Evening Star Newspaper, January 20, 1924, Page 34

~2 THE EVENING STAR h Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY......January 20, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES Star Newspaper Company . 11 St and vanin Ave. York 0 iice: Business Offic New Y, Star. with the Sunday morning | edition, is delivered by carriers within the | Gty at 60 conts per month: duily oply. 43 conts per my Sundas oniy, 20 cents’ per mouth. Orders may be sent by mail or tele- | phoze Main 5 Collection ix made by car- s at the end of each month, | streets of ! first place more than fifty years ago, and held prominence in the matter of man-shooting for a long time. There re people today who believe that the pistol is a usual bit of pocket cutlery in the west, but their ideus are got from moving pictures. Tt is said that a man is safer from murder in the is any wild west, than he is in the 'w York, Chicago or Phila- delphia, and there are facts behind the statement. Gun carrying is far too common everywhere, and Washington to control the vice and would end it if they could. If they need more drastic Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, - and Sunday..1 yr., §5.40; 1 mo., 70c | ¢ only..........1¥r., $6.00: 1 mo., 50c | only.......1yr., $2.40; 1 mo. All Other nd Sunda only. .. Sunday only. i ates. i $10.00: 1 mo, | $7.00; 1 mo., 60c | . $2.00; 1mo., 25¢ | mber of the Associated Press. | Assoclated Pross is exelusively entitied he “use for republeation of ali news dis- tehes credited to it or not otherwise credited er and also the local news p AL rights of publication U are also reserved, The Declaration of Independence. The Declavation of will be placed in a niche in the Li-!l of Congress, wh protected | lass and marble, ail persons who e may on it. There have | n many stories about the deteriora- | tion of the parchment and the ink, but it would that a way has been found to set the document on nt exhibitioh without endan- Independence seem permar ing i What and mighty is shrined Independence history about lies behina | the Declara- | ntiment was z in the year before the Declara- ! but far from overwhelm- | ing. Many who thought of separation | did not speak of jt. The Continental ! Congress, on July 6, 1775, formally | disclaimed any sepa st purpose, but | November named commissioners | aintain - communication with | ds of the colonies in Great Brit- ain” and That has been ed a Dbold step in independence. | Military events in 1775 at Lexington, | Concord, Bunker Hill, Ticonderoga and clsewhere showed the strensth of revolutionary sentiment and extended | amed it H Age of Reason,” published in | 1776, stimulated the movement, but New Jersey, Pennsyivania and Maryland instruct- ed their delegates to oppose such a measure if presented. The delegations | New York and Delaware were | divided the subject, and South Carclina was opposed to the inde- pendence idea. In Virginia and Massa- chusetts the movement had swept away most Jf the apen opposition, and Virginia directed her dclegates to move a declaration of independence. Richacd Henry Lee, June 7, 1776, made the motion, and John Adams seconded it. It was debated and con- | sideration was postponed to July 1, but on June 10 Thomas Jefferson, John | Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger | erman and Robert R. Livingston ‘were named a committee to draw up @ declaration of independence. The | committee assigned Jefferson to com- the declaration, and various changes were made in that draft, but the changes were nearly all cancella- | tions and not additions. Few changes | were made in language. i The Declaration reported June ! On July 1 Lee's motion “That ! these United Colonies are and of right | ought to be free and independent States” came up and was carried July 2. twelve states voting yea and none | nay. The Declaration was taken up | July 3 and passed in the evening of | July 4, and was signed by the presi- dent and the sec v of the Congress. | There was exciftment throughout | thie land. New York's convention rat- | itied and her delegates signed on July 15. Congress resolved July 19 to en- £ross the Declaration on parchment, and on August 2 it was signed by fifty-three delegates, representing thir- teen states. Three delegates, one from Masss from Delaware and one from New Hampshire, signed Jater. Several of the signers were not | members of the Congress when the Declaration Wwas drafted and the Lee motion carried. Tt is this famous document, en- grossed on parchment and signed Au- zust 2, 1776, that soon will be put on yublic view at the Library of Con- gress. tion, it w frie: elsewhere, ine’ January, pendenc on pose ‘husetts, one The winner of the Bok prize can af- ford to be patient for a while. Fifty thousand and fame are worth waiting for. Once his identity is revealed the possibilities before him are unlimited. He may even prove to he the dark horse some of the political leaders are looking for. e According to Smedley Butler 90 per cent of the Philadelphia police force is | ail right. For a city of Philadelphia’s size and temptations it is a high aver- age. i Guns and Homicides. i registrar of vital statis- tics_says that forty-one persons were Xilled by gunshot wounds in that state in November. The figure causes a| sense of shock, but figures from other states are not at hand, and it may be that by comparison Virginia has a mild record in manslaughter. Novem- Ter was the first month of the hunting m, and a large proportion of the' deaths were by hunting accidents. There seems to be need for the pres- ervation of hunters as well as for the servation of game. eventeen of the fatalities are classed as “homicidal.” That is a bad record, but Virginia is a. large and populous state, and the loyal Vir- ginian admits that there are desper- ate men _there. Many other states have a high homicidal rate, and it might be interesting to measure Vir- ginia's record against that of the Dis- trict of Columbia, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts or other states. There was a time when gun-carrying and gun-fighting were common throughout the land. Settling “dis- putes” with pistols continued in the south when in the north the gun- toting habit was mainly practiced by the lower order of men. In the freedom of gun-play “the west.” or the vast country beyond the Mississippl, took | finally overwhelming u inde- | i {hance the va | thoroughtares +best financed anywhere by a { According to laws against pistol-toting those laws should be made. In the Virginia report it is id that two men were killed in duels, one in | November and one in October, and that these duel deaths were the only ones reported since cstablishment « the bureau of vital statistics in 1 Dueling has passed away, though onc: it was backed by public trary opinlon grew strong enough to make laws against ducling, and then strong enough to enforce the law, and vinst the an- inia “duels™ but plai zood deal opinion. Con- cient practice. These were probably not du pistol fights. There wa of ceremony about the duel, the in- sult, the challenge, the acceptance the choice of seconds, choice of wea- pons, place of meeting and certain rules of conduct. The chances are that in these reported “duels” two sworn enemies” met by chance and Opened fire, 5 Kentucky Good Roads. “Kentucky can never be what it should be, and what it has a right to be, without a complete s; lic roads.” Thus said the Governor of Kentucky in his first message to the zeneral assembly of the state the other day. This was his premise of the pro posal of a hond issue of §75,000,000, of which two-thirds he spent good road making. It isa new proposi- tion for Kentucky, h has not heretofore moved on a large scale in the direction of highway improvement. The state is now actively discussing the matter. and Gov. Fields' recom- mendation has precipitated an issue that will be closely observed by the residents of all the states. For the zood roads not now local. state have an st in the road improvements in every other state. In respect to the local interests in- volved, Gov. Fields' words to the legislature of Kentucky cannot be zainsaid: Nonme will deny that the constru tion of a comprehensive system of Toads throughout the state would en- ue of all property with- in her borders and make Kentucky more desirable piace in which to live Such a sys ‘would contribute muc to our educational advancement, cularly in rural section by mak- ing the schools more accessible ta students. It would bring the residents of all sections of the state into mor intimate social relations with one an other, thereby contributing to the in- tellectual advancement of the s and increasing our common inte: . Furthermore, with the rapidly grow- ing motor transportation, a tem of connecting the agri- cultural sections with the industrial centers and mining regions would re- sult in the creation of direct com- mercial relations between producers of agricultural products and the con- sumers in the industrial and mining sections of Incalculable benefit to both. The good roads argument has been definitely accepted practically e where in the United States. was when it was necessar w! Time to “sell” | good roads to the people. But now the | advantages of paved highways con- structed on a comprehensive plan, with main trunks linked up with minor thoroughfares to all sections of the commonwealth, are fully recognized. What Gov. Flelds has just said to the legislature of Kentucky has been said to the lawmaking bodies of other states with good effect. A broadly planned highway is a long-term investment. tem bond issues The proposed issue of honds in Kentucky is to cover a number of ol jects, $25,000,000 going to schools and institutions and to the relief of the public debt, and $30,000,000 to roads. Gov. Fields' plan, roads fund will be distributed among the counties on a basis of 50 per cent | on road mileage and 50 per cent on taxable assets. be added federal funds from the good roads aid allotments, which are based upon the principle of state expendi- tures. The Kentucky bond issue should be approved. The people of all the states will watch developments n Kentucky with interest. ———— If there is to be a prohibition scan- dal Gov. Pinchot is evidently deter-! mined not to tolerate any effort to mix whitewash with the alcohol. — Governmental management, accord- ing to Shipping Board reports, finds even more difficulty with steambeats than it did with locomotives. ———— Henry Ford would rather point with pride to how many motors he has de- livered than to the number of votes he might not receive. The age of a dinosaur egg is what makes it interesting. The contrary is | true of a cold storage egg. British Laborites and Strike Threat. Extragrdinary efforts are being made by the British labor leaders, who, it is expected, will take charge of the government at London this coming week, to prevent the strike of rallroad workers threatened by the locomotive drivers and affiliated trades, | Unless these efforts succeed the trans- portation system of Great Britain will be tied up in a strike tomorrow or Tuesday almost coincidentally with the ousting of the Baldwin ministry and the organization of its successor under Ramsay Macdonald. As The Star pointed out the other day, a labor ministry of Great Britain would be seriously handicapped in taking office during @ general railroad strike. It would be incumbent upon the ministry in such circumstances to do everything possible to effect a settlement. For a. transportation strike in Great Britain is an extremely serious matter owing to the fact that the greater part of the food supplies are imported and must be moved quickly to all parts of the United § “dat politeness don't cost nuffin’. has | i, Kingdom. On other occasions of rail- tem of pub- | for | i It can be | the | To these funds will | ! THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JANUARY 20, 1924—PART 2. road tje-ups motor transport has been employed, .but Wwith indifferent stc- cess, owing to rebulting congestiog on the roads. A general rail strike almost completely paralyses the industries of the country. | With the labor party directly rep- | resenting the factors in contention it | wildest part of the wild west, if there | Is casy to see how a ministry which | y {itself directly represents those factors would he confronted by a serlous ldilemma in case of a natlon-wide | strike. So it is that Ramsay Mac- donald’s work as premier actually be- jhas the evil. Police and courts scek | zins before he has heen summoned by | the king, before, indeed, his predeces- | sor has been actually ousted from of- |fice. The unusual spectacle is pre- | sented of a prospective prime minister { feverishly working ‘in advance of tak- ing office to prevent the development of a situation which would gravely nd perhaps fatally embarrass him | upon his assumption of responsibiity. H ——— i Radio at the Poorhouse. ! A radio “set” has been introduced at Blue Plains and the news says that “life appeared a bit brighter for the 300 inmates of the District alms- house.” The story tells of the sur- prise and joy of th poor foll as | | the « The set a gift | Sunday school class of the Street Christlan Church. There is something to think about in this. There must be a great deal of horedom™ in some public institutions. | Most of the people live in the past. { The e very little of the present. | We know how interesting to these {people are very simple entertain- |ments. In other times there were cal amateur theatrical companies |and music companies which gave en- rtainments at many public institu- tions. These entertainments gavéd the greatest pleasure to the inmates The coming of a company was looked forward to and the play was talked {about until it was time to talk of the coming of the next show. Now, here is the radio set, which gives an entertainment. and often one of especial interest and merit, at almost any time when one wants to jtune in, It is casy to understand ylh!* feelings of these Blue Plains peo- iple. They have locked at the high ridge cast of them until it has lost They have looked at the of them and at the walls steeples of Alexandria and the moke of Potomae yard until the view has palled. South, the woods and slopes of Oxon valley have become a tame, dull picture. But singers and speakers come to them from the air. Stirring preachers can talk tc and give them happiness and hope. No doubt there are people in other institutions who could be cheered by radio. —_— Food Prices. Department of Labor reports { that Washingtonians paid 1 per cent {less for food in December, 1923, than |m December, 192 3ut a dash of bit- ters is spilled in the sweets by the an- nouncement that food prices were 2 per cent highér in December, 1923, than in December, 1922, so it appears that we made the saving of 1 per cent by eating less food or by introducing more hominy and fewer mushrooms into the bill of fare..It is further said that food prices are 58 per cent higher than the level of prices in 1913, and that “only twa cities showed a greater rise in food prices over the ten-vear period than Washington, these being tichmond, where prices were 60 cent above the 1913 level, and New York, where they were 59 per cent gher.” But it is gratifying to learn | from the Department of Labor that {though food prices were 2 per cent | higher last December than in the pre- | ceding December our food was 1 | per cent less. Many of us had not no- | ticed the reduction. We have tried to | cut down the grocery bill, but that Jill seemed to follow the fashion of the zas bill, and the more we cut down | the higher the bill got. —————— from a Ninth A polar search by airship should not differ from the ancient enterprises of the kind to the extent of failing to provide a relief expedition to follow at a reasonable interval. —_—— A long residence in New York has not given Mr. McAdoo the standing with Tammany that might have been under ordinary circum- | iexpemrl | stance: | —_——— { Without descending to downright | pessimism regarding prohibition en- forcement, Gov. Pinchot permits him- ! self no delusions. | One of the first results of the Bok | peace plan was to cause a disturbance in the Senate. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JONNSON. Comfort! I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls, ] And I was feeling blue, As formal and forbidding calls Brought somber thoughts anew. 1 dreamt that in a ducking blind I was a shivering elf. | Ara then I left all care behind | And just enjoyed myself! | 5 Perplexities of Statesmanship. “Of course, you agree that taxes s ought to be reduced.” | “Yes” answered Senator Sorghum. | “That’s the way my constituents feel about it. Only so many of them want to reduce their own and increase those of some other fellow.” Jud Tunkins says it's funny how the average man will suspect his old friends and open his heart to an oil stock promoter. Amateur Enterprise. He thought to run a chicken farm. The plot at this point thickens. For him the plan was full of charm, But it was rough on chickens. Ornate Pastime. “Does anybody here play mah- Jong?” inquired the new arrival. “Nope,” answered Cactus Joe. “That ain’t no game. That's jes' bric-a-brac.” “Don’t tell me," said Uncle Eben, been a head waiter.” Eid ; they listened to music and words from | them | Americans Too Individualistic | Capital Sidelights ' MEN AND BY THOMAS R. MARSHALL, Former Vice President of the United States. Lest we forget—it Is the business of a people to support their gov- ernment and not tho business of a government to support its people. So easy s it to forget the old principles of government in the face of a seeming, though fleeting, ad- vantage that school should be kept all the time, not only for beginners, but for graduates as well. A post- graduate course i3 auite necessary for many who are still accumulating ophy of life. does not seem so bad 1 dinner i3 over and a rlowing. Gazing at s grate fire and half dreaming, he ulmost admit that the way to procure that equality which “real demecracy proelaims, the equality of mankind, is through an equal dl- vision of the products of labor. for equality of the property of the world would Temove er malice, hatred and ill-will. But when one takes a theory out in the cold air of actual experience and subjects it to the winds of 1ife's hirhways, It is likely to perish like the after-dinner dream | of the man hefore the grate when ome one briskly enters from the outside, leaving the door cnen be- hind him a philo Socialism after all wh man’s cigar * ok k% Consider for a moment the bold statement that great events, wheth- er in the life of the individual, the state or the nation, rest exclusively upon the question of mere material gain. If it be true in the life of ch one of us, true in the life of America and in the life of the world that buying and selling and the get- ting of gain is the supreme motive and the sole urge of existence, then justification of the theory of the so- ciallst that an economie revolution ix the only really worth-while aspira- tion is complete. But can this theory rvive the test that every man may make by own motives and obje Do T love my wife bec ssict me in getting on do I try to get on in the world b cause I love my wife? Do we make our children the beneficiaries of our insurance because we want to pros- per from the insurance companies or because we want to protect our chil- dren and provide for them? Did the civil war v 1 feel a divine im- pulse to Unlon before he tered the ween the states? men who traveled s of rin tike chances of life n France pre- s of life? use she can the world 1 the over 3, the tory dise w» that America h ispired by no ideal but stirr an idea of material advancem k of the revolutic was there ‘thing more than resistance to Brit- h taxation? Was the war with ain a eugar planters’ row Were Washington, Li n and Wilson money-grabbers? Any one who 50 b lieves and finds history tion of his views may qualify high pricst of socialism, as a be a good socia ust be- come convinced that there is no value rth except the labor 1st one g on ¢ mplicit hance, ‘W with royal of nade £ diamonds talk about our demucratic {but actually, if given a {eagerly p to shine {splendor. Since many {had lot of spend we are prodigious rate. ceed us money at w buyi a @ considering his| subma- | their | confirma- | i 1 | { fiting ¥ | | | I As a nation, we Americans like to | £100,000, have | skillful tol Diamond necklaces | |done a_stroke ih To Make Socialism Possible | value which is put into it. Socialism recognizes no such thing as intrinsic value. The dlamond and the grain of wheat are to be appraised exclusively by the amount of labor devoted to its finding or production. One also must assume that all capital is essentially bad. Socialism makes no distinction between the numerous and diversified s in which wealth is accumulated. ver, one must belfeve that the laboring man is day by day sinking into a worse and worse condition. A look around America will deny this. Limit, if you wifi, labor to those who use their hznds.'and assumedly use nothing else, although the most skill- ful hand fs hnpotent without a brain to direct it, nd determine for your- selves whether our old-fashioned gov ernment Is intorested or not in its workers, their families, homes, health, welfare and happiness. What of the many laws we have enacted and the higher standards and benefits that have flowed from those laws? These basic principles of modern soclalism ought to enable an average man to determine whether its theories justify a social revolution. They convince me that f. of spread or dominance of socialism in America 1s groundless. Before socialism will come to pai in _our republic we will have to have a different race of men and women from those who now dwell beneath the flag. Socialism, to he successful, must go back bevond the birth of man: ft must start at the conception of humankind. It must breed a race of men and women with like hopes, like aspirations, like aims, a race devoid of personal or individ- ual ambition. To make a silk purs out of a sow's ear would be much casier than to make a social order where all are just allke out of an order where all are unlike. * ¥ ok K For more than a year I had offic opportunity to investigate certain troubles between capttallsts and laborers in America, to talk with the representatives of each group, listen to their theorles and hear their com- plaints. I became convinced that while the old order needed rejuvena- tion, readjustment, new ideas and greater brotherhood, it was funda- mentally sound and would remain. The brotherhood idea was cramped by the feeling that brotherhood was {all right if it were not carried too far. Both capital and labor w unduly spurred by the hope of get- ting on_in the world. Strangely enough, I found the most helpful cap- italists’ to_be men who had neve of manual labor in their lives and the most vindictive capitalists toward unfonism to be former labor union officials who hid risen to the capitalistic elass. My re- luctant conclusion was that while men may bind themselves together for the obtensible purpose of bene thelr class. any one stands to benefit himself by desertin class is quite apt to do are willing, it seems, to make massed fights when it is better for them- sclves, but are unwilling to vield up opportunities for themselves even though they may thereby benefit others, God made the individual and he is here to stay. The onward progr. of the human race toward brother- hoog Ix not to be promoted by cramp ing Jindivid initiative, but rather by touching individual consciences. (Copyrigit, 1024, Ly Twents-fist Centry Press.) Our American’ Diamond Bill BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN were ofggred for resale at less than purchase price. Such an un- foreseen event naturally rocked the re diamond trade, but through the aneuvers of the London Dia- mond Syndicate, which controlled the output of diamonds, a diamond panic | was averted. There was a period of jand bracelets that would have de | rough satling. but by the end of 1 {lighted even the jaded eye of Lorenzo lthe Magnificent casually worn Il-y the wives and daughters of our industrial barons, while diamond rings and wrise watche lend a sparkle to e otherwise heaw iatmosphere of our business offices. { It is this American passion for dia- imonds, in fact, which but recently |brougnt the dtamond producers of ithe world, safely through a critical period of depression and placed them securely on their feet. And It is to the rapidly increasing demand for ldiamonds in this country {same producers louk for a busy and ibrilliant futurs i ways Dr. George Frederick our leading gem expert, who has just issued another report show- ing onr large diamond expenditures. In a little more than half a century ithis country has spent $2,000.000,000 for diamonds. In the fiv decades from 1867 to 1917 about $750,000.000 imorth of dlamonds was imported. iDuring the five vears that followed the importation of diamonds rose to $200,000,000, or to nearly one-third of the total amount that had been imported in the hali-century before. In other words, our demand for dia- monds ha§ grown vociferous since the war. Not the Total Bill. i But this $2,000,000,000 does not rep- resent our total diamond bill. It simply covers the cost of the raw stones when they ican ports. There are several other !items on the bill besides—such as { duties, sales tax, the cost of cutting and setting the stones and the by no means small profits of the sellers— {Whieh bring the total up to nearly double the original price of the stones. The largest demand for diamonds occurred in this country in 1919, the vear after the war, while the least demand was recorded in 1914, the year the war broke out. All during the war the diamond producers en- joyed enormous prosperity, which {Teached its climax in 1919. Then, ab- {ruptly, the market suffered a terrific | slump; the price of diamonds drop- per, and some of the most important South African mines were forced to close down. i The cause of this depression is in- { teresting to note—it was the sudden dumping on the market of vast quan- tities of diamonds by Russians and Germans, The diamond trade was aware, of course, that large deliveries of dlamonds had been made to Ger- many and Russia just before and dur- ing the war, but the reason for such | huge purchases was not made fully i clear until the war was over. Then {it was surmised, according to Dr. Kuntz, that the aim had been “to stabilize the financial status of these countries, for diamonds offered a per- manent security for investments against the inevitable breakage of the currency.” Dismonds as Securities. ‘When this occurred, in 1921, he says, | the majority of the accumulated dia- monds were thrown upon the market by the German and Russian owners. That the stones had not been bought to be cut and set into jewels was clearly indicated by the fact that in many instances packages still bear- the original unbroken seal, and .{ eunulnlnf diamends worth S are a Kuntz, i | that these | ame into Ameri-4 | em; the German and Russian supplies had been absorbed and the new and e tensive demand from America re- stored the industry’s balance. Today uth African mines are again running full blast. In converting their gold into dia- monds, the Germans and Russians were merely following an old and well established custom. The value of such easily transportable treasure as diamonds has long been recog- nized by countries engaged or about to engage in war. Gold is bulky and hard to carry, but diamonds can eas- ily be removed to a place of safety in the event of the invasion of the en- When the Germans were ad- vancing on Paris during the late war it is asserted that one of the French ministers took the famous regent diamond owned by the French gov- ernment to Bordeaux until the dan- ger_was over.. It was then returned to Parls. This gem, which is usually shown in the Apolio Gallery of the Louvre, is valued at £480,000. Diamonds Easily Transportable, The experience of centuries has proved that when you want to hold your property in a form that is least endangered from attack, which is most easily transported and most readily converted into cash, the dia- mond is the happlest choice. A his tory of any of the famous diamonds of the world easily proves this, as most of them have lived an extreme- 1y nomadic existence and have changed hands innumerabfe times. One of the best illustrations, how- ever, is afforded by the so-called Sancy diamond, which takes its name from one of its famous owners— Nicolas ge Harlai Sieur de Sancy. This gentleman was, the good friend and treasurer of Henry IV of France, who at one time found himself in need of money to protect his crown. To aid the king the sieur offered his rare diamond as security and sent it off to the bankers at Metz. On the road the servant Intrusted with the safe delivery of the diamond was waylaid by robbers, so he swallowed the gem to protect it. When the rob- bers were unable to find the jewel on the person of the servant or in his belongings' they were so infuriated that they killed him. The sieur evi- dently knew what his man would do in a case of this kind, for he prompt- 1y recovered the diamond from the messenger's body. It is belleved by many that a large part of the fascination diamonds have for Ameticans. is based upon their cash value rather than their mere beauty. The possession of a splendid diamond neeklace is almost as good as the possession of bonds, and even better When it comes to getting cred- it. There have been Instances, in- deed, when just the rumored posses- sion of valuable diamands has kept a man in luxury for years. The new rich, who are now Wwith us in such large numbers, have not been wealthy long enough to forget the disadvan- tages of poverty. Many of them fear that what has come to them so quick- ly may some day depart with equal rapidity, in which case they want to be sure 'of a certain amount of casl So they buy diamonds with the ut- most prodigality, knowing that they are an exceilent Investment, The only thing that would be likely to jeopar- dize such an investment would be the manufacture of a satisfactory ar- tificlal diamond, and so far all such @sttempts have met with no success. g e BY WILL P. KENNEDY | Representative A. Piatt Andrew of | Massachusetts, formedly ~Harvard professor, assistant secretary of the | treasury and medal of honor man, who served in France continuously for four and a half years during the world war, tells this little story as he got it from Roger W. Babson, economist and statistician; so it must be so: > Babson fs a joint temant with Ed- ward T. Clark, personal secretary to | President Coolidge, and when he hap- pens to be in Washington Mr. Babson stops at the Clark home. | ©On Sunday morning Clark and I son, in neglige attire, were lounging in Clark’s study when the bell rang. | In the Pullmans the average ag Mr. Babson suggested that it was |the travelors scems to he si¥ty ¥ D et irea Tinging he will drop the |OF more. Too bad that more younger message in the letter slot,” Mr. Bab people have not the ns and the! son said " Tut the Lell kept on ring- jleisure to move north and south | ::r‘:m;l’:\dz . Kidlerm At the doon | With the seasons Mr. Babson grew impatient and One of the porters and gazed into the countenance of ¥ d 3 Calvin Coolldge, who had been taking | “Yes, sir,” Erownie, an early morning stroll and dropped | gtill for the g {0 be on his campaign train this ye Yes, sir: I remember all the s in to pay Ted Clark a visit i ber all al h - . cmember a1l about the old order fn: Most people in Washington, espe- | (RNt inel Tl Rk (e, DI Brder fnd | cially those prominent in official life, | the league of nation sirs 1 don't resent being kept waiting on an belleve that league is dead. It il 3 never Boing to ¢ ong as {pointment. ~Recently Mrs. Coolidge |25YET £0InE to die as long s had her pleture taken with her two |ernor's old speeches at home. that sons. When they went for the sitting | saved, and 1 know some of them by S ) ady |heart” at was a great crew of | the photosrapher was not quite ready |Reart That was o great, crew of for them. Contrary to the usual pro- |They used to battle all the time about ceeding under such ctrcumstances, | “the were always at | Mrs. Coolidge sat very patiently, and |the \ listening to while she waited was knitting silk the governor's socks for her sons. one particular ¢ «n slogan * % k% always appealed to the porters g Ket the money.” While discussing the proposed 4 | service rating system for government employes in the House the other day, Representative Charles I. Sten- gle of New York, a former Virginia newspaper editor, who in three years traveled more than 30,000 miles and delivered more than 500 adfire in favor of pensions for worn-out disabled federal civil employes, that those gentlemen who have be planning the efliciency system “hav almost reached the stage of Hoo! evolution,” and told the following sto Patrick Hooley was born in County Cork, Ireland; he came to our shores in early youth; he resided here until mature and then, be of | his good luck and his suecc America, he g dinner to friends and neighbors. At the con- clusion of the repast his neighb said, “Patrick, tell us_about v success” He %aid, “Do 1 unde ¥ou to mean the evolution of Patric Hooley?" They said, “Yes” “Well" | sald he, “T was born in County Cor Ireland: I came over to these shor in my boyhood, and on_the ship's reg- ter T wis known as Patrick Hooley, When I had been in this country few months 1 obtained work as a i) % ok | digger of trenches for the sewer |dnd pr about us much {Bartment fn my city, and there 1 was | rning departments as {simply Patrick. or ‘Pat.’ e 7 who testified b Tt naa {whole as any man who testified | good fortune to be joint congressional commitice. ‘»w[.-hor the board of aldermen. erything good common rishmen sometimes are, and,” sense to theory running wild has been said, “then I beecame Mr. Hoo faRtd by the committes hear some of them talk one would think the course of human e while after that I was elected a me the departments are on their last legs and about to dissolve unless Ier of the assembly of my state, and then T was known on the record s {the Hon. Mr. Hooley, and. fricnds, mething is done about it. {happens’ to all gend Irishmen who i “Still others have m. ihave been on these shores for years |that to change a single nd have taken care of themsclves, |single department would throw the me rolled on and 1 was elocted the | government at Washington into a mayor of my city, and the following |fort of chaos. A dark and sinister autonomy is grabbing the bureaus. Al is not well on the Votomac MIAMI BEACH, Fla., January 19.—| { Some impressions on a trip to Florid: So many private cars are to be han- | dled that the train leaving Washing- | ton for Jacksonville has to be run in | two sections. Four or five wealth persons in cach private car. Quite contrast up ahead, where a colored | |family, after a disappointing expe- rience in the north, is returning home. {Seven little pickaninnies are hugdled | together in two seats of the day coach. They are shivering and lon ing for the sun once more. of me is n old friend. i nor. and I'm hop| ap- the Old Dominic Old North § hen daylight brings | |you to picturesque old Charleston. Already there is warmth in the sun ! and impatient migratory souls at breakfast are d 1ing to know just when we are going to cross the Florida line. They appear to think here {s going to be some ange and that old Pe Imself Is going to st welcoming them aughts of the zht in the and said n de Leon the bor- | coplous th. * x tells the is nearing parasite, 2d which | Oc- tre he queer gray w live o, Spanish moss on the experfenced traveler Savannah. It this long, droopt depends from the is years, ause s in i Heard and Seen “ “Nobody has asked my opinion abou this reorganization of the government departments’ business,” he said . “Yet I have been attending all of ‘the hearings for the past two weeks ably kno a re became my elected a mem- as om he v. In ts a short it appear bureau of a iSunday morning, bright and e id to me wife, ‘Come, Bri and the girls, 1 think ¥ 0 down to the church and y respects to Divinity for th we have had during the past wee nd. beliey or not, friends {neighbors.” said he, “the evolution of atrick Hooley has been o success- ful that even as we walked down the main aisle of that church on that Sunday morning the choir in the gal- lery began to sing. ‘Hooley, Haole Lord God Almighty * % ok % ¥ our zood lur it from me—the govern- pretty able, “But, take ment departme after all They have been runuing al most of them. the days the government was founded, or from varfous dates thereafter, and have done good work “Take the War nts. 1f there where the argun senti- looms large, this Here two old departments have besn along _since this republic was knee breetches, and now somebody comes by and proposes to urite them into a so-called depart- ment of national defens. 5 ids something like the grown man to signature—it was too sily forged, he told the man. ‘Well, £ you think I am going to change my signature, after all these years, just because think this or that about it, you are sort of crazy,’ re- plied the offended citizen. “Why the War and Navy depart- ments, in one sense, mean this repub- lic. Almost might as well propose the name of the Unite seems to me. Secretary | Weeks and Secratary Denby pointed out fo the committée that even the malgamation of the two would not result_in a_department of defense, since the defense of a natlon in these times depends upon the co-ordination of the entire resources of the coun- try. ts are an; = sinee and Navy ever depart- was a plain nt of n case ment these plugsing orge H. Carter, the publ has a distinguished the world war in his employ which he is very proud. This linotype machine received Camp Humphreys. 1t was used in the mobile printing plant that a companied G Pershing's head- quarters in France throughout the war. Mr. Carter is making arrange- ments to place a bronze plate on this machine in commemoration of its war service. Instead, however, of | continuing to set Gen. Pershing's war | orders, this machine is now devoted | to the more peaceful occuy of | printing patent specifications. This is one of five typesetting machines transferred to the govern- ment printing office from various war activities at the Great Lakes Naval training tation, from Walter Reed Hospital, etc., from the Seaman Gunners' School, ete. EIght presses have been similarly secured, and also | surplus paper, envelopes and other supplie: at approximately c printer, veteran of is a from the banke you 3 * ok % Uncle Sam is conducting a general information service, the backzround of which is the largest and most | completo lbrary of government pub- lications in existence. There 350,000 government books, pamphie and maps in the library, to which 20,000 editions were made in the last year. This priceless library, which could never be replaced, is stored in a fire trap building, where it is in con- stant danger of destruction. During the past year 165903 Jet- ters were received seeking authorita tive information. ‘“Teachers, pub- lMeists and scientific investigators often call upon us to furnish bibliog- raphies on special subjects” Alton P. Tisdel, the superintendent of documents, explains. 1 “A teacher sometimes w know all that has been pub the subject of secondary cduca publicist or bibliographer de list of publications on taxation; technical man requests a list on ele tricity, et i 'he preparation of these 1 quires considerable research work, together with @ general Knowledge |¢o ramain Post Office Department and which can be galned only through|g, qo the 100,600,000 paoples, more experience and a long study of £ov- |0l jace \Cho Iy recelve their let- ernment publications, as the subjects | {are ana parcels. > and substances of many publications | do not appear In the titles, and, of | course, all finding lists % “I was mighty #lad, too, when Post- er General New told the com- | mitteo that he was hearily opposed | to the change of the name of the Post Office Department to the ‘De- partment of Communications. | “That is about the most absurd | proposal, t6 my way of thinking, in| the whole plan for reorganization, under the so-called President or the Brown plan, as it is called, named after Chairm °. Drown of the committee. “Here is a_great old department that employs 340,000 men and women {thdt has heen functioning since the lays of Benjamin Franklin, that has | doing “exactly what its name mas| are n Walter | been nd they come along with the proposal that it lose its old, honored a name that could never be . and give it a name dragged he back of the neck from untries. he name could nevereven heg pproximate appropriateness until the telephones, telegraphs and radio | of the country were placed complete- Iy under government control. You ee visions of that ht away, don't {you? You do not. Postmaster General a “The wants it - * indexes, ete., deal Wwith the tities as they appear on e title page. K nother " ¢lass of inquiries calls for knowledgo of government bu- reaus and their activities. We are frequently asked to advise as (o what bureaus would be likely to make in- vestigations along certain lines and report thereon. In such cases a cor- Tect answer often depends upon a thorough knowledge of special activi- “As a matter of fact, the bureau of the budget is supposed to be sa {ing the government a lot of money and its organization and effective operation have taken away one of the necessitles for reorganization of the departments. “A Department of Education fwhi function in a large way, Is a {es of bureaus whose work to the mocessity, and probably will come ::‘:s’u:l observer seems to overlap that {about. 'The rest of this reorganiza- f other burcaus. tion business is simply a matter of 5 | taking several misplaced bureaus and noeE | putting thom in the right place. 2 er Tague of Mas- | “This business of talking as though Feursena iy Pe,‘ r;,‘:. f,mmh” of | the government service ix all wrong sachusetts, a democratlo Of | makes me tired. And I am not in the House ways and means commit- | the government rvice, either. tee which is now wrestling with the | Scores of vears of fine achievement i aro behind the departments, as or- Mellon tax bill, has received a brief !g“md_‘lon,[ e artan letter from an apple grower in La |SANZe0—C0RE (OTKEL TOL @ ke to Crosse, Wis., named John Burns, who | see this reorganization settled: which | southern trees m by | § of the magical | v |of two ni short | Woman situat the of | porter, ana | subject {of | peal of the | declaring. asked that ihe tax on telegraph and | “Put Semator Reed Smoot and Sen- telephone messages be taken off. lator Pat Harrison in & room by “You know, there are so few of us|themsolves and give them three hours democrats here in Wisconsin we may ,to bring in & bill. Il bet you would have to hold our mext convention in |kave .as good a reorganization as 2 teleplione booth, wrote Mr. Burns.|could he effected” X “Take the oft 'the booth.’ CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. AFFAIRS BY ROBERT T. SMALL caslon seen ¥ great dangling wires wh by the win of Indiana ins orizin of clusters the have of it are telegraph been blown Jim Watson knows the He n Lewis dorn- us pink o storm his whis lodged from the h Hamil atiful hirs referred to ght in of m whiskers, down th kers were was o way, Sa blown off. nd propagated. He th beards that now drape the Of course, this story fanci The Sen N given to that Nevertheless, Ji wag a residint o can take . it mos he sntirely from ne of thing Lewis once So von or leave may ator sort Ham Georgia planation is At Js the daily that one sports here a fo 'n you learn greatest indoor in Florida to a about the weather “back home colder and nastier it is at home better satisfied you are. at Chicago, snow at Detroit and fi ing in Washington.” Simply grand What could be sweeter. And how these Floridians ¢ read about the swept south- winter. Read eich society paper furkholtz_has just ar wdena, Calif ding change from frost there and th san is a papers, of the down oh. boy to balmy sunshine - b Zow A nasty one! Hut there more to it you that Jeach society pa and you will s Pal ¥ The countr; the Impression recently Walsh Mon cam Beach a few ago to worn _testimony of Edw 1 n, Washington publish loan of $100,000 to former § Inte r Fa Various new paper reports were sent out to th rct, including a_transcript of ex ctly what Mr. Mclean said. B 1ll wrong. Ilere is the t i » Palm Beacl est of ana shington arrived 3 ¢ an extended sojourn, ‘and is staying at the Break- s the senator's first seasor e was welcomed by many ves This friends.” The “seagon” consisted 1d a day. But the: = always is hts the Palm Beach Fifty Years Ago ‘In The Star The socia National Woman Suffrage fon its annual in this city Januar; ates in from various 5 B. Au- The Star carried this meeting, whicl In its issu Star in an follows the prospect the women conven- on Suffrage. the presided. tenda parts of country. Su thon long continued for of Ja editorial renorts uary The sumn m respect of enfranchisement the United States, “Mi B. A ton and other leade suff cmen held al ¢ cit 1 The; ment is in to many ing rec doctrin sert that they friends in both and that even the President United States, while not a pr believer in the right of wo has practically his belief in the neces nlargement of wo ppointing thousand some of which 1dimportant. sident they s Susa Mrs. Stan- in the woma no reason prospect in the Ve arly, and poin persons as hav erest reasing 3 prom ntly of eq have a ¢ sence and in t his w hich he spoke does not deem dignity of to expr in hecom his convietion on any and a which concern the welfar: body the Amer vention encours evidenc inco; high ¢ terms yest gemn: stent wi any lars of A Butler i the I is ar other powerful ally, and is supported in his vi by quite respectable numb. gues. In the an outspoken al qual- the e enton is a convert Mr. Sumner him erted, is also in favor of the enfranchisement of women but for pecullar re: ns of his own must remain silent on the subject On the whole, the supporte of the cause, while in the minority eminently respectable and influ nd it is not improhab) in time they will be powerful to bri about reform, “Apropos to this subject, the New York Post, referring to the uill of v Logan relative to tl territary of Utah, that 1t con- tains provisions for taking away the political and pe nal rights of wom- en, and the revival of the comme law of England; under the com- mon law of England woman was con- sldered simply as the chattel of hes hushand. 1f <he was industrious and thrifty, the fruits of her labor and of her zood management belonged to her husbhand. he had no right to eny part, and if he chose he had the power under tne law to make her ingenuity, skill, industry and fra- gality minister to his laziness, his Vices or his avarice. The Post adds the attempt to revive this odious of law in Utah territory by s§ statute, to ¥ the least, re- explanation, and that the re laws by which the women now possess the right manage, under cer- their own property, lead to a differcnca of £ all of the wives in Utah invariably vote as their husbands d., and if the husbands continue to us their political power for the maint nance of polygamy, then obviot the proposed withdrawal of polftic: rights. from the women of Utin both wise and decent. But this by no means certain. On the eon- trary, the me journal believes that nothing would be more natural than that the Morm should arraign a system thus defrauds and urts her; that she should examine {i in the light of her own sad and bit- ter experience, and that she should use the political power which has been given her for its uttec uproot. ing and ovi 4 An amusing in close of ths convention. Just before the mecting finally ad- journed Miss Anthony called to the platform_an eclderly woman who, she said, wished to make an “announce- ment.” The speaker produced a large roll of manuscript and began reading interminably in a low voice a eulogy of her late husband, to the great dis- comfiture of the audience. Cries of protest did not affect her and she read on. Finally Miss Anthony, who was always mistress of any such difficult situation, summoned the song. leaders to her aid and called for the Dox- ology. which was sung with fervor, and the convention was pronounced adjourned, leaving the.elderly veader completely submerged. faith. sutticient]y 1 the desired expr quiry of th to v territory te and to tain limitations, may fairly opinion. Iy 18 is marked the ‘ L] ' L2 A ’