Evening star., 1923-04-12

"The man who dynamites the
eighteenth amendment to crafty his
thirst is Just as much a criminal as
the man who dynamites a factory be-
cause the cu1prit does not approve Of
our property laws Men who buy
liquor from q bootlegger are vio-
lating section 6 OF the national pro-
hibition act. The rum smuggler on
ships Of foreign registry Is nothing
less than a pirate shooting holes into
our Constitution from beyond the
three-mile limit" That Is the creed
of Wayne B. Wheeler. general coun-
sci of the Anti-Saloon League. He
also says: Governors and other of1-
cials who refuse to enforce the Vol
stead law are in the Same class with
other bootleggers."
Analyzed, it means that It is the
same offense to violate one part OF
the Constitution as to violate any
other. 1t is the same offense, he
says. to be implicated in a crime. no
matter at which end OF the con-
spiracy ono stands. It is the same
offense for a governor as for a POOR
backwoodsman to be a bootlegger.
1t is the same piracy for ship to
stand outside the three-mile limit and
dispatch small runners past the legal
blockade to land contraband liquor
as it would be to stand ten miles out
at sea and fire shells at a coast city.
is there any doubt that the Navy
would go beyond the three-m limit
in chasing a foreign ship which dared
to lombard New York or Baltimore
from twenty miles at sea?
Here In Washington the Japanese
and what they say must be very
pretty. or the cherry blossoms could
not possibly look so beautiful while
expressing the sentiments intrusted
to them.
There is something SO sacred about
whatever is associated with the mem
ory Of our martyred Lincoln that the
news that Henry Ford had offered to
buy the collection Of Lincoln relics
gathered during sixty years by Capt.
Osborn g. Oldroyd. and exhibited in
the very house where the stricken
President died. comes as shock to
ones sensibilities.
Mr.. Ford proposes to remove the
collection to Detroit. As we'll pro-
Washington or the cracked old Lib
erty bell and remove them to De-
troit.
Fortunately. Mr.. oldroyds own
sense of the proprieties and the pa
triotic interest OF the whole nation
y,4fI l. ~
until Congress can decide whether
It will meet the offer. The nation
already owns the house in which Mr..
Lincoln died and 1t will be preserved
AS historic shrine OF patriotism.
1t is inconceivable that the hundreds
there should ever be permitted to be
removed.
The original Lincoln statue, done
by Mr.. Flannery, will be rededicated
June 21. This is the oldest statue Of
Lincoln in existence. 1t has had an
ordeal Of discard since Il was re-
moved from its pedestal and lost"
for some years because OF criticism
from an artistic standpoint. It is re-
stored by act Of Congress and prob
AMY "dAA IOl
1t is not a work OF art merit, but
Is priced for its history and for the
strong likeness OF the face to the
man it commentaries. II is as a
Lincoln relic, rather than as a statue,
that 1t Is honored.
One OF the remarkable facts con-
nected with the statues in Washing
ton Of the nations three greatest
Presidents is that they were not the
fruit Of any real art training. Mr..
Flannery. the sculptor OF the Lin
coin statue. was a marble Gutter. with
no art education whatever. Mr..
Clark Mills. who modelled the Wash
ington and the Jackson bronzes,
about which so much has been writ
ten lately, was q plasterer. with no
art knowledge. He had natural tall
ent. and friends IN his South Caro-
lima home are said to have given him
funds to so to Europe to study sculp-
ture. He proceeded on his Journey
as far as Washington, and-perhaps
unfortunately-was given a commits
sion here for the Jackson group, and
that is as far as he ever went toward
the European studies. A personal
friend of Mr.. Mills is authority for
the statement that in later life he