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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-18
Cut Off With ST by His VIII,
Noted Author Holds No
Malice IN Her Heart.
LEFT CHAUFFEUR 500, 900
She and Husband SWeethearts
Twenty-Five Years Of Mar
ried Life, She Says.
By CORINNE RICH,
Universal Service.

NEW YORK, March 1.-THE hus-
band Of Mrs. Mary e. wilkins Free.
man, noted writer. cut her off in his
will with 81. and at the same time
gave to his chauffeur 100000.
Mrs. Freeman can find in her
heart no ill-feeling for her deceased
spouse.
His mind was unbalanced. and
how could / have anything bur com.
passion for him?" she said to me- tO.
Gay at her home in Metuchen, N. j.
LEFT SISTERS $500.
DR.. Charles Manning Freeman
Willed each OF his four sisters but
5000. Now they are joining the wife
In legal protest. it has just been an.
nounced.
7 am only sorry for his mental
condition during the past two years, 2
MRS. Freeman added.
Her story is as interesting as any
OF ner own novels. Sitting in her
serene and dignified drawing room.
q part OF the magnificent home the
earnings OF her pen built, she told
me that story.
MY husband and I were the same
our married life thar we vvsre an -, ~,
wedding day" she began. eve were
as happy as story.book Iovers--vaa
e happy as the fairy-tale princess
ana her prince.
SHOWED MENTAL STRAIN.
Then business troubles arose dur.
ing the latter part OF the world war
and DR.. Freeman showed decided
symptoms of mental strain. He rot
peculiar notions. one OF which yUa !
tnat ne was being prosecuted. esne.
cially by those he loved best
he grew so bad that he was
placed In the State asylum fnr
Ine insane but was released when
l refused to appear against him.
! couldn't have him incarcerated
wasn't he my husband and didn't
still love him.
That was in August, 1921. On
MS return home, he developed such
an intense dislike for me and Others
close TO him that my life was miser.
able. For everybody's sake / was
forced to obtain a legal separation.
freeman then went to live
with his chauffeur, but we were
friends, of course. / never ceased
being his friend.
JUST QUEER ACT.
Undue influence? well. that il
q strong term and I accuse no one
of it. No. it seems to me that II
was just a queer turn OF mind that
caused DR.. freeman to cut me and
his sisters off and leave his money
10 this chauffeur. He simply didn't
know what he was doing.''
On DR.. Freeman's death, his wife
had the body brought to her home
for burial. Old.time friends and
close neighbors in Metuchen testi.
~ to the happy life of the couple
before the husbands mental break
down.
Anyway, know that DR.. Free.
man wanted me to have the money.
that is, when he was in his right
mind" the writer continued. when
he was the real Charles, he meant
for me to share in the estate. For
he wrote wills previous to this last
one and In each OF them he left
his money to his loved ones. That
is why I'm contesting the will"
And as she finished telling her
story, so full OF pathos, Mrs. Free.
man, she of the facile pen, leaned
back and sighed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-18
Woman Gets 10-Year
Term for Drug Sales

Julia Wheeler. alias Julia Jump,
one-time champion dope peddler.
will serve two five-year prison sen.
fences at one time, sentence being
imposed yesterday by Justice Stat
ford in Criminal Court No. l on
two charges of violating the anti
narcotic laws
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-18
HELD AS GUN T0TER.

Leslie r. Cook, who is alleged
to have run amuck with a pistol at
1910 Eye street northwest on March
4 after, it is alleged. he drank
corn whiskey, was held under
81 900 bond for the grand jury yes
terday by Judge Mcmahon in Po-
lice Court. Paul Gala, roorner
at the Eye street house, claimed
to have been shot by Cook.
Flowers For Easter
See the gorgeous displays at Guides
Flower Headquarters.-12I2 F.-Advt
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-18

internal revenue.
wrote the census
act which was
adopted by Con.
gress. He enter
ed the Census
Bureau in 1900
as q clerk.
During tn e
administration Of
President VIII.
liam H. Taft, he
w a 8 appointed
on the Tariff
Board, and serv'
ed with distinc-
ton on that
body for several
years.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-18
Culprit Picks Sing Sing;
Judge DEGREES Elmirs

NEW YORK, March ia re.
quest that he be sent to Sing Sing
instead Of Elnira was denied
William Murphy, sixteen, by Judge
MacMahon in the Brooklyn County
Court. The judge said:
II am sending you to Elnira
where you will have to work"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-18

RIN6ESS Nd baby bOgn6UrN TO her unOUh ScOut
Las exclusive published for the first time in this
child little Yorkshire
the father today despite the fact that the royal family Of
desired the held Westminster Abbey
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-18
Charges Woman Sold
Rum That Killed Wife

CHICAGO, March 17.-Mrs. Cath.
crime Pruss, fifty-eight, was ar.
rested tonight on complaint of
Charles Peterson, who told the po.
lice the woman had sold liquor to
his wife, Jane, forty-two, which
resulted in the latter's death. Mrs.
Pruss was booked on two charges,
involuntary manslaughter and vic.
lation of the state prohibition laws.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-18

As a member of the Commission
which made a survey Of the Re.
public of Panama in 1918, Mr.. Estes
work was a valuable contribution
to the report submitted.
In February Of last year he was
made deputy commissioner Of in.
ternal revenue.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-18

ALERT AND KENNETH McFIELD, SIX
II and seven years old, respectively, UhO,
according to their grandfather, lOere taken bys
their f0ther from the home Of Mrs. arthur
REYNOLDS 223 Bryant street northeast.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-18
Copeland Will
Talk to Labor

DR.. Royal S. Copeland. Senator
elect. "the man who made New
York safe for babies" will be the
headliner Of an interesting program
to be given at a dinner compliment
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-18
Estes Wins New
Tax Bureau Job

Robert M. Estes. recently ap.
pointed to succeed Judge Mckenzie
Moss as deputy commissioner of
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-18
LAST WEEK THIS SEASON
THE RAMS HEAD PLAYERS

Wednesday. Thursday, Friday. Satur-
day nights with Saturday Matinee.
Playing the Seasons Best Bill.
"Pariah' by August Strindberg
THE TENTS OF THE ARABS
by Lord Dunsany
JOINT OWNERS IN SPAIN"
by Alice Brown
TicketO for all performances
182Sh 18th Street. Eranklin 50,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-10
Use of the Presidents Flag
And History of Its Adoption

The Presidents flag, because it is
sions and because it's design is of
more recent adoption than our other
flags, probably escapes recognition or
arouses the curiosity of many who
do see it, says a bulletin of the
National Geographic Society.
The Presidents flag now flies over
q Washington hotel. which is tenn
porarily the home of the Chief
Executive, and it was displayed on
the Presidents automobile in the
funeral procession of the late Presi-
dent Harding.
The flag now consists of the Presi-
dents seal in bronze, upon a blue
background, with a large white star
In each corner. The design of this
seal may be seen in the floor of the
entrance corridor of the White House
dent in his favorite stickpin.
The custom governing the uses of
the Presidents flag and the history
hf its adoption are described in Flags
of the World" a compilation by DR.
Gilbert Grosvenor and Lieut.. Com
'mander Byron McCandless, L. S. N,
as follows:
When the President visits vessel
of the United States. the Presidents
flag is broken at the main the moment
he reaches the deck and is kept flying
as long as he is on board.
Flag in Bow of Barge
When the President is embarked
on boat he usually directs that his
flag be displayed from the staff in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-10

whose conduct must have added to his
burden stand silent in the face of the
grave, chastened in regretful sorrow
President Harding's supreme pur-
pose as administrator of the American
nation was to weld into a united
friendship the enmities of peoples in
conflicting groups, and to do this by
the splendid warmth of his own
genial kindness: to study the world
and bring it to honest thinking by
the force of his own sweet spirit; to
sim the turbulent waters by the gen.
Tie wand of A Christ-like life. But in
this during his life he at least par
TALLY failed when at last the God of
all permitted him to die that such a
people might be shocked out of their
humble again and turned from the
error of their ways.
"President Harding has. therefore.
j believe, accomplished by his death
what for two years and five months
ne Valnly assayed to do by his life
and living words; namely, he has
brought into calm reflection and sad
contemplation a great people, who
We're afflicted with political and social
hysteria. caused by the war. It re-
CURED his death to accomplish what
his words had failed to do.
Il am privileged to say from his
own living lips that his own idea of
the great service which he was called
upon to render to his country during
his administration was that of being a
steadying force: to cause America
first TO be made firm on it's own feet.
and then by influence aid in rational
lzlng an agitated world. l know, too,
that he sadly lamented the slow prog
reSS being made in this, and l am
sure his soul is now joyed to know
accomplishing what his life failed to
do"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-10

IL you don't object we'll see it
again
President Coolidge's. modesty is in
herited from his father, Col; John
When Calvin Coolidge was inaug-
rated Vice President a dinner was
given in Washington in his honor.
His father was present and was IN
to hear an interesting speech, they
settled back in their chairs, but Col:
John stood up. bowed and smiled. and
sat down without saying a word. On
the way out of the banquet hall Col;
John slipped over to the writer and
Whispered: Now. perhaps, you know
why the Vice President does not do
much talking"
New Type to Politics.
The Coolidge type is new to politics
His philosophy never leads him to
worry.
You have never been defeated for
Office" said an admirer to him once
In talking over his many political
campaigns.
mont twang, but I've always been
prepared to be-.
When Mr.. Coolidge was chairman OF
the railroad committee of the legls-
lature a newspaper man waylald him.
remarking:
IL hear the railroad bill has gone
into the ditch
II don't think So drawled Mr..
Coolidge calmly.
Everybody else does
We've got to have a certain amount
Of hysteria," was the unruffied reply.
A little later the bill in question was
enacted.
President Coolidge does not belong
to any secret societies and yet he
is quite a liner" being a member
of half dozen exclusive clubs In
Boston and Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-10

bow of his barge. When he passes
in boat flying his flag, vessels of
the Navy parade the full guard. four
rufties are given on the drum. four
fourishes are sounded on the bugle.
the National Anthem is played by the
band. and officers and men salute.
previously there were two designs
displayed on flags and on colors to be
used in the Commander-in-Ch Chief of
the Army and the Navy The Navy
design was of an earlier date than
that of the Army. and consisted of
the coat-of-arms of the United States
as shown in the great seal. upon a
blue ground. This happened to be al
most identical with the infantry COL
OrS.
The Presidents colors were de-
signed TO he distinctive from the in
fantry colors. and consisted of a blue
ground with large crimson star,
outlined heavily with white. Within
the star was to be seen the coat-of-
arms of the United States. and out
side the star within its angles were
powdered small stars to the number
of the states in the union
The double display of flags and
colors at the Grand Army review in
1915, caused considerable comment.
and as result the suggestion was
made to the President that the Navy
flag might tittingly be made distinc-
tive from the infantry colors by the
addition of four Stars-one in each
corner
The flags of an admiral and a
general bear four stars as sign of
command
The President approved of the
idea, but directed that the coat-of-
arms, as shown on the Presidents
seal, be used upon the Presidents
personal flag and colors."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-10
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Expert observers of the trend of
public opinion expect President Cool
idge to be inundated with popular
appeals for American adhesion to the
world court. Both politicians who
favor and who oppose the court look
for such a development. They be-
lieVe it Is already in progress They
think that If the contents of Mr..
Coolidge's mail bag during the first
week of his presidency could be
divulged, 1t would show that he is
undergoing a heavy fire of petitions
to carry out the political last will
and testament" of Warren G.. Hard
ing.
Shortly before starting for Alaska
President Harding revealed to Mrs.
Thomas G. Winter, president of the
General Federation of Women'S Clubs,
In letter read before its Atlanta
convention, that during his two years
in the White House he had never
experienced so fervent or volumiuouS
popular expression as the coun-
try's support of the world court pro-
poSaI 1t far outStripped in impress
Siveness the demand for a merchant
marine subsidy or soldiers bonus.
speeches. stressed Appeal.
Whenever he discussed the world
court on his fateful farewell tour
Mr. Harding stressed this overwhelm-
ing evidence of public sentiment 1t
supplied the chief inspiration for the
late Presidents persistent advocacy of
the court in the teeth of threatened
cleavage within the republican party.
Undoubtedly the same elements that
espoused the world court while Pres.
1dent Harding was alive favor it to-
day. They are composed largely. If
not exclusively, of the so-called
church community and the women of
the nation. They include repuhli-
cans and democrats. pro-leaGuers and
anti-leaguers, WilsonianS and anti
Wilsonians. They are united by the
common thought that. irrespective of
partisan prejudices, the Harding
Hughes program for taking the
United States into the world court is
safe and rational form of Ameri-
can cooperation with the outside
world.
They do not believe it will bring
swift peace or complete happiness to
a distracted and revolutionary Eu-
rope, but will be a welcome and per-
haps effective gesture from our opu-
lent direction. The arguments Of
certain republican leaders. which have
been promptly dinned into Calvin
.coolidge's ears. that adherence to the
Harding Hughes program means a
party split have not impressed the
country at large.
Aided by HardinS's Death.
There is plenty of evidence. indeed.
that existing enthusiasm for the
Warren q. Harding's dramatic.
death-bed advocacy of it at san
Francisco. 1t is certain that its more
fervent supporters. will bring vigor-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-10
Coolidge World Court Advocacy
! Seen as Master Stroke of Policy
Chautauqua Leader With Hand on
Pulse of Nation Says People Will
Support Plea for Harding Project.

Gus pressure to bear on Mr.. Harding's
political legatee to execute the court
program.
One of the official participants in the
Harding state funeral at Washington
was man who is proba bly, in closer
touch with the hearts and thoughts of
the American people than any profess
sional politician He is DR.. Paul NJ.
Pearson of Swarthmore, Pa, president
of the International Chautauqua and
Lyceum Association. Mr. Harding. who
was a great believer in the "chautau-
qua spirit" was honorary president of
the association, and Pearson came to
pay chautauqua's tribute to Harding's
memory.
Through the thousands of popular
chautauquas now conducted in every
section of the Union. the association
maintains constant contact with COM
munity sentiment. There Is no better
barometer of what the average man
and woman are thinking and talking
about or what their political loneings
are.
Gives His Impressions.
Reports reach DIR. Pearson from Main
street everywhere. with the accuracy
with which news from battle front
arrives at a generaliSsimo'S headquar-
terS. He discussed with this writer at
Washington preSent-hour American
sentiment he has opportunity to
SOUND and sense ii.
say without neSltdtlOn, PEARSON
declared. that Calvin Coolidge will
play the shrewdest politics of his
career by proclaiming his advocacy of
the world court and his determination
TO bring about Americas entry. The
politicians deceive themselves If they
think enthusiasm for the court went to
the grave with Warren Harding. 1t
lives after him. and 1t Will flare into
hot flame if Calvin Coolidge cares and
dareS to ignite it.
IF he throws political exigencies
to the winds. he will be surprised by
the result. Every indication we can
get is that the country yearns to re-
act to the lead that President Hard
concerned with the legalistic aspects
of the world court. They see in it
wholesome. broadgauge express
sion of American readiness to help
get a disordered world back on it's
feet.
see Politicians Mistake.
1t is true that millions of our peo-
pie are concerned just now with
bread-and- butter questions, but they
are in far more altruiStic mood than
the politicians imagine. Amid the
confusion. the disappointment and the
encouragement in which the nation
is languishing, our altruism is per-
hapS the one thing that remains I'M
shattered and unshatterable.
IF Calvin Coolidge has the courage
and the vision TO appeal to IL at the
outset Of his administration. he will
raise the hopes of the people as if
by magic and inspire them with a
great faith in him. Certainly they
will watch anxiously to see which
course Coolidge will chart-the route
mapped out by the peoples aspira-
tions, as Harding saw it. or the direc-
ton that runs parallel with the
wishes of politicians chiefly concern
ed with lf-perpetuation."
(Copyrcht 1923
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-10
PAID LIFE, TO BRING
PEACE TO COUNTRY
Bartlett Pays Touching Trib-
ute in Exercises at
Manchester.

Speciai Dispatch To The star.
MANCHESTER. y. H. August 10
The supreme lesson of the death of
President Harding lis that the Ameri-
can people must make some effort to
prevent future wars" John II. Bart
lett, former governor of this state.
now first assistant postmaster gen.
eral, declared in IA memorial address
here today.
This was the most serious burden
bresthed his last" Mr.. Bartlett said.
speaking of the late President as "a
tmartyr to a worlds unrest. The
first assistant postmaster general said.
in part:
Death of Leader.
"one great heart has ceased to beat.
One supremely kind and genial soul
mo longer lives. The mind of a
master no longer responds, and our
national leader, the standard bearer
of the republic. the general of our
;destinies, has in the twinkling OF an
tese been crushed to earth in death
ibefore our very eyes, at time when
with fortitude and persistence he
was fighting seemingly in unequal
combat against the forces of careless
and willful unrest. and relentless
disloyalty tending toward revolution.
we would be remlSS indeed, IL we
did not learn all the lessons which
such. a sacrifice and martyrdom bring.
I wish 1 might be able to make you
feel to some extent that spark of per-
sonal contact with President Hard
ing which has to thrilled and inspired
my own life. President Harding's
tremendous popularity at the time of
his selection as Chief Executive finally
faded and failed to some extent be-
fore the lashings of a black and angry
Il dn ,cpn .
all, however, he chung steadfastly to
the pilot house of the ship of state,
firmly gripping the wheel. until at
last. exhausted by the fury of the
tempest. he fell, and his comrades are
cow weeping At his bier while those
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-10
BY NJ. f.. HENNESSY.

calvin coolidre's entire political life has
been characterized by caution ana re,lcenre
vet as Mr. Hennessy points out IN toda!
article these two qualities hnvp seemed 10
assist him in reaching sane decisions on maj
tiers OF public Importance. The new freSinsn !.
will move slowly. Mr.. Hennessy says nut
nnce his mind is made up on question the
nmhIic may rest assured il will stay made
up
ON his return from the funeral OF
Warren Harding. President Coohdge
will feel more free to discuss poiiticai
issues and the policies of his admlnistra-
ton, but the country must De patent
with the new Executive. He will not
be hurried in making important deci-
sIons in matters of state. In MS own
words he will not hesitate to be as
progressive as science, or as reactionaTS
as the multiplication table. GAVIN
Coolidge comes from q state where they
do not rush headlong into unnecessary
and unwise political situations
Political buccaneers. who already are
nlannino 10 shelye Coolidge next year
should heed the warning OF histoi
Arthur was sidetracked 1or olat IL
1884, with the result that HsoSe' - the
land a democrat, succeeded 70 NE
presidency. Calvin Coolidge let u oe
"a ID viii not pick quarrel with ms
narty associates. but Calvin Coondge
has never been known to run away ifoii
a fight.
Stranger to Washington.
Yesterdays article. in this series on
the career and characteristics OF the
new president. covered his nomination
for the vice presidency Ii VIII De
surprise TO some to learn that MI
Coolidge IN TO the time of his nominal
tion for second place on the HarulhS
ticket. had visited Washington but one.
When he arrived in Washington III the
fall of 1920, on his way TO carnpalSil
in m. border states, he was practlcailE
n Stranger to the city that in three
yaars' time was to hail him as the
nations chief !
Washington newspaper correSpono'
entS fOcked to the Willard Hotel II
1920 TO see and talk with this ne"
figure in national politics. Coollde.
listened to the reporters some VI
the persistent ones tried to draw mn
ont on public questions, but. with ms
nsnaI care and adroitnesS, he parrieC
every loaded query, ana Whlle Int
scribes retired with many scrlooleo
notes. they had obtained precious ~
n. COPY from the new vice presiden'
tial nominee.
Carefully Prepared Speeches.
Carefully prepared speeches charac
terized Mr.. Coolidge's stump utter
ances The republican campaign
managers did not have occasion once
TO reprimand him in the campaign
although some of the "irreConcilables
shuddered when he indicated. IN one
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-10
.C0bbIer's Counsel Cleared Way
To White House, Says Coolidge

yourself in your we'll deserved
leisure of age.
Yours sincerely.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
Washington. D. c.. August s. 1923.
ITO James Lucey. Northampton.
Mass
Jim Lucy. who would rather be
called a good shoemaker than the
Presidents cobbler, friend and phi
losopher."
The President since his college
days at Amherst has known Lucey
When Calvin Coolidge was a North
ampton lawyer entering politics
Lucey was his firm supporter, and
Mr.. Coolidge has said that the cob
bier gave him much wise counsel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-10
STUDENTS PLAN OUTING.

The annual picnic and outing of
the Woodrow Wilson Club of National
University Law School will be held
at the 18th street reservoir, 18th
and Kennedy streets northwest, to-
morrow afternoon at o'clock. c. B.
McCullar is president of the club,
NJ. ]. Lane, vice president, and Ed
ward J. Orchard, secretary.
Henry p. Thomas. r. d. Wise, E. R.
Woodson. Mrs. Alfred Klein and Miss
Virginia Teeters are in charge of
arrangements.