Evening Star Newspaper, January 24, 1926, Page 42

THE SUNDAY —_— e STAR. WASHINGTON, D. ¢, JANUARY 24, 2 1926 -PART THE EVENING , With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON. D. C. SUNDAY... .January 24. 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor The Evening Sar Newspaper Company picked with the greatest care, so th Lan assemblage of real traffc cnn he assured It 1ess experts needs only a slines at the prog H e 1he farreaching rasulis made at the last e confer. snee to realis that can he accomplished by a nation gathering of this kind. With of ideas runninz the conditions from al traflic logisl: mditions wida an exchanze mut of California Maine 1o henefic ion to meet future ix practi- | \ { 5 1 \R quested. and these men should he evils. It <hould prohibit the continued use of old structures for public hous: inz entertainment, and require thelr replacement, not merely their Lequipment with “safety” devices | Which are of no utility whatever when emergency arises In every city are some of these old marks and the pity is that they en the most frequented of all #ecommodations, They shonld a1l be razed, to be replaced by veritably - fireproof structures. the public No | EVERYDAY RELIGION BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D., LL. D., Bishop of Washington. rests. His teach- &t. in this re- the Savior of men ing Is In striking cont to that of other religlous | teachers. Either we accept Him for | what He claims to be or we give Him | place as one of the moralists that from THE AUTHORITY OF JE St Matthew, B them vou.” 5:21 of old tim “It was said | | | : but I say unto | ! & z z | Capital Sidelights | Members of Congress are corf@tantly getting an opportunity to review their history, with interesting sidelights thrown in. It is one of their greai privileges to assist in fittingiy memorializing historic events and th Nation's heroes, and in preserving historic landmarks for future genera- tions. Representative Charles Wyoming, who, as author of song, is known as ‘The Winter of the State Bard of BY ROBERT T. SMALL. Now the returns for to see the drif that most of 1925 are in, it is easy of the American pecnle on the subject of thrift. This week has heen “Thrift week™ in most of the country, but the celebration of the past paits n ideas as to how and when flic shall stop or go. he Capital City's trafic engineer i not finding himself in a_ bed of roses, by any means. Not being a noliceman, he has complained that the police have not co-operated to W trs The District Com = Bve b aovE Wy 4 also as chro - e fullest extent *The Evening S Sunday morn- | cally a certainty | building should be permitted to he he Originality of Jesus" time to time have sought to lift the| yoming™ and also as chronicler of the fullest extent. & within e nton. in delvered Qe iy w60 \th Rate by Mail— Maryland Sanday able in Advance. nd Virgini <o S1on Paily Iaiiv 1 ma 1 o Al Other and Sunda. “onty ates and Canada n I Sunday Ston 1 1 Ty 1y iy Member of the \ssociated Press. The Ascociated Prese iz cxclusively entitl 10 the lien fny renmntication of all nece die Patches credited (o if nc oot atherwise o > in thie paper and alsn the lneal’rewe Pihliched harein. ANl rizhts af publication Af <nacial Aispatshes harain 20e alen ceeerved The Cost of Mine Idleness. calentation folly of which is now A arithmetical Aemonstrates simple the utter at 1 The this hard coal strike end of twenty first men have lost all their 1t wages they ten per cent, they would have to work ruptedly for 210 weeks, or four To recover 1ts week wages for in rendjnstment o should get period a an advance of nnintes | vears, to recoup that loss | zes durins | they per in two vears the loss in wa the it would strike, should end now. | have to secure a twenty i cent advance. To regain the loss in a sinzle vear they must secure a forty | 1 * cent increase A ten per cent inerease is reckoned he expected. if ale should he revised up A= all that ean possibly the ward direct | A rhitration by the Increase fs not ta he A forty per the limits of in an or with cenn negotiation operators. 1 per consiaered as probanie venty cent increase is hevond the most optimistic expectation. A per cent advance would shifted from the to To ¥ of ten per cent addi A lar than increase. he | coal the duce coal for a waze ten awner conl nser nal wonld addition actual cost mean the centage each addition to the mine cost the suc- cessive handlers of the commodity add their profit. | Thus twenty-one weeks of idleness at the mines, even If followed by a ten per cent advance. means virtually however er o the per with retail price in wage for i a net loss to the operatives, unless they ! can be assured of continnons employ- nd more Ana ment for at least fo At the increased rate of wazes the lonzer the strike lasts the longer the period for catching up AL the new wage rate. There $<, gurprise at the announcement that the Jeader of the miners has himself made overtures for a resumption of nego. tiations. upon the same Pasis as the propesal which was ves terday first accepted snd then ed. His followers atraits. There them but struggle waiting settlement Jonz cover required therefore, no occasion for somewhat reject- | are in desperate ahead of while followed by heart-breaking struggle the lost ground have been increased. The other day the striking miners cheered President Lewis of the United Mine Workers when he toured the an- thracite district. But now that their enthusiasm has cooled they are likely to he fizuring on what their allesiance them. They are per- equations in sses and their and the Immediate is nothing to subsist for a to re- when wages | | | i | to him has cost haps working ont their terms of their cortain v snlt sspective. = possible & tins is disheartening. of ceipt of money r sompti z n work means immediate hills, Their loy- alty during twenty.one weeks of strik- inz to pay to restore eredits, to buy | snuppliss means, in all probability, at uphill climh to reach the left the of least fonryear Jrint they on first of Sep- tem: A Radio Triumph. Anather rrinmph the radio when Mrs was recorded for Nelson of that her had heard vears, had of Central Lydia Sun Francis brother. from ndthinz for heen found n v was natifisd <he twenty-five in the heart whem Africa From Memphis of amateur that Cape that located Tenn, came Mrs. that city had the missinzg the Nelson. | mese A no radin need in Town an hroad. man had her ap- | esat waord heen in response to penl. Culmination of this lonz search by | means of the new art of communica- the alm unlimited possibilities of the radio of the future. Providing entert for the bed. ridden. success in such cases s that of Mrs. Nelson, and extending educa- tion to an s ane tion stresses nment the radio is taking its place [ the foremost factors of our [ — A horse zoinz ong the applying iravel as fast as he Sixteenth street ean now forzer nld-time spesd re and likes. provided he can pull up in time to mind the traMe | siznals ctions to trotier Incidentally. the coal strike has heen | A campaign of education in the art of Aging without anthracite in an emer. seney The Hoover Conference. Tresident Coolidge. in letters to gov- arnors of every State in the Union, urges them to attend the forthcoming Hoover conference on street and high- way safety to be held in this eity on | March The President stresses the need for A “prozressive solution of what is a very difficult question,”” and points out that more than 24,000 citizens of the United States were killed last vear in | et accidents and more than 100,000 were injured. Bvery should respond whole-heartsdly to the President’s in- vitation and ce-operate in thix na- tonal mafety movement. A delegation zovernor | behooves | factnrers, | iethal Uniformity of fundamental State in the of students of (rafc trafiic rules i every Union has been the ideal for many vears. Hoover conferences, with u representa | tive ttiendunce from eich State, Is means to this end. Headlizht rezulation and turning rezu tions e he inz standardized of na throuzh . The sertous mee of all the n swakenin nal thoy s no osurer than of 1the lest trafic in mind ultimate in standardized traffic. when n drive trafic conditions on the Atlantic < on the Pacific For the same Const motoris under thoard. it for no other, it Al re ipients of the Pres lent’s letters to do theiv part in less aninz the terrific 1 toll of deaths this reasin in annu. nd injuries from trafic accidents in the United States. Uncle Sam as Pistol Salesman In certain monthly publication circulation, of recent issue, twelve advertisements and automatic pistols through the Al but them the buver but of wide tor one Appear volvers muils that money, all the sale of specifies o “send no is to charges ve United ot of he postmaster ipon ceipt. Thus 1 i made the sales o “ is contributing the crime record of this country in lives, There a o and is costinz h is no means of knowinz how of deadly the country number weapons arge < distributed throughout means, with the with the postal But there must considerable husinass, elze ihe and not by this mail as carrier and officials 1< eollectors, he a manu dealers in in cannot importers wonld continue The, office k of all those who zef guns The, hese zoods he post eap o this marked els might harmless articles as Buns. To the postal clerks all that is required is that the price is paid the person to whom the parcel is and that he No record ean be kept in manner. packazes are ntents. contain not as e par as well per Uy well as addressed, may titious name. h anvthing for the tracing that has that is w of the fizured in With a d own ¢ oo weapon w oo of these in dis- ibuting their crime-hresdigs wares, ing the Government as carrier and callector, the difficulty of securing profection from the pistel evil is ap- No matter the be, this supply Alwavs available, so long as it Is per. send such ge through 7 n - spensers zoods brily engaged parent. what aws may ready is mitted 1o s the mails, A bill has been introduced ra prohimt such the It should he pressed 1o enac Legislators who are in doubt about the wisdom of such a law should scan the pages of the cheaper periodicals and there obtain direct testimony to the pernicious preva- lence of this traffic, reaching all ages and all classes of people. Legislation limiting f the criminal diy weapons does not of the arm gress use of post. ment. the to restrict “he for oppor- obtain the arms” tunity e right o peopie 1o f Lo themselves defense o law would prevent a man buving a gun who actually needs one for his for the protection All that asked for of crime own of his the is security home. sake that ie idden communities a deadly i the process of getting veapon be made a little more that weapons cult than at present and that than <urance he given ta others ponsible persons. ure not sold B A young waman who robhed a New York storekeeper of three hundred dollars is described by her victim as blond. Even in the most thrilling moments a few men can keep cool enough to preserve artistic interest and observe details relating {and complexion. Whether incapable doubt that suffered immeasurably at of all kinds of fiction writers. r——— Something may vet he done to per- suade Chile and Peru to hold on their own account u peace conference that will guarantee results. o tel Fi S not he untruth, of was there is no teorge retraps. 01d Ho Several lives were re at Allentown, Pa uilding was a very ack a century, and it hurned like tinder. the flames gaining uncon- querable headway speedily after start- ing. The occupants were trapped and the marvel is that a larger number in a hatel vesterday. The 14 one. dating fi i a I | did not dfe. of in There are many th ancient buildings still used this country places of public entertainment, should be condemned for such use. They have been equip- ped in most cases with so-called fire escapes. which are of use only to a very few of the accupants. The stair- ways are veritable chimneys, carryving the flames, when fire starts, into all parts of the bullding. The floors are of wood. often heavily carpeted, and burn rapidly, preventing exit or access to the fire escapes. Recently two old hotels passed out of use in this city, to be replaced by modern commercial buildings. Both of them were desperately had “risks in terms of the safety of their oc- as buildings that cupants. Washington has heen spared a catastrophe by merciful dispensa tion of Providence during the many vears of their occupancy. Public inspaction of buildinge does Continuation of the . 11 rules of the road | tex for the accomplishment of the ! pay i The | local | in Con-| hax ever been proposed that law-abiding, | aze | personally | Washington has | the hands | used as a hotel which can burn as | did the old Lafavette at Allentown Vet there are numbers of just such places still in active service, and any of them the scene {of & five ho The time to replace them the tragedy. and not afterward may any day be is hefore ——— Cloture and Protocol. fix World refused, tomorrow vote on resolution. proposed by signed by forty-eight | Opponents of the protocol. resenting | the introduction of the -cloture tion. are disposed to force a {ite hoping. it indicated, [ will fail of paseage. This the Senate in Unanimons consent the heen to A date Court the the a pe Senators, Lfor A vote on | protocol Senate cloture having will tition mo vote on is that it motion requires two-thirds Likewis protocol its support to ratify the Thus if there i< a two-thirds majority the World Court should be the cloture resolution. Yet this does not necessarily follow. For some Senators who favor the protocol may vote for cloture, owing to an inhibition the closing of de the resolution tor there fon not against bat vesolution be of the World rssured. And the proto after ould wied t the the protocol cloture success is in {that case a vote on wonld follow very soon 1dantion of the clature motion. ¥ | there would he ne point in protraction of the ate. and in the cloture motion automatically, save hy unanimons consent, hrings the debhates an end. Thus Monday will f the Senate an the World Court have gained fforts il aven det any case o witness a test he opponents resisting minz vote, by to secure the th feu af o day for the taking is de blic opinion for if cloture the pressura of | {in favor of action stronger than ever. It is now strong enough to be felt by the most de. Ilormlnpd opponents of the protocol. will hecome ————— It is generally admitted by his most a fic- | faithful admirers that when provoked | Washington Hable break forth into language much worse than “Helen Maria.” The rhetoric of modern statesmanship is not o vigor was in colonial davs refined in expletive | George was to Lons as it bt it i mor Refore nting imp America as disclosed by | hesca some effort ascertain the contacts from which the impressions ware derived. Al Ameri- cans cannot he judzed by any particu {lar cirels of types r sfons Princess Ri I"nele Sam may he persuaded to zo inta the League of Nations on the strength of very doubtful assurance that he can have comparatively little to do with it If he finds he does not i | | SRR, | Demand for more time to consider {the World Court vote arouses natural !curiosity as to what has been done {with the precious time aiready so! abundantly available. e SHOOTING STARS. RY PHILANDER JOHNSOX. The Real Article. L “It’s pretty hard to lose a fi savs Hezekiah Bings: “A real one aticks ta the end In spite of silly things Th; mix us up in foolich davs Through paces never slow And groping thraugh nd.” Ieave us the Where pleasires used to gn. An enamy will disappear When prosperous vou seem He will raturn in guise austers When sorrow prompta vour dream: | But some their love will still axtend Through Fortune's cruel flings. | You cannot lose a real triend.” Savs Hezskiah Bings. Opposing Forces. “Do agree to the suggestion | that the first duty of a great official is to 'keep his shirt on'?" ““No,” said Senator Sorghum. | decline positively to complicate patri- otic responsibilities with the uncon- | querable determination of the laundry {10 tear off buttons. i . you Literary Survival. I wrote for weary hours TUpon an essay grave— Applied my greatest pow'rs To make my brains hehave. The essay that I wrote Has found admirers few. \Uhile creditors still quote My modest 1. O, T, | Jud Tunkins says it's dangerous to |take a market tip from a man who | says he has all the money he wante. iTherq ain't any such person. | Reasons Enough. “Do you believe in evolution?™ “Yes.” answered Miss Cavenne. “Do you believe in reincarnation?™ “Yes. ““What are vour reasons?" “l1 can't see that they make any | real difference. So why give offense to any dear friends who have declded to believe in them?" Power. | If you have power to prevent a song— A smile—a phrase resentful of the wrong— show the power greatest most wise | In strength that you refuse to exer- i clae. You and “A man dat is always right in his opinions,” said Uncle Eben, "is en- titled to admiration. But he do git of five persons from each State is re- not go far enough to correct the reall terrible tiresome!" of | the | nothing | of | shonld he made to| title of a striking chapter in vealing book. The author maintains that of all the great religious teachers Jesus is the most original. That His teachings transcend that of any other is widely accepted. In the course of Hix teachings e constantly alludes to the great messages of the prophets of His own race. Repeatedly He con firms their declarations, bui in some instances He amplifies their teach- |ings and infinitely broadens them 11 is not <0 much the originality of Jesns as the authority He discloses that arvesis our attention. His utter- nees are daring in thelr assumption f power. Such expressions as the tollowing clearly indicate this: T am the resurrection and the life.” “All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth.” and again. “1.if I he lified up, will draw all men unto Me.” ok ok ok In His sermon on the mount, re | ferving to the ancient law of His peo. ple, He says: “It was safd by them of old time,” “Rut 1 say unto vou.” He contrasts the law ziven by Mosex with Hix own hizher vision of life, nd He invests the latter with su preme authority. In fine. He pluced His word above the law. He not only ves 1o men a word of wuthority. but A new power to fulfill it In a remarkable book. “The Con stitution of the United States,” Mr. James M. Beck hax 4 guggestive chap ter on “The Revolt Against Author- ity.” He speaks of those who ‘“are increasingly opposed toany law which affects their selfish interests.” The ipplication of this to the teachings of lesus ix intimate and immediate. There is no revolt today against the beauty of His messaze: it is rather a revolt ngainst Tuthority in Adifterence to it That He assumes to he the last [court of resort on questions that af- feet the moral and spivitual standards men is clenrly obvions. Indeed. it is upon this that His whole claim as SOUTH AMERIC BY FREDERIC i | | | | | i | | | | | Tmagine 1he city af New vork with a leading out of it Imagine Detrolt as davs awa Foledo by Chicago off from the agricultural of Ilinois, and Angeles as suscepti ble of approach san only by railroad or Thus do members States delegation American Highwavs A lnf transportation { | { out sinzle hard-surfaced hizhway from rich aveas Los from neisco steamship of the the r Congress United o t Pan H in i the picture Buenos s conjure up conditions in South far the mileag America, where by srenter part of the hizhway weather with is passa ble only in dry Unlike highways laid out or steam its svstems of far in advance ot transportation. savs Rice, chairman of the delexa tion. and unlike the United States {with fis netwark of, highly efficient railroads, the couniries of South America arve inadequately supplied With transportation means of any kind Furape maotor H. H. Railways Are Inadequate The railvoads which ex heen pushed throush at sreat expense and only after <evere hardships. They are the hackhone of internal commu ; nication. and yvet there is not a suffi tclent mileage to develop the virgin ! areas, nor is there capital available to | build extensions which would not zenerally speaking, be immediately profitable. “The great need,” continues Mr. | | Rice, “is a system of highways and | highway transport which will serve to {extend the economic zone of the rail roads, give the rural districts means of communication with city markets, | and provide wavs of penetration the almost Inexhaustible areas of nat resonrces of every kind and de n the fulfillment there will be necessary of trained hizhway organizations simi Jar to those we have. the working out of rational syvetems of highway finance, and, from a mate- rial standpoint, enormous supplies of all the machinery and materials which are an integral part of highway trans; portation. Only One Real In traveling some 15000 through the more important South | American countries the delegates from the United States found only one real highway syeétem. This was in the comparatively few miles of good roads which have heen constructed out through the fertile coffee fields that surround the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The importance of this syvs tem is shown by the fact that out of | 15.000 cars assembled last vear by one motor manufacturer for use in all PBrazil more than 10.000 found a use in the Sao Paulo region. Traffic of commodities and persons flows at a steady rate over that sy tem In and out of Sao Paulo, comnier- ecial and social life has been quick ened. and the engineer who is in charge in being pressed from all sides tor further extensions of his roads. Thre Brazillan government has shown its recognition of the value of a re- lated highway system by announcing a project for the improvement of the 100 miles of highway still unimproved out of the 300 miles between Rio and Sao Paulo. City Traffic Congestic What has heen done in Sao Paulo, save Mr. Rice. remaing to he done in Rio. In Santiago. in Valparaiso, in Lima. in Buenos Alres and in prac- tieally every eity. large and small, af South Ameri That it wili he done is a sta‘ement that is hest un- | derstood when it is known that the | | problam of trafe congestion which | the cities there face today is in many | instancer as acute as that which ex- |ists in the United States. There are | not =0 many vehiclex as here, it is | true. but neither are thera the roads. and a public already motor-minded is pressing the local and natlonal au-| | thorities for relief. Mr. Rice polnts out that South| America has a population of 55.000.000 in an area of 7.000.000 square miles, comparable to the United States. and, with far more pressing needs for transportation than we have. there are but 230,000 motor vehicles in that area, most of them In the cities. Mo- tor touring, as it is known here, is practically unknown there. for im- proved roads are virtually non-exist- ent. have vl seription of th: System. miles Legislation Ts Needed. | At the Buenos Aires meeting it was| | found that the primary need in all the Latin American countries is to arouse = public sentiment that will back -up officials charged with high way work and make it possible for them to secure adequate legal ma- chinery, such as we have in this coun- try in our Federal and State highway acts. The financial problem, it is said, is not so formidable as might be im- agined, for in the larger counties es- pecially. the taxable remources are ample. Through the Pan-American Confed |1 believe, i from this country | snta |tions and | purpose. and is not standards of men to higher levels. There is no larger question before men today than that which relates to the ucceptance or rejection of the authority of Christ. It was said by one of His cotemporaries. Never man spake like this man,” and so ap. pealing was ile on the ¢ that a soldfer_standing by wis compelled to say: “Truly, this was the Son of ok oo The grent teachinzs of they hear npon the common and practices of life arve not suscep- tible of misundarstandinz or misinter pretation. That they bear immediately upon the conditions of life tod learly obvious. When we cont deal life with that which we witness it should somefimes seem that He had lost His place. and that the “Ethics of Marcns Aurelius’ were as readily recognized and accepted as those of Jesus. (omparinz the soc habits and practices of those who are avowedly Christian with those who profess no alleziance to Him or re spect for ‘His authority, it is some times difficult to discover who Christian_and who pazan. A distin suiched Turkish writer. comparing Tslam with Christiandom. said: “After a careful study of the teachis £reat founder of the Christian re 1 am amazed at the distorted chi He has assumed “There 18 no teachinz altruistic in its character, and which, If it could be literally applied, would exercise so direct and bene- ficial an influence on the human r as the teachings of Jesux” In 'n tence t fairly hurns he says iristians have dev their soclal and political morality out of the very blackness of the shadow thrown by the Light of the Wo It Christianits to place as A dominant the teachings of again be ziven their authority Jesns habits <o thoroughly is maintain or in its lite ce of supreme AN HIGHWAYS o J. HASKIN (Copsr 10 ation ha work will seek b sentiment nt tween the st tries « ap an infor interchanze h ra all cou +nother high wit ities of 927 in Rio a n Cuba delegation nents have the rang the ret . made to developed ible to the S ' A in on prov vond thix ix not n Rice. “The pro velapment . tinlly one for the try themselves progrese will he ray ing to the degree of importance which they attach the henefits which they will recefve from fmproved methods o transportation If the public statements the chief executives of the six ntries visited by the delegation and the wide. <pread favorahle nes can he accepted South Ameriea needs here puth Ay working highway made avai ins actively Unit My cour is essen Their w accord af spaper disenssion then awn as a criterion United State Singulavly Rice and his ment on it welcome assistance States in the solution ortation or other problems. There is conside le sentiment closely akin to hostility growing out of a fear that business interests in this country Aid Qualified. althouzh M not com Americ the United their trans. eno not all | seeking to exploit their neighbors to | the south, and along with this is a jealousy of the wealth and progress of the United St One of the fe; United States’ « ing of several motion plctures, which will he used in ational propagan this coun rv. as well as in the American countries e the of. fice of motion pictures of the Depart tires of the tour of. ttion was the ts he Director kins of Iimenit of Agciculture was the s ovnl the camera Preliminary views of the films are to have assured the delegation that they have an unusually interest ing and informing pictorial story for the people of hoth Americas. Woakoning the Home. From the Richmond News.Load Four of six speakers at a recent luncheon of the National Republican Club in New York attributed the growth of crime in America to the breakdown of the home. but none of the four seems to have asked why the home has a place in American life than ever in the past. Why is it? The comfort of the aver age American home today has never been equaled. The standard of living in food and raiment is at the highest |yet attained. The physical well-being of children is more intellizently con- served. Sickness is being reduced yearly. With the ancestral curse of disease relieved, and with the material side of the home secure, why is it weakened? The answers are doubtless manifold. After the neglect of religion, the rea. son that most deserves emphasis, in the opinion of this newspaper, has to do with the ceaseless speeding up of American life. Home-making requires love as a first essential, and, second only to love. it calls for time—time to rlan, time to prepare, time to give the tonches that distinguish a house from # home. time for the conversation that is. or ought to be. the children’s hest schooling. Time is demanded for the home. America seems to have it for evervifing else. Put differently, the Ameriean family is so busy doing other thinge that no member of it has niuch time for the work that holds the family together. The offort to build up community life by civic organiza- luncheon clubs and multi- plted lodges and societies is serving its to be condemned Dightly, but it is taking people away from home and indirectly is weaken- inz home ti Cheap amusements are operating to the same end. Cease- less milling around in motor cars is leasure purchased often at the ex- vense of the home. To preserve the home, make it at- tractive. To make it attractive, work over it. To find time in which to work over it, spend more time in it. A home is not a garage—merely a place in which to store a machine when it is not running. ———— Difficult Conservation. From the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch, Now an expert is advising people to make the most of their looks. But suppose they haven't an, A Three Times and Out. From the Baltimore Sunday Sun. How would It do to delete broad casting stations that give thres rot- ten programs in successlon? the West through his | “Grandon of Sierra ind ““Ben War ‘ iman.” is now preparing to tell his| i colleagues vividly of the early days of | the West and its heroes. He hopes to | get favorable action for preservation | of two forts as national monuments | that were the to the West when the West young—Forts | and Bridger. historical novels, Lar same 500 miles | i Laramie | Fort the into took {identical trail for some through Wyoming from F {on the eaxtern border to Fort Bridzer jon the western horder. making the | {sateway 1o the Far West. It w hout Fort Laramie that the famous | historian Parkman in 1246 wrote his great ook on the Oregon trail | The connecting link between | Laramie on the east and Fort Bri {on the west is South Pass at the {head of Sweetwater River, is | the pass through the Rocky Mountains | | dizcovered hy Robert Stuart and his sociate on a return trip from Astoria on the Pacific Coast in 1812 The famons ty - niners who tramped over the South Pass to Cali fornia in the gold rush davs walked on placer gold. whic ax afterward discovered and billions of dollars take® out in 1868 and 1570, | Crossing over the Continental Divide land the Rockies. the trail from Fort Bridger on the western boundary di- ! verzed—one bra toward Cali { fornia. another toward Oregon and {yet another to Salt Lake City, where | the Mormons under F am’ Young had settled in large numbers in 1846 | Gen. Charles King, now 85 vears old ind « militam{astructor in’ the i Ripon. W\ thor of many military novels friend of Theodore IR epresentative Winter i y an antozraph « of King's Bedlam standir | Fort | dzer | and wevel ud of Gen Bediam M hea ind ix still "he one OQueen of t the is O For the ereetion of the most famens and voman in the I # modest appropriation | 1 in another bill by tive Winter. This Indian wife the the and monumen: 1o i Indian 15k Representa woman was ide Char Clark e Mr. W cajaw ' s th, e thi lan <he Lewi a n proved of husband aneau o T nier t she her 3l he knew the Indians the party from attack ibe when she reco the leader of her own hrother umped into a swollen stream canoes were overturned and of the party and scientific papoose n i b the Shost nized and attack {Once she I when th rescued t indisy: snsable she carried f the ne t eeted recor her back she had N. Dak statue in visualiz her in a on where Mandan nder linn woman v o *acitic party e s inz with s5e on Park in 1581 buried = This O the the Shoshone Washakie. nea nder. Wyo is in_the sixth judicial district Winter served as fudge for seven ears. The grave is unmarked sive r a small stone and plate put there by the historical society of the of Wyoming. Her zrandson. Rasil. is still living the veservation whare <he died and died nd ie member of Conzress isn't i might eall “unassuming usually they are not overmodest talking with a newspaper man. nor do {they exactly shun publicity. But the I “bahy of the House Representative { Samuel J. Montgomery. is a pleasing {exception. “He's at once a “regular feliow”’ unbelievably modes | aln lit nobly. heit “done his bit,”" and done | “You were with the A. E. he asked. and laconically replied “See any action at the front?” —and_again a monosyllabic “Some | Learning that he ad been with the | 6th Regiment of Marines during the {war, this writer hecame suspicious {and’ consulted the service record at [the Marine headquarters snd <0 seve which told this wh in Corps 4l citations v an officer of the “Devil called for volunteers to under an extremely dangzerons recon noitering expedition. Of course, there were a number of volunteers. but a | sturdy vounzster of 22 was selected. Crawlin nto “Na man’s land. this voung marine made his way through an adjacent wond. while en emy bullets whistled all abont him. and took certain observations in ac cordance with instructions given him Emerging from the wonds into unpro tected “No man’s land.” instead of re acing his way of | soldier and then achieved ingly impossible feat prisoner back with him through "N man's land” to the American lines. This prisoner later gave very valua- ble information supplementinz the young “Devil Doz’s” ohservations. That's “Sam’ Montgomery. His autobiography in the Congressional Directory says nothing about two American citations for callantry in ac tion and assuming extraordinary ris and performing very valiant and val uable service for his country, or that he got the French croix de guerre for his valor or that he was gassed and wounded hy shell fire in action. the =eem of bringing the { tion at Rlanc Mont and at St. Etienne. The citation that reveals him captur- ing a German soldier is as follow: “He volunteered for and accomplish- ed wonderful work as a scout; recon- noitering some woods on the left of his company. being continually fired upon by enemy machine gun s but accomplishing his mission in a very short time. He also went into enemy trenches. hringing out a pris- cner. from whom valuable informa tion was obtained." Representative Montgomery is a na- tive Kentuckian. He enlisted in the Marines when he was 20, France from March 27, 1918, to May 8, 1919, and was honorably discharged from the Marine Corps at Quantico May 19, 1919. When he took the oath of office a< a member of Congress he had Jjust passed his twentv-ninth birthday. * o ox ox Hearken to this tale of “Nick" and “Dick,” which may show some down- trodden, discouraged, effaced youth how quickly and often unexpectedly the whirligig of life turns around and rewards patient merit. It concerns Representative Nicholas Longworth of Ohio, Speaker of the House, husband of the ‘“Princess Alice” of recent vears and father of the surprise baby Paulina. It also concerns Senator Richard P. Ernst of Kentucky. For many years they oc- cupied the same law offices in Cin- cinnati. {_ After he became Speaker I Longworth was entertaining Senator | Ernst and some other friends in his new offices. “In addition to my nat- ural gratification over the honor dene me by my colleagues in selecting me {to preside as Speaker,” Mr. Long- worth is said to have remarked, “1 Itake a secret personal delight in its effect upon my relations with ‘Dick’ Ernat.” Then he went on to explain that at official functions in the Capital City for the last five years he has hneh move | the | instruments. | where | to his own trench. he ! kept on going toward enemy trenches, which he entered, captured a German | His citations are for gallantry in ac- | ipers, | served in' Mr. | event has been desultory and sporadie, to say the least. The people are with Coolidge on Government They think it is grand for ernment to cut to the bone. for they have been told t this. form of economy means lower and lower in come iaxes. The people do not care President economy. the Gov if the Army is reduced to poverty and | the Navy cut 1o such an extent that the 5-53 ratio as to Great Britain and Japan no longer anythinz but a sea lawyers joke. The people do pot if_aviation is allowed to lag ine The pe Ao not believe there is ever zoing 1o he another war The people are mad for tax reduction If ever there was a unanimity of apinion 2 Government poliey if presented itself durinz the hearings on the new tax bill. Fvery person who appeared before Senators and Representatives argued in faver of more and more cuts. Rut when it comes to practieing in dividual thrift and econemy, that is »mething else again. The people ant 1o save their 1ax money so they n spend it on something else. In | order celebrate in proper fashion {every time thev save $30 they spend $100. That is typically American It is, one mizht sa:. 100 per cent Amers an. In any event the country prosperous. It mrows more prosper ous the taxes come down | Congress will just be sure to {the new law before March 15, | great majority of 100 per cent Ameri ~ank won't care a hang what happens | during the remainder of the session is | is pass the cities of the that an but surely are heginning to realize flic troubles are shiem rather n Policemen used would he firemen "he latter emploved many times in and have acquitted them the usual distinetion. nnquestionably has the laggard cities in engineering phase of tion. but has diseoy utomatic lighte con hetter than a score ting their Slowly nuntry their street nzineering Mice prrsnit on the joh, but it reasonahle Foy are just ahou aiers or Sconts | have n | emerzencies | selves with | Washinzton {been one of nizing the | the traffic sin | ered at last that lirol the streets of warkinz cops 1 This and That By Charles E. Tracewell. cut off the end of his robe than disturb a there. Mahom { with his sword rather favorite cat sleep! Wherefore the name of the Prophet has found favor throughout the ages with friends of cats evervwhere This same disin ion to bother a feline may n in man homes is somethin t sleeping e ng it has owned ather has ihex wha time, rema than v this holds gond when your up in yeur lap and settles a quiet snooze. Such ca dreams is somethinz that receives—sincere admira cat down pacity needs tion Many uld sicen his eat. A actually times hard to wak Dozs cammonly but a real house eves. as it were. Sometimes it a touch of the hand will not hops for for and he as eat hed that and as long honse has sily a person as o wel protected en. with one eve At closes hoth sleep apen leeps =0 soundly that wake it {a and will only recog friendly hand nize the tonch by of the hind le; | the hack. with sion on its bewh A fan demonstrated him the same class far cats are wedding party. Or aps it wonld he more exact to say efore the wedding. An old friend of the famils invited over o These mounted the or turning over on most smug expres skered face. a cat in A real self 1o he Mahomet- cerned—at a as heing upstairs steps. and entered were spread out After he had admired them all, he to talk as an old friend will over impending wedding A Kitten. with bright wandered in. “Helln, kittie The small np. inquiring. whisgkers, and sprans man’s capacious 1ap. After “makingz hread™ with its fore paws for a few seconds. the turned around a couple of times. it seekinz the most comfortahle pos ture. sat down the i eves said the cat ran forward up into Twining its tail tightly around the made. the cat slumber. of mall bundle of fur it sank into profound {man sat still. in admiration jability to sleep. | | There | the sta ‘hl'ld? | sifts. | ® They looked with surprise at man seated. He smiled. “You ladies will forgive me for getting up.” he said. this cat.” “Why. certainly.” rning to the business Throughout the afternoon sueh man sat in the chair, reluctant move. * % sound of laughter was a on were coming in to view not smiled_the t hand girls, 11\! and slept. true follower the hurning nd the kitten slept Surely this man is a of the Prophet across sands. | i zotten into line to find far up in front { of him the familiar figure of his long- {time friend, the Senator from Ken- “Now that I have the official peaker of the House, | gloried “Nick.” “it is up to Dick for | the next two vears at least to look {at my hack in the official receiving lines and marches, just as 1 have heen looking at his for the last five years. R Representatives Treadway and i Bowles, hoth of Massachusetts, and who represent adjoining districts, had an interesting visitor during the week in the person of T. J. Fitzgerald of Montague City, near Greenfield, Mass. He boasted that he had solved the problem of going from Massachusetts to Florida without being troubled about luggage—by wearing all the clothing he took with him At the time he visited the congre: {men he had on one overcoat. one suit, two sweaters, eight shirts and Wad quite an assortment of socks, handkerchiefs, etc., in his pockets. He explained that when one shirt hecame oiled he immediately tore off one layer of shirt from his body and there was a cleaner one underneath. The day on which he exhibited him- self to Representatives Treadway and Bowles was extremely sultry, but the Massachusetts man was so enthusi- astic about hiz scheme that he was proof against thg hot weather, tucky’ precedenca as It | the | sol- | en in sleep it seems to realize it is a slight stretching with | per- he was ‘o see the wedding pres- he the room where the silver and other gifts wedding 7 Tonked twitehed its tremendons the animal as The The minutes passed hy. and still the to Several girl friends of the the the “I can’t disturb mnests came and went, the man sat and sat. | ack | missioners have not sustained t view. In any event, Washington i< in the throes of a great traffic trans | formation. At first glance visitors 1o the city assert the traffic problem should be simple. Washington is |city of magnificent distances and wide | thoroughfares. But when the greai | French engineer, L'Enfant, iaid out the city in cart-wheel fashion he had no viston of an automobile age. With %0 many avenues cutting tha eity obliqualy like the spokes of a whee there are innumerable intersection= which are extremely difficult 1o de: with from the trafic point of view In the meantime it i fust as well for Capital visitors te watcn their stepe avery moment they are on the streets and avenues. Thev may fAnd themselves in a trafic maze or a trafie; jam at any moment The cold wave which has | swept in upon Washington from the West has caused anothar wave of suffering in the temporary bufldinzs which have housed manv of the Government workers ever since war. These sir hich many instances are little better than the shacks which contractors put w for netruction o some are so thin that thex do not keep out the Winter cold By the same token they fail 1o stop the Midsummer heat, and it i | necessary to excuse employes in the | Summer because of the unbearable heat and in the Wint hecause of the unhearable cold A Government economt which fails to provide su quarters for Gov nment workers and Government business is so short-sighted as to he ble. 1t merely Is v when huge rums or Government new s the ctures, in offices during the e big buildi | almost put must wetivity mu Meantime ahead with annex to the palatial marhle T which provides offices the bers of the Honse of Reprasentatives Washingion is zlad the Con gressmen = well provided for. hut thinks thex give some consid eration to their warkers of the | Government (Capvrizht he expended the plans A fine dins mem Congress addin for o might fellow 1976 F iifrt_\jY(;rzrirs Ago In The Star fire of the in this Investigation Stevans 0 vears h The in _ite School on wh Stevens School Fire Laid to Sweepings. 1876, ented issue He exy as charred 3 huilds up the inflam mable sweey <chonlrean floor had heen deposited upon the ton of the radiatinz < inder had by the heating theo the : vface the sweepir hecome very cambie tible: that at same time in the that comins m: wen lznited. and that of the hotalr been matches had the sontheast corner at chamber or great as | melt the causing oppor ting fire to t theory seems | many supposit | baked haby. wh | sititi n baby. hahy mania ha sufficient tin of the lininz for draft and set and floors. This based on almost as as the cook's involved a suppo suppositition by. t th to make soider joists, the deposits « heat 10 h us that hoy catastroph of standing and E in his opinion 1 Trustee Johnson, whe zence. true explanation serves tn show that schoal well as architects must be dilizentiy lanked there would n radically tion a i possihle man’s seem he Supt are men “If this {the fire. it room sweeps. and hoilders fror someth constrt where it the <choalroom floor to he swept hot-air chamber.™ = ned inte the seem to he ahout the schaol buildir for matches a2 zatherinzs of the combustible * Spasm anpropriation vears azo as now af economy in Government were axperienced Horizontal Reduction. “Mr. White troduced a b on record is noted In The Star of Januar i7. 1876, as follow Kentucky has in to reduce the salaries of Federal afficers 20 per cent where they exceed $1.500 per vear. Let sor how such 1 measure would wo It would take from the salary of $1.600 employve 3320, leaving his ac tual compensation but $1.280. and from the salary of an $1.800 employve $360. thus reducing his pay to £1,440 In (hese instances the Federal em | ploye receiving only $1.500 per vear would fare considerably better than the occupants of positions nominally | paving $1.600 and $1.800 per annum but virtually only $1.280 and $1.400 | Can this be the intention of the author | of the nin> . * Tn view of the recent experience n. Smediey Rutler of the Marine rps in his thwarted attempt Revisal is clean up the city of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia. [l0%inz in ™he 1876, Star of January 18 will be of interest: We see hy the Philadelphia Star that Mr. Moody considere the reviv in that city the most succesaful he ha vet heen instrumental in effecting. ‘hsw now lasted eight weeks Durin the third and fourth weeks there wa< a falling off in the attendance. Cur osi was measurably sated. and the work had taken no real hold upon the relizious feelings of the people the audiences would have continued to di minish. On the contrary, they soon began to increase in numhers ana fervor. until the great building was again inadequate to hold the throngs. Tt is estimated that not less than 900, 000 people had attended the services. | “This is very encouraging and satis | factory, so far, and we shall watch with no little interest to see if this | great awakening shall result in salu |tary fruits. When election time comes |around we shall have an opportunity | to judge of the matter. Philadelphin has a sad name for cheating on alection day. and if the labors of Moody and | Sankey make a reform in this par | ticular they will have effected a gv | work. | |Somewhere the Sun Shines. From the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. Cheer np! Many are being pres trated by the heat in Argentina. r « e