Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1925, Page 42

9 THE EVENING With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY.....December 27. THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company neb! Yark e A it 4 Huil <t Ave d St 1 don. The Wvening St ing mdition. 1= delivered by the city at 80 cents pec 43 cants per month imtes only. 20 cents per saonth Orders max he sent by mail o Talepaone Main 5000 Collection 15 made by carriar at the end of each month with the Sunday arriers within STAR| 1025 car patronage, which was the rule for many years. In some cities persons who live in the outlying sections use their motor for part of the way into town and then take the street cars to reach the section, parking their e ] business |cars in the less congested streets of | | the middle zone. drive their line Other cars to the nearest car line or bus and leave them there ali day while at work. This practice, of course, simply shifts the parking congestion outward instead of concentrating it. Ny speaking, the car undoubtedly furnishes th est service to the community. car for each unit than the mc -ar or the bus. In point of street great- It Economic vies more people or ear or Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and V Dafly and Sundas . §0.00 Diatly anle i fundiy on 500 1 mo 1 mo All Other States and Canada. <1200 s £1.00 Duir Dailx Sundar Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Prose s exchy Tepuniication of a ot nihes sl entitied | Daner O apecial dispatches herein ars alen rose i The Government's Housing Needs. Representative Madden, chairman | of the House committee on appropria tions, expresses the helief that the public buildings bill, which has the yroval of President Coolidze, and will call an approp £175.000 000, of which $30.000,000 constructions brousht up of de for on of will Washington he for in will be House hefore all am in the ve the artmental priation have been those hills aging who realize the urgent need of prempt relief for departmental organization Madden. noting that member of Congress Chairman practically every is convineed of sitv for better housin 1 this nece the Government the it provides for cilities for ks for cially cutside of as well as in the District This is such an old £ome ears it may he tiresome. those are proper transaction the tale is one of deepest however often repeated who have daily deali ernment know the wholesale rehousing ments and bureaus. charged with the custody able priceless apposition ospe- nstructions for the! husiness oy to who responsibie of public is interest Al s with the Gov- | vital need a of the depart Those wh those | i are invalu dox values risk thes sometimes ords | papers, r ments upon which the greatest and interests depend know that constantly incurred custody in crowded places. in filmsy makeshift buildings The memory of man in Washington Tuns not to the time when the Gov ernment was fully and adequately auartered. There has always been, rapecially since the Civil War, cramping, dangerous congestion the department and bures tha Capital. Within the vears the Government eracted only one complete department build ing. that for the Interior Department It has built two wings of the projected home of the Department of Agricul- ture, and it has occupied for depart mental headquarters -a building de. ened and constricted as a city post office. Tt has built a new home for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to| veplace an old cne, and » new Gov. ernment Printing Office 1o supplement | rather than entirely replace a danger- ous shell. During that period three new departments have been created— Agriculture, Commerce and Labor. Of these three the two last named have never had homes of their own, while the first named scattered | widely bevond the old and new main huildings. The Departments of State, | War, Navy and are housed” in the huildings designated | for their use long a but all of t have tha The Justice has never home of and period of of overnment-acquired the is in | al in| homes at | past forty | has | is Treasury still | em expanded heyond walls these two ot srnment-huilt after a an inadeq building, it pri vately owned quarters at an increased rental. The Interior alone is housed sufficient] rildi which is strietures. Depart had = ow ment it anz accupaney is now a tenant in Department i= and com pletaly the be transferred to that Thus stands ment equipment century. in ite own ave for Pension Office ahout to structure. G Capital the record of vern at the for half a a record wholly variance with the businesslike pervading of private enter prine in this country. The cost to the overnment of inadequate housinz in ented quarters during that time mounts into a vast undouhbtedly zreater than the estimated expense of the program now contemplated in the pending hill. spirit all lines um, af New Year.' ———— Members Congress “Happy their doubts jnvous serenity are saving have | TIs the Street Car Coming Back? | Hasx the tide of tr 2 heen flowing away to the auto and to the older That question is apparently answered in the afirmative in Raltin vhere the puhlic service commission has re- ceived { the but frankly about the prospect for avel, which has from the street car turned back transportation? the hus. form of reports the for of 1925 with a showing of a larger patron age than in 1024 that 444.569 rode the cars during the first eleven months | of 1924 than the year previous, where | the net income of the company $36.156 greater, or almost The conclusion of cials is that persons who formerly eleven company months These reporis note meve passengers in of was o per cent oM. | ode | the company tn autos are now perhaps bhecause unable find parking space downtown for their | g with using the street cars, they are to ‘or have hecome cars the traffic situation. As far as noted, the District do not carry out a similar con ‘ clusion. The latest reports indicated | ® diminishing af the street | Rut the conditions in this city with | respect tmpatient the figures in to downtown parking worse at than better | than they ago. If this| factor is calculated to drive people to the street cars for Washington should surely feel the ef “fect In a return to an increasing street are | present rather were a year transportation | would appe. {admonition fn {and space oceupied in the street, the street {car is the most efficient means of trans- unquestionably . running limited in Yet the helief that the street track, and thus <cope of operation, is certain to be per port. prevai car on a fixed manently lessened in use as the years pass operated at almost capacity during the rush hours of the day. A larger vol ume of patronage cannot he accommo dated save hy the introduction of mare The laying of new lines is not Sub regarded with faver in any oty ways or elevated tracks —the latter are generally viewed as an obsolete form of urban transportation—are the only practical of multiplying the street without increasing the congestion in the already so serious a problem of city manage means car servic in street ment duving 1925 to some exceptional nore’s experience due only be the result part of pass to and fro in transaction of it will interesting to these firures and to note if possible what other showing in this rd of relationship hetween street car ion, or it may of habit the people who daily the be or on the business, follow cities are re transport and other means of travel ostal Holiday widely broadcast The P Despite the appeal from the postal authorities to the peo ple for an early mailing of Christmas cards and packages, in order that the postal forces might have a full holiday on Christm and still dispose of receipts and deliveries, quantities of mail matter accumulated Friday due late mailing. Every incoming mail train brought tons of postal matter Thursday and Fridav. It that the people mailed late with the idea that everything the Christmas near would be delivered promptly s day all immense to a multitude of put into boxes before however the day In con sequence of this delay of mailing these cards and packages could not possibly be handled before Christmas or on that day and are reaching their destinations at least and forty-eight hours later. [ hirty-six in many cases wonld seem that no ameunt o - early he habit mailing of an quite fully cure tardy huving The peopie who send presents by mail have unhounded con fidence in the ability of the postal or- ganization. forgetting that if a million or so people, feeling the same way. put off until the last few houre the mail- ing of their cards and packages the result is bound to be delay for all, One of the causes of postal ronges tion at this season is the great growth of the Christmas card practice. Mil lions these ds are exchanged through the mails at this season dividually posting of car In they are small, but collec- tively they make an enormous bulk Each card requires separate handling. and however minute the individual item the time required for disposing of all is a heavy factor in the postal congestion Those whose letters, cards and pack | ages were not delivered on Christmas | day beca joving ieved every se the postal holiday should not warning was given force was en a feel ag Sufficient to ody, 1 made ngzements the holiday were in season for all mail users to adjust to the new con It right that the holiday should he established, even though the mail trains were piling up the volume of sacks for later handling. Perhaps next vear fuller heed will be the injunction to “mail early 1 which ridicule and attack is the Standard Oil Company. The days forgotten when pictorial reference to it as an actopus was one of the forms of popular amusement. dition. was Among have survived several institutions are almost commonest ———— In addition to the service they ren der, the traffic siznals introduce a new form of street decoration, effective and appropriate to the season. e doees The franc as represented hy- actual in expresses actual value. [ts dif ficulty comes when it takes the form note. The Patterson Tract. Acquisition hy the National Park Commission of the tract at Fifth street and Florlda of & promissory Capital of land avenue northeast for a park site is being urged | by site, organizations in the District. This the Patterson tract, has long heen recognized as especially desivable for park ecommended by in 1901 During the war this valuahle land hecame Camp Meigs. known purposes and the Senate w park s committee piece of When the Government Teleased the ground took it over and now retains possession. Un. til 1917 boys and girls of the neigh- borhood used it as an unofficial play- A house-wreckinz company ground. Orzanizations in purchase of this tract are the North- east Citizens' Association and the Board of Trade, the latter having an. nually ssed its desirability as an addition to the park system of Wash- ington, at its last meeting placing the project at the head of the list of its recommendations. While the tract was in the hands of the Government a large concr swimming pool was constructed there. With "a large of a ready-made bathing pool and plenty of for bhase hall dia- monds, tennis courts and other form of outdoor sports, the attractivenes: of this Jand is enhanced for park pur- poses. Due to the limit sef by Congress on prominent te growth trees space In mest places the cars are now | | given to urging | beautiful | THE SUNDAY appropriations, the commission has been unable to find sufficient funds for its immediate purchase. 1t should, however, be acquired at the first op- portunity, hefore the trees are felled and the used for commer- cial pu Washington the most h making rapid lead in this tional Capita purchases to ground is s park system, already itiful in the world; is strides to increase its respect. Under the Na- Park Commission being made provements reted. Acquisition of this of distinet benefit to the residents of that section of the city and would round out the general which Washingtonians e A Million-Dollar Plunger. Nicholas Forzly f lie: | wise, are and im- site would be plan of all has lonz heen the known ernity of the to the race ick in a York hospital ill and dead hpoke. A few months agn he was worth a mil lion dollar which he had won on the track by shrewd hetting He cleaned up most of it in New Orleans in 1923 One wonld think that a would for him, but he not He not only wanted more, he wanted to continue his game, !a game that has fascinated multitudes {and that aused incalculable dis- tress. The gambling germ was in his His luc track | as | New | desperately | i | million be enough was satistied hut has ¢ | system hegan to turn, and whereas hefore he had won almost uniformly, he lost When | the break his roll began to diminish, friends advised “salt part of 1s regularly e and came him to down it in estate as al them to lose real safety He laughed and continued to plunge Now jewels have fri at only steadily nis million is gone, his wife's in deht hills There 10 fesd of additional touches to complete this picture. Perhaps “Nick F." has had lam dollars’” worth of fun. Per aps those who lost the million to him { had thei of it. But what ahout | Mrs. Ni For per- | son. and she is today carrying the| irden. heen pawned, he is and nds are paying his | wo seem he no illion k there is such a s Sunday Newspapers in Spain. Spain is at last seeing the light. Its old edict banning newspapers on Sun- | day about to ifted. DPremier Primo de Rivera has dispatched a let- ter to the head of the Spanish Press demanding the is be Association virtually STAR, WASHINGTON, EVERYDAY RELIGION BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D., LL. D., Bishop of RETROSPECT. Deutcronomy. vi “Thou shalt remember. all the way which the Lord thy God led thee.” The close of the year offers an op- portunity for retrospection and the more serlous consideration of the last- ing values of life. If it Is worth while for a commercial concern to examine its books and to discover the losses or profits for a given period, surely it ix more important for the individual to disclose to his vision the gains or losses that are his over the period of a vear. Tt is & dangerous husiness to go on living without some method of ap praisal. It is not a diMcult task. if we are consistent ahout it to reveal to our consciousness the advance we have made, or again the lack of it. It Is not o much a matter of hookkeeping a A8 ft is 4 matter of remembering the | d. Any bring back to and incidents way over which we have pass serious reflection will us those circumstances that have either marked our progress or our decline. 1t will reveal to us the strength or weakness of our character in meeting conditions and dealing with problems that either add to our strength or subtract therefrom, ok ok We can readily recall whether we have grown in the number of our friends thro the deepening of per- sonal ties of attachment, or lost them through indifference or unadjusted and unexplained misunderstandings We can without dificulty discover whether we have contributed to the happiness and possibly the prosperit of the world in which live, whether through selfishnes® we have only added to our own store of materi al gains or personal advancement. We can by reasonable introspection find out whether at the close of the vear our sympathies are finer, our under- standing of life more accurate, our outlook clearer, and love of d and man more nutterly sincere. To do these things God has given the £ift of memory. To use it simply for Selfish ends is to abuse it and fail of its high purpose. Tn use it for the purpose of surveyvir® our relation tn life and for evaluating the qualities in ourmature that are really worth while to make it serve those high aims for which it was definitely given. Any retrospect at this time that is really worth while is one that in its survey must comprehend #!l the conditions of life under which we have lived. Look- ing at it broadly. we of America cer- tainly have cause for titude for what our Nation has experienced. in onr each « ‘ news An publication in i]w]\r: on the Sabbath swer is ! requested by January 3. Based on the fact that the Spanish ! people are in large measure kept igno- ! rant of world through | lack in happenings Sunday papers, the Premier, | . asked of | Jlishers to assist in correcting the | Fdited and published the Sunday his lette co-operation condition, lectively new he {each einy Tt | | owners will hasten to compl would issued simultaneously is prol e newspaper | .with the | the | welcome request of the Premier, and that Spanish people eagerly the innovation. World happenings as purveyved by the modern journal have | hecome feature of the daily life of citizens in every portion of the globe. will a paramount R that Mr. La remained on suf wit P. the compliments to settling down ! which friend. | It is apparent Follette has at ficiently voung least o zood terms with the G leaders to exrhange of to ship ceases. the season prior to political zame in ———— = Both the Vice Dresident and the | Senate are looking forward with evi- | dent pleasure to a settlement of the | question of shall tame the | other. which | the | of ents have In dvy vent | a result of “Christmas che spite of unusual vigilance, b H not heen able to pre { | the usnal number of fatalities as o | 1 A disarmament agreement faithfully | kept by all parties would give 1326 the | record for all time for the most suc- | cessful New Year resolution. i The made Christmas leave politely extended with ments of the season. pelica no arrests on | park heing the day, compli —r———— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. | i | Fleeting Romances, A pretty girl know how fiic ought to go. who didn’t | rust the t A youthful copper, all alert, | The law’s importance to assert. i { A frown so grim 1A smile so sweet A word severe— though not sincere. | | The pr : “ And Cupid beats the magistrate, | tty girl rides on in st Variable ‘How do you | prohibition?” “It depends on the date,” Senator hum. large numbers vear. entiment. r constituents stand on answered ire wet in most of the | but on election day they are all | Sor, “They ! through | ary Further Tnvestigation. Oh. Congress, thy fierce agitation May lead to a mental paralysis That calls, as the hope of the Nation, For studies in psychoanaly Jud Tunkins says the motion pic tures are a great relief in his town hecause the actors never get stranded | and have to he financed to get heme. a The int Militant, “I hear that you had a good old- fashioned Christmas in Crimson Gulch.” “We sure Joe. ome o' | | did,” answered the bho; said there wasn't santa Claus. Mesa Bill g0t hisself a of whiskers, a fur cap and a fast-action gun. Tt wasn't twenty minutes before he had the whole crowd back to the sweet and simple faith of childhood days.” Cactus any | set “When vou tells yoh trouble to a friend,” said Uncle Eben, “you only makes him wonder whether it hasn't served you right for bein’ foolish.” \ | spite i for | revolt. | peoples of conditions that were some times thregtenin d in the face of conditions in other parts of the world that were fraught with The ver in the during the occasion every Not only have were are ahundant it of our Nation's vear that gratitude to zood and perfect we had peace. ! story past f interval the waorld turned its eves to Syria and watched A weary France once more deal with a rebeilion. when the Druse tribes men kicked up a quantity of dust and caused a French general to go to Paris to explain his eonduct at Da mascus. And then the Syrian inci dent passed by and the world’s in terest in it passed with it. for new things. such as the Greco-Bulgarian spat and the Turco-British squabble, arose 1o monopolize the stage. It is a kaleidoscopic agze and the turmoil with which the world is be set has dulled the minds of people to the siznificance of things. Ob- viously the cause is the World War and the many outbursts in almost every part of the xlobe are some. thing like the minor tremors that follow in the wake of a tremendous earthquake. Taken alone their force would he powerful, but following each other rapidly and after great cataclysm that preceded them thelr importance is lost in the gen. eral confusion For a hr Numerous Wars Turco-Greek war. hetween Russia and Poland. There are the Riffian the Chinese mess, the Syrian trouble, the Persian tangle, the quar- rel over Mosul hetween Turkey and Britain, the horder war hetween Greece and Rulgaria and the Tacna Arica controversy, and the av ®e person. seeking to keep ahreast of tha times. ecan well he justified in his hewilderment at the chans about him. Some force s always advancing on ome city. Some general has won an important victory. Somebods has ah. dicated and some one has made a triumphant entry. A war is not news any more: it is table talk. And the thing that is lost sight of is that all these human eruptions are as vital to their participants as the American Revolution or the Civ was to the United States. As this Nation during those years was trying was the the war There There w to find a solution of its problem of na- | tionality, o are all these nations and trying to solve a problem which concerns the nationality and | well being of each one of them Each group has its national thnic consciousness and in each case this is much older and more deeply rooted than that of the United States. The Druses are one of these groups. A Small But Ancient Race. They inhabit a district on the edge of Syria. comprising the southern por- tion of the Lebanon and the western slope of Anti-Lebanon, as well as a large district in the Hauran. Accord- ing to most authorities, they are a mixture of Kurdish, Persian and Arab stock, and they number somewhere hetween 100,000 and 150,000 They have had trouble with France, hut they were old when France was in | raw medievalism. They roamed their mountains and their desert. their re- ligion seems to assert, when Moses led his people out of Egvpt. when Christ preached His sermon on the mount and when Mohammed arose from pas- toral obscurity to found n " be- lief. Tradition and aom are =0 strong with them tha! tiey assume a stern fanaticism that neither French bayonets nor bullets will stamp out. Their religion is a peculiar one. It mixeg the teachinzs of Moses and Chris® and Mohammed and includes certain pagan beliefs. It tells them to he pure in body and in speech and for- bids them to use alcohol, tobacco or profanity. But. with a curious twist, it admonishes them that the inexora- ble law is an eve for an eye, to take life when life is taken, when one of their tribe is killed. Perhaps this last explains their belief that the world's population remains constant and that time’'s duration is exactly 343,000,000 vears. Origin of the Druses. The name Druses probably made its first appearance in the eleventh cen- tury, and its incipience reveals an in- teresting incident in their history which added to their peculiar relizion. In the eleventh century Hakem, the Fatimite caliph of Egypt. cruel and hated by his people, caused the in- carnation of God in himself to be preached publicly in Cairo by his con- fessor, Darasi. This man Incurred the | War : and | Washington. evidences that we have prospered be- yond our deserving. *imiok Apart from any disclosure of ma- terial prosperity, we have evidences within our borders of a finer spirit of understanding, issuing in a larger sympath ! in many respects, in broader and more kindly fellowship. Whether our beneficence has kept pace with our prosperity may be qu tioned; on the other hand, it is to say that at no period in human his tory has the Christlike =pirit of be- nevolence and charity heen so largely manifested in recent times. Fven the most cynical must see in this the evidence of & growing spirit of brother hood. ideal by any proaching ever hefore the M mandment, “Thon neighbor as thyself In the great workroom of industry where we have vet there is a hetier take and a more zenerons ane thetic understanding than hitherto known. In the field ligious activity, where onee bitterness and strife and dences of unseemly competi by little the spirit of Chris is effacing the lines of distinction compelling those who ack sovereignty of a con | recognize unity in diver {no place in modern Christi for bigotry or narrowne still have a long way ! shall approximate thi for which Christ praved to believe that we more nearly today hut rly ster's shalt means, more ne: we today reat love are ap than com thy sympa nve spirit of of there the evi n, little an comity and swiedge the Master The n though While | | | #0 et | surveving of our domest much that must | " The post-wa | tendencies that | couraging. To home and social should he f we cross the thres | 1t will matter little what ony prosperity | Nation may wholesome # mestic d h the o hgbe De are ift life <t mate: n keep he nies prve the £ nd social life p a vear of life has heen our re ditions we have the high have RE In summir we discover what Ao lation to a named? Have and fine % weakly vielded the | impressions and opinic ing hour? Is our life d trolled by deep and gious conflict circimstances bow? Hax the made n 3 blurred plan and is a solemn 1 these e we stood for th ered incor sof t ected and con reli W clear to <0 we sciousness that {and the world the wra not swa caped to the received b taught his name Druses | derived. hut disciple of the divinity the tribesmen in Druses they I religious and polit for nine centur The seven their religion with each and resistz religions tion of works of God and separation and from demons the intaineers is believed Hakem that th £ the fires ma and 1 the have been are other fron Believe They b revealed being vt myster the to helieve They also n of the visits Diruse hefe him | water. the othe is a Druse he w one into the nthe [ migration of the Their simgular frailties ¢ humanity those of the human mi tention 1 they participation the their rites and exciice 1 talities from many ments. They divide into the intel norant.” and {ones who ma | morning fmu undergo | they return ta their stomed t fully equipped. in the Druse mi meet the probiems of life in Transmigration. one Gad who has disappe: that he he insmigra o - spirit recognition part 1, der this prect quire. dherents the “ig the intel = ser The Home of the Druses. outh of ancient D by Mark Twain the Ete of the Sea of G | home of the Druses is the | swept plain of Hauren. a prairie 1t is covered with rock-bhuilt ci villages. spectral relics tion of Rome. and among them such things E mascus. nal City lilee, lies called ind the ind and fos and the civiliza Druses wander it contemptuous Damascus nearby |seen Rome come and go along imany other empires and civiii: The Druses seem to sense it At the eastern edge of this plain is a plateau of Iav; rising some feet around its square miles. And here the Dri flee when hard pressed by such s as the ench, and it the reason for their independence. Fled o the Desert. |1t has served them more than { The Maronite Christians, who have in {terested theolozical sindents hecause {they follow the practices of the early church. are neighhors of the Druses. The tribesmen cked the Maronites with such , vigo that France sent an army P it and a European commission set about inves tigating matters. At the approach of the army the Druses ran off to the desert and remained until it left, and the commission found that the Maron- ites had acted with a vindictiveness equal to that of the Druses, and that the Tyrks and the Damascene fanatics had started the trouble, The modern incident involving the Druses has quieted down, at least in newspaper headlines, and everything. expressed in the vernacular, is lovely. But the Druses are <till in their desert, and will probably be there when the French mandate is lifted. They are but one of the subject peo. les that are asserting themselves. Sesa s It the has with) ns 350 is bhigzest nee | 1860, a ! v | Juggernaut Ethics. | From the El Paso Herald. Too much of the world is n on the theory that you don’t need road manners if you are a five-ton truck. it odi Has Crossed the Line. From the Omaha World-Herald. Now that “Mellie” Dunham has become a professional the public will lose all Interest In him, We have not approximated the | D. ¢, DECEMBER 27, | seal of the United States, and at the!anvhew that the | 1e pass- | | | | square in t | close personal are the only | was exhibited Ay | hibitions | for the pu SWith its fageed rim | one large room la {men that much to learn,fVeloping the N and | Whose advantages we so much enjoy | intentional 1925—PART 2. Capital Sidelights Christmas cards pour like a veritable flood of good cheer and well wishes from the Capitol to every cor- ner of this broad land. Each of the 435 members of the Iouse and the 45 members of the Senate sends out anywhere from 200 to 20,000 greeting cards each Yuletide. “There is competition annually tc see who will have the most distinctive Christmas card. This year the honc goes to Fdmund F. K House committee on who has sent out some not nly the mest “different,” but largest Christmas card ever sent hrough the Capitol post office at this season. During the last 16 jears, since he has been a well known figure at the Capitol, Mr Erk's greeting cards on all oceasions ave attracted tiention . Mr. Erk explains that when a boy heard s man say that *there are two things in life th while money is not one of them - one s time and the other iends.” He helieves the right way is to #how your friends ths appreciate them iile alive. The debt affairs, ies of he that mad owe to the great rifices in de. and Government we tion Ny sac has hgen growing nd a ttle "thought vantages and the them along to us this year he'd minder at this His card is are reproduced fundamental doc under the Documents Liberty,” all Cuments brary Erk of how upon Mr for conseionsness w Eive these ad men who passed s he thought that ot little re. impressive season 0 by 25 inches. On the facsimiles of the iments of Nation on ‘The First-Born Popular Constitutional taken the original in the sressional Li They inciud compact Mayflower. e Declara Constitution ears, - tn send . of ar from Cor the cabin of the Mayflo cndence % Gettys. tarewell ine and Besides the card is pictures of the embarka he the istrated the Mayvtio tion of the Declar Memoria dependence ashington's the great Pilg Mot Vernon in ngton mansion t ttom an « o f the United the legend by Peaple To drive the mes receive h eeting to his 1 embellished witk red. white and These e heritage free American \ « People the aple. for the vho M card Erk’s ated ipes friends imi and st the star documents are precious and ne have the service with the reared of deals s fr of lence an. might, dedicated a legacy s green earth se tf d the unmindful, but ne the fact ess. the Jappi e come ap. that sunshine the me Iot of the ca 1 are aquotatin ‘America” and the “Star Banner’ The shrine of patriot’s devotian. a world offers 0 thee™: “My country. ‘tis of liberty. of thee od is our trust and om Ocean Spangled 2l the Gem homage thee, sweat Ena e he . and hs e “eapy seen copyrighted > than e hits you eve with the warm red greeting. Some of his riends wanted to make stm: present, so they f handsome red moroe. Of course the fame home and such iirs would ta » needed Christmas Nick™ a 1d a couple leather th r nish his office friends the ; ) moments There 1 Speaker's Frederick H the Tast « mem trait ing Speaker 5 Massachusetts. B 1 he of Who was Speaker wgress and wh now “apitol Bui'd jillett's term mund €. Tarbell n Pricr to its heing ar Federal Government in sev various & portrait the was pe 7 the ( pa notable ex Charles works in this or former E. Fairman, curator of the Capitol. s an autho lection of ‘Fortraits of the Speak which now number he origin of this collection seems have heen accidental rather or tn 1850 there were three rooms at the <outh side of the hall of the House of Representatives In the act of March 3. 1879, an appro- priation was made for the alterations in these rooms. which were the raom the Speaker. the room of the ser- zeant-at-arms of the House, and the room occupied hy the reporters of the Houge. T dteration was instituted pose of improving the ven- the House. and when the ed had heen converted into se openings were lation of roms | made in the north walls of the room s | portraits of John | | | | Government in 1s: that ventilation might he secured from these rooms and the Speaker's lobby into the hall of the House of Repre- sentatives. There had existed for some time in the Speaker's roam small por- trajts of former Speakers framed in oval frames. The portraits were auite small in size, zome in oil and »me in lithograph. and others were engravings of a hetter quality. The only oll portraits this time were Taylor, a copy Gibson, and a of an earlier portr portrait of Henry ¥, painted from life by Giuseppe Pagnani, an Italian painter of prominence, who during the fifties visited Washington frequently s a friend of Sir Bulwer Lytton, and during such visits painted the portrait of Henry Clay and other prominent Americans of that period. This por trait of Henry Clay was ziven to the 2 and duly accepted as a gift from the artist. It is a curi- ous circumstance that while a resolu- tion providing for the acceptance of this portrait had heen hefore Congress for consideration for some time, final passage did not occur until a few days after the death of Henry Clay. collection The art in the Capitol now numbers objects, mostly por- traits, historical paintings and statues, ighty are in the Senate wing of the Capitol. 43 are in the Supreme Court <ection. 35 in the central section of tha Capitol Building, which includes the rotunda; 54 in Statuary Hall, 58 in the House wing and 23 in the House Office Building. The Republican committee on com- mittees has been so careful about making fitting committee assignments that it has placed two one-armed men on the committee on war claima. Ze home to those | than | MEN AND BY ROBERT Just as everybody in Washington | i foreign advisers all straightened out and cawalogued, along comes the ubiquitous Col. iouse and upsets all calculations. A call at the White House by the colonel would have heen bad enough, but when he spent the night there \Washington emulated ome and howled. The {rreconcilables on Capitol Hill who are just as irreconcilable on the World Court they were the League of Nations pointing a more or less scornful finger in the direction of Mr. Coolidge and are hid ding him heware of the Texas colonel and all his works. The mere fact that ol. House was at one time an int} mate adviser and investigator for Woodrow Wilson is enough for the struggling and stagzling remnants of the once invinecible “RBattalion Death." Every time (ol appearance at as ¥ on i House in an Washington the ir.| reconcilahles vollev and thunder. They | scent new entangling alliances see America drawn { European vortex. The mere fact that | this Christmastide has found all | | Europe at peace and struggling to perpetuate that peace has not softaned the hearis of the irreconc They sav now that the financ whirlpool just about bad war, and if Furope can't get us war, least the & | into’ their financial strangle us that way But all this is hy The point of this narra inquire what has become Frank . Stearns of President Coolidge's foreigm and domestic adviser. Stearns tog fiving trip not so long EO, His coming heralded in all the foreign countries touched hy his tour he wined and dined in a4 most sumptic manner. first 1 then he “colonel tell evervhody n hic hest glish that he was not the dent of bt | wouldn't puts They | into the swirling | 1hles difficult way of digression of Roston intir the helieve 1 nited him the [ conal . | thes intimate felt that how to Mr. and A them might White House | most zood. It is perfectiy true that F tearns is the most welcome and most | constant visitor to the White House hut it is also frue that during his ! White House visits he goes his own 1way, does what he chooses, and never hothers his friend the President with any sort of advice. political or other wise Mr. Stea d in Wash adviser Mr. Coolidge why this Col. House disturb. ing Of com {come to advis enough of that from which he vear or twe ate back where it might o perc or business is most se. the colonel may net have may ot aw regime. s banished the last Then. ton, the colonel thought they had President Coolidze’s | Ma kept such a 1o | mail sundry, mas, | offices | ecuti foe U felz AFFAIRS T. SMALL. & bringing out vhe that was A xec a hook pretty soon why his visit war t. Who knows? Speaking of President Coolidge, there has been a disposition on the part of | some chroniclers of the day’ | Washington news in © make mucn of the fact hat the Chief Executive “snooped” nto a good deal of the White House on the morn of Christmas eve. nference was that the President impatient to he de by the pretiy little stickers on ertain packages whi showed sol liers or bluejackets or rarines stand n t attention and earning all and Do not cpen before Christ I'he had errved The truth of arly mornini House mail is a daily practice of the President, and is one of the things ahout his job that he likes hest of all He invariably at the executive by a.m.. or nearly an hour hefore the mail clerks and other ex e emploves arrive Unlike other Presidents, Mr. Ceol loves the little daily routine tasks which confront him. Small things dn not irk him. As a matter of fact neither do the big things. He just waits until they zet to him or he gers to them and deals with them in an nexcited and matter-offact sort of way. Mr. Coolidge always liked to the matter is that an delving 10 the White open his own mail when he was Vice reason_wh it as Presi He dislike President he should dent no do Every 3 »mlet Mitle presidential for Gifford Pinchot ises and says no Penn er get the Republican Pennsvivania fs always safe for the G. O. P.. and there is no need to favor one of her sons when a suitahle candidate ecan he acquired in a big d ful common Ith. The friends of the Keystone governor are replving. however. that f New Fngland can have a President for the first time seventy-five there is na reason why ania should be counted s matter some kil sylvani nomination n can Pennsvl of the As een b Werin a of fact, t Prosident elected and. believe it 2 Democrat elected in 1856, wa He was ever chosen United Srates veland was another. but Mr. Cleveland married in the White House. Mr. Buchanan never faltered During the Pennsylvanian's admin the mistress of the White was Mise Harriet Lane, a wh father was liott vho came of an old Vir Mr. Lane married Mr sister. Miss Lane has 1 beauty of her da) violet eves, a be combination remained a bachelor nl but today he chot one of his @ never has from not Tame= A ran as Buchanan na House niece Lane. E [ beer 14 a I as aides and assets (Conyricht. 1925 greatest ‘Fift_v Years Ago‘ In The Star of Decem a The Star the em in new painting at the Corcoran Gal which has many vears ona of the ites of visitor that institution new picture by Detaille of | received nts a regi | ment of the line alonz the houlevard of Pa near the Portes| St. Martin and St. Denis. on a snowy, wet day in December. The center of the street is filled with the fery headed by a drum corps. in which strides th um_ major either side of eground | motley groups workmen {and schoolboys, all evidently {ing the music of the band of the cold air. The expressio { motion of these groups through vellow Parisian mud, mixed with snow and streaked with s uts, is most | admirably given. On the sidewalks {are men and women. some holding up their ren to see the stin pageant. Bevond these New Painting at the Corcoran. . The Paris just repres passing on tramp gamins enjoy- spite of the the fc masses of etc.. fille t ve with Tod mn snowy aira ne R ihicened h expression wander right Mei one_so dea modern Frer The The figure on portrait of the sonnier. of whom pupil diversity of groups is he extreme artist Te: as asking e centennial a centurr ago in The Star ecer 21, 187 the following relative to a visit city by the legis Philadeiphia sional ald tion Congressmen Visit | the Centennial. exposi and of 1 h e | ot inquiry that |lators The membhers Congress who | visited the | grounds last week quite generally expressed them slves in favor of voting a creditable | appropriation in bhehalf of the national ‘ exposition. It is as well probabiy that {the appropriation was mnot made | {earlier. Had it bheen voted €n the | start it would no doubt have enfeebled |the efforts of the local management {who would have felt like leaning on {the Government for the main finan [ cial support of the undertaking: and {no doubt. too. the moneyv thus given offhand would have fallen largely into the hands of jobhers and speculators, {or would have heen frittered awayv in lavish, careless expenditures. Rut as there was no such fund to hegin with to tempt the speculators. the ! management fell into the hands of | ]M-udem. publie spirited men. who had Ine axes to grind and no objects inl I view but the national sueccess of the great undertaking. They raised the money »mmence the centannial | buildings by strenuous personal exer ltion and the funds thus lahoriously gained have naturally been expended | economically and judiciously The greater portion of the money needed | has been subscribed and appropriated | and the larger part of the work has {been done: and now comes the time when the Government can put its con- | tribution where it will do the most | good. assuring the carrving out of the !exposition in a manner creditahle to American pride and patriotism and having itself the assurance th the monex appropriated will he prudently land honestly expended. An earthquake was felt along the Aflantic seaboard .n the night of December 22, 1875, and The Star, com- | Earthquake iSTUDE on the fact. stated that this d Felt Here. lurbance. which was the first of experienced here. was its kind locally within | the recollection of the oldest inhahi-| tant. In The Star of December 24, 1875, is a letter from a correspondent | who takes exception to this statement jas follows | ""“In vour editorial upon the subject you mention that according to the testimony of that-distinguished indi- vidual, ‘the oldest inhabitant.’ never before has the shock of an earthquake been felt in Washington. It I have truly interpreted your editorial, I beg of centenr to | I | | attention This and That By Charles E. Tracewell. A n a green harness was the window of the ating shop. imal-occupied window interior, warm and with the odor of this store lur nall pig anima It is a From fasci its ar the crowded somewhat stuff various creat Oh. sece the a mother called to her I Look at that pig zentleman to another. The harness. of bright creen leather studded with fit the porker to & 7T The § d almost proud of himself. “Some harness. looker. The: have zet Spratt?’ Inside, the came forward “Iwant to zet one of those harnesses like vou have on that pig for my cat he was told ““Oh, rertainly, brough fc “I don't Wil try If he doesr in harn tle on: said one elderls ttle pig remarked an on George, we will those for Jack By one of white-haired proprietor we have them for owner said. and he an identical article ine he will wear it him Bt B in hut 1 on it back.” said the proprietor At Bome Jack Spratt reclined at his ease in a hig A iy Trust a cat find the softest spot in a rosm On the arm of the chair lay Christ mas greeting cards which had heen arriving all week. They were ad dressed tn “Mr. Jack Spratt.” and were from his friends throughout the oty Ane card read: “Christmas Greet 0 mew-si-cal il for rour purrs The card showed a cat holding an enormous purse. in which wae stuck through a siit. a crisp one-dollar hill A letter accompanying sa. “For a new collar or a heefsteak dinner, take vour choice. Jack. Merry Christmas from a friend Another card. a particularly fetching one, showed a cat. with bright eves standing in front of a big parcel. This card. signed “Yours with great re pect. la and Micky." said. in part: “You are very much admired by us. have heard our iwo nid ladies read and talk so much abeut you We are two Thomas cats.’ To these and othe cards Jack Spratt seemed somewhat indifferent After giving a sniff twa ta earh arrival, he seemed to pay no more to them is only two and can't The 1stle of the attracted his attention of cpening his eves and pricking his ears. He cave several gond sniffs as the harness was approached to him. and manifested alarm when he was rafsed on his hind to admit the insertion of his head Hold still. ald fellow a boy, almost got it huckled!” Jack. beinz released. sprang out of the chair. somewhat indignant and hewildered First of all. he crouched down. then rolled over, biting at the He ead vet leather harness the extent up vears old 10 new ~that's ! shiny harness Not heing able to loosen it, he ran forward a few steps. then crouched down again “He doesn't like it P “Then off comes.’ And it did The tiger cat manifested zreat lief when he stood free at last. His big eves seemed to say: “Mister, you don't need to adorn me any—I have on a snappy coat of stylish fur, that fits me from the ground up. the harness went back to the it re o store. “He wouldn't wear it to say for once at least the ‘oldest inhabitant’ is mistaken. Tn the year 1833 Washington was visited by an rthauake. which was more per. ceptibly felt on F street northwest, beyond the War and Navy Depart ments, than in any other part of the “1 didn’t proprietor. “He said he refused to look like & pig.” think he would,” said the