Evening Star Newspaper, February 12, 1921, Page 4

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, e e v e THE EVENING STAR, __ With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C SATURDAY...February 12, 1031 THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor B ot e S e e The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office. 11th St. and Pennsyivania Ave. New York Office: _Tribune Buflding. Chicago Office: First National Bank Building. @Burepcan Office: 3 Regent St.. London, Eagland. The Evening Star. with the Sunday morning adition, tu delivered by -carriors within the eity 4t 60 cents per month; daily oaly, 45 cents per month; Sunday ealy, 20 cents per month. Or- ders may be sent by mall, or telephone Main 5000. Collection is made by carriers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily only . Sunday only All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo. Daily only .. 1y $7.00; 1 m Sunday only 3.00; 1 m¢ ‘Wilsonism vs. Bryanism. May not matters so shape them- selves that the contest at the next democratic national convention will be between Wilsonism and Bryanism? Mr. Wilson is not out of the game. His strength is returning—slowly, it is true, but his appearances at the theater and his plans for visiting Capitol Hill on inauguration day show unmistakably that he is on the up grade. And 1924 is three years away. In that time if improvement con- tinues Mr. Wilson will be able to make much progress toward com- plete recovery. Assuredly, Mr. Bryan is not out of the game. His strength is unimpaired. His interest in politics is as keen as when he first won the leadership of his party. Politics must now be almost the breath of his being. For a quarter century he has given much the greater part of his time to the study of political policies and the ad- | themselves with the requirements and | Be that as it may vocacy of those he approved. It does not seem likely that Mr. Wilson and Mr. Bryan can ever get together again. public sentiment. The people of the'A.s crowded a card has seldom beenl country generally have approved the selection of Judge Landis to be the head of the supreme court of base ball, and they have seen nothing inconsistent in his occupancy of the two positions. It is assumed, of course, that Judge Landis will permit no conflict of ob- ligation. It 'is believed that he will be able to prevent and allay many of the frictions that arise between the leagues and between the clubs of leagues and that in the past have made base ball almost synonymous with pugilism for scrappiness. Base ball law is a fearful and wonderful thing, and it remains to be seen whether even a man of such legal erudition as Judge Landis can admin- 1ister it. role for one of the best known of American jurists will continue their protest and possibly an effort may be made to get legislation on tke sub- ject, which is a favorite indoor sport in America. But nothing is likely to be done because to frame a law pro- hibiting this judicial-base ball connec- tion in general terms without specifi- cation would be one of the most diffi- come under question on ground of constitutionality. The Traffic Rules. The District of Columbia under the law issues licenses to motorists for the operation of their cars. It stipu lates certain rules of traffic which they must observe in the exercise of their rivilege under such licenses. The first rule of precaution would be to make certain that every person thus licensed is acquainted with these rules. But it is disclosed that for suing motor licenses without inform- ing the licensees of the regulations, trusting to luck for them to acquaint restrictions governing their use of the | streets. | Whether this is due to the parsi-| They a@re far apart|mony of appropriations, or to bad ! cause, after all, almost all of us have now. As compared with Mr. Bryan,|cajculation at the District building, |some little second-story equipment, Mr. Wilson is a wet. He vetoed the {gr (o the fact that the motor car regu- | however meager and however poorly Volstead act. Mr. Bryan would have | ations are too bulky for economical | furnished. signed it. Mr. Wilson would not ac-{printing, the fact remains that there | cept any material the peace treaty. have accepted the Lodge reservations after it was shown that the Senate{casualties that have lately occurred, | would not have the treaty without another “No Accident” weck is being | them. H Years ago the two men differed | week.” in which every reservations 1o lare presumably several hundred pe While Mr. Bry nfple driving about Washington today would have accepted the treaty as|who have never seen the official book Mr. Wilson had negotiated it, he would { of rules. i in order to persuade foreign but friend- Now, owing to the numerous street urged. What about a *“No Rules| motorist in | Probably the objectors to this new | cult things in the world, and might | immediately | some | months past the District has been is- | |Bryap may yet have to be enlisted | about policies, and it was at that|Washington who is unprovided with time Mr. Wilson expressed the wish| the local regulations may be supplied | that “somebody would knock MT.|by some process of exchange? There | Bryan into a cocked hat.” But those |are probably some thousands of peo-| differences were not as great as the|ple in the District who have old copies | ones that now exist. and who are perfectly familiar with ——— e Service in the Far East. There are three posts in the orient | tribution among the uninformed. of great importance at this time. The all the rules who could turn their books in at a central point for dis- A new set of rules will soon be presented on Capitol Hill. An all- summer session seems to be a cer- tainty, and there will be no surprise if the fall is thrown in for good meas- ure. The emergency exists, and is gen- erally confessed. Both parties recog- nize it. Both are responsible for it.|to the American press, if newspaper The war produced it, and both de-|sentiment can be gauged by the num- clared, and fought, the war. Both,!ber of times that word appears in the therefore, must buckle to the work of restoring normal as soon as it can be done. “Bungalows.” President Wilson has been coining phrases again, an evidence of his re- man who impressed him as having It | tle intellectual depth he referred te him afterward as “a simple bungalow, with no upper story whatever.” And so starts “bungalow” on its| way. Will it be onymous with “boob,” or ‘s Or will it have a finer meaning to differentiate draw fine lines. seldom dis- criminating. So is likely to come into vogue to mean a person of little wit, a “light brain.” or one who is a bit sent” in the region ! gets old-fashioned very quickly. once tried to call thy sm “‘bungalettes.” the near-bungalow may really signify the person of in- tellectual shallows rather better than a strictly correct type of bullding. Be- —_———— The personal eloquence as well as the diplomatic experience of Col. Iy communities from being careless | about placing beverages indiscrimi- nately at the disposal of American consumers. | ——eotme——— A debate as to democratic leader- ship will have to be completed within the next few years in order to insure reasonable protection against another landslide. oo It will be difficult for Mr. Harding to make his Inaugural address as in- tensely interesting as the simple an- | pipers emphatically agree with the flery ! the old-fashioned slang—and slang { peing Editorial Digest Mr. Dawes’ “Mouthful.” The testimony before Congress of Gen. “Helen-Mariah” Dawes, as the| Baltimore Evening Sun (Independent democratic) calls him, was “refreshing’ editorial columns. Despite the fact that a few writers seem to be “shock- ed” at the Chicagoan's alleged “pro- fanity,” the majority of the news- condemnation of the mittees” which have been probing America’s war record. But there are striking exceptions, “smelling com- : ! Not every one is sure that Mr. covery of health. His latest contribu- | Dawes’ “very human outburst” ex- | S () (e e et special- | Plains away the charges of waste ' ion to current vernacular is espectal-| Ly 15 Jq "y “ire” The Boston | Iy interesting. Recently, it is related | Transcript (independent republican) after having listened patiently to ajconsiders that Mr. Dawes’ vocabulary, , which “caught the fancy of the head- | liners,” is but “a poor substitute for, the fruth” and the real criticlsm | against the “allegedly excessive cost | in men, money and materials” in the | war has come, not from the politicians | whom he castigates, but from the men ' who “fought and won the war afield | and afloat.” | & “all due respect to Mr. D " the Fort Wayne News and! Sentinel (republican) feels that “the| | between those who think deeply and | waste and graft in France simply those who think shallowly. The danc] €annot be detended” and ‘concludes : at its defender beside ger is that the slang users will not|phot s d=fender “asems to be beside It was the spirit reflected in his testimony, the Florida 'nmeu-| Union (democratic) declares, that *‘en- couraged grafters to charge for sup- | plies double their value.” Carried to ! its logical conclusion, the New York { Globe (independent) believes Mr. | reasoning would mean that | above the ears. {Lecause our boys and thelr leaders | “Nol 2 o s & ought bravely” all “rascals who | Nobody home” once meant that | GG TG peded (heme should | sort of thing, and is =12l occasionally | be excus-d heard by those who ciing fondly to| Sympathetic with the personal de- fense the general who “objects to led one,” the Buffalo Express ent republican) still thinks his sweeping attack upon investiga- (indep Now as to “bungalow.” A truelfiong in general “more profane than buhgalow is, as the President has sug- | businesslike,” and the Pittsburgh gested, a onestory bullding. But | Leader (progressive republican) goes a step further: most so-called bungalows of today| “There is no excuse for much that are not of that type. They are “story- wrumllu?t during the lv‘vm;‘ and not all i A of Mr. Dawes' energetic denunciation, COOIEy iy Somebody | pis picturesque and at times humor- ous profanity, can make it seem right. It was too far wrong to be made right by any ingenious explanations.” But most of the writers, not alto- gether limited to one political group, ve nothing but praise for the bank- oldier. The Baltimore American (republican) is moved to parody: H A little 1« ne nzressmen. The Norfolk Ledger-Dixpatch (inde- | pendent democratic) feels that ‘“cer- tainly if there was ever a time when good, round, mouth-filling oaths are excusable” it i under these circum- stances. The Hartford Times (demo- cratie) agrees: “Righteous, indeed, was the anger of Gen. Dawes at the ‘fool arguments’ and ecriticism which have been leveled at the conduct of the war, and though such expletives as he used are not the usual thing in a committee hearing, the occasion perhaps called for force- ! fulness.” | The St. Louis Star (independent)! believes that the banker was right| when he said that “there is no use in throwing mud” at America’s record in France. Much of the investigation the Arkansas Gazette (democratic) de- scribes as “merely mean, nagging poli- tics.” The democratic New Orleans States considers that “it is fine to have from one of the republican leaders, a patriot before he is a partisan, such | splendid testimony of what was ac- complished under a democratic admin- istration. Many newspapers which find them- Star mentioned one of them the other [8dopted. It is estimated that by the | day—the_governor generalship of the|1st of May the revised version of the | Philippines. If we are to remain in “Do’s and dont's” of traffic will be the islands some time longer—some.|ready for distribution. It has been| thing which now seems likely—we | Suggested that perhape by that time | shall have to adjust affairs to condi.|the funds from which the printing is | tions the war has bequeathed; and 4 | P2id Will have been exhausted. and it | man of firstrate ability will be nec.|Will be necessary to wait until thei essary for the direction of the work. |18t of July for the publication of the If we are to turn the islands over to|revised book. In any case, there will | the inhabitants and leave soon; the be two months and a half of de]ny.| work of transfer will have to be di-[9uring which it is certain that many 1noun(:emen( of his cabinet. lon a typewriter. selves In agreement with Mr. Dawes 4dd to their approval a full sanction -s.| Of the entire elimination of the in- Vestigations committee. “There Is no possible good to be the Columbus Dispatch (Indepéndent), “in parading the inevitable wastes of war before the public after the man- ——— ner of the average congremsional in- ; 5 Vestigating committee,” and the De- It may be unjust to suspect that YRR UGS ient) remarks most of the ex-kalser's wood chopping | that -1t 1« about time Washington has been done by a publicity expert|got throuzh harping on war expendi- tures and ftook a little interest in what's doing toduy.” —————— Railway wage controversies ne sarily involve expenses which as usual the passengers and shippers, though voiceless, will be expected to fmeet. —_——— rected by a first-rate man. The mission to Japan should be|they are not acquainted with the | filled by a man equal to any diplo- | Fules. i matic service under the government. Our relations with that country are|Indeed. it is one of the most absurd | now both delicate and difficult, and |things that have been brought to light require careful and competent hand.|for @ long time. How many of the ling. The talk of war is out of place;| d¢aths that have occurred in th but it is a fact that an anti-American feeling in Japan and an anti-Japanese feeling in America are much too noisy for comfort, and should be quieted. 1 China is our friend, and desires ml remain so. We desire to remain China's friend; and the best proof| we could give ker of the fact wuuld] be to send to her as our representa- tive a man with knowledge of the far eastern situation and in sympathy | with China's plans and purposes for the future. He, too, should be equal to any diplomatic service under our government. Men of ambition in diplomacy will find in the east a fine fleld for the development and exercise of their best powers. ———— There is an impression that the demise of the Kerensky government took place so long ago that there should be no further concern about the funeral expenses. —_———— If tickets are issued for diplomatic functions, arrangements can no doubt be made to prevent the development of a new nuisance in the form of so- clal ticket speculation. e ‘Wage scales, like the tariff, are al- ways under discussion as disclosing possibilities for revision. “Play Ball,” Says Palmer. The Attorney General says, “Play ball!” He has declared in a letter written to the congressional inquirer that 2 member of the federal bench can draw a salary outside of his offi- cial compensation for the discharge of any duty which does not interfere ‘with his judicial obligations or respon- sibilities. This means that in the opinion of the Attorney General, though the case is not specifically stated, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Lan- dis can with propriety serve as the supreme arbitrator of base ball law. This point has been brought up be- cause the Chicago jurist has been se- lected by the professional base hall leagues to hold the scales of justice in the national game. The base ball people in their eagerness to secure the | months can be traced to the ignorance | { The i inadequate if all the lobbyists pes- people will have “accidents” because This is not a pleasant spectacle. | city during the past four or five| of motorists who have never been offi- | cially notified of what they are re.| quired to do and prohibited from do-| ing. This is a serious reflection that | must make a deep impression upon | those who are trying to make Wash. ington safer. ——————— So many distinguished ex-officials are going to reside in Washington that the guides will have more re. sponsibilities than ever while con- ducting tourists through the residen.| tial sections. —_—emte—— A Birmingham, Ala., policewoman is quoted as saying she will wash the | faces of women who use cosmetics. town economists will probably refuse to make appropriations to meet 80 large a call for soap. ————— Difficulty in obtalning coples of the traffic regulations burdens the already hard-worked policeman with the duty of delivering a free and continuous course of law lectures. ———— Berlin political financiers have al- lowed their pecullar system of logic | to suggest ideas that Germany ought to be paid for the trouble she took to make the war. —_—— There is no doubt that this city's housing facilities would be hopelessly simistically represented as on their way were to demand accommodations. ———— { Congress. There is a suggestion of night ses- sions. If necessary, they should be held. They are trying, of course. Legislators who rise early, attend committee meetings in the morning, and spend the greater portion of the afternoon. participating in open de- bates are well fagged by dinner time, | and in small humor for resuming work | after the meal is over. Still, if more work is necessary it should be done. A good deal of work is necessary if the “must” measures are to be put services of this eminent “fan” offered him $50.000 a year. He demurred at taking this much money and compro- mised at $42,500, which added to his official salary would make $50,000. Now in the opinion of the Attorney Oeneral if the base ball people think that Judge Landis is worth $42,500 to them in his off hours there is noth- ing in the law to prevent his serving %0 long as he does not neglect his Judicial duties. This decision is probably in line with " through before adjournment day. Congress has not been loafing on the Job. On the contrary, a large amount of business has been transacted since meeting day. ‘The great press is for the supply bllls. They are not exactly in peril, but the situation might be better. Not ".\fld language unreservedly erratic, Recent experiences ought to make Germany not only willing but eager to | set the pace in disarmament. i | —_———— Investors in various problematical | stocks resent any project to puurl water into the troubled oils. —————— An investigation that lags in inter-{ est might send for Mr. Dawes as an | extra added attraction. i 1 SHOOTING STARS. } i BY PHILANII LR JOHNSON. i Polite Constraint. | We still observe some délicate dis- cretions i Concerning the relations of man; kind, Though often we are treated to ex- pressions “onspicuously blunt and unrefined. We draw a line that makes dxuunc.i tion clear. We know in conversation diplomatic Are things the public never ought to hear. { Although the pictures showing new | apparel Are candidly artistic everywhere— And risky rhythms to the tunes we caral, Where dancers leave their graceful | ankles bare; i In spite of the audacity emphatic, | Which shocks our unsophisticated | glee, H We know In correspondence diplo- | Lor Tibet. | formea News Sources. A great deal of effort on the part of correspondents in Warsaw that might go into telling us vhat Is go- Ing on in Poland is expended on what is happening (or might be happen- ing) in Montenegro, or the Ukraine, And Montenegro and the Ukraine and Tibet, instead of telling us what is really happening there, describe what 18 going on (or might be going on) in Rome or Turin. It i all a habit, acquired during the war, when we became accustomed to ac- cepting at their face value reports coming by wireless from Helsingfors, relayed via Johannesburg, quoting a kholm paper, which had been in- by Sto s Buenos Aires corre- that the leading native hanghai had received a dis- patch direct from Tiflis giving a faithful account of the Khedive of Egypt's private opinion of American fforts at mine-sweeping in the neigh- spondent paper of orhood of the Orkney Island. With European communications in dislocation. the business of gather- ing news is almost as difficult as it was while the war itself was in progress.| In addition to “news” from sources| which are interested in coloring and warping it to suit their own devices, there is tne home news from official state agencies. The countries, new and old, spend for this purpose large sums of mo that might be better employed.—New York Evening Post (independent). The Democl;atic Party. Every thoughtful citizen in the! country desires the reorganization of the democratic party on a basis of intelligent and virile leadership. The permanent continuance of the politi- cal cleavage as it was disclosed at! the polls in November would be a national calamity. This is a govern- ment_of parties under the law, and the friction which they produce in competition is essential to good gov- ! ernment. The present undertaking of democratic official organization the to matic |prepare now for the future is based Are matters that the public must|0n a wrong vision. It is a fight be- A tween men of ambition, who are out > to control, and not a fight between o6 topposing principles. The rank and A House Wrap. file of the demo::rl(lc l\md!e‘l"l"‘o( llhe o ”» 7 count) are not Intereste: n e vic- Charley, dear,” said young ~Mrs. {{on 0 552 00 oF ne three men, Cox, Torkins, “the fur coat you gave melMcAdoo and Bryan, over the other j Another penalty mankind must heed | the attention of the janitor.” “Has he ventured any comment?” | . But Re evidently thinks I'm | keeping warm. He hasn't turned the heat on this year.” Jud Tunkins says a violinist is lucky it his concert pleases an audi. | ries the neighbors. The Burden of Mankind. When earth by war fs smitten; i *Twill take full half a century to read | The historles that are written. A Generalization. ladies do not attend prize 7" rejoined Miss Cayenne. “Maybe real gentlemen don’t, either.” The Unconventional. parties in the east?'’ asked Plute Pete. one of them should be passed on to the next Congress. Mr. interests of the country demand it. Harding | Joe. £ wants them disposed of, and the best | lations was disappointed at the way |time! “I could see my friends an’ re- nobody noticed me. So I went out The next Congress will not lack |and rented a cowboy suit and was for work legitimately belonging to it. the hit of every occasion.” on Christmas must have nltrxc(ed}:}wn. and that s just what all this [place for the democratic party in this ence as much as his practicing wor- |1 {pends upon the revival of the doctrine other is about. The defeat of the democratic party last fall, principally at the hands of | its own membership, was administered because democratic leadership had censed to be democratic. There is no country unless it deals with demo- | ratic principles of control as they ave been preached since the days of Jefterson. There is no magic in the mes of Cox, McAdoo and Bryan un- less they are linked up with sound democratic doctrine. The future of the democratic party, therefore, do- and not the revival of personalities. The national committee by meeting ' and chucking out Cox's chairman and chucking in McAdoo’'s chalrman will not stir a needed vote from one end of the country to the other.—New Haven Journal-Courier (independent). Convicted of Running Still.—Headline, What is this, a marathon?—Knoxville Journal and Tribune. ‘Well, it may be necessary to marry Europe in order to reform her.—Balti- more Sun. “Cancelitis” has a serlous run, but it “Did you wear a dress suit to them | 910 not reach the war debts.—Boston Herald. “Only the first one,” replied Cactus | The appropriate salutation on ratsing of hooch to one's lips would be lookin’ at you—for the last Rockford (Ill.) Star. The wind that 15 tempered shorn case ‘Here' to the lamb doesn’t seem to help the of the shown limb.—Baitimore Evening Sun. D. C, SATURDAY, FEBRU! ASSOCIATION on shares maturing in 45 on shares Corner 11th and E Sts. N.W. JOSHUA W. 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