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R(;gti)ring Lincoln Study (Continued From Third Page.) ‘even to the beading on the trim. The J were the same. In the left background, however, was “& door with a medallion in its upper “panel, w] hat wall now stands k. Old members of the White House staff, however, explained that vxnlninyenn ago—they could not remem- ber how many—this door was branded useless; they had removed it and plastered over the opening. If Carpenter reproduced the room with such photographic accuracy he must have n equally conscientious with the furniture. Lincoln sits in an armchair. The cabinet group surrounds & rather plain Victorian pattern table. In the right foreground is an empty side chalr with curved legs. Stanton, at the extreme left of the group, sits across a chair of exactly the same pat- tern, his arm resting on the back. Two others, less clearly visible, are evidently part of the same set. Forthwith began a search of the White House to see Whether, amid all its changes and vicls- :N{l;d!s. any of these furnishings were left. Attic Yields Side Chair. | No one has ever found Lincoln’s arm- | chair, nor any which resembles it. But the White Houses attic yielded the first prize. Rickety, dilapidated, dented, its upholstery in a shocking condition— there was unquestionably one of the side chairs. The service and office to indicate the density of slave popula- tions; even the carelessly tossed news- paper at the left foreground. That in- troduces a detail not inappropriate to these columns. He admired Horace Greeley. The newspaper is therefore the New York Tribune. He did not paint in its head for fear of antagoniz- ing the other newspapers, but he did Ireproduce its form, knowing that | Greeley would recognize it and appreci- ate the compliment. Listened to Important Conferences. For six months Carpenter sat as a | spectator in the center of the Govern- ment. Lincoln used to hold important conferences in his presence. He prob- ably died knowing more Civil War his- tory than he ever told. Mrs. Lincoln liked him, came to lefin upon him. ad- dressed to him, after the final tragedy, her heartbroken letters. Apparently he hoped that the Gov- ernment would purchase the painting That was his commercial objective when he conceived the idea. amused cabinet circles as “Seward’s | pants.” When, on July 22, 1864, the painting had its official exhibition, Seward ap- peared in the foreground wearing the conventional black coat of a_statesman and wide, light trousers. Now, light trousers, Seward remarked with vigor and choler, were the mark of a fop— the damning American word “dude’ was yet to be invented. He didn't pro- It might have | done so but for the episode known to! quarters yielded two others and, finally, to go down to posterity as an ef- & fourth appeared from the State, War and Navy Building, with positively no| explanation for its removal across the | alley. This set of chairs is so distinctive | that there is no mistaking them. They | are of a decadent empire, grafted onto & memory of the Sheraton pattern— curved legs, upholstered seats, banisters up the back which as they meet the slat at the top are decorated with a trefoil perforation. This, if you believe Carpenter's painted testimony, must have been the set of chairs which the eabinet occu- pose feminite dandy. In a long correspond: ence Carpenter tried to explain that this was artistic necessity. The color composition required a splash of light in the foreground. He saw no means of accomplishing that except by taking liberties with Seward'’s statesmanlike black broadcloth trousers. But Seward simply would not be placated. The mat- ter of purchase remained in abeyance until Lincoln's assassination occurred and changed every aspect of affairs at ‘Washington. Although the Government did not ac- pied at meetings all through the Civil uire thy War. _ Since there were seven membors | o e L L YTt its of the cabinet, and sets of chairs usually go by even numbers, there must | have been at least eight in the original set. More may come to light some day. But these four. repaired, re- finished and _reuphoistered, stand now in the old cabinet room. It 1s just possible that the armchair may yet appear from some unexpected quar- completion, Carpenter, it would appear, made it do well by him. In the first place, he had it exhibited through the country for an admission fee—an old ter. Perhaps it belonged to Lincolxn, fiot to the White House, and after the (Continued From First Page.) irs. ‘Then, again, during the later nine- |gas investigation and the insurance in- teenth century wheri there was curious- | vestigation—and it was the second 1y little interest in relics of our historic | Which reaily made the Hughes name past, successive occupants of the White | familiar from one-coast to the- other. House had a way of casting out house- [This was partly because the gas in- hold goods which did not sut their | vesigation was local, while the insurance fancy. These, as provided by law, went | investigation, dealing with companies to the block in public auction. which had policyholders all over the Table Introduces Purzle. country, was in a sense national, but the chief cause for the difference in ‘The table introduces a puzzle. One |effect between the two lay in the highly of rather ornate design still in the |Sensational character of some of the | White House always has been shown |testimony in the insurance investiga- ;:oéhnt :;n whlchithe Emancipation | tion. lamation was signed. A table in rted. the Hartford, Conn., Museum makes 8 Hley Seandal Shried similar claim. The White House table | The insurance scandal started in a is certainly not the model for the one (quarrel between James W. Alexander, in the picture. But the Hartford table, [ President of the Equitable Life Assur- according to those who have seen it— | ance Society, and James Hazen Hyde, I have not—bears a strong resemblance. |50n of its founder and inheritor-to-be Perhaps both have the historic claim. |Of its control. Mr. Alexander believed Carpenter’s picture portrays the mo- |that the time had come to mutualize ment in September, 1862, when Linzoln | the organization. Mr. Hyde saw no such | fead the proclamation to his amazed | Necessity. The clash Lo e e cabinet. It was put aside then and |WOrks, by the light of which some ugly not signed and promulgated until Jan- | things were seen and a legislative in- | uary 1, 1863. The cabinet table may | vestigation of insurance companies was have changed in the meantime. If so, | demanded. Carpenter, who began his work in 1864, | This investigation, conducted in 1905, mbably put back the old one to make | Ostensibly by the Armstrong commit- picture accurate to the last detail. |tee, but actually by its counsel, Mr. This painting ‘made a good deal of | Hughes, supplied the country for sev- emall history and was the occasion for | eral weeks with revelations beside which recording much great history. Carpen- |the alarums and excursions in the ter himself left profuse records—includ- | Rithstein case were a feeble fiicker. ing a published book—of his methods| Under the penetrating questions of and reasons; he stresses nothing so|Mr. Hughes insurance company after carefully as his pains to see that his | insurance company admitted, through masterpiece should be correct in every | its highest officials, that it regularly small detail. The story is worth telling | made huge contributions. Some of the | in_condensed form. companies were shown to have sent | Francis Bicknell Carpenter of New money to Albany to be spent by pro- York was a painstaking and graphic | fessional lobbyists—and to be unac- young painter who, & little. before the | counted for in any embarrassing state- | Civil War, came to fame and prosperity [ ment of particulars. through a portrait of former President One item, $235,000, charged to “home Fillmore. Apparently he had the art, |office annex account,” was so traced. s0 serviceable to a’ portrait painter’s | “Boss” Platt was forced to confess that worldly interests, of selling himself to |for 15 years he had received ten $1.000 the great. By the time the war opened | b he had much acquaintance in Wash- | c ngton. An ardent Northern sympa- thizer and abolitionist, he went into a kind of ecstasy over the Emancipation Proclamation. “The central event of the nineteenth century,” he called it. | While in this state he became obsessed by a desire to paint the episode, and | ene day came, like a flash out of the | *ky, the idea for a composition. Hav- ing no other drawing materials at hand, he sketched this out in pencil on a big card. He set out at once to get the commission, calling to his aid his friends, Schuyler Colfax and Owen Lovejoy. Lovejoy was in his last ill- ness. » Nevertheless, he summoned the young painter to Washington and, sit- ting up in bed, scrawled the note which | opened the White House door. Opened Studio in White House. “Young man, do you think you can | fnaks me handsome?” asked Lincoln | when they met. But Carpenter found | a welcome beyond his dreams. In a day or so he had studio quarters in the ‘White House, where he stayed for six months—from February to the end of July, 1864. This introduces a mild co: incidence. He appears to have been & witness of the fire in the White House stables on February 10. In that disaster perished two ponies, one left by Willie Lincoln, who had died but a few months | before, and the other belonging to the | still living Tad. Carpenter has recorded ‘Tad's uncontrollable grief over this dis- aster. I need no record that on Christ- | mas night, 1929, the next fire in the ‘White House occurred. At their first interview "Carpenter talked over his ideas with Lincoln, and the President spilled some vital con- tributions to history. He told how, in the Summer of 1862, he had astounded his cabinet with the original draft of the | Emancipation Proclamation; how Sew- | ard, recovering from his first astonish- ment, had interposed an objection. ‘Things were going badly then, very bldlf’. It was the darkest hour. The peninsula campaign had met check after check. As Secretary of State, Seward felt thlti Europe would call this a last move of cesperation. Why not hold it until the North had a victory? To this reason Lincoln yielded. He put it aside until after the battle of Antietam gave the North cause for hope. Painter Revises Composition. Carpenter chose that moment when Seward, with his characteristic gesture of the outstretched thumb and fore- finger on the table, interposed his his- toric objection. And here, being a painter and not a reporter, he made a | mistake. This episode occurred in July when Lincoln first broached the subjec He represents it as occurring during that vital September meeting when, Aniie- t2m being won, he brought in his revise draft and forced his rather reluctant | cabinet into line. In his first “inspira-| tional” sketch on the back of that card Carpenter had wrongly imagined the seating of the cabinet, Lincoln corrected thn'.m and Carpenter revised his com- ition. pn::m'lbulel’lnl it further, he took a lib- | erty with historic truth—he is careful in his writings to make that precise. He arranged the cabinet group “allegori- cally” with Chase, the Secretary of the Treasury, standing at the President’s | right and Stanton, the Secretary of| War, flanking him. These two, being| radicals, he put together, with Lincoln | a little nearer to them than to the cthers. For balance, Welles, the Sec- retary of the Navy, sits at Lincoln’s left, while the important Seward, Secretary of State, and protagonist of the drama, is across the table in the foreground. Otherwise he went to all pains for realistic detail—the sword in the vacant chair, the law book, which he repainted | that the ins undles of greenbacks from one of the ompanies in consideration for services rendered. Yet Mr. Hughes wa: to stage a sensation. On the contrary, he refused to call certain prominent party officials,on the ground that the s not attempting | that what the campaign committee did wil Buzstld:h matter. = B e height of the investigation the leaders of the Republican organization in New York City offered Mr. Hughes the nomination for mayor. Mr. Hughes showed the stuff he was made of by promptly and somewhat indignantly re- fusing to do anything which would give a political aspect to the investigation and accordingly cast discredit upon it. He held to this object, which had now become double—that of disclosing the practice of the insurance companies, or rather of their autocratic officers, and of devising legislation to prevent a re- currence of such doings. By a clear, emphatic statement h 1so put a quietus upon the rumo; urance companies w financial danger. Their oflcer:reh:g been guilty of unfortunate actions, but thess had not jeopardized the finan- cial position of the companies, Indeed. those gentlemen argued that they were virtually compelled to act as they had ::li;d'nl:ld lha!' in ls:)] d;)lng they were ak'ng ou itical insi th;:l‘ &nllcyholdpr‘? oo t came Mr. Hughes' purpose to render any such plea (round]esa‘?o ‘This e did by means of the legislation which followed the investigation. By his policy of steering clear of politics he obtained a unanimous report from the Armstrong committee and the Ppassage of all the bills which he drafted to carry out its recommendations, Nominated for Governor. The next year Mr. Hughes was nomi- nated by the Republicans for governor and he accepted the nomination. The Democrats named William Randolph Hearst, whose idea of meeting the Hughes arguments was to term their exponent “an animated feather duster,” a subtle reference to Mr. Hughes' beard. The outcome of the contest ap- peared doubtful and President Roose- of his cabinet, to make a speech bitter- ly attacking Hearst in the President’s name. Thousands of Democrats voted for Hughes, who was the only man on his ticket to pull through. Two policies of Hughes as governor are worth noting: lic service corporaticns through public | service commiss'ons and the introduc- tion of the direct primary. Under the Hughes I ership New York not only States have been glad to follow. In reference to the direct primary, Hughes was not so successful, although a direct primary law was added to the statute book, there to undergo various modifications at the hands of successive Legislatures. It is in connection with the direct- primary idea that the Hughes tem- perament and the Hughes mentality are seen with particular clearness. Politi- cal reformers are continually attempt- ing to thwart the liticians. They seem to believe that. by some tinkering lrender the professional pol.tician help- less. Now nobody despised the genus politiclan more heartily than Gov. Hughes. He desp'sed them as bitterly as they hated him, and no human being can do more than that. But Hughes had an honest-minded man’s reverence for facts as such—and poli- 5 represent the hook that Lincoln most ‘ssasulied; Lincoln’s war map, shaded ticians are facts. His plan fr & direct primary would velt sent Ellhu Root, then a member | Regulation of pub- | instituted a public service commission, | but al:o set an example which other | with the political machinery they can | THE SUNDAY and forgotten American custom with historical paintings, * ® * As a boy I \an 10 cents to see the crudely heroic ‘Custer's Last Charge.” * * * In 1866 he published his book, “Six Months in the White House.” It was reissued the | following year under the more sensa- | tional title “The Inner Life of President Lincoln.” This remains an original source for Lincoln study, especially !1lluminating on the brooding and mel- ancholy side of his character, It must have had a great sale for those days. The copy of “The Inner Life of Presi- ‘g;l:rtyLbhe\:gén" xn‘ hthe Congressional 1le { on the title page the line | “Thirty-fourth thousand.” "~ Book Carries Advcrtisement. | | Further, this book carries on its fiy leaves an advertisement for the very | print which hangs over the mantel in the Lincoln room. Engraved on steel by | Ritchie and published by Johnson, the picture was now available to the masses. It would not be sold through the trade, but only by agents. It was to be had in | three forms—artist's proofs at $25, In- | dia proofs at $15, plain prints at $8.50 | (The copy in the White House appears |to be an India proof.) Agents were | wanted. =And. this advertisement con- (‘l\ljgr's. $30,000 worth have already been sold. In those days, owing to our perpetu- ally archaic cnpyrighg laws, tl‘:(* rela- tions between publisher and creator were too often those of piracy. But the | canny Carpenter must have guarded his | profits, for the engraving was registered | In Washington under his own name. The print is going yet. Perry, in Bos- ;olea issued a new edition as lately as Finally, when the book wgs tempo- rarily all but forgotten, when the sale prints was running thin, the | painting came to its destination. In 1878 Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson bought it and presented it to the Nation. Heroic size, it hangs in the Capitol at the head of the staircase leading from the House lobby to the committce rooms on the floor above. Without assuming to be an art critic, I register the opinion that the print is the worthier work of art in its class. However, the painting has suffered with | age. Either some of the colors have run or it stands badly in need of clean- ing. Seward's famous trousers do not now appear offensively light, but only a dull, dark saffron. And by the irony of nies it is the humble print, the pretentious painting, which, 65 years, is making domestic his- t the White House. {of the | | artistic desti | not | after | tory a Mr. Hughes and Mr. Taft have allowed the appropriate party committees to nominate candidates who should have the preferred place on the ballot. If the list was agree- able to the rank and file of the party it went on the tcket unopposed. But if there was opposition, then the di- Tect primary was invoked, the voters deciding between the organization slate and its rival. Here was recognition of { party responsibility as well as of the need for keeping party leadership re- sponsive to party feeling. Hughes was renominated for go ernor, not because the politicians want- ed him on their hands again, but be- cause they didn't dare do anything else. The courage, the independence and the ability which he had shown from his entrance into the office had only confirmed and strengthened the admiration which he had won through- out the Nation in the insurance in- vestigation. This brings us to 1908—an impartant year in the careers of both Hughes and Taft. After serving as first civil gov- ernor of the Philippines, Taft, in 1904, became Secretary of War in the cabinet of President Roosevelt. Gradually he became something much more—nothing less than Roosevelt's choice as his successor in the White House. But Taft had never held an elective office. It was true that he came from Ohio, the modern mother of Pres- idents; but what of this man Hughes, who had proved that he could carry New York? Why did not Roosevelt choose him? = The explanation appears to be that when Hughes was having his struggle with the politicians at Albany, Roose- velt offered to aid him by the use of the Federal patronage and that Hughes, actuated by his characteristically high principles, refused to accept assistance, which would have meant, as he saw fit, surrender to the very sort of thing he | was fighting—the use of public offices as _pawns in the political game. Roosevelt apparently did not relish the rebuff; perhaps he thought the Hughes position showed a lack of pra ticality in the New York governor. Anyway, he engineered the nomination of Taft, whose ambition was not the presidency, but the Supreme Court. Paths Cross in 1908. So the paths of the two men who had set out to be lawyers and who had been pitched into politics crossed in 1908. In the rivalry between the supporters of the two for the presiden- | tial nomination the frinds of the Ohian were victorious, but one of the features of the campaign which followed | was the development of the supposedly | stern and unsmiling New Yorker into the chief spellbinder of the contest. | The Hughes speeches were among the | most powerful explosives on the Taft | side of the battle. Two years later, as he was nearing the end of his second term as gov- ernor, Hughes resigned in order to ac- cept appointment from Taft as an as- | sociate justice of the Supreme Court, doubtless with a sigh of relief at leav- ing politics behind him, as he fancied, | forever. | “Forever” turned out to be less than | six years. | Taft’s administration was made nota- hle by a contest between old guard and | insurgent Republicans over the tariff revision. The contest was won by the old guard when Taft gave his approval to the Payne-Aldrich bill, but it left the party hopelessly divided and led | to organized opposition to Taft's re- | nomination. his opposition finally crystallized around the man who had made him President. ‘When the Republican national con- vention refused seats to the bulk of the | contesting Roosevelt _delegation and | then renominated Taft, the Roosevelt supporters determined to go to the | length of putting a separate ticket in | the field. Thus the campaign of 1912 | was a three-ring affair and the division | among the Republicans gave the Demo- | crats, under Woodrow Wilson, a sweep- ing triumph. And thus, as it had been Taft—and Roosevelt—who had stoid in Hughes’ way in 1908. so it was Taft—and Roose- velt—who, by splitting the Republican party in 1912, prepared the situation for him in 1916. This time the Repub- lican nomination came to him, and it came, of course, utterly unsought. Picked for Presidency. ‘The country was treated to the novel spectacle of a justice of the Supreme Court being nominated for a presi- dency and being asked, on behalf of the nominating convention, whether he would be so gracious as to accept the honor. Hughes did not keep the dele- gates in suspense. He resigned from the Supreme Court in a brief letter to President . Wilson, his opponent-to-be, who accepted the resignation with equal brevity. The election in November was the closest since the Hayes-Tilden race in 1876. Complete returns from California, giv- ing that State to Wilson, re-elected him by a majority of 23 electoral votes. ‘Taft had returned to private life fol- lowing his defeat in the presidential election of 1912. Hughes also was now in private life again. Characteristically, Taft had not resumed law practice, but had gone into teaching, becoming Kent professor of law at Yale. And char- acteristically, Hughes did resume law practice. Four years went by and then both men were called back into public service. President Harding made Taft chief justice of the Supreme Court and Hughes Secretary of State. Having realized his ambition at last, Taft took steps to speed up the action of the court. Changes in procedure were adopted so that, without adding to the work of the justices, the calendar was brought more nearly up to date. ! The outstanding nhgegwk .of STAR, WASHINGTON (Continued From First Page.) maps and books. More often than not | the door was open. Sometimes in those post-war days, if one went to early mass in the twin- towered Church of St. Clotilde, a five- minute walk from the Foch home, in | the Rue de Grenelle, and only two min- | {utes more from the office, one might have seen the two soldiers, inconspicu- | ous in civilian clothes, kneeling together in prayer. | Often in the evenings Weygand sat at |the Foch family table with his com- | mander and Mme. la Marechale. He | | was, the old marshal used to say, their spiritual son.” In 1923 the government again sent | weygand away from his Paris office, probably on Foch's recommendation, to carry out a difficult mission beyond the | frontier. Raymond Poincare, then prime minister, had sent French troops | to occupy the Ruhr and a wider slice | of the Rhineland on February 1. Prance | had despaired of ever collecting repara- tions due from Germany without a show | | of punitive force. The Germans met the {invasion with passive resistance. The | intricate railway and canal systems of | the great coal and steel region around | Dusseldorf and Essen were soon a chaos of tied-up trains and unmoving barges. Chimneys ceased to smoke there in the | factory-filled valley of the Ruhr, and | oftentimes freight that was marked for | transit to France somehow found its | way northward into Prussia. Weygand was given the difficult task of straight- ening out the tangle. He had been in the Ruhr only a few | weeks when the government appointed | him high commissioner in Syria, from | which post the one-armed Gen. Gou- raud was retiring. Gouraud had gone to Syria_in 1920, when ‘the French ac- cepted a mandate over that territory from the League of Nations, Brewing of Trouble. At the time of Weygand's appoint- ment trouble was brewing in that fre- quently turbulent part of the world. The Ismet Pasha bargained with the allies at Lausanne, were con- centrating Ottoman troops on -the Syrian frontier and near the Bmish{ holdings _in_ Mesopotamia. France warned the Turks, both at Lausanne and at Constantinople, that she looked upon the troop concentrations with an unfavorable and suspicious eye. As a bluff, perhaps, Poincare let it be known that he had informed the British that France was sending 20,000 additional soldiers to Syria. 0On May ly.rWhHe Curzon and the French still argued with the Turks at Lausanne, Weygand embarked upon & battleship at Toulon, and in a few days | reached Beirut. Not an Ottoman sol-| dier had stepped across the Syrian fron- | tier. | The Druses, who had rebelled more | than once against the French yoke, | gave Weygand an unexpected demon- stration of sympathy. The Christians, of | whom there are more than 300,000 in | the mandated territory, also welcomed him. Weygand soon abolished Gouraud’s | confederation of local states, and con- solidated Aleppo, Homs, Damascus and Hama into a unit for administrative purposes. He continued Gouraud's pro- gram of road building across the entire country; gave Damascus, the world's oldest city, its first experience with or- ganized street cleaning; revived religious schools under direction of the Maronite clergy and the Roman Catholics, and healed a sore spot in French relations with the Jebel Druses by pardoning the imprisoned Sultan Pasha Al-Atrash on condition that he abstain from in- trigue and support the administration. The Druses of Lebanon and the Hauran were their usual turbulent selves during the Weygand regime, but no out- breaks of serious importance took place while he ruled Syria. He had been there little more than a year when the Cartel des Gauches over- threw Poincare, and the Socialist Edouard Herriot became prime min- ister. Along with trying to compel Al- sace-Lorraine to abandon support of church schools out of public funds, Her- riot proceded to wield the ax against many Catholics who held high positions. Weygand was recalled from Syria and | the anti-clerical Gen. Serrall sent there to replace him. Reading of Uprisings. During the neat Summer, sitting in his office next to Foch, Weygand was able to read almost every day of up- risings in Syria, in the quelling of which | France lost hundreds of men and suf- fered thousands of casualties. ‘Weygand showed promise of becoming a first-rate military man from his early student days at St. Cyr, the West Point of France. He was born in Brussels in January, 1867, and was commissioned a sublieutenant in the 14th Dragoons of the French Army at the age of 20. He had done so well at St. Cyr that he was appointed, with a few others, for post- graduate work. This class is popularly called “the school of marshals.” Later, Weygand was made an instruc- tor and then chief instructor in the military school at Saumur. When the Great War began he was a_ lieutenant colonel of cavalry. By 1917 he had be- come a brigadier general, then a brevet major general. The armistice found his epaulets adorned with the insignia of a lieutenant, general. During the peace conference he was military adviser to Poincare, at that time President of the republic. The lucidity of Weygand's thoughts, the workings of his logical mind, the civilian population have been able to appreciate to some extent through his occasional writings. Last year he pub- lished a biography of Turenne which was regarded by the Parisian press as a capital item of front page news. Of Foch he so far has written but little —principally an article which appeared in “La Revue des D°ux Mondes” a few months after the marshal's death. What Foch thought of his right-hand man and “spiritual son,” the old mar- shal epitomized one day on his sick bed not long before he died, when Wey- gand stood there beside him with one of the doctors. “Weygand,” sald the old marshal, “you are not only a great general, not only a great commander of an army or group of armies, but you are a great leader, a born leader.” Other than the doctors, the nurses and the members of the marshal's fam- ily, Weygand was the only one ad-! mitted to the marshal's bed room from | January 14, when his illness was first | judged to be serious. until his death in the third week of March. Mourned by Throngs. The day after Foch di-d Weygand ushered into the death chamber & pro- cession of distinguished men, who ar- rived one after another at the door- step, while a crowd of thousands of more ordinary mortals stood silently in the street or stepped just inside the gate to add their signatures to the long list enrolled upon the mortuary regis- ter. The callers whom Weygand re- ceived that sad day included President Doumergue, Pershing, Petain, Joffre, Clemenceau, Herrick and, late in the evening, King Albert of the Belgians, who had made a special trip from Brussels to kneel beside the body of the | while Turks, | Hughes as Secretary of State was his dramatic and effective part in the Washington Conference on Limitation of Armament. In the address he de- livered as presiding officer he shattered diplomatic E:ec!dznt by getting down to brass tacks and stating exactly what each of the naval powers should do in the way of calling a halt upon con- struction. After exactly four years at this post | he resigned to re-enter his profession. | Last July he was chosen a member of the World Court to fill out the unex- pired term of another American, John Bassett Moore. And now he returns to the Supreme Court, this time chiet justice in succession to the man who as President appointed him associate Justice. ‘The two men afford an interesting and significant study in both the simi- larities and the contrasts of their na- tures and their careers. ¢, FEBRUARY 9. 1930—PART TWO. ‘Foch’s Protege Carries On great commoner who had been his com- mander at the front. The following Sunday, when 1,400,000 persons went to the Arc de Triomphe to salute the guarded coffin of the mar- shal, Weygand stood under the arch for 14 of the 18 hours that Foch lay there. | Late that night he accompanied the body to Notre Dame. On the day of | the funeral he took the Foch family to | the cathedral and then walked with the shal's grandeons in the sublime pro- :-:;;ion in which church and state and all but two of the great nations of the | world joined in following the flag-| covered coffin of Foch to its last resting | place beside Napoleon. And now Wiegand is military heir of | his chief. As a logical Frenchman and | a military man of experience, he is an | ardent advocate of preparedness. | “One thing must be repeated over and | over again,” he remarked a few years ago when talk of disarmament was in | the air. “If there had not been the French army, if there had not been the | military preparedness of France—for in | modern warfare a thorough training is | necessary—not only our country would have Been enslaved by Germany, but also the whole world would have been | subjected to Prussian domination. “The consclousness of having pre- served the world's freedom will remain the finest title of glory for France, and also her most equitable pride.” As to the future, he had only this to say: “No soldier would start a new war.” Philippine Independence | Still Looming as Issue (Continued From First Page.) a distinguished Kansas poet, Eugene Ware, wrote and literally every one of | us sang: “Oh, dewy was the morning Upon the 1st of May, And Dewey was the admiral Down in Manila Bay." Who can remember when William H. Taft called the Pilipinos “our little brown brothers” and American soldiers | (then dressed in blue) sang: “He may be a brother of big Bill Taft, But he ain't no friend of mine.” Army and Navy News Army. In recognition of service performed for the Nation, not alone as chief of finance, but as director of the Bureau of the Budget, it has been proposed to advance Brig. Gen. Herbert M. Lord | on the retired list of the Regular Army to the grade of major general. Two additional services were created for ' the Army by the National defense act of June 4, 1920, namely, th> Finance Department and the Chemical Warfare Service, and for these two services the law provided chiefs with the rank of brigadier general. They constituted an exception to prior legislatior. which had conferred up- on the chief of all services of the War Department the rank of major gen- eral. Recognizing the unjustifiable distinction that had been drawn be- tween these two services and the other services of the War Depart- ment, the act of February 24, 1925, was passed, which gave to the chief of Finance and the chief of Chemical Warfare Service the same rank as the Briz. Gen. Lord, | | | | | selection of the successors of these two assistants to the chief of Air Corps. | In accordance with the non-reappoint- ment policy of the War Department, it is not expected that either Gen. Lahm or Gen. Gillmore, whose permanent ranks are lieutenant colonels, will be re- appointed. The January 1, 1930, Army list and directory contain contains the names of four colonels, including that of Maj. Gen. James E. Fachet, chief of Air Corps, who holds that rank by virtue of being the chief of his corps, while | included in the list of 15 Air Corps lieutenant colonels are the three briga- dier generals, namely, Lahm, Gillmore and Benjamin D. Foulois, who is on | duty as chief of the material division at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. This means that the next two brigadier gen- erals of the Air Corps will be selected from the list of 3 colonels and 12 | lieutenant colonels. ‘The 3 colonels | who are eligible for sclection ar | Chalmers G. Hall, on duty at Newark, | N, J.; Theodore A. Baldwin, jr, on | duty at New York, N. Y., and Charles | H. Danforth, who is assigned to duty | at_Selfridge Field, Mich. | The 12 lieutenant colonels who are | eligible for selection and their present | duty assignments are as follows: Clar- ence C. Cuiver, office of chief of staff | Roy C. Kirtland, office chief of staff, | G-1; Arthur G. Fisher, Army War Col- G-4; Ira F. Pravel, New York, N. Y.;| law had previously conferred upon the |lege: John H. Howard, Mitchel Field, Timberlake, jr., from U, §. S. Con= to U. 8. 8. Manley; .C] C. ., jr, from U. 8. S. Putoam to . 8. Hale; Carl G. Gillilland from . 8. Worden to U. S. 8. Ellis, Rob- rt P. Hinrichs from U. 8. 8. Reno to . 8. S. Badger and Harry L. Merring rom U. 8. S. Isherwood to U. 8. 8. Breckinridge. Approximately 50 Navy officers of the line, by reason of retirements approved and resignations accepted, will be in line for tentative future promotion within the next four months. as fol= lows: Lieut. Comdr. Hugh M. Branham, Lieut. Axel T. Lindblad and Lieut. | (J. G.) Louis D. Libenow, February 10; Lieut. (J. G.) Rudolf L. Johnson, Feb- | ruary 16; Lieut. Selden L. Almon and | Lieut. (J. G.) Anthony R. Brady, March Lieut. (J. G.) Henry E. Eccles, March | Lieut. Willlam E. O'Connor and Lieut. (J. G.) Arthur L. Pleasants, jr., |March 31: Lieut. (J. G.) Beverly E. | Carter, March 16; Lieut. (J. G.) Her- | bert E. Berger, March 17; Capt. Walton R. Sexton, Comdr. Willlam A. Glassford, jr.; Lieut. Comdr. Edwin J. Gillam, Lieut. Forest P. Sherman and Lieut. (J. G.) James A. McBride, March 31; | Comdr. Conant Taylor, Lieut. Comdr. | Frank H. Luckel, Lieut. Ernest B. Cot- ton and Lieuts. (J. G. Roland P. Kauffman, James G. Sampson and Harry B. Jarrett, April 1: Capt. Willlam |D. Leahy, Comdr. William A. Hall, | Lieut. Comdr Melville S. Brown, Lieut. | Oscar H. Holtman and Lieut. (J. G.) | Worthington S. Bitler, April 6: Lieut. | (J. G.) Harry St. J. Butler, April 9; | Lieut. James Fife, jr., and Lieut. (J. G.) Alexander F. Junker, April 13; Lieut. (J. G.) Thomas A. Kehoe, April 18; Lieut. (J. G.) Herbert 8. Cornwell, May 2; Comdr. Douglas L. Howard, Lieut. Comdr. Donald A. Beary, Lieut. William w 2 28 8. 8. aoaH Fa other chiefs of service—namely, that of major general. ‘When this act took effect, Brig. Gen. Amos A. Fries, who was originally ap- pointed as chief of Chemical Warfare Service, was still serving in that capac- | ity, and he was automatically raised to the grade of major gencral. With regard to the Pinance Department, Brig. Gen. Lord was the original chief thereof, but he had been placed on the retired list as of June 30, 1922, so that he was not benefited by the act of February 24, 1925. It is interesting to note in this connection that Gen. | Lord retired from the Army so that | he could be available to fill ‘the office of director of the Bureau of the Bud- get, which had been tendered him by the President. If the proposal is en- acted into law, it will give Brig. Gen. Lord a lasting right to the retirement pay of a major general. Capt. Samuel A, Greenwell, who a | Long Island, New York; John A. Paega- Iow.gscctt Field, Belleville, Ill.; James | M. Reifel and Lieut. (J. G.) Hugh W. A. Mars, France Field, Canal Zone; Ja- | Hadley, May 1; Lieut. (J. G.) Byron S. cob W. S. Wuest, Langley Ficld, Va.; | Anderson, May 27: Lieuts. (J. G.) Ger- Henry C. Pratt, Hawailan department|ald U. Quinn, Kenneth O. Ekelund, headquarters, Fort Shafter, T. H.; Ger- | Robert A English, Carlisle H. ald C. Brandt, 9th Corps Area head-|Thompson and Karl A. Thieme, June quarters, Presidio of San Francisco, |1: Licuts. (J. G) Thomas Aldred, Har- Calif.; Archie W. Barry, Air Corps pro- |old C. Patten, William E. Cross. John curement district, San Francisco, Calif. land Ira Longanecker, on duty in the office of the chief of Air Corps. Navy. P. Bennington. Frederick S. Hall and | David W. Hardin, June 2. ;MEN’S>CLUB HECEP-TION Announcement was made some time ago that Rear Admiral Jehu V. Chase 'HONORS RECTOR AND WIFE would be assigned to duty as comman- dant of the 12th Naval District and naval operating base at San Francisco to succeed Rear Admiral Thomas Wash- | ington, who was placed on the retired | list on account of age June 6 last. Due |to the great amount of work involving the general board of the Navy in prep- | Members of Parish Are Invited to Valentine Party for Dr. George F. Dudley and Vestrymen. The Men's Club ‘of St. Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal Church will few years ago was on duty at the War |aration for the London Conference, Ad- Department in the press relation sec- |miral Chase has never assumed his tion, will return to Washington for idufies on the Pacific Coast, and the in- duty in July. He is now on duty at |dications are that he will remain on give a reception and St. Valentine’s | party next Thursday in the Parish | House, Sixteenth and Newton streets, in 2d Division headquarters at Fort Sam Houston, Tex. and upon arrival in Washington, will asume his new duties in the General Staff. * ¢ * A board of oficers consisting of Brig Gen. Louis H. Bash, assistan e quar- To wait in heavy harness |t tas ol BiL " general; rig. Gen. Henry On futteringifolk and wild. | C. Fisher, assistant to the surgeon gen- When the leading issue of a presi-|oral, and Col. Frederick W. Coleman, dential campaign was ‘expansion,” as| F. D, assistant to the chief of finance, the Republicans called it, or “imperial- | has been appointed to meet in Wash- ism” or “militarism,” as Bryan and the | ington, for the purpose of determining Democrats called it? | whether or not officers were placed in When Admiral Coghlan (of Dewey's | class B due to their own neglect, mis- fleet) returned from Manila and re- | conduct or avoidable habits, under the cited—and we all recited after him—a | provisions of section 24b of the nation- ditty entitled “Hoch! Der Kaiser,” be- al defense act. * * * Upon the comple- ginning: | tion of his present tour of foreign serv- “Der Kaiser of dis Faterland lice in the Hawailan Department, Ma). Und Gott on High all dings command, | Edmund de T. ., Q. M. C., will Ve two—ach! Don't you understand? come (o duty in the office of the quar- Myself—und Gott. | termaster general, this city. When a leading issue of presidential| With the approach of the comple- c@mpaign was suggested in the slogan | tion of their four-year tours of duty on When Kipling wrote and everybody repeated: “Take up the white man’s burden; Send for the best ye breed . . . | —affirmed by one party, queried by the | July 17, 1830, of Brig. Gen. Frenk P. other—“The Constitution follows the|Lahm, head of the Air Corps Training flag.” And the Supreme Court decided | Center at San Antonio, Tex., and Briz. it did not, and Mr. Dooley said that| Gen. William E. Gillmore, on duty in “anyhow, the Supreme Court follows | the office of the chief of Air Corps, mili- the election returns.” tary circles in Washington, especially One wonders if that whole American | those officers of the Air Corps, are adventure is to be ended, permanently. 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And Ln ukedevtern: trm“.‘sdmlr‘a’l ley and Mrs. Dudley and members of ase succeeds Admiral am V. v Pratt next Summer as the next com- | \N® Vestry and thelr wives. Members mander-in-chief of the United States|of the parish have been invited to at- | fleet, as is predicted in naval circles, | tend. The church orchestra will play | the probabilities are that Rear Admiral | quring the reception, from 8 to 8:45. Chase will not go to the West COAst| yyynur G, Houghton, president of the ‘at all. i | Men’s Club, will welcome the guests. he following officers of the Navy| From 9 to 10 o'clock valentine fea- | Wi e transferrec rom le command |, |of destroyers being decommissioned to | tures will be presented by Dr. Clifton P. command destroyers being commissioned | Clark, A. Guy Reber and Percy 8. in their I;:peim; g.l:ces.’ as indic;(eds: | Oliver. Comdrs. Frank R. Berg from U. 8. S.| From 10 to 12 o'clock: there will be Mahan to U. S. S. Lansdale. George | qancing by the club members and their B. Koester, ffom U. E. 5. Oshorne 10 | guests, ine chureh otchesira furnishing Ohaties 8, Alden'tfom 0. 8; B- Misecs | the music. Refreshments will be served. to U. 8. S. Crowninshield, John M. —.— Creighton from U. S. S. Preston to Texas Officials Un ire. | U. 8. 8. Leary, Harry P. Cuirléy fromi Under Fire |U. S. S. Reid to U. S. S. Cole, Joseph | AUSTIN, Tex., February 8 (#).— | Y. Dreisonstok from U. S. S. Lardner to | Naming 13 alleged “specific violations of | S. S. Blakeley, Alfred Y. Lanphier | the law” by the State controller and | from U. S. S. Dale to U. S. S. Tillman, | 11 complaints of ‘“general inefficiency | Robert A. Lavender from U. 8. 8. Lam- | and incompetency” against the State son to U. 8. S. Herbert, Horatio J.|treasurer, a resolution calling for legis~ Pierce from U. 8. S. Sharkey to U. S S. | lative investigation of these two offi Barney, Samuel R. Shoemaker from |cers was pending before the Texas | U. 8. 8. 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