The Washington herald., 1910-06-10
RANDOM REMARKS.
By THE oRsERvANr PHIosoPHER.


1t may sound like very serious matter |
to military men, but most Of Us civil |
lians will smile at the idea put forward |
by an army officer and quoted with APP
prevail by the Army and Navy Journal
that the President of the United States,
as commander-in-chief of the army and
navy, should wear a uniform. 1t is prob
able that the idea came from the recent |
discussion as to what dress Col.
Roosevelt should appear In at the Euro
pean courts and especially at the funeral
Of King Edward; for If, as President, he
had been entitled to a gaudy uniform,
brilliant with gold-laee and tinsel, we
presume as ex-commander-in-chie he
might still have worn it.
This is a vulgar age, my brothers, and
there is yearning for display. but we
hardly think the time is yet ripe for
epauletes and a cooked hat and a shiny
sword for our Chief Executive. Surely
for time act the manly figure and the
natty unif,|n of Capt. Archie Butt may
suffice.
1t is ever so much harder TO practice
than to preach. Our distinguished Afri-
can hunter adviser on Egyptian affairs,
and volunteer consultant concerning the
South African protectorates tells the Lon
don journalists that he is impressed
with the need of newspapers speaking
softly about the affairs Of other nations"
| Wouldn't it be bully idea II the colonel
could take his own advice?
IN Springfield. the other day. q Judge
| ordered two unruly boys to be spanked,
| and a leather paddle was used with great
moral effect. 1t is a great pity that
there was not Judge of similar capacity
| to handle those Wesleyan University
! sophomores that broke loose the other
day. These bad boys" who are old
| enough 10 know better. started in 10 init.
/ ate some candidates to the Theta NJ
| Epsilon fraternity. They paraded the
town drunk; they stole railway lights,
| endangerfng the lives OF scores OF people;
/ they broke into a Methodist church ana
| stole the furniture. loaded the pulpit
chairs onto dray which already held
barrel OF beer, and they proceeded 20
the cemetery. where they pulled down and
broke several tombstones. Judge Landen,
of the town of Saybrook. who tried to
stop the dissertation, was set upon and
beaten. Nice, gentlemanly young fellows.
| these? Some of them were fined and
their parents paid the fines. But what
| really was needed was a couple OF husky
reformers and some leather straps. Even
in the so-called higher education, TO
spare the rod is almost criminal care
lessness.
Among women the higher education
sometimes seems to Justify itself. A Vas
sar girl holds the high jump record for
women.
One question that seems 60 puzzle the
social reformers-those to be reformed
call them muck-rakeTs-is why. in the
Lorimer bribery case. did State Senator
Holtzclaw, who IS worth $4,000, accept
a paltry brIbe Of $500. Why? For the
! self-same reason that milliOnaires try 20
p smuggle silks and Jewels past the custom
! house: the same reason that the billion
aire sugar trust cheats the government
on weight with false scales. Just plain,
, old-fashioned greed. superinduced, prob
ably, by a curious mental twisting OF the
= text, '"To hina that hath shall be given.
? You know Charles CASTOR is an awful
= ass about some things. I was talking to
him about Margaretta DrexeI becoming
Lady Maidstone-another international
match
What made her a lady?" he asked
"She married a viseount" I said.
"A Norwegian" asked Charlie.
mo, an Englishman."
why. I always thought viking was
one of them Scandinavian pirate chaps.
Il took ne nearly an hour to explain
that a viscount and a viking were OF diff
ferent breeds.
We thought there was bound 20 be q
reaction in the matter OF the emigration
! Of the American farmer 20 Canada Their,
I was a period when the cheap wheat lands
: OF Western Canada appealed so strongl.
o to the farmers OF Minnesota. the Dakotas
T and Montana that the emigration got {,
: be a serious thing. Last year, for In
: stance. no less than 1888 Americans tool
! I'D their residence IN the Northern Do
e minion. But the tide has turned. AM
: they are coming back TO Gods country
Whether the lands were less cheap o
: less fertile than they had been repre-
% scented we do not know. but already thi
/ year 1900 of those who emigrated las
l. year have come back, many OF them {
10 settle on the irrigated lands reclaimed b
Il government enterprise farther south. Ur
II doubtedly the wheat-gTowing plains
d Canada will one day be settled, but ther
is is the disadvantage OF cold, OF distanc
n from civilization, 70 say nothing OF III
is difference In the flag, and we do nC
think that a great many American farm
ers will choose the plan of going
Canada TO better themselves.
N There is a woman in Worcester WI
keeps only thirty-two cats. and for ths
- reason her husband wants a divorc
A. Some men are so brutsily unreasonable
= It is undoubtedly the era of the ne
:. woman. Within a week there is or
: woman who knocks a burglar on Il
:, head with a rolling pin. and. droppir
him out of the window. converts him I'M
4 a good burglar; and another woms
:. fights of a burglar with settler bolt
H. and saves her fathers life.
There is bound to be something specta
: ular in the reward that viii be given
=, Richard J. Parr for services rendered
exposing the frauds Of the sugar trus
by which the government recovered Sc
el eral millions. It IS thought that he "
~ get at least 100000, perhaps more. al
: the size of the reward will be dramat
70 demonstration of the old adage III
cd honesty is the best policy" Such
be practical success as comes to Mr.. Pa
-e. will certainly stimulate activity amor
"a other government emplOyes. Not IN