Evening Star Newspaper, March 14, 1921, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR,]¢ince. With Sunday Morning Edition. e WASHINGTON, D. C MONDAY........March 14, 1921 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office. 11th St. and Pennavivania Ave e ol Tk O Tribune Bulding, ieago Office: First National Bank Building. hr»s- Office: 3 Regeat St., London, England. The Evening Star, with the Simday morning edition, is delivered by carriers within the city &t 60 cents per month: daily onls, 45 cents per month: Sunday only. 20 cents per wonth. Or ders may be sent by mail, or telephone Main 5000, Collection s made by carriers at the @ad of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday : 1mo., Daily only iy, : 1mo.. Sunday only 1¥r.. $2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ All Other States. x Daily and Sunday.1yr., $10.00; 1 mo.. 85¢ Daily only 1y 7.00: 1 mo., 60c Sunday only : 1 mo., 25¢ i $ Improved Business. Speakirg of the and tax tion by import revision, Congr not look for improved busi- e ca ness until revenue legislation a government ¢ stopped Even the promise of the Dingley tariff law immediately produced better con ditions in business This undoubtediy must be assured befo Business it can be ex is true. pected to function with «¢ and sue-| cess. It isin a very nervous and halt ing state present. Its most emi- |} nent and capable captains are irreso lute in “he face of a situation bearing no like: oss to anything they have ever known defore. As the Pennsylvania senator suggests, the defini promise of revision on lines O ble witk the republican party’s r ord shoui? have a heartening effect. Both thf promise of the Dingley tariff revisici and the revision itself had a good Tffect. Business at once began ta revice from a condition of extreme deprefaion. vision—the Go-‘nan-Wilson law—and the general fuiure of the second Cleveland admitistration, had all but : paralyzed the cfuntry. Both capital and labor—in tt= same boat then as now—stood helpress in the presence of unprecedented discouragement. ‘The present sisuation is graver than that. even is the result cf world causes acting on local causem and making the lat- ter the more complex and difficult. ——————————— An Interésting Investigation. Representtive Slemp of Virginia, chairman of the subcommittee of the republican fational committee ap- pointed to nvestigate republican con- ditions in tne south with reference to representation from that sec republicaft national conventions, an- nounced that the investigation will begin #r San Antonio, Tex., the lat- ter paft of April. Mr. bdiemp is exceptionally well Quaiffled to direct this work. He is oné of the few southern republicans who have made themselves felt in southern politics. He has represented the ninth Virginia district in the House for many years, and is an in- fluence in that body. He knows poli An unwise re-j That ha€& grown out of loc :Al1 causes—causes purely American. This | ion in | to percolate the German official mind there is hope for Germany. For Ger- many's rehabilitation must come from within, through a spirit of contrition. There is no hope for Germany in the self-assumed attitude of an injured, oppressed country. If Dr. Simens’ experience in Lon- point of view and to see Germany as the rest of the world sees her, it might be well to encourage further travel by representative Prussians. Maybe they could get hold of the same truth, and returning home do some- thing to persuade their people that Germany is the victim of her own evil purposes and conduct. And in this connection it may be suggested that those friends of Germany who are in this country and who are now seeking to propagate a spirit of sympathy for the “‘oppressed” land would do a far better service to their former coun- try if they were to engage in another {sort of propaganda, aiming to make the Germans themselves realize their { ob) Simons is appar- ing to try to get the an point of view properly focused. just as | Party Management. This is from a Baltimore special to terday’s Star: ! il | man of e the chair- atic central committee a regular salaried official {of the party, which wiil allow {to devote his entire time to state or- }zanization. ‘I think well of the sug- aid Gov. Ritchie, when ask- proposed to ma tate democ If this truth is now beginning | himself. him § THE EVENING ‘ST'A’R WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, MARCH 14, 192\ Compelling the Non-Partisan Leaguers to daub their own “stickum’ on thelr skins and then to roll in the leaves is a touch of artistry in posse work that must have its effect as a deterrent. If this spirit of determina- tion continues Kansas will be safe from the noxious non-partisanship that has put North Dakota very near- don caused him to acquire a bruad('r‘l)' in the hands of a receiver. ——— Income Taxes. This is the last day, in effect, for filing the income tax returns. Wash- ingtonians really lose a day on the reckoning, inasmuch as they must get their returns and at least their first quarterly payments into the hands of the internal revenue collector at Bal- timore by tomorrow. Most of the local taxpayers have already sent their re- ports and remittances, but still there is a heavy eleventh hour rush. Making out an income tax return is such a puzzle to the average per- son that help must be obtained. Al- though the process has been some- what simplified and the blank is modi- fied it is still an appalling propos to put before anybody but an actuar < the case stands the taxpayer mak cut his own bill. Normally he @ erved with a bill by the taxing vower. In the case of real estate tayes as. sessment is made and he is notified of the amount that is charged against his property. The income taxpayer, however, must not only assess him- self, but make out his ow? computa- tion according to an intricate for- opinion. ‘I heard the sub- ssed some little time and the idea impresse me favorably. The chairman of the istate committee has a lot of work to |do and it is not easy to get some on {who is willing to do it for the love of it"" More and more of late years, poli- tics has become “a steacy thing.” Men who play the game, and particu- jlarly men who direct the game, must | understand the game, and be diligent in their work. Professional players are in request. Amateurs are not in lline for engagement. It used to be the case that a cer- tain obloquy attached in superfici | 1 | 1e to “a professional politician. |He was tagged as a fellow “out for {the stuff”; who was “working for his pocket,” or for office, “all the time™'; who could not be trusted in any {matter having to do with the public | welfare; who was to be employed and endured only in a pinch, and even then with side apologies to conscience. There were such men, and some were well known. But they were never numerous. What success they achieved was due somewhat to the jtimes, and somewhat to the neglect of political duty by great numbers of voters. Times have changed, and men and politics with them. A much larger number of voters are giving attention to politics these days, with the result mula unless he seeks official aid in a great crowd of others, a process in- volving a heavy loss of time. Probably the income tax will remain a feature of federal finance for some | time to come, and it sheald be the object of those who frarw the laws and regulations to make t as little troublesome and burdenscms as pos- sible. A simpler method of computa- tion would assuredly make income taxpaying less of a bugaboo to the average citizen. A March Sunday. March showed its versatility yes- terday by turning out a Sunday of greatest brilliancy and beauty. May could do no better. Even June, per- haps, could not paint a day of more golden sunshine or fill it with softer |i8 not impaired in this case by non- airs. One effect was to turn all men's thoughts to springsand to lead them forth from their homes, their rented houses and their flats into the streets, roads and by-ways, while many of them strayed where there are not even byways. The day emphasized the talent and genius of March. When in a friendly humor, he—or is he ** a perfect day of spring and when con- trary minded can produce a day that for wickedness outdoes January’s worst. ‘When March behaves agreeably she ; that organization work has greatly {increased, and expert capacity is re- quired in party management. Is not the expert in this field, as in other worthy of his hire? A salary does not presuppose anything improper or unworthy. The Commissioners Confirmed. By its prompt action today in con- firming the nominations of Commis- {sioners Rudolph and Oyster the Sen- should be praised. Let her be encour- aged to make more days like yester- day! l Americans are advised by Wash- ington Vanderlip not to believe all they hear about revolutions in Russia. This is advice which might be broad- ened to apply to a large amount of the news from that section of the map. i France becomes the owner of the tics and knows the south, and, there- ate completes the reorganization of | Bagdad raflway on which were once fore, will know how to proceed in this business. The question is not solely the powerlessness of the republican party in the lower southern states. No in- vestigation is necessary to establish that fact. It is known of all. Not a single electoral vote from that quar- ter is possible to any republican na- tional ticket on any sort of platform. But why is this true? What ex- plains the fact that presidential re-: turns from those states can always be, and always are, calculated in ad- vance of the election? And, if any remedy, what remedy should be ap- plied to correct this? The report of this investigation will probably cover ground beyond the terms of the order empowering it and give the republican organization, and for that matter the country, some- thing of a serious nature to think about. —_—— Indignation of Methodist clergy- men toward dancing masters for na ing a new dance after Johu Wesley cannot fail to find sympathy among people who resent impudence and bad taste. Dancing, while exploited as an art, assumes none of art's d and responsibility. —_—— Railway experts claim necessary to carry fewer employe eral overseers from getting in one another’s way when there is a job to be done in a hurry. —_——— Dry advocates are of the opinion that the recent Attorney General's ruling on medicinal modifications amounted to “after me the deluge.” Coming to Judgment. Dr. Simons, the German foreign and in London. 1In the course of & speech in the reichstag, just re. ported, he endeavored to mu his German hearers realize that the al- e is perhaps, after all, not fully under: stood eust of the Rhine. are worth quoting: London, when one hears what der what distress and cares themselves are laboring, it becom clear that their demands are not epired merely by the intoxication of that it is | His words “I must say that when one comes €ace to face with our opponents in the situation is in their countries and un- they the local government in time to per- mit the resumption of business at the 1 District building without serious em- {barrassment. It is especially grati- ifying that the Senate District com- mittee and the Senate itself acted so speedily and unanimously on these nominations, which are so generally jacceptable to the people of Washing- {ton. Expressions of approval respect- |ing the President's selections have been so hearty that there can be no doubt that Commissioners Rudolph and Ovyster fully meet the public wishes in respect to the capital’s or- ganization. The District committee found no ground for disapproval, and the prompt action which followed in the Senate is a further evidence of the excellence of President Harding’s choice. ———— German scholarship as applied to the Indemnity situation leans too much toward subtraction and division in problems that call for addition and | multiplication. —_—————— George Harvey may suspect that ithe invitation to discontinue his early support of Mr. Wilson was, after all, n the nature of a friendly tip. ————— jcrisis. MG R The general disposition in Euro- pean politics is to look to the U. 8. A. {as headquarters for financial first aid. | Non-Partisan Brer Rabbits. | Kansas is evidently dead set against |the Non-Partisan League. With the | unhappy experience of North Dakota las an example the people of the Sun- minister, talks differently in Berlin | flower state are doing their utmost to | | discourage the promoters of this pe- lculiar school of politics who seek to {implant it in the Kansas soil which | has heretofore been so fertile in the lied purpose in exacting reparations | propagation of strange political doc- | itrines. Kansas, in truth, is becoming nservative. The latest manifestation of hostil- ity to the Non-Partisan League cult The rules seem strangely to relax That once seemed strict and fair. !‘"- {shall we continue to be creditors to I that | asked by many thousands of Amer- By keeping the responsibilities in{yio efforts never quite agree, heir own hands Lenin and Trotsky| | to prevent helpers, workers and gen-|avoid serious dangers of a cabinet | founded dreams of Mitteleuropa. The ex-kaiser as an eminent wood chop- per might at least put in a bid to fur- nish ties. —_— e President Ebert of Germany ad- vises calmness and thought. This advice might have helped a great deal if it had been uttered by a kaiser in- stead of being so long delayed. ! Prices are expected to drop in time to make the coal required for June and July much less expensive than usual. { Commuters the country over are on the qui vive for an announcement of fare reductions. —————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Sad Scholar. The teacher used to say to me That two and two make four. Alas, it doesn’t seem to be The answer any more. ‘When I fill out my income tax, With plous, painful care, However I contrive, three, And sometimes they make five. If my arithmetic should fail, 1 fear the law's grim rule, Perhaps I'll have to go to jail Or be kept after school! Large Ideas. «“Aren't you afraid some of the peo- ple around here are looking for a loop- hole-in prohibition?” “If you ask me,” rejoined Uncle Bill Bottletop, “a loophole fsn't it at all. We're looking for a bunghole.” . Jud Tunkins says the first robin isn't near as satisfactory a sign of spring as the strictly fresh egg. Relative Costs. . We greet the era drawing near, With satisfaction deep, is reported from Great Bend, where a crowd of several hundred, comprising many former service men, escorted |out of town two officers of the Non- Partisan League, including a former victory or lust for power, but that on the contrary they are the result of extraordinarily heavy troubles and @istress in their own countries. Dr. Simons went on to say that it was possible to get a better world perspective from London than from Kez'in, and thereby realize how gen- eral the opinion is that Germany is in the wrong and has not done enough United States senator, and took two others into the woods, and made them smear themselves with tar and roll in the dead leaves and then leave the county. One is irresistibly reminded by this Kansas episode of “‘Brer Rab- bit's” exploits as related by Uncle Remus when that ingenious maker of mischief smeared himself with honey 0 requite that wrong. and rolled in the dead leaves in order It bas taken the German statesman |to frighten Brer Fox and Brer Wolf. long time to realize that there is|Brer Rabbit, it will be recollected, nother polst of view than that of|danced down the road in this fantastic Berlin, and to appreciate that there|disgulse proclalming himself the L3 opinion to the effect that| “Woollo-the-wust,” whereupon his ny was wrong in 1914 and re- | vulpine foes fled incontinently. ined wrong until November, 1918,] Out in Kansas they are making has been wrong In attitude ever | “Woollo-the-wust” out of the enemy Germ When things we need are not so dear, And talk is pot so cheap. Pride of Performance. ““There’s no pleasure in hard work,” said Mr. Rafferty. “Mebbe not,” replied Mr. Dolan. “Mebbe people has changed entirely. I can well remember when a man en- joyed braggin’ about how much work he could do instead of how much he didn’t have to.” Compulsory Selection. I understand Crimson Gulch is go- ing to have a motion picture theater. “Yes,” replied Cactus Joe. “We did favor the regular drams, but a motion picture’s the only kind of entertainment we can rely on to keep the boye from stoppin’ the show to hold personal arguments with the actors.” ™, {partment’s note: “The point that the land certainly he'"?—can create | For two and two sometimes make /| Editorial Digest The Island of Yap. Lower, morally, than “a gathering of card sharps” was the assembly of foreign diplomats who, regardless of American rights and protests, turned the Island of Yap over to the Japa- nese. This emphatic statement from the Chicago Tribune (independent re- publican) represents tho extreme view of a question which s widely idscussed by the newspapers of the the country. While practically no other writers are moved to such feel- ing as that shown by the Tribune, there is unlversal support for the attitude of the State Department and general re- sentment that the just demands of the United States have been disregarded. For the most part the action of the {league and later the supreme council in refusing to discuss the Yap ques- tion meets with the disapproval of American editors, but some feel that more can be accomplished now that direct negotiations between Japan and the United States have be- gun. The Baltimore News (inde- pendent) represents the latter view. remarking that since “the league h As washed its hands of Yap the way is clear to a settlement between our- <elves and Japan without fear of the league being used to encumber the discussion.” The attitude of the league is re- sented by the New York Herald (independent), which suggests that it their “letter writers gave due atten- tion to the papers from our State De- partment they know that what this | government has advised them is that our interests and rights could not be disposed of without our knowledge, assent or authority.” This was pointed out to the league when it was found that minute of the concession” to United States. granted at Wilson's re- the President quest in Paris, had been kept on rec- ord. But that faot. the Boston Herald (independent republican) points out, “does not the = attitude of Japan.” The Detroit Free Press (independent) reflects a view generally held when it emphasizes the logic of America's position as presented in the State De- Justify mandate actually conveyed rests upon the proposition that it had been agreed to by the associated and al- lied powers and that, as Secretary Colby pointed out, is not a fact. The United States is one of those powers never agreed to any thing of the kind. Viewing the Yap question broadly as a matter of fair international dealing, this line of argument is mere talk, but if Japan wishes to decide the issuc on such lines it will armed.” As to the complications which might enter into the situation because of our relations with the league, most writers fecl that America's position find Mr. Hughes well membership. While the Bangor (Me.) Commercial (independent) represents those who feel “it would have been wiser” if we had joined in the cov. nant. it feels that “the fact that we did not does not give the league any proper authority to act upon matters { without consulting us in which we have a vital stake and in which we earned the right to participat we joined the allies in the war. ,0ur right cannot be ignored, the Chicago Post (independent) feels, for it “is grounded too justly.” Further- more, “if the league of nations be a factor for world peace it c not be_blind to the rights of ¢ those Hations which. for a time, re- main outside its councils.” The Phila- delphia Record (independent demo- cratic) adds: “If Japan is in posses- sion of a mandate under the league we are absolutely free to object in | any form which we believe our in- terests justify. If we are out of the league “we are not committed to anything the league does. Not being a member of the league, the Memphis News-Scimitar (inde. | Pl’.ndl&nl] considers an advantage, for ‘the United States is in a position, unhampered by the limitations of the covenant, to stand for fair play and Justice, regardless of European poli- tics, or any other consideration.” On l!‘n’ oth_er hand, the Indianapolis News (independent) considers that our attitude makes it harder, for: Tf this country were a member of the league and the mandate principle rightly applied and honestly lived up to, a_mandate over this island to Japan or any other power would, in- deed, be equivalent to international control. since the mandate would act simply as representative nd agent of the league of nations, and with full responsibility toward As to the outcome of the discussion there are few who see in it the dan- ger of serious eventualities. The Baltimore Sun (independent demo- cratic) makes the suggestion that possibly the powers, including Japnn.' “using Yap as a pawn to secure they desire in other instanc. our presenc in the league, but, it adds, the Colby note has made it clear that we do not | intend to be “deprived of our inter- | since, “but for the Germany might now issuing mandates for _French, | British and Italian territory.” Justice is on our side, too, the Mobile Register (democratic) points out, “and world sentiment will un- doubtedly support us; Great Britain | must change her attitude and Japan | can execute another of those dip- lomatic retreats for which she is be- coming famous." ‘The Portland Oregonian (inde- pendent republican) is most op- timistic and not only refuses to be- lieve that a erious quarrel” will resuilt, but predicts that perhaps the affair may become “the peg on which the perfected league of nations at which President Harding aims hang.” Let Us Forgi;:bnr Debtors. Shall we cancel our European al- | debt of ten billion dollars, or extent? This question is being ans, becayse it is one which affects hem’ vitally. It all depends upon view. If America went into the war “to ve democracy, America’s mo- tives were altruistic and not merce. | if America is not a country with | h insensibilitie s not a vampire who soeks dollars—if Amer- ican boys went to France and Italy to prevent the Teuton horde from crossing the Atlantic—then no other answer—wipe away the! debt! Howev the point of there i r. it America really be-| Jieves she did her part in sending to Europe millions ©f men, suffering 300,000 casualties, and incurring a net | war debt of about fifteen billions— | then there is no gainsaying that the debt of Europe should be paid. But then, let us not complain if we los {our markets, if Europe dumps her goods at low prices at our ports, if we suffer an industrial depression costing us_vastly more than fifteen CATARRHAL JELLY FOR C day. 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