Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1925, Page 42

THE EVENING With Sunday Morning Edftien. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY........March 22. 1925 THECDORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor per Company ie Ave The Evening Star News) Business Office.s 11th St. and Pennsylvs New York Office: 110 Faxt 42nd Chicazo Office: Tower Building. European Office: 16 Regent St.,London, Eagland. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, in delivered by carriers within the city at 60 cents per month: daily cents per month: Sunday oaly. 2 month. Orders mas® be sent by plione Main 5000. Collection s made by ¢ Fi Rate by Maryland and Virginia. Dally and Sunday..1 yr., $8.40;1 mo., T0¢ Dadl. Sunday only .....1yr, $2.40;1 mo,, 20¢ All Other Statex. Daily and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00 Daily only .. $7.00 Sunday only $3.00;1 mo. i1 mo., 85¢ ‘mber of the Assoclated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitied fo the use for republication of all mews dic. patches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub. Tished herein. Al rights of publication of ecinl dispatehes herein are also reserved. The Director of Traffic. In the appointment of M. O. ridge, research specialist of the Amer- fcan Automobile Assocfation, to the new office of director of traffic of the District of Columbia the Commission- ers have taken a wise step in their ef- forts to improve local traffic condi- tions. The caution with which that step was taken indicates their appre- ciation of the vital part the new di- rector is play in the expediting and securing of Washington traffic. Selected from a list of upward of a score of candidates for the post creat- ed in the traffic law enacted the last Congress, Mr. Eldridge assumes with his office responsibilities com- mensurate with his opportunities for rendering great public service. The problems with which he is faced are varied and intricate; the powers he is to enjoy in seeking their solution are Lroadly comprehensive. Reduced to simple terms he is to undertake, un- der the new traffic law, to give Wash- ington automobilists smooth and rea- sonably quick progress upon the city strects, while affording Washington pedestrians that measure of safety which they justly claim. The new director brings to the task before him qualifications which em- inently equip him for this public serv- ice. He has been a resident of Wash- ington for 30 vears, and has had op- portunity and occasion to sense and study the local problem. In his con- nection with the American Automa- hile Association he has made scientific research into the general theory and practice of traffic and dirvec- tion. Possessed of recognized execu- tive ability, of the impe tance of the work before him, assur: to by control a convineed d of a “free hand” as he steps into of fice, Mr. Eldridge tackles ‘the job ahead of him under encouraging au- spices. His work will be facilitated by the new traffic code which will shortly be in full operation, which—while carry- ing provisions intended to expedite motor traffic—carries also severe pen- alties against abuses of speed privi- lezes. Plans have been perfected, with the installation of two new judges at the Police Court, and with the proas- pective additional hundred of police- men, adequately to cope with any rea- sonable increase in traffic cases. The Commissioners and the supsrintendent of police promise their fullest co- operation to the end that traffic in the National Capital may be rendered both smooth running and safe. Yet, with all these happy auspices In his favor, the success or failure of Mr. Eldridge or any other equally well equipped man in the job mhead of him will depend in tie final analysis upon support and ‘co-opera- tion of the public, awheel Znd afoot A bad code, badly admfnistered vet backed by a public sincerely anxious to improve traffic conditions, would achieve more than the best code most ably administered In the interests of @ public careless br disdainful of the respective respansibilities and obliga- tions of motorist and pedestrian. Popu- lar appreciation of that fuct. popular determination to facilitate the flow of traffic and out down the outrageous local toll in the traffic maimed and Xilled, popular caution and thoughttul- ness will go further to help Mr. Eld- ridge than all the othér assured aids at his disposal. To the end of a sue- cessful outcome to his efforts The Star bespeaks these aids for Mr. Eldridge. ———— The gentleman selected by the Dis- trict Commissioners to be traffic di- rector is not disposed to discuss his plans at present. The man who sets the most reliable pace is never in a Rreat hurry about stepping on the gas - T La Follette and 1926. Senator Robert M. La Follette has moved out of his comfortable quarters in the Capitol Building, which he held by virtue of his long service in the Senate and the chairmanship of the committee on manufactures. 1t was an involuntary move, The Republican organization of the Senate decreed it because of Mr. La Follette's abandon- ment of the Republican national ticket in the last campaign and his inde- pendent candidacy for the presidency. But Senator La Follette has taken his demotlon in committee assign- ments without voicing a protest. He has never been a squealer, When he has met defeat it has been with a smile, perhaps a trifle grim, because during all his political life he has been engaged in grim political battle. In his youth Senator La Follette entered the lists against the powerful machine which dominated his State. He be- came the champion of the people against the bosses. Since that time he has become a boss himself—but with a difference. He has built up a politi- cal machine in Wisconsin that has heen a marvel in its eficiency. It is a machine with a difference. He has sought power, but his purpose has been to use it for the people. He has been denounced as a political faker, a demagogue and finally as a radical of the extremest hue. ever charged that La Follette was STAR | sugar trust, the railroads or any other of the so-called “interests.” Honest men have differed with him honestly over policles which he has advo- cated—policies which, as they be- lieved, smacked of socfaiism and were not in the best interests of the country. La Follette has striven all his politi- cal life for what he calls progressiv- ism. Now, at the age of 72, he is entering a new phase of the contest. To all intents and purposes he is out of the Republican party, and the tak ing away of Senate committee assign- ments which he has held as a IRe- publican is merely a surface indica tion of the change. In the past he has worked from within the party fold to bring the Republican organiza- tion into line with his views. He susceeded in his own State. But in the national field, he deciared during the campaign recently closed, he has found the odds too great. It was this which led him finally to abandon the party ranks and seek a new liberal alignment. The liberal forces were stunned, it by the result of the clection. What a few weeks before clection day seemed a great move- ment toward a new political align- ment of the people collapsed like w balloon which had felt the prick of a pin. La Follette is now awaiting the swing of the pendulum, the reaction which almost inevitably follows every political landslide in this country. He is biding his time. The swing of the political pendulum | happened two years after the great Harding landslide of 1920. It hap- pened after the Wilson victory in 1916, although there a war to bolster up the administration fore and it happened after the Taft election in 1908, Republican leader will do well to study the causes which brought about the change in senti- ment of the people so quickly after the popular victorles to which refer- ence has been made. Another election is looming with a campaign little more than a year distant. Failure in that campaign to elect a Republican Senate and Republican House would hamsiring the present administration of President Coolidge during its last two years, result little short of a calamity. seems, last a was a Naval Aircraft Carriers. Whatever may be the merits in the controversy over our air defenses, brought to a head in the recent con- gressional inquiry, in one respect at least it would seem that we certainly are not lagging behind other powers in the development of aviation. O April 7 there will be launched g Camden, N. J., the airplane earr, Saratoga. to be the biggest and Zast- t craft of the kind in the world. a displacement of about | L000 tons, a speed of 33 to 74 knots an hour, and deck capacizy 1o ac-| commodate 72 combat, ubservation and bombing planes. Theg Lexington, @ sister ship of the Sarutoga, will be launched during the cosning Summer, and both vessels are fexpected to be commissioned for semwice in the Fall of 1926. ‘When these two vessels are added to the fleet the .American Navy will lead the world 4n its ability to utilize airplanes, botfi defensively and offen- sively. The, greatest guns today are| capable of, dropping a 2.000-ton pro- jectile upon an enemy 30 miles away. With tae carrier ships to “mother” | them, maval airplanes will be able to drop 2,000-ton projectiles upon an enerdy 300 miles away—not 300 miles away from a base somewhere on| land, but 300 miles away from a base ‘with the fleet at sea. i l { giving general The only other navy which is even in sight in the matter of airplane car-| riers is that of Japan, which ™as| under construction similar ships of | almost equal size but of considerably | lower speed. The British navy | | working on plans for plane carriers, | {but has not yet gotten construction | under way. Under the Washington treaty for | the limitation of armaments, the American and British navies are each allowed 135,000 tonnage for aircraft carriers. It is announced as the Navy's program to utilize the rest of the American allowance by the con- struction of three smaller carriers, each of ebout 20,000 tons displace. ment, but these additional vessels probably will not be authorized until opportunity has been had to experi- ment with the Saratoga and Lexing- ton. It may be good policy not to move too rapldly in making full use of the treaty allowance in this new arm of defense. but the only considerations which need hold the Navy back are tefhnical ones. The American tax- payers will be found willing to pro- vide the money as rapidly as the naval builders can use it wisely, for i there is one outstanding fact in our | national economics it is that the people are thoroughly “sold” on the value of aircraft for national defense. e A few military experts intimate that there will be at least one more war. After that peace is expected. owing to a devastation so thorough that nothing is left worth fighting over. ——— Still a Traveler. ‘The commodore of one of the large ocean ship lines, retiring after ranging the seas for 40 years, will give the bal- ance of his active life to travel. He says: “I want to see the world.” Some- thing unusual in this! Ordinarily when a man has been crossing the oceans for 40 years and retires it is to a quiet place on land, and from studying charts, sextants and chronometers he turns to growing tulips and turnips. One has been led to think of an old salt, retired, as a short, broad-shoul- dered man with white hair, wearing a cap and a pea-jacket, carrying his hands in his pockets and his pipe in his mouth, strolling in garden paths of his land home. Sometimes his cot looks over the sea, and one thinks of him sitting in a hammock contemplat- ing the waves, dreaming of sunny sea: stormy seas, thrilling voyages and shipwreck and perhaps studying a far- off ship through binoculars or a spy- glass. This particular commodore of the placid village near the sea where | tention to the fact THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, toned church bells ring. He is going to travel and “'see the world.”” He has been so confined in ocean ship lanes 3,000 miles long and a few miles wide that he wants to roam through quiet nooks in the South Seas and visit re- mote parts of the Atlantic, the India and the China Seas. ide has heen to all the seaports worth mentioning, and many that are not, but there are other cities he means to visit. Although he does not say it, perhaps this retired saflor means to climb the Alps, Andes, Himalayas and the Rockies. He has heard of “Antres vast and deserts wild, rough quarries, tocks and hills whose heads touch heaven,” and he wants to see them. He has heard of deserts, and he wants to see parts of the world where the eye may look for miles with- out sighting water. This retired skip- per kicks aside the carpet slippers and packs his grip. May he live long and travel far! The Modern Beau Nash. Clothes for males are steadily brightening up. Only a few decades ago the dark trousers, darkef coat and waistcoat, “cast-iron hat” and starched collar formed about the only proper masclline costume except when extreme heat made somber secrsucker mohair permissible. Men and Youths were as intriguing in appear- ance as so many fireplugs. Bit by bit the canons of acceptable dress lightened. So-called “neglige” shirts came in, and white flannels, derisively called by conservatives “ice- cream pants,” might be worn on cer- tain occasions. Tropical suitings and haberdashery appeared in moderate shades. the excuse for which was an immoderate temperature. Shoes other than the conventional hard-boiled blacks and tans zained the approval of respectable peopl Although the American man is yet a long way from the peachblows, ecrus, the salmons, clarets, pinks and sky blues of the period of Monsfeur Beaucalre, hie nevertheless is far, far removed from the stiff and drab figure he cut within the recollection of mil- lions now living. Much of the progress has occurred within very recent years, and shop windows, holding outing suits of palest shades, neckwear, belts, handkerchiefs and shirts of hitherto forbldden Brilliant hues, and hosiery reminiscent of the Scottish rebellion of 45, give evidence that the Spring of 1985, officially and favorably ushered in vesterday, marks an even more radical departure from what a magh, or even vouth, used to think was bAAtting. Golf has had a great deal to Ao with it: the merits of easy clothing once tried made its wider use a natu- ral sequel. No field of inspiration has escaped the designers: the gav checkered Jumper of the lumberjack, the pajamas of the tropics, the flower zarden. the ds, the trout flies in the fishing ckle catalogue. have all contributed their bit. A sartorial tout ensemble of today in the century would have been hesitantly worn by a music- hall comedian, not that it is so funny, but that the eye of the observer has been slowly and steadily adjusted to its merits. In primitive mankind as in nature, the male is the more gorgeous and brilliant, just as he was in the days of Beau Nash. Although civilization may perhaps render inadvisable an entire reversion to that state of affairs, a moderate reapproachment seems to be satisfaction not only to the sterner, but to the fairer sex. ——— subscriber will many cases regard the expert ac- countant’s explanation of rate in- crease with almost as much admiring wonder as that with which he regards the complicated instrument jtseif. or last The telephone in ———— A promiscuous fist fight in the rench Chamber of Deputies calls at that our fillbuster, while « bad b « comparatively mild one. P American . 1% at least SHOO e TING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNRON. Here! I'm here today— This is enough To leave me gay, Though life seems rough, As motor cops Bid travelers halt And traffic stops For some new fault. The income tax 1 figured out But can't relax My state of doubt. Yet joy draws near And must prevail. Today I'm here And not in jail! Willing to Oblige. “You continue to offer sympathy to the farmer. “He appears to like it," answered Senator Sorghum. “Sympathy isabout the only thing the farmer can ask for that doesn’t involve a steady increase of cost Conversational Cost. That talk is cheap was once declared. This maxim, you must own, Was framed before we were prepared To rent a telephone. Jud Tunkins says if gasoline goes up to 50 cents a gallon he'll put the old fiivver away and save money by paying a doctor $3 to tell him he needs exercise. The Versatile Muse. “Dancing is the poetry of motion.” “Especially at present,” said Miss Cayenne. “Poetry used to be head- work. ‘Nu' it Is footwork.” No Fear! Let Lydia puff a cigarette. T'll call it all & jake. My seasoned pipe, I'm going to /get And settle for & smoke. My strongest briar I shall get And let it,“§reath in state. This is one masculine defect She'll uever imitate, “Tefl de truth,” said Uncle Eben, But no one has|line thinks not of settling down in a| “buc don’t specialize on de kind dat makes trenble and ain’'t none of yvoh working for the lumber trust, the|nightingales and linnets sing and soft- Lugines r MARCH 22, Holds That Public Officials ~ Are Worthy BY THOMAS R. MARSHALL. Former Vice Preatdent of the United States. Ever since 1 have known anything about the United States Senate I have heard It sneeringly referred to as the “Milllonaires’ Club of America.” There has been a constant hue and cry to weed out of the body men of means and lelsure. This agitation was re- sponsible in part for the change to the direct vote. In the minds of many lingers the idea that a man cannot be rich and honest. This Is preserved by the popular warning, whether as to legislative bodies, courts or ad- ministrative offices, to beware of the man who does not have to worry over where his next meal is to come from. The Idea seems to be to debar from public service any one who has been successful In private life. Whether as much danger to the people may not arise from predatory poverty as arises from predatory wealth constitutes a question that deserves consideration. It is not axfomatio that he in political life who has nothing Is quite sure to want nothing. Poverty is not necessarily the hall-mark of honesty In office. Instances of men without personal fortunes using public place for private advantage are too numerous to justify the belfef that the poor official always is upright. * b It is quite natural, 1 suppose, for one to suspect that the man who has obtained something which ke has not been able to obtain procured it in a surreptitious way, for In a democracy he is not a real Democrat who is willing to concede that any one is amarter than himself. It would be a happy state of society if we could get every one to beliave that honesty Is not in a coat nor a bank account but in the conscience. This may be asking too much, so I have long thought that inasmuch as the people are inclined to give the poor man his chance in public service, the Dpeople owe it to themselves as a mat- ter of self-protection to provide a Falary upon which the office holder can live without being tempted to en- gage in speculation or in the stretch- ing of his conscience in order to add to his Income. Eversthing had practically doubled in price In the United States since 1913, yet the salaries of public officials in the City of Washington had remained the same. I was glad, therefore, when the Congress voted to increase the sal- aries of Senators and Representatives The United States Public Health Serv- ice estimates that in every community there should be one public health nurse for each 2,000 of population. According to this a city such as WashTngton should have about 245 of these nurses, whereas It has only 65. which num- ber Includes Instructive Visiting nurses, Health Department nurses, =chool nurses and child hygiene | nurses { The Instructive Visiting Nurse So- {ciety furnishes the greater number of the public health nurses in Wash- |ington. It was organized 25 years lago by Dr. Anne A. Wilson, M Emily Tuckerman and Mrs. Mary W . Bayard, with one nurse. During the first year the staff was inoreased to three registered nurses. Today there are about 40 graduate regis- tered nurses, including the director and assistant director, supervisors and staff nurses in the field, The Instructive Visiting Nurse So- {citey Is private and non-sectarian | and was organized with the avowed | purpose of providing “tralned nurses | to visit and care for such sick per- | sons as cannot, or ought not, be sent | to hospitals and who are otherwise | unable to secure skilled attendance: to teach proper care of the sick and | to inculcate the principles of simple | sanitation.” Those persons of moderate means who can afford 10 pay the actual cost of this nursing service are asked a fes of 87 cents for each visit. Those who cannot afford this amount may Pay in part for the care they receive, and those with insufficient income may receive care without any cost. No discrimination is made in the care | given. The person who s the sickest tecaives the prompiest attention A« the director explained to a mem- her of the board of managers, “If You were convalescing and your ¢ook, Who perhaps lived in some alley about 10 blocks from vour home, was {1l with pneumonia, and you both called for a visiting nurse at the same time, the cook would be visited first, because her need was the most immediate. ursing by the Hol Tn addition to the regular visiting mervice, there is what is known as the “hourly service.” Under this the patient is charged by the hour and the fee is slightly greater. This serv- ice in used by persons who want a nurse at a particular time, but do not need one all day. A person who is having a slight operation at home, or taking insulin treatments for dia- bates, often calls for such service. Under the regular tem a person Who wishes a nurse in the morning must call before 3 o'clock, or If he Wishes one In the afternoon, before 2 o'clock. And, as explained, he must awalt his turn, according to the serfousness of his iliness. The only night service maintained by this society is the dellvery service. ‘Three nurses are always on call for confinement cases. The nurse gives pre-natal care to prespective moth- ers, assists the doctor and cares for the mother and child afterward. When the society was organized in 1900 it was strictly a charitable or- ganization, but during 1924 it was 35 per cent Self-supporting. This shows that as people come to understand the scope and work of the society, the more anxious they are to avail themselves of the opportunity it offers. Formerly people of moderate in- comes were apt to avold calling upon these nurses because they were averse to accepting charity. It Is now being stressed by the officers of the soclety that it is a health organ- ization. True, It offers fres care to the very poor, but so do hospitals and | physicians. It merely makes avail- able to the person of moderate means, or the one who does not need a nurse for whole time, a nurse to give him a bed bath, change a dress- ing or straighten him out generally for the day. The visiting nurses work only in conjunction with a recognized mem- ber of the medical profession. The initial call may be made at the re- quest of the patient, a member of the family or some friend, but no second call will be paid until a physi- cian has been consulted. Several large insurance companies have contracted for the services of the visiting nurses for their indus- trial and group policyholders. For such service the society is paid an- nually. The Kiwanis Club of Wash- ington, which is greatly interested in assisting the crippled children of this city, has also subscribed to this nursing service, and has presented the soclety with an automobile to be used in carrying out this work. Up to the present time the scciety has had four such cars given to it. It has been found that one nurse can make twice as many visits in a day with a car as she can when she must walk or depend upon street car service. This Is particularly true in outlying districts. of Their Hire to $10,000. The increase was eminently just. Our lawmakers in Washington are worth 310,000, and if those who are there are not worth that salary the people would better keep them at home and send others who are. The way to improve the public service and to eliminate the grafter who gets into politics for private gain is to reduce the number of officials to the lowest point and pay those we retain euch compen- xation as will enable them to devote thelr _entire time and thought to the public busines * x ¥ * This is no new experiment of the Congress in endeavoring measurably to make compensation of its members fit the cost of living. The “salary grab” of Grant's day is yet remembered by many. It created a great furore. “The clatter in the public press alarmed many of the legislators who voted for it. Numbers of them never drew from the Treasury the increase which they had voted for themselves. Among those who voted for the “grab” was Danfel W. Vorhees, one of my dearest friends. Indiana never had a greater orator; America never had a cleaner or finer servant. He told me the cir- cumstances under which he had sup- ported the increase. The very morning of the day he was called upon to vote he had received word from home that the old family horse and phaeton had been levied upon to pay the butcher's bill. The horse had been ridden by all his children. For many years his wife dally had driven it to market. He reached {nstant conclusion then and there, he told me, that he would save the horse and family if he broke the Treasury of the United States. * % ox ¥ Any amount of scrutiny of the pub- lic record and private life of Daniel W. Voorhees would not reveal a flaw. A microscope would not disclose a speck touching his honor or Integrit. His public eervice was invaluable, Yet he was serving the people upon a starva- tion salary. It was only such sturdy, sun-crowned officials like him who could resist the temptation to add to their income In surreptitious wa 1 wish we could get away from classes in American life. 1 wish we could put under ecrutiny the brain and conaclence of a man rather than his financial condition. But until that fair dream of democracy comes true it will be well for us to insist that we have only as many public officials as we need and that we pay them such sal- aries as will enable them to devote themselves exclusively and whole- heartedly to the public service. (Copyright, 1925, by 2Ist Century Press.) PUBLIC HEALTH NURSES BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN In addition to ita is supported by cont range from fees, the society ributions. Thess 2 dollar membership 1o the salary of a nurse for a year. In fact, at the last drive one contribu- tion of 10 cents was received. A number of indlviduals have donated the salary of a nurse for a vear, some the salary for part of a year, and everal local churches and organiza- tions annually contribute the amount of the salary of one nurse. Miss Tuckerman, one of the founders, re- cently died and left $20,000 as an en- dow ient toward such a salary. The Army Nurse School at Walter Reed Hospital this year is sending 10 of ita senior students to take a four-month .course in public health nursing under the supervision of the Instructive Visiting Nurse Society. This experience includes fleld work with the visiting nuraes and other social and health agencies in the Dis- trict. Other local hospitals are becoming interested in this work and are also sending students for such a course. Members of the United States Public Health Service are giving lectures to these students on control of com- municable diseases and public health administration. Local specialists in health ard social work are also co- operating in the lecture work on par- ticular phases. During 1924 the nurses of this so- clety paid 73.000 visits and cared for 8,000 patients. Of this number 70.92 per cent were women and 29.08 were men. This does not of necessity mean that women are more prone to illness than men, but it does Indicate that these nurses have made it possible for the sick wife to have proper care and still not necessitate the wax earner's loss of time from his busi- ness. Children under the age of comprised 38 per cent of the patient visited, while per cent of the total were children of less than 1 year. There are three colored nurses on the mtaff and these care for patlents in the congested negro areas. They are graduate registered nurses the me as the white members of the stafl. They serve only the colored, whereas the white nurses serve any who need care regardless of race, re- ligion or color. The society also does health educa- tlonal work, which is exceedingly im- portant, as every one will agree that it Is better to prevent than to cure. However, the shortage of nurses is S0 great that during seasons of the vear when there is the most illness this work must be curtailed to meet the immediate emergency. The so- clety hopes that as its work becomes better known it will be so well sup- ported that the staff may be increased to sufficient size to carry on the educational work without a break. Sings of “Pot Likker.” Observing that our grandmothers, though they knew nothing of vita- mines or carbohydrates, “did know that pot-likker contained those things essential to the building up of bone and muscle and brain,” the edi- torfu Lucullus of the Omaha Bee pronounces upon that lusty and fdyllic “ssence an encomium that will warm the heart of every liegeman to the emories of the olden South. Pot “l-1-k-K-e-r,” he spells it, and not 1-i-q-u-o-r, a touch that proves him to the manner born and a connoisseur worthy of the best that ever bubbled atop of a generous, grandmotherly stove. His description is like the viand on which he dotes, homey, suc- culent and full of savor. Thus: “There is nothing mysterfous about pot likker. - It is the water in which vegetables are bolled or stewed, sometimes blended with the juices stewed from meat It simmers and boils in the stock pot on the back of the old kitchen stove, Its savory odors permeating the atmosphere and caus- ing that inner longing that cannot be described in words. It gathers in and holds In storage all the valuable properties boiled out of the vege- tables, awaiting the time when they may be taken Into the human sys- tem to its physical, moral and men- tal betterment. A delectable, life- giving, life-sustaining beverage. Marse Henry Watterson was wont to. declare that pot likker enabled the Confederate army to fight against overwhelming odds for four years in- stead of going down to defeat inside of six months." 1f the author of those eloguent lines succeeds in what is plainly a mi slonary purpose to arouse the West to active appreciation of pot likker he will have rendered that vast re- glon a service unexampled since Cad- mus carried the alphabet to Greece, And if he who simply taught a peo. Dle their a-b-c's won fame thereby, what greener laurels must await him who teaches the joys and the virtues of pot likker!—Atlanta Journal. 15| | 1925—PART 2 Capital Sidelights | Those who today enjoy the Lin- coln Memorlal, Potomac drive, the great free playground in Potomac Park East, with its public golf course, and other similar develop- ments in the National Capital, espe- clully along the shore of *“the his- torlc Potomac,” are reminded by Representative’ William C. Hammer of North Carolina, a member of the House District committee, that ap- proximately half a century ago a statesman from his own State vision- ed this glgantic Improvement and initiated i “Judge” Hammer's earliest recol- lections of the Capital are that while here on & visit as a mere b ate M. W. Ransom pointed out to him, what was then an unsightly mud flat ‘and fired the imaginative ambi- tion of the boy with a graphic picture of how this waterside of the Capital was to be heautified for the enjoy- ment of all the people coming to their Capital City. “I have always had an interest in the Capital City. I have striven to help make It an ideal city, the most beautiful Capital In all the world,” says Representative Hammer. In tribute to Senator Ransom he describes him as “the most active spirit for more than two decades on the Senate District committee,” and says that he set a notable example by his work “to make Washington the most beautiful of the world's capitals—long before the activities of the wealthy Senator McMillan of Michigan, whose efforts, after Sen- ator Ransom left the Senate In 1597, culminated in what is known as the McMillan report, containing ideal plans for the Federal City, made in 1901. Senator Ransom had obtained ap- propriations for rescuing the , Po- tomac Flats, the work being well under way in the early 0s, Rep- resentative Hammer recalls. This covered the area “where the Lincoln Memorial now stands so impressively in all its glory and grandeur, and where the long rows of Japanese cherry trees bloom so beautifully In Springtime and the beautiful Potomac stretches away like a si very lake.” He explains that this 'was a morass of waste land partial- 1y submerged in the overflow of the Potomac waters, unrestrained by any definite shore line, while the Tidal Basin's boundary was unde- fined, until the diplomatic Ransom, whose splendid genius and persua- siveness induced his colleagues to make the first appropriation for the recovery by filling in and elevating the Potomac Flats.” Special attention reverts at this time to that initial project fathered by Senator Ransom, because Con- &ress has just authorized the egec- tion of the Arlington Memorial Bridge and memorial approaches as an esthetic and utilitarian outgrowth of this water-front development. “The great work was commenced by this distinguished statesman who represented North Carolina In the Senate for 24 years, and who was famous for his culture, learning and great ability,” Representative Ham- mer emphasizes, “while history im- properly ascribes his great work to the influence of others. After Gen. Ransom's retirement from the Senate the removal of the railroad tracks of the Pennsylvania Rallroad and the passenger and un- sightly freight buildings from the Mall south of Pennsylvania avenue occurred, yet this important work in ring the way for planning for a city beautiful was first started by Senator Ransom in approaches to the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad through Col. A. B. Andrew: vice president of the Southern Rai way. * ¥ ¥ % Great interest is being taken by Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity men in Washington from every State In the Union, under the leadership of Rep- resentative R. Walton Moore of Vir- ginia, in plans fo celebrating the 150th anniversary of the great schol- arship fraternity on December 3, 1926. William and Mary College of Vir- ginia, where this “daddy” of all the eck le r fraternities was founded in 1 . 1+ planning to raise a fund of $100,000 for the erection of a build- ing in memory of the 30 men who effected the organization. The audi- torium is to be a replica of the Apollo room in the old Raleigh Tavern at Williamsburg, where the society was born. * k%o The United States Navy isthe great- est industrial training institution in the world in equipment and in va- riety of instruction, according to Cur- tis D. Wilbi Secretary of the Nav: himself 4 graduate of the Naval Acad- emy at Annapolis Secretary Wilbur explains that the trainin, division of the Bureau of Navigation is intrusted with the prep- aration for service of the 25,000 re- cruits taken annually into the Navy. These young men, taken from all walks of life and usually entirely ignorant of the work they are to per- form, are developed into skilled sea- men and mechaniclans in 26 trade schools. The training school courses vary from 4 to 38 weeks In length. In- structors are naval officers, graduates of the United States Naval Academy, assisted by petty officers who have gpecial qualifications for the work. There are 137 different ratings among enlisted men, which show the magnitude of the task. Not only must these men receive technical and me- chanical training. but they must be- come fami with naval customs and procedure. Secretary Wilbur emphasizes that “training for the Navy is training for occupations of civil life. * ok ok ok In these days when the students are entering upon the final grind for diplomas, degrees, etc, a new side- light is thrown on the value of a di- ploma by Henry P. Fletcher, Amerl can Ambassador ac Rome. In a di patch to the Secretary of State Am- bassador Fletcher calls attention to Italian laws governing the {ssue of permits to students for free entrance to Italian galleries, museums and such places. Degrees or diplomas or other cre- dentials must be submitted and must be authenticated by an Italian diplo- matic representative or consular of- ficer accredited to this country or by the American Ambassador at Rome. Persons who desire such privileges are warned by Ambassador Fletcher to take the necessary steps before leaving the United States. * x % ¥ ‘While the President and the Senate were having their little disagreement over the nomination of an Attorney General, Frederick H. Gillett of Mas- sachusetts, who on March 4 stepped down as Speaker of the Natlonal House of Representatives after 32 vears of continuous service and walked across to the other end of the Capitol Building to the Senate, em- phasized how “extremely unfortu- nate it is for the country and stilt more so for the Senate to have such a conflict between the President and the Senate.” Then he recalled a his- toric incident: “Many years ago Andrew Jackson was censured by the Senate. Years afterward the Senate of the United States was obliged, under the lash of public opinion, to rescind that cen- sure, and, as Senators will remem ber, here on the floor of the Senate black lines were drawn around the resolution of censure, showing that it was no longer the sentiment of the Senate.” Factors in Travel. From the Boston Transerlpt. Government oil suits seem not the least of the influences increasing the tide of European travel. MEN AND BY ROBERT Vice President Davwes thinks he has found a useful occupation for a Vice President during the “off days." He ‘will appeal to the people to save the Senate. But somehow or other the Senate doesn't seem the least bit con- cerned. The Senate is as hard-boiled as a picnic egg. Woodrow Wilson appealed to the people to save the Senate. He broke himself down mak- ing the appeal. He carried the issue of the League of Nations and what he regarded as the honor of America over the heads of the Senators to the people. But the Senate didn't mind. It just went right along. Pres- ident Wilson received a wonderful reception wherever he went. He re- celved marvelous newspaper support in_most sections of the country, But nothing registered back in Washington. The battallon of death rode on like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The Wilson appeal was in vain. And It would seem as Gen. Dawes is about to set forth upon his campaign that his cause is just about as hopeless. The Senate feels its rules are sufficlent as they stand. A one-man fillbuster can be broken whenever the Senate is ready 10 break it. No change i the exist- ing rules can possibly make the Sen- ate move faster. The Senate’s feud with its presid- ing officer is not likely to be softened by the publicity campaign Gen. Dawes has outlined. The Senators have not liked the way the Vice Pres- ident has absented himself from the chair. After the first day or two of the special session he was seldom on the rostrum. He was even absent the day that Senator Ernst of Kentucky wanted an interpretation of the rules that would permit him to call a colleague “a ~ willfu!, malicious and wicked liar.” Here was a situation which it was thought would zppeal | to Gen. Dawes, who but recently had entertained the man who taught him to “cuss.” But when the general was told of the turmoil in the Senate chamber, he merely remarked “That is interesting” and continued in his chambers. * % x Gen. Dawes doesn’t know the fun that often goes with a one-man fill- buster, nor does he know that often- times the “organization” of one party or another dellberately puts up one of its number to hold the fort until a line of general action can be de- cided upon. It is also interesting to note in this connection that Battling Bob La Fol- lette, now an outcast %o far as the regular Republicans are concerned, was not 50 many years ago pulling | the chestnuts out of the fire for his “regular’ colleagues. This was In the latter part of 1318 and the first of 1919 when the Republicans still were the minority party of the Sen- ate. In a minority fight Bob was useful. As an aid to a majority, how- ever, he is 2 washout. Bob was be- ing “good” in 1318 and 1919, He was fetching and carrying and often he | rode to and from the Capitol in Sen- ator Penrose's flery red car. The gentleman from Wisconsin amused the Senate prodigio just before March Fifty Years Ago In The Star Although there was a “third term" sentiment for Gen. Gswnt on the eve of the Republican na- The Ideal tlonal convention of . 1876, the general tend- President. cney of pelter In that party was that he should not be re- nominated after serving two full terms. Various candidacies were in evidence more than a year begere the conventlons. In the course of the discussfon of this question many “kites” were sent aloft through the columns of the party press. The Star of March 15, 1875, quotes in an edi- torial from one of these expressions: “It is time, the Cincinnati Gazette thinks, to begin to look about for a proper presidential candidate for 1876, and that paper sets forth in portentious array the requisites for that office. The nominee must be a man with 2 natienal reputation and character, both political and personal, which will command the respect of the country; which will have no breaches for assault and will make his suppe-ters secure from the lia- bility of being thrown upon the de- fensive. He must have the intellec- tual acquitements, the experience in public affairs and the demonstrated capacity which entitle him to the rank of a statesman. He must have a history of fidelity to the principles of freedom, of emancipation, of equal political rights and of the supremacy of the national Constitution. He must be a man of such natural elevation of views as will accept the presidential office, not as a reward of merit, not as a thing for personal enjoyment, not as a prize from which to dis- Dense to personal friends, not even as a means of rewarding his political supporters or of supporting the party which elected him; but as a high public trust, to be administered for the general welfare, “He must be a man of such firmness of character and such befitting of- ficlal reserve as will keep the base order of managing politiclans at a proper distance, will abash the of- fice-seeking horde, will 1ift the af- fair of appointments from the con- trol of wireworkers and the strife of personal favoritism and will remit It to be regulated by rules making the public service the first considera- tion. He must have a dignity of con- duct which will give a high tone to the administration and to Congress and will tolerate no official or person- al assoclates whose reputation does not entitle them to the country’'s re- spect. “His nomination must come, not through combinations of managers; not through any scheme to direct a presidential succession or create a political dynasty; but as the result of the deliberation of the people. He must have such statesmanlike quall- ties that In his course In the affairs of the untranquil sections he will re- gard neither personal nor party fav- orites of furtune, but wil consider only the establishment of the prin- ciples of constitutional liberty; he must be a man whose reputation for statesmanship and for high patriotic aims will be accepted as a response to the popular longings for peace, secur- ity, the reign of law and the subordl- nation of political disturbance and animosities to the things of material prosperity. He must carry to the na- tional mansion house the personal dignity of George Washington and John Adams and thelr families in- stead of any representation of po- litical demagogism, shoddy vulgarity or backwoods uncouthness, “This is a formidable array of qual- Ities,” observes The Star, “demanded for the coming candidate. The man will be rather hard to find in our present crop of statesmen. The Ga- zette does well in entering upon the search at this early day Japan May Tax Radios. The Japanese department of finance, golng over the list of imports to come under the heavy “luxury tariff,” has decided that radio receivers and ac- cessories shall be included in the list. This means that these articles will be charged 100 per cent duty, instead of the present 20 per cent. Authorities are worried lest the new ruling, if carried into practice, seriously inter- fere with the popularisation of broad- casting and hinder progress of the radio in Japan. | sivility AFFAIRS T. SMALL. 4, 1319, when the Republicans wars pondering whether or not to conduet a killing flibuster against the Vie- tory loan bill. Senator Bob talked for hours. He launched a seri comic distribe against the evils « confersnce reports. Senator Thomas reminded La Follatte that It was through conference reports that ha secured the adoptfon of fwo of his pet measures—the physical valuation of rallroads and the seamen's acts “f thank the Senator for the | ruption.” smiled La Follette; “It re- minds me that [ want to speak a few hours on those two measures.” The galleries howled with delight, The chalr threatened to clear galleries “I thank the chalr for that,” smiled La Follette; “it reminds me that I want to speak a few hours on ths rule about clearing the gallerias” | And 5o it went, until at last the’ “organization” sent word the Victory loan could pass, and La Follstte sat down. * * ox % When he quit public life March 4, Secretary of State Hughes left a num- ber of records behind him, but nona more remarkable than the fact that during eight years of his time in pub- lic office he talked freely with news- paper men twice a day and never once got into hot water. For four years Mr. Hughes was Governor of ew York, and at Albany he always saw the correspondents twice dail: He continued the practice during his four years as Secretary of State. Hera in Washington, at the head of lha department of foreign relations, tha Secretary's position was a delicatn and difficult one, for seidom was there a time at the press interviews that foreign correspondents were not also present, and whatever Mr. Hughes had to say was cabled abroad and subjected to the various interpreta- tions of the countries cogcerned. In a farewell message sent to the Wash- ington correspondents Mr. Hughes ha sald: “I want to thank you for your uni- form courtesy. I have appreciated, of course, the necessity of keeping you informed on matters as far as I could I have frequently said that if I could serve my own wishes I should like to get on the houstop every morning and proclaim to the world everything that Is being done and thought of. I am happy to say we have not had an deep lald schemes. The work of th State Department requires an if- structed public opinfon. It also re- quires an appreciation of the of mischance by prematurs announcements, through misunder- standings on the part of the pubiic a | We also have the great difficulty that we cannot talk to ourselves have domestic questions, but not domest consultations because everything goes around the world, and there are n press inclosures at the three-mile limit. I have considered you my un- official observers, my unofficial asen- ciates and collaborators, and pe me to express my sense of indebted ness to you and the hope that we w meet often in the future.” (Copyright, 1925.) 1925 Heard and Seen The cat Jack Spratt is very baked beans. He is v particula about his beans, however. There only one brand on the mark will eat. Perhaps he likes the c: they use. Another equally well known brand of canned beans has no piace in the dletary of the finicky Spratt. No mat- ter how hungry, he will not eat them. Place a plate of the first brand before him, he will fall to greedily. One imagines him as the Boots of the baked bean What a great “ad” could structed, with two pictures, ing Jack eating a plate of beans, the other dlsplaying him turning up * white nose at another plate “Jack Spratt eats So-and-So's Baked Beans,” would be the caption for the first picture. “Jack Spratt will not eat Th Thus's beans,” would read the titls to_the second picture. Jack ' Spratt, the baked bean cat, might come to occupy a place in tha industry similar to that held by pre- coclous babies in the motion picturs world fond he tsup Puss-in- industry. ne show- + Mister Jack. as the woman wh our wash calls him, also likes peas, Almost any good brand will suf- fice. Inferior gGods he has little for. His disrezard he doe: not like can be felinely cutting A well known animal fancler cently presented me with a big of “cat food." “Your cat will like it.” said he I accepted the gift with thanks, but with reservations, for I know Spratt And do you think that striped a mal would eat “cat f00d?" He sampled a few crumbs, but has not touched it since. A half-starved kitten that wan- dered to our house backed up Spratt's judgment, and would not eat it either. That grub is what you might call hot-dog cat food. Water is another article the cat is never known to touch. Only once within memory has he drunk any. That time he came upstairs and meowed, and then led me to the bath- room, where he looked up at the drinking glass. I drew Spratt a glass of water, full to the brim, of which he lapped up perhaps as much as a quarter of an inch. He has refused water since. Milk is his drink. He scorns it food. He Is very fond of cream, upon which article no one can fool him. He is never too full to appreciate a bit, of cream. for foods hox | - Once Jack jumped up on the table and dragged a slab of cottage pud ding down on the floor, and ate near 1y all of it before he was discovered The zest of theft added to the tas evidently, because he has never touch- ed it sin It is needless to say that Spratt fond of catnip. This herb, sometimes known as catmint, is a delicacy all cats. They usually select certain bits from the pile, rejecting other leaves. Fish, too, he eats with gusto. He can smell the “old fish man" a block off, even with all doors shut. Beefsteak, however, is Jack's great dish. Give him plenty of beefsteak he asks for nothing more. The most mportant factor, in his opinfon, is the amount. Nothing short of half a pound satisfied him. Jack is of the belief that plain, sim- ple beefsteak solves all the problem of diet. It gives him the vitamins of} raw meat, together with all the pro- tein and heat eclements his system demands. The ne plus ultra, as it were—the catswhisker—or food, is beefste: Spratt Is firmly convinced. Beefsteak is the cat’s meow of all foodstuffs. “The cow Is my friend” says Jack “What more can & cat ask than plenty of steak and plenty of milk to drink and plenty of cream to top-off with? « TRACEWELL. e World’s Largest Tome. Vienna claims the biggest book in the world. It is in the Dominican cloister, curefully mounted in a case in one of the corridors. The book ig made up of parchment leaves mouni- ed on thin wooded borders. On the parchment is malntained a death list of the cloister. The first entry was made in 1410, but even this date is 184 years more recent than the daie of the cloister, for this home of Do- minican monks was founded In 122 under the Babenbergers.