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Evening star., 1923-03-08
Teaching Safety.

Safety campaign work is being
taken up by women. The Washington
Safety Council is entitled to the cor
dial support Of all people. 1t is now
undertaking a COMMUNICATIVE effort
to reduce the number of accidents in
the streets. and women throughout the
District are interesting themselves in
the plans. Greater safety, or less un-
safety. in the streets is one Of our
pressing problems. The president OF
the Women's City Club and chairman
Of the wonlen's committee of the Safe
ty Council has said: Never in the his
tory Of community life. nor since early
pioneer days. has any such menace as
the automobile stalked right up to our
very doors and threatened the lives OF
our children" The committee is get
ting in touch with all the women's
organizations in the city, and safety
instruction is to be carried on in the
homes. 1t is education of d practical
and essential kind, and should be a
strong help in making drivers and
pedestrians so careful that tragedies
in the streets will become rare.
Evening star., 1923-03-08
Wires.

March showed its disapprova1 of
overhead wires by breaking many of
them with ice, and loading down all
tho others nearly to the breaking
point. There was some interruption
OF wire communication, but March
dealt rather q light stroke in that di-
rection. The genial-vicious month, or
the month that turns from glad to mad
IN a breath and then turns back again,
did not do its worst. The overhead
telegraph and telephone wire is one of
the weak points OF our civilization,
and If communication by wire shall,
in the coming years, survive in COM
petition with wireless communication
the metal threads will be put in con.
duits underground. Mighty progress
has been made in that matter within a
few years, and evolution will solve the
problem. There is no need to hurry
the cause along. Once there was need
for pushing and prodding the tele.
graph and telephone companies to
put their city wires underground, but
having tasted the benefits of buried
wires they are generally glad to ex.
tend the work as their finances allow.
Evening star., 1923-03-08
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
TaSfleR Tn the Air

Castles I'm the Air.
There's a building boom in No
whereland-
It's one that comes each year,
When the spring Is new,
When the skies grow blue,
And the south wind whispers cheer.
With fancy as architect we've planned
QIis charges are small, but fair)
improvements great
For each vast estate,
And our castles in the air.
It's only a minute we need to see
The ninarets and towers
In beauty rise
Meath our very eyes,
And these treasures are all ours.
Your likes may be tickle and strange
ana free,
For easily you repair
The wreck that falls
When the old charm pals
In your castles in the air.
When the golden rivers Of twilight
start,
And the scarlet sun sinks low.
It's a journey slight
To that land OF light,
Where the maybe blossoms grow.
And it's only the friend with the hon.
est heart,
Who has followed through i'll and
fair,
Who can be your guest,
As you dream and rest,
In your castles in the air.
Evening star., 1923-03-08

spending the winter, in the south.
Within recent years he and. she have
come to be among the conspicuous
patrons OF our parks, and they have
a keen appreciation OF those back
yards which offer anything in the way
Of crumbs and crusts. No superheated
enemy Of sparrows can claim that the
little vultures have driven off the
grackle. A grackle will strut into a
flock Of sparrows and take the bread
out Of their mouths. So far as re-
corded the grackle has never cut much
Of a figure as a harbinger Of spring,
but as a harbinger he Is Just as re-
liable as the robin or the first hepatioa.
He has been known to reach Wash
ington In the middle Of February, and
is nearly always here when March
comes in. He braves and endures some
Of our most wintry weather. but when
he comes one must know that fair and
lovely spring Is nearing the city gates.
Evening star., 1923-03-08
The Dead Master of a Dying Art

Genuine regret was voiced over the
passing of w. Bourke Cochran,
orator extraordinary. Editors recog
nized his eloquence and recalled his
matchless powers as a speaker, COW
he was the chosen Inouthpieee of
Tammany Hall.
"TIe had few equals and no SUI
periors." asserts the Roanoke Times,
but he never possessed the public
! confidence or good will to the degree
requisite to outstanding success" BY
reason of his oratorical gifts he was
a world figure" the Norfolk Ledger
Dispatch recalls, at the same time
suggesting his position was mot so
much because of what he said as OF
the way he said it, His passing
seems. however. TO emphasize to the
Richmond NewsLeader that "in an
infinitely more populous world than
that which acclaimed the great speak
ers of the past. relatively fewer peo-
pie hear the orator and contribute
by their praise to the spread of his
fame" Not only was he a real orator,
but as the Petersburg Progress and
Index Appeal recalls, "he looked the
part. His eloquence was not always
permanently persuasive in its effects
But few men have possessed to a
audience" While he is mot listed
in the dictionary Of familiar quota
tions,' the New York Evening World
feels "it is the fact rather than the
matter of his oratory that Is re-
membered.'' SO far as comparisons
are concerned. the Albany Times
Union feels that 'Ingersoll, Grady
Cock ran and Bryan are our four
greatest orators of present day Amer
lea. and of the four Bryan alone re-
mains to prove that oratory is not
dead"
1T would be scant Justice" as the
Syracuse Herald sees it, ito refer TO
him as a fascinating spellbinder. in
truth he was ripe scholar, and the
spheres and the themic character of
his eloquence were finely varied as
the occasion required. Though he
was In nearly the whole Of his adult
life a member of Tammany Hall. Mr..
Cochran was honorably independent
and far removed from the concept
of a hidebound partisan" With his
great personal gifts, the Philadelphia
Record feels, she was not a deep
thinker and wonderfully compare bic
to the late Robert G. IngersoIl be-
cess upon the voice and the living
presence. Little that they said or
did-and there is special Significance
in this in the case OF Ingersoll-will
live after them" Conceding this as
a fact, the Baltimore American feels
he contributed the whole force of a
compelling personality to the good
Of his fellow men, and even though
he was no genius, the world will
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Arrival of the Grackle.

You may know him by the name Of
grackle. Some plain folk call him the
crow bIackbird, and there are men in
Washington who can speak Of him
without hesitation and without slut
tering as Quiscalus quiscula or Quis-
calus purpureus, but those great men
are rare. Most of us have learned to
address him as "the grackle," and it
is said that his name is derived from
the principal words in his speech.
which men have translated as "gra-
gra." However, like many other facts,
that may not be one. In the so-called
old world this bird, or q near relation
closely resembling him, Is called jack
daw. He is a member of the large and
we'll known family Of crow, and main
tains closer and more amicable rela-
tions with men than the common
the very common-crow. There are d
number Of interesting things about the
graclle. and one Of these 10 tha& hs
haa ystaNaa6 q ytahiaG4oA ee&es
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EDITORIAL DIGEST

not soon forget nor swiftly cease
TO mourn the passing OF Bourke
Cochran" And. after all, the Spring
field Republican suggests. ''it is per-
hapS not possible yet to estima te
Cockran's career with entire Justice
Not statesman, he almost reached
the heights Of craftsmanship" az the
LEnchburg News sees il, although "he
was too much Of the Tammany loyal
ist.' and his service to the cause OF q
free Ireland will be remembered
gratefully long after other chapters
in his political career are forgotten
He did consistent credit TO the era
which he typiiied." the Grand Rapids
Herald holds. and though many diff
fered from him. "he belonged to the
aristocracy of brains
II was probably because he was
not identified with large issues" the
New York Globe thinks, that "he did
not win enduring fame. Greatness
passed him by, although he had his
successes. The great opportunity
which only the Willingness to sacri-
flee everything encompassed. ignored
him and lifted up others. Such was
the tragedy Of Bourke Cochran" He
was representative OF the power and
discipline of Tammany, but never was
personally smirched by its dubious
politics" the st. Paul Pioneer-Press
argues. and. endowed with all of
the gifts which the world agrees are
the charm OF the Celtic race, he graft
ed them upon high American idealism
and devoted long life to public
service as a useful and honored citi-
zen" Because the generation that
knew Cochran in his full oratorical
glory was a generation trained in the
practical tradition" he failed Of sue
cess. the Norfolk Virginian-PiIot be-
lieves, and 80 1t was that in the
evening Of his career the eloquen,
O n M 0Vrn hoI
for his audience. an audience that
Vowed him for himself basked in his
wit, thrilled to his word pictures, bu,
| which, when the entertainment was
over. went about its business with
little regard for his advice"
1t Is the opinion of the Nashville
Banner that "Bourke Cochran stands
In the gallery OF orators in much the
same position that Caruso occupies
among singers. Each Of them had in
his own line perhaps the creates,
voice that the world has ever heard
Caruso was not the greatest singer
that the world over heard. nor was
Cochran the greatest orator. but that
quality of voice gave them fame
above the others" Agreeing with
this verdict, the Chicago Post hold
that "he knew the art of appeal to
an audience; he could play with its
emotlons; tears. laughter. indigna-
ton, enthusiasm responded to his
gifted tongue as 1t marshaled words
into figure Of speech or striking epi-
grams and sent them forth to do bat
tie for the cause which at the mo-
ment was nearest to his heart" To
which the Detroit News adds the
suggestion that 1.-The age he repre-
sented has gone. IL Bourke Cock.
ran should miss greatness in death
he enjoyed greatness In life" He
was. as the Cincinnati Times-Star
puts 1t. "a trumpet among flies; the
dead master OF dying art
Evening star., 1923-03-08

railroad company will trust tie United
States and wait for the rent until Con-
gress authorizes it's payment, and the
company will say no more about the
eviction of Uncle Sam and his SUBJ
tenants. The rights Of this case,
though perhaps not enforceable, seem
to have been with the railroad COM
pany. When the government agrees
to pay rent, 1t ought TO pay it. 1t
should have paid its rent on time and
have made arrangements for the fu.
ture occupancy of the land if it meant
to occupy it. The railroad company
has shown the gentle quality Of
mercy. 1t knows that sooner or later
Uncle Sam will pay up. The railroad
representatives know how it is with
the government. 1t often gets things
tangled up. 1t has been said that
while operating the railroads it got
things tangled up. But If you give it
time it will untangle itself and come
across with the pay check.
Evening star., 1923-03-08
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

Lord Robert Cecil. the British
statesman soon to visit America, was
one of President Wilson'S staunch
supporters at Paris when the league
OF nations was in the making. He
and Gen. SHUTS were Rritain's rep
resentatives on the commission which
formulated the covenant and were in
closest collaboration with Mr.. Wilson
and Col. House on that body The
third son of the late marquis Of Sails
bury, Queen Victoria's last prime min
lister and foreign secretary, Lord
Robert inherited his fathers political
genius. So did another brother, Lord
Hugh Cecil. Both have long been
members Of the house Of commons.
An elder brother, formerly Lord Will
liam Gascoyne Cecil, entered the
clergy and Is now Bishop of Exeter.
Lord Robert was assistant foreign
secretary early in the world war and
later minister Of blockade. 1t was he
who conducted the tense diplomatic
correspondence with the United
States on contrab band during our neu-
trality. Britons accord him personal
credit for keeping Sweden neutral at
moment it was feared she would
join Germany and attack Russia.
Lord Robert is tall. gaunt. smooth
shaven. stoop- -shouldered, bald-head-
ed. democratic and eloquent. Ameri-
cans will like him.
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Washington florists say there will
be plenitude Of Easter flowers.
Say il with dollars.
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Toward the end Of the session a
distinguished senator Of the United
States fell i'll and was taken 10 a
government hospital, where he is now
undergoing treatment 4 commiser
ating colleague sent him bottle OF
champagne to promote the process of
convalescence. AS the senator's con-
dition did not permit him TO dispose
Of the priceless delicacy at one sit
ting. he was confronted by serious
corkage problem IL the champagne
was not to go nat. The hospital be-
ing a federal institution where the
eighteenth amendment is strictly en-
forced. IL became necessary to dis
patch the senator's chauffeur on a
tour Of the capital in quest OF stop
per that would enable the ancie mt
vintage 10 be preserved. The neces-
sary article was soon discovered
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Mrs. William J. Harris. wife of the
senior senator from Georgia, recent
ly received an interesting grant from
the United States Treasury. 1t con-
sisted of a couple Of hundred dollars
OF back pay due 10 her disting guished
father. the late Gen. Joe" Wheeler,
for services as an officer of the United
States Army before he Joined the
Confederacy. Six or seven years ago
Congress passed bill authorizing g
the payment Of salary in arrears TO
Confederate officers who previously
Evening star., 1923-03-08
High School Athletics.

Before high school officials decide to
abolish interschool athletic contests
they ought To he very sure there is no
other practical Way of curing the
faults against w,irh complaint IS
made. ANY system is wrong. of course.
cal training OF many i'll order that
few may be highly developed. and if
there IS no other way to remedy such
Il condition the intcrschool contests
Will have tp lie abolished. But such
contests ought not to be abolished
merely because that is the easiest
remedy 10 apply. They have too high
q value to he sacrificed merely to save
the trouble of more difficult corrective
methods.
And the high school officials ought
20 he very sure also that ahuIishing
;r1tcrsc hool contests would bring about
the reforms ut which they aim. II is
said that an average OF SIS per cent
of the boys go OUT for the various
teams. Only Il relatively small number,
of course, make the teams. but all get
the benefit of the preliminary training
and the training ot all candidates CON
tinues through a large part of the
playing season. The incentive which
brings 50 large a percentage Of the
hoys Out is ambition 10 make the
teams which will engage in interschool
contests. Remove this incentive and
E = y Il,
be willing 10 endure the gruelling
work Of athletic training. The alter
native would be compulsory gymnastic
exercises, which are good in their way
from the physical standpoint, but not
rcdrly 50 good as exercise on The
playing field. They fail entirely to de-
velop that hardy spirit of give and
take which is the supreme advantage
Cf contests where rivalry is keen.
III an unSportsmanlike. mean spirit
has crcpt into these contests the pub
lie is not willing to believe 1t is the
fault primarily of Washington high
schnoi boys. Washington boys are not
less manly than are boys elsewhere
and it is the almost universal judg-
lnent that hard-fouSht contests be-
tween rivals on the athletic field make
for fairness and honor as well as cour-
age and self-rcliancc. If there is lack
Of sportsmanship il should be looked
Tor elsewhere than among the boys.
Theodore Roosevclt's Don't finch:
hit the line hard" thrilled every Amer
lean boy with red blood in his veins.
When the boys TO whom Roosevelt's
edmouition was addressed were called
upon 10 meet the test of war they did
not finch, and they did hit the line
llard. Carrying into battle the spirit
they had learned in sport, they made
themselves Il terror TO the enemy and
brought everlasting glory to the flag
they served. Surely. merely because
there has been some petty squabbling.
It is not necessary to snuff out this
spirit which is so great an asset to the
nation. Wellington said the battle Of
Waterloo was won on the cricket fields
of England. America may some day
have to fight Waterloo. and il cannot
be won with men who finch and are
afraid to hit the line.
Evening star., 1923-03-08
Make the CITY Shine.

The Mystic Shrine convention com
mittee says to Washington, "The
whole world is coming to look you
over" and urges the old town to clean
up and make ready for inspection. 1t
is a good urge and we will soon be
getting the same urge from other
sources. The District Commissioners
will issue their annual cleanup appeal
and we shall get the same appeal from
neighborhood and other civic associa-
tions. Not only will we get urges and
appeals, but we will also get cleanup
action. We always do. Pride in home
and neighborhood is strong within US,
and ash piles, tin cans and all litter
will disappear. The Shrine conven-
ton committee is perfectly right and
justified in issuing its cleanup urge"
but it is q sure thing that when the
annual session of the Imperial Council
Of the Mystic Shrine opens here in
June, Washington will be at the
height of its summer beauty.
Evening star., 1923-03-08

were in the military service OF the
Union. Senator Harris not long ago
introduced bill providing for similar
pay in the case OF naval officers.
The Senate passed the bill, but 1t has
not yet been voted on in the House.
Frank w. Ballou. superintendent
of schools In the District of Colum-
bia. has returned from the national
convention of the division Of super
intendence Of the National Education
Association at Cleveland. Reports of
schoolmen from all parts Of the coun-
try revealed a deplorable tendency
everywhere to cheesepare on school
budgets. Towns. counties and states
appear to have been hit by the econ
omy wave and are slashing school
appropriations right and left to a de-
gree that superintendents consider
menacing in the extreme. DIR. Bal
lou tells of a compilation soon to be
brought out by schoolmen dealing
with the subject of biology as treated
in the newspaper press. To a teacher
who alleges at Cleveland that news
papers print biological nonsense" a
delegate retorted that the inaccura-
cies that creep into the press are in
finitesimal compared to the misinfor-
nation contained in the biology text
books introduced into the schools dur
ing the past ten years!
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Perennial revival of tho unfounded
reports that American recognition of
soviet Russia is near gives interest
TO the ambition cherished by Joseph
what John j. ingalls, Of Kansas used
TO call "a statesman out OF a job"
The former senator from Baltimore
wants to be the United States first
ambassador to the court OF Car
Lenin. Mr.. France visited Russia two
years ago, is frank believer in the
Legitimacy of the soviet regime. ad :
vocates its recognition forthwith by
the Harding administration, and con-
cedes that he would be proud to be
Uncle Sans envoy at Moscow.
The halibut fishery treaty ratified
by the Senate in executive session
during its expiring hours on March
is the first treaty into which Can
ada ever entered with the United
States as a sovereign power" OF
the thirty-odd treaties affecting Cana
dian an-American interests since 1914,
none was minus the signature either
Of the British ambassador at Wash
ington or some other official of the
British imperial government. The
halibut pact was signed, on behalf of
Canada. only by Ernest Lapointe,
Canadian minister of marine and fish
cries, although he is designated as
the plenipotentiary of his majesty
the King of the United Kingdom OF
Great Britain and Ireland and OF the
British Domlnions beyond the seas,
Emperor Of India" Thus the hum
BILE halibut becomes the medium of
the historic establishment of Cana
da' diplomatic Independence in fact
if not precisely in letter
Copyright 1921
Evening star., 1923-03-08

I In interstate and foreign commerce.
| At tho close of the session II had
| passed the House and was under
hTe In the Senate, for all senators
from the cotton states arc inclined to
attack 1T in defense of the market for
cottonseed OIL
some or the opponents make tho
objection to the Ladd bill that Con-
sress has no power to legisIate re-
saroing commerce. except Interstate
ana Foreign commerce, and that this
Dill foroids the sale and transporta-
| ton OF the article, even when it tray-
els from Its point of origin across q
state boundary into another state and
thsn back to another market in the
same state In which it originated
Senator Stanley OF Kentucky argues
that that is not Interstate commerce.
because the place of origin and the
market are in the same state. Cham
, pions OF the measure point out, how
| ever, tracing the travels of the arti-
Gle, that as soon as it crosses the
state boundary it becomes an object
or interstate commerce. and that re-
crossing the state boundary does not
lessen that fact; It becomes doubly
interstate.
1ntrastate commerce is left to state
iesislatures. Any state that wants
its babies so fed as to promote dis
eased conditions has the power 70 SO
! legislate for the sake OF promoting
! a market for cottonseed oil or cocoa ,
nut oil. II is babies versus oils
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From an economic standpoint tn
! foreign market is menaced nv the
sale abroad OF millions Of pounds Of
Allied milk" branded "evaporated
milk" When this becomes known
abroad il will injure tho demand for
American condensed or evaporated
milk. Just as the sale Of filled cheese
some years ago caused the injury OF
the American cheese market to the
amount OF millions OF dollars Our
| shipments of evaporated milk TO Eu-
! rope In 1913 amounted 10 $72,O0e,oo0
and in 1921 to S12I,00 900.
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1t 10 very much to be regretted
that the Senate committee on public
buildings and grounds saw IT Ia
decline the nunificent offer of Mrs
! John B. Henderson 70 give to the
government u magnificent house o.
! 10th street. costing her 100000. The
! gift was intended for the use OF Eice
Presidents as a home, and the Senate
committee based its refusal of the
| gift on the ground that it would cos,
! some $4,000 a year to maintain sucl
a home. Ordinarily Vice Presidents
T. do not have that much money tu
! spend, and their salaries are only
! $4,000. II would be necessary, there
! fore, that the government appropri-
. ate the amount annually to support
. the home.
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! Sensational charges made in Coa
gress indicate that a lot Of crooks n
/ New York are fleeing victims b.
! pretending to buy 'infuence" Of con
gressmen for 81, 900 or more for vhat-
ever measure the victims want pass
! ed. Why worry? Does not SOM
sharper sell Brooklyn bridge TO ever,
| sucker that wants to get rici! quick
! out Of the tolls? Nobody has eve
! carried the bridge away. II is cor
I fidently believed that Congress wi!
i go on saving wood whether il is sold
J like a base ball pitcher, or is "giveu
F, away Why worry? Some Vol
| Steadite threatens 10 give awav al!
! congressional boozers, and that MAY
! be something worth worrying about;
Copyright. 1923. by p. Y. oollin.)
Evening star., 1923-03-08
Thomas Circle Traffic
Change Is Suggested
10 the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Thomas Circle is ono Of the most
dangerous places In Washington. as
far as pedestrians are concerned, and
. simple Encouragement of things
would save many lives. for il this
condition is allowed to continue, quite
q number Of people are going to be
injured or killed. and when the
shriners come here in June things
will be worse.
! know the suggestion l am about
to make will be against the ideas of
many, but human lives are at stake.
Ny idea Ia this:
Cut the park at Thomas Circle down
to a square large enough for the
statue there. and change the car
tracks to run straight up and down
14th street on one side OF proposed
square. This would mako q straight
intersection Of streets and avoid much
confusion. EDWIN ROWLES.