Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1921, Page 6

€a- TH.E EVENING ST AR, ‘word to the town constable, and in 2| Two railroads occupy the same Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY......February 28, 1921 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Nemwm ‘Bustness Office, nd Pennsylvan! Chicago Offico: First Natioal Bask Europeen Office: 3 Regent St-, London, Eag ™ Star, with the Sunday morning la Geiivered by carriers withia the ety ST Cente per month; gaily only. 43 cente per month: Sunday oaly, 20 cents per month. OFf- dors may be aent by mail, or telephone Main 5000, Collection is made by carriers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. & . 70e Daily and Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1 mo.. 7 Daily only 13T, $6.00; 1 mo.. :g: Sunday o $2.40; 1 mo., X All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., $5¢ Daily only .. 1 $7.00; \ma.,sng Sunday only = b The Water Supply Item. Relief is felt throughout the Dis- trict in consequence of the adoption by the Senate Saturday of an amend- ment to the Ariny appropriation bill providing for the use of $200,000. to be immediately available, for starting the work of completing the water sup ply. This item had once been rejected ‘as inappropriate to the Army bill but at the earnest insistence of mem- | bers of the Senate it was finally added and, the bill passing. it goes now tol co=Zerence. ! Some doubt Senate Saturday of the estimate submitted by the S retary of War covering this urgent need. A point of order was withheld upon the earnest appeal of senators appreciating the great danger of con- tinuing indefinitely to rely upon the present conduit by which the entire capital is supplied with water. If there is any question about the form . of the estimate the matter should be covered by the presentation of a re- newed estimate passing through the Treasu as the law requires. The conferees ould have possible ground for disagreement upon this vitally important item. If the water increase appropriation is not voted at the present session months of precious time will be lost before it can be effected. The hope is that all the appropriation bills will | be passed before noon next Friday. If that is done the extra session will probably have no chance to put through the water item. Tt belongs strictly to an appropriation measure. While certain bills are to be put through at the extra session they will not be of this character, and there is . grave danger that if the water para- > graph is not carried now it will go ; over, not merely to the extra session, but to the regular session beginning December next. In other words, that the whole matter will be delayed one year. Nobody can possibly doubt the need of this appropriation. If the money is not appropriated now the project Willl , cost more later. The sooner it is started the cheaper it will be. True economy, therefore, requires that this paragraph should be carried-imto the law by agreement in conference and the approval of the appropriation bill before the session closes. no North Carolina. The Old North state will resound with politics if Josephus Daniels and | F. M. Simmons contest for the next| democratic senatorial nemination. | They know the political game. They are in the prime of life. Fach enjoy a mational reputation. Mr. Daniels has been for eight year: prominently before the public. and especially so during the half of that time. He came conspicuously the picture when the United entered the world war. s part in the great conflict was very important, and Mr. Daniels directed | it. Since the armistice. naval mat-| " ters have been much under discus- sion, and they still are. During the two Wilson administra- tlons Mr. Simmons has been much | ‘in the picture. As chairman of the| Senate finance committee—the most influential committee of that body —he directed the revision of the Underwood tariff bill as passed by the House, and also took a leading part in the shaping of the legislation bear- | 4dng on the liberty loans and war taxa- | tion. He lost his chairmanship when | the republicans gained control of the | ) Senate, but now stands at the head of the minority membership of the ' committee. Since entering Daniel s ! the cabinet. Mr. whose profession is journal- ism, has become a ready and effective | . public speaker; and this accomplish- * ment will stand him well in hand if he succeeds in his quest. and grad- uates into a national legislator. —_———— The joker who sends a new broom to Presidentelect Harding reminds the world that political humor ha: some changeless customs and tradi- tions. ————— The republicans have enough of a majority in the House of Representa- tives to make every vote look like a miniature landslide. i —_————— Though not first in the cabinet, there is no doubt that Mr. Hoover will be one of its most famous mem- bers. The Boy Bank Thief. The prompt capture of the young- ster who stole $772,000 in bonds from a Chicago bank by which he was employed is proof of the value of news- paper publicity. As soon as this lad was missing portraits of him were printed in the papers circulating over a wide arca, and within a very few hours his features werq made fa- miliar to several million people. ]l' was practically assured that some- body would recognize him. One of those who saw the portrait and re- membered it was driving along the road near Bloomington, Ill., when a young chap with a valise trudging in the same direction asked for a ride. ‘The motarist recognized his passenger as the fugitive bank clerk, and on arriving at Heyworth, where the Jputb alighted, he quictiy gassed. the r | worked the game with much it short time the fugitive was arrested and in his satchel were found all but $500 of his stolen bonds. A professional thief would perhaps have made his escape. He would at least have had a farther start of his pursuers and, probably working with confederates, would have set up false traces. This boy, with an amazing lack of forethought for his own adven- ture, was certain to be caught. He had disposed of one bond in Chicago to get traveling expenses. But after that the first attempt to sell securi- ties would have led to his arrest. A few months ago a gang of bond thieves more skill. but it required a number of peo- ple to handle the loot. To this date many of the bonds are still missing. The present thief declares that the leniency shown by Judge Landis to the young bank employe who recently stole nearly a hundred thousand dol- lars and then weakened and confessed before the money was missed did not influence him in any way in his own venture. It is possible, however, that the crime of the other lad may have suggested stealing to this boy. He was in no particular need. Probably he had been reading some unwhole- some literature. One version of the affair states that he bears the name f a band of noted robbers and has eferred proudly to the fact. He has now to be very thankful for his quick capture, for he has a chance to re- deem himself. —————— The Bonus Battle. While the House has agreed to the bonus provision carried by the leg- islative appropriation bill, it is not yet finally assured. After a protract- ed debate Saturday night the House voted to agree to the Senate amend- ment, with amendments which insure the $240 bonus to the employes of the United States and District govern- ments and the old-established branch- es of the service, the District police- men and firemen, the war risk insur- ance workers and the tariff commis- sion employ Certain classes of workers are specifically exempted, those whose wages have been adjust- ed by boards, particularly na per diem laborers and mechanics, em- ployes of the women's bureau and pos- tal service workers whose wages have been increased by distinct legislation. If the nate will agree to these amendments the bonus item will carry through. 1If it halts on accept- ing the House stipulations there is danger of its defeat. Thus the process of alternation of hope and fear of the government's workers is continued in a matter of the most serious consequence to the average person in the public employ. The manner in which this bonus item has been handled at the present ses- sion demonstrates clearly the need of a general upward revi ernment pay scale. This should be assuredly accomplished during the ex- tra session of Congress, so that the regular appropriation bills next win- ter can be framed in accordance and the service put upen the basis of as- sured definite compensation without reliance upon the gratuity so hesitat- ingly voted annually. It has heen emphatically asserted that this is the last bonus that will be given. If that is true it should mean that by another year in lieu of the bonus a definite permanent pay increase will have been provided for by basic legislation, on of the gov- ———— Full Republican Control. The Sixty-sixth Congress is within a few days of the end. Those who sail the record- declare that the promises which brought the body into existence have not been redeemed; that the public’s distresses have not that economy has not ed; that more unrest ex- ists today than two years ago. Wis too much expected? Very likely. And then sufficient allowance has not been made for the very slender majority in the Senate and the pres- ence of a democrat in the White House. Every step has had to be taken with those two facts in view. Is too much expected of the Sixty- seventh Congress? Very likely. There is much awaiting attention. Conai- tions throughout the country are greatly disturbed. Capital is uneas: Labor is ontented. Many prices are still sky high. As this situation i not the product of a day, it cannot be relieved in a day. As much as the new Congress can hope to accomplish is to decide upon remedies and inaugurate their application. Time will be necessary to bring us around to normal again. The republicans will now be in full control. A republican will occupy the ‘White House. The majority in the Senate will be substantial, while that in the House will break the record for size. No excuses will avall, therefore, if the proper remedies are not devised and applied with courage and intelli- gence. —_———— ‘The last case in which Charles E. Hughes appears as an attorney be- fore going into the Harding cabinet involves the right of a talking ma- chine concern to refuse supplies to ia department store because of alleged vivlation of agreement. The enter- ment of the public by means of s or phonographs, not to mention ball, has recently commanded the attention of some of the nation's mest able and eminent minds. il base —_—— It has been an easy matter to place advice before Mr. Harding. A more energetic form of discussion may arise when members of the cabinet undertake to give advice to one an- other. President Wilson's farewell veto is definitely programmed. —_——— A Blunder and a Collision. A distressing example of ‘“human clement” in the mishandling of rail- road equipment occurred last evening at Porter, Ind., where in consequence of misunderstood signals, or misplaced switch, or miscalculation of speed, or some other blunder, two trains crash- ed together and thirty-nine people were killed and many more were in. jured. The place where the accident oocurred is-notoriously a 4engec.point. v yard and arsenal workers, and the Dlfltrlrll track up to that point from Chicago, and there they separate. The utmost caution is obviously required in the use of the switches. Yet apparently one of the trains was sent into the junction at high speed. The other train had been derailed by some as yet unexplained mischance and lay athwart the track. Had the primary precaution of safety been observed the colliding train would have been halted before the switch point was reached. A good miany years ago a train ran into an open bridge draw near Stam ford, Conn., and great loss of life sulted. The rule was then establish- ed not only in Connecticut. but else-| where, that every train using a draw bridge should be brought to an abso lute stop before reaching the draw | point. The observance of that rule has doubtless saved many lives. Tts| violation is an evidence of the est criminal carelessness on th of railroad crews and inspectors. It seems shocking that such acci- dents as the Conmecticut bridge dis- aster and this one at Porter should be necessary to drive home the im- perative need of certain precautionary rules. Probably now every junction point will be protected by such a stop order. But that will not bring back the thirty-nine lives or make whole | the scores who have been injured. | The principle of the automatic stop has been tentatively approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission and | experiments are to be made with it. | Had such a stop device been installed at the Porter junction the collision could not have occurred. The cost of that one collision would probably meet the expense of installing the stop sys- tem for several hundred miles on both sides of the collision point. part Mr. Denby’s Announcement. This is from Edwin Denby’s initial announcement: “I may say in general terms that my conception of the duty of a Sec retary is to act as an adviser to the President, the cabinet and Congre: and, more important still, to ma tain whatever Navy Congi us at the highest peak of ready for battle at any notice. Fit and ready. The country will| indorse the proposition, and give its confidence to the new Secretary the more readily and completely because of it. The size of the Navy is for Con- gress to determine. That it is not large enough now is easily demon- strable. That it ought to be en- larged to the point of absolute ade- quacy is the opinion of both the out- going and the incoming administra- tion. Mr. Wilson ed for “an incomparable Navy”; and no senti- ment he has uttered in office has been 80 generally or so generously ap- plauded. Secretary Daniels has echoed the sentiment, with like effect. Mr. Harding, several times since election day, has expressed himself in favor of a Navy entirely adequate to the country’s needs, and shown how great he considers those needs to be. And now comes Mr. Denby with a pledge to administer the affairs of the avy Department 0 as to have the avy “ready for battle at any noti Let his hope that Congress acts upon these suggestions, and provides the ships necessary to make us power- ful on the water, and equipped with “the best the market affords.” 1} ————— A failure by Trotsky to work out some kind of a partnership for soviet Russia with other nations will prob- ably result in Lenin's sending him back to the firing line. —_————— ‘The =on of the late Theodore Roose- velt will not be expected to be quite as controversial an assistant Secre- tary of the Navy as his distinguished father was. —_———— Discussions of international finances are rendered a trifle more serene by the fact that Ponzi remains securely in restraint. ———— SHOOTING STARS. | i BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Changing Cars. Got another engineer, Got another crew, Different folks are drawing near To tell us what to do. Other placards greet the eye, With new devices fraught, So, all aboard! We're golng to try Another train of thought. Sidetracked for a while, But the water tank, they say, Travels every mile. Oh, mind the signals that are set By intellects astute, And while you're running don't forget Us plain folks who commute. Jud Tunkins says he's lookin’ for- ward to something original and novel in a parade whose importance won't be estimated by the number of hours it takes to pass a given point. | | { | | i H { liold band wagons far away, The Differentiation. “What's the difference between au farmer and a landed asked Mrs. Corntossel. A farmer,” replied her husband, “ls a man with a hoe and a landed proprietor is a man with a golf club.” Dreams. . I'm very glad that dreams do not come true, Despite what poets tenderly recite, | { For if they did, I will confide to you, T'd take more heed of what I ate at night. proprietor?” Real Temptations. “George Washington was a truth- ful man.” “As far as he got. But no inter- viewer ever asked him to make a pub. | lic statement about his golf score or| the number of fish he caught.” | Overzealous, { “What is your idea of a grafter?" ' “A grafter,” replied Senator Sor- ghum, “is a man W..0, when he finds an opportunity knocking at his door, isn't satisfled to give it a cordial wel- come, but insists on dragging it in and beating ihe life out ofuit.™ i have been more vehement, {against the adm | awaiting the first days of March, | | stated that one of hi { be the making of peace with Germany | ! country. P | bed hair tried everything else first.— Editorial Digest | The President’s Peace Expenses. The tendency toward an official truce in the running fire of press comment on the merits of President Wilson during the last days of his ad- ministration ended suddenly. Discus- sion of the resolution calling for an itemized statement of the $150,000,000 ‘war fund, including the President's persona] disbursements at the peace conference, reopened hostilities. On the whole, Mr. Wilson's defenders as well as more widely vocal, in their coun- ter attack than the offense, though here and there a bitter voice is raised Perhaps th recurring a of a sum which in or equals one-fifth the an- cost of the whole government so long as he covers up what he t the money for, t ablic is justified in suspecting ‘there’s a reason.’ " This sentiment, while not at all typical of the majority of the paper: i represents a feeling which to a lesser degree is reflected elsewhere in the country. The Hartford Courant (re- publican) asks “what harm can come from having the American people know"™ what became of the money. ‘The Pittsburgh Leader (progressive republican) objects to the “idea that a dWnocratic President—like an old- ioned King—can do no wrong. and the Florida Times-Union, Jack- sonville (democratic), supports thisi - demo- | may “tie suggesting the on the theor. ident'sdivine right to spe as he pleased. and that it was no- body's business how he spent it An accounting is demanded by democ- racy, the Leader explains, “not be- cause there is a belief that something has been ‘put over,’ but beeause it is the business way of keeping the rec- ord complete, clear and unquestion- able.” Not_only imply no Free Press it like: dia Congr 'suspiciou,” the Detroit (independent) adds, but intended no_‘“disrespect. g The New York Tribune (republican) speaks with le straint. Congress,” it says, “is only obe ing a general and highly proper de mand when it tackle the financial expenditu of interesting pe riod and asks ‘what for'’ and ‘wh * ¢+ The President’y confidential expenses in ¢ is an entry utterl unbefitting diplomuc. republic in this da i right to information conc of public moneys neverthel retiring Preside To the New York cratic) the “obje r was not to information but to insul ident, and his prompt offer to comply ha: the certain chagrin of the imply “snifling for scanda Brooklyn Eagle (independ s the dema wants to know more tures it should for infor- tion from various departments, as s done following the Spanish- American © The Knoxville -pendent democratic) ame point and adds, is plainly were any but they World (demo olution Sentinel brings up the “but the present Congre: not after crooks, if there r episode, are after W' tar (dem- ocratic) cons n of the republicans “ben elligent and dignified opposition,” and remarks | that the next thing to expect is resolution requiring the President to unt out to a designated House committee $150.000,000 in nickels and dimes.” The New York Globe (inde- s the mautter :”;}h ort: e t: “Nobody g now, but they dent Wilsou's pre : In the opinion of the Chattanooga Times (independent democratic), “the | American people care nothing about | the expenditure of that fund” and “a contemptible sp of the congress- men who prompted the act “outrages the sentiment of the country and reflects severely on the people Who elected them The Norfolk Ledger- Dispatch (independent democratic) takes the viewpoint, shared by many others, that certain items of the fund, for necessary secret rvice and the like, could not in propriety v be re- ealed. The Dallas Journal (independent democratic) Sees “morbid curiosity" he bottom of the demand, and hmond Times-Dispatch (demo- plexion. deeply resent despicable attempt at reflecting on the integrity of the sick President.” The Houston Chronicle (independent) expresses the regret that “some one as robust and skillful as Gen. Dawes" was not present' when the measure was proposed. We Must Have Peace. Two years have passed since the ending of the war between the Unit- Yet up to between two countries, and friendly relations have not been re- sumed. It ie a r: ccurrence—the lapse of such a long time before the making of ce. Everybody is anxiously ident will take his ns he has | st duties will | when the new Pry place. On several oc fi nd the renewal of trade with that is absolutely necessary. Here in the United States w 1 severe unemployment situation. Millions of workers have no jobs. We blame this unemployment on the varied mani- | festations which labor and capital cause. We can algo blame it on this peacemaking delay. When Germany's | frontiers are opened, when we can | pass fréely through Germany to Ri sia, then without a doubt times will better themselves. Much new work | will exist The new President is now ‘“vaca- tioning” in Florida, and it is reported that he has made the same assertions there, in regard to hastening peace, that he made in Obh In the first days of April he will call a special session of Congress to dlscuss peace. Tt is said that the peace treaty will be signed, The war chains which ve held us for the past five years will fall away. st of all. peace will have to be e with and then decis- 1 made as shall_be a with the Versailles treaty is calling for peace. We ne —Draugas (Lithuanian, r Chicago = | Presumably the w with Lob- man Kansas City Star. Think what Mr. Wilson up for Lent this (8. C) Record. What has become of the o.f. little girl who put on long skirts and played house?—Quincy (TIL) Whig- Journal. s giving | year.—Columbia Seems like good old times to meet a 'man now and then, again, with egg on his vest.—Detroit News. The more we s=ee of history as written by Henry Ford the better we like his first production concerning those two American patriots, Benedic and Matthew Arnold.—Memphis News- Scimitar. The country will relish nothing more than a base ball game between the two houses of Congress, with Judge Landis umplire.—Indianap- olis News. There is one consoling thought about the army of unemployed. A great many of its members were for- glcrly oil stock salesmen.—Baltimore un. 20 treatment tin FREE—Write MFG. Minneapolis, Minn. KONDON A Sale of Fine Watches Our st watches is wish it to be time. proper making price very worth-whil you. Watch prices advanced com- paratively little four years, and time to come, satisfaction. makes them. 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