Evening Star Newspaper, May 16, 1926, Page 58

2 IHE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (.. MAY 16, 1926—PART 2. EVERYDAY RELIGION BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D, LL. D.. THE EVENING STAR ___With Sundsy Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY..........May 16, 1026 THEODORE W. NOYES. . TheEvening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: xeé;:?offi' ((5&1.?'"?3’ kfi,fif‘:“- Buropesn ‘Offce: 14 Regent St.. London, ‘Englen The Evening Star. with the Sunuay morn- (g etition, 1§ delivered by carriers within 1@ elty at' 60 cents per month: daily only, 45 cents per month: Sunday only. 20 cente r month. Orders may be sent by mail or lephone Main 5000. Collection is made by sarrier at the end of each month. Editor Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. . Maryland and Virginis. Zr:t!y ,’lr!,l{rsundn!. = } g 2!;08 } rl:g : 50:‘ Sunday only "Il 157,$3.00 1 mo! 28¢ All Other = and Bund PR as ouly tates and Canada, 13r., $12.00: 1 mo., $1,00 13r. 3800t 1mo " be iy mo.. 4.00: 1 8¢ Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled 1> the uge for republication of all news dis- natshes credited 1o it or not otherwiss cred- =3 in this paper and alse the local news rublished herein. Al rights of publication ©f spscial dispatches hereln are also reserved. Suny $11,500 Needed for Charity. Whatever the cause, whether un isually protracted Winter weather or in exceptional lack of employment in ihe District this season, the cost of the charity work in Washington is iuuch greater this year than last. It < estimated that the needs of the \ssoclated Charlties and the Citizens' Itellef Association for this present or- zanization year, which closes Septem- her 30. will be at least $11,500 greater han in 1 This increase during trict business, and then be given the earliest possible attention in the Sen- ate. The situation at the Police Court is notoriously bad. The space avallable for the preliminary examination of witnesses is inadequate. Tho court rooms are too small, the jury rooms are unsuitable, the cells for the hold- ing of prisoners pending trial are dis- gracefully restricted. Recently a re- porter for The Star passed through the court in the guise of a prisoner, on his way to an investigatory visit to the jail, in order to ascertain at first hand tho actual conditions of the local penal institution. Iis veport demonstrated\ghe need of immediate additions to thé equipment in both places. The jail extension has already been provided for. No less essential is an enlargement of the Folice Court. 1t & new building is provided for the use of the Police Court it should not be placed upon Judiciary Square, as has been suggested. t park should not be further trespassed upon for building sites. The new Police Court should bo located on other land. per- haps in extenslon of the present site, which is suitable in point of general situation. Whether an_entirely new building is erccted, or “merely an addition to the court as it stands. this present session should not be permitted to close without action that will give the District a proper housing for this busy court. - e Bus Lines and Pavements. Commissioner Bell will in a few days submit to Congress a recom- mendation that the local bus com- panfes pay, #.. some rate to be deter- mined, a share of the cost of main- taining the street pavements, which ihe first seven months of the year, to May 1, has been, for service, $867.06. and for relief, $5,352.86, or a total of 219.92. The estimate of an annual increase of $11,500 is based upon this experience during more than half the vear. Tnless the people of Washington respond to the present appeal of the sssoclations for funds there will be of necessity a serious curtafiment of the relief work that they conduct. ‘They cannot be carried on without funds. The early exhaustion of the ources now in hand is threatened. This means that many people who are 10w being aided, some of them wholly -uetained, by the relief granted by hese efficient bodies, must be Jeft without assistance, left to suffer in sickness, left without food or fuel, without shelter. Tt is well to note again two figures ~lready given, that of the excess of the cost of service and that of the excess of cost of relief during the past seven months. Of this addition of $7.219.92 since October 1 last the extra cost of service has been only a#bout twelve per dent. That repre- ~ents broadly the percentage of the “service” cost. In other words, of every dollar given to the Assoclated Charities and the Citizens’ Relief Association eighty-eight cents goes directly for relief, and only twelve cents for administration and distribu- tion. That is an assurance to the people that whatever they give is i chiefly, almost wholly, for the meeting of the actual needs of the un- tortunate ones. . This present appeal for funds, to prevent a deficit, or rather to ensure the continuance of the relief work that is so essential unless scores of yeople suffer, should be promptly and fully met. Washington should not lear the shame of being unable or unwilling to support a work that is «ll that stands between certain of the inhabitants of the Capital and bitter «istress, perhaps death. N The Norge Arrives. The news flashed yesterday I Nome that the airship Norge had landed at Teller. Alaska. gave a feel- of relief to millions of people and must have given a thrill of satisfac- ion to those who are interested in Aretie exploration and who have taken 4 particular interest in the fortune «f the Amundsen-Ellsworth party. The news brought keen joy to the tamilies and friends of the seventeen Juen of the airship. Teller is a small settlement on the south shore of Port Clarence, sixty map measure, northwest of It lies Letween the 166th and 167th meridians of longitude and be- 1ween the 65th and 66th parallels of atitude. The country is mountain- ous, but the cartographer shows the liay shore level at Teller, and it prob- bly slopes evenly from the foothills «f the Kiglualk Mountains to the water. ‘Rome to Nome” may be revised to “Rome to Teller,” but it does not hyme. Amundsen and his Norge- 'auts will enter Nome in triumph, and 10 doubt will fly there from Teller in he Norge. Teller will take its place 5 one of the landing points of the ureat voyage, but it seems secure in fame as the first landing of the firat vovagers from Europe to America by 1he North Pole route. Teller be- «omes an historic place. Details of the landing and the rea- son for low speed or long time and silence of the Norge's wireless be- 1ween Point Barrow on the Arctic and ~eward Peninsula on Bering Sea have not come to Waehington at this inoment, but the facts will be sent through air and wires almost with 1he speed of light when they have heen collected. It is a memorable achievernent— this flight from Spitzbergen over the North Pole to Alaska—and will be a mark for thousands of years in the histery of navigation and discover R Patience is rewarded by the radio. The listener finds that very few songs are as foollsh as their titles. ———. A New Police Court. Passage at the present session of Congress of the bill now pending pro- viding for the erection of an addition 1o the Police Court is urgently neces- sary to relieve a shameful condition, which is increasingly menacing the peace of Washington. Such a meas. ure has already received the ap proval of the Touse District com- mittee. It should have right of way @l the earliest session of the Hou-kot command twenty or thirty thou-|new money f'um hookin' l'evcv.ed to the consideraticn of Dis. san@ wlrr!ors, well armed. perfectly -foolishness.* their regular and heavy use serves to wear and break. The proposition will doubtless meet with favor by those who drive and with disfavor by the companies that maintain bue lines. It 1s difficult to see how the reasonable- ness of the suggestion can be refuted. These great motors impose a heavy wear on the pavements. They sun on established routes and these streets quickly become pitted with holes and corrugated with humps. It is evi- dent to any person who drives along a bus-route street that the public ve- hicles &re putting the heaviest wear upon the surfaces. Street railway companies are re- quired to keep in repair the pavements for a specified space about their tracks. They have borne this expense for years. The bus lines, however, have no tracks to maintain. The ‘whole of the streets to which they are aesigned are for their use and that use is exceptionally destructive. The companies are making a profit out of selling transportation to the public and without the expense of laying and maintaining tracks. In one manner the bus companies are already contributing to the cost of street paving, through their pay- ment of the tax on gasoline, which they use in great quantities. Tt may be argued that they are, therefore, now bearing some measure of the cost of street maintenance. But it may be questioned whether, owing to the size and welght of their vehicles, their gas tax payments are proportionate to their share of the pavement wear. As long as busses are being oper- ated in Washington along fixed routes and are unquestionably doing more than their share of breaking down the pavements, there will be a demand that they pay a special tax, to go into the street repair funds. It is no less than justice that street use for profit should be paid for in terms of a pro- portionate bearing of the cost of re- pairing the damage incident to such use. - moe—n Tither Wan is guilty of murder or hie is not. The hardships to which he 1as bheen subjected would represent adequate punishment for a crime of considerable seriousness. Delay in de- termining his responsibility has al- ready consumed a large portion of his lifetime. The poetic protest against “the law's delay” finds a modern ap- plication in the case of this well-nigh friendless young Orlental. ——at— ‘Wilhelm Hohenzollern's demand for ancestral lands indicates an astute rec- ognition of the fact that a realtor may become as influential as an emperor. ——————— Russia was once a remote and se- cret country, resentful of foreign in- trusion. Tt is now one of the greatest advertisers on the world map. — st o That the U. S. A. is a music-loving Nation is demonstrated by the ease with which a honeymoon is utilized as a song advertisement. —o—t The Seed of Senzangakona. Bullamo, hereditary prince of Zulu- land, iz in the southern part of the United States studying educational and vocational conditions among American negroes. When he returns to South Africa, he says, he will establish the same line of work among his people. It is & far cry from the days of Cheka the Lion, Senzangakona’s son, to the activities of the peaceful Bullamo, yet but a century as time files. Historlans and tacticians agree that Chaka, whose blood flows in the present prince’s veins, was not only one of the most monstrously cruel and ruthless of men, but one of the world's great natural strategists. In Bullamo's veins flows also the blood of Dingaan, the treacherous, he who murdered Retief and his follow- ers and was, in turn, conquered by the outraged Boers; and of Panda the Peaceful, while King Cetewayo, de- scribed as almost the reincarnation of Chaka, he who inflicted the terrible defeats on the English at Isandhl- wana and at Rorke's Drift in the late 70’s, was the present traveler’'s father. No captives, so far as known, were ever brought to the New World from Zululand, which, lying near the south- ernmost point of Africa, was far be- yond the slave trader's usual haunts. Representatives of no tribe as brave, us intelligent. as powerful physically and in many respects as chivalrous me to these shorer. Where ¢ Chaka's and Celewayo's 1oar at Gl drilled and describing themselyes as “the king’s kiné, bred to be butcher- ed,” charged in close formatfon, the very considerable remnant of the na- tion follows peaceful agrarian pur- sults or finds employment in the ‘great diamond mines. The visiting prince will undoubtedly find that whatever seeds he takes home from this side of the Atlantic will bear abundant fruit. +oors Flying Plans. Rene Fonck, the French flying ace, has mapped out an ambitious pro- gram. Tollowing his flight this Sum- mer, when he will attempt to win the Raymond Ortelg $25,000 prize for the first continuous airplune journey from New York to Paris, he has announced t he will next seek fame by a trip over the peak of Mount Everest, which towers 29,002 feet into the sky. Another TFrench aviator, Lieut. Calizo, holder of the world's altitude record, which Lieut. MacReady of the United States Army has tried in vain to break, will likewise make the at- tempt to fly over Mount Everest, the top of which has never been seen by human eyes. With the North Pole conquered by Comdr. Byrd and Amundsen in the Norge, via the air- rout plans for other spectacular and science-ad- vancing flights are greeted with ex- ceptional public interest. If Fonck succeeds in his New York-to-Paris flight another epic of the air will be written, while success in skimming the tip of the world's highest moun- tain will automatically wipe out the “‘unknown’ mark in regard to Mount Everest and place it with the explored portions of the globe. Mount Everest, with its inaccessi- bility, its climate and its peculiar sur- roundings, has been a perpetual chal. lenge to the adventurous spirit of ex- plorers. )-:mbomt:‘}y equipped expedi- tions have failed in their efforts to scale its peak, although the latest at. tempt was marked by reaching the highest altitude on foot ever recorded. Within less than 2,000 feet of the top the intrepid explorers were forced to call a halt on account of the death of two of their comrades and storms of such fury that further progress w impossible, Airmen have now turned their at- tention to this formidable task and it would appear that they stand perhaps a better chance of success than those who laboriously attempt it on foot. Danger and peril, however, will at- tend any effort and glory will go to the ultimate tictor over one of the world's last remaining unexplored areas. New York and Brooklyn have been compared to Sodom and Gomorrah. Every effort is being made to padlock and otherwise restrain the haunts of reckless gayety in this new world. A metropolis is under acute and censori- ous observation, such as rural com- munities escape. It may be found that vice is on the way toward a clas- sification as “small town stuff. r—o—t———— The servant problem is recognized as serious the world over. A courte. ous sympathy is due Great Britain in her frank distress because of inability to get along with her hired help. Pr: tical advice in matters of so domestic a nature is not easily offered. ———eee ‘When Rome {8 rebuilt according to Mussolini’s plans there will probably be an investigation demanded to dis- close who got the benefit of inside real estate information. ———— e Many a “strike” is caused largely by the feeling that it is up to an elab- orate and rather expensive organiza- tion to do something to demonstrate its reason f —oe s A long, hard Winter followed by pring drought justifies the farmer in demanding relief, with more hope from a beneficent - Providence than from Congress. .o There are enough international ques- tions continually arising to assure the ‘World Court a crowded docket when it gets under way. —_—— In adjusting her fuel negotiations Great Britain shares the general hope that we ave in for a warm, comfort- able Summer. e SHOOTING STARS. BY PRILANDER JOHNSON The Message. Throughout the year each draws near A message to disclose, Some gentle and the rest severe- In June time comes the Rose. month It brings redress for all the stress Of our familiar woes. Who shall deny life's loveliness” In June time comes the Rose A Success. Was the investigation a success?”’ 1l say it was,” answered Senator Sorghum. ‘I managed to be in the spotlight about two-thirds of the time.” The Radioad. This is an era of romance, ‘Where radio artists fine advance To make each thing I wear or eat Remind me of a tune so sweet! Jud Tunkins says a man who is al- ways announcing that he is about to tell you a funny story soon loses his reputation for truth and veracit Not a Riser. “Our boy Josh is liable to disagree with us” said Mrs. Corntossel. “You must remember he belongs to the ris- ing generation.” 3 3 “He doesn’t,” responded the Farmer. “I{e never wants to get up.before 10 am.” Idle Luxury. 1 long in splendor to be shut Secure mid worldly worth. And vet T would not be King Tut For anything on earth. fool und his money,” said Uncle 1, Car don't bring no advice ‘bout preventin’ up W‘ new soon part but de proverh | Bishop of “In Remembrance of Me.” 8t. Luke, xeli.19 To do something that will last, that will be remembered, {s the normal de- sire of every man. This hus charac terized human endeavor from the be ginning of time. The world is liter- ally full of memorials that witness either to the self-esteem of some com- manding figure or to the admiration in. which men held him. When Da- rius the Great would leave behind him some enduring memorfal of his achievements, he had the record carved on the Behistun Rock, high above the plains. Through the long centurles this enduring rock has stood, witnessing to the achievements of one Who carved his way to fame with the edge of the sword. No memorial that the world con- tains was yndertaken in greater ob- scurity than that which the Master instituted in the little upper room in a far Eastern town. Gathering to- gether His disciples, e sat at the eve- ning meal with them, and as it drew on toward {ts close He took the frag- ments of bread that were on the table, broke them into pleces and gave to cach disciple, with the words, “This is My body which Is given for you: this do in remembrance of Me.” Follow- Ing this He took the cup, and, filling it with wine, He gave it to each man, saying, “This cup is the New Testa- ment in My blood, which is shed for you: do this, as oft as ye shall drink it, in remembrance of Me. The scene was strangely homely and sim- ple. The company at the table com- prised a small body of intimate friends. Probably to them, at the first, the whole ceremony was meaningles They had no knowledge of what was impending, even though the discourse of the Master had been touched with solemnity coupled with the prophecy of His imminent death. Bewildered by all that they had heard, they could hardly grasp the significance of His latest act in giving them “the cup of remembranc No chronicler of the times, as he viewed this small com- pany, would have dared to predict that at was taking place in that upper room was to become, in the course of time, the greatest memorial ever in- stituted: From that obscure place there was to go forth an institution in the form of a perpetual memorial that was to lay its tender claims upon the hearts and minds of men in all places and throughout all times. There is nothing comparable to it rechrded in the annals of history. Down to this latest hour the profound sfgnificance and import of this act of Christ has hardly been fully comprehended by the mind of man. Witnessing a uni- versal custom that has grown out of this institution, we are awed and amazed by lts prevailing practice. No single ceremony in the church min- istry has a deeper or finer significance than that which we designate ‘‘the Tarmers of the United States may think they are not getting a square deal from Congress in the matter of relief legislation, but those of them who visit the National Sesquicenten- nial exposition in Philadelphia will see an impressive exhibit of what the Government has done and {s doing to bulld up the agricultural Industry of i the Nation. This exhibit will be in what will be called the Transportation Building, and will occupy floor space slightly in excess of 20,000 square feet. partment of Agriculture has but $8 000 to expend in making its showing, large part of its expert personnel— plunners, designers, artists, colorists, draftsmen and mechanics—and those in charge say that a comprehensive study will be presented of the de- velopments in American agriculture during the past 160 years, the period since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It will be a big, {ilustrated story, the keynote of which is “The Awaken- ed Farmer,” a picture of the modern husbandman with a tyactor and gang- plow, that is representative of the striking progress that has been made in farm methods. machjnery and lahor. Carrying out this idea. the Bureau (of Home Lconomics will have a model ! tarmhouse, fuily equipped with every- thing that makes for efficier nd comfort_in an up-to-date rural dence. Plans of the house, or of the same house with slight variations, to- gether with cost estimates, will be available for free distribution, or may be procured for a nominal fee. The same bureau will present nutrition budget studies and will also have an exhibit of dresses that will be of great interest to farmers’ wives. A mintature revolving stage will show five settings, each with two models about 80 inches in helght, which will delineate styles that are good and at the same time economical. Synchronized with the movement of the stage will be a projector that will throw upon a screen all the information necessary as to costs, ma- terials, etc. Dairy and Animal Exhibits. One of the most interesting exhivits promised is that depicting the prog- ress that has been made in dairying. The store of the last 50 years will be told in five-year periods, with the developmept of the cream separator, the Babcock test, pasteurization and all the features that combine to as. sure consumers the best of milk and other dairy products at a minimum of labor and a maximum of profit to the farmer. Along with this will be an exhibit of the Bureau of Animal Industry that will show the progress that has been made in the breeding, feeding and marketing of live stock, the elimination of tuberculosis, the inspection of animals and meat, and ike. lh';hle forestry exhibit will stress the idea that trees are a crop and will present the history of American for- ests in four epochs. The first \\:fll depict the forest primeval, as it was known to ‘the Indians and the first whites to come to this country. The second will show the rapld rise of the lumber industry and the wastage and depletion of forests that went along with that. The third will vi ualize the tragedy of forest fires and emphasize the most effective methods of fire prevention and fire fighting. The fourth will present the solution of the forestry problem through con- tion. - .crAv‘modol weather station will be reproduced by the Weather Bureau, showing how this branch of the Gov- ernment service which is so vitally information and then disseminates it. Closely allied with this will be the exhibit that explains all about crop estimates, market conditions' and the like, and how these data are distribut- ed where they will do the most good. How the farmer does or should guard his stock and crops, against the ravages of his natural enemies, wild animals, rabbits, pocket gophers, rodents, insects and other pests, will e graphically presented. Methods of ' eradicating Dolsonous plants from live stock ranges will be explained, as well us the combatiag and control )f plant diseaxes, Iertilit (hrpughout the United States will be revealed in a series of soil surveys, and the fertilizing problem will be presented in all its aspects, In fact, THE AWAKEN BY FREDERIC, J. HASKIN. The De- | but it is utilizing the services of a conditions | ! W ashington. Holy Communion.” From this sacra- nental service more comfort and peace have come to the troubled hearts of men than from any other ministry the church has to give. Tt is the one sin- gle sacrament that is universally rec- ognized and that serves to emphasize the essentiul unity of those who be- lleve in the sovereignty of Christ. However men may differ in expres- sions of belief, here, at this table of one common Lord, they find the touch- stone of unity and the expression of their essentlal fellowship. ‘That Christ should have taken one of the home- liest and most familiar incidents of our life's experfence. and lifted it into the place of a pérpetual memorial of His work and sacrifice is deeply sig- nificant. The table is, in & very real sense, the place of our self-disclosure. It is the scene of life's greatest intimacies. About the common board of our house- hold we disclose to one another the deeper and truer things of our nature. Here the artificlal and superfictal forgotten and we stand self-revealed. The board is the place where the inti- macles of friendly intercourse are con- splcuously disclosed. Each family sits as o unit at its own table. Tt was this common and universal usage that Christ Jifted to the highest plane of distinction by assoclating with it that one supreme memorial of His own sac- rificfal death. Meeting around His table, we forget all distinctions. We lay aside our conceits, our prejudices, our bigotries, and we merge our in- terests as we partake of that which, in Fis language, represents His hroken body and shed blood. “In remer- brance of Me" is & language that we all understand. One of the finest illustrations of the deep value and unifying power of this great service was witnessed one night in a Southern camp, to which word had been sent that the men were to embark on the morrow for overseas. Amid the bustle and stir and’the eager preparation for speedy departure, the word went abroad that at 3 in the morning, before entraining, the Holy Communton would be celebrated by Catholic and Protestant. In the early morning the long lines of men in khakl stood reverently waiting to en- ter the bulldings where the great sac- rificlal service was to be held. There was a quiet that pervaded the whole {camp, and each man was awed into silence as he went forward to partake of the symbols of the broken body and shed blood of Christ. They were going | {torth on a perilous errand. They knew not what lay beyond the great sea: they were leaving behind every inter- est that was nearest and dearest to them. There was 1o opportunity for « last farewell to those they loved. In such an hour their one great need was supplied #s they went to the board of their great Master to hear Him say 2""“"" “Do this in remembrance of Me." ‘D FARMER there is not a phase of the farmer's life and activities that will not touched upon by the departmen hibits. ' The Bureau of Public Roads, in its section, will interest not only farm- ers, but the urban population as well. Road construction in all its aspects wiill be depicted, and a big feature will be a relief map that will show every major highway in the United States. If this latter could be repro- | duced, no tin-can tourist would be without one. 2 ex- Other Government Exhibits. Congress, in providing for the Gov- | ernment’s participation in the Phila deiphia _exposition, stipulated that there should be exhibited “by the Government of the United States from its executive departments, independent offices and establishments such ar- ticles and materials as illustrate the function and administrative faculty of the Government tending to demon- strate the nature of our institutions and their adaptation to the wants of the people and the progress of our people in the advancement of peace, arts and industries. To do this the sum of $2.186,500 was appropriated. Of this amount $1,000,000 was for the construction { of buildings. not to exceed $330,000 | for participation by the’ Navy Depart- { ment. not to exceed ,000 for par- | ticipation by the War Department, {and the remainder for exhibits by the other departments and the general expenses of the exposition. Admiral | H. O. Stickney was designated as commissioner, ‘and the various de- partments have named contact of- ficers who are responsible for the planning, preparation and display of their respective exhibits. IEach de- partment also has a committee ap- pointed to co-operate with the contact officers in organizing subject matter, data, materials, specimens and such other things as are necessary to the exhibits. More Than 100,000 Square Feet. Government exhibits will occupy the east end of the Transportation Building, with a space that has a gross area of more than 100,000 square feet. There will be the dis- plays by the Departments of State, Commerce, Interior, Justice, Treas- ury, Labor and Agriculture, and by the Shipping Board, Smithsonian In- stitution, Veterans’ Bureau, Arts Commission, Aeronautics Advisory Board. Federal Board for Vocational Education, Civil Service Commission and Panama Canal Commission. The Post Office, War and Navy exhibits will he outside the Trans- portation Building. The Navy exhibit will be at the League Island Navy Yard, which immediately adjoins the exposition grounds. In March, a year ago, President Coolldge issued a proclamation in which he invited the nations of the world to take part in the Sesquicen- tennial exposition, “for the purpose of exhibiting the progress of the United States and other nations in art, sclence and industry, in trade and commerce, and the development of the products of the air, the soil, the mine, the forest and the seas.” The ac- ceptances received, it is said, insure an array of exhibits which in con- junction with those of this country will make the Sesquicentennial a memorable one among world exposi- tions. ] Search Warrant Needed. From the Binghamton Press They are telling an unpleasant story in Berlin about the former kaiser. It isn't, however, very amusing to German lovers of royalty. : It is sald that the jeweled crown of the late Queen Augusta, the kaiser’'s ! important to the farmer secures its |first wife, disappeared. As it belonged |\atching her chance, my mother—16, to the kingdom of Prussia and was valued at $875,000, detectives were employed to search for it. They traced it, so they say, to the “palace” at Doorn where the little Princess Hermine wore it when she ‘was married to the bewhiskered exile from Potsdam. Whether true or ‘not, the story seems characteristic enough. Wil- helm, in his palmy days, ran a close second to the French monarch who said, “I am the State.” The kaiser | really thought he was the state. | And the unpleasant feature of the fair. for the friends of the German republic, is the fact that Wilhelm, from all accounts, stil lieves that he was, and of right o German state. l l'in that opening in the ‘I Mrs. Capital Sidelights | Senator Reed of Missouri pro- pounded this query to his colleagues last Thursday: “Under what clause of the Constitution does the ment get any right to say th bhird that picks up a grubworm the State of Kansas and flies across the State of Missourl and swallows the worm |is engaged in interstute commerce? St further continuing his pic- turesque attack on the migratory bird bill, Senator Reed said: “Two or three times the Suprems Court has held that that which iy manufactured for the purpose of cominerce and sent in interstate commerce cannot be controlled at the souree of its creation; hut if a blue Jay perches himself on top of a bit of Kansas alfalfa and then flies over fnto Missouri, he is an inter- state commerce agency, if not an interstate commerce commission The blue Jay may have heen hatched in* Kansas and never got outside the State; and If he ie killed in the nest where he was hatched, It is inter- state commerce.” * %k the spirit of nature is pulsing through the blood—cven of members of Congress, as witness these remarks made by Represent tive William L. Carss of Minnesota in support of the bill to preserve the king of fresh-water game fish. the black bass, which passed both Sen- ate and House last week “One morning 1 was sitting on my dock, which extends out into the most beautiful lake in the world, up in northern Minnesota. “Like Ancient Pistol, I was watch ing to see the ‘dawn break yonder' and as I watched that faint corona of light grow brighter and brighter, 1 wondered if the statement I had | heard on the stump regarding ths wealth in the United States were true. I wondered if 15 per cent of the peopla of the United States had seen 35 per cent of those glorious sunrises and sunsets. 1 wondered if that 15 per cent had looked into the eves of 85 per cent of the true, virtuous, loving women of the United States, had felt 85 per cent of the soft warm baby arms around their negks, had eaten 85 per cent of the roasting ears and purple grapes, had caught 85 per cent of the black bass that were caught in the United States last year. “See, now, where the light has grown stronger and all the high clouds are lighted up with the rays of the rising sun until the whole heavens resemble the interfor of an iridescent opalescent sea shell “Iet us get into the boat and go along the lake shore, past that point where the old dead cedar projects over the water surrounding a perch for the kingfisher. Turn around into this little bay and get up to within about 50 or 60 feet of the growth of rushes and lfly pads. Now take vour little light casting rod with your smooth-running reel and vour little taper line and pork rind, spinner, or plug, reel up until your bait is within 4 foot and one-half from the end of the rod. Then pull it over to the left and give it that little twist to the right and watch the plug as it soars out. Keep vour thumb lightly on the spool and drop the bait right lily pads just those big rushes. See the Iy puds lift; feel that thrill in your wrist and arm! What is that that comes out of the water” *The gamest, scrap- plest fighter that ever wore scales. Tighten the line and set the hook. I will get the canoe out into deep water, so he cannot get under that old snag. Now play him. See him jump and shake his head in a vain attempt to loosen the hook. Now, reel him carefuily. Look out for him when he rees the boat. He will be scared. There he goes! Keep a little strain on the line, now turn him, reel him in slowly. He is_about con- quered. Lead him up alongside the boat. Keep his head under water| antil T get him in the net. Now look him over.' See how the newly risen sun lights up his beautiful colors, and ask yourself the question, ‘Do 15 per cent of the people of these United States own §5 per cent of the wealth?' “There is some wealth that does not consist in stocks and bonds and securities, mansions and limousines, jewels and silks and luxuries. Let us conserve what is left of the wealth that is not owned or controlled b the 15 per cent.” * ok ow X These day: by The great Daniel Webster when Secretary of State received a_present of several llamas from the Peruv government, and for more than a cen- tury repeated efforts have been made to engraft them into our husbandry. Dr. Mohler, chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry of the Department of Agriculture, has just advised some Western members of Congress, But “hope springs eternal in the human_breast,” Dr. Mohler finds, in spite of the fact that the llamas and alpacas are apparently inadaptable to our climate and elevation, these im- portations proving futile. A Western enthusiast is determined to make an- other attempt to establish these hardy, hairy animals as part of our agricul- tural industry. *uwn Following the custom of members of Congress to boost their home State on every possible occasion, Sen- ator Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee recently put into the Congressional Record two prize-winning speeches on “Know Tennessee.” One of these in throwing & flashlight upon the strong characters of that State reminds us of great national heroes. It say “Outstanding characters were devel- oped when we were only a territory, only to become more potent in world affaira when we became a part of the United States in June, 1788. Much time could be given to Jackson, Polk, Johnson, Sevier, Houston, Crockett, Torrest ‘and Davis, but let it suffice that the outstanding individual hero of all wars in which he fought was Tennessee's Andrew Jackson; the out- standing individual here of the war for Texas independence was Tennes- see's Davy Crockett; the outstanding individual hero of the Civil War was Tennessee's Sam Davis, and the out- standing individual here of the great World War was Tennessee's Alvin York.” ok K X The great Stephen A. Douglas came close to the life of Representative Richard Yates of Illinois, illustrious son of a still more illustrious sire. Mr. Yates recalls that his mother was mar- ried when she was not quite 17 years old and tells of her acquaintance with Douglas, as follows: When my mother was 16, i. e., 1838, Willlam Brown entertained— my grandmother would not permit her to o until promised that Mrs. Brown would see that she got home all right. At the close of the party Mrs. Brown said to my mother, “Catherine, I have arranged that & very nice young man will take you home. Mr. Stephen A. Douglas will walk home with you.” My mother sald, “Oh, Mrs,-Brown, never had an escort in my life”; and, vou know—slipped out of the back door—and ran all the way home. Years afterward, March, 1851, my mother accompanied to Washington her husband, the young Congressman, Yates, and immediately met United States Senator Stephen A. Douglas. He recognized her and said, “Run- away, what are you going to make Your husband, governor or Senator?” The reply was, “Both, T hope, Mr. Senator.” Who can tell-who shall say—but that those quick. quiet, low-toned w uttered by Senator Douglas ted as o pledge or vow and urged | her to help in making governor and @ Senator out of her husband with t to be, the la resolution etherwise lacking or | builder: fnactive? “D MEN AND ntil the latter part of last July AFFAIRS 7. SMALL. One has only to cross the borde. there were four men living who had|line of Kentucky these days to kno been Democratic « dent of the Uj - Presi At the same time there was one Republican | fre President President, and Mr, one Chief Republican Justice Taft. | he is in the home of the thoroughbre i State In the enthralls the to the other rucing m one end ex- | dining car of a train wending ite wa: to Louisville by way of Lexington the Upon this showing it would have ap-| 0wner of a famous horse and a fu peared that the job of running fo i'vesident is not half so strenuous or %0 dangerous as hecoming President Stnee last July r, William | Jennings br d away and within the past week Alton B. Parker wvent to his higher reward. Mr. Hryan | was a veteran of three hard cam. | paigns and was always a potentfal aspirant for a fourth. From the time was first nominated. M Roosevelt, Taft, Wil| wnd Coolldge—six Presi- | lled in the e House. ! To his dying day he never understood why this honor was denled him. The pasding of Mr. Bryan and Mr. | Parker leaves but two “past candi-| tes” of the Democracy living. former Gov. Cox of Ohio and John W.| Davis of New York, thus evening the count of those who reached the ri of the Chief Executive and those who did_not. | “The presidency is a trying position but a great deal depends upon the| temperament of the man who oc | cupies it. President Coolidge, without doubt, takes his work in greater| qufetude and with less effort than any | f his predecessors. Entirely lacking n ‘“nerves” or a nervous position, Mr. Coolidge appears never to worry. | In this he is strikingly unlike Nr.| Harding. who was keenly sensitive, Iways worrled, and always striving| so hard to do what he considered ight. Mr. Harding's friends always | knew he never wanted to be President. If ever it could be said that the| presidency was thrust upon a man, it was thrust upon Harding—hy his | wife and by his political friends. The | Senate appealed to Mr. Harding. He did not have a w while on Capftol | Hill, but in the White House he was laboring and always dis stied and ill at ease. Mr. Roosevelt had a “bully time" as President, but nevertheless his strenu- osity in the job undoubtedly shortened his life and caused him to die a com- | paratively young man. Woodrow Wilson was a masterful | President, but he. too, worried and | worrled as he tried to soive the prob- lem of America’s position in the World War. It all goes to show that the | presidency is very much what the President chooses to make it. Mr. | Coolidge thinks it ix easier than being Governor of a State, and his friends | say there is no danger of his cracking under the strain. l This and That By Charles E. Tracewell. n | From the This and That Letter-box: | Jear Sir: If T owned the wonder. ful lamp of Oriental famne T would give it a rub and wish for seven Sundays a weel if it would encourage you 1o write ahout_Jack Spratt “In the two years that you have been telling us ahout him, once in a while some pest (I cannot call him a human being) has bobbed up with the remark that ‘he doesn’t like the cat stuff,’ and demanded that you ‘cut it out. “This gets me nto the same frame of mind as one of the characters in Vaughan Kester's novel, “The Prodigal Judge,’ was when, floating down the Ohio River on a raft and not lfking the treatment given him_ by the na- tives on shore where he tied up. he of- tered to ‘lick ‘em for a dollar.’ if they | could raise that much money. and if | not, ‘fust for 50 cents,’ and if they dd | not have that—'fer a chew of tobacco,’ | and if that was not to be had, ‘wh he'd do it fer nothing.’ | “That's just the way T feel every | time you write and teil us that some one is kicking about the cat stories. “They have the column six days a week, which would suft any mortal that was not a hog, and which proves what a mean narrow-minded nature they have when they do not want to give Jack Spratt and his host of ad- mirers one day out of seven. I class this fellow with the one that kicks when wun ‘SOS' call stops radio broadeasting for a few minutes sonie times. “f was born in New resided there until six ve I tock up my residence in ton. It did not take we long to mno- | tice that many people this city lacked & love for unimals (especially cats) and this being just the opposite from what was the prevalent feeling in New England, 1 thought that T had fallen among a tribe of barbarians. “Believe nie, Mr. Tracewell, the fel- low that doesn't love animals must have something the matter with his ‘bean,’ and my advice would be that he be compelled to go over and be ex- amined by Dr. White, for as it is he is a_danger to the community. “‘Please keep up the stories about Jack Spratt,” adds my wife. Sincerely yours, M. A. H.” * ko in the England. and | ago. when | Washing- A gentleman Government service writes: “Lam very sorry to see in The Sun- day Star that some of your readers dislike to hear so much about Jack Spratt. “Jack Spratt is a fixture, a friend of s0 many of yvour readers, that T hope you will not pay attention to the few people who do not Ilke cats. “You may write of anything you wish during the week—of the Coper- nican theory, the Einstein theory, the Napoleonic code or anything else, but please, for the sake of cat lovers, con- tinue to give us the news of Jack Spratt and of his doings. “Whenever I see a cat which looks like your description of the famous cat, T call my mother’s attention to it and say, ‘That looks like Jack Spratt.’ “And so we ask that Jack Spratt be kept on the editorial page of The Sunday Star, in spite of the few who seem to be dffgruntled. With best wishes for you and Jack Spratt, very truly yours, E. R. 8. C." From Holyoke, Mass., comes the fol- lowing: “Dear Sir: Have just received my Sunday Star, and as usual first turned to find out how Jack Spratt is recov- ering after the visit of the cat doctor; and, of all things, to read that you may decide to tell us no more of that dear Jack Spratt with his green eves and striped coat. “Now, I only get The Star once a ‘week, and then, again, being a woman, what I think may not count, but The Star which comes to me every Monday will be less interesting if you fail to write about J. S. d “Have seen your articles quoted in Our Dumb Animals, and if you call for J. S.’s men friends am sure you will find so many you will continue right along with the same kind of Sunday ‘This and That’ One who appreciates them. Mrs. W. L. P. ERE I “Dear Sir: Please let us have more, lots more, of the chronicles of Jack Spratt, for I am only one bf many who consider them as genuine literary treasures and hope we may some day have them in book form. Tt is a real regret to me that I have not kept them all as they came along in The Star. 1 like that cat and sometimes think he is washing his face in front of my own fire, he is so perfectly alive | in the lette An Admirver of J. Spratt.” From the wife of a well known local ear Mr. “fracewell: Please con- m {and | oughbred | exhibition was opposed by breeding farm was having 1 fast of Kentucky ham and eg s Samue] D. Rtiddle, proud pos of Man Wear, believed 1, many to be the finest horse ever hor 1 reared in Amer The dir ur steward was paying devoted at tion to the horsemar “I know the Derb Come around Mr. Riddle, the two fell to prospects of the various can the big Kentucky stakes, knew his horse multimillionaire own, And then it became to ask questions. How are your two mares?” ed the steward, an this captain of th the fever, was in his own modes Lreeder of the Kentucky thor » longer could there he & 1% o Kentuck as an institutior s neas way doubt that instinet s Passin hrough White Springs, in the W Virginia mony tains, one uld hear the story of de votion to another great sport—the clent and honorahl me of go ways there fs the discussion whether golf reall game” or a young A There are good arguments on hotl instance, there is Bobh mes of Atlanta, who was en the national competition at the t. age of 14, and there ic the em John D. Rockefeller, almost a nonage plaving his dafly or be it is on t White Sulphur a good pa ar there is another g « Baker, > and philar Baker, who is in hi ar, was ordered by his cently to cut his golf to four holes a day. This was a severe low. Mr. Baker had been playing 18 holes and enjoying every one of them Te protested to his physicians, bu: their decision was irrevocable. All 1 said Mr. Baker, “I'll do holes But of the y man o York b thropist eighty-sixth v phy ns r Next day he appeared on the links alone. He tossed four talls into the t tee. He played all four of them in the next four holes. In this wa: he got the shots which necessarils would have gone with 16 holes, Lut he carried out the doctor’s orders. (Copyright. 1926 1 .F ifty Years Ago In The Star al Exhibition was fo t Philadelphia_on the of May, 1876, with ceremonies Centennial Opened. pregence of 100.000 person garded as of na Star, in its issue onal fmportance. The f the day preceding May 8, 1576, said of the great fair: “The great Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphta will be formally opened to the public with appropriate cere- monies tomorrow and the indications are that an fmmense concourse will be present. The Centennial authori ties have heen indefatigable in pre paring for the occasion and there is every reason to believ the ar rangements made for opening and continuing the ex! will be as near perfect as possible. The exhi bition. which is of course regarded as a prolonged celebration of the one hundredth anniver of the life of the Republic, was first suggested in 1869. The suggestion met with gen- eral favor and during that year sev- eral delegations from the States went to Philadelphia to confer with the Centennial committee which had al- ready been appointed by the city council The movement took torm when Congress in March, 1871, passed a law providing for an inter- national eshibition, the appointmen? of a Centenninl commission, ete. “The international feature of the many men iof hers of Congress earnestly than urged that the distinctively Amer object v nd b ator Sumner, whe xhibition should he an, since its main as the celebration of a great national anniver in which the monarchical governments of Europe had no sympathy and should have ne part. The last speech of his publia life. delivered in the United States Senate, was an earnest protest agains: this feature of the hill. In 1872 Con. gress created by law a Centennial board of finunce, with authority ta raise subscriptions to the amount of $10,000,000, in shares of not more than $10 each, for the purpose of erecting suftable buildings. Pennsylvania. through her legislature. contributed $1,000,000 and the city of Philadelphis $500,000. Since then liberal contribu tions from many of the Northern and Western States have been made in aia of the project, and the present Con- gress appropriated $1.500,000 for the same purpose. “It is not a matter for congratu lation that while the exhibits of fo: elgn nations are comparatively com: plete and quite in readiness for i spection. the representation of the United States is behindhand. Foreig nations took time by the forelock in the matter, but many American ex hibitors delayed until the last momen: before placing thelr goods in the bulldings. It is to be regretted that the exhibition of the interesting ma terial of the different executive de partments of the Government must necessarily be restricted hecause of the faflure of Congress to grant the appropriation asked for in aid of this representation. As it is, however, this feature of the exhibition will doubtless be an interesting one to visitors. “The closing of the _exhibitior grounds and buildings on Sundays is meeting with a general protest. The Philadelphia Times believes that the action of the authorities will be recon sidered and urges not only that the grounds and buildings be thrown open on Sundays, but that the admission be free on such days. This, it thinks, in volves no abrogation of the Christian Sabbath, while it would deal generous justice to the poorer classes, who can spare neither a secular day from labor nor the necessary expense of admis sion for themselves and families. The Press suggests that the grounds be opened free of charge on Sundays,and ‘;Iufl the art gallery and horticultural hall.” ————————— tinue to write about Jack Spratt. We read all of your articles with pleasure. but enjoy the ones about Jack the most. So please tell us all about hix doings, his spats with Cato, his en deavors to catch birds. “My husband, who is a real ‘he man,” joins me in asking you not tu stop writing about Jack Spratt. With ,'Efl%; wishes I remain, yours truly rom Lyon Park, Va.: Dear Sir: I am ting to ask of you the favor of continuing your Sunday pieces so interesting about ou friend Jack Spratt. It will depriv me. and I am sure many others, « much pleasure in not hearing of ihe doings of our ‘furred friend.” Please do not boycott him. Cordially yours, Mrs, L. E. D."