Evening Star Newspaper, November 28, 1921, Page 6

s .[THE p " 'With Sunday Morlng Edition, “ WASHINGTON, D. C." MONDAY. ....November 28, 1081 !uonont_w. nom..‘.wm %o Evening Star Newspaper Company Buitpess Office, 17th 8t. Pennsylvania*Ave, Newr Fork Omce: 150 Nassod Bt First National Baak Bullding. Regent St., London, England. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, Ts dellvered by cartiers within the city at 80 cents per mont 1y, 43 cents por month; 8 , 30 cents per month. gers may be sent by mail, or felephone Aaln 8000. Collection 1s made by carriers at the ad of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Vieginia, Dally and Sunday..1 yr., $8.4 Dail ¥ .1 yr.., $6.00; 1 mo., 50¢ ‘!unguym:»’;yw. 11’;; S,. 1 '.28.. 20¢ AR Other States. Dally and Sunday.1yr. Dally only. 1 Sunday oniy. = The Mall-Ayenue Triangle. A fire which occurred yesterday merning in this city directs attention pointedly to the guestion of the ulti- mate utilization by the government of the land lying between: the Avenue and the Mall, 2d and 15th streets. ‘This area, broadly known as the Mall- Avenue triangle, has been for many years regarded as definitely destined \ for public-building use. A part of it has already been taken. The five blocks on the western end have been purchased by the government, Which only uses a small portion for a tempo- rary “war ‘building.” The Municipal } building occupies one block, the.Post Office Department another, and a square has been. selected within the area for a hall of archives. These suc- cessive acquisitions have been made with strict regard for street lines, and the two permanent public buildings already erected have been planned ‘with reference to them, in a way to permit no expansion save by bridging or finally closing the streets. As a result of the expectation that the government would eventually take all of the land ‘within the triangle, there has been little or ne improve: ment of private property for years. Consequently the southern side -of Pennsylvania ayenue has deteriorated in appearance,” and in character of use, a condition that has necessarily mffected the. other side in certain parts. Instead of being the capital’s most impresafe thoroughfare as its location and tradition compel, - the stretch of a mile and.a third between the Peace Monument and the Treas- ury is in a backward state, despite two impressive public buildings and in the western portion some well de- signed privage business structures. Sunday’s fire brings directly to note the fact that there is no encourage- ment whatever to the owners of pri- vate property on this portion of Penn- sylvania avenue to make improvements suitable to the street, and on the other | hand, a definite discouragement. For the blight of ‘possible .condempation ‘has lain upon the south side for years. and will continue to rest there. It is only right and fair to the city. and to the owners of this property that defi- nite action be taken.. The government has not suffered financially from._the taking of the five squares at the west- ‘”"'H‘ven & pael "EVENING STAR.|Mes= nd ‘yet' the proposition was sub- mitted. by Secretary Hughes, one of the ‘most; emingnt of Amierican lawyers, and has the indorsement of a nation having ‘Mexico’s welfare sin- cerely to heart. S If so mueh has been done without the recognition of the three powers named, how much more might have been dane with it? With the strongest of outside support, President Obregon could put the Mexican house com- pletely in order. % e O Death in & Theatd® Fire. Again the fatal theatar firel. At New I motion picture house Was yesterday the sceng of ai‘blaze and & panic as a result of which three people are dedd and.about eighty in- Jured, some very badly. Most of the injuries were due, to the rush of the ’c_:rnwd for the exits, where congestion occurred. ' Had .perfect order been lmnntalned and had the crowd moved quietly probably all would have es- caped without any harm. There is no suggestion thus far in the dispatches that the exits were not all available. as has been the case heretofore in some instances. Apparently the fire started on the wStage, where realistic effects were | being produced by colored fires and incense to precedé. a picture of the orient. Tt has come to be the practice in some of the motion picture theaters in this country thus to create “atmos- phere” for the higher appreciation of the film drama, but this is the first case of fire resulting from, such & cause. It is opviouply necessary now to assure a rigid Inspection of the stage equipment of the motion .picture houses and a strict regulation of sup- plementary perfermances there. “Hepetofore the chief fire danger in these places has been in the projection booths located at the rear, or the ep- trance end, of ‘the' theater. These booths are now under practically all state laws very well protected, and the fire risks are, furtfermore, lowered by the improvement of projecting appara- tus. Thus motion picture fires, which & few years-ago occurred with sicken- ing frequency, have now become a rarity. i b 4553 Seemingly there is no possible safe- guard against panic. People are trained in the matter of self-control, iare urged to move out quietly at first alarms, are given diagrams of exits. are adjured to walk steadily and slow- ly toward the nearest point of egress, are told that under ‘such conditions they can all leave the theater within two or three minutes. Still when the lery of “Are” arises, and smoke fills 1the auditorium, and especially. when flames, as in New Hgven, shoot out over the heads, a spirit of unreason- ing fear prevails and a mad rush to the doors ensues, in which everybody's chance of escape is lessened and the danger of death is greatly increased. —————————— An Amazing Inquiry. This inquiry is propounded by a man ed, and declares that tkeg French: champion waa ,perfectly fit v&nn he met Mrs. Mallory, and that she was defeated “by agplayer who on that date showed a better brand of tennis.” The trouble with Suzanne, he says, is that she knows how to win but does not know how to lose gracefully. Many a man is afflicted in that.same way. But there is one French sports- man at least—and doubtless there are many others—who has proved a good loser. saying “Carpéntier is a hero in Amer- icd despite his defeat, because he showed grit and went down fighting.” On the ‘whole Suzanne would seem {0 | have had very considerate treatment here, and it is gratifying to hear Capt. de Joannis' words in apprecia- tion of the As-arivan spirit of sports- manship. & ——————— No Quarrel aj Manila. Manuel L. Quezon,”president of the Philippine senate, says in reply to a question that there is no quarrél be- tween the senate and Governor Gen- atal Wood. Certainly not. Why should there be one? Goy. Wood knows the Filipinos, and they~ know him. He served success- {fully in The archipelago some years ago, Hencé his choice for the prin- cipal executive office there at this time of unrest in that part of the world. There ‘s a movement in the islagds, open and undisguised, for indepeNd- ence. Those directing it declare Ao hostility to the United States. On the contrary, they proclaim appreciation of what American control has done for the islands. Nevertheless, they want to establish & government of their own, and, of course, run it. The idea” is not popular in this country. Rather does the opinion pre- vail that the present”is not an au- splelous time for the setting up of a new government in.the far east when the government now there is fynction- ing well and to the advantage of all concerned. . Any new order of things in and for the Philippines would not, of course, be decreed by Gov. Wood. but by Con- gress, on the recommendation of the President, and then only after a full discussion of the situation on informa- tion gathered up to date. Gov. Wood’s duties are of an execu- tive character, and there is every as- surance that he will confine himsell to them, and discharge them in a spirit of Mirness and helpfulness to- ward all in interest. He has the Presi- dent's confidence, and should have the support of all the peoplédin :the archipelago. ————————— Vanishing “Agenda.” “Agenda” is not living, up to the ad- vance notices. For months before the conference on armament limitation met, agenda .cut a wide swath in_ the newspapers-and the publications that come after them, the magazines. ern end in advance of actual building | Prominent in the movement for the Agenda promised to be a conspicuous, work. It has derived a good revenue from the property, and if it took the| whole stretch of ground still remain- ing in private hands it could continue _to secure a good r%:rn pending ac- tual building operations. - This subject shodld be taken up early at the next: session of Congress and studied earnestly, with a view-to finding 'some way whereby the in- equity of continued improvement- checking pre-emption without action may be corrected. N —————— Our Unasusl Autumn. ‘What" has happened to our usually peaceful gutumn? In the past it was & season of known mcods, whose placid course might be charted in advance with practical certainty, so much so that one always 1Soked for- ward to a cold, clear day for ‘the Thanksgiving foot ball games:. At aych and such a day the sky would turn gray, on_such’and such & night the winds would begin to get colder, at such and such-a week there might be a flurry of snow. So went the good old autumns of which the poets sang for more than half a century. But if the “melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year,” resi- dents of the District only know it by. - the calendar. Fall has “taken a fall” Qut of the wisest weather prophets, ing Indian summer with days of ' half-hearted cold, and then topping the whole off with g rain that might have been in season last. May, but is decidedly out of season as December 1 approaches. Even the farmers have no particu- 1ar use for the present rain. The crops are all in, and the farmer would as moon do without it as his city cousin. But it fills the lakes and the rivers, and the urban reservoirs, and washes the streets of the city as no man- directed street-cleaning force can do. It might be well to remember this when the temptation comes to fuss and fume at the weather. i China long relied on philosophy to regulate her policles, but is begin- ning to perceive the difficulties attend- ing efforts td”establish an intelleetual ! aristocracy. i Progress in Mexico. The Obregon government will be a year old Wednesday. This is from & *prees report of conditions in México: A year of Obregon finds a'mation more united and outwardly peaceful than in years still struggling to ar- e its finances, but handicapped ‘7 of recognition by three. great Power: nation making some prog- gll along the lines of reconstruction 1d | reol isation. President Obre- , enjoying better health today he did a year ago, is optimistie, says ‘the sun is slowly but rely breaking through | organization of a new party: Why did not Mr. Hughes frankly {state” that the United States would |adopt disarmament as @& national policy, scrapping every battleship and abandoning poison gas and sub- marine warfare as the first progres- sive steps in bringing this about, as an examplé and precedent for other nations to follow? There are several reasons why Mr. Hughes did not frankly state this. .. The first reason is that he had no authority to make such a statement. He was addressing a conference called not for millennialistic but for practical purposes. Fancy the effect of such a statement, not only on the vigiting delegates, but on the American peo- ple! Mr. Hughes would have made a reputation for audacity or humor, or both, unparalieled in history. ~ | The second reason js that the Sece retary is not a millennialist. He was cho#®n for his office because of a repu- tation for sagacity. he had shown in other offices. The President did no invite an untried man to occupy the Secretaryship of State. The' third reason is that America is not a millennialistie- nation. It has its. feet on the ground now, and pur- poses Keeping them there. ‘There need be no surprise in the fact that the duthor of this amasing inquiry holds to the opinion that both of the old parties are under the con- trol of the same influences. Nor need {the ‘old parties have any fear of a new party organized on the basis of this opinion, and to be directed by tho-a.who entertain it. ————————— ‘The predictions that the next war, if there is to be a next war, will .be the most horrible in history, have the support of the obvious fact that since ‘war first began it has shown & cumu- Iative tendency. ° —_—————— The prosperity and happiness prom. fsed by sovietism have never gotten much farther than the households of Lenin and Trotsky. ——— e Delegates have at least the ndvan- tage of not feeling called upon to|M speak as voluminously as the literary reviewers of the proceedings write.. » ——gi——ateem Complications naturally arise. Creat ing complications to order is a part of the buginess of old-school ‘diplomacy, -* —————— e —— The league of nations:-has all the respect that goes to patience and per- Oh, Fie, Suzanne!. ‘A lively row has been precipltateg: if not the most conspicuous, attendant upon the arms parley. No diplomat could spéak of the coming conference, no near-diplomat could tell the world all t the conference would attempt and accomplish, no reporter ceuld write a quarter column about the yarléy, and no special writer, com- missioner ~ or interpretative writer could rewrite the reporter's quarter column into two columns without in- troducing agenda. Some presented him as “The Agenda.” He was to have a reserved seat at the conference. It geemed that he might be invited 10 & seat on the platform. But, the conference here, very little is heard or seen of agenda. The conferenece talks of discussion,” but seems to have very fittfe use for agerida. There was same- thing-queer about that word from the beginning! P The Indians who visited this city have departed, in the hope, no doubt, that they will be invited to retyrn and add & touch of picturesqueness by in- troducing the pipe-of-peace custom among’ nlqon,. n It will hereafter be pretty generally understood through the world that in orer to qualify as a diplomat'a man must be a good traveler. | s ottt e Great inventions are difficult to ar. rive at, but when they pertain to war getting rid of them is still Though Impudence with Folly thrives, { | And Greed all openly coptrives, To him Capt. de Joannis refers, | of “program,” “‘proposals” and m' _Atthe Arms WGEnue v.lIfHenfi Cabot Lodde ¢ ITERATURE and politics a strange mates. Yet Henry . Cabot Lodge, senior senator from Massachusetts, leader of the republican majority in° the upper {housp, who has become an institution in the republican party, and, indeed, lln the government of the United States, gives as his profession “that of literature.” And Mr. Lodge has made no mistake, in so eharacterlzing his profession. Although his achievementm as & {politician and legislator have over- shadewed his literary career, Mr. Lodge is a historian of note, of easy flowing style as well as of accuracy. His list of published works is a long one, eovering iany subjects of American history—for he has confined land in his writings: The first was published in 1877 and the last in 1917, The writer recently askéd tor Lodge how he happened to “go 1n for politics.” The veteran politiclan—he y with truth be called 0 a statesman—smiled one of his quiszi- cal smiles. Searching back through his truly remarkable memory, he gave g brief description of his en- trance into politics. He had early begun to take an interest in govern- ment. Ho was a republican in the early days of the party. He had at- tended several state and district con- n those days everything done in conventio# and “pri maries” were unheard of. But it w: in 1879 that he was more or less y{l!chlurkofl into a political career. e yvas nominated to run for his dis- triot for the Massachusetts house of representatives. He was in New York at the time, and was notified by tele- graph of his nemination. Much to the surprise of every one, he was elected, for it was a bad year for the republicans. That was his first office. It came unsolicited. But since that time, Mr. Lodge sald, he has been an active candidate for office, and in the years was sometimes de- feat He was elected in 1336 to the natios House of Representativ and twice thereafter. In 1893 he eiected to the Senate of the United - himself to' the history of his own! HENRY CABOT LODGE. est surgeon of his-time, and scores of other men of prominence. Henry Cabot Lodge was a real boy. Iie lived bv the sea and he loved it. When he was thirteen he owned his first sallboat, and sailed it. He swam and hunted and rode horseback and played all the games of boys of those days. This out- door life probably Is responsible for the fact that at the age of seventy- one he Is an outstanding figure in America today, a recognized leader in his party and & member of the American delegation to ‘the ~great conference on the limitation of arma- ment, Though older than Theodore Roose- velt, M. Lodie Was & Warm per- sonal friend of the great Presldent. Both were Harvard men, both were literary and both had similar ideas on_many subjects. When Mr, Lodge became chairman of the Senate committee on foreign relations it may be sald that he had achleved a life’s ambition. For he States; and has been a membr of the! has always been intensely iInterested Senate continuously since that date, In point of continuou ervice he ranks all the other senators today. Senator Lodge Is an exemplifica- tion of the type of cuitured New ¥nglander. This does not mean he has not tasted the joys of life and its sorrows, that he has not roughed it in the open, or that he is pedantic. He ‘was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He inherited wealth. He could have lived-ad idler all his life had he so chosen. But he did mnot He worked hard at his literary work. He studied law for™ the training it gave and even went 80 far as to pass | be his bar examinations His early background in his Massa.- chusetts home was most fortunate. He is a descendant of the Lodges and the Cabol both famili, their marks in the BRay business men and professional men were his amcestors—men of educa- tion and travel. As a boy he saw as intimates at his her's home In Boston Nahang Charles Sumner, the gre: senator and abolitionist Rufus Choate, the eminent lawyer, in international affairs and par- ticularly the relations of America to the rest of the wol Before he entered Harvard, boy of six- teen, he spent a year in Europe with his family. And when he left Har- vard he went back to Europe for the better part of another year. Incidentally, he took a wife with him on the second trip, for he was mar- ried the day after he graduated to Miss Anna Cabot Mills “Davis, daugh- ter of Rear Admiral Davis, U. S. N. In the Senate, during the last twenty-eight years, Mr. Lodge has en a_power in debate and party coun- cil. When he speaks the Senate listens with attention. He is eloguent, clear and forceful. He speaks aimost inva- riably without notes. The last few, ears when he has had to carry the urden of republican leadership in the Senate—a heavy burden particularly during the fight -over the Versailles peace treaty and the league of nations covenant—Mr. has been at times sarcastic and_ irritable, sed if crossed. But few served in the Senate have been more Motley, the historian; Agassiz, Long- | highly regarded than the Massachusetts fellow, Dr. Henry Bigelow, the great- " senator. “EDITORIAL DIGEST The Status of Submarines. ‘Whether there shall be unlimited sub- marines, or no submarines at all, or submarines for defemse only, is not, in the opinion of the Akron (Ohio) Bea- fcon-Journal (republican), precisely a subject for .discussion, for this paper regards our policy as having been de- fined when “during the war our State Department laid down the proposi- tion ® ® * that the merchant ship shall have the right to carry arms for defensive purposes” and “that the sub- marine must, in regard to merchant ships, exercise the right of search as a precedent to seizure or, de- struction,” which, the Baltimore News (independent) states, ‘a submarine could not observe,” and that, therefore, “the fact of their use was a crime. We went to war partly to vindicate that belief. We won the war. We have not yet vindicated that belief. ¢ ¢ * To fail mow to do our utmost to put an end to them would be a gross neglect of an imperative duty.’ Mainly the discussion, unlike_ that uoted above, hinges upon Mr. - four's suggestion that submarines, if they must be retained .in navies, limited to coast defense. The New York imes (independent, democratic) thinks “no case can be made out for the use of the submarine against mer- chantmen.” and the New York Herald (independent) finds the ‘“‘only, possible excuse” for using it at all is’that “it costs less than honest ships.” Even this doubtful advantage, however, would seem to be offset by the Louisville Courfer - Journal (democratic), which points out that “many countries which cannot afford capital ships mizht well l!vo large numbers of submarines,” an jdea further slaborated by the New York World’s (democratic) observation hat, although the five powers might an_sgreement not to build these boats, “that would mot prevent some third-rate power from building submarines, and through them obtain- ' ! »e | ints had by far the better part In the argument.” The Charleston (S. C.) News Courier (democratic) believes should be possible to abolish subm: rines; and their abglition would do more to promote peace among the ‘western powers than the abolition of capital ships. * ¢ ¢ Mr. Hughes plan is mainly an economic measure and, important as the economic problem is, it is not as important as the peace preblem,” an observation which is seconded by the Pittsburg Dispatch (independent), which urges that “if we want peace let us go after it, instead of merely. trying to modify war d the chances of it and “outlaw the submarine, the bombing plane, poison gases and all the inventions of hell.” But What Is China? The four principles written by Elihu Root and adopted by the Wash- ington conference are the swift and ready recognition of the new Chinese declaration of independence, China is to have her chance. Her territory, her sovereignty and independence are guaranteed. Special privileges to no nation and equal rights for all have been decreed. These four principles follow and lock with the ten proposals of the Chine: On broad and basic principles the confédfence has reached the heart of the far east problem, which is China. The principles are broad and basic; so broad, in fact, that they may n_ everything or they ml{ mean nothing. The time comes when details must be worked in; the sordid, painstaking, exasperat- ing details. It is then that the trad- ing, nibbling and sweating begin. Territorial guarantees will serve as instance of what is coming. Chinese territory has been guaran- teed. Very well, but just what is China? Shall China be held to include Mon- golia, Manchuria, Tibet and Chinese ‘Turkestan, these “buffer states” of the old empire? How far back shall we g0, we white {and brown looters, in restoring the says thal “self-interest has prompte Great Britain to ask the delimitation of submarine armament,” the It Journal-News (independent) thinks the request ‘“is mot incompatible: with th interests of this country and can read- be assented to.”” The Dayton News (democratic) states that the chief ob- Where is the man whom it woula[snd oth please To quaff the cup of Socrates? For lite is sweet, though Truth is dear. They who in comfort linger here learn to smile and to endure And be content to rest dbscure. .. Brief Disappointment. - “I. ‘understand some of your econ- stituents disapproved of your latest speech.” i but the most of them didn’t even pay enough atteption to find fault.” Juq’ Tunkins says: some men don’t get very faf in expressing ideas be- cause they havé devoted too much of their lives to learning long words. to| determination.” these coasts with submarines.” “The submarine is the acknowl. edged instrument of outlaw warfare, as gre brass ‘knuckles, knock-out drops and sawed-off shotguns of pro- fessional crooks,” says the Pitts- burgh Chronicle Telegraph (repub- lican), but the Boston 'l‘rlnlcl11! (independent "unubl’!au)a tmn s it come to V" e it for America “the submarine is an indis- pensable defensive - weapon,” ‘while the Springfield (Mass.) Union (re- publican) cautions the “American blic” to “give its to. &c Hnn% aropo-mon.' The Bt. s Globe-Democrat (re- ublican) concedes that “it may not B ble now to abolish tl ne &8 & means of defense, with the - Manchester their bases and so take part in & naval war of offense.” only excuse for .the submarine .says the Buffall lican), which thinks thaf ifacture of to o it rpedoes 0~ submarine,’ ar l‘l'!l the opll:i?:n ‘ Trib 3 urnal. and une since “the _civilized peop! d | coun oy et loot we have looted? Now that we are “reforming,” shall we give it all back or shall we plead that long own- lership. gives -title and invoke the| maxim that “possession is nine points in law”? In other. words, how far ble‘l: shall the statute of limitations run? This territorial -guarantes may be 88 harmless as warm milk or it be as disturbing as dynamite or “self- ‘This limitation, de- limftation and map-searching of the Chinese hinterlands is going to.be in- teresting.—Philadeiphia PublioLedger (independent), Civil Power Paramount. That-is an. interesting story com- ing from Washington to the effect that Ameriean naval experts are not to be permitted to determine or in- fluence any of the policies involved in the armament conference, They are merely to ascertain and report upon facts when called upon.- American delegation, it is said, serves to itself the privilage of shap- ing policles according to its own conoeption. This attitude, we believe, is in full acoord with public opinion. If the world never . achieved reduction of armaments until the step was pro= moted by military experts, chances are that each nation would be to the limit when Gabrlel should :znnfl h ‘The millt in terms of the: exercise of force. It is therefore lukewarm toward the limitation of its power, Germany was organized od & mili- basis and dominated by the mili- before plunging to her de- lon. - §ha resolutely refused even to consider projects of dissrmament. 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