Evening Star Newspaper, October 16, 1921, Page 50

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In the appalling catastrophe which is threatened by the nation-wide rail- way strike ordered for October 30, the zreat body of American citizens will support the federal government in whatever steps it may be called upon 10 take to maintain the supremacy of the law over the organized strength of selfish interests. The nation simply cannot and will not endure that its life shall be strangled by any group of its citizens, however powerful they may fcel in the strength of their or- ganization. What might be taken as a direct defiance of the federal government is contained in the strike order issued hy the brotherheods chiefs, the men being told that they have the same right to refuse to perform service on a mail train as they have to refuse serv- ice on a freight train. That this in- terpretation of the law is not likely to THE EVENING STAR,! Edition. lie accepted unquestioned by the gov- cenment is indicated by the stummm, WASHINGTON, D. C. list night by Attorney Generall ..October 16, 1921 Daugherty that “When that question is considered they will find serious doubt about their position.” ‘While it probably is truc that there is no law under which unwilling men could be required to operate mail trains, it certainly is clear that any attempt by them to interfere with the operation of such trains by others would bring them into conflict with the federal authorities. During the presidency of Grover Cleveland the right and duty of the government to| prevent interference with movement of the United States mails was assert- e4 and maintained, even to the extent| of the use of federal troops, and the precedent then cstablished stands as a zuide to help the present administra- tion meet the tremendous responsibili- ties which will devolve upon it once the strike order becomes effective. It is devoutly to be hoped, both for the welfare of the country and for the future of organized labor, that some way will be found, short of abject sur- render to the demands of the brother- hoods, to avert the strike. Regard- Tess of the merits of the order for a 12| per cent reduction in wages, in pro- test against which the strike was voted, the general public, which will Te the greatest sufferer from the sus- pension of transportation, will with- hold sympathy from a policy which at cne time resorts to arbitration and ob- tains an increase in wages, and then on another occasion, when the de- cislon is adverse, refuses to abide by the judgment of the same arbitrators, repudiates the entire schemo of arbi- tration and resorts to force. And the same public would be as quick to turn its resentment against the rail executives had th way anes to dis of adjusting rd urbitration s a means | Axacan There is a long and tragic legend con- cerning ‘the destruction of that colony by Indians. It would be very interest- ing to find that map, verify its date and authorship, and compare it with the bay and river today. { horse races in particu be formulated at a citizens’ meeting 10 be held at the District building next Thursday evening, to the end that ‘Washington may present a spick and span appearance for the armament conference.” Here is a drive for the upkeep of the home: There is something about your home that needs fixing. Likely there are many things that need fix- ing. Something about your yerd, or even your “lawn,” or even your “grounds,” needs shipshaping. Youhave said a hundred times this year that “I'll fix that up when I get the time.” Take the time. Fix it! Washington has a reputation to support. You are a part of Washington, and it is up to you to stand by our home town. And do it now! Early Potomac Explorers. The recent observance of Columbus day naturally called to mind many of the long list of explorers who, in the years following the first voyage of Co- lumbus, came to America and made special, and in some cases extensive, discoveries on the continent. There is a bellef which has considerable back- ing in an historical sense, and for which the proof may eventually be found, that Spanish explorers were in the Chesapeake bay and the Potomac river nearly half a century before the Jamestown colonists arrived, and be- fore the name of Capt.'John Smith became {dentified with our region. The late Hugh T. Taggart went into this subject in a paper which he read before the Columbia Historical Society May 13, 1907, saying: The houor_is popularly ascribed to Capt. John Smith of having been the first man of European race to explore the Potomac river and to contemplate in the region which includes the site of the District of Columbia the wealth of forest, flowers, animal life and other glories displaved by nature be- fore she had felt the withering touch of clvilization; yet there is nothing in the writings of Smith to indicate that his exploration of the river had been extended to the vicinity of the first, or little falls. He makes no mention of this absolute barrier to further navigation; it is, in fact, apparent from his map that this portion of the river was laid down upon it from nar- rative_and not from actual explora- tion. It xeems ulso to be historically demonstrable that he had been pre- ceded many years by the Spaniards. who had sailed up the river at least as far as the place we now know as Occoquan, and that to the river they had given the name of Lspiritu Santo. John Dawson Gilmary Shea dipped into this matter beforc Mr. Taggart. It was perhaps Mr. Shea who brought this matter into public notice more than thirty yvears ago. In u paper which he read before the New York Historical Soclety he said that there had been Spanish exploration of our river, that there w map showing the bay and river of Isplritu Santo, or Holy Spirit, which corresponds to the Chesapeake and the Potomac, that Jesuit missionary priests founded a colony at a place on the river called and that the situation of corresponds to Occoquan. Axacan, Race Betting. Representative Joseph Walsh of Massachusetts, In supporting a meas- ure which was passed by the Ilouse prohibiting transmission through the i - 3 at the next election. Reductions in the mals of newspapers publishing betting | - v.rnment personnel had to be. The odds on horse races, prize fights and i a o e S meole ordered it, but for the sake of 3 css, 5 Ve nomy, GiL. s Tenoriad as saying Fhat iho| Tovumcss: COMEnt Sad oTeR coanmiy National Capltal Is gambling mad.” ©, . "4pq that the guillotine ‘may be There was exaggeration in the charge, but betting on one tirinz o another is a common prac One might call it a very common hu-| tice, a habit. man frailty. What the Massachusetts heen the | member had in mind, perhaps, was not | but betting on r. It is an betting In gencral, On itensive and expensive pastime. may judge of the extent of this form Save Rock Creek. i of betting by the large sale of sheets The concern of Col. Sherrill over| ng cards giving the past perform- the diminishing flow of water in Rock|ances of horses entered for a race and creek, told of elsewhere In today's|an estimate, or guess, as to their prob- Star, will be shared by the people-of |5he performance in that race. The Washington, who will joln him in Urg-| zale of race tips or “selections” pre- ing that there shall be taken promptly | pared by an “authority” is also an in- whatever steps are necessary to pre-|gicgtion of the extent of betting “on vent drying up of the stream. Of all|tne races.” With betting on horse the natural attractions of the National | races prohibited it appears anomalous Capital no other is quite on a par with | ypae tips or advice as to how to betz RRock Creek Park and the beautiful|shonld be publicly sold. waterway which gives the park its R R PR N name. Visitors from every state of| n mnciish novelist declares that he the Union and from practically everyl'm not visit this country again so' nation of the earth have visited the long as it is dry. Those unfaméiar ' vark and marveled at the beauty of| gup pis writings or lectures will not, its wooded hills and the creek wend:|ynow whether this is an argument for | ing its rock-strewn way among them. A T2 e Sact e ke o whtch 0| s T PNt other great city in the world possesses,| .. 40 of automobiles, aircraft and and once destroyed it never can be burglar tools in_ his ope’uflonl com- repiaced. pels the bootlegger to keep his nerves To acquire the land necessary for a in order. While defying prohibition forest reserve at the head waters of laws % is necessarily an abstainer on Rock creek would not be money wast-1,.. o gceount. ed. The forest service has entered upen a policy of purchasing reserves ol 35 in the eastern states, and already| AR improvement in motion plctures inany thousands of acres have heen|i8 eXpected &5 soon as the stars can \aken over. These reserves serve the | devote less time to the courtroom and Jouble purpose of regulating the flow |more to the studio. . © of streams and of assuring a future timber supply, and it is estimated that! A world grown wiser s now con-| in time they not only will be self-sus-| sigering methods of paying off debts| taining, but will forever pay & sub-|ingtead of war projects to. incresse stantial profit on the Investment.|;nem, When to these considerations are add- »d the saving from deterioration of Itock Creek Park, which represents a| The President and Dissrmament. vast Investment in land values and| President Harding has been aptly improvements, 1t would seem there|characterized as a practical optimist. <hould be little hesitancy in providing|The two characteristics imputed. to whatever money may be necessary tojhim by the phrase undoubtedly come the effecting of protective measures. |as near as the citing of any two char- et e acteristics may come to portraying the Refunding a debt of $11 u"u_ouolwovmmplex which is the President. It is t0 the U. S. A. is an enterprise which j interesting to note the position he has has its psychological aspect as well M:taken as regards the armament con- its demand on ability in mathematics. ——— e The trouble in a traffic regulator's 1ife comes when a speed maniac meets i i 1 B e and methods. Advocates of general international disarmament have been swift and se- vere in their criticism of those L et methods. To them the purposes of the ————— conference, as outlined by the Presi- Another Drive! dent, seem to fall far short of what the Another “drive” is planned. This is a drive which is to put money in your pocket instead of taking it out. Itisa drive to benefit yourself instead of somebody else. It is & very unusual drive. The news of it is that “plans for an intemeive clean-up campaign that will enlist the active support of every family gad property owner will world demands. Unqualified disarma- ment, they assert, is wanted by a vast! majority of mankind. That being the| case, they reason, why do not the na- tions of the world say merely, “Let us all disarm,” and, lo, universal disarmar ment becomes an accomplished fact. There {5 undoubtedly a deal of truth in the indicated assértion. A'vast ma.) 1 ference as reflecting his peychologY(: mo rupn o great big government! Jority of mankind undoubtedly does de: sire disarmament. The fallacy ef the, critics of the President does not lis in the premise upon which they base their argument, but in the conclusion which they reach through sentimen- tality rather ‘than logic. For though the nations of the world desire dis: armament they also desire many other things. And the factor upon which the whole matter of = dlearmament kinges is whether they want disarma- ment enough to forego those of their desires which lead to armaments. President Harding's ldeas as to what| the coming conference may achieye are predicated upon a conviction on his part that before the world shall be ready to disarm or even to limit arma- 'ments materially certain practical prob- lems must be solved. Armaments are burdens ‘incident to national polictes, and until the policies of the nations af- fected can be so reconciled as to render armaments unnecessary those bur- dens will be endured. President Hard- ing, seeking the same end as.the im- practical advocates of immediate uni- versal disarmament, is engaged with the thoroughly practical problem of devising means to the end that he hopes and desires may some day be achieved. ‘Sober-minded men and wom- en will realize that by his course he will contribute infinitely more to the cause of disarmament than will the combined sentimental yearnings. of those amiable visionaries who today berate him. ——ceeme——————— Economy. The government seems to be making a large part of its economy drive against the navy yard—and the navy yards. This is not because there is ex- travagance there, or any more waste, lost motion and duplication of effort there than in any other part of the government. There is probably less, the work being largely of an exact mechanical kind and the conduct of affairs being under military or naval diseipline, which is generally not soft. The economy program of the govern- ment has borne hard’upon the navy yard because there was so much gove ernment work which could be cur- tailed or abandoned. There has been curtailment of work and reduction by many thousands in the administrative force of the War Department, the Shipping Beard and other government branches, and it is hoped that the worst is over. Government ‘“‘economies” must al. ways inflict hardship on government workers. Industrial “economies” throw men and women out of work. The un- employment conference prescribed some measures believed to be remedial, but it found no cure for the evil of in- dustrial depression. In the last cam- paign the present administration re- ceived thousands of votes because of the alleged extravagance of the late administration and the promised econ- omy of this, and *‘economy” was in- terpreted as meaning with other things a reduction in the government’s pay roll. Of course, every ‘‘economist” be- lieved that the economies would be ap- plied to somebody else. This adminis- tration got a mandate from the peo- {ple to cut the government pay roll, !cut it deep and make drastic econo- mies in the cost of running the goy; ernment. Tt took office upder that pledge. Not to keep that pledge would mean political disaster, and probably {let us hope that the pledge has been fuken down and stored away. ———————— The necessity of cautioning men en- gazed in food distribution not to inter- fere in soviet politics arouses somc curiosity as to why anybody should| desire to do so. i ———————— Even it coal prices do not soar this winter the man who filled his fuel bin | i i | 1 |carly saved himself a large amount of trouble and expense. ————— China’s progress among nations is in danger of being hindered by her persistent attachment to the feud habit on a large scale. 3 Farmers report difficulty in market- ing abundant crope. roads and Ia fiivver should assist in remedying a difficulty of this kind. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Viewpolnts. ‘When I am walking in the street Each motorist I chance to meet Appears to feel a horrid glee In efforts to run over me. And when a-flivvering I go Pedestrians appear to show A reckless wish to block the way ‘And fill my life with dark dismay. Our enmities, both great and small, ‘Are often fancles, after all. ‘So let’s consider, if we can, The viewpoint of the other mau. Bluntly Stated. “How did you come to decide on & political career?” “I needed a job,” replied Senator Sorghum. *I couldn’t induce any in- dividual to give me one, €0 I had to apply to the general public.” Jud Tunkine says a man Who won’t work to keep out of trouble is liable to have to work to.get. out. Intent on Big Things. A man whose luck is always toug And who can hardly pay the rent, Will often think he khows enough — The Hilarjous Rustics. - = .- “Aren’t you going to have.any merry villagers in your show like they used to have In the old operas?” “No,” replied the musical comedy manager. “They're all supposed to.be in the audience.” A Chan, “The line is busy repeated the operator. ~ “I called ogain,” replied Mr. Grow. cher, “because I Jike to-hear you say 1t.- It's o relief to hesr somethiig’ ¥e- sldes thid talk of unemployment . e e e . ey | experience. ‘ Gov. Miller. 2 At the recent republican state con- vention in New York the joke was an half a dozen politiclans who had ar- .rived on the scene each with guberna- - torial bt aspirations swelling in his bosom, and each with a boom ready for action. But, after looking about them, they decided to put restraint upon themselves, and all returned home without making a demonstra- tion. Not a boom was released. The story is this: Gov. Miller accept- ed office reluctantly, and the popular notion at the time of his election was that one. term would suffice; that he would not care or offer for a second. So the men. who had been.eying Al. bany longingly smartened up and pre- pared to put their heads out: The state convention seemed the right place for the launching of booms. But, to their surprise, when they reached Syracuse, the convention city —and Gov. Miller's home—they found Miller talk drowning everything. Nothing else was to be heard. Each one of his would-be successors dis- covered that the governor had made 80 pronounced an impression on his party in the state his renomination was generally expected, and his ac- ceptance regarded as practically cer- tain. Mum was the word, therefore, on the part of the forehanded men who had been figuring on the Miller shoes. They listened—and surrendered. Each realized there would be nothing doing in his line next year, and decided to let his boom remain in the hangar for the present. Gov. Miller in office has made some enemies, but there are many men who love him for the enemies he has made. Should he secure a second term on the record of his first, and make the sec- ond as successful as the firet, he will come to large proportions in the state, and later, maybe, in the nation. ——————— Virginia in the Senate. Virginia elects a senator next year, and Mr. Swanson will stand for an.| other term. His healith, which at one time recently was somewhat impaired, is restored, and he is now himself again. There is talk of Gov. Davis for the place. - An effort has been made to in- duce State Senator Mapp to offer. But| he has put the suggestion aslde. Tt is} understood that he is holding himself for the next guberpatorial race. Mr. Swanson is in his sixtieth vear. He has been in public life a long time. After serving several terms In the House he was elected governor, and from that office he came to the Senate. He is a lawyer, and a recognized power on the Virginia stump. He has spoken less in the Senate than when a mem- ber of the House, but'as a speaker he still shows the fire and fluency of the earlier day. He is popular in the Sen- ate, and grades influentially in com- mittee assignments. Ever since the democracy recovered complete control in Virginia an orator and -a silent ‘man have enjoyed the senatorfal honors. Thus John W. iniel, an elogient man, sat as the colleague, first of John S. Barbour, and then, for a longer time, of Thomas S. Martin. The arrangement worked admirably. The state in business mat- ters was served well by both senators, and on fleld days in debate came up smiling and confident with her prize orator ready for the fray. A similar arrangement now exists. Mr. Swanzon when he takes the floor holds attention with the best of “his assoclates, while Mr. Glass, a business man, concerns himself with the im- portant duties which fall to him natu- rally by reason of his talents and Thus the Old Dominion is never unrepresented when there is a parade of attractive speakers, nor in the quieter domain of committee work ‘behind closed doors. | ! i i i The St. Louis Committee Meeting. The meeting of the democratic ma- tional committee at St. Louis will not, of course, attract a crowd, but will at- tract wide attention. Every feature of the proceedings will be examined for a possible bearing on 1924. ; This for the reason that control of the committee -{s much desjred by some of the friends of former Secre- tary Mc¢Adoo. Their effort to displace Chairman White last winter. failed. But, as s understood, they have not mbandoned their purpose. Whether they will venew it at St. Louis is a question. Chairman White, his friends say, is not enamored of his office. He took it with reluctance, and only because of .| personal friendship for Gov. Cox. But. naturally, he resents the movement to force him out. He intends to stick, if sticking is possible, and he thinks it 1s. Thia movement has excited some surprise, and here and there expres- sion is given to the feeling by men who admire Mr. McAdoo. They find it difficult to associate what they con- sider overzeal with a politician of his shrewdness and capacity, or with his first lleutenant, Mr. Baruch, another shrewd and capable politician of the New' York school. They cannot see any advantage in dlsplacing Chairman White at this time, or at any time prior to the holding of the next na- tional convention. As these men view the matter, the stir and feeling aroused by such an @ct would militate against the Mc- Adoo boom. Thé boom seems to be in good condition now, and sailing along well. " Why take chances of creating difficulties for it? Why at this stage of the game make 2 definite gesture against anybody? - P, It'{s not charged that Chairman White {s using his place to advance the interests of Gov. Cox or of any one . in .connection with the democ- vacy's next presidential nomination. He is keeping his eye on the game, but only in the way and for the purpose of improving. every opportunity to gerve the party. ————————— So inany trips'are planned for Presi- @ent Harding, that the assumption is evidently general that any ideas of a gront duietude hawe vanished fiyu'hfl‘nlnd‘!ohvér.‘ S 3 | THE SUNDAV--STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 0, OCTOBER 16, 1921 PART Politics at Home|Native as Well as Foreign Born |Heard and Seen 2 Need to Be “Americanized” BY THOMAS R. MARSHALL, Former Vice President of the United States. AVING never been anything save a citizen of the United States, I am, of course, un- able to say whether our characteristics are distinctly differ- ent from those of other nationals. But I do know. that we are a great people to run upen a single line of thought or conduct. One of our weaknesses lies in the fact that we 80 often grow weary in well doing. We are the greatest starters in the ‘world, but we do not always finish. There comes an outburst of popular | passion over some real or imaginary gricvance. Unanimity exists that this thing must stop, that those re- sponsible for it must Le punished. Newspapers piay it up. An investl- _gation is ordered. Public indigna- tlon seems thoroughly aroused. But before the investigation Is concluded and report is made something new has arisen to fill first-page space and to attract public attention. May it not be g0 with “American- fzation.” The statement that there is vast need of making out of our complex and composite population a cohesive and consistent whole needs no argument. A blind man can see and a deaf man can hear the pro- cesslons moving in different direc- tions and shouting different battle cries. The universal experfence of man- kind discloses that no democracy can survive if its destinies rest in the hands of an ignorant and unedu- cated people. Men may imagine, hope and dream that out of tha present tyranny of Russia, exercised In the name of democracy, a real y will arise. Mi 3 this ni occur. Nothing i sible with God. But than & miracle can bring a such result. So long as tl peasants eat their bl their vodka, and sigy with a cross they n tions, but they will bilities. Many 1o proba iazed and persons were shocked at the recall of their King by the Greeks. Others wers not. This was the very thing that was d in view of the cond tion in Greece. Be ne than char- deceived ; it takes mol ters and constitutions to make a democrad: Much s we hoast of our federal Constiuttion, thoughtful men may as well engage in coniroversy as to whether the Juar nstitution of Mexico is not a Imirable document. We all ar: desirous that the effort dent Harding and Hughes looking t relations with Mexi guaranteeing of the lives arn Property of Americans in that re Dublie ‘may be successful. We hope that President Obregon way govern with o wise a mind and s firm a hand as to restore law and order. But T have a fixed opinion that concurrently with the efforts of our own government and thoee of Mexico there must be put in ef- fect a system of cducation that will not only teach the Mexican the principles of civil government, but convince him that their main- tenance is to his best interest. * ok k% It is not the man of foreign birth alone who needs to be Amer- jzanized. In a land where knowl- edge is sald to be generally dif- fused wisdom may also be said to lingér. Mr. Edison’s experiments with college graduates revealed what many persons discovered long ago. Things which are as common to some persons as the breakfast table are wholly unfa- miliar to many diploma holders. Can it Le sald that the professors in the institutions whieh turned out the graduates are to blame? The graduate might be pardoned for thinking so when he finds his education of small practical valuc. It seems to me if & man were to belfeve all that he reads and hears about the state of education in America, he would conclude that e alone knew anything. To those persons who dream that cducation is information and that the nearer u man approximates an encyclopedia the closer he comes to the perfection of knowledge this condition may seem startling, but to those of us who hold facts as of secondary imporiance to principles, which are of primary importance, the condition i= not at having upon American institut- ions. * ok k% It will not do to assume that be- cause this is 8 democracy every one is to have similar mental train- ing., do the same thing in life, and be possessed of like property. Yet there are.men among those who are trying to reform our system of government who rail at the in- equalities in the possession of property and boldly avow that what one man has another should have also. I remember a conversation on this subject with a seedy individ- ual in Washington, who was com- plaining against the government. He did not agree with my view th success depended upon the indivi ual. Suddenly he inquired: “Have you an automobile?’ 1 told him the government provided one for my use. “Then I am entitled to one” he sald. “Certainly, T agreed. Have you a chauffeur?’ he eked, and when I told him the government gave me the services of one, he said, “Then I am entitled to a chauffeur.” Again my “Cer- tainly” avefted controversy. Our digcussion of economic prin- ciples led me to suggest that he would probably admit his theory would be no better than the pres- ent system if his theory disclosed an injustice and he readily assent- | It is a falling of human nature to feel that one's surroundings are dull and prosaic. No doubt the in- habitants of Venice lament their “same old canals” and long for romantic New York, where count- less thousands throng !terminable streets. What glorious vehicles taxi- cabs must be, compared with these tiresome gondolas! All about us are sights and things far from prosaic. But one must be situated correctly in order to see many of them. Who, for instance, from the street, would imagine that in one of the busiest sections of downtown exigts a colony of old Italy, only visible to those looking from the windows of a high office building? Between tall bulldings it lies, this little colony. Tin roofs become play- grounds for children, flowers blossom from back windows, and on lower roofs clothes & hung and feather beds made and ade. On the roof children come out to play, some days, and other days one muy see a gray hen, fastened to a long string, sitting on the edge o the roof, and on the cdge of eternity, too, for she will be eaten shortly. Here one may see a spread of ap- ples put out to dry. On Mondays the wash is hung out. The vind, strengthened by the overtowering buildings, whips the clothes on the line and the calico dresscs of the women. Prosaic? Ye But when one of the women stops ed, €0 I put this to him: “If you are thtitled to an uutomobile and a (& moment to put her arm around Shauffeur, your. chauffeur would |onc of her children, the obrerver no likewlse be entitled to an auto- |lOnEer sees merely @ woman hanging e nd m chauffeur, and so onand | clothes on a roof, but a mother and o R fmitaly you will reach |ber child in the heart of homelund. | the man who wouid get an automo- * i * ¥ but who would get no chauf- * x A man in America is entitled to what he honestly gets and it is the Dbusiness of the government to see that he has a chance to get things honestly and to punish those who £et anything dishonestly. The colleges and universities of America are pouring into American life a stream of young people, who, according to Mr. Edison and others, know nothing und who are an- swering in defense of themselves that the people who taught them knew nothing. They arc the fin- ished products of our common school system, which is said to be the hope of America. To deny this would be next to treason, but I in- terpose a reservation. 1f this sy tem is turning out young men and women trained to believe that la- ‘dishonorable, that democracy n even distribution of the pr of life, then the common 3 of America will in time prove to be a curse rather than a blessing. University education used to be advocated as the means of mak- Tam leaders of men and furnishing Philosophy of life. But no man R become a leader who lacks the atural qualities of leadership, and no man can be a philosopher linless he is endowed with a phil- vsophic mind., University training fs nmo more good for every man than training to hit blows on a bass drum would be good for every elephant. Poodle dogs may be frained to sit _on their hind legs and hold pipes in their mouths, but his does not make them better poodles. It just enables them to Show oft. It would be a great orld if we all were philosophic and contented. But we are not alike, and in these practical days different persons shonld be trained for active life in different ways. * * Tt would be well for the states to spend more money for the kind of training which would enable a young man of mechanical mind to procure a position in Mr. Edison’s factory after graduation and less money for classical training. This country is crowded with institu- tions of higher education, colleges, both denominational and unde- nominational, which offer training fo those of literary bent. They may well do part of the work that the universities of the varlous states are doing. This would enable the ftates to develop real universities \here brain and hand may join in original research. No one can be an_ideal citizen under any government who has not the opportunity und the qualifica- tions to follow along those paths of Iife which nature and nature’s God ordained him to walk in. He is educated who knows what he ought to do and how he ought to do it and has the will to do it. Just a8 much trouble is liable to come %o the republic from the false ed- ueation of the American-born cit- all alarming. Far more serious is igzen as from the ignorance of the the question as to the effect the immigrant. educational m of America (Copyright, 1921, by Thomas R. Marshail.) Chéllenge to British in India New trade thrills are being found in the world's oldest markets. Lands of yesterday are throbbing with new power and calling upon Amerlca to| supply the accessories for maximum, efficient and profitable utilization of} electric force. | Live-wire business men of this country are turning their attention to Indla, where the British have mo- nopolized trade since 1600, and where is found a purchasing power at least three times that of the United States. India and Ceylon as markets for American goods, not only electrical, but of all classes. seem to have been very much ignored by American busi- ness men until very recently, accord- ing to R. A. Lundquist, chief of the electrical division of the United States bureau of forelgn and domestic com- merce. There appeared to be a be- lief, on the one hand, that American goods cannot be sold in India because of the strong British control of both the commercial aud the political af- fairs of the country, and, on the other hand, that even if American manu- facturers could enter the market free- 1y the purchasing power of the map)e' {s 80 low that they could not buy what we have to sell. !en view of the uc‘tl chnh lsrmlhI .rciul interests have been ac- o ia. even hefore the English East Indla Company mmer- clal settlements therc In it is natural to expect thal 1t nu tactyrers, with all these tact, have been able to connéctions which off - opposition to the. entry of co.upeti- ton. . Nevertlieless, it {5 true that changing conditions make it possible for American manufacturers and American exporters to gain & foot- hold and to deveiop a §0od volume of trade, if they go into Indla with a determination to develop permanent establishments or connections in that market. The success of such a policy has already been demonstrated in va- rious instances {i actual experiencé. Manufacturers who depend upon Jocal firma to act as their represent- atives naturally find it diffioult to se- Cure agencies in the principal Indian citles, since the essablished houses have, in mest cases, been acting on behalf of British manufacturers for many vears, and American exporters carinot expect or desire to go In'and e their lines with such firms when foreign competitive lines are already < The hope of entering’ the market o Jies in the establishment of factory Lranches, the sending of American lesmen, or in the backing of new local firms started by the younger generation of India. Of course, in many American lines that have no di- reet competitive foreign opposition— and there are many such American rpecialty lines—very good ‘connec- tions can be made with the old es. tablished British houses. Taking up the other comment that is often made in a discussion of American trade with India, Mr. Lund- quist challenges the supposition that the people cannot afford to buy Amer- ican products. It must be remem- bered, he says, that in India are | more than three times ax many people as there are in the United States, and that of this vast number at ieast a small percentage has the purchas- ing power of the well-to-do Ameri- cans. In considering this feature of the Indian market due weight must be given to the fact that the standard of living of the masses is rising and that more and more imported goods will be demanded by the Indian popu- lation. Indla has practically a monopoly of the world’s supply of raw jute fiber. Whereas, normally, @ great deal of the jute spinning and weaving of the world {s done in BScotland and the eastern United States, thers is a growing tendency to extend the manufacturing processes carried on in India. Where in the past in many instances the raw fiber or jute yarn was exported, the practice is more and more to spin the yarn or to weave it Into burlap in India. Among the railways the tendency is toward making up locally many of the small jtems used in volume which formerly were imported, and much of the work on rolling stock is mow done in the local shops, whereas the practice formerly was to bring in everything from abroad complete. This means that the American pre paring to do business in Indja mus study to take advantage of changing conditions which open up a way for greater participation by American interests and to anticipate as far as possible impending changes. Not only as a market for electrical goods, but also for the machinery trade, Indla is receiving intensive study by experts for the United States government and private enterprise. So much attention has been focused on the present world-wide depression in business generally, anl the ma- chinery. trade in particular, that it is interesting_to examine data col- lected by W. H. Rastall, chief of the industrial wmachinery division of the bureau of foreign and domestic odm- merce, regarding a country where such trade is expanding very rapidly. Throughout Indis—Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Rangoon sad Karachi, all ave a trade,of lmwrtlm‘:: and grow- ory. h ing tmportunce in mach! Whether romance is the fine flower of chivalry or chivalry is the flower of romance is a disputed question. Both chivalry and romance are flow- ers which grow in strange places. Four grimy men the other morning were struggling with a huge frame of iron. They were powcrful men, but the fron was heavy. they could do to lift it. Finally, after much straining. got the frume off ground. Just z they started to move with it. to tak it into a building. along came a Sul vation Army lassie When the fc they | & | | sur men saw her with | they lowered the iron work and plaved it carefully upon the ground. Then they touched their | caps to the Salvation Army worker. one accord * ¥ “The salt of the earth.” Postmaster General Hays called the third and fourth class postmasters who met in convention in the Post Office Depart- ment bullding last week, And he was right. They were just plain people, the kind that constitute the great bulk of the American populace. Over at the Washington city post office the niiht officials there receive the delegates to ail four postal coi- ventions thai met here: the third and | fourth class postmasters were the| most ini stent in secing il there was: to be seen. A favorite joke, “sprung” by practi- cally every delegate, went something like thi Well, this post office is little bit bigger than mine, to the cross-roads store post office is located. One old rural carrier inspected the big garage with interest, but seemed dissatisfied. Where are your horses?’ he finally asked. “We haven't anything b vehicles," he was assured. i where his It was all | ! ! pi referring | men are h tober 7. The Star, having Chicago not print the news until its with descriptive dispatches. In that is- cluding 10,000 buildings, and an eeti- dered homeless. The Star of Tues the loss being then estimated at $200, tion in Chicago, but the organizatio: flagration upon some of the insuranc: 1871, The Star thus summarizes t) he pluck and enterprise of ¢ lift the new . out of ti Evening Journal offi dertroye FIFTY YEARS AGO The great Chicago fire of 1871 star! ed at 11 o'clock Saturdey night, Oc- 7. then no Sunday edition, di! Fire. o0, of October 9, 1n which several columns of epace were filled sue the news reachcy the point of th destruction of thirty-four blocks, in mated loss of $50,000,000, the fire still raging, with 150,000 people rer- day, October 10, gave the good news that the fire had been extinguished 000,000, and later iseues gave further particulars of not only the destruc- of relief measures in various citles and the disastrous effect of the con companles. In an editorial printed October 1: effert of the blaze upon the Chicas: spapers: Clicago press are, indeed, Sttine Cypes of the wonderful clement which will dust and ashes of the old Chica In two hours, on Mon , after 1 Jon, Charles Wilson, its proprietor issutd an extra from u job office u the West Side giving full details « the fire up to 1 pm. of that duy The Times building was consumed 1 the forenoon of Monday, but at noo: Mr. Storey telegraphed to I lioe Co., New York, for an elght-cylinde prees, which was shipped on Tuesday Wednesday and vesterday all th papers reappeared The Star quotes us expressive of ti. pirit manifested by the stri 3 owing editorial in go Tribu cer up! n. In the midst of calan parallel in the world'~ upon the ashes o r' accumulation. the P this once beautiful city are solved that Chicago shall risc ag with vigor. “With our i in a men 3 they debris” wi is so far sub rial cun Thie r 1ield. Leite nust T ago 2 o tie calamity t ta or 1 o be borw tom and bot in evi } one building of Chica “Let us all cheer up. vet left.and we shall co right. he Christia ing to our rel e Worst is ready over. In a few dayvs more had a horse for many years. “But I'd like to see your horses,” he insisted. CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Disarmament—All or Nothing! Gen. Verraux, writing in the Pari Oeuvre, regards efforts at “limitation of armaments” as fllusory. Arms do not produce wars—they are merely the implements of war. Instcad of beginning by reducing armaments, be- gin by doing away with war. Then there is to be no more war, we shall need no armaments. That is the gist of the argument which he develops forcefully in the following article: nations it was proposed to undertak a comparative study of the militar. strength of each state before and after the war, and to ascertain wheth- them, needs resulting from the po- litical and geographical situation. 1In aggerated the states would be asked to reduce their armaments. “In my opinion, this ia & wrong starting point. Admitting that this study can be carried out—that is to say that all the states agree or that there are sufiicient means of control- ling refractory members, among oth- ers who do not belong to the league— which 1s doubtful—the conclusion would always be passive. as league has no power to enforce s propositions. “At the most, a studv undertaken in this way would only lead to & re- duction of armaments. Thfr* is the great mistake. 1 fear, by tfle way. that this mistake will be perpetuated at Washington. i The truth Is" according to the writer, “that as soon as it is admitted that each state still needs an armed force, it proves that judgment by force of arms is alone considered su- preme. Under these conditions, war Pemaining a menace, with what right can the preparation for it'be opposed? The reduction of armaments is & de- plorable middle means. Let us be armed to the teeth, or else arrange that nobody is armed. “Gen. Mariotti and M. Jouhaux have partly solved the problem by propos- TiE to forbid the private manufacture and the trafiic in arms. Why not have gone still further and extended the prohibition to states, with the ex- ception of police needs? Finding a Thief by Magic. The “third degree” methods invoked by American police officials to secure a confession of gullt from suspected persons is a mild diversion compared with the “detective” operations of the West African natives, according to a correspondent of the London News, who describes the procedure as follows: “When anything is lost they never waste time in questioning the sus- ected person. There s only one hing to be done, and that is to con- sult the obeah man (witch doctor), who iR turn will make fel.ack (magic) which will determine the dentity of the thief. And, incredible as it may eeem, he never fails, “The explanation of this is partly to be found in the awful terror In which the obeah man is held by the ordinary native. Many a strong man trembles when he meets on the rcad the dirty, evil-smelling witch doctor, with matted hair, carrying s long staff, a bunch of White cock’s feath- ers, plece of carrion, certain i grasses, the nasty-smelling fit weed 1 herb with leaves somewhat ly, only pale green; so called id to cyre epilepsy), some ones, and other disgusting (a smi Hike boll it is man t i “Imagine, then, this creature seated in the middle of the compound sur- rounded by a crowd of negroes so l.vrror-n;lnken that their flesh shows (1 11 under the black skin. e lights a firc and makes an un holy broth with the horrible ingre dients he bas breught. He then pours abolish armaments altogether—for if |2 At the last session of the leaguc of er this strength corresponded to the | needs of national defense of each of . the case where they would seem ex-; the | ! dangers will be past and we can T sume the battle of life with Chri jan faith and western grit. Let u all cheer up!” DIGEST OF FOREIGN PRESS me of this filth on the earth anc makes a paste of it, ut the same tune shouting plirases such as, ‘I smell ithief-man. Gobi (the gzod who iwatches property and knows all i thieves), xhow me the thief,” anw ‘ll any horrible threats ! “He th alks round the cf idabbing some of the i forehead o time ze of a A ,a bottle of juju {ing some of il into Ipiain tha will not hurt the the cuilty man Jumibis - Ovanpine L even e his st 1 ione wretclied negre more iror-stricken than tb rest “In a case of thix sort he goes uj to the self-evident culprit and brushes him with the white cock’ feathers, saying, ‘Here be the thici- en this is done the culpri man.’ invariably falls on his face, how's ing—often fn a fit. The same thipg happens when the obeah man ap proaches the guilty one with his cur The Etiquette of Oysters. How should oysters be caten? Thix {s the problem propounded by the Manchester Guardian, which poini+ out that some epicures suck them off* * the deep shell, with no instrument: aid. while others use the knife jork. Lady Dorothy Nevillie was adherent to the latter method, 1 paper says, the practi gl which o+ brought her into fricudly conflic King Edward. “On one oc the Jate titled Englishwoman wrot. “being reated nuxt the hing, thr Prince of Wales, 1 did as [ hav ways dome, which not unmaturall surprised him, upon which 1 explai ed that I was aware that zuch In havior was almost a erime, but from long habit 1 must be re as an irreclamable criminal surprise and delight, the next mors ing he presented me with u beautify case of oyster knives, remembrance of your criminal ency Germany Again Foremost in Air. MILA Italy.—"“Commerctal tion hi developed &0 rapidly s the war that today millions of mile of air lines are in use; others ur: projected and the time scems near, i it has not already arrived, that oceans will no longer bhe obstacles to ai service establishments,” saye a writer in the paper Il Becolu. “Germany stands at the head of this colossal aeronautic movement,” h continues, “and has the largest nuyi- ber of lines in use, the largest quan- tity of machines, and the most power- ful alr transport. iis Is becaus: even during the war, with her tradi tional foresight, she had the ldea of building machines capable of being transformed so that they would gerve both <ommercial and military pur- poses. wPhe length of the French aeria! net is at the present time 350 miles. including national and International lines and those in connection with the colonles. The five dally servicex are: Paris-London. Paris-Brussels- Rotterdum and Amsterdam, Paris- ‘Warsaw via Strasburg, Nurnberg Prague and Breslau: Bayonne-San tander via Bilbuo, Bordeaux-Toulouse- Montpellier. “The German mnet chiefly In the northwest, and Is cen tralized around Berlin, with sever: important _side lines—Hamburg Bremen and Madgeburg. Therg are tit teen lines in use with a length ol more than 4,000 miles. Belgium take: the next place, then Holland and Bwitgerland. England has only one regular line, Londem-Paris, aud one fryegular, London-Bx am. China bfis ulwo two big p iines of abowt 0 .miles, In Italy we arc stll studying experiments,” concludes the writer. aviu is established