Evening Star Newspaper, June 10, 1921, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON D. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1921. THE EVENING STAR,]|at a sufficient distance to permit full‘prnbahly have refrained from summon- avoidance. At night every ship should be slowed down to the point at which |its headway can be quickly checked ;upon the first warning. Strung search- Witk Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY..........June 10, 1931 { Mghts should be used incessantly after TEEODO! . NOYES. .. .Editer dark. et In the case of the Titanic it is be- The Evening Star Newspaper Company | lieved thut the ship struck great spur ave, | Of lte projecting beneath the surface | New York Office: 130 Nassau 8¢ from the body of the berg. This is not | Ohicago Office: First, National Bank Buildisg. [an unusual condition. Only a small Regent St.. Londoo. Enziaad. | portion of ice shows above the water Twith and the greater mass, spreading usual- Iy fur out, Hes beneath. There is a “projecting spur” practically on every 690, side of each large berg. Thus me! €84 of eack montl. radius of danger around a large berg Ra e is a wide one and ships must give e Dl’h“.l MP”.; '?I 8 Advancs. | coch fouting mmass af Ioe a distant pas: ryland an rginia. a mail. or mude by carriers at the a, Toticetion in i sage to avoid possible collision. —_———————- The Shipping Board. i Ths task of the new Shipping Board | {is difficult. Under the old board were | ¢ extravaguncies and futilities that n\u!l' not appear und: {ical and successful adrmalnistration of | aifairs is promised and expected. We of peave. WhO |yt get somewhere with our purpose Yoes not desire peace? Who. in office | 14 show the Stars and Stripes on mer- # out, is not willing to promote the | ;hant ships in the important trading ends of peace by any and ev Prac- ports of the world. And we must do} tical means in his power? And Yet!ipi in u business way, and as soon as who really believes that the last war!pocible at a profit. has been fought? that the organizind. Tpe times are not propiticus. For- of this desive for peace is all WAL IS en trade is at a low ebb. A great| nmecessary to put wide world “‘fd"“l of shipping is idle. A revival rest and keep it so? jof trade depends somewhat on Daily and Sunds, Dally only Sunday on Lhe new. An econom- | Peace, and Present Conditions. the in- d from ail the There may be gath fuences, in America and elsewhere. speeches that are made on this subJect ' (yiide of trade. Politics and large ! by public men in this o any OWEr | conomics are involved. Trade must! country an acknowledgement that Mot uice its chances In the general ad- withstanding the appalling experience sugone of the past seven vears a goud deal of | o powever, are no worse off than “the old Adam” still remains 4MONS: ther pations. In this matter the na- ! men. As a matter of fact, & COMijong gre all in the same ship. 2o Lo fession runs through nearly all such| o0 ywy o000 B D e up deliverances that the world at Dresent o chould clear up for all who are! is on hair-trigge and that all steps should be taken with that fact in view. | There is but one man of note in Amer ica who has publicly advocated di "nnusual pains in choosing the mem-| afmament by this country in advance \yerq gj] are well known. and all have i of action by any.other country if neces- [y~ O P S e Sen | sary to sct an exampie. But he is iy [Shel) =anp wnojeone a0 ad-iocperience In business repared for the change. The new buard is to prepare us. As Chairman Lasker has had a large | former Senator ! vears vocated the free coinage of silver at{cpayoio bR IR IO enee in | 16 to 1 by this country without the pojiiieq and governmental matters. | co-operation of any Other cOuUntIY. —[ywhile Admiral Benson. from knowl- That proposition was rejected at the | gqz0 gerived as a member of the otd poils. on the round that such a potiey {85 CRa 28 8 e O e mew In would bring evervthing down with a | At o e o om. crash: that America could not stand| 'y, toyndations for success seem to alone in such business. Is Mr. Brvan | F o0 ORI St e a better adviser as to peace than s 10y, ccons, with Congress assisting. A | finance? Mr. Roosevelt's advice seems as good today as when given. and wiil re main good while the globe continues to turn on its axi “Speak softly. and i carry a big stick.” A nation sometimes | needs its armament as badly as the Texan of the fable needed his pistol. i realization of one of the country’s most -herished aspirations—a foreign trade { commensurate with our rapidly in- creaging productivity. Talking About the Weather. It is a litile early to congratulate z Congress on the subject of the weather. T?le S‘lAms c“e {The dog days have not arrived. andl Rear Admiral Sims. it is cabled from | Ly o' ine g0 arrive thes may live up London. verifies and stands by hist, o reputation. They are as try- luncheon speech. which has BIVED|yng oy patience and collars in this grave offense in this country and has 3 i 5 town as elsewhere. But not more so. elicited a prompt and pointed inquiry yCr 0 He e LEr e o from the Navy Department. He vir-i S 00 T tually invites investigation and re-i o Lol within doors, both April| proof, if not more serious visitation in ' Pmithment. The Senate has already |2N0 M8y were delightful. And June ordéred an 24Y ! pag opened well. inquiry and a resolution | “mp. recorg on Capitol Hill shows to (h_e same effect is beforc the House. that the brethren engaged on the pub- Duplication of congressional investiga- |y, pqiness there are in excellent ! tions is not nececssary or desirable. i working shape and humor. They have Indeed, there is hardly any reason for |, . molished a good deal since assem- an investigation at all. The ""“""lnung. Some important measures have can well rest with the Secretary ofiy..n"gent 1o the President. Others the Navy. There is but little doubt{, .\ yong and well advanced toward of the truth of the reports of the ad- = report for discussion and passage. The miral's utterances. He has, it would | cho & L) seem, verified them sumciently un.jCOUDUTY can see that the object for =y S "1 which the session was called is bein; officially and will doubtless |Z2E ae E 5 do so of- & accomplished. ficially upon receipt l 2 of Secretary : ® T Another proof that working condi- Seabs & canlegram. The Bectelarysf .. o . gorceatic 18 the gencral ion in wiring immediately indicates S hat the apecch fa viewed as impeoper | V0T temBer of the debates. Tncom- and it will require no Prompting or|pepeiers see red e i :;‘:‘e“ ed‘:;";";‘f"‘;‘: {‘;:"'“l‘)‘::r:’;:’;e: | much ease—cultivate a taste for that The ncident is ;reflll)- Vo e da color. But, as yet, neither in House nor plored. Whatever may be feit on the Senate have the exchanges, Vexcex?t in subject of the Irish agitation in this |* {7 I"%ances snown acrimony. country and the relations between the | . - i i Tnited Statea and England, i 1s deeply | TAINS o0 the card. and the l"’""""’]’ o be regretted that an officer of the expect.s a full rn:poxt before ad)nurm; American Navy or anybody holding ment is taken. Given l‘hen an average’ an official position under the govern.| T MMer. Congress, without physical ment should employ language such as | JiStress: should in due season attend | that used by Admiral Sims at London | to every matter of a pressing and im-| on Wednesday, and it is especially re- | P2 chasacier: gretable that when the propriety of e his remarks was challenged the ad-{ Farmers in addition to keeping a miral did not immediately express re- | Cl08e watch on the weather are giving gret. discerning attention to the financial re- e ———— . ports. The ambition of the farmer is Commercial reports indicate that ]t 8et as much for real grain as the scarcely a nation in Europe, whatever | Market manipulator gets for an im- its sense of. resentment, would have } 38inary article. the heart to leave the U. S. A. iso- lated. 1 } Although the leader of the demo- e TS S cratic party in the presidential election, The efforts to aid humanit§¢ are|Mr- COX is not insistent on being recog- hindered now, as they were when|Nized at all times as its. most re- “man’s inhumanity to man” was the | SPOnsible spokesman. subject of poetical reference. } The fact that the earth's coal supply X reliable method has yet been de-| IS liable to give out in the course of a vised for making the air safe for |féW hundred thousand years Is no ex- aviators. cuse. for the shutting down of work at the mines. : i North Atlantic Ice. - There are many points of interest in Heavy ice is reported in the north! . covenant, but article ten can Atlantic, in larger quantities and far- always claint the spotlight at a mo- ther south tham at any time for nine mem!'.u notice. poclE years, since the Titanic disaster in 1912. Already two freighters have struck ice and have been disabled, both, however.l proceeding under their own steam to port. Warnings have been sent out by the hydrographic office of the Navy Department, giving the location of known bargs and floes and cautioning all masters of vessels to proceed with caution in the field of possible danger. In 1912 a similar condition prevailed. Heavy ice masses were floating south, making a lower latitude than usual and crossing the steamer lanes. The l American dye manufacturers are re- viving the tariff argument that an in- |tant industry needs protection. A few contractors are sufficiently philosophic to figure in the graft as a part of the regular outlay. An Armed Maniac. Books Lalance queerly in the course of human affairs. There is, for in- stance, the case in Toledo, where a {to start the study of psycholog ‘Titanic was warned of this situation, but she was neverthelgss driven, on her maiden voyage, at top speed throygh the ice field and one of the most appalling disasters in the history of navigation resuited. There was no eonceivable reason to ignore the warn- ings. y If all ships passing through the zone of possible danger are driven forward at slow speeds, with the utmost cau- tion and with no relaxation of watch- fulsess, there is no occasion for dis- aster. The presence of ice in the im- mediate vicinity is made known by man of unsound mind, after refusing to pay his board bill, barricaded him- self in his boarding house and opened fire on the police. At the end of the melee two policemen were dead and the maniac himself had been slain, a total of three lives. The house was riddled with bullets and damage in- flicted that will cost perhaps a thou- sand dollars to repair, and the city government has expended probably as much ammunition as the board bill itself. Of course, if the boarding house keeper had foreseen the resuit of her compleint to the police against ing ald. Bhe could have “‘starved him out. It would bave been a good in- vestment as matters developed. But her first impulse, as that of any other thrifty house manager. was to appeal to the law. She did not know that mental disease had made the 'man dan- gerous, that he was on the point of starting a revolution of his own. He had talked wildly about religious war and was known to have been in cor- respondence with arms manufacturers. But nobody tovk his words seriously. There are plenty of such people, vapor- ers and visionaries, who have wild schemes and talk about them and make dark threats. Not one out of ten thousand will ever demonstrate. Prob- ably in this case the wrong meihod was employed. The police, however, went at the case with directness. as usual, and the issue was precipitated at once. Diplomacy would probably have suppressed the man without tragedy or damage. It might be well the city police bureaus, with espec reference to the treatment of maniacs with guns. Aviation Fatalities. Numerous aviation fatalities have lately occurred. There seems to be a able epidemic of air disasters Starting with the loss of seven men in an ambulance plane near Indian Head, next came the accident at Aber- deen, where several lives were destroy el through a premature bomb ex- plosion. Since then there have been a number of ordinary mishaps. falling planes and machine failures. The lat- !est occurred yesterday near Colonial | Beach. when a marine fiyer lost hisipeople x life in a tail spin, following the stalling of the engine. All of these catastrophes were in line ce. There was no fancy fiying of these cases. The only qu tion in them is as to whether full p all know, the President took time and caution was taken against mishap inl friendliness. each instance. The men who are fly- ing in the government service today re contributing to the development of aviation. best planes that can be invented and constructed. Experiments should be worked out with a minimum of risk to I The training of novices shoul be conducted with the greatest care. It will be a great mistake if it is sumed that there must necessarily a certain percentage of fatalities ayiation. be in It does not follow that be- A |cause men are fiying in heavier-than-| for “that Canada would ever side w imerchant marine is necessary to ajair machines they must pay a definite | the mother country in a conflict with toll in life. Aviation can be made safe. It is safer today probably than at any time past. Save during the war, there is more flying now than ever, in commercial lines, in exhibitions and in government service. and the gen- eral percentage of fatality is probably not as large as it was before the war. Still. this present series of fatal mis- adventures makes for some doubt as to progress. —_———— The Hohenzollerns represent a phase of unemployment that has its element of economic interest. The faint effort of Wilhelm to set an example as an industrious woodchopper should have found more popular encouragement. —_———— ‘The friends of D'Annunzio who lis- ten to his recitations are doubtiess hoping that he will drift from poetry sooner or later into one of his rousing political speeches. ——— Citizens of Switzeiland complain that tax blanks are unreasonably cumber- some and refuse to fill them out. They should study the tax blanks of other countries and learn patience. ——————— Mr. Harvey may discontinue his as- sistance in making the flivver famous. He has been known to change his mind before. . —_——— ‘The prices at which Americans are repurchasing materials sold in France are a tribute to the quality of the goods. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Summertime. ‘Tis summertime—the roses fair Lend languid perfume to the air, As melodies so soft arise Like fragrance wafted to the skies. 'Tis summertime—a baby walls, The sun beats down and dust prevails. A weary horse plods humbly through The task he is,compelled to do, And vapors fill the thoroughtare, ‘Where people breathe denatured air. The cautious iceman scans the scales, The sun beats down. A baby wails. The songs are sweet that people sing Of days that drift through blossoming. 'Tis summertime. Much must depend On where you chance to be, my friend. Clinging to Prose. “I have observed that you neyver quote Shakespeare in your speeches.” “No,” replied Senator Sorghum; “I have trouble enough keeping my facts and figures straight, without being called down by people who specialize on pointing out misquotations.” Jud Tunkins says the country boy &ets many a laugh when he hears a city man- tell about how easy it is to have a gurden and raise your own corn and potatoes and string beans and so forth. Molding Legislation. ‘When for some influence I try, I use an intellectual twist. An educator thus am I, And never a mere lobbyist. Daylight Saving. “I wish mosquitoes could be trained to work in the daytime instead of at night,” said Farmer Corntossel. “What difference would that make?” “Might help to keep Josh and the hired man awake durin’ the hours ‘when wakefulness is really needed.’ ‘“Some men's idea of success,” said Uncle Eben, “is to make deir selves 80 influential dat everybody has to put up wif all kind a nonsense f'um ‘em.” Peace will, not be permanent as long _as the natioas old kind ships. in! They should have the very | Editorial Digest Anglo-Japanese Alliance. On the eve of the renewal of the Anglo-Jupanese alliunce outspoken demands sponsored by Australla and Canada ure volced In the Toronto Globe, which declares that any new treaty must beur modifications “that under no clrcumstunces will Britain become associated with Jupan in a war, defensive or offensive. wuged fgainst the United States.” While this statement Is wholly s actory to most American newspapers. some feel that Britain should not bind itself to {Japan at «Il. while others urge that if {this is done the United States should (be tuken into the ugreement, which ishould be commerciul rather than {military in its nature. | Among thuse who oppose the alli- jance is the Des Mofnes (la.) Register (independent republican). “The best | |thing,” it suys, “would be no treaty. ! |The next best would be a modi- fled one.” Pointing out that “Britain between two fires”” on the one nd, the danger of encouraging a counter alliunce if she should “drop jJapan brusquel,.” and on the other “a growing misunderstand- n rica” the Register con- | tinue; “The conventional answer of { European diplomacy to this situation would be 10 make the alliance three- cornered. including America. But that jcan’t be even proposed seriousiy. The jprobable upshot is a modified treaty between Britain and Japan. one that Will be more than u mere commercial jtreaty. but less than a thoroughgoing i military alliance. The purposes of the lallance likely be defincd with lcare and its exclusion of Americk from its terms made clearer.” Even more emphatic in its disap- proval of treat Britain's proovkble lcourse is the Lexington Leader (re- publican), which fecls that “the Brit- {ish people wiil do a wise thing" if }they refuse to support “a plan €quires apo! and defense. ‘sound rcason,” savs the Leader. “has i¥et been offercd for the renewal of un |alliance which from the inception of ithe policy appeared to the American a somewhut unequal and ]d|~uuiflu X agreement.” i The emphatic statements, however, that have come from Australia and {the Dominion are taken by most i writers_as sufficient assurance that ‘lvr(‘ul Britain has anything but a desire to take any sitep sufficiently | unguarded as to give the United i States ground for suspicions of un- Besides the colonial | sentiment. which is “largely the same { @8 our own." there is further, as the | New York Post (independent) points joul. England's “appreciation of the | fact that friendlin ion with the United tes are of | primary interest to he Thus, the Post concludes, “we may dismise as a mousirous absurdity the idea of a military menace to this country in- s¢ and L-o-aperx-l herent in an understanding betwecn | Great Britain and Japa Quoting {the London Spectator to the cffect {that siding with Japan against the United States would be “blowing the | British empire to smithereens in a | single instant.” the Kansas City | Journal (republican) agrees that such a situation is impossible to ima America is as inconceivable us that | Australia and her other colonies would { side with {a contes The terms of the treaty itself. with | the reservation exempting either coun- jtry from aiding the other in case of war with us, the Dallas Times-Herald (independent democratic) considers ‘welcome to the United States” as “at least proof of friendship on the part the Asiatic elements of such of Japan and Britain. Approval of the pact, the Burling- | ton Free Press (independent) believes is “in line with cur policies,” for: unifestly. if America were to im- i pose mo objection to the renewal of | i the allfance, while Australia and other j dependencies of Great Brltain op- {posed it us a menace to them. the United States would be paving the i way for better feeling on the part of {davan.” 1" The question of actually enroiling Uncle Sam as a member of a fri- partite agreement. which includes the !other two great powers, is discussed with sympathy by a nuthber of { writers” Typical of those who re- flect this view is the Wheeling (W. Va.) Intelligencer (republigan). which { finds that one “advantage” in such an arrangement for this country would be joint discussion with Britain con- cerning the troublesome question of Japanese immigration, “provided that Japan were also an ally to this na- tion. | The Detroit Free Press (independ- ent) : “A proper tripartite treaty that would not violate our traditions and our Constitution * * * could be used to minimize national and racial antagonism by taking away causes of friction.” A Child at the Bar of Justice. The law is a fearsome thing. Un- til the inheritance of many centuries Ihal been eradicated from the human heart maybe the trappings must be maintained to frighten as well as to punish. In Indiana an eleven-year-old boy was on trial this week charged with imurder. Outside of officers of the court the place resembled a nursery, according to those in attendance. Nearly all of the witnesses, pro and con, were children. A boy seven years old had been shot at play. It was al- {leged by the prosecution that the de- ifendant “wilfully and with malice |atorethought” did the shooting, there- fore he should be adjudged guilty. The jury disagreed. If it had brought in a verdict, what would have fol- lowed? Surely not the hanging ot the child defendant. Is it possible, outside of the law books, for a child of eleven years to commit murder? Is it necessary for the preservation of society that a child should be placed on trial before a jury on the charge of murder? The law takes life. The law is not seeking revenge when it does so. The law is not punishing the person whose life is taken by the law when it takes life, and that alone. The in- tendment of the law is to make an example in the interest of society. Once we had open-air judicial hang- ings, as a warning to all and sundry not to defy the rules of society. These exhibitions hardened the individuals witnesses to them and had tobe abol- ished in the interest of society and society’s decorum. Soclety would have been safer with- out the child trial of Indiana. If jurisprudence were a little broader it might take cognizance of the law of heredity and things like that and deal with the parents and let the chil- dren alone.—Denver Rocky Mountain News (independent). Mammoth Liner Passing. Sailing from New York last week for Cherbourg, Southampton and Hamburg, the new Royal Mall liner Oropesa carried a record-breaking number of passengers. Most of the other Atlantic stea: companies are experiencing a similar rush of business. In the case of the Royal Mail. present conditions have served to demonstrate the success of steam- ers of moderate size. Before the war there was a tend- ency towaurd the gigantic in the matter of steamship eonstruction. In the course of thirty-five years, from 1884 to 1919, Atiantic linérs had grown in size from §,000 tons to close upon 50,000 tons. -It was then predicted that the hundred-thousand- ton steamer would be seen in a few years. Today, with conditions completely changed by the war, the ship of me- dium sise is declared by experts to be the only type that can make a fair profit in view of the fact that op- erating expenses have quadrupled.— Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (republican). ‘There are gilt-edged securities— and guilt-edged.—Boston Herald. As the movies get worse the shrewd managers install softer seats.—Flint (Mich.) Journal. Harding peace dlan puszies French—headline. If the French English they would be still puzzled.—Springfield Republican. Drat statistics. They are always ‘The_centi- poiting poniis puleiL ) 2 the 608 TO 614 Important Feattres The House The most in de- mand materials— Georgette, Crepe de Chine, Tafieta, Satin, Mignonette, Satin and Geor- gette Combinations. In the dressy models—artistically embellished with beading and em- broidery. Also some Sport models in sportive combinations of Crepe de Chine and Tricolette. A charming va- rietv—of clever creations. 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