Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1921, Page 6

!IHE EVENING ST AR,’could be, in theory, effected without With Sunday Morning KEdition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY. . ..September 19, 1921 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evering Star Newspaper Company ' Business Offiee. 1111 St. and Pennsylvania Ave. | New York Office: 150 Nassau St. Chicago Office: First National Bank Bullding. E 2 8 Kegent 8t., London, England. The Evening Star. with the Sunday morning ivered by earriers within the city edition. 1s delt at 60 cents per month: only. 45 cents mionth: Sunday only. 20 cents per month. ders may be sent by mail, or telephone Main 8000. _ Collection i1s made by carriers at the eud of esch month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. L Maryland and Virginia. fly and Sunday..1 yr. ; .. 706 Daily only- oo 1 e $8.00; 1 mo.. 806 Sunday only. 1 mo., 20c All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00; Daily only. 13T., $7.00; 1 mo., 60c Bunaay only. -1yr.. $3.00; 1 mo., 25c —_— 1mo., 85¢ The Unemployment Conference. The President has scored so well in the matter of delegates to the arma- ment conference there is confident ex- pectation that he will score equally well in the matter of choosing dele- gates to the conference to take up the question of unemployment. The serv- ices of men of information, experience and poise are required, and such are available. Such will be complimented by a call to a meeting in every way important. It is likely, as The Star suggested the other day, that the number of the per Or- reference to the many othér problems which it is proposed to discuss and ad- Just, it is equally true that it never would be 80 effected. It is all very well to point out that the primary explana- tion for any huge armament program is the fact that some potential rival is setting a fast pace in a senseless race. {It is all very well to insist that, such {being the case, all that is necessary to insure the much-to-be-desired reduction in taxes for armaments is a mutual agreement between the nations con- cerned that no one is going to press the pace in the armament race. Yet. though such claims are true, practical statesmen are aware that armament limitation can never be achieved upon that simple basis. The reason for that truth is that, lacking certain assurances, none of the nations concerned is prepared to forego the privilege of pressing the pace whenever it sees an advantageous op- portunity. Nations arm to protect their individual vital interests. The consideration of the size of the other fellow’s army or navy is but one of many factors in the equation. No more convincing evidence of the ear- nest desire of the administration to work for a permanent solution of the armament problem could be afforded than its purpose to dispose of matters of long-standing international conten- tion prior to taking up the principal business before the conference. Any other course would have jeopardized the success of an effort which must not be permitted to fail. And, when once satisfactory agreement shall unemployed has been exaggerated,|'AVE been reached upon the agenda as Statistics are not in existence. We are | 0utlined by Secretary Hughes, there dealing with a rough estimate, ana|need be (n the light of the universal estimates of all kinds are unreliable at this time, when everything is dis- turbed. and everybody is seeing double. But, allowing for this, the number, upon the face of things, is large, and presents a case calling for prompt re- lief. There should be no army of un- employed in this country. Men and ‘women out of work who want to work should have opportunity to support themselves. It has heen suggested that the con- ference should consider the future as ‘well as the present, and if possible de- vise means for preventing a recur- rence of the present difficulty. A good suggestion, but if the present difficulty is relieved by plan or plans well con- structed, much will be done for the future. The urge is for the present. ‘We are in hailing distance of snow and bitter weather, and nobody should be left exposed at that time. ‘Washington Hospitality. ‘Washington, informed that $25,000 ‘will be required as its share of the ex- penses needed for the entertainment of its international conference guests, ‘will be swift to respond. Reports that excellent progress has already been made in the raising of the fund are no more than what was to be expected. Proud that the city in which they take such pride is to be the seat of what promises to be one of the most mo- mentous international conversations of all time, residents of the National Cap- ital, versed in the functions of playing host to distinguished guests, are pre- pared to prove their title to an estab- lished reputation for unstinted and gracious hospitality. The fund will be promptly placed in the hands of the citizens’ committee. That committee, excellently equipped for the important ‘work before it, may be counted upon to so discharge its duties as to insure, in conjunction with those in charge of the more formal official arrangements, the proof that Washington is com- petent to meet those demands which will inevitably be made upon it as the capital of the leading world power. School Days. “School days” begin again. This momentous Monday morning came happily. The sun was of dazzling brightness, the sky of clear blue, a few ‘white clouds floated near the east hori- zon, a fair breeze came out of the northeast and the temperature was agreeable. Crowds of children trooped to school gayly and not mournfully. They packed the classrooms, and then some! There was a spirit of happiness and comradeship among the pupils and teachers and between the pupils and teachers. There was but one condition to mar the opening of the school term. Not snough. veom for the pupils. The chil- ‘dren have outgrown the schools, and this is not due so much to the large increase of children as to the small increase in school capacity. For this the elders of the town and the gov- ernors—the legislative governors, not the paternal ‘“governors”—are to blame. School capacity must be brought up to school attendance and kept apace with it. The world is full of problems, each demanding settle- ment, and the school problem is one of them. But it is a problem of vital importance to the District and the na- tion, and must not be pushed aside b;'r_ any other. —_——————— Champagne for medicinal use is said to be arriving in abundance. No claims are offered that it will cure a headache- ——— On the theory that nothing in the universe can be absolutely at rest, Dr. Einstein must be regarded as still ac- tive though unobserved. —_—— The value of the German mark af- fords assurance that the decline of prices in at least one product has been important. {' The Conference Agenda. Save for the brief and incidental mention of fortifications in the Pacific, Secretary Hughes, in promulgating the agenda for the approaching interna- tional conference, seems to have de- liberately avoided any reference to the limiting of armaments. The fact has ‘brought concern to the hearts of many who fancy that it connotes an inten- tion to divert the attention of the gath- ering from the original objective of the proposed conversations. Deeper reflec- tion will, however, be quick to dispel any such misgivings. The limitation of armaments re- enains as the main business before the §onference. Yet while it is perfectly trye that limitation of armaments popular clamor for cutting expenses of government) little doubt but that a basis for armament limitation will be swiftly determined. ‘Will Congress reassemble more re- freshed than informed? Much depends on the correct answer to this question. The members will undoubtedly be refreshed. The recess came after a summer of hard work on problems that had developed many difficulties and put many tempers on edge. The spirit moving the recess seemed to be, “Let's knock off for a spell and em- ploy the time trying to get a better grip on matters—a clearer perception of what the situation demands.” But ‘are the brethren getting that grip? Are they getting a clearer per- ception of a situation which nobody can be contemplating without anxiety? If so, they should lose no time when they come together again in putting their improved notions into action. ‘There are two reasons: (1) Conditions in the country de- mand action. Three questions are most pressing—the tariff, taxation and transportation. Business cannot re- vive until all three are settled. All three touch business where it lives. (2) This year’'s elections are less than two months away, and the re- publicans need to make as good & showing at the polls as possible. They cannot hope to make the showing anywhere they made last year. But it should be as good as possible every- where for effect on party morale. Next year comes the tussle for control of the new Congress, and that result will have a bearing on the campaign of 1924. It may be repeated again, after sev- eral repetitions, that the task Con gress took up last spring was very much larger than was then appraised, and has developed difficulties beyond any that have appeared on Capitol Hill in a lifetime. ——————————— Political Schools of Instruction. The women of Baltimore are taking their politics seriously and practically. Realizing the¢ value, even the neces- sity, of instruction in their new duties, they have arranged for the establish- ment of schools, one in each ward, where voters may go and hear the forms and processes of government and the issues of the present campaign discussed by those familiar with the subjects. A fitting conclusion to the arrange- ment will be a session to which the different candidates will be invited, and thus have opportunity to present their claims to support on election day. | The men, and particularly the young imen, of Baltimore—indeed, of every city and town—could copy this idea to advantage. A good many of them need instruction of this kind, and would vote all the more intelligently and ef- fectively after receiving-it. Our happy-go-lucky attitude toward the ballot box is responsible for much of our misgovernment. Many—too many—voters deposit their ballots with but_a dim notion of what is at stake. They have thought little about the issues of the campaign, and know far too little about the men who are offering for office. They vote a party label, and let it go at that. Schools of instruction would cure much of this. Interest in politics thus promoted would bring everybody up standing on election day, and insure decisions that would count for a better order of things than too often we have secured. —— The citizen who objected to a three- cent letter rate is probably one-of the people who enjoy receiving all the prospectus literature that an inex- pensive postal system tends to encour- age. —_——————— The organization known as the Mo- tion Picture Owners of America has recently shown its ability to do some effectual censoring on its own account. A man who has a presidential land- slide to his credit can afford to be a good loser at golf. l ‘When Congress Reassembles. # John Barleycorn continues to be one of the world’s most expensive outlaws. The Elusive Car Fare. ‘Why is it that some people never learn the lesson of preparedness in the matter of paying their street car fares? Is the old habit of paying the conductor when he made his. rounds in former times so firmly fixed that it will require perhaps another genera- tion to eradicate it? Whatever the THE EVENING :STAR, cause, although “pay as you enter” has been the rule in city street cars for a number of years, there remain a number of persons who never obey the Injunction to “have the exact fare ready when entering the cars.” People will stand—some cynics aver that they are mostly women—for minutes on the curb or loading plat- form waiting for a car, with idle hands. They might very well occupy those minutes in getting out their tokens, or change, or bills, to be pre- pared to tender their fares upon en- trance. But no, they either do not think of it or prefer to wait until they have actually entered. Maybe they are afraid of dropping the tokens or the coins. But whatever the cause the result is a blockade at the car step and a slowing of the traffic. One phase of this peculiar habit is ' to be noted in the case of people trans- ferring from car to car. They will fold up and put away in some obscure re- cess the transfer slip and, on entering the second car, will excavate deeply before retrieving the paper, and then, as likely as not, to the disgust of the conductor, they will tender it still folded. Anybody who has ever investigated —any male person of inquisitive' mind —the mysteries of the feminine reti- cule will appreciate the perplexities ot those responsible for keeping the cars moving. A street car token is always at the bottom, superimposed by many strata of deposits of what the chemists would perhaps call a colloid character. A transfer may be in the side pocket with samples and papers of needles, or in the main cavity with (sssh!) a powder puff and a mirror and many other articles of absolute necessity, but it is all there. The only problem about the matter is one of location. ‘These containers are sometimes like the old-fashioned “Gladstone bag,” so named because, as it was said of the “grand ol@ man” for whom it was named, it would carry as many differ- wnt articles as he could carry policies. i The West Virginia Controversy. Senators Kenyon, Shortridge and McKellar, who have gone to the West Virginia coal flelds to look into the cause of the disturbances there, will conduct their inquiries informally and be engaged only a few days. Later, if the situation seems to warrant it, they will go into the latest phases of the question in a formal way. Congress, and through Congress the country, should have the fullest in- formation obtainable about a con- troversy which has existed for some time, has defeated all efforts to settle it, and has now reached a very dan- gerous stage. The recent outbreak in- volved several counties, and was par- ticipated in by thousands of men, some directly in interest, and others inter- ested through sympathy. Except for the tragedy attaching, the posture of affairs would be comic. The ignorance or the recklessness of men who with only the slenderest re- sources thus buck authority, state and national, is almost past belief. Success is impossible. Defeat is certain. And with defeat come increased woes for the vanquished. Complicated as matters are after protracted turmoil, in Wwhich both blood and treasure have been offered up, they can be settled, and now is the time to effect the settlement. Pri- marily a state is responsible for order within its borders, but the national authority is within call, and the re- sponse should always be based upon an understanding of the existing trou- ble, its causes as well as its effects. & No return to pre-war conditions can g0 s0 far as to restore to political at- tention some of the figures who were always near candidates. The Mingo troubles may not afford a topic of fireside conversation owing to the fact that there will be no fire. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Fierce Unrealities. There are troubles that leave us to sigh with relief And be glad that at last they are through. They are better by far than the per- manent grief Of the trouble that never comes true. There's rest for the weary in toil or in fight ‘When a genuine ill comes to view; But there's dire apprehension by day and by night Of the trouble that never comes true. In humanity’s struggle I'll welcome my share, Only asking, as hope smiles anew, That my heart may be free from the shadowy care Of the trouble that never comes true. An Orator’s Schedule. “When do you intend to make an- other speech?” “Not before the holidays,” replied Senator Sorghum. “Things out home are getting into such a state of agita- tion that about the only really dis- creet remark a statesman can make to his constituents is ‘Merry Christmas.’ Jud Tunkins says a certain amount of bad statuary is to be expected- The fact that a man is a hero and a patriot doesn’t necessarily make him an ar- tist's model. Grand Transformation. A grand transformation on hill and on shore 1Is shown by announcements that go on display; The summer resort in the season of yore To a winter resort has been changed in a day. Efficiency. “Efficlency consists in avoiding the loss of time and energy on things that have no practical importance.” “And yet,” said Farmer Corntossel, “I can't notice that the man who lets his whiskers grow to save fussin’ with a collar and necktie does any more ‘work than the rest of us.” ~ “Tain’ de eight hours’ work a man does in a day,” said Uncle Eben, ‘“‘dat tires him as much as de rampagin’ aroun’ de other sixteen. Editorial Digest | Doing Labor a Good Turn. ‘With the “recklessness of the per- fect umpire,” as the Columbia (8. C.) State (democratic) puts it, Judge Landis has handed down an arbitra- tion award to the building industry |in Chicago which the Boston Herald (independent republican) says “reads like an emancipation proclamation.” These quotations indicate the general tenor of editorial comment on the | ruling which makes a substantial re- ' duction in wages in the building trades and a revision of restrictive agreements which the arbitrator held were strangling the industry. It is| this latter phase of the award which, | in the opinion of the press, is of vastly more importance than the wage ! cuts not only in its relation to a; building revival, but as a reflection, as the Newark News (independent) ex- presses it, of “the public attitude toward labor's reach for the scepter of industrial tyranny.” Judge Landis “has steered wide of the mistake so often made by arbi- trators of trying to throw carefully ! balanced concessions to -both sides in the conflict,” the Spokane Spokes- | man Review (independent republican) | finds; instead, “he has found the eco- ' nomic facts and squared his decision | ‘with them.” and has based his find- ings, the Port Huron (Mich.) Times- Herald (independent) adds, “not upon; what was best for the contractors and their employes, but upon what was best for all the people.” While the Rock Island (Ill.) Argus| (democratic) thinks “it will strike the average person as rather inconsistent for the worker to be expected to accept reduced pay in the face of the prevailing high cost of living,” yet, the Peoria Transcript (independent) ! belleves, “the building trades must make some concessions or continue in idleness,” and while the reduction: present “a rather formidable appea: ance when viewed in percentages” the ! New York World (democratic) finds' the wages, when expressed in dollars, “still worth working for.” But, important as the wage reduc- tions may be in lowering building costs, the papers generally feel with the Baltimore Sun (independent dem- ocratic) that the “essential features” of the award lie in the “abrogation of restrictive agreements.”” Under these agreements, the Chicago News (independent) explains, “Chicago for years was a sort of walled city, de- prived of freedom of trade with the outside world and denied the ad- vantages of healthy competition in the production of building materials.” Now, declares its colleague, the Post (independent), “the Chinese wall of mutually built corruption, which gave contractor and unionist special graft at the expense of the com- munity’s normal growth, has been thrown down.” Another feature of the decision, which is regarded by writers to be of far-reaching importance and effect, is its denunciation of restriction of out- put and the “make work” policy of the unions. The “economic calamity which befell this country after the war” is charged by the New York Herald (independent) largely to the “low productivity of the workers,” and it finds Judge Landis’ decision that “able-bodied, competent work- ers who insist on restricting their output below their easy capacity to produce more must expect to have their daily pay correspondingly re- stricted,” as “admirable in morals as it is sound in economics.” As the Colorado Springs Telegraph (republi- can) sees it, it Is “an emphatic re- pudiation of that pernicious and inde- fensible tenet held by many unions that the activities of the drone shall control the activities of the energetic and industrious,” a policy by which workers, the Parkersburg (W. Va.) News (republican) declares, “are bringing about their own ruin with a sureness which is as sure as death.” The indictment of union practices which the judge returns “should have a far-reaching effect in labor circles,” the Canton (Ohio) News (democratic) thinks, and since he “is accepted by the rank and file” of the workers as “one of themselves, sympathetic to the underdog, leaning over often to do a favor to labor and swat its op- pressor,” the Rocky Mountain News (Denver, independent) feels that when they have duly digested the signifi- cance of the decision they will real- :ze t‘l‘mt “he did labor a very good urn. The Senate Inquiry Into the West Virginia Situation. A number of the West Virginia mine operators have protested against | the continuance of the Senate inquiry | into the industrial conditions in_their state during this critical stage, but it is to be hoped that the Kenyon sub- committee will not be swerved from its previously anmounced plan. American citigsns _generally will | unite in the dictum that a recurrence of the recent disturbance in Logan county ought to be made Impolllble.! They are not inclined to rush to snap judgments, or to indulge in the hys- teria which greeted every outcropping of labor trouble in the trying post- armistice period. They are ready now to analyze industrial unrest dispas- | sionately, to search for the truth as distinguished from the nauseating flood of propaganda with which they have been fed, and to find a preven- tive for the economic waste of strikes and lockouts, which are a blemish to their reputation for efficiency. The best of reasons, however, forthe | Senate committee to proceed ‘at this time is the fact that the inquiry fur- nishes Congress with an entering | wedge for the consideration of indus-| trial legislation of a comprehensive character. Ever since former Presi- dent Wilson summoned an industrial | conference in the wake of the critical period of the steel strike interest in| this subject has been developing. The | nation is unwilling that such en ab-| normal condition as exists in i Virginia shall continue indefinitely.— | i Baltimore Sun (independent demo- cratic.) E) Duty is never a pleasure if it is a tariff duty.—Hartford Times. To attain real peace the world must work its arms off.—Norfolk Virginian Pilot. ~ Wireless telephone message from Germany: “God save the mark!"— Boston Globe. Afghans rarely see their brides be- fore the wedding; Americans rarely see them afterward.—Saginaw News | Courier. Secretary Davis sa: “This is the: time when we need to trust each other.” That would make a nice desk motto for our coal man.—Toledo, Blade. 1 | Senator France says Russia is no longer “red.” He could never get a job as a locomotive engineer.—Min- neapolis Tribune. Man Dies_When Bottle Bursts—| headline. We've seen strong men ' break down and cry in similar cir-, cumstances, but this is the worst yet. | ZBuffalo Express. Nobody who can remember back . about twenty-five years will 1ook with anything less than heart failure upon the proposed return of big sleeves; for women.—Chicago News. that nobody has yet thought | toswtulnfheem “contrabandits.” —Philadel- i {phia Record. . i Let's hope the last world fight will be | that for dlsarmament—Florida Metrop- olis. Germany calls reparations ‘Wieber- ! gutmachunsbleistumgen.” Naturally, it | comes hard.—Knoxville Journal and Tribune. Living costs are still 63 per cent above | the 1914 level and have nothing to arbi- trate.—Pittsburgh Dispatch. The, Chicago young man who_ killed two automobile salesmen tells the re- porters that he never smoked or chewed in_his life. Murder, it seems, was his only bad habit.—New York Herald. We trust that Charley Dawes, who is an amateur musician, will play on the loot.~—Asheville Time WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1921. : f = Five Big Values This Week as Our Specials Great numbers of buyers take full advantage of our weekly specials. Look these offerings over care- P fully. We believe you'll find there’s money to be saved on merchandise of every-day need. Special No. 1— 1 O Rogers Evaporated Milk, per can . . . C During the four months past you have had the opportunity of trying out this brand of milk. Please note that this is the “Evaporated” milk and that the size we are quoting is the tall (16-0z.) can. Rogers Milk has prover ; highly satisfactory; in fact, so much so that we instructed the Rogers Milk Corporation to ship us SIX (6) CARLOADS, totaling SIX THOUSAND CASES, during this present month. Each case contains forty-eight cans, and, to appreciate the total, if you figure further you'll see that this means a total of 288,000 cans. Part of this order is now in our stores; we want thorough distribution, and you’re welcome tobuy at this price any quantity from a can to a case. It’s our opinion that this is the lowest price that milk will be sold for until next spring. A purchase of a reasonable supply is a E . Special No. 2— good investment. Gold Medal Buckwheat (mixture), pkg. 1 Oc The old-time favorite at an old-time price. Our first carload shipment is in and now in our stores. The mere announcement that it can be had. and at this new low price, should start big selling at once. (] Special No. 3— 17 C Absolutely Pure Ground Pepper--1 Ib. for It’s hard to realize that the bottom has dropped out of the price on some merchandise. But it’s true of pepper, and we have supplied our stores with good big stocks of this item, ready for the demand we feel this price will create. This is the same good quality Ground Black Pepper we al- ways sell, and you need not hesitate an instant on the quality question. Buy a pound now; we bought it cheap, and we are merely passing the oppor- tunity on to you. L[] Special No. 4— Silver Lake Green Lima Beans, can . We like to share the good things we get hold of with our patrons. We had the opportunity of getting a big car of 1,000 cases of these delicious Green Lima Beans. On trial you'll find these beans to be the very large, packed green and fresh from the field. You'll like the flavor of these large ‘ones. We suggest that, if a trial can suits you, you buy a dozen or a case quickly; we have only one car, and our price is but slightly in excess of car- load cost to us. This is an offering you'll quickly appreciate if you'll but L] Special No. 5— try one can. National Biscuit Co. “Royal Lunch,” perlb. . l SC The cracker that appeals td nearly every taste. It’s one of the most popular items the National Biscuit Co. ever putout. We are looking for big sales on this item; there are ten tons in our stores ready for the demand we feel assured this price will create. If you are not familiar with tue qual- ity of this cracker don’t fail to invsetigate, as you'll surely be delighted with its delicious quality on your very first trial.