Show IJ I IS MONUMENT NEEDED 11 1 I Y WASHINGTON Mar 13 Would VOUl Would a monument add to or detract from the beauty and impressiveness of the spot where the unknown soldier r rests The war department wants a monument and will ask congress for to 10 o erect one This re request request request re- re quest will meet opposition just just how much is uncertain until the question actually comes conies up up-on up p-on p on the ground that the Ule unadorned slab which marks his grave glave Js Is s the most appropriate memorial to the un un- un- un known Nobody disputes his title to the highest honors the country can pay The difference of opinion relates only to the ma manner mer of paying paying paying pay pay- ing them Congressional Investigations are noted for for the infrequency with V which they achieve any an- worth while results It remained however for fOI Vice Chairman E. E O C C. C Plummer of the United States shipping board to describe the f futility of ot such In InquirIes Inquiries inquiries In- In along at least one line with the maximum of crispness and compactness of ot style For six fifty years said Plummer Plum mer addressing the Atlantic Deeper Waterways ys association at Miami l recently congress has been In- In In Investigating Investigating the problem of an American merchant marine The printed matter that has resulted I from tram these efforts would fill filla a good sized room Yet not a single im hn important un- un I fact tact has been established that did not appear In the modest volume presented by the Lynch commission of ot 1869 Plummer boils bolls the essential part even of ot the Lynch report down to toa toa a a. word paragraph urging a ship subsidy S With the recent dismissal of ot the thelast thelast thelast last of ot Its war va fraud indictments the government completed a perfect score score One hundred per cent of Its war graft prosecutions have been ben lost The Sixty ninth will have hae more women members than any previous I congress congress three three I I They are Mrs Florence P. P Kahn of California California Cali Call fornia Mrs Nora T. T Norton of New Jerse Jersey and Mrs 1 Edith Nourse Rogers Rog Rog- ers of ot Massachusetts All are congressmen's congressmen's con con- gressmen's widows Miss Jeanette Rankin of Montana was the first congresswoman Miss Alice Allee Robinson of ot Oklahoma had a seat In the Sixty-seventh Sixty congress and during its last shared honors Mrs Winifred Mason lason Huck of ot Illinois Mrs Airs Rebecca Latimer Felton of ot Georgia sat two days In the upper house hoise as the late Senator To Torn Tom Watsons Watson's temporary successor Its It's pure coincidence doubtless that hat no woman member of either house of at congress ever has been re- re elected S Think of making a national issue of a sma small question as to the conditions conditions conditions con con- under which an auto driver drivers driver's drivers driver's er ers er's license may be revoked in any given American city Well Yell that's what just such a piffling little question Is in Washington Wash Wash- ington That Is to sa say congress has to decide It ft It will be hard fought too Therell There'll be a debate and speeches about it A declaration of war calls for no more legislative e procedure than will be required to determine whether or no Washington Washing Washing- ton motorists ought to have the therl rl right ht ot appeal of-appeal appeal from flOm the municipal traffic directors director's rulings concerning their lice licenses ses |