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'HE "EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. G FRIDAY. .January 20, 19223 e v THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor &'he Evening Star Newspaper Comuw. Busioess Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. Ohteags Omco: Fioet National ‘Bank Bat Firat Nad ) Buropean Office: 16 Regent 8t., London, .P Byening Star, with the Sunday moraing tion, is delivered by carriers within the elty &t 80 cents per month; dally only. 45 cents per month; Bunday only, 20 cents per mouth. Or- be sent by mall, or telephone Main - 8000, Collection 1s” made” by earriers st and of gt‘h month. Rate’by Mail—Payable In Advance. - ‘2.Maryland and Virginia. Dafly-and Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1 mo., 70c Datly only ey T 3800 1 mo. 506 8t ~..1yr., $2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 85c Daily only.. 1 .00; 1 mo., 80c Sunday_oniy......1yr., $3.00} 1 mo., 25¢ ;. ‘The Russian Exiles. A meeting i3 held today In this city in thé intergst of rendering aid to the Russian refugees scattered in various |\ parts of the world, exiled by the revo- lution that has held that country in its cruel grasp for several years. These people are the most intelligent. and progressive of the Russians. They rep- resent the chief hope for the rehabili- tation of that country. There are up- ‘ward of a milllon of them, most of them subsisting in varioys countries along the Russian border. Practically all of them are in extreme destitution and misery. They have sacrificed everything. Meager supplies reach them from time to time from various centers of relief, such as that here, but the total is pitifully deficient. The United States is now spending a farge sum In supplying food to the starving Russian children, sufferers from the famine. This work has been gladly undeitaken and is being ef- ficiently carried out by trained agents. Nobody begrudges the millions that it is costing. But at the same time there is a feeling that as much should be done for those Russians who are to- day in exile, who have no government to protect or assist them, whose lives are forfeit if they return home, whose estates have been confiscated and whose future is black. These people have been sacrificed because of no crime, no offense against the law. They are the victims of a class hatred that knew no discrimina- tion,: Not all of them are royalists. Many of them are democrats. They are all patriotic Russians who hope to see their land redeemed ‘from the tyranny of the proletariat controlled by eonscienceless radicals. ‘Washington takes a, particular in- terest in this work because of the pres- ence here of one who was in her girl- hood a familiar figure in this city. Princess Cantacuzene, granddaughter of President Grant, has brought home to the people of Washington the piti- ful plight of the Russian exiles, with her own-account of the suffering she has personally witnessed and which she is now trying to alleviate. A gen- erous response to any call for help is tc be expected. The Republican Congress Fight. Ohio scores again, and again de- serves her good fortune. Representa- tive Fess has been chosen for the third time chairman of the republican con- gressional committee. \ Mr. Fess’ first effort was rewarded with & majority of forty-six in the House. That campaign was made ‘with President Wilson leading the op- position. The war was in progress, and notwithstanding the fact that the republicans had been giving the Presi- dent the most loyal support in its prosecution he made a direct appeal within a few weeks of election day for the election of another democratic Congress. The voters looked the other way. Mr. Fess' second effort was made two years ago, when the country, as election day disclosed, was almost of one mind. His reward was a House with a republican majority of 169%— much too large for either comfort or speed in the dispatch of business, as events have shown, and are still show- ing. #r. Fess' third commission will test his full powers—give him opportunity to employ all the resources he has twice demonstrated the possession of as a ‘eampaign manager. It is no se- cret that the democrats are heartened by the criticism of the present Con- gress, now pretty widespread, and are taking: great pains with thelr cam- paign plans. It 18-Stated that, early as it is, the republicans have done a good deal of preliminary work, and are preparing to look alive everywhere, even in the south. To the border states they will sgive pérticular attention. ) The=apnouncement of a cold wave enabfj’ the western farmer to feel that he is sending’along something that enables him to get even with the effete-gaat for indifference to his grain ehipments. ‘The formula, “5-5-3-1.75-1.75" plainly shows-that the naval ratio problems are getting considerably beyond the limitations of simple arithmetic. —_——— Russia has not realized enough on some ‘stupendous exportations of ~pearls to 'prevent her from asking wheat gratis from the. U. S. A. ——— Poincare’s Bold Outline. Raymond Poincare, .premier of \ much to be doubted. Shotid Potncare | general public. Tasiness ax win he will emerge as the foremost attaining to an understapding of S=EREEETE AT T statesman of Burope, dwarfing and discrediting Lloyd George. Should he fall, France will have been done in- calculable harm, and she will be in a far more sorry plight, with fewer friends to belp her. The Poingare prograra can mean but one thing, and that is that France is prepared to go it alone in dealing with Germany in the matter of reparations. He cannot expect the British govern- ment—certainly not the government of Lloyd George—to be party to the extreme measures which he proposes. the | The British prime minister has become convinced that it is not possible for Germany to live up to the terms of the Versallles treaty, and British opinion seemingly is back ‘of him. Poincare Insists that Germany shall fulfill the treaty to the letter, and in default he proposes French occupation of the Ruhr, French administration at Ber- lin of German finances. and any further penalties which France may see fit to impose. France, apparently, 1s resolved to squeeze Germany to the 1limit, let the consequences be what they may. Europe’s Debt to America. Passage by Congress of the allled debt-funding bill will greatly increase the chance of accomplishments at Genoa looking to the restoration of prosperity to Europe and to the world. None of the coyntries of Europe which owe huge sums to the United States can make intelligent plans for the fu- ture while this indebtedness hangs over it like a black cloud, overdue and subject to call. This does not mean that the in- debtedness will be taken inta the Genoa conference and discussed as a composite matter, and it certainly does not mean that the United States will be party to a conference the program of which looks to an effort to bring about cancellation of indebtedness. 1But the debtor nations, before they gather at Genoa, are entitled to know that this government is prepared to enter into fair and reasonable adjust- ments and that demand for payment of immediately impossible sums will not upset all the plans they may. make. That the United States should can- cel the indebtedness is a demand still heard, not only®in Europe, but in this country. The basis of the demand i generally is that it is utterly impossi- ble for Europe to pay, so the debt might as well be written off the books {and gotten rid of. Such reasoning is |pot likely to get far with the Amerl- can people. Only this week they have heard Poincare, the new prime mihis- {ter of France, proclaim that Germany can and must pay the full amount of the reparations, which, in round num- Dbers, is $55000,000.000. The total allied ‘indebtedness, with accrued in- terest, owed the United States is about $11,000,000,000. The estimated national wealth of Germany today is $20,000,000,- 1000. The estimated national wealth of the three nations most deeply indebted {to the United States—the British em- | pire, France and Italy—is $370,000,000,- 000. If twenty billigns can and must pay fifty-five billions, it is going to take a lot of arguing to convince the American people that 370 billiogs can- not pay eleven billions. But the American people have no wish to be harsh with their European debtors. Nothing is farther from their desire than to press for pay- ment of such sums and at such times that payment would interfere with the economic recovery of the debtor na- tions. If Americans are not to be credited with any particle of generous impulse, such a policy would be poor business. Both for the sake of even- tual payment of the debt and for the sake -of trade with them the Amer- jcan people want the péoples of Europe to prosper. They are ready and anxious to help, both in the mat- ter of debt adjustment and in the extension of commercial credits. But the European nations must first show a willingness to put their own houses in order. and they must not try to overreach this country in their proc- esses of adjustment. ——— Mr. Thomas Edison admires old Ben Franklin. And it must be taken for granted that Franklin would, if cir- cumstances permitted, express equal admiration of Edison for his industri- ous attention to practical means of utilizing lightning. —_————————— A motion picture director who can make American pictures the best in the world will do more than Congress possibly can to protect the producers of this country egainst foreign com- petition. —_——————— Senators who insist on discussing the indebtedness of nations bring up lanother phase of the question of whether the foreigner is to pay the tax. . c——— e March 4, 1922, will be Mr. Will Hays’ inauguration day in the pictures. < The Joint Appeal. The joint appeal of the Associated Charities and Citizens’ Relief Assocla- tion for support from the community that the obligation to relieve and pre- vent suffering in the homes of Wash- ington's poor and distressed may be discharged, must meet With a gen- erous response at this time. Winter grips the Tcity.. It is known that a comparison between the last three months and the similar period of a year ago shows a heavy increase in the Aumber of applicantg fa assist- ance in Washington. Last year only 5,299 individuals, out JFrance, mngt be given eredit for bold- | of a total population of 437,000, con- ness, howevér much the wisdom of his | tributed toward the work of these policles may be called into question. |agencies in their efforts to help the Hope had Dbeen expressed that.)]helpless. But one Washingtonian out charged with responsibility for govern-{ of each group of eighty-two lent as- ment, he would moderate the demands | sistance in the performing of a task he hed made whenr out of office. But |vital to the entire community: Admit- bhis statement yesterday before the|ting that a fraction of the non-con- chamber of deputies was more aggres- | tributors were not in & position to - sive even than his former utterances|undertake financial support to that and writings had been. To borrow an | vital task, the fact remains that a expressive phrase from the vernacular, | vast majority of Washingtonians were he *“went the whole hog.” « | content to permit their sharé of the It would be difficult to overestimate | burden or privilege involved to fall the far-reaching consequences of ajupon the shoulders of a generous policy such as that outlined by Poin- | minority. care. History Is not lacking in in- That fact, viewed from whatever M'fiheu Just such boldness has]angle one will, is not a happy one. It through & crisis that was too|may be interpreted in a. variety of b 2 PE ‘won much .for milder methods. But both | ways. The most generous explanation, the ity and the desirability of |and probably the correct one, would winning through with it are | be that of lasiness on the part of the| zeists welfare agencies {n question. . as regards the minor effort one's name to the list of those who stand behind that work. Laziness, in a word, in appreciating the signifi- cance of comnunity responsibility or of playing even a minor role in meet- ing that responsibility when that ap- preciation has been achieved. ; Ten thousand contributors are sought for the year 1922. Asking that each individual give what he feels he can, those in charge of the finances of the agencles are as grateful for one dollar from one as one hundred from another. That upon this basis there should not be ten thousand ‘Washingtonians willing and proud to forward the work of driving distresa from the National Capital in the year before us {s not to be credited. Naval Radio and News. Under present law the naval radio service is open to news dispatches un- til the end of the present fiscal year. Unless,there is legislation to continue this privilege it will be discontinued on the 1st of July. A resolution is now before the Senate, having been favor- ably reported from the naval commit- tee, to extend the press use of the aval radio for five years. Early ‘passage of this resolution is much to be desired. The rearon for the use of the naval radio for press dispatches across the Pacific is that in that part of the world cable facilities are meager. They are quite inadequate to the pressure of the news passing between the orient and the occident. Just at this junc- ture ‘it is most important to have the fullest possible communication with the far east. News transit between this country and Japan should, of course, go by way of the Pacific rather than by the very much longer and more expensive route of the Atlantic, Europe and Asia. Understanding of the questions at issue between the occident and the orient is greatly to be desired in the interest of peace. The freest flow of news matters across the Pacific in both directions is essential to the set- tlement of these issues. Misunder standing comes from lack of informa- tion and from misunderstanding war may develop. Consequently the flow of news is a requisite to the: success of any such efforts as that of the con- ference now in session in this city. Use of the naval radio to carry news dispatches overseas is therefore a measure of peace and progressive de- velopment. This government can put its equipment to no better use than for carrying the news. —_——————— After all, the ex-kaiser is probabi} a man of gentle disposition, who has been much imposed upon. If he had | been a cold, practical business man he would have had a film camera man at work taking pictures of him as he chopped wood. ——————————— The numerous nations desiring to trade in China may yet succeed in giv- ing the “Celestial Kingdom” the im- portance of an international stock ex- change. —————————— Even the most opulent backers of art are compelled to pause momenta- rily and consider the high cost of grand opera. . ———— California fs still waitihg for ‘Mr. Burbank to devise some hybridizing process that will render the earth- quake a benefit instead of & menace. ——— Anybody who undertakes to act as referee in the movies will be justified in drawing the line at questions of domestic qomplication. 9 In the course of time New York city may succeed in becoming as famous as Greenwich Village. T cm——teeeee SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. 5 POLTCALEQUY The Vote for Our. Constitu- tional Amendment Ought to Be Unanimous. . (B'rom argument of Theodore W. Noyes before Semate District com- mittee, January 13, 1922.) G It is suggested that passage of our constitutional améndment is difficult, almost impossible to pectre, and that, consequently, it will wisely be put aside In order that we may strive for something else easier to get, even if of less value. It ought tp be easer to get two- thirds of Congress to approve our proposition than a rlhflt! to ap- prove any other pending proposal. use we ask .this time merely that Congreas 11 be given & new constitutional power, witkout | committing Congress as to when it shall exercise this power. We ask two- s of Congress to vofe to give __,____ = manjo: of Comngress a new power which'harmonises with and equitably Tounds out the existing constitu- tional powers reason ean be assigned why Congress sahould not unantmously rove this proposal to enlarge on iogical, whole- some_ lines fts own power. 2. use Congresy, if and when in the future it -shall exercise this power, will bestow upon the Ameri- cana of the District the highest privi- lege, right and power of national -American citisenship and will relieve the nation of the shame of un-Ameri- ean, totally non-representative gov- ernment in the Capital city under the natien’s exclusive control, disturbing in the least that exel without creating a state; without altering the form of local municipal government; and without the surrender by Comgress of & single power in respect to the capl- tal which it now possesses. % * X % ¥ ‘The provision giving Congress power to grant national representation to the residents of the seat of government- (in respect to wiom it has already the power to exercise exclusive legislation) is appropriately inserted at the end of section 3, Article IV, which gives to Congress power to admit new states and to make all needful reguiatlans respect- Ing the territory belonging to the United States, from which these new states are carved. It is under this section that new senators, representatives and territorial delegates come to the Capitol. The three | political subdivisions. of the United States under the Constitution are states, territory (incipient states) and the Dis- trict constituting the seat of govern- ment of the United States. The Con- stitution as it now stands gives Con- gress power to grant national repre- sentation to new states and thus to ter- ritory belonging to the United States, to the entire area of the republic except the seat of government. When our pro- posed amendment is adopted this section will be rounded out and perfected and the power of Congress in respect to na- tional representatian will be equitably extended to al' three of the parts into which the United States was thus in tae beginning in effect divided. * ¥ x ¥ Our frankly avowed purpose In offer- ing this proposition is to secure quick congressional action upon a constitu- tional amendment which can success- fully run the gantiet of the require- mentof a,two-thirds congressional vote and at the same time constitute a prac- tical and substantial advance toward the goal of real national representation for the District. ANy and immediately give to Washing- tonians national representation, but It takes that vital privilege from inac- cessibliity and places it within reach. After its adoption only. a majority vote of Congress will be required to do equity in this matter, whereas now a two-thirds vote of Congress and a three- fourths vote of the state legislatures are necessary. We emphasize the fact that the sole effect of the proposed constitutional amendment is to remedy an acknowl- edged evil and to ‘do equity by em- powering Congress to declare the po- litical and judicial status of the resi- dents of the seat of government. All of the conlrc;\-rled issues con- cerning the make-uprof the local elec- '(oratu. the qualifications of voters.and other 'similar questions upon which | Washingtonians radically differ are postponed to be decided by the ma- | Jority vote of Congress after the great and vital question of the copstitu- - EDITORIAL DIGEST presia ' Loyalty. 5 Although my fireside holds my thought, wherever I may roam, I do not love my town the less be- cause I love my home. And when I view the broader; skies where storm clouds often frown, I do not love my country less Becaus I love my town. Or when my fellow men afar face hun- gering and fear, I love the world no less because I hold my country dear. He who.denies to one of these the rev- erence that, is due 2 Has not the soul and sense sincere to love the other two. Avoiding Complications. “Couldn’t you get a High-salaried po- sition in the movies?” “Why should I?” inquired Senator Sorghum. “I've got trouble emough with the home folks trying to get them governmént places, without being called on to use my influence to make everybody a film star.” Jud Tunkins says ome of the 6b- stacles in the way of peace is the fact that most people would rather fight than be lonesome. § Sereme but Unsatisfying. I do-not like that optimist— His record makes me sob— ‘Whose genial method doth consist In loafing on the job. Financial Criticism. “Ben Franklin was a great advocate of thrift.” % 4 “Yes,” replied Mr. Dustin Stax.' “If Ben had known as mych about invest- ing money es he did about saving it, he might have’'become a billionaire like myself.” “De man dat’s most willin® to stir up trouble,” said Uncle Eben, “is'gen- erally de one dat's least able to look out foh hiss’f when it arrives.” ————— e T Motto for America at the Genoa canference: *“Columl ‘we are here.” —New York Post.. v % 1Our fdea of the simon pure vege- tarian is the one who refuses to eat animal* crackers—8t. Joseph News- ‘Trage telations with Russiar chance to work off eur poor The New Ireland. - ‘With the passing into Irish control of that “visible token of English as- cendancy,” Dublin Castle, 8 popularly elected government comes into power for the first time in 750 years. “The i abhorred castle has now become Irish, and it is for Irishmen to make of it, |, if they can, the sourqe and center of a free and stable government.” Thus the New York Times expresses the general feeling of the American press that with the formation of the provi- sional government under Arthur Grif- th and Michael’Collins, and the for- A S \thdrawal of British control, the future of Ireland fies in her own hands, that it is now up to the Irish themselves to determine whether the tradition of ‘*the ‘- most distressful country” shall continue or pass into history. Admittedly “England must keep her end of the pact” as the Scranton Times Insists, but so far there is every reason to believe, the New York Herald declares, that “Eng- land herself is coming through quick- Iy and right with Ireland” and has gone far “to convince any still doubt- fo1 Irishmen that the British govern- Tuent is sincere in its purpose not only o obliterate as much as possible of the regrettable past, but to put abso- lute trust in the good faith and will of the people of Ireland. 3 fAnd with the transfer of power to the new government “cames the cru- Gial test of all newly ‘organized peo- ples,” says the St. Joseph (Mo.) News Press} “that of giving support to thelr government. This is a task.which will Fequire all the brains and all the good Will of the Irish peuple.” So serious a test is it that the Peoria Tran- moript looks upon it as “mot the end, But the beginning of Irélaud's domes- tic ticubles.” But while atreeing that “4t s a period for sober, . serious trinking among the people who are being. ushered into a.new rasial status in the world,” the Dayton News is not’ Yearful of -the outcome. for “no Tace passes from a condition which existed some months ago and which Tas been aggrataied for centuries, fnto the present situation of Ireland, without accepting a good many menac- ing problems which seem to- clamor for solution all &t *he same time. “Much will depend, of course,” the Bichmond % Nivwio that alera. s strength of the followin, lr.:“ the dail eireann with De 1t the minority is stfong encugh to be dangerous, Ireland still las durk days ahead,” and in the measure of the minority's ‘“failure or success will the immediate historv of Ireland Le told,” the Christian Science 3dfii- tor adds. De Valera still “believes that his ideal can be attained and thereforo he opposes the treaty” und the free state, and the Aberdeen D.) World objects to condemning him for continuing to Axzht for his con- \jctibns with an “unconguerabte fight- thg spirit that elicits aimiration” trom the Birmingham News, But even D ety it e "'u':t'::to iy olu: o n X u\n”'m time has come fof & man Congress. No good | ¢t | they alrcady Our amendment does not directly | ’ torn down and build according to new ; (8. | vanity, 20 per cent something to say. Centered upon a single pi andeniable equity that it has behind it the support of practically 2l of. or- ganlzed Washington, including or- flnmtlou which divide and wrangle tterly over every other issue aI- fecting District government. Its appeal to' Congress is for the) same reasons so strong that it shouid, as I have said, secure & two-thirds approval more easily than the contro- it verted issues can gain the assent of & mere majority. e * % ¥ % The effect of our amendment is to fix the political status of the district constituting the seat of government as neither state nor ordinary terri- tory, but as, territory with national representation, though under the ex- clusive legislative control of ‘Con- gress; and to declare that exclusive control of : the seat of govern- ment by the nation is mot inconsist- ent with ticipation by District residents in the national government, which is to exereise thix control. | Our proposition involves thus two steps: 1. Passage by Congress by a two-thirds vote of a constitutional amendment empowering Congress in its discretion to grant voting repre- sentation in Congress and electoral; llege to Blstrict residents. 2. After| he constitutional amendment i8 l’l.t(-l passage by majority vote ofl i ngress, not of a measure providing either statehood or the territori status for the District, but of a meas-, ure oreating for the Distriot a unique political status in that it has voting representation - in Congress and the electoral. college, with access to the federal courts, and mo other powers or | attributes of the full-fledged state. | All that we ask now of Senate and, House is that by a two-thirds vote| (it ought to be unanimous) they give | themselves a mew power; to wit, the| power of admitting to voting repre-| i sentation in Congress and electoral; college the residents of the district constitu' g the seat of government —a pow.. which, with greater scope, possess in regard to {every foot of other territory belong- ing to the United States. ‘Why should any_congressman vote against giving Congress this new power? The power asked is not to icommit a crime or a misdeameanor or to do an injury, but to confer an equitable American right, reconcil- ing two great principles of American representative government—(1) that all natfonal Americans 1 be rep- resented in the national governmeat which taxes them, makes laws for them, and sends them and their sons to war; and (2) -that-as a matter of national necesmity or wise policy the! nation through Congress shall retain exclusive control of the nation’s city. * ¥ % X We have tried to convince you, and have, we think, proved that the Dis- trict is so well equipped In resources, in population, in intelligence and in patriotic Americanism that if Con- gress had now the power to grant na- tional representation (which we seek for it) it could safely and wisely ex- ercise this power at once. But assuming that some senators or representatives are not yet convinced and are not satisfled that the District | is today fitted in population and re- sources for national representation, they ought not to vote against our amendment on that account. For it is to be noted that they are not asked |in approving the amendment to de- clare that the District ls now fit for such representation, but to give themselves, as Congress, the power to grant such representation only when, in their opinion, the District has be- come thus fitted. The effect of a vote against this amendment fs to declare not merely that the District is not now fitted for national representation, but that its defertive and delinquent residents will never become thus fitted, though the District's resources are multiplied and a million of population be collect- ed in it. To vote for this amendment commits Congress to nothing; to vote against it means denial of the poss bility of District representation, ithough it attain population and ‘material requisites = of statehood greater than those of a dozen States. Even If you doubt whether the Dis- trict will ever become fitted for na- tional representation, vote for our {amendment. Give the District a; sporting, fighting, American chance.l In the republic majorities rule. Amend the Constitution so that a majority | of Congress may, if it wishes, give a measure of national representation to District residents; give the seat of | government the same possibilty of | Dati representation that Hawali and Alaska now possess. % Why should any senator or repre- sentative, even If he thinks the new | power may never.be exercised, oppose : an amendment which merely extends | an existing power of Congress on log- ical and equitable lines, and which simply empowers Congress to correct 2 political inequity, whenever, if ever, it_sees fit to do so? Why should Congress reject gn new constitutional power with Whi those affected wish to trust it? Sure- Iy Congress does not mistrust itself. of d'fferent type at the head of af- fairs, one with & more manageable temper and more moderate views, cepuble of facing realities ani recog- nizing them when ideais become; ‘airy nothings,'” and who, the Hala- qazoo Gazettc adds, understands e necessity at this time of dolitical teamwork.” For if Erin is to have rpeace, if the Free State is to be esta 1 d without civil strife,” the Neat- tie Times feel: that “a stron man must selze ‘he reins and hold them Guring the soming menths.” That dail elreann has chosen just that man -in the person of Arthur Griffith is the feeling everywhere ex- pressed in American. papers. The > Philadelphia Record finds him “by evéry test the one man in Ireland best fitted to bridge the gap between the old order and the new. Sinn Fein was the child of his brain.” As its, founder ‘“his nationalism is unques- tioned,” the New York Herald says. and further, “he is a master of po- litical science.” As such the Buffalo | News is confident that he will not, emulating “that rider described by Stephen Leacock,” “Jump madly on his horse and ride rapidly in all direc- tions.” Rather, he has, according to the New York World, “a definite pro- gram and a clear understanding of how it shall be put into effect,” and, | the Cincinnati Times-Star believes, “the constructive spirit and the abili- ty to take the material of the house plans.” * Grifith has already demonstratdd his_political astuteness and mastery of “the mechanics of statehood,” the New York Herald points out, by re-. maining at the head of dail eireann ‘while making Michael Collins head of the ‘provisional government. i It now remains, in the words of the St. Louls Post-Dispatch, 1 Griffith and Michael Collins to perfeot their title as Ireland's liberators.”; “They will do it,” the paper s con- Ifls:nt. for “they are the stuff of 1ib- | erators.” . Why Write?. At a recent meeting of a London lit- erary club an author gave an address on the subject, ‘‘Why. Write?” Legt! any one should accuse him of adopting | any pose of literary Pharisaism, he! frankly -{iéated his theme: autobio-} graphically, and for this purpose set out arithmetically his motives (a)' when he. first ‘began to write and (b) | at the presenit day. In the first case the total ‘Was' made up of 50 per cent | ambition, 35 per cent vanity, 20 per| cent the urge to earn a liying and 57 per cent something to . In the 1 second case ambition had dlsappeared | |and the proportions had changed to 50 per cent'earning a living,. .per: cent | Not every author would be willing to dissect his own metives so frankly and with so much sense of humor, and it is well ti some one who is himself & writer should ralse the cur- tain a little on the subject of art and oraft of writing/—Baltimore News \ o E it R T — iy Ofi_e word that makes the great e Fashibn, Shop Rebuilding Sale different! ND that word is “ALL.” The ‘big thing we want you to remember about this sale is that every ‘suit and overcoat in the house is,reduced. You'll note that the overcoats are reduced in the same ratio as the suits—even if they ARE worth more. - We mean business—this rebuilding has passed the stage of an idea—the builders have the plans “ready to shoot.” i ¢ And remember—these are the FINAL reduc- tions! . 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