Evening Star Newspaper, January 13, 1924, Page 34

1 THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. ' WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY......January 13, 1924 {EDOBE 'W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsyivania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd 8 ‘Ghicero Offce: Tower Bullding, European Oifice: 16 Regent St., London, England, ‘The Evening Star, with the Sundsy morning edition, is delivered by carriers within the city 4t 60 centa per month: dally only, 45 cents per month: Sundar only, 20 cents’ per . Orders may be sent by mail or tel phons ‘Main 5000. Collection s made by car- at the end of month, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, Daily and Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1 mo., 10c Daily only.. . $6.00; 1 mo., b0c Sunday only. . $2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 85¢ Dally only.........1¥r. $7.00: 1 mo.. 60 Sunday oniy..ll1¥r., $3.00; 1 mol, 2¢ Member of the Assoclated Press. The Anwociated Presx fu exclusively entitied fo the ‘use for republication of all mews dis. Patehes cradited 1o It oc ot otherwise eredited in this paper and also the local news vub. lished “herein. ~ All rights of publication of special dispatehes berein are also reserved. Police and Fire Pay. A bill now pending in Congress pro- vides a new pay scale for the police- men and firemen of the District. It should receive early consideration, and should become law before the 1st of July next, when the general salary re- classification of government and Dis- trict ‘employes takes effect. Virtually alone of all the municipal and departmental workers, the pollce- men and firemen have been excluded from the reclassitication procedure. Unless this special bill is put into the form of law these men, upon whom the security of the Capital depends, will suffer a material reduction in pay, for the bonus will be withdrawn at the close of the current fiscal year. This measure, therefore. stands for the members of these two forces in lieu of reclassification adjustment. Tt has been the hoast of Washington for many years that it has had model police and fire organizations. despite their inadequacy in point of size and equipment. The personnel of the two guardian forces has been exceptional- ly high in character. The services they have rendered have been of the greates: value. In every emergency they have measured up to the highest standard. Yet th have been lament- ebly underpaid. Take the firemen, for instance. The pay of a first class pi vate in Washington is now $1,660, second class £1.560. third class $1, In New York a first class fire private gets $2.500, in Detroit $2.160, in Ho- boken, N. J.. $2,250: in Atlantic City $2.100, in Bridgeport $2,000. The list of cities much smaller than Washing- ton in which the firemen and police- men get more pay than is given here 1s a long one. Members of the police and fire de- partments gre forbidden to organize to help themselves in the matter of pay betterments.- They cannot go to Con- gress through their representatives and ask for consideration, as .may other groups of municipal and federal employes. So they are now depending upon the congressional sense of jus- tice to establish them on the basis of | @ living pay which will give them at least as much as they are receving now with the Lonus. The pending 1 | | | ] i | { i i | tion of law enforcement and moral cofrec: tion a large body of men differing in political bellefs. The probable outcome of these pres- ent quarrels between leaders and fac- tional followers will be the organiza- tion of another body, each perhaps claiming to be the original and simon- pure Klan. Will there, then, be com- petition in point of secrecy or in point of thoroughness of corrective meas- ures? Or will there be competition for broader organization? Or the elimination of race and religious fac- tors and issues? In other words, will the two Klans, if two grow out of this controversy and schism, proceed to- ward the same objective or will they separate in purpose, one perhaps radi- cal and the other conservative? A Ku Klux Klun in its modern re- vival of the post-civil war organiza- was a protest against official slackness, against judicial slowness and against moral laxity. It was a violent | corrective for certain evils, undeniable evils, though perhaps not so great in themselves as the evil of secret, self- appointed, irresponsible, police-judi- cial activity by masked and, therefore, unknown individuals. It was in itself a violent manifestation, and it has apparently spent itself, and reaction has taken place. It served in some tates a good pirpose in calling atten- tion correctively to bad conditions, te moral nuisances that cried for abate ment, to fmperfections of the law. enforcement processes. But it was never possible that it should reach the point of becoming an actual coun- try-wide power. The Two-Thirds Rule. For some time rumor has been busy with the suggestion that friends of William G. McAdoo, favoring him Yor the democratic nomination for Presi- dent, would seek to effect a change in the traditional rule of that party re- quiring a vote of two-thirds in conven- tion for nomination. But now it is an- nounced that no effort will be made | in behalf of the McAdoo candidacy to overthrow the twosthirds rule in the next convention, although it is inti- mated that after the nominees are chosen at Chicago, or wherever else the party may elect to meet. a change in the rules may be effected. This question will undoubtedly bhe econ- sidered by the national committee, wiich meets in this city Tuesday. The two-thirds rule has played hob with democratic aspivations for the presidency on several occasions. Com- paratively recently it operated to keep Champ Clark out of the race and, as events proved. out of the White House. The “two-thirds” grade is a hard one for any political machine to make. Bryan made it in 1898 through the momentum of a freshly sprung candidacy with the impetus of a stir- ring speech, with the opposition divid- | ed. Grover Cleveland made it in 1884 on the strength successful career in as governor at a time when the demo- cratic party was seeking a new leader. With that rule prevailing the candi- date for the nomination must be sup- ported by an “overwhelming demand” to win the nomination in the early stages of the convention fight. Other- wise a dark horse or a compromise candjdate is chosen. Efforts to change the two-thirds rule have been often made. but all have failed. It has become almost a car- bill provides for but little more than |dinal principle of the democratic party, the present pay and bonus. i just as the majority rule has been the It must be remembered that mem- | dominating measure of the republican bers of these two departments are re- quired to buy their own uniforms, which are subject to rapid_deteriora- tion in service, They are exposed to danger. Their lives are at stake, Only the most meager provisions are made | the balloting began party. To be sure, it takes only a majority vote in convention to change the rule, It would seem that a candl- date commanding a majority of the delegates might effect a change before But so ingrained for their care if disabled in line of duty | is the two-thirds principle in the rank or for their families if they die. Tak-land file of the democratic party that ing into considexation all these facts, | this has proved to be impossible. Men especially bearing in mind that even | who wiil vote for a candidate almost with the bonus. which is to be with-:in despair of reaching the two-thirds | drawn on the 18t of July next, they | point will refuse to vote for a change are paid much less than granted s lar forces in other cities of comparable mi- | of the rute. So it would seem that the two-thirds and even smaller size, the appeal of | will prevail in the next democratic this measure for immediate enactment becomes irresistible. —_———— The fact that President. Coolidge will speak at the meeting of the Ohio Society January 29 is a matter of wide- spread comment. By limiting the sup- ply the present Chief Executive has succeeded in giving his speeches the significance of genuine events. B ————— The tax-reduction proposition will be uppermost in the attention of the convention. Whether this will affect the ‘choice of the democracy for the presidential race remains to be seen. ————— Having found an appreciative audi- ence for his quiet humor, and having been the honored guest of social occa- sions ranging from banquets to milk- ing contests, Magnus Johnson should by this time be entirely freed from the idea that the atmosphere of Washing- ton is one of critical inhospitality, et of the prestige of a | New York state | |18try will face a most difficult prob- lother political parties to unite. {may : THE SUNDAY STAR; WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 13, 1924—PART : e e L T e e e e e I B e e SR ol SIS S et S S L ‘We will keep at the work until these agencies for human betterment are brought in line with human needs. There aré other big questions. The biggest with which we are directly faced is that of taxation. People are oppressed, business is hampered and enterprise discouraged. The question should be considered by ‘everybody without reference to past political prejudices. It is.a question that is bigger than party. The main reason we have made so little progress to. ward solving major national questions is that we have spent too much time by the wayside talking politics and generally trivial politics. Let's go! Let us work to bring down taxes, one of the results of which will be to dis- courage extravagant and question- able projects on the part of the na- tional government, of states, counties and cities. Tax reduction is the first item on the national program. Labor Ministry and Strike. A dispatch from London says that a railway strike in Great Britain is inevitable, and may occur at any time as a result of faflure of negotiations between the companies and the en- ginemen over the question of wage re- adjustment. It is expected now that! a labor ministry will be formed dur- ing the coming week in consequence of & vote of “no confidence” in parlia- mént against the Baldwin govern- ment. 1f that occurs it will be inter- esting to ohserve how the government acts in the presence of a natiop-wide rallway strike. It the strike occurs, and Macdonald is mude premier, the new labor min- lem at the outset of its career. It will be the government of the whole peo- ple, not of a faction, If it fails to keep the trains moving it will chal- lenge the conservative and conserva- tive-liberal political elements. It is a minerity party, and will hold tenure by sufferance through failure of the If it moves vigorously to break the strike it will challenge the labor forces that returned it to power by making it the larger of the two minority parties, Thus the laborites of Great Britain may be put speedily to a test that will measure their statesmanship, their patriotism. If they are bent upon bolshevising Great Britain this strike come as an opportunity. There is nothing, however, in the career of | Macdonald to justify the belief that he will ‘consent to a radical communistic policy. He is in truth a conservative laborite. Tt will be difficult for him to maintain a ministerl organization in such a situation, A general elec- tion. already predicted as a probable early outcome of the present unstable parliamentary situation, becomes al- most a certainty in the near future in view of this sudden development of iabor troubles: ——————— After he clears out the vice from Philadelphia the country would be much obliged if Smedley Butler would proceed against any anthracite prof- iteers he may discover in the vicinity. —————— If young Mr, Sidis desires a job which will not compel him to think he might run far the legislature in.a -diy- trict where the political boss does all the thinking. . —_—————— Secret police documents have dis- | appeared from the flles of the Mos- cow communists. Communism and strict private possession were ever enemies. ————————— His position in France demonstrates that whether or not President Poin- care's attitude is proper world states- manship it is undoubtedly good local | politics. ———e———————— A number of the, rejected mm|u-| scripts in the Bok competition might | be interestingly utilized under the ! caption of “Side Talks With States-| men."” i ——————— 1 Sovietists resent the report that they intended to raise the red flag in Wash- ington. Some of them may be wicked, but they are not foolish. —_——— When Mexico holds an election she | goes ahead as if she had never heard the news about a world disarmament movement. _——————— il fields are being opened in Alaska, | This promises the political spotlight | for a hitherto rather neglected terri- H lis rarely jsneers and gibes {fy. |straw bedding Thinks Co BY THOMAS R. MARSHALL Former Vice President of the United Staten. . 1 have heard many prdteats against government. I have listened to Indl- viduals and to bodles of men object- ing to a government of law, announc- ing it as their settled bellef that law places the rights, liberties, feelings and sensibilities of mankind upon a Procrustegn ‘bed. Government by dis- cretlon has been ‘proposed, yet w¢ know gomething of the frritations caused by Its workings owing to. the fact that-the -discretion of two:-men the ‘same. Government by injunction never fails to bring an angry gleam in the eye of labor, and governmeit by epistle is sure to cause Human nature is such that inevitably there must be complaint about government, but dis- cussion and incidents which may be regurded us experiments have demon- strated that government in America must remain a government by mas jorities: .1 do not yleld my asgept to the right of any majority 1o .ride réughshod- over the hatural righvs of a minority,"but, T insist that majority rule, limited ‘only by the natura] rights of man, must goatinue. to be |, the controlling prineiplé of free gov- ernment. . * % % ¥ He is a rash individual who denies that a majority of our people may not, when they wiah, alter and reform their government through orderly processes. He doey not speak by the card when he contends that we #an- not in an orderly way get rid of un- satisfactory public officials and sup- plant them with others more re- sponsive to public thought and more | sensitive to private conscience. Yet | no inconsiderable number of our | citizens out of humor just now with Constitutions and laws to which they trace unsatisfactory conditions, ‘seem unwilling to await vesults flowing from the slow process of obtaining the mandate of a majority, and are proposing to hamper the exercise of authority by nullifying the rule of a bare majority. Tt s to be assumed that decisions of the Supreme Court of the United; Statex do not please il classes of | citizens The diversity of our mental make- ups would render universal approval impossible. But no one free of a ntal fever caused by a precon- ceived idea that our Constitution is inadvisable would deny that our Su- preme Court was created as a sepa- rate and co-ordinate’branch of the government, with as much exclusive Jurisdiction conferred upon it by the beople as was conferred upon the Congress of the United States. Yet, it is being seriously urged that by act of Congress the Supreme Court | shall be prohibited from invalidating a congressional enactment by a bare majority of Its members. = Recent five to four decisions of the court a ngress Could Stop “'Much Criticism of U. S. Courts! meeny. to. have given impetus to this so~cailed: reform. T * ok x ¥ 'The argument tends to destroy the principle of. majority rule, which I hold to bé necessary to our govern- ment. The court, to my mind, has the same right that other branches of the government possess to decide mat- ters on the basis of & bare majority. This principle of & majority runs through. our government. 1f the Supreme Court 7¢ to be hampered by “a requirement of something more ‘than a majority, two-thirds or geven-ninths, , as have been proposed, shall 'other branches of the xovernment likewise be denled the right of majority rule? Shall an act of the Congress require a two-thirds seven-ninths vote of the “senators and representatives? Shall election to the House and Sen- ate require two-thirds or seven- Digths of the votes cast at the elac- tion? The real trouble lies in the failure of the Congress to do certain things which 1t has a clear and undoubted right to do toward eliminating irrita- tlons of today. These are largely lo- cal and temporary. They are not con- trolled, as in my judgment they might be, by legialation, but are suf- fered to g0 on untreated. A legisla- tive remedy applied to the source of the evil wauld euve the Supreme Court mugh cussing.’ For instance, utes of limitation are held good They.do not mean that have a cause of gction, but they do mean that I have no forum in- which to have .my action tried, which i frritating. The law that permits States courts to interfere by wi tnjunction with the decisions of the various utility commissions of our cities and states is a source of great irritation. Moreover, the corporate law of America needs cleaning up. There are states in which a man can get a charter to wander anywhere in the republic and do most anything he likes. “The states are always growl- ing about the usurpation of power by the general government, but are not discharging their own dytles. * o* ok % Can any one give me a good rea- son why, we shall say, a citizen of Pennsylvania, with knowledge of the fact that there is a public service commission in Indiana which ean fix the rates that may be charged by a public utility for its services, should be permitted not only to take stock in an Indiuna corporation, but should e the right, if the rates fixed by the public vice commission are not satlsfactory to him, to apply to the | federal court for an Injunction upon the ground that the rates are con- fiscatory? 1f the Congress of the United Statas would limit the jurisdiction of United States courts and deny them jurisdic- tion over questions of this kind, it would supply & salve for the irritation in the minds of many people with ref- erence to the decisions of our federal courts. Understand, 1 do not attack these decisions! 1 am inclined to think they are the law. Instead of criticia- ing the courts, 1 prefer to request Congress to withdraw jurisdiction in certain causes from federal author- ity. (Copyright. 1924, by Twenty-first Press.) Century INSECT ENEMIES. BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Out in Kansas scientists of the United States Department of Agricul ture have been busy stirring up an inscct war. For several months they have been backing the parasite Platygaster himealis in its formi- duble offensive against the Hessian If the parasite is victorious in driving out these Hessian hordes, the middle west will be large annual crop I farmers of the relieved of a waste. The Hessian soldiers sent over by George 111 to fight American colon- ists proved largely harmless, but the flies they brought with them in the their horses at once established themselves as permanent pests. These insects, each no bigger than a piphead, descend in droves tpon the midland wheat fields, where they suck the juice from the wheat stalks, leaving them dead. So far, science has been unable to find & poison that will affect them, but ex- \austive study has revealed' the fact that they have a very deadly insect enemy in the tiny Platygaster. This minute creature, no larger than @ speck when not viewed through a_microscope, does not risk open warfare with the Hessian fiy. It uses a much more subtle method. It secks the fly esgs. carefully de- posited upon the leaves of the young wheat, and stings them. These eggS hatch and the larvae appear as usual, but each larva contains from elght to ten embryonic Platygasters. The youthful parasites soon become very fively, but the fly loses all its nep, as all the food it absorbs goes to feed its unwelosome guests. They care- tully refrain from injuring the vital organs of their host until they reach maturity, when they burst a holeg through the fly and emerge. The fly dies without propagating _itself. tain or migratory locust, which ever since 1518 has at times threatened grain flelds in several sections, es- pecially on the great plains. Some- times a veritable carpet of these 1o- custs has covered the grain ficlds, filling the farmers with despair. Buf invariably, just as they had given up all hope of suving their crops, flocks of vellow-head and Brewers black- birds, gulls, quail and English spar- rows appeared. falling upon the pesia with such effect that much of the grain survived the attacks. Birds have proved squally clous, Mr. McAtee asserts, when in- troduced into hothouses where in- seots threatened the plants. They af- ford a much safer means of Insect destruction, he believes, than spray- ing or fumigating. The spraying processes too often weaken and stunt tender young plants, while the birds bring no such disadvantage. Qu: After Alfalfa Weevil. Whilk it i< true that many species of birds feed upon and destroy quan- tities of grains, fruits and berries every year, the good they do in eradi- cating or keeping down the number of the growers’ other enemies is more than worth this slight damage. Farm- ers were at first opposed to intro- ducing quail into their alfalfa fields, for instance, although advised to do 80 by the government as a means of eradicating the alfalfa weevil. But now the value of the quail in this respect has been so definitely proved that in some alfalfa-growing sections farmers will not permit quail hunt- ing. Another creature, long scorned but now held in great esteem by intelli- gent farmers, is the toad. The De- rartment of Agriculture estimates Capital Sidelights RY WILL P. KENNEDY. President Coolidge has just bLeen presented with an unusual inkstand, which represents & horseshoe stand- ing on an incline like an easel. It is inscribed: “To President Calvin Coolldge from T. J. Atkins” Rep- resentative Addison T. Smith of Idaho, who made the presentation in behalf of Mr. Atkins, explains that the latter Is “the village blacksmith" at Boise, Idaho, and an unusually clever craftsman. He was born in England during the reign of Quéen Victoria, came to Ameriea in his boyhood, and has lived in Idaho for more than & quarter of a century. The nails in the horseshoe form the penrack. A similar inkstand was presented by Mr. Atkins personally (o President Harding on his western tour, which afforded Mr. Harding an opportunity to make a beautiful apostrophe to “Labor.” * % * Veterans in Congress and officials generally in Washington appreciated a tribute in the House this week to the late Representative Edward La- rue Hemilton of Niles, Mich., who was considered one of the most gift- ed orators Congress had had in many years. Mr. Hamilton served for twenty-four years until he velun- tarily retired” in 1921° esenta- tive Ketcham, his su remind- ed members of the Houxe that there are only two there now who were seated when Mr. Hamilton first came to Congress—Speaker Gillett _and Representative Witliam Allen Coop- er of Wisconsin—and a third member —Thomas S. Butler of Pennsylvania, father of Gen. Smedley Butier. the “Devil Dog" commander who i8 -help- Ing to clean up vice in Philadelphia— came in at the same time. Mr. Hamilton's “brilliant apd well trained mind and remarkable power ‘of application, tegether with his gen- ial manner and modest bearing.” a cording to the tribute, gave him ex- traordinary following throughout the nation. During eight years as chairman of the committee on territories, he took a leading part in putting three new stars in the United States flag through the admission to the Union of Oklahoma, New Mexico and Ari- 20 The Philippines, Hawali and Alaska will forever bear the marks of his constructive legislation. In his day he was one of the most popular campaign orators, and his silver speeches were distributed by millions of coples. His style was sententious and epigrammatic, his dic- tion perfect and turns of expression dazzling and unique. * ok x ¥ The housing problem is of deep con- cern even among the aborigines: During consideration of the Interior Department appropriations .bill it was brought out that Congress has been making small.appropriations an- ; nually for a number of years for the purchase of land in California for re- lief of homeless Indians. There are still_some isolated bands of Indians scattered throughout the state who are practically without any means of establishing a home. The number has been estimated at 1.500. Some prosperous colonies have heen estab- Iished, with an expenditure of $183,000 for 8,100 acres of land, with 6.000 1 dians benefited thereby Charles E. Burke, commissioner of Indian affairs, reveals another angle on the Indian housing problem. The | Apache Indians. numbering about {2,500, living on the Fort Apache res- ervation in Arizona, are going abandon their tepees and hogans for modern homes. Commissioner Burke has completed arrangements for erection of frame dwellings for these Indians, who have proved the mosat backward of all the tribes in making progress toward civilization. A sawmill operation on_the, reservation cutting out _the ilumber for these homes. A boarding already in as well as several missionary schools. * % ¥ % There is a book store tol building that has few counter customers, but does a tremendous mail-order business—all free. The presiding genius is J. M. Me- Kee, who has been working for Un- cle Sam in the Capitol for forty years. He came here first as a page in 158 This free book store has more than a million volumes in stock. There are forty men employed, mostly in wrapping the books. and it was here that Representative Larl C. Michener of Adrian, Mich., earned a living { while studying law. ‘This is the House folding room, which sends out each year an innum- erable number of cobies of some 2. 000 speeches. The average number of LOoOkS sent eut is between 400,006 and 500.000. All documents are sent there from the government printing office unwrapped, and these are put in envelopes and sealed in the sub- Capitol caticombs. The folding room is getting out thess documents at the rate of about a million a month, and as the presidential campaign warms up the wbrk will be many times mul- tiplied. l in the Capi- * ok ¥ ¥ There are 1wo “mine host in the House — Representative ~ Allen T. Treadway of Massachusetts and Rep- resentative Edgar Keiss of Pennsyl- vania. They have hoth been hotel proprietors for- many vears.' Representative Treadway was real- Iy born into the business. For three generations his forefathers had been hotel men before him, and he has been training his son—who won fame 1 to | school is maintatned on the ageney, | MEN AND AFFAIRS BY ROBERT T. President Codlidge is an amazing Dpoliticlan. Some of the things he “Bete away with” make the old-timers gasp. They are accustomed to the beaten paths. The silent man from Massachusetts takes the short cuts. If he has a political enemy he does not attempt to deal with him in an indirect manner. He invited him to the White- House and he talks it out man to man. q President Coolidge never plays. He takes life serioualy in all its aspects. He has very little of what the world calls savoir faire. There is ng guile about him, no flattery, no flowery speech. When one speaks of no flat- tery, however. onq must limit the meaning of the phrase to flattery of | words. Any man fecls flattered to hPI a luncheon guest at the White House. Any man feels still more flattered to be a guest of the President o one of the little week end sails abbard the Mayflower. When the history of the publican presidentisl written th text re- mination s Mayflower will he found to h 4 new and i teresting =hington did nat fully grasp the significance of =ome of these week end juunts until sud- denly the society columns announced two/Non-Partisan League lights from the Capitol were on board. Non-Partisan Leaguers, as a rule, are very shy of Washington socicty: They have heard of the “social blo:™ and-of petticoat influence in 1egi tion, and they have determined that no blandishments of any can tempt them into the upper swir. However, an invitation from the President is a command and if the oc- casion of the vitation happeus to be a social affair, how can the man from the plains help himself” In past administrations the Mayv- flower hus been a persoral plaything of the President. Parties on board usually have been limited strictly to the presigential family or to a very #mall and select circle of cronies President Coolidge belicves that much wood can be chopped and much water drawn from the well even 1 8ocial eriise Gown the Potomac, and events politically are proving him cotTect. The Coolidge stock among the Non-Partisan Leaguers is grow- ing stronger day by dav. * % x % Israsl Zangwill still ix poppng up in the news from time to time with friendly rap at nearly every sort of American institution. English visitors here at the Capital say, how- ever, tnut the distinguishid Zionist and novelist must be taken seriously. They sav English authors have a way of saying thinge which they think sornd « regardless of whether they mean them or not They cite for example a remark made by Georga Bernard Shaw - was Feing given his first v the British battle. front ¥ sort % i l n too w. when e Heard and Seen | He was riding along a lonely road in Maryland. The night was sounds drifted jcar sped along. “What a fine night for & hold-up:” he thouyght to himself. As he came to a cross-roads a figure stepped out. | “Give me a lift, stranger” cried the man. . The car owner haltéd. The man| didn't poke & gun In his face nor call | {upon him to stand and deliver. TIt| was pretty dark, but the stranger | 1luukevl decent enough. { “Get right in" he said. while the {man climbed. inte the seat beside him. | ! " As he started up, the thought came | jto him that it was !do. He surveyed the man covertly. Yes, he looked all right. When they had gyne perhaps eighth of a mile, however, suspic again got the best of the car owner. Before he left home his wife had told him to beware of nice-speaking men along the roadside— With his left hand he siyly felt for his watc Hi ped into His watch was gone! Quick as a flash, he to_do. He halt dark, and eerie over the hills-as his | | a risky thing to i | an | his mouth. decided what brought his cur tu a grinding i | | ve me that watch'™ he snapped his right hand into his vocket threateningly, and holding out hig left Without a word the stranger pro- duced a watch and handed it to- the car_owner. I “Now get out of this car!” thunder- led_the automobilist. | The stranger, still without a word, climbed out hastily, and rapidly ran down the road. “Glad enough to get off so easy, |breathed the triumphant ting his watch pocket. got out of that Tucky! sneak that wateh pretty, though." | Several hours later he got to his front door. i “Man tried to steal my watch, ‘but 1 {got it bavk again” he (old his better alf. i ! ‘Washington {receipts Shaw said he actual red war into the thick o This was “ple telligence officers lant Irishman in t. T test” corner along tee British was the Ypres salient. from the general uch a form tl 1o wee real wanted to get it. for the British in- who had_the “hot- front 1t projectad line of battle in the Garmans conid pour artillery fire into it from three sldes. .The salient necessary in crder fo keep what was 1eft of the once heautiful city of Ypres withir the allied lines. Shaw was letr into the place at mid day. The old fellow was brave all right. He never flinched once. Ypres was all flat _about him. arcely two stones of any building were laft together. That night when Shaw returned the visitors' chateau, he was asked what he thought of the horrible de- struction “¥pt much,” he sald nonchalantly 1 fuld have done as much with tacf hammer." So. why worry about Zangwill * the “colyum New York Eve Christopher Morley. ist” in leaving th ning Post on the day Cyrus H. K Curtis became the owner, has criti- cized newspapers in general for their slapdash style of presenting the news and not paying enough attention to reflective matter of quiet, inform tve reading. Mr. Morléy says he is Eoing to devote himself to books in the future. The end of his car —OT at any advent. its temporar suspension—as a columnist makes a1 espaper story and re sley formerly Philac was connected vening Led 1 by Fri. Bt he £ " urge of York in his veir e 1cft the Ledger and went to th vening Post. This was ne at all pleasing to the owner of the Ledger. But Mr. Morley was happ in New York and didn't much care All of 4 sudden he heard th that Mr. Curtis had Lought tf Right then and there Morle ided to quit columning, o when Curtis took charge he found the Mot ley resignation already in hand It is not altogethcr unusual that fate of this mort follow newsps perman. In the vears agone thir. was a splendid newspaper man dow Virginia, Bruce Salley by nam: was star man on the Newpor ws Times-Herald when that paps bought by S. L. Slover. Sool w owner and the star reporter disagreement and Salley “gut ker, own the 5 M. & diunted he went over 1o Norfolk and ad obtafned em plovment on the Ledger-Dispatch. His 5 one of roses until one morn- fearned that Slover had also crossed Hampton roads and booght the paper. Ogee more Salley w given the Nothing Slizabeth ri the Ports the dread i, he crossed the er and went to work on outh Star. Again cam- news that Slover had bought the paper. Salley lost no time. He wrote out his resignation. “Beat you to it thix time. old kid he wrote, and went his way: Fifty Years Ago In The Star many Monument in vears the Washingtu: this city stood in unfinished condi- tion, with no prog- ress toward fts completion. ‘THe a Monument. | causes of the suspension of the work were complex. citizens having o The asociation of rge of the matter was unable to raise funds and was waiting for the government to take over this patfiotic enterprise, From time to time protest was voieed m the press outside of Washington against the the work. TIn The .Star 6 1874 1< quoted the Chicago indorsing the suggestion Congress should —angul the charter of the assocfation, give the and _expenditures publicity take hold of ‘the work of = the monumenf in such that it would be completed a~ # centennial tribute. The Star says *“This. thouzh not so intended. presume. might he consfrued to dicate that the association had vnwillingness to give publicity its recelpts and expenditu 1d Le a very unjust i agains worthy citizens that association. We re us a report from the Hous. district, committee of April 13, 1 contaifing a_very full statement the officers of the association of ever item of receipt and expenditure from: the commencement of the work. It also embraces a full history of the monument undertaking and from this it appears that the sum of $230.- 000 has been expended upon the worl and that in 1855 it was estimated that $332000 would be necessary tu vomplete the shaft. This sum would need to be increased by 50 per cent in consequence of the increased wost of labor and materials. The only ey the suspension of worl in 1835 has been $1.50 a dav for delay in of January a statement bLy and then buitai W the House of Representatives, as it §» in tory. e T csh. that the economic value of a single| .. Harvard athlete—to succeed him | “Why, You left vour ‘watch at]watchman at Montment Place, a the minds of @ large number of voters. ————— The submarine is u machiue of ter- ror in peace as well as war. When there is no enemy at hand it threatens its own crew. Ku Kluax Klan Factions. For some months past there has been trouble in the ranks' of the Ku Klux Klan, factional trouble, with bitter quarrels between leaders and court proceedings. These troubles have now culminated in an order from the imperial wizard of the organiza- tion banishing from the Klan William J. Simmeons, its founder and ‘‘em- peror,” and E. Y, Clarke, at one time acting imperial wizard. The latter of the two banished officials challenges the right of Wizard Evans or of the “imperial klonciljum,” or the body of dragons to banish anybody. Thus it is likely that other court proceedings will result from this factional move- ment. These internecine difficulties may be the sign of a disintegration. The Ku Klux Klan, formed upon the false principle of secrecy and concealment of identity, was bound to come to this point. With power vested in individ- uals, responsible not to the law but to delegated representatives meeting se- cretly, and with every possible safe- guard against identification, jealousies ‘were certain to develop. Originally the purpose of this body of men was mainly good, to essure the enforcement of law, to cleap out foul plages, to safeguard public. morals. To that extent it was a worthy ob- ject that was sought. In other re- spects, however, in race antagonism and religious enmities, the Klan chal- lenged the sense of fair play of the people. Interventfon in political mat- tera came almost as a matter of course, and there vegan the real trou- ble in the ergenization, for it proved impossible to hold united along lines Among the reckless extravagances of Germany one of the most prom- inent is the spoiling of good white paper in order to publish German mar ——wte————— A strict ban on drinking at the An- napolis Naval Academy will make the discipline of that famous institution more desirable than ever. ————— There are other hats in the ring, but Hiram Johnson's continues to do best service as an amplifier. ———— Business. The American Engineering Céuncil at its sessions here discussed ques- tions of high importance. It dealt with the subjects of fores in- land waterways as outlets to the sea, with turning the water power into electric energy and other questions of moment to the nation. With destruc- tion of American forests going on ata far greater pace than forest growth, lumber has become costly, native lum- ber will disappear and such lumber as we need will be imported. The solu- tion is reforestation and scientific for- est conservation. The danger signals have been flying for many years, and wa are still running past them, In the power of streams lies our power for machinery and our heat and light. The coal supply is far from exhaustion, but there- is no need to point out the hardship and perplexity that millions of men have endured be- cause of the coal “situation” and the rising price of cogl with correspopding rise in the cost of steam, heat and light. E The making of deserts fit for farms and the drying up of swamps that agriculture may prosper there and people's health be better is one of our great questions. Already we are on the way, We are at work on forestry, on land reclamation, and we are “har. nessing” some parts of some rivers. | ents begin to insist on tife most liberal" | | SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSOX Flattery. We say of great George Washington, ‘He never told a lie!” The unbelieving modern one Looks bored, and winks his eve. Though deeds of benefit toall - Forgotten quite may be, ‘With merrimant we still recall That little cherry tree. So flattery moves with empty phrase To mystify the earth, And smothers in some trivial praise The memory of true worth. Demands to be Considered. “Are you in favor of reducing taxes?” “Qf course, 1 am,"” answered Sena- tor Sorghum. “But I want it maneged in some wiy that won't leave the Treasury too shy when my constitu- pessible appropriations. Jud Tunkine says “early to bed and carly to rise"” is the cause of many & good man's having to get his own breakfast. Migrations. When Philadelphia town is clear Of crooks, New York, all shrilly Will cry, “Now, 8med, come over here And chase 'em: back to Philly! Enjoyment. “Do you enjoy smoking cigarettes?" “Yes,” anawered Miss Cayenne. “I don't care for the flavor, but I enjoy showing I can do as I like about it." “A man jes' naturally figgers,” sald Uncle Eben, “dat if everybody else 'ud do everything dey ought to he could put in mos’ of his dwn time loafin’ along.” 4 lantly off to sting some more flv €ggs -and thus go on ecleverly reproducing itheir species. i Given plenty of encouragement, it {is belleved, the Platygasters will jeventually exterminate the Hessian fy. which will mean their own ex- {termination also. But science is not worried over the passing of the Platygaster once it has served the purpose of man. All Inuects Have Enemies. 1n fighting the various insect pests that persistently challenge our do- | minion of the earth, sclence is rely- ing more and more upon th crea- tures’ natural enemies. Not many insect species are afflicted with such deadly parasites as is the Hesslan fly, but each is prized as food by some aggressive foe. Varlous birds {and fish and toads have an enor- Vimous appetite for insects? which s very helpful to farmers. Recent in- !\'en!ls;llon on this subject has shown that several birds, which have them- selves been looked upen as pes are really of tremendous value to man- kind a8 a meuns of keeping down the !insect population. | _Outstanding among these is the English sparrow, which has won late but generous recognition gs a friend of man. The sparrow,.it has been found, not only feeds upon the sev- enteen-year locust, asparagus beetle, Tocust leaf miner, but uporr the cater. pillar, canker worm, army worm and drop worm. The Bob White, ‘also thought to be merely 1, feeds upon the locust and olive acal The story of the Mormon pioneer farmers whose crops were saved from a plague of grasshoppers by the ayd- den arrival of swarms of gulls is well known, but there have been many similar instances in the history of American farming which -are not 80 well known. According to W, L. McAtee of the United States Biolog- ical Survey, bird flocks have often destroyed insect plagues and theie esms and larvae mo completely that | such species have never returned to the localities where they had wrought great crop damage, or they have been so reduced in numbers as to be aimost negligible. 'In most of these inatances. the relief h'{ birds came at & time when the efforts of tarmers to eradicate the pests had proved fruitl and the cro) ad been n up as lest. The ohief offender in the maferity of these cases was the Rocky moun- toad, based on its destruction of cut- worms alone during thé months of May, June and July, when insccts take their highest toll. is $19.44. In that valuation the destruction of one worm is reckoned to be worth one cent. It is a low estimate of the damage outworms do. Add to the cutworms all the other insects that the toad destroys, and its importance and value become increasingly ap- parent. Toads are greedy little ihings, but although their appetites are insati- able they will touch nothing that s rot alive. A moving insect is eagerly snapped up as soon as it wanders within reach of thelr long tongues, which are hinged at the front instead of the back. In twenty-four hours a toad eats an wmourt of food equal to four times the capacity of its stomach. Of this relatively enormous quantity of food at least three-fifths is made up of insects that are njurious to vegeta- tion. Cutworms, gypsy moths tent caterplilars, army worms, brown- talled moths, house flies and rose chafers are some of the pests which the toad feeds upon. One tosd under observation consumed twenty-four medium-sized gypsy moth caterpillars in one morning, another ate thirty fully grown celery caterpillars in less than three hours, a third ate eighty-six house flles in ten minutes and & fourth swallowed ninety rose bugs as fast as he coyld agnd was looking for more when the observer left him. Gardeners are gradually learning the vajue of toads as garden pets, but no one in this country has yet reach- ed the degree of appreciation that prompts many English gardeners to ‘buy toads by the hundre there 1s one uncertainty in buying a toad;: there is alw: & chahee that he will immediately start back to ais former home. The homing instinet is 8o highly developed in this creatyre that unless carried a very great dis- tance he will promptly hop back as saon/as he is released. ?‘ raisin; them from tlflrlu the difficulty of keeping them 1s overcome, for the places where thex leave the water e» toads is always home to them. in_the business. Representative Treadway was born | in the old Red Lion Inn. Stockbridge, Mass., which he still operates. This |was a famous tavern in the ‘days of the stagecoach and was on the 0ld stage route from Boston fo Al- bany. He is _also proprictor of the new hotel. Heaton Hall. also in Stockbridge. He is. past president of the New England Hotel Aen’s Asso-| ciation. Representative Kiess started the | Forest Inn Hotel sume twenty-five years ago at Eaglesmere, at the top of the mountains. About ten years ago he bought the Raymond Hotel. He has also developed a cottage col ony around his hotels. He is proud of the fact that his hostelry “always been a temperance house. * ok % ¥ George Washington, who was for- merly one of the leading citizens in this part of the country, as well as in “crossing the Delaware” and at Valley Forge, and, after serving us a “delegate from Virginia." was eventually known as the “Father of His Country,” wasn’t the only “George Washington” who won a place in the Congressional Blographieal Directory. There was & George O. Washington, algo a native 6f Virginia, who served in Congress from 1837 to 1837 and who died in Georgetown in 1854. * x w ok The very first contested election case in Congress, Representative Robert Luce of Massachusetts recalls, | was that of the mercurial Gen. James Jackson against the eccentric Gen. Anthony yne, ‘“the hairbrained hero of the revolution,” according to Representative Luce. It is recorded by Fisher Ames that 'when Gen. Jackson addressed: the House he bellowed so loudly that it ‘was necessary for ‘the Senate to shut the windows in order to keep out the din. Representative Luce points out that by unanimous vote “Mad Anthony"” Wayne was unscated. A long debate followed, in which Gen. Jackson urged that the votes of certain coun- ties should be rejected. On the ques- tion of seating Jackson the Spegker's vote made a tie and the seat was declared vacant. In the mext year Wayne was made eneral of the Army of the United Sates and departed for, the memora; ‘| ble cam against the Indians o the ROTtAWest, and Gen. Jacison be- ¢ _gavarnor of his state snd later United States senator. {home,” replied his wife: i * The Senate office b#ilding reminds one of that quatrain of old Omar {about going . out at the same door| |where in one went. The only difference is that in the Senate office building one never goes out the same door he came in. He is lucky if he finds any door at all. This s probably the most puzzling building in Washington to find one's way around in. The mazes of an- tiquity must have been easy in com- parison. To the pnwary visitor it resoives itself into a sort of labyrinth, from which he with dificulty extricates himself, after calling in the services of an élevator man and one or twa guards. If the visitor manages to find the particular office he iy seeking. with- out Tecourse to an inmate, he pats himself on the bacl If he is able to find his way to any jexit alone he brags about it to his friends. To date, no one has been discovered who can go into the north door. for instance, wander around the building for a time, and then- unerringly re- trace his sfeps to the,self-sume north door. If ‘you enter by the north door vou will find_yourself at the xouth en- trance, after wandering up and down corridors. If entrance was made at the south entrance, invariably you {will land at the morth end. | Many Washingtonians are fixing | up their yards und sowing grass seed already, taking ad®antage of the springlike wgather called winter. Tt has beerr many a long year since there has been-sueh an open_winter here. The regent cold spap lasted but a few days, followed by a heavy frost, after which April weather pre- X messenger for. the siciety office $4 per month and mecessary fuel and stationery for the office. The sun of $11.005 has heen invested in United States stocks. etc. and there is @ balance of cash on hand of about $1.500. The only receipts for vears past have heen from contributions in the boxes in the public buildings and these averaze about $300 per vear - Prapos; turing to establish manufuc- enterprises in the District have been ad. Paper-Making vauesd from tima to time, practical- Enterprife. . cver since the Capital was located on the banks of the Potomac. In The Star of Japu ary s, 1574, is the following on this subject rties interested it with the in and gon- manufacture of uper of all grades have been pros- pecting our district and vicinity and are much pleased with the water privileges found here, and especially the springs on the outskirts of the city, thus indorsing the views. of rractical and experienced persons who, when the Treasury Department was about sell its magnificent machinery, some four yewsa agu. attempted to interest our home eap- italists in establishing mills on some of these favorable sites. The cost to !the various departments of the fed- eral government In our-district for 14w Or blank paper is perhaps $1,000,600 to §1,500,000 per arinum, rid to speak of that consumed by our local government and citizens. All this, even the bank note paper, gould as well be made here as elsewhere, and Wwe see no reason why our own capitalists should not realize the di- rect profits of its manufacture and the Indirect profits of housing, cloth- vailed. The ground softened up so, after! the last frost had melted under w ) warm sun, that it .was possible 10| dig up-and turn dver back yare sow grass seed, if one desired, get them all ready for the spring. These early planters may lose a lot) of.nerfectly good seed, if & couple of + months of real winter weather should lntervenn.‘ but the experiment is CryIng y p worth HARLES B THACEWELL, l 1 1 real | ing and feeding the new class of art. 1sans which such an enterprise would introduce he enterprise coyld Le entarged ‘at least o the extent 6f manufacturing the vast number. of envelopes used here. It is sl a great t the. splendid gape: pity making machinery alluded, to, wnd | which =old for less than half.its real vajue, was allowed to leave our Dis- trict.. Nevertheless, it i5 to be hoped that, ynder the new business Inspira- tions_of our District, our people will, if called on by these gentlemen, gu- i e sist themselves by assisting them Y