The Washington herald., 1920-10-08
NEXT SUNDAY
CHINESE JULY 4
Mongolians Here to Hold
Church Services and Deco
rate Washington S Tomb.

China Fourth Of July-hor ma
tionaI day. as it is officially called
will be celebrated by the Chinese
OF Washington next sunday The
celebration will take the form Of A
Patriotic meeting at Mount Vernon
Place Church. Or. Wellington Koc,
the Chinese Minister. who is shortly
leaving Washington to represent his
republic at the Court of st. James.
and William c. Dennis, former legal
advisor to the Chinese government
at Pekln. will speak. After the
meeting there will be an automoLilo
parade to George WaShinCton's
tomb at Mount Vernon. The chair
man of the day is Frank Lee Quon,
described as veteran of the rev.
olution Of 1911
Missouri His Adopted State.
Senator Selden Palmer Spencer. OF
Missouri, who is engaged in an
Ananias Club sCuffie with President
Wilson, is a Pennsylvania by birth
having first seen the light of day
at Erie in 1862. He is a lawyer. an
honorary NJ. D. Of the Missouri
Medical College a Yale man. a for
mer circuit judge, and one-time
.i4' tltbfl VI tue mouse OF Repre-
sentatives. Senator Spencer is com
pleting the uneXpired term of SEN
ator Gum Shoe Bill Stone and Is
now Republican candidate for the
full term beginning March 4, 1921.
Tho President is taking more than
passing interest in the Missouri
Senatorial fight because the Demo
cratic candidate, Breckinridge Long,
former Assistant Secretary Of State,
was in Prof. Wilson's classes at
Princeton sixteen years ago.
Has Senatorial Pedigree.
Senator Ferederick Hale. Junior
Senator from Maine. probably can
claim to come from the best sen
atorial stock" Of any member of the
upper branch of Congress. Not only
was his father before him h United
States Senator, but his mother IS
the daughter of the late Zachary
Chandler, one of the famous men
Michigan sent to the Senate years
ago.
The writer was present at the
ship, the Hamburg g-AmeriCan liner
Bismarck, which was burned in
GermaN this week. She registered
moro than $4,000 dead-wcight tons.
and slipped down the ways at the
Blohm & Noss yard in HAMBURG
just eight weeks preceding the war
in 1914. The Kaiser attended the
launching, at the head of a glitter
ing military and naval suite. Count
ess Hannah Won Bismarck. a grand
daughter of the Iron Chancellor.
performed the christening Cere-
mony. Woman-lille. she missed her
aim when she hurled a bottle of
German champagne" al the mighty
prov, and William II. grabbing the
bottle as it swung in midair from
the silken cord to which it was
attached. did the trick for her. 1t
was not the only aim that was
missed in Germany in that fateful
summer of blood and tears.
The Dog In the Manger.
The Bismarck was allotted by the
interallied reparation commission
on shipping to the British, in re~
placement of the magnificent new
White Star liner Britannia, which
the German pirates torpedoed. One
of the most poignant blows suffered
by the Germans was the forfeiture
OF their two other great ocean gil
antesses, the Imperator and the
Naterland (now the Leviathan), re-
spectively, to Great Britain and the
United States. Evidently Hamburg
was determined that the queen of
them all. the Bismarck, which was
during the war, should
not pass out of its hands. So the
match was appHed to the most
magnificent specimen of shipcraft
that was ever designed. Such is
the Tcutonic mentality where
honor is concerned. The fring
Of the Bismarck is a fitting corol-
larry to the suicide of the great
Ballin. who meant the vessel to be
his m9nument, 80. +. w. w.