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Evening star., 1923-02-18
MEN =. AND AFFAIRS
BY ROBERT T. SMALL.

is unsuccessful. and that must
not fatter myself that I am not
justly to blame for II. 1 certain
ly know that if the war fails, the
administration fails. and that /
will be blamed for. 1t. whether
be blamed If could do better. You
link I could do better; therefore,
you blame me already. think
could not do better; therefore ]
blame you for blaming me. i un-
derstand you now to be willing to
accept the help of men who are
not republicans, provided they have
"heart in it." Agreed. / want no
others. But who is to be the judge
must discard my own judgment
and take yours, I must also take
that of others; and by the time ]
should reject all l should be ad-
vised to reject, / should have none
left, republicans or others-not
even yourself For be assured. my
dear Sir, there are men who have
heart in 1t" that think, you are
performing your part as poorly as
you think i am performing mine.
! certainly have been dissatisfied
with the slowness of Buell. and Nc
Clellan; but before / relieved them
had great fears should not find
successors to them who would do
better; and l am sorry to add that
i have seen little since to relieve
those fears.
/ do not clearly see the prospect
of any more rapid movements.
fear we shall at last find out that
the difficulty is in our case rather
than In particular generals. I wish
to disparage no one.certainly not
those who sympathiZe with me;
but 1 must say 1 need success more
than 1 need sympathy. and that
have not seen the SO much greater
evidence of getting success from
my sympathizers than from those
who are denounced as the contra
ry. 1t does seem to me that III
the field the two classes have been
very much alike in what they have
done and what they have failed to
do. In sealing their faith with
their blood. Baker and Lyon and
Bohlen and Richardson. republi
cans, did all that men could do;
but did they any more than kear-
ny and Stevens and Reno and
Mansfield, none of whom were re
publicans. and some at least of
whom have been bitterly and re-
peatedly denounced to me as seces
sion sympathizers? ! will not per
form the ungrateful task of com
pairing cases Of failure.
In answer to your question, Has
it not been publicly stated in the
newspapers and apparently proved
as fact that from the commence
ment Of war the enemy was con-
tinually supplied with information
by some of the confidential subor-
dinates of as important an officer
as Adjt. Gen. Thomas?" ] must
say Tno'' as far as my knowl
edge extends. And l add that If
you can give any tangible evil
dence upon the subject. / will
thank you to come to this city and
do so. Very truly your friend.
a. LINCOLN.
Evening star., 1923-02-18
ME spirit Of Lincoln hovered
over Washington this past
week, shedding it's solace and

HE spirit OF Lincoln lowered
over Washington this past
week, shedding its solace and
comfort in the high places as
we'll as the low. President Harding.
who has found, as Lincoln did. that
it is impossible to please everybody,
has sought soothing consolation ir
the calm philosophy of the martyred
President. Secretary Hughes like
wise has harked back to Lincoln to
seek the comfort craved by those who
are criticized alike for what they do
and what they do not do.
The average person has little or no
conception of the volume of unsolic-
tied advice which pours in upon men
in the high places in Washington.
The art OF letter writing was not SO
widely practiced in Lincoln's time
as it Is today. Nor were tha postal
facilities at that time 80 swift and
keen as now. So it is safe to say
that where Lincoln received a single
letter of sympathy or advice. Presi-
dent Harding and Secretary Hughes
receive a score. The letters may be
divided into two classes-those that
begin with the expression OF the
greatest sympathy and end with the
greatest amount Of advice, and those
which are frankly critical and fault
single slash at the Gordian knot like
Why don't you do this or thatY'
tackled on at the finish.
Lincoln painstakingly answered
most OF his correspondents, treating
them tolerantly always, but crushing
lneXOraDle
logic. For President Harding to an
swer all OF the letters that pour In
upon him with various and varied
suggestions Of national and fnterna-
tional panaceas would be beyond the
capacity OF any human being. A few
are answered now and then by the
President, but mostly there is but a
polite note from Secretary Christian
or one Of his assistants acknowledg-
Ing receipt of the epistle.
There is one Lincoln letter in par
ticular which makes a direct appeal
at this time and has a bearing, per-
haps. on the present temper of the
administration. 1t was written by
Lincoln to Carl Schurz November "a,
1852, at a most trying time in his ad-
n1inistra tion. 1t deals with advice"
and perhaps for those who care to
run and read" it may convey a
poignant hint. In any event, here
It 10:
Executive Mansion.
November "a, 1862.
Gen. Carl Schurz.
My dear Sir: l have just received
and read your letter of the goth
The purport of it is that we lost
the late elections. and the adminis-
tration Is falling because the war
Evening star., 1923-02-18

House and District.

1t Is distressing to learn from the
chairman of the House rules COM
nlittee, who is in large degree the
arbiter of the legislative program in
the lower branch of Congress, that
there is little or no chance for another
District day there. Already demands
for special rules have resulted, he
says. in a situation in which it will be
impossible to grant such a dispensa-
tion to the District for the sake of
bEinging up even such meritorious
measures as the teachers pay bill,
which practically everybody favors
snd which, the Senate having already
acted, would quickly be put in the
way of final passage.
Chairman Campbell biames the Dis
trict committee for having ''frittered
away it's time for two sessions. The
chairman and members Of the District
committee blame the leaders of the
House for denying, it time when, it
has been ready to proceed. Appar-
ently the District suffers from having
nobody strongly disposed in the House
10 give il chance in the only legis-
lature it has and in which 1t is not
represented.
Two weeks remain of the session.
Despite Chairman Campbell's gloomy
view OF the prospect, is there not a
chance for the District some after
noon. when the conference reports are
rot crowding for action, when the
bis-measure items are not in the way
of, attention? OF course, everybody
else wants bit of time for some
special object. Nearly every member
Of the House has his own pet project
that he wants put upon passage. And
it has been noted in the past that i'll
these lastday periods many Of these
specia! bills are railroaded through,
often dozens of them in a day. That
is because somebody in direct interest
is behind each of them and is watch
ing an opening when the rules permit.
But there is nobody who is vitality
concerned in this teachers pay bill
or2the h-street-extension bill
or the other measures already ap-
proved by the District committee that
await attention. The members Of the
committee are kindly disposed toward
them, would be gratified to see them
pass. would take advantage OF any
chance TO get them up at the right
moment. But they have others in
which they are more intimately con-
ceined. They are representatives Of
their own districts first and Of the
District of Columbia second.
Take this teachers pay bill, for an
illustrative case. 1t is urgently need
cd to put the District schools on the
right basis. 1t is the first substantive
salary schedule law proposed since the
organic act of 1906. For nearly
seventeen years the schools have gone
ahead on patchwork basis. getting
now and then bit of corrective legis-
lation through appropriation bills.
This measure represents much work
in preparation. much careful thought
LN, school authorities and legislators.
who have taken direct hand in
Sl,fdying the situation and framing
tie bill. Ii passed it will put an end
10 AN agitation that is seriously af-
fnGting the efficiency Of the school sys-
tenn. l. will relieve the next Con-
Cress of burden. For it is inevitable
that some such bill must be passed
eventually. Why not now?
Evening star., 1923-02-18
Heard and Seen

Jacob Stein has a little grocery
store set snugly between two big
houses in a fashionable residence sec
tion.
To his store every morning come the
ladies and the ladies' maids. to get
loaf of bread, or some bacon, or the
butter that should have been secured
yesterday-but wasn't.
If every household were run the way
it ought to be, Mr.. Stein-which, by
the way, isn't his name-would have
to so out Of business. You see, his
little store is sort of neighborhood
convenience.
Not far away are many bigger
stores, chain" affairs, where one can
buy everything from bottled ginger
ale to cabbages, and at cheaper
prices. But they do not bother Stein
much.
Everybody has his place in this big
world. Every store has its proper
niche in the community.
That is the theory MIR. Stein goes on,
whether he puts it in so many words
or not. 1t is not always necessary
to understand the why and where
fore of thing to make it go. If we
did, we would have to give up cleo
more good things.
When you come into his store, he
greets you with a smile, and when
you go away he sends you away with
another wholesome grin. He Is oblig-
ing. When it is rainy, and some
householder phones him for a box OF
crackers, no matter how busy he Is,
he sends those crackers around. The
others we've too busy, really, to attend
10 their own trade.
x X
That is why Mr.. Stein has plenty OF
money to put in the bank.
That explains why he might hive
been seen recently vending his way
down town, a whole weeks receipts
in his wallet, and a smile of content
on his face. His wife was in charge
Of the store during his absence.
Mr.. Stein Is a busy man. He doesn't
get to go to the movies" very often.
So that morning. passing big pic
ture palace, he thought that he Wouio
indulge himself before going on 10
the bank.
Entering Athe theater, he found his
way through this darkened mouse 70
a. good seat. He sat down with re-
Lief. This was a treat, indeed. 1t was
a GOOD show, just the kind he liked;
The swift gliding scenes intrigued
his whole interest. He settled down
to an hour or so of solid enjoyment.
But he kept his hand on his pocket
book. Mr.. Stein Is nobody's fool. he
had worked eighteen hours a day LOT
that money and he meant to keep II.
Two hours later he woke up!
Lulled by the comfortable seat,
darkness and music, Mr.. stein had
gone to sleep. He had missed the
whole show. but that wasn't what
was bothering him. :,
startled, sitting bolt upright. horri-
bIe tales of robberies fitted through
his mind faster than any motion pic
lures trickIe across the silver screen.
He was afraid to put his hand on
his pockstbook.
He had a premonition that 1t wasn't
there. Cold sweat ran down his brow.
He had worked SO hard, and now 1t
Slowly he felt for his pocketbook.
His arm trembled as his hand stole
along. Then light broke.
He pulled out his pocketbook, in
yestigated to see that all its contents
were there, then tremblinEly got up
Never again!" he murmured to
himself. cropping his way into the
light. CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.
Evening star., 1923-02-18
Fifty Years Ago in
The Star.

Half century ago Washington was
pestered and mulcted by numerous
gift enterprises"
A Move to Check thriving upon
Gift Enterprises. the public and
the desire to "get something for moth
ing" The Star, in its issue of February
10, 1873, said:
THE Senate committee on the Dis
trict. at their meeting on the S1st
ultimo, agreed to report favorably the
bill recently passed by the House pro-
bibiting gift enterprises in the Dis
trict, but as yet the Senate has taken
no action. 1t will doubtless be passed
If it can ever be reached, but cannot
something be done to bring it up
speedily? The swindling operations
which it is intended to suppress are
going on daily, and the persons en-
gagged in them are only waiting for
the Senate to act upon the bill to put
up their shutters and take their de-
parture for fresh fields and pastures
new. They have already done q large
amount of mischief in our midst, and
have indirectly encouraged crime by
robbing the poor Of their scanty
wages and leaving them to beg or
steal the necessaries of life"
=: *
Robert Roosevelt, a member of Con-
the District in the House
District fifty years ago. The Star,
Rafting in mi its issue Of February Is.
matter:
"As usual with Tammany Congress
man Roosevelt, after making one of
his TRADES against the District gov
ernment, he reserves his speech for
revision which means that he wants
to take it to New York and get some
body to doctor his blundering figures
and put his scurrilous billingsgate
into presentable English. Mr.. Roose
welt is like some other men who have
money enough to buy their way into
Congress. but when there find them
selves without the brains or standing
to give them any weight. 1t is mat
ter of profound astonishment that the
great commercial metropolis should
be represented in the councils OF the
nation by a person of the caliber of
Robert 3. Roosevelt. His term of Of
f1ce has been an unmitigated failure.
He has not originated or advocated
single measure of public utility, or
said a word or done a deed to which
his constituents can refer with pride
or satisfaction. They do well to with
draw him peremptorily from the posi-
tion he is SO incompetent to fill. He
has neglected national interests and
the interests of his constituents to
devote himself to the work of oppos-
ing District improvements and break
ing down the District government
purely for revenge, ie., because his
striker. a person for whom he asked
q position under the board of public
works, failed to get the soft thing he
expected. This striker of Roosevelt's
threatened, as was testified to by his
fellow clerks. to bring the vengeance
of his patron down upon the board Of
public works for failing to comply
with his wishes. He seemed to speak
by the card as to the program ar
ranged between himself and Roose-
Welt, and from that day to this the
latter has kept up his malignant and
interested assaults upon the board of
public works.
Evening star., 1923-02-18

The traffic authorities find enough
difficulty in providing standing room
for taxpaying motors without admit
ting strangers as deadheads.
Evening star., 1923-02-18

After ree-thousand-year retire
ment King Tutankhamen finds him.
self the admiring center of a O'Clock
tea. gathering In his own tomb.
Evening star., 1923-02-18

Physicians who advise people to
walk instead Of using street cars may
prompt a number of people to start a
movement to have business Offices To-
Gated near the suburbs.
Evening star., 1923-02-18

Poland Is lucky in being able to
borrow money instead Of having to
figure on meeting accumulated obliga-
tons.
Evening star., 1923-02-18

Congress could undoubtedly transact
business faster were it not for a great
deal of outside interference brought
to bear in every mornings mail.
Evening star., 1923-02-18

Congress is perhaps more criticized
than any great body of performers on
earth, but it never weakens so far as
to demand a selfprotecting censor
ship.
Evening star., 1923-02-18

Europe, once content with announc-
ing. as she did for so many years. now
makes the declaration that she is on
The verge of destruction.
Evening star., 1923-02-18

A world argument now and then is
hopefully contemplated as a means Of
averting another world war.
Evening star., 1923-02-18
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Misplaced Ambition.

Misplaced Ambition.
Zeb Stubbins fingered to admire
The acrobat who walked a wire.
He vowed that he the trick could do
And show the neighbors something
new.
He needed tights that fitted well,
A balance pole, or an umbreli,
A clothesline stretched from fence
With. these he thought he'd be i'm
nense.
Zeb had 'em all. He stubbed his toe.
The ambulance was not so slow.
With all his aspirations fled,
Unto the hospital he sped.
No acrobat could hoe row.
AS we'll as Zeb, the folks all know.
So, wasn't it pity that
Zeb tried to be an acrobat.
Evening star., 1923-02-18

field in the European race for debt
paying honors.
Evening star., 1923-02-18

Kidnapers who render their victims
are introducing new varia-
tions into the drug menace.
Evening star., 1923-02-18
ElOUuent Persuasion.

EI0QuenC PERSUASION.
Have we some silver-tongued orr
tors?'' inquired Senator Sorghum.
"A few" replied the faithful as
sistant.
"Weu, don't waste 'em on public
speechmaking. Put 'em to work get
ting campaign funds"
Jud Tunkins says he longs for the
kind Of pie his mother used to make,
specially the mince."
Musings of Motor Cop.
The price Of gas went up cent. 70.
Hortense is unforgiving,
AS she expresses discomfort
With the high cost Of flivvering.
Evening star., 1923-02-18
Three Classes Of Capitals.

IHent OF the questions how much and
by what methods and for what pur-
poses they shall be taxed.
Evening star., 1923-02-18
Musings of q Motor Cop.
Bad to Worse.

1.-The noble red man was ruined by
liquor -
"Yes," commented Piute Pete. "This
continent has been having rough days
with the Demon Rum. Firewater gave
the Indian a comparatively easy finish
and left us white men to struggle with
the bootleg stuff"
''I know a man." said Uncle Eben,
dat has redd de Bible through three
times an de mos it pears to have
done foh him was to make him argu-
Evening star., 1923-02-18
Bate by Mail-Payable in Advance.
MARYLAND and Virginia.
All Other States.

Daily and Sunday 1 yr., s.. 40; mo-, 10c
Da1ly only / yr.. Sc. 90; mo-, SOC
Sunday only. 80. i W., $2.40; mo-. zoe
Evening star., 1923-02-18

DR.. Coue, evidently resenting
criticism Of lack of faith in a
Supreme Being, declared he was
not engaged in a crusade against
Evening star., 1923-02-18

Half century ago Washington was
pestered and mulcted by numerous
gift enterpriSeS"
Evening star., 1923-02-18
The Evening Star Newspaper Company

Business once, lIth st. and Pennsylvania Ave.
New York ONCE: $50 Nassau st.
Chicago Office: Tower Building.
European ONCE: 10 Regent St., London. England.
Evening star., 1923-02-18

[From argument OF Theodore W. Noyes be-
fore joint congressional fiscal committee in
1851
Evening star., 1923-09-14
ATTACKS ROOSEVELT
FOR FARM REMARKS
Marsh Bitterly Flags Navy Official
for Statement That Fanatics
Urge Price Fixing.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, Wash, September IA
Benjamin c. Marsh of Washington. D.
c., managing director of the Farmers
National Council. made public here
a telegram he sent TO Theodore Roose-
welt, assistant secretary of the Navy,
replying to a speech Mr.. Roosevelt made
at Syracuse at the New York state
fair. 1t follows:
The press reports say that you
stated at the New York state fair
that farmers could not trust the gov
ernment to manage the handling Of
farm products because politics would
creep in and spoil it,. Were you con-
Tossing the truth about the republi-
cans or indicting the democrats?
You are also quoted as saying that
mentally limited fanatics are urging
government price fixing of farm prod
ucts. The voters of several million
farm families favor this. Who ap-
pointed you to Il country life COM
mission? Half a million farmers
face the loss of their farms and their
life savings, and not all of them can
be appointed to near-cabinet posi-
tions at lucrative salaries
Evening star., 1923-09-14

raiders are the municipal farm. easily
reached by tramway, and the Kritz
estate of several thousand acres.
Throngs visited the latter Tuesday.
despite warning by the police. and
by noon more than a thousand men.
women. boys and girls found them
selves in custody. Later, disregard
ing the presence of augmented police
squads, other crowds invaded the
estate and more than 500 arrests were
made.
The raiders brought their own dig
ging tools and sacks, Many came to
the fields on bicycles or in wagons
and carts. Most of those arrested
said they were hungry. pleading that
they had resorted to such tactics be-
cause of the scarcity of food In the
city
Evening star., 1923-09-14
HUNGRY BERLIN H0RDES
RAID POTATO FIELDS
Special Police Squad Organised to
Protect Suburban
Farmers.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, September 1.-THE "po-
tato squad Is the latest unit of the
Berlin police force. 1t has been as
signed to deal with hordes of city
dwellers who have been invading the
suburban districts and digging up all
the potatoes in sight.
Among the fields visited by the
Evening star., 1923-09-14
FILIPINOS DEFY
GOV. GEN. WOOD
VIII Not Refer Budget to In
Sular Finance De-
partment.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
MANILA, September IL. - Manuel
Que2on, president of the Philippine sem
/ ate, declared yesterday that neither the
Senate nor the house of representatives
would submit their respective budgets
to the insular department of finance.
He said the legislature would deal with
budget "as it deems proper without
regard to Gov. Gen Leonard Woods
; Instructions"
Manuel Roxas, speaker of the house
of representatives. who recently sub
mitted the house budget to the depart
ment of finance, on advice from Quezon,
withdrew II today.
Evening star., 1923-09-14
sneaking From Experience.

From the Baltimore News.
Two inhabitants of sagebrush
town were seated on a cracker box
exchanging desu,tory conversation
you know them hot cakes what
the feller Alps In the window of the
Forlorn Hope restaurant"
''Yes, know en-"
Ever try 'sm?"
Yes, I've tried 'em?'
what do you think OF 'em?'
The citizen thus appealed to gazed
toward the foothills for
some minutes and then rendered
judgment.
cook"
Evening star., 1923-09-14

The biggest newspaper ever pub
Eshed was the Illuminated Quadruple
Constellation. issued in New York
in 1859. The sheet measured eight
and one half feet in length and six
foet in width, and consisted of eight
pages. each containing thirteen col
umnS.
Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1923-12-27
TEMESVARON MEGSZtNTET-
TEX A MAGYAR ISKOLAKAT.

Az olah kormany a temesvari
magyar iskolak miik0deset be.
szjintette. A miniszteri rendelet
parancsa a magyarnyelvii real
glmnaziumban, a kegyesrendi f.
gimnaziumban, a fels0kereskede,-
mi iskolaban es tizenegy ovoda-
ban vetett veget magyarnyelvii
oktatasnak. Meglegyezni kivan-
juk, hogy Temesvaron meg az
olah nepszamlalas elferditett ada
tai szerint is tobb mint harminc-
ezer magyar el S icy az olah kor-
many onkenye tobb eyer magyar
nyelvu tankotelest fosztott meg
attol, hogy anyanyelven tanulhas-
sen. Az erdelyi Magyar Part te-
mesvari vezetosege ertesiilesitnk
szerint tiltakoz0 memorandumok-
kal probal orvoslast szerezni a ma
gyarsagot ert serelem ellen.
Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1923-12-27
AHOL 25 SKATULYA GYUFA
ARAT FIZETIK A LAKTANYA
BEREERT.

Tatatovaros k0zsegi k0ltsegvc-
teseit most vizsgaltak keresztiil,
k0zben egy meglep0 adat keriilt
felszinre. Kideriilt ugyanis. hogy
katonai kincstar k0zsegi tu-
laJdont kepczo t6varosi laktanya-
ert meg ma is bekeben megalla
pitott berosszeget, azaz Dtezerhi;-
romszaz koronat fizet k0zsegnek
IS termeszetesen j0szantabol SEM
mi szandekot sem mutat ber0sz-
szegnek a felcmclesere.
Bekeben ez az 0sszeg nemcsalS
a laktanya fenntartasara nyujtott
elegseges fedezetct, hanem a koz-
seq egyik jovedelem forrasa is
volt. Ma azonban ez az 0sszeg
csak k0riilbeliil 25 skatulya gyufa
aranak felel meg, mint AIT to-
varosiak megallapitottak, eliza
taroztak, hogy mozgalmat indits-
max a berosszeg felemelese erde-
keben.
Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1923-12-27
u HIREK AZ 0HAZAB0L d

gi, ipari es kulturalis eletet het ha-
talmas iskolateremben mutatta
be. A Falu Orszagos Foldmiives
Szovetseg reszerol DR.. Steinecker
Ferenc 'alelnokigazgat6, gazda-
gyiilesen pedig DR.. Bodor Anta1
igazgato ses Macy Sander fotitkar
tartottak falu idoszeru kerde-
seir0l beszedeket. Ez alkalommal
meleg ovaci6ban reszesitettek Gu
.bacsi Greg juhaszt, a kinek kezde-
sere es t0bb evi buzgolkodasara
terjedt ell szeles k6rben ,Jaszla-
danyban "a szoves,' fonas, a MANSz
kiallitasi csoportjaban egesz Sc
reg sz0vo es fon6 leany 6s ,asz-
sony mutatta be k0vetesre, melto
nunkassagat.