Evening star., 1925-03-20
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Associate Justice oliver Wendell
Holmes of the United States Supreme
| Court, nestor of that august body,
| was 81 years old on March 8. A
Massachusetts, friend, congratulating
him on that venerable anniversary.
asked Justice Holmes if the middle
| of the octogenarian years found him
| hale and hearty as ever. He replied
that his nut" seemed to him to be
| functionlng at top speed, and in JUS
tifica tion of that statement Justice
| Holmes sent his correspondent "a
copy of my latest opinion" Among
his latter-day accomplishments is the
use of a portable typewriter, with
| which ne conducts most Of his private
| correspondence. The son of the
"autocrat OF the breakfast table" in
herited a considerable gift for poetry.
Some Of the verse OF which he is
proudest was written when Holmes
| was q Union soldier in the Civil War.
Confederate bullets failed to lay him
low, though in thrse different en-
sagemcnts they landed, respectively,
in his breast, neck and heel. JUS
tice Holmes has. been on the Supreme
| Court bench nearly % years, an ap-
pointee OF President Roosevelt.
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In very literal sense the mantle
OF Mark Hanna has descended upon
Washington newspaper man, Will
liam Hard. A handsome fur coat
which Hanna was fond of wearing
has just been given to Hard by Mrs.
Medill Mccormick, the famous Ohio
! "bosss" daughter. Hanna be-
queathed the garment to his son-in-
law, the late Medill Mccormick, and
the latter's widow thought her hus-
| band would be happy IL he could
I'm he of
close friend. Hard on his part says
he intends passing on the Hanna
mantle to one of Senator McCormick's S
youngsters. Mrs. Mccormick has
just paid visit to Mrs. Nicholas
Longworth in Washington, her boon
companion.
julius Rosenwald Of Chicago, per-
chant prince and .philanthropist. while
recently the guest of Herbert Hoover
disclosed some interesting figures
relative to negro conditions in the
North. Mr.. Rosenwald. long n patron
of negro education in the South, says
that while in Dixie so per cent of the
colored people live in rural COM
| munities, 73 per cent of those in the
North dwell in 10 circumscribed in
! dustrial areas. These, with their
| round population Of negroes, are:
| Indianapolis district. Observation-Disclosures. 1880
| Detroit Toledo district. .......... 30 900
| Cleye,a nd Youngstown district .., 5S, 800
Kansfs City district. ..........,....... IS. 400
! Ptttsb,.~g district ct........, $500
| Colum bus Cincinnati district so 600
| st. Louis district. ....,....... lO2. 8Oc
Chicago district. ............. 131 eco
Philadelphia district. 24S.200
| New York district. ct.............., a6l 500
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! DR.. Ales Hrdlicka, chief Of an
| thropology of the United States Ma
| tional Museum, Is going to China and
other Far Eastern regions this year
! in the course of his restless quest for
| ever new data on man. He knows
the Orient well already, as, indeed, he
does almost every other country @on
earth, uncivilizsd as well as civilized.
| DR.. Hrdlicka decidedly believes that
"the proper study of mankind is man."
To 1t he has devoted a lifetime. A
| native of Bohemia, his mature years
and professional career have been
spent almost entirely in the United
States, of which he Is an enthusiastic
citizen. His pets at the National
| Museum are a collection of 10000
| human skulls. DIR. Hrdlicka takes q
| lively interest in the American Indian.
| He told a recent; congress Of physi-
clans in Washington that trachoma,
disease of the eye. is rampant
among our redskins and assuming
devastating dimensions.
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| COL, "Ed" Startling, the giant of the
Presidents secret service squad, is
i cioser to Attorney General Sargent