Evening Star Newspaper, August 10, 1923, Page 6

r g™ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1923. e e e e e e e A e R B e e e e e e o WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS THE EVENING STAR, ‘With Sundsy Morning Edition. 'WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY........August 10, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES. ‘The Evening Star Newspaper Company Bustness Ofice, 11th Kt. and Penusylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 Fast 42nd St. o Office: Tower Bullding ‘e: 18 Regent St., London, England. .Editor The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, Is dellvered by carriers within the clty at 80 cents per month; dally ouly, 45 cents per moath: Sunday only, 20 ceuts per mont. Or- ders muy be ment by mail, or telephone Main 5000. "Collection is made by carriers at the ead of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1yr., §5.40: 1 mo. Daily onl; ..1yr, $6.00; 1 mo., Bunday only .1yr., $2.40; 1 mo., 700 50¢ 200 All Other States. Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $10.00: 1 mo.. Dally only.. Sunday only Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press fs exclusively entitled 1o the use for rpublication of all news dt patches credited fo 1t or mut ntherwise creditc fa this paper amt also (e local news pub. Iiahed herein. Al rights of publication of special dispatches lereln are also reserved [es———— The Last Home-Coming. This afternoon all that is mortal of Warren G. Harding, late President of the United States, is laid at rest at Marion, Ohio, the scene of his work for many ye private life. s and of his success in To that little of about 30,000 inhabitants turn th minds of the pecple of the United States with one to pay spect and honor to the man who ha held the highest office in this country and who won the esteem and affection of all. As this ceremony takes place, clos- ing @ week of national mourning and sorrow, the thought prevails that it 1s in Fuch places as that which now Teceives its son into its soil that the average Americ: nt. Mii- Nons are gathered into a few center of population, the s but far more people dwell in the smailer towns and cities, where life is more intimate and nat- ural and, it is felt, more wholesome. Most of the Presidents of the United States have con from the smaller towns and have galned their pro affairs and have, perhaps, into the larger flelds in later But as a rule they have brought into the White House the t of the lesser community rather than of the metropolis. The that there has been a close contact between the people and the presidency. As the funeral train remains of Mr. Harding ward from San Frar through lanes of wing, drawn from the farms and the lages, the towns and little citles. the larger centers the throngs were denser, of In some of the places they were so great as almost to obstruct the way. N know how many millions saw train. No count could be made. ably In some places entire « ties responded to the pulse to pay the silent tribute of presence and attention the train passed, tribute to the man and to the office he had just vacated in death, In a city like Marion, type of the average American community, are known well. The called famillarly by their first names. Ac quaintance is universal. A man suc- ceeds and becomes prominent in such & nlace and all his fellow citizens are proud of him. He advances to high office in the state or in Congress, or, in the rare cases permitted routine of our national affairs, the presidency, and this pride becomes a personal sense of partnorship. It is this that makes the United States so strong, so progressive, o enduring. So it is appropriate that the Presi- dent's body should lie in the soil of his own “home town.” It is seemly and fitting that his tomb should rise there, a shrine not only for the nation, but for those who knew him, and those who in after years will hear of him and his work and identify him with the history of the country. It is suitable that the place that knew Warren G. Harding so well in life, that was his scene of action, the city that he served faithfully, that gave him, &s it were, to the nation, should now take him back to itself, its own, city purpose, re- greater of more such places, They 1 raduated cities, inence in lo periods. result is bearing th came east passed vil: In cour: 0 one will eve that Prob- univer im- men its beloved citizen, not as President, | but @s a member of the community, who had expressed in the highest de- gree the spirit of America. ——— Berious attention is claimed for the suggestion that the alternative is offered of curtailing the routine duties of a Chief Executive or shortening his life. Republics are not ungrateful, but they are not always practical in measuring the sacrifices demanded as a reward for the people’s expression of confidence. —_——— SBwimming the English channel is possible. Small hope is held forth that the athletic development of the humen race will permit general adoption of this means getting across without seasickne: ————t— A prolonged anthracite strike may serve to remind many cities of the time when they burned soft coal and managed to be happy and progressive. If they could do so once they can do so again. a of A Brazen Defiance of Law. A certain place was raided in this city mgain yesterday by the police as @ handbook headquarters and thirty- four were arrested. When the police entered the premises betting slips and other evidences of horse race gam- bling were scattered about, The place has been notoriously a veritable gam- bling room for a long time and has Dbeen raided before. Every time, how- eyer, the case has resulted in either e Milure to prosecute or a virtual escape from justice and the estab- lighment has continued conspicuously open for business, It is impossible to pass it without knowing what is proceeding. The windows are plas- tered with “tips” and “odds.” The least initiated person can tell that it is maintained as a place where bets can be laid on distant races. This flagrant defiance of the law eyits more specific attention than an gccpalened sald which may lead % the | practically no results. There is no attempt at concealment. As a mat- ter of fact, a raid could be con- ducted practically any day and | tified arrests. Still the *joint” re- mains in evidence, actively taking in the money of the “‘easy marks” who think they can beat the bandbook game and who persist despite their frequent severe lessons and repeated demonstrations that they cannot pos- sibly win more than they lose. Just why this persistence is tol- erated is beyond understanding, Is there no law under which a place of this kind can be permanently closed? Is there no way by which the owner of the building can be held accounta- ble for the use of his premises for illegal purposes? It would seem that there is & means of reaching the evil at the root, which is the place of business. 1f this gambling den, as it is in plain truth, were located up some back way. in an alley. or in a deeply re sed back room hidden from sight, behind the camouflage of a re- spectable business, it might be under- stood why it got by, even despite oc- casional raidings. But here is a hand- book shop on a frequented street, op- erating in full view, its character ad- vertised by the groups always loung- Ing about in front and by the “litera- ture” placarded upon the windows, taking in the money day after day, reopening after each raid. Why does this continue? ——— The Nation's Listening Post. President Coolidge, according to the callers at the temporary White House, o master listener. He hears all they have to say, and says little him- self, unless it is on some subject to which he has already given considera- tion and on which he has made up his mind. He has the faculty of avoid- ing loose talk about affairs upon which his judgment has not matured. He does not make leading statements. The training of the President since March 4. 1921, has in a measure qual- im as a listening post for the Until he succeeded to the idency, by virtue of his office as ident, he presided over the Senate, where conversation free and long, except for the presiding of- ficer, who is the official audience of all that occurs. Former Vice Presi- dent Marshall in an address, one of the few he made to the Senate, before retived after serving eight vears as President of the Senate, described himself as “the greatest listener since the Sphinx sat itself down in the Lybian desert. But the fact that President Coolidge 1 listener does not mean that t quickly and effectively. r by profession. In the White House he sits not only ds a judge between conflicting forces. but also as an administrator. And of course it is as an administrator that he must rise or fall in the estimation of the American people. All the lis- tening in the world cannot meet some of the problems that must be met by the government in this country. The new President will rely, as he must, 1o a considerable extent upon the ad- vice given him by men in whom he has confidence. But in matters of public policy he may be counted on to veach a decision himself once all the evidence is in. He is an assiduous worker. He has worked hard all his life While the President is proving him- self a listener in the brief time he has occupled office, he has also thrown off jsome of the reputation which he has had for taciturnity. He can and does make himself agreeable to callers. —————— The Vice President who succeeds to the highest office does so under cir- cumstances of the deepest solemnity. Public curiosity as to his policies can afford to wait and should be willing to do eo. ——— | or is s Every now and then some section of the country is compelled to wonder what would happen if the motormen and the jitney drivers were to go on strike at the same time, ———————— A rumor of two-dollar movies orig- inated in Atlantic City. At this sea- son ideas of prices are likely to be- come slightly exaggerated at a sea- shore resort. ——— | Tt is doubtless far from Mr. Cool- iidge’s intention to keep the political forecasters guessing. It is, however, I:.uz of his power to keep them from doing so. America's Musical Victory. We have believed that Americans are a musical nation, though the Ger- mans and Italians have disagreed with us. even in Russia have scorned our pro- testations that wo are musfcally in- ‘vlmvd. even though most foreign I musicians have to come here to make | money. There are a few of our own {people who with unreason akin to {treason hold that good music can ;x-omfl to usg only through Ellis Island, jand that a song to touch the heart {must have a name and words that i Americans cannot understand unless | they are good pretenders. Some of cur fair songbirds have had to cast | off their homemade names and adopt jalien names in order to get on in the world. | But in spite of this weare a musical people. There is the Marine Band for an example, and many of its great players were born on “the navy yard,” which the uninformed persons who have recently come to the Capital should know is the Eastern Branch section of Southeast Washington. There is also the Army Band. Even a man who would not bet a five-cent cigar against one that will smoke that it will rain within the next six months would be willing to wager that every fine fellow who plays horn or drum in the Army Band is 100 per cent Amer- ican, even though here and there one of them once owed allegiance or something of that kind to a king. Our municipal sings show that thousands of Washingtonians have “volces.” In the all-together singing at clubs and theaters everybody sings, whether he knows how or not. News comes that an American male choir from Cleveland, Ohio, has won the chief mrizes, a silver harp and 128 “pund” et the national eistedd- | the police could make numerous jus- ! { Many persons in France and [ fod in Wales. This is & big victory, because the people of Wales know more about eisteddfods than we do. And if an American male chelr could do this it is believed that an American female cholr could not only over- ‘whelm Wales, but the rest of Europe, and bring home an orchestra of silver harps. Edwin M. Hood. Few newspaper men have served in Washington with as wide an ac- quaintance and as high a prestige as Edwin M. Hood, dean of the news writers, long in the service of the] Assoclated Press, who died in this city ‘Wednesday night. “Eddie” Hood, as he was affectionately known by all his associates, and even by those in high station with whom he worked in the gathering and writing of news, had become a veritable institution in the “uptown field,” the region of the ‘White House and its adjacent depart- ments of the government. In latter years the State Department was his particular assignment. In that he rendered the most valuable service. His long acquaintance with affairs, his intimate knowledge of the cur- rents of news, his close association with public men and particularly the representatives of foreign govern- ments, all of whom trusted him im- plicitly, enabled him to write with au- thority and precision about interna- tional matters. 1t was this confidence that Mr. Hood had gained that en- abled him to attain and to maintain his position as one of the most ef- ficient news men ever serving at the capital. In personal qualities “Eddie Hood was richly endowed. He wase beloved by all his associates. He coached many a junior reporter who had the good fortune to be thrown into assoclation with him. He even guided and advised the elder members of the craft, who recognized the value of his experience and his judgment. His kindly manner, his warmly affec- tionate nature, his always temperate Judgment of and matte his disposition to say no ill of an him high place in the hearts of all who were favored with his friendship. The long and faithful service closed appropriately with a valuable contri- bution to the report of last Wednesday of the funeral of President Harding. men ——— The reparations problem grows more difficult from day to day; so dif- ficult, in fact, that doubts must arise as to whether®even the gratuitous as- sumption of responsibilities by Uncle Sam would suffice to solve it. —————— Deliberation in selection as well as a large competitive field are natural in view of the democratic par viction that all their next candidate has to do is to stand pat and let the landslide flow his way. ————— One of the best appeals to public opinions the railroads can make is to go ahead with thelr present arrange- ments to provide ample facilities for moving the crops. ————— Speaking diplomatically, employs the phrase “most favored though seldom disposed to favor anybody except Turkey. —_——— Turkey Germany's industries are said to he on a fairly sound basis, except the one that has been oversupplying the market with paper marks. ————— If western farmers feed enough |Phipps of Nev will i good grain to the pigs Chicago see @ reason for increasing the pr of both pigs and grain. ————— A clash between the Moros and the constabulary adds to the doubt as to whether the Philippines are yet ready for self-government. | — A third party movement is often designed not so much to organize a new political program as to disor- ganize an old one. SHOOTING STARS. BY PRILANDER JOHNSON. In Thought and Deed. Good thoughts may come, though men remain But selfish slaves to sordid gain; And though their source unfit may seem, Still benefit the human scheme. The impulse to good deeds may rise In one whose thoughts we must despise ) BY FREDERIC America’s first diplomatic triumph under the Coolidge administration— conclusion of the Turkish treaty— was achleved, appropriately by a Massachusetts man. Joseph Clark Grew, our minister to' Switzerland and special envoy at Lausanne, is Boston-born and Harvard-bred. He iy probably slated for more distinguish- ed honors in the foreign service, to which he has been continuously at- tached since 1904. At one time and another Grew has served in nearly all the great capitals of Europe. He was once on duty in Egypt and has shot big game in Bengal. He and the present J. Plerpont Morgan mar- ried Boston sisters named Perry, whose father was a_ professor of English in Japan and brought up his family there. Grew is still a young- ster, as professional diplomats go, being just past forty-three. * ok % K Qne of Mr. Harding's closest friends, absent from the country when he died, is George Sutherland, Assoclate Justice of the Sypreme Court. Mr. Sutherland, who was one of the late President’s cronies in the Senate when the present justice was a senator from Utah, was Mr. Hard- ing’s principal “front porch” counsel- or during the 1920 campalgn. He lived at Marion throughout the sum- mer and took_all his meals with the Hardings. Justice Sutherland _is spending the summer in Europe. He s a native of England. At a recent Pilgrims’ dinner in London, he said that the United States had borrowed many things from - Britain and he wished it might borrow onec thing more—her system of jurisprudence and her speedy enforcement of the law. * ok ¥ % Some of Henry Ford's closest friends are tuking no part in the effort to “boost” him for the presidency. Among such 1s Clyde L. Herring, democrat, of Des Moines, who was Smith W. Brook- hart's opponent in the 1922 senatorial campaign. Herring has been associ- ated with the Ford motor business since its inception. He has become a millionaire through selling flivvers and tractors to Iowa farmers. But he is for McAdoo for President. Ford knows it and cherishes no hara feel- ings. The Herrings and the Fords visit each other from time to time, and the Iowan has a youngster whose hristian name is Edsel—after Henry ord’s son * Judge William 8. Kenyon of Iowa, who left the Senate to join the federal judiciary, hud a prophetic premonition of Warren (. Harding's fate. On the eve of the Chicago convention fn 1920, admirer of Kenyon, A. D. Fair- an agricultural writer at Wash * ok x s an BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Of all the members of the now de- funct Lloyd® George administration there i probably no one who enjoyed then, and still retains, such universal popularity and who has many friends as the Right Hon. Frederick €. Guest, who has just arrived from England, who was minister in charge of the royal air department, | ! and { | z { naval the civilian aviation of | Great Britain under his direction and { control. There is no on in English public lite who i® =0 well known on this side jof the Atlantt nd until he went out of office last ar he could boast lof being the only minister of the { British crown who maintained a home in the United ates, namely at Ros- Hyn, Long Ista where his wife, the mer A ¥ . daughter of Henry w York, purchased some years ago the beautiful du Pont pl {for a sum of about half a million dol- lars. Indeed, I8 so familiar a fig- ure in and around New York that his ming and going no longer attracts sntion, save among tho in polo ircles, where his presence is always welconied with enthusiasm, since he is one of the most enthusiastic and adept polo players in England. oK ok % While everybody on this side of the Atlantic is familiar with the name of Guest in connection with politics and aviation and polo and other forms of sport, few connect it with that trans- lation of Mabinoginon, that wonder- ful collection of fairy tales and ro- mances of the Welsh, in a manuscript volume of ‘the fourteenth century, known as the Red Book of Hergest, now in possession of Jesus College, Oxford, and which were rendered in English from the original cymerto in the most charming fashion by Fred- erick Guest's brilliant and clever grandmotier, Lady Charlotte Guest, who died as Lady Charlotte Schreiber. Tt was in her translation that Lord Tennyson found the inspiration for his “Idylls of the King' and for nost of his poetry connected with the era of King Arthur. Lady Char- Iotte was an extraordinary woman, a daughter of the ninth Earl of Lind- and | tt And heralded abroad by fame Make gratitude o'ershadow blame. When one at last to view is brought Noble in action as in thought, The world his record fair will scan And say, “He was indeed a man!”, An Adage Challenged. “The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world,” said the ready-made philosopher. “The statement is not altogether accurate at present,” mused Senator Sorghum. “At present' the women out our way are running politics and the men are staying home to mind the children.® Jud Tunkins says a farmer must make hay while the sun shines, but he won't be satisfied till he's pros- perous enough to hire some one to come along and hold an umbrella over him, Memory Culture. “l have & new system of memory culture,” said the professor.” “Very well,” replied Miss Cayenne. ‘Il try it if it works both ways, so that I can forget the words of a popular song and remember the text of the sermon.” Ancient Controversy. The scientist brings joy and woe TUnto the common lot, For when one says a thing is so Another says it's not. Consistency. “Marriage is a lotter: “If it is,” replied the man who pays alimony, “they ought to be conaistent and make it against the law."” “As de poet says,” remarked Uncle Eben, “adversity has its uses. Some men won't work ceppin’ when dey hag heers unlucky in & crap gamed® fronmaster Prophetic Warning . Guest, the great Welsh By Woodrow Wilson| Lecturing at Columbia University on “Constitutional Government in the Tnited States” in 1908, fifteen years ago, Woodrow Wilson, then president of Princeton University, spoke as fol- lows: “In view of the makers of the Con- stitution, the President was to be the legal executive; perhaps the leader of the nation; certainly not the leader of the party, at any rate, while in of- fice. But by the operation of forces inherent in the very nature of gov- ernment, he has become all three, and by inevitable consequence the most heavily burdened officer in the world. 0 other man's day is o full as his, so full of the responsibilities which tax mind and conscience alike and demand an inexhaustible vitality. The mere task of making appoint- ments to office, which the Constitu- tion imposes upon the President, has come near to breaking some of our Presidents down, because it is a never-ending task in a civil service not yet put upon a professional foot- ing, donfused with short terms of of- fice, always forming and dissolving. “And in proportion as the President ventures to use his opportunity to lead oplnion and act s spokesman of the people in affairs, the people stand ready to overwhelm him by running to him with every question, great and small. They are as eager to have him settle a literary question as a politi- cal; hear him as acqulescently with regard to matters of expert knowl- edge as with regard to public affairs, and call upon him to qulet all troubles by his personal intervention. Men of ordinary physique and discretion can not be Presidents and live, it the strain be not somewhat relioved/* and, as such, had the military and the | say, and married, in 1833, Sir Josiah WILLIAM WILE ington, suggested to the Hawkeye progressive that he was the logical G. O. P. candidate. Kenyon said he wouldn't have the nomination at any rice, because the President of the United States “under present condi- tions won't live to* complete his term.” * ok ok K The Evening Express of Los An- geles, In a panegyric on the climate of southern California, proposes that the capital of the United States be “moved” to that fair city. It pleads for at least the establishment of a summer capital in Los Angeles, In or- der that the President and other fed- eral officlals requiring to be at the seat of government during the mid- dle of the year can escape equatorial weather. )f course,” says the Ex- press, “if Mr. McAdoo is elected in 1924, our proposal will be as good as accomplished. But why wait? Why not seize the golden opportunity that offers now and secure inestimable cli- matic comfarts and delights for &ood republican President?” * % * X * The Philippine Commission of In- dependence, which maintains an ac- tive headquarters in Washington, publishes a fighting monthly maga- zine called Press Bulletin. During the current upheaval at Manila, with { Which the bulletin 1s in regular cable communication, it s particularly belligerent and lurid. _ “Filipinos Unanimously Ask Gov. Wood's Re- call” is the page-wide headline that adorns the August number. “Tog Much Government by Army Officers” is another headline legend that te its own story. The Filipinos at Washington claim that the election of Magnus Johnson constitutes “a gain of two votes” for the inde- pendence of the islands, Knute Nel- son having opposed it. o Senator Lynn J. Frazier of North Dakota has two charming daughters whom he 18 bringing to Washington next winter. They rejoice, respec- tively, in the names of Uni and Versa. That was Senator Frazier's idea of honoring the University of North Da- kota, to which he is deeply attached, and at which he won his B. A. in 1901. e Bootlegger truth is stranger than fiction. Two Washington women, motoring to Baltimore the other day, | nad tire trouble, and waited for first |aid from some sympathetic automo- bilist. A courtly gentleman in a | 1imoustne rendered the necded assist- lance, was duly thanked, lifted his hat, offered his card and said “Ladies, I am a bootlegger. My ad- ress is on my card. If 1 can ever be | of service, please call on me.” l (Copyright. 1823.) | | One Former British Cabinet Minister Taintains a Home in United States of Dowla 2 great wus Tower of years afte: He died in 1852, and so er force of character and control that for several band's deatis managed all huge iron steel inter: she abandoned them to her eldest son, the first Lord Wimborne, on her ' marriage to Charles Schreiber, M. P, for Chelten- ham, collection and for literature. As Lady Charlotte Schrefber she became famous for her art collec- tions, many of which she either be- stowed or bequeathed to the British Museum and to the Victoria and Al- bert Museum in London. Among her plctures was a wonderful portrait of that Charles Brandon, Duke of Suf- folk, who plays the role of the hero of that now popular photoplay, “When Knighthood Was in Flower.” Tirandon was that pieturesque knight who accompanied Henry VIII to the historic Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520 and who had five years previ- “ly married secretly in Paris that monarch’s sister, Mary Tudor, widow of the French King Louis XIL 1In fact, this portrait, acquired by the late’ Lady Charlotte Schreber. is one of the finest pictures in_existence of | that comely Duke of Suffolk who so nearly lost his head by presuming to wed, without the consent of King Henry, the latter's favorite sister. * * % As for Lady Charlotte Schrelber's grandson, Freddie Guest, he has had a somewhat adventurous career and has been everywhere. Very rich, through his multimillionaire father. jin spite of his having been a younker |gon, he went to South Africa before |the Boer war and was suspiciously | near Johannesburg at the time of the iJameson raid. He wae afterward | with Kitehener as an officer of the {Camel Corps in the reconguest of the 1 Sudan and toek part in the battle of ;Omdurman and the capture of Khar- tum. He was a captain of the iLife Guarde in the South African ar of a quarter of a century ago, {and in the subsequent times of peace idld some soldiering out in India, and !also spent much of his time exploring the interior of Africa and of Asia and | prospecting In Alaska. From 1912 to 1914 he was a member of King George's household as his | treasurer, but went to France at the joutbreak of the great war on_ the {staff of the then generalissimo, Lord Ip winning ~_the Distinguished ! Service Order, the Legion of Honor and the military’ commandership of the Order of the British Empire. brief spell at home, engaged in or- ganizing the national service depart- ment, he feit the need of some more fighting, and accordingly joined Gen. Jan Smuts in that rican campaign which ended in the conquest of all Germany's vast terri- tory in that portion of the dark con- tinent. After the peace he returned home ‘to” become air minister in the Lloyd George cabinet. L I O Lithe, well built, with a complex- fon which tells the story of an open- air life, Freddie Guest, as every- body calls him, is devoted to every form of sport and a far more en- thusiastic polo player than his elder brother Lord Wimborne. Liked even by his political adversaries, he was | a most valuable asset to the Lloyd | George government. His brilliancy and charm he undoubtedly inherits from his wonderful mother, the dowager Lady Wimborne, who, as Lady Cornelia Spencer _Churchill, has been far away the cleverest and most_brilliant and versatile of all Churchill. Known in her day as “the Deborah of Dorset,” she has been a great power in politics and at its height used to be described as “the Chieftainess” and as the “She Who Must Be Obeyed” of the influen- tial low church party in England. In a Few Words. When you educate a man you liber- ate an individual. When you educate a woman you liberate a family. —MRS. BARRETT MONTGOMERY. If Uncle Sam would put the presi- dency on an eight-hour basis, I'd be willing to take the job provided I could get the night shift when the ! public is asleep and not kicking. —THOMAS R. MARSHALL. | 1 saw more intoxicated men and women in London in one day than I did in the United States in five year: —WAYNE B. WHEELER. War is awful, but there are other things almost as wicked. A nation may survive war, but a nation whose moral fber has’ been destroyed by hypocrisy has no future. —SENATOR HIRAM JOHNSON. who shared her tastes for art| Charles | 1st | After a | arduous East Af- | the gifted sisters of Lord Randol]\h; Politics at Large Oscar Underwood's recent address before the legislature of Alabama, in which he declared, in effect, with ref- erence to his possible candidacy. that ‘Barkis is willin’* while fully ex- pected, has nevertheless been followed by spirited gossip among the members of the high command and rank and flle in the democratic party. This “high command” s a generic term, and there is no roster of individual members nor designation of rank or precedence. In point of fact, every £00d democrat feels himself qualified for leadership and for membership in the high command. K K K The subject of greatest discussion among democrats consequent upon the address of Senator Underwood had to do with his outspoken defense of the proposition that an aspirant for the democratic presidential nomi- nation should not be disbarred be- cause of his hailing from south of Mason and Dixon line. His bold stand has pleased the southern demo- crats mightily. For vears the scc- tional prejudice set up against them has rankled. They have felt humil- lated in feeling that they were re- garded as but a negligible part of the democratic party when it came to presenting a candidate, but, oh, how desirable in supporting the candidate selected by the north, east and w {Southern democrats were delighted, {therefore, when Senator Underwood |took up the cudgels for their down- trodden section. * ¥ x ¥ Senator Underwood said on this point that “unless the southern states are willlng to fhrget their birthright the time has come when they have a right to ask of their sister states, whosc sons have &0 often been honored by the votes of the south in the electoral college, that a son of the southland should again bear the banner of de- mocracy and be chosen to direct the destinies of the nation. “We cannot maintaln the respect of others if we do not stand for reason- able treatment for ourselves. Tt is no question of fdle honors; it is a question where most serious govern: mental problems that affect the very life and happiness of our people are at stake.” His statement that a son of the southland should “again" be select- ed had reference, of course, to James K. Polk. “It has been eighty years,® said Senator Underwood, “since James K. Polk of Tennessee was nomi 1 and elected President of the United Stataes. Elghty vears since we have had a democratic President of the United States from the south.” * ok ok % Willlam J. Bryan promptly indorsed Senator Underwood's appeal for a “square deal” for the south and its candidate, but took violent exception to any possible construction being placed on Senator Underwood's plea warranting the assumption that Sena- tor Underwood was the only pebble on the southern beach. Mr. Bryan is understood to entertain the conviction that Senator Underwood is located on the wet beach. while Mr. Bryan is overlord of the dry heach And, among the pebbles on that heach he cowld jdesery former Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, Comér of Alabama and Pat Neff of Texas. 3 o { Northern democrats are said to realize that once the camel gets fts nose under the tent—that s to sav. | that when the prejudice against south- | erners is abandoned and the princi- ple is accepted of the availability of a southern candidate from a political viewpoint, the field of presidential possibilities will be greatly enlarged and the south will in fact have an advantage over the north. As Mr. Bryan himself said his attack on Senator Underwood, “every southern state can furnish a candi date” That statement is correct Tt has bheen the practice of the southern states to keep their senators and rep- | resentatives in Congress for long | terms Thelr men. through senfority and natural ability have attained | prominence in legislative affairs. Con- { gress has been to them a school for the development of statesmen. And| those who do not measure up to the standarde of statesmanship have se- cured publicity which is akin to prominence. The north sends many able men to the Senate and House in the first place, but Is not fortunate in keeping them' there. So often they come in on a “fluke” or a landslide, and in the reaction disappear before they have| opportunity to make.a record, or even | to gain publicity. ket ke i What has become of the boom of | Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York for | the presidential nomination? Was the | early frost inflicted upon it by Tom | Taggart, Senator McKellar of Ten- | nessee and others, indeed, a killing | frost? { It is not concelvable that the Iim- pire state will go into the democratic | national convention without a candi- date, backed by a vociferous erowd of Tammanyites, making the welkin ring | id the nights hideous. That would not be Boss Murphy's “play” at all. It is a safe bet that the Hermit of Goodground—that's what they call him because of his reticence and the loca- tion of his country home—is keeping up a lot of thinking and a close eve on developments. By the time he should find Gov. Smith to be impossible, if it | should so develop, he can be depended upon to present a full-fledged candi- date. R The Ford boomers have been qui- escent for a fortnight, which fact has caused some uneasiness in the camps of the other possibilities. They fear the Ford outfit is lying low to spring | a surprise on them. The better guess, however, is thought to be that the Ford managers are waiting for the re- | cent sudden outburst among democrats favoring Henry Ford to “sink n,” and watch the reaction. The Ford movement is classed among many politiclans as a two-track under- taking with the White House as the terminal. They don't care whether he | runs in on the democratic track or a third party track. If they had the choice of both, they would pick out the one which seemed to have the best political and vote-getting roadbed and rolling stock equipment. * K %k ok Amid all the talk, speculation and gossip, the McAdoo boomers are keep- ing everlastingly at it, working in thelr own way, and are considered as not having lost a trick thus far., The strategy of the McAdoo forces is to keep their candidate himself out of the 1imelight as far as possible while they do the fine work. They advise him to refrain from making public announce- ment just at this time of his candidacy, on the ground that such action would immediately draw the fire of all the other candidates. Furthermore, they feel that such an announcement would inevitably be. followed by the neces- sity of a declaration by him of his policies in consequence of a public de- mand for a “show down.” The backbbone of the McAdoo move- ment is the railroad vote. A section of that vote is now drifting to the farmer- labor party, as was shown in the Min- nesota elections. Whether or not the farmer-labor party _makes further headway, it is believed, by the McAdoo men that as soon as he declares he is a candidate they will come back to him. in {He jhaa jof one [ sponsible ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. Who was the first Vice Presl- dent to succeed to the presidency in mid-term?—E. H. R. A. John Tyler. Like President Coolldge, he was absent from Wash- ington when the President, Willlam ry Harrison, died. He was at his home in Virginia. He came to Wash- fngton and stayed at a hotel. There, two days after his arrival, he was sworn in, Chief Judge Cranch of the Circuit Court of the District ad- ministering the oath. Q. Was the east room of the White House ecver glven another name’— A B A. During the Monros administra- | tion it was known as the “banqueting hall.” How much does a private car cost?—E. F. A. Such Pullmans are built to or- der. The cost of a car is around $50.000. Theso cars are attached to regul traing (with, generally speaking, the exception of limited traing) and a minimum of twenty-five ratlroad tickets is necessary for their | haulage. The cost of the railroad ticket fs governed by the class of train to which the car is attache Q. Where is William Penn buried? —A. H. H. A. Willlam Penn. his two wives and’ seven of his eleven children are buried in Jordan’s churchyard, two miles from Beaconsfleld, Bu shire, England. Q. Should pups be washed?—H. A. Do not wash pupples until they are three months old unless they got into filth which cannot be removed otherwise Q. Did American forces take from Colombia the right of way for the Panama canal>—H. F. D. A. The United States treaty with the Colombian government granting the United States the right to take the Punama canal was rejected by Colombla August 12, 1503. Shortly after this Panama, which was in Co- lomblan territory, revolted and insti- tuted a separate republic. The United es thereupon made @ treaty with which was ratified by the States February 904, and ma December 3, 1303, where numa_granted to the Un States the right to conduct and main- tain the Panama canal in perpetuity on payment of £10,000000 cash and an annual payment of £250,000 =0 long (s the 1 ¢hould be occipied by the United States. Colombia put In a claim for damages, and on March 1, 1821, an award was made to Colombi 25,000,000 for ioss of territory, 1y installments of § 060,000, first installment I been paid Q. What Austra A ued at K Iue G. ian farm 3,458 pc 12, nds. Q. Who is the girl who was made poet laure of Oklahoma?—O. 0. 1. A. Miss Violet McDougal has been appointed to this position by t governor of the state Q. How many acres of forest land are owned by farmers?—M A. The forest serv n wood 1 acres of forest land ngham- | af ) | ! helps petitors allowed to anoint thelr bod« fes with oil?—H. L. ¥. A. The Amateur Athletle Unlon does not allow any preparations to ba used in events conducted under Iits It is said that swimmers who, attempted to swim the English { channel have uged olive oil to anoint themsel ¢ Q. Who was the first woman mias sfonary from the United State: Ald The first woman missionary offia clally sent out from the United States’ in modern times was the wife of Adoniram Judson, who, in 1812 ace companied her husband and four othes missionaries sent out by the Amerie can hoard qf missionaries for forelgm misgsions to Indla anq Burma, Q. Does it cost more to advertive In Sunday or daily newspapers?—Ia C. O, A, ing per o Last year the average advertise charie of MOrning newspapers ate line, was $2.52 per million reulation; evening papers, $3.40 per million, and Sunday papers, $2.33 pur million Q. Were there any funds establish- ed for victims of great steamship dis- asters aside from the Titanic, such as the Lusitanta and the Empress of Ire land?—L R. A. The Lusitania fund totals 23,684 pounds, the proceeds from which go to care for forty-nine dependents of passengers. The Empress of Ireland fund aggregates 85,651 pounds and ustain seventy-five dependents of passengers and 152 members of tha crew, Q. Do they have trouble with the ! weevil fn Halti and the Domini- can Republi AH A. The Department of Agricultura says that & far the boll weevil has not attacked the cotton crops of Haiti or the Dominican Republic. Qs How many citles in Europe have populations of more than a million2 —. G A. According to the latest census, elght European cities have passed the million mark. They are London, Paris, Petrograd, Berlin, Vienn Moscow, Constantinople and Glasgow Q. In what direct fn a cyclone v In the northern hemisphere onic motion is always anti-clock- and in the southern hemisphere clockwise. A lone is an atmos. ric movem which the w epirally around and inward toe rd the center. >—L, on does the wind Is there China exis history or proot ed before the flood? The tradition of a deluge in corresponding to the flood as in the Bibl embodled in hook K1” whera It ‘And now the pillars of were broken, ® ¢ ® the earth is heaven {fell to pieces and the waters inclosed ops were val- | gt s that ts amount to 159,000,500 | fact for within jts be lence and o m Lurst forth with viow d. Man having re< saven, the svstem of wag totally disordered grand harmony of nature de- ed.” Why were the Navy men called i appellation “gob” is of Chie vation from the Chiness 1 “sailor” The word o use when fleet was in nese word me in far east. Haskin will answer questions of any one without charge. Writa Yo tnquiry and inclose cents in amps for return postage, Address your tier to 1220 North Capitol strect.) Mr CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL ¥ In the course of remaking the pres- idency, which urged £o strongly these days, there might be coneidered the date of inauguration, which h its tragedy in the fatal President within ‘a month f: the ceremony, and also is re- for innumerable 4 and lesser discas in illness lowing cases of pneumon s, due to exposure March 4 is seldom blessed with safe weather in this climate. Incoming Presidents are required to deliver inaugural addresses with bared heads and thousands of citizens stand for hours through rains or snows, W must the precedent be perpetuated? This is the sentiment of the American Bar Association. * % s its That representative organization planning to take active steps at next meeting—which will be held in Minneapolis this month—to urge upon Congress such action as will be necessary to have the inaugur of a President follow almost imme- diately after his election. They are planning to have a committee of law- yer one member from each state— whose duty will be to press upon Congress these resolutions. The same committee will urge that newly elected members of Congress take their seats at the first meeting of Congress following their clection. That plan, it claimed would Keep the people in closer com- mand of Congres e * On the other hand. the mor servative argue that it is one of the tmportant safeguards of legislation that it shall not be done hastily, nor in response to a sudden wave of pop- alar demand. They argue that the making of laws for 110,000,000 peaple must be ackomplished with great con- sideration and deliberation; therefore, several months after election before a new and inexperienced member s given power 15 none too long for him to fit himself to bear the respon- sibility. President Coolidge is quoted on thi subject “We have had too much legislating by eclamor, by tumult. by pressure. Representative government ceases when outside influence of any kind is substituted for the judgment of its representative.” * ok ok ok A representative or senator is elect- ed by his constituents who exercise their right to vote. The “outside pressure” to which President Coolidge refers comes not from all his con- stituents, but usually from local leaders, self-constituted represen tives of local sentiment. position to which the franchise has constituted the congressman alone to hold. * Senator Cummins proposes that the term of President be extended to six years, and no re-election to follow. Men have been killed from overwork in much less than six years. The health of President Wilson broke in about that perfod and President Hard- ing succumbed in less than half that term. Members of Congress argue that the cumulative value of a President's experience s of very great impor- tance, and contravert the policy of having terms too short. The presi- dency is looked upon by them as the great stabilizer of a government Which receives its biennial mandates from the people Congress. Ty * ok ok ok ‘When the presidential term of of- fice was fixed by the Constitution bullders, great as was thelr vislon, through elections to | | Fegular | AT Liieve thy talready FRG Do “very | thelr names, but no law permits the | of documents. COLLINS ould not foresee that a nation rtcen states, all forming a the Atlantic ocean, and having es1s <o nearly alike, would grow £00on to an empire of forty-eight tates, slicing the continent from an to ocean. Their nation re- red a budset of about $9,000.000 a ours scarcely lives within_ a of 333 times as much. The Las grown three or four times ce McKinlev's term adopted what was bers of the Con- vention—a triumvir- 1d of a single’ person, he evoiution of the tr ight b #o subdivided to give no one man hird of the responsibili- arried by our I'residents * k% % insts umvirate he duties as how to h, lation hy as solved the problem of - its own mass of legls- portioning it amongst but the one President he same problems as do comittees, and show un- in handling all the ne err questions The P'resident cretarics, who i wisdom s his departmental onstitute his cabi- net. He hears their advice. but is not bound to follow it. Responsibility centers on him alone. * ox % x Con will now plan to relieve future Executives of all detail work possible. In the final analysls, com- the responsibility of a President with th If a king's ministe rexulting in unpopular policies. the advisers—not king—uare held to account, and summarily dismissed. New ad- bring new policies, and the 2 king, “for a' that ' w lenly may kingdoms re- their policies and actual rulers —their ministers and how conserva- tive is this republic in comparison! 1f all our departmental Secretarles should resign, that would not mean @ ehange of fundamental policies of the Ixecutive, for they make no poli- cies.except such as the President has indicated. s advise” badly, * kK months * For many joint congres- sional committee, of which Walter F. Brown of Ohio is chairman, has been studying the problem of how to ree routine work of the Execu tive. The plans had been discussed fully with Dresident Harding and have now been submitted to President Ceoltdse. Amongst such routine which Chair- mu Brown thinks may be assigned to an assistant to the President will bLe the appointments to minor offices, They may be given to an assistant or m he distributed amongst the respective departments to which they Lelon, It takes the President two or three hours a day merely to sign his nawe, This may be delegated to others it ways can be found to avoid abuse of onfidence, Cabinet members have wuthorized others to sign President to grant that authority, ex- cept as to one woman, Who signs the President’s name to a certain class Jrown states that the power of the President oc- cupies much of his time and nervous strain. Final action, he suggests, could be transferred to the Depart- ment of Justice, where all evidence and appeals are analyzed. * K K K caisson bearing Presi- dent Harding’s body was passing from the train to the White House <ands of citizens were standing N “the route, in silent tribute, but Zome forgot to remove thelr hats. Soldiers in uniform knocked off scores of hats from the owners' heads, Most of the rprised men promptly apolo- gized for their forgetfulness. BT will be said that Americans who fail to show such signs of respect have in their hearts no disrespect. But that does not lessen the duty of those who have learned to honor ‘hose to whom honor 18 due—te honor all who_ have met the great cons queror, Death! (Copyzight, 1923, by RaulvQuingiie. 1 Chairman pardoning When the