Evening Star Newspaper, April 23, 1921, Page 6

o THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO 'THE EVENING STAR, }ing.” He has put a crimp in the moveldmress among us. We have our trou- With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. 1 SATURDAY ... .. .April 23, 1921 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennzylvania Ave. New York Office: 130 Nassau 8t. : First National Bank:Building. o Otfce: '3 Regent St London. England. Chicago Earopea: The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition. is delivered by carriers within tbe city at 60 cents per month: daily only, 45 centa per month; Sunday oaly, 20 cents per month. Or- gers may be sent by mail, or telephove Main Collection is made by carriers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1yr., $8.40: 1 mo.. Daily only. 1¥r., $6.00: 1 mo.. 50c Sunday only. 0 All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1yr., $10.00; 1 mo. Daily only. 1yr., '§7.00: 1 mo., 60c Sunday only. 1yr., $3.00;1mo., 25¢c The Reparations Conference. Germany's disposition for tricky trafficking in the peacemaking ad- justments is manifested by the de- livery, on the eve of the conference at Lympne, England, of the British and French premiers, of a note which pro- poses a plan for physical reparations in the devastated areas conducted by Germany herself. This project is sim- ilar to one which accompanied the counter proposal made at London some months ago. At that time the plan, together with all other proposals of Germany which fell short of the al- lied demands, was rejected. It is not likely now to be more seriousiy sidered. 1In fact, nothing short of a positive vielding to the allied require- ments for reparations has a chance. Naturally English and French inter- est is aroused by the suggestion con- veyed in Secretary Hughes' note in reply to the amazing German request for American intervention in the rep- arations matter, that negotiations should be renewed. Does this mean that the United States looks for con- cessions by the allies? Does it hint at a reduction of the demands? But while these questions are being asked in London and Paris there is no doubt of the shock to Berlin, where the Fehren- bach-Simons ministry is now subject to attack for having addressed the United States on the subject and for receiving so prompt and sharp a re- buff. The conference at Lympne about to be held bears upon the economic plan to be adopted by the allies in the oc- cupied area of Germany in collection of the reparations debt. The premiers themselves will not consider military measures, though Field Marshals Foch and Wilson are at hand for consulta- tion on this phase of the question. The situation is unquestionably diffi- cult. At present the vitally important ‘matter is to preserve the entente be- tween England and France, to keep those allies in the closest agreement and the most effective co-operation. Germany's hope is that they will dif- fer and divide. As long as they re- main united in spirit and in action Germany's case is hopeless. Admittedly the task of collection by ghe allies of installments on the repa- fations account is a difficult one. But Germany can be brought to terms by successive enlargements of the area of occupation, for the district into which the allied troops have been moved and ‘will continue to be advanced if Berlin does not vield is the richest industrial portion of Germany. If its activities are suspended in sullen refusal to yield in any degree to the allied de- mands, Germany's economic health is menaced. And today the chief Ger- man hope is to re-establish industrial supremacy in order to capture the ‘world markets. In short, the allies are striking at Germany's heart in their moves eastward. con- Cloture and the Tariff. If necessary, cloture, it is stated, will be invoked in the Senate in the debate on the emergency tariff bill. It ought not to be necessary. terms of the bill are well understood. , Senators for and senators against ‘ have discussed it informally. While the debate in the House was brief, it sufficed to show plainly the nature of i the emergency, and the nature of the * popular demand for relief. Protracted debate therefore, could serve no useful pur- pose. There are votes enough to pass * the measure; and the thing to do, since the Senate's card is crowded and im- portant measures are to follow, is to dispose of this measure as promptly as the occasion warrants. The tariff debate proper—that is to say, in its fullness and all-inclusive- ness—will come later. When the gen- eral revision measure is reported, first the House and then the Senate will probably hear the tariff debated at =ome length. The subject then will be unusually full. Not only our own tariff plans, but the tariff plans of the nations with which we trade, will be in order for discussion. Tariff re- vision is now in some degree a world problem. It is, or soon will be, in progress nearly everywhere, and to an important degree in those countries with which we desire friendly and profitable trade relations. It is for this general revision meas- ure that senators should prepare them- selves. At that time cloture will prob- ably not be suggested. —_——— Former Assistant Attorney General Wade Eilis has no hesitation in inti- mating that there are unrestful pub- lications that need censoring more than the movies. ——— The Japanese cherry trees bloomed punctually in Potomac Park in re. minder of a friendship that should not be easily dispelled. What Is Haywood's Game? Is “Big Bill" Haywood hoaxing? Has he really gone to Russia or is he hiding here? These questions are raised now by reports that have reached offi- cial agents of the government. It is intimated that Haywood is concealing himself in preparation for a dramatic move on the Ist of May. But appar- ently some of his followers believe that he has gone to Moscow. for they are muttering threats against him. He The | 1 in the Senate, to secure amnesty for political pris- oners. He has placed in jeopardy all of his fellow defendants. He has done the I. W. W. “dirt,” and they hint if the United States does not get him, they will, and subsequent events will not concern him. But all this may be a camouflage. Maybe the whole thing is a plant to glorify Haywood or mag- nify him, or advertise him, and per- haps he will turn up at the appointed hour and submit to “martyrdom,” or he may, as some of the government agents suspect, start ructions on lhe& first and give the United States a| proper scare. In any case, Haywood's game is played out. If he surrenders he goes to prison for long term without chance for pardon. If he has gone to Russia he will find there all the pun- ishment that he has earned. If he is merely hiding in this country to avoid going to jail he will probably be pun- ished by his own people, for they will {surely find him. If he starts some- {thing on the 1st of May he will be ivery quickly suppressed, perhaps fin- ally. a { The Railroad Problem. In his address to Congress President | Harding said: “Railway rates and cos | of operation must be reduced.” Yes- terday at the cabinet meeting this mat- ter of the rehabilitation of railways and through them of the industrial {orzanization of the country was con- i sidered. and the conclusion was reach- ed that the revision of rates and wages should be for the present left to the; two bodies specifically created to deal { with such questions, respectively, the i Tnterstate Commerce Commission and | the Railroad Labor Board. New mem-| ibers of these-bodies have been or will {soon be named, and they will thus be | bles, and must consider them. The gates have not been closed tight, nor will they be. When conditions change they can be opened full width again, and it is assumable that, when ! it is safe, l‘hey will be. Capitol Hill Is Headquarters. Public interest is centered in Con- gress. Everything shows it. The| politicians are reminded of the fact.! Curiosity as*to the sort of legislation | we are to get is greater than that at- taching to any move of a strictly per- sonal character on the political che board. Take a few instal [ The other day Gov. Cox came to| town and remained several days, but | his presence caused not a ripple. True, n was of a private nature— the visit would have led to much spc«-u-; lation, and probably to conferences. He came, and spent the time in town, and returned home, with as little no- tice as any private citizen without a political record might have done. Mr. Bryan has been in town thi week mingling with friends. He is frequent visitor, and always welcome. | But he had nothing to say to the pub- lic about politics. His one address was at a meeting held in a church, and his subject non-political. Thomas Taggart also was in town, and called at the White House. Upon leaving, he smiled and said to the newspaper correspondents, *No politics toda Mr. one of the cleverest of the politicians, and knows when the subject of polit This condition of things continue until Congress is well along | with its card. Capitol Hill is head- quarters now; and what is in hand there. and what awaits attention and will follow in due season, make an put in a position to proceed promptly with the consideration of rates and wages. If they fail to reach con- clusions and accomplish results speed- ily the administration will take the situation in hand. Railroad wages form directly about 70 per cent of the cost of operation {and maintenance. Of the remaining | 130 per cent labor is a material indirect | | factor. With railroad wages now at; the highest point they have ever been in the history of the country this ele- ment is really a first consideration in the adjustment that is to be effected. It has been stated in behalf of the rail- roads that if a reduction of wages can be accomplished the lines can be oper- ated at a profit with lower rates. Of course, everything depends upon the ratio of production. It would seem, { therefore, that in the present handling of the case there must be co-operation between the wage board and the com- mission. A question of importance in this con- nection is whether the wgges or the rates will be reduced first. If they are reduced simultaneously there must be mutual consideration by the two appointed bodies to effect the proper balance. Nothing would be gained if wages were reduced only to the point where the rate reduction would leave the roads in the same condition as they are today. Rehabilitation of the railroads is vitally essential to the econgmic health of the country. At present the rail- roads are not maintaining themselves | properly. They are not buying sup-| plies in proportion to their needs. They | are not keeping up their tracks or their rolling stock. They cannot afford to do so. The moment they are as- sured of sufficient income through economies in the 70 per cent factor, they can and undoubtedly will resume { the purchase of these needed supplies. i These needs mount into hundreds of millions. To meet them the mills will | start. This, it is held, is the first big step in the buying movement that the country requires for industrial restora- tion. Thus, upon the matters that have now been definitely referred to the two bodies dealing with the transportation system depends the economic welfare of the country. ———— American dvestuff manufacturers | are now wondering whether com- mercial conditions will be established | which will enable them to take ad- i | H war. | i ‘There is still confidence that Mr. Richmond P. Hobson was a better prophet concerning prohibition than in matters relating to international af- fairs. i A Secretary of the Treasury is no {longer justified in regarding liquor traffic as fizuring importantly in the | system of public revenues. i l Haywood is regarded by his bonds-| {men as altogether too reckless with | other people's money, even for a so- i cialist of the most radical type. l European statesmen now find play- ing politics involves more fatigue; than recreation. The Immigration Problem. | The immigration restriction bill I passed by the House yvesterday and likely to be accepted by the Senate does not, as charged by its opponents, clo a glorious chapter of American | history and open one of doubtful char- jacter. Tt simply provides, in a not ungenerous spirit, for a situation cre- | ated by the When the situation change s it is expected to change in | ino great while, the law can be changed | {to suit. And doubtless it will be. { The gresxt majority of Europeans {who came to us in pre-war times did | ! 0 after calm calculation. True, steam- ! ship companics and railroad companies {were accused of stimulating a desire | tavel. The main motive for change, however, was to enjoy and improve the larger opportunities for advancement America afforded. Now all is panic and chaos among | the people who are packing, or want {10 pack, their traps for this country. The war has broken up the lives they have been leading. Their little all, or Ithe most of it, is gone. Taxes are burdensome. Diseases are prevalent. vantage of a good start during the g appeal above and beyond all per- sonalities. Relating to Relativity. Supposing a body in space moving at the rate of a million miles an hour and passing in a parabolic curve around the edges of the stellar uni- verse, and making for another bunch of astral units, then arises the ques- tion where it is going, and in what direction. Einstein says it is not. That is his relativity proposition. It is perfectly clear. Stated thus in the simplest terms, the marvel is that any- body can be confused. So why, there- fore, should any one ask, and expect an answer quickly, What is the Ein- stein theory? Space is nothing, and matter is nothing, and direction is only relative. Nothing is what it seems. Gravity is not gravity, but relativity. On the other hand, there is a fourth dimension which may be called direction, and | that is what gives particular value to the Einstein theory. Is it not perfect- Iy clear? A person on the earth has relativity to the earth, and he and the earth to- gether have relativity to the sun, and he and the earth and the sun together have relativity to something else out there in the void. But it is not the| same relativity that another person has to the earth, and he and the earth to the sun, etc. Again, can there be| any doubt of that? So what is the use of trying to ex- plain? The league of nations is an inextricable complex compared with relativity. about it is that any one is puzzled. —_— e His work would be wonderfully facilitated if some of our great im- materialistic philosophers could devise a plan to enable Lloyd George to be in several places at the same time. —_——— English strikers demanded a new deal and enforced their demands by creating some new leaders. The German government does not propose to take a technical state of war too seriously. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, ‘The Moron. “Moron” is a man who grows And yet does not mature. His morals, everybody knows, Are rather insecure. So when somebody gets a gun And shoots a friend or two, And brags of money he has won By tricks kept out of view; When some one runs a motor car And bruises up a crowd, And lets himself go much too far ‘Than legalty allowed, Affection’s tears our eyes will dim, ‘While greeting him with joy. We'll say, “You mustn’t notice him— He's only just a boy!” Not Practical. i “In starry space,” said the man who | combines science with poetry, “are! worlds infinitely greater than this lit tle earth of ours.” | “I admire your thought,” observed | Senator Sorghum, “but I don't quite | grasp your purpose. You merely hint | at a relief of housing conditions, and at the same time suggest further transportation difficulties.” Notation. When discord through the music floats We seek to have things changed, And get our diplomatic notes Harmoniously arranged. Jud Tunkins says farm work is get- ting too laborious for him. In addi- tion to reading the agricultural mag- azine he has had to take up the study of banking and currency. An Advance. “I understand that alcoholic refresh- ments are still served in aristocratic salons.” “No doubt,” replied Uncle Bill Bot- The only puzzling thing | s Editorial Digest Cheap Steel as Business Tonic. The cut in steel prices, says the Bos- ton Post (independent democratic), “is indirectly of as much importance to the average man as a cut in food prices,” and it is in this light that the newspapers comment upon the United States Steel Corporation’s an- nouncement of a reduction in the price of the product of this ‘“basic industry.” Prediction of a correspond- ing fall in the prices of other prod- d a stimulation of business in and home-building in particu- be found in many editorial though some of the more @ s editors warn their readers that the drop is hardly enough to have immediate widespread effect. Whether wages wil) fall in proportion question of speculation “profiteering” of the steelmakers ke the ') Index-Appea 0, that the reductions add much to the impetus of & in the United States but he fact that there was on in the prices of steel r: The Brooklyn Eagle (independent democratic) ‘thinks that “more than beginning has been made,” though s “sufficiently belated.” As to the ion of wages, the Eagle remarks “it has been alleged that the pany has been charging $30 a ton more than was necessary to declare s customary dividends, and it does 't need to be alleged that the pay roll must share the common fate.” To the Johnstown Democrat (demo- cratic) the results obtained were simply due to a victorious “strike.” It says: “The public has managed to rub along thout new structures of various kinds and scemed disposed to stay out of the . The result is the slice in prices ade by the Steel Corporation.” Until now Mr. Gary has been “meas- urably successful” in _controlling_prices “enough to secure enormous profits for the company, but not enough to involve a violation of the “Sherman law,” says the Philadelphia Record (independent democratic); now, “Mahomet Gary goes to the mountain.”” However, “it would have heen better for the community if the price cut had come several months ago, and ste consumers had been tempted by low prices to keep their men employed.” Admitting that the Steel Corporation has been a ‘“hanger back” and that “other companies have-been doing the trick for four or five months past,” the Chicago Tribune (independent republi can) welcomes the “twofold” effect: “Its first effect is to hold out a prospect of relief and business betterment to al most every manufacturing and opera ing process which gets its material di rectly or indirectly from the Steel Cor- poration, whether it be a railroad, a motor factory or a machine plant. The second is to influence those concerns which have not yet dared cut their price and take their loss. to do so now, and by liquidating_old stocks and starting off on a new basis, to do their part in general readjustment.” The South Bend Tribune (independent republican) enumerates the industries which it believes will feel the effects: “Agriculture, the greatest of industries, by permitting the easier prices in farm machinery; transportation, the second in size, by permitting the purchase of rzil and bridge materials; building, the third occupation, by allowing better quotations to prospective owners; and automobiles, by giving car makers ac- eess to raw materials at lower prices. The drop will affect the home- builder, even if he only intends to erect a wooden bungalow, the Roches- ter Herald (independent) suggests, for “all building materials” are likely to take a downward trend “following the lead of steel.” The Trenton Times (independent) remarks: “Usually price reductions follow rather than precede wage re- ductions. There is no use in our shutting our eyes to the facts, or trying to convince ourselves or others that there is no depression in business. Tt cannot be done. Prices and wages will go down together as they came up.” Among those who look upon Mr. Gary’s announcement as less momen- tous are the Springfield Republican (independent) and the Union (repub- lican) of the same city. The former declares that “the price cutting was not drastic enough to convince the consumers of steel that the bottom prices ha prices psychology of a new buying move- : further, the discrimination st the industries using steel rails or wire nails “is unfavorable to their revival,” the railroads especially. The Union thinks stimulation of trade will come “within limits,” but_ “real activity will probably await better adjustment of all the costs of produc- tion in other industries than has yet been made.” The New York Mail (independent) points out that the reduction “does not more than bring the corporation’s price level down to that of some of the so-called independents,” and while ordinarily, “activity in the steel trade is one of the first evidences of a general business revival,” now “the business times are quite abnormal and we can hardly expect steel producers to commit suicidal bankruptcies for Hhfl ke of renewed life in other n The Manchester Union (independent republican) sees building “slightly accelerated,” but no “swift surging ahead into great structural activity.” (inde-, pend | Embarrassing Support. Why are certain business interests S0 unalterably committed to the prin- ciple of the sales tax? It is the an- swer to this question that troubles many members of Congress who are as yet undecided as to the course fed- eral tax changes should take. Too earnest advocacy on the part of sup- porters threatens to become the most serious handicap such a measure will have to overcome before favorable action can be expected from Congress. There is talk in Washington of a icious lobby"” and of “barrels of money” to put the sales tax across. A congressional _investigation has been asked in order to -disclose the sources from which campaign funds have been obtained. This tends to create a cloud of suspicion over the tax that until recently was most fa- vorably regarded. If it can be shown in the course of the congressional debates and public hearings that a carefully framed sales tax measure promises a better distri- bution of the public burdens than the taxes now in force and at the same time a solution for the administra- tive problems with which the Treas- ury has lately struggled, wide public support can doubtless be enlisted for ft. If. on the other hand. the charges of the opponents of the measure can be sustained—that the tax looks to a redistribution of the taxing burden in such a way as to fall more heavily on the lower incomes—the country ~will hardly acoept it. Thus far in the sales tax discussion there has been too much discussion of theory. There has been surprisingly little information made public regard- ing probable yield, incidence and the problem of administration and collec- tion. As long as the administration remains uncommitted the burden of DProof rests on the sales tax advocates. Perhaps they will be able convino- ingly to demonstrate the practical merits of their proposal.—Cleveland Plain Dealer (independent demo- cratic). War a.nTl-!odels. “Feminine nudity has lost its tra- ditional graceful charm,” observes a { Paris art critic, in describing the nude figures‘in the annual exhibition of the Paris artists. It appears that nearly all the artists’ models were engaged in war work during the war, and they came back to the studios with figures developed by work In munitions plants and in hos- work of tletop. “But we have at least put the saloon off the strect corner and re- formed the way to spell it.” Reasonable Dismay. “The old-fashioned girl would have been horrified by the clothes now Their feeling is, “An; here, America preferred, to get out of thi Clearly, we could not afford to re- ive at any time such a host. worn."” “True,” replicd Miss Cayenne. the principal reason for “But her horror And|would have been the fact that such “has, they say, queered them by “slop-|certainly not now. The war has sown | things were then wholly out of style.” s Y pitals, railroad stations and the like. “Gone is the peachbloom skin, now roughened by winds and hard work. Gone the softly curving charm of shoulders and arms. And in the places of these charms have been de- veloped muscles that would be the pride of a modern athletic girl.” One artist, indeed, tried to go into the business of painting Amazons, but it appears that the models were “tired of talking and thinking about war.” and wished to be painted in other ways. But this year's exhibi- tion is reported to be exceptionally good, despite this handicap.—Louis- ville Post (independent). D. ©C., SATURDAY, APRIL 23, T92I1—PART T. 1415 G Street Opposite Keith's Shave, Bathe and Shampoo with one Soap.— Cuticura Cuticura Seapis the favoriteforsatetyrasorshaving. PERPETUAL BUILDING —————urt Exc The Safety of Furs Rebuilding | - with paint — get our estimate an have the work executed NOW Spring is the time to beautify an protect the home. deman proper stor- E n ¢ at the proper time. 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