Evening Star Newspaper, July 15, 1923, Page 44

g THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. . WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY vee..July 15, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES. . . . Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Dusingss Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. e OFOr Ul 110, East. Adnd St. Chicugn Office: Tower Building. European Oftice: 16 Regent St., London, Eagl The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edicion s Gelivered by carriers within the cley 1m0 Conta per month; daily only, 43 cents uday only. 20 cents per month, y be sent lu‘ ‘mail or telephone Mal 500, " Collection is ‘made by carriers at the end of each month. Rate by ‘Inil—l’a)lhla in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Datly and Sunday.. Daily only. . B Hunday only All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 85¢ v mo., SDc mo., 70¢ mo., 50(: Associated Press. e Associuted Press {x exclusively entitled 1o use for republication of all ‘news dis- patelics credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- fished ‘herein. Al rights of publication of specal dixpafches herein are also reserved. A Merchant Marine Pact Next? The great naval powers of the world have finally completed and ratified an agreement to limit naval armament so far as their capital ships are con- cerned. This accomplishment is hailed as an augury of peace. Even more ef- fective, however, would be some kind of an agreement to halt the cut-throat T of the maritime nations for the ing trade today. ters stand no one of the mari- ations is making money. Prac- ally all are losing money on their merchant marine, or soon will be. The entrance of the United States during | since the world war into the ing trade has upset the old bal- Amerls people belleve, that they are entitled to a ne to carry their prod- rseas, and to bring to these the products of other nations 1 here. But the American chant fleet is getting a large share carrying trade, which means fleets are not getting as huly, rehant ma oy American people persist in e to maintain a merchan® fleet. one of the most powerful reasons being that it is needed as a safeguard during possible war, the European and oriental nations might as well recog- nize the fact that the American fleet 1s not going to be wiped off the ocean. Ship subsidy went down to defeat in the last € largely because it could not be brought to a vote in the ion, and because “subsidy” swd that does not appeal to the 1 people. But the Congress appropriated £50,000,000 to the next f that the United States Emer- zency Fleet Corporation may sustain in the operation of its vessels. A size- able sum. It will enable the Fleet Cor- poration to continue in operaticn, and to meet any further cuts in rates that foreign shipping interests attempt. It is no more reasonable for the Brit. 1sh, the Dutch and other nations to urge that the American merchant ma- rine should be eliminated than for the Americans to urge that the fleets of eat Brit the Netherlands, etc., tied up and allowed to decay. Andi versa. Tnless the shipping business the world over is to be run at a loss, with possibilities of international friction that may lead to war, there must come some agreement among the maritime nations to live and let live. Such a policy in the carrying trade, it is con- tended by those who are studying the i is possible. Tt would be a mis- take, th ng of wir short is during v itter Just as it would be a mistake to taike from the seas the present American fleet. Would it not be possible to reach an | egreement—a gentlemen's agreement | if no other form of pact is feasible—by which each of the carrying natlons should have its share of the trade in which its people are particularly inter- ested? For example, the British are particularly interested in the carrying trade between the United Kingdom and the vast dominions of the British empire; the United States is interested in carrying its products to the Ameri- republics to the south and in ng to the United States such ar- coffee, which are consumed eat volume; it it interested, | can brin, cles a here in g 100, in the carrying trade between the | Philippines and the United States and | between China and this country. These | only a few instanc alled & proprietary interest of the ions in the carrying trade. The United States Shipping Board s played fair in the race for the carrying trade. Tt has not initiated uts in rates, but it has met such cuts whery v. It is in a position, backed by the richest nation in the world, to continue to meet any and all cuts to give American ships a share of the carrying trade of the world. Tiut the old-cstablished European lines are being pushed harder and harder. ‘The tme may come when government aid to meet the stiuation will have to lie forthcoming in those nations, and the governments of some of them have not the resources of America today. s of what might | —————— 1f peace could be financed as abun- dantly and earnestly as wars have been, the result would be more practi- cal and less expensive. ————— High Fighting Finance. Photographs of the gigantic bowl at Boyle's Thirty Acres, in Jersey City, at the prize fight Thursday night show an immense concourse of people, hu- manity packed solidly into a vast arena. Unofficial reports put the total | overlord of the motion picture busi-| ".1e? on his pipes Pan blew a tone attendance at about 100,000. There were visions of enormous profits for the promoter of the fight and of rich slices of gate money for the partici- pants in the boxing program. The figures are now available. Fed. | theater. A number of other industries |; cral agents, who represent the keenly interested Uncle Sam on the score of war taxe: have finished checking up, and it is announced that the total number of paid patrons was 75,712, All others were “deadheads” and af-|retary of War, to be its highest of-|screech owl is like folks, makin’ & tendants, policemen, firemen, ushers and detectives. The gross receipts were $429,020.70. The federal tax pay- | these cases the person who is named |dat kind of a nolse.” be used | cal year to meet all | to try to drive the ship- | und from the sea by bulld- | & milllons of tons more of American | ‘m-dale tabulating machines and file { whereas if modern ways of receipting | for a few minutes. When one pays the ! stub, sticks it on a spindle and takes !up the next bill. ment brought this sum flown to mo enough In taxes to lower it still further, to $351,753.30. There were in all, it appears, approximately 90,000 persons in the bowl. Of the cash receipts it is disclosed that Willard, the beaten man, gets 35 per cent, or $123,113.66, while Firpo, the conquerer, draws down 22 1-12 per cent, or $79,144.60. The other boxers, in the so-called “preliminary” bouts, receive a total of $37,500, making e payment to the “talent” of the show of $239,758.26. This leaves the pro- moter of the fight approximately $112,- 000 with which to pay all other ex- penses and to make a profit, if he can. Considering the size of the army of attendants, he may not get away with & very large slice of the melon after all. These flgures have a bearing upon the suggestion that the champion may demand a guarantee or a “gate” of a million dollars for his next fight, ad- vanced by his manager the other day. It is hard to see how such & price can be put upon the match, unless the rate of ticket charges is raised much higher. than that which prevailed at the Wil- lard-Firpo match. To bring in the scale would have to be more than doubled. It looks as if the next big bout would be offered to the public at rates never before heard of in the his. tory of commercialized prize fighting. No Bad Boys! Miss Olive Jones, who has recently been elected president of the National Education Assoclation, and who has had years of experience in charge of probationary correction in the public schools of New York, is reported as saylng that “a really bad boy or a real- 1y bad girl does not exist.” It may be difficult for some persons to accept this expert's definitlon of juvenile badness, and there are persons, in- cluding some parents, who will insist that the bad boy and the bad girl do exist. This expert on children admits that some appear to be bad, and she uses the words “waywardness” and “incor- rigibility Probably she means that; there is no bad boy who cannot be cured of his badness, for she says: “More than one boy has been saved from pounding somebody's skull by pounding a piece of sheet-iron instead. Mix a quantity of manual training work—thekind the boy likes—with book learning and recognition for things well done, and badness will usually fly out of the window." She urges par- ents to “give a boy responsibility and keep him busy,” and she says to fathers and mothers “teach children responsibility by making them earn in some small way the joys and privi- leges of life. Miss Jones lays blame on careless- ness and lack of intelligence in some parents, and there are many who have no expert knowledge of children who | believe that the blame is well placed. She says that some parents “have a fool idea that if they feed their chil- dren and send them to school they will be good, because they are learning reading, writing and arithmetic. There is such a thing as home training of parental training, but even then it depends on the character of that train- ing. It might be charged that some home training is inefficient, and that some parents as child-trainers are failures. However. it is pleasant to hear @ “schoolmarm'” of long and varied experience with delinquent children say that there are no really bad boys and girls. New Plan at Tax Office. A good many taxpayers will feel a sense of relief on reading the news | that “in order to modernize the office | of the collector of taxes the Commis- | sioners will ask Congress in the new | estimates for $10,000 to purchase up- | cases.”” One feature of the plan will make it easler to pay taxes. Some tax- { payers pay early and avoid the rush, and others get their tax bills and send checks, but there are several thou- sand citizens who do neither of these things. In the closing days of tax- paying time long lines of taxpayers | form at the cashiers’ windows. And then the “forefathers'" way of doing business keeps the line moving at a snall's pace. The cashier takes the taxpayer's money and writes certain facts in @ book. Then he stamps the bill as paid. People stand for hours, bills were used they might stand only gas or electric light bill the cashier stamps It paid. tears off a perforated Commissioner Ru- dolph has announced that he has ap- proved a new form of tax bill for next year “that will do away with the present antiquated system by which | {the cashier enters on a blotter every | bill paid.” On the new tax bill there will be a stub, which the cashier will tear off and file as the record of the | payment. The new and common sense method of receipting tax bills will give relief to a large number of citizens, but it is still the safe and sane policy to pay taxes early. If everybody did that there would be no congestion in the tax office. ————— A worker in the steel industry who puts in twelve hours & day has at least an advantage over the steel manufacturer, who is often compelled to worry twenty-four hours. —_———————— No doubt a series of interesting con- | tributions to science were lost because Darwin could not live to answer the eloquent and emphatic assertion of ; Col. Bryan. —————— Business Overlords. After Will H. Hays bad been made ness and Judge Landis had been in- vested with the rank and power of czar of base ball a fashion set in for industrial overlordship. Augustus Thomas was made the big chief of the have followed suit, the latest being the soft coal industry, which, though it bhas not yet reached the point of de- cision, is said to be contemplating naming Henry L. Stimson, former Sec- ficer. It is an interesting point-that in all THE ~SUNDAY STAR, WASHI.‘NGTON, to tlke v.he helm of the lndllnflll ship 1837, and the state of New Jersey took [is not financially interested. Mr. Hays is not a motion picture producer, dis- trisutor or exhibitor. Judge Landis is not a stockholder in any one of the professional base ball clubs. Augustus Thomas does not own a theater. The fact is these men have been chosen as Mr. Stimson will probably be chosen, because they have no direct interest, because they are immune from the in- fluences of ownership and can view the whole industry dispassionately and without prejudice. This same principle prevalls in many large individual concerns. Men are hired es general managers and as presidents of corporations who are perhaps not shareholders—who “qual ify.” it may be, by buying stock, per- haps at a nominal rate—but who are definitely subordinate in point of ownership to a board of directors and yet have paramount powers of action, subject always to the policies and will of the board. In any one of these cases of overlordship the man in su- preme command, like Hays, or Landis, or Thomas, or Stimson, if he is so named, is under a contract which guarantees him continuous engage- ment. But he may be deposed if at guarantee to the champlon alone the |any time he falls to represent the| wishes of the majority of those who engaged him. He may have a claim for compensation, but in point of ac- tual service he may be set aside whenever he is at odds with his board or council, or whatever may be the title of the representative organiza- tion. These positions make for higher ef- ficlency and for a minimum of friction between competitors who have a mutual interest and for a reduction of loss and waste. They are a symbol of good business. et e Return of Pliny Fisk to Wall street is hafled as a step which promises de- sirable results in the financial world and in the interests of the public. There has been a great deal of ama- teur talent in many circles of activity, and demand asserts itself for the older fellows, who not only know how to play the money game, but who have a | traditional respect for its cthical as- pects. ———— A hundred thousand people saw Firpo knock out Jess Willard. Mil- lions read of the event with interest. The normal impulse of primitive man still asserts itself sufficiently to pre- vent any fear that the human rece is becoming overcultured. ———— The illness of Lenin has lasted a long time, and has perhaps been of benefit in enabling Trotsky to rest from political propaganda and devote himself to personal sympathy. ———— While Germany is concerned about dye patents, she is apparently indif- ferent as to what becomes of that once famous recipe for turtle serum adver- tised as a consumption cure. ————— Reference to the Ruhr situation as one of “transitory friction” as & means of comfort must depend on the length of time it takes to define the word “transitory.” ———— When Mr. Rockefeller presents a complimentary nickel he at least equips the fortunate recipient to meet the next rise in the cost of five gallons of gas. In addition to its other advantages the Leviathan securcs an enormous amount of free advertising. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Laughing at Trouble. Old Sister Trouble keeps a-roamin’| ‘round the map. She always has the time to stop an’ chatter. She scatters information of some ter- rible mishap, And says she knows exactly what's the matter. They told me T must meet old Sister Trouble with a smile. T tried to show a gleeful animation. At first she seemed quite puzzled. Ina very little while She made a most indignant demon- stration. She called upon the neighbors, and a conterence they held As gloomy as a scientific clinic. : They voted me as one who from the world should be éxpelled, A satirist and a sarcastic cynic! Housing. “T understand Washington. D. C., has had its troubles with the housing problem.” “Washington, D. C., has always had that kind of trouble,” replied Senator Sorghum. “The government has never been able to provide enough deskroom | to accommodate all the people wishing to occupy offices.” Jud Tunkins says the feller who ‘wants to do all the talking is generally away from his home trying to enjoy himself in & new way. Limiting Losses, “Why do the boys refuse to play poker with Tarantula Tim?" “Tim can't afford it.” “Can’t afford to lose the money?” “No. He held three royal flushes in the same evening. Nobody kin play like that in Crimson Gulch unless he's reckless an' thinks he kin afford to lose his life.” Music Evolation. ‘When first Apollo smote the Iyre He caroled gayly, Nor dreamed that one day we'd admire A ukulele. He played light-hearted, Anad little thought the saxophone ‘Would soon be started. The Romping 4 Alphabet. “How did you come to let that pi ine slip by?" inquired one proofreader. ““How should I know it was pi?” re- joined the other. radio news.” “T thought if was “I speck,” said Uncle Eben, “de gloomy noise because she’s lonesome, an’ bein’ lonesome because. she makes 2yt w:|Urges Study D. C, JULY 15 of Constitution, Instead of “Cursing” Court BY THOMAS R. MARSHALL, Former Vice President of the United States. E are not to have any more five-to-four decisions by the Supreme Court of the United States if certain groups in the Congress are allowed to have thelr way. A two-thirds majority of the court, or a unanimity, will have to prevall before an enactment of the Congress is declared vold. This “re- form” is to be urged next winter. The groundwork for it has already been lald in speeches and new bills on the subject. In most particulars the American is & good sportsman. He loses with gameness. When he enters into & contract, he scrupulously seeks to keep it, rather than to look for loop- holes of escape. He is sensitiv. about being denominated a welche: he prides himself that he keeps his word. His good sportsmanship s ap- parent whenever he, individually, or his personal interests are involved. However, when it comes to matters that do ‘not affect him Individually but appertain to a class or a com- munity, general in scope, he indulges in the new American game which might be called ‘“changes” which game has superseded basebail and politics as the national pastime. This game {s now being played as never before, particularly in Washington. * % % % Indignation toward the Supreme Court which had been growing in cer- tain quarters because of three or four | unpopular decisions 'reachced the point of outburst when the child- labor law and the act designating a minimum wage for women In the Dis- trict of Columbia were declared void. Polnt was made that five justices of the court, constituting a bare ma- Jority, were thwarting the progre and hopes of a nation as crystallize: into legislation by the Congress. It was gravely proposed that Congress, itself, by a new enactment, declarc how many of the nine justices of the court should act together before a decision holding an act of the Con- gress to be “unconstitutional and vold” would be binding. A two-thirds majority is satisfactory to some while others are demanding the unanimous verdict of our jury system. What are we going to do about it? Shall we by orderly processes amend the Constitution of the United States to limit the power of the court or shall we abandon the principle of three equal and co-ordinate branches of the government and declare the legislative branch superior to the judicial? By the theory of the fathers which has obtained well in practice more power over the Supreme Court than the Supreme Court has over the Congross. * ¥ % ¥ To clarify this discussion. T wish to point out that the phrase “unconsti- tutional and void” as applied to an act of the Congress Is unfortunate, if not tnaccurate and misleading. The Constitution. which was ratified and confirmed by all the states, defines, expressly or impiledly, all the powers of the Congress along the line of legislation. When the Supreme Court holds #n act “unconstitutional,” it really holds, to my mind, that the Congress has attempted to amend the Constitution, a thing it cannot do save fn the way prescribed by the docu- ment {tself and with the affirmative Heard and Seen Surely the phonograph. the airplane and the radio are the three most won- derful modern inventions. The printing press, the linotype, the player-plano, the submarine, the & phone—yes. the saxophone—are great strokes of genius. There are a hundred and one ar- ticles that entitle their inventors to places in the hall of fame. For pure genius, however, the radio, the air- plane and the talking machine must take the prize. How Archimedes, iclever himsclf for his day and age. would have reveled in the phono- {graph! Somewhere in Plutarch there is a paragraph in which Arch is re- ported to have sald, something that shadowed the phonograph. ] The hidden secret of the machine s what makes it great. Explain | glibly how the sounds are engraved 'ln wax, then pressed on a hard disk, and then sent forth again when a dle passes along the grooves, the Cssantia) mystery Is left untouched. The “why,” like the why of life itself, is not explained. You put the record on, and the music, with all its melody, harmony and time, comes forth. Familiarity breeds contempt, but the wonder of the talking ma- chine remains. | i who was pretty * * ® Noisy but graceful bird that sails the skies, airplane of the modern day, 1 take off my hat to vou! A man is dull, indeed, who does not thrill when a plane, heavy as steel, but light as gossamer, passes over his head. It is true that there are some folks who fail even to look up when an airplane wings its way across town. They are the exceptions to the rule. The airplane is a thing of wonder from two distinet standpoints—that of the affair itself and that of per- sistence. The ease with which it seems to take the air, in spite of the tremendous pull of gravity upon every pound of engine, pilot and fuselage; the grace with which it skims the clouds, the way it eats up the dis- tances, mark it as one of the out- ing Inventions of man. !‘El";ldenaslrplnne is really 3,000 to 5,000 years old! Through the centuries men held the dream of flylng. From the chap who stuck a pair of wings to his shoulders with wax, to have them melt in the sun, sending him crashing to earth, to the days of Prof. Langley, the dream of taking the air in a boat held the imaginations of men. t came the airplane. Maybe it At 1 *turn out to be like the violin, which experts say is perfect and can- not be improved. They will perfect the engine and other parts, but per- haps the plane will retain its present form for all time. * % Now we have the greatest wonder of them all. It is the radio. “Why, it comes out of nothing,” a woman sald last week as she listened to the Willard-Firpo prize fight, sound by sound, here a little, there a little. No more striking demonstration of the amasing radio has been given than that night. Boys sat on porches, as excited as if they had been at the ide. rh:..l"\.lldren had at their disposal fa- cilties which until & few vears ago were only available to great news- paper organizations commanding leased wires. Today almost any one can sit at his ease at home. drinking in the soundd that -run through space and are collected in a little machine for his especial benefit. Explain the mys- tery by the book, the inner secret of the thing remains unexplained. CHARLES E, TRACEWELL. | these 150 years, the Congress has no | action of three-fourths of the states. Men invariably appeal to the Con- atitution for the preservation of their lives and liberty. They have always granted and grant now the right of the Supreme Court to safeguard the- rights and libertie; ranted by the Constitution. They are for the Con- stitution as it for them but at times are against the Constitution when it seems to be against them. Then is when the Supreme Court comes in for abuse, our people for- getting that a way of amendment I8 provided or perhaps desiring imme- diate action and to avold the delay that orderly processes involve. We live under a written charter deliber- ately consented to by all the states of the Unlon. An act of the Con- gress Is not the supreme law of the land. - The congress and the states may amend the Constitution but they must act together. A majority of the Congress may act because of passion, prejudice or party expediency, and it may act, in fact, not Infrequently It does, without deliberate thought. A legislative body 18 not disposed usually to waste much time in discussion of the constitu- tionality of its proposed action. The Congress now pai 8 on to the Su- preme Court legal questions involved in its ects. Shall it be allowed to assume that everything it does is constitutional until and unless two. thirds or all of the justices hold ad- versely? Even those most outspoken agains the Supreme Court have not denied its power to ordain rules, which litigants and lawyers must observe. 1 wonder what would happen In the Congress of the United States if the courf should adopt a rule that no action should be brought under any act of the Congress which did not receive a two-thirds or a unanimous vote in house and senate. A bare majority of one now gives a bill as much pres- tige as though it recefved unanimous support. I l I * ¥ x % There would not be so much trouble about acts belng declared unconstitu- tional If members of the Congress would better observe the oath they have taken to support and defend the Constitution. That oath may best be kept by painstaking consideration of the constitutional questions involved in proposed legislation. The Con- gress will get In nearer accord wlith the Supreme Court If it will but dis- charge its full duty, for any declsion of the court, whether by a bare ma- jority or a unanimous voice, reflects the settled opinfon of the court that it must grant every Intendment in favor of the constitutionality of the act under consideration. Less recog- nition of party expedicncy, less desire of temporary advantage, less hope of individual or class welfare and more research into the broad principles of RBovernment, measured by the limita- tlons of the Constitution, would pro- duce sturdler legislation. We would have fewer and Stronger enactments. It has been plain as a pikestaff for ears that the way to get effectiv child labor legislation was through constitutional amendment. vet legise lators have offered all sorts of devices | to accomplish the purpose. The fail- ure of these make-shifts has brought abuse on the Supreme Court. Too many take literally Lincoln's joking suggestion to his client, “Let's go down to the barroom and Cuss the | court.”" A people with the power to |amend their organic law have no | TIght to waste their time “cussing the court” unless they can prove core | ruption. Even then impeachme better than Imprecation.. e F ifty Years Ago I in The Star Decadence of the celebration of Independence days is no new develop- ment, but, accord- Less Fourth of ing to The Star of July Oratory. July 8. 1573, was century ago. in progress half a The Star says: “There was a notable falling off in the supply of Fourth of July ora- tory this year, and some of our co- | | 1 | spicuous 1923—PART 2 Capital Sldellghts BY WILL P, KENNEDY. This summer fsn't a holiday for members of Congress, as most people belleve. 1In fact, these big boys re- verse the procedure of their younger brothers (or sons) and spend the time when Congress, like school, has “let out” in study. Take representative Clarence Mac- Gregor of Buffalo, N. Y., by way of il- lustration. He {s a student in the summer course at the University. of Pennsylvania, enrolled in the course in finance, Representative MacGregor is chair- man of the House committee on ac- counts and g very active member of the banking and currency committee. During his summer course he will study the principles of sound money, the gold standard, the monetary sys- tem of the United States, the princi- ples of foreign exchange and other problems of finance which he expects will be useful to him in his legisla- tive duties. Although he is a man of middle age, Representative MacGregor shows all the enthusiasm of a college fresh- man. “In order to get the right at- mosphere I am stopping in one of the university dorms," the Congressman explains. * % % % Sometimes a member of Congress goes off on an educational extension summer trip with his son—as wit- ness Representative FEdward E. Browne of Waupaca, Wis. (Edward, sr., and Edward, Jr.), are in Europe studying agricultural and economic questions In the Scandinavian penin- sula, Holland and England. Edward, jr. graduated from the agricultural department of Maryland University @ year ago, and during the last year has been specializing in co-operative marketing of dairy products under Profs. De Vault and Gamble at the same institutfon. He received his master's degree in June, and s con- | tinuing this study in Denmark, where the Danish farmers have carried co- operation to the highest degree of efficlency, and incidentally pulled themselves out of bankruptey. Representative Browne is seeing what he can learn for the benefit of the farmers in his district, state and throughout the nation. * ok % % Representative Royal Johnson of Aberdeen, S. D, who enlisted as a private in the world war and came out & first lieutenant with a dis- tinguished service medal, is illustrat- ing how a member of Congress can have a very interesting time with his boys during the summer solstace. They “fivvered” from Washington to Aberdeen. camping as they went, the three boys and a bull dog in the back seat. Every few miles a stray hornet. yellow jucket or some bee intruded and the bovs and the dog had sad experiences iwhich the imag- ination can best describe. In going through Missouri fair rate of speed, Representative Johnson ran into a swarm of bees and about a pint of them epilled Into the back seat. “If ever you want to see Interesting ac ties,” the rep- resentative writes, 'l can assure you that a pint of angry bees, three boyvs and a bull dog and some luggage in the back of an automobile would show vou a plenty.” * % x x at a Yes. Congressmen scatter widely during the interim between Con- gresses. Speaker Gillet (of Massa- chusetts), is in Alaska, helping Pres- fdent Harding and three of his cabi- net to decide what legislation for that treasure-land they can get through the next House and to for- mulate a longtime legislative pro- gram for Alaska == Representative George Holden Tinkham. quite co as anti-Volsteadiun leader, hus sought seclusion Africa. Representative Louls Frothingham, also of Massachuse: is just back from Japan, China Korea. Represe ulal.\t- nest R. Ackerman of New Jersey is just bac from his forty enth ocean vovage adorned with a gold medal awarded him at the recent London stamp exhi- bition for the best collection of 5 and 10 cent United States stamps of the issue of 1847. und is starting off again on his forty-eighth ocean trip, this time to the Philippines, as & member of the House committee on foreign affairs. Representative Hays B. White of Mankato, Kan.. is very stacking hay. temporaries, we note. are quite dole- ful about it, arguing a decay in na- tional patriotism and all that sort of thing. To us it seems the natural ! working of American common sense. That people should be willing to go | sweltering about in the broiling sun ©of July to hear the Declaration read and & three-hour oration delivered shows something of the fortitude of the times that tried men's souls, but has an absurd side about it that was sure in the long run to put it out of fashion. “We can remember the wonderful Fourth of July parades of the past, when our gallant militiamen went sweltering about in immense bear- skin caps or tight-fitting ‘continental’ uniforms to ‘celebrate’ the day, great- 1y to the benefit of the doctors and the undertakers. Probably President Taylor could have been alive today | but for an indiscreet display of Fourth of July patriotism of the out- door sort. After enduring all the hardships of the Mexican war he suc- cumbed to a Fourth of July oration by George W. P. Custis, delivered in the hot sun over at the Monument Lot. The general stood out the two-hour oration, heard the Declaration read to the last line, and then went home and died. “All this has been changed for the better. The day is abundantly cele- brated, but in a way suited to the season. The disposition of everybody is to loaf in the coolest shades to be found in the country or city. Pienic Junketings and the absorption of cooling drinks are good and patriotic modes of using the hours while the sun Is vertical, and the day is prop- erly rounded off by pyrotechnic dis- plays in the cool of the evening.” = * Half a century ago the award of prizes in the public schools was an important feature Public School of the “closing ex- Prize System. ercises” But a " feeling against this practice was developing, as Is noted in The Star of July 12, 1873, as fol- lows: “It may be noticed lhat our school trustees had under consideration at their last meeting the program of prizes to be awarded upon the result of ‘competitive’ examinations to be held near the close of the ensuing. The disposition thus to give this mode of exeiting the emulation of school boys and girls the investiga- tion its Importance demands is highly commendable, for, although the school prize is a mere bauble, it is as- soclated with principles of justice and should mnot be wantanly ignored. Many very thoughful persons object to the whole system of prizes, espec- fally when they can be obtained only by a system of special cramming of the forms of certain text books—the thing aimed at being not a knowl- edge of the subject, but rather of '.hm technical quutlnnl most. likely to be asked.” | H i i i sand har busy cultivating corn esting wheat * 5 * * Representative Emanuel Celler of the tenth New York district, living in Brooklyn, has a name to conjure by for anti-prohibition stories. He tells this one on a prohibition officer friend. “He walked along the streets of New York and sald to his| companion: ‘What a pleasure it is to walk along these New York streets and see no saloons.’ The prompt re- ply of his companion was: ‘It is a greater pleasure for us New Yorkers to know that the saloons are there, although you cannot see them.'' * k% % “Lives there & man with soul so dead that never to himself hath said —'this is my own, my native land'?" Perhaps that explains why mem- bers of Congress are spurred to flights of oratory and poetic word picturing when they are inspired to talk about their own communities. But Representative Syrenus Cole of Cedar Rapids, lowa, has even a better right, title and interest, for he is an editor and author, connected for many years with some of the biggest papers in that state, owner and editor of his hometown paper, and writer of a history of the people of lowa and other books. He writes: “Just now we watching the tall corn growing are in Jowa—and here everything grows as| it did in the original Garden of Eden. 1 have just returned from 8,000 miles of gea and land, including the moun- tains of the west and the wonders of Alaska, but to me this Iowa of ours, With its hills and valleys, fields and woods—well, I was glad to be in the midst_of all this teeming, blooming. pulsating life again. I ana trees the best of all.” * x ¥ When the Sixty-eighth Congre: convenes, a large number of the “old familiar faces” will not be in evi- dence. Judge W. W. Rucker, who represented the secoud Missouri dis- trict for twenty-four years, was de- feated for the nomination in the dem- ocratic primary by Ralph F. Lozier of Carrollton, Mo. Before being elect- ed to Congress, Judge Rucker was six years circuit judge and six years prosecuting attorney. making thirty- six years during which time he was never out of public office. He was regarded as the best politician in Missouri, and in_former campalgns had butlittle difficulty in defeating his opponents. Representative Lozler, who succeeds Judge Rucker, has taught an adult Bible school class for more than thirty years. He was born on a farm and i8 a seif-made man. His father was_a ploneer farmer and black- smith, and his mother was a pioneer school teacher. His mother dled when 6 was three years of age, and his father died seven years later. From childhood he has been compelled to make his own way. This responsibil- ity fostered in him a spirit of forti- tude and determination to win his own way in the world, For several years he worked on farms for his board and clothing during the farm- ing season, wttending country school in the winter time.- At the age o fifteen he entered the Carroliton High School, working his way through school and completing the three-year course in one nionth less than two years. He taught school in the coun- try for two years, studying law at night, and was admitted to the bar in 1856, when he was twenty years of. like grass! | , | ! nd | Lady ithe | ! Cromwell in favor of Lady Bewlicke- Copley's_only. | Robert Bewicke-Copley of the King's MEN AND AFFAIRS BY ROBERT T. SMALL. OHN L. LEWIS, at Atlantic City, is fighting for more than the eleven demands presented to the anthracite coal operators by the three districts of the United Mine Workers of America who tofl in the an- thracite flelds. It is very generally ac- cepted here that Mr. Lewis is destined to succeed Samuel Gompers as head of the American Federation of Labor. Naturally, he wants to enter the race for the new honors with victory to his credit in the pending negotiations, Whether the president of the miners desires actually to oust Mr. Gompers is a question, Lewis iy & young man, and can afford to await the time Wwhen the venerable head of the fed- eration s ready to lay down the gavel by his own will. The miners are by far the strongest organization actually within the Fed- eration of Labor. There are some half a million of them, The miners are strong enough to “go it alone,” if necessary, but they have chosen to 'go along” instead, and there is every reason to belleve that when the scramble comes for Gompers' shoes John Lewls will be found far in the lead of any possible competitors. Lewis and Gompere differ in many re- spects. Gompers belleves in union organization by crafts. He believes that the men Who do carpentry work in the mines should belong to the carpenters’ union. Not 8o with Lewis. He Insists that every one who works in the mines, carpenters, engineers or what not. shall belong to the miners’ union—and so they do. Like Gompers, Lewls is assailed in some labor quarters as a conserv: tive. But he has only the conserv tism which comes with great re- sponsibility. He is a stalwart among stalwarts for the rights of the work- ingman, and he is more active by far than Gompers in his support of the right to strike. Lewis has the confidence of the men he leads and the respect of the employers with whom he deals, He is a thoughtful, earnest pleader, possesses the analyti- lantfe City. To reach the gardens it was necessary for both operators and miners to file through the mair dining room. Often during the pro ceedings the operttors would ask fo the right to caucus among themsely, Then the miners and the newsDape:- men would fila out. Often again the miners would desire to caucus and then the operators and the reporters would file out together. One day i particular the caucuses, or the cauci, if you prefer it, were exceedingly nu merous and there was much filing back and forth. In the midst of thi« interchange there came filing into the main lobby of the hotel a long line of bellboys, a new shift going on duty. né what union do they belos to a recherche onlooker facetious: inquired. “The Gold Diggers,” quickly replleq President Lewis. * ¥ %k ¥ A familiar figure at the conferencs was Jack Leary, veteran labor write for the New York World. Jack kne: every labor leader and every opera tor of any note at the gathering and his appearance was hailed with d« light, for he had but recently rccoy ered from a rather severe ilines Jack has the sort of unfailing g humor that meets every adver with & smile, and out of his hosy experience he naturally evolved §00d story on himself. Tt seemed the doctors told Jack would have to wear a rather cumbe some belt. He didn't like the ides “For how long?’ he asked. “Oh, just until it wears out.” plied the doctors casually “Not so bad,” commented Jack a« he went to get fitted. This ceremony over, he turned to the salesman ‘How long will this belt las queried “Oh, don’t worry about that,” the salesman. time." re he said “It ‘wiil last you a life- * ® ok % Washington traveler just turned from Canada tells an am z story of an incident on a sightsesing A e cal power of the great lawyer, and has & ready wit. When some one at Atlantic City suggested that he could not understand the demands of the miners at this time, Lewlis calmly re- plied: “Well, you see, this coal industry is a very dark business.” * % k¥ There were many amusing inci- dents at the conference of the miners and the operators at the shore. The conferences were held in the Vene- tian gardens of one of the most ex- clusive and expensive hotels in At- bus in Toronto. The lecturer, or bal- lyhoo, on the bus had a distinct line He rarely failed in pointing out place or object of interest to add « remark calculated to catch a laugh Much of the humor was directed at the American passengers. For stance, when the bus was pas Parliament Park. “There, ladies and gentlemen.” suld the ballyhoo, “are two historic can non. They were captured at the b tle of Bunker Hill. We got the can- non; you know who got the hill.” ng Lady Bewicke-Copley Dies Tragically As She Wins Fight for Ancient Title BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Peculiarly tragic was the death of Lady Bewicke-Copley of Sprulboru\{gh Hall, Doncaster, who on the occasion of the obsequies of her husband, Gen. Sir Alington Bewicke-Copley. & fort- | night ago, fell in a faint on his coffin while the funeral service was in prog- ress, and, when an attempt was made to restore her, was found to have succumbed to disease of the heart. On the previous day she had received an offictal not!fication from the commit- tee of privileges in the house of lords to the effect that it had come to a fa- | vorable decision about her claims to the barony of Cromwell, created by Edward 111 in 1375 and which had fallen into abevance a little over a | '"Icenzury later. that is to say, in 1487 committee offically informed | Bewlcke-Copley that they had sent their report on her pretensions to the sovereign, together with their recommendation of the revival of the peerage in question in her favor. Of course, the monarch is not in any way compelled to accept or to act on the verdict of the committee of privi- leges of the house of lords, which is merely a recommendation and in no sense binding on the crown. But the king, as a rule, defers to the advice of the committee, and it is. therefore. quite on the carda that before the end The fof the year King George will issue & embodying the recommenda- and reviving of decree tion of the committee old and_attainted barony surviving son, Capt. Royal Rifle Corps, who won the mili- tary cross fighting in France in the great war, and who will thus become Lord Cromwell. * * * % The original Lord Cromwell, whose peerage the young subalterm of the Kings' Royal Rifles will now inherit, was lord high treasurer in 1456, and he hailed from Norwell, in Notting- ‘hamshire. That barony fell into abeyance In 1487. But in 1535 Henry VIII raised another member of the family—namely, Thomas Cromwell— to the peérage as Lord Cromwell, and as Earl of Essex, for his services as the executor of his decrees in con- nection with the confiscation of the immensely valuable property of the Roman Catholic Church in England in the sixteenth century. and the foundation of the entire Anglican de- nomination under the supremacy of the king, instead of that of the Pope. Indeed, this Lord Cromwell of Henry VIII's creation will live in history as the real father and chief promoter in the reformation. and is responsible for the epoch-making secularization and confiscation of all the property of the Roman Catholic Church and religious orders in England. Thomas, Lord Cromwell, ultimately | incurred the displeasure of Henr: VIII by bringing about and negotiat- ing the bluebeard monarch’s uncon- genlal marriage by proxy with Duch- ess Anne of Cleves, a princess for | whom the king conceived a most pro- nounced repugnance as soon as he had set eyes on her uncomely face. She may be described as having been one of the king's picture brides, and it was the glaring contrast between the Duchess Anne of Cleves, on can- vas and in miniature, and the Duch- ess Anne of Cleves, with her smallpox woarred face, pimply complexion, ab- sence of eyelashes and even ‘eye- brows, and utter lack of 'shape and form that caused the indignant king to hastily divorce the lady, and to sand Thomas Lord Cromwell and Earl of Essex to the scaffold on Tower Hill on a charge of high trea- son, his peerages, being on the de- mand of the crown, attainted by par- liament and put out of existence. * k x ¥ 1t is necessary to explain this to to prevent any confusion between the two former Cromwell baronies. It is not the peerage of Thomas Lord Cromwell who negotiated the matri- monial alllance between Henry VIII and the homely Duchess Anne of Cleves, but the peerage which w created mearly two centuries earlier by Richard II in favor of Ralph Cromwell, who was his lord high treasurer, which is on the advice of the committee of privileges of the house of lords about to be called by the king out of abeyance in favor of Capt. Robert Bewicke-Copley of the King's Royal Rifle Corps. Oliver Cromwell was a scion of the same family, and when one recalls the contempt which this despotic president of the ephemeral republic of Great Britain and Ireland, mani- ed for the house of lords after he had overthrown and put to deat King Charles T, it will eertainis in strange to hear the mame of “Lord Cromwell” being called out in the gilded chamber, with the request for his vote as a hereditary legislatc ind as a peer of the realm. * % ok ok Pat Annesley” is the name which is being used by Viscount Glerawls to conceal his identity at Hollywood where he is earning under discourag- ing circumstances, a precarious live- lihood as a “super” in the current production there of George M. Co- han's play, “Little Johnny Jones.' Last yeur he was figuring on the stage of the Winter Garden Theater, in London, under the management of | Grossmith and Lauri, as a member of the chorus, in “Kissing Time.” at salary of $25 a week, also avoid- ing his title and making use of the name of “Pat Carnarvon.” He is fully six feet high, has clear blue eyes has a pleasing musical voice and has had no end of trouble with monex lenders. Nor has he been free from mutri- monial adventures, for he is married to Edith, daughter of the late Maj Albemarle Rawlinson, the divorced wife of young Lord Kilconnell, whose own mother it may be remembered = the beautiful Belle Bilton of Lon- don music hall celebrity, who died as the wife of the present Earl of Clancarty. Lady Glerawly has not ac- companied her husband to Holls wood, but remains in London, at an rate for the present. * % * x It is rather a relief to Lord Gler awly's American friends and ac- quaintances and to his fellow mem oers of the profession that he has *| adopted the incognito of “Pat Annes- ley” for ordinary use. Glerawly is u Dpositively jaw-breaking name, whic sounds strange, even to Irishmen. The name should have been “Glenawley, a place in County Fermanagh. But {the clerk of the crown intrusted with the duty of writing out the patent of creation of the peerage wrote the name wrong and as the error was dis covered only after the document had - received the sign manual of the sov erefgn, it was too late to change it Consequently, the earls of Annesles possess among their minor hono the Viscounty of Glerawly, a place that has no existence. Although Lord Glerawly is the eld est son and heir of the seventh Lar of Annesley, he is only very remoteiy {connected with that Priscilia, Couns ess of Annesley, who returned 1¢ England last summer after spending almost: a year in the United States especially in New York, in Washing ton, in Florida, etc., being everywhere extensively entertained. She is the widow of the fifth earl, who dled in 1308, and the book which she is abou! to publish in London descrlmr_“ her experience in the United States is now on the eve of appearance and will be widely read. For she had the time o | her life here, according to her own accounts, and it may be taken for granted that theré will be no unkinc ly criticism, no ill-natyred imput tions, no disagreeable comparisons with Great Britain or any other coun try in its pages. * ¥ % % Far from engendering resentmen such as that which has been caused by the comments of other English writers about America and Americans, her book will be conducive in every way to in- crease the good will between the Eng lish-speaking people on both sides of the Atlantic. Excelling in golf, devoted to fiyfishing, for trout and salmon. i skilled yachiswoman, she has retained much of the Irish comeliness and charm which caused her as a young girl daughter of Willlam Armitage Moore of Arnmore,“to be celebrated as the relgn- ing beauty of DubMn society and to be known_alike by the latter and espe- cially by the masses of the population as “Pretty Priscilla.” Possessed of re- markable gifts, both as a musician and as a vocalist, singing Moore's melodies and Irish bailads to her own harp o guitar accompaniment, her Irish wit is never ill-natured, and it is only natural that throughout her stay in America she should have pleased everywnere and have been pleased. The - Annesleys are descended from Richard Brito, or “Le Breton,” who accompanied Ralph Fitzhubert, Count of Maine, into England at the time of the . Norman conquest, and received from the crown the lordship of Anne: ley in Northamptonshire. Sir Franc Annesley was employed in Ireland L King James | as his secretary of state und as his speaker of the privy signet Since then the Annesleys have played a very notable role, marked by. much ro- mance and even tragedy, in the annals of Great Britain and Ireland. ! |