Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1921, Page 6

e ————eee L THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1921 THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY. .April 19, 1821 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Bustiness Office. 11th St. and Pennsslvania Ave. New York Office: 150 Nassau St. Chicago Office: First National Rank Rnilding. Buropean Office: 3 Regent St., London, England. The Evening Star. with the Sunday morninz edition, in delivered by carriers within the city at 80 cents per month: daily only. 45 cents per month: Sunday only cents per month. Or- ders may be sent by mail, or telephone Main Collection is made by carriers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. L0 *50c ., 20¢ All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo. Daily only Sunday onl B The Reichsbank Reserves. Demand is made by the allied rep: arations commission that Germany de- posit at Coblenz or Cologne befor 1 the gold reserve of the reichsl as a guarantee of good faith. This gold reserve amounts to about 1.100.- 000,000 marks. The allies, putting no faith in Germany's promises. having no trust in unsecured notes. now de- mand collateral. German officials are quoted in the dispatches as declaring that the demand is “unacceptable to Germany under any circumstances.” The usual chorus of indignation arises from Berlin. The new move is denounced as a violation of the treaty tax revision and general tariff revision, [ 1921 is not to be curtailed. stands at are all full of matter leading to dis-| 4,543, and the total of $50,000 necded cussions of theories as well as of [for the year's work still lacks $7.000 practices. of completion. There are many new men in the| Why should this be? House, and some in the Senate. They [y 99 in every 100 of the citi are fresh from the people—elected only | of Washington lack interest utterly last November. They made vigorous ask of helping the truly help- appeals for support—promised a good ? Is it that the {many things. Redemption time has!so gener | now begun, and naturally in voting dren of Ircla they will want to give reasons forjand itussia, of A | votes cast. would conscious | Nor are the old members ‘likely to|upon mother: {be mute. It will be quite natural for jown city. n {them to find their voices, and give to ately as tho. | the proceedings the value of their ex-!erously re perience. Law making is familiar em- ! liberate, considéred respor | Ployment to them; and- they will want than 400,000 Washi {10 take a hand at this time in par-|thetic poverty and | ticular, when a new order is being|very elbows must be written down inaugurated, and a course laid by i which the country must steer for at| least four years. The session may be long. but, if so, its length will be justified. Haste often makes waste, and for several vears ve have had waste in appalling abun- dance. ——— TLe Rent Law Decision. i Is it that near and Chiz menia n of their! B! 1 of mere to These things cannot be true. The truc answer to the query as to the wherefore of the facts—and tiey are not pleasant facts as they stand to-| day, must be that @ vast majority of | Washingtonians have not un ood | that the appcal was addressed to them Dersonally—that they, as individuals, were asked to help an individual The decision of the Supreme Court| MOUET 0 baby who exists—who necds of the United States, upholding the| (N¢IT helb. Such ix the fact. The | District of Columbia rent act, .«-uk-s“;::";o.f:h:,.],?u:‘a: W standytof once and for all a question which, by | 1% 95 % Shame to the ity s still open. virtue of its importance to peoneetylfisa it o SRR | holders and lessees, has long agitated| | V¢ ¥ou done your share? Thej the community. Reversing the de. | S1StIon of being able to answer that | cisions of the Court of Appeals and “:li‘r:;‘ r"h S Ciad amimativetistn "? i the Supreme Court of the District, the s i | highest tribunal of the land has pro- e nounced the act in question, under Greece in Trouble. which tenants are permitted to remain A report has come from Athens that in pos ion of rented property at!in consequence of the collapse of the I | | { king, pa- b i former, Editorial Digest The Sales Tax. While discussion of the country’s foreign relations. despite the volumes they may fill. still remains to most | icans more or less of an un- ain problem. the majority still crees that there is nothing surer @n death and taxes, and the latter Kes a welcome topic for editors. <t now the sales tax is engaging of Congress and the nd enator Smoot’s bill for a 1 per cent on all | met with a good deal of e attention wspapers th newspap providin apiros Opinions differ largely on the que tion or not the consumer wil end of the new 2 ite’ views are ex- by the Fort Wayne News and (republican) and the Grand Press (independen I this 1 per cent. ould ba borne b much of it ufacturer and the manufacturers sell for less than a rdly have the monu- mental crust to add a cent to the | price of their product. They wonld simoly split the tax with the whole- 0 at that says the the con- would fall producer. | of Not sumer, ! on the man For exampis articies that doliar would ¥ calico-to-vou cloth from raw would be “sub: cotton t ted to nine to the stown plan Deno- declar heme for | ut of the e last e 0 by the ocratic). which that more devilish taking the last crumb mouth of hunger and off the back of nakedness w. v conceived in the brain of cunningz.” It has indeed “been seized upon the magic whereby the goose n be plucked without making squawk,” for: “It is everywhere urged by its pro- ponents that the sales tax wili add | Safeguard You; i-lealfili RoorLess ANCHOR Bar House Painting ? ROOF Best Matorinl AMER PAINTING Workmanship. SVENS, Here is LICY CUPe rfection - ave. nw Nea relied upon Gouraud’s ( Oriental Cream tokeep. the skin and complex- ion in perfect condition through the stress of the season’s activities. Send 15 c. for Trial Size SATISFACTION ABSOLUTE GUARANTEED PAINLESS EXTR. ACTI ONDUCTIVE AND INFILTRATION s ANESTHE! HESIA $1.50 Plates Repaived While You Wait... Pias DR. LEHMAN ™" 307 7th St. N.W,, Opp. Saks’ Only Piace in the Cite Yor This Kicd The Hecht Co et S Sale of women's %45 $36 Coats & Wraps to %85 finest suits and our 5] 8-7 5 EW '$1.00 to $1.50 PER POUND Gouraud’s ental Cream O ri K Seventh at F Seventh at F arrivals own stock, the latter on the ground that the reichsbank's | ro.war rates and a “rent commission™ | Greek campaign in Asia Minor King||[ae miceslmally, tofithe, costy ol resources are legally private Property. | s authorized to determine a “fair | Constantine's government is at a crit- | pair of hose, the neck sl Only property of the state, it is urged, | rentar” i ; =Pl eiE s of shoes, the calico dress. poun B oubiet to the. demman ot wEed: i rental” in disputed questions, as con-ical point. The Greek army has been | 0f Shocs. the calico dress. the pound | s subjec B e cema .| stitutional. The effects of that de-|badly defeated with heavy losses.|pair of trousers for little Johnny. | tente. But, in fact, the reichsbank I8! cision. which had not been generally | Seven divisions have been smashed Bl b U wemnaente G0 nound (0 yvirtually a government Insttution.|cxpected, will be far-reaching. Land-|and their morale almost destroyed. | e A i The demand may be couched in alter™ | jords who have, on the basis of the|From an offensive the campaign has| This phase sf the diseussion seems ative terms—the reichsbank's reserves | ons of the lower courts, ignored | been changed to a defensive action. | ‘ta hiea] to the New York Post (in- or ai ivalent of German money or] *| dependent). which uses the same s ~cem - | the decisions of the rent commission | The cost is great, estimated at nearly | simile of the gullible goose, and it | accurately valued physical property. iare liable to heavy fines or imprison-| 5,000,000 drachmas (normally $1.000.. 4 No matter how much Berlin may {ment, in addition to being required to|000) daily. The treasury is destitute howl, or whine, or snarl, the U pay over to the commission double|and paper money is being issued. The calls attention to the fact that “‘a advantage attribugded to the stands that up to date Germany has|ine amount collected in excess of |allied powers, offended by the re.cstan. failed to meet her obligations. It mat- Officials | lishment of Constantine, are lending sales tax from its low rate is stated b : {rentals fixed by that body. ters not that those obligations were | ¢ the Washington Real Estate Board | no aid financially and refuse to in. forced upon her, that she signed the its opponents to be more apparent | than real, inasmuch as the rate is jare of the gpinion that, with the law | dorse the new money issues. Inasmuch Versailles treaty under stress, that! | o she accepted the peace terms only at Many new styles. Hints of three: MARKED DOWN to conform to the prices imposed by these newcomers. Black serge circular capes, lined through- out with finest silk linings, are winning approval on all sides. Silk-fined polo coats with fancy stitchery have a ready following among the vounger girls. These in tan or blue and belted or flare. Some new velour sports coats with smartly braided tuxedo collars; have but lately arrived and are eagerly welcomed. in all for misses 16 to 20 and The newcomers are mostly SAMPLE suits, in the DIRECTOIRE style; the most exclu- sive suits of Spring. Richest of suit fabrics in twill cords, tricotines, herringbones and cov- erts. Custom tailored to the last detail. dec Navy, black, rookie, tan, copen, sand. Sizes 14 to 18 and 36 to 46. Sizes 36 to 42. (Apparel shop, second fioor.) levied on 'every turnover, and there- {in effect. virtually all construction of |as Constantine pledged himself to the the point of the sword, while a large fore multiplied many times before it is shoulderd by the consumer.” and. despite the fact that these ol jections “are brushed aside as pure- | v theoretical” by some, “there still | remains the question whether a tax part of the world regretted that the sword was not thrust home. The treaty stands. Berlin alleges violations by the allies, ignoring completely the fact that those so-called violations have been but legitimate moves in compul- sion of performances, and that under the treaty punitive and compulsory measures are justified. If Germany can be permitted to evade any feature of the treaty by claiming that the punitive and coercive measures are in violation of the pact, the whole procedure at Versailles falls to the ground. The peace is nullified. The world will not forget the condi- tion in which the treaty of Versailles was signed. The German delegates ‘were not admitted to the discussions, had no part whatever in framing the treaty and were introduced into the so-called council chamber only to sign on the dotted lines. No other course was possible. . It would have been monstrous, an- injustice to every in- hadbitant of the allied countries, a crime against all the innocent victims of the war to admit Germany to a real part in the shaping of the terms of peace. The only question today is how Ger- ‘many can be made to pay, the means necessary to compel her to yield of her substance to make good as far as pos- sible to the damage she wrought in the years of her criminal aggression. If mistakes are made by the allies they will be only as to the effective- ness of the measures, not injustice to Germany. In this present matter the issue as to the naturé¢ of the reichs- bank reserves lies between that insti- tution and the German government. Push the Investigation. {rental buildings in the District will | i cease. H It avails nothing whatever, save a. a partial justification for the view-! ipoint of the landlords in protesting {against the act in question, that the | | decision against them was of the cl | est possible type, with four members | of the court, including the Chief Jus- tice, adhering to their contentions. {There is but little balm in the fact { that these justices, dissenting from | ithe viewpoint of the five associates, | hold that the Constitution bars such a ! statute as that under consideration in | specific terms and that the act “is !(‘nntraryTo the meaning of contracts | {and leases as accepted all over the { world.” The majority opinion of the court upholds the law, and the ques- tion is closed. One phase of the decision should not ibe permitted to pass unnoticed, how- ever, in view of what would seem to! be the purpose of proponents of the jact to request of Congress an exten- {sion of the period during which the llaw is effective. The Ball law was originally enacted as a war-time meas- jure to meet extraordinary emergency conditions in the National Capital. The | Supreme Court in upholding the con- | stitutionality of the law (and, general- ly speaking, it is always reassuring to find that our lawmakers know their | business) based its decision upon the fact that an emergency existed, that the exigencies of an extraordinary con- dition warranted the legislature in re- | stricting property rights, and that “a | ilimit in time to tide over a paxsingi trouble may well justify a law that {could not be upheld as a permanent ichange.” The statute enacted as ai means of meeting an emergency and upheld as such, and as such alone, is due to expire automatically on October i i Communications to The Star show | 22: [EXtension thereof by Congress, a difference of opinion respecting the | With the war-time emergency passed, extent of peonage in the south. bug|#nd normal conditions restored in none as to the crime. In all alike 15| Washington, would change the entire expressed detestation of it, u:com»i"""“’x“"’" of the law. Its constitution- panied by the wish to see it uprooted, | 2!ty 28 a non-emergency measure and the guilty, whoever they may be!would then become challengeable and, and wherever found, punished. This surely must be the general wish. No greater horror has been uncovered in this country in recent Yyears than that attaching to the “mur- der farm” of John Williams in Georgia. Lynchings in what may be called the usual styles—we are unfortunate- 1y familiar with such things in Amer- ica—are horrible enough. But the sud- | den lashing of a community into a; frenzy by a shocking outrage may have same small palliation in the character of the outrage and the ex- citability of the people. But in this Willlams case there was not the slightest excuse for passion, and no passion was shown. The mur- ders committed were of cold-blooded calculation, and the victims helpless creatures without offense of any kind. Among them were two old persons, man and wife, who were put to death simply because they had outlived their usefulness! As the business is in hand, the in- vestigation of all peonage should be pushed to the limit. It is but fair to assume that the verdict in the case of Williams represents public sentiment when aroused on charges well supported. And now is undoubt- edly the time to appeal to that senti- ment in the effort to end peonage wherever practiced. —_—— There is still an inclination to re- gard Lenin as a2 man who is trying to put Russian politics into his personal business. —_————— A Good Start. Congress has made a good start. It has proved that when it assembled it was ready for business. The record of the first weck shows organization and expedition. Can the pace be continued? is the question. That charges | jin view of the basis upon which yes- | | terday’s decision was reached, and the | arguments of the strong dissenting opinion, it is possible that the chal-| lenge would be successful. ——— Everybody knows and sympathizes | with the little movie boy who is sick. He should be remembered not only as ! one clever winsome little one, touched | by misfortune, but as typical of thou- | {sands of clever, winsome little ones who are entitled to the thoughtfulness | of sympathetic humanity. ——— ‘The previous administration has left | Washington, D. C., with enough legal talent permanently located to.make it | a memorable center of judicial learn-| ing. —_———— It appears that the personal cor-| respondence of Samuel Gompers has! not been entirely of an economic and ! controversial nature. 1 The strike situation in England de- velops two classes of unemployment, ! voluntary and involuntary. An Opportunity Still Open. The budget of the Asscciated Char- ities for the fiscal year of 1921 calls | for an expenditure of $30,000. An ap- peal for 10,000 members was issued during March in confidence that there are that many Washingtonians who would stand behind the works of kind- iness and sympathy and generosity undertaken by that organization in the name of the community. The story of what the Associated Charities is, of how it works and of its tremendous power fob good in Washington was given the public by men and women whose only interest in the success of the campaign arose from the personal prosecution of the war ag; the failure of the pon him. It would not be surpris. ing, therefore, at any time to find| Greece in an overturn and Constanting | once more an exile. st Turk campaign reacts —— A cancellation of war debts would introduce a new system of finance whose influence would be toward con- siderable complication in less exten- sive, but entirely respectable trans. actions. I The world would welcome a return | of the old customs of May day fes- tivities instead of May day disorders. The Queen of the May is how likely to present herself as a political speaker. f There is nothing more lonely than a left-over propagandist who desires to be active, but is no longer in touch with the sentiment of the moment at headquarters. f Immigration laws will never become so liberal as to provide for a welcome home to Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman. f Soviet financiers are now figuring on the substantial business that might have been done with- the money laid out for propaganda. } Bolshevik leade “vho are sending gold out of Russia are no doubt pre. pared to follow it in the course of time. The coal supply is figuring prom- | inently as a serious question the world over. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Happiness. A man once said he'd like to be As happy as a king, But now he finds his fancy Mee inclined to no such thing. A king at present you may find A most unlucky chap, ‘With all the populace inclined To push him off the map. 1 He spoke of birds that sang on high And lambkins blithe and gay. He talked about the butterfly Upon a summer day. But birds, like lambkins, often meet A gastronomic fate; And moths retire to gloom complete At no far distant date. | Thus, each comparison he tried Proved hapless in the end. The present hours of thoughtless pride Toward hours of sorrow tend. 'Tis useless to attempt to shirk Dame Nature's simple plan. “I guess,” said he, “I'll go to work And try to be—a man!” Fondness for Animals. “Hiram,” said Mrs. Corntossel, “the | new hired man says he's fond. of horses.” “That may be a help and then it} may not. The trouble with the last hired man was that he was fond of | hosses. Only he didn’t care about 'em unless they was on the race track.” Street Car Standing Room. “A fare reduction would be nice,” He murmured with a frown— *And yet I shouldn’t mind the price It I could just sit down.” \ Jud Tunkins says an education is like a gun; it can be useful or it can do harm, according to how its owner decides to point it. Decorum. “When you mention that you saw a lady of your acquaintance on the street does your wife make you try to de- scribe what she wore?” “Certainly not,” replied Mr. Meek- appreciation of the valuaof family wel- Some knotty sub-|fare work to the distressed and unfor- Jects are on the card. It will be sur-|tunate of the city. *All that is needed prising if they do not lead to pro-|isthat the city understand,” they said, tracted debate. Animated debate—not|“and it cannot fail to lend a hand.” necessarily on political lines—inhere in | But the city failed. To date the total seweral of them. The Army bill and | number of subscribers to the fund, the Navy bill; the peace resolution;|necessary if the work undertaken for 4 ton. “These days it wouldn't be con- sidered a proper question.” Permanent Color Improvement. ““Your face is no longer flushed with drink.” “No,” replied Uncle Bill Bottletop. “When they proclaimed prohibition I turned pale and never got ofer it.” la large number of people who did whose burdens are admittedly to be : shouldered by the mass of con sumers conforms to the accepted canons of justice.” To the Chattanooga (demo- ic) the sales tax seems “most on- on those are least able to! ¥ it and least onerous to those who ! could best pay it.” The Elmi | Gazette (independent) attempis to r but some of the arguments against the bill, pointing out that “Mr. Rocke- feller will have to pay income tax annually as.heretofore” and “as for escaping the sales tax. he w on the millions of dol business his concerns do annual This line of reasoning is continued by the Topeka State Journal (inde- | pendent republican). “The man whol spends $100,000 a year on his ordina living will contribute to the Tre: ury even at so low a sales tax as 1] per cent the sum of $1.000. And, of course, a man able to spend that much will also contribute a heavy income tax. But the man spending $1,000 for his ordinary living will coritribute at that rate only $10 to the Treasury, whereas now perhaps his theater ticket taxes count up as much asj that.” ‘The Springfield Union (republican) feels that “in the main its advocates have been able to maintain the sound- ness of their theory, on the assump- tion that the tax is shifted along to the final distribution of the goods, | where it is hardly noticeable because | of the broud basis over which it is} spread.” The Brooklyn Eagle (independent democratic) believes that to substi- tute the excess profita revenue for the sales tax would be “a change for the! better” in that “it would be easy of computation, being absolute in’ its simplicity.” ! The New York Herald (independent) i feels that there are selfish interests | at work on both sides of the fence: No taxation plan has ever been de- vised without running into two diffi- culties now facing the sales tax pro- | gram. There is opposition from those | who believe the sales tax to be un- just for the very reason that it is go- ing to make them pay their rightful | share of the expense of running the government. And there is the ax-! grinding support of those who have | suffered from the excess profits tax | to a larger extent than others and who will derive some benefit from | the abolishment of the excess profits | tax.” The New York Times (independent democratic). however, believes that there is enough feeling in favor of this form of legislation to assure its success, for it sees “a good deal of | evidence: that public opinion is “mar- shaled behind the sales tax to a®de- gree that Congress will heed.” The Grand Rapids Herald (repub- lican) reflects a general sentiment | when it says: “There are some sound objections, but a tax law without ob- jections would be a millennial curi- | osity” and if the sales tax “proves to | have fewer objectlons than other sub- | stitutes it will be amply credentialed.” ; Czechoslovaks Leaving U. S. The Czechoslovak consulate Cleveland, Ohio, is issuing 100 pa ports monthly to Czechoslovaks r turning to their native land. cording to the report received by us, there wefe 300 passports issued the consulate in the first three| months of its existence. And. if this | industrial crigis continues, or if in- ! dustrial conditions become worse onl account of the wage-reducton con- troversy caused by the manufactur- ers who are making an effort to fur- ther reduce the wage of working- men, a greater increase may be ex- pected in the emigration of our peo- ple from America. Among.them is not intend to leave for Europe for a year or two, but who now feel that | they cannot’ wait any longer. They are’ chiefly affected by things. The letters they reccive from Bo- | hemia and Moravia, in which they | read of the improved living condi- tions there, and then the considera- tion of the fact that to wait another half year in America without em- ployment would be a very expensive proposition, since, during that period of idleness one would lose or be forced to expend as much as he would be able to earn in the next year or two.—Americke Delnicke Listy (Czechoslovak, socialistic), Cleveland, Ohio. What Congress ought to do now is to put a luxury tax on armament. ‘Winona (Minn.) Republican-Herald. Accidents are fewer in short skirts, | to the wearers, if not to the behold- ers.—Pittsburgh Dispatch. If Maud will kindly come into the garden right now, she will find it ready and waiting for somebody to start something.—Anaconda Standard. Burlesque actors say they are play- ing to small audiences. There's a barometer of business conditions that beats financial experts.—Muskegon Chronicle. There probably are only two things that could ever kill the movies, now, and they are indecency and onions. But none of the legislatures seems to be interested in protecting the in- dustry against the onions.—Kansas City Star. l Women’s extra size Jersey suits, 325 Quality jersey, expertly tailored, a moderate, payable price; there you have the sale in a nutshell. Sale of W. B. CORSETS $9-19 Plain colors such as rein- deer, rookie, oxford and brown and a host of de- lightful heather mixtures 5 Trim notched or Tuxedo collars and skirts cut amply to give the necessary ful- ness without sagging. Of pink or white coutil, in medium and low bust styles, and fitted with elastic in- serts. All have garters at front and sides. (Corset shop. second floor.) Sizes 42i; to 5. Fresh as a May day comes this Sale of silk dresses silk taffetas Mignonettes $ l 5 satin charmeuse crepe de chine (One like sketch) New dresses—judge by the fact that they have come within the past week. Siberian Squirrel Chokers, $12-%° An exceptional offer—for these are absolutely perfect pelts, deep furred and of uniform gray blue throughout. (Fur shop, second floor.) The fact that these dresses were made to sell from a half to twice more doesn’t add to their beauty, so we omit comparative The big fact is that here the newest in spring styles, in sizes and styles for every one; at $15; regular and sizes up to 52175, you get stout values. Sale of stockings for women and children save up to a half on some It’s a mixed sale of periect hose and those known as “run-of-the-mill.” The latter are subject to slight irregularities more technical than real. 55¢ 5]- ’1 silk hose—"run-of-the-mill”—iull scamed back. Full fashioned in Seamed back in black, brown Women's fashioned and gray and pongee. and gray. o o Women’s walkin oxfords, $ 5.85 Children’s hose 29¢ 19 Women’s silk hose—"run-oi-the-mill"—full fashioned, witk mercerized tops. Black, white and gray. Children’s .79 Women’s silk hose—"run-of-the-mill,” full st fashioned silk hose, in brown and black. Some : —whit. rer- (as sketched) all silk; some with mercerized garter tops. e - Mhie e . P : : L e ket ored fancy roll tops Shoes to “live™ in all day C Women’s mercerized hose—perfect, seamed el P 35 e i ack i 1 brown, with double heel, long—comfort-giving and in back hose in black and brown, with double hee 1 i toe and sole. 15C IC hildren’'s styvle as well. . c hose — “run- ‘ good style as we C Women’s Burson hose—perfect—knit to fit of - the mill"— . Of soft kid in black or deep Coco without a seam and sure to give unlimited wear. seamless cotton hose shade, with Military heels and Good- Black only. in black, sizes 6 to 9, vear welt soles. A perfect size range and broken sizes in (First floor, south annex.) adds to their special appeal. (First floor, north annex.) 300 crepe kimonos (Disrect from Japan) $l.95 brown. Sale children’s barefoot sandals & play oxfords Cool-looking, finely fashioned crepe ki- monos in choice of two very popular models. Some in Japanese style, with wide flowing sleeves and fringed sash; others have no collar, and are Tru-shape shoes ; built for service—every pair is guar- irred at T3 i i Fecitibaciiand frontito) anteed not to rip in the sole—a new pair free if any does. ve an empire effect. s| . Colors in both Iots include rose, pink, navy, purple, orchid and light blue. (Lingerie shop, second floor.) * All this comes through the Leather uppers in black, tan, patented double-stitch process dark brown or cherry red. —fixes the sole permanently. Leather or textan soles. For infants, sizes up to 5; large boys and girls, sizes up to 7. | . S ————— ! Co—