Evening Star Newspaper, October 11, 1921, Page 6

HE EVENING STAR. With Sunday Morning Edition. T WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY......October 11, 1821 THEODORE W. NOYES. The Evening Star Newspaper Company Nusiness Office. 11th St. and Peanaylvania Ave. ew York_Offi Nassau St. tst National Bank Building. spean Office: 3 Regent St., London, England. h_the funday morning urriers Within the city aily only, 43 cents per ts per month. Or- . or telephone Main by carrlers at the 0. Collection end of each month. $6.00: 1 mb.. 1yT, §2.40} 1 mo., 20¢ All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1y! Daily only. . 1y 1 ©las legislation can afford. It put the busier? What other man has so many different things to consider and promptly to- pass upon? And upon what othes man's decisions depends half as much of importaace to half as many pegple? The busiest man in the country today occupies the White House. Business on Capitol Hill. The republicans ori Capitol Hill are showing a disposition and a capacity to get together. Evidently, they have their thinking caps on. It is to be hoped in the general behalf that they {keep them on, and that the “lids” may perform the full service for which they are famous. This hope is founded on the fact that the country is looking to the re- publican party for such relief from existing burdens and embarrassments There is better reason now than then for a party council as to the situation. The existing situation ap- Pphals somewhat to ail democratic poli- ticlans. They think they see in the republican divisions in Congress a ehance for next year, and it is Mr. ‘White’'s desire that the question be formally canvassed by the natlonal committee at this time. The lesson of the worm and the early bird is re- membered. It may be merely a coincidence, but worthy of note, that this call of Chair- man White appears simultaneously with the message of Gov. Cox to a democratic club in California as to the democratic duty and what the democratic policy should be at present. Last year's democratic ‘candidate, it will be observed, is standing pat, and urges his pafty to do likewise. He Editorial Digest * . Northoliffe’s War Talk. Lord Northcliffe has been talking to the Australians in a way to interest not only them, but also the Japanese. The latter, inded, might be inclined, one would think, to make known in a somewhat forcible way their inter- est in Northcliffe’s remarks. He has told the Australians, almost in so take thelr country. in regard to the possibility of a con- be Northcliffe's duty to speak as he did. But it is doubtful whether they do need waking up. On the whole, it seems a pity to be stirring distrust and enmity anywhere in the world just at this time, The way to avold the perils which seem to loom so largely in Northcliffe’s mind is hardly the way that he chooses, but, rather, the way of accommodation and a. rangement. There has to be accom- modation "and- arrangement, -8 grand scale if a great struggle U the many ‘words, that if they do not have. | a care Japan is going to come and | 1f the Australians need waking Yip ! quest of Australia by Japan it might | | . G. Sloan & Co., Inc., Auctioneers, 715 13th St. N.W. The Entire Valuable Furnishings and Rich Household Appointments Removed from 2209 Massachusetts Avenue To Be Sold at Public Auction Within Our Galleries, 715 11th Street N.W. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13th, 1921, STARTING 10 AM. Embracing in part Mahogany Case Weber Baby Grand Piano, Large Italian Gilt Table, Carved Italian Gilt Armchair, Large Ker- manshah Carpet, Large Serapi Carpet, Adam Satinwood Painted Drawing Room Suite, Elizabethan Oak Dining Room Suite, Old Ivory Enamel Bedroom Furniture, Rich Velour and other Draperies, Mahogany High Boys, Three-piece Overstuffed Living Room Suite, Sunday matter last November into that party’'s nations two or three decades from I d” Table Chii Tall Itali Gilt Torchieres, Polych: —_—— i >Ry thinks things will come around all{now is to be averted, and #n effort is mported Table China, Tall Italian Gilt lorchieres, Holychrome e hands by the most impressive ma-| shortly to be made to bring about ang other Table Lamps, Two-piece Cane Back Mahogany Living No Podsnappery. The time approaches when the Dis- trict will not be able to make certain vitally necessary public improvements without borrowing money to do so. Current tax revenue will not suffice without neglecting current outlays. jority ever recorded. The most opti- mistic republican, along with the most apprehensive democrat, stood for the moment amazed at the election re- turns. The situation today, therefore, is up to the victors. They must do business, {right in the end, say in 1924, These two deliverances, coming to- gether, will cause much interesting discussion in both parties, and par- ticularly in that faction of the demo: cratic party which has been, and still is, figuring on the elimination of Gov. Ppossession, and moving on his, own initiative. - such an @iccommodation. The success of that effort is partly dependent upon Japan's attitude; and it does not seem a very wise thing to wave red rags in front of Japan's face upon the very eve of that effort—Charles- ’ News and Courler (democratic). Bicycles Cox;le Back. 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Kindly Open Every Evening Until 8 0'Clock. and on Bundays 10 A.M. ndance. od for 20 Teare, ZLady and maids in atte; 5 ‘Work Fully Guarante nd location of our office ‘mind. Dr. WYETH, 427-29 7th Street N.W. Opposite Lansburgh & Bro. and over Grand Usmion Tea Co. La: [osf . oughly Equipped ‘Parlors in Washington. Phone Main 7066, Co' “ud Most Thor. IR AR AR R R R RRRERE in your o) % The Store for Things Electrical; Everything for the Motorist For example, the $10,000.000 expendl. |OF confess inability to do it. If they|Cox from all party caioulations for Returning popularity of the blcycle ° . 3 . $10,000, ¢ i ; 8 s remarked throughout the country, i ture needed to bring up to date the|Choose the latter course, or if the and with the resumption of bicycle anls t ‘ , l 0 i business they do is unwisely done, they R e riding has come a change in models. pply calls for much may expect the punishment appointed Look Out for Fires. The newer bicycles differ almost as more money than 4n view of other = = much from those of twent; S ago pressing municipal needs can be|and provided for such a performance.| The chilly spell caused the starting aafety” differed from the <pared from current revenue. Money | They Will be turned out of their placesup of a good many furnaces in Wash- With the invention needed for this purpose must be bor- rowed through bond issue or through interest-bearing advances from Uncle Sam. But the District protests against borrowing from Uncle Sam or from anybody until its surplus tax money in Uncle Sam’s hands has been utilized for its benefit. to make room for men capable of tearawork, and with the disposition to ohey a mandate issued at the polls. And they will not have to,wait very long for what will be coming to them. Next year is the time set for the voters to pass upon the record; and the record will be presented to them in a campaign which, for ginger, is likely to rank with the most gingerish ington, but the real opeming of the furnace season will be when the first cold snap arrives. Before that time comes the heating plant of the house should be looked over. Many houses catch on fire because of something wrong with the heating plant or chim- ney. Time was when nearly every fire was ascribed to a “defective flue,” or an “overheated stove,” or the over- this sport influ igning of models for ordin: Bicycles were made much lighter, and he was proudest who owned the lightest wheel. Ramshorn handlebars, which caused the rider were popular. to lean far o Perhaps it was the early taste for speed that caused rid- ers to make use of e piece of highway for “scorching. Even in those days there was much complaint about the riders who en- dangered pedestrians. The ordinary Closing Out Furniture for the Nursery Early Fall There’s no need to start up your heating plant when all you need is a little heat to drive the.damp and chill Uncle Sam is urged to deny tne L = bicycle was stripped down to the low- T o . A P < existence of a District tax surplus and |cOngressional campaigms ever Waged.jturning of a ccal ofl lamp. Thenfest welght—about twenty-thres or We haven’t the room for its proper display— from the first early days of - o A “, " wenty-five pounds. he motor car S, 3 to declare it a myth, a fiction, a fis- spontaneous, combustion™ eame into TG s NOles hegan to disanpear: that’s the reason that we’re going to cut the prices Fall. 1ment of the imagination. The New Clemenceau. or sy The sight of 2 woman on a blcsels d let it In Mr. Podsnap Charles Dickens| The “Tiger” was not in tigerish ""‘dm‘;"“’fe‘;h“":’; ‘;‘"dfl ‘-’:“C""e s ot oy eversd and let 1t go. . d typifles those who evade an incon-{mood when he spoke at Mouilleron-en- | insulation. e defective flue is still| iy tne and ng is a weekly A handy Electric Heater venient fact or a disagreeable obliga- tion by denying or ignoring its exist- ehce. Mr. Podsnap settled that what- er he refused to admit and whatever he put behind him he put out of exist- ence. Tncle Sam is invited to play the Yudsnap role, and to commit Pod- suappery by denying the existence of a District tax surplus and by repudi- ating obligation to account for it. He is invited to render the surplus non: existent, Podsnap fashion, by sweep- ing it behind him into the Treasury reveptacle labeled “miscellaneous re- Wut this invitation to repudiate will not be accepted. Uncle Sam will not be guilty of Podsnappery. The Distriet tax surplus is not a myth or a fiction, but a concrete fact, raising a distinct obligation, not to be repudiated or, in Podsnap fashion, waved aside. This contention is elaborated in editorial correspondence printed else- where in today's Star. The London Conference. "'he Anglo-Irish parley is in progress tonay, and the representatives of Sinn Fein and the British government are together at the council table. It is a momentous meeting. Some of the ca- ble dispatches mention it as “the peace conference between the British gov- ernment and the Sinn Fein.” Perhaps there is a prophecy in the phrase Paredo Sunday, at the inauguration of the soldiers’ memorial at his birth- place. Take this: “I should like before I disappear to formulate as a last wish that every- body should think of me as a friend.” And then thi: | have been much blamed during life. I supported it gayly when I young. I did not exactly detest strife, but if strife has charms, so also has peace.” another thing to come back to and remain faithful to the new of peace and union among easy in war to muster all one’s to dash upon the foe, but it is Frenchmen. I have passed all my ex- istence in being impatient, but as life ebbs from me I have learned patience, and I think 1 can assure you that henceforward I will conform to that rule of life.” No encouragement in any of these for those Frenchmen who have been figuring on the return of Mr. Clemen- ceau to politics and journalism, ar- rayed for battle and impatient to get at his enemies. He recognizes no enemies now, but only friends. He be- speaks the friendship of all. M. Clemenceau declares he has not changed. But has he not sounded, if unrecognized by himself, a new note? Does it harmonize with the notes of a former day—with the notes of the man who said at one time, almost as a boast, that he probably had not a single friend in public life*in France? ‘Will this note be echoed in France? Could France be better served than by the adoption by other French leaders a power for evil, and if there is a de- fect in the flue it ought to be found before the stoves and furnaces are set to their winter's work. A house is al- ways a needed thing, and more so now than ever. In proportion to popu- lation houses never were so scarce and high in rent and price. Houses should be conserved. Go in strong for fire prevention! ——ee——— It has become a custom for people who steal from banks to offer as an excuse the statement that their sal- |aries are small. The President and all the cabinet officials draw salaries which are universally admitted to be far short of a proper compensdtion. But this fact does not imply any obli- gation of leniency in ‘public opinion should the trusted servants of a great government at some future time de- cide to take advantage of abundant opportunities to help themselv ———tee———— A patient who has tried monkey glands reports that he feels better; not making it clear, however, that his improvement may not be due more to a good rest and solicitous attention provided by fellow humans than to anything he owes the monkey. ———————— [usmon as a fire cause, and later we In order to keep the German marks in popular circulation it may be neces- sary for the authorities to print so- ciety items and comic pictures on them. feature. For a time the old six-day grind hout the only event that survived. In the i raised handlebar: brake newer Licycles are usual. made control sier. report a gradual in- Teople who once rode and then ve it up are going back to the bicy . _both as a mea of bl ure and of healthful exercise.— ‘mdianapolis have ws (independent). Waste in Clothing. The American has a committ Engineering Council on waste in indus- ued a report on cady-made clothing business, in which it, points out the inefliciency of both management and saving of 40 per cent pic labor. A and * i as the high-wheel ty| of the sufety came bicyele racing, and 0,000 a day i -up of effec- ss” are easily possible,, it is sai In greater or less degree some- of the same sort probably could re people can be induced to make all the improvements possible, even those which they know would be im- vrovements, there will have to be a change in human nature. Not only the manufacturer but also the individual consumers of clothing are wasteful. Take the matter of men's vests, for instance. The a; erage man buys one with every suit, but though he may wear the suit at all seasons he lays the vest aside during warm weather, with the re- sult that it is still in good condition when the coat and trousers are worn out. Yet it must be discarded along with them and a new vest bought {with the next suit. And h suggestions as to the elimi aste and the increase of efliciency in industry: it is easy to make recommendations, but to get them adopted is an Pittsburgh Sun (democratic). “Upon All Pieaunt Pictures.” “Teach it by movies” is a growing ‘peace conference.” and if that is a|of the spirit the “Tiger,” but no longer e cry Among teachers, and the screen : 5 i ¥ wrPiger.” ims? s cational factor seems des- prophecy -the world hopes for its ful-{the “Tiger,” now proclaims? The It must be very difficult for an offi-|tined to come rapidiy into its own. In fillment. emergency, he thinks, demands DA-| i1 tn some of the more. of less secret | MO department has the film greater Eamonn De Valera issued a procla- mation on the eve of the meeting, and in that proclamation he speaks the language which the extremists among his followers will applaud, yet there is one sentence which gives good hope that the differences may be adjusted. It is this: “The only peace that in the very nature of things can end the struggle will be a peace consistent with the nation’s right and guarantee- ing freedom worthy of the sufferings endured to secure it.” In those words, “consistent” and “worthy” is the ground on which the representatives of the two peoples may arrive at a compromise under which Ireland will secure the maximum of independence nd self-government and yet continue as an assoeiate “in that community of nations known as the British empire,” a phrase employed by Lloyd George in his invitation to the conference. ————————— 1t requires no very profound s economics to see the danger rates to a point se of bhoosting railway ol tience and teamwork, and he gives his vote for both. —————————— Too Trusting Trees. Trees are beautiful, but they lack a certain kind of useful intelligence. They have a wonderfully developed sense of form and color and a strong desire to serve men and birds, and they also give a refuge to insects whose interests seem to be contrary to the interests of men. It is against the fruit trees that a critic would lodge his loudest complaint. These trees aré famous for their beauty and their sweetness, but they seem to lack good sense. Their chief fault is that they are credulous—too trusting. Though repeatedly deceived by dour February, wicked March and some- [times by flighty little April, year after {year they expose the treasure of their {bloom to the first fair and smiling i days that come. And then the smiling jmonth turns a cold shoulder on them and sets the cruel frost upon them. Now, after a hot, dry and uncomforta- | societies to live up to the impressive- ness implied by his title. So well jjpformed & personage on East Indian‘matters as Rudyard Kip- ling might be of service if he could be persuaded to restore his pen to a reportorial vein. o Occasionally a motion picture lawyer imagines himself entitled to almost as much compensation as a motion picture actor. —_— Precaution against fires is urged at this time of year. The expense of fuel legitimately employed is quite suffi- cient. - —_—————————— Once in’ awhile public attention is directed to a secret society whose chief asset is its publicity department. SHOOTING STARS. potential value than as an interna- tional agent to give one nation un- derstanding of another's life and ideals. The freak film may be quite inno- cent at home and yet be far from harmless abroad. it does not help understanding of America in Europe to suggest, for instance, that all Americans are rolling in money, {which they spend exclusively in {cabarets, Films representing normal family life and normal pleasures, films that emphasize likeness to other peo- ples and not peculiarities, are the sort of thing America should send abroad and hope to recelve from other na- tions. Few things can do more than such use of films to remove these pe- culiar prejudices that promote war. The task of making films good in- ternational educators is extremely |delicate. It deserves amd requires | first-class brains and wide knowledge. When an American film character licks a postage stamp in mailing a letter it discredits Americans in Latin America, No nice Latin American licks a stamp. In Japan the Ameri- can kiss is viewed with alarm. Films need translation for foreign markefs as much as books do, and the task is even more Important because of their wider circulation.—Chicago News (in- dependent). Politics and Starvation. Friday's sesslon of the assembly of The pieces are all of very high grade—Ivory- finish; designed 'on pleasing lines with dainty carving. The reductions are deep—to make them conclusive. $100 Wardrobe.$75.00 $100 Crib..... .$75.00 $40 Hamper... . $27.00 $35 High Chair. $25.00 $25 Scale. ....$20.60 $30 Chair. ... .$22.50 $9.50 Clothes Tree . ......$7.50 These Seven Pieces Combined. All in § perfect condition ....c.ieiiiiiiiiL. 225 Fourteenth at G Street “Universal” Electric SUNFLOWER HEATER . .. Finished in Rich Florentine Bronze Burniched Cop- per Reflector. We Offer Three Styles —“Universal,” “Simplex,” and “Hotpoint” Makes. $11 to $13.50 is all that is required. At- tach it to the nearest socket in bathroom, living room or breakfast room and you will have plenty of heat at little expense. A DPortable Electric Heater at this time of the year is a most appreciated Anthracite Mines Pump MoreWater Every Day Than New York Uses L[] HE average daily consumption of water by New York’s popula- tion of 5,620,000 is 660,200,000 gallons. To keep anthracite mines free of water requires pumps with a capacity of 823,600,000 gallons R ) where nobody will feel able to ;Afl"ll'(l.l,l“ summer, they begin preparations | to pay them. for a winter rest, though really dur-| BY PHILANDER JOBNKON, the league of nations was perhaps the [ —_————— The wealthy gentleman with a wine eellar is a more alluring victim of the modern burglar than the gentleman with a safe full of bonds. l His present prosperity may tempt some new bandits to try to hold up Pancho Villa. The Busiest Man. The President is a very busy man these days. Here are a few of the questions he is being consulted about and must follow closely Taxation. Congress is wrestling with that in right good earnest. and republican leaders are putting up some of their difficulties te him. The tariff. Although not under urge at present, tariff revision is still on the card, and still the subject of oc- casional discussion at the White House. The President interested, is and wants action by Congress as soon as may be possible. Transportation. Senator Cummins, in improved health, is again on the job, and moving for railroad legisla- tion. The President is “in” -on that. His advice about what should be done is sought. The armament conference. That most important meeting is only.a month away, and the subject of no end of discussion everywhere. Much of this is brought to the President’s ttention, and America’s part as host nyassed With him. As he is to open the conference with an address he is probably already considering the'form and substance of that. He is scheduled for a trip south in a week or so. and will deliver several addresses while gone. = Busy? What man in the country ig] he did, and sat tight. He is still in h 1ing last summer fruit trees did but {little more useful work than most peo- ple. Then comes a bright day in Octo- ber—a few bright days—and the fruit trees, ever gullible and foolish, put out flowers. And this in October, with November and December on their way down from the north! In many Wash- ington gardens you may see fruit { trees in bloom. i B — Doubt as to the attendance of Lloyd George at the great conference in Washington is steadily disappe: ing. The occasion suggests opportuni- ties which no statesman can afford to miss. _———— Los Angeles has a rather depressing {way lately of allowing the police re- porter to be as active as the press agent in the circulation of motion pic- ture news. —_—————— Lenin some time ago sent Trotsky to the front. Russian politics begin to look as if Trotsky had now sent Lenin to the rear. > The Committee and the Candidate. Consulting his own pleasure and views, Chairman White has issued a call for a meeting of the democratic national committee. E 'This step was requested last winter, but in circumstances and in a way which influenced Mr. White to decline. Some friends of Mr. McAdoo offered Mr. White his hat, and expressed re- gret that he seemed disposed to go. As they had misread Mr. White's dis- | position and purpose, the duty de- voived on him to put them wise. This i —_— Human Speech. The man who talketh night and day i But little will reveal. For one who hath too much to say | Hath something to conceal. | But he who seldom doth express His mind in public phrase— Look out for him! He's more or less Inclined to truthful ways. { Literally Speaking. liquor in his boot?” “I dunno,” answered Uncle Bill Bot- tletop. “Though I must edmit that some of the stuff does taste that way. Lesser Evil. fou must admit that the werd ‘normalcy’ has been slightly over- | worked.”" “Yes,” replied Miss Cayenne. “But T'd rather put up with it than risk starting a mevement to get back to ‘abnormaley.’ " i Peace With Safety. | T would not shoet a fellow man Upon the land or sea, Excepting to forestall his plan For trying te shoot me. _ Jud Tunkins says Puritanism isn't liable te hurt the ceuntry near as much as Impuritanism. Oraterical Purpese. “Your speeches have given me a great deal to think about,” said the admiring constituent. “That isn’t their object at all,” pro- tested Senator Sorghum. * “I don't want to persuade you to sit down and think. I want to stimulate you to get out and hustle for me and the public i “Does a bootlegger actually carry most lamentable in the short history of that body. The business before the sembly was the plan of Dr. Fridtjof Nansen to have the governments rep- resented in the league contribute $5,- 000,000 for the rellef of the starving people of Russla, The plan was de- feated, but only after a stormy ses- sion, during which Dr. Nansen ac- cused the governments of Europe of playing politics with the Russian famine and of trying to buy the fall of the soviet government by starving ,000,000 Russian_people, Lord Robert Cecil supperted Dr. INansen and ridiciled the pretenses {of the representatives, who voted down the Nansen plan under instruc- tions from their governments after expressing sympathy for the famine victims. The plain truth is that the governments of Europe would rather let Russia starve than contribute money that will go Into Russia while the communists are in power, This being the real attitude of the Huro- pean powers, it is nothing but hypoec- risy to pass resolutions of sympathy for the Russian people—Brooklyn | Bagle (independent democratic). The German mark is almost en- tirely erased.—Arkansas Gazette, { One way te reduce apprepriatiens is | for democrats to advocate an in- crease.—Flint (Mich.) Journal, The autemobile to watch is th ona behind the automobile you are watching.—Boston Herald, So _many people seem to think that the brain cell is for the solitary col finement of ideas.—St. Paul Pieneer- Press. » L4 Poubtiess we'd have a better seun- try if everybody took as much inter- est in elections as they do in break- fast.—Evansville Courier. The Pacific conference agenda con- tinues to to_be included but the Ku Klux and bobbed hair.—Manchester Union. Joseph Hergesheimer, the author, says that women read more fiction than men. The men, of cour read solid stuff, like Aristotle and Darwin and s and Locke ‘and Machia- velli and Ring Lardner.—Boston Globe. grow. Not much remains |. daily. If there were failure to rid the mines of this tremendous vol- ume of water, destruction .would overtake them just as surely as disaster would follow the cutting off of New York’s water supply. ton of household and steam anthracite to market, 18 tons of water (on the aver- age) must be raised. ‘The annual amount of water thus pumped would cover a 200-acre farm to the depth of over a mile. It would form a lake 10 miles long and 2 miles wide 100 feet in depth. ‘The weight of water hoisted in the anthracite mines each year is nearly 40 per cent greater than the annual production of all kinds of coal in this country. Think of this in terms of water handled! Constant draining of the mines does not end all of the “water” costs of production. Water must be used almost continuously throughout the process required to make anthracite fit for economical use. For This & No. 5 of a series on hard coal facts posssnted ta an effort to help you decide for o i Ak i i s A1 bk ANTHRACITE General Policies Committee 437 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia W. L. Allen, President, Secranton Coal Company. Percy C. Madeira, President, Madeira, Hill & Co. Of these processes, “jigging” is of great import- ance. Jigs are mechanical devices which separate slate and rock from the coal as it passes through the breaker. Water, forced constantly through the jig floats the coal above the refuse. Anthracite is sprayed almost continuously with water throughout the process of its manufacture. ‘Thus, by removing dirt and dust, mine owners pro- vide standards of quality which guard consumers against inferior coal. Dirty, slate-filled coal would cost less to produce. But the consumer would get less for his money. ¥ So the cost of “mining” water must be added to the cost of producing coal. -