Evening Star Newspaper, April 4, 1926, Page 38

3 THE EVENING STAR With Sundey Merning Editien WASHINGTON, D. C SUNDAY. April 4, 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor The Evening Star ) Busine: 11th St id Pennayivania Ave. New ‘Fork Ofice. 110 sam sind St. Ohicago Office: Tower Building. Buropean Ofice: 14 Regent St.. London, England. The Evening Star. with the Sunu Ing edition. s deliversd by carviers withmn 1he city at’60 cents per month: daily oniy. 43 cents pe- montn. Suncay onlr. 20 cents Der month Ordera may be sent by mail o felophone Main 5000. Collection iy mane by carrier at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in \dvance. | Maryland and Virginia. Datly and Sunday . 1yr.$0.00: 1Mo, 78¢ | Dailr only 1. $800: 1 ne.. 50c Surday only 1yr.83.00:1me. %5 | All Other States and Canada. Rally and Sunday.lyr. $12.00: 1 me. $1.00 Baily anly 1yr. SRR Tmal The Sunday enly 1yr. $4.00:1me. 35 Member of the Associated Press. ,.The Assnciated Press in exciusively entitled ® the uss far repuhlication of al' news dis- Datches credited ta 1t ar not atherwias cred- lied in this paper and alea the local news vublished herein. All rights of mublication | of wpecial diapatches herein are alao reserved. Annuity Increase in Prospect. Government annuitants, who have bean subjected to alternations of hope and despair for several months, are new cheered by the prospect of ac- tion, probably at the present seasion of Congress, increasing their annni ties. The elder clérks who are hooked far retirement lkewise heartened by the vote of the House cemmittee on Friday te veport a bill which, theugh the details have not| et been formally announced, will. it | is known, provide for a more liberal cale of payments. An outline of the bill. which was printed in The Star vesterday, indicates & measure of gratitving generosity. The maximum of the annuity is placed at $1.200 in stead of $720. The divisor figure which determines the annuity is lowered from 45 to 40. The only doubt remaining whether this measure will antail such 2 demand upon the Federal Treasury that its enactment at the present ses. sion will be regarded as inexpedient on the ground of scenomy in govern early are now is that an additional railroad bridge | across the Potomac at Washington is a military necessity. Such a necessity is 80 remote and so doubtful that it is not to be considered in this con- nection as warranting a construction that, if it is accompanied by a trans- portation and industrial development such as that projected, will impose a serious burden upon the Capital community and its anvirons through- out the times of peace which it is con- fidently beliaved will be-long without intercuption. Furthermore, military ies declare that there need for such a work from a defense point of view for the movement of | troops or goods: that during the | Great War, when shipments were vastly increased, the existing facilities sufficed: that in the event of anather war entailing a heavier demand for transport additional communications could he easily provided, more effec- tive in fact than that contemplated | in the present measure. | The Interstate Commerce Commis- ion will report upon the transperta- | tion needs regardless of military con- siderations. It has heretofore given assent to new works of this character only upon a showing of absolute need. Those protesting this proposed inva- sion of a residential area with un un- desired and, it would seem from the testimony of railroad officials, unve- quired freight vard are encouraged to believe thut the reference of the bill to the commission signifies its eventual disapproval. oo The Gallery Grind. is no' think of place Most persons are apt gallery as a, somnolent where things seldom change: where the only sounds are the h of padded doors und the low-voiced com ment of visitors, wandering siowly o standing motioniess and entranced before some favorite canvas or carv ing. with director and his assistants visuaiized leisurely scanning the pages of an art periodical or catalogue ! scrutinizing some ohject of wrt. | The spacionsness and the dgnity of imsiallation give to the casual visitor an ant swi as (he impression that hare ix something nxed. immuiabie, requiving but Loutine adm.mistration and a modicum of hard physical work As in the case of many other lie and semi-public institutions, a pub. how ! | cilities have exceeaded the | The physicians of THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C killed, there was ne suspicion of murder. The theory is held that these fires are not the work of a single per- son or group of incendiaries, but that several bands are taking toll upon property. There seems to he no sign of robhery as a motive, though that is not demonstrable, as the state of the ruins leaves no chance ol deduction. If this were a time of political ex citement these fires could he under- stood a8 the work of funatic partisans But there is no campaign in progress and the victims of the fives are not preminent in politics. They ure mostly tired business men, whose selection for this form of reprisal presents a profound mystery. The suggestion is growing that a pyromaniac staried this dastardly work and went far enough in it alone to suggest (0 others hy example a means of wreaking pri vate vengeance. Whatever the cause or motive, the outbreak of arson has caused a state of the most intense alarm throughout the British Isles. . Keep the Children Well! Every Washingtonian should be eon cerned to establish an endowment fund for the Child Welfare Society of this city, which for 25 vears has been doing invaluable work in the main tenance of health among the children of the Capital. With Inadequate funds, necessitating frequent appeuls for special contributions, the society has since 1901 been conducting health clinics at which mothers could bring their little ones for examination und for treatment. Tixpediants have been rendered necessary to on th work. Thdnks to the generosity of a large group of public.spivited women the service has heen maintained with out interruption. Rut the city has &rown more rapidly recent vears than ever hefore. and the demands upon the Child Welfare Societyv's fa resources. It is now seught to establish an en dowmant fund of §100,000. the income which will effectively maintain rhis work and make provigion for fu tire development. There is need for more centers in which the serv be maintained and for more nu Washington RiVing their services without charg If there were more stations. section of the city could he covered. it would be posaible through thix agency carry in from it every | APRIL 4. 1926—PART 2. EVERYDAY Immortality. First Corinthians: xv.53: mortal must put on immortality Carved on the tomb of Krasmus at Bale fs the word “Terminux.” It implies that which Is repellent to the {human mind. To believe that “death | ends all,” or “that our lttle life is | rounded with a sleep,” is contrary to | man's deepest and tenderest feelings “Tis life whereof our souls are scunt, | more Iife and fuller that we want.” From the earliest beginnings of re | corded history down to the latest hour | the supreme passion of the human | heart has been tor life—fuller, richer, | more abundant life, Whether we turn | to the anclent literature of Egypt or | to the more - recent literature of | Greece, or again to that of our own | time, we find the same deep expres xions of man’s yearning for the high est fulfiliment of hix heingz. Perhaps | no one has so completely expressed | this ax the great English poet, Tenny. son. in his immortal poem, “In Me. | moriam.” Crushed by & sorrow that overwhelmed him, he sought out of his own soul to answer the query, “if u man die shall he live again?”" it ook | 17 long years of deep reflection hefore | he satisfied himself. 1t Ix suid that | the frst stanza of the great poem was the last one he wrote, and 1t con- talns in four lines his final conviction “Strong Son of God, lmmortal Love Whom we, that have not seen Thy face By faith, and falth alone embroce. Believing, where we cannot prove. " This The sublimest heights reached b the great English poets have [ssued in mpositions that express their helef | n immortality In one of the most | ancient books of the Rible, speaking out of his distress and misery, Joh eries out, “T know that my Redsem Hveth.” It is one of the earliest ex pressions contained in the great Book that reflects man’s conviction concern. | ing Immortality. We do not have to | urn 1o poets or dreamers. or even to the great sages and prophets, for any witness 1o those feelings that re side in every Human hreast. However carelessly or indifferently we may live our lives, however unconcerned we may be as to the future, there come times when the great enigma concern {ing the nltiniate of life confronts us | Then it is that we turn away from all | human, Yeazoning and philosophizing and seek for some word of finality Then it is like one of old we cry out | | | | BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D., LL.D., Bishop of W ashington. | not | vesurrection and the life.” | also. ! vour men who | voice saving, RELIGION Thou “Lofd, to_ whoi shall we g alone hast the words of eternal life. Iiven Ingersoll must needs declare he stands by the grave of his beloved | brother (affirming in one of the most beautiful expressions of which we | have knowledge his faith in the life beyond): “In the night of death hope sees a star, and listening love can hear | the rustle of a wing.” Describing the | closing hours of President Garfields life, M. Bilaine 1n elnquent, phrase said that already he “felt upon his wasted bhrow the breath of the eternal morn- | ing." However men may have guessed or speculated concerning immortality. it} is Jesus alone who afirms it. He does speak as one who hopes, but rather as one who knows. Standing | hefore the open grave, with sorrowing | women, he declares himself to he “the | Again He | “Recause 1 live, ve shall live In ene of the rast sublime of s utterances He shothes his anxious disciples with the words, “Lel not | heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” The supreme climax of the Gospel ix that of which Eaxter speaks. name ly, the resurrection of Chrlst from | the dead For over 19 centuries the | vision of men has been focused upon this stupendous event. 1t I8 safe to sy that no other single lncident re Jded fn the literature of the world iux %o absorbed the eager attention and devated reverence of mankind. From this single statement the early church took Its departure. It was the Very heart of the beiief of those heroic counted not thelr lives dear unto themselves that they might win Christ.” If they followed with halting footsteps the vior in His hrief life time. they followed with martyrlike de votion the Savior who rose from the tomb. Little wonder is it that this is so. for He alone has demonstrated to men that lfe is indestructible. It is cafe to say that the message of xter hax done more to comfort the owing and to ease the hurdens of than any other single recorded There' is striking significance ax well as inepira- tion in that word spoken hy Henry George: “What shall it matter, when evehalls glaze and ears grow dull, if ont of the darkness shall stretch a hand and into the silence shall come a ‘Well done, good and enter thou into the sy the depressed ement ever faithful servant, joy of thy Lord! his mortal must put on immortal- ity | but s | that Capital Sidelights ] The thrilling story of the valiant fight to death made by the first real crusader constitutio 1l among English-speaking people, stout old Simon de Montfort, who was_am bushed at the Battle of Evesham by the overwhelming forces of the King of England, was told to the Hous apropos of the William Jennings Bry- an eulogy, by Representative Ashton Shallenberger of Nebraxka. A follower, who rode beside de Mont- fort, advised “My lord, the King's men outnum- ber ug 10 to 1. Nothing is left to us nder or to flee.” But de Montfort said to him: “Not s0.© One thing we can do to. day as Englishmen for England, and i to die like men upon the field of battle in a just cause.” And. as he lald his lance at rest to make his last charge, before he rdrove spurs in.o his horse's flinks, he rose in his stirrupse and called to the little band of faithful knights about him: _“Gentlemen, commend yvour souls to God: our hodles are the enemy’s.” And so he died. fighting gloriously that you and | and every man that speaks the Saxon tongue might have # representative form of government and might he free, The names of those who won npon that fatal field are lost amid the ob. livion of 700 vears. and will be heurd of no more in human history; but the natie of him who fell in behalf of con stitutional liberty and representative Bovernment who gave his life that You wnd | might be free—his name will live untit the Ly ST iglish lunguage is L of history absolute The integrity throughont sense of create an aura fidence were well described by Rep ative John N. Tillman Arkansas during consideration of the Finglish impeachment proceedings. He Samuel fudged well. and we rev the and justice of Judicia the noble that should trust and con Tsrael wisely and rence him hecause |0f his record. Portia lald down the {law to Shylock with proper judicia |wisdom and dignity. We revere John Marshall and respect him not only for his wonderful legal ability, but will| [never forget that he said “‘the greatest | | curse an angry God can infllet upon a {sinning and an erring people ix an ignorant, corrupt and dependen: Judictary A Federal judge appointed for life provided with a good salary. should be an ideal man and officer. Recause of his power, he should he generans| to his foes and fair to the weak and the poor. He should he “one wha softens the hard rigors of the law, {blunts their keen edge and grinds their Py claws. He who the sword MEN AND BY ROBERT Has something gone wrong with the grand old purty's publicity ma- chinery? It begins to look us if the progressive and recalelivant. Eepub licans are getting wil of the public sttentidn, except the little which vc- casionully goes the wuy of the Dem ocrats. Time was when the Repub. lican muchine ran smoothly and faultiessiy. The virtues of the regu- lar G. O. Were extolled from the housetops Consider now the fact that a Rep- resentative in Congress of the old | school of Republicanism. from the rock-ribbed ate of Utah, which went for President Taft in 1911, when every other State failed the grand old party except Vermont arises in his place in the House and utters the first word in defense of President Coolidge in connection with the charges brought against him by Senators who instigated the investi- gation of the Tariff Commission. During all the discussion of the President’s course in dealing with the commission no Senator spoke for Mr Coolidge. No attempt was made to| defend or explain the President's| course, despite the fact that he was openly churged with “tampering with the commission and “bribing’ its members with higher posts in the Government service. But st lust in the Ilouse w stul wart arises und speaks spesks thor oughly and st length, explaining a great many things and the whole Republican publicity machine appears (o be asleep at the switch The speech appears to have been overlooked in all the public prints. Even so indefatigable a newspaper reader as President Coolidge failed to find any mention of the incident in the party organs The presidential defender in the lower branch of Congress was Repre. sentative Colton of Utah. He paid| particular attention to the charge | that the President had attempted 1o “pack” the commission and that in| 80 doing he virtually had forced Vice Chairman Willlam S. Culbertson 1 resign and accept a diplomatic ap pointment as Minister to Rumania. “I deny that absolutely,” explained Mr. Colton. “The facts are that Wil liam &. Culbertson had been ambi- tious for a long time to get into the diplomatic service. He had asked President Harding for such an ap pointment. Senator Curiis had gone to see President Harding ahout it and had asked the President to give Mr Cnlbertson the transfer. Culbertzon pressed the question bhoth in ang out | of season. hertson told President Coolidge that| President Harding had promized him an appointment in the diplomatic 1 g | Marvin It iz understood Mr, Cul-| AFFAIRS T. SMALL. bertson discussed the sugar tariff and he thought the meeting an en- trely proper one. In closing, the gentleman from Utah took & Pot- shot at the Democrats by :~muon.,ln‘ them o make & campaign IssuesQu of the tariff, suying it they did sy the Republican party one more would be swept to victoryy Senator Reed of Pennsylyania ene liveneq the samewhat drab prpceed« ings of the tariff investigation when Alfred Dennis, the new commission vice chalrman, was on the atand. Mr, Dennis had heen telling of the bick- erings and back-hjtings going en in- side the commission, and had bsen particularly bitter toward Chairman He said, in nffect, that no tarlf commissioner could open his mouth to make a statement without he mped on" by the chairman. “That’s very much like us regular Republicans in the Senate,* snickersd Senator Reed. “We ran't say a word without heing jumped on by the Pro- gressives.” One of the White Honse corrsepond- ents discovered the other day a pas- sage in an Oscar Wilde story for chil- dren, which he insisted reminded him of President Cooltdge. The quotation was from “The Selfish Giant,” and it read somewhat ax follows: “One duy the Glunt came back. He had been to visit his friend, the Cor- nish Ogre, und had stayed with him for seversl years. After the seven years were over he had sald all thet he had to suy, fur his conversation was limited, and he determined to returnm to his own castle id dry discussior 1 a somewhat a and one or two hgs heen going on” in the smoking rooms of Pullman care ever since the Volstead act fi effect. A Weste visitor ington recentlv ed th won a lot of monéy on a nental tonr by betting wo men got te talking would turn to prohibition mintes He algo told of the breezy drummer who blew fnto the smoking room ona day. and. rubbing his hands etk exclaimed Well. men utes and start right now The “wet which has reach stage in State Legislatures Congress v Washe he had anscontie iat whenever the subject within 1 ' t let's save 15 ar talking 20 m While a political war is in Washington ahont the suggestion that war may be fought on sugar Rritish Army, among others has heen the custom to serve all diers a “tot” of rum at dawn s there next actual Y the eac LAW ENFORCEMENT URGED BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. to “keep the well child wall” and thus | lessen the pressure upon hospitals and | the distrass in homes. The true health | service consists in preventing disease and curing inciplent ailments in check morning in the field or trenches Now -the Hritish are experimentir with sugar for their athletes. The Cambridge crew, which defeatsd O ford a week all partook of suga: before the Kach e given two spoonfuls « Justice wields should be as holy as severe " He should be absolutely just Tustice' should bend to neither side. A fudge should he possessed of hoth honor, merey and probity of mind. mental expenditures. It would be mOSt | g\, 4 vust deal goes on hehind the unfortunate in any circumstances if { .o " o6 wpich the public is not such a consideration should prevail.| (..o 414 ai intervals and for con- Recent reports of the Treasury’s re-| 4. .iie periods of time a great art ceipts from taxation at the end of the |z iy undergoss # succession of service. It is also undersiood that at that time President Coolidge told | Culbertson that at the first oppor- | { tunity he would give him an appoint- | ment. In the Fall of 1924 vacancies occurred in the diplomatic service. | brown The Woman's National Committee | the measure has met with success in frst quarter of the calendar year under the new schedule of tax rates| Indicate a very large sxcess of reve nues over estimates. There is reason | o belisve that despite the material reductions in the rates the tax col- lections for this present vear of 192 will be in excess of exnenses. Ther I« no necessity. thersfore. for rigidity of economy, especlally in a matter of | this character, which should bhe de-! termined without referance to Trems. | ury cenditions, but should be rated as an ohligation. Wxperience has proved the unwis- | 100, find which perhaps only by the and heautiful change and | are At stresses and strains couid be appreciated chatelaine of a great house, wherein physical trequent social entertainment concurrent, vet unconflicting. such times, and in beiween them, too, the director and his staff endure iong hours and great responsibility to the art world, 1o the public, and to their governing hody whose member their positions as trustees from honerable sinecures. for example. the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Its activities for the far Take. Asm of establishing the annuity scale a0 low as to make rerivement a seri- nus hardship. Since the act went into| offeet and retirements were ordered. | elder emploves going out of active! service to subsist as well as they might upon pittances inadequate to meet their actusl needs, there hax heen a disposition on the par t of the! vounger members Af the sarvice to leave it lest they in time be made to “walk the plank” into penurv. This| low annuity scale has put a premium | upen voluntary departures from ac-| tive service. The overturn has been inereased. Tt was the purnese of tha retiremant aet. from the Governmyl's point of | view. to permit a csavance of the| aarvice of those who bad become superannuated and were no 1an: capable .of fully eficient Adischarge of duty, to permit promotion mor rapidiy and to maintain greater sta- bility on the part of the Government’s | working force. As the law has worked | out, however, it has accomplished only the first two of thase objects. With the new gcale now proposed estab lished for annuitants--to include all whe are on the retired list at the time | of the enactment as well as those to | he retived aflerward—there will be a greater inducement to the denart mental workers to remain in the serv- tge. | et - { [ {The Chinese go on fighting regard- less of peace negotiations in the rest of the world A few further foreign entanglements might benefit them - The Potomac Bridge Bill. Adoption by the Senate committee an commerce of the rule to submit | all railresd biidge propositions te the Interstate Commerce Commission for report insures thorough consideration of the practical need of & hridge across the Patomac and the establish- ment of a freight terminal in Mary land just beyond the District bound- ary. Protests against this plan have hean registered with the Senate com- mittes. They have come from resi- dents of Maryland and the District, | based upon statements from high " authorities ihat there ix no necessity | far such an addi‘ion to the great rerminal facilities at the Capital. The | Zenate committee. however. is asking | (he Interstate Commerce Commission for a judgment on this score, and the belief prevails that the commission will repert that there is ne occasion for expansian of freight terminal fa- | cilities by this means. Objection te this plan is based upon the fear, which is well grounded. lest the establishment of a great freight | terminal on the porthern boundary of | the District wovld tend to an indus- | trial development ruinous tn a lvvge | residential territory. which is now in a state of rapid advancement. The plan has not sprung from any local | Aemand or from the wishes of the ex- isting railroad corporations. Local shippers do not desire the deliver; ofl their incoming goods at so remote a peint, involving a long truck haul | through the city, or the delivery of | their outgoing goods fo that point with the sams nacessity of long haul- ing. The railroads that enter Wash- ington have ample freigh! terminal fa- | cilities, expansion of which is easily possible without adding to the rail trunks. The argument-has.been-advanced i | i 1 #ign | tion ta the gallery shall be completed. | ability that it will centinue to de so past several months have been, of their kind. a1 least, colossal. and will s0 continue tor monthe to come. The grear retrospective centennial exhibi tion of the National Academy of De incepted here. ix still fresh in I necessitated first the com. | moval and then the reinstalla- the permanent collection of Now. but a few mont mind. plece re tion of paintings. !later, comes the Tenth Biennial Exhi- bition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings. which had its formal epen- ing last night and will continue for six full weeks. Down came the entire permanent collection again, to he carefully stored, while express vans bearing the hundreds of eniries have | westward a steady stream must be unpacked, scrutinized then and there, or after the returned with meticu with the bien exhibits, much rolled in Thess and eithe exhibit's close, lous ¢ Coincident nial arve two specal smaller but of rarve value, installed ax | adjuncis to the larger display The premises must be thoroughly cleaned hefors and after such events. All this time heavy correspondence has bean conducted in connection with he great and eoll ion of art willed to the gallery, and through it to the people of the Capital and of the Naton, by the late William A. “lark. Many essential trips to New York have hesn taken by gallery off- ciale. The whole collection had to he packed, transported and :carefully stored against the day when the addi- v entire vave Lastly. now, for some time past and for a leng time in the future, exten sive building operations are added to the list of tusks. Notwithsranding all these factors, in thix ax in almost any institution of irx kind, the idea of service to the public is maintained and intensified. The Corcoran Gallery, for instance, beginning with the present exhibition, has poxtponed ita closing hour each day in the week from 4:30 until 5.30 o'clock, and on one week-day hasx ad vanced it from noon until 9 o'clock. One who knows is authority for the statement that the work performed in | connection with the maintenance and | expansion of that gailery Is easily ten | | | | age. while the hours for its accom plishment have been reduced. If the | public appreciates all this, thet is all the institution cares. So far it ie evident that the publie does: the prob- is very great. P Last year's coal strike is settled, but next vear's prices are rot. Wholesale Arson. A variteble reign of terror is pre. valling in England and Ireland as the vesult of a series of incendiary fives which have destroyed large rural man- sionw recently. During the past four months no leas than sixteen great count houses have been burned with all evidences of intention. Enor- mous values have been lost. In some cases irreplaceable objects of art and souvenirs of the paat have baen destroyed. [leven persons are known to have lost their lives. In the latest case, near Dublin, six hodies were found in the ruins, and therse ware unmistakable signs of murder. In the other fatal fire at Cheshire, where five persons wers 1 | | | =ard to ibate in | immediately | connect ing infection. All Washington is con- cerned in this work, for, without re. social or family cir cumstances, illness among the chil n is a matter of city-wide concern. Digease is a subtle enemy and must be fought incessantly. For the sake of the children of Washington, it is the present hope that this appeal for contributions that will establish an amply sustaining endowment fund for the Child Welfare will be quickly and fully heeded. B station Society The former Kaiser of Germany is intereated in_ landed holdings to ap extent which may canse every holder of an fron cross to wonder whether it will entitle him to any kind of a re the purchase of a house and Iot. o Waoodrow Wilson gave his complete confidence to few people. This fact is a discouragement to the authors who seek to utilize his unique personality as a stimulus to popular interest in publications of memoirs. o “Grand Opera” comes from Chicago in a perfection, from time to time, which calls on all fair-minded persons o judge the Lake metropolis by her musical vibrations rather than by her | erime waves o ney is not all powerful. A multi- | millionaire objects to the marriage of his daughter with & juzz composer and finds himsell utilized in on with @ “song plugging” campaign. - Suspicion asseris itself that time is liable to ha wasied in trying to repre- sent President Coolidge ax an unre. strained bhase ball fan or ax an unmiti- gated golf enthusiast, ) SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Renewal The Faster blossoms smile today, Returning in resplendent youth; Reminders in their humble way Of a Sublime, Eternal Truth. Responsibilities. he responsibilities of publ are very great.” “They are,” answered Senator Sor- ghum. “Every once in awhile T feel as If 1 ought to neglect my golf and help my private secretury do svme of the work.” office SOS, “A storm at sea ix a terrible thing!"” “It is! 1 don't know of anything else that can tame a radio jazz band | into silence.” NSex Relativity. | limes a« great as it was fifteen vears | A woman wears such flimsy dress, Fach vear her clothes grow less and leas! A man sticks to his baggy togs And on his way serenely jogs. A woman only needs enough Of space for rouge and powder puff. A man in his attire must ask For reom to hide his old hip flask. The Art of Letters. “Your little boy knows his alpha- bet?” : “Yer. We don't think we will edu- cate him much further. He already knows enough to be a radio an- nouncer.” ' Regular Hypothesis. Twinkle, twinkle, little star! How 1 wonder what you From thin nebula vou grow In a picture studio. As a shimmer first you pass With a little puff of gas— Then. publicity afar! Twinkle, twinkle, little sfar “Hoss races in' so uncertain," said Unele Eben, “dat a tip from an enemy is.jes’ as good as one frem a friehd.” for Law Enforcement is to hold ifs sec. | ond natfonal conference in Washing ton April 11-13. Whiie this commit tee was organized some three years | ago. it ha held only one national | conference. That wis two Vears Ao and it was also held in Washington. | Those actively interested in this conference feel that it will have sev- eral unique features. In the first place. it will open on Sunday with a religious meeting, which will take the form of a great praver meeting. Si multaneously there will bhe similar meetings held in 30 States, If pos sible, the proceedings of the Wash- ington meeting will be broadcast | through the radio. If this cannot be done, it is planned to make use of the | Afp :Mail: Service’ to_transmfit reselu. | tions passed by the Washington con ference. | Mre. Henry W. Peabody, general chairman of the mational committee, is tremendously elated over these si multaneous meetings. The idea orig- | inated in California, it being realized | that it would be impossible for a great | many women to make the long trip East. Ry having these simultaneous | meetings those women who are un- able to come to Washington are still able to participate in the movement. | The Woman's National Committee | for Law Enforcement has affiliated | with it nine national women's organ- izations with a combined membership of 12.000,000. Besides these who are officially affliated with the commit tee, there are such women's organ- izations as the Daughters of the | American Revolution and the League of Women Voters, who stand for the | same policies, although their charters | do not permif their affiliution with the | g mittee. he commitiee believes that not open to the sort of attack that | the Anti-Saloon League und other| temperance organizations must meet. This s because it is not highly or- ganized, it is not political and it does not attempt to control. Although it | feels that the prohibition problem is the foremost question of the day, and it ix at present concentrating its ef forts toward the enforcement of this Jaw. it is not strictly a temperance organization. 1t stands for the en- forcement of all law. Method Is Through Education. 1t is endeavoring to conduct an edu cational campaign. It believes that the women of the nation should lift up their voices against lawlessness in the United States. Toward this end, the women are asked to oppose any candi- date for public office whose poiitical history would indicate that his ambi- tions might posstbly override his con- science. As Mrs. Peabody puts it, “We feel that the mayor of a city should be as carefully selected as the superintend- ent of public schools. A candidate for the latter position must be known for his integrity and honesty. Why not | the mun who ix in charge of the af- fulrs of the city?"” The committee has been divided into | various commissions. consisting of 20 members and an advisory committee of experts. The reports of these com missions are to be presented at the Washington conference. The numes of some of the commissions fndicate Just. what lines of study have been pursued. For instance, there is the Yiome Training for Law Observance Commission, which is headed by Mrs. John D. Sherman, president of the | General Federation of Women's Clubs. The Legal Commission hag for its chairman Mrs. Herbert J. Gurney of Boston, who is vice president, Council of Defense, and vice president of the League of Women Voters of Massa- chusetts. ‘An official statement of the commit- tee says: “The Woman's National Committee tor Law Enforcement is to work for enforcement of all law, with special stress at present on the pro- hibition law, the front today where the battle against lawlessness has to he fought.” It also aims to educate the woman citizen to her responsibil- ities. To vefute the possibie implication that this organization is composed en- tirely of a lot of “old cranks,” Mrs. Peabody quotes the names of such women as Mrs. Kathleen Norris, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, jr.. Miss Mary ‘Anderson, Miss Ida Tarbell and Mrs. Gifford Pinchot as members. While the Washington convention is mainly for the. purpose of bringing out the facts accounting. for the im- perfect enforcement of law in the Na- tion, States and communities, it is also expected that many facts will be brought forth to show that remarkable progress has been made despite many stories to the eontrary. Relieve Countiy Nearly Dry. Members of the committee feel that many of the stories of ‘the failure | it is | not | themselves with of the prohibition amendment to the Censtitution are the propa- gapda of the wets, They belleye that all except a small part of the country It ix their opinion that the problem is largely centered in the Fast They seem to be not entirely alone in the belief that the Middle West and he West are dry. These sections are known to be politically dry. An off cial in Washington, who is closely as. sociated with the problem of enfore- ing the Volstend nct, when asked his opinion as to the advisability of allow ing light wines and heer, said. “Well unofficially T would say solution of the problem. However io not believe that there is much chance of their return. The wets are confined largely to the East, the West being atmost solidly politically The Woman's National Committee for Law- Enforéement is atsosa strong advocate of mnew legislation, both State and Federal, which will make the. enforcement of all laws mpre ef- fective. Mrs. Peahody says that there are now pending in Massachusetis several laws of this nature. Up to now they have been functioning nunder laws which are practically obsolete and can be applied to madern infringe- ments. For in nee, she savs that in that State at the present time a per «on cannot be punished for stealing n automobile, because the law. as it stands, provides only for stealing a ho 1 “Know Your art. Women have been urzed to acquaint conditions in their ve been organ ' committees flort to in- ation to do local courts. There h ized “'Know Your Court for this purpose. In an e spire the women of the all they can toward enforcing the law. ve been evolved made into a seri of posters. The first one off the pres: is “Don't e ufraid of politics, muke politics afrald of you.” Another urges the making of our democracy sufe for the Constitution. This national convention of women, coming right now at the time of the wet referendum being conducted by newspapers and associated organiza tions, bids for public interest. The question at issue is of interest fo the public —nearly every one taking sides strongly with one or the other, ———— Art Prices. From the New York World. Much lamentation has been heard abroad that so often America outbids Europe when valuable works of art come up for sale. It is said that we are stripping the Old World of its treasures still held in private hands. 1t ix a question of dollars, not of sen timent or patriotism, when buyers are, =ought. That the Munsey bequest to the Metropolitan Museum. variously esti- mated in tens of millions, will be the cause of souring prices for rare paint ingx and other art objects is (he glovmy prediction of Cecil Reginald Grundy, editor of the Connolsseur. It Mr. Grundy wesns that England and France are destined to see be longings by which they have set greut store across the Atlantic, there are ample grounds for his prophecy. Or if he means that this market promises higher prices than any other, he is ouly speaking by the record. But so fur as the Metropolitan Museum is concerned. it must be said that the museum itself has nof heen a lavish buyer—and for two reasons: It has not been well supplied with funds, and ite rather rigid policy has kept it from being an important competitor of private eoliectors of large means. Tts galleries have been enriched by notable gifts from individuals rather than through its own purchases. If in the future it should command suff- clent resources to acquire valuable paintings and other art objects, as Mr. Grundy expects, it might then exer- cise a power it has never poseessed. . Altitude and Religion. From the Lowell Evening Leader. Doubtless the architects of these skyscraper churches will see to it that there is plenty of room at the top. b A Fancy Role. From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 1t begins to look as if Sir Austen Chamberlain was merely dresser at Locarno. ‘e The F-f-farmers B-b-bill. ¥From the Olflfl’;\::!; City Times. It is heginning tc look as if Con- grossmen seeking re-election will have to. stutter when telling how they have helped the farmers thix might be | dry." | He should not take advantage of his |regal power to punish hix enemies or | {to oppress the weak. It has been written “Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance hurtless breaks “Arm it with rags, and a straw doth plerce it Iimphasizing _that tyranny and that the most hateful of all tyrants is the judicial tyrant Representative Tillman quoted Jeffer son; g | God farm {man." Commending the motto of “‘noblesse oblige® in the davs, of chivalry, Mr. Tilintan painted out that—' =" " "% This gracious doctrine did much to excuse’ dnd justify the exiktence of the feudal nobility during the Dark | | Ages. It recognized the principle that power. rank and place impose duties and obligations as well as they confer priviloges. 1t carries with it the idea that man in official position should recognize the double duty of adminis {ering a trust faithfully; at the same time retain the public confidence. The oficer's honesty and integrity must he unquestionable. He must be im partial and just to all, and particularly generous and helpful to the weak and unprotected. “Noblesse oblige.” This chivalrie doctrine should appeal to every officer clothed with the power that a Federal judge enjoys, and should prompt him to be merciful, polite, courteous, and just to the lowly, rather than to put his iron heel ou the neck of every helpless man he chunces to dislik of justice | " | pigmy's | Americans hate have sworn eternal hostility of tyranny over upon the altar of against every the mind of | and, according to his request, Mr Culbertson was considered for and accepted the appointment as Min- | They finished the long | did “physical condition ment ix likely to test in sp The exper extended to the [ ister to Rumania Representative Colton defended the President’s appointment of Dr. E. B Brossard the Tariff Commission and further said that he altended personally to the famous meeting in Renator Smoot's office when Mr. Cul- arm, If sugar replaces rum as a | stimulant ration the day of the olate soldier,” wlimsicall by Bernard Shaw, wil at hand | < 4 Winter predicted be Conyright. 19 Fifty Y;aars Ago When, upon his accession rank of general of the Army electi of Headquarters Gran 1 Grant to the presi. dency, Gen. Willlam of the Army. 1 gherman moved the headquarters of the Army to St Louis there wae much resentment in this city. An effort was made to re store the traditional status and a bill was introduced in Congress to that effect. In The Star of March 27, 1876, I8 quoted a dispateh from this city to the Baltimore Garette, saving: “Gen. Sherman says that he has not the slightest desire to return to Wash- ington and will not unless compelled to do mo by the passage of Mr. Bar- num's bill, which fixes the head- quarters of the Army in this city. Sherman says that his objections to Washington still remain good. e does not like the Influences of society und he could not live decently vn his pay und Keep up uppearances. Now “lle who the sword of justice wields should be counsiderate as well as severe.” If but one virtue adorns the judiclal officer, It should be an obsesslon for clean-hunded justice. 1f we are beset with an unworthy Federal judicfary, we may expect a fatal weakening of the strongest bulwark of our national existence. The judiciary should be honorable and as far above suspiclon as was the wife of Caesar. If you fling even the appearance of dishonor, unfairness and injustice upon our judges, you discredit the whole ju- dicial structure. The ermine of a fudge should be like a delicate white flower. Tt will not bear a soil. The light that beats on him is fiercer than ever beat upen a throne. If his judicial ermine is spotted and stained, it should be stripped from him. Upon his brow dishonor and officlal cowardice ought to he ashamed to sit. He must not only woo, honor, he must wed it. The judicial oficer should wear the white flower of a blameless life and with strict _integrity and high purpose he should possess patience, dignity, kind- liness and gravity. Kdmund Burke said: “I put the judges In the place of first importance. It s public justice that holds the community together.' On the whole, America has been for- tunate in ‘her high judicial officers. Let me count our rosary in this re- gurd: Marshall, Taney, Lamar, White, Holmes, Brandeis, McReynolds and Taft. x K K x Sounding a “Lest we forget” warn- ing to his colleagues that as the World War recedes into history we must not let the debt we owe to those who fought to hecome coh- webbed in our minds, Representativa Charles H. Brand of Georgia, in pre senting an insurance relief measure, recalled_that— Lord Burleigh said: “Soldiers in time of peace are like chimneys in Summer.” Romanzo said: “After victory the soldier is for- gotten.” Marshal Saxe said: “We are like cloaks—one thinks of us only when it raine.” Emphasizing that it has always heen the private soldiers who hore the brunt of battle, Mr. Brand quoted: Forget not all their sufferings, eir sorrows and their pr: This hard-won beritage is ours, perils all were theirs. Pope sal “Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers, too. 1n one of the state papers of Presf. dent Lincoln, one of the great charac- ters of the ages, he says: “Great honor is due to officers who and most important fact of all is the universal fitness of the common soldlers and common saflors.” Robert E. Lee, the greatest soldier of anclent or modern times, and who vanks with Bonaparte n militar; genius and strategic skill, and whose name fs greatest in the hearts of his countrymen, found llv his pleasure and pride te homor the private! soldler, dhd that it 18 proposed to reduce his pay nearly one-hslf und require him tv have his quarters iu Washington, le doesn’t know what he will do. lie says, however, that he will wait until Con- gress settles the question before giving & positive answer as to his future in- tentions."” The Star in rejoinder says: “The public are getting a little tired of this Sherman baby-talk about the Inability to live decently in Washing- ton on his ample pay, or to bring up a family respectably here on account of the contaminating influences of Washington. This sort of assertion is a slander upon the thousands of re- spectable families in public and private lite that are maintained decently and reputably in Washington, uncontami- nated by soclety influences, and on an income vastly less than the comfort. able pay received by the general of tha Army. The truth is thers is no city In the Union whera the mere pos- session or expenditure of money does a0 little to give position in the best soclety as in Washington: and there is no city where a public man can regulate his expenditures to suit his means or tustes with such perfect free- dom as in Washington: and Gen. Sher- man’s puerile talk about the low tone of Washington soclely is elevated to & pitch of absurdity when it 1s re- membered that he selects St. Louls, that headquarters of crooked whisky and emporium of pork, as the city of all American cities in which to find the arcadian society, neat but not gaudy, his soul pines for. To the refining and ennobling influences of that so- clety, made up of wealthy distillers and pork packers, he thinks a family can be intrusted, to be brought up purely, decently and reputabl every one to his own tastes.” - % Prior to the centennial exposition of 1876 there had never b;en a complete adequate a The Government rmmu. of ,;‘1. i dences of the at Philadelphia. T55%° o 4 TUnited States Government at any one point. That great fair was regarded s an ideal opportunity for such a dis- Play, especially as it was to com- memorate the signing of the Decla- ration of Independence, and thus the organization of this Nation. The Star of April 1, 1876, says: “The centennial committee has very properly reported in favor of a suitable appropriation to enable the executive departments of the Govern- ment to make a respectable show- ing at Philadelphia. The House appropriations committee, which has not particularly distinguished itselt for liberality, will now be called upon to indorse or disapprove this recommendation. It is a notorious fact that while Americans as indl- viduals, and forelgn governments, are the window | remain true, but the greatest honor | making extensive preparations for a creditable exhibit, the United States, as a government, has as yet done scarcely anything except to give a cer- taln sum toward defraying the ex- penses of the exhibition. With an adequate appropriation the various de- | partments and the Smithgonian Insti- tution could make a mosi Interesting exhibit. The Smithsonian, for in- stance, could send to Phlmrbh a pollection ©of instructive ositieg [] | | This and That By Charles el Last week mised to o rised to consider today - the intellectua ane <1 barian of hetan | o e We have deci however, 1 those who are i elligent l‘r‘nr,:h) !:k' cats will not need 1o he told ahot it so we will this sp the subject piracilits TWhy Cats Kill Birds n the first place, cats do not kill HalE 5k miiny . eueaine an e enemies charge them with. To listen .1\ some of the “‘cat hater: one would magine that felines were ahout dh‘rul\! nature. We have never vet seen a cat go along the street with a sack of hirdg hung around iis neck. 5 AS a matier of faer, jt n vears and years since we have meen an{_ \'Bl! \\\hu[.\ufi\s-y‘ kill any bird. No doubt, in country distriets, e do catch Lirds, and eat them. ten with much gusto. That the birds are in any dunger of extinction. howevar we ubsolutely refuse to beileve ' We have seen too many birds fly A cut is un agile creuture. but Le | distinetly takes second rank to w bird uny bird. songster or otherwise. We ure not entirely sure that & bird that gets caught by a cat does not deser ve its fate, in the complex scheme of living, which a not altogether kinaly nature Seems to have set up. Mr. Emerson, we belleve. had a few words to say on this subjec . In which he recalled that a river would fnst as soon drown a child or a saint as thé most hardened sinne, xowow On tha other hand, cats do muc to help_ agriculture.” throusn Fooi: mouse-catching proclivities. The En. cyclopedia Americana is authority for the statement that if it wers not for <, agricultu y cad «:1‘:14 ture in this country could Perhaps, too. the ord cat_‘actually heipa our countre when it drags down some of the birds, no- tably the sparrows, which are unani. mously regarded as pests. A bird which men regard as in- jurious, grain eaters and the like, i Just as acceptable to a cat aw one of the good birds that destroy worms which In turn are inimlcal to the best interests of munkind. cat 1s not selective when to birds. Our cat friends )..[.tx:o:‘:.: us that & bLird in the paw is worth :; ltehulth in the bush, or 1,000 e tree, or 10,000 o 4 phone wire. St ® simply cannot hold a picture of any cat of our acqua : to himselt e s e “Hold on, old fellow! Yonder bird upon which you ate mow. crespine with the finest technique of the creep. ing art, is a friend of man “Hold back thy murderons paw therefore, and seek yvonder grain.eat- ing chirper, who ail will agree de serves death, and that right speedily.” The point in all this simply is that the statistics aiming to show how many birds cats kill annually are grossly exaggerated. Figures cannet lie, but they often do, as the saving is, * x % % Finally, we feel quite sure that if We were a cat (some of our friends say we are turning into one) we would kill all the birds we could. We love the normal in all things, and it is perfectly normal for a cat to kill a bird, and eat it. too. A cat that will not catch a_bira has something the matter with it poor fellow, just the same @s has the bird that will not catch a worm} A dog that will not chase a ecat has had its education sadly neglected. ‘Worm-—bird—cat—dog- ‘We are reminded of the ¢ld rhyme: oon. eir b :‘3 little And #0 ov. we d devate G which would be viewed with great in- terest and profit by every visttor, The same might be said of the exhibits of, the Indian Bureau. Bareau of Educa. tlon, General Land Office. the Patent Office, ete. It is to be hoped the ap. propriations committee will act favor. ably and act at once, as it is apparent there ia no time to lose.”