Evening Star Newspaper, June 24, 1921, Page 6

6 - THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning: Edition WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY..... ..June 24, 1921 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 150 Nassau St. Chieago Office: First National Bank Building. European office: 3 Regent St., London, Englend. The Evening Star, with the Sunday moraing edition, is delivered by carrlers within the clty at 60 cents per moath: daily only, 43 cents per suonth: Sanday only, 20 cents per moath. Or- ers may be sent by mail, or telephon 8000, " Collection s made by carriers at the ead of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Acvance. Maryland and Virginia Dally and Sunday..1yr., $8.4 mo., ¢ All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1yr., $10.i Daily only. $7.0¢ Bunday onlys $3. [ The Crowded Court Calendar. The figures presented in The Star yesterday respecting the congestion in the District Supreme Court are plain proof of the urgent need of additions to the court. Bills for two more associate justices have been pend- ing in Congress for several years, but have been systematically pigeonholed. Other judicial districts have been cre- ated and additional judges have been voted for other jurisdictions, but the District has been permitted to remain in the same conditign as to court serv- ice as for forty-two years. In 1879, when the District Supreme Court was enlarged to six justices, the present number, there were only 177, 624 people in the District. Today thyre are more than two and a half times as many people here. The court .busi- ness has increased far more than two and a half times. The court in 1879 was just about able to care for the business of that time, and for some years after, without congestion or un- due crowding or unseemly haste. To- day the court cannot keep up with the cases, with every justice working at high pitch. At this time there are no less than 1,500 criminal cases pend- ing for trial in the office of the dis- trict attorney, and 373 equjty cases, which, during the summer, will be in- creased to fully 500, which will await court action upon the opening of the fall term. Congressional attention is apparent- 1y not arrested sufficiently to the fact that this is not merely a local court, attending to the domestic affairs of the District solely. It is a federal court, having jurisdiction over a great num- ber of cases affecting the United States. Most of these cases, tried here, are prolonged. The interests involved are weighty and every expedient of delay is utilized to insure the fullest pos- sible hearing. These United States cases are the chief cause of the con- gestion on the court calendar. ‘The spectacle of 1,400 persons out on bond waiting for trial in the District Supreme Court, with no prospect of action for anywhere from six months to two years, is calculated to cause doubt as to the effectiveness of the law in this community. The addition of two justices to the bench will permit a clearing up of the calendar in prob- ably two years, unless one of the court branches .is choked with a | months-long trial of a federal char. acter. By the time the calendar is cleared and the work brought up to date the natural growth of the Dis- trict's population and the volume of government business in this jurisdic- tion will so swell the normal work of the court as to keep eight justices busy constantly. The President and the Bankers. The bankers of the country have always been among the country’s best informed, and in times of pinch among its most efficient, citizens. They ren- dered invaluable service in the time of the civil war, and, later, while the country was recovering frcm the jolts of that terrific struggle. They ren- dered the same sort of service during the world war, and much is expected of them now that the country is head- ed for normalcy again. It is for this reason that the Presi- dent is consulting the leaders of the banking world at present on the ques- tions with which they are familiar— are, indeed, authorities. Recently a number of eastern bankers dined with him on invitation, and last night a number of western bankers were his guests at dinner. Business is the watchword, east and west and all around. How to re!torel confidence in business, how to stabil- ize business, and how to send business along again full speed ahead, may well engage the best minds in the country. We may be certain, therefore, that the President has profited by these wisits, and that his visitors have profit- ed by meeting him. Exchanges of opinions about conditions and what conditions call for will inure to the public benefit—make for teamwork in a movement which cannot succeed un- less all pull together. Politics is barred. Bankers who in matters political are republicans, others who are democrats and still others who take so little interest in politics they are hawdly to be classi- fied, have a like stake in promoting financial activities looking to a pros; perous and contented country again. —_——— Disarmament can hardly be complete until arrangements can be made for disarming the suspicions among na- tions. This Year and Next. 2 Congress has a choice as to work. ‘The more it does at this session the less will-be the pressure at the regu- lar session. “Do it now,” is the urge from the more experienced quarters. 300d_politics calls for a regular ses- slos o¥ mo@erate length—short if pos- wfble. Next yees will be campaign year. A new Congress is to be chosen. A great many members of the present Congress will stand for re-election, and be impatient to get busy early. First will come the primary. And primaries, be it remembered, are stren- uous affalrs nowadays. The man in, and the man out seeking to get in, *“have & time of it.* Canvassing for| votes calls for travel and all kinds of exertion. ‘After nomination will come the cam- paign for election. And that calls for travel and exertion of all kinds. Speeches, conferences with lleuten- ents as to “how it looks,” and all that eat up days and weeks. Next spring, therefore, impatience|getting too much outside advice and will begin to show on Capitol Hill. All the House's membership and a third of the Senate’s will be eager to scat- ter for home and build fences or strengthen fences already built. And yet unless the condition of the card warrants early adjournment it cannot be taken. Uncle Sam has the first claim on attention. His business must | stantial, dependable work has been not be neglected. “Do it now"—as much of it as pos- sible—has a persuasive ring, and the adjuration is growing in favor. —_————————— ‘Water Consumption. Appeals emanating from the water department of the District for a reduc- tion in the enormous volume of water being consumed at this time by the community must be heeded and com- plied with unless, because of extrava- gant wastage, Washington is to be brought face to face with a most grave menace. Yesterday 72,000,000 gallons were used. The safe daily capacity of the single existing conduit by which the reservoir is replenished is esti- mated at from 65,000,000 to 68,000,000. Elementary mathematics suffice to prove that on such a basis it will be but a short time before the reserve in the reservoir is consumed. The Dis- trict would then be entirely dependent upon the daily flow through the single conduit and should that flow be inter- rupted, as it may at any time, a water famine would ensue. Those are facts and in their light any individual who falls to play his part in immediately reducing water consumption—in com- plying with the regulations which the water department deems essential at this season—wantonly jeopardizes the health and security of his family, his neighbors and the community in gen- eral. Thoughtlessness is at best but a sorry excuse, and when it implies a de- gree of reckless inconsideration which endangers the lives and property of others it should be adequately punish- ed. Thoughtful and considerate men and women, apprised of the existing danger. will conduct themselves ac- cordingly. A part of their responsibil- ity must be to acquaint the police, upon whom rests the task of enforcing the watér consumption with such violations of those regula- tions as come to notice. munity there is to be found a minority to whom the interests of their fellow | disappointed because they are denied citizens are a matter of no concern | the right to do jury duty which many Such a minority—happily | men are only too eager to escape. whatever. small—exists in Washington. Persist- ence in their readiness to imperil their own and other’s interests should bring down upon the individuals concerned swift punishment by the law, and the unmistakable resentment of their fel- low citizens. —————— Republican Divisions. Divisions on Capitol Hill are multi- plying. Take the tariff. The republicans are united as respects the policy of pro- tection. But they are far from agreed as to applying it in revising the Un- derwbdod tariff law. Can they get to- gether? If not, and they do not, the hereafter is to be read in the story of 1909, when they divided, and re- mained divided, on the revision of the tariff law of that time. They are united as respects the necessity for a revision of taxation. Buty how shall the taxes be shifted There is the rub. They are united on the subject of economy. The pruning-knife must be applied. But where? Some say here, some there, some yonder. They are united on the subject of preparedness. All are agreed that the country must not again be caught un- prepared. But how much preparation is necessary? What provision should Congress make for the national de- fense? How much on land, how much on the sea? The latest division is over prohibi- tion. All are in favor of the policy. But the law for its enforcement needs strengthening. How should that be done? True, the democrats are divided on these questions, too. But the re- sponsibility for legislation is with the republicans, and if they do not act, or, acting, fail to meet the wishes of the people, they will pay the penalty at the polls next year. ——— Monarchists in Berlin should at least insist on having any future candidate for a crown examined for symptoms of paranoia. —_— ‘The cost of living is never so high that a willing farmhand cannot be sure of three meals per day as well as a hedrty welcome. The figures in a truly modern scan- dal are not content to let the neigh- dors do the talking. Toothpicks and Public Service. Gen. Dawes’ comments on the size of the appropriation for the work of ‘budget administration are in a familiar vein. Undoubtedly not enough-money is provided to care for this immense organization on the scale that a great commercial or financial corporation ‘would establish. The sum is measured by Congress in accordance with the standard of values that has prevailed for many years. Truth is, the gov- ernmental valuation of human services is far lower than the commercial val- uation. Gen. Dawes may secure the assist- ance of a group of volunteers who will give their services—for a dollar a year aplece—in the shaping of the budget for the first year or two. Probably he will find no lack of help. But he will also find in the government forces of today a great many people who are capable of doing the work required. He has been controller of the cur- rency and he knows that in subor- dinate positions in the Treasury are many men of high capacity who have been proceeding for years with the faithful ' discharge of their duties, though competent to go elsewhere at higher pay. This is not a magter merely of the regulations, | i In every com- | 1 | camps with a satchelful of money. H THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, scale of compensation. A big job is to be done In a hurry, the whole pro- cedure of estimate framing and sub- mission revised in five monthe. An experiment is in process and its suc- cess depends upon the skill with which the first budget preparation is accom- plished. There is possible danger in aid. And when the budget is prepared and submitted, according to the most scientific lines perhaps, Congress must assume the full and final responsibility for following it and putting it into law. Governmental tunnels have been dug with toothpicks for a good many years. The marvel is that such good, sub- done by the public service forces dur- ing the more than half a century in which the compensation scale ¢f the government departments has remained unchanged, while the pay rates in every other branch of work in this country have mounted. { A burglar took $300,000 worth of oil securities from a Wall street broker's office. The old-time burglar who reach- ed fame by stealing a few thousand dollars’ worth of diamonds from an actress Is no longer considered worthy of notice. l Actors are now prominent in the discusslons of labor organizations. The question of who gets the center of the stage is likely to become moge compli- cated than ever. * The kaiser, as a prudent woodchop- per, may be in a position to feel that he is at least luckier than the man who neglected to lay in coal at sum- mer prices. f Plans to honor Stephen Foster in | New York may be hindered by diffi- culty in finding a jazz band that can interpret the simple sentiment of his melodies. * Artificial eyelashes are suggested by fashion experts. Embellishments have become so transforming that ac- quaintances may have to carry thumb- prints for purposes of identification. l German philosophers are held re- sponsible for the war by many think- ers. A little learning is a dangerous thing. Q The recklessness of some financiers is shown by the ease with which a newly employed messenger boy de- i A number of Chicago women are i 1t should be gratifying to Senator Borah to find that some of his own | proposals do not encounter an immut- | able irreconcilability. The royal visit to Belfast is a re- minder that kings and queens as well as humbler people have their day's work to perform. V f No indications arrive that soviet Russla offers any encouragement (ol Emma Goldman as a social unsemo-' ment worker. f It is unlikely that any form of pub- lic reception would lead Admiral Sims to respond with an extempore speech. l Bolshevism's program of terrorism would not have been complete without | a little piracy on the high seas. f Misunderstanding between Greece ] and Turkey is regarded as more or less of a national custom of both. i SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Jests Long Ago. ‘Where are the jests of long ago? The man who stayed out late at night Remains at home and now doth show Toward mother-in-law a mood polite. The wandering breeze which might re- veal Some hose scene. None steps upon an orange peel, Because the streets are now kept clean. unnoted sweeps the The bunco men no longer wait The rustic visitor to fool. ‘The cook stove does not conflagrate; The flivver has displaced the mule. The trifles which would once inspire A laugh seem all devoid of cheer. The joyousness that we admire Suggests a mood much more severe. The merry outlaw pulls a gun And on some stranger gets the drop. ‘We understand it's just in fun And so nobody calls & cop. A small boy grabs a club to hit His good old dad a comic blow And demonstrate precocious wit— Where are the jests of long ago? No Novelty to Him. “Hiram,” said Mrs. Corntossel, “the summer boarders are complainin’ about a lot o' things.” “I heard ’em, but I soon quit lis. tenin’. None of 'em said anything orig- inal.” Jud Tunkins says what makes him think prize fighting unrefined is the ‘way it tempts the man who sells tickets to profiteer. The Home Song. “Home, Sweet Home" is sure to bring A feeling sentimental. It's easler far the song to sing Than it is to pay the rental. —_— . Relative Safety. “You are as safe in an airship as You ere on the ground.” “Maybe I am,” replied the patient citizen. “I live in & town where they have grade crossings.” Enthusissm Distrusted. “Your audience applauded your speech to the echo.” “Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum; “it made me a little nervous to hear 'em attach so much importance to some of |. my offhand remarks. I was afraid I 'was ssying something I might have to take back next day, % | purpose to have the budget system Editorial Digest | A Referendum on War? One of the resolutions introduced at the American Federation of Labor con- vention, demanding an amendment of the Constitution which would turn the | war-making power of the country over | to the people direct, with the proviso that those who voted for war be drafted first, has stirred up considerable un- friendly comment in the newspapers. This resolution was yesterday rejected by a vote of about three to two. To submit every declaration of war “to the vote of the people” and to com- pel those voting for war *to take up the tion of hostilities before ng should be called upon” is “another pacifist scheme,” says the Detroit Frea Press (independent), which might be logically followed by amend- ments providing that “all public im- provements must be paid for by the people favoring them, and that all crimi- nal laws could be enforced only against those subscribing to them.” So far “Congress has never declared war save in response to the expresse views of the majority of the people,” says the Utica I’ress (independent) though it admits that “it is possible that it might be done.” ever, the ‘“practical objections” to a change in the present method are suffi- cient to condemn it. *“Probably a great many people would vote against going to war under any circumstances,” the men to suve their skins and the women to suve their husbands, the Press believes, and further the red taupe necessary to conduct an election might put off the results until a foreign power ‘“could bring Its battleships and land its armies.” . This same argument 13 advanced- by the Kansas City Times (independent), which remarks that “wars will not wait on referendums.” The Times agrees, too, that Congress “never has exercised™ the power 1o declare war without a pop- ular mandate, and “never would dream" of exercising that power. As to the|f principle of sending the “ayes" forward into battle first, tie Times conslders it “a complete reversal of the principle of equality of obligation upon which our || 'y of government and democ- e resolution is ' the Savannah 5, and it asks, choosing the pants, tain that all the cowards, all the =elfish persons, all the non-patriots, all the hidden enemies of the country would vote against war?" Granting that if the ballot were given on this question “to the people of every nation there is no doubt that the possibility of war would be less- |} ened,” the Omaha World-Herald (in- dependent) still feels that “under pre- vailing conditions such a plan is ut- With an enemy ap- “the nation would be- and confused as a crowd, on “swept aside and freling or impulse” dominatiog, “un- controlled force or passion would in- cast the decision.” > doubt in the ability of the people to make a sane decision is ex- pressed by the Toledo Blade (inde- pendent républican), which recalls the | | t rman socialists, “who ce for years of grum- terly absurd.” proaching us come armaments, against against dr and buzle-blowing and the rattling business of militaris; who ™ 4 promptiy and enthu si, to the call for reserves' when kaiser calmly proceeded upon w war of inexcusable uggres- sion.” It conciu “A referendum on war might be use- ful in that it would put the responsi- bility for the resurt to arms upon the people who must do the suffering and pay the bills. But it_would not halt The masses have as their masters or le £ b Paso Times (democratie) is even patient with the idea, for it declar, such a referendum erve no end but to put this country at a disadvantage in a clash with another nation’" “Consider,” it says, “what would happen in the case of war with Japan”: “While we were holding a referendum as to whether we would fight the mikado would be occupying the Philippines. Hawaii, Guam and other strategic points, thus putting us at a fatal disadvantage.” A Watchdog in Chief. The selection of Brig. Gen. Charles G. Dawes to be oontroller of the budget is another proof (if another were needed) of President Harding’s applied resolutely and energetically. ‘Gen. Dawes has shown vigor, direot- ness and contempt of bureaucratio red tape in his contact with government business. He is a man to enforce re- spect for the law and for restrictions on waste, which had come to be so disregarded under the last What is needed is a keep an eve all the year 'round on the operations of the department wasters. —New York Tribune (republican). Doesn’t Like Money. One cannot help admiring Charlie Garland's nerve in continuing to re- fuse the million-dollar legacy of his father. Never having had the expe- rience, we rather suspect we wouldn't look at the thing in the way he does. But we would admire him more if he decided upon some kind of serviceable occupation to engage his time and re- quire his energies. A newspaper re- porter went out to see this Massa- chusetts wonder the other day and found him puttering around in a fleld. Garland himself admits that he hasn't done an earthly thing for society and still he refuses to employ his fortune to benefit anybody else. He is an unobtrusive sort of a chap who takes things easy, talks about wanting to do something for somebody else, but a winter has gone and a spring and the summer is here and he still hesi- tates. Many a man with a million at his command at this time could build houses for the homeless and help suf- fering humanity in many ways if he had a mind to. “I don't feel that I am doing the best possible for society at present,” Garland told the reporter. Of course he isn't. No man who will- fully is idle is helping soclety in any way. Rather he is adding to the so- cial problems of the hour.—Springfield (Ohio) News (democratic). The Attempt on’ Everest. Because no man has ever reached the summit of Mount Everest it lures men on, as did the poles, as does every other difficult and all but impossible thing. A world still weary and per- plexed from war turns with keen in- terest to this new endeavor to prove man capable of rising above the ob- stacles nature has put in his way. There is not much glory in it. Cer- tainly there is not enough to pay them for the risk and danger. Many will say there is not much use in it. That is because they do not catch the gleam which fires the world. Not glory and not fame, and neither gold nor oil is tempting them, but the thrill of hav- ing measured themselves against na- ture and won. Perhaps, indeed, it is likely, all will not return. That is not the thing that matters; that is not why the world applauds. They go to climb Mount Everest because the spirit drives them that has moved man upward through the ocenturies—“to seek, to strive, to find and not to yleld."—Milwaukee Journal (inde- pendent). Even the seashore is dry. No sea serpents this year.—Bridgeport Tele- gram Do you remember when everybody condemned dandelions as & pest?—Wil- mington (Del.) Journal. - Now comes the season when the ills of the world are cured: under the chautauqua tent—Boston Ipt. If we are to have a naval holiday let it be understood that the officers are not_to go visiting and talk too much.—Baltimore Evening Sun. The old writers were considered great because they hadn’t the com- petition writers have now.—Magasine. The same thing can be said of Jesse James—Birmingham News. If Georges Carpentier whips Jack psey the Amerioan Le lven the congres- o the ks of Congress a_fourth-class post office.~Chi~ cago Newa D. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1921. - Some Intensely Interest- ing News for Tomorrow The Big Sale It’s a time when you will do well to take advantage of the greatly reduced prices—and give yourself the benefit of an extra Suit or two. You have the entire stock to choose from (except Tropicals and Full Dress)— including even the sport models and the plain colore. 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SINN FEIN AND ADMIRAL SIMS War between England and America “is as certain, as inevitable, as was war by England against Germanys; it is, at most, a question of a few years.” This startling statement is uttered casually by the New York Irish World in the course of an editorial on Rear-Admiral William Sowden Sim’s unflattering characterization of American Sinn-Feiners in an after-luncheon speech in London. “Think of our fate when England strikes, with men like Sims, the Anglo- Saxon, with whom blood is thicker than water, in charge of our defenses.” *S ms,” continues this Irish-American weekly, “says that the Irish are asses. Well, Sims has already felt the asses’ heels, and ere long, those same heels will kick the stuffings out of the man, cat known as the British lion.” A more peaceful vision of the future is seen by the Admiral, who is quoted as saying: “The English-speaking peoples are coming together in the bonds of com- radeship, and they are going to run this round globe.” The Admiral does not lack enthusias- tic and outspoken champions in the American press. Thus the Grand Rapids News says that “Americans have permitted themselves too long to be browbeaten by a few violent Irishmen, either citizens or residents without citizenship, every time any reference is made to the Irish question. It seems we may speak about any other people or any other question, but we must handle the Irish question with gloves, we must handle it only in a manner that pleases the few violent ones. Admiral Sims had the hardihood to hit these blatant browbeaters, the courage which few of our men in public life have. He said nothing to which the American citizen of Irish extraction, who is first of all an American, can object. should hit the self-appointed directors of American opinion.” And it is about time some one . The leading article in THE LITERARY DIGEST, this week, June 25th, presents a careful and very interesting survey of public opinion in America upon the controversy raging over Admiral Sims’s utter- ances in London. Other articles of equal interest in this number of THE DIGEST are: Dealing Out German Justice to Brutal War Officers . Fire Insurance “Hits the Trail” To Rescue Our Merchant Fleet The United States of Central America The Rhine’s “Black Horror” Faded The Ever-Ready Hapsburgs Britain’s “Hands Off”’ Policy to Irish-Americans Labor Conflicts in Scandinavia How Military Tanks Have Been Improved What “Cloudbursts” Are Topics of the Day Potato Flour, A New American Industry A Country Without Wood Kreisler Ending the War Proving the Painters Insane Actor Hackett’s Triumph in Paris Turks to Rebuild Mosques with Armenian Skulls How Canton, China, Got Rid of Gambling For Pocket Disarmament For Exposing Ponzi-A Gold Medal and$2,000 Barnum Was Great, But “Tex” Rickard Gets More Money The World’s Fastest Sprinter—From California Best of the Current Poetry Interesting Half-Tone Illustrations and Humorous Cartoons United States Senator J. W. Wadsworth, Jr., Says: “I am a frequent reader of THE LITERARY DIGEST and derive a great deal-of information from it. I think the magazine fills a very important place. Within the covers of each issue there is contained a vivid picture of the-condition of public sentiment as reflected in the newspapers of the country and the reader is enabled to follow events of importance and the signs of the times quite easily. It certainly saves time. I find it a great convenience.” Digest mous NEW Standard Dictionary), NEW YORK