Evening Star Newspaper, July 19, 1925, Page 30

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY..........July 18, 1925 THEODORE W. NOYES. Editor The Evening Star Newspape Business Office Tith St an wlvania Ave New York Qffice 0 Fast 42nd St. Chicago Ofice - Tower Building European Office: 168 Regent St., London. England, The Evening Star. with the Sunday morn Ing edition, is delivered by carriers within City Bt 86 cante par month: dajly onlv. 48 cents per month: Sunday only. 20 cents r month_ Orders max he sent by msil or lephons Main 5000. Coliection is made by eavier at the and of each month. Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. + Company Daily and Sunday Daily only Sunday only .. 70¢ T 50e 1 200 All Other States. Dails and Sundas.. .1 sr. $10.00: Dails only 1yl 87 Sunday only 1 . B I Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled 16 tha nsa for republication of all news dis- | looking to cer lin the Borough of Brookl: s of publication | atches credited to it or not otherwise cred ted in this paper and alse the local new Dublished harein. Al of spacial dispatches he resorved | they eannot show him they must risk | the results in the senatorship fizht and | Work hax heen started on the re-|in the jater happenings in 1928 | modeling of the old Franklin Sr‘hl\t\ll | 1 the | passes out | © | sentence of death for murder and who * The Franklin School Building. suitable for a headquarters of to make it administration tor the public school District. Thus definitely of the direct as house”™ a structure that garded as ideal. It perhaps, generally known even in Washin, that a model of the then new Franklin ! School was awarded first prize at the | Philadelphia centennial n | 1876, Nearly half a century has passed | the pe nie of the Capital City | thrilled with pride the ar-| of this award. They had | been suffering for indeed ever since the creation of the Capital. public school equip- | ment. They had not unreasonably be Neved that the central Federal City should have the hest tacilities for puh- e instrnetion. The children, however, w taught. 1576, tor the most part in old, makeshift quar ters, too small for the numbers in at-| tendance, ill-lighted, badly ntilated | and, even from the standpoint of that time, insecure and unsafe. A few large and substantial build- | ings had been 1876, the | Franklin the best of all in point of or namentation and arrangement. The | majority of the schoolhouses were sdly unsuitable. With thé Franklin ax a model, howev the community thought to progress rapidly. and high | hopes were entertained that the Dis triet would up with its | needs and be given a truly ideal equip- Those hopesa have heen Building central system *school- service a i, not exposition ir since were by nouncement manv years from inadequate e heing even in provided hy s cateh n ment never realized Since Franklin great advances have heen made in the matter of schoolhonse design and con structic t ural detail and more to The Frank Like many the was designed ess attention is paid mere archit eonventertce lin had no other =choolhouses ¢ for sam® time after, it was built tually Aush on the without ac eommodations for the childreén to exer else in safety. The strééts were much | safer thén. however, so that this pri vation was not so severe as it fis to- | day. Could Washington gain fi with one of its school buildings in & national exposition? 1t may be | @oubted. Tt has some notable struc- | tures devoted to public instruction, but | other cities have even better ones. Tt| has been hampered in this respect by inadequate appropriations. Even at this moment the Commission compelled hold contracis new buildinge which hy lowear a And security school yard { its period. and it vir streat rank | now | | | r authorized | limits that are | to up were Congress with « than the lowast hids received. e first three words of the Bihle In the heginning.” They signified | the heginning of a world, and not the | beginning of a controversy. The story | of Adam and the appie may 1 ably he regarded a= a warning against the meddling of finite intelligences with | subjects it cannot hope to understand. The are reazon- 1t the s “avolution™ i« prolonged there is danger that the Senate will fael called upon to post- | pone other public business in order to | Investigate it { | hullabaloo about H | o There is no longer any demand for the “hanging of the Kaiser 1t would not be possible even to put him through the courts for bankruptey. | e ——— “Brooklyn's Man From Missouri. Now that the vacation period is on mavoralty matters in New York are | quieting down and the big town is| getting less “het up” over the situa tion which arises from Mavor Hylan's ambition to serve a third term and Tammany’s disinclination to give him another nomination. Occasionally one of the leaders mutters something which suggests that the case is by no means settled, and then one of the Hylanit mutters back and the mavor himsalf perhaps puts out one of his characteristic bits of publicity and promotion. But on the whole the sit- nation is quiet, with evervbody wait- | Ing to see which way the cat is going | to jump. The cat in this case is the | hig striped one that has its habitat on Fourteenth street. Perhaps the nost significant de- | velopment recently in this matter was | the indignation expressed by John H. McCooey. the boss of Brooklyn, now on vacation in New Hampshire, when he was asked by teiephone by a Man- hattan newsgatherer it he had de- clared for Hylan, “first, last and all the time.” Boss McCooey roared back that he had never said that, but that Be stood pat on his original declara- tion that he would stick to Hylan “un- | til they show me a stronger man.” | One must profoundly respect the | political acumen of Ross McCooey's | statement. Tt leaves him in the strong- est possible position. Tt aimost makes him the dictator of the nemination. He must bé “shown’ Tammany must | bring forward a candidate who will pall more ‘votes than Hylan. Having | | i | | i | l i jeopardy. !the governor's political future. He was once re- | has just ston | 1eged contession by the condemned | man’s brother that he did the killing. | ago, it is coming to be regarded by one sec- !Lre assential to Democratlc success {in the mayoralty fight—what I8 more natural than that Mr. McCooey should | {himself propose the name of & stronger | | man? | There is more in this matter than ! the mere mavoraity of Greater New York. Hylan is only & pawn in the | higger game of palitical chess that is I heing plaved. Gov. Al Smith is in the |chair at Albany, with an adverse Legislature. He cannot put forward | any constructive, record-making propo- | sitions. He must make good by not making any breaks. Tt is essential to his future political success that he step out of the executive mansion into omething bigger. He cannot afford | merely to step back Into private life. It is well known that he wants the senatorship, (o that end. He is flatly against Hylan. If the mayor is renom- { inated by Tammany Smith gets a black eve. If Hylan is turned down and runs an independent the mayoralty is in and Smith will be blamed for his share of whatever happens. MeCoaoey does not care much about { taln immediate usufruet vn. But he by the Tam- 1t is willing to he “shown many people and by the governor. o A Strange Murder Case. Queer things are happening in the ase of the Chicago man who is under 1 | been reprieved for a week by the governor in order to test the al- The defense of Scott, accused of slay- ing a drug clerk in a hold-up a year was that it was not he, but his brother. who fired the fatal shot. The brother has nevar besn caught. Just on the eve of the execution a telegram reached the governor, signed by the brother's name, asking for reprieve on the ground that he was guilty and promising to ender at once. The | { { i jand | American duels had Hlikely | been raised to them T the other fellow shoot at him twice and then satiating his honor by shoot- Ing in the air will he duly appreciated. Perhape he knew what kind of a shot Mario was. Still, it is a brave man who will 1=t another fallow sheot at him twice without shooting back. States was hasad on the fact that every now and then a duelist was shot. causing bereavement of innocent parsons. Killings of this kind were also held to he bad examples to the young. The duel also gave a marked advantage to any gentleman with a tieklish sense of honor and quarrel- some nature who could afford to spend A large part of his time at target prac- tice. There were other reasons why we got rid of the duel in the United States. There is perhaps a ency In our attitude toward duels. Not as large per cent of duelists were killed as stunt aviators, motor cyele wo racers, fockevs in hurdle races. parachute jumpers and steepie- jacks, yet when a man was Injured in a duel the folks were shocked. The fist duel remains one of our popular pastimes. and while statistics are not &t hand. it is believad that about four quarts of hiogd are shed by prize fighters to a half pint of blood that used to be shed by duelists. If the heen conducted with the polish, refinement and good will of French and Italian duels it is that no objection would have little inconsist- ———— Open Shop Sabotage. Strike promoting and breaking meth ods in the clothing business in New York, which is perennially subject of conditions approximating open W fare, have changed materially. For- meriy pickets stationed outside of the lofts and shops pitched into the work- ers, sometimes killing, and often caus ing desperate injuries. later the pick- ets became bolder, and actually en- tersd the shops and raided the em ployes. A few weeks ago two estab- lishments, amploving non-union peo- zovernor acted, as well he might. Thus far the brother has not ap- | peared. The telegram, it appears, was | handed to a messenger boy in the | st Detroit. Atmost immediately prieve was granted Detroit tele. graph operator mada a statement that he was a witness to the Chicago kill- | ing, and that it was the missing ! brother, and not the condemned man. | fired the shot, offering to E|\'P' testimony. In explanation of the | Jong delay he says that he had paid | et at i after the re- | A who I no attention to the Chicago trial and | only saw a newspaper picture of the | convicted prisoner the other day. im- mediately identitying it as one of the | participants in the shootinz affray, but not the one who fired the pistol. This is a,strange tale. A man witnesses a murder and takes so little | interest in the case that he does not sven read the reports of the trial, does | not concern himself about the identity of the person accused of the crime. | SKuch indifterence s truly bevond credence. Murders are assuredly not <ueh commonplaces anywhere, even in Chicago, that bystanders aré wholly | Qiainterested in the developments. A third factor now enters into the complicate it. The accused to have heen present on he occasion of the shooting with a voman companion. whom he could not produce beécause, she being mar- ried, her identification would embar- | rass her. Now, it appears, her hus band has passed out of the equation. by the divorce route, and she is free to testify, and she will present her- self with a statement clearing her former admirer. | The prosecuting attorney declares that the identity of everybody present on the occasion of the crime has long since heen established and that the | roster includes no such woman as the | divorced one and no such man as the | telegrapher who savs he can clear the | Accused. The simuitaneous proffer of | their testimony, coincident with the | recaipt of what is now regarded as a | ftake telegram, suggesis that the de- | fense in thiz case is working ardu- ously to save the condemned man. These maneuvers put the governor of the State in a difficult position. He must reject the new evidence or ac- cept it. His alone at this stage is the reaponsibility and It is weighty. case to man claima . ————— If the laudable ambition of enforce- ment officials to make prohibition popular can be realized. the result will 0 a long way toward solving the problem of the high cost of living. rat—— So many diffarent lines of purpose are ascribed to the Ku Klux Kian that | tion of the country only as a local jssue in another section. ST R In spite of the thrilling controversy {hat rages, the radig continues to play ‘Red-Hot Mamma. e An Italian Duel. he story of a duel in Italy is ca-| bled to the United States from Rome. It ought not to be rated as very im- portant news, because the names of the actors, Mario Siniacalco and Felice Desimone, are not widaly known in this country. and there is nothing sen- | sational In the story bacause neither of the actors was h There 15, how- aver, Intereat in the story becanse it shows that two brave and bloodthirsty gentlemen, sensitive to the point of being “ticklish about their honor, can meet in fierce and deadly combat and then walk off and eat breakfast to- gether at their club. Another matter of interest about this story is that it savs: “Two well known Italian fencers, Mario Sinia- calco and Felice Desimone, fought a Quel with pistols today because of a quarrel over their respective ability at tencing. Desimone fired twice, barely missing Siniscalco, who fired into the | air.”” Most persons will not under- stand why two men bemt on killing each other, and being experts with ewords, would pick out pistols, with | which they were not dextrous. An alarm note ix that Mr. Desimone fired twice, “barely missing” Mr. Siniscalco. | How was it known that in two shots he “barely missad” him? Does “barely missed him" mean in Italy a quarter of an inch or 14 yarda? The mag- ple, were thus attacked and much damage was done hefore the squads of club wislders were driven off. The latest affair of the kind shows a fur- ther development. The other after- noon six armed men entered a larg: shop conducted on non-union lines. ! timing their visit 8o that ‘the proprie tors were abaent, and, guarding the telephone operator so that she could not sound an alarm. lined up the em- ployes under gun point and proceeded to pour acid upon quantities of fin- ished goods. Then they made a hasty exit and escaped in a motor car. They wore no masks and made no attempt to conceal their identities Such methods, directed solely against | the proprietors, are calculated to bring directly home to the owners of the establishments the question of cost. This latest outrage caused a losa. it is {estimated, of from $80.000 to $100.000 ir ruined goods. That the perpetra tors were hired by the sumable. Thay were probably profes. sionals. selling their services in a cause with which they had no afflia- tion. This form of sahotage is new and | the deliberate manner in which it was committed by hired thugs indicates that the promoters of the crime feel | is evidently a field of work here for the police and the pub lic prosecutor. If the organization prompted this wholesale destruction its leaders should suffer. e — An impersonation of Neptune is deemed necessary to a seashore pageant. Neptune is only a myth. Otherwise he might in many cases be justified in suing for libel. e The King of England is commanding general admiration for his discreet avoidance of any discussion of politics, religion or science. secure. There — ———————— As an ancient and conservative na- tion, China insists on conducting her customary wars without regard to modern philosophies. ———— SHOOTING STARS. RY PHILANDER JORNSON. Inexpert Interference. T monkeyed with a buzz saw And it made my fingers sore; Therefore, I'll never monkey With a buzz saw any more. In science T intruded With an idle, curious mind. I fear T've left a portion Of my cerebrum behind. Majority and Minority. ““The great majority must rule: claimed the patriot. “And yet,” sald Senator Sorghum, “1 hesitate to intrude any remark which might disturd a long-respected theory—and yet, I sometimes feel that ex- | politics is conducted by two organized minorities each endeavoring to per- | Suade the great majority to vote its ey Mental Desperation. T've studied books of many kinds By men of very tamous minds, | T'm left in overwhelming doubt— Please bring the cross-word puzzle out. Jud Tunkins says sometimes a man who talks most of George Washington |1ooks to him like his trus ideal of a great public man was P. T. Barnum. Guiding Youth. “Science is only in its infancy,” de- clared the modest college professor. “Just the same,” replied the funda- mentalist, “it's old enough to go to Sunday school Getting Rough. “dudes” Wwho .once were pretty pets On‘violent careers begin. We knew them by their cigarettes. ‘We now detect synthetic gin. By Way of Variety. “Why do so many people want to £0 to the North Pole “Human nature likes a change. They build their kiosks of ice and watch the temperature go down in- stead of up. The ““Most argunients.” said Uncle Eben, “'stid o' bein’ a search foh facts is contests to show which side is de the veto powege—for Brooklyn's votes | nanimity of Mr. Siniscalco in letting | smartest,” Opposition to duels in the United | union is pre- | ! Bishop of THE NEW FREEDOM. | John, viti.32. “The truth shall make vou free’™ |the “new freedom.” On every hand men and women. especially our vouth, are talking about the breaking down of old conventions and the giving over of systems and practices that have been time honored for generations past, The so-called “youth move- ment,” which is conspicuous round the world, is particularly given to the con- sideration of those things that make for a larger liberty and a greater {ree- dom of action. Sometime ago we heard of a senfor class in one of our Eastern universities that had the temerity to say to the president and faculty that they no longer looked to them for guidance and direction. The presi- dent of the class made bold to say to the faculty that the student body was quite capable of determining for itxelf what its course of action should be, and that it did not longer look for di- rection or counsel from those in au- thority. It may have heen an ex treme example of the desire for great- er freedom, but it was symptomatic of a serious condition. One sometimes wonders whether the search is not for license rather than for treedom. Recently a chief justice of one of our courts deglared that in his opinion crime was on the increase. { | his experience. which was a long one tions of the law presented to him. Does the new: freedom that we proudly boast of mean a growing dis- respect not only for decent conven- tions that govern us in our socal re- Iations, but for the laws that are in- dispensable Lo our social and political well being? It has been said by those who may be our ungenerous critics that we are ““the most lawless nation in the world.’ Whether this be wholly true o is becoming increasingly clear that the larger search for the new freedom is working disaster to many of our most important institutions. Freedom 1o us of America is a precious heritage and we cherish it and gladly defend it but freedom that knows no restraint, The Decli ne of a A %004 many vears age, according'to o0ld memoirs in the Library of Con- fish and crabs in the Chesapeake Bay that a boat had to navigate rather slowly. If those old reporis are to be believed. navigation on the bay was like sailing through a bowl of gravy because the water was so_thick. Today a different situajion exists and it seems more than likely that the bay is going to lose one of its most valuable denizens. the succulent crab. In the Spring of the vear the crabs begin to come up the bay from the | were so many 1 will refer to the map he will see that the southern reaches of Chesapeake Bay are Virginla territory. Maryland lies farther to the north. Maryvland has a law that fishermen, during the early part of the season, must throw back into the water all the female crabs they may chapce to catch on | their fishing Jines. ‘This law is re igiously obeyed. Virginia has no such |law. So, early in the season., when | the crabs are heginning to come up the Virginia fishermen catch them In- | discriminately. At first it made no | difference. There were enough crabs s0 that despite the Virginia catches they came up the bay In great num- bers. Now it is different. Because of the capture of the females the supply of crabs has run short. Virginia still x catching crabs, but Maryland is get- ting only a very few. The breeding having been interfered with in this way, there are practically no crabs to come northward. Gov. Ritchie Urges Uniform Law. Gov. Ritchie of Maryland has been greatly concerned about the matter and arranged a conference with Vir- ginian authorities in an effort to get Virginia to pass the same sort of a Jaw that Maryland had. fruitless. Nearly every one in the United States who pays mich attention to his country has heard of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. It is a distinctly Southern section, and one is not sup- posed to pronounce the R. Natives always say “the Eastern Sho'." There | is a good deal of fine tarm land there, but the principal Industry is fishing. In the Winter time the populace of the Eastern Shore makes it living from the gathering of oysters. In the Summer time the same people derive their support from crabe. But now the crabs have disappeared. In addi- tion to sending live crahs to New York. Philadelphia, Baltimore. Norfolk and Washington, many of them for- merly were canned in large factories located in the picturésque towns to be found in that region. Now these fac tories are closed down and the people who once weré emploved by them have had to find other work. Probably there has heén no more { romantic industry in the country than this crabbing and oystering industry of the old Fastern Shore. Men who | have been familiar with Chesapeake Bay since childhood are engaged in it. The usual system i for a man to go into a partnership with a canner. Be- tween them they buy or build a_boat. each owning half of it. The fisher- man then goes out and gets oysters in the Winter and crabs in the Summer. ‘When he has a cargo he returns to the factory and unloads, then goes out again. He receives half of the profits. The oystering is the more interesting end of the business. Save that one never says ters” on the Eastern Shore. The word is pro- nounced “arster: The Chesapeake Bugeye. 1t 1s against the laws of the States of both Maryland and Virginia to dredge oysters -in a power vessel of any sort. There again we must con- form to the dialect of the Fastern Shore. One never speaks of “dredg- ing.” It is “drudging.” Oysters—or arsters—may or may not he dredged —or drudged—save by ‘an old-fash. ioned sailing ship. No vessel with any steam, gasoline or other power apparatus is permitted on the ovster beds. Chlefly the work Is done by a distinctive Chesapeake Bay craft, the bugeye. It is similar to a schooner. except that the bugere carries no topsalls. A two-masted schooner car- ries a_Jib and flving jib, a foresail, a fore-topsall, a mainsail and a main- topsail. A bugeye has just three safls—an enormous jib, an enormous foresail and an enormous mainsail. | | the sails of a schooner, the salls of a bugeye keep right on up to the very peak of the mast. Some of them are 70 feet high, and when a bugeye, with its three sails, gets a good strong breeze, it will walk like a ghost, heel- ing over into the water, with its lee gunwale under the foaming spindrift up to the middle of the deck. Patrols on the Job. Mayyland and Virginia maintain patrol boats to enforce the laws governing the oystering and crabbing. There are certain restricted bed: preserved by law. Piratical oyster- men like to get on these rich beds. throw their dredges overboard and bring in the oysters by the hundred- weight. The patrol boats are always #n watch for this sort of practice. ‘We are hearing much today about | and another Federsl judge unhesitat-| ingly affirmed that he had never in|man relationships were impaired and| on the bench, had more flagrant viola- | not, it | gress and in private collections. there | warmer Southern waters. If the reader | This proved | Instead of stopping at the gaff, as do’| 1925—PART 2 EVERYDAY RELIGION | BY RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D., Washington. recognizes no laws and violates all conventions spells out but one thing, namely, disasier, Jesus declared that the basis for treedom was to be found in the recog- nition of truth. He came declaring, “T am not come to destroy, but to ful- " The avowed purpose of His ministry was to give to man principles of living that would contribute to the “more adundant life.” He Himself began His ministry by attacking practices that were time honored, but fraught with perl! to the best interests of the people. All along His way He inveighed against those who for sel- fish purposes preserved customs that were inimical to the largest and high- est development of men. To His time He seemed a revolutionist, and vet in spite of this He maintained at all times that obedience to well consiituted laws was the bounden duty of every citizen in the commonwealth. Even the in- iquitons tax laid by the Roman govern- ment He would willingly pay. His supreme effort was to make men see that right living and right rela tiops as between man and man call for a recognition of principles that are basic and fundamental. He brought to men no stern decalogue, but He did attempt to compel their recogni | tion of those eternal truths that guar- antee to all alike life, liberty and the | pursuit of happiness. He did main [tain that where there were no re- straints or self-imposed disciplines hu | wholesome systems degeneraied is not difficult to discover what were the fundamental things that He |taught. If our search for the new | froedom is to issue in the breaking down of all wholesome conventions and practices, disregard for sacred | marital ties, the abandonment vf par- |ental control and filial obedience,” the | giving over of the common decencies {of social life and disregard for those | things that contribute to integrity in | commercial and social relations, then our new freedom may be but the pre- | cursor of our ultimate dissolution and | decay. | It we wouid have freedom of the | best kind. we must fecure it through obedience (o0 the truth as given to the world by Jesus Christ, (Copyright. 1925.) Romantic Industry BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN The ovatermen frequently try to sail out on a cold Winter's night. perhaps in the midat of a gale when no one but & brave man would venture forth, and get a load of oysters. But the patrol boats usually find out about it and they do not mince maiters They know they are dealing with hardy men. They may drop a pre- monitory shot across the bows of a poaching oysterman, but unless there is an immediate surrender (meaning a stiff fine) the patrol boat openx fire in earnest. There are naval |battles on Chesapeake Bay which never get into the newspapers. Some of the oystermen carry guns, 100, be- cause when they get in a tight cor- ner they frequently fight back. More frequently it means a race ‘There probably is no more thrilling sight In the world than that of a long. low, lean, racy bugeve with all !sail set in spite of the gale blow- ing. leaning over into the water until the spray flies mast high, running like a mad thing to get away from a patrol hoat. Sometimes they actu- |aly do outdistance the patrols: but more often a change of the wind and the superior power of the patrol re- suit in an arrest.” | Capt. Bigler Loses. | Some vears ago old Capt. Sim | Bigler sailed out on a stormy night to do a little poaching. He crept up to a forbidden oyster bed and dredged. He got a tremendous load |of the finest ovsters. Just then a | patrol hoat hove in sight. The hold of his hoat was full and he was already carrying a tremendous deck- load. He figured it was not worth while to attempt any further hauls, but that he had better make a run’ for it. The one survivor tells the tale. He said the old captain declared he would run that load of oysters to hell or Cambridge before morning. | The patrol boat was in hot pursult. A curious thing about the Chesapeake Bay bugeve ix that it can be sailed 8o swiftly that control is lost. The captain packed on every stitch of sail he had. and, on a cold Mid- winter night with a gale whoopinz down out of the North. he sailed that bugeye under the water. The speed at which she was going, the pressure on the salls was so great that the ship actually, meeting a heavy sea, dipped her nose into it and sailed right on down. All hands save one were loat. The eaptain did not get his load of ovaters to Cam- bridge: whether he reached that alternative deatination is an open question. The pursuing patrol hoat picked up the one man who told the story. e ——— The Saving of Herrin. It is only fair that Williamson County, Tll.. and its town of Herrin should have a good deal of publicity on their reform record. They had enough of it, goodness knows, when hate and tragedy stalked them both. Into this spiritual wilderness, ravaged by jealousies and animosities that had reached the killing stage. sauntered Howard 8. Williams of Mississippl, country editor and lay preacher, with revolvers in his holster and a Bible in his hands. That was 18 months ago. Since that time there have been no killings and no home burnings. “Bloody Willlamson” has become peace-loving and law-abiding. And the credit of the town and county is given to the evangelist who has brought the warring factors together. has united them in common efforts for peace, while a large number. including most of the lawless leaders of the riotous days, have “hit the trail.” Mr. Williams has closed his meet- ings. He has had the co-operation of the churches of the county, which will carry on his work. He has done what neither the law nor the militia was table to do. He hax restored order and reconciled enemies. He takes little personal credit, but re- gards himself as an instrument of God in saving a community at war. It is a remarkable outcome. The real test will come, of course, after the enthusiasm from the meetings dies down. It is up to the people of Wil- lamson County who have turned to the new life to demonstrate that in the words of the Apostle Paul, they are steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the word of the Lord. —Kansas City Star. v ——— Convincing. It takes two to make a quarrel. But one who seeks it can usually find it. And when two are in a quarrelsome humor, one reason or no reason is sufficient to start it. Two Orleans ne- groes selected the moot question which brand of cigarette is the most popu- Jar as the subject of their quarrel. | They quarreled so earnestly and suc- | cessfully that one is dead and the other on his way to parts unknown. Neither convinced the other. You can- not convince anybody by killing them. ither iz force nor profanity very convincing. Others more intellizent and presumably better educated than two colored men have made the same mistake.—New Orleans Item. And the question remains unsettled. | | Capital Sidelights | The many thousands of tourists who |are seeing “America first” this Sum- jmer are expressing a keener interest {than ever before in the origin and form | of government of the Capital City, ac- | | cording to Capitol guides. To be pre-| pared to answer ail questions in this direction, Hynes E. Terry, a former service man, who has been guiding in the Government Printing Office and the Capitol for many vears and who | knows most of the prominent men of | the country, has made a special study of this subject. The District of Columbia was estab- lished under the authority and divec tion of acts of Congress approved July 16, 1790, and March 3, 1791, which were passed to give effect to aclause in the eighth section of the first article of the Constitution, giving Congress power “to exercise exclusive legisla- tion in all cases whatsoever over such District.” The seat of government embraces an area of 69.245 square miles, of which §0 square miles are land. The river houndary is high-water mark along the Virginia shore of the Potomac River. . The local government 1% a municipal corporation, administered by a board of three Commissioners appointed by the President, one of whom is detailed from the Engineer Corps of the Army Appropriations for the support of the municipal government are under {the jurisdiction of Congress, but the {funds come principally from local revenues. In the past Congress treated the seat of government as a burdensome step-child. The growing interes: that all the people of the coun- | | try are taking in their National Capi-| 1al ar they come to know more about it is having a good effect on Congress, which shows & corresponding disposi- tion to do more for the development of the seat of government, of which their constituents are expressing an awakened appreciation and love. P The committee room occupied by the House committee which considers Dis trict of Columbia legislation is being ed ihis Summer from the drab gard which has heretofore char zed it. While other important committees, such as judiciary, inter state and foreign commerce. have { heautiful hearing rooms, fitted up in room siyle. where the witnesses can appeag before the full commitiee and fairly present their case, looking each committee member face to face, witnesses before the House District| committee have heen at a disadvan- tage in a crowded room. oftentimes [ with their backs to half of the com | mittee. Representative Fred N Zihiman of Maryland, the incoming chariman, is determined to alter this condition. As a result of conferences with David | Lynn. architect of the Capitol. the District room is to he thoroughly ren- ovated. There ix not room for the court-bench style of treatment 1o seat 21 members, but a raised bench for 11 members, a quorum, which is usually about all that attend the hearings, will be built, and in front of this a second bank of seats for the other 10 members of the committee. In this way Chairman Zihlman hopes to bring more dignity to the House District committee meetings, as a result of which there will be more careful consideration of legislation af-| fecting the National Capital. He is planning to give the District commit | tee 2 more reputable standing and to {increase its prestige. | * x x * | Thosewhohave been dissatisfied with | | the House restaurans foresee a chance {of great improvements in the next | Congress hecause ona of the best | | known restaurateurs in the country is | probably coming to take former | Speaker (and now Senator) Glilett's | | vacated seat in the House. Speaker| | Gillett was officially in charge of the| | House grestaurant, but. being of 00 | aristoeratic type and training to in { terest himself in the problems of run. | ning a restaurant to satisfy 435 mem- bers of Congress. several hundred em ploves and the public, he delegated | that authority But the successor to his place on the Massachusetts delegation is not so | aristocratic, and has many vears of | practical experience. This is Henry | T. Bowles, the administration candi- date for the vacancy. Of course, hi has still to go through the formality of & special election, but there is little doubt of the result. He is a distant relation of the old Springfield Repub lican Bowles family. Popularly rated as a millionaire, Mr. Bowles is best known for having intro duced in the Eastern part of the coun try the one-arm dairy lunchroom. He is” proprietor of the Baltimore lunch- room chain. He started in politics as a Bull Moose Progressive. and when that party was going strong in Massa- chusetts Mr. Bowles was elected to the Goverror's Council. He was a delegate to the Republican national convention. Although he is not of the type to stand up on the floor and make him self known by ringing speeches, if elacted, as seems certain. Mr. Bowles will undoubtedly have strong influance | in party councils. With the single | possible exception of Floor Leader Til- son, there is now no New England member of Congress really close 1o the Presidént. Mr. Bowle i a close friend of President Coolidge of long stand ing. He will therefore stand in the same relation to the President in the House as Senators Butler and Gillett occupy in the Senate. He will ba looked upon as reflecting the views of the President on important questions. He is always popular and a good | mixer. For a brand-new member, he comes in as “a marked man.” ok ok % Action of the Board of Education In ordering a special investigation of the Langdon School to substantiate private investigations by a majority of the board, showing that this two- story school building is a firetrap, emphasizes the necessity for the utmost precaution against fire haz- ards in school construction and busi- ness management. John J. Tigert, United States com- missioners of education, calls atten- tion to what other large cities are doing in this regard. citing Cincinnati as a special example. where fire in- surance has been eliminated from the municipal budget. Commissioner Ti- gert points out that Cincinnati's sue- cess is due in large part to well con. structed school buildings. to the elim. | ination as far as possible of fire haz ards near school property, and to keeping fire-fighting apparatus always accessible in the schools. Cincinnati possesses a permanent | endownment fund for school fire in- surance amounting to approximately $350,000. This has been growing since 1923, when the Board of Education be- gan to carry its own fire insurance. To repair damage caused by fire each year $25,000 has been heretofore set side, about the sum that would have been pald for premiums for fire in- surance. The city has had few fire losses, and the fund, with interest added, has grown steadily. Tt is in- vested in Cincinnati school bonds and the annual interest now amounts to about $20,000. The school budget for 1925 makes mno provision, therefore, for fire insurance. St a2 One of the most popular appoint-| ments made in recent yvears at the Capitol Is the employment in the office of Speaker Longworth of Mrs. Clifton N. MeArthur, widow of a former and very highly esteemed member of the House. Because of her high social standing, her vears of experience in {the congressional circle. her close study of politics and the seience of government, as well as special prepara- | [ has often | MEN AND AFFAIRS BY ROBERT T. SWALL. DAYTON, Tenn.. July 18.—Just as s00n as Mr. Bryan finishes up with all this monkey business here in Dayton he is going to work up on his next great pligrimage to the Holy the coming Winter. “This is to be a genuine piigrimage.’ says a prospectus of the trip cruises are largely filled with people Land late in who want to escape cold weather and | be amused meanwhile. Such tours might not _inaptly be characterized as glorified bridge-whist parties. Mr Bryan's purpose is to gather around himself people who are genuinely in terested in religion and who, there fore, while enjoying to the full the wonderful travel experiences invoived, would derive a genuine inspiration from a visit to the land of the Book and from Mr. Bryan's interpretation of the Book while in the land “Your imagination can readily visu alize and your judgment evaluate the experience of listening to Mr. Bryan at the hirthplace of the Prince of Peace, or on good Friday In the gar den of Gethsemane: ai Easter dawn by the garden tomb. and on East afternoon ax he reviews the great commission on the Mount of Olives. “The plan is to reserve an entire steamer, taking preliminary cruises around the Mediterranean. spend two | visit | weeks in Fgypt—enough to Cairo. Luxor, Valley of the Kings, Aswan and Abeydos—then 1o devote 16 days to the Holy Land. with the climax—Faster in Jerusalem. “Mr. and Mrs. William Jennings Bryan cordially invite their personal friends and all others who are in sym pathy with the spirit of a general pllgrimage to the Holy Land to join them in this unique and inspirational experience. The tour will be a two month visit between Mr. and Mrs. Bryan and genial companions. with many the first and with some. per haps, the last opportunity for such a t “It is a fitting climax 1o the career of Mr. Bryan that after his vears of strenuous devotion to his country and 10 great moral causes he should now lead the hearts of Christian peo. ple personally to the Holy Land and share with them. hoth on the way and at the sacred siias, his wide ex perience of life, the ripened marturity of his thoughts and the inspiration of his religious convictions. “It is not necessary grims who accompany him should think as Mr. Brvan does on either politics or religion. but it is highly desirable that thev bhe svmpathstic to a religipus view of life and ap proach this experience with a sense of the spiritual values involved “It should bé understood. however that this pilgrimage is not a long faced affair. There will be fun, and plenty of it, wherever Mr. Brvan is There will be companionship the stimulus of encountering bright minds and generous hearts. of listening to the conversations or the more formal Addresses of me and women who have experienced widely, thought deeply and played their part in the affairs of the world.” The elaborateness of the pilgrimage may be judged by the prices of passage. which will range from $1.4’ to about $2,500 for each person *x o ox that the pil One of the great squabbles here in Dayton has been as to how the law vers from “foreizn States” got into this_evolution case. The prosecutors for the State have not hesitated to play upon the fact that the leading attornevs for the de. fense have come from far distant This and That By Charles E. Tracewell. A flower 7 inches in diameter is unusual enough in any back vard to make visitors “sit up and take no tice,” as the saying goes. Larger than the sunflower, and ut terly transcending it in beauty. the blossom of the Hibiscus, or Rosemal- low, as it is sometimes called, makes a veritable bouquet by itself. : This hard marsh plant, to be seen in profusion in Southern States, may be had in red, dark pink or rose, light pink, and white. Despite its huge size, which would warrant it_being called “monstrosa,” a tavorite descriptive term of the seed men, the Hibiscus is a strikingly deli cate flower of the Hollyhock order. The Hollyhock. 'as # matter of fact. is its sister plant. the other members of this family cuitivated in gardens being the Althea, or Rose of Sharon. and Lavatera, the latter resembling a minlature Hollyhock. The Hibiscus “takes the cake” in size, retaining the vivid hues and cup- like flowers of its relatives. While it be grown from seed. the best way for the home gardener to possess it_is to buy the roets. These are comparatively cheap. and, planted in early Spring, commence to hloom about this time of the vear. They are supposed to hloom all Sum mer. Whether they will or will nat remains to be seen. PR Cement-like-clay, drought and bugs failed 1o stop the Hibiscus, which sent up its shoots, then leafed out. finally | sending forth its curious buds, some- what resembling spiders ance This plant is so hardy, evidently that inroads of insects on its gray green, velvety leaves were but an in- cident in its life. Where it grows in profusion it has nogone to spray it tenderly, but gets along the best it can. The heart of every Hibiscus responds to that iron string: Self-Reliance. Tt was several days ago that the first bud took definite form. A mass of bright watermelon pink showed from the green base. The bud appeared as if some one had taken a square foot or so of pink silk and twisted it into a mass in order to cram it into the space allotted. It ought to be out tomorrow.” we sald, hardly thinking that it would The next morning. looking into the garden with sleepy eves. we saw the biggest flower of our lives The Hibiscus was out! Know ve, all and sundry. that this is one of the adventures of the garden. There will be other blooms, but never one like that first one. that glowed there in the sunshine of the hot Sum mer morning. One could scarcely believe his eves, as he looked at the tremendous bloom. Only recently we had read an article in a magazine describing the ‘‘huge 4-inch blossoms of the Rosemallow.’ Here was our first and only Hibis- cus nearly doubling that measure- ment! If we had not been quite aware of the fact that we had really nothing to do with®the growth of the we might have been proud of ou ity as a gardener. Many swell up over less! ‘Application of a yard stick to the big flower showed it to be exactly 7 inches in diameter from tip of petal to tip of petal. The petals of this bright rose specimen did not edges. as blooms of the light pink ones were destined to do. % ow o in appear- The latter plant displaved three flowers one morning, of an exquisite light pink color, shading darker in the throat. These blossoms were of perfect cup-shape. somewhat resem- bling a Hollyhock, but deeper, as well tion for the particular post in the Speaker's office, Mrs. McArthur is ex- pected to be one of the most efficient employes of Congress, as very much larger. These blossoms were about 5 inches in diameter, quite large enough to create mild esmajernation among adventure—the leading of a | “Other | meet at the | | cities down here to Tennessee to 1ell | plain folk of the South what theyv |should do and what they sheuld not do. Mr. Bryan.. in open court. has been particulariy resentful that New | Yorkers should be here and has asked {what the New Yorkers would have thought if a lot of Tennesseeans had | gone to Albany a year or two ago and {told New York that it could not peal its prohibition enforcement la | Whereupon the lawyers for the de. |fense have retorted that Mr. Bryan/ is responsible for the whole situation;* hey sayv that it was under his ind spiration that the anti-evolution law was passed. Then, as soon as voung Scopes was arrested for violating the law, Mr. Bryan. at Miami, telegraphed offering his services to help prosecuta the “poor professor.” Messrs, Dar row, Malone and Hays. the evil trinity’”” of the defense, say it was not until ‘they read of Mr. Bryan's volun teer action that thev decided to offer their services to the lad who could not afford to hire defenders of his own. The defense lawvers have tried to picture Mr. Brvan as the grim persecutor” of the luckless Scopes but as a matter of fact the feeling out !’(d‘ of the courtroom among the law- ;;v‘: has been the pleasantest imagin- Tt has been a rare picture, indaed. 1o see Mr. Darrow and Mr. Bryan stand. |ing with their arms around each other. Darrow may be the arch-agnostic in jcourt and in general, and Mr. Bryan may be the “arch-conspirator,” want ing to send all who differ with him to the torture chamber, but when the | Brease paint and the make-up of | court sessions are removed, Bryan and | Darrow become good fellow citizens jonce more and walk humbiy side by side. Mr. Bryan says he has bought {all of Darrow’s books and wouldn't {part with his copies ““for the worle | Mr. Darrow has replied by guoting {from Mr. Brvan's works, showing | how thoroughly he has read them 1 . * % * x : | Dayion has neer ful place this last week. From a conrt room where the most profound dis- | cussion of the ages might be heard it was possible to step right around the corner, where if you could knock ane | “baby” down vou could get one oj ar At timer the courtroom has suzgested anything but the scene of a grea trial. It has been more like a revi The judge added 10 that atmosphere ¥ Insisting upon an opening praver each day and by expressing his regre On one occasion that more people could not in 10 hear the speak- ing. The also stopped court one day to thank anonymous ad- mirer who had placed a bonque floween on Hindan. o ooauet of Old “Jim" Riley, one of tha soon tired of being called every time the clerk ned £00d men and true m' confessed that he had never learned to read or write, but he insisted that he he called by the for 1 title of “J. W Y!HDT' instead of just plain Jim. All of which made “Bill” Day the jury demand | that he be called W. G. Day at ali fu- ture times. When Dr. Maynard Me calfe of Oberlin and Johns Hopkins gave scientific testimony “in camera 50 10 speak, on Wednesday afiernoon before a crowded courtroom one ol farmer of Rhea County after listening 10 the “hifalutin language half an vlil;m holted for the d is ain't = nohods that don't know rv\u'mx\h, he az claimed as he lefi the premises You ain’t going mo”” hé shouted re. ] ; | a rare and wonder- zet judge jurors Iim up the 12 Fifty Years Ago - In The Star Half a century ago accidents were comr Street Car Hits at the same leve Railroad Train. % 1" Not infrequent street cars were hit by trai In Tt Star of July 13. 1875, is an account an accident of this kind in which, h ever. a train was hit by a horse “Today at about 11:30 o'clock the Washington day train south over the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad and |ear No. 38 of the Four-and-half and Ninth street lines of the Metropoiitan | Railroad collided at the Intersection of Virginia_avenue and Four-and-a-half street. Fortunately at the time there were no passengers on the street cs 2nd the driver, Mr. A. C. D. Har was the only person injured. 11 Ppears that the signal man was on 4 At the time with his flag. and as street car approached Virginia #1en the driver aitempted in stop the ca but the horse. bacoming frizhtened a the approach of the train, attempte {to run away. Harris immediately put his whole strength on the brake. when |the lever. which appears 1o have had a |faw in it. broke. and he was lefr at |the mercv of the horse. which ran |against the engine. striking near the front driving wheel and beinz some what injured. The car struck the |tender and was knocked crosswise the yptrack and badly damaged. and driver. by some means. had his caught between the planking and rafl of the Baltimore and Potomac Road and one wheel of the tender passed over his heel. crushing the lower part of it. The driver. at the time of the | collision, was doing his best pull |the horse from the track, the | train was promptly checked. * * While the Public Utilittes Commis- {sion considers proposals for new hus : linea it is interesting to |Bus Lines note that 50 years ago | Planned. business men of this city were meeting to pro- mote the establishment of omnibus routes in Washington, with this dif- ference, that the busses of half a century ago were horse drawn. In The Star of July 15, 1875, is the fol lowing news item: “The directors of the Northern Lih {erty Market Co. called a meeting last |evening of .the stockholders of the {company to discuss the feasibility of | establishing a line of some sort of ‘con veyances that will afford facilities for reaching the market. About 20 of | the stockholders responded and met in the offices of the company. Mr. James A. Hoffman in the chair. and Mr. George W. King as secretary. Mr. Hoffman explained the necessity of a line of some sort that would pass hy the market. which was entirely isolat ed from all the city railroad routes. | The directors, he said, had looked with tavor upon the new patent omnibus, the invention of Chauncey Murch of Cincinnati. which combined all the ad- vantages of the horse car and the old fashioned omnibus. The secretary read a letter from Mr. Murch saying that his Invention was in general use in Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Chicago. and was rapidly coming into use in all parts of the country. The chairman stated that with these vehicles they would be rid of the enormous cxperss. of laying and repairing tracks. would not have to secure a chart he raiiroad and streets were B & w th the foot and beholder: the lape Why is it tor laughter? The unusualiv large flower, if worn in the buttonhole. will cause much mirth among associates, much as the crippled person will cause laughter among children. The Hibiscus, however. is no clown, but a very attractive flower. which makes up, By its beauty. for the tact that {t laste only a dav. especially when worn on that the unusual makes