Evening Star Newspaper, July 29, 1923, Page 30

i ) {THE 'EVEMING . STAR, ?_ With Sundssy Morning Edition. ! WASHINGTON, D. C. veeeoJuly 20, 1823 SUNDAY.... Office: European Oftice: 16 Regent 8t., London, The Evening Star, with the Sunday moraing edition, Is delivered by carrlers within the city 2t 60 cents per mouth; daily ouly, 45 cents per month: Sunday only. #0 cents per month, Or- ders be sent by mail or telephone’ Main 8000, Collectior is made by carriers at the €nd of each month, x Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Paily and Sunday..1yr., §8.40; 1 mo., 70¢ Daily only. ... 1yr., $6.00; 1 mo., 50c Sunday onl, 1yr., $2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ $7.00: 1 mo., §0c $3.00: 1 mo., 25 + Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively o the use for republication of all patehes credited o it or not otherwi In this paper and also the local Nehed herein. Al rj P German Reactions. For several days past dispatches from Berlin have indicated keen anx- iety on the score of a possible bolshe- vik or communist outbreak in Ger- many. The renewed fall {n the rate of exchangze has brought about a food crisis, and soclal conditions generally have become bad. The radicals, it has been feared, are planning to take ad- vantage of this situation to demon- strate, possibly to precipitate a revolu- tionary break. This bogy of a bolshe- vik uprising has been brought forward hefore, however, and is not so menac- ing as it once was. The government at Berlin may play the communist card strongly in a game that is in progress with the allled nations over the question of reparations, but it may be depended upon to take good care to safeguard itself against a successful uprising of the radical element. Al- ready signs are in evidence that the government has moved to subdue po- litical outbreaks. Plans have been an- rounced to prevent outdoor demon- strations, and in consequence the bol- shevik leaders have canceled heretofore announced ‘“anti-fascist” demonstra- tons. 1t dence that just at the time of the re- vival of talk about a communist dem- onstration there was also a revival of talk about an impending monarchical coup, with a possible move for the Festoration of the Hohenzollerns. Dis- paiches from Dutch sources told of re- newal of activity at Doorn and Weir- engen. There has lately been a great deal of ‘visiting” at the ex-kaiser's quarters on the part of representative German monarchists, and the former crown prince has likewise received some notable callers. But tales of mionarchical plots have been flouted in Germany as utterly improbable. It would seem, however, that there is @ eonnection between these revivals. Every time the holshevist club waved the monharchical saber is rattled. Food prices have risen so high in German cities that actual distress is reported. There is no actual food shortage at the sources, but purveyors are reluctant to ship their goods to the centers of distribution because of the uncertainty on the score of prices, which fluctuate widely. Already there is talk of establishing the dollar price system in abandonment of the mark 48 a unit, owing to the fact that marks are now quoted at close upon a mil- Hon to the dollar, or 10,000 to the cent. Just how long this procedure can eontinue is & problem. With the print- ing presses grinding out marks at the Tate of nearly two trillion a day the Ger- man currency is rapidly going to the point of the Russian monetary condi: tion. The government at Berlin ap- pears to be helpless. Actually, it is probably fostering this movement as part of its play for sympathy in the matter of reparations. | ‘Bfore coming to the Senate Mr. Jnlu'\h‘qu of Minnesota will devote him- ®eif to making his farm as prosperous A% poséible. He has possibly heard the ancignt flings at the Senate as & mll- tonmires' club, and is desirous of mak- {i& thé Best financial showing possible. “The Anacostia Park. .’ Elaborate preparations are making for turning the first spade of dirt in beginning work on the Anacostia Park, ayd it is said that “within three nonths & section of the proposed mil- liondaldr development will be in regdiness for the use of the public.” A tract of ‘thirty-one acres of reclaimed 1413; between the Pennsylvania Ave- nue and Anacostia bridges is to be transformed into a park. A drive will pe Bullt along the channel side, and this is.to be a link in a drive to extend #long “the river from Giesboro point to the District line between Ben. ning and Bladensburg, and that is to be ‘bart of the boulevard which will circle the city. If all the matter written during the past fifty years about the need for re- claiming the Eastern branch flats and the work of reclamation could be brought togther it would fill a stack in the_ Library of Congress. Two genera- ions ago it was not easy to interest many persons in this matter. The Last Washington Citizens’ Association, the Anacostia Citizens' Association @nd The Star labored to advance the Proposal. Now and then & member of Congress or a committee of Congress would become mildly interested. Mean. kil the Eastern branch continued to shoal and mud flats to appear. Sewers continued to drain into the once fine river, and the wash from the hills came down. In dredging the navy gard channel mud banks would be thrown up on the left of the channel, @nd the lower part of the Eastern branch became e lake in which thou- jinds of tons of matter settled instead Wf passing down the Potomac. Sum- ier and fall, where had been & big Jheet of clear water, came to be a jungle of pickerel weed, wild celery, el grass and other marihe growths. Health of the people along the Eastern branch and in East and South Wash- ington was menaced. " When Potomac Park hezza te ta ¢Arm appropriations were made for re. claiming the Eastern branch flats, and is. perhaps more than a coinci-} i ey the work his gone on.in rather a destitory ‘way for many years. The task is not yet complete. The fact that the actual park-making is to be- gin is important to the eastern and southern sections of the city and the thickly settled country beyond the Eastern branch, and it is important to the whole District. There could be no “river park system” without the East- ern Branch Park. One proposal is to connect the lower points of Poto- mac and the Eastern Branch Park by a bridge, but Col. Sherrill says that this may not be taken up seriously for several years. Years and years ago efforts were made to build & bridge from the foot of South Capitol street to the farther side of the Eastern branch at or near Poplar point, but there always de- veloped enough opposition to bridging the channel below the navy yard to defeat it. Times have greatly changed. The navy yard, from a place for build- ing and repairing ships, has become a gun-building plant, between which and the proving grounds guns are carried |on floats towed by tugs. Steamboat and other river-shipping interests do not like bridges as a general thing, but it will be some time before we come to the question of a bridge over the lower part of Washington channel. The main thing now is to push the work of developing the FEastern Branch Park. Tomb of the Unknown. The mounting of & guard at the tomb of the unknown would add im- pressiveness to the memorial and compel a proper show of respect by all visitors there. It comes as a shock to great numbers of people that the War Department has this measure in contemplation, because of *“an ap- parent lack of appreciation of the reverence and respect due the memo- rial to the unknown dead of the world ‘war.” The normal man finds it hard to understand that some persons sit on this great tomb, strike matches on it and light their “smokes.” Yet this is the report made by those who have laid the matter before the Secretary of War. It is said that groups of people, nearly all strangers in Washington and bent on sightseeing, gather about the tomb, lounge on the steps, balus- trade and turf near it, smoke, chat merrily, laugh, make noise and other- wise conduct themselves in a way that is out of harmony with the associa- tions of the place. Perhaps they would spread their lunches on the tomb and make a picnic there, but for the rule at Arlington against such things. Scores of men do not uncover at this tomb. It may be set down as a certainty that no disrespect is meant, end that the trouble lies in lack of manners. A suitable inscription on the tomb, a rail or balustrade around it and a military guard on duty there would probably bring a sense of the isolemnity of the place to many per- sons who would not otherwise be touched by that emotion. The mount- ing of @ guard there would probably be approved by all Americans who ap- proach this tomb with humility and reverence. ‘There is an ,elder monument at Ar- lington to unknown dead, and it stands in the old part of the cemetery off the south side of the mansion. The year after the civil war funeral parties ‘were searching the battleflelds and the scenes of countless skirmishes between ‘Washington end the Rappahannock. ‘Thousands of sad relics of the fighting were brought to Arlington and laid at rest. The bones of hundreds of un- identified men were buried in one grave and the old tomb of the un- known erected. No such number of pilgrims visit at this tomb as at the tomb of the unknown of the world war, and the conduct of visitors is | markedly better. Just now the new tomb of the un- {known is considered one of the “sights” of the capital, and thousands of tired and jaded people go there in the course of their ‘‘tour” of Wash- ington and the environs, ————— { The ice business is perhaps entitled to credit for being better regulated [than the coal business. The agitation {about a winter fuel supply lasts all summer, but the public is not yet doomed to pass the winter in appre- hension as to nevt summer’s ice. ——————t—————— German paper marks are now {s. sued at the rate of two trillions & day. The personal fortune available to a man is limited only by the question of high high he can count. ————— Only an able and experienced Phila- delphia editor would have the courage to settle the league of nations ques- tion and a literary prize contest at one and the same time. The Capitol Guide Monopoly. The absurdity of the system of | maintaining a syndicate of *‘official” guides at the Capitol to the exclusion of all other leaders or directors of groupe of visitors through that build- ing is fllustrated in the incident re. corded in yesterday’s Star. A perty of apparent tourists was halted on enter- ing the building because it was accom- panied by & chauffeur who had been paid e fee for escorting the people about the city. When protest was made the party was allowed to proceed in company of the “private guide,” because, it would seem, there is no au. thority for evicting a well behaved person from the buildin If the rule that has been adopted, concentrating the guiding privileges upon this smell squad of authorized cicerones, has any validity, it should extend to the exclusion of those who accompany groups of visitors to the building, having been paid or prom- ised fees for their services. There is now law, however, in warrant for that procedure, and such a law would be a most remarkable enactment. Some years ago one of the Speakers of the House made a clearance of the cheap-jack shops that had been estab- lished in corridors of the south wing of the Capitol, souvenir stands and the like, much to the relief of those who resented the transformation of the Capitol into @ business building. These stands had been maintained for so long that they seemed to be a fixture. Lot thw swent them » 3 withont regard for ther lenz iy . To just the same was suide system establisijed in the seven- S wnlkia o ' ) the THE SUNDAY STAR, ; ties, though it is rooted in tradi‘ion, can be as quickly and easily gbolished. It is perfectly all right to require that only reputable and well behaved persons should serve as guides through the Capitol building, but with an ade- quate police force a perfect watch' is kept at all points to prevent misbe- havior. The only conceivable advan- tage about such an established guide system s that the rate is fixed and gouging is prevented. But that could be accomplished by the maintenarice of a force of officlally paid guldes gerv- ing the public free. \ Every facility should be afforded by the government for the Anterican people who come to Washington to see the Capitol and all other public buildings. To that end the guide syndi- cate should be dissolved and e force of competent men—perhaps the same in- dividuals—employed by the House and Senate to serve all the people, and not only those who are willing to pay for the privilege of having the build- ing displayed and explained properly to them. Henry Is Learning. Henry Ford is learning the game rapidly. He showed aptness the other day when he gave an “interview” that revealed virtually nothing of his inner political thoughts. It served admirably to “keep 'em guessing,” which is one of the best things a politician does. Now he is doing the “I.don’t-want- it” act, and doing it very well, indeed. Tuesday at Traverse City, Mich., he told a group of residents: “I have no desire to be President; you see I have a bigger job now.” Note the exquisite care with which he avolds saying the fatal word of final negation. “I have no desire to be President’” leaves a wide way open. ‘Theodore Roosevelt made a serious political mistake when on the night of his election in 1904 he declared that in no circumstances would he accept an- other term, on the ground that the term he was then serving was his first and the tradition of the country for- bade three. Later he had cause for bitter regret that he had made his statement s0 strong. Henry Ford may, of course, go too far in his renunciation and say the ‘word too much. His boomers are not disposed at present to be discouraged by his semi-negative. They are going ahead and, it is reported, “are in hopes they can persuade him to take the presidency as a side line.”” That would be splendid! Perhaps divide the week between Dearborn and Washington, say three days of motor making and four days of national administration, or the other way about, according to the side to which the Sundays were assigned. The super-man who has made himself the richest in the world ought to be able to run the govern- ment on half time. l An element of citizenship is inclined to pay ebout.as much attention to & constitutional amendment as it does to the “‘no-smoking” sign in a public garage. l A few of the investigators who went to Europe apparently did not gather much new information. But they may have told Europe a few things. } Mention of & possible strike om Sep- tember 1 shows deliberate indifference to the risk of taking the joy out of Labor day. * Germany has established & standard- izing process that makes it possible to turn out paper marks faster than flivvers. - ! A visit to Europe used to be for the purpose of studying art. Now its ob- Ject is political and economic observa- tion. At this time of year the strike rumor takes the place of reported crop fail- ures as a source of popular agitation. _SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Light and Shadows. If all the dire predictions made ‘Were destined to come true, ‘We'd simply live to be afraid ‘With nothing else to do. ‘We would not laugh nor lift a song, Nor bulld nor plant a fleld, Because so much {s going wrong ‘With sorrow for its yleld. But these predictions are not heard By fields of ripening grain; Nor by the blossom nor the bird That sings a light refrain— The happy day prevails at last, And stars illume the night, Our fears are but the shadows cast By the Enduring Light. Power of Custom. “You have succeeded in remaining in office a great many years; you must have pleased home folks.” “I don’t know as I always pleased them,” replied Senator Sorghum. “I Jut kind of got to be a habit with them.” Jud Tunkins says & man who laughs at his own jokes at least proves he has a patient and cheerful disposition. Power, “Do you bow down to power?"” “I've got to,” =aid the patient per- son. “I'm simply obliged to secure the services of a bricklayer.” Habit. I would not work elght hours e day, Nor six nor even four, ‘Whenever loafing comes my way I want to loaf some more. In Demand. “I understand you are considered the best poker player in Crimson Guleh.” \ “No,” replied Jimson Joe.’ I elways lose. I ain't the best, but I'm the most popular.” ] Equipment. “Is your prime donna easily pro- voked to anger?” “You don't have to provoke her,” said the manager. ‘‘She has one of those seif-starter temperaments.” “‘Goin’ to law,” said Uncle Eben, “is ighty opt to be'a trip dat don’ let you know whah vou's #'ine or when you'll git back.” £ Helping WASHINGTON, . Workers Buy Homes Better Than Free Pleasures| BY THOMAS R. MARSHALL. Former Vice President of the United States. ONEST men contemplating their surroundings, whether near or ‘remote, are ever seeking ways in which to 1ift the better up to best. Within certain limitations this is well. It is not good for a people to be too con- tent, for progress may “then ce; On the other hand, general discon- tent is just as bad. On many of the walks of life it is perfectly safe to experiment_in going in this, that or the other direction, but not on all. There s no universal rule of economic lite or social order which can be pre- sented as infallible In its workings. Irrigation is a life-giver to the arid plains of the west, but to proclaim irrigation as an unvarying law for the world's agriculture would be the helght of folly. We are vain enough to imagine that we are living in a sclentific; age, but is our economic life as hooked up with governmental activities and po- litical theorles ‘so very sclentific? A sclentist discovers what he believes to be a cure for some disease, but he does not put it on the market at once. He tries the effect of it, first, upon some anima He frequently admits that his discovery {s experimental and refrains from demanding that hia cure shall be made compulsary. The beauty about this sort of science is that you can take it or let it alone; you can try it and stop. it if it doesn't do any good. * ok ok % Unfortunately, in the business and economic life of the people, there are too many doctors who are not pur- suing sclentific methods. They are not first trying their remedies on the dog, before giving the people a chance to take them. They are saylig upon mere theory that they have dlscov- ered a cure-all, and they are demand- ing that its use be made compulsory. While it {s true that the law of the land is not permanent and legisla- tive reforms are repealable, attempts to apply seemingly sound principles to the entire country, may wreak un- told damage. A little more science in our lawmaking might be valuable. Political doctors may well join them- selves together for the purpose of experimenting upon economic the- orfes, and the rest of us may stand around and await the reaction, but until all the people are quite assured that the reaction is the thing sought by them, it will be well, so far as the 1aw of the land is concerned. to let the old order stand. Experimenta- tion may be wise or unwise. and not necessarily viclous. Bad results may flow from the best devised theories and most altruistic purposes. It i only at the practical test that real value is ascertainable. * ok ok % Many large corporations in America are erecting model villages and fur- nishing to their employes model, sani- tary homes in which to live at a rea- sonable rental. They are erecting achoolhouses and employing the most ompetent teachers for the young. They are bullding hospitals, ‘equip- ping them with the appliances of modern surgery, and examining the eves and noses, the teeth, and the tonsils of all the children. 'They are erecting churches and supplying min- isters, building Y. M. C. A.'s, furnish- ing playgrounds,’ opening up movie picture shows—in short, surrounding their men and women with comforts and luxurfes. It is a great and valuable experi- ment in the economic life of these people and the industries- that they serve. At first blush one fs inclined Visit of Count Kessler Recalls Proprietor of Old Eden Musee BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Count Harry Kessler, who has ar- rived in New York during the past week for the purpose of delivering 4 series of addresses on “Germany and the European Tangle” at the In- titute of Politics at Williamstown, Mass., was formerly director of the Grand Ducal Museum of Art and of Art Applied to Industry at Weimar. Unless I am much mistaken, he was born in New York, where his father, the late Adolph Kessler, spent so many years in business as head of the New York firm of Kessler, Ordt & Co, and was one of the propri- etors of the old Eden Musee on 23d street. He owed his title of lcounl to that eccentric ruler of the tiny principality of Reuss - Greitz who used to insist upon personally administering at his palace the birchings and canings to which the school children had been condemned by their teachers, insisting that it was his prerogative as sovereign and father of his people. The late Countess Kessler, who had some American blood in her vein was an Irish woman, a member of the old Lynch Blosse family of County Mayo, owned a very fine house in the Cour la Reine at Paris and was celebrated for her beauty. The lat- ter attracted the admiration of the old Emperor William at Ems and he showed himself very graclous to her, assuming the role of godfather to her only daughter, who was christened Wilma in his honor. Some of the least reputable organs of the Prus- lan press tried—possibly in the hope blackmalil—to make "the countess out to be a mecret diplomatic agent of the German empire and she was subjected to a_considerable amount of persecution in this connection, a! though she was the least diplomatic and most impulsive of women. For- tunately, the more respectible section of the French press took up her de- fense, and before she died she hi the satisfaction of seeing her daugh- ter Wilma married to the Duke de Frioul, great-grandson of Duroc, one of the favorite marshals of the first Napoleon. It may be remembered that he met with his d. on the battlefleld. Queen Horte was in love with him and it was for him that she wrote ‘“Partant pour la Syrie.” * K * % Before the great war Count Harry Kessler, who boasts of descent from that' Johannes Kessler who was the intimate friend and associate of Mar- tin Luther and of his fellow-re- former, Zwingli, and one of ths moving spirits of the National Association of German Ar- tists, but quarreled with that power- wil institution the result of his organization of an exhibition of Rodin’s works at Weimar. Indeed, he was always In favor of the promo- tion of friendly relations between France and.Germany, did all in his power to foster understanding b twesn the artists and scientists of the two nations, and while he still holds & commission of lieutenant of lancers in the Prussian army, devoted himself to_diplomatic and political work in Poland rather to actual fighting in the great war. He I8 an amjable, kindly and rich man, filled with the best intentions,' but can hardly be regarded as measuring up to the rank of the statesmen who it was promised were to bring en- lightenment _to Willlamstown and to the United States generally about the chaotic conditions in Europe. * % k¥ . ‘While the term of the minister of forelgn affairs ts dependent uporn: the exisience of the cabinet, the per- to say, “This is the thing we have long sought. The corporation of our country should be immediately amended 80 as to permit such aggre- gatfons of capital as can and will do such things.” Maybe so, but let us glve It time to be tried out and to as- certain certainly its effect upon the mental and moral fiber of the people that come within its influence, and learn what measure of contentment for the individual, respect for the law of the land. and good will toward the employer it may furnish. Human nature is queer. About the only man who never forgives you is the man who has done you an injury, and the man you are most likely to be en- Yipus of ip the man who has con- tributed t6 your comfort. Benefac- tions handed down from above other than by the hand of God may be re. ceived with less gratitude than re- sentment. It will be time enough to legislate when this experiment has been found to be thoroughly satis- factory. * ¥ ok ¥ Interested, as most of us are, in the economic life of America as govern- ing its progress, prosperity and per- petulty, we are watching another ex- periment. Employes of labor are purchasing land, laying it out in garden plots, erecting modern and convenient homes (in some instances furnishing common pasturage and common ground for gardening), and Iling these homes to their em- ployes upon monthly pament plan, whereby payment: lightly larger than regular rent are applied to the original cost, an employe in tim to receive title in fee simple to his home. I shall be interested to ascer- tain the effect upon the health, hap- iness and citizenship of this new dea In economic life. I hope we shall be enabled to learn under which plan, whether under benefactions handed down from above or in the individual striving to obtain title to one's own home, comes the better result to the republic, whether the reflex action upon the individual is better in one or the other instance, whether the conduct of the laborer is more or less satisfactory. whether the relations between employer and employe are triendlier or otherwise, whether the output is Increased or decreased. * % x In the course of a long life I have met up with a few egotists who were proud of what they were, and with as many timid souls whose regret was that thev had not done much in his name, but the vast majority of all the men I have known have prided themselves on what they have made for themselves and rejoiced In what they said was their own. I do not stop to consider whether “their own” was justly or unjustly acquired; T content myself with mere expression of the belief that it is the almost universal desire of man to have some- thing which he may call his own as the result of his own efforts. It may be his honor, his reputation, his opinion, his 'home, his influence. Whatever it is, in lands or goods, in manners or in morals, man.gregarious as he may be, desires to separate him- self from the flock, and like Mrs. Sweeney's goose to go In a gang by himself. Whether regrettable or ad- mirable, the one proud boast of the average American has been: “This is mine. 1 made it by weary days of toil. T made it by thrift and economy. 1 made it in face of opposition. T fought for it in a fair field. I was the victor. Tt s mine.” I am rather inclined to believe that until the new heaven and the new earth shall appear, the individual will continue to glory In his own posses- sion and fail to be content with bene- factions. "(Copyright, 1923, 21st Centurs Pr ] manent head of the foreign office in London 1is its so-called permanent undersecretary of state. The present incumbent of that office, to which he was appointed by Lord Curgon, and who has just recelved the Grand Cross of the Order of the BatH from the king, is Sir Eyre Crowe. Indica- tive of the high regard and complete confidence which he enjoys on the part of Lord Curzon is the fact that whenever the latter is away, either at one of his country seats as the result of his impaired health or when required to attend official conferences and international congresses on the continent, he leaves Sir Eyre in charge of the great department at Downing street, instead of confiding its direction to some other member of the cabinet, as had been the prac- tice befors his time, Both in Parls and in Berlin Sir y: regarded as the “Eminence of Curzon's Richelleu, and It may be added that as such he Is look- &d ‘upon with particular aversion at Berlin, this, too, in spite of the fact that he is half German, son of a Ger- man mother and married to a German wife. It is appreciated at Berlin that, precisely by reason of these Teuton affiliations, he knows more about the Germans and Germany than any one else in the British government. Above all, he understands the curious Teu- tonie mentality, which is so puzsling to foreigners. 'He received m: his education in Germany, where he spent the greater part of his child- hood, with his mother, who was & German, Baroness von Barby, at her castle of Gamburg in Bavaria, to hich_his father, the late Sir Joseph ‘rowe, withdrew on a pension after retiring from the office of commercial adviser to the principal British em- jbassies of continental Europe. Sir |Joseph was a very remarkable man in his way. and, before joining the diplomatic servise, was a pupil of the great French painter Delaroche, spe- clal correspondent of the Illusirated London News in the Crimean war, and afterward correspondent of the London Times at Vienna. American diplomats will recall his son, Sir Eyre Crowe, as secretary of the interna- tional ' sugar conference in_ London, in 1887, and at Brussels in 1889, He | was secretary of the British delega- tion to, the peace conference at The Hague, and was chief British repre- sentative at the international labor conference in London. - His grand- father, Eyre Evans Crowe, was the well known author and historfan of the early Victorian era. R As for Sir Eyre’'s wife, she is the formerly widowed Countess Clema von Bonin, daughter of that cele- brated = Prof. Gerhardt, the pet aversion of the Iron Chancellor, and ‘who was so warm a friend and con- fidant of the ill-fated emperor, Fred- erick IIT and of his English consort, eldest sister of King Edward VI As‘a young girl, Lady Crowe saw a great deal of Empress Frederick, and the - sufferings which the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria had to Germany, first at the hands of B marck and of his followers, and later in her widowhood on the part of her eldest son, the ex-kaiser, and, his government, Weré not calculated to promote the affection and regard of Lady Crowe for the land of her birth. Indeed, her father, Prof. Gerhardt, was called upon to undergo a considerable amount of persecution at the hands of Bismarck, and then of the ex-kaiser, because of his re- fusal to surrender to them for pur- destruction cer: in confiden- s PR AR Aoy tial documents confided to him by Emperor Frederick and :I the em-. press for the purpos eventual publication. ) I never heard of a man who was worth a damn as a musician. * k ¥ * Although national fame has come | to Senator Edward I. Edwards of New } Jersey, principally because of his ad- endure throughout her existence lnl A D. ., JULY 29, 1923 PART 2. 3 | s 0 . Capital Sidelights &, KENNEDY. 1¢ Meats were held {n Congress by the “divine right of kings” then Representative Calvin D. Paige of Southbridge, Mass, would be all spread out on a row of Speakers chairs, for he comes of the very first of our so many royal families. He is a direct descendant of Elder Brewster of Pligrim fame and Goy. Thomas Dudley of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. His great-great-grand- father led a company of militla to Bennington and was one of Ethan Allen’s stalwarts when he demanded the surrender of Fort Ticonderoga “In_the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress.” His great-grandfather, Capt. Tim othy Paige, was one of the minute men who fought the “Red Coats” at Lexington and Conoord. After inde- pendence was won Cant. Paige served in the Massachusetts legislature for seventeen continuous years and was a delegate to the constitutional con- vention of 1820, voting for that ven- erable patrigt, John Adams, for pre- siding officer. Representative Paige cast his first vote for Gen. Grant for President. He was a great admirer of James G. Blaine and was one of three Massachusetts delegates who voted for the “plumed knight” in the stirring convention of 1884. Himself an elder statesman more than two-score years dent republican partisan, he w. first nominated for Congress by the then democratic governor, who - is now democratio senator, David I. Walsh. And in_that first campaign for Con- gress Paige won the moniker, “Cal the Silen: which has since been ap- plied to Vice President Coolidge. When he went into the Massa- chusetts state legislature in 1878 Mr. Palge wi the youngest member, while his great-uncle, Lucius R. Paige of Cambridge, was the oldest member. for * ok ok % The score in the House now stands 223 republicans, 202 democrats, one independent. one farm-labor man and one soclalist, with seven vacancies. * X Kk “Do vou realize that tife life of a first-termer is not a mass of lilies of the valley?" writes Representative P. B. O'Sullivan of Derby, Conn. “In my short term of three months I have found request for answers to questions which would cause the edi- tors of the Encyclopedia _Britan- nica to send for a special staff of ex- But it's novel, it's interest- and terrifically broadening—at least for those who can broaden. * % % ¥ | When Representative John C. Scha- fer of Wauwatosa, Wis, was elected to Congrews, he was a locomotive en- glneer for the Chicago and North- western railroad. He enlisted in the 13th Engineers, United States Army, in May, 1817, and served with that unit in’the French 4th Army, Cham- pagne, and in the French 2d Army, at Verdun, St. Mihlel and Meuse-Argonne. * K X K Senator Kenneth McKellar of Mem- phis, Tenn., is passionately fond of music, but has to satisfy his craving by listening to orchestras in motion picture houses or by starting a vic- trola or planola, and he tells why, as follows: “My father was quite a musician, playing on several instruments. My mother thought I ought to be taught music, and employed a teacher. But my father came in one day and found me taking a lesson. ‘Carrie, what are sou doing?’ he asked my mother. ‘T am having this young man taught music,’ she replied. Then father said: ‘Discharge the teacher at once. vocacy of personal liberty and his opposition to the Volstead act and the eighteenth amendment, it is interest- ing to note that his elevation to the B8Y ROBERT T.’ SMALL. PTER twenty-three years of|&Mong ninety-six. continuous service in the Senate of the United State: Senator Willlam P." Dilling: ham of Vermont has died, leaving an estate valued at “about thirty- six thousand dollars.” Before coming to Washington a senator, Mr. Dillingham was gov- ernor of his state. Prior to that he The poor man ix in the Senate saddle and many of these poor men have been supple- menting their meager salaries thts summer by doing the chautauqua cir- cuits to a fare-you-well. What the chautauqua hounds won't know about national and international affairs by the time the season closes will not be worth knowing. * % ok ¥ Father John P. Chidwick, whn was ' was a state’s attorney for two terms, | chaplain of the battleship Maine when commissioner of state taxes for sev- she was blown up in Havana harbor eral years and served terms in both|but is now the pastor of the immense branches of his state's legislature.|St. Agnes’ parish In New York city, s It may be said, therefore, that Sen- ator Dillingham spent virtually hisjmemory is one of those rare men whose gift of little short of magical. entire adult life in the service of the | Father Chidwick was here last weelk public, and death finds Him at eighty to make a brief address at the burial years of age possessed of an estate | of Rear Admiral Charles D. Sigsbee of $36,000. Nearly one-half of this worldly wealth s represented by his home place in Montpelier. Of the remainder a considerable part is represented by stock in the country bank of which he was president. The appraisers of the estate found only $211 in cash and $561 in the savings bank. It is very evident from all of this that Senator Dillingham had virtually income outside of his salary of $7.50(- a year and he found the expense of” living so continuously in Washington, | and at the time malintaining his home in Montpelier, just about drain- ed the cofters dry each month. The continuous sitting of the Congress during the past fifteen years has worked a hardship on many a con- sclentious national legislator, who, forsaking his own affairs, has clung to the ship of state throughout the fair weather and foul of many chang- ing seasons. During the greater part of Mr. Dillingham’s service his sal- ary was exceedingly small. The salary of the Governor of Vermont is but 33,000 a year. The pay of a Unit- ed States senator when Mr. Dilling- ham_first came to Washington was but §5.000 a_year and it can be imag- ined how grateful the raise to $7.500 was when it came along. * X x % The disclosure of the pitifully small estate left by the senior senator from Vermont, a man who since 1900 had belonged to the ‘“rich man's club,” directs attention anew to the fact that the millionaire no longer is the dominant factor in the upper branch of Congress. As a matter of fact, the really wealthy senators _can be counted almost on the finger of one hand. Certainly, there are not more than ten. As to the richest senator, it is rather dificult to choose between Couzens of Michigan and Phipps of Colorado. Probably the former Detroit mayor has the call. His fortune was made with and owt of the Ford Motor Com- pany, and it is estimated that his wealth runs from somewhere around $30,000,000 up. Senator Lawrence Phipps. whose fortune was founded on steel, is rated as an exceedingly wealthy man, but the one-time motor. magnate unquestionably outdistances him by several million-dollar laps. Two other wealthy men of the Sen- ate are McKinley of Illinois and Davis Elkins of West Virginia. Senator McKinley has vast traction holdings and various other interests. Davis Elkins inherited a large share of the famous Elkins estate, buflt from the coal and iron mines of his native state. Among, other senators of reputed wealth there s Warren of Wyoming, Gooding of Idaho, Stanfleld of Oregan, Peter Goelet Gerry of Rhode Island and. perhaps, McCormick of Tllinos. Here we have mentioped but nine Heard and Seen John H. Bartletf, first assistant postmaster general, has just return- office of governor of that state was |bo® LI PR E Ty which based upon his record as controller, ;o 0 o' Ty S 1 Glover, third as- the fiscal officer’ of the state, which he was elected by the legisla- 10| gistant postmaster general. The two assistants to Mr. New spoke at more ture in 1911, following the election |¢nan a dozen conventions of postal of_ Woodrow Wilson as governor. For the first time in the history of New Jersey the business system of the state government was complete- workers in the far west. Only three weeks ago the two of- ficlals shoveled snow at the entrance ly reorganized, establishing a strictly {to an inn which stands 7,000 feet up Ypay as you go'' policy. out of which|ne side of Mount Ralnier. grew the budget plan and purchasing system. * ok % No matter how conspicuous Senator Henry F. Ashurst of Arizona may some day become on the political They were accompanied on the trip by their wives and sons. The visits of high officials to postal conventlons throughout the country, bringing to the rank and file of the postal service the personal horizon, he realizes today that never | greetings of the men who run the can the thrill come to him of having his birthplace pointed out to rubber- service from Washington, are doing much for the morale of the “great- est businesa in the world.” In the neck partles by guldes with mega-|old days John Smith, rural carrier phones. 'This is due to the fact that |in Denver, he was born in a tent while his par- ents were on their way to Arizona|{OePt by name. from California, and there is no tent | has stake, or even a sardine can left to mark’ the spot. * ok ok % For about twenty-five years Rep- might live and die on his never know an officlal ex- Today John Smith met John Bartlett and W. I. Glover, and both of them are the better for it. route and * *® % Paul Henderson, second assistant resentatlye W. 1. Swoope of Clear- |postmaster genoral, recently was in fleld, Pa., has been stumping for the {New York. While inspecting a post republican national committee. When |office on board a great liner he was he was speaking In Herkimer, Y- which afterward became the scene of told the following story: It seems that the boys wers Sort- a famous trial—while at breakfast|Ins the mail on their vessel when before called on him. ommended as a speaker to the na- ed him that he would be glad to_do anything he could to assist him. But not content with this promise, and displaying more enthusiastic ambi- tion and self-confidence than diplom- acy, this young lawyer, to enforce his_claim, sald: trouble in getting on the natlonal committee's list of speakers, for, in my opinion, the speakers sent out from New York city are no better than those we have here.” Although he had been sent out from New York city, Mr. Swoope wrote a letter re ommending the youn, national committee. ¥k ¥ % During the last Wampaign Repre- sentative Thomas D. Schall of Minne- sota, who is blind, on entering a hall where he and one of his opponents were to address a large gathering heard the opponent who was then reading his speech, tell the andience that Representative Schall was blind and that to return him to Congress only meant the election of Mrs. Schall, for she, as the representative admits, i8 his eyes. “Why not gend a man to Congress who can look after your interests - instead of woman?” he asked. ‘When' Mr. Schall’s turn came he ad- mitted that Mrs. Schall is his better three-fourths, and for the sake of argument, 99 per cent congressman, but opined that he had his opponent mile because he could and own speech. said: “Eyes really are not of much value to & constituency where they re used only to lip off words perhaps gathered by other brains. Eyes can be hired by the week. Pig eyes have been successfully grafted to use. What you want in Congress soul, & mind and understanding. knowledge,” Representative points out. *“One is through sight, the other through hearing. The eye speaks to the sense: t‘b‘l‘ln '&'Efih"" thnwun one nol nce and l!fi’(her is their different capacl- ties for feeling.’ % lings. The en- -/ A tional committee. Mr. Swoope assur- {good old U. S. A.!" she called. & man to the| one morning a young lawyer who had |another steamer pulled in close by. made & speech at the rally the night A Woman stuck her head out of a This young |Port barrister was very anxlous to be rec- |clerks, procseded to get chummy. hole and, seelng the mail “My, T am glad to get back to the “It certainly does look good to see you . You see, I have been in Rus- sia for the past three years. i “Oh, that is an awful place to be. she continued. “But now I'm back home and will be able to get some T'm golng to ve you got any bani e fas "boor 1ady: ~Just back from Russia, she did not know about the opular song. ll(‘:"]’ihpol:le lcmr{. the mail clerks straightened up from their tasks, threw back their heads and sang. “Yes, We Have No Bananas, roared the clerks to the astonished lady. * * % Last, but far from least, there is H. H. Billany, fourth assistant post- master general, as fine a gentleman of the old school as ever held down an important position in the gov- ernment service. Courtly upon all occasions, he still can be adamant, as many persons have discovered, when it comes to some question that involves right. With it all he has that distinguishing | trait, & real sense of humor. The following little incident is in- dicative of the sort of man the fourth assistant is. One day a news- er man was seated on the couch TnPBartiet’s office, waiting for governor, s he is still called—he was chief executive of his native state, New Hampshire—to finish talk- ing with some one. “There are two ways to acquire |writer, Schall | desk. the ear speaks |Billany, stepping back. Just as the first assistant finished conversation and turned to the is a |newspaper man, the fourth assistant @ and, not at first noticing the Orriter, Lstrode on to the governor's Then he caught sight of the other, o 1 beg your on,” s i g 1 st a littls who witnessed it thing, but those soul | questioned very much if many of- cials would have done ft. CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. t % the commander of the Maine. Out of the throng at Arlington national cemetery stepped a rather tall, grave faced young man. “My name is Lee, Father Chidwick." he said; “my father was lost on the Maine." “Lee. Lee,” mused Father Chidwick for but a moment; "I remember him well. He was not so tall as you, my boy, perhaps by half a head, and he ‘was in the engineer force.” es sir, he was an engineer's veo dan. 1t was always claimed that Father Chidwitk knew every man on th Maine by his first name. Tt was he Who established the identity of mos: of the victims of the explosion, man of them but a mangled mass. - After the burfal of Admiral Sigsbee Father Chidwick visited the Maine monument in Arlington and as h walked about the round granite ba reading the names of the sailors an. marines who were lost in the disaste he recalled little personal traits of at 1east two score of them. It has been twenty-five years since the Maine was lost, but Father Chid wick's memory has sparkled through the quarter of a century. ook % Martin F. Amorous, distinguishe Georgian. and president of the Farm ers’ Union of Cobb county, has som: very decided ideas regarding th- farmer's problem of today—and T~ doesn’t think much of the recent lex islation which was supposed to giv government aid “The Capper bill." said Mr. Amorous to the writer, "authorized five or mo persons to pay up to $250,000 to « loan company, $62,600 of which mu be loaned to the government as reserve invested in 4 per cent EOV ernment bonds, and this will leave $187.500 to be loaned at legal state rates. Hence you see if the farmers have 3$250,000 they can use onmly $187,500 in rural credits. As an aid to the farmers it is not worth the paper it is writen on “The Lenroot-Anderson inter- mediate credit banks are furnished ital by the government. But thes can only lend to a bank on farmers notes. That's where the ‘intermedi- ate' comes in. It is like the cake the nelghbor gave the boy that his mother wouldn't let him eat. “The farmer needs only tn get profitable price for his produet: Impel or induce him to organiz: co operative marketing assoclations s he can protect himself from specula- tive pricing and he won't ask a dollur in donation or credit from the goOv- ernment. If the wheat is proled in the bankers’ hands and they will sell it through one agency, little o all, as the market needs, and at x | profitable price, thers will not be a bankruptcy this fall.” Fifty Years Ago in The Star Fifty vears ago the alrplane was hardly dreamed of. and dirigibles wers not within concep 4 { Transatlantic tion. The only forn Ballooni of aviation devics allooning. yqe the floating gas bag, known generically as the balloon. | During the siege of Paris in Franco Prussian war these balloons were employed for effecting escapes from the beleaguered city and their use suggested the possibilities of longe: aerial journeys. In The Star of July 23, 1873, is an editorial touching upon the possibility of “transatlantic bal- looning,” long in advance of the ac- tual crossing of the ocean through the air. “There is a singular fascination about the idea of traveling through the air with birdlike freedom, and de- spite the numerous frightful acci dents and general ill success of cf- forts at aerial navigation new projects in this direction are contin- ually being made. \ “The latest is the undertaking of ' Mr. Wise, the veteran aeronaut, aided by the publishers of the New York Graphie, to bulld a balloon of the ca pacity to carry two or more persons across the Atlantic. The theory of Mr Wise is that at a certain helght above the earth there exists a constant air current, or tide, moving from_the southwest to the northeast. Prof Henry, who has been appealed to for an opinion, gives a certain amount of weight to the theory of the air cur rent from west to east, but doubts the sustaining power of a balloon to travel that distance and advises thar the experiment be first made over land for the same distance. The main difficulty will, no doubt, be in keep ing_the balloon up long enough to make a trip of 3,000 or 4,000 miles. To keep in the asserted easterly cur rent it will be requisite to elevate o lower the balloon very often and no means of doing this has been dis- covered other than by throwing out ballast to rise, and permitting. gas to escape to fail, and there is, there- fore, a constant waste of the sus- taining power. To be added to this direct waste is the steady loss of gus by percolation from the bag. As this easterly current is supposed to exIst only at a considerable height it will readily be seen that any appreciable loss of gas will soon put it out of the power of the aeronaut to rise to it, and then he must settle to the lower stratum of air, where he would meet all the vicissitudes of adverse winds that sailing vessels encounter, without the ability the latter have of utilizing untavorable winds by tack- ing. A balloon cannot tack, but must drift hopelessly with the current. “Another discouraging consldera- tion {s the probability that hailstorms or flurries of snow will be encounter- ed in the upper region hera mention- ed. serving to load the balloon down with snow or hail and thus cause its speedy descent. If the air current named travels in a northeasterly di- rection, as malintained, the balloon must not only run these risks from snow and hail in the upper regions but also in the lower stratum of air. and would also, as has been pointed out, be likely to land, if it reached land, in some inhospitable region like Spitzbergen. The possibilities of danger from snow are iliustrated b, the perilous experience of Mr. Frank King, who made a balloon excursion from Morristown, Vt, on the Fourth of July. When about two and a half miles up he encountered a snowstorm, which covered the balloon nearly an inch thick and sent it down rapidly It landed in a dense forest, from human habitation,.and the aer: naut was finally rescued by a‘search- ing party. after being forty-eight hours without fuod.