Evening Star Newspaper, February 25, 1921, Page 6

United*States has sent a.formal pro- test to the dllied powers against their action respecting mandates under the Versailies tieaty ovet former German territory. This note is obviously in the natyre of a taveat to preserve all rights the United States has under the treaty awa manpdatory power. It is designed to maintain the status quo pending the assumption of offite by the new _President and the execution]. of any policies regarding ratiftcation ang enforcement of the treaty: which he mey élect to_present. The United States, under the Ver- sailles treaty; which has yet to be ratified by: this government, is en- titled and subject to mandate respon- sibilities.” “These . responsibilities and rights caifhg€ P alienated by the other powers merely because of the delay in the final disposition-of the treaty which has been .caused by differences of opinion” in* this .country respecting the league of nation: The present note dispatched. by Secretary “Colby i /therefére, to. maintain in full all rivilegesand duties and rights ‘which are;vested in the United Statés undes “the. treaty, even though’ even- tually this country may elect to ‘with. draw altogetler from the. mandatory Déubtiess’ the note' will be: thus. in- eted abroad. It is not a chal- the ‘score of thefr prejudice’ of Ameri- formper- to .'Wm,." . _. ‘wishes now ek S 8. S, Hoht of s e “dha"the-ehilnige’ of ‘adminis. tration, oppoptunity is had for the ik and .opera- of - _4And, yet the choice 18 between one or*other:of those two projects ‘&ha *phivite ownership and operation-runder the - Esch-Cummins h'wnt)e application of the the ‘becomes para- mourit.{n 1934 Mr. McAdoo's candi- e o e Lor éat “wil]. receive, a,consider- able boost. &b the director of the government, control .and operation Mr;MGAdoo made repu- ‘tation; and to return to that * plan; Jof] PE;-resemhbling ,it, his g tbat he has strong fo, incresse thé vice calls attention to aliniradbly put into prac- e Batwinas Mirshall that one rEuiients of & Vice Presi. -shaTe of patience the tice by of the e The repdlof the antitrust law is mot urged on, the ground that it has ‘become -ehne because of its rigid - e ;.o the @eadly -weapon bedd’ last night before the . ;Arede along with cer- tain other, of, when geveral mem- bers of . with the #tve citizens particular. opinion ¢£¥8af all that is necessary i3 to increa® the federal tax upon such goody, to require the keep- ingofa recerd of each weapon. Then, Né'sa%®1déntification would be easy inswess-of crime through the registered nanies “and “addresses of purchispg T < : migses the main evil This: The demdly weapons to be. ., 88 10 pre- & A person inflamed anger” or “jealousy, or one who can:get a gun as -% faw as that ‘pro- posett “as” t.» A “name and address™ means nothing what- 5 “with g criminal . pur- ‘will be balked by - & name and 80 addresd.” Very fow will be' checked | fersonism. “#0 much 1o find out| ¥ sued by a competent public authority. There is no danger of going too far in such a law. It checks nobody's legitimate right of personal arma- ment, it .does not prohibit a proper traffic, and it indubitably checks the criminal, dangerous arming of irre- sponsible, unbalanced, malevolent peo- ple. Just in this connection, though not directly related, may be considered the case of the boy who yesterday shot his brother in this city in the course of a playful scuffle. Seeing a supposedly unloaded pistol lying on a bureau, he grasped it and pulled the trigger. The brother is now dead. If that pistol had been, in truth, unload- ed, what good was it in that house? It had probably been obtained in just the way that most guns are obtained, without any license or warrant or need. In consequence of the freedom and ease with which deadly weapons may be obtained probably hundreds of guns are lying around in Washington houses available for the “accidents” that blight families. The Hamilton School Disgrace. Several months ago complaint was made of the unsuitable site and phys- ical condition of ‘the school for the instruction of children suffering from tuberculosis. The matter, as noted in The Star at the time, was discussed by the Medical Society of the Dis- trict, and the attention of the school authorities was directed to the urgent need of changes. Owing to the state of the appropriation, however, noth- ing was done. The children contin- ued to go.the considerable distance required for most. of them, involving in many cases two street car trans. | fers. The building continued to be insanitary and generally unsuited for its purpose. It was hoped that per- haps some relief would be obtained through Congress at the present ses- slon, but nothing has been done. This special school still stands a reproach to the District and with no prospect of immediate betterment. If the District is to make special provision. for the education of tuber- cular children it should do so with the utmost regard for their welfare. It should provide the most thoroughly sanitary, the most conveniently lo- cated and the.most attractive school. stress of winter in order to gain in- struction. 1f the building to which they are definitely assigned were new the fioflntkd'm of hygiene its isola- tion' imight be endured. But simply to take an old achool, far away from ;| lent for-all; but the least number of the puplls, is to stamp’ the.attempt failure. It would be far better to give them no instruction at all than to sub- thém to feel themselves to be outcasts and exposing them to further dangers to their health. This school should be closed it it cannot be immediately clearfed and thoroughly repaired and made fit in every respect. At the earliest pos- sible:time, with the first avaflable ap- propriation, a ‘new building should be erected more centrally situated in the most ‘wholesome surroundings. The neglect of this matter is a shameful , | biot on the District’s record as a pro- gressive community.- ——— About the only occasion on which the “Canadian boundary commission evolves into prominence is when a'va- cancy occurs and it becomes neces sary. to select a discreet and compe- tent' man to assist in discharging the duties which may arise at any time. ———— 1t is doubted whether Charles Evans Hughes will undertake to represent the. District of Columbia as ener- getically in a party convention as did his_predecessor in the office of Secre- tary of State. ——————————— Some of the base ball fans may eventually take up the question of whether an arbiter should be per- mitted to carry on the work of a fed- eral judge as a side line. — e The weather experts have no means of deciding whether a February bliz- zard is a farewell performance or a rehearsal for the Fourth of March. —— Three Notable Isms. Joseph W. Bailey is preaching Jef- It is the only kind of de- ‘mocraoy he recognizes, and he wants his party to return to it. But the peo- ple of Texas last year refused his plea. He offered himselt on that platform for the governorship, and was de- feated for the nomination. William J. Bryan, as always, is preaching Bryanism. He has just out- .| lined the latest phase of that doctrine, and ‘wants it adopted. He is much opposed to Wilsonism, and asks his party to break with it definitely and permanently. He does not announce for another nomination for the presi- dency, but somehow his activity at this. time is construed as pointing in that direction. The argument is that it the democratic party is to accept Bryanism again it should nominate its author again to give it the proper emphasis in the campaign, and the proper application in case of his elec- tion. Now as to Wilsonism. Gov. Cox ‘adopted that last year, and was over- whelmingly beaten. If he tries for the nomination in 1924 will it be on fa Wilsonian platform?. Since his de- feat he has called on Mr. Wilson, and .renewed the assurance of his distin- guished consideration. As yet, there is no such thing as Coxism. With all his puccess in Ohlo politics, and his extraordinary achievement at San Francisco last year, the governor has \ ht-athwchu&mu:l not founded & schéol, nor made his name a shibboleth. - = Jeffersonism, and Wilson- ism. These three; but the greatest of these, judged by success, is Jeffer- sonism. After two terms in the ‘White House, Mr. Jefferson handed over the presidency to the man of his choice, who represented all that he represented. —— ot Policies and “Pie.” ‘We are told that the new adminis- tration will. begin its work by giving policles precedence over patronage. Policies are pressing. Cutting the pie must wait. : ‘While this:is a good resolution, and thoroughly - justified by the situation, it will be no easy matter to carry it out. The republicans have been out ofi office eight years—the longest banish- ment in sixty years. Mr. Cleveland| had two terms in the presidency, but| a republican administration came in between. Mr. Wilson's eight years have been continuous. The republicans are used to office, and like office. In the main, they have made gdod officials. The record is in their favor. Places of high and of low degree have by them been filled satisfactorily. These things considered, we may ! expect something of a” press for| recognition after the new order has been inaugurated; and in the press will be many worthy and competent men—men who have always kept their republicanism on straight, and who last year labored diligently and quite successfully for the return of their party to power. These men will want early action on their applications. They have the means of reaching men in office—men they have helped to put in office— senators, representatives, governors and other important and influential persons. And when they begin to move, a considerable degree of reso- lution will be necessary to resist them, if resistance is possible. Gasoline and Trolley Cars. Two trolley cars collided head on at South Shelton, Conn., Tuesday and elght persons were killed, one of the motormen and seven passengers. The wrecked cars caught fire when a can of gasoline, carried by a pas-| senger in the front vestibule of one of the cars, exploded, most of the| deaths being due to the flames. It would be well to exercise a strict supervision over the commodities car- ried on the urban and interurban elec- tric cars in this region, to make cer- tain that no such dangerous freight is transported. Gasoline is not nec- essarily dangerous, if 'let alone” and not exposed to flame. .But there can be no assurance against mishap, and any container of the volatile stuff may be broken, with resultant exposure to a spark. A trolley collision is in any instance | an evidence of wretched mismanage- ment. A head-on collision is proot of the retention of the dangerous single- ! track system that should have been'| long since discarded. A collision with | accompanying explosion, causing | deaths, is a token of slackness in the regulation of the materials that pas. | sengers may take upon the darg. Too ! many chances are taken with bumanl lite. e . ¥ 5 —————moe g Lenin favors all kinds of organiza- tion among the working people of Russia, provided facilities remaln! available for him to step in and con- duet the meetings. P # —_———— } In addition to the movement to abolish anti-trust laws'‘ there will| doubtless be one to abolish "gentlz-! men’s agreements.” ! Judge Landis does*not hesitate _toi take chances, but'doés not believe in betting on them. D e P — 1t is evidently the intention not to risk depleting the Senate in order to| build up the cabinet: : SHOOTING STARS, —_—— 1 BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. George Washington was partly myth, And so was Paul Revere— Historians often fret us with The doubts that thus draw near. That such men lived wé may admit, But as we take a glance At tales of them which make a hit, ‘The most prove pz;‘e rpmance. But all of us have dtways had The credit, more or less, ' For attributes both good gnd bad Which we do not pbssess. | For none can truly hope to show | His traits of mind,ang-heart, And every mortal here below Is mythical in part. .4 i A Change. i “Why did that celebrated pianist decide to go into statesmanship| abroad?” “Well,", replied Senator Sorghum, “after playing tHe game with rival! managers and publishers and per-| formers, mebbe he thought he'd like | to try another kind;of politics.” Averaging. “People in a savage state take baths without wearing clothes.” “And as they crowd-into civiliza- tion .they grow more particular about clothes and less about baths.” i Mileage; *; The planets are millipns of miles away, To reach one would take a long, long while, I'd’like to visit them all some day, But I couldn't afford three cents a mile, Since Ladies Smoke. “Your wife used to object to your smokin, ) “Yes,” replied Mr. Meekton. *That was before Henrletta became so in- terested in great fublic questions. Now she has me light a pipe now and then so that when makes a speech she won’t mind. the cigarette smoke in the audience.” 1 Jud Tunkins say#he rate at which the cost of gasoliné goes down isn’t going to get anybody in'the oil busi- ness arrested for speeding. A ithe New York Globe Editorial Digest Judge Landis Called to the Bar. Charges against Judge Kenesaw Moun- tain Landis, including & éall for impeach- ment from Representative Welty, have caused almost as much comment in the newspapersas a presidential election. The question of the propriety of the judge holding the “extra job” of base ball arbiter has been discussed before, and while many editorial writers are not al- together in sympathy with the idea, a great many others refuse to take the matter seriously, assumink the tone of | = the Duluth Herald (ivdependent), which remarks: “Impeachment? Bless you, there’s no chance for it!" "Tho other point, agitated by Senator Dial, con- cerning Judge Landis' statement that the employers of an Illinois bank teller arrested for embezzlement were sponsible for his crime because they paid him an absurdly small salary, still _more widely commented upon. Here, too, although some of the criti- cism is bitter, there is still a tendency to explain ‘the Judge's apparentl startling behavior with the assuranc that “he did not mean to imply that theft and dishonesty,” as the Mail (independent) puts it, * able under any circumstances. A “class” argument in the attitude toward Landis is perceived by the New ! York Call ialist), for, it asserts, criticism was reduced to a “mere whis- per” when the judge accepted “a great salary of $42,000 from the ofners of base ball corporations,” but when he “tells the truth about trusting a boy with money while paying him little more than an office boy's salary, the pluto- crats and politicians turn on him with a fury that only an attack upon the sacredness of their legalized loot can arouse."" The opposite view comes from the Wall Street Journal (independent) : more immoral plea has ever been from the bench. To assume that we ve to be paid to be honest is to assume every one of us potentially crooks. Judge Landis' decision of the bank clerk's case was radically bad alike in law and morals, while his aspersion upon the bank directors was utterly un- ‘warranted.” These extremes mark the borders of a wide differcnce of opinion. Many writers lean to the “human” side of the case. ‘“‘Mercy, discreetly used,” says (independent), while it admits the “poor law" of the decision, “is ever popular, and who ex- tends it earns forgiveness for himself.” “Unqutstionably,” ~ the Fort Wayne News and Sentinel (republican) as- sumes, “public sentiment will be with Judge Landis,” though the paper itself feels that he is “wrong.” This act was only a part of “salvag- ing youth,” the Portland Oregonian (in- dependent_ republican) believes, and the “detalls of the case,” the Springfield Re- publican_ (independent) points out, “make the judge's conduct rather more defensible.” The judge's act, the Philadelphia Public Ledger (independent) points out, “does not put a premium on hon- est action,” and “most of those aware of the issue” will “sympathize” In- deed, Congress “would not dare im- peach Judge Landis,” the Rock Is- land Argus (democratic) declares, for “the American public would not per- mit it.” While it cannot agree that the judge "used his head” in making his deci- sion, the Rochester Democrat-Chron- icle (republican) admits “his heart is in the right place” and laments that every young man cannot have some one “to whom he can unbosom him- self freely.” The Buftalo Commercial (independent), though -it finds “little sympathy” with the bank employers, still fears that “the weight of com- mon sense and legal and moral jus- tice i8 against the Chicago jurist,” and the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot (dem- ocratic) grants that the step may have been “inspired by the notion of stimulating salary raises,” but, it con- cludes, “it is more apt to stimulate theft and embezzlement.” Though the question which the fm- peachment proposal specifically ralses, that is, the right of a federal judge to be, as the New York Times (inde- pendent democtatic) puts it, “a base ball judge at the same time,” has been discussed before, it is taken up again, and many papers still support Lan- dis, but feel that he should mot hold both offices. . £ The Lincoln (Neb.) State Journal (independent. republican) also be- lieyes “the’calm’ judgment of the country is ‘against this “dual serv- ice” Though he might *hold down both posts and do justice to both,” the Minneapolis Tribune (republican) feels that “the judiciary would suf- fer” and the Syracuse Post-Standard (republican) thinks that “a federal judge should not be any other kind of a judge” The fact that he is in the employ of the base ball interests, the Milwaukee. Journal (independent) thinks is a handicap, and “sooner or later he must choose” between the two. To keep both, the Philadelphia Bulletin (independent republican) 160ks upon as a “gross impropriety.” On the other hand, the Scranton Times (democraticy recalls the fact that judges are often delegated “to act as commissloners and *arbiters, work entirely out of their province,” and offers the “surmise” that the at- tack on Landis “is almed more at|’ the base ball end of it than any neg- lect of duty”; it shows the ‘“shallow- ness” of Representative Welty, the representative who raised the point, the Tulsa Tribune (democratic) adds. As for Mr. Welty “and his base ball score,”_eéxclaims the Norfolk Ledger- Dispatch . (independent = democratic), “nothing to it.”" > The Case of Mr. Daugherty. If there is a preconceived case against Mr. Daugherty, it yields read- ily to analysis. Mr. Daugherty has been a potent figure in’ Ohio politics for twenty years. He hasfought thou- sands of battles, and in every battle he has made bitter, formidable ene- mies, who not only belleve the worst about him, but who lend a’ certain authenticity to it by spreading it. No man may actively participate in poli- tics through a period of years with- out becoming the objéct and the vic- tim of animosities. Politically Mr. Daugherty has wielded power. Every man who wields power automatically becomes a discredited and disreputa- ble citizen in the minds of those agalnst whom he wields it. There would be stories “on' Mr. Daugherty, but they establish nothing and prove nothing to any fair-minded man who knows politics. And there is this to Mr. Daugherty’s credit: No weak man or crooked man survives for a lonv. period of years the concentrated fire of his political enemies. He curls up and dies and another takes his place Mr. Daugherty has long been sub jected to concentrated fire. He did not curl up and die. Instead, he ‘re- mains a conspicuous figure on the horizon of politics, and never was so deeply intrenched within .his party’s lines. There must be Something to him.—Philadelphia Public Ledger (in- dependent). If you want to scare a plump Woman half to death, weigh her on some | junkman's selling scales.—Bridgeport Telegram. The American dye industry might | establish itself firmly by inventing a washable complexion.—Baltimore Evening Sun. . Tt can be said of very few men that'| when they're pulled up by the roots there'll be a hole to look at.“~Ashland (Mo.) Bugle. Michigan man says fool laws are crime-cause by bringing all into dis- respect. One guess as to what he had in mind.—Pittsburgh Dispatch. Apparently England his made up her mind that Lloyd George won’t and has resigned herself.—Fresno Repub- lican. ‘We suppose the reason they call em “rum rings" is because there is no end to ‘em.—Dayton News. 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