Evening Star Newspaper, February 23, 1921, Page 6

nary rules of safety. But the aver- age motor owner will be careful of his car and will do his best to protect it from injury. Even an insured car is out of commission after a collision, and the owner has no use of it until the insurance company may pay the repairs bill. The Commissioners can do, perhaps, their most effective work for street safety in their final revision of the new rules by aiming at condensation It has often been The Evening Star, bdition, is fi!wl!‘ by carriers within the eity | o539 that there ia too much law for @t 80 cents per month; dally only. 45 cents per 2 i Sth; Bunday oaly. 20 tents pur month. O | the public good. This is perhaps es- n ; tephone Main| o .o may be sent by mail, oc telephone MAR| pecially true in the matter of traffic ith. regulation. e T . .. WASHINGTON, D. C WEDNESDAY . . February 23, 1921 ‘THEODORE W. NOYES. . . . Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company and Pennsylvania Ave. Tribune Building. ations] Bank Building. ok Office: First Burepean Office: 3 ;gpul St., London, England. with the Sunday morning | and simplification. —————— Mount Vernon. A descendant of one of George Washington's brothers, in a public address at Nazareth, Pa., the other evening recited certain facts regard- ing the family estate which suggested the possibility that the burial ground at Mount Vernon might be closed to the A1y, yr., Mr. Harding and Congress. These subjects have been promi- nent in the discussions at Marion and at St. Augustine: The tariff. taxation, the merchant marine, the Army, the Navy and the best means for promot- | ing world peace. On these subjects Mr. Harding has had the opinions of men in and out of Congress who are familiar with public, inasmuch as it was specifically exempted from transfer. He now cor- rects the false impression created by his statement to say that this possi- bility was only theoretical, and that he merely intended to note the fact that the tomb of George Washington stands upon ground that cannot be alienated from the family heritage. He has no idea that the great Ameri- can patriotic shrine will ever be closed to public access. This serves to bring anew to atten- tion the question of the proper ad- them. They have called on him by invitation, and with the knowledge that they were expected to lay their best information before him. Pre-|ton sumably, they have done so. ministration of the Mount Vernon es- On these subjects President Hard-|tate. A patriotic organization of ing will at one time or another, and { Women has saved this place from de- soon, communicate with Congress.qay and from commercial exploita- That body will be expecting to hear | tion. Tt is distressing to think of the from him, and, there is reason to be- | Possibilities of Mount Vernon in strict- lieve, will be much influenced by his|1¥ Private hands as a “show place” in recommendations. the ordinary sense. The Mount Ver- If we can handle these subjects— |Ton Association has, by turning back . particularly the first three named—in |21l of the fees collected for admission 2 way to satisfy the country and|into the maintenance of the estate, fully restore confidence, we may prom-{ kept it with notable fidelity to the ise ourselves a return of prosperity | historical type and standard. It has and a general stabilization of our na-|Preserved the atmosphere remarkably. . tional affairs. A new tariff will put|It has acquired by purchase numer- “pep” into production, a readjustment { 0uS articles of furnishing that effec. of taxes will remove some complaints | tively replaced the originals and has now justly made, while a merchant |traced out and regained many pieces marine operated in the interests of | that were part of the equipment in American trade will materially ad-| Washington's day. vance our foreign trade policy. The only possible change from the Mr. Harding then will take hold|Present condition would be for the well prepared for the most important | 8overnment to acquire Mount Ver- work pressing for attention. If he|non and to maintain it as a national scores at the special session he will | reservation, with suitable guardian- be likely to score at the regular ses.|shiD. The sole advantage of such a sfon; and two scores should go a long | transfer would be to place the cost way toward the election of another | of maintenance upon the federal taxes jcan Congress and his re-elec-; instead of upon the admission fees of ” n 1924, those who visit it. As the matter now * stands the public is taxed for the up- = The Cabinet. keep of Mount Vernon by-direct con-| = tribution. Under national control the 4 m‘:fl'—:‘;:“‘@fi“:fl :‘1;::‘:‘:;::- r’:;: cost would be distributed among all e T "[the people. At the same time it is ; ice in the on-lfelt by many that Mount Vernon :::'h“m‘tfi:r;“;:‘ ';hfl:ff;- 1::]’; should be open, free, provided, of et it ¥ ke course that it is preserved from infury geosraphically. They have | in consequence of the probably larger bad marked success in the matter of | a4tendance. mmumom_mfl;:;:n ::‘l’“;‘:“;:;: However this may be, it is inter- ave had experience tn mois | C2LNE to know that in theory at least ’—‘b'm m’ o it cl:m;'- one part of the estate is inviolate from Bt o6 theiiee woeks = My. either public or alien private owner- e aaia servet.l Al :’ ship. Inasmuch as that part is the : Spn R alE :’ue ‘n:-:' point of chief patriotic interest, it may One—Mr. Hoover—is known the wide | eicnssoaicd With propriety that this A question of the real owner of the grave -"nma appointment of M. Demby— of George Washington should be sét- well justified on practical grounds—| o Co e ‘will make a popular appeal on senti- mental grounds. A man of education Mr. Bolling’s Exoneration. and high position, twice in a war| In formally announcing its exonera- , emergency he offered himself and was | tion of R. W. Bolling of a charge of 4 lmpte.d as a private. He was a improper conduct in connection with gunner’s mate in the Spanish-Ameri-{a Ship Board transaction, the House . c©an war, and a drill sergeant for ma- special committee has closed an inci- _ rines in the world war. He received dent that has given pain to man: - Promotion in the latter capacity. - Now ‘Washingtonians. Mr. Bolling, a rui he goes to the head of the Navy De-|dent of the capital for yeu-n,'ln high partment. - Has there ever been a|standing, ‘was accused of 3 deal more striking illustration of the fact{if verifi e ¥ i f that the republic is opportunity? Mr. Harding himself is in the prime of life. So we shall have at this fm- portant time in our national life a strong chief assisted by strong lieu- ed, would have subjected him to the severest censure if not to prose- cution. The committee, after an ex- haustive inquiry, finds no basis for the charge. Beyond a business associa- tion that, Mr. Bolling himself has ing nine deaths in this service in less than fourteen months. When the airplane mail service was established it was recognized as an experiment. But it has been regu- larized and scheduled flights are con- ducted. The air mail pilots take off on their routes without reference to| weather, and several of the fatal a J cidents have been result of unfavor- able atmospheric conditions. ’ In addition to the nine men whose | lives have been sacrificed in these ac-| cidents much mail has been destroy ‘-d]‘ by fire, constituting an irretrievable loss. letter is much greater than that i cident to the regular mail serv feeling prevails thet it would, pe haps, be better to devote the mon expended in this expensive exper ment to the improvement of colle tion and delivery methods in the larger cities, where the mail service is yet far from perfect. It is of slight advantage to the user of the m to have his letter transported between cities in half the usual time only to | The risk attending an air mail | have it reach destination little or no | g to the congestion in the | ¥ house-to-house distribution. ——— Criticisms and Cabinets. t If Mr. Harding is at all distucbed | by the criticism leveled at the Daugh-| erty appointment he can find comfort in Mr. Cleveland's experience in the case of the Olney appointment. Gloomy predictions are not always fulfilled. Richard Olney was a lawyer of high standing at home, but unknown to the country at large. When he was named for Attorney General several leading democratic newspapers—one in particular—demanded the cancella- tion of the appointment, on the score that Mr. Olney had all his life been the adviser of corporations, and on that account was unsuited for a place in a reform administration. Mr. Cleveland, however, was un- moved. He knew his man, and held on to him. Mr. Olney made good in the Depart- ment of Justice, and when Judge Gresham died he was transferred to the Department of State, where he not only made good, byt gained so much reputation that his name is in- cluded in the list of great Secreta of State. It was his hand that traced the very stiff and pointed Venezuelan message, which brought to a satisfac- tory settlement an old dispute which had threatened the friendly relations between Great Britain and America. Mr. Olney was the only member of the second Cleveland cabinet to figure as a party influence after the admin- istration ceased to exist. All the others, including Col. Lamont, a most accomplished politician, passed from the scene forever. But Mr. Olney, to the close of his life, was one of his party's leading advisers, and supported Mr. Bryan in the latter’s third campaign for the presidency. i Actlvities in international finance are regarded by various statesmen as demanding for Uncle Sam the advisory assistance of a credit men's associa- tion. { Bernstorff declares that Germany came to grief through failure to take Mis advice. Nearly every prominent ‘war German is assuming the same at- titude with reference to his own par- ticular theories of campaign. Nearly all will agree with Bernstorff’s asser- tion that the Berlin management of the undertaking was stupid. 1 The fact that Liberia was not greatly affected by war devastations does not prevent that country from being in financial circumstances that make a loan most desirable to its in- terests. f Much of the distress in China is re- ported to be in process of relief. Per- haps some of the political bosses of the celestinl empire who have been concentrating all the wealth into their tenants shaping the course and re- acknowledged publicly, was unfor.|©Wn fortunes have seen the economic sponsible for the national welfare. The | tunate and injudicious, there was noth. | desirability of timely philanthropy. country expects success, and should | ing whatever in the_ matter to war.|The hope is, however, not sufficiently do all in its power to assist in such{rant the least question as to his in. | Feliable to obviate the need of every _&n achievement. tegrity of purpose or action. This|Possible effort the world over to meet —— - e outcome of the case is gratifying to|the crisis. Judge Landis doubtless regards| - Bolling's friends, who have never Representative Welty as one of those | Credited the accusation'and have hoped SHOOTING STARS. people who consider It their mission for a full, formal exoneration such as Ppires. recorded. 2 e ———— Scantiness. The Rerlin idea of indemnity is| Law and politics are closely related | TO ’“:‘;‘_“"k" by the clothes they closely related to that of the debtor|in this country, and leading repub- Who decides to let the other people|licans credit Mr. Harry Daugherty with a legal discernment no less ac- curate than his political discernment. Much of the advice President.clect|AD Attorney General, after all, is ex- Harding recelved evidently has not|Pected to grasp large ideas and broad principles. There is always a library and a corps of assistants available to supply technical details. ‘worry. caused him to waver in the least. Simple Traffic Rules Needed. A revision of the city’'s traffic regu- lations started about four months ago is now about complete. The draft of the revised rules has been submitted to the Commissioners after an inten- sive study by various officials, and it is expected that after the final scrutiny they will be adopted and published. They cannot be put into effect for thirty days after adoption, and thus it will be perhaps the 1st of April before these new rules - forced. are eN°| santa Claus finally had his vindi- When the time comes to print these | C2t0n: although (the usefulness of rules for official distribution and the skates and sleds was a long time in fnstruction of motorists they shoyq | Materializing. * be put in the most compact, condensed form possible, s0 that the essential principles of street use are vividly| While there is every wish to ex- and definitely presented. Much of the | pedite the transport of the mail, it traffic trouble of today arises from the | may be doubted if reason exists for fact that many street users are really | the continued use of the airplane for not informed as to the requirements|this purpose, in the present state of and restrictions, particularly in minor | aviation art. Fatal accidents are so matters of street crossing and park-|frequent in this service that a doubt ing. The essentials of the traffic rules | has arisen in the public mind as to could be printed in a four-page folder. | the wisdom of seeking to put the air Heretofore, however, the rule book |mail system on a basis of regularity. has been a pamphlet of such size that|It is still virtually an experiment. probably not one in twenty has ever | Aviation dangers are still great. Yes- read it through and understood it. terday the second fatal accident of In this matter of traffic regulation |the current year appeared at Elko, the essential point is to get everybody | Nev., when a plane in a flight that in rhythm. That is to say, to get|was intended to establish a San Fran. everybody working together on the|cisco-New York speed record fell and f-same basis. Most accidents in the|the pilot was killed. Previously since ey result from"misunderstanding. | the 1st of January three were killed E is, of course, much selfishness,|at La Crosse, Wis., while four fatal ' mmuifested by speeding and corner|accidents occurred in the air mail 4 _eytting sod indifference to the oraiff service in 1920, with five deaths, mak- { ? Commercial travelers contemplate organizing a strike to prevent unrea- sonably high hotel charges. This is still another idea for bringing down the high cost of living. ’ A blizzard offers at least one prob- lem in railway transportation which cannot be turned over to the Inter- state Commerce Commission. F Air Mail Risks. in life to make trouble for the um.|that Which the committee has n-w! BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Is very wrong, wise men have told. Beneath the ragged jacket there A man may have a heart of gold. If clothes gave indication true, To a belief we’d be inclined That many a lady goes on view With very little on her mind. Resources of Language. “Don’t you regard some of the lan- guage in your speech as rather strong?” “Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum. “T tried to make it so. My subject had been so thoroughly discussed that a little profanity seemed the only means of conveying a new impres- sion.” A Farm Futurism. “Hiram,” said Mrs. Corntossel, “do you think the farmer has got all that’s coming to him?"” “Not yet,” replied her husband, as he put on a fur overcoat and started for his automobile. *“I'm waiting for the predictions of some of these econ- omists to come true. I'm in on the ground floor in this aggjculture busi- ness and what I'm lookin' forward to is the development of a landed aris- tocracy.” Simplified Ceremonies. We view Inauguration day ‘With apprehension, though with pride. Oh, Science! Pray devise a way To have the flareback simplified! The Grand Essential. “What is the plot of your new play?” “We haven't begun to think about that,” replied the producing manager. “But you say you have a sure win- ner.” “We certainly have. We thought up a riskay title that'll bring the people in as soon as they read the bmlh-.rda." THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Editorial Digest |f { which haq sho France Hopes for Naval Holiday. A writer in the French review Moni-| teur de la Flotte expresses the hope | that England and the United States | can reach an agrecment for a truce | of naval building. He analyzes the situation as follows: “The policy of intensive naval con- . struction upon which America has| launched would naturally lead to con- ' versations with gland. In these| times of trouple it wa difficult to understand that the chief| art a new still than | economic and it was es Ily astonishing to note that the signal for the strugsle had been given v just that nation| itself the most hos- ! the principle of armamen pite of America’s effor the writer, tile to “Iin she ngland will not easi scepter of the seas to b her. She is unquesti I and techni- 5 this reason | . knowing that continued na-| to accept which would mean not buildin more ships for a c Probably A <k been carried out, whic v n. would putyhér in a su- perior position to England as far as material is concerned. The alliance of the British and Japanese fleets, how- ever, would give the naval superiority to these two. The British admiralty | can, therefore, start negotiations with the United States without apprehen- sion. We hope they will come to an understanding and thus put an end to the uncertainty which hangs heav- ily over the naval destinies of the world.” e Our “Secret Treaty” as to Mexico. It is not astonishing that the Span- ish press, which is exceedingly jealous wf any move in the direction of in- | vreased North American influence in Latin America, should have becom: concerned over the reports of a s et treaty between the United States on the one hand and England and France on the other, under the terms of which Mexico is supposed to have be- come an exploitable territory. The Madrid review Ispana devotes a long article to the subject, in which it points out that, whether the treaty was ever actually concluded or not, it n hardly be called a “secret.” It is cret of Punchinello,” declares the ilspana, that these three powers do, in fact. regard Mexico as fit for for- eign exploitation and that they do tacitly, at least, recognize certain pri- orities and a certain etiquette in the matter, such, for example, as the Monroe doctrine. The supposed treaty, declares the | Espana, gives the United States a kind of “mandate” over Mexico. “An official of the Carranza govern- ment, Hilario Medina,” says the Es- pana, “undersecretary for foreign af- fairs, publ declared in October, 1920, that the said department pos: sessed proofs In documentary form of an agreement between the United States and the two great Kuropean powers for future partition of Mexi- can territory. An interpellation fol- lowed in the senate, demanding that these proofs be laid before that body. Porhaps the matter was dealt with in a secret session—at any rate, the | Mexican press has stopped discuss- ing it. “But in Europe and in the United | States the secret treaty against Mex- ico continues to furnish a topic of news and discussion to its rela- tionship to the latent conflict between the United States ani Japan and Eng- land’s eventual attitude n that con- ey The Espana goes on to say that when the subject was first broached many considered it as a pure Ger- | man invention, saying that Gen. Can- | dido Aguilar, when in Europe, was shown forged papers by German agents. Howevdr, it adds, these pa- pers are in the Mexican archives, and, as Senor Medina speaks of them as authentic, it is possible that their genuineness has been ‘submitted to tests. Nevertheless, no precise In- formation has been made public, and, while Mexican opinion has easily been persuaded, “foreign opinion is more exacting, and insists on definite proofs.” “If Gen. Aguilar had been a hu- morist,” the Espana goes on to nay,! “he would have said to the officious German agents who placed the mys- terious text in his hand a brief word that never fails to disconcert an in- discreet informer—‘old stuff.’” A Good Sized Mandate. The terms of the British mandate over Mesopotamia, concerning Which there have been S0 many questions lately, have just been published in Lon- don, and, as the Paris Eclair (Briand- ist) points out, they give wide pow- ers. The Eclair says: “The mandate proposed for Mesopo- tamia gives widespread power of oc- cupation and government to the mandatory power. Great Britain has, for instance, the right of keeping garrisons throughout the country until public safety has been insured. She has the control of foreign rela- tions of the country. She has the protection of foreign subjects who are established there. But she must organize a local government, work out a constitution, defend Mesopo- tamia against all aggression, watch that no distinction is made to the disadvantage of any foreign country, so that commercial and petroleum en- terprises of all countries are on the same footing, and insure the free practice of ail religions, etc. “The particular clause must be re- tained which obliges Great Britain to present to the league of nations an annual report on the way in which the stipulations of the mandate are catried out. The league of natlons would thus have a regular and Pflec-l tive control over the mandatory power, which Is too often tempted to &0 bevond the power which is at- tributed to it. _“The publication of the text of the mandate, which coincides with the de- parture of Mr. Churchill, the new colonial minister, for Egypt, where he will meet Mesopotamian delegates, looks as if it is going to be his duty to get the terms accepted by the Dopulations, and thus to make peace, which would allow the costly British occupation to be given up.” . French Propaganda in America. Louls Thomas writes from America to the weekly Opinion, Paris, that Gen. Nivelle's visit is a good example of the kind of propaganda France ought to continue in the United | States. He says: “Gen. Nivelle was invited by the United States to represent France at the tercentenary celebration of the landing of the Puritans from the Mayflower. As his mother was Eng- lish, and he speaks English fluently, this seems to have been a very happy choice, and he was enthusiastically welcomed everywhere throughout the country as the hero of Verdun. For the people the war will be symbolized by a few great names such as Joffre, the Marne, Dixmude,- Verdun, Petain, Foch, and the final victory of Maggin. This is really history, the rest is for scholars and learned me This is what the Americans need, says the writer: “Qur great men must be sent to them, and especially those who ap- peal to popular imagination. Gen. Nivelle's mission to the United States has been & great success; we must not forget that the Germans are very busy trying to influence the United States; but they cannot send con- queror generals. We can do it, and we must not_ hesitate to do so. We must know how to consolidate the prestige of France. 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