Evening Star Newspaper, April 22, 1923, Page 42

HE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. € PRIL 22 1923— PART . W THE "EVENING STAR, ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY.........April 22, 1023 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Officc: 150 Nasshu St. Chicago Office: Tower Building European Oftice: 18 Regent St., London, England. The Evening Star. with the Sunday morning tion, 1s delivered by carriers within the city er month; daily only, 45 cents per s, 20 cents per month. Or 5y mail or telephone’ Main is made by carriers at the end of each month Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1mo.. 1yr., $6.00: 1 mo 1yrs $2.40; 1 mo. Al Other States. d Sunday.lyr., !;0.(\(‘; 1 m g7 0 50¢ 20¢ . 85¢ Associated Press. is exclusively entitied the use tlon of all news dis atehes credited to it or not otherwise credited W this paper and uito the local news pub- shed heretn. Al rights of publication of rein ure also reserved The United States and Mexico. Gratifying assurance has been re ceived in this city that progress is being made by Mexico toward the ful- filiment of the requirements which are mposed by the United States as a con- dition to formal recognition. This gn\-—l ernment has, since the establishment | Obregon and the maintenance of | stable wdministration in the nelghbe ing republic, insisted that definite as surance must be given for the protec of foreigners in Mex- carly in the case of Mexico to tion of the right Diffic aross the indisposition such guarantees into the laws of the republic. Without swerving from its initial proposal. the United States has steadfastly maintained that until those guarantees were made def- | ico. 0 write or inite and fundamental this govern-} 1t could not grant recognition. Acknowledgment by the United States is well worth the surrender by f any technical national right. United States has not asked cning of the Mexican na- It has simply asked | a pledge be given that puts Mex-| o upon the same basis of relation to the United States and other coun-| tries that all other members of the tamily of nations now maintain. pressure has been put upon Mesico to this end, save the pressure of scifinterest, noted from time to time in the exchanges between the two 1t las been pa- tiently pointed out to Mexico that the TUnited States views it as more to the rest of that govgrnment than of this to aceept the préposals extended ! for u weal tional authority governme; and to modity der to effect the necessary guaran tecs. Preparation of a treaty between the j United States and Mexico has ad-! vanced to the point where definite ac- tion is expected soon. This delicate | negotiation has been protracted, but it was perhaps well that it should be. Tor meanwhile the government of Mexico has grown stronger and more 1t has practically demonstrat-; A definite agreement ! between the United States and likely to endur And in the course of these negotiations there hu\ei bheen no undue or excessive asperities, | and relations between the two coun- tries have steadily improved despite the lack of recognition, When the final act shall have been effected there will be cause for utmost gratification on hoth sides of the international boun- dary over a triumph of the diplomacy of mutual interest and consideration. ———————— secure. ed its stabilit now Mexico i Mayor Hylan s mude the :!':A\‘c! mistake of slurring = Arthur Conan | Doyle. thus drawing on himself the | tfire Tady D s vigorous and | scathing rejoinder. The mayor should read his Kipling and beware of “the! female of the species.” —————————— However sharp the asperities of D. A campaigning, the losing “Daughters” always take defeat with the smiles of good sportsmanship, ———— The Supreme Court, Tt is a mistake to view the proposals lately advanced for some form of law 1o require more than a majority vote Iy the Supreme Court to declare an ! act of Congress unconstitutional as | an attack upon that court. In render- ing its decisions, many of which have heen. on important questions, by the | Farest margin of majority, the Su-| preme Court has followed a precedent set in the beginning by a logical rule | in the absence of any specific require- | ment of law. There was no measure 10 guide the court in the beginhing. Tts power to pass upon the constitu- tionality of statutes was, it is true, challenged early. The history of the court is one of frequent attacks and criticisms by those whom its decisions have offended or unfavorably affected. But it has proceeded undeterred in ] the discharge of its duty, and has to- day the confidence of the country, de- spite the recent loudly voiced criti- cisms. It it is the will of the nation ex- pressed through statute or through constitutional amendment to require that all constitutional questions be de- termined by this court by a vote jarger than a majority such an ex- pression should be given. This issue will undoubtedly be pressed at the next session of Congress. There are two forms of proposal, one by legisla- tion and one by amendment. The «question has arisen whether the court may not itselt by majority vote pass upon the constitutionality of a statute which limits its power-of decisiom. With that possibility in mind an amendment to the Constitution has been drafted to the same effect. The Supreme Court is established by the Constitution, with its scope of jurisdiction established by section 2 of Article III, which provides: The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under *his Constitution, the laws of the United States and treaties made. or which shall be made, under their authority: to all| cases affecting ambassadors. other pub- lic ministers and consuls; to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; 1o controversies to which the United States shall be a party; to controversies Dhetween two or more states; between & state and citizens of another state; be- iween citizens of different siates: be- Smeea cltizens of the same state clalm- ! the fundamental law in | tarmed they would have won the revo- ing lands under grants of different states, and between a state or the citi- zens thereof and forelgn states, citizens or subjects. Tho specific power of the Supreme Court is provided for in the following clause, which states that that court shall have original jurisdiction in all cases affecting ambassadors. other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be a party, while in all the other cases be- fore mentioned “the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such excep- tions and under such regulations us the Congress shall make. 1t is under the last clause of the just quoted passage that it is now proposed by statute to define the manner in which the Supreme Court shall pass upon constitutionality of statutes, by the enactment of such a “regulation.” There are those who hold that this would be sufficient, and others who hold that the court could in itself declare it to e beyond the power of Congress under the Consti tution as now written to attempt to “regulate” the procedure of the court in the matter of the manner of its decisions. The fact that Congress not heretofore by statute sought to pro- vide a rule of decision upon constitu- tional issues lcaves the court free of | criticism for having pursucd its course from the beginning consistently on the principle of devis by a ma- jority. on ————————— The *‘Daughters” on Preparedness. The Daughters of the Amer Revolution did well to adopt unani mously a resolution indorsing the stand recently taken by Secretary Weeks for an Ame ). policy of adequate armed preparedness, even though it had already gone on record to the same general effcet on previous ocea- sions. Owing to an apparent miscon- ception of the matter the congress { had declined a few hours earlier to pass such a resolution on the ground that action to that effect had hereto- fore been taken. This wave rise to a misconception of the position of the organization, and it was proper that all doubts should be cleared by the emphatic indorsement of the War Scc- retary's position with a renewed pledge that the Daughters of the American Revolution stands for ade- quate readiness for national defense. This organization represents the “spirit of 'T the spirit that carried the American colonists through revo lution into independence. That war was won, not by a standing army, nor by a militia force,” but by a volunteer itizen soldiery, nized for the emergency, recruited fi ranks nd all quarters, has ed and armed, held together by devotion to i the cause of Americun freedom. Had “embattied farme been better led, better organized and better n e all dri i the |ar lution more specdily and with less} cost. The fact that they did win, those men whose descendants now meet an- nually under the emblem of the dis- | taff, should make all Americans of the present generation advocate the ladoption of measures that will hold { assuredly secure liberties the the wol ‘ Tt | of patriotic ble American {stand so firmly and plainly for the | principle of adequate national defense | that there can be no doubt in the pub- | lic mind, no room for any suggestion of the evil of “pacifism” creeping into its councils. Today the most urgent{ need of our citizenship is to combat the tendency toward radicalism that so strangely takes the form of paci fism. Both are anti-organic, anti- national. The “Daughters” cannot too frequently or too explicitly declare their adherence to the high principle of readiness for defense to m: thut which forefathers lished. ——————— »rd Robert Cecil, true to his char-; as a sincere enemy of wa this great body | women is des at should | their L acter is | pitching his argument for American entry into the league of nations in a key of gentle persuasion rather than caustic criticism. 1 ————— i ©Oil will figure at the coming Lau- sanne conference on the near east problem, but whether to the end of preventing friction or promoting ship- ping remains to he seen. Traffic Rules for Shrine Time. Anticipating the coming of an im- menge number of motor cars to Wash- ington for the Shrine convention in June, the Commissioners have adopted special regulations to remain in force from the 25th of May to the 10th of June. Certain streets in the downtown section are to be established for one- way traffic. All parking is to be pro- hibited in the prescribed zone during the same period. By this means the traffic will be kept in motion, and the streets will be kept clear to accommo- date the great increase in volume. That these rules are necessary is to be realized from the fact that many thousands of machines will come to Washington for the convention bear- ing delegates and other visitors, some of them from long distances. They will not merely park outside of town or in the assigned spaces within the city, to remain idle. during the stay here, but they will be in use constant- Iy throughout the visit. Practically every one of these incoming machines will be on the streets of the city daily in addition to the machines of Wash- ingtonians and of those of nearby Maryland and Virginia making daily trips to the capital. Without eome special provision, it i® plain to see, the ‘Washington streets would be in a hopeless jam from the beginning to the end of the convention. Even with the special regulations strictly enforced this mass of vehicles will present a problem of regulation. The ordinary business of the city must continue to be transacted. The thou- sands who move dafly to and from work end who go about on business errands in motor cars must be allowed to proceed, even whila the elty is fill- ing (o the point of congestion with, guests. The Commissioners have wise- {membership " a Methodist ‘church |it ly set time limits upon the emergency rules that will permit the Washing- tonians to become accustomed to the restrictions Dbefore the crcwd gets here. These precautions evidence the magnitude of the undertaking Wash- ington has assumed to entertain this great body of .people. The city has lieretofore proved equal to such-task It will not fail now, even though the June meeting will be_the greatest it has ever entertained. ———— Ruling Out New York. William ., Anderson, state super- intendent of the Anti-Saloon League of New York, has issued a statement which would imply that New York has but little chance of naming the can- didate of the democratic party for the presidency, because the drys of the country will not stand for it. He claims that “no New York man can be nom- irated without the indorsement of Tammany, and the dry democrats of the country will be susplcious of any- body satisfactory to Tammany.” In the same breath he dampens the erdor of those democratic aspirants for the nomination from the south who might be inclined to be classed as “near-wet.” Ie insists that “any democratic candidate who hopes to win must carry the south. The south is dry. The Methodists and Baptists overwhelmin predominate. The Bapt arc about as much hated by the wets as the Methodists, and mere will not swing the votes of Methodists for a beer candidate against a Baptist who has stood as strongly for enforce- ment as President Harding.” Suppose the democrats should nom- inate a beer-and-wine candidate. Would not that be tough luck for the south- ern voter in the election? Think of having to choose between a near-wet and the hereditary and perennial foe, 4 republican. What could & poor fel- low do but take to the cyclone cellar on election day? Mr. Anderson goes on to say that the republican party will urely take the law and order end of prohibition enforcement, and insists thut the democratic party must do likewise if it expects to have any chance of winning. It is evident that the Anti-Saloon League intends to take an active in- terest in the nominating of the candi. dates of both parties. In this connec- tion Mr. Anderson takes occasion to deny the report that the league will prefer Gifford Pinchot to President Harding on the score of more rigid enforcement, and pays the President high tribute for his position on en- furcement. ——————————— Those big vivania poles just planted on P avenue are unlovely now. but it is promised that they will e the means of making the historic street of the most beautiful in the world in June. ——— Ridicule of American prohibition by members of the house of commons gains some point from the reckoning of the British profits in sending liquor into the United States through the blockade. —_——— A rush to buy sugar before it rises higher is calculated to give some color to the pretense of the price-boosters | that the demand cxceeds the supply. ———— Government's decision not to use warships against the liquor pirates is not to be interpreted as determina- tion to make the Na An American socialist author has won a libel verdict of 500,000 crown: in Vienna against & man who in his review of @ new book called the author a “knave.” Translated into real money that means about $750. SHOOTING STARS. EY PHILANDER JOHNSON in Introspection. R — Soviet Russia takes another tug at | its steadily loosening belt and votes to stick by the bolshevist theories of government for another year. But the trouble is that the belt is mot encir- cling those who do the voting. We find with sorrow most sincere Are not what others want to hear. ‘What though you hate your daily to1? What though you lose your petty wares? ‘What though your comfort Fate may spoil? Nobody cares. 1 Each small annoyance ever known H Is common to the human race, And yet we seek to gild our own ‘With pathos or romantic grace, ‘What though your nerves are off the key? What though the cook may put on air And friends with your umbrella flee” Nobody cares. | ‘ i i Music of the Day. 1In days of old such songs we heard As “Listen to the Mocking Bird.” Light melodies their magic lent To grace some tender sentiment. And when they sought a lively key They warbled “Dixie’” with great glee. Alas! Their tastes were very slow Back in the days of long ago. But now such jazzy rhymes they sing That grandma to her chair will cling And say. in accents far from bland, Siie hopes she ‘does not understand! Some day when fashion brings once more The custom of those days of yore, She may revive the simple charm Of songs that pleased and meant no harm. ' £ The Lucky Indian. The Indian, lucky man, could roam ‘Where he might choose and make his home . Tpon a mouritain top so high Or where the waves come tumbling by. ‘And, when he wished, go on his way And never have a cent to pay, d ‘While we, who wish to sleep or sup, Are charged six plunks per day end up. et 'Human beings are the most inter- esting things in the world, and next to them are horses,” says @ lecturer. It the horse could lecture we might get the other side of the story.— Toledo Blade. ———— Count llya Tolstoy, now lecturing in this country, complains’ of the quality of American food, Somebody should explain to him thal we sent all our-goed foed to Wussia.—Clev land Plain Dealer, As through this curious world we walk The things of which we want to talk Rome and of | money on W Fears America. May Yet Cease | Capi To Be a Land of BY THOMAS R. MARSHALL. Former Vice Preaident of the United Sta HE incident I am about to re- late occurred in the smoking compartment of a Pullman car. enterprise. eager to explain details, which he ap- peared to have mastered, and con- fident of making good if the venture His companion mani- was tackled. fested slight enthusiasm. The details did not interest him. What he want- ed to know guarantee the success of the enter- prise. He made it known that he cared nothing for the proposal as an opportynity to accomplish something. As an opening for work, his friend’'s project had no appeal for him. he was anxious to learn how RBut much probably could be made out of it and was particularly inquisitive about thg insurance policy of success, if any, that would go with it I get all sorts of letters. advised that it is plainly my dut assist him _because his purpose laudable. Mrs. Marshall is adv dress which Another writer, evidently thinkin Anottier y thinking 1 Senate, desires u sliding trombono, which would cost only $48. world. I refer many young persons in America. ox ok ok These instances have caused me to wonder whether the spirit of adven- ture has deserted the nostrils of man- kind. Can it be, now that the habit- able globe is pretty well charted, that the old race of men rapldly disap- pearing is being succeeded Ly a race individuals? of strangely different America has always been looked upon as the land of opportunity, but the men of America who achieved suc- cesses did not lie abed until oppor- tunity rang their doorbells. On the contrary, they were great adventur- ers pursuing opportunity. They lived in an age when life, health, accident and success insurance were not de- manded before a man would tak, chance. They were the Vasco di Gamas flouting on unknown seas; the Chris- topher Columbuses sailing on and on the Livingstons in tractless wastes the Greenfels in Arctic floes: the John Hays Hammonds and the Thomas F. Walshes secking opportunity he- neath the surface of the earth. Yes, America has been the land of oppor- tunity, but it was because the Ameri- can has dared to take his chance. Call it the spirit of the gambler that are 'quite worth while to be ap- proached in that spirit, He cither fears his fate Or his desert is s . Who will not put it to the touch And win or lose it all. ek ¥ With the wonderful developments of modern science and the opening up of the Arcana of nature to the ex- ploration and use of mankind, the age of opportunity has not passed. The spirit of adventure ought vet to be the predominant factor in Ameri- can life. Notwithstanding all injus- tices and inequalities, opportunities for men to succeed still exist. But I cannot help but be impressed with the feeling that life in America is very rapidly separating two antagonistic camps, which mental or physical warfare may de- stroy ture, but the very thing upon which too much, adventure rests, opportunity and the | his willingness of man to take “Prince” Killed in A Good Fellow., But With Bogus Title BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. 1t is in vain that one will search | in the Almanach de Gotha and { other official and standard works of reference of the princely and noble houses of continental Europe for the name of “Prince Edgar de Waldeck,” who, according to the cable dispatch- es, was killed on Monday last in an automobile accident, while proceed- ing from Monte Carlo to Cannes. 1t I mention this, it was because the United States under that style. and he was_a frequent visitor to was last over here just before Christ- n the wedding in New friend and_associate, York of his Francis Byron Kuyhn, to Miss Alice Kenny of New | York. TFrancis Kuhn, whose sister, Alice Kuhn, is Covel of Brookline, Mass., and whose Cousin, Walter Kubn, was with Ed- gar ialdeck in the automobile Smash-up, escaping with a few broken bonee, has assumed the Pol- ish title of Cou plea of some former Prorok family pursuing one of the several archeo- Togic: Carthage. * ok ¥ This particular undertaking, in which the late Edgar Waldeck was likewise associated, and that is be- ing financed Wwith American money, is one of at least a dozen that are delving irm:-t the f the great nor % o her empire th African rival of or more ago. o number of lectures in America on the richness of these ruins of Ca: thage, and first visited this country some years before the war with Edgar Waldeck, memorial Edgar Allan Poe Dat forwar put forw: Polish titles, either by his mother, who used to at Deauville in France. ‘With reg: “prince Edgar Waldec! fore me not only & members o House of Waldeck, in Baltimore. 'k, tty German rulers, were converted lpx:lovreyuhllcl t the close of ‘the great war in November and Decem: ber, 1918, but also the roster of all those scions of the house of Wal- deck wh morganatic union: entitled to ' the Princess of Waldeck, Counts of Waldeck, wi long to the sove: house, or 3 ana ne .oPrlnc. Edi of ho did not be- gar of Waldeck. * K K ¥ During his visits to America, T frequently recefved letters from read- ers, making inquiries as to his iden- tity, But, 1 no harmn, and scemed to have enough hich to live and travel. I Fetrained, in accordunce with custom, from calling attentlon to t tact that his name did not appe among the official lists of any of the Princes of whose members by-the-by, is universally respected queen mof pt the Netherlands, while another w One young man was urg- ing another to join him in a business He was earnest, sincere, was who was going to T am in- formed by one writer of a poor young | man who wants an education, «nd am to is ed that if she wonld deprive hersel? of a J the writer thinks she doesn’t need. tho money thereby saved would help the writer to buy & thivver, the presiding officer of the He would have me collect 50 cents from each of the senators and thus enable him to add to the harmony or discord of the to these requestsi which crowd my mail merely to exll attention to the outlook of, 1 fear, his if u will, but there are some things itsel? into Ly not only the spirit of adven- | Opportunity| chance. I express no opinion upon whether wages are too high or too low. Much might be written from either viewpoint. But no man can consider the wage problem fn Amer- ica without becoming convinced that whatever the wage, multitudes of men there are who do not .care whether they earn it or not. They Lave gotten their minds into a state of bellef that they are in industrial slavery, and that therefore they are perfectiy justified- in doing as little as possible in return for the wages they receive. Even increases in wage | scales have not changed the mental ' attitude of these men. The revegse of the picture is just as bad. We find nothing inspiring | when we look at the employers’ side. | Here are men who seem to be willing to do_anything to show that they are able managers, to prove that they ‘ure mindful only of profits and to demonstrate they are earning their salaries . Their one object ix to en- able their directors to declare divi- dends. Humanity is not for them. Each of these classes is insisting un- consciously perhaps, thut opportunity is not opportunity unless it is coupled with absolute certainty. P 1 am proposing no legislative panacea for these manifest injustices. I yet have unlimited faith in the common sense of the American. To me it is almost uncanny how things come out of the life and public serv- ices of Abraham Lincoln which are for the good of the republic. You may secarch all time and vou can find no man in human history who, under such adverse circumstances, so seized opportunity without a guar-{ anty, thought, spoke and acted aright to the glory of God. When the ques- tion of human slavery was all im- portant, it raged for a time around the District of Columbla. The denio- crats sald Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery; the whig, for political reasons, shuffled; but Abra- ham Lincoln laid down ‘& doctrine that if lived up to in the economic world of America today, would re- store right conditions once again. bring back the age of untrammeled opportunity, and deo more to spell peace than volumes of statutory laws. He boldly took the position that the {Congress had ample authority to pre- vent slavery in the District, but that it ought not to do so save with the consent of those who dwelt within the District. He became the har- binger of a new day. He uttered the first clear note touching individual responsibility. He differentiated he- tween the legal right to do a thing and the moral obligation not to do it * e A man has a right today to soldter on his job, if he can get away with it. A man has a right to screw wages down to the starvation point if he can find workmen who will ac- cept that wage. A man has a right to say anything that he pleases about the Constitution and laws the United States. A man has a right to be « trouble breeder. to raise Cain if he will. But regardless of his legal rights on all the phases of life that g0 into the making of our civiliz tion, & moral obligation rests on him ‘not to exercise those rights except to rectify a wrong or to promote the common good. If we will just take the advice of Lincoln—backwoods ‘lawyer, martyred President, greatest | American—we will forget what | rights are guaranteed to us and will permit each American to pursue his | opportunity, untrammeled by illegal | conditions and unhandicapped by im- | moral purposes, $thereby promoting | an honest race for success. We will | rebaptize the American with the | spirit of adventure, and we will put without the pale of respectable demo- cracy all those who pull a law and say that it permits them to work their own sweet will regardless of any morals that may be involved in the transaction. America became the |1and of opportunity upon a moral question preserved a united people {upon a moral question, enguged in the world fight upon a moral | question, and must settle her problems, present and future, by | moral conduct participated in by ail her men. (Copyright of 1023, by 21st Century Press. Motor Smash-Up H i i = i | the late widowed Duchess of Albany. | Incidentally. it may be said that| there is no former princely house in Germany that has furnished such a large number of divorces and mesal- liances as that of Waldeck, and, in- cidentally, a number of romances, notably the marriage at Dublin of the late Prince Albert of Waldeck to a very pretty and fascinating Irish girl of the name of Miss Dora {honor of representing s in the capacity of best man at is married to Borden | nt of Prorok. on the connection with the of Galicia. and is at the present moment engaged in al explorations into the ruins of vast area of ruins 2,000 years Byron Kuhn has given to place a bronze wreath on the grave of t until after that visit that he d claims to his alleged which are not borne relatives or by his make her home ard to the unfortunate I have be- list of all the ¢ the formerly sovereign ‘whose dominions, along with those of so many other o were either the issue of and therefore not tyle of Prince or the : mere reign branch of the of the latter's illegitimate And nowhere in these lists any record of the name of nasmuch as he was doing my he | Marechal de Mouchy owned in France and Counts of Waldeck, one Gage. Her children. by reason of her non-royal birth, could not| succeed to their father's princely titles, in which she, too, had no share. Therefore, she was created a Count- ess Rhoden by the then sovereign of Waldeck, with the understanding that the same name and title were to be used by any children which she might bear to ker husband. ¥ %k * % Count Charles de Noailles, who has orrived in America with his voung wife, and who has been staying at the Plaza Hotel, in New York, be- ore proceeding to Washington, Ealtimore, Philadelphia, Boston und other cities farther south and west, has a strain of American biood in his veins, and is the only brother end next heir of Henri de Noallles, seventh Duke of Mouchy, Prince and {Duke of Poix, grandee of the first class of Spain, and head of rounger branch of the old Crusader Cucal . house of Noailles. Count Charles served with distinction throughout the great war as a cap tain of the 9th Regiment of Cuiras- slers and was so badly wounded that at one time he was reported killed. His mother is that widowed Princess and Duchess de Poix, nee Madeleine de Courval (herself the offspring of an American - woman), and whose nume appeared so frequently in the American newspapers during the great war, at the foot of letters of thanks for the supplies which they Lad collected and forwarded to the Sreat committee, of which she was the president, in’ Puris for the relief of vl‘heuol‘!’erlng in France, In the provinc evastated b erman flfl’F#!- Y the Ge e count's grardmother, atill alive, 1s the widowed’ Duchens of Mauchy, now in her eighty-fourth year, who was born at Bordentown, N. J.. as Princess Anna of Murat, of an American ‘mother, Miss Caroiine Fraser of Philadelphia, and who mar- ried in Paris in 1865, in the Palace of the Tuilleries, the late Antoine de t;n’llllel.’ sixth Duke de Mouchy. eing given away at th v Rer' Cotisin Napoleon q11 214F bY ’_ * ¥ X The elder of the two sons of this particular Duc de Noailles inherited Mme. de Maintenor’s famous castle, bearing her name, in the department of the Eure et Loire _and was kno as the Marechal .de Noailles, whoreas the younger son Philippe was known as the Marechal de Mouchy, and be- came by his marriage to Louise d’Arpajon, granddaughter and heiress of the late Spanish Duke of Arpajon, a grandee of the first class in Spain, and Duke of Arpajon. That title was subsequently transformed by the King of Spain into a Spanish duke- dom of Mouchy, Mouchy being the name of the fine'old castle which the | i | | g }in the Oise, about an hour's distan Ducl de Ri 10 the ther | niece of the grest ca: 23 of Prince de Poix. oy By WILL P, KENNEDY. The officlal reporters of debate in Congress are in a class by themselves, doing the most skilled recording of the world. During the last Congress they took down as they were uttered in sharp and .swiftly spoken debate more than 160,000,000 words, and then read off their notes in the same legi- ble and facile way that people read their Bibles. Durirg the closing se: slon the Senate was for weoks sitting continuously from 11 am. until 19 o'clock at night. For seventy-four years, since the stenography of Isaac Pitman began to record the Senate debates, they have been reported in just that fluent and reliable w ¥ k¥ When Prestdent Wilson came home from Europe and invited the Senate committee on foreign rclations to come to the White House and que tion him about the peace conference. he suggested that the hearings should bo officially reported. Senator Lodge. chafrman of the committee, invited James W. Murphy to attend to the reporting. Warren G. Harding was one of the scventeen members of the committee who plled the Chief Execu- tive with quertions. There was no time to revise the report and the newspaper men got it sheet by sheet It made nineteen columns in the next m‘lrlnnl_ s paper. This man Murphy who had charge of that job is tho son of Edward V. Murphy,” who for thres score vears was a skilled and faithful official of the Senate. He is the nephew of Dennis F. Murphy, the first real American reporter, who learned his stenography in the Philadelphia high school €0 that in a year he was able to write at the rate of 180 words a minute and at tha age of fifteen, while employed us amanuensis by the rep- resentative of a Washington news- paper, outspesded the regular re- porters of debate, and at twenty was undisputedly the foremost reporter of debates in the English-speaking world. At one time he took 230 words a minute during a forty-minute hear- ing, in 1874, ik w ® Representative “Jack” Garner Texas, who was considered as & can- didate for democratic leader in the next Congress until he announced that he would not oppose Represent- ative Finis J. Garrett of Tennessee for the honor, hus been in Congress continuously for twenty years—and yet there are three counties in the distric his eleventh term which he has never ited. These thiree counties have al- ys gone for him just the same, “maybe because they have not seen Garner Limself comments. was born near Possum Trot, ut the edge of Blossom Prair Red River county, Texas, in a log hut which is still standing, and which ix still being preserved by him for sentimental and tender recollectio of carly childhood At the age of eight he rode to mill on a mack of corn, und on the retur: trip home the sack came untied, meal flowed out. and—well, he knew whit was cominzito him when he ot iome. He was raised farm known as a good n_pick mar.y days picking over 400 pound: He is now pretty comfortably well off in strong contrast to his early vears, when his first wordly posses- sion was a_motherless mule colt, bought by him for $5. which he earned selling eggs. This motherless ;?!f) when four vears old sold for ana ok The polvglot hero of the last demo- cratic national campaign. who is likely to be drafted for similar service in the coming presidential campaign, is Representative Edward T. Taylor of Glenwood Springs, Colo. He or- ganized the bureau of naturalized citizens at the democratic national headquarters in Chicago in 1916 and conducted the party campaign throughout the western twenty-four states to secure the vote of foreign- born citizens of forty-six different nationalities and languages. * % ¥ ¥ tepresentative Allen T. Treadway. who shares with Speaker Gillett the the western part Massachusetts in Congress, is especially proud of a compliment paid him when he first aired his ora- torical powers in the House by the veteran democratic leader Champ Clark. Mr. Clark was in the cloak- room when Treadway started speech, but hurried in to see who was making so much noise. He told Mr. Treadway later that he had “filled the hall better than any man” he had ever heard. The first time Allen Treadway ever spoke in public on the stage was in a prize speaking contest at Amherst College on a hot night. His subject was “The Battle March of Attila” which required a good deal of voice. Mr. Treadway recalled that his train- er warned hig that if he did not hold himself back he was “liable to blow the roof oft.” Gen. Isaac of n * Sherwood of Toledo, { Ohio, who will be the oldest man in the Sixty-eighth Congress when he returns in his eighty-eighth year, and who carried a musket in first bat- tle of the civil war at Philippi, Va., later West Virginia, as a volunteer oldier receiving $11 a month, made his first wisit to Washington in Febru- ary, 1859. ¥e heard the culminating debate in the Senate on the bill to pur- chase the Island of Cuba. He recalls the startling and revolutionary utter- ance of Robert Toombs of Georsia, championing this measure, that he aimed to call the roll of his slaves under the shadow of Bunker Hill lonument. Senator Mason of Vir- ginla and Senator William H. Seward of New York opposed the bill in eldborate speeches. Representative Sherwood says that among the crowd- ing recollections of the battles and tragedies of the civil war the mem- ory of that flerce and malignant de- bate stands out most vividly. e remembers seeing for the first and last time Jefferson Davis of Mis- ssippi. Senators Slidell and Judah Benjamin of Louisiana, John J. Crittenden of Kentucky, Robert Toombs of Georgia and a dozen other southern senators who never re- turned after the war. There were then but thirty-three states and sixty-five senators, among the most noted being Stephen A. Douglass of Illinois, Hannlbal Ham- lin of Maine, afterward Vice Presi- dent; Henry Wilson of Massachusetts; Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, after- ward President. and Charles Sumner of Massachusetts: Thirteen years later Representative Sherwood entered Congress for the first time, in 1872 In that House there were eighty-five soldiers of the civil war, Including eight major gen- erals—James A. Garfield and Henry B. Banning of Ohlo, Joseph Hawley of Conneecticut, Benjamin F. Butler of Massachusetts, with Gen. Hurl- but of Illinols, Shanks of Indlana, Negley of Pennsylvania, and Rusk of Wisconsin. There were then only 243 members of the House in com- parison with 435 now. * % k% His colleagues in the House have come to call RRepresentative H. Gar- land Dupre of New Orleans, La. “Keeper of the Pass” He is the ranking democrat on the rivers and harbors committee and vigorously presents to that committee and the House the perennial problem of keep- lnF South pass, at the mouth of the Mississippl, open. Another perennial problem which he champions fs try- ing to complete the opening for deep water navigation of Southwest pass. tal Sidelights | which has re-elected him for ! the | { his MEN AND AFFAIRS BY ROBERT T. SMALL- EW of the persons who have heard Lord Robert Cecil speak since he has Leen in this coun- try are aware of the part played by this earnest advocate of the league of nations in tho main- tenance of good Telations between the United States and Great Britain dur- ing the trying periods of the war, when America was a neutral and was fretting about the frank Briti terference with her cammerce. In 1916 Lord Robert, an undersecre. tary of state for foreign affairs, was made minister of blockade. 1t was a new and trying position. It was Lord Robert's task not only to direct the stringent regulation which Great Eritain threw about shipping in the war zone and adjacent waters, but to explain away these regulations to the neutrals who wera frothing at the mouth and appealing to heaven against the high-handed Dritish tac- tice. The allies had declared a block- ade watertight. It was his job to Robert's duty to make that block- ako watertight. It was his Job to see that not even & thin leaf of dental rubber was permitted to find its way into the ecnemy country. Therefore the malls between the United States and Scandinavia wers istopped and searched. This assuredly was a departure—a warring nation | holding up mails from one neutral to another. But Great Britain got away with it and it was the suavity, the logic and the engaging frankness of Lord Robert that largely made it possible. | He was the great appeaser of the wrath of nations and it is no wonder that he should be selected to have a large part in the formation and conduct of a leaguo of nations. * R oK % To this day I do not knmow if it was Lord Robert who conceived the idea or {f it was the American news- paper men in London who educated him up to the fdea of receiving the correspondents at his chambers in the dingy old foreign office building in Downing street, just as American officials. uding the President him- self, receive the correspondents here Washington, but in any event the ustom grew up and it was Lord Robert's keen and able reflection of the English point of view, cabled freely to this country by the corre- spondents. which kept the relations of the English-speaking pecples in a; passable condition at a very critical | tin The writer was group of Americans who often visited | Lord Robert at the tea hour, und| from the very first there was a spirit of frankness on both sides which led to a very close relationship, Know. ing the wiles of British diplomacy, the correspondents used to wonder | whether it was hospitality or finesse which fixed the interview time. In any event. Lord Cecil behind a teacup was an engaging personality Witness under cross-examination. The { correspondents often had some very searching questions to ask as to the British_did thus and times out of ten Lord Robert emerg- ed with a ready answer. The tenth time he would take refuge behind that teacup and when he emerged: in- | one of the small obert not only | ut a deft | Heard and Seen ; Discovery of a live cat in a mail box | recently led officials at the Washing- ton city post office to recall the odd | “finds” made in letter boxes i 1t is not so much what is found; it is the fact that it has no business| there, for there is a severe penalty of | Jaw against tampering with one of Uncle Sam'’s mail boxes, and dropping an animal into a box is held to come under “tampering. | Many years ago, just after a pat. | ticularly atrocious murder, a mail| collector found himself late’ at night| reaching his hand into & box to get| out the letters. He was nervous, any- | way, as the murder had been com-| mitted very near that corner, and the | murderer was still at large So when the collector's hand came | into contact with something cold and clammy he was nearly paralyzed, and then when a large bullfrog hopped i right out into his face. whew He let out a vell that could be heard clear to the main office. but soon recovered, and mingerly reached into the box after the Jetters 1 * | * % A smail snake was dropped iuto a letter box once not so long ago by some one with a poor sense of I | and little regard for the dignity of| the United States mail. It is needless to state that the in-| nocent collector from this box had| somewhat of an upset when he opened | the door and the snake glided over| his hand and down to the ground. | Bad boys sometimes throw a com- { rade’s hag or books into a box, where- upon ¥ Harassed one must stand | zuard until a collector comes along. Then absent-minded people have been known to go up to a letter box bearing a letter in one hand and their | glasses in the other. open the slot and | Solemnly drop in their glasses. The next thing on their program, then, is @ hurry call to the Washing- ton city post office, where sympathetic ears are always open. 'On the whole, however, the people use the mail boxes, both package and Jetter, with the respect due them and the great government which is re- sponsible for them. Many men hurry across the Mall with important-looking packages of paper under their arms, but few have so hurried recently with the jov felt by Dr. Joseph N. Rose of the Smith- sonian Institution. For Dr. Rose had just finished the fourth and last volume of his monu- mental work on cacti. He has been Working for years upon the books, hie diMicult subject having led him into far research and long study To most people a cactus is some- thing like the primrose was to Peter Bell—a cactus, if not by the river's brim, at least on the desert's edge. But Dr. Rose will tell you that thero are hundreds upon hundreds of “cactuses,” although he would never use such an unscientific nomenclature as that. And he will show you their Dictures, all done in colors in his Breat books. When the world wants to know anything about the cactus family it has to-come to Washington, D. C.. and ask Dr. Rose about it. ] * * % A bright and enthusiastic young newspaper man. who was among those covering the D. A. R. convention thought that he had run onto a big story. It was during the days when “politics” was in the air. Gathering & few of his comrades around him, the enthusiastic reporter Pegan to issue directions so as to get at the facts in the case in short order. They were standing in an ante- chamber and did not pay much atten- tion to a little white-haired lady who at demurely nearby with her mind Seemingly nowhere in particular. “Now vou do this.' spoke the re- porter to one. *“And you do that. he said intensely to another, “And you go there” he hissed to a third. Then the little white-haired lady spoke up. 4 P2And you burn the papers, and X'l steal the child,” she breathed. . CHARLES E, TRACEWELL. umor | i i {and go into the tea r personality {of the lines after a thoughtful thirty secands s was prepared to malke plausiblo rep! A British statesman and a teacup & hard combination to beat. Lord Robert's interest in the leagus of nations is deeper than that of the mere idealist or dreamer. War real to him. He saw it at close hand and pity ‘tis that more America statesmen were ot on hand to ser its havoc in the making. Lord Rob ert had a little cottage in one of the southern counties of England, abou: thirty miles from London and nea: the channel. When he went thers fo a week end he could hear the gun drumming away in Flandere. meant something to sit in a beauti ful garden on o summer evening and listen to that throbbing and realize that just a few miles away nen wer Leing ground to a terrible deut minute by minute. It got on Leru Robert’s nerves, as it would on thoss of any other sensitive person, and ! decided then and there to devote h life once the war was won to seein; that such a calamity might neve overtake the world again. Lord Robert today is just as fra about the league of nations as was about the blockade. He believe the league is a step toward the p:e vention of war. He is not of the that believes the league fis perfe and he says in the most oftha: Mmanner that if anybody can SUBEC: a better organization for the purpos: of making war impossible he is fl‘!lv ing to give up the league entire’: better effort. The attitude of Lord Robert cuggestive of the famous Bairn father cartoon of the two Britis Tommies on a shell-swept fleld i France. The younger Tommy, Alf, grousing about the exposed positior of the particular bit of undergrourc Protection the two pals are oocup: ing, with “big stuff” from the emer:y breaking all around them. Old B! gots fed up on the complaining ar bellows out: “If you knows a better ‘ole, §o t it? P Lord Robert was particularly hapyy in the speech he made to the Over seas Writers at their luncheon Frida at the Hotel Hamilton. It was entirely confidential occasion and o 4 bigger scale it was like the war time interviews with the correspond ents In London. More than a hundred working newspaper men met Lord Robert at the luncheon, and whateve their views on the league of nations they were completely won by Lord Robert's pergonality. To manner of speaking he recalled Mr Balfour, another Britlsh statesman o infinite finesse. “You Englishmen have the darndes of sending over one attractilc to this 1d win us rked an Amer to a Britlsh o “Where d a way country to d ¢ to their views, an correspondent league at the luncheon. vou get them?” “Well, you know T shou t t we did =o well wround ahou 1776.” replied the Britisher, one Wi mott Harsant Lewis, who is by w of being a bit of a diplomatist hin sel Fifty Years Ago in The Star Half & century ago the countr: profourdly shocked by the treacher ous murder of Brig. Gen. E. . Canby and Ibe Bodog Pcace Commissioner Massacre. tyomas by Modoc In dtans tn the lava bed region of Cali- fornia. The Star of April 14, 1873 contatns the news of this tragedy, fo! lowed during @ number of issues b further details and aocounts of the pursuit and final capture of the In-, dlans. This massacrs was the climax of a serics of negotiations in pursui of what had become known as the “peace policy” of the government it dealing with western Indians, ur der the direction of Secretary Delan of the Interior Department. Immedi- ately upon the statement of the facts regarding the murders this policy ¢’ the administration fell under the of bitter public criticism. The Modoo murders put an end 1 negotiations for the transfer of thes Indians to & reservation in norther California, which they were resisting Sen. Canby, commanding the regular forces in that region, was under in- structions to give military support f« the peace commissioners, headed 1 A. B. Meacham, who were ordered t deal with the troubles’in a spirit c adjustment. On the morming of thr 11th of April a messenger from Ui Indians came into camp, near Yrek: Calif., and stated that Capt. Jack, ti Modoc leader, and five other Indians would meet the commissioners outsidr Gen. Canby, Commis sioners Meacham and Thomas, I Dyer of the commission staff anj Frank Riddle and his Indfan wife, a< Interpreters, went outside and met the Indians that afternoon. The parley began with statemen: by Gen. Canby and Commissione Meacham of the purposes of the gov ernment. One of the Indians aske for the inclusion in tha allotted res ervation of certain lands. Commi Sionér Meacham replied that thi could not be granted and was giving the reasons, when he was interrupt by Schonchin, one of the leaders « the Modocs, who told him he had sa'g enough, Capt. Jack then gave an 0 der and fire was opened by the Tr dians upon the white men. Gen. Can by and Dr. Thomas were killed a: once. Dr. Meacham was badl wounded. , Dyer and the interpreters made their esoape. The firing at tracted the attention of the troops and the Modocs were at once pursued hut they fled into the lava beds, where they hid. These lava beds had been & favorite hiding ground for the In- dlans ena for “bad men” of the region ! and were well sulted to this purpose were fields of between 50 to 101 quare miles. honeycombed twith caves, with numerous outlets and con nections. Tmmediately upon the receipt of the news in Washington Gen. Sherma: commanding the Army, sent orders t Gen. Glllem, in command at the can near Yreka, and to Maj. Gen. Sch field, in command of the military di vision at San Franocisce, ordering the immediate pursuit of the murderous band. Gen. Gillem was instructed "t make the attack so strong and per- sistent that their fats may be con mensurate with their crime” The dispatoh to Gen. Gillem concluded “You «will be fully justified in their utter extermination.” i The Indians were later attacked in their strongholds, but although they were nearly surrounded, they made their escape, with some losses. Mor- tars wore used in the bombardment of the band. Some time later a detach ment of regular troops pursuing the fleeing Modocs was caught in an am- buscade and many were killed. Even tually the band were all killed or cap tured, Capt. Jack and the other chicfs being finally caught early in June The Modoo massacre, a8 it came to be known, checked the policy’ of the government and led to the adoption of harsher measures of re- pression against the western Indius R.