Evening Star Newspaper, January 10, 1926, Page 42

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON vears ago of the Sinn Fein, nn"m’im mountaln, with its constant wisp ' irgely nationalistic | of vapor fioating out of the crater, wiral, to bring back a tongue [ has stood as a menace to life and | pered by weird spell. | Property, from which there is no re-| by linguists o be al- | lief and against which no protection and which of a Sinn rs in D C, J EVERYDAY RELIGION BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D., LL. D.. Bishop of Washington. UARY 10, 1926—PART 2 mo i orzanization then Capital Sidelights | Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. NDAY .January 10. 1926 MEN AND AFFAIRS BY ROBERT T. SHALL. e i s i mel ° fo-| concerned, ot to sy alatmed, n\'c»[ t the foot &8 4 rou member. To- el e Qay there is no other member on the | the “farm situation,” suggested rem: 1 which in 1 | o How quickly ehanges conie in Coi- | gress is well illustrated by the House icommittee on public buildings and fround. We find Representative { Richard Nash Elliott of Indiana sit- |ting as chairman at the head of the table, where nine years ago he sat is admitted most philologically Lean be given. is the key to great and very Feiners wrote the old tor postal zain peri THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor ind the remainder Strangely anclent cultur Lddressed lett do the people who are, {born and who live In the danger zone of & volcanic area cling to their farms and dwellings. Again and again they 10 {have been devastated by the lava and | the [ the cinders. Their houses have been fovefathers. Free burned. Somectimes their farms have ir the vevival| engzulfed sly. Yet they mercially move to location, 1 retill the proceed they were safest part | world alway w that the ption may turn the N dtroction than toward very danger the worst tocks on hand—these are some he so-called “farm” problems. Now ‘hat every one Is more or | [ The Evening Star Newspaper Company The Great Revelation. II Corinthians, iv.6: “The glory of God In the face of Jesus Christ.” s a definition of the high purpose of Christ’s ministry to men the abov passage is striking and suggestive. Difficult as it is to define the life of s, there i that in His personality | and teaching that makes us cry out in iguake of one of His disciples, v Lord and my God!" “He is great with a greatness that < me,” is what one master of men said concerning Him. The world ntains no authentic representation of the face and form of Christ, but so all-pervading {s His personality that {countless’ millions have created their fown image of Him and telt upon their {hearts the impact of His mighty per- sonality. Suid Thomas Carlyle to Hol- man Hunt: “I am a poor man, but I would give a third of what I possest for a veritable contemporaneous rep. {vesentation of the face of Jesus Christ | Had those carvers of marble chiseled | 2 faithful statue of the Son of Man, as he called Himself, [ for one would | Lave thanked the sculptor with all the gratitude of my heart for that por- t = one of the most precious hefr- looms of the ages.” Not given to un due sentiment, the great Scotsman who had felt in his heart the power ind Influence of Jesus yearned for a faithful portraiture of His face and person ind had suggested. 1, and correspondents and 1 As we stood before the great canvas he told us how, night by night before retiring, he came to stand alone before the picture to offer up his evening pra There was something, even in the work of his own hands, that o sug gested the majesty and beauty of the Master's face that he felt it spell and power. As we talked with him we called that it wy Frances Wil B who in her dying moments ked that la repHca of this saume portrait | placed beside her, that it might be the | last thing upon which her eves should rest. She was witnessing “The glory |of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” * * However we niy interpret selves the life of Christ, and 1 our devotions may express the there 1s that In His divine person thaf | ppeals to the human heart noth- | ing else can. One somctimes wonders by what other method God might have | revealed Himself (o men All abe us, day v day, arest witnesses of His majesty and power. The inde seribable splendors of nature, the ma, esty of the heavens, the infinite riety and order of flis unive these speak to the human h is sovereign power. Contemplating these evidences His greatness, the poet writes In renson's ear they all rejoice And utter farth a glorious toi Forever cinging. as they «h The Hand that made ts is « w York . Every so often a new story cropr up in Washington having to dn wi the late Senator Edward O. Woicot' of Colorado. Inasmuch as “Ed” Wo cott has been dead these many years the stories can hardly be calle “new,” yet they sparkle with a crisp ness which gives them freshness far above most of the stories which be e compell smattering of employes a their that prey nomically, the esth timental and patrioti more than compensati were | whole committee of 21 members who|dies of all sorts are pouring into served as a member when Mr. l—:\]]x?u;“-a.‘h”w“,n Generally speaking, came on. At the right hand of Chalr-| , e ot sits Representative Fritz|there is a disposition to lambaste the Lanham of Texas, as the ranking | middleman. It is claimed there is too Democrat, who is entering upon his|great a “stretch” between producer fourth term in the House. This year|and consumer, or, as Representative there are 10 of the -1 members of the Nelson of Wisconsin puts it committee who are new on this Job. ““The farmers are unable to live onlong to this day and_time S what they get for their produce, and| The iatest of the Wolcott recolle: the people generally are unibie to| tions finds the old Senator and the ane John H. Bartlett, First| puy what is charged for it one-time Representative George (ool Postmaster General and|™ This sounds somewhat anomalous,|at a luncheon table. Clearly it was en better known as former | hut it is none the less true. The coft|a luncheon for business politica ot New Hampshire, and the | of “servieing” farm products is en-| purposes only. Kven at that, cantankerous udge” Edward B.|trely out of I with the cost of | versation lag Rtier oneiior | Almon. Democrat, from Tuscumbia, | raising the sald products and the|silences Cook turned the engaged in @ dialogue before | prices paid the farmer. i tor House committee on public|™ Ii costs three to four times as much ‘B4 he drawled, “T ldings and grounds which threw | ¢ L quart of milk outside an | you, hut I like vour hroth yme sparks of ready repartee that [ apartment. door in the | gight better mused other members of the com-| York as is paid for that milk on an| “‘Well, George” replied mittee and listeners-in. {upstate farm. The cost of handling | tor without lifting his During his long ye: ervice }a]) varieties of perishable goods in any | only had brother [ k in politics Gov. Bartlett le »d the | large city is enormous. like him ined s | very valuable accomplishment of al- The ecity chap has no sympath | I do you. ways holding his temper, of meeting | the farmer because he fesls he is bitier attack with a smile, ang keep-|ing “robber prices” for the far 1l ing his mind clear to repl ingly | goods. The farmer has no lov i ¢ ‘of | on his antagonist or adversary. Those | the city because he says he must sell {who know him best from past per-lalways in a low-pric>d market and of | formances are wise enough not to|when he goes to town he has to pay take a shot at Gov. Bartlett unless|extortionate prices for evervthing |they are well prepared to meet his 5. The farm 3 the eity retort eourteous, but unarming. 18 cost of Evidently the peppery Judge Almon was not prepared, for when Mr. Bart- llett was a witness sre the mittee the judge asked, “If th riment knows a whole ¢ publie bufldings t needed throughout the countr the Post Office Department Knows a it O ) at least speech of Wy o even been ¥ within | 3 iy hopele ition simply 2 though of the chance another 0 tic, artistie, | huj and the e is next ers another soil in snefits are To indicate how low the interest in Rate by Mail—I ur t lic had sunk, only a few years ago hva dn themselves. them though d German uni- take in bears somewhat youns men had to at or ities in order to which he same relation to the hat Elizabe courses fascinates love even Ivigh, volvino, it is their rish of today Eng »dern Enxg t Ivish in plent han Chaucerian e Tax Revision Progress. Diecision by guess I ke lish does to the speech of o B e i lishmen, however, there o the Democratic leaders the Sena {0 oppose repeal o w § would étter thar Gaelig gn leor, s the ‘G o iIn t into jur tax Member of the Assoc i e by wa 4 o i of tite glish has borrowed transformed o 1t | 0 publicity provision of the income practically few common ex Liuw assures Its adop. the their almost on. Two years ago Senate | Of a piece with the German *corpse factory’ story invented by an | genious British propagandist during the World War is constant] ng tale of th of Bar Richthofen, ar after he had the British lines. on Richthofen enough and had climbed plane when a British up and exclain 0w these young men [can gain the desired ienowledge with-g > n"" i Hojted o i |out leaving Ireland’s bounds, whilajSUPPOTt of the publicity RERE any Civil Service Cooks. | vt & S ey Too Many C = ervice | Irish and Welsh universities matntain | 't €nough votes for its adoption in the Civil Service) e professorships In the fao|UPPEr house and assured its retenticn Government| - tive langu There is a linguis the bill In they Latvia, Esthonia, Tavaniue ] 5 to universal lan present, indefl- Democrats, 2 5 o ic murder any's t the i Comp! by von 16 | . process of Te: af- onnel aver conference. repeal. A miotion m in the Senate drop the repeal clause, but it does not | flicient support for s6n. {in ow E in 1y arge safely of rushing ave zo rave ing the are L w o ing the h Lith rissance A v other | f hopes of a the ded It require ¢ other g * ok % ¥ Standinz one day in the studio of Heinrich Hotfmann in Dresden, we saw upon his casel the unframed picture f Christ. Possibly this picture is gen- iy knowledged to be the most | beautiful of its kind that any artist's | e loubiless he le v out soldier We A ania and 1 The revelation of God through the things of nature, though w Tecc ed, is not adequate. Man has ever | vearned for something thit mates more completely e in concerns of his own 1 as th Co-operati may help the farme: H fair profit for s event re vares S O TR appear to have e we P : s his n dead and untrue Richthofe whipped n but within hailing distanc price. Middieme sproxi it praceauis Progress is betng made on the 4 sideration of the bill by the Senate von con of I already ordered cused of | In the ce no less than vith the person service the blem results fo effective w which of the personnel? . equires o whom Is Congress to look for the ot a < designed to effect greatdr ef administratio tute exec {. to reduce to a minimum ipensi- vranches har- pancles in to executive \d related organization? op tasks co-ordinate of the system into & 3¢ ny sharp infon i have n me rect These of pro- ac- nat passed me a law. ted to actices under th has been friction functioning If cannot Jaw is not of e be re modes There bureau differ- ur st s done athe fone by an- final of the i of the Budget. with to the proper prepara- of the estimates, may find it nec- sary to supersede other a ¢k of coherence in the plan one may nd in the ate sse the n eve tion € encies be. of all Thi Congress pass satisfactory condition. law which had for | the v and and bureaus. o correction ties in p epart nmission for that It created But not sufficiently detach that com- on from own influence to en: function freely and effec- e time has come to consider ed for the reclassi purpose. the mode provid mioug with the Intent of League has ren service in bringing public b re will be opportunity at session of Congress to ef- the and pra which the this situation to protest view ect ¢ nsin iaw, Thereby ctice By wrominence trying to from Prince Carol became so conspicuous personally that he is an- noyed by staring crowds. It is indeed & fickle public —e e “Gaelig Gu Leor. & an Irelan retire “There Gaelic in ento Union, atte comm confusion of tongues which have come @ut of their obscurity since the World War. The paligns to repopularize national tongues of go which the average persor perhaps never even heard, such Catalonian in Spain, for example The campaign to revive Gaelic, how cver, passed stage e it was tinetion r emergence is due to cam- of as Where nov on e of a total tnsular population of about four and one-half hituall a smillion. more than half a million peo. in the in can speak Trish equality wi nle speak t and at least st as a m tast inglish ed In educational fnstitution it horue, as many tter of convenience hoth as a subject to be learn- s and also n. Irish i€ for English ng in pr & & medium of instry Larzely the mary heinz substitn as tang teact and rand | Through- out the Free State, Irish is compulsory for all subjects in infant standards; for teaching history and ;eography in all standards, and for teaching all subjects in all standards in those districts where the language has maintained its hold. There have been estahlished Irish yreparatory training colleges, and teraporar in Dublin and recre weraily teaching ummer training cen- clsewhere. The three colleges composing the National University all now have Irish as an entrance requirement. Irish ranks on . parity with English, to say the ranat, the official language. The etterhead of the Irish Free S Washington ourses as ratlon in “‘Saorstat Eireann ment he “Dail must necessarily remain the language * while the Parlia- for its proper an Eireann.” English, vhile most Irishmen will eventually become bi-lingual. AU this has come about from delermination some iwenty or i commerce, the h of the | months | cifie | Whatever | equali- | duties in the different | offical | attempt | tor | te Le- | reads simply |ashes and cinders, its people asphyx- | Vital Records Exnosed to Loss. When a Washingto | | { an files @ prop- deed for record with the Recorder | of Deeds he T of great { value to a hazardous condition. Until { that deed is copied in a folio, which Is permanent record of a real estate ntrusts a pag I is or the exposad to de In the present condit of the Recor due ¢ to lack of provision for proper auarters and clerical service, a period f from twelve to fifteen months must before the deed copled. A vear or more of risk of destruction or misplacement, with the consequence of serious confusion in title! In other cities the time required for copving and return of deeds ranges from five days in Chicago to boroughs of Outside of those the maxi- ruction of n JTice apse 1s ninety days in certain Greater New York { boroughs, two months is mum, that being in Boston. Disre- garding Boston, the average is six teen days. Including Boston and the dilatory New York boroughs, the aver. age is twenty-eight days. For years efforts ma to get bhetter hou of Deeds. The office is not only self-supporting, but earns a profit The fees exceed the cost of administra tion. The property owners, whose deeds are filed for record and are ex- posed to loss and disarranzement, sup- port the establishment and enable it to turn in an annual surplus. Since 11893 that surplus has amounted to balf a raillion dollars. Last year the ‘earnings” of the office were $27,000, or twice the amount paid for the rent of inadequate quarters. The highest praise fs given by all have to do with the office of have been g for the many Recorder who Recorder of Peeds for the efficiency ; with which the place is managed in the circumstances. It is recognized { that the conditions t 1s, but to the lack of proper } utive official { quarters and facilities. Here in the Capital of the country | important public | of the vita functions is kept crippled by lack of suitable provisions that elsewhere are freely made, withont regard to cost The Recorder of Deeds has been moved | one | about, a tenant at will in public and ! Only a few years | dings. f filing cas frer they became private buil | firepre s were instail long & A COMMOT: her establishments ful an ace in It ation of irreparable as not ocenrred here, through fire or ing collapse, destroying docu ents that could nev be fully re- I placed and whose loss would involve ' confusion lasting for many years re- | garding the ownership of property. It |has been recently pointed out that { ewing to the destruction of property | records in the Chicago fire special lcourts had to be established to straighten out tangles, and that the uestions involved were not all deter- rained for many years. Such a loss befall this city at any time. An extraordinary ! made to correct this condition. Pro- | vision should be made at once for a | new building, designed for security in all circumstances, planned for growth, squipped with every modern facility for the speedy transaction of business, | and the administrative force maintain- ed at a size to enable )'n’flshingt')n, after catching up with the arrears due to inadequate housing for many years, | to establish the lowest period of time | the copying of records of any Amer- | fcan cit is a merei is) idenco that loss ————— Thero are very few propositions for | settlement of any kind that are not Jikely to be unsettled when Congress | proceeds to take an interest. Vesuvius. vevival ¢ activity in Mount accompanied by earth- is giving A | Vesuvius | quakes over a wide area, Italy cause for the keenést anxiety.f When “Vesuv' smokes, as Neapoli- tans say, there Is cause for great un- | easiness. This present eruption is thus far harmless, but it has shown | signs of increasing intensity, and de- [spite assurances of scientific ob- ! servers that the outbreak will not be dangerous and is in fact acting as a safety valve to prevent a possible later catastrophe, the manifestations of this chimney are being watched with the keenest concern by those living in the | danger zone. ! The fate of Pompeil, burfed under fated, its life suddenly stilled, has for potentinlities of this glant There have heen numerous eruptions since that catastrophe, but none quit o devastating. Italy's other veleano, has done more damage in re- cent jears than Vesuvius. But the cone. - hat make for the | | extraordinary delay in the copying of | | the papers are due not to the exec-| effort should be | finance bly committee and it will prob rep the e before that body 4 tion of the World Court | There is a reason enactment o 3 its considera protocol. speed in the 1t should h of M Of course fe measure hecorne a L hefore the st effective. is still pending in Congre: time, the date for the first tax payments of the present year, the rates will still apply this year's taxes and subsequent payments will be m ule with refunds or form the change. Involves a complexity and it is recognized as meost desirable that the amended rates be agreed upon and the law fin: enacted Ve fore March 15. There is no disposivion ipparent to delay this legeslation. last new to credits However, to con to this v s Wilhelm's Deity. The former Ka ticle urges G from the bel of the Jews, for himsglf, The deity rmans to “hreak ww ef that Jehoviah, the is our he Is worshiped seems to have bee of {tion of Odin, bloody idol of his fore fathers, of Frederick the Great of that well known character, Alibi Ike. tod pecik correct Wilhe comb 1 a sort i ————— Corn 1s quoted at a sadly low figure in the Middle West ket. The old mysterfes refa‘ing to the “question of distribution’” as puz zling as in the days when the “‘wi: a of finance” was a figure of noveity in commerce. —————. The subject of evolution can now be mentioned without danger of causing controversial spasme. It is a fortu nate fact that an irritation need not be settied in order to rander it harm- less. Forgetting about It does quite as well. T — Some of the members of Congress frankly believe that if Mussolinl can rebuild the Roman Empire. resardless of expense, Italy ought to be as liberal as possible In approaching the matter of debt settlement. e Rumors of groun Th a that Harry Tha will lend himself as an extra added attraction to any plans Evelyn Nesbit may have for establish- ing a supper club. N LR Trotsky epeaks very unkindly of America. Yet it was the Bronx that sheltered and employed him until he was able to adjust his peculiar literary bent to lines of practical politics, o Opportunities to work are reported to be abundant, excepting among an- thracite miners. i SHOOTING STARS. reconciliation not prove less, e s chance BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Adown the Lane. Adown the lane goes Pather Time; He holds a jocund stride And views the scenery sublime Where constellations ride. And now and then a star up thers 1s lost from the dis;fay. He plucked it like & blossom rare To make him a bouquet. The Band Wagoner. “Have vou decided on what you will say In your next speech?" “Not yet.” answered Senator Sor- ghum. “There’s no use in being pre. eipitate. I shall wait to ascertain just what legislation is likely to go through and then rehearse a few splendid out- bursts of impetuous enthusfasm.” | Jud Tunkins savs you'll nsver got | enybody to believe there is as much healthful exercise in a snow shovel as there is In & golf club. Commercialized Sentiment. I'm seeking phrases to refine In true affection’s pride— Yet why not send a Valentine Expertly versified? Why should I strive for compliments In February time, ‘When I can buy for fifty cents An honest poet's rhyme? An Analyst of Chances. “Why don’t you take a hand in try- g to run the Government?” “1 tried it,”” answered Farmer Corn- “I found I stood to lose two H i | tossel. inly title | centuries been a grim warning of the ' ., vs Tither I neglected the farm for | politics or politics for the farm.” “A conceited man,” said Unele Eben, | “Is liable to get into trouble by makin’ contracts dat’ll call him to live up to his braggin " p < at that | de according to the new sched- | et In a recent ar-| ana ! a figgre which is | not fully reflected in the Eastern mar- | Lrush has ever painted. We venture whether it was the result studfes he had made might be a composite of n faces. He toid us that {e then described his in the execution of had long been a » on canvas, as production, what the fuce of Jesus e 1ol us the story of his of the impossibility of ely representing such a face. Vith a teep sjgh which betokened disappoigtment. he said as he touched tiis head, “If I could only paint what I think; it is a long way from here to > pointing to the canv What he @as trying to exp vas his in WAty to execute anything satisf: tory in the way that his fmagination whether it many hum, it was n mental pro f i drezt to pla “hless b ’ As a result of the iner clalms _against the he ot found it b It had beo s o n with fi who were or 1 v was stenos 1sed volume of « ron since W b | i | Claims rtably inted the judges reuch many volumin {time to m: that t he court {new cases | them with Last March authorized the commissioners _for years each. They and it is thefr duty timony in vases I and then to the court before it. The appointment of thesa commis- sioners has not only proved a great d in expediting the handling of cases ut it has saved the money. A numb bear inter greatl ernment These refunds Interest the e up thelr might be heard With the sudden influx « the judges found the task t them to handle the desired prompness in appoin ore. Congress of thoe A1l lawyers ake the to the court ot 5 e I to make s the er o 1 settled prompt the most part « erroneously sllowable as due for just property taken. uring he war the various executive departments were authorized take what they needed in the way of coal, ships other things necessary to the success. I ful prosecution In a many instances d the full val 1< permitted v the ba of | sessed. t of compensation As is well (n‘r known the they djudicated, interest eniar ed States save Time and Money. The new system of having trained lawyers take the testimony and pre- sent their findings to the court is also a great help to the plaintiffs, Where. under the old method of procedure, it was necessary for the plaintiff to come to Washington to give his testimon: the commissioner now goes to him 1ia is, therefore, spaved considerable xpense and time. There is now in is known as . which consists cases involving $35,000,000. No foreign subject can sue the United States Government unless it {s shown that his government aliow. a like privilege to the citizens of the United States. An Investigation now being made in Russia to dis whether the Soviet government pre vides for this. In the Civil War claims it was necessary for the plain- tff to prove his allegiance to the Fed eral Government before he might file a claim. The Court of Claims is the only court in the United States where & citizen may sue the Government. If he is not satisfied with the decision of this court he may appeal 1o the Supreme Court of the United States. An unofficial’ suryey recently made chowed that out of 175 cases taken to the Supreme Court the decision of the Court of Claims was upheld in 130, Ninetean decisions wers reversed, four modified. one approved in part and one case remanded. 1t seems to Le little known that the Court of Claims handles a great many tax cases—that is, those based upon internal revenue taxes, such as cap- ltal stock taxes, income taxes, excess profits taxes, beverage taxes, estate taxes, sales taxes and stamp taxes. During the fiscal year 1925 this court and_there are a number stil ding. These are cases where the Pexpaver has been dissatisfied with | the ruling of the board of tax appeals | and has taken his case to this court. ©One of the new commissioners said | recently that it frequently happens that a deeision of a single case in the Court of Claims disposes of hundreds or thousands of similar cases with- out prosecuting further litigation. “Such & decision was recently render- cases, know the entire number of cases affected by this decision, but there are district alone affected thereby.”” Court Seventy Years Old. The Court of Claims was established !and was at first merely a commission | whose duty it was to file facts regard- !ing claims for the guidance and ac- | tion of Congress. The Clvil War re- | sulted in a great many claims for damage to property and such things and the court was given general jurisdiction over cases involving con- tracts. There are now pending in the Court i orl tes. | rope a commissioner taking testi-| the | disposed of approximately 325 of such | ed by the court,” he added, “I do not | 7,000 cases in the Baltimore collection | by act of Congress, February 24, 1855, | that prompted Browning to cry out the weakness in strengt flesh that 1 seck in the * x % The more whole matter .of Himself, the mor feel the appeal of Himself “The Son of M of God.” In His all the highest aspiratior of mankind. He is the hensive an: mprehen of the Divine. His life touches mately our own, His v su brings Him within the range of own experience. His indescribable love for mankind captures ¢ rts and | we say with Tennys | our wille are ¢ | Our wills are ou (Cops: deeply pers: inti we know Handling Claims Against Uncle BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. 2000 cases |of Claims more than apy p | In some of these {amo $5.000 | day, so that Govern tor e the 1 that hooves uch oner nandling speed possible t Guick seven commis e rendered + the 1ken office the date renderin reduced | rs have time between ind that of | been Ur I w 15 coming mindly King vas i not he own th n reign po the so th th t kn to employes Of the amounts cases w pending the invilved range from $14, a nd of fncome tax, to £ r the infring buildi ed by is of stands for in which the nedium size. In it are benches | in the entatives. of arrangement the initial by many t said thought to Claims, but ft really “Corcoran.” The room judges hold court is of with high ceilings. which were used | House of Repr tyle and manner suggested to the visitor the other day a Presbyterian Church. The court proceedings, however. probably | bear no_resemblance to a service in a church of this denomination. v that dics the Wy World Stabilization Gaining. From the Birming 1 News. Marked progress toward interna ienal stabilization has been made dur- | ng the vear just closing, with the re- urn of Great Britain to the gold stand- ird as the chief feature. This action, | taken: last April under the leadership | of Winston Churchill, has had far-| | reaching results. It was followed by @ | [return to gold in scveral European | | countries and others in various parts {o? the world and has greatly facili- | |tated world trade and financial oper- | ations. | With the exception of France and a few of the minor countries, most of the nations have maintained their ex- change on a stable basis. Sterling has been but little helow par since the end of April, ulthough early In the Au |tumn semsonal pressure caused suffi | clent declines to bring about the ship- | ment of about £40.000.000 in gold from London to New York. Belgium has effectively stabilized its exchanze in | preparation for the resumption of gold | payments, and similar measures have been taken in Italy. Exchange has | strengihened consistently in Japan | and the important South American | ! countries. | Conditions for the promotion and | | encouragement of a larger volume of | j world trade have vastly imnroved dur- | g jing the last 12 months. These condi- | i tions, for one thing, point to a larger | I production of nearly every exportable commodity, and a natural continuance of good times in the United States. No Jazz Pace. From the Peoria Transcript. London says the waltz back slowl back? is coming How else could it come | Mind Cure. From the Saginaw News-Courier. As good a way as any to forget frost bites is to think about next season's bathing suits. | i Play Square! From the Worcester Post. I you are honest you wom't strike A mateh to look at the gas until yow | bave nished paying for the car. a | James O'Comnor, the tremulo-tragedic | terfor Department appropriation bill, | reminded his colleagues | lands reclaimed. wh t more than the Treasury De- | how 1 thir use and the 96 Sepators | lot more t hoth nd Post Office Depart- iere butldings | Mr. replied these needed wrgun onel kY all of the persistent % se’f-appointed leader of the| e for an old-time pork-barrel | building bill, asked “Do you | not think that the members of | the Flonse and 96 Sena s, the chosen | representatives of the people, can be Ag thur n is < put toget Mr. Almon {irusted to exercise as good judgment | iing on & public 18 bow Mr. Bartlett \o. indeed. or we we uldings when 1gh money for | the post office { | building pro- With Frederick H. Gill erstwhile Speaker ks over from the Sen h= Capitol to the House is whiskers trimmed by rber who has be Job for near Ma the Hol te e wing to B dnys when b being boosted £ Congress. Demo- | y e 19 21 Record on started to talk on all estate tax laws and ord sco the ire | taxes, and put into | er clip- | and con-| 1l Jav the R pings or ded ! 1 srida boc 1 may < further the Sen farm hand mething of the life put into the Record the llowing poem which he says “has in it humor, pathos and truth, and shows t fortitude thes> good people have in the very face of adversity” TH 1 | IWN O] | farm t pants and sn vard 1 run the cowa ar D 2 \he FARM past 4 “k out the door. the dickens il the chick- | Maggie and 1 elop all the pigs. o eat like a T: a full da and put on the | wagon of water in tha old grain sack. mules. €lip down _ the Jaue, hay in. looke like raim nder. wire a< I am bo. Page. hogs in the e then or recomperiae Hiteh u Must get tn | full day's | Winter is nizh and heave @ a thing. ring. thers ain't no armed: how can they Spring rolla ‘round I take aenother | As fuzz krows longer on my old gray pante. 1y galluses a hitch. belt another jerk. osn ! 1am ready for a full year's work. Also lapsing into poetic eulogy of | the New Orleans Trades Exhibition as | national asset, Representative orator of the House, seis forth the! “wonderful romance of merchandise,” thus: Merchandiga' Merchandise! Tortoise sheil epices Carpets and ‘ndlffl sent o'er the high seas: peari from the Solomon Isies— | 1EhT LY A brigantine ten thousand miles: | Yer from Zanzibar, tea from . Nang-Po. pra from Haiti. wine from Bordeaux: Ships wilh topgailants and rovais unfuried Are bringing i {reignt {rom the' ends of the Hark to the song of ehuttle and loom, Keep up Your commerce or crawl i your Study new metbods and open new lines. uicken your factories. foundries and mines; hink of Columbus. samma and Howe, Aud waste not their labor by elacking it now Work is’ life's currency: you must earn What you are worth o R P8 to the ends of the thie great Nation, the land of the fres, Merchandise. men and good ships on the ses. Not to be outdone in the booming line, Representative John W. Sum- mers, Republican, of Washington State, when the irrigation gquestion was up for debate under the In- Ree, ¥ that “The plains of Mesopotamia and Egypt | were watered from the Euphrates and the Nile when civilization was in its swaddling clothes.” Then he called | attenlion that 40 centuries have wit- nessed an ever-widening area of dry | Citing one of the 24 irrigation | projects as an_example, the Yakima Valley, in his home State, Mr. Sum- mers pictured its metamorphosis un- er irrigation. When Christopher Columbus dis- covered America this same Yakima Valley was a semiarid sagebrush plain inhabited by jackrabbits. When the Declaration of Independence was signed; when Sacajawea led Lewis and Clark’s exploring party into the Fa- fic Northwest; when Congress in 1536 distributed to the Eastern States then in the Union $28,000,000 that had accrued from the sale of public lands (not a dollar of which, by the way, has ever been repaid); when Daniel Webster, great states- man though he was, thought more of a_codfish swimming off the banks of Newfoundland than he did of the ‘inaccessible waste beyond the Rock- ies’ now known as Washington, Ore- gon and Idaho: even when the Civil War was fought, the Yakima Valley complexity e some- | The :n_this matter| o vet remained a barren plain inhabited by jackrabbits and coyotes.” As an antithesis to this he shows thet the same valley last year utilized 48,000 cars on transconti- nental railroads for the transporta- ton of hLer newly created weslth. making all the ot by the multitu It is profits, y the price | op tions. life which American people of is bei Naturally the country to make the purchase rect. Some of t ing New York of miles Retail shops more and more e ore expensive « are hece quently Yet the cost of cost would ha I into e that was not There > been i rophy could > fine nized tY lose. a prisoner it e every hono a prisoner rather tha: was ¢ grant ha ‘murder’ men k s second front placr among Mos* home. It about * led much t Zing a machine as im bheen nity t pourin r s and surrende all chance of further ki such Richthofen ta stake ow’ difficult Certain calculates O preside paign he ey o th Political : Forecast. timates of Democr: the t ¢t in the el subicationt jeve e now rathe w Inj musing Janu T these fore t the tings arrangeme "The ratifi by J to be confined for work smaller number of States. though gregating just onefifth of the ele glance he campaig 5 sctive to a toral vote, than supposed. A a well known and careful Rey recently ned in the following they both agreed In a table were then given the names of 17 States rated as probab Republican, with 164 electoral votes 15 States probably Democratic, with 132 votes, and 6 doubtful States, with 74 votes. The Republican States were | Mair Hampshire, Vermont. | Rhode Island, Pennsyl- | jchigan, Wisconsin ascerta stob . Alabama Kentacky, and Missourd, . The doubtful States were Connecticut, New York. New Jersey, California, Oregon and | Indiana. The Star continued | “In the list of Democratic States| it will ern St ana, Arkansas te is given to that party, ex- cept South Carolina, and in the Re- publlean list Colorado, which will be admitted this year before the election, | is added. The tables then stand: Re. publican, 184: Democratic, 132: total slectoral votes, 370, of which 186 vates are required to elect.” (The total here given is one more than the number, Tennessee being accredited with 13 instead of 12 vot “The Republicans lack 22 and Democrats 54. To secure these very evident that the latter mu New York, for with that State and two or three others on the doubtfu list the required number can be ob tained without even the 15 electoral votes of Indian: B if New Jersey | and Connecticut are lost Indiana. Nev York and California must be saved to win the day. In any event, the State of New York must be kept within the Demacratic coiumn if the party wins and will necessarily he the center of the presidential battle ground. On her borders will Le the contest over New Jersey and Con- necticut, while in the West and on the | Pacific slope Indiana, California and Oregon will be the scene of an nrated confliet “This view of the situation. with New York almost hanging in the bal- ance, gives Gov. Tilden's supporters a claim for his nomination, for with- that Stata it mmst be confessed, in the West and South, that he has very littie political strength. The conduct of his partv triends in New York City last fall lost the party their controi there anid, add- ed to the course he has pursued in| affairs without the city. nearly lost | it in the State. With a strong feeling against him among some of the Demo cratic leaders in New York, and with the Legislatura in the hands of the Republicans, It is by no means cer- taln that he could save the State. If the Republicans carry New York, of which they are now very confident they secure more than the 22 electoral votes which they need to elect the President. Foreign complications, the faflure of the new House of Repre. sentatives to meet the expectations of the country and other formidable events. may change the present it uation;* but in the present light the ( tables as we have given them seem | to he acceptable to good judges in hoth parties.” This estimate did not forecast the electoral votes of Florida and Louisi- ana, 12 in all, that were cast for the Republican candidate by virtue of de- | cision_of the electoral commission. New_York. despite the confidence of the Republicans, gave its 35 electoral votes to Tilden by 32,000 plurality, thougli these votes failed to elect P t espectaliy | { 1 { | | | | | rather This and That By Charles E. Tracewell. hugely nige harmed shoot the t. row with a to throw came 3 w Spra were afraid 00d his hopes too0, we purs vengeance, he woult but, after many se to the conch were never stones at every It seems to ever, Think ¢ 4 the andering o reversals ir as readers n no o was more tron ed cats thing 1tch at least one birc at the world owes ast one warbler, joy—if ou wern cat'—of creeping up. springing, mak ing the catch, prey, be noticed that every South.|house, so that our prowess. Then member, heing to position of secure Ity feel too, not We, if you hard for a himeelf put f a kind the 14 too like bringing proudly taking the folks might it the God-given delight fresh, warm breakfast—all were a cat. down your up to’ the re [ of this, Tt so-called human in the mental so-called hrute creature ipproximation of it may be tries. read; Aud put ou the happen to be dubon it at birds, Society, dc these lines and would not willingly do them harm. We confess : least one bird. decrepit one, old, legs. believe o anv more With t divy < out. Recently heliave every e t his cted four ear of the g a circle 6 feet In dlameter. In the center of this eircle back wners of the heds are cat We t more much our with m ¥ the! tend to place a neat The beds we shall Marigolds by at Gladioli, be Marvels of Parn the c in fror gain, however, that we a_right to at ope it may be an hat that an you are understood. plan How ¢ ey iz on its last If we seem brutal to you, pray we are not we helpins ds ut the central off, mak perhaps The 1 bath fn enter, nt known as Four-o'Clocks) hall be Scalpiglosis, with a horder Sweet Al that d an 1s not e cat, hiding among the flow ers, shall spring upon bring down a bird It would not be at with which (perhaps by all sur surrounder sha bette ofore whi 1 intentio: the bird batt pristng however, if he did that very thing. e promise U wa will immed| el oird bBath and put place That English world take sundial it_he does down the in ite —————— Uninformed. From tue Duluth Herald. critle who think America produces no first-rank liters ture evidently doesn't read the ads. e Hidden Clouds. From the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, The kind of blue sk¥ you buy of en gaging salesmen is not the kind tha: makes bright days. —— Even the Fruit Fights. TFrom the Lafaystte Journal and Courier. Don't criticize Florida while eating grapefruit i the eye vou'll set sour sho'