Evening Star Newspaper, April 30, 1921, Page 4

rg THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY ...April 30, 192 . THEODORE W. NOYES. . . . Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th §t. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 150 Nassau St. Chicago Ofice: First National Bank Building. European Ofice: 3 Regent St., London, England. The Evening Star. with the Sunday morning edition. is delivered by carriers within the city At 60 cents per month: daily only, 43 cents per month; Sunday onl: ents per month. Qr- ders may be sent by mail, or telephone Main B0 Collection is made by carriers at the «<nd of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. and Sunday..1yr. 2 aily only 1y, Sunday only.. ayr., All Other States. Dailv and Sunday.1yr., Daily only T, Sunday $7.00: 1 mo., 60c .1yr., $3.00;1mo.. May Day Eve. Two men were arrested in New York esterday charged with criminal an- ——rr s !-crucuon. Only those who climb the seen from the elevator. Some of them 1 have suffered from vandalism and are mutilated beyond restoration. The iconoclastic spirit prevails even in such places as the national memorial to the father of his country. To those who brave the tedium and fatigue of this long climb the result is well worth the effort. There is, in- deed, something finer about the view from the top for those who have walk- ed than for those who ve been haul- ed up by the steel cables. For they have accomplished something through their own efforts, and the splendid scene spread before them is the r ward for their enterprise and pluc 1t is no task for the elderly or the in- valid. Persons with weak hearts should not attempt it. There is no danger in the climb itself. The steps are as secure and safe as those of one's own home, but there are few who will not want to sit and rest for a time after reaching the top. Tn- idw»d, a “walk-up” trip in the Wash- ington Monument is a fair day’s sight- seeing. hy. They were taken in a flat on | he le and with them were ! - .:m cd several trunks filled with let The Cuban Difficulty Settled. ters and documents of the most in.| The Cubans are to be congratulited cendinry character. These papers. it |on their settiement of the dispute that is ved. will on esamination fur- grew out of the recent presidential nish evidence of a wideflung con- | contest. The congress has proclaimed spiracy of radicalism involving many ! who have been heretofore mer der general The a are rated as the most important made since the establishment of the com- munist in this country. They were made just at the right time, for there are evidences that the radica suspicion. party i | | i | have ¥ nning demonstrations in on May day. parade is to be held tomorrow. In pi tion for it the| promoters have prepared banners to| be borne in line. The poiice banned jsome of them, but others they ap-! ! proved. These latte < de ed in a dispatch, are of an inc diary char- acter 1 it is a matter of marvel | that they should be passed. They| praise the soviet and the third inter- nationale, and call for the overthrow | of capitalism and the reorzanization | of the Amer sial system. They | are distinctly revolutionary. The Chi- cago police take credit for having bar. red the red flag. but the banners they have permitted are just as bad if not worse. It would perhaps police in all cities where these M day proce: s are held to insist upon the registration with names and ad- dresses of all persons who march be- ;hind incendia flags and banners. | Any person who subscribes thus ini public to the doctrines of bolshevism { and international revolution should be classed as a suspect. If this require- ment were known in advance fewer people would march. These demonstrations are danger- ous. They incite disorder. On several | occasions paraders have been attacked, | particularly by former service men, | ‘who bitterly resent the public appear- ance of avowed enemies of the gov-| ernment. Tragedies have occurred in consequence of these affairs and the police of any city would be justified in refusing permission for the proces- sions regardless of the banners carried or the flags borne. % Perhaps the wide spread of the knowledge of the New York arrests and paper seizures will have a deter-! rent effect upon May day demonstra- | tions. Nobody knows what names are | + involved in the papers seized. The rats are likely to run to their holes in fear, —_——— American Business Abroad. At Yokohama Gen. Leonard Wood was the guest at dinner of several hundred Americans residing there and at Tokio, and in an address he told | them that “President Harding would | do everything possible to establish the | commercial policy of the United States, including a proper share of the ocean carrying trade and a helpful co-opera- tion with American business men | abroad.” This assurance will bear fruit. Those | to whom it was given—business men in residence in the orient and operat- . ing there—will be the more active for i feeling that they have the sympathy, | ' and if necessary will have the support, of their home government: that the | President has them, and Americans | everywhere in business abroad, in! mind, and will assist them with an adequate American merchant marine. Both England and Japan look out for their nationals engaged in busi- ness abroad in this way: and the policy accounts in part for the suc- cess of the English and the Japanese in their ventures at a distance from . home, and for the great success th:l!l attends the ocean carrying enter-| ! prises of those peoples. ‘We could not do better than copy | | the example of nations distinguished as traders, whose commercial policies ! have long been established—England's for centuries—and who will be the! . keener on profits and progress hr‘r'ausn‘ of our entrance into the field. They | compliment us by assuming that we | will put up a stiff competition, and | give them a run for their mone; and | we should not disappoint them. | —_——— {points to and promises popular rule be possible for the Legislative leaders have for some | time insisted that so long as there is no fighting it m s well be dmitted | that there exists a state of peace. Walking Up the Monument. Shutting down the clevator of the Washington Monument s occasion- Iy necessary. because owing to the ! peeuliarity of the structure only on car can be i led it is requisite from time to time to overhaul it and put § in order. For there is no busier ator in Wi gton. 1t probably holds the record for passenger-<arry- ing. 1 With the elevator out of serviee it hecomes necessary for all who want 1o ascend the great shaft to climb the | steps and descend by the same means. There are several hundred of these steps. It is a long, tiresome proceed- ing to go wp. and not much less tire. some to descend. During part of the way up the tedium is lessened by the various memoria! stones let into the inner walls, presented by states, foreign countries and patriotic so. ! that |even on the streets. this, which is the object now of careful | Dr. Zayas the winner, and he will be inaugurated May 20. ve m It would have been a gr: had the contestants pressed their con- tentions to the point of forcing Ame jcan intervention. We did not d to perform that office. Our dy Cuba keep her own flag flying. 1d continue to manage her own af- fairs Our She fortun: from the s the neighbor is fear trouble full of trouble none of a foreign na- ture her. The Unite State jeld against that. She has only, therefore, to keep her own house in order to profit by all opportunities that may come her way She is rich in resources, and the proper development should make he one of the most prosperous countr of her size in the world. And now is the time for her to push her enterprises. A new order is form- ing evervwhere. vet clearly defined, island not outside As world now is, ens is but everything where the other kind of rule long pre- vailed. Cuba is, and for a score of years has been, in control of her own af- fairsend should not. by any or violent act, risk a permanent sur- render of them even 1o so good and capable a friend Music Week. Washington is to have a music week from the 29th of May to the Tth of June. During that week the National Capital will ring with song every- where, in all places of assemblage, in schools, and churches, in the stores, and in the departments, and perhaps The purpose of preparatory organization, is to get ‘Washington to singing in peace time as it sang in war, to open the voice of public expression. The preparations onsist of the training of leaders. For 'without leaders there can be no com- munity singing. These leaders are to be developed during the interval be- fore the “week.” Representatives of already existing groups and organiza- tions are to be given training, sifted out and selected to the point of de- veloping about 100 capable song lead- ers for the District. This is a “drive,” but it is costing nothing. It is, on the contrary, a gift to the city of Washidgton. It is cer- tain to yield results. It makes for a happier community. fixed custom of community singing which will be beneficial. Scores upon scores of meetings are held in Washington by citizens—men and women—every season. Those meetings, would be better, more ef- fective, more influential of good if opened and closed with song. But there are few leaders to start the sing- ing, to set the rhythm, to inspire the people to lift up their voices and let themselves go. Perlaps out of “music week” will come these leaders, so that hereafter Washington will sing when- ever it meets, for whatever purpose. It will be a better community for it. ———— Experts in economics regard the business in this country as practically at an end. The assurance is also given that European affairs continue to of- fer opportunities worthy of the most eminent abilities in all parts of the globe in the line of problem-solving. —————— German business men naturally hope the indemnity will be so arranged as to permit them to become popular with foreign customers when their trade boom develops. Good will is an exceedingly valuable asset. —_—— Judge Landis rode on a locomotive and rang the bell. The judge's versa- tile activities will be regarded by the practical political campaigner as more or less in the nature of wasted energy. ——— France and Germany have intro- duced expert accounting as one of the important branches of modern diplo- macy. ———— Among the lessons taught by the the manufacture of Ameri- tuffs. Having returned from public owner- ship the rallroads are wondering where they go next. Divisions on Capitol Hill. Some surprise is expressed at the divisions now appearing on Capitol Hill in the matter of interpreting the platform on which the republican party won last year. One might sup- pose the way plain and simple; that no room existed for two opinions in republicun circles on any of the sub- keep right on, and you cannot miss it. | This view of the case leaves out of | consideration the fact that the repub- | lican chart was not easily construct- Its shape is not as| mpatient | the United States. | It may lead to a | jecta covered by the party chart. Just | in the one contest than in the other. But there was & contest over whe platform, and none the less earnest and vigorous because confined in the main to the rooms of the platform committee. While the maneuverings about Wood and Lowden and Harding and Johnson were holding the atten- tion of the town, and the country at large through means of the wire used frecly, the men who had been ap-¢ pointed to construet the platform were ! grappling with a great variety of sug-| gestions coming from many different sources. And it was no easy task to j make the selections that were reported | {to the convention and adopted. i This contest has in a way and to a cemstructing the platform. The arowd l steps ever get an adequate view of |at the convention was more interested ; these stones, althougi they can be Editorial Digest Are Unions Useless? Judge Gary's statement that “there is no necessity for unions” cannot be sald to be the opinion of the Ameri- can press, but his general of labor organizations is found contain *“a substantial truth,”” as the New Bedford Standard (republican) expresses it, to whlrhf the majority of { While some writers consider that the teel Corporat. 'n’s head has sounded | ar warning in declaring that gov- ernment control is the on evils of unionism, few think that this step is either imminent or serfously to to_be contemplated. The Cincinnati Times-Star (republi- can) anting @ measure of truth” to| Mr. Gary. strik note of com- degree been rencwed in Congress. A great vari being | {offered about e H mises urged. Commnittees of the House | and of the Senate are now wrestling | as the platform committee wresticd at Chicago last year, and over some | of the same clashing propositions. ! —_—————— A Gratifying Appointment. | The decis of President ! Harding to retain Charles F. Marvin, | chicf of the weather burcau, in office ! linvolves a double source of gratifica-! { tion to those who follow, from one ad- | | ministration to another, the trend of { political appointments. The action of | ‘the President connotes, in { place. a full appreciation of the degre of efficiency with which Mr. Marvin ! rved the nation since h {upon his present work in 1 |is the personal side, and in that side | Mr. Marvin's many friends in the Dis- | {trict find large e for gratification. | ! But over and above this, the cours }of the President lends substance to the general understanding that the Iministration proposes to retain in all those occupying govern- posts who have es recent on s m A i {office {mental scient itablished their ability to fill the chair There b been too the positions things of politic the efficiency in the past, strong a tendency to make in question the pla; . The evidence that nd ability of the incum- bent is today to be the basic factor in deciding for or against his retention in office will add its fair quota to the satisfaction with which the public watches the inception of the Harding administration. f Natives of Yap, like those of other parts of the world, go on dancing to weird, primitive strains without both- ering their heads about the topics of the day. ! English miners are disposed to de- lay the settlement of a direct ques-| tion of wages in order to solve some rather abstruse problems in general economics. l Canada and the United States of | America have managed to give a val- | uable demonstration of the harmony | with which it is possible for nations to live as neighbors. i | The Berlin of ten years ago never expected to see the day when Bern- storff would have more to say in pub- lic affairs than Wilhelm Hohenzollern. } Many a “dollar-a-year,” like the one earned by Charles M. Schwab,- should be ‘paid in silver and engraved as a medal of honor. l Possible reservations and amend- ments still come up for attention when a landlord makes a rental contract. l Sailors insist that the Shipping Board is all at sea in its estimates of wage reduction. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Rules and Regulations. He planned a joyous motor trip, He studied all the highways. The precious hours gave him the slip Through detours and through by- ways. He never made the real start; In long procrastinations l He halted as he learned by heart The rules and regulations. I Once, when the telephone he used, He drifted into slumber As the directions he perused - On how to call a number. The letters that he penned with pride Would miss their destinations. | He lingered o'er the postal guide | For rules and regulations. 80 a Utopia he planned. He thought that he had done ft, ‘When an extensive list he scanned Of laws by which to run it. The simple sway of common sense, Dear to his aspirations, Was lost in an array immense Of rules and regulations. Power and Its Responsibilities. “The world is mine!” exclaimed the Count of Monte Cristo. 'What'll we do about it?” inquired his secretary; *“‘raise rates to the pub- lic or reduce them Sphinxes. Some statesmen offer thoughts pro- found, Which prove a public blessing, And some succeed by standing ‘round And keeping people guessing. Unwritten. “We are told that Russia now has many unwritten laws.” “It seems probable,” said Miss Cayenne. “The laws appear at times to change so rapidly that no typist could keep up with them.” A Prompt Approval. “What is your opinion of relatir ty?” “I approve of it,” replied Senator Sorghum. “Then | oughly “Friend, it I had always been re- quired to understand thoroughly everything I approved of 1 should you understand it thor- ed. There was more racket at Chicago| have transacted considerable less po-|millions of dollars yearly to the tax- cieties during the eariy-period of con-| over, naming the ticket than over|litical business.” {in Judge Gary's generalization, Harrisburg Telegraph (republican) declares that his views will ha the ment. when it says: ome labot would seize control of all industry. Some employers would destroy all! abor unions. The average American | content with the existing situation | in the United States. with the unions! strong_enough to curb the powers of | the cmployers, but not strong enough to establis dictatorship of their own Likewise. allowing for the trut the popular support t o far as they reticet public sentiment in its atti- tude toward properly curbing some of the radica and no_farthe: v York activities of the unions The Times (i democ finds Mr. Gary i not quite “adequate And though it | considers 1is policy is abso- | bitely humane.” it asks “would it} ve been quite what it is if there | id been no pre abo; ure from organized | rthright but not wise” is the comment of the New York Globe (in- tent) the judge's remarks, | i represent views held e that “held sanc- Jemocra; it con- des, its drawbacks and col- lective bargaining based on trade | nism is no Utopia, but both rep- ent prozress and steps toward hu- in tion in A sim iewpoint is Norfolk Virginian-Pilot | democratic), which | at “many of the acts of la- are to be denounced,” but are probably no more inimical to socicty than the vast ag- gregations of capital and manage- ment so conspicuously typified by Judge Gary's Steel Corporation.” A number of writers, without sub- scribing to a program that would seck the abolition of the workers' organization, take Mr. Gary's state- as the theme for editorials point out the dangers that | ‘e industry and the unions elves unless they mend their Typical of this'is the Boston (independent republican). It The public will agree with much that he says upon the selfish tyranny of many labor leaders of the present time. but Judge Gary speaks with small autho.ity when he comments upon the past of organized labor. Labor stands to lose what it has won by organization through abuse of the ! power organization has yielded. Labor unionism_ has much in the past of which to be proud; its future depends upon its will and nerve to clean house. Right now the unions are at the criti- cal cross-roads of their history.” The plan of government control of labor and industry both is “neither new nor feasible,” declares the Reno e (republican), and the Provi- ice Tribune (independent republi- can) thinks “there will be spme doubters of Mr. Gary's sincerity” in suggesting it. The Sioux City Tribune (independent) takes the other side: “Whenever capital and labor clgse in combat and jeopardize property, there is a third party in the contro- versy, @ party vitally interested—the publ The Gary plan would give the public a ready-to-hand means of as- serting its rights.” A few come out strongly in praise of the judge without reservation. The New York Herald (independent) points 0 a “recoil from unionism,” due to ‘economic inefficiency” as emphasized by the judge. This reversion of feel- ing, says the New York Tribune (re- publican), has a reason, the responsi- bility for which “any Intelligent unionist can locate,”” namely, abuse of power. “Formerly labor was the under dog, and had sympathy as such. Now, in many industries, it is the up- per dog, and all know {t.” This growth of power must be end- ed, urges the Buffalo Commercial (in- dependent), which calls upon _its countrymen to “be not blind to this danger, but take our stand with the stockholders of the United States Steel Corporation and every other criticism | element of | newspapers agree. ||| block to [l ’ body of citizens who are making this fight against American bolshevism.” Can Sail Come Back? Acute depression is reported from the port of Liverpool. Freights are down to the prewar scale; costs are not. Labor is high and fuel is high and scarce. The coal strike has done 80 much to aggravate costs and scarcity that even the great trans- atlantic passenger lines are seriously handicapped. As for freight steam- ers, hundreds are tied up, because they cannot be operated profitably. All of tiis lends point to European discussions reported in one of the popular sclence periodicals of the re-! ibilities for sail naviga- tion. noted that steam did not drive sail from the seas until the problem of cheap fuel was solved. Now fuel is going up, while wind stays free @s it always In view of this, certain optimists, or pes- simists, according to the point of view, predict a revival of the clipper. Of course what is contemplated is not the old-fashioned clipper, but super- sailing ships with all the improve- ments of modern science. To the incurably romantic, there fs something very ttractive in the thought of a renaissance of sail. Jo- seph Conrad and his imitators’ have done their best to poetize the steam- ship, but it is not so grateful a sub- ject as the old-fashioned three-mas- der full sail. 1l people may object that; s the essence of modern civi- wion; that no price is too great to pay for speed and certainty in pas- senger traffic and for many kinds of freight. Still, free alr might have a nee at the slow freight. ven so, one important question Who will man the clippers? man of today is the dub S . Steam has produced a breed of tars that do not know the Chicago Daily News (inde- pendent). A Budget Law in Sight. After many exasperating delays, a law providing for a national budget system—the MecCormick bill, which creates a budget bureau to be con- ducted under the direction of the sident—is at last to become a real- The Senate has repeated the asure vetoed by former President Wilson, with a few minor changes meeting the constitutional objections that he advanced, and it seems certain that the House will do likewise. The enemies of budget legislation are devious and active. This the line of their specious argument: “Sup- rose the budget bureau heavily blue pencils the estimates submitted to it Ly a cabinet officer, and the latter makes an issue of the matter with the President, will the latter side with his cabinet officer or his budget bu- reau? If he sustains the bureau, will a sclf-respecting department head re- main in the cabinet, or resign?”’ The answer to such an Inquiry is that the President will be under a moral obligation to support the ag- tion of the budget experts, for their specific function {8 to correlate and Lring into perspective the annual es- timates submitted by all the depart- ments, to gauge thoir relative impor- tance and to pruno them to meet the estimated revenue yleld from the taxa- tion measures then In force, The best earnest of {ts intention to effect real retronchment and economy in governmental affairs is revealed by Congress in {ts passage of the budget bill. A properly framed budget sys- tem, functioning indcpendently and without {nterference, will save many payers of the country.—Baltimors Sun (independent democratie), e Beginning of a Six-Page Story This 1s the foreword of The 'Sales of May. The story proper will appear In the Sunday papers—-—and it will take six pages to tell but part of it---in the Star, the Post, the Times and the Herald. Back of the sales of May is simply CUSTOM. Women wear furs in July and diaphanous hosiery in January because it 1s CUSTOM. May Sales have become “part of the store Calendar itself. There is no good reason for such low prices now. - We are at the threshold of Summer. But we bow to sentiment. The Sales of May are a definite part of our merchandising plan. Even before the signs are taken down at the termination of one of them we're thinking of the following’ years. And so for months back we have been putting aside an unusual purchase here and a remarkable “buy" there.. and saying to our- selves, “Now., here's something worth saving for May.” Then we put it up to the firms with whom we do business, “Now look here, you've got to g‘ive us something real for our Sales of May.” And they respond to a man! What all these preparations mean you'll know when you pick up your Sunday papers. We made up our mind not to use a word in advertising The Sales of May that ended with “EST.” The items will do their own talking in the Sunday papers. You shall see! - | | I Y il i [l LIS i | I i i I il i il it | it & I 11 | e l | | il (it .