Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1923, Page 30

1l or tel de by car- ayr. of a ——op————— Opportunities Still Open. ‘While heretofore the “Fourteen Op- portunities” offered to the people of Washington to render specific and direct aid to needy and deserving fam- ily groups are fully met by Christmas day, this year the fund has lagged somewhat, and even now, five days beyond Christmas, the fund is short $1,893.14. Day by day since Christ- mas the deficit has been lessened, but this balance remains to be subscribed to fulfill the virtual obligation of the community, established by custom. The new year should not be per- mitted to open with this account un- closed. By New Year morning all the opportunities should be seized with a full subscription. Of the fourteen cases six remain. Each of them is as worthy as the eight that have been fully sub- scribed. In one case there are a widow and four children; in another case a woman separated from her husband, ‘with three children; a third case in- cludes a widow and three children; the fourth case a widow'and four chil- dren; a fifth case a widow and three children and a sixth case a widow and five children. Here are six women and twenty-two children, or twenty-eight persons for whom help is asked for the new year. Some money has been subscribed for each case, but there is in each instance a balance unpledged. Let these six cases be fully met by the dawn of the new year. —_—— Among a number of statesmen the courteous wish for & happy New Year 13 not expected to hold over till con- vention time. Hiram Johnson is a candidate, but has been put to some trouble in con- vincing South Dakota of the fact. —_—— Radio and the Church., Radio {s to be employed by the Christian churches. The Radio Digest calls attention to an announcement that a radio broadcast station will be installed in the Vatican, and that the Pope will speak to millions. It also says that at the next quadrennial meeting of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America a plan may be adopted for utilizing radio to bring the church to the people. The announcement is' made that the Methodist Church, through its com- mittee on conservation end advice, may soon consider the national appli- cation of broadcasting. The Baptists and Lutherans are said by the Radio Digest also to be considering the use | of radio to spread the gospel. Already many ministers of progress and prominence are broadcasting ser- mons, Bible Jessons and eloquent ap- peals to consclence. Rgdio is exerting e wide influence now. Thousands of “listeners-in"—and there will soon be many millions—are hearing much more music than- before, and this ‘musle. is rendered-hy competent musi- «wians, Much of this music is uplifting tants. —_———— e Just when an air voyage seemed a safe method of investigating polar conditions the Dixmude called atten- tion to the peculiar perils of such an enterprise. The relief expedition is still to be thought of when the ven- ture is made. —_—————— There is no reason for Mr. Magnus Johnson to expect anything but a square deal in Congress, but at the present time the cards are still being shuffled. e, Young Mr. Wood's fortune made in a short time from a small beginning has aroused in old speculators the fear that Wall street is getting careless. ——————— Italy sees no reason for disturbin, a busy and capable dictator with an election. —_——————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Perpetuity. Enfolded in the tinlest seed Must be the forms fruition brings, Too small for mortal eye to heed Among earth’s great, mysterious things. Though sorrow rules the outward show, Joys are unconquered by the fates, And underneath the winter snow The summer blossom smiles ‘waits, Falr Encugh, “‘Some of the questions put to you must be very difficult.”’ “Very,” answered Senator Sorghum. “That's why I occasionally use long words. The only way to meet & ques- tion you don’t understand is to frame an answer equally incomprehensible.” Jud Tunkins says the man with “a ! 5 { would be all right if he could himself inside out. THE EVENING STAR 'o the mind snd much s me:ely di- Rose Johnson, Mise Pansy Parkine of | 1t never went before. son of Rockvill SUNDAY.....December 30, 1023 to sermons by radio. Many of these 'were asked. Strong drink and flery Business Office, 11th 8t. and Pennayivania ....iu-. minds of hearers. Perhaps the to which could attract most callers. It Buropean Ofice: 16 Rege ; The Evening Star, with the Su morning ' CHUrch even though he were sure of ; most popular girls they could to “as- cents per month; Sunday oaly, read the sermon if it were put before | set out the sweetest and prettiest cake riers at Daily and Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1 mo., 7°°|t1| they can give but a sketch of and often clubbed together to hire 1yr, All Other States. | the listener-in hears the speaker. mot know, BuiidayEonly, 1yr. $3.00:1m0.. 3¢ 1 ooy roblem. The set owner does not ‘was a great deal of exhilaration among ooy ol L TR Generally a minister of ability above | the number of them grew fast from lished ‘herein. A'l “rights of publleation of = | self indifferent to questions of the liquor and upheld the anclent custom At the annual holiday luncheon of |gpane interest in these subjects, and |against the practice of serving real erick P Keppel, the president, review- mighty missionary work by redio. | more they limited the punch to fruit future field of usefulness, said that it Proponents af the soldler bonus In | MOFe Brominent on the sidebosrd it ot e e ference of republican members of the | MOr® and more talk of the wrong of ington. recently met in generous meas- e o e ry s &nce of men at these receptions de. o Bl e of the measure by the House. The ob-| 1 nose Recelving” and more notices s e T bill, on which the committee | {riends called on friends. Finally they in closer touch with books. ! New Year." —————e lar education. His munificent endow- | mittee action, on the tax-revision bil| Only-Two Guests at Dinner, buildings, stocked and maintained by {that short of some extraordinary | Yuletide dinner to old horses given the reach of a great number of peo-| plished simultaneously with @ bonus | Does this mean that the horse is, in visi ned beneficence. have the House declare itself on the | the motive power? Or does it mean fillment of the founder's bequest ! with the enactment of & tax bill if it{ Time was when an offer of a free library training Such schools are|course is adopted, a conflict must pointed place. Now, out of all Wash. for the men and women who are to|tax bill awaiting action or a tax bill | sounded with the clatter of hoofs as work. Where could such an ln-um-‘ Seemingly no middle course fis|bred and better groomed horses of Congress, one of the greatest book col- | pass @ revenue measure along the|out from any point of vantage upon buildings, with branches made pos-|supported by possibly the same votes | hundred motor cars will pass before thoughts, hither come people from all | of taxes. motive power of nearby farmers, but Carnegie Corporation would prove a |from those who have pledged them-|be surprised by the appearan tor. cause it is plain that Secretary Mel- | invitation to a free Yuletide feast They have not specifically pledged | that may signify that Washington has solve themselves from their bonus encies, whereas if they by their bonus organized but widely spread public tax reduction along the Mellon lines Unless the Secretary of the Treasury and at the same time to pay the bonus. would call for an extraordinary meas. form of either a tax increase or an Platforms for 1924 are already un- lapse, in. spite of the speed with ———te————— a little laughter. Possibly the red-flag Exorbitant prices are charged for there is a profiteer. feel some gratitude toward Hiram ————— sun may shine as bright, snow may Year day, 1034, and New Year day of, & hang the latchstring out, but not in Laws of those old times. There will be “receiv- | mne children barefoot went because many receptions. Reverrues, verting, but the best in music is being Leonardtown, Miss Lily Rbbinson of With Sunday Morning Bltlon. | ;. red into thousands of homes where , Port Tobacco and Miss Lilac. Roberts WASHINGTON, D. C. S Men and women who have not the| Everybody who wore coat and habit of going to church are listening trousers was welcome. No questions THEODORE W. NOYES. Hattee sermons are of the highest character, | liquors were commonly served. “There The Evening Star Newspaper Company 8nd do not fail to stimulate and enrich | seemed to be rivalry among ladles as nd B Tox Dl e et man recelving the sermon over his set | was consldered a test of popularity. 1 8t.. London, Eagland, ' would not “take the trouble" to go to. They got together the prettiest and edition, is deliversd by catriers within the hearing a sermon out of the ordinary. !sist” They made thelr punch bowl Sty a0 cante; Sor mo g A} He would not “take the trouble” to s allufing as they know how. They month. Orders may be ment by phione M fon in ma EE d newspapers have 8o much to pub- dinner table. Mon made up their call- Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. |‘"‘ Maryland and Virginia, lish that where they print sermons at ing lists, put on their Sunday clothes Dally only. il.oo 1mo., 80c | what the ministers say. On the radio, ; hacks in-which*to make the round of Sunday only 240;1m0.,20¢ in which he is intensely interested, people they knew and some they did Dally and Sunday.1yr., $10.00: 1 mo., 85¢ Whether the speaker can hold the at-| It was considered a happy and joy- Daily only.. 1yr. $7.00:1mo., 60 tention of the listener-in is that speak- 'ous time. And perhaps it was. There Membar of the Associated Press. have to listen if not interested. He the men and some cases of drunken The Assoc'ated Press s exclsively <ntitied " turns to another station. I ness. Persons opposed to liquor, and Dpatehes ered: ed fo it oc Hot otherwixe eredited Hahea " ponier and alio the lo al newt 2UN the ordinary will interest a listener-in, | year to year, said there was a great special ds atches hercin are also reseived, even though that man may think him-, deal of drunkenness. People who used s ibrary soul, immortality and higher life here. ! sald there was very little drunken- Carneg’e Lib Development. Every normal man has an active, or a | ness. Gradually women began to turn ':’t‘ trustees of the Carnegle Corpora- | ype minister who has the gift of get- | drinks and receiving men they scarce- ton in New York city Friday, Fred-| yjng gt o man's mind and heart can do Iy knew or did not know. More and ing the work of the corporation with- julces that had not passed through in the past year, and pointing to its Bonus or Tax Revision. 'rgrmanutlon. Mineral water became i now turning to library research and womi alding libraries in Improving their | the House of Representatives are cir- | x,?;:n, or ;Tu.m:,,,?,..m‘.l:: “:,':..: h,,.m. { culating a petition calling for @ con- | i nouncement is of particular interest i in view of the library needs of Wash- | House on the night of January 10 tor-:’:;":.l !em:;l::r;az n:n-m::y :’l:;:: | the purpose of Instructing the ways pocial & 2 ure by the grant of $200,000 for the i erection of & new branch of the Pub. | bonus bill not later than January n.lf"":‘e:; .m':'{h:;d Lf:':.":?nfe:'_“z‘: and to assure immediate consideration 7 which will greatly increase the useful- £ N Vi > ness of the local institution, may be | ject of this movement is to put the - c"“"'t‘;;" ;:‘“m“e;'u;'l’l' sfl‘,‘.‘,’ {bonus measure ahead of the y tion’s p licy of promoting education weall,” o by putting the people of this country s now working. If, as the advocates ;":,“_ ‘;‘:‘“:";‘.;l‘ y::“;n:“;‘::';‘ :"""_’:;" of the bonus belleve, such a measure X Andrew Carnegle believed in the | passes the House, the work of thé com- value of libraries as a means of popu- | mittee, or of the House following com- ment has spread thry nut this coun- | will necessarily be affected. For it is| There is something very sad, and try and elsewhere a s. iss cf library | recognized by most bonus advocates |yet in- a way reassuring, about the the communities. Millions of books|means of financing the bonus mate- | yesterday by the Animal Rescue Lave by this means been placed within | rial tax reduction cannot be accom-|League. Only two horses appeared. ple. It is impossible to estimate the | grant. truth, disappearing, as so often has good that has come from this broad-| In this situation it is just as well to | been predicted since gasoline became It has been suggested that in exten- | bonus now as later. Logically it would | that the horses of today are better sion of the Carnegie Corporation’s ful- | be perhaps more desirable to proceed | cared for than in the past? means be provided for the establish-|is conceded that some measure of tax dinner for draft animals would have ment and development of & school for | revision is required. But, whichever | brought a drove of them to the ap- now in existence, some as annexes to | arise. The choice Is whether it should | ington, only two come. Time was libraries. They are training grounds |come with a bonus bill passed and a | when the streets of Washington re- serve the people. There is, however, a | passed and a bonus bill awaiting ac- | horses and mules made their way on need of a broader foundation for this | tion. errands of business or as the better tion be more suitably established than | viewed as practicable. There is no dis- | higher life sped their owners on er- in Washington? Here isthe Library of | position to proceed in this wise; to|rands and on pleasure. Now, looking lections in the world. Here is one of | lines of the Mellon plan, perhaps ac- | the Capital's broadest street a horse is the earliest of the Carnegie lbrary |companied by or followed by & bonus{a rarity. A hundred, perhaps two sible by the wisely liberal terms of the | and adjusted to the revenue resources | single animal appears. Around the founder’'s gift. Here center national of the government under the revision | markets are more of them, mostly the parts of the country. A national li-] It Is frankly recognized that the|a child who is just beginning # ob- brary training school endowed by the ; pressure for bonus enactment comes | serve, if city-born and bred, is fitting sequel to the wonder-working | selves to their constituents to support | horse as a strange creature. benefaction of which it is the execu-|it. They are now in difficulties be-| Will the day come when the annual lon's tax-reduction plan is supported | draws no guests? It is sad to contem- by an overwhelming public opinion. | plate such a possibility, even though themselves for tax revision, and they are in this dilemma, that if they ab- pledges they may offend & certain or- ganized fraction of their constitu- votes put themselves in & position to deny tax reduction they offend an un- copinion. ‘To vote for both a bonus bill and for may quiet some consciences. But that would be a dodging of responsibllity. is wrong in his reckoning it is impos- sible to reduce materially the revenues To order both is to put the Treasury in a hole, to create a deficit which ure in the near future. That extraor- dinary measure could only take the abandonment of the bonus. P e der discussion. The interest in this form of lterary composition does not which even the most carefully pre- pared specimens pass into obscurity. The Russian temperament is rather gloomy at best, yet all men strive for rumor was an effort to be facetious. ———— building materials since the earth- quake in Japan. For every misfortune B . At all events South Dakota ought to Johnson as the man who made the state famous. 0ld New Year Day. New Year day has changed. The fall as deep or wind may blow as hard, but there is a difference between New well, let one say 1870 or 1880. Many of us will keep “open house” and the way—the lavish and promiscuous { e family hasn't much applause way—we did, or our mothers did, In| por gpurious Christmas cheer. ing,” but the entertainment will not| mhe pootiey was so dear, be the same. Nor will there be 80 pEtim ey Regulating i Time was when everybody in Wash-| “How does Crimson Guich feel about Ington not receiving was calling. The | tax reduction?” : Star in the old days used to publish | *Taxes don't bother us so much,” a page or two pages of “Those Recelv- { answered Cactus Joe. “What us re- ing” and a shorter list of “Not Receiv- formers are strugglin® with at present ing.” Those “not recelving” were gen- |is a movement to reduce the rake-off erally “assisting” those who were re- | in the muricipal poker game.” ° celving. The published notices were & —_— something like this: “Mrs. X. Y. Smith| “A good man wif a bad ides,” said will receive from 11 to 6 at her home. | Uncle Eben, “an’ & bad man wif a No. 2000 Z street, assisted by Miss | good one is Daisy Smith, Miss Violet Jones, Missdo’ trouble,” him. Most persons are lazy readers, and candy on the sideboard or the | no “poor” among its equine inhabi |4 rough exterior but a kind heart” |Ei STAR, WASHINGTON, Repentance Needed to Purchase | Capi Oblivion of Past on New Year THOMAS R. MARSHALL, Former Viee Frosident of the United ' EGARDLESS of how old we may grow, we keep on hark- Ing back to the imagination of cbildhood. The child is never killed in the man. We know we are mnot good, yvet we derive pleasure from playing the hypocrite row and then. We krow we are Inot wise, but infinite satistaction !comes in assuming that we know it 8ll. We know we are not just, but 1to dream that we keep the scales of our judgment equaily balanced helps & great deal. One day differs from another only as we may happen to feel differently and put abstract ling into concrete expression. Tru- 1y, life has its self-deceptions as well as its ironles. However, we are not really decelved by them. st man’'s mood by a bulletin or tion of an executive. Governor of Indian: declined to proclaim “Mothers’ day’ as & day when all men who were absent from their mothers sho letter, and I gave son that any man who had ficlally reminded of the love ty he owed his mother and induced only by public roclamation to attest his affection and devotion was not worth worry- ing about. T did not desire oMcially to recognize any young man who forgot his mother from one procia- mation to another. * k% The recent drive for & Golden Rule Sunday struck me as amusin; The church, of course, Is the origin of the golden rue and Sunday is the church’ day for services, but every day should Y golden rule day, and its preach- nent should be wherever men and women gather to work or to enjoy the ligther and finer relations of life. Whenever, if eve made for the golden rule i and society some hope for democra. W;‘Il the mlm will be Although I have but little faith in sporadic altruism, I should be the last person on h to object to anything which was intended to promote even an hour of higher thinking and finer living. 1 hall with respectful salutations the dawning of the New Year. How much good a day may do the world does not, however, depend upon the Quy. The chubby little infant who 3ymbolles the New Year and em- blemizes hope should not command ou tire attention. We should give some thought to the old man on the calendar who i tory lest he merge into forgetfulnes: We may be agnostics, it we will, but we cannot safely deny that what a man sows t shall h Happy !s the man who at New dawn can truthfully repeat words: The years have The old year Filled with th The golden wi ¥ e; thes ine of precious memories, Joth line the silver is. * x x x Notwithstanding my quite ttled view that there is nothing in a par- ticular day which in and of itself can bs heipful to mankind, yet I realize that it is good to have a day on which to consider the past and view the future as a climber stops at a half- way point to survey the path b hind him and to scan the path ahead. In this way he gets hig_bearings and & fresh start. New Year day Is such a day. We may look back upon an old year filled with errors unnum- bered, mistakes of judgment, occa- sional bad falth, imperfect concep- tions of truth, acts of unkindness— all the thousand and one weaknesses which are common heritage of frail mortality—yet we may be happy if through it all there runs the golden cord of & sincere desire to do better, to be more worthy, to avold repeti- tion of the words and acts and thoughts which. stand out on the record like black charcoal on white paper. For it must be true, or life fs hopeless, that in the scales of the eternal 'the purposes of mankind, weigh far more heavily than conduct. | Nor is it at all difficult even for hu- mankind to make & clear distinction between wrong conduct that is re- gretted and wrong conduct that is deliberate. LR 1 wish it were possible to enlarge the number of New Year days in our lives on which to keep ever con- stantly increasing new and good reso- Iutions for the future. Our broken- | hearted world wandering in a wil- derness of doubt is breathing a prayer this New Year day that the evils which vex mankind may disappear in the year to come. Right-thinking men are resolving to eliminate the wrongs of the past and to help for- ward some of the rights. We cannot get ourselves away from the idea of reform. We still dream that by taking more externals and restoring them to thelr original form and shape we can help much in the betterment of man. But I have ob- served that reform does not reform. have seen life change its ‘orm, and yet not alter its value for the better. It Is by reason of this fact that I wis] ch day were New Year day. 1 wish it were possible to abolish re- | form ana put in its place regenera- tion. 1 wish that each of us, with ov tting sun, might bury in the grave of forgetfulness every unwor- thy thought and deed. I would be supremely happy if 1 could be assured of & new birth for myself and my fellow men at each rising sun, bring- Ing Into the world new men and wom- en who had faith in the old republic, its Institutions and its laws, and in { humankind as sons and daughters of | the *-same God, L The New Year beckons, and wheth- er it is to be a better year than the old depends not so much on the reso- lutions which we may nfake as on the power back of the resolutions to i keep them In effect. The year beck- ona, but it points no way where men and women are to walk. It beckons t0 the young man following a career of crime as certainly as it beckons the sainted motherhood of the land. If the young man moves forward from this day with his vicious im- pulses of the past his lead him not to peace, ably to the penitentiary. Year will not change the workings of the law wherever gre or envy or malice of false ambition may control the lives of men. The New Year is not a surgeon about to remove dis- cased tissues from our bodies. It is but an opportunity. It is a clarion call to the hearts and consciences of humankind. It says to you and to me: “You may safely forget the past, it filled with evil, provided you re- gret it. You may look with hope upon the future if today not an tmpulse but an inspiration. (Copyright, 1023, by Twenty-first Century Press. i Democrats Talk of Dropping Two-Thirds Convention Rule BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN, In democratic national conventions the successful candidates for Presi- dent and Vice President must receive the votes of at least two-thirds of the legates. In republican conventions & bare majority suffices to mominate. There has always been some op- position to democracy's two-thirds which was established at the mandate of Andrew Jackson, but this opposition has never attained formidable proportions. On the eve of the 1924 party conclave, however, there is more talk of an attempt to do away with the rule than has been heard for many years, and it is quite possible that it will develop the first harp contest in the convention, th date and place of which are to be determined when the democratic n: tional committee meets In Washing- ton on January 15. * % x % Back of this opposition is the fear in the minds of some of the party leaders that a determined, cohesive and well managed minority may be ble to thwart the will of & sub- stantial majority of the convention and eventually force the majority to accept its candidate. This has hap- pened, and only so long ago as 1912 when Woodrow Wilson achleved his first nomination to the presidency. In the Baltimore convention of that year Champ Clark of Missouri polled a majority of the delegate vote on a number of ballots, but he could not muster the required two-thirds. The minority, ably generaled by Willlam Jennings Bryan, made It clear that Clark would ne' it, ln? in the f: a'party schism the m: ened and the nominat . wg::ndcsl politiclans among the democrats who had to do with the 1912 campaign_for the election re- member that Wilson was neither a strong nor a popular candidate. They sald so then when they were not talking for publication and they say 80 now when they are discussing what may happen to their party in 1924, Wylllfln did not arouse any appreciable amount of enthusiasm among the rank and he did not poll the normal democratic vots He was elected simply because th republicans were hopelessly divided 28 a result of the Roosevelt-Taft con- troversy and there was a third party in the field. Wilson did not have a real, popular following of national vrhnnortlhnn- until the ::: . nlmpul:n when thers was a & respo! to the appeal in his behalf that he had kept this country out of the uropean war. * % %% Devoted adherents of Woodrow ‘Wilson may disagree with this, citing the fact that in 1912 he received the the i3 ority weak- on ‘went to forty-eight states. However, the fact remains that in the matter of the popular vote he was a minority can- didate by some 2,600,000, the aggre- gate of the votes received by Taft and Roosevelt bel: that much in excess of the total t for him. Now, the democratic leaders who |4 are of & “practical” turn of mind— that is, who are more concerne about carrying the election next year than about anything else—are con- thy sidering 1924 prospects in the light|resulted ened in 1918. Hence ::ol:.l‘:hm over the two-thirds possible vote-getter as thelr candi- te. They are not counting on a factional split among the republicans this time. They are hopeful, of course, that there will be some dis satisfaction and dissension among their opponents, but they do not want to have to depend upon that for their assurance of victory at the polis. And recalling the events of 1812, they say that the two-thirds rule, if ad- hered to might bring about the nomination of a democrat who would be comparatively as weak a vote- tter as Woodrow Wilson proved to e in his first race. * K kX It is argued that the candidate for the democratic nomination who makes such a showing in the presidential primaries and in the other contests for delegates that he Is able to com- mand a majority of the votes in the pational convention is logically the man to head the ticket. This does not mean that the man who rece'ves the most votes on the first ballot should be nominated, but it is con- tended that when a candidate receives a majority vote he has demonstrated | a party strength that should not be denied. | "There 1s the further consideration that in event a minority should de- !feat a majority candidate in next {years conventicn a merious and dis- astrous split in the democratic ranks !ml‘ht result. Followers of the ma- jority candidate might refuse to ac {cept the leadership of the nominee forced on the party by the minority. This did not happen in 1912. Champ rk and his friends gave Woodrow Wilson their loyal support, However, that might not be the aftermath of 1924. A heated contest for the presi- dential nomination is in prospect. and (1t is recognized that in such strug- gles disastrous bitternesses are more easily engendered than avolded. * x ! It has been sald that the two-thirds rule was adopted in the first demo- cratic national convention as a meas- ure to prevent the mnomination of {John C. Calhoun for Vice President, but this s dented. It Is pointed out that the 1832 convention was com pletely dominated by Andrew Jack- | son and that there no doubt tha it would be because the call specifi- cally limited representation to those “friendly to the election of Gen. Jac! mon, d stated the object to be “to nominate a candidate for Vice Preei- dent and take such other measures in support of the re-election of Andrew Jackson as may be deemed exp ent.! The two-thirds rule was adopted without controversy. Cal- houn was not a candidate before the convention. Jackson was named for the presidency without the formality of a ballot,’and Van Buren was nom- inated for second pikce on the ticket by a vote of 208 to 49 for Philip P. Barbour of Virginia and 26 for Rich- ard M. Iohnm; n: lglnlllcky. * . [} . ‘The rule was contested in 1840 and again in 1844, when it received 148 votes to 118, the closest margin by which it has e been affirmed. In 1848, with 263 delegates in attendance and voting, the opposition mustered only seventy-elght votes, although there were 128 delegates who did not ‘vote on the first ballot for Gen. who was ultimately the president! nominee. In 1 rule was sus- talned and applied so0 a® to require two-thirds of the whole number of tes elected to the convention, 303, although forty-five votes were not represented after withdrawal of many of southern delegates. It tponed their nomination of Doug: but it is claimed that it did not 4l lon in th Yy m: o. Dboth liable to:maks & heap, liave that their party hag 3 ll- m&:fl. chanee o?;wlnnl; next e C, DECEMBER 30, .1923—PART 2 = e ————————————— tal Sidelights ‘BY WILL P. KEXNEDY Lehr Fess, parllamentarian of the House, is now reading proof on his forthcoming book on “Precedents of the House,” He Is bringinz hi digest up to date’ while marking time, 5o that the revision of the rules of the House, which is prom- ised as a result of the ‘“progres- sive”-“conservative”-republican tug- of-war a couple of weeks ago may be included. Hearings were started on the proposals for revision of the rules before the Christma: ho]ld-!ll; Unless House precedents are al kew, this same Lehr Fess, who is he elder son of Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohlo, is destined member of the House himself some @ay, although he now has no politi- cal ambitions. But the odds are all in favor of his being elected. Of the five men who have held the position of parllamentarian during the last thirty years, all have sub- soquently been elected to a seat in Congress, except one—and he led a regiment in France. Amos Lawrenco Allen held a seat in the House for twelve years. For- o8t Goodwin was elected to the Sixty-third Congress and died in the House, Asher C. Hinds was a mem- ber of the Sixty-second and Sixty- third Congresses. Charles R. Crisp was elected in 1913 and is today one of the most influential of the minor- ity members. Clarence Cannon, par- Hamentarian of Champ Clark and for a time under Speaker Gillctt, who was clerk of the democratic caucus of the House the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-seventh Con- gresses; parliamentarian of the dem- ocratic ‘natlonal convention in San Francisco in 1920, editor of two od'tions of the Manuel and Digest of the House, author of “A Synopsis of Procedure of the House” and of “Procedure of the House of Repre- sentatives,” published by resolution of the House, and editor and co pfler of “Precedents of the House by act of Congress, approved by President Harding. That same Clar- ence Cannon s now a member. When the late Col. Glenn, the political boss of Missouri, resigned as journal clerk of the House some years ago, Champ Clark put Clar- once Cannon in that job. At the opening of the world war when Lieut. Col. Bennett Clark resigned as pa liamentarian to take a commission in the Army, the place went unsolic- ‘ted to Cannon, who had volunteered three times for the training camps ard had been rejected each time. * ok % % Here are some flashes on the life story of an immigrant boy, who came across the Canadian border to “work and win" his way to “fame and for- tune” in this “land of the free and home of the brave.” He has done all this, has Senator James 8. Couzens. When he was fifteen, he was a “news butcher” on a back-woods railroad in Michigan, and studied telegraphy in his spare time. When he was nineteen he got a Job as car-checker for the Michigan Central rallroad, working twelve hours a day and seven days a week. When he was twenty-five he got a job in the coal busin When he was twenty-nine, he in- vested $400 he had saved, $500 given to him as a bonus by his coal-man employer, and $100 belonging to his sister, and went into business on a “fifty-fifty” basis with Henry Ford. In 1915 he sold out his heldings Mr. Ford for $30,000,000, He was the organizing genius of the Ford works, with 40,000 men working with him, through the profit- sharing system he initiated. He was vice president and general manager of the Ford Motor Com- pany, vice president of the Ford Mo- tor Company of Canada, Limited, and director of the Ford Motor Company of England, Limited. He was president of the Detroit Board of Commerce, police commi: sloner and street rallway commi sioner of Detroit, director of the De- troit Trust Company, served as mayor of Detroit for three years and as president of the Bank of Detroit. At fifty years of age he Is United States senator, one of the richest men in the country—which is pretty good for an immigrant boy! * x ok % Frank W. Mondell, floor leader in the last Congress and now war finance commissioner, is another ‘work and win” fellow who from humble and handicapped start has: made his way into prominence n the | nation's affalrs—with a record of | more than a quarter of a century of public service. He was born on the day of Lin- coln’s first election. His father built and ran a pioneer hotel in Prairie du { Chien, Wis. Frank was left an or- | phan at six years of age, and his e tire life has been spent in seeing ncwi country opened up for settiement and | development, much of it through his | own labors. Mondell spent about nine years of his youth in the family of a Congre- gational minister in a new settlement Io to wa. They hi the lumber for across the pral group of home- | t neighbors were forty-five miles away. The minister had a small library hosen classics—Hume's and | stories of England, Gib- | nd concordanc gleal works and Shakespeare. Mondell's speeches in Congress, which would fill a good , reflec his early cultural reading. He chos his words carefully, and has an e tensive and exact Vocabulary. His first railroad trip was in a cat- tle car to Chicago. His job was to get on their feet the cattle that were down when the train stopped. He landed in the big city with $3 in his pocket and for eighteen months worked at anything he could get to do, and then went farther toward the setting sun to help tame the “wild west.” e x- * ok k% ‘ Senator David I. Walsh of Massa- chusetts, who is the first democrat elected from that state to the Un States Senate In sixty-eight years and the fourth in the entire history of ‘the American Congress, in remi- niscing with a group of college cronies ome folks during the Christ- mas vacation, recalled that he was thrown out bodily from the first j demoncratic rally he ever sought to attend. T hen he was twelve years old, and the scene was the old town hall in Clinton, It was not into the hall, but admiration for his elder brother l.(Vohn. a ll(t!dh orator, ticipated in a torch light proces- sidn, and then they tried to get in to hear the ID‘:M:!I h‘r'nnk-l‘nx. fio "“{'3{ who nce ste LT incident, grabbed id Ignatius by the nape of the neck and chucked him into Iterior dark! W ce he was l“ato: rescued by a family friend who argued him into the hall. * ¥ * How short & time it has been since at least part of the west was still “wild” is recalled by the presence in the House of Representative Milton Cline Garber of Enid, Okla., who was & member of the subcommittee from the republican committee on commit- tees drafting the slate of commit assignments. Garber made “the run” when tI “Cherokee strip” was opened to set- tlement. He secured a claim in the eastern part of the country in the north part of the then territory, now state. In with his P! under the speakership | The great army of American golf- ‘ers may yet rise up and call them- selves blessed in the fact that they have a golt pliyer Chief Jus the Supreme Court of the | States. For it is becoming more and !more evident as time goes by and Bolf courses multiply that some i phase of golf litigation is certain to .come before the highest tribunal in |the land. Golf cases naturally will call for golf lawyers. Golf is an un- usual game. It has traditions. It has an etiquette of its own—even if that etiquette be honored more in the breach than in the observance. To the outsider golf has many queer angles. And so it might appear to the ordinary judge. Golf problems are easy to the man who knows but 80 happens that there are a few Judges In the country who have not yet taken up the game. Mr. Chief Justice Taft, however, Is sure to find sound logic in the charge of a Jersey jurist to a jury which had before it the case of one grouchy player who was suing a second play- er because the latter drove a 11 which hit the grouch on the bean and caused something of a concu n the amount of brain Imbedded be- neath the spot where the flying pill came In contact with the cranium. The Jersey judge laild down what may be accepted in the future as one f the laws of golf when he said: ‘When a player goes on the links he does assume the risks of the game as it is played by a reasonably pru- dent and careful person. The driving player must use ordinary care not to injure the player in front of him, but the player ahead also must u ordinary care in not being injured. All golfers will sympathize with the driver in the case in question. He sald that the complaining player had left the green ahead before he, the defendant, drove off the tee. It was a one-shot hole. The driving player had waited for those ahead of him to get off the green purely as a matter of courtesy, for he never had driven the green in all his life and had no thought of doing it that day. But the miracle happened. He man aged by mistake to time his stroke Jjust right. managed to keep his eye on the ball, and away it flew straight for the green. A favoring wind took up the good work. The ball not onl. soared to the green, but beyond lnl. maliclously, cracked the complaining player squarecly on the head. The d. fendant avowed he had no reason to believe he could ever propel a golf ball that far. There must have been some golf players on the jury for they under- stood exactly what the defendant meant and they gave him the verdlet in the $10,000 suit. * % % % A prominent newspaper editor visit- ing Washington the past week an- nounced that he had taken occasion recently to warn several of his fel- low craftsmen against the danger of a “fifty years ago today” column in their papers. Great care, he sald, must always be taken in the selection cf your news of fifty years ago, because American life is kaleldoscopic and many changes occur in the span of half a century. ever leave the selection of the ite of fifty years ago to a cul de- clared this editor, with a wealth of experience behind him. “Try if you can to get a man of fifty years ago Heard and Seen “I discovered Georgetown,” he said. “Yes, I am fully aware of the fact that It was founded in 1754, incor- porated some time after the revolu- tion, and has been flourishing ever since. “No, I'm no pioneer, but I discovered Georgetown, just the same. What did it mean to me to know that great ships once came to its whdrves, it I myself did not know how the Poto- mac river looked with the sunshine upon it? “It was mildly interesting to be told that once George Washington stop- ped at such and such a place. but it didn’t mean much to me until I ac- tually got to browsing around through the place. “Then I opened up a new town, a far as 1 was concerned, a place as interesting as many towns thousands of persons go thousands of miles to see. I wonder how many people there are in Washington just llke 1 was, who know Georgetown only as a name? ’ * “It 1s a great deal more than a the fact that it is an integral part of the National Capital, just like Mount Pleasant, or Columbia Heights. “Yet no ome can investigate the e creek without feeling that it Is great- ly different from the other sections named. It looks different, the people |2et aiiterently, the very atmosphers t ! is different. i “There was a French lady, I under |stand, away back in the pre-revolu- {'tion days—or was it slightly post- ! revolutionary—who declared that | Washington was a city of streets { without houses, whereas Georgetown ! was a_city of houses without streets. { ““Both conditions have been reme | died long since, but Georgetown con: | tinues to hold to its traditions, cher- |ishing its atmosphere. There are | some newer parts of the National Capital where everything is so ‘built up,’ so spic-and-span, that they lack character, in the best sense of that ch-abused woi " They remind one of a tiled bath- ! room, beautiful, clean, fine, unques- i tionably, yet lacking that subtle | something ‘that hits the observer in [ places where many years have twined | their vines of remembrance. x * * “Over in Georgetown one finds old houses that have come down from the revolution and from the oivil war times. Great old places, sitting back in yards that call to pleasant times. “Not 8o far away, perhaps, up an- other hill, and one comes on & new development, with houses going up, for the first time in history—think of it!—on land where Indians have been i the only settlers before. Yet, even the new homes keep to ! the traditions. of Georgetown, where people mind their own business and let_other people mind theirs. “Wisconsin avenue, once known as High street, is the Main street of the community. Here on Saturday nights, just itke in any midwestern town, the people come In great numbers. ‘Children walk bareheaded down- town in Georgetown. Very few of ithem do the same in hington, ID. C. I mean on the east side of | Rock creek, along historic Pennsyl- vania avenue. “I think that shows well the dif- ference between this part of the Na- tional Capl and the great T« mainder. = The more you browse around ahd through.it, the more it STOWS on you. * % “To walk down 35th street on & frosty, brisk morning, and come to the top of old Stony hill, to pick one’s way down that steep Incline, and then to come to the point where H suddenly the river flashes in the sun w: is & newspaper publish- ing_ ol of the actively 1 { below— “Why, that's'an experience! “Wherever you furn in .| George- taw g u::: - ‘N you.come upon ’M;" 1n. confusing to those who don’t, and it MEN AND AFFAIRS BY ROBERT T. SMALL “Why? T'll tell you. run- ning a paper down south. It was an old paper, and it occurred to me that the people in the community, which was still small despite its golden years, would relish the idea of hav- ing the events and rsonalities of fifty years a recalled. All went well for a while, and then the column- ist_dug up what he thought was a very humorous item. It was about the theft of a mule by a colored man. Next day a venerable old colored par- son came In to see me with tears in his eyes. ‘How come,” he said, ‘you white folks want to tell de story of my past which I been trying to live down through all dese years.’ So you Seo it really was a tragedy, and yet the man who selected the item had no idea the old fellow could by any chance still be in the land of the | living. “The next trouble we got into was when the column came out one day with the statement that fifty vears ago John Smith was arrested for keeping his barroom open on Sunday. It so happened that this particular Smith family, which had its begin- nings in the corner saloon, had grown }to me for months after that tell-tale item of the dead half century had been brought to light. “So 1 say again to my fellow ed tors, scan your fifty years with care. * ok ok *x Speaking of newspapers and the long ago, an old press operator in one of the bureaus here was recall- ing a few days ago the time when |Thomas A. Edison was & telegraph |operator copying news dispatches in |the middle west, perhaps it was In- !dianapolis. Edison was on duty the |night that Lincoln was assassinated. For a long stretch of hours he sat at the recelving end of the line writ- ing down In longhand the thousands of words that came hurling out of Washington. Edison did not “break” ithe sender once during the time the dispatch was coming. He breathed sigh of relief, however, when the sender told everybody along the line to “take fifteen minutes for lunch and hurry back.” Edison went out jof the office and to his amazement found the streets of the city secthing with excitement. “What is all the fuss about™ he lln Passerby. quired of the fi | “My God t you heard?” the , have replied. ‘Lincoln has been !shot.” i sked and whereabouts?” and disappeared into the crowd. He was dumfounded that any man at that hour of the night should be so ignorant. Now this is a true story, no mutter how much the layman may doubt it. Edison had copled the complete story of Lincoln's assassination, had brought the first news to the city, and until he went out to lunch knew absolutely nothing about it. The explanation is easy. His mind had been on something else. Perhaps he was dreaming of the duplex and the quadruplex and the incandescent !light. In any event, he had copled jthe stuff from the telegraph wire ipurely by mechanics. The clicks had icome into his ears and gone out of his fingertips and had left no im- pression on the brain cells which had conducted the complicated operation. Many times the writer has heard {a recelving operator complain that the sender was not reading what he sent. It sounds foolish, but ask any telegraph operator if it is not so. Fifty Years Ago In The Star Detaills of the manner in which the American survivors of the Vir- g€infus Afilibustering Virginius expedition ffty years i ago were treated by Prisoners. 1 spantsh authorities in Cuba, printed in The Star of De- cember 23, 1873, were calculated to increase the militant feeling of the people of this country. A dispatch !from Key West says that & ship had [just arrived there from Santiago de iCl.lb with reports. | “It.appears that the Spanish au- ,thormu kept the poor wretches In ilgnorance of their prospective re- jlease and led them to suppose that ithey were to be executed. Priests were with them, taking thelr confes- slons and dying declarations. They were taken out of prison in despair, but on thelr way to the slaughter pen, as they supposed, their eyes foll I the then wlilds of northwestern |Name. It is a city in itself, despite iupon the Juniats, flying the flag of the United States, and when they realized the truth scene occurred which beggars description. Thelr enthuslasm knew no bounds. They were speedily transferred to the deck ommunity on the other side of Rock!of the Juniata and gave vent to the mosat extravagant demonstrations of each other, crying, some kissing and |Others audibiy offering thunke to the | Almighty for thelr deliverance from i the horror of their dungeons and the | prospect of an lgnominious death. Y¥On_the night before the surrender the officers and crew of the Juniata were stationed at quarters and her |Buns were turned on the city, the !Spanish volunteers having been ex- icited to open riot by the rumors that the surrender was to take place. A jlarge number of volunteers went in a body to the governors palace and ,begged permission to attempt the capture of the Juniata, saying that ithey could do It with knives alone. but the governor refused to grant permission. Our officers believed the £pplication was made in earnest, and not a few regret that it was not favorably entertained, as the Juniata +alone, not to speak of the Kansas l"nfl Pinta. would a be t! 'On the arrival of the Pinta at Santiago de Cuba orders cam m Commander Braine for the paymaster to Issue all blankets and pea jacke in his department to the prisoners who were hardly fit to be seen In their rags. This was speedily done, but as there was still great destitu- tion orders came from every man on board to give thelr own blankets and wearing apparel in the good cause The officers and men cheerfully com- plied with this order, only they pre- ferred that It should be issued as a request, in_which case they would have oheved with just as much alac- rity. Every heart was touched by the pitiable condition of the pri oners. “The poor fellows report that they were barbarously treated. They say that when the officers from the Tor- nado boarded the Virginius. one of them, in hauling down the flag of the United States, tore it into ribbons and trampled on it, asserting with an oath. “This (s what T hava wanted.'” but Joy, | ton can you find an apartment bulld- ing plainly lettered, in faded gold, ‘The So-and-So Flats’ “See those curious little houses, shall we call them, sitting on top of the real houses. Sometimes as many as three or four are along the roof of a building, each one equipped with a full-size window, properly cur- ed, and each running back about t “Yot what could live in that nar- row spa and if no one lives In them, what on earth are they for? ‘They would have delighted the heart of Dickens. Maybe they are directly descended from the structures and chim; pots of London. Is not Montrose Park the most beautiful place of its kind In ti National ‘apital? Is——but why continue? -Come across the creek, any bright day, 8co’ yourself old hlltaflc r Goorgtovn." T Elde