Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-02-04
WATCH FOR VANDALS
Slashing of Perry Painting Stirs
 Capitol Police.
SUCH ACTS NOT FREQUENT
Knit Socks Among President Taft's Christmas Gifts -- Controversy Over the Body of cohn Paul Jones Is Reorened by
 C. H. Hart.
By GEORGE CLINTON.

Westinghouse result of the work of the vandal who nautilated the picture. Perry at Lake Erie which hangs in the senate wing of the capi- tol, the police Watchfulness suppos- edly has been rcdoubIed. If they should treble the police force in the District, however. the chances are that malicious person could cut any
 picture or damage any statue that he chose, unimpeded; but. of course. he would have some difficulty in es- caping after the act
 The capital city has been remarkab- ly immune from acts of vandalism of this kind in the past. Relic hunters
 occasionally have clipped pieces of statuary and have tried to break bits ] off bronze raisedworlx doors. but the damage in the main has been slight. About seven years ago Emperor Will helm of Germany presented the Unit ed States government with a statue of Frederick the Great. The statue stands in front of the War college in ! the city of Washington. When Will 1 helm let it be known :o the govern ment officials that he intended to make the present there was instant opposition in good many parts of the country. the tasis of it being that the United States Ifs no place in which to erect statues of kings" The emperor's thought in presenting the statue was that Frederick the Great had advised and allowed Baron von Steuben to come to America to help the colonies in their struggle against Great Britain and so his belief was that the connection of his kindly an cestor with the movement for the ln- dependence of America might make the gift grateful to America.
 The statue was sent over and was put up on it's present site It had not
 been there long before some one eX- pioded a bomb near it's base. doing, however. only slight damage, which easily was repaired. To this day the
 identity of the bomb eXploder is un. known.
 President Receives Seeks.
 Among President Taft's holiday presents was a pair oe handmade knit socks sent to him from War Branch. Ky. by Miss Elizabeth Brock, who sent with the gift a letter in which , she said that she hoped the president would wear the socks o:i cold. damp days.
 Presidents of the United States get many presents, most of which are re- turned to the donors if t can be done gracefully. Gifts of great value al- ways are returned unless they are sent for some specific occasion like wed. ding anniversary or birthday. and are made for personal and not at all for official reasons. Small gifts. where the inspiration is simply from the heart. are accepted almost invar- iably. X Jones Controversy Rccpencd.
 Washington is interested in the re- opening of the controversy as to whether or not the real body of John Paul Jones was secured when the grave was opened in Paris and the remains was brought to the United States to be placed in the chapel at Annapolis. Charles Henry Hart of Philadelphia has reopercd the con- troversy. He denies that the body which was secured was that of the great Scotch American sea fighter, and in a book which he intends for priv ate circulation he gives his reasons for the doubt in the matter.
 John Paul Jones' body has not yet
 been placed in the chapel at An napolis, but is reposing in its metal coffin under tSe stairway in Bancroft
 Hall which is the great barracks or the sailor boys. The firm belief is l held by men who were Instrumental in securing legislation which would l from France that the remains are | those of Jones, but the doubters are | not a few. The casket in which the l body was found was unmarked, hut 1 the measurements of the remains cor responded with the physical descrip-
 ton of the sea fighter, and, moreover. | the location of the coffin in the old ! French cemetery was Identical with l the spot marked on a map which was ! made of the place nearly century
 ago. It is probable that the contro-
 versy, like some others, never will
 be settled and that the best that can be done is to pay homage to the body 1 in the naval academy with high hope i that it is not that of some Fronch-
 man rather than that of the man who
 won for America one of the most I thrilling sea fights of naval warfare.
 William T. Lopp, who Is ill charge of the governments reindeer service
 in Alaska. has just come to Washing
 ton. He believes that within the next
 25 years with the reindeer of Alaska increasing at the present rate there
 will be 100000 prime animals in the territory which can be drawn on by
 the people of the United States to re enforce their meat supply Reindeer
 beef" is said to be excellent food
 Today it is eaten occasionally by the