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Evening star., 1923-03-18

Smith is just the kind of man wanted
by those who want that kind of a
man. You know as we'll as we what
| will happen IL a man with such a rec
ord as this should be nominated by the
| democratic party in 1924"
This may be called a campaign of
education" but it smacks strongly OF
politics Of a most practical nature.
Participation in politics is the most
effective, indeed the only weapon the
league has at command. 1t has been
used to defeat some candidates for
Office and elect others. Any organiza.
ton is within it's rights to do that, but
the question arises why should it not
be amenable to the state and national
laws governing the application OF
monies in its campaign, the same as
political parties?
ton. whose object is to support and for
ward what a material element of the
citizenship deem TO be a movement in
behalf Of morality and reform, is
classed as a political organization and
made TO render financial accounting,
why should not the same policy be ap-
piled TO the opposing organization
maintained by the vets? They boast
of their intention 10 raise as much or
more money in a campaign avowedly
10 modify existing law so as to permit
the use OF wine and beer. Many of
them confess their ultimate objective
TO be. If possible, repeal OF the consti.
tutional amendment itself; all to be
done through theo election. or defeat
OF candidates for Office. They should
also. in consistency, be required to tell
whence they get their funds and how
they spend them.
Why not also. to be consistent. re-
quire that greatest of organizations
applied to political ends, the American
Federation Of Labor, 10 make similar
accounting? The federation makes no
bones of its participation in the cleo
ton and defeat of candidates for pub
lie office. II can be classed as power
in politics. as many d man has realized
to his sorrow.
Indeed. for that matter. why should
not any band Of citizens. united in an
undertaking to accomplish certain
ends through the elections, be classi-
fled az on par with a political ma.
tional or state committee and be COM
PEELED TO open its books for public in
spertio0p All are working TO the direct
defeat or election OF candidates for
office.
At any rate there should be no dis
elimination in the matter which would
classify an organization seeking 10
elect dry candidates as political and
one seeking to elect wet candidates as
not political.
Evening star., 1923-03-18
MEN AND AFFAIRS
BY ROBERT r. SMALL.

T was only bad weather that pre-
vented President Harding engaging
in about as dangerous and thrill
ing an expedition as ever comes
into the life of an occupant of the
White House. Deep-sea fishing off the
Florida coast is not hothouse amuse-
ment. Theodore Roosevelt waited until
he had completed his term Of Office be-
fore Drawing the beasts Of the African
Jungle. President Harding had hoped
for the second time since his election
to do battle with the man-eaters of
tropical waters
The President has been fishing
where the swift-striking barracuda,
tiger Of the sea-" hits with deadly
aim at anything that comes within
his path. 1t was only last summer
that a barracuda was credited with
killing girl swimmer in Tampa
bay. When he was fishing over these
same grounds two years ago Mr..
Harding himself hooked d twelve
foot man-eating shark on his line.
Fortunately the beast cut the tackle
and made away without upsetting
the presidential party. 1t can readily
be seen, however, that in f1ghting
game Ash which measure from six
feet upward rare skill with hook and
line must be shown. and that mis-
step or awkward move might easily
plunge a man overheard in the most
dangerous waters of any part OF the
world.
President Harding was to have been
chaperoned on his fishing trip by
veterans Of the sea-men like Carl
Fisher. Jimmie Allison of Indian
apolis, who lives with the fish in the
wonderful aquarium at Miami Beach,
and by Capt. Charlie Thompson, who
knows more about fishing than some
of the fish themselves. The CORE
spondents with the President have
been having quite little difficulty in
identifying the scene OF the Presi-
dents deep-sea exploits. They have
called it Cocobolo bay, Cocobola bay.
Cocoloba bay-everything but Coco
cola bay. The real name OF the place
Is Cocolobo bay. and it was once the
haunt OF Black Caesar. as nasty a
pirate as ever roamed the Spanish
main. There still are evidence of
the pirates days on the shores OF
Cocolobo bay. principally an old
heavy wooden post with an iron
ring where the pirate is supposed 10
have tied his victims when he hap
pened TO invite them ashore.
The fishing grounds are off the
mouth of Caesars creek, named for
the raktsh old pirate himself. Here
there is an old wreck which seems
to be sort of rendezvous or club
house for the elite OF the deep-the
royalty OF the sea The fishing here
is controlled by the members Of the
Cocolobo Club. Fred Cphain, treas
urer of the republican national com
mtttee. paid $1,000 to become a mem
Der OF the restricted club circle
Presidnt Harding IN 1921 was made
an honorary member and has beer
exercising his prerogatives as such
About the wreck there are to- be
found barracuda sail fish. amber
Evening star., 1923-03-18
Children Not Yet Saved.

The great humanitarian work which
America has done in the near east is
not yet finished. and unless II is An
ished much Of that already achieved
will be rendered vain. There would be
no profit in saving a child from rela-
lively merciful death by slaughter
, only TO have il endure the agonies OF
| death from starvation. Yet that is the
fate which hangs over child refugees
$4,000 and increasing steadily.
To avert such an appalling catas-
trophe. American womanhood has
taken up the burden. and is resolved
that these children shall be saved.
More than fifty leading American
women, under the craftsmanship Of
Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker, former
president Of the General Federation OF
Women's Clubs, have united TO form
the national wonan's committee Of the
Near East Relief, and have appealed
TO liberal-hearted Americans to give
the undertaking financial support.
Five dollars a month. or $50 q year.
will care for one of these refugee chill
dren. Headquarters Of the national
woman's committee are at 151 9th ave
nue., New York.
The story of the plight of these near
east refugees is one of the most
pathetic in all history. In order to es-
cape from Turkish territory many OF
{ the children made pilgrimages OF hun
dreds of miles. mainly on foot. They
trudged over mountains and across
waterless deserts, through country in
tested with bandits. Able.bodied men
had been detained by the Turks. so
! the caravans were made up OF old
Hundreds perished by the wayside,
and those who did finally manage to
| reach safety were in pitiable condi.
ton. Two American relief workers
sacrificed their lives in bringing the
| refugees out.
These children now are in friendly
| lands, safe from the ruthlessness Of
! the Turks, but they must be fed or
| they will die. They are being gath.
| cred into orphanages where they may
| be restored to health, physical and
mental, and given elementary educa-
ton and industrial training which
will enable them, in future years, to
! become useful men and women. 1t is
a work which makes a practical as
well as a sympathetic appeal, and it
undoubtedly will be given the generous
| support it deserves. Americans are
| the only people in position to save
| these unfortunates. and having put
our hand to the plow we cannot now
J turn back.
Evening star., 1923-03-18
Old Statues.

1t has been found that the George
Washington equestrian statue in
Washington Circle has suffered be.
cause OF years and weather. 1t will be
sent away for repair, and then re-
stored to its pedestal. or by act Of
Congress will change places with the
Jackson statue in Lafayette Square.
A full measure Of dispraise has been
given by the critics to both statues,
between which there is relation.
ship. Art criticism is variable and
inconstant. Practitioners of art divide
on what is true, or accurate, proper
and beautiful. They leave in per-
plexity non-practitioners Of art and
those persons who have never taken
art instruction. 1t is feared that
artists conceptions Of art vary with
the times, and that what may be good
art in one generation may not be
good art in another. II would follow.
then. that II art critics could pull down
what they call bad statues and ncnu.
Evening star., 1923-03-18
Political Organizations

Following Immediately the claim
made by the Anti-Saloon League that
it is not political organization, but
a constantly functioning educational
institution, advanced in support of the
contention that it should not be sub
.iect to the law requiring publicity of
its receipts and expenditures, comes
q letter which may have bearing
1lpon the assertion. II is from William
a. Anderson, state superintendent of
the Anti-Saloon League of New York
1t is addressed ITO the Members of the
Sixth.eighth Congress" and contains
an attack upon the legislative and
gubernatorial record of Gov. Alfred z.
Smith of the Empire state, together
with decided slur upon his supposed
presidential aspirations. Inclosed in
the letter is four-page printed
pamphlet setting forth his alleged
course favoring the liquor interests.
upon which the letter comments as
follows:
This record is sent for your in
formation. as part Of q regular and
uninterrupted campaign Of educstion.
'rhe Anti.saloon League Of New York
needs to make no suggestion. Gov.
Evening star., 1923-03-18
Rulers of Scandinavian Countries
To Meet for First Time Since War

ress. Germany brought every possible
pressure 10 bear upon Sweden and
upon Denmark to induce them TO join
the cause OF the central powers, and
the three kings then resolved in con-
junction with their respective gov
ernments TO retain at all costs their
neutrality and to preserve IL il neces-
sary at the point OF the sword against
Germany.
The agreement then reached on the
subject proved a wise one, and the
three countries. thanks to it, were
enabled to emerge from that period
of stress and strife with vastly en-
hanced prosperity and prestige. All
three OF them, relatively small coun-
tries. when compared to the great
powers. are weak In themselves, but
strong when united. That is why they
should always pull together and
never permit petty differences to be-
come acute.
AS it was generally understood that
Sir Henry Stanley, the great African
explorer. who found the long lost
Livingstone, and who rescued Emin
Pasha. left no issue by his romantic
marriage with Miss Dorothy Tenant,
some surprise has naturally been cre-
ated by the public and official an
GUM had accorded a private audi
ence Of some duration to Lieut.. Dem
zil Morton Stanley OF the 14th Hussars
Henry Stanley, G. G. B.. the friend and
associate OF the late King Leopold OF
Belgium, in his creation of what was
formerly the Congo Free State, which
even before his death, had become
the colonial empire of the Belgian
crown.
Now, it is perfectly true that Sir
Henry and Lady Stanley had no chill
dren. But, a few years before Sir
Henry's death, the couple adopted a
deeply attached and who succeeded
to their name and to all Of their ex-
tensive property. Lady Stanley's
home on Richmond Terrace in Lon
don was both prior and subsequent
to the death of Sir Henry q rendez-
statesmen, scientists and explorers.
including Nansen, who took a great
fancy to the boy.
OF his actual parentage almost as
much ignorance exists today as that
which prevailed about that of his
foster father, Sir Henry.
OF course Lady Stanley's parentage
is well known, though many are still
under the false impression that she
is related to Mrs. AsQuith. But there
have been no ties of kinmanship be-
tween them, though curiously enough,
each of them is a daughter Of a
Charles Tenant. Whereas. Mrs. AS
quith's father. the late Sir Charles
Tenant, was the greatest manu-
facturer OF chemicals In the United
Kingdom. Lady Stanley's father was
q Charles Tenant who had amassed
| a large fortune out of a canal which
he owned near Meath. She was a
cousin of Hamilton Aide. and like
him could show descent from Oliver
Cromwell through the latter's daugh-
| ter Frances who married Lord Rich.
Dorothy Stanley was a painter of
established reputation and even of
fame. renowned for her portrayals OF
the London gamin in all his mani
festations, and was q yearly ex-
hibitor at the Royal Academy. Her
sister married Frederick Myers. tie
Cambridge poet and essayist.
Evening star., 1923-03-18

ments those memorials would not
stand long enough to become historic
or to become landmarks. Much human
sentiment gathers around q landmark,
as was shown by the popular demand
that the Lincoln statue be replaced on
its site before the city hall.
The Washington statue naturally
calls to mind the jackson statue.
Clark Mills. long familiar figure in
Washington. was the sculptor of each.
He was a plasterer by trade. and
came here from Charleston, S. c.,
about 1850. It is said that he had
shown such talent as q sculptor in
Charleston that several persons there
made up a fund to enable him to go
to Europe to study art. On his way
to Europe he stopped here. And he
stayed. In some way the proposal to
erect an equestrian statue to Gen.
Jackson came up among the members
OF the jackson Democratic Associa-
tion of this city. and that association
gave to Mr.. Mills the commission to
make the statue. Mr.. Mills had never
studied art, that is, in the usual way,
and he had never seen an equestrian
statue. He modelled the group at his
place on the Bladensburg road about
half a mile beyond the toll gate at
Maryland avenue and 18th street. and
the statue was dedicated January s.,
1858. the thirty-eighth anniversary of
the battle OF New Orleans. II is the
Oldest equestrian statue In the United
States, and was the second erected in
the present territory Of the United
States, the first being a lead statue.
gilded. Of King George Ill. set up on
Bowling Green. y. Y, August 21.
1870, pulled down July 9. 1916, and
cast into bullets, which were used by
our revolutionary troops. Mr.. Mills
executed the Washington statue,
which was unveiled February %, 1860
Evening star., 1923-03-18
A Wireless.

A Wireless.
We've waited full long for q hint from
the lady
That waiting shall not be in vain.
We sigh for the spot all embowered
and shady
Where birds sing their sweetest re.
frGin.
We yearn, and our faith she has never
been wronging,
To greet her once more meath the
moon.
We are waiting with trust and with
infinite longing
For q wireless message from June.
At last she has sent US the Cherished
assurance
That she will turn hcmeward once
more.
The crocus looks up with its hardy
endurance
And bids the flowers smile as Of
yore.
The south wind with whispering fra.
GRANGE draws nearer
And breathes a prediction that soon
Tho world will be better and fairer
'Tis a. yire1esa n1easaga from June.
Evening star., 1923-03-18
BY THE MARaUIsE DE FoxrENoY.

BS THE MARQUISE DE FOXTESOY.
Although there will be a gather
ing next month at Copenhagen of the
three rulers of Scandinavia. on the
occasion of the silver wedding of the
King and Queen of Denmark. yet the
government OF the later country and
that of Norway are at daggers'
drawn. and it is hoped that the cele-
bratfon may be signaliZed by some
settlement of the differences which
have recently had the effect of arous-
ing against one another these two
sister nations. speaking the same lam
guage, and united for SO many hun
dredS of years.
The issue at stake is the claim
which Norway has lately put forward
TO share In the sovereignty OF
Greenland. II may be remembered
that, when the question arose as to
the ownership of Greenland whose
trade has been a monopoly of the
Danish crown since 1874, the matter
agreed to what is now known as "the
American declaration" that Den
marks sovereignty over Greenland is
complete and absolute, and that the
whole of it was Danish territory.
Norway accepted this verdict, and for
any portion Of Greenland, in return
for Denmark's endorsement OF Nor
ways rights to Spitsbergen.
4 y u !:
Instead of abiding by this agree
ment. the Norwegians have with the
last year put forward a demand to
ownership of the northeastern por-
tion of Greenland where they have
managed to establish certain trading
interests Naturally, the Danes will
not hear of anything of the kind, and
some very sharp notes have recently
passed between the governmnte of
Christiania and Copenhasen.
Matters are somewhat complicated
by the fact that the rulers of the
two nations are brothers. King
Haakon OF Norway being the former
Prince Charles OF Denmark. The trou-
BILE about the affair is that alike in
Norway and in Denmark, the people
are very obstinate and unbending
where they believe their material
rights to be at stake and never at
any time particularly ready to listen
to the voice of their sovereign. In fact,
Norway seeded from Sweden and pro-
claimed her independence and sum-
moned national convention to de-
termine whether their new govern
ment should be monarchy or re-
public. the majority in favor Of hav-
ing a king instead of chief magis-
trate Of the commonwealth was very
small.
\ X X u
King Gustave OF Sweden. though no
brother Of the other two Scandtna-
vian rulers. is bound to them by close
ties of relationship. For old Queen
Louise of Denmark-that is to say,
the mother of both Christian X and
of Haakon Wills a daughter of
Charles XIV Of Sweden, and derived
most of her wealth from that coun-
try.
The meeting of the three kings will
be remarkable for the fact that it is
1.-The drst occasion on which all three
have come together since their con-
ference about seven years ago. to de-
termine upon their policy of neutral
| ity. and the methods Of preserving q
J it during the great war then in prog
Evening star., 1923-03-18

| jacks. wahoos and many other fight
ing breeds.
y x = K
It was the good fortune of the
writer to be with President Harding
on his 1921 expedition into Florida
waters and to learn something of the
fishing lore of Cocolobo bay as well
as to record some of the valorous
deeds Of the presidential party. There
were some tall fish stories told be
| fore the party disappeared into the
| piratical seclusion of CocoIobo bay
! but these stories were as nothing
compared to those which came out
with the party-stories youched for
| by no less veraCious men than the
| President himself. and Attorney Cen
eral Daugherty, and Secretary Of the
Interior Fall, and Fred Upham who
| tells just who contributes to the re
, publican campaign fund every two
years; and George Christian, jr, sec
retary to the President Of cours-.
| there may be some question as 10
the credlbility Of Mr.. Christian, for
| he may have inherited trait from
his father, Col. George Christian Of
Marion. To the uninitiated let il be
stated that there is long standing
feud in Marion as to whether II was
Col. Christian or DR. George T. Hard
I
down the rebellion" in 1865. Presi-
dent Harding says that both mer
have laid claim to the sole distinc-
ton. and frankly he doesn't know
which one did il.
But TO return to CocoIobo bay. IL
| is quite permissible to say that those
| who have not fishcd Caesars wreck
nave really never been fishing at all
Here one bats ones hook with a fish
some three or four feet long in ordpr.
| catch "A i1h
long. Occasionally before the eight
| footer can be reeled in some bigEt-
hsh sWoops along and swallows him
/ so one must be swift as well as
! Florida coast. The tackle measures
anywhere from quarter to half d.
! inch in diameter. for there is no toll
! ing what sort of bite" may eventr-
ate once the line IS tossed overheard
with sparkling mackereI on tn
| nook as tempting bait.
| Z = : =
| 1t is related OF Capt. Thompson. .IYs
Presidents fishing guide. philoso-
pller and friend, that he once caugl:
fish weighing $4,000 pounds. This
| is no fish story-it is true. 1t tooh
| eighteen hours TO land the sixteen
| ton monster and then he had 10 be
shot to death with no less than ~
bullets in his hide. The animal
never was properly classified but is
I reported 10 have looked like a cross
! between d whale and a devil fish
| once during the landing process he
| was towcd into shallow water near
a dock. With one swish of his tai
he knocked away forty feet oC the
! dock. and thereupon it was decided
! the better part Of valor TO fight this
! particular devil in the deep blue sea
| So he was towed out again and
! eventually killed.
! In 1921. George Christian was reel
| ing in what he considered TO be Il
particularly big fish-bigger, at any
| rate, than any he had ever caught in
| the Miami (Ohio) river-when along
came a barracuda and shipped the
prize in half. Somewhat astonisheG
! but none the less determined Gecrgr
| reeled in what he thought was the
better half. What the barracuda ma,
have thought is something else agaI..
Evening star., 1923-03-18
Nature Knows.
from the Boston Transcript.

From the Boston Transcrpt.
A baid-headed man who made up in
chatter, what he lacked in hair said
TO another man. Can you tell me why
my head is SO bald when other peo-
pIe about me have plenty of hair?"
"I don't know" was the smiling
reply. unless the reason given me
by q farmer the other day would
apply, that an empty barn is-not
worth shinGllng."
Evening star., 1923-03-18
Heard and Seen

When two messenger boys get to.
gether something may be expected to
happen. '--.
The new messenger was being
shown over the building by the older
occupied by the, officials of the COM
pany.
Now, this is the Office of Capt.
Smith," said the older messenger, in
dicating the room with a flourish of
his hand.
And this is the office of Mai
Jones'" he continued.
The new boy looked at the next
once. with a name on the door.
WAS he in the Army, too:" he
asked.
NO" replied the boy.
What's he got private on his door
for, them" asked the new one.
Street car courtesy is progressing.
II you won't get up yourself, try 70
make the other fellow give his seat
to the lady.
"A ptoodbAS ~ SAANJ a.
years old. was sitting next the win
dow in the car. when an older man.
perhaps nifty years old, sat down be-
side him.
Farther down the street the car
began to fll up with the usual crowd
of government employees, men and
women, young and old.
Soon woman came down the aisle
and stopped directly beside the older
man.
He turned to the young man beside
the window.
cant you make room for the
woman ne asked the young man.
Now that was pretty cool. In Wash
inEton street cars in 1923 it is un-
written rule Of the road that a man
sitting by a window is immune. He
sits pretty, and lets the fellow on the
outside get UP.
questio about can't-you- u-get-up-ano :
make room m-for-the-woman? the man
by the window was surprised.
Whats the matter with you" ne
asked. You glued:
Street car motormen and conduc-
tors have little methods of their own
OF getting their cars to the end OF
their trips on time. This is something
that the average passenger never
gives a thought to, but the train
men are in a different boat.
Sometimes a lone rider on car, al
certain times OF the day, is privileged
to see how it is done, in some cases
One Union Station" car running
down Pennsylvania avenue toward
the Capitol was three minutes late
according to the conductor
We'll go around the wrong way,
ne called to the motorman.
The conductor then turned the "l4tf
and Decatur" sign on the front of the
car, as the vehicle headed for Unior
st tation. Now cars so marked take the
right hand turn, approaching the
loading platforms In front OF the
station from the east. Cars marked
18th and F. turn to the left, ap'
pro oaching the station from the west
or city post office side.
But this time the car took ief'
turn. ran rapidly around in front oi
the station. .unloaded its one passen'
ger. and then took out around to th'
east, sliding shortly onto the track
timately to 14th and Decatur streets
AS far as the former passenger
could make out, this maneuver saved
the car from standing at the usua
| loading platform. and waiting to tax
on the usual large crowd which
wants to go out Pennsylvania ave
nue.. Probably IL helped make up tina
/ three minutes, but certainly not al
OF il. CHARLES e. TRACEWELL.
Evening star., 1923-03-18

II is a queer truth that those who
most loudly protest the fact that a
number of small items make a big ex-
pense account are often unable to see
that the same rule applies TO savings.