Evening Star Newspaper, May 16, 1921, Page 6

. on the appointment, 3 THE EVENING STAR, LTHE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY....... .May 16, 1921 THEODORE W. NOYES. . .. Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office. 11th St. and Penasylvania Ave. New York Office: 130 Nasean St First Natiopal Bank Ruilding with the Sunday morninz r< within the only. 45 per month. Or or tslephone Main carriers &t the ts per end of eac manth. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. | Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday .1 yr. $8.40: 1 mo.. T0c Daily only.... 1 ¥r.. $6.00 1 mo Sunday only 1 107 tmo., |eity within recent months. tend to alienate public support. Rows over questions of precedence which hold up great works and deprive workers of their wages lessen public patience. Immense losses are entailed upon the individual members of the crafts, upon and upon the people by long. conflicts over hairsplitting is- sues. When funerals are halted be- cause of this issue the limit of ab- surdity has been reached. 1In this particular case the question could have with greater decency and propriety been worked out later. But no! The | prevailing spirit is to “go to the mat” on the spot. to regard no conventions - sentiments, or obligations, but to =ht in @ manner to draw the utmost degree of public notice. —————— General Warfare. All Other States. Iraily and Sunday.1yr., $10.00; 1 mo.. Daily only 1vr.. $7.00: 1 mo. Sunday only.......13T. The President and Immigration. The emergency immigration meas. | ure is now in the President's hands. Aithough there has been no suggestion i some of the apponents « of a veto measure heir the ex trav measure s repre sented our past history and t f the fathers. If hel signs it th sident is told. the! fathers will stiv in their graves. and his next step after signing should be the issuance of an order dismantling the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor. Rubbish: 1 The fathers dealt with no such case as we are dealing with. In their day America was but sparsely settied. There was room for millions, and mil- lions of settlers were desired. We had | no teeming cities, rocking with the | unrest of the unemploved. | Nor was Europe rocking with the | unrest and disorder resulting from a| world war. Those of her people in-| fluenced by the spirit of adventure! were turning Americaward in search| of new homes, and with the intention | of helping to build up the institutions ! they would find on this side of the| Atlantic H We are dealing. as the fathers did, with a condition. The country is by no means filled up. There is room for | a much larger population; and in good | time—at a comparatively early day— | the gates will be wide open again and | the glad hand extended. i The measure in question, as the! name indicates, is for an emergency, of whose existence there can be no, doubt. When the emergency passes— ' as pass it will—we can return to the| old liberal order. The Senate and Open Sessions. Senator Harrison should feel com- plimented and encouraged by the num-{ ber of votes he was able to poll in| favor of his proposition for open ses-| wions of the Semate in dealing with | appointments to office and with| treaties. The reference of the prop-| osition for committee action, may, as | its author thinks it will, resuit in its defeat, but he, or some other senator in agreement with him, can renew it: at a more propitions time. Two phrases, both coined by Wood- row Wilson, have had. and are still having, considerable vogue—"pitiless| publicity” and “open covenants, openly | arrived at.” Publicity as to appointments to of-; fice is not pitiless, but often the op-| posite. Where there is conmtroversy | of a personal eharacter about an ap- tee it ie always aired in conversa-| tion and often in the newspapers be- fore the airing behind the closed doors of the Semate takes place. But it should be aired in public officially, so to say. The Senate, which must act should take its action in a way te leave nothing to hearsay. or invention, or suspicion. Roth the appointee and the public are ' entitled to the squarest of square deals. As to treaties, the open discussion | of the Colombian treaty by the Senate i« fresh in point. The controversy over ;of man to be at odds with authority. | passing before him. i man at home? What are his manifes- i tions, east and west, are undergoing Peace has been restored to the world —in spots. In other spots war is rag- in There is war in Upper Silesia, where the Poles are trying to take possession notwithstanding the recent plebiscite. There is war in Asia Minor, where the (ireeks are trying to estab. lish sovereignty against the Turks. There is war in Russia on the edge the bolshevik are There is civil in Ireland. In Italy two factions are boml dinz. with a truce | just declared for election. There is| i 1 war in Encland. Allied | troops stand ready at the Rhine to move into Germany in case of failure compliance with the peace terms. There isa chronic state of belligerency in China. There is serious disturbance in Mexico. There isa bit of @ war up in the mountains of West Virginia in this country, the outgrowth of labor trou- bles. Truth is. there is never a complete state of peace in the world. If the nations are all on friendly terms with ome another there are domestic trou- bles. It seems to be the normal state In this country. with its great range dane weather conditions. ever, are not entirely this planet to these “freckles.” great of that category. spots in the future big enough to work a cataclysmic influence upon this lit- tle sphere. “Stunt™ Flying. A young nan has just es a new world's record of succ loops b blished sssive air a turning over 198 time ngle flight. She did this at Mineola N. Y. in the presence of 10,009 spec tators. Having previously looped-the loop eighty-eight times. and thereby established the highest mark of “stunt’ fiying by women, she set a pace yes- terday that will be hard to exceed. But what is the advantage? Yester- day's exhibition gave a lot of people on the ground some thrills. But the science of aviation was in no wise advanced. The flight undoubtedly tested the stability of the plane, which was fubjected to severe strains in its tumblings in the air, but for all prac- tical purposes of straight flying any Mtandard plane is supposed to be be- and wide variety of conditions, dis- turbance is the order of the day some- where for some cause. This present West Virginia trouble is a continua- tion of a veritable warfare that has been raging in the mine region for months. Public authority has been set at naught. Only superior force is recognized. and that is resisted to the last possible point. { Much of the present trouble is the result of the great war, which loosed forces of evil and strong passions all over the world. It stirred the fighting spirit. It aroused the factiogism of men. It created false economic con- ditions and set awry the relations be- tween workers and employers. It established false standards of value. Better times will come, of course, but there will always remain until the millennium areas of disturbance. The true peacemaker is he who lessens ignorance and allays passion and prejudice and develops the law-con- science of mankind. many A Journey of Observation. The Crown Prince of Japan is in London having “the time of his life.” | Doubtless he was instructed upon leav- ing home to keep his eyes pen while abroad, and not only observe but re- member and appraise men and things This injunction is especially im- portant while the young man is in the great capital of his country's ally. What manner of man is the English- tations under his own vine and fig| tree? What are his governmental and | business and social methods? i The opportunity for such observa- | tion is exceptional. The prince’s hosts | are showing him every hospitality. They are all alive in the conduct of their affairs, political, business and | social. The times are unusual, and all occidental institutions are undergoing a severe test. This is true of every country properly described as western. It is true also of every country prop- erly described @s eastern. All institu- severer tests than at any time since their inauguration. This journey, therefore, is bound to the canal matter had been so protract- ed and so acrimonious—had produced | 80 many charges and counter charges | of a personal nature—that a debate ! and vote behind closed doors would have been an injustice to everybody concerned. and particularly to those senators who were on the eve of re- versing themselves. Nobody balked in the open sessions, and now the world is correctly and officially advised of the final disposition of the business. —ewt——— | Crime waves are so frequently re-| perted that the enrollment as police of ail persons not professionally iden- tifled with underworld may bel feund necessary he France is disinclined to risk a waste of the momentum she has managed to gather in going after Germany Funeral Discord. A conflict between unionism and " mon-unionism reached a climax ht’ tragic absurdity yesterday in Chicago, when a riot occurred at a funeral. Fifty-two motor cars had been ¢ngag- | #d, all driven by union chauffeurs. A band of eight pleces had also been hired. but by some lack of co-ordina- | tion it was a non-union band. Just as the pallbearers were bringing the casket down the steps of the house one df the chauffeurs or some “sympe- thiger” started trouble by Kicking a hole in the bass drum. The trom- bonist retaliated with a blow of his horn—physical, not musical—and then there was a lively fight. Finally arder was restored, the casket was placed in the hearse and the funeral party waited for the motors to take them to the cemetery. The chauffeurs refused to budge from their stations untl the band was dismissed. The band refused 15 go. After two hours of wrangling and waitng the police intervened, drove off the band and the chauffeurs ran the funeral party to the cametery. 8tea radical unionists nre creat- ing public sentiment against them and the institution of laber organtmation. Thelir follles, fllustrative of the in- Justice to which rigid unioniem turns, are constantly making enemise for i should look in om us. | where in adjustments made necessary have an influence on this voung man’s future. In time he will come into a| powerful kingdom. That kingdom is now in touch with world affairs, and the touch is certain to become firmer and more intimate as time passes. So in that day the occupant of the Japanese throne will be able to guide by a personal knowledge of the world and fts ways at a distance. At a more propitious time—the pres- ent time, it must be admitted, has jts | difficulties—this future ruler of Japan He would be well received, and would find here' much worth his while in a study of | ‘what is being demanded of men every- | by the new order created by the world war. ———— Government ownership and private ownership of railroads have not pro. duced results sufficiently contrasted to enable the ultimate commuter to make an enthusiastic choice. —_———— The employment of Mother Goose in ! naval code has served at last to bring forward “Simple Simon who went a | fishing in his mother's pail” as a fig-| ure of genuine nautical rencwn. | —————— Occasionally a social occasion de- velops embarrassments, not because of any unkind intentions, but through too much stage management. —————— Occastonally a plebiacits gives evi- dence of difficulty with fts enforcement provigions. The recent weather bufletins have been reliable but monotonous. The Sun Spots. If the sun spots cause the rain, how sre we going to find out whether there are any sun spots? We eannot see the sun while the rain is falling, No photographer can take a ploture of the big orb during the showers. But as the song mays, somewhers the sun is shining, and that is where the chssrva- tions are mada, which goes to prove that the sun spot does not cause in- cossant univeras! precipitation. Just what should be accepted as & besic priseiple. Jurisdictiona! diwputes, which bave been ilustrated in this a disturbanss, my the sstronomers. They really do not imew the precise relation between sun spots and mum- _— yond question now. There was no real contribution save to the sporting record. The voung woman risked her neck 199 times plus—the plus standing for all the time that she was in the air. TUnless she is blessed beyond the great majority of her predetessors in record stunt-fiying she will some day fly just once too often. Practically all of the “circus” flyers have come to griet There is one of them. however. who got away with his record and stopped flying and is still living. That was Maj. Schroeder. who did the highest known flight. going to such a point that he returned to earth practically trozen. No one has exceeded his per- formance and Schroeder has retired from the game. There is danger enough in straight away flying yet to discourage all fancy and freak aviation. These eccentric flights in which somebody starts out to do a little more than anybody else in defying gravitation and the air cur- rentshave an unfortunate tendency to lessen public confidence in the airplane as a practical transportation device. As long as there is something to be gained by unusual flights they are to be encouraged, but for mere diversion and public entertainment and record making they should be discouraged. B Chroniclers describe the King of England as an exceedingly good nua- tured man. It should be remembered that Llovd George has been relieving him of many of the irritating details of routine work. ——— It is difficult to see how knowledge of some of the things regarded by Mr. Edison as essential to an educational equipment are going to help a man meet the rent and grocery bills. —_———————— The American representative at the | will be content if|. supreme council events so shape themselves as to leave him on record as present but not voting. —_——— In some circles the ability to create a colossal scandal is apparently re. garded as one of the special privileges | of great wealth. SHOOTING STARS. " BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Another Momentous Question. Sang about the roses In the days gone by. Now the muse proposes A song of apple pie’ Fruit crop smitten badly As the frost drew nigh, And a dirge sounds sadly— ““Whence will come the pic?" Like a blossom growing 'Neath a sunny sky Perfumes should be flowin® From the apple pie. Problems deep come straying Of importance high— Yot we can't help sayving, ““How about the pie?” Jud Tunkins says he never yet met an optimist who thought a toothache was all for the best. Impressive Deficiency. The clothes that people wear Of comment cause a lot— But there is more to spare For those that they do not. Appreciative. “What I8 your opinion of relativity?" “Very favorable,” replied Senator Sorgh.m. ‘“We have so many per- plexing questione to handle just now that I am grateful to the gentleman who discovered it far not letting it get into politics.” Relaxation Demanded. “80 you prefsr the fiims to the stage?” “1 do.” But don’t you miss the eharm of the speaking voice?” “I do not, The human velos 1s what makes mo fool like a tired business person. I werk at a telephone switch- ‘board.” As Times Change, “The old drinking customs have passed away.” ‘““They have,’ agreed Uncls Bill Bottistop. “Instead of taking water om the side 2 man now calls for an aatidete.” p— ¥ They have noted certain correspondences and have drawn certain deductlons, which, how- | in harmony. Some scientists aver that the sun spots | have no effect upon the earth, while others attribute many ills suffered on solar There are mysteries in the relation between the sun and the earth that are still far from solution, and these |minist vast punctures in the photosphere are |true. however, that the supporters of When the borealis blazes and the electric currents golypfil i crazy and the telegraph and telephone | fe action on one of two xrounds, wires become erratic and sun spots! s, fon U8y appear at the same time naturally powers of the cxocuti { man’s reasoning along lines of cause | l.me Is not ripe Jfor and effect reaches a conclusion of re- (it (4 op i, lationship. Meanwbile the philosophic { The Raltimore Sun (ind : as|democratic) finds it “enc will take his weather asiycar thar while M. Hacdine prepared against rain, |the incorporation in the whether it is caused by spots or pure. [RTIalions bill of s s s P S tiar n “he may soon y local conditions, and wil ever |have something to say to Congress worry himself about the possibility of Editorial Digest Disarmament Postponed. The “storm of protest” which the Pittsburgh Sun (democratic) declares has been “evoked by President Hard- ing's declaration against inviting dise cussion of armament reduction” seems to be limited almost entirely to news- papers which disagree with the ad- it is ation’s foreign policies the President in his opposition to the Rorah D. WASHINGTON, himself on the subject.” If. it adds. ‘the President really understands the strength of public’ sentiment as to this question” he will “not much long- er delay announcement of a positive Detroit News ‘it i8 1o be did (independent) retted” that the provision for not disa { mament” in passing the naval |appropriations biit so doing | If 4 it missed an “opportunit ra “rad- | fica ration” of rmament | poliey which would * a pow- | erful influence™ among world [powers ! | _The resolution 1o this eitect which jwas offered “has s i dent out” (he N {(democratic) deciay 3 for disarmament - time! When he has succceded in ‘rounding out’ the greatest vy in the world, and when the taxpayers ure more thoroughly cxhausted, 1 will be ready for a o7 To the Philadelphia Re. (inde- pendent democratic) it is simply a question “whether we ghall have a reduction in armaments” or “a bigger navy than ever.” The latter alterna- tive both the Wheeling Register (democratic) and tae Reno Gazette (republican) emphatically resent. With another hundred millions “hook- ed” on the appropriations bill, the Register asks if this is the “kind of economy'™ the Pres t really favors. ays the Gaz ‘There iz no need of "a larger should know it fear from or Italy, ¢ ¢ is nothing to apan. nothing from France rtainly nothing from Ger- many. and the pretense of any danger from Great Britain is so a akes the country laugh. Pre t Harding’ ply ““Napoleoniem, 1 '|!!v~ o7 Journal pol is dead. still lives. It 2 from the naval blood the g its oxygen . Tt is getting its President of the more powerful po- nghis Khan or Julius or the great Alexander ever dreamed of being.” However, this is not the view of the majority appare tion one The 1¥, nor is the ques- entirely of party affiliation. Florida Times Union (demo- eratic). for instance, thinks that Borah and his followers arc in “too big a hurry.” The Indianapolis Star (independent republic) points out that “Mr. Harding has pledged himself to @ reduction in armament.” which does {Not mean that “the national security must be threatened by excessive sen- timent or haste.” - Ne Tribune (rep ader developm undue Yor needed that developmen necessarily inte tion on capital s Boston Transcript (independent re publican) expresses itself in a sim- ilar vein: “There will be ample time to deal with disarmameni when we come to nego es with the principal allied and associated pow- T8 and with the central powers to protect our rights arising from our contribution to the cemmon victory over the common enemy.” A number of writers base their ap proval of the President's attitud toward the Borah resolution on the principle of executive rights and powers: “a resolution cannot be made || W command to the executive” savs the Toledo Blade (independent re- || publican). “Undertaking to ‘direct{. the President ' i Francisco Chro i forward is no Chroni resisting such a tendency | Register (democratic) fa { President is conformin the Mobile s that the to the best and, further, ditions of the office, Port Huron Tim, dent) suggests that Mr. Harding ‘surely is in a better position to determine when s the wisest time” o open negotiations. If then, for “roasons of his own’ as the Wil- mington Star (democratic) puts it, the President does mot desire to act, “it should not he forced upon him } to_his_embarrassment.” To the Cincinnati Commercial Trib- une (republican) and the New Lon- don Day (republican) the differe that has arisen is not one of ideas, | but of the means of rking them out. The latter savs nator Borah is out of order. Any one but Borah { would understand that. Hir idea of promoting mament is right. but | his method is wrong,” and the Com- | mercial Tribune points out that therse “is_no marked difference of opinion {a8 between partics or legislators and the executive as to the wisdom and desirability of Army and Navy cur- tailment to the lowest feasible basis. The differences go largely as to methods of approach and details of program.” America Active in World Politics. President Harding has decided to 1enew America’s participation in all important bodies of the allies. It 1s the same a8 the renewal of America's active interests in all matters that {pertain to the Versailles peace treaty 1 with carrying it out. this a contradiction”? ~ Of course it is. But Mr. Harding cannot be blamed for it. Perhaps he meant earnestly to carry our h promises, but when he became Pres dent and became more acquainted with the situation he realtsed that it was easier to talk than to act. The fact is that America can ne longer stand aloof from the rest of the world. Thanks to her participa- tioh in the war on the side of the al- lies, America’s interests have become a part of the interest of these pow- ers, and she must remain united with them, even If it is against her will She can do nothing else, And it is a good thing. too. Ame! ica’s absence at the council of the vic- tors at Versailles was felt keenly. A strong materiel and moral power wi absent—a power that almoat alwa: was an influence for the better. We are certain that if America is once more becom!ing an active ally in the important councils that pertain to the restoration of peace and order in the world it will again be to the advan- tage of the world. America can more fmpartial than the other ni tions, and therefore she can also more just than thev. The ahsence of such an Impartial sirong side is now partioularly ‘mportant and is needed thera where the statesmen of the lles are decid!ng upon the fate of Ger- many and the whola world —The Da: (Yldaish, independent), New Yor oity. The 0ld-fashioned father who burn- ad the “midnight ofl” now has a young son who burns the midnight xas.—Columbla (Sonth Carelina) Rec- ord. The plural wife, mays the Anniston Star, has become a nsoolal menace. Also an egopemio mystery.—Birming- ham Age-Herald, Bweden has abolished eapital pun- ishment and Norway is talking of giving up prehibition, which to seme peoplo seems about the same thing.— Providenes Jeurnal, A Philadelphin weman has invented a chocelate-covered pretsel. Taken with & glass of pesr-heer with whip- ped cream en this should make a very pleasing afterneon refreshment. —Tacema Ledger, C, MONDAY, MAY 16, 192L I can answer most of those questions, Mr. Edison, and so can any boy or girl who has The Book of Knowledge The Children’s Encyclopedia and I believe I can answer hundreds of other questions on subjects of general infor- mation. My teacher says the boys and girls who own THE BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE are always ready to answer questions. I like THE BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE because everything in it is worth reading and it helps me to understand and appreciate most everything I see and hear and read about. And by the way, Mr. Edison, What Do You Think of These Questions? Why is the sea never still? Where does the wind be- Why do we go to sleep? What makes a bee hum? gin? Does a plant eat? What makes an echo? Is a stone alive? Why does a ball bounce? What makes a watch go Wgy ;a,n’t we see in the Could the sky fall down? ark? Why cannot animals talk? What makes a whirlpool? What is radium? What is mist made of ? Why is the sky blue? Why do stars twinkle? What makes water boil? Why is snow white? What are eyebrows for? Why are tears salt? Why does the kettle sing? What makes a fog? Where do thoughts come from? Why does a stick float? Why is sugar sweet? What makes a cat purr? Why has water no taste? What is smoke? Why is yawning catching? Why does salt melt snow? What is air made of ? Why does hair turn gray? What keeps the stars in place? Why is foam white? What makes as sneez Have fishes any feeling? Why dor’t we fall off the earth? How do flies walk on the ceiling? Why does milk turn sour? What makes us hungry? Why do we dream? 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