Evening Star Newspaper, October 25, 1925, Page 46

2 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY .October 25, 1925 THEODORE W. NOYES . Editor ening Star Newspaper Company Bustness Office 11th St_and Pennaivania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. ago Office: Tower Buildine pean Office: . 16 Rezent St.. Loudon. England. The The Evening Star g edition. ia delive o city at 60 conts 45 cents per month month. | Orders ma: ~nhone Main B000 carrier at the end of o with_ th by Collection is made by n month yable in Advance. d and Virginia. 1vr. S84001 1yl S8 00 1313740 Rate by M. All Other 1yr tates. £10.00 £7.00 400 wnd Sunday Associated Press. i exclusively antitled tion of all news dis- Member of the The A . Tied i Dablished - All rights of publication erein are also reserved Delinquent Parenthood. before the interna- nal convention of the Young Men's an Associations of the United anada, which opened vesterday, President Coolldge kes a note of warning that should be heard and heeded in every home. Commending the vitally important work of the organization in the train- ing of its members in citizenship, the Preparation of voung men to be the future heads of the homes of the peo- ple. he There are too many indications that the functions of parenthood are break- i down. W omany people are neg- lecting the real well being of their children, shifting the responsibility for their actions, and turning over super- Visic of their discipline and conduct to the juvenile courts. It is stated on high authority that o very large pro- portion of the cutcasts and criminals cote from the ranks of those who lost the advantages of normal parental rol in their youth. They are the yefugees from broken homes who were denjed the necessary benefits of pavental love and direction. The home is the corner stone of the Nation, and any effective better-homes movement must begin with the training of the Youth for those responsibilities. or we shall see the disposition to attempt in some way to turn over to the Govern- ment the responsibilities for the rear- ing of children constantly increased, What the youth of the country need is not more public control through Government action, but more home control ¢hrough parental action. This language should find its way into every home in the country, to be read and pondered by every parent Neglect of the youth of the land is not a matter of social status, of pov- erty. of geography. It is increasingly common to all classes of society, to all conditions of life, to all sections, rural and urban. It is a national tendency. The premature sophistication of vouth is the result of parental neg- lect indifference. It is an effect, not in itself a cause, of the so widely prevalent disposition of the vounger ibers of Ame an society to show of law and restraint. ect is in itself the effect pleasure seeking by the elders, of u gness to regard the children Tn his address ind Parental neg pendence as responsibilities. Much of the juvenile delinquency is due to the breaking up of homes through misfortune, especially in the cities, where the streets are the play- grounds and bad associations are readily acquired. Poverty, compelling the withdrawal of children from school and putting them to work, throws < and girls the currents of in their impressionable years. Wit in the ranks of the people more bly situated. in homes of suf- means, or of afuence, vails a disposition to shirk, to ignore the duties of parenthood, per- mitting the younger members of the to follow their own courses without guidance or check, to mingle with undesirable associates, to acquire debasing habits, to suffer degeneracy of the moral nature. The n are j in into ficient re pr even family ority of the criminals today niles their ar lack They from the homes en They s youths who have “living nd hoys in adult from guidance teens or They of ef- are by the earliest red howme have suf the fective no means, as a rule of poverty, of br home: are in me learned tha from tricks the ploddi ploym can be who regul made crimes, scorn ¢ em- iventure. ve moral courses of nt and who seek They have been denicd effect training. In fight the Young Men’s Christian Association is doing a work of the utmost value to the country. The President is justified in hailing it as the lay force which as- serts the largest influence upon the young people of America ——— rotsky expects to become dictator sia. The long association of his name with that of Lenin gives him a prestige which at last asserts itself, though after much hesitation. — A grand jury may soon consider it beneath dignity to consider the case of anyhody who is not prominent politicall Iy or financially. Radio and “Sport.” Modern invention keeps pace with the ever trictions of Fed- eral ws governing sport and the self-preservative in stincts of furred. feathered and finny The latest is a device for broad- the reassuring calls of ducks, invented by the president of a Cali- fornia gunning club. Radio apparatus has been installed in the club's pre- rves, and with the opening of the on an alluring “Quack, quack™ scattered among the blinds lo- cated at strategic points. The business of befooling the in- habitants of woods, ficlds and waters has reached the highest refinement. Tin automobiles and motor cvcles find few roads they cannot negotiate, and when their owners reach the desired spot they can choose from a long list of decoys, calls, baits, lures and ar- ticles of camouflage to the invention of which really able minds have de- voted many hours of field study and workshop labor. Will it some day come to the point its [0c rowing re and State 1 with zame. stin wa | ) where at a central camp may be kept @ captive cow moose whose nocturnal ‘bleatings into a microphone will be transmitted to points of vantage at adjacent ponds, bogs and runways, to the destruction of vallant and ven- turesome bulls? Most sportsmen will trust not. Such maneuvers m be ethical where dangerous carnivores are involve: bait, any lure is fair enough there. To call a moose by the time-honored method of difficult imitation by the lips of a skilled guide is one thing. But to coax one by such means as are suggested above would be, in the minds of most red-blooded sportsmen, distinctly “not cricket.” Hunting ducks with oversized pot- hunters’, guns Is forbidden. Hunting ducks or geese from or with aircraft is likewise forbidden. “Salting” deer is forbidden. 1t may be hard to sce the precise difference between a tethered live-duck decoy and a broad- casting arrangement, but in the minds of most the difference is there. There is something a little too scientific, & little too wholesale, a little too ef- ficient in such a scheme. The fertile mind of this Californian might, it is thought, be better employed along some line that will make America bigger and better and more likely to possess possibilities of sport when his children and grandchildren come of age. e r———————— The League Intervenes. The League of Nations has inter- vened to prevent war between Greece and Bulgaria, both member nations. The world in general will await with more interest the outcome of this ac- tion on the part of the league than the actual result of the conflict be- tween the Greeks and Bulgars. 1t the league has the power to stop this threatened war, why cannot it stop other wars? Some may contend that this is a “little war’; that a threat of war between two of the great powers of the world would be a ity dif- ferent thing. an affair in which the league might hesitate to act. Never- theless, the present action on the part of the league must be considered a real test of the effectiveness of the covenant of the league and the a: ciation into which these nations have formed themselves. The taunt has been frequent on the lips of those who opposed the entry of the United States into the League of Nations that the league has accom- plished little, if anything, and that it will fail ever to accomplish any great deec the interest of peace. But the power of the league seems to be grow- ing apace. The recently negotiated Locarno treaties, security pacts which pledge many of the nations of West- ern Europe to peace and to peaceful methods of settling disputes among them, are intimately bound up with the League of Nations. Indeed, they recognize the league and the pro- visions of the covenant. Unfortunately many of those who have desired to keep the United States out of the league are not inclined to give to the league the credit for good which it may accomplish. There seems to be a feeling that success on the part of the league is a criticism of their attitude toward it. This is both a petty and a foolish attitude. The United States Government, for rea- sons that have appeared good, and that have been approved by the peo- ple of this country at the polls, has refrained from entering the league. But this Is no reason why the people of America should not wish the league well In its efforts to keep the peace in Europe. The world has moved since the close of the war. Out of the chaos of prej- udice, hatred and distress a new order is developing. Germany and France and their neghbors are on the eve of a better understanding and re- lations that should be friendly for vears. Germany is to become a mem- ber of the League of Nations, and her standing as a nation is better than at any time since her defeat in 191S. The conflict between England and Ireland has been solved with the establish- ment of the Irish Free State, which has become a member of the League of Nations. There are other sore spots which must be healed, among them Russia, before the world may move forward with assurance of peace. But it would be idle to deny that a very definite advance has been made since the signing of the armistice which closed the World War. Aristide Briand, foreign minister of France, in his capacity as president of the League of Natlons Council, has called that body to meet in Paris tomorrow to consider the controversy between the Greeks and the Bulgurs. At the same time, speaking for the league, he has made a peremptory demand upon the two nations to cease their hostilities and to live up to the provisions of the league covenant, as | members of that association of na- tions. It is a novel situation, and much hangs in the balance upon the attitude of these nations and the firm- ness with which the league carries to a conclusion this challenge to war. ——————— Some embarrassment is caused by the reputation of Uncle S8am as a good audience in spite of the fact that no lecturer has yet made much progress toward Interesting him in socialism. ———————————— The French minister of finance is having a not uncommon opportunity of listening to complimentary as- surances mingled with resignation rumors. ——— Immoral Stage Shows. In an cffort to combat the evil of indecent and immoral dramatic pro- ‘uctions, which have during the past few months been numerously pro- duced upon the stage in that city, New York authorities, backed by a substantial public sentiment, have sought various wayas of correction, which in the present state of the law have proved Ineffective. Unofficial “play juries” named by the district at- torney have merely listed objection- able productions, only to advertise them and increase attendance upon them. Producers have resisted all ef- forts to censor their stage offerings. One of them did agree to withdraw an obnoxious drama if others did as much, but his gesture of willingness to accede to the demand of decency proved ineffectual, if, indeed, it was sincere. Now a new move is contemplated. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON. If it results in the enactment proposed a means will have been found tg check the tendency toward corruption on the stage. The city license com- missioner has addressed the municl- pal Board of Estimate urging that the city charter be amended to per- mit the revocation of the license of any theater “upon proof that any drama or play, exhibition, show or en- tertainment, which would tend to the corruption of the morals of youth or others, has been given or presented in any place licensed.”” He proposes that the license commissioner be authorized (o go before any court with proof of the immoral character of & show, and that upon decision for | revocation of license no appeal may | be taken. Should a license be revoked its holder would be barred from again securing a license. At present the license commissioner may revoke licenses on this ground, but his action may be reviewed and revoked by any court. The courts have generally, save in the case of motion pictures, thus checked the commissioner. It does not follow that they would be more likely to cancel licenses upon the direct application of the commissioner than they are now to enjoln him upon the applica- tion of theater licensees. But cer- tainly the proposed procedure would lead to more definite results, with less delay, If there is convincing proof of the indecency of a show. This evil calls for the most drastic remedy. The American stage is now the scene of plays, revues, musical entertainments, exhibitions and va riety performances which are not only vulgar in the extreme, but are actual- ly debasing and corrupting. The standard of public taste and discrim- Ination has been shockingly lowered. Venal dramatic promoters compete for patronage with progressitely immoral offerings. There is no limit to the language employed on the atage. Pro- fanities and obscenities that if ut- tered in public would warrant heavy penalties are tolerated in the mouths of dramatle characters. Situations that offend the sensibilities of even hardened cynics are presented. Nudity of the figure that could not escape prosecution 1f in the street is fea- tured. These plavs are open to all ages of patrons. They are utterly im- moral and demoralizing. More power to the New York com- missioner of licenses, who is thus seek- ing a means of checking what has be- come a menacing evil. New York, the country's chief forcing bed of these noxious plants, is the right place for the work of purification. ————— A Noble Legacy. A Miami millionaire headed his be- quests to institutions with a $£500,000 legacy apiece for the Visiting Nurse Association and the Children's Memo- rial Hospital of Chicago. He could not have made his money do better double duty, for by making the nurs- ing -socfety more efficient he auto- matically eased up the work of the hospital for youngsters. There is a tip here for some wealthy Washing- tonian. ———— Although Columbus made & memora- ble record, European diplomatists are compelled to admit even at this late day that there is much about America remaining to be discovered. e e There are offenses not explicitly defined yet often calling for drastic correction. One of the implied charges against Col. Bill Mitchell is that of spotlight grabbing. s e There would be some excuse for ad- mitting a lecturer to this country who would give a positive guarantee that he would tell us something we have not heard before. e A remarkable new era of prosperity for this country is predicted by finan- cial experts. The present prosperity securely maintained will satisty reasonable patriot e The estate of the late J. B. Duke is estimated at a hundred and fifty mil- lion dollars. There is no use denying it, the anti-tobacco campaign is a failure. any is ———— If the plans arranged at Locarno | do not succeed peace negotiators will e expected to follow the usual prac tice and move on to another town. —r—ee— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, A Franklinism, Nations now are giving heed To such words as Franklin spoke. Games of hate or hasty greed Make this world a sorry joke. And the leaders in affairs Seem to hear o0ld Franklin say, “To your dutles give your cares— Go to work and save your pa Salesmanship. ‘““‘Some of our greatest orators have | been disappointed in their political aspirations.” “Certainly,” replied Senator Sor- ghum. “Many a good man loses out by thinking up fine phrases when he ought to be around ringing door bells.” Effort at Adjustment. Mother listened to a show. Its language left her grieving. She tried to imitate it, though, And now the cook is leaving. Jud Tunkins says the fact that a man is a good loser in a poker game is no sign that he is going to look pleasant when he pays up his tazes. Inevitable Argument. “Cannot Science and Religion agree?” inquired the peaceful person. “I don’t see how they could be ex- pected to,” answered Miss Cayenne, “Scientific people and religious people seldom agree even among them- selves."” i Too Much Originality. A law is a reminder grave Of how all persons should behave: But when too many laws are passed, Each tries to make his own at last. “Profanity,” sald Uncle Eben, “ain’ got much real influence. Dar never vet was a poll parrot dat could drive a mule.” Kl | portation D. ¢ EVERYDAY RELIGION BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D, LL. D., Bishop of RESOLUTIONS THAT MISCARRY. I Chronicles, xiif.13—*"David brought not the ark home to himself, but carried it aside.” The miscarriage of good impulses is common to all of us. Our high ideals and splendid _purposes too frequently die at birth.” A weakling may give expression to the highest aspirations but it takes a strong man to seek th fulfillment. Balaam seemed heroic when he said, “Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his,” but he falled siznally when the opportunity for service came to him. The young King David. with his royal honors fresh upon him, un- dertook as his first task the restora- tlon of the ark of God (which was the symbol of the Divine presence) to the eapitol of his people, It had long been absent in the hands of his enemies, but now he would re- store it to its rightful place. When at length his purpose seemed about to be fulfilled, he hesitated, saying: “How shall 1 'bring the ark of God home to me?" The very presence of this sacred object seemed to appall him. The result was that “David brought not the ark home to himself, but carried it aside” and had it placed in the fricndly home of a stranger. Value of Moral Forces. The whole incident is an_illustra- tion of the miscarriage of a high and worthy purpose. Every man at some time in his life, possiblysfrequently, feels within him strong and noble im- pulses. These impulses may grow out of incidents in his life that bring him face to face with its great realities. Sometimes it is a tragedy within his own household, the sudden suspension of prosperity, the grave sickness of a loved one or even death itself within the intimate family circle. Under such circumstancgs the whole plan of life, as well as its purposes and some- times its weaknesses are disclosed Then it is that latent moral forces assert themselves, and their real value is made evident. We have repeatedly known men and women at such mo- ments to give expression to the high est and hollest purpose as well as to a determination to recast their whole habit of thought and fon. Once the crowding circumstances were pass. ed, we have seen them forget thelr fine resolves and lapse back into the old ways and habits of carelessn and iInsular living. Possibly David feared that the presence of the ark of God would but serve to make more evident the weaknesses of his own moral nature. To live in the presence of that which witnessed the holy and sacred things might furnish too sharp a contrast to that in his life which ultimately caused his overthrow and defeat. All of us have a habit of judging others by standards we do not prac tice. We can see clearly how definite In the last in the United States has increased from 114,000.000,000 ton miles to 338.- 000,000.000 ton miles. At one-half th rate of increase in another transportation facilities m panded to handle at least 5 000,000, 000 ton miles and provide for 40,000,000 additional population. Our present railways will be wholly inadequate to meat that burden, according to Sec retary of Commerce Hoover, who sees a solution of the traffic congestion problem through the development of water transportation, Mr. Hoover visualizes the water transport resources of the country as two great systems, simlilar to railroad systems, with trunk or main lines and feeders—the Mississippi system and the Great Lakes includes 9,000 miles of connected w. terways, of which about 3.100 miles are trunk lines and some 6,000 miles are laterals or feeders. Great Trunk Lines. There 1s a _main north and south trunk line 1,500 miles in length, ox tending from New Orleans to Chicago, and there connecting with the Great Lakes system and crossing this is a great east and west trunk line of 1,600 . from above Pittshurgh through The feeders include the upper s the upper Missouri, the Arkansas, the Cumberland, the Ten- nessee, the Monongahela. the Alle. gheny and other streams. With the main lines developed to a depth of 9 feet and the laterals cor- respondingly improved, the Commerce Secretary points out that this system will serve the vast heart of American agriculture, will place great commer- cial and industrial cities with upward | of 7.000.000 people in the cheapest of communication with each other and will contribute to the cheaper trans- of agriculture and bulk commodities over a great hintes of tes. To do this, he estimate: will cost approximately $100,000,000— $65.000,000 for the improvement of the trunk lines and $35.000,000 for the work urgently needed on the feeder: Of the 3.100 miles of trunk lines about 1,100 remain to be finished— three great links from Kansas City to St. Louls, from Cairo to Chicago and from Cincinnati to Cairo—while of the laterals 5,200 miles have heen com- pleted to various workable depths, leaving 744 miles to be improved. This work should be done within the next decade. Cost of Water Transportation. Water carriage is the cheapest of all transportation for many kinds of goods. For example, 1,000 bushels of wheat can be carried 1,000 miles on the sea for $20 to $30, on the Great Lakes for $20 to $30 and on the mod- ern Mississippi barges for $60 to $70, while the cost of transporting that amount of wheat the sam» distance by | raflroad would be from $150 to $200. In the past there has been a con- stant war between the proponents of rail and water borne traffic, but Sec- retary Hoover says there is today no excuse for continuing this battle, for we are faced with a situation in which both raflways and waterways are needed. “Nor do we need overstate the im- portance of water-borne facilities in relation to our other transportation systems, our railways and highways,” the Secretary told Missouri River in- terests at Kansas City, “Taking the country as & whole, the railways and highways must ever bear the major burden ofs our internal traffic, there are many classes of goods which will always go by rail, parallel with the waterways, but we must accord internal waterways a great and in- creasing future in transportation. Highways Restored by Gas Power. ““At one time in our history we prac- tlcally abandoned highways and water- ‘ways for rafllways. The Invention of the gas engine has restored our high- ways and multiplied their traffic ten thousand fold, yet the total volume of passengers and goods on our rail- ways has never been so great as now. Our raflways would be incapable of the country’s transport today without the aid of the highw: In the same way, with greater depths and with the improvements in craft, it is pos- sible to restore our waterways, nor will this jeopardize the prosperity of our railways. as some predict.” Secretary Hoover pointed out that the Great Lakes system is the greatest system of inland water transportation in the world today, with a vast fleet of vessels whose traffic is over 23 per years railroad traffic | stem. The former | and | Washington. moral principles applied to others would render them more consistent and wholesome. We are not quite so ready to bring these principles home to our own ways of living and to ad- Just our lines accordingl Like Peter, who denied his Lord. e sometimes follow him “afar off. We may rec- ognize His utterly perfect life, ves, acknowledge His divinity, and in a superficial way regard Him as the “holiest among the holy”: but when it comes to recognizing Him as our daily guide and companion we disclose an unwillingness to bring Him home to ourselves. The same thing is true of our habits of worship. The church and its sacred institutions and asso- clatlons are widely regarded as of value in our life. The indispensable- ness of its ministry is unquestioned even by those not afliliated with it. Sunday worship for a brief space fits in nicely with our conception of what is good and decent, and as a contribu- tor to our social well being it has a distinct place. Value of Christ's Teachings. The claims of the Christian religion are generally accepted as valid, but the sacrifices and disciplines which it imposes are largely matters for per- sonal judgment to determine. Not long since a clever secular writer, in an ~ exceedingly thoughtful article, asked the question whether Christ's teachings were to continue to occupy a place of value in the economy of our life. He did not ask the question captiously but serfously. A study of the present conditions had given him concern for the security and continu- ing influence of the Christian religion. He could see no substitute for it in the field, no system of ethics that transcended it. He simply wondered whether, with the present trend of things, it was to be a serious factor in lding and shaping human conduct. We do not fear for the security or | future of our Christian faith, but, on | the other hand. we are hound to be ap- prehensive concerning tendencies in | our modern life that seem to treat Christ_ and His teachings with a de- gree of reverence, but hold them as utterly unrelated and without author- [ ity as applled to the habits and prac- tiees of every conduct. Like David, we would restore to its place of respect and reverence that which speaks of the near presence of God, but we would hardly be disposed to relate it too ntimately to the things of our domestic and social life. With David, we would let the witness of God's presence find its place in the house of another. We like to know that it Is conveniently near in case of trouble, but we are hardly prepared to bring it home to ourselves. Let | us be clear about it. Not until we | do bring it home and into contact | with our most vital interests will it become a blessing and a rejuvenating and saving power. i (Copsright, 1 | cent of the ton miles of our rafiroads. Connection with the Atlantic is made | by the Erie and St. Lawrence canals, | the former with a 12-foot depth and the latter 14 feet, which means that | ocean-going vessels cannot be used, | and that imports and exports v Great Lakes mus “That the Great Lakes opened to the sea, and their ports take | in the ocean trade of | o direct part the world Is aid Mr. Hoover. people absolutely inevitable, “It is demanded in the re E sisted. | “Our engineers have long since | demonstrated that 30-foot canals are | feasible from the lakes to the ocean. | There are two possible alternative | routes—the St. Lawrence and the Erie | Canal. The St. Lawrence is an in- ternattional route: we can only en- | gage in it with the co-operation of | Canada. Before any right conclusions | can be reached as to which of these | routes should be undertaken we must know the attitude of Canada. and we must determine all of the enzineering and economie factors “One thing we do know already is that a shipway can be built. And I can emphatically that the needs of our farmers. our manufacturer: and. |lakes today urzently require that |we provide an outlet for deep-sea vessels from the lakes to the ports |of the world. And I may add that what benefits 18 States benefits all the States.” Location of Industries. In addition to providing cheaper | transportation and relieving the rail- roads | which is rapidly becoming more than they an handle, the Secretary of Commerce sees another great benefit to come from the development of the Nation's great water systems. He points out that indust in its efforts {to find locations where there is equal- it of dvantage in transportation been forced to congregate un- around a few great terminals, a result we already have over- grown cities. One of the great social problems of the day is this over- growth. Through the improvement of wa- | terways, he says, it will be possible to distribute industry and population better, because the waterway tends |to place many towns and cities upon an equality in transportation. Proper [development of waterways should contribute to move industry closer to the agriculutral consumer, give a nearer market to agriculture, and a }greater diversification of occupation ihet\\'e»n agriculture and industry to | their mutual benefit. “We are competing with the whole world today In our export trade and our agriculture and our manufactures are supporting a higher standard of living than any of our world com- petitors,” concluded Mr. Hoover. “The most vital thing in our economic life is to maintain these standards. We can only maintain them if we pro- vide the cheapest channels of trans- portation outward for our farmers to the world’s market, and of we pro- vide our manufacturers and their workmen with the most economic as- sembly of those materials which they must receive from all parts of the world and the cheapest access to the Iworld for their finished goods.” ] s “Attaboy!” From the Springfield Daily Ne The name of Atterbury, who has Just been selected to guide the des- tinies of the Pennsylvania system, can easily be made to sound like the popu- lar expression of approval at an ex- ceptional feat in popular sport. Drives. From the Columbus Ohio State Journal. We are told to render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and Caesar seems to be around every few minutes with another drive for funds ] or something. ——e—s. Stars and Stripes. From the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. 1f New York plays continue to be- come more daring, some stars may presently be wearing stripes. indeed. the whole of the people | in 18 of our States adjacent to the | a share of the traflic burden | OCTOBER 25, 1925—PART i i | ber 16. 1889, and William R. Covle, jvears served on the board of teach- | Board of Education in his home city. | |1ana, Ohio; 9 Capital Sidelights Gen. Lawrence David Tyson, the new Senator from Tennessee, who de- cleively defeated Senator John K. hields, one of the great triumvirate of Democratic irreconctlables to the Versallles treaty, was born on Inde- pendence day, 1861, and has given the Nation the best of his military ability and leadership since his early youth. He is a West Point Military Acad- emy graduate, a past professor of | military sclence and tactics, a volun- teer In both the Spanish-American and World Wars and was awarded the Distingulshed Service Medal for exceptionally meritorfous and distin- guished service. Also, he gave his only son to his country. The youth while Jieutenant in the Naval Air Service was killed in an airplane dur-; ing the World War. Senator Tyson, after graduation from West Point at the age of 22, was assigned to the 9th United States In- fantry. He served for 12 vears in Wyoming, Kansas, Arizona, New York, New Mexi€o and Tennessee. He was professor of military sclence and tactics at the Uniyersity of Tennessee at the same time he was taking his law course. Then he resigned his United States Army commission to practice his pro- fession, but three years later, on the outbreak of the Spanish War, volun- teered and was appointed by Presi- dent McKinley colonel of the 6th United States Volunteer Infantry, Wwhich he recruited, trained and took to Porto Rico for service. He always maintained an interest in the Natlonal Guard of Tennessee and was brigadier general and inspec- tor general under four governors. Gen. Tyson volunteered again at the outbreak of the World War and was commissioned brigadier general in command of all the Natfonal Guard troops of Tennessee. He was later commissioned by President Wilson as brigadier general and assigned to the 59th Brigade, 30th Division, which was composed of the 117th and 118th Infantry Regimentsand the 114th Ma- chine Gun Battalion. This was made up chiefly of men of Tennessee and North and South Carolina. Gen. Ty- son trained these troops at Camp Sevier, Greenville, S. C. He embarked for France May 10, 1918, in command of the 30th Division. His engage- ments comprised Canal Sector, Bel- glum, July 1 to August 30, 1918; Ypres-Lys offensive, Belgium, August 30 to September 2, 1918: Somme offen- sive, France, Seplember 5 to October 20, 1918. e lost in_his own brigade of 8,000 men over 3,700 in killed and wounded. [fe and his brigade were mustered out in April, 1919. Twelve years ago Gen. Tyson came within five votes in the State Legisla- ture of being sent to the United States Senate. He then received 62 votes, with 67 necessary for choice. He had previously been Speaker of the House in the State Legislature. * % % x Representative R. Walton Moore, next-door neighbor to Washington, Congressman from Fairfax, Va. is proud of the report just made to the United States Commission of Educa- tion that nearly two-thirds of the entire teaching force in the public schools of Virginia devoted from & to 12 weeks during the recent Sum- mer vacation to professional stud * % ox x Several native Washingtonians are coming into the new Congress. in- cluding Lindsay C. Warren from North Carolina, born here Decem- from the thirtieth Pennsylvania dis- trict, born here July 10, 1878. The latter was educated in the public schools of the District of Columbia He attended Western High School in 1895 and Central High in 1896 and the following two years at the old Columbian. now George Wash- ington. University. He also served as fleld assistant in the United States Geological Survey. He was a second lieutenant and then first lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps in 1900, later captain in the Pennsy vania Natfonal Guard, and during the World War was first captain and then major In the United States Marine Corps. * X% x When Congressmen next invade Clark Griffith’s Stadium for their annual base ball games, the mar- ried men's team will have a new and formidable player in Thomas S. Mc- Millian of Charleston, S. C., who just before the World War was a mem- ber of the Charleston professional base ball club of the South Atlantic League. He led the league in hitting | and stolen bases. He won a com- | petitive scholarship to the University | of South Carolina «nd was Speaker | in the Eouth Carolina Legislature. | * % ox % Dr. Willlam T. Fitzgerald, who | succeeds the popular Representative ‘ John Cable from the fourth Ohio i trict, saw service in the great rail- | road strike of 1876 as a member of | the Ohio National Guard. He will take a particular interest in our Dis- trict schools, as he has for many ers, examiners and as clerk of the o ¥y Another Mayflower descendant come to Congress is Charles Aubrey Eaten of North Plainfield, N. J., and he is keeping the stock and tradi- tions alive with a family of six chil- dren. He has won distinction as a preacher and editor, both soclological and Industrial. He has been pastor of churches in Natick, Mass.; Cleve- | Toronto and New York City. He was once editor of Leslie's Weekly and of other newspapers, magazines and trade journals. He was head of the national service sec- tion, United States Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet Corporation, for more than two years. * % ok % How many remember Representa- tive Crumpacker, who served from the tenth Indiana district from the Fifty- fifth to the Sixty-second Congress? ‘Well, his son, Maurice E. Crum- packer, who was educated in the ‘Washington schools while his father was in Congress and who later at- tended Culver Military Academy, Uni- versity of Michigan and Harvard, is coming to Congress from the third Oregon district. He was in the mili- tary service of the United States Gov- ernment during the World War for 16 months, and was discharged with the rank of captain. During that time he organized and developed as a war measure the Loyal Legion of Log- gers and Lumbermen in 1,000 logging camps and lumber mills in the States of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, off- setting sedition and I. W. W.ism. L An old Hoover Food Administration man has been elevated to Congress— Elbert S. Brigham of St. Albans, Vt. He served with Hoover during the war and was a member of the New England national agricultural advis- ory committee, having been State commissioner of agriculture from 1913 to 1924, * K k% ‘The heroic service of an humble out- door worker for Uncle S8am has just { country., MEN AND BY ROBERT Several times recently in reports sent out of Washington Col. “Billy” Mitchell has been referred to as a West Pointer. The comment has been made that being a West Pointer him- self the colonel was to ba tried by a high court of West Pointers. Col. Mitchell is not a graduate of the Military Academy. As a matter of fact he entered the Army as a private, in the volunteers of the Span- ish-American War. ‘The mistakes which have been made in this connec- tion are easily understood, however, for Col. Mitchell is listed as a *“dis- tinguished graduate” of the Army ichool of the Line, in 1908; and as a graduate of the Army Staff College in 1909. The School of the Line and the Army Staff College are the post-gradu ate courses in the Army open alike to West Pointers and to those who have entered the Army direct from civil life. They are in a way the real te of the officer in after life, where he may excel by individual effort and aptitude. While Col. Mitchell entered the Army as a private in Company M of the 1st Wisconsin Infantry in 1898, he remained a “buck” for just six days, when he was selected a second lieutenant and made signal officer. That was the beginning of his career in the Signal Service, which was des- tined to evolve itself into the Aviation Service. Col. Mitchell entered the Regular Army as a second lieutenant in April of 1899, It should not be assumed by the public that the fact that he is not & West Pointer may militate against Col. Mitchell when he faces the West Point court in Washington next | ‘Wednesday. There is no real feeling of prejudice in the service between the West Pointers and the non-grad- | uates of the Military Academy. This is particularly true of the men who | have come up in rank since the | Spanish War. In those days the | Army was small and the regular offi. | cers were only too glad to get the in- | flux from civil life, for it bLoosted every one of them Into higher grades, and if there is one thing an officer loves better than anything else it is a higher grade. Most of them sorely | needed the small additional salary | and promotion {8 a mark of success in any line of life, Naturally among West Pointers, and especlally among classmates, there is a cameraderie which does not extend to the non-West Pointers, just as in civil and business life there is always a closer feeling among Har- vard men, or Yale men, or California men, or the graduates of any other | college. Just now in Washington | there is a striking demonstration of | the way that Amherst men stick to- gether. i Because he is not a West Pointer, | Col. Mitchell is likely to get more | consideration and have more toler- | ance shown him than if he had come | from the honor ranks of the Academy, Truth to tell, however, the doughty colonel is not lookinz for considera- | | | | | | sistent AFFAIRS T. SMALL. tion or tclerance. He wants every body to be “hard-bofled,” for he is rapidly getting that way himself. CaTaTa The great Dwight family rises in its place and asks not to be overlook ed in the reigning nomenclatures of Washington. Some more or less s tinent comment recently was m upon the avalanche of Davises which had descended upon the Capital to sit in the high places of Government Now it would seem that the Dwight strain furnishes a trinity in the ad ministration which i3 extremely pow erful First of all, there i Dwight Mor row, partner of J. . Morgan & Co. who is the closest adviser to Presi dent Coolidge and the man whose advice he takes above all others. Per- haps that is why Mr. Coolidge is so highly regarded in the business world. Mr. Morrow's association with the President had been more or less un offical up to the time Mr. Coolidge named him as clairman of the spe cial board appomted to investigate the aircraft “sfandals” and to make recommendations as to the future afrcraft policy. It is safe to say that any report to which Mr. Morrow attaches his signature will bear great welght with the Chief Executive. The second Dwight on the Govern- ment seroll is Curtis Dwight Wilbur, ecretary of the Navy. Mr. Wilbur was more or less unknown to the President up to the time he was ap- pointed to the Navy portfolio in the cabinet, but Mr. Coolidge learne: to regard him highly and is backing him in every one of the enunciated naval policies. Third on the list is the new Sec retary of War, Dwight F. Davis. Mr Davis ought 1o be the most powerful | of all the new personalities because he combines the influence of hoth the Dwights and the Davises—a par .ticularly happy combination. The ascendancy of the Dwights recalls to old Washingtonians the time when John Dwight of > State was republican “whip” House of Representatives and mendons influence in all national legislation * ow ox W Base hall fans, the old game In moth 1 fvory domes head for Sprin re discussing Roger Peckinpaugh's record-breaking per- formance in the world series. And.as the fans always love to flock to * zers,” one of them has discovered t “h time the butter-fingered Washington shortstop bobbled a ball or threw one crooked to first or sec ond_base, he cost his teammates $6.250 in cold, hard cash. Fred Snod grass of the Giants once made a £30,000 muff in the last inning of the t game of a world series, but Peck was far more consistent and per- in his misplay, and finally on eight chances built up a deficit of approximately $30,000. His last misplay in Pittsburgh. paving the way for three runs, could have been written down as a $£50,000 bobble if it hadn’t been for all of its prede- cessors. reluctant to s until t (Copsrizht. 19251 Fifty Years Ago!jx In The Star correspondent of | says The Star of | writes as follows: | = ‘I came back to my Prosperity of Washington haunts | - and occupations a Washington. [, “civlier than | ugual and am at once struck with the | signs_of progress and prosperity in | the Capital which fmpress upon me more clearly than ever before the fact that it has ceased to be a political barrack and has begun to be the great city which its founders foresaw. | Neither the panic nor the downfall of the local government seems to have had any material influence upon the prosperity of Washington. All the prophets who foretold such_dire re- sults have come to grief. It is not| strange, perhaps, that the panic was | so harmless to the Capital. There | were no special business interests to | be prostrated by it. The brea the District government was e to mark a dismal reaction in the value “The Washingto: the Boston Herald, October 19, 1 city. It did nothing of the sort. More | houses have been built in Washington | this Summer than in any city in the | unless it be Philadelphia. | The improved streets are getting past | that look of newness and fresh adorn- ment which was o apparent a year or two ago.' " | * * From this picture of prosperous | Washington it is interesting to turn (o 9, the ollowing, | New York's Realty in The Star of | i October na Sl“mp' 1875, suggest ing a different state of things in the | City of New York: teference was made in this column a day or two ago to the disquietude in | New York business circles in conse- quence of the diversion of the grain trade from that city to the other sea- board cities. It seems now that New York has a new source of alarm in the heavy depreciation of real estate in that cy. On Wednesday a_sale of 128 lots located on Fourth, Park, Madison, Fifth and Eleventh avenues and varlous uptown streets took place. The bidding was slow and the prices paid ranged from 25 to 50 per cent less than they would have brought two vears ago, in some cases barely covering the ‘mortgages on them. This sale, with other private disposals of vacant and unoccupied property, shows that real estate has suffered an enormous depreclation in value within a couple of vears in New York. In some cases the shrinkage amounts to over 50 per cent and sweeps away the whole margin be- tween the mortgage and the former valuation. Hundreds of real estate operators who supposed they were rich find themselves poor, if not actually bankrupt, by this unexpected collapse of speculative prices, and even savings banks and insurance companies have in some cases found it impossible to realize the full amount advanced on mortgage securities. “The New York papers, however, profess to_find a silver lining to this dark cloud. The Graphic, comment- ing upon the matter, says that this sudden and immense tumble in real estate will make hundreds of people, who had supposed themselves rich on broad margins, penniless, but that it will break the rule of the real estate ring, which inflated prices to a fictitious standard and succeeded in raising the assessments far above their proper level. The real estate has been taxed been brought to the attention of Bec- retary Jardine of the Department of Agriculture by W. B. Greeley, chief of the Forest Service. Crawling into a hollow tree lying on the ground and extingulshing the fire burning within the tree was the unusual experience of Fred Call, a fire guard in the Boise National Forest in Idaho. He was on duty when a bolt of lightning set fire to a yellow pine tree 42 inches in diameter. This tree happened to be hollow and Call chop- ped it down in order to extinguish the blaze. Even then he was unable to get to the flames, 8o he crawled into the trunk, chipping away the burning wood with his knife and crawled out ‘with it on his shovel. He made many trips into the tree, crawling about 60 feet each round trip. % % in some cases from 20 to 40 per cent above its real value, and one of the first consequences of this collapse will be its reassessment at its actual ‘worth. It is held that one reason why no more building has been done in New York for the last few years Is that lots were so high no one could buy them for building purposes with- out running the risk of ruinous losses. “The rapid growth of Philadelphia 18 largely owing to tha fact that land in that city is compMratively cheap. while in New York it has been held at fabulous prices. A tumble of 50 per cent in the price of real estate would, therefore, it is argued, prove a real gain to the city in the long run by This and That By Charles E. Tracewell. This is the story of the cat Slicker, and how he’ found a good home, but not_where you might suppose. Slicker demonstrated anew the divine right of the cat. even though he be a kitten, to pick and choose Here is his stor He was born some place near the Post Office Department. No one knows where, and no one cares, least of all Slick. He wandered into a big business building, past the elevators, at which he looked curiously, through corridors, out of the way of hurrving feet, down another hall, into a room. He was about 6 inches long, prettily tiger-marked, _tremendous whiskers, bright ey Many a hardened soul, immune to the lure of larger felines, stopped to pet the little fellow. Even the elevator men noticed him. “"That little cat's going to get hurt,” said one. fe looks hung with fine disregard of fact icker was fat and trim, heart; said @ passen- for nd { ot property and the growth of the | full of life. Into another office wandered he. There he found a woman, who had so much to do at the time she could not bother much with a stray kitten Around lunch time, however, she sent a boy up to the lunchroom to get a bottle of milk for the kitten. Poured into an empty, but clean, Ink well the milk was very much appreclated nderer. will take that cat home.™ sald the woman. P When quitting time had arrived rain was pouring down, so the busi- ness woman went home without the Kitten, leaving instructions as to its care. At home her account of the cat met with so much approbation that he family was unanimously in favor of adding it to the househoid. A _voung daughter volunteered to go down to the office and bring the little cat home through the rain. So she donned her raincoat, known as a “slicker,” and went off in search of the unknowing kitten. She found the creature plaving in the empty office. It was still raining when she opened the front door at home, and the tiger kitten jumped from out the folds of her raincoat. “What shall we call him?" asked the mother. Slicker?” christened the -child. So Slicker he was. It was a good home fate had brought him into. From the danger of automobile-filled streets and hurry- ing, heedless footsteps, Slicker had Dbeen carried to a good home, where his meow was law. 5 Peace, quiet, more food than he could eat, plenty of attention—these were some of the things he received He waxed fatter than ever. Then one day he disapepared. Nothing was heard of him unti! evening, when a boy ran to say that Slicker had been in a big fight with an Alredale, and “was almost killed. Sure_enough, Slicker was in a bad way. No cat ought to fight an Alre- dale until he i= at least a vear old. Slicker was pretty badly torn up, but with loving care managed to pull through in fine shape. In a few weeks no one would have suspected that anything had ever been wrong with Slick. He was as smooth as his name. * ok ok % Then he disappeared again. Davs went by, then weeks, and still no Slicker. The family had about given him up when one bright morning the woman saw him again. Thefe was Slicker, fat and content- ed, sitting in the doorway of a Chi- nese laundry. Voluntarily he had taken up a new residence. Knowing the fondness of the Chi- nese for cats, she left Slicker alone in his new home, feeling sure that he will be happy there. Some day, she says. she is going to ston in and find out Slick’s new name! portant effect in stopping extravagant expenditures for ornamental purposes by the city government. The tax- payers will not stand an_increase of increasing the demand for stores and houses and their sale for actual oc- cugancy. It will alsé have an im- assessment. They have reached the point where taxpaying ceases to be a virtue,”