Evening Star Newspaper, September 11, 1921, Page 32

i ¥ 4 i quickly, thanks to the wide streets|will cheerfully agree. Anmtfic}n and the freedom from the heavy traffic |door can make a great deal of arpma. & THE- EVEN 'STAR, 5 B ST .WASHINGTON, D. C. BUNDAY. ... .September' 11, 1931 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor congestions that impede the progress|Fish and cabbage in preparation {ii a] of the fire fighters in other cities. There|single apartment may scent the whole are no overhead electric wires. Condi-|buflding to the distress of all the occu- tions are most favorable for reaching|pants. ' Home-laundered articles “of and fighting fires. If Chief Watson's!clothing hung outside of the windows proposal were carried into effect the[may offend the fastidious taste ‘'of average loss per alarm would probably [ others whose windows face in that be cut down materially, even from the present low point. For with a box in every block the alarm could be rung for any fire in any part of the city in the least possible number of seconds after discovery. The difference of two or three minutes in getting water on a blage may mean the difference of many thousands of dollars in the degree of destruction. In most ‘cases in this city the heaviest loss is caused by water, not by flames. In many instances, how- ever, the fire is extinguished with the use of chemical apparatus, which causes little damage. Every half min- 25¢ | ute saved in the turning in of an alarm ~ increases the opportunity for using The Citizens and the Conference. |this apparatus effectively. Formation of a citizens' committee| The expenditure of $225,000 for a 1o attend to the detalls of provision |thousand more boxes would be one of for the comfort and pleasure of the|the best investments in security the delegates to the-arms conference in| District government could possibly November has been undertaken wisely | Make, and it is to be hoped that this in good season. Washington will be|Propoeal will receive consideration, the host November 11 to a gathering|®VeR though it may not be possible such as never assembled here before. |t0 make the installation in one year. Representatives of five nations will|If 260 new boxes were added annually meet to discuss the question of limita-|Instead of twenty, which has been the tion of armaments, and to endeavor to |Fecent rate of increase, the city would effect a settlement of pending ques-|D® Properly equipped in a few years. tions in the far east which are poten- e tial of international strife. It is esti- The San Antonio Flood. mated that there will be perhaps| The flood at San Antonio, which has 2,000 people directly connected with |cost, it is estimated, 500 lives and a the conference coming here from |property loss mounting into millions, abreoad. In addition there will be many | comes unusually late in the season. It onlookers and observers from this|is exceptional to find.a disaster of country and perhapa from across the|this character coming in September. seas. Beyond the pfiysical accommoda- | The cause was an unprecedented rain- tion of these persons for an undeter-|fall which began Wedneaday night and mined period of possibly several|continued for more than forty-eight months it will be desirable to show |hours, with a total fall of about eight them courtesies and attentions that|inches. The drainage system was un- Wwill render their stay here agreeable|equal to the discharge of this extraor- and memorable. The committee of citi-|dinary volume, and the union of the zens, headed by Commissioner Rudolph, | waters of creeks tributary to the San will have in Sharge the provision of | Antonio river caused an overflowing such means @ entertainment as may |of the banks with a suddenness that be provided beyond the official affairs| prevented the escape of great num- that will undoubtedly be arranged. bers. ‘Washington is & remarkable city| In an emergency of this kind the ‘which impresses every beholder deep-|country always stands ready to render ly. It has an exceptional array of at-{giq. There is as yet no definite call tractions. Its equipment of public|for assistance, and relief works may buildings is not equaled in any other |pnot be necessary, though when a com- capital. Its setting In a series of|mynity the size of San Antonio is spacious parks with a splendid sweep | giricken it is hard for it to attend at of water front has no equal. Its wide|gnce to its own wants. Fortunately, streets, its impressive vistas, its great | tnere is little danger of extreme cold number of trees, its sense of space and | in that locality, and the homeless suf- freedom all contribute to an atmos-|ferers are not likely to be exposed to phere of true capitallike placidity. severe weather, as would be the case The people of the District have en-|in g more northerly city. tertained notable guests in great num-| qyere is no known way to prevent bers in the past, and are well equipped | these disasters. When a dam breaks by experience to discharge the duty|ayit may be 1aid at the doors of the that will be put upon them by the com-| engineers who bullt it or the authori- ing of the arms conference. Though|ties who maintained it. When the not a wealthy city, the capital has al-| ;jouds open, however, and let down waye pravided sufficiently for such|scn enormous volumes of water as. purposes, and it is not to be doubted} e in the San Antonio district for two that if means are needed now they will days and nights, no works of man can be forthcoming to assure that the dele- | proyent disaster. And in a situation of gates and their attendants will have|ynis kind those who dwell within the as full a program of entertainment @s|,;ne of danger are loath to leave their their duties permit. .|nomes, hoping constantly for sub- sidence of the waters. Sometimes they Training School Escapes. have no chance to flee, for the flood There is evidently something wrong|comes with an unheralded rush. It is at the National Training School for|stated that the greater part of the de- Girls, from which twenty-three in-|struction at San Antonio occurred in mates have escaped within two|the Mexican section of the city, from months. These escapes have been in|which escape was made difficult by the three lots, and in each case there was|overflowing of the banks of a creek. evidence of organization and possibly | Probably the houses in that section some aid from outside. In one in-{were of a less substantial character stance there was no @oubt that aid was|and went down readily when the flood given from beyondrthe walls. The con- reached them. ditions at the institution should be given especial scrutiny by the board of charities and the Commissioners. If the accommodations are not sufficient other arrangements must be made for the care of the inmates. If the dis- cipline is lax changes should be effect. ed. If there is mischievous interfer- ence with the administration of the school that harmful factor should be checked. This institution is a train- ing school, not merely a “reform -school.” The girls sent there are held as students rather than as prisoners, but it is necessary to keep them under restraint. Some of them are under sentence for misconduct. If the condi- tions are such as to make them want to escape, even at the risk of physical injury, evidently the school is not !nl-“"“ of official maximums of ninety- four to ninety-six degrees and corre- filling its proper function in the best! manner. If it is impossible to conduct | SPondingly hot nights. July was about the institution upon the basis of a|2s bad a month as has ever been school for all of the inmates there|known here. But there was relief and should be & separation Into classes and |TesPite .in early August, and during| the removal to another environment |that period the city was & delightful of those who are obdurate and undis- place in which to live. Then came the ciplined. To keep such as these in the late August and early September burst same establishment with girls who are{°f heat that made those returning from sincerely endeavoring to improve vacations sigh for the seashore and themselves is to harm the latter |the mountains and the lakes and the . The thre n farms they had left. Fortunate, in- tmhmus‘::::heoxdmmple ,.,: m:;:::‘: deed, has been the Washingtonian who symptom that requires careful study. l;!;ul; :’I:M to return the middle of B 2 ‘Weather pessimists are prone to pre- The confused impressions left bY; 04 g early fall and & severe winter. sovietism may leave historians inl,, . always happens after & hot sum- doubt as to whether it belongs to the mer, for these observers feel that na- cubist or futurist school of politics. ture is sure'to make her compensating e e e balance immediately. As & matter of Food expeditions to Russia may befe ot g milq winter frequently follows regarded as proof that America is not|, poe gummer, and it is by no means tsclated. assured on the acore of the heat of July and early August and September that October will be raw and chill, and that snow will fly at Thanksgiving, and that the Potomac will freeze in December. The truth of the matter is that this, as Lord Dundreary said, is one of those things that “‘no fellow can find out,” not even a meteorologist. [ — The bulls and the bears in Wall street a common enemy in the wild cat of the oil flelds. [ a——— In some instances what is referred to as a “crime wave” looks like a prolonged freshet. B The Anti-Jazs Lease. That new form of lease for apart- iments- in Washington that has been proposed on the basis of freedom from noise and odors and other nuisances will not be popular with tenants. No parrots, no dogs, no cats, no grapho- phones or phonographs, no “washifig hanging outside” and no open doors from the Kitcheas into the inain halls. First Nat hm Ball 3 : 3 Regent 8t., Leadon, ‘The Evening Star, with the Sunday morsing edition, is delivered by earriers within the eity at 60 cents per month; daily M,.Gmhg Gers ey e seat by i, o¢ ‘wiephone Mata or 5000. Collection fs made by carriers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance, v Maryland and Virginia. yr., $8.40; 1 mo., a‘g Summer Nearly Over. ‘Weather bureau reports indicate the end of summer. Freezing tempera- tures have occurred in Montana and ‘Wyoming, and the cool wave is mov- ing eastward at a rate that it is ex- pected will cause a decided drop in temperature here next week. After the 15th of the month there is little likeli- hood of a recurrence of hot days, and s0 if this western wave materializes it may be assumed that this is about the end of the season. It has been a hot summer in this city, though no hotter here than else- where. There have been. days of al- most unbearable heat, days following A large circle of admirers insist that Elihu Root is never too old to teach. More Fire Alarm Boxes. Fire Chief Watson is in favor of the fmmediate -establishment of at .least 1,000 more fire alarm boxes, an in- crease of more than 100 per cent, in- asmuch as there are 714 boxes in serv- jce. This will put a box “in nearly every block of the city-and practically * all of the public institutions. It will cost about $225,000. That it would re- duce the fire losses in the course of a _few years by this amount of money is to be believed; in other words, that this expenditure would be & profitable investment. . ‘Washington is now noted as the city of only small fires. It has very few blazes that cost $50,000, and only rare- 1y does the loss in @ single fire reach. $100,000. This is not merely: because there are few concentrations-of. great value, but it is primarily because fires da-uot _get big starts. The fire appara-, -us can get to the scene of a blame ;. ~ !'omotth'utfln-v_-lnt—lt bim to marry me. rection. Barking dogs and squawking, parrots and yowling cats can prevent sleep Wwithin a wide radius, And es for the jazz strains of the music machines, they are often most distressing‘ both to the unmusical and to those who bave a cultivated ear. But does apart- ment house life have to be jazzless and dogless and catless? Must all the pleasures of existence be surrendered upon adoption of the cubicle system of living? Are apartment houses to be divided into two classes, those with and those without music machines and all the other noisemakers? It is to be noted that in this case that has been cited in The Star no mention is made of children. 8o the jaszless apartment is not to be altogether noiseless. A small child can make as much noise as half a dozen music machines or as many dogs and cats and parrots. Al- ready some apartment rules bar chil- dren, and the predicament of the parent-tenant who likes animals and canned music and who has distaste for abandonment of his offspring is a rather hard one. Perhaps the rent commission may have a view on this question of the reasonableness of anti- jazz clauses in the leases. The exten- slon of its life until the 22d of May will give it an opportunity to review these stipulations that are mow con- fronting tenants. i French speculators, who are sending back American supplies left in France and underselling the United States market, are doing a great deal to damage Uncle Sam’s European repu- tation for financial shrewdness. $ A state of peaceful understanding S0 complete as to make conferences from time to time unnecessary is be- yond reasonable expectation. Nor, in view of the monotony that would re- sult, is it to be desired. i Protest by the veteran labor leader that he does not seek to put labor be- fore other patriotic elements of citi- zenship should avert the possibility of a Pershing-Gompers controversy as to who won the war. i Prohibition enforcement might have more funds to work with if John Bar- leycorn had not succeeded in. estab- lishing himself as the champion tax- dodger. } The only serious threat attributed to some of the ostentatiously picturesque secret societies is that of being dropped from membership for non-payment of dues. l ‘Trotsky made the mistake of assum- ing that so long as his books provided food for thought ordinary hunger ‘would not matter. i ‘The coming conference will agsist the nations of the world in becdming/ acquainted, which, of itself, sh promote peace. % l Germany is now endeavoring _to give the world a demonstratién of! practical industry instead of theoreti- cal efficiency. ¢ l In the course of time the native citizens of Yap will be duly grateful to, the men of today who ‘have put Yap on the map. Ty e Trotsky may yet be numbered. among the agitators who frankly ad- mit they are sorry they ever left America. f Mexico has - decided that -the oft driller is a more valuable citizen than the guerrilla sharpshooter. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. - The Monument. The monument, to greatness raised, By critics blamed or faintly praised, Stands in the sunlight and the storm A stalwart solitary form; Unheeding, as the throng draws near, To sound a sentiment or sneer, It stands a message to convey To minds'sincere that pass that way. Thus in his life that man’ appeared To whom the monument was reared. Selective Processes. “Of course you think the majority should rule?” 2 “I do,” replied Senator Sorghum. “But I am a little particulan about the sélection of the forceful minds that exercise the dominating influence in the majority.” . Jud Tunkins says it's too bad youth- ful enthusiasm can't last. When he ‘was a boy he thought maybe he'd grow up to be President, but now he’s satis- fied if he avoids voting on the losing side of a town election. . An Altruism. % Some day we'll be so good and kind, And perspicacious and refined, That citles, as crime takes g drop, ‘Won't even need a traffic cop. aged with intelligence. I'd be plessed to have you for a guest all winter, but if you make your mind up serious that you want a train for home you take my advice and do your waitin’ in the depot and not on this front porch.” you refuse to voté for such & man?™ “1f I were sure of the existencs of{ him. T'd wait til leap yesr and.daki % R, h0R Politics at Home|Getting Back to “Normalcy” |Heard and Seen Matter of Peace Patriotism . The MoAdoo Boom. Among the cognoscenti—if that word will go in politics—Mr. McAdoo is re- garded as an entrant in the race for Q‘vmmuwmmmm ination. Several straws show the direction of| the wind. (1) The organfring at ‘this early day of a McAdoo Club in Mis- sourl. (2) Introducing him as a critic of the Harding administration in the Senate discussion of the railroad prob- lem. (3) And a manifestation of inter- est by him in the Boy Scouts. He re- cently played in a scout base ball game before the camera, and played 80 awkwardly his compliment to the boys in playing at all was emphasized. Mr. McAdoo made a' remarkable showing at San Francisco. He was the only man who gave Gov. Cox a real run for his money. The others were merely “also rans.” But the New Yorker, from the fall of the flag, was close up, and finished a stirring ‘sec- ond. He and Gov. Cox made a horse race of it. ‘We have to consider, however, that in that contest Mr. McAdoo had the support of all but a fraction of the na- tional administration. The Depart- ment of Justice naturally gave its support to Attorney General Palmer.|. All the other departments, with the Treasury at their head, gave their voices for Mr. Wilson’s son-in-law. This, of course, cannot be repeated. In 1924 the national administration will be of republican complexion. Mr. McAdoo will have to look elsewhere for “pull” and votes. He is still strong in the money cen- ters. His management of the Treas- ufy Department met with approval in €nose quarters; and favor there is not, as a rule, fickle. But he is not, as Gov. Cox is, strong in wet circles. He is rated there as a dry, and his appeal, to be successful, will have to be adroit. —_————— Elihu Root. Mr. Root is seventy-six, and declares that he is an old man entitled to re- pose. The country will not have it so. Work is still found for him, and he is assigned to it. Whenever large and difficult questions arise and opinions in eminent quarters are sought he is asked for his, and when he gives it the public marks and digests it. Even when it does not prevall, it never fails to add by {its force to the zest of the discussion. Theodore Roosevelt, who knew him well from both personal and official relations, said of Mr. Root that he was the best qualified man for public busi- ness he had ever met. The praise was high, because spoken when Mr. Roose- velt, after years spent in the public service, had reached the presidency of the United States. Let us try Mr. Root by this appraise- ‘ment in the situation that exists today. He would fit perfectly into any one of several cabinet places. Having served with distinction in both the State and the War departments, he could fll either post at present with equal ac- ceptability. Having as legal adviser had to do for years with large finan- cial affairs, he would make a great Secretary of the Treasury, and as the recognized leader of the American bar he would make a great Attorney Gen- eral. May it not be said, too, with perfect safety that he would make a great President of the United States? He has the grasp of affairs that goes with the office, and an executive faculty that would insure prompt dispatch of all White House business. ‘But he has missed the chief prize. Strong in so many particulars, he has lacked the “combination” necessary in national conventions when contending ambitions have produced a deadlock, and all sides of @ man entered into consideration in coninection with a suc- cessful popular appeal to the coun- try. ————— Harrison of Mississippi. “Keep your eye,” suggest the poli- ticians in the know, ‘“on the junior senator from Mississippi.” The Hon. Pat Harrison is one of the young members of the Senate. He has just turned forty. ‘‘He made his Jack” in the House, where for several terms he disfjlayed industry, shrewd- ness and audscity—three necessary qualities in politics. Promotion came in’ the form of his present office. He defeated Mr. Vardaman, at one time the niost’ popular man in the Bayou state. 1In the Senate Mr. Harrison has come rapidly to the front. Not an orator, in the accepted sense of the word, he is yet a ready and effective speaker, ‘which is more, in the general run of political activity. He catches and holds & crowd with ease, and secures with equal ease attention in the Sen- ate, s : Last year Mr. Harrison was prom- inent at San Francisco. Originally & McAdoo boomer, he turned to Gov. ‘Cox when Mr. M¢Adoo announced that he was not a candidate for the presi- dency, and was one of the Ohio man’s most successful workers in the con- vention. He contributed largely to- ward putting the Buckeye over. This year Mr. Harrison is his party’s star stumper in the senatorial contest in New Mexico, and if the party wins will be accorded much of the credit for the victory. ° Mr. Harrison does-not, and will not, own account. The democracy does not 80 south for its supreme leadership. But as he stands.very near to demo- 2ot S L O T L L T a2 DL S B LI LB LI, S L AL A B BY THOMAS R. MARSHALL, Former Viee President of the United States, HEN President Harding, . as a candidate, used the word “normalcy” for S normality, it was gen- erally thought that he had coined the word in order to sttract public attention, which is so desirable in & campaign. It served its purpose well as a catchword. Others than the candidate talked of ‘our return to mormalcy. 8ix months of the new adminis- tration have come and‘ gone. The campaign catchword which car- ried with it an intimation of what _ the legislative program of the ad- ministration would be is heard only infrequently. Now and then. it Sounds in our ears as an echo of the campaign, as a reminder of the implied relief that was to come. Abnormality, a condition that had been created by the stress and ne- cessities of war time, was to dis- appear fro) - return to a state of “normalcy.” Oil was to be poured upon . the angry sea of public life, and a great calm was to encompass the :2l e;'w.?la. Fair skies and un- 'g‘l’_‘ Mt e:'-'&er:'.m come to pass months have and'up to this good hour (hinEs are R SO * % x % sume that it is quite natural in a 1and where the people rule and ‘where their will is expressed through the success of political parties that the party in power should be opposed by the repre- sentatives of the party out of power. I am myself somewhat a partisan. I do not know that it is to my special credit to have al- ways been with the democratic party whether it happened to be right or wrong, but I doubt whether as good government can be given to the people by every man going his own way as is given to them by party solidarity and a yielding of individual opinions to the com- bined wisdom of party leaders. The point where a man is justified in breaking with his party is when his conscience convinces him that party purposes are corrupt or d tinctly inimical to the best inte ests of the whole people. To refus to break with his party under those circumstances would be to stultify man’ For six months now the repub- lican party has been declaring that Wwhen it once agrees upon its leg- islation all will be well with the republic. For a like period the democratic organization has been declaring that the proposed legis- lation was unwise and would lead to still further abnormality. The republicans have charged the democrats with being blameworthy for present conaitions. Denying the charge, democrats have taunt- ed their accusers by asking them why they did not do something to bring about amelioration. And so we go battle-cock and shuttle- dore. Meanwhile the spirit of dis- content and dissatisfaction among the people is just as pronounced . aa ever, : * % Xk I hope that my conduct and my opinion will- enable me to retain my membership in the democratic party. I am desirous of another tussle _with . our opponents next year over control of the legislative program of the country. But * though I should like to have an- other doctor to treat the patient I observe such startling signs of fever in the body politic that I should like if I could to help the present doctor. The democratic party is important to me, but it pales into insignificance in com- parison with the peace, prosperity and contentment of my country. It has seemed to me with ever- increasing certainty that we are looking to the wrong sources for a return to normal conditions. Laws are not automatic. They will not minister to a mind dis- eased. The war period, while it litted us to the very heights of service and sacrifice, also deprived us of walking in the ways of everyday life. We saw visions and we dreamed dreams. Four millions of men were taken from the producing and put into the consuming classes. Every one be- came entitled to as much as any omne else, if not to a little bit more. * k% Men shake their heads over the thirty-three billions of- indemnity that the Germans must pay as a result of their losing. They for- get that before the German peo- ple have paid this indemnity we ourselves will have expended a greater sum as a result of the war. The manufacturer is loathe to reduce the price of his product. The retailer lowers his prices only when he s compelled to. The American. working man resents a cut in his wages and refuses to T o the Editor of The Star: The transfer of South American securities from European to Ameri- can investors as a means of liquidating _any considerable por- tion of Europe’s debt to our country appears to be.a method too tortuous and attended by too many difftulties - to arouse enthusiastic advecacy. _ Obviously, the process wotld be long and slow and would be complicated throughout by rapidly changing - economic conditions with concomitant fluctuations in exchange rates. , B iy "of petHiotiam has, noy the ity o lof n perlnged from the earth, it has been perceptibly anesthetized by ‘post-war conditions and could not be ex to play » very effectual part in the the mettling of any issue involving national and individual' conflicts of terial interests. It can be reason- ably anticipated in the first instance that the individual ‘holder of Sou erican securities in Europe would Toath’ to ‘exchange them for tha of his own government even on a mathematical basis, which would be very difficult if not im ble to caloulate. - The commercial interests of Burope are very desirous of hold- ot :nmpomor nation without advantage which does. that an: 2da a ‘sifigle Nour to his toll, al- beit the German laborer-is work- ing from ten to fourteen hours at any pay he can obtain for his labor. ‘Even the beneficiaries of * the' government are not content with the allowances and the hos- pital treatment they are receiv- ing. ‘ BcHoot teachers and minis- ters of the gospel seem to be the only persons who have returned to & normal condition of life and they,. perhaps, were the only per- sons who did not get out of a nor- mal. condition and so did not have - to take.a backward step. Let us be perfectly frank with ourselves. Let us keep and main- tain our political principles as we will. Let us fume and quarrel and fight over taxation and ex- penditures and rehabilitation as ‘we please. Let us understand that American politics {s- not a pool which the angel troubles at in- frequent periods, but that it is a ceaseless stormy sea. Let us be- lleve that the greatest safeguard of the liberties of a people is the constant and never-ending discus- sion of public questions from every supposable and impossible angle., Let us not resent the attack and the defense and the counter attack in the Congress of the United States. In my opinion, more good * .comes from the information fur- nished to the people through those discussions then comes from the actual enactment of a statute. * % Xk ¥ The question confronting the American people with imperative necessity for a right answer is this: “Have we such faith in our system of government as to belleve that it will endure?” If we have that faith, then it is apparent that it requires of us just as much loyalty and devotion in these pip- ing times of peace as it did in the dread hours of war. Some of us are beginning to realize the necessity of returning to a state or normality. Some of us are con- vinced that if President Harding had the idea tkat the republic was to be brought back to its anclent moorings by anything which offi- claldom could ¢o he was mistaken. On the otrer hand, we are con- vinced that “normalcy” can be achieved by the individual citizen. 1 knew when the war was on that I had not risen to the heights of a consecrated American If I yielded to my own desires when they ran counter to the good of my country or to the interests of nry fellow citizens. I wasted no time in endeavoring to find out whether my neighbor was doing what I thought he should do. I left his conduct to the arbitra- ment of that final court in Ameri- ca—the court of public opinion. I could not square my conduct with my conscience by saying that oth- ers were doing this or ‘that. I could not go to a dreamless sleep without having satisfied myself that before God and*my country- men I had done right that day as I saw the right. * % % % E One of the remarkable things about a free government such as ours is the view that -there are only moments far apart when a man needs to be mindful of his country's welfare. Reformation is of-little moment unless there is a fixed principle of life back of it. 1 know my own limitations so surely thit I have no intention of bécoming a carping critic. As I hdve worked and played this sum- mer I have thought of my own duty. I have become convinced that no mere matter of reforma- tion will do me any good. What I need is regeneration, @ rebirth with each dawning day as a citizen of a representative democracy, a reconsecration in the hour of peace to those ideals of service and sac- rifice which I hope actuated me in ° the hour of peace to those ideals of service and .sacrifice which T hope actuated me in the hour of war. I want to get back to a nor- mal condition of life. I think there will be no peace in the re- public until we all get back. To attain unto that end -service and eacrificc are needed, and love and labor. Let us keep up our politics, but let us not forget our patriotism. Bromo seltzer is for the morning after. Our drunk, in which we spent twenty-five billions of bor- rowed money, is over. We must get to work and.pay for it. Paid it will be, one way or another, but it will be paid more quickly and with a warmef glow at our hearts if we shall realize that la- bor and economy, justice and fair dealing toward our fellow men are as sure signs of patriotism in the hour of peace as the sacrifice of our blood and treasure can_hope to be in the hour of war. When each one of us concludes to get back to “normalcy,” the country Wil become normal, and not until en. ~(Copyright, 1921, by Thomas R. Marshall.) Sees in Limitation of Arms Best Chance to Collect Debt of our debtor nations are so sensible of their obligations to us and are 80 enslaved by their desire to meet it_that they would make a serious effort to pay by vacating to us the control of a field of investment in which they see much of the security of their future. The vision of Americe’s magnanimity - has been lost in the fog of confusion, created by |reciprocal suspicions, struggl for advantage, and jealousies follow- ing the war. Our allies evidently feel 'that we are in a moral sense equal beneficiaries with them of the common victory wrought by a com- mon effort, and that whatever we may lose in money will be offset by their superior loss in blood and other hardships which we That view of the obligation regard- less of justification will play a con- scious f not a visible part in the solu- tion of the lem. will ‘make it easily. possible nations :o. 2 at nine times “more problm' than we es |of all sorts of Bts - con- ference inning on November. 11, | offers:the clearest b and op- zmfll’. and the r the speediest, most pi r .and most permanent solution of all.inter- national problems, economic - and moral: A ‘mne limitation of ‘arma- men Mrs., Clara Sears Taylor, woman member of the District Rent Commis- sion, does not often get excited in her official role as commissioner. But when she does. the unlucky party who merits her wrath realizes that he is “In wrong,” as the saying is. Recently, it seems, & local agent drew up a lease prohibiting children in an apartment house under his con- trol. A child being born in a certain apartment, he took the matter to the rent commission. He was quite in- dignant about it, too. 3 All the commissioners were there, including Mrs. Taylor, who seemed as calm as the two man members of the} rent body. But the mother-heart never sleeps, and that agent soon found it out. “Why, would you beleve it?” he asked, indignantly. “These people had a child, and never even apologized.” And right there was where he made his big mistake. * * Perhaps the largest single office room in Washington is the room into which Gen. John J. Pershing recently moved as chief of staff. It is the historic office used by a long succession of Secretaries of the Navy. Josephus Daniels was the last to occupy it, Secretary Denby never having used the old office, but moving into the new one in the New Navy building. Gen. Pershing’s quarters are im- mense, big in every sense, as befits a big man. Perhaps the first impression a visitor gets when meeting Gen. Pershing for the first time in that large office is that of bigness. The room is big, but so is Gen. Pershing. When one has been used to seeing the man who headed the American Expeditionary Force only on horseback or in photographs, he does not vision him as a particularly tall man. As a matter of fact, Gen. Pershing is both tall and broad-shouldered, a big man in every way, as befits a sol- dier. The room is immense, but it does not dwarf Gen. Pershing. The second impression the visitor gets is that of kindliness. Gen. Persh- ing fits easily and well into an office chair, seemingly as well as he does on a horse. The grimness depicted on his face in most photographs and paintings is strangely gone in that office. He gives the impression of a big man, an essentially kind man. * o It seems generally expected among local Army officers that an order will go out shortly either standardizing all officers’ apparel and equipment or en- forcing strictly the already estab- lished regulations. Ever since the order went out mak- ing regulation the Sam Browne belt, officers have been afraid to invest in new caps, leggins, etc. Young officers with somewhat worn caps want to spruce up for the fall, but they are holding onto the old hats until that order comes out. = * x Amid a round of more serious du- ties, the writer has had the pleasure, during the past few years, of first making known to the people of ‘Washington the arrival of many new animals at the National Zoological Park. Looking back over the list, he finds that he h:l been the unofficial public- ity man for the following: 1 Orang-utan. 1 Sea Cow. 2 Hippopotami. 6 Bear Cubs. - 4 Tiger Cubs. Supt. Hollister of the Zoo is quite proud of his charges, especially the new urlvau.nmd he has a right to They are fine animals. ™~ CyHARLEB E. TRA! FIFTY YEARS AGO ~IN THE STAR Karl Marx, leader of the Interna- tional Soclety, died in London on the 5th of September, Internationals’ 1871 The Star the Leader Dead next day comment- ed upon bis life work and his influence as a radical in & manner that is of interest at this time when Marx's doctrines are on trial in Russia, and many of the vio- lent remedies he proposed have been applied there and attemptea in ot countrfes: “Yesterday's Star contained a brief cable telegram announcing the death of Dr. Karl Marx, the leading spirit of the ‘Internationals.’ What effect this wjll have upon the future of that formis le organization remains to be seen. The association has been from the very moment of its foun- dation up to the present day almosi entirely the work of a single man. and that man, the deceased Dr. Karl Marx, a German emigrant who re- sided for more than twenty years past in London. He was born in Treves in 1818, and was, therefore, in his fifty-third year at the time of hix death. He studied law in Bonn and Berlin, but soon turned all his at- tention to philosophy, Hegel's espe- cially, and afterwards to politics and political economy. In 1841 he took his professorship at Bonn and became in the following year the editor of Rheintsche Zeitung of Cologne, the first paper openly opposed to the gov- ernment of Prussia. In spite of a double censorship instituted over the paper, managed to say enough to win the sympathies of all the liberals, until then afraid to utter a single syllable of opposition, and the government suppressed his paper Ly an act of force. Dr. Marx then went for safety to Paris. Here he continued _his liberal publications until -the Prussian government de- manded his expulsion from French territory, and Louis Philippe ylelded to the urgent request. “Aftermany vicissitudes, being driv- en from one European city to another. he settled in London and watched all the societies which formed themselves on the continent as well as in Eng- land. The trades unions formed a subject of his particular attention up to 1862, when the first idea of form- ing an international society seems to have been conceived. He originated the associatfon in 1864 and with the assistance of & young countryman named Engels and a Mr. Cowell Step- ney, an Englishman, managed its af- fairs to the time of his death. The power wielded by him and his asso- ciates has been immense, extending among the workingmen of Christian Europe. The influence of the society as an inflamer of communistic repub- licanism has been growing rapidly. especially within the past twelve months, till it is now a bugbear in France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Portu- gal and other countries, and the dread of it is shown in the exaggerated re- ports of its objects and designs, which reach us in European papers. “The central committee lately held a meeting in London and Felix Pyat. Bergeret and other refugee members of the commune took part in the dis- cussion at which, according to reports from a Spanish paper, it was resolved to shrink before no obstacle in order to carry to success the principles of the internationals. In consideration that the greatest of those obstacles are M. Thiers and the kings of Bel- gium, Italy, Spain and Portugal, it was determined that they be assassi- nated. It was also resolved to set fire to all factories, workshops and the establishments which serve as a me- dium of industry, and also to burn down all depots of agricultural prod- uce, so as thus to compel a hungry and unemployed workman to take part in the social war. The English gov- ernment is said to have been informed of these plans, but considered that it ought to take no notice of the doings of these ‘lunatic demagogues.’ " a5 g TR T DIGEST OF FOREIGN PRESS Friend and Foe at Karlovy-Vary. If you don’t know where Karlovy- Vary is, perhaps you have heard of Carlsbad. The famous watering place has changed its name along with its nationality, and is no longer Aus- trian but Bohemian, or Czechoslovak, in post-war geography. The Czechs are exploiting it for all it is worth and have again made it one of the first resorts in Europe. Notables of all nations meet there. and the Petit Parisien thus describes the consequences: "l‘-l(”yuelr the disorganization of the rallways made Carlsbad still dif- ficult of access. This year trains called ‘de luxe' have started again to travelers from all European capitals to the spas of Bohemia. Carlsbad, queen of these resorts, has seen her old court reappear. They are the same people, but who look at each other rather stupefied without recognizing each other, as happens to people who suddenly look at (hen;l—i selves in a glass after an illness. No doubt this was the refliection made by the Prince of Pless the other evening at the bar of the lmperial Hotel This bar is a place where dancing goes on every evening after eleven, and which is entered by a labyrinth of mysterious corridors. That even- ing at a corner table appeared the motionless profile of a sort of Hinden- burg whose mustaches had been cut | off. It was the Prince of Pless, 2 Prussian_aristocrat, a large land- Upper Silesia. o'z!ienr g‘le g}"swd, ‘which was dancing ,” relates the writer, “there was :nw%n(llshmin dancing the fox-trot, who had known the Prince of Pless very well at the White. Club in Lon- don at the time when the prince, who was then attache at the embassy, mix- ed in the most select London society and even married a relation of Mr. Winston Churchill. Suddenly the caprices of the fox-trot brought the within two paces of the Prussian. Each looked at the other, and frowned visibly, then the. Eng- lishman turned his back, while the Prussian suddenly began to have great interest in his glass. “But this sullen pride is always preferable to the awkward attempts made by some Germans to renew rer lations with the west. Some of them show off their knowledge of English. Thi French, or, if need be, pass them- ::I‘}'e- oflm‘l Polish and declare their disapproval of the war. They find it quite natural to be in the same room with French officers. “All this, however, does not spoil the queerness of th‘l': tnm{ g‘m had the Vi o ot personalities. In July Herr Renner, former Austrian chan- i, T i e B ebr: s e of Germany lace. After lvmporunt personalities, when their nationality didn’t put between them an impenetrable obstacle, met to- | gether to discuss the future of Eu- rope. - “These.notorieties leave and make place for Tothers—in July the Berlin ople; in A;Im!‘t‘l' Hi , and in the evening all-join in haone-step and the fox-trot I While oy xras lightness for Prince of Pless, when he was watch- ing the conquerors of yesterday, Who are about to expropriate him in Tp- per Silesia.” German High Cost of Study. The fall of the mark, with all the advantages to travelers in Germany from countries whose exchange is £00d, is once more proving disastrous to those of the native population liv- ing on fixed Incomes or on no in- comes at all. And chief among these are the struggling students of both sexes, who may well be said to have { chosen the worst period in history to start an intellectual career, says the Berlin correspondent of the London Observer. Though quite willing to undertake any employment in their spare time—one occasionally finds future doctors of medicine as street- sweepers and girl students as char- women, between lectures—the jobs are not always to be found at the right moment. It is then that what has rightly been described as the most wonderful relief movement in Europe steps in. Among all the holiday-makers, with bright faces busy calculating marks in pounds and dollars, a little band is starting out ectually willing to give and not to receive, and doing an unassuming way more political good than the rest of the world dream of. There are young English undergrad- uates collecting in Swiss and English holiday resorts for the “World's Stu- jan Federation”; and this from student to student, distributed judiclously in Germany and Austria today, has restored more faith in_humanity and the future of central Europe, apart from the happy hunting ground of those desirous of chéap excursions, than any other “re- lief” yet started. The brotherhood of all workjng to a common end, and that end no pecuniary one, is being brought nearer to the incipient conti- nental communist in a way little dreamed of, and many of the cerebral products of starving 8 gTow sounder in consequence. Soviets Stop Prohibition. Soviet Russia has abolished prohibi- tion, according to a recent dispatch from the Riga correspondent of the London medical pui Ibi ‘was the one csarist prin- ciple Which the Naples witnessed st most picturesque which rivaled that of Sigmor !