Evening Star Newspaper, November 22, 1925, Page 46

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY.....November 22, 1825 THEODORE W. NOYES...Editor The Evening Star ewspaper Company 110 st A Penmativanta Ave Sand Pennariy ve. New York Offca: 110 Eant 4203 St. Chicaxo Offica: Tower Bullding Furopean Office: . 14 Regent St.. Loidon, Enxland: The Evening Star. with the Sunday morn- e edition. is delivered by carriers within he city at 60 cents per month: daily only. cents per month: Sunday only. 20 cents Per month_ Orders may be sent by mail or telephone Main 000 Collection is made by carrier at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday. aily only Sunday only. . aily and ally only Sunday Sunday only.""." Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled 10 the use for republication of all news dis- Patrhes credited to it or not otherwise cred- tad in this paper and also the local news published herein. Al rights of publication of apecial dispatches herein are — The Health of School Children. Public education is developing along more satisfactory lines since the estab- lishment of health examinations of the school children. Washington has made some advances in this direction, but it can go further toward the ideal ©of a school sys: s & conserva- tor of the health of the younger gen- eration as well as a developer of the mind. Dedication of the new health school M this city the other day marked the stage of the development. This new building now houses a schoo} for the teaching of children who are in poor health. It replaces a misera- ble makeshift that was actually a men- ace to the health of its occupants. Yet, notwithstanding the unfavorable condition of the old building, seventy- five per cent of the children there housed were cured and returned to the regular public schools. In view of such a record the District health officer, who spoke at the dedication, was fully justified in his belief that in the new conditions pulmonary and respiratory diseases may be stamped out among the school children of Washington. But there remains a further need for the care of the unfortunate chil- dren who are affiicted with pulmonary disease in the incipient stage. There should be, as an officer for the Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis de- clared on the same occasion, a Tegu- lar boarding department for those chil- dren who are not able to attend the daily sessions. In short, as Mr. Ufford pointed out, this present institution is but a beginning, and should be re- garded as a criterion of great things to come in the line of health conserva- tion among the younger Washingto- nians. Time was when parents resented and resisted medical supervision over the children in connection with public school work. That time has passed: In the process of fighting disease through education the adult members of the community have been effectively taught the lesson of prevention and early care. There is now no obstacle in the way of systematic supervision of the health of the school children, mave lack of means for a wider exten- sion under competent medical direc- tion. With a larger force of school health inspectors, and with such further equipment as was indicated at the health school dedication the other day, Washington will have an effective preventive safeguard against disease among the children. o One Well Lighted Street. Washington has at least one prop- erly lighted street. Sixteenth street is now, thanks to the new lamps in- stalled there, well illuminated. The drivers of motor cars can see perfect- Iy. Pedestrians are visible at long distances. There is practically no dan- ger save through the refklessness of speeders or the sheer stupidity of those afoot. But a driver turning off from that street into another goes from light into darkness. The other streets are dimly lit, indeed by com- parison are not lighted at all. The change is so marked that the risk of collision s greatly increased. Every street in this city should be as well f{lluminated as Sixteenth street. There should be no dark cor- ners, no dim thoroughfares. Such an illumination'would cost money, and in large sum. But it should be spent as a means of public safety. Every year many lives are sacrificed in these times of heavy traffic through the lack ot proper illumination in the streets. ‘The additional cost of efficient street lighting does not compare with the value of those lives. Tn present conditions the infrequent street lamps actually increase the danger by causing dense shadows in the intervening spaces. Even at cor- ! hers where lamps are stationed pedes- trians leaving the curb are out of vislon until the headlights of the ‘motor cars “‘pick them up.” Of course, it is up to the pedestrian at night to watch the traffic and avoid collision, Eut with the almost constant flow of tmflic during the earlier hours of the evening the pedestrian naturally must take chances in order to get ahead, to wrrive somewhere, He has a right to be visible to drivers, and in the pres- ant conditions he is practically in- wvisible nine-tenths of the time. ‘There is no more urgent need for ‘Washington today than a better sys- tem of street lighting. The hope is that Bixteenth street will serve as @ standard for Congress to provide suit- able fllumination for the entire city. . France {s probably beginning to . wonder whether Volpi is not a rather . Mmtter finansier than Caillaux. Morons and the World’s Work. Rev, Thomas V, Moore, professor of paychology at the Catholic University, lo a statement before the conven- G::o( the National Council of Cath- olic Women that will arrest attention. Society, he says, needs high-grade morons to do the menial tasks; if the world were made up entirely of liks Shakespeares gontuses, and | would be nobody to dig the ditches and carry the hods and wash the dishes. The menial work of the world will always be done by mental menials— that is, those who are below par in intelligence, who are not gifted men- tally, who are without capacity to improve their soclal status. It does not follow that all those who are do- ng menial work are in the moron class, high grade or otherwise. Many are doing menial work as a makeshift, or as the only immediate means of earning a living. They are to be honored and praised for doing it. It there were no ambitionless, incapable people all this line of work would be done by men and women who are as- piring to get into other works, who would as quickly as possible leave their tasks. Machinery has done much to re- lieve humanity of the more burden- some and onerous menial tasks, but there remain many things to be done that human hands alone can do. The greater part of this work will be done by those who scale relatively low in the intelligence tests, those who have. as Dr. Moore says, the minds of chil- dren of from ten to twelve years—in other words, the high-grade morons. It is, of course, unfair and untrue to characterize all menial workers as morons. But it is also true that high- grade morons get into higher works through chance, through accidents of birth or from business adjustments. They fail, as a rule, in these tasks. If they have no financial foundation they slip back into the humbler roles, to do the work of helpers who are guided and “bossed,” the simple tasks that do not require intelligence. In this country are countless in- stances of people who have risen out of menial works into positions of com- mand and great importance in the soclal scheme. The other day a man was elected president in one of the largest industrial corporations in the United States who had his beginning in the fleld of menial labor. He has left behind him hundreds, perhaps thousands, of others with whom he has from time to time been assoclated, who lacked his quality, though not by any means all morons of any grade. His was the genius of advancement. Theirs will be the reward of fidelity. —_— e The Queen Mother. Deep and sincere is the mourning of the people of Great Britain for Alex- andra, Queen Mother, who passed on Friday. For sixty-two years and more she had been part of the British life, always adored, highly respected, ap- preciated for her gentleness, her un- derstanding and her lovable person- ality. Alexandra went to London in March, 1863, as the wife of Albert Ed- ward, Prince of Wales. She was then eighteen and a half years of age, her husband a little more than twenty-one. Her beauty instantly captivated the people of her adopted land. Her hus- band’s mother, Victoria, had then Dbeen reigning for twenty-six years, and was to reign for thirty-eight years longer. During that long period of nearly four decades Alexandra held the respect and the affection of the people as Princess of Wales. As the Queen advanced in years Alexandra occupied & more and more prominent part in public affairs, but tactfully never intruded upon the royal preroga- tive, maintaining her difficult position with a charming skill. She was al- ways greatly interested in works and enterpkises for the benefit of the peo- ple, the easing of their burdens. the correction of {lls afflicting them. She lent her presence to countless occa- sions of ceremony for the sake of ef- fective appeals to the generosity of the British public. When in the course of years she became Queen Consort for that pitifully brief reign of nine years there was no change in the sincere esteem of the people. She was still their good friend, their benefactor. their standard of purity and character. And then came widowhood and her re- tirement to the honorable role of dowager. But with characteristic good taste the public by preference called her “Queen Mother.” She helped her ®#on to bear his own burden of royalty and her daughterdn-law to carry on, as the English say, in her own new role. And yet not obtrusively. Al- ways with the same exquisite tact she had shown during the long years of her reign as Princess of Wales, Alex- andra remained in the background and found for herself a line of duty that did not trench upon the prerog- ative of the new rulers. It has been said that never once in her sixty-two years and more of association in royal position with the British people did Alexandra make a single error of tact in speech or action. So now it is that she is mourned by millions as have been few women who have taken part in the lives of nations. ‘The expressions of Trotsky still in- dicate talents more adapted to the ac- tivities of a magazine editor than to those of a dictator. It will be a serfous reduction if court-martial proceedings cause the public to refer to Col. William Mitchell instead of Col. Billy. The Yale Nature Sanctuary. Yale University, always progressive and bumanitarian, has again done something new, something to be em- ulated by other institutions of .learn- ing not too urban in their situation and surroundings. She—for Yale best loves the title ‘“‘Mother of Men"—has eet aside two hundred acres of a tract she owns near the new college golf course as a preserve for New England plant and animal life for all time to come. ‘This acreage is not imposingly large, but the idea behind it is. The tract will be used as a sanctuary for native animals and plents and as a fleld laboratory for the botanical, zoological and forestry departments. Those who have observed how quickly little ani- mals, and even rather large ones, ap- preciate & safe place are authority for the statement that the number and va- riety of furred and feathered and scaled denizens that two hundred acres will support, in a style even bet- ter than that to which they have been accustomed, is surprising. There they can pursue their ways, open or de- vious, unharassed by man end open to careful study by those usually con- THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, NOVEMBER 22, 1835 PART 2. Capital Sidelights | sidered their enemies. The same ap- plies in somewhat less degree to plants, flowers and trees. Big American universities embrace almost every conceivable activity, trom libraries and classrooms to beau- tifully kept stock farms and apiaries. They pride themselves alike on their technical schools and on thefr courses in the liberal arts. Nature is the foundatfon of all the arts and what could be more liberal and at the same time more beneficial than giving Na- ture a chance? The day may come when every American college, large and small, will possess a sanctuary like the one planned up in Connecti- cut, some of them with running or with quiet waters wherein waterfowl, fishes and aquatic plant life may brecd and teach their great lessons. New Maven is already a big city, and Connecticut is fast losing its rural atmosphere. whose motto is “Lux et Veritas” (light and truth), may one day be in the position of having established and maintained a little “lost world” wherein America, almost as the Pilgrim Fathers found it, may be studicd. The big tract of which this preserve is a part was the gift to Yale of Mrs. Sarah Tompkins of El- mira, N. Y., in memory of her hus- band, an old gridiron star. ———— Mastodon Bones. Bones believed to be those of a mastodon were found by men digging a dam at Monroe, N. Y. Work was stopped pending examination of the bones by a paleontologist. The relics were found in the bed of an old spring, and teeth and bones of the head were found in black mud two feet below the surface. A man skilled in fossils has been sent from the Museum of Na- tural History at New York, and he will direct the work of uncovering the rest of the skeleton. Bones of ex- tinct species of animals are often found in the Eastern States, but not €0 often as not to be interesting. Re- mains of extinct land and sea crea- tures have been found, and will con- tinue to the found, In the neighbor- hood of Washington. The species are extinct, but surviving species in this part of the country and in other sec- tions show relationship to them Relics unearthed of creatures whose kind is not only extinct, but that lived on the earth so long ago that no record made by man seems to name them. The finding of these fossils in the marls, sands and harder formations near Washington brings a realization that we live in a very old part of the worid. These bones supplement the story of the rocks in & way the average man understands. The story of the rocks can be read by few men, but the bones tell a story for every man. This was an old part of the world unnumbered thousands of years before the first European trod it, perhaps three or four’ or five hundred years ago; no doubt thousands of years before Indlans were here. and very likely long before any kind of man lived w the country we call home. —_— e It is understood that Mr. Scopes is studying hard in Baltimore. He may derive an epicurean satisfaction from the fact that the oyster and the ter- rapin defy ideas of evolution and re- main about where they are. are o Money represents the sense of rudi- mentary h v among nations or individuals. A respect for pecuniary debt is the foundation upon which higher ethical relationships must de- pend. C e Prohibition enforcement is being held responsible for an increasing tendency among wealthy Americans to distributer tips in Europe. PR Caillaux has expressed a hope of re- turning to America. He neglected on his previous visit to lay a foundation of popularity as a lecturer. Love letters, when read in court, illustrate the difference between the sublime and the ridiculous. —————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Yearning for Power. In early ambition I envied position Which called on the world to chey. T longed for a station Which brought admiration Because of my wonderful sway. But now I am humble. No longer I grumble. The man who is promptly obeved Is the cop on the crossing, With arms wildly tossing. I can’t hold the job, I'm afraid. His Motto. “I note that you invariably preserve a Kindly manner, even when you have to disappoint a friend.” “I do,” answered Senator Sorghum. “In some lines of business you can| ‘treat 'em rough,’ but in politics my motto {s ‘treat 'em smooth This Busy Life. The comic picture makes me gay. The ragtime eeng brings moments bright. X look at one throughout the day And hear the' other through the night. Jud Tunkins says prohibition is what makes a lot of people anxious to travel and study gastronomic condi- tions in Europe. The Soft Answer. Soft answers point the proper path In moments agitated; And soft coal turns away the wrath ‘Which hard coal has created. ¥ ;. Discouragement. “What has become of the man who eaid we were getting better and better every day?” “I don’t know,” said Miss Cayenne. “Maybe he got discouraged after reading the reports of so many grand Juries.” “De man dat never makes a mis- take,” said Uncle Eben, “is mighty ept to turn out to be de man dat’s most expert in shiftin’ de "sponaibility * EVERYDAY RELIGION BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D, LL. D., Bishop of Washington. THY KINGDOM COME. “No man is bigger than the place in which he lives,” this was the state- ment of ono whose provincial habits compelled him to think of the world in terms of the community in which he lived. Perhaps his statement is true concerning many of us, but it is mot true concerning those who realize that the world within the past generation has been made one vast neighborhood. » Most of us live so closely within our own little sphere of service that we fail to realize the bigness of the world about us and our obligation to It. kven the great Waschington dvised his country against “foreign angling allian Only within recent years have we of America broken away from our habits of proud isolation and blended our interests with those of the peoples of the Old World. Perhaps we have come to realize, for the first time in our his- tory, that our interests are bound up with the common Interests of other nations und peoples near and remote. * %k ok In times of o symp: sis or calamity our wthies overflow our borders and nizance of elther race, The cry from stricken Tokio has an immediate and generous onse. By tles of trade and com- » we are vitally related to every of the civilized world and the wdeship of those who trade and barter becomes more intimate year by year. In view of conditions that are rapidly bringing the peoples of the earth closer together, is it possi- ble for any natlon, however proud or powerful it may be, to regard itself independent and separate from world responsibilities and prob- lems? It striking fact that in the great prayer given by Christ a phrase occurs that definitely suggests His conception of hyman obligations. Among the great religlous teachers He stands supreme as the author of a plan of universal salvation. To Him and His followers there was neither “Greck nor Jew, barbarfan, Scythian, bond nor free.” ok The two great commandments that Jesus stressed had to do with the recognition of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. It has taken nearly 20 centuries to make His second great commandment effective. 1t is realized today, as never before, that His ideal of a universal kingdom is becoming more prevalent. The progress of the race together with modern methods of communication have forced upon the consciousness of the world its essential unity and solidarity. To pray “Thy kingdom come” and then to think of life in terms of self or community interests, with no vision of world obligation, is to do violence to the cardinal prin- :iplt; laid down by the Man of Naz- areth, is Disclosures since the close of the World War have increasingly empha- sized the interdependence of nations and peoples. Conferences upon world problems held here and in Europe have made it evident that what affects the interest of one affects the in- terests of all. ‘The recent conference at locarno may prove in its results to be one of the most significant and effective ever held. The plan that issued from this conference is the result of the calm and dispassionate judgment of those who have come to realize that the interests of one sovereign state cannot be considered apart from the interests of other sovereign states. We are hearing more and more of in- ternational conferences and intern: tional agreements. What America’s part is to be in the fulfiliment of Christ’s plan 1s not, as yet, clearly di closed, but let us believe that it is to be characteristic of our generosity and clearness of viston. The preservation of Christian civilization as well as the preservation to us of those things that are nearest and dearest in life awalt the fulfillment of that which the petition sets forth, “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is done in heaven.” * * % Amicable human relationships and ordered and orderly society may not be secured to us through legal con- tracts, gentlemen's agrecments or dip- lomatic understandings. Behind these must reside the will to peace that grows out of the recognition of Christ's soverelgnty as the world’s supreme leader and teacher. We are thinking too much in terms of methods and mechanisms. We are leaning too hard upon the genius of man. These havo failed us 80 often that we have learned to distrust them. We are coming to realize that the security of the indl- vidual, as of the state, is to be found in the principles laid down by Christ. His plan of human salvation has not vet been tried. We have reserenced Him. We have worshiped Flim, but we have not obeyed Him. “Why call ye Me Lord, Lord, and do not the things that I say” might well be His condemnation of a world that is strug- gling out of the morass created by a World War, blindly seeking for new ways that will secure to it peace and happiness. We have thought too much of a fu ture kingdom, of “some far-off, divine event,” and too little of a present kingdom wherein Christian principles are made the inviolable rule of Chris tian peoples. The petition “Thy king dom come" has a practical and impor- tant bearing upon those large human concerns that are today disturbing and distracting the world. If we be. lleve that the plan of life given to men by Christ is the noblest that the world has even received, let us seek to practice it by recognizing that “God hath made of one blood all na- tions of men for to dwell on the face of the whole earth.” (Copsright, 19 FRENCH DRESSMAKING BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. It pays to pay high wages. Such is the message which Lucien Lelong, one of the leading dressmakers of Paris, will carry back to his com- patriots and associates in business after a twomonth study of condi- tions in the garment industry in the United States. American employers frequently bemoan the high wages which they pay, but Mr. Lelong says they should rejoice, for American wage sczles are in no small degree responsible for American prosperity. The French couturfer also finds much to emulate in the efficlency of American executive organization. Heads of hig business in Europe must learn that they cannot give their personal attention to all the details of their affairs, he says, but must select capable assistants and give them thority proportionate to their re- ponsibilities. Not long ago a Paris dressmaker came to America and created a sensa- tion by declaring in an interview that American women were dowdy dressers, A Lightning Change Artist. Hard on his heels there came another Parisian purveyor to the vanity of womankind who let the world know that he carried no less than 17 trunks for his personal ward- robe, and who established a world's cord by changing his clothes four times within 35 minutes. Mr. Lelong is altogether a different type of representative of the great in- dustry of the French capital. He is a hard-headed, practical business man, who does not in the least resemble the male dressmaker made famillar to the public by novelists and dramatists. He came to the United States with a commission from the French govern- ment to study conditions in the gar- ment industry in_this country. He has just quitted Washington, where he was presented to President Cool- idge by the French Ambassador and beld conferences with Secretary of Labor Davis and Miss Mary Ander- son, head of the Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor. In New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and other cities he has conferred with employers and labor leaders in his industry. At no time has he attracted attention by bizarre conduct or sensational public utter- ances. A Great Industry. Few Americans realize the size of the dressmaking industry of Paris. It affords employment directly ta 200,000 people and indirectly to a great many more. Its annual prod- uct is worth half a billion francs. There are about 200 of the larger dress houses in Paris and 320 of them have more than 500 employes each. Six or eight of them employ more than 1,000 workers. Four- fifths of their product is exported and the United States takes more than half of thelr exports. Mr. Lelong has about 1,200 work- ers in his establishment and is now making extensions that will more than double his capacity, At his openings he sells gowns at the rate of :aa.om: worth El\‘:ay!u::d lnld;: course of a year s_ouf least 1,000 models. ©One of his 1926 models has been duplicated 28,000 times, all authorized reproductions, but perhaps a more adequate idea of the magnitude of his business may be conveyed if it be stated that since the 1st of August his house has used more than 22,000 meters—13 miles—of chiffon alone. No Salesmen Sent Out. “Our business is more fortunate than_ other great enterprises,” says Mr. Lelong, “in that we do not have to send out any salesmen to per- suade the world to buy our wares. On the contrary, the trade sends its buyers to us. Twice a year, I February for the Spring opening, and pening, ‘|in August for the Autumn o commercial buyers representing stores and factories throughout the world come to us. Seventy-five per cent of them, or about 1,200 buyers, come from your country, represent- ing about 700 American concerns. There is no great city of the Unitej States that does not send buyers regularly to Paris, and a few of your largest importers maintain perma- mnent buying bureaus in Paris to pick up new models as fast as they ap- pear. e ] ich to the ;-Ivem-: ’mflxurel l.l‘ww ame time I do not wish to dis- t it as an art It is an art, a delicate and difficult one. We work in dress materials where other artists work with paint or clay. The mod- ern world has always looked to us for its styles in women's appares and we hope that it always will. “Since you Americans are by far our best customers we think about | you a great deal and follow as hgst | we can what you e doing and ) thinking, for we believe that hion in dress should conform to life and | be expressive of the manner of liv- ing.” No Quantity Production. There is no such thing as quantity production in a Paris dressmaking establishment, Mr. Lelong explains. Manufacturers of women's garments in the United States make gowns of the same cut, decoration and measurements, but in Paris, although they actually turn out gowns by the tens of thousands, every one differs from every other. The models are all made to the measure of individual customers, and often a model will be changed to suit the appearance of its future wearer, the customer being given a wide latitude in the choice of materials and colors Thus, Mr. Lelong sa because no two women are built exactly alike or endowed with identical appear- ance or taste, every gown they turn out is a separate factory operation. ‘Thus it will be impossible for us ever to attain the quantity produc- tion in our output that fs so typical, and I may say, admirable, in your dress factories. We can only roughly standardize our operations; that Tpeans, of course, fewer gowns turned out per employe in our houses than in yours, and it also means that our prices will always remain higher than yours. The gown that we sell for $150 in Paris you can duplicate and gell for $50 in this country. The Kinetic Silhouette. As a designer Mr. Lelong has created something of a sensation dur- ing the current season by originating the style known as the kinetic sil- houette of flaring, flowing converg- ing lines, which has largely supplant- ed the straightline sheath gown. The new style is said to be primarily responsible for the prevailing idea that Women are growing slimmer. It is undoubtedly true,” says Mr. Lelong, “that smart women look slenderer than they used to look. In fact, they look slimmer than they did & twelvemonth ago, but it is only an illusion. A year ago women were ‘wearing the straightline sheath or sack gown, essentially an ugly style no matter how the genius of the Paris designer sought to adorn and soften its rectangular outline. It was a style that emphasized every bit of embonpoint a woman had and it sent the stout and suffering sister- hood by shoals into reducing belts, dleting regimes and punishing exer- cises. “The kinetic silhouette puts move- ment and animation into the basic design of a frock. To the eye its es- sentlal characteristic is flare, making the vertical lines of the dress outline bend gracefully inward from the skirt hem to the shoulder. Everybody can see the effect of it—womankind seems to have become slender overnight.” In the opinion of this authority the American woman {s the most perfect epecimen of twentleth-century wom- anhood. French women, he says, have chic, charm and a certain sure- ness of taste that make them the best collaborators of those who create gowns, but the Parisienne leads no such rugged, healthful outdoor life as does her average American sister, and therefore fails to attain that per- fect physique which adds the final touch of natural grace to the wear ing of clothes. The Idleness Ailment. From the Baltimors Evening Sun. Still, if everybody had to work for a living, where would nerve special- ists get patlents? Worry and Weight. | right of discovery. One of the most popular men who ever sat in Congress, Representative Samuel S. Arentz, Republican at large from Nevada, has just returned to the Capital by an automobile trip of more than 3,500 miles across conti- nent, with his wife and four children. Mr, Arentz is a real seif-made man, and is a “regular fellow In early life he was a machinist apprentice in a shop In Chicago; surveyo essor, miner and timberman in Bear Gulek and Butte, Mont., and also in the Lake Superfor copper country. He worked his way through college. Later he was mining engineer and superintend- ent of mines in Idaho, Utah, Arizo and ada. He has been chief engi- neer of the Nevada Copper Belt Rail- way, chief enginecr of the Salt Lake and Utah Railway, consulting engi neer of the United States Bureau of Mines on complex ore prob- lems; president of the Utah "ty of Engineers, member of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical gineers, mining and engineer, rancher and mine operator in Nevada. e member of the South Da- kota Natlonal Guard, and during the World War was a captain of engi- neers. While making his_3,600-mile mobile trip back to Washington, Mr. Arentz took occasion, as he came through the cities, towns and villages, to note the location and general ap- pearance of the Government’s head- auarters in cach place, namely, the post office. As a result of this per- <onal inspection he s convinced more than ever before that there should be a general public building bill, to the end every city in the United States should in time possess a post office bullding from whose roof flies the Stars and Stripes from sunrise to sunset. “It would pay from a busi ness standpoint. and it would p: from an Americanization standpoint, Mr. Arentz feels. The Arentz family lives on a ranch 85 miles south of Reno, 6 iniles from a store and 32 miles from a town. The Representative is more interested in frrigation and reclamation of arid land than the big majority of his col- leagues, because 15 vears ago he filed on 820 acres of Government land when the nearest neighbor was 3 miles away. lle fenced this t dug ditches, cleaned off the sage brush, plunted the land to \lfa, erected buildings, and now owns and occupies a model Nevada ranch. His wife, son and three daughters love to live there as well as he does. During the past Summer Mr. Arentz personally stacked 300 tons of hay and was foreman of the hay crew. On his auto jaunt East he stopped at the Iotel Utah in Salt Lake City and this brought back memories of vears ago when he arrived there from the Black Hills on graduation from the South Dakota School of Mines with only $12 in his pocket, knowing no one and unknown Last Fall, during the campaign, Mr. Arentz stepped up to a man in a little mining camp in Nevada, introduced himself and anger.some of his campaign cards. The stranger asked Mr. Arent he knew him and Mr. Arentz confessed he did not. “Well,” responded the other, “I know you, for I worked in the Bear ch mine with you when you were a kid 26 years ago.” auto- Senator Gillet 1 term as Spea f the House got accustomed to spending the day in the Capitol Building, whereas most of the members shuttle back and forth to their offic in another bullding several times a day, has secured a very “private” office in the center of the Capitol Building, by This is an out- of-the-way room reached through a labyrinth of passages and serves the new Senator well for his purposes of privacy, for it is hard to find. En tering upon his thirty-third y service in Congry is new as a Senator. feel that Senator Gillett's preferences for a room in the Capitol Building ought to be honored. ® K ok ok Unknown to :most of his associates in the Capitol, Speaker Giilett had ] hide-away rooms in an inconspicuous corner of the first floor of the build- ing. under the offices of the House leader. There he was accustomed to get an occasional hour’s rest. These offices were never fixed up pretty for company. They had been used for vears as storerooms and a luncheon place for cle But now come a show place. They were “dis- covered” by Representative Allen T. Treadway of Massachusetts. who filed notic he would like to have them, and they were assigned to him. One has been transformed into a private office, with an historic mantel mirror consplcuous among the decorations. But what is bringing sightseers to this “private” office in droves is the fact that the walls and ceilings are decorated with some of Constantino Brumlidi’s_earliest and best mural deco- rations. This same Brumidi during the pontificate of Pius IX was com- missioned by him to restore the Loggla of Raphael in the Vatican. Brumidl decorated the FPresident's room in the Capitol, the canopy of the dome, a portion of the historical frieze and the painting in the hall of the House of Representatives, “Cornwallis Sues for_ Cessation of Hostllitles Under the Flag of Truce The office now occupied by Repre- sentative Treadway was originally the office of the House committee on Territorles, so the decorations depict flowers, birds and animals in fitting backgrounds as they lived in native habitat of the great West which has since been carved into some of the most thriving States. The restoration of this art work has suggestsd to the members of Congress from these States to bring visiting constituents to Mr. Treadway's office to show where the State was born. This room also was once the private retreat of the famous “Tom” Reed of Maine, first czar of the House. It Wwas here that Reed Kept a well stocked sideboard in the days long before “Andy” Volstead came. Mr. Treadway asked an old negro messen- ger who knew Reed well what was served from the sideboard. “Well, they called it smelling salts, sah,” sald the messenger, “and it smelled right smart.” * % X ¥ The new member of the House from the fifth California district, who suc- ceeds Mrs. Mae E. Nolan, is Lawrence J. Flaherty, & cement mason by trade, and president of the San Fran- cisco Building Trades. He has also been a member of the Board of Police Commissioners, for eight years in the State Legislature and surveyor of customs for that port. * koK * Representative Robert G. Houston, new member at large from Delaware, comes of a parental line that gave notable service to this country. His father was surgeon-in-chief of the First Division, Second Corps, U. 8. V., in the Civil War. His uncle, Judge John W. Houston, served in Congress from 1845 to 1861 and taught this nephew protege law. The new mem- ber himself has been an officer in the National Guard, collector of customs, deputy attorney general of the State, in_the legal branch of the alien prop- erty custodlan’s office, president of a bank, president of the State Sunday School Assoclation, member of the first State anti-tuberculosis conven- tion and the Delaware commission for feeble minded, of which he is vice chairman. He was one of three citi- zens who drafted the Delaware school law. He!u‘;pnhlhmnmm he | MEN AND AFFAIRS BY ROBERT T. SMALL. The manner in which allied and Amerlcan aviators of the World War joined this past week in ing final tribute to the famous German ace of aces, Baroa von Richthofen, upon his reburial In the fatherland, calls at tention anew to the fact thut virtually all the chivalry of the world contfict was confined to the flying services. Perhaps the flyers alone had the op portunity to be chivalrsus. The rest of the fighting was grim and desper. ate, and seldom, if ever, was any quar ter asked or given. Most of the time it was more convenient and simple to kill than to take prisoners. The fighting men of the air liter. ally rose above the sordid bitterness of the ground struggles. There was individual skill and daring in the bat tles of the air, Tt was a sort of game, and there was good sportsmanship on both sides. Occasionally it was com plained that the Germans were too prone to hunt in overwhelming num- bers, and would not engage in a “dog fight” unless they held the upper hand. But there was not much of this, and certainly it could be said of Baron von Richthofen, that he was always ready for a fight or a frolic. He deliberately puinted his “boat” a vivid scarlet, ®o that all his enemies might know himn. He was a sort of Robin Hood of the air. ‘The writer was at the western front when Richthofen first brought his “fiying circus” across the allied lines They were strange birds, indeed harlequins —and the sensation they aused never really got beyond the Zone of the armies. The censors saw to that. Up to that time all the fight- ing planes had been painted neutral shades. Richthofen'’s outfit was a riot of colors. His own red plane led the pack. The others looked like a craz: quilt in the sky. For a long whi this German circus reigned in the Its depredations were depressing times. 1t generally had the pick of the Lest German planes, and more than often these planes were just a step ahead of the allies, a bit {aster, a bit more flexible and a bit more accurate in shooting through the pro peliers. 3 Jichthofen finally was killed in a “dog fight” over the desolate battle- fields of the Somme where for miles upon miles no two walls of a house remained intact. Most of the villages within the range of were absolutely obliterated. For uninitiated in the ways of the a “dog fight” was a sort of general melee, a kind of aerial Donnybrook Fair. In the early stages of the war there were more individual com bats. Later the dog fights became more and more numerous as the fly ing corps increased and the number of planes aloft mounted from the hundreds to the thousands. It was give and take in a ‘dog fight” and in the midst of one of these Richtho- fen's scarlet plane was seen to fall in flames. Almost at once the bat tle ceased. When the body had been recovered it was given a burial by the British with full military honors. Full details of the affair and pictures of the grave were dropped by fiyers over the German _UX\"VM in due course of time acknowledged. There was “courtesies” of flying _services. always exchanges of the war between the When Quentin down over the German lines father, Col. Roose- velt, was frantic to get some word of him. The International Red Cross and neutral diplomats on duty in Ber- lin were beseeched to make especial i This and That By Charles E. Tracewell. On the back fence gat Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus Minor. His name did not matter to him. All that interested him was the entrancing odor of chicken that floated from the open kitchen door. He had smelled it when far dowh the alley, and having had little to eat for a week, made a bee-line for the place whence issued those delectable odors, enough to make even the most pampered cat hungry. Africanus, glistening black, wiggled his nostrils. The question with him was whether he should advance or sit still. Forward movement might mean danger, either in the shape of a broom or a dog Warrior though he was, Africanus | chose to meet neither dog nor broom this day. He was hungry and he wanted some chicken. To sit on the fence, however, would keep be- tween him and it far too much dis- tance. Easing himself down, Afrftanus slunk along the path by the withered zinnia stalks, close by the rosebushes doing their best to sport blossoms despite the cold. H‘; reached the steps, then looked around cautfously, then gingerly soft-treaded it to the porch where he could look into the kitchen. The smell was overpowering now. Forgetting the necessity for cau- tion, Africanus meowed several times. There was a movement in the kitchen, then a voice called: “Why, hello there, kitty! Where did vou come from?” Meo cried Publius Cornelius Sciplo Aemilianus Africanus Minor. * k% * “Oh! You want some chicken, eh” “Meow “Well, maybe we can let you have a les. But we will have to ask Jack Spratt about it.” i Suddenly a tiger-striped gray and black cat appeared in the doorway on the inner side of the screen. It was none other than Jack Spratt himselt, who was so full of chicken that he could scarcely waddle. “Shall we let this poor hungry cat have some of your chicken, Jack?” Jack Spratt was swelling at _an alarming rate. His tail already was three times as big as normal, hi eyes glistened, his ears stood erect. his fur on his back had become very flufty. Curving his neck, his head on one side, evelng Africanus out of the corner of his eye, Jack pronounced the following verdic! “YoW-oW-0OW-0W Africanus held his ground., how- ever, as befitted a hungry old Roman. He was too close to food to back out. As the screen door came open, Africanus retreated just enough not to get his tail caught, then darted forward to recelve the big leg of chicken that was thrown on the porch floor between the two cats. Africanus won by minutes. Jack Spratt, surfeited, looked with aston- ished eyes at the precipitate snatch of the hungry cat. Perhaps he was thinking to himself, “Once upon a time I had to jump like that for my grub.” Africanus backed off a foot, then began. to devour his rare treat. Spratt watched him with interest. He made no move forward. He watched the black cat finish his bone, and also two small scraps of round- steak left over from a previous Spratt meal. * % * Africanus, with his first square meal in a week reposing in the place calmly eyed Jack Spratt, then fell to washing his face. Inquiry and to ascertain the facts It was the privilege of this writer, just back from the war, 1o assure the former President that he receive the word of his fate from the German flying co itself. In a few s the Word caree —-dropped over line the exact xpot_of the funeral It must not be this that there during the iting abe at times w 4s bitter as any on the ground. Whe two aviators engaged in huttle it w almost a ¢ Ainty that other would die. But d den and picturesque, ane 1) n ¢ their ¢ 1 the L, photograph: and the softnoes w War T of the trenche: deaths before for keep Eddie " nbucker, / of witne and court added that wh he would return to lus . slog on foot to the front | to spend u fantry he said the for him. On the ted who he gof irrang, 10 let d then ceremony of soldier into ¢ of dou; fey with pertences m, befor like to Eddie ain which o) all the st barely missing med up into th said the pilot thr 10 per cent sught th 1zh those fr we were “30 per cer up here thoug ; * o x * And now America mu crop of the ga the lodg poker widows additio he fascinatin bands have new d rush to the land of Ponce de Leon nd are not able as find suitable abodes for the girl left behind th Later the F widows will descend en masse upor the temporary admit to v do not been b even now that the idea of friend hu vouth. Then, too, assuring for the v on a cold and dow stormy 1 recount had by « “Just wait, what ominous Fifty Years Ago In The Star nent to the on Poe. . the occasion in it 18, 1875, says: “About the most significant part of the Poe ceremonies yesterday- which only a crowded and remarkabl; magnetic audience of the very best class of young pepole, women pre ponderating, prevented from growing tedious—was the inarked from the spot of popul and American and Only Whit was ommenting or issue of November Walt 1p and sflently . but re fused to speech, saying ‘I have felt a strong impulse to come over and be here today myself in memory of Poe, which I have obeyed but not the slightest impulse to make a speech, which, my dear friends must also be obeyed.’ In an informal circle, however, in conversation after the ceremonies Whitman said: ‘For a long while, and until lately, I a distaste for Poe's writings. 1 wanted and still want for poetry the clear sun shining and fresh atr blowing strength and power of health, not of delirfum, even amid the stormiest passfons—with always the background of the eternal morali tles. Non-complying with these re quirements, s quered a spe ition for itself and 1, too, bave come to fully admit it, and to appreciate it and him. Even my own objections draw me to him at last; and those very points, with his sad fate, will make him deare: to young and fervid minds. ““In a dream I once had T saw a vessel on the sea. at midnight, in a storm. It was no great full-rigged ship nor majestic steamer, steering firmly through the gale, but seemed one of those superb little schooner vachts T had often seen Iying anchor ed, rocking so_jauntily, in the waters around New York or up Long Island Sound, now flying uncontrolled with torn sails and broken spars through the wild sweep of winds and waves of the night. On deck was a slender slight, beautiful figure, a dim man, apparently enjoying all the terror, the murk, the weirdness and the disloca tion of which he was the center and the victim. That figure of my furtd dream might stand for Edgar Poe “Was that pretty good, Africanus?” the black cat was asked, as a hand stroked his head. A tremendous scream of rage split the atr. Epratt’s tail has swelled .to four his spirit, his fortunes and his poems —themselves all lurld éxsams.’ * % ¥ % Halt a century ago the boys of ‘Washington were much more addicted : to the sling shot, or Sling Shot “bean shooter,” than it : would seem they are to Nuisance. g,y 1y The Star of November 20, 1875, is & protest against the promiscuous use of these weapons “Perhaps as good a work as tha police could enter upon just mow would be to put a stop to the use of the dangerous sling shot by the Juveniles. The boys have got so reck- less and expert in the usoc of this weapon that they are not only doing a great amount of wanton mischief. but are destroying valuable property and even endangering life.” — times its normal dimensions. Again he gave a battle cry, stung by jealousy, and threw himself forward His strong right paw, claws ex- tended to full length, raked the hind quarters of Africanus, as the latter turned tall and fled. Pursuing the black cat to the bot- tom of the steps, Jack sat down there, evidently conscious that he®: was satisfied.