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Southern Ideals to the Fore;
IFhy Not a Southern Man?
NE of the most impressive and alto
together most heartening signs of
the time is the surety with which
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America’s thought is swinging back to those
ideas and ideals of government which are
historically Southern —the ideas of Jeffer
son and Jackson, the ideals of individual
right and responsibility that were the very
pole star of our- republic's primal years, the
very lite-tide of Anglo-Saxon liberty. It
was inevitable that there should come, soon or
late, a reaction from the over-centralizing
and paternalistic drift in our governmental
affairs; inevitable, that is to say, if the
United States was to be indeed such a de
mocracy as its founders visioned, rather than
a half-American, half-Prussian bureaucracy.
How reassuring that it should come at this
anxious and disquieting juncture! What a
tribute to Southern traditions! What an op
portunity for Southern leadership!
For more than fifty years the individual
States have been losing their -strength of
initiative and their sense of self-reliance,
while Federal authority has taken on Go
liath proportions—and, not infrequently, a
Goliath mood. Citizens of these once sov
ereign commonwealths have come, gradually
but surely, to regard Washington very much
as the inhabitants of a province in the Au
gustan empire regarded Rome, or as Rus
sians under the old regime regarded Petro
grad. Functions once performed by Legisla
tures have been absorbed by Washington.
Responsibilities once supposed from their
very nature to rest upon the States have been
transferred to Washington. Problems, once
considered the peculiar concern of particu
lar regions, must now be solved, if at all,
by the advice and aid of Washington.
It may be said that all this is efficient, but
it cannot be said that it is American. Nor
can it be said to develop those virtues of
citizenship which spring from each man’s
consciousness of his particular duty and
right, and which result in that "organized
self-control” called democracy. Paternalis
tis or socialistic government gets many things
done, be it granted, with more speed and
economy than democratic government has yet
attained. But unless we are ready to sub
ordinate humanity to mechanism, and aban
don the ideals of Washington and Jef
ferson, it is highly behooveful that we
halt our fifty-year trend to centralization and
ask if it has not gone far enough, or dan
gerously too far? We have settled once for
all that we are Union of States rasher than
a crowd of unlinked sovereignties; but we
have yet to settle whether we shall remain
a S a * On STATES, each having its own
poetical life and right, or become a virtual
empire in which local self-government will
boa fading shadow and the power at Wash
instfcq all in ail. x
If the principles of government to which
the South has been faithful tllrough all vi
cissitudes and which are the life-breath of
the Democratic party now attract the com
mon country’s soberest thought, what could
be more flitting than the nomination of a
Loufhcrn man as Democracy’s candidate for
the Presidency? And what more logical than
his election? That the common country is
returning to the traditional Southern view I
is evidenced in many quarters and many ways.
l, at S 2s hted Republicans themselves, men like
Mr ‘ Hughes and Mr. Root, bred
though they were upon the Hamiltonian the
ory. have been heard of late years in warn
ings against the tendency toward perilous
centralization. So. too. from the leading
counsels of American journalism, news
papers and magazines alike, come pleas for
de-centralization to the extent at least of pre
serving local and individual responsibilities
an<l rig h t - This sentiment is particularly
“arked in the great Middle West, with which
the South has developed so close a commu
nity of interests in the fight for fair play to
the N’nJth a s H US t the * hi » ping monopolists of
the North Atlantic. In that populous west
ern region, whose vote will go very far to
ward determining the outcome of the next
Presidential election. Southern ideas of gov
ernment have taken specially strong hold
upon the rank and file of the peopte just
™ recognition of the fact that Southern and
Western business must stand together for
their common rights, has come forcefully
To m no o°ne CO sec? erCi l 1 and industria! leaders
To n o one section, however, is the growth ot
these ideas confined. Throughout the Union
they are asserting themselves in thoughtful
17 not’ ™<V Onßtft u te most appending
which’ the de DPm para . mount Principle upon
mh the Democratic party can go before
atoft than y ‘ a A IP«d Wh °? etter could bear them
stronghold? leader fr ° m their traditional
Certainly the time has come for the South
to play a worthier role in the affairs of the
Democratic party than that of a handy Man
Friday who delivers unfailingly a solid block
of votes to whatsoever candidate he is bid
den. Surely the States whence the nation
drew its wisest counselors and strongest
leaders for well-nigh a hundred years have
not become so impoverished in brain and
character that they can offer no helmsman
for these latter times! It was a great New
England scholar who declared that before the
war of the ’Sixties, the South furnished
America with President after President from
whom Lord Bacon himself might have gath
*ered rich truths for his immortal essay on
“States and Statesmanship.” Has not that
war been over long enough for the South to
return to her olden place and privilege?
-Were not bitterness and prejudice washed all
away with the blood of her sons at San
TEE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
Juan and Manila, at Chatq.au Thierry and in
the Argonne? The Journal does not believe
that there exists in the minds of any consid
erable portion of the American people that
bar sinister against nominating a Southern
candidate for President, which political
manipulators in the East seem invariably to
assume. They have said in former years that
Democracy could in no wise win except with
a candidate from one of those doubtful
States —Indiana, New York. New Jersey or
Connecticut. Year after year, convention af
ter convention, they have given this stereo
typed answer to suggestions that it might be
well to name a Southern Democrat for
leader. Yet, today we find them —angels and
ministers of grace defend us!—proposing to
choose a Democratic nominee from such
a rock-ribbed citadel Republicanism as
Pennsylvania.
By no means would we imply that a man’s
hailing from the South makes him of itself a
better Democrat or a more available candi
date. But we do maintain that if he is excep
tionally able to begin with, exceptionally ex
perienced, exceptionally well and favorably
known in regions which are likely to poll the
decisive vote, exceptionally strong in Ameri
canism and in devotion to those principles
of government to which the country s mind
is returning today as to a chart of safety in
troublous seas —then, assuredly, the fact of
his coming from the South would make his
nomination all the more appropriate and his
election all the more logical. In the judgment
of many Southerners and of many thousands,
of Americans, Georgia today affords just
such an available candidate in the person ot
her senior Senator. No one who has watched
his career from the time when President
Cleveland called him to national service as
Secretary of the Interior, on through nearly
thirty years of duty and achievement, can
doubt Hoke Smith’s ability. No one who has
taken the pains to inquire concerning him in
the Far West, whose wonderful development
he did so much to initiate and encourage
when he was at the head of the Interior; de
partment, can doubt his popularity in that
quarter; nor along the Pacific cooast, where
his stand on Japanese immigration won
warm approval; nor in the Middle West, for
whose interests, in conjunction with those of
the South, he has labored so diligently, de
fending the rights of South Atlantic and
Gulf ports against the shipping combine of
New York, Pennsylvania and New England.
None who observed his sound and construc
tive policies on great economic questions can
doubt the confidence in which he is held by
legitimate business. And certainly no one who
studies his incomparable record of service to
the nation’s agricultural interests can doubt
his strength with millions of American farm-
Why not a President from the South, the
cradle-land of American Democracy, the
fortress of the rights of the States, the cher
isher of Anglo-Saxon freedom?
Why not a President from the great cot
ton-growing region which clothes the w orld
and gives dominance to American industry,
yet which has never been honored with par
ty or national leadership?
Why not a President from Georgia, the
staff of the Old South and the heart of the
New? Why not a united outspeaking of Geor
gia Democracy in the approaching primary,
to the end that a leader from our own ranks,
a leader who represents the soundest and
most appealing thought of the day may be
presented to the San Francisco convention
and made the bearer of our standard m the
great battle?
LaGrange and Ilest Point.
EVER were there more heart-stir
ring examples of civic courage and
resourcefulness than those of La-
N
Grange West Point and other Georgia com
munities in grappling the grim P-blem’ est
in the wake of the recent storm. While a
sympathetic public stood read * and
throughout the State to provide all that
might be needful in way of relief, the win -
torn towns forthwith declared that t ey
would meet their own emergencies and work
out their own salvation. How well they have
lived up to this brave faith their efforts and
achievements abundantly witness.
Promptly and with unstinting hands, La-
Grange’s loyal citizenry raised a fund o
fifty-five thousand dollars for the tornado
sufferers. The work of clearing away debris
in the devastated districts was started at
the earliest possible moment and pressed
swiftly to completion. Plans for restoration
have already been formulated and will be
carried out with kindred vigor.
Likewise in West Point there was not a
minute’s hanging back from the heavy tasks
to be done, not a tinge of faint-hearted
ness in facing the dour misfortunes. “Forty
eight hours after Sunday's storm had raged
through downtown West Point,” writes The
Journal’s staff correspondent, “the city had
made unbelievable strides toward rehabilita
tion;” and as the week draws to a close con
ditions are approaching normal. This spirit
of pluck and performance is the more ad
mirable, lifted as it is against the second
disaster of a short span of months.
It is fortitude and energy like this that
give a town character and distinction, and
assure its progress to true greatness. La-
Grange, West Point and all others that suf
fered and triumphed in the storm have their
State’s heart-deep admiration.
IFelcome to the Georgia Press.
TLANTA warmly welcomes the leaders
of the Georgia Press Association,
who have- assembled reie in a spe-
A
cial meeting, called by President J. Kelly
Simmons, to take counsel on current
problems of their business and also on their
opportunities for upbuilding the Common
wealth. This latter enterprise, has al
ways enlisted the Association’s hearty in
terest, but now it has been made a special
and major objective. A persisting and united
campaign for a greater Georgia through the
development of her manifold resources, both
economic and human, will be conducted by
the press of the State, and undoubtedly will
win rich results. •
Because of the high undertaking in which
they are thus engaged and also because ot
their individual worth and service to public
interests, Atlanta counts it a most happy
privilege to have these representative editors
and publishers as her guests. May their con-'
ferences be abundantly fruitful, both in the
Solution of business problems and in the ad
vancement of those great common causes
which the Press Association has so much at
heart.
quips aneFquiddities
At a lunatic asylum one of the inmatds
was busily engaged catching flies, and every
fresh captive he placed in a glass case with
a chuckle of glee.
“Halloa!” said a visitor inquiringly. “En
tomologist?”
“No,” replied the attendant with a grin;
“he is an inventor and his failure with an
airship sent him mad. When he catches suffi
cient flies he is going to fasten them all to
gether and harness them to a soapbox, and
so fly over the walls and escape.”
March, having come in like a lion, pro
ceeded like a wolf-pack, and went out like a
weeping hyena. May April prove true her
shining, but not her showerful, traditions.
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST
According to a message from San Francis
co a signed statement declaring that he has
evidence that Ambrose Bierce, a well known
writer, who disappeared in 1915, was put to
death by a Villista firing squad near the vil
lage of Icamoli, on the trail to Monterey,
was made in the San Francisco Bulletin by
J. H. Wilkins.
Wilkins is a special writer just returned
from Mexico after a search for evidence as to
Bierce’s fate. 1
Wilkins’ informant, he said, was a mem
ber of the band that executed Bierce and
showed the writer a picture of Bierce taken
from his clothing after the execution.
After the split between Villa and Carran
za, Bierce was attached to the Carranza
forces as a military expert, Wilkins said, and
was captured while directing a mule train
bearing a shipment of arms out of Torreon
and shet.
Three officers of the Eighty-second field
artillery, stationed at El Paso, Tex., have
been recommended for court martial in con
nection with the loss of many thousand dol
lars’ worth of ammunition and government
supplies from Fort Bliss, it became known re
cently. The officers, it was said, were not
personally connected with the losses other
than that the ammunition and supplies were
lost while under their care.
Ammunition, guns and equipment in great
quantities have been stolen from border army
posts during the past year, it was said, which
have then been smuggled into Mexico. The
stolen ammunition and equipment were sold
to both Mexican government officials and
rebel leaders in Mexico, particularly Villa,
according to reports made to American
authorities. t
American exports to Australia jmder pres
ent trade conditions were discussed by, 300
members of the American Manufacturers Ex
port association at a luncheon in the Hotel
Pennsylvania recently. Mark Sheldon, trade
commissioner from Australia, was the only
speaker. In part he said:
“In 1913, pre-war, your exports f ron \ J* 16
United States to Australia were oniy $55,-
000 000. The proportion then was thirteen
and one-half per cent of our total imports.
It is understood from a reliable source
that nearly 1,000 clerks, stenographers and
bookkeepers employed by the city of Chica
go struck very recently, and up to alate date
have shown no signs of weakeing, thereby
paralyzing business. The city council re
fused to grant the strikers’ demands for S3OO
more a year for all grades, it was stated.
The finance committee’s report was con
firmed, fixing the increases at from S6O to
SIBO, depending on the length of service
and present pay. At almost the same hour
322 members of the union met and con
firmed the strike, which was ordered last
week by a vote of 307 to 15. When the
council took its vote it is understood that
the strike had not begun.
The most unusual industry operating in the
home district of any member of congress—-
and that means the entire United States —is
probably to be found near Senator Park
Trammell’s home. It is the sponge fisheries
at Tarpon Springs, Fla. Tills industry does
more than a million dollars’ worth of business
annually. It was built by John K. Cheney,
formerly a Philadelphia banker. He went t«>
Florida on a real estate development propo
sition, and quickly visioned the possibilities
of making Tarpon Springs, centrally located
on the Gulf of Mexico, and with railroad con- |
nections, the headquarters of the industry. !
This has resulted in the building up of a
beautiful little city with 4,000 inhabitants ;
In 1905 Mr. Cheney revolutionized the,
business by bringing divers from Greece to
operate in thirty to 130 feet of water instead !
of the old-style method.
Women will be allowed this year for the
first time to compete in the highest French
examinations in. philosophy and philology.
Andre Honnorat, minister oof education, has
issued instructions that women candidates
be admitted on the same term as men at
these examinations, which open the way to
professorships in the higher educational in
stitutions.
' YOUR BRIGHT CHILD
• -
By H. Addington Bruce
YOU have a child of whom you are
rightly proud. Friends, neighbors, his
teachers are agreed that he is uncom
monly quick to learn, is exceptionally ad
vanced for his years.
But some among your acquaintances be
siege you with dire warnings.
They even urge you to put a check on
your little hoy’s mental activity. They allege
that he is “thinking too much for his good.’’
They point alarmingly to other precocious
children who have suffered in after years
from nervous or mental breakdowns.
Do not let them mislead you. If- precocious
children often do “go to pieces,” so do stupid
children. It is not the precocity that is to
blame any more than it is the stupidity.
When a precocious child, a stupid child,
or a child of average intelligence breaks
down, it is not because he has thought too
much or too little. It is because his parents
have allowed him to acquire wrong modes of
thinking—and, still more, of feeling.
These wrong modes make it difficult for
him to adapt himself to his surroundings and
to the hard realities of life. Failing to adapt,
he from mental and emotional con
flicts which may have a breakdown as their
climax.
Now, among the wrong modes of thinking
and feeling known to be especially produc
tive of mental and nervous troubles is un
due interest in self—egocentricism. And it is
undeniable that precocious children, unless
carefully reared, are peculiarly liable to be
come egocentric.
As Professor W. H. Burnham has rightly
emphasized, in a discussion of child train
ing:
“The special danger with many children
of superior talents is that by the ease with
which they accomplish their tasks, and by
their superior accomplishments, and the fact
that they always stand above their fellows,
they acquire an undue estimate of their own
ability and their own importance.
“They become egocentric in an extreme de
gree, and thus the germs of pathological
egomania may be planted in the period of de
velopment. Innumerable cases have shown
concretely the disastrous results that come
in later life from such conditions.”
What you need to guard against, in fine, is
not overthinking by your bright child, but
conceited thinking.
It would be a mistake —a grievous mis
take—for you to discourage him from using
and exercising the mind God has given him.
But strive unceasingly to prevent him from
acquiring too exalted an opinion of himself.
Do not parade his brightness, as perhaps
you now are doing. Do not flatter him, do
not sing his praises to all who will listen.
Let him appreciate, of course, that you are
sincerely pleased at his intellectual progress.
But show more pleasure in whatever evidence
he gives of moral growth. Above all, by pre
cept and example, cultivate in him senti
ments of generosity, sympathy, unselfishness,
and modesty.
These are the virtues he jg most
The supreme court, in deciding appeals
brought by the British ship owners, upheld
the constitutionality of 'the provisions of.
the La Follette seamen’s act relating to the
payment of wages to seamen upon demand.
Federal court decrees holding that the pro
visions. apply to foreign seamen on foreign
vessels while in American ports were sus
tained by the- court. The appeals resulted
from libel proceedings brought against the
British steamers Strathearn and Westmeath
by foreign seamen to obtain part of their
wages under the act upon arrival in Ameri
can jorts.
Nearly 50,000 employes of packing com
panies in Chicago will be thrown out of work
if 900 workers of the Union Stock Yards
and Transit company, who went on strike
Saturday at midnight, remain out, packing
officials said recently.
“We have enough live stock on hand for
a day or so,” said an official of Armour &
Co. “After that we must gradually close
down if the strike continues, and a week
will see all departments of the plant closed.”
The members of the New York City fire
department, in response to an appeal for
help from the destitute firemen of the city
of Vienna, have raised a fund of $2,000,
which was transmitted by cable to the
American Relief Aid in Vienna for distribu
tion among the firemen of the former Aus
trian capital and their families. The money
will be used to purchase food and clothes,
according to Honorary Deputy Fire Chief
Robert H. Mainzer, who dispatched the fund.
Care of sick and disabled soldiers and
sailors who served in the -world war will cost
$18,316,000 for the year ending June 30.
Surgeon General Cumming, of the public
health service, informed congress today in
asking for an additional appropriation of
$8,816,000.
According Co a statement from Paris Henry
P. Davison, chairman of the League of Red
Cross Societies, sketched to a gathering of
newspaper correspondents the terrible condi
tion prevailing in central and eastern Europe.
He stated as having received a telegram from
Poland, very recently, telling him there are
230,000 cases of typhus in that country itself.
Doctors and medical supplies are sadly lack
ing.
“A ship has just arrived at a Baltic port
from Russia with 700 refugees, among them
fifteen generals and many women. Numerous
typhus cases being aboard the ship, the refu
gees were not allowed to land.
“In Montenegro four doctors are trying to
look after more than 420,000 persons.
“The work of relief is too great for the Red
Cross league alone and must be done by the
aid of the allied governments.”
Governor Smith, of New York, named
William P. Burr, corporation counsel of New
York City, to succeed the late Eugene A.
Philbin as Supreme court justice. The nomi
nation was sent to the senate finance com
mittee. Mr. Burr was born in Ireland in
1856. He was educated in New York and
at St. James college, Baltimore, and Co
lumbia Law school. Mr. Burr is a man of
recognized ability and no doubt will fill the
office of supreme justice to the satisfaction
of all.
According to a cable trom London, a
Rumanian oil company, the Rumanian Con
solidated Oil Field, Ltd., won the first step
in its efforts to collect $6,250,000 from the
British government for destruction of the
company’s wells during the retreat of 1916.
The judge held that the British envoy super
intending destruction of the wells promised
to reimburse the owners, Dur he declined
to assess the amonut of damages.
Predictions that Japan eventually will join
the list of dry nations were made in Seattle,
Wash., by three Japanese delegates to the
International Convention of Woman’s Chris
tian Temperance Union in London, April 18
to 25.
The three—Mrs. Kaji Itikama, president
of the Japanese W. C. T. U.; Mrs. Edward
Gamnlett and Mrs. T. Watase, officials of 1
the union—left recently for New York.
THE GOOD LOSER
—o—
Dr. Frank Crane
You have heard how nothing succeeds like
success, and how the world loves a winner,
and how a successful man finds everybody
ready to help him to further triumphs, and
it’s all true enough; but there’s something
truer and not so generally known, and that
is that the world loves a good loser.
Look about you among your acquaintances
and note the ones that are the most popular
and the ones you yourself like best. They
are, I venture to say, not the fellows who
are luckiest or cleverest or most capable, or
those who draw the most pay, but they are
the boys that don’t get grouchy, those that
lose and keep good-natured, those who, when
they fail, get up and brush off the dust and
go at it again as jolly as ever and don’t lie
in the mud and whine.
The language of the street has a word
which compresses all this feeling into one
syllable—“sport.” When President Roose
velt told the boys in Cheyenne that he liked
western men because they were good sports,
he meant just what I am trying to express
here. Sport, like some other words, has room
for a lot of meanings; it may signify*a profli
gate, a drunkard, and a spendthrift, just as
the word love in some base mouths may
stand for shameful things; but, rightly un
derstand, a “sport” is just a real man—a man
who can take defeat and not get soured.
But some one may say: “Oh, I can stand
a licking all right, and I don’t mind losing out
if it’s a square deal. But what makes me
hot is injustice.. When some miserable
shrimp that doesn’t know beans is promoted
over me I can’t help being disgusted. When
trickery and toadying and little meannesses
sneak in any carry away the prize from fel
lows who are straight and honest, then is
when I grow warm under the collar.”
But why? You don’t understand. That
is not the time to swear. That’s the time
to smile. Life would not be funny if cirtue
were always rewarded at once. To see the
jackdaw with peacock feathers stuck in his
tail, to see the peanut thinking it is a cocoa
nut, to see the frog swelling up till he thinks
he is the size of a cow—all this is the comedy
of existence. It is to laugh.
You’d just as well be a philosopher. You
feel much better, and certainly those around
you feel much better, than if you fume and
fret.
There was a deal of sense in the man in
the story, who was attacked without reason
by a drunken Irishman, who knocked him
down and rolled him in to the ditch, exclaim
ing: “There! Lay there, you dom Swede.”
The man arose laughing. As the Irishman
passed on, wondering and muttering, the man
still laughed.. Some one who had seen it
all asked him what he was daughing about.
“That’s a good yoke on that fellar,” said
t*e man. “He thought I bin a Swede—and I
bin Norwegian!”
(Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.)
likely to lack. With them properly developed
in him, you may confidently look forward to
his reaching a sane, well-balanced, effective,
and really superior manhood.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
S/uULLDA>, Al i’.LL o, 10—3
THE TRI-WEEKLY EDITORIAL DIGEST
A National and Non-Partisan Summary of Leading Press Opinion’ on Current
Questions and Events
“Liquor will undoubtedly cut a big figure in
national politics this year,” predicts the EL
PASO HERALD (Ind.), pointing out that a
recent decision of the supreme court per
mits congress to say what percentage of al
cohol is “intoxicating.” The HERALD
thinks it would be “the merest camouflage
for congress to enact a law that beer and
wine are not intoxicating. But congress has
done other things as “ridiculous,” and “judg
ing from the spirit cf most of the people at
present, such a decision would not be un
popular with the majority of the voters of
the country.
“The liquor question is becoming a big
issue again, just when most people had be
gun to consider it settled,” agrees the TA
COMA NEWS TRIBUNE (Ind.). “There is
no blinking the fact of a considerable reac
tion against prohibition. . . . Whole states
seem on the verge of rebellion;” and the
TRIBUNE* doubts that “the majority of citi
zens who favored the dry amendment ever
expected that the permissible alcoholic con
tent of beverages would be reduced to the
ridiculous minimum of one-half of 1 per
cent.”
“The way will be opened for a definite
national decision” on liquor, says the LAN
SING STATE JOURNAL (Ind.), “if its ad
vocates succeed in getting a plank into one
party platform and the other party ignores
it,” and the JOURNAL ADDS: (
“There is a growing movement, particu
larly in Democratic circles, to propose a mod
ification oof the drastic prohibition regime
by permitting the manufacture and sale of
beverages of low alcoholic content, particu
larly ’beer and light wines.”
“Already three candidates for the presi
dential nomination on the Democratic ticket,
Governor Edwards, of New Jersey; Governor
Cox, of Oiho, and Senator Hitchcock, of Ne
braska,” the WHEELING REGISTER (Dem.)
points out, “have indorsed moderation of
the Volstead act to permit light wines and
beer.”
“Wilson, the League and Lager” is sug
gested as a Democratic slogan this year by
the LEXINGTON LEADER (Rep.), for it
thinks that if Mr. Wilson decides to run
again he will be “wise enough to know that
he could pot hope to carry the election sole
ly on the League of Nations issue, and in
casting about for a companion issue what
better could be found than light wine and
beer?” But if the Democrats “take the
field against prohibition and construct their
platform accordingly,” the SALT LAKE
TRIBUNE (Rep.) is sure it “would split the
party and bring William J. Bryan to the fore
as champion of the amendment.” Therefore
this effort to put a “wet” plank into the San
Francisco platform “is a sly bit of general
ship that is not going to work if Bryan and
THE SACRED SENATE—Bv Frederic J. Haskin
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 30.—1 f
the senate chamber contains the
seats of the mighty, the senate gal
leries are certainly the seats of the motion
less.
You can travel pretty generally around.the
United States and not have your liberties
seriously interfered with. You may not go
wading In Niagara Falls or climb the outside
of the Washington monument without a per
mit, but aside from a few restrictions of this
sort you can be your natural self almost any
where.
In the galleries of the senate, however, the
American for once ceases to be the nearest
human approximate to perpetual motion, and
becomes a rival of the cigar store Indian.
While listening to a senator make a speech
you may not laugh, eat anything, talk (ex
cept in unintelligible whispers), use your in
dex finger to point out your favorite celeb
rity, put anything on the rail, use opera
glasses, take snapshots, read, write, address
the senate, whistle, applaud, or wave your
handkerchief. This is only a partial list, made
up from the writer’s personal observation and
experience, of how far a galleryite can go
without being stopped by a guard. So far,
we have rarely found anybody who got any
where.
One young man recently arose to make a
speech to the senate. He had just opened
his mouth, and put his hand in his vest, when
a guard leaped down three steps at a time and
shut him off. In another second the young
man was out in the corridor with four door
keepers holding him. He was then permitted
to make his speech in a gentle whisper. It
turned out that he thought the ghost of Jef
ferson had picked him out to show the world
the way to peace. He had an American flag
in his breast pocket to wave at the climax
of his address, and he was quite broken
hearted that the guards would not let him
go back and show the senate how to be peace
ful.
The list of gallery “shall nots” has grad
ually accumulated to its present size. There
is no complete printed copy in existence. None
is needed. Every guard knows intuitively
that the minute a visitor begins to liven up
it is time to squelch him.
The present man in charge of the galleries*
Mr. J. B. Dufault, has been in office only
since last June, but already he has added a
lot of new restrictions to a supposedly com
plete assortment. For instance, guides con
ducting parties of visitors through the capitol
used to trail them down the corridors out
side the senate galleries. Sometimes it took
ten minutes for a big party to pass a given
point, and while it clattered by, the people
inside would miss ten minutes of senatorial
procedure. Mr. Dufault achieved perpetual
quietude simply by having the guides go
around another way during senate sessions.
Another institution of Mr. Dufault’s is a
series of cards informing visitors in polite
language that the gallery rails are not coat
racks or elbow rests. It used to keep two
guards busy rushing up and down the aislds
to tell people about this unwritten law. Even
then a hat or powderpuff would occasionally
..sail down and hit some portly and dignified
lawmaker on the nose. Some of the senators
became quite nervous about it. But now,
with an abundance of printed notices, the
danger is minimized.
The senate, Mr. Dufault says, is much more
jealous of its traditions and of propriety than
the house, and any sign of disrespect on
the part of visitors is quickly resented.
One of the few times on record when the
senate gallery ever got away from the door
keepers was during the recent discussions
of the peace treaty. When Senator Lodge
was making his eloquent attack on the League
of Nations, certain groups of onlookers burst
again and again into loud applause. Guards
suppressed the offenders twice, and the third
time informed them that they -would have to
calm down or get out. Vice President Mar
shall, referring to the incident, smilingly said
that he would not object to the applause ex
cept that none of it was for him. At this,
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who was
in the gallery, started to clap and the specta
tors broke into applause for the fourth time
that afternoon. Later, however, Mr. Marshall
decreed absolute silence.
Visiting the senate in action is a formal
rite carefully prearranged to pvoid any dis
turbances. No one is allowed on the floor of
the chamber except the lawmakers, em
ployes, the president and his cabinet, mem
bers of the house of representatives, and dig
nitaries such as kings and princes, when espe
cially invited. •
The loft space around the senate chamber
his helpers can prevent,” says the INDIAN
APOLIS STAR (Ind. Rep.)
Secretary Daniels’ paper, the RALEIGH
NEWS AND OBSERVER (Dem.), calls at
tention to the move of Senator France
(Rep.), of Maryland, to “make the basis of
a new liberal party the demand for the re
peal of the prohibition amendment,” and this
paper comments as follows:
“Evidently he wants the national Repub
lican party at Chicago to declare lor repeal
and evidently he- implies that if the party
does not so declare he is ready to lead a
movement for a Republican party that will.
If that is the kind of liberalism the Repub
lican party wants the Democrats will not
try to interfere. . . . Let the Republicans
swing on to liquor liberalism if they want to.”
The TOPEKA CAPITAL (Rep.), however,
thinks the Democrats should have a monop
oly of the liquor issue, saying:
“The course of the Republican party
should be clear. It has been the determined
foe of the liqour power for many years.
Prohibition, like high license before it, made
headway through the Republican and not
the Democratic party. Jockeying with pro
hibition should be left to the Democratic
party.”
It is noted by the EMPORIA GAZETTE
(Ind.) that “Bill Barnes, the big ex-boss ot
New York, ie clamoring wildly for a Repub
lican plank declaring against prohibition,”
but GAZETTE thinks “he won’t get much
farther west than Fifty-ninth street with bis
proposition.
Reports that the “wets” are raising “a cam
paign fund of SIOO,OOO to fight the law”
are credited by the MANCHESTER MIRROR
(Dem.), which predicts that “as the cam
paign grows warmer you xyill see evidences
of the judicious spending of this fund.” The
LYNCHBURG NEWS (Dem.) Is confident
that legislation as nonintoxicat
ing beverages those which are known to be
intoxicating” would amount to “nullification”
of the eighteenth amendment, and that ‘Ghe
supreme court will so hold should it eve? - be
presented with the questing.”
All talk of liquor as a campaign issue,
however, is scouted by come papers. ‘‘We
venture to predict,” says the CLEVELAND
PLAIN DEALER (Ind. Dem;), ,“that neitiber
the Chicago nor the San Francisco platform
will contain a wet plank,” and the KNOX
VILLE SENTINEL (Ind. Dem.) takes the
view that "prohibition is a moral issue and
not a political one.” The NEW ORLEANS
ITEM (Ind.) says:
“The national conventions of the two po
litical parties are apt to witness interesting
fights over the proposed ‘wet’ planks.. But
we seriously doubt that, either of .the two
great parties will mention the issue in their
platforms.”
•is divided into eight galleries. Visitors who
attempt to enter are first catalogued and then
assigned to their proper section. Only per
sons bearing pink or green- cards signed by
the secretary of state are admitted to the
diplomats’ gallery.. The senators’ gallery is
reserved for families and friends of members
and its doors are also open only to bearers
of special cards.
The first and second rows of this section
are reserved for use of the president and
vice president respectively. Admission here
must bo by order of these executives. The
president’s chairs are rarely occupied except
on days of unusual interest, or when some
innocent friend of a senator wanders into
the front row, wondering why the best seats
are left vacapt. It is only about two min
utes, though, before “Pop” Moore, the vet
eran custodian of the executive chair, is upon
him. “Pop,” as the doorkeepers all call him,
is said to weigh 310 pounds, but at the sight
of any unticketed mortal reposing in the front
row of his gallery, he sprints down with the
agility of a puppy and urges the intruder in
agonized tones to move to less exalted quar
ters.
The press gallery is just over the speaker’s 1
desk. This section is reserved for the 225
newspaper correspondents. Back of it are
the press offices, outfitted with typewriters,
desks, telegraph apparatus, and operators,
and telephones. Local Washington papers
have their own private phones here, and the
big news associations have private telegraph
outfits. The press is accorded special priv
ileges in the senate. Even in the gallery it
may write, and in fact, stools, desk space,
and paper are provided there.
Besides the sections railed off for special
classes there is space for people in general. ’
There is a section for men, and one primarily
for women, to which men are also admitted.
At first, we are told, the senate transacted
its business behind clqsed doors. Then, at
the insistence of the public, men were per- _
mitted to be but then it was not
thought fitting or necessary to provide a
place for the ladies. Later, however, women
indicated an interest in the nation’s law
making, and the rules had to be amended to
admit them. »
The galleries are thickly populated these
days, for spring is coming, and that is the
open season for tourists in Washington. Con
gress is not so entertaining as it once was.
Members no longer wear curled and powdered
wigs, take snuff, or draw revolvers on their
adversaries. Neither do they keep their hats
on, as we are told they did up to 1828.
Instead, on an ordinary day, the senate
is a rather prosy place, where little boys rush
about with glasses of water and notes, and
senators sit chatting or wander in and out,
while a clerk reads something or a lawmaker
defends a routine measure in long and in
volved sentences. From the slack attendance
and air of inattention people sometimes get
the idea that senators do not attend to busi
ness. The truth is that they have commit
tee meetings to attend, bills to investigate,
correspondence to answer, and it is easier
to read the proceedings of a dull day in the
Congressional Record _the next morning than
to spend the entire afternoon in the chamber.
On days of importance, both chamber and
galleries present a very wide-awake appear
ance. When the peace treaty was considered
by the senate not long ago, every chair was
occupied, while the galleries were packed,
and overflowed in long waiting lines in the
corridors. Although the session did not open
until 12 o’clock, people came at 9 o’clock t*
obtain seats, and stayed until adjournment
at 8 o’clock that evening. They had nothing
to eat or drink during that time, for to abajA, <
don a chair for a moment was to lose ft.
Even in such circumstances the guards man
age to keep spectators reminded that one can
only “sit” in the presence of the United States
senate.
It has been suggested that the senate and
house galleries be enlarged and tickets sold,
when important debates are on, at prevailing
theater prices. This would be an important
source of revenue and might result in a
great improvement in the style and quality
of senatorial debate.
What has become of the old-fashioned
Mexican statesman, who proved his govern
mental ability by starting a revolution?
•♦ I
After having a lady kiss a “cold sterilized
plate,” doctors have that morning
kisses are insanitary. For other germ tests
live men have been used. Are
running short?—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.