Evening Star Newspaper, May 23, 1921, Page 6

. : THE EVENING ST. WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MAY 23, 1921 buyer was due te disturbed polttical | specifie institutions and groups of col- conditions the government insurance|leges. It has been In some instances bureau would take over the account|accompanied by detalls in evidence. and after settling with the exporter | The other day the head of an institu- Thetion {n the middle west resigned be- amount of premium charged would not | cause he felt that he could not con- -Editer | worry the exporter, as this item would | scientiously continue to lead & schooi in which the bolshevik tendency was He, however, accused the student body of radicalism, rather than THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Editiom. WASHINGTON, D. C. MPNDAY.........May 23, 1921 | would THEODORE W. NOYES. undertake collection. be passed on to the buyer, and with The Evening Star Newspaper Company | the risk widely spread in different Business Office. 11th 8t. and Pennayivania Ave. | countries, the government, it is con- New York Office: 150 Nassau St. tended, would be in little danger of Chicago Office: First National Bank Bullding. | suffering serious losses. 1f the scheme aropean offce: 3 Regent St., London, Baglad. | o American governmental {nswramce at G0 cents per month: daily only. 45 cents per| €i§N government guarantee of ac- menth: Sux-{_fllb}_ Mot l;:;""';;;';""-um counts, it might well result in break- 5000. Collection is made by carriers at the|ing the.present foreign trade stalemate end of each month. and start surplus American goeds Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. mo;indg to markets where they are needed. Paiy e nad and VIt | o | L The prajece raisnty or: cqurse, conie Daily only mo., 50c [ under the ban of President Harding's Sunday only. mo., 20| “‘Jees government in business and more business in government,” but, the War 1mo. 85c | Trade Finance Corporation having Daily and Sunda; g:::{no"o'.’.'i revived for the financing of E = n exports, it would not seem a serious further step forward pa- Street Railway Merger. ternalism if the government provided One sometimes hears comment upon | insurance that such exports would be etreet railway merger and the public | Paid for. benefits that it will confer, which ussumes that Congress, as the Dis- Mexico. trict’s legislature, the community and| The formulation of the terma upon the railroads have in the past been|which this government will recognize negligent or hostile in respect to such | the Obregon government brings mat- merger. This assumption is incorrect. | ters to a head, as it were, between " Over twenty vears ago the principle | America and Mexico. This is not to of merger of the District's street rail- | say that the refusal of President way lines was approved as sound by Congress and the community. By law fourteen or fifteen street railway lines were then in effect merged into the ‘Washington Railway and Electric Company, and the remaining two lines ‘were merged into the Capital Traction Company. The street railway lines were thus reduced from sixteen or sev- enteen to two, and the main reason why, the final merger of the two lines into one has not yet taken place has been because of the competitive ma- neuvering of each of the two systems to bring about the merger at a time and under conditions which in the Obregon to aceept the terms would mean war between the two countries. But it would mean the continuation of a situation prejudicial to the interests of both, and from the ending of which Mexico would greatly benefit. For once again in cordial official relations with her powerful neighbor—more powerful now than ever before—Mex- ico would find her credit among the nations considerably improved, and her affairs at home materially stabil- ized. The terms have not been drawn in haste or impatience, and certainly not in ignorance of Mexican conditions. resulting terms would be most favor- able to itself. The exploitation of the common stock of the Washington Railway and Electric Company, which is the basis part on information furnished by a of its misfortunes had as one of its high official—Undersecretary Fletcher purposes the merging of this stock toof the State Department—who before advantage with the stock of the Capi- | geeepting his present office had spent tal raction Company. some time in Mexico as ambassador. On the other hand conditions of the |~ mhig question naturally weighs much Tecent past have artificially and un-g with ys. If President Obregon fails, duly exploited the profitearning and { what may be expected in and from merger value of Capital Traction|Mexico? Madero was a pathetic mis- stock in comparison with that of the|ft for so turbulent a people and so Washington Railway and Electric. confused a situation. Huerta had only America has been patient for years under heavy provocations; and the ac- tion now taken rests in part upon an The problem for our legislature is|he qualities of a rough soldier—well | to bring about a merger on terms as|enough in their way, but not sufficlent | closely approximating equity as it is|gor the emergency. Carranza was sim- possible to secure. Merger itself i8] 1o parochialism and obstinacy person- the logical and inevitable outcome of |ineq But we have been led to think street railway history, tendencies and | petter and expect more of Obregon: precedents. and if he cannot deliver the , who can? Somebody must. There too Good 014 Summer Time. much at stake for everybody on both Genial summer after much hesita- | sides of the line to render it advisable tion, many halts and seme spells of | that matters in Mexico be left to drift retrogression comes on with consid- | Indefinitely. erable enthusiasm and ardor. The crops in the Washington region need Executive Sessions. this weather and the Washington| g.ioor Williams of Mipsissippi is tables need the crops. Spring Vege-|ouioueq 1o his colleague's proposition tables and the berries are still com-|g . open sessions of the Senate in con- ing to us from afar, for our home| g goping nominations to office. In a growers, With autumn weather In ..y, grticle in Sunday's Star he is April and May, and with destructive | 258 12 1 frosts, have had trials and disap-| “.; remember that at one time. under pointments. A fair share of warm|a demeeratic administration, the ap- point t of a man to high position weather, proper at this time and in | B2 NGE omatic service was opposed this latitude, may help the field and|jn the Senate upen the grounds that | garden crops, but we have no doubt ha"h‘«l fif:::::ln bads i certain e good-bye to local fruits for the | 4%gne ‘of these who belleved the year of 1921, unless we include canta- | charge and whe defeated his nomina- loupes and watermelons among the |[tion. I found out years afterward fruits, which some men refuse to do. money’ from that I had made a mistake. cherries, peaches, plums, pears and |administration. ‘where —there apples will be few and the Springlagainst a man that he had been freezes were disastrous to the fruit|extremely loose. 1In one case the crop in the Shenandoah valley and|gharES Was not true and in the seco other parts of the apple belt of Vir-case the nomination was defeated and ginia—one of the greatest applerais-|in the other it was not.” ing regions in the world. Instead of sustaining the senator’s These days of brilliant sunlight and | position, do not these two instances high temperature are turning the |sustain the position of his eolleague? thoughts of many men to the meun-[In the case of the man accused of tains and the shore, but vacation |baving received “hush money,” an thoughts are largely a habit and|open, and therefore fuller, examina- quite largely a modern habit, founded | tion of the matter would have tended way charge investigation by the Senate, and in| in the orfeat. 1I. that the charge was not true and: I remem- All reports have it that home-grown | ber another case, under a republican | Lot so much on the idea that Wash- ington is not a happy place in which 0 spend the summer, but more on the idea that a temporary change of resi- Gence, with new scenes and new ac- quaintances, makes for rest and fun. At any rate, it is a pleasant thing to to bring out the truth, and Mr. Wil- liams would have been saved from the mistagze he still sincerely deplores. In the case of the man of loose life, had that man been confronted with the necessity of defending himself in public, he would not have applied for have the good old summer time with us again. —————————— Uncle Sam is forced to contemplate the attitude of various European na- tions with the fear that arises in con-|{and especially where personal char- nection with a disposition to overload | 8cter is concerned. A man accused is @ willing worker. always entitled to know who his ac- cusers are, and the full nature of their accusations. In ne other way ean he or the public interested in him hope for justice. To try the charge in secret, behind elosed doors, is to arm and encourage his ememies, and put him at a disadvantage. —_—— appointment. Nor would the Pres{- dent, whoever he was, have made the appointment. Star chamber preceedings are not —_— et It should be remarked with grati- tude that there was absolutely nothing in Thomas Edison’s question lists to stimulate further political or economic controversy. —_————— Poland is being gently warned not to let the temperament which dis.| Nations are looking forward to a tinguishes her artists become too|commereial eondition that will make prominent in her politicians. the interchange of commodities as voluminous as the interchange of ideas has been. ———— The tariff is regarded by many statesmen as the velvet glove which . may in emergency cover the iron hand. Foreign Trade Insurance. A R T, A proposal for the encouragement of | praAnnunzio evidently does not care foreign trade which would seem 10 be|pow many American historians beat worthy of study by the administra-|pim in getting into print. tion and Congress is now under con- sideration by the Chamber of Com- S rce of the United States. It is, The Poison of Radicalism. briefly, that this government shall in-| A final report has just been filed by sure the accounts of American export- {a joint legislative committee of New ers against losses resulting from politi- | York state which some time ago in- cal upheavals and disturbances in |vestigated the activities of revolution- other countries, just as during thejary radicals in that state. In the war American ships and cargoes were|course of a voluminous finding, cov- insured against losses resulting from { ering more than four thousand pages, enemy attack. the committes presents evidence of Despite the tremendous losses in-|mischievous work by the agitators for flicted by German submarines, the war | social and pelitical revolution in the risk insurance bureau wound up its|educational institutions of the state. affairs practically without cost to the|The committes, indesd, went beyond government, the premiums paid in|the confines of the commonwealth and about balancing the amounts the bu-|declared in its report that American reau was called upon to pay out. It is|colleges are honeycombed with avowed telieved a foreign trade political risk | socialistic professors whose teachings bureau could be operated without loss, | are bolshevik and subversive of demo- znd possibly with a profit, to the gov-| cratic ideals and inatitutions. ernment. The plan contemplates that| This asserfion is not new. It has ia cases wh default of a foreisn!been made in varying forms respesting There is some doubt as to whether the ex-kaiser has quit chopping wood or discharged his press agent. g in conformity with our lnullluuonl.l 80 strong. the teaching staff. themselves imbued with the alleged tendency. set. Trustees, of course, have super- chicvous tendencies. There is only one safe standard in the matter of teaching American youth. That is the standard of 100 this country. Infinite harm can be done by subtle criticism of existing conditions and methods, criticism often seemingly construct but - actually destructive in spirit. The radical does not always work openly. Indeed, his favorite method is that of indirect un- dermining. This is not a simple matter. Under a plausible exterior may lurk a poison- ous topgue. Propagandists are most effective when they are scemingly. con- Teachers can be stealthily undermining the faith of their stu- jdents in the virtue of American insti- | tutions while appearing to praise them In general and scoring them in detail The first essential of education is to {make the voung understand. It is Necessary that they understand the jfaults as well as the virtues of the i system of government, but those faults i should be stated as incidental and not 25 fundamental, curable only by radi- cal change. It this poison prevails in the schools and colleges of this country it is vital- 1y necessary that it be located and eradicated. The details of the New York state committee should be laid I before the heads of every educational institution in the United States. —_———— New York theatrical managers are going to Europe to look for musical Iand spectacular novelties. the great work of reconstruction is servative. dustrial lines. is reported to be seriously He is unfortunate in the fact that {sovietism has not left any places in Russia that can be safely designated as health resorts. f Judge Landis continues to offer in- cidental remarks with a liberalit i which shows that his mind is far from being monopolized by base ball. ! Reports have it that Bergdoll is not deriving any more enjoyment from European travel than Alex. Bergman or Emma Goldman. . SHOOTING STARS. RY PHILANDER JOHNSON. 1 ‘The May Queen. The May queen shivers by the fire ‘While wintry breezes blow; There are few roses to admire Nor sunny skies aglow. And now and then you'll hear her wail, With sadly shaken nerves, “If every crop is bound to fail How can we make preserves. “No more upon the village green Glad moments 1 improve; I dust around the household scene And help the family move. “Like other figures known to fame, I fade away forthwith— A May queen now ig not the same; | She's only just a myth.” Jud Tunkins says that it it ever jcame to distributing everybody's prop- {be as hard a loser as anybody. Paternalism. “You seem very much afraid of paternalism in affairs of government?" “I am,” replied Farmer Corntossel. “I've tried paternal authority on Josh, |and if it doesn't work any better in a i Rovernment than it does on a farm, I'll say ! ain’t safe to fool with.” i Sosthingly Sonorous. | Much scientific talk draws near | With a delightful sense of cheer, Like operas whose lays intone ! In 1anguages to me unknown. The lectyrer with joy is heard, i Though I scarce understand a word. Wisdom Attained. “Do you believe in the political wis- fdom of the plain people?” “In these of my section of the coun- try,” replied Senator Sorghum. “They’'ve been voting my way for years, 80 I may reasonably assume that I have them pretty well in- structed.” - “Tellin’ de plain truth,” said Uncle Eben; “ain’t always as easy as it Seems, owin’ to de natural tendency of 2 human to get his personal 'pinions mixed up with the simple facts.” Ellis Island. The inability of the immigration authorities to provide means to meet the situation of the age cannot be a cause for which to blame the im- migrant. Surely it s not his fault that he is compelled to slesp on the floor at Ellis Island. without any sort of covering, nor is he responsi- ble for the unpreparedness to réceive him. Very few measures have been adopted for the welfare of the Immi- grant here. Immigration authorities have not had the power or conven- fences to help the immigrant when once in this country. The distribu- tion of immigration to different parts of the United States (especially in North and South Dakota, Ohie, 1IN~ n and the far west), where they are needed most, has not been done officially during all these years. There have been private societies which have undertaken to do this, but the majority have made use of these means for personal gain, and nothing but distrust has been the result. This country has been admit- ting immi ts without attending to them, without helping them to settle in a locality where it would prove sdvantageous to both the immigrant and this eount: It has always been a question of helps those who help themselvea”—Gaszetta Del Mas- : usetts (Itallas, respublican), Bos- [ Assuredly the leaders of educational work in the United States are in a position to know whether this charge is true, and, if ®o, to put an end to the ceadition, unless the leaders are radical spirit and are in sympathy with the This is a matter for each institution to handle, at the out- visory authority and can check mis- per cent loyalty to the institutions of Evidently | not expected to adhere rapidly to in- h erty around equally a socialist would | Editorial Digest Patronage and Postmasters. President Handing's executive order modifying the rules for the appoint- ment of first, second and third class postmasters, while it has been called 8 return to the spoils system by a few writers and a “step forward” in effi- clency by a few others, on the whole meets with as much approval as dis- approval. While admittedly the abil 1ty to choose the candidate from threa} candidates securing the highest marks in the civil service examina- tion gives a chance for politics to enter into the appointment, most newspapers seem to think that this will not greatly interfere with the merit system The official explanation of the in- creased latitude in selection—oppor- tunity for the man whose practical experience may more than make up | for a lower grade on his examination sheot—is scoffed at by the Minnesota Star (independent), which declares that the real intention is “a return to the spoils system,” and the Colum- bia Record (democratic) says that “with one stroke of the pen President Harding has restored patronage opening the way for the postmaster- ships to fall to the pap-suckers.” or, as the New York World (democratic) oxpresses it. putting this office “back into politics” and “making a farce of it system." The change was the Roanoke Times (dem- ocratic) “in response to the strong demand from party leaders every- where that the civil service rules be | to give the republicans a chance at the post officea” The Har- risburg News (independent demo- cratic) thinks that Mr. Harding turn- ed “the clock back." and the Memphis Commercial Appeal (demoaratic) says: % en if e look at the matter in its most favorable light we cannot but say that the new mdministration has taken a step backward in the matter of civil service reform.” The other side of th sented by such papers Journal (independent). which believes that “on the whole” the step will *| ted as beneficial” and the St. Globe-Democrat brands It as “sound polic Rochester Herald (independent) : “President Harding has not com- plied with all the desires of the Civil Service Reform Association that have been made manifest to him. But in issuing the order modifying, though in the main confirming. President Wilson's order regulating appoint- ments of postmasters of the first three cla. he has gone much fu ther in emancipating the postal serv- ice from partisan politics than either the partisans or the reformers ex- peeted.” Indecd, the “Harding mudification” impairs 'the purpose of th i order “slight.y, if at all Sioux City ibune (indep “practically the man who sta in an examination Is as likely to per- form the work of a postmaster efli ently as the man standing first. publican writers also call attention 1o tne fact that the Wiison order w.lal not put into ¢ antil nost of the | postmasterships were filled with “de-i serving democrats,® and so if the re- publicans are now given a chance it {witl be hardly a definite change of policy. ! That much depends on the Postmas- jter General the Detroit Free Pred cndent) admits, but believes he has shown none of the ear- marks of the spoilsman” the “new iberty which the rule gives may re- {sult in a better average of ability” in ithe men chosen. The Hartford Times ! (democratic) finds the modificatbon | “by no means unjustifiable” and con- | siders that President Harding “main- | tains the advantage gained” by his| predecessors’ friendliness toward the | merit system. The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot (inde pendent democratic) is also ablgyto see its good side, for, it remarks4f t action “must be construed as a conc sion to the patronage demands of th. party stalwarts,” still “it Is also a result of the demand for a clean sweep of all democratic officeholders, If administered “conscientiously" mei Sioux City State Journal (republican) feels that this method of selection “ought to result in the raising of the three classes of postmasterships to a Ihigh degree of efficiency.” The San i Franciseo Chronicle (independent) re- {fuses to take the question very seri- ously. It laments the step towarfd any plan which woul from the hall we take fof politics?* Most of the activities toward cur- talling_patronage the Lincoln State Journal (independent republican) puts in the category of “rinz around the rosy” and concludes that reform in the “selection of pestmasters g very like the game of disarmament {where “everybody is for it provided it comes when he is on top. Americanization as an Economic Issue. 1f the foreigners live in insanitary, crowded quarters of the city, made up entirely of their own racial group, they do not do so as a matter of choice. They are compelled to do 50, because the Americans, or those who came to this country before they {did, look upon them with suspicion, dislike, and often hostility. | The laborers who come from Europe have all been used to doing farm work there, and the reason they do not continue to do agricul- tural work here is not because they {have lost their taste for it, or be- icause they prefer to work in hot, sweltering factories, but because the very day they arrive in this country they sense that feeling of hostility toward them, and they are afraid to risk_going out into unknown parts of the country, about which they have heard stories of peonage and lynching. For this reason they re- main in the city in mections wher there are near them people of their own kind and race. It is not true that the foreigners do not care to Americanize themselves and to learn English. The reason why they do not do so immediately is because when they have just arrived their main preoccupation is to obtain work and"to earn a comfortable livi ilihood. As Soon as they are econom- ljcally settled they then feel the need to improve themselves intellectually jand socially, and when their sur- {roundings have become more com- fortable they commence to feel a great love for the nation which has been so kind to them. The idea that Americanization can be accomplished by any quick process is a mistake. It must take its natural course in an economic way. The immigrant must first be made to feel that there is no feeling of resentment against him; then, after he has obtained work and chance to acquaint himself with the customs of the Americans and the ad- vantages of American life, he will naturally feel love and gratitude for the country who is his hostess, and it all will come about by itself with- out any external compulsion.—Il Giornale Italiano (Itallan, independ- ent), New York city. \There has been no element of my; tery in the game, “Button, butten: who's got the button?" since laundries were established. —Rochester Times- Union. There never was a time when the spoils system looked more hateful to honest democrats than right now.— Chattanooga News. “Europe wants 2,000,000 husbandws.” Girls, if you have any old, discarded husbands you don’t need, here's your 0 be charitable—Nashville ‘The railroad question is deep—waste deep.—Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. 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