Evening star., 1923-01-30

zeal toward outside duties" cat up
our consciousness OF some within our
oorders stt1 more pressing The
mere money cost. incalculs bly, great
as IL is, is negligible in the light Of
the cost in blood of our killed. wound
ed and broken in constitution
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The Woman's Universal Alliance
which has acquired a 40-acre head
quarters on Massachusetts. avenue.
purposes to erect upon an eninence
OF its site great tower in honor
of motherhood. Upon the top of thai
tower is to be a heroic statue typi-
tying mother love--a woman bearing
lamp, symbolic OF maternal care
and solicitude.
some indications of modern society
point toward a tendency to forget
mat, as Lincoln said of his own hum
Die mother. so might all manhood
say OF theirs: All that I am now. or
nope to he, owe to my angel
mother"
Too many mothers have seemed ready
to abdicate their thrones and let the
movies take their places in influence,
1t Is wholesome to hark back to bet
ter days and saner tendencies.
Aunt Alice" Robertson, member Of
Congress from Oklahoma. tells us:
Girls. and to a lesser degree. boys.
are not given proper home discipline
There is not enough Of the serious
daughter-mother relationships OF .
few years ago.
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This is an age of gIorffcd youth
Of Jackie Coogan. and willingly the
public pays his salary Of ten times
the income of the King of England.
though he is yet less than eigat
years old. But it remains for nine
yearold Polish Jew to melt ths
hearts of "A congressional committes
on immigration by just singing to
them until several representa- tives en-
Enthusiastically pledged that they would
find some way to set aside immfgra
tion laws so that Seymour RechtZeit.
the boy, could not only be admitted
30 America permanently. but that his
admission would carry with it also
his mother, brother and sister.
The child. had been taken into
committee hearing on a revised i'm
migration bill, and he sang in Yiddish
Russian. Italian and English. The
boys voice is phenomenal. The father
of the singer is Rabbi RecftZeit, head
of a Hebrew kindergarten and or
phanage in New York.
This incident illustrates the weak
ness of the infieNible quota law. The
Polish quota had been exhausted, and
when the father cabled for the rest
of his family to come they could mo-
get passports vised. The singing OF
the genius will overcome the crueits
of the law in separating this family.
but how about broken families which
have no "open sesame" of genius 70
break down the barriers? There are
strong advocates of immigration re
striction who yet would count faml-
lies as units. rather than individuals.
so as never to separate husband and
wife or mother and children. Let the
little future Caruso plead their cause.
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oh, my, what a pickle Uncle Sam is
in, when Lady Bountiful offers him d
house his Vice Presidents and it is so.
much finer than the White House
where the President lives "over the
shop" or adjoining it. Mrs Hender-
son offers her great stone palace,
worth half a million, absolutely with
out any conditions to the offer, eH
cept that it shall stand as a me
mortal to her late husband. Senator
John B. Henderson, and their. son.
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But how can a Vice President live
in such a castle on his paltry salary
of $4,000 a year. with coal at present
prices and H G. l. refusing to get
back to normaIcy? When he lives
there he must be more than a star
boarder at a downtown hotel, as for
mer Vice Presidents some times have
been - even have boarded withou1
having to pay a. cent, because of the
prestige their presence gave the hotcl
There's democracy with a vengeance
wherein the official prestige of the
man next highest in rank to the chief
executive, was sufficient TO rubber
stamp Received payment" automati-
cally on the board bill for his whole
family. And now to change all that
cence of the Henderson palace, and
leave the President still worrying
along in a house saved from the cor
fiagration OF the 1872 war, calls fo'"
caution
True. it is luxuriously furnished
and all that. Maybe there is an elec-
trio sweeper and hot water and .elec-
tric lights and a. great heating PLAN.
But who will tend the furnace and
sweep the snow off the walks? Vice
President Coolidge amt sayiP word.
but he looks as though he were doiI'
lot o. thinkin'. ] move that his sal
ary be doubled and cook paid for
out of any funds not otherwise ap-
u~opriated