Evening Star Newspaper, September 28, 1921, Page 6

THE EVENING NTAR, WASHINGTON, D. U, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1921, THE EVENING STAR. With Sinday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. ‘WEDNESDAY . September 28, 1921 = THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: Nassau St. Chicago Offic First \uluu-l Bank Building. European Office: 3 Kegent St., London, Bngland. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, is delivered by carriers within the city at 60 cents per month; daily only, 45 cents per month: Sunday only, 20 cents per month. Or- ders way be sent by mall, or telephone Main £5000. ~Collection s made by carriers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Marylané and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..13T., $8.40; 1 mo., 70c Daily only .1 vr.., $6.00; 1 mo., 50c Sunday onl .1'yr., §2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ All Other States. Underpaid District Employes. The District Commissioners have done well in requesting the United States bureau of efficiency to make a survey of the District government in the interest of improved adminis- tration. The bureau has taken up, as the most vital and fundamental need in connection with the improvement of District government conditions, the question of reclassification of salaries. ‘The report of the bureau on salaries, just filed with the Commissioners. amply sustains the opinion long held by The Star that the salaries paid by tir. District government are far bLelow those paid by the federal gov- erne Weashington takes pride in its mu- nic4™i government, which, consider- ing &4 handicaps, is very efficient. Tt is Intic affected by partisan politics and is free from graft. But it suffers greatly because of the payment of in- adequate salaries to its officers and employes from the Commissioners down, with the result that its losses to the rederat service and outside em- ploymem ace always excessi This results in wuste and inefficiency by reason of what is known as a big “turnover.” In its salary stofty of the District service, the bureau of efficiency allo- cated the District employes to the pending Smoot-Wood reclassification bill. The bureau found that a re- classification of the District salaried workers to the minimum pay sched- ules of the Smoot-Wood bill would in- volve an average Increase of 6.4 per cent in pay. Im the case of several groups of District workers the av- erage advance required to bring them up to the standard grades into which their work would make them fall was found to be much more than the average of 6.4 per cent. Several charitable institutions need increases in pay to their employes of from 12 to 20 per cent. One division of the electrical department needs a 15 per cent increase and the swimming pool | employes need an 18 per cent advance in compensation. The efficiency bureau's report brings » most necessitous case in :t government (and, it may ssumed, in the entire government service in Washington) the Public Library, whose 105 employes, the bureau holds; need to have increases in pay of more than 22 per cent to bring their compensation up to proper standards. This recommendation of the bureau of efficiency fully sustains the position of the library board and librarian, who have, in their annual reports and before appropriation com- mittees, again and again shown how the work of the library was beingi hampered, many times almost to the point of collapse, by the fact that they could not recruit or hold a trained staff needed to do the educa- tional work of the library with the meager pay provided in the rigid statutory salaries granted in the li- brary appropriations. ‘What are the remedies that should be applied to correct the burdensome handicaps under which the District employes and the District govern- ment itself labor? The estimates for the District government are now in process of being framed up by the bureau of the budget, with the advice of former Senator Sherman. The ob- vious remedy is to incorporate into the District estimates the findings of the bureau of efficiel so that the discrepancies, inequalities and injus- tices of the present District salary schedules may be wiped out in the next District appropriation bill. T o ' { Unemployment. The evidence is that ‘Washington s suffering less from unemployment than other cities. The limelight champion_ of the unemployed, TUr- bain Ledoux, has said that he finds conditions here much better than in other cities. He has found a few jobless men so forlorn that they have to spend the nights in the streets. The citizens’ employ- ment bureau, in its survey of the un- employed in the District, will submit figures to the conference on unem- ployment which show that, although the situation here is not as bright and happy as one would have it, it is nothing like so bad as elsewhere. The largest class suffering from unem- ployment are clerks, and it is thought that most of these are men and wom- en dismissed by the government in carrying out its economy program. —————— According to reports; bootlegging in Chicago has reached a point where & citizen who calls a cop is more likely to be a man with a thirst than one ‘with a grievance. ‘The success of a secret'society may depend almost entirely on its publicity talent. The Peace Treaties. Night 'sessions for the peace treaties are hardly the thing. A tired Senate should not be called upon to consider and dispose of meéasures so important. And at the close of an afternoon ses- sion the Senate usually is tired. Interést in the treaties is very great, and world-wide. On one account or another, all nations are at attention, and particularly the nations that meet " us in foreign markéts as a competitor for trade. Those natfems well understand that | without peace arrangements with our once the way is cleared we shall be active in offering our products in.all foreign fields. And the only thing in the way now so far as central Europe is concerned is the war status. True, the war is over, and has been these three years, but the fact finds us still former adversaries. Those arrange- ments should be established as soon as possible. When announcement was made that the administration had concluded its negotiations with Berlin and Vienna, and the terms agreed upon were stated, speedy ratification by the Sen- ate was freely predicted. It looked like a certainty. Opposition has appeared, however, and is not confined to one side of the chamber. The full strength of ityis not known. The reasons for it are be- ginning to appear. The opposition senators have the floor. But let us hope that the debate may be short, and that ratification may soon take place. Let us have peace, and the treaties that make peace ef- fective and profitable. No Railway Workers’ Strike. A general strike and tie-up of the nation’s transportation system at this critical and acute stage of the period of readjustment is inconceivable. The idea of a nation-wide strike of the or- ganized rallway workers of the country has seemed so preposterous, so beyond the possibility of what reasoning men might be expected to do, that the pub- lic has not been disposed to take seri- ously the strike vote now about com- pleted. But the information comes from apparently ~authentic sources that the vote is strongly in favor of a strike. Should the organized railway work- ers carry the strike threat to execu- tion they will arouse a storm of pub- lic indignation and resentment such as never before was arrayed on either side in a contest between labor and capital. The country simply will not endure that its transportation system should be paralyzed now, with winter approaching and with millions of workers idle and in distress. If the brotherhoods go on strike every re- source of the national government should, and undoubtedly will, be em- ployed to keep the trains moving, and back of the government will be an al- most unbroken volume of public sup- port. Once the die is cast, the con- test will have to be fought out to a finish, for to compromise the issues joined in this dispute would be a disaster no less in, magnitude than that threatened by the strike itself. ‘These issues are so simple that the public will have no difficulty in deter- mining the right and wrong, the ques- tions of gocd faith and square dealing which are involved. A few months ago the Railway Labor Board received from the brotherhoods a plea for in- creased wages, based on the high cost of living, and the plea was granted, though it involved the necessity of in- creasing freight and passenger rates. Recently, in view of the fact that the cost of living had decreased, the rail- ‘way owners came forwand with a plea for a review and readjustment, and the board ordered a reduction amount- ing to 12 per cent. It is against put- ting this reduction into effect that the strike now is threatened, though the chiefs of the brotherhood admit that since the increase was granted the cost of living has declined 16 per cent, leaving the railway workers still an advantage of 4 per cent. Time was when the railway brother- hoods had the respect and confidence of all classes of citizens. They were regarded as conservative and con- structive. Strikes were few and far between, yet there was, steady and progressive betterment in the pay and working conditions of railway opera- tives. But little of this respect and confidence will survive if the present controversy is permitted to reach the climax of a strike. l Many influential Germans evidently do not care what becomes of the mark, so long as the laboratory products hold up in value for purposes ot barter. i Japan some time since arranged a battleship building program without taking the precaution to make it subject to change on short notice. l Battleships built at the present time may prove to be accomplished facts which do not practically relate to any- { thing in particular. i Perhaps the most pathetic victims of unemployment on the world map are the Hohenzollerns. The March of the Marines. The marines on the third day's march to their maneuver ground on the western part of the flelds of Chan- cellorsville and the central part of the Wilderness battlefield are passing over the old Plank road from Fred- ericksburg to the west. It is not a plank road now, though at the -time of the civil war it was a toll road, planked with timbers two inches thick. The name persists just as does the name of our Chain bridge. Three miles out of Fredericksburg the ma- rines pass through the fields where Sedgwick’s 6th Corps, Army of the Potomac, marching west to aid Hooker at Chancellorsville - by striking the rear of Lee's army, formed its lines to carry the Confederate .position on the plateau at the east edge of which Salem Baptist Church stood and stands. burg the marines pass tall monuments to the 15th and 29th New Jersey Vol- unteers and a small Confederate marker, and climbing a slight incline in the road, where it cuts through the line of Confederate intrenchments, pass Salem Church. That is as far as the 6th Corps got, though some Union troops seem to have penetrated dewn the Plank road to the James Orrick house, about 200 yards west of the church. One mile west of Salem Church the marines come to Five-mile fork, so called because it is five miles from Fredericksburg and five miles from Chancellorsville. There the famous Plank road swings to ‘the southwest, and the equally famous Orange turn- pike carries the marines straight west to Chancellorsville, ' Where the Plank road, there bearing northward, again intercepts the pike. Where the. Orange turnpike crosses Motts run, two miles east of Chancellorsville, the route of the marines leads through intrenchments which Hooker dug and which Lee attacked. West two miles they come to the wide felds, forest bound, about tiae Chancellor house. Historic ground! One mile west, a lit- tle monument on the north side of the road and in the shadow of old pines marks where Stonewall Jackson, after his great surprise attack on Hooker’s right flank, received his mortal wound. Another mile and Wilderness Church, an old Baptist church where Melziah Chancellor at the outbreak of the civil war was preaching every Sunday, and the good but stern old Melziah was also the minister at Salem. At~ Wilderness Church the road forks.” The left fork, which is the Plank road, turns southwest to Park- er’s store and New Hope Church. The right fork is the Orange turnpike, and three miles beyond Wilderness Church the marines come to Wilderness tav- ern close by Wilderness run. A road leads north to Germanna ford on the Rapidan five miles away. Near Wilder- ness Tavern the marines will camp where Ewell’s corps of Lee's army came upon Warren's corps of Grant's army, and the heavy fighting of the ‘Wilderness began, fighting which spread far to the south and surged back and forth east and west. i Business Is Better. A reading of many papers devoted to discussing business and printing financial and industrial news shows that business is better and improving. There is still small production end some stagnation in buying, the num- ber of unemployed is large, prices in many lines are still so high that po- tentlal buyers hold off, exports gre checked by the foreign money level ‘which makes exchange of commodities between the United States and for- eign buyers difficult, and in many cases impossible, yet, notwithstanding all this, the barometer shows clearing weather. Robert H. Bean, executive secretary of the American Acceptance Council, summarizing many opinions, says that “banker, business man, col- lege professor, economist and directors of the public press unite in a common understanding and declare that busi- ness is better.”” The shutdown on credit is being lifted by banks, re-|by serves of the federal reserve system are at a high level and member banks are full of funds, and relations be- tween capital and labor, though not altogether harmonious, on the whole are better. Sick business is in a more cheerful frame of mind, and the pa- tient is taking more interest in life. . $ Predictions of Senator Borah are even more alarming than those of the forecasters who insist that the coming ‘winter will be one of the most severe on record. % $ For a long time the impression has prevailed that China will be a great country when she gets rid of her local political bosses. 5 ! The league of nations apparently continues to do enough business tol; warrant keeping the offices open and Four milés out of Fredericks-] ] Somehow to do the same. —_— meeting overhead expenses. | The great problem of unemployment is that of bringing together the man who needs help and the man who wants work. § After debates have progressed for a time it often becomes evident that en- tanglements are possible without al- liances. i SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Autumnal Custom. The melancholy days are here Of which the poet sings. The prophet, as he does each year, His sad prediction brings. “The winter long will have no thaws To melt the ice and snow. I am convinced of this because A squirrel told me so. “And, while the skies grow gray and chill, 1 may as well suggest That we prepare for every fll That hinders human rest.” This melancholy autumn song Is warbled every year. The custom has become so strong That it must persevere. For years we've managed to survive And play life's merry game. This year, no doubt, we will contrive Ability . “You never quote the poets in your speeches any more.”. . “No,” replied Bemator Sorghum. “I find that the custom is likely to cause confusion. I once quoted from ‘Para- dise Lost,’ mentioning the author. Some of my dissatisfied constituents got together and said it might be a good idea to look old John Milton up and groom him as a candidate for my job.” Jud Tunkins says aristocracy is go- ing out of fashion so completely that anybody who wants a real elegant high-sounding title will have to join a secret society. Under Conversational Cover. 0Old Satan favors discontent, Our lofty plans to balk; He often starts an argument And works while others talk. Ethereal Pleasures. “What is your favorite perfume?” “It all depends on circumstances,’ replied Mr. Cumrox. “Of course, I re- spect the opinion of mother and the girls about the merits of various ex- pensive and delicate compounds. But for downright enjoyment give me the aroma of ham and cabbage.” “If you was'es too much time tellin’ yoh troubles,” said Uncle Eben, “sooner or later yoh friends is gineter lose. patience an’ say day serves you right” Editorial Digest The Restoration of King Cotton. The return to normalcy of the price of cotton has started a smile in the] sunny south, which the press sees widening through the dinginess of Wall street, by way of the grain fields and hog and cattle farms of the plains, into the canyons of the far west. The king- dom of cotton, while enthroned in the south, is not isolated there, as is em- phasized by the Great Falls (Mont.) Tribune, which warns its readers that they are mistaken if they “say that cotton prices do not interest them in any way. ¢ ¢ ¢ We are all bound together on one string in lndu!trlll DI’OBWH!Y and the misfortune of one industry is the misfortune of all in some measure, though perhaps differing in degree.” _““The commercial interests of New York and the south are so clearly in- terwoven,” says the Charlotte (N. C) Observer, “that when times are bad i1 the south the New York pocketbook I.! cerrespondingly flat, and when times in the south are of the kind that might be called ‘flush’ New York is made to rejoice. * ¢ & The speculative element in New York has been inclined to the notion that the lower it can hold the cotton market the better it is for that element—and perhaps it is. But for commercial and industrial New York, the higher cotton goes the better.” “It means, first of all,” says the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, “that a great dcal of frozen credlt in the banks will be thawed out. ¢ ¢ ¢ That {s why the rise in the rlce of cotton means better times all ai It even means a better de- mand ror the other agricultural prod- ucts. Ultimately it will mean more employment, and that will tend to in- crease the purchasing power of the public and thus mean more business.” As to whether the curtailment of acreage, the alertness of the specu- lator or the boll weevil working in conjunction with the old reliable law of supply and mand is most en- titled to credit for breaking the jam, the editorial mind is not unanimous. In support of the first, the Passaic (N. J.) Herald, referring to the dras- tic reduction of acreage last year in .the ten leading cotton states, says: “What are the results of the south's self-made luck? The present crop of cotton, added to the carry-over supply, will be virtually equivalent to one year's production, and the whole quantity will be absorbed by the demand within the United States ® ¢ * The south deserves its good luck, which was self-made.” The Wichita Falls Record further supports this contention In its reference to the testimony of the Department of Agri- culture “that the market now has behind it the largest percentage re- duction of acreage ever made in a single season,” while the San Antonio Light inclines to emphasize the im- portance of the speculator: “‘As usual, the speculators, it seems, started the movement. On the sell- ing side, next in order, were mill in- terests that had made a large profit on the cotton they had previously bought. They were said to be in doubt as to the marketability of cloth made from 20-cent cotton. ~Southern banks too, contributed to the activity ing outright cotton which they hud Dbtalned by default of borrow- ers who had given this commodity as_security.” The Chicago News, taking up the cause of the boll weevil, answers its own What caused the % ot any manipula- lits, but government reports of widespread damage to the totton crop and the probability o the shortest crop in many “With the price of cotton low,” say the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, “the buyers of cotton were not stocking up for what they knew would be their demands for the coming year. Then came the report of a short crop, caused by ravages of the boll weevil. The mills began to buy cotton and there has been a general improve- ment throughout the south which has been refiected in the markets of New York and the east in general. It has been the south and the cot- ton mills that have set the ball roll- ing.” A note of moderation runs through some of the southern comment. “It is doubtful,” thinks the Houston Post, “if 20 cents means the cost of produc- tion of cotton this year. * The farmer is not making any money sell- g at 20 cents, even if he comes out d the Charlotte (N. C.) News thinks “there is no chance of the southern farmer being able to'sell his cotton this year at a price which will make up for the losses which he sus- tained with his last year's crop.” The future outlook, as indicated in the press, is the further suppression of the one-crop policy in the south. The Kansas City Star, in answer to the supposition that improved condi- tions meant “another plunge on cot- ton planting next year,” says: “The south is planning in the other direc- tion and has said, ‘Never again, while the Savannah News thinks ne of the greatest principles to be lived up to in the cotton belt is to make cotton such a surplus crop that the grower, and nobody else, may say when it shall be put on the market.” The Nashville Tennessean states that “with plenty of food for man and animal on hand, and with no bills to pay, the cotton planter. would be in a pretty easy position when it came to marketing the stapl and that “once he is thoroughly weaned from the one-crop idea, he will never re- turn to' it Improving the Omnibus. ‘Without examining the agenda of the second International Congress on Eugenics, in session at the American Museum of Natural History, one may be sure the program is altruistic. The delegates are as well born as they can ever be. “Each man is an omnibus in which all his ancestors ride,” said Oliver Wendell Holmes. The eugenic idea? Is it not to make the omnibus a many-cylindered auto- mobile? "The eugenists look forward 2 hundred generations or so. The complexities of heredity, the prenatal influences that shape char- acter and ability are admittedly al- most beyond human ken. Great men 2nd women have not in most instances had a noteworthy ancestry. Excep- tional parents are more likely, it is contended, than commonplace nts to produce exceptional children, but this is not a scientific certainty. Nature is full of disappointments and no less of welcome surprises. The pioneer in this baffling fleld of genetic research was Sir Francis Gal- ton, who invented the word eugenica. He was a cousin of Charles Darwin, and it is of good augury that a son of the evolutionist, Maj. Leonard Dar- win, is among those assembled at the present congress to challenge the mysteries of birth.—New York Tri- Who’s Your Plumber? 621 F St. N.W. COLGATES {on Furs Make It Wise to Buy Now ISAKSFURCo, il MANUFACTURERS WHO RETAIL bune (republican ‘Why not declare Asheville Times. “Are rents totlerlng”" inquires the Literary Digest. No, but those who are paying them are.—Greenville (S.|] C.) Piedmont. =y If the price of men’s clothing is, in- deed, coming down, many a fair wom- an will thereby be enabled to have a new dress.—Chicago News. pessimistice?— $3.50 Philadelphia $3.25 Chester $3.00 Wilmington And Return ‘War Tax 8% Additional Sunday, October 2 SIMILAR EXCURSION October 16 and 30 SPECIAL TRAIN Lv. Wllblnmn‘ n Return| Lv. Philadelphia. Lv. Chester. . Lv. Wilmington. (Standard time) Consult Ticket Agents Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Is he ingenious enough to repair and remodel your old system so that it will give as good service as it ever did? 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