Evening Star Newspaper, June 28, 1921, Page 6

6 " THE EVENING STAR, With Sundsy Morning Edition WASHINGTON, D. C. .. .June 28, 1921 friends demurred, and sat tight. He is still sitting tight, and is & good pol- itician. He is evidently opposed to the conversion of the place into an anti- Cox asset. The next democratic national con- vention is three years away. The next democratic presidential nomination it may or may not possess value. It is The Evening Star Newspaper Company | impossible at this time to assess it ex- Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. | cept in terms of “ifs”. If Mr. Harding New York Office: 130 Nassan St. leago Office: First National Bask Dulllf | iy the White House he will be his own European office: 3 Regent 8t., London. Easland. | o), osqqor there, 1f he does mot, the The Evening Star, with the Sunday MOmIaE| contest for the headship of the move- edition, ve: earrl within the 'y e el by ca e cents por | ment to defeat him for re-election will THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor ath: Sundav oply, 20 cente per moath. OF | he warm in the extreme. de be b Relephoss Maln - 500, " Cortection 10 “‘v;‘ carriers at But it is worthy of note, regardless €ad of each month. of ifs, that Gov. Cox, although dis- figured, is still in the ring, and keep- ing close track of all that is going on. ———ti————— Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginis. Dail A% . $8.40: 1 mo., T0¢ Datly oty mday: 137 $6.00; 1 mo., 60 No Wet Reaction. Sunday oniy. .40; 1 m0., There is no comfort for those who All Other States. look for prohibition repeal or modifica~ Daily and Sunday.1yr., sxo.w;lm-m tion in the vete in the Ilouse yester- o s ¥e 106: | Mo 280 | day on the Willis-Campbell bill, amend- — * |ing the enforcement law. By 250 to . 93, twenty-one more thar the two- The Budget Meeting. thirds necessary in the parliamentary Tomorrow afternoon the President,|situation, the bill was passed; it bans the director of the budget, the heads| the use of beer on physicians’ prescrip- of the various departments and bu-|tions, prohibits the manufacture and reaus and their principal lieutenants | importation of liquor until the present are. for the first time in the histor¥{stock held under government super- of the nation, to sit down together for | vigion for non-beverage use has been @ discussion of ways and means for | exhausted, limits the number® of reducing government expenditure. The | physicians’ liquor prescriptions to gession will be, in effect, a meeting of [ ninety in three months, and applies the President, the board of directors|the provisions of the prohibition act and the departmental chiefs of a great|to Hawali and the Virgin Islands. business corporation. It having been| Thus the House by a vote larger discovered that that corporation has|than any prohibition vote heretofore reached a point in its history where|declared itself in favor of & more strict retrenchment becomes imperative—a | enforcement of the eighteenth amend- point where overhead and operating|ment. Efforts to secure the recogni- expenses threaten to force the price of | tion of beer as medicine were defeated its product above what the public i8{by an overwhelming majority. The willing td pay—the normal processes | Senate will doubtless pass the bill and are to be followed. The financial con-|it will become law soon. dition of the company is to be explain-| This vote is no sign of the often ed to the meeting, the necessity for|claimed reaction in public sentiment -economy in the conducting of thelagainst prohibition enforcement. The # geveral departments emphasized. Each | House as the more representative body department head will be asked for aimay be regarded as reflecting public statement of how and to what extent |feeling. If there had been since ihe he can reduce expenses. Plain, com-{enactment of the Volstead law a mon-or-garden business methods will|change in public opinion on this sub- be the order of the day. ject it would undoubtedly have been Gen. Dawes, who, with the Presi-|evidenced in this test vote on a meas- dent, is the motivating spirit behind|ure designed not merely to maintain this excellent innovation in long-estab-|{but to stiffen the enforcement pro- lished processes of administrative gov-| visions of the law. On the contrary, ernment, has a habit of speaking tofthe “dry” vote was larger than ever. the point. In connection with the|The deduction is plain that if there meeting he says: “We've got to get{has been any reaction it has been these people working together. How |against laxity of enforcement instead would a corporation as big as this gov-|of severity, in favor of stricter pro- ernment operate? I hope it would not! hibition instead of law evasion and be like the government has been oper- | modification. ating. This is a business aflai;’nd it] If this bill becomes law, as is aimost ought to be done in a business wiy.” |assuured, the government should gives a satisfactory account of himself | lation should be made to conform. Those are the facts in a nutshell and the task of fitting his plans to those facts has been achieved. In business, given a condition of affairs which calls for strict economy, one does not put off the process of effecting economies any longer than is absolutely neces- sary. The purpose of the directoryto make the maximum of his budget for the fiscal vear ending June 30, 1922, less than the minimum amount pro- wvided for in the existing congressional appropriations, is a splendid evidence of his qualifications for the task which bhas been placed in his hands. The first steps by which he proposes to put spare no means in its enforcement and, indeed, the enforcement of the whole prohibition code. No matter how diffi- cult the task er how costly, it should be undertaken. Every successful vio- lation tends to intensify the feeling that the law is not meant for execu- tion. Evasion breeds contempt. It does not follow that the volume of liquor consumed increases, but the flagrancy of violations becomes more marked in the degree that through federal or state slackness, or lack of funds and organization, the impression is created that the law is not meant to be enforced and that it can be violated with impunity. The bill .which the House passed yesterday is important beyond the ban- ning of beer. The prohibition of fur- ther manufacture and importations of liquor until the present stock held un- der government supervision for non- verage use has been exhausted will check: large additions to the contra- band market supply. If this ban is enforced strictly continued consump- tion constitutes a heavy drain upon visible stocks, which are not without limit. The effect will probably be to increase the price of liquor to those buying it under eover, and one of the surest means of prohibition is exces- sive cost. that purpose into effect demonstrate that readiness and ability to blaze new trails by which the new goal may alone be reached. The Crowded District Court. Representative Dyer hopes to get mction at the present session of Con- gress on the bill providing two .addi- * tional judges for the District Supreme Court. He plans to obtain, if possible, a hearing before the judiciary com- mittee, at which the conditions in that court will be set forth, and believes .that when the committee learns the situation it will promptly report the measure, which the House has on a previous occasion passed. The least inquiry irito the conditions{ 2 in the District Supreme Court should| Financiers who found a gentlemens cause conviction that the enlargement | 38Teement practical should be aj of the bench is imperatively necessary. {4 t0 for suggestions enabling natio ‘There is probably no other court in the | 0 0me to an understanding with ret- Tnited States with sich @ crowded | erence to militaristic competition. - calendar and with so many cases of = vital importance pending. There is, in-{ It might be easier to comprehend the deed, no other court.in which botn|theory upon which Dr. Einstein is local and federal cases are tried. All credited with superseding the law of other federal courts confine themselves | STaVity if Isaac Newtin were alive strictly to United States cases, just as | t0 Put Up an argument. all other local courts are limited to S —. Jocal issues. ‘The Dempsey-Carpentier fight will ‘The figures that were recently given|be more orderly than the encounters in The Star regarding the congestion | likely to arise if any of the purchasers of the court calendar leave no doubt|meet the men.who sold counterfeit ‘whatever of the urgencyof this situa- udfsu. tion. Representative Dyer will per- AT T e form a most valuable service if he Insurance witnesses are wishing that can secure action by the judiciary com- | gomuel Untermyer would follow. Mr. mittee and by the House. Whether|pyion's example and limit his inter. the Senate then acts in concurrence is n to matts A another matter. It is to be expected, E::uo ergictgencral fiforma however, that in the case of such obvious need the Senate will not fur- R ther refuse to comply with the demand| The missing ships are suspected of for an enlargement that makes for|FePresenting the logical consequence speedier justice and greater public|Of @ System of “sovietism at sea.” eafety. ———— A man with the aviation irstinct re- Aircraft experts insist that if there|jects “Safety first” and adopts as his must be slaughter and destruction it|motto, “Danger welcome,” can be accomplished more cheaply by The Chicago Platform. flying machines than by warships. ——————— .| The discord ‘on Capitol Hill gives Popular opinion accepts disarma-| . g1 to this quéstion: What i the mandate Congress is called upon to obey? i l ment as a great idea. The only diffi- culty is to get enough of the world’s inhabitants to agree to it. The Con S a i e . elected on a platform written twelve Gov. Cox. months ago. The men who fashioned Gov. Cox still has his eye on the gun.|that ‘deliverance were chosen from He is @ young man. He is & man of | delegates to a large and representa- :large means, and can afford the game | tive convention. The majority of them ¢ of politics. He owns and directs two| were well known to their party and to * prosperous newspapers. He resides in | the country. After wrestling with the one of the most important states in|different problems presented, they tha Ulnion. He likes politics, and until | united on a declaration of principles st year had been successful in that|and reported to the convention. dfield. This winning of the presidential| The convention debated the report, nemination at San Frincisco against|and then adopted it. the odds that confronted him—both| The nominee of the convention ac- the Wilsonites and the Bryanites work- | cepted the platfdrm, and discussed it in 2d in opposition to him—stamped him ['detail in his canvass. He pledged him- ® captain of resources”and staying Fself to it in all of his utterances. power. By far and away the largest majority The chairman of the democratic na-| ever recorded in this country, the peo- tional committee is his nal and|ple at the polls indorsed the work of political friend, and accepted the office | that convention—elected its candidate to oblige him. Last winter when an |for President, and ratified the platform effort was made to put a man in the | on which he had stood. place closely affiliated with the Mc-| That eandidate took office in March, Adoo wing of the party, Gov,-Cox’s| called Congress together: in extrs ses-[couldn’t help Ox it™ i THE EVENING ST sion to redeem the promises made in the name of the victorious party, and Congress _since assembling -has been busy with that task. The mandate resting on Congress was framed at Chicago twelve months ago, ahd ratified at the wpolls four months later. Nothing that has taken place since has superseded that ex- pression. It is the Chicago platform, therefore, to which in good faith I ——————r——————— Our Japanese Visitors. ‘The members of the Japanese diet now visiting in this eountry are meet- ing with a very cordial welcome. They are returning a visit paid by members of the American Congress to Japan last year, and who returned with a! lively sanse of appreciation of the wel- come they had reeeived. Tt is the time of times for exclang- ing such courtesies. The world Is still affected by the upset of the great war, and unrest and suspicion arel widespread. A sort of industry for sowing distrust among nations mm‘l to have been set up. Japan and America have been friends so long and friends so true it is some- what surprising to find them pitted | gainst each other in world speculas tion about the future; as likely to go to/ war over improving opportunities for advancement. In some quarters the speculation proceeds from a mistaken and short.| sighted selfishness. Those indulging| 'in it seem to feel that they would benefit from an armed clash between America and Japan. But what nation could benefit? Ai war between the two pswerful coun- tries could not be localized. It would | spread, beyond a doubt, and the whole world might be drawn in. And is & conceivable that any nation would emerge the gainer by a second world- shaking conflict? | #iEnt in Congress,” the News feels, i many treaties negotiated, which may | disturb the general comity between Editorial Digest | = g 3 per ocent” immigration law, never enthusiastically approved by the. newspapers, is subjected to & new storm of criticism based on the Teport -that more than 8,000 immi- ‘ETants in excess of the quota’ were brought in during the firs month in Which the measure has been function- ing. It i1s pretty generally agretd that the present machinery is in-. sufficient,to provide a “control” upon the foreigners leaving for America. Sorne /writers suggest that solution may be found in placing immigration officials in the foreign ports apd regu- | lating the supply there. i 8 & temporary measure the excess number will probably be checked | against the quota for the fiscal year 1f the resolution now pending in Con- | gress is pat into effect. i The fault in cases where, owing to ! unforeseen ship delays, one group of-| arrivals gets precedence over another, | says the Newark News (Independent). i is not that “of the immigrants and : only in 2 minor degree of the steam ship companies”; the trouble lies i “the lack of efficient machinery. There should have been enough “fore. “to guard against the present condi- | tion, which has already brought forth a protest from the Italian govern- ment.” but “the present confusion may be forgiven if action is taken im medlately to handle the situation rom the European end.” i The incident of the Itallan protest, the Philadelphia Bulletin (independ- ent republican) remarks, brings the question of immigration intos the | diplomatic fleld, for: “The general right of the Unifed States govern- ment to regulate immigration is not abrogated by any treaty. But the Dillingham Jjaw involves contradic- tion of the particularly explicit lan- Buage of the Itallan treaty of 1871, exceptional in this regard among the the two nations and make trouble.” The “Ii amental error” in the plan, according to the Boston Herald (independent republican), “is in try- ing to apply the quota limitation on this side of the Atlantic. The proper place to do it is in the eailing port in Europe. If American immigration officlals were stationed there with au- thority to grant immigration permits up to the prescribed number the pro- The suggestion would be preposter-| visions of our present law would ous except for the prevailing abnormal conditions. prevailing conditions looking to keep- work smoothly enough.” This method “seems preferable,” to the Chat- Hence every effort in the|tanooga News (democratic), to “put- ting the whole responsibility on the shipping _operators.” Other tests ing the representative men of the two|=pegides the number allotted to each countries in friendly touch with onefcountry,” such as are made at Ellis another should be promoted. —_— In view of the complications of over- head expenses in business during the war, it will require great mathematical ability to present in exact figures the percentages of net gain made by profiteers. . —_———e——— It is but natural for the ex-kaiser tol turn to physical exercise. Unless he has an extraordinary fondness for fic- tion he can find very little in current literature that appeals to his personal mood. ————————————— Graver questions do not prevent the annual consideration of surplus and deficit in bathing attire from coming up for discussion. ——————— Bolshevism, having set out to de- stroy wealth, is now looking for some way of making its enterprise pay dividends. | F ———ee————— The price of next winter's coal per- sists in attention as one of the nation’: great financial problems. ————— By this time the hecklers cannot fail to realize that the campaign of 1920 is a thing of the past. No tariff was ever enacted without a liberal oratorical prelude. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Lacked the Facilities. The music that Beethoven wrote ‘The critics all revere; . And Shakespeare many people quote To make their meaning clear. But these dare only highbrow folk; Though Shakespeare was a wit, It takes the motion. picture joke ‘To make a modern hit. ‘The master melodist appeals To auditors select; 4 But dancers find that for their heels The fit is incorrect. Beethoven failed to draw much pay, ‘ As many a genius has. He toiled in his especial way And had no turn for jazz. ‘They did their best, those good old boys, And honors they renew, As through the centuries their joys Delight the reverent few— Yet neither won the wealth by half ‘Which they would sure have seen Had they possessed the phonograph And motion picture screen. Jud Tunkins says maybe the hctl that people don't read Dickens and Thackeray as much as they used to is meébbe the fault of the book agents. A Mission in Life. “Haven’t you more money than you need?” “‘Yes,” admitted Mr. Dustin Stax. “Then why did you take the trouble to break that competitor?” “My friend, when I became wealthy, 1 resolved to devote my fortune to good works. I recognized the dangers of avarice and I made it my duty to dis- courage grasping nature.” Self-Importance. The egolst’s career will prove A sadly disappointing shock, ‘Who thinks that time will cease to move ‘When he decides to stop the clock. The Last Word. “Do you think the country is better oft since votes for women were pro- vided for?” “Undoubtedly,” replied Senator Sor- ghum. “Women in politics have taught some of those old-time bosses who thought they could always have the last word a lesson.” A Change of Spirit. “Crimson Guich has quieted down since the old days.” “Yes,” replied Cactus Joe. “One of the boys got ambitious the other day and started to shoot up the town.” “What was the result?” “All the boys rushed from the soda fountain end wanted to know whose tine had blown out and whether they Island now, are required and it would be “more logical” to apply them on the other side, the News thinks, thus removing congestion in our immi- grant stations here. Other complications here in regard to distribution must be faced, the Philadelphla Public Ledger (inde- pendent) points out. The question arises: “On what basis and by whom is the apportionment of the number of immigrants to each of the principal Atlantic ports of entry? Only fifty Italians_are admitted here. for in- stance; by what rule was that limit fixed? At a time when industrial and other conditions at New York are re- quiring a diversion of shipping from that port to Philadelphia, how can it be expected that such a quota can have any equity or any permanent value? It does begin to look as though the whole matter had been bungled, and it is not at all unlikely that Congress will have to come to the rellef with some modification of the law.” The New York World (democratic) fecls that in the light of what has happened the law “is shown to be impracticable, for there is no way, of counting” these future citizens “and loading them one by .one on boats at Furopean ports, according to nationalities. so that never a one‘ over the ‘monthly quota of Italians. lex, Mreeks, Spaniards, French, ngligh, Irish and s0 on shall ar- riv. This division according to catntries is further complicated by [unstable boundary lines, aa the For- eign Language press has pointed out with such emphasis. The Salt Lake City Deseret News |5 (independent) looks at the question from this angle: ‘“There are coun- tries whose boundaries Furope itself has not yet defined. Shall America undertake te draw these boundary Ines in order to determine the na- tionality of her incoming aliens? 4f not. who is to do it, and when will it be done, and in the meantime what is to become of the immigrants whose nationality is unfixed”™ Representing those who believe that the law has not, as vet. had a fair trial are the Providence Journal (independent) and the Duluth Her- ald (independent). Says the former. “Complete respect for the p sions of the act is imperative if a| fair test of its worth is to be hnfl’ in accord with the intent of Con- gress and the national demand for drastic restrictions upon immigra- tion until the country can adjust itself to meet current conditions.” The Herald belleves that “the 3 per cent law is right.”” at least “as a temporary arrangement.” though it will “do injustice in many indi- vidual cases” and “shut out many de- sirable immigrants.” The Immigrants' Trials. The new immigration law brought results which could easily have been foresegn. Unimaginabl confusion is reigning in America: ports. Thousands of immigrants ar: crowded in New York and Roston and several ships filled with hunzxrs Europeans are on the way, clamori for entrance to “happ. America. The allotted number of immigrants for June is_already filled, hundreds of thousands of other Immigrants ur. held aboard the ships. It was in tended to deport them, or to keep them on the ships till July. demics and sufferings were in sight for them in the latter case. “They { will die like fiies,” declared the com- |% missioner of immigration of Ellis Tsland. They took pity on the steamship companies that might suffer great. damages. All the immigrants who were on the seas at the timre of the . by immigrants who are waiting $n Furopean ports. Thousands of suth immigrants from every part of Europe are crowded in ports, while the ships for America go half empty. What can they do? Return home? But their homes, their property—ali was sold in expectation of finding new happiness in the land of prom- ise—in America.—Russky Golos (Rus- sian, independent), New York city, 1s it a new Capt. Kidd or just some- body kidding? — Harrisburg Tele- graph. At last the Philippipes have been truly Americanized. They are in debt. —Flint (Mich.) Journal. Perspiring reporters would take it as a favor if some of our clvic or- ganizations would adopt a resolution putting an end to crime during the summer months. —Memphis News- Scimitar. In making up Uncle Sam's family ‘budget, Gen. Dawes will be just the one to dam the flood of national ex- penditures—Newark (N. J.) News. There are two kinds of cops: Those who use their clubs promptly and freely, and those who are not afraid. —Baltimore Sun. - The one feature of the dry laws that tsn't violated is that which pre- vents liquor being given away.—Day- ton News. . The meek Who inherit the earth also endeavor to tell the world that the inheritance tax is ay outrage.—Des Moines Register. The birthright of every American citizen is his right to claim that he alone personifies 100 per cent Amer- icanism.—Asheville Times. ‘While they are coining all those silver dollars in Washington they might slip a few into general circu- lation so the country will know what - they Jook like~Detroit Free ‘8" ~nnsylvania System § 5 I 3 |8 h J passage of the new law have been [ allowed to. land. " The whole force of the law s felt |y 2 e Eye Examinations Let us give your eyes an examination—you may or may not need glasses. Our gexpert optometrist will ad- vise you. We grind our own lenses on the premises. You Need Selinger’s Eye Service SELINGER’S 820 F St., Cor. Sth Mfg. Opticians and Optometrints “Look for the Big Clock” Make Your Clothes Finefor the 4th Have that prosperous appear- ance that clean, bright-looking clothes bring. 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