Evening Star Newspaper, December 2, 1923, Page 42

- 2 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday !\lor!flnx Edition, WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY......December 2, 1823 THEODORE W. NOYES. The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th 8t. and Pennaylvania Ave, Y 110 East 42nd St. Chicago Office: Tower Building. European Office: 16 Regent 8t., London, England, Editor The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning ivered ity at 60 cent ety per month; faonth. nth: dally only, 45 only, 20 cents’ per + sent by mail or tele. iection i made by car- month, Mail—Payable in Advance, Maryland and Virginia, 1d Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1 mo., 0¢ Daiiy onl) Sunday on All Other States. and Sunday.1yr., $10.00: 1 mo., 85¢ iy $7.00; 1 mo., 60c only $3.00: 1 mo.. 25¢ Member of the Associated Press, o Associated Press is exclusively entitled use 1 cation of all news dis. “diied 10 1t or not otherwise credited roand also the local news pub. Al tights of publication of lies hereln are also reserved, Fghed spreial dinpa The New Congress. Congress meets tomorrow, after the longest recess in a number of years. It is a new Congress, with many new faces in both houses and facing a new condition. Since the gavels fell for @djournment the country has suffered @ grievous loss in the death of Pres- ident Harding. The executive chair is now occupied by the former Vice Dresident, who takes on the duties of chief administrator of the government und, as he has announced, carries on the palicy of his predecessor. He will address Congress early in the coming week iIn accordance with the consti- tutional requirement that the Chief Lixecutive shall from time to time ac- «cuaint the legislature “of the state of the nation and recommend such meas- ures as he Shall judge necessary and cxpedient.” Great interest attaches to Fresident Coolidze's first message in view of the Important questions now pending and especially in view of the approach of another national election. An unusual condition prevails at the Capitol, in that in each house a nority group of progressives in ef- fect holds: the balance of -power. Though affiliated with and in most cases directly identified with the re- publican party, these progressives lave taken position on pending ques- tions somewhat in advance of the majority of their party. They may delay and they may prevent legisla- tion. They may influence it to their own views by the withholding of sup- port until their proposals have been accepted in whole or in part. Foremost among the questions that this Congress will handle are the sol- diers' bonus, tax reduction, raflroad regulation and measures for farmers’ relief. It has been pointed out by the Secretary of the Treasury in a letter to the prospective chairman of the ilouse committee on ways and means that a materfal tax reduction can be ¢ffected. but that this cannot be ac- complished if a bonus is granted to former soldicrs and sailors. Upon this will perhaps come the carliest and the sharpest conflict. The Senate will be particularly busy not only with legislative matters, but with various international questions, as part of the treaty-making power. There is now pending a proposal that the United States participate in the World Court of International Justice. On this a sharp division of sentiment prevails tance of the Issue in the campaign tly to begin it is impossible to see the outcome. A treaty will oon be presented whereby the United States and Great Britain will enter into agreement regarding the right of sefzure of smugglers of contraband Teyond the traditional three-mile limit, and permitting British ships to bring liguors under seal into American ports. This eminently desirable ar- rangement is only menaced by the possible construction of the American Constitution by the United States Su- ho preme Court forbidding the import, | even under seal, of intoxicants for consumption on eastward-bound ships. Taken altogether, in view of the happenin the prospect of a national campaign the proceedings of the Sixty-eighth | Congress in its first session about to open will be of extraordinary interest. ————————————— Great Britain and America are to have the right to search one another's vessels for iilicit goods. The arrange- inent seems fair enough, although the likelihood of an effort on the part of United States ships to. carry brews and vintages into an English market 1s not at present considered great, ——— Republican leaders will read Presi- dent Coolidge's message to Congress with keen interest. Hitherto they have had to do the talking instead of the listening. About the only man who appears to feel perfectly safe in Germany at present is Bergdoll. Reciprocity in Prospect. Motor reeiprocity between the Dis- triet and Maryland has become a pros- pect ~through negotiations between District and Maryland authorities. Every motorist .in the District will pray for the successful outcome of this effort. - It has always seemed absurd that Maryland and the District should alone of all the jurisdictions in the United States have failed'to provide for mutual recognition of license tags and have exacted fees of visiting mo- torists. It i3 needless now to go into the reasons for this situation or to trace the efforts in recent years to bring about a reciprocal relationship. Now 4t 1s proposed that to matth the state gasoline tax, the proceeds of which in Maryland are to go to a lquidation of the good roads debt and to the maintenance of the highways of the state, a simlilar tax shall be levied in the District. If that is done it is un- derstood Maryland will consent to a full recognition of District licenses and the District to a full recognition of Maryland licenses, with a result that the motorists of each jurisdiction can travel fresly through the other, earriers. within the | and in view of the impor-| of the recent past and of | Veven as District motorists can travel freely into Virginia and vice versa. Maryland's reason for requiring that a District gasoline tax should be im- | posed in the District is that otherwise the District's supply will be available to Maryland motorists at lower rates than prevail in that state. With a reciprocal gasoline tax there would be no reason for such over-the-bound- ary dealings. | As the case now stands it will be necessary for the Commissioners, who are deeply interested in this matter, to secure from Congress a law im- posing a tax of 2 cents a gallon on gasoline in the District of Columbia. The hope is that such a law may be enacted before the 1st of January, the opening of a new license year. But it is proposed to proclaim a moratorium or truee for sixty days, that will allow two months for enactment of the law, pending which reciprocal license recognition will be granted. The motorists of the District should have as free access to Maryland as to Virginia, without being put to the annoyance and trouble and delay of obtaining licenses from the state. The way now seems open to this end, and the hope is that through the neces- sary legislation there will soon be complete reciprocal relationship. ———at British Liquor Treaty. Dispatches from London report Lord Curzon as moving warily in the negotiation of the treaty with the United $tates which will énable us to fight liquor smuggling by extending the right of search and seizure to a greater distance at sea than the three- mile limit. He is said to be apprehen- sive that the Supreme Court may in- validate the section which gives Great Britain her quid pro quo in the agree- ment, the right of British ships to bring liquor to our shores, under seal while in United Btates waters, for use on the homeward voyage. Secretary Hughes is said to hold that there is little ground for fear that the Supreme Court will do any such thing, although he does not amplify his reasons for his belief. The Unlted States Supreme Court, strictly and rigidly construing the Volstead act, ruled that liquors could not be brought in under seal or any other way. This decision has created frie- tion bejween the United States gov- ernment and foreign nations, some of whom have laws requiring the is- suance of wine rations to their crews. The exercise of forbearance and good nature has prevented the issue be- coming acute thus far. The present negotiations were en- tered into by this government on the theory that a treaty would supersede the section of the Volstead act deal- ing with this subject, and the knotty problem could be untied in this way. Lord Curzon may be justified in tak- ing all precautions that Britain may rot be placed in the possible position of giving something for nothing, but it is to be hoped that the negotiations will not fafl. We need that twelve-mile-search privilege for the protection of the morals and the health of the nation. Lord Curzon would be justified in “taking a chance” that the Supreme Court would not frustrate the carry- ing out of the treaty by the United States. Or exercise of the search privilege might be conditioned on con- tinuance of license to British ships to brirg in liquor under seal. —_————— Employment. The director of the Washington of- fice of the United States employment that there is a slowing up of building { operations in the District. This condi. |tion has been noted several time during the fall, and no doubt becomes more noticeable as winter draw: nearer. Slowing up in building is nor- {mal to the season. Spring and sum. | mer are the times when men begin | outdoor works and carry them on { with greatest vigor. Winter is gen- | erally a season of calm and rest in {the building trades. In previous re- service it was sald that there was in ‘Washington a large surplus of cleri- cal labor. In the current report a { more cheerful tone is sounded. The report says there {s an increased de- mand for clerical help “for which there has been practically no market, typists, for six months.” This is & re- | flection of good fall and winter busi- ness. With the approach of the Christ- mas holidays will come the usual de- {mand for workers in stores and in {'transportation. With New Year | passed, spring with its plans and | hopes will not be far off. The begin- | ning of @ new year generally stimu- lates men to do better and more work than in the year passed, and great numbers of men lay plans for spring work while winter is with us. Poincare is dealing with a difficult diplomatic problem; that of ignoring advice without alienating friends 'his country may need in the future. The Zeppelin plant is to be retained in Germany. Inquiry will immediately intends to do with ft. The artistic demonstrations export- ed from Moscow would indicate that the Russian motto at present is “On ‘With the Dance.” The First Apartment House. In a late issue of one of the New York papers on the news picture page appears an illustration of “the first apartment house in the United State: which, it is stated, was built in New York city in 1869, fifty-four years ago. It is located at 142 East 18th street, and appears today about as it ap- peared when it was erected and creat- ed a sensation in the metropolis, In fifty-four years great changes have taken place, not only in New York but elsewhere, in the housing of the people. Where then there was only this one apartment house, now there are tens of thousands in the metropolitan district. All but & very small fraction of the residents of Man- hattan live in apartments or hotels. Those who have individual homes, who live in single “houses,” are main- | ly the very rich or the very poor, the former in their palaces and the latter, in hovéls that aré permitted to remain awalting the march of improvements, service shows in his current report | ports of the government employment | except for expert stenographers and; arise in France as to what Germany | THE SUNDAY In Brooklyn there remain many sin- gle dwellings, old-fashioned hom | some of them downtown on the edges | of the business sectfons in the region | locally known as “the Helghts.” These | are delightful reminders of the time | when New York, too, was largely a city of homes—that is, homes in the real sense of dwellings with their own individual front gates and front doors and yards. New York has been described as a mass of humanity lving in layers, and veritably this s guitedtrue, and is becoming true of other communi- ties In the United States where apart- ments are increasing rapidly. In ‘Washington apartment house life, though not yet the rule, is rapidly coming to be the state of most of the people. 5 Whether apartment living makes for sounder social conditions or other- wise 1s a question that has often been discussed. Some soclological observers contend that it is a baneful condition, that the apartment home is only an approximation of the real home, and that the lack of individuality is injuri- ous'to the moral tone of the commu- nity. But whether the apartments were less numerous and the old style of separate homes more prevalent, the influences that tend to scatter the family would remain., These are the telephone, which promotes visiting: the automobile, which promotes travel, and the motion picture, which pro- motes outside entertainment. ————— The Postage Stamp Theft. Postal officials express themselves as astounded that the clerk who has just been arrested for the theft of postage stamps worth, it is estimated, $75,000, in the course of several years, should have been able to sell them. It ap- pears that he disposed of the proceeds of his confessed thievery at rates lower than the face value of the stamp. This means that somebody bought them in probably large amounts at a discount, bought them in face of the presumably well under- stood fact that the law forbids traffic in postage stamps~at less than de- nomination rates. In other words, there must have been a ‘“fence” for the disposal of the stolen goods. A “fence” knows, it Is always assumed, that the goods are stolen. The pur- chaser of stolen property is a party to the crime. He must prove his inno- cence of knowledge of the source of the stock he buys. With the ordinary loot of thievery it {s conceivable that a purchaser may not know that the property has been stolen. But with postage stamps, especially In quanti- ties, the plea of ignorance is false on its face. These thefts, it appears, were in progress for & number of years. Plainly the system of the department in respect to the handling of dam- aged stamps is imperfect. It will doubtless be corrected now in the light of this crime to prevent similar steps in future. It is the old procedure of locking the stable after the horse has been stolen. It is pointed out that & complete check on damaged stamps returned for destruction is difficult, but, of course, it i8 not impossible. In this present case the misfortune was that a trusted employe discovered an opportunity and yielded to tempta- tion. —_——— Occasionally @ few fascisti develop original ideas that compel Mussolini to remind them that he is doing the thinking for the organization at pres- ent. —_————— American claims revive the discus- | slon of the Lusitanis sinking, which Germany would doubtless wish with all her heart to regard as a closed in- | cident. Apart from its moral aspect { that event was Germany's most colos- | sal strategic blunder. ——— A number of republicans are boldly | undertaking to get the campaign vigorously under way without the presence of George Harvey. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Still Consuming. The ultimate consumer makes A vast amount of clamor, And toward the government he takes Dislike and wields a hammer. The price of fuel and of food Is high, with grief we say it. But while it irritates his mood, He manages to pay it. { When he has dined in festal glee He vows in kindlier humor, “It's no small privilege to be An ultimate consumer.” Question of Simple Courtesy. “Do you think & big campaign con- tributor ought to be rewarded with public office. “It's & delicate matter,” said Sena- tor Sorghum. “You know as well as ‘I do that when you have had a grand celebration and sung ‘He's a Jolly | Good Fellow' and all that, the man who pays the check is entitled to some consideration.’ Jud Tunkins says no matter how 'much fault you find with Congress you've got to admit The Country needs it in her busiress. Play or Wark, They say that foot ball is a game Promoting boyish glee. It may be =0, but just the same, “It looks like work to me. Social Zoology. “Did you ever meet a real lounge lizara?" “Never,” answered Miss Cayenne. “Those I've seen who were represent- ed such had dispositions end ap- petites that made them seem mare like undersized alligators.” Safety First. “Have you quit drinking because you are @ prohibitionist?" “Not exactly,” answered Uncle Bill Bottletop. “But this bootleg licker has | me mcared. Even if I was willin’ to defy the law I don’t mee any sense in fiyin' in the face of Providence.” “De fo' dollars Rastus Pinkley los” in a crap game didn’t count foh so much,” sald Uncle Eben. “In addition ‘he fooled away so mfch time he done 1o’ his job an’ his home." T Monroe Doctrine Satisfies, Thomas R. 'THOS. R. MARSHALL, Former Vice President of the United Staten, Commemoration of the centenary ot the Monroe doctrine brings to mind the advantages which have come to the United States through its con- slstent maintenance. It has enabled our nation to do as it pleases, while forbidding European nations to doj things they might wish to do. No country shall interfere with the re- publics of the western continent, yet the United States, in the event it should seek to vindicate its national honor or should desire additional ter- ritory, is not deterred from doing so, “Hands off for everybody else; hands on for us"—a critic has enunclated. ‘This may be a bit too eryptie, but the fact remains that to citizens of the United States the doctrine I8 entirely satisfactory. It has so happened that the for- tunes of life have brought me Into intimate contact with not a few Latin Americans. They are wise in diplo- macy and possess the good sense not to complain about anything which they have no hope of changing. I never failed, however, to detect & rus of the shoulders and an uncon- sclous Jitting of the eyebrows when- ever the Monroe doctrine was men- tloned in the presence of Latin Americans. My mind reverts to the story of a group of drummers awalt- ing a slow traln at & country station. To pass the time they talked of many things and finally of their wives, One boasted that his wife was the most b utiful woman In his town. This brought from another the state- ment that his wife was not extra ordinarily beautiful, but that she was by all odds the smartest woman he knew. A third desired it understood ®hat his wife was an unusually fine mu- slelan. The fourth was quite sure that his wife was the model mother. The fifth member of the group kept silent until pressed for an oplinion about his wife. Then he plctured her as the smartest, handsomest woman in the state, a model wife and moth- er and ‘a great musician. "But” he added, “she doesn’t suit me.” I am convinced that the Latin American, pleased as he {s with the application of the Monroe doctrine to European natlons, would like to have a change in it, not In its definition nor in its purpose, but a change that would glve him a’ voice In saying to Europe, “Hands off." To natlons as to Individuals there comes a time when even the most beneficent guardianship seems irk- some. The feeling arises that' growth into manhood, though not justifying any change in investment, does justis fy a release from guardianship and the establishment of a joint trustee- ship. This attitude of mind is fairly determinable, it seems to me, from two things; one, the definition of the effect of Article XXI by both Great ! Britain and France when that article was added to the covenant of the league of nations; and two, the celer- | ity with which the Latin American republics became members of the league of nations. They are no more desirous than are we to have any in- terference on the part of Europe with the republics of the new world, but, on the other hand, would llke to have some guarantee by the United States that such things as the war with Mexico and the recognition of the Re- public of Panama w1l not be repeated. They feel, no doubt, that we are justi- fled In announcing as the fixed policy Dealing Death Marshall Says of the United States that Europe shall keep hands off the western continent, but would like to be allowed to join in a declaration of that policy. 1 am not trying to influence nor to change the policy of my government. I am not pretending fo say that a very able senator dM not utter & great truth in the Senate and in my Dresence when he announced that it was the history of the world for the incompetent to go down in_the face of the competent; that the bar- bario must yield to the civilized; that the American Indian had been com- pelled, in the interests of civilization, to yleld his territory to the European, and that sooner or later this repub- lic would extend its borders to the Canal Zone. 1 am not proposing_to fiy In the face of history or natlonal evolution. What he sald may have been foreordained truth, but when I consider what he said in the light of our position with reference to the imperial German government, I am lost in a wilderness. Our prlm!lflnl objection to Germany was that {t had two codes of morals, one for its citizens and another for the empire. The German view that the individual, because of a cei tain course of conduct, might be con- sidered an Iimmoral man, but that similar conduct at the instance of the state would absolve both him and the state from responsibility, I am un- willing to admit that in the private relations of life eurvival of the fit- test s the law. However, I am frankly in doubt whether the survival of the fittest is not likely to continue an the law. of natlons for some tme to come. If our view touching the aggression of the German empire were held applicable to the world and not simply to the central powers. then I think there should be some Iimitation put upon the fixed policy of the American people. If we are to have nothing to do with European affairs which shall in any way hold responsible for peace; If we are to continue to refuse to bind ourselves to participate in any way in the discussions which invariably and inevitably precede war; if, "having taken by conquest and ‘subterfuge all the territory we desire, we are to withhold the stamp of our approval from the dbetrine that the capable have a right to suc- ceed the Incapable in the control of a country, and if we really are de- sirous further to foster and cement the tles of frienship and fellowship which bind us to the republics of our western continent, then we must take some step which will guarantee the fullfiiment of these desires. Why not a leggue of the republics of the western continent? Is it not possible to make the Monroe doctrine the avowed polley of the entire con- tinent, just as it Is now the policy of our own republic? Have we not vet risen to those helghts of altruism where we are willing to join in an agreement that each of these western countries shall have an opporunity to work out Its own salvation? Have we not reached the time when we can safely convert our general guardian- ship of the western world into & co-trusteeship, in which our sister re- publics shall have equal voice? This accomplished, might 1t not lead to similar action upon the part of European nations? Thus a pos- | sible step forward in promoting the right kind of peace of the world might be taken. It should not be | forgotten that there are two kinds of peace—sullen peace and peace in which there is satisfaction. We can ! have a sullen peace if it be guaran- teed to the world by nations suffi- clently powerful to enforce it. We can have a satisfylng peace only when all nations belfeve that it is Dbeing preserved by their joint ef- | forts. | (Copyright, 1023, by Twenty-frst Century to Mosquitoes BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. The open season for mosquitoes is now at its height along the eastern coast. Urged by the public health au- thorities, citizens are shouldering their swatters and oil cans and track- ing mosquitoes to their winter re- sorts, where, enfeebled by drowsiness, they may easily be slaughtered. Those persons who cannot be prevailed upon to scour the woods for mosquitoes are belng asked at least to search their premises for any colonies that may be hibernating in the ceilar or in the | back yard. Heretofore the extermination of mosquitoes has been left entirely to the public health authorities, but this | year a special appeal for co-operation | 18 made to householders because re- cent Investizgation has shown that there is much they can do to help. ‘When the mother mosquitoes get ready to hibernate for the winter they seek a dark and secluded spot. such a® a hollow tree, the moist under side of a fallen log—or somebody's cellar. As soon as the warm spring weather comes they flutter briskly to life and dash forth to deposit their small eylindrical eggs in boat-shaped masses of the nearest stagnant body of water. Marshes are favorite breeding places, and so are quiet pools and ponds, but millions of mosquito off- spring may readily be produced in a barrel of rain water or even an un- covered bucket. Tin cans strewn about a trash pile and allowed to fill with rain water also offer excellent nursery facilities for mosquito in- fants. By removing all such tempting abodes and by swatting at sight every tiny light brown flying object every one can render valuable aid In sub- duing this powerful insect enemy. The mosquito is riot only the most irritating of all the insect hordes that molest us, but it is also one of the most _costly. A New Jersey commis- sion recently figured that mosquitoes were holding up that state's develop- ment to the extent of $500,000,000 and advised the appropriation of $1,000,- 000 to exterminate them. As it i eleven counties in New Jersey ann ally appropriate hundreds of thou- sands of dollars for extermination work. Other mosquito-infested states —notably Florida and the gulf states and New York's Long Island—also spend large sums of money every year in attempting to rid themselves of this insect pest, which they claim 1s injuring land values. Ofl is Most Eftective. The extermination work Is carried on in various ways. While oil Is generally considered to be the most effective exterminator and has been used with great success on the salt marshes of New Jersey, some states, such as Florida, where large water areas surround practically every com= munity, have had to seek less drastic remedies. At present Florida is try- ing out the bat roost idea which has met with such spectacular success in_Texas. Ten years ago certain areas of Texas, particularly San Antonio and environs, where conditlons are lar to those In Florida, were hope« ly infested with mosquitoes. laria was as common an affliction as & cold. Today Texas is of mosquitoes, malaria h: 1y @isappeared, und -thes sults were brought about by that commonly despised creature—the bat. The first bat roost was established in the southwest section of San An- tonlo, where the population was al- solidly Mexican. - The houses were without screens, and in the mer the people slept out 0f doo; der brush arbors. Naturally, the mos- quitoes took full advantage of the! opportunities, and innumerable caa of malaria were the result. As soon as the colony of bats was introduced number of mal cas pldly di- min! h‘el;l«unt“l: eventually un““ rl..l'! was Wi out amon, enr s Seng el h periment the city was so impressed that it imposed a fine of $2 upon any | person convicted of killing a bat. | Additional bat roosts ~were then |erected by the state of Texas at the Southwestern Insane Asylum, just outside of San Antonio, ‘and one upon the campus of the West Texas Mili- tary Academy in the Alamo Helghts section. As a result, large areas were freed of mosquitoes. | " Credit for the discovery of this | amasingly cheap and effective method of combating mosquitoes belongs to Dr. Charles A. R. Campbell of San Antonlo, a spectallst in malarfa and | typhold, who has become known as “the apostle of the bat roost.” He {made his first experiment early in 1911 by erecting a bat roost in the ! Mitchell Lake district, 10 miles rom San Antonio. As this lake receives the sewage from San Antonio, it is { Benerously supplied with stagnant water and hence enormously attrac- tive to mosqulitoes. had held almost complete’ possession of the district, rendering it uninhab- iitable to humans. They were so bad that even the cattle could scarcely be confined within the fences of the excellent pasture land of th= district. But the bats in Dr. Campbell's bat roost enjoyed themselves immensely. After they had developed in sufficlent numbers to cope with the mosquito hordes these pests were practically wiped out, the region became health- ful and the cattle settled down to quiet grazing In pastures. In short, the experiment was such an unqual fled success that the city of San An- tonio made the bat roost a permanent feature of its public health work, and other cities soon followed suit. Bats Immune to Mosquito Bites Dr. Campbell's attention was direct- ed toward the bat as an anti-mosqui- to agent because it is immune to the poisonous bite of the mosquito, Bats never contract malaria. This immun- ity, he belleves, 18 due to the sizc of its spleen, which is very large in proportion to its body. He is con- vinced that the spleen, the uss of which has long been a mystery to the medical fraternity, was developed in the human body as a defensive agency against malaria. In support of this theory, he points out that the spleen contains a hormone, a compound hos- tile to the malaria bacillus, which enables the system to resist malaria. Besides this valuable immunity, the bat's habits happlly coincide with those of the mosquito, which sreatly increases_the strength of its oOp- position. Iike the mosquito, it rest: in the daytime and makes its forays for food at night, and it also hiber- nates through the winter, so that it is capable of surviving in & cold cli- mate, One of the intéresting discoveries Dr. Campbell has made concerning bats Is their striking antipathy to loud and penetrating noises, Jazz mu slo, for example, is especially abho rent to them, and they cannot en- dure the sound of & jazz record played on a phonograph. This dislike is use- ful, for it can be relled upon to rid the premises of bats whenever It be- comes necessary to do so. When driv- en away by an inharmonious sere- nade, declares this expert, they never return. = The bat 1s not the only natural ene- my of the mosquito to prove useful in its elimination. There is Gambusia affinis, for instance, commonly known as the “top minnow,” which has been introduced by the United States gov- ernment in various sections with great success. The state of Missis- sippi, especially, is said to have ob~ ined remarkable results by the stock- ing of its po! and surface water | with this species. Although a mild and insignificant little fish, less than an inch long, Gambusia has such & v racious appetite for mosquitoes that he has them under what the govern- ment terms ‘complete control.” In spite of all this valiant effort to exterminate the mosquito, however, it is by no means becoming extinct, liki many species of harmless wild anl- mals. On the contrary, it is very much in evidence and ready to multiply with great rapldity wheréver the pub- lic health autorities relax their vigi- lance, \ For years they | BY WILL P. KENNEDY One “man of affairs” who has come into the new Congress and from whom much in the way of sensible business legislation s expected is Representative Arthur B. Willlams of Michigan, who was given his real start "In bug business by the man whom he had bested in a.blg lawsuit. When Willlams was a struggling young lawyer he had an important case against C, W. Post, head of the Postum Cereal Company, doing busi- ness of upwards of $20,000,000 a year, which was fought out in the courts for several years. Mr. Post was so impressed with the able manner in which Mr. Williams suoccessfully pressed the suit against him that when his attorney died he hired Williams, who represented the Post interests for seven years before he gave up general practice in 1911. For the last twelve years Mr. Wil- llams has devoted all of his energie to the Postum Cereal busin . al- though he and Mr. Post differed v orously on many public questions. After Mr. Post's death, Mr. Wil- liams was vice president and gener: counsel until he quit to run for Con- gress in the recent speclal election, and had an important part in the con- duct of the entire business under a committee form of management. In his wide business e¢xperience he touched practically every phase of life In a way that must ’LB helpful In his congressional work. For example, as one of the executors of the Post es- tate, there came under his adminis. tration 235.000 acres of land in Texas, mastly in Garza county. This he col- onized by having it surveyed, fences and cross fences bullt, wells sunk, houses and barns erected. windmills installed, roads and reservoirs (or tanks) built — making a - complete outfit for the settlers, More than 1,000 familles were enabled to buy these small farms, both land and im- provements, on extremely easy terms, —S$2 an acre down and $1.75 per acre per year, and at only 4 per cent interest. So while he is not a farmer himself, he has in this way become rather intimate with the condition of farmers. * kK K With the soldiers' bonus legislation coming up again before Congress Representative Allen T. Treadway of Massachusetts, a very active member of the ways and means committee— which must find the funds—has taken an unusual if not unique method of finding out just where his constitu- ents stand on this question and how he should vote to satisty the wishes of the majority. He sent out a ques- tionnaire, with return post cards, to approximately %0,000 reglstered voters in his district in western Massachu- setts. * X k k Representative R. Walton Moore of Virginia, nearest neighbor of any congressman to the Natlonal Capltal, who delivered an address at the Mon- roe centennial celebration at Wil- llam and Mary College yesterday, al- though not a graduate of the college, holds a very distinguished position among the alumnl. On June 1 he re- ceived the degree of LL. D.. being th last man on whom the degree h been conferred, the first man to re- ceive it having been Thomas Jeffer- son—and it has not been very nu- merously conferred. At the time President Monroe sent his address to Congress containing the famous Mon- roe doctrine he had a wonderfully beautiful estate in Loudoun county, in Representative Moore's district. Aok ok % In Washington Uncle Sam has a 1tbrary, which is the only one in the United States, where a complete set {of printed patents and trade marks of all forelgn countries is gathered. This 18 in the patent office, which also able 10-cent store in the country, where the stock of copies of patents sold for 10 cents each has a sales value of $5,000,000. The collection of patents and trad atks is unique. In addition 1o abou 0.000 volumes of scientific and tech- nical books, ete.. the library contaii 500,000 foreign patents, 2,100,000 of which are bound in 25,000 volume: {However, there are in the library {about 200,000 unbound English, French, Itallan, Japanese, Swedish {and other foreign patents, including seven years of German and several years of Austrian issues. This library is frequented by vl itors from ail parts of the country, some of whorh spend weeks in mak- ing their investigations. * K k% Before coming to Congress four iyvears ago Representative Fdwin L. Davis of Tennessee was circuit judge, presiding for eight years in nine counties. Three of his courts were on top of Cumberland mountains, and, of course, he had ample opportunity to observe at clase range.the pic- turesque Tennessee mountaineers. One of these courts was in Tracy City, were resided an unique char- acter named Sam Henley, who had considerable means and was con- siderably mean when “In his cups.” While Judge Davis was in the thick of @ murder trial with the courtroom packed, this Henley ralsed a dis- turbance at the clerk's desk about some fellow's fine. Judge Davis rapped sharply on his desk and when Henley looked up at him the judge warningly shook his head and di- rected the attorneys to proceed. Henley soon disturbed the court again by loud talking, whereupon Judge Davis fined him $10 for con- tempt of court. Henley reared buck, ran his hand In his pocket and ¢aunt- Well, I've got the money to pay it” To which the judge responde Since you have so much mone t the clerk $25." I emiey advanced toward the judge in a threatening manner and “mut- tering. The judge saw plainly then that he was drunk and had the sherift lock him up {n jail until he could sober up. On the way to: the lock-up Henley endeavored to carve the sheriff with a long knife. That same afternoon the assistant attorney general brought before Judge Davis a lanky, cadaverous jooking niountaineer named Green- 1de. The attormey said Greenlee knew some important facts about.a case under Investigation and had been summoned beforé the grand jury but refused to answer questions. Judge Davis gave Greenlee a lecture on his duty and gave him his choice be- twéen answering the questions of the grand jury or going to jail until he dld, and Greenlee chose to go to jall. The sheriff subsequently reported that he turned Greenled into the same chamber with Henley, and as he was locking the jail, overheard the following conversation: Henley—What .did they put you in here for? Greenlee—For not talking. Henley—Well TI'll be d——! They put me In here for talking, and put you in here for not talking. How the devil can a man know what to do in that judge's court? R Something new Iin the use of pon- toons, according: to W. B. Greeley, chief of the U. S. Forest Service, is a telephone line in the Santiam for- est, invented by a fire chief of the Department of Agriculture. This line extends across a lake. The poles that were set in the lake bottom last fall were pulled out by the ice, leav- ing the line in the water. Pontoons were bullt by using large logs and making & soft of a raft, which was anchored " in the proper places by mesns of heavy stones and wires. Poles were erected on these pontoons to_which are attached swinging in- sulators. The telephone line is being held up very satisfactorily in this way, Capital Sidelights ‘ STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 9, 19%3—PART 2 : MEN AND AFFAIRS BY ROBERT T. SMALL “Old Blind Eye, the natives call him out in India, but he has returned to the United States with the great- est collection of jungle tfophies probably ever brought to this coun- try. The trophies are destined for the American Museum of Natural History In New York and, appro- priately enough, are to be placed in the new Roosevelt hall of that in- stitution. Included are some of the rare. specimens which T. R. himselt had sought in vain. “Old Blind Eye” is _all in the way of a hunter that Col. Roosevelt want- d to be. And he Is none other than Lieut. Col. John Champion Faun- thorpe of that crack Indian regiment the United Province Horse, who was stationed at the British embassy here for something like two years at the cloge of the world . __After his tour of duty here, Col Faunthorpe went back to his duties in the Indian civil service and became commis- sioner at Lucknow. Just a year ago he obtained leave of absence to go with Arthur 8. Vernay into the depths of India and Burma to obtain the animals desired by the American museum. Next year he goes to Indo- China for another whirl at the jungles and the wild beasties, The hunting books of India and Africa are filled with the exploits of nl. Faunthor) who got his title or “Oia Blind Hyer boonuse of the fact that he often wears a gold- rimmed monocle to help the vision of his left orb. But with that good right eve he can see-a pin point a thousand yards away and that is why the natives love him. They know he can shoot. Many of them, serving as porters in the hunting conducts the largest and most profit- | trains, owe their lives to his uncrring aim. And it has come out now that the colonel’s shooting partner in this last foray into the jungle, Mr. Ver- nay, i8 under a similar obligation, During a tiger shoot in Nepaul, when the hunters were mounted on ele- phants, a full-grown tigress suddenly emerged from the jungle and sprang on the head of the elephant on which Vernay was riding. The attack tbok the latter so completely by surprise that he was dazed and helpless for the moment. As the tigress crouched for a_leap on the man in the howdah Col. Faunthorpe fired and the heast fell to the earth, shot through the head. * ok ok x Col. Faunthorpe doesn't appear to be accompanied by his monocle on this trip to America, and thereby hangs a tale. While on duty at the British embassy he took a trip to California. The monocle went with him. When he returned to Washing- ton It was missing. “You know,” confided the colonel, “I found they really weren't being worn out there at all, Silly, ¢h what?" Col. Faunthorpe has had an in- teresting career. During the war he was for a time the press officer in charge of the correspondents at the British front in Franc He had Heard and Seen There 19 an old-fashioned store, set in an old street, in the northwest section of the eity. It has served its neighborhood for many years, an old neighborhood, yet not built up. That was last vear. Today scores of new homes have arisen In the vicinity, bringing in many new persons, men and women who like the bright, the attractive, the clean. The old store was not spick and span. One wa# as liable to find as any place else. Dust was in evi- dence. ink it was hauled out from some recess. The place served almost as a gtore of the village type, catering to the general wants of its patrons. But the owner found out that the new people would not come to his store. A few timidly opened the door and looked in, but they speedily backed out. So he and his daughter Annie decided to start a new one, just mcross the street, to capture the n trade. You ought to see Annie—snappy black ovet, ete. they established the new store. v of glass cases. everything ancy brands, brightly painted {exterior. “The came eagerly. ong themselves, the store folk kave their own names for the two stores. “Old-fashloned Annie” is the name for the old_ store. i “New-fashioned Annie,” the new one. 1f_you go to the old place you go to “Old-fashioned Annfe. according to" nelehborhood parlance. If you patronize the new store across the atreat you purchase from “New-fash- foned Annie Take your cholce. - * X Ben and Bill are two littla boys, two and one years old, respectively. This is a story about Hen. He has two grandmothers. both of whom he visits often. One of them has made herself solid with Ben by giving him candy every time he calls. The other grandmother, also wise in the way to a man's heart, has given him a specles of tiny cracker upon each visit . “Grandma Cracker” is his name for one of the two; “Grandma Candy” for the other. ‘His pronounciation is not auite like that, more like “Andma Cack” and “Andma_Andy.” Only his mother knows it exactly, of course. - * * Bables talk a language more or less thelr own. Not quite, for their mothers can translate every phrase. It 18 really marvelous the way a mother can take the apparently in- coherent sounds that issue from her child’s lips and declare that so-and- 80 18 what baby is saying. “Ahwainkawa,” says the baby. “I want a drink of water’ {3 what the Mttle one eaid, according to his mother, and the listencr is forced to admit that that is certalnly what it did. say. “Boo daw” they call is bulldog, of course. ‘Thl 's easy. So the more difficult ones are easy to the mother, who has followed each struggle to make words. Words, words! No wonder somebody sald “words are things." * - * What a power there is in words! Often It Is not so much what is 4ald, as the way it Is said. Certaln phrases ring In our ears forever, just because they are melo- dous—because they Dpossess some felicity in themselves. Many of Poe's poems are worthless except as won- derful combinations of words. When inherent fellcity of word is combined, with something really worth saving, s in_Lincoln's Gettys- |burg address, the result transcends all other kinds of writing. “After long ages we are golng oAt o’x'!;mre {9 something about that sen- tence that sets it apart, like a rose in the Dll:d, a. gem on the finger, a ird in tl tree. 1o "Wonder the world loves its ‘word 24 ," CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. that {bread reposing on the top of potatoes If you wanted to buy a bottle of | the power of life or death over the writings of Sir Philip Gibbs, B¢ Perry Robinson, 8ir Percival Phillips, 8ir Willlam Beach Thomas, Sir Her- bert Russell—and the more humble writer of this narrative. The colonel also directed the taking and the ex- hibition of that first great moving picture of the war, the battle of the Somme, Several of his camera men were severely wounded, but the cor- respondents all felt it was the great regret of his life that no one of them was killed. The colonel him- self was badly gassed while he was directing thé picture-taking on the first day of the battle of Arras and the capture of Vimy ridge by the Canadians. In battle, as In the jungle, Faun- thorpe was nerveless. Shell fire left him absolutely cold and he had such contempt for the musketry ability of both the German and the British koldiers that he felt he was in no danger at_any time from that di- rection. On one occaslon when a square in a certain French village was being shelled by the Germans nd every one had taken cover, Col. Faunthorpe was found asleep in an automobile right in the center of the public place, “whence all but he had fled.” “It's easy to be brave when you are out with Faunthorpe,” once re- marked Philip Gibbs, “You would be afraid to be anything else.” * k% % Now that the foot ball tumult and shouting has dled away the, story is being told of how the Yale students happened this year to revive the sing- Ing of their favorite song, “Bright College Years.” The song is sung to the tune of the German national an- them, “Die Wacht am Rheln,” and it wae only natural that it should have been banned during the war. AS & matter of fact, there were no foot ball games in 1917 and 1918 at which the song might have regaled the spec- tators. Then there was a feeling right ufter the war that some one might object to the anthem, not realising that the words as sung at Yale had no assoclation whatsoever with the fatherland, However, in 1921 it was decided that sufficient time had elapsed to allow i " to subside. German opera was being revived in New York and ale boys wanted to let loose. v wanted in particular to let loose the Yale Bowl, where Princeton was to play. It was discovered, how- ever, that Marshal Foch was present. 1t would never do to “bust” the German song right in the face of the marshal of France. So the singing was post- poned a year. Last year the students once more were ready to go, at_the Yale-Harvard game in the bhowl. But, alas, it was discovered this time that “Tiger" Clemenceau was present. Some one asked the “Tiger” if he would object. The “Tiger” ia rough spoken. He said no, he wouldn't ob- ject, but he sald it in such a way the hoys thought he meant otherwise, and so again they withheld . their ocal fire on “Bright College Years.” This year there were no allled nota- bles at New Haven, and so the boys and the band let go in a grand old ghorus which apparently was enjoyed y all. Fifty Years Ago In The Star A serlous strain between the United | states and Spain from the sefsure of | Z . the Virginus in Cu- ‘War With Spain van waters and the Averted. execution of prison- | ers taken from her |arose fifty vears ago, but the danger of war between’ the two countries was averted. The Star of November 29, { “On Wednesday we stated on au- thority we knew to be rellable that Admiral Polo, the Spanish minister, tand Secretary Fish had certainly | agreed on a plan of settlement, which \had been forwarded to Madrid by | telegraph for approval, and which 'will doubtless be approved. It includes substantially these points: First, the | surrender of the Virginius and the customary salute to the United States flag; second, that the surviving mem- bers of the crew must be restored; { third, sultable indemnity to be made |to the families of those slain. This was denied the next morning by n |ecity cotemporary. but the same pa- !per this morning admits the entire i s of our statement. anish government has prop- ¥ ed _confidence in the ability and judgment of its minister here and i has indorsed the pian of settlement he i has negotiated with Secretary Fish His representation to his government. as to the status of the Virginiud as prima facie an American vessel has Dbeen accepted as settling the question affirmatively as to the justice and | propriety of acceding to our demands for reparation. “About & o'clock last night Admiral Polo received dispatches from his government stating that the plan of settlement arranged between him and Mr. Fish had been accepted. Some of, thé minor_details will be arranged hereafter, but the main points at is- sue, ie. 'the surrender of the Vir- ginius and of the remaining prisoners, have been definitely agreed upon. The formal surrender of the Virginius will not take place until the 25th of De- cember, the delay being requsite in order to give time to compiete the negotiations by mall, which have so far taken place informally by teler graph. On that day the vessel will be surrendered, the American flag re- stored and the oustomary salute given, “It is quite likely there will be' | some eulking on the part of the Havanese over the surrender, but they will be apt to take a cooler view’ of the situation before Christmas day, especially as they are under the guns of the Spanish-manned forts and war vessels. It is understood that the Ca- telar government has the moral su port of the other European powers in acceeding to the terms of ou:r go ernment, the American demands bes ing conceded to be only just and fai*, Therefore, that government ought not' to lose strength with the Spanish people for its action in behalf of e. Secretary Flsh and Admiral Pale’ deserve hearty commendation for thia prudence, moderation and good sensd with which they have managed this difficult negotiation, under tia strong’ provocations to hasty and vislert®. acs tion.” . * * o Despite the settiement there wai still some war feeling in this country. In The Star of November oshy's 20 1873, is & news Item Mo e s et ot Offer. Aosby had called that aay upon President Grant and offered his services In case of war with Spain. In the event of war, he told the Presi- dent, there would necessarlly be a great deal of bushwhackin “Now,” sald President Grant, In the late war yoo were called a bushs whacker; but in a new country like 1 Cuba you don’t know the roads . “Well, that is so,” said Mosby, “but did you know every road you went through when you went to the south?” replied the ‘Of course 1 did no sald _Moghy, “I propose to get guides. It you will commissio me in case of & war 1 will raise 3,000 men who know what bush- whacking means. They are not anx- ious for a fight, bt they have fought and will follow me to the onds of the earth. They have fought against, the Hag In offer times—try theni when thelr national honor is involve ed.”.