Evening star., 1916-02-23
Preparedness" Debate Warm.

! preparedness Debate Warm.
! The discussion of the bill for pre-
paredness against prohibition expand
ed to a wide range. some of the mem
bers'' making vigorous arguments
about everything else but 1.-The ques-
ton before the house" and lin imitation
/ to the speaker" others dealing with
| the subject from an ultra -sclentinc
standpoint; still others as 'constltu-
tional problem and others belaborlng
sources of comical burlesque. f. n.
Whitehead. who was announced as
from Texas. declared himself 'agIn'
| the whole business on general princl-
PIES
! Those who took part in the debate.
which was punctuated frequently with
laughter and applause. for hoth 2iln-
ciples and persons were getting the
cedure. We're T. c. Parsons (of Ma
bama). vice president of the club: ~ u
liam H. Anglin tof HawaiD. Frank D.
Smith (of Pennsylvania. who support
ed the bill because the boys back
home wanted him to-; former President
Frank 4. Kidd tof Illinois,. who
thought the bill "chimerical. evasive
and delusive": Eugene F. Smith COT
Georgia), who favored the bill purely
to obIge local friends in Blooming
dale. etc, ard DR.. John F. Atkinson Cof
Indiana). who. while admitting he did
not understand the scientific argument
from Hawaii. nevertheless felt that the
adoption of the Dill would be "a deatn
blow to science
The debate waXed quite warm at
times. but was held within bounds by
the rulings and precedents" of speak
err Burkholder. which none dared gain
say. although the chair came in for
some vigorous rough handling. in which
terms like without precedent. 'un-
fair" arbitrary" and "tyrannical car
ism" We're freely used. After con-
fused attempt to obtain vote" the
speaker" declared the proposed meas
ure mot adopted, yet"
Presenting "Seen From Hamlet
The Seen from Hamlet" a reading
by Maurice Jarvis. opened with a
quatrain by the gravedigser"
We dig it deep and narrow;
We leave him all alone:
At his feet little Bull Moose
And on his chest stone
The ghost of Teddy" was seen by
Taft. Barnes and Hilles." The af-
frighted and solemn challenge was
made by Taft" and the clipper ghost
responded:
DE e-lghted. | am the party's ghost,
a dread and evil spirit, doomed these
many moons to walk the night and for
the day confined incessantly to chew
the rag till the blunders committed in
the strenuous life are burned and purg-
ed away.
Tomorrow I will roar about prepar-
edness till the whole earth shakes
bullets, cannon, the shrieking shells.
the big drive and the bigger newspa-
per headlines. Next day the hyphen.
the renegade American. despicable pol
troonery and f1abby incompetence. Oh.
| am too proud to keep still"
To which "HilleS'' softly eiacula ted.
Alas. poor Teddy And back came
| the ghost: Yet. HiIles. | may come
back. But whether 'tis nobler in the
mind to suffer the Sings and arrows of
outrageous bosses or take up the big
stick and by opposing bluff them-an,
| there's the rub. Yet / can loathe to
grunt and sweat under this weary bull
moose life and would again return TO
| earth But the dread of the conven-
! tion. that unholy place from whose
| bourne no bolter e'er returns puzzles
my will and makes me hesitate to fly
| to evils / know not of. Oh It's hard to
| bear the fat mans contumely, the
| pangs of Barnes most tender love.
| Penrose's reticence, Woodrow's pur-
| loinine of all my pet epithets. Vic
| Murdock's delay. and. above all, the
And then came the ghosuy tender
| farewell
Some of the Guests.
| Among the special guests of the
evening were former Speaker Cannon.
| Cornelius Ford. public printer; Repre-
sentatives John J. Fitzgerald. Julius
| Kahn, S. w. Beakes, J.. {. Dyer, Albert
| Johnson. T. L. Sisson. Edward keatine
| Henry A. Barnhart. Frank Buchanan
| Merrill Moores. William j. Cary, John
| I. Nolan. Patrick Harrison. Gordon
| Lee. n. f. Finley. Joseph w
| Byrns. John w. Hays. Willis Moore
| Frank Morrison.>. Wifred Bancroft
| William F. Guide Philander C. John
| son, Gen. J. n. Brinker, A. II. Nxh
| Buren,. Ralph Remley. John 3. Small
| wood. G. r. Hess, Samuel Richards,
John Lewis Smith and others
The officers of the knights of Mo-