Evening Star Newspaper, December 31, 1921, Page 6

- 6 T'THE EVENING STAR. ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. SFASRINGTON. = = SATURDAY. ..December 31, 1921_ THEODORE W. NOYES. . . .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. W Nassau 8t. Chicago Offfce: First National Bank Buildine. European Office: 16 Regent St., London, England. | The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition. is delivered by carriers within the eity | at 60 cents per month: dally only. 45 cents por nth: Sunday only. 20 cents per month. Or- be xent by mail, or telephone Muln ection {s made by carriers at the b month, 000. ¢ end of eac Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. | Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sutd Daily only Sunday only. mo.. 85¢ mo., 60 “Silly!” Mischievous efforts to weaken if not to destroy the work of the limitation of arms conference have been ap- parent for some time. Various agencies have been at work to promote friction, | not only between the delegates of the foreign powers represented. but be- | tween the American delegates and their chief, the President of the United States. 1t has been apparent that cer- tain interests are concerned to prevent it possible a full understanding he- tween the government and the pro- gram of limitation. and to take advan- | tage of any possible misunderstanding | to promote actual antagonisms. The task of the conference is surely difficult enough without this element of discord thrust upon it from outside its own field. The problems with which it is dealing are intricate and susceptible of complication. The is- &ues are farreaching and involve the weightiest of intere: Only in the best of temper and in a spirit of sin- cere desire to achieve something for the good of humanity can results be &cored. ‘The latest move of these malevolent factors is the spread of a report that there is serious friction between the President and Secretary Hughes, amounting to a veritable breach. No basis whatever appears for thjs al- leged strain. Thus far in the course of the conference the relations between the two men have been marked by the utmost confidence and agreement. The President has handed to the Secretary of State, as head of the American dele- gation. full responsibility and initia- tive. The American proposals have been framed in a spirit of complete harmony between all the American representatives and officials whose judgment has been invoked. At every stage the President has given evidence of full and cordial approval of the acts and words of his chief cabinet officer. Now President Harding meets the report of friction th Mr. Hughes promptly and decisively with the char- | acterization “silly!” Truly, it is worse than silly. It is malevolent. Tt is in- tended to make for trouble, is calcu- lated to break down American con- fidence in the success of the confer- ence, is designed to destroy its work. The President has used a mild word in meeting it with his denunciation. The “silly” part of it is the belief that must be presumed on the part of this self-appointed wrecking crew that their efforts could possibly cause an; actual breach and bring about the end they desire. There is too much sound sense and too much sincere devotion to the purpose of arms limitation to be oftset by such prevarication. —= A Prohibition Champion. “Pussyfoot” Johnson, the aggressive champion of prohibition, has just re- turned from a visit to India, where he spoke in a number of towns and cities in favor of the cause he represents. His friends should cancel the sobriquet his enemies have fastened on him. The man who has given an eve to a cause by boldly challenging @ mob cannot be characterized justly as a pussyfooter. Mr. Johnson reports progress in An- dia. The people are getting the hang of the subject, and the better they un- derstand it the more disposed they are to assist the movement for making their country dry. " 1In his own country once more, Mr. Johnson will find his services much in demand. The wets are very active. ‘With an eye—with both eyes—on the Sixty-eighth Congress, they are organ- izing to capture that body if possible. ‘They have means galore for organiza- tion purposes. They have men of abilify and experience in charge of thelr interests. The drys are not asleep. They are moving, too. They are not underrating the opposition. They know its size, its methods of procedure, and the sec- tions it has in mind for its leading campaign activities. The wets this time will stress the government's need of revenue, and point out how much money could be obtained in the way of taxes by modi- fications of the Volstead law. Let the ‘ban on beer and light wines be lifted, and a large sum will flow into the United States Treasury. They have estimated the sum, and are already dangling it before the eyes of the pub- lic after the fashion of displaying the purse on a wire at a country horse race. —————————— France has managed to shift the point of diplomatic interest from the Pacific to the Atlantic. ————t——————— Briand and Viviani have asserted themselves as the great international irreconcilables. The Dail Not to Ratify. A peculiar complication has arisen in the matter of the Irish treaty which may cause some delay in ratification. It has been discovered that under the terms of the treaty signed in London it must be submitted for approval, not to the dafl eireann now in session, dbut to a house of commons of south- ern Ireland constituted under the home-rule act of 1920, which, though elected, was never assembled. The membership of the dail eireann and that of the commons are very nearly {denticul. It is belleved that there ‘would be a larger vote for ratification in the latter, and as the present pros- pect is that the dall, when it votes, jand voted approval. {misingly In opposition. will express approval, the ultimate outcome ofelegislative action will be unchanged by this shift. The vote in 3 Zaii Wil be » woré of index bamor. That it will he favorable to the treaty is the present indication. While the dail has been debating, and since it recessed, expressions of public opinion have been given in all parts of south- ern Ireland almost uniformly favorable to ratification. County councils, or- ganizations and societies have met It is noted that there has been no real enthusiasm for the treaty anywhere, but the feeling is general that it should be accepted as the bes® possible solution of the problem, and assuring the closest ap- proach to complete independence that can be sccured from England. De Valera's position remains uncompro- He refuses to accept the evidence of popular ap- proval, but it is noted that he does not now urge a referendum, as he did at the outset. Such a gencral vote would, it is expected. be overwhelmingly in favor of acceptunce. The feeling pre- vails throughout Ireland, it would seem, that a substantial measure of real independence has been secured through this agreement, and that its rejection would renew profitless con- flict, of which the great body of the Irish people are desperately weary. That Third Party. There is a growing amount of talk about a third party. The animating proposition is that both of the old par- ties have outlived their usefulness and sincerity; that neither is what it pro- fesses to be: that both are controlled by the “interests” and manipulated to forward the purposes of a compara- tively few men; that both must be serapped if the people’s interests are to be forwarded. and that scrapping time has come. Let all who have ob- served the stage play of our national politics, and been disappointed by one or both of the old organizations, get together and under competent leader- ship wrest public affairs from the clutches of those who are misusing them. . There is a difference of opinion, however, about when the work should begin. Some would inaugurate it at ence: would make play for seats in the next Congress. They have no thought of capturing that body, but are of. opinion that if a few seats can be se- cured in the House for speakers of | ability an excellent hearing for the | cause can be obtained in time for profit in 1924. i But others urge a longer canvass of | the situation. Their idea is that by devoting the next two years solely to organization purposes the new party can hope to make an impressive “front” in 1924, and try that year both for the presidency and for the Con- gress. Not improbably, Mr. Debs, now so much in the picture, will be sounded ! on the point. and his views circulated | in quarters where there is most un- rest and be most in favor. Indeed, there is talk of nominating him for Congress in the Terre Haute district next year, but he is not restored to citizenship by the commutation of his prison sentence. which somewhat in- terferes with plans for his election to any office. s Revising the Tariff. Senator Smoot, a member of the committee revising the House tariff bill, does not expect completion of the work before February. THen will fol- low the debate in the Senate, and fol- lowing the passage of the measure by the Senate will come the conference between House and Senate for the ad- justment ot differences. Tt does not seem likely, therefore, that a tariff bill will reach the Presi- dent until the spring is well advanced. The conference is certain to be live- ly. Under the Constitution, all revenue measures must originate in the House. Accordingly, when Congress met in special session last spring, the House at once addressed itself to the Presi- dent's recommendation for a revision of the Underwood tariff law, fashioned and passed the Fordney bill, and sent it to the Senate. The Senate has had the measure ever since. Its right of review is not limited, and in this case it is showing a disposition to exercise the right broadly and thoroughly. Indeed, the prospect is bright for practically a new measure. The House will hardly be able to recognize the Fordney bill in the bill the Senate will return. The House has always been sensitive on this score, holding that the consti- tutional Initiative goes for nothing where the Senate carries its right of review to the point of writing a new measure. So that when House and Senate meet in conference this time there will be enough at issue to make the discussions spirited and perhaps pro- tracted. —_———————— Tt is dangerous to rule against jokes about prohibition. Nothing would add to its popularity more than a reliable reputation as an honest hilarity booster. ————————— It must be admitted that American journalism is not as spicy as it was before George Harvey consented to be- come an ambassador instead of the editor of a weekly paper. —_———————— Paris effords examples of tempera- ment in politics as well as in art. ——————— Cheirman Hull. ‘This is from Nashville: Cordell Hull, chairman of the demo- cratic national committee, here for the get-together democratic dinner in his honor tonight, said today he would enter the race for his old seat in Con- gress from the fourth Tennessee dis- trict. The Star recently mentioned some speculation current in political circles on this subject. Would Mr. Hull seek his old seat in Congress next year or give his whole time as chairman of the democratic national committee to the work of the committee in the ef- fort to capture the Sixty-eighth Con- gress? The national committee’s work next year will be of an exacting character, and the man who directs it will not have much time to bestow on eny- thing else. Mr. Hull's decision, therefors, may lead to this inquiry: Does he contem- plate resigning the chairmanship of the democratic national committee in order to devote himself to his own THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 37, 192 campaign, or does he think demo- cratic prospects in his district so bright he can run his persansl cam- Pterer {Hrougn Neutermeo: There was much satisfaction ex- pressed in democratic circles when Mr. Hull accepted the chairmanship of the party’s national committee. His experience in politic his wide ac- quaintance in political circles, and the ability he had shown in Congress, were quoted as fitting him for the place. Should he retire now. or soon, there will be a spirited contest for the suc- cession. Democrats are much heart- ened by, existing republican divisions, and are counting on success next No- vember. Energy Dollars. One of the superstitions with more lives than a back yard full of cats is the superstition of fiat money, or faith money, or trust money, or money that s unredecmable in the money of ulti mate redemption. It is not correct in theory, and what is not correct in theory is not correct in practice. On the other hand. that which is ot in theory is correct in practice, the trouble heing that many things appear to be correct in theory which are not, and the defect can only be proved in practice. Fiat money can be proved incorrect in theory. It is contrary to human nature and human experience. Where and whenever it has been tried it has failed. The crime of inter- est has been inveighed against during more centuries than a man can count, yet a man will not let another man |{he Japanese N College. When ase his money without paying or{graduated ,m')n s :.:. rs nld] he ‘:nd romising to pay him for the use of | commi - . any more than a man will let an- | fjEned to duty on the N e sther man use his house and land | captain, Callsa without paying rent. Yet, here comes Henry Ford, a man with millions of dollars, and millions which he himself has made, with a proposal to issue “energy dollars,” or non-interest-bearing promises to pay and non-redeemable except after the lapse of a long term of years. ‘If Mr. Ford thinks this can be done, let Henry do it. It is a job only for a philanthropist. Mr. Ford has made an impressive success in his particu- lar line of work, but in “getting them out of the trenches by Christmas” and in knowledge of history he has not been a shining success, or any other kind of a success. And his “energy dollar” plan may be a bright idea, but it is only an ide: e ——————— In discussing motor regulat Maryland fails to take into account the pecuniary advantage that might ns be derived from a friendly arrange-{ ment that would permit the dropping of a number of auto cops from the pay roll. ——————————— It has become a world habit to in- terrupt human progress in order to give attention to the quarrels of France and Germany. —_—————————— There is no definite information to rtradict the impression that the original inhabitants of the Island of | (independent democratic), “is too Yap continue to remain strictly |vague to serve as a basis of any Seutral definite conclusion concerning the debt policy of the ministry,” but at —————————— The Washington conference has succeeded in turning up some valuable information as to European viewpoints and polis k. ——r——————— Nicky Arnstein has again invited the authorities .to join in the sweet old song, “Where Is My ‘Wandering Boy Tonight?” —————— Santa Claus brought toys for the innocent children, but could not pre- vent sophisticated adults from reach- ing for firearms. —————————— China’s open door becomes less of a consideration than the possibility of the rest of the world being torn wide open. ———— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Vain - Courtesies. Had a little party down to Pohick on the Crick. We all qut on our Sunday clothes and looked tncommon slick. The object of the meetin’ formulate a plan To settle all contentions by plain speakin’, man to man. We had chow chow, chicken salad, oyster patties and ice cream. Tilly Tunkins sang a ballad. She was beauteous as a dream. Us men folks bowed an’ scraped an’ spoke grammatic an’ refined, was to Pretending that nobody ever had a thought unkind. And then we got together for a twen- ty-minute chat. ‘We vowed we'd all be trustin’ friends, . and let it go at that. But big Jack Golson said, “This here politeness seems to be A-puttin’ somethin’ over on rough scrappers, such as me. To demonstrate that each desires mo more than is his right And prove our sociability, I move we start a fight.” Politeness has no value, when you spread it on too thick. It couldn’t save that party down to Pohick on the Crick. Bluntly Stated. “will you leave politics?” inquired the sympathetic friend. “Nobody leaves politics,” Senator Sorghum. till he gets left.” Jud Tunkins says these transforma- tions leave him unable to compliment his wife on her appearance without arousing jealous suspicion that he is admiring another woman’s hair. 1 Influences. *Astrology is out of date. Its arts our science bars. The only stars we contemplate Are motion picture stars. Question for Question. “Could you be content with love in a cottage?” Inquired the admiring gen- tleman. “Let me understand you,” rejoined Miss Cayenne. *“Are you making love or discussing the housing problem?” “Durin’ de holidays,” said Uncle Eben, “big folks has kind of over- looked de dove of peacé ‘cause dey got 80 husy talkin® "-III‘W," replied “Everybody stays U Who's Who XXXVII—Vice Admiral Kanji Kato. Atthe Arms ‘ Conference it HE principal naval expert ad- viser attached to the Japanese delegation to the Washington conference on the limitation of armaments is Vice Admiral Kanji Kato.. He is, by the way, no blood relation of Admiral Baron Kato, the head of the Japanese delegation. Kato, it is explained, is a very com- inan name in Jupan. 1t was Vice Ad- | Kato who advanced articu- larly the demand of Japan hat the nAval rullu_ of the United States. t Britain and Japan be fixed at 10-7. instead of the 5-5-3 ratlo proposed by the United States, which was finally agreed to by the three Kreat He based his mmendation largely upon the al- needs of Japun for national | strength. poice Admiral the Japanese Naval College. Fo sume ‘time he werved as the ehief of the department of gunnery in the Jugnn«'!»l navy, and for a while he was commander-in_chief of anese na- val forces statior S estan In Japan he re; uthority in techn Vice Admiral K old. Tt o ix fifty-one years was early determined that the navy should be his career, and in 1882, when he was twelve years old, he entered the p atory school of waiian waters at the time of the po- litical unrest in those islands, During the ¢ Japanese war he was in . and was pro- moted rank of xublicutenant. 4 one of the officers in navigation of the bat- built in England for the cceount of Japan. on its voyage from ingland to Japan. Vice Admiral Kato advanced in rank through the various grades to that of lieutenant commander, and was in 1903 appointed chief gunnery officer abroad the bat- tleship Asahi, and then to a similar post on the Mikasa, flagship of Ad- miral Togo during the Russo-Jap- anese war. _After the battle of August 10 in the 4, he was appointed private ister of the navy, promoted to the rank of commander, nd. with Admiral Yomamoto, pro. to England in the suite of! Fushimi. appoint anese embas During the war Admiral Kato further active Scrapping the War Debts. Much of the comment on what the Sandusky Register (republican) calls Britain’s “magnificent gesture” in her indicated “willingness to forgive all her own war debtors, on condition | that they forgive their: may be said | to be in the subjurctive mode. The report, says the New York Times the same time the plan “Is so wise, statesmanlike, and so humane” that the Houston Post (democratic) thinks “it must be true.” On the hypothesis, then, that the re- port is true, many papers point out so0 that “the plan in question need not be attributed to entirely altruistic motives,” to quote the Lynchburg News (democratic). “This would be a good stroke of business for Brit- ain” says the Minneapolis Journal (independent republican), “because as a manufacturing country dependent on foreign trade she cannot be pros- perous herself unless the rest ofs Europe recovers economic balance and is able to buy her good: “Im- mediate mutual cancellation,” states the Chicago Tribune (independent re- publican), “is more favored in Eng- land than in the United States, since the bulk of our debt is owed by Eng- land and is collectible, whereas the greates part of the debts owed to England are probably not collectible.” The effect of Great Britain's sug- gested course on the policy of debt ncellation by the United States pro- vokes the bulk of the comment. “The effect of that policy,” the Richmond Times-Dispatch (democratic) thinks, “if proceeded with, would be some- what embarrassing to this country,” since it is “calculated to make that country appear generous and the United States selfish and grasping,” and the situation would be capitalized “to the further loss of American pres- tige” in France and “in other coun- tries that supported the allied cause.” “Washington will be obliged,” in the opinion of the Cleveland Plain Dealer (independent democratic), “to face one of the most diflicult problems yet presented to it if Great Britain proceeds with a policy of debt can- cellation without regard to the debt policy of this country,” while the Reno Gazette (republican) feels that Britain “seems determined to force the hand of America in the matter and place her in the position of an un- yielding creditor if she fails to fall in with the suggested plan.” That “insistence by the United States upon full debt payment is being made diffi- cult” is admitted by the Pittsburgh Press (independent). & However, “if they are really going through with their scneme,” the Buf- falo Express (independent republican) thinks, “they are to be admired for their boldness, and perhaps at a later date the American people will com- mend them for their wisdom.” That “it would produce a marked change of attitude in this country, where we have been disposed to ask that Europe show some indications of the capacity for self-help befors committing our- selves very deeply to the task of help- fulness,” is the opinion of the Man- chester Union (independent republi- can). “Many respected economists,” comments the Providence Tribune (in- dependent republican), “insist that cancellation must take place, at least in part, sooner or later,” since some of the European countries can “never bring their inflated paper currency up to par. Some assert that we are already morally canceling the debts by refusing, through a high tariff, to allow Europe to pay us in the only manner possible, namely, with goods. There is reason to suspect an effort to stampede us. We should be cautious.” On the other hand, the Salt Lake| City Desert News (independent) be- lieves that “we have a most excellent, opportunity to be gracious without being patronizing,” and “while ap- parently losing money out of one pocket, we should be actually and actively putting it in another.” The New Haven Journal-Courier (inde- pendent) thinks the “wise all-around thing is to cancel the debt and forget it,” while the Boston Transcript (in- dependent republican) believes that “it may not be best to cancel entirely, but modifications of the interest pay- ments to a very low rate, with easy terms of payment, seem to have con- siderable advantages to those who have the nation’s future prosperity at heart.” ‘That it would be a mistake for the United States to yield to the policy tentatively proposed by Great Britain is argued by the Johnstown Democrat (democratic), on the ground that if the “debts owed by the allied gov- |&} ernments to the United States were forgiven” it would mean only “that by so much those governments would feel free to continue along their im- perialistic courses with growin armies, expanding navies and witl persistent preparations for that ‘next EDITORIAL DIGEST VICE ADMIRAL KANJI KATO. * He was the senlor officer commanding the Ibuki and Chikuma n the chase of the German commerce destroyer Kmden. He had charge of much of the work of convoying Aus- tralian and New Zealand contingents on their way to the western front. and also of patrolling the Indian ocean. When the bolshevist uprising oc- curred at Vladivostok in 1918 he was appointed commander of the fifth di- vision, and co-operated with Admiral Knight to protect lives and property of the subjects of the allied nations residing there and preserve order in the city. The following year he made a tour of Europe to investigate post- bellum conditions. He was promoted to the rank of vice admiral in 1920. Vice Admiral Kato exemplifies in his own person the progressive Jap anese navy. He has seen active se ice in all of Japan's more recent wars. war' which the jingoes of all lands are promoting.” Following this line of argument, the Chicago Tribune (independent re- publican) feels that “there should be no remission on terms which will per- mit European governments to go on playing the destructive game of do- imperial adven- ture.” in agfeement with the Topeka Capital (republican), which thinks that “to cancel the debt would simply promote rearmament in Europe and possible resumption of the old dip- lomatic game.” In addition to being a “blow at the disarmament pro- gram,” the New Haven Register (in- dependent) feels that “if these loans are not repaid and the occasion should ever arise again for these countries to borrow largely from America, whether directly or through govern- ment loans, they would find a mighty hard time in doing i The Other Side. There are hundreds of millions of men and women who will never hear nor ever care about the conference which so many of us are fearsomely watching as if life could never go on at all should it fail to achieve re- sults. Some slight consideration of these millions might diminish the vague fmism and uneasiness which seem be in the air. It might give us| hope and let us remember that there | are forces in the world doing at Teast as much for peace on earth, good will to man, as all the diplo- mats and statesmen in existence. Mankind now has reliable and ef- ficient intercommunication. Knowl-l edge and inventions have been spread broadcast all over the world, greed, selfishness and the inertia of supine and betrayed masses may cause long- protracted periods of decline or col- lapse in old and sterile portions of the earth. But the flame of progress cannot now effectively be blown out by the stupidity or the wickedness of any conceivabie group of men. It burns too steadily, too increasingly in remote portions of the earth, far from any power which can for long be exerted by all the nations repre- sented together at Washington. The kings, the superstitions, the ignorance which rendered progress slow are fast disappearing before the rays of dawn of a new world. The elder statesmen at Versailles, blind to those rays, worked devious in- trigues in the dark. Doubtless they or their prototypes will try the samas tricks at Washington. They may even temporarily succeed. But the pessimism which many as- tute and highly placed rabble-rousers are wisely preaching may be taken with a grain of salt. Not all the short-sighted diplomats in existence can for long retard the progress of a world now girdled with all the great inventions which bind men to- gether. Whatever happens, the rays of dawn are breaking over the world. For the Tom and Dick and Harry of today there may be fog. But no dead hand can rob the generations soon to follow.—Baltimore Sun (inde- pendent democratic). ‘Women and War. Lord Riddell! departing after having crowned his achievements in the dis- semination of light and pro da by spilling the French tomne-“lmot its teapot, is automatically subjected to the Inevitable question,” What d he think of American women? oes tary f the world is to take to peace the women have got to do it. The men can’'t gnd men won't . . . The men have too many traditions and hoary theories behind them. The women are coming into world affairs without these things pulling them back.” The idea that women are a greater force for peace than men is the last of those singular nilsconceptions as to wom- an’s influence upon politics which are being dissipated by the adoption of female suffrage. The women have come into local, state and national affairs with all the traditions and all the hoary theories clinging as olosely to them as they ever did to the male section of humanity, with the ex- ception that since they are naturally fi\le mxore ;ommuc sex, traditions and eories have a greater 1 their imaginations. There ‘l.p:?“:? son to suppose that they will not enter world affairs with a similar failure to divest themselves miracu- lously of the less pleasant parts of the human heritage. They do the same things as men, only they do them with greater enthusiasm —Bal- timore American (republican). Uncle Sam’s bonds are gettin good as his word—Greenville (& Pledmont. The principal drawback to bootleg- ing {s the freedom of the seise.— Columbia (8. C.) Record. It seems that the ex-servies men would rather go without & bonus than have it paid out of money drawn in the Treasury by a tax on wine and beer.—Johnstown Democrat. N as C. uick Service [Privting LEWIS M. 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