Evening Star Newspaper, July 8, 1923, Page 36

THE EVENING STAR, With Sundsy Morning Edition, WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY...........July 8, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor fl: Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th 8t. ivania Ave. New York Office: ~ 11¢ 8t. Chicago Office: Tower Buildiag. European Office: 16 Regeat 8t., London, The Evening Star. with the Sunday morning oa, 1 deljvered by carriers within the city at 60 ceats per month; dally oaly, 4 onte "tont iy mail or ‘teiephoue” Maln rs at the r y be sent by cam Collection eud of each mont] Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday. .1 yr., $8.40; 1 mo., 70¢ Daily only 21 yr., $6.00: 1 mo., 50c Sunday only. 1yr., $2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1y: Dally only 1y Sunday only. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entiti to the use for republication of all news d! patches credited to it or not otherwise credit in this paper and also the local news pub lished ~herein. 1t rights of publication of lierein_are also_remerved. High Pressure and Insurance. The fact develops that there is no basig for the suggestion that the fire underwriters of the District have de- clined to forecast any reduction of rates here In case the proposed high- pressure service for firefighting Is tn- stalled. It was announcéd the other day that failure to obtain such assur- ance was one of the reasons why the ater department of the District de- clined to recommend an estimate for installation of the high-pressure sys- tem for inclusion in the Districts budget for the coming fiscal year. Now it appears.that, on the contrary, there is a ong disposition on the part of the rating board of the District under- writers to recognize the fuller protec- tion which a high-pressure system would insure in terms of lower rates. As a matter of fact it seems that a fear prevails at the District building lest it would be impolitic to ask Con- gress for an adequate fire department appropriation to cover all the needs of that important branch of the mu- nicipal The fire department needs more motors and more équip- ment generally. It also undoubtedly needs more water with which to fight fires. The District could be given a most perfect outfit of movable pumps, technically known as fire engines, and yet be subject to the danger of a great conflagration through lack of sufficient water to quench a big fire. The point of most importance in this connection is that the District is now using' for fire cxtinguishment water from the reservoirs and filter plant, a supply which Is barely adequate to meet the daily neceds of the commu- nity for drinking and bathing. If a great fire should start in the down- town section requiring the services of the whole department—a contingency which, of course, it is prayed will never occur—there would not be wa- ter enough to flight it. And while it was in progress the drain upon the eity mains would be so great that the District would be practically deprived of water for other uses for hours, Rezardless of the insurance rates, and regardless also of the need of equipment, the first consideration should be to provide a system whereby the District can fight any fire in the closely built area with water drawn from the river and not from the reser- volrs, water without stint, and without depleting the supply for other uses. A city that depends upon its drink- ing water supply for firefighting runs a very grave risk. Washington has run that risk for many years, and during the greater part of the time there has been Larely enough water to meet the ordinary demands of the people. Now that it is stated on good au- thority that in all likelihood the insur- service. ance rates will fall If the high-pres- | sure system is installed the only con- ceivable excuse—and that not par- ticularly convincing—for delay in ask- ing Congress for the necessary funds for this installation disappears. The Commissioners should recommend an appropriation for beginning this long- postponed, and consequently now since the prohibition act went into ef- fect. Reputable physicidnk are not involved in this traffic, but there are some who ‘have unquestionably writ- ten prescriptions without any regard whatever for medicinal needs. If the Montana decisionl is sustained by the Supreme Court the way will be open: for a large practice in liquor prescrip- tions by all physicians, UntiF the Supreme Court has passed upon this matter it is idle to speculate upon ways and means to prevent & breakdown of the law through the use of prescriptions. That court may take a different view. Until it does se, if it should, the law will stand, at least in this jurisdiction, and physicians will be iunder the requirement to account for every liquor prescription blank is- sued to them by the internal revenue agents, Alaska. President Harding's trip to Alaska is notable as the first time a Chief Executive of this country has ever visited that distant possession of the United States. Though it was acquired sixty years ego, Alaska has been iso- lated as far as direct executive super- vislon is concerned until now. Presi- dential interest has been expressed through' governors, who have, of course, kept the White House closely informed of conditions. But-for vari- ous reasons the Presidents have never visited the northland territory. The trip is & long one, and until recent years it has beon a hard one. In times past a journey to Alaska was looked upon as almost equivalent to a trip to the polar reglons, full of peril and privation. But now it is @ pleas- ant excursion. Commodious, comforta- ble and rapld steamers ply the waters of the coast. Excellent accommoda- tions have been provided in Alaska. In the summer the climate is delightful. Now a raflroad has been bullt through the country, and one of the incidents of the President’s trip will be the driv- Ing of a golden spike completing this important construction. It seems only & yesterday of history when the news came down the coast that rich gold deposits had been dis- covered in Alaska, and a great rush began in that direction. Thousands of men, and even some women, hurried overland from all parts of this coun- try to embark for the Yukon—which is not American territory—and other Alaskan gold fields. They taxed the steamers to the limit. They went with inadequate provisions and insufficient means. Many of them fell by the way- side, checked before they reached the salling point. Others were halted at the Alaskan coast. Many of them fell on the terrible trail across the White Horse pass and other painful passages in the long tramp into the gold fleld. This eplc movement of the gold- seekers, though it brought sorrow and suffering and loss and death to meny, was the making of Alaska. Previously the country had been chiefly notable tor its fisheries. Now it became a treasure house. Immense wealth was taken from it, but more wealth lay within reach, awaiting only discovery and development—wealth of another kind, coal and timber, and even egri- cultural products. The: gold rush brought these resources to light, and “Seward's Folly.” as Alaska was known In the days of its American purchase. appeared as one of the rich- est Investments any country ever made in the way of territorial acquisi- tion, Now the President of the United States is going for the first time to see this rich land, this region of long winters and short summers, this store- house of wealth, this land of opportu* nity which under the American flag has prospered and is now annually turning back to the parent country more than was paid for its purchase. ————— Like the journey to Canterbury de- iscribed by Chaucer, the presidential pligrimage to Alaska has been dis- tinguished by much conversational enlivenment en route. In the modern instance, as in the old one, the jour- ney may have mnore interest in @ per- manent way than the actual arrival at the destination. ——— Every four years the suggestion that Senator Underwood would make more expensive, work regardless of the cost, and regardless also of the possible effect upon the cost of insur- ance. For what Washington should have is protection from loss through abundant firefighting water supply, whatever it' pays for protection in terms of insurance after loss. —————— Extraordinary efforts arc necessary in New York state to secure brick- layers to build schoolhouses. As so- clety is now organizing the trowel is mightier than the scepter. ——— The most eloquent testimony of the Buropean esteem in which America is held is given by the immigration lists at Ellis Island. Liguor by Prescription. Decision by a federal court in Mon- tana that the provision in the Vol. stead act limiting the number of phy- siciana’ prescriptions of liquor and the quantity so prescribed is contrary to the Constitution, and therefore invalid, necessitates the earliest possible rul- ing by the Supreme Court upon this question for final determination. This matter, like that involving the ship liquor cases, must have a definite de. cision by the highest court. Judge Bourquin rules that the statute in providing that only a cer- tain number of prescriptions, and for « maximum quantity of liquor, may be written by a physician in the course of a given period is contrary to the Constitution for the, reason that as patients are not alike, and as diseases are dissimilar, the dosage cannot be arbitrarily fixed. This ruling is similar to that of Federal Judge Knox of New York, who, early in May, granted an order restraining prohibition authori- ties from interfering with the practice of a physician as to the amount of liquor that might be prescribed for one person. The Montana decision. how- ever, goes further in its conclusion, and, if it is sustained by the higher court, wholly nullifies the provision of the statute with'respect to prescrip- tion liquor. It is @ known fact that a lively trade has:been conducted in ‘the sale of physicians’ -prescriptions for > liquos- i & good democratic presidential candi- date is placed before the public. It is, however, managed with a discretion that prevents him from being classi. fled as one of the perpetual candidates for whom the national democracy is famous. ——————— Friends of Gov, Smith proceed on the theory that a nation’s alleged thirst may be brought forward as a paramount campaign issue. ———— The dove of peace is having a hard time trying to be as conspicuous as the war planes hatching in various | parts of the world. The Recorder’s Office. . Suit was filed yesterday in the Municipal Court to evict the recorder of deeds from the building occupied by his office. The lease.for this building, it appears, expired on the last day of the fiscal year, and the owners want possession. No provision had been made in anticipation of the end of the | lease for securing other quarters. The ‘governrnont has no power to com- mandeer rented quarters in time of peace, and it is difficult to see how the owners can be denied ultimate pos. sesslon. The case is a peculiar one. The re- corder of deeds does not want to stay where he is, and the ownera of the bullding do not want him there, but the office cannot be moved in a hurry. It fs the repository of priceleas records involving title to real estate in the District of Columbia. The loss of these records would be irreparable, and would put in jeopardy millions of dollars’ worth of property. THey can. not be carted around the streets like furniture or stowed away In insecure quarters. - For a long time efforts have been made to secure an appropriation from Congress for a suitable permanent home for this office, without result. Authorization has been given for the preparation of plans, but that is as far as the matter has gone. No site has been provided and no -funds have been voted for the construction. 2 - Presumably, if the court orders evie. tion, and it is upheld on appeal, if an. appeal is possible, the recorder must move out. But where? In a hole in the wall somewhere? In ome of the “temporary”’’ war wnm?nr P This matter may -be delayed long enough to enable Congress-to act, ‘which it is to be hoped it will promptly on reconvening fn December. There should be no doubt now of & sufficient appropriation for a proper building for this office, in e central location, and with facllities for the safekeeping of these priceless files... * ————ee—e “Telegraphoto.” New York newspapers are having a lively shindy over a certain fllustra- tion that appeared in one of them the other day labeled a “telegraphoto” of a scene in the fistic encounter at Shelby, Mont., that whatever its suc- cess as a sporting event, was such a financial fizzle. Immediately on its ap- pearance skeptics analyzed it, and pointed out with significant parallels a striking resemblance to & photograph of a scene *in the Dempsey-Willard fight at Toledo In 1919, Certain slight differences were explained, but re- semblances were such as ‘to lead dl- rectly to the conclusion that the pic- ture, which the title indicated had been transmitted by wire, by some un- explained’ new process of instantaneous reproduction, was, in fact, the product of a camera of four years ago and the artist's brush of today. Now comes the enterprising printer of the “tele- graphoto” and explains—or insists, rather—that there was no attempt to deceive,” that' the picture was not printed as a product of & new art of instantaneous transmission, but was drawn in New York on ax old back- ground at the telegraphic dictation of expert descriptive writers at the ring- side at Shelby. According to the ex- planation great expense was incurred in the sending of vivid and detailed de- scriptions of the exact positions of the two fighters. But a study of the two pictures, that of 1919 and that sup- posed to be of today, would suggest that this was a wanton waste of tele- graphic tolls. Taken altogether, it would seem that miore care should be taken in the coining of words to describe a new and complicated process of “long-dis- tance {llustrating.” . Complications arising from simi- larity of a prize picture to a pre- viously recognized art work has led to the prohability that no award will be made to anybody. The easlest way to settle @ prize competition is a decision to the effect that to avold controversy there will be no prize. ———— Marshal Pllsudski and War Minis. ter Szeptycki fought a duel which should have the admiring attention of those interested in peace promotion. Nobody was hurt, and yet the duel had all the thrill and notorjety of an ac- tual fight. ————— During any Rubhr debate between France and England, Germany will be expected to observe the rules of the international gallery and neither hiss nor applaud. ——————— Every summer brings a “spell weathe mind of the farmer away from politics and finance. of True Picture of American ‘Life Given by Newspapers BY THOMAS R. MARSHALL, I readily recall that archaic time when saint and sjnner school boys in the proc of ‘education were compelled to submit to religious . pincers on Sunday. So strict was the rule of church attendance that each student was compelled to ans. wer upon his honor_at roll call Monday morning wheéther he had attended services the day before. If the delinquent avoided roll call, some fellow of his was expected to answer for him and give the rea- son for non-attendance at church. On one occasion, a boy had died on 8aturday. At Monday's roll call, answers tp which had to be made in Latin, the dead boy's name in- advertently was called. A com rade nswered, “Mortuus’ est. . Promptly .an old professor ‘spoke up. “Ration non sufficit.” Not even death was a good reason for fail ure to attend divine service. It was irksome task, this compulsory religion, while it was belng accom- ° plished,” yet out of it we learned much. Such philosophy as I pos- sess I trace to it. . 1 shall not soon forget seven long sermons delivered upon seven suc- cessive hot Sundays by my old Greek professor-to prove that the “Ek-tou -ponerou” of the Lord's prayer had been incorrectly trans- lated into the ples, “Dellver us from evil”" when it should have been, “Dellver us from the evil one’” Not for a long time did 1 .grasp the full significance of all this, but it made me in the end & confirmed optimist. The world, its polities, its business and Soclety are filled full of things that do not sult us, but they are there to be grappled outright: and they are belng met and overcome with either_a consclous or unconsclous purpose, and always—slowly, al- most imperceptibly, perhaps, yet surely—humankind '1s tolling ‘up the mountainsides of civilization to & broader ¥iew and a clearer light. Value of Press. Throughout the years the press, generally speuking, has been the agency of progress and of right- eousness. The voice of the editor usually is the volce of the en- lightened and right-minded people of the community, yet many per- soris continue pessimistically to inquire ‘whether the power of the press, now universally recognized in American life, is a power for good or ill. We form a ltking for a favorite newspaper and are apt to be critical of all others. The average public officigl 1s prone to conceive us a great moral agercy that newspaper which commends him to his fellow citizens as & man whose life is worthy of emulation and whose views and condyct work for gocd. We have been slow to reslize that the right of one editor to praise is the right of another to criticize and eondemn. The fauit is not in newspaperdom. dear reader, but in ourselves. Mindful that falthful are the wounds of u friend. we should realize that valuable are the sword thrusts of a dissenter. In_the administration of justice we Dbpld it essential for the court to hear both sides before render- ing u decision. We would not tol- erate a court that refused to hear all'witnesses, taking into account, of course, thelr intereats, blas and prejudices. But when we, our- selves, are the ultimate judges of newspaper facts and conduct, we - pick our witnesses and refuse to | * deplored in view of the near those of the other side. This is important and greatly to be act that Ereat decisions in America not, thot handed’ down in litigation, _but_rather those of the court of public opinfon, in which we try our poljtical, economic and soclal causes. This may be a narrow view on my part, coming as it does from a heart grateful to the newspapers of the United States. 1 _might pull down my window blind and classify them as good, bad and- indifferent, but If inter- rogated 1 should be compelled to say that most newspapers, when- ever now and then they have pald uny attention to me, have been more than kind. Even those edi- tors who have felt it incumbent upon them to criticize have been charitable enough not to turn the knife around after sticking it in me. Speaks of Address. I am led to make these observa- tions by the splendid address of Mr. G. A. Lyon of the Washington Evening Star before the class in Journslism of George Washington University. He discuased editorial writing, seeking to impress upon the budding newspaper men- and women the newspaper viewpoint; and well he performed his task, re- * flecting in his views the views of other great editors, past and pres- ent.” His was a viewpoint which not only students of journalism, but the newspaper-reading public, could well adopt in good faith. The news columns of the eity daily are moving pictures of the, activities. prejudices, passions, ,hopes and fears of the Ameérican people. The camera is constantly being turned by the reporter upon an endless throng of individuals and causes. One man may be pic- tured by a front view, another by a side view, and still another hy a back view, but, by and large, the newspapers give the man seeking to know aml honestly striving to learn a perfect vision. Out of the composite pictures comes a nearly perfect likeness. Any really great newspaper knows that distortion of & man or of a cause by inten- tionally setting the camera at an angle wiil work no permanent in- Jury. Tt well knows that the best way either to promote or to im- pede is to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth But I pass from the collection and dissemination of news to the work of an editor, which Mr. Lyon de- scribed as interpretative and ar- gumentative. T interpose that T have no objection to any cause Laving an organ and an editor. Nelther organ nor editor can de- stroy the influence of & right-pur- posed man or long impede the progress of an honest cause. The great war disclosed the com- mon_ fallacy that newspapers are wholly selfish. ~All other influences which sought to coalesce American thought were negligible in com- parison with the service and sac- rifice of ‘the great newspapers, which set their hearts and hands to the task, regardless of poiitics and everything else. And more than any one agency in American life today they are striving o pre- sent and interpret to the American people the complex problems which Confront them.s - Out of this pres- entation and _interprejation by editors a people that keeps its head cool and its feet dry may hope to walk steadily toward the point where each individual can reach a just conclusion as to what is best to be done (Copyrighted, 1923, 21st Century Press.) | Historic Sackville Art Collection that momentarily takes the { “Being ‘Sold in London at Auction France is trying to develop as near- | BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. niture of the best periods of the Iy as possible a policy of impassive insistence. ——— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Can't Be Done. “There are some things that cen't be don Said Hezekiah Bings. “Though steadfast purpose oft won Rewards befitting kings— But if you seek this world to make A play-toy all your own— You'll ind your dreaming & mistake And have to play alone. has “If you your fellow man despise, And seek to mold his ways To yield you worship as a wise Monopolist of praise, Youll find that the result, oh, son, Deep disappointment brings. There are some things that can't be done,™ Said Hezekiah Bings. Unconvincing Object Lesson. “You ere encouraging your boy Josh to leave home?” “Yep,” replied Farmer Corntossel. “I reckon that 'ud be fur the best.” ‘Can’t you persuade him to work' No. 1 do my best to persuade him that hard work and economy is the makin' of a young man. Then he jes' looks me an’ the mortgage over an’ then looks at me in @ way that makes ime feel like I wasn't nothin’ in his eyes but & bad example.” Oversight By Christopher. “1 can’t get any appropriation for my voyages,” complained Christopher Columbus. “You're going ebout it in the wrong way,” confided the accomplished cour. tier. “Intimate that you will start with @ trial trip and a pleasant time ‘will be had by all. Feminine Oratory. “How did your son and his wife happen to quarrel?” “He was & trifle inconsiderate,” re. | plted Mr. Meekton. “Sie had real talent for politics. But he would keep reminding her of the kind of speech his mother used to make.” Peace. ‘We must have Peace, and yet it starts The symptoms of a row, ‘When each arises and imparts Opinjons g8 to how. A lot of people,” maid Uncle Bill Bottletop, “who are now demanding light wines and beer wouldn't notice them when. they were handy.” . ! . A man has reduced his haurs of, work until all he has to do is to wind the clock once a week, and every once in a while he forgeta that. ““When you sees whut happens to & man foh gittin’ smart,” ssid Uncle Eben, “you oan't help wonderin') whether it ain’ smarter foh & men not 0 be a0 amart” . o Lord Sackville has no male issue, and his only child, Victoria. a clever novellst, now married to the Hon. Harold Nicolson, a younger son of Lord Carnock. ts by reason of her! sex excluded from the succession to | her father's peerage and entailed | estates, which include the magnificent old country seat of Knole Park, at Seyen Oaks, in Kent. These entailed estates, which are of considerable value, go to Lord Sackville's soldier ! Lrother, Maj. Gen. the Hon. Sir Charles Sackville-West. military at- tache of the British embassy in Paris, | and who during the greater part of the war acted as British military representative on the allied war council in France. * ok x % When the late Sir John Murray- Scott died some twelve or fourteen years ago, it was found that the colossal fortune which he had in- herited from his employers, Sir Rich- ard and Lady Wallace, had been be- Queathed by him, not to his own brothers and sisters and other rela- | tives, nor yet to the grandchildren of Sir Richard and Lady Wallace. but to Lady Sackville, for whom he had contracted a sort.of romantic friendship, becoming, as shown by the legal proceedings in connection with | the contest of his will, completely | subject to her influence. The money amounted to many millions of dollars, much landed property in England, | Scotland, Ireland and France and an | accumulation of wonderful art treas- ures. it had always been expected that| the art treasures, of which there | were an enormous quantity, alike in | England and France, would, in ac-| cordance with the Intentions of Sir| Richard and Lady Wallace, go in thelr entirety to swell, the valyable collection of ‘art treasures presented | by Sir Richard and Lady Wallace to! the nation, and which are on public view at the state-owned Wallace Mu- seum in Manchester Square. But the main art treasures of which Sir James Murray-Scott had retained possession in England. and more especially in France, were left by him to Lady Sackville, and they found & home in Knole Park, a tremendously spacious country seat, or rather palace, dating. from Tudor times, and the scene o much English history in former cen- turles. s * ok k¥ It has now, however, dawned upon Lady Sackville that neither she nor her husband is any lomger in the first ‘bloom of youth,-and that when Lord Backville, who fs tn poor health, dies, his . widow and his married daughter. will be obliged to desert thelr Kentish home and to surrender the pessession of Knole tc Gen. Sir Charl Sgekville-West, , who is & widower, and. who will then .become fourth Lord Sackville. That will in volve the removal of all the h‘)onf s. of the present Lady Sackville, the enormous collection of art treasures which she inherited me' her admirer, the late Sir John Mur- ruy&oc ‘to some other place. Even! with all the old country seats that are | in the market, it would be difficuit to, find one that would lend itsélf to the | housing of Her art colfections.. And as determined to sell them by | i | auction. The . sale is now in progréss, and is, llkely fo continue during the remtln-‘ der Of the present month. -~ . i 1t includes a diamond neoklace of forty-two' large stones 'which be- longed to Queen Catherine Parr, one of the Nalf dozen consorts of tha bluebeard monarch, Henry VIIL; ln‘llg of Gainsborough "and Sir ,fllhllll nyno‘l’:ll m;.‘;lfl:;n! ‘(’}olzelr; ‘tapestries and, in , the bul b e lous contents. of Sir Rich- PR Bokioen ;. ou cab- { dear departed friend or re seventeenth and eighteenth cen- turies, a ‘series of old French bronze vases, modelled by Claude Balin, goldsmith to King Llouis XIV; a number of Louis XV _clocks, dozens of Buhl cabinets, etc. In fact, it is long klnce so marvelous a coilection of foreign and English art -has come into the London market. * % % % It is only fair to add that the Queen Catherine Parr diamond neck- lace. composed of the finest Golconda stones, are not ' in their original Tudor setting. The necklace, in some way or other, came into the posses- glon 6f George Selwyn in the latter part of the eighteenth century and he had it entirely reset for Maria Fagniani, who, according to some, was his natural daughter—according to others. merely his ward, and who became the Marchioness of Hertford and in that way the mother of Sir Richard Wallace. She was renown- ed for the number of her “fathers” for she inherited a fortune from her mother's husband. the Italian Ma quis Fagniani, who owned great e: tates in Italy and Sicily; she inheri ed another fortune from George Sel- wyn, who in his will referred to her as his “daughter,” while the so-called ‘wicked” old Duke of Queensberry, who figures only in history by rea- son of his shocking d shameless depravities and great wealth, left her $3.000,000, as w houses, coun! laces and T of one kind -t gt and nother, also tal Sidelights BY WILL P. KENNEDY. The boys and girls throughout the country who have been Interested in the athletic badge tests announced by John J. Tigert, United States com- missloner ‘of education, as a simple means of stidying the physical achievement of young America in the schools, must know that these tests are proposed for them by an official who was himself an athlete of inter- national achievement. Dr. Tigert stood out in athletic prowess at all the schools he at- tended—at the unique secondary school in Bellbuckle, Tenn. founded by “0ld Sawney.” United States Sena- tor W. R, Webb; -at Vanderbilt versity, where he captafned cham- plonship teams, and at Oxford Univer sity, where he was the first Cecll Rhodes scholarship holder from Ten- nessee. John J. Tigert made an enviable reputation in athletics as well as in scholarship at Oxford and while he spent three years in travel and study all over Europe. His success at Oxford brought him by cable the offer of a position to be- gin_ work . as full ~ professor of philosophy at Central College, Mis- sourl, and two years afterward he was college president. In his work as an educator at Central College, as presi- dent.of Kentucky Wesleyan College and as professor of philosophy in the University, of Kentucky ~for many years, Dr. Tigent always argued for the all-round development of Ameri- can youth—for physical fitness as well as mental fitness. During the war He did much to bulld up the morale of the American expedition- ary force through persanal service in directing athletic activities. He first went gverseas as a Y. M. C. A. worke and later entered the Army Educu- tlonal Corps, serving as lecturer in the American Expeditionary Force Unlversity at Beaune, France. With this background of personal achievement and long-time advocacy of physical fitness equally with men- tul development, Dr. Tigert is grati- fied that “since the war. schools throughout the nation e very rapldly added physical education as a fundamental part of the training of youth. In addition to the value of this program in the promotion health, it has tremendous possibilities In the development Of sound moral character and good citizenship,” he says, recalling particularly the morale of the American Army overseas. *x k% The other side of a congressman’s life—the individual side as he lives it back home—{s glimpsed in a letter trom “Dick” Elliott. who is rusticat- ing at Connersville, Ind. “Out our way a fellow does not amount to much in the eyes of the people unless he is a good provider of food for his family."” Representa- tive Elliott writes. “So I went out on the farm and planted a good gar- den, and now we have an abundance of garden sass of all kinds, plenty of hog meat in the cellar and a reason- able amount of everything eise that tends to make life worth living. You can get as much exercise off the end of a hoe handle as.you can off a golf club, but you do not get quite as much newspaper notoriety remarks Representative Elliott, who happens to be one of the foundes of the new Congressional Country Club at the capital Commenting _on his summer: duties as congressman. Representative Elli- ott points out that he had four or five post office appointments and six or seven vacancies on rural routes to fill. “which have been very interesting and have attracted quite a large num- ber of constituents to my home. thus Ruaranteeing me plenty of company at all times.” He has rounded out his lefsure by making speeches at churches, Sunday school classes, granges, farmers’ fed- erations, bankers' assoclations, Ro- tary, Kiwani® and Lion clubs dnd soldiers’ organizations. * x x % For the benefit of those cross- visioned ones who see in Uncle Sam's service only desk-chained clerks whose spirit and ambition is broken by government routine, Secretary Wallace of the Department of Agri- culture, who is noy on his way to Alaska with the President to per- sonally inspect the work of the hardy agricultural ploneers and prospectors for this government, points out that there {8 romance and daring of wide variety in the daily life of many gov- ernment employes. I his own department, calls attention to the bug hunters sent into the dank and murky badlands of the world to study In their native habitat pests that menace crops. trees, aui- mals, etc., in this country. He points to the daring of agricultural explor- ers who go into the outlands of the world to find new plant life that might enrich our life in this country. And, nearer home, he gives a par- ticular illustration, citing Charley Miller, a co-operative hunter under the biological survey, engaged in redatory animal control work, as aving performed a feat in bringing in the famous White river lion In the Arizona district, which outthrilled the movies. G This lion, which was thought to be o jaguar because of the size of its track. was reported by cowmen who had suffered extensively through its depredations. Miller put a pack of wire-halred terriers on the trail of this lion, which had always previously been hunted by hounds. The lion Capi s & number of | took to the cliffs and tried to whip the dogs qut as ne had whipped several previously packs of hounds. designating her in his will ‘as his|The little terriers pursued him to his “daughte: Perhaps it was on account of this peculiar parentage that the Fagniani Marchioness of Hertford did not make a good wife. marrying the fourth marqui ghe virtually separates took up her abode in Paris. was there during the first decadé the nineteenth century, when poleon I, on A few years after | of the openi She | the largest ever killed in of|and had been en. Miller had his companion in th hunt lower him by a rope over the face of the clifff Dangling in front Ing to the den, Miller shot in 1800, | the lion, then dragged hi; from him and | was hauled to l:lfe'l)", o o s ‘This' lion was the state very live stock in the neighborhood of the proclaiming war against | White and Black rivers. England, went to the length of de- | s taining in France in quasi-captivity all the English who happened to be in the country at the time. During the three years that this captivity | when th lasted and during which Lady Hert- ford was entirely cut oft from all in- inh: with England, where her {xn‘d “l'.lb tercou husband had remained. she gave birth to a son of whom Marshal Junot, Duc d'Abrant Was father, and who was known in after life as Lord Henry Seymour. * ok kK * The third Lord Hertford never took | ¢ any steps to repudiate the paternity of Lord Henry Seymour, who died unmarried. But there is no doubdt a number of ambulances for service | in the defense of Paris, and then e slege was raised he Import- ed vast supplles of food for the starv- ants, to whom he distrib- tis. For these services vernment bestowed up- rd Wallace the. com- the ncl on Sir Ricl the | mandership of the Legion of Honor, while Great Britain conferred upon Nim, at the instance of the then Prince of Wales, afterward Edward VII, the knighthood of the Order of he’ Bath.- He was subjected, how- ever, to a good deal of social preju- dice’in England, not only by redson of the hostiHty of the Seymour fam- ily, who remented his inheritance of that if he had survived the father |ail the unentailed riches of the fourth and his elder brother, his succession Marquls of Hertford. but also be- to the marquisite and to the entalled | catise it was found that Lady Wal- ‘would have years later s of Hertford, arated from dent in Paris, gave birth there to a- third son, of whom she never: definitely admitted h be the mother. S| it would be preposterous to attempt to father the boy on flndtho hrl;fofllc‘fl u and, accordingly, gave of Richard Wallace, her’ until ‘her “death as “a’ sort of adopted child, the oftapring of some a4 he_was devoted in his attentions to er. 3 . * % x % r husband and | elder brother. been | lace, the mother of his grown up son, the { had only been married to him after the death of his mother and of his A quarrel took place between Sir Richard and ‘Lady 1 lace and their only son, a gallant 1f to | captain of French currasseurs of the e realized that'| Franco-Ge have been fostered by their private husband, or | pecretary, John Murray-Scott, the son of ‘Seymour, ::"' m the name’ 4 e lived with | that the, heir former physician. ‘when they died, it was foun had cut off the children -o! r only son—who had predeceased ik them—with a mere pittarice, and had Cve. and|left the whole.of their fortune o John M -Scott, who, subsequent- Ty By means of lavish Eifts to Bng- iish charities. received royal recogni- tion In the shape of a baronetcy, now Richard Wallace ~earned popular | extinct. gympathy and good will in England |, That is the origin of the collection and In France by his well nigl boundless philanthropy during the|has German siege of Paris and Commiune | and insurrection, throughout the whole o f apt treasures, which Lady Sack- -formerty - of Wasnington, laced upon the London market, ¢ it Includes so many treasures possessed of royal associations, - it must be recalled that the mother of ville, of which he’‘fed crowds, and cared | the third u;m;u- of Hertford, name- for’at his own cxpensé the entire|]y the wii Englisht destitute population of the Prenoh metropolis, besides ‘organis-| gavorites ing aad equipping, regardiess of cost,d ae king. the second marquis, the most ' powerful, the most ih‘z st ‘n ding of the H of ore .'l.l n‘!n_t and was evil of | destructive to! At any’ D. C..| BY ROBERT T. SMALL. T el : . iatrocities were at lcast two years, oF the claimy und counter-{ 3% to ng' hesitancy i expldfting claims respecting the amount | the erimes anew every weon or ne of damage done to the Le- | Whether tho dread tales were troe viathan while shie was stiil [I8-10t for the writer to and i 2 " |was indisputably true that iittle the Vaterland, interped at Hoboken, | 15 word or" complaint . was heard it seems to be pretty well establishcd | from the French women: and girls i+ that the Germans did commit a sort |the occupled regions of France wher it 2 = these regions were released by th I‘l'mk lh:"”;‘::h:::'::;‘"';'""’J“_"""’ thitz| A merican and British armics, On th the | contrary, the French women spok | world at the time was led to believe. | in high terms of the discipline main The atrocity story’ was part . R by the mman W iting wit varcel of the propaganda of the e IR world war. It was the 'sort Phillip Gibbs a dittle village oun “th. that | Somme which. had been burned during every nation engaged in the war felt the Gern :treat.in 1917. The churc to be necessary {had L pared and we talked t sl . {the priest. ‘He said the German con The greatest purpose of propaganda [mander in the village had an Americas was 1o keep the armics in the field | wife who was very. kind. He credi and folks at home mad, America(the wife with saving his . churc jwas in the war so short a time, and | Pressed for ‘some word 4s to the | the whole thing was: such a novelty ' cral conduct of the Geem 1o us, that it was not difficult to keep | could only say. th this country interested and MoOVing atthe French people under the o top piteh. hen, too, we had upon ' j, been- mental dnd spiritual ra the European_ propagunda from (ime | than physical. s to time, and relished it keenly Eventuslly’ we found. the aged md Thé European nations, at grips withlof the cloth did have one great griev the enemy for more than four years, | ACAInAE an chyitar Balitary. oo were fuced With a mighty tusk e e THlY oo keeping their ‘peoples. mad: v boclie insisted on pronouncin few days some sort of sto q hoa particularly harsh /‘s” a be spread to demonstrate the vilenesy g of the enemy and, the need of ex- { terminating him from the fact of the earth. Thése stories were more ted to the folks at home, than to the soldiers at the'fr result was that there was alwa more anger in London and Paris, f instance, than ever th was Verdun or Vimy Rid There was always the danger of the war becoming commonplace drudgery {10 those engaged in it. Bensibilities {were so blunted that war was regard- led as the normal thing in life and| peace but an empty” dream. There |also wae the danger to. be guarded {against. of fraternization hetyeen the i soldiers of ¢ne's own army and the enemy. This was particularly true where the lines were close together ¢ and where actuul hostilities were| more or less inactive. It was fraternization along eastern front which first broke the morale of the Russian army. The Germans skillfully sowed ‘the seeds lof discontent and’ discord among the Russtan soldiers, partieularly poiso Hing them against their west Thus, when the revolution c eleménts of chaos alread planted in the army nd had placed a danhgerous ene de combat. fkeep F So complete was the fraternization | lurge between the German and Russian | soldiers on some parts of the ast front that reports were re German bands giving concerts in man’s land between the trenche: P 1 | all the time he knew stormed the priest their ow the occupied French ter printing dally ~papers i I3 JThese papers told some dire ful tales of wh wag going on {n tie world, dicsension among the allies, th. suce of the U-boat warfare, the in pot e of America and every other sor of thlschood calculated to break dow the French spirit ¥ it should # Tn- Germans themselves supplied- the Britf$ with their best propaganda time there was a siackening of interestin the war, evers tir on-at home toc wonder if it .was wo with the: Germans would se eppeling Gotk to bombard: Long and t down o neon; Al U-boat out to i {batant men, { the & he women and children. would send a pital ship. These depradatio rmany ! stiffen the’ backs hors | superhuman efforts. war and wers ermany he war by sinking 1 ships or by occasional in the rapagind their own B n of Ger ntended to hearten at home. The of “the Tt was interesting various forms of propa ed at the front. The I ment, for instance, required tirely different sort of treatment frc the Anglo-Saxon in order t {desired reaction. Back of the neh 4 ¢ ilines the fences and bulletin boards | ! {constuntly were placarded with the | U-boats were most terrorizing victures of the hoche | would prevent A on atrocities bent. No details of the | the sea. The Zeppelins alleged outrages were spared. Women | planes had London and 1 ang children were pictured in dying { The war would e despair. ch illustration was ac- oIt ia eve companied by a brief story of the [where and in « e pen heinous crime ples of the World \were hewildcred The fact that som truth hid her head in shame to watch thel peopl The o were loye stories of s were peaple fighting res the o the an risin flapics B over. And s of leged Heard and Seen Fifty Years Ago in- The Star Washington always took an int st jn Henry, Watterson, whose bo ) A0S - hood WEE Col. Watterson thi« _P in London. € & cer- | What would you think who looked forward to & 3 tain play, vyt ‘when’ got- there stayed but fifteen minutes? , Yet-that is the sort of thimg me: |vvashinmon men, feemingly. are’do- llnl{ every day with their lunch. ¥ average m biped likes his grub, and makes no bones about admitting the fact. But “he races throu each day as if some in and take it aw he got through. Bulldogs commonly eat their dinners in that fashion, looking up between mouthfuls to keep guard and watch for the expected enemy who may be hungry, too. A stop wateh pulled specimens of Washingtonians of the |17 Bo-called sterner sex revealed that a jauarter of an hour is the maximum | With e time of food consumption for a|over. lares 1o be - many by, the resid the summer writing and June 30 thyt lowed faithfylly capitgl. 1 was overse its issuc o reports son of the Lov is writing let @ more d the gh his lunch one would o ¥ fram him | me fore = Courier ters fron isfied man down caleulated to 1 Hal s and the ndun ¥ou dor see. in debtedness Trollopy defame 4 bonu he @l for anvihi e %o out of nday d people let to the nlog on various | Marryat, luncheon. From that the time ranged too dis All the wicked all the way backward te two mb utes. the time it took one lean man to get an with one doughnut and a !0 enjoy cup ot con there are.r the fr . gastronomicul 19cE 1N an the epicures, Lopisville good tood. have | Sunda: In Washington restaurants “Thert the restaurants of the sort sometimes | fairly called “the dirty spoon” to the bet- London. ter class place, men eat in them alike. butchery G Where there are waitresses to wait | 8€lves on the s that the —and to wait upon—a meal nec £0 little practice. The nobility, sarily takes a longer total time than |$aY. are shaved at home; the geniry fifteen minutes; But the actual eat- &nd pluin peuple shave themselyes ing time—the duration of sp. in [ None ‘but Amesic neEd A (barber which, foodstuffs and beverages are! “The English flutter themselves tha i jthey, are best _traveler that they have the best conducte | lines of travel in the world: vet thrre themsclyve 10t enon rt of eating. all the feats that - delighted the gennine lovers of been g the < live pE equipped wafting down the human- gullet— never goes over fifteen good old min- utes. is no, suc thing as & baggaige used ‘on of the railw You~ get ‘no for vour haggage. L business 1o see it-on the it To the depot, to see train: -And it vour t it again the ourney. “The English son rather ungall “ghes ¢ dress ¥ nglish: soc A lady « o * What would Dickens have written if he could have witnessed the way “hot dogs" gallop to thefr last long home? How that great author loved his* dinners, and the dinners of his characters! In his day and place dinner was a thing to U lingered over, with its ale and stout and gther. drinkables now gone the prohibition i Today. in busine end of at women, Mr. ntly decia r< in Europe: | ty is singu Reting ses g i ballad concert St mes Hal happens to wear light aris ho net and is required to take it off w dressing room, payving the wiit woman sixpence to keep it, bef she.is allowed tp take the seat s has paid for. - She Zoes in and the hall filled - with ° serubi { dresge women, ch having & bit # ribban sek to her hai considering hersclf in full dress course, no gentleman Is permitted it Covent Garden ¢ Drury. Lane wit fout a swallowtail coat and a w) eravat: nc then until he ‘has paid to a hag who turns down for_him or opens the duor Go where you will, 1! is encountered. Why? F - country is too full.of p ple and living has to be got at the overplus in some wa “qf w London cabby cheats ¢ sixpence he thinks. he »d thing, but if he does half a crown he feels proud of himself, of his vocation and of his country.- A pretty. burmiid sw sut.of & he'penny on a gl he other day and kable beam out thigving cyes - as 1 and” she felt sure of her plunder. They v on a-small scal is u big thin ;i Watterson alsa finds f(a with the political season. It is dull A tamer affair than the great Hyde Park reunion of workingmen ean scarcely be ed. ‘The speech of Mr. Odgé orator-in-chlef of the trade unions, was simply Taugh- able. The Times speaks of.him as a fman of ability and power, He is, in fact, ®., wretc 1 little” scarec with a weak voice and a stammer It Bob Gilchrist would come ower here he would raise himself to credit and renown at once with the British workingmer He would their leader a ! Washington restaurants at_ noontime. food is something to stow away as speedily as possible, and drinks are things to help speed the comestibles on their way rejoic- ing. The value is set upon the tir lost to other things. evidently, not upon the time at. meal The result is men here {much of the real joy of cating, ac- icording to those “whg value their| meals from the standpdint of getting cut of them all the. ber pleasure that can legitimat cured. Step into one of the lunchr the best class. It once was jonable bar, where big men to take their glass and talk over the affairs of the day. Over its pol bar have gone gallons of whisk and other_alcoholic beverages. Today it stands, outwardly. did then. The bar is ther gleaming brass foot rail White-coated men behind the bar. But the men hand out fine food and coffee now. “Hot dog”. sandwiches have usurped the place once dedicated | to Bacchus. The wine racks are empty, but the coffee urns run over- time. It is still -a place of plenty, but the medium is different. * * Gimme some ‘of that pea soup.” says the portly man in the gray suit, as he places his foot on the brass rail. Soon the soup cémes to hand, steaming, appetizing. accompanied by a neat bowl of crackers. A:cup of the best coffee in Washington accom panfes it. . The man bears his food .to a table and sits down to enjoy himself. Here is his way of doing it: Stirs his coffee. louded with four meaping teaspoons of sugar, for fif- teen seconds: drinks half of thé cup in four seconds; hurls six crackers into the soup in one second; lops up a spoonful of soup in Lwo' seconds, and maintaing that rate until the bowl is gone; total tirie. four mins utes; drinks remainder of cup of coffee, now cocl enough to be en- Joyed, in thirty seconds: total—add it up_yoursel Here comes a man with a fruit salad. Let's watch him. He sits uorn. dfi'lnkl l-llkul‘;l waterat oEa ulp, then e fruit salpd, ‘Evlfién!ly h:"r‘e’n 1y likes fr‘l‘lll, for'lt takes him c*cflr ten ‘minutes té con« U i e losing i i . t box, t fut e * [ done you for of tu having do then Tn London Joy iovet: ay bagged robbe 1ny - 1 he sume the salgd. He would’ have cured more flavor and pleasure had taken Gwenty miutes. but te five better than most eaters wi give it they go. eating their minimum way _through ° their provender. - A New Yorker has'come out for a three- hour -luncheon club. An hour:lunch gon_ club would be a' geod starte ere. g CHARLES E. TRACEWBLIL, ‘.