Evening Star Newspaper, May 30, 1926, Page 22

THE EVENING STAR! 8 ‘With Sunday Morning Editien. , WABHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY..........May 80, 1028 THEODORE W. NOYES., ..Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Chicago Ofti Zuropean OMeo:m ‘The Evening Star. wii d 3 e eaiton s Selivored 13" caPrier, within AT R o . O X 1t b ol ?&'.g'fl?fil‘:un’?&“‘&?:‘w"fin 17 mhade b5 carrier at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and y 9.00: 1 (3 nflg oy S 1yen ;u.os: i mo.. oo Sunday only 13r..$3.00: 1 moll 26c All Other States and Canada. 12.00: 1 mo., $1.00 $0: 1m0 3 Member of the Associated Press. (ol Aogaiet B Iy sl g use for ot all ne - patches Sredited fo' It gr Rot otherwios cred: in this paer and algo thy loce ;:‘::; blished herein, Al pecial dispatches herein are aleo reserv Foreign-Born Americans. 1t would be a wholesome thing if all professional “100 per cent” Americans could be persuaded to read the address which President Coolidge delivered vesterday at the unveiling of the Erics- son statue. Bigotry and narrow- mindedness nearly always are the prog- eny of ignorance, and Mr. Coolidge's address was an ignorance-dispelling exposition of the contributions to American well-being which have been made by citizens born under other flags. “None of those who come here,” the President sald, “are required to leave any good qualities behind, but they are rather required to strengthen and fortify them and supplement them with such additional good qualities as they find among us.” The President did not deny, of course, that there have come to our shores many unde- sirable immigrants, but the point he made was that a citizen was neither less desirable nor less valuable by rea- son of the fact that he was not native born. Describing John Ericseon as a truly great American, the President =aid that “‘great men are the product of a great people. They are the result of many generations of effort, toll and discipline.” America has been enriched by the immigrants it has recelved from the “‘great peoples” which havea back- sround of effort, toil and discipline. It has suffered only from immigration which has been {ndiscriminate instead of selective. The “melting pot" ceased 0 be a fusing crucible only when too large a proportion of refractory mate- rials was poured into it. The name of John Ericsson is only nne in a-long list of citizens by adop- tion which are {llustrious in the an- nale of America. Sweden is only one of & number of nations which have sent their sons to help make America great. All bigotry which would “place only 100 per cent Americans on guard” 18 rebuked in the closing words of the President’s Ericsson address, “As the ceaseless throng of our citizens of va- rious races shall come and go,” he said, “as they enter and leave our Cap- ital City in the years to come, as they look upon their monuments and upon his and recall that though they and he differed in blood and race they ‘were yet bound together by the tie that surpasses race and blood in the communion of & common spirit, and as they pause and contemplate that communion, may they not fall to say in their hearts, ‘Of such is the great- ness of Americal’ " A Twenty-Five-Year Urge. Twenty-five years is a long time to - fight off conscience and it proved too long for a man living in Arlington, N. J. He has finally succumbed to the irresistible urge to square him- elf and, in & letter to the Logan Val- ley Traction Company, explains that a quarter of a century ago he “hooked” 2 ride on one of their trolley cars. In- closing a twenty-five cent plece to pay The belated fare he asks both the com- pany and God to forgive him. Consclence working at the rate of @ cent a year does not seem, at first s | bacco growers themselves should be | to be hoped that when the time ar- but working surroundings were con- uldered to be less harmful. Regardless of the importance of children’s work in the industry they should not be allowed to work at all unless conditions conducive to good health and good schooling are pro- vied. Neither of these things can be neglected if future American manhood and womanhood are to reach the high standard that is essential to the con- tinued progress and. prosperity of the country. The bureau’s report shows a serious situation. The next step is to see that improvement is effected, and the to- the first to co-operate to protect the youth of America from harmful in- fluences in their own industry. It is rives for another investigation by the Government agency & report less alarming to the American people can be prepared and issued on conditions in the tobacco flelds. ——— e The 0ld River Forts. Opposition to the proposal to sell Forts Washington and Hunt, below this city, has developed and is grow- ing as the subject is more fully under- stood. It 18 now indicated that this opposition will be sufficient to prevent the inclusion in any general measure authorizing the sale of now unneces- sary military reservations of these partieular sites. Should Forts Washington and Hunt be sold by the Government not only would landmarks of historic interest be destroyed, but dpportunities would be lost to establish public parks and recreation spaces on the banks of the river much to be cherished and appre- clated by the people of the Capital and the adjoining States. At Fort Washington particularly is there a chance for a valuable, practical use of the space which it has been pro- posed to sell. The old masonry fort there is, of course, of no military val- ue whatever. Although at one time it was regarded as an important item for the defense of Washington, it is now no more than a memorial of an obsolete military method. Yet it is unthinkable to destroy it. If this land weru sold those old walls would be razed, the ramparts would be leveled. The gun embrazures would disappear and a significant and in- teresting feature of the Potomac land- scape would be lost forever. Many uses have been proposed for these tracts. It has been suggested, for example, ¢that they could be util- ized as Summer camping homes for children and mothers from the city. The area could be used for Boy Scout outings and Girl Scout exercises as well, It could be used in manifold ways for the public recreation. But to whatever use it might be put it should mot be sold now for private development. The Government is not in such need of money that it should sell these relics merely to clear the records of the War Department. The care of these areas would cost little, It would perhaps readily be provided by the two States within which they le. Members of Congress of those States are now greatly concerned lest through a routine disposal of need- less military property these spaces be merged with the real estate assets, to become farms or subdivisions and in the course of a short time wholly lost to history and the public use. A Worthy School in Need. The other day a fire occurred at the National Training School for Women and Girls at Lincoln Heights, in this District, and practically destroyed the main building of that institution. Dam- age to the amount of about $20,000 was caused and on this property there was an insurance of only $4,000. An appeal has been made to the public of Washington for funds to permit the early construction of the burned build- ing to enable this echool to continue its good work. This appeal is issued in the name of Miss Nannie H. Bur- roughs, president of the school, who has for many years devoted herself to this werthy work. Miss Burroughs’ service to the peo- Dle of her race has been of the great- est value. She has given herself un- stintedly and effectively to thelr edu. cation along lines of practical useful- slance, to be laboring overtime, but |ness. She has helped many women it {® probable that in worry, discon- tent and pure suffering the cost to the patron of the line reached a large tigure. Consclence is a peculiar thing. Sometimes it weighs heavy and at others the burden is light, but for per- sistence and tenacity it is excelled by few emotions. There is one man now, however, who can go about his daily life looking the world square in the face and, knowing what tortures con- sclence can cause, will doubtless steer clear of any questionable practices hereafter. ——————— Senator Sheppard’s experience in be- ing knocked down by a boy on a bicycle reads like an archaic news item from the files. The bike was then a terror of the thoroughfares, and knocking down a Texas statesman, even by the sheerest accident, was a dangerous proceeding calling for nu. merous apologies. ——— e A Serious Condition. An alarming report on the working conditions of children in the tobacco industry has been issued by the chil- dren’s bureau of the Department of Labor. Boys and girls under the age of sixteen are sald to be sickening from all'night vigils at the curing barns, losing time from school, and ‘working long hours under disagree- able conditions. In the bureau's investigation more than two thousand children were in- terviewed in Kentucky, South Caro- lina, Virginia and the Connecticut val- ley. One-half of those in the South and one-third of those in Connecticut were shown to be under twelve years old. Approximately onethird of the 1otal were girls. Children under sixtesn play an im- portant -part in the tobacco industry, the bureau found. Certain parts of the curing of the leaf are held to be listinctly children’s work. Southern |sion and find themselves extremely | *A circus parade, and girls through this institution to self-sustaining service. Now in this hour of need it is to be hoped that the people of Washington will give liberally to make good the loss caused by a distressing accident and put this institution back into its former con- dition, perhaps even to extend its use- fulness with a larger and more effec- tive plant. This appeal should be heeded by not simply the colored residents of Wash- ington, but by all others who know of the value of this institution. 't has been established and maintained with difficulty. It is a work of devo- tlon to an ideal of service and now an opportunity comes to Washingtonians to show appreciation of it by prac- tical means in meeting the present deficit and restoring the establishment to its former condition permitting the good work to continue. —————— e Mexican brigands ply their same old to engage in the less hazardous and equally remunerative occupation of bootlegging. Spelling. Spelling bees are being held in ‘Washington. School children are lin- ing up as in the days of old and try- ing out their memories. They are learning through. failure, as boy. after boy and girl after girl “goes down™ under the barrage of words—that is to say, it is to be hoped that they are learning. For spelling is not as highly developed among the young peqple as once it was. Orthography is not pre- cisely a lost art, but it is losing its way. There is much room for ad- vance in this fleld. 7 Now and then grown-ups adopt the spelling bee as a form of soclal diver- | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. EVERYDAY RELIGION BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D, LL. D, Bishop of Washington. speller.” It almost sounds lke e boast. There is surely no virtue in the ability to spell poorly, or, rather, the inability to spetl correctly. Perhaps something is to be said for the children on the score of the man- ner of their training. Speliing {s not taught in these times as it was in the past. Gone are the old ‘“spelling books,”. with their Lsts'of words grad- uated in dificulty upward. Gone is OLD TRAILS, Jeremiah, vi.16: “Stand ye in the the dally drill In word construction, the ;";‘g ,and see, and ask for the old synthetic syllable. spelling. Children are rated in thelr spelling in the course of their composition work, and sometimes it would seem-that injus- tice is done them in public school markings when thelr literary composi- tions are judged from the orthographic viewpoint rather than the rhetorical. Complaint is commonly heard from business men that their amanuenses cannot spell properly. It is riot infre. quent to hear an employer bewsll the fact that his secretary is no better at spelling than he himself. Time was when secretarial efficlency was rated largely upon the taking of dictation— to present a letter-perfect product re- gardless of the wordmaking lapses of the chief, Perhaps the revival of the spelling bee will be a help. Certatnly it is a constructive sport and should be en- couraged. If the little children are now being guided into this line of com- petition there is hope that the next generation of adult users of the Eng- lish language will be more proficient in this elementary accomplishment. Protecting the Frano. A dispatch from Paris states that much annoyance has' been caused American tourists in France by an order recently issued from the minister of finance to all banks in the country forbidding the sale of francs to tour- ists beyond $157.60 worth. Only per- sons who can show a passport can get as many, as 5,000 francs. Others can only get $31.50. This order is designed to prevent the exportation of francs and their conversion into gold value across the frontler. There has been much speculation on this basis and tour- ists have not been guliltless of the practice. The limit named, $157.60, at the present quotation, is just barely enough to pay traveling ex- penses and the first costs in the country of the next visit. The per- sons without passports are indeed out of luck, for they can get only about enough to get out of France, barely that in some cases. Protests, however, are unavailing. France has the right to protect its own currency against exploitation. Summer travelers to France may circumvent the order if the franc should remain at a point low enough to invite a speculation by collecting francs during their stay and accu- mulating enough to give them a worth- while profit over the borders. ——a—————— It {s impossible to assemble a large number of persons in any kind of en- terprise without taking into consider- ation the percentage of crooks who are bound to intrude. Horse racing 18 no exception. Yet if soclety in gen- eral were as well organized for de- cency and fair play as is the world of sports, there would be less to complain of in the way of crime waves. } When a Crown Prince visits this Capital engagements are 80 numerous as to disprove entirely the old jdea that royalty never has to work hard. i Only love of adventure can account for an Arctic explorer’s invariable ambition to return to & place which holds so few residential inducements. } It sometimes requires & few implied threats of puglilism to hold popular interest in an investigation that has reached the statistical stage. —— e Fundamentalists seldom go 8o far as to demand that physiclans abandon their sclence and revert to the med- icine man type. SHOOTING STARS. BY PRILANDER JOHNSON. Champlon Fish Stery. 1 told my fishing story. It was a mighty tale; And yet it lacks the glory Ot “Jonah and the whale.” So what’s the use of trying ‘With fiction to prevall? No piscatorial lying Beats “Jonah and the Whale.” " Il eat the fish I followed ‘Where shad are now on sale, Instead of being swallowed Like Jonah by the Whale. Counting the Cost. “We must find some way of abol- ishing war.” “There is only one way to abolish war,” sald Senator Sorghum, *“and that is to make the high cost of fight- ing even more obvious than the high cost of living.” The International Deficiency. ‘The Britons unto cricket cling. For bullfights Spaniards call. None of ‘em seem to know a thing About the game, base ball. Jud Tunkins says he'd have sent his opinion by mall about a.certain radio program, only the post office au- thorities are gettin’ kind o’ strict. i —in Tilling the Soll, “What we want i{s farm relief,” re. marked the vote-getter. “Yep,” answered Farmer Corntossel. “But I don’t see 'no chance of gettin’ as much high-class talent employed on & patch of potatges as it takes to make a satisfactory putting green.” Hence the: Gossip. “We want to know the truth!” “Yes,” replied ‘Miss Cayenne, “But in most cases we only want to know it about'somebody else.” . Humsn Interest. . A simple, decent life implies A humble lot, And never serves to.advertise A movie plot. said Uncle Eben, conditions were discovered to be a|embarrassed by thelr public revela- ! ‘is a grand display dot proves how sood deal werse than those in the |tions of deficiencles. It is no un-|automobiles can’t keep ys frum still North, where the attendance at school | common thing to hear a person ac- | bein’ interested in hosses, an’ camels 20t only Teashed & lasger per centekaowledge frankly “I am an atroclous’gnd even elephants.” ‘When {n doubt follow the old trail. New paths may be interesting and appealing to our spirit of adventure, but when we are confused and uncer- tain it s far better to follow known and well beaten paths that have been tested by long experience. A danger- ous maxim that we hear often of late is, “We don’t know where we are go- ing, but let us get there as quickly as possible.” The desire for speed, for povelty, for variety has so seized our minds today that we frequently lose our way and fail of our objective. Memorial day compels us to think in terms of the past; forces us to study anew the high purposes and ideals that prompted men to give their all that “this Nation under God should not perish from the earth.” The conflict between fundamental- ism and modernism is not confined to the church, it enters every phase of our {ndividual and corporate life. No one who is sane has any desire to halt the wheels of progress or to stay the advance that has been made through newer and better methods. The fact that we have conquered the alr 18 no reason for thinking that we cap ignore the more certaln paths over which we have come to our pres- ent high state of development. Fun- damentalism implies the recognitien of certain foundation principles upon which the whole social and economic order rests. Modernism suggests that universal law of adaptation by which we adjust ourselves to changed and cl circumstances, ~ It is mnot inconsistent for us to hold to the things of fundamentalism while we adjust ourselves and our methods to modern s and conditions. There is a danger that we shall, on these recurring days in which we renew our devotion to our honored dead, for- get the things for which they lived and for which they died. The move- ments of life today are so swift and in many respects so appealing that we readily forget the rock from which we were hewn. Kipling's splen- did lines have striking application to our present situation: £ drunk with sight of power, we I b 1 Bate not Thee I ave. Such boastings as the Gentiles use. 1c0F Jgoter reeds withopt the law— of h th us vet. Lest we forget: we forget | In spite of all our amazing develop- LOBBYISTS IN MAY 30, ment and our unparalleled growth; in spite of all our accumulated riches and everdncreasing power, we need to - be- solemnly reminded that the sources of our strength as a Nation reside. in the recognition of those great, stable and unchanging princi- ples that underlie and secure to us life, liberty and the pursuit of hap- piness. We are prone to think today in terms of registered wealth and power, and in our superficial estimate of what really. constitutes the Na- tion's strength we are neglectful of those things that are indispensable to its security and peace. There 1s a shallow and cheap kind of patriotiém that on these recurring anniversaries is voluble in its preise of those who died in a great cause, but the patriotism that really counts is made of sterner and finer stuff. It is a patriotism that puts obedlence to the higher law of community in. terests above self and self interests. It is a patriotism that reckons the lberty of the land above the rights of personal liberty. While we are reckoning with the things that are fundamental to our life we need to recognize again the indispensableness of a pure and wholesome domestic and social life. We have been re- minded of late that laws, however authoritative or rigidly enforced: they may be, are incapable of governing a people unless they have the will to obedlence. The will to cbedience is formed within tho sacred precincts of the home. The fine sentiments of a nation have their genesis here. An ordered and orderly home where parental congrol s firmly exercised contributes more to the wealth and strength of the Nation than all our other boasted agencies. If there is moral decline and degeneracy hete it will inevitably disclose itself in the larger concerns of our corporate life. Returning to the old paths of do- mestic and social ideals, returning to the reasonable disciplines and whole- some and clean ways of living, re- storing the simpler and chivalrous customs that lent grace and dignity to the soclety of other days—in fine, restoring the old standards of de- cency and Christian practice, this means to reproduce the virtues of those who have made and preserved us a Nation. £ ea. America. ine every flaw. Cofim By toh o it conirol Thy liberty o law A hed Tie ¥ace on thee Andcrwn. thy Kood with brotherhood From sea to ing seal WASHINGTON BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Lobbyists, after many years of being regularly denounced by politi- clans, received a good word in Con- gress the other day when Willlam 8. Culbertson, former chairman of the Tariff Commission and now Minister to Rumania, testified that lobbyists are “not only justified but necessary in order that members of Congress and other Federal agencies may be informed of all the facts surrounding any proposed action.” When it is recalled that Mr. Cul- bertson was appointed to the Tariff Commission by President Wilson, and that it was Wilson who roundly de- nounced the lobbyists when the Underwood tariff law was being written, the kind word for the lobbyists appears as quite a potent indorsement. The lobbyists, of course, have always claimed that they merely helped Con- gressmen or other Federal agencies to become ‘“‘fully informed of all the facts.,” But the politiclans have claimed that the lobbyists schemed and connived and plotted and used improper tactics to get their bills passed, or to get their views incor- porated into bills. President Wilson's denunciation, which was followed by a congressional investigation, made the word “lobbyist” anathema around ‘Washington for some years. Even today nobody admits he is a lobbyist. He may be a ‘“special representative” or a ‘“legislative agent,” or just a plain lawyer, but never a ‘“lobbyist.” Perhaps Mr. Culbertson’s defense will take some of the odium.away from the term. There are a great many lobbyists in Washington, if the term may be ap- plied to persons whose business is to represent before Congress or the Gov- ernment departments and bureaus the interests of a client who wants laws passed or repealed, or regula- tions altered, amended, abolished or instituted. Nobody ever took a census of lobbyists, but there are certainly more than & thousand {n Washing- ly near 5,000, if their aldes, clerks, statisticlans, publicity helpers and others are included. This takes no account of the volunteer lob- bles which come to Washington from time to time t: impress their \rl;:- on Congress. They are amateurs. The regulars are the professionals. Chiet Dry Lobbyist. Perhaps the best known lobbyist is ‘Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel for the Anti-Saloon League. He rep- resents the drys at all' congressional committee hearings, in dealings with the prohibition enforcement official, in lawsuits in the Supreme Court, and in planning political campaigns. He has a suite of offices with various assistants, clerks, publicity workers, and 80 on. He is a leader in the class of “pub- Hc” lobbyists, representatives of pub- lic or semi-public groups, which main- tain lobbies in Washington. His mas- ter stroke was the passage of the elghteenth amendment and the Vol stead act. A dozen farmers' organi- zations maintain “public” lobbyists in ‘Washfhgton. “Three or four war vet- erans’ socleties maintain them. John Thomas Taylor, national legislative chairman for the American Legion, achieved nation-wide fame when the soldiers’ bonus bill passed. He had lobbled for it for several years, Gray Silver, representing the Farm Bureau ns, was the real organizer and power behind the “farm bloc,” which cut & big figure in Congress for any years. While he stayed in ashington he was in the front rank of “public” lobbyists. There are a great many of these lobbles for “causes.” The women'’s organizations have several. Alice Paul led the fight for the suf- frage amendment, and has had no equal among the woman lobbylsts. Every big reform cause sooner or later has a lobby. ‘There are perhaps an even greater number of ‘“‘semi-public” lobbles. These are the representatives of com- mercial associations, such as the Beet Sugar Growers, or the n of Ralilroad Sscurity Owners, or the Meat Packers, Security Bankers, the National Association of Manufac- turers, the United States Chamber of Commerce and manufacturers in a score of groups, the motor bus op- erators and the like. A few of these groups maintain publicity forces, and hence are more or less in the “public” ing objectives are ‘The labor lobbies are also more or 1éss public, and very numerous, rep- resenting all of the big unions and groups of unions. The “private’” lobbyists are, as we » have clussified lobbylsts here, the rel:! resentatives of |wvmuul h{;ll:mu«. operate ‘witbout any :'m».u to public sentiment. They ,pear before committees or call’ individual members of Congress or on executive officlals, pressing the case for their clients, assembling facts, arguing legal points. A few large corporations have permanent private lobbyists. More often as time goes on private lobbying gives way to group representation of an industry and be- comes semi-public lobbying. Little Secrecy About Lobbying. ‘There is much less secrecy about lobbying than the public outside of ‘Washington has been led, by political speeches, to believe. Lobbyists go about their business llke any one else, and it is not difficult to know what they want. They naturally think what they want is right, and are prepared with facts and arguments to de- fend it. A great many lobbyists are former members of Congress or former offl- clals of the Government. Most lobby- ists are lawyers. Some are former newspaper correspondents. Their com- pensation is most varied. Some of the reform lobbyists receive no pay at all, but work for the good of the cause they represent. Others are poorly or well paid, and there was a general rumor that one ex-Congressman re- cently divided with a few assistants a million-dollar fee for getting a re- troactive relief clause into a revenue bill, thereby saving many millions for his clients. This may have been a gross exaggeration, as, of course, no one knows what lobbyists are paid, except the public organiza- tion representatives. Lobbying increases steadily in Wash- ington. Almost every lobby has a counter lobby. The Anti-Saloon League has its opposition in the Association Opposed to the Prohibition Amend- ment. The manufacturing interests have high tariff lobbies, and the im- porters have low tariff lobbies. Labor and capital are represented. The Le- glon fought for a soldiers’ bonus, and the Anti-Bonus League against it. As lobbying increases, members of Congress are often annoyed by the many callers who visit them, and by the demands from home folks which are prompted by the lobbyists who send out word, “Write or wire to E Wuhxn&t.nn much useful informa- tion, and t the people they repre- sent have a perfect right to present their case and be heard. Whether lobbying is good or bad is a matter of opinion, and that opinion is usually based on whether you agree with a particular lobby or not. If you agree, it is a proper and necessary way of protecting the rights of the people by getting a fair hearing for the true facts. If you disagree, it is a low, underhand scheme of the spe- clal intgrests to control the Govern- ment. It is the voice of the people or the clamoring of ‘“organized minoris ties,” according to how you feel about it. But if lobbles fool those in official life, it is because they are not ade- quately informed and would probably be fooled anyhow. If they corrupt anybody, 4t is probably somel looking to be corrupted. If they an- noy Congressmen, the latter can al- ways vote themselves another office boy to keep the door closed. A Hard Job. From the Charieston Evening Post. Dr. Hrdlicka has gone to_ Alaska to trace the original man. It looks as if the snow would have covered ap his tracks pretty badly by this ime. * Hot Stuff! From the Springfleld Daily News. A cigar manufacturer is beating the reformers to it by trying to pop- ularize in advance the use of one- half of 1 per cent tobacco. What Kind? From the San Bernardino Sun. Chesterton says that healthy nag- ging is a good thing for a young married man, but he does not say T Just how robust it should be. ——ee— Not Long Now. From the Sioux Falls Daily Argus Leader. The straw hat season is now open, but Summer will not really be here ::.m the boys start going without ts. Yanks Coming. s sum the Nation's Humor. “The Yanks are coming.” lr..rfiu ap- | don't belleve it, look at the on League club standings, th more, "8 | ginta. 1926—PART 2. Capital Sidelights " Apropos of the campaign now or- ganized to carry on for Americaniza- tion of the National Capital, that the 528,000 disenfranchised residents of the City of Washington may be given national representation with a vote and voice in Congress, it is interest- ing to note that a ‘native son of this city has more votes behind in the House than ahy of his colleagues. ‘This is Representative Henry R. Rath- bone, Republican, of Illinois, a mem- ber of the House District committee, whose parents were in the box with Lincoln the night of his assassination. Representative Rathbone made a strong plea for national representa tion at the recent hearing before the House judiclary committee. Representative Rathbone has just come victorlously out of a six-candi- date contest for renomination for Con- gressman at large in Illinols. He and Representative Richard Yates, the pres- ent members at large, were successful, and Representative Rathbone’s name, like that of Abou Ben Adhem, “led all the rest” in the official returns.which have just been proclaimed. The offi- clal vote in Cook County was: 266,762 170,050 40,225 68,779 39,908 .. 23,479 ‘The total vote for the four leading candidates for the entire State is as follows: Rathbone 589,494 549,450 174,263 103,440 “Uncle Joe” Cannon, erstwhile czar of the House, and the one man in all the world about whom most human- interest anecdotes have been told, is now leading a happy and comfortable life, “far from the madd'ning crowd’s ignoble_strife,” in Danville, IIl. (418 North Vermilion street, for those old friends who care to drop him a line), but finds that “it lacks the excitement of the strenuous days.” He has just written a characteristic note to Willlam Tyler Page, clerk of the House, who has been employed about the Capitol just about as long as Mr. Cannon was in public life, and these two were always devoted ad- mirers and students of politics in a homely philosophical as well as “prac- tical” way. The note is as follows: “Dear Tyler Page: “I very much appreciate your letter on my birthday. I would like to run down and tell you of the many times I have thought of you—yes, and missed you. Thoygh I must say I am lead- ing a happy, comfortable life, yet it lacks the excitement of the strenuous days. Nevertheless I have never re- gretted my decision to let the young ones take a hand. “I was very much touched by the action of the House. My best wishos to everybody. I hope for you every good thing. “Sincerely yours, (Signed) G. CANNON.” *® ok & K Representative R. Walton Moore of Virginia, one of the official representa- tives from Congress to the sesquicen- tennial celebration, which is coindi- dent with the gnniversary of Thomas Jefferson, author of the jmmortal doc- ument which declared us a free independent Nation, cills attention to the hitherto little appreciated fact that Jefferson was a great lover of trees and had an intimate knowledge of the different varieties, and pays tribute to the work by the Garden Club of Virginia in restoring the Jef- ferson trees on the Monticello estate. to the father of Democracy im this country, but not every one knows the more intimate side of Thomas Jeffer son. His love of trees, for example, may be surmised from a visit to Mon- ticello, but who would suspect that his mighty mind, wrestling with prob- lems world-wide, would live among his trees as among intimates? Capt. Bacon, who was for 20 years overseer of Monticello, has told us that Mr. Jefferson knew everything in every part of his grounds and garden; that there was no tree whose name he had to inquire, not just where it stood nor the state of its health. And as he his tree friends he trod paths bordered with flowers from early Spring till late Winter. “Plant four purple beeches in the clumps which are in the south- west and northwest angles of the houses,” he wrote. “The places,” he continued, “will be known by the sticks marked ‘No. IV.’” And he gave similar directions as to the “Robinias, or red locust,” the “prickly ash.” the “thorns for hedges,” the “fruit trees,” the “pecan nuts” and ‘“some tufts of a particular grass.’” In this workhouse of nature—that is, Monticello-—Jefferson planted with his own hands, we know, at least three lindens, two copper beeches and one rock maple. But after his death they missed his care, &nd limte were broken by windstorms and decay started in the wounds. But, due to their wonderful root system and the fertile soll in which he planted them, they still live, and will for many years for the Garden Clubs of Vir- B e e n ng these cs of it author of our Declaration of In- dence. All dead. and broken ened places are being cleaned of decayed ‘wood, then sterilized and waterproofed thoroughly and firmly braced with fron rods, angle irons and tie-bolts. The cavitles are being filled with cork, for cork seals the cavities and encour- ages the of a new bark over the wounds, thereby excluding all molsture, and prevents further decay. ‘The trees will be nourished by the newly fertilized soll and will be given that care which only the devoted mem- bers of the Garden Clubs of Virginia can give. ¥ % % ok Con has provided for the erec- gress y | tion of a tablet at Sir Walter Ra- Icel‘}\’u Fort, onrR‘onlnDka Island, N. ., in memory of Virginia Dare, the first child of English parentage to be born in America. Representative Lindsay C. Warren of North Carolina has just treated Congress to an interesting historical survey of what has resulted since Lady day, March 25, 1684, when Queen Elizabeth grant letters pat- ent to her favorite courtier, Sir Wal- ter Raleigh, for the discovering plating of new lands and countries, to continue the space of six years and no more. It t;n- the first attempt of the English to colonize a riew empire; and though they falled temporarily, they lald the n for a. per- manent setf tlement at Jamestown 23 years later and insured English minfon in America. The history of the first attempt made by English- men to settle this country, the birth of the first child of English parentage on this 'soil and the unsolved fate of the men and women who crossed un- charted seas and atfempted. to estab- lish a new civilization is therefore the ‘of American. hist a umomw it in South Cerolina in 1564 which h:d been, put to the sword, all of the ex- between Canada and Florida Island, N. C., it was. the _step in a series of events of the utmost consequence to mankind. . On the 18th of August, 1587, Ele- anor, daughter of Gov. White, and wife of Ananias Dare, gave birth to a duughter in Roancke. The Laby “was christened the Sunday following, . child was the first | éfi%mmmmu named 1 b v a do- | inch of that will not be fil ‘MEN 8o .many anecdotal stories are wrongfully or erroneously accredited to President Coolidge it is positively refreshing to hear one direct from the throne, as it were. It has been supplied by William 8. Culbertsoni Minister to Rumania-and former vice chairman of the United States Tariff Commission, the body which is more or less in the throes of a Senate in- vestigation. The anecdote is contained in a 134 ter written by Mr. Culbertson to his closest friend, Willlam Allen White, when the former was still on the commission. Mr. Culbertson was de- talling’ a visit to the White House and an interview with the President as to the application of the flexible pro- visions of the new tariff act. This is what he sald: “He (the President) stated that he wanted the flexible provision to be used to reduce rates as well'as to increase them, but he indicated that he did not think that cases involving reduction were as important as cases involving increases. . “He put it this way: ‘If a man is drowning he needs immediate help; but if he merely needs a bath he can wait. till Saturday night.’ " ‘Which goes to prove that Mr. Cool- idge is well acquainted with at least AND AFFAIRS _] BY ROBERT T. SMALL. 1 White Fouse. Out of a blue sk Senator Jim Watson of Indlana rosc in his place and in the course of « speech calmly announced that he wanted to read a statement prepare: by the Vice President. Everybody st back and took a tight hold, for it was felt a new blast was coming at tie Senate rules. Nothing of the =ort The statement was a plea for justice to the farmers of the country and fo: the enactment of legislation really would help them. It coupled with correspondence which frankly supported the kind of relict which was contained in the Haugen Dill, defeated in the House of Repre sentatives through pressure from the administration. Under the rules of the Senate th: Vice President i not permitted to ‘make a speech at any other time tha: the occasion of his taking the oath of office. Gen. Dawes made full use of that one opportunity, as may well bLe remembered. But vicariously, through his friend Jim Watson, who 1s a truc new-found friend of the sons of the soil, Gen. Dawes made a speech whicl was far more understandable, and therefore far more effective, than if he had made it himself. When the Vice President speaks in proper person he invariably explodes. Senator Jim read the vice presidential views in a _calm dispassionate volce which carried deep conviction with it. The Vice Presi dent, sitting in the chair, enjoyed the unique sensation. Once the Vice President tried ad dressing the Senate through meuns of the radio. Some Senators. or some one of the original seven jokes of the ages. Mr. Culbertson, in his letter, went on to remark: “I refrained at this point from remarking that the weather was ex- tremely hot and it would increase the comfort of the people if the man g;«é;:g_ walt until Saturday for his Vice President Dawes certainly put one over on his anclent enemy, the United States Senate, last week when, by proxy, he descended to the floor and made a speech. The incident would have been extraordinary enough 4f the speech had been just a bit of pleasantry or formality, but when it was permitted to be used for the pur- pose of bolstering opposition to the administration’s plan of agricultural relief official Washington indeed be- gan to sit up and take notice. Putting himself squarely on record as differing with President Coolidge on the form of farm relief, the Vice President laid himself open once more to the soft impeachment that he has his own sharp eyes set upon the White House. This the doughty gen denles in his best denial manner, h plenty of fireworks to add emphasis to the very pronounced negative. He insists he is through with politics once he gets his release from the sen- tence of presiding over the Senate. A sense of loyalty and always stick- ing to the job for which he has been picked keeps the Vice President at his Capitol task, but aside from that he does not give a tinker's cussword, or even several of them, for all the rest of Washington. Many old-time Senators still are rub- bing their eyes over the Dawes inci- dent, which the unbelievers insist is and |2 new Dawes plan—to get to the Fifty Years Ago In The Star Democratic hopes for victory in the presidential election of half a century . ago were reflected. in Musie for the a humorous speech in Democracy. the House, as re- ported in The Star of May 24, 1876, as follows: “During the consideration of the naval appropriation bill by the House yesterday Mr. Lewis of Alabama of- fered an amendment to abolish the Marine Band. This proposition afford- ed Mr. Harrison of Illinois the oppor- tunity for delivering a funny speech, that was heartily enjoyed by both sides of the House. He drew a pic- ture of President Grant enjoying the music of the Marine Band in the grounds of the White House, while his friends sat around with.thelr feet on the balustrade, smoking his Par- tegas. And he snoke of himself, Har- rison, moving through a crowd of Re- publicans in the grounds, with one hand on his purse and the other on his watch fob. ‘Next year,’ he said, ‘with a Democratic occupant of the ‘White House, the scene would be dif- ferent.” (‘Yes.’ sald some one on the Republican side of the House, ‘them we'll put our hands on our pocket- books.’ at which there was renewed laughter.) Mr. Harrison: ‘Yes, but we will enjoy it. I want to see a Demo- cratic President there listening to the music, and I hope to be one of his friends, with my feet on the balus- trade and one of his Partegas een “‘I am opposed to the abolition of the Marine Band when I think of the Democrats who want to get into the ‘White House. There is a son of the Empire State, Tilden, greater than Alexander. Alexander cut the gordian knot with his sword, but the knot was only a ring of hemp. But this man has cut a ring of steel—the canal ring—and he may be in the White House. I want the Marine Band there to give him music, and if he should lead a bride to the White House, we will play the wedding march and play sweet music beneath her chamber window. e “ ‘We have other men for that posi- tion, any one of whom would grace the presidential chair as it has not been graced for long years. Are we to deny him the music of the Marine Band? Never! Never! Never! We may have one from Ohio who never speaks in the Senate without uttering words of wisdom (meaning Senator Thurman), Are we to have no music for him? No, sir, never, never, never! ‘We have a. little west in the Hoosier State a great Democratic war horse (alluding to Hendricks of Indlana), a man who, they say, is a little of a trimmer. He is a trimmer use his mind is so sound that he sees both sides of a question and does not grow wild on any side. He may be in that position, and I may be his friend in and | the White House. And shall he have no music from the Marine Band? No, sir, by my vote—never, never, never! ““We may have in that seat, Mr. Chafrman, a man who will fill the chair as it' was never filled (alluding to Judge Davis of the Supreme Court, man of unusual girth). Not a single lled. A man great in law as in politics, one against ‘whom not a can be sald. Am I to come here from Illinols to attend his inau tion, and am I to go with him to the White House and have no music to ald bim .in tripping the light fantastic toe? Never, never, never, with my consent, never! ““There is still another, from your own Staté, Mr. Ch: airman, great in hile | arms, great as a civilian (alluding to Gen. Hancock of Pennsylvania), a man who, if he- had not been great as a general, would have been great in civil life. He may be there. He will wish to have some memories of the past ‘brought to his mind by martial music. Is it to be denied him? Shall a Ma- rine Band be refused him? By my wvote, sir, never, never, never! Then, sir, there is still another, the great unknown. He is coming, 10,000 strong, from every part of the Union. He is all around. The Democratic party is full of the great unknown. When the great unknown comes there, shall he have o music? ‘Shall no tones come out of those silvery in< struments blown by those gentlemen \ \ friends of Senators, happened to listen in, and next day upon the meeting o the august upper body of Congress there was “hell 'n Maria” to pay, and the Vice President said he didn't me: all it appeared he meant. Now that Gen. Dawes has found « satisfactory way of making Senate speeches he may be heard from ofter Summer plans for the President and First Lady of the Land are progres ing rapidly, and if Congress will oblige by adjourning in the meantime—a. co) summation devoutly to be wished—th« Fourth of July ought to find the Cool idges well on their way to their se cluded retreat in the Adirondacks. ‘With this much of the executive problem settled, official Washington i« wondering what is to become of Col Frank Stearns, the White House guest, but not its spokesman. Last year the President summered almost in the Stearns' front yard. This vear he is to be far away from the ocean billows which lull the Boston mer chant to sleep. ‘The problem as to Col. Stearns re- calls the story of the distinguishe:i party leader to whom the President re cently tendered a position of high trust in Washington. The distin guished party leader, who hails from the cool Northwest, pondered the ap pointment and then said: « “You know, Mr. President, T am ac customed to a cool climate, and I do not believe I could stand the Summers in- Washington.” Just the suspicion of a smile played about the usually tight-pressed lips of the Chief Executive. “I don't see why you couldn’t stand the Summers,” he replied; “Frank Stearns doesn't seem to mind them.” (Copyright. 1926.) This and That By Charles E. Tracewell. Cats, as a rule, do not pay much attention to radio. As a general proposition they ac cept _this science and art with their -usual equanimity, probably regarding it as just another of their human friends’ strange activities. For the most part they can hardly be said to be radio “fans.” Nor can this be wondered at. What is there in music of orchestra or band. or sounds of the singing voice, that could appeal particularly to a cat? The house cat has its little ears attuned to those sounds which thou sands of years of ancestral training have shown are worth listening to— from the feline standpoint. The foot of the grocer's boy on the back steps—ah, there is a most de- lightful noise! The rustling of paper bags is another, for every bag may contain delicious food. The opening of a can of salmon or sardines evokes more pleasurable thrills in a cat than all the sym phonies of Beethoven possibly could 0. As for the click of the refrigerato: door, any cat will tell you that there is the most beautiful music in the ‘world. * & ok ok The cat thus is seen to be an em: nently practical fellow, with a hearty for the fleshpots of Egypt. the land of his birth. Strange wanderers, true gypsies of the animal world! Your music is not our music, and ours is not yours, ex cept upon rare ons, and then your only applause is a pricking up of ears. The cat Jack Spratt, for instance has never shown the slightest interest in the radio except upon a few occa sions, a statement that also holds true of the phonograph. Jack has been tested with the latte: instrument upon many occasions, to see what reactions he would give, with uniformly dumb results. The phono- graph simply does not exist, as far as he is concerned. Ernest Thompson Seton’s imitations of wild animals, including the far howl of the mournful timber wolf. leave Jack cold. We have never been able to see the slightest interest in hix mobile tail, his eyes or general facial expression. Only once did he ever look up at the phonograph and meow. That was when an orchestra record was play* lnf in which high-pitched orchestra bells struck notes at intervals. Repe- titions, however, failed to get any re action. Records with bird effects leave Jack apathetic. “That ain’t no bird, you can’t fool me,” he seems to say. * ok ok % ‘The harmonica hour was the oniy feature over local radio that ever drew the unfailing attention of Jack Spratt. ‘When the mouth organs got under way Jack invariably would lay bacl his ears, get an agonized expression upon his face, and, looking up at the speaker, indulge in a few heartfelt meows. As 16i% as this program was on the cat would act in an uneasy manner, and would hop up on some one's lap as if for protection. Evidently the high-pitched notes hurt his sensitive ear drums. Playing in harmonics on a violin often draws his' attention, as does vio- lin playing in general, just as certain High notes will cause a dog to howl. ‘What interests Jack most about radio is what makes human listeners some- what put out—the and un- usual noises that now and then will crop up, usually the result of trouble at the broadcasting station. A slight clicking, in the flow of the most beautiful program, will imme- to look at e therein. in scarlet coats to welcome and intro- duce the great unknown to his fellow citizens?. Not by my vote, sir—never, never, never! » “As he sgt down he was greeted with rounds of laughter and applause from both sides of the House. The mh and the ridicule proved too for the amendment, which was voted down by a large majority.*