Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1926, Page 42

THE EVENING STAR! With Sunday Morning Editio WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY.......February 7, 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Cempany Business Office | 1ith st | New York Off Chicazo Office European Oftice The Ever inz edition Ielivered the city at 60 cents 43 cants per month po= month | On tlephone Main rat the Sunday marn- | arriers within | month Iy only 20 conts | sent by mail or metton is made by Star Rate by Muail—Payable nd and i W01 aday only 1y Member of the Associa The Associated P o the patches jiishes ion 1avely entitlad sspatch f | consumed will be a small price to pay failure of this bill to become a law before the 15th of March, beyond which date certain of its provisions will be ineffective of granting relief to ithe taxpayers. Everybody wants to it passed, though with varying de srees of enthusiasm for particular provisions. In these circumstances a filibuster is unthinkable. There will be blockading maneuvers. That there will be “leaves to print” and permission extend re marks is assured, for the subject is a tempting one, especially in a year of sresslonal campaign, with an en- House and one-third of the Sena be elected in November. But the Jf & few tons of printer's ink and idition to the usual amount s, no numerous to per in the facility of legislative con ration which is being manifested — o it A Constitutional Privilege. This country, even back in the da a collection of British has always been famous for sbuilding. Sometimes it built a lot { shiy somethmes only a few, but, matter how few, it always built American dories have be- when it was Making China Militant. i | desirable us American frigates; Ame The Chi the least warlike of peopls ing tend -aditionally | but all exist- | to make the| Chinese militant. | China is the battlefield of under-the- | ace war between Rus: and Japan for supremic Asla; between Great Yiritain and Japan for trade suprem ¥; between China and Great Britain s representative of the Powers over unequal treaties and alleged ‘hurtfu) humiliating and | Jetween Chinese war lords for pos: national reve- of conditions und diseriminations, #ion of provincial and Even the expanding spirit lism is tainted with bolshevic ed of the f nd tends to the people nues, cner to snflame militancy China than a million of mercenary Jiv on the country, harr. robbing the fanmer coolies. Soviet Russia, to retain its grip on Canton, on Tientsin and on Mongolia in preparation for a renewal of its struggle for all-the-year seaports, has Leen arming and training steadily in- creasing thousands of Chinese soldiers. Japan has been supplying Advisers If Ru unaccustomed with soldiers, and is cursed today more to meet this menace, munitions, nd training offic sia and Japan continue petitive swell the multitude of urmed and trained Chinese soldiers instead of co-operating to aid China to disband them and put them to work, they will be heading toward disaster. History suggests that these armed willions will not always fight for hire ¢galnst one another, but will combine fn the end sufficiently to expel the Jiyssians and Japanese and all milf fant foreigners alike, and then take arm military to the offensive. Uni China strength, not whos into el should develop the Ishma vmong nations hostile threatens the world, but welcome r.édition to t family of modern great Juations, whose friendship the rest of the world desires and values These thoughts and suggestions are elaborated in editorial correspondence printed elsewhere in The Star today. ————— Rudyard Recovers. Kudyard Kipling, only a short time go at death's door from pneumonia, is much better and is going on a trip. The Associated Pre dispatch from Burwash, Sussex, which tells of the as st wwriter's continued improvement, and | of his plans, occupied but ten lines of nonpareil type, vet it conveyed news 1o the English-speaking world of more | smportance than hundreds of column storles with roaring headlines. Kiplinz is not only a pleasure to | ad, but an education and an inspira- { he nean vo hil doubtless planned v an age me convalescence, he ning thercon experien: which will tories and for 3 than fully recovered, he can help drawing breath. e is but | sixty years of age, and the world will | vne day reap the benefit. Only a few can take as many trips | £8 they please. Only a few more can take any trips at all, and compara- | tively few get any good out of the trips they do take. The length or the | Iocality of the trip planned by this | sreat Englishman not matter much. He could take one to the top f the next hill and back and return with more mental and spiritual trea: are than the average person possesses «t the conclusion of the “grand tour.” it ballots were distributed throughout the English-reading world on which the recipient might indicate who, next to himself, he would prefer to ee go on a pleasant journey, the name “Rudyard Kipling” would probably have, if not a malority, at least a &oodly plurality. . S There is no way of applying cloture 10 a debate between coal operators and wminers, as to no > help & s entual mate Impressic prove rems now does ——o—— " Night Sessions Next. The Senate tax debate will enter upon its third phase tomorrow, when the Senator in charge of the bill will ask for night sessions in order to ex- pedite the discussion. It is now in the eleven-o'clock mecting stage, and no- tice having been given that on Mon- day a motion will be made to protract the eittinzs beyond the usual hour of recess, it is probable that it will pre- vail, and the Senate will practically sit continuously until the final vote. Thus far there has been no evidence of a disposition to delay action. The passage of the bill is definitely as- sured. The only question is as to cer- tin specific features. The surtax pro- vislons as approved by the committee nave been adopted. There remains of the controverted matters practically only the publicity repeal issue, and it would seem that there are votes to spare for its adoption. Nevertheless, there will be debate on that point, as on others, and judging from the pages of the Congressional Record the de- bate is exceptionally pertinent to the matters involved. | thing if some too-rich American would | would be far better if the money were | over the country. | propriate transfer will give impetus to that he Is a creature superfor to the as famous as American fishing ing cutters as comy chooners: Ame: can as excellent as American whalel Amerfcan steel hips. tankers and freighters, are good as any and better than most. As vecently as 1924 the United States cupied third place in the world’s ship- building activities. Now it has dropped to fourth, but it has always been among the leaders. At rebuilding, however, we are not| s0 good. We own what is probably the second most famous ship in exist- ence, the old frigate Constitution, second in reputation only to the Brit- She lies at a dock near Boston and Is rotting away, from keel to maintruck. Congress passed a bill to recondition her for inspirational and It was a beau- merchantmen as ish Vietory. instructive tiful and moving plece of leglsla There was only one defect in connec- tion therewith; the appropriation of $500,000 necessary for the work was never made. In April, 1925, a national campalgn was. started to raise the Of this sum only $127,415 s - urposes. ion. mone in hand. Dry-rot and cerrosion work slowly, but they work faster, it seems, than do the patriotic impulses of Amerl- cans, and they have a good start, too. Many a boy who has learned and re cited with genuine feeling Holmes' poem beginning “Ay, tear her tat tered ensign down,” and who has thrilled over accounts of this old ves- sel's many fights, some of them against great odds, has grown into a man who will not give up five cents in order that his boy some day may see the ship. . A wealthy cltizen of New Bedford, Mass., with reverence for the tradi- tions of that once great whaling port, has purchased vne of the very few remaining whalers, a ship not much ‘ounger than the Constitution. He has reconditioned and completely equipped it at his own expense, so that in every detail, down to a boat stove In by a sperm whale's flukes and awalting the beneficent offices of an imaginary “Chips,” the carpenter, it is as It was In its earliest vovages. He had it towed to a dock, a water-tight crib built around it. the water pumped out and concrete poured in. There it is, even with sails set on calm days, o veritable museum of u once glorious ‘hapter In American history. { It would, perhaps, be a splendid | pay the Constitution’s bill. But it forthcoming in small sums from all The headquarters of the national campaign to save the | old fighter have just been moved to Washington. It is hoped that this ap- the drive, or, at least, that something will. If any citizen is firmly convinced minute animal or bacterium whose life work is to accomplish that de-| struction which we know as “decay,” | he can prove it by parting with al dime for a few brushfuls of paint;! with twenty-five dollars, which will| buy a hundred square feet of copper sheathing; with fifty dollars, which will purchase five fathoms of hempen cable, or with five hundred dollars, which will buy a mizzen topsafl, more glorious, although perhaps less endur- ing, than any cemetery monument he and the stonecutter can devise. Nel- son’s flagship, by the way, although jan THE SUNDAY e —— T ——————— e B s lision was caused by the failure to |observe signals. He adds: | This accldent again calls attention | to the necessity for the use of an auto- jmatic train-control device, which will intervene to stop a train when an en- gineman for any reason disregards the stop indication of an automatic block 1slgnal. Had an adequate automatic { train-control device been in use at this point this acetdent would have been {averted. Again and again this demonstration is glven, now in rear-end, now in headon collisions. Repeatedly it is proved that the visual signal system is not sutlicient to safeguard the lives of those who travel by rall. Time after time proof has been given that the element of human error is always present, when judgment or vision fails, when signals are misplaced, when chances are taken in order to maintain schedule. Only through the intervention of an automatic devi which will cut off the steam and ap- ply the brakes when a train enters already occupled block can se ity be assured Yet the are resisting, or, at best, responding reluctantly and slowly to the orders of the In- terstate Commerce Commission that an automatic train-control device be installed. They coutinue t¢ depend upon their train crews and their visual signal systems as infallible, whereas the records clearly show that they are far from infallible. The traveling public is constantly exposed to death despite rigid rules and re- quirements, the efficacy of which d pends upon complete fidelity to every cautionary regulation. The death toll taken while waiting for obedience to the commission’s or der for the installation of automatic train-control systems would pay for the change if capitalized in terms, cu railroads dollar — s Thirty-Five-Year-0ld Claims. Thirty-five years ago a New York Stock Exchange brokerage firm failed with many creditors. One of the items in the list of theoretical assets was a block of stock in a Southwestern rail- road, upon which a mortgage had been foreclosed by another railway corpora tion. Certain minority stockholders, refusing to pay an assessment of $71 a share for stock in the consolidation, fought the legality of the foreclosure, and atter a long period of litigation the courts held that the minority oy paying $26 a share could obtain stock in the new company. The other day the major system bought all of the out standing minority shares at $275 a share, and now, after all expenses are paid, the creditors of the long-bank- rupt firm have to their credit in the hands of the assignee $273,098. The assignes is now confronted with a complicated problem. Most of the original creditors are dead and their heirs are scattered widely. They must be found before this account is finally closed. It will take a long time to locats them. Probably most of the heirs are unaware that they are cred- itors through inheritance. Some of them may have assizned their claims. It would seem likely that the job of the assignee will be an active one for 2 number of years. One of the claims, at least, he can pay with little diffi- culty. That is a bill of §6 due to a New York gas company for illuminant furnished 35 years ago. No mention is made of interest, compounding dur- ing that period, which would make even a $6 gas bill worth collecting after over a third of a century. o The dry agent appears inevituble. If there had been enough conscience and common sense among the masses to appreciate the value of temperate living, no prohibition amendment would have been regarded as needful. —_— e The books written concerning the war administration emphasize the im- pression that the late President Wil- son employed many men, but gave to few, if any, his complete confidence. —————— Uncle Sam is not vet in the League of Nations; only close enough to study it thoroughly and see how he likes it. o SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON The Rebuke. There {s no laughter left in life. The war has crushed it out. Our thought has turned to greed and strife And pessimistic doubt. So many wonders greet our eyes, And modesty’s so slight, That nothing gives us the surprise considerably more anclent than Old Ironsides, is today in first-class shape ! and likely to remain so. - The Stillman family quarrels have been adjusted. So long as this adjust- ment was possible, the public should have been spared the painful details of a domestic clash whose disclosure could serve no useful purpose. —r———————— A few of our leaders of thought are in danger of adding to the intricacies of an already confused soctal situation by endeavoring to discuss politics and re ligion both at once. ——v————— Henry Ford likes good, old-fashioned music, but cares nothing for the days when people went to dances in stage coaches. ———eae—. The Traveling Public Pays. An official report by the director of| the Bureau of Safety, Interstate Com- merce Commission, on the accident which occurred November 12 last at Monmouth Junction, N. J., describes the conditions in that tragedy, which resulted in the death of ten persons and the injury of thirty-five others. It shows that the disaster was due to the failure of the.engineer of the colliding train to heed a precautionary signal at one signal bridge and a stop signal at another. A dense fog prevailed at the time, which doubtless obscured the lights. They were, however, visible. Some question arises whether the flag- man of the forward train gave suffi- cient warning. He planted fusees, but failed, it seems, to place torpedoes on the rails. Had he set torpedoes; their detonation would have given the en- gincer of the following train unmis- takable warning. But, in any case, ac- ‘Which leads to laughter light. And then a baby laughed with glee; And every time T spoke The youngster smiled and scemed to see A mirth-compelling joke! Drawing the Distinction. “Are you a politician or a states- man?” k, “I don’t know yet,” answered Sena- tor Sorghum. “If I get re-elected and stay in the game, they’ll call me a poli- tician. If I get defeated and write es- says, the publishers will advertise me as a statesman.” A Glimpse of Sun. The February sun doth shine With beauty undeniable. It's pretty as a valentine— And equally reliable. Jud Tunkins shys there are so many people who know exactly how to run a government that mebbe weld get on faster if they didn’t all try to talk at once. Socialistic Experiment. “Only the rich can now afford alco- holic beverages,” complained the man who always did say society was all wrong. ““Well,” rejoined Uncle Bill Bottle- top, “what are you kickin’ about? It the poor keep gettin' economicaler and the rich intoxicateder, we ought to get the redistribution of wealth you've al- ways demanded.” Polite Poesy. Old Homer was a poet rough, ‘Who wrote of battle scenes. I fancy he'd be much too tough For current magazines. “Every time I hears de radi Uncle Eben, I realizes dat de air is so Nobody wants to be implicated in|cording to the report. of the safety|full o’ jazz dat I's 'most scared to draw @by degree in respensibility for thejldirector of the commission, the gel- fu leng . eath,” STAR, EVERYDAY RELIGION BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D., LL. D., Bishop of Washington. Overcoming the World! St. John, xvi.33—*"Be of good cheer; I have overcome the world, Jesus is a supreme optimist. Stand- Ing at the very outermost edge of His tregle life, certain of His impending doom, He speaks a word of sublime encouragement to His half-hearted followers. Already the shadow cross was on His pathway; failure ignominious defeat seemingly mar! His brief carcer. In the chapter from which the ahove words are taken He had been talking intimately with His disciples. It was not an cneouraging program that He presented to them. e declared, A1l put you out of the syna- ves, the time cometh that, vhosoever ‘killeth you will think that he doeth God's service.” No leader had ever called His followers to a service that involved greater sacrifice. The wonder 1s that they did not fmmedi- ately forsake Him. True, they did subsequently falter, but once the perfod of a y was past they be- came heroie and invincible. Cok ok ok % It Is amazing what men will do when inspired by a great leader. All down the centuries men and women behold- ing the crucified Christ have heeded His call and without reluctance have given their ull, even to life itself. Whether it is some Savonarola burned at the stake, a1 St. Francis lonely and pised of his own household, an { Edith Cavell giving her life in obed ence to the high call of duty, it has been the Inspiration of the Man on the ss that has strengthened and in spired them to heroic service. Who will dare to say that they have lacked compensation or that they were without cheerfulness in what they did? Cne of the things about the life the Master that gives Him unique dis- tinction is His unfalling sense of inner joy and peace. We think too often of Him as “the Man of Sor- rews.” Judged by our poor standards He was all of this, and vet no single figure on the horizons of history discloses greater assurance or the sense of abiding satisfaction than does Christ. - His noble and heroic spirit has been repeatediy reflected In the lives of His followers, and it Is as evident today as it was when | walked among men. The lone French lad of bis mother that he was standing the vermin-infested trenches conscious that he was guarding her and the things he loved, and that he w strengthened to his task by the assur- ance that Christ was with him, is but ‘Whether hydro-elec the Kentucky shall monntains in Commission. Tits dis Powe rought to general notl Federal cussion has ! a cataract, in the area e and until rece known suve 10 books. It is so inacessible tucklans, comparatively A thin stream o mer hotel at th had trick into the pleturesque gorge of Cur land River for almost a century, but to mention the Iulfl‘s ;h ‘L(vln‘.d\. ‘]‘r ington is to find that scarcely e there has witnessed the plunge of the Cumberland over a ledge 68 feet from the level of the pocl below it, and perhaps 120 feet above the hol lowed bottom of the pool. ‘Cumberland River is 688 miles long Between Nashville, Tenn., and its en- trance into the Ohio in Kentuck is navigabie the vear round as sult of, locks and dams. On the upper river within the boundaries of Ken tucky It is navigable only in Winter and Spring, save for 30 miles, L‘“'\\«‘r‘:l Burnside, on the Southern Railway's line from Cincinnati to Chattanooga, and Palace. The so-called Palace Pool made by the single lock that has been built in Kentucky's section of the river, is navigable at all times. Low Water in Summer. During Summer, when only bateaux or canoes can be used between Palace and the Tennessee line, the Palace Pool holds tmpounded a small fleet of steamers which ply between the lock and the railroad, loaded with poultry and other farm produce from section which the pool has de- by providing an outlet to the Misst almc of refs fopi, un. st of tly was aders fow Ken- e seen ons of 1 Sum th i a veloped markets. The Cumberland’s headwaters are in Looney Creek, which flows through the mining town of Lynch, in Harlan County, Ky.. about 2,000 feet above sea level. The Cumber- land’s mouth, after it runs a serpen tine course through Tennessee, is in McCracken County, K near Padu- cah. The river, when developed for slack water navigation between Nashville and Palace, will open to markets the produce of a group of contiguous Kentucky counties which are without raflroads or improved highways and whose riches consist mainly of fertile soi Because of a Federal law under which power dams in non-navigable sectlons of partly navigable streams may not be built without a permit fromn the Federal Power Commission save at the risk that thelr removal or disuse will be forced by the Fed- eral Government in the interest of navigation,. it is necessary for the company which wishes to build dams below and above Cumberland Falls to procure the consent of the Fed- eral Commission. ‘Wanted as State Park. When an Indianapolis corporation procured an option on the Cumbe; land Falls tract of 2,400 acres Ken- tucky had no State Park Commission. No movement looking to the creation of State parks had been {naugurated. A State Park Commission was created by an act of the Legislature. It was authorized to accept donations of areas suitable for reservation as State parks. No money for purchas- ing land was provided. Under the law the State geologist was made chairman of the commission. The State geologist, Dr. Willard Rouse Jilison, published a book describing areas he deemed especially suitable for preservation as recreation ground. He included Cumberland Falls and said that its destructigh by a power dam would be hardly less than tragedy. 5 Newspapers quoted Dr. Jillson's book. Advocates of conservation in Kentucky and elsewhere became in- terested. Champlons of Cumberland Falls, most of whom never had seen the cataract, began pelting the Fed- eral Power Commission with protests against a projected dam which would halt the stream above the falls and convey its waters through a flume along the mountain side to a point below the falls where they would generate power that would be trans- mitted to points outside of Ken- tucky and used also, possibly by plants not now iIn existence, in the Cumberland Falls region. Neither the members of the Federal Power Commission nor the executive secretary of that body, O. C. Merrill, had seen Cumberland Falls. Very few of the Kentucky editors who dis- cussed the impending dam construc- tion had seen the falls. Among those who were interested, but who had not visited Cumberland Fall was of | human | 18 who wrote home to | in | evelopment | stafe silence forever the thunder of Cum-| fo; berland Falls is i question before the second in size to Niagara|as to the ence | visit to the falls | | | a later demonstration of this prevail- ing power. It would be safe to say that the most cheerful people in the world, wthout exception, are those who with fidelity and devotion are secking to walk in the steps of Him “who went about doing good.” A brilliant modern dramatist puts on the lips of one of his characters this striking senten concerning the persistence of Chrl influenc, 'he carth is His and He made it; e and His brothe heen molding it and making through the long ages; they ar only ones who ever did pos: i the proud, not the id ing empire of the world.” Xx To the vision of this hope of the world reside: broken succession of thos and women whose lives v th look about us today discover that those, rich or poor, who are leading satisfac tory and compensating lives have learned the great maxim of the Mas “He that loseth his life shall find It is not an easy lesson to learn nor is it an easy rule to live by, but that it brings in its tr at which the world 1 neither‘give nor take away is consplcuously true. After all, pursuing the line of least resistance, living for self and seif-gratification, is not as alluring as it appears tobe. To overcome the world, to win the stern battles of life and to stand at last con scious of victo lis for fortitude, ourage and unfalling perseverance The poet was altosether right when he wrote the lines: “The greatest victory tatned Is that which o'er hath guined.’ P These lines remind us of the ancient proverb: “He that ruleth his spirit mightler than he that taketh a city Our youth need to have presented to them today the hervic elements in the life program of Jesus Christ. Indeed, men and women of every sort and kind need u like pregentation. There can no cheerfulness of a resl and abid ing chavacter without service, and there can be no service without sacri Men and women do not over come anything whose faith is of the unheroic type. The joy that follows ictory comes alone to those who with the zreat Master can stand the shadow of the cross and declare ‘Be of good cheer; T have overcome the world.” (Copyrizht. writer, - the in the un noble men re dominated uplified Christ. we inevi- ever man at- himself himself T KENTUCKY’S NIAGARA BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. of the Louisville Times, for v Years an ardent advocate of est conservation me conservation : recent in M whe probable as recrea -maker waxed T o and and nd interested ate | the controvers, value of Cum round o warm, paid a nd returned com- mitted nnreservedly to the view that with falls as lts ing within its zorze of the ed native more 1o k wer dams. land pow ic as Cumberland, rich flora, would be worth tucky than 2 dozen p Governor Against Power Project. Gov. Fields of Kentucky pledzed himself to fight for the preservation of Cumberland Falls. Sundry conservation leaders who sympathize with Gov. Fields begun a new pelting of the Fede Power Commission. Mr. Wallace, who came to ington to see Mr. Merrill, secretary of the Federal Py mission, and to invite the attentio in a executive of the National Conference on Out- | door Recreation to the Cumberland Falls problem, expresses the opin- fon that there will no pe organiz where Power ttion in Kentucky can convince the Commission that or els Federal It will acquire the money with which to buy | ihe tract now ontioned to the Indian- apolis corporation. That an appropriation could he procured from the Kentucky Legis- lature s not believed probable, but champions of conservation are pro- ceeding with the hope of finding a way to raise funds if thev can convince the F 1 Commission that Cumberland Falls and the Cumber- land Gorge recreational are would be so valuable to Kentuck in the course of time that to per- Tt @ bower dam o be built where it would obliterate the N % be vandalism. A annou o What Our Navy Needs. From the Flint Daily Journa The United States Naval Institute says that this Nation needs 22 of the new type of light cruisers to be on an equal footing with England and Japan, whereas no steps are being taken to build them. We need 26 fleet submarines and Great Brit- ain to keep up with Japan, and both countries need about 15 second- line subs. Japan can now send to sea as many planes as the United State: many. The United States and Great Brit- ain are supposed to have navies of equal strength and Japuan one that is to the other two in the proportion of 3 to 5. The United States, how- ever, is far below its standard, and It appears that Japan s more up to its “allowance than anybody else. There is no Ilimitation of submarines, cruisers under 10,000 tons and air- planes, and by developing these three arms of the service a nation may make the agreed ratio of capital ships of doubtful value. Some members of Congress, as well as private citizens, have ralsed the question, “What {s the use to have a treaty ratio for our Navy and then not build our Navy up to it all along the line If it is not necessary it should not be done. Economy is ex- cellent, and we favor it, but the Navy today is perhaps America’'s main line of defense, and an important line of offense, if needed, and should not be neglected. We should not economize at the expense of national safety and eecurity. We have not vet attained world peace. e Cargo of Broken Hearts. From the Los Angeles Times. Over in England a Loveless League has been organized and it is said that there is a walting list of 1,500 in the matter of applications for mem- bership. Upon Jjoining the league the candidate is expected to make oath that he will not hold companionship or correspondence with any other woman save mother or sister. He may cherish his family, but go no further. It must be a dismal group of the dis- gruntled. There are numbers of mar- ried men who think that their lives have been wrecked by the venture and the residue are chiefly rejected sultors. There s no particular ex- cuse for a formation of this kind, un- less the members wish to get together and weep In the same canteen. A gioony Gus who joins the Loveless League deserves to wear hi= “utten Tom Wallace, chlel ol the editurial v the grave, not the vaunt- | in | has | and Great Britain twice us | I whether | artist’s | | under | | | | | day. 'WASHINGT()N, D. C, FEBRUARY 7, 1926—PART 2. Capital Sidelights The recently restored portrait of Washington by Rembrandt Peale in Vice President Dawes' office in the Senate wing of the Capitol s attract- ing much attention, not only from tourists, but from members of Con- gress. This is the second portrait pur- chased by the Government. It dates from the period of the thirties and at one time hung in the Senate chambe: according to careful research made by Charles Fairman, curator of art in the Capitol. Owing o the lapse of many rears siace it had been given the at- tention required, this picture was in a condition that caused grave concern nong art lovers, many of whom felt that its restoration was an extrem difficult matter, if not impossible. It h howev been satisfactorily cleaned and if now protected by heavy glass plate, which, althoug wusing many reflections owing to th cross lighting in the room, will pro tect this valuable art treasure. for many years to come, ok f The portraits of Daniel Webster and Henry ( both painted by John Neagle, which were loaned during the last Congress for exhibition of that the Pennsylvanin Academy Arts, have been r turned in good condition and now o cupy their former places on the walls of the Capitol. It is not generally known that for many vears some of the 293 works of art belonging to the Capitol have n loaned to art institutions and for special exhibitions of marked fm- portance. Referring to the letters of Latrobe, it Is found that plaster models of Giuseppe Franzoni (some of whose relatives still ltving in Washington) vepresenting Agricul- ture, Art, Science und Commerce, which were carved in high relief upon the old Hall of the House of tepresentatives, were loaned in D cember, 180%, to the Pennsylvanis Academy of Fine Arts. This old Hall of the House of Representatives was destroyed by the British forces Au- 1814, S in of The statuary istant source serves as model. tors. 1 youth was daily modeling original conceptions of Lin culn and Washington, using busts there to give him the main features of these great men. This was Leon Hurwitz, who sculped the lute Presl- dent Harding and made a present of his work to Mrs. Harding before her ath. the Capitol s a inspiration and aspiring young past week in the Rotunda o ok Representative Allen T. 7T has gone back to his home tockbridge, Mass., to perform his an nual duty ‘of presiding (tomorrow night) at the town meeting, which I has done for more than a quarter of ntury. Only once in all those years has he failed to be on the job, k- was in 1913, duri; first here. when the date of the town meeting fell on the very date of the opening of the extra session of Con ress called by the late Prestdent Ison. adw town ¢ IR dinal Mercler was held up as model of devotion to smbers ¢ Congress when ¥ Shera Montgomery, chapi House, during his morning prayer last Tues. day said: “We pralse thee, O God, royal soul, Cardinal Mercler, the ravages and tumult of a pillar tall and mighty, Fchly torned with a welght of fadeless onor. By such devotion inspire us 1d keep us faithful and true to every st until the breaking of eternal We pray in the name of the world's Savior. b * xox % There is just one place in the land where the taxpayers get a square deal, according to Representative Mar. tin B. Madden, Republican, of Illinot: “ for ths ar, was {and that is from the House appropria- | tions committe Wash- | wer Coin- | (- i | wer dam | | above the falls if Kentucky or any | of which he is chair- national forest-Indian was being explained to ee by Dr. W. M. Wooster, trman Madden interrupted him to man. When controversy the committ say “Let me tell you what our function here is. This 1S the only place in the United States, in our opinion—it may e that none else agrees with us where the taxpayer of the countr hus any chance whatever of getting square deal. We do not allow thing to go by here until we know the facts as well as we can ascertain | them, and if we can corkscrew the in- | | 1 houd | | | formation from those who are on the other side of the table. we try to do that. It will clarify the atmosphere ou to know that. When we reach + conclusion we hope that we have reached cause we have no disposition wha ever to do Injustice to anybody.” * x i Before his election as Speaker of the House and the advent of the aughter, Puulini, Representative Nicholas Longworth's principal claim to distinction among his colleagues scemed (o be that he had a long-time on the title of “Beau Brummel of the House,” due considerably to the fact that he wore a different suit of clothes every day, and in the matter of waistcoats, neckwear, socks, etc. Ne was a picture of sartorial excel- ience. Now, there has loomed on the ho- rizon a strong competitor, in Repre- sentative John B. Sosnowski of D troit, Mich., who contributed to ti Congressional Directory the terse au tobiography—*"100 per cent Repub- lican.” From the first day he appeas ed in the House it was noted that this new member was “some dresser,” und 1S weeks passed comment has swelled among his colleagues that M £ki seemed to be outclassing the erstwhile st of raiment. A check-up Sosnow: Nick."” yle setter in variety has shown that Mr. 1 sports 21 suits of clothes, 6 overcoats, 11 pairs of shoes, 96 cravats, 36 shirts, 3 golf suits, 3 rid- ing suits, 9 hats. And what more could a mere man wish? Thus far, however, “Nick” seems to have the jump on “J. B.” In the matter of spats, of which “Nick” seems to have a better variety. * ok % % Art craftsmanship of the Govern- ment Printing Office, the biggest sin- gle print shop in the world, is on display in Harding Hall, and George H. Carter, the public printer, says that it is proving not only a reveia- tion to visitors, but it is also an in- spiration to employes. More consid- eration recently has been given to the artistic requirements of certain monumental publications, such as the Lincoln, Grant, Harding and Wilson memor; volumes, which rival the best there is in the art of printing. The public printer has also co- operated with the American Institute of Graphic Arts in exhibiting the best samples of book and commercial printing selected annually by the in- stitute. Two exhibitions of artistic commercial printing and one display- ing the best books of the year have been held in Harding Hall. The ex- hibits were opened with a formal pro- gram, in which the Typothetae and Printing House Craftsmen’s clubs of Washington and Baltimore kindly par- ticipated. Aside from {nteresting many vis- itors, the exhibits of the Institute of Graphic Arts are of great benefit to employes of the Government Printing Office in bringing to their attention the upward trend of good printing throughout the United States. Con- fessedly, there is much room for im- provement in Government publica- tions, but now that the start has been made, the Government Printing Office eventually ought to take its proper place among the world's i printers, who, in | any- | along lines of justice, be-| MEN AND AFFAIRS BY ROBERT T. SMALL. Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, |eighth term in Congress and can re the farmers' next best friend, has arisen to remark that he is not In the field for the next Republican presi- dential nomination. The rise {n power of the farm element in the G. O. P. has given impetus to the talk of the availability of Senator Capper, and while it is never displeasing to a man to be considered for the highest otfice in the gift of the people, Mr. Capper jannounces that he is wedded to the Urited States Senate and wants to remain just where he is. In a way the pronunciamento from Senator Capper is a tribute to the Sernate, That august body has been belabdred hip and thigh in recent vears by critics large and critics small. That a man of the caliber of Senator Capper should wish to remain in the Senate means that he has high regard for this branch of Congress or feels that he can do gomething to help the Senate back to its place in the public esteem. Discussing the situation writer, Senator Capper sald: “The truth is, I have never had an ambition to be President, and, further- n:ore, I shall never be a candidate for that office or any other office than the onc I now hold. I frankly admit I like the Senate, and it is quite likely that T shall have the same old light ring rod out for re-election to the United States Senate when my prese: term expires in 1930. That's the only kind of lightning rod that interests me. There {s no there is any gossip which connects me with presidential aspirations.” with the Outside of Speaker Nick Longworth, the most sought out figure in the House of Representatives these days is Maj. Charles Manly Stedman, Rep- resentative from the fifth distric 14 North Carolina. National attention was directed anew to Maj. Stedman a few days ago when the House helped him celebrate the efghty-fifth anniver sary of his birth, and when he is on the floor of the House he is easil picked out among his Democ colleagues. i Maj. Stedman Is not only the oldest member of the House, but is the only veteran of the V between the ites {left in that body. He fought under Robert E. Lee and to many he very much like the famous Southern leader. Some visitors of the House gallery recently remarked that Maj Stedman looked as if he had just stepped out of gome old painting or off the side of Stone Mountain, where cologsal memorfal to the Con acy once more is under way. He true representative of the best he old South and It is to be re- gretted there are not more like him in the Congress. Maj. Stedman served with Lee's army during the entire war and was wounded three times. He surrender ed at Appomattox. is for gossip, if | Tooks | main there until the end. He is | revered, respected and loved by all his colleagues. No gentler nature ever lived. Another picturesque figure of the House of Representatives also belongs on the Democratic side— Representa tive Edgar Howard of the third di trict of Nebraska It is difficult times to tell whether Mr. Howard reminds vou of Henry Irving or of William Jennings Bryan., It fs his intent is to look like the latt for he was private secretary to the Commoner when the latter was 1 Congress. Mr. Howar affe t Iryan style of hair-cut, or lack of and also wears a dark blue cape v velvet collar Representative a country it. In i Howard is editor of ewspaper and is proud o writing his own biographical sketch for the Congressional Di tory he refers to the fact that at one time he was leutenant governor of Nebraska and proceeds to qualify thi- by adding that he was “holding cor temporaneously the higher office editor of a country newspaper.” There is the further b at he s in that estate ir. Howard biography is quite full of pep. He says among other things t e w started in religion” a . but of late veurs has been scopal fold.” real hero especla Hous: ong the iddle West, | Britten of 111 ven sole credit fo ¥ and Navy foot me for Chicago this Fall. Mr itten is hailed as the man who hes proved to the country that the Middle West still is a part of the United States. He is hailed as the man who “does not suffer from a Middle West inferfority complex.” No one who knows Fres ftte ever a him ¢ sort inferior there e poy f the House no influence Fred | man wt ing the A Represer th “apt 104 of congressy atic | ves and wonderir 1 it And there o denving the facs that now the gam zoing West an effort will he 16 to keep it thers for ‘The Navy | needs Mid-West votes us well as those | trom the 2 and th | fact wili be Lr i to the nava | | chiefs in all f1 Chi for entire weel the foot t gar ind proniises to give the cader | and midshipmen from West Point ar Annapolis such a time as they neve { have had before turn’ for this the cade shipmen Chicago wi the h from He is serving his! Fifty Years Ago In The Star a century ago the question of scal relations between the Dis- T trict and the | Federal Liability redcral Govern- =o' ment | for the Distriot. ot Saion in | Congress, the specific topic being the | payment of the interest on the 3.65 bonds fssued during the period of the territorial government to finance the large public works then undertake In its issue of February 1, 1876, The Star says “The debate in the Senate yester- day was noticeable as bringing out the opinions of Senators of legal abil ity to the effect that the General Gov- ernment is both by law and equity responsible for the indebtedness of | the District incurred under Government _control of District af. fairs. Mr. Frelinghuysen stated this view very forcibly, suving: ‘I under- stand three things are admitted namely, that this work has been done, | that it was necessary to do it, and that the Government of the United | States is liable to pay for it, and it seems to me the conclusion is quite direct that we had better: pay for it at once.’ And again: ‘I have never met an American citizen coming to this Capital, no matter of what party or from what section of our country, who did not rejoice in seeing the im- provements which have been made in these avenues and parks and public buildings. No one makes a greater mistake than he who thinks that Amerfcans are a mean people. They are proud und generous. They do not wish that the 140,000 pecple of this District, 40 per cent of whom are poor, should be at the expense of maintaining a capital for them.' In further reference to the same debate, The Star in its issue of Feb- ruary 2, 1876, said: Mr. Morton, in the Senate debate Monday, expressed his opinion quite as positively as other prominent Senators have done in regard to the degree of responsibility falling upon the Government in respect to the | District rule and the financial condi- tion of the District. He said in this connection: ‘‘When Congress assumed the gov- ernment of this District it ussumed all liabilit the legal duty of Congress to pro- vide for all those streets, mot on to build them where they were neces. sary, but to keep them in repair. ‘When we took the entire govern- ment we took the entire obligation, and we must carry it out. If these streets get out of repair, these wooden pavements rot out, the concrete pavements break up, we, having deprived the people here of all control over them, must see to it ourselves that they are repaired. It is not a_question now whether the Board of Public Works exceeded its authority or not. We took the city as we found it, and we are now bound to take care of these streets and the property here. We cannot throw it oft on the people; you have rendered them powerless; they have no more political rights than the people of Rus: This day they cannot gov- ern themselves in the slightest de- gree, and when you have placed them in that position you have taken on yourselves the duty of providing for lthem as they ought to be provided or A still further comment on this subject is contained in the issue of February 3, 1876, as follows: “The “matter of the District in- debtedness is still before the Senate and the press of the country has also taken up the subject. The general expression of opinion, even from pa- pers most hostile to the administra- tion and to the District government, Is that the load of indebtedness for the improvement of the National Capltal cannot by law or justice be saddled upon the people of the Dis- trict. Thus the Baltimore Gazette, a stanch Democratic paper, says: *“‘The District of Columbia again occupied the attention of the Senate yesterday, drawing forth the fire of the opponents and defenders of the present government and the late ring In that city. The point in contro- versy is who shall immediately pay the principal of the immense debt saddled upon Washington by a Board of Public Works and by the present Commissioners. Qui facit per alium fac is a naxim ux old as the luw itseif, and us the two guveruments was under | direct | it became the moral and | This an d That By Charles E. Traceuwell. W. H. Harvey, cast, wins the ¢ ered by the writer | last Sunday, and the mailed to | Lists of ob Washington, rected just main proved romew wing to the ¢ has be ous flaws which casily in might as not, at uninterest generalities th beau be | 5 ytise: winner: rge and that most -sted § d th been awarded to He wants to pays his taxes, of school o fon from D hildren off h however, kick home ow had to make, onc ers v be inter the prize ha hin know and } why he, wh no childrer can get little co-opera trict officials in keeping lawn and terrace. Thousands of home owners have u | face much the same problem. If the {ask the children to “keep off cases it but make the boys walk on it all the more If they keep silent they have t satisfaction of seeing their lawns over which they have worked hard trampled Into & sea of mud, owing t« the alternate freezes and thawings which have reduced grass plots to very spongy condition 1thougk theore: appeal to the police th 4 ally, one max in’ practice the otherwise, since is the thing will keep off trespassers sympatly of the police is ofter L the d rightly en since b ust pi some place Mr. Harvey's grievan includ one against the “big fellow” (the caj tain) of a high school cadet company who insists on commanding his men from Mr. Harvey's terrace. This home owner, s I found out in a personal conversation, is a very human sort of man. He simply want« his property to look well. He has great sympathy for the cadets, but feels that thelr drilling could be bet ter ied on in the street than v his terrace He has met. it seems, with but scan: { sympathy from officlals of the Dis | trict government, who have told hi to go here and go there, see this of cial and that one, in his efforts to keep his grass and the parking space in front of his home in the orderly condition which the great majority of householders like to see. He irtends to take up the matte: with the citizens' assoclation of his neighborhood, hoping that the school children of the vicinity can be told by their teachers to keep off lawns while the ground is in such spong condition. | EIE This is a valuable suggestion . In some cities thls very thing i done. Annually, at this time of the year, teachers tell the children of th soft, almost pulpy condition of the ground, and advise the boys to frain from walking or running across lawns. Such a system of practical educ tlon, begun in the public schools « the National Capital, would go a lons way toward king and keepli: Washington beautiful The children of any communit large or small, are a powerful fact( in 1t, either for good or evil. This i such a truism that it scarcely nced be_stated. Most boys, here as elsewhere, decent at heart. Most of the depred tions they do are committed thought lessly. Mr. Harvey believes, as most will. that our boys would rather hel maintain and protect property tha: dar down or ruin it. Home owners in all parts of the District will wish him success in his campalgn. whose acts are so universally and s deservedly condemned were the merc instruments of Congress, we do not see how the citizens of Washington, who had no voice in these appoint ments, and who could not in any way | control them, can in equity be held | responsible for what they have done To be sure, the property holders the Capital City are the beneficlaries but the cost of the improvement: equals in amount one-fourth of a the property of the city, aud to make the unfortunate citizens pay it would, Mo praciical Coulliscailvia