Evening Star Newspaper, October 21, 1923, Page 38

LHE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. ——— _WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY........October 21, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th 8t. and Pennsyivania Ave. New Yors Oflice: 110 East $2ud St. Cuento puice: Tower Buiiding. Buropean Oice: 16 kegent 3t., London, Euglgnd. The Evenlug Star. with the Sunday morning edition. is del vered 1Y carriers with'n the city 88 69 conts per mouch; duly oniy, 45 cents per month s. 20 conts per month, Or- ers moy v wcat by mail or teleplione Main B000. Collection is made by earriers at the end of eacl; month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance, Miryland and Virginia. Dafly and Sunday..1yr., $3.4 Daily onfy..........1¥r., $6.00; 1 mi Bunday only.... $2.40; 1 m All Other States, Dafly and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00, 1 m Dally only. Bunday only.. Member of the Associated Press. The Associaied Pross Is exclusively eutitled o the ‘use for republication uf all news dis- ©d 1o it or uot otherwise cred.ted n this paper and also the local news pubs Lishe: 1. All richts of publication of specinl dispatches hereln are also reserved. The President Gives Notice. President Coolidge's speech to the governors at the White House confer- ence yesterday will carry conviction to the country. It will demonstrate that h is Intent upon the enforcement of the laws and the maintenance of the Constitution. It will yield no comfort 1o those who, hopeful of a disposition to pass the responsibility for prohibi- tion enforcement over to the state executives, have been looking to this meeting as marking a dispersion of forces in their favor. “Enforcement of law and obedience to law,” says the President, “by the ‘very nature of our institutions, are not matters of choice in this republic, but the expression of a moral require- ment of living in accordance with the truth.” This is the text of fhe address, though contained in the|final para- graph, which concludes: “They are clothed with a spiritual significance in ‘which is revealed the life or the death of the American ideal of self-govern- ment.” ° The American republic has survived several serious crises. It has come throush a desperate struggle for sep- aratio It grown stronger with each victory over the elements of dis- integration. It will now survive, still stronger for the experience, the pres- ent attemipt on the part of a small, selfish and conscienceless interest to set aside the fundamental law and the statues for its own personal efvantage. ‘To the American people, says the dent, “the law is a rule of ac- To them he now, through the governors of the states, appeals. The executives, state and federal, are re- quired to enforce the law. But the people must aid. They must co- operate. They must obey the law themselves and endeavor to bring all to the same standard of good citizen: ship. Thus the problems of enforcement, says the President, must be taken di- rectly to the people. This is their gov- ernment, and these laws are their laws. Thus does Mr. Coolidge describe them: are not a nation of inebriates; not a people who can be ed with being hypoc They have no patience with znarchy. They are a sober, Gank and candid people. They have pect and reverence for 0 uthority o s 1 conceptions are n permanent. The * people are thorough- ‘This great law-abid- ion is entitled on. I propose and protection to by the Constitu- v of the land against every nt. The executives are required to enfnarce the law. This is not to be regarded as a pledze, but rather as a frank state- ment of fact. There has been no rea- son to lovk for anything else from the President. He construes the duty of his’office as requiring him to execute the laws. He proposes to do it. This enforcement is difficult. The lawless element is hold, resourceful, and in certaln parts of the country it appears to have the support of a large part of the people. But even in a commu- nity which is rated as “wet,” where the law is flagrantly defied and vio- lated, there is a large, and probably a majority, sentiment in favor of en- forcement. Those who believe in the law, whatever it may be. who have respect for the Constitution, who are, it 18 to be prayed and is to be believed, the greater part of the people, are now hoping for action, by state and federal authorities, to earry out the principles which President Coolidze has stronzly and clearly stated, principles w le at the roots of the [Amgrican institutions. . ——— By issuing still more paper money Berlin proves that it has'the courage o press all phases of the scrap-of- paper theory to a lozical conclusion. S Captain John. Tt is said that some persons are still dreaminz of the hidden treasure of “Capt. John,” but it is safe to say that 1y a few romantic persons in Mont- [gomery county have their slumber broken or sweetened by such a dream. The Star recently gave space to a short news story that “An old legend onnecting buried treasure with ‘John of the Cabin,’ an old trapper who had his home near Cabin John bridge in aryland before the civil war, plays a Ipart in deeds for the sale of property fin the neighborhood of Cabin John re- orded at Rockville.”” Capt. John must surely have lfved ind died “some time before the civil ar.” That war -closed in 1865, and he probability Is that “Capt. John” iived somewhere within several miles of Cabin John abogt the year 1650. Wild lands In that part of Maryland ere being taken up in the latter half of the seventeenth century, and the hole section had been covered by ‘griginal - patents” under purchase from the proprietary of Maryland by t 1720. None of these patents tssued to any person whom wrchers have identified as “Capt. frohn.” In many records of the latter part of seventeenth and early elghteenth perituries are references to “Capt. run.” Sometimes the phrase Is und “at Capt. John's,” meaning on of in the vicinity of Capt. John's tion and t fe h ! creek. No record has been found, un- ;less the discovery has bsen very re- jcently made, as to who Capt. John | was or where he lived and cied. That | { he lived near the mouth of the creek is a surmise, and a reasonable one. |The creek “heads” at Rockville, and | follows a winding course through a | fair country, and this John may have lived on any part of it or three or four miles east or west of it. When a Presbyterian church was bullt where is now the village of Poto- mac it was called the “church on Capt. John's run, popularly called Capt. Johu's Church, though it is nearly two miles west of the cteek. Washingtonians will re- call that St. Paul's Church. near Sol- diers’ Home was called “the chs at Rock creek,” and it s still popu- larly called Rock Creek Church, though by our standards it Is far from Rock creek. When the church was built Rock creeck was the most impor- tant and best known place name nearest the church, and gave the best means of idensifying it. Capt. John's cabin may have been at a fine spring a mile from the creek, or on a beautiful branch which helps teed the creek. Nothing is known. He probably had a fuller name than “Capt. John,” and was a man who like many others moved off from the older settled part of southern Mary. land from inclination or necessity and set up his cabin on wild or “unpatent- ed” land in “the forest.” Many of the early settlers must have known him, but no information concerning him has come down to us. ————— Physicians. A nationally known Philadelphia manufacturer has a contract with & physician to keep him in health. The patient says: “Since the inception of this contract I have kept my part of it, and my doctor has kept his, except once or twice. I have guided myself entirely by the doctor's Instructions.” It used to be said ghat the Chinese managed things, or managed health and sickness, in this way. We have learned many things from the Chinese —and improved on some of them—and perhaps we may adopt the plan of re- taining a physician to keep us in nealth rather than employing one of them, or a dozen, to restore us to health. It cannot be easy, however, for a man to be “guided entirely by the doctor’s Instruction” and do any other work, If the physician in this particu- lar case is not frequently advising rest and change of scene he is an unusual practitioner or is “unethical.” A man who is guided entirely by his doctor’s instructions wouid be angling in Cana- dian lakes part of the summer, fishing in Florida and golfing in California in winter and taking trips to Europe be- tween times. Of course, not every physician would prescribe Canada, Florida and California. One physician might prescribe Labrador, Patagonia and the Sahara, another would insist on a mountain top, and another would say that it must be the sink of the Mojave. For the divergences of medical opin- ion are proverbial. Henry Fielding, in his “History of Tom Jones,” telling of Capt. Blifil's death, sald that one doc- tor insisted on apoplexy and the other held out for cpilepsy, but they agreed perfectly that the man was dead. Then Fielding, defending the medical pro- fesslon, sald: “There is nothing more unjust than the vulgar opinion by which physicians are misr, as friends of death. On the contrary, I believe If the number of those who re- cover by physic could be opposed to that of the martyrs to it, the fc would rather exceed the latter. : some are so cautious on this head that to avoid a possibility of a pa- tient they abstain from all methods of curing and prescribe nothini but what can do neither good nor harm.” Of course, if one looks up the dates of Flelding’s birth and death it will be found that he wrote that many years ago, and the physiciaps of today, per- haps, stand in no need of his'defense. — —e—— High rents in congested metropoli- tan districts are compelling many families to minimize the food supply at the expense of health to growing children. At the same time farmers are complaining of the cheapness of their products. Population, as well as agricultural production, needs a more satisfactory system of distribution. ————— President Coolidge wil! have at least enough opposition to bring names prominently before the convention for the purpose of selecting a vice presi- dential candidate. —_———— Some of the puilcemen now carrying sawed-off shotguns to protect life at Saratoga Springs can remember when | the place was chiefly famous 8s a health resort. ————— The fact that Col. Bryan was nom- inated so many times has apparently convinced a few prominent citizens that almost anything can happen, A Rhineland republic will offer very little presidential inducement to a gan with strict safety-first principles. Poor Dogs. ‘The police take their stand for the mutt dog and the dog of the alleys. Our guardians in blue and gilt see more of the sorrow side of life among men and dogs and cats than those who comfortably read the evening paper after a happy, home-cooked supper and then go peacefully to bed. These men in blue meet dogs without homes or friends who struggle for the mean- est food to fend against starvation. ; Some have been driven from home for | no cause that they ca. understand. 1 Some never knew a home. Others have been cast adrift to starve or to | get enough to eat to keep skin and bone together if by their wit and cour- | age, and some good luck, they can do !s0. Only now and then does a man iraise a hand to help them. Nearly tevery hand seems against them, and i they lead that hard life which long, ‘long ago we came to call a ‘“‘dog's life.” “The police department,” story in the news columns, “makes an appeal for the ‘alley purp.’” Mark this a credit to policemen! The po- liceman is red-blooded and warm- hearted. He takes the part of his weaker fellow men against their law- less brothers and risks his life to do says a and later came to be | i presented | THE SUNDAY it. He knows the unhappy, homeless ' dog that looks upon a bare bone as a feast, and in the news is this: “Maj. Daniel Sullivan, superintend- yent of police, broadcast In the daily police bulletin to every bluecoat in the city an appeal urging them to bring ! to the attention of dog owners on thelr i'beats the ‘mutt show' which will be beld by the Humane Education So- clety for Friendless Animals at the Coliseum on November 9 and 10." Every poor dog and every dog that has a home will probably give a bless- ing on the police when they hear the .news. And many persons whose names shine in the current annals of soclety | have become patrons and patronesses of the mutt show. dogs of Washington could find a way to thank them they would do it. ———— Prohibition in Politics. The opinion ‘appears to be widely !held by politicians that prohibition i must of necessity enter largely into | politics in 1924, presidential, state, congressional and municipal. In fact, it is bardly conceivable how It can be | prevented from being a factor in the | great quadrennial contest at the polls. Inasmuch, however, as preponderant sentiment In the country appears to { favor prohibition as a national policy, {and as all public officials and candi- {dates for office are bound for their | own safety to advocate enforcement cult for the layman to understand how any party or candidate is to “get any- thing” politically out of the entry of prohibition into politics next year. No thoughtful man, sensitive to the condition of majority public sentiment, will be rash enough to predict that the cighteenth amendment to the Consti- tution of the United States will ever be repealed. Only the most optimistic “wet” will venture the sincere belief that the Volstead act Is likely to be amended, in our time, to permit the use of light wines and beer, although he might assert its possibility. “What, then,” the layman may be indulged in asking, “is it all about, this pending flurry of prohibition In politics?” -It does not seem to be likely to “get anywhere.” The practical poli- tician will answer that it is “a case of we need it in our business.” t is it not a fact shat prohibition ays been-in politics? That was prohibition was attained, through political effort which led to legislative action. ——————————— A new style of dancing is being de- manded by social experts in the art. A compromise between the slow pace of the cabaret contingent and the ath- letic graces of the Russlan ballet might be arranged. There are people who think the old German monarchy should be restored. Under the circumstances, Wilhelm cannot regard them as particularly friendly. President Ebert might be tempted to resign if there were a possibility that his doing so would make any real diffgrence in the situation. Turkey's ban on the publication of all foreign news is a cheerful rehearsal for a debut @s a free and independent republic. From a distance it looks as if the Philippines were suffering from an oversupply of native political boss talent. Other countries than Italy have tarted fascisti movements, but the genuine article requires a Mussolini. Oklahoma is a young state judged by years, but not by experience, SHOOTING STARS. BY PEILANDER JOHNSON. ‘The New Exploration. In an airship they'll go To the land of the snow, Where the walrus end polar bear play; ITo that wonderful place : That I8 all parking space, With no traffic that causes delay. My heart fondly sings Of a flivver with wings That will bear me eway from the throng. When the gasoline ship Makes the big arctic trip, How I wish they would take me along! There a dwelling so nice 1s carved out of the ice By the Eskimo, fearless of rent; Where the things that they eat Round the corner they’ll meet nd nobody charges a cent. Though the climate is strange, It at least doesn't change, And the food is abundant, though strong. There the silence 8o deep Calls for nothing but sleep— How I wish they would take me along! Unflattered, “A number of your constituents say your heart is in the right place. “A pleasant but unsatisfactory com- piiment,” commented Senator Sor- | ghum. “It conveys no assurance what- ver that their ballots won't be in the | wrong place.” Jud Tunkins says when a million- aire runs for office the most he’s liable to do is to cause a lot of curlosity as jto why a man who could make all | that money wasn't smart enough not | to pick himself for a winner. i No True Friend. | T backed my “judgment” to the end. Luck bids my heart repine. 1A horse is called “man’s truest friend.” He’s never one of mine. Protection, “Do you feel safer since you put up lightning rods?” | “Kind of,” answered Farmer Corn- Itossel. “I at least know they'll keep | any more agents from comin’ around to sell ‘'em.” “Don’t let de excitement make you think de world ain’ gittin® better," said Uncle Eben. “Everything gits sort o' mussed up durin’ houseclean- in"" And if the poor' of the law of the land, it may be diffi- | STAR, WASHINGTON, D. American Public Is Learning -~ All Wealth BY THOMAS R. MARSHALL, Former Vice President of the United Staten. T hear many complaints about cer- {taln persons who have accumulated {much money. T hear them called “profiteers,” “thieves,” “scoundrels,” “crooks “malefactors of great {wealth”” How justifiable any of these epithets may be, T do not say. {certain Individuals without fncurring the danger of a libel suit. General application, however, to the rich would be unjust and dangerous. It 1s natural, I suppose, for one when he recalls some one he does not like who has made a lot of money or hears of {som ! whic ! h he cannot approve to condemn every one who has been signally suec- cessful In the financial world. | There are quite likely men who .ought to be ashamed of the way in which they made their money. ifeel. however, about rich men as a native of my state felt about the friends of one of our prominent In- diana politiclans. Returning to his {home county, this palitician opened | his speech by saying that he was glad to be back among his old friends, | whereupon a noisy Individual in t irear of the hall interrupted wit |“Name ‘em, governor. name ‘em." A general assault upon any class estab- lished by Income in America is not fair. The assault, if any is to be made. should be upon Individuals, specifically named. Kok ok ok Our, system of government is not jhas not provided a way of taking from men money which they have unjustly accumulated and restoring it to those from whom they took it I cannot fall 1'1 with the modern idea that because 'a man 1s a thief'we should take his stolen property from him and give it to the first stranger who happens to pass the pglice sta- tlon. I am quite willlng to assist if I can in taking stolen money from the thief, but I must be assured that it will be returned to the man from whom it was illegally taken. It is gratifying that the general leveling up of things in Russia Is helping gradually to improve the fevered condition of the American mind. For years and years, I Ve heard John D. Rockefeller called all sorts of names because he was the richest man in America. Now a new plutocrat has passed him on the race track, contending for the Croesus stakes. It is Mr. Henry Ford. But I hear no one complaining about iFord's one-half billion dollars, His fortune seems to carry no odor of talnted wealth. Certain politicians of both parties, and some who ould like to start'a new party, are sizing up the Detroit man 8 a possible presidential candidate. No one seems to envy him his money: no one charges him with any crookedness in obtaining it: no one is suggesting that the soidiers’ bonus should be paid out of it. * % x % This attitude of public mind and public talk is getting around to my idea of naming the scoundrel, rather than hurling epithets at the wealthy as a class. A couple of bruisers will get in a twenty-foot ring and in the course of an hour one of them will knock out $100,000 for himself. I have never heard one such called a malefactor of great wealth. A base ball idol cin make more money one season than the governor of any state in this Union in his full term and no one intimates that any wrong has been done. Absence of e in these cases probably t le to the publicity of the way in which the money was made. This lends me to believe that other men might | British Peeress See Donoghue Ride Papyrus BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Viscountess Torrington, who formed one of the large party of people who arrived in New York on Tuesday, by the Olymple, with the Jockey, Steve Donoghue, for the pur- pose of seeing him ride his favorite English mount, Papyrus, with which he won | the last Derby on Epsom Downs, has a large racing stable of her own at Shrewton, In Wiltshire, where she has some thirty horses in training. She divorced her husband, the ninth peer of his line, two years ago, but retains possession of his country place, Votes Court, at Mereworth, in Kent, which he settled upon her for life at the time he married her, thirteen years ago. She was formerly on the London stage and, as Eleanor Souray, was a member of one of George Edwardes’ companies at the Gaiety Theater. Her wedding took place In-1910 at Parls, Tod Sloane being one of the principal figures at the ceremony. It IS on rec- ord that, after a short address by the officiating clergyman at the English Church in the Rue d'Agousseau, the party hurried off to the races. and In the evening, after dining at Maxim's, wound up the festivities at the Bal Bullier. s G Lord Torrington started out in life under the most favorable ecircun - stances. His father, the elghth vis- tounl. occupied so high a place In the egard and confidence of Queen Vic- torfa that sre steadfastly refused. to dispense with hls eervices as a mem- ber of her household. Indeed, it was the obstinate stand that she took con- cerning him that led to the Inaugura- tion of the present system, where one of the lords-in-waiting remains per- manently attached to the service of his soverejgn, instead of zoing out of office, with.the seven other pe - waiting, on the change of the admin- istration. His son, the present vis- count, was page of honor to Que Victorfa_and, likewise, attended Ed- | ward VII In ‘that capacity on the oc- casion of his coronation in Westmin- ster Abbey. He re sion in the Rifle Brigade, but resigned it at the time of his marriage, after becoming involved In all softs of trouble, mainly of a financial nature, which ianded him repeatediy in the bankruptcy court, both prior subsequent to the great war. * ok k ok The only capacity in which Lord Torrington has achieved any success has been as a gentleman rider. When the hostilities broke out in 1914 he enlisted as an ordinary trooper in the 19th Hussars, along with nine other well known gentleman jockeys, Dis- patched with them to join the regi- ment in France, he contributed in n small degree to that fine regiment' larels and, incldentally, won a com- mission. Having a pronounced taste for the, sea, poswibly through inheritance, since the first Lord Torrington re ceived his peerage for his victories as_admiral, the young viscount ob- tained an exchange from the Hus- sars into the Royal Naval Reservey and was engaged for nearly a year in the arduous and perilous task of mine sweeping and _patrolling the North sea and the English channel, as second In command of one of the armed steam trawlers, Thence he was trunsferred to the naval service in the Aegean sea, contracted & taste for aviation and finally_joined the Royal Flying Corps at Saloniki It was while carrying out a reconnoit- They might, no doubt, be applted to | e one having made money In ways | 1{ quite what it ought to be In that it in | put | ed a commis- | and ; C., OCTOBER 21, Is Not Criminal {themselves in the Henry Ford class in America if they were less secre- {tive about their business enterprises. 1Tt Is important that men be separate and distinct in the minds of the pub- lie. The business of the-country is {dependent upon the good character :of those engaged in it. Business has ibeen so long under attack that its jsuccess hereafter may depend upon I its willingness to let the public know what it is doing, how it Is doing It, and what it is making out of it .The worst thing about swollen for- stunes is the danger of their falling {into the hands of men with swollen heads A sudden accesslon of wealth is daneerous. There is a natural in- clination to build a better home, buy a finer machine, move in a more ex j clusive circle, anfl, worst of all, to for- { et and ignore those who knew him— when. Newly rich men forget that very "common trait of humankind, which Is an utter inability to under- stand how one who we believe to be our inferior could have succeeded so disproportionately to his merits. * ok ok K T was In Washington during the great war and observed the Capital city’s fine spirit of patriotism, devo- tlon and self-sacrifice during those i trying months. It was as fine as the spirit anywhere else In the entire re- public, and I speak advisedly because I was pretty well over America dur- ing those seventeen months, coming and going . People had to eat. There was no reason why they should not eat together rather than alone. It did not help the boy in the dugout the least to know that sixteen citi- zens of Washington were eating in sixteen different places rather than eating together, the point being that i the sixtcen eating together were com- plying g3 honestly with the food reg- julationd of their government _as though they were eating alone. Yet many times and in many places in America my attention was ealled to the riotous living going on in Wash- ington. I could not take the time to explain that the facts on which they based their erroneous impres- slons were items of the soclety editor who seems to think she must give details of the most simple things of life. I have great regard and sym- pathy for society editors. They must satisfy the hostesses and keep the publi¢ abundantly informed. I refer to Washington’s war-time experfence as a sort of warning to those who by honest means have accumulated |large fortunes. careful what sort make of the good luck wh come to them. Modesty becomes any man or woman but it measures up to a trait of character in those who might, but do not, lord it over their fellow men. £ xxe So manifest are the distinctions in rule In the life of Russia, that he {would be a bold and unthinking man | who would say that the schools, col- {leges, librarfes, churches, | museums, highways and playgrounds {ot this land would be kept up to their present state of efliclency if all the mobile and fixed wealth jthe land were divided equally amonsg {all its citizens. Some politicians who fare now worrying about conditions in America would have less than the little they now have; some agitators, who_ are working on large salar would, like Othello, find with an occup on gone, and full many an uplifter would be compelied {to reduce his prices per lift or go | out of busine Business and society !in America are not what they ought {to be. They never have been and never will be until a_ seraphic gen {tleman by the name of Gabriel takes fcharge of affairs. But business and society in America are better than they are anywhere else In the world, and by agitation, argument, persua- they arfe (Copyright, 1923, by 21st Century Press.) Here to ering expedition to the north of the Bulearian lines that he was forced by machine trouble to descend. and was tzken prigoner and held in captivity {at Sofia until the restoration of prac But on his release, in_November, ]1918, and his return to England. he |refused to live with his wife, and | when, not long afterward, he was | cited "as co-respondent in a divoree e. the evidence was o {ncontro- vertible that Lady Torrington found no trouble whatsoever in_securing divorce court a decree re- her from her ‘matrimonial . _In the trial, Lady Torrington insisted that the wreckage of the marriage was due mainly to_ his habits and to his extravagance. With regard to the latter, it was shown on the occasion of his the bankruptcy court, that even at the time of thelr marriage he was already in his wife's debt tc the tune of uver £100.000, and that it was this consideration, rather than any in- fatuation, that induced him to then settle upon her, for the term of her life, his ancestral home and his en- tire entailed estate. * K X % ‘ Yotes Court is a beautiful place, surrounded by some of the grandest trees in that garden county of Kent. The mansion is filled with family relies, which the unfortunate Admiral John Byng, fourth son of the first Viscount Torrington, was shot in 1757, in Portsmouth harbor, on the quarter- deck of his own flagship, after being sentenced to death by court-martial. The court, which was composed of admirals, acquitted him of the charge of cowardice which had been brought against him, but issued a verdict to the effect that he had not done his ut- most to relieve the Island of Minorea when bes.eged by the \Spanish and French fleets. According to the arti- cles of war, the court had no lter- native but to sentence him to death on this account. But the members of {ihe court, without one exception, rec- ommended him to the mercy of the sovereign on the ground that he had been sent to sea with a smal. squadron, poorly manned, inadequately armed and {in such a shameful condition as to ren- | der defeat by a superior force inevitable, {and that at most le had been guilty ‘of an error of judgment In refusing to accept the re-ponsibility of engag- ing the enemy in the face of certain destruction. However, King Georse 11, with his traditional obstinacy, de- clined to listen to a word in his be- half. This, too, although the very fact of the services of the admirs father might have be 1 considered ns entitling the ill-fat-d ofli er to con- sideration at the hunds of his sover- {eign, for his father, Sir George Dyng, jwis raiced to the' peerage, first as baron and then as Viscount Torrng- over the Spaniards off Cape Passaro and at Messina. Another son of the first Viscount Torrington and an ancestor therefore of the present Lord Torrington was | Sir Robert Byng, Governor of Brh: {dos, and from “whom the Earls of Strafferd .n also the present gover- nor genera! of nada, Gen. Lord Dyng, are descended. The present i Barl of Strafford, otherwise Edmund | Henry Byng, is one of the Australian state governors, and the late Eurl of Strafford was married to the ‘ormer Miss Cora Smith of New Orleans and idow of S:muel Colgate of New York. As Lord Torrington has no children, the next heir to his peerage and to his baronetay and to his en- tailed estates is his cousin, Lieut, Col Arthur Byng, a veteran of the Soutn African war of a quarter of a cen- tury ago. J favor of this country over those that | hospitals, | themselves | growing better each ! last appearance in | including the cabin chair in| ton, for his brilliant naval viciories! 1923—PART 2. Capital Sidelights BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Reminiscent of a tour he made through President Coolidge’s native state, F. J. Balley, who represents ! 1 Brig. Gen. Herbert M. Lord, director | of the bureau of the budget, as chief | of the Personnel Classification Board, My Own controversy tells this story: Driving along a country highway, the occasionally asked workers In the {field the way to Montpelier and In- | variably they advised him to continue | | “stralght ahead.” After a time, when {he was pretty well convinced that he ;munl be some fifty miles in the wrong |direction, he drove up to a farmer who was standing in the barn door- | vay and repeated the question, “Can | get to Montpelier by driving | d?" “Dunno,” succinctly answered the farmer. “Should 1 have | turned off to the loft at the cross- about three miles back?” Bailey in asked the rural resident. Junno,” he again received | sponse.” “Docs this rond take me any iwhere near St. Albans?” Bailey again ventured. “Dunno,” the farmer again answered After trying, in vain, with a dozen jor mo quest 4 to elicit some more usable information regarding his whereabouts and his roud to one of |the larger cities and receiving regu- {larly the vexatious response, “Dunno, | Bailey felt his characteristié good ni- iture “slipping away ,from him and impatiently remarked: “You don’t {know much of anything, do you? ! Deliberately casting aside the wisp of g a: {hay with which he had been picking answered: “Well, {his teeth, the farm I ain't lost, anyhow Mr. Balley told this story to Gen. |Lord as illustratinz his own position in regard to reclassification. He ad- {m'tted that when le undertook the {Job he knew very little about the sub- !ject, but by dint of reading reports | and’ consulting with those who have | |given the matter most careful con- | isideration he ha come to the co: i clusion that he isn't lost, anyway. * *x % % Charles Warren, a Washington {tawyer, who is a Massachusetts prod- uct like President Coolidge, Speaker IGillett, Senator Lodge, Secretary Weeks and a few other notables in | [the National Capital, and who aid | {notable work In the Wilson adminis- ation, tant attorney gen- :l'r.'l|_ has endeavored to humanize, as |far as possible, that most august the Supreme Court of the Tnited States, In his recent historical work which won him the Pulitzer {prize of $2.000. | He has endeavored to lighten his book by noting humorous incidents in jconnection with the argument of cises, but there was nothi humor- ous in his own experiences while en- Mr. Warren sch cotempo- {raneous newspaper material, rum that | vay he ran neident which he has ¢ history and w found ‘in any law book the great case was being to the constitutionalit aws to resulate Van Buren, who a urged the c n, becsuse, ross one rather York John Web- sten its number held up at very many would be a their friends,” Mr. to know if they are Cnall illustr: interesting scripts in the 1 | Mr. Warren while ¢ Ipers of Alexander ¥ for material on g him “before the Supreme Court came across the original note which F ilton left for his wife on the morning {he went out to ficht his duel with !Aaron Burr at Weehawken on the Hudson. and which was handed to her ‘after his death in New York city the | foliowing da consider that one of the mos ng in the whole Library of Cong ia Mr. Warren, visibly showin str emotion that he felc on h paper that was the last a great statesman to the woman he loved after his death. * x x % While there are only a very few \ordained ministers in Congress, such | 1;.« Representative Henry W. Temple of Pennsylvania, who was pastor of a number of churches in that state, ‘and Representative Mel 0. Me- Laughlin of Nebraska, who served ten years In the ministry of the United Brethren Church, and Repre- sentative O. J. Kvale, who succeeds the worid-famous’Andrew J. V olstead, there arc many others who as laymen have taken a distinguished part in church Tai r example, new men Representative T. J. B. Rob- ing 1 is ‘a member of scopal Church delegate to the ‘ence ‘n Baltimore; 191 in ra- nes, and appointed delegate to the Ecumenical Conference in To- ronto in 1911 and in London in 19 Representative Robinson has been a busincss man for nearly two-score ! years, principally banking ang farr lie wus president of the Citi- National Bank of Hampton and also Interested in the ownership and | operation of smaller binks and a number of farms. * %X X X Washington is the city unrivaled throughout the world for its memo- irial and symbolic structures. Espe- cially at this time visitors to the National Capital see in the Red Cross | building a visualization of the Ameri- can spirit' which flows throuch the iveins of all of them to extend re to the needy everywhere and always. {Just now, when Red Cross chapters throughout the entire country are | participating in annual roll call, | which closes November 29, this n: jtional headquarters has been pictured |in verse by Lucy A. K. Adee as fol- {1ows {In light of day, it White and gleaming stands, 1 With open duors and outstreiched bands | To lielp tie suliering oues of strickes lands. | At dark of night, a glowing cross shines red In memory of Otie whose blood was sied To 6l thé world with love, and not with dread. An emblem for humanity fo bicss, That auswers any call of deep disiress, And Glls the heavy heart with tuukfdlness. * x k% In patriotic circles Mrs. Frank Fos- ter Greenwalt, regent of the Ruth Brewster Chapter, D. A. R., and ex- state regent for the District of Co- lumbia, is known as the “Key Lady.” When the new bridge across the Po- tomac between historie Georgetown and Arlington national ccfnetery was being built Congress In the appro- priation bill providing for suppiies ! changed the name from the Aqueduct Lridge to Georgetown bridge on the assumption that Georgetown was named in_honor of George Washing. | ton. Mrs. Greenwalt, in a letter which was read on the floor of the House by Representative John Philip , Hill of Maryland, corrected this error | by “pointing out th.t history shows the old port of Georgetown was named in honor of King George of ingland, while the -Father of His | Cou’try way not born until five years afia. weorge had ascended the throne. vroposal made by Mr: Green- valt that the new bridge should be numed the Francis Scott Key bridge .4 & monument to the author of “The Star S led Banner” was formally { adopted by Cong: es: Mrs. Greenwalt has been for many years identified with a campaign to preserve the old home of Francis Scott Key near the Washinston end of the bridge as a sacred re ic for pa- triotic Americans Just as the Betsy Ross house in Philadelphia has been preserved. In this work she was sociated with such notable fizurcs as Admiral Dewey, Rear Admiral Schiey and F. S. Key Smith, a grandson of the poet. Confirming her claim to the title of the “Key Lady”’ Mrs. Greenwalt not long since secared a government posi- tion by executive order for the gran daugh’er of Fraacis Scott Key, Mrs. Mary Tayloe Key MeBiair. | of New migration, ng he immig of whom w {great comfort t Van Buren said, dying constit | “As an mously n of the enor- volume of manu- of Congress, nsulting the pa- wmilton in search ments made by i { | |days. " MEN AND AFFAIRS BY ROBERT T. SMALL Speaking of horse races—and who has not been since this Papyrus-Zev- started some two months ago—a visitor from the Ar-| gentine at Belmont Park told today the story of the most famous match race ever held in that country. The story {llustrates, with other things, the impulsive temperament of the Ar- gentines—as one of the jockeys In the | race had quick reason to discover. Racing is on a high plane in the Ar- gentine. The Hippodrome track, out- side of Buenos Alres, is one of the show places of the world—a second Longchamps. During the season races are held there on Thursdays and Sun- A few years ago the idol of the Argentine turf was a browa colt named for the beautiful bay at Rio— Eoto’ogo. A match race had been ar- ranged between Botofogo and an im- ported English horse called Grey Fox, and it was run on a Sunday, when it seemed that half of Buenos Afres was at the track. The betting was all one way in the pari-mutuel machine The tickets poured out on Hotofoge But evidently a few wise-cracking birds bought in on Grey Fox. The track was a bit heavy, yet this gave the brave Argentines not a semblanc: of doubt.” They believed Botofogo could beat any horse in the world at ¢ distance in any kind of going. the springing of the barrier a horse race. Grey Fox and ran neck and neck. The ex- citement of the crowd knew no bounds. They were just wild, that's all. Every one expected it to be dif- ferent when they reached the streteh, but neck and neck they came. Huf Grey Fox was whipping and “Boto was hard held. Grey Fox won by a nose. With a rear that could be heard for a mile, the crowd surged out upon the track, breaking down all intervening fences and barricrs. As he pulled up Botofogo, the jockey | saw that black throng on the course, He knew what it meant. from the saddle and made for the woods beyond the course, the crowd in_hot pursult. The rest of the story is exceeding- ly short. The jockey was heard of again. That is the Argentine manner. A weck later, Grey Fox and “Boto” met for a second time. Botofogo won by a eity bloci. * K ok ok it all out” remarked Col. Matt J. Winn, vice president and general manager of the Kentuck Jockey Club, “Thrashing a friend a favor. Take it down on one of my nice little race tracks—at Heard and Seen Tom Jones bought himself a radio. It was about the time of the world | series, and Mrs. Jones became much interested in hearing the returns. It was so wonderful to be able to sit In your home, getting the résults of the big ball games, without so much as moving a step, Mr. Jones was away at his office, of | course, so had to rely upon his wife | for the scores of the game, which he proposed to learn from her each eve- ning upon his return to the house. Mrs. Jones knew absolutely nothing about base ball. But that didn't worry Jones. The first day he drew a dlagram for Mrs. Jones, with places left for the runs, hits and errors. “Now you just dot them down as the announcer gives them,” he in. structed. At the end of the gam add up, and give me the score. Do n understand?” “Perfectly,” smiled Mrs. Jones. Jones came home in hizh spirits, Did you hear the game?” he asked. “Every bit of it,” beamed his wife, *“What was the score?” “It was 38 to 34 Giants,” triumphantly declared Mrs. screamed the scandalized “A score of 38 to 34 In game—impossible!” “That's what It was,” replied his sald Jones, t the score sheet. He saw. She had added runs, hits and errors. | * tile . Mr. Jones, in putting up his antenna | for his radio, was the object of in- terest of the whole nelghborhcod at that particular time. A small,boy, about twelve years old. stood by the back fence, watching he installation, Jones thought the boy was inter- ested in his radio, but what the lad was eveing was a ton of coal in the Mister, can I put your coal in?" asked the bo Why, son.” replied Jones, taking another twist at the guy holding taut the antenna pole, “that’s a man's joh not a boy's."” “I've done it before,” sald the boy. “Come back in n hour,” said Jones, “and if the man hasn't come by that time, you get the job." “I've got a radio,” stated the leaning on the fen fave you got it up? No, m¥ mother says I would zpend more time with it than with my les- sons. so she won't let me put it up until 1 get in high schosl.” It was 6 o'clock—dinner {ime—when the boy who was willing to wait for his radio came back to hustle a ton of coal. With a shovel and a bucket he put that coal away In a handy style. It took him a long time. buck by bucket. but he never sald a word. just kept working away, untii at last it was all in. A real boy, that * * % Jones would like to know why a nelghbor keeps a voung dog In his back vard, allowing said dog to bark furiously all night long. “It is one of the standing myster- | ies of the world, how a man can keep a dog, allowins it to annoy everybody else in the neighborhood, yet it mever bothers him a bit,” quoth Jones. “Every neighborhood, at some time or another, has to suffer from this,” continuéd. “Now, I love dogs. T can ut up with a lot from a good dog. And that seems to be a good dog. “But 1 draw the line when a dog deems it necessary to bark. not only at the moon and all the stars, one by one, but at every stray noise it hears through the night. “Fifty neichbors may be mentally—and some open the beast, but the owners sleep the sleep of the just. the mystery of it. Though annoys 100 people, it never annoys them a bit. But let it bs somebody else’s dog—' . * % Now come lovely days in Washing- ton. The trees are responsible for it. In the spring the trees of the Na- tional Capital convert the city iInto & greenland fairyland. Washington is perhaps the only great city where trees line practically every residence street. It is these same trees which are responsible for the autumn beauty of the. oity. Changing from green to )'e'llc!“‘. brown and red, the leaves provide the streets with a new dress. It is true that they fall, causing much sweeping on the part of careful usewives. 85t the fall leaves are Worth a bit of work, GHARLES E. TRACEWELL. awake, -cursing thereol That is the He leaped | never | it simply goes to show | in favor of the taking a | vouth, | Aog | |Latonta—I was very busy one day with a meetirg of the racing com- ‘l‘lflflsl-)n on my hands, when a card was_sent in to me from some chap In Chicago who had been told by & mutual friend to look me up. I was | very fond of the friend who sent the visitor, but 1 simply could not spare the time to see him. | *Next aay I was tecling particularly consclence - stricken about the finci- dent, when along came a special de- livery letter from my caller, telling me how sorry he was not to have met me, but how glad he was he had |bet on my horse. He sald he had won more than 000, and thanked | me Trom the bottom of his heart. - Bt I couldn't figure it out. 1 didn't have | any horse. 50 how could he have wi ion him? Then one of the boys in the office spoke up: colonel,’ he | 'S, P mber that Col | ne terday, p hing 1ike $80 in the mutu hen it all dawned on me. Some three years ago . Kentucky friend of mine asked me if 1 would mind |'his naming a_yearling after me. 1 | said go ahead. 3uf the colt didn't |amount to anything as a two-vear-old or u thres-year-old, either. Ho came to the races as a four-vear-old maid- |€n. That boy from Chicigo had been |anxious to get a tip from me on Colo- nel Winn, ‘If 1 had scen him my ad. | Vice would have been not to bet & dollar on that there Colonel Winn | Now, wouldn't he have hated me if |1 had seen him?” i * %ok % “Col” Riley Wilson of Charles- | ton, W. Va., by gad. sir, who ran for tn 1920 on a platform of wine and beer, and liquor, if you can get it and only lost out by some 300 votes, has been spending the off and on, In Wash- | ington and New York. Riley says he | has just learned from his good friend Theodore Mitchell of the movies why George M. Cohan n never be a good moving pleture actor. “The" Mitehell, in his turn, got the | news from Kid Broad, the old-time | prize fighter, who nowadays is by 3 of being something of or himselt, “How fu It" day to the Kid at ou can ke a good Congress “light | 1ast two wee! arked C the stu picture and 1 . 1 tell You how It is,” “You sce, your brain Works t you're | out the about s George; that ain't te for the slow | f Geor n never does any good ting, vou can | thank d for the reas Fifty Years Ago In The Star s The Star of Star took occ to refute the itement of Presi- dent Eliot of Har- vard University in city of Washington. H red that while | tending the recent social science con- ! vention in New Ingland, the subject i of a national university being under | discussion, he as that ‘Wash- | ington is a focus of neither foreign | commerce nor domestic trade; neither manufactures, agriculture nor min- {ing: neither literature nor art. T j climate of the city is not very healthy, and the presence of Coner: a the hangers-on of not | make the city a e of resi- dence for young 5 period of | “The P | “Some time sine | October 18, 1873, *Th In Defense of Washington. reference to th It will be ren rte ongress does stter p at the formi: Press now takes shing- » article, glves hich emphatically rtions. Quot- it shows libra- says be | ton ana, reliable sts t ¥ disprove Mr. Fliot's { Ing from the cer i that Washinzt ! ries with that even too ready to cha'l 2 {as to { libraries and not largely less spoil of fc | ries contain 1 | than are to be ‘ libraries in | there are onl ‘ “In referenc says the Pr !in proportion > i a 1 wealth | and numbers. city of Washington will be found cen as liberal in its support of artists as { most cities of the co There are private galleries of merit and e and valuable works of art although President as ignorant of existence as the owners are of Ited merits of the beautiful | portraits which grace Harvard Col- lege. As to the architecture of Wa ington, it nything fn the states, excepting only and always the state house at Bost “In regard to institutions of learn- ing, the Press, there three the District of Columbia— by ottery—two law cal schools, and, though as been so fortu- endowed with five or six millions of dollars, they yet con- trive to do much modest and very 1 ational work. from the ninth census are prove the falsity of the t Washington is unhealth: ortality in t . cluding the col- d in Massachusetts, for te, it is 1.77. Therefore 1.000 persgons in achusctts are about 18, against a jon more than 15 in the District. statistics of Massachuseits for ambridee, 29.634; 0; pere n posscsses volufhes, and should not Conipanin Washington rn growth, he use- or R are the law wher sy | some " many !in Washington, is apparently is superior to are colleg never and two me none, like H nate as to be ied charge The per District an i ( with the census of 1570, Cambridge or Boston presented, will be found a much larger ! ence in favor of Washinzton, | to 15. ss thinks these rugged | fa arge amount of fine | writing, its comments | fotlows there aiffe or * K ok ¥ “"When the Capital of our country | is unjustly assalled, every one has an | interest in its proper vindication. We |mere]y do our part as a matter of strict justice to Washington, and be- | cause the high official position of the | assailant enabled him to give some character to his attack it ought not to shield him from a suitable reply. Would Jo h Quiney, Edward Ever- ett or any other former president of Harvard have made such an attack on Washington” We think not. Asa rhet- | orician President Liiot is unquestion- {ably fine, but in the field of Gen. | Walker and the well ascertained facts | his preparatory training appears to Lhave *been lamentably neglected. { Truth, he should have known, i much | better asserted after it is ascertained, | His forte certainly is not In the dis- | cussion of the comparative health of cities. ‘Washington, with all s faults, still lives and does not appear to have heard of the poor opinion en~ tertatned of it at Harvard.'"