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speech are usage and a sense of good form.” ‘Who has decreed the outlawry? THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY...... February 21, 1921 .Editor the authority. A certain conserva- not even the cultured spelling reform- ers have been able to put over their abbreviations in the interest of con- sistency. The decree of the Cook county superintendent is not, of course, the last word on the subject. Fortunately, educators have not hith- erto taken their cue from the south- ern end of Lake Michigan, and so now the people who continue to use “It is 1" and to avoid “He don’t” and the teachers who continue to correct their pupils when they use the substitutes now permitted officially in Chicago THEODORE W. NOYES The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Ofice, 11th St. and Peansyivania Ave. a . ‘Bullding. e o ol Mional, Bank Ruilding. London, Evgland. day morning Evening Star, with the Sun: edition, {s delivered by carriers ‘;v\«:.g-c::; ity &t 60 cents per month; daily onl7, Lo B by mai hone Main ders may be sent by mail, or telep) 5000, " Collection is made by carriers at the end of each mouth. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. virginia. Maryland and Virginla. ey wnd Sy 1m0 500 | Will not feel necessarily stilted and Y ‘only o Sunday onl: 2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ | egotistical. A If it is the ambition éf the Cook 1 mo,, 85¢ 1 mo., §0¢ 1mo., 25¢ All Other States. Daily and Sunday.13T., $10.0 Daily only .......1 Sunday only - Eaneate everything, even at the expense of the treasured parts of speech and forms of syntax, they are, of course, entitled to do so, but they will not lead any large number of the people of other sections in this adventure in iconoclasm. Politics and Economies. ‘This is from Des Moines: - “Tariff, transportation and immi- gration are the great problems be- fore thp American people today. Gov. J. M. rker of Louisiana said today at a joint session of the Towa legis- Jature. The tariff. he said. was an economic problem and mot political Ehe Wy A& inaw open toan Sadt Had Gen. Hancock when runnimg{ment putting some sort of limitation for the presidency have expressediupon the inflow of immigrants. Sat- himself as Gov. Parker has now done | urday the Senate by an overwhelming he might have escaped some of the|vote passed a substitute for the House ridicule that was poured upon him|bill, and thus the measure is in shape for saying that the tariff was a “local[to go te conference with a prospect Immigration in Conference. question.” of an agreement before the session But Gen. Hancock was a trained|closes. The House bill would bar all soldier. He knew next to nothing|immigrants for a year, excepting rela- about politics or political questions, and had no skill in phrasemaking at a time when every utterance of his was brought under the strong glass of a vigilant and merciless opposition. He had been nominated for President simply on the strength of his fine per- sonal character and his splendid war record. Gov. Parker is a trained politician. He is familiar with controversy, and ‘with public affairs. He expresses him- self with an understanding of words and distinctions as they are employed tives of persons.now in this country. The Senate substitute would imit the total number to be admitted during the next twelve months to 355,000. This latter proposal would admit about 40 per cent fewer immigrants than under the measuré reported from the Senate committee. A compromise between these two measures should be easily effected. It is claimed by the advocates of the Senate substitute thot it would keep out more of the aliens than the House bill, with its sweeping prohibition ex- in political discussions. cept as against relatives. Under the And yet politics enters into the]“relatives” clause, it is urged, many tariff problem, just as in nearly every | thousands would slip in who should other problem Congress is called upon | be excluded. to solve. Custom, if nothing else, has With unemployment as prevalent made this true. The republicans for |as it is today, with disease menacing years have made protection one of | us through the ports, something must their shibboleths, as the democrats|be done in regulation, if not complete have made a tariff for revenue only | prohibition, for a period. The con- one of theirs. ditions imperatively demand action, if The south for years has been the|only for a short time, to give a breath- stronghold of the low tariffites. But|ing spell. No matter what the limit sentiment there is changing, just as|is, no matter what the conditions may the south itself has changed. It was|pe that are imposed, a barrier should once a vast cotton plantation. It still| be raised to check the now unim- grows cotton in enormous quantities. | peded flow into the country of all - But now it spins a great deal of its|sorts and conditions of men and . own raw material, and in other re-|women. / spects is taking rank as an industrial| If our immigration were distrib- - section. There is good reason Why |uted properly it would not be a prob- < many southern men should be looking | lem. But it tends to congest already ~ these days favorably on the protection | crowded centers and to make worse policy. already difficult social and economic conditions. America does not now E need labor. It needs work for the A Call to Duty. labor already avaflable. There is no Said Mr. Hughes at St. Augustine|gomestic occasion for newcomers. It Saturday: Wwe are to be a vent for the mistreated, unhappy, fortune-seeking of Europe we must weight that purpose in the balance with our own dangers and dis- comforts. “Of course, T appreciate as a_very high privilege to be invited by Sena- . tor Harding to serve in his adminis- tration, and also T regard it as an “imperative obligation to accept. * ¢ ¢ I think it a call to duty which no one could refuse in justice to the na- . tion which we all desire to serve.” America expects every man to do his duty. She has need of the sup- port of all her sons at this time of “ supreme need. Those called to offi- ~_ cial station must apply themselves ' with all diligence and courage to their * " tasks, while those in private station - must follow all that is done with in- ~ telligence and patriotic interest. There [ Selling to Latin America. In an address delivered Saturday night in Philadelphia before the Ameri- can Academy of Pclitical and Social Science, Secretary Colby said: “The great barrier to American progress abroad is language. The people of the United States are not linguists. You can hold no converse with a man except in the terms of a common vocabulary. Business has no time for the interpreter, and no pa- tience either. Until the utterly un- founded fallacy that English carry you around the world is ex ploded, and until the men whom we send as representatives, either diplo- matic, consular or commercial. to the countries of Latin America speak the beautiful tongue of the Spaniard or the Portuguese, our progress will be halting and disappointing.” The American business world should heed these excellent observations. is no room in the country now for men or women who are imdifferent about results, and under the influence of the loaferish spirit to “let George do ft.” All, in one station or another, must lend a hand. E There will be room for politics, and | politics will, as usual, be played. But © not small politics. Parties are not go- ing to be disbanded. The country ‘would lose rather than gaih by such "a procedure. Ours is a government | THeY 80 to the root of the very im- -by parties; and its affairs are never so | POrtant matter they cover. well administered as when parties are | S2lesmen sent to Latin America should well organized, and led by men of |Pe €auipped not only with samples of character ¥nd ability who have made | the goods they have to offer, but with a study of the sclence of government. | command of the proper tongue in For America to become. and re.| Which to offer them. main, the hope of the world, America| And more than this. A command of must continue to be herself. function. { that tongue will enable a man to talk ing on the lines laid down by her|PCt Only business, but other things. founders and followed by their de.|1t Will enable him to qualify for dis- scendents with unparalleled success| CUSSions of political and social and for more than a hundred years. literary subjects. He should know { the people, and how to “get next” to { them: be familiar with the books they e be in sympathy with their en- and able to follow and under- stand and applaud the progress they —_—— The selection of a cabinet official 18 | ¢q & matter of the more serious publi ‘d AV consideration owing to the fact that| it 1s not believed that resignations will | occur at the same rate in-the future | ' as in the past. H —_——— i Latin America before the world wa The modern statesman on retiring | They sent to the scene represent: from office is not looked to for a fare- | tives who arriving on the scene knew, well specch. He always expects to be { or could easily find, their way around: back soon. !who spoke “the language of the —_————— { tribe.”” and lacked nothing to put them Chicagoese. rapport with their, surroundings. ALl i { We should take this leaf out of their Chicago's motto, “I Will,” is appar- | ently to be applied relentlessly, even | in matters of education. There is to be no limit to the city’s enterprise,! Mr. Daniels intimates that he will be the barrier: ave behind in the files a large ¢ convention and rule | i | what they may. The lutest evidence |amount of advice as to the proper of the progressive spirit of the com-|size for a Navy. munity is afforded by the dictum o « the school superintendent of Cook| The climate cannot guarantee a county, who says that such expre rene as well as simple inauguration. sions as It is me” and “He don't 1 will be permitted on the part of} both teachery and students. It is| Patent Reforms. A he says, sounds stilted and| A powerful combination of inter- even egotistical, and he holds that itiests and representative organizations does no good to teach children forms| has been formed in a movement to ef- of expression tiawed by common | fect sweeping reforms in the patent usage and a sense of good form.” office. A committee named by the Now watch Chicago's official school | American Engineering Council has language. For the bars are downstudied the question and is now urg- and goodness knows where the tide|ing the passage of the Nolan bill, of advancement and freedom of speech | which, if enacted, will greatly aid may flow. Given “He don't” and “It| American inventors. This bill, which is me” as starters, there will be easy | has been confused somewhat in the progress to official “I seen” and “He | public mind with a measure by the has came.” “Me and him” may fol-| same author to improve the status of low in their turn, and the double nega- | the personnel of the government serv- tive will perhaps be a commonplace, | ice, aims to correct conditions created regarded as a token of rugged re-|by the war. It would put the Ameri- sistance. can inventors in a position to secure But about that suggestion that cer-|full protection of all their rights in tain academically correct forms of [the foreign field. There are, however, P county people to stand as pioneers in | American | rmans built up their trade with | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, “outlawed by common |other things to be done to bring the patent office out of the slough into It | which it has been forced by adverse, is important to know the source of|or rather neglectful, legislation. At present the overturn of per- tism prevails in all such matters, and | sonnel in the patent office is exces- sive. The service does not attract men of capacity save as a training school. The government is, in effect, conducting a technical institution for the instruction of patent experts, who 80 out as quickly as possible into private practice for in most cases sev- eral times the highest possible com- pensation in government employ. Not only is the patent office force inadequately paid, but it is inade- quate in size. The work is congested and not sufficient time can be given to the consideration of cases. Ameri- can invention is exceptionally active at present, but with the patent office choked as it is inventors are checked and industry is consequently impeded. The interest of the American Engi- neering Council in this situation is certain to be helpful, and there is reason to hope that before the sion ends, short as the period is, ac- tion will be taken by Congress along béth the lines of required improve- ment, the enactment of a satisfactory patents treaty law, and the adoption of a suitable scale of compensation for the experts who are passing on the merits of American inventions. —_—————————— The “Storm.” The “winter weather” forecast came through on time and fairly in good form. It was quite well verified, with snow enough to make the ground white, with wind enough to make the air vibrant with the doleful whine of the season, with cold enough to nip the ears and finger tips. But as a “blizzard” yesterday’s visitation was a very feeble affair. It gave the chil- dren something to slide on and the snow shovelers a bit of wholesome ex- ercise. It put the street railway man- agers to a little trouble in keeping the tracks clear, and it held a good ‘many people in their homes who other- wise would probably have gone out for some kind of diversion. It un- doubtedly effected a large saving in gasoline. Taken altogether the “storm” was a blessing locally, al. though in New York it did some dam- age, five people losing their lives, in one way or another, in consequence of the visitation. Those who are pes- simistically inclined may regard this flurry as a sign that the spring will | be late and chill and that belated as it is the winter will be a harsh one altogether. Let that’be as it may, there is now a large credit of good weather in this region that cannot be dissipated. In a few weeks the sun will “cross the line,” and however badly Pluvius may perform, mean- while and afterward, there can be no prolonged cold and but little snow and ice. —_——— H A retiring soviet ambassador feels that he has quite as much right to ap- point a successor as anybody had to appoint a soviet ambassador in the first place. —_—— 1t \will probably be found by his- torians that the real political boss of Rusdla is the man who referees the differences between Lenin and Trot- sKy. —_——— A general reduction in cost does not stir railroad directors to take any steps for an immediate drop in the high cost of riding. —_—— It is often a popular relief to real- | ize that a man's average in states- manship is not to be measured by his golf score. Europeans have always regnrded! Americans as possessing limitless wealth and a generous disposition. A mild winter is a solution of coal problems, none the Jess helpful be- cause it is accidental. L SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A Simple Standard. “There isn’t any use at all,” Said Hezekiah Bings, “In giving up this life so small To unimportant things. i The praise or blage that fades away. | The flattery, the sneer, 1 | Are not worth near as much, I'll say,{as weli § [ many. We still believe th As just a conscience clear. i “1'd rather, with a friendly hand, The grasp of friendship claim Than lagd the pageantry so grand | That marks a fleeting fame. To haunt the ceremonial hall "Mongst servitors and kings— It isn’t any use at all,” Said Hezekiah Bings. i Reasonable Inference. “Why are you 8o sure that the tastes of your summer boarders last year! were unrefined?” | “Because.” replied Farmer tossel, Corn- ; ‘after they got through help ing themselves to phonograph records, | : | all T found left behind were a few discs of classical music.” A Perverse Citizen. “How is prohibition working out in your settlement?” | “Fine,” replled Uncle Bill Bottle.| top. “The fact that nobody is expect- | ed to ask anybody to join him in a| libation is provin’ highly economical.” Mild Attack. The “sleeping sickness” is aligned | "Mongst ills men must endure. | I'm glad T haven't got the kind Alarm clocks cannot cure, Jud Tunkins says he never went into | politics because he’d want to leave politics poorer than when he entered it and he couldn’t find anybody to give him credit. Unfamiliar Quantities. “What do you think of the idea of turning swords into plowshares?" “It's great,” replied Senator Sor- ghum. “The only trouble is that most of us politiclans don't know any more about the one than we do about the other.” | partners in the world’s greatest go {ues of allegiance and interest rooted German-Americans who compiled a list in Chicago' from which Senator jHarding was to selec American for his c rige to severe erit man language The German. - American League has been disavowed by the| icans? Editorial Digest The South African Election. Notwithstanding the great physical distance between South Africa and the United States, the American press finds much of interest and importance in the elections recently held there. which resulted in the defeat of a secessionist movement. A touch of romance entering into the situation appeals to many writers, who point out that the leader of the victorious fight for loyalty to the British empire was as splendid an opponent of that empire during the Boer war, less than twenty years ago. But of greater im- portance than the personal victory of Gen. Jan Smuts, as the press views it is the decisive defeat of threatened disintegration within the empire. which is interpreted here as a com- plete vindication of British colonial polici Tho Cleveland Plain Dealer (inde- pendent democratic) feels that “Great Britain breathes more freely in the knowledge that a South African prob- lem is not now to be added to her ! already long list of unsolved or un- | solvable problems of empire.” That | the danger was great is generally conceded. ington (N. C.) Star (democratic) believes that the | situation at the time of the election was “fraught with profound peril to | the empire,” since, to quote the El Paso Times (democratic), victory of the opposition “might have meant the beginning of its disintegration.” How- ever, through the personal (riumph of Gen. Smuts, who, the Butte (Mont.) Ay ) s ion in South will not haunt the chancellery at London.” Aside from the issues involved, the Chicago Journal (democratic) believi ere will be wide rejoicing “at he victory of Smuts,” amazing career.” Lloyd George belongs to the two all have not been war discontent.’ ountain News adds that “he who, after an shares with ion which d leaders who wept aside by post- To this the Rocky (Denver, independent) one of the big men” is on such men that it must depend.” The Chicago Post (independent) agrees that Jan Smuts' victory “will be a bitter disappoint- ment to those who make their daily prayer for the disruption of the Brit- ish commonwealth.” Influences hostile to the empire have been trying to spread dissension hroughout the South African Union, the Los Angeles Times (independent republican) points out, and in their defeat a greater victory is won “than in any or all the battles of the Boer war.”" The election results furnish a| sharp ans jon of the Kansas ¢ (independent) “‘to those who have been loud in proclaim- ing” that King George's colonies are “a string of trading posts held in un- willing bondage by Lombard street, and that a free expression of the will of the people would dissolve the whole system.” : As the Providence Journal pendent) interprets the election it was just such “a free expression” which, however, resulted in strength- ening the empire instead of dissolving it. The whole affair is viewed by the Adrian (Michigan) Telegram (inde- pendent) “as a striking proof of the genuineness of self-government in British dominions and the slight au- thority that England exercises over them,” showing that “the boyd that holds the empire together is made up of moral forces, sentiment and mutual advantage.” In the opinion of the Wall Street Journal (independent) “there are good | and compelling reasons why the junior | (inde- ing concern do not pull out to set up i in business for themselves,” since “in | all relations with great foreign pow- ers” they are in “an incomparably stronger position now than they would be if they were independent.” It is significant, however, as a num- ber of writers admit. that a movement for secession could have grown so strong reate a danger. This is explainéd in part by the Manches- ter Union (independ thus: “What is taking place is growing ‘up of ‘Britain's childrén and their passing from union throu control to union of mature wills on basis of ‘co-operation. ~ South Africa, | like her sisters, will insist upon th larger liberty of maturity shortly, and will Teceive it. Out of it all, think, will come a British empire | greater and richer in the higher val- | i in the living, throbbing devotion o a significant life for which ig its own.” 1 German-Americans in Politics. The action of a small number of | editor-in-chief of the Cincinnati Freie | . who sent a telegram to this Senator Harding. The prin- cipal blunder committed in making out such a list ‘Consists in creating the impression that an antagonism exists between the German-Ameri- cans and Harding, which is not true, for German-Am general did Harding to rican into hi ) pretend to b make such political nish arguments to the enemies of Ger- { man-Americans, how ‘can we hope! r to attain the sible politic operation of all the German-Amer- The German-Americ Harding because they arc of opinion that he will be fair in questions, in international question s in those concerning Ger- f him, un- hat is all| 5 of the Ger- | s not the slight-| csire Lo e pressure on the new President such as was planned by the gentlemen who met in Chicago, d the be -suit achieved by the | ion_of the 4 rican Citi- League dug its « without having done any | ble damage. Al ns should learn a lesson from ! this affair-—it is that if we enter politicx we have to do so with great caution and not allow ourselves (o be s which are in no armony with the interests of e ven if attempts believe that they ndpost (German ns voted for| he i 1 til the rican; a Roches independent), ghty-ohe, bu pu could notice it Post. New York ues to tr toes just as dent Wil t there are no more bock Now th: e it is imp. e for some peop! know pring has tes. come—New Orleans A Kane surgeon op :le_ on him- self successfully for appendicitis. At this rate man will_soon become his own undertaker.—Harrisburg (P’a.) Patriot. “Thirty United S Marines Wreck raguan Newspaper.’—Headlinc, ably canceled thelr subseriptions shville Banner. H Footless hosiery 18 now the rage in nally wehave Paris beat- ral years.—Burlington Love is supposed to make the world | go round. But a troubled love uffair is said to be making the crown prince of Japan go round the world.—Colum< | bia (S. C.) State, wants a | George Sylvester Viereck i post from Mr. Harding. It is under- | stood the American Legion has sug- | gested him for the lamppost.—Phila« delphia North American, In Assam (wherever that is) women steal men and make them marry when the men resist their advances. And still Assam is sald to be only par- tially civilized.—Dayton News, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2f, 1921. > oW Women’s Pure Silk & Wool Hose Reduced From $3.50 | 2.15 The most desirable shades pre- dominate, such as heather mix- tures, nut brown, maroon and olive green. STETSON SHOE SHOP 1305 F o o () The distinclive Strle and Quality o T o which this Establishment i moted ® Jewers. STERLING SILVER. 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