Evening Star Newspaper, April 29, 1923, Page 42

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON , D. C, 'APRIL_29; 1923_PART 2. ‘ ‘Would Make the Golden Rule THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY. . .April 29, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th Bt. and Ivania Ave. o York omc European The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, i delivered by carriers within the city A1 60 conts per month: daily only. 40 cents per month: Sunday only. s per month, ders may he By mail or telephone Main is made by carriers at the Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday.. 1 mo., 10c Daily only . 1 mo., b0e Sunday only mo., 20¢ Daily and Daily only Sunday on . $3.00:1mo., Mewber of the Associated Press. The Associated Press ix exclusively entitied to the use for republication of all news dis patehen credited 1o it or not otherwise credited his paper and ‘also the local news pub- 0 1l rights of publication of n_ura al Betterment Plans. The camipaign of the American Civie Association to secure co-operation of fifty or more cities for improving the National pital is under w . and there « S report of a meeting at Baltimore at which certain projects » discussed. Among these were the the creation of a national rk to extend from Washington to Itimore, the bhuilding of a drive from ¢k Park to the source of K and the preservation of lands near creeks and rivers between Washington und Baltimore. At the meeting a committee was ap- pointed to decide whether a state council of the Amer n Civic Associa- tion ould be formed or an intercity on to Baltimore. What- he decision may be the public- of Baltimore and the rest of Maryland will be enlisted in pr that will benefit both the capital and the state. The intercity park was given publicity about twenty ago. Surve, and linates were made and the argument for its feasibility was strong. Long stretches of socalled forest land would be in- cluded in the park, with wide areas of other land that ha; ed to be of any great use. or of any use, farming. The “forest land™ is mostly’ cut-over and is now stump and but maintained as v park it spirited peop is a plan that vears s N wou brush . preservation of at the source and along the ceks fluwing into the Poto- »and Patuxcnt has long been advo- cated a keeping the ereeks from disappearing and dimin- ishing and flow of the rivers. These are of such bencfit to the lands they flow through and to adjacent lands that their preservation is a public questior The of intercity would mean the building of an int eity parkws nd @ new boulevard between the cities is already needed. The present Washington-Baltimore boulevard and all the automobile roads in the District and leading from the District through Maryland are erowded on those days when most per- sons take their recreation, and more roads are necessary. If the committee appointed at the Baltimore meeting should decide to form a state council of the American Civic Association there is no doubt that it would immediateiy interest the people of Baltimore, not only in the vk, but also in projects for iin the Distr of Co- projects of con- as means for creation an park lumbia cern to Food for Shrine Week. The citizens' committee on food sup- piies urges Washington housekeepers 10 make provision for Shrine week. There is nothing panicky in the advice given by the committee, and there is no prospect of a food shortage, but certain precautions should be taken, and it is not difficult to take them. The committee suggests that the home pantry be stocked with three weeks' supply of staple non-perishable food, and this is understood to mean flour, meal, sugar coffee, tea, bacon, ham, canned goods, butter and the like. Tt is not suggested that there shall be food hearding. No famine is in pros- pect. The city will be crowded, and it is likely to be crowded as it has never heen before. Streets will probably be carrying more traffic day and night than they have ever been called on to hear at any hour. Storegwill probably Le jammed with buyers, and store- keepers and their helpers will be ex- edingly busy. Freight will not be unloaded in the freight yards, but will be -discharged at more distant points requiring a longer haul between car and store. The freight vards will be ken up by parked cars chartered * the trip to and from Washington. Conditions be such that some storekeepers will be tempted to raise prices, and they may giv reasons a ~hortage of food and difficulty in ob- taining supplies. Wisdom indicates 1hat housekeepers should lay in a sup- ply of staple foods before the rush begins, and that the quantity bought should be enough to last till the rush subsides and food transportation and distribution can be brought back to normal. Shop early. —_—— Premier Bonar Law is taking month's ocean vacation to recover his voice. Not the first statesman who has found himself at sea in a crisis. ————————— The Postmaster's Salary. may would be restored to majes- | . | daily. o tablishments use the mails at an in- creasing rate. Delivery and collection service extends over an area which ‘was sparsely ‘settled and was served by rural and suburban post offices not. long ago. In the volume of mail handled on ‘which postage is paid the Washipgton office has passed the four-million-dollar mark, and if to that volume be added mail on which postage is not paid the ‘Washington office would be in the class with post offices of American cities of the first rank in population and trade. If postage were paid on government mail going out from ‘Washington the annual receipts of the office would be something like $18,000,000. That this volume of mail goes free is the government's business, but it must be handled in the same way as postpaid mail. The remarkable development of the city post office in- dicates that the salary of the city postmaster should be brought in line with salaries of postmasters in charge of offices of the firstrank cities. The proposal to increase the salary of the Washington postmaster from $6,000 to $8.000 a year will be brought before Congress by the Post Office De- partment, and the belief is that the in- crease will be allowed, though it is not the practice of Congress to grant salary increases as soon as the justi- fication for them is apparent. Argu- ment, persuasion and persistence are generally necessary in addition to facts, and even such a combination of factors often fails to bring about salary increases that are manifestly Jjustified. It is thought, however, that the reasons for an increase in the city postmaster's salary are too plain to be denied. Prohibition and Poison. There are two angles to the question of the poisonous liquor which, it is stated by chemists, is largely dis- pensed in this city. One is that pro- hibition puts a premium upon the conscienceless enterprise of makers and venders of such dangerous bever- ages, and that, therefore, it is a men- ace to the public health and should be abandoned. The other is that the dunger of getting poisoned, perhaps fatally, is so great that abstinence from drink is the only safe and sen- sible course. Certainly there is no urgument for promiscuous law-break- ing in the traffic in polson. 1t it is true, as the chemists’ reports indicate, that a very large percentage of the liquor sold here is of a polson- cus nature, surely those who buy drinking materials run a deadly risk dealings with the bootleggers. s must be sure be { yond the least question about the in- | tegrity of his supply. Painful illnes possibly blindness, perhaps permanent crippling, and it may even be death are the conceivable conscquences of the drinking of some of the concoc- tions that are being daily marketed illieitly. But who can be sure of the integrity of the bootlegger who supplies the stuff? He is engaged in an unlawful business. He is violating the statutes | He is running a heavy risk of | punishment. Te is intent upon mak- |ing the most money in the possibly short time in which he practices his | lawless trade. He is at the mercy of chance discovery. The temptation to make more money by supplying cheap goods is strong. Perhaps there are strictly “honest” bootleggers, who seek scrupulously to supply only the purest stock. But can they be sure that they are getting it? They cannot advertise the purity of their wares, for they cannot assuredly guarantee purity. They are, in the classic business phrase, “advertised by their loving friends.” But when the “loving friends” find their faith shaken official reports of the impurity of the | ter part of all the wet goods ab- orbed here, as perhaps in other cities 4s well, there is a slump in trade. ! How can confidence be restored? The argument that prohibition should be repealed because the law is violated, and especially because it has encouraged a wicked crime in poison- ing the illicit supplies, is most spe- cious, dangerous and fllogical. The law prohibits the theft of personal property. Yet such property con- tinues to be stolen and men lose their lives in the game of stealing it. Should the law be repealed to make all per- sonal property common, in order to’ avert the ills that attend private own ership? ———— [ | gre Just as a Yale professor announcés that preventive medicine has increassd the average span of life by fiftéen years, the marathon dancing craze comes along to threaten a higher mor- tality. | Dogwood destruction continuds in ithis region freely and ruthiessly, though those who commit thiS van- dalism regard themselves as lavers of nature. —— e Threats of a party split dver the! ! world court question are apt to lusei force when the republican disaster of 11912 is recalled by membefs of that | A Sugar Boycott? Countrywide interest, nd doubt, will be attracted to the moveinent in New York by hundreds of wormen’s clubs in the direction of a “sugsr boycott” by reducing consumption; {hat is, simply buying and using less, until prices, declared to be entirely speculative, are forced back to ngrmal. It is an. { nounced that bakers ahd candy makers may join. The specuiators are resist- ing the government injunction against their alleged practicés, the sugar pro- ducers are deflant,” saying it is the law of supply and:demand which is e of the pantry, and the family, in & campaign of self-defense, is to be re. duced in its use of the food. It was done successfully, and without real hardship, during the war, it is con- tended, and now in the war between |: the consumer and the speculator it may be done again. The practical working out of the|: proposition in New York is to hold a |: convention of women's clubs in the city | hall next Friday of delegates repre- senting approximately 500,000 women of the city to devise ways and means of agreeing upon a “strong boycott. Mayor Hylan has issued a statement wishing more power to their elbow in this undertaking, In which he said speculators alone are responsible for the present extortion “believing that the people have not sense enough to protect themselves.” The women may show them to the contrary. Other cities are talking of the same undertaking. If there is a concerted drive from coast to coast the law of supply and demand will come in a head-on collision with market manipu- lation, and it will be interesting to know how it comes out. Lincoln Memorial University. For twenty-five vears a school has been maintained in the mountains of Tennessee for the benefit of the youths of both sexes of that region where op- portunitles for education are limited. It has been continued against adverse circumstances, with inadequate en- dowment, growing slowly, lacking in many of the requirements of the situ- ation, sustained by its supporters with faith in the eventual awakening of the people of the country to the value of such an institution. Now an appeal has been made for the funds requisite to give this school, which is known as: the Lincoln Memorial University, its| proper equipment to deal effectively: with the problem of educating the voung people of @ section sorely irt need of scholastic advantages. This university aims to teach thé children who are born, as was Abra- ham Lincoin, for whom it is named, among the “humble, common peopl of America.” It is co-educational, non sectarian, but distinctly Christian. In another part of The Star today s printed an article which describes the manner of its organization and the present scope of its work. It is pointed out that many of the students who apply for admission are adults, some of them are married, all of them are earnest in their search of knowleige and instruction. Some of them have made heavy sacrifices in order t¢ at- tend classes. Many are “working fheir through the 00l mountaineers arc not serkers charity s the article clsefvhere otes, they want a chance. TItiis for people of this country whd have means to spare to give the that chance. An increased endowinent, a students’ loan fund and additional scholarships are greatly needed to make this institution mean® what it should to the people of the tountains of the south. Not long ago: its accom- plishments with inadequate means were related to Washingtbnians at a meeting. A better schogl, resuiting from a larger fund. will fhako for bet- citizenship. the sources ym which come the students at Lin- fr { coln Memorial University have risen { some of the most valuiible Americans. in this that An opportunity is afforded case for constructive giving should be grasped. ; ————————— A raid on the homes of radicals in Pittsburgh yielded @ quantity of dan- gerous Iliteraturs. It behooves stu- dents of radicelism who gather in- flammatory literature for examination and analysi mark their collections as “exhibits The Russ@an famil clared, by fhe American relief organi- zation, tofbe at an end. No formal judgmentihas. however, been rendered on the Russian communist spasm e is officially de- deys ere at hand, and parents ing it just as hard as ever to the pull of vouth toward the sawgust ring. —_————— Fhere is as yet no case on record of aiong-distance dancer winning e busi- riess job on the strength of his shuf- fling performance. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Opportunities Disdained. ’By day, when the sunshine is flmgmgl Tts great golden gifts to the earth, And the light-hearted robin is singing A song of contentment and mirth; By night, when the stars lightly shim- mer And nature seems perfect in plan, As the waters sigh low in the glim- mer— The principel kicker is man! plaining, When the blossoms anew, The south wind, its sweetness regain- ing, Blows kisses to me and to you. Philosophy’s highest employment 1s to show us how intellect can Make existence @ source of enjoy- ment— Yet the principal kicker is man. Diplomatic Duty. A diplomat must be polite, And dll resentment smother; Nor speak a word which would invite The answer, “You're another.” ‘Play Ball!" The umpire stands beneath the sky With steadfast purpose in his eye. are smiling The growth of the Washington post | forcing the price tp, and meanwhile | Th® Pitcher gives himself a twist office is obvious to all persons who have lived @ few years in the District, and it should be obvious to new resi- dents and to everybody acquainted in the least degree with the capital. The increase in population, the expansion of business and the manner in which the city has spread over what a few Years ago were commons, farms and woods are remarkable. The capital is maintaining its growth, and its de- velopment at the present stupendous rate is likely to continue. The increase in mail volume has been greater than increase in population. People send gnd receive more letters, Business es- all last week wl helesale prices were soaring. $ And stands, & mute contortionist. The stick within the batsman’s hand BY THOMAS R. MARSHALL. Fe r Vice President of the United States. HETHER it was Woodrow Wilson or Lord Bryce or Jan Smutz or Lord Robert H Cecil who, during the war Period, revived, by redreaming the dream of all good men since Christ. 1he ancient idea of the settlement of International disput by arbitration rather than by force, is not a matter of very great moment. The first ut- lerance upon the subject will doubt- Jess be established through historic investigation. And when discovered | and designated, the real pioneer in this modern movement will be found not 10 have added much to the efficacy of the Golden Rule. Regardiess of whether he was the author or no, be it sald of Lord Robert Cecil that the league of nations h: had no more ardent advocate than he. Be it also said that Lord Robert possessed the rare good sense not to come to Amer- a and endeavor to impress his ews upon our people until he was invited to do so by American organ- izations which are interested in the league of nations. He became, there- by, an honored guest, entitled to courteous treatment and most re- spectful consideration, What our visitor league naturally provoked friendly discussion. This probably was one of tha objects of his coming among us. We may, therefore, analyze his arguments, even challenge some of his statements if we wish. without giving offénse to him or placing ourselves in opposition to the great league which he so eloquently and convincingly de- fended. d about the * x % x To me the league always has heen and is yet the one good thing in sight to achieve what all of us longingly hope for. THowever, its perfection into the jdeal organization that we would have it may require an out- look somewhat different from'that of several of those who are sitting in its council. Tt would be foolish to deny that the league is doing great good. Its fine work in restraining the un- ruly children in the family of nations and preventing them from scratching each other's faces and pulling out each other's hair is enough to com- mend it to ail right-thinking men and to make them thankful for its existence. But question arises wheth- er the parent nations are governing themselves by rules similar to those they are laying down for the ohil- dren nations. In this connection it may be well to remember that almost as many children have been driven from the Calvinistic fold by the hy. pocrisy of their parents as have been kept in loyal obedience to the anclent faith, The nations that exercise Influence in the council of the league must sub- mit themselves to the same laws wiich they enact for others, or the obedience vielded to their decrees w ha sullen acquiescenca rather than cheerfu! compliance. Then w grow up inevitably among the small but ambitious natlons of the world an fdea that the league is a super- government rather than an associa- tion of peoples in which personal interests have nothing to do with the determination of questions at hand. * * % ¥ T am led to make these observ: tions, not because I have even slight- est criticism of anything that Lord Cecil said in his addresses, but hy reason of his answers to certain in- quiries put to him. He stated. for instance. that he voted fn the British parliament against a proposal to submit the Ruhr question to the league for settlement, although he believed that the que tion was one that should be submitted to the league. His reason for his vote in opposition to his opinion w explained, that the question arose in the parliament was purely political. T hope I am mistaken, but to me this attitude of mind implies danger to the 1 1f a legislator {s to vote a s own conv tions on purely political ground manifestly his action will weaken the influence of the league. I have been an onlooker in politics so long and have seen 80 many men vote against their personal convictions because of ! Chinese Diplomats Latest to Suffer As Envoys of Impoverished Nation| BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. It sometimes happens that diplo- matio salaries and allowances are in arrears and envoys and members of their mission have occasionally been subjected to great embarrassment. It is difficult to maintain the algnity of one's country in an official capacity if the requisite money is not forth- { coming, especially in view of the fact {that foreign representatives of cer- ilaln notoriously impecunious coun- tries find it difficult to obtain credit. {It is true that thelr international prerogatives render them secure from any legal proceedings. They cannot be sued for debt. Their belongings are immune from selzure or attach- ment. But, since creditors have no redress or means of recovery, they | | ! lington Koo insisted that the interest | naturally hesitate about allowing the | representatives of those particular nations to run up big bills. Thus I can recall one of the numer- ous Izzet Pashas, at one time master of the horse to Sultan Abdul Hamed. Madrid. He was a very extravagant man, a gambler, and always in debt. ‘When, in addition to this, the fact is taken into consideration that his sal- fary and his allowances were always many months in arrears, it will be | jogations at Peking, but also by the realized that he was in constant finan- cial trouble and obliged to have re- ‘[chln and by the great guilds, which course to all sorts of queer and que: tionable expedients in order to even get enough to eat. On one occasion he was actually prevented at the last moment from attending an important court function because the shoemaker declined to return without payment the top boots which went with his uniform and which he had sent to be mended, while at another time he was kept away from some big entertain- ment at the roval palace by the re- fusal of the various livery stable ikeepers to rent him a carriage with- out prepayment. Finally the situa- tion became impossible at Madrid, and he literally took flight, leaving some $15,000 worth of debts—most of them to tradesmen, and some also incurred at the card table, though toward the last few cared to play with him. * ok * % Persian envoys have llkewise been So the speculators are to have the| waves like some fierce magiclan’s |subjected to all sorts of difficulti housewives on e warpath. They would do well t¢ beware; it may be easy enough to flaunt public opinion and defy the goernment, but facing the women in a:concerted effort may prove to be anofher proposition. Tak- ing the argumeft that the high price of sugar is dué to the economic law of supply and demand. the answer of the women is :proposed to be to cut down the demand—something that is within their éwn hands. The sugar bowl is 10 be :placed on the top shelf ‘wand. And yonder in the distance dim Are figures all alert and grim. No shout disturbs the air so warm; It is the calm before the storm. Oh, whit care we, 'mid scenes like these, - For strife that threatens o'er the seas? ‘This is in life's enormous scheme The moment of suspense supremel and humiliations, owing to the non- arrival of their salaries and allow- | arces, consequent upon the periodical em.ptiness of the imperial treasury at Teheran. And, now, ‘the various envoys of China are confronted by the pros- pect of similar trouble, for Dr. Wel- lington Koo, graduate of Columbia Universit: in' turn envoy -of his country at Washington and in Lon- don, and who is now minister of for- service of' the nation for the moneys in its treasury, | When the world is too fair for com-}and who was Ottoman ambassador at | l ! The maritime cus-|ness situation in Basis for League of Nations| political expediency that I would be the last man in the world to utter & single word of crit against any man who finds it ne ary 8o to vot but t criticism I volce, if it is to be construed as criticism at all. is not personal to any man. I merely call attention to the attitude of the poli- ticlans and the leaders of public thought in their relations toward the league. If a question is not to be submitted to the league when it has a bearing upon politics, particularly when it has a bearing upon the poli- tics of one or more of the dominant countries in the league, T fear, though again I hope I am mistaken, there grow up a sentiment that the league is simply a parent government to keep unruly children nations within proper bound: ERE Y Lord Robert found a country which in language and law claims to be Anglo-Saxon, but which in blood and racial tendencies is no such thing. He doubtless observed. wise man that he is, that America is made up of many men of many minds, and if he fell in with any opponents of the league he probably learned that a large part of our population desires the doctrine of self-determination to be imposed along racial rather than geographical lines. We have differ- ent kinds of blood in America, and with not a few of our people blood prejudices are more pronounced than their peaceful tendencies. When ask- ed whether the league's attitude to- ward moral disarmament would end Britain’s imperialistic policy in Egy India, Mesopotamia and the near s Lord’ Robert quite frankly replied “I am prepared to agitate the scrap ping of any policy of imperialism. whether of ‘my own country or any other country, but I would not advo- cate any policy leading to ths aban donment of any trust of the weak unable to take care of themselve: Here we have a weakness threaten- ing the league in the concrete. When does the subject become strong enough in the opinion of the master to take care of himself? TIs selt- government a thing that is to be handed down from above when, and not until when, the ruling power reaches the conclusion that th= sub- ject nation is competent to take care of itself? If 50, is it worth while to preach democracy of the world, to proclaim to men thelr right to estab- lish for themselves the form of gov ernment under which they wish to live. to assért that a people have the right to alter and reform their gov- ernment whenever they choose? Can we preach this doctrine and at the same time consent that a govern- ment shall impose its rule upon an- other largely by force of arms and refuse to withdraw its civil and mili- tary officers until it shall voluntarily reach conclusion that the governed nation is sufficiently strong and capa- ble to govern itself? ok e T would not be put in the attitude of arguing that the British empire should withdraw from any of its countries. TUntil the United States shall have agreed to enter the league of nations it would be impertinent for any American to make sugges. tion as to what the league or any member nation of it should do. M country is standing aloof. If it is not willing to take a hand, we ought not to be censorious with those who are striving to do something. But manifestly the question of co-opera- tion of natiors looking toward dis- armament, arbitration and the sub- mission of diffecrences to the de of brains rather than of bullets r be met and answered in some wa) One thing is smure—the great na- tions of the world are going to be slow in the future about bankrupting themselves through war. Yet qu tions between natidns will exis questions having to do with prov inces, satraples and zones of influ- ence: with oil reserves and other min- eral resources; with the right to im- pose an alien rule upon réoples which find the rule distasteful, however ad- vantageous it may be. These ques- tions must be amicably settled in some international forum. Whether it is “the” league, “a” league or an assoclation of nations, most of us care little, just 50 a way may be found in which America may join the nations of the world in promoting civilization and establishing world peace. (Copyrig st | [ | d, 1923, 218t Century Pre 1 { i toms wervice, organized by the latel Sir Robert Hart more than a century ago, is entirely under foreign man- agement and control, and under the immediate protection of the foreign embassies and legations at Peking. Its present chief and inspector gen- eral—one of the capable successors of Sir Robert Hart—is Sir Francis Ag- len, who has been in the service since 1883. Owing to its wise and honest management. the Chinese maritime | customs service has always shown & ears has .000.,000 | | i H surplus, which in recent anjounted to as much as annually. Now this surplus has, with the consent of the foreign powers and by virtue of a hard and fast agree- ment, been pledged as security for the interest of a number of domestic loans obtained by the government from native banking institutions. Until now this interest has been punctually paid by means of the mari- time customs surplus. But Dr. Wel- on these domestic loans should be allowed to go by default and the sur- plus in question should be turned over to him for the purpose of cover- ing 'he large arrears of salary and exnenses of the Chinese diplomatic missions in foreign lands. ¥ e To this demand Sir Francis Aglon, the inspector general and supreme chief of the Chinese maritime customs service, has opposed an absolute re- fusal, in which he is sustained not only by all the foreign embassies and i entire native banking community in exercise 2n enormous influenca uvon the economic and also upon the po- Ittical lite of China. They all take the ground that any suspension of the payment of the interest and amortiza- tion of the domestic loans would in- evitably precipitate a financial panic with the gravest political and pos- cibly international consequences. So Dr. Wellington Koo, according to his own admission, finds himself without means of paying either the current salaries and expenses of the diplomatic_missions abroad, or from doing anything toward® the settle- ment of the heavy arrears of salary in one word, the atic service will have men of large private means and who will thus be independent of any sus pension of the payment of their aries and allowances by the treasury at_Peking. ‘While the outlook for the diplo- ‘mal now in the service of the Chinese government. and who have to rely upon their official atipends, i, 10 say the least, gloomy, it must be confessed that the impression cre- ated by the determination ot the maritime customs service to live up to its contracts for the allotment of its surplus to the payment cf the in- terest and amortization of the do- mestic loans of the _government has done much to strengthen the con- fidence, if not {n ‘the national treas- ury, at any rate, in the entire bu ’ Capital Sidelights BY WILU P. KENNEDY. Senator Smith W. Brooshart of Towa {8 known as the “Calamus Swamp Orator.” Here's the story a3 he relates it himself of how he ac- quired that sobriquet: Tn 1882, as a young man of twenty- three years of age, he was finishing his 1aw course in the office of Wherry & Walker at Keosauqua, lowa. His father lived on a farm eight mil south of the town on Fox river bot- tom. Part of this farm was low and swampy, and here the calamus root grew abundantly. Young Brookhart took his books home and divided his time between the books and digging drains in the calamus swamps. When the political campaign start- ed the fall Brookhart took the stump for the republican ticket and spoke thres times in the county with Senator John H. Gear, one of his pre- decessors, then running for Congress, and made many other speeches be- sides. Tn the course of these speeches he told some stories on Dr. Jones, the local democratic leader. The doctor was a fighter and a_clever corre- spondent in the State Line Democrat, and immediately took up the gauge of battle, He described with great sarcasm the wisdom and statesman- ship which young Brookhart had im- bibed among the frogs, mosquitoes and crayfish of the calamus swamps, and then dubbed him the “Calamus Swamp Orator."” Brookhart was game. The paper came out Saturday morning, and by night the republicans had organized & rally in Dr. Jones' town of Cantril. at which Brookhart replied with great energy and humor. This con- tinued for several weeks and became the incident of the campaign. It is remembered to this day, and in his old home country of Van Buren lowa's junior senator is still the “Calamus Swamp Orator.” * ok ok % When republican John Taber of Auburn, N. Y. comes into the next Congress as successor to the pump manufacturer, Norman J. Gould of Seneca, he will perforce have to forego his favorite pastime, skating and tobogganning. at which he has Dbeen an expert performer for many years. even though he has achieved the dignity of special county judge. But as “Judge” Taber confesses to being a devoted student of history he will find compensation {in the wealth of ready material in the Con- gressional Library. L * Here comes another war hero. Republican J. L. Milligan of Rich- mond, Mo., will enter the new Congress with the distinction of hav- ing been twice cited for bravery in action by Gen. John J. Pershing and Gen. Peter Traub. He enlisted in the 6th Missouri Infantry June 2, 181 served us captain of Company C 140th Infantry, 35th Division, fro August 5. 1917, to May 14, 1919. He embarked for France April 23, 1918, and returned April 28, 1919, * £ x x A mule story is always Interesting, 80 here is one which Senator Duncan Fletcher of Florida says made a vivid picture in his mind: “This happened when I was a small boy between ten and twelve years of age. My father's plantation wasabout five miles from the railroad, seven miles from the county seat, four miles to the nearest grist mill, and I was the millboy. Regularly once every two weeks I had to haul the corn and wheat to the mill and bring back the meal. grits and flour. The mill_was the old-time water mill on a creek, which I had to cross with my outfit, which consisted of one ox urawing & two-wheeed cart. My father had a pair of immense white oxen. One of them, Brandy by name. was gentje and fast. I would go to the pasture, put a rope around his horn jump on his back and ride him home, hitch him to the cart by me'ns of a riciory bow around his neck. keyed to & yoke to which the shafts of the cart were attached, and I was ready to have the corn and wheat loaded. It was a day’'s job. Sometimes I was delayed by the ‘miller, others having got thero first, and each customer had to wait his turn for grinding. This day 1 speak of was a hot sum- mer day, and I had fafled to give Brandy water at the mill, so when we started home he was very thirst I had to cross the creek on which the mill was situated, and there was Quita a long, rather steep hill we had to descend 16 the fording place. Thero was no bridge. The creek was 150 to 200 feet wide. and from one to three feet deep. The banks on both sides |t were four or flve feet high but the Wagons, carts and teams I d worn {a cut at both ends of the road to the ater's level. There was a turn in the road as we approached this en- trance to the creek I sat on the front of the cart, holding the line which was fastened around Brandy's horns, the cart loaded with flour., meal and &Tits. We came down the hill leisure- 1y until we got within about 100 yards of the creek, when Brandy's thirst spurred him on and he began to trot and hurry for the water. Of course, my entire weight on that line in an effort to hold him had not the slightest effect on his movements and neither did my command or pleading. He went pell mell after that water he had been wanting for hours, and in doing so he made a short cut across the entrance to the creek, throwing the right wheel up on the bank and the left wheel four or five feet lower in the mud rut, just as we reached the creek, thus upsetting the cart and throwing me and my load of flour, meal and grits into the creek. The bow around his neck was turned so {he not only couldn’t drink, but he nearly choked to death before I could get to him and take out the key and release the yoke. I landed on m. feet in water up to my waist, and about that time some travelers fortu- nately came along and helped me right the cart, save some of my day's grinding, save Brandy, who took his peacefully home. He apologized his Thasts and. disobedionee aag e “After ‘that I always gave him water before leaving the mill and “I hauled cotton from the fleld the hands picked it, often with perfectly white, an immense animal, very intelligent. easily managed by ted as fast as a horse. He never ran away but that time I mention he simply wanted water and thought no one should object to his geufl" * % ¥ *x Have you ever stopped to think office s A new congressman, Representa- Postmaster General Harry S. New a little lecture on this subject, as fol- “The New York post office is the ‘hub of the entire postal system.” The of New York is about half of the entire foreign commerce of the na- institutions of New York have ar- teries that tap the entir country. here would find its reflection through- out the entire country. clearing house for the European mails, the exchange money-order ing of foreign registered matter throughout the world. mately four millions of people. The business in the New York office in per cent. There are 15,000 employes.” And Representative Boylan ought cause he was dorn in the 'district he represents, which is not at all the time getting his water, and we drove were as good friends as ever. starting for home.” outfit—Brandy and his cart. He was talking to him, and walked and trot. and then he had no ulterior motive— it as quickly as possible.” how important the New York post tive John J. Boylan. has just given Tow. foreign commerce. through the port tion. The financial and mercantile Any curtailment of the postal service “The New York post office is the office and the main office for forward- “It serves a population of approxi- the last year has increased over 20 to know what he is talking about, be- usual thing for members of Congress. | MEN AND CCORDING to some of the “ir- reconcilables” who helped de- feat the league of nations and now are promising & similar fate in the Senate for the plan to put the United States into the world court, President Harding is trying to mend “the heart of the world, Woodrow Wilson said would be | broken if America failed to ratify | the agreements he made in Paris. Many persons have thought that Mr. Wilson studied out that phrase— the heart of the world—carefully framing it for effective use in his speeches for the covenant of the| league. As @ matter of fact and history, the phrase was unconsciously born. It | was one of Mr. Wilson's most com- mon forms of expression to refer to ! the heart of a thing, .He used i even more than he did “May T not So much was this the case that ths writer, accompanying Mr. Wilson on the tour in 1919, on which he broke | down. made & memorandum of some | of the “hearts” the then President of the United States employed. They are an interesti list, and an in- | teresting sidelight on a great man's f thought. IHere they are: » heart of the world heart of the treaty. heart of the covenant. heart of humanity. e heart of the pan-German plan. heart of the universe. heart of the people. heart of the pledge we have ! heart of America. heart of Asia. heart of men and women heart of the great idea. ‘The heart of the doctrine. The heart of mankind. The heart of most of our industrial IMcultie: The heart of the conference. The heart of all war, The heart of the principle The heart of the league The heart of labor. The heart of the agreement The heart of the document The heart of the enterprise. The heart of the Constitution The heart of the great charter. The heart of the whole matter. The heart of the great instrument The heart of the controver: The heart of the suggestion. And last, but not least-— The heart of the whole bad busine: la | | | { i Editors from all parts of the United States attending the first annual ses- on of the American Soclety of News- paper Editors here during the past | two days learned with some surprise | that, despits the fact that he has made notable: strides toward health- | ful normalcy, former President Wil son etill is guarded in his S street| Heard and Seen Retirement of M. O. Chance from the postmastership of Washington this week not only removes one of the most capable of government of- ficials from clvil service ranks. but takes away one of the most persist- ent jokers In the departments. During his long career in federal service Merritt O. Chance has always liked his little joke. It can be said of him that no man joked to better advantage or purpose. for there never was a sting in his jokes: in fact, he has always been as ready to laugh at himself as at the other fellow. Up at the Civil Service Commission they treasured a letter received from Chance when he was chief clerk of the Post Office Department, back in 1907. It seems that he had been hav- ing trouble in getting a fireman pro- moted from $720 a vear to dynamo tender at $300. They paid big sal- aries in those days. So, in the course of a formal letter to the commission Chief Clerk Chance wrote the following: “He has been in charge of the dv- namos on one of the eight-hour daily shifts for the better part of the past {three vears. He is a very competent. { consclentious. hardworking man, and the chief enginecr of the department stating that he considers Mr. { competent to be placed in charge of ! dynamos. “In view of the statement of the chief engineer and the fact that Mr. —— has been performing his work in a satisfactory manner, the depart- ment 1s willing to trust the dynamos to his care and to assume any risk that may be involved thereby. “I might call the commission's at- tention to the fact that Mr. in the father of seventeen children, and I understand that none of them has ever been sent to jail. I think that any man who can ralse seventeen children In the city of Washington on $720 per annum ought to be able to run successfully any number of dynamo * : * % When Meridian Park, on 16th street 18 completed Washington will have another rare beauty spot, Wwith an outlook that scarcely will have an equal in the city. Even now the north end of the park is a thing of beauty. . end is still in embryo, to put it mild- 1y. Guess the funds have run ‘out. The statue of Joan of Arc stands on a dirt precipice overlooking the city. When the southern end of the park is put in the same state of beauty as the northern end Meridian Park will be a tract to be proud of. At the pres- ent time it is not altogether pleasing to think that the thousands of visitors who will come to Washington late in May and early in June must see the park with the lower half of it in the rough. r With the lawns laid out, smoothed off and perhaps row benches placed to command a view out over the city, Meridian Park will offer a prospect to the south that will long be remembered by visitors. * * s At 15th and I streets one afternoon last week an old gentleman driving a new car got stage fright when his car got stuck in the middle of the street. He jammed at this and pulled on that, but the car refused to budge. Behind him the cars began to; pile up. In front and in rear and to the sides motorists took cognizance of him. His eyes popped from his head. He wore a_strained look, as if he would like to have sunk through his car and into the earth beneath. He plainly was rattled. Z And, strange to state, not a motorist hollered at him. Nobody “cussed” him. Nobody laughed. Everybody seemed to be sympathetic. And when the man’s car finally got under way, relieving the traffic jam, everybody seemed tremendously happy. Yep, such cases do happen. = * % Remember about the bulldog forc- ed to wear a collar with a fringe of long hairs? Well, T saw a cat last week a fyr collar on. Now, there is enough fur on a cat, any way, without sticking a fur collar on the beast. At least the cat seemed to think so. She appeared very indignant. No wonder! Her fur collar did not match her own fur. < CHARLES E. TRACEWELIL, (3 grounds of with | people. | those permittea T inclose herewith a letter signed by | But the south | AFFAIRS BY ROBERT T. SMALL. residence with the same jealous cars during those trying days in the White House when his life hung in the balance. Mr. Wilson gets man letters. In fact, his mail is gro to serious proportions, but he seldon. indeed is permitted to come in per sonal contact with anybody or am: influence outside his own immedi: family. Mrs. Wilson takes care of an amazing amount of the forme President’s correspondence, and I brother, a Mr. Bolling, Mr. W son’s secretary. A good many former personal and political friends of Mr. Wilson haie expressed regret over the faot thi | they have not been permitted to sce the former President or get into they felt was personal touch w him. They have been rather take aback at the tightness and abr finality with which the doors been closed against them. All of this is extremely interesting n view of the fact that every now and then a story goes the rounds tia' Mr. Wilson wants to be Presidern: 2 ! again and may make an effort for tie democratic nomination in 1924. Cer tainly it would seem that the condi- tions of today preclude any such {dea Although he goes to the theater al most weekly and rides daily about tlir city, Mr. Wilson still is an_isolate figure—necessarily guarded from « citement and as many cares as pos sible. Mr. Wilson still is popular with tis When his pictures are throw o the screen, even here in jaded Washington, there always is an our burst of applause, particularly amo: g the women of an audience. But naithe through intrigue nor finesse have ti. members of Mr. Wilson's househ: sought to further his popularity his old political friends and advisc S0 it i= difficult to see how a Wils. up or a Wilson comeback as a pre« fdential possibility could be eng neered against the closed doors | S street. His friends in the Army affectin tely call him “Jimmie.” His class matesat West Point called him “Le; but that was an appellation permittr only to his most personal assoclate: Having thus established the ident: | of our hero, so far as the rules propriety—in the cricumstances—pe. | mit, we will go on with the story. Jimmie other nigh as attending a part at the house of one of to call him “Lep and who for the =ake of this narra tive may be known as “Jim Crow It being the cook's night off, a buffet supper “was being served. Jimmic liowever, wasn't doing much of thr serving.’ Mrs. “Jim Crow” mnotice: this somewhat apparent fact and haled her guest. immie.” shs satd. “do you know you haven't done a lick o' work t night?” ‘Indeed. lady.” was Jimmia's prom: hat T don’t do nothir x else but—licker work. Fifty Years Ago in The Star “One of the most pressing of our growing city is the reconst tion and expan Fire Alarm our fire alarm syste Syst savs The Star of April YStEm. 22 1575, “Most of the alarm boxes now in use are the old imperfect crank boxes, the results of the first experiments in fire teleg- raphy, and are continually misleadine the firemen: the wires. which have been in use for many vears, ure ne: Iy worn out and need pairs, and the system fect: does not sufficiently prote many sectio luding the nor portion of the city, which is rapid filling up With some of our best resi- dences. Georgetown, t0o, has only five alarm boxes, when there ought to br at least double that number. Mr. Miles, superintendent of the fire alarm telegraph, sets forth these and other important facts bearing on the ques- tion in his annual report. The ex- |pense of a new and extended syste: with the latest mprovements will be considerable, Lut it must be borne 1 jmind that a’failure to do this neces {sary work may be more exper {One fire, improperly signaled, or 1 signaled at all, may at any ho sult in a loss of property equi to many times the cost of the | posed extension.” constant with all its de re- n * ¥ Scarcely had U. S. Grant takeu h second oath of office as President be fore the ad James G. Blaine and™mirers of Jame- 4 G. Blaine began the Presidency. to boom hin for the succession. In The Star of April 23, 1873, is the following re garding this movement: “Recent ‘enthusiastic’ mention Speaker Blaine's name for the presi- dency at some dinner table sitting of ;;4. few gentlemen of some political |prominence seems to have caused jquite a ferment in various quarte land the protectionists of Penusyl |vania, it is hinted, are disposed o !make warfare upon the proposed {nomination, on the ground that M Blaine is not sound on the tar question—that is to say, though not 4 tree trader, he is supposed to ravor reduction of high turiff rates where reduction is just and practicable. M: Blaine is too astute a politicia to see that this early mention of his nanie for the presidency is calculated to do him more harm than good, and so we are safe In assuming that the present talk about him in that con nection has been without his insti gation or consent. But if the Penr sylvania protestionists really go on i1 this blundering way of declaring op position to him in advance they w.ll put the free traders up to considerins the question of his cligibilit candidate on their platform, and it is likely that the free traders will have quité as much to say with regard to the question who shall be our n President as the protectionists, ¢+ pecially should the former be rein forced. as seems probable, by the for midable organization of producr known as the Patrons of Husbandry. The high fariff men had better not b too vociferous in proclaiming who ithey will or won't have for President.” * % Washington wanted z00 fifty years ago, but like many other things it wanted it had to wa “Zoo” Park 2 ood many years fter the following was print Proposed. oy 1, The star of Aprii 18 before one was established. “Philadelphia is going to have a zoological garden. The citizens have subscribed $20,000 within a few days) and the ease with which that sum| was collected induces the beliet that the remaining $80,000 will soon be forthcoming. A~ bill to establish similar garden in the District of Co- lumbia was introduced in the last Congress and was, we believe, favc ably considered in committee, but railed to pass for want of time. An establishment of this Kind in connec- tion with a grand national park wiil bo a desirable and attractive feature at the capital.” 1t was a good many years later when Washington acquired a *Zoo,” through the sending of a small head of buffalo to the Smithsonian Institution. These animals were first coralled back of the Smithsonian. Then other living speci- mens_were presented and finally the collection was removed to the section of Rock Creek Park, as a zoological garden. a