Evening Star Newspaper, November 25, 1923, Page 38

2 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY.....November 25, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave, New York Office. 0 East 470d St. Chicako Office: Tower Bullt ag. European Office: 16 lkegent St., Lundon, England, The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, ix deliveied by carriers within the city at 60 cents per month: daily only, 45 cents per month; Sunday oniy, 20 cents’ per month.Orders may be went by mail or tele- silhone Main 5000, Collection in made by car- Tiers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, Dally and Sunday..1yr., §8.40; 1 mo., 70¢ Daily onl; 1¥r., $6.00; 1 mo., 50c Sunday oniy. .1yr., $2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ All Other Daily and Sunday.1 yr. Daily only....... Sunday oniy.... tes. $10.00; 1 mo., 85¢ $7.00; 1 mo., 60¢ $3.00; 1 mo., Member of the Associated Press, Associnted Press Is exclusively entitled © for fepublication of all news dis- patelies crvdited to it t otherwise credited in this paper and the local news pub Tished lerein. Al rizhts of vublication of wpecial @ n are also res The Washington Cathedral. Under the inspiring leadership of Bishop Freeman the builders of the Washington Cathedral, substituting modern for ancient methods in their task, will endeavor to concentrate and condense into the fraction of a decade the labors and results in cathedral building which in clden times spread over the centuries. Already the foundations have been laid, deep and strong, both of the 1 structure and of fund-raising, upon which of cathedral bullding de- pends. An ideal site and four millions of dollars have been contributed. Upon the firm foundations of the whole cathedral structure the cathedral apse projects itself into the air like the! bow of hope and promise sct in the sky. Reassured and inspired by this token of pronfise, the cathedral bulld- «rs are throwing themselves with confidence and enthusiasm into their nati n-wide campaign. ‘Washington has in the cathedral a special interest and concern. The completed structure will add a noble und artistic ar 1o *“the City Beautiful The faith, the thought, the spirit symbolized by the structure will strengthen the Cap- ital in its position as the spiritual and | roligious as well the political, sclentific and literary center of the| nation. The cathedral will strengthen and enrich “the City Spiritual.” The project touches wholesome civic pride and appeals to Christian senti- ment not only at the Capital, but in | the whole nation. May this noble enterprise, to which the self-sacrificing labors of the faith- ful have been devoted for nearly the third of a century, be pushed to a #lorious completion within our day and generation! —_——— Rum Parley With Canada. Representatives of the United States and Canadian governments are to meet In Ottawa next Tuesday in a con- ference over ways and means to cur- tail smuggling over the border, es- pecially of liquors and narcotics, by co-operation between the two govern- ments. The parley, it is stated, is to be secret, and no notes are taken. This is immaterial, and may, in fact, lead to a fuller and freer confer- ence in the preliminaries. In diplomacy such a method is termed “conversa- ons,” and does not commit either party until a sure ground has been established. It is rather humiliating to Ameri- cans that we have to lean so heavily upon our northern neighbors to as- sist Ip preserving the integrity of our own national prohibition act. But since the statd of New York deliberat: 1y desisted from bearing its sha; the burden of enforcement the United States government has been compelled 10 appeal to another government for help, and the Canadians are very graciously expressing a willingness to see what can be done. With Great Britain assisting en- forcement of the law beyond the three- mile limit at sea, and the Canadians h of possible for' the United States gov- ernment to put a material check upon the unlawful transportation of liquor into this countr; —————— In the not distant future some wom- ng to add turesqueness to the political scene by throwing a spring bonnet into the ring. —————— Old King Tut never knew the extent to which he would one day serve hi; country as an ad to attract tourists. ——— The coast guard is expected to save humanity from firewater as well as the ocean waves. —_——————— The Patterson Tract. The Zoning Commission has refused the application of owners of the Pat- terson tract that one-half the property be changed from residence to indus- trial uses. The owners would have dedicated forty-two of the eighty acres to Industrial uses, which in this case meant the building of warehouses, with raflroad tracks connecting the main lines of steam roads entering Wash- ington. This is natural parkland, and the decision of the commission will give gratification to various civic so- cieties and many citizens not members of associations. No criticism should be made of the owners of the property for wanting to ‘make it profitable to them. They have paid high taxes for many years on un- profitable land. They have done all possible to meet the wishes of the peo- ple that this land, upgrown in part with fine old trees and having a noble ‘view, should be taken over as a public park. The fault is with Congress. There is no way to give assurance to the owners that Congress will au- thorize the purchase of the tract. The matter has been under discussion many years. The District authorities and all civic ueecciations that have considered it have urged that this land be reserved as parkland. There has been no suggestion of jobbery. No charge can be made that any effort has been made to unload on the Dis- trict unimproved property at a . high hitectural adornment | to be! Iping out along the border, it may | 0 price. Washington has grown beyond its original boundary, and In the new Washington small provision has been made for parks. New Washington, which is to be much larger and more populous than Old Washington, will | bear smail resemblance to the Wash- ington as designed by L'Enfant, re- vised by others and approved by George Washington and other men who did so much to establish the re- public. The effort of the people and their local authorities is to have the new city conform in some ways, and in as many ways as possible, with the magnificent plan of the old ct There has been a lack of vision and enterprise. The heights above Florida avenue should have been taken for park uses long ago. Thirty, even fifty, years ago this was urged. People saw that the city would out- grow its original bounds. The north- ern heights could have been bought at the price of farmland, and farm- land was cheap. The only part of the north ridge saved for parkland is Meridlan Hill Park. Parts of the ridge are occupied by Central High School, Garfield Hospital and other works of public character, but it would be better to have taken over the whole ridge soon after the civil war, when it was occupied by military hospitals and camps. The Patterson tract is near the east end of the ridge and it should be made to serve Washington for all time as a park. ——— Auto Reciprocity. In order to assure auto reclproeity Letweén Maryland and the District of | | Columbia, beginning January 1, 1924, | the District Commissioners have sug- gested to the Governor of Maryland a sixty-day truce on auto tags, pending the passage of a gasoline tax by Con- | Bre: Maryland's terms to the District to Lring about reciprocity required the enactment of a gas tax similar to that | {in effect in the state. The District Commissioners have shown their good faith by preparing a bill providing for the gas tax and having it introduced in Congress. It Is now up to Mar land to end the unnatural license war and declare a truce until the bill can | {be passed. | It is unfortunate that the gas tax {measure could not have been adopted at the Yast session of Congress. Every effort was made to get it through, but | due to the press of last-minute busi- | ness, action upon it was not possible, If Congress does not take quick ac- tion on the bill when it reconvenes and Maryland does not agree to the {proposal of the Commissioners the | situation will be hopelessly muddied. Maryland can simplify matters if :sh\\ will promptly acquiesce In the | truce proposal of the District. It may not be necessary to use this agree- ment, but it is a safeguard to definite | reciprocity when January 1 rolls {around. i 1‘ Marylanders and Washingtonians {altke are committed to the reciprocity | idea. It will eliminate many controversies growing out of the bit- ter feeling engendered in the many years of the burdensome form of taxa- ition. Tt will bring all of the states !ana the District of Columbia in line— one tag will permit a motorist to {use every road in every state in the, { Union—and it will promote the nat- ural friendship of two growing cities, | Washington and Baltimore. | Despite complications, the District has done its share to bring about this ideal condition. Tags for the new year will be on sale soon for District | drivers. With the gas tax in effect | | these tags are to cost the motorist lit- | | tle more than cost. The District hus" {agreed, in the event that the bill| passes, to work out some system of | iretund, in this way demonstrating| ! that it will let nothing interfere with | ‘the prompt establishment of reci- | procity. | ! It is confidently expected that Gov. | ! Ritchie, who was re-elected partly on a platform of “reciprocity for 1924, |will take into consideration all of | { these things, and will speedily accede | {to the Commissioners’ proposal and put his “shoulder to the wheel,” along | {with Washingtonians and Maryland- | iers, to get quick passage of the gas | | tax bill in Congress. —————————— Only a misanthropic statistician | would pause to calculate the number {of poor and self-respecting couples { who could start honestly happy homes with the money that is spent in sensa- | tional divorce cases. | | —_————————— About a» far as President Coolidge can go with reference to competition for republican leadership of the House { of Representatives is to intimate a ! pertect readiness to congratulate the | winner. —_—————— Measurements might be compiled and experiments conducted to decide { when a truck ceases to be a useful vehicle of transportation and becomes ia street obstruction. —_———— Among the many rumors of art | faking one solid comfort remains. Ali | the signatures on the magazine covers {are indisputably genuine. | i —_——————— The Buggy. The decline of the buggy has been noted by many observers. The {ndica- { tions are that it will soon vanish from | the roads, that it will become a | memory to be cherished by old men ! {and women, and that it will be read {about only in old-fashioned novels— !that 1s, if anybody will take time to {read old-fashioned novels. The govern- {ment has gathered statistics showing | that the munufucture of the buggy {and the carriage, the horse-drawn {owrriage, is fast declining, and that |the end of the industry seems not many years away. The manufacture of the baby carriage grows' fast, and that is @ happy healthful sign. Already the buggy and its friend, the family carriage, have become few and far between on the roads in our neighborhooa, and it should be remem- bered that even now we have a small | | miteage of so-called good roads and a large mileage of horse-and-buggy | roads. But good roads are being| lengthened and multiplied, and on a good road the buggy ceases to flourish. Perhaps in remote parts of the coun- try the horse and buggy will cling to lite for a good many years, and there will continue to be such things i | Pl | affairs might | stiff-necked in their attitude. | be possible for good to come to the TH as the village or crossroads smithy where the forge will glow and -the 4anvil clang, and wiiere one may 'ses such an antique sign as “Joln 8mith, blacksmith, horseshoer and wheel- wright.” - In our neighborhood the smithy is almost a lost Institution, and gas stations now dot the landscape. Once the horse and buggy were an Amerl- can Institution, but like other old American ins turned. is the con- queror of the highways, yet a wealth of pleasant memorles come to most persons of age or middle years when a buggy creeps and creaks aulong the road. It Is not often that one sees a buggy, and it Is seldom that one sees a new buggy. Most of them are old and worn. Their wheels wobble. The buggy horse generally has a defected air, and his ears flop and his tall droops. The world has turned to the gasoline chariot, and nearly everybody is stepping on the gas, —_———— Coal Production Slump. Dispatches from the middle west tell of a remarkable slump in the pro- duction of bituminous coal. In Illinois mines with a potential capacity of 100,000 tons a day, and in Indiana mines with a gross daily output of more than 50,000 tons, have shut down, throwing 25,000 men out work, with 50,000 others drawing small pay checks. Soveral reasons ure assigned for this condition. The mild autumn weather is partly blamed; bad busi- ness conditions are said to contribute, while the substitution of oil fuel also vs a part. It is not found, how- that the consumer of soft coal finds the price considerably less. One would think that this state of lessen the enthusiasm of the miners for the threatened April strike in the bituminous region. From well informed quarters in the coal in- dustry have come repeated predictions in the past few weeks of the inevita- bility of a coal strike in the spring which is to tie up the entire bitu- minous producing region. ‘With winter coming on, and no pay may vision a foretaste of what & long and hurtful strike would mean in April, and they may be more inclined to talk things over with the employers and avert it. And the operators, too, for their part, as they feel the effects of the present shut-down may be less It may consuming public out of this deplora- ble condition if a strike is thereby averted. —_—————— Men out of employment are burning farms in Silesia as a method of show- ing their resentment. The fact that they are destroying opportunities for employment is a trifte too abstruse to be considered in the excitement. ———— When a man buys pure water mis- represented as gin he at least has the tisfaction of feeling better next day than he would have felt if he had not been cheated. —_—————— Several states are growing tired of having the Ku Klux Klan express an overobliging willingness to be it every time a third party is mentioned. —_——— The only circumstance that suggests anything like real peace in Germany is the fact that Bergdoll has not bitten anybody for some time. —_—————— A large amount of valuable time continues to be lost in different parts of the country in controversy over daylight-saving. There is danger that the ex-kaiser will keep trifling with his luck until demands for his trial are revived in earnest. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Gentle Insincerities. Somebody told me always to be cheer- ful And never think a dark and gloomy thought. So when 1 met a man whose mood was tearful My laughter spoiled the sympathy he sought. | Then some one told me always to be ready To join in every sorrow of a friend. Acquaintances complained of gloom so steady That melancholia threatened in the end. ‘There's nothing to be gained by heed- ing chatter And borrowing manners not at all your own. The time for tears or laughter is a matter That each must settle for himself alone. Favoritisms, “Is your position as a favorite son secure?” ‘“Reasonably 80," answered Senator Sorghum. “But I don’t want to put too much stress on it. It's dangerous to become 80 much of a pet that peo- ple begin to regard you as one of the spolled darlings of politics.” Jud Tunkins says it takes a smart man to change his mind and impress people with the idea that his doing so has made any difference. Feminine Perversity. She scorns his fashionable cares In tailored demonstration, But when his foot ball togs he wears She shouts her admiration. Concerning the Flapper. “Has the flapper disappeared?” “Only pertly,” sald Miss Cayenne. “As & matter of fact her putting on long skirts leaves her flapping even more than ever. Smoking Permitted. “You have taken down the no-smok- g signs.” “Yes,” answered Cactus Joe. “Crim- son Gulch is proud of this cafe, and we don't want folks to think it don't have no lady patrons.” “If fruit keeps on gittin® expensive,” sald Uncle Eben, “by'm by it's gineter be 'most as expensive as when Adam lost his home foh an apple.” nj of | i | { checks in sight, possibly the miners|the red man, th 1 1 { E_SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. World Better Despite Growling, Says Former Vice President BY THOMAS R. Fermer Vice Preatd, Staten. I happened to be an Interested listener in the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church when the discussion was golng on as to whether what is known as the Van Dyke prayer book should be used in the churches. The discussion almost tmmediately passed the bounds more pleasantry and _entered realm of acrimonious debate. of the numerous participants lost his head, bLut several appeared to be filled with righteous Indignation After the vote disclosed a majority in favor of permitting the use of the book, I overheard a gaunt Scot pass comment. He sald to a fellw Scot: “I have grown used to eating canned fruits and canned vegetables. The anclent zest with which I looked for these things In their season has long since passed. I am reconclled to koeping my body fit on canned goods. But I shall never consent to keepin my soul allve on canned prayers. It was the protest of a minority against the spirit of the age and it turned my thoughts to the changing conditions of changing times. For the first time I considered prepared- in the abstract—the policy of y# having on hand a supply of a 1 article as insurance agalnst be- ing compelled to rely upon the moment. * ok ok % When our ancestors came into New neland they were so thoroughly im- bued with the fmminenes of God and the omnipres of hell that they looked upon every earthly gift as a distinet reward Jehovah, s, as blessings from His handw. Fallure was evidence of His displeasure Famine and pestilence marked His wrath. The deadly savage was to try thelr faith. And so when the har- vest was over and the angry waves of the Atlantic, rolled by early win- ter's blasts, beat upon the rock- bound coast of New England, if there was food enough for the long and bitter season ahead, fucl and cloth- Ing enough to battle the cold, abscnee > pestilence and protection ugainst t ordained a dny of Thanksgiving. They recognized the source from which all blessings flow. We, however, have grown so used to abundant harvests, the shelter of comfortable homes and the protec tion which enforcement of strict health laws afford, and have such confidence in our ability to defend ourselves against all enemles, foreig: and domestic, that wh the custom Ing day observance, for' many of us just canned thanks. A single hour of church in the morn- ing and then we are ready to devote the rest of the day to sport and amusement. It may be, if the truth could be Known, the Father is just as pleased to see His children en- joving themselves as He wa en iistening to the day-long thanks of decades ago. the None ence, for thelr services to it has become EE I time, our fathers ordained a new system of government among men and set apart a day on which posterity might annually show its exuberance over the possession of freedom. For many decades observ- ance of the Fourth of July was a 1 celebration of a grateful people for the possession of the rights to lfe, liberty and the pursuit of hap- piness. And then, just as we had necome accustomed to seed-time and harvest and abundance of material sovds, We grew accustomed to the blessings of liberty. The old-fash- ioned Fourth of July exists now only in the memory of men. Happily, in COMMUNITY TRUSTS BY FREDERIC ]J. HASK The wisdom of Benjamin Frankiin i proverblal, but when he came to dle he did a thing such that time has demonstrated he is not to be ranked high as a seer as he s a sage. In his will he left the sum of 1,000 pounds sterling to the city of Phila- delphia as a fund from which loans were to be made “upon interest at 5 per cent to such young, married ar- tificers under the age of twenty-five as have served an apprenticeshlp in the said town, and faithtully fulfilied the duties Tequired in thelr inden- tures.” These loans were to be not less than 15 pounds nor more than 60 pounds each. Franklin calculated that at the end of the first hundred y=ars the fund would have grown to about 131,- 000 pounds, and he stipulated that 31,000 should be set aside for similar loans for another century, while the 100,000 pounds should “be let out in public works, fortifications, bridges, queducts, public bulldings, baths, ete., or whatever may make living in the town more agrecable to strangers resorting thither for health or tempo- rary residence.” He recommended specifically that, if it had not been done before, the city of Philadelphia should consider “bringing by pipes the water of Wissahickon creek into the town so as to supply the inhabi- tants.” Franklin's carefully planned philan- thropy did not work out in any re- spect. In the first place, the practice of apprenticeship under articles of in- denture in Industry was ended within a comparatively few years, a maxi- mum loan of $300 at b per cent soon lost its attractions to young men anxious to start in business for them- selves, and at the end of 100 years the fund, Instead of amounting to $650,000, as Franklin had caleulated. was actually considerably less than $100,000. forty years no loans whatever have been made for the very good reason that no applicant has qualified under the conditions of the Franklin will And, In the second place, the city of Philadelphia grew so rapidly that it could not wait 100 years, which would have been until 1830, to install an adequate water supply system. Two Modern Examples. Two more modern examples of how not to bequeath money for philan- throplc purposes are cited, both also in Pennsylvania. Some sixteen years ago a citizen of that state left his for- tune of $3,600,000 for “the care and education of poor, Wwhite, healthy girls, both of whose parents shall be deceased, not under the age of six years or over ten years, of at least average mental capacity,” to be dis- charged at the age of sixteen. Boys were excluded from the benefi- cences of this fund, as were girls who were colored or sickly or had either parent living, or who were stupid or under six or over ten. Two years later another citizen of the same community left his fortune of $4,600,000 for the care of “full or- phan or fatherless white girls not over thirteen until they arrive at Seventeen years. After some ten years had passed these fortunes, aggregating the huge sum of $8,000,000, sufficient to provide for many hundreds of worthy and needy children, were taking care of only 114 girls, and the administrative problem had become a decidedly seri- ous one. It is sald that there is not a state and rcely a city in the country that does not afford similar ingtances of charity gone wrong. In 1851 Byron of | d-time and harvest came | we keep up | f an annual Th.mk-xhui For the last thirty-five or! however, the old love of liberty still exints in our hearts. We became not only a self-govern- ing but a law-making people. We enacted statutes that had to do with the growth of the tall cedars of Lebanon and with the hyssop that springs from the wall. Tf we fail- |ed to enact a law about anything in heaven above or the earth b neath or the waters under the earth {1t was only because none of us | thought of it. 8o governed by stat tory law did we become that in tim we canned our law observance. W now sct aside certain days or weeks for law obscrvance. Governors and mayors publicly proclatm the duty of cltizens to ohey the laws. This is their contribution to the celebration. * K K x There is a law of the road, and every one knows that if it were obeyed or if its Infractions were pun- ished the hazard of accidents would become negligible. But law obmerv- ance and law enforcement are weak So governors and mayors, with the solemnity well befitting an owl, urge upon the people observance of Safety week. At the close of the week newspapers herald the fact that only half as many persons were killed during safety narily are hustled into eternity seven days. On the next Monday morning the old orgy of death begins anew. We have Constitution week In some | communities ana Constitution day in others. Of course, we all know that we are living under a written Con- stitution which fixes the bounds be- yond which eivilized soclety says no man n y safely o and defines tho inherent rights which no individus may be deprived of, but why keep all this constantly in mind when we may just as well forget it until Con- stitution duy or Constitution week comes around to be annually ob- | served? i i oKk k¥ I am not wishing to change the customs and usages of society. With all of its imperfections, the American jrepublic Is doing right weil. I am not arguing for a return to the day when every housewlfe made her own | bread, tilled her own garden, milked her own cow and did her own wash- ling. 1 am not expecting ever to sce |butchering time again. 1 am not |dreaming that the canned goods age | will pass soon. 1 merely wish to ! suggest something for the canncd | goods department of American life— krowling. lack of outward expres- sion of religlous sentiment is bad; fallure to keep burning brightly each 1y the fires of patriotism is dis- diting; lax luw entorcement and wtill ore lax respect for the law are fearful to contemplate, but worst of all i3 the everlasting growling of y man Nothing is right. Nobody is honest. Every man is a skinner. All success has sprung from crookedness. The man elected common scoundrel. All men who sell are profiteers ach and eyery one is a disappointment. Why no these grumblings along with rei { patriotism and law observanc Notwithstanding all that you do not llke and ail that I do not somehow the general ave Little higher than it was a y ten years ugo, a hundre higher, in fact, than it ever was | fore. The other day I examined chart that disciosed how the averuge man spends his life. At xeventy he has spent more than twenty Years worrying over the shortcomings ol his fellow men. | suggest that in- ead of WOIrying over these things ery day in the ¥ we have & ‘National Growl day.” ‘On that day we could convene in our respective neighborhood open up our canned grouches and vials of wrath, consume them at e sitting, and then be {cheerful for another year. | (Copyrignt. 193, by Twenty rews.) to office is a| st Century | N. Mullanphy, mayor of St. Louis, left one-third of his property to be de- voted to the rellef of ploneers, strand- ed in that city, but “bound bona fide,” as his will decreed, “to settle for a home in the west.” At that time St Louis had been for several years the “jumping-off place” for westward-ho settlers, and for many of them it had proved fo be the last stop. their funds, | or strength, or courage, becoming ex- hausted there | Tut within a few yvears there were | practically no beneflclaries for the Mullanphy fund. as he had described | them. It now amounts to about a million dollars, and for the last half century the administrators have been hard pressed to find legal ways of spending the income, limited as they | are by the conditions prescribed be- fore the civil war. Known as Dead Hand. Situations such as have been de- scribed are known to philanthropic workers as the handicap of the dead hand. That is to say, the donors of these funds In establishing them, out of the finest motives and a wholly | generous spirit, have done 8o in such a manner that in effect their dead hands are to continue forover the controlling force over the funds. It | has seemed that most philanthroplsts have the idea that they must stipu- late even to the minutest detalls exactly how their charities are to be administered or the money will be wasted or devoted to less worthy purposes. And in about nine cases out of ten it develops that they de- feat their own ends. To eliminate this dead hand Is the object of the community trusts which are now being established through- out the country. The idea originated with the late Judge Frederick Goff of Cleveland, “according to Ralph Hayes, director of the New York community trust, and the movement is growing rapidly. As the plan has been worked out in New York city, ten of the lead- ing banks and trust companies have agreed to act as trustees of funds intended for public purposes and to turn the income over to a distribu- tion committee to supervise its ex- penditure. This committee consists of eleven members, one chosen by the president of the Chamber of Com- merce of the State of New York, another by the president of the New York Academy of Medicine, a third by the president of the Bar Asso- clation, a fourth by the mayor of New York, a fifth by the president | of the board of trustees of the| Brooklyn Institute of Arts and, Sciences, a sixth by the senior judge of the United States circuit court of appeals, and the remaining five by | the trustees of the community trust. | This committee is expected to re- flect “business prudence, popular responsibility and civic progressive- ness,” as former Becretary of Com- merce Willlam C. Redfleld puts it. Its membership is so rotated that| some reappointments occur each year, and there is assurance that the funds will always be safeguarded and ap- plied only in ways that will con- serve the public interest. Under this system it is hoped that persons bequeathing money for phil- anthropic purposes will not specify just how it is to be expended, but will leave that to the discretion of the committee. But if the donors do have a specific charity which they insist upon designating they are urged to leave the distribution of the funds to the committee’s decision, if in the course of events the time should come when the original purpose of the bequest cannot be carried out to the advantage of the community as a whole. That is what makes it in reality & community trust. | {and who used o 0., NOVEMBER 25, 1923—_PART 2. Capital Sidelights BY WILL P. KI EDY Those four Dawes hoys, two of whom have been controller of the currency and all of whom have been blg business men, come by their tal- ents for putting big things across, and by their patriotism and zeal for public service, as a natural Inheri- tance. Their great-great-grandfather, Me- nasseh Cutler, was leader of a group of revolutlondry war herves who put over one of the largest land deals ever consummated with the govern- ment, and has been characterized as probably the greatest lobbyist in the history of the United Stat In that contract he included provision that eventually prevented the introduc- tion of slavery into the north, Menasseh Cutler got 5,000,000 acres of land from Congress at $1 an acre— in fact, enough land for the states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin and ‘Illinofs, which were in fact carved out ‘of his profect in what then called the Northwest Ter- ritory. He was a chaplain in the Continental Army. The young government, just covering from a long war a the mother country, was oor. Had not the soldiers goné around in rags and without pay? But the nation was honest and paid the soldlers in serip—those LO. U's which have been much in evidence after wars in this country, except the world war. There wasn’t much the soldlers could do with that scrip. But the soldlers did need homes and most of them were of that sturdy stock who would brave the dungegs of the frontier in order to estabiish a home. And the government had a great deal of land. So_Menassch Cutler, with Gen. Ru- fus Putnam and others of their ro- bust breed, formed a company and went to Congress with the proposi- tion to buy 5.000,000 acres of land to be resold to the soldiers, taking idl crip as payment. This was the Ohlo ompany of Awsociites. and It was Menasseh Cutler who conceived the idea of excluding slavery and by a ver ruse involving southern men who might be opposed he got it through Congress. Rev. Menassch Cutler and Gen. Rufus Putnam_established the first settlement at Marletta, Ohlo—where all four of the Dawes brothers were born—and this was the beginning of the real settlement of the five states named abov Brig. Gen. Charles G. Dawes, who was a lieutenant of Mark Hanna when Hanna s boss of the republican party, who s controller under McKinley when only thirty-two years old (1891-1901), to Ko to the White House and play the piano for Mrs. McKinley, who later was first director of the bureau of the hudget and to- day runs a great Chicago bank, is more famillarly known as “Hell and Maria” because of an outburst before A congressional investigating com- mitt In his library Gen. Dawes has all the original papers regarding the great Cutler purchase. On the steps of the Subtreasury building. Wall street, New York, there is an impc ing tablet in the form of the state of Ohio, which was placed there in com- memoration of the great land deal Rev. Menasseh Cutler, besides being A miniater of the gospel and a sol- dier, was a botanigt and musician of uote. It was from him that “Hell and Maria” Dawes got his talent for pla. ing music and for composing music for others to play. Henry M. Dawes, the present con- troller, started out by running a lum- ber business in Marietta for thirty years which he had inherited from his ather. Just before coming to Wash- ington he was associated with his brothers, Rufus and Charles, in the public utilities business in ‘hicago. operating, under the name of Dawes rothers. Inc.. gas and electric light plants through the middle west and clean out to the Pacific const. He was president and vice president and di- rector in a number of banks. Rufus €. Dawes has spent his busi- nees 1ife in organizing and managing egas and electric light companies. Benjamin G. Dawes spent several terms in Congress and has been presi- dent of a number of public utilities Fut these four brothers do not look 10 Rev. M eh Cutler as their only <tinguished forebear, for on the er side of their family Great- eat-Grandfather Willlam Dawes accompanied Paul Revere on his mous midnicht ride through Middlesex village and farm, * ¥ % X Representative J. Will Taylor Tennessee, repubiican national com- mitteeman, and sometimes mentioned in connection with the republican nom- ination for Vice President, recently Vis. ited the metropolis and county seat of TUnion county, Tenn. his birthplace— Maynardsville. Like Rome, it is perched on seven hills. Representative Tavlor says, “but with only about one house to a hil Hae found eame as it was more than thirty vears ago, when Tayvlor. as a small of ! hoy, trudged over the roadiess moun- taine from his log cabin on the banks of Powells river. to start his “hook arnin’.” Afterward he went to an academy just started in the hoom town of Harriman, where he slept in a laundry and brought his college expenses within his educational budget of $5 a month. * K ok A Representative Taylor recently made an ingpection of Muscle Shoals, where he was entertained by commerce. In response to an address of welcome he sald he was reminded of the man who boasted that he had “been everywhere and seen every- thing,” that he had “been all around the world.” When some bystander inquired. “Have vou ever had de- lirfum tremens?" the boaster replied. No. Why?" The bystander solemnly observed. “Well, if you hain't had delirfum tremens, you ain‘t been no- where and you ain’'t seen nothin' That. according to Representative Taylor, is the way he felt about any one who has not seen the Muscle Shoals dam. * Kok KX M. M. Neely, the new senator from West Virginia, who was formerly a member of the House, was born in a l1og house,- which he describes as bein, just one room more preten- Yous han & cabin. His father, & cripple from birth, Wwas a country Qoctor, who devoted his entire life, without thought of financial reward, to the services of the affiicted people of Doddridge and adjoining counties. To my. says Senator Neely “my father could, without any exag- geration, have served as the hero of Barrie's ‘The Doctor of the Old School. " Senator Neely’s maternal grandfather served in the civil war, was captured at the second battle of Bull run and died in Anderson- Ville prison. Senator Neely himself left West Virginia University at the first call for volunteers in the Span- ish-American war. He enlisted as a private in Company D, lst West Vir- ginia Volunteer Infantry, and served With that outfit until the end of the war, when he returned to the uni- versity. He was elected to Congress ten years ‘ago as successor to John W. Davis, who had just been appointed solicitor general of the United States. In June, 1919, he went to France and went over all the battleflelds where the American soldiers had participated and visited all the Army camps on the other side which were still being maintained. He did this to get first-hand information as to what the soldlers themselves desired in the way of legislative recognition of the sacrifices they had made. On that trip he was in England, Hol- land, Belglum, France, Switzerland and Ttaly. P In these days when the Christmas greeting cards are again being dis- played C. J. North, one of the bright young men who are “helping Hoover, recalls that a forelgn salesman travel- ing in Latin America for a large ex- port concern was accustomed to take down a memorandum of the name of the patron saint of each of his various customers, and as the saint's day ap- proached he would send an appropri- ately worded card extending felicita- tions and best wishes for a long life and heaith. This simple act of good will mesde a strong appeal to the customers. : One exporting manufacturer in the middle west took a trip to the it _about the | are bringing a new Indictment against the presidential primary. now s made that it manifestly is unfair to a President who may wish to succeed himself. ing at the moment, of course, of President Coolldge. And they are thinking also of the primary cam- palgns that are to be waged by Senator Hiram Johnson. Mr. John- son has stated that he considers the entire country as a fair ficld and he 1s golng Into every state where pri- Imary votes may be obtained How can the President of the Unlit- ed States, with proper dignity and regard for his office, meet the pri- mary campaigns of so vigorous a fighter as Senator Johnson? Perhaps the inventors of the presidential pri- maries thought that a President would not be llkely to have opposi- tion within his own party. But t time evidently has gone by. The P’resident has opposition, of a mili- tant character, but manifestly he cannot go forth to mect it on the stump. It is true that members of his cablnet may go into the states to combat the Johnson tide, or any other tides which may threaten, but in a primary fight personal contact with the voiers is an asset strongly to be reckoned with. The man who must remain at the White House is at dlstinct disadvantage in a pri- mary battle with the man who goes out upon the hustings. Some of the old-timers say they be- lieve Col. Roosevelt could have dealt | with “such 4 situation. His “big {stick” could have reached out from ithe White House as far away as | Oregon or California and cracked on the head any one within “his” who dared to raise his pate a | him. Purthermore, Col. Roosevelt {had the vigor and the daring to | squelch any opposition before it got | to_the primary stage. President | milder anda more | rather of the typ sition. His taciturnity gives v | others. however, is a nt man. He is fnvites oppo- ice to * % x Of course there are other ways of ! winning the nomination than by the primary route, and here the President of the United States has It over all and sundry rivals, The party ma- chinery is in his hands. The consti- tuted party managers are bound to be for him. These managers have great influence and pov per- suasion in lining up delegates at the national convention—delegates not bound by any primary instructions 1 anxious to vote the winning ticket always ©i wll the persons who ought | know ‘that primarics do not muke presidential nominee. Senator Hira to a [ i In The Star recently of Hamline Church with Towa Ave. | Merger of Churches Marksnue Meth Anniversary of Hamline. ‘' i Episcol | Church ana the sale early this month ;n{ the former's bullding to the S Bap'ist colored church marks fittieth anniversary of the completi |of Hamline, which was dedicated No { yember 22 and 23. 1873. In The Star of ovember 17, 1 appears an article igiving a history of the congregation, {the program for the dedicatory cer monies and description of the church, in part as follows “The new edifice | wide cighty feet lonc. w |jections for the spire, stairway, venti- {lating duets, cte.. which break up any i monotony of outline and give a plea {ant varicty to the exterlor appearance { Under rtion of the building there a cellar of sufficient city to ne- | commodats the two larg aces and | apparatus by which th Luilding |is warmed. In the first basement floor | wide vestibule extends across the en- tire front, with two entrance wavs on | 9th street and another large doorw on i P street, in the corner spire. From the ! center of this vestibule is a corridor ex- | tending back to the schoolroom, which |is forty by fifty-one feet, with the su- erintendent’s platform on the ¢ of the back end. On the side of corridor next to P street is the infants ussToom, twenty-one feet square on the other side are two sm woms. separated from each fr the main schoolroom by sash par- lled with enam nd | so nged that the te thrown together. In each end of the ifront vestibule are wide, easy stair- iways leading to the main floor and from that up to the gallery floor. On the m: floor the auditorium extends the full size of the building, except in the spire and a space on the opposite side of corresponding dimensions, which The merger Methodist Episcopal the the n Aty - h pro lare reserved for the stairways and ves- | the chamber of | notder, “The pews are made open and are| fence. tibules. curved So that all face the preacher’s desk. A gallery extends along both sides and the front end, the latter por- tion being arranged for the choir and organ. The capacity of the main floor and gallery is such that it wiil com- fortably seat 800 persons. The gallery pews, altar, stairs and all other ins! nut and ash—walnut being used for the moldings and trimmings and ash for the body of the work—which makes a xceedingly rvich and tastefu) contras All the inside walls and ceilings are handsomely enriched with ornamental plaster _cornices. moldings and corbels —the ornamental portions being a pure white and the flat, plain_portions being tinted a light ‘gray. The win- dows are all filled with stained glass. in lead sash, and have bright colored borders and heads. “The main audfence room is lighted from the cciling, in which are set five of Frink’s patent double-cone reflectors and ventilators. Each _reflector about four feet and a half in diameter and has sixteen burners—making eighty splendidly, giving a mild, subdued. pleasant ~ illumination. Over each re flector is & large opening with a metal covering, all of which are connected by wires running over pulleys, and are easily raised and lowercd by a wire that extends down to the audience room_ below, thus fully regulating the ventilation “The exterfor presents a highly im- posing appearance, although the grace- fully proportioned spire which is to sur- mount the corner of the edifice is not yet bullt. The walls on both streets are taced with selected brick, with bright gray Ohio sandstone for the trimmings, such as the sills and belt courses, but- tress caps, etc. The main roof and upper portions of the turrets and min- arets are slated with purple Susque- hanna and green Vermont slate, laid in ornamental patterns. The church about $35,000. The buiiding is a grand success and stands an ornament to the portion of the eity in which it is sit- uated. —_— Rockles. At each especially beautiful spot which he visited he would pur- chase & number of post cards and send them to his more important customers abroad who he knew had never visited this country. An _increasing number of exporters, the Department of Commerce finds, are coming to recognize that the le_n«l- ing of appropriate Christmas and New Year greetings is quite as important a part of thelr export procedure as the forwarding of catalogues or the granting of credit. So “symbols of good will" are po- tent in business as in social life. In politics, too—for members of | Congress, even before the session opens, have put in their orders for hundreds and thousands of Christmas greeting cards to be mailed to their constituents. Cabinet members, and all through official life In the Capital the big public men, are preparing their holiday messages to the rank and file of ‘the people. 2 (Y ol is burners in all—which light the church| without the spire being finished has cost ! Some of the old time republicans|Johnson is the foremost. The claim | They are think- | | | | | | 1 st | tone neV | against feet | pter the | i wagon woodwork of the church is of soltd wal- | | i MEN AND AFFAIRS BY ROBERT T. SMALL eled Tar and wide in 3550, " e wan many states. Many delegates wern instructed for him. And some ef them voted for him-—once, Then they scurried here and there and at the final word of command climbed aboard the Harding band wagon and stuck there on the joy ride to vic- tory. Gen. Leonard Wood and Gov. Low- den of llinois spent hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting the pri- mary battle in 1520, and, lik ator Johnson, went to the c tion with several hundred carefully trained and picked delegates, President Harding went to Chi- caso with virtually no delegates at all. But, despite the teachings of his- tory, Senator Johnson is on his prowl again. This time he, hopes the delc- gates’ will stick, for hope springs eternal even In the politician s breast. * X ¥ % Some one has pertinently, or im- pertinently, remarked that much wore {mportant than all of the pri- marles iz the question, “Whom will Guorge Marvey make President in 242" Mr. Harvey Is given credit for hav- ing_nominated Woodrow Wilson in 1d more or less tacitly con- to his renomination in 1§16 Harvey s given credit for nomi- nating Warren Harding in 1920 and had agreed that Mr. Harding might succeed himself in_1924. The la entable death of Mr. Harding p an end to these plans. That death also released Mr. Harvey from any obligatic to serve longer as am- bassador to Great Britaln. 8o Mr. Harvey today Is & free agent again polit ¥ and no one knows 48 yet which way his cat will jump. There is the possi ty, of course that after hls incursion into th grand old party, Mr. Harvey may be ready to return to t democrat That is his native heath, and it wouid not be strange to see him slide out of the howdah on the elephant’s bac and once more sit astride the fa- miliar mule Certain it is that If the polley of Isolation wins out at the republican convention, George Harvey will break with that party. He no longer is he arch-protagonist of *Americ done and let the re the world go hanz. He has cated himsclf, with other things. to work for a closer understanding mavbe an al who can tel ween the aking peo- S Air. s do other brainy me have eled far and thought much, that world is doomed without some f arrangemer be- and the U ed Stat Perhaps Harvey may start weelly devoted 1o the new It would not be vers popu Irish circles bu wouid give him a cle for the expression which annot long be stilicd = dedi- b pl man tra the sort tween Eng H. iFifty Years Ag() Heard and Seen | -, This happened before th decided to make every radio receiving set owner in the District get a per- for the erection of outdeor aerial, A cer tain househ of the up his anten a fri 1's friend e north- ded to w de acre section cit string s to house. The taken are Ind men g S0 steps one mn were thos r sty ng ploye of noon; Just as the the wire, alo: the District government “Here. ** he said, in no unkentle “Don't you know that it the law to the alley with that wire The hous: the tone of were reel « ca e Yo cross rs did for used by the other they 13 1 not care vol ng. for swer back that son immediate began to @ T 'l cull The where to go. Anyway, in about ten minutes, here came a police patrol, filled with of- ficers of the law. But everything was serene in the alley. The two men had decided that discretion was the better part of valor, and had taken the wire down, and strung it up In the back yard in which it properly belonged When the police hove ir they saw was @ sedate working In his back yard, “Have you ything men slinging a radio wire across this alley?" asked one of the policemen, as the patron ground to a hait. The oozed with “cops™ a thing,” smiled leaning chummily “Wh h someb doing anything like that " “We got a call that two birds were violating the law in this alley,” said the officer. “I don't & the alle at once, or ted the man informed him just ke wire down radio fans sigl 3 gentiem: seen ar of twe the he over the ¥ been “Not across ‘e been ce any wire strun Sonte one must you.” id it we cateh ‘em be vou got the wrong alley. th is the alley. Now, hurried up we ¥ 1 Still wondering. the officers depart- ed All the rest of the afternoon po- licemen, at intervals, wandered down that alley, trying to locate a wire crossing forbidden territory. - * x Speaking of alleys. Why is it that no ash, trash garbage man will replace a lid on a can, o1 even set the can back on its bottom? Such useful employes of the Dis- trict government must have a code of ethics all their own, Evidently they fine each other if they fail to do any of the following: Throv the ash can one way, and its cover another, after dumping out the ashes. Make the can lie on its side. It is against the rules of the alley to put a can back, right side up As for replacing the lid, not to be thought of for a second! Yet the cf could not get along without the ash man, the trash man and the garbage man, so let them throw the cans around as they will. They will, anyway. * * * An invisible trafic cop seems on the job these days at 16th street and Columbia road. Recently motorists arriving at that tremendously busy crossing, one of the most dangerous in town for pe- destrians, have heard vigorous blow- ing of a whistle. One car driver, when he heard the signal, threw on his brakes, and came to an abrupt halt. He looked around, but could see no officer. Then he happened to look up. The whistle came from a mal hoisting material on the Immanu Baptist Church now under construc. tion. Drawing to one side, feeling & bit foolish the while, the automobilist waited to see if any other car owner would be fooled in like fashion. He soon had the satisfaction of secing that he was not the only one. Four car drivers came to abrupt hal.s, at the apparent command of the iraffic officer, while up above the buildi: g men were blissfully unaware of the commotion they were causing. ? CHARLES. E. TRACEWELL. or