Evening Star Newspaper, February 18, 1921, Page 6

“EVENING STAR, ith Sunday ) Morning Edition. /WASHINGTON, D. C. FRAIDAY: THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Peansylvania Ave. s T nilding % .;mx‘g.t T e Fime | Is Devhaps possible by an ideal combi- | possibility of penaltic great as the o R European Offce: 3 Regent St.. L Eagiand | nation to get together a gang of men | pssible winnings. 17 1t is a fifty 3. s Biieiity af dooiecratio g uln,\“ true theis me it will be o lually won for the wditors call for “principles instead of carriers within the 7| trust and who will obey orders in peisonalities” and denounce tho at- m Sunday only. S e e month. . or 1 plicitly, thece is a big chance of thegsentiment of the COUNtEY oo create “factionallsm.” Sup- Sors hiay be. geat by mail. oF pione M| (rayal, and it is this fact that : decidedly dhanges the elghteenth port for ~Cox amd his frlends: is O etion BRIEEDS from chaos and universal lamendment and its accompanying en- about balanced by protests against crime. reement law will be carried Into full M. White ‘among those who ‘com- § Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. | congiger the case of the gunmancffect—into as full (ect. that 18 10 chairmin For the wost pars, the ser | Maryland and \lrzlr{hfl- who plays a small part in one of these | say any law is ever executed. And niacks of the republicn press might | Dily ol Gunday. 3T e - is melodramas. He takes most of the whcther those engaged in trying to by described as “siient cheors. | aily on §.00; R AR % . e el e Courler Journa Sunday on! J1yr.$2.400 1m risk and he gets the least share of {beat it are men or women, they will o e el All Other States. the loot. Why should he not be a eventually come to grief. Commis i3 desctiboa SRS Daily and Sunday 3 free agent? Why should be not organ- | sioner Kramer's announcement that 1u terms echoed by | Daily only .. - his own gang and become his own | the law knows no sex may have its ,"“‘f‘ Dapers of similar politi- Sunday only B 1 cal faithi *The wrangle over the ot oS ster mind"? Probably those ques- | effect even now in scaring off Women | question of reorganization of the A present themseclves to every who are pk ng this dange B me. i domocratic national committee and Make Room for Columbia' i and they must be met and | It Is an eptional woman who isthe democralic party betrays the p ' usual shortsightedness of the usual Last night the Chamber of Com- . .February 18, 1921} THE EVENING lof criminal work. The thing is pos- | sible. There is no reason why di-, recting genius should not apply itself to the crime business as well as to by them. Prohibition enforcement is going to be a stubborn fight. There are im- nowever, and that is the character of the criminal. He is not an altogether dependable person. He s an insurgent by nature or he would !not he breaking laws. jAnd while it difficulty gling and selling liquor, and as long ‘us those profits are offered there will be many to venture into the field. The policy of the enforcement anization should he to make the o8 swered, and many times they are | willing to risk shameful public merce transformed its regular meet|answered in favor of independent ac- | well as punishment, even for profit. ing into a representative gatheringition. 1 the gang breaks up and And despite a certain degree of com- of Washingtonians of all perhaps being less inteiligently di ence that prevails now in some tions to consider national representa-|rected it loses its luck and is caught. vters, in @ spirit of boastful tion for the District of Columbia. AN| The bravado of this Toledo robbery | defiance of the law, public zceusa inspiring audience heard inspired | committed at the doors of the post tion of “bootlesgit in any form speakers, whose eloquence, wit and{ufice shows what desperate risks ave!not an agrecable experience or logic drove home convinc !"’"““run and yet the job was easily ac-!pecially @ mark of honor. nent facts, figures and sound reason-{ complished. . Apparently the ing. . . suards against theft are not sutficient [ High Jinks in the House. THere_is an inspiring prophecy of |if gunmen are going to loot the | s final full victory for this cause in|wagons at the very loading platforms | T0¢ House of Repr the wonderful way in which the Dis- trict national representation concept has developed in strength and has ir- resistitly taken possession of every organization which has considered it on its merits. In 1914 the Chamber of Commerce suffrage committee con- sidered many suffrage propositions, including that of a voteless delegate and many proposals of change of the local government. When this commit- tee of ten met it was found that there were ten different views in the com-! mittee of precisely the best form of | local government, and there was a! distinct division of sentiment in re- gard to the comparative advantages and disadvantages of a voteless dele- gate. But the committee found itself standing together in united support of the constitutional amendment as something of vital concern to every- body, the only adequate representa- tion, the only representation that should under existing conditions be asked or granted. Experience in the chamber was the same when the committee of ten as a unit reported back the constitu- tional amendment stripped of every- thing except establishment of the fun-| damental principle of national repre- sentation for the District. The cham- ber approved it with practical una- nimity. ‘The way in which the national rep- resentation idéa thus took possession of the chamber foreshadowed the sim- flar procedure which actually took place in the Board of Trade, the Fed- eration of Citizens’ Associations, the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Asso- ciation and the long list of other or- ganizations which are now arrayed in its support.’ Amnd it foreshadows also, we may be sure, a similar pro- cedure resulting in full and final vic- tory, for this cause in Congress and in the state legislatures. Among the worthy American com- ‘munities which are represented in and combine t6 form the greatest republic in the world, make room for the Dis- trict of Columbia! —_——————— The public observes with deep and proper concern the illness which may remove a great singer from his use- fulness. The death of Caruso would at least close a career well rewarded by praise and prosperity. The genius ‘which made possible his song, the creaters of the transcendent strains and the poets who inspired the melo- dies have in many instances been far less rewarded. Yet the gratitude a world feels toward an artist compe- tent to understand and express their beauties is a tribute to their original greatness in the measure that it gives the singer a place in the affections of the listening throng. B —————— The fights between rum runners and police must be particularly an-| noying .to. Col. Bryan as a man of peace. ‘The colonel’s ideal was to turn swords to ‘plowshar not to trans mute corkscrews into six-shooters. —————— It might be easfer to sccure a par- don for Mr. Debs if he were not so likely to Insist on a full vindication as an immediate sequel. Diplomacy now. euggests a hear feit “Thanks awfully:” as a substitu for the formula, “Received payment.” Is There a “Master Mind?” Now the “master mind” crops out again in the crime news. ang of thieves stole nine mail pouches from the post office at Toledo containing, it is estimated, somewhere between $400,000 and $1,000,000. The job was done with a certain expedition and precision of movement that marked careful training and perhaps experience. A motor car carrying several men trailed the mail truck from the raiircad station 16 the post office, and as its attendants started to unload it the gangsters hdld them up with guns and swiftly transferred the bags to their car and sped away. ‘The whole operation took only ahout a minute. Now the federal officers ‘who have examined the case believe that this is but one of a seri crimes directed by w planning head ‘who works out the details and assigns his operatives. f This is the latest beries in the same region. bers have evidently ny train and mail schedules. They - 1y do their work In a stolen car which they abandon in flight, transferring to another car. The methods of these late crimes have been marked by cer- tain similarities that lead to the be- lief in the “master mind.” It there is, in truth, an organiza- tion with a directing head, it but veri- fles the imaginings of certain fiction writers who have conceived these super-criminals guiding large groups of agents well versed in every branch some of several rob- The rob- other arrangements must be made ;NS finished mos for the transfer of the mails. { priation work s ports, is in a po a little 1 to take thing the Senate is | Chairman White. The movement against Chairman White was inadvisable, for three rea- of impera- sessional work. Perhaps it was in this mood that it turned sons: a display of firew lasting for (1) He had not deserved dethrome- about half an hour, which afforded ment. The failure last year was much entertainment and excitement through no fauit of his. He showed | both capacity and industry. He con- fronted a situation which made suc- without any net injury. The occasion ‘was enlivened by the exchange of ver- bal bombs. The short and ugly word things of an enlivening nature. One of his own colleagues, a member, of course, of his own party, took the floor to denounce him. For a time the | proceedings resembled the old-fash- foned “battle royal,” in which it was the practice of all the belligerents but { one to pounce upon that untucky one n a process of elimination. Fortu- nately, the affair ended without blood- shed, physical or metaphorical It was, perhaps, merely a blowing off of pent-up cualties, no last year's mandate. The record of the special session and that of the first regular session of the Sixty- seventh Congress will afford the basis for both the republican appeal and the democratic appeal for control of the Sixty-eighth Congress. Until those records are made, party maneuvering: will be of a somewhat haphazard and | | fruitless character. | (3) The moverfient was certain to be | appraised as in Mr. McAdoo's behalf; | as notice that Mr. McAdoo was in the : recolutions of censure, no references running for 1924, and that every string| to comunittee, no expungements of lan- within reach of his friends would be | guage—just a happy little family row, pulled to secure for him then what{and at the end everybody satisfied. he narrowly missed at San Francisco | That is all. last year. e . It s altogether likely that Mr. Mc:| Lanor unio Adoo will try his hand again. Thelpermit combinations of capital 1o be field is open to him as to others. But {legalized, possibly as an argument in at this time to have committed thefavor of any kind of combination that democratic ‘national committee to his i may in the course of economic evo. j fortunes would have been in the cir-|ytion assert itself. cumstances’ the pporest sort of poli-| tics. & i | have yet to interpret in legislation ! i | i —— on men are disposed to ———— !a time when Germans, instead of hid- Protection Democrats. 1’ g arms and ammunition, were osten- Senator, Reed should not lose pa-|tatiously proud of them as evidences { tience with democrats who vote for a | of “dlvine right.” | tariff measure drafted on protection | —_—————— lines. j Incidentally, Congress is asked to | There is a good deal of prozecuun}cnnsm(»r whether the salary of a fed jsentiment among democrats. There |eral judge ought to be so much less | has always been. Why it has not of | than that of a base Lall arbitrator. {late years found adequate expression | at the polls or in Congress is not alto- | {gether clear nor very creditabl | i There has been a Iz It will ‘be a simple {but for all practical purpc k of leadership. | E In the days of Samuel J. Randall pro- | SHOOTING STARS. {tection democrats were ably and ag- | i My {aressively led. He knew his subject. i He ‘was thoroughly convinced. He| {had the full courage of his convic-| itions. On the stump and in Congress | the stood up for a tariff policy inj which he sincerely believed. In which heroic actions blend e had large credit as a public man.| With poetry serenc. (He had been Speaker of the House.| He said the artistry was great, j Hig name had figured in presidential | yet clearly understood. i speculation. His courage and char-|He told me not to hesitate; jacter and abilities were confessed| The play would do me good. i even by his opponents. ample. BY PHILANDER JOSINSON. Making a Choice. A man advised me to attend A play that he had seen i But since Mr. Randall's death there | He said there was another show, has been no democrat approaching| Undoubtedly the worst fhim in size or credit to take up his | Suggestion of the world below anner and carry on. | That ever was rehearsed. The situation may change now. The ' And more than this, the { war has given a new twist to the tariff | Of clothes would cause al subject as to many other subjects.|H¢ cautioned me to x The note of protection is heard round | . The show would do me harm. the world. Even free trade England ! L) is sounding it. ;,f)ur-ln')l’l-u minds are very queer. ! In America here a tariff Congress| " ¢ S¢¢K the good and true; has recently been held in Atlanta, | N4 Yet when evil w in the heart of the south, and pro-| " ¢ Want to tection indorsed as cordially as it| POUSh con {ever has been in New England. 15y enicor taiie | The convention of suffragists be.|! 'AVE YOU. reader dear. to guess ! | Which show I went to see. lieves that a woman is quite as com- | = petent as man to lay down the law:! and many pages of history as well | {as poetry support the contgntion. | rm. s draw near see them, too. nce struggles more or Impractical Suggestion. “The cost of our ac ammodations i 4 U1 in Paris would have been enough to ! kespeare makes Portia one of his e e S mostecharming figures. S4id) ihe Ainicwat | hote! | e s “Yes," said the railroad expert, “but The cabinet meeting recognized the | hink of the expense of a government imodern custom which makes the at-| gporated hotel.” | tentions of the photographer a part, — of the regular order of business. The Relief of the Inartistic. i —_— e————— “Do you like jazz music?" { The club will secure a prize that “¥ replied Mr. Cumrox, “for the | per uades Judge Landis to toss the|reason that they go ahead and play {ball from the grandstand at the open-|it and don’t expect anybody to learn ing game. ia lot of forel words in order to {talk with critical discernment about the concert.” i ‘Woman Bootleggers. Prohibition Commi | has declared war against the woman | boatiegger. He says that the women jare more skilled than men in escaping detection and covering their trails, Their costume, for one thing, enables them to carry their contraband with { slight chance of detection, despite the present tendency of feminine style. But according to the commissioner there will be no particular courtesy toward the sex In enforcing the law. A relentless war is to be waged against the carriers of liquor, regard- less of sex. Perhaps it is the plan of the commissioner to use women to catch women engaged in this busi- ness. The ways and wiles that are peculiar to the'sex will best be under- stood by them. The whercabouts of joner Kramer Hisioric Writing Though praise and che the laws Men write in great amount, There never has been much applause | For an expense account. may greet Jud Tunkins says some forms of ‘radicalism” are mere ridiculism. ————— Gilbert K. Chesterton proposes that we abolish the inevitable. Shucks, haven't we prohibited it?—Loulsville Courier-Journal. A plan has been advanced now to make sugar from sweet potatoes. Now all we need are the potatoes—Par- kersburg News. ‘What drunks there are seem quieter ander prohibition. May be because they are still-born.—Toledo Blade. 'hxding places may be better gues¥ed | legitimate business. There is just one | mense profits in the business of smug-; day to ! { | The ex kaiser regretfully remembers | inauguration, | ant display | S TAR, WASHINGTON,_ D. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1921. . o . Editorial Digest ' | S ! Democracy’s False Start. | The “threat” to Chairman White of | the democratic national committee to | call a meeting of that body for the implied purpose of ousting him from office is not the kind of “reorganiza- tion” the democrats want, if most of Kk politician. ilarly the Indianapolis News (in- dependent) expresses the beilef that| i “the democrats will do themselves | {and the country a disservice if they !fall out among themselves and begin a4 contest for the control of party and the New Orleans -Picayune (independent demo- ©) doubts that four years of fa 1 wrangling will “pave the way istructive patriotic action and | righteous victo nor is it “con- vinced” that the “democratic rank and file want to begin the political battle of 1924 in the spring of 1921." (independent) “this Jockeying Phe Newark News remurks that while for position between the McAdoo and Cox forces is indication enougt that the pariy still is a pretty iive corpse { it would be a little more to the pount | for the democrats in Congress to show that democrats stand for thei s worthy of support on their upon the conduct of their itives, rather than the “pre- mature” choice of leaders, many feel that success depends. minority season that lies k the Norfolk Virginian (democratic), can be “converted into an exceedingly fruitful season, cess impossible. The most experienced | passed several times, with variations. | and the Richmond Times Dispatch | manager in the demccratic party | Members clamored for a hear i (et e) O R | could not have piloted Gov. Cox to|were granted minutes aplece. Some | “the winning {ssues in the next ““""I y Wilsonism would have de-jof them nceded less than a minute | \ will be made by the democrats | ted anybody championing it. The ! o in th - and the House in the e y championing it. € each to record their feelings. The | L\ fonr Venrss country was eager for a new deal. |gstorm center s frequently in the | The Baltimore Sun (independent (2) It Was too soon to begin shaping | past, rex: ember whe | democratic) declares that not until vork for mext ¥ Th.g.‘ b“l, Fipant o Texas member whe (EEERATT Lo the voters crystal- | Wore fopnexGyenr ) Tnoitepublicans ihas ey genius for starting | ‘an leaders be definitely chosen. | | The New Haven Journal Courier (in idependent) sees this contest as mere. |1y “a fight between men of ambition” | fand nol “a fight between opposing | | principl Without suggesting that | | cither faction be “squelched” th Chattanooga News (democratic) de. i | clares that ‘*reorzanization should | not be attempted” in the “interest” of | | any person or persons, but rather for | the people, a8 a whole, Indecd, the | real job of the committee, declares ! the Birmingham News (democratic) f | is *“rehabilitating the machinery of { the party” without consideration “of | ny ond or group of men.'” | *arty chicfs should unite on time- ! ! honored democratic principles,” the ! | Memphis® Commorcial Appeal | cratic) "concludes, allowing | leadership to take care of itself. | The St. Louis Star (independent) says: “The democratic party needs a { chairman chosen for a reason; not a | chairman against whom nothing can {be said. ! "But Chairman White has his sup- | porters, too. Among them is the {Cleveland Vlain Dealer (independent {democratic), which declares that there | was nothing’in his conduct of the| {campaign “that calls for his resig-| {nation now.” and those who attempt | will merely invite “an-{ * when harmony is needed. | mphis News Scimitar (inde-! dent) feels that these persons can Dbe called “agitators favoring contin- | uous discord in the democratic | party.” for. as the Columbia (8. C.) “wo (a-mocratic) remarks, “why | shouldn't Gov. Cox's friends stay in| {the saddle? They are the only onesj jentitled to remain there.” Thelr rew| {moval. indeed, the Knoxville Journ: and Tribune (republican) agrees, {would be like punishinz a man for, failure to “change the laws of gravi-| tation or direct the flow and ebb of | the tides" Enccuraging the Small Town. Henry Ford's plan for decentralizing industrial centers and utilizing the n power that stagnates in agri i cultural districts during seven months { of the year s one worthy of the con | sideration of the thoughtful. j drift of rural populations to the cities ! is one that must be checked before | | poverty can be greatly reduced. The | cost of living in congested communi- | tics is necessarily higher than in| country districts. That is a shoal on which ‘many civilizations have been | wrecked. The Roman emperors fought | azainst the centralization of popula- | tions. Horace wrote his charming | odes extolling country life at the behest of a royal patron. who Dro-l sented to him a magnificent country | villa and gave him a gen~rous pension ! ! on condition that he would devote his talents to popularizing rural life. | haps Mr. Ford will be able, how. to improve on Horace; for Hor- ought only to make country life while the ius “of the | — i | th. tter wageés and cheaper living n the towns, with equal edu- al opportun‘ties and diversions. drift 1o the cities will cease.—Los Times (independent republi- Infant Mortality. i | ! | o Current reporta from Eneland show | | an infant death rate of only elghtv thousand. This is the Jowest ned in England. Tt is also record ever achieved by | industrial countr; Ny is lower. but condi the colony and the mother country are not compurable, Foth ! | countries ved babies' lives system of public id. The differan~e h- inglish loss of 149 babjes ! {out of every thousand born, which was | the record for the neriod hetween | ! 1571 and 1880, and the present rate | of eighty measures a social revolu- tion ‘ In this country we are still lag- gards in these matters. We do not the size of the infant i 4 cept in a few favored | states comprising the so-called regis- tration area. But what we do know | leads to the conclusion that the rate | is necdlessly high. Progress has hean ! made in places such as, for example, ! this city. but, naturally, we are back- | ward. There is now pending in Con- gress sure designed to save ! | babie The Sheppard-Towner | {bill. wh s the approval of the | | children’s hureau and of many wom- |en's oranizations, would stimulate | the development of better public care ! through the joint work of the state | fand of the nation. This bill mm: r: passed the Senate. It ought not to Dbe allowed to die in the House, where | its enemies appear to be seceking {auietly to dispose of it. Babies ouzht not ta be wasted because of public | neglect—New York Globe (inde- { pendent). Most of the coal hoisters work now- adays outside the mine mouth.—Bos- ton Herald. Kansas reports a cat that lives on bark. It is no unusual thing to feed the kitty with chips.—Baltimore Evening -Sun. When' the weatherman says ‘geese are not a sign of spring, he proba- bly is thinking that the gossamer sille stocking has all seasons for its own. —Philadelphia North American, Sol Herzog @ Co. Ninth and F The End! ZELWO0OD The style is in the shape. The com- Jort isin the Thin- tex making. d | Tomorrow is thé last day of this wonderful Clothing sale we’ve been holding—and if you have promised yourself a share in it—now’s your last chance. All Suits Half Price ‘! It doesn’t make any difference what make— | Stratford, Styleplus or Herzog—nor how staply th'c i pattern and model. HALF PRICE BUYS IT NOW. Section is zoned first com- That means - ‘ $40 to §75 Suits $20 to $37-50 mercial. Fine location for Gollars (§ | & Shines |d | EARL & WILSON monrry Business Opportunity Mt. | i { : We offer for | Columbia {1 \ i | i ‘ \ sale in Pleasant, east of Road, south of 17th St, a vacant piece of ground 150 feet front, containing about 22,500 square feet. Price and terms upon appli- cation. All Overcoats— Ulster- ettes, Ulsters or those of lighter weight William S. Phillips Realtor 14069 N. Y. Ave. ngle or Double-breasted, Phone Main 98 large public garage which the ’ i | 75 1| ° neighborhood needs? ‘More than a purchase—an inveshnent!‘ FU R S that wiil wear right through the spring. All Fur Coats MUST BE SOLD Regardleas of Cost Mode! Fur Shop I. ROSENDORF (Prop.) 923 G St. N.W. - Shall Germany or France Pay the War Bill? The grades range up to $60. Of course, sizes are broken—but the quality isn’t. : If Germany doesn’t pay, France must. In effect, this is the reply of a large section of the press of the United States to those economists who insist that the war bill presented to Germany by the Allies—226,000,000,000 gold marks payable in forty-two years, plus a 12 per cent export tax—is more than that nation can pay. “The astonishing fact is that it does not seem to have occurred to these British and American pleaders for Germany that if she does not pay for the devastation she methodically wrought, her victims must,” exclaims the Philadelphia Nortlg American, which points out that “when it is argued that the sum demanded in reparations should be reduced, this means precisely that sufferers from her aggression shall be penalized to the ex- tent of the remission.” On the other hand, some editors are convinced that the Allies are demanding more than Ger- “ “rance wants Germany’s blood, and it deserves Germany's blood, but it must get it by transfusion, not by murder,” remarks the Lou “Germany can never pay the 226,000,000,000 gold marks indemnity,” exclaims the Seattle Trmes, and the New York Evening World characterizes the reparations pregram as “amazing and impossible.” The leading article in THE LITERARY DIGEST this week, February 19th, covers this sub- ject very comprehensively, and shows public opinion of every shade as reflected in the news- many can pay. ) ille Courser-Journal. paper press. Other important news-articles in this number are: The New Republic of Poland A Concise Historical Article, Together Witk a Full-Page Colored Map of the New Poland, Showing It as It Is Today Why the Railroads are Hard ‘Up Best Equipment for Long Distance Flight a3 Airplane vs. Battle-Ship A New Terror for Picture Fakers The Plea for Cancelling War Debts Germans Badgering Lord Bacon The Fight for Democratic Control The Churches vs. the Open Shop India’s Jewish Viceroy The “Golden Rule” Prescribed for Business A Defense of China Best of the Current Poetry Coal Doomed by the Coming Age of Oil Topics of the Day (With Charts Showing the World’s Oil Fields) Personal Glimpses of Men and Events Many Hllustrations Including the Best Cartoons February 19th Number on Sale Today—News-dealers 10 Cents—$4.00 a Year ite%‘iy Digest FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY (Publishers of the Famous NEW Standard Dictionary), NEW YORK 'Tis a Mark of Distinction to Be a Reader of The Literary Digest