Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1921, Page 6

- THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY.......February 7, 1921 _THEODORE W. NOYES. .. . Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company l-- = Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. York Office: Tribune Bollding, o Ofce: n Furopean Office P:ri:':::l e London, England. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning Sfition. s delivered by carciers within the city 80 cents per month: daily only. 45 cents per _ll Sunday only, 20 cents per month. Or- ders may be sent by mail, or telephone Main 8000, Collection is made by carriers at the ead of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sundny 1yr., $8.40; 1 mo., T0c 1yr., $6.00: 1 mo., 50c 1yr., $2.40; lmo,!Dc All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00: 1 d only ... Sunday only . A National Legion Memorial. The executive board of the Ameri- ean Legion is in session in this city at present, considering with other things the question of the tender by the Knights of Columbus of a gift of $5,000,000 for the erection here of a permanent headquarters for the le- glon and a memorial to the American soldiers in the great war. A special committee has recommended the ac- ceptance of this munificent gift, and the people who use the streets, side- walks and pavements alike, should be secured from danger than that per- sons should learn to drive motor cars. So long as the city does not provide training grounds and the streets con- tinue to be used for instruction pur- poses -precaution should be taken to hold to strict accountability those who undertake to learn how to use a ma- chine. No person should be allowed to touch the steering wheel and control fevers of a motor car without hav- jing secured a provisional operator’'s license, a permit to learn, so to speak. That permit should be good for six months. At the end of that period the driver should be given an exami- nation, and if he is qualified to run a machine in difficult conditions, in the thick of traffic, at night and on slippery pavements, he should be licensed permanently. If during the probationary period he has had an accident of any kind his permanent license should be postponed, or in case of a serious mishap denied alto- gether. Probably many cars are being run by novices in Washington, who have had only “family” lessons, and who have no lilenses. They are taking a grave risk for themselves and for all others when they run machines. —_—— Make the Bonus Uniform! It is reported that the legislative appropriation bill will be laid before the hope is that the executive board will follow this recommendation and thus insure the creation here of a memorial of utilitarian as well as artistic and sentimental character to the heroes of the war. Such a monument would stand per- manently to insure patriotism and self-sacrifice in defense of the na- tion’s ideals. It would provide a meet- ing place where service men from all parts of the country will always find a welcome and a home while visiting the nation’s capital. It would thus prove a magnet, drawing the best manhood of the country here, to see how the government is run and to real- ize and appreciate that each man is part of it. Such a creation would be a fitting home for an organization that has in two years grown to include 2,500,000 members, organized into 10,000 posts. It would fill an urgent need in the “National Capital for a municipal a: ditorjum, accommodating the many great conventions that come here and are hampered by lack of adequate meeting place. The Knights of Columbus rendered & service of great value to the Ameri- [ “ean expeditionary forces during the war and through them to the country . itself. The money they propese to sd-ul in part unnecessary. It is a “itting use to which this money can be put and in tendering the gift the x-ldnl of Columbus have expressed their recognition of the fact that in DO better way can those who gave the funds be served than by the crea- tion here of a national home for the organization in whose ranks are en- An Interesting Fight Begins. The request of Chairman White for ‘meeting of the democratic national ittee March 1 will be construed a McAdoo—at least an anti-Cox— mmove. It is made public by Thomas 3B. Love, the Texas member of the com- Mpittee, Who last year was a McAdoo '-n. And Texas, it may be men- tioned, is the home state of Post- ,master General Burleson, who was 'llr McAdoo's chief supporter at San Jh.nda:o. Chairman White, interviewed ati m ©Ohio, speaks of the request “as & “threat,” and says.he was noti- fled two weeks ago that it would be made. He does not say what he going to do about it, beyond announe- fing that he will take the matter up ‘with the executive committee he has; Tecently appointed, and which will meet in this town on the 17th instant. ‘There is nothing violent in assum- ing, however, that before then Mr. *White will take the matter up with Gov. Cox, and be advised of the gov- _ernor’s wishes when he reaches Wash- | The hll has opened. The fight js on. The value of committee control may be exaggerated, but all factions -are striving for it. The Bryanites ;bave it in view. The McAdooites are openly maneuvering for it. The Cox- ites, at present accredited with it, Jwant to retain it. All three factions are Jjustified in th. belief that it is not too soon to get busy even for 1924. The repub.! lcans are on the job, and will re. main 50 even if Mr. Hays enters the }fllrd!n‘ cabinet and surrenders his <chairmanship. Politics is a steady ‘thlng now; and the party which does §Bot get in motion promptly and stay ‘in motion gets nowhere. ——— The conviction of Brindell is a hope- ful incident. The grafter is the lead- 'ing obstructionist to any program of normalcy. —— Inauguration has been sufficiently simplified to avert the fear that the dance program will take anybody’s mind off the cabinet slate. —_——— Novice Drivers. An inquest is to be held this after- Moon to determine responsibility for the death of a little boy in this city Saturday. He was standing in front of his home when a machine driven by & novice, who was under instruction by the owner of the car, swerved sud- denly to avoid another vehicle and the Senate from committee carrying the full $240 bonus for clerks, but limiting the District policemen and firemen to $120. It is gratifying that the clerks’ bonus, stricken from the bill in the House on point of order, is to be restored. But why not put the firemen and policemen on the same basis with all other District em- ployes? There seems to be no good ground for discrimination. They need the money just as much as the other municipal workers. Their pay is not large. It is small, indeed, compared with the responsibilities and duties and dangers. Take the one matter of uniform. The civilian employe of the District and government can go to work in any clothes he sees fit to wear. But the policeman and the fireman must, in addition to his or- dinary clothing, buy out of his own pocket a full suit, made of expensive materials, that he must keep in good condition, under frequent inspection. As a matter of fact, if there were any discrimination it should be in favor of instead of against the policemen and firemen on this uniform basis alone. A point that it is to be hoped the members of Congress will not over- look is that the District's fire and police forces are the guardians of the government here as well as of the local welfare. Whenever a fire occurs in a government building it is the Dis- trict fireman who puts it out. And it is the District policeman who keeps the peace here so that the business of the government can be transacted in tranquillity and safety. And yet these two classes of workers are given only a half bonus—which should not be call- ed a bonus at all, but should be part of the fixed pay—and the District is thereby put to serious straits in fill- ing the ranks. If the bill goes before the Senate with this discrimination it should be amended so that when it goes into conference it will carry a full bonus for all the workers, irrespective of n‘ervlm. 'Ware Woglumi! Farming and fruit growing are just one pest fight after another. The blights and bugs and other baleful creatures that dig and bore and smear and otherwise destroy do not wait for predecessors to be exterminated, but come overlapping and multiplying un- til the life of the tiller of the soil is a continual problem of conflict. The latest menace bears the fearsome name of the “Al Eurocanthus Wog- lumi.” It is an Indian product as far as known, and it specializes on citrus fruits. Somehow this pest, which is a sort of black fly, has found lodg- ment in Costa Rica, Panama and Cuba, probably with fruit from Hin- dustan. Now it {s trying to work up to the American citrus groves. The Department of Agriculture has sent out warnings and efforts.are being made to stamp out the blight before it reaches these shores. But these tiny terrors are mighty slippery. They get by the barriers. They nest in the fruit as it is shipped. They find lodg- ment in the holds of vessels. In a thousand and one ways they elude the quarantine. If the “Woglumi” is like his brethren of the crop blighting family he is going to give the in- spectors and guards and watchers a tough tussle. —_——— Utah has decided to enforce exact- ing laws against the use of tobacco. Utah is evidently ambitious to become known eventually as one of the most moral states. ————— A removal of graft from building operations will remove one of the elements of difficulty in the housing problem. International indebtedness promises to call for the most expert work ever demanded of clearing house experts. An Important Post. Governor General Harrison has cabled his resignation from Manila, to be effective March 4. Dhis will put a very important office at Mr. Harding’s disposal immediately. How soon it will be filled is a ques- tion. Mr. Harding is well advised of conditions in the Philippines. Some weeks ago an American official in the islands was a caller at Marion, and had a long conversation with the President-elect on the subject. ‘The importance of the post is dis- ran across the curb and sidewalk &nd up the terrace, striking the child and killing him. Apart from the find- ings of the coroner's jury, the ques- tion arises at once as to the use of the streets of the city for motor car instruction. Of course, people who learn to drive motor cars must run thm somewhere. There is no pro- wiston tor them outside of the range jof traflic. There are few unfrequent- Strests and roads., But 1t is far more important that closed in the fact that Gen. Leonard Wood is among those mentioned in connection with the appointment. He has seen service in the archipelago, and would readily and easily shake down into the duties imposed. Those duties are now largely of a civil character. Things of govern- ment are moving smoothly, although there is an organization of natives pressing for independence. ‘The leaders of the movement are Qt hostlle to the United States—are THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. not even critics of American control— but testify, as do all who know the story, to the great progress the is- lands have made under American di- rection. Independence, however, is some- thing to be considered in the light of war results. The question has been affected by the war, as, indeed, all questions, near and far, have been. There is almost as much unrest in Asis as in Europe; and whether this time, or any time soon, would be suit- able for the establishment of a new | government, with a flag of its own and responsibilities of its own, in that part of the world might well engage the most serious thought of the new administration. T ——— The Tariff and Business Conditions. The freetraders, girding for next spring’s contest on Capitol Hill, are declaring, as they think with finish- ing effect, that “there can be no per- manent revision of the tariff.” Nobody has ever contended there could. Sufficient unto the period of s its enactment are the rates and sched- ules of a tariff law. When condi- tions change the law must be changed to meet them. Especially is this true ‘where the #aw, by its success or its failure, has produced the change. The Dingley tariff was framed to meet business conditions of extreme depressions, and met and changed them so promptly and so radically, a revision of the law was recommended by President McKinley only four years after its enactment. And had he been spared, revision would have taken place at the next session of Congress. But what should and would have been done in the winter of 1901-02 was postponed until the summer of 1909—nearly eight years. As a re- sult, the Payne-Aldrich tariff, con- structed out of date, led to party fac- tionism, and that led the very next Editorial Digest Housing His Excellency. The old story of America’s parsi- mony toward ambassadors is revived in the press by the instance of the gift of the Morgan mansion in Lon- don to be used as our embassy there. Many writers are a little nervous over accepting Mr. Morgan's offer, al- though nearly all of the newspapers agree that the United States has a duty in properly providing official residences for its representatives abroad, thus relieving the President from the necessity of considering per- sonal fortune as the prime requisite in making the higher diplomatic ap- pointments. Acceptance of the Morgan gift meets with the approval of the New York Evening World (democratic), which adds: “It's about time that this coun- try"had a diplomatic service that paid its own way right to the top instead of depending upon the private pock- ethooks of wealthy appointees to keep up the credit of the United States among the ambassadors and ministers of other nations. This feeling that “the field of se- lection” has- been “narrowed” is re in the Wheeling Intelligencer ! epublican), which points out that “with foreign exchange as low as i now is” Congress should “appropriat. sufficient money to purchase a su able embassy residence in every im- portant capital.” A similar demand comes from the Philadelphia Record | (independent democratic), which re-! marks that “Congress will give its own clerks more salary than most consuls get” but while “consul live in mean quarters if nec ambassadors and ministers and serve the United States.” The Anaconda Standard (democratic) ironically sets forth the apparent rea- soning of Congress: “Were there not always enough American millionaires? Let them have expensive luxuries, do the honors and foot the bills—that has been the congressional theory and ' practice for years. It isn't democracy —but what™ is democracy between friends?” A similar attitude is reflected in the | comment of the Springfield (Mo.) | Leader (democratic), which suggests | that sibly it is all right to send | only rich men abroad as ambassadors, | but under that rule Franklin, our: greatest ambassador, would have been excluded.” A 2 NN, %2222 Zxiiiizzzzz2ZZ C, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1921.° LzzzrzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZzz, COAL = WOOD Consult Us About Your Requirements BE ST QUALITY SERVICE VALUE 63 Years of Faithful, Efficient Service Phone Main 311 811 E St. N.W. Pizzzzzzzzzzzzizzizizzzd2 NN Lizgriizzzzzz SavErwumes s ey "y The distinctrve Strle and Quality for which this MM.W JeweLs. STERLING SiLVER. CRYSTALy WaTcHes, CLocks @@ NoveLTiES, Jllustrated and Prrced i, 77 GiFT Dook . Mailed upon regriast "Wodding Tnvilations and Annou Reception, D Ve e Ay inner. Dance and Debut Invitations Tea Carde “Vuulme&u-d. 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The Underwood law was neither a good revenue-producer nor a promoter of business before the war broke out; and if it had been both it could not have functioned properly after the war began. So that as a new tariff law is due, and the party of protection is coming into full power, the legislatjon' will follow protection lines. The Louisville Post (independent) compares the situation of America's representative in London and Britain’s ambassador here: “The British ambassador in Wash- ington is paid a salary of $20,000 a year. He is then given the use of the British embassy at Washington and is allowed $30,000 a year for official entertaining. The American ambas- sador at London receives a salary of $17,500 a year, and out of this he must | find his own residence and pay for WASHINGTON'S LARGEST SAVINGS BANK, Corner of 9th and G Streets UNDER UNITED STATES TREASURY SUPERVISION all the entertaining he does for the benefit of America.” There is a general feeling that a respectable embassy in a foreign c: tal is essential, for, as the Charlotte Observer _(independent democratic) puts it, after describing the building to be replaced by the Morgan mansion ! as “a counterpart of the old Charlotte | Hotel,” if “foreigners gain an opin- | ion of our country and our people from the sort of establishments that ! our government maintains abroad, ! we should not be surprised if it were | a mighty poor one.” According to the | New Orleans Times-Picayune (inde- | pendent democratic) our embassies | and legations should be chosen with the Morgan house as an “examplar.” The question of the propriety of the United States government a cepting a gift, such as Mr. Morgan has ogered, from any private person seems to bother certain writers, | though for the most part they feei ! that the delay in the action of the committee in accepting the gift was without grounds. The Utica Observer | (democratic) is one of those that ex- | press uncertainty. *“To provide em- ! bassies is a duty,” it declares, “but to accept ome as a gift is out of place” The Brooklyn Eagle (independent) advances the proposition that the theory of “economy” has never had anything to do with America’s tra- ditional neglect of her foreign resentatives; the “real meanin; states, "was that the average Ameri- can underestimated the value of the ambassador.” Perhaps, it suggests, “this feeling i passing away,” but at least one voice is raised in what might be taken as corroboration of it. It is that of the Boston Globe (independent) which says: “The salary of our ambassador to Great Britain is $17,500. This is not 80 handsome, perhaps, but it is $5,000 more_than his superior in Washing- ton draws from the Treasury. The Secretary of State is required to find 2 house in Washington in keeping with his salary. As much should be expected of his subordinate abroad.” Should Immigration Be Restricted? { It is hard to conceive how America could continue to be prosperous and allow our boys to specialize in higher vocations if immigration ceased, either by congressional action or by a spontaneous process. Immigration is highly beneficial from an economic standpoint and also from the stand- point_of citizenship in immigration valuable to America. Ten per cent of the persons listed in “Who's Who” were born in foreign countries, and of eighty-seven candidates for the American hall of fame for 1920 eight- een were foreign born. In lieu of restriction or suspension of immigration, Congress should de- vote its energy to finding a suitable method for the proper distribution of foreigners to agricultural sections or to states requiring man-power for their various industries. Unskilled immigrants could be effectively han- dled by federal employment offices un- der the Department of Labor, which could get in touch with the various foreign communities in our cities, and by educational lectures and personal solicitation direct the immigrant stream to districts where they could produce wealth for our country and themselves, From the above, it is apparent that immigration shouid not be restricted or suspended. The present period of unemployment ig only temporary and, as soon as conditions return to nor- mal, immigration will be indispens- able—La Libera Parola (Italian, re- publican), Philadelphia. Lloyd George, it is feared, has of- fended Gen. Foch by certain allusions to soldier diplomacy. Assurances that Lloyd George spoke in a spirit of pleasantry bring up a question of how far the British sense of humor should be permitted to assert itself in serious world diacussian. Al nl Mr. Dawes’ expletives were censored out of the record of the hear- ings. Every possible obstacle is be- ing thrown in the way of a man who tries to develop a strictly modern lit- erary atyle. Thex'e are fears that German states- men fail to realize that an army is one of the last things on earth their country needs for purposes of recon- struction. ——— Nevada proposes to make its di- vorce laws more difficult; thus injur- ing what Reno lawyers have regarded as one of the nation’s most important industries. ——— Buspicion arises that the ex-kaiser’s wood chopping was only in keeping with the ordinary politician’s desire to represent himself as a horny hand- ed son of toil. ———— The thermometer has done more than any of the conferences toward averting fll-feeling regarding the coal situation. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Colors. I've heard about the taste.” T've heard about pink teas. Resentments I shall never waste * On color schemes like these. ‘“dark brown I've heard of royal purple, too, And of the yellow streak. I've heard about the law that's “blue” ‘With resignation meek. But none of all these colors strike My eye with any dread. 'l'ha thing I really dislike Is politics that's “red.” How It Worked Out. “I sent Josh to college,” said Farm- er Corntossel, 80 that he’d have the advantage of a better education than I had.” “How did it work out?” “Josh overdoes his gratitude. He's all the time showin' off his intellec- tual superiority so as to make me feel that I got my money’s worth.” The Only Way to Save Europe. Experts on finance in this country claim that there is only one way to save central Europe, which is at pres- ent in the worst possible economic and financial state. This is by means of a $500,000.000 loan granted by the United States, with which Europe could buy in America the much need- ed raw materials and machinery. It is no secret at present that the states of central Europe—despite the fact that they are much in need of Am flcan products—do pot buy them at all,_or buy in very small quanti- ties. 'Why? Because their money is so depreciated that they cannot buy here at present. The central European countries, | however, possess the means of pur- chasing, for, although they lack gold or certificates of value, they do pos- sess energy for work and production. It is necessary, therefore, to set in- dustry in motion, and this can be done only by importing raw materials from America. The American loan would be used, then, to buy raw mateials. The factories would be set in motion and exports would raise the value of the money of these nations. This, again, would react favorably on American exports, for Europe would then buy here willingly and would | buy In large quantities, which would remedy the present industrial stagna- tion.—Telegram (Polish, independ- ent), Buffalo, N. Y. Domestic Colloquy. “We can’t afford to live in this ex- pensive flat.” “Well, what are we going to do? We can’t afford to hire a moving van, either.” In Cold Cash. A billion dollars—nothing worse Could come in human luck. You couldn’t put it in a purse, You'd have to use a truck. “Gesler made Willlam Tell shoot an apple off his boy's head.” “Yes,” replied Mr. Growcher, ples were cheap then.” “ap- “There’s no man,” sald Jud Tun- kins, “as uninteresting as the one who knows 80 much he dasn’t talk for fear he'll tell !Dmelhlnl i Peace at any price seems to come too high to suit Germany.—Newark News. ‘Whatever the former doughboy may b.l Inlure::od in, it isn't the fact that spiral puttees may now be bought 39 cents.—Baltimore Sun. EtiaL It has come to pass where the big 1 powers are daring each other | ‘We never had such a clear fdea of | 1o i g B what a crime wave {s as when we saw l:,,d""m Bendusky (OMOEResie| our best girl come out in one of these — i permanent ones.—Philadelphia North | It cost Detroit $10 each to kill nine American. bandits. great era of economy ! have been ushered in.— Offictals in Paris belleve that ti Ting il be another war this spring. Eovra | coanEteld (Ohlo);Nows, o ready started mobilizing our | T¢ is now denied that Prestdent Wit exemptions. L Sacksonville. (Hiag Mo- Phon wiik wrior s, hat Prosident Wil f material, nnbahlm-qomlt News. Some Compelling Reasons Why “THE STORE WITH A SMILE” Is Popular With Thrifty Shoppers Women's Riding Boots L $25 0 many dollars un- der ~the market due to the great number of pairs we sell. All sizes in black and tan. = ’ Children’s Hose Another lot of those splendid ribbed cotton hose in black and cor- dovan. Sizes 5 to 9%. 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