Evening Star Newspaper, April 22, 1921, Page 6

THE EVENING ST AR Jection to the placing of such a struc-|but a gesture. With Sinday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. .....April 22, 1921 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. . Editor | park should spend a Sunday in the The Evening Star Newspaper Company | thronging through that space from Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 100 Nassau St. Chicago Office: First National Bank Building. EBuropean Office: 3 Regent St., London, England. The Evening Sta edition. is delivered with the Sunday morning carriers within the city ily only, 45 cents per cents per month. Or- may be sent by mail, or telephone Main ! 5000. Collection is made by carriers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1y $8.40; 1 mq Daily only 17, $6.00: 1 m Sunday oniy $2.40; 1 mo., 20c All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 85¢ Daily only. yr., $7.00; i mo., 60c Sunday only 1yr., $3.00;1mo., 25¢ —_— e An Appeal and a Beply. Germany’s extraordinary plea to President Harding, praving him “to mediate in the reparations question and to fix the sum to be paid by Ger- many to the allied powe its answer. There are many to whom, in view of the preposterous character of the Fehrenbach-Simons proposal, a more pungent rebuke than that ad- ministered would have appealed. But when all is said and done the reply so promptly forwarded by Secretary Hughes to Berlin will serve very effec- tively to disabuse the German mind of the theory that the United States| could be prevailed upon to attempt to usurp the functions of the reparations | commission. It may even bring home to the astoundingly sluggish German mind a realization of the fact that the only way to avoid forceful enforce- Versailles is to make a sincere effort! to live up to the pledges made to the allies. The German petition takes its place | Japan was to secure all the former sirable aliens, but it &5 one of the most astonishing of state | German islands north of the equator | desirable Americans. communications. ture on the park in view of the com- mission’s own plan for the emplace- ment of substantial buildings therein. Any one who doubts the importance of a botanic collection in the Mall garden and see the crowds of people morning until night. day, for that matter. Or any week | This garden is one of the most attractive places in | ‘Washington for visitors. If it were removed to Mount Hamfiton probably not 1 per cent of the people who now isit it would ever find their way to it. | At Mount Hamilton there is space | for an arboretum and perhaps a| botanic experiment station, and pos- sibly an extensive propagating garden. But it will not be a show place, how- ever valuable from a scientific point of view, and however scenic it may become as an accompaniment of the Anacostia park that is in process of development. This question has been in the air| for a long time and should be setfl(’d] soon. The bill now pending provides | for an alternative emplacement of the Botanic Garden in the Mall, where it | repining if all his followers of the ¢ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, It stands no chance whatever with the present Congress. But it can be used to enc¢ourage the wets, and speed them on in their plan to elect a Congress that will make it a law. Editorial Digest Putting the House in Order. Although most of the President’s mes- As usual, when prohibition is con-| 328 to Congress was devoted to a dis- cerned, Mr. Bryan is promptly on the |job He was a dry last year, is a dry this year, and will be a dry next year. He will support no unfriendly move- ment aimed directly or indirectly the Volstead law. ‘Thus the first guns have been fired in a battle which will continue until ! November of next year. length and in the character engaged, it will be some struggle. Wet sive) points out that there is not “a| or dry will be a question often pro- ‘:mmn suggestion in reference to dom 3 cen | tic issues which is likely to provoke any | pounded in the coming eighteen; soiious controveray,” even thoueh. -thees | months. matters more intimately concern the ! | people. individually and collectively.” | Lack of controversy. however, i§ ac- Haywood in Moscow. Russia is quite welcome to William D. Haywood, the “Big Bill” of the In- ternational Workers of the World, who has just skipped his bail and fled to Moscow. Indeed, there would be no is, or in East Potomac Park. Either " has had | location is better for this public flower |i¢ wnore they park than the site on the Eastern!| branch, and of the two proposed in | the ball that at the eastern end of the | Mall is assuredly most clearly in the| interest of public convenience. | —_— ce—————— | The Secret Arrangement. Though Japan has not officially cited | the arrangement secretly made in the | early part of 1917 with England,; France and Italy respecting the di- vision of German islands in the Pacific, that compact is its trump card in the | game of Yap now in progress. The °xt of the communications between | {Tokio and the allied capitals printed ! the Americ ment of the terms of the treaty of|yvesterday in The Star has not been labor is such that it does not challenged, and may be accepted as! correct. On the assumption that an understanding was effected whereby ! der in the United States were to “the -President over and join the soviet. For of our domestic e | auestions fully responds to the temper helong. and purpose of the nation,” according | Haywood's attorney says that the to the Snringfield Union (republican) at {either the eighteenth amendment or | And, both in | of those | cussion of domestic affairs, and he him- self has putting the American house in order, nevertheless editorial comment s con- {fined very largely | relative importance to the press of ex-| ‘larnm and internal policies. In explana- tion of its observation that aper comment upon President Harding'’s address has been directed to t part dealing with international af- and the problems of peace,” the { counted for by the Pittsburgh Gazette- { Times (republican) in the “popular con currence” which it confidently L will be orded the President domestic polic ration of inte; ment and busi lyn which 100k to the resto- y in American govern- and even the Brook: pendent democratic) that “the country will not quar- with Harding's domestic pol that “it may be passed with little com fugitive has not in fact fled from jus-| o oppartdh % ECC W tice, but is on a p onal m: on. go- It is quite true that for the most ling to Moscow a delegate to the, bart cditorial oninion on that phase s + : 3 | of the address is distinctly favorable, trades union internationale which T opens July 1. But inasmuch as Hay i wood was due at Leavenworth prison next Monday his choice of contlicting engagements is susceptible to inte pretation as a sidestepping of the ap- pointment at home. His $20,000 bond iis subject to forfeiture. A message is said to have come from | { Moscow saying: “It is foolish for American radicals to suffer imprisonment. The temper n public and of Americ !where you will be welcomed.” This government can deport unde- annot deport un: 1t can only, in Addressed to a na-!and Great Britain those south of the ; case of conviction of crime, send tt.em tion with which Germany is still in a!line, the mandate settlement whereby | : to prison. But this Moscow invit: technical state of war, it declares that . Yap was assigned to Japan despite | | tion opens a way for a clearance with- she “is ready and willing to agree | Ame without reservation or qualification to! impossible of revision short of a full | wants these people, let it so declare pay to the allied powers as reparation jand formal renunciation by Japan or ; self publicly and officially. The United 's protest would seem to be out resort to conviction. If Moscow such sum as the President of that na-!a denunciation of the secret treaty by ; i States government will probably do ay tion, after examination and investiga- tion, may find just and right.” After ! which none-too-subtie flattery of the| President of the United States, it pro-' poses that, because of absolute Ger- man confidence in his sense of jus- tice, he be led into a course which would connote a disbelief on our part of the justice of the demands of the! allies; that we say to them, in eflecl.: the European allies. ! This case is somewhat like that of the secret treaty between Italy and the ! other allied powers which preceded Italy’s entrance into the war. It Dro‘ed‘ later to be a most serious obstacle to the peace adjustments. Italy’s claims| to the Tyrol, Trieste, Fiume and the; greater part of the Dalmatian coaal‘ were based on that instrument, !he‘ in its power to accommodate. But _there will be no return tickets. —_————— The fact that so few people under-| stand Prof. Einstein's theory of rela- tivity may be due to the fact that it suggests no method of improving busi- i ness or relieving taxation. —————— The Japanese government runs the “Since you cannot be fair in this, how | validity of which could not be denied | same risk as other governments of | about turning the matter over to me' No more excellent example of that combination of German duplicity and credulity which is leading her to bitter | consequences could be afforded. De-l spite all that we have said, Germany apparently still believes that there is a difference between the United States and its former allies as to the justice of the latter's reparation claims. There is no such difference. Nor has this| government been given sufficient evi- dence of Germany's sincerity of pur- pose, of her honor in fulfilling her pledge, to incline it to place much! weight in new pledges, however “sol- emnly” made. On its face the appeal | locks like an effort to substitute, torb & judgment duly rendered and en-| forcible, one not duly rendered and probably not enforcible. The reply of Seeretary Hughes, for ; all its moderation, leaves no doubt as to where we stand. It informs Ger- many that we refuse to “‘mediate” a matter as to which the victorious sig- natories of the treaty of Versailles have the final word. It expresses the earnest hope that the German gov- ernment will avoid the imminent con- wequences of its bad faith by promptly | formulating “such proposals as would present a proper basis for discussion™ —the implication being that none of | the many proposals it has made up to| this time offers, in our opinion, such a basis. And it says that if the German government prefers to have us sub- mit those proposals to the allies, rather than to do so herself, we may do so. | Germany's last shifty maneuver has | been blocked. It now remains for her to evidence a real desire to meet her | engagements, or to suffer the con| sequences. —————— Each of the American signers of the | Versailles treaty could be very inter-! esting if he would follow the reckless | example of ex-Secretary Lansing and write a book. R R | Chicago bandits who took bank of.{}{ he Wishes and is still competent 01 4 g Gocs not undertake t cials for an auto ride and rebbed them of §25,000, were probably taxicab driv-| ers who had decided to take off the | limit. ————————————— The Botanic Garden. A difference of opinion prevails be- tween the Fine Arts Commission and | members of Congress who have taken an interest in the matter coneerning ! the future treatment of the Botanic Garden, now located immediately west of the Capitol. A bill has been intro- duced to enlarge the garden on fts! present site by including portions of | the Mall lying to the west. The Fine Arts Commission, on the contrary, ex- presses the belief that the garden| should be removed to Mount Hamil- ton, a hilly, wooded tract on the banks of the Anacostia. There is merit in both plans. There should be a public garden in the city in connection with the park system | within range of convenient access for the people. There should be an ar- boretum, and possibly an extensive botanic propagating system, in some | more remote area where space is avail- | able for expansion. | It is true that the Botanic Garden | as it exists today is not suitable for| its purposes. It is not large enough. | Its greenhouses are old and inade- quate. It is in the way of the per-!| spective of the Mall, and yet is not unsightly. If the Langley bill were enacted new greenhouses could be erected on the side of the center line of the Mall to clear the perspective Illon and their cases will be passed on | i the service. i pires. and the application of which was ren-| dered extremely difficult by the Jugo-| slavic coalition and demand for au. tonomous control over native terri-| tory. It is not known publicly whether; the existence of this secret Japanese' agreement respecting the Pacific. is-| lands was known at Washington. If; the American protest against the ‘am assignment was made without know]»- edge of the basis for Japan's claimn this government has been placed in most awkward position by the allled powers in their failure to acquaint it with the full conditions. On the other | hand, if the existence of the secret| treaty or arrangement was known here when the protests were written | this* government doubtless has taken | jthe position that such an agreement has no validity; that it ignores it, in | {short, as a compact made out of court | before the fact that is not binding upon | the United States. Postmaster General Hays revokes' the order fixing the retirement age of | employes at sixty-two years for women and sixty-five years for men. Here-| after employes eligible for retirement under the act, but who wish to remain | in active service, will apply for reten- individually. i This is in keeping with the true spirit of the merit system. The re- tirement law was not contemplated as ! a means of compulsory clearance of | It is well established that | ‘many men and women of the specified | ages are perfectly competent to con-| tinue at work. Some of them are the : most efficient at that stage. They hnve become valuable through experience. | Their retention is desirable from the public service point of view. | The retirement law should be inter- | preted and applied as permitting an | j gmploye to retire who desires o do 80, | rpe ynive and also as permitting his retention | discharge his duties. That is the view | ! of the Postmaster General, the view of | | equity and of good administration. Tt should be the universal practice! throughout the government service. I ————————— | Unless he can think up aomethlng: new In fancy finance, Lenin may find | it desirable to offer Ponzi a confidential | position as soon as his sentence ex-| | ——————— It is almost thirty years since Rich- mond P. Hobson predicted a ll(tlc‘ trouble in the Pacific ocean, but, of course, there is no time limit on a| prophecy. ———— Recent activities on the part of Mr. Charles G. Dawes are interesting in a | practical way, but strangely lacking in | { rhetorical pep. Prohibition and 1922. i The prohibition question will figure | prominently in next year's congres- sional campaign. Foundations are al- ready being laid. On the 14th instant Mr. HIll of Mis.| souri introduced in the House a bill | to repeal the Volstead law. On the| 20th—six days later—Mr. Bryan, speaking at a church meeting in this town, in effect, though not with direct ! reference, accepted the challenge in a | declaration that “prohibition is the! triumph of the nation’s conscience”; | that it has become “the settled policy | of the country”; that it cannot be de- teated by any executive order or which the Fine Arts Commission wishes opened between the Grant Me- morial and the Washington Monu- ment. There can assuredly be no ob- % otherwise, and warning its opponents that the eighteenth amendment has come to stay. ‘The Missouri representative’s bill is falling temporarily into the hands of politicians instead of statesmen. — Bome system for the eviction of land- | ,lords from their comfortable personal | peal homes may yet be devised for the sat- isfaction of the tenant. —_———— All hope has by this time left the ex-kaiser's mind that he would be able to function as some kind of an in- visible government. Japan will doubtless be ever mindful of the fact that it has a reputation to! sustain as one of the most courteous {of nations. —_—————— Germany is alleged to have more rosperity than she cares to boast of affairs. —_——— Every pigeonhole on Lloyd George's |desk contains something that has the right to be classed as urgent business. Japanese jingoism cannot be accept- ed offhand as representing Japanese natlonal sentiment. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Celestial Machinery. Out in the heavens far away We gaze with thought profound, lAnd wisely undertake to say at makes the wheels go round. 'hey used to think the sky was flat, And that the earth stood still; !They went on proving this or that ‘With patience and with skill. TSe runs up-to-date, *Mid thanks and some applause, ait For man to make its laws. Though science often bids anew Some startling thought to sound, This fact with gratitude we view; The wheels keep going round. Her Discovery. “Charley dear,” said young | Torkins, fnnd of children!” “What makes you think I'm so fond ‘of them?” ery now and then you mention some one you call Babe Ruth with | such extraordinary affection.” Elemental Requirements. “Many people refuse to listen to a trained intellect and yet believe any- thing a ouija board says.” “The ouiji board,” replied Senator Sorghum, “has an advantage that few orators enjoy. It Invariably has the sympathy of its audience and speaks slowly and distinctly.” Mrs. Restraint. True diplomats are never glum, As history will show. The more indignant they become, The more polite they grow. “I b'lieves in art,” sald Uncle Eben, ‘an 1 wants it incouraged. But I hates to see a boy spendin’ his life being a poor painter when he might of been & good whitewasher.” All Kinds of Advice. “You want some legal advic the eminent attorney. No, 1 don” replied Mr. Gittum. “The law is what's Holding up my pe enterprise. What 1 want is some il legal advice.” 7" sald r “ | somebody T didn't know you were xul irrespective of party. The Roanoke Times (democratic) feels that Mr. Harding shows that “he now has a comprehensive and fairly accurate idea of v's problems and the le ed to cope with them.”” To the Minneapolis Journal (independent republican) his treat- ment of internal affairs is “the cou f prudence and common sense,’ the St. Louis Post-Dispatch i ent) admits *“is. in the main, excellent,” and, adds ti v v Journal (independent) very general approval. agreement arises, however, over extent to which the President's i Pay | discussion compriscs a definite pro- | radical labor Jeaders 10 martyr them-{ yram. The Newark News (independ- {selves in the cause. Come to Russia, finds it ngularly free from i ent) { exhortation to do or not to do specific and the New Orleans Times- dependent democratic) oes not undertake a * On the other hand, the message has proved to the Cleve- iand News (republican) t the President is “a master hand at pro- emphasized the necessity of | to foreign affairs. | | This may or may not be an index of the ! ‘most of the | wdelphia North American (progres- | gram making," le the Butte Miner (democratic) sees it as “a clearly de- fined course” which “is sure to have almost immediate good effect in the stabilizing of conditions.” Rather than failing to advance a concrete plan. the Houston Post (democratic) feels that the President has merely “refrained from placing himself in the category of overlord, telling Con- ! gress what to do and how to do it.” I Instead, he has outlined the matters on which legislation is needed and left it “where the responsibility be- longs—with Congress.” The Kansas City Journal (republi- can) believes he has presented a pro- gram which is “not the dictatorial de- . mands of a President issuing his or- {ders to Congress, but sound conclu- | sions, submitted to Congress as the | recommendations of its executive coi- league.” In the discussion of the tariff the jChattanooga {Mr. Handing “most {and his “pleasing words about ducing ' governmental _expenditure { impress the Memphis Commercial-Ap- (democratic) as ‘“nice l)h'aus hmm- easily put than realized.” The New York World (democratic) re- grets the President's failure “to take advantage of his opportunity to {make the limitation of armament a {part of the economic program,” and |lhe Christian Science Monitor (Bos- ton, independent) also feels that “tne {cause of disarmament might have i been definitely promoted” by a more {concrete recommendation than that {of “approximate disarmament,” which {the Wh Register (democratic) )lds may have no meaning or be apable of many, and “can only en- der more suspicion.” | "The Toledo Blade (republican) be- !lieves that “the people of limited in- come, the bearers of the country's { burdens, will have more reason to | rejoice than any others” in the dec- { i"‘ | They're No Qlutters. | Though they are getting along in |years, the members of the United States Supreme Court are a hale and hearty lot. Few of them die and, not- withstanding divers rumors of im- ipending retirements, none of them rem to be in any haste to resign. White, Day, Holmes and McKenna are each past seventy, and are entited to { step down and out on full pay, if they {choose. They cannot be forced out Chief Justice Taney held on until his death at eighty-seven. Supreme Court work seems to conduce to longevity. Possibly if there hadn’t been 8o much talk about their probable or possi- ble successors, some of the four sep- tuagenarians would embrace the op- portunity to leave the stiff and dig- nified bench for the free and easy {rocking chair. But the feeling that is anxiously waiting to step into your shoes is prone to {smother your inclination to take them {off. The big four are not resigning or manifesting the slightest intention of doing s0. For all they care the would-be occupants of their footgear may cool their heels and wiggle their toes indefinitely.—Anaconda Standard (democratic) An Effective Strike. 3 -The United States Steel Corporation seems to have capitulated to a strike at last. For years Mr. Gary and his associates on the corporation’s board {of directors have dealt rather ruth- lessly with all the strike leaders who opposed them. 1In the present in- stance the strikers were outside the Gary jurisdiction. They were posed of the buying public. There has been a feeling that build- {ing materials have been too high. Roger Babson, in his analysis of con- { ditions, says they are much too high At any rate, thefe has been very little building. The public has managed to rub along without new structures of various kinds and seemed disposed to stay out of the market. The result is the slice in prices made by the Steel Corporation. The buying public has only recently realized its power. Most people, until recently, bought what they wanted quite regardless of the price. The re- sult was the profiteer. If people of modest means will refrain from pur- chasing products that are excessively high. they will soon find that dealers would rather have a fair price than no price at all for their goods.—Johns- town Democrat (democratic). com- British labor has revolted—at re- volt.—Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. April, showers bring May double- headers.—Boston Herald. The summer appro}chlnc. the mod- ern Mohammed is preparing to go to the rpountains.—Columbia (8. C) Record. Harding's forelgn Rene_Viviani. sas Gazette. policy puzzles Shake, Rene!—Arkan- | The super has been taken out of supergovernment least on_ this side of the Atlantic.—Boston Tran- seript. However, the marked decrease in the demand for diamonds has not operated to lessen the price. There seems to, be a large degree of co- operation in the marketing of di: monds.—Seattle Post-Intelligencer, {laration against a “shifting of bur- n the presence of the ‘indemnity col-{dens.” But the Great Falls (Mont.) +lector. | Tribune (democratic) does not share zhc Blade's faith. “ongress,” it T says, “has never been able to devise | Australia, while not habllual]y 1?)1 lh“s;ue;rd a;zamls}: m“e J:""‘T‘;‘,’é 4 of tax burdens in the past. vociferous, does not hesitate on oc-|centence sourds well, but it means jcasion to lift a voice in international | nothing, s far as we can see. FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1921 = Velour DRESSES, in all sizes. clearance. Choice ... days. Swagger New Tweed Suits. . . ... | 5.0 5G9 ' |Talking About a Bargain! Stylish Wool Dresses, Sport Coats for Women and A general clearance sale of 1350 Serge and Former selling prices up to $15.00. 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