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Evening star., 1923-05-12
sense. In a way the reputation Of the

sense. In a way the reputation OF the
city and it's convention future are at
stake. Hotel men are wise fellows,
and they have good business heads.
Stories that Washington plans prof
iteering should be knocked out and
nailed down.
There IS no doubt that hotel charges
seem high to many men of middle age
and greater age. Rents. carfare, pipe
tobacco, shoes. hats and canned tonla-
toes are all higher than they used to
be. Five-cent cigars are up to cents.
and some have gone to 10 cents, and
old men will tell you that they are not
as good as the iive-centerS of before
the war" A change has come over
hotels. There are men in Washington
who can remember that when the bus
came from the depot or the steamboat
landing the proprietor came out on
the sidewalk to shake hands with the
incoming travellers and to say glad
words to them. He greeted Col. Jones.
Judge Smith and Maj. Brown by
NY SoI q foohA w
the Avenue and three meals a day for
s2.25. At the meals they had terrapin.
turkey. roast shoat and reedbirds. But
that was some time ago, and things
have changed.
Hotels are luxurious, or some Of
them may be. and their charges have
gone up, as everything else has. Once
upon time d man could give the head
waiter a ten-cent tip and get smile
and bow for his silver. Now. it is like
ly that the head waiter owns a row
OF brick houses and is laying plans TO
buy the hotel. People are used TO the
new style Of rates. and We have the
word OF the Shrine officials and the
hotel men that charges will be fair
in Shrine week.
Evening star., 1923-05-12
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

Gov. Folk in charge at Philadelphia
at present.
X X y
Attorney General Daugherty ex-
poets to spend most OF the summe +
on native heath, near his home town
| and birthplace OF Washington Court
| House, Ohio. BY leading the strict
ly simple life, he is confident he can
return to the Department Of Justice
in the autumn like q giant refreshed
Since his recent arrival from a re-
cuperative holiday in the south
! Daugherty has been putting in six
hours day at his desk-too strenu-
Gus grind for a man in his condi-
tion..-his friends think. This writer
by the way. Is being bombarded for
| Information as to the authorship of
the pamphlet of vindication recently
| issued on the Attorney Generals
behalf and alluded to In this column.
Dausherty's office AYERS and affirms
| 1t Is completely in the dark on the
subject. Anonymous admirers" is
thelr Official guess as to the book
/ John T. Adams. chairman of the
republican national committee, has
q sure cure for depression that over
takes some public men when assailed
| in the newspapers. He simply
doesn't read 'em. Temper and nerves
Adams asserts, are bound to remain
! equable under such conditions. The
/ lowan. who guides the organization
destinies of the G. o. p claims Ia
have learned that lesson from Bal
-FOUR. Adams is firmly planted in the
/ national committee leadership. runlors
hSt = ii,,xr n
status at the White House Is particu-
larly solid He sat in" Intimately
At the recent conferences when the
strategic features of President Hard
ing forthcoming transcontinen nta
| swing were settled, particularly the
points where keynote speeches are
to be delivered
Almost every day Prohibition Com
missioner Haynes hears from some
foreign country that the dry move
ment is on the march there. Japan
Is the latest TO report progress in that
direction. There are at present o36
different associations in Nippon work
ing for temperance. embracing a total
membership of 117.9S2. The prefecture
of Toxic. in which the capital itself
| hlpltion advocates. A sum Of $50 400
| q year. II is estimated, is now being
spent on temperance propa aganda. The
social bureau Of the department OF
the interior is beginning 10 dignity
the crusade with attention. The
churches are studying the develop
ment OF American prohibition care
fully. Saki. Japan's equivalent for
red liquor. Is said TO be doomed
x
Dr.. Nicholas Murray Butler. presi-
dent OF Columbia University. has
sailed for Great Britain 10 deliver a
series Of lectures entitled Building
the American Nation" Universities
| in London. Cambridge Edinburgh
Cardiff, Manchester. Glasgow. ST. An
drews ana Leeds will hear him. Sam
uel Adams, Benjami Franklin
George Washington. Alexander Ham
, ilton. James Madison. Thomas Jeffer-
son. John Marshall, Daniel Webster
! Andrew jackson and Abraham Lin
coin viii be interpreted TO the Brit
! lSh cousin in the order named
Copyright. 1923
Evening star., 1923-05-12

There are angels treading softly
the streets OF Washington today.
though we see them not. To your
eyes and TO mine they are but men
and women like ourselves.
For only eyes from which the
scales have fallen may see them as
they are, in the warm light of their
glory. And only the poor Of Wash
ington have such eyes.
Our eyes look every hour on Crea-
ture comforts and luxuries which to
US have become commonplace. Such
eyes are dim when angels pass by.
hungering brood. the eye of the man
who fights daily the wolf at his
door, the eye of the toiling child
such eyes are quick to catch the form
of the halo which we may never see.
We who see the rainbow OF ma
terial happiness and contentment ind
it difficult TO envision the form Of
an angel in just an ordinary man or
woman.
Dorothy. aGed nine, has seen one
of those angels.
She was lying on her little bed
when the angel came and knelt be-
side her. And though Dorothy didn't
know at the time. she was lowering
between this world and the next
when the angel came.
1t was such bed. too--a wretched
mattress Of hay and straw propped
On four wooden boxes with rough
timbers to support the ends and
sides. Milady's dog fares better.
But didn't matter much to Dorothy
at the time. for Dorothy was unmind-
full of all surroundings. Nor coulG
she see the box that served as a
table, or the other two boxes that
served as chairs nearby. The miss
ing window pane disturbed her none
at all, though it was late December.
Nor did the unswept floor or the
patch in the wall where the plaster
as gone.
Dorothy was fighting pneumonia.
in her illness because there was no
other place to sleep, was in a fair
way to Join in the fight when the
ministering angel came.
But the angel-whom you and /
would never know for an angel be-
cause she appears for all the world
to be just a sweet-faced woman like
thousands of others in our city
changed all this.
She brought fresh clothing, fresh
linen for the bed. a doctor, medicine
and trip to the hospital, where Dor
othy got" well in tune.
And then the angel went back again
to the wretched home and found work
for Dorothy's mother.
II you think 1t was merely a wom-
an who did all this, and not an angel
at all-well, ask Dorothy.
X i; X
Then there is Dad-without-a job.
He, too. saw an angel last February.
Dad was one of those poor fellows
who are wonderfully blessed with
youngsters, but woefully shy of
money.
One of his troup Of eleven boys and
girls who knew where the angel lived
summoned the angel to their miser-
able home.
Come over, please" she said, ina
mas sick"
The angel-or, maybe, it was just
another one of those sweet-faced
Evening star., 1923-05-12
The Alley Situation,

The alley closing problem is not so
discouraging or fraught with SO grave
q menace to alley dwellers and the
rest Of the community as the District
authorities believed a few weeks ago.
The change in the situation has been
brought about by the opinion Of the
corporation counsel who. after an
analysis of the alley-closing law Of
Congress, construes it as applying only
10 alleys which are not thirty feet
wide or to alleys which have no water
and sewer connections and which have
neither gas nor electric lighting. A
survey Of the District shows that there
are few alleys which do not meet one
of these conditions. and that relatively
few of the 10000 or more alley dwell
ers will be affected by the alley.house
closing proceedings which the Com
missioners will enter upon on June l.
Even under this most satisfactory in
terpretation of the law, and with the
results of the survey at hand, it ap-
pears that a considerable number of
poor people may be forced to leave
the shelter they call home, and the
problem is perplexing to that extent.
The date Of the closure proceedings
falls close TO Shrine week, when the
city will be extraordinary crowded
when all the activities of city EN-
ployes will be directed to keeping
Washington clean, safe and free from
disorder and when probably every
man and woman in the outlawed al
leys will be able to find some kind of
employment. The injunction suit
against the District brought by Ger.
tain owners of alley property is pend.
ing, and the District Supreme Court
may render decision at any time
Evening star., 1923-05-12
The District Flower.

There may be battle as to which
the District. 1t cannot be said that the
flowers will so to war, but partisans
Of certain flowers seem to be forming
in battle line. Each army is marching
with a, banner inscribed or enlbroid-
cred with the flower for which it
means to do or die. Many states have
chosen flowers. but in most states an
active minority has always denounced
the justice and wisdom Of the choice.
Perhaps in no state has the election
Of a state flower been made unani-
nous. But the defeated flowers keep
OH blooming just the same and main
tain their customary relations with
the victors.
While there are some points of dis
similarity between a state and the
District it is likely that the selection
Of District flower will cause some
controversy, and that in arguing the
claims Of rival flowers there will be
verbal friction and heat. This ought
not to be. Advocates may appeal
with eloquence and fervor for their
candidates, but should not wilt and
shrivel other candidates with violent
language. There ought to be no mud.
singing in a contest between the
flowers.
It would seem that so far the NOM
nations to represent the District have
been of cultivated flowers. But there
are those who have faith in wild
flowers and in any convention or elec-
ton they will push the claims Of their
friends Of the meadows and the glens.
They believe that there are wild
flowers qualified to speak for the Dis
trict in any congress or parliament
convoked by Queen. Rose.
If one leans toward good looks and
love for its native heath and persist.
ence in sticking to the soil Of its an
cestors one might name the flower of
the calico bush or Kalmfa, which
many persons improperly call noun
tain laurel. For stubbornness and
Evening star., 1923-05-12
Hotel Rates.

Amas Temple and the executive
committee of the Shrine convention
are having some trouble in combating
tales that seem to be circulating that
Washington hotel rates will be unfair
during Shrine week. The committee
is broadcasting a denial OF this. The
potentate of the temple says the
stories are baseless, and that the rates
chairman Of the hotel and housing
committee sends out word to the same
effect. These men high in the Shrine
say that Washington hotel men are
doing all they can to make the con-
vention a success. Fair rates and fair
play are dictated by ordinary business
Evening star., 1923-05-12

good looks some may vote for the wild
aZalea. which Is also called pinxter
flower and wild honeysuckle. Then.
there is true honeysuckle, once a do
mestic flower. but now growing wild
in parts OF the District and living
without help from man as we'll as the
most savage and untutored flower. II
voters want beauty and modesty the
District can show bluets, violets. red
colunbine, purple sage, spring beau
ties. Virginia cowslip or bluesells and
cream-colored Dutchmen's breeches.
There are tangles of wild rose and
patches OF red lobelia. pink lady slip
pers, meadow beauties, meadow sweet
and hundreds OF other wild flowers.
Evening star., 1923-05-12
CAPITAL KEYNOTES
BY PAUL ]. COLLINS

Food in Washington is only 40 per
cent higher than il was ten years
ago. and last month it dropped half
Of 1 per cent. At that whizz it will
get back to normal in 194712 A. d.
In the meanwhile it is fashionable
to maintain simple living and high
thinking. Some days all we should
cat il strawberry shortcake with
whipped cream, and the tall think
Ing done will bring a resigned feel
ing of sadness and lor ging that Is
not akin to pain and resembles sor-
row only as the mist resembles rain.
II would be SUMMER if more normal.
x y x +
Shriners are advised not TO get
sick until they arrive in Washing
ton, for treatment will be free dur
ing Shrine week. Why be sick else
Instr uctive Visiting nurses at work.
X L >: x
II it be true. as recently bulletined
in Washington, that the careless
driver is a criminal" then what SEN
tence was passed on the seventeen
criminals who killed seventeen people
upon our streets last month? The
fact that the number is reduced from
twenty-six during the corresponding
month Of 1921 inticates that the ac-
cfdents are preventable. The same
increase of care that has reduced the
fatalities can be extended until the
act of killing pedestrian will be as
rare as Of other forms Of homicide.
stop. Look. Listen
The Associated Press appears A bit
groggy in announcing that the 3lGth
anniversary of the landing of the
Pilgrims at jamestown. Va. will be
celebrated, Saturday. May II, at the
william and Mary College" Now, IL
the William and Mary College is
teaching its students that it's front
doorstep is the original Plymouth
Rock, II is worse than Muzzey's his
tory and the Naval War College COM
bined. Something ought to be dona
about il, or we shall soon hear that
Ponce de Leon wandered up into Eir-
ginia and located the fountain of per
petual youth in Luray's cave. No
wonder that Henry Ford thinks his
tory has more wheels" than all his
Lizzies>
The secret Of the transcontinental
flight by Lieut.. MacReady is out. He
had a pretty girl at the other end.
waiting TO marry him as soon as he
| arrived. Not a bit OF wonder that
he jumped right over the Mississippi
river. the great American desert and
| the Rocky mountains to get 20 her
, Who wouldn't? Probably she was
right up in the clouds waiting for
him, too. That ls the way to achieve
nonstop f1ights-bait EN-.
I = !; y
Some very humane folks. with the
best intentions imaginable. but who
don't know boys. are protesting
against permitting a wild west Indian
show to be put on near the Union
station. They fear it Is wrong TO
rob the little boys OF the use Of the
vacant lot all through Shrine week
by permitting it to be occupied by
wild Injuns. their ponies squa ws and
pappooses 'neverything" The poor
little Washington boys will have no.
where else to play that week, and 50
they may get into the streets and
be hurt. OF course the boys will not
be interested in wild Injuns war
whoopiing and shooting, fleeing buffalo.
They have never read THE Last of
the Mohlcans." They have not heard
Of Sitting Bull. and SO will not care
for seeing members OF his Sioux tribe,
who are now suing the United States
for pin moneS-ST0Q,00o 900 Some
Evening star., 1923-05-12
Krupp President jailed by French:
Has American Blood i'm His Veins
BY THE MARaUIsE DE FoNTENoY

By THE MARQtISE DE FONTENOS.
Gustave krupp Won Halbach Bob
len. who has just been sentenced by
French tribunal in the Rhineland
to heavy fine and TO a fifteen-year
term of imprisonment which he can
not escape. since he is already in
Gallo custody. for his share III the
responsibility for the sanguinary en-
counter which took place recently be-
tween his workmen at Essen and
the French troops occupying the huge
works. has a strain of American blood
in his veins. counting among his an
cestors the Homes and the Oswalds
| of New York.
Philip and Catherine Hone of New
York had daughter. who. in the last
decade of the eighteenth century.
married on Manhattan Island, Philip
Oswald of New York, and their
! daughter Caroline married a certain
; Henry Bohlen of Philadelphia. who
attained the rank of general in the
United States Army. Their daughter.
Sophie Bohlen. married. in Philadel-
phia Arnold Halbach. native mer-
ed States minister to Baden. This
led to their children being brought
| up in Baden. where the eldest Of
them. Gustave. entered the service
of the Baden government. AMI became
the Baden envoy at The Hague.
; He had tackled his mothers maiden
! name of Bohlen onto his patronymic Of
Halbach One of his ten children fol-
lowed him into the German diplomatic
service. and was secretary of the Ger
man legation at Pekdng during the
Boxer rebellion and the rebel siege OF
| the legations in the Chinese capital just
twenty-three years ago.
Of tho then German legation at
Washington for about a couple OF
years, and. as was to be expected,
spent much Of his time with his
relatives in Philadelphia and New
| York From China he was trans.
ferred to the German embassy at
! Rome. where he had the opportunity
! Of acting as the guide and escort
Of Bertha Krupp and her younger
sister on the occasion OF their hrSt.
! second and third sojourns IN the
! Eternal city
Bertha krupp's widowed mother,
| herself born OF the old baronlal mouse
Of Won Ende. for 200 years closely
identified with the court OF Berlin,
was anxious that her daughter. espe-
cially her eldest daughter, should wed
some duke or prince of ancient line
age and high degree. But the eHecu-
tors of the late Alfred Krupp's will
and last testament pointed out to her
that he specially wished that his ia
vorite daughter and heiress should be
! free to choose her mate. irrespective
! Of rank, and. therefore. although
! Young Gustave Won Halbach Bohlen's
! nobility only dated from 1871, when
| il was conferred upon his father,
| while acting as Baden minister plen-
! fpotentiary at The Hague, the mar
! riage came to pass and was cele-
| brated at Essen in great pomp, in the
/ presence of the emperor.
They have several children. includ-
/ ing boys. The elder alone will bear
fthe name Of his mother. by virtue of
an imperial decree shortly after his
| birth, in which II was provided that
| the eldest son should always bear the
| name of Krupp in order of primo
geniture, as a sort of title of nobil-
| ity, while all the other sons and
| daughters should be restricted to
Evening star., 1923-05-12
Points Out Error
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
In The Star for Wednesday there
appears a dispatch in which it is
stated that the landing of the pill
xrims at jamestown will be observed
at Williamsburg, Va, with fitting
ceremonies, etc.
This is obviously in error and in
Yestigation will doubtless show that
the celebration will commemorate the
303d anniversary of tho storm which
blew the Mayflower off the Virginia
coast c. G. LEE. JR,
Evening star., 1923-05-12

A tacit warning Ia said TO be go
ing the rounds Of republican United
States senators against the advisable
ity of airplane trips. The G.. o. P.
majority in the upper house of the
Sixth-eiEhth Congress Is so narrow
that unnecessary risks Of life and
limb are regarded undesirable. Sena.
tors Nicholson and Nelson have pass
ed away since March 4 and further
untoward events are contemplated
with real alarm. Senator Phipps of
Colorado. recalls that when the re-
publicans controlled the Sixty-siXth
Congress four years ago by the slim
margin of one vote. he was specifl-
cally admonished against courting
possible danger in an airplane. Dur
ing the recent naval maneuvers
around the Canal Zone, Senator Cd
die of Nevada. flew repeatedly. as
did Senator kendrick Of Wyoming.
y X X
Admiral Robert E. Coontz, who
shortly will become commander-in-
chief Of the United States fleet, is
passionateiy addicted to dancing, an
inheritance OF Annapolis days. Dur
ing the feets spring battle practice
In southern waters. Coontz was. the
most tireless stopper afoat. when
ever his ship cleared the quarterback
for dancing or put in at a port whore
jazz prevailed. One day the admiral
appeared in immaculate naval
whites except for his shoes. which
were black. His aide. wondering
whether the chief had succumbed TO
an unusual moment of absent-mind-
edness. called attention to the sar-
torial Inconsistency. We'll" said
Coontz. It's like this. Ny canvas
shoes hurt my feet like the deuce.
These don't, and / want to dance"
Three unofficial observers" OF the
United States government have just
sailed for Europe to attend the
league OF nations opium conference
at Geneva on May "a They are Rep
resentative Stephen G. Porter, chair
man Of the House committee on for
eign affairs; Bishop Charles H. Brent
and Edwin l. Neville of the State
Department. At Paris the delegation
,
DR.. Rupert Blue, former surgeon gem
eral of the United States health serv-
ice. A ffth American. Mrs Hamilton
Wright. sailed with the delegation.
She is an assessor" of the league Of
nations opium committee and is re-
turning for the forthcoming meeting.
The United States position is that
the opium evil will never be erectu-
ally combated until throttled at it's
source. viz. the regions where the
poppy is intensively cultivated. These
are mainly in India, Turkey and
Persia.
x x j.
Joseph w. Folh former Governor
Of Missouri. who had serious nerv-
Gus breakdown in 1922. suffered a set
back recently. which is giving his
friends some cause for worry Folk
experienced remarkable recovery
and returned TO his big internationa a.
law practice at Washington but he
is again under treatment Or. Fran
els Xavier Dercunl. the celebrated d
Philadelphia neurologist. who occa
sionally visits Woodrow Wilson. has
Evening star., 1923-05-12

When the head Of the National Lum-
bermen Manufacturers Association
recommends 10 the federal govern
ment the creation OF great national
forests of at least l 900 900 acres each
in Michigan, Minnesota and Wiscon.
sin, conservation enthusiasts may take
1t as an indication that the American
people have at last begun to see a
light.
Evening star., 1923-05-12

Who says New York is not d senti-
mental town? The pistol with which
Edward w. Stokes killed Jim Fisk
fifty years ago has been not only
treasured for thirty years by its sub
seouent owner, but ne has just been
hailed to court for using it to threaten
one Of his enemies.
Evening star., 1923-05-12

Expert bookbinders of the govern.
ment printing Office are going TO bind
for display the flvc separate sheets on
" uhich the original draft Of our Con
stitution was written. The trouble
with too many subsequent statesmen
has been that they regarded the docu-
ment as a sort OF ioose-leaf affair.
Evening star., 1923-05-12

The squabble over fishing rights be-
tween Japan and the soviet govern.
ment has been amicably settled. There
is something about fishing that makes
it difficult even for those who follow
it commercially to be anything but
"buddies.''
Evening star., 1923-05-12

The referee in the accounting pro-
ceedings in connection with the Jay
Gould $4,000. 900 estate will receive
$50 an hour. There are plenty OF men
who would act as referee between the
Irish Free State and the Irish repub-
lie for that salary.
Evening star., 1923-05-12

Couples engaged in marathon dane
ing are united in marriage by Wash
ington judge to the accompaniment of
a syncopated "Lohengrin" wedding
march. About the only thing now left
is to set the marriage service to snappy
doggerel. as per scenes in big musical
revues during the past few years.
Evening star., 1923-05-12

Only members Of the execution de-
partment of the cheka which disposed
Of Mgr. Butchkavitch know what be.
came OF the prelate's remains. The
soviet government. however. is likely
10 find that his memory and example
will not be so much of a secret.
Evening star., 1923-05-12
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Berlin protests to France against
the sentence Of the six Krupp officials,
and the copy Of the protest is present
ed to Secretary Hughes. Mr.. Hughes
has an interesting scrap book.
Evening star., 1923-05-12
Reward.

Toll on, ambition. Do your best. /,
Keep knocking at Fame's portal.
The Fates may answer your request
And mark you an immortal.
Your name will be extolled in song,
Historians will announce it.
Posterity will spell it wrong
And also mispronounce it.