Evening Star Newspaper, February 19, 1921, Page 4

4 : THE EVENING STAR, WASfiINGTON,_D._C.. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1921-PART 1. THE EVENING STAR,|ory oniy blacker; the same dread 's mind to fon. | only, when one permits one’s m ~__ With Sunday Morning - contemplate what a war of the future WASHINGTON, D. C would be, more dreadful; the same e ive. 19, 1921 | preparations, only more extens! SATURDAY. . .February And the significance of what the YES....Editor| world has just experienced growing THEODORE W. NOYES. .. -B dimmer as men and women Who but 8 Company | three yvears since were engaged in a T iy . oo Pengrriania Are.| war o stop all war settle back to the _New York Offce: _Tribune BulIRE, 100 fold fatalistic policy of permitting Rii?.f-"f«')"n?ii: ;‘;(\:pn:‘h . London, England. | events to take their course. ire Sunday mornine| The destinies of civilization are in fers withia the &5 | the hands of the men and women of ! : ‘month.. or | today. They can make of them what T omt by maih, or telephone Main! ypo Wi 8o the responsibility for 000, i i 0”;"";:‘”"‘ Lo what 1l be in the future is theirs. end of each month. The Evening Star. with at 60 cents per month: —_— Wars, man-made, can be prevented Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. [, ., Byt 1o prevent war the men Maryland and \'ir:‘nh‘- 200 |@nd women of the world, remember- | Daily and Sunday Y 50e v mo., 50c | ing what war means and \~ismnin;:§ 1 L1y, $2.40 mo., 20¢ | the possibility of an era of assured| All Other States. | peace, must will to do so. They must . $10.00; 1 mo.. =;';: | impress their wills upon those respon-| sible for their governmental affairs, and must stand firm and devoted be- | {hind the leaders who shail rise in The Bryan Platform. response to that demand. If, and| It is hardly likely that Mr. Bryan fonly if, they can be aroused to do this will limit himself in the matter nf;(hing war, with its every attendfmt, planks for the next democratic plat-|barrier to the progress of mankind,| form. The twenty-two he has justican be nhnhs.hod. _Ir. and surely nf.l offered are probably all he has ready | the opportunity which is the world's at present. As others occur to himftoday be permitted to pass unseized, between now and convention time he jand the nations, whil.‘h‘ are the peo-| will bring them forward. | Dle, revert to the policies which pre- There is the railroad question. Mr.|ceded 1914, a war which will repeat | Bryan was among the first of the and multiply the horrors just en- politicians advocating government | dured is as inevitable as the judgment ownership and operation of railrcad . of God. properties. It required strong pres- sure to prevent him from urging that | proposition on the convention which} gave him his third nomination. Ie does not mention the matter nNow. Will he do so later? He sprang into leadership on the money question. His proposition for free silver coinage at sixteen to one staggered the business world, and de- feated him in his first campaign. He would not, of course, renew that now. But the world's finances are in such a disordered state, the very disorder may intrigue him and draw from him some suggestion about re-establish- ing credits and separating the chaff from the wheat in the circulation that has grown out of the war. Before the time even of his na- tional leadership he was an enthu- siast on the subject of a tariff for revenue only. The tariff is up again, and the democrats are dividing. Pro- tection has invaded the ranks of the| low tariff men Mr. Bryan used tof lead. Has he himself kept the faith? 1yr., $8.4 13T., $6.0 22 Mr. Hughes at St. Augustine. Said Charles E. Hughes to the news- | paper men who greeted him at St.| Augustine yesterday: “It seems like old times, doesn’'t it?’ Old times. Four years. Some of these men hai ascompanied Mr. Hughes on his stumping tours in 1916. And those tours were highly successful. True, Mr. Hughes did not reach {goal. He lost by the narrowest of margins, and by an eccentric turn of | fortune. That Ohio, Kansas and | California should give their votes to | the democratic ticket seemed, and ! was, amazing. 3ut the candidate had demonstrated | | strong qualities. There had been sub- stance rather than show in his speech- fes. He had won the respect of the i1leaders of his party and justified his nomination. The campaign gave Mr. Hughes| prestige, and he has retained it. Iis : weight is to be reckoned from the Is he as carnest as ever in his oD |+ tay tn all the speculation about position to protection? He does mot| ;. .pinet his name has figured in mention the subject in his latest Pro-{ .onnection with the first place. Mr. nuncfamento. Root, Mr. Lodge, Mr. Knox and Mr. | Hughes have been appraised as of the stamp required by the duties of the State Department at this time. Opinion soon settled on Mr. Hughes, and he is now in consultation with Mr. Harding, presumably about the business they are soon to take in! hand. It is very important business; and there is nobody in the country who is not interested in it, and who should not wish them well in their work. The New York Democracy. Leading democrats in New York are talking reorganization for state purposes. The party cut a sorry fig- ure last November. Over a million plurality was cast for the republican | national ticket, while Gov. Smith was defeated for re-election by some eighty thousand votes. And yet New York at San Fran-| cisco had taken a leading part. Charles F. Murphy had been a boomer for Gov..Cox, and had brought home with him the nomination of Franklin| The exchange of letters between | D. Roosevelt for Vice President. President Wilson and President-elect | All in vain. Neither upstate nor (Harding relative to the luncheon at| downstate could be stirred for any-|the White House on the 4th of March | thing or anybody bearing the demo- |illustrates the delicate situation that cratic label. The republicans had njprevails on that day, when the official | walkaway, even in the big town. { occupancy of the Executlve Mansion | It is denied that this movement is|changes. When the inaugural party aimed at Tammany Hall. And why leaves for the White House one per-| should it be? Where everybody fail-! son is its official inmate. At 12 o'clock | ed—and everybody of a democratic | he ceases and another takes his place. « turn did fail—why attempt to hold{On the return from the Capitol the any particular organization, even|former occupant, if he enters the Tammany, to account? i doors, is merely a guest where he but The mayoralty race in Greater New 'an hour or so earlier has been host. York next fall promises to be as ex-|In this instance, as in the past, the citing as any of recent years. If lhe!reurmg President must make the! republicans, or the republicans and | plans for the welcoming and the com- the independents acting together, win | fort of his successor. Mr. Wilson and that, Tammany will suffer heavily. | Mr. Harding have exchanged the cour- ‘With the republicans in control in | tesies of the occasion in a happy man- both Washington and Albany, should | ner. This correspondence, turning they also come into control in Greater [ merely on the matter of a luncheon, New York, Tammany will not have|contains the vital principle of the where to lay its head. And with Tam-/ American system of government, a many on its uppers, the New York ;peaceful transfer of authority from democracy will be in a forlorn, not to | one executive to another in obedience | say deplorable, condition. { to the popular expression of will. Not | teven in 1877, when party feeling ran Col. Bryan continues to claim | Pigh and a sense of wrong prevailed on enough headline attention to demon- | the part of many of the people, was strate that he has not been attacked | there any serious thought of inter- by any form of political sleeping sick. | [eFing With the mandate of election. i The “revolution” is accomplished in i November and recorded formally in | February. The transfer in March fol- | The March Change. —_———— —_————— The Responsibility of Nations. ! The world war is but little more| than two years old if one may figure the war to have ended with the armi- stice. Technically, of course, the end is not yet, as far as America is con- cerned. But to all intents and pur-| poses two years have passed in which the world has been zfforded an op-| portunity to show that the lesson taught by this tragedy and horror had sunk home, and that it proposed to profit thereb; Today, looking back over these two years, the thought-{ ful citizen owes it to himseif to reach | a decision as to whether full advan-| tage has been taken of that oppor-| tunity. Doing so, incredible though it may seem, he must arrive at the conclusion that, far from taking full! advantage thercof, the world has been | drifting back toward that pre-war | state of mind and trend of activity which history has shown us led, with inevitable momentum, to the spring of 1914 and the succeeding debacle. The period intervening between the Franco-Prussian war and the world| war was marked with a tragic old world psychology. Men's minds were shadowed by the memory of the for- mer and the dread of the latter strug- gle, and human activity in Europe in every phase, whether national or international, social or economic, or intellectual, was motivated and form- ed principally by that memory and that dread. The result of that psy- chology was assured. The great war came and civilization was dragged to the brink of the pit. Today, contem- plating these facts, men cannot but pause to ask themselves wherein the psychology toward which the world is today tending differs from that of Europe from 1870 to 1914, and why the outcome of such psychology can be expected to be other than a repe- tition of the horrors through which we have just passed. The same mem- lows as inevitably and precisely as| the coming of the seasons. ————— ‘Henry Ford declares that his peace ship has given him some ideas. As he explains them it will be known whether that famous boat carried a argo of psychological explosives. | —_———— The inclination of retiring states- men to write books promises publish- ers an unlimited supply of raw ma- terial. ————— Game laws are bringing flocks of ducks here. Politics does the same, many of them lingering as lame ducks. Negotiations show Germany as ht'~! ing no less alert to reconstrue than to reconstruct. City Railroad Terminals. ! Three railroad corporations—the New York Central, the “Big Four”| and the “Nickel Plate"—have applied | to the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion for permission to buy jointly the stock of the Union Terminals Com- pany and lease for 999 years a station to be erected in Cleveland by that company. It is estimated that the cost of the proposed terminal will be $60,000,000, and the expectation is that at least six of the seven roads now entering Cleveland will use the ter- minal. For many years the Cleveland rail- road equipment has been a handicap on that city. The terminal facilities have been poor and scattered. This, however, has not been peculiar fo Cleveland. Many of the larger and more prosperous cities of the country have suffered from this disadvantage. ‘Washington escaped from it a few years 3go, and now has one of the best railroad terminals in the world. Chicago is still struggling with the it a J; terminal problem, with its railroad stations scattered widely and almost all of them shabby and inefficient and in some respects dangerous. These conditions result in most cases from the jealousies of the rail- road companies and their unwilling- ness to consolidate. In other cases the psysical conditions preclude con- solidation of the tracks. In some in- stances the cost of consolidation and concentration is prohibitive. In| Cleveland the Union Terminal will | it is stated, $60,000,000, but if| ilroads use it the cost to each in ratio will be $10,000,000, which is not | a large price to pay for a modern, well quipped, efficient terminal. New York has now two large termi- nals, well planned and built and lo- cated. A considerable part of the traf-| | | | 01 Vel andle r > far |l fic, however, is handled from the far | USveed [t deciares, that i€ a league e of the North river by means of | ferries and tunnels. Owing to thel constricted area of Manhattan this arrangement may have to continue. Washington in respect to accommo- dating the flow of traffic. All who use the Unlon station here should ap- preciate this advantage and be glad of the fact that the National Capital, despite long delays, was one of the first American cities to put its rail- road equipment on the basis of the highest public convenienc —_———— Paderewski Ignace Jan Padere music is a closed chapier in his life. He has not played the piano since the i night of May 9, 1917, and at present | he does not think he will return to it. | He may compose again, but he feels that he must now have a long rest from public performances. Nobody will begrudge Paderewski his long rest, but everybody will hope that when he has rccuperated from the fatigue of his tremendous patri- otic efforts during the past four years he will resume his work in public, which gives such great pleasure and is @ source of inspiration to many. A singer may lose his voice and be | compelled to retire from concert and | operatic work. But an instrumental | musician is not under the same strain | or exposed to the same risk. True, | his fingers may lose their agility and | strength and flexibility to some ex.| tent, but he can still give great pleas- ure and do highly artistic work de- spite his years. Some of the most famous pianists in the world have played wonderfuliy after they have passed into what is sometimes un- kindly called old age. Paderewski is now in his sixty-first vear, and £o there is a good margin of time within which he may have his rest and then return to charm the public. Politics will probably never call him again. He rendered invalu- able services to his country. He held Poland in line for independence at the critical time, and though later he lost his grip on the troubled situation he had laid the foundation for a stable | state. Poland owes him much and the public owes him much also. The present hope is that he will put the | public still further in his debt. i —_——r— t Everybody hopes Caruso will re-| cover. With extraordinary vocal ca. ! pabilities he combines a_graceful art| and a sincere, genial personality. In| | Not all cities are as well situated as| | says that addition to winning admiration Caruso | has accomplished the still more diffi- | cult task of winning affection. i ———— A number of prominent republicans | are evidently giving grateful consid- ! eration to intimations that it is not | necessary to be in the cabinet in order | to offer advice. ! —_———— The republican party has always been noted for harmony, but a few of the prominent members appear in- clined at present to introduce a few measures of jazz. —_————— John Philip Sousa is going to write a book. Since Paderewski went into politics there is no reazon why our own Sousa should not go into literature. —————— A national committee chairmanship is often a matter of long discussion. It cannot be decided in twenty-four hours by a landslide. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Old Times. Old-time folks Seem good to me, With the jokes An’ jubilee. Simple songs An’ simple ways My heart longs For old-time days. Old-time friends And old-time fights, Memory lends The rainbow lights. Now and then Across the past Old-time men Seem Dlest, at last. Precautionary Measures, “I understand that the boys in Crimson Gulch have organized a jazz | band.” “Well replied Cactus Joe, “we call zz band for self-protection, so that nobody will feel at liberty to get irritated and throw things when we play out of tune.” “That old motto, ‘Business hefore pleasure,’ * sald Jud Tunkins, “means nothing more than in this world you can’t enjoy yourself unless you've got the price.” Youth and Maturity. Willie has a pair of skates, A new snow shovel I pos: I hope that the climatic Fates Bar all of them from business, Limitations. “Are you an expert in finance?” “Well,” replied Senator Sorghum, “I can figure out how to pay all kinds of national debts, but I always have to call an expert in to help me figure my income tax or an expense account.” A Touch of Authority, “You claim to be an optimist?"” “I do,” replied the photographer. “When I tell a man to smile, he in- variably does his best.” {re Editorial Digest Our Shrunken Army. Just how big an army the Amerl- can people want is hard to tell from the editorial comment upon the pas- sage, over President Wilson's veto, of the bill calling for a maximum of .000 men under arms. Most writers apparently accept the limit set by Congress as satisfactory, but of those Who discuss the method by which it became a law, a great number are pparently less interested in the issue itself than in the fact that so few congressmen were found to support the President. An interesting vie the Des Moines Register (independent republican), which “understands” the ‘resident’s position, but does not r of it. “The President be- it declares, “that if a league vpoint is taken by world order America is bound to stand isolated in world affairs, and needs the support of a powerful army and navy,” but “the trouble with this nosition” is that nobody ever takes it in good faith." A partial answer to this attitude comes from the Kl Paso Times (democratic), which remarks on the fact that Wilson, Baker and Daniels have been criticised for their assuming ‘‘the roles of a militant advocate of preparedness,” which it docs not find unnatural because of the former “pacifist leanings.” Indeed, fhe veto, in the opinion of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (inde- pendent), “gives us a taste” of what the repudiation of the league at the polls to cost us in Army and v budgets.” and this foretaste is way qualified” by the fact that the Jlution was passed over the veto. Among those who definitely exprees b inz alarger Army. of their attituds toward th Administratfon, is the Providence Journal (independent). which makes its plea partly on the basis of the ed ucational work the new Army is do- in “It is not merely a question of economy, although preserving this educational feature {s, in the long run, economy. It is not simply a ques- tion of national safety, aithough that, too, must be considered; but it 1$ now essentially the question of violating the pledged faith of the republic, and that cannot be permitted.” The Portland Oregonian (independ- ent republican) says that “for once Presidcnt Wilson has shown sound judgment” in vetoing the bill, for though “reduction in the Army to 175,000 men is prompted by economy,"” it shows that “this desire is degener- ating into a craze.” In supporting the contention the President the Tacoma Ledger (independent) pointe out that his arguments were based upon the calculations of the War De- partment general staff. which body most people Will be inclined to con- sider “better qualified to judge than jmembers of Congress.” The Mobile Register (democratic) believes that the action of Congress will mean “false economy” and will result in lessening greatly the Army's efficiency. It is proof positive to the Chicago Tribune (independent repub- lican) that Congress shows “as crass an ignorance of the bitter lessons of 1917 and 1918 as its predecessors did of the same lessons in 1861 and 1858." |The Indianapolis News (independen:} likewise feels that the resolution makes the Armv “not oaly smaller but less efficient,” and the Mancheste: Union (independent republican) ex- presses “regret” that the “unfortunatc dispute” resulted as it did, for “Presi dent Wilson, from a military view was thoroughly sound” in the reasons for his veto. Admitting that criticism of the new bill as passed “is logical and sound’ and that “considerable adjustmente will be necessary,” the Topeka Capi- {tal (republican) fecels that Congress has ‘“voiced the sentiment of the country” when it gave “the plan for @ big ‘army a stunning blow.” The Dallas News (independent demo- cratic) also believes that “the coun- try is not apt to he more responsivc to the President's argument” than was Congress. The Sioux City (Iowa) Journal (r publican) finds “President Wilson reasons” for vetoing the resolution { “neither compelling nor convincing’ and the Wheeling Register (demo- cratic) while it declares that the con- gressional action in this case as in others where it overrode the Presi- dent’s veto, “purely political” still “candidly admits” it sces “little rea- son” for a larger Army. Itemizing the Cost of Utopia. It can, of course, be contended that the American people had but ont ! function in the peace conference, and | that was to sign a blank check. That (notion has, indeed, found important {support. But the further the events of 1919 retreat into their proper per- spective the less general enthusiasm for this blind attitude of adoration | exists. The late election showed a de- ixlvt‘ to scrutinize the achievements of the Hotel Crillon with the greatesi care, and Congress is only obeying a general and highly proper demand | When it tackles the financial expendi. tures of that Interesting period and jasks “What for?" and “Why?" { Tt is too late to go back and repan the blunder of the President’s ill- fated trip to Paris, a blunder which {even his best friends are coming to admit. It is not too late for a full and complete accounting of the re- ults of that trii. Touching the Itreaty and covenants, the evidence is {in and a verdict has already been reached. The financial aspects of the venture, as yet unrevealed, have a peculiar interest for the taxpaver and a moral lesson for future Ameri- can executives. There cannot be too {much light on the whole scene.—New York Tribune (republican). Nailed! It has required no very long time to nail the falsehood. industriously cir- culated by men who still persist in bating President Wilson, to the effec that he, the President, had while at the Versailles conference promis that the United States would cancel the debt owed her by the allies. Washington officials who best know the circumstances united in declaring that at no time did Mr. Wilson ever look favorably upon the plan of wip- ing out the debts, and docs not today. As a matter of cold fact, all the co respondence between the British chan- cellor of the exchequer and the Sec- retary of the Treasury of the United States goes to show that this govern- ment has steadily refused to enter- tain the proposition. | Furthermore, we are told in a dis- ratch from St. Augustine that Thom. W. Lamont, who acted as financial |viser to the Americans at the conference. told President-elect F ing that President Wilson made no commitments, direct or remote, at Versailles, regarding cancellation of allied debts. But the most conclusive proof of ali is the ftct that the President has in nc way, shape or manner even hinted to Congress that cancellation of the loans would be advisable. The coun- |try knows by this time that if Wood- row Wilson wanted a thing done he was certainly not backward in mak- ing that desire known-—Boston Post (independent demoeratic). It looks as though about the only thing some of us saved since the armistice is daylight.—Columbia (S. C.) Record. One kind of superman is the fellow who makes his wife's relatives re- gard him with awe.—Toledo Blade. “Yale and Oxford to Engage in Telegraph Rifle Match."—Headline. More shots “heard round the world.” —Providence Journal. Scientists have found glue in saltea seal flippers. So that's what makes the animal stick to the rocks!— Seattle Times. The people of Europe are ready to disarm, according to former Ambas. dor Henry White. Ready to dia- arm whom?—Nashviile Tennessean. Nothing remarkable about *a straight airplane flight to Cuba,” but a “straight” flight back would be— | Atlanta Constitution, RED RAYS— THERE building itself up—in those livid colorings was a ghost-like form— Netta Mansfield—writhing, her head pulled back, across her mouth a cloth, her wrists twisting vainly to escape from spectral hands emanating from Ahmed Hassan’s body. In a story as tense as the most dramatic of Poe’s, F. 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They inspect my s and papers, and my ink and sealing wax, making sure I've played no capers with the well-known income tax. Oh, they pinch me every morn- ing, and in court I stand in line, and I draw a solemn warning when I do not get a fine.” Read why Walt Mason Laws as simple as the Ten Commandments. In HEARST'S for MARCH Snow-Blind By Arthur Stringer Sightless, she awakened—in the bleak outpost of Alba Laird, outlawed bootlegier. One hand pulled away her hat—another her great- coat—more long coppery fingers tore away her waist. Then came her beseeching cry thru the tumult of drunken laughter. How far could that cry go back thru the years? Could it awaken the sleeping ghosts of a degraded man’s youth? Does of race ever die? Arthur Stringer gives answer in Snow-Blind. In HEARST'S for MARCH Is A Wife A Slave? By Arnold Bennett Would you rather be your wife—or her un- married sister? Is it true that a woman can- not be dependent upon her husband economi- cally and be happy? 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