Evening Star Newspaper, July 1, 1923, Page 42

EVENING ,STAR, With Sunday Mérning Edttien. WASHINGION, D, C. | SUNDAY......,....July 1, 1683 T S N N, SHW RS B monou 'W. NOYES. ...Editor and Pennsylvauis Ave. The Evening tar, with the'Sunday méraizg edition, is delivered by carriers withia the city s per moath; daily only, 45 cents only, 20 ceats per mon ¥ it mall or Main by carriers at the Su Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunda; Daily only. Sunday oniy. All Other States. Daily and day.1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 8¢ Daily amy.sun i ‘s1oo~ 1mo., 8¢ Sunday only. 5 . 25c " Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively eatitled to the use for republication of all news die- rm-nu credited 10 it or not otherwise credited this paper and also the local news pub- 1ished herein. All rights ‘of publical ot special dispatches herein mre also reserved. Building Boom Overinflated. That there is a serious-shortage of butlding trades mechanics Is one of the " outstanding facts of the present in- dastrial revival, and ways and means of remedying the situation are mede the theme of a lot of discussion, wise and otherwise. But, to borrow an ex- pression of the late Grover Cleveland, it is a very practical condition rather than a theory which confronts us, and the way to an immediate remedy is not to be found in thepretical cures. The idea of training schools for me- chanics is a good one and deserving | of encouragement, but training schools are not going to be established and mechanics trained in time ¥ meet this year's building problem. There is only one practical way to meet the present situation and halt the ever-mounting cost of conmstruc- tion, and that is not to undertake con- struction beyond the available supply of mechanics and materials. No addi- tional construction results when con- tractors go out bidding against each other for materials and labor. The only result is to enhance the price without eslarging the volume. In fact, the tendency is to cut down vol- ume, for when the worker knows he can quit his job any day and go to another at equal or better pay it hasa tendency to slow down his work. That s merely human nature asserting it- self, and human nature in the building trades does not differ from human na- ture in any other cailing. ‘That such a situation as now exists would arise was foreseen months ago. Last March Secretary Hoover, in a letter to the President, proposed that all but the most urgent of public building, both national and state, be deferred until private building, es pecially the building of dwellings, had @ chance to catch up, and, by implica- tion at least, the appeal was general for a deferring of private projects the necessity of which was not urgent. Except as it operated to defer a small amount of government construction, Mr. Hoover's warning apperently fell upon deaf ears. Money was plentiful, and everybody who had bullding to do was eager to get iteunder way. Con- tractors, being as human as their workmen, tock on more work than they had labor to accomplish, and | ‘when they found themselves in a jam went out with bonuses in their hands and hired workers away from their fellow contractors. The resuit was in- evitable, and. today we have reached & point where, unless the brakes are put on and a little common sense ap- plied, our building boom is likely to blow up and burst as the result of “overinflation. .+ 50c : 1 mo. | Berlin is asking profiteers to desist in their demands. Among the worst profiteers Germany has had to con- | tend with were the officials who helped | themselves to governmental funds. un- der the monarchy. Alcohol is diplomatically, as well chemically, distinguished by inflam- mability anda tendency, under certain conditions, to explode. The youthful student is, of course, interested in collegiate controversies, but is not letting them take his/mind off foot ball. In Chicago the mercury dropped from 96 to 54. Chicago always was an impulsive young metropolis. The Race for Air Supremacy. “Premier Baldwin's announcement that Great Britain had decided to es. tablish an air force sufficlently strong o defend the country from attack by the strongest air force within striking distance, has had at least one good re- sult. Advocates of further liffitation of armaments conference, in line with taa Washington conference, have feaped forward with the suggestion that now is the time to halt, if pos- sible, what may become a new deadly race for supremacy in arms. The most encouraging symptom in the present agitation over thg military control of the air.is the immediaté re- version of many minds tosnwhat was accomplished at Washington, when the great naval natiofis of “the world agreed to limit the number of capital shipe, their size, the size of their guns and the size of auxillary craft. :The next war—and who Is optimist enough today to say there will be no next war—will be fought largely in the air. The nations who arm them- sbives with thousands of, alrplanes will he in\a position to accept war, it they do not seek it, with readiness. Ex. cesslve armaments, the history of the world hag shown, have always been a mighace to peace. - .France today is admittedly ahead of a¥ mations In the size of her air forces, il the number. of planes and squad. | Tons. Premier Baldwin's statement to the house of commons that the govern- ment proposed fifty-two aif squadrons, aw increase of thirty-four squedrons, |: can only he construed as joining in & race with Briwain's former ally for the supremacy of the air. 3 Competition in the air probably will not be as costly as competition In capital ship tonhage, when capita] sulps. cost (n the nelghborhood of §40,000,000 tc genstruct and arm. To! that extent it may not be as burden- sonie to the taxpayers. But the men- ace of war in the competition may be conference the no less great. -, . At the Wuhinltm rule was laid down t the limitation of naval armament should conform to sxistivg strength of navies, that ratio should be preserved ‘in making the limitations. The French undoubt- edly would seek @ similar rule in a conference today on air forces. The British probably would resist it. "At the Washington conference the committee on lmitation of armaments found it “'to be impracticable to adopt rules for the limitation of aireraft in number, size or character, in view of the fact that such rules would be of little or no value unless the produc: tion of commercial alrcraft were simi- 20c | larly restricted. It was deemed to be inadvisable thus to hamper the de- ‘velopment of a facility which could not fall to be important in the progress of, civilization.” ‘With the race for air supremacy be- coming more acute, however, an in- ternational agreement might be reached in the matter of military planes and the number of men to man them. 5 ‘When real disarmament comes it must be in the hearts of mgn, & dis- tinguished member of the conference declared. But until there has been such a change of heart among the peoples of the world it is as well to foster limitation of arms. More Play Spaces. The \opening of twenty-nine school yards as summer playgrounds early in July will relieve & good many children from the necessity of playing In the streets. These school yards will sup- plement twenty-three municipal play- grounds, and the list of the play spaces soon to be opened shows that they are in all parts of the city and in many closely built suburban sec- téons. The demand for spaces where chil- dren may piay In safety has not come upon us suddenly, but it is due to rela- tively new conditions in Washington. Not many years ago it would have seemed strange to urge that play spaces for children be bought and operated at public cost. There were large areas of vacant land within the city limits. “Commons’ were extensive. The fields and woods of the country were nearby. Most of the houses in the city were one-family homes, with a large yard or garden or what is now generally called a “lawn.” There were vacant lots in every neighborhood ‘wheré children could play. There was no such congestion of population as we now have. The streets were quiet, and although a pedestrian or a playing child was now and then knocked down by & horse and wagon the danger in the streets was not comparable to the present danger. It has been settled that children will play, and that they should play if they are to grow Into normal men and women. The “commons” have disap- peared, the country is far away, close- Iy peopled and dotted with “no tres- pass” signs, and many of the sub- urban sections are as closely built as any section of the city was a genera- tion or so ago. Traffic in most streets is dense, and in every street there is 80 much danger to children from auto- mobiles that street play is prohibited. Accldents to children in the streets have been numerous. The matter of regulated play has also come to the front in late years. It has been found dangerous, under modern conditions, to leave children to their own devices, to form gangs and wander about the streets and alleys. The possibility of making undesirable acquaintances and forming viclous habits is always present. It has been found necessary to provide public play places for children, and in those places it has been deemed desirable to keep them under proper supervision. Pub- lic playgrounds meet an urgent need, but there are so many things pressing for adjustment that it has not been poesible to provide as much play space as children need. Progress is being made, and the opening of the school yards in summer is one.of the marks of progress. ————— The drug scolapomin is being adver- tised as compelling men to tell the truth. Curiosity must arise as to whether the promoters have taken any, and whether it is working. After carefully comparipg presiden. tial views on world arbitration with his own, Senator Borah found nothing to prevent him from lifting the slogan, “Welcome to Idmho!" One advantage in prohibition is that 1t {g strictly a domestic product. There is absolutely no imported varfety. All-Night Parking. ‘ The opinion which_ the corporation counsel sends to the Commissioners on the subject of all-night parking will probably set that question at rest for some time at least. The matter of all- night parking is not as troublesome and perplexing as that of all-day park- ing, and it would be well if the graver problem could be solved first. All-night parking of an auto in front of the auto-owner's home may have some objectionable features, but the practice Is not general, and so far as noted has not given rise to publis corn- ‘plaint and inconvenience. As a rule, man does not let his machine mn‘s in the street in front of his home all night when he can provide shelter for it. % + The common reason for night street parking s that the owner no ga- rage and cannot find one at & Feason. able rental within ecasy distance of his home. Garage rentals are up in pro- portion to rentals of other Kinds of property, and many persons consider the cost of bullding & garage as pro- hibitive. It often happens that when a man belleves he can have a smiall brick or cement garage bullt for $500 or $700 he finds on getting estimates for. its construction that the cost will run from $1,000 to $2,000. A The corporation counsel points out that the courts have refused to hold persons who have parked their cars| in front of their homes ‘when. are rafgned under existing regulations. He says that the courts have held it to be hington | in front of one's dwelling durifig "the njght when such parking is not pro- hibited throughoyt the day, The regu- lation under ;which :attempts have been mdatoeo%i&éflflbewnd all-night parking 1s that “No part of any street shall be used for the keep- , depositing, storing, displaying or selling vehicles of any kind." One of the complaints against all- night parking is that in some cases the street cleaners are interfered with in their work, and the orporation coun- sel says that when: this is true the owner of the parked Gar might be pro. ceeded against under another regula- tion which provides that “No person shall, without a permit, conastruct, place or leave or cause to be construct. ed, placed or left in or upon any of such places designated in section 1 any obstruction to travel.”” The places designated in the section are astreets, avenues, alleys, sidewalks or parkings. It the responsible officlals coneider all- night parking a serious matter & spe- cific regulation might be drawn against it and test case made. i France the Naval Treaty. The Fre government, after all these ‘months of delay, “has finally ‘made & move in the direction of ratity- ing the naval treaty effected by ‘the arms conference. To be sure, it is but preliminary, but former Premier Briand and M. Sarraut, who were the signatories of the Washington treaty, are described as feeling that “the first effective step toward ratification has been made.” If 1t, indeed, proves to be an ef- fective step toward ratification there is cause for gratification in the action taken, which consisted of depositing with the chamber of deputies a bill which asks for ratification of that part of the Washington naval agreement which deals with, the protection of neutrals on’ the high seas and the use of asphyxiating gas in war time. The course of* France toward the Washington arma conference has from the outset been perplexing to the other signatory nations and the cause of comment and speculation. France, it will be remembered, held back in the traces at the very outset of the arms conference, and at times her a titude threatened to mar the work in hand. If the French government now sees its way clear to proceed to eventual ratification “all will be forgotten" as to the past and the powers of the world which ere party to the treaty will draw a breath of relief. It is in- explicable to them that further delay should ensue, and “there can be no question that early ratification will enhance the prestige of France and dissipate the fears sald to exist in some quarters that France has mill- taristic designs. ———————— A cheering note comes from a great center of industry. A saxophone band of fifty pleces is to be organized at Bethlehem, Pa. Whether this qulets discord or promotes it will, of course, depend somewhat on the quality of the band. Buyers are making their metropoli- tan irgages./ The ultimate con- sunfer is’ uneble to figure how much the hospitalities extended by the sellers are going to add to what he will pay for the goods. i One of the greatest boosters of some eminent capitalist for political honars is the man who is always willing to show other people what to do with their money. —————————— Temptation arises to wish that Judge Landis could find excuse for saying something harsh to a ball club that persistently drifts toward last place. ————— e The news reports make it clear that the presidential tour is proving quite as interesting for the conversation en route as for the scenery. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHIGANDER JOHXNSOX. Tree Climbing. If evolution were a fact Perhaps we'd learn just how to act, And always know, in agile gles, Ezactly when to climb a tree. But we, dull hu hang around, ‘With thumbless feet upon the ground, And fight in manner sad to see, ‘When it were best to climb a tree. ©h, Time, turn back, through ages vast And give me primate sense at last. ‘The Simian’ Lesson bring to me And teach me when to climb & tree. S Restraint of Modesty. “Do these joke bathing suits make you laugh?”- - s “They might, it I were Impolite enough to look.’ Jud Tunkins says & man who is al- ways :rkxu about how the adjacent farm afiould be run seldpm saves up money enough to buy it. “Life is “getting kind of topsy- turvy,” sighed’ Mr. Meekton. '‘“Hen: rietta hates the kind of perfume I use, and I seriously object to her smokin, in the house.” Rustic Confusion. A city lass' once heard-the moan Of a sad cow by chance. She thought it was a saxophone And started in to dance.' Bush, But No Wine. ; ““Why do you keep cultivgting that blg mint patch by -the roadside?” . _"A 1ot of/people,” replied the keeper of the wayside restaurant, “amell it, look hopetul .and then turn in. Of course, after making & faw cautious inquiries they feel under obligations to order buttesilk or sometbing. "I'm using that mint as a decoy. “She didn’t.mvite me to her party complained Mrs. Flimgilt. “Would you bave gone?” asked husband. he “No. T wanted the pleasure of tacit. 1y reminding her of that fact.” shifts of opinion, well understood by sclentists, prove nothing against the Holds Victims of Profiteers - Have a Remedy in Own Hands ,BY THOMAS R. MARSHALL, Former Vies Preaident of the United States. HE man who devotes himselt / ‘exclusively to the scientific part of his calling has dif- culty in understanding, the lack of general interest in it. He ha: pity, if not contempt, for the unin- itiate. So absorbd® in his pursyit’is he that he cannot understand the viewpoint of the outsider. Take, for instance, the medieal profession. For & time every latent disorder In the human body was directly traceable to bad teeth. Further disclosures led to the conclusion that many ilis were eqused by enlarged tonsils. At the moment the thyroid gland of every sick man is under suspicion. These great service which the medical fra- ternity is rendering to mankind. But the ordinary man has not time to in- vestigate and become convinced of the truth of each succeeding theory. He is apt to believe none of them or 1 as expressions of t thought. himselt ex- accept. them h The man who devote: clusively to a ily change his view lght comes to him. But adjustment to latest thought is not easy for the average man. He often hesitates to accept something new for fear it may not be trus. He hesitates, alto, be cause his experience has taught that it Is easter to accumulate knowledge than it 1s to get rid of It, just as it Is easier to acquire a habit than to dis pose of it. Scholars of English, pure and undefiled, will lapse into the use of impure language. The accumula- tion of the correct was not difficult for them, but it was a palimpsest, and every once in a while the original wiil show through. What is true of science and of language is true also of manners, morals and customs. But it is not true of responsibility. That 18 one thing that either an individual or soclety shifts easily. The lessons of selt-reliance are readily forgotten. * ® x % Frequently we ride a word until it becomes swaybacked, just like we ride & .hobby to death. Ever since we got into the war we have been using the word “profiteer” to condemn the man whose business methods did not suit us. Yet, no one has accurately defined a profiteer. If, by the word, we mean & man who is charging too much for what we purchase from him, then the only difficulty about convicting him would be to find an impartial jury In America. But the word is so indiscriminately applied that few escape its condemna. tion. The larger the salary of the pro- fessional uplifter, the more venomous is his attack upon those whom he calls profiteers. He overlooks the fact that those who serve the commonweal only in proportion to their compensation are properly under the ban of public dis. approval. What constitutes guilt in the matter of so-called profiteering? Who has sald that a man shall make only 6 or 7 per cent on his invest- ment? Who has dared since the war to fix any price beyond which it wag @eclared men might not g¢ in the ‘making of profl! Yet it was because the necepsities of the war authorized, if they did not compel, the government to fix profits that the word “‘profiteer” came to rest upon the lips of Ameri- cans. The government intervened In certain businesses, designated certain commodities and fixed prices beyond ‘which the individual ‘was not permitted to go. LR More than four-and-a-hailf years have elapsed, and the word “‘profiteer’* still re- malns as frisky as-ever. Men growl and say the government should do something about profiteerl; 1.do not at this time argue the question of governmental in- tervention: 1 concede what I belleve not to be true—namely, that in a free government, such as ours, constituted euthority ‘both can and should take charge of the private business of the citizen. Lot us be measurably honest With ourselves. So far T have found no person, whether business man, profes- slonal man or working man, whether on farm, In mill, mine-or office, who )lle not expressed bellef that Wwas being underpaid, either for his services, his products or his labor, in- sufficlently remunerated for hig activl- tles, whatever they were. That has led me to wonder where all this profiteering that we are talking about comes from. Yes, the average citizen has a hard luck story of profiteers, how they. have imposed upon him and taken from him such increased returns as he succeeded in getting. Orthodoxy has been said to be my doxy, and heterodoxy your doxy. May not the same principle be applied to profiteering? _Those who complain that the government has done noth- Ing have not stopped to consider what the result of governmental ac- tion might be upon their own affairs, I would not be understood denying that there are corporations and pe: sons {n Arherica who are charging exorbitant prices, prices which would result under the moral law in thelr conviction. But I contend that no Kovernment such as ours can fix the line between a fair return and ex- cessive profits, unless it fix. every man, every businews, trade, every profession. This would be a difficult thing to do. as difficult as to take over.all the business and resources of America, designa citizen's task and stipulate his com- pensation. Those who talk about the government stopping profiteering are unconsciously talking about co munism. They are talking about the other fellow while the other fellow at the same time is talking about them. It is human nature to wish regulation and restraint of some one else. * ok ok % We had no such troubles as thesé before the war. We had scoundrels and crooks, of course, and many went unwhipped of justice, but, neverthe- I we had a people who very large. 1y took care of themselves, If sugar was too high, we did not buy so much of it; if clothing was too high, we wore last year's suit; if buflding ma- terial was too high, we continued to live in the old house; if lawyers were too expengjve, we pleaded guilty; if tickets to uplift lectures cost too much, we stayed at home and read what the papers had to say about them. We had one universal panacea for much of the profiteering cf life, not then so deslgnated. We sald, * can’t afford it and straightway for- got that we ever desired it. Elimi- nating infants, insane persons and Indians, who go untaxed, most of us are gtting more than we deserve, and are being compelled to pay more than we ought to for everything we buy. But poor old Uncle Sam has about all the business that he can look after in meeting the {nterest on our dédt, And preserving our lives and/ property. It is up to us to exculpate our gov- ernment from responsibility for our condition. Each of us must deter- mine for himpelf what he can do without and not suffer, how ‘much less he can take and still live. (Copyrighted, 1923, 21st Century Press.) High Taxes and Hard Times Force Closing of Historic Burleigh House BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. - Although the Marquis of Exeter h: never been accounted a poor man, yet, 1ike other British peers of the realm, he has been so hard hit by the fright- fully heavy taxation, especially of land, resulting from the great war, that he has found himself compelled to close that magnificent country seat which Lord Tennyson describes in his celebrated poem, entitied “The Lord of Burleigh,” & poem inspired by the romantic marriage of the first Mar- quis of Exeter to & Shropshire peas: beautiful daughter, Sallle Hog- gins. This first Marquis of Exeter married while still plain Henry Cecll « woman of the name of Emmia Ver- non, helress of the Vernons of Han- bury, In Worcestershire. She eloped from him with a young clergyman, and fled with him to Lisbon. Henry Cecil, thereupon, secured a divorce from her, and, thoroughly embittered, took to traveling about the country on foot in the role of an artist and landscape painter, for the purpose of King diversion. In the course of these wanderings he sought refuge from a thunderstorm in & cottage in the outskirts of the iittle Shropshire village of Bolas. Finding the atmosphere congenial and the nelghboring landscape pictur- esque, he secured lodgings there from the owner of the cottage, a peasant of the name of Tom Hoggins, and, be- fore long, fell in love with his host's lovely daughter Sallfe. Eventually he married her in the village church of Bolas, where his name still figures the parish register ‘Henry Cecil.” From'thenceforth she accom- panied him on his artistic wander- ings, making, however, his headquar. ters at & cottage which he had rent- -lord high ti And then, entering, he leads her rom hall to hall. And while now she wanders blindly, Nor the meaning can divine, Proudly turns he round and kindly, “All of this is thine and mine. Here he lives in state and bounty, Lord of Burleigh, fair and fre Not a lord In all the county Is 80 great a lord as he. The union lasted six years, during which she bore him three children, and then she drooped away; that is to say, sank into a decline, “unable” to ‘support the burden of an honor to which she had not been born.” Four years later the Earl of Exeter, who had b in the meant! from 'his caridom o a ‘marduisate married the divorced wife of the elghth Duke of Hamilton. He was succeeded at his death by his eldest son, the offspring of his second and Peasant-born wife, the one-time Sal- lie Hoggins. The present Lord Exeter is her descendant and in- debted to her for his good looks, He is the fifth marquis and the -four- teenth Earl of Exeter, includes among his - many honors ‘ that of hereditary nd almoner to the crown, and Is descended from that William Cecil, first Lord Burleigh who ™ag secretary of state’to Bd- Elizabeth, Who “ale A to Who also appointe rehsurer of the ".dlmnlm * ok ® x This Lord Burleigh had two sons by his two marriages. His eldeat son, Thomas Cecil, was advanced by King James I shortly after his accession to the earldom of Exqter, whereas thd great Lord .Burleigh's -younger son, Robert Cecll, was created BEarl of Ballsbury by the same monaroh. While Lord Exeter inherited Burghley in Northamptonshire, his father's an- cestral home, isbury, the younger and te_son, - received use in He at Bolas, It was during one of |, t excursions with her that he happened to learn of the death of his uncle and of his own succession to the family honors and entailed estates as tenth Earl of Exeter. He did not at once Inform his wife of his altered condition. A woman of much natural refinement, but of only the most ele- mentary education, she had no ploton of the fact that her husband had beco: one of the wedlthiest peers of the realm and the head of the historic house of Cecll, the Mar- quis of Salisbury being merely the] chiet of & junior branch thersof. TR The way in which Heary Cell .ul- timately disclosed his name and title to -his wife is exquisitely told by aon, in: his poem. Still in the ’m’»‘& wmurr: rtist, he leads {n from_ mansion to mansion, and 5 ‘k to park, to inspect the L":"’ L ”o- “where. th “De man dat always has & Bible in | of i his hands” said Uncle Bber,."ts st ‘Tudor archite ruction, having been so marvelously built th:t the parqueted floors In the state apartments, which ‘were laid #h the of Queen Elizabeth, have never to_be Fenewed or n spite of the fact that the house has had uninterrupted occupation of the Ceclls of the Balisbury line ever since, Burghley House is crowded with priceless treasures, and the ' c 1 and the great hall are world-renown- ed. There is an ayenue in the park. full of trees many centurfes old, which already 300 years ago w: described by a- cotemporary writer to be the finest Iml “'twixt Lands End and John o' ata" The huge mansion. and the extensive grounds require an enormo of servant eto., numberin, ‘when the ¥ I8 In the house full of guests. quis, under present olrcumstances, can no longer afford to mainfain I on the heretofore customary scale of ificence. cannot “bear the t of selling it oF eve he | 184 - | Commeérce a & On both hi = sides he Capital Sidelights ‘BY WILL P. KENNEDY. . “Lest we forgetl’—what July 4 means in our history. July 4, 1776, the Declaration of In- dependence of the United States of Americs - was adopted by Congress: 1789, Congtess passed its first tarift bill, protective in principle, and it was signed by Washington: 1817, ground was broken for the Erle eanal; 1826, John Adams and Thomas Jefterson, both sigmers of the Dec- laration of Independence, and both ex-Presidents, died at about the same hour; commissioners appointed to al tend a congre representation of the Spanish-American republic at Panama: 1827, treaty of navigation, commerce, etc., and regulation of y consular powers between the United States, and Sweden-Norway; 1831, convention in settiement of ciaims for jndemnity concluded Dbetween the United States and France; 1840, sub- treasury bill passed and approve 845; joint resolution anneXing ‘Texas: 1848, war with Mexicg ended; 1361, Daniel Webster - delivered -oration at laying of corner stone by the Presi- Bm"oc'“’:o"u'c‘:fln:ed surrender _of roclamation Betweer Unueg’ Statea sad, Mexico e 1869, delegates of the repub! -convention ro‘ 1874, rail Ll road bridge anippl Louis opened; 1876, river at firat centensry American _independence; Partholdis status of “Liberty &2 lightening the World: presented 1o {he United States by France: , o union of unl:mhn'.‘d Conteder: oldiers at Gettysburg: e ial exposition Cincinnatl: Hawallan republic pr civil government sét up pines, with Maj. Gen. A. as governor: 1603, Pacific ca Pleted and President Rooseve! first_message to. Philippines President Wilson addrexsed 8e" centennial reunion at Gettysburg: 1518, President Wilson in speech | diplomatic corps &t hington's tomb, Mount Vernon, gave motice o e o e eiyoone wooden” and e; 1917, ninety- :':Io.el ships l%mnched in American shipyards. S Vice President Coolidge ‘was born n July 4, fifty-one years ago. 5 Secretary Work of the Interior ight tment was born on the n i Dt Mehe glorious Fourth,” SIXty three years ago. " * % * K rget the man who fon of Independ- China s Irish nat! Jet in Chica spanning ’ Mi R. Chaftee ble com- 1t sends And “let's not fo the Declarat! ::::.ponlhlo—iohn Morton of Penn- sylvania, born 200 years ago, who was 8 member of the colonfal gen- tral assembly for ten years and served the last four years as speak- er. He was a member of the first New American Congress, serving in York in 1765 and in Philadelphia in 1774. In the fateful session of 177 he cast the deciding vote for ihe Pennsylvania delegation on toe adoption of the Declaration of Inde- endence, which he later signed Boere ivas & tie until the vote of Pornsylvania was given. Two mem- bers of that delegation voted in the afirmative and two in the negative Morton “decided the promulgation o the glorious diploma of Ameriean freedom” and declared that act “the most_glorious ice, 1 have ever rendercd my country. * % ¥ ¥ Secretary “Jim” Davis of Labor is, on occasion, called the Beau Brum- mel of the Harding cabinet. By way of contrast Davis asks you to EO back some forty years with him and inspect the sult he wore when hé was eleven. The mill had shut down ahd his father had gobé. to Pitt burgh looking for work. Young Jim was scurrying around Sharon, Pa., up odd jobs, among which DICKInE iPe Ghe Dall for an auction. An organised charity had openeG up headquarters where clothl nf was aistributed to the needy. Jim plied. for a job as errand boy, but the gracious young woman (who h been a lifelong friend of his) ex- plained that it was a public charity and every ‘one worked free. Jim admired a blue se ‘:, suit, little worn, which would about fit nd asked the price. The voung n told him nothing was for sale and, wrapping up the suit, gave it to him. He raced home in glee. There his mothér gravely questioned where he got the clothes and next asked: “Did you work for them Hopping about in his Joy, Jim claimed, “No, everything 1is fre Whereupon his mother bade him take oft the sult. Blinded by tears, he went to his attic and obeyed. After a lite kindly lecture his mother ade him do what he now. two- Jears later, recalls as the bitterest sacrifice his heart has ever known— u J1 ringing the bell for the auction. unt built him & mosaic a mother an o it of olothes out of the ercontafter he “had explained how he had bought it for cash in open competition with the world. ‘he trousers were ill shaped and stopped half down his leg: There were too many seams and not in the right places, because it took no little ingenuity to make the plares come out right. ‘When he wore that suit to Sunday school the town bully tormented hi in & way that “left & scar on my soul. while all the world jeers Seven years later he bully & beating. * * kX During the graduation da: members of the cabinét and others conspicuous in public.life receiving honorary degrees from the variou collef and universities, the ques- tion arises: - Who, among our grea men, has received degrees from the most institutions of learning? Take Senator Henry Cabot leader of the majority in the States Senate, who is widely known an “the scholar in politics.” He is a Harvard graduate and has four de- grees from that Institution. has yecelved the degree of doctor of laws from Willlams. Amherst, Unlon and Dartmouth colleges, and from Clark, Harvard, Brown and Princeton t U e Herbert Hoover. Secretary’ of e Herber " o nd werld citisen. He got his A. B. from Stanford University, engineering. He has honorary d grees fro; Brown, Pennsylvania, farvard Yale, Columbis, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, George Washington. Dartmouth, Boston, Rutgers, A ibama, Oberlin, Liege, Brussels, Wi |raw, ' Cracow. Oxford. Rensselae Tufts, -Swarthmore, Willlams, Ma: { Lodge, United che ?. University of California and other institutions. PN Seriator Selden P. Spencer of Mis- rourl s a good illustration of what, under our Américan institutions, may be accomplished by & young man of pluck, energy and honorable purpose within a short time., Before coming to the Senate of the Uhited States he ‘was judge of the circuit court of the t metropolis of 8t. Louis. ternal and rom a long line n colonial and_revoll ‘While at.Yale he atern com: of an- cestry famous i P! nQf leas- n | Dangers of 3.1 IMPLE beauty, difficult to attatn, is still more difficplt to main. tain against those who forever are seeking to paint the lily. It is now planned to “decorate” the magnificent reflecting pool of the Lin. coln Memorlal with two electri¢ foun- taine, which by night will pour forth red and white and blue and golden streams of water. Lincoln, seated in the great chair 'of the memorial, will be compelled, night after night, to @aze out upon this scene of Coney Island splendor. b X 3 No more will the full moon reflect the glory of ‘the columned memorial in the placid waters of the pool, The 1 electric fountain will bid moon g hang. for what are the refiected nn‘ of the heaven compared to man- made shafts of light blown through painted glass? The whole conception of the Lin- ?Io':r; l:;morltll"haa been, up to thi h e o m| ARG the bject Ty b hably mrhigues: The memo for ink- o . . the suatus just as indelibly as it ;:l.:{on in the face of the flvlu Pres- The beauty of the memorial pile it- 1f has been greatly enhanced by the completion of- the reflecting pool. which stretches its half-mile of placid Waters out toward the Washington Monument. The pool adds to the me. morial simply because it reflecty the memor - Now it iy planned that all this shall be done away with by night; that instead of reflecting the memorial, the pe hall reflect the ralnbow colors of two gaudy electric fountains. To many perso: morial attains Its great. with the coming of t seems to catch and the light jof the stars on the darkest nights, and then, when the moon is full, o Wwaxing or waning, there is added luster to the monument. parently this simple grandeur -of nat is not enough. We must have electric fountains. The memorial by night attracts thousands of visitors, who go there to fill their eyes and their souls with this thifig of beéauty. * * ¥ % That, however, is not sufficient at- traction for the visitors. They are to be provided not with one electric fountain, but With two. Thoy may gather about the basin and have thelr view.of the memorial entirely blotted out by the blinding rainbow colors of the playing waters. The reflecting rool is to be a reflecting pool no onger. Instead of reflecting the great memorial, 1t will be a rival to it The memorial was erected with the idea of reflecting the life d char- acter of Lincoln. Just what part of his life or character would be repre- sented by the mechanical rainbows at 76 | night it is difficult to say. the fountaifis, upon!ing & big black ciga Ago in ‘Hear(l_a_l;d_ Seen 'ndoubtedly Fifty Years The Star One of the works making for the greater attractiveness of Washington undertaken Tree Planting and by the terri- torial gov- Park Development. ¢rnme %7 ntot | Of!and the various bronze groups But ap- |1 i BY ROBERT T. SMALL. which work already has comme: will be pretty affairs. It is annour@ed that each of the two fountains will throw & single vertical stream, and 135 jetw around the edge of the pool will throw converging streams toward the center. The work is under direc- tion of Lieut. Col. Sherrill, chief mili- tary aide to President Harding, and will be completed in the early autumn. Washington always has been deficlent in fountawns. It frequently has been suggested that memorials in_thi ¥ should take the nature of fountains rather than statues. ‘The fountains planned by Col. Sherrill would add to the city's beauty, But there is & fit- ting piace for everything. and it does not seem right that the placid waters of the pool reflecting the nature of Lincoln should be disturbed by play- ing fountains, They simply &re out of the pleture. ok ok The proposed embellishment of the Lincoln pool with the two fountains serves to recall an incldent at Rich- 'mond, Va., not 80 many y ago. A newly elected and somewhat zeslous state offictal decided, all by himself, that the famous equestrian statue of George Washington, in Capitol gures surrounding it, needed c ing and polishing very badly. He noticed that they were all black green from the ravages of time, he allowed that they would 1 much better if properly polished =o that they would glint and sparkle in the noonday sun. Whereupon he bought a large quantity of metal cleaning and polishing fluid and started to work. Fortunately this was one time when the:Father of His Countpy was not first. The workers started on one of the smaller figures. They had cleansed and polished & goodly portion of the bronse when & stroller in the park noticed what was golng on. He spread the story, and Within a few mini a crowd of a thousand or more persons had gati- ered in_angry protest at the sacri- Needless to say. the work was soon stopped, but not until some of the hotheads had called for & rope. * * % % The national golf championship held here last week for the players of the munfcipal linke of the country de- veloped some wondeffully clever golf on the part of the public course ama- teur: it alvo gave a new meaning to the height of nonchalance. Only the champlonship flight in the tour- nament played over the publio course in East Potomac Park. Three flights made up of players who failed to qualify in the first thirty-two played matches at the Columbia Country Club, where the national open cham- plonship was héld two years ago. It wi Columbis that the helght of nonchalance occurred. One of the public linksmen was observed In a streaming shower bath, Wit ne and- 00! h head held awkwardly to one side, smok- The old rhyme, “Mother, may I go out to swim?” took a mew turn one day last week In & big government department. In the familiar quatrain the moth- er tells daughter to hang her clothes on & hickory limb, but not to go near the water. The lady in the new case, however, the District fifty years ago was that{y o' 1o intention of going in swim- of developing the parkinge and ex- tending the planting of tre Star of June 24, 1873, says ming, exactly, nor did her clothes fig- The |yre in the event. It was her brand-new 3§5 umbrella 'Of -the many improvements {nagu- she was worried about. rated by the board of public works The rain was coming down in tor- none has been more attractive to the|,onts l1ate that afternoon. eye or more beneficial in a sanitary| sShe looked at her umbrella, then at point sof view than the s em Of|the rain, took another glance at her parking. The patches of grass in a|gk protector, then a second at the city are its lungs, and to the number downpour. The umbrella won. and extent oOf these parks is the health of Washington due. The gov- She turned to a messenger. “W1ll you please keep this umbrel- ernment reservations, yany of which|1a for me until tomorrow?" she said. were formerly but mere waste pieces Then, bareheaded, she plunged of ground, have now béen 4aid out in|gown the steps and out into the pour- minlature parks, in which, where the |ing rain. size would admit, fountains have been placed, and in all of which box, cedar {8nd other hardy shrubbery have b n planted. The labors of the parking commission who have gratultously alded the board in their efforts to im- * * % e has been carrying nails in his mouth for fifty years, but he hasn't swallowed one yet. Come to think of it, that s a real accomplishment. Meén have run en- prove and beautify the city have (g gy tor halt & century, maybe, with- been far greater than fs generally{,u; an accident, and done other things supposed, and the result in the rows for a similar length of time without of thriving, trees that 1 thou ine so many of our street: and the excellent condition of the|Wag&ed aroun be the | without ' swallowing one now and sodding '8 testimony to s yet small,| g iagtrophe, but perhaps few have d a mouth full of nalls of their work. . About|then: have already they consist t var! elms, ashes and lindens it i assume that but few will be ilnrad. notwithstanding the exce: ot wéather of our summer. healthful point of view the benefit derivable from the inters; these parks and the planting of thes trees cannot be estimated. If th dreaded cholera should pay this city & visit, we belleve, and it 1s so as- serted by physicians, that it could obtain no permanent foothold count of the free opportuniti aeration that the width of the stree x&g'(he number and extent of parks n incl- in * * % “We are in recelpt of at least a|saw suc| dozen different plans how to pre- on Postal Cards. 205! cards,” says The Star of June 26, ‘1873, “Some of th are very elaborate and complicated systems of writing in oipher. By others it is' proposed to write with invisidle or sympathetic ink, which develops the writing only by expos- ure to heat or to some kinds of chemical vapor. Another suggestion s the use of skimmed milk instead of ink, which is invisible until held beforée a sttong heat, when a pale yellowish Wi 16 develobed. Tet another plan is to write 6h paper transfer the im| lon re kWi L. & CAr read by holding it before & mirror, which restores » manu- soript to its natural position. “Now, these pians are all well enough in the way of éxercising In. genuity, but as the only mattér at insue is that of saving a couple of Wi ing All you had do was to catch the flea, pinch it between the thumb and finger un- til it opened 'its mouth, then drop 1ttle of the powder down the n}t of the insect, and in the jourse ‘of & few hours it would sicken and dle. 'The projects for using postal ocards for sending con- Adential messages are About ak tedious An?‘ nvolved as tho quack récipe for flunt.n‘n * % v Efforts to make the Fourth of July |3 less deadly and dangerous in its form | oentury ago, aithough ' they @i not effect s later. ties of maples, [it. He has to. The way this !:?l“ 0 (lar man man: for | tomers for fifty ¥! It i Of course, a carpenter géts used to particu- es it is to confine his conversation, when he has a mouth In_a|tull of nalls, to grunts. Some day he may attempt td talk. persing of | then he will make up for lost time, : maybe. * * % There is another man in a downe town hotel who has been serving cus- rs. “Yet I never served such a fine crowd of men as: were here during Shrine week,” he satd. “I have been through all the conventions, but never group. uNdt aSbwear word, not a drunkes man,” he continued. ‘It was tribute from one who knews mankind, both from life and from the printel page. * o % Mother was glving her six-months- old a drink of water {rom a cup. The little pne has 1ips likewp rose- bud. Some babies are that way. Little Ruth, three and a hal? years old, was an interested spectator. Sho looked on with undivided Interest, but sald not & word. Later, they missed her. Out in the garden they found her, tipping up a cup of water to a tiny rosebud. - “Little wose, CHARLES E. TgCIWELL. dAwink?” she said. in The Star of June 28, 187 tolléwing: s ho'l‘ouflh of July is approach ing and already ti etonation of firecracker is h While no one is d the peculiar prerogatives of patriotic youngsters and all are willing that they should indulge in pyrotechnici 1o the top of thelf bent and keep t dny. in & roar and the night in & .a¥e, common prudence requl that their manner of celebrat you want & the streets. isposed to abridge and 1imb are invariably mixed up with the celebration of the day, and many & poor fellow' today carries about with him a scarred face or = crippled arm or leg as an unpleasant memento of the anniversary of the nation’s fresdom. Parehts ould look. to It that, while not materially interfering with the enjoyment of they do not allow them to eopardize either their home or the safety of others. If they will do thi the pleasure of the olimlon will be of celebration were {ma in evidencs half | w ra. tion pf tM{f‘aunh under the direc- tion of the fire department, in antigi- pation of confiagrations on that day.