Evening Star Newspaper, February 21, 1926, Page 38

L) THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Moruing Edition, WASHINGTON. SUNDAY D. C. February 21, THEODORE W. NOYES. .. . Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Tustness Oftic TUh SEand Peons New York Office. 1107 E Chiciko Offier . Tower Euopean OMce. 14 Regen Enuland The Evening Srar ing edition. ix deliver the iy at 60 cenis pon 5 conte per I Sun. With the Sun b carriens month: daily W onls. 20 wnt by vithin el month able in Advance. inia. 001 m T 1 All Other Daily and DAy anly States and Canada. 1yr. 1000 S100 1 <800 1 400 Sunday 1 mo 1 ma Member of the Associated Press. The Assoriated Press is exclusivels entitlad 10 the s for republication of Al news dis. natches credited to 1t or not otherwise cred Ved in this paper and e the laea nawe lished herein. Al rights of publication prcial dispatehes herein are also reserved. Move the Tourist Camp! A recommendation by the public hax Leen made of Fine public buildin the Commission of parks Arts 10 direcior s and that no permanent structure erected the tourist 2 Park the tourist he in camp in Fast o " furthermore that cap be Fmoy The ¢ tto w more suitable location hat the tour arded any imission declires t camp cannot b featur but e as a de- | always sub. mmoda permanent in city velopment must he ject 1o replacement the zrowth of the Unfortunately. an appropriation has already heen made of $30.000 for the construction of building accommodation ting Wash- has not possible was made granted for this designated s has heen laid public recreation Potomac Park. If a Luilding we: erected would in thie 10 ciry a permanant park for the the motor tourists ington Weork. however, en hezun and it still correct the mis e that when the fund purpose. The within the area out in plans for center in Fast permanent it of project in ‘the of vis is was site that a there directly 1 way this P more impor ot n Which in i heeping | Bl the objects 1o Which this ves i f ervation is to be devoted. Phe tourist b was originaliy Park for who by lovaied in Bast Potomac as a i keshiit ceommuodation of Washington in transit north or to the season It was a bad selection for this purpose. But fnasmuch as that portion of the park heing nsed for war emer. rancy huildings no particular objection | was raised and the establishment was 1 fter the urgent casion for its creation had passed biot on the | BY no possihle means can place be made attractive furthermo: a question should sver be used They are practically lodging place<, unfairly com- peting with the hotels and boarding nonses that are maintained at large the accommodation of city. the veal numibel people were coming of #ecording o motor. most them south was rmitted to remain It has always heen a landsecape. =uch There whether parks for such eamps. free a is expense for visitors t In other are not sit diry to eit rted conspicuousiy tly within the entering leaving They They their oS (hese ourist camps | as this one s, vision of sons southern hidden from be cent e or town the lines. view are do oc usually not need (o | | | 1926 fection 1= made by | | that [ penalty for their wdventurous spirit | gen whose crimes shocked and terrorized London some years ago, the cause w clearly insanity. The slaver wag man of ‘ption:l mentality. Women his invariable vietims nd muti- Kation of o particularly shocking char acter always was practiced. In neither the Toledo nor the Oma uNbs is there any sign of perversion of this character. The crimes are in no wise suggestive of a sex motive, althouzh in the Toledo case women have been invariably the vietims, While in Omaha and Council Bluffs men huve been the target of the sniper maniae’s weapon. Efforts cateh these fiends have been iling. The Omaha marksman was seen by his lutest vietim, bhut not recognized. Only by cha rently, can these murderers be fty as they are, they make step themselves. Meanwhile there is no security in any community where such shocking pi versions develop. " o nunav may some day a faulse and veveal ——— Mount Everest. When will man's ingenuity conquer the white peak of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, tower- ing 29,002 feet into the xkiex? Was ington’s attention has heen focused | shis question Capt. John | 1. Noel of the latest British Mount verest expedition told members of the National Geographic Soclety of the manifold hazards encountered in the three well organizea have heen mude n B since attempts reach the crest of this famous Himalayvan pesk Thirieen men paid to have now the in striving to penet of the great mountain ditions have returned compelled to admit the veteran mountainesrs and Irving, lost their lives on the latest attempt when they hid good- bye to their companions at the 00- foot level. disappeared In a blinding snowstorm, were seen again for a brief moment struggling desperately only 600 feer from the top. but never returned to tell the tale Near the beginning of the glaciers on Mount Fverest ix a monastery of hermits who consider the peak holy They took pains to assure the expe- ditions which passed their wayv that the god of the mountain would never e the mystery Three expe- to o failure. ilization, Two of Mallory tHow @ white min (o reach the sun mit alive, Winds 10 it o hat re: £ 100 | thin | contmins barely 12h oxv- suppore life of such blinding power (hat all is swept he- fore them and temperstures of 50| and 70 deg below would seem to bLe handicaps great for mere humans to overcome. U velocity nd miles hour, air so that el storms e zero too | But the fuct that the F | chine of THE SUNDAY circumstantial. The holes in the Eastwood are actual. The schooner reached port in u crippled condition. all the circumstances point to stwood was hover- American port on a She ix evidenily an object of suspicion. Perhaps the Sen- eca did engage in a bit of target practice, Perhaps she planied Ler target bit closer to the lasiwood than usual when Coast Guard cutter goes out to practice gunnery. If o the question may asked, why was the Eastwood in the way What was she doing just there, Anchored twenty-one miles out at sen? For what was she waiting Legiti- mate carzoes are not lightered out or lizghtered in that far, If the Eastwood goes 50 to spenk, she must rid herself o° sus- picion naturally attaching to her he. cause of her position and her pany. Rum row bad ancho for an innocent schooner. Ford's Literary Museum. Henry Ford, in his collection of lit- erary monuments, is scouring Massa- chusetts for shrinex. A few months ago he pi hased the “\Wayside Inn" “nd established it as & permanent in stitution, and now he has acquired the “Village Smithy,” celebruted by Longfellow It is announced that this old smithy will be moved to Sud bury und added to the collection there of old New England boildings and im. plements. "This old shop wax built in 1787 and ix, therefore, nearly 140 vears old. The process of itx removal in sections will tax the ingenuity of engineers. There relic of tiquity for which Henry probably give a gr beyond his reach. Without doubt he would pay handsomeély for the “one- horse shay” of which Holmes sang in immortal verse. But the shay no more. Indeed. the poem chronicled its dissolution. Still, the Detrolt manu ing around an lawless mission, is @ be to cou com- is a ng likewise is one literary Ford would t deal, but it is an to do so might find the first of his own factory, which still running, or perhaps i soma old barn. It would not product date poem, but it would go a long way. Then he might recreate the fiving ma Dariuy Green, the protoiype lutterday henvier (han ai tions, and so put rowbridge on wap of his inlerexiing comuniniiy Sudbury ] Income tax exemplion for the Pres of the United States lmplies courteus attitude the purt of grateful public. In some of the old fushioned autocracies the dent . un a head of u only But man has never vet admitted defeat in exploring the unknown parts of the world, however remote, however heset with danger, and Everest will surelv he scaled. Thare will alwayvs he volunteers far this task A< long as the adventurous pirit is bred in man. and the efforts will nevar ceama until vietory is at- tained. < Capt. Noel helieves that success| will he nhtained hv the same methods used on previous expeditions—that of huilding 6ne camp above another on the slopes of the mountain until only a short dash remains to the summit. The highest camp established on the latest uttempt was 27,000 fuet, fn mountain climbing. but. in Capt. Noel's opinfon, 100 low to make the 2,000 feet without a It the camp had | been set at an altitude of 28,000 feet it is probable that both Mallory and Irving would huve been able to reach A rec- ord possible remaining bresk. of | well thel nnd cupants have own o means fnst outskirts nsportation as ed in are the central commod: on of city Certainly as a sitnaiion. the he this particular site is rast of all that ‘ound in the District v and the recommend: the Commission of e Nheeded by Congress in the form of an amendment directing whatever ~per- manent constrictions are necessary to | 1w located elsewhere, so that the de- velopment of Kast Patomac Park can proceed without check or embarrass- ment. suitable conid sueh A pur pose tions « IFine Arts should ————— Italian statesmen find it expedient tn inspect Mussolini's policies more and more closély with reference to for- eign entanglements. . Wholesale Murderers. Recently a series of atrocious crimes was committed in the city of Toledo. several women being brutally attack- ed, some of them dving. In every case the victims were suvagely beaten with clubs. were attributed to the same person, some unknown de xenerate of fiendish disposition. trace was found, however, of the as saflant, who invariably attacked from Lehind and usually at night. Irregular intervals elapsed between the crimes. These erin Several weeks have now passed since « recurrence has been reported. Just at another series mysterious is in Omaha, where several men have been shot, two of them fatally. by a mys- terious assailant, who. it would seem, uses a small-calibered rifie with a silencer. The latest shooting occurred | at Council Bluffs. lowa. across the river from Omaha, and is attributed to the same person who has killed two and wounded another. Robbery is evidently not the motive in these crimes. The victims have heen allowed to lie where they have fallen without further interest in them Dby the slayer. That he is 4 maniac is | deduced from these circumstances, Such cases have occurred from to time in the past. Homicidal mania has not infrequently developed and led to wholesale slaughter. Sumetimes slayer “runs amek” and kills Wl wounds many at one outburst of Again, with craft and diabolical ingenuity, he plots his crimes one by one and continues for a long time. Some Imaginary grievance against humanity inspires him. He may be a religlous or a political fanatic. He may be simply a degenerte with a Iust for blood or for the sight of suf- fering. These crimes are rarely, if acter was alwayvs practiced. In the case of “Jack the Ripper.” | of | at! present crimes progres: me ruge. {tain | British and Swiss mountaineers will | be made in the near future. { Having reached a height of more | { than the crest and return hefore exhaus- tion overtvok them ! At any rate. experience gained in tiexe expeditions would indicate that ultimately this method would succeed it the weather favored the climbers in thelr necessarily long sojourn fn the Jund of eternal snows. Although no Everest expedition has heen announced. It is practically e that a new attempt bv re expert Everes holds too much allure and the prob- lem of sealing it is teo fassinating for man to ignore it for long. Sven now the French aviator Lieut. Callizo, holder of the world's altitude record. is in training for a flight over this majestic mountain. 9,000 feet. the airman believes that he will be able to fiy close to the peak and drop a cviinder telling those who reach the spot later of rhe French triumph It Lieut. Callizo succeeds it will not tuke one whit of glory from (hose who reach the world's greatest alii- tude on foot. Mount Everest stands | today as an eternal challenge 1o (he sclence of civilization. When its inac. cessibility Is conauered there will be universdl rejoicin. e The advice of George Washington may often he forgotten, but the cherry tree fable will never die. ———— A Mystery of the Sea. peppered the schooner East. wood with sixty-nine shots? The captain of the Eastwood says that | the Seneca did it twenty-one miles | sea off Long Island. The| captain of thé Seneca savs that he nevér fired a shot at the Eastwood. | The captain of the Eastwood. now répairing at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. points to her puncturéd sides and declares that the Seneca first placed | a target within a hundred feet of the schocner, then backed a quarter | of a mile and opened fire. Th» cap- tain of the Seneca avers that whil he had been watching the Eastwool for three months, during which tinte she had established contact with sey- eral shore vessels, he had not even hailed her. A dispatch from Ottawa says that no protest has yet been received by the Canadlan government and that the matter will not he taken into consideration unless and until it has been formally reported. Consequent- Iy nothing is doing here. Reports will probably not be asked from the commander of the Seneca unisss ind until official representation ecomes from the Dominion government. Meanwhtle it 1s somewhat of a- puz- | Who | |a government not self. but appropriated taxes, exempted him most of the —roor—a- now and then a member of Every | Congress makes a speech which offers A comparison caleulated to attract ad miring attention to the silent. indus trious and ill-paid Government clerk. ——————————— Earnest arguments are offered by 3nglish writérs to shaw that the man- agement of a rubber monopoly does ‘not involve an elasticity of national conscience. o England boosts the price of rubber in one column of an official gazette and presents an eloquent argument for free tade in the next. o The reduction of taxes will many el agree with Judge Gary that the present Congress has fts excellent points ens to —ee—e. iginally announced as ally turnx out to An inquiry o “probe’ poultice. us be u SHOO D ——— TING STARS. BY PHILAN Authorital We're the wealthiest Nation on earth. We don't ask what anything’s worth, But hasten to pay any toll— Yet we couldn't buy anthracite coal. We've billions at ready command, And more to be got from the land. Vet control We went shy on our anthracite coal. With money so perfectly free, A Twenty's what Five used to be. So, the fact still perplexes the soul | That we couldn’t buy anthracite coal. Away with your dollars and dimes! They're behind in the trend of the times. New currency let us unroll That is based upon anthracite coal. Results. “You have participated in many in vestigations?" Many,” agreed Senator Sorghum. ““Have you succeeded in calling pub- lic attention to anything important?” N To myself as investi tor. Practical Application. A facile brush the artist wields, With purpose grave or comic. It ix the whitewash brush that Results most economi Jud Tunkins says music ix a great source of happiness, because it enablea a lat of people to holler at the top of their voices without bein’ held person- ally résponsible for what they're sayin’. Immunitiés Untolerated. “I undérstand that Crimson Gulch is going to have a radlo broadcasting station.” - o, sir!” rejoined Cactus Joe. “The fellers in this community is exacting in their art. They don't want no per formers around that they can’t throw things at, in case the act fails to please.” Tia Juana. The hosses ‘round the track will run At Tia Wanner. Unless yonr wagérs you have won You are a goner. Yet 'mongst tl_ critters who infest The place, as you apply the test, You vow the hoss is decentest In Tia Wanner. ““Most of our troubl said Uncle Eben, ‘“consists in imaginin’ whut might happen, but whut never does,” tacturer might reproduce it, or failing | back quite to the period of the Holmes | enuble | through methods of commerce | STAR. WASHINGTON, .EVERYDAY {2le. The story from Lunenburg sk | Bishop of W ENT FROM GOD.' Nt John, i, T: "4 man sent from God. The same came for a witnesa. “It is not so much by ideas as by personalities that God sets the world forward.” Thus speaks a great scholar and student of human affairs. He recognizes the fact that history is made by certain outstanding'men and women, who, in thelr persons, in nate some great principle. The late Dr. Lord calls these people the *Bea- con lights of history,” and to them he traces the forward movements of the race. Max Mueller maintains that “the true history of the world mus always be the history of the few One is sometimes amazed to discover how outstanding epochs seem to find their focus as well as their inspiration In some singularly gifted person. These outstanding personalities carry conviction to an age by reason of the fact that they incarnaté in themselves not only some mighty principle, but a dense of authority that makes it pre- vail. * o oxox Some one has said that they “are ap- pointed first of all by Almighty God to stand for a fact.” They not only ompel attention, but they resist and ov wue opposition, because men recognize in them an authority that i irresistible. They seem to be con- ripted Ly God for divine service, They may be criticized and condemned —ves, e martyred—but the thing they stand for ultimately prevalls, 1t veminds us of u striking sentence that came from the lips of one of our great Presidents, where he sald, “1 would her go down to defeat today in u | cause that shall ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately know defeat.” The great est reformations that have swept over continents have been projected by those of whom it may be said that {they were “sent from God,” and that the “same came for u witness.” No sense of loneliness. no hardship or suf- fering of any kind has hindered them in their course Savonarola. hated and despised by the gentry of Florence. dared from the duomo to inveigh against the pre. vailing sins of his generation. Th thought thev had made an end of him when they burned him at the atake in the piazza. hut his mighty spirit could not be conquered, even. In death When the little monk in Wittenberg ' dared to nail his theses to the door of the church. he hardly realized that he wus giving men & new charter of lib. MOVIE ORGANS BY FREDERI Twenty one cénturies ago there lived Alexandriu. Exvpt. o man hamed Cresibius. He wus muslcian, and along with his musical ability he possessed Inventive genlus. The re wult was that he gave to the world the Inatrument known «s the organ It was & simple affair of three reeds which the perform held upon his knees while he plaved upon it and his audiences at hest were small and not axceptionally appreciative. There is neither tecord nor tradition 1o the | effect that Ctesibius was regarded as | one of the foremost musicians of his day. and is improbable that he {evar made any monex nut of his "3]0]’\( or the Instrument which he invénted. | However. Ctesiblus started some. ithing. That primitive affair of three I reeds that cost almost nothing has |grown to be an immense instrument of innumerable pipe key pedals. and what not. that reproduces the tone and effect of almost every in- strument in a great orchestra. and it costs anvwhere from $5.000 to $150,000. And the performer who plays the modern organ thrills thousands in his immaediate presence every day and night, and not infrequently plavs to an wndience that is limited only by |the number of people having radios. |"That 18 what the motion pictures have {done for organs and organisis. for i 1a through the film theaters that the | pipe organ has been developed almost | miraculously within the last decade {und its plavers have had their pro fession expanded for them until it has hecome one of the most remunera- {tive in the musical world Iundreds of motion picture houses throughout the country have installed magnificent organs and afford con «tant and luerative emplovment for from 1wo to three orkanists for each | theater. The day when the artist I who mastered the pipe organ was [limited in his opportunitics for engagements to the comparatively few | churches that boasted such instru {ments, and an occasional concert hall. {is long since past. A good organist |is mever out of a position and the | top-notchers are rapidly acquiring | tame and fortune. A Widely Known Performer. | Washington has one of these per. {formers with a nation-wide reputa- | tlon in the person of Otto F. Beck. { the musical director of one of the I city's largest motion picture theaters, | who has done concert work through- out the East and Middle West, and who now broadcasts a program three times a week and has become known to radio fans evervwhere, Mr. Beck started his career with the movies in Montreal. Later he played at the Rialto in New York. the first Broadway theater to install a pipe organ, and was also in Atlantic City for a time before coming to Wash- inglon. Although he himself was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to study under one of the grealest or- ganists, the late Hope-Jones, Mr. Beck says that musical talent and technique are only half the require. ments for success in his profession. The motion picture organist must possess that gift or art known as showmanship. ““The orgmnist who hopes to make a name for himself must possess this quality.” says Mr. ‘He must realize that he is just as much a per- former as the actor on the screen or siage. He may be skilled and ver satile, he may be conscientious and | industrious, but he will never sttain) real success if he is not a showman. | With a différent sét of methods he | must ‘sell’ the motlon picture he is | accompanying—put it ovér to the ! audience—véry muc! h as the ballyheo ' man sells the sideshow at a circus.” | Every it i li one remembers the days! whén movies were accompanied by | indifferent musiclans, who merely | made sounds to break the qulet ac- centuated by the flicker of the films | and the shuffic of restless feet. Then producers discovered that a good ' pianist could play upon the emotions of an audience almost as much as the pleture itself, and they began to re. | quire their musicians to do mere than play tom-tom stuff for an In. dian scene, or “Hearts and Flowers" for a bit of pathos, The artist at the plano thereupon found it necessary to acquire a repertoire and to cultivate the imagination that would enable him to use that repertoire in interpreting the rapidly chahging scenes and ac- tion on the screen. The music must create the atmos. phere for the drama to breathe in. The flat gray figures are there, and mnst be made to glow, to pulsate and to sound. Even an amateur would not play a brisk march for a dving mother scene, Mr. Beek points out, but would he know that “hurries’ and “agitatox” are not appropriate for & prize fight scene, because men- | | planes D. C, FEBRUARY 2 RELIGION BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D., ashington. erty, and that his act would mark the | beginning of a new era. ¥ Those who listened to Phillips Brooks declared that his personality, quite apart from his message, carried profound conviction to his hearers. He used to say himself that preaching was 60 per cent personality. He was A% & “man sent from God, who came 10 bear witness."” * ok % x It is always a leading question to ask concerning a man, *What does he stand for?” or “What does he vepre- sent?” The first essential of a witness is that he shall speak the truth as he apprehends it. The second is that he | shall speak it with a sense of convic tlon born out of the consciousness that he carries authority. One Chris- tian man or woman in a_community who has fallen under the spell of Christ's life and teaching exercises a wider influence for good than @ multi- tude who profess fidelity to a Christian institution, but who lack the courage to live what they belleve in their inter- | course with the world. In a charming | hook entitled ““The Ship of Stars,” a | distinguished English writer describes | a scene on the coast of Cornwall. One evening the vicar of an anclent church was seated with hix little son when the conversation turned upon the old church that stood nearby. Presentiy the little lad asked his father, “How long hasx von tower stood?” With deep reflection the aged vicar respond ed. "My son, von tower has stood fi nigh on to 800 vears.” Then, as he thought deeply of its significance. he added. 0 God. make men as towers:” Yes, it is the man or the woman who stands four-square to the winds of changing opinion that ultimately tri umphs. Tt ix the man “sent frc God” who comes to “bear witn that carries conviction to an age doubt, as well as to an age of sin. “God give The mands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands: Men whom the lust of office does not kil Men whom the poils of office cannot buy: Men who possess apinions and a will Men who have honor, men who will not lie; Men wha ean Fogue of us men time de stand hefore a dema And hear his treacherous flatteries | without winking: Tall men. sun-crowned. who live ahove the for. In public duty and in private think- ing.”" AND ORGANISTS J. HASKIN. il disturbances that he shouid music? [ hing. and ghit, brilliang Experience Also Required. Experience is another essential Success as oa motion pleture organist according to this authority. In fact he {x dectdedly dificult for an organist to get a job unless he has hid experience. Just how an aspirin artist can get- experience without first zetting a Joh Is not so clear to the Tivman. but perhaps back of this somewhit anomalous requiren t of the profession lies the explanation of why the ranks of the organists are not haing overrun with recruits. Most of the well known motion pic ture organists are former movie and orchestra planists. Church organists it is said. rarely break in. and as a rule they do not make good movie organists. They seem to find it hard 1o develop a diversified repertoire, and do not adapt themselves readily to the jazz and other light music that are so essential in movie accompaniments. The movie organist. it should be known. da not alwavs sit and let his fingers wander idly over the kevs, plaving at random whatever occurs to him as appropriate (o 'he scene on the screen. With each feature film that is (0 be shown in his theater he to savs it {gets a cue sheet, which indicates the music which the picture producer thinks should he plaved from the he | xinning 40 the end of the film. and fre lquently he has a pre-view of the pic. ture in order that he may see how | the cue sheet music does fit in and de termine whether or not make any changes in it. he should Large Salaries Pa A% 10 the financial rewards that " he reaped by the successful or- ganist, the figzures that are quoted will he an eve-opener to most patrons of the cinema. Not all the big money” in the motion picture busi ness goes 1o the screen stars, directors and producers, or to the owners of the popular theaters. An assistant organist in an aver age city motlon plcture theater will start at a salary of $60 a week, it is stated. From that up. the sky is the limit. An average good organ proves that he has showmanship ability finds it comparatively easy to garner from $10.000 to $15.000 a vear, and when one gets into the star class and fs in demand for concert work he may enjoy an income that rivals that of the President of the United States —$75,000 4 vear. And these incomes are real, be it averred. and are not the dreams of highly imaginative press agents. That it is an attractive profession is further attested by the fact that a Washington school teacher makes a weekly trip to New York to take a lesson from one of the great pipe or- ean artists of that efty. -t Good Sign for the Plane. From the Utica Observer-Dispatch. Well," the airplane is making prog- ress. When people begin to complain | about a newfangled thing becoming a nufsance, it is a sure sign that it is getting on. The automobile didn't fairly get started until folks kicked beause they scared the horses and ran over the chickens. Here are the people of Alexandria Bay who think that the nofse of air- golng over their Summer homes daily is an outrage. So the chamber of commerce is circulating a petition to urge people not to rent docks to the owners of the seaplanes. In the regular course of évents we may expect the residents of the river villagé néxt to be looking for parking places for their own planes. —————_ No Terrors in Store. From the Jersey City Journal. German geologists are beginning to talk - about another glacial age. Americans, having lived through the present Winter, will take the discus- sion quite calmly. e Crowding the Corners. From the Alba: Knickerbocker Press. Numerous persons are figuring on how more than four filling stations can be built on four corners. Futurist Art. From the Detroit News. Dumb Dora, says a futurist painter, is one who may be a painter at some time Prince Carol apparently has a mind of his own, but it is of the changeable variety. t who | 1926 PART 2. Capital Sidelights 1. Members of Congress, under leadership of Representative R. ton Moore of Virginia, have a new pet project to which they are con- | tributing because of its notable con- tributions to this Government. They are helping to huld up historic old | William snd Mary College at Wil | liamsburg, Va.. which was founded in 11693, and looking toward a general | endowment of $5,755,000. Their interest has heen aroused by Dr. W. A. R. Goodwin, who has brought appealingly to their attention these facts about this institution, which Is, next to Harvard, the oldest college in” America: It was burned by the Federal troops 1862 and subsequently closed, that It was precluded from training an alumni constituency who might now provide for her needs. John Barton Payne and others prominent in the United States Gov ernment have recently become inter ested in Willlam and Mary's renais- sance. Here are some of its contributions to America: Presidents, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, John Tyler; United States Supreme Court, John Marshall. John Blair, Bushrod Washington, Philip 1 Barbour; signers of the Declaration of Independence, George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, Carter Braxton, Henjamin | Harrison; members of the Continental Congress, Peyton Randolph, first Prex ident, and 14 members: the National Government, four Secretaries of State, four Attorneys General, 12 foreign minist United Ntates Senat 9 three s of the House of Rep resentatives: Virginia als, | 21 governors, 21 judges of the Court of Appeals. Some of the priorities of the Coll of Williim und Mary First royal college in America. found o Phi Beta Kappa Society, nrst elective system of studies, first college honor system, first American college 10 exteblish a school of law, a school of modern languages, a school of his tory and a school of political econom, the | Wal- | in 80 | | | i * %o | howevi | it should not The standard of living among mem- bers of the House has improved since | they raised their salaries from $7,500 to $10.000 a vear. Their taste in things sartorizl and gastronomical has changed. They eat better and they dress better. Proof of the puddinz they are eating now lies it the loss of business suffered | by the cloakroom buffet stands during the present vear and the greal in crease in the turnover of the more or less formal dining room With # larger pay enve members have all but f Cloakroom pie counters ~ubsisting on sandwiches s il the Nutie ~ enjoy w regular lunch in the din m St Bite e shut silver offurding thes ot e ol ot and diguity When the legislators bareiv expenses on 87,500 @ veur cluakroom promoters ravely had sufficient sand wiches to last through the day. Now thelr travs are stacked high each eve ning when four bells bring adjourn ment. The pie counters used to put in a daily supply of 12 quarts of milk 15 pies, 2 pounds each of siiced ham cheese and tonzue. This year the: et rid of half that amount Business in the dininz toom has in creased 30 per cent. Enlargement accommodations i= under considers tion. Tables reserved for such diani taries as newspaper correspondents are usually occupied by folk who wouldn't know a composing from a business manager’s office. The Congressmen are dressing more stylishly. There are more in the House of Representativ in the House of Commons—si pay raise; more meticulously heads mustachios than French Chambel hooks in the cloakrooms hurdened with fashionable « waiking sticks. As one of the cloakroom waiters puts it. with pathetic tones and in jured air. “the boys sure are putting the dos.” cthen Instend hunks lesi the of of Lt < than nce the trimmed in e over nes and on * Brig. Gen. Charles G. Dzwes since Lix accession 1o the jub of Vice Presi dent and presiding officer in the Sen- 1te has settled down to a right docile L of fellow. lle seems by onsent among the Democratic Sen tor ve been selected as the most fitting subject for satire they may loose. With some minority member | flings n few words of double entendr hiting meaning in the zeneral di n the presiding Vice Presi | lar Juency o recti dent. While Senator James Missouri. past master of speaking in support of his resalution calling upon the White House or State Department to send immediately to the Senate “all the original docu- ments” relating to the United States in the World Court, Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana asked him why he did not introduce this resolution last March. when the matter was set down for action. The Missouri Sena- tor saw and seized the opportunity to add his latest contribution to the jibe at the recently quiescent Mr. Dawes. “It ix utterly immaterial to this question,” he replied, “whether T in- troduced it last March, or last April. or last June, or whether 1 am intro. ducing it now. The White House is about one mile from here. and with reasonable expedition a man can trav- el from that immediate vicinity to the Senate in less than 15 minutes. as the Vice President well knows.” Senator J. Thomas Heflin of Ala- bama, famed for hix imposing white vest, his negro dialect stories and his long-winded speeches, apparently felt that Senator Reed had failed (o make the most of his point. “The Senator from Missouri said that the Vice I’res ident knew how. long it would take-to | come from the White House to the enate,” volunteered Senator leflin. 1 want to ask him how long it would take to go from the Vice President's | chair to the White House?" | “That depends entirely upon the act !of God and the fortune of pofitics, retorted Senator Reed. “In this da | of topsy-turvy. of jazz politic: d ! knows what will happen. nor who will | get there. nor how he will get there.” | A few moments later, when Senator | Reed suddenly turned his sarcasm | from the Vice President to Senator | Heflin, there was renewed laughter in the Senate chamber. “During the time that we have had this question before us said Reed. “there have béen some discussion ir relevant to this matter, very interest- ing discussions, very illuminating, but not on this question, and the Senator from Alabama has done his share of that kind of talking.” “I was doing that to relieve the | Senate and the people assembled here | from the monotony of the other de- | bate,” Senator Heflin suggested. while some of his colleagues chuckled. This served to bring the Missouri Senator nearly up to his firstclass ironic pitch, as he brought forth a couple of rounds of laughter with this reply: “1f the Senator is offering himself | as an oratorical soporific, he has a strange conception of his effect upon his audience. But 1 am making the point seriously: the Senator from Ala- | bama and myself can never talk with- | out joking, and nobody listens to him | with greater pleasure than myself, particularly when he quotes Scrip- ture.” . And thus it usually goes on the Sen- {ate floor ‘when two such different |types @s Reed and Heflin start using the privilege of debate for a game of pitch and toss, Reed irony. A | common | the | MEN AND BY ROBERT it is said that the only real oppo sition in the House of Representa- tives to the constitutional #mendment which would put the sessionx of Con- grexs on u safe and sane basis and do away with all “lame ducks’ s due to the fact that it would shorten the terms of sitting membsrs at the time the new plan went into effect. It is dificull to believe that-this is that House members are so patriotic as to let a few dollzrs and X and in the wayv of truly eform. cross.over would shorten into the new svx the term of the Congressmen by juat two months. They would leave the pay roll under the existing scheme on March 4 following «n adverse result at the polls. Under the new plan they would be divorced from the ex- hequer the first Monda in Japu- ry. The “turnover” in the House each two years is not nearly so great « the public Imagines. A large ma- jority of the sitting membars cre re. elected. Therefore the number af- m sitting jfected by the two months' deduction of pay would be relatively small, too small to be considered. The members who would months’ pay_would be out of pocket just $1.666.67 each. These lose two .67 members, Would have served in only { Congress, despite the were on the pa: roll They woull have 4 for their work at one session, and if this is not godd pay for Congressmen, if it is not fa above the union xcale, then most oh ervers in Washington entirel out of line one fact for drawn th: The Norris resolution changing the national legislative calendar and pro viding that a President. elected in No vember, shall take office January 1 following. rather than wait until March 4. has just passed the Senate for the third time. Twice before the resolution has failed in the House Maybe it will fail the third time, but The existing svstem is chaic, to say the least, a relic of the {days of stage coaches and communi cation by courier Under the present xystem these are a few of the anomalous things that happen: ';’hf President is inaugurated March 4 and immediately Congress adjourns. leaving him in the iurch—if you choose to call it such Many times within the past 20 years Presidents have immediately called | Congress into extra session. involving !4 heavy expense. House | Congressmen go on the Government pav roll March 3 following their elec tion. but do not even come to Wash 2o cule. until the next De Leember E | | Charlotte spats | the ! of Deputies and the | | States from 1o the United States sc does not L extra sfter his of Honse wxcept nntil 13 election, and ithen maries within After heing swe a two-year termi. Congress meets the first the in menien s exsivn A 3 months must frce his seven months thungh he has nin Monday in AFFAIRS December, but generally marks time until after the holidavs. The Decen ber part of the sitfing virtually f lost. Under the present system a Repre sentative or Senator defeated at the polls still serves for an entire session of the Congress. |'nder the new sve |tem a defeated man wonld be our | forthwith The present arrangement of a lon: on of Congress one vear and *hort session the next lends fiself t. | the art of Albustering during the short sion. and it has heen employve many times to defeat legislation 1 rris amendment Congie meet each year the first Mo January and would have 1} entire vear before it in which 1o 1ra act the Government's business Of course, there are those who i sist that the short session of Congr is a blessing, because it gives country a breathing spell every othe vear. With no limits placed on the sesslons, however. there is a gener: belief that Congress would speed {and not spend as much time in Was | ington as it does at present P T used to he said it was a good thing for a member of Congress {have the 12 months bhefore taking of fice in which to “cool off The dif! | culty ix that be generally geis | arned cold. Issues seidom last this country for 13 months a Congressian elected on one et tacts or conditions may face an er | tirely different situation by the time | he gets the Speaker's eve—if he eve does in his first few terms Senator Norris has shown himself a constructive statesman in framing and pushing his wmendment. and Wash- | ington as a whole ix hopeful that this | vear he will «u 1 S0 tha! Johns the has Countess of Representative Albert of | Washington, chairman of | commitiee on immigratio watching the case of the | Catheart with no little legislative in | terest. If there are to be any changae in the section of the law which cause the Department of L to har the countess, Mr. Johnson will have fc frame them. Thus far he is entire non-committal on the subject. But pressed for some sort of statement nn the controversy he made the somc what cryptic remar] “Well, if the countess had emuiate the example of a scion of the Britis nobility some two generations ago an [lied ‘like a gentleman’ about her fair with the carl. she prabably woul have been admitted to the countr: | without question All of which-brings up a | teresting and hitherto angle of this amazingiy If it be the proper zentleman to lie when a involved. why of the the same handsone nileman in th Here is a poser \embers of the National Party. What do they say? (Copyright n House rather in averlooked interesting thinx for Ladv's n case 8 e is eauality sexes lady thing Tiliti Waoma Fifty Years Ago In The Star Chariotte Cushman. the actress. died February 15. 1576, at the Parker House in Boston. She had been suffer- ing from ecancer for a long time but was somewhat im- proved. and sbout a week before her deat Cushman. 57700k & short walk. caught cold and pneumonia developed The Star of that date thus sketches her career: ‘Charlotte Saunders Cushman was horn in Boston about 1818, first ap- peared on the stage in the character of the Countess in the ‘Marriage of Figaro, at the Tremont Theater, Bos- ton. in April. 1835, Subsequently she left the lyric for the dramatic stage and soon was famous. Having been very -essful in her native country, she visited England in and re mained there until 1844 ving with success at the Prince nd May- market theaters. After another suc cessful tour in England she returned to America and, having accumulated u fortune by her profession, she took a formal leave of the American stage. Subsequent disasters led her to return to it. and she acted a round of encage- ments in Knzland and the 18 to 1868, and subse. veturned to Rome, where she resided. She returned ne vears since. large ecities as her zreatest part in Henry VIHI and She plaved her last engagement in this city to large au diences at Ford's Opera House last Winter and her representation of Meg Merriles was then as powerful as in her hest days. quentiy had previously appearing in all the Mez Merrile Queen Katherine her characters. From time to time efforts have heen made to change the nomenclature of Washington's strests and avenues. yme of them have succeeded, while others have New Avenue Names failed. In The Star of Fehr Are Proposed. Aiis HSTES an account of a measure of the latter class: Ar. Spencer introduced a bill in the Senate vesterday providing that that part of Pennsylvania avenue north- west of the Executive Mansion shall be called Ohio avenue: that part of the same avenue east of the Capitol grounds shall be called 1llinois avenue: that part of Virginia avenue Iving northwest of the \Washington nu ment shall be called \Wisconsin ave. nue: that part of New York avenue Iving west of the hall be called Minnesota avenue; that part of Delaware avenue Iving north of the Capitol grounds shall be called Michigan avenue: that part of Maryland avenue northeast of the Capitol grounds shall be called lowa avenue: that part of Delaware avenue which lies south of the Capitol grounds shall be called Alabama ave nue: that part of Georgia avenue lving west of the Navy Yard shall be called Florida avenue. This act, if it effect. will go into operation January 1, 1877 In an announcement of proposed improvements in the service of the Washington and Georgetown Street Railway Company printed in The Star of February 18, 1876, is Streei Car presented a picture of lo- :ne 4l street car conditions Service. {hai"mav enable Wash- ingtonians of today to appreciate their present advantages: “President Hurt of the Washington and Georgetown Street Railway Com- pany proposes that on and after the first of March to have all the cars on the Avenue line run through the Navy Yard, instead of as heretofore run- ning a number to the Baltimore and Ohfo Ralirond depot, and to material- Iy lessen the time between the cars. All the old blue cars, which have been running to the Capitol and depot, and all those on the Seventh street line are being withdrawn as rapidly as pos- sible without interfering with the workings of the road, and will at once undergo a complete overhauling. They will be remodeled and provided with modern - improvements and repainted a yellow color similar to those now known as ‘Navy Yard cars.’ This will be a great convenience to the public and prevent ‘the present annoyance of \ United | cecutive Mansion | takes | This and That > ;l': E. Tm‘rauw’l. Jack Spratt. house cat veal strike. holding out meat instead of in the slice Jack had becoma heartily znawing away at a slab of ve exertion of rending the fihers him, | “Give me.” he | me ground meat. or T will not eat. A- |a matter of fact. I am not very hun gry. and can get along well enough vou know. A slice of the very best veal affere no temptation to Spratt Before i was put on the paper which ser |as his tablecloth. it seemed very sirable. Standing on meowed vizor bored give emed 1o sav, his hind legs. Jack 1slv, in his pleasant { manner, varving the intensity of pitch ton o sion. (This he does, from {meal to meal, so that his vocubular | always proves interesting to listeners.) When the meat was thrown on th paper, . took a couple of good | snifs” at and proceeded to eat few bites. This was 80 he raised per, not c | dinner, <o th it to however quit the o0 much work his head, and 1sing to meow for hix t those who were nor lacquainted with him might imagined that he was not hungry There was not a bit of truth in th: supposition Jack is always hungry He always has a peak petite | When a mere child, he conld eat more ¢than most ful rown cats. With the | passing mont his hankerinz for |fond has never grown less. | What he was holding out for wa= | ground meat. have oo R e Jack. as a kitten, was well satisfied to get his meat in any old form, jus: |so he got it. That was the big proh lem. At first he preferred round steak but later gave the preference to ve cutlet. Once he ate a dozen taw oy« ters. but has never seemed. fo rirc | much for them since, for some strans | reason. | Baked heans. peas. cottage pudding —these he once ate, but now has lost | his taste for them. Sardines in oliv {0il tempted him once. Salmon alwiyx | hits the spot His standard meal at present is veal This, too, upon its first appearing was acceptable in ny form. After awhile Jack grew more pa ticular, and demanded that his veal e cut up with a knife. This made easier euting. it seems. and Jack, belng en gaged in sedentary occupulions, pre ferred the euasiest way. For several months the cat tul lerated his veul in this fashion, bLut |at last grew tived of so much work, He refused to eat, S0, in &n Wnwary | moment, the cut meat was put in the sausage grinder and reduced to small bits Jack immediately fell to with gusto showing his pleasure in every one his stripes. Licking his chops after | wards, he fairly dripped satisfaction ! * ok ok X 2 Thenceforward Jack Spratt weuld !ut nothing but ground veal. True to ‘his name, he would eat no fat, care | tully picking over the fatty portions Operating a meat grinder. however. is not always the most convenient thing in the world, so at one meal Jack was forced to take his veal in a big slice. He would not eat it, however. “Grind it up, Mister, or I will not t a bite,” threatened Jack Spratt. “You either eat that, or go hungry ‘Meow!” He stalked off into the living room, switching his striped tail Pretty soon he heard the sound of the sausage grinder in operation. He pricked up his ears. The strike was over! —_— | |ea | i getting on a wrong car and paylng double fare. ““There are at present 36 cars on the road, which number is to be increased by 3 of which will be placed on the short section from the. wes front of the Capltol to the Baltimore 1 & Ohio Railroad depot and transfe: will be issued 1o passengers to and trom the through Avenue line. Thus there will be 40 cars running to the Navy Yard instead of 18 as at preseni. Running all the Avenue cars through to the Navy Yard will have a salutary effect in diminishing the time.