Evening Star Newspaper, April 8, 1923, Page 44

2 THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Kditlen, WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY... ..April 8, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES. . . . Bditor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th 8t. aud Pennezivenia Ave. New York Office: 150 Nasseu Chicago Offiee: Tewer Hulldl Earopsan Office: 16 Hegent Bt., London, ‘The Evening Star. with the Suaday moraing edition, 1s dellvered by carriers within the city a1 60 cents per month: daily only. 45 cents pot fay only, 20 cents pet month, Q- ra may he eut Uy mail or telephane Mafn 00, " Collection Is made by carriers st the nd of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Naily and Sunday..1 yr., $8.40; 1mo., T0¢ Daily only 1yr.. §6.00: 1 mo., 30c Sunday only. 1yr., $2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ All Other States. Daily and Sunday.l yr, $10.00; 1 Daily only 1 $7.0 sunday oniy mo., 85¢ mo., § $2.00: 1 mo. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to_tie ‘use for republication of niches crediied to it or not otherwine credited % this paper snd also the local news pub tished “herein. Al rights of publication of special dispatches herein are aleo rexerved. President Harding's Return. When President Harding steps into his office Monday let it be hoped that will be with vigorous step, indlca- ive of improvement gained during his well earned respite from work &pent in the south, for he will enter upon a week, with otiier weeks to follow, that promise to be fraught with duties of ot involving many caves and anxieties. There will be problems politi questions economic, adminis- trative dispositions to be made ltkely to cause him to burn the midnight lamp frequently. He has shown him- <elf 1o he never a laggard in work, | and he is not likely to shirk eny duty ahead of him, no matter how irksome. Conferences with his political ad- visers and informants may be meclv; «d to occupy a great deal of his time and attention. for political questions vital to the republican party are rapidly taking form and drawing rearer. Since Congress adjourned many of its members, House and Sen- | ate, have been “back hoi " and felt out public sentiment. Their informe- tion should be of value to the Presi- dent as guidance for the speeches to made upon his coming tour of the country. Other politicians of sorts will no doubt seek him to press their own suggestions upon him. One of the subjects which poljtical gossip reports ag likely to be !x.xe‘n up is the expediency of his further stress- ing attention to the suggested entry | of the United States into the Interna- tional Court created by the league of nations. He will'be beset by advisers with conflicting views, out of which must crystalize his decision upon the pilicy to be pursued. A mass of de- partmental administrative questions aceumulated during his absence will have to be disposed of with his word . f finality. The government runsalong while he {s away up to a certain point. and there it pauses until he starts the wheels in motion again. Washington welcomes him home, and rejoicing in his improved physical condition, can only say: “Mr. Presl- dent, take care of yourselt. ‘Wrapped Bread. T.caves of bread that have not been wrapped in paper before leaving the lakeries have come under investige- ion by the District food inspection service, and it may be that the health department will recommend to the Commissioners that there be a regula- tion that all bread shall be so wrapped. It. is already the custom of some hakeries to wrap their bread, and many consumers wiil not buy bread not so protected. It is an official statement that two-thirds of the bread made by the large bakerles for dis- ibution in the District Is now wrapped. It would seem that the eat- ag of unwrapped bread that has been tandied by truck and wagon drivers and others is not to be recommended. Bare hands of men carrying on their daily work are not surgically clean end may be very dirty. There must always be a possibllity of contamina- tion. We have generally become pasr- ticular about cleanliness, and the more enlightened of our people are most particular. There is no reason in taking unnecessary risks. There has been a great change in such mat- ters within & few years, and the lead in bringing about this change was taken by physiclans. Bacteriology has proved many things. It was not easy to educate the people against eating unscreened food on public stands, against the common drinking cup, against flles and mosquitoes, against public spitting and promiscu- ous kissing, and education is still pro- ceeding along such lines. The fact that bakers are wrapping most of the bread they distribute shows that they consider it desirable, or that a large part of the public demands fit. ‘With two great political parties and the grain and cotton markets all work- ing for him the farmer ought not to complain about the scarcity of hired help. Nowhere will there be envy of the fame which comes to Williamson coun- ty, II1., because of inability to punish the Herrin murderers. If Senator La Follette is a true prophet perhaps the soaring price of gasoline will take that helicopter up. Work of developing that part of the Anacostia Park between the Navy Yard and Pennsylvania Avenue bridges into a great recreation ground goes on, and Col. Sherriil told the Ana- costia Citizens’ Association that it is hoped to complete six tennis courts, several base ball diamonds and @ run- ning track this year. He sald that when this part of the Anacostia Park is completed it will include a foot ball and base ball fleld, sixteen tennis courts and & playground second to none in the District. In the matter of the bridges they are called in the news not the Navy Yard and Pennwyl- vanja Avenue, but the Anacostia and ‘Pwining City bridges. These names are appropriate, but to old Washing- tonians they seem new. The first 1dge rrom the foot of 11th street to e Eastern branch end of the Pis- cataway read was bullt as a tell bridge by the Navy Yard Bridge Company about 1820, It was & wooden pile bridge, with a draw, and was called the Nagy Yard bridge. Rebullt a number of times, it was succeeded in the mid 'or late '70s by a stone pler and fron truss bridge, which was still called the Navy Yard bridge. That was succeeded by the present bridge. There was an old wooden toll dra bridge from the foot of Kentucky avenue to Naylors lane, bullt in 1786. It was wrecked by American authori- ties on the approach of the British fram Benegdict, Nottingham, Marlboro and Leng Old Flelds in August. 1814, was rebullt and destroyed by fire in the '40s. It is sald that it caught fire from sparks from e steambont puseing through the draw, that boat was the ancient steamboat Dandy, which in the '30s end ‘40s “made” Kastern brancl landings. The site of the Pennsylvania Ave- nue or Twining bridge is not far above that of the bridge which was bulit in 1796 and destroyed in the '40s. Above that bridge was the Ben- ning bridge. which was also buflt in 1796, | the leading spirit. Benning's old home, house, stands on a ridge about a mile eapt of the town of Benning, and ljis Washington hame. bullt a good many vears after the bridge was wet up, stands on the south side of ¥ street between 6th and Tth. Where these base ball diamonds and tennis courts are to be laid out was lu few years ago a marsh where men hunted reedbird, Not many vears be- fore that it was shallow water at low tide, with flelds of wild celery where men hunted wild duck. Not long he- fore that it was clear water where sailboats passed to and fro. There are no doubt men in East Washington and the Eastern branch country who are not too old to play hall in this new park who remember when they fished and swam where this park has been huilt. Below the Anecostia bridge, or the Navy Yard bridge, where scores of acves of land have been ralsed above high tide, and which svon will be a park, seine hauling was carried on in the late '70s, and possibly as late as the early '80s. —_—————— Flag Uniformity. Uniformity of the American flag on public buildings in desirable. It is ! prabable that not one man in a thou- sand knows that such uniformity does not exist. The flags are not uni- form in size nor in the relation be- tween width and length. This matter was recently brought to the attention of the Commission of Fine Arts by the Department of Commerce, and committees representing that depart- ment and the Army and Navy con- ferred with the commission. It may be recalled by a few persons that Presi- dent Taft in 1812, as the news ac counts say, “established definite sizes of flags for all departments of the government.” When President Taft left this matter sixty-six sizes of the American flag were in use by the de- partments, and {n 1916 President Wil- son reduced the number of sizes to twelve and undertook to reduce to one rule the relation between “hoist'” and “fly,” or the relation between width {and length. The committees appear- ing before the Fine Arts Commission sald that “there is much diversity of proportion in the manufacture of flags, and that it is time that national {standard proportions and standard sizes be recognized by every one concerned.” It seems a reasonable proposal. It may be said that the United States has won all its warsand reached a falr state of distinction and prosperity, notwithstanding the lack of uniformity in the size and form of the national flag. It also seems quite remarkable that in this age of stand | have been left undone so long. ———————— Members of the first precinct police force say that the speed for which Joseph Merica was arrested while in a stolen automobile was as that of the turtle compared with that which he displayed in making his getaway afoot. —_———— The skipper who has reported fifty miles of “dusty sea” off South Amer- ica has caused a lot of amusement. But s there anything more extraordi- nary in an arid ocean than in our own molst Sahara? Athletic boys and girls don’t spoon, says an expert. Which confirms the ‘wisdom of local authorities in not cur- tailing high school athletics in Wash- ington. ———————— One-Way Streets. The question of one-way streets is lalready before the board of Commis- sioners, or soon will be, it having been sald a few days ago that Com- missioner Oyster would probably recommend to the board that 10th, 12th, 13th and 15th streets within the congested ares be established as one- way streets, two for northbound traf- fic and two for southbound traffic. It has also been suggested that Jackson place, on the west side of Lafayette Square, shall be for southbound traffic, and Madison place, on the east side of the square, for northbound traffic. The Commissioner and Inspector Headley have been quoted as saying that they believe travel will be expedited for pedestrians and motorists {f three or four of the main downtown thorough- tares on which there are no car tracks be made one-way streets. THe htrects named, lined with parked cars on each side, furnish a comparatively narrow course for two-way trafic, and the pace of a line of vehicles is often regu- Jated by an exceedingly slow-moving car or horse-drawn wagon. Conditions - are bed and call for improvement. If & one-way rule furnishes & reasonable hope of bringing about improvement 1t might be tried. Of course, it ig known that trials of new traffic regu- lations work hardship on the public, but the mass of people realize that such trials are made for the public 8004, and that the authorities hope to make it easier for men to get about the city and attend to their business. The one-way rule takes some time to become effective. At first it in. volves considerable inconvenience to business houses on that sireet in the receipt and diaspatch of freight. Edu- cating all .drivers to @ new way is and it is likely that | pany in which Willam Benning was | national | ardization such a simple thing should { T I:low work. Aboyt two years ago & trial was made of admitting; enly southbound traffic to 10th between F' and the Avenug. The dacision to do this was published in the newspapers and given all possible publicity, A policeman was stationed at 10th gnd D to turn back northbound trafc. His was a busy job. Tt seeied that most drivers in Washington wanted to go north on 10th street. The south- | bound traffic was not especially heavy, but the traflic wanting to go the Wwrong way very heavy. After some time—perhaps it wae a week or two | weeks—10th street again became a two-way street, but up to the last ‘Imur police were busy turning back ! drivers who had not read, or who had |forgot. that 10th was a one-way street. The point is that it takes time to educate the public in a matter of | this kind, and that there are apt te be {many blockades before the lesson is learned. But this is no argument jasainst a one-way street if one-way itrafic will help soive some of th& {problems of which the bpubli¢ com- | plains | It was huilt by a stock com. | No Civil War Bitterness. The, President. homeward bound, a long, oneand-one-half-story frame !stops at the oid and proud city of | jurisdic jAuzysta to talk to its people and i through them to all the millions of | America an big questions of domestic i politics and our velations with other | Tations, In the course Of his epeech he makes a little statement—a plain {little statement of fact— There is no | scctionalism of the civil war left in {the United States.” Tt ought not to {be necemsmary to make this stutement, jbut it seems that there ure people jliving far from the old tatuefields of the south and reading books written many years ago, who believe that the people of the south are still talking of the civil war in bitter terms. This is non:ense. There are many persons in the south, as in the north, who { cherisk the memory &f actors in that mighty struggle. Th pay honors [to the few survivors and probably {those honors are not substantial enough They sometimes celebrate I the an.iversary of a civil war event. { Now aid then they dedicate a monu- ment on a battlefield. People of the north as well as of the south do ‘these things. They do not indicate {that the bitterness of the war sur- jvives. Poor politiclans talked of sec- tional bitterness long after it passed away. It has been years since there | Was any appreciable “sectionalism of | the civil war” in the south, Sometimes {a politician would harp on that string {with the idea of helping himeelf along. {with an audience. Speaking in terms in(’ praise of Lee, Jackson, Longstreet and other great chieftains of Confed- erate armies he would draw applause. Such eulogles, if well done. draw ap- plause now. But they 4o not demon- strate sectional bitterness. Tt is belleved by many people in the south that there is still sectional bit- {terness in New England, and no doubt this is not true. In New England it may be believed that there is sectional i Litterness in the south as a surviva) of the civil war, and that is certainly not true. That war was long ago. Generations have come into being. Two other wars have been foughs. In- dustrial and other problems engage the southern people as well as north. ern, eastern und western people. All age busy “making a living” and In getting as much happiness out of life tional Ditterness. ————— It is reported that Germany is to make her next reparations offer by wireless to the world at large. Is there any significance in the fact that the signature on @ wireless message is worthless? ———— Our idea of the ultimate in “seeing { things" is the story that the United i States secks control of German rail- ways. Control of our own rallways, thank you, is a quite sufficient job. With Virginia finger-printing viola- tors of the prohibition laws, the taking of “threefingers” is likely to become less popular. Even the cherry trees came out to welcome President Harding as he re- turns. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON The Mild Winter. Of all the things this gover'ment has ever undertook, The weather bureau’s 'bout the neat- est chapter in the book. up its machinery, and figured year by year, And never minded all us folks that stood atound to jeer. ‘ It set It kept a-peggin’ at it, till our winters got so small |Thlt pretty soon it's likely that there won't be none at all! The blizzards an’ the freeze-ups was most common in the past, But the weather man has fought 'em till he got ’em down dt last. I used to be suspicious, but I'm comin’ to believe There isn't any limit to what science can achieve. We've conquered scale an’ weevil at a reasonable cost, An' we'll keep experimentin’ and ex- terminate the frost. A Merry Warbler. *Tis not the robin, much extolled,’ ‘With all his joyous carolin, That marks the end of winter's cold And bids us forth to welcome spring. Another melody is heard, He's louder than the lustiest bird. Mid flowers and thistles. He makes a misery of life; He thinks he is a human fife— The man who whistles. Yet, so unconscious is his lee, ‘You almost sympathize in it. He is 80 careless, gay and free, . As with himself he makes a hit. And while you hear, you pause and teach More patience to your hands that reach For sundry missiles. But how I hope he'll turn some day Into a bird and fly away— The man who whistles. HE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. APRIL 8 Publicity as to Publicity ‘A Growing Need of Nation BY THOMAS R. MARSRALL. Fermer Vice Prestdent of the United - Statew. . T would be rather late in the life of the republic to question whether the' forefathers were wige In providing as parts of our organic law freedom of speech and froedom of press. Regardless of the Justice of there provisions, thelr wis- dom 15 beyond all cavil. Bad things saild are bad enough. but bad thingw repressed are infinitely worse. There is danger always that a corked bot- tle may burst, but if the cork is out fermentation will take care of {tself. innocent. . It often leads to the hu- miliation of the inpocent as well as {to the conviction of the gullty, and | many persons have misconstrued thie freedom as license to say or write anything they please. without moral tegal onsibility. This, raton. 1and in all those 1 am ac { auainted conteins no statutory enact- ment forhidding homieide. Man is ax free today s he wus In the stone ame to hit his brother on the head with u bludgeon. The law does not »ay he shall not dv this thing. It fays, in_eftest, if he shall do thig thing, then he shall be guilty of Lomicide of & degree measurable by the ecircumstunces under which he Aoes it, and mixz only go mequit when in self defeuse. Why, then, should the mun who chonses to exercise his right of fres speech and free press abject to taking his chince of punish- ment, if, hy the exercise of his right. he {8 leading people to the murder of our government, or to rlot, tumult, violence und the wanton destruction of prperty? [ * ¥ ¥ The right of people of like minds to band themselves together for law: ful purposes has never been denied in America. Associations of a politieal. religious, sociul or economic charac- lter have a right to be. They may adopt sny declaration of principles they choose, so long as they do not advocate violence for the attainmert of their ends. They may distribute pamphlets, ecstablish headquarters, hire spealers, do anything they wish to advance their obfects. The ma'ls are open to them, a free and unc sored use of postal facilities beinig necessary adjunct to the rigat of free speech and free press. Public opinion fs the final arbiter in a democracy. It may be right; it may be wrong. It will be right if based upon exact knowledge. [t will of false facts and prejudiced op! fons. If 1 could be convineed { anything 1 might say would lung b remembered. I should be inclined to a utter this warning to my fellowmen: | (ist and his abil! Freedom of speech and of press may | be galling both to the guilty and the, of | jlca seems B x When & man speaks on his own hoalk conclusion as to whether his utterance is justifiable and reason- sble {s not diffioult. But when he speaks and prints as the represent tive*of an association it is impor- tant to learn something about his organization, its officers and con- tributors, the salarles that it pays and Into what soil the roots of its growth are planted. Associations and organizations of every kind and character exist in America. 'The uverage man knows nothing abdut any of them. His mail advises himn thi this and that organization has been formed to prevent the goblins from getting him. his rights, his 1ib- erties, his property. He has no means of ascertaining who has con- tributed the nccessary funds to send the pumphlets which crowd his mail. He almost regretg that his is a land which guaranteex freedom of speech and freedom of nress. 1t Is quite ail rigat for men to demand theis rizhts in America and to urge the miaintenance of tho: rights by tungue and pen, but Ame be overrun with so- cletien that belleve that most of us are too ignorant to know our rights or 80 depraved that we arc urwill- ing to defend them. They explain and describe our rights to us, fur- nishing suecifications and blue prints; inslet that we shall belleve without quostion what has been prepared for us and tender their voluntary sery- ices to uy in obtaining our rights and in maintaining and defending them. All this i# supposed to be a great social service, to tha doing of which T enter no protest, and muke no comment. other than that né, the wage of the Greeks bear- 1 do not desire any wooden horse gdmitted into the American government. 1 should like to know particulars |about some men who have taken charge of the rights of man in Ameri- ca, some details concerning thelr per- sonal careers and public services, and 1 should e to learn espectally whose money is financing them. They are as mysterious about finances as is the Anti-Saloon League, which i more mysterious than some of us who belleve in the enforcement of the pro- hibition laws of the country belleve it | should be. 1 would not think that my government was curtailing my right of free speech nor my right to print and distribute whatever 1 pleased, if it required me to state who was pay- ing me and how much T got. No legi- timate soclety that is seeking he beterment of American conditions in lawfully coustitued ways could have any objecion to filing with Postmaster General New an open- statement of be wrong If it has been created out|ihé sources and amount of its reve- nues, expendiures and objects. Pul t1lcity would give a background to the picture of congditions as painted by the association. Knowing the ar- ¥ to present a true “Before you believe anvthing, take|or false perspective, one could better the time to ascertain who h. and why he has sald it.” It ‘s the business of an American to keep an open mind. He cannot do this if he reads and belleves, (f he listens and accepts, without some mental exer- cise on his own part. who sajd it, what sald it judge the merits of his worl Yes, let us never abridge the righ free speech or free press, but us we al- ready have required newspapers to publish the names of their stock- holders and bond holders, why not re- Who wrote it,;quire voluntary associations and so- influences were |cieties to submit details of their ope- back . of the writing and the saving|rations? !are questions for us all. (Copyright, 1923, by Thomas R. Marshall ) iGreek Monarchy Now Appears to Be | Regaining Some of Lost Popularity BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. | from the prison where he was con- Prince Paul of Greece took & prom- fnent part in the recent celebration at Athens of the 1024 an of Hellenic independence. It was the first occasion of hls taking part in | new capacity as helir apparent to the {throne, and he, as well as his sister- }in-lat. the Rumantan born Queen { Ellzabeth of Greece, were heartily cheered and acclaimed by the dense crowds thronging the streets of the capital. Indeed, the people seemed anxious to show that in the erls | which the country is now passing { through, in connection with the set- tlement of the entire southeastern | question, =nd with the revision of jat the helm of i the crown. the goverpment, and of twenty-two, matured beyond his years by the experiences which he has already undergone. In the sum- mer of 1917 he witnessed the de- thronement and the deportation of his father, the late King Constan- tine; of his mother, and of his sisters from Greece, and accompanied them into exile in Switserland. When his second brother Alexander, who had been proclaimed king in his father's | stead, dled so suddenly and so my teriously, succumbing at Athens to blood poisoning superinduced by the bite of & pet monkey, the crown was offered by the then government at Athens to Prince Paul, then in Swits- erland. But he declined to accept it on the ground that he had never a knowledged the validity of father's dethronement in 1917, and that in any case, his elder brother George, Duke of Sparta, had prior rights to the crown. The Coup d'Etat finmediately afterward at Athens re- sulted in the recall of King Constan- tine to Greece, and his resumption of the throne, which the various great powers declined to recognize, direct- ing all thelr diplpmatic representa- tives In Greece {o hold entirely aloot from the court of Constantine, and to avold anything that could be con- strued in the light .of offical recog- nition, i * ¥ k¥ Then came the military disasters to the Hellenic armies in Asia Minor and the renewed dethronement of King Constantine, this time not by the great powers of the entente, as in 1917, but by the Greek people them- selyes. Constantine, with his Hohen- zollern consort and his children, once more left the country to resume their condition as exiles. and It was as & twice de; monarch that he died some W ago as the result of a stroke of apoplexy In Italy. his elde son, Geor aving in the meantime been proclamied by the revolutionary Greek ‘government as King in his father's stead, . At first the situation of King George was & very ‘disagreeadle one, and he was’ to & certain extent a prisoner ot his n?nl-un ‘hoth his correspond- ence and his intercourse with eek citigens end forelgn visitors bein, subjected to rigorous censorship an control. He naturally could not ex- pect to entertain very much sympa- thy for the revolutionary leaders, who had driven his father and mot! from ti martialed and shot Conatantine's pri! cipal ministers and mill officer: and ‘who had tried his uncle, Prince Andrew, for his life, and had forced the prinee to defend himself by means of humiliating admisston in court that he was hopelessly ignorant about mil- itary matters, Even then he would have shared the fate of the otl commanders responsible for the Greek disasters in Asia-Minor had it not been for the intervention in his be- half of ex-Premier Venizelos, acting through his most intimate friend at Athens, Capt. Gerald Talbot, formerly ot the ro: British navy, and who frequently had protested him (Veni- sales) fro .uu-ln:'u ‘l‘! “l'n the ny- on his e epe Fatbot would not rest until he khad conveyed Prince Andrew | ersary |&nd daughters safe {wh fined at Athens, awalting his fate, to a British man-of-war, the Piraeus, which transported him and his wife to Brindisi. But the tension ween young King George and his ministers seems to have been much relieved and their There is no room for !ec>]an;- great national celebration, in his relations have greatly improved. while the prejudice which undoubtedly ex- isted .in the minds of the people against the then crown prince, by reason of the German leanings with h he was credited, resulting from his education In Germany, has been greatly modified through the very real popularity of his wife, | Queen Elizabeth, who seems to be & general favorite. Of course, the future of Greece Is still far from being assured. Much depends on the uitiMate outcome of the negotiations now in progress be- tween the powers of the entente and | the sublime porte and upon the terms {the treaty of Serves, that they were! i determined to support the men now of the peace negotiations now pend- ing between Greece and Turkey. But thus far it looks as if there is a reagonable likelihood of the retention | of the present dynasty at Athens, in Prince Paul is a goocd-looking lad | the person of the present King George and of his younger brother. Prince Paul. Indeed, once the dif- ferences between Turkey and the en- tente powers about Greece and other pending {ssues, as, for instance, the capltulations, are settled, the Greeks are likely to keep the present dy- nasty on the throne, since the procla- mation of a republic, involving elec- toral campaigns every few years for the choice of a new president, would prevent that stability of political and economlc conditions in Greece which is 80 imperatively needed for the re- | establishment of her credit and for ;ho rrecuverr of her trade and in- = * % % Mention of King G reminds me that an cently made in the English press, and widely copled Into newspapers in America and Canada, to the effect that no knight of the Order of the Garter had ever been killed while wearing the insignia. This is hardly correct. o orge of Greece For when King George of Greece's | grundfather and namesake was mur- ered at Saloniki Just ten years #go, he was wearlng the miniature badge of the Order of the Garter, In accord- ance with the regulations incumbent upon {ts members. King Humbert also had the George of the Order of Garter on his person_when as- nated at Monza, In July, 1900, , too, was a keen observer of that law to the effect that the knights of this ancient order should always carry about the George of the order, even if in niinfature, and the late Emperor Frederick of Germany was never without it. Histoty ‘teaches us that Charles I wore thé insignia of the Order of the Garter on the scaffold, and that just before his decapitation he confided to Bishop Buxton, his spiritua] adviser, the George of the order for conveyance to his eldest son and helr, Charles 11, then laying his head on the block while still_wearing the ribbon and the star. Moreover, George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, when assassi- nated by John Felton on August 23, 1628, was wearing the Order of the Garter. This is shown in contempo- rary prints of the murder, It is also known that King Edward III, as sovereign of the Order of the Garter, Was wearing its insignia when killed at the battle of Bosworth, In 1471. ————————— Proof of His Allegation. From Judge. Up in New York gtate there old farmer whoss "economies mave ma his. name & household word. Penury is bred in his very bones, a: to see anything wasted irritates the man quite beyond control. His en- thusiasm for economy has turned him to & veritable crusader and so it was quite in character for him to remon- strate with his hired man because the trusty helper, when starting on his Wednesday night wooing of the rustic lady of his heart, took with him a lantern, s “The very 'ides exclaimed the farmer. “What you burnin’ that kero- sene for? When I was a courtin' I net ;. :nlcd no lantern. I went in 14 the hired man, sadly, sertion was re- 1923—PART 2 Capital Sidelights BY WILL P, KENNEDY. Oliver Optic didn't corner the mar- ket on “Work and Win” advice to young. men. Our Uncle Samuel is preaching the same lesson constantly to the boys of this country—that they can get anything they want if they are willing to work for it and go after it hard enough and persistently. Let's call Representative James W, Mead of Buffalo as a confirmatory illustration. He say: “While a Capltol policeman, guard- ing the House office building from midnight to 8 a.m., I decided I wanted to be a member of Congress. 1 quit my job, returned to Bufralo, was elected committeeman, supervisor, as- semblyman and now to Congress. 1 had made up my mind to be in Con- &ress in ten years and beat that time limit by two year: “Jim's” ather was a section hand for the Lackawanna railroad at Mount Morris,” where Jim was born, and later moved to Buffalo, At the |age of twelve Jim started to work for his dad, carrying water to the isection hands. As he grew older he Iworked as a lamplighter, section |hand, shopman and finally became a switchman on the Erle railroad at East Buffalo, N. Y. % % ¥ Representative Charles Brand of Crbana, Ohlo, was sitting in a Wash- ington hotel lobby with some of his colleagues when a friend from “back home” appeared. After a bit he left this friend with his colleagues while {he ran up to his room. “Was that fellow you introduced ug to a friend of yours?’ one of his collcagues asked. Brand said yes, % “Why, he told us he knew you when you were a peddler:” St ™ peddler:” another rand had to smile, because ti 01d home fellow did know abaut his peddling strawberries from house to ouse when he was oungster, mak- ing enough in this way to pay his way through coll And Brand ha | ! | en a_ “peddier” more or ever since ' Finally he &ot into the manufacturing business and peddled merchandise all over the United States for fifteen Vears. Through farming operations he has been findirectly peddling milk from house to house in Columbus for & number of years. Recently “he has been peddling d He went to the state senate Put some of these ideas across. For example, he peddled the idea of furmers collectively melling their products, which had been a_peniten- tiary offense before that. Then the Brand bread law made short-weight bread illegal in the state of Ohio, since which time the people have been getting two ounces more of | bread for the same price. Brand hus been trying to show how | you can have a good road without paying §40,000 a mile for it. Now he is girding his loins for a fight to get | fair prices on a lot of things we all | must have. “I'm more interested in ! {that than T am in joining the bank- {rupt nations of Europe and eventu- ally going bankrupt ourselves,” he says. * * ¥ Here's one member of Congress who is going to take his office right to the doors of the people of his'die- trict. He bas thought out a new kind Iu! service in politics. Representative | M. O. McLaughlin of Nebraska says | ihe is going to conduct his office for a iperiod of at least two weeks in each [of the eleven county-seat citles of | his district (the fourth Nebraska) during the summer, ‘with a view to coming into contact with all com- pensation and pension claims that are pending, and more especlally to get in touch with the farmers, busi- ness men and the laborers and to juscertain what changes they feel are inecessary In our present laws and {what new legislation they believe | il be advantageous to the country n general. 1 * ¥ % Every congressman receives all kinds of requests from his constitu ents. Representative Charles E. Ful {ler of Iilinols, chairman of the com- imittee on invalid pensions, has just received one “rather different from any previously recelved,” he says. This constituent advised him that he was an experienced hand in the poul- try business and took great interest in all feathered fowls. He contem- | plated going extensively inta the | usiness of raising wild geese, and | ould Representative Fuller Le so ! kind as to send him a dozen wild geese eggs for setting. “Not know- | ing just how or where I could locate ! a eupply of wild geese eggs, 1 was reluctantly obliged to say that I could not comply with this request, said Representative Fuller. * % * % “What sort of fellow is this Kvale who s to succeed Volstead?’ many are askin “Is he human?’ Rev. | 0. J. Kvale is a member of the board of education of the Norwegian Lu- theran Church of America. Just to find out how human he is I asked him to tell me about his dog or horse; about his first fight; how he made his first- million; the first time he was arrested or about his first girl. To this he replied: “The dog you men- tioned died long ago. The horse al- most kicked me to death. I never had a fight worth chronicling (his bitter contest against Volstead not- withstanding). I never was arrested. I never made a milllon. My first girl is now my wife and the mother of my seven children. So there!" * ok % X Many newspaper men come to Con- gress, but few of them continue to be working newspaper men while serving as members. That's how Representative Cyrenus Cole of the fifth Iowa district is “different.” He was “in harness” thirty years, as they say, most of the time as edi- torfal writer, first on the Des Moines Register and later on the Cedar Rap- ids Republic He still “continu; in the game,” furnishing a weekly letter for three daily papers in his district. They say they “eat” the stuff. He mends them gossipy items, but with serfous matter included, 8o that the letters have educational value. Representative Cole says this is one of the pleasantest parts of his life In Congress. Cole's digtrict has been represent- ed by famous men, He succesded James W. Good, first chalrman of the appropriations committee under th budget eystem. ‘Ther were al “Bob" Cousins, the famous orator of other days; “Tama Jim” Wilson, who beat all records for length of ‘serv- as Secretary of Agriculture, and t “dirt farmer" of them Paid College Tuition As “Name Signer” To the Bditor of The Star: I have been reading Mr. Helm's daily with much pleasure. In Star, however, he has made one error. He says that from Jackson’s time till 1878 the office of “name signer” was in abeyance. In 1849 when Taylor became Presi- dent Thomas Ewing of Ohlo was called into the cabinet and formed th fterward calle the “Interior. LI afterward Gen. but then a boy of nineteen—became “sec- retary to the President to and patents” I don't know how long h held th volllllon after l‘hct Pre Mon; death, but long enough to save the money which paid his way through MEN 'AND AFFAIRS BY ROBERT T. SMALL. OL. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, ,,+ assistant secretary of the Navy, will be the next republi- can candidate for governor of | the state of New York. This is the slate | of the powers that be In the G. O. P.| of the empire state, and it all fits into | the {nteresting plan that young Col. | Roosevelt shall continte to follow in the footsteps of his illustrious father. Col, Roosevelt has had his experience in & great war. True, it was not such a privately conducted war as| the one in and around San Juan Hill, but in it the young T. R. won- his spurs in the famous 1st Division, Now he has served as assistant sec- | retary of the Navy as his father did. The governorship of New York comes next. Already there has been some talk of Col. Roosevelt for the vice presi- ' dency, but obviously the governor- ship of his stats is to be preferred at the present time. One wonders if after his father's experience the younger Roosevelt would make the same stubborn fight as his forebear against accepting second place on the national ticket? Probably not, but there will bs no chance of his enter- ing the national arena at least until Tn 1924 he s to be the central figure in his state campaign. Some of the old-leaders in the New York G. O. P. are not any Yoo enthusiastic over young Roosevelt. That was also true of thelr feelings at one time toward his father, so in this case history is but repeating fitself in striking fanhion. But the leaders of the G. O. P, crushed by the democratic landslide which placed Al Smith in Albany for a second term, realize that they must | make a strong bld for votes next year or once more lose the state to the democracy. They have come to the conclusion that young “T. R.” is the 1ad to catch the Imagination of the voters. They believe that he will make an especial appeal to the women. Already his pictures taken in a family group with his children on his shoulders, have attained a political ignificance. Word has gone forth from the po- litical wigwams of New York state to “play up” voung Roosevelt and from present indicatfons he will have little if any opposition for the nom- ination. His political future then will depend upon his ability to win the votes necessary to success. TUn- questionably the young T. R. in the gubernatorial chair at Albany would be an {nteresting figure. He has cast his hat in the political ring, and his fate is in the laps of the gods. «x % west that weet of Colorado may cut the ardian knuot of his political troubles by appointing neither the Woodrow Wilson nor the Bryan-McAdeo “nom- fnces” for the vacant United States senatorship. In the bellef that he will name.a third person the friends of John T. Barnett, former attorney general of the state, are urging him as the logical man for the place. Cer- tainly from the national point of Heard and Seen Did you ever see a checkrein on a | dog? Well, the nearest thing to one you ever saw made its appearance on & street car one afternoon last week. It already was on the dog. Poor critter! 1t there ever was a time “when a. feller needs a friend,” that was {t. The dog, a Bostori bull, sat on the seat with his mistress. He was just an ordinary-looking dog, with no par ticular traits to distinguish Lim from others of his kind, except for a most melancholy countenance. And no wonder! Protruding up trom his collar was o fringe of hair. each hair perhaps two inches long. Sticking down from his collar was another complete fringe of long hairs. Thus the helpless dog sat adorned with this two-decked affair bristling | out in all directions. It made the poor | Mor look silly, and he knew it You can't fool & dog on a thing like that. Some of the women on car seemed to think® the collar looked cute,” but most of the men regarded it in a different light. “T don't know whether they made that collar for & certain purpose og not, but. anyway. it certainly accom- plished .it,” remarked one male pas- renger to another. lee that upper and lower fringe? Notice how it prickles into his chin and chest?” “Makes him keep his head up all right,” commented the other. Those famillar with bulldogs know thiat nothing so adds to their appear- ance as a cockily-held head, ears erect, eves bright. But to have a dog that way naturally is one thing: to attemnt to ‘induce it by an absurd prickly collar is distinctly another. On any ground, no self-respecting dog ought ta be madg to wear a collar like that | fel . the » * % the United from 1895 to 1913, arrived in Wash- ington from the south last week just in time to inspect the havoe wrought imay prove to be what all concerned by the tornado at Silver Spring. The trip recalled to Prof. Moore the inspéction he made after the great tornado at $t. Louls on May Pine scantlings shot through and straws neatly driven into trees. we-e some of the phenomena of that grant devastation. 3 While the former chief of the weather bureau found nothing at Silver Spring to equal in any way the former memorable tornado, which his bureau had predicted at the time, he was much interested in going over the nearby scene. Prof. Moore, in his book published last fall, “The New Air World,” pays a neat compliment to former Pres dent Woodrow Wilson. When Presi- dent Wilson came in he removed Prof. Moore from office. Here ia the Way the latter speaks of the incident: “Prof. Moore claims the honor of having been the first presidential ap- pointee to incur the displeasure and receive the public condemnation of Woodrow Wilson. & * % “You meet some funny folks in this man’s town,” he said. “Now take that woman I inadvertently stumbled into as I was getting on the street ear. I apologized in my best manner, but do you suppose she smiled sweet- 1y? She did not! She merely glared. “And how about that old lady who glares balefully at me ever time I dare to sit down beside her in the car? It she doesn’t like me, well, I Eoo;'t like ber, either, so we ought be eve Now I never dome nothin' to that old lady, except maybe jostle her once and awhile wh; the car sto ed sudden. But 1 got my reven Hhis morning the conductor came to the front of the car and informed the woman that she had omitted to drop in_her token. “Well, if looks could have killed, there would be one less street car employe in Washington today. All the passengers looked at the 'lady, ang " YooKed—unhappy. 1 CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. |crats of the far west, for they | that Mr. Thompson is a.republica: | Tnerease of view Mr. Bamett is heid in high re gard in democratio counet] has served as demooratio, national conf | mitteeman, giving up the position two years ago becauses of the press of his private affairs, 'His Jaw prac tice is such as would prevent his ac cepting public office for a long term but his friends would like to have him serve until & successor could be | elected next year. The Wilson advocacy of his friend Huston Thompson for the senatorial appointment has stirred up tiie demo say a “Wilson republican” perhaps, bu: nevertheless a republican, with no af. fillation whatsoever with the de mocracy of the mining state. Th= only office ever held by Mr. Thompsor in Colorado was under a republica: regime as assistant attorney genera! He went out of that office when John Barnett, now urged for the senator ship, became attorney general. For the last ten vears Mr. Thompson has held federal office here in Wash ington. Capt. Morrison Shafroth, a _son of a democratic senator from Colorado. and come to be known as the Mc Adoo-Bryan candidate for the e: ing vacancy, is highly regarded by the democratic leaders of the state and even those who are urging Mr. Barnett for the unexpired Nicholso: torm, are suggesting that Capt. Shaf roth’ shoyld make the race agalns: Senator Lawrence Phipps in 1924 Capt. Shafroth is in his early thirties but already has made his mark botl as a soldfer in the world war and as a lawver. And despite the fact that Senator Phipps will claim the back ing of the Harding administration i his next campaign, it is believed he would find in Capt. Shafroth a diffi cult opponent to down. _Senator Phipps is one of the richest, if not the richest, man in Colorado. Capt. Sha roth has just his health and a win ning disposition. John Barnett, who .is particularlv well known here in Washingtor made an enviable record as attorne; general of his state, and succeeded among other things in hreaking uv a number of great rings about the state. He even avent so far as remove a district attorney and take over the functions of the office him self. His action was challenged, but the supreme court sustained him an thereby set an important precedes which to this day operates in th state as a check on delinquent prose cuting officers. * ¥ ¥ Apropos the Colorado situatio: there has been considerable editoria criticism across the country as. tc the speed with which certain leaders of the democracy rushed in to name a successor to Senator Nicholson be fore the latter had been fairly burled The criticism has recalled one of former President, Wilson's . owr stories. Tt had to do with the time that Senator Pat McCarren was tl famous democratic leader in Brook Iyn. A local office holder in Kinge county bhad died and Pat was attend ing the funeral. During the services one of the seekers for the vacat office, bolder than the. rest, accosted Carren. “Senator,” he safd. “you know J would like to take poor John's place.” Vell. it's perfectly ull right with: me.” replied the leader, “if you arrange it with the undertaker.” Fifty Years ‘Ago in The Star The possibility .of a 'strike among the Chesapeake and Ohjo canal boat- men nowadays would be of little moment 2 5 4 Canal Tolls, locaily. but - fifty vears ago such a contingency caused. great conce here. as the following in of March 31, 1873, indicates “The latest intelligence from Cum nd and along the line of the with respeet to the boatmen's is gratifying.in proportion t unpropitiousness of the. circum stances. that such a.movement should have taken place just at the com mencement of what bids fair to be a most prosperous season for the cana! business. We still hope for the very best, but it still remains’ to be seer that the mewlr budding prospects the trade will be able to bear this fresh Increase of cost upon top o the additional tely decreed ! the company. Under all the circumstances of the case and the competition which the canal, with al its natural advantages, has to meet it does appear to .us that, with re spect to the increase both of tolls'and boatmen's charges, it would have been the part of a wise discretion to allow matters to run on in thelr ac- customed channel to some period of the coming summer, say July or Au- gust. By that time enough woula have been learned to determine with certainty if the trade would bear an increase in tolls and freights, when action could be taken accordingly. As it is, there has been precipitation— too much haste to kill the goose for the sake of the golden egg. But the cotemporaneous inerease of toll by the canal company and tonnage by the boatmen is not all that has been done in this more or less perilous di rection. The owners of wharves a: anal . |Cumberland have put in their oar and Prof. Willis Luther Moore, chief of | States weather bureau | sent up thelr wharfuge charges fron the old rate of b to 8 cents per ton 80 that altogether the consignee is confronted with a new and unexpect ed cost of 13 cents per ton, the effect of which upon the canal ‘coal trade will helplessly regret. Some indica tion of the result to be anticipated has been already furnished in the fact that In consequence of the delay of two weeks in the coal trade this season later than last year's receipts by canal, the Baltimore and Ohlo rai! road is now actively engaged at Bal- timore in filling orders for home and foreign account. - * The loss of the steamship Atlanti of the White Star line, plying between ew York and Steamer Atlantic Liverrool. fifty years ago terr! Lost With 700. biy shocked the people of both America and Europe According to The Star of April 1873, she struck a rock as she was making her way into Halifax harbor at 2 o'clock on the morning béfore and went down, carrylng with bLe: tully 700 people. She had left Liver pool on the 20th of March, and the weather being tempestuous she ex- hausted her supply of coal. The cap- tain determined to put into Halifax and get fuel to carry her to New York. The pilot seéms to have beer unacquainted with the tortuous chan- nel, and [n the- gray twilight, while the' passengers were asleep, the 'ship struck Meagher's rock, “beat against it for a minute or two, then turned over on her side and went down with all her precious frelght of human touls, save those who olung to the rigging and & courageous few Who kept themselves afloat on pleces of the wreck.” About 250 escaped to the rock itself and were saved by figher- men, who Went to ' their rescue. though not before they were agair impsriled by the rising of the waters. whish In that region move through a distance of many feet in tidal action All the books were lost and the names of many of the: steerage passengers Who perished could thus never be learned. Only qne, boat was got over board as the steamer was sinkin and tHat was carried down by the ;ucflnn ané those wha were in it were lost.