Evening Star Newspaper, August 8, 1926, Page 44

! 2 ekt b UG S B GEEE TT ER THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY.........August 8. 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor | Advocates of the two competing sites will find merit in this plan when it Is studied. This suggestion is that the general | retail market in replacement of Cen- ter Market and the farmers’ market, | which is to be removed from its pres- eqt position to make room for a new dustry in those countries, Just as it has been suggested by some of our leading politicians that the United States must never®agree to cancel any part of Europe's indebt- edness to this country while the na- tions abroad continue to maintain The Evening Star Newspaper Company Government building, be situated at [large armies and navies, so Dr. Wil- Business Office o Lth St and Penneyivania Ave New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. Chicago Office: Tower Buildin. 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Every now and then there bobs up 1e in American politics some | question that is not at all political in its character and which has no busi- ness being made a foot ball for poli- ticians to kick about. We have and have had for a number of vears a striking instance in the matter of & program for criculture, the called “farm relief" Avid pol ticians have seized hold of this ques- tion, often with personal agerandize ment as the chief thought in mind, and the more they have messed with It the worse messed it has ‘Their failure has been so conspicuous that wtion-wide demand should arise that the politicians stand aside and give another type of mind a chance to grapple with the problem. The matter of a program for Ameri can agriculture is as little a sectional or a class question as it is a political one. The manufacturer and his em- ploves are as vitally interested as is the farmer himself. The clerk and bookkeeper in an eastern city much concerned as is the man who tills praivie soil. A right solution is 85 necessary to New England as it is to Iowa, as necessary to the Atlantic seaboard as it is to the Gulf Coast or the Northwest. It fs a funda- mental truth that in this country no one section or class can prosper per- manently at the expense of any other section or class. There can be no as sured prosperity in America unless it is shared by agriculture, which is at the base of the American economie structure. To the uninitiated there may seem to be conflict between the city dweller's need for an abundant supply of cheap foodstuffs and the food producer's need for better prices, but this seem ing conflict is an artificial rather 1 a natural one. The artificiality lies In the cost of distribution. There is too wide a spread, tco much waste between producer and consumer. The city dweller ought to have cheaper foodstuffs and the farmers ought to get better prices. This is fine. but how can it be brought about? It can be brousht about by application of the same sort of ability that has made American Industrial production and distribution the marvel of the world. While indus try in other countries strives vainly to cheapen production by lowering wages American industry continues to now ssu become. are as is Pacifi an ay hizher and higher wages and to ’s:f‘l lower and lower production creating an ever expanding consurip. tion den ind ing low-wage competitors in the mar- kets of a state of affairs in Amer- industry brought of politic cidedly it was not! about of capital labor, costs. e underze the w Was th fean devisings about by is? Most It was hrought co-operative intelle and management and and all three of the partners sfited hugely But the partnership plete or well rounded. element has been left out, and until it is hrought the firm a share-alike basis the house of pros- perity will lack ur foundations. That outside element the ugriculture producer. necessary to industrial ship both as a producer ¢ and the de- hy the have j is not com 1 assential into on security in its is le partner- s con- e the f foodstu raw muaterials and as a sumer of industry’s finished products, and when he fails in either industry crash 1t therefore, ital function w down s h me. that cap- management labor rmer's cause their md and should n e the own. does not lie throuzh panacea of zovern- he farmer's trouble of & single specific be cured by of legislation wholesale re- cumbe! me al distribu- ation and the appli- to reduce In other a modernized agricultural pro But the wav the politicia ment largess does not consist ma ch ean mustard-plaster dose What is needed i organization ¢ botch-w ady wh a is a the agr transpor with proces coupled cation the words costs on Fran The nation-wide . should he a wrting survey of t ramifications point e entire problem in its many by t a survey might commission created President or by act of Co should embrace the ablest ob entutives of capital of transportation, of themselves be headed by organizing and man of No be e be »tainable ch be undertake: by the ngress. It inable man- labor and man wel N of ought to some of outstanding ministrative ability—a type of Herbert Hoover. seeking politiclans should cluned. ad- the self- in- A Practical Market Suggestion. A has been advanced that the market center problem in a way most satisfactory 10 all. Tt has been proposed to sep- arate the retail and wholesale mar kets, locating the former in mid-city ' proposition may soive and in the neighborhood of the Con- vention Hall Market at K and Fifth streets, where there is ample space for extension and the erection of out ! door sheds such as those on B street I Al retail food trading would then be concentrated in the center of the city | in a position of greatest convenience of access. The wholesale market on the water from. would o seived by freight lines and by water transport The factor of accessibility is not mportant in the case of the whole- sale trade as in the retail market. Deliveries from the wholesale market are made by truck. and therefore the ! element of distance material. In point of utility to the public, al mid-city market center is highly de sirable. It is essential that a market establishment be within close range of street car lines. The site suzges ed for a midcity market is well served in this respect. Indeed, it would be difficult to find a location so well suited on this score. The present discussion of the mar- ket site question is timely.” A recom- mendation should he made by the Commissioners to Congress at the next session. It should be based upon a thorough study of the public re- quirements and the city development plans. Washington is fortunate in possessing so wide a range of oppor- tunities for this new market equip- ment, which will be of greater service to the community in the chanzed con- ditions than ever before. s0 not Is It Kitchener's Body? If it be true. as wlaimed, that the bedy of Lord Kitchener has been found in a rude grave on the coast of orway, the belief entertained by many people in Great Britain since the disaster of June 5, 1916, that-the Field Marshal did not die then but had been taken prisoner and ‘was still living will be definitely at rest. For some time prior to his de- | parture from England Lord Kitchener had been discussing the question of the rearmament of the Russlan forces by a means of British supplies. The Russian troops were miserably equip- ped and their lack of arms was tell- ing against them. and consequently against the allies on the Western front. It was finally decided that Kit- chener should go to Russia for a con- ference and an inspection of the con- ditions in that country. He sailed on the battleship Hampghire from Scapa Flow and three hours after the start the ship was torpedoed and sank with nearly all on hoard. Whether she was struck by a floating mine or by a tor pedo directed by a submarine has! never heen ascertained, though the ad- miraity has formally declared that a mine caused her loss. There was a general belief that Germany had ve- ceived information of the carefully Rudrded plan for Kitchener's visit | to Russia and that the Hampshire | had been waylaid. However that may be. she was sunk. There was much | confusion in the reports of the dis-| aster. Some of the survivors declared | that no hoats were launched after ! the explosion. Many versions of the ! tragedy gained curren Rumors | were circulated that Kitchener had | made his way to land on a raft. but that his mind had been so affected | by his hardships that the government had concealed his return. His sister | declared that she helieved him to he stll living. By most of the people, | however, at the time and by pract cally all later. the fact of Kitchener's | death was accepted, and a memorial | service in his honor was held in Lon- | don, ! This present story of the finding of | a body believed 1o be that of Kitchen- | s told by a British journalist who | has been conducting a research into the Kitchener mystery for some time. Believing that the drift of the sea would carry wreckage from the Hampshire to the Norwegian coast. he made a systematic investigation and ! found positive proof that bodies from | the Hampshire had in fact gone ashore there. Finally. by a process of | elimination he located a grave which he believed that of Kitchener. It is to be sent to London and if examination of the dental work and | other marks proves it that of | the war lord it will prohably be given | formal interment, thus putting an end | definitely to a persistent his survival. set a to be now to be dition of | | [ Any tennis exhibition hy Susanne Lenglen in this country will be sure | of liberal patronage it it can he | guaranteed that she will exhibit her | characteristic tantrums. Americans | dearly love “temperament.” r————— son suggests that America should never cancel debts or part thereof while John Bull pours out millions to quench his thirst or France and Italy delight their palates with the rich products of the vinevard. . Thinking up solutions of the Euro- pean economic problem is becoming a habit, almost a fad. But if American business leaders are to be belleved there is truth in the statement made by Dr. Wilson. The American manu- facturer invariably admits that pro- hibition hak been a splendid thing for his business and for the labor Which he employs. When Monday morning rolls round the men are on the job. Such was not the case when the doors of the corner saloon swung wide. While the drive for repeal or modi- fication of the dry laws is continuing briskly in a number of the States, consideration of the economic phase of prohibition is not amlss. A paradox confronts Americans in this dry era. The men and women of supposed in- telifgence and education, of means and ability to enjoy themselves, are the men and women who have suf- fered most from prohibition. They are the chief law violators as a class. Tt is because they have the price of a case of bootleg liquor. The laborer does not have the price, or rarely has it available to make such a purchase. Prohibition may prove a great leveler. e e Gas Masks for England. A member of Parliament has an- nounced that he intends to ask -the Rritish government fo furnish every man, woman and child with a gas mask. with the establishment of in- struction courses in their use in the elementary and secondary schools. He believes that with gas and air warfare at such an advanced stage angland should take this means to protect her citizens, Tt is hardly likel - that this sugges- tion will be considered favorably. Tf war was imminent there might he some reason for taking up the propo- sition. But the world is still stagger- ing from the results of the World War, and no nation, it would appear, is hankering to get into another war. like argument. Gas masks are all right for their grim purposes, but they make nelther an attractive pthy- thing nor a welcome addition to a household in peace time. S Kansas, once famous for original and startling effects in politics, now proceeds indorse the trled and trusty old-timer with no effort to cre- ate sensational issu Established prosperity is a wonderfully tive influence. to conserva e Sport restores human consclousness o appreciation of individual ef- fort. Swimming the English Channel is, in reality, far less important and vemarkable, as the facilities for fiving across il now are available every day. ——ons The test of a great statesman rope appears to lie in his ability persuade his country “to pay up and look pleasant.” A good-natured cred- itor is always a highly valuable set. an in to Great musical ntilized syncopation. The modern tunemakers select the syncopation as an outstand ing merit, hut neglect to euitivate the substantial qualities that went with it. = s Tie farmer, like every zen. Is more or less inclined to com plicate his affairs by nursing a “get- rich-quick” ambition. : -t The Hall murder myster: able in one among many respects has survived for vears without ing in the psychoanalysts. RS oo composers other eiti- is remark., It eall fate similar mark. financiers prediet French frane German German a for the paper to that of the pape Mis loves company ] Almost every country comfortable swimming braving the 9 pool. ladies Channel. insist on —— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSOX, Fisherman's Luck. The fisherman in silence And lets the hours go by, The sunbeam o'er the water flitg As evening draws nigh And his reward is far from small, Far from the jazzy strife. E'en if he gets no fish at all He's had some rest in life While Ederle swims Jack Dempsey is le a possible fight. The male athlete | lecoming v less inclined | wssert himself as a fine audience, | r——— the Channel rely considering i more to Flivver collisions are so numero ihat the histc find it difficult position to Henry tical philanthropist LR Prohibition and Prosperity. Europe’s present economic troubles are due not to the war alone, but in large part to drink, according to Dr. | Clarence True Wilson, general secre. | tary of the Board of Temperance, Pro. f hibition and Public Morals of the | Methodist Episcopal Church. The pros. | perity of America, in contrast to the | financial difficulties of Europe, Dr., Wilson insists, is to be traced to na- | tional prohibition in this country and | lack of prohibition abroad. l Dr. Wilson estimates that Great | Rritain is spending not less than two | billion dollars annually for drink: that | France in 1921 was spending thirteen | and a half billion francs for drink, and | that Italy and other nations made ex- penditures for drink proportionately His argument is to the effect it this money was spent for and shoes and coats and cars N of the future ma | 1o assign d?fllllh*i Ford a prac- a large. that home No Use in His Business. “Do you. helieve in evolution?" “Haven't studied il ator Sorghum. “These secluded scien- tists exercise no political influence whatever.’ e The Overshadowing Fliv, The farmer heaves a weary sigh And wonders how the he'll run When there are flivvers in the sky obscure the sun, a place S0 numerous thev Jud Tunkins says instead of voting the way he thinks a man is liable 1o vote the way he wants the neighbors to think he thinks. Searcher for Truth. answered Sen | gor NDAY STAR, | | “1 have read the Bible through six | times, from cover to cover.” “Are fundamentalist modernist?”" “I'll have to read it a few times more to make sure I understand pre- cisely what they are arguing about.” you a or a Kind Word for Static. The music that the Is full of sordid grief. The static, wWith intrusive wavs, May prove a sweet relief. o plays “A prize fighter gets mo’ money dan a farmhand” said Uncle Eben, “but he ain’t near as useful in devel. and the latter on the water frontghe people would be far better off, and opin’ de country’s natural regpurces.” | zardless of graft. | represented there would be a great revival of 1n-| EVERYDAY WASHINGTON, D. C, AUGUST 8, RELIGION BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D, LL. D., * Bishop of Washington. THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM. “0f such is the Kingdom of Heaven.” The world has been so busy since the close of the war with reparations and the nice adjustment of interna- tional questions, and each individual’ nation has been so occupled in ‘“set- ting its house in order” that some questions that lie at the very foun- dation of our corporate and individ- ual wellbeing have been overlooked. In a sarcastic vein some one said that we were more interested in stamping out hog cholera than we were in the moral and spiritual cultivation of our youth. The most cursory study of our legislative programs in our Fed- eral and State hodies affords little in the way of encouragement to those who believe that the care and nurture of its child Jife is a primary obliga- tion of the Nation. In a recent meeting held in Wash- ington of the superintendents of our public educational institutions repeat- ed references to the need of more and better moral training for the vouth of the land were made. While these | men and women who are chargea with the care of more than 26.000,000 | of our ,children feel that religlous training is not a specific function of our public school system, they never- theless regard with deep concern the lack of proper home training, and the failure of our religious agencies to reach the millions of children through out the land who are without ethical and moral teaching. It was quite clear that this splendid body of school superintendents were fully conscious of the inadequacy of any form of edu- cation that merely informs the head and the hand. In spite of the fact that our public school system is not charged with the responsibility of training the vouth iIn.the things of religion, it is & mighty factor in con- tributing to the moral wellbeing of the vast number of children that come under its influence. How the work of the church and the school may he helpfully and prae tically co-ordinated is a delicate qu tion that involves the wisest and most dizeriminating judgment. Here are | a few figures submitted hy an accept- ed authority that are worthy of the most _serious consideration: “There are 27,000.000 American children and youth, nominally Protestant, under 25 years of age who are not enrolled in any Sunday school or who receive any formal or systematic religlous in- struction. There are 8,000,000 Ameri can children, nominally Protestant, under 10 yvears of age, who are grow- ing up in non.church homes. There | our are in the United States 8.676,000 Catholic children and youth under ears of age. Of these more than 78 per cent ‘are not in religious schools. There are in the United’ States 1,630, 000 Jewish children and youth, of whom more than 95 per cent are not in religious schools. Taking the coun- try as a whole, 7 out of every 10 children and youth are not being touched in any way by the religious program of the chuich.” The foregoing would seem to jus- tity the caustic statement mude some. ars ago by a distinguished New York clergyman: “We are raising, up in this country a set of lusty young pagans, and sooner or later they or their children will make havoc of our institutions.” The problem pre- sented by the foregoing serves to in- dicate the gravity of the situation. While protracted conferences and conventions are heing held constant- 1v in the interests of trade and com- merce and for the discussion of the many questions affecting our political and soclal life. this greatest of all questions is receiving seant considera- ton. So-called pagan clvilizations have given more heed to the moral and ethical training of .youth than present boasted Christian civili zation. Even our church conventions seem to disregard the gravity and significance of the present youth problem. As a divect result of the failure to train the youth in what Prof. flenry Fairfleld Osborne calls the “imperatives of religion,” we are witnessing an increasing crime wave in which the youth of our land play a _conspleuous and appalling part. We are repeating the folly of the dis- ciples of Jesus who attempted to hin- der the children in coming unto Him. So highly dld He regard the things concerning childhood and youth that he declared that they alone were fit for the kingdom of heaven who had the child spirit. A= a nalion we are growing, growing dangerously in the acquisi tion of things material. Our wealth makes us the envy of the world. Whar ahout our wealth in terms of moral character? Unless we address ourselves in a spirit of tolerance to the question of a_better and more consistent system of moral and religions training for our youth, we may find that worse than the disasters of war is the decay of the moral and religions life of a peo ple. Irrespective of denominational or raclal prejudide, It ought to he pos. sible for our outstanding leaders of thought and influence to get together for the purpose of considering a way out of the present critical and threai- ening situation, ves, TRADE WITH CHINA BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Years of revolutions and civil wars, which have brought political chaos to China, have not destroyed the indus. iry or productivity of the people of China, but have ously interrupted their ability to buy and distribute im- ported goods, according to reports of the United States Department of Com- merce, which keeps a close account of the trade of the United States with the Far East, and also keeps track of the general trade of Asiatic countries. This explains the fact that, while American exports to China fell off seriously in 1925 and are not «0 good this year, our imports from China held their own in most lines and greatly increased as to raw silk. Frank R. Eldridge, chief of the Far Eastern division of the Department of Commerce and a close student of Chinese affairs, is convinced that perhaps no country except China could keep going under the chaotic conditions of government prevailing there. The stoicism of the Chinese race and its long experience with poor government have enabled it to carry on, after a fashion. with really no na- tional government at all. Hence, while American trade with China is not prospering as it should, Rritish trade with China is heing ruined and only Japan is making real headway with trade there, the Chi. nese people go on producing and ex- porting their product and doing with- | out imports which cannot get by the | various political barriers The latest shift In lines of power among the war lords, who have cut China up into practically separate kingdoms, will not greatly alter trade conditions, and may even better them. in the belief of the Commerce De- partment observers. By this new shift A group of five Pacific coast prov inces, centering on Shanghai, have been confederated wunder the power of Sun Chuan-fang. who previously controlled only Kiangsu. the province in which Shanghai is located. Sun thus hecomes fifth in number, but among the first in power among the war lords. Understands Foreign Trade. His coup d'etat centers on the cfty which has been the great trade cen ter of China, especially since Canton | has lost her forelgn trade through re- | peated revolutions, and Sun has been | ruling in Shanghai with a wise un derstanding that foreign trade is the | life of his city. By adding the other coi provinces south of Shantung and north of Canton to his zone of control he may actually increase the facilities of foreign trade. The ports of Ningpo and Foochow are added to_his_domain If he continues treaties of the oid ment, the traders from this country may gain sround by his increased power. Fully 90 per cent of recent American trade with China has been with Shanghai and with the Man- churian zone to the north. which is veached through the .Japanese-con trolled port, Dairen. and over Japa nese-controlled railways. Japan has a strong hand jn the reign of Chang Tso-Lin, war lord of Manchuria. Wa have very little trade at pres ent with Canton. which, after evers of government from monarchy to holshevism. has fallen under con- trol of Chiang Kai-Shek. Much the decrease from 108 to 93 wmill in our exportx to China last vear is by the rapid decline of Canton as a distributing center. The other two zones into which China now ix cut, Yunnan in the south and the scattered avea of the center controlled by Wu Peifu. have never bheen sources of direct buying in quantity from the "nited States These great inland areas are almost cut off from imperts b Jikin charges set up by lords and municipalities. Likin is a local tariff assessed on all goods in transit, and collected off everything from a trainload to a wheelarrow hy local authorities. There now are more than 1,000 likin stations in China. and last year they collected $60.000.000., which i of record. re Worse than that, they prevented more trade than they collected from. This interruption of trade accounts in great part for the fact that Ameri- can flour, for example, was shipped to China to the extent of only 220.000 barrels in 1925, whereas. 1,246,000 bar- vels were sold there in 1924, Keru sene and cigarettes, tw exports to China, declined in large measure, and so it was with other ar- ticles of wide use by the common people. Our copper exports to China to respect the central govern ons now | ranized | moral of the | various war | of our chief | likin stations a bit trade may pick up area. While American trade with China has declined as to exports and the American salesman is having hard farther over that inland, much worse predicament. ganda has created what amounts to H'lm\'(‘tfll against British goods, Hong Kong is in the doldrums, and the British with investments of about half a billion dollars in China are doing little more business than the Americans, whose commercial inter- ests there involve probahly one.tenth that investment. . Japan Benefits Chiefly. Japan is said to he the chief hene. ficlary from the Rritish hoycott. To some extent this hoycott all imported goods and is part of the bolshevist theory of anti-capitalism not produce substitutes for the gonds they refuse to buy from foreign sources. They merely go without How long the Chinese will listen 1o this Russian propaganda, which is sald to be widespread and well financed, no one can predict. While silk exports have increased and other exports from China to the United States have relatively held their own, numerous articles conld be sold to us in greatly increased quan tity if the Chinese were hetter or- to produce them and ship them. Antimony, for example, is in large demand, but Chinese miners and exporters are not increasing the output. Efforts of ambassadors and gov ernment commercial agents to stimu late trade through contacts with the central government of China are of no avail, becanse that government practically no anuthority. The local bosses are maintaining separate mov- ernments, and the North China Her ald recently summed up the politicai situation of China in describing Sun Chuan-fang's procedure of consolidat- ng five East coast provinces into what amounts to a kingdom of his Sald the Herald: There is ahsolutely or constitutional reason why: he should not construct a kingdom for himself, and if he governs wisely, every reason, from the standpoint of people under him, why he should.’ § The same newspaper suggests that the foreign diplomats are wasting their breath carrying on tea parties with officials at Peking, and that if they want any action to improve con ditions for the commercial interess of their nations, they may as well negotiate agreements with: the sepa rate war Jords, Sun Chuan Khout the same idea. althoush he does not repudiate the central gov ernment. but merely does not honor it with any particular attention, pay it any taxes, or take any orders from it. The ambassadors from China to foreign lands theoretically represent the central government, but actually it i8 hard to tell whether they rep. resent any one. . THINK IT no logical, anE has expressed OVER How Big Is Life? By William Mather Lewis, President Georee Washington University The purpose of education is v more than prep: SHCCesS, “No | into himseif.” munity and his to hold high " the torch of culture. to {turn from the noise and heat of the jday to stimulate communion with the great of all time. these are things which the trulv educated does. And {1t is not easy in this tremendous age to live such an abundant life. We have stressed overmuch the material needs of the time in which we live. to the neglect of the spiritual The world needs as never hefore the trained technician and physician and lawyer, the industrialist and the mer- chant; but it needs something more than these. To paraphrase a state fment of Ralph Waldo Emerson, it needs man in the laboratory, man in the field of politics, mun pleading the ause of justice, We need not fear that will not find work that is engrossing and profitable; the danger is that |they may become slaves of the ma chine: that in making a wage and a I material or dieth To his com our youth almost disappeared: lumber and agri- cultural machinery fell off, and only cotton amonz our mAjor eXports showed a gain. If the new czar of the east coast of China chases the reputation they will somehow lose contact with the greatest thing in the world-—the fine art of living. (Copvrizht. 1020, King Peatures’Syndleats, m... sledding, the British are in a much | Bolshevist propa- | extends 1o | Unhappily for China. her people do | 1926—PART 2. Capital Sidelights Senator Arthur Capper, chairman of the Senate District committee, friend extraordinary of the National Capital | and the most prolific publisher in these United States, has just had an- other birthday—which 15.000 young- sters helped him to celebrate accord- | ing to custom time-honored during the | !last 18 vears. The big Garfield Park in Topeka was filled to capacity by the Senator's friends in the Kansas capital and from far afield, young and old—and be it remembered that when Just out of high school Capper as a youth enftred Topeka and got a job | as printer's devil. His guests on his birthday come from orphan asylums, industrial schools, from his home for crippled children, from his pig and canning’ clubs for boys and girls, po litical henchmen, those whom he aids and counsels in soclal welfare work. They come in overalls and silks, baby carriages and flivvers. The children get ail the ice cream and lemonade and candy, canes, horns, parasols, ferris wheel rides, substan. tial lunches, vides on the merry-g round and other outing park attrac- tions that they can crowd into the fullest, freest and happlest day of their voung lives. One of the guests was a_I6-year-old youth, Leonard West, who welghs 335 pounds. Gov. Paulen also attend- ed the fete and announced that it was his birthday. too. One woman brought her son to the party wearing long trousers and told Senator Capper that she had attended his first birthday 17 years ago as a schoolgirl. *x k¥ X Representative John M. Robsion, tepublican. from the eleventh Ker tucky district. has the unique distine tion this yeur of being unopposed for re-election, as this condition has never before obtained in the history of that | district. * k X X As an illustration of the new spirit in Congress, taking pride in the de- velopment of the Nation's Capital in- stead of the old habit of censuring ef- forts to make the city of Washington one of unequaled heauty and advance- ]monl. we quote from remarks of Rep- |resentative Allen T. Treadway. Re.; publican, of Massachusetts, a promi- Ment member of the House funds-rais- ling committee, to members of the | Great Barrington Men's Club. Speak- | ing of the $165.000.000 public buildings | bill, he said: ““There are two reasons for’ the large item for the city of | Washington. First. the practical one of the needs of the Government. With the Increass of the amount of husiness {10 he transacted by the Government it has heen necessary to rent at high { prices private quarters within the eity of Washington. There are also in use I many of the hastily buflt and poorly | constructed buildings, which are now hardly fit for occupancy. There is another side to construction in Washington. It is our Capital City, of which all_American people should be very proud. The erection of fine build- ! ings adds both to the utilitarian and attractive appearance of the city.| Washington has grown very rapidiy | in the last few vears. Whatever con- | struetion is done by the Government should be substantial and ornamental | and in keeping with the best traditions of the National Capital.” ERE | | Members of congress are taking an | unusual interest in all conservation | questions this year and especially in | the trees during the warm senson. The other day Rep- resentative Martin L. Davey of Ohio, who in private life heads a big tree surgery company, sent a circular let- ter to every member of Congress and every community throughout the | United States advising regarding the | proper watering of trees during the torrid season. | ow comes RRepresentative .John | Morrow of New Mexico, who inserts | an editorial on “Trees” in the Con- | gressional Record, emphasizing what | {we owe 10 tree ““The health and prosperity of every person, of every age and sex, and of every stratum of society depend very | much on the services forests render | We receive either directly or in- | rectly from the forests food, cloth- ing. shelter, heaith, happiness, recrea- tion and inspirvation. 3 “The leaves of trees absorh the poi- sonous gases given off by the breath of man and heast and created by the hurning of wood. coal, gas and ofl, | thus purifying the air and giving Wk health-building oxyeen. “Certain trees give us fruits, nuts, herries, maple sirup, flavoring extracts |and other foods. Al trees contribute to our food supply by preventing the {erosion of farm Iands, which is cer- | ain to result from the constant wash- | | | | - |ing of rains and snows on lands that | have not the protection” of the roots | {of trees. 1 | “Trees make possible the health- | building sports of fishing and hunt- | Ing by preventing the pollntion VIIMI foading of our streams and furnish {ing sanctua for the furred and | feathered denizens o1 the wood Trees” advance the intellectuality of our people by furnishing the raw material for the making of paper wood pulp. . Without trees we could | not have the vast amount of printed and written matter that has such a large part in the rapid progress of oury land Frees furnish wood fibers that are used in the making of clothing. Trees [ contribute very largely to sustainin | sheep, from which we obtain wool clothing. They make possible the per | petuation of the animais of the wild from which we obtain furs. Irees have a large part in our | ems of tansportation and com- munication- -lumber entering into the | bullding of ships, railroad cars and | {automobiles, and more than 5.000.000 | trees ave being cut each yvear f phone poles. Trees shelter the hirds, and birds destroy the insects which | such tremendons damage to ony eraps and vegetation. ‘Irees diminish the force of wind, protecting our homes | [and buildings. Trees have an impor- | tant influence on climate. giving mois- {ture in dry weather and thus prevent ing parching temperatures. Trees beautify the country and make the ont-ofdoors an attractive place for the motorigt, the hunter, the camper, the hiker, the nature lover.” s * % ew men write their own epitaphs, it was typical of Thomas Jeifer son to do 8o, Representative Arthur 1. Greenwood of Indiana comue | From the long inventory of achieve ments and honors bestowed upol him Jefferson sclected three items by | which he wished to be judged by his | | Maker and remembered by his rfel- {low men. e discarded all official honovs, which were many. and simpiy had inscribed on his tomb this very significant ph “Here is bur Thomas Jefferson. author of the Declaration of Independ | >nce, and of the statutes of Vir | sinia for religious freedom. and father tele- | the | do | but of the University of Virginia.' He therefore considers | his accomplishments for covernment, freedom of relizion and | | treedom of education. In all of these | matters he had fn mind the uplifting i humanity, théir welfare and hapni | ness nnder’a government of the pe: ple. These three supreme accomplish ments of Jefferson are all non-par tisan, We nas most highly freedom of honor the who therefore Jefers arisiocrat, who Jived, serve Jlow mun and died | tinetion of being the | erat in all history nime of bori an bis fel- the dis ! P | Mutuality. Wiseonsin wets and drys get along in hrotherly lpve inside their respec tive camps. The wets (ndorsa the dry candidates and the drys the other. | { understand how’ | Chief Justice Waite { much | voted ‘not | bers of the |l‘lmn\hfl 'y i that the respondent lon the first | But i | heavy i her | sult MEN AND AFFAIRS BY ROBERT T. SMALL. Hereafter congressional investigat- ing committees probably will remain at home, in Washington. When they o out into the wilds, like Chicago, they do not seem to fare so well. Recalcitrant witnesses, flanked by high-priced lawyers. defy the vommit- tee and teli it to do its worst. They grin with glee when threatened with citation for contempt of the Senate. Evidently out in those open spaces, ere men are contributors, they ve generally hold the in con- tempt. Tt is strange in the chvun stances that they should spend s much money trying to elect friends to such w body. It is a fact, however, committee is far more fu its natural habitat In Washington than it is on the road. There fs omething in the surroundings of the | ational Capital that lends and respect to congressional tees and congressional investigations. In Washington they are surrounded by the power and panoply of govern. ment. Usually the hearings are held in_one of the hig rooms of the Senate Office Buflding. The building itself is impressive. If one can imagine the United States Supreme Court leaving its dignified bench in the Capitol and holding sessions In o hotel room it will be possible to visualize some of the loss of prestige which goes with @ change of environment. It requires far more courage to defy a Senate committee in Washing dignity commit their | ton than it does in Chicugo, although, | of conrse, it has been done. Hurry Sinclair did it some years and more ago, and thus far he has neither heer punished nor purged of the contempt Nevertheless, taken by and lurge. Senate committee feels far more at home and far more powerful in Wash ington than In any other part of the country. They fare forth occasionally to try to get nearer to the seat of trouble and possibly to save some money 1o U'nele Sam in the npkeep of witnesses summoned, but chances are in the future that where an inquiry is so poignant as to find witnesses reluctant and defiant. the hearings will be held in Washington. Another cfrcumstance which may or may not have had something to do_with the lessening of respect for Senate committees of investigation fs the fact that very seldom are all (he members of the committee present. In Chicago. for instance, Senator Reed of Missourf had to conduet the “slush fund™ hearings virtuaily alone. Senator La Tollette was with him part of the time. The committee has five members. The two outand-ont Republican members of the commit- tee, Senators Goff of West Virginia and McNary of Oregon, passed up the Chicago hearings entirely. Senator King of Utah, Democrat, also was absent. It ix & little too much to ex pect a wealthy witness and his law vers to have any great amount of fear of a one-man Senate committee. Then, too, it must be remembered that Sena: tor Reed s just a Democrat, while the defiant witnesses were Rapublicans. That lent a sort of partisan color fo the alleged contempt. It is inevitable that people through out the country find it difficult to it s that a Senate. controlled by the Republicans, should send forth an invest lknrin):_ committee | pated to defend the It is apparent 'gort of downpour. headed by a Democrat. they do noi believe the F—lffi ears Ago In The Star n. William W. Belknap. who re- gned the office of Secretary of War Acquittal of under Gen. Grant un der charges of impro- priety of relationship Belknap [i" cartain contracr ors, was impeached by the House of Representatives and tried by the Sen. ate, despite a contention that his res. ignation removed him from the jur dictlon of Congress. In The Star of August 1. 1876, is the following news veport at the conclusion of the case with a verdict of not guilty: “Soon after 12 oclock today Nenate, resuming Its session nas conrt of impeachment, pr vote on the first articie of ment in the Belknap case. The gal Iaries set apart for men were well filled. There was a sprinkling of dip lomatic representatives in the diplo- matic gallery, and the ladies’ gallers was comfortably filled. Seated on chairs placed hehind the rowseof sena torial seats, and on the sofas were perhaps 50 ar 60 members of the House. including Messrs. _Garfleld. Lawrence and Martin 1. Townsend: Hon. Willtam A Arts, ounsel for President John on during his impeacnment trinl. ex- Senator Fowler of Tennessee, ax.Sena tor Stewart and Col. ", ¢, Sheats, e sixth auditor, 1%0 oceupied seats on the floor. “All the enate is in the a managers were in seats, hut no one representing Relknap. except Gen. Mari H. Cap penter. occupied seats at the table of the counsel for the respondent. Mr. Carpenter kept a talley list before him on which he recorded the votes ns they o given, apparently with tion. When the name Logan was ealle who guilty.” many of the mem- Honse rose and left the heing apparently convinced wonld be acquit When the resuit was announced article. voting gniity and 25 not zuilty, several enthusiastic females in the ladies’ gallery gave fow feehle claps of the hand. but once desgisted when finding no one 1o join them. “The vote on the secand a impeachment resulted yeas 25, Mr. Maxey having come in and voted ‘gnilty.’ Senators wha voted {'not guilty” on the firet article voted in the same way on all the other articles. “Most if not ot voting against conviction that they did so because they believe theySenate had jurisdic the premises. Gen. Belknup be n private citizen I not an officer of | the Government when impeuched one Democratic wator, saton of Connecticut, voted ceullty,” und he took the sute view ! regarded want of jurlsdiction. While | 61 Senators voted. 41 (two. Were necessary to conviet. “Mr. Morton was noi present, hav- {ing met with a slight accident this { morning by the overturning of a chzir in which he was sitting n. Belknap's son, a young man of perhaps or 3, was in the cham while the vote was being taken on the first article. and was evidently concziderably agitated When the re was announced he axhihited un mistakable signz of delight. “Gen. BRelknap himeelf was ‘wait ing for the verdict’ at Mr. Carpenter's law office on F street. In a moment their we tis of Senator ted. le of h. naye, the Senator did not ion in Jirds) vot to carry him the glad tidings. Mr. Carpenter himself was warmly con gratulated, he having mude a speciul plea before the court against ifetion “While the vote on the fifth was being taken Moo Morton was ided into the Senate ch ber il K his accustomed seat. He voted ! guilty.” OF the 25 Senatm ‘not guilty’ did so without refe ence to the evidence, hut hecause they did not believe the Senate had juris. { dietion in the case. Senators \right and Conover voted ‘not guilty’ he. cause they did not regard the charges as susmmefl’(: the evidence.” ticle the | explained | Mr. | voting | | war, | =it | country |drawn to the fact that | was only a th | | | ! | Intions of Jack Spratt or any | the: English s the resuit was announced a mounted | messenger in waiting was dispatched | ! votes hours a | latter desterously | inside earnest. They mav find differently, however, when certain possible siic bles present their credenti the Senate bar. B American travelers, not of the tour. ist_class, recently returned from Fu- rope are not inclined to be serfousiy resentful of the “indignities” suffered by Americans at the hands of Paris crowds. They uve a little e sentful of the more calenlated anti American propaganda finding its way in some of the French and Euglish newspapers, which piatnly is fuspive by political or seltish mwotives But these Americans frankly I8 easy to understand the urope attitude toward the United States Europeans feel that the United S instead of suffering from the Workl War. grew rich out of it. And the Americans say they are constantly con vonted hy American offiefal statistios to substantiate the European claims One traveler, from Washington, fns returned from the other side. said he was startled upon heing 1 by English business man of the gain American national wealth during what may be called the war perind. He did not helieve the Engliehman until he returned to Washington and checked up the statistics himself. This is what he found war the United States lent of dollars to the allies lishman had asked if the knew that American loans to Europ had been more than offset by the gain i America’s national wealth. The Americun xaid he did not kilow. The Inglishman usserted that from 1912 to 1922, embrucing the whole pertod of Amerfca’s natfonal wealth in- el by 134 billions of dollars. Therefore,” said the Englishman, vou canceled the war debts to urope, you would still be a gainer by 124 biliions of dollars. What other ould show a result like of say i During the 10 hillions The Eng Amertean that? The doubting Washingtonian has found that his friend's figures wers correct. Of course, the increase fmna. tional wealth in the United States is due to incrense in prices and property values, or to what some might ahan acterlze s the decreased purchesing price of the dollar. But the the cold hard figures, priblish own Government, proclaims i world as the great Croesus among tha nations and as having gained in wealth during the war 13 times as much as we lent to Europe. Perhaps thase over. looked facts will help 1o explain the attitude of the unthinking Furopean masses as they see Americans spend ing their money lavishly on the luxi ries of life at home and abroad. * ook % Men often have heen pictured s the great conservative sex. An ol erver in a New York subway train a day or two ago had his attention three.fourths of the men in the car carried umbrel las. while only one or two women were equipped with “rain parasols,’ as the French call them. And there of rain in the air. 'he men were clothed fn heavy wooler: suits: the women in the usual light Summer nothingness. Yot the ladies were willing to risk a wetting and th men. cautious animals. were all pre mselves from any L oad totha ( This and That By Charles E. Tracewell. Cleanline: nating phy the cat. All small is one of the predomi al trafts of Jack Spratt hoys who do not like to wash their hands hefore meals ought to see Jack wash his after dinner Youngsters who shrink from daily bath should spend a few ments contemplating the thorough other the equally clean cat. Not every eat, clean as Jael for the first upon it “Why, self” they Some are o astonished at immaculate white shirt [ they keep on speaking about “Never did see a4 cat so they assert. Some time later conrse of cen he it known, . Those wha see time invariably is hin remar i how clean him declare. he Keeps Spratt s ot that it Clenn in the conversation, the will pause, look at Jack, and sav, “lle certainly does keep his pawe white.® When they start to go they will sy good-by to the eat with the parting words, “You certainly are a clean aver, us k's cont howls them He scores a “hit ont.” He makes a ¥ Something of this effect, of i dile to the fact regard animals o that when they one they are as Wwoanimals, wx becausge of the conditic they live pirs, 1 chan airly are by nature ‘smeliy Kindly inistrations man dition. Nature, animale in their te, wir ave persons ures, most cres realiy le. are dirt & under whick if given hal! clean. Dogs and need the of their rriend to Keep them in presentabile cor however, which good health it sun. ram ? hali o chance, combined effect of rolls in Even volling in the dusi not dirty. in xense, for the dirt has womething of the action of cleansing powder The domestic house cat easily leads the procession when i comes (o really heing clean. He nat only has ancestral habits in his favor hut algn the rugs. chaire and hed roverings of his adopted friends, on wh e can shed his loose hairs ane wipe off accumulated dirt The net result is that the h stands as the cleanest animal in the world. We speak principaily of the short-haived vaviety. the common, every day “alley cat” breed Juck Sprutt. a tger specimen, Iy to his toilet this hot ther he is ux o pin, ux they used to suy when the i ® regurded ux the ac cleanliness. Today the pin fs regurded with suspicion. s been steri lized? Kewps e keeps il fresh Riv howey e cat de we . 5w Jack sticks out his wet« his white paw and applies to his ears. firet giving them a thorouzh cleaning, ax well as outside. Often he turns them inside ot presenting a most comical aspect. This doee not bother him in the least He calmly proceede to wash his whiskers, when the ears click right side out again Jack then devotes his attention to his magnificent shirt front, which forms a sort of rut? around his ne=x and over his chest is he licks di- rectly with his tongue, arching his red tongue th all | neck. poking out his tongue, apply- jnris- | ing it with a motion which rocks his whole body There seems little rhyme or reason in his toilet after this, but undoubt- edly during the day he covers prac- tically his whole anatomy, us any one may discover who sees Jack on his back, feet in air, his stomach gleaming like snow. et Taking It Easy. From the Nashriila Banner, We can't imagine anybody who [ b d e R