Evening Star Newspaper, November 11, 1923, Page 34

| & THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. il sy i s e T WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY.....November 11, 1823 THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor ‘The Evening Star Newspaper Company | 3usioess Oftice, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. | New Y 110 Gast 420d 8t Chie Tower Building. Suropeun Ut nt St., London, England The Eeeniog Star, widh the Sunday morning | aditton 1a el vered by eartiers within the ciy | e Thiy, 45 cents per Fonih 1o per month ;O Cr "telephone. Main vable In Advance. nd and Virginia, unday..1yr., §8.40; 1 mo., 70c .1yr., $6.00; 1 mo., 50¢ + $2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ dally 2 sunday enly. All Other States: 4 ; 7 01 sunday oniy $5.00: 1 mo., 26¢ Member of the Associated Press. T Associated Press is exclusively entitled ‘o th ¢ for repillicution of all news dis- 10 it or uot otherwise credited ews pub- lication of e ished ee sl Work in paration of the annual sudget Is practically completed, the | could be of the 'ar[c—o shall continue at Wash- ington wil' be generally approved. I The rectl{mation service bureau of ! the Interlor Department has done ex- | traordinaryy work in the interest of agriculture and it has a vast work before it. There has been some fric-: tion and lod motion in the service, but verfection 5 seldom or never attained | in anything The bureau's record for | achievemer} will stand examination People In t3e east hear little about it. It exists by authority of act of Con- gress of Juhe 17, 1902. | Irrigation of arid regions in the west was found fo be too big a project for private capital, and the United States was the owher of vast stretches of the dry lands. gt was known that if water lied to them millions of acres 'o\lltzba fruitful. Before the es- tablishmentyof the reclamation service the geologidal survey, under Director John Wesley Powell, made examina- tions {n the; arid empire, such as the measurement of water supply of streams and survey of potential reser- voir sites. khis work, which was done by the hydrographic branch of the bureau, was; undertaken in 1888. It| stimulated mterest in irrization and | furnished the basis for congressional action on the recommendation of President Rcosevelt in his message of 1901. The rk continued under di- rection of the geological survey until Var Department’s figares having been «greed upon, and all that now remains -0 be done is to finish off a few de- walls, prior to final printing and sub- ission to the President for presenta- Ly Lim to Congress. While re- renchment of expenditure involves nany disappointments and defeats many worthy projects, this work has een done in a manner to give assur- ince to the country that the essential operations of the government will be condacted with normal efliciency, and e sume time economy will be iecomplished. It is estimated that the zet as a whole will effect a reduc- al expenditures for the text fiscal year of about $126,000,000. Yet this saving will not, so far as the ‘material totals for the departments ind Lureaus are now known, entail any crippling reduction of their activi- tdes. Local interest in the budget is keen, pite the contention that the rict estimates should not be sub- jected to the pruning process of the budget bureau, inasmuch as 60 per cent of the funds to be expended are supplied by local taxation, and there has been no war-extravagance in mu- icipal outlays to demand retrench- ment, the Capital municipality is placed upon the same basis as the fed- al organization in the matter of und allotments The first requirement by the budget director that the District estimates must be reduced to a little more than 525,000,000 compelled a drastic cut in 1he Commissioners’ figures, themselves ihe result of a severe trimming of the secommendations and requisitions of the subordinate department heads. It was then explained that this limita- on was intended asa test rather than 4s u positive maximum. The test re- sulted in the disclosure of the most urgent needs of the District in the course of the hearings, at which the Commissioners defended their esti- mates effectively. Now it is indicated that the District astimates will be stated in the budget as it is submitted to Congress at about $2,000.000 more than the supposed maximum limit. In other words, the nore vitally essential needs have been provided for, the increases pertaining to the schools, street improvements, sewer extensions and other urgent works. 527,000,000, prepared by this process of oreliminary pruning and later expan- sion upon disclosure and proof of ac- tual necessity, the District Is in a way to rece satisfactory treatment in the framing of the appropriations for 1924 Last year the budget bureau went only 000 over the “dead line" Irawn in the first stage. This year the additional allowance is $2,000,000, four times as much. This is beyond offical expectation and is most gratifying. These figures will go to Congress with the sanction of the director of the budget and the final approval of the President. They will be'fully justified by the municipal requirements, which are in_sad arrears in practically all re- spects. They will be justified as well by the fact that the District, in addl- tion to its regular revenues for meet- ing its 60 per cent of the cost of Capi- tal maintenance, has to its credit in the Treasury between four and five million dollars, the accumulations of | years of adequate taxation and under- | appropriation. The District's thanks are due to Gen, Lord, director of the budget, for his thoughtful, sympathetic considera- tion of its needs, particularly in view of the requirement resting upon him to effect a material reduction in the grand total of the estimated cost of the government's operations during With a budget approximating the next fiscal year. The Commis- sioners are to be congratulated upon the measure of success which has ‘crowned their vigorous labors in this lUne of Capital upbuilding. Of course, there are many accu lated unmet municipal needs wh! this vear's budget will leave unsatis- fled. It is impossible to meet these needs fully from current revenue. Ap- propriation of the District’s Treasury surplus on the half-and-half plan will furnish nine or ten millions toward bringing the Capital's municipal equip- ment fully up to date, and if more money is needed for great permanent pyblic improvements a federal ad- wvance like that between 1900 and 1910 or a carefully restricted bond-ssue ‘will be available. ———————— Polneare Is perfectly willing to pro- duce all the expert Information he has at command in edvance of any con- ference. Reclamation Service, Executive offices of the reclamation service will remain at Washington. A few days ago ex-Secretary Fall, who belleved that the service gvas not func- tioning well, said that the administra- tjve organization of the bureau should “be moved to a central point In the "west, and in his opinion that point ‘was Denver. Headquarters of the en- gineering and construction branches of the service is now at Denver. The decision of the present Secretary of the Interior that the edministration ’ [ton University, THE times. She says it has been lost only once, and then it was returned. A, per- son finding or otherwise getting' poe- session of an umbrella made in 1880 might return it. A man writes that an umbrella will stick to its lawful owner if you give it a chance. He says that years ago he left his umbrella hanging on the bar rail in the Astor House, returned in half an hour and found it there. He left the same um- brella hanging on the rail of a French race track, returned and found it. He left that same umbrella on a writing shelf in the Honolulu post office, and it waited for him to come back. It is an unusual umbrella, and there must be something wrong with it. The umbrella has played a part in history, literature and fashion. The encyclopedia shows that the umbrella was used in Rome, Greece, Egypt, Persia and India, but there is no pres- ent need for digging too deep into the past. There are two important um- brellas in a literary sense which one jcan call to mind. One was the umbrella which Robinson Crusoe made out of goatskins, and the other was that which Mrs. Sairey Gamp carried. Robinson Crusoe is still fresh in the mind, but Sairey Gamp may have es- caped some recollections. She was one of the most read-of women who ever lived in a book. She lodged in Kings- gate street, High Holborn, at the house the reclamation service was constitut- ed a bureau gn 1907. The service has already built‘many lasting monuments to ltself in the west, and its work is scarcely hom| George Wn‘:hmgtwn University. The impredsion which hearers got and good regders get from the in- augural speelh of the new president of George Washington University is that it was an address of unusual merit. Tt confained no platitudes, and was conspicusus for clear expression of definite knd practicable Ideas. President Lewds believes that the uni- versity should become, and may be reasonably espected to become, a great nations university. He sald that “The iddl which we seek is a university witk national character and influence, takifg full advantage of the great resources of the Federal city for inspiration and research, a university sending into every corner of the land an ever-increasing company of men and women wilh physical stamina, in- tellectual atren‘:h and spiritual power, a university true to the name of George Washington and pledged to the uptuilding ff our America.” The phrase “hational university” is often used. Pefhaps to most persons a national uni¥ersity would be one sponsored and ‘naintained by the na- tional governmpnt. There is not at this time any s¢rong demand for such an institution. ! There is no reason that it vould beé more national in the desirable sense than George Washing- ton migit be. It may not be easy to define * iationa: university,” but it should by one that draws students from all partsjof the country and whose mluencJ extends throughout the land. .And by “influence” is meant more than famq or reputation. It is easy for at instRution, educational or otherwise, to attiin notoriety and repu- tation which in the public mind con- stitute fame. That is largely a matter of advertising. Put to extend its in- fluence througholit the country is an- other matter. The graduate of such a university should: return home with a trained mind and that degree of cul- ture and enlightenment which people look for in the raan from a famous university. The §raduate should re- turn to his homé with that quality, difficult of definition. which we call haracter,” and which should be an influence for gooé in the home com- munity. ‘The graduate should not go out merely a well schooled man, but an educated man ip the best and broad- est understanding §f that abused word. He should be a mian of wisdom, jus- tice, tolerance, pawiotism and learn- ing. - Many of the uniyersities which we call “great” have béen helped to great- ness or bigness by: rich endowments, 0 that they spend far more money on a student than the %den! pays to the university. George SVashington is not ! rich, and probably Will not be, but it!l has assets that are griceless. It is rich in fine traditions and in character. As Columbian College and Columbian Uni- versity, and then as:George Washing- it Eas paid its own way for more than’a hundred years with funds from a véry few endowing benefactors, from stiidents for value recelved and throughald at odd times from alumni and alutnnae. It has had lean times and has: struggled with poverty. As these misfortunes, or dis- guised blessings, ofter: he!p in develop- ing worthy qualities in men, it may be they are helpful in making the char- acter of a coliege or university. This institution, constituting so im- portant & factor in the educational equipment of the Capiial, and thereby of the nation, should ‘be aided in its development by the béstowal upon It of foundation endowmients in larger amounts than those given in the past by its local friends and supporters. It has won its way through financial difficulties and has gairied a large stu- dent body. It must expand In its equip- ment to fulfill its part of the obliga- tion it has assumed itoward those whom it takes into its care for educa- tion. Its record of progress and use- fulness against the handicap of pov- erty entitles it to recognition and aid from American citizens who are con- cerned in the matter of cultivating the intelligence of the youth of the coun- try. 2 —_————— Experiments warrant’ Mussolini in going before the public with a re- minder that no fascisti movement can be regarded as genuine without the Italian label. S ————— His present attitude to¥ard the com- ing campaign is an unusual one for Col. Bryan, that of a dark horse. Umbrellas. Volunteer correspondents of a New York newspaper are discussing the umbrella and its habit of getting lost or taking up with strangsrs. Some of these persons defend th from the charge of forgetfulness and ingratitude, and tell tal®s that are marvelous. One woman<: writes that she still carries an umbrella that was given her in 1880, and hds carried it to Europe and brought it back aixteen of kindly old Poll Sweedlepipe. She was the friend, sometimes, of Betsy Prig, and was on terms of intimacy with Mrs, Harrls. She attended to poor old Chuffey and knew Mr. Mould the undertaker, Dr. Jobling, Jonas Chuzzlewit, father and son; Mr. Peck- sniff, the Misses Merry and Cherry and a whole lot of other prominent English people. It was a large um- brella with @ crooked handle, and there are surely many Star readers who will recall how Mrs. Gamp got the hooked handle around the meck and the ferrule in the back of dear Tom Pinch while they and other old friends, including Nadget, were wait- ing on the whart to see the Antwerp packet sail. ———— Much agitation .may resuit in a change of names and forms without great alteration of fundamental prin- ciples. Lenin and Trotsky have suc- ceeded In making “sovietism' measure another term for autocracy.” —_—— During the coming Congress the re- publican party is expected to make special efforts to harmonize. A com- mittee of admiring colleagues might be organized to present Mr. Johnson of California with a tuning fork. —_—— The numerous jail breakings throughout the country prove that prisoners in their secluded lives are liable to lose sight of the great difficul- ties presented by housing conditions in the outside world. —_— After the interviewers talked with Mr. McAdoo they were left with a cordial impression that they are per- fectly free to construct their own rumors as to the likelihood of his being @ candidate. Several prominent mpuhEl. hav- ing noted President Coolidge’s reputa- tion as a silent man, are evidently willing to do what they can to main- tain the conversational average. —_— In the present nebulous state of af- fairs political, election to almost any office of prominence carries with it the honorary distinction of mention as a presidential possibility. ————— When England becomas a prohibi- tion nation precautions cam be easily arranged to prevent fllicit liquor traf- fic from working both ways acroes the Atlantic. —————— France need not worry about the punishment of one or two of the old German militaristic leaders. Germany herself will attend to that sooner or later. —_— The fuel question appears to be finally settled in the usual way, the ultimate consumer having decided to pay the price and try t look pleasant. ——cee— After a public official has gone through & hand-shaking campaign he has no immediate need of golf for the sake of phvsical exercise. —_—mr———— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. — Youth and Poesy. 4 At nineteen years a gifted lass Sings of a joy that's vanished. Let’s hope that as the seasons pass Such song will not be banished, For one who has a real grief, ‘Which memory sadly treasures, ‘Will find the hurt beyond relief By words in artful measures. Though she describes a cruel smart, I still make bold to doubt it; For one who has a broken heart Can never sing about it. Unreasonable Question. “Do you belleve In votes for women?” “What an unreasonable question!" exclaimed Senator Sorghum. “What woman in the country would vote for me if I were to express the faintest doubt about her having the right to the ballot! f—— Jud Tunkins says the government has flerce competition for high-class talent with the big corporations that can afford to pay more salary. Fame, A man unlettered who ignobly died ‘With neither blame nor blessing, If, ages later, is found petrified, ‘Will set the whole world guessing. The Superior Art. “Does she play bridge well?” “Not very,” answered Miss Cayenn “but she criticizes a game beautifully.” A Cheerless Citizen, “What is the leading industry in Crimson Guich?” inquired the stranger. “They ain't no industry of any kind,” answered Cactus Joe. “Every- body loafs."” “A few men,” said Uncle Eben, ‘“‘manages to use a guv'ment office fur 8 place to rest up in between elec- tions.” BY THOMAS R. MARSHALL, Former Vice Prexident of the United States. There was no merciful man who | was not glad when he heard of the ! armistice. To him it meant the end of bloodshed, cessation of suffering | in the dugout. It meant that his boy was not to be sacrificed In the cause to which he had consecrated himself. [t mcant a happy reunion, a return of loved ones to the peaceful pursuits of everyday life. Later he realized that he himself had been In the war, that among those like him- self who had reached years of ma- turity there had been no non-com- batants. All were soldiers alike, whether on the battle front, in the tactory, mill or mine, or at home knitting socks. It meems a long time since the armistice. The five intervening years have been crowded with events, but we have hud leisure in which to philosophize on the disturbing ques- tion whether, either in military o: clvillan activity, we learncd to be a or whether we learned just fer. From all time the term soldiering has been used as one of reproach to indicate idling, doing little, getting by without any effort. It meant doing the job in the shortest and easiest way. This is far different from being a soldier. * x x x I suppose each community of the north had its joke about sume re- turned private of the Union Army, just as my little home town In In- diana repeated with great gusto that at the battle of Shiloh Gen. Grant rode up to our friend and neighbor and asked: “Private Kelsey. are you ready?’ When the answer swas ‘General, T am ready,” Grant wheeled his horse and commanded: “Let the battle begin." It was a bit of local fun, but it illustrated the importance of the common soldier. I recall an incldent of the civil war as related by Gen. John Corron Smith. In brief he gave an erroneous order compli- ance to which would have made de feat certain. But the order was ignored and the Unlon forces wor In recounting victory, the gen- eral was asked what he would have done if his men had obeyed the order. His answer was that he would have ourt-martialed every one of them as they were intelligent encugh to know that he did not mean it. The incident was related to illustrate the intellectual superiorit of the Ameri can soldier over soldiers of other lands. In the awful conflict between the north and south, the ranks of both armles were filled with men of sufliclent Intelligence to know what to do in an emergency without orders from their commanders. They reach- ed a state of mind in which they hon- estly believed that the fate of the cause in which they were engaged did not depend upon leadership, but upon whole-hearted service and the con- secrated devotion and sacrifice of each individual. * x ok % I would not say that the after-war conduct of the men who went across the seas Indicates that they did not become soldiers. I speak only of those who were part of the armies of free- dom which remained In this country. | 1 feel that most of us stay-at-home veterans learned how to soldlcr——lhnl! we did not become soldiers. With | here and there notable exceptions, we seem to have fallen into the habit of | soldiering. Our zest for work, our | By The MARQUISE DE FONTENOY.| Sir John Salmond. who is about to marry Lord Desborough's daughter, the Hon Monica Grenfell. is one of the most distinguished officers of the Royal Air Force, In which he holds the rank of air marshal, which is equivalent to that of vice admiral in the Navy and lleutenant general in the army. Just now he is in full military commatd at Bagdad and of the Euphrates. Indeed, he hus suc- ceeded Sir Percy Cox in the position of British high commissioner and commander-in-chief in Mesopotamia. a very difficult job, indeed, by reason of the Inordinate jealousy of King Felsal of Irak, who affects to resent the presence there of British troops as impairing his rights of sovereignty in the eyes of his people, although he is Indebted for his throne wholly to English arms, money and state- craft. Most of all S8almond's work, which is malnly that of inspection, salu- tary advice and of quickly punishing any of the tribes guilty of disorder and rebellion, Is done by aeroplane and that is why it is necessary to have in the valley of the Euphrat especially along the higher reache. of the river, an offiér who unites to great administrative ability and re- sourcefulness military decision and practical experience of aviation, like Sir John. He makes his headquarters equipped with numerous aeroplanes at Bagdad, and has large air stations at Mozul und at Basra. much lower down the river. He Is a son of the late Gen. Sir William Salmond, a dis- tinguished otficer of the Royal Ln- gineers, who held. for a time, the post of Inspector general of fortl- fications and who, himself, was the son of Col. James Salmond, a gallant soldfer of the Napoleonic wars in the early part of the last century, and also a county magnat- of Cumberland. Indeed. the Salmonds are an old Cumberlandshire famlly which, for more than two hundred years past, has furnished the nation with a number of gallant fighters on sea and land. * * % % Sir John is but forty-two years of age; indeed, one of the youngest men of the rank of lieutenant general in the army since the restoration of peace. He got his schooling at Wellington and at Sandhurst and joined the army In the closing stages of the Boer war, in the early part of the present century, winning distinction In South Africa under Kitchener. He was among the irst to appreciate the military im- portance of aviation, and to devote himself to its development, learning to fiy at his own expense at the Grahame White school at Hendon and, on the formation of the army air ‘force, secured his transfer from his old regiment, the Royal Lanca- shire to the Royal Fying Corps, He, by reason of his aeronotic proficiency, was appointed thereto with the rank of squadron commander, rapidly making his way up to the rank of major general in 1917 and. on the re- storation of peace, was nominated director general of aeronautics. As for his feats of aviation during the great war. they are best shown by his long list of orders, Including the stars of the Orders of the Bath, and of St. Michael and St. George, as well a9 the French Legion of Honor, the Russian Order of St. George and the Belgian Croix de Guerre. Sir John is_a widower with a little daughter who is now about eight vears old. His first wife was a Miss Helen Lumsden. She died while the war was in progress. LR x As for the future Lady Salmond, she is just thirty years old, served as & Red Cross nurse in France during the greater portion of the war, and is Reflection #eal and pride in our labor, our joy in accomplishments—all are far less than they were before the war. We seem to do what we do because of a fcar that there is a force somewhere to compel us to do it. We shirk more than we used to. We are more like galley slaves than like village black- jsmiths at eventide with our work well done. I do not imply that in the cvent of another great emer- Zency we would not be sufficiently patriotic to face it, grapple it and avercome it. That reserve strength lias always been the remarkable trait of our race. It is nevertheless to be deplored that a democracy which can only rightly exist upon the judgment and conscience of its individual citi- zens should, after accumulating in the war period the habit of obeying orders and dolng gladly the things it was called on to do, suffer the reilex \ction that with victory nothing more was required of it. * x Rx The Apostle Paul was quite prone, for a hunchback, to use military vhrases. He epeaks of the supreme qualification of a soldier in these words, “And having done all, to stand.” By this I understand him to mean that in the course of & soldler's iife there come moments, perhaps hours, in which the supreme test of his qualifications rests upon his abil- ity to grin and bear it, to trust that things will come out all right, to be willing to go down if they don't come out al} right. Tt has not yet been given to me to understand the inner workings of the minds of those men who hour after hour stayed in the dugouts in France, waiting for the coramand to go over the top. T have tried to visualize the whole thing, and it still seems to me that I would far have preferred to take my chance of death in the foray rather than to have stayed In_the Augout. Yet what would have hap- pened if every man had taken it upon himself to be the judge as to he time when he should make an 1ssault upon the German lines? He was the good soldier who, doing what he was told to do, to stand. He did not break out into insurrection; he did not disobey or fail to obey orders. * % % Did we at home learn how to stand? We bore with cheerfulness every burden and sacrifice which the war imposed. But since its clos many of us bear burdens cheerfully —make sacrifices gladly? operation of orderly processes to cor- rect grievances under which we suf-| fer? How many of us are leaving our posts of duty to engage In insyr- rections against constituted author-| ity? All this may have no effect upon the life of the republic 5o long as it simply has to do with the relations of one man to another, but it {s cal- culated to have tremendous effect when it has to do with our relations to the republic itself. This govern- ment cannot endure if maintained by force. We may call it a democ- racy, but it*will not be such. must get back to the attitude of the civil war soldler. We must re- member Paul's supreme test of a sol- dier—his ability to stand. This gov. ernment of law and order rests upon the judgment, conscience and conduct of each individual citizen, whose duty to his government demands a willing- ness to suffer grievances until they can be rectified lawfully and a devo- | tion as though its fate depended upon him, Copyr 1923, by Twentyfirst Century (Copyright, 3 Salmond-De¢sbhorough Wedding to Unite Noted British Families the oldest daughter of Lord Desbor- ough, lord-in-waiting to the king, and of Lady Desborough, who is one of the ladies of Queen Mary. Lord and Lady Desborough lost their two eld- est sons, Jullan and Gerald Grenfell, during the great war. They were well known and very popular In thiy country. There Is only one son re- maining, the Hon. Ivo Grenfell, who served through the last two years of the war in France, but who, more fortunate than they, escaped unhurt The tuture Lady Salmond will be very rich, both through her father and mother. For, whereas Lord Desbor- ough {s @ member and partner in the old-time London banking firm of Pascoe, Grenfell & Sons, her mother is one of the heiresses of her enor- mously rich maternal uncle, the sev- enth and last Earl of Cowper, and among his other possessions which came to her from him was his prin- cipal country seat, Panshanger, one of the most beautiful pMces in Hert- fordshire. Lord Desborough, both by his pres- ent title and formerly as Willie Gren- fell, Is one of the best known En- glishmen in America and occupies a well-nigh unique place in the world of athletics. At Harrow he played in the cricket eleven, and as a Balllol man at Oxford he rowed twice in the university crew against Cambridge, namely, in 1877 and 1878, On the former occasion he won the three- mile foot race against Cambridge, only a few hours previous to the boat race. In later years he stroked an eight across the channel, from Dover to Calais, and at another time sculled himself across, alone, in a light rac- ing skiff. He has swum Nlagara, not nce. but twice, the second time to convince an incredulous stranger of his first success. He has been presi- dent of a four-in-hand driving club, of the Coaching Club, also of the fa- mous old Marylebone Cricket Club and of the Amateur Fencing Associa- tion and Epee Club, while, at the an- nual military tournament he, on three successive occasions, carried off the Epee fencing prize. Needless to add that he has a remarkable Alpine rec- ord, that he has done plenty of big- game shooting in the Rockies, in In- dia and in British East Africa. He has on at least two occaslons been president of International Olympic Games, of which he is the most en- thusiastic promoter. * k% % Lord Desborough stands close upon 6 teet 4 in his stockings and has lit- erally no end of feats of one kind or another to his credit. In several £n- glish small wars in India and in South Africa and In the Sudan, as well a8 in the wars of some other na- tions, his longing for adventure tempted him into the fray in the ca- pacity of & newspaper war corre- spondent and in the second Suakin campalgn, some forty years ago, when he was a special correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph, he strolled one fine night too far from camp, was surprised by a large force of dervishes and, after having emp- tied his' revolver, escaped certain death by his amasing fleetness of foot, outrunning - the dervishes and reach- ing the British camp just in the nick of time, nothing belng left of the soles of the tennis shoes which he had been wearing. Now, in his six- ty-elghth year, he is still a man of exceptional physical vigor and in per- fect condition, a born leader of men and of every kind of popular move- ment and organization, notably the Pilgrims’ Soclety of the United States, and owns Taplow Court, one of the most picturesque and beautiful piaces on the Thames, which is popularly known as Honeymoon Hall by reason of the number of occasions on which he has lent it to young married cou- flmhr the first two or three weeks knew how | how | How many | jof us are willing to awalt the slow We | { ment of Agriculture grounds, where SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, NOVEMBER 11, '1923—PART ‘2. An Armistice Day On Qualities of Citizenship| . Capital Sidelights | By WILL P. KENNEDY. that Congress is coming back and Capitol Hill resumes its place in the public eye, it is not amiss to re- call that before the coming of the palefaces this same site was used for the national council of all the tribes of the then powerful Algon- quins. The sub-tribe, the Powhatans, keld sway here when Capt. John Smith explored this region to the Great Falls of the Potomac. There are in Congress now at least two distinguished desc:ndants of the red men—sSenator Robert L, Owen of Oklahoma, whose mother wag of the Cherokee nation, and Representative Charles D. Cartcr, also of Oklahoma, who was born in the Choctaw nation. * Kok ok There I3 a “better side” to many public officials that people generally “wot mot of,” but which Is shown un- obtrusively to those who come within | the sphere of their influence in Wash- ington. Take William S. Culbertson of Kansas, vice chairman of the Unit- ed States Tariff Commission, who has been actively interested in Sunday school teaching for more than twen- ty-five years, starting when he was a youngster In college. Mr. Culbertson for the last ten years has been conducting a popular Bible study class in the fashionable Pres- byterian Church of the Covenant, on Connecticut avenue, where people of all denominations ‘go_to hear the noted preacher, Dr. Charles Wood. He has aroused interest by an un- usual approach to the subject, a sym- pathetic study of the Bible as a prod- uct of religious expericnce and the treasury of spiritusl and social truths. " It i a mixed class of some thirty men and women. They discuss problems that are a product of mod- ern society in relation to the Bible— such as discoveries in archeology, and make a critical analysis of the Bible. This 1s always done in a sympathetic way, with the spiritual viewpoint al- ways accentuated. Mr. Culbertson has found an ap- palling lgnorance of the real meaning of the Bible among men and women of today and has devoted himself-to translating the words of spiritual life into easily understandzble lan- guage of today. While he does not propose to have his Bible class either a soclal club or a praver meeting, it bas attracted some of the most prom:- nent men in the Capital city—such as Dr. Ha~ry H. Donnelly, a professor at George Washington University Me: cal School, who is # noted child spe clalist; Dr. Wilson Compton, secretary of the National Lumbermén's Asso- ciation, who is president of the clas and Charles Nesbit. prominent in ci matters in the National Capital. Such women as Mrs. Grace Angus, daugh- ter of Representative S. Kendall of Pennsylvania, who is president of several railwoy and lumber corpora- tions, besides being a coal operator. * x x x Treasure troves are cached and dis- <covered these days and even here in | the most beautiful city In the world. | as well as in the outlands and the| no-man’s-lands of y@steryears. Lieut | Richard K. Cock, who on February 1 next will round out sixty years of service as watchman in the Depart- he fs known as “the tourist trafiic cop” because he guides so many on thelr way to the Washington Monu- ment, the Smithsonian buildings, the White House, etc., Is a witness of this fact. During all these years—three score—he has not missed a _day or been tardy once at work. He was equally prompt and regular about handing his pension over to his “good wife.” who often assured him that she would take good care of it for him. The wife died some sixteen months ago and there was no bankbook or erty bonds to be found. although Licut. Cook and his family hunied high and low and though he employed experts to hunt in every bank in Washington and suburbs for the ac- count. Lieut. Cook broke up housekeeping. but refused to sell his houschold ef. fects, distributing among his children whatever they cared to take. He gave np all hopes of ever enjoyine the cumulated pension funds. During the process of housecleaning last week one of his daughters was giving v orous attention to an old washstand when a sudden Jar released a false bottom and out tumbled £3,860—some of It in gold pleces sewed In cloth She turned it over promptly to “Pop” and he rewarded her with a present of a new chamber sulte. * ok x % M. B. Harlow, financier and busi- ness man of Washington and Alex- andria—the city surveyed by Georgze Washington—who conceived the idea of a monumental highway outrival- ing Westminster Abbey or the Ap- plan way from the city of Washing- ton to the tomb of Washington, at Mount Vernon, in 1886, and who has been pushing the project ever since, was city treasurer of Alexandria when twenty-four years old and held the job for twenty-foug years. He never tasted liquor mor tobacco In any form. *xx “Dirt farmer” has been the cue to some good stories about the Capital, but Secretary Wallace has given the word new meaning. He sent a spe- ciallst—Dr. Curtis F. Marbut of the Unitgd States Department of Agri- culture—on a three-month tour of the old world to study the soil In various conntries which has been cultivated for some 2,000 years with- out fertilization or the benefit of lve stock farming. Dr. Marbut hrought back samples of sofl from all over Europe, which 18 being{ studied to learn how it has been pos- sible to malntain productivity since the beginning of the Christian era. * % X ¥ ‘When the next Congress gets down to a discussion of proposed changes in the immigration law Representa- tive John L. Cable of Ohio, who has | speclallzed on this question and wnol has been devoting the recess from Congress to making personal inves- tigations, will tell some interesting things that came und tion. The Cable act gives independen citizenship to women. He teils of one case where a soldier boy had married a girl in Italy. He came in, as he was a citizen, and she was counted in the Itallan quota and sent back. The converse of this shortl appeared when a citizen of Germany Who resided in this country, came in with his wife, who was born In Cali- fornia. Representative Cable gsked him how long he had been married and he said: “Thank the Lord, since the act went Into effcct.” So here a case where the American girl who had married the foreigner re tained her cltizenship and came into this country from a trip abroad as a citizen of the United States. * K K ¥ Representative Cable earned his first money taking care of his father’s horse when he was so young he had to stand on a stool to curry the top of his back. He did work around the house and farm, for which he recelved one pig each year, which sold for about $5 In the fall. Later he rode a bicycle five miles in the morning, worked ten hours at a press, making roofing tile, and rode the “bike” back in the evening to earn money o go to college. When attending the law school in Cincin- natl Cable held the position of chief Janitor, kept order, collected fines and alded in the dissemination of knowl on all points to patrons who called up on_the telephone. His litical career began In the St uis Law School, where he hel the lass offices for two his observa- I l | MEN AND AFFAIRS BY ROBERT T. SMALL Duse, of the desclate eves, has been rdevoted to their craft, or profession, startling New York of late not alone with the vividness of her acting but by the vell of mystery with which she surrounds herself. She is Duse, the silent. No one may speak with her. She Is a thing apart. She dwells in the great silent spaces twhere a whisper would sound as a peal of thunder. Duse Is fragile. She must be conserved. When she goes out for a short road tour next month, she will ride, as an oriental princess might, in a palanquin. In her troups there will be tour chair bearers, They will carry Eleanora to and from the train, to and from the theater, to and from the occasional mufed car. ‘Then engines which pull her traln will have their whistles sealcd and their safety valves tied tig There is tallk even of putting silencers on_their cxhaust staclks. Duse is a realist. Her art is of the spiritual, She disdsins all mal up. Where the drama calls for young woman, Duse appears with those desolate eves and gray hair, fo Duse is midway between sixty and seventy. Her daring in this respect has caused much discussion among the dramatie critics. Some rave about Duse and say her art needs no cos- metics. Others insist that a dash of grease paint and blond wig now and then would give necessary color to the realism Duse covets. It is ad- mitted by all there was a time whe! the absence of makeup may hav heen an advantage. But time is in- orable. Still dellcate of feature frail of body and fascinating of man- ner, Duse neverthcless has returned to us an old woman. Yet it pleases her (o play the heroine of twenty in e physical garb of sixty-four. Duse plays but occasional matinees she would agrce to no more than that, and in_most of her roles she is a figure of infinite sorrow. It is said that her eyes are the most hurt, the most hungry in ail the worid. Duse gives the impression of having a soul that suffers. She weeps as she looks. Of this she once made an {lluminating remark. “Ten years ugo I wept, now my audiences weep.” Duse vivid and “infinite in il- lusion,” the witchery of her volce is as potent as ever, but ail her fricnds wish she would buy a blond wig. * % ¥ % Bootlegging has grown to be such a thriving and apparently permanent | industry in New York city that the bootleggers have an ofiice building Heard and Seen “I entertained an Insurance man the other afternoon,” he said. “Yes, all afternon. That goes with- out saying. 1 sald insurance man, didn't 1? The bee is famed for being busy, but when it comes to persist- | ence an insurance man has the world beat. “If you have never tried to get away from an insurance man you have an interesting experience com- | ing to you. I had the whole office helping me, but I didn't get away. Associates called me on the phone, others sought my assistance In imagi- nary problems. “But still the insurance man talked. 1 sympathized with him. too; that was the reason 1 stond and listened to him. He has something to sell, but Le can’t sell it until he has talked you into it. Talking you into it is & real job. * * % ““What Is your motive behind any- thing you do? he asked me, In earnest tones. “That seemed a pretty big problem. When a fellow stops and thinks about it he can think up a thousand differ- 1t motives for a thousand different deeds. Man's psychology is a fearful thing. “Somotimes he does the most out- | landish things, with no motive at all or with some motive that would seem ridiculous, yet, nevertheless, it is a £0od one, as far as that particular man, In that peculiar circumstance, s oencerned. “But the insurance man has all man- d, and his motives, down in books. He has an amazingly stmyle and, to him, comprehensive answer to his ‘solemn ‘question. ‘It _is love,’ he told me, glittering “Now I had never thought of that Love is the topic of the novels, the backbone of the musical comedy and the mainspring of the popular song. Dut that love is the all-compelling motive for our every desd was some- thing of which I was not aware until that Insurance man made it plain to . his eye Freud must have been an insur- ance man. * * x “When I go down into the base- ment and shake the furnace in the | early hours of the morning, it is love that impels me. “When I curse a clinker, ang sweat In its removal, it is love that | fires me. er Love is the wonder work- and the power that slowly but surcly compels me to gouge out the clinker, shake out the ashes, and— take out some Insurance. Maybe the Insurance agent would be nearer correct iIf he substituted the word ‘desire’ for that of ‘love,’ but why quibble with “him about words? “He has an answer for everythin Really, he is an inspiration. Often 1 have been caught in places where I could not think of the right thing to say to save my life, In fact. it is a common saying, isn't it, that one never thinks of the right thing to say until it is too late. “But not your insurance man! That bird ha reason and logic b: the tail, argumentation and expos tion tied and lassoed, and books on etiquette at his tongue's end. He i never at a loss. Though you speak with the tongue of man and angel he comes right back at you with th ready answer. “I'do not belleve there is a man in the world who can present a con- vincing argument to an insurance man. He has studied out all possib| answers in advance. He has heen coached In all the combinations of protests which his prospects are like- Iy _to bring up. “William Jennings Bryan would be tongue-tied before him. " I'll bet Rob- ert Ingersoll, despite his abilit an orator, took out insurance. ator Vest was eloguent about th dog, but when he tried to get away from an insurance man, I'll bet he failed. = * % “The insurance man Is doing you a good deed, he says. If he cannot hammer home through you. he drags in death and sickness to his aid, ail properly enough, I have no doubt. “Then he paints a picture no artlst can paint, you know, with your wife occupying a central place. He has neat little pictures which he draw: dlagrams showing how your pay- ments mount to untold helghts, “You talk about the weather, and tell siories about friends who have had experiences with insurance com- panies, but he goes right ahead, as it the fate of the world depinded talking. D i WhAt I_like about fnsur ance men. They are an inspiratio: to all of us, to keep at What we ar doing until’ we shove it over. S E. TRACEWELL. motor | | | ], 1 » whichever you choose to call it. Den- tists, doctors and lawyers have their buildings, as well as advertising agents, woole dealers, hirery supply many other commercial lines. leggers have arg titicd to_similar apparently they b The discovery of the by clubmen, who were relative merits of purveyors of the de one claimed to have the in existeace the ea: Then four of the youn on com ideration, and ci their respeetive on rum. Each had no_ connection firm. The concl that the bootleggers I zether elther by accident or design. irge office forces and for present or future will send a “sales time and politely z early” for Christmas, * k% % Some one has suggested that what the United States needs today more than anything clse Is a week.” Courtesy, it ¥rown to be ail but a memory In this land of hurry., burry, hurry. This is particula, in New York clty, where crowded conditions at rush hours have made It a case of cvery man for himseif and women and chil- dren last. Men nowad: to Zive a woman 4 » when they do they are sel ry loves to have so the “Court sion may come to Lom: ve drifted to- urge “shop) is ¥ true y Anyhow it hie served to permit In- nis Brown, who writes golf for the magazines much better than he plays it on the 1 8, to recali the story of a ftve etk al hunter down in Georgria who was taking a friend out hunting. Eventually they came upon of partridges. The birds did first take to flicht. But the hunter's friend aimed his gun and was about to fire. cried the ot going to ure running on ; “T'm Fifty Years Ago In The Star When the panic of 1873 subeided there was slight realization of Its ulti- mat upon Beginning of the pros- . perity of the coun- Hard Times. .. “p.: in 4 tew weeks after the passiug of the finan- cial spasm it began to be apparent that Industrial conditicns had been very badly un In The Star of November 4, the following summary of the situation: “All over the country the prospect is ominous for a gloomy winter. It estimated that b ry in Wall street will make a difference to the whole country f over one thousand millions of doliars Indeed, the amount of damage done is altogether incalculable. Manufacturers ever. where are cutting down their forces, runnin; time, 6 porarily suspending 1 account of the mone- ary string and dullness of tride. In all the citics the winter is a ned to be very e upon every cluss of the emj wholesale £nd Queing number nd salesmen As > who can least » first to lose th missed have no re, and must hout occupation yet Ereatest desire to w whic! of the most depl o ond’ In New York ci he in ations are that at 1 t 60,- 000 or 000 i1l be thrown out of em ¥ month, and the proportic “or will be vet lai turing towns. onomy and even close fruzality rily be the order of the day, even in families that have lived in luxury, in ordér to make both ends meet until better times."” * * * The present agitation by the farm- crs of this country for an increase of tariff on wheat and Farmers and for a lowering of froight rates for Freight Rates. wuritt on wheat and of agricultural products had its fore- runner fifty years ago, as attested by the following in The Star of Novem- ber 5, 1873: “Whether the ‘grangers’ of the west succeed in all their undertakings or not, there is no question but railroad rates need overhauling and re- ent on a basis of common- resent goods can be l-rail from New York the New York Cen- (throurh Buffalo) and back ilo by propeiler at a lews rate than they Now, either the ork to Buffalo extortionate in themselves, New York to Chi- living at to be taxed sood the loss on b In either case, it is a radical reform is needed.” * * % In The Star of November 7, 1873, is printed a dispatch from Cuba of the execution Virginius Prisoners ©f the prison- s ers taken on Executed in Cuba. \ . sceamer Virginius, Bernabe Varona, Pedro Cospedes, Jesus Del Sol and Gen. W. A. C. Ryan, who were en route to join the Cuban insurgents. This action by the panish authorities caused an immediate and intemse reaction of sympathy for the In- surgents in this country. The Star of November §, 1873, says: ‘It i3 sincerely to Le hoped, in the interests of liberty, humanity and that the illegal seizure sacre of the Cuban sinius will be the ather on the back of the sorely forbearance of - our govern- ment, and will result in the recogni- tion 'by the United States of the effect general y happens, fford to go are es. The s els in town cith the Is one ne of alone tral lin to Buf tried «d by the South American states. ur government, in the proper des to do its part in maiataining comity of nations. has gone to the most limit of forbearance toward Le Spanish government in their ng-portracted and wholly unsuc- cesstul efforts to put down the riotic movement in Cuba. The Spanish warfare upon the Cubans has throughout the contest been a re- proach to civilization in Its devilish brutality, and as it Is qguite evident (Wt Spuin ean never conquer Cuba, . o thnt the ‘warfare, which gonsists on_the part of the SpaniaPds in the brutal murder of any hapless prisoners they may take, should be stopped by other natiops.”