Evening Star Newspaper, April 3, 1921, Page 44

rg ™ FHE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Editfon. “WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY..........April 3, 192 tion. 1 | The traffic rules should be put in the I hands of every person in the District who is licensed to drive a vehicle. Pub- lic notice is, of course, legal, but it THEODORE W. NOYES. . . . Editor copies of the new rules printed, some | guns for criminal purposes. This can motorists will remain without informa- | be done by stipulating that no deadly This is an unfortunate situation.|given to a person who does not pos- oy T Y THE SUNDAY POLITICS AT HOME weapon shall be sold, exghanged or sess a permit issued by a competent public authority after due application Complimenting Secretary Hughes has been made for the same. That = on hig ‘organization of his office, and 'AR, WASHINGTON, D will stop the Intoxicated person, crim- congratulating the country on what it The Evening Star Newspaper Company Chicago Office: First National Bank Building. European Office; 3 Regent St., Londou, England. The Evening Star, the Sunday moraing wdition, fs delivered by carriers within the city at 80 cents per month: daily ooly, 45 cents per} month: Sunday only, 20 cents per month. Or- ders may be sent {, ‘mail, or telephone Main 8000. Collection is made by carriers at the eud of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. and Daily on Sunday Daily and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 85c : Daily only ... "1”, $7.00: 1 mo., 60¢ . $3.0 25¢ - A'States Exposition Here. Plans for the establishment of a true | conditions. | tient with drivers to make them un- does not suffice. Printing the regula- | inal-minded or the insane from getting tions in their present form in sufficient number to give every licensee a copy ! would cost a very large sum. But a condensed version of the .rules could be prepared and printed officially in convenient form that would cost much less and would be, in fact, more effec- tive. The pglice are under orders to go slow about making arrests under the new rules. It is well to give the motor- st a chance to adjust to the changed The traffic officers should. and probably will, be particularly pa- i i derstand. For perhaps a week the motorists of the city should be con- sidered as under instruction. Then the penalties should be applied, to make sure of full public appreciation of the fact that these rules are made for ob- national exposition in the District are to be considered by a meeting of cit- izens to be held Wednesday evening next. The project contemplates the construction of a S of state build- ings on a suitable site within con- venient access of the city. This enter-} prise was inaugurated eight years ago and but for the war would probably have been carried to the point of ex-| -ution ere now. There was then a high degree of enthusiasm for it on servance and not avoidance—for the benefit and protection of all. 2 | foretells for the public service, the pistols in a hurry. It will interpose; a barrier of time between a criminal Syracyse, N. Y., Post-Standard says: oung men who enter the consular purpose and the obtaining of a gun.lor diplomatic service may h(}pbhlo < . o in.|Tise to places of importance if they OF course, some people of criminal in-| T the capacity. The diplomatie tent may get such permits, but the law, as proposed, will bar most them_ in this jurisdiction. Under such a Jaw it will still be pos- sible for persons who want weapons for purposes of sport or training in marksmanship to obtain them. They will simply have to go through a for-| mality of application and endure a} ervice may be chosen as a profession by’ the college man ‘who upon exam- ination shows equipment for it, and the office of ambassador is not beyond his reach if he has the stuff in him. Under Root th vstem of training men in diplomacy was established, but under Bryan it suffered. Bryan was too concerned about taking care of the cronies who had been good to him in hix various candidacies for the sidency. We are going to restore of slight delay. There will be no hard SR R e ship in waiting two or three da r rivals in any pean legation. ced the { Ameri whe {the most harm Mr. Hughes fully deserves the com- | pliment paid him. He has started well, and the great success that marked his while the application is being consid- ered, and the character of the appli- cant investigated. There is no con- ceivable need of haste in such cases. Nor, indeed. is there any likelihood of delay working harm in any case. The ally in Latin n policy did Surplus and Schools. The District Commissioners have strongly indorsed the proposition of using the surplus District revenues! on the half-and-half basis.for the pur- pose of building the needed new schools. This was the plan proposed by the Senate at the last session of the part of representatives of theicongress, but dropped in conference states and now there IS a mOrefynger opposition from the House of emphatic feefing than ever that 'heichresenmti\'es. It is the most busi- states should be symbolized in Some i esglike and equitable method of pro- distinctive practical manner here at viding funds for extraordinary pur- the capital. ! poses. American participation in the great| ppe pistrict revenues now in the war brought about a pronounced real- | Treagury awaiting appropriation | ization of Washington as the National Capital. Evervthing centered here. The city was thronged with people amount to about $4,509,000. All of! | this money was collectéd on the half- {and-half basis. That is to say, every 5 : _._|course in the other important posts he san ‘: 0 wants a gun in a hurry i8|pas filed will doubtless mark his almost invariably the man who is|course in the important post he is now 0Ing to do harm With it maliciously, | gjing. criminally. That is the man whom it is proposed to check by the law Which | the people of the District now hope to ! plained of him. They seemed to feel see enacted at the extra session of | he was neglecting them, when, as was Congress. — {given out by those intimately in the know, “he had but few places at his us, written all there is to say of spring. command. The majority of the places, To many of the ordinars run of meq |41 41l of the most important ones, and women it even seems that thes | Were filled from the White House. have written overmuch. Not that, to| °SiP Bave this as one of the rea- Jim and Jane, two wholly normal mat. 008 for Mr. Bryan's retirement from ter-of-fact, common-or-garde variety | Ofice. His mind did- not “go along” of humans, spring is not all and more | Vit that of his chief in the matter than any poet ever claimed therefor. |Of the division of the spoil. His chiet But to them spring s something to be | €2imed too much, while he, with a sensed and not spoken of. They reet |JAFRe and expectant and insistent fol- But why be unjust to Mr. Bryan? he Post-Standard is unjust. Mr. Bryan as Secretary of State dispensed very little patronage. His friends com- Cherry Blooms and Paths. Poets have, in the minds of most of similarly, though perhaps with varia- lowing, had next to nothing to bestow. from all parts of the country engaged in war work” As never before national attention centers upon the District. Thus the sentiment for the creation here of typical and representative dollar of it was raised by taxation on District property on the assumption that it would be expended, together with an equal amount of United States tions of intensity, as concerning good| Since it is the day of confessions by music and moonlight and chocolate | MEANS of beoks and pamphlets and all nut sundaes. To them ecstasy is an | that. What a reception would be ac- money under the organic act of 1878. state structures has increased since the project was first proposed. Under the plan generally outlined ; the cost to each of the forty-eight states will be relatively small. It is not proposed to cover an immense area ‘with gigantic structures, but to as- semble effectively a group of build- ings, each definitely characteristic of the state it represents. In each of these buildings will be an exhibit of the products of the state, so arranged as to demonstrate vividly the resources of the commonwealth. each building can be constructed out Since this money accumulated Con- gress has changed the ratio of Dis- trict-federal contribution to the cap- ital municipality’s maintenance from 50-50 to 60-40. This change, however, does not equitably affect the surplus, which exists because Congress failed to carry out the law regarding Dis- trict maintenance. It would be bad business to borrow money for extraordinary uses as long as this fund is lying idle in the Treas- ury awaiting use. It is District money, 1t may be that | collected for the purpose of doing Dis. |it seems that the cherry trees con- trict work in company with federal of characteristic materials of native|money to an equal amount. It canmot emotion, and they do not ('un\'(-rne“'”rd“d a book by Mr. Bryan giving very freely of emotions. lhis experiences Secretary of State, To them has come, however, the|and particularly his reasons for giving gladness that is the heritage of the|UP the office! Curiosity on that point season. They take it calmly, but are| !4 always been, and still is, very better therefor. They have been walk. | Keen: ing recently in Potomac Park. There | are robins in the new grass; the shruM' are budding, and the cherry trees are abloom. Singly and in groups, but mostly by couples they have been walk- | ing—not talking very much, but feel- ing. There is no lovelier city in the world than Washington in spring. To many Politics and Journalism. « Referring correspondents the other day to the head of one of the depart- ments for some information, the Pres- ident added, “And it's a pretty good | story.” | There spoke the former editor of | the Marion Star. The word “story identified him. He knew the value of (lhe news sought, and conveyed it to tribute perhaps the fullest quota to- ward that proud fact. This year thou- production. Possibly the designs, if co-ordinated with reference to the har- mony of the general scheme, may be also characteristic. No other nation has an opportunity to make such a striking display as that which is proposed. The enormous range of this country, the wide differ*|;, ences of climate, the variations of in- dustries all make for a remarkable pic- ture of an unsurpassed, unapproached empire. Visitors from abroad wit- messing such an exposition would gain a better grasp of the true meaning of the United States than by travel, such as the average tourist cannot possibly make through the states. To many Americans, too—in fact. to most of them—a display of state resources within the compass of a few score of acres would be a revelation. The educational value of such an all- states exposition would be incalculable. The value to the states themselves ‘would be great. The. value to Wash- ington would obviously be consider- able. But the enterprise shoyld be| placed and kept upon the bdsis of state Initiative. It should be a state project, not local. At the meeting Wednesday night representatives of the staté so- cicties that have been organized in this city will attend and the hope is that through them the plan may be brought to the point of practical de- velopment. Brighter Street Lights. Experiment with a new gas mantle which it is expected will give better illumination in the gasilit streets of ‘Washington may solve the problem of brightening the capital's thorough- fares. This new mantle, it is stated, has a strength of over 150 candle- power, whereas the mantle now used has only about sixty. In other words, the new lamp is about two and one-ione's part in helping the helpless of|S! Simlin round the landscape looks half times as bright as the old. This | the community family. And, by that|And never turns to maps or books. will assuredly help some in the dark ;fact, they should serve to inapire many | He has a most sagacious air, streets. And meanwhile the Commis-| of the city who today need only some|As he predicts with proper care sioners should consider the advisability | slight impetus to awaken to a fyl1 | Most anything you want to know of replacing the frosted electric lamp | conception of their duty toward their|Of Warm or cold or rain or snow. slobes with plain glass, “or perhaps!less fortunate fellows. Too many of | Each day you find him going strong; balf frosted globes to insure the throw-{ us—and Washington is no worse than | Sometimes he's right; sometimes he ing of the full power of the light upon be used for any other than District |sands have enjoyed them. Because purposes and it cannot equitably be|they may best be enjayed afoot, many used for any purpose save on the half-{of those thousands have been follow- {his' inquisitors iterm. in the professional Mr. Blaine, when in Congress, and and-half basis. The new schools are needed. The school system is being choked to the point of inefficiency for lack of build- gs and teachers. The new appropria- tions act, which takes effect in July. does mot adequately provide for new construction. The hope is that an emergency law will be framed and passed, providing for new buildings out of this fund on the equitable basis. The Commissioners, it appears, are Pproposing to urge the adoption by. Con- gress of a building program on a com- prehensive scale, with the District sur- plus tax money as the financial founda- tion for the expenditure. This will be in line with local needs and local wishes. The Bequest of Mrs. Hurt. The bequest of -Mrs. Henry Hurt, widow of the street railway magnate, of $300,000 for the establishment and maintenance of a home for destitute and needy blind of Washington, is a very beautiful' gesture. The institu- tion, to be known as the Henry and Annie Hurt Home for the Blind, will fill a real and regrettable gap in the system charged with the business of caring for the unfortunates of the community. A considerable portion of the balance of Mrs. Hurt’s estate is left to be divided among certain ex-|The weather prophet sits on high isting charitable institutions of the{And takes a glance across the sky. District in which she and her husbnad | With scientific instruments took genuine interest during their|He fills his office—and invents lifetime. These bequests cannot but furnish|The workings of the atmosphere. cause for thoughtful reflection on the | The bulletins he brings along part of Washingtonians in general.| Are sometimes right and sometimes They speak of that full appreciation of the existing civic obligation to play other communities—have yet to attain the street. The frosting on the globes | to that vital interest in agencles en- that are in use in many of the treets | gaged in lending @ hand to the dis.| A MOrtals neath the starry sky absorbs a large percentage of the|tressed and despairing which prompts light. Full power illuminatien is neces- sary in every street in Washington, whether gas or electricity is used. ———— Along with the tariff comes the dis- cussion of post office appointments to confirm the impression that the coun- try is getting into action on tradi- tional lines. —_———— Unemployment problems will be more easily solved when applicants for occupation turn as naturally to a factory as to a motion picture studlo. Business is now trying to avoid monopolistic limitations and get back of “quick sales and small profits.” —_———— The New Traffic Rules. * With the new traffic regulations in force there are naturally many un- witting violations. The rules, though concrete and unstinted support. Mrs. Hurt's gift, splendid as it is in itself, will assume its chief beneficence in its example to the community. ——t——— Trotsky is evidently ready to see a state of affairs in Russia that will en- able him to get away from literature and open a ledger. —_———— ‘While not engaged in active hostil-|strict ideas; “there has been some ities, France and Germany can not yet | poetry that needed expurgation.” be regirded as at peace with each other. —— If a coal crisis must come, Great|promote literature?” Britain would probably rather have it in April than in November. Germany, proud as she is of her philosophers] declines to contemplate indemnity philosophically. Rifle Practice and Pistol Law. later in the State Department, dis- played this same quality in his rela- tions with news gatherers. He, too, had entered public life through the door of a newspaper office, and re- ing the footpaths. Newly renovated, those paths have contributed much to Jim and Jane. And because gratitude is an emotion, and, as has been said, those two are not overgarrulous as| . : 7 concerning their emotions, The Star, ini,‘a'md DS senae ofois s00d alaly, their bebalf, seeks now to extend to| T WOUld spur on a hunch of the kind as Mr. Harding has just done. Maj. Ridley their thanks for the de-: ToNa 303 b i velopment of the paths they have fol. 9" LAY Wau another man of this lowed in quiet wonder, and to Col. [ESEne e Ju - donnalion pkind. Sherrill their plea that that develop.| o0, “harpencd his sense of news; and, ment be continued. !in his communications when Secre. B — ttary of State, news values were al- ys apparent, and made the visits «f The American boys who tried to cap-| newspaper men profitable as well as ture Bergdoll have been released from | pleasurable. jail, where they were confined for un-| Another conspicuous case was that due assumption of authority. In view|of David B. Hill when he sat for New of recent events the German mind|York in the Senate. He had grad- should be prepared for leniency to-juated from newspaper work into the ward undue assumptions of authority. | law and politics without losing his —— sense of news values. It was always The psychological effect of a land-|both a profit and a pleasufe for a slide on civil service is now an inter-| news.gatherer to meet him. Seldom esting study in political science. willing to be quoted, he would yet go into subjects in a way to make them entirely clear to a newspaper caller, and send him away well equipped with matter for a ‘“Istory.” Mr. Hill distinguished himself both in the law and in politics. But nftn competent to give judgment, and qualified to speak of him from knowl- edge, have expressed the opinion that had he remained in journalism he might have advanced from a modest chair in Elmira to the chair of a lead- ing newspaper in New York city. ——————— The New York Patronage. The President goes to New York on the 19th instant, to deliver an ad- dress at the unveiling of the Bolivar statye. While in town, as report has No doubt Mr. Lansing realized be- fore he set to work that no author can hope to please everybody. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Prophecy. Devices new to make more clear wrong. republican leaders on the subject of | federal patronage, and how best to| distribute New York's portion. Almost from the beginning, New York patronage has “given its dis- pensers anxious hours, and brought to some of thpm embarrassments, and even disastérs. The history of the past half, century contains striking proof of the truth of this assertion. It was New York patronage that caused the split between Garfield and | Conkling, and which led up to the de- feat of Blaine in 1884. It was patron- age in large part that weakened Mr. Cleveland in the state in the campaign of 1888, and gave the state to Gen. Harrison. It was patronage in part that cost Mr. Wilson the state both in 1916 and last year. His banishing of ‘Tammany from the pie counter made that organization indifferent in the former year, and openly antagonistic in spots in the latter. New York politicians do not live by pie alone. But pastry is filling, and very palatable to them. They do busi- ness on a business basis. They play politics with zest and skill; and after a campaign the victors feel a deep, earnest longing for reward, and put in their claims promptly and con- fidently. ; This produces factionism, and fac- tionism that is sometimes fierce. The l wrong. The future to foresee must try. ‘We seck the hours of happiness, And yet prepare to shun distress ‘With erudition fortified, Or else in uninstructed pride— And each in life's eternal throng Is sometimes right and sometimes wrong. | i Genius and the Proprieties. “Dancing is the poetry of motion.” “Certainly,” replied the man of Literary Abundance. “You contend that motion pictures “Of course, I do,” replied the man- ager. “Look at the voluminous work of our accomplished press agent.” History’s Unlearned Lesson. A throne in danger doth abound, A thousand threats advance on it, And yet some one is always found APRIL 3, 1921-PART 2 Public Library Readers Asked to|HEARD AND SEEN/FIFT . menes wia - 300 | ReCcommend Books for Purchase Publication of the public libra- rian's list of the fifteen best books of 1920 raises the gquestion of “What makes a best book?" Dr. Bowerman was asked his basis.of selection. “Principles of book selection,” he * said, “have been made the subject of much thought and discussion in dibrary circles. Obviously ‘best' can be no hard and fast term, since the best book for the scholar will not be the best for the popular reader and all valuation wmust vary with the background of the individual reader. “Libraries,” said Dr. Bowerman, “must make their book funds go as far as possible. These funds are never adequate to the demand. and this is especially true in these days of high prices. when all the best biographies cost from $5 to $10 and travel, sociology and other books of information range in price fro:a $3 to $5. It becomes necessary, under the circum- stances. for the librarian to scru- tinize most carefully each book to determine whether it is the best addition he can make to the collec- tion.” There are, it was stated, specific tests for the selection of different classes of books, and these points are taken into consideration in the purchase of books for the Public Library. * % % % According to Dr. Bowerman, the most cursory examination of a vol- ume determines certain points; the author, of whose standing the li- brarian is trained to know some- thing; the publisher—certain pub- lishers have fine reputations for particular classes of books: the date of publication, a most impor- tant item in scientific, historical or economic studies. The matter of print, plates, illustrations, charts, maps, indexes, etc., can be noted almost at a glance gnd have their definite value in the rating of a book. Then follows a more detailed ex- amination which considers the au- thor's sources of information, his judicious handling of material and his style in presenting it. Definite outlines of the points to be con- sidered in_estimering books have been prepared by library authori- ties. The tests for ;popular science. for example, in use at the Public Library are as follo 1. Abstruse .(unduly technical) or Popular in treatment? - 2. How authoritative: standing of author. Is he unprejudiced? Does he use the scientific method? 3. Ground covered. 4. Presentation: Logica!l Thor- ough? ~ Accurate? Stimulating? Does it awaken desire to see and investigate for oneself or to read more on subject? f 5. Style: Readable? Spirited? Literary quality? 6. Make-up of book: Illustra- tions, bibliographies. reference. in- dex. 7. Date: If not a new book, is it 80 old as 1o be obsolete? §. Comparicon with other books on subject. * % Dr. Bowerman stated that books of information are more easily judged than works of the imagina tion, such as poeiry, drama, essays or fiction. For such books. tests were prepared for the use of the students of the New York State Library School by Mrs. 8. C. Fair- child. now a resident of Washing- ton. but at one time vice director of the school. These tests are as follows: 1. Does the work show any de- gree of creative power? g 2. Are its ideals of essentially human interest? X 3. Does it give the impression of spontaneity? 4. Is it marked by sincerity? 5. What degree of imaginative power does it show? 6. Does it approach perfection oF form? The whole matter of book selec- tion is one of great complexity and involves much careful thought. Tt represents one of the most helpful services that libraries perform, since the books that are issued from the press are legion and the average book reviews more or less unreliable. The librarian endeav- ors not to be too academic in his selections, and uses asea final test the que “Will this book render anybody any actual service in in- spiration. information or recrea- tion? Will it temnt the reader on 1o a better book on the same sub- ject?” Dr. Bowerman said that he wel- comes from readers recommend: tions of books for purchase. It i requested, however. in making such- recommendations that the library’s limitations of book funds and standards of selection be kept in mind. iy 5 WARNING IN U § . TRADE FIGURES American manufacturers and pro- ducers should study the foreign trade statistics compiled by the Signs of a Department of Commerce very carefully, because Slump. ey show warnings of a slump. This naturally will affect the men and women employed in produc- ing and manufacturing the goods for export. During the last century the United States has made giant strides in ex- port trade, especially during the last four years, and the United States has a wohderful future in commerce, but untoward conditions external to this country are forcing a decline that may be merely temporary, or that may mean a permanent readjust- ment. In 1920 the United States imported eighty-four times as much merchan- dise a8 100 years ago, and sold abroad 185 times as much domestic mer- chandise, and the value of its total foreign commerce was 106 times that of 1820, according to M. de Richey Cain of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, who has been making a special study. This has meant a jump in imports from $62,- 585,724 to_$5,279,398,211; in exports from $43,671,894 to $8,080,818.455, and in total foreign trade from $127.560,- 106 to the stupendous aggregate of $13,508,157,959. The area of this country today is just about one and three-fourths times the area of a century ago, when Flor- ida was just being acquired. There were then twenty-seven states, with an area of 1,792,223 square miles. 5 & * % The warning of a foreign trade slump is found in an interpretation of the effect of Decline Due to rising prices on : 7 the export trade Falling Prices. o¢ (he United States by John Hohn, chief of the division of statistics, bureau of for- eign and domestic commerce. The gain in exports from this country during the first year after the war over the last year of the war, Mr. Hohn explains, was due to the press- ing demand of war-ridden European countries. for food meeded to sustain life untif'crops could be raised, and for raw materials essential to the re- establishment of their manufacturing industries. "Emphasis is placed on the fact that quantities have not increased any- thing like the gains shown in thei values. The rise in prices of com- of the exports as recorded since 1914. Exports fl:creuad in value about 219 per cent, but in quantity by only about 33 per cent in these years. Exports of foodstuffs in 1920 fell off $606,000,000 from 1919, largely in meat products and canned milk, which, with a drop in the exports of foodstuffs to Europe of $721.000.000, may be taken to mean that Burope was self-supporting in the food line, or was no longer willing or able to av American prices. The falling off in the export values of foodstuffs is more than offset by an increase of $641,000,000 in the ex- ports of finished manufactures in France and the United States. The Continental Congress did bor- row from Louis XVI the sum of 30.- 000,000 livres, or $6,324,688. However, this was paid back years ago. This is shown in a book written in 1582 by Raphael Bayley, then an em- ploye of the Treasury Department, from which the New York Times quotes, in view of the recent state- ment in the French chamber of depu- fies that “the United States now owes s money.” “Howover. there is also shown in the Bayley book.the interesting informa- tion that in addition to the amounts loaned us, France actually gave us an additional sum of 10.000,000 livres.| Also the Spanish government ‘gave (not loaned) us another million, which was transmitted through the French government, and its source 1920 over 1919. This large increase in last year's exports of manufactures is more especially gratifying from the fact that it consists of large duantities as well as values, and in- cludes a variety of products cover- ing many industries. For example, automobiles increased by 90,000 cars, goods increased by 136,000,000 yards, value of $86.000,000: knit goods, cloth- Y YEARS AGOIN* THE STAR. " | Dr. Harvey W. Wiley. the noted feod | expert, and Dr. Samuel Wilson, re-| tired minister, were discussing (!h‘ll times one day last week. and Thackeray and a set of pipes, pre- isénted to him by associates when he I resigned. There was a present worth while. Silver plaques and loving cups are all very well, but the best thing about such gifts is the fact that they assure the domors that they will be kept. Nobody eise would want them. But sets of Dickens and Thackeray, with a “set of pipes,” there is u royal gift. One does not need a pipe, much less a set of them. to conjure up the pic- of Han- | g, b . The question of the location of the Both the men are graduate: lepot of the Baltimore and Potgmac over College, near the Ohio river. raitroad wasd of 3 along which the minister spent his|poirong Seopion paramount impor- carly years. tance to Washing- . remember the great floods of *§2.| 0N the Avenue. . 4r o eara '§3 and '$4," eaid Dr. Wilson. “Dur-{,co At firgt it was proposed fo place ing one of those floods we had 10 re- | 4" i of the Mall. Then it was olan- tire to the second floor, and then to |, "o o e® S L L O e ghesttiag oo, : In The Star of March 27. 1871, is a nefs We had to cook our food over the | jiey giving the first intimation of 1 {Erate” he recalled. “In the mornimg f Wl = { we would let down a bucker on ;.]l‘ = 4 rope to the milkman, who came in al me weeks ago agents of the Bal SKiff. {more and_ Potomac ruilroad visitad + Dr. Wiley smiled. | owners of the property located on the “That would he some excuse for| south side of Pennsylvania avenue, ex watering the milk,” he said. | tending from the corner of 6th ot e | west to include the fine iron-front buiid. # — !ing of Messrs. J. B. Bryan & Bro. and . with the most of them the bargai T like to think of Otto Praeger, for- | pith 116 most of them the Largaine X mer second assistant postmaster gen- | Hotel. belonging to Mr. (Gelston, is eral. getting those sets of Dickens|$30.000. but the price azreed upon for the other pieces of property. Moore's 1. Johnson, Campbell and Bryan, have not been made public, but the entire | aggregate will not be far from $230.000 It is understood that the Bryan prop- erty will be used by the Adams Express Company., amd on the other property there will be erected an iron-front build- ing of five stories in height, the upper portion for offices and the lower por- } tion as a passenger station, and as soon as the deeds are exoccuted the work will be commenced.” * * This proposed location of the sta- ture of the former second assistant! postmaster general coming home after tion caused a protest. In The Star » hard day's work at 1 new job. of March 29, 1871, e takes off his coat; lights up one o35 o .rar (hv;sb new pipes: makes a wry|{The Star Enters ;s"sm editorial as acce—for the pipe is broken in yet ollows: —and looks over his books. Remonstrance. .oqq. isw't it, that “Guess I'll try ‘Olive vist' thi 03 time e Saye Y Oliver Twist” this| i fighting the Baltimore and Ohio * irailroad for years to force it from 5 2 the Avenue to the city boundary, on Here's a story for the ladies: the general ground that runming Mrs. Smith meets Mrs. Jones, who is | wearing a new batiste waist. Mrs. | Smith does not observe the waist. | steam cars within the city limits was a4 nuisance, our city councils now {turn round and in a single night a | ‘You know." says Mrs. Smith, after|bill is rushed through both boards the conversation Inevitably runs to|giving the Baltimore and Potomis clothes, “I simply cannot stand ba-yroad the right to bring their steam tiste for waists. It looks so much :cars into the very heart of the city ) like underwear.” Next day Mrs. Jones again. the waist. Smith meets Mrs. This time she observes and to plant their depots and station house directly upon Pennsylvania avenue? Years ago, when the Balti- more and Ohio Railroad Company had “Such a beautiful waist,” she smiles. | their passenger station on the " Ave- I think batiste is so nice for waists. | So simple, you know." * * * Postmaster General Hays continues to surprise Washington with his “pep.” Not that the quality mentioned was unknown to the National Capital be- nue, in & much less conspicuous posi- tion, between 2d and 3rd streets, than that now conceded to the new com- pany, we all remember the outcry concerning the nuisance from the hacks and railroad business about the station, and the drawback to the growth of all that part of the city traversed by the cars. Eventual and after years of exertion by th city authorities. the railroad station ) fore Mr. Hays arrived. Nor that one |was driven back to New Jersey ave- is surprised to see the new head of the postal service exhibit such a quality. But the surprise comes with the original quality of the “pep” demon- strated by Mr. Hays. The way he greeted forty news- | paper men at the first strictly for- was an example. The newsgatherers were waiting jing and other cotton manufactures by | in the big antercom when the door another $43,000,000. Another encouraging feature in connection with the increases in the exports of manufactured goods in 1920 over 1919 is the fact that they apparently occurred in the trade with the non-manufacturing countries of the world that send. in exchange for the products of the United States, raw tropical origin and mostly of a nom- competitive nature creases of $237.000,000 each were to Canada and Cuba, and $76.000,000 to Mexico. increased $152,000,000. * * *x Tt 1s generally recognized that with the tremendous debts owed by Eu- rope to this i try, hich, ernment loans, are estimated to aggregate not less than $14,000,000,000, with the ex- change rate depreciated to a point ‘which seems to make further buying from the United States prohibitive, with declining imports, scarcity of { gold and strained credit faeilities, it wHI be impossible for exports from ¢ the United States to continue at their { present level, Mr. Hohn, who is the est government authority on the Subject, states positively. There has been a declining tend- ency shown in exports during the last year, he polnts out—the average r the first half of 1920 figures at $708.000,000, and for the last half $644.000,000. The rapid and steady decline of imports in recent months may be a serious feature in the sit- uation, Mr. Hohn warns the American business interests. * * % ‘Trade papers are full of rumors of cancellation of orders, moratoriums ahd congestion in foreign Canceled ports. There is no doubt that the goods represent- Orders. ¢q by the statistics have 1eft the United States and that can- cellations and difficulties of collect- ing for them occurred largely at the | modities since the war has been the! points of destination. These difficul- it, he will hear something from local | principal factor in raising the values| . . however, are bound to affect the future- foreign trade of this coun- try. In the facé of all this, it difficult to find any grounds for ar- guments against an inevitable slump in export trade, the government ex- pert says. % The reaction in domestic prices, as- cribed to be due to & buyers' strike on the part of the ultimate con- sumers, may have induced thé manu- facturers to sell to foreign buyers at the best prices obtainable, and the radical and general decline in whole- sale prices during the last half of 1920 may be the cause of exports keeping up and imports falling off. Forgetting the League. Great Britain's pact with Russia and now France's alliance with Po- land lead to the apprehension that these nations are not taking the league of nations as seriously as they did. Although the two powers are bound by agreement which pro- vides for the destinies of small na- tions and for nations which are dis- turbing elements in the world, yet each joins itself in further alliance in which mag lie the seeds of war. ia and Poland are potential ene- that hostilities between the e _at no time remote, even though they have just concluded a peace with each other. If Poland and Russia should fight, France, it is understood, is pledged to help Po- land, and is also under agreement to assist her in confirming her title to Upper Silesia. In such a war Great was for years kept a profound secret.| Britain, because of her alliance with Spain was not then at war with Eng- | France, could mot join with Russia, land. and because of her alliance with Rus- “All this amounts to but $1,906,500, 2 ' sia might not join with France. trifling sum as money is counted In|agreeing to work for Poland's sov- they have been published in full in ‘The Star, are unknown to many mo- torists. In the first place the old rules The District of Columbia Rifle As- soclation, while urging stringency in Who wants to take a chance on it! Jud Tunkins says he's glad enough ‘were not known to many because hun-|the matter of pistol regulation, asks| people don't actually have to be dis- dreds of new drivers had been licensed | that care be used in framing the pro-| covered dead to furnish first chapters in the last few months who had never | posed new law, 8o that it will not inter-| 1o the detective stories. been served with coples of the regu-|fere with the adequate practice and Lations. Furthermore, the new rules | instruction of youth in the handling were published thirty days ago, and|and use of firearms. There should be have been forgotten in the meantime|no difficulty on this score. by many. The Star has endeavored to|is asked is a law that will prohibit give the necessary information in the | the sale of deadly weapons to persons | ogy, Financial Conservatism. “Everything I touch turns to gold,” All that|remarked Midas, plaintively. “That may be all right for mythol- * replied the capitalist. “But most convenient form possible, print-| who are not licensed to obtain them.|there's no use of you trying to put ing yesterday a digest of the regula-| The purpose of the suggested statute|across any statement as strong as that aens. But even s0, with only 10,000)is to prevent persons from gettingleven in a prospectus.” > republicans of the state are not now unusually divided, nor are the divi- sions unusually clamorous. But, the situation is such as calls for careful handling, and Mr. Harding is said to be giving it the attention it deserves by reason of the importance of New York in the republican equation. ——— It appears that grain can be shipped fromy Argentina to New York cheaper than from some of the western states of the U. S. A. The farmer has to study the map of the world as well as his own corn field. | these days. But with compound in- terest foi nearly a hundred and fifty years it would amount to something by now. It has never been repaid. Payment has never been asked. “The French king left no doubt of the status of this subsidy. He wrote that ‘being willing to give the United States a new proof of his affection and friendship, he has been pleased to makg a present of’ the sums.” Probably the French people this day feel that, if they, in the long ago, could be so generous to the United States, when we were in our infancy. the United States could, at this time of the distress of France, glve, also, with an open hand, and not exact the war debt which France owes the United State: -Augusta (Ga.) Chron- icle (democratic). . ereignty over Upper Silesia France may find herself at odds with the | council of the league, which may de- | cide that Upper Silesia should belong to Germany. Thus it is perceived that European politics is gradually be- coming involved in a Wworse tangle than ever, and that the league of na- tions, which is designed to prevent just such conflicting alliances, is be- ing isregarded. The farther the na- tions deviate from allegiance to the league the wiser do the provisions of the league appear. It is time for France and Great Britain to call a balt upon their miscellaneous agree- ments and lend. their influence to formulating a league policy which will operate to dissipate rather than to_heap together the causes for war. —Mobile Register (democratic). of the Postmaster General's office opened. A small man in a black suit stood in the doorway. Suddenly he shot his hands straight | pany above his head, holding them aloft, while @ =mile of welcome appeared on his face. It was the Postmaster General's way value® of nearly $150,000,000: cotton {mal conference he held with™ them |boundary. in | | company. nue, but still the evil was not rem- edied. The steam cars still came too near the heart of the city. presence of the railroad tracl ed to be a bar to. the gro: prosperity of all that part of the city traversed by them. Then fol- lowed the protracted wontest to force the company farther out toward the ich contest the city government by hastily made concessio and privi- leges granted to the railroad com- pany by previous councils. And up to this time the war of litigation has gone on in our courts to compel the | Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com- to relinquish just what we are conceding offhand to another We wish to encourage railroads and to aid in the develop- ment of new lines, but there is such now materials and foodstuffs, largely of |of telling them to come in, and it |a thing as granting privileges in this almost took some' of the more staid |free and easy way. as we have seen Probably very few of them knew that what the Postmaster General The largest in-|of the newspaper men off their feet. from past sad experience, that we may speedily have occasion to rue. Manifestly steam cars and rallroad Exports to South America { was doing was simply going through |depots have no more business on motions he learned at Wabash College | Peansylvania avenue than they would not so many years ago, when he gave the college vell CHA E. TRACEWELL. Baltimore street. in Baltimore: Philadelphia, York." on Chestnut Broadway, street, New or DIGEST OF FOREIGN PRESS TItaly’s Come-Back. There is no doubt that Italy, one of the bardest-hit nations in the world war, has “come back™ with astonish- ing speed since the beginning of the Giolitti ministry last summer. The Tempo of Rome explains some of the cess in the following article impression that Italy by a strong and positive government, inspiring confidence. All political per- sonalities who come to Italy and stay there for some time to study. the situ- ation are struck by the broad views, the audacity and the cohesion of the Giolitti ministry. There is no country in Europe which is not studying with the greatest interest the social legis- lation of Giolitii, of this man of seventy- eight years who is carrying out the most democratic and the most modern policy of the world, who is a master of viva- cious sagacity. of indefatigable energy. and marvelous moral uprighteousness. “At- home, too, the Italians, the greatest majority of them, turn to- ward him wjth devoted admiration. They criticizé him. They know that he was removed from power for a {long time while a furious contest was going _on above his head and while he was the object of inhuman hatred, and then called to power at last by a thousand voices and put at the head of the nation. He has no grudge against any one, no personal ani- mosity troubles his calm, no personal prejudice blinds him. On the con- trary, he asks his former adversaries to collaborate with him, he invites vouthful energy to unite with his sev- enty years' wisdom. “He remains the youngest and at the same time the most alert of all. He is guiding the wandering vessel of the state from the storm to the coast; he is endeavoring to find reme- dies for the consequences of the past; putting the present as much as possible into order, and is also work- ing feverishly for the future. is done with @ splendid loyalty to his collaborators, which recalls the an- cient Piedmont race at its best, with an indefatigable activity and im- mense patriotic ardor, and with a dig- nity which calls for the respect of every one and which surrounds him with a legendary prestige. “However, there is one place where there is doubt about these things; that is in the lobby of Montecitorio. “Some littlé while ago we said that Signor Giolitti had no antagonists nor successors. Do you imagine that the situation has changed? ~Not at all. These words have not been contra- dicted by our adversaries. But they complain of this state of things. They want to find 2 man, or men, to put in opposition to the enormous stature of that makes them fullof bitterness. ‘B‘?No." says the wtiter, “men will come in time, but not vet. They can- not come now. Signor Giolitti has a task to accomplish to its very end. The war liabilities have to be liqui- dated. The political ground must be cleared and cleaned up. National re- construction which Signor Giolitti has begun today must have its base. it ust develop and ripen. Signor Gio- litti alone can do this. “Later on—later on, there will be glory for every one. When the huge work of this old man is finished, then the impatient ones of today will be able to climb the Calvary of power. It may be said that Signor Giolitti is working for them. They ought to be grateful to him in the name of their little personal ambitions. “But for the present we need quiet. our fatherland's, It is our country's, Italy’s turn.” War's Legacy of Nerves. The trials of war time and the wor- ries of peace time have played havoc with the nerves of thousands of per- sons who never knew they possessed any until 1914, says the London Ex- reasons for the prime minister's Suc—; ! stead. “Signor Giolitti's policy gives the| s at last ruled | | press. Men who went through the war now talk about their nerves as their great-grandfathers used to talk about their gout, and women who have struggled for the past few years to make a treasury note go as far as a sovereign used to. knowing all the while it 1s worth less than half, now talk about their nerves instead of, about their servants. They have given up servants and suffer from nerves in- Both agoraphobia and claustro- phobia. widely prevalent in England. are forms of nmerves—not so commeon as the snappy-temper form of nerves, but more common than they used to be. Agoraphobia is the fear of open spaces, and claustrophobia the fear of confined places. The sufferer from agoraphobia may feel all right as long as he is riding in a motor-omnibus along the Strand or Piccadilly, but when he faces the prob. lem of crossing Hyde Park or Trafal-} far Square, he suddenly becomes afraid, and seizes the arm of a friend, or makes a detour rather than ven ture alone in the open. around in terror for the neargst dug. out and dives down a tube if hg sees one handy, or takes refuge in & tea- shop or a taxicab. Sufferers from claustrophobia, on the other hand, may become stricken with fear at the thought of entering a lift, or of traveling through a tunnel or of sitting in a room with the door! shut. Every one going down u coal mine for the first time experiences something of this feeling of oppres- sion, due to a sense of confinement. It seems as,though the millions of & tons of earth above are crushing one down. 1t is all due to nerves. Napoleon Centenary. On the centenary of his death, Na- poleon I will leave politics and enter into history. This is the aim of a committee which is organizing an am- bitious program under the patronage of the President of France, the pre- mier and the presidents of the senate and_the chamber. with Marshal Foch as honorary president. First of all, Napoleon exhibitions will be opened during the present month at Fon- tainebleau, Compiegne, Malmaison and Sevres. and will last until the end of September. Then, next month, there will be excursions to Corsica. the Isle of Elba, Waterloo and probably in the Rhineland, lecturers ~accompanyin the parties. A historic congress will be organized at the Societes Sevantes, at which the whole world is invited to take part in discussions on Napoleonic institutions and the civil code in par- ticular. On May 4 there will be a re- ligious ceremony at Notre Dame Ca thedral and a civil ceremony at the Sorbonne, and on the following day at the Arc de Triomphe a military dis- - Signor Glolitti. They cannot find them, | play will'be held, followed by a gath- ering at the Invalides, and a speech by Marshal Foch. At 6 o'clock on the same evening a salvo of one hun- dred guns will be fired. The great day will be wound up with a gala per- formance. Taking the view that Napoleon was' the greatest man of all time, and that the prestige of his glory remains im- mense, the committee would like other countries to be associated with his en- try into the serene sphere of histor: Spain has accepted the invitation and will send a delegation of twenty ‘per- sons. Germany has not invited. } but it is reported that several Ger- mans have sent subscriptions which have been politely returned. If au- thority is obtained there will be a public subscription, and the money obtained, as well as the s of the exhibitions, will go 1o Mme. Foch's funds for war orphans and widows. There will be a celebration at St. Helena, with which Great Brit- ain will be associated. A French battery with guns will go-to St Helena and will fire a salute at the same moment as the guns are boom- ing in Paris. It is hinted today that for the ceremony on the island Eng< war vessels. L land will perhaps lend one of her .’ . r