Evening Star Newspaper, April 13, 1924, Page 42

’THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY... «..April 13, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES. . . . Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Busioess Office, 1ith St. and Penosyivania Ave. N OTork Office: 110 Fast 420d. St. Thicaxo Ofcs: Tower Bulldme. European Office: 16 Regent St., London, England. with the Sunday morning ion, ix delivered by carriers within the 60 cents per month: daily only, 45 cents per month; Sunday only, 20 cents per month. Orders may e sent by mall or tele- phone Main 5000, Collection is made by car- yiers at the end of each month. The Evening Star. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, Deily and Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1 me., 10¢ Tily only..........1yT., $6.00; 1 mo., 50c Sunday only 1¥r., $2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ All Other States. 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A part of this increased traffic will result from the building up of Arlington and Fairfax counties as suburbs of Washington. Such sub- urban development now is under way on a scale not realized by many residents of the city proper, and as the National Capital reaches and passes the half-million mark it is Lound to proceed at an accelerated The foothills of the Blue Ridge, which overlook the Potomac valley, furnish ideal sites for the home builder and, with the assurance of transporiation facilities, are bound 10 share with the adjacent Maryland counties in accommodating future population as it overflows the federal District's boundaries. But it is not alone development of Virginia suburbs that will increase traffic across the Potomac. Opening of reads to the westward, into the historic Shenandoah valley and be- yond, will bring great streams of tourist traval. Nor is the opening of these rcads a matter of the indefinite fiuture, Lee Highway gives promise of being the first transcontinental Toute to be complete its entire length from the Atlantic to the Pacific, ahead even of its companion route, the Lin- coln higshway. And Lee highway must cross the Potomac at Washing- ton. It now is routed in over the Key bridge, but that route is wholly inedequate to accommodate the traffic ‘which is certain to follow completion of the highway. The Lee Highway Assoclation, which has headquarters in this city, elready has taken cognizance of the proposed Arlington Memorial bridge, and the national organization has siven official approval to plans which contemplate a magnificent boulevard westward from the bridge's Virginia terminal, extending as far, at least, s the Caverns of Luray, in the Shen. endoah valley. As an earnest of this intention, when rights of way were cbtained last vear for a stretch of Lee highway through Fairfax county, property owners ceded to a width of 100 fect. So the Arlington bridge docs not appeal solely as a project in itsclf, but as the beginning of a new era of expansion and beautification. come now er Gov. Smith’s Legislative Program, The New York legislature has ad- Journed, leaving most of the major policies of by Gov. Alfred E. Smith unacted upon. No deubt the governor is disappointed, hut as the two houses were of differ- ent political complexion he was not warranted in expecling any other re- sult. Moreover, some of his policies were notably radical, and foredoomed to rejection at the hands of the repub- | licans. He will go into the campaign this fall and blame the republicans for the failure of the legislation, demanding ibe election of a united democratic legislature. He will have good cam- Taign material in the non-action of the republican branch. The governor is expected to be called upon to address the democratic national convention in June, and, of course, will flaunt to the country the wickedness of the repub- licans, drawing attention to the pro- gressive program of the New York «iemocracy as a suggested model for the national platform. Gov. Smith is .a good fighter, re- wourceful and aggress but in his contest with the legislature he was dealing with a stiff-necked generation, and his appeal for his radical program was as the voice of one crying in the ‘wilderness. —— v It may be remembered that Mr. TDaugherty has done some of his most influential work in politics when he ‘was not an office holder, —————— Germany refuses to be cheerful at finding a more liberal estimate of her resources than she was inclined to 1ake credit for. Historic Places. During the next annual convention of the National Educational Society at Washington it is proposed to take zroups of visiting teachers to various *shrines” in the District, Maryland and Virginia, and “at each place a brief patriotic program and some especially appropriate tribute will be Tendered.” The list of places to be visited has not been closed by the ‘Washington committee in charge of the piigrimages, but the list now made far pilgrimages into Maryland and Virginia includes Mount Vernon, Monticello, Yorktown, Jamestown, ‘Willilamsburg, Fart Monroe, 8t. Johh's i mac, which is a little more than half- legislation recommended | Church, Richmond; 8t. Paul's Church, Norfolk; Fort McHenry, Annapolis, Gettysburg, the Lee Monument at Lexington and Hampton Normal and Industrial School. The list of places will call for some traveling, though they are near Washington as we think of distance today. Yorktown, Wil- liamsburg and Jamestown are easily reached by automobile from Freder- icksburg through an interesting part of Virginia, with a ferry across York river from Gloucester to Yorktown. From Yorktown it is a short auto ride by good road to Williamsburg and seven miles farther on one crosses & narrow bit of water, /'the Thorough- fare,” and comes upon Jamestown | Island. Some pilgrims go to Yorktown by steamboat from Baltimore and some by the automobile road from Newport News. Travelers to Wil- |liamsburg generally go by train from Richmond or Newport News and make ehort side trips to Jamestown and | Yorktown. The “shrine" list us so far | | made up is of remarkable interest, but it might, and perhaps will, include Alexandria, Fredericksburg and the Isite of St. Marys City. 1f Monticello is @ shrine, so is Wakefield. 1f the teachers visit at the Lee Monument at Lexington they will also stand by the grave of Stonewall Jackson. If they £0 to Gettysburg they might also go |to Antietam, Bull Run, Chancellors- viile, Wilderness and Spotsylvania. It they want a combination of scenery and historic assoclations they should £0 to Harpers Ferry and South Moun- tain, and if they are interested in fa- mous old towns they shauld see Fred- erick, Charles Town, Winchester and { Leesburg. They might also look over | these small settlements which long #g0 were important towns—Port To- | bacco and Dumfries. Annapolis, Nor- {folk, Yorktown and Jamestown wiil |give them views of the Chesapeake, |the York and the James, which they will never forget, but Wakefield and St. Marys City would acquaint them with the majesty and beauty of the {lower Potomac. They would go away with inadequate knowledge of the scenery of our section if they did not g0 to the crests of the Catoctins and ithe PBlue Ridge and look upon the Monoeacy and Shenandoah valleys. Flood Control. One Dbenefit which the Potomac hydro-electric power project would give to & large tract of country near Washington has not been touched on in public discussion. That is the part which the power project would play in flood control. As everybody knows the flow of the Potomac is not constant. There are times when the river passes Great Falls in mighty volume, and there arc times when the flow is fesble, To insure, or at least induce, con- stancy in flow et the power sits it is proposed to impound largs bodles of watér bshind dams. Much has been said of the dam which would be built at or just below Little Falle. It would rise 115 feet and impound a lake nine miles long, the upper margin of the lake being in the gorze below Great Falls. Islands, creek canyons and other familiar scenery between Little Falls and the mouth of the gorge would disappear. There would also be a dam above Great Falls. In addition to these there are planned dams on two important feed- ers of the Potomac, Great Cacapon creek and South branch of the Poto- mac in West Virgigla. A dam is also planned on the North Fork of the Shenandoah. The Great Cacapon dam, to cost $2,340,000, would be at Edes Fort, two and a half miles above the point where the creek enters the Poto- way between Harpers Ferry and Cum- berland. The Great Cacapon flows through Hardy, Hampshire and Mor- gan counties, W. Va., and through a wide valley, of which Great North mountain and its prolongation, Caca- PO mountain. is the east rim. A dam to cost $6.250,000 is planned | for South branch of the Potomac half | mile above its entrance to the Poto- mac, and the lake created by it would reach close to the town of Romney, about fifteen miles southwest. South ranch of the Potornac is the main | drainage channel for a large extent of rugged country. A dam to cost $3, 600,000 would be built on North Fork of the Shenandoah about four miles west of Broadway, Va. This stream joins South Fork of the Shenandoah at Riverton, and they are the Shenan- doah river from their junction to the Potomac at Harpers Ferry. Before building these dams the gov- ernment would pay for land 10 be sub- merged. A large acreage of land now on the flood plain would be at the bot- tom of these reservoirs. The flood piain behind the dams will, of course, be the height of the dams. Vast vol- umes of flood water will be held in storage, and that which would go over the dams ought not to do very great damage. The flood flow into the Poto- mac would be diminished. Tmpound- ing these large bodies of water ought to have a beneficial effect on the stream aystems of thé water sheds of the streami dammed, and there ought { “Aicker drama.'" to be less erosion of dand. e The reparation commission infer- entially reminds Germany that it is not arguing, but merely conveying im- portant information. Ao 1f senatorial investigators make a business of checking up income tax returns their task will become limit- less. Blossom Time. April takes her role as a maid of spripg and shifts the humor of her face from frown to smile. She bids sud mists and rain begone, and sends a message to the sun to shine. She backons to the South to send a breeze of balm, and she tells the cherry trees and & thousand flower-bearing shrubs to bloom. And gladly they obey, Forsythia swings out her golden bells and dandelion beams. Soon Miss But- tercup will shower gold upon the flelds, and even now the violet in fa- vored spots i{s painting earth as blue as any sky. The crocus and the hyacinth are in jolly mood, and the lilac is making ready to show the world her beauty. Our “Japanese cherry trees have put on their festal dress and are holding fete in Potomac Park. 1f the weather burean is right, and the weather " heids THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. “APRI its radiance, all Washington will jam Potomac Park today to make its year- Iy cherry blossom call. A rosy scene! Perhaps these trees are saying to each other: “Let us bloom as we have never bloomed before; let us show these peo- | ple of the west a bit of the magic of the east; let us show them with our flowers a picture of our far-off home." Soon the rugged, nay, even ragged, locust trees will plume themselves in creamy white as pure as ever worn by bride. And perhaps these trees, rich in bloom, will tell it to the world that these foreign cherry trees have naught con us. It will be gay in Potomac Park today! et Fading Stars of the Screen. Where are the stars of yesteryear? So asks the movie fan, the habitual, persistent, faithful follower of the He sits, perhaps, in the darkencd chamber of the silver acreen and sees new faces come into view, and thinks, maybe witha wrench of regret, of those who have passed, of the stars that have faded. And doubt- less he wondérs whether, ater all, it is worth while getting devotedly at- tached to picture personalities when they pass so soon. Tor the film stars do pass more quickly than stage favorites. A rauch shorter span of years is allotted to them for their performances in the front rank. Barring accidents, misad- ventures with the l]aw and unfortunate encounters with public sentiment, few, if any, last more than seven or eight vears. A ten-year star is really a wonder. Five years is perhaps nearer the average of public favor. Of course, there are the elders of the screen who play special roles, the old man and old woman parts, and they are almost perennial. But the youthful roles, the “juveniles,” the lover parts and the heroines, call for new material con- stantly. The film career of a star is shorter than the stage career for several rea- sons, In the first place, the passing of time can be concealed behind the footlights to a great degree by means of make-up. And even when cosmetics cannot set back the calendar, as it were, there remain the personal quali- ties that endear the actor or the ac- tress to the public, the voice, the skill, the technique, the magnetic element that is the secret of histrionle success, The star may grow stout and gray, and even wrinkled, possibly on the other hand, may be thin and bent, and yet hold position through sheer genius. Sarah Bernhardt had that power, Duse had it, Ellen Terry had it, though she retired. perhaps wisely, before the handicap of time became heavy. Irv. ing had it, Booth—in fact, all the great men and women of the Ameri- can and English stage possessed that quality that kept them younz before their audisnces, On the cereen, however, these erans could not have plaved long in the vouthful roles. They would have had to play the eccentrics. the elders, the “background” parts, for when the camera clicks youth will be served. And that is why the “turnover” in the silent drama is so heavy. Perhaps it is this very factor, this constant re- placement of persénalities, that main- tains the strong appeal of the movie for public favor. ———— New York is preparing special en- tertginment for the democratic conven- tion next summer. The party leader- ship includes a great deal of talent, much of which has in the past felt competent to keep the spotlight all to itself. —————— The fact that Gov. Smith is opposed to strictly dry conditions does not imply any assurance that the demo- cratic delegates to New York may look forward to a convivial convention. e Tt intimated that while Mr. Daugherty is willing to help dig up in- formation, he insists on discriminating 1o its precise nature. B Whether the politics was local national, Oklahoma was inclined make it a rough game. vet. is or SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Tick, Tock. I sat an’ 1 listened to old Miss Ciock. She first said “Tick” an’ she next said “Tock. An' T says, “If 'd nothin’ but that to| feeling of ra jes' day. sep quiet, both might & An’ then, as I dozed in the firelight glow, T heard her answerin’, soft an’ slow: “Those wards you have learned by heart so well, Are tellin’ you all that there is to tell.” “Remember, when next my song you hear, Tick' means a smile; "Tock’ means a tear. They are all that a life can hold in store.” An’ she started in sayin’, “Tick. Tock," | once more. ‘Welcome, ““There is a book agent outside.” “'Sure he's-a book agent?” tioned Senator Sorghum. ‘Show him in. After these investi- gation experiences I'm anxious to meet some one who specializes in kind words and a happy smile.” Jud Tunkins says that considering | 323; to] J | 1 1 ] | { i | { i aues- {327 L _13 Public Opposes Kicking Man When Down, Marshall Says BY THOMAS R. MARSHAL Former Vice President of the U State Maln street, the prineipal thorough- fare of the republic, furnishes in tab- lold form all the hopes, aspirations, ambitions, weaknesses, elements of strength and raclal characteristics of our land. T wish to refer to only one national quality—the forgiving spirit of our people. But first 1 wish to re- call some Main street incidents, A small boy trained in a Presbyte- rian home to fear and abhor the devil, visited a side show which pre- sented to the delectation of our coun- try populace Dante's Inferno. “I hope now you have some conception of the devil and that you will avoid him and all his works and ways,” sald his mother when he returned home. His reply was, “Now that I have seen him, he doesn’'t look to me to be a half-bad fellow." After we have blown off steam and scattered our indignation into the cir- cumamblent air, we have a sort of national churacteristic of Judging as charitably as we can our fellow men, * % % % Our Main street later was shocked by a bank wreck. In the vault was found only a single penny of the thousands of dollars it had held. In- dignation ran high; there were calls for grand juries, calls for condign punishment, calls for ropes; and yet ina few days the excitement and fury had abated. At a meeting of the creditors the strongest and most pow- erful men in tha community had to argue to gain consent to have the se presented to the grand jury. Most of the creditors took the posi- tion thAt they did not believe the banker really intended to be dishon- est. They wanted to give him an- other chance. Thev even joked with each other about the sums of money they hud lost, thosé who lost heav calling the smaller creditors “pikers The indignation of the American people bears resemblance to u bottle of soda water: uncorkéd, it fizzes for a little while and then subsides. And in Main street I always found sympathy for the under-dog. Al- though the dog might bé the most despicable of curs, there was detect- able & spirit that it was all right to kick him into the street, but that it was not all right to follow him into the street and kick him block after block. This spirit is extant today People become Indignant at the com- mission of & crime, and they wish the guilty to be punished, but they are unwilling that the eriminal should be handled too roughly. * % % % 1 recall the trial of a dishonest banker indicted for embezzlement. The prosecuting attorney made a closing argument so vitriolic that it ought to have been preserved as a bit of forensic condemnation of crime. He told the jury that if he had a son whom he desired to train up as a master criminal he would seek to place him in the office of the defend- ant. When the jury filed out the prosecutor asked me how long I thought -they would be out. and I guessed five minutes. He said, “You are probably right; the case Is So clear they will waste no time on t." T told him the case was clear, but that the defendant would be acquitted Lecause he had aroused sympathy for him by hix abuse. In a few minutes the defendant wus a free man. There is a trait of American Char- acter not explainable by any of the laws of logle, not at all explainable by the purposes and intent of the American people to deal justly. to have the law vindicated and to have crime punished. It is a traft that says punish the gullty, but not be- come vindictive in that punishment. Recent revelations in the public life of America have been the subject of universal comment. T have heard them discussed by persons of all grades of intelligence and education. The resultant effect upon my mind is that civilization in and of “itsell ix just @ veneer, and that without the power of un unseen influence upon the life of man, human nature in the raw is much the samé as it has been throughout recorded time. 1 have also been convinced that there are traits whioh go with the people, out of which they may be jolted for a time, but to which they soon return. B Thete is today & xentiment thut may be said to be practically unanimous that the politics of this country must be cleansed and purificd. Thers is a feeling that the law always must be vidicated, but more and more is being heard the opinion that the inves tion and prosecution of ecrime should bs dome in an orderiy way by our courts and grand juries. There is a fesling that the government officials who have gone wrong will suffer enough if the wrong which they have done is simply presented to the court. The public's anger is beginning to disappear, and one hears It arked from many mouths: “I< this an at- tempt to punish wrongdoing or is it an attempt to pillory the wrongdoers in public opinion?’ There is= no purpose or intent to minimize the wrong that has been done or to excuse the wrongdoers, but the average man is qualifying his condemnation, adding the word “but,” and expressing the belief that when a man is down and out, is i* not the privilege of every American to kiek him in the ribg. It is the busine the courts of this country to pun crime and the business of executives to clean out all scoundrels from public ofiices. Nobody has any right to play with a erimi- nal just for the purpose of putting on a show, or to butcher the worst of men in order to make un American hollday. The Washington exposures have been profitable, of immense £o0d, but 1 hope that the kicking and cuffing of men will not continue Otherwise we shall have a public sentiment which shall sav, “They have already been punished sufficiently; let the erring brothers go in peace (Copyright, 1824, by Twentrfirst Century Press.) The Obligation of Citizenship BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Is citizenship in Ensgland or in Germany of greater value than eiti- zenship in the United States? Are the English or Germans better citi- zens than Americans? The man who ventured to ask these questions and answer them affirma- tively in the presence of any con- siderable number of Americans might find himself subjected to rough treat- ment. At least he would be treated with ridicule or contempt or his as- xertions would be met with indig- nant denials Nevertheless, these that are asked by thoughtful leaders of national affairs in this country, who say that if the answers are to be taken from election returns then it is high time for Americans to stop, look and listen. The record. on the face of these statistics, is against us! In England in the last parliamen- tary election more than $0 per cent of the total number of possible vot- ers actually went to the polls and cast their ballots, while in Germany 84 per cent of the possible electorate voted. In the last genaral election in the United States less than 30 per cent of the total possible vate was actu- ally cast According to the last ceneus there are 54.000,000 possible voters in this country, but in the presidential elec- tion of 1920 only 26.000.000 men and women exercised the great préroga- tive of their American eitizenship. In the congressional elections of 18 —and the congressional elections are of almost as great importance as the presidential — this 26,000,000 had dwindled to approximataly 20,000.000. are Mauking due allowances for the num- | ber of colored citizens in southern States who could not vote if they anted to and tried to do so, it is still apparent that not more than half of our citizens value their Giti- zenship enough, or have a sufficlent their responsibility and duty &s citizens to go to the polling places on election Low Vote for Semators. Striking figures may be cited in connection with the election of United Stutes senators. In lowa, for example, where the percentage of illiteracy is the lowest of any state in the Union, and where consequently the standards of citizenship should be highest, Senator Brookhart was elected by 29 per cent of the total possible vote. There are 1,387,212 citizens of voting age in Towa, and the total vote for senator was but §15,584, of which Senator Brookhart received 389.751 Senator Copeland of New York was elected by 25 per cent of the possible total vote in that state, Senator Shipstead of Minnesota, 26 per cent; Senator Frazier of North Dakota, 35 per cent: Senator Dill of Washington, 17 per cent; Senator La Follette of Wisconsin, 28 per cent; Senator Johnson of California. 29 per cent: Senator Lodze of Massachusetts, 22 cent, and Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania, 18.9 per cent. In the days when candidates for office were nominated by conventions, the failure of a large element of the citizenry to vote was explained fre- quently on the grounds that the average voter really has no voice in the selection of candidates and hence was naturally indifferent on election Bosses and party muchines 1y dominated conventlons, it was the theater taxes that have been col- |argued, and practically decided the lected the government hasn't given | near the show he hoped for. ‘Simple Enough. The cannibal lives without labor. His hunger will cause no misgiving. | P He cheertuily dines on a neighbor, And s0 cuts the high cost of living. Self-Confidence Shattered. “How do you think your mother ‘would like me for a son-inlaw?’ in- quired the young man. “I shouldn't consult her if I were you,” answered Miss Cayenne. “Ever since she married father she has had no confidence in her judgment in matrimonial matters.” “De enly thing you kin borrow with- out bein’ expected to pay it back,” said UncleEben; “is trouble.” ! Tesults of elections before they were held. Hence the adoption of the primary system of nominations was urged and it was predicted that if this could be brought about the immediate result Would be mot only a higher grade of ublic officials, but the participation of practically all qualified voters in the primaries and elections. But with the primary system gen- erally in effect throughout the nation no ‘such results have been shown. Almost invariably the ~vote at primaries is lighter than at elections, and the figures with respect to the latter have been quoted. A Priceless Privilege. “Phe priceless privilege of Ameri- can citizenship” has long been one of the stock phrases with which we have voiced our national pride, just as it was the proud boast of the ancient Roman that to be a citizen of the Eternal City was to be greater than a king. But if citizenship is a priceless privilege, how ‘cah’ afy man or woman Wwho enjoys it fail to take advantage of it whén primary or election day comes around? The only answer to that is that an amaz- ing number of men and women, most of them of average intelligence, at least, do that very thing! Much is heard nowaduys of the popular unrest and dissatisfaction with the government or the manner in which the government is conduct- ed. and various panaceas have been proposed. Most of them contémplate a chunge in the federal Constitution. One group wants to make it easler to amend the Constitution. ~Another fseeks to limit the power of the Su- uestions questions | i l preme Court to declare acts of Con- gress unconstitutional. A _mors recent proposal, of which much will be heard during the com- ing presidential campaign, is that steps should be taken to make the “priceless privilege of American citi- zenship” really priceless. The way to do this is to take it away from those who do not appreciate it, it is argued efly stated. the idea is that the citizen who fails to vote, and who cannot present an acceptable excuse, shall he disfranchised for two vears upen = first offense, fof four vears upen his second offense and for all time to come upon his third offensa. Thus the pight of the ballot, badge of citizenship, will be made to impose an oblization or a Guty upon all who wear it. Members of certain fraternal so- cietits who do net attend meetings regularly and otherwise discharge the obligations of their membership may forfeit_their membership or be fined or disciplined. _ Should an American citizen owe a lesser obliga- tion to his government than to his lodge? Back of the idea of compulsory voting, under penalty of being dis- franchiged, is the belief that when every citizen must vote he will not only tuke the trouble to acquaint himself with the character, record and capacity of cundidates for public offica. but will also want to know in detail just how his government is constituted and how it functions. That, obviously, will make for intel- ligent citizenship. When George Washington predicted that the federal Constitution would endure as long as there remained “any virtue in the body of the peo- ple” he pointed out that one of the menaces to it would be “listlessness for the preservation of the national and inalienable rights of mankind. He also said that “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,” and he might have added that the exercise of the priceless privilege of citizenship in the first essential of eternal vig. flance. Warning Against Undue Hopes Over Dawes Plan There may be need of a warning against too extravagant expectutions as to the immediate results of the findings of the Dawes commission of experts as to German finance and its Telation to the reparation payments. Even under the most favorable eir- cumstances it can hardly mark the end of the period of difficulties that set in after the peace treaty. The plan has to be accepted by the reparations commission, which is an allied organi- zation entirely and usually divided in opinions and aims. It has to be ac- cepted by governments, that have so far been at serious odds, and in the case of Germany, by a government that, whether its intentions have been good or bad, has been generally in- effective. Nevertheless, if the plan of the ex- perts does not mark the end of diffi- cultles, it may mark the beginning of a period in which they will diminish instead of accumulate, The main thing is to establish the prospect of better things in the future. The mood of business and, in fact, of the world in general, is usually affected more by prospects than by conditions existing at any given time. Once provide th prospect of improvement a paychology of people improves. To some extent the prospect of bet- ter things arises from the belief that present conditions cannot ‘become worse without peril. When matters become as bad as they can be, look t for sotnethl: better.—, Tty G e veee ~Spriknce | relative af getting his party colleagu foof and keéping thém there whan | as the | 1924—PART 2. Capital Sidelights BY WILL P. KENNEDY. The reason for a party whip in legislative body and how a real whip operates was emphasized in the Chandler-Bloom contested election cdse, when a democratic minority member won out against a former member in w bitter contest for party majority in the New York delegation, which may be an important factor if the coming presidential election is thrown into the House. Few of those who look down on the proceedings of the House from the galleries even realize that there is such an official as a party whip, and still fewer have any idea what a whip is supposed to do. This sort of a whip ha especiully when he acts as a bell- weather for the minority side. The whip is supposed to keep posted on what may happen in the House and be ready to muster the strength of his party when an important issue Is at stake, or perhaps to have some members absent themselves when lack of & quorum may delay action on some measure which his party is opposing. The job requires general- ship. . Of course, the whip for the mujor- ity is kept posted by the party leader as to when men may be released from attendance in the chamber to per- form other duties. But the minority whip is always working at a disad- vantage because he must constantly be preparced to meet any issue that may arise, with the opposition cunningly working to lead him astray when some important lssue may be raised. Repre: tative William A. Oldfield of Arkansas has been the minority whip in two Congresses, and Is ac- by leaders on both the re- publican and democratic sides of the House with being the best whip seen in action during the memory of sit- ting members. Speaker Gillett has repeatedly congratulated Representa- tive Oldfield on his success in mus- tering a full party vote. while Mi- nority Leader Garrett and Repre- seAtative John Garner. ranking deme- crat on the wavs and means commit- tes, himself a, former whip, have given Whip Oldtield full crédit for répeated vietories by the minority on a roll call vote, In a letter of “appreciation for the splendid services rendered,” Minority Leader Garrett wrote to Representative Oldfieia: “Throughout this entire Congress, be- ginning with the votes upon orguniza- tion and running through all questions that have partaken of any party char- cter, you have rendered 100 per cent During my ten terms of serv- ice in the House I have never known a whip on either side who has more fully measured up to the exactions of the pluce. Our party (and in sayiog this 1 express the universal feeling of its members in the House) owes you & debt of gratitude.” Representative Garner's econlum of Whip Oidfield that he “is the best we ever had” was won when Garner was leading the fight on the revenue bill in the committee of the whole House. Oldfield brought in all but three " democrats and they voted solidly. Of the thres absentees, one was at the point of death and did die a few days later; another was stricken last Octoher and has been bed-ridden ever since, and the third was attending the funeral of a near in Richmond. Representativa Oldfield is now be- ing pointed out to visiters by Zuldes m< the man who ha charge on the no snap— needed. and as having done that job amazingly well. ok * * In these da¥s when the base ball fever palpitatés the hearts of men, old timers in Congress are renewing their youth reminiscently. Representative Henry Allen Cooper of Wisconsin, who ranks next to Speaker Gillett for length of service, now rounding out thirty years, and who in black broadeloth suit and snow-white beard is a distinguished figure, is proudly showing u trophy reminder of his erstwhile cleverness behind the bat. Tad Sulllvan, once manager of the St. Louis Browns, sent Representa- tive Cooper a copy of the “History of the World's Tour of the Chicago White Sox and New York Giants,” with pictures of Charlie Comiskey and John J. MeGraw on the cover. After looking it through and admir- ing the pictures of the two teams taken at the pyramids, when they were accorded a reception at the Vat- ican by Pope Pius X, and again when they were guests at the government house in Melbourne. much to his sur- prise he found this on the fivieaf: “Compliments of T. P. “Ted” Sullivan to Congressman Hal P. Cooper of Wisconsin, who broke the author's heart in catching him off first br a lightninz throw in a Burlington, Wis. betwean the Stars of Milwaukeé xnd the Alerts of Bur- linzton for the championship of Wis- conxin Ted" and “Hal" forthwith met in a Washington hotel—not having seen each other in more than forty yvears since that championship game, and “Ted” told “Hal” that nothing in all his life had 50 taken the heart out of him as that one grand peg by Hal's then powerful arm, ~Hal let out the secret, which shouid be a good hint to young catchers today—that he got his signal to throw to first from the third baseman. In that game nearly half a century ago Cooper was captain and catcher of the Alerts and Ted Sullivan cap- tain and pitcher of the Stars of Mil- waukee, who had been cleaning up the state. Ted Sullivan was “the best natural batsman I ever saw,’ says Cooper, and he was first up, putting the first ball pitched in &’ singing liner straight over second base. Ar- thur L. Sanborn, who died last year after being United States judge at Madison for twenty-two Years, was playing center field. He stopped the liner, which was headed for a home run, with his left and snapped it to fecond. holding Sullivan on first, Then Cooper caught him ten feet off e sack. R mat “took the heart out of the Stars and Cooper's team won two games straight and the state cham- fonship. i P oopar recalls that in going to play these games his team rode in a four- horse team for thirty-four miles and the whole town turned out to see them off. When they returned vic- torfous he felt as proud as Napoleon when he came back from Italy after his first conquering expedition. The town gave them a reception; they were met at the bridge with a brass band. On the steps of the hotel the editor fired off a speech and Cooper started on his way to Congress by responding. All the pretty girls were out in.their best dresses and there was an old-fashioned dance in the town hall. Zame at * *x % % “J. M. from Kingdom Come”—that's how they refer to Representative J. M. Robsion of Kentucky, who now points out that in his district is a fitting location of a great national menument of surpassing historical Interest. 2 With his gift for dramatic pictur- ing, Representative Robsion sketches a scene in the backwoods of Ken- tucky In 1809—in the background. a log cabin and in the foreground a man on foot talking to a man on horseback, who had just ridden in from the outside world and who was saying: ‘That fellow Napoleon has escaped from Elba and there s hell to pay in Europe. What you all been doing while 1 was away?”’ “Nothing much,” was the reply, cept old Tom Lincoln has got a boy.’ That was Abraham Lincoln, who was destined to play & far more important role in the world's history than the military achievements of the Little Corsican hero of those days. During the dark days of the civil war President Lincoln was visited in the White House by Gen. O. O. Howard, one-armed hero of many battles and & cherished adviser of the Elr‘.rt mauel tor. Howard Wl(l deseribing how a long: un, af- “ctianaisty called “Old Mol ‘was eeping the surrounding” country the | bace | MEN AND AFFAIRS Frank A. Vanderlip has cortainly started something with his citizens' federal research bureau in Washing- ton. A visitor to the spacious quar- ters of the orgunization, where a small army of clerks and officialz sekned to be extremely busy at the task of sorting out graft in the gov- ernment servics, roughly estimated that the bureau may be costing the former president of the National City Bank at the rate of someathing like $200,000 u year. Possibly Mr. Van- derlip expects help in running the bureau, for certainly. even to a man of his reputed wealth, the anti-graft angwer to charges of loose talk lev- eled against him, must prove sooner or later to be too much of & burden for one man to carry. Visitors ut the bureau bring away an impression of the old efficiency | days at the National City Bank. One visitor claims to have felt that same lack of warmth which dwells about the office of the president of a bank when some one steps in to borrow money. It is an indefinuble chill. He further reported Mr. Vanderlip no less inaccessible than he was in the big bankingz days. This visitor tried | in vain te run the gantlet “Is Mr. Vanderlip in?" he a*k-:‘rl. “In, but not seeing any one/ d the efficient secretary. | But he azked me to call. 1 ‘Sorrv, but he is not seeing any | one todav.” . “When may I see him?"' . That is difficult to answer. really Well, would vou mind asking Mr. Vanderlip to eall me up?” ‘Oh."” d this in a tone akin to| Mr. Vanderlip calls one_up.” . May 1 leave a card “Oh. veés, and won't rou try ll‘:zln some day; perhaps you will have bet- ter lueck.” re- pli { never % % x In New York, where they ing Mrs. Myrtle Bowman Huves for the alleged forgery of the name of Charles M. Schwab to a 325,000 note, the presiding judge threatentd to put the defendant in Jjail if she didn’t get to court on timé. Mre, Hayves was fifteen minutes late. 3 “It I put vou in juil every hight you won't be late any more in the morning,” said the irrituted judge. Which recalls & story told by Mar- tin W, Littieton, the Sinclair lawyer, who has tried to throw s monkey wrench into the Benate oil investi- gation by sdvising his client not to answer any questions. Mr. Littleton attorney for Harry K. Thaw the latter was tried the second for the murder of Stanford are try- w when time Heard and Seen The most modest author in world lives right hers in Washingto! He works in one of the governmant bureaus, at & scientific task which is far from the mixed fact and fiction of the novelist For vears this authar has mat and talked with a certain newspaper man The latter has conversed with the former by the hour about the writing game. The novelist always evinced great interest in newspaper work, but never once let on, by word or deed, that he himself ever had written a thing. So the newspaper man got the shock of his lfe last week, when his fri-nd walked into his office and presentad him with a copy of his latest novel Too dumfounded to speak. the | Journalist accepied the gift. “I didn't {know vou did this sort of thing.” he murmured. at lust. “Yes, that's my sixth book,” replied the chemist. You never cun tell about these fel- lows in government service. s *% The following was related to me by a gentieman whose reputation for veracity is unimpeached. Maybe it will throw light on the subject of auto- mobile and street car traffic, the parking problem and a fer other problems to boot. | Everybody knows the parking prob- 1lem is acute. Motorists are finding it more and more difficult to find o place 1o park their cars anvwhere near thei business. If the growing dems i for automobiles keeps on. as It bids fair to do, the streets will he a moviag mass ‘6f cars after awhile, with niu- tion the cnly recourse. The gentleman in question. who lives two blocks from 17th street and Park road. goes out to his garage in the rear of his home. and brings out his car. This is in the morning, mind you. He motors blithely to 17th and Park road, parks his car, and boards & street car for downtown. His car reposes there until eve- ning, when the gentleman gets off the street car, limbers up his auto- mobile and rides two blocks home! I Last week I dealt with the modern American child. Of course, there the shield. Rudolph just about fits the picture. Fourteen years old, or thereabouts, he manifests already the qualities which the young Lincoln had, according to tradition. A real boy, he nevertheless is re- spectful at all times, quiet, determin- ed, and a hard worker. He heips his mother, a widow, by getting odd jobs in_the neighborhood. To watch him throw himselt into such a job as digging up a back yard is a joy. He goes at it like he meant it, turning the ground with speed and precision, = never stopping for any onkey business. « ml! he) keeps on as he has started, {ana there is every indication that he Will, thirty years from now he is going to be a big success. - * % 1t is somewhat startiing to that nine out of ten people pay more attention to their back than to their front yard. ) This is deduced from the activities now going on in various neighbor. hoods. Such raking, picking up trash, sowing grass seed! 1f you walk around to the front of the houses, however, you wili find nothing .whatever has been done to the lawns. If the grass Is good, it s Just growing that way. If the Jawn is bare, no attempt has been made to “’BJ:‘: back yard is more ‘ntimate, more like home, undoubtedly, %0 per- aps that is wl gets Ars: - tone MUHARLES E. TRACKWELL. from a peak in the Cumberland hills. “You can trust the people in that section,” said Linceln. I come from them and I know them.” Placing his finger on_the big war map, Lincoln sald prophetically: “If we ever come out of this horror alive we must do something for these mountain ple, who have been shut out of the®world all these years. Soon the assassin’s bullet killed Lineoln, but Gen. Howard never for- got that scene. Set in the beautiful blue ranges of the Cumberland Moun- tains of Tennessee, near where three states join, the very gateway through which the slaves of the south en- tered freedom in the north, there has beéen erected at Cumberland Gap a university for Lincola's “own peopl is an obverse to j organization, which ix the banker's | the | BY ROBERT T. SMAL White, Thaw was a very client. He was filled with that de- meniin which gives one an exag- Zerated idea of one’s own importance Quite often he would send peremp- tory orders to his attorney to coms to ‘the Tombs pricon, where Harrs languished in durance vile. Tn re Sponse to an order one duy Mr. Lit teton sent word to Thaw that h would be at the prison at 4 o'ciock Something happencd to detain th: lawyer and he did not arrive at the prison until 4:30. He found Thaw Pacing his cell in high dudzeon ‘What do you meun by heing late what do you mean by not keepins your engagement promptly: what d: You mean by keepinz me waltine like this?" blazed the prisoner “Hey," protested Mr. Littleton calm down a Lit. 1 admit I'm late but you know, Harry, | was parfer Iy confident in my own mindg 1 you would be here xacting * % 2 Howard Manningion famous “little gzreen street in Washington, be overwhelmed by paid to him on the arrival in New York few days ago. Two dozen climbed over the rail of the ing ship down at Quarantine wnd Howard, unctious and smiling usual, soon had them all seated about him in one of the salone T were friends waiting at the pier. “These attentions.” said Mr nington, “perhaps I expected did not know that my welcom: to_be an oflicial ons He grinned as he zlanced nate subpoena which had handed to him by u deputy =ore rms “Listen continued. Amer States Greeting: Congre humbe glor host house o the occasion from of the K to attentions af b urope on eporter incom Man Bt th heer to what it save, “The United States ¢ The Congress of the Unite To_ Howard Manninzte: Think of that, hove. th sending ‘greetings “ cftizen like me. Ah envuzh for today * hove h The times are out ¢ The “man from to go back any more. W. Jett Lauck the economist. just back in Wash- ington from a business trip to Cuba says he was introduced in Havana b a Hoosier friend there to an ex-bar tender from Kokomo. When Koko went dry, the tender went from there. ie w opened an own, und cluims. sa be doing a line busin “Do you know,” said the ex-polishi of glasses, “that even if they sh repeal the Volstead act, 1 don't lieve I would go back to Kokome. And so another great American ex patriate is made Fifty Years Ago In The Star of the indeed home’ doesn’t want nt to Havana and of h Lauck, 1 American bar all Mr As right phases of the i half a centur ago the efforts of Belva A movement Belva Lockwood's Appea! to Court. as a practicing attorney tederal courts attracted considerable attention. Mrs. Lockwood n only a persistent claimant for such a status, but she became regular candidate for President of the United States and “ran” for that office eral times, as a means of arc national interest in the cause of suf | frage. In The Star of April 7, 1874 article describing the pr ected with her attem tain recognit fore n the was not a a ing s & news |ceedings con ot to gain recognition as an attorney “At the opening of the art Claims yesterduy a motion was mad in the usual form for the admiss of an attorney to the of that court, whereupon Mr. Hosmer of the firm of Chipman & Hosmer arose and said that he desired to move the ad- mission of another attorney, Mrs Belva A a member good standin practice of bar of the District of Columbia |then beckoned Mrs | wara ana presentea her n ar in the He for Lockwood, and wood Lo [Chief Justice Draks satd thi cation was not contemplated by law or the rules of the read a rule requiring that ney to be admitted must of gnod moral character. Mrs. Lock wood thereupon spoke for herself and stated to the court that she had carefully examined the law without finding anything therein disqualify- ing a practicing attorney from ad- mission on the ground of sex. The chief justice said that the court would examine the matter and ren der a decision next Monday Mrs Lockwood said that course would be satisfactory to her if meanwhile sh could file the papers and procecd to take testimony in the whercin she decided to appear in court, as her client was in town waiting to go on with the cluim. The court granted leave to file the papers and informed Mrs. Lockwood that if the was Dressing she might appear again to- day, by which time a dec on might be reached. It is understvod that the olaim for which she wishes to appea amounts to nearly $100,000. “Mrs. Lockwood appeared in court again this morning, accompanied by her husband and Mr. J. K. H. Willeox Just before calling the tirst case for trial Judge Drake addressed Mrs. Lockwood, who sat at the extrem: rear of the courtroom, and id that the court had not bee ible to decide yet on the question of her admission but would do =0 as soon as practi- cable. She thereupon advanced to the bar and asked that leave be granted her to take testimony The chisf Jjustice replied that the court could not recognize her in any way as an attorney-at-law until she had been admitted, but that her client ocould proceed in hiz own name. (Mrs Lockwood: ‘Her own name!) Tt Mrs. Loockwood was the claimant she had a right to appear in person; other- wise she was at liberty to act for her olient outside the court, under war- rant of attorney, but not to appear Dbefore the court for any purpose. There were difticulties in the way of admitting married ladies to practice. ‘You have a husband, have you not?' « Mrs. Lockwood—Yes. *‘She indicated the doctor by a grace- ful wave of the hand, whereupon that gentleman advanced and placed himself beside her. These difficulties the court has not been able to consider. “A lively colloquy followed, Mrx. Lockwood stating that personally she cared very little about the question 50 long as her client's business went right and asking the chief justice what course she had better pursue in order to prevent her client’s interests suffering by delay. This Judge Drake seemed to think was no part of his duty, but he finally advised her to carry on outside proceedings, take testimony, ete, in her client's name without using 'the name of attorney, This Mrs. Lookwood appeared to con- sider satisfactory, and she, with her friends and a number of interested spectators, withdrew, “In case Mrs. Lockwood is denied admission by the court her friends express the intention of appealing (o Congress for the passage of a de-( claratory act or resolution to the ef- fect that the law is not designed to authorize the exclusion on account of sex of any practicing attorney im good standing.” court a an artor be a ‘man’