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THE EVENING STAR. With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D, C. SONDAY.....December 19, 1921 FARR NG R TR @HEODORE W. NOYES. . . . Bditor ®he Evening Star Newspaper Company % Offce. 114h St and Penaeylraaia Ave. - 50 Nagsau Bt. “Gasco: Firat National Dank Bulldin. Ofice: 3 Regent St., London. The . Soaday morning i A b e SeTeiin b clty &t 60 Cents per montn; daily only, 43 cenls per : “Sunday only. 20 cents et month. *s may be sent by mail. or telephone Ms llection is made by carriers at the @84 of each month. = Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance.. Maryland and Virginia. s 1 unday only 1y All Other States. g::ly and Sunday.1y Iy only.. 1y Bunday only. Un-American? Unconstitutional? The definite proportionate contribu- tion by nation and capital toward eapital development, under an ar- wangement by which the nation exer- @ises the exclusive power of taxing She capital and spending the city tmxes, furnishes some justification on American principles for the monopoly ®f the tax-imposing and tax-spending @ower by the nation. Under this arrangement. which con- @ects the tax paid by local taxpayers with a payment related in amount by @he nation, the latter in exercising its @xclusive power of taxing the locai eommunity taxes also itself. Under the half-and-half law the na- | Sion thus becomes a quasi half-ta payer, and under the 40-60 ratio a two- #ifths municipal taxpay ice the Commissioners, representing, in part. the local community, though not ehosen by the community, have the tnitiative in submitting the oslimresl for appropriations, the District appro- priations and the taxes levied to meet those appropriations are sure to repre- @ent & majority approval of the tax- payers if the nation pays one-half of the total municipal taxes, and prob- 8bly represents the will of the ma- two-fifths or ratio. Thus under a definite proportionate eontribution arrangement which ap- | Proximates the contributions of nation | and capital, the nation monopolizes the taxing power in substantial con- formity with the principle of “no taxa- tion without representation.” which means “‘no representation without tax- ation,” and which also means that all municipal tax legislation should repre. €ent the views and wishes of & ma- | Jority of the taxpavers. TUnder the indefinite, fluctuating contribution arrangement, in which the nation is not: a quasi-taxpayer, and there is no relation hetween what 1s municipally contributed for capital development by local taxpayers and by Congress representing the nation, but not representing the District there is obvious and gross violation of the principle “no taxation without rep- resentation.” If Congress, in which the District 1s not represented, in taxing the local community taxes also itself a self- fmposed guaranty is given by the na-| tion against excessive taxation by an alien taxing body of the unrepresent- ed, unconsuited and non-consenting taxpavers of the local community. Under the indefinite contribution plan, proposed by the Senate bill, this safe- guard is withdrawn, and Congress without check taxes the District as it Ppleases. In every other American municipal- fty the local community, through rep- resentatives all of whom it chooses, de- termines how much and what kind of taxes shall be imposed and how the tax money shall be spent. Here the Jocal taxpayers have nothing to say either directly or indirectly or in the alightest particular in the decision of these tax questions. The only people in the whole republic who have noth- ing to say about Washington's local taxes are Washington's local tax- pavers. Under the existing definite propor- tionate contribution system local taxes fn 1920, amounting approximately to twelve million dollars, are under the Baw a trust fund for the capital's bene- fit to be augmented by the nation 100 per cent under the 50-50 ratio, or 66 2-3 per cent under the 40-60 ratio. when @xpended by the nation on capital de- welopment. Under the new law pro- posed by the Senate bill the self-im- Pposed obligation to augment the capi- Qal's tax fund is withdrawn or re- Qudiated. and the twelve millions of Sax money are no longer treated as a @rust fund solely for the District’s W®enefit, but are confiscated by Uncle Bam and pocketed by him as national ®miscellaneous receipts.” This handling of the tax money,| Wrung by an alien tax-gatherer from She unrepresented, unconsulted and Mon-consenting taxed, is unequitable @nd un-American, and, many Washing- Qonians think, is unlawful and uncon- stitutional. 1t District local taxes are municipal faxes collected under the exclusive Begisiation clause of the Constitution @he proceeds of the taxation are labeled $ndelibly as local funds, held in trust ®y Uncle Sam for the capital’s benefit @nd not to be devoted to any other use. ¥his money cannot be robbed of its @rust attributes by putting it in the ®reasury as the nation’s money and Bbeling it ‘“‘miscellanecus receipts.” ‘While the existing law is in force it @natters little where Uncle Sam puts s tax money or what he calls it, @ince he has promised to spend upon eapital development not only every @ent of this tax money but 100 per @ent or 66 2-3 per cent more. ‘The new law proposed by the Senate OM withdraws, however, this definite Ppromise and self-imposed obligation, @nd directs the District taxpayers to pay whatever Congress tells them as Gational revenue into the national Qreasury as miscellaneous receipts. Sut the Constitution clearly defines @nd limits national taxes and national Swwenues, and this money is not Suised by a national tax and is not a Wstional revenue. s it constitutional or lawful te con- Yert it into national revenue by di- Werting it into the national Treasury . @s & national miscellaneous receipt? Washington knows very well the | gsmslituticral and lawful national SIS @8 = 2019 peid inte the na- L tional Treasury in such taxes more than eighteen million dollars, more than the national tax contributed by- any one of fifteen. states, more than the national tzx contributed by five states combined. ‘Will Uncle Sam convert the Dis- trict’s twelve millions of local taxes also into national revenue without maintaining his present outstanding definite promise to devote not only these twelve millions but much more to the upbuilding of the capital? No such promise is to be found in the new law proposed by the Senate bill. —_—————— France Falls Into Line. All friends of France are rejoiced, and all her critics are disarmed, by her acceptance of the naval ratio as- signed to her by the logic of circum- stances. Her demand for ten capitdl ships to be constructed during the naval holiday arose suddenly as a bar- riew to the program of armament limitation and discontinuance of com- petition. Tt is as suddenly dissipated by the practical common sense and sound statesmanship of the French government. The world is a better and mare hopeful place today becaue of the French decision. Just what was at the back of French minds when the ten-ship ‘‘gesture” was made may not be quite clear to others, but as it develops to have been only a gesture the wherefores are not of consequence. The important thing s that France will not destroy the hopes of the world by insisting upon a policy utterly contrary to the spirit of the Washington conference. It |does not matter specially what par- | ticular paths are followed, so long as they lead in the end to the goal which < the objective of the conference. It i prodably was too much to expect that | diplomats trained in the old school could immediately adopt the “say what vou mean and mean what you say” gtheory of diplomacy. Instinct still prompts them to advance impos- sible proposals for purpose of trading, {and as France Is not the only nation represersted in the conference which has resovted to the practice her dele- | gates should not be singled out for { blame. With tise capital ship program ad- {vanced by Secretary Hughes accepted and Italy, agreement !as to lesser craft becomes a matter of fadjustment which should present no serious difficulties. So long as the principle is preserved, the details are properly subject to compromise. Com- promises were necessary in order to ipring Japanese opinion into accord. and French opinion is no less entitled | to consideration. It is intimated from {Paris that France may ask larger | generosity in the matter of subma- rines, and it is not at all unlikely that when this phase comes up for decision jthe United States and France may {find themselves standing together to i bring about an abatement of the Brit- ish view. The big and worth-while lesson of jthe French incident that it fur- znishes another demonstration of the fact that when nations, as well as {men, get together with mutual trust lund good will to solve their problems, difficulties in the way of settlements auickly vanish. It creates wonder that ever could there be resort to war until the possibilities of peaceful methods had been exhausted. i Meeting Time of Congress. Again the question, which has been often canvassed: Would it not be bet- ter for Congress to begin its sessions in January rather than as now ap- [pflinled? 1 As now appointed, a session scarcely ! gets under way when it is halted by the Christmas holidays. Two weeks {of no value legislatively are succeeded by two weeks of recess. So that it is sbip sailed from Cherbourg with a large number of Hungarign emigrants, of whom more than 200 proved, on Teaching the United States December 10, to be inadmisgible under the law, the others being eligible under the exemptions granted by statute. If the, steamship company knew at the time of the sailing the quota had been reached it was apparently defying the law when it took the Hungariana on board at Cherbourg. It could not take advantage of the possibility of exemp- tions on this side. This case, it seems, is but the cul- mination of a series of acts which Sec- retary Davis declares to have been committed by the steamship com- panies in an effort to break down the new law. Obviously any form of im- migration restriction is hostile to the interests of the steamship companies. In the past they have made large profits from this traffic. That they bave promoted it, stimulated it by highly efficient organization, is notori- ous. Indeed, the enterprise of the steamship companies in fostering mi- gration to America was one of the causes of the legislation to restrict the flow. The Report of the Actuaries. The report of the board of actuaries, made to Congress under authority of the civil service retirement law con- tains much of interest, involving as it does matters vital to the welfare of the civil employes of the government. The recommendations which would tend to make more equitable the pay- ment of money into the retirement fund have been worked out with great care by the distinguished actuaries who comprise the board, and should have the careful consideration of Con- gress. The board. according to its own statement, has endeavored to avoid any recommendation which would in- fvolve any appreciable increase in either the liability of the government or the contributions of the employes. None of its recommendations, there- { fore, is for the purpose of making the plan more liberal from the standpoint of the benefits, because the board has believed it to be beyond its province to make any recommendations which would tend to place the board on rec- ord “as either favoring or disapprov- ing the demand for increased bene- fits.”” Although there may be some dis- appoinément over this stand of the board—and the need for increased an- nuities is apparent—other important changes must be made before this matter ~an properly be approached. Need for a register and record of SR A R R AR R N ) R A Rl i S S R D G, B S e every member of the retirement fund, | was jmmediately fels. o, in other words. a complete directo of government workers, is vital. no such roster is available at present lis one of the astounding things point- ed out in the rveport of the board of actuaries. “‘That the government should maintain a retirement system of the importance of the eivil serv- ice retirement and disability without maintaining in any roster of all of seems almost incredible,” de- ares the report. uch. however, is ‘th& e. In fact. it is not possible to fund depart- the mem- ment a bers secure even a figure indicating the total number of members from any one department of the federal govern- ment.” The board of actuaries recommends, to correct this unfortunate situation that a small staff be created ejther in the Civil Service Commission or in the office of the commissioner of pen- sions, whose duty it shall be to main- tain a register and a record of every member of the fund, and that this record be corrected at least once each year. As the board points out, no saving in cost to the government will result from delaying the establishment |of such a’ recard, because, under the |early January anvhow before the{law. it will be necessary to produce {decks are cleared for action and ac- jultimately a record of the amount of tion really begins. Why not cut outicontribution of each member and his December, and count from the time|Service and age in order to determine the ball is fairly set rolling? the benefit upon withdrawal, death or It seems to be useless to ask Con- gress to forego the Christmas recess. There has long been sentiment for {such action. The late Champ Clark advocated it earnestly. But, always, when the time comes, the Christmas spirit prevails. The lure of home at Yuletide proves too strong for arguments about public | business, and the legislators put up i the shutters and join their families. Still, there stands @ month practical- l1y subtracted from the session. The {fortnight in December is never fruit- lful. Little is done, and nothing of jvalue. Everything of importance is | postponed until after the holiday sea- son has ended. —————————— A number of Berlin financiers are {inclined to tavor payments on the in- isullmem plan as a slow but sure way of attaining prosperity. ——————— Santa Claus used to be a European myth, but food distribution to hungry children abroad will make him look like an American reality. ——————— A difficulty is likely to arise from a moratorium, from the instinctive de- sire of a debtor to make it a perme- nent arrangement. ———— France is no longer concentrating on the River Rhine, but is considering the strategic importance of the ocean. —————— Next to being kept out of war, Berg- {doll has been most aolicitous about being kept in funds. ——————— Steamer Lines and Immigrants. Secretary Davis has in a direct way brought to an issue the attitude of the transatlantic steamship companies toward the immigration restriction law of this country by assessing heavy fines upon one of them for bringing a number of Hungarian im- migrants over after it had been noti- fled that the quota from Hungary had been passed. He has asked the De- partment of Justice to proceed in the matter, and hag also asked the De- partment of State to take up the ques- tion diplomatically with the British government under which the offending line is chartered. Thus far only general denials of Becretary Davis’ charge have been heard from the accused steamship company. The Secretary, however, recites dates that appear to be con- vincing. December 1, he - " “nes ‘were notified that ' e quota had been pass -1 L ci & retirement. ——cee—————— Had Wilhelm. Hohenzollern been earlier in his anxiety not to be held responsible for war he might have avoided the appearance of being mere- 1y a man who guessed the wrong way. —_——— New York city continues to localize its interest and contemplate the street car as of more political importance than the battleship. It must be admitted that where a prospect of war is concerned rhe French taxpayer usually proves game. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Modernized Fable. A goose laid golden eggs so grand. ‘They proved of so much use, The farmer grew impatient, and He went and killed the goose. The Dove of Peace, as we have heard From chroniclers of old, A faithful and @ generous bird, Lays eggs worth more than gold. ‘When Avarice a blade would 1ift And toward the barnyard prowl, Let us take heed, nor be too swift To slay a generous fowl. An Assistant Desired. “Were you sorry when you learned there wasn't any Santa Claus?” “T'm still sorry about it,” answered | ; Senator Sorghum. “Every one of my constituents who wants anything writes and asks me to get it for him.” Jud Tunkins says that top many farmers are beginning to feel they made a mistake in going ahead with crops instead of laying the old place out for a golf course. The New Good Night. The customs of the nursery change. No lullaby the mother chants. She reads aloud 2 story strange About a rabbit who wears pants. . Drawing the Line. “Do yeu admire a good loser?” “Yes,” sald Miss Cayenne; “but I don’t want one too often &s & partner at bridge.” “De way some of de members of our congregation seems to enjoy a min- ister dat shakes his fis’ an’ tells 'em how low-down wicked dey is,” said !¥ncle Eben, “sou'd mos’ think, dey’s ol of it pn That | countries were much benefited. i 1 H — @ Who’s Who Atthe Arms Conference XXV—Elihu Root. GREAT lawyer, a great cabi- net officer, a great senator and a great worker in the in- terests of international peace, Elihu Root, in his seventy-seventh year, is again serving his count this time as a member of the Ameri- can delegation to the Washington conference on the limitation of arma- ment and the problems of the far east. Theodore Roosevelt, it is sald, de-‘ clared that “Elihu Root was the wis- i est man he ever knew.” Col Ruosc~| velt was in a position to know, for Mr. Root served in his cabinet as Sec- retary of War and Secretary of State. He had served in the McKinley cabi- net as Secretary of War. In the of- fice he reorganized the Army and ex- erted a powerful influence toward the pacification of Cuba and the Phil- ippines. It was only two or three months ago that Mr. Root refused, because of advanced age, appointment as a mem- ber of the international court of jus- tice under the league of nations. He had previously taken an active part in drafting the scheme of this court, and he was nominated for a place on the court bench by Italy, France, Bra- zil, Bolivia, Venezuela and Uruguay— the United States not being a mem- er of the league of nations. walks briskly into the Pan- n building to meetings of the Washington conference, Mr. Root gives the impression of being ten or fifteen years younger than he really is. Like the New Yorker he is, Mr. | Root is always fastidiously dressed. His hair is iron gray. His features are rather sharp, his eves keen and his mustache closely cropped. In any assemblage of men Mr. Root is a strong and dominating figure. After Mr. Root left the cabinet he entered the Senate of the United States, where his influence was im- mediately felt. He proved himself a power in debate. He served for one term, six years, and then declined to be a candidate to succeed himself.. | Mr. Root's efforts in behalf of inter- national peace huve extended over many years and have been of great value. "In fact, in 1912 he was award- ed the Nobel peace prize, particularly for his work in pacifying the Philip- pines and Cuba and in handling the American-Japanese dispute over im- migration, which resulted in the pres- ent “gentlemen's agreement” with Japan. While Mr. Root was Secretary of ate he set on foot a far-reaching movement for better understanding among the republics of the western hemisphere, traveling himself to, South America and visiting the capi- tals of Latin America. The result| and relations the United States and these Mr. Root also visited Canada and Mexico | betwe EDITORIAL DIGEST Dr. Lorenz and the Doctors. “Closed shop" practices as applied to Dr. Adolf Lorenz, the famous Austrian surgeon, however defen- sible they may be from the profes- rional standpoint, are distinctly not popular with the lay public. When Dr. Lorenz visited this country twenty years ago he left behind him many legends, one of which in particular fired the American imagination—the story of the little crippled girl in| hicago, who. with vast wealth and an assured social position, still faced a life of uselessness and suffering un- til Dr. Lorenz rescued her. Recently he came back for the purpose, as he Stated it, of expressing in terms of healing for crippled American chil- dren the gratitude of his people for the American relief for starving Aus- trian children. That mission, and the newspaper stories of his working with crippled poor children in the clinics of New York until he col- lapsed from weariness also appealed strongly to the American imagination and fitted into the picture which this country held of the great surgeon. But, as the San Francisco Call re- perts, “it wasn’'t long before that curiously intangible and shapeless cloud of regulations known as ‘pro- fessional ethics’ rose to oppose him,” resulting in & number of ocourrences which are calling forth indignant pro- tests from the papers. First, some Philadelphia docfors refused to work with him becausé of his nationality: then certain promi- nent Chicago surgeons issued a bill of particulars against him and are seeking to close Chicago hospitals to the famous specialist; now the New York state board of education and health has notified him that he can no longer practice in the state with- out a license. Discouraged by this opposition, Dr. Lorenz was ut to give up his mission and return home, but Dr. Copeland, health commission- er of New York city, succeeded in convincing him that ‘the American people were being misrepresented. | If he has, as the New York World suspects, “a rather distressing im- pression of American professional ‘manners and American tolerance,” it should be dispelled by the attitude of the press, because, as the Pittsburgh Sun says, “the aspersions of the few do not represent the opinion of the many,” and for “the great American | public,” the Columbia Record "hofiy[ cries ‘Shame!” upon those wHo offer a wanton' insult to this Good Samari- tan.” It is “a_perverted patriotism, e Roanoke World News holds, “which would prevent Dr. Lorenz's visit of | mercy on the ground that he is, or} was, an enemy alien.” The Buffalo Express is_emphatic in its position that “Dr. Lorenz's nationality does not matter,” for, the Philadelphia Public Ledger asks, ‘“‘what do the multitude of sufferers looking for re- lief care for the nativity of a man whose only fighting has been against human misery and suffering?’ “One of the specifications in the eriticism of Dr. Lorenz,” says the Springfield Union, “is that he has come to this country to make money.” If that is a sin the comment of the Union is that “he has come to a country that is not without sinners.'” The “inhospitality of the American medical _professio: in its treatment ¢ Dr. Lorenz is “indefensible,” the ‘Waterbury (Conn.) Republican feels, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch is sure there will be no sympathy “with orthopedists who value their cloister- ed professional sensibilities more highly than the health and happiness of maimed children.” To this charge of jealousy, however, the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal replies that while “the medical profession is perhaps no more immune to that sentiment than any other,” in this instance “Lorenz, neither by reputa- tion nor achievement, is in a position to actuate that sentiment in a pro- fession that has passed him by in the march of progress.” Lay defense of our own doctors also omrhuins the point that American skill has de- veloped beyond the foreign pioneer. ‘““There is a glamour about the Eu- ropean surgeon just as there is about the European statesman,” which, in the opinion of the Memphis News Scimitar, explains the prestige of Dr. Lorens, while “thoysands of surgeons in this country are performing every day, unknown to the general public, the same operations that Dr. Lorenz is performing.” The Tulsa Tribune also feels that, wonderful as he a mittedly is, “there are many almost as skilled, but parents whose chil- have been crippled from birth or | Walter dren accident do not realize this.” o that a great chorus, replies sely therein lies the value visiting surgeon’s work. ELIHU ROOT. in his program of spreading good will on the American continent. Mr. Root is the son of Oren Root, ! professor of mathematics for many vears in Hamilton Collegs, at Clin- ton, N. Y. He grew up in a oollege atmosphere. His intellect was highly trained as a young man. He chose the law as his profession, and went to New York to make his fortune. How well he succeeded is an old story. Before making his start in the legal profession, however, Mr. Root, like 5o | many other men of his day, taught, school to acquire money to pay for! his law studies. In New York it was not long before NIr. Root began to devote himself largely to real estate and corporation law. As he progressed big cases came to him, and reputation and wealth. It was not long before he became Interested in politics, partieu- larly in his own state. He was ap- pointed by President Arthur United States attorney for the southern dis- of New York. President McKin- called him to Washington many vears afterward to become Secretary of War, succeeding Russell A. Alger. As public speaker Root is forceful. His delivery is sometimes rather utrained, and he hesitates until he has the exact word he desires. But his arguments are clear and 1og|.-al.| and impressive. He grasps quickly the fundamentals of any problem pro- sented to him. tric There can be no doubt. the Spring- field Republican holds, “that his com- ing has been of immense influence in calling attention to the curable nature of many ills that have been neglected With appalling common- | ness."” While the doctor himself probably dislikes the “advertising” {as much as those who are criticizing him, the Port Huron Times-Herald remarks that “the news of his visit is news, and the newspaper men are not consulting the doctors on this point.” Down From High Levels. There were three significant pieces of labor news yesterday morning. They are floating leaves and bobbing chunks of drift-wood, showing the trend of the current that began run- ning months ago. One of these dealt with the sort of labor despotism that has got the New York Plasterers’ Union in trouble. Other building trades workers have been caught In the same business, that of doing as little work as pos- sible for as much pay as they could squeeze out of contractors and owners. ‘Another was the action of the Unit- ed States Railroad Labor Board in re- storing a ten-hour-day schedule for railway track and bridge men and the elimination of the over-time rates for the first two hours over the “basic eight-hour day” for all maintenance- of-way workers. The third was the suspension of work _in the shops of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. Business depres- sion and the need for economy were the reasons given for the suspension. While the grabbing was good, both labor and industry grabbed more than they could hold. Industry has been hammered loose from much of its loot. Labor, never celebrated for its com- mon sense, has got itself into a jam trying to keep all it grabbed. In the main, labor is making a losing fight. Of what avail is it for plasterers to hold up owners when the owners can no longer stand to be held up? Of what use is it for shopmen to protest against a lowering scale and to coun- ter with demands for increases when railways no longer can keep their shops open under present conditions. —Philadelphia Public Ledger, Secretary Denby on Haiti. There has been a very persistent propaganda in this country to dis- credit the honor of the United States government in its temporary occupa- tion of Hait! and Santo Domingo, and especially to discredit the efficiency and humanity of the United States marines, through whom the occupa- tion has been administered. It should be noted, however, that the leading agents in this propaganda have been certain periodicals and individuals to ‘whom virtually everything that this or any other established government does is presumably wrong. The change of administration at ‘Washington brought control of mat- ters in Haiti under a Secretary of the Navy of the opposite party, who could have had no blased motive for con- cealing mismanagement and cruelty if there had been eny to conceal. But Secretary Denby’s first annual report contains a report of a personal visit of inspection to Haiti and Santo Do- mingo, which convinced him that the occupation has been conducted kindly and firmly, and that “our government has brought benefit and rendered great service to the two republics since their occupation by our forces.” The slanderers who have attempted to discredit the marines, the Navy De- partment and the government itself in this matter will get little sympa- thy from those who stop to read and think before they condem: lum- bus Dispatch (independent). The half Spanish Mr. De Valera's am- seems to be to display his prow- :':ml‘l a John Bull fighter.—Columbia (8. C.) Record. “Conference Delegates Silent.”—Head- lne. nAnfl Just think how many lan- guages_they have to be silent in.—Sag- inaw News-Courier. All we got out of the world war was|. Yap and now we haven't got that; Shich is positively the final yap about ‘Yap.—Richmond Times-] teh, It wealth {s a form of disease, as the Prinoet: m{uflnr says, we must have b.moe 53 ‘when young.—Toledo Blade. Wife shoots husband because he wouldn’t buy her a new cook stove. How could she shoot him if she didn’t have the range?—Dayton News. It is generally uiml:l::v that if Sir 't have had to ruin his it ll? that in fing & wom. o - lll'nEr!n from the mud.—Fiorids Me- EVERY ITEM IN OUR STOCK READS LIKE A . .. 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