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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-05-15
TEXAS LEAGUE

Houston 5, Dallas (12 innings). At Galveston 4, Wichita Falls 5. At San Antonio II, Fort Worth c. At Beaumont 3. Shreveport 2.
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''o -I' ..-... aI -4 I3 e.. Il .o' Johnson in ninth.
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sOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE

At Charlotte 6. Greenville '.
 At Charleston 4, Columbia II.
 At Augusta 10, Spartanburg 10 called end ninth, darkness).
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Totals ..........30 1 6 27 IT sBatted for Nehf in seventh.

Pittsburg ................ 200 900 200-4 Ma.
Evening star., 1923-07-22
Bucket Shops.

Another season Of bucket shop ex.
posures has opened. Such things come
periodically, but the matter now being
published about bucket shops should
be read by everybody. 1t may serve as
warning to some persons. Men give
different explanations Of the origin Of
the term "bucket shop" but the plain
meaning Of 1t is fake brokerage Of
flee. That ought to be clear enough to
any man.
The legitimate stock broker gives
his customers honest advice and the
best counsel that he has to offer, be.
cause he wants them to make money.
The bucket shop keeper gives his GUS
toners the worst advice possible, be-
cause 1t is his business to have his GUS
toners lose money. He advises the
buying on margin Of stocks which he
believes to be worthless or question
able. He charges a commission for
buying shares which he has not
bought, and also charges interest on
the difference between the sum put up
by the customer and the market price
of eAetock- alleged to have been
Evening star., 1923-07-22

the farmers and among the laborers.
The democrats are reported to be con-
sidering seriously the candidacy of
Ford. Possibly the democrats will in
dorse Ford as their candidate, too, IL
the farmer-labor party puts him for
ward.
The old democratic and republican
party organizations are tenacious Of
life. 1t Is well to remember that the
democratic party survived the civil
war, and that the republican party
survived the bull moose and came into
power In 1920 with some 1000, 900
votes to spare. Both the old parties
survived the populist movement Of
thirty years ago, a movement not un-
like the farmer.labor movement Of
today.
The United States, under our form
Of government, has always had two
major political parties. If Congress,
instead Of the people, elected our Chief
Executive, much as the British prime
minister is chosen by the English par
llStuleHl, d. PLURALITY VI parties, III ca
cess Of two, might be expected.
If the farmer-labor party is to be a
big factor, then one Of the old parties
is likely to go under. On the other
hand, one of the old parties, il it is
willing, may swallow the new party,
hook, line and sinker. But IL it does, 1t
must adopt the principles Of the new
organization. Nothing less would
satisfy the men who have put the third
party on the map.
The dissatisfaction among the farm
ers in the middle west and west. which
has given rise to the farmer-labor
party, is not found in the same pro.
portions in the industrial states Of the
east, largely because there are not SO
many farmers. But there is a condi-
tion in the east that ma%help to throw
states In this section into the farmer
labor column, the persistent gambling
and profiteering in necessities of life,
like coal, sugar, oil and food products
after they have left the hands Of the
farmer.
So far the people have looked In vain
for relief from these conditions in the
old parties. If the republicans or the
democrats, or both, are resolved to
meet the issue they should shake the
dust from their feet and start walking.
Evening star., 1923-07-22
The White House.

A university student has won a
valuable art scholarship by drawing a
design for new White House.
Whether 1t was the thought of this
student to build a new White House
on the site of the present structure or
to build 1t elsewhere in Washington is
not made clear. The title which he
gives his effort is "An Office and Re.
ception Building for the President of
the United States" The picture shows
a harmonious and handsome edifice,
and congratulations go to the young
and presumably budding architect.
But the effort at best is a study.
There have been a number Of plans
to remodel or rebuild the White
House; plans to erect a palace for the
President on the northern heights Of
the city; plans to maintain the old and
historic White House as the official
home Of the President and to erect a
building in which the President should
attend to his affairs OF office; proposals
to erect summer White House at
many places.
Some years ago additions were made
to the White House at the east and
west ends, but care was taken to pre-
serve the familiar features Of the old
building. The White House is the
White House, and it should be allowed
to remain pretty much as it has stood
for about century and quarter. In
time it is likely that business White
House will be constructed, where the
President may receive callers on politi-
cal missions and which will house the
executive offices.
What Washingtonians are interested
in is that the White House as Ameri-
cans know it, and as Americans have
known it from the time that Wash
ington became the capital, shall be
preserved. It has become a national
monument, rich in historic associa-
tions. Frequently an expression of
disapproval with the White House ap-
pears. Now and then some man rises
to say that the White House is not all
it should be. 1t is too small or not
sufficiently impressive, or it is too
plain and simple for the present and
future generations Of Americans, or it
is not up-to-date. The finger Of the
faultfinder is often pointed at It But
there it stands, and there may it stand
for all time. There are SO many re.
modelers in the land that It seems
strange one of them does not come for
ward with q plan for remodeling the
Washington Monument.
Evening star., 1923-07-22
NATIONAL MEN
BY ROBERT T. SMALL.

nine years. This love of the open
reaches of deep green waters was
typified in his last words.
1t seems, he said, "aS If L am
once more putting out "a SaA
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President Harding, in Alaska. is
keeping up his national reputation
as one of the greatest "joiners" the
White House has ever known His
Induction into Igloo, No. IT, Pioneers
of Alaska, has been the subject of a
great deal of comment here in the
capital because of the oath the CHIEF
Executive took to be kind to dogs
and horses. Some whimsically
minded persons have gone SO far as
to say the natural inference must he
that before taking the oath tho
President was not kind to horses and
dogs.
1T has now been a whole week"
said one wag, "since the President
was unkind to a horse or dog"
Naturally, Laddie Boy and his de-
votion TO his distinguished master
are living contradiction to al
these humorous sallies, but the Pres
ident's position recalls the story of
the question framed by Phila-
delphfa lawyer to prove that no reply
could be given without self-incrim-
ination.
Have you stopped beating your
wife he demanded; answer yes or
no..
A Washington official just returned
from Buffalo is spinning a sprightly
yarn about a dinner experience at
one of the newest and most popular
hotels in that city, patronized par
fior,l ri hxy1 1hn
The Washingtonian was one of
party of six gentlemen at dinner in
the hotel. The meal was rather an
elaborate affair and the head waiter
had been well taken care of by the
generous host He hovered about the
table all through the dinner, seeing
that the service was all that it should
be. Also, from time to time he could
be heard giving very audible instruc-
tions to the garcon. The gem of the
evening. however. came when the last
course had been disposed Of
Now, my boys" said the head
waiter With an unctious rub of the
hands. "claSr away all the debris and
bring the gentlemen six nice, clean
finger bowls"
'Ah," remarked the host; $50 they
have two kinds here, eh?"
"a
c. C. Harnlin of Colorado Springs
has just been east for the first time
since he added to his newspaper hold
ings by the purchase of the morning
paper in his home city. making him
the journalistic monarch of all he
surveys in that nationally popular
community. &C c." opines that he is
just about ready to forsake active
politics, the law and everything else
in order to give all of his time to his
prosperous papers. Politically, he has
been known as the Little Lion of the
Rockies" but now it seems he is
going to be content with the newer
appellation. THE Lord Northcliffe of
the Pixies Peak region"
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Moses Sees the Third Party.

The third party is here. Senator
Moses Of New Hampshire, chairman
of the republican senatorial campaign
west, where he saw the farmer labor
party crumple up the republicans and
democrats alike in the election of Mag
nus Johnson to the Senate. Further
more, Senator Moses Is confident that
under the existing conditions os dis
satisfaction the new movement is 60
ing to sweep through other states. 1t
is probable that the movement will
be confined to the agricultural states
of the west. he says, although condi-
tions may arise that will give it i'm
petus in the east also.
For months there has been specula-
tion as to a third political party in the
coming national elections. La Toilette,
public eye have been suggested as pos
sible leaders of such a party. But now
it appears that the party has sprung
into existence, and is growing rapidly
without any nationally known leader.
True, Senator La Toilette took Oft his
coat and waded into the fight to elect
Magnus johnson in Minnesota. But
he said nothing about leaving the re-
publican party.
The third party seems to be well un.
der way. Not unnaturally it will be
casting around for leader. AS in the
past in this country, new political par.
ties are not started by leader, but by
the people, and the selection Of a
leader follows. The birth of the re-
publican party is case in point.
Mr.. La Toilette has remained con.
sistently in the republican party in all
the years that he has been fighting for
progressive principles in Congress. He
might have been lured away to take
the leadership of the progressives in
1912 had not Col. Roosevelt 1eaped into
the breach and showed him aside. Be
fore he left Washington last spring
Senator La Toilette was putting the
soft pedal on third-party talk. But
with the new party now forming rapid
ly, according to Senator Moses, will
the Wisconsin leader be able to resist
q call to head it, If it comes to him?
Henry Ford looms as another pos
sible leader Of the new party. No one
knows where Mr.. Ford stands politi
cally. He can jump any way he desires
But he appears to be=6trong-amons
Evening star., 1923-07-22
The Commander of the Maine.

The death of Rear Admiral Charles
d. Sigsbee. whose body will be inferred
tomorrow, with honors, at Arlington,
has revived the memories of those
days in February, 1898, twenty-five
years ago, when this country learned
with horror of the destruction of the
battleship Maine in Havana harbor
and awaited the solution of the mys-
terry of that dastardly crime. Rear Ad-
mira1 then Captain) Sigsbee's reports
to the Navy Department were drama
tic and vivid. His was a most trying
situation. He had been sent into
Havana harbor with the Maine to CO.
had asked for a naval vessel. He had
been assigned to a particular anchor
age not to his liking. A few hours
after the ship had been made fast she
was sunk by an explosion that caused
the death of scores of men.
1t has been often said that the de-
struction of the Maine precipitated the
war with Spain, and doubtless it did
hasten the break. But it can hardly
be believed that war would have been
averted even had the Maine not been
sunk. The issue between the United
States and Spain over conditions in
Cuba was too acute to be settled by
diplomatic adjustments. The Maine
crime merely advanced events.
1t has been established beyond pos.
cih nf La 10;
destroyed by an external blow, that is
to say, by torpedo discharged for
that purpose. The evidence of the
wreck long afterward brought to the
surface from the mud of Havana har-
bor-ostensibly to clear the channel.
but actually to elucidate the facts
left no question whatever on this
score. The hull of the ship had been
blown inward.
Who fired that torpedo and for what
purpose has never been learned.
Whether the ship was sunk by hot
headed Spaniards resentful of the in
trusion Of the United States into Gu
ban affairs, with a mistaken thought
of frightening this country off. or by
fanatic Cuhans shrewdly reckoning
upon the anger of the American peo-
pie to force and hasten intervention in
their behalf has not been determined.
There have been many stories point
ing variously, but never has there
been any proof. Perhaps somewhere
in the secret archives of this country
or of Spain or of Cuba are records
that settle the question. Maybe even
tually the true history of the Names
destruction will be written. But now,
as the body Of her commander lies in
this city awaiting final interment at
Arlington, the mystery remains as pro-
found as ever. All that is known is
that the Names men died like heroes,
and that her commander proved true
to the highest traditions of the Ameri-
can Navy in that hour of betrayal and
death.
Evening star., 1923-07-22

TINE death of Rear Admiral
Charles d. Sigsbee, captain of
the Maine, at New York ON
Thursday marks the passing
of one of the last naval commanders
of the Spanish American war. Ad-
miral Sigsbee outlived by years most
Of his contemporaries of the service.
They are virtually all gone now
Dewey of Manila bay. Sampson and
Schley of Santiago, Fighting Bob
Evans Phillips of the Texas, who
said. Don't cheer boys, the poor
devils are dying; Gridley of the
Olympia, who could fire when he was
ready, and Clarke. who brought the
oregon all the way around the Horn
and put her Immediately into the
forefront Of the fighting line after
her thousands Of miles of steady
steaming.
Then. too. there was Coghlan of
'Hoch Der KAISER fame and VAIN
wright, who was executive officer of
later in command of the little
Gloucester, which got into the midst
of the Santiago AFFAIR." sort OF
David among a battalion of Goliaths.
not a big war as wars go nowadays.
but 1t was an intimate. sort OF
personal, war, where the individual
had his hour or his minute in the
sun-the spotlight of glory. There
is glory enough for ALL" said the
certain. for instance. when Col.
Theodore Roosevelt accompanied the
Rough Riders to Cuba that deeds of
valor were in store for him. If the
had vrn n +Gd q
to go to the world war in 1917 he
might easily have been engulfed in
the great anonymity of a battle line
far flung along 400 miles of fighting
front.
And it is necessary to go back to
the Spanish war for the popular ira
ditions of the American Navy, for 1t
was only in that war that our master
fighting ships met the best the enemy
could put upon the seas. There was
valiant and effective service in the
world war; splendid cooperation be-
tween the American and British
fleets; marvels Of convoy work and
epics of achievement with depth
bomb and rife fire against the Ger
man submarines But the spectacu-
lar naval fighting OF the world war
was over and done with before
America went In. After its glorious
victory at Jutland the German high
seas fleet took to the seas no more.
Our splendid super-dreadnaughts had
no chance 70 fire big gun in anger.
So the individual ship commanders,
even the squadron commanders. were
swallowed up in the biguess of the
world war. 1t is doubtful If school
girl or boy today could tell you the
name of a single captain engaged in
the world war fleets. Thus It Is seen
that what the Spanish war lacked in
size 1t made up in individuality of
service.
Admiral Sigsbee was a great lover
of the sea Virtually all Of his long
active service was afloat. He COM
manded ships of the line for thirty
Evening star., 1923-07-22
By THE MARaUIsE DE FoNTENoY.

Princess Marguerite Of Hohenlohe.
who, after being subjected for some
time past to nominal arrest and strict
supervision in her castle by the Ger
man government on a charge Of har-
boring and concealing the leaders OF
the Erhardt conspiracy against the
state, and who has now been lodged
in ,ail at Leipzig, arrayed in prison
garb, under an indictment for gross
perjury OF which she has rendered
herself guilty in connection with the
affair, has a strong dose OF American
blood in her veins. For her mother,
the late Princess Helene Hohenlohe,
was the daughter of the one-tme
Helene Moulton Of New York and OF
Albany, who died as the wife of Count
Paul Hatzfeldt, for many years Ger
man ambassador in London.
Col. and Mrs. Moulton. the latter a
daughter of old Caesar Metz. the lead
ing professor Of the terpsicorean art
in New York, in the first three dec
ades Of the nineteenth century.
moved, in 1912, to Paris, where, by
reason of his wealth and OF his wife 8
remarkable beauty, they became great
favorites at court, and continued as
such until the overthrow of the
monarchy through the Franco Ger
man war of 1870.
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Their daughter, Helene Moulton.
who had inherited much of her
mothers fascination and charm, won
the hand Of Count Paul Hatzfeldt,
then secretary Of the German en-
bassy in Paris. The union would have
turned out very happily had it not
been for the extravaganza of the
young diplomat. Some years after the
IFranco-German war, Paul Hatzfeldt
found himself to such an extent over.
whelmed with debt that retirement
from the diplomatic service OF his
country and absolute ruin stared him
in the face.
Prince Bismarck was aware OF TINS;
He was fond of Paul Hatzfeldt, ano
used to declare that he was the best
disapproved of his American mar
riage, and after the war was over,
protested strongly against his con-
fiding any piece of information TO MS
wife, who had remained pronouncedly
French in all her ideas. views and
sympathies.
Finally, he made a prposal to Paul
Hatzfeldt, namely, to have all OF his
debts paid out of the secret funds at
his (Bismarck's) disposal. and to ap-
point him to the lucrative once OF
tion that he divorce his American
wife and marry one Of the daughters
of old Baron Bleichroeder. the fore,
most Jewish banker OF Berlin, and
| comniy with Bismarck's proposal
meant absolute ruin. For Helene
Moulton had inherited very little
money from her parents. who had
lived in a rather extravagant manner
while associated with the court OF
Napoleon III. So his marriage ties
lwere judicially sundered, though !,
/ is doubtful whether there was ever 9
divorce pronounced between a mar
1 ried couple who were so mucn In love
with one another.
The proposed marriage with the
lBleichroeder heiress fell shrough
] owing to the reluctance of the CIR
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German Princess of Royal Blood
To Stand Trial on Perjury Charge

to accord her hand and her fortune
to an elderly husband, whose whole
heart and affections were retained
by his first wife, and who had only
consented to be judicially parted from
him in order to save him from ruin.
Bismarck, however. who had already
paid off Paul HatZfeldts debts, stuck
to his part Of the bargain and ap-
stantinople with a very large salary
and allowances. Subsequently, Hatz-
feldt became secretary of state for
foreign affairs at Berlin, while later
on he was accorded the post of Ger
man ambassador in London.
His son Hermann, and his daugh-
ters, Helene and Marie, divided their
time between their mothers home at
Wiesbaden, and their fathers en-
bassy in London, and not long after
Bismarck had been dismissed from
office of the ex-kaiser, and the OBJ
stacle to their reunion had just been
removed, Paul Hatzfeldt and his wife
were married anew at Wiesbaden in
the presence Of Emperor Williams s
sisters. and of his mother. the Eng
lish born Empress Frederick, who had
remained the warm friend Of the
throughout, looking upon the couple
as cruelty used victims of the cap
ricious tyranny of the Iron Chancel-
lor.
The two daughters of the couple
married within a distance of a few
weeks Of one another, to the two
brothers Of the still-surviving Prince
Christian Kraft of Hohenlohe, sec
ond Duke of Ujest. Paul Hatzfeldt's
only son, Hermann, after his fathers
death in harness in England, earned his
living for several years In London on
the stock exchange. then Joined the
diplomatic service of Germany, and
finally through the unexpected death
of his distant cousin, Prince Francis
Hatzfeldt, he succeeded to the honors
and to the entailed estates Of the family
as Prince of Hatzfeldt.
Three years before the great war
the new prince married the multi
millionaire maid Of honor and inti-
Of Germany, Marie Won Stumm, heir
ess OF one of the greatest Ironmasters
Of western Germany. The prince,
who was charge d'affaires Of the Ger
man embassy at Washington for some
John Bernstein in the United States,
is still in the service Of the German
government, with the rank of major
general and of minister plenipoten-
tiary, and until the French military
occupation Of the Ruhr district, was
German high commissioner for the
Rhine provinces.
The Hohenlohes are related to most
Of the now reigning or formerly
sovereign houses Of Europe. Queen
victoria's mother, the Duchess of
Kent. was the widow Of a Prince of
Hohenlohe and Queen Victoria had a
half-sister. Princess Fedora Hohen-
lohe, to whom she was devoted. The
late kaiserin's mother was a Princess
Hohenlohe, and the head Of the entire
house Of Hohenlohe Is married to a
granddaughter Of Queen Victoria.
who is sister to Queen Marie OF
Rumania.
Under the laws OF the old German
empire, the Hohenlohess like the
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bought. He Is often directly interested
in the flotation Of worthless stock and
in the circulation Of alluring reports
about bad stocks and damaging rumors
about good stocks.
A dishonest man doing business un-
der the pretense of being a stock
broker and banker has many ways Of
fleeing unwary men. When, in spite
of all the chances in his favor, things
are going against him he packs up the
funds of the firm locks the office,
posts a notice of suspension and an.
other failure" is reported.
There is no way in which a man on
the outside can win at this game, yet
| many try 1t again and again, and tens
Of thousands try it once. 1t has been
said that "A sucker is born every
minute" and some of them live to a
great age.
1t is curious that the lawmakers and
law-enforcement officers have given so
much attention to poolrooms, speak
easies, crap-shooting, faro games and
'iie iAhe oiio uediI 80 hshtiy with
bucket shops. 1t ought to be easy to
deal with a pure and simple bucket
shop, but the situation becomes in
volved when a concern Is part broker
age firm and part bucket shop; that is,
when 1t engages in the execution of
| brokerage orders In due form and also
engages in the practice OF bucketing
orders. Purchases on margin even Of
sound stocks through a legitimate and
| honest brokerage house is attended
| with danger, but speculation in any
| kind Of stocks through a fake broker
age firm involves almost certain loss,
and certain loss IL you stay long
enough.
Evening star., 1923-07-22

A st. Louis saloonkeeper. believing
that a deception can be detected by the
heart beat. felt the pulse of every GUS
toner before he would sell him a
drink. A dry agent took him in despite
his precaution, and left another in
dignant man in agreement with Col.
Bryan that 1t Is impossible to believe
all the popular scientists try to tell us.
Evening star., 1923-07-22

members Of other mediatized dynas-
ties, were immune from the jurisdic-
ton of the ordinary courts of law.
But these privileges were swept
away by the revolution of 1918, and 1t
looks, therefore, very much as If
Princess Marguerite Of Hohenlohe, a
lady OF twenty-seven,
will have to stand trial An An ordinary
court for perjury
Evening star., 1923-07-22

The newly elected statesman who
stays home to look after his crops
proves his confident expectation that
something can be done to prevent the
price of grain from becoming hope.
less.
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Gov. Smiths attention may be called
by art connoisseurs to the fact that
there are in present obscurity a large
number Of stems and other ornate
urns whose genuineness cannot pos.
sibly be disputed.
Evening star., 1923-07-22

The organization known as the I.
W. w. persists in limited numbers;
yet sufficient to prove that there are
still members who do enough actual
work to enable them to pay dues.