Evening Star Newspaper, November 15, 1921, Page 6

- 8¢ il THE EVENING STAR, 2 "“With Sondsy Morning Edition. , WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY....November 15, 1021 . THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor or ship must be:enlarged In’propor- tion. . has opened the ball in wuch startling and interesting terms, the conference . Battleship costs have increased in & | has taken on a grester ImportAnoe Be- disproportionate scale to the tonnage. Naval construction. is not simply a question of proportionate expansion. A 35,000-ton battlesbip costs more than twice as much as a 17,600-ton The Evening Siar Newspaper Company | ship. Thus in' proposing an .estab- Bosisens Ofice, 1ith 8t. and Pennaylvania Ave. New York Office: 190 Nassau Kt. Chicago Office: Vit National Bisk Sullding. European Office: 3 Regent t., London, Engls: ith the Sunday morn! W 20 h. b 5000. jection_is made by at the 8ot each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dafly and Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1 mo., 70¢ Daily* only. 1y ;”’“: 1mo., 30c Sunday oni; 1yr., $2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 85c Daily only... b4 .00; 1 mo., 60c Sunday oniy. yr. $3.00}1mo., 25c ——e T .. A Uniyersity of Citizenship. President Harding yesterday per- formed'a valuable public service when, in his speech at the ceremony of lay- ing the corner stone of the National Victory Memorlal, he directed the at- tention af the American people to a view of George Washington not made the subject of close study. Taking as nfs @t the will of Washington, a copy of which was appropriately plgted.in the corner stone of the bufld- ing carriers within the city glally only, 45 cents per 2- lished limit of s'ze the Amercian dele- gation has moved definitely in the di- . | rection of an immense economic sav- ing. . Size competition has been agfactor in war provocation. Just prior to the great war England and Germany were engaged in a battle of naval designers, which kept the people of those two cause of them. The meeting did not lack for importance before, but since the Secretary's speech more &ttention than ever centers in armaments and the far east and the Pacific problems. M. Briand came to America for only @ brief stay. Will: this-change in the aspect of things affect his plans? France has not the same or as much concern about'the conferénce as Great Britain, but still is not without con- siderable concern, and M. Briand is here as the French premier supported by & -vote of confidence cast by the chamber of deputies almost on the eve countries keyed up to the expectation |of his departure from home. that eventually, perhaps soon, the rival masterpiecas of construction ‘would meet in battle. It may be that the limit proposed in the Hughes plan is too high, that 385,000-ton ships are larger than neces- sary far purposes of pacific defense. But that is a question for later con- sideration, The important point for the present is that this plan carries the limitation principle to the point where immensie savings can be effect- ed In the matter of naval design and the insurance against war increased by checking the tonnage race. \ The Red Cross Roll Call. The annual “roll call” of the Amer- ican Red Cross, which opened on ing that is to rise as a national tribute | Armistice day and is scheduled to con- o0 him and to all who have since him |tinue until Thanksgiving, is well served in the wars of the United |timed. The minds and the hearts of States, the President in the brief | America are filled with memories of phigsdology ™ that marks his public | the war. Events, crowding fast one utterances, asks consideration for ‘Washington on his personal and pri- vate side, “a very model of good eiti- zenship.”s: « of the chief provisions in the will 6#-Washington was a fund for the endowment of a university in a cen- tral part of the United States. Such a upiversity has not been created upon this foundation. An educational {nsti- tutich pearing his name now thrives at the capital, but without the aid of the’funds left by the first President. It bas remained, as the President stated. . yvesterday, for the patriotic’ women.and men to whom this vic*ory fiow begun is due to make an institution which expresses ‘Washington's impelling thought. The purpose of this memorial is to provide a, gathering place for Americans, where American minds can “meet in fruitful exchanges.” Thus, as the Priésidetit suggests, this institution located at the National Capital may become 1in its varied uses a veritable university of American citizenship. The victory memorial for which the President yesterday bespoke the sup- port Qf the American -people will be the place where their representatives will chiefly meet, to consider an in- finite variety of problems, to discuss every conceivable question of public welfare. The city of Washington has become the meeting place for all the ngtione, ut unhappily it has yet to be ‘equipped with a proper assembly vidldifig, -Now, through this enter- prise, which the President yesterday inadgilrdted, it will have the means to house thousands in assemblage, and from week to week and year to year these meetings' will_constitute in the hest ‘Sense that university for the cul- tivation - of good “citizenship which Washington desired. e Y¢S - Plain Talk. T Haval proposals of the United Sml_e are publicly approved through- out"thé world. They are really ep- provéd by the vast majority of the veople .of the United States and the mass sentiment of other countries ap- proyes. The great surprise was that at ‘thg, outset of the conference a di- rect and definite proposal, embodying the rather vague hopes and desires of the’wAmrerican people should be laid down bluntly as a working basis. It . *“called” all those “interests” which might want much talk and little “‘do.”” It was a surprise in that the Amer- icgn public is incredulous toward of- fidal cofiferences. We have known few’ such ronferences that turned out othér- thap “resolves” and reports and did other than postpone hope. Secre- targ;, Hughes knows this, and he struck the. popular thought more stréhgly and squarely than any other public:man has done in a long time whén “he ‘said in effect: “We can no lofigei dontent ourselves with investi- gations, With statistics, With reports, vgtsx',flle circumldcation of inquiry. TH ssential- facts are sufficiently known. The time has come, and this confegepce .has; been called not for general resolutions or mutual advice, but for:action:” W The results of the conference may enable the distinguished visitors to feet:that they have gone even further than Christopher Columbus himself in bringing abbut the discovery of a new world. e By giving out the big mews on the opening day, danger of leakage-is ef- feppnlly-avoided. A Fheck on Naval Monsters, The American plan of naval arma- mept Hmitatlon includes one feature that has been somewhat obscured in the enthusiasm with which the pro- posal was recelved, but which de- serves patticular consideration. One of thé- ftems in Secretary Hughes' project is that no capital ship o more than 35,000 tons displacement shall hereafter be constructed. Thus the limitation runs not only to the point of numbers of ships but their size. Durfng recent years—in ‘fact, for a go0d many years—a race in naval shipbuilding has been in progress. Fach, power has sought to reach a higher peint in tonnage and gunpower . than that scored by any. other. The. maval monsters of thirty. years ago are; now small craft compared with the superdreadnaughts and battle cruisers of today. There is apparently no physical limit to the enlargement of the: fighting unit. Navdl engineers and designers will not admit that the laws of stress put a barrier u the safe dimensions of steel construction. This compelition for larger ships of war, is ‘dus ‘to the prevailing beltef that larger the vessel the more formidabie. - This is due to the increase of gun ¢libprs, apd Mmasmuch as lepigth and weight of gun increase upon the other, have given the lie to the assertion that here we have been swift to forget the tragic lesson of yesterday. And it is natural that, as America thinks of those'terrific days and of their effect upon the future, our thoughts should include thie Amer- ican Red Cross. s The history of the war service of those who, under an insignia which has become the world-wide symbol far succor rendered in pity and under- standing and friendship., demands no rehearsal. The memory thereeof is still fresh. The truths which today de- mand the attention of the nation are other than those which concern - the Red Cross and the war. They deal with the achievements of the organi- zation since the return of the Amerl- can armies from overseas. For it is upon this basis, rather than upon the capitalization of its war record, that the support of the public for the fu- ture must be sought. And with its record for the past year in its hands the Red Cross justly sounds its roll call for the year which is ahead with pride and confidence. That record establishes the fact that during each month of the year in question th® Red Cross has been in touch with an average of 129,215 ex- service men and their families. It} | shows that today the organization is providing service costing $10,000,000 a year to veterans of the war; that 1,163 nurses have been furnished the public health service; - that 500,445 children have been inspected for phys- ical defects and means of their cor- rection. recommended; that $8,000,000 has-been contributed to the starving children. of Eurgpe and 3,000,000 gar- ments made for distribution among } thern: that $500,000 n rellef has been sent to famine-stricken China; assist- ance rendered in seventy disasters in the United States and 260 health cen- ters established throughout the coun-. try. That record is the recommendstion ot the American Red Cross for the continued support of the. nation. Dedlcdted to “the service of those who suffer,” the. organization is no less splendidly equipped for the needs of today and tomorrow than it was-for | thosd of the yesterdays in which its {workers won the heartfelt gratitude {of America for war services faithfully and heroically performed. Washing- tonians, together with their fellow citizens throughout the country, can- not but make hearty response as the roll is called. - et ————— A stone inscribed with Egyptian hieroglyphics, dfscovered in Palestine, is attracting sclentific attention. Its interest is considerable, but not great enough to ‘divert popular attention from the piece of copy that the able confefence reporter is tearing off the typewriter. ettt It would be a beld delegate who would be willing_to allow it'to telegraphed home that he was op- posed to lightening the bufden of the taxpayer and in.favor of costly war machinery. 5 e — e "It has‘long been the Gustom of Col. ‘Willlam Jennings Bryan to cheer long and sincérely whenever any persbn of prominence put ih & good word for the dove of peace. . e S The hit scored by Secretary Hughes call for renewed congratulations for President Harding on.his able discern. ment in selecting a cabinet. ————— The hard winter that has long been expected will not be 80 much feared now that the important proceedings can be conducted indoors. e e ‘Without being satisfled that they go far enough, Senator Borah is willing to admit that the delegates ‘are on the right track. 4 Interest in the Conference. This iz from a London cable: The_ negotiations among British, Sinn Fein and Ulster officials regard- ing the futyre of Ireland have now entered & stage in which the negotia- tors are talk nx of intermittent con- ferences extending over months in. steads of weeks. The chief interést this possibility has at the moment is that it promises to make impossible an early yisit of Prime Minister Lioyd Georga to w‘nhlnfion as'he hoping to do all importance ment is assuming great in English public and official spheres, because the Washington conference has studdenly attained proportioms jn British e of an event of tremefi- dous and-absorbing significance. « As respects British interests ‘before the conference, the presence in Wash- ington of so accomplished ‘end ex- perienced a negotiator as Mr. Baifour is much. He is entirely at homé in his At.the sams time it is easy, tP un- derstand the féeling-in Kngland.' Mr. Lloyd George's place is here, and ss- pecially in the light of the Américsn oxifigyr the fosting piatform] it in the proceedings. Mr, Hughes| 3 The gossip about M. Clemenceau, his present oecupation and purposes, is very contradictory. One story has it, that he is on the eve of re-entering journalism, &t the head of a paper of his own. Another story has it'that he has written his last article for the daily press. He is desirous of re-entering par- liamentary life. ¥e. 'has ‘taken per- manent leave of that life—has had enough of “the gentle art” of over- turning ministries, and in turn of having ministries of his own upset. He is writing e history of the war, and particularly that part of the great struggle in which as the premier of France he participated. On the con- trary he will leave that topic to others. His war record he thinks will' bear examination, and he has no desire ta explain or interpret any portion of it. The latest story has- it that M. Clemenceau is engaged in. writing a book which is to cover the leading per- formances of his long life as jourhal- ist, as literary man and as legislator. ‘Three years will be necessary to com- pleté the work, and if he should dle before its completion the manuscript left behind is to be destroyed. Let us hope this latest story is true. M. Clemenceau, being an octogenarian whose versatility has led him far in several directions, has had a varied ex- perience, and if so inclined now has an gbsorbing' story to tell. A great many books are pouring from the | press, but such a book from him would take a place among the best sellers anywhere, 'everywhurs. in England and America as well as in France. Surprising! Women often do the most surpris: ing things. It.is. because of the sur- prises they spring on man that he cannot understand them at all. New ‘women-—college women—seem given to eccentricities. Here comes in the news a plan of college women,'to economize by renovating last winter's hats far wear this season. Women have been known to practice strict economy in the buying- of groceries and to lay down lhiard rules in economy for their husbands, and some women have carried to a fine art the making- over of dresses, but when & woman es- say# economy in hats the -he-world stands astounded! In the home eco- nomics division of & western univer- sity the women are putting”to “use recipes for reblanching white felt) hats, cleaning velvet hats, renovating beaver hats, reshaping all kinds of hats, freshening - and . brightening feathers and artificial flowers, work- ing up yarn into hat trimmings and making tessels out of odds and ends at home:’ Very surprising! i After Mr. Hylan's experience a New York candidate is likely to bave about as much respeot for the political editorial writers as a ‘“rayvoo"” man- ager has for the dramatic critics. \ Motion pleture ~financlers. would doubtless be restrained by ethical con- siderations from selling tickets for court proceeding; even if such e thing ‘were possible. g i It was announcéd as the conference on the limitation .of armament, and the Secretary of Btate took it for granted that the title.meant just what it sajd. i Any fears on the part of Mr. Edison that the conference might develop:, into a questionnaire contest must by’ “be | this time be hopefully modified. 7/ The world in. general has apparent- 1y decided that the time has come to make up its mind whether it will work or fight. . SHOOTING STARBS. - BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. . .. Otherwise, I'm glad I do not know es much As old-Doc Braney does. %18 His brain mysterious heights will tou ‘When it begins' to buzz. He says the fuel will give out And alt the earth grow cold. He also says there 18 & doabt, , If wars can be contrplled. He says that many a broken heart ' And many a shattered dfeam, Must just be counted as a part’ Of the Eternal Beheme. The Doc himself does not seem sad Such mournful things to see. But just the same, I'm rather glad I'm not as wise as he. 7 Proxy. “Your secretary is a rather pompous n,” remarked the old friend. “Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum, “I am a plain, simple sort'of person my- gelf, and I have to kesp somebody sround to convey/dn imprassion of the {mportance’ of'my official position.” Jud ‘Tunkins says an envious man suffers so much that while you can’t admire him you got to sympathize with him. ik At war we now begin to scoff. . ‘With the inventions up to date, 1f.everybody i# killed off, - Who will be left to jubilate? - down to her ankles.” ., . < “Humph!” ' conimented’ Miss Cay- It s & world conference for fair, and when it gets into its stride is like- ly to transact business of the highest | o caonsequence to the world. . The Latest About Clémenceau. Editorial Digest Hanged Without Trial? ‘When Senstor Tom Watson of Geor+ gla charged that American’ soldiers had’ ‘beer ‘ hanged witheut trisl™in France by order of autocratic officers he started a flood of comment. Un- bound by ‘senatorial courtesy, ‘the press makes such references s “ranipant crank,”” by the Nashvills Hanner , (independent); f‘eccentric Character,” by the Racine Journal- News_(republican tormy petrel of Georgla lfllcl?') by gh,ny.l 1lle Gasette (republican); “soc! the Portland Oregonian (in republigan); “rgdica),” by ti Metropolis ‘(flomocrnlo).fn list or a’ bolshevist:" by the BrooKfyn Eagle . (independent democratic). “Ever ready with sation and never ready with evidence,” charges e Cincinnatl Commercial-Tribune (republican). ‘The Baltimore Ameri- ponu- can (republican) conce Georgia senator is brains. ® ¢ * He {8 and ® ® ¢ whether can pi case or not, he does demonstrate the ability to cloud it sufficiently with & verbal smoke screen to ssve his oratorical skin’ The Boston Herald {independent republican) condemns both the time and place of such ut- noes: ‘SBenator Watson -has been saying the same .thing on the stump and in the papers he controls. But he.says it now just when & distinguished in- ternational gathering is about to con- yene in ashington; he utters the infamous charge {n a place and under circumstances that make it necessary either to vindicate his facts or retract his slander.” “Mr. Watson is so sure he has made a startling discovery,” says the Kan- sas City Times (independent), “that he” won't lay his information before a Senate Investigation committee, but insists upon disclosing it by the ve- hicle of oratory, which, as everybody ‘knows, Is the weightiest form of evi- ‘dence.” The BSpringfield Republican ‘(independent) sums up Mr. atson “in - eighteen words,” thus: “First, pefer charges: second, render judg- ment;"third, change your mind only when the accised has proved his in- nocence.” - Some papers are ready with a sen- tence for Mr. Watson. The Charles- ton News and Courier (democratic) thinks he *“should be expelled from the Senate forthwith,” and that in- vestigation is unnecessary. Most of the papers, however, would give Mr. (Watson a chance to make good his cl%.r.sa‘; hol‘bn.nmm-ry action. n ssing * from. the sepator to his chargpe’s, the v‘x‘-‘uéhh mous in_ demanding that “they be sifted. “It is due the American sol- diers and officers that definitely stated specifications be offered by the acousing party,” is the verdict of the b’l{chhur' News (démocratic). Con- ‘cading that there were “hardships in France” and “discriminations and in- uctic the Aberdeen (8. D.) World (Independent) belleves “the country is entitled to disbelleve until proof is forthcoming,” and the Wilmington (N. C.) 8tar (democratic) characterizes his utterance as either a “gross slan- der” or a ‘“startling truth which should be substantiated beyond doubt.” “The only question now be- fore the Senate,” affirms the Mobile Register (democratic), "is whether it is.best to find the answer or dror the issue, leaving the American public in ternative is not to the dark. ‘The Chattanooga e The be thought of."” News (democratic) finds it “not ex- actly easy to understand the attitude of ‘senators respecting the alleged disclosures. ® ¢ * Nearly everybody seems disposed to back away from the’ proposition.” “Watson's scase, if he has one, should be established by witnesses under oath, and the Senate has ample power to carry such & pro- ceeding through,” says the Detroit Free Press (independeat). The Bir- minghath Age-Herald (independent democratie) admlits that “such atroci- tles as Senator Watson mentions could have occurred and could Have been kept @ secret,” a circumstance which causes the St. Louis Globe- Democrat -(republican) te remark that “not & few men are still on the ‘missing’ list. ® ¢ ¢ What an an- guished thought fniy be thrust by To.gld wffiilon'lb Ioon( '-ll)l‘k ::xml'll‘he mid of members o o es “Many to -which they belonged.” things happened Iin the Army in France of which the public knows nething. This may be one of them. e o o The public ought to know the truth one way or the other,” states the' Pittsburgh Leader (progressive republican). America’s “Unknown.” The unknown soldier has come home, and in his coming has made universal the senss of exaltation, gratitude and pride which kinsmen and fellow-townsmen have In honor- ing’ their unknown dead. The whole nation, mourning in solemn and unit- ed recognition of a sacrifice which it has'shared with other nations, through those whom this unknown soldier represents, has reached a new, and, for the moment, cloudless height, whence to catch a glimpse of Ameri- ca’s duty to her dead, whose worth, having displayed itself in deeds, can be :sufficiently rewarded only “by honors also shown by deeds.” ‘An old Danube song bas the refratn: “Then the sgldier spoke from his deep, dark grave: ‘T am content.’ If this can be the voice from the grave of the nameless soldier in Arlington as .the morrow -of the conference dgwns and the new -chapter in the wof]d's history begins to be written, then the supreme glory wil indeed have come near his dust.”—New Y?l‘k Times (independent democrat). No such honors were ever paid to any other American as those accorded to’ the mute and nameless clay of this, obscure citisen who “gave the 1ast’ full measure of devotion.” Again, “4t “{s altogether fitting and proper” that it should be so. But what did he dle for? Can the American pepple_today honestly and singerely answer that question? Can they say that-they have dedicated themselves to’ his unfinished work? . they say that they have shown devotion to the cause for e the supreme sacrifice? our months had elapsed tle. of Gettysburg to the ‘which Abraham Lincoln uttéred t dead shall not have died in vain.” Three yeers have el since * the last shot was fired on the Argonne front and the signing of the armi- stice b t the hloodshed of the world war to an end. Lincoln's pledge was redeemed by the American peo- ple. The nation, under God, did have a;new bl of_ freedom. Government of the people, by the-people, for the -{ people did not perish from the earth. e greatest experiment in self-gov- e o world had ever knawn met the' ultimate test of all government. Can it be sald’ tbday that any of the pledges made. by the American people themselves, or in their name, when_this unknown scldier went to war, have boatr. eemed? Can they say that they. still highly d that their dead shall not have died in vain? This day, 'if its meaning is not to be lost, is a day for the search- ing. an@ the sifting of the American heart—New York World (democrat). What_ought to bé unknown is war. —New York Tribune. ernment._ that To be a. italist is a crime; not toxge one °i‘s“’.‘:gnlltlllle.—',Ctmum:u (8. 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