Evening Star Newspaper, November 6, 1921, Page 50

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 0O, NOVEMBER 6, -1921—PART 2. THE EVENING STAR, With Sundsy Morning Editien, WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY......November 6, 1021 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company %‘a 8¢, a4 Penonylvanls Ave. ew Tork, 180 Nagoay 8 i Star, mersing {'vy carrien the city -CI:” ml:“-». :;‘-Tnh o ‘mah, or el “Main wade by conters st the the beat of {nvestments, and the money * that {s yet to.be distributed in the road ‘work eid will bring a rich return. Good roads are now regarded as a necessity, not a luxury. All classes of people are using the roads as & result of the cheapening and the universal use of motcr cars. In consequence of the ever-incressing emplovment of mo- tors hundreds of thousands, millione, perhape, are driving through the coun- try from state to state, ever widening their circles of personal activity and becoming better acquainted with other regions than those in,which they live. These good roads are thus linking the people up Into & more harmonious, homogeneous nation than could ever Maryland and Virgi be possible with communication less Daity and <1 YT 3 . 100 | 85V Dllx.;nb.'.lf?‘" {g g:: {::.g This widening of the natlonal spirit Bun only. 1y7., $3.40; 1 Mo., 200 |{s worth many times the cost of the vai All Other States. roads. Every state should contribute Daliy 104 Sunday-1yr, $10.00; o taa|to the utmost of its resources in the 3.00; 1 mo., 350 | development. of its own system, for its Potomao Power. own uses and needs, and with the na- tional government acting as & unifying Though it does not immediately ap. agency these forty-eight state systems Dear from the report just submitted to President Harding by Secretary Fall will be linked {nto a whole that at the present rate of progress will in a few en the possible development of water power in the northeastern part of the years stand as the most remarkable highway network in the world. United States, it is to be assumed that e e consideration has been paid in respect A Tribute of Silence. to the Potomac river to the necessity It has been suggested that next of {nsuring an adequate water supply | Wednesday afternocon the people of for the capital. This survey, which ‘Washington pay silent tribute to the ‘was completed last July, sets up the unknown American soldier whose greatest scheme ever devised for the|body will that day be brought to this consolidation and distribution of elec-|city on the cruiser Olympla from tric power throughout the most im-|France. The thought is that as many portant industrial section of the coun-|as possjble assemble along the water try. It is estimated that by 1930 at|front in Pctomac Park and the War least 50,000,000 tons of coal can be College grounds and elsewhere as far saved annually by the use of this as the navy yard on both sides of the power, an immense economy of natu-| Anacostia end stand at attention while ral fuel and an almost incalculebly|the historic warship, with the casket rich contribution to American indus-|of the unknown hero on board, steams try. to her berth. Thousands may thus The territory covered by this sur-|participate in an impressive ceremonial vey extends from the coast epproxi- without organization. The Olympia, it mately 150 miles inland, embracing is expected, will arrive at the navy parts of the states of Maine, New|yard about 3 o'clock, an hour which Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvanis, | enables a great throng to gather. It is Delaware and Maryland, and all of the |also suggested that all the motor states of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, | craft in these waters be stationed in Connecticut and New Jersey. The im-|a receiving line alongside the channel, portance of the survey is indicated by |possibly forming a lane of honor the fact that in this zone is concen-|through which the Olympia will pass. trated one-fourth of the populatiop of| Save perhaps for the assembling and the United States and are operated {regulation of the motor boats this 315 electric utilities, eighteen railroad ceremony of reception to the unknown systems and 96,000 industrial plants. {dead needs no preparation. But one ‘The Potomac is a great potential thought should be borne strictly in power maker. That fact has never|mind by all who take part. There been questioned, and it is 2 matter of |should be absolute silence. No demon- deepest regret that its possibilities as|stration would be suitable on such an a driver of wheels and producer ofjoccasion. The presence of thousands ‘wealth should not have been developed | of people on the shore, or on craft in long ago. But in every approach tojthe stream, uncovered and at atten- the question of use of the Potomac for | tion, would most fittingly represent power purposes there is encountered|the feelings of the nation regarding the fact that from this river is drawn | this significant ceremony of the return all of the water needed for the daily|of America’s typical hero to his native sustenance of the National Capitallland, community of now nearly half @ mil-| In many ways Washington will take lion people. part in the ceremonial of the reinter- There is now in process an increase | ment, but no more effective means of of the local water supply system |expressing gratitude of the country through the raising of the dam at|for the services which this unidentified Great Falls and the enlargement of man rendered and those of the men ducts and reservoirs. That will un-|who formed the great army of which doubtedly proceed without reference |he was a unit could be devised than to any possible future power develop-|thus silently tp pay reverence to his ment. Those who conducted the super-| body on its arrival next Wednesday. survey just reported doubtless took into consideration this situation and A Shy Great One. ;"“ thetr m:"mh'a"‘ w:: Samuel Woodfill is an interesting OtOTe0 pawer exemplification of the old sying local need of water. Study of the de- about “better late th never.” Tt tafls of the survey in respect to the years after the armistice is signed he rmiunmmuunh-m“mymw as the greatest ;’:"::":n :’ "‘:':::;‘“:“mm‘:: American hero of the world war, €0 . {acclaimed by Gen. Pershing, and so ‘but it must be assumed that no project is contemplated which in any degree :::”, PS80 Sv5she Anexioan) ooy Hmiis O e, e o eeno Potomac| " Sergt. York hed his day—and a won- & Pfl'fl:u- owth of the Capitat|2€rful day It was; Capt. Eddie Ricken- mym 8T Pltall ) acker was halled as another of this 3 country's real war heroes; Col. Whittle- 3 :t ‘M.F:tmc dw'm can be de-|,,y; giready had earned the acclaim of eloped and an adequate supply of|inq nation with his historic reply. water can be assured for the indefinite| pu¢ Bamuel Woodfill beats them all g:fl:::'mm‘" "';d” arrives when |,y tne completeness of his obscurity ‘: u:mf : power-making | 414 the suddenness of his rise into the begins the . rough the use | nsional limellght. Perhaps out in In- of impounding reservoirs in the water- diana and Kentucky the ey knew about shed adove Great Falls the Potomac|inis men's war record. The War De- flow can be increassd and regulated partment, of course, knew all the stmultaneous production of power 88|y, But how did it happen that he o inater for the city maY be| was a0 euccesaful in his modest course that the country ut large was de- T is In any chse gratifying that the | priveq of the knowiedge of him? Dossiliities Of ihis sifeal are noW| gurely tne people bave & right to osabletly tased e u‘n" UN-{noir herces. Tt I8 ot just & pretty —a upon sclentific prin.|uping thet men in everydsy walke of ciyten ‘-Imn -“ m: best oseible )ity gre strengthened and heartered use of the “white coal” of the north- |,y yeading of the deeds of brave men. ot Heroes, unllke desert roses, are not e e meant to blush unseen. If that 18 thetr Ambaesador Harvey evidently does|disposition, séme one should be net belleve that pledges of undying|charged with the responsibility of affection which were once eo liberally | eearching cut and making known these interchanged by FEufopean govern.|graat shy ones. The example of the ~ments are abeolutely essential to & |brave Sergt. Woodfill causes one to friendly understanding among na.|wonder how many mérs such un- tions. Known herdes there may be in our vast ctuntry, with none to do them revetenes, ! In order to supervise the digging into the éarth, the minars’ orfafisa- tions feel it necessary to keep an eye on a reliable method of digging into the pay-envelopes. i } Sovietists naturally resenta lack of patticipation in the Whshington con- ferencé. Anything that sounds like convetsation In the distance has an fr- resistible lure for the sovististic mind. long delay due to differen: the two houses of Congress, has last beén laid before the President his signatufe, and witl doubtisss become & law. This meaétre continues the practice of giving federal atd to the states which undertaké road-con: struction progress. It is & wise use of the money of the nation, fof through it the staté highway systems will be developéd into a hafmonious Wholé greatly facilitating Intercourse be- tween all parts of the country, Most of the states are now engaged in good roads building. Some of them are far mhead of othera through an earlier assumption of this task of the adoption of moré effective systems. Rapidly, however, the tardy states are moving t6 make up deficiencles. Good roads bond lssués and special taxes would tike hold and print something Interesting on them. 3 'The faithful cow is the only factor 11 the mifk delivery systern whose #ervices are absolutely rellable. The Flag en Friday. The committee on strest decorations of the citizens’ comhiittés of the arms conferencé makes an appeal to the merchants Along Pennsylvania avénue and othér business theroughfatres to decordts their business houses with approptiats national flags next Friday and Saturdhy. The procession escort- ing the body of the unknown Amer- tean soldler to its last resting place at Arlington will pass Along Pennsyl- vanis avenue, and on that’ eccasion every biillding should dispiay at least 60e American flag, half masted while the cortegd 18 passing. In honot; too, of the forelgn nations whose repre- bontatives 42¢ here in attendance at the esaferéhee on arms limitation 1Ay oF thees countties ahould be dis- R i f from the federal Treasury have beeulthwt. the burial of the unknown dead and the opening of the conferencge that may-bring about a closer appréach to international peaca than the world has ever known before, there is a direct appropriateness in the participaticn in the former of those who come from overseas to sit at the council table. Bave one, all of the nations to be rep- resented at the great meeting were in the great alliance that won the war. The unknown American soldler dled In their causs. And so the states- men and the soldiers and generals from forelgn countries will march in line as & part of the escort, paying tribute to one whose name will never be known, but who will typity the American spirit of sacrifice, In the showing of the flags particu- lar care should be taken. No national flag should ever be used out of doors as a drapery or a part of a decorative design. The flag should elways there hang free, to fly in the wind, not fastened end fettered, Natlonal colors may be used in buntings, in festoons and stream; nd coverings for struc- tures. But the flag itself, the actual symbol of the nation, with its particu- lar arrangement of stars and stripes, should in the open air fly free, how- ever it may be festooned within doors. On November 11, therefore, let every flag that {s displayed on Pennsylvania avenue float in the wind so that that great street, historic scene of many of the world's most impressive cere- monials, will be & blaze of color from the Capitol to the Treasury. i There will be enough labor discus- sion in evidence to prevent delegates to the Washington conference from getting the impression that this coun- try is trying to be altogether different from the rest of the world. i It is not likely that any of the in- timate biographles America is so rapidly producing will kttain an im- portance sufficient to crowd Boswell's life of Samuel Johnson off the library shelves. i Democrats who want Thomas Mar- shall for a presidential candidate next time may be willing to go so far as to promise that they will put a good nickel cigar plank in the platform. f The results of Prussian ideas put into practice fully justify the most alert resentment concerning anything that looks like a tendency toward hard-boiled militarism. l Taxpayers the world over are ex- pecting more relief from a step toward disarmament than they could hope for from a tariff debate, however pro- longed and erudite. l China is inclined to emerge from traditional seclusion and take part in world discussion. It is an lll-construct- ed open door that will not swing both ways. The inventive abllity that has filled the world with automobliles has not yet been able to go so far as to solve the problem of parking them. & The experience of Charles will dis- pose of any impression in the mind of William that a throneward procession had started. i It is & dull day in the United States Senate when an investigation of some kind is not suggested. Tariff legialation has always called for much dependence on the good old adage, “Try, try again.” SHOOTING STARS. BY PRILANDER JOHNSON. Retribution. When you think that some man in his folly has made Mistakes that require a tremendous reproof, ) Don’t imagine the task upon you has been laid ' i Ot growing Indignant and ralsing the roof. Father Time is a slow but sardonical elf, . And it pleases his whim to let mor- tals atone Each one in a way that's designed by himself. So, let him alohe, son; let him alone. An actor that's bad may incumber the scene, But why should you worry to reac! for the hook? An author may ruffle your temper serene, But why should you trouble to rail at his book? For he who keeps talking or writing too fast, The folly that lurks in his mind will make known, And the world's condémnation will reach him at last. So, let him alone, son; let him alone. Heredity and Environment, “Which do you consider the stronger influence, heredity or environment?” “Environment, every time,” replied Benator Borghum. “Those chaps abroad who depend on family titles for politl- cal positions don’t stand near the chance of the man who studies the plain people in his immediate nelgh- borhood.” Jud Tunkins says the man who writes a political biography has to work carefully to avold appeating to be & self-heckler. Selective. Advice, like fnedicine, pretends To cuiré some méntal ache. Our comfort frequently depends On which we do not talke. 'The Privilege of Expression. “What kind of & musical is it going to be?” ihquired Miss Cayenne, in re. sponse to an invitation. “Aren't they all alike?” 4 “No. At some you listen to those who aré invited to sing because of their musical abilities, and at others to those who are ofi the program be cause ‘of their influential cireum- stances.” “E never was do Kind of ér optimis',” wald Utiels Eben, “dat belleves in catryin' dull razor to a rough party.” l | Politics at Home|Early Eff orts to A Celebrity in Retirement. Richard Croker has sailed for Ire- land. He described it as retyrning home. And home, in a sense, Treland now s, At sny rate, it contains his race horses; and, with an old turfman, home is where the horses are. The disturbed state of the O1d Sod does not disturb the former Tammany chief. He is no longer active in public life, but only & celebrity in retirement. Hence he gives emall heed to the storm and stress around him, whether in Ireland or America. Mr. Croker is an exception to an old rule. According to that rule, he should still be more or less In politics. Once a politiclan, always a politician. That Mr. Croker was once a poli- tician admits of no doubt. Indeed, un- til his retirement from the leadership of Tammany Hall he had never been anything else. There were tales cur. rent of his political exploits running back to his days in knickers. 80 when he moved to Ireland and announced that he was through with the game, much incredulity was ex- pressed. Popular opinion ran that he had surrendered temporarily to & fad, and when the novelty of the “ponies” wore off he would return to his old haunts and to the old game. The turf- man would disappear in the politician. At elghty, however, and in the cir- cumstances that exist, Mr. Croker is probebly through with change. The “ponies” are likely to hold him to the end. He has the means to indulge his later fancy, and the turf in both Ire- land and England is made very at- tractive to men of sporting blood. As Mr. Croker boarded ship, the old fire flared up for a moment. He pre- dicted the re-election of Hylan. It was his contribution to the Tammany cam- paign—an exhibition of the former rul- ing passion strong on the eve of de- parture. His prediction will be tested next Tuesday. Tuesday in New York City. The sporting world assures us that “money talks.” It does not always talk logically, and sometimes its talk is wide of the mark. But it will have its say, and particularly at election times. Then it is wont to become fluent and bold of tone, and to chal- lenge attention by its very audacity. Just now money is talking in a very confident key in New York city. Tues- day is election day, and there is some betting. The odds are 5 to 1 on Hylan. His supporters are using such phrases as “a dead openand-shut,” “a lead- pipe cinch,” “all sewed up in a little bag and tucked away,” “all over but the shouting,” and dipping even more picturesquely into the lingo of the curbstone on Easy street. It Mayor Hylan does win, the vic- tory will be notable. It will be his sec- ond over a very strong combination. As in his first campalgn, the press is almost solidly against him. The lead- ers of what is called the independent vote have been canvassing for the other man. His chief reliance is Tam- many, and it is the same old Tam- many. A recent legislative investiga- tion has revealed some dark spots in the administration of the town's af- fairs. And yet, as already stated, the betting odds, within seventy-two hours of polling time, are 5 to 1 on Hylan. Ordinarily, gossip about the future of such a man would include higher places than the mayoralty. His sup- porters would be measuring the dis- tance to Albany, and from Albany to ‘Washington. Why not another Cleve- land? But there is nothing of this. Former Gov.. Al Smith remains the best bet for mext year's democratic nomination for governor, and if he wins that prize, and subsequently the office again, he and his friends will contrpl the New York delegation to the next democratic national convention, and either he will be the state’s choice for the presidential nomination, or some outside man selected by them. In no event would Mayor Hylan appear to have a chance. Virginia and Mississippi. Two of the men in attendance at the democratic committes meeting in 8t. Louls the other day are likely to be prominent in next year's party work, and again In the work of 1924. Unlike in equipment, both are highly com- petent and successful politiclans, One has a talent for organization. The other a talent, and a teste, for debate. Both are classed as Wilson men in the sorting out of democrats. They ‘were not in agreement about proced- ure when they arrived at the commit- tee meeting. One favored a change in the chairmanship of the committee. The other thought Mr. White should remain in the place. But after the change they shook hands on it, and left town in agreement to do their best for party success. Senator Glass of Virginia is the or- ganization man, and at home has had large experience in organisation mat. ters. He assisted in transferring Vir- ginia from the readjuster party to the democratic party, and has been a force since in holding the state to the democratic allegiance. His appoints meént to the Treasury Department made him a national figure, and the in- strustion for him for President by his stats 146t year added to hig stature as a party leader. Senator Hartison of Mississippt is the debater—a popular orator, mow taking rank in the Senate with his party’s most serviceable men in the chamber. His stump style is yielding to the Influences of the Sénate, and he is becoming an asset there on fleld days and other days. ‘These two men have tithe to-spare for work away from home. Neither is needed at home to keep things trim for the democracy. Virginia and Mis- sissippi are; matters now exist, safely anchored. Last year, when the republican cyclohe wrought heavy damage in many democratic balliwicks, Virginia bnd Mississippi esraped with out loss. The formiér gave Gov. Cox 60,000 majority, and the latter gave him 75,000 majority. The heavy blow elsewhers was not felt in elther the Dominion or in the Bayou state. 104 Change Capital Heard and Seen|Fifty Years Ago ‘Washington, the scene of an inter- national gathering of the utmost im- portance November 11, has been the seat of the government of the United States for so many years that are few who recall the dificuities at- tending ite birth as the capital und the dangers that have menaced it from time to time. From the begin- ning until & comparatively few years ago it has been the object of jealous attack by those who have sought to remove the governmental organiza- tion from it to another place. An old volume of collected papers relating to the District of Columbla recently reached the Public Library, contain- ing a document bearing interestingly upon one of these attempts. The early efforts of the representa- tives of the American people to es- tablish a permanent capital were at- tended with much bitterness of sec- tional and local feeling. New York and Philadelphia successively enter- tained the legislatures and the ad- ministrative officials. The Congress created under the articles of confed- eration met in several places, as con- venience suggested or necessity com- peiled, and from time to time named | G & permanent locstion, only to reyerse its decision when the subject’ was next discussed. The question was still open when the Constitution was written and the paragraph was adopted granting Congress the power “to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over such Dis- trict, not exceeding ten miles square, as may, by cession of particular states and the acceptance of Congress, be- become the seat of government of the United Btates, and to exercise like authority over sll places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock yards and other need- ful bufldings.” Ratification of the Constitution con- taining this clause did not settle the uniu{ question, and the first Con- gress meeting under the new organic law wrangled over it, with Philadel- phia, Germantown, Havre de Grace, Wrights Ferry, and a location on the Potomac urged by respective cham- plons. Not until July, 1790, was the decision reached, through a “log- rolling” srrangement between Ham- ilton and Jefferson, to locate the capi- tal on the Potomac. Then followed ten years of preparations, marked by the smelection of a particular site by President Washington and the ap- pomtment of commissioners 'to ar- range the purchase of lands, the sale of lots donated by the owners of the soil, the grant of the necessary con- cessions by Maryland and Virginia and the actual beginning of work on the comstruction of the necessary equipment. * * % Even while these measures were proceeding, those opposed to the Po- tomac site continued their efforts to effect a change. In 1800 the archives of the government were brought from Philadelphia, in ‘“seven large boxes and four or five smaller ones.” The local population was swelled by the advent of the permanent force of the administration, some fifty-four office- holders. Conditions were deplorable. Early visitors to the capital have de- scribed them in scathing terms. In 1807 a series of “Letters on the Seat of Government” was published over the signature of an anonymous writer styling himself *Crito.”” In one of these he sald: “In the meantime, be it known to the good people of the Union, from New Hampshire to Georgia (for 1 may presume, without fear of contra- diction, that ninety-nine hundredths of the youth of the United States grow up to manhood without ever having seen the capital of their coun- try), that the national bantling called the city of Washington remains. after ten years of expensive fostering, a rickety infant, unable to go alone. Nature will not be forced. A sickly child cannot be dressed and dandled into a healthy constitution. This embryo of the state will always be a disappointment to its parents, a dis- credit to the fond opinions of its worthy godfathers and godmothers, and an eyesore to all its relations to the remotest degree of consanguinity.” \ rounding, worn-out and impoverished Crito advised in conclusion that the seat of government should be remov- ed to Philadelphia, “the very focus of foreign and domestic influence.” * * % This unofficial advice was actually considered by Congress. One of the documents included in the old volume, now {n the Public Library, which has been mentioned, conhsists of the text of & memorial presented to the House of Representatives February 2, 1808, in support of a motion made by Rep- resentative Sloane “that the House do come to the following resolution: ‘Resolved, that it is expedient, and the public good requires, that the seat of government be removed to Phila- delphla for —— years; and that a committee be appointed to bring in a bill for that purpose.’” The memorial set forth that the establishment of & permanent seat of government at any place was not authorised by the Constitution, but was in fact contrary to that instru- ment, inasmuch as the Constitution suarantéed to every state, and con- sequently to every citizen, a repub- lican form of government, whereas by ocutting off part of two states to form a District of Columbia 4 large number of cltisens were deprived of representation, “that inestimable right and privilege of freedom.” The memorialists noted that the word “permanent” was not used in the constitutional provision for the seat of government, and contended that theréfore the act of Congress permé- nently fixing the eapital iri Washing- ton could not be binding on & future Congress, “thers being no constitu- tional power given to one Congress to compel the next to sit in any place by - them 4appointed; their power terminating with the time for which they were elected, their successors e an equal right to remove and sit in_&ny place which théy think more beneficial to their cornstituents and more conventent to themselves.” It was further urgt that the Prul,flent having the appbintment of all officers of the Distflét and the direction of the éxpenditure of im- mense sums of money drawn from the ry “‘createsan influénce and 4 06 on the executive dang ous to the liberty and independence |gs the M'l’l‘: ?:lfl»ofi- passage in the me- morial is w‘gy of complete quota- :Ln'-. nnhf: forth additional reasons Py “Hecause it creates & heterogeneous system, repugnant to the prineiple of | Other resolutions, Introduced from self-government—-deprives & number ot citizens 6f their reptiblican form ot government guaranteed by the Constitution, transforms them into servile dependence on the executive and public treasury, and finally ren- ders their interest not barely .sep- arate from but opposed to the genm- eral Interest of the states; it being | 1 their interest to draw from the Treas- s much money as possible and expend it within the Distriet, to in- crease their power and {nfluence, who as before mentioned being trans- partments | either fore! ! A large man who until recently has not been a resident of Washington for several years got on & street car one day last week. Asking for tick- ternal or internal enemies, by which means it might fall an easy prey to either. “Because it { uated for Congr or heads to receive intelligenc: gn or domestic, the roads for a considerable distance being ex- tremely bad, the traveling expense and living at the city so high that & citizen from a distant state, having s just claim on the United States (un- less it is very large), had better stay at home and lose it than risk the enormous expense of coming to th seat of Tuvernmem and -uv!nfi a8 long as claimants are usually obliged to stay to support their claims: hence few except inhabitants of the city, rich speculators, office hunters or subtle intriguers (frequently sent and supported by parties in different parts of the Union) h: chance of hearing and ing the duct of the representati’ which ought to be exposed in as public & manner as pos- sible to free, unbiased and independ- ent citisens, and consequently in & place cheap and easy of access uind where their necessary business col- lects the greatest number of fres Iu- habitants. inconveniently sit- e of to drop one in, “Suppose you drop it in,” smiled the big men, offering a token to the con- ductor. “You'll have to drop it in,” the conduct: anner. #till holding out the token. “No,” retorted the street car jon. “Well, and supposing I won't put it n said the conduotor, “That would be too much trouble, smiled the large man, es he dropped the token into the box. And so Chief Justice Willlam How- Court went in and took a seat. % * hold in street cars, anyway. existence a city, in the recess of Con- gress it wears the appearance of & number of deserted, decaying vil- lages; and because agreeable to the cal- culation of some of the best calculators in the United States that have attend- ed the general government both at New York and Philadelphia, there is an snnual loss sustained of more than half a million of dollars. ocond she entered the ear, at all special detestation is the “bromide.” 1t is necesgary to this plot. Char- acte! One woman reading a2 maga- sine; one man, sitting alongeide, vainly trying to read the woman's over her shoulder. Now for the aotion: * * ¥ “Because, Instead of consulting the convenlence of members of the legis- lature and officers of government in the erection of public buildings, the interest of rich landholders and speculators have been consulted, by which means the President's house and the public offices are fixed one and & half mniles from Georgetown, the Capitol one d a half miles from said buildings, and the navy yard one mile from the Clgltol; hence it is of an economical plan to accommodate the legislature of the United States and officers of the general government convenlently, and with the least possible expense, the reverse is the fact; every feature of the plan exhibiting at the first view indubf e proof of a design the most extravagant, absurd and incom- modious of human genius could pos- sibly invent, calculated for the ex- press purpose of drawing not only from the public treasury, but also from members of Congress and other citizens whose business might re- quire a temporary residence in the city as much money as possible, to be expended for the purpose of support- ting and incressing the number of servile dependerts upon executive patronage; who have in all ages and civilized nations been considered the most dangerous enemies to the rights and liberties of the people.” The interesting document concludes the argument against the city of Wash- ington as follows: window, wildly punches the makes a dive for the door, dropping her magazine onto the floor. up and starting fo! 1t I don’t want it; you ean have the car. The man sank back Into his scme solid reading setisfaction. immediately. stores. * * % Another man riding home on a Mount Pleasant car thought he was “seeing things” for a while. Maybe he had been thinking about: the forthcoming conference on the limitation of armaments, Looking out the window he saw a purple flag on a house opposite. Several blocks up the street he again glanced out the window and saw another purple flag—just a solid block of purple, the royal color. It was not until he saw a third purple flag ugon 2 large house that he began to be interested. Then he began to look for ‘em, and was re- warded by seeing purple flags all along the street. He would look out the window— there would be a purple flag! Then another and another, until finally they began to marshal themselves into Tows, festoons— Then he solved the mystery. Like one of Poe's characters, who saw a bug on the window sill and thought it some monster advancing on the landscape, he had been looking through a small purple spot in the window. * * “Finally, because taking a view of the whole plan, with the appurte- nances thereunto belonging, and the consequences inseparable therefrom, it exhibits a system as contrary to the genuine principles of our gov- ernment as is the frigid to the tem- perate zone—Iinsomuch that if a real whig of '76, possessing the primeval _virtue end economy of the noble patriots that acquired our independ- ence, could be suddenly transported from a distant part of the Union to the city of Washington, and there be presented with a navy yard 300 miles from the sea—a house erected for the President equal, if not ex- ceeding In expenses ana magnificence, the palace of an eastern monarc! and two massy piles of stone, which had been fifteen years putting to- gether, and under the names of the north and south wings of a Capitol to accommodate the legislature of the United States—that they had al- ready cost near a million of dollars— that to complete them and fill up the space between would probably cost two millions more—then cast h{l eyes upon the numerous unfinished empty and decaying buildings and the sur- » * Let us finish this with a street car 1dyll. Those who have valnly struggled with refractory street car windows will appreciate this. Those who haveri't may think there is no “point” to it. He was seated alongside a young lady of perhaps eleven summers, bobbed hair and socks, reading a na- ture book. “Will you put the window up for me?” she' suddenly asked. “I never could put one up, but I'll try,” replied the man. This time, however, the window shot up as if by magic. “First time in my life,” murmured e man. “The air feels very good, doesn't it?” asked the child. CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Digest of the Civilization at Stake. GENEVA, Switzerland.—The utter- ances of an American, Admiral Bowles, are selected by the Journal de Geneve as offering the strongest argument in favor of a reduction of armaments at the coming Washing- ton conference. This liberal paper, which indorses the admiral's point of view, says: “Tn relation to the approaching Washington conference a Voice has ust made itself heard which will in- uence favorable views on the radical limitation of armaments. It is that of the American Admiral Bowles, who wi 'or many years the chief builder of the United States Navy, & post which he changed later for the direc- tion of a large company for the man< ufacture of armaments. The thesis of Mr. Bowles {8 that if the Washington conference does not arrive at a satis- factory solution of the problem which it involves the whole financial and olitical situation of the world will e liable to collapse, pulling down with it the very foundations of our civilisation. “The reasons he gives are the fol- lowing: “The military patty for the domi- nation of the seas, which has many adherents, demands the necessary expansion of the fleet by building new men-of-war more formidable than those of today. If this takes place, the Panama canal is not large enough and must be changed over again, either bf widening its locks or by u?lsclnt t by another on the same level. T ‘would necessitate enormous ex added to the pro- Jected new ships, and woutld be ab- solutely necessary, as the fleet with- out the Panama canal would only mean a bad joke. This perspective suggests o naval budget of billions of dol . However heavy were the ex‘un-u the United States would be able to stand them, but what would happen to the other countries. who were following the same aim? Every- where thére would be financial dis- astér, which would be reflected on the etonmomic life of America, and which would prefent the return to normal conditions. There is no doubt about that. ety one is saying at n | the present time that the equilibrium of the busineds world can only be at- tained If the other nationd are stand- ing on thel et again. The most vital interests of our modern socie- ties exact today the putting into practice of the beautiful words, that all nations have a communion of in- terests.” Healing by Fuith. Remarkable talés of faith healing aocomplished by Ratana, a Msorl “miraéle man,” are re ed by the New Zealand corréspondent of the London Obaerver. “Ratana, the Maori ‘miracle man’ or faith healer, oontinues to effect some wonderful oures” he says. “At I & country—would he believe that ra- tional beings had laid the plan? Or that honest republicans had carried it on? Would he believe that the wise, the virtuous and economical Jefferson and his supporters had la ished away millions upon so absurd, extravagant and hopeless & plan? A plan to raise in the center of the re- public costly monuments similar to those formerly erocted in what are now termed the dark ages of the world by tyrannical despots to per- petuate their crimes? * % “Would he not turn with disgust and indignation from 2 scene o re- plete with evil consequences and ex- claim in the bitterness of his soul, ‘Oh, ye representati of the people, who hath bewitched you, 8o soon to depart from the original and genuine virtue, plainness and economy of & republican government, to obtain and establish which I fought—I bled? Hasten, oh, hasten to retrace your steps, to close this Pandora’s box— cease to lavish away the revenué of the United States upon courtly syco- g:mnu and to pay servile dependents r forging chains for me and my posterity! Leave and co! n _to eternal infamy those yet unfinished monuments of monarchical tyranny —Ilet them henceforth be considered only as beacons, to warn our political mariners—let the tall trees of the forests grow around them—let them be speedily enveloped in the dark bosom of the wilderne: t the eyes of republican travel not be disgusted with the s ove with all possible speed to place where government can be adminis- tered upon.genuine republican princi- ples and consistent with the interest and liberty of your sovereigns, the people!’” Having painted this horrid picture, the memorialists then presented five to them good reasons why the seat of government should be removed to Philadelphia, describing it as the ideal placs of habitation and soéne of official activity, and adding the fol- lowing briefly stated but supposedly convinding argument: “In case of removal to Philadelphla, that oity will provide convenient buildings for both houseés of Congre: and the public offices and give e: clusive jurisdiotion over them as lo seat of government remains there, with no other expense to the United States than keéping them i ‘fepair whilst they occupy them.” * * x Neediess to say, thé resolution was not aidopted by the House. Nor werse time to time by successive “capital movers” Despite the steady de- velopment of the physioal federal equipment here, and thé accumulation of & large and costly plant of opera- tions, oritics of the “Potomac site” sted I:Thh‘l “ul;e am? practi cally e o war, and scardely nuc“nt.ehouofmn- le died tore they were at n. | present he is touring the country under the leadership of L.|with several friends, traveling in a U. vis and others, & movement|caravan. At every town containing was started in behalf of St. Louis as| Maori inhabitants in any number he the proper location. Mass meetings | rematns for & short time and preaches were held and conventions were 1 of faith. called, but the claims ucfh the Mound oot th ‘One of the most tonishing cures formed ftom fresmen imto 8ervils de- [city wers disputsd. icago and ted 18 that of a European glirl pendents must be dangerous to theé | Cindinnati oonsidered * themselves :'::fwn- “incurable’ en»& ‘While liberty of the Union, in on t0 | equally entitled to the prospective | Ratans was holding & special service their number, power ard influence. honor, and while they wi lod | she arrived in a taxi, and he was “Because It is surtounded By an|washington continued to develop.|asked to come out and see her. He old, worn-out, impovérished country,|Ronie years later resentative | said: ‘Go back &nd téll her that when freemen, but|De Armond of Missourl gained ocots- | this servios is over I will go to her. thinly inhabited abottndi: with sl 3 from which cifcumstance provisions must always remain dear and of an inférior qual- ity, and from its contiguity to large n,:vw-m“w ter 3 ::!o numerous slaves, W! zam always rémith &némids; hopes of obtaining freedom to join rx: “able from | fneton has sional attention by similar for . capi removal. Ahd deststed. Nothing has been heard ot this project now for fully a quaster Sl st w o 4 Decome. the, tapiral oF the - He was told l:n thfi:u vln w:!:; and he replled: ‘Go ceased. the ‘¢ Ifi"ll‘l the girl and she was not near him. After the sérvice United States for all time. Ratana went up to the girl and said ¥ auya. without offering any explana- |1 The woman suddeniy looks out the 3 g ] Prosecution of he threw it down on the floor almost | city, east or west. {one dollar of plunder wrested from | | in Tfie Star ‘Though the merit system In depart- ets, he was given tokens, and told|mentel appointments was not realhys established uli- Working Toward = ! some ume ’ later, . vl the Merit System. g vree "o o replied | mission wap operating fi{ty years ago in & somewhat sUrlY|geqiing to reform the methods of “Can't you do it?" asked the man,|reeruiting the personnel of the gov- ernment. In The Star of October 0. 871, is the following news paragraph “The. chairman of the Civil Servic Commission, Mr. Curtls, insists that “Then you'll have to get off the car.” |in a selection of public officers all eox- | siderations should give way to the paramount one of private character and qualifications for the position A majority of the mem! agree tha! ard Taft of the United States Supreme|g system can be adopted looking t the fitness and qualifications of the candidate—making those the ohief considerations—and leaving the prop. Gallantry no longer has its strong- | osition as to political qualifications to regulate itself. They hold that no law will prevent this politioal pre Once upon e time every gentleman|ferment from entering into the di:- sprang up to offer a Jady his sest the | tribution of offices. It is probable but now | there will be several » thic: question or- the commission. The she is lucky if she gets to eit down|political patronsge in making of & This restatement of a fact!pointments was very fully consider: need not arouse the ire of those whose | by the commission itself.” = = ¥ The drive agrinét the Tweed rini - magazine [ in New York had at this time fifti years ago reached the point of eourt proceedings, but * the effrontery of “Madam, you've forgotten your maga- | those accused of graft and corrup- zine,” calls the gentleman, picking it|tion was undiminished. In The Star of October 30, 1871, is an editorfal sid the woman, as she got off |outlining this remarkable situation “New York can make more noise and t for | accomplich less and take more tipie But | to do it in than any other American For months past whole nages of the newspapers have It was one of those small fashion|been filled with the details of im- magazines they give away In the mense frauds upon the city govern- ment: the gullty parties aré known they have been lampooned and caric: tured, forgory and robbery of m lons of dollars of the people’s money has been laid at their doors and yet. in all this time not one of them has been munished for his misdeeds, nor . them. On the contrary, they are al- lowed ample time to transfer their ili- gotten gains, and one man, the ring- leader, the “boss,” while busy placing millions of dollars plunderad from the taxpayers into the hands of his friends and accomplices for safekeeping. is actually put up as the regular demo- cratic candidate for the state senate and has the cheek to come before an outraged people for their votes. Mavor Hall mounts his charger and rides triumphantly to a ‘justice shor.’ ‘where ample apology is made for the trouble he has been put to in com- plying_with certain little legal forms: Tweed rolls to the tribunal in his car- riage and after condescending to trouble himself about the matter of bail goes back to his palace: others of the ring plunderers are clothed in fine linen and fare sumptuously every day, with no fear of the law, and In the ‘meantime poor devils are brought into court every hour for stealine a dollar or two. convicted on one- tenth of the evidence which hae ac- cumulated against these millionaire robbers, and sent to prison to expiate their crimes. No wonder that in a community where there is such & mockery of justice as this we find hints in the newspaners of a- zeneral wish for an execution of the laws a little more impartial, something swifter and a ereat deal surer. The Standard significantly says: ‘We are really governed by a commune. And our only regret is that this commun~ doeg not take hold and make their work more thorough. There i only one way.'" <L Though the mills mround slowly. they ground exceeding fine. *‘Boss™ Tweed was brought to trial In 1873 on a charge of grand larceny and forgery and sentenced to twelve years’ impris- onment. The seéntence was reversed In 1875, but being unable to furnish bail in certain.civil suits he was committed "to Jjail. He escaped tb Spain, was arrested there, brought back on an Ameriesn warship an4 died in jail in New York. Foreign Press to her: ‘Rise up and come with me to’ the church’ He was told that she was unable to use any one of her limbs, but he repeated his command. The girl rore, stepped from the taxi, walked with Ratana to the church. and presently returned with the full use of her limbs. ' “Another European cure that has been reported is that of a gentleman who came to see Ratana on crutches. and left him without their aid. not only left his crutches behind. also a banknote. Immediately Rata found the note he called the gent man back and returned it saying: ‘I cannot accept payment; am only doing my duty. > “So numerous have the cures beem; both among the white and the natiza population, that the bulk of the publié admit that Ratana has undoubfel”’ healing powers. Clergymen and oth<* ers have visited the Maori faith heat- er, end so far none has come away to say that his powers were over rated or that hir cures are imperfect or exaggerated.” T America, a Nation With Ideals. Continued eontact with the Fremch people is having the effect of grad- ually dispelling the time-honored im- pression among people of the conti- nent that Americans were “hard- boiled” materialists, interested onive in money and the affairs of business. The Paris paper Le Petit Parisien. commenting on the exercises held we- the tomb of the unknown soldier hery. remarks on the other side of Ameri, can character as follows: ] “All those who look upon the Amer- jcans as a great industrial people, of merchants and bankers, only en: rosged with business, have recently {-d 2 unique opportunity of forming a more exact idea of the Americar mind, without having to .cross the ocean, They have only to read orre- read the two very characteristic speaches delivered at the tomb of the unknown soldier. “From one end to the other of these speeches of a diplomat and of a mili- tary man there is the same spirit of idealism and the same spiritual en- thusiasm. “Listen to Mr. Myron T. Herrick, so dear to the hearts of all French peo- ple since his desire in 1914 to take care of Paris if by chance the enemy were to enter: ‘Our souls are weary with quibblings, with bickerings and monetary maneuvera. ‘Whn we ;:ed to hear once more ringing through the hndlnlhiwonlnll-luflflzm U i3 was the spiritual’forces of the whole~ universe which gave to right the' wvictory. ®* * ® Let us be ever sure that we are right and go ahead!': d now the military man who speaks of his comrade, the unknowu dier, at whose tomb mothers weep as they récall with pride the heroisim of their own brave sons. Fifty years ago, at the time of our defeat, the conqueror extolled brutal foroe with his heel on the meck of conquered France. In 1921 an American geners! only finds words of fraternity and of human charity at the tomb of the soldier who is for him the splendii symbol of devotion and sacrifice: My comrade,’ he.says, ‘in your heart ther: 1s malice toward none, but charity for all. You fought agalinst the calamit: of war, but your work will not bn completed until burdens which prep- arations for war Imposes are lifted from the shoulders of all peoples.’ “We see what a P of Christia: ity, in the testant form, is in ressed on the souls of our nob ble deal! taking its seat.in the gouncil of the league of nationa?’ s s