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By EDWARD B. CLARK. YRON R. NEWTON is an as sistant secretary of the United States treas ury, a newspaper man, a watchman and a poet. Poet comes last in the list, but as a mat ter of fact it ought to stand abreast of the names of Mr. Newton's other occupa tions, and mayhap later it will lead them all. Perhaps some explanation is necessary in connection with the word that Mr. Newton is a watchman. He helps to guard the interests of Uncle Sam, which means that he has a hand in the work of seeing to it that cur uncle does not spend his money foolishly or is not, as the saying goes, "‘done out of it.” Every conscientious assistant secretary of the treasury is a watchman. Business man was not included in the catalogue of Mr. Newton’s call ings, but if he were not a business man he would not be where he is to day. Some day when the whirligig of time or of politics whirls Mr. New ton out of his present Washington place he may find himself in a business position of high responsibility. Such things frequently happen to assistant secretaries of the treasury. Witness KVauk A. Vanderlip, who from an as sistant secretaryship in the treasury, went to undertake the responsibilities of the job of president of the great City National hank of Ne.v York. Al so \\ itness Robert O. Bailey and sev eral other former assistant treasury secretaries, who are pillars of some of the big private financial structures af these United States. Vanderlip, Bailey and Newton all i were newspaper men, but it is not known that either Vanderlip or Bailey ever were poets. When Mr. Newton goes to some position of business re- ; sponsibility other than that which he now occupies, it can be taken for granted that he will not forget that he is a poet, and the world probably will not forget that he is a good one. I - '8 said that poets are born, not made. This means that a poet cannot he.-p writing poetry. It is no harder for him to sing than as the old Eng lish saying has it, it is “difficile for i black bird to whistle.” it is under ■d°od that Mr. Newton speaks rather lightly of his poetry. But it is recog nized neiertheless as being worthy. When this assistant secretary of the treasury was only sixteen years old ie apostrophized his fiddle in verse. We had forgotten to say that Mr. New ton also is a musician. Here is what tie said tcf his fiddle: , TO MV FIDDLE. ^UC<shrH the Heavenly Muse, my magic " "sw*cll varylng strain thy chords do Whether in major joy or minor riddle F rS‘myUliddleh CO“e 3,1 oal11- anU 'hfn Wher^ mirth doth reign. I play the A or iv’r In this voice thou well dost make a spree; “ Sut if my mood demands the sacidor clef ‘ drop thee down to solemn C or F. Rut sad or solemn, soft, or high or low b bow- *he Same °ld ''at?,u- Pitch and Entranced the world doth heat thee -real and small, ' “ (n every cabin and in every hall. I would to God It were not aught of sin r<1 ntsh myself Remenyi’s violin. N'ow it must be remembered that ‘his poem was written when Mr. Xew ton was only twice eight years old. It had more than a suggestion of prom ise of what he Would do later. While he is assistant secretary of i he treasury and is to a degree unfor getful of the fact that he is a poet. Mr. Xewton is wholly unforgetful that he 's h> training a newspaper man Ev ery newspaper man knows the value if proper publicity for any worthy ob ject. be it charitable, governmental or what not. Some of the official bureaus of Urtcle Sam’s government had been hid ing their bright and shining lights un £S3TRazr /?. 2Y^wr027 der bushels for many years. Take the public health service for instance The work that the physicians of this service do for the people of the United ’es is conscientious, energetic, and ide-spread in its influence for good. Physicians, like many other profes sional men, are not given to talking about their deeds. The public health service lies within the control of the treasury department and it is one of the works over which in an official way Mr. Newton must exercise super vision. He knew- that the country ought to know something of the work of the government’s physicians in or der that the people might profit the more directly therefrom. It was this assistant secretary of the treasury who suggested a course of proper publicity for the work that was being done hv Uncle Sam's de voted doctors. Largely through his ef-1 forts the people today not only know of the means that are taken to safe guard their health but they know how. when and where to get the additional information which they need to help them safeguard themselves. More than this the interested people have found that they can be of assistance to the public health service by giving information concerning the necessi ties there. The government officials do not like the use of the word publicity. •■Infor mation” is the word which in their eyes is proper and it is information which the people have beet, getting about several government activities through the newspaper sense of an as sistant secretary of the treasury who for years was a newspaper man. Byron R. Newton was born in New York state down in one of the south ern tier of counties. For a while he was a farmer, a youthful farmer it is true, and if you want to, you may call him a plowboy. Now. plowboys, through all the centuries have been poets at heart. They have not always known their own gifts, but the instinct of poetry always has been in them. Not all the plowboys could write Burns’ address to the daisy that was in danger of being crushed by the plowshare, but they could all feel for the fate of the flower, and feeling is what makes the poet. Mr. Newton for a while was a ‘cub ASSERT LIGHT IS WASTED Experts Claim That Cities Might Avoid Much Expense for Which There Is No Need. Since the lights of London have ir>en dimmed as a precaution'against aerial attack, the great waste of light has been brought to the atten ion of illuminating engineers, and the ondition prevails, not only in Lon lon, but if! every other city in the world. It is pointed out that in the ■ase of shop windows there has been little endeavor to concentrate the light on the wares displayed, with the -esults that much light is wasted, and he excess is injurious to passersby. i nder these conditions the expendi ture for light largely fails to secure the best returns. The wares are not lighted to the best effect, and if the misdirected light is unpleasant to the passerby he will not stop to observe. 1 he same conditions prevail to some extent in the ease of the powerful arc. flame and highpressure gas lights used for illuminating the streets; for it is felt that the illumination from these could be controlled and di rected so as to secure a better dis tribution of lighting, and at the same time be more agreeable to the eye. Heretofore, illuminating engineers have worked almost exclusively in the interest of the lighting companies, but the consumer will soon find it to his advantage to consult this compara tively new profession. reporter." Every good newspaper man lias served his apprenticeship as a "cub.” The only managing editor whc is good for anything and the only ed itorial writer who gets tnere with the punch is the man who has reported fires, murders, accidents and street happenings and has written his share of human interest stories picked up from the boulevards and from the alleys of the slums. After he had made the ordinary run of newspaper work, Mr. Newton be came what the profession calls a stai reporter, and he was sent by a great press association to the Spanish-Amer ican war. He reported the deeds 01 our warships off Havana and ott San tiago. And it w as he who secured tht first story of the wonderful fight put up by the little ship Winslow against odds. It was Mr. Newton who first told the world of the death of Ensign Worth Bagiev at his post of duty in the naval battle in which the Winslow was engaged. | One of Byron R. Newton's poems lias been printed and reprinted He was a reporter on a great New York paper and he had witnessed the re suits of a great tragedy. He thought on the tragic event and then on the carelessness of the joyous crowds all unheeding of the sore troubles and the heartbreaks about them. Some peo pie have said it is an awful poem. It is strong and very likely awful, but it is doubtful if its truth is overdrawn Here it is: ODE TO NEW YOUIC. Vulgar of manner, overfed. Overdressed and underbred. Heartless. Godless, hell's delight. Kude by day. and lewd by night; Bedwarfed the man. o'ergrown the brut ' Ruled by boss and prostitute. Purple robed and pauper clad. Having, rotting, money mad: A squirming herd in Mammon’s mesli. A wilderness of human flesh: Crazed with avarice, lust and rum. New York, thy name's delirium. It falls to the lot of this assistant secretary of the treasury to see to it that the sites which have been recoin mended as proper for the erection ol public buildings are all that they should be. In other words Mr. New ton has to see to it that someone is not putting one over on Uncle Sam Congress appropriates money for pub lie building sites and does it frequently without much care in selection. Just now the treasury department is hold ing up more than two hundred authori zations made by the lawmakers fot the purchase of sites for public build ings. A vast amount of money is in volved and. more than this, the econ otny and efficiency of several depart ments of government are at stake. It is said that as the result of the watch fulness of the treasury officials the present system of haphazard appro priations for public buildings ultimate ly will be abandoned. Newspaper men have made good in Uncle Sam's service. A newspapei man sometimes is practical and some times he is not. A poet never is thought of as practical, but Byron R Newton seemingly has shown that a. man can write good poetry and be perfectly sane in matters pertaining to proper business activities. BELIEVE IN ‘‘LITTLE PEOPLE'’ Indians of Southwestern Colorado Have a Superstition That Is Felt Most Strongly. The Indians living near the cele brated Mesa Verde in southwestern ; 'dorado are interested in the out come I of their predictions about the telephone line which the government nas just completed into the Mesa Verde National park. They declare that the poles will not stand and that the wires will not "talk.” When asked why, they solemnly reply that the little people" will permit no such un canny things to come so near their ancient homes. Nor can they be per suaded to the contrary. The Indians live in great awe of the prehistoric dwellings of the Mancos valley, which ! are by far the finest and best pre served of any in the American South west. They will not believe that it was Pueblo Indians, or any Indians, in fact, who, so long ago that the old est traditions describe them as they now are, carved these wonderful cities out of the cliffs. They believe that spirits built the cliff dwellings, and that spirits still inhabit them. They reverently call these spirits the "little people.” For this reason it is difficult to induce Indians to approach the cliff dwellings. The Sort She Liked. "What are all those photographs ol young fellows you have in your book?” "Oh, that book is my collection of souvenir spoons.” Most Southerly Point. As a result of a recent survey uade by United States government engineers, it has been found that the most southerly point of the main land of this country is at a bend in the Rio Grande, 20 miles southeast of Brownsville, Tex. It had long been supposed that the lower extremity of the peninsula of Florida was farther south mainland. The survey shows that the main land reaches a latitude of 25 degrees, although not as far south as Key West. The most southerly point, on the Rio Grande, is to be appropriately marked. The locality is an ideal one for a beautiful public park, although it is at present almost inaccessible from Brownsville. The scene is tropical in all of its natural aspects. The level landscape is covered with groves of stately palm trees and an undergrowth of rank veg etation of the richest hue of green. Wild flowers of fragrance and colors abound. Almost on the very spot which marks the farthest point a pic turesque Mexican ranch house "is situ ated. Books That Are Deserving. Statistics show that in 1914 there were published in this country 10,175 new books of mere or less substantial character, and 1853 new editions, a fair deduction being .hat of all the tens or hundreds of thousands of books lublished in this country for the past fifty years or so, only 1853 were deserving of new and revised editions. [in iiriirii light MARCUS SMITH’S CREDIT Senator Marcus A. Smith of Ari zona takes great pride in the means by which he built up a line of credit back in the days when he was a strug gling young lawyer in Tucson. Shortly after he began living in Tucson. Smith fell in with a pleasant chap from Boston named Stebbins, and another man named Charles Leach, from whom he could borrow money, and by that means he con trived to live until he could get a toehold in his profession. He would borrow $100 from Stebbins and prom ise to pay him back on the first of the month. When the debt was due he went to Leach and borrowed enough to pay off Stebbins and square his board bill. The next time he would get money from Stebbins to pay Leach, and so on. He never failed to pay promptly on the first day of the month, and in that way established a great line of credit. He could borrow almost any amount from either Steb bins or Loach. After his law practice gave him enough to run by his own steam, and he no longer needed to borrow, he still kept on borrowing from Leach and Stebbins for several years and paying them back right on the dot. Why did ho. do it? Simply for the purpose of advertising his credit. Senator Smith had a law preceptor back in Kentucky who gave him a bit of advice that he has followed through all these years. The professor said: "Avoid cultivating too much sense of humor. Don't crack jokes, but look serious. If you are trying a case that seems funny to you, remember that to somebody it may be a tragedy. Above all things, as you go through life, be solemn: be as solemn as an ass.’’ So Marcus Smith has abstemiously avoided jokes and japery. WHEN KENYON COMPROMISED Years ago Senator William S. Kenyon of Iowa was running for coun ty prosecutor on the Republican ticket. His Democratic opponent had the backing of a man who was not only the leading Democrat in the com munity but also had a beautiful daugh ter. Kenyon was extremely fond of the beautiful daughter, and that made complications. For Kenyon feared that if her father opposed him in poli tics he might get the habit and oppose him in other and more serious ways. Moreover, the daughter was one of the dutiful kind that shared her fa ther's view that to vote anything but the straight Democratic ticket was wicked. One day when Kenyon went to call he found the daughter in tears. She confessed reluctantly that she had had words with her father. It seemed that father had refused her a favor— refused to scratch the ticket to vote for a certain young man who was running for prosecutor. With that encourage Kenyon went to the daughter s father and effected a compromise by which the father agreed to give Kenyon his daughter, but absolutely refused to yield his suffrage. But Kenyon, by way of making the thing complete, went ahead and beat father's candidate for prosecutor, anyway, after which both he and daughter laughed at father right heartily. FRANCE’S NAVAL HERO Admiral Boue de Lapeyrere, com mander of the French naval forces, is as popular in France as is Admiral Jellicoe in England. He entered the French navy nearly forty years ago. and from the outset of his career he displayed marked ability. One of his early commands was in China, when he obtained distinction at the battle of Foo-Chow. His flag ship led the attack against the enemy, and the personal courage he displayed made him the hero of France. Since then he has success fully conducted several diplomatic ex peditions in the Baltic and the Medi terranean. It has always been the policy of Admiral Lapeyrere to accompany his fleet in the fighting line. He is not a believer in arm-chair commanding. He prefers to personally give his or ders from his flagship to directing af fairs from land through the agency of wireless. This means that he must face serious risks, but the French admiral is quite ready to encounter any danger for the sake of his country. He has spent many weeks cruising in the Mediterranean since the outbreak of the war. Admiral Lapevrere is the same age as Sir John French—sixty-two. He is a well-set. handsome man, with a head of thick gray hair and a neatly trimmed beard. LLOYD-GEORGE’S STAND-BY Miss Olwen I.loyd-Gcorge. the daughter of the British minister of munitions, is her father’s "right-hand mar.,” assisting him in public duties and ministering to his comfort and health in his home. The minister is a man of highly nervous temperament and occasionally he has to have a day in bed, where he receives his private secretaries and attends to the routine of business. At such times his daughter assumes full charge of his room, allows the secre taries just as much time as her fa ther’s strength will allow and then politely but firmly ends the day's work. When he is in good health the two are companions for long walks Pr at golf. In the summers Mr. Lloyd George has been fond of going with his w-ife and daughter upon camping excursions, living out of doors and cooking the meals in Gypsy fashion. He returns from such holidays with bis nerves much strengthened. But this summer .Miss Lloyd-George has Lad more than her usual duty in watching over her father, as he has not be.’n able to take a prolonged rest. His daughter is a wholesome-looking girl, with a highly intelligent, face, and is the "apple of his eye" to her father. Velvet for Cleaning. 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