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9 THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON., D. €. MARCH THE With Su Morning Editlon. s WASHINGTON, D. C. ~2SUNDAY.. March 3, 1920 THEODORE W. NOYES i H The Evening Business Office: 11 and Pennsyivania Ave New ‘York Office: 110 East 42nd st. Chicago Office: Tower Building. Ruropean Office. 14 Regzent 8t. London. England Rate by Carrier Within the City. The Evenine Star, 45¢ per month The Evening and Sunday Star (when 4 Sunda 60c per montk. 1day Siar 2 65¢ per month S per copy [ n mace At the end of each month Orders may be sent in by mail or telephoné Main 5000 Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Sunday . 00: 1 mo., #5c weeeees.1 ¥ 36000 1 mo.. 30e 5400 1 mo! 40c Sunday only All Other States and Canada Daily +rd Sunday..1 yr 1mn’. 3100 ailv only Sundey only ciated Press 15 exc titled republication of eli news ais- © it or not othersise erad- and also fhe local news of 550 he e for patches creciced ¢ mer | calls the celebrated bull of an Irish During the presidential campalgn of | 1924, when certain timorous souls thought that the Republican party, EVENING 7;T>\R,hvr(h~ realized that the chances were ! .Editor | the day after their near-tragic experi- | Star Newspaper Company | took off again three times with a period ! Britons Unhonored and Untitled. | fairly swarms with absentees account the political preferences of some of the leaders on the Hill. The President gave more thought to ability than to politics in making his selec- tions as soon as he approved the legis- lation creating the new positions. As the bill had been before Congress for three years, the President evidently as- 1sumed that 1t rested w him to name the judges. His action was also taken with due recognition of the fact that great for an upset of the plahe when the- broken axle hooked itself into the ground. Lindbergh and Miss Morrow did not take the “air cure” immediately, but ence. And the fact that he landed and of thirty minutes was not because he or his spartan bride-to-be were afraid of going far away from the field, but that the landing ivas what wrecked them bn-i,s dally ibecoming worse, and. the new fore and the same maneuver must be | courts are needed to lessen it. The courts cannot begin to function until thirty days after the enactment of the Morrow to take the medicine necessary |legislation creating them, and the to initiate her into the band of real| judges are nceded to direct their organi- fivers, even with a man like Lindy.|zation. but she stood the ordeal bravely and | emerged from it with smiling mien. | The congratulations of an interested world are given this dauntless pair and are coupled with the belief that their exploit of Thursday is a good omen for their future togsther. . .- undertaken to make the cure complete It was probably not easy for Miss D Evidences of Valor. Certainly, let there be special medals :fnr such members of the Police and Fire Departments as shall distinguish | themselves by deeds of outstanding (valor. At the last meeting of the Hou: | District committee during the present |session of Congress that committee re- |ported the Capper bill, already passed | by the Senate, providing for the award {of gold and silver medals to members of the two forces to be selected by the | Commissioners and by heads of depart- ments, Fun has been poked at decorations New Year honor list, in London, 1 King Grorge V's just promulgated M. P., referring to a session of Parlia- ment during the grouse-hunting season. Mr. Speaker,” he exclaimed, “the House the congestion in the Federal Courts | So does the latest list of knights, bar- | and there is no doubt that overabund- | women whose habits of abstraction and ' EVERYDAY BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES “There 1was silence in heaven"” (Revelation, viii.1). “SILENC Possibly silonce made it heaven. An anclent seer said, “There was silenc and 1 heard a voice.” By implication | he suggests that it was because of the | silence he was capable of hearing the | voice. Repeatedly the Bible emphasizes { tha imperative nced of periods of de- tachment when by reason of the silenct the finer voices that appeal to man's soul may be heard and understood. The great leaders who advanced the cause of their time, who brought to their generation ¢learer and finer interpre- | tations of truth, found indisputable |long periods of deep reflection and preparation for their life's task, The | supreme Master is a notable mple {of this. Out of a recorded ministry that covere¢ approximately thres vears He lai? upon Himself the discipline of protracted periods where, apart from men and the moving currents of life, He sought that which the silence: afford. He would not begin His min istry without the long vigil in _the lonely haunts of the wilderness. It is a notable fact that the most conspicu- ous leaders of thought and action the world has known have been men and arked and frequent. Lead- Bishop of Washington RELIGION ¥. FREEMAN, D. D, LL. D, ! | | i | and where its changing hues and colors | fascinate and bewilder us. If ever wa | needed that which Lent stresses—name- ly. a period for greater indulgence in ! quiet and reflection—it is the present. | This long-recognized season does not | come to us out of the remote past | as the survival of a majestic habit of | enforced silence, but rather as a weil | conceived périod for the recognition of | the deeper ard finer valies of the soul. | There are three cardinal reasons why | we need a definite period ‘of silence. | First. because the interruptions of occupation and indulgence afford no eonsciousness of the needs of the'soul. A friend of mine speaking recently of the abandoned religious habits of a large group with which she had to do spoke - with sadness of the growing | apostasy. . There was really nothing re- markable about the situation. Her set had simply ceased to have any con- | sciousness of the need of religion.” Their overoccupled liv surfeited with pleasures and the cares of this life, | were incapable of recognizing the finer things of their own spiritual natu ‘Be still and know that I am God' this they would not and could not do. | It is a ‘tragic situation and one alto- gether too general. It is not that they have no spiritual needs: it is rather that they refuse to recognize them. ! For a like reason, another friend of mine lost his physical health because he refused to recognize the rules that A PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING Lord God, we thank Thee for a & man, ‘To further magnify Thy plan— A man of rare old Quaker strain, A man of sinew and of brain: Wholehearted and with eyes to see, A man of vision, fit to be ‘The helmsman of our <hip of state. And s !lv guide her precious ht | | | | | freight. Through shoals of strife and er d streams. Unto the haven of her dreams, Lord God. we thank Thee that we _ chose A man who fears not friend nor foes: A man of poise, convictions. prayer. Of stlent strength and soul four- square; A man of peace, with purpose sure Whose hands are clean, whose heart is pure. ‘We thank Thee for our Country’s Chief. Be this his creed. his fixed belief t righteousness exalts a rac n is a reproach—di pay. For ralsing up a MAN, today. LOIS ANNE REYNOLDS " v | apital Sidelights BY WILL P. KENNEDY. It was in the Speaker's lobby at Farm Standards Promi e Farm Relief BY FREDERIC ). HASKIN. One of the campaign pledges which President Hoover can be fully expected to redeem If it lies in his power i ta bring relief to the farmer. An extra session of Congress is anticipated w farm relief as its prineipal task. I ing the campaign. Mr. Hoover m: it clear that h> expects much from tariff revision in bringing this about But it is worth while to giance for a moment at another ficld. in whick Mr. Hoover, as Secretary of Comm was_intensely intoreted and is, capable of furnishing rel Imost from the time Mr. Hoover toc over the portfolio of Secretary of Com | merce he greatly extended the work of | the department ‘in inquiries inio stan | ardization. He set up Distsion Simplified Practice and also that | Commercial Standards. Parallel with this work. the Department of Agricul- | ture, through its Bureau of Agricultural Jconomics, w ving on the work of stand ts of agriculture It now c ¥ said h the approval of Depariment of Agriculture | officials, that agricultural standards can be made a competent measure of farm relief through getting botter prices and extending consumpiive ma | kets. There is no doubt that Mr. Ho | ver. as President. will push this work jand endeavor to obtain the fullest | co-operation of producers of food prod- ucts in obtaining wide acceptance. 1t will be profitably remembered that, in vetoing the McNary-Haugen farm relief measure, President Coolidge found fers for sale a certain grade, that and nothing It takes no spe sense (o see iha the line back to the be preferred by pe best The best who ice ‘mer. He - spent by a He throws ndiscrimi- ccepted at han a low nd by ree itselt To him apples his entire crop 1f hi are ¥ duction. Oft imes he cannot all and the apples rot Direet The first sain to Farmer. farmer afford to niil. and an s will be so e he 1 each v gain his s a wic He The same process is by many produce pther 50 graded items of farm products, and sure veys made by the Government that the practice pays in a higher and a wider market One of the fs plaints has been his mab! proper crop financing quict were his main objection in the equalization ourse of business the bank a loan on an apple or any cultural crop nev he sees is a warehou if that receipt sho | long-sustained effort prescribes. A sec- |the Capitol. They were chatting over | fee, which was, in effect, a guarantee ond reason for the need of definite |old-time war days. campfites and the |that the farmer would receive a sort | periods of silence and reflection is made | thrills that sometimes come when the | of Governmen: price subsidy. Mr. Hoo- | evident in our mental life. Those finer |gods of war or the gods of thunder !ver also has cbjected to money subven- | satisfactions accruing to the cultivation | lovse their wrath. “That takes me back | | ership is hardly afforded to those who |have no secret places wherein silent | communing and study of the soul ahd its needs are recognized and practiced It is clearly evident that the periods .~ might go down in ignominious defeat |onets and peers created by his Bri- because of Teapot Dome, that cynical | tannic majesty. The unhonored person- wit. Senator Georze H. Moses, divested | 28¢s far outstrip alike in number and hi of an alliterative {in eminence the roster of those who |ance thereof, or their award on inade- 1ullltt‘ grounds, has in the past brought ridicule on the custom and on the in- I dividual wearer. But fun has never been if aphorism tions to farmers. Also, it will be r -*'~ responsibility in which he found him- “The principal asset of the Repul party shire, “is the calm and cautious Chris- | tian character of Calvin Coolidge.” It was enough. Ignoring the mal- feasance in office of certain highly | placed members of the preceding RF-‘ publicar administration, the people massed at the polls and by & colossal | majority gave Calvin Coolidee a vote of | confidence. It was confidence Cooi- idge. the man. that was registered—be- | lief in the impregnable integrity of the | first New Englander to enter ‘he White House in a hundrad years. Issucs were | ignored. The electorate convinced itself | that amid the encircling gioom of scan- ~dal at Washington, a personality of | superconservatism was the need of the | <" hour. His enemies had shrieked from the political house-tops that Mr. Coolidge, as Vice President. had sat in the Hard- | »ing cabinet meetings while Trapo: Dome was being stolen. But the eccun- try at the polls in November, 1924, ov'r- | whelmingly rejected the imputation that | the Vermonter was an accessory before the fact. It elected him President be- . cause it believed he was not an accom- "rplice in any of the irregularities of the | “"Harding epoch, and especially because - it was absolutely certain that the name . "ol Calvin Coolidge could not ever con- ‘ ceivably be associated with maladmin-! istration of Government. Men sometimes call Calvin Coolidg: an “accident.” They say that the Bos: | ! ton police strike pitchforked him intd fame. They declare that his nomins- ~*=tion for the vice presidency at Chicago in 1820 was a “fluke.” And firally they charge that the fate that took Warren G. Harding in 1923 was the greatest ccident” of all, Circumstances did | | conspire ‘fortuitously in Calvin Cool- | ~..lidge's career. But the acid test of a man or a statesman is his eonduct amid '‘the conditions into which accident or 2 Juck or fate plunges him. By that standard judged, who will| deny that the thirtieth President of the United States has given a creditabie | account of himself in every station of | self? Place and power did not dazzle ‘him nor obscure his vision. Neither did hey tempt him into Utopian excursions in the field of statecraft. To others he left rainbow-chasing and sky-gazing. Calvin Coolidge preferred to keep his | 43 feet on the ground and his eyes| straight ahead. In an age of bombast he was invin ¢ibly thrifty in conversation. He deli ered many addresses, but almost with- .- out exception they were in response to simportunities which could not be de- " 'nied. The American people to a consid- serable extent do not choose a President. They elect a speechmaker and expect " him to comport himself accordingly.| Could he have had his way, Mr. Cool- | -»-~idge undoubtedly would have preferred to run strictly true to the form exem- plified by his popular sobriquet of “Silent Cal He has not been what we call a “brilliant” President. Calvin Coolidge was more than that. He was a saga- cious President. He was quintessential- ly the man for his time. His regimen of simple living was of itself a boon. There are still millions of old-fashioned “*Americans who look upon their Presi- dent as the svmbol of the Republic and of its basic virtues. Such a man is the quaint, whimsical, Wise, quiet New England gentleman who now takes leave of the White House. All the citizens who can manage it ®ill be in this city tomorrow. Those 3 Who cannot will listen in and wish they could be present e The “Air Cure. Miss Anne Morrow, the future Mrs " Charles Augustus Lindbergh, has been quickly initiated into the code of the | those who desert | great fraternity of Mother Earth in man-made contriv- an | may here: (ter prefix said the sage of New Hamp- names or affix | appointed n particular that none of | subjects of the King who prefer the | | | ir” to their ! of life’s greatest inspirations are those 1 | | of the mind can only come to those who | “Bart.” after them. The Britisu public appears to be d!s-‘ the twelve physicians who recently min- stered to the King in his grave iliness is elevated to the nobility. The honors | poked at the Congressional Medal of Honor or the Victoria Cross or half a dozen decorations in the same class, Almost every hour of a policeman’s life, on duty or off, is fraught with per sonal danger. The same applies nearly as much to firemen. Washington has system in Britain provides for recogni- tion of women's services. It was thought that King George's nurses would be remembered in the New Year shower They, too, are among the missing. London dispatches single out George Bernard Shaw, John Galsworthy and | | seen some outstanding deeds of heroism and self- sacrifice since its two depart- ments were first organized. There is no doubt that the possession and the display of decorations for bravery by certain singled-out members makes for [that are marked by detachment from recognize its capacities and its aspira- | the distracting. harassing concerns of | tions. He was a wise man who said, | |our occupational life, Our world to- “My mind to me a kingdom is.” He | day is & noisy one. There seems to be had evidently come to find that to feed | no possibility for getting away from its | the mind was as important to feed | jargon and confusion. Even the very the body. Those who have enriched the | ether we breathe is full of sound. We |world with the products of their think- literally inhale with every breath voices, l ing have ever been those who in the | some harmonious and gentle, some dis- | sliences have wrought out their master- | cordant and rauceus. Some one has | piece. Finally. the need for more of caustically observed that the preaentlsilence is disclosed when we contem- situation suggests ‘‘a world of men | plate our relation to God and God's /and women running about with their | relation to us. We believe in our better ‘snuls in their satchels.” The persist- | moments that “there is a divinity that ent demand for the satisfaction of shapes our ends” We believe that | physical appetites renders us unre- | somehow behind the events of life, giv- | sponsive to the deeper claims of our ing them form and color, resides the |emulation on the part of the earnest Rudyard Kipling as among those whose |, iy ang for esprit de corps general names are conspicuously absent from the honors list. Evidently it was also expected that Sir Austen Chamberlain. foreign secretary, might be raised to the House of Lords, though British di- plomacy in recent times—note the An- glo-French naval flasco—has not been noteworthy for acumen. As a matter of fact, countless notable occasions have de- clined royal honors and titles. Mr. Gladstone might have been an earl, but preferred to live and dle a commoner. Joseph Chamberlain could easily have aspired to a peerage. David Liloyd George, at the zenith of his power at No. 10 Downing street at the end of the war, would not have sought in vain any titular distinction within the crown’s gift. There are innumerable | casions of great ceremony, but & small | bar of parti-colored ribbon would be a | dignified, a significant and a cherished ornament on any dark blue blouse, - | The American eagle is a proud and Britains o0\ oqerful bird, but this fact does not ' make the ground hog at all respectful | in registering weather predictions for a | patriotic ceremonial. ——————— ‘The White House pets may be sure jof good homes. Those to whom they have been givén will regard them not only as playfellows, but as souvenirs to | be cherished. 5 = e March may be said to have come in like & lion—a rather gentle and even | tearful lion and possibly willing to re- | |frain from rigorous demonstration, at | least for Inauguration day. ————— A new administration brings along a wave of national good feeling. Every official enjoys, for at least a little while, & general expression of kind words and good wishes. | | | distinctiveness of untitled place in the community on the ground that titles, because of their frequency, have be- come cheapened in value. Canada by law prohibits citizens of. the Dominion from accepting titles. In the United States—as the Repub- lic is about to observe—we bestow Gov- ernment jobs on more or less worthy citizens as rewards for either party or national service. “Honors” in London take the place of patronage in Wash- ington. The' are of the same general | kidney. Some worth; denizen from our West- ern prairies becomes Mr. Assistant Sec- retary of Something-or-Other or Mr. Commissioner This-or-That. His coun- | terpart in John Bull's islands becomes & year— Sir Arbuthnot Frothingshire, K. B. E. | Sometimes, perhaps a sigh. or words to that effect. They have each | Though new ideas we explore, “arrived” by the same route. In the ' pife i with memories fraught. American case, a grateful President be-;vn“, song of yore we hear once more, stows thanks upon a deserving political | And think the same old thought. worker. In the British case, a sagacious sovereign, acting on the advice of an: Poer Business. even more vigilant prime minister, by “What do you think of a man who accolade g some loyal subject a new | would sell his vote?” handle to his name. “I think,” sald Senator Sorghum, Even the humblest of them may hope | “that he is not only unpatriotic, but to climb the ladder which leads into foolish, with so many sources of profit| the upper crust. That is why we read | easily available." i today that the newest peer of the realm | = is Bir Jesse Boot, “chain” drug store| Jud Tunkins says the man who thinks | proprietor. | He is honored for his sery- | e knows it all had better keep out of ices in “promoting education.” Boot's | an airplane unless he is a regular ace. chemists' shops” dot the London land- | scape in all directions. Perhaps Lom‘, Boot has made the peerage for keeping | London a community where men are' men and drug stores are not restaurants. —— v tee—— | His wish for a quiet wedding may | e v SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Patriotic Melody. The sameé old melody we'll hear As bands go marching by, Which claimed a cheer, through many Inversion. Chicago is & wondrous town, ‘Where marvels do not stop. They've turned the city upside down. The underworld's on top. Delicate Encouragement. have prompted Lindbergh to select & | wyoy have many times refused my wedding date when the m.u.unuon}m.,,i“, oroposal,” said the man. would have a tremendous and perhaps | Don't you ke me?” overshadowing interest, “Very much,” answered Miss Cay- g enne. “I enjos your visits and I want Mr. Coolidge is now in & position 0 | you to feel perfectly safe.” enjoy his first real vacation in many years. i = = | “When we are no longer voung,” said | Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “we seek " to borrow handsomeness from house and raiment.” - Secretary Wilbur's Nomination. While the nomination of Curtis D. Wilbur for the recently created ninth | Rebin Bird. circuit, including California, has been | Old Friend Robin Bird— caught in a political log jam and will | With martial music hearts are stirred. not be reported out of the judiclaryi; And we, who gaze, will proudly greet committee at this session, Mr. Hoover | The march on a historic street. may see fit to carry out President Cool- | Sy dge’s intention of rewarding & faith- | re pest tor r oo ful public servant by returning him 10 | 15 one you condescend to sing his first love—the bench i On the awakening of Spring. Secretary Wilbur came to the cabinet from the Supreme Court of California. “It's hard foh a cheater to be happy,” He succeeded to a post just vacated by said Uncle Eben, “because he has to ances to wing {ieir way through the eky. a man whom the fates had entangled | Put in 5o much of his time bein’ scared.” ———— | his spiritual nature. It is quite evident that there is little of repose and less The actual medal, as is the case in the | of tranquillity to be had in a world nizes the reality Army, need never be worn save on oc. | ¥here the currents run strong and swift. | is in the silences He articulates Himself | great Artificer, the eternal Father. It |i= in the stillness that the soul recog- of God's presence. It ‘Loyalty, Ability and Placidity Chief Qua'litie BY WILLIAM HARD. The big idea behind the whole new Hoover cabinet is seen here now to | be solidity and dependableness. There are nu comets in it. It consists of sub- stantial planets that will steadily re- volve in their orderly orbits and who will constitute a strong and loyal solar system, with Hoover, at the center, not needing much to worry about any wanderings off the reservation or about any collisions or explosions. That 1s the ultimate inside analysis made of it here at this week end just before inauguration day, and every fresh consideration of the matter seems to_confirm the dominant view. The eight cabinet names so far re- | vealed are eight assurances of tran-! | quillity. * ok ok % ‘The most spectacular of the lot is William D. Mitchell, who will be At- torney Genéral. Mitchell 18 & scintil- lating jurist. He is now solicitor gen- eral. Justices of the Supreme Court have declared that he is the ablest solicitor genéral who has ever argued before them. He is probably second to nobody at the whole Ameriean bar as a student and as a practitioner of the law. He is spectacular, indeed, in his profession. He is utterly the re- verse of spectacular, however, in his personality. He is quiet, modest. utterly unob- trusive, utterly unquarrelsome, utterly indisposed to meddle and intrigue. He does his duty, and then does his duty some more, and then lets it go at that. X ‘That same sort of quality, in & gen- eral way, is seen to pervade the whole new cabinet, with virtually no contrary tendency anywhere in it. Mellon, who holds over from the Coolidge cabinet, in addition to all his technical financial knowledge, personal reliability itself. He never whispers against colleagues. He never undermines anybody. He does not even know how to intrigue. He does job, and gets it done, and home to his pictures, and there you are, and that's all. * X K % Good, the new Secretary of War, i8 another miracle of reticence and self- control, In the campaign of last year he had the most trying position held by any Republican. He had to try to carry the West for Hoover under con- stant interruptions and interferences from an ignorant national committee headquarters in Washington. Why he did not either resign or else go crazy was something nobody could solve. Good solved it. He smiled outwardly till he got calm inwardly. His steadi- ness and stanchness was the grandest personal spectacle on the whole Repub- lican side of the campaign battle. Hoo- ver will be able to repose absolute trust in Good's control of his temper and con- trol of his speech under any provoca- tion whatsoever. * ok k% As for Charles Francis Adams, who is going to be Secretary of the Navy, it can be said that he has more or less specialized all his life long in deserving trust. In fact, if one mn{ be a bit fiippant, trusts have been largely Mr. Adams’ occupation. He is trustee of the Boston Ground Rent Trust and of the Boston Real Estate Trust and of the Western Real Estate Trust and of the 0ld Colony Trust. As treasurer of Har- vard, he has dealt with millions un- quiveringly and unjarringly. Moreover, there has never been an Adams—from old President John Adams down—who did not feel that he had a slightly more delicate and refined sense of duty and responsibility and right relationship to public life than people who, for instance, are not Adamses. Hoover will have no public tantrums from the office of the Secretary of the Navy while Adams oc- cupies it. Adams will administer and report and confer and administer—and that will be that. 3 * k * % of Hoover Cabinet 1 to their chief and extreme ability. when | required, to digest woes in silence. * Kk K % Loyalty, again, is the very central quality of Stimson, the new Secretary of State. As Secretary of War under Taft, he had to face the problem of sticking to Taft or going over to his old playmate ‘Theodore Roosevelt. He stuck to his chief, to the man who | had taken him into his official family. He is certain beyond question to be as |loyal now as he was then. He has | great intellect. He has great charm. | His character, though, is here the point. His character is granite. It does not { Tun. * X K % Davis, holding over from the Coolidge cabinet as Secretary of Labor, has prov- | ed his steadfastness for eight years. He has never produced presidential em- | barrassments and never will. * K xox In sum, the whole cabinet prospect is & faithful discharge of jobs and an utter lack of inner maneuvers .and manipulatiéns and frictiofs énd nolses nd cracks and leaks. This is a ground- | rock steel-lock cabinet. * Kk % * | Most of Washington will deeply re- | gret the absence from it of William J. | Donovan. The truth is, however, that | Hoover amply liquidated all his obliga- tions to Donovan when he offered him the governor generalship of the Philip- pines—a position thought honorable and satisfying_in times past by William | Howard Taft and Leonard Wood and |in these prestnt times by Henry L. | Stimson. The truth also is that Hoover | might have kept the Secretaryship of War open for Donovan if the personal | relations between the two men had remained smooth. Donovan, winner of every winnable American military medal in the World War, is as gallant on | the fleld of peace as he was on the Western front—as gallant and as quick and high spirited. He regarded the appointment to the Philippines as | exile, and resented it. The break be- | tween the two dear friends came. Wash. | ington will hope for its healing. (Copyright, 1920.) e Many Questions Will Confront Next Congress | BY HARDEN COLFAX. Business and industry are turning eager eyes toward the new Congress. A huge bundle of bills affecting agriculture, manufacture, distribution and the rela- tions of private capital and labor to the Government is expected. ‘The expiring Seventieth Congress de liberately abandoned some of its meas- ures to its successor, while others failed because of opposition. When the Sev- enty-first Congress will swing into full functioning is uncertain. The special session which, it is expected, will be called to meet in April, perhaps the 10th of that month, may be confined to specific subjects, principally farm relief and tariff, through the expedient of not organizing all committees of the House, & procedure which cannot be followed in a continuing body, such as the Senate, but nevertheless would be effective in { preventing completion of legislation, no matter how much work might be done by the Senate alone. ‘Wishes of the Executive naturally will have considerable influence upon the | scope of the work of the special session. | Regardless of the narrow limits of work {of a special session, the regular session looms in December, and thus the whole j1ange of legislative authority is involved in the present speculation as to the dis- position of the new Congress, not only as to specific proposals, but also as io :broad tendencies. | . Tariff revision is being watched closely |inits initial developments by the whole { population, which has a keen interest as consumers, and by hundreds of thou- |this _situation, to a Pennsylvania military camp, be- fore Dr. Temple was a member of the House,” said one of the group. point- ing to Representative Henry W. Temple | of Pennsylvania, one of the most dis- | tinguished members of the House, rank- ing member of the committee on foreign affairs, former professor of internation- al law at Washington and Jefferson Col- lege and a clergyman by profession. “You see, Temple was chaplain of the regiment,” went on the speaker “everybody in the camp looked up him, for not only was he a fine chaj lain, but he knew the world. he knew men and how to meet situations that would not arise in a conservative con- gregation. What I have in mind was the night a terrific thunderstorm broke directly over the camp. The lightning played havoc with the tents in which ides pointed skyward. More than 40 | men were laid low by shock and 4| were killed outright. “Well, at the height of the storm, Temple left his tent and rushed to the rescue of those who lay so still and unconselous that ‘twas impossible to tell whether they were dead or only shocked. Every minute counted for possible resuscitation. In the midst of an orderly rushed to Temple, saying: ‘Half the band is in a panic and on their knees praying. Can't you come and pray with them?' Dr. Temple helped lift an unconscious body from the ground, and. without turnin around, shouted over his shoulder, ‘Tell those men this is no time to pray, and to get to work!" And they did.” Another incident of that terrific storm was then told which runs like this: There is a suspicion among certain Pennsylvania Negroes that it is the clothes one wears and not the person itself that attracts lightning. Right in the middle of the storm, with the bolts striking all around and the crash of the thunder deafening. a sentry saw a Negro, stark naked, running as if for dear life, with a bundle under his arm. The storm had shunted strict discipline to the side track, and. not knowing the superstition, the sentry | called out. “Hey there, why don't you put on your clothes?” The Negro, now ashen hu, flung his clothes into the nelrgz underbruch, and shouted back as coftinuéd to run, “When de light'n hit&.den clo'es, dis nigger ain't| go'n t' be in 'em.” And he disappeared into the darkness. =% oW Just_when Calvin Coolidge, having | made White House breakfasts of good old New England maple sirup and wheat cakes and sausage famous, is about to go back to the Yankeedom he loves, up bobs one of the bright young boys in Secretary Jardine's col- lection of agricultural specialists with the daring idea of selling to New Eng- land a Southern substitute for the matchless sirup that flows in the Springtime from the New England maple trees. The Publicity Service of the Depart- ment of Agriculture bombards New Eng- land newspapers with a notice that “‘cane cream,” & new product from sugar | cane. originated two years ago by the Federal department, “is now appearing for the first time on the Northern market.” It is being produced in Lou- isiana on the su plantations. It is touted as a “delicacy.” The de- partment handout says: ‘“‘Cane cream makes 1 delicious spread for hot cakes, waffles, biscuits, etc. It has a smooth, semi-solid consistency, resembling that of the maple cream or maple butter so much favored in the North. Sand- | wiches made from it do not become soggy, which is an advantage in pre- pring school children’s lunches. Cane crear can also be used as a ready- made cake icing." Here we have the “unprogressive South” challenging Yankee shrewdness at the Yankee's own kitchen door, of- fering & substitute for one of the Yan- kee's proudest products. Next we will have the Forest Service of the Depart- ment of Agriculture advising the New Englanders that, as a conservation measure to protect their maple trees, they should use this substitute from the South. * X % % In order to acquaint libraries and | the public more promptly with the available current publications of the Government, & weekly list is now being | ¥rtpared4 It is believed that the in- ormation therein contained will be of great service to libraries in the selec- tion of Government publications that are of special interest to their readers and that it will also better acquaint the public with the real worth of manv Government publications that might otherwise receive little attention. Federal judiciary in injunction suits in- | volving labor disputes. Bills to provide a reservoir of public works to be constructed in perfods of ll;dunrm depression to relieve unem- ployment. A change in the quota basis of ad- mitting immigrants. 5 Governmental supervision of trading membered ihat President Coolidge urg- on which the load grade. the banker kn stands. He is mn grant a loan to according to the stand. to them than he is to take a cia on a miscellaneous lot which may deteriorated ed greater and more effective eflorts on the part of the farmers in acting co-operatively. The crux of the whole situation is the creation of a better market for | farm products through increased use of the standards which have been fixed by the Bureau of Agricultural Eco- nomics and the establishment of such additional standards as appear to be illing t» vho grades to worthlessness be buyer is found As health considerations enter into the sale of milk in citics. standards ave in fairly general use. 1t appears {rom sl the records that the larger the city ‘he Many Standards Now Set Up. | puter the milk and. usually, the better I the price. Ninety-nine per cent of Ne More than 50 standards aiready have | york City's milk is pasteurized and the been set up by the bureau. ranging | bacterial count is believed to " from live stock, fruit and vegetables to | Jowest in the country. Nevertne ~ | alre: eggs and other general group: are in use by many and many markets. To bring about the greatest measure of farm relief the task appears to be to induce more farmers to take the trouble to employ them. In every attempt to bring about farm relief through co-operative ef- fort the prime difficulty encountered has been the individualistic tendencies of the American farmer. It has been hard to make him see the advantages of using and steadily conforming to the standards. The Bureau of Agricultural Economics is prepared to demonstrate to the food producer that cash advantages are to be derived through this medium. Let us take the apple, for example. One farmer informs himself concerning the standard grades into which apples have been divided. Fe takes the trou- ble to sort out his cmr. keeping the several grades carefully separated. Commission merchants learn to know that if they order a hundred barrels of a certain grade from that farmer they are going to get them. Jobbers and retailers buying from the commission !merchlnt also know that when he of- study recently showed that only 31 ou of 83 cities in which the investigation was made have grading systems The direct gain to the procuc shown by a special study of the 14 cipal cities in Alabama, following setting up of standards. Sales of m increased 90 per cent. Other dalry proc ucts and eggs have revealed similar re- sults where standards are rigorously followed. The individual farmer can better his prices and his market by following standards. but the best results are ob- tained where a community of farmers works co-operatively and requires all members to stick to the standards set. The product of such a group Wwill be- come known long distances and it will command a premium price. Excepting where there are matters of health concerned, standards aiready set are not compulsory nor do Government officials generally deem this desirable. Too great an army of inspectors would be required. But competent students of the problem are confident that in fol- lowing these standards and getting top prices for their best procuets. the farm- ers can solve their own problem. Fifty Years Ago In The Star Half a century ago the question of providing sultlbble qull;teréu!or the Li- : rary o ngress was Library of under discussion, and fesr was ral es! ep! Congress. i, "ihe Capitol Bullding, and thereby restricted in its growth, which even then was confidently ex- | pected. “The Star of February 24, 1879, says: { “The action of the Senate in favor of i keeping the Congressiol Library in | the Capitol and enlarging the building | to make room for it is sharply criticized. | The American Architect, while conced- !ing that a reference library of 50,000 or i70.000 volumes should be kept in the Capitol for the exclusive use of Con- gress, holds that a working library of 2,000,000 volumes for the legislative body would be an absurdity. The general library—which may be called national, since it is intended to include the sum of American literature—forms a library which is extremely valuable and invites a great variety of uses. So long as it is in the Capitol ‘it is less accessible for those uses than if it were properly housed by itself, is less secure and is absolutely in the way in a bullding which ought to be reserved for legis- lative needs.’ The architectural objec- I'tions to the proposition for enlarging the cn&wl to hold the books are thus epitomized by the Architect: “ “There is no doubt that in some way the building can be so adapted as to make room for the Library as it is or will be for & few years to come. There is no more doubt that to make it a permanent nurse;; for a child of such gigantic_powers growth is impracti- cable. Every few years the same diffi- culty would recur. The inevitable re- sult would be the conclusion, when the House had been spoiled, that after all father and child could not live in it together. Irrespective of space, a legis- lative body and a large public library should not try to live together. Each ought to have the supreme control and the sole possession of its bullding, and they require buildings of different kinds. “‘The person whose jucgment in re- gard to alterations of the Capitol is be- fore alk others entitled to respect is the Mr. Walter. His judgment, quoted in tral fronts of the building beyond the 25 or 30 feet which he recommended and intended when he added the wings would be disastrous to its design. Such an increase as this would give but short relief, and it is not easy to believe that the more violent alterations which are proposed would be architecturally satis- factory. Mr. Conkling exhibited in the course of the debate a design which he said imitated the advancing porticos in front of St. Peter's at Rome, two exten- sions being added to the wings of the Capitol at a lower grade on the descend- ing ground at the west. To criticize a design without having seen it is danger- ous; but we should think from Mr. Conkling’s description, so far as we un- derstand it, that the likeness to St. architect who gave'it its present form. | the debate, was that to éxtend the cen- | This and That By Charles E. Tracewell. One of the most interesting char |acters in Emile Zola's “Germinal” is |a rabbit by the name of Poland. so- called by & Russian anarchist. Souvar- gmlam engine man in the French coal elds. Souvarine lived in a tavern where the rabbit was the household pet. The reader is introduced to the mild but bloodthirsty man in the following words: “His dreamy m{:!lc eyes watch the cloudlets of smok cigarette through a hand, nervously fidgeting for some- thing, kept gently beating the air, and he generally ended by taking on his knees a tame rabbit. a fat doe, which had the run of the house. “This rabbit, which he himself had christened Poland, had taken a violent fancy to him, smelt his legs, cuddled up against him, and put up its paws until he took it in his arms like an infant. “Then, snugly pressed against him, with drooping ears, it shut its ey while he, with a soft, caressi motion, kept on stroking its grey, silky coat apparently calmed by the contact of the animal's gentle warmth.” H "N ‘The rabbit thus took the place of a house cat. Souvarine and Poland became fast friends. Whenever comrades came to the tavern, they would find Poland cuddled up on the Russian’s lap. One day a conversation was inter- rupted as the fat rabbit came bounding in from the sidewalk, where it had ventured for a breath of fresh air. A band of boys, seeing the rabbit, had assailed it with stones, from which it ran_bounding. “In her fright, her ears hanging limp against her head, and her tail turned up, she ran for shelter to Souvarine, ugging his legs, imploring and seratch- ing him in order to be taken on his lap. When he had placed her on his knees, he shielded her with both hands. and fell into the usual reverie to which the contact of her soft. silkv coat scarcely ever failed to incline him.” * ok ok X ‘There was in the town a vicious young boy named Jeanlin. The miners were to have a secret meeting in a nearby forest one night: Jeanlin determined to attend; on the way he came across Poland. “As they passed the Good Luck, it | 50 happened that Poland was taking an airing on the pavement. With one | bound Jeanlin then clutched it by the ! ears, popped it into Lydie's basket, and ;all three of them started off at a gallop. | They would have some fun by making jl{he rabbit run like a dog as far as the orest.” If Poland hadn't been so fat, she would have escaped when the cruel | youth let her loose in the forest, but owing to her size the lad was able to le;g in touch with her. H hey tied a string to her hind leg, tand made her hobble along. Then {Jeanlin tied it around her neck. and seemed to Miss Morrow has borne the ini-{in a sorry web of misfortune. He has | tiation bravely, as becomes the bride- | served the Navy well, and has won for sands with added concern as producers i . The same will be true of Ray Lyman |and dealers. This subject and farm re- | = Autromity at" Authority “of the Federal Reserve | it Must be more in fancy than in “as the poor creature grew fatigued. RADIOTORIAL. reality, while on the other hand most | they dragged her behind them. some- to-be of the world’s most popular avia- tor. and is now fully equipped to take her place by the side of the illustrious colonel when fiving is the order of the cav Since man first began his explora- tions into the dangerous upper realm: it has been an integral part of the avia- tor's code that immediately crash. or at soon as is physically pos- sible he should again go aloft to calm his shattered nerves before the reaction of his experience begins to set in, It has been no unusual sight. thereforg, to see a fiver turn his ship over on land- awl out un to procure anoth hip to start When piar in‘act he probably knew then and there hat if they lived he and his flancee re booked for the “air cure” in the r future. Landing in the thin the flying colonel found his gh speed and Lind- atter a | urt, and walk to the | in the air with oniy one wheel |Out of the service. thousand-foot Mmudr‘ml up nominationg for newlv ereated himself a place high in the esteem of March Climate. the commissioned and enlisted person- ~The snowflakes came down nel. His tenure of office has not been On our terrorized town. altogether smooth. The Navy's S-4 The North wind will toes 'em and twist disaster brought with it a downpour of | ‘em, i emotional criticism, while the ship con- | But what do we care? struction programs and the efforts at The Fourth should be fair | further limiting naval armament caught | If March gets this out of its system. Burlingame Ornithology. A policeman romantic Is driving us frantic, And spoiling sweet stories of love. We lose our religion! She was a stool pigeon Instead of a fond turtle dove. | the Navy in a delicate position, where | [ too much talk could be calied jingoism, | | where 100 little would have meant rank | | heresy to the cause of practical de-| fense. Throughout the rough sailing the | Secretary’s calmness and tolerance, his | | refusal to allow himself to be thrown {off his feet and his stanch loyalty to {the Navy have been noteworthy. He |Jeaves behind him many friends in and The Finest Melody. Musicians from throughout the land ‘Will banish thoughts of grief. All will be merry when the band Sounds out “Hail to the Chief!" And yet an echo from afar Makes one man glad to roam; The jam in nominations, caused by the adjournment sine die on PFriday of the Senate judiciary committee, is traced to Mr. Coolidge’s action In send- | The bands of sld Northampton are Federal judgezhips without taking into Rehearsing “Home, Sweel Home." v I stanford campus and live there side by | sums, which appear inevitable, may Wilbur, the new Secretary of the In-!lief form an important program for a terior. When Hoover and Wilbur were | special session without adding any young_men together, just out of Stan-!others. rd University, they sald to each other, Some fear is being expressed quietly .et’s build houses for ourselves on the that prospective appropriations of large side.” They both did get houses on the 'force readjustment of the revenue act Stanford campus and they have lived | next year. The reduction in corpora- there side by side for years and they tlon income tax rate to 12 per cent, will now live equally intimately and!which is effective this year, must be equally amicably side by side in Wash- ] tested out in the returns it will yleid ington. Wilbur, like Adams, loves to!before much can be said on this sub- iminister correctly and irreproachably | ject, however. and he could as soon turn against him- | self as turn against his fellow boy who interest to business and industry that now is to be President. S e | ihe Beventy-first Congress wil inherit | [rom the present Congress are: Brown, the new Postmaster General,' Raliroad consolidations—Either & bill is almost as equable in wm‘rer as Good. | to facilitate voluntary mergers or one He can seldom be induced to lift his!for compulsory groupings, with major voice. In the midst of political typhoons | interest vested in the fate of short-line and hurricanes he is the quiet, calmcarriers and those of weak earning center. Like Good, he knows politics | power. 2 through and through. Like Good, he is!" Regulation of the coal industry—Espe- wary and watchful. It was his Niflfliclall_v that major section which is en- that took Hoover into the primary|gaged in producing and shipping soft campaign against Senator Willis in' coal. Ohio last June—a campaign in which Reform of the bankruptcy act—To Hoover first demonstrated his genuine | provide for mandatory appointment of capacity to win delegates. Good and!qualified banks or trust companies as Brown are the professional it receivers of bankrupt estates instead of anchors in the cabinet. and (hey are |[mdividuals. both characterized by extreme loyalty| Proposals to limit the power of the [y * x k % Some of the old problems of especial Board, including questions of broad pol- icy, to direct changes in discount rates and to restrict loans for speculative pur- | poses. Amendment of the anti-trust laws so as to permit agreements, properly su-; pervised, to regulate production and dis- | tribution of natural resources in s .'Ari as Federal authority exists, which is! aimed at waste in the petroleum fields. A proposal that producers or whole- sale distributors of br%ndfid merchandise | not monopolistic in tharacter be per- mitted to make legal c-niracts to estab- lish and maintain the resale price. ‘The design copyright measure. which would provide a quick method of pro- tecting mechanical and style designs, the latter within narrow scope. A new policy toward the public lands and national forests to liberalize the use of their assets, Greater freedom for Indians, a ques- tion which again involves ofl. It remains to be seen, of course, which if any, of these problems the new Con- gress will undertake to solve, but even | this brief outline shows that the mem- | bers of the Seventy-first Congress and the new administration will have much with which to occupy themsolves aside from the new questions which are cer- taln to be brought forward. Ropyright, 1929.) architects are agreed that the things | which among the many additions that | disfigure Michael Angelo's original con- ception and do most discredit to it are | these very porticos.” | | . * * | The cause of co-education in America | was greatly advanced 50 vears ago by | 3 the action of one of Co-Education the leading universi- at Harvard. ties in this country, as | thus told in The Star of February 26, 1879: “Harvard has at last thrown the door ! wide open to women. No difference is! to be made between the two sexes as to the studies which may be taken up and as to the instructors in the studies. The same privileges in all respects are to be granted women, except that they are to be considered as private pupils of indi- vidual professors, and at the close of their courses will receive certificates in- stead of graduation diplomas. As all the real advantages of the institution are granted to male and female students alike, it is hardly likely that this nomi- nal distinction will long be retained. As the lady students do not recite with the college classes, the privileges of Harvard may be enjoved and the objections of er-education be obviated.” times on her back. then on her stomach, like a little cart.” e At the miners' meeting a man in- forms the boy that he was seen when he took the rabbit. Jeanlin grows frightened, and returns the animal. The last scene in this little tragedy of animal life shows Souvarine at the inn, his fingers fidgeting for the warm fur of poor Poland. “Where is Poland?" he asks, at last. Zola tells the story. The landlord laughed. while exchang- ing & glance with his wife. And after an awkward pause, he blurted out: “Poland? She's being kept warm. You had a leg of her this evening. find'"whn's more, you smacked your ps! Souvarine did not understand at first But when he did, he turned very pale, and an expression of mingled disgust and emotion came over him. Two bg j tears filled his eyes. —— et But It's Worth More! From the Detroit Free Press. A clerk in Rumania was fined $2 for slapping a prince. One can't slap even policeman in this country for that