Evening Star Newspaper, October 9, 1921, Page 42

itg THE - EVENING. STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY........October 9, 1981 THEQDORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. = fork Offite: Tribune Build! New uf Chicago Office: First National Bank n“fl:t European Office: 3 Regent 8t., Loadon, Eng! The Bvening Star, with the Sunday morning ::lafln‘:':l delivered by carriers within the city r 5000, end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dally and Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1 mo., 70¢ Dally only. ‘13r., $6.00: 1 mo., 50c Sunaay oniy. ‘137 $2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ All Other States. Dally and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 85¢ Daily only. 175 53700 1 mor Bt Victory Memorial. The Fine Arts Commission has ap- Proveed the site for the National Vie- tory Memorial building in the square south of B street between 6th and 7th streets, and the President will deliver the principal address at the laying of the corner stone of the edifice Novem- ber 14. These announcements, made officially yesterday, establish the final- ity of the government's approval of the project. It had been intended to have the corner stone ceremonial on Armistice day. This was before the President's call for the armaments parley. Through the enforced change of date the event promises to acquire & new significance, since it doubtless ‘will be attended by the representatives of the great powers who are to as- semble here to consider questions ef- fecting vitally the probability of fu- ture wars. Indeed, it may be sald that there will be a direct connection be- tween the meeting here of world repre- sentatives to consider problems bear- ing directly upon world peace and the starting of a building to commemo- rate the sacrifices of American citi- zens who offered their all that peace might be the permanent blessing of the world. The memorial comes to Washington, as the capital of the nation, but Wash- Ingtonians would be equally desirous of contributing their quota toward its construction if it were to be located elsewhere. Conceived as a national tribute to the 4,000,000 scns and daughters of the republic who par- tici)ated in the great war, the design of the building leaves nothing to be desired in the fulfillment of the con- ception. In the great dome of the structure will be set 4,000,000 stars, gold stars in memory of those who ®gave their lives for their country and the cause of universal peace, and blue stars for their more fortunate com- rades who fought equally well but were spared from making the supreme sacrifice. State legislatures are to be asked to provide the gold stars, and Tennessee is the first to authorize a bond issue for the purpose. To rela- tives and friends of those who wore their country's uniform in the world conflict will be given the privilege of providing the blue stars. Besides standing as a shrine of pa- triotism and a tabernacle of hope that those whose deeds are commemorated by the stars may not have sacrificed in vain in the cause of everlasting peace, the Victory building will serve utilitarian purposes more national than local in scope. A room will be reserved for each state, where state societies may meet and residents of the several commonwealths make their headquarters when visiting Washing- ton. Another important facility to be provided will be a large auditorium. Here will assemble national gather- ings to consider questions related to the welfare of all the people of the country. Credit for bringing the Victory Memorial building plans to the point where they seem assured of fruition belongs in large measure to Mrs. Henry F. Dimock, president of the George Washington Memorial Asso- ciation. “Before the war Mrs. Dimock organized the assoclation for the pur- pose of sponsoring a convention hall project for Washington. Following the termination of the world conflict the association enlarged its plans to cover the providing of a suitable memorial to the men and women who had carried the flag to victory. Prac: tically without assistance Mrs. Dimock has raised a fund of half a million dollars that is now available for start- ing construction of the victory edifice. She obtained from Congress the site which has now received the approval of the Fine Arts Commission, and the President’s acceptance of the invita- tion to deliver the principal address at the corner stone laying exercises gives assurance of a moral support by the government which should see the un- dertaking brought to & reaiization without undue-delay. i There are old gentlemen still with us who can remember when those ls- Jands in the Pacific were regarded as of little importance except as they served as scenes for dime novels. \ Tn considering food distribution Lenin and Trotsky seem inclined to a belief that it might be better to let people go hungry than to have their polities interfered with. [ Opening Guns. A speech made in the Senate re- cently was characterized by a listener as the opening gun in the speaker’s campaign for re-election. Well, it is not too soon for opening guns of that sort. The elections for membership in the Sixty-eighth Con- gress are only thirteen months away. Primaries for nominations will take place in about half that time. Hence members of the present Congrees am- bitious to succeed themselves in office are justified in taking the field early. Justified, for the feason that next year's campaigns everywhere but in @l Jower south are certain to be Summers: The country, through its Chtresses growing out of the war, is wery much concerned about its affairs. | The people are doing = lot of think- ing, and will do mwre as time passes. Hence, by election time next yeax the| ¥ | voters are likely to be roused as sel- dom before, and to go to the polls in unusually large numbers. Men in Congress now have every incentive to try to remain. The is- sues, without exception, are impor- tant, and some of them new. Adjust- ing the affairs of this country to the changed conditions the war has pro- duced all over the world is fascinating work for those whose tastes incline that way, and whose experience in office has given them an appetite for more service. And then next year's result will have a bearing on 1924. So that men who want to sit in the next Congress are well advised in getting into the game at once, and after getting in playing it to the limit. President Harding’s Optimism. . In an article by N. O. Messenger, published on another page of today’'s Star, President Harding is described as a “practical optimist.” The char- acterization is a happy one, and it is to be regretted that there are not more of the specles in the world today, for the need of them is great. It is only by application of practical optimism that the nations may be cured of the 'war-sickness which still holds them in its grip, and which stubbornly refuses to yield to treatment lacking either in practicablility or in optimism. Practical optimism sees things as they really are, recognizes the difficul- ties which must be overcome, but is not dismayed thereby. It does not sit back with folded hands in the fatuous belief that things will be made right by wishing them so, nor does it give mournful acquiescence to the theory that because the world is upside down nothing can be done to right it. It takes off its coat, expectorates upon its palms, and grabs hold of the job most immediately at hand, satisfled each day to progress a little way to- ward better things. It keeps in mind the fact that human nature is the same old perversity it has always been, and does not look for miracles in either the spiritual or material re- habilitation of the world. In his address opening the unem- ployment conference President Hard- ing said: “There are no problems af- fecting our national life or the welfare of the American people which we can- not and will not solve. If we fail to- day, we will try again tomorrow.” There is practical optimism in a nut- shell. He is not blind to the fact that problems are presented the solution of which will be most difficult, but he does not curl up and quit before the appalling prospect. If he falls today he will try again tomorrow. If all American c¢itizens will join the President in this creed of faith and firm resolve the difficulties which now seem so mountainous will dwindle rapidly to molehills. Let the motto of each American be: “There are no prob- lems affecting my business or the wel- fare of my family which I cannot and will not solve. If I fail today, I will try again tomorrow.” Apartment House Mail. Apartment house dwellers here are not residents in the same sense as those who live in houses. This is the somewhat astonishing fact brought out following the “mail box week” conducted by the local post office. In that campaign those who live in houses, glass or otherwise, were im- portuned to affix mail receptacles to their front doors. But no call was made upon indivia- ual apartment dwellers for the simple reason that the postal service makes no delivery of mail to each such per- son’s apartment. Mall is delivered by carrier direct to the lowliest hovel, but no carrier brings firstclass matter direct to the individual apartment, al- though the tenant may pay many times the rent for his quarters that the hovel dweller does. If an apartment tenant had pur- chased himself a letter box last week, and affixed it to the door of his apart- ment, he would have waited in vain for letters to have been placed therein. Each apartment house has boxes downstairs, and mail is delivered to them, although in nearly all cases large letters must be crumpled to get them into the boxes, and magasines must be left on the outside of the boxes, at the mercy of playing chil- dren and others. * Yet, as a matter of simple justice, apartment dwellers in a large city are entitled to exactly the same postal service as other people. It is estl- mated that to furnish direct delivery to individual apartments about fifty more letter carriers would be required by the Washington city post office. Delivery to fifty families in one apart- ment could be made much faster than delivery to fifty homes on & block. It would seem that the Post Office De- partment might give this matter at- tention. ————— Delegates to the arms conference will be permitted to bring what bever- ages their taste may select; thus avert- ing the possibility of bringing up pro- hibition as a debatable incident. ————t & A college campus bars jazz because it is not regarded as good for the nerves of men in training for foot ball. Foot ball is rather rough play, but not as rough as jasz. e Senator Borah has given the term *“jrreconcilable” as much prestige as Uncle Joe Cannon once bestowed on “standpatter.’” High Cost of Base Ball. Complsint is made against the high cost of living and the high cost of base ball. People are much given to complaining. Much of the reading, writing and speaking in the world is a complaint against something or other. Jeremish was neither the first nor last to give tongue to lamenta. tions, and Job was not the only man to have his faith and patience tested by sore trials. It would really seem that there is some measure of justifi- cation for complaints against the cost of living, though many men who make loud complaints still seem to have money for gay amusements and other things not yet generally classed among the necessities of life. The high cost of base ball, at least the high cost of attending pennant games, would seem ' THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, OCTOBER 9, 1921—PART 2. Politics at Home Former Vice President Discusses|Heard and Seen to have some foundation in fact. Some folks might not rate & reserved seat at & pennant game as a necessary thing and would promptly set it down as a luxury. Very likely it is & luxury, but that matters little, because to very many of us, and to an increasing num- ber of us, luxuries are necessities. ————— e The 0ld Capitol. The fact that the National Woman's Party has come into possession of the “Old Capitol” recalls a bit of interest- ing history which has a local and na- tional aspect. Some years ago tablets ‘were placed on this property outlining its history. One of these tablets was inscribed, “Site of the Old Capitol building where President Monroe was inaugurated,” and the other was in- scribed, “On this site was Capitol Prison, where many famous persons were confined during the Civil War.” On the front of the northernmost of the houses was placed a bronze tablet bearing this legend: “Congress con- vened here during 1815-19, while the Capitol was being rebuilt, and here also the inauguration of President Monroe took place in 1887. Later the building became known as the Brick Capitol, and was the home of many congressmen, {ncluding John C. Cal- houn, who died within its walls March 381, 1850." A structure on this site which had been a hotel was burned by the Brit. ish at the time they fired the two little sandstone wings of the Capitol and the wooden passageway connecting them, on the night of August 24, 1814. After the withdrawal of the British, which was the next evening, a party opposed to Washington as the seat of government urged the removal of the capital. As a check to the propaganda for the removal of the seat of govern- ment Elias B. Caldwell, W. Emack, Daniel Carroll, Willlam Brent and Griffith Coombs organized a company to provide adequate temporary accom- modation for Congress until the Capi- tol should be restored. The corner- stone was laid July 4, 1815, and the building completed at a cost of $30,000. When the Fourteenth Congress met on December 11, 1815, in the old Blodgett Hotel building, Henry Clay, Speaker of the House, directed atten- tion to the offer of the company to let Congress use the new building at a rental of $1,650. In an old chronicle it is said that the building was “a barn of a thing, its mongrel architecture re- maining a jibe for years after Con- gress left it.” The hall of the House was on the second floor. The Senate occuplied the first-floor hall. The Su- preme Court of the United States and the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia were also housed there. ‘When Congress returned to the re- stored Capitol in 1819 the “Brick Capi- tol” was devoted to many other uses. St. Patrick’s Church conducted a boys’ school there, and later it was used as a dancing academy. It then became a fashionable boarding house, and when the civil war broke out had become what was called a cheap lodging house. In the spring of 1861 a large number of Washingtonians and others, sus- pected of secession sympathies or af- fillations, were taken into custody by the provost marshal. It finally became a problem as to where these prisoners could be detained, and the dilapidated building, the Old Capitol, was convert- ed to this use in July, 1861. —_———————— The employer who has secured a competent man and the workman who has secured & job are both in the frame of mind that tends to promote good business. § For the insistent speculator the Ger- man mark now takes the place in some degree of the long-departed lot- tery ticket. It Dempsey could manage to win two or three more fights he might become as popular as Carpentler him- self. i i The Panama canal now and then threatens to be a slightly turbulent stretch of water, diplomatically speak- ing. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Avolding Monotony. I do believe the world is flat; That black is white and lean is fat. In vain the voice of consclence small Suggests they are not so at all. ‘Whoever speaks must do his best To catch the ear of interest. The surest way is to deny N ‘What was called truth in days gone by. So good is bad and sour is sweet, And light is dark and heads are feet. 01d facts are so familiar that We'll try to think the world is flat. Keeping Up-to-date. “Do you approve of hero worship?’ “Not in these days of feminine su- premacy,” replied Mr. Meekton. “I ap- prove of nothing but heroine worship.” Courage in Misfortune. “There’s no use crying over spilt milk,” said Farmer Corntossel. “Might as well be a good loser even if milk has got to be so valuable that every spoonful is precious.” Labor Saved. My flat, T'll say, s rather small. It isn't far from wall to wall. But this I know, when home I go, There isn’t any lawn to mow. Jud Tunkins says & man who smiles and doesn’t mean it isn’t any more at- tractive to him than a boy who makes faces. Criticism Welcomed. “Why did you give up that fine chance to be a motion picture star & wild west scenario?” 2 “I don't want no advantages,” an- swered Cactus Joe. “I want to be a regular actor er nothin’. If any of the, boys in the audience don't happen to like my performin’ I want him to have & chance to hand me his opinion right across the footlights; me, of course, havin’ the same opportunities fur de- fendin® my art.” A Great Commonwealth. ©Ohlo is at present by no means in- conspicuous in the national political equation. President Harding halls from Buckeyedom. Chief Justice Taft was born and reared in that bailiwick. Attorney General Daugherty made his way to the front at the capital of the state. Ambassador Herrick, again on duty in France, is an Ohio man, and was once governor. All good men and true, graduates of a school of politics In which hustle is, and has been for years, the word. Turning to the democratic side we find Gov. Cox again mentioned for the presidency. Likewise Senator Pome- rene. The senator figured for a time in the speculation last year, but with- drew his boom and left the way clear for Gov. Cox, who profited by the sena. tor's action. And the chalrman of the democratic national committee is Ohio born and politically trained. Mr. ‘White did not win last year, but made the most of an {rremediable situation. He is still in harness, despite efforts to unhitch him. They are taught young in Ohlo, as, to be succeasful, they should be every- where. Politics is not learned while one waits, but by hard study and hard licks. Necessarily, as in all things, fortune plays a part; but, as a rule, the honors go to those who know how to strive for them, and who play the game with courage as well as skill. The modern mother of Presidents de- serves her place in the picture, and gives every sign of the ability and the intention to hold it. 8till, the fact remains that one of the greatest financlers since Hamlilton, and one of the greatest lawyers of our modern days, both Ohio men, missed the supreme goal. John S8herman and Allen G. Thurman sought the presi- dency, but neither reached it. Both were denfed the place either would have adorned. —————e The Presidential Bee. Is the presidential bee a help or a hindrance to the man in whose bonnet it buzzes? Does it increase or diminish his usefulness as a public servant? Does it add to or take from the value of his counsels in party affairs? These questions grow out of some current speculation about two men prominent in national life and un- usually well equipped for it. Senator Borah of Idaho and Senator Johnson of California are very much in the picture. Both are orators. Both are aggressive by nature. Both have been mentioned for the presidency. In the case of Mr. Borah, however, the mention has never seemed to “take.” He has never encouraged the suggestion. There has never been a Borah boom. The bee seems never to have invaded his bonnet. In the case of Mr. Johnson a differ- ent effect has been produced. He has encouraged the suggestion. The bee has invaded his bonnet. Last year there was a Johnson boom of fair pro- portions, and there are predictions of another. The quidnuncs think that the California senator, who in politics is rated as a young man, will try again. Until recently these men worked in double harness, and made a showy team. Mr. Borah was a Johnson boomer, and at pains to advertise his mate’s fine points. But now they have parted company and are traveling in different directions. The popular interpretation of the separation is that the California sena- tor, who is showing signs of con- servatism, is under the influence now of the presidential bee, while the Idaho senator, indifferent now as in the past to all suggestions about the ‘White House, is going his gait to suit himself, and with small thought of party or personal consequences. —_———————— Oscar W. Underwood. At Baltimore, in 1912, when Mr. Un- derwood was balloted upon for Presi- dent, he was his party’s floor leader in the”House of Representatives, and a newly “arrived” national quantity. Since then he has given his name to & tariff law, been promoted to the Sen- ate, and had attained so much prom- inence that when President Harding turned to the democracy for & repre- sentative to sit in the armament con- ference his eye lighted on the com- manding figure of the senior senator from Alabama. o ‘Will this growth count in 1924, when the democracy begins preparations for its national convention of that year? Mr. Underwood was not mentioned in 1016, for the reason that Mr. Wilson then had the stage wholly to himself. But why should he not be mentioned for the next convention? Men of less consequence are under discussion in connection with the presidency. Mr. Underwood is nearing his six- tieth year—a youngish man in appear- ance, and probably in strength and feeling. Certainly, an energetic man. As the phrase goes, there are no frills about him. He is a solid, serious- minded politician, who has specialized in economics and related subjects. He has reached his position through none of the arts of the stump or the caucus. Rhetoric, “fine work,” story-telling, buttonholing, back-slapping are not in his line. The democracy has not gone south for a presidential candidate since the clvil war. The reason, in part, has been that southern men of presidential size have had a Confederate record at- tached to their names. This is not true of Mr. Un@erwood. He was born while that war was 'in progress, and hence came to maturity and had his ideas fixed at a time when men north and south were devising means for strengthening to the utmost the new- ly cemented sections of the country. B e As & former Secretary of Stats, Col. Bryan is in & position to express an opinion on treaty-making. His attl tude, apparently, is that treaties can be-overtalked, the same as any other | >7 subject. / = —— e A censdrship of the motion plctures can never go so far as to prevent sen- mational episodes in the real life in the Some American BY THOS. R. MARSHALL. Former Vice President of the United States. 'E are a people who de- mand amusement. And ‘we demand the kind of amusement which may be enjoyed by groups or masses. ‘We take our lives so seriously, however, that we do not admit that our seeking for pleasure is for pure enjoyment. I have yet to find & man who plays golf just to play it. He has many other rea- sons, all practical. It gets him out in the open, where the cobwebs may be blown out of his brain, it strengthens him physically and mentally, it returns him reinvig- orated to his business. Bridge is dull unless there is the prospect of winning pin money. Movies are attended not for an hour of sheer forgetfulness, but for the gaining of information that may be usetul in solving life’s problems. I used to laugh at a friend who in play- ing solitaire would cheat himself in order to win the game. Observation has convinced me that Americans feel ashamed of pleasure for pleasure's sake; that they deem It necessary to try to fool every one, including them- selves, with the theory that all things in life, whether of work or play, should be put to sacred, not to a common use. You tell a man that he is wasting his time in his flivver, lessening his production and only enjoying himself, he will not tell you that so long as he owes you nothing it is none of your busiess, but will enter into axplanation as to the inexpensive cost of the flivver, the cheapness of its upkeep, the amount of time he saves by its use, its value to his business, proving to a math- ematical certainty that it is a labor-saving device and not & toy. * %k Xk ¥ As time is reckoned we are yet in our childhood. We have not yet put off our red-top boots. We have not settled down to those sober re- lations which come with maturity. ‘We look with the eyes of children upon the world. We hawve been so blessed by climate, soil and free- dom that, like children, we think that in some way what we want we will get, and get it, too, with- out effort. This childhood of ours, while it has contributed to the happiness and content of the peo- ple, has led us both in work and in play to the adoption of fade. Let me {llustrate what I am pleased to term the fads of actual business: When I became Gov- ernor of Indiana I found that the state institutions were supplied with milk from Jersey cows. Prior to that time the Jersey had be- come the prize milch cow of the state; the pure-blooded stock had been selling at fabulous prices. But Just about then some one began a crusade in favor of the Holstein. I doubt whether it can be shown that 80 far as the sustenance of & human being is concerned there may be obtained any more from a Holstein than from a Jersey, albeit you can get § greater amount of milk from a Holstein; yet one of the features of my administration was the splendid management of finan- cial affairs whereby I got rid of the Jersey herds and provided Hol- steins without serious loss to the commonwealth. * % % % Some of us can remember when it was a fad with all those who put their trust in patént medi- cines to take for the ills of In- diana life Schenk’s Mandrake Pills. As the years went by Dr. Schenk disappeared from the medical playground and Dr. Plerce won recognition as the man who could with surety throw his pill over the Hver pad. For a long time the saloon was the political play- ground where men pretended se- riously to consider the welfare of the republic. Then we grew tired of the game and swapped it off for the preferential primary. That now is growing tiresome. He will be acclaimed a great public servant who discovers something more attractive to the sporting in- stincts of the people to take its place. Beautiful it {s that in this child- hood of ours and in the playing of our games we have the forget- fulness of the young. We do not mourn for what is gone. We long only for something else. True to Characteristics immaturity, we change our games ceaselessly. Ons winter we play nothing but cards, and the next . we do nothing but dance. Card clubs dissolve and dancing clubs spring up. Then all of a sudden every one tires of dancing, and back we go to cards. And always, reasons are advan having to do with the sober affairs of life. Much of life is mere play. and it will not detract from the pleasure of it to admit the fact. * kK * A finer thing than even this Amer- ican childhood is the atmosphere of conscious or unconscious humor which surrounds it. We owe much to this national sense of humor. There came a thunderous knocking at the kitchen door that morning. It was before 6 o'clock, and the head of the house was still in deep slum- ber. 3 But the knocking woke him up. Grabbing for his bathrobe, ke made his way to the door, opened it, and there confronted a man he had never | Octobe seen before. “I am the milkman,” declared that worthy. “You forgot to pay your bill last month, and the office asked me to ask you about it.” ‘Well, the head of the house was angry, and didn’'t mind skowing it Later that day what he wrote the milk company was a caution. That night he sank to righteous Our wise men have done some- thing for us; that is true. The ponderous editorial satisfies or aisturbs according to our view- point and conduct. The prayers and precepts of our parents are invaluable. But the God-given ability to laugh at the real car- toon or at the Imaginary cartoon of our fellow men has been the saving grece which has wrought for peace, quietude and good order in society. Now and then we run across a man who is 8o serious-minded, so impressed constantly with the idea that life is real, that he has no time to grin as he goes along. ‘What the rest of us would say for the sole purpose of fooling our- selves he says seriously. He has a never-ending desire to welgh every one in the balance. To him the one immutable fact in all time is statistics. He gathers them upon every supposable fact and theory and under every condition. He col- lects, collates and digests them, and when put in columns they suaighiway prove something. One of my classmates was for many years in the document room of the House of Representatives. He was a statistician of purest ray serene. When he married a rich widow and resigned, permanently quitting public life, I said to him: “We will lose much by your ceas- ing to make statistics.” “Much is right,” he replied. “For many years I have made from the same figures statistics for republicans to show the imperative necessity of a high protective tariff and for democrats to disclose the enormity of the protective system.” * x ¥ % A new species of statistical g&me is now being played. It was started by Mr. Edison with his queries, from the answers to which he deduced that the average col- lege graduate was wholly unin- telligent, thereby taking his place alongside of Horace Greeley, who s reputed to have said: “From all horned animals, deliver me from the college graduate.”” With seri- out intent all sorts of men and societies are sending out series of questions to be answered by per- sons in all walks of life. I have recelved no fewer than a half dozen lists the last few days. It would not have taken me more than a week to answer any one of them, but I tore them all up. T would cheerfully have given the time, but I was sure my answers would disclose that I was one of America’s ignorants—a fact not new to me, but I did not propose to give the data of proof to any one else. It is better to force the other fellow to prove your ig- norance than to admit it Only 44 per cent of the 17,500 students in schools and colleges scattered over the country gave correct answers to questions on current events. So ridiculous were some answers that I am in- clined to think that they were made jokingly in order to get even for the extra labor imposed upon the students. Sober-minded as I am, it required gomewhat of cour- age of me not to answer some of the inquiries in a fantastic way. Only recently I heard of a man who went reverently to the grave of Alexander Hamilton to find in- scribed in red chalk on the grave- atone: “Babe Ruth knocked fifty- four home runs this year.” There are imperfections in the school system of America, as there are in all other human in- stitutions, but they have not yet reached that point where they are fatal to our lives. our liberty or our pursuit of happiness. Let us be consoled with the thought that information is not education. 1 am convinced that I am a good American and a perfectly respec- table democrat, although I still may be in doubt whether Senator Lodge is Henry Cabot or Sir Oliver. (Copyright, 1921, by Thomas R. Marshall.) New Markets for U. S. Commerce As 2 result of the world war & num-, ber of new countries came into ex- istence, and & number that had lost their individual identities resumed their former positions among the na- tions of the earth. Because the trade of the United States with these new states was of considerable impor- tance, the federal commercial ex- perts, who are always looking far ahead of immediate trade conditions, extended on January 1, 1820, the schedule of country classification governing the statistics of our for- elgn trade as to show separately the followin Austria and Hungary, which had previously been combined; Czechoslo. vakia, composed of Bohemia, Moravia, Silesin, Slovakia and Ruthenia; Jug slovakis, composed of Serbia, Dal- matia, Croatia, Slavonica, Bosnia, | Hergegovina, Istria, Slovenia and parts of Hungary and Poland and Danzli, statistics of trade of the United States with these countries proved of | °% such great interest to the public and commercial interests that, beginning July 1, 1921, the following countries were added to the list of those shown separately in the statistics of import: and exports: Esthonis, Latvis, Lithuania and the Ukraine; Armenia and Kurdestan, the |, iher Far Eastern Republic, Greece and Asia, Hejax, Arabia and Mesopotamia, Pal- estine and Syria. In the interests of those concerned in,_the trade with these new states tables have beén compiled by the ata- tistical division of the United State: Department of Commerce showing th: principal commodities involved in this trade. Esthonia.—This country, one of the of the former Baltic provinces of Russia, lies south of Latvia and ex- tends to East Prussia. The boun- daries have not yet been defined, but the former Russian provinces of Vilna (except the very southern part) are regarded as belonging to Lithu- ania. Memel is the only port. This was formerly a part of East Prussia, but pending its allocation to a defi- | nite country is administered by the league of nations. The only im- ports from Lithuania in July, 1921, consisted of calfskins, 17,345 pounds, valued at $4,262, while exports to that country were limited to one passen- ger automobile, valued at $1,250. Far Eastern Republic.—This state comprises roughly that portion of Siberia lying east of Lake Baikal, which was formerly known as the Maritime Province of Russia, except Kamtchatka and the northern half of the Island of Sakhalin. Tchita is the capital. While Vladivostok is the principal port of the region, at the present time it has withdrawn from the Far Eastern Republic and set up an independent government of its n. In the trade of the United States with the ¥ar Eastern Republic for July imports consisted only of un- dressed fur skins to the number of 60, and-valued at $367. Exports to that region comprised agricultural implements valued at $547; electric motors valued at $600; women's shoes to the number of 738 pairs, having a value of $2,538. and miscellaneous articles, reaching a total of $3,730. Greece in Asia.—This country com- f"“' the greater part of the Turk- province of Aidin in Asia Minor nd the adjacent islands, including Rhodes, which is temporarily under Italian mandate. Smyrna is the prin- cipal port. The trade of the United States during July, 1921, was: Im: former Russian Baltic provinces, com- ts, $165,629, and ts, $200,245. prises the former government of Est- W{!:’&? whic -fl ,fo".‘."“{n?,:,?,a,.‘,.‘ he northern part of former Liv- |is regarded as the most important , the {slands of Moon sound, the principality in Arabla, in view of the northwest portion (Toropetskoli dis- it '3 o e PAkof. Goserpment iand | oot nat Itiposssasss [thesallich 1o the Gdowskil district of the Petro- |Irak, g:d government.“ It borders on th tic sea and Gulf of Finland. Reval is the principal port. The trade of the United States with Esthonia dur- ing July, 1921, reached a total of §1,- 145,622 for exports and $1,5618 for im- rts. Latvia—This 1s another of the Bal- tle provinces, formerly under Rus- slan rule. It lies south of Esthonia and borders on the Baltic sea. It has edina. Mesopotamia, or has the status of an independent tate under the mandate of Great ritain. The chief ports are Jidda, Mocha and Hodeida, all on the Red sea, and Basra, at the head of the slumber, only to be wakened at 6 am. by loud knocking on the old kitchen door. “The company had misplaced your check,” declared the milkman to the houselolder, “and asked me to assure you they regret the incident very much.” * * * Postmaster Chance put it squarely up to an applicant for a job at the Washington city post office last week. Signs have been posted at the office for weeks that there are no positions available, but still they pour in, seeking positions in the pos- tal service. The applicant this morning was a young man who evidently had read something about showing persistency. There is no question about it, per- sistency, stick-to-it-iveness is a great quality. But common sense, a commendable trait itself, sometimes urges that when the boss of an office has signed cards to the effect that there are mno positions available it would be about as well to try elsewhere. This young man tackled the post- master’s secretary first, and, getting no satisfaction of the kind he desired, turned to the postmaster himself. Mr. Chance explained the situation, but the young man was adamant. He wanted a job. No, he hadn't passed the civil service examination. “If you can find a man in this of- fice who is not under the civil service you can have his job' declared Mr. Chance. And the youngster “faded.” * * * “Will be up Sunday. Chicken—you know." Now Postmaster Chance likes a joke the best in the world, but when he got a post card last week, ad- dressed to the “Postmaster, Washing- ton, D. C.” and bearing the above message, signed with initials, he was puzzled. There was the address, plain enough, “Postmaster, Washington, D. C.” There isn’t but one postmaster here, 50 there couldn't be any mis- take. The postmaster thought somebody must be playing a joke on him, 50 he let the card alone. Later in the week. {by fortune alone, the mystery of the | card was revealed. | A clerk in one of the branch post offices here, in writing home to her father, who is postmaster of a small {town in Virginia, absent-minedly wrote “Washington, D. C.” after the title “Postmaster,” instead of the proper address. Being fond of chicken dinners, she reminded her father of it on the post card. CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Treasure From the Sea. recover the treasure which {s sup- the vessel was sunk in Tobermory tury. been conducted by a syndicate for several years past have just been re- sumed, reports the London Observer. On former occasions the salvage thirty feet of silt which had accumu- lated on the wreck, and one diver re- |Stem of the galleon, and that the DIGEST OF FOREIGN PRESS Another attempt is being made to|feet long and 30 wide, of 1200 to posed to have gone down with one of | thirty.three centers which Wwill be the ships of the Spanish armada when | placed along the side of the canal bay, England, in the sixteenth cen-| dertaking is estimated at 68¢,000,000 Salvage operations which have | marks gold: and | party succeeded in redueing to a very | 1ive under water is made by a French lapprecinme extent the twenty or|SWimmer, ported having actually located thegan,” to have actually demonstrated FIFTY YEARS AGO IN THE STAR Fifty years ago Charles Mathews was the leading English comedian, snd his first appearance in Wash- Charles ington was a theatrical event of mportance. He Mathews. ;00 1y tnitia1 bow to the local- audience on the evening of T 2, 1871, in a double bill, “Mar- rlad__{or Money" and “Cool as a Cucum- ber.” The Star of the next day, October 3, 1871, said: “His ‘style is more quiet than most of our American comedians, and the nice points of his acting are not always ap- preciated by American audlences. Bu. it speaks well for our Washington play- goers that despite the balks in the per- formance through some of the stock company not being up in their parts, the exquisite finish, airy grace and bril- lancy of Mr. Mathews' acting was recognized throughout by prompt and continuous applause. His enunciation is somewhat novel here, abounding in those rising inflections noticed in Dickens in his readings, and which pronunciation is not, s some suppose, the cockney ut- terance, but that of the cultivated Eng- lishman. Usually it is more distinct than our prenunciation because it does not allow the slurring over of letters and syllables as this us; but in the case of Mathews his rapidity of utterance, and possibly defective teeth, make It necessary. to follow him closely to catch all he says. His inimitable byplay, 00, needs to be watched closely to be properly appreciated. Last night is was a study to see him keep his own lively parts and at the same time drag the faulty performers through theirs, pro- moting, directing changes of positl etc., and all in scarce detected ‘asides. TIn the course of his engagement in ‘Washington, in addition to the lpl.)n n menlloned.TMr. Mathews plays e “The Gunmaker of Moscow."” * * % A scheme for the development of the water power of the Potomac was out- lined in an edi- Another Plan for torial printed in The Star October Water POWET. 7 1371, as the proposition of a citizen who had given much attention to the question of prac- tical hydraulics. The plan, in brief, con- sisted of the construction of a canal from the level of Great Falls to George- town, “thence by a distributed system of locks to be lowered to such level as would meet and harmonize with the in- terest of Washington city for purposes of power and navigation.” It is noted that the descent from Georgetown to a point and outlet near the navy yard must be provided for in four distinct levels, on the more eligible sides of which and in some case on both sides mill sites would find their proper loca- tion. Each level could supply head and fall of about thirty-six feet, the tail waters of each fall to be conducted to the next succeeding level for further use. It is further noted that as a possible feature of this project at the power canal could bs used for the flushing of the sewers, which in many cases were g0 low as to receive but little benefit from the flow of water through them to clear away the accumulations at their outlets. The Star urged that despite the prob- ably heavy cost of such a plan it should Le given earnest consideration by com- petent engineers, adding that such an examination would perhaps “demon- strate that the advantages to result to the national as well as the local gov- ernments and people would fully justify the expenditure. And it may not be con- sidered superfluous,” The Star went on, “to advance that usefulness of such a water power to the national government. at the last level, in its workshops, could not but be readily recognized and ap- preciated by the federal authorities.” states through which it passes—pro- vides for an easy transit of ships 250 tons, thus avoiding transship- It is calculated that with the 1,51 ment. a complex of 246,000 horsepower will be obtained. The cost of the un- it will take ten years to complete.” Living Under Water. An extraordinary claim that he can M. de Lalyman, who is said by the Revue Hebdomadaire, an “extremely serious and reliable or- his ability to remain submerged oak of which the vessel was built|without any artificial means of rese was in a remarkably perfect state of | piration. However, the Paris cor preservation. As there is now practi- | spondent of the London Observer ad- cally no silt in the bay, this means|heres strictly to the old adage that that the new operations have been |“seeing is believing” in transmitting commenced practically where the 1919 | the Revue's version of the affair with search was interrupted, and, in view | “all reserve,” not having been an of the fact that there is now only a |eye-witness himself. very slight covering of silt over the | “Not only is this claim to stay under wreck, the director and his assistants | water without breathing remarkable ”ft hopeful of securing tangible re- hl‘r :uelf." says the correspondenty sults. “but there has to be added the claim Before the suspension of the 1ast|(; sink and rise in the water, execute operations in the autumn of 1919 |normally all movements that could the salvagers had recovered a quan- [pe executed on dry land, and to move tity of silver plate, and other valu- ables found have included coins and gold buttons. A woman, one of the two experts on deep-sea salvage work engaged on the present operations, is alding in the search for the Spanish gold, and. in addition to the old method of the | grab-bucket, which is operated from a steam lighter, the syndicate has now had manufactured a unique plant specially designed for the purpose of the treasure hunt. Poison Antidote on Bottle. | A bill has been introduced in the house of commons, says the London Chronicle, proposing that every drug- gist when selling polsons must, with every bottle, state on the label the antidote to the poison, so that in case of any mistake swift remedy be applied. | One criticism raised is that the vender should be allowed to state the antidote in_writing, instead of print, on the label. Another is that if such precautionary statement is made it | may prevent people from calling in a doctor in case of accidental poisoning. Drang Nach Osten! about without swimming, without the aid of ballast. “M. de Lalyman descended, it is said, by a ladder into a large tank of water and performed his toilet— shaved himself, and brushed himself —peeled a potato, ate it, drank wine, laid down at full length at the bot- tom of the iank, juggled with billiard balls, sat at a desk and wrote his letters—though we are not told in what condition these letters waere when he emerged. “One of the most curious experi- ments was that in which he kept his body and his limbs stiff, his elbows pressed against his sides, and withe out apparent motion sank or rose i» the water at the word of command given by the spectators. “He declares that the essential principles may be applied by any one. He rises and falls because he can at will change the density of his body. The air dilated in the lungs can be driven Inic the stomach, where it is compressed. Such, at least, is his ex- planation. His ily practice is to make the respiratory movements which are classic in physical culture with his head in a basin of water. After succeeding in resting & long time without breathing, it is neces- Germany's eastward development con- tnues, if we may belleve the Se- the German government is proceeding with plans for a waterway connect- ing the North and Black séas. The priceless value of this, is again opened up to trade, obvious. The Secola says: “To the triumphal sounds of *The | Marseillaise.” France was jubllating yesterday over the advantages of the great Mediterranean port—thanks to the joining up of several rivers—to- day comes a cry of alarm, an irrep- arable danger, a German France's traffic supremacy is studying & huge project for the con- Junction of the Black sea. plal Persian gulf. The trade of these regions with the United States in was: Imports, $11,772, and ex- ports, $43,930. a navigable way from Ulm to Lake Constance. t is easy to see the enormous advantages: German traf- fic would be insured from the east to the west; important competition with cola of Milan, which points out that | ygive. blow at | myster. in _the |is reported to the London north. Since 1917 Germany has been |its Berlin correspondent. Silently she has been |boring forests, and working out the technical execution |clusive evidence of of this plan and now she has s to work on it. n':vl ble canal from the Rhine to|gearch for the the sary without releasing the air in the body to send it from the lungs to the mouth, and from the mouth to the lungs, in utilizing the glottis as a Then those who would emu- late M. de Lalyman must learn how to inhale the air into the stomach like a smoker who swallows the once Russia [ smoke of his cigarette. “Such is the story of & perform- ano:whloh it is aifficult lo"douh'. and equally difficult to believe. Clairvoyants as Detectives. An actual case in which a murder y was-solved by clairvoyants Express by The burgo- master and his predecessor were North sea with the |robbed and murdered in the neigh- there was con- robbery and mur- der, explains the writer, but though 1t is & question of & |the whole population turned out to bodies, and blood- nybe, separated by a wide were used, no trace of the ,and in addltion to this to make :f:xf:a'u could be found. The public prosecutor at Heldelberg now admits that before the bodies were eventu- ally discovered he received a myste- rious letter from a clairvoyant, who ve the exact circumstances sur- American business leaders and the | the railways; a great deal of Swiss 'f:u"m‘ the mystery. Investigations students of trade opportunities, who have m investigating these old thres principal harbors—Riga, Libau|world markets that come into the and Windau. Three Russian main rail- |commerce of the United States with way lines converge at these poris.|a new significance, believo that im- The United States trade in July, 1931, | portant centers of trade can be built M‘oflnngo! $35,071 tor exports | up mui?t'only to meet local de- mands, bul film world from becoming unpleasant- | 0% 1y prominent, S L8 el P P v p7 3 pountryy alsa one|ways to important ecause they are gate- “back country.” trade * which now. goes from to Btrasburg: would go through Ge man territory; the Ruhr coal at prie which compete with Austria and Hun- gary; a tremendous exploitation of hydraulic ely Temu- nerative resources nterpriss. The construction of the ! bodles. Snalsaided by all the German and so were made, and the letter was found correct in the minutest detail. Short- ly afterward a second letter came from another clairvoyant in another city, who told the public prosecutor in which direction to search for the He acted on her unraveled the crime,