Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-15
Mem and Things

Luis Drago of Arg Ina, whose doc
trine played big role in the peace
conference, first came to public atten-
tion as judge in his own country
when he wrote a book of judicial ex-
periences. He entered the political
field and came into prominence as at
torney general at Buenos Ayres when
he declared that the provinces OF his
nation might be sued before the courts,
but that the judgments should not be
collected by force. The Drago doctrine
was adopted in modified form by the
peace conference, but neither he nor
his nation had the honor of presenting
the resolution to the conference
S.
The Society of Austrian ScuIptors has
just issued a statement containing ale
cations against Herr Josef Parschalk,
one of its most distinguished members.
In brief, the charge is that Parschalk
took credit for another mans work. A
design, supposed to be Parschalk's,
for a memorial to Andreas Hofer, the
Tyrolean patriot, was recently highly
praised by the emperor of Austria him
self, but it is now learned that the work
is not Parschalk's, but that of minor
artist, to whom he Sublet the commission.
s.
| One morning some five years ago
Ja:les ]. Hill went putting into the Of
flee of j. Pierpont Morgan and said:
Mr. Morgan, can't you get that lawyer
Kellogg, one of your counsel in the
| UnNed States Steel company, to help
us Shape public sentiment and the
Legislatures in the states through
| which our railroads run Y? I'll see,
replied Morgan.
| That day Morgan sent for the little
gray-haired western lawyer and said
| to him in tone in which an autocrat
II Tov-
logg, you will do this" The, steel blue
eyes of Lawyer Kellogg flashed II am
not politician and a lobbyist. but a
| lawyer who does only legitimate
practice No 1 will not do any such
work." said he, rising and facing the
money master.
BY this time Morgan was on his feet,
sizzling with anger, and blurting out
the hottest red words that had fallen
from his lips in many a day. Frank
Billings Kellogg simply turned on his
| heels and walked out That is the sort
of man and lawyer who is representing
the federal government in its efforts to
dissolve the Standard Oil trust.
In an article on Paul Morton, late Sec
retary of the navy the New York Even
ing Post says:
when, on one occasion, a navy de-
partment c,erk brought him the great
official p-rchment commission of a new
| ly promoted rear admiral for his sogna-
| ture he signed It, after reading 1t, as ne
would any document before signing, and
noting the clerk still present with the
document, inquired what he wanted and
was told:
| "'Admiral Blank would very much like
| to receive his new commission from the
hands of the secretary of the navy per-
| sonally
Where I. he? asked the secretary
.'Admiral Blank is upstairs, in his Of
flee, SIR
/ "'Ask him to come here was the COM
mand, and in few moments the grizzled
veteran presented himself to the secre-
i tary Of the navy
"Evidently, the officer was filled with
| sentimental emotion on this event-the
climax of his naval career. From boy
| hood he had lived for this moment, MS
| long terms of sea duty. the monotony of
shore service, the anXieties of war, the
Arrogance of superior officers. uue whole
chapter of lie rigors, the self-denial and
self-discipline, was to be crowned with
the evidence of honor which his country
bestows upon faithful naval officers He
looked his expectation of words of praise,
as if in lonely watches he had dreamed
los the eloquent sentences which would
| become the psalm of his old age.
"The secretary OIL the navy stood up,
handed the open parchment to the
speechless rear admiral and said only
this:
Admiral Blank, here's your commits
sion.
"rhen he sat down to his desk and
went on with his work. unconscious of
having sriashed lifetime's dream