Evening Star Newspaper, February 8, 1925, Page 38

T HE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO 925—PART 2 World Not Ready for Peace, Marshall Says, Expects War HE EVENING SVIVA\R’BM. even when all of the necessary With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY.......February 8, 1925 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspuper Company Business Offiee. 11th St._and Pennsylvania Ave New York Office: 110 East 42ud St Chieazo Ofice: Tower Boiiding. European Office: 16 Regent St.,London, England The with the Sunday mor by earriers within ning Star. ix delivered v ai B0 cents per per_month; S Orders may be xent by phone Main 3000, Collection is made riers at the end of each month. Rate by ail. Payable Maryland and Virginia. 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Announcement is made today of the terms and the s National Oratorical Contest the children of this Elsewhere in The Star app initial statement of this enterprise, differing slight degree from those which governed the first con- test of 1924, conditions of o1 school countr: only in The oratorical contest last year, un- dertaken as an experiment in the en- couragement of the pupils of this country to study the Amer can Constitution, proved an unquali- fied 1,000,000 in approximate 14,000 secondary schools in part of the participated. For months prior to the National final tests in this city students were studying the Constitu tion, writing their orations and pre pvaring for their delivery. tional value of this work w nized by all school co-operated hearti thusiasm. is result of 1,000,000 are school success. Over ly every students, country these s 1 authorities, and with o8- who en that as competition at least Americans the funda- country and the Govern- indeed better 1t that of the yvounger better informed mental law of the principles upon which ment is founded and are eitizens the This be accepted a on this in making. conducted by a group of new: contributing to the fund re ed for its promotion and for the prizes which offered. The will be the “headquarters paper, it has been found to be more suitable 10 have the contest directed in the ational Capital from another ve for a readjustment of the grand prizes in the National finals, all of the participants in which will re- ceive rewards, the conditions of the contest are the sume as those of 1024. It is expected that a greater number of school pupils will enroll in this competition than last Those who heard the a livered® by the seven finalists in this city on the 6th of Tast thrilled by the spectacle of young people delivering with and grace and force their judgments upon the fundamental law. They had come from all parts of the country, from all conditions of society. They were a cross-section of young Amer- fca. They represented a million boy and girls, who had been quickened by ar than city. & even vear. orations June wer these eas of the meaning of America. Another such spectacle will be presented this city next June, when once more the seven finalists will for the National test. Pres| “oolidge, whose letter ap- Jears in The Star today, declares that the National Oratorical Contest is a means to the end of inculcating re- spect by the younger Americans for the fundamental fabric of our laws and life. It is in that spirit that this second competition has been under- taken. ————ee—. The rise in the price of gasoline is variously explained. The consumer acceptd each explanation without ques- tion, being usually in too much of a hurry to get away from the filling station to bring up an argument that has already been decided. assemble i SEPLSUIC I RECE People who were disappointed about the end of the world ek may now return to the occupation of pr dicting another world war. e Branch Libraries in Schools. Among the very few approved by the Bureau of tne Budget that were omitted from the District of Co- lumbia appropriation bill as reported to the House were those providing for branches of the Public Library in three public school buildings. These consisted of a librarian, at $1,680, for a branch library in the Eastern High School, for which a fine room has been set apart and equipped; a librarian to serve on alternate days in branch librari in the Bell and Deanwood Schools, both of the latter to minister to colored readers, and $8,000 to pur- chase the original stocks of books for these three branch libraries. An ef- fort will be made to convince the Sen- ate subcommittee on District appro- priations to restore these items is a wise measure of economy, one that will result in large service at small cost. For several years the brary trustees has been secure the establishment libraries in certain public school buildings, particularly in the sub- urbs, to serve the school and adult populations of such neighborhoods. This proposal has been cordially in- dorsed by successive Boards of Edu- cation and superintendents of schools, and repeatedly apbroved by the Dis- trict Commissioners of today and y terday. It should likewise be in- dorsed by Congress as a sound and economical policy. ‘Washington has a highly intellectual population, a reading people of omniv- orous appetite. The central library is thronged and overcrowded by cager readers, and each new separate branch library always has more read- ers than it is able to take care of. last w board of li- working to of branch The educa-| contest will this vear, as last, | this contest in their appreciation 2 S D e lat a foreign capital, and contrasted in | i the, 13 |long contended for by the library and |only no legal impediment, but rather the separate branch libraries are built in thickly populated parts of the District, in accordance with the pro- gram of the library trustees for branch library development, the large and evergrowing suburban population of the District will be without con- venient centers of library service, un- branches are established in each neighborhood. The library authori- wisely decided that they would not be justified in seeking to secure a separate branch library in cach such suburban neighborhood, in- volving, as it would, not only the original cost of building, but also the continuing expense of maintaining a plant with neces ary janitor Instead they ar proy to meet the library needs of suburban residents by means of a of branch libraries in school buildings for both white and colored, so distributed as to furnish books and ary information service within sonable walking distance of all homes. It important to secure the ap- projpriations for the three branches carried by the budget; first, because the child and adult populations ad- to these schools have 1 asking for them, but establish the principle le e parate heating ‘rvice. ea- nt n still s0 cagerly more to officers and approved school heartily act communities and by citizens. The ating the Public Library declared it to be a “supple- ment of the public educational system’ of the District, so that there is not of Congress c sound legal mandatd for the ar- rangement. The superintendent of schools, is member of the rd of library trustees, earnestly favors the plan. In view of the ex- pected rapid building of public school- houses during the next five years, many of them to serve suburban com- tions without sep- es, it is important that the way shall be opened for es- tablishing branch libraries in sch wherever they are needed to give li- brary to children and adults not otherwise served. who - bo munities and popu arate branch libra s service e The British Embassy. of the British embassy, on Con- means that a land- will view in pass Washington. A new embassy is to be erected on Massachusetts avenue neas Cir and the Con- necticut avenue building will be razed { room for a commercial struc- Sule necticut avenue, mark soon from Observato te, to make tur For more than 30 years the British | embassy 1 a notable structure When it was erected in 1873 it was rated as one of the most elegant pri- vate buildings in the city. It was de- | signed in accord with the prevailing type of architecture, which has long since become obsolete. That it would ever be too small for its official uses has bes i so much enjoys as collecting evidence, was not within conception half a cen- tury ago, or, indeed, for many years after it was completed. But even be- fore the great war began the estab- lishment of the British Ambassador had become cramped, and when the war broke the business of the embassy eased so greatly that it was neces- ry to add tempor structures to the premise Countless times the Br on Connecticut inc ry h embassy, avenue, has been pointed out to visitors with the re- mark that the title to the property rested in the Queen of England, later in the King. It was cited as an ex- ample of the wisdom of a foreign gov- ernment in providing a permanent home for the use of its representative with the policy of the United States in making no such provision for Ameri- can diplomatic representatives abroad. Later other European governments made similar provisions here, while the United States continued to lag in this respect. It was not until practi-| cally every major power had housed the Washington envoys in their own official homes that the United States moved in the same dirgction. There will be regret for the passing | of this historic structure, which has been the scene of many notable gather- ings and festivities and ceremonials. Tt has, however, been outdated, as per- haps its successor may in turn be out- Gated years hence. When it has been replaced by a business building a tablet should mark its site and tell the sim- ple story of its half century as the home of the British Ministers and Am- bassadors who have in turn presided | there while they were representing their government at this Capital. St that Gaston B. Means is out| will be on their is nothing Mr. Means Now on bail guard. evildoers There even if he does occasionally forget some of the most important parts of it. ————————— is not so depleted in money as to offer no inducements for the operations of shady financiers. e A February Thaw. A tradition of Washington's climate has for years'been that January was usually marked by a “thaw,” a period of warmth which disposed of all the early snows and gave false promise of Spring. This was followed invaria- bly by a cold spell covering most of February, and often lasting until the middle of March. This year conditions are different. January has not been a thawing month, but, rather, a freez- ing one. There has been more snow in January this season than for a long time, and the average temperature has been unusually low. The “thaw” has come in ecarly February. It is welcome. 1t has cleared the streets of virtually all the snow and ice re- maining from the January cold spells. The season, indeed, seems to have shifted by two or three weeks. Some may attribute this to the ground hog, others to a mere chance of the ele- ments. At any rate, here is the Sth of February with uncovered ground, with a perceptible greening of the turf and with a general laying off of muffling wrams. The goloshes of a week ago are put away. Chains have been taken from the wheels of motor cars and the rutted and pitted pave- ments are jolting the traffic in re- minder of the severe experiences of a short time ago when the city was in a deep-ridged coating of ice. But those long in experience with Germany Washington weather are wary of such signs. They are not whetting up the garden tools or neglecting the coal bins. They are not putting their heavy Winter wraps away in moth- proof chests. They are bracing them- selves, on the contrary, against the cold to come. For March is yet to pass, the month of bluster, and this year the month of inauguration, which is traditionally a time of harsh winds and biting temperatures. Yet there is comfort in the feeling that every day brings the real Spring nearer and that within a few weeks the city will be freed entirely from the grip of Win- ter, and then Washington’s true cli- mate will be manifest. The birds will sing and the parks will show their green and the shrubs their soft tones of budding. ———ee—. The Lamond Grade Crossing. It is confidently expected that to- morrow, when District business is considered in the House of Repre- sentatives, one of the measures to be brought forward' for passage will be that which provides for the elimina- tion of the railroad grade crossing at Lamond. Under this bill the Commis- sioners will be authorized to construct a subway and approaches to carry Van Buren street under the tracks of the railroad. This is one of the notori- ous danger points in the District, one of the few remaining since the gen- eral abolition of grade crossings ef- fected in conjunction with the con- struction of the Union Station. It has taken a heavy toll of life, the roadway being much used and the railroad operating on a frequent schedule. The conditions are particularly conducive to disaster. Action upon this bill is demanded the interest of public safety. There should be no grade crossing | within the District, and none, indeed, in the area immediately adjacent. There are several exceedingly danger- ous crossings in Maryland at which the lives of Washington people have been sacrificed. One of these is at Hyattsville, where the main highway between Washington and Baltimore crosses not only the railread tracks, but the trolley line at an angle. The | immediate conditions add greatly to the risk, for view of the tracks Is obscured by buildings. Dependence upon gates has proved to be faulty. Gates are, in the best circumstances, a makeshift only. ie-crossing elimination de manded by the people of all the East- rn States where the road traffic heavy. State Legis re impor- tuned toenact laws requiring the sink- ing below or raising of the highways over the tracks on a general scale and putting a time limit upon the opera- tion. Upward of 2,000 lives are taken at these crossings in the course of a vear. Washington, the seat of Govern- ment, should surely have no such death traps within its boundaries, and this present bill to eliminate this Lamond crossing should be passed without fail at the present session. in is oa LS Predictions of what might happen if this country were attacked by su- perior air forces are disturbing to the imagination. Fortunately in this coun- try's history not been even weather prophets. the war prophets have | as reliable as the ———— Restoration of his estates removes all fear that the ex-Kaiser will seek to | revive his fortunes by means of pic- tures or the lecture platform. There are at least a few kinds of “bad actor” that Wilhelm is not compelled to exemplify. ———— In several sections of the European | map there is an evident impression | that America ought to be too proud | of .making advances to such distin- guished borrowers to trouble about a little matter of security. ———e— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Congress. Criticizin’ Congress! It's what we've always done. Sometimes it's in earnest And sometimes it's in fun But Congressmen are patient, ‘While drawin’ modest pay, And try to get elected In the good old-fashioned way. Criticizin’ Congress— Our privilege is such. Yet in our hearts we always Respect it very much. If, in the Land of Freedom, 0ld Congress juraped the track, Oh, how this population ‘Would fight to bring it back. Appropriate Celebration. “Are you going to celebrate George ‘Washington’s birthday?” “I am,” said Senator Sorghum; “in a very complete and reverential man- ner. Washington scorned an untruth, and on his birthday I shall play goif all day and give out no interviews whatever."” Canada and the Bootlegger. ‘When certain prices we compare, Results seem rather queer. ‘What costs two dollars over there, Costs seven over here. Jud Tunkins says a man whose wife is in politics is mighty liable to qualify as a wonderful dishwasher. Utility. The flivver and the aeroplane Are craft which admiration gain: But when for homely use we call The snow plow seems to beat them all. For the Future to Decide. “Whay's the population of Crimson Gulch?" “We won’t know for several days,” answered Cactus Joe. ‘‘Another feud has brcke out.” . G. 0. Peevishness. New parties joyously begin, But often end in doubt. The sign that once read “This Way In,™ Is changed to “This Way Out.” “‘One of de comforts of prohibition,” said Uncle Eben, “is dat you doesn’t hear hardly nuffin’ no mo’ *bout snake bites” ' BY THOS. R. MARSHALL, Former Vice Presldent of the United States. WAS for Woodrow League of Nations. I was for Warren Harding's four-power treaty. T am for President Cool- idge's World Court proposal. As matter of fact, I now and always hive been for any experiment that leans toward peace or points the way to the establishment of peace, Yet I have a feeling that for some time to come all peace experiments will reach the scrap heap. I fear that the people of the world are not ready for peace. Until they are ready for peace proposals like those of the present and of the immediate past will not accomplish much, Peace, 1 am convinced, will only after long vears of education. It first must be developed in the In- dividual and practiced by him in his private life, in his home, his business and in his relations with men. Men and women must take it into their social organizations and community life. Not until peace has been es- tablished in the hearts of men and practiced by them In their everyday life will nations adopt it as a policy. ‘Wilson's come Jenlousy Balks Peace. To my mind the fundamental cause of human strife is jealousy—jealousy of the mightier person, Jealousy of the mightier nation. This will have to be eliminated if indfviduals and na- tions are going to embrace peace. How to eliminate it is the question. My solution is re-enactment of the Golden Rule and its adoption by every person who believes he wishes world peace. The problem of peace Is not a new problem ou this old earth. It is as old as mah himself. Strife is as old as the breath in the body of the first human. Yet, it is possible to build character xo that the Golden Rule will be the accepted regulator of human condugt. Mén have talked about peace from time immemorial It is the eternal question burning in the breatsts of men. It ix the deepest rooted desire of mankind. But we always have at- tached some provisos, added some qualifications, named some reserva- tions. We wish peace, provided the other fellow will make it and pro- vided we do not have to bend our own will to it. After the World War men talked peace when they were not talking about what they wished as the result of the war and about what they believed they were entitled to. If the world had been three times its size it would not have been large enough to go around. Doubted League's EMciency. still are talking peace, but, to mind, we are relying too much documents decreeing pesce. We to rely more on our pwn will w my on ought ‘ HOW TH and our own duty. I subscribed. with- out reservation, to the covenant of the League of Nations, yet I doubted if it was better than the treaty drawn at the close of the Napoleonic wars. The holy alliance, you will recall, had the same object as the League of Nations. The crowned heads of the clvilized world entered into solemn compact that never again would they resort to force to settle the differ- ences of their peoples. The settle- ment of all disputes was to be left to the rule of the Savior of mankind, to His law. The principle involved was the cor- rect principle. It is impossible, I re- peat, to end war except by the strict- est application of the Golden Rule. A document decreeing peace is not worth the paper it is written on if {t is not backed by the conscience and will of the people. Training Is Necesnary. We are America. the Congress, the President, Wash- ington. America is you and 1 and other citizens. Therefore our train- ing is the first essential to peace. We must be trained to be peaceful and peace-loving. How can America establish peace when the citizens who make up America are flying at each other's throats because of personal animosities and class prejudices? It does no good to talk peace, to write peace, to preach peace. We must be peace personified. Much™ as I would like to believe otherwise, I believe that another war is at the threshold of our dream castles of peace. The peoples of Surope are bitterly divided over the causes of the last war. Even the central @owers contend that they fought a war of self-defense. Hatreds were Instilled into the hearts of chil- dren. These will come to the sur- face when those who were children in the war become men. I can't bring myself to believe that war is a thing of the past. Golden Raule ax Guide. The solution lies in education. But it will require years on top ofs years to rebuild the hearts, mind and souls of people. The people must be taught to wish peace. It must be- come their desire to practice the Golden Rule. Business men must not do business at arm's length with one another. Husbands and wives must live amiably in their homes if thelr children are to grow to manhood and womanhood in a spirit of peace. We must carry peace and good will into the world if the end of war J% 10 be in the parliament of mankind. We must abandon our petty preju- ocial, racial, religious and we are to have a world of Will it come? I hope so. I am willing to try out any experi- ment designed to speed its coming. America is not (Copyright, 1 by Zixt Century Press.) E VOTERS TURNED OUT BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Leaders of the drive that was made to get the largest possible percentage of eligible voters to the polls last November are more encouraged now than they were early in December. when the first unoficial returns and estimates of the total vote were made public. At that time it appeared that in spite of a nation-wide, non-parti- san campaign, in which a score of organizations participated, it would be found that proportionately a smaller number of voters had partici- pated in the 1924 presidential contest than in that of 1920, and there was general disappointment over the | showing. Now, however, the complete official returns have been compiled, and it is seen that the 1924 total shows an in- crease over that of 1920. The increase is small, it is true, but it is an increase. When Harding and Cox staged their memorable struggle only 49.1 per cent of the eligibles, or 26,646,273 out of a total of 54,165,907, went to the polls. At the recent elec- tion the total vote was 29,138,935 out )t a possible total of 56,941,584, or 31.2 per cent. Thus there was an in- crease of 2.1 per cent in the light of the increased population, while there was a percentage increase of 4.2 over the number of the voters who pr- formed their duty as citizens in 1920 This, as the National Association of Manufacturers summarizes it, safely took the election out of the class of minority representation and placed it in the category of majority repre- ! sentation in national government. The showing is not enthusing when comparison is made with the per- centage of the possible vote polled regularly in other countries, such as England, France and Germany, or when it is reflected that there were 2,795,677 more eligibles in 1924 than there were in 1920 and the total vote cast was increased by but 2,492,662 The stay-at-homes of four years ago do not seem to have been brought out in any appreclable numbers, for all the work that was done on them. One organization alone distributed 25,000,- 000 stickers, folders and window cards urging voters to “Vote as you please—but vote!” and that repre- sents only part of the effort and money invested in the drive. As an advertising proposition the campaign would not be rated a success. How- ever, progress was made, and those interested in the movement say that that fact will insure its being car- ried on in 1928, Wyoming Heads the List. Wyoming showed the greatest per- centage increase, 37.7, and wins the miniature overstuffed ballot box, or | whatever prize may be deemed most appropriate. In 1920 51.4 per cent of that State's eligibles went to the polls, while last November 70.8 per cent performed. The gross gain is 19.4 per cent, as compared to popula- tion, but the percentage increase is almost twice that. Mississippi comes second with a percentage increase of 36.1; Texas third with 27 and California fourth with 26.1. However, it is to be noted that Mississippi and Texas polled but 9.4 and 21.8 per cent, respectively, of their eligibles in 1920, and their figures for 1924, 12.8 and 27.7, are net impressive. In all, 28 States showed percentage increases in 1924, although three of them were less than 1 per cent, while the other 20 States showed per- centage decreases ranging from 35.8 for Florida down to .9 of 1 per cent for Jdaho. South Carolina has the dis- tinction, if such it may be considered, of having polled the smallest frac- tion of her possible vote, 6.3 per cent, while Georgia ranked second in this respect with 11.3 per cent, and Mis- sissippi third with 12.8 per cent, The 20 States that performed more poorly in 1924 than in 1920 are Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkan- sas, South_Carolina, Maryland, North Carolina, Montana, Kentucky, Dela. ware, North Dakota, Virginia, Ohio, Louisiana, Maine, Arizona, Indiana, Missourl, Nevada and Idaho. All parts of. the country are repre- ented in this list, so that it cannot be said that indifference to citizen- ship obligations is peculiar to any one section, although it is to be noted that the worst offen™\s are in the South. Strangely enough, the States that made the very best, records four years ago are included among those that slumped at the recent election. Delaware topped the honor roll in 1920 with a percentage of 75.4, but dropped to 69.4 in 1924. Indiana was second in the Harding election with 74.1 per cent, dropping to 71.7 per cent when Coolidge swept the country, and Kentucky was third four years ago Wwith 71.9 per cent. as compared with 62.4 per cent for 1924. It is an dnteresting feature of the vote analysis that the State which furnished the Democratic candidate for President in the recent campaign has the best voting record. West Vir- 'ginla got 74.8 per cent of her possible voters to the polls last November, Indiana and Rhode Island being tied for second honors with 71.7 ‘per cent, Utah ranking third with 71 per cent and Wyoming fourth with 70.8 per cent And not only was West Virginia ot in front of her sister States at the recent contest, but her average per- formance of 73.25 per cent for the last two elections s the best of all. In- diana's average of 729 per cent en- titles her to second honors, while Del- Ewaze is third with an average of This is considered by many of those interested as the best test of voting performance—the maintaining of an average that is so far in advance of the average for the country as a whole In the two elections, which was but a fraction over 50 per cent. These observers say that the percentage in- crease shown by a State is not im- portant if its average is less than that for all the States. Such was the case with Mississippi and with Texas, both of which States were far below the 1920 average and were still far under the 1924 mark, although their percentage increases ranked them second and third among all the States. California made a conspicuous show- ing with a percentage Increase of 26.1, but in 1920 she was below the national average with 48.9 per cent, and her performance in 1924, 61.7 per cent, brings her average barely above that of the country as a whole for the two elections. O National Average Exceeded. Thirty-two States exceaded the na- tional average of 51.2 at the recent election. West Virginia, Indlana, Rhode Island, Utah and Wyoming made records of 70 per cent or better, orth Dakota, Missour!, Nebraska, New Jersey, Kansas, Towa, New Hampshire and Delaware were all better than 65 per cent, although un- der the 70 mark. Tdaho, Nevada, Kentucky, New Mex- ico, Minnesota, New York, South Da- kota, Colorado and California were the States that got out percentages of their possible votes ranging between 60 and 65. /Oregon, Nebraska, Vermont, Wiscon- sin, ' Massachusetts. Connecticut, ‘Washington, Montana, Michigan and Ohio all exceeded the national aver- age of §1.2 per cent, but did not at- tain the 60 mark. In the vote compllation upon which this analysis is based account is taken not only of the ballots cast for the three leading candidates for Presi- dent—Coolidge, Davis and La Fol- lette—but of all votes cast for all presidential tickets. In one or two States as many as nine candidates for the presidency were voted for, al- though it would be worse than a cross-word puzzle to figure out who some of them were. An Historic Building Site. In The Star last Monday was print- ed a news item stating that a pro- posal had been made for the acqui- sition of the entire square west of the House Office Building for the erection of an annex office building for the use of members of Congress. In The Star of February 6. 1875, is an_article reprinted from the Boston Journal telling of improvements that had just been made on that property, as fol- lows: “Gen. Butler is just completing three large and elegant houses di- rectly south of the Capitol, at the corner of New Jersey avenue. They are constructed of Cape Ann granite and the corner house has a handsome portico of the same material. This the general has built for his own residence. The next one is for sale, and the third, which adjoins the Coast Survey, is rented to that bu- reau as a fireproof place of deposit for its valuable electrotypes and en- graved copver plates. The houses are better built than any others in Washington, with spacious staircases, solid doors in place of vencered work., and mosaic floors of rare wood. “These buildings occupy the site originally bullt on by Thomas Law, a brother of Lord Ellenborough, who amassed a fortune in the East Indies when Warren Hastings was governor general there, and came here, it is said, to avoid testifying in the fa- mous Hastings trial. Bringing let- Capital Sidelights BY WILL P. KENNEDY. The age of oratory and erudition is not dead, and the youth of today need not have recourse to any book of 100 cholce selections of five-min- ute speoches, when a casual glance at the Congressional Record discovers such a gem of historic summary and glowing tributes to the leader of “the lost cause” by one of his officers, now and many years a member of Con- gress, as the following: “It is neither on the greatest fields of battle or places where the most calamitous bloodshed has taken place that the recollection of future ages is chiefly riveted. “The vast theaters of Asiatic con- flict are forgotten, the slaughtered myriads of Timour and Genghis Khan lio in undistinguishable —graves. Hardly a pilgrim visits the scenes where on the felds of Chalons and Tours the destinies of civilization and Christendom were fixed by the skill of Aetius cor the valor of Charles Martel. It is moral grandeur which produces a durable impression. It patriotic heroism which permanently attracts the admiration of mankind The Pass of Thermopylae, the graves at Marathon will warm the | liearts of men through every succeed- ing’age. The Chapel of Tell, the field of Morganten still attract the gen- erous and brave from every civilized state. The name of Wallace, the plain’ of Bannocburn have rendered Scottish story immorta in the an- nals of the world. “The day may come when the mem- ory of the fields of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville, of the Wildern and Spotsylvania Court House shall be dimmed by the obscurity of re- volving years and recollected only as a shadow of ancient days, but even then the enduring fortitude, patri- otic self abnegation and unrivaled military genius of Gen. Robert E. Lee will stand forth in undecaying luster amid the wreck of ages and survive unshaken above the floods of time."" This spoke Representative Major) Charles E. Carolina. (and Stedman of North * X * % Uncle Sam printed and delivered 1,338,243 printed stamped enve- lopes last year, and Representative Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma figures that the Government by selling these below the price that similar printed stock commands in the open market, lost on this one item, $2,810,310. * * John walked F. Ancona of Reading, Pa., into the office of William Tyler Page. clerk of the National House of Representatives, the other day and they greeted ecach other promptiy and cordially, although they had not met for 40 years. Mr. Au- cona was stationery clerk to the House in 1874 when Mr. Page first came to work there as a hoy. Mr. Page’s office now occupies the entire suite which was formerly used as of- | ficex for the clerk of the House, the! disbursing clerk and the stationery | clerk * * Representative Thomas D. M Keown of -Oklahoma told this little story during debate in the House., A farmer living in the town of Mil Creek, Okla.. shipped four of horses to East St. Louis, Mo. were sold and the price received ap- plied on the freight There was a balance due of $136. The railroad com- pany sent the farmer a bill for that amount, The farmer was an unedu- cated man. When his little daughter read the letter to him, asking for $136, he dictated to her this reply: “Dear Railroad Co.:—I haven't got any money, but I can ship you some more horses.” * x % Every member of Congress likes to brag about his district. Representa- tive Thomas J. Lilly of West Vir- ginia is one of the most recent to en- tertain the House with a summary of some of the boasts of West Virginia. He claims that: “Our coal area is the greatest of any State in the Union, being 17,280 square miles, while the area of the entire State is only 24,- 022. We have the finest grade of bituminous coal in all the world. Last year we produced coal and coke to the amount of about $372,300,000, from 1,325 coal mines, employing more than 100,000 persons, who re- ceived In wages $290,000,000. “Last year we had in operation and produclng 27,363 oil and gas wells with a production valued at about $99,000,000. Our coal and its by-prod- ucts are transported into almost!| every civilized country in the world. We have the greatest undeveloped water power east of the Rock: Mountains or the Continental Divide. This was part of the “swan song” of Representative Lilly. * ok ok % Loulsiana came in for eulogy as “the leader of the South in reforesta- tion,” in a speech by Senator Rans- dell, In which he emphasized that 19 States have established State forests totaling about 5,500,000 acres, and have planted about 100,000 acres with young trees. Then he quoted from Joyce Kilmer, “the American soldier- poet, who died to free the world": I think that T shall never see A poem lovely as a tree— A tree, whose hungry mouth fs pressed, Against the sweot earth's flowing breast: A tree that looks at God all day. And lifts her leafy arm to pray A tree that may in Summer wear A mest of robins in her ha Upon whose bosom snow has lain: Who intimately lives with rain Poems are made by fools like me. But only God can make a tree. * ok ok % While the Supreme Court room in the Capitol is visited as a special point of interest by practically every tourist, few of them realize that from an historic point of view it is prob- ably the most important portion of the Capitol. There Jefferson twice delivered his inaugural address and took the oath of office—both times in the presence of Chief Justice Mar- shall. There the Senate confirmed the treaty with Napoleon I, by which we acquired the “Louisiana Purchase.” There was read the “Monroe Doy trine” when it was sent to Congre: by President Monroe. There Webster of Massachusetts and Hayne of South Carolina engaged in their famous de- bate. There Calhoun, Clay and Web- ster sang their swan songs. There the electoral commission decided the bit- ter Tilden-Hayes presidential election contest. * k Xk ¥ Senator Charles S. Deneen is the fourth generation of his family to serve as trustee of McKendree Col- lege, Lebanon, IlL, from which he graduated in 1882. * k kX Representative Dan Reed of New York brought out in debate that the Erie canal cost $7,145,000, the first boat going through it in October, 1825, ‘Up to 1882, when tolls were abol- ished, the canal showed a net profit of $42,600,000, after deducting cost of operation and maintenance, construc- tion and enlargement. —_— e ters to Gen. Washington, he fell in loye with Mrs. Washington's grand- daughter, and, after gaining the ap- probation of her guardian by invest- ing largely In Washington City lots, he married her. The marriage was so unhappy that it resulted in a di- vorce, and the real estate, which cost $500,000 in gold, was finally sold for less than one-fifth of that sum. Law sold the house which stood where Gen. Butler has now built to the Bank of Washington, and z part of it was used as the Supreme Court room for many years.” A number of years the Gov- ernment bought the “Butler hous and it hes for some ttme been the home of the Public Health Service, BY ROBERT T. SMALL. There has beer so much aviation talk and testimony in Washington this past week that it has left every one more or less up in the air, The truth of the matter is there have been overstatements on both sides of the controversy. To paraphrase the words of Admiral Schley, there is in warfare glory enough for all—glory for the airplanes, glory for the in- fantry, glory for the artillery and glory for the grand old battleship. Of course, there are those who. ask “What price glory?’ so the word is written here purely from the fighting man’s point of view. Glory or hell, war still has room for all the imple- ments of destruction that man has devised. The Navy is holding in reserve a broadside which it soon may fire at the Army flyers, who claim that, given free rein, they can sink a fleet in less time than it takes to tell the tale. The Navy wants to know why it was that Germany, with her constant com- mand of the air during the early vears of the war, did not seek out and destroy the British high-sea fleet. Many Germans to this day are of the belief that it was the British fleet which defeated the Kalser's ambition to rule the world. It was the British fleet which held Germany vise-like in a grim blockade and kept her from all supplies from overseas. Victory after victory fell to the German arms on land, but always ahead was the British command of the seas. 1t wa the British fleet that made it possi- ble to transport the British armies to France. ; The British and American fleets in co-operation made it possible for the United States to send safely more than 2,000,000 men to France. These were the things which broke the Ger- man morale. The German fleet made but a single sortie from its base. It hit—hit rather hard—but hustied back to the protecting guns of the home shores. ‘Where was Germany's aerial fleet during the fight off Dogger Bank? Why did it not sally forth and knock the proud Britons forever to their doom? Germany which - to nights. bomb both London and Paris while the moon was shining bright. She even sent her merial bombing squad- rons against the English capital in the broad daylight of a Summer Saturday afternoon. But not was there an attempt to bomb & British battleship. Perhaps there has been some im- provement in bomb dropping siuce those days; erhaps the Germans were novices In the air after all. it also is argued that battleships to- day are better protected against Heard and Seen with dark found bomb Zeppelins London on onee When it comes to persistency, there are very few men who are in the same class with the house cat. Domesticus felis can teach the most persistent cuss a thing or two when it comes to that desirable quality. Children have the necessity of sticking to a thing until finished drilled into them until they are sick of it, but kittens are born to it. When they grow into cats they are the most stubborn things in all the world. Once a cat gets its mind set on some end, he usually achieves it. You may try to sidetrack him, and succeed for a time, say by offering him a tempting bit of flesh, but in the end he will get what he wants. If he wants out at night, you might | | as well let the beast out, for he will meow and in other ways WOITY you until you open the back door. The cat has a “single track mind,” if any created thing has. X The most independent of animals, the cat will return again and again to the attack, until he wins out. He might be taken not only for a statue of liberty, on account of his intrepid independence, but also as a model for persistency on a monument. * * x Jack Spratt, alley cat de luxe, gave a splendid demonstration of this quality one day last week. It was a comedy which might have been en- titled, in the Russian manner, “Jack Spratt Decides to Go Out.” e shades of night were falling with thelr customary alertness, when Jack decided it was time, for him to begin his evening’s prowlings. I, in my turn, determined that old Spratt was due for a night in. 2 If you have read Herman Melville's “Mobby Dick,” the story of the white whale, you wlill recall how Capt. Ahab chased the creature all over the seven seas, determined to end the carser of the whale, and in the end was outwitted and killed himseif by the cunning of the animal. * * X Jack Spratt and I tried each other out for considerably more than an hour, something as follows: “Jack, old fellow,” I said, “you are going to stay in tonight.’ “Meow!” retorted Jaok. ow-owt!"” “Nothing doin’ tonight, old sport.’ “Lemme ow-owt!" “Down in the basem: you keep up that nois “Ow-ow-owt!” “All right, then, down you go. Like a bag of meal, Jack was car- ried to the basement steps and de- posited on the second step from the top. Promptly he dashed up, underneath the kitchen cabinet, and over to the kitohen door. I picked him up, car- ried him back and put him on the step. Jack slid up, under the kitchen cabinet, and across to the door. I picked him up, carried him across the room, and set him down on the step. He dashed up, under the cabinet, and across to the door. I picked him up, carefully carried him back to the steps, and plumped him down. Jack immediately dashed up the steps, under the cabinet and to the door, where he started to meow. It was becoming & test of endurance. Wo started all over again. I picked him up, carried him to the steps. He dashed up, under the cabinet, across to the door. I picked the cat up. carted him across the room, put him down on the steps. The trail was well worn now, both ways, so Jack had no difficulty at all in finding his way back to the door again. * * % For 20 minutes we kept this solemn proceeding up, and I am con- fident that Jack would have played his part all night, it T had been will- ing. You can't tire out a cat in a game like that. ‘Weakening, I finally shut the base- ment door on him and left him to meditate upon his Iniquity. But he did not leave me to meditate. “Yow-ow! Yow-ow!" Perfectly terrible caterwauling en- sued, the kind that makes shivers run up and down the spine. 1t was more than human nature could stand. At last I opened the basement door. Out dashed Spratt, under the cabinet, over to_the door. 1 ignored him. He tried a divertissement. He ran through the dining room to the steps, and galloped upstairs, caterwauling fearfully. Running up to see what he was after, he ran down again, and to the back door. “Lemme ow-owt!"” he cried. “You win,” I said, opening the door. Jack slid out with an air of triumph. “Lemme t for you, if She found giant airplanes to | But | aerial attacks. Perhaps this is all Greek to the layman, but in any event you can’t convince the Navy that a battleship fleet is superfluous in view of the fact that in the latest and most terrible. war the world has known the allies proudly held the as because they had the weight of naval guns behind them. * x x % The aviation squabble is not with- out its humorous side. In all the breadth of the land you can scarcely find today an Infantry officer Who served in the A. E. F. willing ‘to admit that he saw a single friendly plane during the entire confliot on the western front. There was one eternal yelp going up from the trenches. “Enemy planes are hbombing us, chasing us with machine guns, making merry with us and otherwise giving us hell, with never an Amer- ican plane in sight.” The Artillery complained that all the American flyers wauted to go over the lines and bring down a German None of them wanted to do the drudgery, but highly important work of directing artillery fire against the enemy’s most {mportant works. This was true of every army at the front. The complaints were exactly alike. Even the Germans made them. One German wrote home that the British planes were flying so low over the trenches some of them had scooped the helmets off the soldiers’ heads. s war proved that it was pos- sible for either side to get the “mas- tery of the air”for a time at & given point, but neither Germans nor allies could maintain mastery along the wide battle front. The difficuity of mastery in the air is the extreme mobility of the plane. You can at- tack at one sector today and an en- tirely different one tomorrow. No other branch of the service could do that. The President Coolidge is not heated ur as yet about the Army and Navy con troversy, but at that he ix sticki pretty ciose to the Navy, or at least 80 much of it as ix represented by the presidential yacht Mayflower Through all the storm and stress of the most outrageous Winter Wash- ington known, Mr. and Mrs Coolidge have hardly missed a single week end “down the river.” In ex- tolling the letter carriers recently a Senator quoted from Herodotus: “Neither rain nor nor heat nor gloom of night stays these cour- completion of snow {fers from the swift their appointed round: | Today they are sing the | thing applies to the President’ | ness for the Mayflower trips. | (Copyright, 1925.) Fifty Years Ago In The Star A congressional committee reported 50 years ago in favor of abolishing the Washington navy vard. The Star 5 in its issue of Febru- Washington .7.'}" 1565, said on this Navy Yard. report of the subject: “The committee of Congress that made its junketing tour Jast Summer to the different navy yards of the country is such a bundle of mi atements and blundering conclusions that it is char- | itable to believe that the committee | devoted themselves to having a jolly | g0od time on thelr trip; and Instead | of boring themselves to investigate for facts, were content to accept as the data of their' report all the in- terested statements of parties who hope by breaking up the Washington ard to divert the funds used for its maintenance to their own pet schemes for navy vards in bogs and morasses, inland dry docks and Great American Desert harbor improve- ments. “As a matter of fact, the Govern- ment does not possess a workshop o {Teplete in its equipment for the spe- | cial manufacture of navy necessities as has been’ created here at an ex- pense of over $20,000,000 and 50 years of labor and experience. The machi: ery and tools for making chain cablex. anchors, galleys, ordnance, copper work, caps and bullets, etc., are pe- culiar to this navy yard. This is the manufacturing depot for the Navy “It cannot be doubted that the good sense and practical wisdom of Con- gress will cause the rejection of a measure founded upon such a gross misrepresentation of all the facts in the case. “The District of Columbia is unfor- tunate in having no representative in Congress with & vote to enable him to ‘log roll' with other members having navy yards, docks and harbor im provements to be provided for. As it is, our navy yard, our arsenal and all our national works are at the mercy of the members and the speculators Who want to carry off the funds spent here for use In_ their own districts. Con- gress as a body has a duty to perform in seeing to it that selfish motives do not preveil to the disadvantage of national interests, as well as to the interests of the people of this Dis- trict.” - * % Half & century ago an effort was being made to develop the parcel post system, though not upon the scale which was even- Parcel Post 511, “artained, & law Defended. to that effect having been secured. Opposi- tion by the express companies of th country encountered. The Star in its issue of February 2, 1875, sald: “The newspapers throughout the whole country, and particularly In its remote and sparsely settled portions. are a unit against the efforts of the express companles to secure the re- peal of the law permitting the trans- mission of small parcels of merchas- dice, ctc, through the malls. And well may they be. That clause of the postal law is really one of the most beneficial to the madority of Dpeople, and cspecially to those of small means, that ever was framed It virtually makes the mails the poor man's express company, and at = merely nominal cost. Under it, for example, a family 11ving remots from any large town, or even from a coun- try store, may have the whole stock of the largest retail establishments in the country at its disposal. Writ- ing a letter and inclosing a stamp to the nearest town or even to the largest clties (total cost from 4 to & cents) will secure by return mall a largo assortment of such samples as may be wanted, with prices plainly marked. Another letter transmitting the price will bring back by next |mail the desired article, st & cost of less than one-twentieth on an average of what it would be to have the same thing carried by express. if, indeed, there be any express fa- | cilities at all for that particular lo- cality. This puts the country pur- chaser practically on the same foot- Ing as those living in the cheapest and best supplied markets. * ® ® I any member of Congress wants to com- mit official suiclde, let him take sides 1 with the express companies in this | matter.” “You might as well have done that in the first place,” his gleaming eyes emed to say. ‘Which remark, as all friends of cats know, was about the truth. C E. TRACEWELL