Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1921, Page 6

With Sundsy Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. ‘WEDNESDAY. ....June 29, 1921 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Basiness Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. 30 Nassau St ‘ational Baok Buildiog. ot St., London, England. New York Offi Chteago Office: First The Evening Star, with the Sundar morning edition, is delivered by carrlers within the citv ts per month: daily only. 43 cents ne: unday only, 20 cents per mont Or. be sent by mail, or telephone Mal lection is made by earriers t 60 ceni th: Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dally and Sunday..1yr., $2.40: 1 mo.. 3¢ Daily only. 1¥r. $6.00: 1 mo.. 50~ Sunday only. I1yr., $2 40; 1 mo.. 20¢ All Other States. Datly and Sunday.1yr., $1000: 1 mn.. 8¢ Dailv oniy. 1 $7.00: 1 mo . 80e Sunday only. Railroad Wages and Tax Revision. the Day after tomorrow railway wage hoard scales will g0 into effect, undoubtedly u very strong feeling |, "ar"inciane recovery from all the making a total reduction. it is esti- against the commercialized man-bruis- | . vorosements and depressions the mated. of $400.000.000 in the annual ing, und it may work out in terms of | Lo "hag produced transportation wage bill. For many such prohibition as the present pro-| o oot m'h.h e wecks past anxiety has been felt on'testants wish to secure. But the pres-| fvén By dnyboly Whoss worids carsied the scor : by the ent efforts to stop the fight are de-| L iop i cnough to secure votes. Here railroad operatives, in rejection of adly unfair. however hopeless. endiihere. s\ every ',nmwl‘;",. el gcalesixed (bygine ik irresponeible spelibinder let himself go Loy ORI Sreanie Saving Filtered Water. and made promises beyvond the power bl o ::-.:\[;.us ihat the Citizens of Washington have begun | of redemption. : it X - to heed the appeals of the District gov-| Only a few persons, however, could workers will not strike. but will ac- - e it cept the new sc: in a sincere spirit i ¢TIMeNt to save water. as is evidenced | huve been mis] ‘The great majority of operation. however they may h‘_\’ a halting of the alarming consump- | of vogers, gmderslwxl that recovery foel that they are bearing tie tion increases and the report that xxl(rnm conditions so unprecedented and fect of the readjustnfent of ¢ they will do so, giving full service at the reduced rate loyally endeavoring tu put of the pe rail- roads back in @ position to mwet their | their owne: costs and earn profits they will have gained greatly in pub- . Me esteem, {ago. when the conduit was in a bet What the countey newds today most | 67 ¥iate of repair. And while they | particularly is more producticn at less | PFOPOSe L0 continue their efforts to re- cost, more. service at lower wiges.)aue private consumption—efforts During the war inflation labor costs | Which are 1o be bucked up by a strict) mounted enormously and production ® enforcement of sound and practical fell off. for a pecuiiar phenomenon was | Water regulations—those responsible | presented that as the scale of pay for the maintenance of the Distri grew the result of labor diminishe supply are now turning their Thus the producer lost doubly. n (o the task of ending serious | If the government will quickly in the federal departments. the tax schedule. so that know the terms on which it is to operate in the future. industry will revive. If the railroad workers ac cept the wage scale and the roads can be put on an cconomic basis of upera- tion the transportation system will be | restored to a healthy condition. Thus Congress must act on its part ced » to give the full effect ¢ industrial rehabilitation by estab- | lishing the tax hasis without delay, ! which is a vital element in production | fixing. | The President and Congress. The conferences now taking place | between the President and the sgressional leaders about the legis _- situation do not argue that Congress is seeking to abdicate its functions, or | that the President is desirous of be-| coming “the whole thing.” On the contrary, they are strictly in line wim‘I precedent—are, indeed, quite conven- tional. The ball starts always with recom- mendations by the President. The | Constitution directs that “he shall| from time to time give to the Con- gress information of the state of the Union, and recommend to their con- sideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient ! Such recommendations when re-| ceived are referred to appropriate committees, and py them examined. 1f approved of they are embodied in bills, and the bills reported to House and Senate for enactment into law. If Congress has different views on any of the matters presented it is at | perfect liberty to express them, and | act in accordance with them. It does not lose its individuality or part with its right of initiative at any stage of the proceeding. The President and Congress, there- | fore, while in a way independent of | each other. are yet joined together in | responsibility, and should understand each other as business progresses.] Each can help the other with sug-} gestions, and should improve oppor- tunities to do so. Both desire, and are striving for, measures meeting such an emergency as the country has never known before and which calls for the best intelligence and experience in the framing. i ————— ‘When economies are so evidently needed, there is satisfaction in consid- ering the saving effected by eliminat- ing indiscriminate fireworks from the Fourth of July. ——————— Unwise and Unfair Agitation, For many months prepdrations have been under way for a fistic encounter at Jersey City between the American “world champion™ and a French con- tender for the title. An immense quan- tity of lumber has been 2ac2msi and wrought into a gigantic aréha. Tickets | have been engraved and printed—and counterfeited—and sold by tens of thousands throughout the country. The fighters have been in training for wacks The whole preliminary pro- cedure has cost a great sum of money, &0 great that the finances of the bout are reckoned in hundreds of thousands, the fighters to split a puree of half a million. All of these preparations have been with the full knowledge and ap-| proval of the public authorities in New Jersey, who have read from the law of the state their sanction for permit- ting and in effect officially supervising the enterprise. Practically at the last moment, only a few days before the fight, an effort has been made to stop it. First an appeal was made to the federal Secretary of State, who has, however, nothing whatever to do with the matter, and then an effort was made to secure injunctions from New Jersey courts. One after the other these courts have refused action. A last appeal is to be made to the secre- tary of state of New Jersey, for pro- cedure against the promoter of the fight. This is not likely to be more sucosssful than the efforts in court. The ground of the protest is that ‘while the law of New Jersey permits A THE EVENING STAR, ¢ | succeeding. Perhaps th | conditions { substitute supply is, in this instance, boxing matches this fight of next Sat- urday is to go to a knockout if pos- sible. Statements by the champion and the challenger in which each says ihe is going to try to khock out his competitor have been cited to the courts. Under the law of the state THE EVENING publicans in 1912. ‘The Gorman-Wilsqn law in the one case, and the Payne- Aldrich law in the other, caused sor- row to the authors and those they rep- resented. . The fundamental proposition is pro- tection. The existing difficulty arises STAR, WASHINGTO Editorial Digest The Trouble in the Woodpile. When republican state legislatures, the republican representatives in Congress of u state with large lum- @ “boxing match” can run for twelvefout of conflicting opinions about 8P-|per interests, and republican papers of rounds. calculated to bring sincere, reform work into disrepute. Whatever may be thought of prize fighting, this pres- ent effort to stop an enterprise that has been given the sanction of law and internationally advertised and prepar- ed for at a cost of hundreds of thous 1sands of dollars causes ridicule. If | there isa general public feeling against i pugilism, let it be manifested in the |form of laws that prohibit such en- | counters. prohibit them specifically !and without chance of evasion through ! misinterpretation or distortion. { Probably those who are endeavoring | !to prevent this fight have no idea of v are merely jreeking publicity to focus attention | upon the morals of the question for fu- | ture propaganda purposes. That, how- Jever, is not good agitation. There is slight reduction from the peak figures has been effected. The menace inci- jdent to un overtaxed and unsupported | line of supply still hangs over the city, | however. The daily consumption is still considerably in excess of the safe- {ty maximum established sbme vears Latest available figures establish the ict that 40 per cent of the total daily | consumption in the District is by the | {United States government and that, while domestic consumption amounts | to between fifty and sixty gullons per {capita. the total consumption runs up to nearly 170 gallons per capita. It is claimed by those in a position to know that wastage in the departments isj general and unrestrained. It is known that between three and five million gallons of filtered water are used each day by the government for condensing purposes. Water used for the flushing | of the strects, by the fire department, for the scores of fountains about the i all filtered and potable. Whatever may be said. under normal | in favor of the economic| theory which results in the use of water, rendered fit for household and drink- ing purposes at considerable expense, [for street cleaning and -similar pot}-| ects, such usage in time of grave water shortage becomes indefensible unless no substitute supply can be tapped. A ready to hand. Considering that it is a known fact that the filtered water supply of the District cannot be in- creased for five years, that the resi- dent population of the city is steadily increasing. and that every theory of sound economics would urge the in- advisability of using filtered water where unfiltered water would be equal- Iy safe and effective. this would seem to be an excellent time for an investi- gation as to the cost and practicability of obtaining a permanent supply of river water for the indicated uses in ‘Washington. It was needless for Mr. Gompers to declare his intention not to speak in a minor key. The minor key is sugges- tive of a despondency which the vet- eran Iab(\v‘!l}%dfl. whatever his vicis- situdes, h4$ hédet experienced. i An appeal'to’Congress not to talk so much madg by Representative Alice Robertson could not be heeded so thor- oughly as tq make this speech the oc- casion of yielding to the lady the last word. ————— Assurances fhat ships will not fig- ure strongly in future wars do not af- ford the consolation that might be ex- pected in connection with the missing vessels. ——————————— Medical members of the Navy will look favorably on Admiral Sims as a man who knows how to take his medi- cine without making a wry face. A large number of bolshevik pri- vates would like to disarm. f The Senate and the Tariff. How long will the Senate hold the tariff bill for revision? The House is expected to debate and pass the meas- ure before August 1. First will come the reference of the measure to the finance committee, which may or may not grant hearings. The hearings granted by the ways and means committee were thorough, and served for the information of both |Eestions about how to vot, House and Senate. The finance com- mittee will be well informed as to the details of the measure when it is re- ceived. . Then will come the committee’s re- port to the full Senate, with any changes it may have made, and then will follow the open debate on the measure as amended. In tariff legislation, which must originate in the House, the Senate has always availed itself liberally of the right of revision. It may do so this time. The republicans have been wrestling with divisions on the subject, and the feeling aroused has not yet been allayed. They will be advised to their ad- vantage if they settle all their differ- ences before taking the final vote. The tariff is always “loaded.” Both parties have had experience of that incontest- able fact. Tariff explosions helped de- feat the democrats in 1896 and the re- - plying the policy. A good deal depends tions together. The country needs a better tariff law than the one now on the books, and if the party in power fails to provide such a law it will have to answer for its delinquency as early as next year. Negging. - The repubiicans should avoid being nagged into action of any kind. They are being nagged considerably. In some quarters, indeed, nagging has become a sort of industry, and is run- ning under orders of full speed ahead. “Where is the prosperity you fel- lows promised?” is the inquiry from one quarter. The Implication is that the country was tricked last Novem- ber; that positive assurances were given and accepted that republican triumph at the polls would be followed widespread must in the nature not for a miracle man, and. that the republican party was not be. ing led in the campaign by a man lay- ing claims to any minacle-producing powers. _The country will not recover while you wait. Hurry would simply mean more worry in bickerings over unimportant de- tails. But that under the policies pro- claimed at Chicago lagt year the coun- try can recov and will recover if those pulicies are translated into well digested legislation. we may accept without hesitation. oreover, ——————— The Teetotum. Teetotum is a gambling dev say the polic That is not much of a stretch of the imagination. Anybody who has read the card on which the little thumb-top is displaved in the shop windows may readily conclude that there is no other purpose than to figure in a game of chance. A pair of dice may be used for backgammon or draughts or parchesi in a most inno- cent family-circle sort of way, and then again these cubes may figure in a craps game. Teetotum may furnish much amusement for a non-gambling group, piaying with matches. Or it may be the cause of large sums chang- ing hands. As a matter of fact, there are few things in existence that are not eventual gambling devices. People who are sportively inclined can gam- ble on a number of people passing in the street, up or down; the number of ‘'ord cars in proportion to all others that pass a given point in a given time, just as in former times men would gamble on the probable coming of a white horse. Then there is the old game of two lumps of sugar and their “owners” betting on the first one to attract a fly. The teetotum is a popular device, but if it is classed with the ‘‘bone: and if its use in con- junction with money or money tokens constitutes a public offense and in- volves a punishment, it will perhaps lose some of its popularity. & The reduction,in the cost of living means nothing to the epicure who as- pires to an exclusive summer diet of ice cream soda. ’ “The obligation to wounded veterans is recognized as a form of national debt that should permit no delinquency. i The dove of peace is respectfully in- vited to take a perch alongside of the American eagle on Independence day. Idle curiosity is wondering what Bergdoll will do with himself on the Fourth of July. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Egoism. Opinions differ near and far Amongst all humankind. At different times all people are In different frames of mind. Although opinions strange and strong Keep changing day and night, Egqch thinks most of the rest are i wrong, g While he is always right! Unlimited Speeds. ““This Einstein theory is exceedingly interesting,” said the police officer. Do you understand it?” “Not entirely, but it calls attention to the fact that suns and planets can operate successfully without knowing anything about speed regulations.” A Limit Reached. “Does your wite give you any sug- e?” “No,” replied Mr. Meekton, “Hen- rietta says she's beginning to think she's got authority enough without trying to be a political boss.” The Delirious Fish, Out there, 'mongst bathers queerly clad In silk or wool or shoddy, No wonder that the shark went mad And tried to bite somebody! Jud Tunkins says children have learned to be very patient with people who want to tell them stories, when they'd rather play their own games. A Cruel Parent. “What is your boy Josh doing in town?” “Far as I know,” replied Farmer Corntossel, “he's doing nothing excent ‘wastin’ money."” | “How is he wasting it?" “Buying 2-cent stamps to write home for extra nllmn\en." s ) A TN of | | things be gradual: that the work was No time should be lost | the standing of the Chicago Tribune All this is most absurd, ill-timed and|on bringing the two republican fac-lunite in opposition to the proposed tariff of 25 per cent on finished lum- I ber, the Hartford Times (democratic) seems 10 be justfled in its remark that “it remains for any one to give a satisfactory or even an understand- able reason™ why such a duty should be imposed. The housing shortage and our depleted forests are brought forward as arguments agalnst a pro- hibitive tariff on lumber. and while the democratic press is more widely vocal, republican papers are scarcely less ‘vehement, even in some cuses echoing the dire predictions of their democratic cotemporaries of the ef- fect on the party of the adoption of the Fordney recommendation. _There may be “some one” United & Hartford Times continues, “who wants a duty on lum- ber. but certainly it is not the people who use lumber. nor the great mass of those who supply their needs.” Coming “just at this time, when re- ducing building costs and facilitating the building of homes is a matter of importance in every community.,” the Rochester Times-Union (independent) feels that a measure tending to ad- vance the price of building matertal “is especially objectionable.” That Congress should “cven consider” a protective duty on lumber Is, to the Lansing (Mich) Stute Journal (inde- pendent). “one of those inexplicable moves on its part that tend to stag- ger the folks bae's o ne The Detroit News (independent) “relays” the following message “from the heart of the people” to the men “who. in the seclusion of the sanc- tuary of Capitol Hill. are planning i the tariff policy of the government”: { “There is u shortage of houses. The ! prople are having trouble establish- | ing and maintaining their homes be- | cause houses are costly and rents are high. Houses are built of Jumber. The price of lumber is maintained at a very high level. A turiff on lumber { can effect nothing unless it increases the cost of lumber. And if the repub- lican party is responsible for increas- | ing the gost of lumber. continuing the present ‘high cost of building and thus playing into the hands of the rent | profiteers. it will meet with signal | punishment at the hands of the peo- ple at the next election.” The effect on the housing situation of coursc. pointed out as the more mediate, but dunger to our forests is also seen by editorial writers in the proposed measure. Mr. Fordney, the Ann Arbor (Mich.) Times-News (independent) says, “ought to realize better than the average person the necessity for conscrving the forests of America, since hix own wealth was carved out of the Michigan forests.” Insisting that there is “no good rea- son for protective duties on lymber.” the Springfield Republican (indepe “nt) states that such a tariff “will only hasten the destruction of what ft," and the Chicago Post nt) feels that if everything id of our vanishing forests is true.” there will be no need for u arift to protect American lumber in { the years to come. for there will be i no American lumber to protect.” The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette lidt-mm ratic) say Mr. Fordney is {2 lumber man. always has been a lumber man and in Congress he is | essentially and solely the representa- tive of the lumber men.” The Boston Post (independent democratic), as well. is convinced that the duty on lumber. “a harmful and needless thing that cannot be defended on any ground,” has been devised “sim- ply for the better profits of big tim- ber combines that have grown ri from the necessities of the people.” AS to the revenue from this import duty. the Milwaukee Journal (inde- pendent) declares that it “may yield as much as a million and a haif.’at a | cost to the American people of sixty miilions.” while “the difference goes to swell the pockets of a small class of lumbermen.” There are various ways, observes the Baltimore Sun (independent democratic) “of digging one's grave. and this “bonus to the lumber trust has the appearance of “tariff dyna- mite" with which the republican party is trying “to blow itself to smithereens” The New York World (democratic) reports that ‘“repub- lican members from fifteen states are in open revolt” against the pro- vision, and “rebellion appears to be spreading from day to day,” which, according to the New Orleans Time: Picayune (independent democratic), “is growing to formidable propor- tions.” Apparently the Chicago Tribune (independent republican) is assured of ample support in its contention that “lumber must be kept on the free list.” Repudiating the Soviets. The American Federation of Labor has formally severed connection with all European labor movements and has taken particular pains in doing S0 to express its 'aversion to the methods and policies of the soviet government of Russia. By a vote of thirty-five to four the socialist party of the United States, in convention assembled, has rejected affiliation with the third internationale of Mos- cow and taken a definite stand against_international relations of any sort. Whatever lingering hope or fear of red revolution still exists in the United States to trouble the rest of the Lusk committees should be finally ended by these coincident de- cisions. If there are-organizations of any kind in this country. which might have been expected to look to Rus sia_for leadership they are the so- cialist party and labor unions. Much violent language has been wasted on the bolshevists. They have governed Russia as well as they could according to their lights. But their creed included a tyranny of a few in the name of the mob, and for this they are justly condemned.— New York World (democratic). A Changed Dream of Empire. Even dreams change. A few years ago the fashionable “dream of em- pire” was an “Anglo-Saxon” one, and the hyphenated word was interpreted with a liberality that included the Teutonic peoples. The world was to be governed and made to do right by a triumvirate or a “dreibund” com- |} posed of Germany, England and, as a | bad or tolerated third, America. The parceling of what Admiral Sims so strikingly describes as “the round globe” had already begun. ‘Well, that dream was shattered in the early morning. And such new dreamers as Sims and a host of kin- dred spirits are_reviving it in an amended form. It is, of course, the same old dream—Caesarean, Alexan- drine. Barcan, Napoleonic; but the world is utterly weary of dreams, this “little thumb-ring of an éartl and sighs for “the unmartial con- quests of the mart.” And is there any better chance of the comparatively few English- speaking—the English insist that even we don't speak “English™ dominating the world than there is, say, of the Chinese-speaking or the Chinese-understanding people, “when he sleeper awakes”? There is a real in the Freudian dream for you, or a real Joseph dream. In the meanwhile, also, bolshevism may have a great deal to say—as well as to dream.—Columbia (8. C.) State (democratic). Some folks don't like a change well enough to put on a new grouch.— Des Moines Register. ‘Wonder if the S)flppinf Board couldn’t persuade those pirates to take over the wooden ships—Nor- folk Ledger-Dispatch. We need a more permanent type of ship, says a Navy man. What's the matter with our old friend hard- ship?—Arkansas Gazette. The only dangerous thing about an automobile 1s the one that sits just back of the steering wheel.—Balti- more Evening Sun. No matter how profitable a busi- ness deal, it never equals the thrill of finding a five-dollar bill in an old suit.—Muskegon Chronicla D. -C, - WED SDAY, JUNE 29, 1921 SRONIER! The stie they like OUNG men want simple style lines; free drape; soft tailoring that conforms to natural es They know they can get it best in clothes made by " Hart Schaffner & Marx Money back if you aren’t satisfied \ . Copriyhe, 1911, Fare Schaffuer & Mot Raleigh Haberdasher 1109-1111 Pennsylvania Avenue