florida angling trip is in the na’ traintng for a! more extended jaunt after fish that will make a tarpon lock like a finger- | ling. i —_———— What a contrast! Great Britain, | soundest of the lately belligerent Eur: | pean nations, is paying unemployment | doles, while in the United States it is |8 proposed to suspend public building | because of the scarcity of labor. —_——— It probabiy is only a coincidence | that the story of Russian peasants! ‘who think the United States is in per- petual gloom appeared just at income | tax-paying time. ————— Professional fealousy of the Car: narvon successes may have inspired the archeologists at Carthage, who claim to have discovered Hannibal's stebles. It is probably just a stall. S S John Bull will na doubt refrain,| though sorely tempted to play a proverbial role in the ex-kaiser's new china shop at the Utrecht fair. SHOOTING STARS. ipléture of our mothers, {sweethearts. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Embarrassment.- I'once went to @ party with a set o regular swells, I thought that I would be 2 beau, an’ _ captivate the belles, An’ 50 I hired e dress suit, which 1 " thoukht would be admired, But pretty soon I knowed that every-| body knowed 'twas hired. I felt the wrinkles in the back. The sleeves wa'n’t long enough. i It seemed about six inches 'twixt my |35°. glove top an’ my cuff. 1 shuck han’s once or twice an’ then I went back home an’ quit, "Cause there ain’t no joy in livin’ when your clothes don’t fit. { An’ sometimes I feel sorry for the hustlin’, bustlin’ man, | A-scramblin’ and a-climbin’ as per- " sistent as he can Fur some empty mark of glory, when ‘he’s likely to be vexed ° By not exactly knowin’ what proper to do next. - ¢ For luck is mighty freaky. An’a man feels lost an’ grim ‘When it puts him in e uniform that ‘wasn't built for him. ~ * The honors that you covet don’t bring happiness a bit ‘When you suddenly discover that your clothes don't fit. The Severely Practical Side. Now gentle Spring is on her way; The flowers will soon be smiling; Across the fields the breeze will stray And lambkins in their harmless play. The hours will be beguiling. But what care I for blossoms fair ‘Which come the world to swesten ‘With perfumes delicately rare? For breezes, too, what do I care? These things.cannot be eaten. And yet, good Spring—'tis truth I say— None feels a reverence deeper For you. With joy I'll greet the day ‘When all the hens begin to lay " And eggs at last are cheaper, it's | Arm iB. {‘there are few - WASHING --D.- G, WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE ‘Who is President of the United States when the incumbent of that office is on vacatton and the Vice President, too, Is away? Well, the nearest approach to a substitute, i Rudolph Forster, executive clerk of the White House, who has functioned in that capecity uninterruptedly un- der McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson and Harding. The chief magistrate of the republic wields presidentfal power no matter where he may be, as long as he is not incapacitated physically or mentaily {n the constitutional sense. Ordinarily, when Presidents are away from Washington, volume of officlal business is’ s for dispatch. On the present occasion, inasmuch as Mr. Harding is con- valescent from a recent illness only the most urgent matters, usually re- quiring his personal signhature, are being forwarded to him. It {s Mr. Forster's prerogative to decide how imperative a thing is. Through a guarter of a century’s practice he has become a past master in the deli- cate business of changing people’s minds on that score. * ok * Senator Frank A. Brandegee of Con- necticut thinks Washington is awith- out a peer as a.place for idling con- gressmen, 80 he will remain here un- til the heat drives him to New London in the summer. At present he finds even the capital's capricious climate preferable to the deep winter condi- tions prevalent throughout his sector of New England. Brandegee, who breathes fire and brimstone at the mention of the league of nations or international conferences, was at private luncheon party the other day. which developed into a Kilkenny over world c6urt conversation. He had to leave the com; v early, and. depart- ing, sald: “There's nothing like strétching our legs under the confer- ence table to reach unanimity on con- troversial issues. * % x * The Davises seem to have it in the Harding administration. James J. is Secretary of Labor. Dwight is as sistant secretary of war. James C is director general of the United states refiroad administration. Stephen B. has just been appointed assistant secretary of commerce. Maj. Gen Robert C. is &djutant meneral of the Arthur P. is director of the reclamation service. Ben G. is chisf glerk of the State Department. Oscar section of the inter-American high commission and Dr. Willlum H. is chief of the vital statistics section of the bureay of the census. * ¥ k% Senor Don Federico Alfonso Pezet, Peru’s ambassador in some forgotten things in Peruvian- American history. During President Buchanan’s admjnistration, the United EDITORIAL DIGEST Anyhow, Mr. See Got “Front Page Next to Reading Matter.” The mental capacity and political | were honesty of women have been ecstab- lished in much the same manner as that which recently determined the value of women's colleges by Mr. A. See, clovator manufacturer.. Or bave they? i4ors don’t seem to be s0 sure of it as is Mr. A, B. See. As the Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tele- {&raph states the case, “Mr. See neat &plit an infinitive with his belief that sadder sights than women who clamor for the passage of laws the purport and effect of which they have not the mental ca- n to faintly comprehend.” Kk reasoning capac that' the matter.’ the paper con cludes, by virtue of Mr. Sce's asser- tion that a woman's brain weighs e ounces less than a man's. Fur- ther, women's political activities arige not from lofty, patriotic motives, but from a desire to get their names in the paper or to get even with some one, presumably. of course, some hor- rid ‘man. As to getting one’s name 1 the paper, the Pittsburgh Journal admits that Mr. S8ee made the front page worthily, because “today a man who talks like this is a curioaity, a freak. He s entertaining in modera- tion,” but .he paper warns him that to keep up such free publicity he will have to vary his theme. zince probably “after the novelty wore off” even “Rip a terrible bor: “Stijl," observes Times-Unlon, “he adds to the gavety of nations. And with base ball still somewhat far away and Congress ad- journed. -this is no mean_contribution to the public welfare. We've simply got to laugh- at something.” And. moreover, See. by his observation on the reasoning powers and mental capacity of women, has enlarged the whole subject until, “adding this to what Col. Harvey 'sald about their souls and former Gov. Miller of New York said about their political acu- men, We have a pretty well defined wives and And all from experts, too. That's the beauty of it.”” ‘As an essayist” the Springfleld Unjon pronounces “Mr. See & splendid elevator manufacturer. Like his ele- vators, he goes straight up and comes back exactly where he startes But even in an analogy between his doctrines and his lifts the Utica Press suggests that “If his clavators never went any higher than his opinion of women or his knowledge of the prog- ress made by the human race, they would be useful only to reach the sub-cellar.” The Press finds his phi- losophy “interesting only as it goes to show a recrudescence of theories that were out of date half a century This apostle of h. belongs In a Few Words. it b Mental healing began about the same time that man did, and is of a most venerable antiquity, but rather small for its age. e —DR. WOODS HUTCHINSON. The trouble with France, and, in fact, with the whole world today, is that families are too small, —HENRY MORGENTHAU. A warm fire, cheerful companions and good " food kindle gendus ‘far ;no%e] ef(nc!l}'alyrlhm !hetcold. lonely, oodless attic of romance. i —GRACE ANSLEY HOLDEN. 1 love fame no more and am ashamed of myself that I ever did love it. . T have seen too often how it is misused for other than good urposes. : e —GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO. The sole ambition of the defendant's wife was to be the best dressed woman of her set. This means much th; un;o as a life of idleness, vanity and folly. —n-YUS?H)GB McCARDE (of London). ne of the great dangers we flgln.l' is not that we fail to Amer icanize tgu lmwml T:éflbnt l: l}l'wo o- can! ) > Dll’_ugkt éTLLIAl( STAIR MYERS. At _the democratic convention in San Francisco Bryan accused us of seeking the return of the saleon. He asked every one who disputed the statement to stand up—and we all stood " up. —CHARLES FRANCIS MURPHY. The man who nsh}:s and ;:ray;;;l;t tes the map who i y- THEODORE ROOSEVEL ] "HEO! Marriage ceases to be monogamic or to have any sacredness or meaning at all when it can be terminated and an. orharulmip;' ntered into the Rochester ctically OB MANNING. is a member of the United States ! i Washington, | Stnator Carter Glass has been tim- told the Harvard Club the other night | ber for some time. { lever, an.Winkle must have been { fore our | States broke off diplomatic relations with Peru because the navy of that country seized a couple of Yankee ships loaded with guano about to leave Peruvian jurisdiction in viola- tion of the export laws. The dispute eventually was referred to the King of the Belgians for arbitration. (He promptly decided that the facts were indisputably in Peru's favor. There. uypon, as one of President Lincoln's earliest diplomatic acts, Trelations with Peru were restored and a Lincolnian amende honorable render- ed. The great emancipator ever since has been one of Peru’s heroes. ke Herbert Quick, author of “Vande- mark's Folly” and creator of “The Hawkeye,” his newest novel, is one of the growing colony of tront-rank American writers who find inspiration in the “atmosphere” of Washington. Quick, himself a Hawkeye, is about to complete his trilogy of ,owa romances, which deal with conditions on the eve of the civil war—the times which produced John B. Weaver, greenbackism and, later, populism. His next book will bring things up| to the period from which Smith W. Brookhart and his ‘isms emerged Quick has played many roles in the Iterval which preceded his fame as « novelist. He was once a_ fchool teacher, survived an editorship on La Foliette'’s Weekly, and for three years was a member of the federal farm loan board. Between times he served a term as mayor of Sfoux City and was a nominee for the lowa supreme court * k¥ ¥ Secretary ITughes has dispatched Nelson T. Johnson, one of our con- uls general-at-large, on tour of America lishments . throughout and Australasia. He ha spected the posts in China, m and Japan and is now en routc to New Zealand, via Viadivostok. It was on the strength of Mr. Johnson's inquiry into_ the British-American consular squabble at Newcastle that the State Department took up fits firm attitude toward Lord Curzon's repre- sentations. just in- Sorie Count that day lost whoss low de- scending sun witnesseth not the nomination of ‘successor’ to At- torney General Daugherty. Rumor's latest favorite son is Augustus T. Seymour of Ohie, first assistant at- torrey general, who hae been func- tioning for Mr. Daugherty during the latter's flines * a * ‘ginia threatens to come forward a brace of candidates for the democratia presidential nomination. Now enator Claude Augustus said to have put a lightning rod into vositicn. (Copyright 1923.) to the era whe their heroines as ‘i when pantalettes were modest damsels and estowed upon tables.” " But of Mr. Sec's courage there can be 1o question. in the mind of the | Boston Traveller. “There are brave who h thunderstorms— folks who sit right out on their ve- randas and watch the lightning play around their heads. But never, from the time of Ajax until this Mr. Alonzo B. Sec appeared. was dny one known thue to sit out in a thunderstorm with a lightning rod firmly grasped in hi two hande.” And the Akron Beacon- Journal thinks “it is well for him that he had the first word on the suh- Ject of comparative brai He will | never live to have the jast - The Utica Observer-Disp. frankly disturbed. in fact, that it offers up a prayer. “God give us men' ‘the disauicting thing about Mr. See’s ultimatum is that it affects sa- riously the world problem of femi- nine overpopulation. Ensland has to day several million more women th men. So_have all countr Europe. Think of situation! What dered world the mal has given ust Ivery met as soon as it arises more— every problem is scttled befora it ariges. Man, the conqueror by power | of brain. has ruled supreme. Andj now—0 Fate, be kind— ions of yn- reasoning women will dominate this fine old world and smash it to bits be- very eyes. The thousand vears of man-made peace will be hattered and ruin and chaos will probably soon rei As to the lack of patriotic and lofty motives in politics. the New | York Worid wonders if all the sena tors and representatives of the Sixty seventh Congress “were in Congre; for lofty and patriotic reasons. and, it 50, could a Congress of 531 women, with 2,655 ounces less of reasoning power. have done any worse for the administration, the country, their con- stituents and_everybody else con- cerned.- Let Mr. See bring on his calipers and slide-rule and demon- strate. 1f it could have been worse. there is no citizen with soul so dead that he wouldn't like to know how: The St. Paul Dispatch can look stil] farther back. “back to 1914, and wonder how women could have done any worse. It was the sex of the gentleman with the alphabetical name, the Dispatch recalls, “if we remember aright. which got the world into a terrible mess in August of that year, and it is that gentleman's sex Wwhich ever since has been ineffectu- ally trying to get us out of it. far from comeurring with Mr. the St. Paul paper “honestly thinks mankind might properly step aside and give womankind a chance,” since “she certainly could make no greater mess of it. Noble Thoughts Held Physical Stimulus To the Editor of The Star: After hearing the lecturer's formula for auto-suggestion health, the suf- ferer, Otto R. Kropf of Milwaukee, walked off the stage—he had been carried up there. Few recognize the influence of the mind over the body. God has so organized our beings that pure, noble, holy thoughts in general have not only an elevating and en- nobling éffect upon the mental and moral constitution, but an invigorat- ing influence upon the physicai sys- tem, and, on the contrary, every unclean, ignoble, ‘unchaste, unholy thought, as well as act, has a direct effect not only toward debasement of mind and morals, but towara the ger- mination of seeds of disease already in the constitution of the fallen race. The Christian’s habit of thought has much indeed to do with his spiritual progrees or retrogression, as is also an Index of his epiritual state, and md habits of thought need to be etully cultivated. ~ By “habits of thought” we.mean that normal con- dition to which the mind habitually returns in the moments of mental leisure; while engaged n the active duties of life, we must of necessity bend our mental energies to the work in hand, for if we do anything Merely méchanically and without céncentrat- ing thought upon it we cannot do it well. Yet even here Christian prin- ciples well established in the charac- ter will unconsciously guide, but when the strain of labor and care is lifted for a time the established habit of thought, like the needle to the pole, should quickly return to its reost. W. V. Cl RLAIN. J s designated | females.” worn by occasional pianos and | ail | | { n problem is }such landmar’ ithe wisdorn, the culture, the courage, H MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1923. — e Plea for Monticello. Historic. Home Should Be Pre- served, Says Correspondent. To The Editor of The Star: To those who are interested in the preservation of the historic land- marks of this country, and ‘of the memories of “the simple, great ones gone” the proposition to secure the home of Thomas Jefferson as a na- tional possession, must make its own appeal. Among the stabilizing and energiz- ing factors in our life today are to be counted the influence of the traditions, the standards, the ideals embodied in such a structure as the house gt Monticello, the birthplace of the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, framer of the statute for religlous freedom in the State of” Virginia, father of the University of Virginla, is ac- knowledged to be the second greatest man of his perfod. There is no fitting memorial to his name, and that memorial can be established most appropriately in the preservation of the stately home which he loved, bullt after his own designs, scene of his greatest inspirations and most profound thought, situated in the lovely hill country of Virginia. Monticello, should be secure from the uncertainties and possible changes of private ownership, and dedicated to the memory of Jefferson, and to the pleasure and inspiration of the American people. In this age, called not untruly an age of materialism, although some of the loftiest idealism has glorified it to all time, such relics of the past are national assets, reminding us that amid the rush of commercial competition and the crash of con- flicting opinions, there are some things certain still — the great stralghtforward principles which are the cornerstone of our independence, No one can travel the roads of Albemarle county, view the bulldings of the University at Charlottesville, which Jefferson so dearly loved, study the house at Monticello. which bears 80 unmistakably the stamp of elegance and culture, breathe the atmosphere that was Jefferson's daily environment, without experiencing a renewal of responsibility toward his brother, his country, and the whole world. And a certain pride enters into it. We. a ploneer people, the refugees from political or religlous tyranny, here in the forests of the newly found continent, repeated the homes of our forefathers in an older culture. and passed on to our children the tastes and traditions of gentleness, of scholarship and of courage. lgnorant men do not bulld such homes as Monticello, and common men do not en- Jov them. 'Great inspirations have been born in log cabins, thank God, but a gerene wisdom is at home in stately halls and under ancient trees. As the cathedrals of theé 01d_world are colorful with ancient banners, mere rags which hang from the cellings and drape the walls, flags and pennants, torn and tattered, scorched and bloodstained, which compel the reverent attention of all beholders. as symbols of the courage victories of by-gone da. our country cannot he too ric as bear witness to of our forefathers, during the soul- { stirring days of our Natlon's infancy. It ne that American energy and iative, in this twentieth give us authority, but we should not be blind to the fact, nor suffer our children to forget it, that much of our present power and pros- is ble to the foresight and wisdom of men whose own day was clonded with doubt and darkness, who in the period of our country's greatest stress, established policies ehich have been our bulwark and our gafeguard, Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, Madison, Adams, Franklin, Hamilton—and more than T can name here. - . We shall defraud our children's ok n if we suffer the concrete re- minders of these men to crumble away, leaving nothing by which the coming generations can vieualize the earlier phases of ~ our national existence. Christ said that man could not live bread alone. The soul needs nourishment, too, gnd the imagina- tion must not starve. The romance of sacrifice. was a vivid reality to Him. and His teaching established the eternal value of symbolism. He instituted ‘and ordained certain sym- holic observances, the outward and visible signe of inward and spiritual grace. A flag is such a sign. A shrine is h a sigh. A thing of materfal form, presenting an intangible thought, & memory, an inepiration, an aspira- ion. Our Government is wisely endeav- oring to conserve the physical re- sourrces of our land, its oil, its coal, its timber. That its equally valuable and more sacred resources of rev- ercnce and patriotism be conserved, must to 4 great extent devolve upon individuals. That beautiful Monticello be added to the list of rare historic homes, thus guarded by a grateful public, is the dear hope of the National Monticello Associatfon. Money can buy Monticello, but Monticelio stands for what money can not buy. In making iis appeal for funds, this Association can not: importune the reluctant, nor beg the indifferent, for money. It points out the op- pomunity. and takes the burden of correspondence, propaganda. exploi- tation. etc.. upon itself, but to beg for this money as"a personal favor, would be unwerthy of the cause, and unflattering to ilie intelligence and patriotism of otmers. The purchase of Monticello now. is a thing worthy to be done. The officers of the Asso- ciation will be at its office, 1108 Sixteenth Street, dally from ten o'clock to ome. Cordially they will welcome all persons interested, and gladly enter into correspondence with groups in clubs or patriotic societies throughout the land. MARIETTA MINNIGERODE ANDREWS. Tells of Weather Signs in Several Ways of Determining Forecasts Are Cited. To the Editor of The Star: In predicting weather for the District of Columbia and vicinity it should be remembered that mnearly all of our storms approach from the northwest or from the southwest, mever from the cast, and rarely from any direction other than westerly. The wind often blows from an easterly direction, but the storm is approaching from the op- posite direction, paradoxical as it may seem. This we learn from.the weather map and from the reports published in the daily-newspapers. Storms_usually move at the rate of about thirty-five miles an hour. When a2 storm reaches a place several hundred miles northwest or southwest of Wash- Ington it is easy to calculate when ft will reach this city. The best weather sign is the direction of the wind. A northeast wind shows @ storm approaching from the south~ west, and_a southeast wind shows a storm coming from the northwes A storm area has two motions: one advancing like the earth's motion in its orbit, and the other somewhat rotary like the earth’s motion on its axis. After the center of the gtorm passes the direc- tion of the wind changes. A steady wind from the northwest invarfably means fair weather., Long. gontinued winds from the north’ always bring cooler weather, and from the south warmer weather. Storms sometimes move from the Gulf of Mexico inland, but never from the Atlantic ocean in the vicinity of Wash- The tendency of sorms is to of water, dom from the water to .the land. Some storms are attracted by the Gre Lakes and go down the St. ce Valley inatead of reaching Washingvon Summing up, the most important rulk is_to look for fair weather when the wind is from the northwest, and for bad ather when it blows a1 east- T airection, ' THOS, W. GTLYER, | ! CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAULYV. . COLLINS ¥or while the rablle, with fts thumbworn cresds, sslons end ite Jittle deeds, in_selfieh strife, lo, Freedom weeps, Wrongsrules the world, and waiting Justice eleeps. A United States senator—a lawyer —accepts a fee to serve as attorney to secure the pardon for “tried and convicted traitors” serving sentences for disloyalty in time of war. Their crimes, say American Legionnaires, were in words more damnable than any deeds they could have possibly accomplished. The senator's legal learning, they declare, is of no value whatever toward gaining pardons, for the pardons sought are not based on terms of the law, else would he go to the courts, but his prestige is hired, in the hope that it will influ- ence a stretching of the powers of generosity toward men who did all| they could to undermine the nation’s defense and endanger the nation's defenders. And the news comes from the De- partment of Justice that about ffty of such convicts will be recommended for unconditional pardor. * ¥ ¥ ¥ It is the same Department of Jus- tice to which only last week Gov. Blaine of Wisconsin appealed for ac- tion in the interest, not of traitors, but of the nation's defenders, who, through the upheaval of conditions,| through the stress of nerves tried by trench and battle, air raids, disease and shell shock and long-drawn un- employment, committed offenses against civil or military laws, and are now suffering terms of imprison- ment, in some cases so severe that! the fate of the traitors is mild in comparison. Military sentences are usually more drastic than those of civil courts. Gov. Blaine had discovered in the! Wisconsin penitentiary some of these ! men whom all America had lauded as| “heroes” in 1915, now dying from dis- | eases growing out of the war and the | imprisonment. He asked the Attor- ney Genera] to order a survey to be made of all military prisoners, so| that their physical and mental condi- tion might be.discovered and the| merits of their cases be reviewed, as | had been done with the “political| prisoners” The Attorney General re- plied that the proposal was “imprac- ! ticable.” * ¥ ¥ % No United States senator is em-| ployed to use his prestige for the] cause of -mercy to tho veterans and their release at tic same time that the so-called “political prisoners” are turned loose. The legionnaires ask “Would it not be simpic justice to release at least five ‘heroes’ with cagh | traitor?” Why, they insist, is there 50 much time to find out the reasons for turning out fifty of the one class | of prisoners and no time to discover | the dylng condition, as Gov. Blaine certifies, of many of the incarcerated | soldiers? . | “Wrong rules the world, and wait- | ing Justice sleeps ! P The women spent 00,000 last | year on artificial blushes. but th men spent more than four times that | much on smokes and “chaws.” which | 4id no more good than the rouge and powder. The pot can't call the kettle black, nor can the smoke find fault with the red fire of cheeks Maybe the rouged cheeks are sim- ply preventives of mosquitoes and other pests, for it is announc entifically that red light scares A-pink globe © the porch light is as good a safe- | guard againet mosquitoes and gnats | as a wire screecn. Now that men mo | Jonger redden their moses. let the ladles give protection, cven if it does cost $75,000,000 a vear. It is worth it. ¥ x ¥ The Americans who are not just as | ardent wishers for world peace as are | mandates over ic {work marvals for upli | begging or stealing. {just to clear the ea the most enthusiastic members of the Women's, International League for Pedce and Freedom might be counted on the fingers of one hand. But are not wishing peace and proposing defi nito and exact methods for world achieving of it two very differen propositions? Is the absence of World visfon and the recognition of the roots of-the centurfes in nationa histories and national tendencies and traditions and passions like groping in blindness to find the thread whic) i the only gwide from the labyrint of the ages? The good fntentions o the International League are beyond question, but is there not danger wishes may open the door to se deception of means, and especially t visfonary misleading of unsafe radi cals and by the very enthusias weaken effort? * % ox ok The good ladies listened in appar- ent approval to the talk of Mr. Lo Gannett, socialistic editor of a so- cialistic magazine. who told them that the United States was the mos: imperialistic power in the world. He backed his absurd statement with the declaration that our navy and ma rines are now following our commerce to protect it, even in Central anc South America, as if that made the national policy “imperialistic” His climax was: “If the history of the past decade is any guide, our empirc will grow rapidly.” * %% % What is the *history of the pas decade” from an imperialistic stand- point? During the negotiations of the treaty of Versaflles territory and vast regions w rust at America, and all were ab solutely refused. Not one acre one dollar of reparation was ac- cepted. Thrice wa3 Uncle Sam of fered the imperialistic crown of vic- . “which he did thrice refuse. Was' this ambition?” The fact that the speaker dared tel the ladies of his audience such twad- die, that “the United States is the world's greatest imperialistic powe throws more Jight upon the un phisticated credulity of his hearers tnan was realized by the “Women's { International League for Peace an Freedom.” * ¥ The potential power for real serv- e to mankind, which such a body of energetic' women posscsses, " might ft of the needy ong social lines would be in Conference o to meet * if it were dirccted al What a power th ranks of the Naton: Social Work. whic ‘Washington May 18 to * ¥k x There was great destitution Jowing the Teconstruction ‘days after the civil war. Immigration was jus beginning to be 4 problem. The poo houses were herding the -outcast from all grades of society. T streets of the large s w swarming Wwith cast-off children ¢ both sexes, sleeping in doorwavs and Nobody clatmed of them had becn pped out w ern cities. them, and carloads gathered up and * % This annual copference of soc.al work has heen held every year si the problems of s ter and safer because of th roblems of help that hawe alread: Been met and soived by these con- ferences In a practical, wholesome manner. Hero s a fleld for every man and wom give all his or her eneérgy possible for: the bet ment of the nation Earl of Rocksavage, Tennis Enthusiast. Becomes Important Peer of the Realm BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. | Colonel the Earl of Rocksavage, a| veteran of the Boer campalgn of a| quarter of a century ago and of the| great war, whose prowesses on the| tennis court and the polo ficld are tamiliar to many Americans, married to the colgssally rich Sybil Sassoon, only sister of Sir Philip Sassoon, has just become a peer of the realm and Joint hereditary lord great chamber- lain of England through the death of his fa the fourth Marquis of Cholmondeley (whose name is pro- nounced Chumley). The new mar- chioness has served as hostess to a number of the leading statesmen of Furope, many of whose conferences have been held in England at the country seat of her bachelor brother, Philip, one of the principal private secretaries of Lloyd George. or at the Sassoon villa. in the south of France, where she did the honors for him. Her wealth comes to her from the world-famed Jewish banking house of the Sassoons of Bombay, a coucern which for hundreds of vears made its headquarters at Bagdad, whence it financed the whole commerce of cen- tral Asia. and, indeed, of the entire orient, retaining to this day the man- agement and control of the immense Eastern Telegraph System. The new marquis and his wife have three chil- dren, two of them b the elder of who, heretofore known as Viscount Malpas, now becomes Earl of Rock- savage. T * The late peer’'s dcath was not un-} expected, for a few weeks ago, While out after the hounds, though in the neighborhood of seventy, he came a terrible cropper while taking a fence, badly tracturing his thigh and sus- taining other internal injuries. His son, the new peer, came to America in August. 1910, along with the late Lord Athlumney, the then Mrs. John Jacob Astor, now Lady Ribblesdale, and a whole party of friends and acquaintances, was extensively onter- tained at Newport, and was reported to be engaged in turn to several wealthy widows and heiresses, no match, however, resulting. 3 hanks to his marriage to Sybil Sassoon, a remarkably good-lookin woman in & pronouncedlys oriental way, he was able, through her great wealith, to restore the family: for- tunes, to 1ift most of the heavy en- cumbrances from the entailed estates, comprising some 50,000 acres of land in the counties of Norfolk and of Chester, and to recover poksession of the superb Cholmondeley country seat, Houghton Hall, in Norfolkshire, leased first of all to the late Heber Bishop of New York, afterward to Col. and Mrs. Ralph Vivian (the lat- ter widow of the late Marshdll Rob- erts of New York), and then to_ Coro, Countess of Stratford, who, before marrying the late earl of that ilk, was the widow of SBamuel Colgate of New York and a native of New Or- 5. lean: e Perhaps, now that.the new Marquis of Cholmondeley has become the ac- tual master of Houghtop Hall, for centuries the home of the Walpoles, he will, thanks to his ‘wife's riches, be able to repurchase the front steps of the stately. ‘mansion’.which came to the Cholmondeleys ‘through the marriage of Lady Mary Walpole, rl of York, to e o A Bar, Chotmondeley. 1t Is owing to the absence of these front steps that the present principal en- trance to the house is In he rear | stead of at the front. jThe latter, with its imposing rows {of columns ¢ on each side and statues over the center, was formerly approached by a magnificent double flight of marbie steps and marble balustrades ambled way by the thrift George Walpole, third Ea Oxford,. who staked them one at a game of tards played at I ton Hall and lost them. The v claimed them. and had them carted a few .days afterward, and have never until mow been re- stored, nor has the vacant place been filled. it ‘was this same Gecrge. Oxford, ‘third-of his line, wl der to'raise the necessary money to pay his enormous gambling debis sold what was in those days the finest private collection of paintings in_es istence. They were purchased by E press Catherine of Russia, and be- came the nucleus of the ceclebrated museum of paintings at the Her. tage Pal etrograd. There stiil, however. some very fine pic- tures left at Houghton Hall, incluc ing a number ¢f vandykes and Rev- nolds. ni arl of in or Among the features the ho are the door and doorway leading from the great hall to the principa salon, the door being cut out of solid piece of magnificent muhogan In fact, this door and doorway cost the Waipoles some $40,000. The state bedroom, with its furniture of green velvet, embroidered and laced with Zold, has, like the grand salon, a ceil ing painted by Kent. The bed, whic ost" $10.000. has been occupled by George 1V. by Edward VII and by the resent king. Neither the latter nor is father, Edward VIL had any fau to find with the apartments preserved for them. But George 1V was very angry with his host for placing him in a room which he knew to be haunted. George 1V claimed to have seen ar heard uncanny sights and sounds dur ing the night that he spent there, and while he refuscd to enter into an: details, he left Houghton Hall the next morning and mnever afterward spoke either to his host or he latter's brother, although fthe been uwritil then' favorite members of his household. 8 ’ A he el enjoys_the distinction o being haunted, not merely by on but by two ghosts, and it i3 possible that George IV may have been vi ited by both. One is supposed to be a little brown lady, believed to have been that unhappy Dorothy Walpole who married Char! second Vis- count Townsend, while the other su-} pernatural denizen of Houghton Hall is asserted to bs the ghost of a man who was killed by his brother.in a duel in the apartment now used as a billiard room. ok kX Lord ‘Rocksavage had for a time an Anerican sister-in“law, the wife of his only brother, Lord George Cholmondeley. She was the former Clara Elizabeth Taylor of Uma.hl‘ Neb., who was brought up in Wash® ington. From there she went to New York to appear in the “Wild Rose" company ard later to London with Shubert's “Dolly Varden” outfit. She married Capt. George Stirling of the Scots Guapds, Laird of Kippendarie. and when he divorced her, under very sensational circumstances, naming Lord Northland as co-respondent (killed, as the case. of Ranfurly, in the great war), she married Lord George Cholmandeley, The union did not last long. It-was sundered in 1931 by another divorce, after the th of ‘a little girl.” Lord George's only sister, Lady Lettice Cholmond ley, & famous beauty in her day, h likewise been forced to divorce her husband, Maj. Cecil Harrison of the royal artifers.-