Evening Star Newspaper, May 11, 1924, Page 42

,I THE EVENING STAR, ‘With Sunday !\lnmiEEi jon. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY...e......May 11, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES. . . .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company -Business Office, 11th St. and Pen; New York Office: 110 East 42nd S Office: “Tower Building. 6 Regent St., London, Lugland. e, Ereniog Stag with the Sund edition, is deliveredby carriers w at 60 cents per month The city il only, 45 cents per month: Sunday ouly, 20 ceats por Monih. . Or- Sern may he ket Gy mail or ieicphoe Ma 8000, Collection is made by carriers at the aad of cach month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Vir; Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $5.40; Daily only.... 1y Sunday only. All Ot Iu‘riflmh‘s. Paily and Sunda, $10.00; 1.mo., 85¢ Daily only $1mo., 60c Sunday oniy. 0! 1 mo. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is entitled to the ‘use for republicat we dis- Patelies credited to it o credite ; In this paper and also the local news pubs ded ‘herein. Al rights of publication of epecial dispatehes horeln are also rear s “No Fiscal Revolution by Rider. Even the few Washingtonians who have assented reluctantly to the sug- gestion the payment plan in the despairing hope of secur- ing thereby for the District power of self-taxation and tax ing, fre from budg 1 ressional commi ar: supervision, test vigorously a b of the Cramton plan in th which the propc w pending in the Senate as le 5 o rider on the District appropriation hill The Cramton bill is now hefore the District committees, and if after hear- ings it secures committec be 50 equipped lump-sum eo tic pro- ption shape in ainst approval it with . and to veduce the evils of the pl mum. But the Cramton pl fore the Senate appr mittee has not had and cannot now have this deliberat thoughtful moldin d rider on th appropriation bill, born and kept a only under prot It rule, should be the Senate 1t is ested immunity from down of Ur am’s ing outlay if the made in a lump proportionate total municipal Uncle fiscal his e National 1 to & mini 1 now be and and as a nak tion of lexibly Holman scted by that there will 1 udget bureau cuttin expenditures m i are con pend Capital obvious! whether in a lump. down the Indeed, specific cutting appropriat sier to make this direct than indirectly mut District Ther ater fixity g contribu- reduction nd ms 2 lump sum. < who think that “the nation ¢ nothing todas toward Capital maintenance and d velopment to reduce or deny entirely the annual lump sum than to chang the ratio of proportior contriby tion. The contribution of a lump sum nually by the nation toward Capita upbuilding in lieu of a proportionate contribution would be justified if the primary responsibility and power respect to District finances were t ferred simuitaneously to the District with the nation as o non-controlling contributor. But if the Cramton rider were adopted full and exclusive control of District finances and taxation would and exercised by Cong! ing the nation. the District w. no greater power it now possessc Congress would be just i purtful and irritating over theamount of the lump-sum contribution as in the past over the equitable ratio, and the only effect of the change would be to forbid Congress to appropriate for the Capital from the Treasury more than a fixed maximum amount, and to separate this contribution from all relation to that of the Capital. ‘Washington would thus be deprived of its safeguard against e ve and unjust taxation by a taxing body. in Wwhich it is not represented, without any compensating henefits whateve To summari; Adoption of the Cramton rider will not cause the Dis- trict to escape supervision and na- tional contribution cutting by the bud- +get bureau. It does not increase the certainty of a national contribution or fixity in the amount of such contribu- * tion, It does not avoid friction-breed- ing ratio discussion, but on the con- trary aggravates it. It does not in- crease a particle the District’'s power to participate_in its mu ture. Congress still has exclusive power to determine how much it shall be taxed, and by whom and for what . purposes its tax money shall Ve ex- *pended. The Cramfon proposition threatens loss of millions in conection with the surplus, repudiates the agreement upon the 60-10 ratio, substitutes a sys- tem of indefinite unrelated contribu- tion by Capital and nation and pre- cipitates Washington taxpayers into the fiscal chaos from which they have recently emerged. The act of June 29, 1922, was im- posed upon us as a compromise peace measure. It increased our taxes, re- duced our exclusive revenues and bur- dened taxpayers of the present with the obligations of taxpayers of the fu- ture. Offsetting these drastic exac- tions it affirmed the principle of de: inite proportionate contribution and promised us the blessings of fiscal _‘peace and a period of cessation of fric- tion-breeding controvers: * Now that the definite 60-40 ratio is fixed in the new law by compromise agreement will not the District in fair- ness be permitted to adjust itself to its new fiscal organic act and to begin . 10 enjoy the promised bliss of fiscal ‘peace? A French Postal “Strike.” an incidental | | | protect the dogwood in the vicinit; i w Ifving expenses. The government is not disposed to grant the request. So the postal clerks, it is stated, decide to go on strike on the 1st of May, not by quitting work, but by scrupulously conscientious observance of the rules and regulations. They propose to weigh every letter witk care to make sure that it has sufficient postage, to examine every stamp to be certain that it has not been used before and ineffectively canceled and to read all post cards to ses th-t the law which prohibits the writi.g of insults and threats on them is not violated. If this plan is carried out it will un- doubtedly paralyze the postal service, which is not at its best particularly speedy. . The postal authorities, it is further reported, are determined to discharge summarily any overzealous letter weighers or card readers. Herein will arise difficulties. What will be the tandard of speed? It would seem that the postal clerks, if they adopt this means of forcing a grant of more money, would have the advantage of he situation. There are the laws, and Dlair ey should be observed and enforced. Clearly, they cannot be en- forced effectively with merely per- functory examination of the mail mat- ter. If the authorities fire a few of the clerks for too scrupulous a scru- tiny. however, the question will arise whether the remainder will have the nerve to persist. And in any case, it will be interesting to note how far the French public will react’ to the lowing of the mails. As an experiment in concerted ac- tion this adoption of thoroughness as a means of reducing product to com- pel higher wages is worth watching. —————_ Progress for Conservation. Public response to the appeal to of hington has been gratifyingly general. As a result of this year's impaign” for the preservation of this beautiful flowering tree there is much more beauty along the roads this season than for some time past. And the in is not only for the pres- ent. Trees that are protected this year from vandalism will be more ful next year. There is a further gain, too. People are being hown the unwisdom and selfishness wpital-upbuild- | that wi Ly It | thing | paying money for it. | | They | S0 many have been converted to this | thirds rule of breaking the natural growths in | the woods and fields, and a respect for flowering things is being taught have a pronounced effect in the future. i The tree that grows the open | country is everybody’s tree, for every- ol It is the height of | seltishness to regard it as common | property to be broken and stripped of and branch Whether | “last” whether they | 1de and shrivel quickly, they belong | on the trees. They are part of the | landscape. When they are taken away and put in rooms they are for a very few. In the open they are for the thousands. Undoubtedly one of the reasons for the stripping of these flowering growths in the open country is that | people think they are getting some- “free.” That is, they are not As a matter of they are paying very dearly re paying a price that cannot computed, the ultimate loss of uty in the open country. Just as as they realize that fact they be- come econservators instead of destroy- ers, and it is especially reassuring that in body's asure. blooms flowers or At be view as a result of the present work in behalf of the dogwood. e Coolidge Odds Increase. A little over two weeks ago cam- paign bettors in Wall street were quoting 0dds of 7 to 5 in favor of the clection of President Coolidge in No- vember. Friday the odds had lengthened to § to 5. Whether this was the result of the primaries in California and Tndiana is only a mat- ter of speculation. Certainly those primaries indicated a strength on the part of Coolidge, With his party at least, that warrants some reflection in the speculative reckoning on his chances for election. While these odds were posted on the general result other odds were being quoted on the Democratic nomination. Smith was given a rating of 1 to 3, McAdoo 1 to 4 and Ralston 1 to 4%. Thus, though Smith is rated by the betting fraternity as the most likely of the three named, there is no odds-on favorite in the field. The two- is recognized as a suf- ficient handicap to prevent early nomination. It is significant, how- ever, that while Smith was quoted at 1 to 3 for the nomination he was quoted only at 1 to 7 for the presi- dency if nominated. Here again may be a reflection from the recent primaries: Coolidge at 8 to for election and Smith, favorite in the preconvention betting for nomination, at 1 to 7 for the presi- dency. This would look as though the Wall street bettors, calculating Mr. Coolidge’s chances at § to 5, were looking for the nomination of a Demo- crat not now in the reckoning. —_— ———————— Everything possible has been. done to give Robert M. La Follette a lively and interesting convalescence. - —————— It might be desirable to have Gen. Smedley Butler conduct a shake-up of the prohibition agents. B Pansies. The Department of Agriculture con- tributes a pansy show to the charms of spring in Washington. A news story says that “Just a few steps from the thick of Washington traffic is a bower of restful beauty that is at- tracting thousands of persons daily,” and that close to the department buildings ~“there bursts upon the vision more than an acre of pansies.” The national agriculturists do not limit their powers to growing corn and cotton. Neither do they confine their faculties to potato bugs, plant lice, moth and weevil. They also go in for flowers. In the fall they set up & chrysanthemum show that is peerless, | and when spring peeps above the south horizon they set forth an amaryllis exhibition beyond compari- Prench postal clerks are asking for | son. Soon this department may give an increase of 1,800 francs a year in|us & rose show that will vie with salary, to enable them to make their | Brookland®s, and e dahlia show that will dazzle every eye and conjure thoughts of a garden that grandma tended when a girl. In the matter of these pansies there is something to think about, and a good many men and their wives, and those who may become their wives, give thanks to the department garden- ers. There is something about the lit- tle pansy that takes a hold, and keeps it, on a man. It has been cultivated in Europe for about 500 years, and perhaps longer ago it was grown in gardens in the east. So many flowers trace their ancestry to the orient! ‘We have had the pansy in the Poto- mac region ever since settlers began to plant box bushes, altheas and honey locusts about their homes or grow sweet williams and hollyhocks in the garden. In some way the pansy sug- gests thought, or thoughts. The name we call it corrupted from the French for “thought.” Its association with thoughts was spoken of by Ophelia, the unfortunate daughter of Polonius, on whom Tlamlet harped more than 300 ycars ago. She s “There’'s rosemary, that's for remem- brance; pray you, love, remember, and there is pansies, that's for thoughts, That's fennel for you, and columbine there's rue for you, and here's some for me—we call it herb of grace o' Sundays. You may wear your rue with a difference. There's a daisy. 1 would give you some violets, but they withered all, when my father died.” Well, & good many persons will go down to the grounds of the Depart- ment of Agriculture to call upon the pansies. —_————————— Murphy’s Fortune. Charles ¥. Murphy, leader of Tam- many Hall, who died in New York the other day, had been twenty-two yea at the head of the organization. Though engaged “on the side” in various business enterprises, he was not specifically identified with any professional or commercial Yet report attributed to him a la fortune. He was variously rated worth from $1.000,000 to $10,000,000. Yesterday his will was filed for pr bate, and the attorney in filing care $430,000. Surprise is now expressed at the smallness of the estate, and esti s of the pecuniary va leadership are subject When Richard Croker re the leadership of Tammany Hall was worth much more than stated to be Murph: Nobody knows exactly how much he had ac cumulated. He made no confidants on this subject. He admitted that he had worked for his own pocket all th enough to o to Ire ired from is now s estate. which of hob- and indulge in the is one of the most expen bies. Murphy was not a rich man when he took the leadership in 14th street. If he died worth $45 tion is that he accumulated savings at the rate of $20,000 a year. Adding his living expenses that means a fair- 1y rich reward. The job of running Tammany Hall is no sinecure. It is worth big money to the organization, but it is actually non-salaried. The ““bos kept himself very comfortably and piled up half a million. The position brings “opportunities.” He evidently grasped them, not greedily, but profit- ably. ive ———————— The discussion of the bobbed -hair bandit has become so diffuse as t, leave it in doubt whether the moral to | be drawn from her sad story warning against banditry or bobbing. b — is a hair Silence on the part of J. P. Morgan | will not be resented if the money he controls can be rendered eloquent in the cause of world peace and Euro- pean rehabilitation. e Revival of the question of prepared ness is leading orators to neglect gen- eral references to the American eagle and demand explicit data as to air- planes. ——————————————— ‘The gravest comsequences so far noted by Japanese immigrants is in the nature of & regret that they did not come early and avoid the rush. In @ political way Massachusetts is prepared to be as busy a state as Ohio ever was. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Hair and Crime. A lady brought a special thrill Ifto this world of care, Because before she tapped a till She went and bobbed her hair. And yet we wonder as they tell Her story to the throng, If she could not have robbed as well 1t she had worn it long. But her adventures soothe the mind In minutes of distress. What seemed a crime wave we may find A hair wave more or less. Watching the Foreign-Born Vote. “You mustn’t allow your ideas to become Utopian,” remarked the friend and adviser. “I'm carefnl ebout that,” answered Senator Sorghum. “T've looked the census figures over, and there isn’t a single Utopian voter in my district.” Jud Tunkins says if you could per- suade everybody to give it a fair trial prohibition would be the greatest head- ache remedy ever known. Unerring Retribution. A man may rob a trusting thing ‘With scant reproof to fret him, But if he parks his flivver wrong The cops will surely get him. Style Dictation. “The authorities say that bathing suits must be longer.” - ““Yes,” gnswered Miss Cayerne; “but only the municipal authorities, not the fashion authoriti “Everybody’s takin’ lessons in play- in’ some game,” said Uncle Eben. “I guess IT call myself ‘perfesser’ an teach some o° dese white folks ama- teurs how to shoot-erap.” . | t| aifre to re-| he | must keep himself. Mr. Murphy | BY THOMAS R. MARSHALL. Former Vice President of the United States. The brakeman on our train was a most remarkable whistler. He could whistle a duet, a trio or a bass solo with a chorus. 1 learned by talking with him t he was not satisfled with his status in life. He was in- clined to think that the world would be better off if every one were just same, possessed of the same capa- sought the same objects, en- joyed the same pleasures in-life. By way of showing him that he, himself, had just disclosed the utter futility of any such thought, I asked him whether he would like to give up the marvelous gift of whistling with which he had been endowed. Of course, he told me that he would not ®ive it up for anything, that it was the pride and en of his life ok abled to con- to the pleasure and happiness ands 1 felicitated him upon hieh he had brought into thé d wish that i would use their h purpose of mak- ter and happier. me with an in- 18 that he was position in life 1s unable to answer him then, and I am unable to answer him now. * ok ox ok tribut of thou quiry satisficd w Tt seems that it is the fate of our common humanity to be dissatisfied, if not discontented, over the niche we nd the thing we do. I often why this was so, but never ched a satisfactory conclusion, probably because the tend- | encies and vagaries of humanity are beyond ordinary comprehension. We an Democrats; we all are down on aristocracy; we all are for equal- ity—that is, we say we are for equal- ity. As a matter of fact, we are for equ ng everybody that we envy to our state, but we are not equalizing ourselyes to any condition which is sant and agreeable than our ow For one thing, nvinced that there is not a great| 'nee between a trade and a pro- and we are all down on trade land all in favor of a profession. | N’ standing the increase and general diffusion e, most of 1 bave are less ple its we cannot be | of| with what we learned professi nd we DY warr who fight under | bearing the inscription {1 or other thronghout the gene strugiling to get themselves into on of the pi s. and they h try the while to mak aix ion in life secure b ib 1 well remember when the « nd the minister as _memt when to banner them was our common dem ) THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, ‘D. €. MAY 11, 1924 PART 2 : More Than a College Degree Required for a “Profession” sant. We held that they were differ- ent from the rest of humanity be- cause one of them could write M. D. after his name, the second LL. D. and the third D. D.’ We assumed that the possession of a knowledge, as attested to by the degrees they had won, seg- regated them from the common mass. * K ok ok However, as the years went by we realized that there was no holy ofl in education which could be poured on the head of & student and make of him a high priest. Learning and knowledge may come from study and education, but character dees not al- ways accompany them. No differ- ence how much a man may know, if he has not a character to back it up not all the degrees in all the uni- versities of the world can raise him to the dignity of a profession. He will not be worthy of a democracy. He will be Jower than the lowest con- ception_of a mere tradesman. We found LL. D's compromising crime, D. D.'s arrogating to themselves the right of damnation, and M. D.'s hold- ing babies in escrow until their bills were paid, 80 we put these profes- sional gentlemen aside so far as their titles were concerned. We no longer mark them as differing from the rest of mankind, save as they differ in character and service. A new effort to make certain per- sons differ from others Is now being attempted through legislation. In one of the states where the initiative prevails there Is pending a proposal dealing with persons who write for publication. Any one connected with a_ newspaper or magazine, who as- sists in the preparation of news or editorial matter would be affected He would have to obtain a license from the secretary of state, and if he should publish anything which proved to be libelous he would be disbarred from ‘“practicing” journalism_ for three years. This measure is being touted as a means of lifting journal- ism to the dignity of a profession. I regard it as a direct implication that newspaper writers and editors are scoundrelly free lances. * % ¥ % If this proposal should become a law it will be found to be as impo- tent for the making of a profession a3 the various degrees which the in- stitntions of learning confer upon their students. You cannot make a profession either b law. 1In a democracy there will be. of course, ambition to succeed bevond the common mass, and there will be a grade of men who are really pur- suing professions, but education and the pains and penalties of the law are not responsible for them. They e the products of character build- owly, yet inevitably, the knowl- edge must come to those who seek to follow a profession and to those who pretend to judge what is a profes sion, that neither education nor legi lation can separate classes or grad it American life. Separation must come through service, through an honest endeavor to do one’s lifework ! in the spirit of personal success for public welfare. (Copyright, 1924, by || THE LOST TREE OF AMERICA 000 the deduc- | BY FREDERIC ]J. HASKIN. | The American natural tree world has eompletely lost one native tree by ex- | tinction and other trees of limited habi- | nd nmames are believed to be in extinction, according to in- ducted by the research | burcan of the National Lumber Manu- ! facturers’ Association. | The lost tree is the Franklin | beautifullflowering shrub that was once | d by landscape gardeners 1 nursery men. There are few Franklinia in gardens and parks throughout the country, it is stated, but most of such plantings have died, the reason being that the tree requires a | very acid soil. In its original home in zia the tree is no longer to be | foura Two of the planted Franklinia grow in allittle piece of parkland at Chevy Chase Circle, almost on the District of Columbia boundary line. These trees ero saved from death last year | throush the activities of the Chevy Citizens' Association and P. L Yicker and E ar Wherry, scientists of Agriculture. The of these Franklinia was ac- hed by pruning neighboring trees ore sunlight and by cultivat- idulating the soil around the in great den Geo ing and rare tre The Franklinia was first found by John Bartram of Philadelphia, in 1765, in the Altamaha River Valley near Fort Barrington, in what is now the state of orgia, and had never been known elsewhere. Bartram had the distinction of being botanist to_the King of Eng- land, and was on a botanical collecting trip when he found these rare trees and named them after Benjamin Frank- lin. Hartram, who was a native of Chester { County, Pa., is frequently called the father of American botany,” and he founded at Kingsessing the first botani- al garden in this country. Linnaeus | termed him “the greatest natural bot- anist in the world.” He Wae in con- stant correspondence with FEuropean botanists, to whom he sent large col- lections of American plants. It was said of him that he would readily undertake a journey of hundreds of miles to see a new plant. His Son Carried On. His son, William Bartram, carried on his botanical research work and was also known as an omnithologist. The son spent. five years in the southern states, and in 1773 and again in 1778 visited the Altamaha Valley to collect Franklinia seeds, which he supplied to nurserymen in this country and in Eu- rope. T 1750 Dr. Moses Marshall visited the Fort Barrington region and fdentified the trees. So far as is now known, this is the last time any of them were “officially” seen in the original locality. There is no definite record concern- ing Franklinia from 1790 to 1851, al- though nurserymen repeatedly visited the Fort Barrington resion to et seedlings and seeds, and it is regard- ©d as probable that they virtually ex- terminated the trees in its natural site. The plants were listed exten- sively during this period by nursery- men hers and abroad, and presumably were widely distributed. During 1881, H. W. Ravenel, a well known botanist of Aiken, S. C., made two trips to_the Altahamaha valley, but without finding a specimen of the Franklinia. A friend of his made several other equally fruitless trips in_search of the lost tree. There are very complete directions for finding the locality in the publi- cations of William Bartram, and the original home of the Franklinia trees has been searched over many times. Indeed, it is stated that not a year passes” without several botanists or nurserymen attemptng to win the honor of rediscovering the long-lost tree. Officlals and scientists of the De- partment of Agriculture have long been_interested, and in June of 1922 Dr. Edgar Wherry of the bureau of chemistry and Harry W. Trudell of Philadelphia_ conducted a painstak- ing search that proved barren of re- sults. Dr. Wherry made still another expedition_the following year, but it was equally unsuccessful. Allof the racent explorations, cover- period of more than forty years,| B Doen rutiie. The presumptions . therefore, is very strong that the Franklinia has been exterminated in its native environment However, as there is dense brush and timber in that section of Geor- = and much swamp land that exceedingly difficult to explore close- ly, it is admittedly possible that a few rare specimens of the lost tree have escaped the eyes of the On the theory that such ¥ prove to be the case, the tional Lumber Manufacturers' Ass ciation has announced its intention to finance an exhaustive search of the Altamaha valley. When the report of this expedition is received the final word as to the lost Franklinia doubt- less will have been written. If any of the trees were overlooked in pre- vious explorations they will be locat- ed. or the fact will be definitely es- tablished that the Franklinia will be known and perpetgated only through specimens that haVe been grown in parks or gardens. The tree is not very large, and it might pass unobserved except in the blossoming season, when its beautiful flowers, which have made it in such demand by nurserymen, would be very noticeable. Bartram, in his writings, gives it a maximum height of only twenty-five feet. The larger of the two Franklinia at Chevy Chase Circle is now about that high and about five inches in diameter. Origin of the Name. Why Bartram gave Franklin's name to the tree is mot known, umless it was because of hig great friendship for the famous Quaker. Most men who make discoveries analagous to that of a hitherto unknown tree or flower, or a specimen of fauna, uSu- ally link their own names with the discoveries. Bartram apparently was not only & great botanist, but an ex- ceedingly modest one. The Franklinia is not the only American tree or plant that is extinct or virtnally so. The settlement of the continent has naturally tended to the extermination of plants of certain habits and limited ranges, and, just as man and his domestic animals have waged war on the wild animals of America, so some 600 European plants have followed the white man in his invasion of America, and in many in- stances have done their best to drive out and eradicate native plants. My Mother. ‘Who watched me as a chubby babe, As in her arms I snugly lay, And made me “pat-a-cake” for her ‘When she was young and spry and gay? Who watched me in my slumbers then, And yigilance then o'er me kept; Who prayed to God no harm would fall ° Upon me as in dreams I slept? Who taught me lisp that little prayer (In my poor heart still planted deep), That little verse which runs like this: “Now I lay me down to sleep”? And as the days and years sped on, And I to manhood grew to be, Who always had a kindly word, A loving smile and kiss for me? ‘When aged and bent, who still was dear To me, as in those days of yore; ‘Whom did I watch with tender care, As she had me, in days before? And when, in death, she passed away, And I gazed on her lying there, For whom did I then drop a tear— For whom did I then say a prayer— My mother. o —John Clagett Proctor. education or by | Twenty-irst Century | ) Capital Sidelights BY WILL P. KENNEDY. The elephant and donkey, emblems of the two great political parties that are now entering upon a quad- rennial campaign, were described, to the great amusement of members of the House, by Representative Tom Connally, Democrat, of Texas, to il- lustrate his speech while the resolu- tion authorizing the President to in- vite the Interparliamentary Union to meet in Washington next year was being debated. “I am told that when the wild ele- phant in the jungle is captured he is not able to perform the splendid tricks you see him perform in the circus,” said Representative Con- nally. “They say that the wild ele- phant cannot stand on upturned tubs and do all of the marvelous tricks of the ring. They catch this wild ele- phant in the forest and before the trainers put harness on him they try out a surcingle on him, and when he kicks and rears and charges and finally, becoming accustomed to the surcingle, succumbs, they adjust a crupper, and after he cavorts and snorts and ralses all manner of sand about that, and becomes finally ac- customed to it, they then put on some additional harness, until after a time he wears in peace the elaborate trap- pings upon which oriental potentates habitually ride; and after a while those of us who attend the circus sce the old elephant, caught in the wilds of the jungle, performing all kinds of fancy performances, to the delec- tation and delight of the audience. “When this Republican elephant,” he continued, “finds a league of na- tions with the name of Woodrow Wilson erased from it, and gets ac- customed to that, and then when this elephant sees that instead of being called a ‘league of nations’ 1t will be called an ‘association of na- tions,” and gets accustomed to that, and when the elephant finally looks up and sees an international court of Justice in part established by hu Root and approved by Mr. Hughes and recognizes those well known names, it may trumpet a few times and switch its tail for a little while, but finally it will probably encircle it with its rusty old trunk and say, “This thing, after all, is just what I have been looking for." ‘When asked by a Republican col- league for a “little dissertation on the way the Democratic jackass is | usually trained,” Representative Con- | nally replied: ‘All of them are not | Democrats. Whatever you may say about the old donkey, or jackass, as the gentleman prefers to call him, he is an honest brute. | “Whatever you may say about him, | he looks you in the eye, and he pre- fers that you look him in the eye and be frank with him: and if you do not, if you begin to slip up on him with- out giving him warning, he is apt to let you know in a very forcible way that your presence is not desired. He is faithful and sturdy and strong and serves those who toil with their hands—he is never seen drawing the carriages of kings or plutocrats; he *wears the livery and gilded harness of neither the magnate nor the manu- facturer. In his own genuine gar- ment that nature gave him he un- complainingly labors for the great mass of human kind. “Whatever you m say about the old donke: he is a patient beast of burden that cultivates and tills the field that produces the food that s s the world. Whatever you may 5 about the old donkey, he receives no bounties from the favored inter- ests. When he goes to the trough at night to eat his food he gets an honest return for an honest day's labor. He grazes in no alfalfa fields to which he is not entitled.” Representative Connally paid a graceful tribute to Representative Isaac R. Sherwood of Ohio, Nestor of the House, who went into the Union army as a private and came out a major general, when the latter com- mented that the donkey “is dangerous at both ends” by responding, “I know of no better source from which that information can come than from the gentleman from Ohio, who has proved that he is himself dangerous both in war and in peace.” * * X ¥ The action of the United States Senate recently in passing the bill changing the name of Mount Rainier to Mount Tacoma has given rise to much facetious comment and some serious thought in Congress regard- ing legislative changing of historical names. It has been suggested that the Hudson River might be rechristened Al Smith’'s Creek; or Teapot Dome might be called Fall's Folly; or Mus- cle Shoals, Flivver Fords; or Minne- sota might be changed to Magnusota; or Wisconsin to La Pompadour; or the 0Old Bay State bear the more modern name of Calachusetts. Representative John F. Miller of Washington State, who lives under the shadow of Mount Rainier, has introduced a resolution in the House for the appointment of a joint special committee to investigate and recom- mend changes in geographical nomen- clature. He points out that while “Mount Tacoma” would be a name without historical basis or signif- icance, Mount Rainier was named by Capt, George Vancouver of the Brit- ish navy, its discoverer, in the year 1792, In honor of his friend, Admiral Peter Rainier of the British navy, and for a period of 132 years it has been the acknowledged legal and offical name of this most sublime {isolated mountain. He emphasizes that the United States Geographic Board has twice by unanimous vote when peti- tioned refused to change the name. Plea for a change of name is made on the ground that Admiral Rainier was an officer in the British navy while Great Britain was engaged in war with the United States. Representative Miller calls atten- tion that there are numerous states, counties, cities, towns and geograph- ical points along the Atlantic sea- board named for British royalty and nobility who waged war against the United States or gave aid and comfort to such wars or were tyrannical to or oppressive of American patriots in colonial days and the early years of our republic. He also points out that other dis- coveries by Vancouver were named for British army and navy officers; that although Spain has been in- volved in war with this country Spanish names predominate in Cali- fornia, Texas, Florida, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and other states. Even though the United States has recently been involved In war with Gerany there are many cities in the country whose names are unmistak- ably of German origin. Representative Miller’s resolution calls for a thorough investigation of the geographic nomenclature with recommendations for “the removal of all names of British, Spanish, or German origin as may be offensive to our patriotic sensibilities and in lieu thereof substitute names of purely American origin, or names derived from countries with which the United States has never been involved in war, eliminating consideration of any name which advertises or promotes any city or community, or which is capable of being commercialized by any city, town or community.” * X %X X Even daylight-saving is being in- voked to help Cal Coolidge pile up a big vote this fall. Under an act of the Massachusetts State Legislature, passed this year with the full support of the Repub- lican state organization, a refer- endum vote is to be taken at the state and national election this fall on the g:estion of continuing the present ylight-saving law in Massachusetts. That is going to bring out the farm vote in central and western Massa- chusetts, because the farmers are al- ‘ways very pronounced in their oppo- sition to daylight-saving and will poll a large vote. Most of these farmers are of Republican persuasion. The net result will be to bring out a heavy Republican vote. This_shows that while the Massachusetts Repub- lican leaders are dead sure that Mr. Coolidge will wrmz’ hi overw] that will | ¢ helmingly size of his veta, MEN AND BY ROBERT Reorganization of the Republican naticnal committee after the Cleve- land conventlon is gcing to be very nearly complete, so far as the officer personnel is concerned. For the friends of Fred Upham of Chicago are predicting that he will lay down the treasurership of the com- mittee. This means that President Coolidge, in addition to naming the new chairman, Mr. Butler, will also name a new secretary and a new treasurer. In short, the new com- mittee is to be completely dominated by the friends of the President. 1t would be entirely erroneous to leave the impression that Fred Up- ham is to retire because of any lack of sympathy with the Coolidge wing of the party. The truth is Mr. Up- ham's health has not been of the best for the past two years He has found it necessary to spend much of his time in Burope and California and the arduous work of financing an- other presidential campaign is more than his friends or physiciuns want time. been reported that Mr. Upham was quite “miffed” over the manner in which President Coolidge shifted the national convention from Chicago to Cleveland. Long before President Harding died Fred had re- ceived pledges from a majority of the Republican national committee- men that the Republiean convention would go to Chicago, as usual. Mr. Upham had taken great pride in ha ing the convention more or less under his wing. He always a the money for it, distributed most of the | tickets and always a pleasant time | was had by all. Everything scemed to be set for the usual happy time this June. Even after Mr. Harding's unexpected death and the accession of Mr. Coolidge to the Chief F u- tive's chair, there appeared no good reason to believe the convention would go other than to Chicago. _But one day last December Fred Upham called at the White House. Mr. Coolidge broke the news to him He said he wanted the convention held in Cleveland. He thought the Ohio city more desirable for many | reasons. Of course, no true Chi- cagoan could see such reasons, but the treasurer of the committee a good soldier and said that in view | of the President's wishes he would | turn all of his pledged votes over to_Cleveland Fred Upham is a “regular” to the core and anything that is good for the party is good enough for him. * * ¥ x | John W. Davis, former ambassador | to Great Britain and still the “fav- | orite son® of West Virginia tor the | Democratic presidential nomination, rapidly is becoming the foremost corporation lawver of New York City. Almost every day finds him merging himself deeper with the cor- poration fabric, and showing that he nurses no illusions as to his political | future. Heard and Seen “Somebody said recently that the cat is a wild, savage, untamed ani- mal,” he said. “I hereby rise in defense of felis domesticus. Whatever faults he has, were implanted in him by a pow higher than himself, and for them he deserves no blame. “As I sat with Tom on my lap, rest- | ing in peace and contentment, loud purring issuing from his throat, 1 wondered where an earth one could get the idea that the cat is an utter- | Iy untamed creature. “It is true that the cat retains his freedom. Your faithful dog is per- fectly willing to grovel at your feet Not so, your cat. He is faithful, rather, to the age-old instincts of freedom planted in him in the be- ginning. “I can show you a learned in which an eminent profess gests that the cat might rightfully be taken as the symbol of America account of its passion for liberty. * * % “Does that sound pretty strong? “All you have to do to verify it is to get a cat, and observe its ways, Tt will submit to nothing that strikes it as coercion. When you attempt to make it captive, it runs away. “Hold the creature easily, and it | will submit, but put too much pres- sure on it, and it will hop out of your lap and away. The very first touch of restraint it resents. Chains and shackles are not for the cat. You can put it in a bag, but it will not accept it gracefully. When you let it out, it will not be grateful, either. Probably Tom will hiss at you. “A sign of wildness? If so, a pretty good sort of wildness. 1 am sure if somebody put me in a bag I would be indignant, and so would vou. Then why blame the cat? “The trouble with most persons who inveigh against the cat is that they are unwilling to treat the ani- al with the respect due everything turned out by the Master Craftsman. “I look upon all animals as the peoplo that God forpot. “To me they are in a sense human, as we are; strangely different, it is true, but mostly in respect to voice. They have never been granted the ability to turn their noises into words, and to think in continued ideas, as we have. They are like the infant of the poet, they have no language, but a cry. * * * “Those who understand the cat often regret that Tom is not posessed of the faculty of speech. “What tales he could tell! “Your honest Tom, sitting so smugly on the hearth, might astonish you with a greater philisophy than human mind has ever conceived, could he suddenly be gifted with the power of expression. “I would not put it beyond that wise fireside sphinx. He has the lore of the great ancestral streams be- hind those upstanding ears. In his veins _flows pure blood, carefully tended and watched affer by the Creator. No telling what he " could do, if he and his kind could talk. They might put on trousers, like the animals in the funny plctures, and come out smoking pipes, but I, doubt it I give them credit for too much sense. * * ¥ “To me the cat is mot a sneaking animal, as he is often called, but one acting as nature intended him to act. “I have no sympathy with those who want a cat to act like a dog, who jump on a feline because his ways are not canine. “When I see a cat stalking a bird, I cannot find it in my heart to chide the cat for going through the appro- priate motions which his make-up impels him to. “YWhen he crouches for the spring, 1 see not a savage animal, or wild thing, but a cat stalking a_bird. This Is a case. to use Mr. Words: worth's expression, where a prim- rose on the river's prim is a prim- roge, and nothing more to me. “Give the cat the power of speech, put him through the same evolu- tionary tracks as that followed by man, give him thousands of vears of his new powers, then he might be- come civilized, gentle and tame, like d world war of cats. CEWELL. AFFAIRS T. SMALL Mr. Davis knows full well that ti. corporation side of litigation is not the popular side, for only teo ofter public 1s included to think of If a5 the defendant at the bar. ir. Davis' latest legal foray een to appear as counsel for the New York Telephone Company in a court jon to raise the telephone rates jr. w_York City a full 10 per cent 1r. Davis' application was successful he authority was granted. But now the clty has asked to have itself mad. a defendant in the case and Proposes to make an appeal—to “protect the ' Mr. Davis has replied that . is protecting the people by ng to continue their telephone service and protect their investments. The company, he claims, was losing something like $20,000 & day under the old rates. This means nothing to the professional politicians. The are out to stop what they choose call the “grab.” Mr. Davis was recently the attws ney for the Sugar and Produce Er- ange in ty when the govern-j ment sued a year or so ago in what it believed to be an honest effort to the “sky-rocketing” of sugar ces by the Eastern refiners and Cuban producers who at that time were in control of the market. Again in this case, Mr. Davis won an casy vietory. The courts threw out t government suit and the price of sugar remained high until the do- ¢ mestic crop came on the market, Mr. Davis' practice in N York although less than three years old must be netting him an income sev eral times in excess of the saliry which attaches to the presidency, an, he has been frank enough to sav that he does not care to give it up, * k2% . Great moments in the lives of great people always leave some great imprees upon their time and upon posterity Take, for instance, the parting of the “bob-haired bandit” and her husband in New York a day or two ag Kid,” said the husband, “it's gonna / be a long time, but we gotta make the best of it . Kid, we gotta,” replied the sob. bing wife. And thus the great crisis was passed The “bandit™ can still get some solace { out of the fact that every time her ture is thrown upon a movie screen the metropolis the audience bursts into applause. Some psychologists say that this shows most people would like at X to be bandits themselves. But maybe that applies to New York alone * x x % In this column last week appeared an s ebullition on the great victory that the Vassar girls won over the Princstor students in their first joint debate. The subject of the debate was: ‘Resolved, That a Democratic admin ration would be a good thing for the ntry.’” Some Democratic friends have written in that the writer failed to mention the * very material fact that the girls upheid of this position. Fifty Years Ago In The Star Half a century ago the Washing- ton Monument stood in an unfinished , state, with a wooden To Finish the roof over the top little above the point Monument. yyere the qarker wall now shows in the shaft. X work had been done on it for many vears. The organization engaged in raising funds for the enterprise was unable to carry on the project. It was generally recognized that the United States government would have to take hold and finish the work. In The Star of May 4, 1874, is an item telling of a move to that end: “Gen. Chipman (District delegate) ¢ in the House today introduced a bill, which was referred to the select com- mittee on the Washington Monument, providing that $325,000 be appro- priated by the government for the completion of the Washington Mon ment to a height not exceeding 4. °t from its base, which sum sh pended under the direction 'resident of the United States provided that the Monument shall be completed before July 4, 1876. & tion 2 provides that the Washington Monument Society shall reconvey to the United States all the right, title and intercst to the lot of ground known as Reservation No. 3 in the ity of Washington, and shall trans er to the engineer in charge of pubic buidings and grounds all pro erty, materials, books, papers, etc. possession of said society.” * * ¥ John Morrissey was a well known New York character fifty years aso. / a politician with John Morrissey crude methods and : < given to direct ac- ina Fight. o0 1n The Star of May 7, 1874, is an item telling the story of a characteristic perform ance by him: “On Tuesday night last State Sena tor John Fox entered the Maisor Doree in New York and after a few minutes’ conversation with soma friends went into the barroom. While there the Hon. John Morrissey came in and the two Tammany leaders ] wero soon engaged in conversation. Their friendly talk gradually changed into a dispute that finally culminated in a wrangle. At length Morrissey offered to bet $5,000 that the senator could not be re-elected to any office in the city of New York. Senator Fox's reply was an offer of a wager that Morrissey could not be elected to any office. Morrissey again as- serted that the senator could not be re-elected and renewed his offer Ac up_his assertion by a bet either $5,000 or $10,000. A war words then followed, which ended by Morrissey calling Senator Fox a liar. The ator's face colored up and he askad Morrissey to retracs what he had s . Morrissey deexined to do o and put up his hands as though he expected that the senator might attempt to strike. Senator ¥ox vhose hands were incased in gloves. did not offer to strike, but asked Morrissey to put down his hands, ‘You do not mean to hit No,” replied Mr. Morrissev, ‘T don’'t want to hit you' ‘Nou gam- bler, you dare to hit me! said Sena- tor Fox, excitedly and advancing. At this Morrissey stepped forward and j struck the senator in the face and” butted him in the head twice., As ho put himself in position to deliver another blow mutual friends of the combatants interfered and separated them. Senator Fox's face was pruised and slightly cut.” * * “Some one who has been examinini the Congressional Directory,” savs The .Star of May 1874, Analyzing “finds that there are in C s, ConEress 134 colles ONETCSS. graquates, of whom 47 are senators. There are 199 lawyers, 150 bankers and business men, 20 journalists, 18 farmers and 32 whose occupations are not given. Ninety served in the war of the rebellion, 73 in the Union army and 17 in thh Confederate army: 13 call themselv generals, 41 have been judges at varh ous times, including 3 chief justicesy 17 have been state governors and 1 Vice President of the republic: 1 I:mve been members of Congress by | ore.”