Evening Star Newspaper, July 2, 1921, Page 4

T2 I'HE EVENING STAR, With Sundsy Morning Edition. wWa BINGTOR. D. C. SATURDAY.. ...July’2, 1921 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editoe !'h Evening StarNewspaper Company Bosisees Offce, 11¢h St. and Pennsvivania Ave, New York Office: 150 Nassau St. Chicago Office: First National Baak Bullding. Furopean office: 3 Regeat St., London, Bogland. The Evening Star, with the Snnday moralng ®dition. ja delivered by carriers withia the elty 8t 60 cents per month: daily only. 45 cents per Month: Sunday onlr. 20 cents per month. Or may be sent by mail, or felephone Mata o, Collection is made by earriers at the ®8d of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable In Advanes, Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday 1 mo., 70¢ Daily only .00; 1 mo., 50¢ Bunday on e Daily and Sunday. l)‘r $10.00: D-ny only. 57 00. Surplus and Tax Rate. Inasmuch as the District during the past fiscal vear raised by taxation $515,416.95 more than Congress per- mitted it to spend for malntenance. even at the changed ratio of District- federal contributions, the Commission- ers have concluded that that amount should be applied to the revenues of the coming fiscal year. and have ac- cordingly ordered a reduction in the each tax rate from $1.95 to $1.82 for $100 of taxable property. This reduced |, rate will vield enough, it is estimated. with the surplus from last vear. to meet the appropriations already made. There can be no logical objection to this procedure. For several years the District has raised by taxation more money than Congress has appropriat- ‘ed, on either the fifty-fifty or the sixty forty basis. The result has been the accumulation in the Treasury. as a District credit, of a sum approximat- ing five million dolla Appeals for the use of this money for urgent local needs have been unavailing. Plans for Yts gradual application to large works ©f public improvement have been re- Jected. The money has remained there, unused, while the District has suffered Yor more schools. more water, more pavements, more police and fire pro- tection, more everything of municipal need. Only within a short time has a start been made upon a program of #chool extensions that have been great- 1y needed for several years. 1t is idle to continue to pile up this purplus if it is not to be used. either directly as an appropriation asset, or dndirectly as a taxation charge. Now the Commissioners, upon legal advice, have resolved to regard it as a credit, {taking, however. only the immediate | sufplus of the past fiscal year. They ‘would, indeed, In strict logic, be jug- Itified in considering the entire surplus 'as a tax offset for the current year. But with wise moderation they have considered only that slightly more than half million dollars as an asset for the purpose of computing the amount needed to maintain the munici- pal government during this year. 1t is difficult to see how this procedure can be challenged. The Commissioners assure Congress that they will have money enough, at-the present rate of .? expenditure, to fin the District on the 4 reduced tax rate if they are permitted “todnake use of the unexpended balance { of the past year. Congress cannot in .anything approaching justice sa: You cannot use your own money for { this purpose. You raised it by taxa- tion at your own risk. the United States to have the benefit if not the ownership of it in case we decline to appropr dlv all of it for, your main- Such a rejoinder would l\rinl: the whole question of the surplus sharply into focus. Some time ago a member of the House of Representatives de- clared that thi pended District tax money was a myth, however, gained no credence or sup- port. But its expression served to re- veal a disposition in certain quarters to consider the District's tax money, | raised by order of Congress and spent inadequately at the dictation of Con- gress, and plus, piling up in the Treasury. as a federal profit in the National Capital partnership. ) The actual relief to the taxpayers from the reduction will be some help. But of greater help will be the fact that the District is not continuing the ccumulation of unex-|free count foolish practice of raising more money by taxation than it can spend, and los- ing the benefit of its own funds to the tune at present of nearly fide millions, was forming which in a few weeks was to bury the Wilson administration deep under disapproval largely because of its foreign policy respecting peace, the disaffection of about a hundred ré- publicans with the course of their party impressed Mr. Holt as important enough for national attention, and he called attention to it. He may be no better judge of the present situation. The President, with many facts before him which at this time he is unable to share with the public, may be making more progress in'the direction of improved world con- ditions than Mr. Holt or any of Mr. Holt's friends can be bréught to admit. As to the eampaign of next year— and that of 1924—My. Holt is not well advised in suggesting that either may be fought with the league of naticns which Mr. Wilson accepted at Paris as the paramount issue. ——— Tariff Predictions. Mr. Garner of Texas, the ranking democratic member of the ways and eans committee, says of the Fordney tariff bill: T assert that there are many rates in this bill based upon American val- uation that are absolutely prohibitive, and 1 conclude by venturing the pre- diction that the American business men who import goods; the American manufacturers who export goods; the American farmer and ranch man who depends in large measure on foreign markets, and the American consumers in general will compel the repeal or modification of this law within the life of this Congress. The gentleman from Texas is not deficient in courage. His prediction is ld one. 1If it is fulfilled, the demo- ¢ prospects for 1924 will become v in the extreme. and we shall wit- ness such a tussle for the next demo- cratic nomination for President as will make the one at Baltimore in 1912 and that at San Francisco last year tame by comparison. There is this comfort for the re- publicans, however. Some Texas pre- dictions about the operations of a pro- tective tariff have in the past proved to be wide of the mark. Roger Q. Mills was from the Lone Star state, and prominent in several tariff fights in Congress. He led one, as chairman of ways and means. He was always, as Mr. Garner now is, confident that disaster would result from a revision of the tariff on protection lines. Mr. Mills was never more confident, and never bolder in his prediction, than in the case of the Dingley revision. He could see only disaster in that. But it proved to be a success beyond the calcufations of the man who gave it its name, and beyond those of the President who signed it. The Dingley tariff is not likely to be eclipsed at any time as a revenue-| rlroducer ‘and a re viver of business. ——e The President and the People. The President, it is stated, is accept- ing only a very few of the invitations for visits and addresses that reach him. He finds much that presses on him here, and feels, of course, that the work here has the first claim. He is on the job with both hands, and pur- poses staying on it until the pressure is relieved. Occasionally, there is a note of crit- icism in the press directed at the peo- ple. They are told they ought to know better: ought to know how much oc- cupied the President is with affairs a: the Capitol, and spare him. Be easy with the people. , Mr. Hard- ing is a most interesting man. He holds what they consider the highest office in the world, and was elected to it by the largest majority ever recorded in America. He had a walkaway on election day. . And then he speaks with ease and entertainment on all subjects. He was a popular ofator before attaining his present exalted honor; and, naturally, is the more popujar, speaking as he now does, the the representative of a hundvred and odd million citizens of a These numerous invitations are com- & bookkeeping phantom. That view. | pliments. Whether he can visit them !or not, the President is assured that the people are thinking about him, and especially at times when they are cal- culating some oocasion of local conse- quence and keen for doing everything up brown. The people are all right, ielding a large annual sur- | and the President is all right. ———e— e - Military men agree that another war would be horrible beyond descrip- tion. This fact should remove from the mind of any delegate to a peace con- ference the temptation to play politics. ————— The impressioh left by Mr. Dawes' comment is that the money saved by getting men to work for a dollar a year was insufficient for the needs of while it is suffering for improvements @ time demanding ecenomy. 4nd current maintenance which are Dot adequately granted. ————— The membership of the American Seamen’ esociation has become so great that difficulty has been found in securing a hall large enough for a | mecting. Collectively, as well as in- | dividually, the sailor finds difficulty in i being comfortable on land. —_—————— The ordingry tariff as a means of ! gathering revenue has a time-saving advantage over the direct tax in not ' compelling customers td stand in line ! while the clerk affixes stamps. Considering the liberality with which . people are paying for today's prize + fight, it ought to be a good one. , The President and World Peace. , Hamilton Holt, a distinguished New York editor, is impatient with the ad- gninistration because of what he con- siders its slow motion in the matter of world peace, and what part America is to play in an arrangement provid- ing for that most desirable end. says: “If you delay much further, people everywhere will inevitably conclude that you have no concrete plan at all, harmony above world welfare. In that event there will be nothing left for those who want America to play her rightful part in stabilizing the -world but.to organize the country so as to Sapiure Congress for the league in as2 the presidency in 1924." wmn all respect it may be mention- #d that Mr. Holt is not a politician, and ot & good judge of a political situa-| tisn,~At-a-time-when an avalanche —_——t— The distinguished gathering at a ringside calls for attention from the society chropicler as well as the sport- ing editor. ——————————— Scientific study of government ex- penditures indorses the, time-honored theory that practicalieconomies deperid on, sound economies. P e The “watchdog of the Treasury,” who Qused to figure so prominently in public comment, has been restored to popular attention. The Departing Comet. Just what happened to Winnecke's comet to make it switch out into space away from its ordinary orbit remains a mystery. But something apparently caused it to shunt away. It is now going back into space, having rounded the sun. switch of its tail and it produced no meteors. i It is a little disturbing to find this comet so erratic. It shakes faith in the customary object, earth head-on? lision not at all pleasant to contem- another's. or less. alter the situation of humanity. Butnnhrumnhmnom & tire has to be changed.” It did not give the earth a the dependability of these occasional visitors from the infinite beyond. What In a letter to the President Mr. Holt | i¢ one of them should miss its aim for has ever yet hit the earth. Meteots have fallen, practically doing no dam- age, but scaring some people nearly out of their wits. Comets, however, have always managed to miss this lit- tle sphere, however close they may have come. There is comfort in be- lief in the immutdble law of fofcés of space that keeps the bodies and masses from meeting. It is just pos- sible that the Winnecke comet has, after all, performed according to plan and that gheré is “Something 'a bit wrong with human computation. Whatever the case, the comet is on the back track and all danger from that particular sourcé is over for & good many years. —_——————— The War and the Nations. At a soelal function given recently in honor of the visiting Japanese legislators, Mr. Nakanishi, one of the number, said: . ‘Following the great war the people of Japan have become very much in- tetested in foreign affaits. Heretofore during parliamentary tlections we sel- dom referred to intefnational affairs, but today, ever in rural districts, our people are eager to hear the discus- sion of world questins. * * ¢ There. fore, the people of Japan are follow- ing our journey with g interest, and the cordial reception which we have received at the hands of vour Congress will create an impression in the minds of the Ja, lese people be- yond all expectatidn. All peoples are more interested in foreign affairs than ever before. They know more about them than ever be- fore. They have been reading about them and considering their connections with them for nearly seven years. The war introduced the different peoples of the world somewhat intimately to one another. Statesmen who seven years ago had only local reputations are today known round the world. It was Anierica who, much earlier than seven years ago, first set the peo- ple of Japan—at least their leaders— to thinking about foreign affairs. Com- modore Perry was the country's rep- resentative in that praiseworthy aci and his name is held in as much rev- erence and esteem in Japan today as in America. And since then Japan has attained large influence in the world. She is now a strong world power; and her affairs are of as much interest to toreigners as the affairs of foreigners are to her. The adjufation addressed to indi- viduals—“Know one another"—has the same meaning when addressed to na- tion=, and should be prized and obeyed by individuals and nations alike. } Lenln and Trotsky are the political Siamese twins, edch unable to pull apart without hurting himself. } Frequently the estate of some man who was scarcely heard of before fig- ures up into the millions. Wealth is not always ostentatious. i According to some economists it is more important for statesmen to edit budgets than to write books. I Agitators who leave this country to join the sovietists for some reason do not appear to énjoy facilities even of sending post cards back to their old friends. } Advertising concessions in Berlin make the American dollar the basis of contract. A refusal to permit senti- ment to interfere with business is at times necessary to success in strictly commercial lines. } No effort at disarmament receives much encouragement when it is limit- ed to requesting two pugilists to lay aside boxing gloves and confine them- selves to the handshaking. { No style of organization has been perfected to prevent a member of Con- gress from having to work ful and keep long hours. | SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Somewhere. : There are sums that fiercely glare Somewhere, ‘Way up yonder in the sky, And their temperature's so high It's a million times more hot Than the sun that we have got. It's enough to singe your hair; Nothing cooked can be done rare; Every sunrise brings a scare, Somewhere. The climate's on a tear Somewhere, And the record that is made, Fahrenheit or centigrade, On this little earth of ours, ‘With its breezes and its showers, ‘With such warmth cannot compare, So we really needn’t care What goes on away up there, Somewhere. Thorough. “Does your little boy like the bright llghu of the great aity?” replied Farrher Corntossel. “Josh isn’t satisfied to stand outside and look at the lights. He always insists on going inside and seeing the picture show.” to tell what ien't so, and sometimes foolish to tell what is. Keeping the Pace. The living problems make us guess Until they really get our nerve; The cost of food grows less and less, So do-the portions that they serve. Physical Training. “I suppose,” said Cactus Joe to the goda fountain tender, “you don't ex- life.” : “No,” replied the young man. Jud Tunkins says it's always wrong pect to keep at this business all your rd THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO Editorial Digest Uncle Sam’s New Wnnhdoz.v Out of the mass of commendation for the President's appointment of Charles G. Dawes as director of the budget three Interesting points emerge. First, the comiment stirred up by Mr. Dawes' fre- mark on the “pitiful” machinery with which his department must function and his plan for securing volunteers from the ranks of American finance for aus- sistance; second, the fear that the new director will be blocked in his economy efforts by Congress, and, third, a feeling that the appointment is proof of Presi- dent Harding's sincerity In urging a war on waste with “more business in goverhment.” A feeling of deep satisfaction express- ed over the ‘appointment and strong faith in {he appdintee is non-partisan and general. Newspapers of all political faiths and representing all parts of the country praise the ability and energy of “Helen Marla” Dawes, who, as the Ar- kansas Gazette (democratic) remarks, ‘cussed his way into the hearts of his countrymen' during the recent congres- sional investigation on war expendi- tures. ‘The New York Mall (Independent) be- lieves that “he will tackle the evasive bureau chiefs like a dog would a rabbit and shake every ounce of extravagant ronserise out of them,” for, as the Grand Rapids Herald (republican) says, “Dawes is the kind of a fellow who has the backbone to wield the knife upon all un- necessary appropriations, whether the appropriator be hosom friend or bitter foe.”” The Lynchburg News@independ- ent) agrees with the Baltimore Ameri- can (republican) that “If past success is a future recommendation” the former general will succeed, and the Newark News (independent) 'declares that the selection of Dawes “will strike the coun- try as a little bit of all right. There is no man in America “better fitted in ability, e or in temperament,” Roanoke World News (democratic) Ditwes to direct the budget. Thi Lake Telegram (independent) gives a fairly representative example of west- ern comment when it remarks t Mr. Dawes is 4 “thorough-going bus ness man” and “in no sense of the word a politician. While thoroughly approving Gen. Dawes the Pittsburgh Leader (pro gressive republican) feels that in re- fusing him an adequate staff Congress has provided a budget. but failed to provide for its operation, thus show- ing it to be “a body with no business ideas, or lacking in service to the country. The New York Tribune (republican) expresses its approval of the call for volunteers from the standpoint of pub- licity, for: “The more successfully public _attention is focused on re- organigation of governmental opera- tions the easier it will be to rout the forces which will oppose reorganiza- tion from motives of self-interest.” In depending upon this method of securing support, the Cincinnati Times-Star_(repubiican) sees an ex- ample of the “colossal Dawes faith. since “leading business men” may hesitate to give their services to a government which after the war sub- mitted them to “endless_inquisition A similar view is taken by the Ashe- ville (N. C.) Times (republican), which believes that “undoubtedly many high- minded and capable business men will consider it a privilege to serve their nation (his way,” but, it aske. “will the government in turn undertake to guarantee to these meh that they will not be subjected to the cniticisms which were visited upon others who “gserved their country in a notable manner during the war and were re- rded with being charged h scheming and dishonest selfixhness The New York World (democratic) doesn't like the idea at all. It say: “The trouble with the situation ax it exists and has existed from time im- memorial Is that to0 many heads have had to do with i great object of the budget legislation was to sub- stitute one supervising head in the business for many heads. How one hundred new heads are to help in ef- fecting the substitution is not exactly clea Some wilters feel that the Dawes appointment means a bitter fight with Congress, “if he gives an inch he will be taken and bound in red tape and cast into outer darkness.” savs the Rock¥ Mountain News (Denver. (independent), “but he has foreknowl- edee and he is of the right stuff; he will hold his ground; future generations will bless him for having removed the danger to the republic.” The Nebraska State Journal (Lin- coln, independent republican) is not so optimistic, for “Dawes has much of Con- gress and most of officialdom=t6 whip. Tt isn't a bit certain that he can whip them. He is. perhaps. headed fof the Itcking of his life. But the fight. as those who krow Dawes can predict, will be real doings with words and deeds mixed i ‘magnificent. béneficent melee. This is a war we need.” 1t will be a war of attrition, the Chat- tanooga Times (independent demo- cratic) thinks. but ‘“before Congress starves the budget system and its chief spirit.to death there is going to be an interesting time in Washington.” “Re- calling what happenéd” when the former general ‘met the solons last year. the New Orleans Times-Picayune _(inde- pendent democratic) awaits “with lively curiosity to see what happens if and when they collide over the budget. Foreign Loan Power for Mellon. ‘The power which Secretary ‘Mellon wants'from Congress in the matter of our ten billions ef dollars of war loans to foreign governments is to separat the sheep from the goats and to treat the sheep as sheep and the goats as goats. He ought to have it at once. Some of these debts, and by far th greater part of them, are as good a: ®old, though not so Immediately negotiable. - Some of them are not worth the powder to blow them. Secretary Mellon, a business man of sound judgment, a banker of deep penetrition and a gevernmént officlal of large responsibility, will make an arrangement for the refunding and repayment of Great Britain's borrow- ings from our Treasury such as one solvent, riclv and powerful banking institution might make with another. He wil} do a similaf thing with France and Italy, giving due mn!ldemtlon to thelr cifcumstances and prospects. But neither Secret y Mellon ner Congress can get out Of an insolvent and poverty strick debtor what is not now there to get and what is not going to be there in the future to get. He will make the best terms with such a debtor he can make. Give Secretary Mellon all the power he needs to clean up the foreign loan muddle as he best may be able to clegh it up—New York #erald (in- dependent). ‘We may add June to the fireleas cook- ers.—Detroit News. Dawes will give the budxet a curseory Gnmlnlfion.—Brldsemfl Telegram. 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