Evening Star Newspaper, August 26, 1923, Page 38

THE EVENING STAR, “’l{g Sunday Morning Edition. > WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY. . .August 26, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES. . .. Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th §t. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd Bt Chicago Offic ‘Tower Bullding. European Office: 16 Regent Bt., London, England. The Evening Star, with tlie Sunday morning edition, 13 delivered by carriers within the city At 60 cents per month; daily only, 45 cents per month: Sunday only. 20 cents pef month. lcrs may b sent by mail or telephone M 5000, "Collection is made by carriers at th end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advapce. Maryland and Virginla. Daily and Sunday..13r., $8.40; 1 mo. Dally onl. yr., $6.00 . Sunday o ) $2.40; 1 mo.. All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., Daily only yr., $1.00: 1 mo., Sunday on! Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled o the ‘use for republication of all news dis- patches credited to it or not otherwlse credited in this paper and alto the local ub- lished herein. ~All rights of publication of special_diapatchen herein 1so_reserved. & fiznatches hers e Mr. Coolidge and Politics. It has been said that politics {s the favorite sport of the American people. They love to play the game. They are experts in it. They have voted, in ever-increasing proportlons, for a hun- dred and forty years and more, and they take part In their biennial con- gressional and their quadrennial presi. dential elections with zest. It is natu- ral, therefore, that whenever the presi. dency should come. into question, by the approach of the end of a term and the beginning of a new campaigh for that office, or in the emergency of death in the office, there should be e keen interest in the subject of candi- dacies. But the enterprise has Its proper limits, and just now it would seem to be well to remit for a time the agitation concerning the qualifica. tions and the prospects of Mr. Cool- idge for an elected term in the White House. Mr, Coolidge succeeds to the office by the death of Mr. Harding. le was clected Vice President in accordance with the constitutional provision that establishes this reserve of personnel for the highest executive office. When nominated and when elected he was therefore placed in the position of & potential President. He, to a greater degree than any previous incumbent of the vice presidency. participated in the administration. He sat at the cab- inet meetings He was in close touch with the councils of the party that had named the ticket. He was in the full confidence of the President. So when death summoned him to the high duty of the presidency he was, as it were, taking the place of the senior member of the firm. It is a tradition that a President should not merely be willing to serve, but should seck a second term in the office. Tt is natural that he should wish to have his administration in- dorsed. Acceptance of an original nomination implies a willingness and even a wish to serve for eight years. Mr. Harding was cut off by death be- fore he had finished his first term. Had he lived he would undoubtedly have been renominated. He could not, save upon the ground of failing health, have evaded the second candidacy. Mr. Coolidge, in taking his place, succeeds naturally to the duty of seeking the public’s indorsement of the adminis- tration of which he was & part and of which he is now the chief exponent. But it is not desirable, as it is not necessary, for his friends now to stress this point, or to press strongly for consideration of his qualifications es against other members of his party. Tt is too soon after the death of Mr. Harding to “talk politice.” Mr. Cool- idge has a weighty work to do. Ile mnust carry on the policies of the ad- ministration as cstablished by his partner.predecessor in the office. He must adjust matters left undetermined by the untimely taking off of the head of the state. He is himself not con- cerned about the political aspect of the situation. If Mr. Coolidge manifests in the office the qualifications which he has displayed in his past career, and in recognition of which he was nominated in 1920 as Mr. Harding's “running mate,” he will automatically deserve and will have every chance to receive the recognition next year of a nomina- tion for the presidency. He is, in & way, on trial now. And those who are concerned in his behalf will render him the highest service by refraining from playing the political game in his behalf and leaving him unembarrassed in his discharge of the duties he is conscientiously facing and assuming by any considerations of political strategy. If he “‘makes good” he will be the logical nominee of his party. If he fails in his task he will not. And no amount of political maneuvering will affect the situation. ——— Owing to the strike situation Labor day has not yet qualified as one of those holidays that enable everybody to be happy and carefree. ————————— The National Anthem. A New York community song leader has created a disturbance in the big town by refusing to start his concerts in Central Park with “The Star Span- gled Banner.” As a consequence the programs have for the present been discontinued by the park commis- sioner. The reason given by the song ledder is a peculiar one. He says that while it was proper during the war to play and sing this tune, now it “nec- essarily casts e gloom over those who have experienced the death-dealing touch of war, and in others stimulates the qualities of national hatred which we are trying to forget and try to rise above that we may go on to better and holier things.” He says further: My purpose in leading the people in song {8 to overcome worry, fear, mis- understanding and hatreds, and I be- lieve that unless these hatreds are overcome by joy and brotherhood the world is due for more bloodshed and more wooden crosses. Tt-is to be hoped that this incident will cause many people to read the text of “The Star Spangled Banner” 10 see what hatreds and war-making influences it induces. For perhaps then more will learn the song through- nut than are now able to sing it. The text 1s, indeed, remarkably free from bate-making sentiment, It is purely a song of defense and of rejoicing in the success of that defense. It is not the gong of,conquest. It is the ‘song of protection against aggression. There is nothing gloomy in its lines. There is nothing to make for ‘‘more blood- shed and more wooden crosses.” It is @ strange nature, indeed, that reacts to * in the way that this New York sing leader suggests. If the aggressive war. making impulses of the American peo- ple are to be stirred only by the words of this immortal song the United States will never take the field inarms save in self-defense. And it may be said that if pacifistn and non-national. ity are to be the guiding principles of our people then they should learn and commonly stng the “Internationale,” with the red banner hoisted to the top of the staff. ————— Hard Coal and Substitutes. Although “the seal of officlal ap- proval has been placed by the bureau of standards on the use of coke and soft coal as substitutes for hard coal,” the tests show that these substitutes are not equal in heating efficlency and other desirable factors to first-class Everybody in the sections’ anthracite. where hard coal {s the household fuel knows this. Coke has certain qui ties that commend it, especially comparison with soft coal, and the bu- reau of standards in a recent report says: “With the same attention to the fire coke gives a much more uniform temperature than bituminous coal. In addition, coke is a clean fuel and makes neither soot nor smoke, an ad- vantage difficult to express in figures. The bureau says: “‘The relative quan- tities of bituminous coal, coke and an- thracite needed to maintain & house at a comfortable temperature depend upon the calorific values of the fuels as well as thermal efficienctes, end the calorific values of all three fuels may vary considerably owing mainly to their variable ash and moisture con- tent.” The ordinary coal consumer cannot understand that. He knows that his furnace is designed especially for burning hard coa!, and those house- holders who have made the experi- ment know that in burning soft coal they meet many difficulties. Smoke and soot are prominent, and the coal does not burn so long. It is more dif- ficult to “keep the fire-in,” and es- pecially to “keep it in” all night. The householder has to do a great deal more shoveling, raking and firing. While coke is quick and clean in com- bustion it burns out faster than hard coal. ‘Whether one can get more heat out of a dollar's worth of soft coal than a dollar's worth of hard coal the bureau ot standards does not say, or at least does not say in terms which the plain coal-shoveling householder can under- stand. He knows that he must “tend” the furnace more often. It might be that some of his difficulties would be overcome or moderated by converting his hard-coal furnace into & soft-coal burner, but the change means ex- pense, and many persons will say that they have found it as costly to have repairs or improvements made to the furnace as to the plumbing fixtures. It is possible thaet should & house- holder have his furnace readjusted to soft coal he might become a convert to soft caal and never have the fur- nace remodeled as a hard-coal burner. He would be lost as a customer of the hard-coal trade. It might be that mil- lions of householders would think and act that way and put @ permanent “crimp” in the hard-coal business. People in the District end other hard coal sections are used to anthracite. They demand it and are entitled to it, but 1f necessity forces them to change the habit of & lifetime there may come a drop in the profits of hard-coal oper- ators and hard-coal miners. Lenin’s health has improved. Soviet Russia has done rather well during his illness, but there are no expressions of a desire to prolong it on that ac- count. All that will be requested, evi- dently, is that the statesmen will per- suade him to pursue the policy of in- activity prescribed by the doctors. The collection of data with reference to the European situation has been in. dustriously carried on without develop- ing much to change the first impres- sion that things are in a bad wey. Science in predicting the disappear- ance of coal did not point out the pos- #ibility that it might occur at so early a date because of strictly non-geologi- cal considerations. ‘Poincare is perfectly willing to keep up a series of courteous explanations as long as England appears to derive any possible pleasure from listening to them. France cannot pay others uniess Germany pays her, according to Paris officials. This is a rather melancholy position for a proud and independent nation. Future historians may feel called upon to refer to the wars fought dn the early days without afrcraft or gases as comparatively trivial affairs. The world i{s hoping that airships will stick to carrying the mails, and not be required to take on cargoes of explosives. Guides and Tourists. There is one trust which govern- ment officlals are “going after” as though they mean to meke an end of it. This is the Capitol guide trust. Whether the tentacles of the trust will be clipped remains to be seen, but it is stated that the sergeants-atarms of the Senate and House will put the matter before the eppropriations com- mittee of each branch of Congress, with the proposition that e corps of guides carried on & government pay roll be provided for the enlightenment of strangers making a tour of the Capitol bullding. It is published in the news that “Following a study of the sltuation and comparison with the custom prevailing in other public buildings of the nation the sergeants. atarms have concluded that the cus- tom at the Capitol is unfair,” and that there should be “a regular force of government employes under control of federal officials.”” ‘The guide question, as one finds it today, seems to be of relatively mod. THE SUNDAY ern growth, The up-to-date spirit of organization; ;condbination, restriction of competition, distribution of terri- tory and all that seems to have taken possession of the estimable men whb serve as guides, and the result ? i complaints have arisen. It is alleged that these guldes have formed an or- ganization, that they exact a fixed fee, or at least a fixed minimum fee, and that they will not allow a guide not a member of their organization to “shew people around.” Thers are two sides to this. These guides are under super- vision of the sergeamts-atarms, and are trustworthy men who know the Capitol from crypt to dome. They are competent and as truthful in telling the wonder tales of Washington to tourists as guldes need be. If any man representing himself as a gulde should be allowed to loiter around the Capltol and “pick up” strangers a good many undesirable fellows would be plucking tourists. On the other hand, there are regular guides whose understanding of the business is at par with the skill and learning of the Capltolians. One of these outside guldes takes possession of a group of strangers who generally agree to pay him @ fee. Among the various places ta which he shepherds his flock is the Capitol. A ‘“regular” guilde there meets him at the bronze doors and waves him away. He must not enter. The Capitol gulde takes these tourists and assesses a second charge against them. In a way the American tourist, part owner in the Capita! city and Capitol building, {s mulcted under the dome where the laws are made and where the Supreme Court sits. Of course, if 2 corps of official and government-paid guldes is provided by Congress it is possible that some will be appointed to positions as Capitol guldes who do not know the east from the west front. It is a problem that calls for adjustment. ———— The four-hour working day predict- ed by the eminent electrictan Stein- metz will mean more golf in the after- noon and more theaters at night. The caddies and the actors will not bene- fit by the new arrangement. —————— Strike controversies invariably cost the ultimate consumer a considerable sum without leaving him with an !m- pression that he has had anything worth while either in instruction or entertainment. ————————— By the time @ strike crisis is ended the ultimate consumer has been made to feel that it is & great favor to se- cure the necessitles of life at any price. ———— Gov. Pinchot is expected to go into all branches of the fuel supply and prove himself an expert in coal dis- tribution as well as wood conserva- tion. —————— “Misery loves company,” says the adage. It {s not working out in Eu- rope, where nations as their distresses increase find one another less com- panlonable. Minds that view every public inci- dent in terms of politics will regard the coal tender as a mighty important part of the presidentia! band wagon. Beveral western statesmen incline to the opinion that the Non-Partisan League is all the new party the na. tiona! situation will require. Germany's new form of government avoids overburdening the president. It lets the chancellor do most of the worrying. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Not the Same. “I wish 1 were a boy once more,” Sald Hezeklah Bings, | “Though boyish mishaps known of yore ‘Were oft unpleamant things. I do not yearn for punishments And lessons so severe— But how I miss the circus tents That came along each year! ‘“To what they call a circus now 1 go, and feél forlorn. It's all a tinseled nolsy row ‘Which fills my heart with scorn. Ang other things I liked before Have somehow taken wings. I wish I were a boy once more, Said Hezeklah Bings. Recasting a Phrase, “Now,"” said the camera man, “I want you to assume the faclal expres. sion of @ man prepared to do his duty, regardless of friendships or personal consequences.” “All right,” enswered Senator Sor- ghum; “I enfoy the novelty of the idea. You are the first photographer in my experience who has said, in ef- fect, ‘Look unpleasant, please.’” Jud Tunkins says even the small boys have gotten over the hazy notion that war was some kind of a dbig pyro- technic demonstration that was the more interesting because of the addi- tional element of danger. No Escape. He led the simple thrifty life, Avoiding ways of care and strife. Economy produced such 1th Finance is threatening his health. Terminology. “Wonld that bathing costume be de- scribed as neglige?” “No,” replied Miss Cayenne. “The correct English word would be ‘neg- ligible. " Municipal Serenity. “When is Crimson Gulch going to have a vice investigation?” “Not for some time,” answered Cac- tus Joe. “The sheriff has been too lucky at faro bank and roulette to make any complaints whatever.” Working Both Ways. “Do you believe in the theory of évolution?” “Certainly,” answered Uncle Bill Bottletop. “I'va seen a man after a few drinks make a monkey of hissclf, and I don't see why the thing couldn't work both ways.” ‘“You never kin tell,” said Uncle Eben, “when a man listens attentive to good advice whether he is tryin’ to reform or is bein’ entertained.” ’ STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, AUGUST % 1923—PART Has Doubts as to the Value: ;‘!.4.5(7“@61'31661)!5"1 . Of Truth-Compelling Prygs | BY THOMAS R. MARSHALL, Former Vice President of the United States, N considering Solomon’s remark, “1 sald in my haste gll men are Uars” I have ivondered some- times whether Israel's great king could not, if he were zlive today, say the same thing after premeditation and forethought. However, there are liars and lia A lle has beep humorously defined as an abomina- tion in the sight of the Lord and a very present help in time of trouble. But all lies are not les. I have in mind, for instanoe, the fabrications of children. It is hard to tell at times whether a child's “story™ is a false- hood or merely an outcropping of imagination. .1 have a feeling. that countless thousands of little ones have had their hearts saddened and their bodies bruised bhecause of the fatlure or inabillty of parents and teachers to distinguish between bud- ding genlus and downright mendacity. 1 remember a case in court and the discomfiture of attorneys for the de- fense when a witness told under oath & story quite different from the one he had been expected to tell. The attogneys sought to impeach his tes- timony by bringing out the fact that his two storfes did not jibe. This he frankly admitted, explaining: “I lted neither in nor gut of court. I haye testified to the truth. upon the wit- ness stand because the court and jury are entitled to know the truth. The man who Qquestioned me before this trial had no right to ask the que tions he asked. It is a lie to tell a falsehood to anv one who has the right (o xewk the truth, but it is n Iying to tell a nosey busy body any thing You please.” * % & * T have not been retained as counsel for the Order of Ananlas and Saphira. 1 morely got to thinking of lies and liars because of the recent announce- ment that a sure and sclentific test of llars had been found—another one, by the way, because the last announc ment was not the first. Science for a long time has been in search of an unfalling lie-detecter. So it was with interest that I read that a real-for- rure, genuine guardian of truth had been found. It {3 a new drug, scopolamin they call it, and it renders its users in- capable of lying. One dose of it and an erstwhile llar opens up to. truth like a baby robin’s mouth to a worm. It is being touted as the greatest dis- covery of modern times, not even the use of the anesthetic being excepted. I have been turning over in my mind the possible effects of this dis- covery, if a real discovery it should prove to be. WIIl the criminal law- yer, like Othello, find himscif with {8 occupation gone? Will grand Jjuries and courts ultimately pass away? Will we epact a law for compulsol scopolamining, Iike our compulsory v cination laws, requiring all citizens to take the medicine or 1o submit to in- Jection of it and thereby become im- mune to lies and lying? Is It to be true that what the pleadin of the gospel, the thunderings of Sinai and the legis- latures of the world have been unable to accomplish, a single dose of medicine will immediately achleve? * ¥ % ¥ I leave to scientists discussion of the drug and its alleged efficacy, dis- claiming at the same time any desire to poke fun at chemical research. The drug may A6 wl.thdt iy being clafmed for it and more. I don't know, but'I have my doubts. In any event the discovery integests me as a lawyer. I have wondered whether it could be used.in court. Our law has ever been that a man may stand mute in the présence of his accusers and demand proof of his &Ullt; that the accused inust be as- zumed to be innocent until his guilt has béén, proved beyondiany reason- able do Would nog'a ‘detendant have a M@ to refussi to take the medicine? - A, might ba* a-perfectly innocent. wiknJund yet a: doubting Thomas, A ’ Long ago’ the Latins had a motto that in winw there truth; vet all know fhat gome men in wine ) colossal ifars: Alcohol may enlarge the gentls. sensibilities of some, yet it brings out-in others hidden in- stincts and .unknown passions. The consclousness -vf the a d might be wholly. honest and his subcon- sciousness wholly dishonest. Seience never yet has discovered a drug that would have {dentical effect upon all persons. . Morphia is hailed as a great sedative ‘und usually produces sleep, but every now and then doctors find an antfpathetic patient whose nerv- ousness is stimulated by It. Instead of producing sleep it produces tor- turing wakefulness. D The seekifig of a truth compeller is not new. The search is as old as history. The medfevals had the trial in which the innocent man was expected 1o walk unscathed over red-hot iron.” The duello was once held in high esteem as the means of determining the truth or falsity of an assault upon u man's character. The wager of battle became favor- able method of disclosing the truth, and in the more modern days of Hell Roarin' Jake Smith the water cure was administered to extract truth, in the Philippines. The French still con- front the accused with the body of his victim. and third degree methods are not yet obsolete or cve obsoles- cent in America. Most lawyers have thelr own theory as to how to detect a liar on the witness stand. 1 had mine and thought it was infallible. Experiments in the realm of truth had convin d me that no man could tell a lie without swallowing upon it as though it were a little t0o big to go down, and that this always caused his Adam’s apple to distend.” Like all discoverers, 1 was persistent in the advocacy of my method until one day a man whose reputation for truth and veracity was distinctly bad got into trouble. My friends. knowing 1 was to cross-examine him, came to court to witness a_demonstration of my pet theory. When the witness took the stand he wore a long flowing beard. 1 more could see his Adam’'s app! than 1 could see his consclence. Force, science, hypnotism and hu- man ingenu all bave had & hand at liar. Each may have succeeded in one case or another but none has gained infallibility. It is a trite_saving of the law that it is better that ninety-nine should go acquit than that one innocent man should be punished. This is true and it also is infinitely better to let grows- ing civillzation and quickened con- sciences move men to right things than it is to try to squirt virtue into humankind with a hypodermic syringe. (Copyright, 1923, Z1st Century Press.) Head .of the Famous House Of Colonna Dies in Italy BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. In view of the several matrimonial | alllances contracted with American women by the princess of the illustri- ous house of Colonna, the death of Don Fabrizio, head of the entire family, and the succession of his eldest son, Don Marc Marco Antonio, to his many honors and dignities, in- cluding no less than five dukedoms, calls for some passing mentton. Don Fabrizio, himself, succeeded his elder brother as master of the wonderful old Colonna palace on the Square of the Apostles, one of the landmarks of the Eternal city, eleven years ago. But as he was a senator of the Kingdom of Italy, a general of Itallan cavalry and completely iden- tified with the court of the Quirinal and with Italian government, he de- clined to sacrifice them for the high- est lay dignity at the Vatican. which me to him by inheritance and, with the permission of the Pontiff, he sur- rendered his rights thereto to his eldest son, the new and fourteenth Prince of Colonna, who, in ‘conse- quence thereof, became hereditary prince assistant of the pontifical throne, or, to use the old Latin name of the high office, “Stator proximus a solio pontificeis maximi,” which was conferred upon his ancestor by Six- tus V, some two hundred years or more ago. * ok x o* Its origin was a curious one. It was created by that masterful pontiff with the object of putting an end to the wars which had until that time been carried on for five centuries or more bétween the two great patri- cfan houses of Colonna and of Orsini; wars which caused blood to flow in the streets of Rome almost every week. At length, when a_ Colonna and an Orsinl had so far forgotten the respect due to the Holy Father as to draw thelr swords upon each other when in his presence, he, with the object of parting them, peremp- torily ordered the one to take up his position on the right of the papal throne and the other on the left, and subsequently, on the express under- standing that peace between the two families should thenceforth be main- tained, he converted into hereditary dignities these positions to the right and left of the throne, the Colon- nas taking it in turns with the Orsinis to have the place on the right. They also took it in turns, prior to 1870, when the Popes were still accustomed to drive about Rome, to precede on horseback the pontifical equipage. It the Pope himself went on horse- back, it was the prince assistant who held the stirrup for his holiness to mount, and who led the horse. * ok ok ok The Colonna family, which has fur. nished at least half a dozen Popes to the Catholic Church, including Marcel, ‘who reigned in A.D. 304, and Martin V, who occupled the chair of St. Peter in 1417, owes, according to tra- dition, its name to the possession of what s alleged to be a portion of the column to which Christ was tled when scourged on the eve of His crucifixion, and which is still preserved as a cred heirloom, having been brou from Jerusalem in the first century of the Christian era. It is the prin- olpal treasure, of course, of the grand old Colonna Palace in Rome, which was bullt away back In the four- teenth century on the Square of the Apostles. and which has had among its occupants Popes Martin V and Jultus II, as well as that celebrated Cardinal Borromeo, subsequently can- onised as St. Charles. The Don Fabrislo Colonna who has Just been gathered to his fathers, full of years and honors, must not be con- founded with his nephew and name- sake, who last year led to the altar at Genoa Miss Jeanne Marle Perkins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Perking of Washington, D, C..who have also a home in the neighborhood of Genoa. % .Another American marr! sg of the (Colonnas was that between ‘Don Fer- Prince of dinand Colonna, - eighth Stigliano, and the late Evelyn Bryant of Downieville, Calif., step-sister of Clarence Mackay of New York and daughter f hig mother, the widowed Mrs. John W, Mackay of Bonanza fame. The union was in no respect a happy one, and after a number of sensational differences, some of which were alred in the Italian and French courts, arising from the prince's en- deavor to extort money from his wife, by efforts to separate her from her three children, she secretly fled with them to her native land. and re- mained at Monterey, Calif, until, finally, a vear later, the prince relin- quished all claim to the children or their mother in return for an allow- ance of $12,000 annually, which he is still recelving from Mrs. Mackay. At the time he insisted that his own personal income did not exceed $2,500 a year, although it was known that both Mrs John W. Mackay and her husband had frequently given him large sums of money, on one occa- sion over a million francs to pay his =o-called “debts of honor.” that is to say, gambling debts. * % ok % Aside from the fact th the name of Colonna figures on every page of the history of Rome and of Italy, its annals are rich in romance, drama and in tragedy, not only in ancient, but also in modern times. One of the most extraordinary 1s one of which the widow of the late FPrince Mark Anthony, who preceded his brother, the recently deceased Prince Fabrigio, as head of the family, has played the leading role. By birth she was a daughter of the Neapolitan Duke of 8an Teodoro and of his English con- sort, who died as the wife of the late Lord Walsingham. Lady ‘Walsing- ham, herself, was of somewhat ro- mantic origin, having been born sev- eral months after the death of her father, the “gallant and immortal” Locke, whom Bulwer-Lytton portrays in his novel, “Ernest Maltrav and who, having made & runaway match with a sister of Tolle Mache, was drowned through the upsetting of the boat on Lake Como, under the very eyes of his lovely bride, during their honeymoon in Italy. * ok ok * She became an obfect of an infat- uation on the part of the young Mar- quis Napoleon de Roccagiovine, great- grandson of that Lucien Bonaparte Who was a younger brother of the great Napoleon and a great-grandson of that King Joseph Bonaparte who spent so many years at Bordentown, The young marquis made no cret of the fact that he had lost his heart to the princess, mother of two little girls, and who .was then re- nowned for her beauty. No one has ventured to hint that there was any- thing questionable in his admiration. But the husband, fearing that the marquis’ attentions might give rise to unpleasant comment. and gossip, re- quested him, in the most courteous fashion and for her sake, to abstain, at any rate for a tima, from visiting the Colonna Palace. On receiving this communication young Roccaglo- vine, altogether beside himself at the idea that he had probably compro- mised the falr name of the object of his adoration, blew out his brains, leaving a noté asking that his favo ite scarfpin, a diamond butterfly :(erced through the heart by a ruby- eaded pin, should be presented, in his name, to the princess. o o o The tragedy created & tremenda: sensation in Rome. It wrecked the mind of Donna Theresa, whé, ednl sclous of her entire innocencé, devel- oped, with the return of partial-reas son, so pronounced an aversiowfor her husband, regarding him as Xy sponsible for the suicide of the most blameless of all her admirers, that she refused to speak t6 or remain. with him or even to bear his.name.}Oh! She took up her residence in England under the wing of her mother, Lady Walsingham, styling herself by tie title which she had inherited from her father, namely, Duchess of San Teodoro. Her husband never allowe himself to be influenced in any.way by her attitude toward him and ma fested the most chivalrous reggrd and devotion for her, surrounded her with eyvery comfort’ and luxury' ir England, providing her with & coun- try seat and a town house in London, and saw to that her daughters, who had remained with him, kept up a con'stant intercourse with her, \ BY QVILL P, KENNEDY. Scareely two score yeurs ago “Jim- mw‘xvfl a little Welch immigrant, came to this country in the steerage. The other day he came back to this icountry In.the paiatial suite prepared fon. the, kaiser on the most elegant ship In the world, and as he ‘ap- proached New, York it meant mare to him, than. to most pgople, vet his thoughts should be an inspiration to the .hundreds. of thousands of fmmi- grants in.whose interests he has been studying conditions in European countrles, and the needs of this country. “The steel that made New York a city in the sky w: wrought in my own time., ways Secretary. of Labor Davis, “My father and his sons helped to puddle the iron that has braced the city's rising towers. A town that crawled now stands erect And we whose backs were bent above the puddling hearthy know how - it got its spine. A mossy town of wood and stone changed in my generation to a towering city of glittering glass and steel. ‘All of which, 1 can say in the words of the poet, ‘all of which I saw and part of which 1 was.'" 5 The lessons be learned at the pud- dling hearth ‘lllln\'P guided his life. “Pig fron has no fiber,” he explains: “it breaks instead of bending. Build « bridge of it and a gale will break it, and it will fall into the river. Some races are pig iron. They hav been smelted out of wild animalism, but they went no furtier. Only the wrought-iron races can do the work. All this I felt but could not say in the days when 1 piled the pig iron in the puddling furnace and turned with boyish eagerness to have my father show me how, 7 “The country was building, and T gave it iron to build with. Raflroads were still pushing out their mighty arms and stringing their iron ralls across the western wheat lands. Bridges were crossing the Missis- sippi and spanning the chasms in the Rocky mountains. Chicago and New York were rising in new growth with iron in their bones to hold them high. My youth was spent in giving to this growing land the element its body ne What this country means to him as he returned from. the emigrant- crowded ports of Europe can best be surmised from his own soliloquy: “My days were spent at forge and puddling furnace. The iron that I made is civillzation’s tool. 1 ride by night in metal bedrooms. 1 hear the bridges rumble underneath the wheels, and they are part of me. I see tall cities looking down from out sky and know that 1 have given a rib to make those gilants. 1 am a part of ail I see, and life takes on an epic grandeur. 1 have done the best 1 could to build America.” Thus speaks the' man under whose administration comes the American- ization and assimllation of the immi- grants of whom he was one, and to whom he visualizes ideals and achievement * K % The first money that Representa- tive John W. Summers of Washing- ton state earned was for dropping corn on an Indiana farm at 15 cents per day, working from sunup to sun- down, with a man with a sharp hoe clicking at his heels while he kept repeating, “Hurry up, Johnny; hurry up, Johnny.” A few dollars earned in that w: apt to teach the value of a dollar very effectually, and the lesson is not likely to be forgotten during the lifetime of the average man,. Representative Summers has ldeclded. ; When he was ten years old he went into the live stock business by pur- chasing an orphan calf for a dollar. He gave the calf the very euphonious name of “Jake” and taught him to drink milk from little Johnny's fin- gers after dipping them in a bucket. It was at this time that his inventive genlus manifested itself. He bored a hole in_the bottom of a box, drove a peg In it and wrapped the peg with cloth. From that time om lLe had only to help Jake find the peg and then could stand by and watch his sides swell out. The live stock busi- ness was not without its tribulations, since it became necessary at one time to summon all the neighbors to help lift Jake out of an abandoned well, Financially the venture was a great success, since he sold the calf after eix months of patient nursing for $5.50, with 15 cents added for de. livering him three milcs in the coun- try. Johnny Summers' next opportun!- ty for easy money presented itself when he learned that a farmer three {miles away was offering some shotes for sale at $1 each. With two of his chums, and carrying some old coffee sacks—otherwiss known as “gunny" sacks—Johnny led the ex- pedition _to the home of the hog- ralder. Their intention was to carry the shotes on their shoulders three miles, up hill and down dale and over stake-and-rider fences. When he had carried his hog up a rather steep hill. through the woods pas- ture, Johnny laid the sack and ho® down on the ground for a Iittle breathing_spell before climbing the fence. His tenderheartedness was undoing. He had cut a hole in the sack to allow the Dig to have a little more alr. When that elm- peeler shote got a bearipg for his feet on the grounds he stuck his nose through that hole and never etopped _till he had gained his lib- erty” Representative Summers re- calis His first manifestation of diplomacy was then given. He tried to persuade the other two boys to turn their pigs loose, proposing that they would hook old Dobbin up to his father's spring wagon and drive over and get all the pigs the next day. One of the boys refused to listen to his pleadings, but the other yielded. The plan would have worked out, but the village blacksmith meddled in telling Johnny's father that the horse would probably run away and kill _both the boys. Their next recourse was to take a hand wagon that welghed about 200 pounds, and on a hot August day, with the sun beating down upon them. they pulled this wagon three miles away and three miles back. After many expériences in trying to keep his “briar-roater” in a pen for two years he was butchered and sold for 13.25—all but $1.25 of which was clear rofit for Johnny, since his father sup- plicd the fifty bushels of corn that the hog had caten. Summers was then nearly fifteen vears of age and with $10 of the pro- ceeds from the pig he purchased his first suit of “store clothes,” including “breeches,” “galluses” and’ everything. . Representative Summers _is one of Congress' best examples of a self-made and_versatilely successful citizen. He worked on a farm, clerked.in a village store, taught school in Indiana and Texas, worked his way through Southern Indlana Normal School, = Kentucky School of Medicine and Loutsville Medi- cal _College. . Later. he pursued - his studies..in. New York, London, Berlin and the University of Vienna. He prac- ticed medicine for twenty-five years, is actively engaged in farming and fruit raising and {8 a major in the medical tion of the Unfted States Army Reserve Corps. . - * % ¥ X " While in Washington .Representa- tive. Boy G.. Fitzgerald of Dayton, hio, received . from .4 man in the government servige. some specimens of postage. stamps.selzed .on. the.cap- ture of Aguinaldgs, headquarters in the Philippines during. fhe. ipsuyrec- tion. These stamps bear Masonic.de- signs, and research is now being made, . at the.jnstigation of Repre sentative Fitzgerald, to unveil their significance. _At the same time Rep- resentative Fitzgerald is having a study made to verify the report that in the revolutionary war \Washing- ton and about all his offigers, excopt Benedict Arnold, were Masone. | The short, sharp criticisms of American policy in Latin America uttered by'Dr. Estanislao S. Zeballos, former Argentinfan ambassador to the United States, have reculled to Washington the fact that the estab lishment of better relations and bet ter understandings with the republics to the south was to have been one of President Harding's foremost policies. That the crush of other matters and the exigencies of politics forced him to glve less consideration to this policy than he intended. probably was one of the regrets of his tenure of office. Prior to his inauguration Mr. Hard- Ing unnounced that he would scek the very best men poseible for diplomatic service {n South und Central Amerfca the posts in Europe and too little to those in the neighboring countries on this side of the water. bemoaned the fact that the best men of the country, seeking diplomatic posts, or “available” for diplomatic posts, to be a little more pollte, al- ways expressed a desire for the | | |Btrength to the yery senfor senator from the Goldeu Senator Johnson's letter is a reveli- tlon, for fn it he bitterly bewails tin lot ‘of & man who aspires to the presidenc “My strength while T was gove he says, “was in never yielding 4 moment to the old standing always the same. nees today is that I have vielded given power., position and poll men I 50 of formully denounced. The past is pas: and T have only referred to it s in #tructive for the future. [ am under no fllusions no about Califo 1 I could carr: Hoover- or y b nd an actiy Voth in publicity and ot officers a izution, He suid he thought that in the past {wise too much attention had been patd to | CAESE The protest of the Cabots and the Mr. Harding | Lodges and the Lowells of Massachu setts against permitting the Kabo! chink family to change its name to bot has unofficially reached the at-, tention of officers of the Department courts of Lurope, whereas there was | 0f Labor here and has started a dis- work, and big work, to be done for [ Cussion as to the country in South’ America And vet. after he was in office, Mr. Harding vielded very largely to the same influences which had gulded his [ tfon of every pred s50rs. The men regarded most high he sent to Furope. George Harvey went to the court of St Jumes, Myron Herrick went to Paris, Richard Washburn Child to Rome, Henry Pletcher o Brussels, and so on down the 1in good men for South Amerieca, contin- ued some in office from the Wilson | himsel? to assault administration, but it was apparont |elect in his seare throughout that he had found bLim- self able to give only secondary tention to a policy which he belie at the cutsct would get the very first consideration. Dr. And now Zeballos savs more unpopular in our sister repub- lics. He i8 not an unfriendly crit! He sceks to be a constructive one. He advocates closer cultural rela- tions, the exchange of professors and | Meantime the philog students in the universitles, natlonal exhibitions of art and other similar forms of intellectual inter- course. Above all he makes a plea along the line that Mr. Harding had fn mind—the more careful selection of the official personnel sent to Latin countries * % ok % Once more the wiseacres of Wash- inter- Ington are arising to paraphrase the ! may ! cld familiar adage and sa “O that mine enemy would write a letter:” Senator Hiram Johnson was fn Eu- rope recently. He spent nearly five months “over there.” And he wouldn't talk on foreign soil. He wouldn't say a.word to any one of the legion of would-be Interviewers. He saw the sphinx und resolved to do like- wise. But—and here's the rub—he wrote a letter. He wrote it to his good friend McClatchey of Sacramento, where he used to live when he was governor of the sovereign state of California. ¥e poured out his heart to McClatchey. He had not been able to say anything in - Europe. Also he had refrained from writing a book, and glving his enemies that chance at him, but he wrote the letter. He wrote with a full brain and a free hand. In some way or other the let- ter has fallen into unfriendly hands. The senator says It was stolen. In any event ft was wafted back to Washington, where the hard-bolled politicians. are heartless enough to Heard and Seen He who tries to please every one will end up by pleasing nome. In nbthing is this old maxim more jstrikingly exemplificd than in the raising of & mustache. 2 Tt used to be that-a man coald grow an ornament on his upper lip without exciting comments from all his friends. That was in the davs when whiskers adorned manly faces. Nowadays whiskers would lead to murder, judging from the greeting given a mustache. The latter is a mild sort of crime compared with a full set of whiskers, however. Yet to dare appear among one's acquaintances with a new and prom- lising mustache is to be the re- cipient of all sorts of remarks, rang- ing from the facetious o the serious. * ¥ % ¥ The latter usually take the form of a confidential buttonholing. “Say,” when are vou Roing to cut “Cut what off?" vou exclaim. as if|to relax proper v in deepest ignorance of the subfect|does mot’ appear of his remarks. “L think vou look a great dealfof emergency. better with it off, old man’ Le con- tinues, not deigning to answer your|boats or the fire extinguisher: question. “You are the only one who doesn't like it,” vou reply. But it has no effect. He goes away sh head mournfully. Mr. Harding sought | them | | 1 whether or not there restrictions upon fm there be u new en Into the examipa- ewly arrived citizen to-be the question.us to whethe intends to change his name and 1f 80 to what? In other words, sha! the sacred family trees of America be left subject to free-hand grafting f all sorts of forelgn twigs upor or shall it be a condition of that the immigrant pledges o citadel of the for a new cogno- Or shall the Smiths and’ th- Browns and the Joneses continue to bear the brunt of sharing their name with the immigrants who realis after cntering America the handican shall be new migration. & regulation wr entr: & 3 the {0f names that scemed o simple United Btates is growing more and | their o n, their native tongue? Admittedly this is a new problen In government. Admittedly also th lect of Massuchusetts have a war: friend just now in the White Hous: 1 “bugs” a cre possibl: . even in ths 1 the Kabot- ote. One write: trying to discover if 1 any connect days, betw schiniks and the Cal on the subject s “1 am not pa to that unfor tu; claiming fo thing that is 1t to_escap- Tuwo, which a cho and, Cap e with can: Now: ma the race. of Prussia.. words there i be The one means an dthe oth not the -progenitor Cabots have co: Hollana, : cotonial da) honest industr of making Kapots and. & overproduct have g thus going ( m Kapot? % % And yet one shall not shy name Smith is not withou the land Charley Dunkley in sporting circles the coun as the “Kalamazoo Bus it so Whenever those offices wr wants to know about you befors inner sanctun works much 1 your own nam. Tell him Mr him” says Clha guardian. “Whic tey, that power know: * ountry over - has foun. Mr. Sm Mr. Smith.” concludes Cha: nd he never fails to get in. Fifty Years Ago In The Star ,, - burnmg « +, Chattertony lay 1vestig: begun by o steambeat i ice and the star Inquiry. Treasury spectic Depar: Th 1873, sa!d of this inquiry awaset investigation thu far fails to throw any great amo of light upon tie cause of the f The evidence seems to demonstrat that the stea with lifeboats, er was life t of man: ment through that long exen wonld seer maccider X aking his|ties in the same manner. - You fully expect}it does not seem that he considered on the Potomac 8 eof t ilance, and th to have been : proper assignment of ies in ca There was no one : look ufter the sm t The engineer, it would appear, was in th habit of subbing for the barkeepe: and it is not impossible that the fire man varied the monotony of his d: At any rat particular to to be thrown into prison the next|himself bound to look after his fires time vou appear upon streets. the public|further than to keep them supplicd with fuel. The fire could never-have “Say, I think you look lots better,” |made the great headway it did undis- greets the next friend You feel better. A vou meet. sting up of the score reveals the fact that ten|trading by of Your frlends are for and fivelthelr own account must have been seem to have}demoralizing to their efficiency against. The “aves’” it. They have it. * e At last the dav comes when you— yourself—grow tired of it Off it comes. “Gee, do I look like that?’ you say to yourself. Bravely you saunter out of the house. Acquaintances cry. “Good l'réorllallng.” as if nothing had happened at all. They haven't even noticed! You step out more bravely. At the office nobody catcles on until some unusually sharp-sighted person real- izes the ‘mustache is gone. “I am S0 relfeved.” he says. 1 says another. 't make a bit of difference cries a third. “T like it o “1 think it “I_do, to < “You don't look nearly as hande some as ‘before.” esn’t make a bit of difference te m “Off, of course. hot weather. “You look 100 per cent better." “You are looking very much better this ‘morning.” “¥ou look ten years vounger.” ¥ % What system of ringing an ele-| A Wawaset aso. vator bell will bring the car on the Jump? covered had he been at his post Then, again. the practice of truck the steamboat nren on th line of their duties.” 0 The government's need 5 archives buflding to keep the preciou records of the fed The Protection eral administratior was noted fifty of Archives. "®° h vears ago, ‘as thus attested in The Star of Augug 20, 1873: 2 A Chicago contributor to the In:" terocean writes to that paper urghig the necessity that our public archlvés should be stored in suitable fireprqot - buildings, and sensibly says: ‘The destruction of the titles to all tlie land In the country sold by the goy-' ernment would alone involve a loes greater than the cost of all Washing- ton elt: Let us have done with this humbuggery of capital-moving, kept up in order to play into the hands. of a few speculators, and build such especially in this| pugdings us our necessitics require. * % The lesson of the Wawaset was ap’ plied in many ways following that disaster half a century The New York Tribune, accordfng. to Lesson. o star of August 21,. One man believes that he has work- 11873, pointed out that it taught that ed out a method of punching an ele- | people should learn to swim and als¢ vator bell that gets a readier re- to ‘traln themselves to an ordinary - sponse from the conductor than any|amount-of common sense and self- other way of doing it. Most people just “punch the bell.” Sometimes they give it one quick jab, other times they of ‘times; ‘sometimes when the car seoms slow they place their finger control. It said: “It is pitiable to think that at the vrees a couple|first threat of peril we should herd together, frightened and helpless us on the button and allow it to remain |scared sheep, and rush headlong into there. The gentleman referred to dsserts that the following is the one unfail- ing method of man. to start his car: ab, the ately. a ] U oridgs Tirg, t- a-fdeiving ! The first hort> riug notifles conductor to come {to!attemtion: tecond, following gher long-held. me- busines:. a person than the “boss.” CHARLES E: TRACEWELL. gettlng the elevator | Two ringe; the first a quick, short|fifty people dro mme. dectsive | plishment the | cost them ten minules The | gratory o v lorg ring tells him that ol “mean|more and more in cdrs, on f He thinks rou ate ;o less |the ocean. the jaws of death. The victims of this catastrophe had neithér the requi- ite coolness nor knowledge, and this is the point to Le urked. Here w wned for the lack of how to swim, an accom- which: th could have leatned in two weeks und of the owé of a lite-preserver. which would have We are a mi- cvery knowing living vear vers “and Yet we universally neg- lect 10 fortify ourselves and our chil- dren for the protéction of our lives.” people.