Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1925, Page 42

9 2 e A T e ———————— THE EVENING STAR| With Sundny Morning Bditiom. | WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY 15, 1925 . . Editor «+...March THEODORE W. NOYES. The Evering Star Newspaper Company | Business Office. 11th St New York Offce Cliicago ¢ Ofhce: 16 and Pesnsylvania Ave’ | 110 East 42nd S Tower Building. zeut St Loudon, England. | Europea The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning | dition, ix delivered by carriers within the city a 60 cents per month: daily 45 cents per month: Sunday only, s may be s 5000, Collectio 1 wonth —<Payable in Advanc and Vieginia. L 854031 nio., T0¢ $6.00:1 mo., 50¢ 10:1 mo., 205 Mary! Daily and Sunday Daily only Sunday only an Daily and Sur Daily only Sunday Other States. lay.1 yr., $10.00:1 mo., §5¢ 1yr. $7.00;1 mo,’ goc 1yr Member of the Associated Tress. The Associated Press is exclush ¥y cntitied (o the use for republicat £ news dis- | patelies credited 1o 1t or not athe ise credited | in this paper and also the 10 il mews pub: Tished herein. " All rights of ‘mybjication of apecinl dispateles her 4.0 reserve = L Compulsory Fducation. The task of provisions of compulse education and law today the authorities charged with the enforig.ment of that measure Recently, at 7, meeting hetween officers and tepresentatives of welfi gr problems involved ayere puttigg into effect the th new ¥ s o0l census is) before ocal agencies, the considered and dis- cussed that few law child'gn between the 16 4 mgted shall “end. 1 provides certain | ages of 14 and who have hitherto heen per to fail t attend public school weforth be required to at at law appears the return to school on the part of the been children negligible. | i operation today, | i i | Ivolved has to date These children may two be divided into classes—those who, equipped | with work old law. entitled tc from school, and without work pert absented | themselves. TUnder 1 law work permits shall be issued save to children between the ages of 14 and | 16 years who have | eighth-grade educs dren of eighth-grade permit school are absent law, in many cases owing ignorance the part of ents as to what the law Is. The difficulties under which the en- | forcement authorities today labor are | The only children immediately whom The of forcing | those whose earnings are theoretically | necessary to a family’s support into| #chogl while is no of reaching those who are not working is of obvious dubiety. Pending the taking census, which will July, the only course open permits, were, under the | absent themselves | those who have, | new no completed an And all chil lacking an and a work absent from of the | lh(vi par. | tion. 16 less than educ are on a who today in viclation on their these: who those involved | traceable perrdits are are to we have een issued. equi there way of the school undertaken in to the be | | been bought by w rth @ good price. Antique dealers and Mhelr agents traveled in' wagons r4d buggles all the country i3/ ghe -Potomac Patuxent and Rap gahannock valley and made the best bargains they could. ©Old mabogany eas taken first and then ,the buy g4 turned 'to tables, chairs and 5o 5 of black walnut. The hunting, bu' #,g and selling has gone on so that f.w country homes in the Washing! da region have Colonial Revolut fnary or Civil War andirons or blz gk walnut beds of respectable age. I ar some years box bushes from ol'J gardens have been sought. The '#x hedge or box walk were found in housands of gardens in Maryland and Virginda, and there were not many country homes which did not have box bushes about the place. any of them were old and big. Hunt- for the bushes moved about the country and paid a good price for purchases. The sale and dig- ginz up of the venerable bushes would ruin the appearance of a garden, but many country people had need for the money and were willing to sell. Only a few days ago The Star printed a news item from Alexandria Lo the effect that the boxwood gar- den surrourding Hayfield Manor, in Fairfaux County, aud “adjudged by many to be one of the prettiest box- wood gardens of colonial time,” had and would be removed country place in Westchester New York. It seems a pity. e we over their a c——— The Hunters. e g0 10 the far corners of the : others travel many leagues in order that they may shoot Only the Yother duy a noted explorer from Dublin end = captain were killed in East by a maddened rhinoceros The rarity of one sort of game, the ferocity of another, has for modern man an aimost universal appeal that is a direct heritage from his cave. dwelling ancestors. More and more, however, mankind laying aside the express rifla in favor of the camera und & newer sort of hunting gains favor. Rut the sublimation of the hunting in- stinct is found in such travels, hard- ships and adventures as were the; prerequisites of the recent release | the National Leprosarium in Louisiana of four lepers as “cured.” Joseph F. Rock, the leader of the Na- tional Geographic Society’s expedition into intevior China, had thrilling ex- earth for ovis poi tigers woman British Africa is om THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., e e e L T a blacksmith were “%\ds” that| ahead with construction already au thorized in 40 States, but held up be: cause of insufficient appropriations. The House retaliated by adding its $150,000,000 building bill as an amend- ment to the deficlency bill, and the House conferees sald that if the House amendment could not go through the Senate the Senate amendments for an ‘nternal revenue building at Washing- ton and continuation of work on Gov- ernment buildings authorized else- where, but not sufficiently appropriat- ed for, would not be agreed to by the House. So all of the building amend- ments failed. The conflict was unfor- tunate, but despite these internecine conflicts of Congress there is reason to hope that, at the next session, con- cord may be achieved, and the long- | delayed Government building program undertaken and provided for. M Memorial Bridge. Work on the Memorial Bridge will be begun within & few days. The Initial appropriation of $500,000 will be drawn on, the engineers will prob- ably ‘press construction and it is be- licved that Congress at successive sessions will make appropriations for carrying the work to completion with- out more delay than is usual in large public projects. While it is said that prelimingry work on the bridge will be begun by April 1, it may be observed that much preliminary work has already been done. There have been numerous sets of plans and many surveys of land and river. The plan of the bridge-to-be is drawn, its site is determined and plans for re- adjusting &« section of Washington that the north end of the bridge may have a fitling ewproach have made. Within a few days borings will be made to determine the formation of the river bed and basic rock. not likely that an unusual discovery will be made. tomac River is known to many en- gineers and the rock which lies below the ooze. silt and clay is an quaintance of our geologists, necessary to go at systematic way building the been old ac- It that the bidders for piers may know 1t is | for him is universal. The bottom of the Po- | gthers, Mystery of Coolidge Seen As Reason of His Popularity BY THOMAS R. MARSHALL, The average individual is fascinat- ed by that which he does not under- stand. He likes intrigue, stratagem, mystery —anything that perplexee. In this fact is to be found the popu- larity of puzzle pictures now printed in every newspaper. It explaing why every one is chewing the ends of pen- cils, consulting dictionaries, seratch- ing’ their heads. Here is something we do not understand, is the uni versal, if unconscious comment. Here's something we are for. It enables us to while away our hours pleasantly. It furnishes diversion. A bibulous lawyer at a pre-prohibition banquet voiced some such thought when he de- clared that the crowning glory of the practice of the law was its delight- ful, devilish, darned uncertainty. He touched, I thought at the time, one of the great moving impulses of the American people. Explanation of the attitude of the people of the United States toward President Coolldge perhaps may be found in the suggestion I have just made. Iiverywhere one goes he hears from all scris of people what I feel we always should hear—kind words for the President. Personally, I am not interested in the discussion whether he is the old Coolidge or whether he is « new Coolidge. Al- ways he has been kind and gracious to me. 1 do not 1ike his politics, but I do like the man. I belleve I should continue to like him even though he beowme garruious. But the fact that discussion exists a8 to whether he is the old Coolidge or » new Coolldge is interesting to me, s it reveals a perplexity in the minds of the people. The President, it seems, is & mystery o those who are in the habit of teli- Ing all about everything all the time. Various r are advanced for M lidze's success, particularly for his hold on the people, which zd- mittedly very strong. Good will me assign as the cause his intellectual attainments; others, his political acumen; still his sympathetic grasp of preblems. Again I have heard that just { something of mystery. the President's common sense was his demiuant trait, while not a few have emphasized his industry and is honesty s fundamentals of his char- this matter in a |Aacter which have won cess and popular favor the Coolldge popularit for him suc- In any event has in it o single con- what lies under the water and how | clusive reason for it hus been gener. much of it is there before they caissons preliminary to pier construc. tion. There is an estimate that it will require two and a half years to build the piers and that the can be finished in five years gress giv the work with a full force and with. out interruption. There is bridge it Con periences with tigers, crocodiles, bears, elephants and venomous ser pents, experience which of them- selves would have given a satisfac- tory thrill to the usual type of hunter. But to him they were merely inci- dental What he was hunting for were some seeds of a rare tree from which Chaulmoogra oil, the specific for one.of the most terrible diseases to which mankind is subject, are ob-| tained. Through the wildernesses of Siam, Burma and Southeastern Chine plod ded this brave and patient man. with school autherities suade the children invelved and those | responsible them,. to return to| school, as the law requires. But by | next September under | the law of all who fail to appear for | the new school year will be in order and will no doubt be vigorously un- dertaken The tentative proposal to establish continuation school, where night | work would be permitted to replace day work for those who under the old law would have gone without fur- ther education on work permits is not likely to be pr ed. The testi- mony of the health authorities that such work would be a severe mental and physical strain upon the children | concerned, combined with the bellef of responsible that in stances where ildren is is to seek to per-) for prosecutions a authorities the labor really essential to family very in W to render such The child | | support are | rare hington, would seen 1 innovation unnece sary requiring schooling | is obviously best environed in a nore mal day among the com- panions regularly to be found there. | Summed up, the work of vigorous enforcement of the law will of neces. sity be postponed until the opening of the new school vear next Fall, though this in no wise absolves the guardians of children affected by the | new law from the legal obligation to send them at Once that enforcement is undertaken eve ) effort will be bent to seeing that every Washington child less than 16 years | old who has not completed the eighth | grade shall be on the job obtaining | that education which | nounced “the every state.” And should be. school to school once. Diogenes pro- | of | it to" be foundation that is as —r——— So far as Mr. Warr it is again n is concerned, | unnecessary for President Coolidge to offer prolonged remarks. | He makes it perfectly clear in the simplest manner possible that he has | not changed his mind. | to - resourceful word puzziers have avoided proceed- | ing the idea that “senatorial courtesy” and “filibustering” Even the most erihee are | synonym | | American Antiques. | cars ago—American Forty ago—perhaps longer | antiques became sought after. Persons who'had rever known miich about spinning wheels wanted one as a parlor crnament, and would tie bows of ribbon on it and give it a place in a cornér. There was also a demand for old andirons, old firetongs and shovels, old fenders that were set around the open hearth, and the old hand bellows with which the open fire was blown to give it a start or wake it up. strong for old bedsteads, bureaus, sideboards, wardrobes, -tables, chairs and other furnishings that might an- swer to the name antique. Blue clay pottery, vellow cl bowls and white china plates which had done long service were ‘sought after. Old mir- rors or looking-glasses were taken from their homes and transplanted to @ new house. An old doorknob, a cwmbrous and rtusty lock, and - es recially @ hinge that had been made Demand grew |not to be hung in a residence, club | one respect. Adjournment at the Capi- | ings { amendment for an his companions, in ‘search of the elusive plant. In the end he found what he sought and was able to bring back to civilization the seeds which could be planted in this country, which, in turn, would bear other seeds whence the life-giving ofl could be obtained. There exist in this world malignant monsters compared to which a tiger is but a purring kitten. Leprosy, healed with this rare ofl; syphilis, likely to be abated, if not conquered, as the result of tedious experiments on the llamas of South America; cancer and tuberculosis head the list. Relentlessly are they hunted down. Sometimes the remedy must be sought in the realms of infinite minuteness in the laboratory. Some- times it must be sought in the utter- most parts of the earth. There is no quarrel with the hunter of the tiger or of the sheep of the Pamir plateau. | named for Marco Polo, himself one of | the greatest hunters in history. But ! the intrepid man who survives| months packed o the brim with | perils and returns with a litte packet of seeds brings back a trophy or museum, but to be shared with all suffering mankind. He is the hunter par excellence. ————s The istrict relations of Congress to the D of Columbia have changed in tol used to mean the closing of a num- ber of hotels and an appearance of desertion in the streets. Business now goes. on in progressive volume, and the housing problem retains its status in Summer as well as in Winter. e An Indiana man tried to put out a fi in his automobile with a chicken stew which he seized from the kitchen. The heart-rending story of the West- ern farmer who burned corn has at last been surpassed. ———— thing of the sotnd of jubilee in the announcement that work on this bridge is (o be begun. The matter has been @ topic and a hope in Wash- ington since the mid-$0s. Disappoint ment followed disappointment, but the late Congress. persuaded of the appropriateness of the project, au- thorized the bridge and made a re sonable appropriation for its construction. to a- beginning s No amount of insidious pacifism will ever prevent America from being a fearless and resolute Nation, so long as it leads the world in the use | of motor cars which compel svery citizen to look- eut for” himself at the crossings. e S The discussion of Senator la Fol lette’s political position continues with animation. It looks as if his relation to the G. O. P. will for a long time be that of one who is gone, but not for- gotten. ———. When Ebert was first chesen he was scoffed at as a harness maker. Ger- many now wonders if she can find another man who can be depended on to serve as well-and faithfully. Some forced of the lines and situations upon breadwinning players should call for the organization of a society for the prevention of cruelty to actors, ———— SHOOTING STARS. > BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Moronieally Speaking, A moron is @ happy chap ‘Who does not need to care a rap For what he says or how he acts In contradicting human facts. If he should kill a pussy cat Or hasten with a base ball bat To smash the teacher "twixt the ey ‘We merely look with sad surprise, Although the la% would be unkind To persons of @ normal mind, A moron claims, we all in Attention from an alienist. | Though brain and conscience we extol, They seldom gain supreme control. Wise men must worry as a rule. It often pays to play the fool. Preparation. @ “How long did you have to wait before you made a speech in the Sen- ate’ “I don't remember,” answered Sena- Building’ Bill Failed. The Government bullding program at Washington, as well as the gen- eral program for Government build- in other cities, falled becaue iof disagreement between the House and Senate at the last session. In the deficiency appropriation bill, as finally agreed to, the House amend- ment providing for $150,000,000 worth of Government construction, the Smoot internal revenue building _at Washington and the Fletcher amendment to complete build- ings already authorized were thrown out.” The general building . bill, known as the Elliott bill, was passed by the House and favorably reported to the Senate by Senator Smoot. A number of Senators opposed it because tor Sorghum. “But I distinctly reecall that I wish it had been still longer. Attire, Now who shall blame the youth whose pride Bids him appear in trousers wide. Our clothes of late are none too many. Let's praise the folka who still wear any Jud Tunkins says the pacifist in- stinct in & man is what makes it easy for so many women to collect alimony. Limitations of Confidence. “You must have faith," “But you must discriminate,” re- Joined Uncle Bill Bottletop. “It's all right to have faith in 8ome people, but not in a bootlegger.” the bill ‘departed from the custom of specitying cities in which the build- ings were to be erected. The.opposi- tion was strong enough to prevent advocates of the bill bringing it up in the Senate. . When the Senate was consifler- ing the general deficiency’ bill Sena- tor Smoot amended the bily'to pro- vide for an internal revename bullding at Washington to cost six; million and suaded the Senate to adopt an amend- ment -pp(oprhfln";"'l 80,000 to go lf‘dd dollars, and Senatoy:'Fletcher per- Economy ‘Reaction. Etonomy has brought us all to earth. Sincerely you resolve to do with less In cigarettes and collars. Then you economize a quarter's worth And to relleve the consequent dis. treas, You blow in twenty dollars. “De world is gittin' better,” said Uncle Eben, “but every now an’ then it gits kind o' res’less like it was cut- tin' teeth.” some- authority for carrying on | reunions at | | i | i | photographs. | has aink [ ally accepted. The question has been quite widespread. Answers to it have been numerous and not particularly satistying It s related that Mr. Coolidge, himself, wax asked by some of his intimates how he accounted for his success. It was at one of his class Amherst when he was nt. With that freedom exercise at college re- unions his classmates reminded him that he had not been more brilliant as a student than the rest of them How had he risen to the high office of Vice sident, they wished to know. 1lis answer, somewhat committal, is said to have been, must be due to Dame Fortun “But that does not explain,” one a sociate interposed. “What did you do to Dame Fortune When the laugh had subsided, Mr. Coolidge re- plied, soberly enough, “Well, maybe I nudged her a little. Undoubtedly one for the good will their well Vice Pres which men ‘3¢ of the reasons of the people is founded belief thut Mr Coolidge is an honest man and that he {s sincerely determined to be as economical in public is in private life. omy, as His private econ- & background for his mand for economy in public ex- penditures. serves as a splendid ex- ample. This private economy, It is related, once deprived Representa- tve Allen T. Treadway of Massa- chusetts of one of the President latest photographs. With Mrs, Tread- way, the Congressman had called on the Coolidges (n Vermont. Mrs. Coolidge had graciously bestowed on Mrs. Treadway a photograph she had ardently admired, whereupon Mr. Treadway told the President he would prize very much one of his “It seems to me I gave picture some time ago,” countered Mr. Coolidge. “Yes, you i, acknowledged Treadway, “but that was when you were Vice Presi- dent” “Well, ‘Allen,” drawled the President, “I'm wearing the same face yer” Part of the mystification over Mr. Coolldge is due to the fact that he s & product of practical politice— a finished product, withal. As com- mented on by himself, his only sport been running for office. ways has kept in touch kanization of his party—ulways been egarded as a reguldr party man wonder some of his acts as Presi- dent have alarmed the politicians and you my with the non- | service ax he| de- | He al-| brought from them the question, ] this ‘& new Coolldge?’ The Presi- dent's selection of Ambassador Kel 10gg to be Secretary of State, of At- torney General Stone for the United States Su me Court and of Mr. War- ren to succeed Mr. Stone as head of the Department of Justice, gave the politicians something of a jolt, be- cause they knew nothing about any one of these appointments until it formally was announced. They had not been consulted. rprise _akin to fear soized them. Had the Presi- dent changed from the old party man they had known to a new public official, independent, exclusive, keep- ing his own counsel? They do not know yet. They still are wondering whether it is his purpose to be an in- dependent Executive, whether other urprises are in store, whether the “organization’ is to receive the recog- nition it deserves. The Amerfcan people worshiped Roosevolt and Wilson, yet these for- mer Presidents enjoyed no greater popular regard than that now being accorded Mr. Coolidge. No three men could be more dissimilar. Roosevelt hammered hix way into the hearts of the people. Wilson talked his way {nto thelr hearts. Each had & breach with his Congress. Each appealed to the American public for ald in the controversy between the executive and legislative branches of the Gov- ernment. What of Coolldge? How did he find his way to the hearts of the people? What means will he adopt to force acceptance by the Con- gress of his legislative proposals? This is part of the puzzle which s engaging the minds of the peopls 80 long as they are working at the puzzle, the President will continue to stand well with them. We do net become angry at our puzzles. The more difficult they ate, the bettar we like them. It is only after solution that we discard a puzzle and turn to something new In my judgment Mr. Coolidge is one of the most astute politiciana in the White House since the days of Andrew Jackson. He knows that silence is the one unanswerable argu- ment. He is not stolld, not indif- ferent Upon the contrary, he is alert, discriminating. He has' a pas- sion for information. He has & trained mind. In 30 minutes he can EL out of a visitor all that {x worth getting out. He labels the information he extracts 1 much mistake the man if he helieves one-hulf of all that is told him, vet he is not suspicious of his fellow men |He 1s a good lawyer und can weigh evidence accurately. Moreover, he cun render a decision without giving to those against whom it is rendered any just reason for appeal. He already has clashed with the Con- gress. The split last Spring might have been serfous if it had been handled less skillfully. But he did not become abusive; he dld not call |names: he did not condemn those | Who disagreed with him; he did not appeal to the American people to set- tle the controversy his way. The people like a man who, In the language of the street, does not welsh, who does not growl nor com- plain The President did not berate the Congress: he merely rejected its enactments, giving his reasons for their rejection. The former service men, who deplored the veto of the | bonus, dia not hold it against the | President. Postal employes, deprived of thelr increase in pa realized that the bill in their behalf should have carried a revenue-producing pro- vision. Man a public ofMcial has courted danger by explaining toc much He is not a new Coolidge. He is just Coolidge, silent, stanch, parti- san. He knows more ahout the per- sonality of the Republican party than the entire organization. I predict he | will continue to do as he pleases | touching policies and appointments. | But he will do nothing and say noth- ing that will raise an issue between his party and himself. His appointees Wwill be thorough-goiug Republicans of his own selection. His acts und utterances will be grounded on ac- cepted Republican principles. He probably will not attempt to drive his party in the Congress. Rather will he be content to belleve that most things coma right if you do not try to advance them too speedily. He will be willing to walt, well con- | vinced that the world is harmed more by doing too much than by doing not enough The habits of a lifetime do not change because of accession to ex- alted public office. Personal honor, Party ovalty, ingrained sconomy are Coolldge traits. They will not disup- pear in the White House, The Presi- dent, I feel sure, will have only slight trouble with his Congress, and no |trouble with his party. The Ameri- can people may yolve the problem he constitutes, however, and then .:d'!‘l'F some fresh amusement. | Copyrizht, 10 by st Century Press.) EVIL OF CHILD MARRIAGES BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN school authorities, wom- en’s organizations, = social welfare agencies and clergymen throughout the country are being urged to join in @ concerted drive against the child marriage evil. There are two steps in the reform that is proposed. First, Legislato {curb the fraudulent procuring of mars riage licenses by requiring evidence other than the affidavit of one of the applicants as to their age. Second, se- cure.the enactment of laws that will ralse the legal minimum marriageable age. Ah intestigation of 240 child mar- riages which took place in 31 States has disclosed some astounding facts. The lleenses for more than half of hose marriages, or 129, were illegally issued. In 79 cases licenses were pro- cured and marriage ceremonies were performed. although the bride or groom, or both, were below the legal minimum marriageable age. In 61 cases the bride was less than 14 years old, and in several instances she was only 11 vears of age. In 50 cases licerises were lssued and the cere- monles performed although elther the bride or groom, or both, were of the age requiring the consent of parents and such consent had not been given. In 109 cases the parents of the children consented to the mar-| riag While all of the brides were under 16 years of age, the average age of the bridegrooms was 27 and in sev- eral instances the groom was four or five times as old as his bride. Only 17 of the 240 marriages could be termed boy and girl marriages, but a common characteristic of all of them was the haste with which they were arranged and, performed. 1t is also pointed out that there are 14 States in which girls of 12 and boys of 14 years may be legally mare ried. ~Those States are: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Louisiana, Virginia, Florida, Mary- Jand, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Colo- rado, idaho, Maine and Mississippi. The tendency to marry at an earlier ge in a warm climate than in a cold one is indicated throughout the world and has long been generally recog- nized, In the United States it Is found that marriage at an early age is more frequent in small towns and rural districts than in large cities, this being due largely to the isolation of certain towns, villages and rural dis- tricts where there are few means of intercommunication and inadequate educational and recreational facilities. This is sald to be particularly true of the Appalachian Mountain region, where there are numerous early mar- riages of natives, Indeed, among those people a girl who attains the age of 18 without being married is looked upon as an old mald. According to the United States census the percentage of married ®irls whose ages are from 15 to 18 is lowest in New England, where it I8 exactly one-half the percentage for the country as a whole. On the Pacific coast and in mountainous States the percentages of youthful marriage Is twice that of New Eng- land, and in the central Southern States it is three times the New Eng- land percentage. Singularly enough, the percentage of youthful marriages in New York City Is lower than in New England as & whole, despite the city’s large forelgn-born population. A report on the subject says that the survey made seems to reveal the new environment of America has had marked Influence upon the ages at which immigrants and their childran marry. The foreign habit of early marriage does not persist after the first generation. Only 6.3 per cent of the foreign girls of the second generation were married," as com- pared with 14.3 per cent of the for. elgn-born girls. In fuct, the custom of vouthful marriage has been 50 changed among i foreign girls of the second genera- tion that they are practically marry- ing at a later age than native girls. The difference Is striking—13.3 per cent of native American girls are married between 15 and 20, but only 6.3 per cent of the foreign girls of the second generation are married Dbetween those ages. The contrast cannot be explained, it is sald, by the fact that native girls live more generally in rural districts where youthful marriages are common, for a similar contrast was found in 58 of the largest citles in the country. Along with frequent early mar. riages in isolated communities that were studled were also found many Intermarriages among the cousins of one family strain. In some instances fully three-fourths of the Inhabitants of a village bear the same surname. The British government has made attempts to check child matriages, but the practice continues, as it {s supported by the higher well as the lower Hindu castes. Reminds Him of Congress, From the Cincianati Enquirer. President Coolidge's horse, which gallops and gallops and never gets anywhere, must remind him of Con- gress very much aggvery often. MARCH 15 1925—PART 2. Capital Sidelights ‘Willlam A. (Andy) Smith, clerk in charge at the Capitol of the Con- gressional Record, and Joel Grayson, expert on old documents in the House doocument room, and William Tyler Page, clerk of the House—are three veteran employes in the Capitol whose offices open upon Statuary Hall, which was formerly the hall of the National House of Representatives—and who are thus sitting daily in the shadow of the memorials erected to outstand- ing figures In public service, with whom they were closely assoclated while these great men were yvet allve. Tyler Page is a Marylander, and on either side of the entrance to his office are the two statues set up by the State of Maryland in Statuary Hall, Andy” Smith has for about two score years occupied a railed-in cor- ner of Statuary Hall. Leaning across this rail while the statue to Gen. Joe Wheeler in Confederate uniform was heing unveiled the other dmy, Mr. Smith recalled many interesting in- cldents of Gen. Wheeler's service in the House for more than 20 years, at which time Mr. Smith knew him well. Immediately after the signing of the articles of capitulation, under a tree on San Juan Hill, Gen. Wheel- er. who commanded the United States Cavalry in Cuba, sent Mr. Smith a note with a leaf from the tree under which the articles were signed. Mr. Smith gave this leaf to Capt. Henry T. Brian, a great admirer and inti- mate friend of Gen. Wheeler. Mr. Brian was deputy public printer for many years. . Mr. Smith says that the statue of Gen. Wheeler shows an excellent pro- file view of his old friend as he views it daily from his desk in the corner. Oliver P. Morton, former Governor of Indizna and later Senator, is another hero of Statuary Hall whom Mr. Smith knew well in the fiesh. He ulso recalls on glancing at the statue of Gen. Lew Wallace, author of “Ben- Hur that this noted writer was & great friend of Charles M. Robinson, for a long time chiel proofreader in the Government Printing Office, to whom he was accustomed to write for public documents he required in hix research work. The day before Gen. Wallace died Mr. Robinson had a letter from him containing a long Ust of Government publications he desired. This he turned over to Mr. Smith to be filled, and by the time Smith recelved 1t Gen. Wallace no longer needed anything of earth. Joel Grayson, u native Virginian and proud of t, deplores the fact that Congress hus never accepted the two statues the State of Virginla placed In Statuary Hall—those of George Washington and Gen. Robert E. Lee. This was due to the fact that Gen. Lee is cast in Confederate uniform and it was feared that some objection would be made on that ground. Simi- larly, there was a reluctance for a long time to move the acceptance of the statue the State gave of Pere Marquette, the Catholic missionary, who wears a religious ®arb, on account of religious teeling. *x % % Legislative delay and the speed of fame were shown in sharp contrast by Senator Copeland of New TYork during debate on the lIsle of Pines treaty. When Senator Dill of Wash- ington interrupted him with a question, the New York solon replied: Certain let- ters were placed before the commit- tee (foreign relations) 20 years ago, When the charming Senator from Washington was not yet a citizen With the right of voting, & period so long ago that a man who was then a youth has grown into eminent man- hood and so distinguished himselt {hat he has been elected to the great bifice of United States Senator and s now serving his third year. No wonder that a Senator who lives in a new generation, who lives in the great West. where the mountains ure high, where the traes grow great, Where men have their heads above the clouds, asks this question— *x % x Teaching of the Declaration of In- dependence in the schools of this country along with the teaching of the Constitution is advocated by Rep- resentative George Huddleston of Ala- bama. He claims that “the Constitu- tion Is not the charter of American liberties. Our independence and our liberties antedate the Constitution,” he argues. The fundamentals of Americanism ara to be found in the preamble to the Declaration and In the firet tan amendments. The Consti~ tution was designed merely.” Repre. sentative Huddleston Aays In the Con- gressional Record, “as a vehicle to convey American principles. It is a mere lhslrum!null(y by which our principles are to be protected and ef- fectuated. *x o Hall, in the Capitol, “be- longs not to the Nation, but to the States: it is a Pantheon of the States rather than of the Republic,” points out Representative Clarence Cannon of Missouri, now representing the dis- trict =0 long represented by the late Champ Clark. Kepresentative Cannon took the occasion of unveiling the marble busts of Champ Clark and the late: Republican leader, James n. Mann, to emphasize that many of the greatest men in American history cannot have place in “our natfonal hall of remembrance,” because each State Is allowed to designate two, and only two of fts citizens for such honor. By way has fitly ible galaxy of noble sons to r present her in this American Valhalla the names of Washington and Lee, pass- ing by, necessarily, the name of Thomas Jefferson, the most profound thinker of all American Statesmen, living or dead.” Notable also by their absence from this historic chamber, the vaulted arches of which echoed the eloguence of Webster, the logic of Clay and the measured conciliations - of Calhoun are: John Hancock of Massachusett who “wrote his name where all na- tions might behold It and where all time should not efface it" Alexander Hamilton and Chief Justice Marshall, who probably next to Jefferson left the greatest impress on the Federal Consti- tution; Benjamin Franklin, Washing- ton alone excepted, the noblest Pa- triot of the Revolution; John Ogle- thorpe, patron saint of Georgia; An- drew Jackson, implacable and im- perious foe of secession and central- ized financlal autocracy; John Quincy Adams, the only ex-President to sit in the lower house, who died in his chatr within that very hall; the Joint pre- servers of the Union, Lincoln and Grant; our American literati—Emer- son, Lowell, Longtellow, ‘Whittier, Hawthorne, Cooper and Clements, and coming down to our own day and time—Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and a long line of eminent Americans, loved and revered by the Nation, but under the terms of its au- thorization forever excluded from the sacred precinets of Statuary Hall, * k% ¥ Appeal to every member of Con- to take an interest in “the most aching child health education movement” {8 made by Representative Arthur M, Free of California, who quotes the “crusader’'s creed” as fol- lows: “I belleve in my country, and in the £00d citizenship of its people. I be- lleve that to support my country I must have health, strength and honor. I love my country's flag. To me its bright red stands for bright red blood, Which means energy and power, cheerfulness and hope, human kind- ness and joy of living. Its pure white stands for clean bodies, which hous clean minds. Its blue stands for the clear sky, the sunshine, fresh air, play and exercise. As an American I will be a faithful soldier in the children’s army of peace, the modern health eru- rade.” Statuary of illustration—"Virginia of Wisconsin | chosen from her Inexhaust- | MEN AND BY ROBERT A certain important situation in the Senate of the United States a few days ago when the official presiding officer was far from the madderning throng, has recalled a famous war | tidbit which appeared in the columns | of Punch. Having appeared in Punch it can’t be considered as funny in this country, so there can be no harm in the retelling—no harm to | ruffied feeligs. no disturbance of any | more afternoon siestas. In any event, it seems that a; tamous general, home from the front, | was conducting some maneuvers and | a sham battle for the benefit of the | recrults who had not yet had a taste | of life in the trenches. After the maneuvers were concluded the gen- eral called the underofficials be- tore him. “Of course, gentlemen,” he began, “you must realize there are many vast differences between’ what you have seen hers today and what you will| see at the front. “The first difference, I may say.” he continued, “there Is the entire ab- sence of the enemy. “The sécond difference vou would note in actual warfare would be— would be. £ There was a confused silence for a moment. Then the general whirled | around to his orderly. | “Confound it, sergeant, what would be the second difference’ ntire ubsence of the general, | sir. | * % ok | Henry L. Doherty, famous oil man | and Citles Servi magnate, \Ihl“ wants the Government to control the production of oll, recently told a lot of his cronies about & famous bed he has in his spartment in New York City. Mr. Doherty lives in a } ness skyscraper downtown. At least he lives on top of it, in a specially | constructed bungalow. The bed Is an electric affair, a sort of adult peram- bulator. Mr. Doherty hails from the West and he likes to sleep out under the stars. In New York he can go to bed indoors, press an electric button, the side comes out of his boudoir and the bed marches cut to a position on the roof. Some Senators have been spiteful enough the past week to threaten to offer a resolution for the construction of such an arrangement for the Vice President, so he can snooze whenever he wants to in his chambers and be whirled out to the Senmate floor any time the political fire alarm rings or whenever a tie vote is recorded Opposing__ Senators declare that| other Vice Presidents have done their napping In their chairs and they see no reason why Senate rule No Fifty Years Ago In The Star | President Grant called a special sessfon of the Senate of the For fourth Congress, to meet on the 5th of March, 1875. The most interesting member of the Senate at that session was Andrew John- Andrew Johnson son of Tennesse former President as a Semator. of the United States in succes- sion to Abraham Lincoln. After his impeachment and acquittal on trial he returned at the close of his term | as President to Tennessee. where he | successively ran for the Senate and| House of Representatives and was de- feated. In November, 1874, however, he ran again for the Senate as an independent and was elected. The Star of March 8, 1375, savs: | “Senator Johnson of Tennessee has | requested his friends to restrain from tany demonstrations in his honor at| this time, as he much prefers to re- | celve thelr congratulations in a quiet way. It is understood that he pur- posely delayed coming to Washing- ton until the last moment in order to| avold the ovation which he had rea- son to belleve his friends were pre-| aring for him p]l'A fhp same issue of The Star is| rinted an interview with Senator | Johnson from the New York Tribune: “I can give no pledge of my future | course. 1 cannot say that I will act with one party or with the other. w e| have too much of party, and I pro- pose to bind myself in advance to no theory of party policy. I have never | done %0 in the past and I do not in-| tend to do so in the future. I shall| support such measures as appear in| my judgment best for the country caring not whether it is a Democratic measure or whether it is supported by Repullicans. I will never place myself in & position where I must do a thing because it is a party measure. or oppose a thing at a Party’'s dicta- tion. 1 place the country above party. The country has now nothing | to do with my personal matters and with what has passed. I have no enemies to punisk or friends to re- ward. I have buried resentmente and have forgotten the ill-treatment of individuals.” A ftew days after the special ses- sion Senator Johnson delivered a speech in the Senate in which he made a bitter though veiled attack upon President Grant At the n-lusvl of the special session he re(urntfx to | his home In Tennessee. On the 29th of July, 1875, he suffered a stroke of paralysis and on the 31st he died * * % Prior to 1875 old, worn-out paper money from the United States was destroyed by burning. It was voted by Congress in 1874, however, that a macerating machine should be pur-| chased and set up in the Treasury Depart- LI ment and §10,000 w appropriated for that| Currency. purpose. According te ‘The Star of March 9, 1875, such a ma- | chine had been purchased and was then {n use. It was set up in the| basement of the Treasury Building and its operation was pronounced en- tirely satisfactory. From $500,000 to $700,000 of national bank notes, weighing about 200 pounds, were dafly consumed by the engine, its contents being reduced to a homogen- ous pulp in about 20 minutes. It wa expected that several thousand dol- lars would annually be saved to the Government by the sale of the pulp resulting from this process. Visitors to Washington a few dec- ades ago could purchase at souve- nir stores small models of the Wash- ington Monument and the Capitol and other structures made of this money pulp, which manufacturers of the trinkets were allowed to purchase from the Treasury. In after years| this practice was discontinued. Some years ago the maceration of old notes was abandoned when & laundering process was established to prolong the life of the currency. Now bills that can no longer be cleansed and continued in circulation are destroyed by fire. A King Arrested. The extraordinary spectacle of a king being arrested in the street and taken to the police station was wit- nessed at Bucharest, when the exiled King George of Greece was stopped in his motor car by a zealous police- man for Infringing the traffic regula- tions. . FIDE R, . S Haif the world may not know how the other half lives, but it has its suspiclon.—Sandusky Register. | were | for | White | sees | trom the wicker work AFFAIRS T. SMALL. dealing with changed. this subject, sho * v % % the knife has beer Hill_ana socio-political vacht Mayflower Washin lite Since war to knife to the hilt between Capitol House, the the good playing in few months and less. The the Mayflower affair. After ened. The | contacts with ce certain matters the legislative be nicer along for placid 1" be broken across the board? In order that no « might attach political = the cruises, the Mrs invited along time was had | Manifestly i Presid to invite all the Senators a been Capito have not even beer Mayflow bitterend ing a league entanglements death agai a crufse Most of worry, however ably won't parlers or protocols or are that flower on the little down his and the the part ed Whita that on h ikely & Coolidges beg pure while n Senator to com the branch than to ha Ser week submit n adm t t one He Mrs. 1 estimatable m a White Hou days before tainly gave the apital several ba diately after her because some c was Almira instead House cust taches w Iple was Mrs. Andrew I friends of Mrs the the Iy w Cool they had call he Mother.” Sev- by with th it was Lam matter still i announce It might but Mrs. and the Heard and Seen Ja sonally respo Rain and sn are the r him. He is both in order having a nigh prodigto So 1 ope the r any farther. Turning his eyes o; he gives me a wicked as to say, “You did t No sooner is the door shut at forgets about the rain mediately meows to get out aga second time it Ja out with infin I'll bet you feline believe toward cause him from that T nt prev he declares in thar and N looks te d st What's as Snow this W tion. The We be glad to know a rain and could help them out Snow Is wet, too, pmething different from what resembling a sauc but at the same time possessing the disagreeable qualities of coldness and wetness In this opinion Jack is sci rect. If he could read a pedia, he would find out snow is just another So the old cs it about my ab old Spi cor Another matter for which I am blamed is Spratt's tendency to get his tail caught in a wicker chair. He never to blame. I always am Jumping up in my lap, Jack will purr at a prodigious rite for a time His purr. by the way, is not the ordi- ary kind. It Most purr irrespectiv Thelr purring suing in a Spratt, howeve eat, does not purr tribe. His purring coin breathing His best sort of tremen- dous groan a rusty pump Well, when he gets this in good oper- ation, he invariably gets his tail caught in between the meshes of th wicker of the arm of the chair. He waggles his tail. Something holding it. He waggles it again. is caught Jack turns his with his les purr, rese is It his head to give me a questioning look. This deviltry, he knows full well, is solely my doin. Although he knows I never tease him, he believes I am holding his t He begins to lash his caudal ap- pendage. It will not come . logse. Jack stops purring. He gives me warning meow. “Let go of my tait he seems to xay Reaching back, I pull his tail out He flaunts its striped length several times, then res sumes his purring. Funny little ani~ mal! * N * % One wet night Ja fused to go out for the evening bedtime we put him down basem Going down later at the furnace, escape. He ran up the stairs and started to go up the staircase t second story cat, thinking recently k. res So.at in the to look I found Jack eager tay the the I made a lunge for the 'h his haunches as he went by Missing that, T grab- bed his tail, thinkin that the would stop when he felt the pull Jack, however, was determined to g0 upstairs. He begain to pull. The harder he pulled. of course. e more &evere became the tug at his tail Harder and harder he pulled Finally he turned and proceeded t¢ spit at me in the age-old manner of the cat tribe “Why. vou were ng all the pull- ing, Jack,” I sa All 1 was doing was holding your old ta C.E. 7! Norway Suffe! House Shortage to cat ACEWELL. Norway, although untouched by the war, is seriously affected by one of the most severe post-war problems— that of housIng shortage. In pro- portion to the population there are more homeless people In Norway than in any other country except Russia Out of 70,000 families, 10,000 lack adequate dwellings, and it Is serjously feared that the effect of this col. dftion will not only mean poverty a lawlessness, but that it will result in a decided fall in the birth rate The municipality of- Oslo has taken steps to combat the situation by erecting municipal apartments sim- ilar to those constructed recently in Paris, and has guaranteed loans to persons building hemes. 4