Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1921, Page 6

- reg With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY.,...November 1, 1921 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor, The Evening Star Newspaper Company Office, {1th 8t. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 150 Nassau 8t Chicago Office: First National Bank Building. Buropean Office: 3 Regent St., London, England. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, s delivered by carriers within the city THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Crowder s in the islands today on a|inary. The big reform will come in mission having to do with the main- tenance of popular government. All his work is in the interests of the plain people. It is America who for several years has been, and still is, ministering to millions of the needy of Europe, prin- cipally plain people, caught in the bloody swirl of war and stripped of every means of supporting themselves. They have needed, and now need, bread for their mouths and clothing for their backs, and America, out of at 60 cents onth; daily only, 45 cents per Month; Sanday only, 20 c‘g’mf p{'r month. Or-|her abundance, has been supplying gers may be ment by mall, or telephone Mutn | shom 8000. Collection is made by carriers at the c ead of each month. America the enemy of the plain peo- Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. 5 Maryland and Virginia. fly and Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1 mo., 70c Daily ‘only.o s 19T zfiuo 1 mo., 500 Sunday only. .1'yr., $2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 85¢ Daily only.. 1yr., $7.00; 1 mo., 60c Sunday only. 1yr., $3.00;1 mo., c —_———— The “Check-0ff” Enjoined. A decision rendered by Judge An- derson in the federal court at Indian- apolis in respect to the efforts to unionize the West Virginia coal mines strikes a heavy blow at one of the chier egencies of the miners’ union in maintaining itself and providing for strikes. Judge Anderson enjoined the collection of union dues by deductions from the wages of miners by the operatives. This system, commonly called the *“check-off,” has been in vogue in most mining regions of this country for years. It has figured as an issue occasionally in strikes. The employers* have always resisted it on the ground that it encouraged strik- ing, the unions leaders demanding it on the ground that if the union was recognized membership in the union should be maintained with the co- operation of the employer. The only possible advantage to the employer of the check-off system is that by it he can keep a very close reckoning of the state of the union treasury, that knowledge often enabling him to judge the ability of the union to maintain a strike. In the absence of the check-off sys- tem miners are apt to default in their dues payments shortly after a strike is settled and work is resumed. The membership of the unions in the coal trade falls to lowest ebb a few months after the end of a strike. With the check-off system working this tend- ency is lessened and the collection of dues proceeds regularly. There is then often a reaction against it on the part of many of the miners. Injunction against the check-off system is based upon the ground that it was an._injustice to the consumer. Judge Anderson said: “Here Is an organization with enor- mous funds. all of which are collected by the operators throush the check- off. The poor old consumer, without a friend in the world, is milked con- stantly by these operators and miners I am going to stop this check-off noy These operators know now that tf are furnishing the sinews of that struggle in West Virginia. In its terms the order did not hold the check-off to be unlawful, but was aimed only at the use of the money obtained through it. The operators are enjoined from collecting union dues and paying them over to union officials. This applies not only to existing but to future contracts. If this decision stands, it will have de- clded effect in lessening the chance of tying up coal production. At the Conference Table. Mr. Lloyd George's triumph in par- Hament last night, though not obtained on‘a proposition relating to the arma- ment conference, will yet add to the| interest of his appearance in that body, and add strength to any posi- tion he may take on issues presented there. He is coming to Washington as the head of the British government, with the British nation's confidence in him freshly testified to in an unmis- takable and enthusiastic way. M. Briand is en route to Washing- n armed in the same way and in: He has just| ike degree by France. received from the French parliament an overwhelming indorsement as the head of the government, and will be received as such by the conference in all matters to which it glves coi- #ideration. The American delegates to the con- ference have received their commis- slons from President Harding, and he received his commission from the peo- ple only a year ago, in a majority un- precedented for size in presidential campaigns. The American case in the donterence, therefore, will be entitled to, and will obtain, as much considera- tion on the score of the authority of those who present it ‘as that of either Great Britain or France. Let us call these nations, without the ' slightest disrespect to the other nations that will be represented in the conference, the Big Three. And as the trio will be represented in that body | by men of high and wide reputation speaking by unquestioned authority, what is said and done in the confer- ence by those men will probably have great weight in shaping the confer- ence's course. ———e——————— North Dakota is finding that there is a limit to the extent to which a political platform can be mixed up with a financial prospectus. ————————— America the Enemy. “This is from Havana: Threats against Gen. Crowder and the United States legation are con- tained in proclamations distributed here. The posters denounce Gen. Crowder as a ‘“representative of the American bourgeoisie” and threaten “tbe dagger of vengeance” against the Americans. In Cuba and throughout Europe the reds in their proclamations claim to répresent the plain people. They ex- plain their activitles, including bomb- ings, as for the purpose of freeing the world from “bourgeoisle,”” *capital- ism,” what you please, as a grinding, tyrannizing power, and they affect to see that power making its chief stand at present In America. Take it from them, America is the enemy. +Ana yet it was America who freed Cuba and gave the plain people their chance. ‘She might have appropriated {he islands to her own uses. She had hy' r. But after steadying Cuba in her new estate she withdrew, and handed over the direction of thelr af- fairs to the Cuban. people. Gen, ple? Where, then, may a friend be found? What have the reds to pro- pose as an improvement on the Amer- ican record, whether in Cuba or Eu- rope, and what are their means for carrying out their project? Neglect of the Veterans. It is in the last degree distressing 10 learn from the Senate committee's report just submitted that the govern- ment's provisions for the care of the veterans of the great war have been so deficient. When the American Army was raised, chiefly by means of the selective draft, drilled and organ- ized and in great part sent overseas it was clearly understood and expected by the country that everything pos- sible would be done to compensate these men for their losses, and their families for their death if they should make the greatest sacrifice of all. When the armistice was signed, and the men returned measures were established for their care, bureaus or- ganized for their protection, institu- tions opened for their rehabilitation. But now. three vears after the close of hostilities, it is disclosed in this re- port that the government’s endeavors are inadequate, its facilities for the care of the injured quite out of pro- portion and in many details its organi- zation ineflicient. R For the re of those who were wounded or afflicted with disease, or in any manner or degree disabled in the course of their service, the United States, no matter what the state of the , should make the most abun- {dant provision en the most liberal s For these men, the wounded |and sick, those who must be taught inew occupations on account of their dis and trained afresh in the work of self-support, have an unlimit- ed credit in terms of services rendered and sacrifices made in the country’s They represent the price of tory won in large part by the Amer] vears ago. They and for the preservation of this land from the menace of Prussianism. There may be two opinions regard- ing the bonus proposed for members of the great American war force, but there can be only one as to the obliga- tion of the government to provide in the fullest possible measure for the re of those who came out of the TV in any degree lowered in their vitality or deprived of their normal cause. the v facultie: The Senate committee specifically notes the urgent needs of the situation in a series of recom- mendations, chief of which is an ap- tion of $16.400,000 at once for prov |adaitional hospitals. It also proposes {eartain functional changes in the ad- im inistration of the care of veterans, wements in the systenf of { vocational training. These and other recommendations are based upon a thorough inquiry into the situation as it stands. There is no more urgent duty be- | fore Congress today than immediate attention to this program of changes and improvements in the government's care of those afflicted in the war. Whatever the cost, however difficult {the problem of providing for that cost, {this budget of soldiers’ needs should ibe put speedily on its passage. ———r—————— 1t is impossible to expect that civil- {ization will continue on old-time lines. Any one who doubts this has only to alance through the illustrations of the | fashion magazines of a few decades. The essential principles, however, on which new and more or less becoming {ideas are draped remain the same. i — e t————— ans may possibly derive {amusement from figuring how long it |will take, at the present rate of auto- imobile production, to render all the {vacant space on earth insufficient for | parking purposes. i | TUnemployment is being remedied to {an extent which may prevent holiday i shoppers from being obliged to stand in impatient idleness because there {are not enough salesmen to wait on | them. ——————— Protecting the Mails. The big haul of approximately 1$1,500,000 by mail robbers in New York {city recently does rot detract much Ifrom the splendid record made by | Postmaster General Hays in protecting {the mails. While it is perhaps a bit- { ter pill for the head of the postal serv- lice to swallow, it is likely that it will tdo more than anything else to lead him to adopt additional measures for {insuring that the mails of the people I shall be absolutely sacred in fact as jwell as in theory. Having cut down the haul of mail thefts from several million dollars last year to about i $80,000—before this New York theft— it will not be difficult for the far-seeing Postmaster General to sense what yet remains to be done. The first step was taken by the postal service when employes were armed and taught how to shoot. If lany offices failed to follow orders in [ this regard it 1s but a detail of office management which can be remedied. What cannot be remedied is the “drop" secured by robbers upon postal em- ployes who have their guns under the seat or in holsters. It is too late to reach for yeur gun when some one is pointing his ghn at you. It would seem common sense for postal employes, in handling and transporting huge sums of money, if not ordinary mail, to have their revolvers out and ready for use. If advisable, one man should be de- tailed solely as a guard. If necessary, as suggested in & news article in The Star, registered mail might be trans- ported through cities in daylight hours| yating his only. But these methods still are prelim. b adopted to afford them relief, hospitals postal affairs when the postal service ceases employing men about whom it really knows very little. There is a growing feeling that many of the mail robberies are “inside jobs,” con- federates out of the service being helped by men who enter the ranks for the purpose of robbing the malls. The average of honesty in the postal service is so high that the occasional lapses are a grievous hurt to the men who so faithfully end efficiently dis- charge their daily trust. The postal service already maintains an expensive inspection service, whose function. in part, is to catch malil thieves. But why wait to detect and arrest the morally weak man after he gets into the service? Why let him into the service in the first place? The capable inspection service could easily run down the antecedents of appli- eants, and determine almost to a nicety whether they would be likely to steal or not. The modern science of character analysis and employment standards should be given a try-out here. The civil service blanks are not searching enough. Let the inspectors scrutinize the postal clerk befare he gets into the service, then the final and perhaps biggest step will have been taken toward protecting the mails. ———————— Thunder and Hail. When anything unusual occurs in the way of weather the forecasters who draw their inspiration from other sources than the telegraph and the maps and the instruments formulate wedividual long-range predictions cov- erty the seasons rather than the day: gday furnishes plenty of ma- terial for them. After a protracted drought the skies have opened, and the “late dry fall” is moistened plenti- fully. Thunder rolls and hail patters on the roofs. What does this portend? In some farming Sections of the north there is an adage Which runs, “Thun- der in fall, no winter at all.” Assured- 1y this season has been remarkable for tardiness of frost and chill. It may be a forerunner of a mild, open winter. Or again, with that unguessable tend- ency of the climate always in mind, it may be interpreted as a hint of a se- vere season. The best thing to do at this time of yetr is to be sure of & sufficient coal supply, a warm over- coat, a stout umbrella, goloshes ard a raincoat. Then, “whether it shines or whether it pours, or how high up the eagle soars,” as a western folk-poet has written, the eccentricities of the climate will not catch one unprepared Just here and now, it may be re- marked, a bit of sluicing rain is not amiss. It is needed to give the city a scouring, and perhaps several more before Armistice day, to make it clean and ready for the great gathering that is to occur then. \ If Mr. Edison has all the anxieties about the future of the world that are attributed to him, the fact that he does not undertake to sleep much is not at all surprising. \ n spite of her reliance on the wis- dom of Confucius, China finds there are times when she needs the serv- ices of an up-todate American lawyer. \ A rapid but highly unsatisfactory solution of the problem of distribu- tion is offered by the milkmen Who dump their product into the sewers. \ A motion picture celebrity is quoted as being in sympathy with the I. W. W., but not enough to send them passes to the show. * European politicians are growing constantly more intolerant of any ef- fort to make any country safe for autocracy. % Charles refuses to sign his abdica- tion in spite of the fact that under the circumstances it is only an empty formality. \ 1t bootleggers are as numerous as reported, advice that they all be shot comes pretty near suggesting a massacre. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Power. It looks so easy to the child When some stout woodsman, day by Y, e Hews out a pathway in the wild B For others who may come that way! 3 It looks so easy, when his life Is measured that it may endure Beyond his share of human strife, That others may live more secure. ‘When strong men labor for the weak, By fear or favor unbeguiled, And gratitude disdain to seek, It looks so easy—to the child. Persevering Quest. “Qur colleague is always looking for trouble!"” “Yes,” replied Senator Sorgbum. “While he may lack artistic discrim- ination, he has all the enthusiasm of the true collector.” Jud Tunkins says the meanest man he ever knew was always smiling and scattering sunshine in order not to tip off his hand. Palmy Days. The old press agent undertook To work with little space, ingdeed; But now he wants to write a book ‘Which it will take you weeks to read. The Old Offgnder. “Why don't you réform?” inquired the kind-hearted caller. “Mister,” replied Bill the Burg, “when it comes to reform I'm purty near a record-breaker. I have re- formed fifteen or twenty times.” “De man dat’s too determined to have his own way,” said Uncle Eben, “is liable to have razor troubles befo’ he gits through, foh usin’ loaded dice.” “We are now making a strategic retreat,” n.g:dmkol‘l nin. Mean- ing we are ly walloped.—Saginaw, Newa Courler. ¢ Bill Hohenzollern is busily oculti- rden plot at Doorn, and s that it's the safest .ar;. our notion of plot to cultivate.—Columbia (8. Editorial Digest The Rules of the Game. ‘When some of our papers, notably the Grand Rapids Herald and the Birmingham Sun, lift the vell that should hlide family rows from the public and confess to serious disa- greement betweer the sporting edi- tors and the editorial writers over the Landis-Ruth controvers they disclose fairly well the line of ar- gument on which that affair is being thrashed out in the press. The “sporting column” of the Herald “seems to think that Babe Ruth, the king of swat, is a knightly hero be- cause he dares to fling deflapce into the teeth of Judge Landls, umplire supreme.” The “editorial column” thinks that “Ruth has made a fool of himself” by his attitude that “the bat is mightier that the law” and his evident purpose to break “whatever rules he doesn't lik Babe Ruth is‘an “institution,” the Philadelphia Record asserts, and the Augusta Herald regards it as im- probable “that the public will quibble on a. questionable infraction of a base ball law” where a favorite “of the first magnitude” is involved. The rule in question, which forbids “a participant in a world series from playing in_exhibition games,” the Nashville Banner says, “has fallen into the innocuous desuetude of non- observance,” and in any case the New York World thinks that Judge Landis ought to be ‘“the last man who should question the propriety of picking up a little extra coin after hours on the side,” since “he has & barnstorming job of his own.” As between .“the Babe and the judge,” the Savannah News fails to see “such a great choice” in the dispute, for while Ruth may be “suffering from an attack of megalomania,” only a “hairsplitter” would affect to see “anything more terrible in his work- ing a little at base ball on the side” than in Judge Landis' ‘“drawing down $42,500 a year on the side, while his regular job is that of sit- ting on the bench of a United States court.” Furthermore, in the opinion of the ‘Waterbury (Conn.) Republican, “there is room to question the wisdom of the rule that forbids barnstorming.” since many feel that it is unjust and tends to discourage proficiency and encourage mediocrity.” The Sloux City Journal finds no other reason- able explanation for such a rule than “a sort of dog-in-the-manger atti- tude on the part of the club owners, who evidently prefer that since they cannot make use of the players' earning power no one else should.” Ruth's position involves “a vital prin- ciple affecting freedom of action out of season by a player of organized base ball,” says the Cincinnati Com- mercial Tribune, making it a fight in which “personal liberty is allied against professional ethics. But while the Binghamton Sun con- cedes that “there is no disputing the argument that a player should be re- garded as a free agent after the close of the seas " Ruth neverthe- less took his defiant stand without any attempt *“to secure a modifl tion of the ruling.” Judge Landis did 4 the rule, the Des Moines . but “it is on the has supreme Ruth's “schol- : that the rule “works a great injustice” prompts the Capital to ask him if he thinks “men should violate all the laws the do not like.” If this law “is obn ious or unreasonable.” the Day City (Mich.) Times-Tribune contends that “it should be repealed.” but so long as it obtains “it should be enforced" against Ruth and everybody else; “there are no two ways about it."” “Young Louis XIV,” the Baltimore American recall “confided to the doubtful that he was the state”: now “Babe the First has pickea up the same idea at the spot Where Louis dropped it,” declaring_in effect. I " and “while the Babe's English may not approximate the excellence of ‘the King's French, his meaning loses nothing of clarity thereby.” But “great as he is,” the Roanoke Times declares, “Ruth is not greater than the game.” Base ball made Ruth, and not Ruth base ball,” as the Knoxville Sentinel has it, and the Rock Island Areus holds that there is “no excuse” for his “disregarding the rule of the sport that made him famous and wealthy,” for he should realize, the Asbury Park Press thinks, “that his violation of the rules works to the detriment of base ball as an institu- tion in the public esteem. Modern Pageantry at Havre. The entire ceremonial for the American _ unknown __soldier — the choice at Chalons-sur-Marne, the pa- rade through Havre, the tributes on shore and aboard ship—is a testi- monial to the place certain formali- ties hold and must always hold for us. Modern life is fuller than me- dieval or ancient life, and we have come to discount somewhat its fes- tive marches, its memorial speeches, its feasts and funerals. Many of the grandest of them mean little enough. The combined military and civie rit- ual of the last few days differs from most observances in being deep with meaning—as deep, it may safely be said, as anything In its century. Apparently those who have shared in it and those who havé watched it have been conscious of this. The spirit _of the occasion breathes through the purely literal record made for the press. Bells ringing, French priests, soldiers and civilians walking beside American privates, the crowds parting without the direction of a single po- licoman, the ;coffin laid to rest on Dewey's old-flagship while “The Mar- i “The Star Spangled successively filled the air, Banner” the French children passing one by one to cast flowers upon the great foreign hero until the bier and the deck were covered with flowers—all these are simple occurrences, but Faunting. Patriotic fervor was often high during four and a half years of war, but it never meant so much as this almost spontaneous tribute, pour- ing itself out in simple forms. 0 band in the pine wood, cease— Cense from your splendid call; The living were brave and noble, The dead were the bravest of aill . wrote an American poet half a cen- tury ago. The dead are more than the bravest; they are the most power- ful. The hero of Chalons, and Havre, and Arlington, whose hand has re- written the date of the President's conference, will cast his shadow across the table where diplomats con- fer, and rebuke or praise them with his'silence.—New York Globe (Ind.). A Hopeful Sign. Members of the Interstate Com- merce Commission, members of Con- gress, railroad executives and the general public have so far paid very lit- tle attention to the National Association of Owners of Ralilroad Securities. Yet this association is one of the few hopeful signs on the transportation horizon. The organization is com- posed of representatives of insurance companies, trust companies, banks and individuals who are the owners or the custodians of funds invested in railroad stocks or bonds. The main reason why the National Association of Owners of Railroad Securities is a hopeful sign is that it is the first organization with money behind it that has openly taken the stand that the business of railroad executives is to operate railroads and not to manipulate railroad stocks. The association is really attempting to divorce railroad management from Wall street, which has scored a rather consplcuous_fallure as a rail- road executive.— Johnstown Demo- crat. (Dem.). Next big kick will be about the high cost of giving.—Atlanta Journal. Divorce auits are always pressed with the seamy side out.—Rochester Times-Union. 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Phone Main 411 ray i - Out today " New Victor Records November 1921 Number Size Price Mother of My Heart Frances Alda (a) Etude in G Flat Maj 10, N i D o g (b) Etude in G Flat jor Mattinata (Morning Song) Giuseppe De Luca Quartetin A i agitato (Schumann) Flonuf Waltz (Messagero Amoroso) ey Love’s Messenger Amelita Galli-Curci Mefistofele—Giunto sul passo estremo (Epilogue—Nearing the End of Life) Beniamino Gigli Sérésx;’ade Mélancolique Violin J?cha He(i?s o Spring Violin ritz Kreisler Eugene in—Air di Lenski (Faint Echo of My Youth) i Martin Little Town in the Ould County Down Symil:onie Pathétique—March-Scherzo. Spar Etincelles) Piano Within a Mile of ’ Town Twickenham Ferry ‘The Old Road [ MHNHH!—IHHHNH 8 RARARARRARR 8 Ship o’ Dreams Dangerous Blues—Fox Trot Royal Garden Blues—Fox Trot Pve Got the Joys . O Badiome(3) Legend of the Balls (3) Humoresque (4) Scb: : inage (3) Humoresque (4) Scberzo Victor (1) Menuett (2) Gavotte (3) Menuettin G (4) Sarabande Victor South Sea Isles—Medley Fox Trot Rosy Cheeks—Fox Trot 1 Ain’t Nobody’s Darling—Medley Fox Trot Yoo-Hoo—Fox Trot Sweet Lad —Medl%l"u Trot Say It With Music—Fox Trot It Must Be Someone Like You—Fox Trot ‘When the Sun Goes —Fox Trot }Vh en the Honeymoon Was |Ovu ealous of You 1 Wonder If You Still Care for Me? ber the Rose B & Shay Vernon Dalhart and Criterion Criters . Victor Arden and Phil Victor Arden and Phil Ohman Billy Murray-Ed Smalle fiyl\hmy hman ! Humpty Dumpty I the OId Town Hall VICTOR TALKING MACHINE COMPANY Camden, New Jersey