Evening Star Newspaper, January 27, 1921, Page 6

SHE EVENING STAR, KA Susdsy Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. !uwmu'. .January 27, 1921 ) RE W. NOYES. . . . Editor, E; Evening Star Newspaper OC‘I—AIII ivania Ave. ‘flw'ofinm St. and Pemayiva; i e ing. “Clicage Ofiew: Pirst Natlensl Bank Building. Fmrvpeen Oos: 3 Regent ¢, London, Eagland. The Even Star, with the Sunday ‘morwiag Segicion, 1s by carriers within the ¢ 60 cents per menth: daily caly. 45 cents All Other States. . Daily and Sunday.1yr., $10. . Dally only .. 1yr., § yr., & —_— Two Important Cabinet Posts.. The Department of Commerce and | the Department of Labor will bulk large in the Harding administration. Commeres is the cry. The country wants all that can be encouraged. “The public debt is enormous. Taxes are sky high. All the prosperfty that ean be coaxed will not be more than necessary to meet the emergency.| Production in all Jincs is to be stimu-| lated. Distribution at home and!} abroad is to have special care. i Hence | the Department of Commerce will be} wvery much in the picture. Labor continues to grow in impor- tance in the American scheme. Just mow it is in a state of great discontent, not only in this country, but else- where. Organized labor is probably better organized than .ever before. And this is true of labor considered as | a world proposition. In this country | we want labor of all kinds, organized | and unorganized, contented, and as-| sisting to the full in pushing the coun- try along. We want it to shake hands with capifal in good faith, and do Sesmtwerk. Labor is fully entitled to e shwre in whatever prosperity is i preduccd. ! Mr. Handing wit be well advised, | Onme is that as soon as tariff re- vision is out of the way—say in tour | months, or five at the ouumm-l journment be taken. Business de-| mands the stabilizing influence of a new tariff law. Let Comgress give basiness that, and then go home. The other suggestion is that Con- gresa tackle everything in sight—the tariff first, of course. A tariff bill will -Be ready by the time Congress as- i : % .4n hand, and should be Gisposed of. “he legislators who will gather on Cepitol HHl in the spring may nutl l Bave thought measures out very thor- oughly, bit Washington is a good place for thinking; and, gathered to- Sether, they can exchange ideas, and Snthat way belpiane another think. ‘The secend suggestion seems to be the weightier. Congress in session, smd.functioning acceedlng to rule, is Sretaditizing infivente in itself. And ing tafigencs availale should be in time between March and then can be, | f necessary, devoted to the public | ‘business. { —_— e i The House committee on education reports that $825,000,000 a year is lost to the country because of illiteracy. Insufficlent compensation makes it fmpossible to secure sufficient num- Der of competent teachers. The situa- tion appears to be one which plain business sagacity ought to handle with ease. —_——— No system of taxation has yet been Suggested that relieves the ultimate eonsumer of his usual final responsi- ‘Bilities. It has become a custom of contro- Wersy to intimate that an antagonist §s tending toward pro-Germanism. —————— “Something Doing Down There.” “Something doing down there,” re- mmarked a North Carolina farmer to & peighbor the other day when the sround beneath them shook ‘a . little aaddrom the depths came faint rum- bles and groans as if a Titan were |’ struggling to escape. Other farmers noted the phenomenon, and all agreed that there was something dolng in the depths. A general belief prevailed that an earthquake was in the mak- ing and some alarm was felt. Then skeptics averred that possibly there ‘were no tremors after all, but that the moises had been caused by erafty manufacturers of moonshine seeking to make the region awesgme to the “revenuers.” However _that may bave been, the movements and the Dolses ceased after & while. 5 Next came a report from Berkeley, Cxlif., that measurements have been made that demonstrate that the moun- tains of the coast range in that re- glon are moving northward, causing severe earth strains and rebounds. This movement, it is boldly asserted by the sclentists, who are not as shy as @ze the laymen of the section about Teferring 2o the Jisaster of 1906 as an " is the cause of the oc- o | they are symptoms of a decided shift { befriended, assisted, and few ever |lo Philadelphia gnd Trenton. Buildings were shaken, some chimneys fell and windows were broken. No record is to be discovered of an accidental ex- plosion in the region and a genuine earthquake s credited as the cause of the phenomenon. Truly, it would seem that the North Carolina farmer was right, and that there is ‘‘something doing down there.” These seismic strains occur with a certain degree of regularity. They may come spasmodically, and again they may come at rhythmic intervals. If these unsettlements are but slight adjustments, to be followed by quiet, they will cause no particular damage, however they may alarm the resi- dents of the affected regions. But if in the crust, disaster may come at any time, and in any place, with little or no specific warning. The moving mountains in California are not especially significant of im- mediate danger. They have been moving, it is estimated, for an indefi- nite period. But they serve to remind humanity that, after all, this sup- posedly solid sphere we inhabit is not wholly substantial and that the foun- dation upon which we have built our structures of civilization is subject to shifts beyond our control. The Travelers' Aid. 1 For $10.000 the people of Washing- | ton can keep at work one of the most valuable and helpful agencies ever set up for the protection of innocence and inexperience from the wiles and | schemes of wickedness and injury. This is the Travelers Aid, an organi- zation which “meets all trains” and not merely welcomes the incoming wayfarer, but renders practical assist- ance in every case of need. No one can ever know the good that is done by such an agency, or the harm that is averted. For its work is quietly done, without publicity or os- tentation. That is essential. The| young girl who comes into a big city, without friends, often with no funds and no place of shelter, cannot be made the subject of public attention. To her is extended the helping hand of the Travelers Ald. She is guided, know. If she is in any kind of trou- ble, she is set on the way for its al- leviation. If she merely wants a home, she is provided with accommo- dations. Sometimes employment is | feund for her. But the Travelers Aid work is not confined to girls and women. Men alse are helped, directed, advised. In a raflroad statien like that here there is never a lack of human material for the attentfon and servive of the organizmtion’s aids. The misfortune is that there are not encugh of them to find all the cases of need. For many people, not knowing of the agency, fail to make known their re- quirements and fears. They must be sought out, and that takes time, and above all it requires a special quality of tactful discrimination. For $10,000 this organization can be maintained for another year. It is the search for evidence for the trial of Brindell, accused of extortion, but the minutes of the organization, which were to have shown complicity, were not to be found in them. Much ado had led to nothing. Now it might be suggested that if the defense knew that the minutes were not in the safe the fact might have been frankly stated, or the cabinets opened in court. The failure to produce the books may or may not indicate that they con- tain implicatory evidence. Certainly the refusal to assist in the search bears somewhat against the side that may possibly be harmed by the pro- duction of the missing papers. These matters of the bearing of incidental details upon the question of guilt or innocence, or rather of conviction or acquittal, are psychological in thelr nature. That is one reason why pres- |entday trials are spun out to such inordinate length. Attorneys for both sides seek the utmost possible advan- tage of every “point.”” The old-fash- ioned methods which sought the truth by the shortest cuts are no longer favored. . And meanwhile justice waits. ———— Extra precautions had to be taken get Mr. Harding’s automobile over a sandy road in Florida. It would have been a pity to permit an ad- verse experience to mar the hitherto agreeable impression of a landslide. # De Valera made the journey dis- guised as a stoker. He did his share of work, which is not surprising, for he has not been known to loaf on any job he undertook. l Germany's indebtedness. represents one of the most-difficult problems that ever confronted a bill collector. } ‘The Island of Yap figures infinitesi- mally on the map, but looms large in diplomacy. l Coal experts are trying to find some way to freeze out the middleman. More Bergdoll Bungling. Once more the elusive Grover Cleve- 1and Bergdoll, late of the United States Army, appears in print. Now he fig- ures as the central figure ofa kid- naping enterprise that went wrong. Bergdoll was to have been the kid- napee, his intending captors. being o group of unknown persons who.mo- tored over into Baden from the occu- pled zone #nd, presumably for the sake of reward, undertook to seize the draft dodger and fugitive from prison and hale him back to Amer- ica. But the job was bungled, just as was the guardianship over Bergdoll when he was allowed by some act of official stupidity to go forth from prison to find a hidden store of gold. Bergdoll knocked aside the pistol that his would-be captor held and the car in which ke was seated sped away, leaving the kidnapers eventually in the hands of the police. « The effort to seize Bergdoll was un- } = doubtedly volunteer. -and unofficial. The United States Wwill not remit its gfforfs to regaimi possession of this slippery young man, but it will not engage in sensatienally lawless meth- ods of seizure. Some day, somiehow, Bergdoll will be ciught. - For some day, somehow, the United States and Germany will be officially at peace and means will be at hand for the ex- tradition of fugitives from American justice. Germany eannot expect per- manently to harbor this man, even though his offense was his refusal to enter the Army the United States was raising to fight that country. If the German authorities” are really wise they will *“‘ease” Bergdoll over the frontier some night into the occupied zone into the hands of the American representatives waiting there on a tip. That is, unless the Berlin govern- ment actually regards Bergdoll as a hero and wants to give him the maxi- mum of protection. In that case they ought to warn him to keep out of range of the occupied area, for where one enterprise, inspired by the hope of reward, has fafled, another might succeed. Florida’s Responsibility. Mr. Harding is finding the Florida weather more hospitable than the Texas weather. He went to Texas in good faith and for rest, and rest called for good weather. The people did not fail him. They were all he could de- sire. But the weather was atrocious. The rain came down in torrents, and the wind boomed. He did not find Texas a rest spot. Florida is balmy and smiling. She has rest for the weary, and the dis- tinguished visitor can help himself. Golf, fishing, whatever he likes, he can have for the choosing. Let us hope the inviting conditions continue during his stay. But not all of his stay will be de- voted to rest and pleasure. The day approaches when he must tackle an address to be delivered on Capitol Hill March 4 to a very large assem- blage of his countrymen, anxious to hear from his own lips how he views existing conditions at home and abroad, and what may be expected from him in the way of governmental policies. Such an address is not composed, even by a man of Mr. Harding’s gift of expression, while you wait. The things left unsaid may be quite as important as the things said. But everything wiil be important that day. And then Mr. Harding has his cabi- net problem with him, and must find time to work on that occasionally. He may shift names on the slate at the last moment. So Florida's responsibility is con- siderable. She must, if possible, favor her guest both in the way of rest and of work. If she fails she may be ac- cused of doing it a-purpose, and re- minded of the fact that she voted for Cox. ———————— ‘Will S. Hays says that ten cents for every republican vote will pay the tion, which should pave the way for a frank declaration of intention by other nations Interested in the sub- Ject. g Other countries desire to keep their working people at home. Immigra- tion to America may yet be regulated ‘without America’s being obliged to assume an inhospitable attitude. — A dollar a year seems very little to offer a man who may be compelled to face an investigation such as Mr. Schwab has gone through. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Retrenchment. ‘We're going to -economize, And do it with a will. ‘We make the resolution wise, And feel a righteous thrill. We will avoid the festal dance That makes the prudent frown, And Uncle Sam may see a chance To cut the pay roll down. Economy shall show the way We'll faithfully pursue. Our figures shall not skyward stray As figures used to do. ‘We'll have a program quickly framed ‘With competent advice; ‘Where billions once we calmly named Some millions must suffice. Problems. “What is the problem you are studying now?” “Just at this moment,” replied Sena- tor Sorghum, “you find me engaged in a somewhat personal calculation. I am trying to figuré out how I can continue to serve the public at my; present compensation and pay my rent and other inevitable expenses.” Jud Tunkins says that when he was a boy the old folks were always say- ing the fashions were scandalous just the same as they do now. A Busy Bird. The hen exclaimed, in acoents rough, As on the nest she settled down: “I'm trying to lay egis enough To hold the market prices down.” A Geometrical; Mind. “Charley, dear,” said young ,Mrs:| Torkins, “T #eé that.+% ' ape, about & whisky ring.” “What of it?~ ¥ “I was just wondering—"" “Go on. Let's hear the worst.” ~I was wondering whether they use the word ‘ring’ because of the way liguor sometimes makes a man walk in circles.” Long Hours. “Do you intend to raise any to bacco?” “No,” replied Farmer Corntossel, “The work’s too hard. You have to work all day tendin' the crops and then stay out all night helpin® the night riders to burn 'em.” Editorial Digest " Untermyer Accuses Palmer. An_investigation of A. Mitchell Falmer, which, according to Samuel Untermyer, will disclose *a series of the most mortifying scandals that have- ever befallen this country,” is! demanded by the latter and Sec- onded by the former. Now, the American press echoes this demand, some writers with the assurance that the Attorney General will be com- pletely vindicated and others already convinced that his conduct as head of the Department of Justice, or as alien property custodian, or both, was anything but correct. “With Mr. Palmer himself request- ing an investigation of the Depa ment of Justice during his incur bency,” says the Springfield Repu lican .(indeépendent), “the Senate ju- diciary should not hesitate.” and, the paper adds, “whatever it invesll-’ | gates, the Senate committee should not neglect the office of the alien property custodian, particularly in the perlod when Mr. Palmer was at: the head of it.”” This step should be taken, the New York Evening Post (independent) believed, “in jus- | tice to Palmer himself, in justice to | his accusers and, as the brief against | him argues, for the purpose of de- termining precedent on the whole vital question of civic libertics un- der war-time conditions.” The Oklahoma City Oklahoman | (democratic) quotes Palmer's state- ment that lawyers for “deported and “enemy” aliens are at the bottom of the charges against him. Tt co tinues: “Similar attacks which h been made upon him before, especia ly in his conduct of the office of alien property custodian, have been | provea without foundation. —How- ever, the truth or falsity of the new charges should be established. The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette (democratic) carefully points out that if Mr. Palmer “used or misused” his powers. it was in no way fault of the demacratic party, and adds that since | “many millions were involved” in the ! alien property transactions “it is in-| cvitable that he should be hated. | Approval of Mr. Palmer, “who should | have gratitude, not criticism,” comes | from the New York Mail (independ- | i ent). It says in his defense: F “However detached from the reali- ties of actual life a limited number | of academic_gentlemen may be, ll\ey‘ must allow the rest of us the privilege | of believing that a yery short Shrift indeed is due to the criminal anarch- ist, whether he has actually consum- mated his crime or is merely making preparation for it. If Mr. Palmer: erred at all it was In his scrupulous regard for respecting all the rights which any. just interpretation of the law might give these outlaws. More especially when we remember that| one of their bombs meant for himself barely missed its mark.” But not all the newspapers stand back of Mr. Palmer. Even his ap- parent willingness to have his con- duct toward the deported reds ex- amined is considered ‘“a herring” { across the trail by the Sprlngfleldi Union (republican). In the opinion of the Syracuse Post Standard (republican), Palmer “cer- tainly needs looking 'into,” for “he has committed blunders and has abused the privilege his office gives, to the continued hurt of honest men. He has come under the condemnation of associations of lawyers. He has been rebuked by judges of the federal court.” The New London (€onn.) Day (re-! publican) {8 even more emphatic in its denunciation of “Palmerism”: “It has been a blight to justice in America and a blot on the good name of the government. Congress owes | to the country a complete investiga- tion of Palmer's doings, and of what he hasn't done. To let him pass out of office unquestioned and without re- proach will only add fuel to discor® tent and radicalism, which only too readily seizes an opportunity to say that iniquity end graft exist in high places.” The Baltimore Sun (independent { Express (indépendent republidan) be- lieves: one is the attitude of the De- partment of Justice toward the Lever 13w and the other is the “consumers’ millions” that were spent because of Mr. Palmer's partiality to the Louis- iana sugar growers. The Kitchen Marathon. The average housewife walks two miles a day while she is preparing | meals for her family. The confer- ence of vocational workers of the south, in Montgomery, Ala., became interested in home labor-saving dis- cussions. A pedometer was attached to a student in a model Kitchen, ! breakfast, lunch'and dinner were prepared. ' Two miles over the stove- sink-pantry-table route! She walks fourteen miles a week, 728 miles a year. Add to that the miles she travels sweeping, dusting, answering door- bells, the telephone and the other few: thousand of household duties and one estimates that mother crosses the continent each year without crossing her threshold. The answer is. of course. step- saving. Non-used rooms, kitchens too large, or poorly arranged, will have to go. The efficient housewife will cut out unnecessary steps. This will not be done so much to avoid walking two or even five miles a day, for health experts insist that five miles a day spells health. The hike, though, should be outdoors, not in the kitchen. That's the newer idea—fewer steps indoors; more out- side—Rock Island (T1l.) Argus (dem- ocratic). Farm Films. ‘The crooks and the vamps, the baby blonde and the hero with the cleft chin will all have to stage a fade-away. The farmers are going into the movies. The Farmer Film Corporation has been formed, with the head of the National Dairy Asso- ciation as its secretary and with its headquarters in Chicago. Films will be made covering avery phase of farm activity and distribu- tion of products. The prospective plan for a foreign trade-financing corporation will be set forth. No effort will be made to draw conclu- sions, but the films will place the facts of farming before the pubfic. The Department of Agriculture and similar state and private agencies are back of the plan. The object of the films is educa- tiopal. It is hoped that they will bring the consumer and the farmer together in a better understanding and tend to the elimination of those undesirable factors which rob both. ‘The secretary says of the scheme: *“T believe the whole problem of pro- duction and distribution is on the threshold of solution by this new met! ‘We are on the verge of a new era that is to wipe out forever the clash of interest and result in justice and economy mnot only for the farmer, but for the consumer of food in the city.” He .seems oversanguing, but much may éome of {t--Tacoma News-Tribune (independent). Dr. Eliot says Americans are too credylo-s. They may even believe thai—Pittsburgh Dispatch. A generation ago the warning was: “Don’t Blow Out the Gax N caution {s: “Don't On 1t! Richmond (Ind.) Item. 2 ‘The league of nations may soon have enough of bankrupt countries on hand to put on a bargain sale.— Vancouver Province. Marriage starts with “bills and coos”—and there are those claim that after a while the “coos” stop.— Seattle Post-Intelligencer. “Better price for calf hide,” says a farm publication. Probably due to scarcity. You seldom see calves hide now.—Baltimore Sun. The rumors from Russia had it wrong. It is not Lenin but Hope, that 1s dead = there.—New Y‘:rnrak Herald. G STAR, THURS 20 treatment tin FREE- EONDON MFG. CO. DAY, JANUARY 27, 1921, | WE DELIVER ANY SIZE TO SPOT ANY TIME HOLLOW TILE ASHER FIRE PROOFING CO. o5 SOUTHERN BUILDIN® Minneapolis, Minn. Pennsylvania Avenue Saks & Comyrny ES —Plitt s ready to do the Painting, Paperbanging and Upholstering. First-class work- manship gusranteed. Geo. Plitt Co., Inc., %0225 Main 4234-5 T T g asons For Brotherhoods For Locomotive Engineer For Eastern Star For Moose For Shriners T S Owner, Col. 5081 Threshing Qut the Small Lots —_This is a task that must be fully accomplished in the remaining three business days before we take stock. We've put .tlle prices down where we are sure they'fl be effective. If you are lookm¢ for bargains—-—here you are—surprisingly big ones they are, too. - g For the Men Suits—Young Men’s and some Con- servative Models—Single and Double Breasted— 523:15- sizes 33 to 37. Reduced from $40 and $50.. Suits—Conservative Worsteds, Chev- iot and Plain Blue Serge—included are the favorite Black and White Mixed Worsteds—all sizes up to44—“regulars”and $ 75 “stouts.” 2 - Values up to $60—reduced to Conservative Overcoats—Plain Black and Dark Oxford; fly front; Velvet col- lar—the style that’s always “in style.” Sizes up to 46—“regu- lars” and “stouts.” s37‘5=0 Values up to $55—reduced to Men’s- Hats—a most unusual sale— of wanted shapes— AllSoftHats—up to$5.00. $ 1 __2_5_ $ )t and Stiff Hats—up to $7.00. ... .7, Soft and Stiff Hats—up to $12:00. ;50 e sesvenesvon Sweaters—Shawl, V-neck and Pull- over styles—Pennsylvania Knitting Co. make; with Notair button- s 95 holes. 7'=. 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