Evening Star Newspaper, November 15, 1925, Page 62

2 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Editfen. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY.....November 15, 1925 - THEODORF. W. NOYES...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company 11 se R anta Ave oo Xower Bulidine. Furopean Offce 14 Regent St.. London, England. The Evening Star. with the Sunday morn- {ne edition. is delivered by carrigry within the city at 60 cents per month: dalls only. 43 cents per month: Sunday only. 20 cen Py month, Orders mas be sent by mail or Sclephone Main 5000. Collection is made by «arrier at the end of each month, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday. 1yr. $R.40: 1 mo.. Daily only 1mol Sunday only i 1mo. All Other States. Dailr and Sunday. ...1 yr.. $10.00 Daily only. ..., I15r. $7.00 Fanday only 1yr. $£3.00 /3¢ 80c 26¢ :1mo. 1mo. i1mo. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press {s exclusitely entitled to the use for republication of ail news dis- Patches credited to it or not otherwiss cred- itad in this paver and also the local nowa Dblished herein. All rights of publication ©f pecia) disnatches herein are aiso reserved = “Cal.” ‘The Child Culture Club of Ogden, Ttah, has opened up an interesting question in its desire to see Ameri- cans act alw in good taste and With proper respect toward the Presi- dent of the Unlted States. The club has asked: “Is it disrespectful to refer to the President of the United States as ‘car?” Bless their respectful and conscien- tious hearts, of course. the millions of Americans who refer to President Coolldge as “Cal” have no idea of be- littling the President or his office. There is no man in the United States today, or out of it. who holds the re- spect of the people generally to a greater extent than Calvin Coolidge. They refer to Mr. Coolidge as *‘Cal" precisely as they referred to President Roosevelt as “Teddy” and to President Lincoln as “Abe,” because they ad- mire and hold a strong affection for him. Most of the great men of this and other countries who have a strong hold on the imaginations and affec- tions of the people bear nicknames, some based on abbreviations of their proper names and some on character- istics or accomplishments of these men. The use of these nicknames is one way of expressing admiration and appreciation. It makes the people, many of whom never have an oppor- tunity of seeing or speaking to the President, feel a little closer to him. The Child Culture Club of Ogden addressed its question to Mrs. John D. Sherman, president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. Mrs. Sherman. with great good sense, has replied that in her opinion calling Mr. Coolidge “Cal” does not indicate rude- iess or disrespect. It suggests,” she =aid, “a hurry to get acquainted, and is an affectionate term applied in ap- proval to a leader who is himsel seemingly a little austere in his force- fulness.” The picture of President Coolidge which the people of America most cherish today is that of an honest, Lard-headed, common-sense Yankee, a man who is close to the people be- cause he has known first hand their problems. They visualize him as a regular American, with no frills. They call him “Cal” because it helps them to @ realization of the man's sterling qualities. To suggest that it is a term of disrespect is to be hypercritical to a degree that is almost ludicrous. ————. A Great Cook and Her Stove. On the 22d of February, 1863, Her- bert Sheets and his bride started housekeeping at Quinton, N. J. Her- bert's wedding present to his wife was practical and sensible. It was a cook stove. Those were war days and prac- tical things were in fashion. For more than sixty-two years Mrs. Sheets 1as Leen cocking the family meals on that stove. It is estimated that over +0.000 meals have been preparcd with its ald. Recently Herbert died, and Catherine, his widow, went to live with relatives in Pennsylvania. Her furniture was sold at auction. The «ook stove was bought for $20 by the vepresentative of a stove company, who wanted it as a relic, perhaps for advertising purposes. Mrs. Catherine Sheets deserves more than passing attention as the owner and user of the same stove for over sixty-two years. She rather than the stove is to be celebrated. For it wag probably her care of the stove that made it last so long and work so «ifectively. For, of course, it was an effective stove and she a good cook. Yet it must be taken for granted that Mrs. Sheets is an expert in kitchen economica. She probably burned out a fow grate bars, but not as many as most stove users. Grate burning is the fault of the stove-user ordinarily. Mrs. Sheets probably had some new firebricks put in from time to time, for no amount of care will keep them from cracking. But the stove stood up because it was well tended, prob- ably always polished, the ashes al- ways cleaned out thoroughly, the fire Xept at the right pitch. In other words, it was used right and it lasted in consequence. There is a lesson in this old stove and its use by an efficlent woman and 2 good housewife. Tools of trade are worthy of care. Many of the mis- takes in life are due to fallure to re- spect the rights of the inanimate. —_— e The ancient game known as “an- thracite strike” is played on with great determination, in epite of the fact that there is no applause from anybody. —————— Scandinavian Seafarers. Another link has been forged in the chain, sentxzental and economic, con- necting Scandinavia with this coun- try and this continent, a chain dating back & thousand years. Within the present year six ocean-going ships have steamed more than a thou- gand miles inland from tidewater to lay down cargoes in Chicago, near the heart of the great Middle West corn belt, & region already indissolubly connected with Scandinavia by rea- $on of the number and class of emi- grants who have pered therein. Five of these vessels were of Nor- weglan registry; the sixth flew the Danish banner. None was large, as ocean-going ships go nowadays, for the Welland Canal limits to 8,000 tons craft finding their way up the St. Lawrence and through the Great Lakes. Nevertheless, they may be re- garded as heralds of the completion of the drean: of & great fnland port. Compared with the ships of the first Northmen visitors to this continent they were marvelous leviathans. Those hairy Vikings made tremendous voyages on diminutive cabinless ships that were more like big whaleboats than any other craft. They toiled at the oars. They ate cold food. They were drenched for weeks on end with a freezing spray and rain. In their oft-watches they huddled under a shelter made of the spare striped sail propped up with spare oars. The Scandinavian sallors manning these five cargo steamers enjoyed comforts and luxuries undreamed of by their ancestors. The Vikings did not even quite know whither they were going; their descendants could listen to a radio. Ships change, but men and the sea do not. It is prob- able that these blond seamen could have made the voyage, if they had been compelled to, in one of their an- cestral craft. It is likely that if, at some future day, Ssuperman opens great waterways to the now desert and inaccessible parts of the globe the first ship in will be commanded by a Hansen, an Oleson, a Lindstrom or & Walquist, while the roster of the ship's company will sound as {f it had been dug from some anclent burial barrow among the fiords. settled and pros- No Danger in Bituminous. President Johm L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers, leader of the miners in their strike in the anthra- cite district, sounds & warning to the public against the use of bituminous as a domestic fuel on the score of the danger from poisonous gas. Offictals of the Bureau of Mines deride this warning as unwarranted, pointing out that bituminous is burned almost ex- clusively in the Western part of the United States, with but slight {ll ef- fects from its emanations. One of these offf declaring that only about one-sixth of the American peo- ple use anthracite, asserts that there are more deaths among that sixth from carbon monoxide than there are among the other five-sixths from suf- focation. ‘What is known as “coal gas” in the usual parlance is not the deadly gas that is to be so greatly feared. Carbon monoxide, which is one of the most fatal of combustion emanations, is odorless. It cannot be detected. “Coal gas,” the ill-smelling fume from stoves und furnaces, is unpleasant, but is not in itself deadly. It may cause suf- focation if it is allowed to accumulate in a closed room for hours. But that is & remote contingency, for in only the rarest cases are rooms heated by the so-called “hot-air” system kept thus sealed during occupancy. There is no real risk in the use of bituminous for domestic heating on the score of gas. That is well estab- lished, and there {s no warrant for heeding the warning of the miners’ unfon president, who is obviously seeking to lessen the public use of substitutes for anthracite in order to evoke a general demand by the people for the settlement of the strike on any terms. With the assurance of sclentists who thoroughly know their subject that bituminous fuel will not endanger life In domestic use, there is no need to eschew that substitute for the fuel of ordinary use in this emergency. As well might warning be sounded against using furnaces at all on ac- count of the danger of overheated flues and resulting fires. As well seek to frighten people from using gas heaters because of the possibility of escaping gas through faulty fixtures | and porous tubes and in consequence of careless handling. Bituminous is a safe fuel, and if properly handled is an economical and | Richard Edelin, an efficlent fuel. The best ways of using it can be easily learned. The coal merchants of Washington are preparing to6 show the peopls of this clty how to use it safely and effective- 1. The Star urges that all the coal burners of this city who are not now supplied with anthracite for the sea- son, and who ere not installing ofl burners as a substitute for coal, at once get in line for this instruction. They will not suffer in health, and they will run no risk of fatalities. ————— The general public has long since lost sight of the merits of the anthra- cite argument. At this time of year that kind of an argument should be impossible. ————— Some congratulations are due for the length of time Col. Billy Mitchell has been able to pursue his defiant career without being again demoted. ———————— The glories of King Tut's tomb per- mit attention to wander agreeably for the moment away from the housing problems of the living. Analostan Island. A number of civic socleties have passed resolutions that the name of Analostan Island be changed to Mason Island. In the latter part of the eighteenth and early part of the nine- teenth century the island was com- monly called Masons Island, perhaps not so much on account of George Mason of Gunston Hall as because his son, John Mason, who inherited the .island, built a fine house on it and was prominent in the affairs of Georgetown and Washington. The Mason family, which owned the island for certainly three, and perhaps four, THE SUNDAY Marys City, under the Hon. Vincent Lowe, esquire, surveyor general of this province, and In reference to a warrant granted the said Brandt bear- ing date of the 27th of April last past for 200 acres of land, have laid out for the said Brandt one certain parcel of land being an {sland lying in the Patomack River near the falls of said river over against Rock Creek, in Charles County, commonly called or known by the name of the Annalos- tan Island, concining by estimate 756 acres, more or less. Certified this 29th day of Aprill, :Anno Domini 1682." It would seemn that the grant to the 200 acres was called Barbadoes, and that Analostan Island was a part of that grant and came sometimes to be called “Island of Barbadoes,” prob- ably meaning “the island which was part of the grant of Barbadoes.” The island came into possession of Francis Hammersley, husband of Ran- dolph Brandt's daughter, and he sold the island to George Mason, the deed being dated August 28, 1717. That George Mason was the father or grandfather of George Masgon of Gun- ston Hall, the fourth of that name. George Mason of Gunston Hall, in his will probated at Fairfax Court House October 16, 1792, bequeathed to his fourth son, John Mason, vari- ous tracts of land in Virginia near Washington and “my island in the Potomack River opposite the mouth of Rock Creek which I had under a patent from the lord proprietary of Maryland by the name of Barbadoes.” The first patent of record was to Brandt under the name Annalostan Island. Gen. John Mason mortgaged the island to the Bank of the United States in 1826. In 1829 he put a sec- ond trust on the island, and his fine house to secure his indorsement of others’ notes. The bank foreclosed the mortgage in 1833 and sold the island in 1842 to John Carter of Georgetown. John Marbury, executor of John Carter, conveyed the island to Willlam A. Bradley, and after varl- ous changes of title it was bought by Joseph Leiter June 14, 1813, from the Analostan Improvement Co. After Gen. John Mason lost his is- land home he removed to & very com- fortable estate called Clermont, about three miles west of Alexandria, and died there In April, 1849, David Ballie Worden, who vis the District early in the nineteenth century, spent some time with Gen. Mason and wrote much about the Mason family and the island in a book published at Paris in 1816, en- titled “Annalostan Island.” In spite of the boastings of Florida real estate it is contended that more real money has been earned in the Stock Exchange. The permanency of the profits are in both cases subject to future conditions. The old forms of speculation, while facing rivairy, have not been supplanted. —————— Ttalian statesmanship has decided that the best way to dispose of a debt is to pay it. In the meantithe philos- ophers have observed that the next best thing to being out of debt is to have a friendly and helpful creditor. = ———.—— The business outlook is good. Kven those who cannot expect an increase of mercantile or professional profits may look forward to a decrease of taxes. v Plans are under way for greater afrcraft. The chief purpose should be not 80 much to make them bigger as to make them safer. M- A motion picture star occasionally i finds himself compelled to devote more of his time to divorce lawyers than to scenario writers. SHOOTING STARS. 8Y PHILANDER JOHNSON Strangest of All At last the wishes have come truc That in the early days we knew. Ben Franklin's kite has brought the spark Which never leaves us in the dark; Which speeds mid scenes of peace or strife And almost brings machines to life. Though wondrous men have passed away Their presence seems at hand today. Unto the ocean depths we turn And take a trip with old Jules Verne, Or if we would explore the sky With patient Langley we may fly— And here's the strangest thing of all— ‘While every wish we can recall Has now been gratified, we fret, Somehow we are not happy yet! Remoteness. “‘Radfo is a wonderful means of communication.” “Yes,” answered Senater Sorghum, “but I don’t find it entirely satisfac- tory. There's no way of checking up on the laughter and applause to make sure you aren't accidentally getting in wrong with a large and influential audience.” Early Musical Episode. When Orpheus played the saxophone And thereby moved each stick and stone, He ran for cover, and cried he, “Who's throwing all those things at me!"” Jud Tunkins says he once liked to g0 to the seashore and play in the sand. But that was when the game wasn't so expensive as it is in Florida. Doubtful Discipline. “How’s the new jail?” “Mighty handsome an’ commo- dious,” answered Cactus Joe. “The fact is, it's so comfortable we're thinkin® of offerin’ a week's board in generations, seemed to have called the | i a4 3 premium for good behavior.” island Barbadoes, but its first name of record was Analostan. It was patent- ed under that name to Capt. Ran- dolph Brandt by the proprietary of Maryland in 1680. In the land office at Annapolis is this warrant: “In obedience to a war- rant from his lordship bearing date the 21st of July, 1680, granted unto Capt. Randolph Brandt of Charles County upon a petition of the afore- said in humble manner, certifies that surveyor, of St. Giving People What They Like. The old-fashioned monarchs are stand- ing perplexed. On dictators people insist. A superdictator perhaps will be next Upon the political list. “Dar can’t be much happiness,” said Uncle Eben, “in a home whar\dar’s allus an argument ‘bout whether de money's glneter be spent foh dry goods or wet goods.” a ted | STAR, WASHINGTON ’ ~ EVERYDAY RELIGION BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D., LL. D., Bishop of Washington. The Source of Supply. IT Kings, xviif.17.—"“They came and stood by the condult of the upper poc! The source of supply constitutes the most important factor in the admints- tration of an army in the field. Napo- leon insisted that the commissariat was more vital to an efficlent army than anything else. We sometimes glve little consideration to those things that are most indispensable to the maintenance of our health and happiness. Probably nothing is more indispensable to the population of a great city than its water supply. This supply s almost invariably drawn from ‘places far removed and repre- sents in the means employed to carry it a vast outlay of money. Far away, back in the countryside, up in the hills, great pools or lakes carefully protected and fed by countless springs constitute in themselves sources of health and refreshment of incompar- able value. To interrupt the flow of the water means disaster and death to great masses of people. In the story from which the above text is taken an Assyrian general had laid slege to the anclent City of Jeru- salem. Realizing the immense advan- tage of controlling the water supply, he immediately laid hold of the upper pool with the conduit that carried the refreshing stream to the city below. He knew that once this was in his control he need not strike a blow, but that ultimately the city would be com- pelled to capitulate. Few, if any, of the beleaguered city had given much thought to that which was freely sup- plied them day by day from this res- erveir of refreshing water. It was only when it was taken from them that they realized its indispensable- ness. ok ox ox The fncldent is fllustrative of a common experience. There are sources of supply without which we ure unable to pursue the tasks or to meet the demands of everyday life. These sources are so free to our serv- lce that we rarely, if ever, give them consideration. It is only when one of them is suddenly suspended that we find ourselves impoverished and help- less. Life is a vast system of com- plex and interlocking machinery. ‘When everything runs along smooth- ly and eve-ything is well lubricated, and all our daily needs are met, . we think little of the mechanism and what it contributes to our health and happiness. Let something impair it or hinder its free operation, and we suddenly become conscious of our de- pendence and experience dissatisfa, tion and pain. There are some things that we cannot get along without, and frequently we discover this only in Therapeutical circles are attaching no smail amount of tmportance to a brochure on spotted fever vaccine re. cently published by the United States Public Health Service. This work prepared by R. R. Spencer and R. R Parker, surgeon and special expert, respectively, of the service, holds promise of important results in the immunizing of persons against this disease which hitherto has been fatal to most of its victims. Spotted fever is peculi section only. It occurs nowhere but In the Northwestern States. Idaho and Montana are its principal foct, al- though cases have been found in other Northwestern States. . In Montana and Idaho it fs found in two or three zones, the chief one being the Bitte root Valley in Montan In these zones death rates vary, a pecullar phenomenon which shows that dlsease 18 not constant in its actions. It may be that It is susceptible to different climates. In Bitterroot Val- ley 90 per cent of the cages are fatal, Ticks Carry Disease Germs. The disease Is carried by ticks’ which live on large and small animals, including domestic beasts. It appears only in Spring and Summer, at which times ticks abound. It is not fatal to animals, laboratory animals being to one in the sense that one person may convey it to another, the presence of the tick being necessary for contrac- tion. It is less fatal in children, some- thing that has not been explained. There is no specific in curing it. Most i of the cases that have recovered have been persons who developed a natural fmmunity to it. It begins with a fever. Following the inception a rash appears on the second or third day. This rash breaks out all over the body. The patient, unless he develops the immunity spoken of, usually dies some time be- tween the fifth and tenth davs. These facts, and the character of the disease appeared in medical annals some 40 years ago, but prior to the findings of Spencer and Parker there was nothing of note discovered in its treatment or prevention. Three men, Dr. T. B. McClintoe and two laboratory assistants of the Public Health Service, have dled in the work of investigation. These men were working In the laboratory maintained by the service at Hamil- ton, Mont., when they were stricken. Dr. McClintoc, desiring to be brought East agaln, was taken as far as Chi- cago, where he died. No one in his |company caught the disease, further proof that it is not contagious. Tourlsts May Be Endangered. With the construction of roads through the zones in which spotted fever occurs, the danger of additional exposures arises. These roads cut across the tick infested territory and tourists will be threatened. Hence the work of Spencer and Parker is hailed by medical men. Through the use of the vaccine the disease may be controlled or prevented. At least there is hope of this being brought about. These men have shown that guinea plgs could be immunized against spotted fever. Their recent experi- ments show that this vaccine also will protect monkeys and that it will confer immunity upon man. Ticks, especlally prepared, are per- mitted to feed on guinea pigs for three days, and then eviscerated, one by one, and ground in a mortar for 10 or 15 minutes with sterile sand and a few cubic centimeters of salt solution. In this manner the desirable substances are obtained, the other fragments set- tling to the bottom, and a fairly homo- geneous emulsion is the resuit. The minimal Infectious dose for guinea pigs is determined by the injection of graded dilutions, using 10 guinea pigs for the test. If any of the guinea pigs receivirig one-thousandth of a tick fails to_develop spotted fever, the material is not considered ssuitable. The ma- terfal then is run through other proc- esses and is shown to have protective qualities. It is then re-emulsified and injected into guinea plgs. In investigations of Rocky Moun- tain spotted fever, or other disease transmitted by insect vectors, no at- tempt hitherto has been made, as far as is known, to protect man by vacci- nation. Thirty-four people, chiefly laboratory and field workers in Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and others whose occupations expose them to in- fection, have now been vaccinated. Each lot of vaccine was first tested for sterility and protective qualities by in- | dection into guinea pigs. The vaccine was administered sub- SPOTTED FEVER VACCINE BY FREDERIC J. HASKI, the | the sole exception. It is not contaglous | D. ¢C, times of crises. 1f there are sources of supply that are indispensable to our physical needs. without which we cannot carry on, there are other vources of supply that we all too in- aferently consider that are as in- dispensable to our spiritual needs. One would not serfously think of efi- cient living in the world today with- out giving due consideratiqn to those mighty influences that conspire to en- rich and stimulate moral character. To think of life without thinking of character making and shaping forces is to reckon with it in terms that must lead ultimately to moral decay and the breaking down of the social order. * ok kK The security of life does not reside in a well constituted constabulary nor even in laws rigidly enforced. Codes of ethics, however finely conceived, do not restrain the passions of men nor guarantee to soclety that which safe- guards and preserves it. One won- ders whether we are not reckoning | too much today on our vast material | resources. Carlyle, In another criti- cal period, maintained that unless a new splendour of God came out of the heart of the industrial age he could see no light ahead and little else but “frantic, suicidal dissolution.” Recently a number of authors of much repute ventured to give some expressions concerning their religious convictions. Few of them seemed to realize that one of life’s chief sources of supply s to be found in a deep religlous” conviction. Independent of what form religlous convictions may take, history has demonstrated its indispensableness. * % % % The yreat purpose of the ministry of Jesus was to make more evident to men not alone their spirftual needs, but the means whereby they might be satisfied. “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly,” was His great declaration. Repeatedly He dis- closed to those who companioned Him the great source of supply from which He drew strength for His life work. We cannot bring up our youth to day and make them fit for the great battle of life unless we make clear to them the deeper and finer things of their nature and the means or meth- ods by which thelr moral and spiritual life 18 to be sustained and enriched. No matter what else we may give them of material things, %e must bring them into vital contact with those sources of spiritual power that enrich and develop the moral and spiritual things In man. We need -nothing so much today In our indl- vidual or corporate life as a new realization of what constitutes life's chief source of supply. (Copyright. 125.) cutaneously in doses of one or two cubic centimeters, each at five-day ln—' terval. Some have received two, some three, and some four injections. No, severe reactions have been encoun. | tered. Local redness, swelling and reaching a maximum within 48 is the rule. Slight headache and muscular pains occurred in a few instances, but no elevations of body temperature developed, and all per- sons vaccinated carried on their duties as usual. Only e experienced any discomfort, this fr a general itch- ing. with watering of the eyes. For two weeks there appeared eral €rops of rash, mpanied by itching. This condition, however, did not keep the patient at home. Results bave already Leen obtained by the use of vaccine. On April 8, 1925, & man, 43 years old, of Stevens- ville, Mont., engaged in cattle dipping for the Montana State Board of En- tomology, was vaccinated. At the same time other men were given in- Jections from the same vial Five days later this man was given an. | other injection. And the morning of ..§prll 16, elght days after the first in- | jection, 'he arose tired and drowsy, | with a slight headache and muscular pains. The following day the symp- toms were more severe and he went to bed. April 19 the family physician discovered spots on the ankles and ab. domen. April 21 there was nosebleed and a temperature of 104. A diagnosis of Rocky Mountain spotted fever was made, although no definite history of tick bite could be obtained. The pa- tlent’s occupation, however, continu ally exposed him to the bites of ticks which he had been removing from cat. tle and horses by hand-picking. Such ticks can infect far more readily than unfed tick: Vaccine Modifles Disease. The course of the disease in this casc was mild, and the patient was never considered in danger. Conva- lescence was vrolonged, but the pa- tient completely recovered. Four other cases, all that have occurred in Bitter- root Valley this vear, were fatal with- in 10 days. The rash was scattered in the case of the vaccinated man, and less marked than any seen in that reglon. Three guinea pigs inocu- lated with the patient’s blood fafled to show spotted fever. This suggests that the disease was modified by the vaccine. Theee (s however, no premise on which to base a statement that it actuaily decreased the intensity of the infection. From the results it would appear that it did, and the big item is that it was the only case in five to recover. Truant Law Serves To Crowd Schools To the Editor of The Star: In Wednesday's Star there appeared a news item entitled “Truant Law Story Is Told in Report.” The item is in effect a boost for the compulsory law and the militant minority that put it across. It does not tell the whole truth, and the part that it does not tell is that the compulsory school law has so crowded our schools with cafl- dren who don't want to go to school and who derive very little benefit from it that many children who do want to go and who would be bene- fitted thereby have been crowded out entirely and have no school facilities whatever. When education is by law rammed down the throats of unwilling recip, ients, it is too plentiful and too cheap, and benefits only the school teachers and the truant officers. HOWARD B. SMITH. Compensation. From the Canton Dailv News. There is wonder if the defendant could square things with the plaintiff in a damage suit for stolen affections by returning the article in question. No More Feathers for Him. From the Vancouver Daily Province. A California hunter who wore a feather in his cap was shot at in mis- NOVEMBER _ 15, take for a pheasant. He lost the top of one ear and all interest in millinery. Open Diplomacy. From the Fort Wasne News-Sentinel. Now that America has two women in the diplomatic service we fancy there will be no danger of any secret treaties, A 1925—PART 2. Capital Sidelights The distinction of having made the first speech in Congress against pro- hibition is clalmed by Richard Bar- tholdt, representing the largest St. Louls district in the House for 22 vears, 1§93 to 1915, who recently was guest at a testimoniul dinner on his 70th birthday. Prefacing his claim, Mr. Bartholdt said: “Thomas Jefferson said that men are responsible for the righteousness and not for the rightfulness of their opinions. In other words, a man is responsible for advocating that which he believes to be right and for oppos- ing that which he believes to be wrong. He is not responsible for errgr of opinion. By this stz public record to be judged.” Mr. Bartholdt explained that he made his speech ugainst prohibition ‘at a time when the people were still asleep at the switch and never dream- ed of losing their right of self deter- mination in matters touching their personal habits.” * Xk ok They play base ball hard down in Texas, according to John H. Farrell of Auburn, N. Y., secretary of the Natlonal Association of Minor Leagues, who appeared before the House ways and.means committee, seeking either elimination of the war tax on base ball tickets or exemption of tickets costing $1 or less from the tax. “One of the players with a Texas league club filed an application with my office to have his name stricken from the reserve list of u certain club,” Mr. Farrell related. “We have three leagues in the great State of Texas,” he explained. ' ‘You must sive your reason,’ I told the plaver. “‘Well,” he said, ‘T was playing shortstop' and T had a bad day. I made three errors. The owner of the club was sitting in the grandstand, and after 1 made the third error he came down and stood along the third buse line. I made the four' error and a run scored. The owner started for me and 1 started for left field, and he ran after me. Just as I was going over the fence he pulled his gun and took two shots at me. The: play base ball 100 hard down there.’ Several interesting facts about base ball were given to the tax committee by Mr. Farrell. Ninety per cent of the minor leagues lose money, he said, but are kept going by civic pride and contributions from chamber of com- merce, Rotarv and Kiwanis clubs and similar organizations. Internal Rev. enue Collector Blair helps support a club at Winston-Salem, N. C. His last assessment was for $800 Men do not always go to a base ball game In a holiday spirit, Mr. Farrell pointed out: they often go to forget troubles. The largest attendance in the coal fields {8 when men are on strike. e ox ox New England members of Congress who voted against legislation setting up and perfecting the Federal land bank system for agriculture, both in committee and on the floor of the House, have been won over to ardent support of the cause through personal observation of how the system works. This is the statement of Representa- tive James G. Strong, from the fifth Kangas district, after o tour of the country with congressional party, including members of the committees on banking and currency both of the Senate and House of Representatives. They visited the 12 intermediate credit banks and Federal land banks at springfield, Mass.: Baltimore, Louis- ville, St. Louis, Wichita, Omaha, St. Paul, Spokane, Berkeley, Houston, New Orleans and Columbia, S. C. “The Federal land bank system has clearly demonstrated that a co-opera- tive flnancial organization that can furnish to agriculture a system of credit to meet the long-time loan need- ed both for land and its products, is entirely practical,” said Representa- tive trong summarizing the con- clusfons of the congressional investi gators. o oxox The “boys in the press gallery,” as well as President Coolidge, have & £00d friend in an incoming new mem- ber, Representative Joseph W. Martin, ir. from the fifteenth Massachusetts district. He is a newspaper man, being manager and editor of the North Attleboro Evening Chronicle. Although only 41 years old, Repre- sentative Martin is one of the leading Republicans in the old Bay State. For nine vears he served in the State legislature, and for the last four vears was executive secretary of the Repub- lican State committee. While in the State legislature he became a close friend of Calvin Coolidge, who was then president of the State Senate. Of course, Martin had to make good, for he got a flying start in a very rigorous school of efficiency. He started his newspaper career when only seven vears old as & newshoy. After graduating from high school in his native town he became assoclated with the Attleboro Sun, and several years later achieved his youthful am- bition by gaining control of the North Attleboro Evening Chronicle, * K ok * Representative John N. Tillman of Fayetteville, Ark., considered 13" his lucky number. He was born on De- cember 13, and several of his triumphs came on the 13th. His hobbies are bass fishing and duck hunting. As a boy Tillman worked two Sum- mers thrashing wheat with an old- fashloned horsepower thrashing ma- chine. He also worked several vaca- tions in his uncle's tobacco factory stemming tobacco. He taught a coun- try school, and confesses, without re. luctance, that he often used the rod to save the child. He was “some hunter” as a boy, and boasts that he often won an hon- est piece of silver selling fox, coon and 'possum pelts and other trophies of the chase. Tillman was once treasurer of the Mathetian Literary Soclety of the University of Arkansas, and was also treasurer for a long time of the local 0dd Fellows’ Lodge, and for 12 years was supreme representative of the Knights of Pythias Lodge of Arkan- sas. As a country boy he worked as hired farm hand at the princely salary of $12 a month, plus dinner, plowing in “new ground” from sunup until sundown. He helped to make the brick used in the erection of the State University at Fayetteville, through which institution he worked his way, graduating with the bachelor’s degree and later serving as president of the university from 1905 to 1912, when he resigned to come to Congress. * & * % Few men in Congress can match the record of Representative Charles E. Fuller, Republican, of Belvidere, IIL, 76 years of age, who has completed 22 years of service in Congress and is entering upon another 2-year term. He has been elected to public office by direct vote of the people 18 times— once as State’s attorney, three times to the General Assembly of the State, twice as State Senator, once as circuit judge and 11 times as Representative in Congress, “to which I suspect the people will add one more term in Congress,” he says—indicating his in- tention to retire from public life when he reaches fourscore years. * ok ok ok One of the first trips that Samuel J. Montgomery, the new baby member of the House, from the first Oklahoma district, promises himself when he reaches the Caplital is to revisit the Marine Corps camp at Quantico, Va. Mr., Montgomery will celebrate his twenty-ninth birthday by taking the oath as a House member. He enlisted in the United -States Marine Corps be- fore he reached the age of 21, at Parrls Island, S. C., and served during the World War with the 6th Regiment, 2d Division, A. B. F. He was mus- sered out at Quantico May 19, 1319, ndard T want my | MEN AND AFFAIRS BY ROBERT T. SMALL. Is Washington becoming callous, hard-hearted, indifferent? Can’t the Capital be shocked any more? Answer to these more or less momentous questions should be maliled direct to Gifford ¢ Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvantia, dirccted to the State House, Harrisburg. The good governor, alcoholically dry, but rhetorically far from it, endeavored a few days ago to shoot Washington squarely in the eye. He intimated very plainly that he did not care whoop who has_hit the interference being that the higher they fly the harder they fall Gov. Pinchot, one time of the fa mous Roosevelt tennls cabinet, turned loose all the guns he possessed. It was a perfect salvo of big sticks. Speaking of the wave of crime which swept the United States after it was discovered that the pro- hibition laws were not to be strictly enforced, Gov. Pinchot hurlea tnis brickbat at our fair Capital “Among all the cities of America, Washington, where laws are made, became the conspicuous leader in disrespect for the law and the Con- stitution of the United States. Cabi- net officers, judges, Senators, Repre- sentatives in Congress and leaders of the official life of Washington in every line publicly, notoriously and, as a matter of course. broke the fundamental law of their country. Is it any wonder that when these men set” the example of disrespect for the law the ecriminal classes should follow them?" These were strong words, mates, but has any one stood forth to challenge them, to hurl the lie into their teeth? Im, cool surface of Wash- been ruffied these Has anything stirred since that abominable lust game of the world series? Billy Mitchell has been howling at the top of his volce, springing ‘“'sensation' after “sensation” at what passes a court-martifal down in the old Census Bureau Building—but nobody seemis to care. The Pinchot charges have been lev eled at Washington before. Forelgn gentlemen and foreign ladies have visited Washington and gone home to make the statement that prohibition seemed to be a grand joke in that dear America; that one would become an inebriate if one lingered long in that dry America. But they merely have been laughed at. They were exaggerating. But here comes the Governor of the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and accuses Government officlals of high crimes and misdemeanors—and again nobody seems to care. But to go on with the good gov- ernor: “Leaders in State and Nation con- spired with criminals to break the law, and all men knew it. Thereby they bred and nurtured the contempt for law which curses our country to- day. They sowed the wind and the Nation is reaping the whirlwind Fifty Years Ago In The Star Among the literary notables who made Washington their home half 2 a cantury and more Walt Whitman ago was Walt ; : 7 ho, as in Washington. ' Piiman: who. 29 of the Government departments dur- ing the Civil War, wrote some of his poetry that made him famous and, in- cidentally, caused his dismissal from his office. He revisited the Capital from time to time, as was noted in The Star of November 9, 1575, as follows: “Walt Whitman, in propria per- sonnae, and about as natural as ever, appeared on Pennsylvanla avenne this forencon, after an absence of nearly three vears. Though vet il from paralysis and other allment and very lame and slow In gait, hs large figure, clothed in gray, with the regular open neck, white collar, ved face and copous beard of yore, Jooked nuch the same, and not much amiss amid the bright sunlight and crispy and mellow atmosphere of this magnificent Autumn. W. W. is on a visit to Washington, stopping at the house of his old friend, Mr. Michael Nash, $13 L street south- east, navy vard.” Introduction of the bell punch on the street rallways of Washington as a means of Bell Punch and checking the re- Voting Machine. ceipt of fares from passengers, was not altogether & popular move little more than half e century ago. In The Star of November 9, 1875, is an item of interest In connection with this device and one that had been pro- posed to facilitate the taking of votes in Congress: “Some partles, it is reported, are about making a war upon the street railway bell punch, or rather fipon the company who, having its con- trol, are making railroad companies pay a royalty of 25 cents per day for each punch, and whose receipts, it is said, amount to $1,5600.000 annually. It will be remembered that in 1852 Henry Johneon, an ingenfous Washingtonfan, invented what he called a device for taking the yeas and nays in deliberative bodies and attempted to introduce the invention by putting up machines in the two houses of Congress, Senator Houston then taking a very active part in fa- vor of its introduction. The principal objection made was that such voting would be unconstitutional and Mr. Johnson abandoned all attempts at its introduction. The apparatus was never patented and it is sald that the principle of the present bell punch is the same as that used in the voting machina. It is now pro- posed to show by descriptions of the machine published at the time and other evidence that the principles are identically the same, and there- fore, the bell punch is not a new invention. This being done will give the privilege to railway com- panies and others to make their own punches and therefore relieve them of the payment of a heavy royalty.” * * The Government departments at Washington have always been “easy .. pickings” for pro- Ammonia Mine moters of get-rich- Stock Seller, Aulck schemes. Fitty Sellers” appeared years ago & “Col. in this city and offered the clerks a chance to make a fortune in an ammonia mine! This is told of in The Star of November 12, 1875, as follows: “An enthusiastic individual was at the Post Office Department today with a specimen of ammonia in the form of small lumps of what looked like lumps of sugar saturated with spirits of ammonla, which he sald was found in large quantities at a cer- tain point on the Pacific Coast. He had been appointed agent to sell 67 shares of stock in the District of Columbia at $100,000 a share, and was anxious that the clerks should take at least a couple of shares. There was money—in fact millions in it—and any one, subscribing would soon realize such immense dividends that he would soon_ be able to retire from the service of Uncle Sam and live in luxurious affluence for, the balance of his natural born days. Some of the clerks sald they would Of course they were. | Declaring that a “defeatist move ment”.{s under way against the Vo' stead act, Gov. Pinchot continued “I warn you that before the Winte is over you will hear loud claims (if you have not alreadv heard the that since the strongest possible Fed eral effort to enforce the law has bear made (which is false), and since the alleged effort has failed (which is ol vioug) the time has come for and order to yleld to the e to repeal the law of which the nal does not approve, and to repla: - it by another with which we ma hope the underworld will be kin enough to comply. “If that proposition is not I have no name by which to cal There it is. Isn't there some w the governor can he brought a court-martial? * % o Speaking of the Constitution document has many quee with which the people are not miliar. There is, for instance, provision of the second am which savs: “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed If the gunmen's union of New Yorl and other big and lawless cities only kn bout the amendment the would insist upon jts guarantees and liberties. They would protest the cor stitutionality of the Sullivan law i New York. which not only makes i a crime to carry concealed weapons but to have a pistol in your posses sion, at home or otherwise. This clear 1y would seem to be an infringemc of the right of the people to kee arms as well as to bear them * o ox ox Everybody who has been attendins the Mitchell court-martial has beer struck by the grand array of ribbons which mark the left breast of the tunic of the flying colonel's uniform The members of the court itself are rather well decorated, particular Maj. Gen. Douglas MicArth at one time commanded the | Rainbow Division, but the | colonel seems to outshine them There having been much specu | especially among t what all the ribbons | is at least a partfal list of the awards | for valor and service bestowed upor | the colonel: | _ Distinguished Service Medal (Unites | States), Distinguished Service Cross | (United States), Croix de Guerre, witl |five palms, and Commander of the | Legton of Honor (French); Commande: of the Order of St. Michael and St { George (British), Commends, of &. & aurlzio e Lazaro, War Cross a | Grand Officer Crown of Italy (all three { Italian), and the various service Hb | bons for the Spanish-Amerfcan and World Wars. The five palms on Croix de Guerre mean five additio: citations to the one for which t decoration first was awarded. 1f the colonel “gets away” with present campaign there is no what new ribbons he may recef he doesn't get away with it he wi decorated with the gate. (Copyright. 192! treasc e an 1 us . here AMERICA’S LARDER By Arthur Capper. Senator from Ransas. The long-range trend of foreign ¢ mand for American food is on the d cline. Unless there is another war, or_gome other world T do not expect American to sell much food to Europe in years to_come. But in the meanwhile we find an ! amazing expansion in the home mar- | ket—for which we should give many | thanks. The population of Americ is growing steadily, perhaps as muc! as one and one-half million persons a vear, largely in the citles. These great centers of life are fairly pros perous, and in my judgment they will continue to be. Personally 1 have a tremendous belief in the i dustrial future of America—I th the growth of manufacturing in the | United States is one of its marvels | Anyhow the income of city workers is 99 per cent higher than it was 1 vears &go, and the cost of living i but 71 per cent more—their wages will buy 36 per cent more food than in 1913 x*x %% extreme importance se of the old axiom workers have mones they will spend enough of it to bu an ample supply of food of good quality. The growth of the cities has beer and will continue to be, an item c | vast importance to farmers. The re atively declining proportion of agr | cultural population may constitute, «s many students belleve, an element o danger to the country. But this i something that the years will show. In the home market there is hope 1t is among our own folks, whom we can afford to study and to please. I am glad Congress has been eble to help in the growth of the new agri culture. =Certainly a farmer can now co-operate with his neighbor across the road without running the risk of going to jail. We have made sub stantial progress with the land banks and with rural credits in general. 1 believe Congress will continue to keep closely in touch with the needs of agriculture, and to handle legislation in a way which will help producers to help themselves. * ok ko American agriculture needs well balanced production of quality pr ducts, sold in the most economical 1way, with a larger place for co-opera tive marketing. It must have, from time to time, the benefit of sound legislation by Congress. I hope to see the new Congress act favorably on Secretary Jardine's recommendsa tion that a division of co-operative marketing be created in the Bureau of Agricultural Economics to foster co operative marketing of the major agricultural products. So far as the future of agriculture goes, I'm an optim!st. I think we are through the worst of the typhoon which all but engulfed agricuiture But for a little while yet the going vill not be easy, and we must keep ‘weather eye' on the southwest horizon. {Convrieht, 1925 This is of hec constantly like a share or two, but the price per share was a little too high for their means. The ammonla man finally found out that he had made a mistake and that the price was only $10,000 instead of $100,000 per share. The clerks thereupon cheer- fully subscribed for several shares and when The Star reporter left it looked as though the stock would all be taken i{n a short time. * % | * The uncertainties of departmental life in Washington half a century ago. Dept it due to the preval ence of tlhe ':l‘lmfls ; system of public ap- Uncertainty. oinements, led the Star of November 13, 1875, to say: “If young men in the country who aspire to positions under the Govern- ment at Washington could realize the consternation which prevails among the employes at every change made in the head of a department, and the con tinual unrest in which they live, move and have their being, they would seize the plow handle with a tighter grip and jocund drive their teams afleld, fully determined never to get within the charmed circle of officlal life and political assessments.”