Evening Star Newspaper, November 14, 1921, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR. .With Sunday Morning Editien. | "WASHINGTON, D. C. “MONDAY, ....November 14, 1921 THEODORE W. NOYES. . .. Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company « * Busivess Office, 11th St. and Pennuyivaaia Ave. Kew York Offica: 100 Nassau §t. Efilm‘ Office: First Natignal Baok Building. urogean Office: 3 Regent 8t.. Londos, England. ;T¥e Erening Star, with the Sunday morniug #ditlon. is dellvered by carriers within the city 4t €0 conte daily only, 45 cents psr 3 cents_per moni dare be dent by mail. of telephor ~ 5000; Collection is made by car #nd of each mouth. Rato by Mail—Payable in Advance. ¢+ Maryland and Virginia. -1yr., $840: 1 mo.. T0c Daily only $6.00; 1 mo., 50c Spnday only. -1¥T.. $2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ - All Other $tates. Daily and Sunday.1yr., $10.00: 1 mo., $5c Dafly only. 1 $7.00; 1 mo., S0c Suni 1yr., $3.00; 1 mo.. 25c . Brass Tacks vs, Idealism. To paraphrase an historic verbal bull's-eye, Secretary -Hughes has-told the''nations of the world that the way to limit armaments is to limit them. Ie does not advise waiting until human nature has been made over and the millennium has come, but would do it now, and thereby hasten the :brotherhood of. man. Some day meh and nations may be so remolded that they will love their enemies as themselves, but .it has been shown that in the meantime the cost of that eternal vigilance which i the price of liberty need not be so high. The nations are invited now to try in a practical way to get results which high idealism failed to achieve at Paris. : morning. This northbound traffic con- If & completely stocked library, slsted largely of business vehicies and ; basing. his selection on ornate l';fnlv i trucks, for which there was no other possible entrance into Washjngton. Highway bridge, in short, is & busi- ness bridge primarily, and it will al- ‘ways remain so and become-more used for business purposes as Washington grows and the Virginia communities increase in size and activity. Key bridge will also be to a great extent a business bridge, serving another radius of territory.\Memorhl bridge will be definitely a passenger bridge. Immediate economical considera- tions should not cause further delay in the actual undertaking of this work. Several years must pass before the heavy expenditures begin in the construction. The project Itself will Icuver perhaps a decade. A bridge is not built quickly, and if at this ses- sion of Congress funds are voted for the préparation of plans and the let- {ting of contracts, and the allotments {are continued steadily from year to year as the work progresses, in all {likelihood the dedication of this memo- irial will not take place for a decade. 1And surely this government can af- { ford such & work, even with the Treas- ury in straits today.' If the Mmitation of arms project is put into effect there will be money enough for such & sym- bol of reunion which may at the same time stand as a memorial to America's ; contribution to the peace of the world. —_———— | The Foreign Reaction. - Saturday's armsreduction plan ad- vanced by the Secretary of State was vparu«nlnfly satisfying as a working iproposal because it was accompanied iwilh and based upon specific details jof the intornational mnaval situation. | Mr. Hughes, in his statement. on be- his purchases, has always been re- garded as a joke. Yet many peop of less wealth purchase their book with scarcely’ more consideration. t It is especially necessary in the se- lection of books to go into the home as the iptimate companions of the children that the greatest discrimina-( tion be used in their purchase. The speclalists at the Public Library say that it is the medlocre book which is most to be feared and avoided by the parent who would help cultivate the taste of the little ones. The mediocre Ibnok may be quite expensive; its cover may be attractive enough, its illustra- tions many, yet its conténts. may be. such as to cause the child to lose In- | tevest in books. This Is a calumity, in- deed, yet one which often occurs. lllm'l\ the same thing may happen in music. Many people who think they do net like music are so unfortunate as to have heard only banal nielodies. inhey are the innocent victims. of i | musical mediocrity. The trained workers of the chil- dren’s dopartment at the Public TH- brary have the fullest knowledge of the best books. the enduring hooks, suitable for children of all ages. They have made discriminating seldctions from the volumes which yearly pour from the press. Their advice should prove helfful to all who may have been bewildered by the profusion of riches offered in the book store. They are anxlous to help and only await the opportunity to serve. Every parent should feel free to seek their aid. A_ Maryland Legislator. In un interview with the Baltimore Is there any nation to which the half of the Amevican delegation. set | correspondent of The Star, Miss Ris- Invitation is extended that dares re- fuse? Is there any way in which-any government could justify itself to its| own people and to posterity i€ it turn ‘aside from the path so clearly marked? To do so would involvea re. sponsibility as heavy, in its way, as that which the government of Ger- many assumed when it resolved upon the course which resulted in the most terrible war in human histors. Cable dispatches indicate that throughout the world there is amaze- ment at the boldness of the American | stroke. It was, indeed, a bold stroke, but history gives evidence of the fact that all the great prizes of the world have been won by boldness. It is not promised that the’ Hughes program will remove war from among the posasibilities. There still will ‘be national jealousies and ambitions which mist be denied, and selfishness will_continue to play a part in inter- national relations. But the crushing burden of taxation can be lightened and the world given a chance to re- cover from the disasters of the recent war. If that is accomplished all will have been accomplished which was :flufl when the conference was And the American govern- ment, through Secretary Hughes, has shown the exceeding simplicity of a thing which ' was thought to. be Ledged about by many mysterious dif- ficulties. Prayers for Peace. The President and a company of men :high in office in this and other sovernments attended the service of intercesslots; onivthe limitation of ar- maniént gt the Cathedral of St. Peter. and St. Paul yesterday. There was & significahce §n this which might es- cape the Jotice of many persons. A Pegce Cross stands on the Cathedral Close. It was dedicated October 28, 1898, at the first of the open-air serv- ices there, not only to mark the foun- dation of the cathedral, “but to com- i forth a survey of the principal navies loz the world and naval building pro- grams in terms that permit of no dis- pute. Tf these figures are correct, and there is no reason to doubt, the deductions that follow are logical. There remains, then, but the question of whether the nations wish to cease naval competition, wish - to 7 stand where they are reldtively and, each saving immensely in expenditures, defend and protect their rights. Thus far in the observations and icomments upon the American plan jthere has been no criticism or chal- lenge. - Representatives of the other governments have expressed them- selves in terms of genuine apprecia- tion and without committing them- selves have indicated a hope that through this proposed measume may come a working agreement. Indeed, their presence here in a representa- tive capacity and in response to, Presi: dent Harding's invitation puts upon them a certain obligation of acquies- cence. Else why are they here? It is 10 be assumed that the nations that have responded and presenfed them- selves in the person of these dele- gates are as desirous of finding a formula for arms reduction and limita. tion as the United States. . ~ Here, then, is a plan, practical, logi: cal and fair to all, involving no over: turn of balance, no shift of relative 1 positions, no advantage or disadvan- tage to any, and yielding if put into effect a tremendous saving.in expendi- ture. The reaction to it should be, and indeed appears to be, genuinely a feeling of gratitude that so definite a step has been taken toward the goal toward which these representatives in Washington are moving. Americe of Jpfferson. . ° ] In his addresa last night at the re- ception given to American and for- eign newspaper correspondents cover- hold their resvective positions with no | actual lessening of their capacity tojcome man's right hand in Maryland. |gible and of sreat value.” the Mobile memorate the time of the first meet- | ing the armament conference. Prince ing of the genéral convention of the | Tokugawa quoted from President Jef- Protestant. Episcopal Church in the|ferson, showing familiarity with the capltal of the United States and the|state papers, of the latter. And doubt- ending of the war between Spain and |less the prince is familiar with the the United States.” Among the in-|writings and the records of the other scriptions on- the cross is a prayer {men who figured in that period—the from the litany for unity, peace and|early period—of American history. flwd to all nations. At the west’ ‘We may wish that all the delegates of the cross is a pavement of from whatever nation in attendance stones from the Holw Land, and in|{at the conference may take that his- the center of the pavement is the|tory into account at this time. It is word “Salemh,” which is by interpre-{full of matter—necessary, indeed, to titlon, “Peace.” President McKinley !an aedequate understanding of what spoke at the dedication of the cross|America is and at present stands and many bishops and other clergy |for. As a nation' we are still operat- and s large number of the people of;mg on foundations laid at that time, our city attended. There. was some-!and which seem to us as substantitl thing singularly impressive in thejand usable now as then. ~_ service of joint prayer at the Wash-1 Mr. Jofferson, though quoted &0 ington Cathedral. often on what has since. come to be At the Catholic University solemn !known as Americanism, is quoted for high mass was celebrated and divine | no feature of the subject oftener than blessing on the arms conference was | for that bearing upon our foreign re- prayed for. Prayers for permanent peace are ascending from peoples to the throne. ‘It may be that the dawn of & new age has come. , . .. —_—— lations. It has a swelling American ring to it. ‘“‘Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; en- :lln‘fln' alliances with none.” The adjuration is so fine, it is sometimes teau. the only woman elected last week tog the Maryland legislature. said: “Pm not & reformer or an extremist of any kind. and I'm not in favor of any ‘isms’ whatever. 1 just want to do all 1T can for good government. And I am going to work at my job all the time I spend at Annapolis. I'm simply delighted that I am going to Annapolis, and I hope I am going to be of some‘use. 1 intend to work with the men instead of trying to be inde- | pendent of them. as many women think they cught tobe. * * * Wom- an has ceased to be a rib and has be- IA" during the campaign I took pains to put the soft pedal on the fact that 1 was ruaning as a woman. That wasn't the point at all. T was makin, gm fl?ht because 1 believed I coul elp the men get some of the things we need for the schools and the} tarmers.” " This is an excellent he]lveranee. and an assurance of success. By fol- lowing the lines Miss Risteau lays down for herself she is reasonably ! certain to justify the judgment of her constituents in making her their rep- resentative. The duties of a legislator are of an everyday character, and when prop- erly appraised have nothing to do with isms or fads. The legislator, man or woman, who enters Congress or a local body at home for the purpose of “reforming” it and steering it on & new course soon pulls up before an impossibility. The thing to do is to utilize established processes—which as a rule are founded in character and good senge—and work in a prac- tical way for practical ends. Freak bills and propositions serve stmply to advertise their authors, and not in & way to insure usefulness. And Miss Risteau is-Mght a8 to the matter of sex. If she is.to accomplish enything it must be in assoclation with the men, and ot in opposition to them. By flocking to herself she {would render herself powerless. ————e——— | The préliminary - formalities were 'brief. but a prompt expression of can- dor and an honekt desire to facilitate 'ur;ent ‘Ybusiness should be regarded as ithe highest form of diplomatic cour- tesy. b } There is hope that the gloomy novel- ists engaged in discussing world nego- 1tiations may yet make way for a few { merry sunshine poets. 2 i f | 1t may be possible to.scrap & few labdriously prepared questionnaires along with thes conference "proceed- ings. Prophets of a hard winter have thus far been most opportunely mistaken: SHOOTING STARS. | BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Quantity and Quality. { Millions of columns of print 8 Are sent through the world every morn; In hope of presenting some hint That will render our doubts less for- - lorn. Some of the old-time diplomatists!attributed, even in this country, to 'And then as no method we find . would have regarded a man who put & proposition forward promptly and explicitly as just- a trifle “unprofes- sional. o \ & Washington has expanded into a genuine metropolis, and is therefore enfitfed a8 a msiter of course to an occasional police investigation. .. ————e A venyear holiday for naval con- struction suggests one of the iongest periods A general rejoicing on record. | due for & first-class ‘real estate boom. ! ——— A Third Bridge Necessary. The Fine Arts Commission again urges the early completion of the memorial bridge designed to connect Potomac Park with Arlingfbn ceme. tery and serve as a symbol df the re- unjon: of the sections.: The sedsion of - this body cme at an opportune time, ‘with_the need of the memorial bridge af & practical highway strikingly il- f Justrated by the breakdown of com- |-~ munications on Armistice day. P> 'The Key bridge, which is now under eonstruction, will merely replace the ‘Aquieduct, that old structure being in suéh shape that it will probably be destroyed as soon as the new one is in commission. It will carry car tracks. There will then be just the sanfe bridge -equipmeént betwsen -the ¢ity and irimediately adjacent Vir- . ; mnis as thers is at present, save for the slightly larger capacity of Key ‘bridge over that of Aqueduct. Memo- . risl bridge l:::a will add definitely an materially to the facilities.” Much of the troublé Friday at High- bridgs was caused by. the harth- g trafic coinciding f‘:l".h the ‘Washington. America is still America, notwith- standing her growth, the changed { conditions of the world, and the part ishe is now plaving in world affairs. She is an individual in her own right, and has no thought of becoming & cog in a world machine. According to various profound stu- dents of affairs that long.neglected stretch of territory, Siberia; is about —_————— It is difficult for the diplomatic Ihlhit to regard even the final decision tnt the average conference as other then a bagis for further discussion. [ e —— It Meéxico manages her government as well a3 is now expected, Uncle Sam will be ‘able not only to recognize ‘her; but to say, “Proud to meet you.” given statistics a degree of popuiar interest that they. seldom attain. “Children’s Book Week.” This- is ‘“Children’s Book -week.” Trained workers ut tie Public Library are waiting to help parents in the se- lection of the best books to buy for their children. The movement, na- tional in scope, centers in this city at the Public. Library, and has the active co-gperation of Dr. George F. Bow man, the librarian. ¥ Librariang and publishers realize, and the parents should, thit books are not/things which can be bought for the home after the fashion of conl. ~ :dfln‘k value them?”: & of 2y The Washington conference hn; Ne Trafic Jam. | Of solving a problem aright, 'The world must again turn its mind To millions of columns at night. Then somge "“regular feller” draws near ‘Whose®eloquent efforts are few, {And who makes the whole matter l . quite clear In merely a sentence or two. [ - Precision. { “Why don’t you quit work and go i fisBing?” . 2 “Because,” -answered the morosely { candid person, “I can’t see that I do enough work to, justify calling it ‘work,” or catch enough fish to justify ! calling it ‘Ashing.’ " / i , Personal Property. !. “I am entitled fo-m¥ own opinions,” { remarked the positive-man. . *““Then,” murmured Miss .Cayenne, “why._ scatter. them.about, as if you 1l 1 haven't any’ liméusine To make & handsome showing. L walk. But I am still serene. I get where I.am going. | Son of Toil. | “Make bay while the gun’shines,” #aid the reddy-made philosopher. “I do,” repliéd Senator Borghum. ‘And then only long enough-to have my. photograph takén for campaign purposes.’ i Grown Suspicious. _“In my dreams & fairy appeared and offered to grant me three-wishes.” “What did You do?” ; “Fortunately, I woke up. I have had trouble enough with get-rich-quick 3 x ings, and Aever looking within orid of§ ‘which, as quoted by the Chicago News ', Editorial Digest Russia’s Bid for Recognition. The offer éf the soviet government, (independent), is “to acknowledge the old czarist debts contracted before 1614, to make & binding agreement toward paying them off within & cer- tain period and to negotiate at & con- ference an economio accord bétween soviet Russia and the powers that are willing and able to promate the economic rehabilitation of Russia for their own benefit as well as for hers,” is in most American Interpreted papers a8 a frantic effort to secure a life line that will save tfe bol ik sdministration. Not onl willingness and ability of Rus: Ipay these debts seriously questioned. but the singléness of purpose in ma ing_the offer is a matter of grave doubt, many writers regarding it merely a bribe, an effort “to buy f cash,” as the Detroit Free Press (in-| dependent) puts it, “a status among the nations which they are not will- ing to grant upon the merits of the Russian case.” A npnoflty opinion. Nhowever, holds thal whatever domestic situation impelling such an offer, it should be serfously consid- | eleg by the powers to which it sl made. The “sppeal is momentous,” the Chicago Tribune (independent regllh- lican) thinks, not because of “any basis it offers for new relations with tussia,” but bacause of “the evidence it gives that the bolshevik tyranny is nearing its end.”” The proposal. as the Providencs Journal (indepenent) mees it, I8 merely “a scheme on the part of _Lenin and Trotsky to strengthen their tottering atructure of despotism,” and, the Boston Tra: peript (independent republican) adds, ‘to_prevent its ut 1lapse.’ he fact that thi ]ittle enthusiasm abroa N Ovleans Times Picayune (inde- De!fi]enl democratic) believes is due to the feeling that “sovist recognition 1d be only & geg- cl " the of Russia’s @t woul trre at be 'nnd moreover, it Bug- | geets to the Hurrisburg Telegraph i (republicau) = proposal “to pay 59 | per cont” of a debt “in return for &: receipt full.” “Recognition of the caarist debt ie, indeed, “a shad- owy concession,” the New Y¥ork Post (independent) sgrees, which Moscow “generously offers” 'for the “sub-| niance” of recognition of the bolshe- | vist government. K coeptance of responsibhity for the payment of the debt” sdarcely gocs far enough to meet the situa- tion. the Springfield (Mo.). Leader (democratic) points out, and It is quite likely that the natiofis ad- dressed will require “guaranties” of a nature, and, the more substantial Sioux C'ty Journai (republican) adds, the ire dificulty “lies in trusting them.” Rezponsible nations “‘are ask- ed to e something immediate, tan- Reglster (democratic) says. “and to recéive in return nothing more sub- stantial than the promise of a gov- ernment that in the recent past re- pudiated all idea of being under obli- gation to anybody for anything. i However, the Coluithug (Ohfo) Dis- patch (independent) thinks “it is not necessary to impeach Lenin's inten- tions" in order to show that “Russia’s outside debt will never Be pald by a regime which has made of her in- affairs the most stupendous ruin in the world's financial history “What are they gding to pay with asks the Elmira Star Gazette (in- dependent), “What nation is going to take soviet paper rubles in payment of the debt?” But here another element enters. Soviet leaders “have gone a long way of tate in abandoning the'r bolshe-! vik vagaries,” the Newark' News (in-; dependent) notes, “and it now- looks as if they were ready to go & good deal further,” particularly if. rs the New York World (democratic) be- | lieves, their'latest move can be inter- | preted as “another step In the graduai transforination of the xovnrnmem| from fts commanistic theorles to a! ‘bourgeois state.’” Doubtless Russia | {8 “as poor as & church mouse at this| time,” the Birmingham News (demo- | cratic) concedes, “but her very ec = nowmir extremity ‘seems to ha brought her to the rule of reason, and- in the opinion of the paper it{ will- perhaps “be wellgworth while. ¢ for -the sake of the resumption of ! world_trade. that the soviet gover: ment be heard at least in some inte national conclave.” i shevist powers are willing to advanc an inch toward a fecling of responsi- | blity for the debt incurred by the| government it succeeded. they m induced to come an ell” Ti H cago News (independent) also feels: that “the conference proposed by the soviet government should be held.” The Marines and the Mails. Using the marines to guard the mails s such & picturesque device that one wonders that it %as not pre- | viously adopted. Its value is obvious, | for it means that there will e in every instance at least one man on duty whose attention will be centered | on the possibility of attack. It will rever be sald that a bandit pene- trated a mail car guarded by a marine and captured it by surprise, for the ones who have hitherto been sur- prised were the busy inail clerks— and the marine will be busv only in watching for invaders. What is equally important, however, in the suppression of crimes of violence is prompt and skilliful pursuit of the bandits, for students of American police methods insist again and again that a Jarge part of blame for the prevalence of crime in this country rests on the shoulders of those who inefectively administer the public de- tective forces. The percentage of crimes whose perpetrators escape without detection is unduly high in the United States, and no amount of prevention and forethought can take the place of effective follow-up work. —Baltimore Sun (independent demo- cratic.) New Enemies at Peking Walls. The ,conflict between: the needs of modeth civilisatipn and the monu- ments of the past, a conflict which has long raged in Europe and Amer- ica, has broken out in the capital of Chin: A corporation has applied for permission to construct a modern st car system in the city, which, it is-sald, would necessitate the de- struction of a large part of the a cient walls, called by the populace “the glory of the city." There are two walls-in Peking, that around the Tartar section of- the north and that inclosing the southern or_Chinese section. Despite the natural reluctance of both natives and foreigners to see this wonderfyl structure®sacrificed. if it Teally stands in the way of mod- ern progress it must go. In the past the walls have defended the city against the armies of the enemy, but they cannot defend it against the in- vasion of wentern idea: It may well be inquired, however, whether the needs of the company really call for the destruction of the walls. Perhaps it would be possible to make special openings for the street cars at wm% intervals, per- haps tunnels would Be made beneath thery. - Often modern _industry is brutally heedless of the interesting monuments of past ages and needs the restraining: force of public opin- jon, perhaps even the law, to teach it the necessity for discrimination and care_in dealing with what it en- 1 counters.—Baltimore” News (indepen- |’ dent). 7 A fool and his money are soon mar- ried.—Columbia ¢S. C.) Record. The country s in a ferment, says a heavy editorial. And most of .it is illegal, too!—Evansvilfe Courier. Sometimes we think our bank must use ubtracting machine instead of an adding machine.—Syracuse Herald. 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