Evening Star Newspaper, July 22, 1923, Page 36

2 [THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. EUNDAY esese.July 22, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42ud St. Chicaxo Office: Tower Building. Eoropean Office: 16 Regent St., London, England. The Evening Sta edition, s ¢ &t 60 cents month: ders muy b 8000, Callection exd of each month, With the Sunday morning v carriers within the city daily only, 45 cents only. 20 cents per month. Or- cut by mail or telephone Main made by carriers at the cr Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance, Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $8.40; 1 mo., 70¢ Dally only 1yr., $6.00; 1 mo., 50c Sunday only 1yr. §2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1yr., $10.00; 1 mo. Daily oniy... ;. Sunday only.. 850 60c 25¢ Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled o the ‘use for republication of all news dis- atches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- lished hercin. Al rights of publication of special dispafclies herein are also rexerved. The Commander of the Maine. The death of Rear Admiral Charles D. Sigsbee, whose body will be interred tomorrow, with bonors, at Arlington, has revived the memories of those days in February, 1898, twenty-five Yyears ago, when this country learned with horror of the destruction of the battleship Maine in Havana harbor and awaited the solution of the mys- tery of that dastardly crime. Rear Ad- miral (then Captain) Sigsbee's reports to the Navy Department were drama- tic and vivid. His was @ most trying situation. He had been sent into Havana harbor with the Maine to co- operate with Consul General Lee, who had asked for a naval vessel. He had been assizned to a particular anchor- age not to his liking. A few hours after the ship had heen made fast she was sunk by an explosion that caused the death of scores of men. It has been often said that the de- struction of the Maine precipitated the war with Spain, and doubtless it did hasten the break. But it can hardly be believed that war would have been averted even had the Maine not been sunk. The issue between the United States and Spain over conditions in Cuba was too acute to be settled by diplomatic adjustments. The Maine crime merely advanced events. It has been established beyond pos- sibllity of doubt that the Maine was destroyed by an external blow, that is to say, by a torpedo discharged for that purpose. The evidence of the wreck long afterward brought to the surface from the mud of Havana har- bor—ostensibly to clear the channel. but actual to elucidate the facts— left no question whatever on this score. The hull of the ship had been Liown inward. Who fired that torpedo and for what purpose has ver been learned. Whether the ship was sunk by hot- headed Spaniards resentful of the in- trusion of the United States into Cu- ban affairs. with a mistaken thought of frightening this country off, or by fanatic Cubans shrewdly, reckoning upon the anger of the American peo- ple to force and hasten intervention in thelr behalf has not been determined. There have been many stories point- ing variously, but never has there been any procf. Perhaps somewhere in the secret archives of this country or of Spain or of Cuba are records that settle the question. Maybe even- tually the true histc of the Maine's destruetion will be written. But now. as the body of her commander lies in this city awaiting final interment at Arlington, the myster; remains as pro- found as ever. All that is known is that the Maine's men died like heroes, and that her commander proved true to the highest traditions of the Ameri- can Navy in that hour of betrayal and death, —_————— Steamships continue to devote ite attention to the psychological ionship assumed to exist between the wine card and the passenger list. Moses Sees the Third Party. The “third party” is here. Senator Moses of New Hampshire, chairman ©of the republican senatorial campaign committes, brings that word from the west, where he saw the farmer-labor party crumple up the republicans and democrats allke in the election of Mag- nus Johnson to the Senate. Further- more, Senator Moses s confident that under the existing conditions o? dis- satisfaction the new movement is go- ing to sweep through other states. It is probable that the movement will be confined to the agricultural states of the west, he suys, although condi- tions may arise that will give it im- petus in the east also. For months there has been specula- tion as to a third political party in the coming national elections. La Follette, Borah, Henry Ford and others in the public eye have been suggested as pos- sible leaders of such a party. But now it appears that the party has sprung into existence, and is growing rapidly ‘without any nationally known leader. True, Senator La Follette took off his coat and waded into the fight to elect Magnus Johnson in Minnesota. But he said nothing about leaving the re- publican party. The third party seems to be well un- der way. Not unnaturally it will be casting around for a leader. As in the past in this country, new political par- ties are not started by a leader, but by the people, and the selection of a leader follows. The birth of the re- publican party is a case in point. Mr. La Follette has remained con- sistently in the republican party in all the years that he has been fighting for progressive principles in Congress. He might have been lured away to take the leadership of the progressives in 1912 had not Col. Roosevelt leaped into the breach and shoved him aside. Be- fore he left Washington last spring Senator La Follette was putting the goft pedal on third-party talk. But ‘with the new party now forming rapid- ly, according to Senator Moses, will the Wisconsin leader be able to resist @ call to head it, if it comes to him? Henry Ford looms as another pos- sible leader of the new party. No one knows where Mr. Ford stands politi- cally. He can jump any way he desires. ‘But-he appears to be-strong-among 'the farmers and among the laborers. The democrats are reported to be con- sidering seriously the candidacy of Ford. Possibly the democrats will in- dorse Ford as their candidate, too, if the farmer-labor party puts him for- ‘ward. The old democratic and republican party organigations are tenaclous of life. It is well to remember that the democratic party survived the civil war, and that the republican party survived the bull moose and came into power in 1920 with some 7,000,000 votes to spare. Both the old partics survived the populist movement of thirty years ago, a movement not un- like the farmerlabor movement of today. The United States, under our form of government, has always had two major political parties. If Congress, instead of the people, elected our Chief Executive, much as the British prime minister is chosen by the English par- liament, a plurality of parties, in ex- cess of two, might be expected. If the farmer-labor party is to be a big factor, then one of the old parties is likely to go under. On the other hand, one of the old parties, if it is willing, may swallow the new party, hook, line and sinker. But if it does, it must adopt the principles of the new organization. Nothing less would satisfy the men who have put the third party on the map. The dissatisfaction among the farm. ers in the middle west and west, which has given rise to the farmer-labor party, is not found in the same pro- portions in the industrial states of the east, largely because there are not so many farmers. But there is & condi- tion in the east that mawhelp to throw states in this section into the farmer- labor column, the persistent gambling and profiteering in necessitles of life, like coal, sugar, oil and food products after they have left the hands of the farmer. So far the people have looked in vain for relief from these conditions in the old parties. If the republicans or the democrats, or both, are resolved to meet the issue they should shake the dust from their feet and start walking. The White House. A university student has won a valuable art scholarship by drawing a design for a new White House. Whether it was the thought of this student to build a new White House on the site of the present structure or to bulld it elsewhere in Washington is not made clear. The title which he gives his effort is “An Office and Re- ception Building for the President of the United States.” The picture shows a harmonious and handsome edifice, and congratulations go to the young and presumably budding architect. But the effort at best is a study. There have been @ number of plans to remodel or rebuild the White House; plans to erect a palace for the President on the northern heights of the city; plans to maintain the old and historic White House as the official home of the President and to erect a building in which the President should attend to his affairs of office; proposals to erect a summer White House at many places. Some years ago additions were made to the White House at the east and west ends, but care was taken to pre- serve the familiar features of the old building. The White House is the ‘White House, and it should be allowed to remain pretty much as it has stood for about a century and a quarter. In time it is likely that a business White House will be constructed, where the President may receive callers on politi- cal missions and which will house the executive offices. What Washingtonians are interested in is that the White House as Amer{- cans know it, and as Americang have known it from the time that Wash- ington became the capital, shall be preserved. It has become a national monument, rich in historic associa- tions. Frequently an expression of disdpproval with the White House ap- pears. Now and then some man rises to say that the White House is not all it should be. It is too small or not sufficiently impressive, or it is too plain and simple for the present and future generations of Americans, or it is not upto-date. The finger of the faultfinder is often pointed at it. But there it stands, and there may it stand for all time. There are so many re- modelers in the land that it seems strange one of them does not come for- ward with e plan for remodeling the ‘Washington Monument. Gov. Smith’s attention may be called by art connoisseurs to the fact that there are in present obscurity a large number of steins and other ornate urns whose genuineness cannot pos- sibly be disputed. Scientists now say that a lightning rod is a genuine protection. Fashions continue to change in circles of erudi- tion as well as popular fancy. In demanding help, the farmers do not hesitate to assert that they may re- quire the old political parties to lift the same appeal. The names of Lenin and Trotsky continue to flgure in soviet announce- ments, but they no longer look like headliners. Bucket Shops.- Another season of bucket shop ex- posures has opened. Such things come periodically, but the matter now being } published about bucket shops should be read by everybody. It may serve as warning to some persons. Men give} different explanations of the origin of the term *bucket shop,” but the plain meaning of it is a fake brokerage ot-] fice. That ought to be clear enough v.o, any man. ‘The legitimate stock broker xives‘ his customers honest advice and the | best counsel that he has to offer, be- cause he wants them to make money. The bucket shop keeper gives his cus- tomers the worst advice possible, be- cause it is his business to have his cus- tomers lose money. He advises the buying on margin of stocks which he believes to be worthless or question- able. He charges a commission for buying shares which he has not bought, and also charges interest on the difference between the sum put up by the customer and the market price the-stock-alleged to have been THE SUNDAY bought. He is often directly interested in the flotation of worthless stock and in the circulation of alluring reports about bad stocks and damaging rumors about good stocks. A dishonest man doing business un- der the pretense of being & stock broker and banker has meny ways of fleecing unwary men. When, in splte of all the chances in his favor, things are going against him he packs up the funds of the “firm,” locks the office, posts a notice of suspension and an- other “faflure” is reported. ‘There is no way in which @ man on the outside can win at this game, yet many try it again and again, and tens of thousands try it once. It has been sald that “A sucker is born every minute,” and some of them live to a great age. It is curious that the lawmakers and law-enforcement officers have given so much attention to poolrooms, speak- easles, crap-shooting, faro games and the ltke and dealt so lightly with bucket shops. It ought to be easy to deal with a pure and simple bucket shop, but the situation becomes in- volved when a concern is part broker- age firm and part bucket shop; that is, when it engages in the execution of brokerage orders in due form and also engages in the practice of bucketing orders. Purchases on margin even of sound stocks through a legitimate and honest brokerage house is attended with danger, but speculation in any kind of stocks through a fake broker- age firm involves almost certain loss, and certain loss if you stay long enough. A St. Louls saloonkeeper, believing that a deception can he detected by the heart beat, felt the pulse of every cus- tomer before he would sell him a drink. A dry agent took him in despite his precaution, and left another in- dignant man in agreement with Col. Bryan that it is impossible to believe all the popular scientists try to tell us. Mr. Magnus Johnson desires to think some points of public policy over very carefully before he goes on record. This consclentious and deliberative attitude may be of value to him if he can maintain it during his senatorial career. ‘The newly elected statesman who stays home to look after his crops proves his confident expectation that something can be done to prevent the price of grain from becoming hope- s The organization known as the I. W. W. persists in limited numbers; yet sufficlent to prove that there are still members who do enough actual work to enable them to pay dues. It was believed in advance that the position of governor general of the Philippines would not be free from dif- ficulties. Gen. Leonard Wood was not invited to accept a sinecure. ‘The innocent suffer as usual. The grade-crossing accidents pick out pleasure tourists. A locomotive seldom hits a bootleg flivver. Col, Bryan is now regarded as a man with a political past, but @ great sclentific future. While conferences are sifting the coal situation the public is supposed to sift ashes. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON The Thermom, The old thermom Hangs on the wall And spoils life’s baim For one and all. For in the time Of warmth severe Grief seems to climb Both far and near. We find life brings Resentment strong. We vow that things Are going wrong. Each morbid myth In memory lives. ‘We quarrel with Our relatives. We'l find anew 'Mid autumn’s calm, Our griefs were due To the thermom. Economist. “Do you claim to be a political economist?” “I do,” replied Senator Sorghum. “I don't believe in letting your friends spend a cent on your election that {sn't absolutely necessary.” Jud Tunkins says his wife thinks every man shouid be compelled to put in & twelve or fourteen hour day at his regular work instead of hanging around and interfering with the house- cleaning. Alarm Clocks, A reformer declared he would waken ‘mankind By lifting his voice with austerity— An alarm clock is useful, indeed, but you'll find It doesn't claim much popularity, Real Life. “One is very likely to be disillusioned soon after leaving college.” “Yes,” repligd Miss Cayenne, “it needs only e brief experience after educational seclusion to ascertain how imuch: the professors didn't know about ! popular picture stars and the latest music.” Mythology Modernized. “Pandora’s box teleued all kinds of trouble upon the world. “I shouldn't be surprised,” mused Uncle Bill Bottletop, “if that wasn't nothin’ but & suit case full of bootleg licker. No Disadvantage. “I can cure you of stuttering,” sald the doctor. “I don't want to be cured. When I talk everybody has to listen attentive- ly and is afraid to interrupt.” “I hasn't yet seen a man s0 super- stitious,” said Uncle Eben, “dat he wasn’ willin’ to start de week end loatin’ on Fridey 'stid o’ Saturday.” STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 0., Holds Fad for Organization ' Is Being Very Much Overdone BY THOMAS R. MARSHALL. Former Vice President of the United States. 1 am ancient enough of days to remember the battle cry of the repub- lic Aifty years ago. It was, “We must educate, we must educate, or we perish.” Well, we educated and edu- cated and educated during all these years, and at the end of them we are ralsing a new battle cry. It is, “We must organize, we must organize, or we perish.” Whether this organization idea is o be sort of a handmaiden of educa- tion or its boss, I do not know. I do know that to not a few of us who are afraid to throw a letter in the waste- basket without reading it for fear it may contaln something which we ought to know, this organization business already is a nuisance. The. government of the United States seemingly is unable to take care of itself, judging by the letters we re- celve from first one society and then another. The public schools and the private institutions of learning of the country apparently are impotent. ficials and educators do not have the ability, desire, or vision, according to these organization themes, to train up to the right kind of American citizen. * ok K K It must require some considerable nerve on a man’s part to announce himselt the champion of Ameri- can Ideals, to lay out what he calls & set of principles, state that inherently these principles form the basis of the American republic, and then circu- larize the country in some such way as this: “We are about to organize a group of public-spirited men and women who seek to awaken and sus- tain a more lively interest in the American government”; or, “We are about to organize a soclety for the Americanization of the foreigner be- cause the dangers to America from ignorant allens in our midst consti- tute the most awful menace to our institution: ve belleve that nothing is so essential to good gov- ernment as to impress upon the minds of the people that they are all rigl although they know they are wWrong or, “There are secret influences at work, undermining our institutions. We have organized to preserve our institutions.” These are not exact quotations from circulars which have come to me, but they well illustrate the ideas which constantly clog the mails. One is all the time being im- portuned to permit the use of his name as & sponsor or an honorary vice president; for $100 you may en- list as a life member or for $500 you can become a founder. * x ® ¥ No one disputes the right of peo- ple in America to organize for most any sort of a principle that they choose to enunclate, if it be not in violation of the Constitution and laws of this country, but one cannot but wonder at these numerous offensive and defensive organizations which are springing up like mushrooms in American life. and to ponder whether they are wholly, exclusively and self- sacrificingly patriotic. One may well ask himself, not Mark Twaln's ques- tion, “How much do a king git?" but, “How much does an organizer get? How much per word are the con- tributors to these “different organi- zations paying for patriotic impulse?” I do not pretend to say that some of these organizations are not wise and good and that out of their aotivi- ties much is not being accomplished in the Interest of the republic, but 1 unhesitatingly declare that all are not justified and that the activities of some are not to the benefit of our land. A man born in America, though he never appears before any court of record to do %o, has taken a natal oath to support the Constitution and obey the laws of the United States. And it {8 the duty of our courts, before they admit @y one to citizen- ship, carefully to ascertain the opin- jons and conduct of the applicant, and to make sure that his oath of allegiance will be honestly taken. In the irrepressible conflicts of politics there are controversies, of course, as to who are good and bad citizens, Wwho are patriotic and who disloyal, but so long as the Constitution pro- vides that treason must consist of an overt act of war against the gov- ernment, mere discussion of public questions and expressions of opinions do not stamp dissenters as traitors. Nelther the color of a man's hal nor the raclal blood that flows in his veins, nor his religious scruples or lack of religlous scruples has much to do with his citizenship. * % k% But in this era of organization I am gravely informed that the man of foreign birth, the man of black skin, the man of Jewish faith or some other man is not a good American citizen, and that we must organize to see to it that some dark night when the Ku Klux are not on guard the Constitution of the United States is not stolen from our archives and burned upon Capitol Hill. I am also informed that there is great danger to the government from the ignorant forelgner in our midst. This I will admit, but I am not for organization to frown down upon him and treat him as an alien and a heathen. I am rather for the old battle cry of education. I would instfll into his mind correct ideas as to our system of government and treat him in such a way that he will believe that our principles require not mere lip service, but whole-hearted service for every one, native or for- clgn born, who stands beneath the flag. very once in a while I get a jar over good citizenship. Naturally, we belleve any one who sprang from the loins of the republic is whole-heart- edly In favor of the preservation of our institutions, that he would re- sist to the uttermost any change in them, save by lawful procedure. This would argue that the old stock of Americans are wholly law-ablding and law-enforcing. But what about Adams county, Ohlo, where a popul: tion, pure-bred American, 88 We ex- press it, became 8o corrupt that prac- tically all of its citizens, even minis- ters of the gospel, sold their votes? What about recent occurrences in Williamson county, Illinois? It would be difficult to find any place in America where there are more citizens who trace their ancestry back to the revo- lution, yet men were murdered in cold blood there and indictments and trial resulted in acquittals. The murder: occurred in broad daylight, in the presence of thousands, but no one in court seemed to know who the mur- derers were. * ok ok ¥ I do not care to tilt a lance with the many organizations for the mak- ing of good Americans, but I hope for a revival of the anclent idea of edu- cation. Let good citizenship be preached in the first grade in school and thereafter, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, in season and out of & son. Let us place upon the consclence of every growing child in America the solemn obligation to support and defend the Constitution and to obey the law because it is the law; and let us go farther and remember that every citizen is & police officer in the presence of crime. There is an fdea abroad now that a man may patron- ize a bootlegger and remain a good citizen. This idea cannot be su tained, legally or morally. There also an idea that a good clitizen may keep still if a friend has commitied a crime. This is human, but not pa- triotic. When we shall have educated all our people into the belief that they should keep the law and assault it only in words, not in deeds, and should join public officials in attempts to punish men for violations of even those laws which we belleve to be un- wise, unjust and foolish, we shall have terminated many dlscussiyas now disturbing the people and pre- served the moral fiber of our clti- zonship through respect for law, without which the best of kovern ments must go down. When wa reach & point where our people spend more time in devising ways to vio- late a law than to preserve or alter it, where government officials wink at breaches of it, and where authority is fmpotent, we are on a fair way to 4 time when all the organizations in the world will not save us. (Copyright, 1023, by 21st Century Press.) German Princess of Royal Blood To Stand Trial on Perjury Charge BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Princess Marguerite of Hohenlohe, who, after being subjected for some time past to nominal-arrest and strict supervision in her castle by the Ger- man government on a charge of har- iboring and concealing the leaders of the Erhardt conspiracy against the state, and who has now been lodged in jail at Lelpzig, arrayed in prison garb, under an indictment for gross perjury of which she has rendered herself guilty in connection with the affair, has & strong dose of American blood In her veins. For her mother, the late Princess Helene Hohenlohe, was the daughter of the one-time Helene Moulton of New York and of Albany, who died as the wife of Count Paul Hatzfeldt, for many years Ger- man ambassador in London. Col, and Mrs. Moulton, the latter a daughter of old Caesar Metz, the lead- ing _professor of the terpsicorean art in New York, in the first three dec- ades of the nineteenth _century, moved, in 1842, to Paris, where, reason of his wealth and of his wife’ remarkable beauty, they became great favorites at court, and continued as such until the overthrow of the monarchy through the Franco-Ger- man war of 1870. * % % * Their daughter, Helene Mouiton, who had inherited much of her mother’s fascination and charm, won the hand of Count Paul Hatzfeldt, then secretary of the German em- bassy in Paris. The union would have turned out very happily had it not been for the extravagance of the young diplomat. Some years after the Franco-German war, Paul Hatsfeldt found himself to such an extent over- whelmed with debt that retirement from the diplomatic service of his country and absolute ruin stared him in_the face. Prince Bismarck was aware of this. He was fond of Paul Hatzfeldt, and used to declare that he was “the best horse In my stable.” He had always disapproved of his American mar- riage, and after the war was over, protested strongly against his con- flding any piece of information to his wife, who had remained pronouncedly French in all her ideas, views and sympathies. Finally, he made a prposal to Paul Hltlleldt namely, to have all of his debts paid out of the secret funds at his (Bismarck’s) disposal, and to ap point him to the lucrative office of ambassador. to Turkey, on the condi- tion that he divorce his American wife and marry one of the dllllhuri of old_Baron Bleichroeder, the fore- most Jewish banker of Berlim, and one of his greatest friends. Fallure to comply with Blsmarck's proposal meant absolute ruin. For Helene Moulton had _inherited very little money from her parents, who had lived in a rather extravagant manner while associated with the court of Napoleon III. So his marriage ties were judiciaily sundered, though it is doubtful whether there was ever & divorce pronounced between a mar- ried couple who were so much in love with one another. The proposed marriage with the Bleichroeder heiress fell ¢hroug! owing to the reluctance of the gl to accord her hand and her fortune to an elderly husband, whose whole heart and affections were retained by his first wife, and who had only consented to be judiclally parted from him in order to save him from ruin. Bismarck, however, who had already paid off Paul Hatzfeldt's debts, stuck to his part of the bargain and a pointed him as ambassador at Con- stantinople with a very large salary and allowances. Subsequently, Hatz- feldt became secretary of state for foreign affairs at Berlin, while later on he was accorded the post of Ger- man ambassador in London. His_son Hermann, and his daugh- ters, Helene and Marie, divided their time between their mother’s home at Wiesbaden, and their fathers em- bassy in London, and not long after Bismarck had been dismissed from office of the ex-kalser, and the ob- stacle to their re-union had just been removed, Paul Hatzfeldt and his wife were married anew at Wiesbaden in the presence of Emperor Willlam's sisters, and of his mother, the Eng- lish born Empress Frederick, who had remained the warm friend of the American Countess Paul Hatzfeldt throughout, looking upon the couple as cruelly used victims of the cap- riclous tyranny of the Iron Chancel- lor. * ok k¥ The two daughters of the couple married within a distance of a few weeks of one another, to the two brothers of the still-surviving Prince Christian Kraft of Hohenlohe, sec- ond Duke of Ujest. Paul Hatafeldt's only son, Hermann, after his father’s death in harness in England, earned his 1tving for several years in London on the stock exchange, then joined the diplomatic service of Germany, and finally through the unexpected death of his distant cousin, Prince Francis Hatzfeldt, he succeeded to the honors and to the entailed estates of the family as Prince of Hatzfeldt. ‘Three years before the great war the new prince married the multi- millionaire mald of honor and inti- mate friend of the ex-Crown Princess of Germany, Marie Von Stumm, heir- ess of one of the greatest Ironmasters of western Germany. The prince, ‘who was charge d'affaires of the Ger- man embassy at Washington for some months before the arrival of Count John Bernstoff in the United States, is still in the service of the German government, with the rank of major general and of minister plenipoten- tiary, and until the French military occupation of the Ruhr district, was German high commissioner for the Rhine provinces. * k%X The Hohenlohes are related to most of the now reigning or formerly sovereign houses of Europe. Queen Victoria’s mother, the Duchess of Kent, was the widow of a Prince of Hohenlohe and Queen Victoria had a half-sister, Princess Fedora Hohen- lohe, to whom she was devoted. The late kalserin's mother was a Princess Hohenlohe, and the head of the entire house of Hohenlohe is married to a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, who is sister to Queen Marie of Rumania. Under the laws of the old German empire, Hohenlohes, like the: around the house or yard like a dog or cat. When it gets hungry it will come and look up at you and make & noise. If you don't pay any at- tention to that it will soon get im- JULY 22, 1923—PART 2. I Capital Sidelights BY WILL P. KENNEDY. The first campaign that Represen- tative W. A. Ayres of Kansas made for Congress was in 1914 at the time the “bull moose party” was in its glory. It will be recalled that the regular re- publicans fought the bull moose candldates with more vigor than they did the democrats and were eager at all times to get anything on a bull moose candidate. It was then when Victor Murdock, now a member of the Federal Trade Commission, ran on the bull moose ticket ior United States senator, and Henry J. Allen, recent Governor of Kansas, ran on the same ticket for governor, that Ayres ran on the democratic ticket to succeer Murdock in_the House. One day while campaigning he went ‘to a lttle town called Andale, exclusively a German settlement. A vedding of very prominent people was being celebrated, and it was an all-day event. Awres was told by an implement dealer that it he would make a ten-minute &peech, and not mention polities, he would arrange for every one to come down and hear m. When the wedding party came to the corner where the implement store was located, the proprietor, who was one of Ayres' loyal supporters, boost- ©ed him up on a plece of farm machin- ery as a platform from which to speak. This plece of machinery was not used when Ayres was farming. So when the crowd began to laugh, Ayres asked his friend who introduced him the cause of their merriment. He said: “Don’t you know what you are standing on?" and when Ayres pleaded ignorance he told him it was a manure spreader. After he was introduced Mr. Ayres started out by saying: “Ladies and gentlemen: In my campalgning naturally I have been called upon many times to make speeches under peculiar and at times difficult cir- cumstances, but this is the first time in my life that T was ever called up- on to make a democratic speech from & bull moose platform.” The republicans used that as a campaign story all the rest of the campaign, and Mr. Ayres to this day is frequently interrupted by some one in the andience yelling: “Bill, give us a democratic speech from a bull moose platform.” * %k Xk X Before entering the Army at the time of the world war, Roy G. Fitz- gerald, now a member of Congress, reduced himself eighty pounds in welght. When he went back to Day- ton, Ohio, at the close of the last Congress he weighed 230 pounds. So he set to work and took off thirty pounds again, so as to fit his uni- forms and enter military training at Camp Knox. Representative Fitzgerald s a major of infantry in the reserve. Representative John McSweeney, the new congressman from the sixteenth Ohlo district is a captain in the reserve and is at the same training camp. Maj. Gen. Farnsworth, who commanded McSweeney on the front, sald to Maf. Fitzgerald the other day: “Capt. McSweeney Is the bravest man I ever knew.” * K ox % Victor Berger, soclalist, whom col- leagues In Congress have several times voted they did not want there, but whom the people of Wisconsin have even more frequently voted they do want in Congress, is spend- ing the summer in Europe, particu- larly in the Ruhr district preparing himself for a series of “talks” dur- ing the coming winter. * ko * One of the most peculfar among many peculiar pets of congressmen is a wild groundhog kept by Repre- sentative T. J. Lilly of Hinton, w. Va. He caught it in the wilds of the mountain when it was about three weeks old, tamed it, and it stays patient and will stand up and paw your legs with its front feet to at- tract your attention. Representative Lilly has two farms and there he is spending most of his summer. He was born and raised on the farm and, unlike most boys with that expereince, he s very fond of farming. He puts all the time he can spare from his law office on the farm. He is addicted to fish- ing and hunting. He breeds and keeps Jersey dairy stock and has a beautiful herd. He also takes de- light in pouitry raising and spe- cializes on Rhode Island Reds, saying “We find that they do better and are more profitable for this section of the country.” - xoxox An interesting illustration of why the farmers of his district are es- pecially interested in having freight rates lowered is given by Repre- sentative John N. Tillman of Ar- He calls on John Huls of Prairie Ark., kansas, Grove, as witness, This man Huls testifies that he recently bought | six bushels of rve—'not the kind you pour down the throat, but the kind you sow on the rich soil in the Prairie Grove valley,” Tillman ex- plains. Huls says he gave 60 cents @ bushel for this rye in Kansas and the freight on the same was a dollar a bushel. Another mneighbor of Representa- tive Tillman shipped some water- melons to New York city. They gave him 7 cents each for the melons in the fleld, the frelght to New York was 21 cents each and the consumer paid $1.50 each for the melons. “The fellow who created the wealth, the farmer"—Representative Tillman emphasizes—'got mnext to nothing for It, while the man who made the last sale and who was in no sense responsible for the crea- tion of this wealth, got §1.50 for each melon.” * kX % Maj. Harry B. Hawes, who repre- sents the eleventh district of Mis- souri, has several interesting hob- bles. For many years he was presi- dent of the Mississippi Valley Kennel Club and a delegate to the American Kennel Club. His hobby has been the raising of dogs. Being Invited to address the State University at Columbia and permitted to select his own _subfect, he delivered an address on the subject of “Dogs,” which was printed throughout the United States and put in pamphlet form and re- printed in England, Canada, Aus- tralfa and Spain. Barly this vear he treated his colleagues in Congress to @ talk on “The Dog which has been made a public document. He complained at that time because the Department of Agriculture, while 1s- suing many useful bulletins upon domestic_animals, had entirely neg- lected the dog. Dog breeders and fanciers all over the United States consult and advise with him about the breeding and training of dogs. But Maj. Hawes does not spend all of his time in the kennels, by a good deal. He has established at his home, in the city of St. Louls, a complete Spanish room of the six- teenth century perlod and furnished it with tiles, paintings, furniture and fittings brought from Spain. He has the largest collection of the work of Cervantes in the United States and has specialized in the study of the masters great work, ‘Don Quixote.” —_— members of other mediatized dynas- ties, were immune from the jurisdic- tion of the ordinary courts of law. But these privileges were swept away by the revolution of 1918, and it looks, therefore, very much as if Plr!ncall ;ll:rgula.lg;a o‘ltfloh:nloh.. a strong-minde of twenty-seven, will have to stand trialin an ordinary court for perjuryy NATIONAL MEN BY ROBERT T. SMALL. HE death of Rear Admiral Charles D. Sigsbee, captain of the Maine, at New York on Thursday marks the passing of one of the last naval commanders of the Spanish-American war. Ad- miral Sigsbee outlived by years most of his cotemporaries of the service. They are virtually all gone now— Dowey of Manila bay, Sampson and Schley of Santiago, “Fighting Bob” Evans, Phillips of the Texas, who sald, “Don't cheer boys, the poor devils are dying": Gridley of the Olympia, who could fire when Le was ready, and Clarke, who brought the Oregon all the way around the Horn and put her immediately into the forefront of the fighting line after her thousands of miles of steady steaming. Then, too, there was Coghlan of “Hoch Der Kaiser” fame and Wain- wright, who was executive officer of the Maine under Capt. Sigsbee and later in command of the little Gloucester, which got {nto the midst of the Santiago affair—a sort of David among a battalion of Goliaths. The Spanish-American war was not a big war as wars go nowadays, but it was an {ntimate, a sort of personal, war, where the individual had his' hour’ or his minute in_the sun—the spotlight of glory. “There is glory enough for all’ sald the gallant” Schley. It was absolutely certain, “for instance, when Col. Theodore Roosevelt accompanied the Rough Riders to Cuba that deeds of valor were in store for him. If the colonel had boen granted his wish to g0 to the world war in 1817 he might easily have been engulfed in the great anonymity of a battle line far flung along 400 miles of fighting front. * ok k% And it is necessary to go back to the Spanish war for the popular tra- ditions of the Amerfcan Navy, for it wag only in that war that our master fighting ships met the best the enemy could put upon the seas. There was vallant and effective service in the world war; splendid co-operation be- tween the American and British fleets; marvels of convoy work and epics of achievement with depth bomb and rifie fire agalnst the Ger- man submarines. But the spectacu- lar naval fighting of the world war was over and done wit before America went in. After its “glorious victory” at Jutland the German hizh seas fleet took to the seas no more. Our splendld super-dreadnaughts had no _chance to fire a big gun in anger. So the individual ship commanders, even the squadron commanders, were swallowed up in the bigness of the world war. It is doubtful {f a school girl or hoy today could tell you the name of a single captain engaged in the world war fleets. Thus it {s seen that what the Spanish war lacked in size it made up In individuality of service, Admiral Sigsbee was a great lover| of the sea. Virtually all of his long active service was afloat. He com- manded ships of the line for th! Heard and Seen If Washingtonians are superstitious, it day last week. A man with a long working on a store. der set almost out to the curb, it being necessary for passersby to step into the street to avoid passing under the ladder. To do the latter is by many regard- ed ag “bad luck.” Offhand one Would | pent in tne Star o be inclined to say that at least half of the people who passed that spot in any given length of time would walk around. As a matter of fact, a count kept on fifty persons passing failed to reveal a single one who stepped into the street to avold going under the lad- der. Men, women, children, all calmly kept on their way. If they noticed the ladder over them, none seemed to mind. Evidently the ladder business is as dead here as all superstition ought to be. * * % Maybe this will throw some light on this high cost of living business. A high government offictal had a collection of brooms in his office. Manufacturers were competing for the award on brooms. The success- ful bidder wiil eell thousands of brooms to Uncle Sam. ‘See that broom?” said the officlal. “Do you know how much that costs in_the stores?” His auditor did not, “Well, it _costs you $2.25 aplece in the stores,’ continued the official. Now do you know the price they have quoted to us?” Again his auditor was ignorant. “Well, they have quoted us a price of $12 a dozen, or thereabouts. Fig- ure it out for yourself.' * * * ‘Washington is on sneeze. It used to be that colds were most- ly winter diseases, but nowadays it seems as if they inflict mankind the whole vear around. Perhaps it is impossible to get into a local street car without having some one sneeze vigorously before the ve- hicle gets downtown. When this is combined with the fact that not one in & thousand sneezes in handkerchief, but sprays his sneeze over the car at random, a difficult situation is created. One man solves it immediately hopping off the car in Wwhich a sneeze occurs, and taking the next trolley. Of course it costs another fare, but he figures it is worth it. He tells, in a somewhat boastful manner, of a time when he had to get off of two cars in succession, thus paying three fares to get downtown. Undoubtedly the susceptibility of human beings to the so-called com- mon_cold is increasing. 1s it the way we live? Is it the food we eat? Is it because we pamper ourselves with 85 degrees in our homes and offices in winter, Instead of the proper 65- degree temperature? Whatever it is, science ought to find it out, and doctors ought to make a drive ta educate the people in the prevention of colds. * * k A canary got loose from its cage in a home facing Lafayette Park, flew out of the window, and was lost to its frantic mistress. Now, every one knows what a speck of life a canary is. So what an ad- venture the bird embarked on when it sped out the window to the green park. It did not know that a big rain was coming up. The bird flew around the park for awhile, enjoving its new-found free- dom. But when the rain started to come down it was swept across to another home, across the street on another side of the park, Two cats were waiting in the room. They were sitting there with their mistr when nuddenl{ their eyes glistened. That was when the ca- nary, storm-driven, flew in, to perch like a wet ball of fluff on the back of & chair. No, the wicked cats did not eat the innocent canary. The woman manag- ed to recover from her surprise quickly enough to prevent that catas- trophe. Now the canary home nfaln. safe in its cage, after its flight into the unknown. And the two cats are waiting for another CHARLES- B. TRACEWELL one grand was not proved on G street one ladder was | He had the lad- | ‘ Mulcting the Public nine years. This love of the reaches of deep green waters typified in his last word “It secms,” he suid, ‘as if I am once more putting out ia ssa” »ExF President Harding, in Alaska keeping up his national reputation as one of the greatest “Joiners’ th White House has ever known. i Induction into Igloo, No. 17, Pioncers of Alaska, has been the subject of great deal of comment here in the capital because of the oath the Chic’ Executive took to be kind to dogs and horses. Some whimsicall minded persons have gone 5o far to say the natural inference must b that “before taking the oath the President was not kind to horses and dogs. “It has now been a whole week " sald one wag, “since the President was unkind to a horse or dog.” Naturally, Laddie Boy and his 4 votion to his distingulshed mast are a living contradiction 1 these humorous sallies, but the ident’'s position recalls the story of the question framed by a Phila- delphia lawyer to prove that no reply could be given without self-incrim- ination. “Have you stopped beating wife ” he demanded; no."” open was your “answer yes or * k k% A Washington official just returned from Buffalo is spinning a sprightly yarn about a dinner experience at one of the newest and most popular hotels in that city, patronized par- ticularly by the commercial traveler. The Washingtonian was one of 2 party of six gentlemen at dinner in the hotel. The meal was rather an elaborate affair and the head waiter had been well taken care of by the generous host. He hovered about the table all through the dinner, seeing that the service was all that it should be. ~Also, from time to time he could be heard giving very audible instruc- tions to the garcon. The gem of tha evening, however. came when the last course had been disposed of. “Now, ,my boys,” sald the head waiter With an unctious rub of the hands, “clmr away all the debris and bring the gentlemen six nice, clean finger bow “Ah," remarked the host; *so they have two kinds here, eh?" * * x * C. C. Hamlin of Colorado Springs has just been east for the first time since he added to his newspaper hold- ings by the purchase of the morning paper in his home city, making him the journalistic monarch of all he surveys in that nationally popular community. “C. C.” opines that he is Just about ready to forsake active politics, the law and evervthing else in order to give all of his e to his prosperous papers. TPolitically, he has been known as the “Little Lion of the Rockies,” but now it secms he is Boing 10 be content with the newer appellation, “The Lord Northeliffe of the Plkes Peak region, Fifty Years Ago in The Star A coal shortage fifty years ago as it was threatened now by possible strike In the in Hard-Coal Prices, »nthracite field, but it the following com f July 14, 1873, tha+ >ved to be a par: game to insure au would seem from the strike was be of the operators' advance of prices: “The fact that the coal produc and shippers engineer the ‘strikes so-called, among the miners for the purpose of restricting production and advancing prices is so well underston: that it seems strange that th, should think it worth while to kee UD the transparent farce and g through “this tedious clrcumlocutio to effect their object. But it scems they propose to resort to the stale old trick, and it is given out accord ingly that labor troubles have b agafn In the coal regicns and there are indications of a general strike Cotemporaneous with this is the ar nouncement that the Reading and Iron Company has stopped ship ment until the 15th. In fact, the parties to the existing ring of coa!l producers and shippers do not con ceal their fintentions. was giver out months ago the prin ciple of gradually accustoming con sumers o bear the heavier tax it is the purpose to collect advance of 10 cents per ton montl 1y would be established and _th course of the market has given evidence that the program was au- thentic. As pointed out, however, by the New York Journal of Commerce & single item of calculation seems to have been left out, or underestimat ed. The natural increase of the de mand was apparently counted on and. accordingly, though it was determin ed that the market should not be over-stocked, we_ find that the large production of 1872 had been exceed- &4, up fo the 28th ult,, by 208,632 tons The delayed returns since that period will probably show a further increass of this excess. The market, however has not taken kindly to the manip ulation of the ring and has beer £low to absorb the supply. It there- fore became likely, some weeks ug: that production uld have to be arbitrarily lessened or that the- scheme of making a steady monthly advance of prices would fail. Tht Teliance of the public must be on the failure of the ring to hold together The very motive which binds such combinations ~together, cupidity. is generally apt to be the means of their early dissolution.” * % The other day in the police cour! a dog was acquitted of being a r sance on the Caleb Cushing’s score of not Dog-Barking Suit. turnal bari ing. The Dis trict courts did not have this prece dent in the case thus noted in The Star of July 16, 1873: “A good many afflicted people who have had their rest broken by the yelping curs that infest Washingtol will bid Caleb Cushing godspeed in his endeavor to show that citize have some rights in the matter thi dog owners are bound to respect. | vesterday brought suit in the Did trict courts against the owner of on of these pests, claiming $1,000 dam age on the first count and $2.000 of the second. He sots forth thut the defendant did wrongfully keep a dog which ‘was used and accustomed to bark corc.nually by day and night. and that on Saturday the 12th in- stant, tho defendant did then and there allow the said dog to bark incessantly from early in the duy through the whole day and uight following, and did thereby hinder and prevent the plaintiff from studying and transacting his lawful business by day and deprived him of his sleep during the night, es injuriously to affect his health and the peac use of his property.’ The that on count alleges the peeping of the sam dog and that said dog was a danger- ous_one. “Mr. Cushing originally sought remedy for his grievance before the board of health, but that body held that they had not the power to re- lieve him and he accordingly brought the matter before the court. He is too good a lawyer not to know what he is about, and the fact that he has instituted this suit will give great encouragement to those troubled by the same nuisance to belleve that {'h:v have legal rights in the prem- o