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4 THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ... ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly 1 SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.5(1 Eight months SI.OO Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 Wk.l Mo. 3 Mos. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. ' Daily and Sunday 20c 90c $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 , Sunday ••.••.■••••••• 7c 30c .90 1.75 8.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published j on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and I is mailed by the shortest routes for early J delivery. » It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man- • ager. 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NE of the most impressive and alto together most heartening signs of the time is the surety with which O 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.