Evening Star Newspaper, September 30, 1921, Page 6

\ ) “'THE EVENING STAR.|hntstako—tor tne fest of Lsat Wik Sandsy Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. .| FRIDAY.....September 30, 1921 . THEODORE W, NOYES. .. .Editor * %he Evening Star Newspaper Company ‘many with a large aftermath of stage Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. o.:e o 8t 150 Naesar eat National Bank Buildn ropean S Othes:s. lc-nt 8t., London, Engla; The Evenin edition, is delivered by carriers within &t 60 éentn per month; daily only, 43 centa month; Sunday only, 20 ceats per mon| ders may be sent by mall, or tel 8000. ~Collection 1s made by ea end of each month. lhhhyMfll—l’lyuflelnAivm. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday. lvr :xm 1 mo., T0¢ Daily only $6.00: 1 mo., 50c Sunday only lyr t" 40; 1.1mo., 20¢ AR Other States. Daily and Sunday.: 1131‘. 81000 l mo.. 852 Daily only.. Banday onis 1 Jes $500¢1 o 56 clty hone Matn lers at the 2 a Politics and the Situation. The situation on Capitol Hill Star, with the Sunday morning | Macready reqpired- that degree of ccurage and cooiness and efficlency which men and women have ep- plauded through the ages. Yet, even in recognizing the heroic qualities of his achievement, the thoughtful will puuse to consider the viston and the {work and the hard-won triumph of others which made ible that achievement. Man afoot still seeks ta solve the stern problems of the slopes of Mount Everest. Toiling up- ward, day by day,; week by week, the - {summit has yet to be reached. Yet yesterday, in an hour's span, a “new rropeller of very high pitch,” a nice adjustment of fragile wings, gasoline exploding in the powerful cylinders of ‘&' Nberty ‘motor, electricity in the fabric of a suit of clothes, a novel Gevice for obtaining air for carbure- tion at sealevel pressure, carried Macready, seated with “the stick” in his mittened hands, to a height at which he could not have been seen from Evérest's peak. Physical cour- age and efficlency are not enough alone to carry man to the heiglits grows interesting—decidedly interest-|; .o.q which he struggles. But those ing. There are divisions in both par-| cgracteristics, combined With the tles. There is an exchange of tart adroit application of scientific knowl- compliments—now between factions|eqge, based on the successes and fail- of the same party, and now between the two parties. . The democrats are accused of play- ing politics out of season and reason. The present, they are told, is not the time for that sort of sport. The coun- ures of others, are making the impos- sible of yesterday the actual of today. ———————————— Special Deliveries. Postmaster Chance’s new scheme to try is in the middle of a bad fix—the |eXPedite the transmissal of speclal worst fix it has ever known—and can be rescued only by a confession of the fact and a united effort. Politics, which stood adjourned for awhile, should be adjourned again, and re- main adjourned until we are safely over the top. delivery letters and packages will be watched with interest by postmasters throughout the country. It is in line with the expressed wishes of the Postmaster General and also with the desires of the public. The local postmaster has chosen The accusation is denied. The demo-|four branch stations as distributing cratic leaders—some of them, at any | centers. rate—declare that there is no politics, in the sense of squabble and obstruc- Special delivery letters mailed at these stations are delivered direct to local addresses from these tion, in their attitude toward either |S*ations, instead of being sent first to the tariff, taxation, transportation or the peace treaties; that they recognize the responsibility of the majority for tha main city post office. The Cen- tnd station, Pennsylvania avenue sta- tios, Connecticut avenue station eand legislation, and are only registering|U Street station are the four branch their convictions, which is their right and duty. It is a fact, however, that it {s not an easy matter to keep politics out of our public affairs. Ours is a two- party system of government, and we are given to looking at public ques- tions from a party standpoint. The habit grips us strong. We indulge it automatically, so to say; and as next year is campaign year, when a na- tional tussle on party lines will take place, party dispositions are alresdy being made by both sides. — The Senate and Cloture. ‘The postponement until a later day of the present session, or an early day of the regular session, of the proposi- tion for real cloture in the Senate will enable the members of that body to give due consideration to a very important question. ' The House has had an extreme form of cloture for some years. The body is large—four times larger than the Sen- ate—and limiting debate there is a matter of necessity. What is irrev- arently called a talkfest would bring business to a dead halt. The rule has been applied vigorously. “ This has made the Senate ‘“the refuge of the minority.” The Senate as a reviewing body has had its work materially increased. Debate denied in the House has been demanded, and obtained, in the Senate. The minority insisted on a hearing, and got it under the liberal rules of the Senate. Two cases are at present in point. Under the Constitution tax bills and tariff bills must originate in the House. At this session the House has passed a bill of each kind, but under cloture. The result is much dissatis- faction with both bills, and the Senate will probably make both over, from the ground up. Expedition of business in a legisla- tive body is a good thing, and especial- ly at a time when calendars are crowded, as they now are on Capitol Hill, with business the country wants expedited. But whether the emer- gency is great enough to justify limit- ing debate as a general rule in the only body where debate now is free may well give the members of that body pause' for thinking purposes. —_————— Visitors from abroad will under- stand that the citizens of Washington, being voteless, are not to be held re- sponsible for any political conditions ‘which they may regard as peculiar. —_————— Investigation has already gone so far as to make it doubtful whether the Ku Klux Klan stiil has the right, strictly speaking, to call itself a secret society. ——— A strike vote calls attention to the possibilities of new complications in an already perplexing unemployment problem. f The tragedy of war has left Ger- money. Macready’s Achievement. ‘The peak of Mount Everest is the top of the world. Rising from the flats of Nepal and Tibet, the giant Himalayas of India scar upward at this point for 29,000 feet. Ice girds their shoulders the year through. And though the attempt has been made at intervals, though ecourageous hearts are even today seeking to win to the goal, man's foot has never yet been placed upofi thé summit. Yesterday on the prosaic prairfes of Ohio & young man gave, the word “con- tact” to the walting mechanicians at the propeller of his plane. The blades were spun and the engine roared. Something less than an hour later that young man, one Lieut. John A. Macready of the U. 8. A., looked down at the world from an altitude of 40,800 feet—mofe than 10,000 feet higher than Everest’s peak—nearly 7,000 feet nearer the stars thdf ény fellow man had ever climbed. A few moments fater, one hour and four minutes from the start, to be exact, having giMded back to earth with a “dead” en- #ine, he stepped out of his electrically heated fiying suit and shook hands all around. mmm SE * offices in which the experiment is being carried out. One of the first things Postmaster General Hays expressed his desire for when he took over control of the postal service was a real special de- livery of letters. *What the people want is speed,” he said. The scheme of the postmaster of the National Capital gives promise of furnishing that speed. The new plan is working admirably, it is said, and is capable of city-wide development if the people co-operate. In no other branch of the public service is the co-operation of| the public more necessary. In this particular case the post office cannoét deliver the “specials” under the new plan if they are not mailed at one of the four stations named. The next time you have occasion to mail a special delivery letter to a local address take advantage of the new and speedy system provided by Postmaster Chance. If you do your part to make it a “go” here you will help other cities secure such service, too. Invitation to Conference. The suavity of Lloyd George's reply. to Eamonn De Valera tends to make the Anglo-Irish situation less tense, and the expression of good feeling in that reply was both spontaneous in Mr. George and a reflection of the good feeling in the note from Mr. De Valera. Mr. De Valera has said that he has not meant to insist that the Irish representatives to the confer- ence should be received by the Eng- lish representatives in that conference as delegates from a sovereign and in- dependent state, though in their own opinion it would be with that status that they would leave Ireland. Mr. George, In inviting Mr. De Valera and his colleagues into conference uses to- ward them the phrase “the spokesmen of the people whom you represent,” and says that the aim of the confer- ence is to “ascertain how the asso- ciation of Ireland with the community of nations known as the British em- pire may best be reconciled with Irish national aspirations.” The news from Ireland is that George's invitation is received there in the spirit in which it was written. It would seem that there is to be a conference. A conference bétween rep- resentatives of the Irish people and of the British government—a govern- ment broader-minded and more amen- able to the English commonalty than in other times—will probably arrive at some agreement whereby “the ass¢- clation of Ireland with the community known as the British empire” will be “reconciled with Irish national aspira- tions.” This is a consummation de- voutly to be wished and prayed for. —_————— German scientists have Beéri Bo Suc- cessful in making minute calculations that no fears are entertained that the value of the mark will beconie too small to be measured. B — A unity program for railroads may interfere with the pardonable satisfac- tion Mr. Ford finds in having a little railroad all to himself. ———————————— There is no question in Mr. Borah's mind as to the Senate’s right to discuss treaties intimately and ex- tensively. e Economists are frank in @Goubting the witdom of building ships whose gole object is to shoot up one another. —_———— Grapes. The price of grapes is high. The grape crop seems to be normal, and it must be that it is the demand for grapes that puts up and keeps up the price. There seems to have set in an extraordinary demand for grapes —a demand that extends even to raisins—and for some reascn that is extremely difficult to understand there has been an intrease fi the demand for yeast, yet the baking ef bread seems to show no proportionate in- crease. But to grapes. The grape has become a most popular fruit. It has always been esteemed for its sweet- ness and its flavor, though many peo- ple seem but recently to haveé afoused themselves to gn énthusiastic piteh of regard for this classic fruit... Huh: dreds of-gur fallow citizens, vh u‘- ‘| eight-hour day. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. viously evinced only the mildest and gentlest approbation of the grape in its nataral state now sing lustily its! praises. Their appetite for grapes is great. Formerly a little bunch on the plate at the breakfast table or a pretty little cluster for dessert at dinner was| enough. Now they talk of buying| grapes in bushels and price them by the crate. Many conservative house- keepers who never before went further into the grape question than to have the milliner mix in a few with the cherries on her hat is now inquir- ing for grapes. It promises to be a highly successful grape season. —_————————— Duties of Citizenship. “There is no more important duty for thes citizens than this of voting on the one day of the year,” wrote President Harding to the chairman of a republican club at Alexandria. Most persons will admit that voting in national elections is an important duty of national citizenship and that voting independently and intelligently is @ very important duty of a citizen. ‘When public men talk and write of voting as one of the duties of national citizenship the people of the District hear and read with approval. They ask to be enabled to perform this dutyX through enactment of the constitu- tional amendment empowering Con- gress to grant national representation to the people of the District. Every public man who preaches that voting is a duty of national citizenship, and that adult Americans ought to be na- tional citizens, might aid in Ameri- canizing in this way and to this extent the people of the District. Not So Blue. The “blues” that overhung the coun- try, and which ‘may be sald to over- hang it still, are not as deep-hued in the south as have been painted, ac- cording to a letter from the president of the Georgia Central railway to the New York Commercial. He repudiates the plague and famine stories. He quotes from the Journal of the Ameri- can Medical Soclety that among the 35,000,000 people living in an area of more than 1,000,000 square miles there are less than 10,000 cases of pellagra, or one case to every 3,500 inhabitants. Southern farmers have diversified their crops. They have raised one of the great corn crops in the history of their section, and a great number of farms have a surplus of oats, hay, peas, peanuts and sugar cane and an unusual -number of hogs and cattle. The price of cotton is looking up, nearly all the cotton mills are operat- ing on full or part time and the mar- ket for textile products shows im- provement. Activity is reported in the building trades. -Houses are being put up, lumber mills are resuming work, brick plants are busy, furniture fac- tories are going ahead and there 1s & stir in allled industries. ———e————— Seriators who object to laboring on a treaty et night may yet come into relations with a nominating conven- tion in which nobody insists on an A party convention, however, 18 not the highest example of a deliberative body and often re- quires fast work. ———te——— New York tenants threaten to form an organization to fight the rent in- creases demanded by landlords. When they are ready to hiré a hall they will probably find that its rental has in- creased along with the rest of the property. ————t———————— The impression that a spirit of Puritanism exercises a repressive in- fluence on American art may be re- sponsible for some of the entertain- ments in motion picture colonies. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Delayed Depsrture. “Good-bye, Summer!” I heard a lady sing. A sorrowing sweetness lifigered in her gentle caroling. Like tears the dewdrops glistened, The breezes sighed and listened, Then the sunshine in September beemed new radiance t6 fling. “Good-bye, Summer,” she sang in plaintive stylé, And just outside the window Summer heard her with a smile, And said: “You sthg so sweetly 1 sympathize completely, And as a special favor I'll remain a little while.” The Pelitics of the Game. “You very seldom beat ahybody playing golf.” “No,” replied Senator Sorghum. “People are always envious of a good golfer. I play the game for exercise; not to make enemies.” Jud Tunkins says thé postmaster in his town has to play an awful lot of checkers so’s he can be sociable with- out talking politics. Speculators. This world is but a fleeting show, As has been sagely said before. The profiteers stand in a row And sell the tickets at the door. Timely Attention. “What makes 'eih put & buttonhole bouquet at every plate when they give a banquet?” “/It enables the man who has gotten his dress suit out of Btofage to enjoy the perfume of flowers and gét his mind off the mioth balls.” Interrupted Quest. “De reason :some folks can’t find work,” says Unele Eben, “is dat dey'd have to pass too many’crap games on deir way to look for it.” Inefficiéncy in the New York police department 18 being blamed for 100 per cent increase in burglary insur- ance ral ‘Why not give burglars’ gMclency some credit. — Pittsburgh un. Mr. McAdoo says he does not intend to buy 2 newspaper. The man really is financial wisard!—Arkansas »Gnutlo. § As between Mcml ueoru lnfl l- monn De’ Valera whether it is a enu ot md.ln: ut or standing patter—Dallas Journal Editorial Digest Harding’s First Test Vote. In terms of triumphant rejoicing In republican papers, and of philosophi- cal resignation in democratic daflies; the senatorial election in New Mexico Is acclaimed and accepted as a vote of confldence in the Harding adminis- tration. A few democratic papers coi tend that its national significance ha: been much overrated and express doubt that the election of a republican senator in a remote state s an index of popular sentiment. There is also some sharp debate as to which party first tried to give national color to & by-clection. But most of tha demo- cratic and all of the republican press regard the results as indicating not only that the tide has not turned, but that it is still running strongly In re- publican favor. Democratic writers, however, interpret the vote not 50 much aa an indorsement of the “monu- mental achievements” of the admin- istration to date, as a willingness to give it plenty of time to make good. The republicans, according to the New York World (democratic), “took great pains to explain that the cam- paign was only a local issue.” But the Sioux City Journal (republican) states that “the issues were chosen by the democrats of New Mexico and the republicans were forced to adopt them in toto,” the issues being “the accom plishments of the Harding adminls And now that the election is over, the Journa) adds, “the repub- lcans are willing to abide by the ver- dict” which the democrats forced. The Manchester Union (independent re- publican), recalling “séme very posi- tive declarations” of Chairman White “concerning the barometric of the election, remarks “once again the hosts of de- mocracy invoked a ‘great and solemn referendum,’ and again they have had their answer in terms that cannot be misunderstood.” However, “the New Mexican contest, as a matter of fact,” seems o the Charleston News and Courler (demo- cratic) “to mean little one way or the other,” and “but for the fact that it is the first by-election since the national election it would arouse lit- tle interest.” The “Importance of the verdict” the Indianapolis News (inde- pendent) believes has been ‘“very greatly exaggerated” and the “elec- tion would not have meant much whichever way it had gone.” “One would hardly term New Mexico a typical state from which to draw final conclusions on a by-election,” says the Rocky Mountain News (Dep- ver, independent), because it Is not “typically American,” and further, the Cleveland Plain Dealer (independent democratic) notes, “it is not an in- dustrial state” and it is “Ih the big industrial centers, if anywhere, that reaction against the national admin- istration is to be looked for.” The Plain Dealer so far extends its dis- counting of results in New Mexico as to declare that “it is never safe to interpret a state or local election in_national party ternis.” But the Philadelphia Public Ledger (independent) believes that in this case “by taclt consent New Mexico was made a sort of a test of national sentiment on the administration,” and “if democratic politicians are candid,” the Richmond Times Dispatch (demo- cratic) thinks, “they will-agree that they miscalculated upon the dissatis- faction with the Harding regime.” Last year's “republican tide has not spent its force,” the Boston Herald (independent republican) - finds, and while “it will be only natural to have some recessions, for last vear's returns _were abnormal” the New York Tribune (republican) agrees that “no sign” is yet “discernible of decrease in the administration's strength.” The vote for Senator Bursum a generous indorsement of the & ministration,” the Buffalo News ( ublican) believes - in _the opli on of the Norfolk (Neb) News, “New Mexico's attitude is probably that of the country at large. There has as vet been developed mo viry serfous opposition to the administi tion,” and the News thinks that “even those who feel that progress has béen slower than it should be are williag to wait and see what ‘the future wiil bring forth with a faith that has not yet been overcome. The American people are willing to give the party time to work out its policies and pledges, the Kansas City Star (inde- pendent) says, but it warns that “the administration forces will make the mistake of their lives if they think the New Mexico straw vote gives them a license from the country to sit back and take it easy,” and “the dction_of Congress in the mext few weeks" will determine whether “the states In the congressional elections nexu year will follow the example of ew Mexico or reverse it.” Another Blow at a Free Press. The city of Chicago is trying out a novel experiment. Chicago Tribune for ten million dol- lars on the ground that it was libeled by that publication. The city holds that the Tribune's attacks were un- true, that they tended to impair con- fidence and undermine credit and as a result had a disastrous effect upon the municipality’s plans to borrow money. The point raised is an interesting one. A corporation has redress in Jaw if It is attacked. There was a time when a corporation could not sue for libel. Corporation lawyers had a bill passed in most states that gave the corporation the libel status! of the individual. The result is that the city of Chicago comes into court. If the city of Chicago were to win its suit the entire plant of the Chi- cago Tribune would be wiped out. Moreover, if the city were to win its suit, no newspaper would dare criti- cise the financial management of any of our municipalities. The suit, the Tribune sdys, represents an attempt to throttle the press. And so it ls. The case is one that will be watched with unusual_interest—Johnstown Democrat (democratic). * More Submarines. Secretary Denby eannot be accused of pussyfooting. Not only does he belleve that the American Navy is “seriously lacking” {in submarines, but he comes right out with a lengthy statement to this effect in spite of the approach of the conference which will try to limit national armaments. In this he runs true to type, for it is commonly supposed that one part of the job of the Secretary of the Navy is to build up as large a Navy as Congress and public opinifon wlll' permit. But Secretaries are never satisfled. Give them battleships and they ask for submarines and air- planes. Maybe Secretary Denby does not want a large Navy, but only a well balanced one; but in either case the résult seems to be the same.— Baltimore Sun (independent demo- eratic). Taxes are keeping them “down” on the farm.—Flint (Mich.) Journal. ‘We have entirely too many promis- ing statesmen—Columbia (S. c) Record. .“Paris May Get Stillman Case.” says ; Headline. Here's hon!ng—ne(rou ews: ‘The word bier suggesats sorrow and loss. ‘So, for the matter, does the word beer. —Hartlord Times. D’Annungio is udfl to be bulildin his own tomb. It will be safety firs if he writes his own epitaph.— Minneapolis Tribune. Prominent billboard sign: “What comes nfter the purchase price?’ An. other: “Ask ddd, he knows."—Kansas City Bblr Satisfactory tax legislation is not to be expected until Congress puts vision in revision.—Norfolk Virgin- fan-Pilot. “We serve a piece of cheese with ple upon request” Says a Sign In the one-armed lunch, but who's going to admit being a rlece of cheése just to get a triangle of ple?-=Buffalo Express. Poland has sent the Russian reds another ultimatum. Ultimatums are about the only thing over lh-:. these days that the Lrlnaporutlon facilities ng can handl Journal It is suing the| nl 2 Z Y 7% W, 222 7222, % 227 % 2 | 1 | | I i 7%, 7 | | Z 27 “MEN! collars, coat style. 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