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Evening star., 1920-03-20

placed on record in the Office of the
clerk of the court: William J. Schuler
and wife. 20 Clyde B. Lanham. house
and lot. 1907 King street; Floyd S.
Sh:nn. 20 Harry B. Davies. houses and
lots 1920 and 1922 Duke street: Miss
Constance Bush. 20 d. Lawson Norford
and wife, house and lot, 212 South Pitt
street; Earl w. Saum- 20 Alexandria
Laundry. Inc. house and lot on the
east side of Payne, between Cameron
and Queen streets; Charles w. Wright
to Charles Aubrey Callahan. house and
lot 8. block 5, section 1, Rosemont;
the Mutual Ice Company to Aubrey
c. Clark, lot of ground on the west
side of Royal street between Duke
and Wolf streets; Mutual Ice Com
pany. to James c. Richards, lot on the
west side of Royal street between
Duke and Wolf streets: Mutual Ice
Company 90 Mrs. Susan NJ. McCaffrey
house and lot on the west side of
Royal street between Duke and Wolf
streets.
William L. Rammel. former pro-
prietor of the Hotel Belvoir, will
within a few days assume the man
agement of that hostelry, having
completed the negotiations for the
purchase of the equipment. The busi-
ness will go on without interruption.
An amendment has been granted by
the state corporation commission to
the charter of the John c. Lofts Gro
cery Company, Inc. this city. increas-
ing its capital stock from $1,000 to
81, ,OO0, 900. Officers of the company
are: John c. Lofts, president; Harry
Hoskinson, secretary.
Mrs. Sarah E. Pugh, wife of Joseph
Pugh, died late yesterday afternoon
at her residence near Hume, Alexan-
dria county The body was taken to
Demaine's mortuary chapel, and her
funeral will take place Monday, and
burial will be in Congressional ceme-
terry, Washington.
Evening star., 1920-03-20

Alexander Gamble. captain of the
American steamer Lake Galeria, who
was reported as missing. has returned
to his ship, having been in Havana
hospital.
Evening star., 1920-03-20
CHANGE IN PROGRAM.
G. A. Lyon Substituted for Mr..
BroWnloW at Wilson Memorial.

A change in the program at the exer-
cises at Central High School tomorrow
afternoon in memory of Emory NJ. Will
son, late principal Of the school, has
been rendered necessary by the fact that
Commissioner Brownlow, who was to
been called out of town. Stephen E..
Kramer, who will preside at the meeting.
has designated G. A. Lyon of the high
school class of 1885 to take Mr.. Brown
lows place.
Cadet officers will act as ushers. A
general invitation to the public to at
tend has been extended, but no cards
of admission have been issued. The
entire main floor will be open to those
who come, the gallery having been re-
served for the members of the junior
and senior classes of the school. The
exercises will begin at o'clock
Evening star., 1920-03-20
CANADIAN INDIAN TOOK
378 GERMAN "SCALPS''

OTTAWA, March 19.-Corp. Francis
Pegahmagabow, one of more than
1900 Canadian Indians who velun-
teered for service with the Cana
dian expeditionary force, is credited
with the "scalps" of 37s Germans in
report submitted to the house of
commons by Arthur Meighen, minis
ter of the interior.
Mr.. Meighen's report cites numer-
Gus instances of gallantry on the part
of the Indian contingent, which mum :
bered more than 35 per cent of the
total male Indian population of mill
itary age. One Indian, John Camp
bell. travelled 5000 miles by canoe,
train and steamer to reach Vancouver
SO that he could enlist.
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AVIATOR'S BODY FOUND
AFTER THREE MONTHS

The body of Lieut.. Robert NJ.
Stocker of Washington. naval aviator
who while flying fell into the Della
ware river more than three months
ago, was recovered Thursday by some
fishermen about twelve miles below
Philadelphia
The body was identified by personal
effects and prepared for burial Fu-
neral services will be held tomorrow
at Hampton, Va. Lieut.. Stocker's ma
tive city. Interment will be held
there.
winter. when Lieut.. Stocker was test
ing out a seaplane with a companion
mechanic. The machine without warn
ing plunged into the river, resulting
in the drowning Of both occupants.
Divers were unable to locate the
bodies.
Lieut.. Stocker was stationed in
Philadelphia at the time. although his
home was in this city. his parents re-
siding at the Brighton apartments.
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IN THE FIELD OF POLITICS.

MACON. Ga. March 20.-An appeal for
Georgians to select an uninstructed dele
cation to tho San Francisco convention
has been received from Mark Thistle
twaite. private secretary to Vico, Presi-
dent Thomas r. Marshall, who declared
this was Mr.. Marshalls request
He Is not a candidate" the letter
stated. He hopes that tho San Fran
cisco convention will be made up large
ly OF uninstructed delegates. 80 that the
party may, at the time of the convention,
do what appears to be best for itself
and for the country"
North Dakota Primary Results.
FARGO, N. D., March 20-The resu-
lar ticket of republican delegate candi-
dates voted on in Tuesdays primaries In
North Dakota has been elected, Miss
Minnie J. Nelson. heading the List They
go to the Chicago convention instructed
to vote for Senator Hiram W. johnson
OF California, who was unopposed for
presidential preference
Gunder Olson, republican national
committeeman. reelected. defeating Ole
Oiesons non-partisan league candidate
Minnesota G. o. r. Delegation Mixed.
ST. PAUL Mimi, March 20.-Five
delegations of two each instructed to
vote for Gen. Leonard Wood for tho
presidential nomination, four unin-
| htructed delegations and the tenth
district delegation split into two fac
| tions. one for Wood and one unin-
strncted. will be sent to the republi-
can aational convention at Chicago In
june This lineup was determined
when republicans in eight of the
| states ten congressional districts held
| conventions esterday to select dele
gates to the national and state con-
ventions. The fourth est. Paul) and
fifth (Minneapolis) districts met
Wednesday,
Anti-Salo0n League Bans Gov. Cox.
WESTERVIIL4E. Ohio. March 90
Following closely upon the announce
ment by the Anti-Saloon League of
America that 1t would fight presiden-
tial candidates who are not thorough
ly proven to be dry. Rev. P. A. Baker.
general superintendent of the league,
has issued a statement characterizing
Gov. James NJ. Cox of Ohio as "thor-
| oughly wet"
| Nebraska Not Unit for Hitchcock.
| LINCOLN, Neb., March 20.-Peti-
tons for opposing sets of delegates
| 20 the democratic national convention
state. One list favors the candidacy
Tor President of Senator Gilbert M
| Hitchcock. the other, known as the
Bryan slate, opposes Hitchcock. The
w. j. Bryan list for deleeates at largo
is headed by Bryan himself, Com
1
gates were also filed. OF the twelve
| Bryan district delegates two are
women,
California @. o. r. Primary May 4.
SAN FRANCISCO. March ao.-Dele-
gates pledged to support Herbert c.
| Hoover and United States Senator
Hiram w. Johnson for the republi-
can presidential nomination will con-
| test at the. primary election May I
for the delegation that will be sent
to the national convention at Chi
| cago. Political leaders here said they
considered it improbable that other
candidates for the nomination would
| enter the state with a list of dele
gates.
Thinks Wilson May BE Renominated.
WINSTON SALEM, N. c., March 80.
Il would not be surprised should
| democrats said former President w.
democrats" said furmer President w.
H Taft, who arrived yesterday aft
| ernoon.
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refused to vacate the property IL

refused to vacate the property in
question.
To relieve this situation the rent
commission in its determination GER
titled to the Municipal Court the fact
that the right of the complainant to
possession of his property was ad-
mitted by the defendant.
James l.. kerrick. owner of the Mon
mouth Apartment Hotel, has asked the
commission to dismiss the complaints
of sixty-six of the 100 complainants
who alleged excessive rent, made
quate heat and service, etc, on the
ground that they were subtenants,
hold no leases and are occupying
apartments or rooms in violation of
the law and the terms of the leases
executed to the original tenants and
without written permission of the
owner of the building. The case is set
for hearing March "a.
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REGRETS TREATY DEFEAT.
Ex-President Taft Has Nothing to
Say, Except He's Sorry.

GREENSBORO, N. G, March 2O.-
Former President William Howard
Taft, who arrived here shortly before
midnight last night, when told of the
action of the Senate with regard to
the peace treaty, and pressed for a
statement, made this comment: 81
have nothing to say. except / am very
sorry. In fact, that seems to me to
be all there is to say. However. al
though the Senate has refused to
ratify it. the treaty may be brought
back. 1t was once. you know. 1t
might be again. 1 hope So"
Evening star., 1920-03-20
New Rumanian Cabinet Formed.

BUCHAREST, March ia new cab
met, headed by Gen. r. Averesco as pre-
mier, has been formed to replace that of
Alexander Vaida-Voevod, which resign
ed last Monday. NJ. Zamsiersce will be
minister of foreign affairs, NJ Arge-
toianu minister of finance and Gen.
Rasccanu minister of war.
Evening star., 1920-03-20

Gen. smuts, it is estimated, will
have q majority Of four in the South
African chamber, and 1t is considered
probable the labor party will support
his economic and financial measures.
The first case under North Dakota's
law to establish the legitimacy of chill
dren born out Of wedlock has been COM
pleted and child SO born has been del
clared the fathers legitimate heir.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-26
HARDING OFFERS A PRIZE

Still it is a promising competitor for the Harding prize.
 As mere writers, Mir. Root and MT. Taft are more practiced and skillful than Johnson. They need to be when going into this competition. For, taking view of Harding directly opposite to that of Senator Johnson. they are compelled to resort to every literary and rhetorical artifice to show that the republican can didates meaning is exactly contradictory of what he says. Their difficult task is to make the worse appear the stter reason, to go against the natural meaning of words and to maintain that Senator Harding will say to Johnson and Borah after the election: You were useful to me in winning votes, but now your cay Such proof of inconsistency as that ought to win the first prize. And the only way to offset it's force would be to ap- ply to Harding what Tennyson said Of ar earlier MT. Facing both ways:
 His faith unfaithful kept him raseiy
 true.
 The indefniteness of Senator Harding's
 reward is only an unimportant detail. He can hardly propose to do less than match the President. Chairman Hays has been talking about an offer of 35,OO. That, we should say, is about the right figure for the Harding prize. And who ever wins it should promptly indorse the check over to James w Gerard for uso by the democratic national commttee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-26
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
 N if feeling that the republican % campaign had flassed little in ~ = high intellectual interest, Senator Harding has devised a special appeal to his favorite ''ablest minds" He offers a reward" (amount not stated) to any man in America who can take my utter ances on world politics and point out any inconsistency or change of position" :" Here is surely prize com petition to en- list eager pens. Those rising essayists, Taft and Johnson and Root. can hardly fail to enter.
 Indeed they have already entered Hiram Johnson has sent in a belligerent compostion. To his mind. there is no ambiguity at all in the candidates suc- cessive deliverances about the league. Harding is going to scrap, smash and generally pulverize it. To be sure. the California senator is aware that "certain individuals" for sinister reasons of their own,- are asserting that Harding intends to strengthen and save the League of Ma tons; but he states with emphasis: "l resent these imputations upon the sheer ity of the candidate, and the manifest en- deavor in some quarters to distort his plain language" This is not exactly the of Macaulay's when dusting the jacket of some varlet. Senator Johnson's produc- ton is very much of threat of war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-26

it would not be worth the paper it Is written on. Tennyson went into retire. ment very early in his career and for ten years did nothing but study the technique of poetry. All the output of that time was thrown away. But Tennyson now is considered one of the most graceful and facile poets in the tongue. There is an easy musical flow in Stevenson's prose, not because he was born with the sciously. Hence. when a particularly pleasing passage of Stevenson is ex- amined. the analysis usually discloses an abundance of alteration and of the liquid Is. ms ms and r's which the author placed deliberately to secure the effect.
 To cite more proofs that art is con- scious would be to pile Ossa upon Pelion It is truism. The ambitious artist works harder than a prime minis ter. Opera singers who apparently have reached a sublime state of perfection continually drive to eliminate faults which in their early stages can be de- tected only by the trained ear. but which if allowed to develop would lead to the ruin of their voices.
 Thus, the wonder is, not that 166 of Fosters songs have died, but that four of them lived. My Old Kentucky Home." "Old Black Joe," "Massa, sin the Cold, Cold Ground' and "The Old Folks at Home, have in them the simplicity of genius, rather than the technique and mastery of consummate art.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-26
LUKE M,LuKE SAYS

The retailer insists that the whole saler makes all the profits. The whole saier insists that the manufacturer makes all the profits. And the manu- facturer insists that the wholesaler and retailer make all the profits. And there you are.
 Behave yourself and bear in mind that what you do today creates a past that you can't dodge in the future.
 The O. f. man who used to wear q ten pound watch chain across his vest now has son'whose watch is attached in his wrist by silk ribbon.
 Prohibition isn't reducing the in- comes of doctors any. But if there were a law prohibiting men from going on food jags the doctors would find busi- ness mighty dull
 When a woman insults a man, the man is no gentleman if he doesn't apoI- ogize to her for insulting him.
 There never was man who didn't have enough credit to enable him to get into debt.
 Another wonderful thing is how a single girl never gets to be more than twenty-five years old.
 Keep on your own side and mind your own business and folks who live around you will bless~the Lord for hay. ing sent them a good neighbor.
 Maybe you can explain why a boy likes to do errands for strange woman and hates to do errands for his mother. We can't.
 After the eugenists get that human herd book going girl is likely to ask you for your pedigree when you pro- pose to her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-26
THE DRUDGERY OF ART

From the Louisville Courier-Journai. NIYIEN the biographer of stephen
 W\V Foster said>st that the author of
 My Old Kentucky Home" oc- ,cupied a unique position in the musical history of the world because he had writ ten ITO folk songs, he was gently. but firmly challenged by the music critic of the New York Tribune. It was pointed out that of the TO songs of Foster. only four have survived.
 The Tribune critic does not pretend to deprive Stephen Foster of the honor Of writing four great songs, but he does ob- feet to the writing of 166 bad ones. Of Foster, it is said: His death at S found him as a composer just about where he was at the beginning of his career. Both melody and harmony are of the utmost simplicity. His melodies repeat them selves monotonously and he was content with a few simple chords and undula- tions."
 Foster had a natural aptitude for music, but it was never developed. He never troubled himself to perfect his art, although the greatest art is achieved only after painstaking efforts. There are some who say that genius is uncon- scious of itself. However that may be. the musician, poet painter or sculptor, if he expects greatness, must work inces- sanity.
 Form is the necessary vehicle for in- spiration. A Beethoven sonata hangs on an intellectual framewSrk which gives it form and proportion and without which
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-26
 Larger Police Force Is Urgently Needed

1T 1oLD-UPS and other crimes in lJU Birmingham have become so prevalent that people may we'll ask themselves if it is safe to leave their homes after dark.
 Most of the robberies are con- .mitted some distance from the busi- ness center, where streets are poorly lighted and there is little possibility of interruption, but footpads are also operating with impunity in the heart of the city. A thug could hardly take a greater sporting chance" than to hold up a pedestrian within a block of the city hall and police station, as was done recently.
 The figures are not at hand, but it is safe to assume that Birmingham has the smallest police force of any city of it's size in the United States certainly smaller than the force of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-26
ADRIFvT WITH THE TIMES

LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION T don't know what this country is coming to-" said Mir Bibbies 'sWell?"
 The memoirs of retired bartender have just been confiscated."
 "On what grounds?" Merely because he gut a few of his favorite recipes in the back of the book. with brief directions for home use.
 TEMPORARY PROMINENCE
 Every time we have a revival in Chiggersville, Sam Sorghum hits the sawdust trail'"
 That's fact" said Squire Witherbee. But just as soon as the evangelist leaves town Sam backslides" Don't be too hard on Sam. Confessing his sins is tn only way he's ever found to get into the public eye.''
 TT PAYS TO BE CAUTIOUS A little moonshine now and then is reished by the dryest men.-Tampa Tribune.
 But often when they whiff the stuff they think two drops will be enough.
 1NTROSPECTION "If man would consult his mirror as much as woman does he might learn great deal about himself" remarked the philosopher.
 T doubt it,' said the observant citizen. good at self-anaysis as some homely, bald headed fellow who never sees him. self in mirror except when he slaves
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-26
Astonishing Acrobatics
 of Taft, Root and Hoover

7 F the presidential election has been ll devoid of humor. it has given the people of America an amazing ex- hibitiol of men in high places for feiting public esteem and reversing themselves for petty expediency.
 There can be no doubt that many regulations have suffered since Sem ator Harding was nominated in Chi cago. Before Governor Cox put the republican party on the defensive re- garding the League of Nations, Elihu Root, William Howard Taft and Her. bert Hoover were respected through out the country.N The great ability of MT. Root and his previous services to ths nation were appraised at their
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-26
From the Cincinnati Enquirer. HHNH H HAT has become of the old
 WY fashioned walnut Tees'

NNNN v HAT mas become oA 'ne o " MW fashioned walnut trees?"
 w mournfully asks writer.
 Many of them have gone, and many will continue to go, into furniture and home fin;shiurs. Walnut is a valuable and beautiful wood. But the piaint of the writer intimates that this wooer to the woodland is vanishing. He should come to the Miami and Ohio valleys. The rivers still reflect back the glory of the sun and mirror the fleecy argosies of clouds as in the days of the Shawanese and the pioneers There are walnut trees hero as any one who has walked this wear with October truthfully can testify. To walk afield or motor along the tape stried roads of autumn is to find tho boy who always was. and ever will be, industriously "hullin' em. or grinning, garsoyie- like, with small hands stained to Hindu tints, with face blotched and freckled by the persistent juice. but happy in his knowledge that the walnut tree is. and will be. till time shall be no more.
 The writer's miserere is uncalled for. While rivers in the middle west murmur and pass on to the ultimate ocean. while crows cav and red birds sing. while paw paws mellow and the haws splash the thickets with their scarlet seduction. walnut will be found.
 Walnut time is young 'autumn's time. boyhood's time. when nature drops down ever painted landscapes her hazy veil in which seem to sway and reel and dance all the fairies of the wood and wcld.
 It dyrads ever chose especiall dwellings, it must have been within the boles of the walnut trees. If the tree was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-26
Cox Disposed of the
 Article x Quibblers

M REPUBLICANS can no longer IN quibble about the League of Nations with respect to Article X. MT. Cox has stated his position in man. ner that cannot be misinterpreted. In his New York speech on Saturday evening, he said:
 want this to be my formal express sion as to reservation for Article X. I am willing to accept any res- ervation stating implicitly that the United States assumes no obligation
 to use its military or naval forces to the end of assisting another mem Der of the league unless it is ap- proved or authorized by Congress.
 Neither President Wilson nor any other democratic league supporter has advocated overstepping the, con stitution of the United States. The constitution has never been the real question. The down-east tariff barons have been the real power behind the opposition to the league. In any kind of international association that deserves the name they see the principle of trade equity and that is precisely what they do not wish. Thy want a tariff wall en- abling them to sell at high prices to the people of America, disposing of their surplus at lower prices to other nations.
 It is up to Americans to rehabili- tate special privilege or to create a world agreement under which the masses of the. world will share with one another the benefits of a fair and free interchange of their products. The other condition is pointed out by MT. Cox in this language:
 Continued prosperity in America and
 reconstruction throughout the world
 depends on restoration of credit in Europe; credit cannot be assured un- less assurance is given that Europe's
 war debt can be paid by elimination
 of armament expenditures; Europe
 cannot disarm unless the United
 States agrees to do so. and general
 disarmament agreement can come
 only through the United States.
 Senator Harding has wobbled be- cause he lacks sincerity. His diff ferent positions on the league are not compatible with an honest state of mind and intent.
 The people of the United States are about to choose between an un- equivocal statesman and a politician without convictions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-26

HI T. nE<E IN CnCnCh From The Elfin Artist" by Alfred Moves. The nestlinz church at Ovingdean Was fragrant as hive in May And there was nobody within
 To preach. or praise, or pray The sunlight slanted through the door. And through the panes of painted
 glass. When I stole in. alone. once more To feel the ages pas& Then. through the dim gray hush there
 droned
 An echoing plain song on the air. As if some ghostly priest intoned An old Gregoriap there. Saint Chrysostom could never lend More honey to the heavenly spring Than seemed to murmur and ascend On that Invisible wing. So small he was, I scarce could see My girdlded brown hierophant; But only a Franciscan bee
 In such base could chant. His golden Latin rolled and boomed; It swayed the altar flowers anew, Till all that hive of worship bioomed With dreams of sun and dew. An. sweet Franciscan of the May. Dear chaplain of the fairy queen You sent sin~in~ ~e~-t