Evening Star Newspaper, June 16, 1921, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, out the year, as it will soon be in ef- G ST. ?| tect, also by executive order, for part With Sundsy Morning Blitlem |or the year. If the departments are WASHINGTON, D. O. thus, by action of the President, pi upon the yearround Saturday-half- WHURSDAY.coee. .June 16, 1981 |, i3 0 pasis and Congress feels that THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor this treatment of the departmental h-msurwcm force is too liberal it can amend the act and simply euthorize the Presl- Bustness Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. - New York Office: 150 Nassau S¢. dent to close the government offices at Laeago Office: First N noon on Saturdays during the warm Buropean office: 3 Regent St., London, England. weather. with the Sunday merniog 1t is altogether illogical to observe The Dvesing Star, the law for three months and ignare @dition, is delivered by carriers witbin the city &t 60 cents per mont] 45 centa per it for nine on the ground of govern- month: Sunday only. ment requirements. For the work in &3 =3y, be sent by 12| the departments -is no less heavy in the three months of summer than it is in the -nine other months of the year. Indeed, the work in summer is heavier, relatively, for that is the sea- son of the annual leaves and the office forces sre depleted. Thus the govern- ment in observing the law in part 8ke | does 8o, most strangely, at the very time when there is need of longer serv- ice. If three months of half holidays are to be granted each year on the score of the state of the work that time should be placed in the season of minimum vacation, or midwinter. It is not, of course, to be believed that this will be done. The point is cited simply to show that the logical course in this matter is to follow the law and establish the half holiday on a year- round basis, as the statute prescribes. On the Job. The President, it is announced, will femain on the job “if it takes all sum- mer.” While Congress continues to function he will function—will be at hand, ready to help in the dispatch of public business. That is the idea. There is a good deal of public business to be dispatch- ed, and some of it pressing in the ex- treme. Both foreign and domestic affairs are involved. All business cir- cles feel, and show, more or less anx- fety. The times are most decidedly out of joint. Congress is fanctioning steadily. It ‘was ready for business when the gavels fell, and it has not been loafing at any time since it began to do business. Now and then impatience is express- d. One might suppose that with more diligence an the part of Congress the public’s woes would by now be well on the rcad to a cure. - Such expressions come from inex- Yperienced quarters, or from quarters ‘playing politics. The public’s present ‘woes were not created in & day, and hence cannot be cured in a day. The part of everyday wisdom is to face the sitmation squarely, and the part of everyday courage is not to be ap- palled by it. There it is, not to be underrated or overrated for its diffi- culties and complexities, but tackled ‘with a recollection of the fact that we ‘have faced other situations of a grave eharacter, and by courage and patience conquered them. We can do the same thing again. The President is game, and, as Con- [gress shows no disposition torun away, matters should shortly begin to show Smprovement. Swimmin’ Holes. The days of wilted collars at the office and shirt-sleeves at the ball park, of Palm Beach suits and iced coffee, of fly screens and mothballs are ap- parently upon us. And as the annual reaction to those days the youth of ‘Washington, and with them many of the older residents of the city, are thinking, with a hankering born of 80-0odd degrees Fahrenheit, of the re- freshing qualities of a splash or a swim in cool waters. A tub is all well enough for the grown-ups, but to Young America it is too closely asso- ciated with a phase of life which is an ordeal rather than a joy to make it an acceptable substitute for a “swim- min’ hole.” And there are parental recriminations if, splashing enthusi- astically, one souses the bathroom floor. So the youngsters of Washington are questing cool waters, green or sun- splotched brown, as arc the waters of pool or stream. The quest has carried them to the municipal bathing beach in numbers which cause the waters of that establishment to swarm with humanity. But a bathing beach, and an overcrowded one at that, while bet- ter than a tub, lacks somewhat of the glamour and fun with which the veri- table “swimmin’ hole” is identified in than nothing—oh, better by far than nothing'—there is something in the tramp with Bill and Skinney to some secluded rendezvous with the gang; in the race not to be the ninny in- volved in being “last one in”; in the subsequent hour in and out of the pool, when the spray leaps high in exultant water combat and a fellow can shout as loud as his lungs permit—for which no artificial convenience of a city-run bathing beach can effectually substi- tute. There are today few such retreats available to Washington boys. Yet one has only to study the course of Rock creek as it winds through the most beautiful park in the country to see where two, or three, or six, or a dozen such could readily be brought into existence. The removing of a bowlder or two here, the slight back- ing up of the water there, the build- ing, &t points where the woods would hide the artifice, of shelters where Bill and Skinney could con- duct their miraculous contests in doffing and donning, and the thing— a big thing for the boys of Washing- ton—would be done. One obvious im- pediment stands in the way of accord- ing this boon. The number of police to- day assigned to the park is insufficient to insure adult protection to the young) bathers. With a modest increase of| that number during the summer months, those in charge of the park could and should, and undoubtedly would, satisfy the hankering of young hearts for real, honest-to-goodness “swimmin’ holes.” ——— Railroads might be comfortably pro- vided for if as much money could be placed at their disposal as was pro- vided for airships which did not ma- terialize. ! Politics. Politics has been resumed on Capi- ¢ol Hill. It may seem a little early. The resolution taken at the beginning ot the session to chuck polftics until normalcy returned was impressive, but too good to last. At the end of three months it has gone blooey. ) Still, let us remember that nearly gll of our national legisiators are poli- ticians—either born so, or men who, by associating with politicians, have mequired a strong taste for the politi- cal game. An abstinence of three months must have been a trying ex- perience. They must bave said to themselves—probably every one of them—*~Tt's a long time between stump wpeeches™ ‘The tariff broke the spell—put an lend to the period of good feeling. It 4s a mighty fine old topic for just such = purpose. Many politicians have been “raised™ on the tariff. They cut their party teeth on it, and have been talk- ing it ever since they learned to talk. And some of them talk well on it. And now that the spell is broken it will probably stay broken. Every topic wiill lead to politics, more or less. ‘Well, entertainment at least is as- sured. Our politicians, whether of one yparty or another, know their business, and when in their stride are great en- tertainers. And never before have so, many topics been available, or any ‘more inspiring. If one is disposed to I take a political view of the situation he has but to look about him. There I are lures galore. He could find them | ‘with his eyes shut. ————————— One of the difficulties in defeating Gompers for the American Federation of Labor leadership is a lack of cer- tainty as to what the next number on the highly unusual program would be. ————ree———————— —_————t————————— The applause immediately following A few European politicians are in-{a banquet oration is not a reliable eonsiderate enough to suggest that]indication of the comments which may there should be a discrimination|be in evidence next morning. mgainst Uncle Sam because he is un-| &ble to show a league of nations card.| Eyery time an Inadvertent speech —————— e {arouses political agitation Col. House The interest of a banquet speech|feels that his friends ought to con- gmay fail to reach its climax until| gratulate him. Bfter the United States Senate takes; Bold of it. —_—————— ———— President Harding expects to be 5 busily occupied this summer. Last ! The Saturday Half Holiday. summer's activities afforded excellent A brief laid before President Hfl-l'-llrulnm& 8ing by a committee of the Federal Employes’ Union brings up again a{ yoin is now as anxious to be & :‘f_‘:’;“’:‘ek’:“;" S e Dending oM. good business man as he once was to ve to Saturday half holi- y : i s dove taints 0 “,“hing.'be a destroyer of the social system. ton. Under the present practice half holidays are bestowed on, the cepart- mental force during the summer as a| Mayor Hylan of New York has been matter of consideration. The law, hqw- | asked by a delegation of residents of ever, makes Saturday afternoon a legal | that part of the big town that is known holiday “for all purposes” throughout | as “Greenwich Village,” lying general- the year. That statute has never been|ly south and west of Washington observed in respect to the government | Square, to clean up the place in the employes, although it has governed|interest of public morality. The ‘vil- the operation of banks and certain|lage,” they aver, has gone to the bad. other business establishments. The|Its “bohemianism” has become base Prief filed with the President asks that | decadence and degeneracy. The’ so- ft be applled to the departments|called artistic life of the villagers is without discrimination and uniformly | a mockery, and often a camouflage for throughout the year. The plain read-|sheer viciousness. The protestants ing of the law will not only justify | pointed to eleven suicides in a year in ‘Put requires this practice. If the work | these precincts, directly the result of of the government for nine months of | the base living of the denizens. Tea- the year does not permit Saturday half | rooms of not even a doubtful but a holidays the law should be amended. | flagrantly immoral character openly As it stands it is not a permissive|flourish. Even the policemen on the statute. It is explicit and inclusive, | beat in the “village” are infected with and declares Saturday afternoon a half | the pollution of the place. They can- holiday at all seasons of the year. The|not see anything wrong, and they government, therefore, is in a position | often are inveigled into the riotous for nine months annually of ignoring | bohemian life. ts own mandate, not on the ground| It Is not a new story. This particu- of emergency, but merely because it|lar section of New York has been un- pas the executive power. der criticism for a long time. It is It will require but an executive very distressing to the real “villagers,” Greenwich Village. i = s the minds of those who know. Better | I living artists and parsohs of artistic tastes, who prefer the simpler life of social non-pretense to the livelier and yet more formal existence of uptown Manhattan. Undoubtedly fakers and artistic shysters and imitatorsand self- indulgent poseurs and neurotic seekers after sensation have gone villageward. Much is happening there daily and nightly that is perhaps no worse than doings in other parts of town. But because the “village™ is, as it were, & place apart, whatever happens there is regarded probably as a bit worse than similar happenings in other parts of the not uniformly righteous and well behaved New York. It will be interesting to see what Mayor Hylan will do to the “village™ to correct its faults. If he closes all the tearooms and shops and studios and freak restaurants and can keep them closed he will have wiped out one of New York's famous institu- tions, almost as much sought by tour- ing sightseers as Chinatown and the Zoo. ————————— Jefferson and Prohibition. ‘With no hope of receiving anything at the hands of the present Congress, the wets are already laying plans to |4 capture the next. Candidates for nom- inations to Senate and House are to be interrogated, and then assisted if they answer favorably. Men such as are successful in the primaries are to be further assisted in their campaigns for election. Mr. Jefferson has been drafted for service. Quotations from his writings, arranged and interpreted to ally him with anti-prohibitionism, are in cir- culation. Mr. Bryan, ever on the alert when prohibition is involved, objects. As a Jeffersonian he has read, marked, learned, and inwardly digested the de- liverances of the Sage of Monticello, and sets him right before the country in the matter in question. He says in a statement recommending a revival of Jeffersonism as the remedy for the flls that now beset his party: “Jefferson believed in a government ‘which shall restrain men from injur- ing one another, and shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of Industry and improv ment.’ The two parts of this sentence balance one another. Some have put emphasis on the words ‘leave them otherwise free,’ and ignored the first part of the sentence. The words ‘otherwise free’ are not intended to} suspend or weaken the demand that that government ‘shall restrain_ mi injuring one another.’ It is necessary to restrain big corporations —man- e glants—from injuring God-made men, and there is no oc- casion to discuss ‘otherwise free' un- til this restraint is made effective. Prohibition is intended to ‘restrain men from {injuring one another’ and no one has a right to quote Jefferson in support of a policy which would leave liquor dealers free to injure their fel- ows.” Mr. Bryan is not the only dry on the watchtower; and the prospects now are that before the year is out the prohibition issue, as it will enter into next year's campaign, will be well under way. And, as in lzst year’s cam- paign, it will receive considerable sttention. Discussion as to the form of a dec- laration establishing peace is inevi- table. Peace without conversation ‘would leave this life a dull affatr. Foreign relations develop questions which the profoundest students of Dr. Einstein's relativity theory do not undertake to answer. The Dempsey-Carpentier contention is welcomed as an incident which can- not further butrden Congress with in- vestigation material. Fourth of July orators should begin without delay to edit their speeches so as to mingle discretion with rhetoric. Housing problems are rendered more difficult by the incidental figuring in a grafter’s private ledger. D'Annunzio continues to read his poetry to friends, but is not yet in & frame of mind for publication. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Human Perfection. “I do not seek the perfect friend,” Said Hezekiah Bings. “I'd be afraid he miglit extend A pair of angel wings: i And when some i-considered word He chanced to hear me say, His soul, with disapproval stirred, ‘Would bid him fly away. “I don't expect you, sky serene, To be forever falr, I don't expect the same machine To run without repair. A man's mistakes teach him to lend A hand where trouble clings; I do not seek the perfect friend,” Said Hezekiah Bings. 3 Jud Tunkins says theré have been ecnough fine commencement speeches to keep the world runnin’ right for- ever, if people would only pay atten- tion to 'em. The Will of the People. “Of course, you have a mind of your own.” . “I hope so,” replied Senator Sor- ghum; “at the same time I've got to remember that while I am supposed to make the speeches, my constituents represent the real intellectual au- thority.” 7 Irony of Fate. In battleships he sailed the blue 'Mid scenes of ocean strife, He ventured in a small cance And nearly lost his life. Morbidly Suspicious. “Hiram,” said Mrs. Corntossel, ‘what makes you keéep 80 many cal- endars around the house?” “It got to be & habit. For a while back a calendar seemed about the only thing I could read without suspectin® there was some kind of propaganda in it.” Unobstrueted Travel. “I can average forty or fifty miles an hour in my car.” “Wonderful!” exclaimed Mr. Chug- gina. ““You must have a political pull Editorial Digest The New Shipping Board. ‘The majority of the press has set its stamp of approval upon the appoint- ment of Albert D. Lasker as chair- man of the United States Shipping Board, a job which is generally ad- mitted to be a thankless, if not a hopeless, one. Of course, not every- body is pleased, and the disappoint- ment expreseed by the Springfield Republican (independent) is echoed by a small minority. Under the caption, “A Board of Novices,” the Richmond Times-Dis- patch (democratic) predicts “a sorty outlook.” It quotes the Springfield Re- publican’s remark that instead of choosing a man of the caliber of the president of the Steel Corporation the dent took Mr. Lasker, “who knows little or nothing about ship- ping or the export trade, although he is reputed to have interests in an automobile company, a pork and beans factory, a cereal food concern and the Chicago National base ball club. i The Times-Dispatch suggests that “perhaps Mr. Harding is not al- together to blame,” for “he tried, so it is said, to get experienced men, but ended up with what savors of politi- cal appointments.” On this “land- locked’ Shipping Board, says the Bal- timore Evening Sun (independent ic), “we find politicians a- and “sectional considera- the Brooklyn Eagle (independ- ent democratic) complains, have had too much influence in the appoint- ments, for what is needed “is a na- tional policy rather than a program designed to serve the purposes of lo- ugty." uch criticisms, however, are the exception and not the rule, and the democratic Roanoke (Va.). World News considers it “most unfortunate that democrats are inclined to cri cise” the Lasker appointment, for “if one may judge from his past rec- ord” the new chairman “will make 800d in a big way.” With this state- ment the Memphis News-Scimitar (in- dependent) agrees, declaring that the :g:;lrnbeof the Shipping Board “will carried on in a businesslike manner.” Yigorous, The Pittsburgh Gazette Times (re- publican) apparently has a similar estimate of Mr. Lasker and his new associates as well, for it remarks: “What s wanted is action. Happily Wé shall get that now with a board composed of men who can and will co-operate under the leadership of an executive deeply concerned for tp’::.‘n_l'm.inx the welfare of the na- The New York Evening Post (inde- pendent), too, finds the appointments 'on the whole"” good. “A business task lies before the board.” says the post, and ‘“Mr. Lasker, the new chair- man, is a shrewd and energectic busi- ness man.” The fact that none of the members come from the great ports is con- sidered a distinct advantage by the Portland Oregonian (independent re- publican): “We may now expect to see the government’s merchant fleet admin- istered to serve the commerce of all the people without special favor to any port where shipping business is now concentrated nor to zny ship- ping companies, but without discrimi- nation against them.” The chief function of the board, which 18 “to find a market in other countries for the surplus products of the American nation,” may be espe- cialy served, the Albany Times-Union (independent) believes. under the chairmanship of Mr. Lasker, for, in the opinion of the Tacoma Ledger (independent), “he is an organizer and a business man of exceptional ability, whose sound judgment and quick decision have earned him mil- lions in his own business.” 8everal newspapers, while they have no adverse criticism to register, feel that the choice of Mr. Lasker is, as the Lynchburg News (democratic) re- marks. “an experiment” It would be difficult, Houston Post (democratic) cult job than he has wished on him by the President. If he fills it satis- factorily he will have proved worthy of all that his admirers have said of his business genius." The New York Times (independent democratic) quotes a characterization of the new chairman as “a human dynamo” with “rare genius for or- ganization,” abilities which, it tersely concludes, “he will certainiy need in his new position.” The Sioux City Journal (republican), which hints that *a higher call may await Mr. Lasker if his conduct of the Shipping Board is successful,” feels that since he has “political ambitions, his energy a8 chairman of the Shipping Board will no doubt be directed in such a way as to win the approval uf the administration.” As to the policy of the new board, the Baltimore Sun (independent demo- cratic) calls "divorcement as rapidly as possible of the government from the business of operating the Ameri- can merchant marine” a_ “pleasing promise.” But the New York Globe (independent), though it recognizes the administration’s desire to fight shy “in every line of endeavor of anything approaching government | ownership,” nevertheless feels that the nation “miy conceivably do bet- ter to hang on to its merchant fleet until the market has recovered some- what than to sell when prices are at the bottom."” The New York Post (independent) looks at the Shipping Board's task in a slightly different light. It says: “Chairman Lasker and his aids can serve the country best if they reor- ganize the board's offices on a busi- ness basis and map out a policy of steady liquidation, to be unflinchingly pursued.” The Vanishing Millions. Just now it seems as if necarly everybody who made a big money clean-up out of the war has lost Ori is losing it. The way in which war fortunes are away s strangely similar April st o] =——=o[—=—[o]—=]o[c——=F[c——]olc——=]o]c——=]o]——=[e[—}=——]a]c———o][——[o[c——]c][——] slipping to the i wallet, with a string attached, jerked away by a mischievous boy Just as we reach down to pick it up. A leather company's annual state- ment shows that its 1920 deficit wiped out profits accumulated in the last seven years. So with many other cor- porations. Paper profits vanished :lsl the country returned to hard pan. It is the same with ind!\‘ldufll:] Any day it is possible to point out an individual on_ the streets as “one of the busted.” He made a big stake during the war and just after, but it's all gone now. What has become of these near | profits, or rather who will be the eventual holder when deflation and readjustment have run their course? ‘Wise business men say that the gov- ernment, through taxes, gradually will get back the floating war profits. But the government must spend this money to retire its war debts. Barring the great fortunes that were salted securely, most of the war profits in the long run will filter back to the public from which they came. It may take some time for the last of them, but the dld adage. “shirt- sleeves to shirtsleeves in-three gen- erations,” still holds good.—Grand Rapids . Press (independent). Paper hats, waxed to withstand the rain, are in vogue in gay Paree. And they cost as much' as hats.—El Paso Herald. Well, it took Admiral Sims to make Col. Harvey’s oratory look like diplo- macy—Pittsburgh Dispatch. Many & man has enough confidence in a friend to lend him money, but he doesn’t always have enough money. —Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. ‘You can’'t expe ur wife to be an angel and work iike the devil all the time.—Linn County (Mo.) Budget. . Found Sane, Fined Fifteen Dollars. —Headline. It's not only great, but cheaper to be crasy.—Buffalo Express. George Bernard Shaw has dropped the George from his name There are some Georges now in England with whom he would not care to be con- fused.—Columbia (8. C.) State. In after jewel ‘robbers in New York the pursuing policeman led in shooting one. thief and one spectator, which might be con- D. U, THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 192L 40/ Vacation Sa * 10 (lyb--1922 OPEN NOW ‘The Departmental Bank YOUR BANK ] 1714 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. 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