Evening Star Newspaper, June 8, 1921, Page 6

[:] _—— - THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morsing Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY......June 8, 1821 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office. 11th St. and Peonsylvanis Ave. New York Office: 130 Nassaw St Chicago Offce: First National Bank Bulldiag. Buropean office: 3 Regent St., London, England. per month. Or- ders may be went by mail. or telephone Main %100, Collection s made by carriers & e8d of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Vieginia. Daily and Sunday..1 yr.. $8.40: 1 mo., T0c Daily only..- - .1 yr. $.00: 1 mo., 30c 8unday only. 1yr.. $2.40; 1 mo. All Other States. Daily snd Sunday.1 _vr.s;nm 1 mo., % 5 1yr. The School Items Assured. Agreement by the conferees upon the schoal extension items added by the Senate to the deficiency bill in- sures their enactment at this session. "2%3s, In twaa.. makes certain a definite beginning upon a comp:.tensive con- struction program that. if continued on the same liberal terms of expendi ture, will in a few vears bring the District's school equipment up tg re- quirements. It is pointed out in this connection that a considerable sum of money was saved by the delay in getting the item into appropriation form. owing to a drop in the cost of building. This is, of course. gratifying. in a measure, but the delay was a lo There is no ; absolutely economy in postponing necessary works because of the con- dition of the market. Especially is this true in the case of the schools. which have suffered by the lack of room far bevond any measure of sav- ing that may have been effected. The estimates submitted by the Com- | yndoubtedly *“unhappy and Adistress-|is a seasoned polil missioners were adopted almost un-iing but the adjectives which wo'uld\_n good deal of official life, the idea is -ognized at the!adequately characterize the owtrage|that if the horn sounds again he will changed. It was r Capitol that the needs of the school system were much greater than these figures represented. and that in sub- mitting the estimates the Commission- ers were guided by the greatest care to begin only the most urgently re- quired works immediately. spirit the whole program may be ca: ried through in the course of a few vears. The hope is that there will be no halts or lapses. but that vear by year these new works may be authos- ized, on the scale now established. and that thus. in perhaps a decade. the District will have caught up with its arrears and will present a public edu- cational system second to none in the TUnited States in the matter of physi- cal equipment. One of the items in the school amendment, jus: adopted by the con- ferees. is of particular interest. It provides a sum for the purchase of a site for a branch of the Public Library in the southeast section, the building to be erected with funds supplied by the,jis own hands"—a process Carnegie Corporation of New York. This will be a material extension of the usefulness of this most valuable | institution, which is by law established as part of the public educational sys- tem of the capital. It will enable the people of a lasge and growing portion of the District to enjoy direct access to the book collection which is now available to them only with difficulty. The United States and Mexico. As to Mexico, the American case, stated vesterday, is clear, reasonable and inoffensive. It is to be hoped that President Obregon may find himself able to approve and accept the terms submitted. American investments in Mexico are large, and were made by invitation. ‘They were assured of protection, and for vears were protected. They were an important factor in the prosperity that Mexico enjoyed until the era of rapid revolutions began. Since then all interests, foreign and native, have suffered. Mexico has been in turmoil, banditry becoming a sort|vent Germany from sharing the im-!We count the miles from star to star of industry. The new constitution, promulgated in 1817, did not cure matters. Rather did it increase difficulties in so far as foreign investments were concerned. The threat of confiscation which the instrument contained spread a new, and.even greater, alarm. All this government asks is that!who retains even the remnant of ajopliging scientists have now American interests in Mexico be for- mally assured of protection, both against any adverse procedure on the part of the authorities and against every form of lawlessness. The de- mand is just, and, as we view the mat- ter from this side the Rio Grande, can be acceded to by President Obregon without any impairment of his or. his| .government's prestige. ‘The recognition of the Obregon gov- ernment by this government would be great service to the former in every and only awaits the action pro- posed by Secretary Hughes. It is a good time to sign up. A new order throughout the world is taking form, and affairs in this hemisphere should be put in the best shape possible. —_——— The inequality of fate asserts itself ‘when Mexico is offering pravers for rain while Colorado is suffering the devastation of a cloudburst. —_—— There might be more of an argu- ment against the Sam Brown belt if leaving it off suggested any step, how- ever slight, toward disarmament. —_——— The District Water Supply. The Army bill, carrying a provision for the construction of a new conduit from Great Falls to the Dalecarlia reservoir and for the disiribution of the additional water supply, yesterday came up before the Senate. Today ‘Washington, aware that water con- sumption within the District last month exceeded what was pronounced t0 be the safe maximum capacity of the conduit sixty years ago, and that the aqueduct office is gravely concern- ed lest this additional load, combined ‘with the impossibility of inspecting the overstrained main, result in a break, is anxiously awaiting action in the nerth wing of the Capitol. It is néedless to stress further the ‘necessity for favorable action upon the g Star. with the Sunday mornlag) not been taken long before the crisi livered hy carriers within the eity, daily only. 45 cents ner provision in question. The facts in the case are in the possession of the Senate, and those. facts establish the existence of a grave emergency and call insistently for the provision of adequate means for grappling there- with. To fail to recognize those facts would be to jeopardize the health and security of every resident of the Na; tional Capital. The Senate, far from pursuing any such course, is more likely to seek an explanation of how it happens that remedial action has became as acute as it is today. The steps”-ontemplated in the Army t the| bill are of a character which looks to a permanent cure of the District water- supply situation. They are, beyond the possibility of irgument, essential. Yet, in view of the fact that the cure will require a period of at least three vears for completion, and that the aqueduct office fears lest a crisis may tarise at any time in the immediate i tuture. the necessity fo designing and arranging for temporas; expedients whereby such an emergency may be | met is pressing. This is being done, and Congress should see that such funds as may be necessary for putting them into effect are available. Only S0 can residents of the seat of our national government and the govern- !ment itself rest secure from what would be a most serious calamity. —_———— i ob Justice.” ’ Addressing the graduating class of Lincoln University at Oxford. Pa., on Monday. President Harding. by indi- {rect but | nounced the recent race riots at Tulsa, {Okla. Commending the education of the negroes of the United States as a { practica! means of solving a grave joroblem. the Presidem: declared that {of the western states.” Presidential | dignity requ¥res a moderdtion of ex- | pression which must at times be ir some. The spectacle at Tulsa was rand crime of mob “justice” connote a warmer reaction. It may safely be} assumed that Pres:dent Harding, al- ! though the occasicr -of his address i prompted an undeistatement of the {loathing in which si:h exhibitions as In this| that to which he refeired are popularly | cargoes of them into the Chesapeake | feels as veheraently upon the i held. and | subject as ‘do milllens of just i thoughtful Americans. { To those Americans it seems increas- ingly !the law be reasserted and unflinch- {ingly supported in the United States. Events similar to the have occurred with unprecedented fre- quency at various points throughout Lynchings. than which there is no i ntore abominable form of murder, have shown no appreciable tendency to de- crease. Given the stimulus, real or imagined. a portion of the population of nearly every community is appar- ently prepared to “take the law Into hich, " if persisted in, cannot but kill 'the law elt. i Seeking an explanation for the re-| | currence of mob crime, one need go| ino further than the theory under| { which such crimes are committed. The | !mub acts in the belief that the law is| ! not going to punish adequately cither | ime suspected criminal or the erimi-! i nal eomponents of the mob itself. The ! repeated *substantiation of the latter | { belief lends inevitable substance to the -former presumption. The mob, { permitted to flout the law unpunished, { cannot be expected to regard the puni- !tive efficiency of the law with confl- | dence. There can be no doubt buti { that the visiting of swift and adequate | punishment upon the heads of those ! | who partake in the next mob. demon- “ stration would go further to persuade others similarly inclined of the fact| {that the law is sufficient unto itself { than any number of ethical and moral ! appeals, be they never so well argued. i —_—— | Arrangements will be made to pre-l i patience of a willing taxpayer who | { has to stand in line patiently awaiting | ! the chance to put his money in through i the window. | —_——— A New York thief ran a stolen mo- tor car into a church door. The co-i incidence ought to impress a sinner { conscience. ! S — | There are statesmen who, in 1ooking§ | for mistakes in an adversary's poli- cies, make “we view with alarm” sound like “we note with great pleas- i ——————— Impetuous boys and courageous ! girls alike are victim of aviation. The | | airship does not provide for saving mei women and children first. Floods in the Arkansas valley call |attention to dyke construction as an- ielher phase of the building problem. The Wood-Forbes Mission. Before returning home—they are not expected until September—Gen. Leon- tard Wood and Mr. Cameron Forbes ! will visit, by invitation, both China and Japan. Their stay in neither country will be long, and will not p-r-l take in either of more than the ac- | ceptance of courtesies offered them on account of their nationality and their personal distinction. ’ ‘Their mission has to do solely with conditions in the Philippines. They are to inform themselves, by giving| lear to all parties and classes, as to | matters political and otherwise im the islands, and how the people, taking them by and large—those with big stakes, those with little stakes, and those with no stakes at all, in the archipelago—feel about the question of an independent gevernment. . Nevertheless, these two visits out- side of their mission should be of both interest and value to Gen. Wood and Mr. Forbes. They are trained observ- ers, and know the east from service there before the war. They will now have opportunity to look about widely, and note the changes in sentiment and purpose the war has made. Changes, necessarily, have been made in the east, as clsewhere. In Europe they|ion [} unmistakable reference. de-| 2 | imperative that the majesty of Tulsa horror | : the country during the past few vears. | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1921 !u- considerable; and even in this hemisphere they are noteworthy. That the report Gen. Wood and Mr. Forbes will make about the Philip: pines will in some measure be colored by general conditions. in the east stands to reason. For the establish- ment of an independent government, republican in form, and with close re- lationd“to the United States, in that quarter of the world, would ?e an s S s el b . Always Ready; Never Tire. Politics is almost a continuous grind in New York, and the people play it with zest and skill. Last year, in addition to the national ticket, a' full state ticket was in the {fleld. Some tall campaigning took iplace, although the result proved to {be all one way. Mr. Harding made a irunaway race of his, receiving a plu- irality of over a million votes, while the republican candidate for governor had some eighty thousand the best of I the poll. i This year a mayor is to be elected in: the big town, and everything is set| for a ratdling contest. Mayor Hylan,| who wants a second term, and seems| lassured of a second nomination, has some strong points and some weak points. His strong points are strong ‘enough to make it necessary for thel opposition to put up its strongest man | against him. Who that man is is now the subject of inquiry. The republi- {cans have several months in which to settle the question. i { Next year comes another state race, ! and the democrats are already pre-| i paring for it, over twelve months in! iadvance of the dropping of the flag.| | A conference on the subject will take iplace at Syracuse tomorrow, to be at- tended by a large number of county Smith, who lost out last year, leads in | the suggestions about the head of me' {ticket. Since his defeat he has been |in business in New York. But as he] an and has seen | Ireup(-nd. —_————— Germany. should she regain mo- {nopoly of various dyestuffs, ought t be made to promise not to repeat the! spectacular experiment of sending | Ibay or Long Island sound by sub- { marine. 1] Berlin is credited with a desire to| {be the world leader of fashion. Here- | tofore the Berliners aspired to impress | the world as philosophical rather than frivolous. —————— | A radical publication usually defeats }its own arguments in a manner thatj makes it safe, and even desirable. for | the Post Office Department to give it/ {circulation facilities. | —_—— o 1 | Opponents of Samuel Gompers dol |mot make it clear whether their re-| {sentment is based on the fact that he iwent too far into politics, or not far enough. —_—meee———— A reliable system of promotions based on merit may be made more valuable in governmental economy than a ruthless program of pay roll curtailments. —_———mem———— It may be doubted whether soviet Russia derived enough financial bene- fit from the work of some of its com- mercial agents to pay their steamship fare and hotel bills. —_——— Scientific interest is being directed to some of the enormous figures that are being brought to attention by red tape measurements. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Amplified Accommodations. The universe is vaster far *Than was at first believed: And smile where once we grieved. For, when in depths of space profound, Imagination rash Saw suns and world all spinning round We feared that they would clash. The lines of care forsake each brow; By means of language terse Enlarged the universe. “De man dat 'tends to his own busi- ness,” said Uncle Eben, “has got to interest himself in other folks’ busi- ness, 8o dat his business kin help deir business along.” Jud Tunkins says the spirit of real democracy asserts itself when a flivver has to be called in to pull a fancy limousine out of a hole. A Kindhearted Bluff. “Jon't you think’ Reginald take: himself rather seriously?” “No,” replied Miss Cayenne. “Regi- nald knows he’s no intellectual marvel. He is merely making a generous ef- fort not to undeceive his fond parent: Geographical Modesty. An Easkimo lady exclaimed, with a smile, *“I do not pretend to the latest in style, But you'll have to admit that up here in the cold I never wear bathing suits you could call bold.” A Consistent Attitude. “What are your opinions on this momentous guestion?” “I haven't changed my mind,” re- plied Senator Sorghum. “But I don’t know what your opin- ions were."” “I mean that I haven’t changed my mind about refusing to go on record on the subject until my constituents make it absolutely necessary.” Harvard claims to difcovered 1 universe i'.": thousand times larger than ever be- fur: cl'):u:elved by r: nulln. Its ex- v appears,- is wall-ni, - versal.—Cleveland Plain Dnle‘r'.' gat Weé natice Georges Carpentie; climbing. trees as part of his training tree u:olgloy.m u::-'n &rln: astie e practice is likely to ceme in y—Burling- professor: hat t! ton Editorial . Digest Will Rates Drop With Wages? The twelve per eent cut in rail- road wages announced by the labor board is taken by a great many news- papers as a signal to sound the call for an immediate reduction in rates, and the subsequent visit of the Pres- ident to the Interstate Commerce Commission appears as a hopeful omen to many that the demand will be, answered. Some writers, however, feel—with the railroad executives, that the wage cut—only half of what the operators asked—is too smallto justify a decrease in transportation charges. This argument is met by those who contend that cheap freight will mean increased shipping and a simultaneous return of normal busi- ness conditions. In this conmection the Richmond Times Dispatch (democratic) remarks that “it a question if the lower rates. with the increased business they would bring, would not bz far more profitable than the present high and prohibitive rates that are killing the nation’'s business, retarding construc- tion and keeping thousands of freight cars standing idle on the sidings. This view, says the New York Mail (independent) is largely “shared by the public” as well as the adminis- tration, and “until an experiment hus been made” they will not be satis- ed. That business would be stimulated Ly the decrease the Syracuse Herald (independent) is certain and thus “react favorably on railroad finance. Fu:thermore, the Rochester Times Union (independent) adds. “if that proves true, then the railroad work ers should have more employment, thus making the resumption of ac. tivity “as of much importance to th men as a whole as the wage scale. “Now reduce raies” s the terse de- mand of the Scranton Times (demo- cratic). and the New York World (democratic) declares that the ex p-ctation that this will be done Is iamply justified. Unless the rvates are reduced the wage cut will of no benefit to the public. savs the Johnstown Democrat (democratie), and “the vicious sys (means to be ‘“a fwe contrast 10|chairmen and other prominent party|iem of piling up an incrcased capi- the unhappy and stressing spec-:men. Suggestions for places on the | ialization will be underwritten. and tacle that we saw the «ther day In one |ticket are in order. Former Gov.|in the end the railroads will be as badly off as they were in the begin- The New York Herald (in- dent) extimages that the ,next half-year. “even without a natlonal ai boom, can put an entirely new face on the whole railroad situa- tion,” but it adds a warnlng that “in succeapive stcps wages must get down much lower. rctracing thc route by which they went up. before the great Jays of low-cost freight and low-cost ssenger transportation ave restored to_the American people.” The Cleveland Plain Dealer pendent democratic) remar! hinery alrcady cxists by which rate djustments can be made in the case f commodities that cannot be moved because of exorbitunt shipping harges. Such reductions should in he public interest be made as quickly a8 possible, but no blanket reduction | #hould now be agitated. A larger nct income for the railroads is es- | sential to_the maintenance of the | country’s transportation system.” The Worcester Telegram 1r»pub-| lican) docs not look for “instant ad- | justment.” If wages and salaries | were “the only ¢xpense.” it explains, | this might be accomplished. but it is ! the_“invisible expenses” which “carry | and thesc depend. the Spring- | fleld Union (republican) points out, ‘on how far the process s 10 run before it reaches what must Le considered a normal state 01' of deflation | hings. i All that the wage cut will do, says ' the Buffalo Commercial (indepen- dent). will be to enable the roads “to pay clrrent expenses and leave some- thing over, but it will not give the . hipper and travelcr hope of lower ight rates and passenger fares” Lecause "It meets the situation only kaM wayv." The Providence Journal glml(pnmh.nl) Sces no cause for ob- |jections on the part of the workers. {since “men whose wagee have been jadvanced from onme 1o two hundred | per cent assuredly have no reason to compla of an average reduction of only twelve per cent.” nor does down with wages. i The New York Tribune (republican) looks upon the fact that the Presi- | ident is. “actively concerned” as “the! first step toward insuring the pub- lic once more of the benefits of an efficient, high-class railway service." | | Frank Tannenbaum, A. B. | The shopworn adventure of the poor | boy who became rich has been out- | done by Frank Tannenbaum, although | the latter's career has hardly begun. | Mr. Tannenbaum got into the public eye in 1914, when by leading an or- derly little' mob into a church he! called attention to the pitiable condi- | tion of the unemployed. The method | he used did not appeal favorably to those who look upon churches as places of worship. but it opened the eves of many people and the hearts of {a few. As for Tannenbaum, he found {lodging_on Blackwels Island for a| jvear. His history since then throws light upon America during one of the | most eventful lustfums in its annals. In 1814 most newspaper readers nmn.] 'l;}y considered him a dangerous radi- | cyl. although in that golden pre-war age the man in the street, instead of going into hysterics, merely smiled fn a superior and rather convincing | way at the antics of the little band of Utopians. : Two years later Tannenbaum was working in a shipyard asd trying to | stir his fellow workers to greater ef- forts to counteract the ravages of the German submarines; two years after that he was in the Army. and by his patriotic zeal had earned the rank of sergeant: a year later he had re- sumed his studies at Columbia Uni- versity, and this week finds him grad- uating with “highest honors in his- tory and economics” a Phi Beta Kappa key in recognition of a bril- liant record in his studies, and a scholarship which will enable him to ake an advanced degree. There is another moral in this story than the mere conversion of & cal” to ‘“liberalism.” This is that youth, enthusiasm and a.degree of ig- norance sufficient to make a young- ster a noisy and irrational objector to the existing order may cover up the must admirable quaiities and the highest abilities. Probably Mr. Tan- nenbaum has found out that if the world Is to be made better it must be done by prolonged hard wark and painstaking preparation, but proba- bly he does not regret that before this was quite 8o clear to him he flung his gauntlet blindly in the face of what he thought injustice and e cruel indiffefence to human suffering.—New York Globe (independent). ° Two things are inevitable, death and the cafeteria cashier.—Bingham- ton (N. Y.) Sun.” Recipe for preserving peace: First can your diplomats.—Elmira Gazette. Good sport: A darned hypocrite who musters a smile when he is licked.— Baltimore Evening Sun. The world is still waiting for some geni t6. invent a fly trap that will look like a Bald ‘head.—Birmingham News. ' Now we know there are at least two towns in Oklahoma—Ardmore and Tulsa.—Toledo Blade. The Itallan gravediggers' strike is one case where the ultimate con- sumer does not give a rap.—Denver ‘Times. . Raby Ii1, Strikes Wife.—Headline. Another instance of the évil of too- early marriage.—Buffalo Express. ok \h ‘the. faoe of eummer —Coltmbix (8. 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