Evening Star Newspaper, August 3, 1921, Page 6

[ THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY. .. .August 3, 1921 THEODORE W. NOYES. . . .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsyivania Ave. York Offi 3 ew Chicago Office: First N European Ofiice: 3 Kegent S y morning The Evening Star, with the Su e n the ety edition, s delfvered by carriers w at 60 cents ver month: daily only. month: Sunday only, 30 cents per month. ders may be sent by mail. or telenhone Main Collection is made by carriers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. : 1 mo., T0¢ 1 mo., 50¢ 1 mo., 20¢ mo., 85¢ The Lincoln Statue. An objection to consideration of a resolution Monday prevented the House from calling for the restoration to its original site of the statue of Lincoln erected by the citizens of Washington immediately after his as-| sassination. A reading of the Con- gressional Record shows that the character of the statue and its histor are quite misunderstood by members of the House who prevented consid- eration. Objection was raised to the artistic quality of the statue. It was also suggested that this simple tribute | non appears and shows contentment|gascribed to the ambition of politicians to the war President should not be replaced, because the nation is now just completing a great memorial to|service in the House begets a desire|ward and endeavor to control an in- him, soon to be dedicated. It was ob- | those in Chicago yesterday, in 2 demonstration of rejoicing and hero- izing over the accused. Had these ball players been wounded veterans of the war, caught in some trifling of- fense and acquitted for sentimental reasons, they could not have been treated with more sympathy. dangerous lesion in the American moral sense. An emotionalism dom- inated this trial, as it frequently does| in the cases of men and women ac- cused of murder. It is one of the fundamental faults of the jury sys- tem. A ball player, it seems, has peculiar hold on public affection, and the acquittal argues that in the minds of this Chicago jury at least there is no wrong in a scheme to trick those willing to bet on ball games. Now comes the question of the res- toration of the players to their for- mer status. That is a matter of base mo.; 6c } ball law. Wil thelr acquittal operate ¢ to put them back automatically in their places? Or is there a really equitable quality in base ball statutes and practices that, disregarding this miscarriage of justice, will regard these men as unworthy of further as sociation with organized base ball? Upon the answer to these questions depends in large degree public con- fidence in the integrity of the game. Mr. Mondell's Candidacy. Mr. Mondell will try for the Senate. all do it. That is, nearly all. Now and then a Champ Clark or a Thomas B. Reed, or a Joseph G. Can- with, even a preference for, the House and its atmosphere, but, as a rule, for service in the Senate, and a good jcteed that the statue is not a cor- many men have found their way from rect portrait. It is also urged that it! the lower to the upper house of Con- is the work of a ‘“graveyard stone{gress. cutter.” All of these things are beside thel|ways worked mark and not pertinent to the ques- tion in the case. The change, however, has not al- to the advantage of those making it. Some men after This shaft bearing | exhibiting marked usefulness in the a marble figure of Abraham Lincoln | House have failed to score in the Sen- represents much more than the artis- try of its maker. It symbolizes the | sincere sorrow of the American peo-| ple for the man who served them! in their greatest crisis and brought | them safely through it. For this statue was the first to be erected after | Lincoln's death. It was the modest result of an immediate, spontaneous endeavor to secure a nation-wide fund for a suitable memorial at the capital. | There was no national response to the | call, and the people of Washington ! themselves, out of their meager re- sources, supplied the funds. The dedi- cation of the shaft was made an oc- casion of national meaning, attended by the President of the United States | and the highest officials of the gov- ernment. Removal of the Lincoln statue from its place in front of the city hall, now the courthouse, fell only short of van- dal'sm from the fact that it was ac- companied with a definite promise to replace it in some suitable place else- where. That promise has not been kept. The statue has been cast aside —*'stored” in the open, with no re- spect or care—and with no provision whatever for its emplacement. President Harding has asked Con- gress to restore this shaft to its orig- ate. For some reason, not easily de- fined, they seemed not to fit into the new environment—to lack the spur and spirit that had carried them for in the old. At present this is not true of those members of the Senate who had their legislative training in the House. The work and the atmosphere of the Sen- ate agree wis\ them. They are justi- fying their pfonmtivn. Indeed, the two leaders of the Sen- ate came over from the House. Mr. Lodge was a representative at the time Thomas B. Reed was directing| the fortunes of his party in the House. | yion. while even a fight for statehood | and so had opportunity to study skill- ful congressional procedure at close range, while Mr. Underwood at a later day shared with Champ Clark responsibility for the House fortunes of the democracy. Mr. Mondell will run no risk. A quarter century in the House has de- veloped his powers? brought him to the front in the House, and shown him possessed of the legislative spirit and capacity. The New York Mayoralty. Tammany Hall will renominate Maybr Hylan. A coalition-republican movement will support at the primary inal site. 1t is of no moment that a great national memorial has mean- *while been brought nearly to com- pletion. It is of not the least conse- quence that 'the statue of the sixties has been criticised, that it was the work of an obscure local artist, that it was perhaps inartistically mounted. It is a memorial, not merely to Abraham Lincoln, but to the loyalty and grief of the American people for his loss. And as such it should be treasured. not discarded. If all the statues and memorials and monuments in Washington that do not measure up to the latest heights of artistic tests are torn down and cast away because they are an offense to the cultured eye of the critic, why stop at the Lincoln, the first Lincoln memorial in America? There are sev- eral others far more deficient in the twentieth century sense, and they have no such sentimental reason for being. ! to be held September 13 Maj. Henry H. Curran, president of the borough of Manhattan. , He will have opposi- tion for the nomination, but is likely to be chosen. He is Brooklyn born, and has a good war record as well as a good record in civil office. The stage is being set for a hum- ming campaign. Tammany needs the office badly in its business. Its for- tunes are at a low ebb. A few years ago it was powerful in both state and city. It has since been stripped of all state power, and its hold in town is slender. The republicans are now strongly intrenched in the state, and if they capture the mayoralty in November will be masters of the whole situation and well on the way to another state triumph next year. If Mayor Hylan is re-elected he may, very likely will, become a state quantity. The democrats are short | twenty-five thousand—rather a small The -episode shows that there is a | TfiE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WED: organized their state committee in Georgia, In preparation for next year's congressional campaigg. They have not been a happy family of late. But, for that matter, neither have the democrats. Last year Cox and Roose- velt received a plurality of some figure. The latest news is from Louisiana, where the republicans have appealed | to the courts in an effort to secure | representation at the polls. Thirty- five per cent of last year's vote in the state was cast by them. The demo- cratic plurality in November was only twenty-five thousand, and Mr. Hard- ing’s reception when he visited the state later was extremely cordial. The national administration is in sympathy with these efforts, as is the vepublican national committee. But their value, since the territory has so long been undisputedly democratic, is problematical. The democrats appear to be undisturbed. Porto Rico. The new governor of Porto Rico, in his inaugural address just delivered, discourages the movement in the is- land for independence, and suggests statehood instead. His deliverance has caused a stir. There is no complaint of American rule, which, as in the Philippines, has wrought great good. The interests of | the island have all been advanced under the Stars and Stripes. For this reason the independence movement, as in the Philippines, is figuring on pPersonal advancement— men who would put themselves for- dependent government. They may be thinking of Cuba, and persuading themselves that what was accorded Cuba should now be accord- ed Porto Rico. Cuba’s case was decided when we had just appeared in the West Indian equation. Sentiment in America even then was. not unanimous. A strong feeling for annexation existed. But independence under an American pro- tectorate finally won. Cuba under a flag of her own has not achieved so much that opinion in; America as to her independence is now all one way. There are men who still hold out for annexation, on the ground that both Cuba and the United States would benefit; that Cuban af- fairs under the Stars and Stripes would be stabler than they have been, or will be, under the Cuban flag. 1Independence for Porto Rico would |appear to be wholly out of the ques- if undertaken will be long and arduous. —— Every competent and faithful worker lost to the government in re- vising expenditures means waste in- stead of economy. The business of the country depends in large measure on service by the government as a practical and efficient organization, and the selection of personnel down to the most remote subordinate is a matter for close intelligent discrim- ination. Blanket dismissals often work disadvantage to public interests, as well as hardship to individuals. —————— A large amount of unemployed tal- ent is now represented by the peoplc! who devoted last summer to the sim- ple but unproductive occupation known as heckling. l The honors extended to Martens do| not fully satisfy curiosity as to the practical services to be rendered in order to earn them. * The withdrawal of an occasional in- vitation does not necessarily prevent a distinguished tourist from being highly entertained. l The question “exactly what is elec- tricity?” is an old puzzler that Mr. Edison has not featured in his ques- tionnaires. } Germany owes 80 much money that her debts command consideration re- gardless of opinions as to her moral Editorial Digest The Bomb Heard Round the World Whether the airplane bomb that sunk the Ostfriesland shook the ways of the peace ship to be launched at the disarmament conference in No- vember, or whether Its detonation cheered the workers toward success, has not been satisfactorily settled in the columns of the press of the coun- try. Some writers content themselves with disagreeing over the question of whether or not the dreadnaught should be scrapped, or to demandins, with the Virginian-Pilot (independent democratic), defensive apparatus for big_ships, or more bombing planes, without considering the peace ques- tlon at all. Few go as far as the Bal- timore Sun (independent democratic), Wwhich declares that the “big navy” in- terests of the world, trying to block the conference, are “seeking to twist the Ostfriesland affair into propa- ganda for larger appropriations.” “The bomb heard roynd the world"” means but one thing to the New York Globe (independent). After reviewing the evidence the Globe says: “What i8 there which the battleship now complishes which cannot be better done by a three-plane navy, in which aeroplanes and submarines are com. bined with the lighter, smaller ves- sels on the surface? The lay public, which has in the past witnessed 80 many painful instances in which t| military mind has clung to methods and ideas after they were obsolete, will be interested in the reply. It will also want to know why the $400,000,- 000 naval bill does not provide for even one solitary aeroplane carrier.” The “three-plane Navy" also appears as a necessity to the Newark News (independent) and the “dreadnaught” seems “a_useless luxury” to the Ann Arbor Times-News (independent), Wwhich joins in the call sounded by the Buffalo News (republican) for some- thing that is really worth while in the line of aerial development.” With- out voting to “scrap the dread- naughts” fmmediately, though it re- marks that the attacked battleship sank like a wet paper box,” the Philadelphia Public Ledger - (inde- pendent) predicts “intense activity on the part of every principal power in designing and " building fleets of ‘bombers.’ " “No nation,” says the Hartford Times (democratic), “is going to amount to much as a sea power here- after” unless it is “plentifully sup- plied with aeroplane carriers” Su- premacy of the air, says the Port Huron Times-Herald (independenty, “may win the next war,” and to the New York Tribune (republican) the sinking of the Ostfriesland “didn’t develop anything very surprising, ex- cept to the ultra-conservative,” but the lesson it teaches is that “the Navy needs aeroplane carriers.” The chief need emphasized by the test, the Manchester Union (independ- ent’ republican) believes, is defense for the battleships, “giving a means to cope with attacks from the air,” and. says the Philadelphia. Bulletin (independent republican) “no navy of the future will be adequately armed unless it possesses ample protective weapons against such an attack.” Perfection of such devices, adds the Houston Post (democratic) “will now engage the designers of battleships, just as the matter of protecting ships from the torpedo boat., and then the submarines formerly had to be met.” A number of writers are more in- terested in defending the battleship than speculating on other phases of the test. “It has not yet been shown that the aeroplane has made the bat- tieship obsolete.” is the flat state- ment of the Birmingham Age-Herald (independent democratic), because, it explains, “superiority of aircraft over battleships could not be demonstrated except under conditions of actual warfare, which were not duplicated off the Virginia capes.” To put the big ships in this category the Detroit Free Press (independent) agrees is wrong. “Such a deduction would be grotesque,” it says, for “the battle- ship is also vulnerable to depth bombs and to submarine torpedoes when they are properly planted, but it re- mains a potent engine of war never- theless.” The El Paso Times (demo- cratic) holds a similar view, remark- ing that “the automobile torpedo” and “the submarine.” when they appeared. “theoretically relegated the big su: face craft to the discard,” but, the pa- per concludes, putting “thedry versus fact.” and in the case of the aeroplane, “it could whip any battleship” under one condition, namely. that “the battle- ship didn’t hit back.” The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times (republican) believes that it will take “another war" to prove whether or not the battleship is obsolete, and the Charleston News and Courier (democratic) thinks that the world will continue to build them “for some time to come unless Mr. Harding's disarmament conference’ ends the process. A Tax on Spendings. epresentative Mills of New York. \\'}f{o );.: apparently one of the original thinkers of Congress, has come fo! ward to advocate a “spendings ta: 5 in place of the income surtaxes o the present law. Thpia proposed tax is based nothol: a person's earnings and income, bu on what he spends for his living be- yond a preliminary exemption of $2.000. Deduction for business ex- penses, taxes, insurance, medical ex- penses, investments and charities are to be allowed, the amount taxed to be as nearly as possible the index of the taxpayer's style of living. Here is a gropolll which over- comes one of the great objections to the graded surtax system of the in- come tax—that it discourages thrift. ESDAY; AUGUST 3, 1921. i, = Established 1897 THE AUTOCAR COMPANY ARDMORE, PA. Autocar Wherever there’s a road Every Piece in the Entire Store Is Included in the Remarkable Reductions This Month of The August Sale of It is to be hoped that when the!of State leaders. Former Gov. Smith H resolution mext comes up for consid,}iS nOt only their best but their only eration in the House it will be treated | Pet at present. His one term at Al- with respect and understanding and | Pan¥ Prousht him considerable pres- promptly passed, so that, with the|'i8¢; and a belief obtains that he is poeitionfingrecentiovents; he spendings_tax, as outlined by Congrisaman: Mills, would increase T graded scale, but the higher rates would only hit the lavish spend- e ihe men and women who if they can't afford to pay high taxes at least SHOOTING STARS. Senate’s assent, the injustice to the memory of the war President com- mitted in its removal will be cor- rected. —_——— Secretary Hoover finds that sim- ple food can be used as a great inter- national argument without the intro- duction of social stratagems pertain- ing to the guest list. | —_——— Precautions might be taken against the possibility of Emma Goldman or | Alex Berkman being among the pris-| oners to be returned by Russia. 1 f Railroad problems would be easy if! the water employed in old stock trans- actions could now be utilized for get- ting up financial steam. The Base Ball Bribery Verdict. ‘The national game of base ball is not itself directly injured by the ac- quittal of the players and accused gamblers at Chicago yesterday, but Jjustice is hurt and the confidence of the people in the processes of law is shaken. If these players, however, should return to the game on the strength of their acquittal the sport will be harmed in public estimation. ‘Technicalities appear to have weigh- ed most heavily in turning the scales in the Chicago trial. There was evi- dence that professional gamblers had approached and seduced certain of the members of the Chicago team, paying them to “throw” games in the world series with Cincinnati in 1919, Some of the men had confessed to taking money: They had quarreled over the division of the spoils of brib- ery. One of them, at least, on the witness stand told of finding cash un- der his pillow and undertaking to lose the next game he played, weakening later in his purpose. Yet in the face of this testimony these men were ncquitted. There is no grasping the mental processes of jurors who bring in such ‘s verdict and who engage, as did] The other day the republicans re-|lems.” anxious to have a try at a second. A gubernatorial race takes place next year. If Maj. Curran wins he may de- velop into a state quantity. The re- publicans are at no loss for leaders, but a man capable of wresting control of New York city from Tammany in the circumstances that now exist will have strong claims on state attention. t Many New York theater managers have reduced prices. No drama. is considered good enough to charge as much as it costs to see a first-class prize fight. t As an enterprising publisher North- cliffe might be permitted to remark incidentally, “Now is the time to sub- scribe”; also, “It pays to advertise.” i ‘There is a general disinclination to become agitated about a state of war so long as it remains strictly tech- nical. ! Lenin's official organization has been sadly at a disadvantage in the lack of a practical and industrious department of agriculture. The Southern Republicans. | The movement for quickening the pulse of the republican party in the south is progressing, and promises to be thorough. In Virginia a full state ticket, to be voted for in November, has been nom- inated. It is headed by a man of high social and business standing, and he is already on the stump. The result will be a campaign of more interest than otherWise would have been aroused. Issues of local importance are under discussion, and will be kept to the fore. Last year, notwithstand- ing the extraordinary strength shown by the republicans elsewhere, the Old Dominion held to her record, and gave Cox and Roosevelt sixty thousand plurality. BY PHILANDER JOHNBON. A Task for Science. The summer somehow caught 'em As its breezes wandered near, When a little bit of autumn Brought a day of restful cheer. 1f would help, had folks bethought ‘em To devise a proper way For a balmy breath of autumn On a January day. Experience should have taught 'em To provide with kindly skill An automatic autumn ‘Which may be turned on at will. Philosophically Considered. “Don’t you resent the manner in which interviews are often garbled?” “Not seriously,” replied Senator Sorghum. “If interviews were not more or less liable to garbling there would often be no way in the world of explaining them satisfactorily to a critical constituency.” Jud Tunkins says the wisdom of the plain people is improving. Nobody believes in sea serpents any more. Food Problems. Although in state I may not dine And hear the music by the band, This consolation still is mine. ‘The dairy lunch is near at hand. Intellectual Arrogance. “Do you want your boy Josh to study the classics?” “I'm not particular,” answered Farmer Corntossel. “Maybe it'd be.a little more cheerful for the family if there was a few things left that Josh couldn't pretend he knew all about.” Postponing a Perplexity. “What'll we do with the ark now | h that the big trip is over?” inquired Japhet. - L] “My son,” replied Noah, “we've had trouble enough without starting in immediately on \fll} shipping prob-}made live on the obvious pretense that they can. There may be valid doubts as to the feasibility of attempting to force citizens to make returns of their per- sonal expenses. What man kno what he spends. Who keeps books to show the costs of his lunches? The answer to this is that, under the new proposal, the regular income return would be made, as at present, for the normal tax, and from the income so calculated all the items enumerated above, investments, savings, ~ex- penmes, etc.. would be deducted. the balance representing one's cos of living. 1t sounds interesting, at first blus! At least, it is_worth studying.—Chi cago Evening Post (independent). The Irish Situation. Fortunately, the people on the out- side have apparently recovered froi the false idea that a peaceable set- tlement of the Irish question must come over night, or not at all. As g matter of fact, time is now working on the side of final peace. Every added day piles higher the evidence that the great majority on both sides really want peace, and are ready to sanction real concessions, in order to get it. It is only natural that it should e some time ad- just the detalls of the comcessions which elther side is willing to con- sider. The spirit which would say ““This {8 our limit, and you may have twenty-four hours within which to accept or reject it,” i8 not manifest in the proceedings now in progress. And that is why the proceedings rightly be said to be “in progre: ‘We are glad to see the world set- tling down to the fact that it is no sensational comedy or tragedy which is being staged by Lloyd George, De Valera, Sir James Craig and their co-workers, but a serious and thoughtful attempt to arrive at a sound and permanent settiement. For that purpose the nations outside will be willing to give them any amount of time which they may wish to take, and will refrain, we trust, from ir tating advice and comment. A suc- cessful result will be .hailed . with universal rajolcln(‘-colmnbul (Ohio) Dispatch (independent). The new definition of gold is: A foot and mouth disease.—New Or- leans Times-Picayune. Perhaps the man who reads movie titles aloud isn’t allowed to talk at ome.—Rock Island Argus. 8till, Lord Northcliffe need not want for a meal ticket or a place to sleep.—Chicago Daily News. A prison where the {nmat Lifetime Furniture Everybody tells us the same thing—that we've got the very best furniture values in the city and the largest assortments from which to select. People like this Once-a-Year Sale for they know that they’ll get real values. Sale is unusual because we make no claims of “tremendous reductions,” nor do we quote any particular discount. Lifetime Furni- ture is never marked to permit of “tremendous reductions,” but at August Sale prices it is the “one best buy” in Washington. 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