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2 THE SUNDAY THE EVENING STAR'o(her hand, advocates of American |not seem to cover the case, as the With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY.. ..January 17, 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editer he Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Offic th St. and Pennayivania Ave. ew York Office 204 na s Chicagy Office Building. European Office London, day mom- The Evening 2y o §e edition. I delivered by the city at 60 cents per month: 45 cents per month: Sunday only. per ‘month Orders may be sent by mail or trlephone Main 5000 Collection is rade by carrier at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Mary'and and Virginia. 1yr.$700:1mo 1 3r.$6.00: 1 mo 137 $3.00: 1 mo. 75 All Other States and Canada. 2 4 su 00: 1 mo.. 8 Jaiiy ‘only 0 1 mo. Snndas”only 00: 1 mo. Member of the Associated Press. The Aseociated Press te exclusively entitled 0 the use for renublication of all news dis- patches credited to it or not Dtherwise cred ted in this paer and also the local rews published herein All richts of publication o1 special dispatches herein are also reserved Retirement Legislation. A joint committee of the House and 8enate has for several days been eon- ducting hearings on legislation to liberulize the civil service retirement law. Several propositions are pend- tng, on two of which a joint commit- tee has centered its attention, both of them proposing material increases i the maximum annuities. It ap- pears to be accepted that there will be an enactment at this present ses- sion generously revising the schedule of payments made to those who have been retired from the civil service, and the disposition of the joint com- mittee, it would seem, i{s to make the scale of payments equitable both to the annuitants and to those who con- tribute to the fund. ‘The retirement act establishing the principle of provision for Government employes after reaching a certain age or passing a certain perlod of con- tinuous service was not experimental. It was founded upon a well defined basis as a permanent institution. The ecale of annuitles, however, was an experiment In that {t was not adjust- in assuredly equitable ratios. In unsequence, much suffering has been fmposed upon those who were forcibly ceparated from the service. With $720 a year as the maximum allow- ance, these people have been thrown futo real penury. The drop from their active pay to their annuities was too ebrupt and great. It ls now proposed in both of the bills which are recelv- {ng the most favorable attentlon to increase the maximum to $1,200 a wear, which is much more equitable. It was never the intention of those who framed the original retirement act that separation from active duty ehould Infiict & hardship upon the ennuitants. The purpose of the law was not merely to clear the Govern- ment service of the superannuated, put to provide living compensations for them. It was primarily a form of tnsurance. Now that the law has been in operation for @ number of years its workings have demonstrated that the annuity rate ts insufficient. Dif- ferences of opinlon obtain as to the new rates that are to be adopted, but fortunately there I8 prospect that de- spite these differences, amendatory legislation will be enacted &t this ®esslon, perhaps In compromise terms. The disposition in Congress is plainly to do justice to those who, after serv- ing the Government (aithfully for many years, are now retired, in most cases without desire, and who are chiefly, if not wholly, dependent upon the slender income provided by the law. et Flan for restoring the ancient splendors of yme have enabled Mus- £olin to appesl to the poetic imagina- tion of his countrymen. Vesuvius sets up & sullen warning againet an effort t5 do the same thing for Naples. — e r— The Filibuster and World Court. Opponents of the World Court pro- tocol have given signs of filibustering in the Senate, and are now at the point of decision whether to carry on in time-wasting maneuvers through- out the session, {n the hope of talking the measure to death. This*ls a mo- mentous question. It involves & Leavy onsibility. In the first place, it is aimed at the defeat of the | will of a majority of the Senate—for, by &l counts, far more than half of the members of that body favor rati- fication of the protocol. In the €ccond place, it puts in jeopardy the regular legislative program. Finally, it adds strength to the demand of the Vice President for the adoption of rules for the closing of debate after & reasonable period of discussion. A filibuster is always risky. It in- volves - an elaborate which may break down at any mo- ment. [t entails serious sacrifices of time and strength from those engaged in It. It arouses hostilities not incl- dental to the question at issue. For the fillbuster stands in the way of cther measures than those againat which he is talking, and the propo- nents and advocates of those meas- ures are inclined to visit upon him re- tuliation for the falflure of their projects. Thus far the World Court protocol has not been permitted to blockade the Senate’s procedure. The Nye case was shipped in and settled, and soon the tax revision bill will come from committee and will probably be put through In short order, the protocol meanwhile being laid aside. But when the appropriation bills come along & different story may be told. The ad- vocates of ratification, who are very much in earnest in their demand for e vote on the World Court. may not be willing to lay the protocol aside for these regular, veritably routine measures. It will then be incumbent upon the opponents to show good cause why the debate should not be hastened to a cluse, or else frankly stand forth as filibusters. It is claimed that opposition to rati- fication s growing in the country. There {s no clear evidence on that point. Opponents of the World Court &re doubtless getting letters encour- WEing them to stand fast. On We organization, | j entry into the court are writing quite as earnestly demanding action. This is a “long session.” There is no time limit. If a fillbuster is start- ied it must be continued for months! to be effective, and it may finally fail, however it is protracted. Votes are not won through a stubborn blockade. streets of the ecity are well covered with a snowlike substance for some} time after a storm. The National Capital certainly pos- sesses sonwplows. They have been bruited about in the daily press. This startling Information has been passed by word of mouth. Yes! They must The general disposition of this{be here, because plans have been an- country i3 against iegislative delays. Vice President Dawes unquestionably has behind him in his demand for businesslike ru'es of action in the Senate & heavy preponderance of pub- lic opinion. A filibuster against the World Court protocol would increase that demand, would make the course of those who wish to maintain the present easy-going system of unlimit- ed debate, regardless of how they stand on the World Court, very diffi- cult. The unpopularity of the filibus- i ter in general, and especially in the Senate, where the antiquated rules af- ford the best chance for the time- spending speaker, would be intensi- fled in such a case as the present, when the question at issue requires for answer two-thirds, not a mere majority, In other words, the course of legislation would be blocked by less than a third of the Senate, which would afford a clear example of nega- tive power by a small minority. —— T Diplomatic Immunity and Affront. Umbrage is taken at the remarks of a member of the Senate reflecting upon certain diplomatic representa- tives at this Capital. Intimation is glven that a protest will be filed with the State Department on the score of these statements. But to what end is questionable. For the State Depart ment cannot chide a Senator, nor can the President of the United States. The sixth section of Article I of the Constitution provides: *“The Senators and Representatives * * ¢ ghall in all cases, except treason, felony and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during thefr attendance at the session of their respective houses, and In going to and returning from the same; and for any speech or debate In either house, they shall not be questioned in any other place.” Another clauss of the same article of the Constitution provides that “‘each house may determine the rules of Its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member.” Thus only the Senate can discipline, reprove or punish a member of that body for any utterance In debate which gives offense in any quarter. It is perhaps within the powers of the Executive directly or the Secre- tary of Stats with the President’'s as- sent, o call the attention of the Sen- ate to language used before that body by one of its members which is ob- noxious to forelgn representatives. But no executive officer, whatever the nature of the offense, can direct or dictate reproval or retraction. That power lies with the Congress alone. On numerous occasions in the past offensive language uttered in debate has been “expunged from the Rec- ord,” which means that the words are stricken from the so-called “Perma- nent Record,” which is the final form of the record of proceedings. How- ever. this “Permanent Record” has no public eirculation. It is really only an historical file. Publicity 1is, of course, given to the action of expunge- ment through the press, and the Rec- ord itself bears testimony to the pun- ishment thus administered. A few years ago a member of the House of Representatives added cer- tain offensive language to the copy of & speesch for which he had been given “leave to print.” For this abuse of the privilege of “extending his re- marks” (n the Record the member was called to account, was formally reprimanded, and the words were “‘ex- punged.” They stand, however, in such copies of the current edition as may have been preserved. In this case the expressions em- ployed respecting certain representa- tives of foreign governments at this capital were of a nature to evoke in- dignation on the part of not only those representatives and all other members of the diplomatic corps in Washington, but of all citizens, re- gardless of views upon the question immediately at issue, that of the im- munity of diplomats and diplomatic attaches from the operation of the | prohibition law in this country. The tact that the diplomatic privilege re- specting intoxicants has been grossly abused, that indeed in some quarters commercial transactions are conducted under the cloak of this immunity, has nothing to do with the matter of this unpardonable insult to those who are stationed here in an official capacity by the governments of other nations. ———re———————— Authority to end the coal strike is asked for by Gov. Pinchot. It seems possible to appoint & base ball dictator and a movie dictator, but not a fuel dictator. e —— France has one magnificent asset in the shape of an unlimited supply of talent for the position of minister of finance. What Is & Snowplow? Reports from London indicate that Englishmen are slipping, sliding and skidding over the slippery streets fol- lowing the unprecedented snowfall of the last few days and the cold snap that came in its wake. The point, however, which should inter- est Washingtonians is that snow- plows have been called out, and that the majority of Londoners do not Xnow just what they are; they are seen so seldom. In most of the United States snow removal is taken as a matter of course, and the Interstate roads are immediately cleared for the movement of transportation, but Washington residents are In much the same pre- dicament as Londoners following snow- storms. They slip and slide and skid over slippery streets and despite the knowledge they undoubtedly possess snowplows, gathered probably from extensive reading, the sight of one of these mechanical contrivances is almost as rare as In London. Of course, it may be because Washing- tonians go to bed early at night and the plows always are at work in the early morping beurs, but this does nounced for using them. With these facts apparent to all, 1t obvious that Washingtonians should no longer be kept in isnprance of the appearance of a modern, up- to-date snowplow. Londoners may g0 along us they will, but education must not be allowed to falter in its onward march, especially in the Na- tion's Capital. e Mass Meetings and School Strike. In conjunction with the strike of students at one of the local high schools mass meetings of cltizens have been called for today and to- morrow, at which the demotion of the principal of that school will be de- bated and protested. That is quite within the rights of the members of the community. The meetings should be well attended, and the subject should be thoroughly and fairly dis- cussed. But the students whose hasty action has precipitated this public agitation should return to thelir studies end conferm {n all respects to the rules of discipline. They should take no part in- agitations designed to effect a reversal of the official ac- tion which has given offense to them and their parents and friends. The Board of Education alone is responsible for the action which has been the cause of the strike. It may not elect to give heed to protests, whether voiced by the students or by adult eltizens at meetings, or in direct communication. It alone is account- able for the proper administration of the school system. It cannot shape its course upon the wishes of the student body. It has means of know- ing conditions that are not avalilable to the general public. It would be derelict in duty if it permitted per- sonal popularity to check measures of referm or beneficial changes of personnel. Yet public sentiment on the score of the demotion at this particular school may properly be expressed. Perhaps it s unfortunate that It should be brought forth after the fact rather than before. But the case was in evidence long enough for he friends and partisans of the demoted principal to have rallied in his be- half, and it must be concluded that it was the Ill-advised, Inexcusable walkout of the students on Friday that brought about this present move- ment. The strike must be dealt with sharply, regardless of what may re- sult from the meetings that are to be held. ————— Washington, D. C., Is regarded with national interest as an experiment sta- tion for solving all kinds of traffic problems. The position®of a National Capital, even though voteless, Is high- ly responsible. ———————— The U. 8. Senate has conducted many investigations. Vice President Dawes falls tnto the atmosphers of his surroundings and may be moved to attempt an Investigation on his own account. ———— In certain legislative circles there is evident objection to a possibility of Uncle Sam’s being lined up in a World Court and compelled to say “Good morning, Judge!" —_——————— Harry Thaw allows it to be inti- mated that he is liable to be & good vatron for any supper club, except one conducted by Evelyn. Tesme U nlaan Tl “Direct heat from the sun" has long been a favorite subject for scientific speculation. It still remains without influence In a fuel crisis. — et His present activities in behalf of Bovietism display Trowsky as a highly enthuslastic press agent for a some- what unreliable show. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. ‘The Mocking Bird. Though all the world is cold and drear, While storms arise anew, The mocking bird keeps lingering near. He knows a thing or two. On blossoms fine the sun will shine When April comes to view. We'll wait in falth, small friend of mine. You know & thing or two. Sagacious Silences. “A statesman should know when to stop talking.” 1 know more than that,” answered Senator Sorghum. “When conditions are confused, as they dre at present, 1 know better than to begin.” Moronistic Misanthropy. To be a student and uplift Your time brings scant authority. To seern @ moron is a gift Which tickles the majority. Jud Tunkins says life is a joyous affuir. You can't work but eight hours a day, but you can go to the motion pictures twelve or fourteen. Open Spaces. “Suburban property is coming into demand, “Yep,” answered Farmer Corntos- sel. “If you want to succeed in agri- culture nowadays, you've got to drop farmin’ and become a realtor.” The Representative Branch. The ways of Congress leave me glum. | They sometimes almost make me sob. And yet I should be worried some If Congress were not on the job. “Money,” said Uncle Eben, “in or- der to be respectable has to answer two questions, ‘Where did you come f'm?" an’ ‘What way Is you goin'?’ Conservation Needed. From the Winona Republican-Herald. Hoover should turn his attention to the possibility of reconditioned Christ- mas cards. = STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 17, 196_PART 2. EVERYDAY RELIGION BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D, LL. D., Bishop of Washington. Loss and Gain. Philippians, 1ii.4: “But what things were galn to me, those I counted loss for Christ.” We refolce in our gains, we deplore our losses. The large question is, What do we reckon as gains? How do we make up for our losses? The writer of the above passage had reached the ripeness of mature years. He was keenly intellectual, had come to oe- cupy a position of distinction as a lead- er, ‘was regarded as a zealot in his reigious habits, and to all intents and purposes might reekon his life as one of pronounced suceess. Notwithstanding these conditions, he was suddenly confronted with the fact that the things he had counted gains were of inconsequential value when compared with the advantages and opportunities of the new life that opened before him. There had come to him a striking way, the consclous- ness of the greatness of the personal- ity of Christ. He heard a new call, and as he paused to consider its im. plications he realized that his reckon- ing of life’s values, of its abiding gains, was fallaclous. He was com- pelled to calculate by new standards of value, and as he id so he discov- ered that the things he had hithcrto cherished, when contrasted with what Christ had to offer, were unworthy of cansideration. His subsequent ~life was marked by stern opposition and suffering, and vet in the face of these, with the consciousness of what he had :uned. he persisted even to martyr- om. * Kk ok * The world does not readily accept the standard of values which Paul recognized. Men and women are un- willing to lay aside and to count as loss those things which they have ac- quired through selfish pursults for the gratification of selfish ends. They are willing to accept Christ as the su- premest example of a perfect life and to regard His message as transcend ing that of any other religlous teach- er. Yes, they are willing to revere His person and worship Him periodi- cally, provided it does not tax too greatly their patience or convenience. They would readily accept His prom- ises and experience the serenity and peace that come from His assurance of an abundant life here and an un- ending life hereafter. There is no controversy worthy of the name in our time concerning the sublimity of Christ's teachings nor the incompara- ble splendor of His personality. Some one says the problem of our age is “to make the Indifferent different.”” In other words, to substitute in & prac- tical, applied wuy the teaching Christ for our own conceits The idea of sacrifice occupies an in- conspicuous place in our Christian thought. We wonder how large a place it occuples in daily habits of life? To measure what we are or have agalnst The General! Federation of Women's Clubs has hegun a ecurvey of the equipment of homes in the United States with a view to ralsing the standard of homemaking. Surveys have been made and data collected re- garding the business of running a farm or a factory. Publications have been issued showing how much human power, how much animal power and how much mechanical power are re quired to get the best results in rals- INg an aore of given crops under given conditigns. Just the exact amount of labor and machinery necessary effi- ciently to operate a factory has been estimated. But to date such informa- Zion on running the home has not been available. Mrs. John D. Sherman, president of the General Federation, is the origina- tor of the idea of conducting such a survey. She feels that the results of this survey will be & convincing argu- ment to Congress for Incorporating in the law providing for the decennial census questions which will supply this basic information every 10 years. When the census is taken, data con- cerning the equipment of all industries aro collected. Since running a home 18 one of the most important busi- nesses of the nation, this information for the home should also be a matter of record. Departmental Co-operation. Although a special department has been created in the federation for the work of raising the standard of the American home, many of the other departments will co-operate In the work. The program covers a wide range of subjects—the physical well- being of the family, its moral and spiritual dvelopment, the material structure, equipment and general at- mosphere of the house and even the artistic values of art, music and lter- ature This survey has the hearty indorse- ment of President Coolidge. Secretary Hoover and Secretary Jardine. Ques- tionnaires have been sent out, which are to be filled in with the assistance of the public service officials of the community. Usually the records of the latter show how many homes in a particular locality use electricity, gas, or have water facilities. Mrs, Sherman says that in making this survey the federation has in mind what a physician has in mind when he makes a diagnosis to get all the facts concerning the conditions of his case before he decides upon the rem- edy. There has been talk for years about improving the standard of home- making, but there was no compre- hensive information concerning the ex- isting facilities in the homes through- out the country. Most Women Without Servants. Business Interests keep abreast of the times with all labor-saving de- vices. So should the housekeeper. In a great many places the servant prob- lem {s increasingly difficult—they are either practically impossible to ob- tain or their wages make them pro- hibitive to the tamily having only an average income. [t is estimated that 92 per cent of the women of the United States do their own work. The fed- eragion aims to {mpress upon them the importance of doing their work in the easiest manner. This does not mean in a slip-shod fashion, but by the use of those lahor-saving inventions such as the vacuum cleaner. electric wash- ing_machine and the electric iron. The theory that a woman’s place 18 wholly In the home has long since heen exploded. It is realized that she has a very important pace In the economic and political world. It is considered not only desirable but a duty for her to do her part toward the betterment of her community. If she is tied down by household drudgery, she has neither the time nor the energy to take her proper place in community life. To date there has been only a very incomplete report made of the re- turns from the questionnaires. How- ever, the federation now has Infor- mation concerning the household lequipment In more than 800,000 homes in 36 States. It is shown that In prac- tically all cities, large or small, public utilities have become the most im- portant single factor in homemaking. Water, sewers, gas, electricity are vital parts of American home organi- zations. A great many people would doubt- less be amazed to know that there are in this day communities—and not ot | what Christ would have us be and make of ourselves places a heavy tax upon our faith. Over against these, we place the gain that comes from full alleglance tc Him. Sooner or later we are compelled to place our earthly gains and satisfactions with those which come to us from Him. What we have acquired must sooner or later become valueless to us. “We brought nothing Into this world, and we can take nothing out of it,” Is a self-evident fact. Nothing Is' more tragic In life than to witness the effort of those who seek, with advancing years, to accumulate perishable pos- sesslons or to acquire earthly honors at the cost of time and effort. * X & * Burdened with the weight of these transient things, witness the men and women grown old before their time “So much to do, 8o little done!” was the cry of one who had amassed what men call “riches.”” Stricken In the prime of his years, he rcalized that he could no longer hold in his palsied grasp the brilllant rewards that a life of exacting service had accumulated. We asked an outstanding man of af. rairs, whose life had been saddened by a tragedy, what eatisfaction he had gotten out of his religious experiences, to which he replied, I have been too busy making money to think of such things. I have lost out of my life many of its finer and sweeter things.” He was In the fullness of his years, the head of a great business enterprise. and when he should have been enjoy- ing the consistent rewards of his ef. forts, he was broken in health and fac- | ing an inevitable end. He had been unwilling to mix business with re. | liglon—in fine, to take Christ into part nership in his life, and when he needed him most he felt incapable of receiv- ing and understanding Him. * % & *x The well balanced life—yes, and the life of deepest satisfaction—is the one | that reckons values by the standard of the great Master. He did not in veigh against things consistently and | {falrly gained: on the contrary, He sought to enrich them by giving to| those who possess them the sense of | satisfaction which comes from a life consistently lived. In its higher as pects life {3 stewardship. To sanctify and hallow each day's service with the | consclousness that our gains are His and that we hold them for His serv-| ice insures us a peace and satistaction | quite incomparabl; One of America’s foremost lawyers declared that he was giving a very considerable portion of his genius and labors that he might forward the work of Christ in the world. He was a deeply practical man and he left be hind him a record of enviable distinc tion in his profession, and died with the satisfaction that he had won the fayor of Christ and of his feilow men That is a fine word of the Palmist, “Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right; for that shall bricg a man peace at the last.” (Copyright. 1 NATION-WIDE HOME SURVEY BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. |farming communities, either—that have neither water nor sewage sy tems. An analysis of the preliminar; report showed that of 450,000 homes about which data were ob- tained, 40 per cent had no stationary wash bowls. It was necessary to carry from an outside well or pump water for all household purposes. Nine out of ten families in these same communities had automobiles, one out of every five a radio set and half of them pianos and phonographs. This seems illustrative of the saying, “I can do without the necessities, but I must have the luxurfes.” Women Dislike Monotony. federation The is endeavoring to these luxuries are instailed for the benefit of the masculine or feminine members of the family. So far ft ber of the women prefer a telephone to a stationary tub with running water or a talking machine to a dish-washing machine. In other words,,they are inured to household drudgery, but they welcome an escape from mo- notony. There are exceptions to this, how- ever. Mrs. Sherman has received let- ters in which women state flatly that chased because the men of the family want them. One woman writes, “The men earn the money and so they say they should say what it should be spent for.” To which Mrs. Sher- man replies, “The main difference be- tween men and women is that men get the money they earn. Mrs. Sherman believes that men should be brought to a realization that their wives actually earn more than It would be possible for most of them to pay to some one hired to do the same work. The money thus saved should be applied to the pur- chase of household machinery which will reduce the actual drudgery as much as possible. An Education Program. The General Federation hopes from the results of this survey to formu- late an educational program which will teach home-making women that escape from the monotony is not enough. It does not wish to take awa¥ | name. { United ascertain whether for the most part | has been Indicated that a large num- | radio sets and automobiies are pur- | Capital Sidelights After nearly starving In the oil flelds, where he stubbornly plodded along under most trying clrcum- stances, Samuel J. Montgomery of Bartlesville, Okla., s now a member of Congress at the age of 20. The story of his dogged start is told by Clyde M. Boggs, general manager of the Kanotex refinery, whe says he will back him to succeed In anything he attempts. Back in the Summer of 1912, when young Montgomery was a lad of 16. Mr. Boggs was in charge of the pro- duction department of the Kangtex Co. A big overgrown boy came to the fleld one day. and was so much in earnest about getting a job that Mr Boggs set him to work as a helper in cleaning wells. “A week later I was in the office of H. H. Montgomery, our legal representative at Bartlesville,” relates Mr. Boggs, “and remarked that I had a youngster working for me, and probably would arrange to have a ‘release’ signed by the boy's father so as to forestall a damage suit In case he was Injured. “‘You certainly should,’ Attorney |the theory In Washington that if the | rema Montgomery advised me,” continued Mr. Boggs, “and he asked the lad's Then I remembered his name was Montgomery. ‘What does he look like?’ the atforney asked quickly. Then he divulged that he had a 16- year-old son who, becoming angry at his father because he couldn't have enough money, had left home. Mr Montgomery went back with me to Dewey, where we found that young Sam had been eleeping In the back of an automoblle, and had been nearly starving himself for a week because he was afrald he would lose his job if he asked for an advance on his pay “Young _ Montgomery continued working all Summer with one John Adams, a hard-boiled old o} man, and ot along fine with him. If he could do that at 16, he will not have any trouble in making good at the job of Representative,” Mr. Bozgs concludes | Incidentally Mr. Montgomery supple. mented his experiences in the ofl fleld by rigorous service with the States Marine Corps, as _a member of the 6th Regiment, 2d Di vision, A. E. F., during the World War. * * x ¥ During these days when auto-driving members of Congress are complaining against the annovance of having to stand in tine. sometimes on upgrade. while there is no cross-current of traf- fic, awaiting the green light In the new mechanical traffic cons on Capito! Hill, A. E. Chaffee. reading clerk of the House, has been causing smiles relieve the tension by passing ound the following verses, to llustrate that a dumb traffic cop is oftentimes less annoying than one that is not dumb; AMBITION. I wanna be a traffic cop, traffic cop, trafic cop— An' stan’ with lordly mein; An’ tell ‘em when to go or stop, g0 or stop, g0 or stop— Hey! Watch that red an’ gree Wher’ d'ye THINK yer goin'—Tric! Is my own middle name—d've see? Back to that line, y' bloomin’ hicks— cain't sass M from the None o' yer gab—y G'wan clean back—you stic can't slide round THAT corner. Gee! It's like a bloomin' orchestra, orches- tra, orchestra. My fingers a baton— 1 wiggle this way, then they start, north to south— TO THE WEST. YE BLAME FOOL! You with hat on STEP ON IT—VYes, bound to la ta Don't give a hanz Huh, Ye cain’t get I wanna be a tra! £0 across— Tell 'em when o go or stop—Smashed | ‘taint much loss. |1 say you—YOU—try'n to block the whole darn street up You there—Yes YOU! When e gink like you gets beat up. COLOR BLIND! Thassa new one— Well I'll getcha. Fresh guy! Help yuh over—Well T'll betcha. %% v ma'am—vyu're in jail—without WHO ye be— with M traf—sure gay ~op, The proposal to turn the Arlington Experimental Farm into a park at the southern approach to the new Ar- ington Memorial Bridge has elicited i recollections as to the morass ap- | pearance of that tract some few years lago, and to how it came to be used as an experimental farm. The credit for this development is due to M. B. | Harlow, a long-time civic leader In Washington and Alexandria, who Is also originator and persistent worker for the monumental highway from Washington to Mount Vernon. Twenty years ago, while Mr. Har. low was treasurer of Alexandria city and active in its clvic affairs, in com- pany with the late James E. Clements, {a pioneer In Alexandria, and the late {Frank Hume of Washington, he was standing in the portico of the Lee Manslon in Arlington National Ceme- tery. Stretched out before them was a minlature everglades, then part of the Arlingfton estate and in charge of the War Department. “Mr. Harlow complained about what a shame it was to see such a condition existing at the southern entrance to the Capital. One of his companions from them any of the things to which they look for diversion, but it does desire to show them that they can get more joy out of their home life by escaping from unnecessary toll when it is possible to purchase so much in- expensive equipment. It Intends to inaugurate a drive for more labor- saving devices In the home. When the women of the Nation are “sold” on this idea. they will find that they will have “more time with their children, more time for self-improve- ment, and time and inspiration to develop the kind of atmosphere that ~onverts the house into a home.” Chinese Use Fireworks To Ward Off Evil Spirit One of the most recent signs that Shanghai is returning to normal, that the Chinese scare of the “foreign devils” is pretty much allayed, is seen In the reappearance of firecrackers in the streets. One night recently the whole city was a riot of small ex- plosions and flaring rockets. Some of the more uneasy tourists thought a new anti-foreign riot had broken out, or that the much talked of civil war between Kunru and Chekiang had become a reality. A glance at the moon and an understanding of Chinese superstitions, howevet quickly settled their doubts. On th: night in question the moon was al- most totally eclipsed. To Chinese, young and old. educated abroad o1 uneducated, an eclipse is an event of significance. It is the dragon de- vouring the moon, after which he fs expected to turn his jaws upon the earth. There i{s only one means of stopping_him. Firecrackers do the trick. Hence thousands of dollars were spent In smoke and nolse and an equal sum went up in burning joss paper. This kept up for two hours until the moon emerged at the Cull unharmed by the experience. During the state of emergency within the foreign settlement firecrackers ere prohibited, but the police made oo attempt to stop the display. asked, “What can we do about it?" Then they held council, and Mr. Harlow suggested a conference with Jerry Rust of lowa, then Secretary of Agriculture. They immediately proceeded to Mr. Rust's office and Mr. Hurlow asked him, “If we can get that land transferred to you from the War Department can you use it for en experimental farm?” Mr. Rust allowed he could. Then the Harlow delegation waited upon the late Rep- resentative John F. Rixey, who then ‘While the House committee on agri- Congress. As a result of these negoti- ations Mr. Rixey Introduced a bill au- thorizing and directing that the trans- fer of this land be made from the War Department to the Department of Ag- riculture, and subsequently Secretary Rust asked for and got an appropria- | that very little smoke was perceptible | tion for cleaning up the land and de- veloping the experimental farm, one interesting feature of which now is a great national rose garden. * k% Although he is not boastful, Repre- sentative William B. Bowling, Demo- crat, of Lafayette, Ala., is extremely proud of the fact that he is fifth in de- scent from the famous John Sevier, Governor of the State of Franklinand six-time Governor of Tennessee, noted Indian fghter and hero of Kings Mountain. * k *k # While the House committee on agri- culture was conducting hearings dur- ing the last week on co-operstive mar- keting legislation it was brought to the attention of members by Jardine that reports from 43 State agricultural colleges show that 29 of these colleges are giving 47 courses of study which deal specifically with ag- ricultural co-operation. Eleven other colleges are giving 36 courses in which co-operative marketing Is made a part of the courses in marketing and eco- nomics. The Prize Bluffer. From the Vancouver Daily Province. Europe has several buffer states, but Turkey, is the chxmphn_blulu lb&e‘ o the MEN AND BY ROBERT A tion has been given In Washington | during the past fortnight to the propo sition of transferring the Army and Navy foot ball game this Fall to the Middle West — preferably Chicago. | During the years the games have been | confined to' New York, Philadelphia | and Baltimore, Washington always has wanted one of the games itseif, | but, In spite of its natural “pull” in | Army and Navy matters and men, has not_yet been successful. ‘There seems to be an obsession among the politicians that something must be done to interest the Middle sections of the country in the Army and the Navy. So strongly has the idea imbedded itself into the head: the statesmen that Army and N: officers in touch with these political- minded gentlemen succumb to same weird notions. The fatal excursion of the Shenan doah was, to say the least, a quas) political maneuver. The airship was sent West to visit some seven or elght State fairs. Always there has been | Middle country could vote as it wished | it would put the Army and Navy out of commission, abandoning the Atlan- | tle and Pacific coasts to the depreda- | tions of foreign enemiee, real or fan cled. We have been led to feel that the Middle country felt the enemy would be so satiated by his conquests of the coasts he would not care to| venture into the Inner recesses of the | continent. | Of course, this Is all tommyrot. States of the American Union are in- | terdependent. The West needs the East as the East needs the West. Al of the States are a part of one fabri and once you rip off a part you a the whole. 8o much, however, for the theory of the proposition. As a matter of actual fact the United States Navy today, and for a score of vears past, has been manned and maintained by the Midd! country. If all the vessels of the were sunk In some great cat tomorrow the Middie country be the section most to mourn Kansas, lowa, Illinois, Nebraska diana and other Middle Western furnish high quotas of the voung who enlist in the Navy. There is a lure in the sea for the young men from the plains. The coastal States as a rule, do not rank with the Mid: dle commonwealth in the patriotic ap peals to “join the Navy.” There must therefore, be a Middle West interest in the Navy that the poliucians nothing about. At a time like this, wh agitation in all the colle the overemphasis of foot ball ¢ of the university life of Am would seem strange, indeed, end rophe would In- ates men there against part [Ty | inea to out the foot ball teams from West Point and _Annapolis ns 0 agents for the two great armed ser ices of the Nation. In any event the Navy team was deal of serious considera-|seen in the Wesl last Full | versity of Michigan | good The |} 'AFFAIRS T. SMALL. The mid- { to battle the Uj The Wolverines swamped them in a most inhuspitabic manner. It was the worst defeat Navy squad had ever suffered. The Navy was sunk without tra the Ann Arbor mud. The inter schedules are gro seem that in th opportunity for han in a n the two s shipmen went W vided course, make idge Washingto mittediy a m event than t ball dispute. b othin old formula f n has n during his Sta As @ ned for a y in the Catskili M York, to make what to be a decided the good doctor’s Pollyanna prescrip- The young artist in guestion underwent an ration for icitls. To a nd Wast confined in hospltal, h muck Dr irtist, many mprove upor in ington, wrote “I hope you will soon yself, every ter—or v how I feel be weil again day I am bette e, according t returned from that while ir v heard severul t from tre e from New f tin buildings noise and tk of animated Asfatic There are about 3,005 in Nuirobl, and many Indians and Afri rsized filled with the and or the ce and colorful sur a strange experience nes at the ears and jazz and Amerlcar re out of the radio s doln s of the night t to sit with t Americs The or the far plac It is not every can be picked up in N of the of uty but that makes the hunt of the and the 1l the more in nd not to say amaz ity n the United bit casual with e hard to please nquest a amusing dwellers Roo: famous eft the White Ho €2 19 Fifty Years Ago In The Star A fire occurred in School, on Twenty-first s t K and L, on the morning of Tuesd: Fire Panic at the J3BUary 1L 187 which for Iy cost Stevens School. oy were endangered. The Star of that | “An alarm of fire was turned in about 9:45 o'clock this morning for fire discovered In the Stevens School | Bullding, where there are 14 schools | kept, with at least 850 pup! v | attendance. The Fi sponded promptly and i utes had the flamee, whic! the woodwork the register on the second tirely extinguished, with a probabie loss of $300 to the buflding. There were about 850 children in the bui ing at the time, and, considering the | great excitement, it was almost a miracle that no more injury was done among them. When the cry of ‘Fire!’ was raised, a scene of the great- | eet terror and confusion ensued. The | children came screaming out of the | rooms Into the hallways, and rushing down the stalrways, broke the balus-, ters by the pressure, and it is a won- der that none of them was killed. | it is, several were injured, but none | serfousiy, it is thought, except A Davis, 1313 { with her parents | street between K and L streets { was knocked down by the stair | ing giving way from the pressure of |children coming down from the stories above, and was trampled on. She was removed, &s soon as the stampede was over, to her home, and Dr. George S. King was called (n, who | stated that there are no bones broken, although she fs badly bruised and suf- fering trom great mervous excitement Another little girl named Anna Queen, who had been subject to spasms, was trightened Into a fit and carried home “The greatest consternation was oc. | casioned among the children within | and parents and friends without who were rushing in to save the children The teachers and children were scream |ing, and two small boys, it is reported, {jumped from the thirdstory window to the ground. One of them, a little fellow, was caught by some man un known In the crowd. “It appears that from faulty con struction of the building there was woodwork abutting on the heat flues and this had become charred and was | liable to take fire as so much tinder The cold weather making large fires | in the furnaces necessary this morn- ing, the charred wood in the north- west corner of the building took fire. | The result might have been the de-! struction of the building and sad loss | of life. As it is, a considerable sr‘ax’el in the floor was burned, and a warn. ing is given which may avert a great disaster at this building or perhaps others in this District equally faulty in_construction. “Miss M. L. Bowle, teacher of a fourth primary school in this room, states that the first she saw of the | fire was the flames shooting up in the ! corner about as high as the seats, and | at first. Her school was panic.strick.- | en, and the children ran out scream- | ing ‘Fire!’ before she could exercise | any control over them. This caused | the panic through all of the schools. | “The bullding was butlt in 1868, is ! four stories high, having three stair- | ways or entrances besides the doors in ‘the basement. The entrance on' Twenty-first street has a double stair- | way on the outside. The entrances on the south and north sides lead | from the second story to the yard, and | are double doors and stairways about | 10 feet wide. | “The wonder s that there were no | lives lost, as the excitement was very great. The schools all resumed their exercises after the abatement of the panic. To the credit of the teachers it must be said that most of them acted with considerable coolness and prudence, and did their best to calm the excited children, but many of the little ones were too greatly excited to yield thelr usual obedience.” The Star, in its comment on this affair, say: “This narrow eseape from a fright- ful tragedy shows the necessity for the closest supervision of the work of the contract builders of schoolhouses. It will also tend to discourage the building of schoolhouses of great height. It would be unfair, however, to the other school buildings of the city to judge them by the Stevens Bulldics, which was erected soms many | L | good I This and That By Charles E. Tracewell. had 1 with the ubmerged hi several denths lumber. immersed him in waves c hargy. Coiled into wrapped r slept the sleep Hours went dle. his tail house ny »d snorer he has t pect of the entire animal tribe. Jack slumbered, Not a mouse was him out of his dreams. for the ver: reason that there were mice. idently they gave Jack wide berth. As a matter of fact only m ever seen there was of H there to squeak he blink lowly rose to h He arched his by a perfect circle in t down with his fee The chair shook under the stretc the cat gave himself. Every musch in his body took part in the setiing up exercise He brought himself out of it and began to sink his spine, now, as much as he had arched it formerly. His forelegs he stretched out in front of him, and his hind legs be- hind him, while he cpened his moutt in an enormous yuwn His w half closed in an ex great content. The claws of his front paws were stuck into the cushions. He topped until he f e air, then pre: off his yawn with « crisp meow, that broke from the edge of his whiskers like the foam on : seashore wave. The meow seemed for all the world an audible part of the visible yawn Now Jack was all ready for a romp. He looked around for his catniy mouse on the end of a long string or the stuffed fake hitched to a short er piece of twine. He found neither of them, nor the third ca n, the one that has no string : o it What was less cat to d for exercise? * Jack was not to be thwarte. ever. Pep was in his muscles his . Wik a gi high Into tix leap he bouné: anded stiff-legge n a small rug ana sid wi L across the waxed fioor. Then, with a scamper of striped legs, his long claw dig in brakes, Jack sprang acro: the room Into the hall he sailed, through the dining room, nto the kitchen, und neath the cabinet, down the basemet steps, across the basement, around the trunk, back up the steps, beneath the cabinet. With fur ruffled. Spratt stopped for an instant at the foot of the stairs leading up. His eyes gleamed. his tail was arched. “What vou dolng down Jack?" came a sleepy voice. “Meow!” called Spratt, as he sped away en another wild round. a there Spotty. From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. So a spot on the sun has been caus- Ing all of this cold weather. Well, as usual, Bill Shakespeare said it—"Out, damned sy Out, 1 say!" vears ago by ‘the job,’ and is probably greatly Inferior in construction to the most of our large school buildings.” The Stevens School is still in serv ice, the only alteration being an ad dition that was erected in 1896, The walls erected in 1363 are still stand ing.