Evening Star Newspaper, May 13, 1921, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, With Spmday Merming Biltten WASHINGTOM, D & FRIDAY..........May 13 102 THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor are sailing from day to day. Non- union men have been put on board and ships have been cleared with a facility that has greatly shaken the faith of 1 | the erganimation leaders in the solidar- ity of the marine workers’ unions. They are realizing now that a ship strike is a very difficult thing to man- The Evening s;rmc.-. age. A ship that is manned with non- Bustaces Office, 11¢h St. and Peausyivania Ave. New York Ofice: 150 Nassad 8% mfll«: Firet Natienal Bask Builiag. Office: 3 The Evening Star, with the Sunda: y moraing 7 wlition, fa deilvered by carriers within the ity | mill or a mine. s Be | might arise in the case of eoastwise sie | ships putting into American ports, in &Y @ conts per month: daily only, 48 Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginis. Daily and Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1 mo. 70 | g¢ (ho Am only. . 1 e 1 mo. B d »$8.00. only 1 ;g“ 1 me., 20 All Other States. Duily and hm.lyr,.nlu;imn.m’ z‘ only .00; 1 mo.. $6c v $3.00° 1 mo.. 26¢ [ District Water Supply. ‘With the matter of water supply for the National Capital under considera- tion by the Senate committee on mil- Mary affairs, the District of Columbla anxiously awaits that body's report to the Senate on the Army bill. For that is the measure which, carrying an item of $200,000 for starting work on a new conduit from Great Falls, passed successtully through both wings of the Capitol at the last session of | Congress, only to die under the “pocket veto” of President Wilson. The dismay of Washingtonians when the House failed to attach the indi- cated item to the bill when it came up for action at the current session ‘was tempered by the happy conscious- fess that it was in the Senate that the proposal for such an item originated at the last session, and the resulting belief that that body could be counted upon to see that the needed appropria- tion was not overlooked when the bill should again come before it. Nor is there reason to believe that this cdnfidence was misplaced. The urgency of the situation will be brought out fully in the committee. The Secret; of War has indicated that he is aware of the necessity for prompt action along the lines Indicated and wil favor the authorization of the improve- went by the Army bill. All that is nécessary for favorable action in the Senate is an understanding of the dan- mer of present conditions. Briefly in- dicated, the basic facts in the case are these: The existing system of water supply to the District has for some time lack- od a margin of safety. The city is “today dependent for its water upon a single line of supply which, because it i# being already pushed to its approxi- mate daily maximum capacity, cannot be properly maintained. " As has been pointed out by the ex- perts charged with the making of .I report to Congress upon the subject, “the time has passed when an ex- pansion of the system would be sim- My a wise provision to care for a growing population.” It has become an immediate necessity as insurance against a complete breakdown of serv- ice, with consequences of an exceed- ingly grave nature. The various plans whereby that expansion can best be effected, from the three angles of ade- quacy, cost and speed, have been most earefully canvassed by experts. Hap- pily, the plan involving the lowest eost likewise may be most speedily consummated and, at the same time, will insure an adequate supply for sixty years to come, allowing for a normal growth of the city during this period. That plan has therefore, been recom- mended. It involves the construction of a new intake gatehouse at Great Falls and an additional cenduit from that point to the Dalecarlia reservoir, ‘which, with the necessary tunnels and the gatehouse at the reservoir, will cost $3.651,000. New flltration, steam and hydro-electric plants at the reser- voir, together with a distribution reser- voir at Idaho avenue and the piping and tunneling necessary to deliver to that point and thence to the city mains, bring the total estimated cost for the work up to $8,281,000. That appropriations for the carrying out, of this plan should normally be made under the District bill is. of course, a fact. But with the =*,gation as it stands today aa smpropriation for immediately starting the necessary work cannot be so made. To delay the inauguration of the work until the drafting of the next District bill would, under existing conditions, be dangerous. It may therefore be con- fidently anticipated that the final draft of the Army bill will carry an appro- priation item under which a start may be made toward relieving & very real menace to the health and security of the National Capital. i The best minds of Berlin have agreed that an indemnity charge can- not be talked off the books. l Europe has enough coal disputes without permitting the Rubr to add another element of controvegsy. Every President of the United States bas found that rejected advice is likely to turp into adverse criticiam. The Ship Strike. A new aspect of the ship strike sit- uvation has just developed that puts the government in a novel role. The Shipping Board has refused to accede to the demands of the marine en- ®mineers and seamen, after repeated efforts to adjust differences. and is now proceeding to operate its vessels with non-union crews. It is putting some to sea, though many are tied up in port. Some of the lines, however, are yielding to the unions and meet- ing the demanded scale. Certain of these are operating ships of the Ship- ping Board, on lease and partial pay- ment purchase. The Shipping Board has now withdrawn its ships from all such firms and companies on the ground that it is improper to use the government's own ships to break down the board's position respecting the wage demands. Thus far six ships, aggregating about 85.000 tons, have been withdrawn and it is estimated that tHere are fully fifty ships in the egent 8., Lendon, Buglasd. | With during the voyage. unten labor and sent to sea, especially te a foretgn port, eannot be interfered There can be no picketing as in the case of a Some complication comnection with the discharge of cargo. But In this particular case the point of chief interest lies in the for- eign trade. This strike aims a blow ican merchant mariue in its velations with the world earriers outmide of American waters. The strike was unwisely begun and s net being wisely, conducted. Of course, heavy losses are being suffered by shlp owners, American cargoes are beiug taken by ships flying foreign flags. This country is losing ground in the matter of world trade. But to date the chief loases have been those of the operatives, who fiave suffered the lack of wages and particularly the loss of public sympathy. ————— A Useful Publication. Now that the glind on Capitol Mill is in progress again, jokes at the ex- pense of the Congressional Record— some of them hoary with age—are re- appearing. Why is the publication? Who reads it? Has it a single inter- ested reader but the proofreader? I Yes, at least two others. One is the man who helps make it. The senator or representative who likes his office and wants to keep it reads the Record with care and especially when he ap- pears in it. When he lms spoken he wants to see if his remarks are cor- rectly recorded. When he has voted he wants to see if his name is in the right column. He is thinking of the campaign for re-election. The other man is at home figuring on succeeding that semator or repre- sentative; searching the Record for a possible slip of the tongue or mistaken vote on the part of the legislator. Let a slip or mistaken vote appear, and the aspiring man behind the firing line, but anxious for & place there, pounces on it, and parades it in his speeches for all it may be worth as a campaign document. But, of course, there are many other readers of the Record—great numbers. There is no publication comparable with it for information about govern- mental matters; about what is going on in Congress, and what the people at hbme are thinking. The bills and resolutions introduced: the petitions presented; the speeches made and votes cast, are indexes of public sen- timent in the raw—sometimes very raw—as well as of sentiment which shows thought in its formation. As The Star has said before, the Record is so good and useful a publica- tion it ought to be illustrated—ought to carry pictures. i Bryan of Nebraska. Constant speculation plays around Mr. Bryan and his movements, pur- poses and ambitions. It marks his continuing hold on the public. It shows him to be still an “is,” and not a “has been.” It is a sort of warning that they reckon ill who count him out. Some years ago he fancied Texas for duck shooting, and made visits to the state in the shooting season. This gave rise to a story that he would locate there and become a citizen of the state. But he continued to reside in Nebraska. A few years later he fancied North Carolina for Its mountain air, and made visits to that state to fill his lungs with tarheel ozone, as so many others do. that he would shortly pull up his Nebraska stakes and pitch his tent on s high place in the Old North state. But his tent—the stakes well driven in—remained in the Blackwater state. Since then Mr. Bryan has fancied Florida, and acquired property there for uses as a winter home. But he is not a Floridian. He is still a Nebraskan. Mr. Bryan's supporters do not ex- pect him to change base. Their calcu- lation is that he will continue a Ne- braskan to the end of the chapter, and active in politics to the last day. They believe he would lose in public inter- est and influence by transferring his residence at this late day: that as he won his spurs as a western man he will be best advised in wearing them as such as long as spurs remain a feuture of his political toggery. l Many democrats are inclined to re- gard every arrangement for foreign conference with this country as a league of nations in disguise. l Uncle Joe Cannon will recognize “irreconcilable” as merely an ornate modern substitute for “standpatter.” i The money saved by economy on printed time tables has made very little impression on the railroad deficit. \ Marine workers will remember the spring of 1921 for a terrible storm on land. Time can usually be relied on to bring about an ultimatum whose ef- fect is actually ultimate. Superstition’s Big Day. Friday the 13th, the old jinx day! It is remarkable how many people there are who disclaim to be supersti- tious, and yet refuse to start anything or take any chances on sucha day. Oh, no, they have no use for signs and portents, and they think the hoodoo is an extinct creature and they take no stock in symbols and presages of evil. Yet they will never walk under a ladder, or step off the curb with the left foot, or look at the new moon over the left shoulder, or fail to cross fingers in meeting a person with strabismic eyes. That is not super- stition, it is just avolding chances. It is common sense. So why not sit tight on Friday the 13th, and while paying no !'tribute to the ill-repute of the day sime category. ‘The strike has rot tied up American shipping completely, and more ships play safe? ‘Then there are some who maintain that Friday the 13th is a sort of dou- ‘This gave rise to a story | | ble negative, and therefore a specially good day. The Friday evil nullifies the 13th hoodoo, as it were. The old fear of the simple Friday is long since past. Time was when no shipmaster wouid put to sea on that day for fear of mutiny, even if he himself was free of apprehension. There is no em- bargo now on miling days. A ship salls when scheduled, or when ready, whatever the day or date. Why. if that old inhibition prevailed generally no engineer would take a railroad train out for its scheduled run en Fri- day. And even today ships will sail {if they can get crews, and railroad trains, of course, will follow the time table, if they Conservatives will observe the day, |80 to speak, and radicals will defy it. an. Yet this does not mean that y whe take no heed of the calender, but do whatever the day calls for are { radicals. Probably the utmost [ es in pursuing the even tene way without theught of evil Influences or pessibilities, The truth is that fear is the werst hooduo that can be in- vited, whatever the day of the year. Goldman Longs for “Home.” Friends of Kmma Goldman in Pitts- burgh, it is reported, have received letters from her recently in which she says that she wants to return to the United States and die hers, and she asks her friends to ald her to return to America. Nothing Is said in the statements of thewe friends respecting her health, though the intimation is that she s suffering and feels that her end Is drawing near. If Emma Goldman is really repent. ant, If she has completely realized the folly of radicalism, it might be well to let her come back and tell the peo- ple of thie country a few things. She did not want to go to Russia. She and Berkman were pushed on board ship and sent away against their will. Logically they shoul have been glad to go to the land of true equality and glorious opportunity. Their reluctance may have been feigned, but it was probably genuine, for they are reading people and although they doubtless distrusted much of the news from Rus- sia they knew that conditions over there were likely to be unpleasant. Nobody has ever accused Goldman and Berkman of being genuine martyrs. They have always had enough to eat and wear. They have had, indeed, a pretty easy time and have made a good living out of their radicalism. A repentant Goldman, convinced of the blunder of bolshevism, converted to true Americanism by her experi- ence in Russia, would be an interest- ing exhibit on the platform in this country. But before she is ever allow- ed to return, if that day should come, she should be put through the most searching tests hs to her sincerity. Under a ‘“‘suspended sentence” she might be given a holiday at home—if this can' be ‘called her home. Her present nostalgia is in itself, as re- flected in heriletters, a wholesome in- fluence. A movie comedian burned his feet and his make-up by stumbling oyer a torch while impersonating a piimber. This should teach him not to make fun of serious matters. The exercise of invisible power in politics used to be feared. Apprehen- sion has now shifted from subgovern- ment to supergovernment. Assurances are at least given that fears of Uncle S8am’s becoming isolated are entirely unfounded. i l English photographers requested Ambassador George Harvey to smile. Nothing easier! The fighting is over, but Berlin statesmanship entertains the hope of a little quarreling. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHN: Hez Discusses Poetry. “A little poetry is great,” Said Hezekiah Bings. “Out there beyond the garden gate A robin sweetly signs. He seeks no wisdom to display In rhythms linked with care; And yet 1 know he means to say That life is good and fair. “My mind gets lost when human song | Drifts into a refrain Inspired by erudition strong Or frivolous disdain. A little poetry will touch The heart's responsive strings. There is sad discord in too much”— * Said Hezekiah Bings. { To Be Taken Seriously. “You have been very successful in the game of politics.” “l don’t call it a game,” replied Senator Sorghum. ‘The man who sucoeeds is the one who never regards | it as a sport, but always means busi- néss.” Jud Tunkins says some men need 80 many helpers they use up half a working day calling the roll. Listeners in Demand. Everybody sings a tune Or makes a speech immense. It may be necessary soon ‘To hire an audience. An Economist. “Are your boy’s tastes expensive?” *Not always,” said Farmer Corn- tossel, hopefully. “I have noticed that Josh would rather hear a 50-cent j; record than the highest-priced grand opera that the phonograph affords.” “As long as a man’'s alive,” said |Uncle Eben, “he Kin be useful. Dar's only one real failure and dat's heart failure.” ———— A straw hat also shows which the wind blows—Baltimore San. 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The Cabinets are solid and beautiful; the Motors are of a well known make and reliable; the Reproducers are clear Editorial Digest Panama Rebuked. The feeling that “with the help of a few marines” if necessary, Panama must and can be made to “behave” is reflected in newspaper comment on Secretary Hughes' latest note to that “truculent little republic” regarding its boundary dispute witk Costa Rica. With but a few exceptions editorial writers ‘support the Hughes ultima- tum as the only position which the United States could take in the mat- ter of returning to Costa Rica the strip of land granted it in the White award. Those who withhold their ap- proval do so on the ground that this courtry is assuming an imperialistic attitude, which gives Panama no re- course but complian: Mr. Hughes' note, Christian Sclence Monitor (Boston. in dependent) “put the whole matter clearly, =0 elearly; in fu would Seem no one eould lquestion the attitude end the fr ship of the Usited States In the | 8. Rather thas Yarbitrayy dicta- * the Hushes siste merely insists adherenvs (o 4 Solemn agree- ment volunt by Iy et Panama, and reeosnition of “the binding eharacter” of that pledge. In refusing {0 eomply with the | terms of the afhitration award, "Pan- am. ws a corry flanre before the In the opinioti of the Phil hia Bylietin (ndependent repub- n), and her apparent assumption iat the United Atates 1s under obligation to suppurt any terrlitoral | claima® which she Ma¥ advanee id | merely absurd. Tf this la the atti- tude of the “tiny republie” 8he “has clearly misinterpreted” {he American guarahtee of pelitical and territorial i p integrity, the Ryracuse Post:Rtand- ard (republiean) raye, sinee nothine In that promise can he interpreted to mean that the ['nited Rtat “would protect them n what they wanted without bothering to Inquire whether they were r-nlll|u3 to 1t.7 | Further, It 18 clear to the New York | Times (independent demoeratio) that | no government can afford “to guar- | antea the Independence of & oountry with & Rhifting boundary line pending upon the caprice of the govs ernment protected.” Exprossing the general feeling of the proes that “Panama has & poer cane.” the Mobile Register (demo- cratic) rominds that country thal she owes the fact that she I8 & nation at all to the United Btates, and that, therefore, “she cannot afford to for- felt our good will and that of her nelghbors for the sake of & few acr: more or less.” The Providence Jou nal (independent) feels that, llke child defying its nurse” Panama simply manifesting “a disagreeable temper that has become famillar; and “with the whole course of senti- ment in the region affected” fgrned against her and her clalm. the Nhah- ville Banner (independent) doubts that “the value of the strip of ter- ritory in dispute” is worth all the bother it s causing. However, at the “explicit com- mand"” of the American State Depart- ment the New York Herald (inde- pendent) is confident that “the land in dispute will now go back to Costa Rica and it will stay there, since | the United States government makes | itself permanently responsible for this righteous settlement.” The Buf- falo News (republican) also has no doubt that the terms of the Hughes note will be complied with, since “outside of a little government clique in Panama_ nobody seriously ques- tions that the United States is right. As the Lexington Leader (republic- an) sees it, another position than that taken by Secretary Hughes would be impossible, because “we are stand- ing for international justice and for the sanctity of treaties,” and Panama must be made to keep faith, else “the principle of arbitration, which would seem to be priceless, will eventually be discarded and the world will be ! thrown back on the reign of force.” The whole incident demonstrates to the Springfield Republican (independ- ent) “the fiction of Panama's alleged independence.” Even under the Mon roe doctrine, the Republican main- tains, “the United States would have no right to compel Panama to vield to Costa Rica if Panama were fully independent, and sovereign.” The San Francisco Chronicle (inde- pendent) questions the “authority” under which the President could send an armed force into Central America to enforce the Hughes ulti- matum. The Wheeling Intelligencer (republican) goes farther. and ques- tions the justice of the American position, since Panama is merely holding the disputed territory “be- cause Costa Rica holds another strip of territory which Panama claims,” and whatever merit there may be in her contention, the Hughes note leaves her no choice but to submit. Mr. Gompers Reports. 1t is unnecessary for Mr. Gompers to assure his audience, as he did at Cincinnati, that the “American labor movement is the only labor movement of any country on the globe where organized workers have not their hand on the throat of their govern- ment* But it is also true that in no other country does governing insti- futions have as firm a clutch on the throat of the workers. The Kansas industrial act and the various anti- syndicalist acts are evidence of this. The same dispatches that carried the | above statement also carried the news | that Gov. Cox of Massachusetts had signed a bill permit legal sui Against the unions, although there was a eneral protest lodged by the latter o s it true that the organ- crs do not have their hand throat of the government, but | y twenty years of ding friends and punishing mies.” the unions have less influ- ce in shaping legislation than they Qecade following 1530, 1 {They have less influence in t 65["'\" ment of Country on the globe.” |1t is just vell when surveying the situaiion that all the facts should be “pendulum does not ng one way." Just why ster_forces should have the after three years of inti- iation with Mr. Gompers | nt work of making us all mocracy” the speaker does | r. But there is the confession | v “have the upper hand now.’ thetic admission of lack of p is far from inspiring. One might glory f defiance even if the organization were weak if the leadership had never maneuvered the ! o zation into support of a reac- | | tiona But having support- | enemy and then being kicked se of it is far from inspirin 1t is humiliating. . the or- ganized masses under this leadership pay the bills, which probably enables this leadership to endure the situa- | tion with true Christian resignation. —New York Call (socialist). i Honor Among Thieves, Here's a no complaint. 1t is al- ed to come from the “Tramways | k ' Association S | | their victims have the “dishon- | le it" of reporting their losses as T 4 really are. When | i i those who share | cuse the man who brought holding out” on the others. “See, they ci ‘thg police réport says yo: got 2,500 lire. You've only turned in | Where's the rest? And that trouble in the ancient and honorable” fraternitv. 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