Evening Star Newspaper, September 25, 1921, Page 44

2 - THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO THE EVENING. STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY.....September 25, 1921 THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 13th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Offee: Tribune Building. Chicago Office: Fil Natlonal Bank Building. Europesn Office: 3 Regent St., Leadon, Eugland. The Evening Star, with the Sunday moming edition, is delivered by carriers within the city at 60 cents per mont month; Sunday oaly, 20 cents per month. ders may be sent by mail, or telephone Maln 5000, Collection is made by carriers at the «end of each menth. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. =i Maryland and Virginia. d S ~1yr., $8. e Bally tadyoncey- 17 0 L movioe Sunday only. -1yr., §2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ All Other States. mo., mo., 2ic Debt Problem Not Political. If considerations of party politics could be ellminated or kept in the background the task of Congress in considering and disposing of its im- portant legisiative program would be greatly expedited, of course, and the country would benefit by the early set- tlement of questions, the unsettlement of which keeps the business world in a state of uncertainty and retards the return of full prosperity. Probably it is too much to expect or hope that party advantage will not be sought, both by the minority and the majority, ‘when it comes to consideration of the tariff, taxation and kindred questions of domestic policy, but there are pend- ing other matters of vital consequence as to which decisions must be arrived at and with the determining of which partisanship has no proper concern. One such measure, now before the Senate, is known as the allied debt- funding bill, and confers upon the St¢~[prwlded that it contain an assembly! retary of the Treasury, with the ap- proval of the President, authority to enter into and conclude negotiations to place the eleven billion dollars of debts owed this government by the governments of Europe on some satis- factory and business-like basis. The | necessity of a refunding of the Euro- pean debt and the reasons which | prompted the administrative branch of ! the government to ask that the Secre- tary of the Treasury be given a free i hand in the negotiations are explained {in an article published elsewhere in today's Star. If there Is anywhere in this whole problem of the foreign debt ¢ any element which ought to be or with propriety could be made a matter for partisan controversy its presence there has not yet been disclosed. On the con- trary, every apparent consideration of patriotism and good business sense de- mands that politics shall be kept out of it. This is the view taken by former ‘Vice President Marshall, the staunch- ness of whose democratic partisanship no one has ever questioned. His signed article on this page of today’s Star, ‘which is a plea that competency be ziven an opportunity to function, is timely and well worth reading. Speak- ing of the problem of funding the European debt and of Secretary Mel- lon, who, he says, “has certainly dis- closed in his business life that he knows a dollar when he sees one,” the former Vice President concludes: “Al- though he is not of my political faith, I have not yet reached the point where I can even dream of his being a traitor to the best interests of his and my was the homs of Mrs. E. D. B, N. Southwerth, author of upwards of fifty novels that were popular in their time. Not many weeks ago, in an article in The Sunday Star on Mrs. Scuth- worth, it was told that she and Harriet Beecher Stowe were close friends of long standing. Mre. Stowe, after a term at teaching in Kentucky, came to visit Mrs. Southworth at her cottage. Mrs. Southworth had then become a writer of renown and both ‘women held strong antj-slavery opin- ions. Mrs. Stowe, in telling of her T | teaching, related a story which im- pressed Mrs. Southworth. Just at that time Dr. Gamaliel Bailey, pub- lisher of the National Era of this city, a paper in which many of Mrs. Southworth’s early stories had ap- peared, called at the cottage. He came to ask Mrs. Bouthworth to write something appropriate for a forthcoming Christmas number of the Era. Mrs. Southworth introduced Dr. Balley to Mrs. Stowe and suggested that she, Mrs. Stowe, submit to Dr. Bailey the story which she had told a few moments before. Soon after this meeting Mrs. Stowe handed to Dr. Bafley a short story, entitled “Life Among the Lowly.” Dr. Baliley published it and it was well received by readers of the Era. Both Dr. Bai- ley and Mrs. Southworth urged Mrs. Stowe to continue the story, and the lutter, on the eve of leaving for her kome, agreed to send Dr. Balley an-| other chapter. This was followed by another and another, and thus the story grew. in book form and given the title “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” It was a book which had a remarkable influence on public opinion in the United States. —_——— Hall of the Arms Parley. The conference on armament limita- tion will be held in a hall about which there was a prophecy. When the Pan- American building was planned it was hall which might be called “the hall of the American republics,” or “the hall of American ambassadors,” and before the corner stone was laid it was written by men interested in the Pan-American Union that this hall “will be an ideal place for great international confer- ences, for receptions to distinguished foreigners and for such other gather- ings, not only American but world wide in interest, which require or are entitled to a noble environment.” This assembly room now bears the name “Hall of the Americas,” though at about the time of the dedication of the building it was called the Hall of the Republics. It is here that the inter- inational conference on limitation of armaments will sit. The hall is 100 feet long, 70 feet wide and has a normal seating capacity of 700 persons. The armament limitation conference will sit in one of the beautiful build- ings of Washington—one of the beau- tiful buildings of the world. Its walls are of white marble, and its architec- classical with the Spanish renaissance. The structure and its gardens repre- sent an investment of $1,100,000, of which the American republics con- tributed $250,000 and Andrew Carnegie $850,000. The corner stone of the build- ing is inscribed: “Building of the American Republics, erected through the public-spirited gift of Andrew Car- republics upon ground provided by the government of the United States, May 11, 1908.” The corner stone was laid by Presi- dent Roosevelt, and addresses were Later it was published | ture represents a combination of the| negie and the contributions of all the; |“program” and “schedule” and the ! phrase “order of business” are passed jover. “Agere” to the Romans meant to manage, conduct and perform, and l“agenda” were things that were to be idone. Later it came to have the spe- cific meaning of things to be brought before a committee or council. ‘Welcome, agenda! ————— Cole Blease Reappears. Agalin, after several years, the name of Cole Blease appears In political |news from South Carolina. It is in { connection with the next gubernatorial | | race, which takes place next year. Col. Blease has not announced, but an announcement is expected. In pub- { e addresses and interviews he is flirt- |ing with the subfect. He has had just i enough of politics to give him a taste for the game, and just enough suc- {cess as a player to enable him to bear !losses with equanimity. He has suf- grered some losses, He is in private life { now as the result of a defeat for a scat {in the United States Senate. Starting in political life as a protege i and imitator of Benjamin Tiliman, Col. j Blease soon attracted as much atten- tion at home as his sponsor and model for bold outgivings and extravagances {of expression. He seemed to cultivate {invective, and to depend upon such iresources for silencing a rival and | carryving a point. {tor and the imitated fell out. A dis- | pute arose as to which had first ex- claimed in a public speech, in reply to {a citation of the Constitution in a debate, “To hell with the Constitu- tion!” They were never afterward friendly. The older man toned down as he advanced in years, while the | younger became harsher of tongue and ! more extreme of view. ! ‘When Col. Blease several years ego i was defeated for the Senate the popu- lar judgroent at home and elsewhere was that South Carolina had lost taste for men of his type, and was returning i i {Butler. Was that a hasty judgment? {Or shall we sce {t confirmed next year 11t Col. Blease enters for the governor- {ship on his record in office and the sentiments he proclaimed at that time, {and later? —— e For Fun, Not Study. Efforts, it is said, will be made to “eliminate from the District public inight schools” the transient students, “s0 dubbed because they attend school frregularly and for the purpose of | edge.” This is a surprise to very many men. | The surprise 15 not that the school au- thorities should contemplate “‘elimina- ition,” of such non-students. The sur- prise is that there are in attendance in the public schools, day or night, any young persons who attend school *‘for {the purpose of seeking amusement in- {stead of knowledge.” It is not really surprising that there are such persons, but it is & shock to learn that any of them are in the public schools. It has always been believed that all these persons were in college. —_—————— A New York musical comedy writer thinks the country would be better off if the Pilgrim fathers had never landed on Plymouth Rock. The thought is isignificant as an evidence of the ex- ceedingly serious channels into which i musical comedy is drifting. i —_————————— | In view of the well known fact that i 1 country. Because of his training and| .,3¢ by him, Elihu Root, Secretary of | he was employed in the office of Secre- experlence, I prefer a settlement that! he shall make to one authorized to be| made by hard and fast rules which may not at all be applicable to the circumstances when the time of ad- State; Ambassador Nabuco from Brazil, Andrew Carnegie and John Barrett. At the dedication service April 26,1910, addresses were made by President Jjustment comes.” ———————— ‘National Identification Bureau. Several speakers before the Inter-| gnational Association for Identification! have urged the establishment of & na-| tional bureau for identification as a| means of systematizing the work and co-ordinating the means of catching! criminals. The Attorney General and; others have said that such a bureau + would be a clearing house for all data collected by police departments throughout the country. Detection of crime and apprehension of criminals are important matters, and efficiency in detection should keep pace with “efficiency” in the commis-) sion of crime. Opinion of the men who devote their life and talent to crime detection mugt carry weight, and if a national bureau would aid in the pro- tection of the public against criminals | such a central institution will prob- ably be set up. ——————— In referring to the tolerance of rum in the old colonial days mention ml‘m' be made of the great assistance fur-| nished by firewater in subduing the in a Washington newspaper, and it has been said on what appears to be wild American Indian. responsible authority that the ml i § i i H ——— e The wreckage of a German labora- tory creates the suspicion that a new superexplosive has been inadvertently developed. The German laboratories have long been in need of more safety- first devices. Uncle Tom’s Cabin. A woman credited with being the first person to play the part Little Eva in “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” cele- brated her seventy-third birthday = few days ago at her home, Cambridge, Mass. Her name is Mrs. Cordelia Howard MacDonald, and when she came on the stage of the Troy Mu- seum, Tro¥, N. Y., September 27, 1852, as Little Eva, she was “little Cor- delia Howard,” aged four years. ‘The book of Harriet Beecher Stowe and the play made from it are prob- ably not better known in Washington than elsewhere in the United States, vet there s a connection between ‘Washington and “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” which, although it has often been told, is not generally remembered. “Uncle Tom’'s Cabin” was first pub. lished in Washington as a serial story Taft, Philander C. Knox, Secretary of State; Senator Elihu Root, Leon de la Barra, Mexican ambassador, and An- drew Carnegie. This building, home of the Bureau of American Republica and the central headquarters of the Pan-American Tnion, whose purpose “is the develop- ment of closer cultural, commercial and financial relations between the re- publics of the American continent, and to promote friendly intercourse, peace and closer understanding,” may be- come by reason of the approaching arms conference one of the historic structures of the world. —_——t——————— ‘When & food distribution s arranged for many a soviet official is tempted to think of the possibility of liberal tips in the event of his being able to secure a position as head waiter. ————— Some of the currency now published on a large scale in portions of Europe is considered a success if it keeps out of the waste paper basket. G —————————— China will be represented at the con- ference for the purpose at least of ac- quiring first-hand information as to what is going on. —_—————————— The “auction sale” of unemployed people is regarded with suspicion as a means of encouraging too many idle bystanders. Agenda. ‘This word “agenda” is having what theatrical folk would call a “run.” Modistes and haberdashers might say that “agenda” is “In vogue.” Other persons might say that “agenda” is “all the rage.” It is a leading word, a very prominent word, and never seems to make its appearance in its singular number, which in “agendum.” Before the world turned to “agenda” it was “simply crazy” over ‘“alloca- tion.” It became popular during the war in connection with ships and loans. The “allocation” of shipping ana the “allocation” of loans came to be current phrases. The Senate called on Mr. Wilson for information as to how he had “allocated” certain funds. Ina newspaper story about an operatic benefit it was said that ‘“‘the allocation of boxes is to be based on the size and date of the contribution.” “Allocation” is 80 closely allied to “allot,” “assign” and “apportion” that the shipping and Treasury authorities might just as well have sald the “alletment” of ships and the “apportionment” of funds. But words comé into fashion as do styles tary of State for awhile, it is only natu- ral that Col. W. J. Bryan should mani- fest a great interest in treaties. | ————————— { A Chicago gunman has succeeded in jcheating the gallows and being gent to {an insane asylum. The adage has it that it takes a very wise man to know when to play the fool. ———— If the natives of various points in the Pacific were observant and enter- prising, they would be at work by this time on a system of local permits and special taxes. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Late Hours. “We won't go home till morning!"™ A statesman paused to say. His merry word of warning CGave rise to some dismay. i ! i It was not an occasion ‘Where each convivial soul ‘With very slight persuasion Drew near the flowing bowl. Of drink he spoke in scorning, As he stood forth to sing, ““We won't go home till morning— I'm filibustering!” i “You have said some very sarcastic things about your opponents.” “You have misunderstood me,” pro- tested Senator Sorghum. “There is nobody, in my opinion, who does not possess some good points which every fair man ought to recognize. But those | fellows are so unpopular that you can’t say a kind word for them without being considered sarcastic.” Jud Tunkins says a good loser has to be careful not to go too far and get himself regarded as an easy mark. Unbelievable, The motion picture appears 8o gentle and demure That half the stories which one hears -Are inexact, I'm sure! Valuable Influence. *“That relativity theory has done some good in the world, anyhow,” re- marked Farmer Corntossel. “In what way?"” ,“You know 81 Simlin is one of these fellers that thinks he knows it all. Doc Einstein has at least made him stand up before folks and admit there 18 some things he doesn‘t understand.” Coal Deposits. “The coal we burn Has been lying buried in the earth for ages.” “And the price we -pay would leave been At last, as often happens, the imita-| {to men of the type of Hampton and; seeking amusement instead of kmflfl-l ‘ Exchanging Compliments. The republicans in Congress are ad- dressed by their opponents in some- thing like these terms: “Why don’t you |fellows get a move on? You made large promises last year. You told the | voters that if they'd put you in com- plete control you'd straighten out |things in a jiffy. They accepted your |assurance, and by the largest popular majority ever given in this country put everything into your hands. And yet you have done nothing but adver- Give us relief from the woes you so eloquently and persuasively described in the Harding campaign.” To which the republicans make re- |“We like your galll After creating | such a mess as the country has hither- Ito never known, you want it cleaned {up while you wait. It can't be done. ‘We didn’t promise to do it in such ishorl order. But we'll do it. The truth is dawning, and the impatience of the people, now that they are becoming aware of our difficulties created by jyou, will give place to sympathy and assistance.” The gajt of the republicans leaves something to be desired. They have not moved with the celerity and suc- cess expected. But that their difficul- ties have been, and still are, great, and that the mess they inherited is unique for size and composition can- not be denled. Nothing comparable is to be found in our history. But, large and unique as it is, the mess must be cleaned up; and the process as it de- velops will both interest and instruct the country. A job of such proportions and complexities calls for time and ‘the most careful calculations an in- { telligent leadership is capable of. i | Cox and McAdoo, and 1024. | Prior to the San Francisco conven- {tion, and, indeed, after that body had {assembled, therc was much talk of imaking the democratic ticket Cox and McAdoo, or McAdoo and Cox. The argument in favor of putting Gov. Cox in front was that as he had i three times demonstrated his strength iat home, and the republicans had gone to Ohlo for thelr candidate, the logical {and promising thing would be to pit Buckeye against Buckeye, and thereby make certain of a very important state. The argument in favor of Mr. Mc- | Adoo was that as President Wilson's ison-nlaw he would as the candidate command the whole-hearted support of the administration. Neither ticket proved negotiable. Neither Gov. Cox mor Mr. McAdoo {would consider second place. Both were strong-—indeed, the only strong |men in the contest—and a strenuous { tussle began—a seesaw through many { ballots, with Gov. Cox in the end the ‘winner. Again there is talk of the ticket of Cox and McAdoo. It could not be Mc- Adoo and Cox, because Gov. Cox after ‘lnnkln‘ a race in first place could not | make one in second. The argument is !that as the two men remain in the {forefront of the democratic picture | their association in an appeal to the country would command the party’s full resources at the polls. But the McAdoo men are not per- suaded. They point to last year, when, ‘dapfisthahm that Gov. Cox had the i full support of the administratalon and was in full charge at home, he was terribly beaten, losing his state by ,nearly 400,000 and the country by nearly 7,000,000 votes. That record jalone would be 2 fatal handicap. What i man for second place could strengthen | such & man for first? { —————————— Coming Back? George ,B. ‘McClellan, now wearing the title of colonel from service in the world war, returned home from Eu- rope the other day, and said to an in- jewer: »7 am just aching to get into the As soon as I settle one or {:“-’:"h'fi?s things that must be at- emde i enter the REt in beRalf of Mayor Hylan.’ i Does this foretell something further |for Col. McClellan himself in politics? ' He is only fifty-six, and yet & veteran in that field. A quarter century ago jhe was a member of Congress, and i served several terms. He retired to be- jcome mayor of New York, and had !two terms in that office. He did not, i however, get along well with Leader {Murphy of Tammany Hall, and the {disagreement cost him his “pull” at |nome. He has since been in private life, waiting, it has been thought, for a chance to re-enter public life. 1t he can make it, this is a good time for the colonel to get into the game {again. The New York democracy. is impoverished in the way of state lead- |ers—an unusual state of case. It has {but one who commands much notice. {Gov. Smith made reputation at Albany, and is now under discussion for a | third nomination and a second term {next year. Col. McClellan and Gov. Smith have something in common, and yet are dif- i i gide of politics, and play the game in a practical way. But, in addition, the colonel knows life in its larger, ampler aspects, He is an author, | written several ‘books. He is a traveled {man, and has a wide acquaintance with {the public men of his owm and other countries. Col. McClelian entered politics as a protege of Richard Croker, but while !in Congress was not known as | “Croker’s man.” He carried himself jwell in the House, and became one of his party’s leaders there. e . It is fortunate, no doubt, that Henry Ford was prudent enough to provide jhimself with & highly lucrative busi- { ness before ke went in for literature. —— e Even after arrangements for the limitation of armaments are complete = littie attention to precautions against concealed Weapons may be necessary. B e —— ‘Wars of the future will employ new tise your dissensions now that you are | called upon for action. Do something!; iply in something like these terms:| ferent, too. Both know the practical| and has; D. O, SEPTEMBER 25, 1921—PART 2. For Competency to Function BY THOMAS R. MARSHALL, Former Viee President of the United States. NE of life's illusions con- sists in the delight we take in imagining that we have discovered something new. We do not like to think that there were warriors before Achilles and xings before Agamemnon. It Is true that in the past there was a holy alliance and there were many un- holy alliances, there was an Amphyc- | tionic League and there were other leagues looking to the peace of the world. But it pleases us to think that the league of nations was a dis- covery. It is no difficult thing to com- cince 1arge masses of men that you have unearthed the ten command- ments and have exhumed the golden rule. But when all is said it must be edmitted that, nothwithstand- ing the general diffusion of knowl- edge, wisdom has lingered. The ages have brought to us much in- formation, but they have not changed the primal bases of con- duct. There have been no wiser men than Solomon, King of Israel, and Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews. At about the time the Nazarine was uttering His golden rule, a heathen poet in old Rome was ad- vising the shoemaker to stick to his last. The countless ciforts of shoemakers to be surgeons hawve verified -the wisdom and value of the advice. The same idea is dif- ferently stated in the sacred writ- ings. They point out that men ‘were mot created all competent to do any work and discharge any duty in human life. They avow what the experlence of mankind has disclosed that the “Jack of all trades is the master of mone. They solemnly warn the citizen to obey the scriptural injunction: “This one thing 1 do.” The world's work can best be done and the world's progress can best be se- cured by each man devoting him- self to the thing for which he is peculiarly fitted. * ¥ ¥ ¥ In that large liberty wherunto we have attained we are more than_ ever convinced that we have learn- ed how things ought to be done, or at least have discovered a new way of discharging old duties. It takes us a long while to ascertain that right conduct is fixed and invari- able through all the ages, that when we have discovered some- thing new about it it is either not new, or else it is wrong. The many new discoveries that I make and subsequently ascertaln to be old remind me of a farmer client I had in the days when I was a country lawyer. He conceived that he was an inventive genius. Consequently he was constantly bringing to me what he assumed and, for aught I knew, were patentable inventions. They kept coming back from the patent office with the explanation that they were infringements. When the last one came back he chewed a rye straw meditatively and then sadly remarked, “Doesn’t it beat the world how many things 1 discover that other fellows dis- covered before me?” With an utter disregard for the best interests of mankind 1 have ofttimes wished that portions of The different activities of American life could be segregated and turn- ed over to the shoemakers for man- agement. Human nature is so strange that the only sure way really to convince a man that he cannot do a thing is to let him try it. If the waste accompanying such an experiment were not so fright- ful, it would be well worth the try- ing. And yet no one, perhaps, would be convinced, save those who_failed, and they, no doubt, would lay the blame on some un- toward interference, with their management or some unhappy state of the market. % % ¥ % What we particularly need in | | i i business relations of life is not more information, but a little more honesty with ourselves a1 a little more wisdom. The common jdea that democracy spells com- petency is a mistaken one. A man may be just as incompetent under & democracy as under the most absolute of monarchies. The idea that because a man is free he is therefore competent to discharge any duty is wrong and constitutes a serious menace to economic government. The shoemaker must stick to his last or he will starve not only himself but his family, in & demovracy or elsewhere. That is the best democracy which has both the capacity and the de- sire to force the shoemaker to stick to his last and to compel him honestly to make shoes, A free democracy, where everybody does everything and cverybody settles everything, cannot endure. The real question which confronts a people from day to day In not “Shall they rule?” but “Shall the best of the best or the best of the worst rule?” Russian bolshevism has disclosed that however much you may pretend to enlarge the Tiberties of a people, they are, nev- ertheless, ruled by a few; that the mere enlargement of liberty Is a curee, if it shall take away from the people competency and n- science and substitute in stead incompetency and tyranny. * ok k% The term “aristocrat” is distaste- ful to the American. It implies to his mind a man who by trick or device has attained unto power and thrives through privilege. It would be a good thing for us to approach the subject of the aris- tocrat with an open mind. He exists whether we want him or not. He is the man who guides and controls. Whether you call Judge Gary and Mr. Gompers democrats or aristocrats I do not care. In all essentials they are the aristocrats of their different | views of economic life. 1 know that as individuals they count as but one each in the life of Amer- ica, but in their power and ca- pacity to mold the thoughts and move the actions of their fellow men they are aristocrats. They represent’ that minority which al- wuys rules and always will rule under any and every form of gov- ernment. The advantage of a democracy consist in the fact that we can put either of them or both under a microscope; that they do not rule by divine right; that they have neither arms nor armles to keep them in power; that we can judge of their rule by the effect it has upon the common weal, and | that we have it within our power to upeet them if we do not like | them, always remembering, how- i ever, that when we upset them we | shull of necessity put others in tbeir places. * ¥ x ¥ Whether what & man owes or what is due him causes him the greater worry Is questionable. Just now popular concern is about equally divided between what we owe as a nation and what the allied powers owe us. Part of the time we are gasping for breath in our effort to find the right methods of taxation to pay our indebtedncss and running expenses. The rest of the time we are sweating blood in endeavoring to ascertain whether the allies should pay us their debt, whether, in justice to American business, we can afford to let them pay their debt in the only way In which they can pay it—namely, in commodities—or whether the good of the whole world in general, and of America if particular, may not be subserved by an extension of time. Many shoemakers who have no more knowledge of international finance than I have have concluded to take charge of this momentous question, and are bitterly opposed to the conferring of any discretion on the Secretary of the Treasury. It may be that it is advisable to have the Congress fix hard and fast rules by which the adjustment of our European affairs shall be made. But unless I obtain further 1light than I now possess I am not so convinced. Secretary Melloh does not hold his position by any- thing that I have done in his be- half. If I could I would put him out of office and put some democrat in his place. I am not taking up cudgels in defense of the Secretary. 1 am just entering a plea for au- thority and competency to have some power. My plea is merely a re-echoing of old Horace's advice to let the sloemaker stick to his last. 1 | i 1 ‘. * % % ¥ The sorriest evidence of the in- advisability of partisanship con- sists in that warping of the mind to believe that nothing good can | come from the opposite party. The question of foreign indebtedness will be handled by the republican administration. It will be settled either by hard and fast rules made by partisans who do not have much more financial sense than I have or by the Secretary of the Treasury, who has certainly dis- closed In his business life that he knows a dollar when he sees one. Although he is not of my political faith, I have not yet reached the point where I can even dream of his being a traitor to the best in- terests of his and my country. Because of his training and ex- perience, 1 prefer a settlement that he shall make to one authorized to be made by hard and fast rules which may not at all be applicable to the circumstances when the time of adjustment comes. (Copyright, 1921, by Thomas B. Marshall.) Consuls as World Trade Scouts Now that the United States is start- ing on a new era of foreign trade and seeking markets for its export- able surplus in all parts of the world, one of the important phases of the reorganization of the federal service ifs to make these consuls render more timely and efficient assistance to the American producers and shippers. It is also proposed and steps have been ticular talent and aptitude for com- mercial activities as foreign repre- sentatives of the United States gov- ernment. ‘This not only builds & more de- pendable service for those especlally interested in forelgn trade, but offers a new field for which the young men of this country can fit themselves, ! with romising fature. Such spe- { cial training for foreign service must {also result in a better standing for {the United States in the feld of in- ternational relations. The Importance of these efforts to | fmprove the commercial activities of !the consular mervice are emphasized by Wilbur J. Carr, director of that | particular agency of the Stats De- partment. With the growth of the exportable surplus of competitive United States grnduou a correspond- ing effort has been made to place the commercial work of consular offices imore on a basis of practical aid in the realization of concrete results, Director Carr explains. It is with particular reference to this phase of improvement that the reorganisation of the Department of Commerce’'s bureau of foteign and domestic commerce on a commodity basis will be of the greatest aid. Through the hearty spirit of co-oper- ation existing between the two de- tments it will be myousb!e in the ture for consular offices in the field actually taken to train men of par- ficient that material from the fleld should be readable and interesting— it must be timely, precise and of such character as will point the way to jdefinite possibilities for American trade. o Attention Is now being paid to the training of consular officers along these lines and to the administration of the service to these ends. Wher- ever it is found that young officers possess commercial talent and par- ticular aptitude in economic matters it ln‘gropoua that every facility shall be orded them for strengthening their work and advancing ir ca- reers in this important field of spe- cialization. The harmonious work of the two departments will be of in- {estimable value in disclosing attrac- tive fields for the display of Ameri- can initiative. In addition to the commercial infor- | mation which they supply to the Depart- ment of Commerce, the American consu- lar officers abroad, as agents of the State Department, are Cl ‘with many duties of a non-commercial nature. Perhaps their highest function is that of the protection of American citizens, but as representatives of our business in- terests and those of American citizens in general, their services are constantly jcalled into requisition by other a¢ | : ments of the government, so that their' iactivities touch practically every phase tof governmental work. The broad sphere of consular useful- ness in connection with the conduct of jour foreign relations is quite independ- 1ent of such direct trade promotion as th able to influence eign conditions and e in the ities in which the ons in the communities in Wi ey ized official ping and the relief and n American seamen. Frequently, indeed, the control of allen immigration through tho passport vise system together with and other relating DIGEST OF Politics at Home/Pleads for an ‘Opportunity |Heard and Seen Let me take this occasion to pay tribute to Victer Herbert, that ster- ling and true musician, who is not Warhington last week by an prising motion picture theater, the lon gave thousands opportunity 1o ses the composer, who otherwiss might never have had that pleanurs, Mr. Herbert's compositions are known throughout the country, but perhaps few who are familiar with his light operas have secn the man who wrote them. Although he has appgared here In person many times, comparatively few have been abie to sec him, i It seemed peculiarly fitting, there- fore, that this musician with the gift of melody should appear daily at a popular theater, where thousands who love & “tune” could see and personal- ly appreciate him and his gifts. Victor Herbert has never been afraid of & “tune.” He was born with melody in hix soul, and the finest sort of musical education, but made it bub- ble and sing the more. There has grown up in recent years a clan of music lovers who have af- fected a disdain of melody, in the face of the fact that the greatest musi- clans who ever lived composed the finest melodies. They forgot that Beethoven modeled one movement of his eighth symphony on the ticking of a metronome, that Mozart's symphony in G minor is one tune after another, that Schubert's “Unfinished” is pure melody from the first note to the last. Victor Herbert has never been ashamed to follow in these masters’ footsteps, and the him for it. He Lelongs w ter and Ethelbe MacDowell of “To a Wild Rose. * * % The contrast between the “peppy” Herbert and the mournful photoplay which followed was striking. It led many to wish that some thea- ter genius would arise who would establish a photo-playhouse for the showing solely of bright, cheerful. happy pictures. Honest, who wants to go to a thea- ter to witness the death of a beauti- ful child? What fun is there in cholera and death? There undoubted- ly arc thousands who like to have a drama run the gamut of their emo- tions, but alsy there are hundreds Who do not want that sort of thinz A picture theater devoted to cheer- fulness, where one could drop in any time without feeling the certainty of being forced to witness death and de- struction, the tiresome “triangle” and other depressing subjects, ought to make a “hit.” Whether it would or not, is a differ- ent matter, * * % Whether you believe the folloving story or mot probably will depend upon the treatment you have received from your landlord. A high government official told me about it. He has a heart as big as the city post office, and no particular love for landlords, either. This official went to visit one of the former employes of his office. a man who was stricken with an in- curable malady, used up all his sick leave, and is now without help, except what former associates give him. There is no use going into details. But the chief came back with two great discoveries. In the first place, he found a man strong and cheerful in the face of great trouble. And he heard of a landlord who, knowing the circumstances, had vol- untarily cut the rent in half. CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. FIFTY YEARS AGQ IN THE STAR Fifty years ago the Mormon ques- tion was one of great puzzlement to the American peo- War Against dle. Brigham Young was defying the,laws PoIygamY. ;¢ thia country in hin own example and the course of his followers in adhcring to polygamy. Nothing seemed to avall to effect the observance of the statutes and the maintenance of federal authority in the territory. DLut there was some hope that a solution of the problem was at hand, though, In fact, it was not until long afterward that polyga- my was definitely put under the ban In The Star of September 21, 1871, is tho following editorial: “It is getting hot for Brigham Young. For the first time a United States judge finds himself strong enough to make a stand against po- Iygamy in the courts of Utah. The hope and belief of the Mormons that no Mormon could be convicted of bigamy, because no Mormon womezn could be found to appear as a wit- ness to her own discredit, has failed them. A case comes before Judge McKean where a woman complains of a polygamist as an adulterer and ands his indictment and trial eral leading Mormons, amopng them Elder Cannon, church paper, The News, summoned on the jury opinfon that polygamy was legal and were set aside by the judge us not competent for jurors. “For the first time, therefore, gentile jury has been impaneled, comi- petent to deal with cases involving the bigemy-polygamy question. The judge charged them that they were to be governed by tho same law principles which control from Maine to Montana; that murder, urson, biz- amy and riot in Utah were as much crimes there as elsewhere; that the ' editor of the who were gave the and a i and that the trample npon @ who teach oth be punished will be the fir: h covert wrath among the Mormons at this unpleasant and ominous turn of affairs, but the time has passed when Brigham sum mon his Danite gang to make short work of obtrustive opponents. The growing strength of the secession Godbeyite Mermons, the influx of Gentiles into Utah in consequence of the development of the mi the close communication afforded by the Pacific railroad with the outsid~ world have all served to break down the power of the Brigham Young pariy of polygamist Mormons, and it Tooks he end of polygamy was Mormon 1 v would come YOW monogomis come even s s buildog tenacity is | tempered with no little tact and cun- | ning. When the worst comes to the worst and the strain is too heavy to | be resisted it is pretty certain that he | will In his capacity of prophet receive | & ‘revelation,’ permitting the Mormons {to dispense with the religious cross |and burden of polygamy. placed on | their shoulders for a season &s a | chastening dispensation. Polygamy was introduced by Jo Smith through |a ‘revelation’ and Brigham Younz | can get rid of it—when he wants to— I jn the same convenient way."” ite end is Brigham Young' French Press Begins to Speak. The French press, significantly si- lent at the time of the signing of the German-American separate treaty of peace, has begun to speak. For in- stance, L'Europe Nouvelle of Paris says: “In 1919 it was said that, the United States having joined in the affairs of Europe, willingly or unwillingly, she cannot become disinterested, and all at once the United States shows, not in words, but in deeds, that she has become disinterested all the same. In refusing to recognize the political clauses of the treaty, by avoiding making any engagements on this score, America proves that European political order means little to her. ‘Whether it is a question of the Rhine or the Vistula, Washington does not trouble to insure the continuance of a system which the blood of her sons contributed in creating. We must ex- pect that very soon American battal- fons will cease to keep ‘watch on the Rhine’ and we must not be surprised if in the same way the United States withdraws from Poland the support 'which she has given so far.. No matter what happens tomorrow, only the in- terest of today counts; the treaty of August 25, as the German press said quite plainly, is a victory of the ‘prac- tical selfishness’ of the Americans. “Thus it is the victory of the ‘ir- reconcilables’ and Senator Borah; President Harding gives up resisting the current; we should not be aston- ished if tomorrow Mr. Hughes were to retire from the State Department; and the ‘practical selfishness’ which has just made his idea—neither French nor European—of advantages without corresponding _obligations, triumph would at once raise the ques- tion of the allied debts. * * ¢ “America will be to the fore where her immediate interests are con- cerned: she will sit on the commission of reparations, because she wants to bo informed about decisions capable | of having serious influence on the economic development 6f Europe and— consequently—on international com- merce, and because America wants the German markets to be a fruitful outlet for her: she will pay attention to the operations of the control com- missions; not that she cares at all about the disarmament of Germany, but because in the liquidation of the German arsenal certain gcod oppor- tunities might oocur at a time wh Japan is developing her armament she will claim_her part of the Ger- man colonies. We must have no illu- sions; America will support us as long as she believes that our inter- ost Is the same as hers, but only S™(s for us” concludes the writer, after having realised these facts— to think over what sacrifices would | recent shopping trip to London. Thu be necessary on our part to hope to insure eventually this support; it is for us to compare these sacrifices with those which the maintenance of our European alliances seem to demand; it for us to weigh in the balance— before the Washington conference—— and to decide, in taking account only of our real interests, which may pos- sibly not agree with the picture that our sentimentality likes to draw.’ Scheer Warns Against Force. Admiral Scheer, the “hero of Skage- rak,” commenting in the Vossische Zeitung on the assassination of Erz- ‘warns the German youth that expect _political 5 through force and violence. His judg- ment is the more striking since hi himself has suffered from the assassin. the revolution and because ‘which h‘!: less valuable. While horror it cannot ‘become is everywhere shown of a crime cOm-| seal, Russian sables, cascaded so that a definite pattern is formed by the 7 mitted i- reasons, is manifested for nary indulgence a can & politioal crime’in_itself be justified or at least excused? Or- der cannot be smong us by the power of Zorce,, but, § T A ly: arran in & |BEe R B S, i Nrs. ~expisined: ' '~ FOREIGN PRESS conviction. Such events as happened | at Freudenstadt show plainly the ten- sion which could be produced in a day. and which chased away all attempts at reconstruction. A new civil war would demand much greater sacrifices than the revolution when desperation and disappointment at seemingly un- necessary sacrifices and privations of- fered an excuse for the unpatriotic conduct of the dissatisfied masses. “What seems to me the mOst neces- sary task at present is to learn from former experience, to acknowledge the old blunders, and be ready to bear th consequences of them, so that under standing for the political needs m | be mained through the recovery of out | side conditions, which is of the re: est advantaze to our people in its e tirety. We can only to recor struct the fatherland, hand in comrades. Hatred must give wa a peaceful and honest desire to com: to a mutual understanding. The at- tainment of nationalist and bolshevist aims would be a still more unbearable calamity than it has been in Russia. “I warn Germany's youth not to set their hopes on brutality and force or we shall surely fall into an abyss out of which the German nation will not be able to extricate itself.” League of Nations Inviolability. A Swiss court of justice has just | decided that all persons in the em- ploy of the league of nations and the international labor office must be lc- gally inviolable, because the premises and landed property of both institu- tions are inviolable. Their grounds and buildings are extraterritorial. like those of a foreign embassy o1 and, what is more, the iltgallnn. | league of nations belongs not to on« nation only, but to forty-eight, there- fore its grounds and promises forty-eight times inviolable, and sim- flarly with regard to its staff, says the London Observer. A messenger in the labor office—: Swiss citizen, by the way, and not. iof course, on the list of extraterri- torial persons—owed a Genevese boot- maker for & pair of boots. The court. acting on behalf of the bootmaker. asked the international labor office to withhold a part of his wages equal to the price of the boots; but the labor office, while not disputing the claim. ognize the jurisdiction of the court. court, which non-suited him. Best Dressed Woman in ‘World. To Mrs. Smith Wilkinson of Not- tingham. England, known "as_ the “Countess of Monte Cristo,” a Lon- don Chronicle correspondent awards the honor of being the “best dressed woman in the world,” during the course of an article in which he de- * tails incidents in the “champfion’s” visit, he explained, wes to be her final reconnaigsance before a stay of three weeks, spent in the best ‘suite” of a leading hotel. ‘“Most of my best things have al- ready Tm" to London,” Mrs. Wilkin- son told the correspondent. “What I have here does not include my lat- eat purchases; ing more tomorrow. You see, I shall require at least 300 gowns, 200 hats and 100 pairs of shoes for my three weeks' stay in London, be- sides opera cloaks and other necessi- tier. If I am the best dressed woman in the world 1 have a reputation to keep up, haven't 17" It would be well nigh impossibic to exaggerate the beauty and the value of Mrs. Smith Wilkinson's gowns, hats and wardrobe generally. continues the writer. There is a velvet coat, lined with champagne and trimmed with & mys- terious white fur that is like noth- ing else in the world. It comes from China. | g ‘There is a world’s collection of real furs. here coat of moleskin. ter: is furs actusll: said that it could not entertain or.rec- The creditor then appealed to a higher ides, I shall be buy- s