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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-07-12

ing that painters oecupationsi dis
eases be looked after aiso was
adopted.
IL was decided that Oliver Erlek.
sons talk on public ownership
should be backed with a measure.
w. X. McKihbon. secretary or the
Seattle organised white Cross
league. demanded the immediate CO
operation Of the labor movement tn
stamping out tho dope evil. This
waA heartily given.
/, was moved that more strict
observance Of all laws and a survey.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-07-12
Company Asks City
for $4,75O Damages

Damages toialing si,75O nnd $40
per month until the water recedes
from It's basement is asked By tho
Western Blower Co. In Il claim filed
against the city wednesday. The
damage occurred when tho city, in
making n sanitary fill, broke tho
firms sewer, flooding It's basement
the claim sets forth.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-07-12
Excursion to Hood
Canal VIII Be Held

\ steamer excursion % Hood
canal, one Of the most charming re-
gions for mountain and marine seen
cry IN the entire West. has been an.
nounced for Sunday. July l5. by the
Puget Sound Navigation Co. The
boat will leave colman dock at $40
a. m. and go to Union City. nrriy.
ing. on its return. about $50 p. m.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-07-12
CENTRsI.IA AND OLYMPIA
WANT NM CONVENTION

Invitations were received from
Olympia and csnlraila for tho 1924
convention. cen,ralia was represent.
ed By flock Of telcgraphie ooInmu.
nieauons.
Resolutions were adopted In profu.
sion az the close of tbs afternoon
session. Convict labor products
must be placardod an such. Is the -,
sence Of ono resolution.
Convict labor ia tho forests i de.
plored also.
Tho Seattle street car mems plea
FOR one day OF In seven was Ia.
doFsed hy che convention.
A resolution stating tina; oneman
cars were unsafe. and that their uss
should DO limited. also was adopted
a motion was submitted. calling
FOR free transportation Tor ali street
car employees Ia the city OF Seattle
81 J. Murray. % tho street car
mems local. sponsored these re.
aNesfs
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-07-12
Treats Him Rough
to Cheer Him Up

FRESNO. Cal. July IA new
way TO prevent suicide II any OF the
family acts homIcidai.
Mrs. Lilly Wong. wife OF II. Low
Kun. took bis revolver away from
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-07-12
NEWEST WRAPS

a wrap that yiynls tho Spanish
shawl Is cape Of white crepe with
floral embroidery IN tiny colored
beads Lace md chiffon capcs arc
also featured for midsummer.
Evening star., 1923-03-04
Never Saw a Cow.

A domestic COW has been taken into
Central Park, New York, as an exhibit,
for the reason that many New York
children do not know that milk comes
from cows, and many of them have
never seen a COW. Once in while
stories appear in connection with
public outings for children of crowd
ed cities that there are children close
up to their teens, or perhaps in their
teens, who have never seen grass. II
seems remarkable, yet if one go into
the densely crowded quarters Of some
cities one can understand that chill
dren do live and grow up in an en-
vironment of dark little rooms, alleys,
fire escapes, cobble pavements. trucks,
noise and dirt. 1t is pitiful to think Of
children who have never seen a meadow
with a brook winding through it and
with cattle standing in the clover.
grasses and the daisies, and who have
never seen an old country road wind
ing along between rail fences and
trees hung with vines and climbing a
hill in the distance. 1t is pitiful TO
think Of human beings who have never
roamed through woods and gardens or
walked along in some pretty stream
bordered with ferns and banks Of moss
and shaded by willows and alders.
Evening star., 1923-03-04
Advertising.

The limit of advertising is the sky.
There is no telling to what lengths or
heights advertising may be carried.
There have been proposals to paint
the clouds, as it were, by projecting
signs on them by means Of a stereopti-
con. Dropping circulars" from air
planes is an old scheme-too old to be
effective. People do not read ''circu.
lars" dropped from the clouds any
more than when stuffed in the letter
box or pushed under the door. Now
an aviator is writing signs far up in
the sky. He writes the signs in smoke
to advertise a brand of Smokes" At
one of the big beach resorts, and no
doubt at others, the sails of boats are
painted with "ads' as some theater
curtains are. Fronts of buildings are
50 cluttered with signs that few per.
sons read any particular sign, and
some merchants seek distinction and
advertise themselves by not putting
up signs at all. Signs are painted on
the roofs OF buildings that loungers in
windows higher up may read them.
Business firms paint their signs on
top OF their delivery wagons. They
would paint their signs on the sur
face Of the streets if the police and
Commissioners would allow them.
Once they strung signs IN the form OF
lsnnGHA ADo0 IA lkDoNfA Int khA
Evening star., 1923-03-04

old, and they said that it had been
found in deposit Of the tertiary age.
The time occupied in laying down
geological deposits and the time
elapsed since they were laid down is
an estimate in which there may be an
error Of millions of years. The fossil
skull may be that of g. man who lived
SOC, 900 years ago, a million years ago
or ten million years ago. The length
Of time elapsed since the close Of the
tertiary and beginning Of the quar-
ternary ages is an estimate. The time
when the tertiary began to succeed or
did succeed the secondary age Is an
estimate. While some biologists call
our age the quarternary, others con-
slider it as a continuation of the ter
tiary.
Biologists will discuss aH to what
division Of the tertiary age this fossil
skull belongs. There is nothing new
in the thought that man was on earth
in the tertiary age. though his advent
is generally given as the pliocene,
which means more recent" division
Of the tertiary. The tertiary age was
the age in which the greater seas
subsided and mountain chains were
cast up. 1t was a time marked by
great increase in the number and
variety Of mammals and the appear
ance Of tree forms and plant forms
which are with us now. The immense
reptiles passed away. as did tree forms
which one now finds only registered in
the rocks.
Evening star., 1923-03-04
A Quarter Century as Leader.

Yesterday Capt. William II. Santel-
mann observed the twenty-flfth ami
versary Of his leadership Of the
United States Marine Band. Twenty
five years grasping the baton at the
head Of the most famous musical
organization in the world! Think Of
the number of miles Of marching in
that time; of the notable occasions
on which this band has been a con-
spicuous feature! There have been
six inaugurations Of Presidents; there
have been other parades of historic
character and funerals OF noted peo-
sple. Hundreds Of concerts have been
given for the public delight in the
parks. at the White House. at the
Capitol and at the Marine Barracks.
At the White House, too, Capt. San
telmann's baton has directed the band
on brilliant occasions OF receptions.
Millions Of ears have heard the music
of the band in this quarter century.
But Capt. Santelmann has been a
Marine bandsman longer than the
twenty-five years Of his leadership.
He Joined it thirty-seven years ago as
a musician and in all, taking out a
period of retirement" he has been
identified with this remarkable or
ganization for thirty-three years.
The Marine Band is an American
institution known everywhere. 1t has
travelled widely and millions of
Americans have visited Washington
and have heard it here. No public
occasion of ceremony is complete
without it. Not many identify the
leader of a band on the march. The
man in front, sometimes with a tall
bearskin hat and a big baton with
a glittering ball at one end, Is not
the leader. gorgeous though he may
be. He is an important parsonage.
the drum major, and he marks the
time and sets the pace. But, walking
along in the back rank, on the right
flank, is the real leader, almost un-
distinguishable, save that he carries
no instrument. There Capt. Santel-
mann has walked for these twenty
five years, and the people Of Wash
ington hope that he will walk there
for a good many more years to come.
Evening star., 1923-03-04
BY THE MARaUIsE DE FoxrENoY.


John d. Rockefeller. tr.'s, million
dollar tapestries-the finest that have
ever crossed the Atlantic and which
nave been purchased from Count
Gabriel de Ia Rochefoucauld--come
from tho grand old Castle OF Ver-
teuil. which, situated on the River
Charente, is far more the ancestral
nome Of the de Ia Rochefoucauld
family than the Castle Of Rochefou-
cauld in the same department, and
which is the seat of the Duke de la
Rochefoucauld and Of his American
wife, the former Miss Matte Mitch
ell OF Portland, daughter Of the
late Senator Mitchell. For the Cha
teau of Verteuil is full of relics of
this historical ducal and princely
family. to which it has belonged for
many centuries.
Anne Comtesse de la Rochefoucauld
entertained there. with great splen-
DOR, Emperor Charles v, in 1889, and
guests Of the de la Rochefoucaulds
under this roof are Kings Francis /,
Henry II, Henry III. Henry w and
louis XIII OF France. as well as King
Antolne de Navarro, Queen Marie de
Meoici and Queen Anne Of Austria
~ @ she treasures with which the castle
Is nlied almost from cellar to garret
ls superb portrait OF the Grand
Conde. which he presented to Francis,
sixth Duke de Ia Rochefoucauld, who
raised at Verteuil a corps of 1000
gentlemen and knights of France for
MIS- service in war
Marguerite de Valois spent q con-
siderable time at the Chateau de Yer
teuil as the guest Of that Count
Francois de la Rochefoucauld, Prince
de Marsillac, who was killed in the
sanguinary night of st. Bartholomew,
and some notion of the antiquity of
the castle may be gathered from the
fact that it figures in the pages of
the chronicles of F'roissart" as one
OF the finest. strongest and oldest
castles in Poitou.
Strictly speaking, the castle and
It's contents belong to the father of
count Gabriel de Ia Rochefoucauld,
the octogenarfan Count Aimery de la
Rochefoucauld, who up to the time
OF the great war bore, in addition
10 his other titles, that Of a Ba-
81 inii VI ihSc- bul, ON6TIdRen Dy the
infrmities Of advanced age, his only
son Gabriel is now in charge Of the
castle, and of its treasures and fully
qualified to dispose of the latter as
his own.
Atmery de la Roche foucauld has
been renowned in his day as the
leading authority in France in all
matters OF ancestry, lineage. heraldry
and etiquette. He has made a study
OF these and has been deferred 70
In this connection as the one man
In France whose authority was un-
questioned. Naturally he has been
the terror OF those who bear titles
or heraldic devices to which they
have no claim. For he is merciles SIS
in his denunciation Of these piracies,
for which there are no penalties in
France. save those OF ridicule and
contempt.
1t is known that he has devoted
a considerable amount Of his leisure
and much care to the writing Of the
memoirs of his times, and those who
have been permitted to obtain a
glimpse thereof declare that they
surpass the famous "Reminiscences
Evening star., 1923-03-04
Arlington City.

The city of Arlington would be
welcomed as neighbor by Washing
ton. All those who would be citizens
Of Arlington are already friends and
neighbors. and a great number of
them are semi.citizens or work-day
citizens Of the capital. II they want to
change the form of government un.
der which they live, believing that the
change would bring them benefits,
the wish Of Washington is that they
may "go to it." To judge from ac-
counts Of meetings there is strong
sentiment favoring the incorporation
Of Arlington city, and bill to effect
the change from county to city gov
ernment will be put before the Vir-
ginia legislature. Whether the per-
sons favoring the change are major
ity Of the population cannot be told
now. but the proponents of the plan
appear to be positive that it has the
support of the majority Of the resi-
dents Of the county.
The population Of Arlington county
exceeds the population OF some cities.
and it Is obvious that the population is
growing fast. Advocates Of the city
form Of government, and who are
familiar with conditions in the county,
predict that within ten years there
will be $4,000 people living within the
boundaries Of what is now Arlington
county. Under a city form of govern
ment it Is said that the population will
grow at a greater pace than It is now
growing. There Is cluster Of large
towns. Clarendon. Cherrydale and
Ballston, which have grown together
and are spreading outward to join or
be Joined by fast-expanding settle
ments.
The moving force behind the city
plan Is the Arlington County Civic
Federation, which is largely repre-
sentative OF the people OF the county.
There Is no hostility toward the
county officers. the desire for the
change being based on the argument
that a county form of government
cannot answer the needs of the group
Of towns and the settlements. 1t is
set forth that under a county govern
ment there is no power to provide
Fairgrounds, parks, fire and police de-
partments or to control public utilities.
There is a demand for such powers
by the people Of the county.
The form of charter which Airing
ton may adopt is a matter for future
consideration Some OF the people ad.
vocate the city manager plan Of gov
ernment, some favor the commission
ership p,an and others believe in the
older form of mayor and council. 1t
is an interesting question and its de-
yelopment is well worth watching.
Evening star., 1923-03-04
The March Lamb.

These warm days of early March
that have just been experienced are
not to be taken as a sure index that
the spring season has opened, that
winter has definitely passed and that
no longer will it be needful to wear
heavy wraps or maintain furnace
fires. There are still several weeks in
which the season may turn its most
disagreeable face toward US, when
high winds may blow and cold may
prevail, and even snow and ice may
fall. March is a tickle month, a
month Of surprises and discourage
nents, q faithless month, with allur-
ing gentleness and furnishing sharp
ness.
But these last few days have been
helpful. They have saved the coal
piles. They have added to the net Of
The winters comforts and they give
cause for thankfulness. Indeed. there
is reason TO be most grateful for the
blessing of a very gentle winter in
consideration of the shortness of fuel.
Had the winter been as severe. as that
of a year ago untold suffering would
have resulted. Had it been as bad as
that Of five years ago doubtless many
people would have died from exposure
and lack of life-sustaining warmth.
Nature has been merciful this year
In view Of the abnormal shortage of
coal due to the folly of mankind.
Washington has been spared most
bitter experience, and even though
March may have in store some severe
iy trying days, the real spring cannot
be far away, and then the problem Of
keeping warm will have been solved
for this season at least.
Evening star., 1923-03-04
Rate by Mail-Payable in Advance.
MARYLAND and Virginia.
All Other States
Member of the Associated Press,
Congress-.

Congress practically closed its ses-
sion last night with much work done
and much left undone. 1t is always
thus. No Congress ever completes its
fun task. There is inevitably a great
amount of unfinished business" This
is due to the fact that although at the
beginning Of the session things start
off at a good pace and committees get
busy and push things along speedily.
there ensues stage Of neglect marked
by debate and maneuvering, and then,
with the calendars choked with busl-
ness, there comes the last rush and
bills are pitchforked through hastily,
some unwisely, and with a good many
neglected.
This Congress that has just closed
Is the sixty-seventh. For 1874 years
The national legislative body has been
sitting. and every time the last gavel
has fallen this phenomenon has been
repeated of bills left over till next
session." Every other year, the even
numbered ones, this procedure leaves
hope still remaining that next session
will bring results, for the bills do not
die. But the mass of business unfin-
ished at the close Of a session in an
odd-numbered year is gone definitely
and all the work that has been done
on it counts as for naught.
This Sixty-seventh Congress leaves
undone a number Of important mat
ters, notably the ship bill, which took
I'D much time without final result.
The pity is that these bills that do not
nass after much debate block the pas
"a ge of other measures, meritorious in
most cases. No procedure has Yet
been found in all this century and a
third of American congressional pro-
cedure whereby the undisputed items
can all be disposed of regardless of
the blockades and jams due to pro-
tracted debate and consideration OF
finally unsuccessful measures.
But taking it as a whole, consider
ing all the difficulties. Congress is an
efficient body, a legislative model for
the world. Those who are dfsa appoint-
ed in its results may call it a failure.
But those who know the conditions
realize that the men who are charged
with the duty of conducting congress
sional affairs strive earnestly and con-
scientiously to discharge their task.
In the long run all measures Of
merit are enacted. Sometimes delay
is good, making for perfection, or the
avoidance Of mistakes Sometimes
what seems like an immediate loss
turns into profit through postpone
ment The American body polite as
Stimulates its legislative food at about
The rate that is required. 1t has its
spells of indigestion and its periods Of
undernutrition, but steadily. surely it
grows in strength, in health and i'll
quality.
Evening star., 1923-03-04
MEN AND AFFAIRS
BY ROBERT r. SMALL.

convention was In an uproar. It was
more like riot than a convention.
IN the midst of the tumult Bourke
Tockran fought his way to the stage.
Inc delegates had refused to listen to
half dozen others who had attempt-
ed to speak. At the sight of Cockran
there was a hush. Whatever may
have been their opinions. the dele
gates knew that here was a man with
somethlns to say. A year before in
Tammany Hall Cochran had de-
nounced Hearst for all that was nm
desirable. In a moments time he
was telling the delegates again that
ne oid not like Hearst. but with his
"onoerful powers of persuasion he
got the convention to look ar mat
ters as philosophically as he did and
hearst was nominated owing his Vic
tory TO one of his bitterest enemies.
president Harding soon may have
TO adopt the famous battle cry of the
lamented Champ Clark:
1t makes no difference IL he &. , ho,,,
hou gotta quit kicking my dawg aroun''
They are taking liberties with Lad.
ole Boy, who isn't "houn'," but an
aristocratic Airedale and a mIphtv
NICE dog. Mrs. Harding sent him to
an AFTERNOON tea a day or two ago
given for the benefit of the AnimaI
Rescue League. That was q. verv
appropriate mission for Laddie Bow.
and. although the metaphor NAV run
contrary to nature, he was decidedly
s1toan,h sne non OF the occasion. This was
Boys station and breed. for it is re-
llaoiy reported that the Boys pedl-
gree goes back to some of the dogs
oeplcted on the walls of King Tuts
tomp. But when penurious politl-
clans come to making light Of I.addie
Boy in the halls of Congress and
washington sausage dealers seek to
exploit the exclusive pup CONNER
ciaiiy; the Executive thinks it time
20 calI a halt. The penurious poll
rine Band. which the government
supports at rather large expense.
wasn't functioning except to play at
Whlte House and cabinet receptions.
ana tney suggested that Laddie Boy
with can tied to his tail might
create any needed diversion on the
White House or cabinet lawns this
spring. That was bad enough, but
the crowning infamy has been COM
mitted by the sausage dealer who has
Speaking Of the White House, the
now uniforms of the special police
on duty there have been attracting
'much attention from native and visit
Ing Washingtonians. On each coat
lapel there are the letters wv. H."
Lots OF folks have. wanted to know
If this meant Warren Harding"
NO, replied one of the policemen.
you see, we will have to continue to
wear these same uniforms and use
the same letters after Mr.. Harding
goes"
Then they will do for Will. Hays
when he comes in," suggested the
visitor.
N. R-This visitor was not SanA&or
Jim Watson OF Indiana
Evening star., 1923-03-04
An Ancient Skull.

Only a few days ago It was reported
that q human skull had been dug UP
in the Isle Of Jersey which anthro-
biologists and biologists believed to be
that OF a man who lived 100000 years
ago. Later came news Of the finding
of a fossil skull in southern Patagonia
believed to be much older than the
Java skull Of the Pithecanthropus
erectus. 1t was given out'in the news
dispatch that ecientists believed the
pnfa ao1saan S8ufu z0 - Sn6Iffnea nenaa.
Evening star., 1923-03-04
ME- passing of Bourke Cochran
has robbed Washington as
well as New York of a man

TIME passing of Bourke Cochran
has robbed Washington as
well as New York of a man
whose voice was as golden in
a way as Caruso's. He was another
exemplihcation of the old adage that
orators are born, not made. Bourke
Cochran was intended for the priest-
hood, and with his massive frame and
leonine features what a wonderful fig
ure he would have made in priestly
robes. The ministry, however. did
not appeal to him in the vim and
vigor Of his youth Instead he chose
to come out of Ireland to America the
land of opportunity.
His path here was not always an
easy one. His f1rst employment was
as a clerk in the department store of
New York. His was not soul of
the shop and he soon took to teaching
while studying law. Being Irish and
quick of thought and wit, it was not
very long before Bourke Cochran
drifted into politics. and once there
his future was assured; not that ne
was q seeker Of off1ce-for he refused
many-but through politics the op-
portunity came to him to show his
ability and his zeal as a disciple of
Blackstone.
Despite the fact that the priesthood
failed to appeal to him, Mr.. Cochran
carried into his life many Of its pre-
cepts There was no more devoted
churchman than he and his intimacy
with Pope Leo XIII was one of the
most cherished things in his life.
Mr.. Cochran fought prohibition and
divorce with equal fervor and convlc-
tion. Divorce he regarded as ono OF
tion and it is reported of him that
on one occasion he exclaimed: If We
are to choose between divorce and
polygamy, give us polygamy." Pro
hibition he denounced as "fanaticism
gone wild"
Since his sudden dtath on Thursday
many OF Mr.. Cockran's famous
speeches have been recalled by his
colleagues in Washington and New
York and many of them have gone
back to his opposition to Cleyeland
in 1899 for his master effort Others
have contended that when he broke
with his beloved Tammany Ha!P In
1896 to supp It William Mckinney
against William Jennings Bryan ne
attained the pinnacle Of his oratort-
cal powers in g. speech at Madison
Square Garden.
70 the writer it was in 1906. ten
years later, that Bourke Cochran gave
one Of the most thrilling exhibitions
Of the power OF real oratory over tho
multitude. 1t was at the New York
democratic state convention in Buff
falo. The leaders of Tammany and
the upstate forces had decided 10
nominate William Randolph Hearst
for governor to make the run against
Charles Evans Hughes. Most of the
delegates did not want Hearst and
they were fighting every step taken
to make him the nominee. state
Senator Tom Grady waS chairman and
|as tho climax Of tha AGd3 neaeod tn
Evening star., 1923-03-04

public authorities put an end to that
form Of advertising. In the advertis-
ing line the press agent has become
more numerous. aggressive and willy,
and the careful newspaper must keep
steadily on guard to repel interesting
news stories loaded with advertising,
and the I it sometimes fails.
Evening star., 1923-03-04

That Newcastle consulate contro-
versy having reached the stage of Of
fetal "he-told-me' and "I-told-him"
exchanges, perhaps a way will soon
open for a clearance of the misunder-
standing and the rehoisting of the flag.