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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-26


Thomas Jefferson, it is true. was rector
of the University of Virginia from the
time of it's foundation until his death.
James Madison also was rector and
James Monroe was curator of the famous
Virginia institution of learning, yet none
of these presidents performed actual du-
ties of instruction. following their with
drawal from the office of chief executive.
Cleveland's associations with the New
Jersey college were always delightful,
and the happiest years of his life were
passed i'm Princeton in most profitable
study and instruction. But the circum-
stances attending the appointment of
President Taft to Yale are even more
pleasant and argue we'll for the Presi-
dents life in New Haven in the Years to
come. for. unlike Cleveland. who was
not college bred, President Taft returns
TO his alma mater to teach among some
of his dearest friends, whom as men,
Der of the Yale corporation he often
meets.
President Hadley. the faculty and the
entire student body to a man are mex
pressibly pleased that Taft is to make
his home with them as an instructor in
law. which department of study he is so
we'll qualified to teach.
The advantage to the university to have
an ex-President of the United States in
Its faculty cannot be overestimated, and
already comes the announcement that
coincident with the acceptance by Presi-
dent Taft of the Kent prOfessorship Of
law plans are to be at once made to bet
ter equip and raise the standard of the
Yale Law School. True, the Kent chair
OF law is in the ACADEMIC department, and
not in the law school, yet there is strong
probability that President Taft will lecture
in the law school as well. and the talk
at New Haven is that in case President
elect Wilson appoints. Dean Henry Wade
Rogers of the law school to a place in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-26
II. TAFT

LILLIAN III. IA Fl
will be the first
American President
to step from the
White House into
a professors chair
i'm a great univer-
sity with the eX-
ception of Grover
Cleveland, who in
the last years of
his life filled so ac-
ceptaibly the STAFF
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= seventeen men
now living in
Washington. and
most of them still
engaged in some
line of active en-
deavor. could be
gathered together
and persuaded to
recite their war
records there would
be told stories of
thrilling gallantry
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Creek" and was awarded the congress
sionai medal of honor for his conduct in
the same engagement. Opposite his name
IN the list of the wearers of the medal
Is this note: by his distinguished gal
lantry and voluntary exposure to the
enemy's fire at critical moment, when
the Union line had been broken, encour-
aged MS men to stand to their guns.
checked the advance of the enemy and
brought of most of his pieces
senator du Point had been brevetted
major for gallant and meritorious con-
duct at the battles of Opeuuon and
Fishers Hill. Va In 1867 he received
the thanks of Maj Gen. Schofield for
emcient services at Fortress Monroe"
ne saw actual service in battle after
pdttie. always acquitting himself i'm a
way TO win the open approval of his
superiors, and at one time was in COM
mand or Sedgwick barracks, Washington.
Gen. Wood was close friend of Presi-
dent Roosevelt and colonel of the
Rough Riders. of which Roosevelt was
second In command. But there is an
linking of the caliber of the man in the
rev words in the War Department off,
cial records which tell how he comes tn
wear the congressional medal of honor
1t was In the summer of 1886 that he
distinguished himself
This is his official record HAVING +o do
with the award of the medal.
voluntarily carried dispatches throupb
region infested with hostile Indians
making journey of seventy miles in
one night, and walking thirty miles the
next DAY. Also for several weeks, while
In close pursuit of GerOnimos band and
constantly expecting an encounter. com
manded a detachment of infantry which
was then without an officer and tn The
command of which he was assigned unnn
his own request
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formed the deeds of gallantry which won
them the highest honor a soldier can re-
ceive. They received the medals back in
the days before they were known about
War Department headquarters. Gen.
Wood was only an assistant surgeon
fighting against the Apache Indians in
1856 when he won his medal, and Senator
du Point was an artillery captain when
he won his.
There was time during the civil war
when the medals were bestowed almost
too freely. All the men who got them
were brave, but the medals were meant
for heroes. ney were bestowed by the
half dozens. Company commanders used
to recommend their entire commands for
medals. But for number of years a
board at the War Department has been
investigating claims for medals and all
who get them are heroes in every sense
of the word.
1t was in 1862 that Congress passed a
bill apropriating money for the medals,
slightly changed. At various times since
then the matter of awarding the medals
has been taken up at the War Depart
ment and the Department of Justice un-
til decisions have determined the present
method of awarding them. Now those
who receive the medals get also a tiny
rosette. which they wear when the medal
would be inappropriate.
During the civil war various medals
came into being, but none of them, ex-
cept the congressional medal of honor
was authorized by Congress. Gen. Grant
received a special medal. Brigade COM
manders gave medals. regiment COM
manders gave medals. and even some
company commanders gave medals. 1t
is matter of history that some COM
manders before going into battle prom
Used medal to all who behaved them
selves creditably.
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OF such unusual character that the
United states government has given them
recognition. They are wearers of con-
gressional medals of honor-a distinction
not conferred on the merely brave man
who serves his country as he should. but
only on those who have risen to the
height of heroes.
The United States government is not
given to bestowing medals or permanent
honors. In other lands heroic soldiers
are given titles of nobility. In America
there are only the medals of honor given
10 army officers and enlisted men who
have performed acts of distinguished gal
lantry, the medals of honor given to sail
ors in the navy, the certificates of merit
given to enlisted men in the army for
very brave acts not necessarily in the
line Of duty. and the medals given for
life-saving.
The wearers Of the congressional medal
OF honor in the army are few. 1t used
to be that when they were bestowed the
proud recipient was taken before his reg
iment, on dress parade, and the tiny
piece Of metal which meant SO much
pinned upon his palpitating breast Now
he is brought to Washington. and i'm the
presence of all of the wearers of the
medal who live nearby the medal is pre-
scented to him by the President of the
United States, acting i'm the capacity as
commander-in-chief of the army.
OF the seventeen wearers of the medal
OF honor now in Washington one Of them
u United States senator. four are
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General Gillespie won his medal of hon.
or In the civil war while he was a lien.
tenant in the Engineer Corps. That his
was not one of the medals carelesslv he
slowed is easily seen by his record. II
was In May. 1854, near Bethesda Church
Va, that he exposed himself to great
danger by voluntarily making his wav
through the enemy's lines to communi.
cate with Gen. Sheridan. While render.
ing this service he was capaured hut
escaped: again came in contact with the
enemy. was again ordered to surrender
but escaped by dashing away under
fire."
Both Gen. Humphrey and Gen. Carter
were fighting Indians when they won
recognition. Gen. Humphrey was a
lieutenant in the 9Th United States Ar
tillery at Clear Water, Idaho In July
1877. when he voluntarily and success
fully conducted. in the face of a wither-
Ing fire. party which recovered posses
sion OF an abandoned howitzer and two
gatling guns. lying between the lines
few yards from the Indians"
Gen. Carter. too, was only lieutenant.
States Cavalry in Cibicou. Ariz. 1t was
In August. 1881. According to the rec
ords at the War Department, he res
cued. with the voluntary assistance OF
two soldiers. the wounded from under
heavy fire." Only few lines to this
statement, but they call up vivid pic
ture out in the Indian country which
needs few words to describe.
Gen. Mills. who Is now head of the
militia division Of the War Department.
won his medal Of honor more recently
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Senator du Pont is graduate of West
Point. and served throughout the civil
war. He was brevetted lieutenant colonel
in the regular army in 1884 for "meri-
torious services ct the battle Of Cedar
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major generals of the army. eight are
brigad1er generals, one is colonel. one
a major and two are captains. Ten are
retired from active army service, but
practically all are still active in the
general sense of the word. and one, Gen.
Leonard Wood, is the active head of the
army
The senator is Senator Henry A.
du POnt of Rhode Island. a man whose
biography in the Congressional Record
reads almost like history of the thrill
ing incidents of the civil war The major
generals are Gen. Leonard Wood, chief
og staff of the army; Gen. George l..
Gillespie. retired: Gen. Charles F.. Hum
phrey and Gen. William H. Carter. The
brigadier generals are Gen. Albert L.
Mills. chief of the militia division: Gen.
Ernest 4. Darlington, inspector general
Gen. Theodore Schwan, retired: Gen.
John NJ Wilson, retired: Gen. Marion f.
Maus. Gen. Charles II. Tompkins. re-
tired; Gen. John c. Gilmore. retired;
Gen. William p. Hall, retired. The others
are Col. Charles H. Heyl. retired: Maj.
Henry Romeyn. retired: Capt. Charles
T. kilbourne and Capt. Gordon john
StOn.
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-01-23
By TAD.

mattoN court house, surrendered his
sword to Grant, who handed it back
with words of courtesy. And. as
the vanquished Virginians filed
past, laying down their arms. their
general called out in a voice bro
ken with emotion. Men, we have
fought through the war, together,
and Irhave done the best for you"
Honorable to Both.
For five months, i'll 1885, the
Turks under General Williams held
the mountain fortress of Kars
against a Russian army more than
three times their number; and only
when food and ammunition both
were exhausted and further defense
became hopeless did the brave Eng
lish leader even think of surrender.
Then it was that the Russian
General Mouravieff, wrote to him
one of the most generous messages
ever sent to a defeated enemy.
General Williams" ne wrote,
you have made yourself a name
in history; and posterity viii stand
amazed at the endurance. the cour-
age, the discipline which this siege
has called forth in the remains of
an army. Let us arrange a capitu-
lation which viii satisfy the de
mands of war without disgracing
humanity"
When General Cronje, after his
brave fght on the bank of the
Modder river, was compelled to
surrender to Lord Roberts, with
1000 OF his army. the bitterness, as
he afterward said, was taken out
of his humiliation by the gracious
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-01-23
RiChelieu's Head
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.

T T was As years ago that the head
of the great cardinal minister,
Richelieu, after having been
tumbled about the continent for
more than 22O years, was deposited,
with all becoming pomp and cere-
mony, in the Grand Hall of the
Sorbonne.
That head had belonged to a man
who, for twenty years, was the alb
solute master of France.
That head, during those twenty
years, from 1922 to 1912, had nego-
tiated "A treaties With foreign pow
ers.
That head had marshaled great
armies and dictated their plans of
campaign.
That head had created and over
turned kings. cabinets and consti-
tutions.
That head had nodded this way
or that, and diplomats and war
ministers, generals and statesmen,
took notice and governed them
selves accordingly. 1t was a Won
derful head-one of the most amaz-
ing that ever sat on a pair of hu-
man shoulders.
Richelieu was the original "prac-
tical" man. Direct, remorseless,
constituencies, he made up his mind
as to what he wanted to do-and
did it. 81 venture on nothing with
out first carefully thinking it out"
he declared, but once decided, l go
straight to my point, overthrow or
cut down whatever stands in my
way, and finally cover it all up with
my cardinals red robe"
A bundle Of contradictions was
Richelieu. The Catholics called him
the "Huguenots' Cardinal" and vet
it was he who stolmed the Hugue-
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-01-23
The New Love
By MINNA IRVING.

w THEN her hero was the captain
W. OF baseball team,
The gossip of the diamond
Was constantly her theme.
Last summer. though, she dropped
him
For a youth with tousled hair,
And talked of football matches
In way to make you stare.
But both are now forgotten
BY this maid of tickle mind.
Toward a brand-new idol
Her thoughts are all inclined.
OF cranks and Carbureters
Her dreams and fancies are,
For 10, she is the owner
or a bright red motor car.
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-01-23

not stronghold of LaRochelle ana
took from them the last vestige OF
religious freedom.
The Absolutists called him LID
eral, and the Liberals an AbsolutlSI
and with reason, for now he was
neck and neck with Democrats, ana
now cheek and jowl with Mon
archists.
In the opinion of his contempora-
ries, he was. by turns, cruel anu
compassionate today a Bengal IT,
ger and tomorrow as gentle as
dove or lamb.
The fact is, he was in reality juS'
what the time and the occasion
called for. He could be cruel OF
merciful, humble or lordly AOso'
lutist or Monarchist, believer VI
hereto. as the particular clfcu'"-
stances seemed to call for.
First. last and all the time Riche'
lieu was a politician, playing I''
the great stake of French supFeIl''
cy on the continent Of EUROPE
And he played the game wen
Never was political gambler N'o''
successful. He found France !"
dire distress, he left her at the 'op
of Europe.
And yet he is to be rechollsO
among the worst enemies '''"'
France ever had. 1t was kloIeI'''
who laid the foundation Tor '''
reign of Louis XIV, and It was W,
long reign of that high-heade" '
despot that came near FU'i'-'
France and that would have COM
pletely ruined her but for the 'o''
ing Of the long deferred reNoIu''.
which. at a dreadful cost o'
and treasure. opened the way
the blessings that France l.
entoVing.
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-01-23
The City CAN Build That
Commercial High School
There Will Be $150OO0 of Extra Revenue Not Taken Care Of
the Finance Committees Budget and Out of That Sum p
vision Should Be Made for This New Building
y y y

is gratifying learn that city receive more +
$150OOO added which apporoned by the council
finance committee years budget was made up This m
will afford the city opportunity suitable building for
the English commercial girls high school.
There good why this school should not be built
1t necessity The city council should strain point give these
girls every advantage business is their right
and the city will be derect in its bounen duty its citizens if
fails provide these girls with the opportunity which should h
open them
The orceul arguments presented the finance commit
tee for the English commercial high school The girls who
attending this school effort equip themselves to earn
living housed rented residences the budget does
not provide penny for a building
is gratifying also that the framing of budget seemed
be free from politics than usually case An EnoI
girls high building need to be sac
feed any of municipal improvements delayed M
needed NOW.
When general council considers the budget recommended
by committee should the $4,000 urged for
English commercial girls high school would still have wide
margin for adjustment for any emer
gency appropriations
Mayor Woodward pointed the committee the girls
commercial school doing of the greatest works
and that the requirements for building pressing The
principal positions for the graduates literary i
cation well commercial training given. And attend
ance at this school increasing at greater than other
school in the city
No municipality do greater work than aid its young
who striving their living Through
cation alone they a living wage.
Here is rough statement of Atanta ability provide for
this building:
The informed the committee that there already
their books $12OO0OOO This will
bring additional $l5OOOO appor
toned 100000 of this amount, wing 100000
The marshal holds 100000 worth of fas, lien
property The greater part of this money certain collected
before June.
The department has shown increase of
than $4,000 for the last several The system
being extended further and additional $4,000 from this de-
partment S though it in the bank.
Several thousand dollars of for that
have been paid for outstanding They first lien on
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-01-23
Victor and Vanquished,

1t was with still bolder front
that Alahmud met his conqueror,
after his dervish army had been
wiped out of existence on the banks
of the Atbara river When his
hands tied behind his back, he was
conducted into the presence OF the
sirdar. it was with his head car
ried high and a mien of defiance.
Are you Mahmud?" asked the sir
dar Yes" was the answer; and
| am the same as you" why did
YOU come to make war here?" II
came" answered Mahmud proudly,
because, like you, was told to
come"
Never was surrender made with
more dignity or received with
greater chivalry than that of Gen
eral Lee TO his conqueror, General
Grant. in the American Civil war.
The Confederate army. hemmed
in by the enemy, was in hopeless
position. and ON April Grant
wrote TO his gallant and beaten adj
versary asking him to surrender, in
order to prevent amy further effu-
sion of blood"
Two days later Lee, at the Apo
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-01-23
The Georgian's Policy For Civic and
Industrial Progress in Atlanta

FIRST charter that will allow the conduct of municipal
business along business lines.
SECOND adequate schools teachers and higher pay for
them.
THIRD construction of good and repair of old
FOURTH, better sanitation and sewerage
FIFTH improvement of parks
SIXTH cooperation with Atlanta Freight bureau low
freight rates.
SEVENTH abatement of the smoke nuisance.
EIGHTH trolley system and
provement of local service
NINTH establishment of grand and Sunday concerts
TENTH solution old depot" and viaduc problems.
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-01-23
How Brave Men Met Defeat

words addressed to him by his vic
tor. who, with a warm handclasp,
said to him: "Commandant Cronje,
YOU have, indeed made a gallant
defense, which will win the admira-
ton of the world"
The first Napoleon, after the
crowning disaster of Waterloo,
finding escape from France i'm
possible, surrendered to Captain
Maitland, of the Bellerophon. on
July Is, 1915.
AS he stepped on board, his
breast ablaze with decorations, and
escorted by an imposing retinue of
officers and servants, it was al
most with the air of a conqueror
that he addressed the captain:
Sir, l come to place myself under
the protection of your king and
Your laws"
Much more abject was the down
fall of his successor, the third Ma
poIeon, that September day in 1870
when he was compelled to resign
both crown and sword.
Surrounded in Sedan by an over
whelming host of the enemy, $4,000
of his men dead or taken prisoners,
his army demoralized under del
uge of death from 500 guns, he real
lied that the end had come.
Then, with the white nag of de-
feat fiuttering over his citadel, he
wrote to the Prussian king this pa
thetic note: Brother not able to
die at the head of my troops, /
place my sword at your majestys
feet-NapOleon.
Napoleons Fall.
But France was not Yet beaten
Marshal Bazaine still had large
army undeF his command; but he,
too, was in perilous plight. for
he was shut up in Metz by a Ger
man force as great as his own.
When sortie after sortie was re-
pulsed with heavy loss and he real
lied that escape was impossible. he
tried to save his army by surren-
dering Metz.
But to his overtures Bismarck
returned the naughty answer: Il
occupy France with more than
million men, and l make no peace
with a marshal. The surrender
must be unconditional"
And on October 27 Bazaine capit-
ulated. and three marshals. 500 of
ficers and 10000 men laid down
their arms and became prisoners of
war. For Bazaine a worse fate
was reserved; for he was later tried
by courtmartial and sentenced to
degradation and death-a sentence
which was commuted to one Of
twenty wears Imprisonment
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-01-23

I n the story of war there is no
chapter more thrilling than that
which tells how, a generation
ago, a comparative handful of
Turks held the village of Plevna for
five months against a quarter of
million of Russia's picked soldiery.
Again and again the Muscovites
hurled themselves against Osman
Digna's trenches and redoubts, to
be swept back again and again,
leaving thousands of slain behind
them And 1t was only when hun
ger and disease had his band of he
roes in their grip that the gallant
Turkish leader made his desperate
and historic effort to hew his way
through the enemys lines-a for
lorn hope" which ended as it was
bound to end, in failure
But not until the Turks were sur
rounded by the Muscovites in over
whelming numbers and Osman him
self was seriously wounded did the
white flag at last give the signal of
surrender When, later the van
quished hero was led before the
Russian czar. carrying himself as
proudly in defeat as in victory,
Alexander. with a cordial hand
grip. gave him this generous greet
ing: Sir | congratulate you on
your fine defense. 1t was one of
the most splendid feats in the his
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-07-14

How sweetly soft he told it! How
the sympathetic tears came to his
loving sister, how the eyes of the
breathless, maryeling Gloria Burley
seemed to take it all in as if it we're
some beautiful dream. And then in
her weakness and exhaustion she
sank into insensibility, but with
seraphic smile upon her face, as if
after strife, storm and priVation she
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-07-14

A COAL MINER {
BY Gibson Gardner.
Washington, July Ex-senator
Miles Poindexter of Washington is
the author of novel and very in
teresting plan embodied in bill just
introduced into the Senate by which
it is proposed that the United States
government become a coal miner as
well as the operator of railroads and
other transportation facilities in
Alaska.
The more unusual feature, how
ever, in this proposed legislation is
a carefully wOTked-Out cooperative
plan by which employees of the gov
eminent in the government coal
mines would share with consumers
Of the coal the profits" of govern
ment coal mining. This principle is
also applied to the government trans
pOrtatiOn service.
Even more unusual is the feature
of the bill for what might be called
regulated competition" The gov
eminent does not propose a mo-
nOpoIy of the exploitation of Alaska.
Private interests are invited to COM
pete and half of all public coal lands
are reserved for leasing to any pri-
vate interests which desire to lease
and operate them for terms of so
years and in tracts not exceeding
1850 acres to any single interest.
The government sets the standard
for operation, however. The bill pro-
vides deliberately for the manner in
which labor shall be treated in the
government mining and transporta-
ton service; for example, providing
for an eight-hOur day, a minimum
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-07-14

had been awarded a glimpse of some
beautiful heaven.
Abruptly Dacey left the room, the
woman he loved in the friendly
charge of his sister. 1t was a new
Gloria, revived, whom he met the
next day the happy day, the day of
his life immemoriaI that he asked her
to become his wife.
Copyright by W. G. Chapman.)