Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-01-15
CAPITAL KEYNOTES
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS.

gress, and now that she is about 70
retire from public life, her eulogiuns
OF nome speak her womanly Instincts
were her sentiments so different 7
from from tnose of the honorable Score
statistics which show that one mar
rted woman in every ten is employed
for wages, when, he added, thew
ought to be at home caring for their
cabinet official Kissed? Does the
great mass of the American senti-
ment hiss the home? Are we not, az
americans rather proud of our
Municipalities whose language fails to
contain the word home" or anyI
word that is it's equivalent? Please
don't hiss-bless instead. America
loves home.
Shades of democracy. Now comes
the owner of Monticello, the home Or
| the late Thomas Jefferson, Offering
to sell the place to the government
| for a summer home for the Presi-
dents. The price asked for the farm,
including its improvements. is $780,
600, and the argument is offered that
! the Leakin bequest of 100000 for a
white House" within fifty miles
| from Washington could be applied
! as first payment, leaving the balance
| OF 100000 to come "as convenient
| The oferer forgets that the LeakiD
| bequest stipulates that the house
must be replica of the White House
and be within fifty miles Of Wash
ington. Congress might, in its wis
dom, appropriate the entire 100000
but It could not so use any OF the
| Leakin fund.
Two more great Institutions are
promised to glorify Washington city.
| One is to be a national headquarters
for the Federation of Womer's Clubs.
to cost 100000. of which nearly a
third has already been assured TIE
| other is to be a Temple Of Litcra-
ture"--a memorial building and head
| quarters for the literary culture Of
America. This will be under the con
/ troll of the National Literary Society
! incorporated in the District Til.
| Freer Art Gallery is to be opened In
| the coming spring and that will stim
! ulate interest in fine art, for there is
! no collection of Oriental art ard
| Whistlerian art anywhere that will
| compare with the Freer collection.
| Washington has been conspicuous for
/ its politics; it is destined to lead the
world as center of the finer forms
| of culture.
X X K X
! Veterinarians have to secure a f.
cense before they are permitted 10
| perform surgery or to dose a horse.
! 1t is now proposed that automobile
! veterinarians" be subjected to the
same kind of control. All mechanics
, who undertake to repair or adjust au
tomobiles would, under such a law
be required to pass a rigid eXamina-
ton before licensed to do such work
either as head of shop or tinkerer
Plumbers are so regulated, Yet
bungling plumber might do no more
damage than to leave faucet leak
ing An incompetent automobile re
pairer not only is liable to damage
the machines he works upon, but he
may easily make them death-trapsi
| The suggestion for a license SYSTEM
| with strict examination. comes from
| the head of an automobile repair
shop, who is in a position to know
what the need and the danger is.
X X < X
According to Representative John
Jacob Rogers. the anthracite mining
companies are supplying Canada It's
full normal quota of coal. while
America is given only so per cent of
its normal quota. Furthermore, the
price in Canada is from So to 81
ton less than the same grades sell for
in America The railroad Interests
favor shipment to Canada, the critics
saw because il is longer haul than
! the average distance in America M1
Rogers, therefore, wants TO put an
| Immediate embargo on Canadian ship
! ments. There are members of Con
| gresS who say that only what We can
! spare as surplus after our own
| normal demand is fully supplied
/ should be permitted to 60 into ex
! port trade No wonder the fappers
are beginning to wear morsels OF
J precious coal as earrings and breast
! pins. Washington is still threatened
| with serious shortage as the real
! winter approaches. Eighteen dollars
| a ton! Plus storage, 20 cents.
! x x \
Washingtonians- opt
mists-are "gratified' at the ac-
countants' finding nearly five million
dollars belonging to the District Of
, Columbia locked up in the govern
ment Treasury for safe keeping. Now,
all that is needed is a Congress thar
will appropriate it for payment to
the owners. Then we shall have
schools. There will be a great pro
cesson of school children soon, pro
testing against their $3.50 schooling.
Why not organize a pageant of a,
Children'S crusade, to surround the
! Treasury and call for it?