Evening Star Newspaper, April 1, 1923, Page 36

THE EVENING STAR,| ‘With Sanday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY..........April 1, 1823 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company ess Office, 11th nd Pennsylvania Ave. New Y Nassau 8 i er Bullding nt St., London, Englaad. Evening Star, with the Sunday morning o, 16 deliverod Iy carriers within the city at 60 cents per mouth dnlis only, 43 cents,per Sunday only, 20 ceuts per mouth. “Or- bo sent liy mail or telephone Ma by carriers at the ders ma. 5000, Collection is mad: ead of each mouth Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Taily and Sunda! 1yr., $8.40; 1mo,, T0¢ Daily onl 1yr., §6.00; " c Sunday 0; 1100., 200 Member of the Associated Press. Tho Associated Pre exclusively entitled U @ for republic f il news dis 5 orcdited to it or not his paper and alwo the I news pub- . herefn. All rights of publication of 1 dispatehes hereln are ulso reserved Labor That Is Too Raw, At this time of disclosures of com- munist plots aguinst the government ©f the United States the American people are not likely to he responsive 1o the propaganda of steel mill owners and other large emplovers of “raw" lubor for a letting down of the immi- gration bars. The kind of immigration 1 steel mlll owners want is not the kind that is good for this republic. It 1 entirely too raw to be digestible. Contention that continuous importa- tion of low-grade labor is necessary to the weltare of American indusuy is an insylt to the inventive genius and engineering skill which have made Americun industry what it is today. It it were true that fifty vears of prog- ress substituting wuchinery for anual labor had come to & stopping . industry would, indeed, be in a . But it is not true, and it is B 1 the steel yrofits above permanent national w being. Even if al and politic conside no appeal , they ought to know that no gen- and enduring prosperity can be foundationed in this country on the 6 nt of labor. Instead of clam. nited supplies which cer again can they would do better t their inventors and engin work devising ways to use u smaller number of a higher grade of w Any chang immigration laws to which the American people will assent are likely to be in the way of more, instead of less, stringent regu- latlons. The notion of this country as a “melting pot" no longer appeals to hem. Too much refractory material been dumped into it. If they fa- 1 any present change at all it 'e to move back about a quar- century the basis for the entages. This would proportion of immi- e British Ieles and rthern LEurope gencrally and fewer from the races in the southcast of Eu- rope, which have been demonstrated to be nonfusible with the American stock. The time is not distant when. the demand will be for still further re- striction and gradual extinction of im- migration, Conditions which once made @ generous immigration polley logical e rapidly passing away. This no longer is a country with scemingly unlimited resources waiting to be de- veloped; and with natural increase «dding a million or more u year to its inhabitants the day is coming inevita- ®ly when pepulation will so press on food supplies that emigration will be- come us necessary a policy to the Tnited States as it now is to the over- populated countries of Europe. Looking forward to that time, there 18 growlng conviction’ that it 1s our duty s much as possible of what we have left for our children childfen’s children. In future eral to ors ger to save plac tathers came to Am was waste, conquered it an fat. But now the law Inishing return has begun to oper- , and the fatness is giving way to Jean. Each future generation will find the struggle for existence more diffi- cult, and it {s becoming a serious ques- tion whether we have a right to con- tinue longer to divide a diminishing heritage. There is no injustice in asking that those who are forced to| nds should now un- | quit their home! Gertuke to do what our fathers did be- forc us and what in time our sons must do—go out into the hard places of the world, subdy them into harvest —_——— President Harding is discovering that, unhappily for his well carned vacation, it f8 but a short step from the houseboat to the ship of state, —_————— Washington's moedel tincan tourist camp will be more of o model if the tourists will refrain from leaving their tin cans around. —t——— Tho wather man simply’ could not resist the temptation presented by a combination of Baster and Allfools’ day. —_——— Branch Establishments. A Washington bank asking author- ity of the Treusury to establish an wptown branch set forth as one of the reasons that such branch would serve the convenicnce of its patrons, &nd that the main street on which the pank stands is so congested with traf- fle that patrons cannot find & place to park a machine while attending to business at the bank. This is a condi tion which pressing itself upon bankers and merchants. 8o many per- gons are finding it difficult to use an mutomobile in transacting business downtown that they leave the auto in the garage and use the street cars or make their purchases at neighbor- hood stores. Others will roll around block after block looking for a place 10 park that they may do some urgent shopping. It often happens that such a parking place is not to be found and the purchases are not made. The shops are not suffering from lack of petronag: nearly all of them are e, £ : them and bring | crowded, but it is obvious that there | | would be more buyers, and that bu)'~I ers would look around more lelsurely but for the traffic congestion and park- ing difficultifes. It might seem that one result of this is to help spread bRtsiness over a wider area, and more and more persons are buying in stores on quieter streets away from places of great congestion. The thought ls apt to come to some persons that as banks open uptown branches, mnot only to attract new business, but to serve old clients, it muy become usual for the great downtown stores to maintain branches in varfous parts of the cit ——— Violating the Pact? An clucldating statement from some offictal source setting forth the luw and the facts in the relationship of clevation of range of navy xuns to the naval pact of the arms conference would be apprectated by the public. \s it is understood now, England denied that she was elevating the nge of her guns, and intimated that she would regard any such uction as increasing her naval armament be- vond the ratio permitted by the t & France admits she will clevate hers, and claims that such action has no relation to the treaty. The United Stutes s understood to ineline to the | view that clevation would be in con- travention of the spirit, if not the terms, of the pact. The point that the layman would liké to be enlightened upon is the exact basis upon which this divergence in construing the terms of the treaty stands, and how the true construction is to be deter- mined. Construing a treaty is often difficult, but in this instance there should be no difficulty in agreeing upon what it says, for all the world knows what the instrument meant to “ccomplish—to lmit naval armamenty and construction In certain fixed ratios among nations. Husty conclusions should not be reached in the absence of detafled tn- | formation on the fact and the law. But the peoples of this and other countries are passionately intent upon preserving the spirit of the arms lim!. tation pact. It was demunded pras cally by the whole world, groaned under the increasing burden of taxation and actual waste of ma- terfal and effort in the programs of navy buflding. That spirit of remon strance was written into every line o the ‘pact. Violatlon of it would out- rage the moral sense of the world. e April Arrives. cun never tell what weather a few hours will bring forth, but at mtd- night it was reported that April had entered Washington wearing a fur coat and not a frock of flowers. It was hoped that March might be in kindly humor, meet April at the Highwuy bridge, hand her @ sheaf of apple blos- soms und bid her take possession of the city. But March, surly to the last, refused. When the tme draws near for| April’s coming it {s the custom of our parks and gardens to fling out signs| of welcome, green leaves, bloom of oriental magnolia, beds of tulips and the like. Preparations were made to do all this, but March set the plans ut naught and chilled the enthuslasm of the trces and piants. With March withdrawn there will be another story to tell. The flowers will come forth to say, How! to April, and dandelion, but- tercup und violet will hold revels in ber honor. Peuch trece will put on pink und plum and pear trees white. | Washington is glad that April hasj come. Sho is capricious, but she is| bright and cheerful. It s not her man- ner to rattle the window panes with rude, cold winds. The sun shines brighter when she comes and the whole landscape turns green. —_—————— A young Frenchman claims to have discovered heatless light. But it will not do to get too enthuslastic over the | discovery until the well known cold tght of sclentific investigation has! been brought to bear upon his inven-i tion. ! 1 —————— It develops that those German cooks | swho arrived at Hoboken ara bent on | finding Amertean husbands to do the Now it is the turn of the democrats to worry for fear the league of na- tions will “get 'em."” The Associated Charities. The membership and finance cam- paign of the Assoclated Charities is going well, but not as well as the as-| soclation hoped it would, and it in-} tends to “speed up” or intensify the campalgn which will close on Easter Sunday. The inembership goal was 000, and the budget for the year re- quires the raising of $55,000. In round | numbers $35,000 has been contributed, and the membership is something un- der 5,000. Both accounts are growing. and by the close of Sunday the desired membership may be enrolled and the vequired money be in hand. Washing- ton needs the Assoclated Charities and ehould support the organization well. Tt has served the city for many years | and has proved its worth. ———————— e income of John D. Rockefeller from his ofl stocks alone is reported to be in the nelghborhood of $1,000,000 4 month. But that is not a good argu- ment {n favor of investing in & ma- Jority of the pretty ofl certificates of- fered the public. ————— The business of elevating the guns of the American Navy will never be undertaken at the cost of lowering the world's estimate of American good faith. The Bathtub. Yrequent comment is made on the spread of the telephone habit, the automobile habit, the movie habit, ete. Among the habits that might be men- tioned is that of the bathtub. It hab come to be considered as essential in the city home as the kitchen stove. The builder emphasizes the bathroom, the real estate salesman stresses it and the prospéctive buyer examines it as carefully as the kitchen. The practice of putting two or three bath- rooms in rather a small one-family house is becoming general. It is said that the first stationarr bathtub in v | them. This music student says that ‘Washington was installed in the Van Ness house, whose site is covered by the grounds of the Pan-American bullding. The house was bullt about 1822 and the bathtub was no doubt installed in the mid or late fortles. It was supplied with water pumped through a pipe. According to his- torfans, there was no stationary bath- tub in the White House until 1850, when one wus installed by President Fillmore. It is belleved that the first regular bathtub into which water was piped was installed in Cincinnati in 1542 by one Adam Thompson. It was of mahogany lined with sheet lead. Tt is related that ho gave a party to his friends thut they might ex. umine the invention, and that to try out the thing several of them toolk a4 bath in it. The bathtub had its troubles. It was such an obvious lux- ury that the tax authorities got after it. The water companies disupproved because so much water was needed to fill it, Physicians condemned it because it encouraged frequent bath- ing, which was Lad for one's health. The bLathtub seems to have come south sool¥ ufter ite appearance in| Cincinnati, and in 1843 the Virginia gislature put u tux of $30 a year on each stationary bathtub. The city of Boston passed an ordinance in 1845 that there should be no bathing in these tubs except on the advice of u physiclan. In 1843 the Phila- delphia common council had before it @ bill prohibiting bathing in bathtubs between November 1 and March 15, but the bill was defeated by two Various citles laid extra heavy w#cr rates on owners of bathtubs. But the bathtub has grown to be quite @ habit. ————— Music Masters and Birds. A woman musician, who specializes in the source of music themes, says that many of the masters got their { spiration for themes from bird songs. It is an interesting theory, and per- heps it is true. Efforts have been made for centuries to assoclate bird songs with human speech. Men have fancled that a bird was saying certain words, and they often named him in that way. as the whip-poor-will, the chuck-will's-widow, the chickadee, the chewink and many others. Men put words in birds’ mouths, as it were, and make the robin say “cheerily, cheerly, cheerily!” ‘and make other birds say “bobolink” and “whoo, whoo, whoo!” Centuries ago men louking at the stars fancied that they saw forms resembling carthly things and named thc constellations after the second movement of Beethoven's “Pastoral Symphony,” the swan song in “Lohengrin”-and some of the melodies in “‘Slegfried” and “La Bo- heme" are bird songs adapted and claborated by composers. She brings out a familiar Chopin prelude and seems to prove that its theme wes derived from the songs of the robin and the meadowlark. She ulso seems to show that phrases of the meadow- lark were used by Wagner in the fire song in “Die Walkuere,” in the song of the Rhine maidens and as the base of one theme in “Parsival.” She quotes a letter written by Brahms in which he says that being unable to get a eatisfactory theme for use in @ symphony he finally took a theme from the song of a bird. e ———————— No jealousies of statesmanship or rivalries of trude ever can wean Amer- fcan sympathy from a France the women of which keep green the graves of American soldicr dead, ———————— Germany announ & budgeta: deficit of 7,100,000,000,000 paper marks. Look out for a shortuge in news print. They have got to get the puper somewhere. | 1 It that Montana woman who is ‘taking her goats to the Argentine will come this way she can pick up a num. ber of additions to her flock. SHOOTING STARS. BY PUILANDER JOLNSON The Lunch Brigade. e in the lunchroom, and 1, That's where the deeds of great dar- ing are done. There's where the veterans wearily stoop; There where the smoke rises thick o'er the soup. Biscuit to right of us—dumplings to lett: Visions of orphans and widows bereft Rise to the cyes as you view with sur- prise The ramparts of fishcakes and bul- warks of ples. Pale men and floridd men—fat men and thin— Braving the din, hurry valiantly in. The rattle of forks and the bursting of plgtes Give warning that here noble souls meet their fate. And m2n who were happy and strong are laid low, Brought to their doom by a lump of cold dough! ‘Where men talk of war, then their tones become strange With horror, yet war is a game at long range, Yhere men, now and then by a shot gone astray, Are made for their patriot courage to pay. N But here there are martyrs who rush to the breach By hundreds each day, scramble and reach. In the battle of business great damege is done When the dangers are thickest, be- tween 12 and 1. tween 12 ¢ T and they Art and Nature, Upon an Easter egg one day A hen enraptured gazed. Quoth she, “To see one look that way I surely am amazed. "Twould give me joy were it my own, Here to parade it. But it's a species quite unknown. I never laid it.” A lady fine for Easter clad, ‘Went forth one vernal morning. The flowers all seemed dull and ead Compared to such adorning. And Nature breathed a zephyred sigh, ‘Then straightway patd her This compliment: “She’s fine, but I= T never made her™ An Easter Morning Talk BY THOMAS R. MARSHALL * Former Vice President of the United States T is impossible for the average) mind to keep up with all that is going on nowadays, but where oue's treasure {s there will his heart be ulso, and one inevitably seeks information along lines of pe- cullar interest to one’s self. This may explain why quite & few of us are not excited about our origin. We belong to neither the monkey nor the anti- wnonkey movement. It is quite im- matertul to us whether God made man in His own image or whether He took u couple of million years to evolve him out of a monkey into his present state of Instabllity. It suffices with us that God made him and did not evolve him, Still, T know no reason why a man, i® it is a source of comsolation for him. may not belleve that his an- cestors were monkeys, although I do not approve of & man shifting respon- sibility for his conduct. In the end it &1l comes to the sume thing. There can be no luw without = law giver; nothing created without a Greator; no evolution without an evolutionist. So far u8 we have any record of tie thoughts, feeling and conduct of man- Xkind, the intellectual motive back of life has been much the same through the ages. Of course, the thoughts of men haye broadened with the proc- ceses of the suns, but their thoughts have been practically the same, en- larged and intensified by each sue- ceeding generation. * ow ko This {8 a new Easter mom. The gladness of the day finds expression n triumphant musio and in the sol- emn assurance that the finer things of life rest upon falth and hoPe rather than upon scientific theories. The church is rebeautified; the trem- bling soul once again grasps more firmly the anchor of falth within the troubled waters of\time. Outwardly, it is reincarnation. Inwardly, how does it differ from that first Kaster morn? Then, as now, therc were all sorts of thought and belfef. Then, as now, it was not difficult to find what men thought. Now, as then and always, it is the riddle of the human intéllect to ascertain why men think the thoughts they think Pllate was in his imperial palace that morning. He had washed his hands in token of his innocency. He had nothing to do with the blood of that! Just Man. Although within his power to hava rendered judgment and prevented an appeal from the decision of tho court, hie yielded to the cries of the rabble. Even now in places of power are persons who care not sbout justice for others, who are sure that justice crucified will not rise again. Are there not many today who com- promise with truth rather than face opposition? Lven worse, arc there not thousands of careless, fndifferent, celf-satisfled souls who stead avold sesking answer to, “If a ma die, shall he live again?’ For aught we' know, Calaphas offered that Easter morning the sacrifice in the templ He doubtless approached his service smilingly, thinking he wasdo- ing God's will in closing forever the mouth of the pestilent fellow who somehow thought that loving sacri- fice was of far more avail to hu- manity tha burnt offering. thers not today many who still con- ceive that out of forms and cere- imorials the real life of a people 1S to ba made? Do they not gather to themuelves the thought that he who would substitute sentiment for regu- larit 1s distinctly inimical to the world's good and should be sealed forever In w tomb? Now, as then, those worth consideration are the Froken-hearted doubters and those stalwart souls who, like Jacohg will wrestle with the a el ull night * % ox % The iittle band of disciples had suf- fered the shipwreck of hope. They had m| Are] from lack of love or loyalty or faith. His was to be & kingdom, tempnral in character and all-embracing in its area. The might of man was not to prevall against it. And yet His body was slowly moldering back to dust in the new-hewn tomb of Joseph of Aramithes.. How many thousands there are who, because things have not gone their way, are inclined to | grow despondent, to say what's the use, to think that death ends all and to belleve that there {8 to be no resurrection into higher and finer things! How many are there Who view with suspicion, who stolcally accept all situations, Who prate about fate and admit the things they once belleved divine are dead and molder- ing in the tomb? Does Easter morn bring nought to these? It will brin surcease from doubt and sorrow { they will but avall themselves of the faith of that small group, women all, who at the break of day went to the sepulcher. Thess women had not the larger opportunities of the disciples |to learn the mission of the Master; they had not the training of the Roman ruler in the law, nor the nar- rowness of the high priests in re- Ialon. They just had seen Him and belleved. Intuitively they feit that He who had brought Mary's brother back to life could not Himsel? for- ever dia. So while Pilatc eased his consclence with denial of responsi- bility, while the high priest gloried in his formalism, and while the dis- ciples were submerged in doubting grief, these faithful souls early in the morning witnessed the first resur. rection dawn. ' EE All of us need to be resurrected from our dead sclves, to come from out the tombs of passion, pride, doubt or despulr into the sunlight of a new morning. But one {s not resurrected without faith, and faith is not always an emotion but oftimes ths consum- mate flower of finest thinking. Why will men take a partial view when they may see the whole if they will? Why ®i11 they spsak of Kismet, luck ifate, chance? Why will many of |thoss who delve into the mysteries of nature dispute the valus of faith if_indeed, they do not deny the neced of 1t? The wonderful discovertes of iour modern age do mnot dispute the idoctrine of the resurrection or tar- inish its glory. Indeed the more of | mystery ‘which research brings to light but proves the certajnty of the life yet to be. Without a word of revelation I should still be convinced that Jesus Christ arose from the dead ~ In portant to myself as is this faith 34 mine, comes today a_ thought of far more transcendent beauty. —Sinless vent to His death and going thus, s it possible for sinful men men on thelr dead sclves to rise to better thinge. 1 have u faith that teaches me that the not one death for man but m not one hope of resurrection but severul. Are the lilles to be taken from the altar this morning and transplanted into he hearts of men there to bloom perennially? Tf so, we must die to levery unworthy sent!ment which we have enteretained for our fello men. We must wrap in grave clothes every envy, hatred and ill will. We {must be touched again into newness of lie by the angels of love and service, We must cease to be coldly Jogical or personally indifferent. We must bring into the larger life of the world thut life so easily led at liome, the life of trust and love which does not argue but belleves, which has the supreme assurance that more things have been wrought by faith d prayer than ever came from doubt or questioring. The world has always needed a resurrection morn | und never more £o_than today. What |Would do this old world the most | good s u blind and, if you will, & foolish faith in the risen Nazarene. | We should leave in the tomb of Lent, wrapped in grave clothes, envy and mulice and hatred and self-seeking an and Indifference to eeds of others. 1t will he an Easter that will make the Master of mankind glad that He gave this world its hope if we shall be re rected this day to the full stature of sons und daughters of God “Never Again,” Is People’s Yow As “Coal Year” Comes to End HE last duy of March marks the end ef the theoretical 1 year,” and as a new coal year begins the American peo- ple almost with one ace exclaim, ver again!” What they mean is that never again, it they help it, will they through another wintcr season sub- T - iiected to such privations and extor- thefr lot during s to its wel other euch experience. They are mor thoroughly aroused on the question of coal than they ever were before; thelr representatives In state legislatures and in Congress are aroused, and state and federal executive officlals are stirred to action. It has been the experience of history that when the American people really get “het up” over a grievance something happens, and it 1s a good guess that something is going to huppen to the business of mining and distributing coal It is easy to become emotional over coal, but emotion has been poured into the coal bin by the tons, and it neither fires the furnace nor lowers the price of fuel. It {s only when facts havo been definitely established that remedies may be expected, but already enough has been uncovered to show the direction in which the inquiry tends. * ¥ ok ¥ The first element in the problem is that there is a wide fluctuation in coal consumption from the peak in winter and early spring to the valley of consumption in late spring and summer. The variation in consump- tion 1s esfimated as being (excent for strikes) from & low point of 1,000,000 to a high point of 2,600,000 tons per week of anthracite coal or a varia- tion in consumption from, say, 8,000, 000 at the lowest season to 14,500,000 tons at the highest season. As a matter of fact, the actual production does not vary so much as these ex- tremes because some coal is taken into storage at the low season. The second element in this problem is the fact that the rallways of the country are unable to carry as much as the concurrent consumption dur- ing the winter months, their maxi- mum capacity for all kinds of coal being approximately from 12,000,000 to 13,500,000 tons per week. There- fore, unless users prepare themselves with stocks of &oal in the spring and summer, they are unable to obtain their full requirements of coal in the winter, as the railways cannot carry the full consumption. Many great in- dustries, the lake docks and many munufacturers and dealors and house- holders who have &torage capacity, follow this policy so that we usually got by with a stringency rather than an acute shortage during the three months of January, February and March, the period of maximum con- sumption. * ok ok K On the other hand, the three months of maximum consumption and short- age in railroad transportation usually 1ifts the price of coal because there is then created an artificlal shortage, competitive action for the sale of coal is lessened and prices rise. Thus rofitecring takes place. During the :prlnt and summer months when the coal companies are unable to eell of the coa! that the rallways c: transport, competition is keen and prices are usually lower than in the months of maximum consumption. further than all this, the irregu- larity in consumption creates inter- mittent employment in the mines and the workers' wages have to be based on a per diem wage that will give to them a proper living standard. Under this {rregularity and that due to oth- er causes, the miners work from 150 to 220 days in the vear out of & pos- | sibis 200. The ultimute consequence of thiy frregular employm the public pays a higher price for coal at all times roughiy equal to the amount of unemployment in the in- dustry. Furthermore, the ‘rregularity in demand for labor creates inuch suffering and national discontent among those who get the least em- ployment. I we could have an even flow of coal throughout the year so that the workers had even employ- ment, the mines could be operated more cheaply and the workers would recsive a botter and more even an- nual income. * ok ok ¥ The hcuseholder who can, under nor- mal conditions, in the late spring and summer get to himeelf a reserve of coal against such contingencies is to be revered among the wise virgins, but whether it is wise this year, with prices maintained at an artificlal and extor- tionate level, to begin immediate buy- ing is another matter. The advice is given that by walting a few weeks, un- til stocks have a chance to accumu- late, there may be a break in prices. The third element in the problem are the strikes. They grow out of the usual causes of industrial fric- tion, but in this case are much stimulated by the fact that a large margin of the workers are employed so small a proportion of the year that & living wage is deficit and at least uncertain at any per diem or per ton payment for work. When a national strike does take place—and they will continue to take place until this in- dustry is on a more stable basis of regular employment and full trans- ortation—then there is inevitable amine profiteering and trouble. It roquires months to overtake the de- pletion of stocks and to meet con- sumption demands. * ¥ k¥ A year ago in November Secretary Hoover issued & warning that a strike was ineviteble in the following April and proceeded to put on a cam- paign urging public. utilittes and others to secure themseclves reserve stocks. Many millions of people fol- lowed his advice and the stocks of coal in consumers’ hands increased from 30,000,000 tons to nearly 90,000,- 000 tons—bought at the cheapest cost in the last three vears, as business | generally was dull and prices low. Had it not been for this advice and urging many of our industries would have been closed during the etrike and much unemployment would have resulted. Furthermore, while we have been short by many million tons of coal as a consequence of the flve months' strike and the inability of the rail- ways to cal the full need after the !strike was over, yet dye to the distri- bution measures taken there has been far less suffering than would other- wise have been the case. The lesson of all this to the housegholder is that 2 reserve of a few months' coal ac- cumulated in late spring and summer is the only real insurance of the con- sumer against the famines from strikes. | | t 8 that| Capital Sidelights BY WILL P. KENNEDY. * The Constitution hes been versed for the National Associatjon for Con- stitutional Government by Col. Archi- bald Hopkins, its first vice president, who nearly threescore years ago led the advance against Lee which forced his surrender at Appomatox, April 9, 1865. The preamble In verse {s as follows. We tre United States people B o e et o mae. And justice tmpartial to ‘stablish. On’bases that nothing, can sb Peace to fosure in our borders For the common defense to provide. To_promote every citizen’s welfare, And that Liberty's blestslgs moy bide Yor ourselves and for those who come after, Do establish and hereby orduin A Republic with this Constitution Which wo trust may forever remain * ko * “Uncle Joe” Cannon hes gone back to Danville, IH., which he put on the' map, after nearly a half-century in the House, and since he unnounced his intention to retire It has been quite the fad among his colleagues to have thelr pictures taken with ‘Uncle Joe! But there is one man who more than any other hus been “Uncle Joe's” best friond and helped 20 malte him beloved throughout the land. That's L. White Busbey, who has been Mr. Cannon’s secretary for twenty years, going with him first in 1903, when Cannon became Speaker. Busbey has never had his plcture taken with Cannon. As a matter of fact, Busbey wasg never hired by Mr. Cannon. Ie was drafted as clerk to the Speaker. The first thing he knew was on the morn- ing after Cunnon was elected Speaker, when Busbey found a note tucked in the letter slot tn his office door, ask- ing him to cull at the Speaker's of- fice the next morning before the House went into session. When he did so, Mr. Canuon said, before an office full of people: “I want you tn take that desk and run this office.” Busbey protested and Cannon replied, “You're drafted.” Cannon explained that he had heard there are people who believe there is news in the Speaker's office, Ie wanted & man who knew news, knew the men in the press gailery and had their confidence. Without consulting Busbey he had stopped off in Chicagn and seen the editors of the Inter- Ocean, whose < ashington bureau Bushey had been running, and fixed it up for Busbey to be released to bLe the Speuker's clerk. e wanted a man in the Speaker's room who would be Speaker when the Speaker was out—and for eight years Busbey was it When Cannon came back M: h 4, 1915, after a vacation from Six- ty-third Congress, the first thing that Busbey knew was when South Trim- ble, then clerk of the House, notified him he had a check for him as Can- non's secretary. Again he protestad that he had not been consulted. The clerk hire was then $1,500 and Dus- bey was earning $4,500. But again at Cannon's insistence Busbey made the personal sacrific and vears earned his living office by writing. * % x ¥ Claim that all of the great southern melodies were written by a Pennsyl- vanian is made by Representative 1. Clinton Kline, who is just leaving Congress. He pointed out that “Oid Black Joe,” “The Old Folks at Home" und “My Old Kentuclk " wera all written by Stephen Collins Foste- of Pittsburgh, Pa. He proposed that a monument should be erected grateful people to one Who ‘‘wr those folk songs and set music rink- ing in the hearts of the people around the worl: ¥ &k The last copy of the C Record for the Sixty-seventh Con- gress, containing a number of long speeches under extension of remarks, tncluding some fifty puges by Senator Tom Heflin of Alabama, which cost the government gome thousands of dollars, has provoked « discussion among Capitol veterans about the practice of having speeches printed in the Record and then sending out many thousands of copies. It is recalled that E. O. Wolcott, senator from Colorado from 185¢ to 1901, made a specialty of getting out speeches. He had many copies of the Monrce doctrine printed and had 100,- 000 .copies distributed of one speech on_bimetallism. Representative Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland, Ohio, ‘a grest singls exponent, had Henry George's single tax book inserted in the Record. This was objected to at first, but Johnson got around that Ly having a number of democrats insert different portions of the book, so that w 3 g_In relays tt who! ually got in. Then John «d fon coples printed, not in ti sov ent printing office. as is {fomary, but by a New York These were distributed free to members of Congress who cared to send them out. Back in the elder days members used to make a specfalty of getting up an attractive title page for the speeches they mailed out to constiu- uents. “Sunset” Cox, a representative frgm Ohlo and New York, who was elected speaker pro tempore, was a title page expert, and after him came epresentative Willi . Wilson of West Virginla, later Postinaster Gen- New members especially came to these two for help in fixing up an attractive title page. In later days the members have depended more and more for this on “Andy” Smith t government printing office represent- ative in the Capitol, who has been on the job for forty-eight years. At one time Representative Galusha A. Grow of Pennsylvania, who served as Speaker in the Thirty-seventh Con- gress, about 1900, had 200,000 copies printed of one of his speeches on free coinage of silver. About the same time James K. Jones, a senator and representative from Arkansas, who was chalrman of the democrat:c na- tional committee, sent out hundreds of thousands of coples of spaeches on free coinage by Senators “Dick” Pet- tigrew of South Dakota and “Dave” Turple of Indiana. One of the well remembered Speeches sent fooding the country ves on popullsm by Representativ Rhoderick "Dhu Suiheriand of Neo raska, who served two term populls e Jerry Stmpson of Kansas, known as “Sockless Jerry,” Whabgsf gan life as a sailor, and followed the Sea for twenty-four years, and who wasg a civil war veteran, also noted for, uttering the words, “Where am 1 b ad & great run on his g gl The Man snd the Dolla Resol Representative Joseph C. Sibley of s::nt:m{.?h' . m;ted farmer, had a chant for circulating his spe 150,000 copies at & Hoke | ¢ creeches There was a great demand through- out the country for a speech on the slave question by Speaker John G. Carlisle, and & half million copi were printed. The late lamented Senator and Representative “Billy” Mason of Illi- rm‘{?‘ had .‘A’. ret:el'rt‘l1 run of nearly a million coptes on his speech on “Pi Food,” {n 1900. g v Senator Willlam P. Frye of Maine, who succeeded James G. Blaine in the Senate, who was president of the Sen- ate for fifteen years, and who was on the commission which adjusted peace between the United States and Spain, had hundreds of thousands of coples printed and distributed of his speeches on the shipping bill—which has a familiar sound. Speaker Champ Clark's speech be- fore the National Press Club on baby congressmen and the long services of representatives In Congress had a circulation of 500,000 copies. The big advantage of having speeches thus printed, it must be un- derstood, 1s 80 that thcy may be 4“granked” or malled out free. h elght cr ten ¢ MEN AND BY ROBERT HAT will happen to the reasgerted leadership of Woodrow Wilsdn if Gov. Sweet of Colorado refuses the former President's request that ke appoint Huston Thompson to the { Unitea States Senate? |, Also, what will happen to Gov. Bweet? Will Woodrow Wilson de- nounce him as a “wiltull one” If he declines to heed the ukuse from S street? And again, what will happen to} Mr. McAdoo and Mr. Bryan if Gov. Sweet declines to appoint the young i Mr. Shafroth urged by them? Unwittingly the Governor of Colo- rado, who untll now has remained somewhat nationally obscure, has be- come the storm center of national democratic politics and has it within his power either to squelch or give fmpetus to some budding presidential booms. From all reports, Gov. Sweet is enjoying the limelight which so suddenly has been played upon him #nd is going to take his own, sweet time about announcing . successor to the late Senator Sam Nichloson. Tho Bovernor argues thut . 4 genator woulda't do the commonwealth much good anyway until next December, but there I8 no chance that the poli- ticlans will let him wait that long before making up his mind. The Colorado senatorship scramble, coming on the very heels of the “re- nomination” of Mr. Harding by At- torney General Daugherty, hus set the political pot to bolling us it never boiled before in an “off vear,” and the old politiclans are rubbing their hands in glee ut the prospect of the long, lird struggle. before them Like the war horses of old, they scent the battle from afar, a re anxious to get into the fray * x % ¥ On top of the news that Mr. Wilson had injected himself into ths Colo- rado eituation, comes the claim from Kangas that the former Presidc will be the principal epeaker at the Washington day dinner of the Kan- sas State Democratic Club in 192¢ This announcement is made by 0. I Snyder, secretary of the club, who |says he has recefved w telegram of acceptance from Mr Wilson. The latter was the speaker at the Kun- sag dinner in 1912, and the democrats out there say they believe he bring good luck in 1824 us h twelve vears before. Crfirmation of the Kansas engege- ment s lacking here in Washingto although it {5 quite gener lleved that Mr. Wilson ha | the hope that he m {for u keynote speech next vear. | Persons s= to the former Preei- |dent s necessary for | {Mr. Wilson to journey to Kansas to- | |day and make a polltical speech he could do it, 8o pronounced has hecome his physicil improvement. His volcs is reported as both clear and strong. | There still ts some !mpairment in hf walk, but otherwise ho is keenly alert | and interested in all that is going jon in the world. It i5 extremely doubtful if Mr. Wilson could stand the strain of u series of epeeches, even a year hence, and all idea that he migl Heard and Seen | Koupoulis {s a huckster. makes no difference that the above fen't his real na The } rect monicker is on his wagon, where it may be seen any day as the vehicle | winds its way through some of the! nicest streets of the northwest, a blg fellow, with a great tache and cheeks that glow He has fresh vegeta ifruits and the like, which h with a liberal hand. Any of | customers will tell you that he giv good measure. He the fellow who ma’'am,” to men and “Yes, en, in some manner having become confused when he first learned those | terms, and never since having got them straightened put. But it makes no difference. Jo [is real goo0d fellow, with a hear interest in his customers. in his wag- on and horse, in his frufts and vege tables. He likes ulmost everything | he meets, from his patrons’ children to their dogs. At one home which he visits a baby arrived some months ago. Ever since John has expressed great interest in the new arrival, Last week he timldly voiced his re- quest. “I would lfke to s he told the mother. So that was how John Koupoulls came to stand his huge bulk beside the bassinet in which the baby slept. {He has six little oncs at homo him- self, of assorted .sizes, so he knows }all about childr, He looked down upon the iirtle one. {pluced his hand upon the pillow, th 1 The housewife let urned to the babs the pillow by the chil a twenty-five-cent i i co ! with nealt > the ba-by, sir," , then re There o hoed. A preacher could have drawn & good sermon out of the ditch the other day, if he had been a good enough observer to have looked into it. \ Building and digging _operations have been so constant in Washington | for the last year or so that no one | thinks much of watching men at !\ work on the street, unless it be on| some unusually large operation. | Just an ordinary digging up of & | bit of pavement will not attract : crowd, as wont as the usual city folk are to gather at tha site of bulld- | ing, and hang for hours on the edge of deep_excavations. This huppened to be just a little pavement job, with perhaps half a dozen colored men at work with pick and shovel. Nothing to attract the attention except— There was one man, both legs off at the knee, digging away with the rest. His stumps stood in the dirt, while he swung his pick with the best of them. It is silly to get senti- mental over a thing like this, but surely It {s better for a man to work like that than to stand on the street corner asking the pity of man- kind. March may bave gone out like a lion, but ft had not a bit of terror for the girl visitors, who last week began flocking into Washington for the annual sightseeing. One large party wes here early in the week. It numbered more than 500 girls, who early in the morning swept ulong Pennsylvania avenue to 12th street, where they entrained for | Mount Vernon. | Happy, chattering creatures, the irl visitors are easily distinguished rom the home varioty. For one thing, they look different from Wash- | ingtonians. = Then they dress a bit different 8hort dresses, long dresses, all that is about the same, | but there is a difference The distinguishing thing, however, is in the way they look at buildings. A party of local girls goes on its way. But the girl visitors, from high schools and towns of the states, look at the National Capital in another manner. Having read about it all her life, the girl visitor really uses her eyes| when she gets to Washington. She | may laugh and chat with a com- panion, but is missing nothing that is to bo seen. g ‘Wherever she goes she finds some- ‘hing to interest her. It would be a good thing for most people who live here to get something of her attitude, and try the experiment, some day, of setting forth on a journey of discov- | send tn AFFAIRS T. SMALL. political ot question, campaign is out The most amasing feature of Colorado sftuation is that two d after Mr. Wilson reco; ded Gov. Sweet the appoititment of his friend, Huston Thomp: Mr. Mg Adoo should fit ot Colorado execut! would appoint man. Politic! he this is an cffort on McAdoo o show of his disting coupled with & determinati. {t-alone in his quest for t dential nomination next of Mr. McAdgo's best f that the “crown pri was saddled on him du 1 g 1 1o wire the wish entirel ain nderis part of his independ hed father-in n th the views would prove s ntial aspirant the C politic : profess to_see now th between Mr. Adoo w I cordial charueter. But the paramount son ki ed himself in @ posit 10 get u 1 rebuff and serious po! fcal setback if Gov. Sweet doe Ajax act u efles the Wil lightning fusing to x Thompeon to tho Se A rather odd to the rumg southland o move tha Andrew Juck pled position ¢ i mquirs, House has as the euben —wers of mén who with Washington und som, that Washingto North and two states that dis ugainst’ the removal s are coming old south frequen e t0 was open nks Degan 1 M ‘\4 “Down with o ifty Years Ago in The Star. herse own means Horse Cars and Legislatures, “Were oftc ject of nee to the degree nd par I respect to the treatment of the the motive power. & debated, as tar of March 24, “Th seem e x years ago they an antmals ish The matter « following in The 1875, attests horse railroads of the cou to be getting as obje patential with legislauve bodies are the kindred monopolies of ron horse. erybody in Washing- ton knows th have wit Congress, the state of Ne table evidence ha t by presented that they hold the legisla- ture thera in their hands. Mr. Bergh's new bill for the prevention of cru to animals was voted d on T papers say companies o the b planation ursday. that the The hors. New have lone be ing public nish such a5 they please, as crowded as thes asd, with such facilities fo Dicking and murder as they ‘ploses and no citizen can make a more =f fectual protest than a passing com ment. To this immensc power the: have now added the ownership of th: “reform” legiclature.” “In Washington {t must be conces ed, in justice ot o ¥ good, sery groomed, it to be poor economy tn keep poor stock, and 1t is sometimes said th he quadrupeds in their emplo better cared for than th way, the charge of o i5 1ot one we meet before fluence with that body 1ys Whenever the lic rights and sented.” are 1 Congre 1¥ to have The Chesapeake and Oh an important arter; Washington and Impomnt Washington and this re glon fifty rs ago. The Artery, Star of March &, Ty noted the fact that water had b admitted to the for the opening of the scason's ness and though platnts have be hade sary delays, rious dam ing: “We look upon this canal as to mome of the several means fields of industry and opportunits with which this reglon of country is furnished. Tt is a principal avenu of supply for an article of human ne cessity that must rapidly grow in de mund everywhere among clvili men. Not in col crate clim alone is it required, for the tropi considerable demand; fror all quarters are heard orders for shipment. As the supplies land diminish the defict to be made up o . We car do much toward this and should not ba backward in the effort: although we do not hold the monopoly, we do. nevertheless, occupy a position of vantage. * ¢ « No fair and prop opportunity for improving the capa ity and condition of the canal ought to be overlooked, for in such cordial and faithful regard the interest and honor of stockholders, directors, cus- tomers, the state and the public at large are bound up. The ycar now incoming, with the probable introdue- tion of steam towage, may bo o long remembered us the first of & new hat, it wus hoped that no ge hud resulted, con ary, to really look at the city in which thoy Mve. CHARLES E. TRACEWELL l 1 era in the prosperi of one of the most important public works whole country n the