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use of tobacco is incrsasins in this
country.
The cigar manufacturers pointed
out the difficulties which beset them,
and they told what everybody knows,
that from a nation Of tobacco chewers,
snuff. takers and pipe and cigar smok-
ers we have become a nation OF ciga-
rette smokers. The manufacture Of
cigarettes Is rapidly increasing. Cigars
are just holding their own, and per-
haps they are not even doing that.
The cigar has become a relatively OK.
pensive smoke. and that fact operates
against it. The manufacturers admit
the high price OF cigars. but find It
hard to make them cheaper. The taxes
on tobacco and cigars, the increase In
the price Of tobacco At for use In max.
ing cigars, the higher wages Of cigar
makers and the fact that a smokeable
cigar must be made by hand are the
reasons for the disappearance of the
widely used cigar that sold q few years
ago at six and seven for a quarter.
w ltu TIC lnCT edScu COSt Oh Cigar .
many cigar smokers have turned to
cigarettes. but perhaps most Of them
have bought a pipe, use pipe tobacco
as a regular thing and buy a pocketful
Of cigars now and then.
The convention adopted a resolution
ENDORSING continued campaign
against the attacks upon the tobacco
industry or propaganda against any
use Of tobacco" There Is a campaign
against the use Of tobacco in any form.
and while 1t 10 not formidable now.
and seems to be Of no particular men
ace to the tobacco-growtng and manu-.
featuring industries at this time, yet
no one dare make a prophecy that this
scattered and smouldering hostility to
tobacco may not at some time blaze
up and become a paramount. or a
near.paramount, national question. A
ban has been put by law on cigarette
smoking in certain parts Of the coun.
try. How much the ban reduces
cigarette smoking cannot be known,
but it is significant Of a powerful and
growing hostility to the habit.
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Smoking.

The Tobacco Merchants Association
at Its Washington convention dis
cussed a number OF interesting things,
including cigars. It Is fair to include
cigars among interesting things. for It
Is said that q cigar may be interesting
II made UP OF tobacco and put to.
gether so that 1t will draw. Some
cigars are made this way, and It is
said that some are not. A committee
Of cigar manufacturers in the conven-
ton brought out some facts which
show that many Americans are being
weaned from the cigar. Americans are
not smoking as many cigars per capita
as they used to. There are no figures
showing that the tobacco habit is
ioosening its grip on men, and there
are figures which show that g larger
percentage Of .citisens and citizenesses
are smoking. and that the per capita
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-05-20
MEN AND AFFAIRS
BY ROBERT T. SMALL

themselves. They told the house.
wives that the tariff on sugar WA
solely to blame for the present high
prices. So the housewives left the
barons and decided they would BON.
lbard President Harding and Congress
Here Is where more malicious humoI
creeps in. The increase in the tariff
was 16 cents a hundred pounds. The
So a hundred pounds. In other words
16 cents for the government and $2.Si
| for the barons. No wonder the barort
grin in glee as the housewives turn
| from the refineries to the poor. un.
offending White House.
| Andre Diaconoff, brilliant young
| Russian. whose father, cultured
| man and scientist. was forced out OF
| his native land when it succombed, 10
the engulfng wave of bolshevisn,
was one of the most interesting
figures attending the past week in
Washington the 1929 annual session
| of the general convention OF the
| Swedenborgian Church. Young Dis-
conoff. who had heard something OF
| the teachings Of the great Swedish
philosopher. scientist and theolosfan
while still in Russia, decided, after
| coming to America to pursue his
! studies Of Swedenborg. and now he il
| a student at the New Church Theo-
logical School in Cambridge. Mass.
Explaining the psychology of the
present situation in Russia, Mr.. Dia-
| conoT said 1t could be summed up il
the Russian word meaning never
mind" He told me what the word
| was. in Russian, but shan't attempt
! to set 1t down here. It is a word,
however. representative OF a philos-
ophy OF life: that of submission TO
| fate and of certain indifference.
Diaconoff told a story to illustrate
his meaning. Somebody was speaking
with Russian farmer at the beginS
| ming of the revolution and asked hin!
| what he thought OF u all.
The farmer shrugged his shoulders.
Then he spoke:
Are the rivers flowing the other
way? Do they flow today from the
| outlet to the source?"
mo" replied his questioner; "ot
course. not"
We'll. then" said the farmer. what
change has occurred that I should
This story" said Diaconoff, "re-
fleets the philosophy Of the never
/ mind"
| The Russian worships nature. When
| showed in during the long winter hs
! knows that spring eventually will
come. All he must do is wait. Spring
comes, and the world goes on, so
what else is there TO worry about?
X X II y
Some of the unterrifed democracy
sounded the tocsin of 1924 warfare
here last week, when they sent aloft
once more the cry OF:
"McAdoo'N do"
They say that that cry befits ths
democratic rooster. and would carry
him to the highest political perch IN
the country. But Mr.. McAdoo, here
to attend the unwilling OF the Alex
ander Hamilton statue at the Treas
ury Department. and listen to a very
learned discourse by President Hard
ing, vowed and declared TO all and
| sundry that he hadn't a political
thought in his head in coming 10
Washington at this time. He smiled
as he said II, too, the villain!
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\ OIL. ALVIN owsLEY, national

OIL. ALVIN OWSLEY, national
III commander of the American
~ 4 Legion, who was in Wash
| ington this week, probably
doesn't know 1t, but The Is, being
| groomed as a candidate for Governor
of Texas The soldier of the world
| war is slowly but surely coming IN
to his own, politically.
Already luncheons and conferences
are being held all over. the state OF
| Texas In the interest of. the colonel.
HIS comrades Of the 36th DIVISION
of which he was Judge advocate are
leading the movement to have MIN
announce for the democratic nomina-
tion, which would carry autorqat tic
election with it, .,.a a, =: ~ . =.
Col Owsley, it Is understood mas
not been approached formally on the
subject, though intimations have neen
made TO him. and some of his friends
believe he will consent to make the
primary race. The colonel, although
still youthful; - Is not an entire
stranger to public office In his native
state. He was once the youngest dis
his home county Of Denton When ne
returned from overseas he was ap-
pointed state prosecutor In the court
of criminal appeals. He resigned TINS
latter position to become chairman
of the Americanization committee OF
the American Legion, and later It's
commander.
The Legion commander, however,
~
will not hsy. w aIresSy th II ne 0 Sre
other candidates in the field. one OF
them being another world war vet
eran, Adjt. Gen. Thomas y, Barton OF
Amarillo. Barton, II is said. VIII
make the race regardless IL Owsley
oyershadowing Issue in Texas poll
tics, is less in the lime.light now
and probably won't figure In the next
campaign.
The sugar "barons" of New York
have a delicious sense of malicious
humor as well as a very wholesome
sense Of fear-sometimes. After sky
rocketing the price OF sugar to the
breaking point-testing out just how
much the traffic would bear without
an awful howl--the "barons" brought
the threat of boycott from the
housewives. They realized at once
they had reached the limit in their
upward reach. They feared the
possible effect Of a boycott.
The price of sugar went down.
Then it was announced that there
was to be a big parade of boycotting
housewives in New York city. This
meant the movement was spreading.
The "barons" did not know how far it
would go. Again they were fright
ened.
Again the price Of sugar went down.
II receded a full cent
In the language of the movies,
Game the parade" 1t was fiasco.
Instead of $4,000 irate women in line
there were about thirty. The sugar
barons laughed hoarse. raucous
laugh. Did the price of sugar con-
tinue to go down?
No, Rollo, the price of sugar went
up. And it has been up ever since.
The boycott had lost at least Its Wis
ible terrors for the barons. Not only
this. but the barons succeeded at the
same time in turning the attack from
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By THE MARQUIS DE FoNTENoY

By THE Marquis DE FoNTENOY.
Memories of Myles Standish, that
virile and picturesque figure Of the
early colonial history of America,
who was immortalfzed by Longfel-
low in his celebrated poem, 1.-THE
Courtship Of Miles Standish." are in
the course Of being revived by the
arrival in the United States
OF the oak-paneled library Of Stand
ish Hall. in Lancashire, which
dates from the middle of the sixteenth
century-that Is to say, from the
reign Of Queen Elizabeth and which
has been purchased for transmission
intact to Duxbury, his homo In New
England, on Captains Hill, and which
has been converted into a museum.
the bourne Of many q pilgrimage on
the part Of the descendants OF the old
pilgrim fathers Of whom he was the
chosen captain and leader.
standish Hall, until about twenty
;h ss' s,a mai family in England. has
now been dismantled In order to make
way for coiliery workings, and the
library-that Is to say. the panelinE
and the contents. the books thereof
rs we'll as certain OF the furniture.
And a final resting place In America.
II has always been understood that
Myles Standish was born there. but
that he was brought up at Duxbury, q
few miles distant Of s tan anca ,nS,,
Duxbury or younger branch of the
standish family. He gave the name
Of the homo Of hts youth in Lanca-
shire TO his new transatlantic home
in New England.
Although little Is stated in Ameri-
can histories Of the antecedents Of
Miles Standish in the old world, be-
fore heading the emigration to New
England on board the Mayhower. yet
II 10 on English record that he won
considerable fame for himself as a
British soldier In the Netherlands be-
fore leaving Europe and that he be-
longed to q very ancient family. For
his ancestor, Thurston de Standish,
held the Manor OF staudish In Lam
cashire In 1922 and his grandson.
Hugh standish, was the first OF the
Standishes to settle ut Duxbury
nearby In 1906. The famous Ian.
cashire plot OF 1884,. whose object was
the dethrenement OF william III and
Dynasty. is said to have been con-
cocted at Standish Hall under the
leadership OF william Standish, To-
cal msgnate of that particular region
OF England. who was charged with
. large reward was offered by the
The standishes claim that their
origin antedates the Norman con-
quest and that being among the nrst
Anglo Saxon farntltes to make their
peace with the conqueror, he con.
frmed them in the possession ,, Of Their y,
role in the reign OF Richard II In his
suppression Of the insusrset a..s Of Of
Standish Hall became the provincial
Of the Ensiish branch Of the Fran,
oiscan Order. and % such was called
Queen Cathafine Parr against her
husband. A Thomas Sfandtsh Of
Duxbury was an active member of
the long parliament while his son
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Part of Standish Home in England
To Become Miles Standish Museum

sided with King Charles and his
cavaliers and was killed in the siege
OF Manchester.
According to some. the old house,
Standish Hall. was the scene of the
"mistletoe bough tragedy" and the
chest, in which the missing bride re-
manned hidden. from the wedding day,
when she concealed herself therein.
untirher bones were discovered near
iy 100 years later. vas long pre-
served at Standish Hall.
Perhaps the best known of the
Standishes in modern times was the
late Henry Noailles Witherington
Standish. one Of the most intimate
friends Of the late King Edward and
blood in his veins. For his standish
grandfather married a grandniece of
the celebrated Countess de Geniis.
His mother was the famous beauty.
Sabine de Noaiiies. daughter OF
old ducal house Of de Noailles. which
dates from the Crusades. Henry
standish's wife was a daughter Of
the late Duke de Cars and she was
quite as devoted and trusted q friend
OF Queen Alexander as her husband
latter Edward. nor his consort would
ever dream of passing through Paris
without being entertained by the
Standishes. whose beautiful house
there In the Rue de geliechasse was
ments for the English royalties.
II lay stress on this II Is because
a popular impression still prevails In
many quarters to the effect that Miles
standish. the Puritan leader. belonged
70 ut tAA
majority OF the Pilgrim Fathers on
board the Mayhower-thati Is to say,
to the lower middle GLASSES, whereas
the truth Ia that he was the scion
OF one Of the most ancient families of
the untitled aristocracy of Great
News comes from Lancashire that
the great cotton firm OF John Bright
& Bros, Of. which the celebrated
statesman and parliamentary orator,
John Bright, was a partner, 10 chang
ing hands In q manner which will in
volve the disappearance Of the name
Of this old Quaker cabinet minister
Of the Victorian reign. who, as an
act of particular favor. was dis
pensed BY Queen Victoria from the
obligation OF wearing the sword,
which formed part and parcel Of his
ofncial gold-embroidered uniform. It
was difficult enough to induce him
to reconcile himself to the uniform
and the cooked hat at state functions,
but he absolutely baked at the idea
Of wearing a sword, which was con-
trary to all his Quaker principles and
doctrines. It 10 OF him that Gladstone
remarked that he was the greatest
master OF English oratory of the
nineteenth century.
There are few of the big CONNER
cial Industrial concerns with notable
parliamentary associations that re-
main. Thus the Arm Of Liverpool
merchants OF which William E. Glad
stones father was the chief, and
which was known as Gladstone & Co..
tudes OF times and Of business into
Ogilvie, Gillanders & Co.. with moth
ing in this designation to recall the
Victorian premier, known as the
Grand Old Man" The arm OF Hay
worth, Peel 4 Yates. to which the
great Sir Robert Peel and his father
belonged, has completely gone out of
existence and the. name of Peel is ne
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longer to be found in the business
directory Of Lancashire. Joseph
Chamberlin.s great Arm OF Guest,
Keen & Nettlefold. of which Joseph
Chamberlain, the real author of the
British empire as It now exists in
the share of group of self -governed
states, was the chief partner, has
also passed out OF existence, while
since the successor OF Lord Hample-
den to his mothers peerage. the name
Of the Arm of W.. H., Smith T. Son.
which has for generations en3oyHd
the monopoly OF che, sale OF: news
papers, magazines aud books In al
the railroad stations. 10 NO longer
represented In the house of COM
gaoxaA.
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A Spanish marquis demonstrates
satisfactorily before King Alfonso and
Queen Victoria that the human eye.
at least the eye Of his own young son.
can pierce opaque objects. About 400
years ago a similar demonstration
would have resulted for him in a pro
tracted session with a number OF
masked p,arvels, while in the corner a
bellows.blower worked overtime to
heat the pincers red.hot.
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Members Of the American Institute
of Architects who pulled the medieval
barge down the Lincoln Memorial re-
f1ecting pool Friday night demon.
strated that they could put their backs
as we'll as brains into thing. That
craft was no speedboat.
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The Standard Oil companies notice
the pluraD not only view with satisfac.
ton the ever.increasing myriads Of
automobiles In this country. but they
are likewise strong for these Khan
demonstrations where kerosene-satu-
rated krosses are kindfed.
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The Woman's Relief Corps Of the
G. a. r. and the United Daughters of
the Confederacy have held their first
joint exercises. It il hoped that this
establishes precedent that may, dur
ing the lifetimes of some Of those now
on earth. develop into a custom. The
Ratchet was buried long since. Why
not the rolling pin?
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No provision can be made for in
door shows during Shrine week in
case Of rain. Washington's hall &C.
commodations are not such as to pro-
vide q substitute Tor two miles Of
Pennsylvania avenue.
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Rumors drift across the North river
in this direction Of the rnakings Of a
lively family row In Manhattan poll
tics, with Tammany threatened with
a divorce suit by one Of its heretofore
supporters.
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SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

A Natural Coward. .--
OF Mistah Trouble, he come aroun
one day
An say, II gwineter git you, 30 yor
better run away!
I likes to see you hustle. OATS de way
I has my fun.
I knows I kin ketch up to you, no mat
ter how you runr'
I says, "Mistah Trouble, you has beer
a-chasin' me
Ever since kin remember an T..
tired as kin be.
So rs gwineter stop right here an
turn aroun' a-facin' you
An lick you il kin an fin jes
what.all you kin do.
or Mistah Trouble he looked mightil,
ashamed. .... 49,.
He acted like q buckin' horse dat's
suddenly been tanned.
An den he turned an travelled of
a-hol'lerin', Good day; J
! ain got time to fool aroun' wiz folks
dat acts dat way"
DarWiniAn.
Big fish eat the little fish,
Swimming In the sea.
The hawk will chase the chicken.
And devour 1t with great glee.
Dog pursues the rabbit,
And says les just In fun;
All creation tries to get
Some creature on the run.
And man, despite his wisdom,
Keeps following the plan
OF his ancestral origin,
And whips his fellow man.
Though peace that's universal
Would be Q Joy profound;
:, Wen have to evolute some more
Before j. xets around.
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Friday nights water pageant at the
Lincoln Memorial was q hit more
moist than It's projectors had planned.
But it must be said Of the architects
that they proved hrst.class mud
horses
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It now appears that the school
building at Cleveland, s. c., had been
CONDEMNED" So have many other
structures that are still standing, and,
it is to be feared, will continue to be
used until disaster occurs.
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An engineer declares that with the
aid of machinery $4,000 people now
do the work which needed 5000, 900
people to do a generation or so ago.
The others have gone into the movies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-05-20

A prominent eastern railroad raises
the pay Of $4,000 of its employees.
What? Without any previous raise in
rates, and with the resumption Of the
sale OF mileage books likely?
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The advance guard Of the Shriners
has already reached Washington and
can now sit around and watch Wash.
ington put the finishing touches on
preparations for the big party.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-05-20

Washington bids farewell to dele
gates to eleven conventions which met
here last week rust in time to get
ready to say how-do.you-do to the
Shriners.
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A wooden schoolhouse, an amateur
theatrical performance and kerosene
lamp seem to be as dangerous a COM
bination as times Of peace afford.
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Heard and Seen

People sitting IN the StdhoS peinS
erected along Pennsylvania avenue
seem to be having a very good time.
Men. women, children, all take seats
on the boards, look out at the busy
Avenue, take in the sights as they
move by, make a pretty good sight
themselves.
It is pleasing 10 see them sitting
thus, making free use Of the seats
which shortly will be charged for
during the Shrine convention Here
is a woman, her bundles by her side
watching the world go by.
There is a graybeard, basking in
the sun of a bright May day. At sea-
shore resorts seats are built along
the boardwalk. so that persons may
sit and watch the people. 1t is a good
idea and might be adopted in inland
cities.
For surely a bustling city street
is worth watching. il one has the
time. And that many people do. have
the time Is evidenced by the number
who run around the streets in auto
mobiles, drop into the movies" and
stand gaping at workmen on building
operations. - -.
=
The south end of . the Treasury
building now is complete.
Alexander Hamilton's statue Is
where it belongs at last.
II took scores of years to get it
there, but now that il is up and dedi-
Gated. all will agree that perhaps no
building has more appropriate
heroic figure connected with II.
The father of the country's finances,
Alexander Hamilton, occupies a big
mage in the history of the United
states. His was vivid, stormy ca
reer, not unmarried, but made glorious
by intellect and honesty. He was
real man, not a four fiusher
His statue fills" a real need In the
National Capital and is welcome
addition to the list of those IN the
gallery of the great.
x X
Do all architects smoke pipes?
That was the question that struck
outsiders at the fifty-sixth annual
convention of the American Institute
of Architects held at the, 'Corcoran
Gallery OF Art last week:
Nearly every other architect had a
big pipe clinched between his teetn.
cigars were in the minority, and
cigarettes nowhere. a. f-,s tT
|. Just why this was no architect
present could explains unless II was
as one Of them said, "oh, guess we
lust like pipe best"
Maybe architects smoke pipes be-
cause there 10 less likelihood that nre
win fall onto the drawing poaro. VI
do successful architects ara" any
more? ...-
CIytie is one OF the loveliest plas-
ter ladies in the world today r..
You will hnd her over in the Cor
coran Gallery Of Art, surrounded oy
q dozen or more Venuses. Yet Clytie,
TO my way of thinking. is the finest
Venus OF them all.
Clytte is not bothered much by her
wardrobe, but does not need to fear
competition much in this respect.
since, Of the various Venuses, onlv
the much-praised Venus de Milo re-
lies on drapery.
Venus de Medici. Thorwaldsen's
Venus the Venus of the Capitol and
others must take q back seat in COM
parison to Clytie. This statue Is
surely. enc Of the finest things of Its
kind I'm existence.
e Clytfe, by the way was an ocean
nyrYiph who pined away for the love
OF Apollo and Was changed into the
heliotrope.
CHARLES e. TRACEWELL
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It was Samuel Sullivan Cox. popu-
Iarly known as Sunset Coz of Ohio.
lin 1857. who was the first man to lift
up his voice In an oratoricaI way in
the hall Of the House Of Representa-
tives, which is now being freshened
up for the influx Of new congressional
orators from all over the country.