Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1923, Page 50

2 THE EVENING STAR; With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY.....December 16, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th 8t. and Peansylvania Ave, ‘\IEC'M‘-G" l‘m‘l‘f ’ll.lD E‘;ll I’:r‘ Bt. eago Orfce: Tower Dullding, Buropean Oftce: 16 Hegent St London. England, The Evening Star, with the Sunday moraing edition, fs delivered by carriers within the city 8t 60 ceuts per month; daily only, 45 cent Sunday only, 20 cents’ per month. Orders may be sent by mall or tel phone Main 5000. Collection i3 made by ca Tiers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, Dally and Sunday..1y: Daily only. Sunday only Daily and Daily only $7.00; 1 mo., 60c Sunday only $3.00; 1 mo., 25¢ Member of the Associated Preas. The Awsociated Press is exclusively entitled o the ‘use for republ.cation of all news dis- patches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- Jished herein rights of publication of ro also reserved. No Difference in Principle. Senator Lodge, in a letter sent to Massachusetts stating his position ‘with regard to the world court proposi- tion, makes plain that he favors an international tribunal of justice, but that he is not in favor of a court which is the creature of or connected with the league of nations. There is no essential difference, in principle, ‘between his position and that of Presi- dent Coolidge as stated in the annual | message. ‘ The President, noting that our for- eign policy has always been guided by two principles, avoidance of political alliances which would sacrifice our proper independence and a peaceful settlement of controversies between nations, favors the establishment of a world court of justice “intended to include the whole world.” He there- fore commends to the favorable con- slderation of the Senate, “with the proposed reservations clearly indicat- 1ng our refusal to adhere to the league of natlons,” the proposal which has already gone to the Senate for Ameri- can support of the Permanent Court of International Justice. Senator Lodge takes precisely the same ground as the President in re- spect to the fundamental policy of the United States in favor of the settle- ment of international differences by arbitration and through the medium of arbitral tribunals. He urges that the court should be a “true world court and not involved in any way in the league of nations.” The only point at which he differs from the President | in the pending proposal in respect to the established world court is that he | a questions whether the reservations suggested will separate that court from the league and “make it a g(‘nu‘% ine world court.” “Whether this can | be brought about,” he says, “I do not | _THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, DECEMBER 16, 1923—PART 2. ‘Marshall Recommends U. S. telegraph, and as the most essential : by noise of cars passing on the speed- element in the apparatus for block Way or coming Into or backing out signaling, which now protects all of | of parking places. Parking space, in ! were no such facilities as now exist. the trains on over 40,000 miles of American rallroads, the electromagnet possesses & unique importance.” In 1826 Joseph Henry was chosen | teacher of mathematics and natural | philosophy in the Albany Academy, and In 1827 read a paper on “Some | Modifications of the Electromagnetic Apparatus.” In connection with that | treatise he made some demonstrations, | among which was the ringing of a bell at the farther end of one mile of wire suspended in a room of the | academy. His small electromagnets | were wound with silk-covered wire, and his biographer says that “in this lay the essential point of his first dis- covery, for he was undoubtedly the earliest physicist to edopt insulated or slik-covered wire for the magnetic coll and to employ spool-winding for the Umb of the magnet.” The scene of the anniversary cele- bration will be the New York State | Museum at Albany, and one feature | of the event will be the broadcasting from radio stations at Schenectady and Troy of addresses on Prof. Henry's life and works, and the sound of the ringing of the small bell, now in the museum, which Henry used in his ex- periments. He made numerous im- portant scientific discoveries while at Albany Academy, and later when he became professor of natural philosophy at Princeton College. On the organi- zation here in 1871 of the Philosophic Society of Washington he was elected its president and held that position until he died. ! Seventy-One Wonderful Years. Apropos of The Star's seventy-first anniversary so nearly marked by the publication on Friday of its world- record issue of seventy pages, it is! interesting to note the changes that | have occurred since December 16, 1852, when the first number of this paper was printed. There were then no type- setting machines. Every character ‘was set by hand. There were no per- fecting presses. The sheets were printed, one side at a time, mostly on hand presses. Four pages constituted the practical limit of production. There were but few telegraph lines, that invention having been put to practical use only seventeen years be- fore. There were no Atlantic cables. The steam rallroad transportation ‘was narowly limited to a few short lines. Communications were mainly even then by road. The process of gathering news from the world out- side of Washington was slow and dif- ficult. Dispatches were brief. “Let- ters” were the chief means of news distribution. There were no illustra- tions in the dally press outside of the tiny symbolic vignettes that, punctu- ted business announcements. In the local gathering of news there Washington had no horse cars. Travel was by foot, or by horse or carriage. The automobile, of course, know and cannot tell at this time.” | had not been conceived, and the elec- | That question, however, he gives as- | tric trolley was not even a dream. | surance, will be very thoroughly con- | There were no typewriters. It was| sidered by the Senate. {not until 1876, or twenty-four years | In February last President Harding | later, that the telephone was invent- relation to the number of cars, be- comes smaller every year. The prob- lem 18 not a simple one, but the com- mittee will solve it. It might be sug- gested that the bullding of the long- planned bridge across “Washington channel to the east ‘park s worth considering. Concerta could be held far enough below the railroad tracks to be free from noise of passing trains and electric cars to the foot of 14th street, and lines through South Washington would give trans- portation to persons not using auto- mobiles. A national arboretum at Washing- ton has long been planned. In the Agricultural grounds many specles of American trees were planted, and at times the collection has been called an arboretum. The beginning of what was to be an arboretum was made in upper Rock Creek Park several years ago, but not much progress was made. A dendrologist in the forestry bureau made a list years ago of tree species represented at Washington, and the Smithsonian Institution has published a list of species and varieties grow- ing in the District and in what natu- ral sclentists call the “Washington region” between Occoquan creek and Great Falls. Recently The Star has been publishing accounts of the tree species in Washington. Certain agencles of the government have pro- posed, and still propose, to create a national aerboretum on the Mount Hamilton and Hickey hill tracts be- tween Baltimore boulevarad and the Eastern branch. The situation has been pronounced suitable. The conservation of dogwood and other flowering trees, shrubs and plants has been urged for years by botanists and others with a sentiment for such things, and if the Washing- ton committee of the Garden Club of America can bring about a law for the protection of dwindling dogwood it will give satisfaction to & great num- ber of people in the Distriet and our neighbor states. In connection with dogwood the committee might take up the clalms of “redbud,” ‘“‘mountain laurel,” “wild honeysuckle” and many other trees and shrubs once common in the District and becoming rare not only in the District but in the adjacent counties of Maryland and Virginia. —————— A prince of the old Russian empire, whose income was once enormous, now works In London for $25 a week Trotsky, whose income as a Bronx editor was $25 a week, is now drawing large revenues in Russla. Sovietism has produced some remarkable varia- tions in the wage scale. ——————— A policy of ruthless retrenchment in the salaries of state officlals is an- nounced by the German chancellor, Dr. Marx. This will do much to dis- courage any idea of resuming charge of the government on the part of the Hohenzollerns, whose tastes were rather expensive. —_—— It Is predicted by Capt. Ricken- backer that in twenty years alrcraft will be as commonly used as automo- biles. Use Wisdom of Tsao Kum| BY THOMAS R. MARSHALL, Former Vice President of the U. 8. Speaking generally, reform has been accompanied by destruction and by great suffering to those seeking rellef from in. tolerable conditions. Cautious steps in turning from old and beaten into newand untrod paths are almost unknown. Peo- ples determined on a change invariably have gone the limit, bringing misery to themselves and wiping out many of their own. This Is probably because burdens become so onerous that when a people resolved to shake them, they do %0 by an upheaval of thought and con- duct, which eventually brings an ame- loration of thelr condition, even though desolation and misery are the imme- diate results. I need refer only to the French revolution as an illustration of | the thought T would convey. 1 wish to {add, however, that sorrowful events in | Russia more recently disclose that when reform gets its back up It proceeds to slay in a mad thirst for blood friends of the people as well as the people’s en- emles, * k% x Men who long have wondered whether there was an alternative be- tween resting under an evil and resort- ing to destruction In order to remove it, took heart over the Inaugural address of Tsao Kum, who recently became the sixth President of the Republic of China. The message he gave his people was a gleam of Intelligence from an Tnexpected source—a Tare ray of hope whence hope was not anticipated. The new president discussed principles of government and the trend of political events in a way that would reflect credit on any statesman regardless of the nation whose views he reflected. For ihstance, I read this in his ad- dress which was sent me by a friend in "Lately currents of political thought | e been drifting toward newer and g:rnr ideas. Consequently I find my- self in the position of a physician who does not wish to adhere entirely to the old method of treatment de- rived from the books, but who, at the same time, dares not use his patient as a subject for experiment to ascer- taln the efficacy of new methods of o * kK % What could be better unless it be this: “As the country belongs to the whole people, the principles of gov- ernment must be sought in the hearts are admirable. Too many persons in | of all citizens. Views may differ, but all minds should work for the wel- tare of the nation in unison.” I wish every editor in America might have read the address and made comment thereon that all per- sons in the United States could there- by enjoy the beauty of it and profit by its calm wisdom. Unfortunately, the cables carried but slight mention of the inauguration. The message would not have come to my attention save for the thoughtfulness of a friend. I am convinced from my reading of the address that America may well look even to those countries gener- ally thought to be most backward in civilization for ideas. Wisdom Is very apt to come from the mouths of babes and sucklings, for, after all, wisdom . is a gift of the gods rather than the priceless possession of any particular race or clime. Only last week I noted chat a candidate for the presidency of Mexico announced he would have no platform because, he explained, by the time he was elected any platform he might adopt might be so worm- eaten as to endanger his neck if he attempted to stand on it. I commend his view to American candidates now becoming numerous and suggest to any of them who wish my advice that he’ atate his position in the words, “Sufficlent unto the day is the evil thereof.” | | * k x *x The real wisdom, however, that 1 had in mind after reading the address of the president of China had to do with the elimination of evils or their rectification without the destruction of government or greater distress to the péople seeking rellef. The re- public of China has had a rather stormy experlence. We in America have paid slight attention to its vicis- situdes. Other than wishing the re- publlc well and doubting that our wish would be fulfilled, we have given not much thought as to what was going on In China. Even the most intelligent of nations and the freest of people may be—probably are— quite provincial. We look through the only eves we have; what Is good form In one place is bad form in an- ; what is wisdom here is folly that which will tend to peace, quietude and good order in one part of the world may lead to riot, tumult and disorder elsewhere. Man is apt to think himself the only civilized man, to believe the only perfect gov- ernment to be his own._ All other i peoples are inferlor. Yet China, through her new president, speaks wisdom to the world. * % ¥ ¥ “The secret of government is the utilization of talented men"—is one of his statements. This is a new thought to America, where the secret of successful government Is the utilization of the man who can get the most votes, whether he belongs to the arlstocracy or the khakiocracy. Tsao Kum also impresses the idea that upon finance hangs the whole fabric of government. Financial re- trenchment, he says, should come rather than an endeavor to increase {the revenues. - This may well be {studled by senators and representa- tives in Washington who seem to |think the government In some | mysterfous way may spend more money and collect less. The thought that “principles of government must be sought in the heart of all citizens” and the new president's comment, “Views differ, but all minds should work for !the welfare of the nation in unison.” l I‘America regard principles of govern- ment as things that may be changed |by a wave of the legislative wand. | Spacialists in American government Iwl» just now are vexing the cir- cumamblent air with their cries of | chgnges that should be made may | well ponder the thought that what abldes in the hearts of individual citizens eventually principle of their government. * * x ¥ | Apparently. the new president of ! China is going about his reform care- fully. Impressed with the responsi- ibility of his position, he wants changes, but is determined to pro- ceed slowly In order to avoid de- istruction of that which is geod as well as that which is bad. It is the settled policy of our gov- ernment not to permit a Chinaman to become a citizen of the United States. 1 hope, however. it is not the settled policy of our statesmen to reject Chinese wisdom. (Copyright, 1028, by Twenty-first Century Press.) Capital Sidelights | may | will become the | BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Henry Clay has lost one of his records, that of being the youngest member ever elected to the Ameri- can Congress. Henry Clay first came |to the United States Senate when he was twenty-nine years old. That record stood for 113 years, Representative Clarénce J. McLeod, who has just returned to the United States House of Representatives from the thirteenth district of Michigan, has the distinction of first being elected to Congress nine days after his twenty-fifth birthday, and being the youngest member ever elected. This clalm seems to settle a rather #pirited controversy as to who | the “baby” member in the Sixty elghth Congress. Through the sum- mer and fall there have appeared in {various newspapers articles on the voungest member of the Bixty-elghth {and " photographs of Representative |Gale “Btalker of New York, age, { thirty-three; Representative John Schafer of ' Wisconsin, age, thirt Representative Lister Hill of Ala- bama, age, twenty-eight. Mr. Hill, according to the new Congressional Directory and information obtained from the office of Willlam Tyler Page, clerk of the House of Repre- sentatives, was born December 29 1894, Representative McLeod is also, at the present time, twenty-eight years old, but was born July 3, 1895, mak- ing him six months and four days younger than Mr. Hill of Alabama. This is, however, Representative Mc- Leod’s ‘second term in Congress, as he was elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress to fill the unexpired term of Congressman Nichols and was not a candidate for re-election for the Sixty-seventh Congress, that term having been filled by Representative Vincent M. Brennan. * ok x x Only one vote was cast against Representative John Hosea Kerr of Warrenton, N. C,, who has come to Congress as successor to Representa- tive Claude Kitchin, who for twelve |vears, until his death, was demo- | eratic’leader of the House. i * ¥ x % | A Rooseveltian open-air man and lifelong athlete 1s Senator George Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania. {During his college days at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania he played on the varsity foot ball and ericket teams and was a member of his class foot ball, base ball, cricket and track teams. He won medals In the | hammer throw and the half-mile race and rowed on the Penn crew. He {was a member of George Woodruff's |famous Penn foot ball team of 1897, | that established a record never equal- {ed by playing through an entire sea- son without time being taken out by any member of the team and without any player being removed from the game becausg of Injuries. Today, as he nears three-score years of age, Senator Pepper likes nothing better than to make a trip into the Maine woods, where he carries canoe and camp dunnage across the port- @Kes With as much ease and with more cheerfulness than his guide. He keeps himself constantly in the best phys- ical condition. He is an expert swim- mer and {ndulges in this sport regu- larly during the summer. He is a devotee of walking and takes long k into the country. nator Pepper was a member of {provisional training regiments at Plattsburg In 1915 and 1916. Senator Pepper is best known to the sporting fraternity as attorney for the Na- tional League and organized base ball. He drafted the present constitution and secured a reversal of the court | | | |Congress, among them being articles | | | BY ROBERT It seems taken for granted now that no longer will a President of the United States ever send an annual message to Congress. In the future it always will be known as the Presi- dent's address. Whatever else may be sald of Wood- row Wilson, it will be written down in history that he re-established an ex- tremely popular custom. President Harding was only too glad to follow |in" the footsteps of his predecessor, jand President Coolidge has placed upon the custom a stamp of approval Which will probably obtain for all me. The advent of the radio has given a new significance to a President's ad- dress. No longer does the President address the members of the House and the Senate. He speaks tothe en- tire people of the country—or as many as care to “listen in” as his voice fs carried by the high-powered broadcasting stations from one end of the country to the other. There would be no thrill to the listeners if & mere veading clerk In the Senate or House should drone a presidential message. But the thought of the per- sonal contact involved in listening to the President himeelf is sufficlent to insure presidential messages delivered in the first person for all time to come. * K x x Many picturesque stories are related here In the Capital of the presidential messages of the past. It was in New York city, however, that President Washington first addressed the Con- tinental Congress. He was driven to the meeting house in great state. A coach and four was at his command. There were outriders in front of him, and cabinet members driving in pro- cession behind. Mr. Washington had {to furnish his ‘own coach. The gov- !ernment was not so generous then as {1t is now in its lavish supply of Iimousines for the President, for the President's wife and for other mem- | bers of the presidential household, | Arriving at the Congress, President Washington passed down the aisle crowded with the national legislators | and there addressed “the representa- tives of the people.” It was many days before even a gist of what he had to say penetrated to the rest of | the colonies. It was weeks before his | message arrived in full. What a far cry to today! The | President no longer addresses the “representatives of the people.” He addresses the people direct. The people listen in. They may hear the applause of thelr representatives in the hall of the House, but they can- not applaud themselves. They may | only lay down their earphones or | | shut off the loud speaker and say “well done"—or perhaps tune in vain | for the words they were expecting and that may not have been said. The isolation of the White House is ended. The radio has penetrated its bluestone walls. 1f a President Heard and Seen Listen now to the tale of Jack Spratt, an alley cat with doglike | ways, poor Jack Spratt! He ran | {through a swinging door once too | often for the good of his tail. Jack came into the alley as a kit- ten. Maybe he was born there, no | body knows; all that is certain is ium Jack and the alley came into existence about the same time. | He was not a particularly prepos- | sessing kitten. He was thin, almost {ugly, with a straight lip and utter !lack of the cute ways of most kit- | tens. The most striking thing about him { i | { i It seemed MEN AND AFFAIRS T. SMALL of the United States has anything to say to the people in the future, he I‘z}l‘is'()saynll!“) ut loud.” The nation always w e waiting at the other end of the ether ('ln'uil.z * % % x The many friends of Col. John Champion Faunthorpe, C. B. E., M. C., the mighty British hunter, who ar- rived in this country recently, but who has ventured no farther Into the hinterland than New York city, are wondering why he does not come on to Washington, where for two years at the close of the war he was a valued attache at the British em. bassy. The colonel has been busily engaged at the American Museum of Natural History, seeing to it that the specimens he ‘and A. S. Vernay bagged in thelr respective six. months' exploit into the Indian jun- gles are properly mounted and ar- ranged in family groups. A Wash- ingtonfan desired to know, however why it was the colonel was esche; ing his old stamping grounds here in the Capital. “The beastly trains,” he explained “They boil you all night fn a Pull- man palace car and then dump you out into & howling biizzard in the morning. Imagine routing you out of bed at 7 o'clock. Beastly, I call it There's nothing like that in the jungle.” “But,” the Washingtonian expostu- lated, “there are day trains between rk and Washington.” " questioned the colonel. ow long does the journey require?” “Five hours. Apparently it 1s fatal to a president of Mexico to be recognized by the United States government. Madero was recognized by the United States. Within_a short time he was assas nated. The American government rec- ognized Carranza, and his relgn soon was ended. Obregon was doing re- markably well in Mexico. He had reigned supreme for a number of ears. But the Amerlcan government would not recognize him. We believed for a long time in “watchful waiting." Obregon_did not know when he was well _ off. He craved recognition. At last it came to him about six weeks ago. Now the country is torn by revolution and Obregon’s throne is tottering. * %X X X Like many another prophet, the American dollar is not without honor save in its own country. European shipping lines are requiring all their passengers to pay in dollar rates. The dollar s recognized in Germany, and elsewhere as the world's standard of international exchange. Nothing else is stable. And yet the dollar here at home i3 not what it used to be. It ooks more like 30 cents. Fifty Years Ago In The Star Though the Virginius affair fifty years ago was apparently settled as between the United ‘War Rumors States and Spain by the negotiation of a Revived. |0, ocol. the situa- tion early in December suddenly be- came once more acute and there was !a revival of rumors of war between the two countrles. In The Star of | December 8, 1872, Is the following: | “The unofficial press reports con- | tinue to give a warlike aspect to the Unclaimed Bank Deposits transmitted to the Senate a letter ed. “Leg work” was the news re-| This will at least double the decision granting a judgment against { was his indignant meow. |news from Spain and Cuba. On the written by Secretary Hughes in which certain reservations were proposed to safeguard the United States from any connection with the league of nations porter's chief means of covering ground. Though Washington in those | days was not as extensive as today, it | covered a wide area, and the repor- torlal task was an arduous one. When the first issue of The Star| appeared the civil war was yet to be in its adherence to the world court. One was “that such adhesion shall not ; Do taken to involve any legal relation | on the part of the United States to!fought. There were, it is true, condi- the league of nations, or the assump- | tions that in the minds of some far- tion of any obligations by the United | seeing men made for this domestic States under the covenant of the |struggle, but to the great majority of league of nations constituting part|the people a strife between the states one of the treaty of Versailles.” An-|or between sections was unthinkable. other was that the United States shall | There were no ‘‘foreign complica- be permitted to participate through |tions” of any seriousness. The lack representatives designated for the!of electric communication with the purpose and upon an equality withlands over the sea kept this country the other states members, respective- | largely in ignorance of what was hap- ly, of the council and assembly of|pening across the water. the league of nations in any and all| Those who read that first issue of | proceedings of either the council or | The Star in 1852 could have had no the assembly for the election of judges | concept of the position of the United {liquor for the holiday trade. present demand for gasoline. The Standard Oil Company still has some- thing to look forward to. ———————— Bergdoll s In earnest about his ef- forts to collect damages from would- be kidnapers. The gentleman who got bit runs the risk also of being stung. ———————ee—— Smugglers are active in supplying Santa Claus runs the risk of being regarded as old John Barleycorn in disguise. It must be conceded in favor of the present Congress that it is doing noth- ing hasty. ——————— SHOOTING STARS. or deputy judges of a Permanent;States at the beginning of the eighth Court of International Justice, or for | decade later. The great western mi- the filling of vacancies. gration had just begun. The vast It was contended at the time thatarea beyond the Mississipp! was still . these reservations would, as far as|wilderness. The marvels of their re- the United States was concerned,|sources were undreamed. The popu- separate the court from the lugu!llauon of 110,000,000 people was be- sufficlently to keep the United States|yond the thought of the average out of any participation in the latter. | American. Just 80 in the local view a But on the 21st of June last President | Capital community of 450,000 people Harding, in his speech at St. Louis, | was inconceivable. went beyond thi point and declared| Thus during its lifetime of seventy- his belief in further restrictions, pro-| one years The Star has seen marvel- posing, first, that while the members | ous changes in the world, changes di- of the world court should continue to | rectly affecting and permitting its be nominated by the Permanent Court | growth from the tiny four-page paper | of Arbitration at The Hague, theiof 1852 to the great volume of last members of the world court should | Friday. In those seventy-one years it elect new members, instead of having | has recorded epochal events. It has them elected by the league, and, sec- | told its Washington readers a story ond, that the financial direction of of great happenings at home and the court should be taken from the|abroad as the horizons have been league and given to the court of arbl- | pushed back by inventions, and as the tration or to a commission set up by | news volume has steadily increased nations adhering to the world court. |it has itself grown in size to corre- There is no essential difference, | * therefore, between the proposals of | the administration as first expressed | by President Harding, and as repeated | in essence by President Coolidge, and | the position of the chairman of the | committee on foreign relations of the Senate. Both want American partici- pation in a world court without any connection with or responsibility to the league. Both, in effect, want a world court that “includes the whole | that is independent in all re- epects of any other international body. Mr. Lodge doubts whether the reserva- i tions proposed effect that end. But, whether they do or not is a uue!llofli that, he says, will be given thorough | consideration by the Senate. In this! consideration the reservations con-| cerning the constitution of the world ! court proposed by Senator Lenroot| and designed to remove the creation | of the court entirely from the league ‘will also doubtless receive due atten- tion. Joseph Henry. Tomorrow will be the 124th aenni- versary of the birth of Prof. Joseph Henry, who was born at Albany, N. Y., and came to Washington in 1846 as the first secretary of the Smith- sonian Institution and remained one of the prominent citizens of the Capital until his death here May 183, 1878. He will be honored as the inventor of the electromagnet. The Rallway Age, disouszing this, says: “As a principal element in the apparatus of the Morse r | gram has offered so far this season. spond. Its life has, indeed, been a ‘wondrous span of events. ——— s The republican party struck at least one effective blow at the cost of llving when it compelled the Cleveland hotel men to be considerate in their rates next June. ————— The President’s message is still re- garded as the best feature a radio pro- —_——— Garden Club of America. The Washington committea of the Garden Club of America enters three items on its program for Capltal im- provement, and from time to time will give aid in carrying out other meas- ures of public consequence. Matters which the club will immediately take up are the erection of a memorial music stand in Potomac Park, estab- lishment of & national arboretum and conservation of flowering dogwood. ‘The marble bandstand will be in archi- BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Tough Travel, ‘When Santa Claus one night drew near, He sighed and sald, “This world is queer, They do not seem to want me here.” A motor cop pursued his sleigh And cried, “Show me—you must obey— If bootleg stuff you bring this wa Another clothed in solemn pow'r Remarked, with an expression sour, “You can’t park here but half an ‘hour.” That's why old Santa, with & tear, Exclaimed, “My welcome once sincere Is gone. They do not want me here.” ‘The More the Merrier, “What s your reason for wanting a new party?” “It sort o' makes things sociabl answered Farmer Corntossel. “The more parties there are the more folks will be coming around to shake hands with me.” Jud Tunkins says telling the chil- dren there isn't eny Santa Claus doesn’t necessarily convince them. Children have their own opinions these days. Cigars and Statesmen. Great men In days gone by would plan ‘With smoke to register their claims. I hope that they were better than Cigars that bear their honored names. Breakage., “What do you regard as the most interesting phase of this prohibition question?” “The breakage,” answered. Uncle Bill Bottletop. “The law gets broke. Sooner or later so does the customer. The bootlegger’s the only one that Before the BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. One of the most fascinating of buried- treasure stories has again been brought to the public attention by the decision of the United States Supreme Court in a case involving abandoned bank ac- counts. Periodically, interest be- comes aroused in those sums of money | which lie unclaimed in the banks of | the country and people begin to turn | tectural harmony with monumental Pes public structures in Washington, a memorial to Washington men who| “I should demand” said Miss served in the world war and an ade-| Cayenne, ‘a husband who does not quate place for outdoor military band |drink, smoke or play cards for money.” concerts. Its site is still an open “Good!" question. Concerts at the lower end of the polo field in West Potomac Park have not been so well attended as might be. Persons without cars and attending the concerts were called on to make what many considered a long walk, These were often disturbed answered the busy youth. “That’s exactly the kind of & wife I'm 1ooking for.” “‘One big advantage in avoidin’ bad company,” sald Uncle. Eben, “is dat you don’t have to watch yoh step so close to keep fum bein® cheated.” » over In their minds the names of dead or missing relatives who might | possibly have accumulated bank funds and died without specifically be- queathing them to anybody. In a country as large and populous as the United States it is not surpris- ing that there are millions of dollars in these unclaimed bank accounts. There are many persons with no fami- 1ies and no close relatives, and a few, even, who are practically without friends. Some such persons make wills bequeathing their money to pub- lic institutions or charities. Many others make no specific provision, and In consequence when their days are ended whatever sums they have in the bank go unclaimed. Some persons make mistakes in calculating their bank balances. They are under the impression that they have drawn all their money from a certaln bank, but they have made an error ranging from a few dollars to several hundreds. There are others so wealthy and so careless about their money affairs that they actually forget in_what banks they have put money. The story has been told that a rich automobile manufacturer not long ago discovered that he had a deposit of $2,000,000 in a Canadian bank. He had completely forgotten the existence of the money, and it was brought to his attention only by chance. Perhaps the most fruitful source of abandoned deposits is accounts of men who die suddenly. A man's fam- ily or business connections may have no knowledge of some mew account which has been opened by him. He may be killed in a railroad or auto- mobile accident or dle suddenly from heart failure or some such natural cause. No one connected with him personally has any knowledge of his newly opened account. Secret Personal Accounts. Still another source is secret, per- sonal accounts. Many men maintain what they call their play accounts. In one account they keep the money for their necessary expenses. In an- other they will deposit surplus earn- ings which they regard as over and above their personal budget calcula- tions. gifts, charities, or gambling. The man who keeps this sort of an ac- count will be secretive ‘about it in all probability. He will not want his business assoclates or, perhaps, even members of his family to know that he has this extra money to finance his playtul moods. Consequently no rec- ord exists, and when he dies no one comes forward to claim the funds. It is a weakness, strength, of the humdn mind that a man seldom expects death. The older a man grows the more inclined he is to feel that he is good for a few years more. He therefore seldom takes precautions to arrange for the disposition of such funds. All these may seem strange causes for the accumulation of*large sums of money, but they have resulted in the building up of sums aggregating millions in the banks of the coun- try. No one ever has calculated the precise amount and probably nc one or perhaps a Such sums they may feel| free to spend in favorite sports, in Supreme Court | could, as there is no way of gather- | ing the information. Many states have laws providing that if a bank account remains dor- mant for twenty years the money re- vorts to the state government. The rule Is that if no deposit is made or | any check drawn against the acoount In twenty years there is good reason to believe that the money has been | abandoned. However, even though the account has lain dormant, if the bank | 'as any reason of any sort whatever to belleve the owner of the money is still alive the rule does not oper- ate. The twenty-year perlod must run from the last deposit or check or from the last information that the depositor was alive. Cnse From California. In the recent case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States the state of Californis, receiving no tice that a large Los Angeles bank had an accumulation of such dormant deposits, entered suit to obtain the abandoned money for the state. The bank opposed the suit on the ground that it was trustee for the depositors and must continue to hold the money. After being fought through the state courts the case went up to the Su- preme Court of the United States, which upheld the law and turned the money over to the state. If, however, within five years some claimant comes forward and proves that he has a right to the money he can recover it from the state. Banks earn money through making loans out of the funds deposited with them for safe-keeping. Most bank accounts are likely to go up and down constantly, owing to the deposits and withdrawals made by the depositors. These dormant accounts are very ad- vantageous to. banks, because they remain stationary. The bank keeps lending the money out at interest year after year. A laige eastern institution more than a century ago started a bank Which catered primarily to the sailors of New England. It is proverblal that no one throws his money away 80 freely as a sailor ashore, but there are exceptions to all rules. Many sallors do the reverse. - Being of thifty dispositions they save more jthan others, because aboard ship | there is not much opportunity to spend money. The seafaring life is it 1s a proverb that a sallor has a sweetheart In every port, compara- tively few sallors have wives and | children. They are free, roving per- sons, whose home is the whole-world. Men put forth to sea and never come back. They leave no heir beneficiaries, o " sy This particular institution ‘obtain- ed the savings accounts of great numbers of sallors, and in the natural course of events large numbers were lost at sea. Every twenty years it had to turn over to the state the accumulated abandoned deposits, but in the intervening two decades it jmade good use of the money and be- came very rich. It is now one of the richest banks in the country. Occasionally some promoter at- tempts to organize a business of find- ing missing heirs and recoverin, these abandoned accounts, but muci proof is required to establish, first. that the original depositor is dead, and, second, that the claimant is the rightful heir. - ' ‘here is scarcely: a bank in the country that does not have a share of this burled treasure—buried in the vaults and on the ledgers of in< stitutions, . organized base ball i favor of the| Baltimore Federal League club. At the tithe he wrote a constitution of organized base ball, Mr. Pepper gave the base ball players this code: to be the reflection of an indignant mind, disgusted with life in general and the world in particular. Yet somehow Jack managed to sur- vive, what with saucers of milk pre | { | i one of the most hazardous, and while | lay fair, play hard. play for the team—these are the inexorable re- quiremen professional ball player. He gives to i the American people a pledge of con- {formity to high standards of fair play ahd good sportsmanship. The club owners and officers explicitly ac- cept the same high standard. If any special responsibility rests upon the ball players It s the responsibility to young America. The boy on the bleachers is in school, even if he doesn't realize it. The heroes of the diamond are his teachers. By them his ideals of sport are powerfully affected. And the standards which he laccepts on the bleachers he will carry into life. As the national game f{s played. so the life of the nation will be lived.” * k. k% “Widely known in his native state Representative Clifton ‘Woodrum of Roanoke, V Alexander as he ad- gressional Directory. He sang his way into Congress. He is a graduate pharmacist as well as a lawyer. * ¥ ok % Among the new men in Congress who have thelr family trees planted deep In American soll is Representa- tive Samuel F. Glatfelter of York, Pa., who is a direct descendant of Casper | Glatfelter, who, with his wife and four children, came to the United States from Switzerland In 1743, even- tually settling at Glatfelter, eight miles south of York. Five of Casper's sons were soldlers in the continental larmy. The youngest, Casper, Jr., was | the great-grandfather of Representa- jtive Glatfeiter. The latters grand- father served in the war of 1812. * k¥ % That even a humble government employe may suctessfully aspire to a place in the American Congress is proved many times over by even a casual glance over the membership of the Sixty-eighth Congress. Ten years ago Representative Rob- ert H. Clancy of Michigan became secretary to the assistant secretary |of commerce, Edwin F. Sweet. Four ears later be was appointed United States customs appraiser for Mich- igan. Representative Earl C. Michener, |also of Michigan, was an employe in the folding 100m of the House while taking his law course In Wash- ington. - : Representative John W. Langley of Kentucky, chalrman of the House committee’ on public bufldings and {grounds, was at one time employed as an examiner In the pension of- | fice, a 'member of the board of pen- |sion appeals. a law clerk in the gen. leral land office and disbursing and |appointment clerk of the census | office. | Representative Benjamin L. Falr- child was emploved In the Unlited States patent office at Washington {for two years and as a clerk.in the bureau of engraving and printing for |six vears - As counsel to chambers of commerce and mercantile .organ- |izatlons he has.given special atten- the Interstate Commerce Commission. Representative Wallace H. White, jr. of Maine, who is fathering radio legislation, following his graduation |from = Bowdoin College, = came - to ‘Washington as assistant clerk to the committee on commerce of the Sen- that America makes of the | as an orator and talented singer” is | | mits in hig autobiography in the Con- { tion to transportation matters before | vided him during the summer by pitying householders and provident garbage cans left with loose lids. * * x As autumn came around Jack Spratt grew In comeliness. His coat of dark gray and brown stripes took on a pleasing sleekness. His head broadened out, his body fat- tened in all directions, his whiskers gleamed. The little cat began to take more care of his persona] appearance. He began to learn how to wash himself, 8o that his snowy breast and white paws gleamed. Pretty soon there began to be rivalry among some of the house- holders as to who would have the honor of harboring Jack Spratt. Cer- tainly his bulging sides testified to many saucers of good milk. His purr, after he had lapped up four saucers of milk, was something to hear. It could easily be heard all over the house, He early developed certain dogilke traits that distin- guished him from the average cat. Just like a dog, he followed one from room to room. Even the charm of an overstuffed chair would not in- duce him to stay in a room by him- sel{. Then there was his way of sdundlng up on his hind legs like a 0g. i H i { * * * As winter came along Jack took to lecturing the other .alley cats on | their way of life. You could see him any evening standing in front of a group of felines, tail waving, head up, earnest- 1y exhorting them. “This is a pretty good world, after all * Jack seemed.to be saying. “Yes. and this fs the best possible alley in the best possible world. I am quite positive of that. “Look at me. I have a serles of houses here, with men to shovel coal and keep me warm and provide com- fortable chairs for me in sleep in, and ‘milk and cream for me to drink. “Of course, one has to possess tain qualities of, ah, leadership, {tain charm of 'personality, to {ahead in this alley. But if you work hard, and not look at the clock, my young friends, success will be | yours, as it is_mine. God's in his heaven, all's right with the alley. So came the morning of the first| i real anow of the winter. { { It was a cold, wet, strange white- | { ness which came down upon Jack | Spratt, as he paced along the alley | that night, so that at 6 o'clock, when | | he ‘heard a call from his favorite | { house he was glad enough to elip in. | There was a warm welcome for him, | too. Snow on the ground made hu- { mans_think of Christmas, and when one thinks of Christmas in the right spirit it makes for a loosening of the { heart strings. More milk than he could drink | flowed from the milk bottle that | never seemed to be empty. The house was warm, and chairs | | beckoned. | My, how Jack Spratt did purr! * * % Alas for feline felicity. Just as Jack startéd to slip from the kitchen into the dining room, on his way to the living room, the mas- ter of the house swung the swinging a hut. | ‘}on::k. got through—all except half of { his tail. cer- cer- get | will | [ war with Spain.” ate and later served as secretary to!' Master and mistress, both in “the the President of the Senate and &s' kitchen, vainly struggled with the private secretary to the late Senator | door to puil it their way, but found Frye of Maine. | it impossible. owing to the fact that While taking his law course in! the door hdd merely a smooth brass ‘Washington, epresentative F. B. plate. Swank of 'Oklahoma was private| Jack screamed and tugged on the secretary to Representative Scott! other side. Ferris. ! There was but one thing to do, and Representative Clarence Cannon was parlilamentarian of the House while Champ Clark was Speaker and continued for a brief period after Speaker Gillett's election. l Representative Meyer . Jacobstéin of New York was speclal Asant in the bureau of corporattons, ?ll‘t- ment of Commerce, and served for one year. | the householder did It. He pushed on | the door, scrunching the cat's tail un- | til_the door swung through the cas- ing. X | "fack Spratt fled upatairs and ‘hid under = bed. leaving behind him a ituu of hair from his tall, 2 smear of hair_glong-the door and two very much ned human betn \other hand, Secretary Fish stated to- day that the confidence of the gov- ernment in the intentions of the Cas- | telar government to faithfully carry jout the provisions of a protocol re- cently agreed upon is undiminished and that they have strong reasons for believing that the Castelar gov- ernment will be able to do s0. As we {understand it, the government fully appreciates the difficulties under which the Madrid government are laboring In undertaking to carry out the provisions of the protocol, but has reasons for believing that they will succeed. A telegram states that our war vessels that have made Key West a rendeavous have left that point, and it is probable that they have gone over to take a ‘position of observa- tion' on the Cuban coast. Undoubt- edly the situation Is critical, but by no means so hopeless of peace as the tenor of the press dispatches would indicate. And if war should come our government, having exhausted every resource consistent with self-respect and national honor, to settle the dif- ficulties without bloodshed, will go before the country abundantly justi- fied.” i * % A singular “accident” befell the formidable Spanish ironclad Arapiles, which had been “Accident” to undergoing repairs R at the Brooklyn the Amp)leu. dry dock, according to The Star of December 8, 1873. On the Friday preceding the floodgates of the dock became blocked somehow s0 that they could not be made to work, and Saturday, “by another treak of bad luck,” a barge with 200 tons of coal sprang a leak and sank right in front of the gateway of the dock, completely blocking the pas- sage. It was thought that in view of the difficulties of raising a .barge load of coal in December the release of the Arapiles might be expected to be somewhat delayed, “perhaps until it is settled whether we are to have The Star goes on to say: “Ag we have no right to detain the Arapiles, unless . war has been de- clared, the accident to this coal barge would' seem to be providential At any rate, it is a curiously apropos accident, as the elder Weller remarked when his coachload of opposition voters got upset on their way to the polls.” * * % In connection with the anxiety over the outcome of the Virginius dispute i between the govern- Gen. Sickles ments came reports Resigns. that Gen. Danlel Sickles, American minister to Spain, had contributed to | the confusion by resigning. The Star in its issue of December 9, 1573, says: “It is generally conceded that Gen. Sickles has done some very creéditable and important work In the line of diplomacy; but it must be admitted, if reports are true, that he signally failed in the conduct of the delicate negotiations between the govern- ments of Spain and the United States. His vital mistake seems to have been in losing his temper. There are two classes of persons, at least, who should never let their angry passions rise i? they desire to be successful—diplo- matists and politicians. The blusterer in either role is always sure to come to grief. Bravado may overawe for a time, but it soon proves ineffectual.” It appears that Gen. Sickles felt that he had been ignored. inasmuch as the negotiations were directly con- ducted. by Secretary Fish instead of by the minister, and tendered his resignation, which the President re- fused to accept.