Evening Star Newspaper, April 7, 1921, Page 6

: \ EVENING ST 'AR, | some things have made the outside Edition. world dependent on us. Protection has had a signal triumph. JTHE ing @ state of unusual strain beneath the earth’s surface, and a volcanic ex- plosion of magnitude would not be at Editorial Digest THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1921 WASHINGTON, D. C THURSDAY.......April 7, Office, 1ith St. ‘-‘nd Pennsylvania Ave. ?h-. Tt Oce: 100 Nneex Wuildine. | health, and while it remains so should | ‘#ropean Office: 3 Regent St., London, En, be applied with the same frankness -4y @dition, s el $L.20 conim por mont: dai e Woath; Suaday only, 20 cents per m dors iay Do seat by maih. or ‘teiepione Main only, 43.cents per ‘% Maryland and Virginia. ) d Sunday. mfi ::lys.'f only * Boc $7.00; 1yr. $3.00; The Decision Which Is Ours. News dispatches from France—to the effect that that nation views with nouncements relative to the American treaty program—could not but be ex- pected. That the blow falling upon France and the rest of Europe, as a Tesult of the alleged decision of the administration to junk the treaty of Versailles, in so far as we are con- cerned, and to make a separate peace with Germany via the Knox resolu- tion, would be a heavy one was to have been foreseen. her other attributes as the gallant of the nations, is a splendid loser. So it is that she has smiled despite the; heaviness of the impending blow, and | do not win and the mines continue un- | ments of drama in large and small those who note only the surface have Judged that our action would matter little to her. The action of the United States, should it finally refuse to ratify the treaty of Versailles despite a readi- mess on the part of its recent allies to accept any reservation to its signa- ture, could mean but one thing to France and to Europe. It would mean that we, officially at least, regard the treaty upon which peace has been es- tablished in Europe as so inherently bad as to render impossible our be- eoming a party thereto under any cir- cumstances. And France and Europe, knowing that their hope for restora- tion and future security depend upon THEODORE W. NOYES. . . .Editor |a triumph the equal of it. — — The policy has not yet performed its ; while it has not the rhythm of “Old The Evening Star Newspaper Company | perfect work. It is still essential, wise- | Faithful, ~ #he Evening Star, with the Sunday morning| Of purpose as characterized its origi- Hivered by carriers within the ety [ nation and application under O | founders of the government. $55 | to empty them, and it costs enormous- e 1y grave concern the semf-official pro-| ditions. entangling foreign alliances, has had ! out definition of locality. however, is always a good guess, as, ly adjusted, to our national life and, concern. ———— Metropolitan Mysteries. New York police reports are giving i the novelists a hard run for their {money. Time was when the thriller the $000. Collection is made by carriers at the === = | Writers, the mystery mongers and the a8 of each month. Flooding the Mines. detective dopesters got their inspira- - A Trs Advancs The utter stupidity of the British | tion from the occasional items of crime coal miners in insisting upon. the jand confusion. But now the fictionists 70~ | Stoppage of the pumps in the collieries ;are in danger of losing their market. | °f stranger t is beyond understanding. When the | pumps are stopped the mines fill with water. It takes weeks, even months, The news is getting really than the story books. Take the case Just reported of the wealthy Mrs. Ran kins. Last Friday evening she, the Sometimes valuable machinery Xs‘wldmv of a highly prosperous pro- ruined. A flooded coiliery cannot be moter, stepped out of her limousine restored to productiveness in some |near the approach to the Queensboro cases for over half a year. These men are striking because|way entrance, leaving the chauffeur they want better pay and better con., waiting. Since then nothing has been They presumably want toiheard of her. Monday her family, work, but they are deliberately mk-}lhlnkflnx she was possibly the victim ing it impossible for themselves to of a robbery, notified the police. Now work for any pay in any conditions | Mrs. Rankine is being searched for for a long period. If they are aiming . high and low, and all sorts of theories to “‘socialize” the mines—which means |are being advaiced by the real, near to turn them over to joint workman and amateur “investigators of crime™ control—they are spoiling the very who swarm in the big city. property they seek to acquire. Ifthey| Then there was the Elwell case of should win the strike at every point they | nearly a year ago, not yet solved. That are winning a doubtful asset. If they was a seven-reel feature. Scarcely a France, with all { were to take over the mines flooded by | week passes without some sort of reason of their own conduct, they |fantastic crime or complication. The would have to pump them dry before j six million people comprising the big they could work them. And if they |town constitute all the possible ele- combinations. The blackhanders are no longer as flagrantly active as they once were, but Italian feud and black- mail murders are committed almost with regularity. Now that bootlegging has become a business with a certain class, a new type of crime has been evolved and the ramifications of -the criminal game are infinite. Whatever the opportunities and whatever the morals of headquarters, the lot of the New York policeman is speedy renewal of operation. If, of | not a happy one. He is up against a course, this strike is but a move in a | tough proposition. There is not a beat revolutionary game, a destructive en-|in that big town on which a veritable terprise, the flooding of the mines!dime novel tragedy may not develop can be regarded as a phase of the in-|at any time. sensate reaction. As an economic der private ownership and control the owners surely should not bear the cost of restoring them to working condi- tions and not count the cost as an item of maintenance in the wage reck- oning. A more inteiligent view of the mat- ter would surely call for the mainte- nance of the mines as potential work- ing plants throughout the struggle, so that whoever wins, whatever the out- come, the collieries are in shape for No national policy, with the ampuonfnll surprising. Indeed, such an erup- 1921 | of that of keeping ourselves free from | tion has been predicted, though with- Vesuvius, it 18 still a steadlly going bridge and it is believed entered a sub-; ‘Waning Fears of Red Germany. The American press is apparently beginning to lose its ability to “see red.” Of course, there are a number of writers who feel that Lenin and his agents aro brewing revolt in every country, but most commentators on the recent uprisings in Germany at- tribute them to independent causes or look upon them, in the words of the | New York Post (independent), as e | forts “in the nature of a forlorn hope {A few writers agree with French | publicists who declare the riots to be | “made in Berlin" as a part of a “bluff" i to fend off the bill-collectors, but most ! newspapers refuse this explanation and blame unrest and discontent due to economic conditions and the threat further disruption by invasion. The Chicago News (independent) s optimistic. It believes that communist riots in Germany are “foredoomed to failure.” “The red peril is not what it was a year ago. Kven radical lead- | ers amenable to reason realize now | that the remedies for the ills of hu-' {manity will be found in work, peace- ful commerce and justice tempered by conciliation and tact.” The idea of *'a sweeping revolutionar: i movement likely to gain control” of Ger- many is put aside by the Charleston {News and Courier (democratic) as im- | { probable; nor is the present outbreak a { “'deliberately staged affair,” but rather a ‘“temporary manifestation of German | desperation The Brooklyn Eagle (independent dem- | ocratic) can find “nothing definite’ to | surport the statement that *the Rus- sian communists, or at least the Mos- cow government,’ are seriously backing the German reds”: and the New York World (democratic), granting the possi- bili.y that the G an government has “‘secretly connived”” with the revolu- tionists as an excuse for deferring pay- ment of the indemnity, thinks “equally possible that the new radical | { explosions are a result of economic con- iditions and not the soviet gold Berlin | adyances as the cause. A number of writers doubt that there 1s food for bolshevism in Germany be- cause, as the Mobile Register (demo- cratic) puts it, “the German is a strict believer in private ownership of prop- | nd “it is not likely that he will { be led astray by specious argument and ! beguilement.” The Butte Miner (demo- | cratic) also mentions “German's nat- | ural antipathy to bolshevik vagaries, and declares that “everything Germanic is against bolshevism™: and the Pitts- burgh Sun (democratic) doubts that “the virus of anarchy gone far through the German veins.” The Man- chester Union (independent republican) considers that “there is obvious cause enough for discontent” in Germany to account for the uprisings without seek- ing “hidden springs”_in either Berlin or | Moscow. The Johnstown _Democrat | (democratic) lays the trouble to ‘re-, sentment” of the German people, which will increase “with the steady encroach- | ment of allied armies upon German i, s0il." - Admitting the range of Lenin's | propaganda in the past, the Buffalo Ex- | | press (independent republican) explains | that “it is true that the nervous excite- ment of the " put many people in} plaited back. CIAL— S Pennsylvania Avenue aks Interesting Specials in Boys’ Clothing We are highly favored in the circum- stances which permit our marking these values as we have—creating special fea- tures for Friday and Saturday— $15.00 Fancy Cheviot Suits, with TWO PAIRS of Knickcrbockers—Gray, Brown and Green Pencil Stripes and Mixtures— both pairs of pants full lined. Sizes 8 to 17 Blue Serge Suits, with TWO PAIRS of Knickerbocker Pants—all wool and fast color; Single-breasted, plaited front and back; Double-breasted, plain front and Sizes 8 to 18 years. SPE- enforcing the only treaty to which|move it is a blunder from which the the frame of mind “which makes them easy material for viclous conspirators to ——— e More Mail Robbery. years. SPECIAL— Germany has set her hand and seal,| miners themselves will be the chief knowing that at all costs they must | sufferers. cling thereto, cannot but wonder if the full effect of our contemplated action bhas been weighed by those responsible Conferences and Congress. There is no sign of a tame or brief therefor—whether they appreciate the session, but probably no previous effect of the blow they would deal. Congress ever assembled with the ‘The United States has not yet finally leaders of the two h Fefused to ratify a modified version of | srom personal coxferenees el oan the treaty of Versailles. The claim another's views about the business that it will do so is still held by many | o waseing attention. to be untrue. Knowing, as all know today, that we may make such res-lg,.; o committee, and Mr ervations as we will to our signature; knowin; Iater we shall have to take a stand one way or the other on every impor- Mr. Penrose, chairman of the Sanate Fordney, chairman of the ways and means com- . furthermore, that S00NeT OF | pyyireq, have repeatedly canvassed to- gether the ‘questions of taxation and tariff. Each understands the nnxprwldwottbetre-tylnquu-mf.w‘ . and the line he will tion, to many it seems almost impos- * sible that we should decide to discard the whole, leaving Europe indefinitely doubtful as to matters which should the wise course would to be to aeclaim those portions of the treaty in which we believe merit ‘exists (and they are many), to qualify our assent 10 thos® portions we deem “undesirable (@and they are few)—and to ratify. The truth as to our purpose, still oObscure, will shortly be made known. And though France knows that, what- ever that purpose may be, our friend- ship and sympathy are always hers, the assurance can carry but small joy under the circumstances. For France and Europe, sorely needing concrete Support in the struggle to carry out the treaty of Versailles, know what @epends upon our decision. So their , watching us, are very grave. -cannot but wonder, in contem- plating ourselves, if our own eyes were take when measures covering the two questions are reported. The one will have charge in the Benate, the other in the House. Por- ter favors the resolution, and will give it support in the House. Thhhultotho;wd\!tlounot argue that any of those measures will go through either house or both houses “like a blue stteak.” 'Naturally, there will be some sharp differences of opin- ion and some sharp debates on them. ‘The questions are of so much impor- tance they will provoke differences of opinion in assemblies composed in large part of lawyers and men trained in discussion. But it will make for both order and speed for the session to open with this state of case. No time need be con- sumed in jockeying for position, or groping for light on where this, that or the other man of importance in the contests stands. f German sentiment, in a less im- @0t graver did we—as they—appre.|P2assioned mood, now desires to efface ciate the full significance of the deci- |28 far as possible marks of destruc- slon which is ours. ——me——— +~ Jt.i8 evident that President Harding @ces not intend to be denied the privi- lege of enjoying a most beautiful and convenient golfing ground because it is accessible to all people. His knowl- edge of human nature is sufficiently accurate to assure him that no one will venture to intrude public business or personal politics on a man whose mind is for the moment centered on hitting the ball. —_— For those who cannot understand the astronomy involved in his theory of relativity, Dr. Einstein has some other ideas which will appeal with direct lucidity both to the mind and beart. ————e——— It is too much to hope that sugar will become cheap enough during the canning season to compensate for the high prices attendant on a frost-bit- ten fruit crop. ——— “The Genesis of Protection. On the eve of tariff legislation, which # to be fashioned on protection lines for . protection purposes, the press story of the genesis of the protection policy comes as something int resting and valuable. In enacting the first tariff law, July 4, 1789—observe the appropriateness of the day of the month—the Congress declared: “It is mecessary for the support of the government, for the discharge of debts of the United States and for the sbcouragement and protection of manufacturers that a duty be laid upon goods, wares and merchandise Imported.” ‘We started with protection, and for & definite purpose. The object was to bufld up the nation by making it in- dependent in the matter of producing sgencies. As far as possible, it was to be prepared to supply its own needs. ‘That object, in large part, has been attained. We have grown to be a STest producing nation. In many im- portant things we -are not only inde- Dpendent of the outside-world, but in tion in which her soldiery once pro- fessed to take so much audacious pride. {, There is naturally some surprise that so energetic a poet as D'Annunzio should have allowed so many books to beat his new history in getting to the market. * Many statesmen are still inclined to attach great importance to whether it is referred to as “the” league or “a” league. et e A large amount of the hostility be- tween Greeks and Turks is based on an instinct of hereditary aversion. l The coal bill has become an exceed- ingly important item in the affairs of the. British empire. / . Vesuvius Active Again. *Vesuv,” as they say in Naples, is again In active eruption, the most vio- lent that has occurred in fifteen years. No reports, however, indicate the like- lihood of a continuance or a serious development. The inhabitants of the villages on the slopes of the perennial troublemaker will probably continue where they are, with no move for safe- ty until an actual lava flow starts their way. That has been the case in all the eruptions of Vesuvius. The people have remained till the last, hoping that each day the danger would pass. Usually they have escaped, but some- times the volcano has been too quick for them. 4 ‘Vesuviue is one of the most active of the world’s volcanoes. Without going into ancient history it is suf- cient to note that it has been in ac- tion seven times in the last fifty-six years. These manifestations have not been regular, occurring in 1855, 1865, 1872, 1878, 1880, 1895 and 1908. Not all of these eruptions have been of a grave character, but they have served to show that Vesuvius is one of the most dependable of the earth’s vents. For some months past there have been--seismic - demonstrations indicat- More frontier stuff in Chicago. A little after noon five men parked a motor car in a vacant lot across the street from a railroad station and started to play a game of base ball. They kept it up for several hours. At 4:30 a mail truck backed up to the station loading platform. The men pulled revolvers, ran across the street. covered the mail truck attendants, transferred the registered mail sacks to their own machine, and in about a minute and a half were on their way. The car, later identified, had been stolen & week earlier. There is no clue to the robbers. 80 much mail has been stolen dur- ing the past few months that it would seem that one of Mr. Hays' most im- portant tasks is to arrange for a mili- tary guard at every point where val- uable postal matter is exposed. If this sort of thing keeps on it may be necessary to have the mail transported in armored cars with rapidfire guns installed. The mails must be made secure.: / Possibly one reason for the im- mense popularity of base ball is’ its demonstration of the American idea of co-ordination. A team has no chance at the pennant unless it co-ordinates. —_————— Occasionally the logic employed in the discussion of foreign relationship looks slightly like a case of entangle- ment on a small scale. —_———— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A Startling Sentiment. A man with a most determined air Said, “Let's get busy and get some- ‘where!” I said to him, “Oh, fearless man, You're starting a most surprising plan! Quite brief is the time you would al- low ‘When we set ourselves for a big pow- wow. “Don’t you know that you might get things in shape, Where they'd lackythe refinement of bright red tape? Oh, fearless man, I say to you, You'll have us looking for work to do If the motto to which we give our ‘care “Let's get busy and get some- ‘where.” Is, , Consistent Position. “Have you always been able to main- tain a consistent position in politics?” “There is one position,” replied Sen- ator Sorghum, “that I congratulate myself on having maintained very con- sistently, indeed. I have always may- aged to remain on the upper surface of a landslide.” Jud Tunkins says a man’s noblest and most philanthropic efforts often fail to attract as much attention among his friends as the fact that he has bought & new hat. Grasping an Idea. I sometimes fail to comprehend The language of some wise old friend— Appear the gainer. For dullness seems to be my lot— Yet of suspicion there's a jot That, after all, perhaps he's not A good explainer. Utllizing Space. “Can’t we go touring in our flivver?"” said Mrs. Chuggins. “All we’ll have to do is to put a kitchen in it.” ‘‘Well,” replied her husband, “I sup- pose a proposition ought to work both ways. Last winter you were advising me to keep the flivver in the kitchen.” Information First Hand. ‘““What's the hardest part of the work of a postmaster?” The man who was sorting mail paused long enough to reply: “Getting the job and holding on to .= ‘His knowledge makes him, in the end,.{Evenlng Sun. work with,” but adds that “that condi- tion of the people’s nerves is disappea ing as the war recedes farther into his tory.” The Boston Transcript (independent republican) is more willing to grant that the German trouble is at least partially a “home brew"” affair, and it remarks that “it will not perhaps be easy to convince the allied gov- ernments that Germany today stands in any real danger of the agents and aposties of bolshevism.” Part of the responsibility “lies with the Ebert | government,” says the New 107K it | (Iindependent), but Lenin, “the im- moral opportunist,” shares it. Less willing to give up fears of the red menace is the Cincinnatl Enquirer (democratic), which concedes thaz neither the German “imperialists nor isie will provide recruits for| but thinks the danger “may | “bolshevist agents are; SPECIAL— While scouting the idea that the ‘stolid, middle. Germans'™ who ! are in charge of affairs in Berlin would favor communism, the Cleve. land Plain Dealer (Independent demo- | cratic) cautions that “for all this! there is need of a Gustave Noske ori another like him to get actively and! immediately down to work.” Thei Gray, Bangor (Me.) Commercial _(inde- nendent) calls attention to the fact that “the reds have been gaining ! steadily in Germany of late” and adds that “very likely the recent out- break was put forth as a feeler by red leaders in the desire to see how | the people would react.” The Rich-| mond Item- (independent), while it | “takes It for granted” that “sovieti| money and its influence are respon- | sible,” concludes: “But once again it | has failed, as it has failed so often in its plots of late. Mr. Hughes Upholds the Treaty. If the United States were a signa- tory to the treaty of Versailles, Sec- retary Hughes' admirable note to the German government in respect to the payment of reparations would be a highly important definition of Amer- ican policy. Inasmuch as the United States is not a party to the treaty, the Hughes note can be nothing more than the expression of a plous hope that the Germans will be sensible and make some sort of settlement with the allics. That is not Mr. Hughes' fault. It is the fault of a false situation icreated by his party in the Senate. Mr. Hughes does not say and he could not be expected to say, because the United States has forfeited the right to express an official opinion. His task would be comparatively sim- ple if the treaty had been,ratified; for | the United States, seeking nothing | for itself, would be in a position to | determine_the issue according to its! merits. In the circumstances Mr.! Hughes is trying to preside over a! meeting at which the United States Sonate will not allow him to be pres- ent. ‘What shines forth clearly in the Hughes note, however, is the futility | of the pretense that the United States' can stand aside and refuse to concern | itself with the execution of the treaty | |of Versailles. Even in the matter of roparations, in which the United States has no demands of its own to enforce, the Harding administration | i compelled to recognize the fact that, ! no matter what the Senate may say | or do, this country is vitally concerned | in a just and equitable settlement, and that it cannot abandon the treaty of ! Versailles. It may do so technically and Con-l gress may adopt the Knox resolution { for a separate peace, but all the issues | of the war are still bound up in that! treaty; all that is recognizable in the | law of nations is still involved in the | | treaty, and there is no escape from it. | | —New York World (democratic). | Discards 9. SPECIAL— Chlldren, shut your eyes! Evening Dress at Othcar C Headline.—Buffalo Express. China_is away aheid nf tha Tnitas ' States, for she has recently opened a war on bandits.—kl raso e Some people manage to’ keep their meanness hidden, and some seek pub- lic office _or a divorce.— Baltimore Petrograd is developing factories for the manufacture of cloth out of old rags. Raw material ought to be! plentiful. Seattle Times. If the prodigal son had lived in the day of short skirts he wouldn't have become 80 excited over the fatted calf. —Seattle Post-Intelligence! Greek troops lately took Afioun- karashissar, which is not what you | probably think it is, but a city over| yonder somewhere.—Kansas City Star. Statesman: A man who resorts to solid geometry and a- study of the fourth dimension when required to add two and two.—Baltimore Sun. the boys know— A man who falls at selling used cars | either becomes a champeen horseshoe | | thrower or else goes to the legisla- ture.—Minneapolis Journal. A Chicago danc have invented the ::Inllnn);lm ? nlo.n;xln:nny. 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