Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1921, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR. o+ With Sunday Morning Edition. ) pi WASHINGTON, D. C. - ‘THURSDAY. . .December 15, 1921 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Ofice. It 8¢ iand Penusylvania Ave. e New Yor Nassau St. Chicago Office: First National Bank Buflding. European Ottice: 3 Regent St.. London, England. 5 The Evening Star, with the Sunday mornlog editlan Ta delivered by carriers within the city &t 60 centx per month; duily only, 45 cents prr month: Sunday only. nts per month. Or- dors may be went by mall, or telephone Main 8090. Colicetion 18 made by carriers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. #i Maryland and Virginia. Dail S ay "'!’)lll; .onr;IXy unday 2 © ‘Sunday only 1yr..$ All Other States. Dally and Sunda; Daily on: J 7. Our Fiscal Revolution. . . .The Senate vesterday in haste and| ‘without warning revolutionized the “' fiscal relations of nation and capital, . reversed its own traditional policy, *.which it had reaffirmed very rccently in its action upen the Mapes bill; re- pealed by indirection the half-and-half ovision of the act of 1878 and sub- / stituted for it an indefinite and fluc- A tuating relation between the national and local contributions toward capital ' maintenance and development. This action withdraws by indirvec- tion the nation's deflnite pledge of capital maintenance and development | which is the vitally important feature of the act of 1878, upon which the wonderful upbuilding of the nation's i city in the last forty-three years has been based. " This repeal by indirection is solely “'destructive legislation and in no re- spect constructive. It tears down the old financial and governmental tem by destroyving one of its vital sup- ports, but builds up no new structure, in its place. It destroys the safeguard _yagainst unfair taxation of the unrep- , Tresented District by alien tax imposers ‘which the half-and-half law, or an s+ definite proportionate contribution law, furnishes, and provides no other safe- guard in its place. s This bill in its provision concerning “ ‘the District surplus, éreated under the “half-and-half law through the neglect of Congress to meet on the 50-50 basis < .urgent municipal needs of the years . When the taxes were collected, ap- ! plies the new indefinite proportionate system retroactively to this surplus. ‘This action in effect confiscates the amount equal to the surplus which TUncle Sam, in accordance with the law under which the surplus was col- lected, is morally bound to provide. Whatever fiscal relation between - nation and capital is fixed for the future, this surplus ought to be ap- plied in accordance with the half-and- _ half law, under which it was accumu- lated, to meet neglected municipal needs of the war period, which neglects permitted its accumulation. Preferably, apply it in a lump, duplicated under the half-and-half law, to some great * and urgent public improvement which requires for economical and speedy « ‘completion a much larger amount than can be spared from current rev- enues after providing for essential current maintenance; like, for exam- ple, the bringing up to date of our school buildings in number and equip- ment, a need demanding millions of immediate expenditure; or increase of .-water supply, an urgent vital need requiring millions to meet it. The —-surplus merely represents money that ought to have been applied in the past as the District’s proportionate contribution toward meeting the needs to which the Comr-'ssioners have s‘called attention, anu. failing to be thus applied in the past, it ought to *“be devoted now to meet the District’s kalf of these accumulated unmet needs. The books of the past should be balanced on the half-and-half basis ~-pefore the new svstem is applied. The provision that District taxation 478hall be “reasonable” sounds reason- _zble. It is to be remembered in warning that what is “reasonable™ in taxation is to he determined by legis- lators some of whom have indicoted that no local taxation is reasonabie which leaves any national tax money “to be paid toward capital mainte- nance:-and others of whom view no local tax as reasonable which does ot apply to the capital taxpavers every form of tax which is utilized in any American city in their state or “district. These cities have each r a specific amount of money to and they raise it by applving in eac ~ ease the forms and rates of taxatic which thev prefer. No city applie 211 forms of taxation or fixes the hi; est rates in respect to all the forms "~ of taxation which it exacts. But the tendency i for each city to urge that all its forms and rates of taxation he applied to Washington. with an ob #¢viously unreasonable and hankrupting gesult. For our encouragement it is to bhe remembered that whenever the Dis- trict hos had the opportunity to dis cuss tax®conditions thoroughly and in detail in comparison with other ci before ‘any congressional tribunal that 1ribunid has found that it was alread- paying reasonable taxes. It was when the congressional joint fis al committee of 1915 made its exhaustive investigation and report. It was so when the Mapes bili was considered by the House District committee, an actual i of its memhers de- strict taxation at that time to be reasonable. It was so when the Senatc appropriations committee gave the latest hearing to the represent- -~ atives of the District. It will be o whenever full and thoughtful crusideration is given to the facts. e en in these times, when our cities are still staggering under the burden of excessive war taxation, soon, it is hoped. to be materially reduced. Presidential Messages. Congress will hear from the Presi- dent on matters as they ripen. How often, depends. There are many mat- ters, and they will not all ripen at once. = The Constitution prescribes that *he shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union, and recommend to their qonsideration such measures as he C | se shall judge necessary and expedient. ‘The message sent on the second day of the regular session stmply started the ball rolling. A session of six months is the ordinary calculation. It may run longer. With factionism stirring in the ranks of the majority, and the situation outside Congress confused and unstable, the progress of business on Capitol Hill may be slow. A message from the President now and then on a particular subjegt should, and probably will, act as an accelerator—as a hurry-ap call. Congress will not consciously loat on its job. Many of its members are vitally interested in speed. Desirous | of re-election, they will "want to close { their desks in Washington and take personal charge of their campaign as soon as possible. As the leader of his party, the Pres- ident is not likely to address Congress out of season, or fail to address it in { scason. He will want results both for {the party's e and the country’s { sake, and be certain to ask for them at the times he thinks most propitious. { Another Postponement. Once more the appropriation for plans for Memorial bridge goes out iof a bill in conference. The $25,000 item added by the Senate to the de- ficiency bill has been discarded in this manner. and so the great project is again halted. But it is not to be accepted that this settles the case. A new bridge across the Potomac to { connect the capital with. Arlington | was never more definitely known to necessary than today. The need received a recent demonstration every member of Congress must have felt. Many of the members must have been personally caught in the jam on the Highway bridge, serv-\ ing a munication with Arlington on Armi stice day. No matter what the fault of the safeguards or the inadequacies of regulation of the tisffic on that day, the fact is clearly apparent that on occasions of great public assem- blage at the national cemetery the existing bridge crossings are insuf- ficient. - The Memorial bridge is to be wrged for early undertaking,. not only ‘on | the ground of the physical accommo- dation of the people, however. It 18 demanded as an expression of a ha tional sentiment that is now predom- inant. When it was first proposed, | many years ago. to symbolize the re- {union of the sections once riven by conflict, that reunion had not been as complete and substantial as it was !later demonstrated. The war with {'Spain gave unmistakable proof of the j restoration of American unity, and at Arlington now lie the bodies of men of both north and south who fell in that war. Since then the great war kas been fought, and again in the soil at Arlington lie the bodies of men of all the states. There, too, have been interred the remains of Confed- erate dead, and thus Arlington has become itself a memorial to reunion. Postponement for financial reasons is a habit too often manifést in mat- ters of important works. Already at least a quarter of a century has passed since this project was first advocated, gnd another quarter cen- tury may slip by if the same pro- crastination prevails at the Capitol. It this were merely a plan for a| statue, a monument, an exclusively artistic expression of national senti- ment, there might be some warrant for repeated postponements. But here is a physical requirement that will grow greater annually as the city grows, as the tide of national visita- tion increases, and as Arlington de- velops as the great American pan- theon. Inasmuch as the present item just rejected is merely for plans only, it might well be pressed for adoption on some other measure to which per- haps it is more distinctly appropriate than to a deficiency bill. 1 be | has ! which Cloture and the Senate. ‘ When a sort of cloture was decreed for the Senate, to become operative when supported by a two-thirds vote, a considerable change in Senate pro- cedure was made. That is to say, a considerable change was made pos- sible. The rule has been but seldom in- yoked. It is really not popular. The old rule of unlimited debate was s0 long in use, breaking away from it rather goes against the grain. still, the authors and advocates of the new rule stand by it, and are even trying to strengthen it. An amendment is to be urged after the holiday recess making the rule op- erative when supported by a majority vote. In the House unlimited debate Would interfere with a satisfactory transac- tion of business. The body ‘is so large that a few men skilled in parlia- mentary maneuvering could hold it up at their, pleasure. Indeed, it was the occasional practice of that sort of thing that brought cloture in the House into existence. As the Senate is only a fourth the size of the House, debaters there can be allowed greater indulgence without | menace to measures. A lively contest is promised when this matter is brought up.™ There are senators who assert that the Senate| should again become, as for a very| leng time it was, “the refuge of the] minority.”” They are opposed to clo- ture under any circumstances, and want free speech, and as much of it as speakers care to indulge in. ————r—————— There are moments in the news when the headliners regard the diplo- mats of thé world as ranking equally in importance with the leading motion picture stars. ;- —_——————— Women are participating in strike | activities in Kansas. The ballot is evidently not to be regarded as the final test of the equality of the sexes. ——t————e Japan. A cable to The Star from Tokio says: The prince regent, fulfilling the pre- diction " that he would prove to be independent and progressive, has re- tired a score of the elder officials in the imperial household and has re- placed them with younger men, It is also announced that automobiles will replace carriages at the imperial palace. The change from the horse to the automobile is a recognition of the value of speed. The young ruler evi- { most excellent selection in all respects the sole means of public com- ?venient place of residence and busi- dently i3 a convert to the principje of “get there,” and will probably’ show the influence of his eonversion in far weightier matters thap that of irans- portation. And why not? Japan has taken a place in the front rank of natfons, and the spirit of “get there” inspires all of them. She must keep up with, or drop out of, the proeession. ‘When -the young ruler was called to authority some of the occidental comment pointed out how! fortunate as to time his swing around the European circle had been. Just in time! Had the execution of the plan been delayed, the young man would not have been able to |eave home. The likelihood is that the whole matter had been- arrangsd in ad- vance—the foreign trip and then in g briet time after the completion of the journey thé calling of the young man to authority. Things as impor- tant as that are not accidental in Japan, but are carefully thought out and worked out. | Japan in many matters is thor- oughly up to date, and will soon be.so in all matters, as the company in which she is now traveling will have| numerous occasions to note. —_———— A Helpful Citizen. Appointment of former Representa- tive James T. Lloyd as a member of the board of education is mot only a| satisfactory to the community, but it ! notes the fact that Washingon gains in helpful citizenship from time to time through the location here perma- nently of men who have served in Congress. Mr. Liloyd is but one of | a large number of national legislators | -.ho at the close of their official terms | “ave elected to establish themselves &t the capital as an attractive, con- fess. At the close of every Congress some of those whose terms have ended thus choose Washington for their place of professional residence, though they may retain their state citizenship and their votes elsewhere, which are denfed them here. In the case of Mr. Lloyd, Washing- ton has gained especially, inasmuch as during his service in the House he took a deep interest in local affairs and was of material aid in promoting the welfare of the District through legislation. Since his retirement from Congress he has joined hands with the citizens in their civic organiza- tions, has enlisted in various causes for the advancement of District in- terests, has become, in short, one 0(! the most active Washingtenians. His] selection to be a member of the board of education is especially appropriate in view of the interest he has always; shown in the public school system, and his knowledge of congressional procedure will be of material aid to the board in the shaping and pressing of measures for the betterment of the school system. ——————— As an evidence of her moderniza- tion, China calls attention to the fact that she finds herself obliged to give a great deal of attention to railroad problems. —_———————— While Mr. Ford is trying to turn battleships into automobiles John D. Rockefeller stays out of the contro- versy and lets Henry go on boosting the demand for gasoline. i The league of nations is disposed to show some regret that the general' idea of world peace could not be copyrighted. i The rise in value of Pacific islands is likely to stimulate some exaggerated | ideas of rent among the native land- | owners of Yap. i i ‘World' powers are showing signs of hope that the old Pacific will be en- abled to live up to its name. i 1 A- thrifty compromise might be ef- fected by turning the Mutsu into an excursion boat. ———————— The postal authorities request not | only early shopping, but also early shipping. The Island of Yap is a reminder that size is not a reliable test of impor- tance. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Continuous Performance. They told me to shop early. 1 started in to buy When morning light was pearly In the September sky. I shopped in gray October And in November. bleak. And in November sober More bargains I would seek. December finds me shopping. I learn, to my dismay, There isn’t any stopping. That's why I'm broke téday. Proof of Wisdom. “You continue to have faith in the wisdom of the plain people?”’ “I do,” replied Senator Sorghum. ““The'plain people in my district have elected me over and over again.” Jud Tunkins says that when a kaiser turns woodsawyer it's a sign that a woodsawyer has about all the intellectual equipment that's needed to make a Kkaiser.” Increlse. Respect we are supposed to show, ‘Without misgiving, To figures that imply a low- Er ‘cost of lNving. ‘We do not think that it-befits A man to holler, s Though things that used to cost two bits Now, cost a dollar. Lack of Confidence. “You have no hesitancy in refusing men who propose to you.” ““None whatever,” said Miss Cay- enne. “They invariably show a nerv- ousness that indicates very slight con- fidence in their own suggestions.” \ “We's gineter keep after dis aisar- mament,” said Uncle Eben, “till dey ain’t no kind of shootin® whatsomever, *cept crap shootin’s” 3 Who’s Who XXII;Srinivasa Sastri Atthe Arms Conference AR and away the mest pictur- esque figure attending the con- ference on the reduction of armament is Srinivasa Sastrl. the British delegate representing In- dia. Having spent” a.lifetime in working for the uplift of Indla, he has come to the arms parley with:ne ideas of aiding his native land ex- cept through benefits that can be de- rived for Great Britain and the whole world by curbing militarism. He speaks the purest of English, and his slow, clear, commanding -voice and his fine figure clothed in clerical black should be a compelling force in any conference. His strong, bronzed face, capped with a turban of white linen, is one not soon to be forgotten. A life of constant determination and faith is mirrored in its expression of rugged calm and qulet perseverance. Born a Brahman, Sastri has led a life of zealous working for a cause with a total effacing of self-interests. The Brahman caste in India was originally the priest ‘class, later it became the caretaker of educatlon, and now it im the learned class purely. but with reiigious customs that to Americans would seem almost fanati- cal. They abstain from eating meat or fish, never harm any living thing, never keep pets, considering a dog unclean, and will not ride a horse. Fifty years ago It was considered { wrong to go on a train, and all jour- neys were made on foot by them. One of the Brahmen's sacred customs is that their children shall be edu- cated. Sometimes it is a great sacri- fice. It was In the case of Sastri's parents, because they were very poor. However, by government scholarships and outside work he soon was able to support both himself and his brother, and so relleve his father of the burden. After graduating from the high school and the college at Cumbaconum, he became a teacher in the Hindu High School and soon became {ts head master. In 1906 Sastri took a step which was to change the entire course of his life. He joined the Servants of India Society and took the vows to work for the cause of uplifting India. In taking over the duties of this or- ganization, whose leading spirit he Has since become, he pledged himself from that time forth to give up any connection with trade or lucrative pursuits, to exist on a small allow- ance given by the society and to de- vote all his energies to pushing for- ward civilization in India. There are two courses open to members of this society. Onme is welfare work. build- ing up schools and caring for the health and religion of the lower castes. The other lies in serving the government in an officlal capacity: Few choos: this field, but Sastri was one of them, and the year after he became head of the Servants of In- dia in 1915 he was made a member of the viceroy's legislative council, hav- ing previously served in the Madras legislative councll. The viceroy's council was then purely a critical and advisory body. but a_movement for political reform was afoot in the country, and with this he was active- Iy associated. Before long he had established for himself a leading po- sition in the council, and the reputa- tion achieved as a thoughtful and eloquent critic of government won EDITORIAL DIGEST The Woman and the Jury. An American philosopher once ob- served that “when a woman commits a crime they hang the jury.” Now a doubt is being raised as to whether a woman is not going to have the same effect on a jury by merely sit- ting on it. Because of the “stubborn- ness” of one woman the Arbuckle jury could not reach an agreement and was dismissed. Now the foreman charges that she “refused from the beginning to consider the evidence and would listen to no argument.” Is that to be the history of woman jury service—will women permit their i in- tuitions” to determine innocence or guilt without regard to evidence? There is considerable difference of opinion in the press as to what the result of the Arbuckle trial indicates in this connection. As the Worcester Gazette notes, “the Arbuckle case was the first na. tionally conspicuous criminal trial in which women have served as jurors.” In this instance five were selected, and, reviewing the actions of the five, the Gazette finds it hard to draw any conclusions, since four of them be- haved quite “regularly.” It is, how- ever, the stand of the recalcitrant fifth that raises the question of woman's capacity for 'judging her fellow man. The fact that “the stubbornness of a woman juror who exercised her fem- inine privilege of discarding the evi- dence presented and sticking to her determination to convict” was allowed to result in a mistrial is, in_the opin- fon of the Birmingham Age-Herald, “a reflection on the jury system as con- stituted in America. Something of this feeling is shown by the Water- bury (Conn.) Republican, which feels that this woman took her place on the jury with a mind “so prejudiced that she refused to base her verdict on the evidence,” because of her “preconceiv- ed conviction of Arbuckle's guilt.” That this condition will obtain in criminal trials is the conviction ex- pressed by a prominent Michigan at- torney and quoted in the Port Huron Times-Herald, because, according to him, “once a woman has made up her mind to anything, the evidence in the case would have absolutely no effect upon her,” and the paper points out that the assertion “is not far from the mark in this case” even conced- ing that “the four other’woman jur- ors voted as did the men.” “That is the woman of it,” declares the Arkansas Democrat, “strong- willed, tenacious, unshaken by ex- ternal argument.” And with the con- tinuance of this element in the make- up of a trial jury, the question arises as to the possibility of keeping the unanimous jury law, or “will we see in future criminal cases being de- cided by a three-fourths vote?” Rath- or, the Joplin (Mo.) Globe thinks, the Jesson to sbe learned from the Ar- buckle mistrial is that “whenever women are inducted into jury service they ought to be better instructed in the duties incident thereto,” for, in its opinion, no woman would have taken such an uncompromising stand in the face of the evidence presented “if she had been B(I‘Qu‘a'lnled with the ury service. f"fi:fv:es:rj. the doubt still remains in the mind of the Rocky Mountain News “whether it is wise to have women on juries. impaneled to hear criminal cases where it is often sex against sex.” On this point the St. Louis Post-Dispatch is quite decided. To the exaction of jury service “few women can be physically equal, and the setting, atmosphere, and in crim- inal cases, the facts are necessarily repellant,” and while it admits that its attitude “may be paleozoic,” it holds, nevertheless, that “there is some work—jury service, for example —for which man is better fitted.” Further, a womah’s aversion “for a man charged with immorality” might in itself defeat justice, the Chicago Tribune asserts, and in this specific case the paper holds it “a fair pre- sumption that thé cause of exact jus- tice was injured by the presence of women on the Arbuckle jury.” ° Conceding that sepvice.on sut jury would be far from “palatable,” in the “very nature of things,” the Kansas City Journal replies that “the very fact\that the circumstances were exceptional rather than normal mili- tates against the logic of wholesale condemnation of women wt!clmua' fn this. fundamental function of citi- senship.” And as for drawing sex i = little rest—Wheeling Intelligencer. SRINIVASA SASTRI. for him great influenge In the coun- try. When the momént for political reforms came he was prominently as- | sociated in shaping and formulating | them. As a member of the franchise | committee he helped establish an In- | dian elcctorate and aided in pushing the plans through British parlia- ment. In 1921 he w of the council of house of the mewly formed Indian legislature. In recognition of his work In the conference of premiers in England last spring he was made a member of his majesty's privy coun- eil. Thus the Indian delegate, whose hair is beginning to turn gray and who I8 the father of three grown| children, has devoted his lifework to | his native land. Nothing has he ever let come between him and his deter- mined purpose to lift the poor and Farniture Carpets Desks, Chairs, Desk Pads, Files, Book- cases, Costumers, in fact, anything you may require in the way of office equip- ment you will find here. Priced lower than expected. 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His life has been that of an ascetic, de- jpriving himself of all worldly gains and devoting himself to one purpose, a better India. When at school and as a teacher his poverty and hard rk deprived him of any chance to eck pleasure. Later, however, he was {able to take up tennis and became {very proficient it it, as he was a nat- !ural . athlete, having stood out con- spicuously as a boy as a swimmer and n the favorite Indian game whic resembles most our “tag.” but is | played under rules that call for ex- | treme agility, skill and energy. | sastri still looks the zthlete. A ! fine, strong body with the head for a sculptor, makes a commanding fig- ure, and with the determination and force, exemplificd in his life of un- selfish energy, with which he has faced years of knotty problems, he is a power to demand respect at the con- ference. lines In a discussion of the Arbuckle jury, that is not only an arbitra but a fallacious attitude, in the opi fon of many editors, Certainly “the eleven-to-one status of a hung jury is nothing exceptionally notable in scriminal trials,” the Lynchburg News remarks, and the fact that the juror favoring conviction is a woman can- not “properly raise Question as to the relative disposition of s In the matter of stubbornness or flexibility of opinion.” That the: characteristics are not feminine m nopolies, the Rockford (IlL) Star auite aware, for “there are plenty men who can be obstin: Not on can be, but are, adds the Quincy Whig Jour which regards the lone juror” a “the stubborn successor of obstinate twelfth man, with the question of sex out of | consideration entirely.” The Age of Relativity. Some pessimist the other day called this the “age « 32 meallinl{l that its cel s nobodies compared with the great men of the past. It might be interesting to inquire whether in the past periods of the multuous happenings ' have led to such disparagement of indiyiduals has been characteristic of our own time. For one thing, the animosities of a great struggle tend to exclude in every country a large part of the world from a survey of this character. ’lfhu.s to refute the pessimistic asser- tion that this is an “age of nobo some have had to overcome strong personal dislike in order to suggest that Lenin and Trotzky are by no means nobodies. But an age is not necessarily to be measured by its statesmen or its soldiers, even if it appears to be en- grossed in war and politics. It is, for example, not at all impossible that the present age will go down into history as the age of Einstein. Wars, like other calamiti lose their in- terest and importance as time goes on; great ideas. of the kind that shape the thinking of mankind, gain in value and impressiveness as the years pass. How profoundly the human mind has been affected by the idea of evolutibn as developed by Darwin is recognized by all; the idea of relativ- ity as developed by Einstein may prove even more fruitful and revolu. | tionary. It is already quite certain that the age of Einstein is not an “age of nobody ’—Springfield Repube lican (independent). Helium in Use. The C-7, a big Navy dirigible, inflat- ed with helium, successfully jour- neyed from Hampton Roads, Va.. to Washington and return. Helium is a non-inflammable gas, the use of which, it is believed, would have jsaved the ZR-3 and prevented most of the balloon disasters of history. Prior te 1905 helium was more rare and precious_than gold or platinum. Prior to 1895 it was not known to exist on earth, and prior to 1868 it [as not known at all. For among i the many strange things about helium is the fact that it was first discovered in the atmosphere of the sun during an_eclipse in 1868. Chemists who first: devoted atten- tion to its contribution to science as a previously undiscovered element have later turned attention to the processes by which it may be secured. Now the problem is one of storage, since it is estimated that the world's supply is very limited and its com- mercial future depends on the means which may be provided for conserva- tion. It is said to have vast com- mercial possibilities. — Des Moines | Register (independent republican). | We see no objection to junking our lha;dsh!er-Arknnsau Gazette. 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