Evening Star Newspaper, June 3, 1923, Page 44

2 THE EVENING STAR, With Sundsy Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY..........June 3, 1833 i'fl'EODOEE ‘W. NOYES. .. .Editor 'i‘he Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 150 Nassau 8t Chicago Ofice: Tower Bulldiag. European Office: 16 Regent 8t., Londos, England. ¢ The Evening Star. with the Sunday morning sdition, 1y delivered by carciers withia the city 4% 80 cents per month: daily only, 45 cents per Bionth; Sunday only. 20 cents per month. Ur- fiara Tony e sent by mail or telephone’ Maln | 2000, " Collection is made by carriers at the end of each month Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunda 1yr., $8.40; 1 mo., 70¢ Daily only & .1yr., $6.00; 1 mo., 0c #unday only........1¥r, $2.40; 1 mo., 20c All Other States. and Sunday.1yr., $10.00; 1 mo., Iy only. 1yr., $7.00; 1 mo., 80c inday only 1 yr., $3.00:1mo., 2ic Member of the Associated Press. | Asociated Press i exclusively entitled , “the ‘e for republication of il news dis- iiea "Credited 1 it or Dot ofherwise credited “iis paper and alvo the local news pub- shied herein. All righ of publication of specal dispatehes herein re_nisn_reserved. Practical Effects of Repeal. What will be the practical effects in the state of New York of the repeal of Mulian-Gage prohibition enforce- law is a consideration likely to attention very soon. Gov. in his memorandum on the ing of the repeal bill, said: “Let it inderstood once and for all that | does not in the slightest degree lessen the obligation of peace officers of the state to enforce in its strictest letter the Volstead act, and | warning to that effect is herein con- tained as coming from the chief execu- tve of the state of New York.” He! then went on to explain that under | repeal the peace officer of the state | will hale the offender into the federal | court. while before he would take him ! 1o the state court or both. 1t is notorious that under the old | the state was lax in prosecution 1o puint where its negligence was a public scandal. There may be ques- tion as to whether the situation could he any worse under repeal. But the governor in bis memorandum has laid upon the duty of the federal government primarily to do the prose- | cuting. That was one reason for re-{ pealing the law giving the state par- tictpation. 1t is not likely, in these circumstances, that peace officers will | take note of violations to any extent. The liquor and restaurant interests { New York are said to be ‘expecting | 1 great tide of illicit liquors to flow | over the Canadian border and from | the Atlantic coast in constantly in-| creasing volume. One state official |'e—i cently expressed the opinion that.the resent strength of the United States | Army could not fully protect the| northern border against the invasion | of smugglers. The state constabulary assigned to that duty has woefully | fallen down in the task and there is| 10 reason to expect enthusiasm from | it in future efforts. { So reasonably be appre- | hended that liquors of high alcoholic content and dubious purity will come in and that even poisonous liquors | will be found in the shipments. The ! esult to the health and morals of the | itizenry who . subject themselves— ! luntarily, to be sure—from this in-| creased volume of possibly deleterious | liquor should still engage the attention | of state authorities. aside from any finely drawn distinctions between , staie and federal enforcement | the ment engage Smith, this repeal law stress in it may Ve K K K { The imperial wizard of the Ku Kiux | Klan denies that headquarters of the | rder will be moved from Atlanta to| Washington. This is official, and it | makes clear that Washington is not | to take from Georgia's metropolis the | distinction and notoriety of being the | Ku Klux capital At the announce. ment of the imperial wizard Washing- | ton will suppress any outward show of | arief. People in Washington do not | take the Ku Kilux Klan seriously, but they find it hard to understand why it | is that a man joining a secret organi- | zation keeps that fact a secret, and | when he turns out as a member of the | crganization wears a mask and uses other means to conceal who he is.| Masks may be becoming to some men but generally Americans like to see he face of a man. There have been efforts to justify the Ku Klux Kilan by comparing it to certain well known ! and so-called “secret” societies, but | the efforts always seem to break down. The legitimate secret societies are really benevolent societies, and there is no secret as 10 who the members are. They will stand on the street corner and tell that they are member: They never wear masks. They hold parades and wear regalia. but their faces are bare. People know who who, and they believe that an organi- | zation whose members are known to lle law.abiding and goodasusual cit. | zens cannot possibly be up to any mis- chief. | ———— | So much nervous agitation is assert- | ing itself in various parts of the ceun- - that it might be as well to book _Dr. Coue for a return engagement. ——— Several vigilant statesmen are in evident fear that the league of nations will get into action by providing itself with a mask. The President and His Pipe. A recent episode in which President Harding and Senator Harrison figured was so full of good human nature that the common run of men felt inclined to shake hands with these gentlemen, slap each on the shoulder in a friendly, hearty fashion and laugh and chat with them. Each of these big men d the wig and robe of office aside and told the world that he is & man. It was a little episode that will make many friends for Pat and many friends for Warren. political differ- ences to the contrary notwithstand- ing. Political Aifferences are often only skin deep, and with a large and perhaps an incrcasing number of men they are not that deep. There is quite a crowd of men who have come to be- lieve that the prosperity of themselves and their families depends more on their own industry, thrift and morals than on the formula of a<political or- ganisation. It will be reealled that Dr. Harding | ave with you. | hidden of Marion, the President's father, at- tended the Confederate reunion at New Orleans, and that he made a strong hit with the old men who wore the gray. He invited them to hold their next reunion at Washington, and suggested that they hold a joint re- union here with the G. A. R. The Star commended the idea, and said that the city gates would be flung wide open to those who wanted to take the city by force in that dark and bloody period of long ago. Senator Harrison wrote an article in a New Orleans news- paper which was brimful of good feel- ing for Dr. Harding and his eminent son. The President wrote to Senator Harrison saying, among other things: “In your capacity as chief party trouble-maker in the Senate you have said some things which have made me lay my newspaper aside and turn to a fresh pipe of tobacco for consolation. This very generous article has anti doted all the things that have gone before.” The reference to the pipe strikes home. If the President had said that he turned to a fresh Havana for con-| solation he would not have said as much. Not by a mouthful! But by putting in and patting down a fresh filling for his pipe he touched millions of men who do not smoke cigarettes | and who like a pipe better than a cigar | or better than some cigars. It gives | official recognition to the pipe. and shows that the President's taste is| good, comfortable and homely. We are | apt to get the idea from what we read | that a President always wears a frock | coat or a swallowtail, and that he is| too superfor a person to wear sus-| penders or smoke a pipe. On reading | Senator Harrison's article many men will say, “Pat, you are not as bad and naughty as you sometimes talk,” and | on reading President Harding's letter | a miilion men will say, “Warren, we | { The Flag. ! Patriotic societies continue to lament | what they call the misuse of the| American flag in Washington's dec orations for Shrine week. Women's | patriotic organizations are conspicuous | in criticism of the way the flag is| displayed, distorted. folded and partly | in some of the decorative| schemes. One hears denunciation from | some quarters and @ number of women | say that the flag is being treated with disrespect, 1t would be better if we had been put through a course of instruction in flag ethics before begin ning the work of decorating buildings and house fronts, but the instruction we have now recevied will serve us weil, and the next time Washington drapes itself for a fete the things now complained of will probabiy be avoid ed. The fine points of flag ethics were unknown to a great majority of men It may be regretted that knowledge of this subject was not move general, but the fact stands. There is so much to be known that most men find it impossible to know it all. It will be a good lesson to us and we will know better next time. At every inaugu ration ceremony and on every other cccasion calling for the decoration of buildings the flag has been used as it is being used today and. so far as memory serves, there has been no public criticism. In Washington and in every other city the flag is fes- tooned, made into rosettes and so placed that sometimes the field is on the left and sometimes on the right Persons using the flag in those ways have erred. not wittingly, but unwit- tingly. They believed that they wi giving expression to patriotic senti ments and these folk, unlearnéd in the ethics of the flag as laid down by the War Department ought to be forgiven, and no doubt public opinion will deal softly with them. After this celebration we should know just how to use the flag 8o that nobody may criticize or céndemn our taste. ——————— The attacks on Col. Bryan would be more interesting to his audiences and readers if the theory of evolution in any way affected taxes or the cost of | living. —————————— ————— As a discouragement to any thought of bibulous revelry the Shriners place conspicuously in evidence that famous | old water consumer, the camel In eddition to his other duties the; park policeman now has to be a chape- ron. The World Does Move. Complaint has been made against the noise of a flying plane. One does not recall that such a complaint has heen made before, though sometimes a plane sounds like a truck, and in cer- tain weather conditions a big plane may sound like a freight train cross- ing the long Potomac bridge at mid- night. Perhaps at some time we may have traffic cops on post far up in the ether, and there may be such signs as “Drive Quietly” and *“Hospital Five Miles Below.” { The compiaint against this particu- lar plane was made by the Mount| Vernon Association, holding a meeting | at America’s most famous shrine. And there were some unusual features about it, or features that would have been unusual a few years ago. First there was the machine in the aif. Sec- ond, a message was sent to the War or Navy department over the phone. Third, one of the departments “radioed” to the pilot and he dipped his machine in apology and drove off. ‘The news, story of the episode said: *If George Washington could have re- turned to his home he would have turned up just in time to witness an unusual demonstration of scientific progress.” Of course, if George Wash- ington had returned to his home it would have been a more remarkable thing than plane, telephone and radio combined. And yet, George Washing- ton in other than bodily form may live or visit at Mount Vernon, for though modern man knows a great deal, that in comparison with what he does not know is very-little. It is not necessary to go back to George Washington's time to point out what remarkable things have been done. They would have astounded Mrs. Washington, who died at Mount Vernon three years after the general They would have astounded Judge Bushrod Washington, who lived there after Mrs. Washington, and they would have jarred Col. John A. Wa ington, who was Iiving there at about | question {Jeague of nations is “lop-sided.’ THE - the time the civil war broke out. Per- sons living close to Mount Vernon, around Gum Springs, Weodlawn, Ac- cotink and Pohick would not have be- lieved their eyes if theéy had seen a plane in the air a few years ago. Persons in the meeting which com- plained against the plane can recall that they had their doubts when strange fellows said that men several miles apart ‘would talk over'a wire. There were persons among the com- plainants who were dazed and skepti- cal when it was said that messages would be sent around the world in a second or so without a wire, and it is almost a certainty that among the complainants were persons who said & few years ago, and with great earnest. ness, that human flight was impos- sible because it was contgary to the law of gravity. The world does move. ————————— Teachers' Salaries. A membey of the District of Colum- bia Public School Association, speak- ing before a parent-teachers’ associa- tion, made a plea for increased salaries for school teachers and better appro- priations for the school system in gen- eral. He used strong and appropriate words in describing and denouncing the salaries of school teachers. It is a that has been discussed by many persons many times. Teachers’ salaries are better than they were, but with the cost of rent, food. clothes and everything else that a person needs, excepting newspapers, higher. it is probably true that teachers are hav- ing a harder time to make ends meet than when their salaries were lower. It is notorious that the teaching pro- tession is poorly paid. The importance of the school to the nation and the im- portance of the teacher to the school are admitted, but the admission seems to bring no better pay. Every now and then we hear eulogies on teaching and on teachers, and people applaud and declare it is true, but folks seem spend their enthusiasm teachers in applausc, gesture and kind words. It'#8 known that kind words butter no psnips and cannot be ex- changed at Yhe grocery store for ham and cabbage. If some of the eulogies and applause he transformed into something that would fatten the pay envelope, teachers would be hap- piet Perhaps some time the profession of teaching will' be truly appreciated. Just now the world is more interested other things than teaching or in to could in {learning what sciiool teachers have to The world never was so reck but it does not its into a know i, with its snekel the lining of teacher's lap. purs We all ur school many looking than movie stars whose names arve written in electric lights. and we know teach who can act better than some of the screen ladies, if they can act at all Very likely if some of our teachers would go back on school district No. X and a foothoid at Hollywood they wu make more money a minute for doing nothing than they make now in a month for doing some- thing. But there is no probability of this. Teachers are and they generally stick to their tasks in spite of discouragement and poor pay be- cause they like teaching and because they love children ————————— William H. Vanderbilt and a party of guests rushed from Oakland farms to fight a fire at Valley Inn. near Mid- dletown, R. 1. “clad in evening clothes.” Of course. it would hardly De legal for volunteer firemen to fight a night blaze clad in anything else, 1d in born A Paris art dealer has charged that many of the art treasures in the Louvre and elsewhere, including Amer- jcan museums. are frauds. The mu- seums return the compliment. The world needs transportation fa- cilities. Value of aviation development depends on whether an airship is ex pected to work or fight. British aircraft authorities are in specting plans for “aerial Pullmans.’ There will be no kick on upper berths in those craft. ¥ Former Premier Asquith says the Some- Dbody must have hit it a wallop. —_————————— The American observer at a confer- ence is not necessarily an idle and un- influential bystander. 0ld John Barleycorn is again assert- ing himself as the world’s most per- sistent politician. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Above Trifles. He worried when they told him how {1In several million years from now Our coal, already somewhat dear, Is doomed to wholly disappear. A scientific shudder passed Clear through him when he saw how fast This earth is changing. until soon It must be like yon desert moon. He mourned because some stars on high Must be but cinders in the sky. What are ten trillion years or more To men of mathematic lore? And so he pondered day by day. On future things and far away, And quite forgot—'tis strange but true— His 1. 0. U. tomorrow due! 0Old Song Modernized. ‘Drink to me only with thine ey A poet sang one day, As, with a sense of soft surprise, He gazed in eyes of gray. ““Oh, with thine eyes pray drink to me And mine will drink to you," He warbled in a tender key, Entranced by eyes of blue. And then he sang to eyes of brown And eyes as black as night— The judge and jury wore & frown That filled his soul with fright. For breach of promise made his fate A thing of knots and kinks. The way he went was far from straight, Because he mixed his drinks for | schoul teachers who are better | SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON - D. C, JUNE 3,- Put Justice, Not Success, First, Lawyers ‘Are Urged BY THOMOS R. MARSHALL, Former Vice President of the United States. Whatever else we do, we must not permit ourselves to indulge in indis- criminate criticism of the verdicts of jurles and the judgments of courts. ‘We must remain ever mindful that every principle has to be applied by purely human intelligence. It naturally follows that what twelve men might say another twelve men might not say, and that what twelve men might "ay at one time or in one place they themselves might refuse to say at an- other time or place. The best as well las the worst of men accumulate prejudices. regional prejudices and other prejudices. Most of us also have our opinions colored by the blood in our veins and the occupations we follow. Cold-blooded men, as a case in point. do not reason along the kame lines nor reach the same conclusions as hot-blooded men. So that which may seem to some to be a miscar- riage of justice may appeal to the men who decided the cause and to the community most interested as being the absolute perfection of wisdom. T do not argue that we ought not to attempt and Kkeep on attempting more and more to approach a perfect standard whereby may be measured disagreements between all races and conditions of men: T merely insist that thoughtful consideration of Jjudicial questions must never be displaced by indiscriminate criticism. However much any of us may rail about a law, it is well rooted if it sults the people most concerned, and the chance of changing it will be slight unless and until _the attitude of the people toward it undergoes a change. We may well allow lawyers to devote themselves to the overruling of court decision; A= for the rest of us, the hest we can do is to devote ourselves to chauging the outlovk of the com- munity or the outlook of the lawyers. * % W The administration, of justice—I speak par ularly of criminal law— is akin to malaria. It has periods of chills and fever. For a time a com- munity will take so little interest in law enforcement that every defend- ant goes acquit. Almost any lawyer at such a time can ralse reasonable doubt as to whether the deceased might not have dropped dead from heart ease hetween the firing of the weapon and the penetration of his heart by the bull Finall; something occurs to arouse the pub- lie. The newspapers talk about a crime wave Citizens become ex- cited, and then woe to defendan Every man accused of crime is found guilty. Slight circumstantial evidence is sufficient convict under these circumstan Public opinion is of a clock Tt will entire arc and back again. possible, even {f it which T doubt, to bring it to & stop. This constant movement through the centuries has been th compelling force that has moved the hands for- ward upon the dial of destiny. Some- thing may and should be déne. how- ever, to prevent wholesale convictions and acquittals according to the tem- per of the communit, Personally, 1 am sorry that the courts have held that an American lawyer was not bound to defend a man who was un- ble to pay a fee, and I am equally orry that the courts have held valid contracts for fees contingent upon success. Such decisions have not ele- vated the lawyer's profession. 1 would not have it thought that 1 was complaining. I have the deepest re- gard and veneration for the legal profession. 1 spent most of my life in it. Yet I feel that a commercial age has had an effect, far too great, in commercializing the law PR ‘ Untoid numbers of young men are admitted to the bar by the taking of a simple oath that they will faith- fully and impartially discharge their duties as attorneys. 'rh!;' are ac- cepted without being required to give consideration to what they really were intended to be under our sys- tem. They assume that their admis- {sion marks the beginning of an op- |portunity for success. that their ra- sponsibility | measured by thelr knowledge and skill, and that they are engaging primarily in the bu ness of making a living. They com- plately overlook the fact. if ever it was brought to their attention. that they are officers of the court in which they practice, as much so as is the judge who presides. Great Britain like a pendulum Tt ix not ?Many Complications Are Involved ‘ In Succession to Scotch Peerage BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. i It will require a court of law at |Edinboro to determine whether Capt. Charles Campbell, who won ithe miiltary cross as captain of the Roval Artillery in the great war. has become, through the death of his distant cousin the other day, ninth Farl of Breadalbane or ninth Earlof { Holland. For by a curlous provision in the patent creating the earldom of Breadalbane, in the relgn of King Charles 11, this porticular peerage. as well as the viscounty of Tay and the baronies of Glenurchie and Bene- deraloch, was granted conditional on the possession of the then patrimonial estate of Glenorchy, with the under- standing that if the latter was ever alienated the peerages in question Would ipso facto expire and pass out of existence, leaving only the les markedly territorial titles of Earl of Holland, Viscount of Paitiand and Lord of Ormelle and Welck. 1" Whether this queer provisicn in the patent bearing the sign manmal of that Stuart monarch of whom it Ja said, “He never sard a stupid thing and never did a wise one,” can le held as valid in the then Scottish law of the realm, the courts alone that is to say, the highest tribunals of the Scottish kingdom—can decld It fs not really of very great im- Jortance, and it is on the cards that he new holder of the honors of the late Lord Breadalbane may refrain rom invoking the intervention of the Juw in the matter. For the earidoms of Breadalbane and of Holland were Created at the same time, the patents lLearing the same date, 50 that there can be no question of precedence and, moreover, being Scottish peerages, they do not carry with them any seat in the house of lords at West- minster. | i { * kK K Their history is rather an odd one. George, sixth Earl of Calthness, was 50 heavily in debt to Sir John Camp- Lell of Glenorchy that the latter com- pelled him to make a will bequeath- ing to him not only all his estates snd prerogatives, but alo his earl- dom and his other peerages. When Sir John's creditor was gathered to Lis fathers he assumed the earldom of Caithness and took steps to secure possession of the estates, invading the Caithness lands, with the au- thority of the crown, & historical event commemorated in the well k‘hown song, “The Campbells Are Howe v the heir-in-blood of the sixth Lord Caithness was able to tablish in the courts of Edinbor- his testator had no right rldom, no mat how and accordingly BSir John Campbell, at the instance of the king, surrendered the earldom of Caithness to the heir- in-blood, and received from the moa- talong which move across the | were desirable, | has never weakened on this. No ish barrister has yet been able to get away from his own respon! bility for the administration of jus. tice or succeeded in laying his re sponsibility. exclusively upon - the court. 1 sometimes think that if there were less teaching of technique and more of ethics in our American col- leges of law some of the failures of Jjustice might be avolded. The law- yer might not grow so rich, but he certainly would have an easier con- sclence. An unfortunate client would find himself still more unfortunate if his lawyer, discovering his guilt and unworthiness, would frankly so in- form the court. This might bust un law business. but it would help to bust up crookedness also. A A e The element of chance always ex- ists in the trial of a criminal cause, but the law itself ought mot in any way to add any chance. The inno- cence or gullt of the defendant should not be of secondary hnportance to the relative skill of counsel. The rights of the commonwealth and the liberty of the accused are something | more than mere pawns in a game be- tween a prosecuting attorney and a lawyer for the defense. Yet it is im- possible to establish an idealistic set- ting because of the commonly, ac cepted theory that it is the business of the prosecutor to convict and of the defendant's attorney to bring| about acquittal. Unmindfulness of the fact that every lawyer is an offi- cer of the court. whose sworn dul_\'l it is to aid in the administration of justice, has brought about this con- dition. It seems quite difficult for people to understand that criminal laws are | enacted for the protection of the ( state. and that these statutes are not instruments with which to adjust per- sonal grievances and to remedy pri- vate wrongs. As a matter of fact, they are frequently made the avenues private wrongs travel to a destination In many of u.el jurisdictions of thie country when a crime has been committed the injured persons employ the best lawyers ob- tainable to assist in the prosecution. And. of course. the flower of the pro fession is emnloyed to conduct the de fense. Men now Insure their proper- ty with the understanding that it it i8 stolen the insurer will Drosecute the thief to the limit of the law, and, on the other hand, there are associa- tions which pledge that, regardless of the crime charged, they will come to the defense of the accused. " The clear distinctions between vhe! civil and criminal law xhould be scrupulously maintained. nA"HL'u!uri)‘l in the administration of the crim ] We should never gei away these facts: That the crime which was committed was & crime agalnst the state: that law has been enacted permitting criminal prosecutions for the re cation of private injury: that it is always the | peace and dignity of the state which are to be maintained. and that for reach of its pemce and 4ignity pun- ishment is to be imposed. No person should be permitted to join in the ! prosecution of a man unless he shall have been appointed by the court and paid by the state, and. conversely, no one should be permitted to defernd # man unless regularly employved by the defendant or his family. or assign- ed by the court If it is argued that under such procedure a smart prose- cuting attorney or a brilliant lawye for the defense would have things his own way, 1 repeat what 1 earlier stated, that tlie crime. if one were commfitted, was a crime against the state, and that all lawyers, whether appearing for the prosecution or the defense, are first of ail officers of the court. If prosecutors would cease fo be- lieve that their business is to con- viet, even though innocent men are on trial, and if attorneys would come to realize that they have no right to secure acquittal of criminals by su- perior knowledge or skill, the admin- fstration of criminal justice would be benefited. The joint opinion of the judge, prosecutor and lawyer for the defense, all skilled in the law. would quickly’ and properly establish the guilt or innocence of the defendant. The guilty man would not be wholly deprived of a defense. He would be permitted to show extenuation on the question of punishment. The law's delay would end. 1t would render conviction surer, and crime would be reduced a® the certainty of convies tion grew. After all, certainty. not severity, is the goal toward which the criminal law should move. (Copyright, 1923. by 21st Century Press ) l law 1 from arch, in its stead. the earldom of Breadalbane and of Holland. At the request of this first Earl of Breadalbane, King Charles. left him free to designate his heir, and as the result of this, he hequeathed only his two earldoms and the mi- nor peerages, but also hiy vast e tates, to his second son John, in- stead of to his eldest son Duncln.! whom he disinherited. From thence- forth the earls of Breadalbane and of Holland flourished in wealth and in office, though, as a rule, cursed with childiessness.” In fact, the honors and estates rarely passed from father to son, but usually to some remote cousin, and then only after much liti- gation. >k k% Thus the late Marquis of Breadal bane, who played so great a role at court in the reign of Queen Victoria, and who was repeatedly placed at the head of the royal household, w born as a commoner, and owed his succession to the family aomors to his father's victory over a rival claim ant. The marquis had no children. His younger brother and next heir predeceased him. And he was aware that his brother's son was very much of an invallid and somewhat eccentric. that is to say, not likely to perpetu- ate the family name and honors, He also realized that following his nephew, the next in the line of suc- cession to the honors would be the son of the claimant, whom his father had defeated after a contest which had been characterized by cruel as- persions and profound resentment. . * ok ok % And now there is a possibility of fresh complications. For the late earl, that {s to say, the eccentric.and almost entirely unknown nephew and heir of the marquis, who was sup-| posed to be a bachelor and who fig- ured as such in all officfal Worke of reference, has been shown, since his death, to have been married for tha past seven years, the purely civil union having been contracted in Londun, ut St. Giles' registry 'office, in Blooms- bury, on the 18th of September, 191 The bride was described in the mar- riage certlficate as Marie Reeves Hunt, twenty-six years of age, and as a “theatrical artiste,” giving her address as 26 Marchmont street, {ator Francis Marion Cockrell In.\'lnx | Tng 1923—PART- 2. Capifiil Sidelights 4 ~BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Benator Morris Sheppard, of Texas, who celebrated his forty-eighth birth- day last week, succeeded his father 2s a member of the national House of Representatives, where he served for twelve years before coming to the Senate, where he has been a very active member for the last ten years. But few of those who have served as colleagues 'in Congress of Morris Sheppard have realized that in his boyhood days he was a crack rifle shot. * When he was thirteen years old, With the assistance of a few young Americans of daring blood, Master Morris Sheppard inaugurated some- thing very unusual in' the way of youthful sports. They had tead of William Tell, how he shot the apple off his son’s head. They admired his marksmanship and the bravery of his son. Morris represented the celebrated marksman and the other boys the son, taking it turn about. We arc told that several boys stood with apples on their heads and Mor- ris with a target rifle shot them off —that is to say, the apples, fortu- nately, not their heads. When caught up with and admonished.of the ex- treme danger in such sport they were astonished and greatly frightened. The club in honor of William Tell adjourned sine die without serious ults. S s o1 the'truth o the anccdore, | T * ok ok One of the distinctions achieved by Representative A. M. Free of Cali- fornia is that he s the father of two sets of twins, another Is that for twelve years he was district at- torney of Santa Clara county, Calif, during which time he prosecuted a Kreat many persons who were sent to the state penitenttary. “And thereby hangs a tale”” which has furnished considerable amusement to tepresentative Free's friends, and which hy narrates as follows: Upon one occasion the warden of the state penitentiary in California in- vited mo to spend the night with him at the prison. When I arrived he rang » bell and a Japanese responded The #arden sald to him: “Tak= Mr Fres's grip, show him to his room an &i/e him enyv attention which he ma veed’ I looked at the Jap and recog- nized him as Yoshimizzo, whom I had prosecuted for murder. The Jap bowed very politely and said: °T take &ood care of you, Mr. Frec.” He tock my grip and escorted m. to my room. ‘“That evening at dinner a voico over my shoulder said. ‘Will you have roast lamb or roast beef, M-, Free. 1 looked up and’recounized a {fellow 1 ad prosecuted for holding up | the cashier of a bank at Santa Clara, Calif. Later the warden cailed in the local orchestra to play for me, and as they came into the room th: leader siniled and suid: ‘How do yua do, Mr. Free? I recognized in nim a man whom T &ud prosecuted “or stealing a ar.d buggy. The next morning some friends came over from San Rafael to witness the ball game between the prison team and another ball team. We were walking. about the prison grounds. and when we passed the bar- ber shop. the warden, with & twinkle in his eve, said: ‘Don't you want a shave. Mr. Free? 1 stepped into the barber shop. and the barber proved to be Difranco, a man whom I had prosecuted and sent to pris leader of a Black Hand Society Jose, Calif. 1 looked back a crowd, and could see that ihe w had told them I would probab out of ths Lerber shop very quickiy. Diffanco begar to assure mefhé would Kive me a good ghave, so whilg I dis- sed the possibility of a parele with him I thought I would punish the warden a little by making him wait. So 1 took a shave, then a massage and a shampoo. Possibly I watched the movements of the razor very clusely and might have besn somc- what relieved when the shuve was aver and (Fe *hampoo and inassage o “While T am still living to tell the tale, vet 1 would suggest, if vou have ever been a prosecuting attorney, to carry your own razor with vou." con- cludes Representative Free with a smile. of my * ok ok K How far is Congress? It was so far that it took thirty vears in the e of Representative John M. Evans of Montana, who is coming back December, after a two-year vacation from duties as a member of the House appropriations committee. When a lad of fifteen yvears Evans went tohear a speech by the late Sen- Young Evane, with half a dozen other hoys of his own uge, perched upon the railing of the speaker's stand, oscu- the most prominent place available to hear the address. The i senator was talking to a crowd of | farmers at { commenting a Missouri picnic and, upon the opportunities of the American boy as compared with the boy of European countries, and illustrating how a boy of this community might or position, putting his hand upon the head of voung Evans, he sa Who will say that this man may not some day go to Congress,” and young Evans said to himself: “I'am ¥oing." Recently, 1n talking to a crowa of schoolboys, with the hope of inspir- then to some accomplishments, Mr. Evans told the incident and re- marked that the Senator's speech im- planted in his mind the hope and deaire to go to Congress, which never left him, but it took him thirty years to Tealize the ambition of_ the ced that was that day planted. When one little fellow, with wide open eves remarked: “Thirty years! Con- kress must be a long way. Were you walking all the time?” One of the most pleasant occasions of Mr. Evans' life was when he callcd upon Senator Cockrell just be- fore his death and reminded him that he was the one who Inspired this country boy to try to go to Congress. * k %k X The super fox hunting enjoyed by a score of congressmen in the out- lands of the National Capital will be participated in by Representative James F. Fulbright, a new demo- cratic member from Missouri, because fox hunting has long been his fa- vorite outdoor sport. He was born on a farm and acquired his education solely through his owr: efforts. With- out resources to pay his expenses in college, he enrolled in the Southeast Missourl Teachers' College, at Cape Girardeau, having a total capital of $17 and with no assurance of any kind as to how he would #nancé his education. While working his way throush college he engaged in various kinds of labor, such as loading cross-tle firing an engine at a sawmill and various kinds of farm labor. He was athletically inclined and while in school took a great intercst in base bull and at the time of his graduation, in 1900, was captain of one of the best foot ball teams ever developed In the State Teachers' Col- lege at Cape Girardeau, Mo. * kX X - The military experlence of Repre- sentative Robert Low Bacon, who is just coming into Congress from the Bloomsbury, a cheap boarding house. He wi described as an officer of the naval reserve. and his address was given as 32 Bernard street, Blooms- bury, also a boarding house, where the bride joined him after the wed- ding and where they occupled a back room, paying $5 a week for rent. The marriage has been proved by investigation to have been perfectly valid, The only person who seems to have known ything about it was the late Earl's mother. The couple never assumed the title and they were known at the Bloomsbury boarding house where he died. care- fully attended by, his wife, as Mr. ang Mra. camobeil. . - first New York district, Is as 1>llows: He attended the original Lusiness men's Plattsburg camp. He saw service on the Texas border with the New York Natlonal Guard in 1916, During the world war he was ia the jce from April 24, 1917, to Janu- :fi-;vz, 1919, in the field artillery, at- aining the rank of major. He was awarded the distingulshed service medal. From January, 1919, to Janusry, 1923, he held the rank of lieutenant . colonel in the United States Reserve Corps. His presant " jacc Junuary, 1923, i= colonel in i spire to any place | | BY ROBERT ASHINGTON today is more gayly decked with flags and bunting and festoons of lights perhaps than at any time in her history—all in Yonor of the visitifig nobles of the Imperial Council of the Mystic Shrine. By day and by night the downtown sections of the city flame with the red, white and blue of the nation and the green, yellow and red of the Shrine. So lavish and elabo- rate are some of the decorations that the patriotic socleties are inclined to find fault with the manner in which Old Glory has been draped or folded into various designs. Aside from all this, however, there is an aspect to the present and to past decorations of Washington which may well claim the attention of the entire nation. Washington is by way of being the most beautiful city in America, Certainly it is more distinctive, more characterful than any other city in this country, and perhaps in the world. Two of the many things that make it distinctive are the Capitol and the White House. Nowhere in all the world an there be found two more impres- sive, more wonderful buildings. And yet the decorations arranged b; the local committee for the Shrine prac tically eliminate the White House from view. Furthermore, the lights on Pennsylvania avenue, forming a vel- low. green and red canopy of incandes- cent glow over the famous thorough- fare, entirely shut off from the Avenue the view of the Capitol dome by night. That towering structure, bathed always at nightfall in a white glow, stands out ordinarily with an impressiveness akin to awe, especially upon the vis tor to the city viewing it for the firs time. * % ox % no question but that the arden Allah™ created along that part of Pennsylvania avenue which leads by the Treasury, the White House and the State, War and Navy building, is & work of art, pleasing to the eye, and very utllitarian in its flanking of grandstands built to accommodate many thousands of persons in addition to the President of the United States when he reviews the Shriner parades. It must be admitted, however, that this very same “Garden of Allah,” with its Hghts, and bunting and pylons, redo- lent of Egyptian days and nights, could have been erected in every detail of its present glory at Shelby, Mont., the cross-roads town which has come so much into the news of late. But where else in America could the visitor hope to see such a vista as an unobstructed view of the Treasury, the White House and the magnificent pile of granite known as the State, War and ) Navy building? after all. the visitor would take a from Washiington lasting impression of the natural beauties of the citv, the patriotic remembrance of the stately White House in its solemn simplicit; the inspiration of an unobstructed view | of the Capitol, rather than merely the | memory of a very festive scene of make-believa splendor, | The long cross-lines of light that gar- land the Avenue might jus readily There is of Heard and Seen Fifty men in blue stood in fro of G. A. R. Hall on Memorial day, | preparatory to marching to the exer- cises at Arlington national cemeters. | The average age of the men was | about seventy-eight years. according | to Commander-in-Chief James W.| Willett of JTowa, who present when the march began. It was only a few years ago. com- paratively speaking, when several hundred men turned out at the an- nual procession. Today the old uni- forms hang somewhat loosely upon frames that have lost some of the meat of more youthful years. But they were a vigorous crowd still, although undoubtedlv of small- er helght than voung men of the present generation. _ Perhaps the slight stoop of age has something |to do with it—perhaps the fact that many of them enlisted as mere boys helped decrease their etature * * % Willard Saxton is perhaps the oldest man and one of the most i vigorous in the local Grand Army. He is ninety-three years old and will be ninety-four shortly. Tn the parade on Memorial day Maj. Saxton stepped out with a step {that was almost as good as he pos- |nessed in the stirring days of ‘64 * Wiy He says he is the only local Grand Army man in the District who plays golf. He is A. J. Whitaker, who marched with his comrades Wednesday. Mr. Whitaker. who saw long serv- ice in the government, is an enthu- siastic golfer. He goes out to the links every other day. His seventy-eight years, which he does not look any more than Maj. Saxton appears to be ninety-three, sit lightly upon his golf club, so that younger men who try a round with him find themselves up against a real golfer. Maj. § * * x A picturesque figure among the vet- erans was William Gilbert, a Co- manche, who wore the blue during lthe civil war and later served five years in the Regular Army. Then there was George Campbell of the United States Soldiers’ Home. He is the exact image of Uncle Sam, with !long white hair and Uncle Sam whis- kers, and takes considerable pride in the fact. | When ‘some one is wanted to take the part of our national figure, George Campbell is just the man : “Who are You?' he was asked he stood in formation H He cast a withering glance upon! his_questioner. “Don’t you know snapped. as| Uncle Sam?” he wi Here is a story that comes from Kansas about Senator Capper, that{ staunch, good friend of the Natlonal Capital Not long ago he joined the Grotto at Topeka. And a few days later the secretary of the Grotto there re- ceived a letter from the secretary of the Grotto in this city. It read some- thing as follows: “I see by the press that Senater Capper joined the Topeka Grotto. This is to inform you that Senator Capper joined the Grotto . Wash- jngton, D. C., two years CHARLES E. TR\ Nab Chronic Deserter. Army, Navy and Marine Corps au- thorities are gratified over the appre- henslon of a chronic deserter who has been playing an in-and-out game with these three services since 1912, dur- ing which time he has enlisted twenty-four times and deserted from: the Army alone seventeen times. Recruiting stations all over tle country have been advised of the cap- ture and confinement of Charles E. Harmon, of many aliases, with credit for the capture being given to Sergt. Albert J. Triggs, recruiting officer at ‘Atlanta, who recognized Harmon by tattoo marks on his arm, including the name of & young woman, when he endeavored to enlist under the name of “Carl Harvey." Harmon has been working his way south from Camp Meade, Md,, by wa; of the recruiting offices in Richmond, Fort Monroe, Va.; Paris Island, ven, Gu. WELL. |ing solon about T. SMALL. illumine the white way of Shelby, but it is easy to imagine that the visitor to the Avenus by night would remember for & much longer time the picture of thet white dome leaning far into a it sky. * % % % ‘The present scheme of decorating Washington is not new with the Shrirs convention. Always on great occaston= In the past—especially at inaugurations —something of the same scheme -ha. been followed, particularly the obliterl ation of the White House behind pilex of lumber known as reviewing stands The Shrine decorations being a little more elaboratae than usual, and Wa: ington having skipped the festivities « an inauguration when Mr. Harding too! office, have combined to call striking at- tention to the situation at this time, A remedy for the future has been suggested und is easy of adoption. I has been brought forward by none other than Barry Balkeley, one of our leading citizens, whose ofvic Inastincts cannot be questioned. It is his plan tha all great parades of the future in Wash- ington should pass through the Mall that magnificent stretch of parking which reaches in a direct line from the Capitol to the Washington Monument and to the Lincoln Memorial at the very edge of the Potomac river. Historical tradition naturally clings to Pennsylvania avenue as the ideal Toute for any parade, and the front of the White House has been regarded A8 essentiul for a grand review. A route laid out through the Mall would skirt the southern portico of the White House, however, and the entire setting of the' procession would be one of great natural beauty. _Parades through the Mall would not disturb the business sections of the city, would not interrupt traffic, and the immense parking space would provide vantage ground for hundreds of thou- sands of spectators. There is no question but that it is # pity that at times when the greatest number of visitors are in Washington their View of the historic structures of their capital should be so curtalled. * x Xk x Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi designated in a perfectly friendly wa by President Harding as “chief troubl maker in the Senate,” has gon forth to make trouble in the land at Mrge He has left Washington on a spleking trip. a tour of the chautaugus wlat- forms and the tent circuits of 48 far and middle west, which will keep him before the waiting public nightly for four solid months. It is vers eviden that thousands of other persons than the President regard Senator Pat as a trouble maker,” and the people cer- tainly do like 'trouble—for the other fellow. One can’t help but wonder i President Harding, when he wrote to Senator Harrison greeting him as a friendly enemy, didn't_give the lectur- the biggest publiclt; boost a chautauqua performer could possibly get. Maybe there was method in the President's madness. Senator Pat mln\' hr' 50 ‘‘wore out” as they sav down in OI' Miss. when he gets back from the tents and the plains that he will be qulescent in the Bl ve qurescen next congress. Jard the Tavenie, might juit an e | Bur Wackly har, 10 est coneres Fifty Years Ago in The Star After the Franco-Prussian wa French political affairs were in a state of un- certainty. A MacMahon Elected President of France. . oumuscio was effected while the Prussians were still in part possession of the French territory, and was later made defi- nite by the election of Thiers president. In May, 1873, 2 monarchi- cal reaction took place with the ele- vation to the presidency of Marshal MacMahon. This change is thus dis- cussed in The Star of May 27, 1873: “Marshal MacMahon, the new presi- dent of France, elevated by a com- bination of the Legitimists, Orlean- ists and Bonapartists in the national assembly, is more of a soldier than u statesman. His whole life from his youth has been spent in the military service of that country. in which | service he has frequently distingulsh- ed himself. not less by his skill than Ly his personal heroism. As a soldler he did gallant service in Algeria and in the siege of Antwerp in the war for the ifberation of Belgium. In the Crimean war he distinguished him elf at the storming of the Malakofr and also in the sanguinary Italian battles of Magenta and Solferino, the former of which yielded him the title of Duke of Magenta. The personal friend and favorite general of Napo- leon 11T, and a successful soldier. brilliant achievements were expected of him In the Franco-Prussian war But he, like the other French leaders. went down before the superior forces of the German empire, and his defeat at Woerth and subsequent surrender at Sedan, the Waterloo of his imperial master, Napoleon III, were malnly . due to the demoralization which had long existed in the ranks of his army, and to a lack of abllity on the part of the commanding general, Palikao. “As we have stated, MacMahon has never figured as a politician, but in all of the changes which have be- fallen France he has accepted the dom- inant regime and obeyed orders like.a soldier. On account of his personal. friendship for the late emperor, he was looked upon with suspicion afte the downfall of Napoleon, and for hil | services In the war against the com- munist insurgents of Paris he, course, became unpopular with t latter, but as an offset won the ad- miration of the conservatives. The opposition doubtless fixed upon him as the successor of M. Thiers, because he was the only man on whom the anti-republican members of the na- tional assembly could unite. His natural timidity as a politician is shown in his address to the assembly in which he promises to implicitly obey their instructions. “The tendency of the new govern- - ment is, however, seen more In the new cabinet appointment than in the election of a president. The Duke of Broglie, who heads the ministry, is known to be a rampant Bonapartist while Plerre Magne and Ggn. De Cis- sey are also said to be strong mon- - archists. “It is difficult to see the final phase of the transition state through which France is passing. The re- publican element in Paris is_just now too strong to justify the domi- nant party in any open movement looking to the re-establishment of a monarchy, but that the latter form of government {s their ultimate obfect there is good reason to believe. The strong republican minority. headed by the aged, but belligerent, Thiers, who has taken his seat In the assembly as their leader, still constitute a strong element in that body, and are eager- ly watching every new move of the majority. If the latter are wise they will not seek to make any radical change in the policy of the govern- ment at present. An attempt to do s0, under existing circumstances, would undoubtedly add one more to the long list of bloody French revo- lutions. —_——— Feminine Technique. From the Los Angeles Times. A number of young women were taking lessons in fencing from a pro- fessional instructor. “Now, mademoiselle,” said the teacher to one girl to whom he had been trying to impart the first prin- ciples of fencing, “how would you use your foil if an opponent feinted?” After some deliberation the girl re- plied: “I think T'd just tickle her with the point of it to see whether or not she was faking.” ~ v