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THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. GATURDAY. April 2, 1921 THEODORE W. NOYES. ..Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Busises: Office, 11th St. and Pennsrivania Ave. New York Office: 130 Nassau St. Office: First National Bank Ruilding. ¥ aropean Office: 3 Regent St., London. England. The Eveniog Star, with the Sundas morning edition, is delivered by carriers within the city &t @0 cents per month: daily only, 45 cents per month: Stnday only, 20 cents per month. Or- ders may be sent by mail, or telephone Main 5000. Collection is made by carriers at thel end of each month. Rate P7 Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday. .1 yr.. $3.40: 1 m- Daily only 1yr., $6.00. | mo Sunday only T1yr. $2.400 Lwo All Other States. Datly and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo . Daily only . J1yr. $7.00: 1 mo Sunday only llyr., $3.000 1mo Cuba and American Control. Befare by their squabbles the Cubans | jovite us into their country again to take charge, they would do well to| consider two things deeply. | (1) 1f we should go in it would not | be an ecasy matter to withdraw.| Political rows that take an extreme | form are not easily composed. The | effect sometimes continues for years. | The Cubans are warm in their friend- and equally warm in their enmiti iy take their politics the government the country has been brought back strictly to a peace basis. But there is another aspect of the case. In all likelihood a general elec- tion will occur in Great Britain this year, and the ministry ‘does not care to take a hand in labor disputes for political reasons. Premier Lloyd George is in for the fight of his life, and it is probable that he is taking no chances. Suggestions have already been made that he will endeavor to win the sup- port of the labor Interests for his coalition, and if this is true the pres- ent abstention may be interpreted as a move in that game. Complete suspension of the British coal mines is bound to have a serious effect upon the shipping interests, for the greater part of the coal mined is for ship-stoking and export. A slow- ing up of all other industries is likely British manufactures will soon be af- fected. It is hardly likely that this strike can continue long, as the in- dustrial situation in England is so delicate that a complete stoppage of so important a line of production is cer | tain to cause serious trouble and enor. | is played on the grounds in summer | mous losses. The government may eventually be forced to intervene. Russian Revolts. Certain figures have been published Paris accredited to official soviet 1ecords from which they have been ob- tained, which if authentic throw light upon the recent apparent recantation by Lenin of his ultra-communistic in see pennants and those who can see nothing but cellar championships. Base ball exerts a strange grip on mankind. No matter how great the 1 excitement abroad or at home in the field of politics or industry or social unrest, the base ball pages draw the eye. Foreign ministries dissolve, rad- ical reactions occur, new wars are started, strikes develop, and yet the way a promising rookie is performing on the training field remains an item of the utmost importance. How i!l the arm of the speed king fhis year? | . Has that crack outfielder's game knee | regained its strength? Are the digits jof the nimble second baseman up to last season's mark in sureness and agility? Are the batting “lamps” of the favorite slugger burning as bright- ly as ever? These are the real ques- tions of the da These are the topics that enliven conversation, even in se- rious-minded circles. i The truth is that base ball is the American public’s safety vent. It is the diversion that keeps life from be- {coming too tense. Whether the game smirched with scandal or purged of | question, it remains the people’'s fa- ivorite. Only a few days hence and! the umpires will give the signal for .another great race, with everybody hoping that the bunting will come the lway of his particular town. I ¢ Mexico and Capital. inr in print in winter, whether it is{ ! principles. During the past six months,| A press report gives an account of it is stated, 114 revolts have occurred a call made by some New Orleans busi- WASHINGTON. Editorial Ifigest Diamonds and School Teachers. The statement of Commissioner Claxton of the federal bureau of edu- cation that “in all our history we have spent only $16.645,000,000 for education.” while in 1920 alone “the bill for luxuries of ull kinds was $22,- 700,000,000,” scores at least to the ex- tent of calling forth expressions ot shocked surprise from the press. To many it is “a rude awakening.” as one paper puts it, from our usual at- titude of complaisance over our edu- cational standards. A few writers criticize the statistical comparisons as unfair or irrelevant, but on tne whole the feeling is that the commis- sioner h, pointed out conditions about which “something ought to be done.™ The Pictsburgh Leadir (progressive P republican) believes that “the com- missioner of education Iz doing a magnificent rervice," even though “it may hurt our pride to be told raw facts in a raw way One of the Kreat American “illusions.” according to the Leader. is the claim that “ed- ucation I8 more diffused. more gen- ral. more popular in the United tes thon anywhere else in the world. w the illugion is shat- tered by (he cold figures in which Commissioner Claxton Illustrates “the difference between What we say we believe about education and*what we actually do to prove what we belleve.” These figures convince the Wheeling intelligencer (republican) that “from a financial standpoint education In the { United States is a minor matter.” The “illusion” is apparentiy ‘strong- er in the large cities, where public- #chool systems are highly developed, -since representative newspapers in our two great cities come strongly to the defense of our educational stand- ards. The Chicago News (independent) comments on Mr. Claxton's cfforts “to D. C, SATURDAY, APRIL 9 1921—-PART 1. Snap CHAS. E. MILLER, Inc. Formeriy Miller Bros.” Auto 8 1y Hi . 812 14th St.. 4 Doors North of H St. HOTEL MARYLAND | Under New Management ANN AP(DLI!,. MARYLAND 'UNION SAVINGS BANK OLDEST SAVINGS 1 BANK IN WASHINGTON | wELcoMES Your accouxe | | Kuropean pian. Rooms $1.50 A la Carte and Table 4'Hote Service - 110 14TH ST. N.W. Spacions Dining Rooms Grill, Cafeteria Excellent w0 wnosiat'ons for motor parties, clubs and bangquets. Spring Chicken, Sea Food and Planked Steak Dinners ! a Specialty | PRICES REASONABLE. L B Leader! Among the many new COAL Consolidation Coal Co.’s Georges and Jenner Soft Coal, $9 Per Ton Philacelphia and Reading Anthracite Coal All Sizes Immediate Delivery My Lowest CASH Prices Will Save You Money See Me Before Ordering aNsunw. J, Edw. Chapman North s When you would dine as you would in Buenos Alres, Prices Lowest Now The Restaurant Distinctive Exquisite Food, Courteous Service and Charming Surroundings Make of a Dinner or Luncheon at The Madrillon an Affair of Unusual Satisfaction. dissipate what he calls the great American delusion” and grants that his comparisons are astonishing. But. seriously and intensely. Hence such a Habana or Madrid, Tele- row as now exists among them is full 1in central Russia, 249 anti-bolshevist 'ness men now visiting in Mexico on styles we are showing : I plots have been discovered. 4,300 peo- ! President Obregon Tuesday. Thelr : Main 21 f dynamite, and needs to be handled ¥ it adds. “still the fact remains that : ) e hone Main 23 for Re- = ::“:"]" iR e | ple have been executed and 29,000 im- Presence in the country is probably | Americans pay more for education in women’s pumps is a P X S ! s - .| prisoned. This, it will be remarked, is for the purpose of investigating condi- | #nd research than other people | servation. (2) While we remained, and particu- ! larly if we should stay for good, Cuba | would not be the Cuba of today. The, island is now a paradise for pleasure | and sports. It is wide open. Every-| thing goes. The population is largely | increased for months by the influx of | people from near countries who lean to high and g only for the last half year. A full tions, with a view of establishing record of all revolts, plots, executions | trade, or extending trade already and imprisonments during the entire | established. period of bolshevik regime would prob-| In some remarks to the visitors ably present a total making the French | President Obfegon said that *“Mexico revolution seem like a harmless family | offers the best opportunities and ad- this country and other| row in comparison. There is no reason to doubt these | figures, though they may not be spe- !vantages to North American business | men,” and assured them that the gov- {ernment would “strive to extend guar- on the face of the earth.’ And to the New York World (democratic) “the more suggestive thing." even in the face “of the showing that the Amer- ican people spent $22,000,000,000 for luxuries last year,” is the fact that “they have spent an average of $250.- 000,000 annually for fifty years on Institutions of learning.” That r ord, the World maintains, shows prodigious expenditure for education’ which ‘no other country can match.” But the answer of the Cleveland two-strap model in rich brown calfskin with Cu- ban heel at RESTAURANT. MADRILLON Women’s Shoes 1304.G Street 3d Floor $11.00 iving. 4 ¢ gambling are fres living ¥ Al forms of gamhling Plain Dealer (independent demo- cratic) to this position is that “a nation which can afford to spend $22,700,000.000 for luxuries in a sin- gle year can afford to be far more liberal than America is in supporting pudlic education.” The Pittsbur<h Sun (democratic) urges that the plain inference from the commissioner's | figures is that “edueation, the best | investment in the world,” is “on the counter at bargain rates. {antees to all fair and honest men seek- ing legitimate profits on their money." This is to the point. Mexico needs capital for her development, and must |seek it in America. Europe is ex- | hausted. Moreover, America is near- by, and has a greater interest in the development of Mexico than Europe ! has, or ever will have. encouraged. and produce large rev- cifically correct. It is evident from enues. The revels are in progress unquestionable indications that the every day and night, and all day and |SoViet rule is maintained by force.| night. that'it is the object of constant attack The Cubans in charge of their af-|DY the people, who are held in sub- ! jection only by a tyranny exceeding District National Bank 1406 G Street. fairs are entitled. of eourse, to direct them according to their own mmu.l'h“‘ of the old regime. If the outsider does not care for the| l-«nin’s rule has been based, it would “ponies,” the cards, the rich liquors, | éem. on the principle of terrorism and and all the rest of it, he can stay away | [rightfulness. There has been no free from Cuba. But if America, even upon’| lection in Russia. The bolshevik or- Cuban invitation, should take charge, | §anization was sel-constituted and has affairs would have to bow to American | been self-perpetrated. It depends upon standards of life; and America is nod longer wide open. The Stars and Stripes does not fly anywhere over|Some of thé revolts have been in the | | the army for its maintenance. Now and then the army has weakened and There must of course be guarantees. Capital, both foreign and domestic, ;has been greatly harried for full ten years in Mexico, until outsiders, medi- tating investments, have come to look askance at the country. President @bregon also said: “Once such conditions as exist in that coun-| Military ranks. Only by making spe-| we are well known, you will see many try, and public sentiment would not permit an exception to be made of Cuba. ! The Indiana Senatorship. Whe next senatorial race in Indiana ! gwomtses to be one of exceptional spirit | and interest. Mr. New desires a sec-| ond term. Former Senator Beveridge | s mentioned as probably his opponent for the nomination. Both are strong| men. When a member of the Senate Mr. Beveridge ranked with the leaders| of that bedy. Mr. New ranks with them today. Although a recent entrant into national life, he 'has taken a conspicuous place there. In either man the republicans will have an at- tractive candidate. Can the demo- crats match him? Not with Thomas Taggart. Mr. Tag- gart has strength and popularity, but he was in last year's senatorial race, | and suffered the fate of all the other: democratic candidates in the state. He was overwhelmed. Mr. Watson was first, and Mr. Taggart nowhere. Then ‘with whom? This question is asked: What is the matter with Thomas R. Marshall? His *friends reply that ne is all right. Who ‘would make a better candidate, if so good? What democrat would shake down more easily or effectively in the| Senate? He would be perfectly ali home. He would be exceedingly Pop- | ular on both sides of the chamber. Could he be drafted? The idea is that he could. He likes politics. The court-| house cannot possess the attraction | for him it did before he had tasted of the pleasures of national life and 0!—& fice. He has been for more than a/ decade away from his profession, and | younger men are in the lead there now. So why not another try at politics? The adjuration follows: Keep your eye on Marshall. —_————— Astronomers who believe this earth is the only orb in the solar system in- habited by human beings at least seek to put some limitation on the fleld in which social and economic prob- lems may be developed. ——— Alex Bergman and Emma Goldman fmust by this time realize that dis- eatisfaction with government may be due as much to a state of mind as to Political environment. —_———— By this time Pancho Villa is doubt- Jess as busy trying to engage farm | bands as be used to be recruiting in- surgents. ——— ‘Wilhelm finds Germany proceeding on the theory that the world still meeds a woodchopper more than it Deeds & kaiser. t The British Coal Strike. ‘All reparts of the British coal strike, fnvalving 1,200,000 men, indicate a gquiet that is unusual in labor crises| in that country. The men simply quit work and went home. The pump men and engineers have stayed on the job in order to keep the mines free of ‘water. It appears that no negotiations are in progress, owing to the fact that the government has abolished control of the coal industry and now holds that the case lies strictly between the | the breeze, alibis have been strength-| you might call a mountebank?” clal concessions to the troops, grant- ing them exemptions and advantages, have the soviet lcaders contrived to hold a loyal force together. In the campaigns the soviet soldiers have been stimulated by promises of loot. Such a system cannot be continued indefinitely. It is bound to break down and when it does the bolshevik rule in Russia will collapse, for it is evi- dent that the people are heartily sick of the soviet. Lenin may placate them for a while by the remission of the ban against individual sales. But there are other tyrannies and afainst these there will be revoit, and some day the army will not be dependable for suppression. Frost and Fruit. Out in the valley of Virginia smudge pots have been used in the orchards to prevent the frosting of the fruit |buds, and it is believed that much fruit was saved in the early part of the week by this means. These smudge pots raise the temperature several de- grees, five being reported from Win- chester. Furthermore, the emission of dense smoke checks the formation of frost. The fires, furthermore, cause an upward draft which is unfavorable to the frost effect. As far as the killing of the fruit crops is concerned, it must be borne in mind that there is seldom a year in which blighting cold does not occur and yet the fruit is never wholly de- stroyed. Many farmers believe that so-called killing frosts really impfove the quality of the output, causing a thinning out of the buds and concen- tration on better fruit. There are never as many apples on an apple tree as there are Blossoms. 1f there were th. trees would break. In this connection it may be noted that what are known as bad fruit years occur when there are no particularly severe frosts and that relative crop failures must be at- tributed to other causes than cold. The chances are that this recent freeze has not heen as disastrous as was apprehended. The fruit crop is remarkably resilient. It comes to life many times after early spring “kills.” Later reports from the orchards will indicate the amount of damage that has been done, but for the present it is well to take comfort in the fact, based upon repeated history, that a “killed crop” is often the best. —_— It is regarded as powesible that Eugene Debs' future course of con- duct will be left to his own judgment. If experience is a good teacher, this should suffice. ———————— Freedom for prisoners whose of- fense is more or less political will con- tribute to the country’s man power and relieving governmental responsi- bilities for housing accommodations. —_—————— There are still sections of European population who while admitting that | an emperor is expensive insist that they must have one. Nearly Ready to Start. The “stove league” is winding up its season. During the past five months championships have been won and lost, pennants have been flung to miners and the owners. If this means|ened, records have been analyzed to complete government abstention from|the last possible degree. The great!ington Barnes. “But by this time his any efforts to settle the strike thelAmerican game has been played in-!enormous earnings should have made struggle may be protracted. ‘Throughout the war the British gov-| were cavorting and in some cases bob- | panker.” doors even while the teams themselves reasons for appreciating us.” The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Once there is evidence that a inew day has dawned in Mexico; that !Presldent Obregon has a firm hold on the situation; that his high personal character is being reflected in the ad- ministration of the country’'s affairs, whatever he requires or Mexico re- quires in the way of outside support jwill be forthcoming. The country {needs only orderly goyernment to be- come once again a very inviting field for investments. —_——— Assoclation of the name of William Howard Taft with possible appoint- ment to the United States Supreme Court has Ipng been a habit of thought which the American mind found agree- 'nhle. ——— If Lenin can arrange a sufficiently ilarge series of leases and concessions, a world interest both political and financial in Russian affairs will be assyred. ———— While M. Viviani does not declare gny intention of offering suggestions, he is presumably prepared to answer each and every proper question. —_— ‘The Berlin utilitarian seeks to util- ize even a communist disturbance as an argument against assuming the burden of indemnity. A remarkable April witnesses'a si- multaneous drop in the thermometer and the price of coal. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Diplomacy. Diplomacy combines with skill All phases of the mind and will. Sometimes it smiles, sometimes chides, It compliments, or it derides— It boldly utters what it thinks, It petrifies into a sphinx— In pride of precedent it stalks, In simple ways it humbly walks, | 1t leads into the ballroom gay, It bids the battle trumpet bray— But soon or late, whate'er its mood, The call of traffic will intrude. Diplomacy, as men contrive New plans by which they hope to thrive, 'Mid loud acclaim or breathless hush, Becomes a bargain counter rush. it Frigidity. “Did March go out like a lJamb?"” “Somewhat, if yoy mean lamb that has been in-cold stérage.” A Humble Confession. “What's your objettion to playing penny ante?”’ “I'm not up to it intellectually,” replied Blue Chip Bob. “I haven't the imagination necessary to make myself believe I'm playin’ a regular game.” The Leafy Springtime. ©Oh, what a lot of leaves one sees- ‘Whichever way he looks! They're coming out upon the tree: Likewise in numerous books. Important Extra Syllable. “Isn't & modern picture clown what “He used to be,” replied Mr. Storm- him what you might call & mounte. The Manchester Union (independent republican) draws the conclusion that the idea that “education is a luxury vill have to be abandomed.” If that were true ‘“the American people would be shoveling money into it, in- stead of handing it out begrudgingly,” since it is apparent that “that is their way with luxuries” The Los Ange- les” Express (independent) believes there Is no suggestion in Mr. Clax- ton's observations of a campaign against the use of luxuries.” Such a movement, It thinks. would be “worse than yseless, it would be foolish. But the inescupable answer is that a country which can easily afford luxu- ries in such vast amounts “cannot af- ford to pay niggardly, discouraging salaries to the teachers in its school- rooms or deny them adequate physical equipment for their work,” and it should, therefore. “loosen its purse strings to the call of its educational requirements.” Curtailing indulgence in luxuries would in no wise solve the school problem, the Columbia (8. C.) State (democratic) holds, and it is even “not certain that Americans enjoy too many.” In its opinion, “it is wide- spread ignorance that prevents mil- lions of them having the luxuries they ought to have” and if all “were educated as they should be there would be $10 for luxuries to one that is_now avatlable.” The Baltimore Sun (independent democratic) seems at a loss to read into the figures a promise of better- ment for the schools, since “it is un- likely that a means can be devised for diverting to sych uses the funds which now go for soda water movies, talcum powder and tobacco.” Possibly the way out of the diffi- culty, the Sloux City Tribune (inde- pendent) suggests, “is to list educa- tion as a luxury. The Dawes Commp—it.toe‘l Problem. The committee, with Charles G. Duwes of Chi 0 at its head, ap- pointed by President Harding to con- sider the problem of providing proper care for wounded and disabled ex- service men, will have power only to make recommendations, but in sub- mitting a practical and coherent plan it will take a long step toward cor- recting the present lamentable con- ditions. Ultimately adequate meas- ures of relief can be adopted only through action by Congress. Too little attention has been paid to the needs of the men physically impaired or Incapacitated. The sit- uation is rendered the more urgent because of unpreparedness to afford treatment for veterans of the war on the scale required. "As it is, even government hospital accommodations are lacking. Warning has been given by medical authorities that by 1924-25 an immense increase in the number of cases, especially of tuberculosis, among ex-service men is to be ex- pected, and provision must be made for them beforehand. It is to the men wounded, crippled and weakened by disease that the country owes first thought. and for their welfare and comfort that it should generously prepare. The scheme to give bonuses to millions of sound. healthy young fellows, to which the House slavishly assented, were better postponed indefinitely, It is a matter of very minor importance in any event compared with the press- ing necessity of caring, as their con- dition may require, for the thousand of men rendered helpless or incapabl. after service in the Army and Navy. —New York World (democratic). Returning German Property. Early return to rightful owners of German property seized by the Unit- ed States as a war measure is to be attempted by Col. Thomas W. Miller, allen property custodian. The custo- dian considers that many of the con- cerns, which employ large numbers of American workers, ought to be released as a stimulus to business, He also belleves that the American spirit of fairness to individuals, Ger- mans_as well, should prevail. 'Much seized enemy property has been re- turned since the signing of the armi- stice, but vast amounts are yet rep- resentod by businesses under the gov- ernment's control. It is believed the values now extend into hundreds of millions of dollars. The return of alien property will depend, it is explained, on the man- ner of treatment by Berlin of Amer- foan claims against the German gov- ernment. Americans who lost rela- tives in the sinking of the Lusitania and others whose property was de- stroyed or damaged in Germany dur- ing the war are first to be satisfied by payment of the claime, which the United States government has recog- nized. 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