Evening Star Newspaper, September 4, 1921, Page 22

WTHE EVENING STAR, \ With 3anday Morning Edition. i WASHINGTON, D.C. BUNDAY. .....September 4, 1921 >— _THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor { The Evening Star Newspaper Company e e e B e e, ™™ Chiieago Office: First National Baok Buiiding. European Oftice: 3 Regent St., Loodon, England. ! The Evening Star, with the Sunday moming Aaditicn, e delivered by carriers within the city &t 60 cents per month: daily culy, 45 cents per : month; Sunday ouly, 20 ceats per month. Or- ; s may be sent by mail, ot te 0 of cach meath, e P carie Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1 mo., 70c Daily only. 1 yr., $6.00; 1 mo., 50c .1yr., §2.40; 1 mo., 30c o All Other States. iy and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 85c Daily oaly o 1 Y .00 1 ma Sunday oniy. 1yr.. $3.00; 1 mo., 25¢ e Main at the 5 Mr. Root’s Refusal. Proposed for nomination as one of the judges of the international court of justice by six countries Mr. Root, ‘who played so conspicucus a part in the creation of the court, has declined the proffered honor because of ad- vanced age. No llving American has been more closely associated with the project of establishing a world court of arbitration than has Mr. Root. For years he has labored with visicn which never dimmed and ardor which never cooled toward the day when the na- tions of the world might be afforded a sound instrument for the peaceful adjudication of points of difference and dispute. His was one of the leading roles upon the international commit- tee which organized the court now es- tablished, and defined the functions thereof. No more fitting honor could have crowned a life rich with varied honors than that which extraordinary circumstance today requires that he decline. Of the basis upon which he declines service few will entertain doubt. The explanation that advanced age pre- cludes acceptance must serve as well es another as the formal ground for his decision. Of the real cause for his courteous rejection of the honor which France, Italy, China, Brazil, Bolivia and Uruguay would have conferred upon him he could say nothing. Yet that he could not accept a post upon a tribunal not recognized by the United States was a foregone conclusion. The international court of arbitra- tion is one of the few phases pof the league of nations with the aims and methods of which the United States is thoroughly sympathetic. That we should long stand apart from the bal- ance of civilization in its firm resolve to substitute justice for might in in- ternational relations is very far from the American program. It should not be long before, in one manner or an- other, & way shall be found whereby we may with dignity and pride play our part in support of the aims of in- ternational arbitration. When that day comes it will be the pride of the United States to add its name to the list of those nations which would place Mr. Root in the seat for which he is 80 eminently fitted. And Mr. Root, grown younger in the days which shall have passed, will accept. Nansen’s Agreement Repudiated. Dr. Fridtjof Nansen’s arrangement ‘with Russia for the assumption of re- lief work by the International Red Cross has been set aside by that body, and Dr. Nansen has been summoned to the Geneva headquarters to explain the situation. His agreement with the soviet government has been disavowed on the ground that under it the reliet commission will be required to remain at Moscow, leaving to the soviet the control of its activities elsewhere. ‘When Dr. Nansen made the arrange- ment it was regarded as a dangerous combination of politics and rellef. It was precisely the sort of basis for the rescue of the Russian people by out- side agencies that was avoided by the American commission. Mr. Hoover in- sisted upon a free hand, with no inter- ference with the work of his organiza- tion. The soviet representative at Riga protested and the work of rellef was nearly prevented, but at the last the . soviet government yielded and the re- lief work is now under way, progress- ing satisfactorily. Had the Nansen agreement been ratified at Geneva the International Red Cross would have been merely a supply agency for the soviet, leaving that government free to distribute food according to its own ‘wishes and prejudices. There would be no assurance of effectiveness, no guar- jantee that the people most in need ‘ could be reached. Doubtless the In- ternational Red Cross will insist, as did Mr. Hoover, upon having a free hand in the actual work of relief, and wprobably the government at Moscow ‘will yield. The soviet plays politics}® * throughout, but in this case it will fail 1n its effort to capitalize the sufferings of the people as a means of forcing some degree or form of recognition. ————————— Japan insists on making & well de- fined distinction between “accom- plished facts” and “unfinished busi- ness.” —_———— Uncle Joe Cannon never runs for Congress. His position there is one of static security. ——————— The Perennial Postponement. .~ Somewhere in Washington is prob- ably & man who knows when the Grant statde was first scheduled for completion. Maybe on careful search two or three might be found who could tell without deep research just " when that sculpture was supposed to e delivered, set up and given to the public. Those who' planned, and es- pecially whose who piaced the statue at the east end of the Botanic Garden, ‘were tremendously concerned about early completion, and they went ahead and had a big pedestal erected with groups of horsemen and guns in ' dramatic positions. The groups were put in place so long ago that most people thought that was all there was to the memorial, despite & chimmey- like protuberance in the center on which another “man on horseback” © would be piaced to add to the great + sequestrian collection in the capital. hurry knew perfectly that while “life 1is short art is long.” and probably they were under no delusions about. the actual beginning of the statue. {In the search for those who know the date all officials are barred) At any rate, the date has been a most de- cidedly movable feast. Postponing the time for completing the Grant statue has become a habit, an institution. True, the statue has been on the ped- estal for some time. For a period after it was hoisted into place the head of the hero of Appomattox was swathed in a white—later not so white —cloth. Nobody was supposed to know who it was. It was like a character in a melodrama who ties a little piece of silk over his eyes and is thoroughly disguised from his most intimate friends. Then one day a rude wind came and whipped the bandage off the general's head, and, lo, he was re- vealed! But this was unofficial. The statue was not yet “finished.” And now again postponement! This time it is planned to hold the dedication on the 100th anniversary of Grant's birth, the 27th of April next. The reason for the further delay is to permit certain fin- ishing work around the base, to re- move the wall and perhaps to shift the Tonservatories. And that brings the whole question back to where it started. It revives the old query: “Why was Grant's statue put in such a bad location?” And the answer is plain to those who remember the happenings of about & decade and a half ago, and recall that the real reason for putting that statue there was to get rid of the Botanic Garden and to drive a straight paved boulevard through the heart of the Mall to be flanked throughout by pub- lic buildings in the park. Nobody pre- cisely knows whether the delay in the statue has been due to the difficulties in getting that plan adopted. Indeed, the whole Grant statue proposition is one of the most fascinating mys- teries in Washington. New York’s “Unemployed.” New York is concerned about the unemployment situation there, and is taking count of stock to determine the number of idle people and particularly the number of those who belong there. And it has found to its discomfiture that of the 500,000 said to be unem- ployed in the greater city about 40 per cent, or 200,000, are transients. Many of these are “floaters,” not real job hunters, but of the traditional hobo type, ekeing out an existénce by “‘pan- handling.”” They do not want work, and probably a Hlttle later they will make their way back from whence they came. It has been found that of the 75,000 ex-service men who it is estimated are now asking for work in New York about 80 per cent are from points other than New York. Some of them are known as “canteen boarders,” having acquired the habit of dependence. Then there are about 15,000 alien seamen who are stranded in New York, or profess to be, because of slack shipping business. Most of ‘them, who have access to ships bound for their home countries, say they ‘would rather be idle in New York than in their own ports. H In short, New York is the victim of a reputation of always caring for the unfortunate. It is rated as a good place in which to loaf. Its charity or- ganizations are efficient, its means are abundant and it naturally attracts in- digent visitors. Probably this is true in most of the citles, where a large percentage of the unemployed will be found to have drift- ed there in the hope of getting easy subsistence. And meanwhile there is a call for farmhands. Down in Vir- ginia, a short distance from Washing- ton, & farm was recently advertised for sale because the owner could not get help to pick the fruits and vegetables for market, and this condition is not exceptional. Farmers are mot paying the exceedingly high wages that pre- vailed a couple of seasons ago, for they cannot afford to do o, but at the lower rates the men now huddled in the cities waiting for big-pay jobs, or preferring no jobs at all, could make a good living on the fnrms. and, in- cidentally, would be much healthier. Much of the unemployment is really a state of mind rather than e result of industrial slackness. ¥ So far any prospect of even mild retribution for Bergdoll rests on the hope that the hotels and automobile repair shops will show him no mercy. \ Attorney General Daugherty has found a number of things to interest|. him without waiting for Detective Burns to get into official action. The league of nations is still open for business, and expects in due course of time to hang up a busy-day sign. i ‘West Virginia needs a disarmament conference. % Motor Homesteaders. A month ago twenty-five Brooklyn automobiles to go to Idaho, to set up homes and start alfalfa farms. They were in high spirits over the prospect of an independent life in the wide spaces of the west. They were joined by some others from different parts of the east, the whole caravan traveling under the direction of “Gen.” Scott. ‘There were supply trucks to meet the needs of the colonista when they got out into the less thickly settled parts of the country. The caravan was con- ducted under military regulations. Re- ports at Chicago indicated a harmo- nious hegira. But somewhere between Chicago and Omaha temperament be- gan to develop, and now from the lat- ter place comes word of a bad split. Several of the motorists have left the main party and are traveling on their own account, denouncing Scott as & publicity seeker and shrewd ad- vertiser, while Scott is intimating that some of the recalcitrants are trying to get away with the trucks and equip- ment. - - This i8 not a surprising develop- ment. It would indeed have been, on the contrary, surprising if the whole party had gone through intact. Even of ploneering, when 8§ families left the City of Churches in |4l now to say when you can de- troubles arose and indlviduals left the main bodies and hiked off by ther:- selves, usually to meet with disaster, but occasionally winning through by good luck. There is no danger at all now in a motor colonist going off on his own. Theroadsare freeand open, and save for a little banditry here and there a gasoline hiker is as safe in the transmississippl region as he is on the Bronx boulevard—probably really much safer. The only real difficulty in this mat- ter lies In the fact that the-trucks that have been taken off by the insur- gents carry most of the farm lay-out that the colonists are to use when | they reach Idaho. There seems to be some sort of communal arrangement about this expedition, and probably before the affair is over there will be ltigation. It is to be expected that some of the pioneers will turn back and seck the bright lights. Probably no homesteading syndicate ever estab- lshed itself without friction and defec- tion. But if twenty of the families set up business in Idaho and stick it |nu( for a year the enterprise will have been a remarkable success. ————— A Big Stunt. Theatrical publicity has probably never ‘gone further than it did in New York the other day, when the leading actor in a play that has just finished a three-year run in that city went to the station to go to Chicago, where the show is to be staged. According to the news accounts no less than 100,000 people assembled to bid him farewell. He did not merely take a cab to the station. He marched with an escort in parade, headed by the police band and mounted coppers. Leading theatrical organizations were represented by hundreds of members carrying ban- ners. Before the parade started there was & reception at the theater, at which a naval officer who has seen the play thirty-five times was a speaker. All the stage notables were in evi- dence. The procession down Broadway was a continuous ovation. No hero returning from the war has ever been acclaimed with more sound. All traffic was suspended. It would be idle to estimate the number of feet of motion picture film used to record the extraor- dinary occasion. It would be even more idle to estimate the value of the “publicity” thus developed. And all this because first of all it is a good play, a typical American-life play, and above all the star has been recognized as one of the most efficient character actors America has produced in a gen- eration. Then there is a little stage politics involved. Just at present the theatrical business is in the throes of conflict. The actors are organized, and yesterday they made the most of the opportunity to demonstrate their solidarity and professional unity. In- cidentally, the managers who are run- ning the play got the benefit of the best plece of theatrical advertising ever pulled off in this country. - —_—— The formation of a tariff system satisfactory to all sections of the U. S. A. has always been an enterprise of much difficulty. A tariff that will content all the world is an undertak- ing of even greater responsibility. —————————— The Hohenzollern family cannot fail to realize how much better off it would be if the idea of limitation of arms had found more co-operation years ago. —_—— Only a very obstinate and old- fashioned person now throws away his straw hat merely because the calendar announces the arrival of September. —_——— Trotsky reports a series of murders, Trotsky may be more rellable and in- teresting as a police reporter than he was able to be as a philosopher and [Dnbllcht. —_———— Lloyd George is taking a vacation. Or possibly he has gone to a quiet place where he can think out some in- tricate -problems without ‘being dis- turbed. —_————————— In order to be a successful Mexican statesman ‘it 1s necessary to be more or less of an expert in the oil business. SHOOTING STARS." BY PHILANDBR JOHNBSON. The Acquisitive Sense. The man whose energies are bent On claiming everything in sight- Can never hope to be content, As avarice guides his fancy’s flight. Of peace his mind will find a d&.rth ‘While nursing aspirations fond, For, even when he owns the earth, He strives to grasp the stars beyond. Excuses. £ “What will I tell this man who says you promised to make him a post- master?” inquired the secretary. “Tell him the truth,” answerled Sena- tor Sorghum. “Tell him the postal system is hard to depend on, and it'sas liver an appointment as it used to be to predict when a letter would ar- rive.” Jud Tunkins says he doesn't like amateur classic dancing because it re- minds him of the way summer board- ers act of an evening when the mos- quitoes are bad. Prior to the Flivver. Great men, as we are all aware, ‘Whose minds illumed this mortal scene Have studied by the candle's glare Instead of burning gasoline. Tributes of Regard. “Would you accept my heart and hand?” asked the impulsive youth. “No,” replied Miss Cayenne. “I have noticed that after a man has made s present of his heart and hand he be- gins to think about economiszing on candy and flowers.” = - Realism. “I understand Piute Pete is drawing a thousand dollars & week from the|® “He ain't much of & desperado at that; wt!ncxmwuamlctum- ‘when | man to intimidate a manager e e et THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON; D, C., Politics at Home|Urges' Atmosphere o Conferences and Action. ““What is this ‘confer’?” asked a Innocent old lady whose daughtet had been invited to confer with friends about = matter of neighborhood con- cern. 1 “Why, simply to come together talk things over.” “Oh, that will suit her exactly! She is the greatest talker you ever heard in your life! She can confer!"” ‘The republican leaders on Capitol Hill are advised to meet and confer about the state of the congressional card. Nothing like a halt has been reached, but the going is slow and heavy and the way a little dark. But there must be more done than meeting and talking things over. Among the men mentioned are some great talkers. All can confer, All have been conferring for some time, and in that time discussed every problem now in hand for sclution. True, every one of the problems is difficult. ' Not one is easy of solution. Not one should be solved in & spirit of impatience or exasperation. Much depends on how even the least diff- cult of them is solved. The President has been assisting with good counsel. He has conferred with all who have asked audience, and even arranged meetings for those charged with legislative responsibili- ties. He has done, and is still doing, his full share toward producing the legislation the country needs and ex- pects. ‘There is a time for conferences, and a time for action. The time for action on Capitol Hill is almost due. and An Unheralded Comet. A German astronomer announces that the earth passed through the tail of a comet August 8, and it is recalled that on the evening of that day ob- servers on the Pacific coast noted a remarkably bright object in the west- ern sky just after sunset, which was regarded as probably the nucleus of a comet. Thus both German and Amer- fcan observation coincides—a novelty for a number of years. But what becomes of public lay faith in the prescience of the astronomers, who are supposed to be able to know just when a comet is coming and how ear we approach it, and what it will 0 in its journey around the sun and back into the great void? No forecasts had been made of the approach of a comet. Nothing was hinted about a bit of a comet bath for the earth. Per- haps it was just as well, for some nervous people may have been wor- ried by the possibility of breathing comet dust. That celebrated Wells fiction would have been recalled. ‘Well, the bright spot has gone, it would seem, and nobody has been hurt, unless it is astronomical prestige. The unlearned public would be glad to have the scientists who sit in the big white domes and squint into the stellar spaces keep it posted upon comets, or else acknowledge that comets are un- guessable and erratic and are not to be scheduled or announced. If comets are to be put into the relativity class of the unknowable well and good, but those who do not know a nebula from a double star would be grateful for the assurance. Eyes on America. The plans and proceedings of the present Congress have aroused a wide interest. We have really the world larly those published in Europe, are carrying liberal reports to our pro- Jected national legislation, and com- menting on them with every show of concern, if not always with correct understanding. ¢ Americans who visit Europe return with accounts of experiences which testify to the close attention being paid there by all the reading classes, and especially the business classes, to what is in progress on Capitol Hill. They are full of questions about American ideas of business rehabllita- tions, and what should be done in this country and elsewhere looking to the restoration of normalcy in the world and a return to prosperity. . WIill this serve as & spur, & chal- lenge, to our lawmakers? Will the fact|: that the eyes of the world are on them, and that the world is building ([somewhat on their propositions, dis- cussions end conclusions improve the quality of their output? It may, and, indeed, it should. We are coming into closer contact with foreign 'business interests than ever before, and the greater the impression for businéss capacity we make on them the bettér it will be for us. American leadership in world trade is our design and‘desire, &nd now is the time for laying the foundations. B ‘The instruction of youth is most im- portant. It is impossible to say that any age is too early for impressions that may exercise influence on later thought. Senator Borah's political ad- dress at Asbury Park, when the fa. for gallery. ] Forelgn newspapers, and particu- mous resort was holding its annualj: feeling hers, - there and everywhere e world. is found in trade :’:’;Z'?f.' :zhhmh show a good market and a and other baby parade, may exert & powerful peychological influence on pudlic opin- fon of the future. 5 B Enormous salaries paid to motion picture stars have not preverited the accumulstion of enough corporation capital to excite the.interest of the federal authorities. : ——— A limitation of armament is régard- 4d as necessary when the taxpayers of the world have ‘about reached the limit of their capacity - for bu munitions. 3 —_————————— In spite of the mild and benevolent qualities attributed to the Xu-Klux Kian there is no escaping an impres- sion that it becomes ugly when it is vexed. ; t —— The statute of limitations may pos- American_businest ment of Commerae, ating clations of American business men to ennuu:ue me here. co! . gaf.:etot.ho friendly feeling from as- sociation with the people of the United' sults in closer :-e fory * drudgery ‘com] ocountries. D i re It is gratifying to jcan manufacturer in all oAtm;;od. to notice in the officia) re- the artm that traveling equipment, for it indicates that more people are coming here to buy, to look us over, and to feel ever St i et o len an gettin Enoa. that can be produced under a man| SEPTEMBER 4, 1921—PART Faith |Heard and Seen o ' For November Arms Parley BY THOMAS R, MARSHALL, ~ Former Vice President of the United States, DO not know enough about the aura—which is said to sur- round people, although invis- ible to the mortal eye—to be- lleve in it, but I am morally cer- tain that many events in human life have come to pass very largely by reason of the circumamblient " atmosphere. Defendants whom I believed to be guilty have been ac- quitted because of the sympathy for their families which pervaded the courtroom. And In one instance I thought a man was fllegally, al- though not immorally, convicted ‘because the jaws of the spectators dropped blood and encompassed the Jury with a red atmosphere. Many well conceived plans have proved abortive because the persons en- gaged in their consideration have dragged them from the atmosphere of the present and injected them into the poisoned air of past ex- periences, past opinions and past prejudices. To win accomplish- ment it is needful that one have an open mind, a charitable judg- ment and a prayerful expectation. There are many of us who still regret the outcome of the consider- ation of the treaty of peace made at Versailles. It is well for us to remember, however, that what has been written has been written, and that thus far In human existence no plan has yet been devised to turn the wheel by the water which has passed over it. To survive, hu- manity must turn its face to the future, not to the past. It must ‘bring, of course, all that is helpful out of the past, but it should retain mnothing that is calculated to dwarf high ideals. * % x President Harding has spoken the sentiments of his own heart and expressed the wishes of the American people in calling a con- ference of the leading powers to consider the question of disarma- ment. I shall not say that the con- ference will be valueless if it ac- complishes nothing, but T do say it will be depressing, If not heart- breaking, should fallure result. T write this article in the hope that it may contribute a little to the creation of the right atmosphere in which to hold the meeting. We have no right to urge this confer- ence and then delberately to sur- round it with an atmosphere of doubt, suspicion, distrust—an at- mosphere which will make the ob- Ject of the conference futile from its very inception. I am well aware that a burned child dreads fire, that experience is the safest lamp by which to guide our feet, but there are times when we must forget fire, throw away our lamps and walk by faith. The world learned in the great ‘war, if it did not theretofore know it, that secret diplomacy and na- tional ambition were the prime causes international warfare. Mankind had been taught to be- lieve that diplomacy was not only a game of chancé. but a game in which marked cards were used. Tt therefore hailed with delight the doctrine of President Wilson that international agreements should be entered into openly, that all cards should be laid face up on the table for the examination of all the players. * % %% Senator Borah has long been a consistent advocate of open execu- tive sessions of the Unitefl States Senate. I was, myself, in hearty accord with his views, and had the question ever come to a tie vote while I was presiding over the Senate I would have voted for opening the doors. But I realized that there were two sides to this question. I observed its duality during the progress of the debate upon the peace treaty. Private opinion is usually the downfall of a man and frequently of a party or a nation. When once an opinion is quoted in the press, it is an almost impossible task to persuade the author of it to recede. An intimation of selfish purpoges on the part of a forelgn power made in open executive session might widen instead of lessen the gult of difference between that nation and ourselves. The same in- timation made in closed executive session might be understood sim- ply as an inquiry, & suggestion carrying with it no reflection. Much may be said both for and against either the “open door” policy or the “closed door”. It is not my purpose to advocate the one or the other with reference to the coming conference. I have, I hope, & better object in view than mere method of procedure. * ¥ % ¥ Already I note mutterings ex- pressive of the apprehension, if not of the opinion, that the same old diplomatic gims will enter into the conference, that the same old diplomats with the same old deck of greasy cards will sit down at the table. Expressions of opinions like these are calculated meas- urably to forestall the delibera- tions of the conference, to open it in a thunderstorm. The American people have desired this confer- ence with all their hearts. If Ahey thought that no mew light had been shed upon diplomacy by the flames of the great war, if they believed that this conference was to be another nineteenth century affair, if they thought that the shrewdest card shark was to win the game, if they believed that there was no genuineness in the desire of the great powers to pro- mote peace, limit armament and reconstruct the world, they would have said to President Harding, “Don’t bother about this No good will come of it. nations of the world are self-cen- tered, dishonest; they are only abiding an opportune time to con- quer each other.” * % % % 1f such had been their thoughts and belief the American people " would have kept coldly silent upon the subject of armament and would have, met patiently the ex- penses of getting ready for the next war. But optimism and faith abounded. We warmly supported President Harding in his call for the conference. We cared not the slightest what we thought in the past was the way best to go about the accomplishment of this purpose. This was the only way that now led toward the fulfill- ment of our hopes. Having joy- fully accepted it, are we going to put in our time in discussing the thousand and one ways in which it is likely to be a failure and there- by create such an atmosphere as must inevitably result in faflure? If there are no honest men in the seats of the mighty impressed with the absolute certainty of world bankruptcy and the destruc- tion of all civilization ynless the expenses of getting ready for war, waging war and of compensating the losses of war are lessened, then the world is in a sorry state indeed. For myself I do not ques- tion the attitude of the men who control the destinies of the great nations of the world. The late war may not have disclosed a clean heart, but its conclusion revealed a cleaned pocketbook. No one is going to sit down at the table in Washington who does not know that something must be done or that something worse than any- thing vet will happen. The rep- resentatives of any nation cannot be measureably certain that this something may not happen to their people. Our country is in better shape to continue old war programs than any other nation on earth. If we desire limitation of armament why should we sus. pect that nations worse off finan- cially than ourselves are not com- > ing honestly to this conference? % k% }A! us At least get this into our heads: That eonditions are almost as bad as they possibly can be, and that nothing that the conference may do can make them worse. Let us inject into the atmosphere sur- rounding the conference our be- lief that the men chosen by the President to represent America are honest men, sincerely desirous of accomplishing justly the objects of the meeting. Let us not cast discredit upon them in the eyes of foreign nations by ecriticism of their character, ability or purpose. Let the world know that America is entering this conference with clean hands, pure hearts and lips that speak no guile. The open or closed session is really of moment only as it may affect our relations with other na- tions. The resuit of the confer- ence can be put into effect only by the Congress of the United States and before the Congress acts, it will of right request full information not only as to what was dome, but as to facts and arguments upon which conclusions were based. * % * x The great master and teacher of mankind put it upon record for our instruction: “Except ye be- come as little children ye cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven.” We preach, we pray for world demogracy. May I reverently para- phrase the Scriptures: “Except ye become as little children ye can- not enter into the kingdom of democracy.” A great step is about to be attempted toward entering into that kingdom. Let us have a childlike faith and confidence that we shall enter in—well assured that our Congréss will see to it that we have entered in and not peen taken in. (Copyright, 1921, by Thomas R. Marshall.) World Says, “Let’s Pack and Go” The world wants to g0 travellng— wants to pack up its troubles, as the Unitas Btates soldiery sang it, and to see especially America, the land of great deeds and opporutnity. An indication of this migratory lively trade in trunks, bags 1 urtenances. traveling appurtenances. . and the Depart- ‘which is co-oper- as never before with the asso- It is a- part of he people of other coun- na he They want them which inevitably re- trade relations. They ant them to get the picture of et roms the. Bweatshion and T t from the sweal D &n r and squalor in States, lines ent of Commerce fo! are buylng more reigne: are trading best itarian system. U More directly the trunk manufac- turers are doi business and ‘| prepating- to new . markets. report . from 3 t world matket shows this trend, one ba #how no popular.advantage in burning. ammunition in = manner 1o interrupt and high-priced steamer and ward- robe trunks. The demand at present is supplied chiefly by twenty domestic manufac- turers, and to some extent by Ger- This latter country is able to offer its products at very favo: able prices owing to the lower e: change rate of the mark. As Secre- tary Hoover pointed out, however, Germany is experiencing great diffi- culty in all lines in making good on deliveries. England is also supply- ing trunks in the Netherlands market. Those who have studled the situation, however, feel that the manufacturers in the United States can readlly succeed in competition against those already in the market. Frequent inquiries have been made for American Steamer and wardrobe trunks, especially with black, plain or vuleanized fiber covering, round brass edges and snap ‘locks American manufacturers are advised that there is a fair market assured if, the ‘prices are not too high. Vice - Consul Nabel also advises that suit cases, hafid satchels and traveling bags are imported’chiefly from Germany and to a small extent from England. The vareity of these articles on display in the shops of Amsterdam prices are rather attractive. Sult cases have become rather popular in the Netherlands, and- there is an in- dressing demand for the cheap and medium qualities made of fiber and cowhide. The high dollar cxchu‘:: rate has been detrimental to general promotion of American trade and to|cal the introduction of new American articles, but the un{tus;h rate has hecote more favorable. important t to be borne h lm‘“r‘ll‘; through- re is an unusual indicates wl contemplate trynks, | pesky bugs. FIFTY YEARS AGO IN THE STAR placing himself in the ranks of the| wnen Pennsylvania avenue was nature fakers, with his latest Potato| . ved it was thought that the streets bug story. would be thenceforward While on his farm in southern Tili- - Sweeping kept clean, but troubles nols this summer, Farmer Chance i R e found the potatoes bothered with the| Streets. ;.. ¢oiiowing in The Star of August 28, 1871: There were colonies of potatos bugs| wryoge persons charged with that on every plant. They infested the Tows, swarmed up and down the|duty do not seem to have yet com- plants, cavorted over the flelds and |prehended the true theory of sweep- generally monopolized the landscape. |ing the strects paved with wood. east, that is the way the situa- tion appealed to the postmaster on|Of COUTrse, the attempt to sweep them vacation. So he went out to deal with | Without sprinkling at all was little ;he ituation. He found an old neigh-|Letter than mischievous idiocy. But or standing in a fleld. the trouble now is that the sweeping “What does a fellow do t po- tatoe paer o fellow do about Po-| lows the sprinkling too closely. deposit is “Well, neighbor,” replied the old|The result is that th farmer, “jes’ take a plece of brush|formed into a sticky paste, which is and thrash through the rows, and the [to a great extent spread over the tatie bugs will all go west.’ street surface by the coarse brooms, Now this is the way Postmasterito be dried up and blown about next Chance continues the narrative: |day, instead of being swept in heaps ‘So I got me a piece of brush, and\or ridges and carried off by the carts. began fanning my way down the rows.|Yvhat should be done is to sprinkie And, sure enough. the potatoe bugs|the streets between 5 and 7 o'clock G5Sve, ‘Svery ask ‘e of them down|imgths SySnISE 80d commence Sweep- to the rows to the west. No, they e = * never came back, either. - - * * Bald heads appeared to be in style Maj. Willlam u‘_ I‘(_ln‘, agricultural |AftY Years ago, it the following para- journalist, who retired last year greph in The Star of from the Department of Agriculture |Bald Heads Ausust 29, 1571, is to be after long service therein, s ons of| i Style. taken S e Eulfle: the youngest elighty-nine-year-old ‘A letter from = fash- men in the world ionable summer resort says: ‘The It was not so long ago that Maj, |YOURN8 man is scarcely considered King took up cigarete smoking, just|€ligible unless he has lost his hair, to have something to do, and he says| this being received as an almost in- IR bt does not seem to hurt him |dispensable evidence that he has complexion and youthful gait he is|"a¥® moved in the best soclety. right Here's consistency for you. While How do you manage to keep s0/masculine beauty draws by a single young™ ‘I asked ‘mad refi;.fi oit e i e "% ©B &|nair, if this writer is to be belleved, come from long-living an-|feminine attractions seem to center in cestors,” he said. 1 of his people|the capillary adornments, and, not lived to what is known as a ripe old [content with the natural article, the age. vegetable and mineral kingdoms have Survey of Maj. King’s habits do|been ransacked for substitutes. The not reveal anything unusual. He|Writer fails to explain in what man- eats what most people eat. not ad.|ner society causes the baldness of hering particularly to the spare dlet|young men. This is an essential advocated by the famous centenarian |Point. Hitherto the only class in Cornaro. America who have been chlr’ed with Maj. King was for many years an | #natching a man baldheaded’ are tha employe of the old bureau of crop|aborigines, but it is hardly possible estimates, where he kept up to date |that their barbarous system has been is unusually large and|th the bureau's data on a variety of subjects. If any one wanted the very latest opinions as to boll weevil reduction, for Instance, Maj. King was the man to see. He had It * * X Shakespeare somewhere has a line to the general effect that a good deed, like a bright light sends its cheerful beams through a “naughty world.” It would seem a far cry from Post- master General Hays' “humanizing” policy, as applied to the postal em- ployes, to a discussion of leases sub- mitted to tenants here last week in which the lessees were asked to give up_their phonographs. But the bright light of humanity, as exemplified by Mr .Hays brought the two together, all right. An official of the government was talking about those leases, in which talking machines are classed with dogs, cats and parrots. “What the people who made out those leases need is more of the spirit that moves Mr. Hays, more of the desire to look at the other fellow's side of things,” he said. “They would banish the immortal voice of the great Caruso, singing on, though the singer is no more; the art of the great pianist Rachmaninoff, of Kreisler, the violinist; the wonder- work of Schubert, Beethoven and other masters. . “They need to leéarn that the mod- ern talking machine, properly used, is a true source of true music, and that ‘the man who has no music in his soul is fit for treason, strategems and spoils,’ indeed.” CHARLES E TRACEWELL. adopted by the ‘best soclety.’ " = * * ‘The hotels of Washington had = hard season fifty years ago, according 1 to an article in The Star ‘Hotels of August 30, 1871, and three of them, Willard's, Close. the Kirkwood and the Seaton, closed, and there were rumors that others would follow suit before the winter started. The Star said: “In the very cases where the pro- prietors of Washington hotels are supposed to have oeen successful pecuniarily, we doubt whether their profits on the money invested has been equal at any time since the close of the war to what the same amount would have ylelded if used in almost any ordinary business pursuit. The fact . . . . is not only di couraging to those now in the busi- ness, but it will also deter probably some ambitious persons who have not yet made the experiment in trying to find out whether they know how to keep a hotel. The Seaton house” (the building now occupied by the Central Union Mission) “will be used for gov- ernment offices and may therefore be permanently counted out in an enu- meration of hotels. Whether Wil- lard’s and the Kirkwood will be re- opened before Congress assembles, and whether the others in re; to which rumors are current will be kept open or not remains to be seen. A deficiency in hotel capacity thus cre- ated will probably be partially made up by the opening of one or two minor establishments and the en! ent of one of two others.” DIGEST OF FOREIGN PRESS Why Italy Backs England. France alone among the great powers supports the Poles in the Upper Silesian ‘wrangle. The Tribuna of Rome explains why Italy adopts the English point of view: “The local discord between Germany and Poland has spread into a European discord which opposes British to French policy. If we remember that the mining district, which is the knot of the whole question, is the largest coal reservoir of the whole of Europe, the seriousness of the present conflict is not to be won- dered at. England, and Italy also, wishes to prevent an industrial predomi- nance on the continent, such as the Franco-Polish bloc would represent if it were to break the unity of the mining area in Upper Silesia and thus reduce Germany to a state of absolute indus- trial poverty. France does not hide her- self, for her action is so much bound up with that of the Poles. In the mining district 90 per cent of the capital is Ger- man, only 10 per cent Polish. Polan: without industrial organization would be quite incapable not only of developing the technical organs created for more than a century by Germany, but she could not even make them work finan- cially and technically. Thus France be- hind Poland repeats today or tries to repeat in the industrial domain as well as in the military and strategic domain the attempts of Louis XIV and Napo- leon to create a Franco-Silesian bloc against the Slaves and the Germans.” Kaiser Didn’t “Hooverize.” ‘Emperor Willilam and his court, while exhorting the German people to “hold out” aid some “holding out” on their own account. A book entitled *“Hohen- zollern,” by Kurt Helnig, has just ap- peared in Berlin, and the Berlin Tage- blatt .gives extracts showing how the royal family lived up to the food regu- lations: “The provisions for the court were kept in large kitchens of the old castle in Berlin, which were not in use since the end of the court festivities which the outbreak of war had interrupted. But they were not large enough for the provision of flour, therefore large quan- tities were stored loose in other rooms. For ordinary people it was_ certainly something unusual in November, 1918, to see a whole apartment of several led up with the best iroasion’ thete Biored duanc what an on_these quan- tities of flour and other provisions made on the sailors at the time of the revo- lution. After they had used provision a large number of troops for two months the town of Berlin could still send large quantities of this food to hospitals and such like institutions There were tons of wheat , Tye flour, potato and pea flour, peas, white Dbeans, quantities of rice, sugar, oatmeal, S e e s an 1,305 bottles of cream and pounds of 808D an d “Large quantities remained over ‘whieh ver: not suitable for invalid diet. The town of Berlin would have nothing to do with these luxuries, and they were returned to the court admin- istration. It was an extraordinary of truffies , besides twenty-five bottles of Socics combs, thousands of pounds of salt; 500 glasses of mustard, and such like remained o ver. It is certain that, éven taking into consideration the Iarge numbers that these stores were to provide for, the rations were very ‘plentiful and were not without a comi- side. If we remember that the cooking and table salt for the court, which was mostly at headquarters, from Berlin, the over-or- vision machinery R otharrins. ot interesting. to- point d | phone call was “Has/ to | asked. ‘with this when this wonderful o ganization failed. It was when th court train was fleeing to Holland that the daily courier with fowls, meat and Yegetables stopped, the general con- :llull;n and the of the train ocking the way to kitchen.” 2 e fwas Talks by Wireless While Flying. All the airplanes on the Instone Air Line fiying between London and Paris are now fitted with wireless telephones. Their utility was strik- ingly shown while the City of London Was on its way from Paris to London , BAYS & CO) M;:on A rrespondent of the o machine left Paris at 4:30 p.m. AL 4:35 p.m. one of the passengers, Spe. Growther, asked the pilot to book him a return’seat for today. The pilot immediately rang up the passenger offices at Waddon Aerodrome, Croy- don. Only one seat was available in today's machine flying from London to Paris, and this was booked for Mr. Crowther. Two minutes later an ord: tele- received “m&? aero. drome from a would- London. e s hb!: passenger in ‘ King Albert in an Attic. The King of the Belgians, when visiting Deauville recenti; couple of days incognito. hag e amusing adventure on his arrival, says & correspondent of London Ex- The King, who flew fro; his own airplane, landed Ie" Just outside the town. He was unable for some time to find & conveyence, and finally had to drive to a fashion. able hotel in a disreputable “growle! The hotel clerk who met the king seeing that he wore a Suit and a straw hat tend in in a fleld and hl“ < }:5‘:‘.{’ e‘xcept an attache e m impre d far from tmpressed at the that he had no ‘:uo. was ‘meq 4L the appearance ha rooms vacant. ‘But I must have a room,” said the king. “I am the Comte de Rethy.” The chief of the reception de, ent then came up, and said that he might be able to find & samall room for the count—a species now at a discount on the continent—in th TVAnts' quar- ters on the top floor. The king, who *Co s, Christian officer,” was he solemnly few minutes = +_Drofession, taken to an’abtic, which the hotel. the king arrived y “What king?” The situation was quickly explained, and the king was found in the attic havi; He was immediately install able apartments. & wash. in suit- The Problem of Karl. The question of the future abode of the ex-Emperor Karl is incessantly discussed, but s0 far no definite facts can be given, says the Vi - spondent of &M’I.o 1o Observer. end of this month. Many have mentioned Spain as his future residence, but nothing certain is known. During the last few days Denmark has been spoken of; another rumor mentions Italy. Although cir- cles in touch with Karl's present resi- dence say they have no B of his moving to Italy, the Italian gov- ernment is said to be willing to the ex-emperor a place of refuge I he tees to be loyal According to yet another report, Karl has taken a villa at Vadus, the capital of the little principality of Liechtensteln, situated between Switzerland and Voralberg, the most ustria. If this story has any foundation, it is hardly mxzy that the entente powers would allow the ex-emperor to go there, for in the Tyrol, which borders on Voral- berg, & number of devoted monarch- ists are at work. . grant western province of A ¢ q -