Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1921, Page 4

r!* THE EVENING STAR. With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY. .September 24, 1921 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsclvania Ave. New York Office: 150 Nasrau St. Chicago Office: First Bank Building. t nal European Office: 3 Regent St., London, England. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, Is delivered by carriers within the cit; nts er month: daily only, 45 cents pe month: Sunday only, 20 cents per mouth. Or- be Sent by mall, or telephone Main . Collection is made by carriers at the end of euch. month. 1ail—Payable in Advance. aryland and Virginia. Daily Sunday oni. Pessimism and the Conference. The armament conference is under fire in several quarters. From uarter comes the prediction that it cannot be confined to the real object| the President had in mind in c it; that side issues will find their wa in, and, by broadening. confuse the discussion; that millen be kept out, and that when it com at the door economy will fly cut at} the windo From another quarter comes the charge that the nations have accept- ed the President’'s inv sort of duress; that the politic have bowed before a popular demand sed upon distre created by the that the conference will be com- ed of such men. and that when come tozether they wi'l mang ome way to cheat t constituents and leave the prime busi ness of the ng unattended to o unsatisfactorily transacted. to all such servations and objections is that the conference has been calied in good faith; that when it meets the P dent will se: that the Americ delegates in symvathy with the Pre dent's views wlil uphold them at the ons, and that if i evant issué: roduced and insisted upon to the of the con s declared the responsibil sily an: © respect mee oh- ses: rence an be ‘erence has not met. The ates have not been named. tage of the game undertake to forecast the business and spread abroad the spirit of pessimism and predic of failure? Let the conference, from day to da peak for ftself. —————————— Open Sessions for the Treaties. Announcement is made that the caties will be considered in ons. They are covenants not opehly arrived at, but their ion by the Senate, tribunal, will viewing important end connected with them both advocates and opponent ing themselves in the hearing nothing will be left to invention or exag- With expre: of the pu surmise, rurhor, geration. A record thus made will b st misrepresentation. These are vel im nt instru- ments, and the public is greatly inter- ested in them. They represent the ad- ministration’s first ambitious perform- ances in the line of diplomac; Secre- tary Hughes makes his bow with them. Ther eems to be no doubt as to their ratification. The Senate will re- ceive them with the all but unanimous indorsement of the committee, and the leaders cn both sides of the chamber favor them. The war has been over for nearly three years. We need not go into the h has grown to be academic—as to who is responsible fo: the delay in restoring peace conditions and trade relations all around. The thing of present moment is that here are the pacts for accomplishing that very desirabie purpose, & should be disposed of without delay. America, unfettered in the realm of world trade, should take, and hold, a foremost place, and realize the hopes of the most sanguine of our people. Armistice Day. November 11 will be a day of three- fold significance. it is Armistice day, the third anniversary of the suspen- sion of fighting between the armies of | Germany and the allies of the United States. It will be the day of convening of the delegates to the conference on armament limitation. On that day the body of an unknown soldier killed in battle will be buried at Arlington with such military and civic solemnities as have rarely been observed in this re- public. Because of the historic associa- tions of the day, the mighty import of the arms parley and the solemnity of the tribute to the unknown American dead the President “will call for a two- minute halt at noon throughout the| nation to be devoted to prayer and reverent memories for the dead.” ————————— Soviet officials who wish to take per- sonal charge of food distribution natu- rally run a risk of being suspected of a desire to secure places at the head of the line. —_———— Foreign visitors who are accustomed to wines or spirits are frankly advised to beware the American bootlegger and bring their own. ———————————— Science and Crime. From France, already the source of several inventions and discoveries that have aided in the fight against crime, comes announcement, of two new methods of thwarting the wiles of those who undertake to beat the laws. One of these is the science of poro- scopy, by means of which a lawbreaker who leaves an impress of any portion of his skin at the scene of his offense ‘may be identified. It is based upon ‘the discovery that the number, form and position of the pores of the body constitute an individual pattern that never varies during lifetime. It is be- lieved to be as infallible a test of identity as the combination of finger (me' ion under a| foreign relations { Inadvertent marks left by the pressure of the bare arm or wrist have caused Identification ard conviction. The other scientific development s known as graphometry, based upon the theory ‘that the normal handwrit- Ing of a person always shows a cer- tain relation in size between letters, with unmistakable characteristics in form, particularly of loops. No de- gree of cleverness can conceal thesc ratios, and the most skilled forger, it s held, can be detected by the appli- sation of the principles that have just been formulated. Thae measurement of heartbeats, the recording of the temperature, the flex- ing of muscles, the involuntary reac- tions of the body have all been scien- tifically worked out to aid the crime- detector. A fully equipped police bu | reau nowadays looks like a scientific lahoratory, with its measuring devices its pulsometers. Photography. r-printing, weighing and measu ing machines, and now poroscopes and graphometers surround the suspect until he feels that his very soul is re- vealed. It is difficult now for a guilty person to lock his secret thoughts and knowl- ile may wear gloves and pro- hands from contact, but he annot control his emotional reactions: | He not change the pattern of his i]uu He cannot, according to the i French scientific criminologists, effect- ually alter the habit of his hand in { writing. Truly, the way of the trans- &ressor is hard. The Wilderness. Chapters of civil war history are re- lied by the maneuvers which ma- nes will hold next week on the fields of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania, lan a roughly sixty miles southwe of Washington between the Rappahannock and Rapidan on the north and the North Anna on the south. The fighting in the Wilderness field on which Chancellorsville was fought .in May, 1863, and the field of ille extended eastward to und on which the battle of Fredericksburz was fought during the preceding winter. Ag the battle of | Salem Church was a part of the battle Chancellorsville, Spotsylvania imay be said‘to have been a part or a continuation of the battle of the i Wilderne: of so on setting out from Culpeper and Brandy station, May 3-4, 1864, and ntering the Wilderness by crossing {the Rapidan at Germanna ford that { began the terriic and over- | whelming drive against the Army of Northern Virginia and Richmond which ended at Appomattox Court House in April, 18 It was the drive which crushed the Confederacy, but ant’'s army paid the price, for though the Army of Northern Virginia lin the spring of 1864 was underfed, ! and weakened by the preceding sars of war, it was still a fight- ce worthy of the finest tradi- f American valor. re the Orange turnpike inter- ccts the Germanna Ford road. five miles south of the Rapidan, and where {the Orange plank road intersects it, four miles farther to the southwest, Lee truck the southward marching host ! of Grant, Ewell coming upon Warren's e at the Wilderness tavern and A. P. Hill on Hancock’s corps at Parker's In that land of dim woods, store. fields veined Dy deep ravines waged {the battle, or the “battles,” of the Wilderness. —_—————————— i Pie-Cutting and the Times. Mention of the fact that a difference between the President and Senator { Willis over an Ohio appointment has been satisfactorily adjusted suggests Ihow little has been heard about patron- age since Mr. Harding took the reins. Sither he manages uncommonly well {in cutting the pie, or there is a new {and improved system about handling | the disgruntled, or the applications at i the pie counter have been diminishing in number of Jate vears. [ Mr. Wilson had this same good for- {tune. There were comparatively few open quarrels over office during his | cight vears in the White House. And ©t a great deal of patronage was dis- trivuied. The republicans had been in funinteorupted control for sixteen vears, und this necessarily had made the democrats “hungry and thirsty.” | Years ago a change in national con- ttrol from one party to the other was i ! marked by no end of squabbling over | the spoils, which, under the rule, were assigned to the victors, and in which |the victors manifested the liveliest, {not to say the most aggressive, inter- lest. Personal friendships were often trained to the breaking point. Local {leaderships were often in peril. The newspapers were full of the stories. It is all very different now. Patron- {age rows that get into the newspapers are few, and those lack ginger. True, for some vears the press has been carrying news of so much more im- portance than pie-cutting, the old topie, would not have had a chance even if it had been very interesting. 1) ————.——————— The question of duties on the buy- {ing price abroad or the selling price in | this country requires a decision as to | whether the tariff shall be conducted on the American or the European plan. — Tammany hopes that it is not re- garded as enough of a democratic in- stitution to be included in certain land- slide demonstrations in evidence last fall. Sovietism has gone through various stages of evolution into its present form of Leninism. —_————— The Law’s Delays. A man was electrocuted at Sing Sing recently for murder. The crime was committed four years ago. He had been confined for forty months in the deathhouse, the longest time on record in that institution. During his wait he bade farewell to thirty-eight men who had walked down the corridor leading to the death chamber. In Chicago the same day the estate of Eugené Field, the poet, was closed tangles of serub growth and hilly uld‘ divided between the widowl and, five children. One bill only had been al- lowed, for $5.50 for a pair of trousers purchased by Field in 1895. Here are two cases of delays in the law, strikingly different and yet strik- ingly alike. The Field case was not a notable one, for the estate was not large, but it just hung on #nd on with little technicalities delaying now and then. The wonder is that’fhe whole estate was not eaten up by fees and costs. In the case of the man at Sing Sing appeals and reprieves and reconsidera- tlons had worked out a delay that be- came notorious. This man was the ob- ject of wagers by those who were sure that he would never he put to death., He had been convicted of heing the principal in a crime actually com- mitted by another who turned state’s evidence. That other man was in the prison on a fresh charge when the murder conspirator was sent to the chair. These long delays in the law are mis- chievous. for the law, they induce mobs, they promote crime, they encourage dis- nonesty. Today the most urgent need af this country is for speediey justice. ———— Persimmons. One of the fruit crops which have not failed is the persimmon crop. In the lexicon of the persimmon there is no such word s fail. It always comes through on time. It revels in late tumn frosts. Drought diminishes not {its yield, and flood and long wet spells do not check or mar its output. It fungi that lay low the peach and cherry. It bears up bravely under the scorn and unappre jon of mankind, but sometime the world may know the { persimmon better and ve just acknowledgment to its merit. The Department of Agriculture once sent out a pamphlet in which it was said that “the persimmon is a de- licious little plum, and possesses a food value which is surpassed only by the date.” Teople who do not live in the ;porsflmmon belt know very little about i this *“‘delicious little plum,” and dwell- ers in the persimmon belt lack appre- ciation for it. It is too close to them to be measured at its worth. A man is not a prophet in his own country, and the persimmon is not a fruit in Mary- land and Virginia. Once upon a time grandmother, or per vas grand- father, made.a tipple called persimmon beer, but that was in other times; and other times. other manne: ————————————— By requiring more w from his clerical force, Henry Ford discourages the impression that every citizen should enjoy abundant leisure for tour- ing. t The fact that he had never heard of the Ku-Klux Klan did not prevent Wil- liam Hohenzollern from imagining that he was some kind of an imperial wiz. i It is intimated that Mr. Lasker will i not consider his Shipping Board work complete until several more people have walked the plank. l Inquiries continue tc suggest them- {seives as to what some of the Edison questionnaires have to do with the electricity business. i Germany is reported to be speculat- ing wildly in terms of marks, while doing business very conservatively in terms of dollars. & 1 A few of the motion picture stars idealistic as the scenario writers repre- sent them. i {" No man who manages to keep an automobile going can be regarded as a person out of employment. The beer problem has become one of taxation without intoxication. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The dove of peace observes the news | With approbation; and he coos. The languages at his command lArc those of every modern land. He coos in an Italian tone; He makes Teutonic tongues his own; French, English, Spanish and Chinese, He coos them all and strives to piease. A lack of understanding brings The wars which trouble serfs and kings. 1 The dove of peace now coos with glee; A fine interpreter is he! Precocious Perception. “When I was a little boy,” said Sena- tor Sorghum, “my uncle told me I might grow up to be President of the United States?” “Did you believe him."” “No. Even at that early age I real- ized that political promises are very likely not to come true.” Jud Tunkins says he won't much care if the housing problem gets so acute that the folks'll have to turn the poll parrot and the rubber tree into the street. Uplifted. The uplift we discussed. Alas! ‘We find, with some misgiving, The kind that mostly came to pass ‘Was in the cost of living. The Inattentive Optimist. “Don’t you admire a person who can be cheerfully indifferent when things aren't going exactly right?” ‘No,” answered Miss Cayenne. “I seem to get that 'kind of a partner every time I play bridge.” The Voice of Autherity. “Hadn’t you better give Josh some advice before he goes away to school?” said Mrs. Corntossel. 3 “I s’pose s0,” replied her husband. “By the time he comes home again curves. The wary criminal nowadays |in probate ccurt by the widow after|he'll be so smart he’ll want, to give all wears gioves to prevent the leaving of | pending nearly twenty-six years. The|the advicé himself. I'd better take my the telltale prints, but in certain cases estate totaled $10,311.74, and had been turn r'ght now."” laughs at the blights and bugs and| ifind it impossible to be as gentle and | i They make for disregard|$ spring frosts and glories in early au-| % Editorial Digest - I Settling Shantung Out of Court. Japan's advances to China in the Shantung matter are generally in- terpreted in American papers, as the Detroit Free Press (independent) ex- presses it, as an indication that “the island. empire desires to get in out of the wet before the Washington parley begine.” China's refusal to negotlate is viewed here as a determination on her part to balk that purpose and to | force a discussion of the whole Shan- | tung question in the far east con- ference. There s considerable dlvergence of editorlal opinion both uS to the merits of Jupan’s-proposal and the wisdom of China's,course. “There is no discounting the fac! the Chattanooka News (democratic) thinks, “that Japan is anxious to set- ! tle the Shantung muddle in advanc of the Washington conference” and } thus remove the danger of having to enter it “at a disadvantage"; so with | this end in view she has made a pro. posal which, “from this distance,” the News finds, “a much closer ap- | proximation to a ‘square deal for | a_ than anything heretofore of- | fer In the present offer. which | suggests that she is undoubtedly will ing “to go to great lengths to remed the injury done China,” the Provi- dence Journal (independent) detects | Japan “betraying a_consciousness of ! act that the Shantung deal has not raised her in the estimation of other peoples.” The Kansas City Journal (re publican) “hopes” tkat the proposals are inspired by the desire to estab- lish a status of unimpeachable in- | tegrity for the diplomatic aspects of the far eastern question,” and it admittedly finds them “of a far more commendable nature” than previous negotiations, but from a practical vicwpoint it'doubts that China would much 'by accepting the offer, | “Japan “has been engaged in ' - ilding up Shantung industry until | = is virtually controlled by the | = slanders, and Japanese conducted v means a_Japanese commer- nce.” “The Mobile Register (democratic) further analyzes the tures of the offcr to re > entire province with the | Aception of the port and the har- bor.™ nce such an arrangement would le the entire control of “the commer nd production of the q Japan's hands, the ts that “it is a good | = apan would renounce all | claim to the rest of the bottle, pro- vided the mouth is left in_ her pos- session.” therefore “China has much to g and nothing to lose by de- vlining the offer. " China to agree to these de. the Minneanolis Journal endent republican) declares. | - mean giving Shantung to and China knows it.” since | diplomacy apparently ay that which it gets in the | and “in giving Shantung ©0 China it is getting the prov China's refusal to entertain the offer advance of the Wash- irzten conference is altogether wise | reasonable,” the Boston Tran- (indeperdent republican) be- The Baltimore American (re- 1) is at a loss to understand | move, which it belleves is re- celving encouragement from the United States, “to settle the Shan- tung matter out of court.” especially “when China is evidencing her will- ingness to do so, and Japan is the ion which is urging it." If such is our purpose it appears to the paper that “we have abandoned our ion in support of China, and ver. that we are ourselves act- to make tha Washington con- ~ meaningless.” inting to what it considers an ob- i istency in our “support n the Shantung matter, the Des Moines Register (independent republican) asks why “we are so much aroused over Japanese holding of this German property when we had | — for so long a time acquiesced in the | - original theft from China” and “ac- cepted the German occupation of Shantung as one of the accomplished To this the Cincinnati En- quirer (democratic) replies, that “it does not follow that the original in- justice is to be continued and the i Mikado is to reap the profits planned for the kaiser.” As this paper views it. “there is no other stand for the Chinese to take” save repudiation of Japanese interest in the province, and the Christian Science Monitor (Bos- ton, independent) sees nothing ‘“in the present Japanese note to justify China in forsaking this attitude.” In “China’s reluctance to deal with Japan,” however, the New York Globe (ifdependent) suggests, there enters the element of the “enforce- ment” of whatever agreement _is reached, and it is for this reason that China wants the support of the con- ference. But the Globe considers it “problematical” that China would get more by that means than Japan has already offered. since “the decision of the governments to exclude China as a participant and to admit Chinese only as consultants signifies that Ja- pan has won the fight to speak for the orient.” -k Premiers at Washington. Lloyd George fears that the Irish negotiations and other pressing gov- ernment- business will prevent his coming to the Washington conference. Mr. Balfour will probably head the British delegation, as dispatches indi- cated. Premier Briand has also been anxious to sit in the limitation of armament congress; but a strong op- position to his leaving France has developed. Before November he may even have to face a ministerial crisis in_the chamber of deputies. In one way the absenc: of these two premiers will be - people feel that the pation of government ¢ is ference of this sort enhances its prestige. or at least its spectacular value. Yet, in the light of what hap- pened at Paris in 1919, it is a ques- tion whether the attendance of heads of cabinets makes for greater ef- ficiency in such gatherings. If each government is represented at Washington only by delegates of equal rank a situation will be avoided which did much to spoil the work of the Paris peacemakers.—New York Tribune (republican). Cider must be hard to sell.—Florida Metropolis. ~Knickers for Women"—headline. And snickers for men.—Asheville Times. Some men are willing to try any ism but rheumatism.—Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont. The actors may learn that headlines do not always make headliners.—Ar- kansas Gazette. Some wait long for prosperity and others short-weight for it.—Green- ville (S. C.) Piedmont. Money goes a little farther now, but it is still unable to go a8 far as next payday.—Indianapolis Star. i There is danger that the growing alreneg!h of the Ku-Klux Klan will boost the price of nighties.—Pontiac Press. At elghty-twoé Mr. Rockefeller pro- poses 15 live to be one hundred. It means a lot to be rid of financial wor- Hes—Memphis News-Scimiter. We secretly suspect that Mr. Lloyd George is trying to get De Valera to bankrupt the Irish republic paying telegraph bills—Brooklyn Eagle. That Sing Sing convict who forged number of ‘prison checks simply ;mved that vou can’t prevent some en from forging right ahead.—Bur- lington News. 7 & It is predicted that the burning of coal will be made a penal offense in England. In this country, with prices at their present range, it suggests an exhibition of reckless courage.—Bos- ton Transcript. _ Figures showing the cost of living are being prepared for the employ- ment conference. It might serve as a useful purpose to lend them to the conference on tha limitation of arma- | ments.—Boston Transcript. R John F. Donohoe & Sons 314 Pemsylvania Avenue S.E. List Your Property in the Northeast or Southeast with us. We specialize in these sections. John F. 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