Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1921, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR.|picture shows in this country. Are the EEl s e ! laws which make for their safety "eing With Sunday Morning Edition. “,,,,A oeast AroltHe thaators kit toea from stage fire-making elements? Are the fe? Are the exits all clear nd available in case of a rush? In- pection is supposed to be constantly | maintained. But is it? Who checks ! the ins Tt av: who WASHINGTON, D. C. .December 30, 1921 | TRIDAY.. THEODORE W. NOYES. Editor '+ Compan, seetor Is nothing to punish those criminally negligent of their duty after the tragedy has occurred. {Teial and conviction and imprisonment { tho: who are responsible will not ack to life, or restore <« who are disfigured or crippled. in every city, town, where re plo of public a: spay ng anvhody every {such a hor as that at N H i should e accepted as a warning, to e every and to make the people themselve Eanetie {sistent upon constant and effe { supervision All Other States. I i Most theater owners and managers Daity .1y, $1060; 1 H Daily 1yr. $T.008 1 : : sond o $500 1 against disaster. | = realize their responsibility | ery possible |1rw:u|\inn\,! Transportation. are some who think they | x A with less expense, who | wes, who put profits . “dd of public security. They are the 1 of st And in order to he| el Wi {<ore nf watghing them it is necessary i in bad siape Shug - i ” ST g 3 | :f e whi b A Needed Memorial. i Inhabit-§ mers of 4 memorial to measere s . i commission which ey S LAl Bed the distinetive tree svste nal Capital. Tn view o erected has beee o he | 7 | care | Vdveent e " " viof Ave, the however, bave not 1 Reare. Thos . O the city's own | seem to he playving o rOes I e appropriate. | convinced. that t 5 ion is zlad to have statues of | theit favor wis persons of other fands: it can | But =ove Wip ar or foreet, however, those less spee I operation rer " ot - yen and women who by sin- 1 s the t 8 m to high ideals. coupled | hard work. made this { money | ¥ W capital it is today and | »on whi i 1 hasis part have is the s of th 1es the strect and sumn ir whole everp al Capits striking thir city to the ave es here for the a memorial to John ' pders and William | ith. With trees they devised aj tive scheme which today soften spring vilinary stre most The Order of the Day. “While 1t Substitu EEnCes the hard.outlines of the highway plan &nd you have the republiea | making the city comparatively cool in | well deseribed. While “jsummer. The system is their zreatest | BDiven hope. : { memorial. i LS rences all right. The Nevertheless, some set emblem, Loy ormal, but not the less | pjcn will contain their names and ov premising because of{yging out to the passerby in formal | | phrase the nature of their service. | s and representatives confer { ¢ouiq be eminently fitting. There are | St sident, and then with onej yopee of memorials to war-time e Ly anhiec e ijou The city has them in ever and viewed from many angles. There .i.e and square. Let us not forget | is frank ciation of the fact that | gur pece-time hero | Con upon reass in must t down to cases | 7 "'_ > = { Sood Aeal ot work Tl preny B The President’s Reception. { Next Monday an eahle custom will be revived at 1 White Hou hen the resident and his wife will cive the people of the country in | mal gresting in recognition ti w Year. Interrupted for the “President’s tion will be holiday at the capital. It is aj procedure for the chief execu- | 1 his wife. They must stand | = session of Cong w t short ses- the 1% ar tive s not lir ®ion is, 7 prad word to say, and that word the table day 4 A w o Congress s the vear of advisable ially ha « arty hours causing a severe physical | rain. In former times, however, the | tom was maintained despite this | | fact, and undoubtedly the reception | leaders know full | had a good effect in creating the feel- comfort and confidence | ing of contact hetween the head ur; administration and the | as early a s pos Iways | people, n, | tion | ~ the long se into the divisions in their party are giving the national i the opp and are well aware | citizens of the country | that the complexion of the ne on-i The spectacle of a long line extend- | gress will dey 1 largely on the recorl! ing from the front doors of the \\'hih*,; will e made on Casitol Hill in { House out to Penn the coming and down to the west will be there- and it | ve ix months. e {fore renewed mnext Monday, If Uncle Sam can collect all the | Will have a significance of moment. | Tnoney that is owing him he can come | That thin b fk strip of humanity a; pretty near having a menopoly of mili- | quarter of a mile or more, perhaps, in | Jut | led tary and naval cquipment with i ome taxpayers for an ons whatever. unshaken. Every person in that| line will be there because of a wish | There is no compulsion, no ! obligation, apart, perhaps, | on t fto be sense of to be | suggest man chemists who p et class. The people themselves will | tand in line and endure hardships as ! s, as those within doors | iting to receive them, in Jedience to an impulse that is one of i | the strongest elements in the Ameri- The original local residents of Yap ‘ i can system of government. ; i | { are still wondering what it is all about ———————————— ————r————————— Bad Inspection and Disaster. About a n While it was impossible to give the { entive naval program, such numbers | as were rendered are being highly ap- | 1th ago a motion picture in New aheater fire oceurs Haven | e, and nine persons iost their lives. ——————————— AT an investigation into the dis- Of late nobody has felt the uncer- tainty of a government position more n a king or an emperor. mster the coron a report which or of buildings mccuses tne ¢ as well managers and owners of i ans it e kel e s 1ch government insisted on | spons the fire. The accusation | i e g \<pector is Lased on | Deing a fighter. So did Carpentier.. | the fuc iotations of the law | e — { were | ed, including the ahsence Faulty Indictments. 1 ©of an r- By invocation of the . minute technique of the law counsel for ov. Small of Illinois have succeeded in having dismissed all the indict- it is| ments against him save one, and on The | that one he will be tried soon for mis- theater marffagers and owners are ac-i conduct in the management of the «d on the seore of knowingly omit- | funds of the state. The dismissals 1ese precaution against fire.; were based upon trifling errors in the v theater officers are scored, | writing and signing and numbering of though not formally accused, on the| the indictments. In one case the fore- siround of neglizence in giving a pro-{man of the grand jury placed his Jogue to the picture with an accom-|signature upon the wrong place on niment of dangerous accessory “ef-| the document. In another a word was rects,” including the burnigg of in-{omitted inadvertently by the typist wense, flames from which started the | who transcribed the paper. In another sive. Furthermore it appears that|cne of the formal phrases of accusa- ynembers of the city police force were tion was missing. yresent in the theater and witnessed In none of these instances was the other violations of the law, respecting | actual merit of the case involved.” The swhich the coroner lays stress. errors were purely mechanical. But Apart from any question of the|the court had no recourse but to dis- %onesty of the officials, a question | miss the charges as framed, as other swhich has been raised elsewhere in|courts have in the past been obliged 1he past when through negligence|to throw out indictments upon the disaster has occurred, it may be asked | most trifling grounds. It is a funda- ~whether this state of affairs exists!mental principle of the law that the hnywhero clse. whether it is general. | accusation must be in perfect form. SMfiMons of people are ¢~ attending | The drawing of indictments is & spe- n, swater on the stage, hose connections and fireproof scenery and woodwork. The only hose on the stage, { following telegr: it ! dountedly, first | ¢! | soldiers. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., Who’s Who XXXVI—Col. Sir Maurice P. A. Hankey. cial art, intrusted, as a rule, to ex- perts who know how to twist and turn langnage into every conceivable man- ner of statement, so as to cover every possible phase and angle of the case. It is related of an accused man that when he was commanded to stand in court and heed the indictment against him for murder he listened in amaze- ment as the ponderous and repeated words and phrases were rolled forth, and then replied to the usual question as to guilt: “Judge, I surely «:d not do those things I just heard read jabout; I only killed him * Such is the reaction upon the mind of the untechnical person of an indiet- ment paper when read or studied. Would it not he well to simplify the | forms of accusation? It is surely pos- officer of the law on guard ! sible to state the crime charged in l(»sul involved manner. to put the case of the state in a plain, unequivocal style. If that is done, if the old traditional phrases are discarded, there will be idable in the matter of pro-{less chance of error and mistake in|had. the preparation of the papers, and fewer mistrials and failures of justice will occar. Turning to Mr. Wilson. Christmas eve, Goltra, demo cratic national committeeman from Missouri. sent Woodrow Wilson the am: “The democrats of (his state send grectin 1D very earnest for a happy Christmas for you and your 1pn m made the follow nd T warmly vou were kind enough and 1 take the liberiy of send 1 vou, to the democrats of fissouri my most cordial ereetings and my o confident prediction of triumph Suceess of party in the new ar 1d the vears immedi ately to follow Wednesday, the demoer: exeen tive committee of Tenne in ses- sion at Nashville, sent Mr. Wilson the following te leadin in the state ¥ hone Cordell Hull. chairman of the committee, send heartiest 1 felicifations on occasion of our sixty-fifth anniversary with sin- hes that you may enjoy © o such days * * & day by gaining in h neth s in the Wil E n. but vably it was in the key of his sulutation to the Missourians, Pusiness? Very like busine Tn the Wilsonian democracy the call aver the agher by issouri and Te 1t proh: 11l al vive Jef failed, while Mr. s tributes to hat brand of party doctrine scarcely got a hand. There is strong opinion. widely en- tertained. that if Mr. Wilson were in alth and full strength he would con- trol in his own name, and for his own benefit if he cared for a third race for the presidency. the next democratic national convention. Will he control it for somebody else’s benefit? If so, for whose benefit? A Wilsonian candi- date suggests, of course, a Wilsonian platform. —_——— If all the war devices available < jshould be called into action there| would he no use of an age limit fo Non-comhatants. born babes to cengen in the thick of the fight. —_———————— The- enthusiastic and sincere hos. pitalities of America’s capital city did love feast. § —_— The voluminous war biographers aking the hands of the |pave done everything possible to shat-| pose of relie: ter the theory that all a man needs Is a five-foot book shelf. —_———————— France has refused to allow diplo- matic attention to concentrate on the Pacific to the exclusion of other oceanic spaces. ———————————— European countries may be expected on fighting though broke. —_————— Clemenceau may be credited with considerable foresight in connection «th will mean that the democracy | with his declaration, awhile ago, that | all he desired was to be let alone. —_————— Germany must regret that going into war was not contemplated with as ration now is. —_————— The irresponsible resignation rumor is one of the least of the cares of a et official. —— b= SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Difference. The optimist is merry. He's trustful and polite. The pessimist is very Morose, though erudite. The optimist sees dimly A lazy life so grand. The pessimist sits grimly And tries to play his hand. Used the Time Themselves. “That audience cheered you for twenty-five minutes before you started speaking.” “Yes,” replled Senator Sorghum, ruefully; “and it was understood that my part of the program was to be limited to half an hour.” “A fight,” said Jud Tunkins, “in most cases is merely the result of an argument in which two men were trying to reform each other.” \ Pretense. Our lives are interwoven ‘With much artistic bluff. ‘We talk about Beethoven, But we play the jazzy stuff. The Greater Need. “Why do you object to poetry?” “Because,” said Mr. Growcher, much of it is written by firstrate typists who are loafing on their regu- lar job.” “De way some o’ dis new crowd silli- ness carries on,” said Uncle Eben, “you'd think plain common sense had stopped bein' respectable.” 3 . from new- ns, would be ! Atthe Arms Conference HE the title given by all the leaders of the allied powers “prince of secretarles” is In the late war to Col. Sir Maurice Hankey, segretary to the British Emplre delegation to the con- ference on the limitation of armament and far eastern questions. The sec- retary of secretaries might also be applied to him, for this brillfant voung statesmen has served as secre- {tary for all of the more important of British committees and councils for the past decade. He is the first secretary the British cabinet ever He oils the machinery of the meetings %o that they run smoothly, and is the connecting link between the changing cabinets, | _Sir Maurice Hankey is only forty- {five years of age. His father was a South Australian, but he was born in England and educated at Rugby. In he entered the Royal Marine y, and within four vears was captain. After serving in various positions in the naval intelli- and on a committee that| the defensive ne of the he becam. i <cere the Committee of Imperial Immediately his genius as i ppreciated, and it be-{ = Lot L cretary me ne from the m v for him to resign| nes in order to become the Commitiee of Impe- ! Defense in 191 in 191 th's war he' was secretary to} ommittee and later inl {served ; secret snce of th and w writer h id that when the conference started Sir Taurice quietly took his place | mao the other secretaries, but it! was soon found.that it he who | hod all the dats had all the sugg t his fingertips. who : tions for organiza- | ition and ideas t vork # out and it} | was his staff who could al sup- Iply information when wanted, so that the dele of the different nations It is told that| great liking to r a document was turn to him and say me along, now. pull it 1t icame to rely on him. took a whene would o *C {Clemen vim' and, { has become famou: {throughout all Britain. Before at- meeting he tells hi tending a documents to pr no matter how wide cs has been discussed Uncle Sam's Christmas Gift. ! thinks, than Uncle Sam's Christmas gift of $20,000,000 worth of corn ed grain and condensed milk to starving Ru While there ha been, as the Oklahoma v Oklahoman says, 1"cr>n.=xd<r.1hln difference of opinion famong the people of the United States las to the wisdom of making a gov- i ernment i recep- | not suffice to give the Washington con- ! sme the chief featuré of | ference the unqualified aspect of a| appropriation for the pur- ing distress in Russia,” the emotional appeal of thousands of dying children has combined with Christmas sentiment to overcome al- most entirely whatever poliltical ob- | jection there might be to taxing one {People for the relicf of another. And {while making it plain, as the New i York Tribune does, that “our aid to the little sufferers” is given “with complete recognition of the atrocity 1of the Moscow system, which con- { tinues to offer the starving not bread {but a stone,” most American writers ania avenue | to display some erudite caution in ap- | feel ~ thas “the richest nation on proaching the question of how to keep | earth” can well afford to be generous. i A few papers, however, agree with | ‘the Louisville Post that “the fact that lin all this great country only $50.000 { has been subscribed privately to Rus-! sian relief is significant. The Ameri- jcan people are as generous as ever, * * but they have been slow to help Russia, because there is deep- rooted conviction in this country that { Russia ought to do more to help her- self.” The United States has done practically everything possible to re- lieve suffering in the famine are: from the very few of the higher official { much reluctance as payment of repa- | but “there isn't any earthly use of keeping this thing up,” the Dayton News declares, “unless the world has iscme assurance that Russia is willing to help herself. ®* * ® One of the ltroubles, it may just as well be dis- cussed twith perfect frankness. has been that a whole lot of sympathy has been expended on the country with- tcut very much interest being taken by the country in itself.” And fearing that Russia is already a prey to the | madness that overcomes those whom the gods would destroy, the Chicago Jcurnal doubts that the money appro- itoll of hunger from reaching a ghastly height,” since in the face of all the relief measures now practiced “famine deaths are steadily incregsing.” But unanswerable as is the argu- ment about self-help, “that kind of thing is impossible in the case of istarving Russians” the Sioux City Journal replies, “they cannot pro- duce their own sustenance at tl from outside sources they must suc- cumb.” Further, the Duluth Hearld asserts “there is mo politics in this. “t is just a .natter of a dying people, {some of whom we can save if we will,” for “Russia’s starvation is not all the fruit of bolshevism. First there was long decay under the caar, which left only a shell. Then revolu- tion crushed the shell, and bolshevism made a desperately bad matter in- finitely worse. But the chief trouble, that which makes the appalling situ- ation in the Volga re:..n, is drouth, 'y?aru of no crops.” And granting all the intolerable political conditions, the Atlanta Journal holds that food will still be “the best of all possible answers that a humane democracy cculd make. to bolshevism.” Certainly “no normal-hearted person, knowing the human misery that lies dark and deepening over the vast Volga region, would lift a finger to stay the mission of succor,” for nothing less than a whole-hearted response would, in the opinion of the Journal, “have been characteristic of America or in any wise worthy of her.” Since all the supplies provided for are to be purchased in the United States, under the terms of the act, this Russian relief, as the Minnesota Star says, “ini no way transgresses whatever truth lies in the adage that ‘charity begins at home,’” for, the Syracuse Herald points out, “the op- eration will be big enough to help the American grain market and our ship- ping interests as well” It is not often, the Herald continues, ¢“that a noble national undertaking {involves such an incidental benefit to the coun- try from which the bounty preceeds.” " Cleveland Nowa D ibeen able to produce the required pa- at time Sir Mauriee Hankey | Ders from his case when called for. beeame recognized as an indispensa-| There are two gualities that make | {ble authority in 1 ouneils of the| of Sir Maurice a super-secre aj mpire. The responsibilitics of the| Benius in his position. They are a | riat were g nd as itei M elous memory and a veritable he found free scope for his! pussion for work. His daily routine | fts of vi ndtinitiative. bikiwlae tart work before & in the morn- | owledge the complex problems| ing and continue until late at night, of mational defense. and his genius| Sometimes past midnight. Nothing tor K else in life seems to have any interest ! Soon after the outbreak of the war) for him. His power of memory is o ary to the war coun. | extraordinary that it is phenomenal. ' It is «aid that he can sIt through a T e ting an hour or more, and after- el at, wards dictate everything that was e of the war. In 1819 helo\jq with absolute accurac confere AU Without any = hesitation Sir | s and sec arice can ree any meeting | CDRHE uunell orarous L Iela liie any boly on a given date, i tman who attended every politic s past, tell who attended i i rom t: were scussed and i to prosent | SRR bl s Uhgludl the su-| he done so often and so preme war, now secre- cately that his account is taken okt and British secre- | tioned. Services of this kind in fary to the supreme conneil. Hel longn envice the imperial { o e . he is now so al in his work that he has no recrea- tions. Although he is pleasant and | heerful, he finds little time to mingle with men. His duties require that he have a vast amount of knowledge ry conceivable subject, and yvet EDITORIAL DIGEST } “A more appropriate message of { g00d will upon earth” could not have been conceived, the New York Times | priated by Congress “will keep thej time” and “unless they receive helpi COL. SIR MAURICE P. A. HANKEY. at a meeting there has never been a time in_ his career when he has not on where stat ns of widely men are debating divereent chara a4 invaluable. iry is to great advants able to put his hand immed v document that will be d; coming work. Although at one time in his life Sir Mourice was an adept at tennis and has read but little. His great mind simply absorbed and retained all information that has passed through his hands. Sir Maurice was given the Grand|] Cross of the Bath, the highest class| of that order, for his part in the war. | When proposing this honor the prime | minister said: _“He took no part in { battle. but he was as essential to our success in war as any man. His serv- es were known to few, but none lered greater service, and there- he is more worthy of honor and fo than The Scranton Times quotes former Secretary of Commerce Redfield, now | d in relief work in Russia, as/| ing that as “a cold-blooded busi- s proposition.” Russian relief pre- oble example of prac- tical al It the Canton (Ohio) News agree: e an invest- ment in humanitarianism that will | hardly fail to give good returns in friendship.” A Palace for the Federal Reserve Bank? ‘The Federal Reserve Board may look upon its New York bank as the Brit- sh government looks upon the Bank England, but it is in reality some- 'whal different. It is, after all, al- though larger and more imposing than the others, only one out of many. It not a central government bank, and | the other federal reserve banks are | not its branches. { Even if it were vastly more impor- tant and significant than it is, it Is doubtful if the board would be justi- fied, in existing circumstances, in building for it a home more costly | than “the White House and the Treas- ‘ury building and the state capitols of a dozen states,” as Mr. John Skelton Williams, former controller of the rrency, now charges. Twenty-five i millions ‘of dollars is a huge sum of money, and the reserve board must indeed have been prospering these 'lan few years if it can afford to put that amount in a single building. It is pertinent, perha in_all fair- iness, to say that Mr. Williams has | differed with the Federal Reserve Board concerning various features of the latter’'s policy, and is, therefore, it may be, not as disinterested a critic as might be found. Yet his charges 1in tais instance involve facts that are easily ascertainable, and they require a more convincing answer than has been made.—Baltimore Sun (indepen- dent democrat). One International Agreement. An everlasting question of why citizens of the United States should ! be the only inhabitants of the Ameri- can continent to be called Americans jix appearing again in_ syndicated i questions and answers departments. The answer is being made that the { designation “American” is applied ex- jclusively to the citizens of the United States for the sake of brevity. There is a tacit international agree- ment, without formal treaties, but |thr0u:h the self-determination of all the peoples interested among all the nations on this continent, that we, the people of the United States, hold the exclusive right, not as part of our | sovereignty, or even as a part of our heredity, but by the consent of all {concerned. to call ourselves “Ameri- cans.” We do not believe there can ever be an international war for pos- session of the name or for ending our monopoly of its use. Men in Dawson City, asked if they were Americans, have proclaimed themselves Cana- dians. Other men, asked the same question in Monterey, have proclaimed themselves Mexicans. ‘We have liked them the more for this fine spirit of national pride—as great as that we take in our own Americanism. And we like to be. lieve that story, however apocryphal it sounds, of the foreigner in Paris, having all the signs of South America upon him, who was asked by & boule- vardier, ignorant of the boundary dis- tinctions we draw on this side of the ocean, if he was an American. ‘“No, sir!” he answered proudly. “I am & Patagonian."—St. Louis Globe-Demo- crat (republican). Many a woman who has never taken up law can lay it down—Flint Journal. South Ireland must now choose b tween a fight to a finish and a finish to a fight.—Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. Every one having paid his income tax can start another Christmas club account to take care of ti in 1922.—Bay City Time: Savannah reporter accepted six new dimes from Mr. Rockefeller, sr. Gosh! Our once free and ind dent press has gone and got subsidized again.— FRIDAY, DECE MBER 30, 1921. 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