Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1921, Page 6

A THE 1921. THE EVENING STAR. With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY. ....December 20, 1921 DORE W. NOYES. .. .Edito: The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Peonsylvania Ave. New York Office: 150 Nassan 8t. Chteago Oftice: 1 : First topal Eeropean Office: 8 Regent 8t.. Londoa, Englan The Evening Star, with e Sunday morning edition, 1s d:fim by carriers withia the elty at 60 cents per month ; meath: Sunday onty. 30 ders -&flbe sent by mail, or tel 5080. lection 18 made by car: €ad of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. rs at the i Maryland and Virginia. o fly and Sunday..1 yr., $8.40; 1 mo., 700 Daily only B 00; 1 mo., 50c All Ocner Statea. Dally and Sunday.1 y:, £10.00; 1 mo., $5c Patly ‘oady e ¥ #3%0s: 1 mo. sbe $3.00: 1 mo., 26c Sunday only. Politics and Journalism. ‘This is from Mexico City: Alvaro Obregon has become a regu- lar editorial writer for the four Span- ish-language morning newspapers here, and his articles on timely toplcs have attracted much attention throughout the republic. Probably getting his hand in against the time when he returns to private life. With the presidency behind him, either as the result of the expiration of his term of office or of another Mexican upheaval, Senor Obregon | might hope for agreeable employment and influence and profit as the editor of a Mexican newspaper, or as a con- tributor to one. ] The thing works well elsewhere. Freed from the cares of office, Mr. Roosevelt. after his return from the African hunt, became a magazine and newpaper writer at a snug figure, and partly in that way kept in close touch with public affairs. After leaving the White House, Mr. ‘Taft took notes and printed them, and thus joined “the noble army of news- paper scribblers.” It is needless to say that Mr. Wilson could command his own price for con- tributions to the daily press, and it is not unlikely that if his health per- mitted he would take up his pen in that way. | And it seems certain that in March, | 1925, or in March, 1929, Mr. Hardingl will resume direction of the news- pvaper he piloted to success before entering national politics. 1 In France M. Poincare passed from the presidency of the republic to a contributor’s place on a Parisian news- paper, and the chances are ten to one that {f Mr. Lioyd George were to meet with a complete overthrow in British politics he would become a power in London journalism. “Everybody's doing it now.” Itisa good thing to de —_——————— Lynching. ! The lynching question cannot prop- erly be characterized as either partisan, sectional or racial. Tt is certainly not a sectional ques- tion, as the record shows victims of lynchers north, south, east and west. In old states as in new states thig spirit of lawlessness has manifested & self in its most hideous forms. It is certainly not a racial questsm. as the record shows both white and colored victims. The fact that the eol- ored victims outnumber the white is partly attributable to the helplessness of colored men under grave charges. ‘They have fewer friends and are more easily reached, and lynchers, as a rule, after cowardly fashion, follow lines of least resistance. That something should be done to check this evil is appallingly patent. 1¢ has grown with a sort of toleration. Few lynchers have been punished, and none adequately. No man has ever been sent to the gallows or to the chair for having taken life as a| lyncher. Lynching has become one of the safest of pastimes. { Originally, it grew out of the most | horrible of all erimes—rape. But it soon spread to other crimes, and men have been lynched for murder, for | shooting on the public highway, eveng for theft. i 1 i ‘There is no excuse for lynching. soll” for generatiohs, and the families of some of us go back to Indian days in the Potomac valley: The tall, rounded hills and the deep, steep- | sided valleys worn by waters of & mil- lton yeare to the basic rock of the i world are our beauty spots. The val- ley slopes are grown with trees, vines and shrubs of great varletys It is natural that we should want te keep little samples of this nearly virgin - { country. The only way to keep it is to make of it that thing which we call ia “park,” though literally to make of i |it a “common,” a tract which all peo- ple may use, under certain restrictions for the good of all. Then there Is @ business view. Citles are better for having parks. They should get them before the land is “improved.” It is cheaper and does not have to be “restored.” The city is bound to grow around it. It is an in- vestment. Yet, there are difficulties. It s hard to get & park. It is not easy to get a great number of men to agree to the same thing at the same time. Then when a park has been secured there are persons who cannot see it as simple free parkland, but only as sites for buildings. A splendid site for this building! An appropriate site for that bullding! Some people have a mission to set up a building, and everybody with & mission thinks that misslon is bigger and better than a park. And so, inspired by a mission, they plot and fight and *propagand” to get a slica of park for some pet bullding. —————————— Attacks on Policemen. A fiendish attack upon two police- men who in line of duty attempted to make an arrest in this city yesterday may cause the loss of sight to both of them. These men went without hesi- tation to discharge thelr duty, and were met with a bucket of lye thrown into their faces. Policemen have in other cases been shot, sometimes been killed, but only once before in the his- tory of the District police force have officers of the law been met with blinding liguids. Of course, there s no difference in degree of crime between the person who shoots and the person who throws a corrosive substance with the intent of wounding or maim- ing or killing. Resistance of arrest is in itself an offense. An unfortunate disposition prevails on the part of a certain number of people in this city to regard the police as natural enemies, to fight them on all occasions. Most of the attacks upon policemen have come from them. The law draws no distinctions what- ever, and policemen must obey orders. They are appointed for the purpose of enforcing the law and making ar- rests whenever the law is violated. person who aids in any degree in resistance becomes an accomplice to an offense which may be more serious in its effect than that for which ar- rest is sought. For these men who in the line of duty were so cruelly hurt and whose sight may be destroyed there is deep public sympathy. They went to their dangerous task—a task that should reot necessarily be dangerous with a better spirit prevailing toward the police—with the heroism of soldiers. They were as if wounded in battle. Prompt, sharp punishment should be meted out to those who in any degree are guilty in the assault upon them as a lesson to all others. —_————e————— Last Call to Mail! Those who have not mailed their Christmas parcels yet should attend to the matter at once, preferably today, tomorrow at the latest, if the gifts are for out-of-town friends. If for local delivery, perhaps it may be permis- sible to mail them as late as Thurs- day or Friday, although Friday is late, indeed. ’ Holding parcels in the attempt to mail them so that they will arrive just on Christmas eve or Christmas day itself is liable to result in disappoint- ment to the ultimate receiver. Such holdirig is based upon the assumption that one’s own parcels are really the only parcels in the mails. A brief inspection of the parcel post room at the city post office would dis- pel this illusion, and show the most Laws for the punishment of crimes are on the books. The courts are cpen, | and their proceeses run. And vet, for vears, bloody-minded men have been taking the law into their own hands, | and have felt, and been, safe in doingl s0. H ———— Recognizing the admiration of his perticular public for thrift and indus- try, the ex-kaiser bought himself a sawmill instead of starting a maga- zine. _— France has faith in her ability to! manage a flock of submarines more | discreetly than Germany did. ! Human Nature and Parks. Consider the park question for a moment. There i3 a good deal of hu- man nature in a man’'s wish to save certain tracts of land from settlement and “improvement.” There is a good deal of sentiment in it. There is also enough of that quality which we call business vision or practical sense. There are few men who do not like land in its natural state, and more especially when it gives a pretty view or makes a fine landscape. ' There is something in our natures which makes «us love a bit of wilderness. Probably it 1s ancestral. We are not far re- moved from pioneer days, when men made their home in the wilderness and struggled with it and coaxed it to yleld them a living. If we are not country- bred our father and mother were, and if they were not country-bred their parents were. The bloodlines of us all run back to the country. We like - to keep a bit of land in its natural state, & souvenir of the past, as it were. People want their’children and thefr grandchildren to be able to see @ bit of their native country as it ap- peared to the ancestors of those grandchildren. It is human nature, and good human nature, The country in which we live is the most beautiful in the world. The oountry in which every man lives, or in which he was “brought up,” ‘whether it is mountain or prairie or covered with northern firs or southern palms s the fairsst lahd in the world. That is natural. We in Washington belleve in the beauty of our country. Very many of us were born here, i SRy ©f us bave been “rooted in the peace. i unthinking what the individual piece of parcel post matter is up against when it starts its travels. It has thousands and thousands of com- panions, all bearing the love of their senders equally. The postal service plays no favorites. to have any favorites at this time of the year the “favored package” is the early package. So mail at once. i The world is gradually emerging from the barbaric frame of mind which regards annihilation of all surround- ing tribes as the only reliable way to i Tt is hinted that President Harding does not play an extraordinary game {of golf. Tt is the fortune of very few men to be heroes to their caddies. i An arrangement by which ships can carry merchandise to the exclusion of munitions will be welcomed by tax- payers the world over. % If the hopes of peace are fully realized nations will wonder why any- body desired to retain any battleships at all. China has apparently suffered from too many local politicians and not enough international statesmen. Red Lights at Grade Crossings. A Connecticut motorist riding through New Jersey the other night saw a red light in the road. Thinking that it denoted, as in Connecticut, a sharp turn in the highway, he pro- ceeded, but on reaching the light he found that it signified a steam raliroad grade crossing. Reaching the rails he at once checked his machine, which “went dead,” and before he could start it a train came and struck f{t, killing one of the oocupants, Here is an {llustration of the need of uniform safety signals and rules in the states. In New Jersey a red light tmeans a grade crossing, or other ob- struction. In Connecticut it means a turn. There is so much interstate touring now that people from one state are quite confused. It is impos- sible for the motorist to become famil- iar with every feature of the motor [ If it can be said regulations of all the states, even those in a short range. | Of course, a rcd light ought te check any motorist and put hira definitely on his guard, especially when traver ing in strange territory: But a red light is not enough cf @ warning of & grade crossing, whatever the rules and the carefulness of the road users. Any state that tolerates grade crossings in the frequented parts, without gates and barriers at all hours while waiting for the elimination of all such danger points, 18 lagsing in its provision for security: ———ep——————— The American Jungle. One of the large financial institu: tions of New York has asked for bids for a bulletproof armored motor car for the transport of securities through the streets of that city. The cost will probably be about $10,000, but this ex- pense is regarded as a good invest- ment in safety inasmuch as the ma- chine, it is expected, will annually handle about $500,000,000 in securities belonging to the company and its clients. The company has occasioy now and then to move as much as a million dollars’ worth at once. Losses through the carelessness of messengers or the enterprise of crim- inals often run into the hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions. Fre- quently these losses are afterward made good by the recovery of the se- curlties, but with heavy expense. The Investment of $10,000 in an armored car and the employment of armed guards, after the fashion of mall-trans- port service, is likely to be profitable. Yes it is & commentary upon our civilization that it is necessary to safe- guard the malls and the financial se- curities in transit by military meas- ures. We are an advanced, enlight- ened. progressive people. Btill our cities are no safer than the brigand- infested frontlers. Indeed, they are less safe than the jungles of Africa. Property i{s more secure in the wild places than in the centers of popula- tion. 2 The spectacle of armored cars and armed men escorting malls and stocks and bonds through the streets of our American cities does not bring com- fort to those who take pride in the high development of American cul- ture. —_———— Dealers are now being watched to prevent them from soaking that de- lectable shellfish, the scallop, in water to increase its size and enhance its appearance. The stock market is not the only place in which values are influenced by water. ————— The theory that soviets inspired the bomb explosion in Wall street would be difficult, if ordinary logical proc- esses were expected from sovietism, to reconcile with Lenin’s desire to bor- row money from Amercian financlers. ‘ —————————————— It is now delicately intimated that the best way for the admirers of ex- Emperor Charles to show their devo- tion is to take up a subscription to buy him a meal ticket. ———————— It appears to be no longer necessary for wealth to safeguard tiaras and necklaces. Burglars are disdaining jewelry and specializing on liquor and automobiles. —_——— There are & few European states- men who evidently do not care whether they ever become eligible for the Nobel peace prize. ——————— A conference a year may do away with the old theory that clvilization cannot go on without some kind of a war every few decades. ‘With the assistance of Judge Landis base ball has attained an intellectual las well as an athletic status. . i SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Reliable Myth. Long ago our childhood cheery Suddenly turned dark and dreary ‘When we learned there wasn't any Santa Claus. He s left in the position Of a simple superstition Who deserves no further laughter and applause. Yet his state of non-existence Does not hinder a persistence ‘Which impresses us as affable, though queer. ‘We base our.calculations On his generous inclinations; For he puts in an appearance every year. Now, unto mere mortal debtors People keep on sending letters And in vain make the suggestion, “Please remit.” Friends are merry in life’s play day But when winter brings the gray day ‘We find they're very liable to quit. There’s a subtle necromancy In the ways of gentle fancy That essures us Santa Claus will pay & call. ‘Mongst earth’s figures influential That seem more or less essential, A myth proves most reliable of all. Plain Diction. ‘Your constituents say you don't use classical English.” “That's the way I want them to feel about it,” answered Senator Sorghum. “When we get together I want them o realize that the object of the meet- ing is to talk business and not to organise a literary soclety.” Jud Tunkins says a man'who re- fuses to listen to advice is reckless, and & man who tries:to take ell he listens to is more so. Averaging Up. Delays will make us surly ‘When we perceive at last ‘That they who don‘t shop early Must shop exceeding fast. " Dominant Influence. “Your phonograph records do not indicate & very high musicel taste.” “Don’t sy it loud enough for the eook to hear you,” cautioned Mr. Crossiots. “She has been threatening to leave, and we have been trying to make home happy for her.” “Some o' deshere diplomats,” said Uncle Eben, “locks like dey was after de dove of peace Wit & carvin’ knife, same as if it was & turkey,” EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, XXVI—Ba_ron ' Who’s Who Atthe Arms Conference Alfredo Acton. é¢ ORN to the sea” is a phrase that may, with propriety and accuracy, be used in deseribing Baron Alfredo Acton, former chief of staff of the Itallan navy and chief naval adviser to the Italian delegation to the arma- ment conference: For two centuries his family; which is noble as well as anclent, has been clesely associated with the navy— first of the principality of his native Naples and, later, with that of united Italy: The traditions of those eentu- rles of assoclation must have played a part In the success achieved by this sailor. Two hundred years ago, in the’ days of towering, lumbering, wooden ehips of the line, fighting was done yardarm to yardarm. Today it is done often at a range of many miles, or, again. the assailant may approach his objective by diving under the surface of the water. Technique and equip- ment may change, but the love and traditions of the salt sea in some familles seem ineradicable. Acton is not ad Italian name, but an English one. In erowded BEurope names are often transplanted, more especially Celtic ones. The transplan- tation of English surnames is not so common, however. The Acton family gets its name from an officer of Lord Nelson's fleet who settled in Naples, married into a seafaring family and entered the service of his adopted country. The family. nevertheless, is thoroughly Latin. Admiral Acton was born in Naples in 1867. His father, Baron Ferdinan- do Acton, was & vice admiral also, and was minister of marine. The son Joined the navy when very young, and In 1884, at the age of seventeen, was commissioned as “guardamarini a rank corresponding somewhat though not precisely, to our grade of ensign. From the beginning his serv- foe was marked not only by a high degree of efficlency, but also by a cer- tafn®delicate and striot attention to dotail and procedure that approached the realms of diplomacy. Herein the background of two centurles of fami- 1y service undoubtedly played a part. Through the various grades of line service the young officer rose until, as & post captain, he commanded the battlesh# Vittorio Emanuele, {n the Tripolitan war, fought in 1911 and 1912, which ended with annexation of Tripoll. In this trouble his ship, al- though it saw no fighting. had to back up the land forces in what amounted Jirtually to & long and arduous block- ade. During the world war Baron Acton was & rear admi He was in com- mand of & division of light cruisers and distinguished himself during the naval action of May 16, 1917, In the Adriatic Sea, on which occasion he had also under his command a divis- EDITORIAL DIGEST | The Four-Power Pact. The abundant comment on the four- power treaty demonstrates the truth of the statement by the Fuffalo Times (éemocratic) that “the public mind o the treaty is In the formative stage. The first rush of expression runs greatly to comparison and contrast be. tween the new treaty and the league covenant. Many fiends of the league profess to see in the pact what the Omaha World-Herald (independent) calls @ “league of natifons, limited,” and commend it as “a good thing as far as it goes,” to use the words of the Charleston Nefs and Courier (democratic). Other friends of the lcague, and also its enemies. dwell upon th: variance between the pact and league provisions. Still other ed- itors view the pact only as the log- ical successor to the Anglo-Japanese alliance. The Des Moines Register (independ- ent republican) holds that this union with three nations already members of the league “also commits the United States” since it “cannot unite with members of the league without being to that extent ticd to the gen- eral program.” That “the | 0 imiply a_moral obligation” is the opin- fon of th= Rochester Times Union (in- dependent), a view reinforced by the New York Tribune (vepublican), which observes that “the outstanding fea- ture of the understanding is that it is an alliance entered into by the specific nations that possess power.” exclud- ing other which “are not able to put force be- hind decisions arrived at,” though the New York Herald (independent) de- scribes the pact as “a gentleman's agreement that will work out.” The New York Globe (independent) thinks when article X, “which the Senate re- jected with such scorn, has become the headstone of the structure of peace in the Pacific we can afford to be grateful” “Already the opinion of mankind,” says the Milwaukee Jour- nal ((independent), “is asking the United States why, if it is not afraid of the principle of article X where big nations are concerned, it should refuse to join smaller nations in such a guarantee,” while the Minneapolis Tribune (republican), on the other hand, sees in the treaty no obligation to join “a police force for the keeping of order wherever dinky remote little nations” take up arms. “In the Wash- ington treaty,” states the Philadelphia North American (progessive), “dom- inant nations, victors and equals in a great war, for the first time unite in seeking to promote peace and justice.” The Jersey City Journal (independ- ent) thinks it may be thoretically con- ceived that “Great Britain, France and Spain might agree upon a course of action that America did not approve,” and that it “is not clear that America in such a case could play the part of an absolutely free agent, as America could so clearly do under article X of the covenant.” The Chicago Post (in- dependent) holds the new treaty as lining “three powers up against any one power which refuses patience or threatens violence,” though the terms, in the opinion of the Adrian (Mich.) Telegram (independent), are “more or less elastic,” and in such case “it is always up to each natlon to decide how far it 18 bound to go,” thus justi- fying the’Pittsburgh Leader’s (pro- gressive republican) wnrnlns that “it is well to remember that diplomats never mean exactly what they say. This idea is elaborated by the Hart- ford Times (democratic) concerning the meaning of an agreement ‘be- tween” four powers to respect “their rights,” since more than two persons agree “among themselves,” and it is not clear whether “each nation is to respect its own rights, whether all to- r are going to regard rights as sort of a lump sum and respect them as such, or whether the nations col- lectively agree to respect the rights of each individual nation.” The paper suspects that this “loose use of words” is “deliberate.” “Just what these rights may be,” the Johnstown Demo- democratic) goes on_t Y, “may be more or less nebular,” and they are “in some cases denied by the peov'la directly concerned.” e Nor- folk'! Virginian - Pilot (independent democratic) thinks the arrangement will “work -noothlr." because it “mounts guard over rights that have not been seriously questioned for ears,” but that it is “not eagu . t we have,” comments the In- L 1is News (independent); an fance against any one, but a self-denying ordinance binding all the parties to it to recognize and respect one another’s rights in the Pacific,” and one “of its paints of strength, the Cinoinnati Times-Star (republi- can) thinks, “is its smack of an elabo- rately devised machine for enforcing its provisions.” The Philadelphia Bul- letin (!ndv&anmt republican) looks upon it as the “beginning of the Hard- ing ideal of the association of na- tions,” the “most substantial founda- sion,” in the opinidn of the Chicago Trib- e treaty does| interests of the Pacific; 1 ~ Harres Ewving - 1 BARON ALFREDO ACTON. i TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, Mali‘e Your Xmas Money Go Twice As Far By Buying Your Xmas Gifts At Behrend’s On Wednesday Everything Men, Women and Children Can Want at Prices Lower Than Elsewhere z $1 Bungalow . 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This force made a brilliant and successful attack | on a division of Austrian light craft. and In its two-hour duration inflicted | very serious damage on the enemy. | For this service the commander was | decorated with the military order of | Savoy. the British order of the bath and the French croix de guerre with palms. Following his promotion to the rank of vice admiral, Baron Acton for a period of more than two years was ' commanding officer at Taranto, the principal naval base of the Italian fleet, relinquishing this post upon his appgintment to. the position of chief of the general staff, which office he | held until last Ja Admiral Acto Y. 10 has two broth- ers also in the 1 navy, is one of the voungest vice admirals in that | service. The fact that during most of | hin active carecr he has been a line | officer. a fighting man par excellence, has proven a vaiuable foundation for his staff dutics and experience. He knows ships; he knows men; he Is an alert executive; he has both line-of- battle and staff experience, and he is steeped in naval tradition. His selec- | tion ns chef naval adviser to the dele- gation seems to have been the logical one. |une (independent republican), ‘“‘which the Washington conference could lay {for peace.” The “great accomplish-! |ment” of the treaty. in the opinion of | the Kansas City Times (independent), “is to accustom the English-speaking peoaples to working together in world ' “As a wubstitute for the anese alliance,” the De- Press (independent) holds the pact “a stroke of masterly states- { | manship.” i ! A War for Woman to Make. | The women of New York have it in their power to break the profiteering that has followed the strike of the meat packing employes. They have| only to put their households on a war { |pasis again. % During the war the women, patri- otically_ anxious to make sure of a full supply of food for the soldiers. cut down their purchases of meat as well as of white flour and butter. ! Now we have another, an econom jwar. The meat is not needed abroad If the householders do not buy it, if | restaurant patrons will not order it, ithen the meat will pile up in the packing houses. Very quickly the law | {of supply and demand will adjust the | situation. i __Since the war meat has not receded | in price as other foods have. The, | dealers have blamed it on the public | demand for the best cuts, or on con- ditions in the west, or, as now, on “natpral cconomic developments.” The present strike has been made an excuse | for lsemlmg meat up from 20 to 40 per| cent. i1 the consumers will give the whole | j meat industry—packers, wholesalers, tailers and_strikers—a lesson in “n ural economic developments” by cut- ting down their orders as suddenly and drastically as the meat men have put up the prices, then the consumers will bring the profiteers to their knees—New York Herald (republi- can). i | Wiping Off the Slates. Reports from London that Mr. Lloyd George i3 contemplating canceling | war debts owing to great Britain| from the entente states, on condition that France take similar action to- ward the states to whom she is creditor and shall also consent to a reduction of the reparations due from Germany, have & certain plausibility, | in view of past British feelers on the debt question. Lloyd George is now at the top of his European fame, owing to his suc- | cess in the Irish negotiations. France | is impressed, even in spite of herself, | and, despite her resentment of British efforts to secure a reduction of pay- ments and a moratorium for Germany, may be induced to grant the conces- sions London advocates at the price of a cgncellation of interallied in- debtednéss. Many will consider that if Britain takes this course, she will really sac- rifice no tangible assets, but simply wipe from her book a lot of bad debts—bad, that is, as far as any| prospect of collection in any calculable l future is concerned—and in return gain immensely from the resulting improvement of the financial position | of the continent.—Philadelphia Bulle- tin (independent republican). Every third farm has an auto. Oth- e&- two-thirds must raise corn.—Omaha ews. A poor man can't afford a valet, but he can get married.—Baltimore Sun. Speaking of the malled fist, write a plain fist when mailing.—Augusta Herald. Count that day lost whose low de- scending sun Sees no new treaty thought of or begun.—Pittsburgh Sun. Is it back to the great forefathers, or forward to the big four fathegrs?— Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. ‘We can’t understand how that bank in Germany led for 845,000,000 marks. Some acoldent in the pre room, probably—Houston Post. It will really be the United King- dom of Great Britain and Ireland when the cord that binds them is ac- cord—Greenville (8. C.) Pledmon The intense desire of some movie people to photograph the sinking ships comes from their wish to see something ‘sunk that lsn't their t | money.—Washington Post. They've already invented tdlking movies. Now will some one kindly invent a devige to make phonograph records aot?—Burlington News. Relessed on probation, & woman charged with ehooting her husband with intent to kill has applied for a divorce. 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