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Evening star., 1920-02-09
URGES NOLAN MINIMUM
WAGE BILL Be PASSED
George A. Warren Sees No Reason
to Delay on Account of Re
classification Work.
Tt the Editor Of The Star:

tt the Editor of The Star:
In Il recent article in The Star upon
the action of the Senate committee on
education and labor in favorably re-
porting the Nolan minimum wage
bill. Senator Jones of New Mexico
chairman of the committee on reclass-
ification, and Il tried and true friend
of the government employees, is re
ported as expressing the opinion that
the action taken by the Senate COM
mittoe was premature: that the con-
mission on rcclaSsi ton is at work
on This very matter and 1t was ITS
hope that 10 unCC. complications VIII
arise from other measures aimed L"
relieve the stress Of employees in the
matter Of salary.
But what 'undu" complications
could arise? OF course. no one yet
knows what salary rates will be rec
commended by the commission on re-
classification. but il is a fair conclu-
sion that such rates will not be low
cr than those named in the Noia n
bill the very purpose Of which is to
set a minimum Standard-one below
which no government employe shaii
henceforth be regularly employed. If
such be the case. the only positions
row affected by the Nolan bill which
would later require change of rate of
s:lIary as the result of action taken
by the commission on reclassification
would be those in which it was
deemed the Nolan bill rate was too
low. 1t is hard to conceive that the
payroll adjustments in the various
government departments and services
which would follow upon such sal
AIRY increases would be very great un-
Gertakings.
Consider. on the other hand. the
pressing. almost vital. Importance of
the Nolan bill to thousands-yes, tens
of thouSandS-of government en-
ployes. many of whom live in Wash
ineton. Consider what 4 means to
live these days on salary Of less
than So Il day, which is the ire
ducibk minimum which the Nolan bill
provides for. And the tragedy OF it
is that those occupying these low
salaried positions are more apt to be
married than the occupants OF posi-
Evening star., 1920-02-09
CURT REPLY TO P|NCH0T
BY ATTORNEY GENERAL
Mr.. Palmer Describes Activities for
Appeal in Oil Land Cases
as "Contemptible."

Pointed reply to Clifford PInchot.
who urged an appeal by the govern :
ment in the Southern Pacific oil lands
case. has been made by Attorney Cen
eral Palmer. who characteriZes the ac-
tion of the former chief of the bureau
of forestry as 'cowardly" and "con-
temptible
The Attorney Generals statement is
in answer to open letters addressed
TO him and to the President by Mr.. Pin
chot to the effect that Mr.. Palmer WAS
derelict in his duty because he would
not appeal from II decision in the
lower courts which held that the gov
ernment had no title to several thou
sand acres Of oil lands in southern
California.
known as Agricultural Lands.
Ind sputable evidence. the Attorney
Generals statement asserts. was pre-
sented in the trial of. the oil cases in
the lower court that at the time
the tracts in question, which are To-
Gated in south California, were grant
ed in 1S92-1S91 the Southern Pacific
Railroad had no knowledge that the
lands We're oil bearing. Also, the
statement adds. evidence was produc-
ed show ing that the Southern Pacific
for years after receiving the grants
had the lands on the market as ag-
ricultural and sold large acreages as
such.
Therefore in the opinion of Mr.
Palmer granting of the lands, later
found to contain oil, could not be held
void on a charge of bad faith in their
acquisition. This position, it is added
was concurred in by government at
torneys acquainted with the cases
In such circumstances the state
ment continued. mo lawyer would ad-
wise client to enter an appeal, and
any appellate court would consider
such an appeal to be almost frivolous
l cannot assent to the doctrine that it
is the government duty to clog the
courts with frivolous and hopeless ap-
peals. or to harass business interests
of the country by prolonging Itiga
ton entirely without hope of recovery
on the part of the government.
Nothing but the most perverted
imagination could suggest any rela
tion between some cases. involving
oil leases, which l tried some years
ago in Oklahoma for Pennsylvania
clients-small Independent oil pro-
ducers-and this Southern Pacific liti
CATION. Pinchot's studied effort to
create the impression that these cases
are similar to the Southern Paciiic
litigation is cowardly, because he
avoids a direct charge. and contempti-
BILE because he seeks to create Il false
impression.
Evening star., 1920-02-09

gent of the u. y. K, spoke briefly. ia
Producing Mrs. George Thach.I
Guernsey of Kansas the presid,n-
general of the II. y. X. who delivered
a patriotic address. A X Lawion o.
savannah presented the cannon 10 thu
city in the name of the II. y. II. ann
they We're accepted hy Mavor Struar.
of Savannah. The exercises cloS.~l
with benediction by Mr. Wing.
The exercises Wer" largely ATTENDED
The cannon We're given the city u
the government several years a-n
They are obsolete and without his
toric:ti value.
Evening star., 1920-02-09
D. A. R. CHAPTERS MARK
HISTORIC GEORGIA SPOT
dwelling of Cannon Takes Place
at Savannah Square OH Old
Darien and Aueusta Roads.

SAVANNAH, February 9.-At 80
o'clock this morning Savannah and
I.achlan Mcintosh chapters. Daughters
Of American Revolution. unveiled two
small cannon in Madison Square to
mark the old Darien and Augusta
roads, the former having been laid
out by Tomochichi in 1875 and the lat
ter several years later.
\ very interesting ceremony marked
the unveiling. Rev. John Durham
Wing. rector of st. Johns Episcopal
Church, delivered the Invocation. Mrs.
J. =. Wood of Savannah. the state re-
Evening star., 1920-02-09
London Plane Reaches Khartum

NHARTU NJ. Eastern Sudan. Feb
ruary @.-The airplanc owned by the
London Times. which is atremptin ing
the Cairo-to-Cape- Town flight, ar
rived here last evening with three
cylinders in bad condition.
LONDON. February 9.-The South
African airplane which left here last
week for Cape Town has reached
sodium. north Africa
Evening star., 1920-02-09
France Bans Alien Hotel Men.

taurant business by a bill introduced
The war revealed that man. foreign
hotel and restaurant owners We're
enemy agents. The bill forbids par
ticipation by aliens in the customs
transit or commission agency trade.
information bureaus employment
agencies. munition factories, chem
ical works affecting national defense
and the quarrying industry
Evening star., 1920-02-09
Spain Exploring Gibraltar Strait.

MADRID. Saturday. February E
Spain has sent the ship Giralde on q
trip of exploration of the Strait of
Gibraltar. This is in accordance with
an agreement reached at the recent
international oceanographic confer
epce
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other or not, and had't any way
OF finding out, because 1 didn't
know whether what we didn't have
was something that nobody had, ex-
cept in books. or whether it was
real. And when found it was real
l wanted to see if you and I could
have it. I was-I was trying to
match my sample, that's ALL" said
Dorothy.
The train crier again became
vocal. This time his catalogue of
cities, including Centropolis, ended
with an admonitory GAIL aboard"
The professor sprang nervously
to his feet.
If it was true that his righteous
ness had tottered on it's pedestal for
q few seconds, that he had had to
stamp out vigorously a sudden and
horrifying confiagration in his soul,
the fact stood no chance of being
admitted now.
II can only believe" he said
gravely, shat tonight you are not
yourself. Tomorrow, I trust, in
your own home :"
"Well, we'll see," said Dorothy.
II think I am myself for the first
time in my life"
She opened her frivolous little
wristbag and took out at random
a virgin $40 bill.
II haven't a ticket" she said.
"Will you buy me one, please? And
then we'd better be getting on the
train. A return trip" she added.
''1'm going to spend the winter in
Chicago"
C'The Accidental" another Dorothu
story, IN an early issue.)
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and sponge baths Is practlcal PROOF
of the theory.
Dust Baths
Fluttering in the dust is another
method Of bathing INDUCED in by
those birds not using water. All
birds of the game and poultry fam
lily take dust baths exclusively.
Every poultry raiser knows that
one of the greatest necessities Of
the poultry yard is a convenient
dust bath, where the chickens can
come and go at will. A few birds,
like the common sparrow, use both
dust and water, 80 it is nothing un-
usual to see them enjoying a dust
bath during q dry spell with just
about as much relish as the more
general splash in the water. 1t
would appear that swans, geese,
ducks and like swimming or div
ing birds would take good baths
while enjoying their daily padding,
but their feathers are so oily and
SO closely packed together that the
water never reaches their skins.
Whenever one of them returns 30 the
surface altar q dive tho water runs
of 90 quickly that it's back appears
dry by the time it Is above the top.
Bears Like Water
There In nothing that the Amer
lean bears like moe than a good
bath, both in their native. forest life
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But this admission of his own frailty
was beyond him. By the time he had
repeated that he was at loss to
understand her, his own unruly inn
pulse was for the moment forgotten.
NO." said Dorothy with a kind
Of troubled seriousness, Il didn't
suppose you would understand"
And after a little hesitation she
added: II want to tell you more
about Bob"
The repetition of this name had
been snapped.
"It's customary and proper, I be-
lieve, to refer to persons in the
terms one uses for addressing them.
: Unless you called him Bob, which I
can't think likely :"
"Oh, but I did," she said. "And
he called me Dorothy. I don't know
his last name. I suppose Mr..
Hallam said it, but I wasn't paying
any attention just then. I was in
a sort of dream over his being so
big, and young, and beautiful, and
knowing all about how to do things.
Ad then, beside it all, being kind
kind to me. Because he had been.
." There was lump in her
throat and her voice ran aground
on 1t.
A moments silence. Then
Il see," said the professor grimly.
The sting in the words brought
back her voice.
II know" she said; "that's the
trouble. You think you see, but
really you don't at all. He wasn't
Mr.. Somebody that I was meeting
fos the first time to-day and was
going to go on being acquainted
with. It's all finished now. He's
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gone back to his real life, and his
real friends, and the girl he's en-
gagged to
"He told me all about her. She's
nineteen and her name is Enid, and
she's lovely. He showed me little
picture of her. He's utterly and
completely in love with her, and
terribly unhappy because they don't
know when they'll be able to be mar
rled. She hasn't any proper parents.
Her father and mother are trying
to divorce each other, and because
both of them want to, Bob says,
neither Of them can, which sounds
silly, but | suppose it's so, and she
has to live with wicked old grand
mother, who's frightfully particular
because she's important in society
and Enid isn't out yet But she's
allowed, as a great favor, to study
sculpture at the Art Institute. She's
d genius, BOD says.
Once more the professor looked
uneasily at his watch.
Were getting rather far afield
I fear" he, said.
ooh, don't you see why I told you
that!' she cried. Cant you under
stand now? He was just Bob and
I was just Dorothy, for the day.
And he has so much-everything,
you see, and he's so kind, he didn't
mind giving me little for a sample.
That's why he held my hand during
the nice parts of the play, and
and that's why, just at the last, he
kissed me in the taxicab."
The silence which ensued at this
point rang like fire bell. The pro-
lessor broke it, saying:
~ confess I understand less than
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-12
House Shortage Drives Courters Out of Doors;
Central Park Becomes the Parlor of Thousands

comfortable little nooks and settees
and grassy drives and winding
walks. One couple, sitting quietly
beside one spreading oak tree, may
sit for an entire evening, not know.
ing that just beyond the bend in the
path, twenty feet away, another
couple quite as earnestly engaged is
sitting.
No Parlors Amy More
The reason for the great increase
in numbers taking advantage of the
parks conveniences this summer
over last summer and the summers
before, it is said, ii. due to the hous-
ing situation. Young women whose
parents have been forced to move
into smaller quarters have no place
in which they may entertain their
young men friends, and SO they have
adopted the open-air, method.
1t is not unusual to see lawn par
ties in the park these nights. Young
women whose own homes do not af-
ford space enough for parties take
their guests across the street or
across two or three blocks to the
park. And there they string their
Japanese lanterns and serve their
punch.
But this is not the real use. to
which the>park is being put. The
nook mentioned is said to have con-
tanned on one night recently when
a special squad Of detectives was
assigned to count them three hun
dred couples within an area of six
blocks north and south and the
width of the park itself.
in practically each instance, when
the couples were questioned, they
appeared frightened and feared
they would be arrested or molested
by the officers, but explained that
the reason for their presence was
that they hadn't room enough at
home" They were not harmed nor
asked to move on, or even advised
to go home. The detectives were
warned not to interrupt the gather
ings (if two may be called a gather
ing), unless there was actual cause
and unless the law were being vio-
lated.
Automobiles travelling through
Kewpies' Nest at night, from Sew
enty-second Street northward, throw
a cold blue light upon many melt
ing scene. Not long ago large
hotel erected blazing electric sign
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Police Find Little of
Which to Com
plain

her best fellow than to have her sleep
all morning and then go to a bathing
beach and run around wearing these
make-believe bathing suits and act
ing like young Aphrodites."
He said he believed it an inspi-
ration to young folks to spoon in
the park" Because, as he said, they
sit there and keep watching that
skyline over there along Fifth Ave
nue., where majestic palaces rise and
where clusters of electric lights
spring into life as the sun sinks, and
they think that they, too, some day
must have home something like
that, and SO they go forth to make
better men and women of them
selves than they would had they
done their counting inside the walls
of little apartment on a side street
where they lived.
Swayed by Nature
And, after all, there may be
merit in this thought. For doesn't
it stand to reason that persons, no
matter Of what nationality or tenn
permanent, and certainly persons at
the age Of counting on a bench, act
ually are swayed by their surround
ings and their personal observa-
tions? There isn't much question
about it. No doubt the park au-
thorities and the city officials when
they resolved to encourage honest
lovemaking on the. benches of Gen.
trail Park realized this.
If the popularity Of the section
around Eightieth Street. where the
cool breezes sweep across the clear
water in the afternoons and where
rolling acres slope down to the peb-
bly, beach, continues to grow within
the next year as it has grown in
the last year no doubt next sum-
ner we will find afternoon tea par
ties being served there by the young
women of the upper West Side and
lawn fetes by the dozen held
throughout the summer months.
Central Park may yet come into
its own.
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ing neighbor Of their own particu.
lar kingdom. The Claddagh has is
history written deep in the glances
OF the cottager who watches the
alien pass along the strand.
Galway City has been the scene
OF battles and Of rapine and was
olockaded by General Ginckel, but it
always managed in those days to re-
build its ruins. Peace was more
formidable than war, and the de-
struction which the old captains
could not achieve the new indus
trial forces and the politicians Of the
Union successfully created. The
town kept bravely on its path Of
splendor during the eighteenth GEN.
fury; the great. Georgian houses
there, as in Dublin, write history
with their past magnificence and
present decay. But the last hun
dred years have worn away the am
bilious structure of maritime pros
perity. We may assess the causes
as We please; English villainy or
Irish inability to cope with q CEN
fury Of swift, colossal change will
be urged by the partisans Of either
side. The fact remains that forty
thousand people lived in Galway in
1900; now thirteen thousand is the
population. The merchants have
gone and the jaclsdaws have come,
wheeling with their, majestic ease
over the nests among the ruins. But
an indestructibie greatness hangs
about this town of memories. Hope
sprang high when the age Of steam
ers cande, and O. vast hotel was built
to cope with the expected transatlan-
tic passengers. Hopes were vain
then, but hopes have sprung up
again where once they withered. In
Galway one can hear more plainly
thsn anywhere else in Ireland the
march Of the new generation. For
there. with far less English inter.
ference, ssnn F&in In doing it's CON-
structive work. There is not 60
mueh wild talking and more solid
achievenaanEs /. .....
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downtown the young woman comes
home to o small apartment, to whios,
she must walk on stuffy stair.
cases, where she has her dinner:
then, fearing to go out upon the
street or in the park alone, she
awaits the arrival of her best fell
low, and they walk then to the
meadowlike slopes OF the park and
spend their evening. Surely it is a
blessing that it exists. Without it
some girls would never. take a
breath Of cool, fresh air from week
to week. With it they are given
the same splendid opportunity to
look up and see the skies and hear
the night birds twitter and the
'crickets ehirp and frogs croak that
the Long Islander enjoys. Never
until this year, it is said, have they
taken advantage of it to such de-
gree, because they feared what New
York girls have so long been taught
to fear-the ruffian or the inhunane
police officer.
Police Are Lenienf
This last fear has been done awav
with entirely by the general orders
given to officers walking those sec-
tons of the park. They are not to
modest couples wless for actual
cause. Instead of opposing the open
air courters and their little nightly
excursions there in the open, the
policemen look upon them with
smiles and with approval. Theirs
is not to suspect wrong until it has
made itself apparent.
I'D bet my bottom dollar on the
girl that thinks enough of herself
and her friends comfort to bring
him out here and sit in the air away
from the discomfort and heat of the
apartment houses" one guardian of
the law said recently. 1.-THE New
York girl is highly moderated per-
son. She isn't given half chance.
People are too easily led to believe
she is just waiting to show Off and
be mean. Nine out of ten girls
whose homes are inadequate to &C.
commodate them are working girls.
They've got to have recreation, and
guess there's no place like this for
it. If I had a daughter I'd rather
she would do her part to keep the
family, if help were needed, and then
come out here at night alone or with
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on top Of the building which cast 6
brilliant glow over the section o1
the park in that vicinity. Unlike
the whizzing automobiles lights
these huge bulbs shone on and on
and did not go out, and after few
nights the management Of the hotel
received neat little scented letter
written by young woman VINO ap-
parently made her parlor among the
trees and along the banks Of, the
lagoon. 1t read:
"For goodness sake have a heart!
You were young once yourself. How
do you expect us to have any &C.
crecy at all?''
There is a little arch bridge over
one part Of the, Jake in Central Park
in the section where so much love-
making goes on, and it ia lined from
sunset each evening until we'll after
night has come with the blushing
couples, who turn their heads and
shyly peer off into distance when
motor car or horseman approaches.
Take the Photograph Along
There are little rustic benches.
made, it appears, just for the use of
the sin loves" and then there are
boats that may be had by the hour
for a very slight sum, and in these
they paddle about to their hearts
content Photographs buzz away in
some Of them, and some afternoons
and evenings the entire lengths of
the shores Of the lake, where sweep
ing willow hangs, the youngsters
may be seen drifting idly, talking of
well, who would dare to guess
what?
Those Of you whose homes are in
great unoccupied sections in the
suburbs or perhaps in the country
towns up and down the Hudson or
on Long Island will not realize
readily the value Of this spot to the
girl whose home is ON the third floor
of a cramped little apartment up
town. Nor will those who live in
cities other than New York have
any conception Of the actual need of
such resting place.
When the work. is done for the
day at the store. or in the office
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chants that an outlandish fellow
meeting with an freshman, demanded
in what part Of Galloway ireland
stood" And Henry Cromwell, writ
ing for the Privy Council Of Ireland,
is equally emphatic. 1--WE may be
bold to say that, for the situation,
voisinage, and commerce it hath
with Spaine, the Strayts, West
Indies, and other places, no other
towne or porte in the three nations
(London excepted) was more con-
siderable, nor, in all probability,
would more encourage trade abroad
or manufactures at home, than this,
if we'll improved" Galway exported
the woven goods Of Ireland and inn
ported the wines and spices Of Spain.
The Atlantic seafarers and the ad-
venturing merchants settled there
and considerable colony Of Span
iards, rich and poor, sprang up.
There is still favor Of the foreign
ways in Galway, still q strange
blackness in the eyes Of the fisher
folk. +
Tradition ascribes the Claddagh to
Spanish origin. The Claddagh, q
weirdly beautiful tumble Of white
cabins across the river, Is 9 township
of infinite romance. Spanish at the
first-if the tale be true--it main
tanned its separate life until a gen.
GRAFTON ago. All Claddagh men were
fishers and over the bay they exer-
cised dominion; all else were poach-
ers and their nets forfeit, IL cap
tured. The Claddagh had it's own
kings and laws and customs; it
spoke no English and it paid no
taxes. It worshiped In its own way,
q blend Of Catholicism and pagan
ism, wherein strange rites with
masked men who ran knocking
through the town were Joined onto
the festivals OF ST. Patrick and St.
John the Baptist.
All that has gone, bait the Clad
dagh is still a thing apart, little
town OF glisssning white cabins,
whose fishermen view Galwsy with
q eol6 Gssnieian DO Maa evsgShsdsw.