Evening Star Newspaper, June 23, 1921, Page 6

I'HE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. O, UHURSDAY.o.. .June 23, 1821 She Evening Star Newspaper Company Buminess Office, 11th §t. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 150 Nassau St Chieago Office: First National Bank Bullding. Surcpesn wiice: § Regent St., London, England. The with the Sunday morning wlh\w::'w carriers within the eity Rt 60 ceats per month: daily cnly, 45 cents per ith; Sunday only, 20 cents per month. Or- hone Main rs may be sent by -nn..«;r telephone Mala Dafly and 1 T0¢ oo ., $8.40:1 mo., Daily °nl"§3lld-l' &g., fiw: 1mo., 50c Bunday only. 1 yr., $2.40; 1 mo., 200 All Other States. Dafly and Sunday.1 yr., $16.00; 1 mo., 85¢ . eeseesso1 YT, $7.00;1mo., 60 ...1yr.. $3.00; 1 mo., 25¢ Peace-Promotion and Disarmament. Though we are not to have a world- Jeague of the Versailles model, either with the result of preventing war or of facilitating and multiplying wars, it is inconceivable that the world war should end without being followed by agreements between nations which ‘will tend to prevent future war (1) by future approximate disarmaments, or Dby cessation of competitive increases of armament, (2) by the establishment of international courts, if not for com- pulsory arbitration of all war-causing issues, then for the arb@ation, com- pulsory or voluntary. £ as large a measure as possible & such issues; e (D hy modifiations of interna- tiozat Ww, itsrupted by the new con- ditions deveroped % the war. War under the surface of the sea &nd in the air has put out of date the old international law governing war- fare, both by land and sea. In re- drafting international law she aim will be to get as much of juetice and of ‘war-prevention into the relations of nations as can possibly ba secured. To this end as & minimum of accomplish- ment there should be effected a con- ciliation and compufsory arbitration agreement which sball enforce peace more effectively then has been possible heretofore. Never before has there ‘been so wonderful an opportunity to wecure the making and keeping of such an agreement. Never before was the ‘world so war-weary; never before were s0 many mations gathered at the peace table. So far as disarmament propositions mre ooncerned it cannot be forgotten that the viewpoints of a victors’ league ending justly the present war and of @& world league planning in peace- time for a continuance of universal peace are diametrically in cpposition. The two leagues are based on differ- ent principles and their decisions are enforced by different powers. The vic- tors® iemgue is based upon the aggre- smie screngtn of the nations that won the war. The world league is based upon mutual agreement of all nations, including neutrals and vanquished, as "well as victors. In the first, power of control is frankly exercised by a few great associated nations. In the second, power of control is to be ex- ercised on representative and equitable principles by all the world. Under a wvictors’ league disarmament is only of the defeated. The victor takes away the vanquished's gun and retains his own, getting and keeping ‘the “drop” on the enemy as long -' is necessary to perfect the victory. 'Disarmament under a world league is not discrim- inatory, but universal. Everybody gives up his guns or a part of his guns. For the present in the interest of ienduring peace Germany must give up all its guns, which it has misused; and the victors’ league must keep its guns loaded, cocked and aimed, until all the reparations demanded by jus- tice in a peace of victory have been mmade, and guarantees that for the near future Germany will keep the peace have been secured, largely through German disablement to do otherwise. In the peace of the ideal world's league the victors of today must logically be disarmed as thoroughly as the van- quished. France's army gun and Brit- ain’s navy gun must be put on the table along with those of Germany and Austria. Arrangements for the possible pre- wention of future wars by universal mgreement will not be permitted to de- lay or embarrass or weaken the pro- visions for ending the present war and ‘preventing its recurrence by disabling the would-be world conquerors and keeping them disabled by the exercise of victors’ might. The United States, like the other Ereat powers, will doubtless follow the middle course in respect to disarma- ment and preparedness. On the one hand, war-weariness @and taxpayers’ pocketbook exhaustion drive us all toward disarmament or radical reductions of the high cost of armament. On the other hand, the lessons vividly impressed by the world's recent war experiences of the wisdom and necessity of preparedness counsel retention of armaments. Until this war is ended and the terms of its ending are obeyed or enforced there will be no real disarmament of the victors; only of the vanquished. France will not disarm on land; Great Britain will not disarm at sea. After our Army and Navy strength has been by appropriative action by Congress fixed in accordance with the war lessons of the necessity of pre- paredness and in consistency with the deflated condition of the national pocketbook we can ahd should, and doubtless will, push vigorously for eo-operation with England and Japan 4n cessation of competitive naval arma- ments. Even earthquakes do not disturb the Jtalian peace of mind so much as the molitical agitations. v Fake Fight Ticketa. A weal? from Saturday two men will Imeet in the prize ring at Jersey City for the world championship in bruis- fng. Tremendous public interest is aroused. An immense amphitheater hasbeen erected to accommodate many thousands of “fight fans” who have Zor weeks been buying their tickets at . 3igh pricea, They heve-looked 1 ward to the event with keen pleasure. Now their happiness of anticipation is dimmed. They are not certain that when they get to the ticket offices at the ringside they will be admitted. They may have a squad of expert en- gravers scrutinize their ‘“pasteboards” and pronounce them false and refuse them admission. For a gang of coun- terfeiters and swindlers has been busy for some time past manufacturing bogus tickets and selling them through- out the country. Half & dozen of the crooks were arrested yesterday. The promoter of the fight has declared that the counterfeit tickets are so close to the genuine in appearance that only a skilled engraver can tell the differ- ence. Nobody knows how many of the fraudulent tickets have been sold. But even.if only two or three hundred have been disposed of they suffice to throw doubt upon the whole issue of admis- sion tokens. If the counterfeits were crude and easily distinguishable there would be little trouble. Everybody who has bought a ticket lately has reason to be apprehensive. Early purchasers undoubtedly have genuine tickets. But they have no assurance against the presence in the seats their tickets call for of other persons, bearing coupons that look genuine, when they arrive to settle down upon their high-priced but uncomfortable benches in time for the big bout. It is all very provoking. Perhaps before Saturday week a way will be found to guarantee sure ad- mission and undisputed access to their seats of the genuine ticket holders. If not, and if the counterfeiters had floated a considerable number of fakes before being caught, there may be a battle in Jersey City that exceeds the Dempsey-Carpentier affair for rancor and bloodletting. - The President and His Task. The restful week ends on which the President has decided and entered should prove helpful to the full extent that he may need that sort of help. And, fortunately for him, he can vary his indulgences as the humor strikes him. Last week he tried a river trip, and enjoyed it with a few friends. This week he will try a visit over in New Jersey, as the guest of the senior senator from that state, who is one of his cronies and can steer him up against a golf course. The President is thus enabled to escape “shop.” He leaves “shop” be- hind—lets it slide for the time, and take care of itself in his absence. Patronage, legislation, treaties, and all the rest of it, will keep, and may even benefit from these respites. Refreshed by the breathing spells, the President, when he returns to his duties from one of them, is able to do all the more work, and do it better than had he gone on with an uninterrupted grind. As all are aware—since attention is called to the fact so often—the presi- dency is no holiday job. The chief servant of the people is a servant, in- deed, and works hard. He must turn from subject to subject with celerity, and his table is always covered with subjects. Mr. Harding is strong physically and works with a will. But his task is such, and so much depends on its ex- ecution, that he serves the public's in- terest as well as his personal comfort in arranging to keep as fit as possible. —_———— Charles H. Taylor. Charles H. Taylor, who died in Bos- ton yesterday after a brief iliness, was one of the veteran successful journal- ists of this country, having been identified with publications in that city for nearly sixty years. He went into the printing business as a lad, inter- rupting his training on the Traveler to enter military service, in which he was wounded. He returned to his work, turning from typographical to reportorial activity, and after a suc- cessful service in that line he founded a magazine which was successful until the great fire in 1872 destroyed the plant. After a brief interval he re- turned to journalism, being selected to take charge of the then unsuccessful Boston Globe, with which he has been continuously identified ever since. Under Gen. Taylor's management and editorial direction the Globe became not only prosperous, but widely influ- entigl. He made it a power in New England. He made it a force for pub- lic betterment. He gave it his inti- mate personal attention and he kept his active connection virtually to the time of his death, relinquishing regu- lar duties only a short time before his illness. Such a career is a tri- umph. Gen. Taylor's name was known throughout the United States in news- paper circles. He preferred to concen- trate upon his journalistic interest and held aloof from other activities in which he might have broadened his fame. ———————— From various sections of the map come the annual announcements of war on the mosquito. Science has as much difficulty in bringing war to an end as diplomacy. ————— o ‘When Col. House remarked that it was time to tranquillize he not only uttered a great truth, but immediately proceeded to take the benefit of his own suggestion. —_———————— The Dempsey-Carpentier fight may be brief, but the suspense has been prolonged and most readable.. - Navy’s Great Race. For many years the intercollegiate rowing regatta on the Hudson at Poughkeepsie was marked by e mo- notonous succession of victories by Cornell. Occasionally Cornell slipped back into second place in the varsity event, but it was usually Cornell first and somebody else second and third. Since the passing of Courtney, Cor- nell's great coach, the Hillmen from Ithaca have not been so successful, and other crews have had a chance at first honors in the big event. Curious- ly, however, the Naval Academy, thoush occasionally @ competitor, has never till now won a race at Pough- keepsie. Last year at the Antwerp Olympic games a crew from Annapolis outrowed all competitors. Yesterday that same crew appeared at Poughkeep- sie and swept the Hudson. It won the varsity event with remarkable ease, with five lengths’ lead at the finish. It broke the championship three-mile THE by Pennsylvania by one minute and forty-four secands and established the phenomenal time of fourteen minutes and seven seconds. This wonderful crew took the lead at the start and held it without real challenge to the finish. It rowed at a thirty-two-stroke pace throughout, with little variation. It gained on virtually every stroke. The real race was between Cornell and California for second place, California winning. There is a sad aspect to the Navy's victory, for immediately after the race the crew disbandsd, its mem- bers hurrying away to report for duty on battleships. Those eight men will probably never again row together in a boat, but they have the supreme sat- isfaction of having won world honors at Antwerp and on the Hudson, estab- lishing a speed record that will per- haps long stand unapproacned. The American Polo Victory. Rated before the series as a tsam potentially pewerful, but probably not up to the exacting task before them, the American polo four—playing' ag- gressive, confident and heady polo— have, by their successive clean-cut victories at Hurlingham, restored the cup to America and won for them- selves & secure place in the annals of international sport. Such scores as 11 to 4 on Saturday and 10 to 6 yester- day tell a glad story. Admittedly bet- ter mounted than the British veterans selected to defend the trophy, there were, before the first match, grave misgivings as to the steadiness and team strength of the American com- bination. Every report of the two con- tests has served happily to establish the lack of basis for those doubts. The speed and training of their ponies un- doubtedly played a fair part in the victory, but to it was added that su- periority of human dash and skill which alone could have lifted the cup. To Milburn, Stoddard, Hitchcock ‘and ‘Webb go the hearty congratulations of their countrymen. Rejoicing in the victory, frankly in- dulged in on this side of the Atlantic, will not be misunderstood by the sportsmen of England: America has, during the past year, endured with good grace a series of international reverses in sport which threatened to shake that quality of confidence es- sential to successful competition. Our victory at Hurlingham, in a sport at which the British are particularly adept, is, in the light of that fact, doubly sweet. Our pride in winning is in itself a tribute to British polo. So the cup comes hack. First offer- ed and played for at Newport in 1886, the score of the matches held since that time today stands! America, 4; England, 4—sustained competition so evenly matched as to satisty every desire of true sporting blood. And when the English players next invade Long Island for the ninth match it is the hope of America that, short of lifting the cup, they may carry away with them those pleasant memories of fine and generous sportsmanship and hospitality which we know are today cherished by each member of the American team in souvenir of their stay at Hurlingham. i Several smaller nations are evidently inclined to disregard any plan of dis- armament which does not provide a means of taking their weapons away from them. *\ Many members of Congress are long- ing for the old days when, even under the mast extravagant circumstances, a billlon was as high as any legislator ‘was expected to count. i Occasionally a Mexican official shows signs of being more interested in the oil business than he is in statesman- ship. ! A safe and sane Fourth of July is expected with reference to impromptu oratory as well as fireworks. i A few financial operations call for the kind of business doctor who is an expert in graft surgery. The near east is as usual in a state of near peace. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, The Triflin’ Day. A triflin’ day Comes wanderin’ by; The sunbeams play Across the sky: ‘The perfumes float On breezes slow; ‘The robin’s note Grows faint and low; The shadows 'round The thicket deep On the warm ground Lie fast asleep. ‘We may not flee The cares of life; Days there must be Of toil and strife, ‘With now and then, To ease the way Of plodding men, A triflin’ day. Partial Retribution. . “Do you approve of a prize fight?” “Only fifty per cent. I always feel that the one who loses deserved ex- actly what he got.” Jud Tunkins says the first thing a business doctor does in order to es- tablish confidence is to prescribe plenty of golf for the boss. Joy 3 ‘The industry we should admire ‘We often flout with.mirth unwise One man works hard to mend a tire, A crowd stands by to criticise. Preserving an Appetite. “When I was a boy my parents did not allow me to read dime novels,” re- marked a serious citizen. “Neither did mine,” replied Miss Cayenne. “T'm very grateful to them fot not‘allowing me to indulge in sen- sational fiction to an extent that might spoil my taste for the modern motion picture thriller.” Emphasis With Discretion. “I like & man who speaks out in meeting.” “So do L” said Senator Sorghum, “provided he is smart enough to do so without breaking up the meeting.” ' . Editorial Digest Discussions With Japan. The “direct negotlations” now go- ing on between Secretary Hughes and the Japanese ambassador in Washington. are hailed by the news- papers almost without exception as the beginning of the end of the mlis- understandings that have arisen be- tween Japan and the United States, and magnified to war rumors by cer- tain elements in both countries. While there are a few writers who would prefer to see the question “thrashed out by the league of nations” for the most part there is sympathetic response to the idea of taiking mat- ters over “man to man.” The Chattanooga Times (independ- ent democratic) is among those who faal that the case of the United States is somivusly handicapped because we are na 33 the league. Japan, know- ing that ¥wause we did not join the covenant wa “cznnot secure the co- operation of e®r former allies in the war,” the Time puggests, “might provoke us ito lrosKilit'es”; however, the peoble Wi support ' Secretary Hughea in any effort he may make to bring about more amicabie rela- tions between tha two countries.” A similar spirit s apparent in the comment of the Newark News (inde- pendent), when it says: “By direct negotiation Secretary Hughes may be able to take some of the kinks cut of our relations with Japan, but how far is he prepared to go along the path that ignores the Versailles treaty, r::u‘:;xhu ‘.‘!;apna ’ has fmgmui. and the nations, o b T which Japan is Pavofing the step but questionin, its motives, the Pittsburgh Sun (demos cratic) remarks “that the action is due more to a desire on the part of Washington to avoid recognizing the league than a desire to speed a set- tlement in no way affects the issue,” and “If the negotiations fail the league will remain as a natural re- source, which Mr. Harding and Mr. Hughes will hardly dare ignore.” This attitude is challenged by the Manchester Union (independent re- publican), which “has an idea that a good deal more is to be got out of this way of doing things than can be hoped for by following the circuitous route through the supreme council and the league of nations” Already news of the conversations is such that the Union sees “a spirit of compro- mise on both sides of the Pacific.” The Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph (republican) holds a similar view, de- claring that “there is no reason why Wwe cannot get together with Japan and enter on a new “era of good feel- ing, without the aid or consent of any other nations.” ~Indeed, “Americans will be better satisfied with an ad- justment made by the Japanese am- bassador and Eecretary Hughes,” says the Pittsburgh Leader (progressive republican), “than if the several ques. tions, especially tha: relating to Yap, were thrown into the supreme coun- cil” These conversations, the Leader predicts, “will doubtless furnish the necessary proof that we have never stood in the shadow of military dan- ger from Japa “Direct statesmanship is a solutlon to many of the troubles that nations are heir to," says the Florida Me- tropolis (democratie), and means cer- tain disappointment to “the alarmists, that class that howls wolf every time a black speck appears in the sk The attempt to put this method into practice will be found fault with by “nobody.” savs the Des Moines Reg- ister (independent republican). “ex- cept one with a direct desire” to pre. vent good relations between Japan and America. e most of the papers express no doubt that the two. statesmen ~will be able” as the Sioux City Journal (re- publican) puts it. “to dissipate all causes of friction between the two countries,” some object to the fact that discussion of the Shantung question is on the “agenda” This is a matter, as- serts the Florida Times-Union (demo- cratic). “for settlement between China ¥ for “if it is to be the policy of the United States to maintain a ‘hands off" policy in regard to European and Asiatic affairs, the American government should nof discuss the Shantung problem.” The Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch (inde- pendent democratic) = “If the more or less acute questions between the two powers are got out of the way, especially if that is accomplished with- out interposition of other powers, the problem of limitation of armament will be. or should be. settled without great difficulty. And it appears likely from the reports that these troublous ques- tions will be settled.” Atlanta Journal _(democratic) also takes the position that Japan is now in the receptive mood to accept the suggestions for checking the naval race, for “a power that seriously contemplated equaling our maritime strength, much less exceeding it, could never afford to take Japan's present attitude” The New York Mail (independent) also looks upon “the news of the Hughes-Shide- hara conversattons” as an “excellent omen” foretelling a hastening of the disarmament conference. The New “Prairie Schooners.” The prairie schooner of other days attains an Elysian development in the caravan of automobiles sched- uled to leave Brooklyn in July for Idaho. By this means of transit one hundred and thirty families will cross the country to form a farming com- munity in the western state. Is not this pioneering de luxe, with all the improvements of modern civi- lization? It may be supposed that many of their stay-at-home neigh- bors will envy them the prospect. There is the pleasure of the trip. the Jure of the far west. and back of it all the innate desire of men to go on pllgrimages and start a new com- munity. More important than the fortunes or fate of this particular caravan colony is the spirit which it exempli- fles. Is it symptomatic, ang will there be others like it? Motor-car transportation supplies an attractive means of getting away from the con- gested centers. And with this incen- tive on the one hand, and the stress of high city rents on the other, why should not the example inspire imi- tations? Why should it not actuate a new and wider back-to-the-land movement?—New York World (demo- cratic). Demagogic Criticism. The comment of some newspapers in the United States that the gov- ernment's Mexican policy “smells of oil” is a rather strained effort at the very sensible and wholly just requirements made by Secretary Hughes as a condition precedent to the restoration of diplomatic rela- tions with the southern republic. No one could state any good rea- son why a_title to oil lands. or to oil rights. if it be wholly valid and 2 quid pro quid was given for its purchase, is not to have the same manner of protection as is given any ‘property. ere was prejudice and perhans justifiable dislike to the Standard Oil Company because it was a monopoly. Abundant oil development has Jong cinnna enhhed it of that qhamter‘ but to hold a prejudice against oil prop- crties in general because one oil company was once in a degree wicked. would be rank absurdity. Whether it be $10 or $10,000,000 that an American or an association of Americans have invested in Mex- ico, and no matter whether it be oil, minerals, railroads, ranches, or What else, the principie that gives them the right to protection is the same. Tt is demagogic and silly that this manner of criticism should be made by Americans of Secretary Hughes’ firm stand for American property rights against threatened Mexiomn confiscation.—Nashville Banner (in- dependent). The summer wash tie is here. So is its enemy, the red raspberry. dar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette. Some of the bathing girls sunburn badly, but the brave little creatures grln and bare 1t.—Baltimore Evening jun. If we don’t stop singing about Co- Tumbia beinz the gem of the ocean @ome profiteer is going to get it.— New Orleans States. 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