Evening star., 1922-11-27

in 1913. Blessed be turkens, chick
! turks or cranonions-blessed be
just So there is enough for all the
hungry OF the world. Besides. this
is Safety week. Don't get hurt"
| even in the stomach.
The great American anthem, like
the great American novel. is yet to
be written. but at present the one
song which. by tacit agreement. most
Americans consider the national an
them is Keys Star Spangled Banner
| When its music which. through more
tnsn century of usage has beer
Identified with Keys song. is heard
every true American and certainly
every American soldier stands at sa-
lutte. 1t Is the music of Old Glory; it
| typihes that for which hundreds OF
thousands Of American patriots have
died
| Francis Scott Key, the writer OF
that heart throb of loyalty TO Amer
| lea, was a Washingtonian, besides
being fervent American. He be-
longs peculiarly to Washington His
grandson. who as an orphan was
reared by the good doctor-poct, lived
| here-an artist of distinction-until
very recently. He died about two
years ago. That artist did more than
any other landscapist TO develop upon
| canvas the charm of Washington his
| toric scenes. One of the most inter
| esting paintings by John Ross KEY
Is that of the old Key residence.
| marking the site now made conspi"u-
| GUS by the building of the great
bridge across the Potomac river. That
bridge originally took its name, as
| the Key bridge. in memory of Francis
Scott Key OF Star Spangled Banner
fame. 1t is fitting tribute. upon the
identical site Of his former home
That was its official name. and as
such appears upon all the blue prints
of the original designs for building
| the bridge. But at one session of Con
| gress some congressman in hastily
writing a rider to an appropriation
| bill providing funds to continue the
erection of the bridge. then far ad-
! vanced in construction. forgot the
! official name of the bridge and re-
| ferred to it only as the bridge con-
Meeting Virginia with Georgetown.
! Ever since then there has been con-
| fusion as to the correct name. and
| the perpetrator of the change has de
! liberatey defended the new name. as
| in honor of George, the Father of His
Country. instead of recognizing that
| Georgetown was named before Wash
/ ington was prominent. and that i,
! does honor to another George-the
| King of England-whose acts CAUSED
| the separation of the American col
| onies from their mother country by
| the revolution.
Americans certainly will prefer TO
honor the singer of American patri-
| otism rather than the memory of
George III, and considerable feeling
| has been stirred up in the organiza-
ton of the Daughters of the Amer
! lean Revolution and other patriotic
societies, demanding the rcinstate-
ment of the original name. the Key
bridge.
| One of the most commendablc acts
ever committed by the American
! Federation of Labor is its refusal I"
participate with the international
blanket agreement that in case OF
war. no matter what the cause. all
labor would go on strike.
| or course the workingman-skilled
and unskilled-has reason to hate
war. Still greater reason to hate the
makers OF war. So does every man
who has ever served at the front or
given a son to his country's defense.
But not yet has the American work
fngman allied himself with the slack
ers. who. for selfish purposes would
] fail in the coIntrys defense in the
| fact of attack.
| A few days ago a lady candidate for
! Congress announced as part of her
platform that she would seek TO end
war by making war crime. lh
i her dear unsophistication the lady
! forgot that since Cain killed Abel
and throughout the tribal safager!
war has never been anything else but
a crime-the most horrible crime this
side of hell.
But patriotic soldiery are not crimi-
! nails, though they slay. Burglary. TOO.
! il . crime. yet the householder who
defends his home is not a criminal
| though he kill the intruder. The pol
troon who fails to protect his famfl!
he is the despica BILE criminal and
coward. So is the Stacker In war The
A. r. L. is not in that class and re-
fuses to be misinterpreted through
any international alliance.
Senator Caraway wants to cut of
the heads of all the lame ducks.
and do il now. He is impatient over
the long wait until March 4. Perhaps
; he is thinking of the useless duckfeed
that is being wasted. but why not be
! mindful Of the pathological fact
that ducks do not live on Cara~ay
seed alone?