Evening Star Newspaper, January 26, 1922, Page 6

1'HE EVENING STAR. With Sundsy Morning Fditien. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY....January 26, 1022 TEEODORE W, NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office. 11th St. and Pennaylvanis Ave. New York Office: 150 Nassau 8t. hicago Office: Tower Bnlidi: uropean Office: 16 Regent 8t.. [y ng. ¥ "Fondon. Evgland. The Evening Star, with the Sunday-moraiog edition, in delivered by carriers within i elty & 80 cents ber wonth; Jaily oaly. 45 ov month: Bunday only, 20 cents per month. Or- gers may be sent by ‘mail. or telenhone Maln 000. Collection 1s wade by carriers st the ud of each moath. Rate by Mail—Payable In Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Bally " Sunday. Lye. 3240 1 mo s Sun only. yr.. $2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ All Other States. Daijly and Sundayfii yr., $10.00: 1 mo., 85¢ Daily only. $7.00: 1 mo., 6 . $3.00: 1 mo.. 25¢ 3 Sinking Fund Equity. In changing temporarily from the fifty-fifty to the sixty-forty ratio in respect to the District appropriations in general, Congress gught faithfully to apply the old ratio where its mainte- nance is contractual, or where the obligation to maintain it is supported by any of the elements of contractual agreement, or where its maintenance is clearly equitable. Thus (1) even though the sixty-forty ratio should be made permanent by < “substantive law instead 8f temporary from year to year in appropriation Lills, the surpius of unexpended Dis- trict revenues collected under the au- tion Inside of the patent office is caus- ing delay In the securing of pat: ents and in the decision of conflicting claims and stands as a heavy lability upon American busimess. ‘When this bill was pending in the House criticlsm was.advanced on the score of the pressure exerted upon Congress for its enactment. There has been no secret about how this pressure came to be applied. The condition of the patent office has been a matter of comment in busi- ness circles for some years, but, like many other things, it has not been brought to pointed attention. The Patent Bar Association from time to time asked for legislation. Commis- sioners of patents and Secretarles of the Interior called the matter to the attention of Congress in pointed terms. It was not until, through the organ- ized efforts of those who are in a po- sition to know specifically, the condi- tion in the office and the effect upon 0c | business were brought to the attention of the industrial interests that they In turn presented the case to Con- gress. A service has been rendered the government by those who have thus systematically brought forward the argument for & greater and better paid patent office force, and they should be thanked in gratitude rather than criti- cised. Uncle Sam will be doing a shrewd stroke of business when he decides to expand and properly com- pensate this vitally important force of experts upon whose judgment depends an uncountable value in. property rights. ————————— Harding as Mediator. Unable to agree in direct conversa- | THE EVENING: STAR, WASHINGTON, ‘D. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY: 26, 1922. some ten his zeal as an advaocate of cloture for' a body of less than a hundred mem- bers passing ypon measures of highest importance to the country. . . e A Confusion of Curtailments. The cuts in the District appropria- tion bill made by the House committee are so extensive, so comprehensive, so sweeping and so all-embracing that the District citizens are confused in attempts to appeal for more liberal treatment. It is embarrassing now tc them to find that cuts have been 80 universally made and that they affect all the wqrthy and essential items of the budget.” Thus the reduc- tions affect the salaries, which have remained unchanged for years, despite increases in other Jines and great ad- vances in living costs; they afféct the echools; which are in the most urgent need of development and increase in buildings and in personnel of teaching force and compensation; they affect the streets, which call for heavy addi- tional expenditures for proper maifite- | nance and for extension; they affect the water supply, increase of which iz urgently demanded by every con- sideration of public health and safety; they affect every other branch of the municlipal government. One fact stands forth in emphatic plainness as this bill is examined and its figures arc analyzed. Where the Commissioners did not cut the esti- mates submitted to them by the heads jof bureaus and branches of the Dis. ftrict government, and the budget di- |rector did not cut the esttmntes sub- mitted by the Commissioners, the House committee has made cuts of i | e toneer experioncs ey mouiy| COMstitution Not a Bar to ntation for the District Represe Froin argument of Theedore W. m &g- -House °-‘--mn u'fi?’!:: 2 Jesuary 12, 1981, It Is objectéd that only sovereign atates wilh equa) suffrage can be rep- resented in the Senate; that the rep- resentation sought by the District could be had only by unanimous con- sent of theé states; and that the nation is impotént, even through constitu- tional amendment, to give tMe Dis- trict this representation. If it is possible to conceive of any constitutional amendment as being it- self unconstitutional, the objection of unconstitutionality would not apply to the pending constitutional amend- ment. It.is natural and logical to ex- tend an existing power of Congr to the extent and for the pyrpose suggested. Bo natural and l1bg! is the grant of national representation for the District in the manner pro- posed that there is room for the con- jtention that Congress may givg it under the Constitution as it fow stands, without any amendment what- soever, ‘The Conatitution does not explicitly prohibit the existence of a stale with genuine voting representation in Con- gress, which lacks some of the at- tributes of a sovereign state. It Is not declared that al] the American com- munities represented as statea in Congress must be on precisely the same footing and be shaped in identi- cally the same mold. To the contrary. the constitutlonal convention refused to pledge to nmew states to be admit- ted to the Union, equality of treat- ment with the original states. The first proposition for the admisslon of new states provided that the new states shall be admitted “on the same terms with the origlnal states, By the vote of nine stales against two, these rds were stricken out. Debate disclosed thut the large states Paintsrs May Paint Special ‘low pri bel t s Pot erk e b sompieted Surlog ey ary and February. . = FERGUSON_ - | 1 6 9¢h S¢. N.W. _ Ph. N. PAINTING DEPARTMENT We will your home |on monthly = WIRE Tcuarn Electric Co. % T30 1jth St. Main 1806. SENSATIONAL REDUCTIONS To Lower Your Living Cost violation of this prohibition if some other state has, with {ts consent, a smaller representation in the Senate than the other states. It is not com- pulsory -that all the states or Amerl- can communities represented in the Senate shall have precisely the same | representation in the Senate, for the: Constitution permits any state with its consent to be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate. ‘When Oklahoma sends two mnew senators to the Senate the percentage of sovereignty exercised by the two senators of Nevada or New York is reduced, but nelther state is deprived of its_equal suffrage in the Senate.| The effect wou]d be .the same if lhe' seat of government were, by constitu- | tional amendment, granted represen- tation “in the Senate. It could not have three senators without depirving Nevada, New York and the ‘other states of their equal suffrage; it coujd not have one excent with its own conr | sent, as the Constitution provides. - { But a constitutional amendment which gave the seat of government two sen- | ators or, with its own consent, one s:nutor, violates in Mo respect the right of any state to equal suffrage in_the Benate. 4 Protection is afforded by the Con: |tfntian only a~aingt ~n fndne !tneqututy in Senate representation. 18 required only from the one injured or uicuuvantaged by it R The imputation that the nation i-‘ impotent to give national representa- tion to the District, even by cdnstitu- tional amendment, slurs the great re- ! public {n comparison with other. rep- ' resentative republics, and reverses the trend of American history and the Armertonn ranmed whish eeindily A mw national impotency and cver exalt the B0 d Duwer. — This_imputation carries with it the Insulting charge that the nation isi lews of a democratic representative : iH.l iG U5 SOAP « Bc PEA BEANSS’:,‘;T;:, Lb. ... 5c Fancy Blue Rose republic than Mexico, Brazil and Ar- gauve the small states equality of rep.i tions with the Chinesc delegation, the | jts own. Thus the estimates sent to therity of the half-andshalf law for ‘" the purposes and under the conditions and terms of that lJaw should be ex- pended also in accordance with the same terms and conditions,: whether expended, as it ought to have been, at the time of its collection, or post- “ pored until a later date, when a new ratio may, as to other appropriations, rrevail. (2) The interest and sinking fund con- tributions on the bonded debt should be met on the fifty-fifty basis until it is all paid, ad it soon will be. Violation ef this obligation in vespect to the interest and sinking fund for the bond- ed debt is proposed in the new District appropriation biil for the first time since 1878, just as thc obligation is nearly canceled. The present estimate is that the debt will be fully extin- guished by August 1, 1924, This particular matter was investl- gated in 1915 by the joint congres- sional fiscal relations committee. That committee found and distinctly report- €d that the intent of Congress had from the beginning been that the as- sumption of this obligation of District indebtedness should be on the basis of equal participation. It quoted from a declsion rendered by the controller of the currency in 1914, who ruled piainly to that effect. On the basis of this decision and of the statutory enactments preceding the coramittee unanimously reached the following cancluston, which now is disregarded ir the drafting of the present bill: “Jt is our opinion that the original intent, the understanding of members of Congress, the unvarying practice of the years, the ‘provisions of .the varlous laws of appropriation, the law fixing the respective apportionment of payment and, above all, the justice of the matter, as affecting the general government, the holders of the bonds, and the District of Columbia, lead cer- tainly to the conclusion that the inter- representatives of Japan in the arms conference appealed to President Harding to mediate the dispute and offered compromise terms which the President felt justified in recommend- Ing that China accept. That China will accept the settle- ment is, or ought to be, a foregone conclusion. That the President of the United States would recommend ac- ceéptance is a gwarantee to the world that China is afforded substantial jus- tice, for in this case, departing from ordinarily accepted theory, the medi- ator is peculiarly the friend and cham- pion of the weaker party, and was known as such by Japan when his good offices were invoked. , Except to those immediately con- cerned. it has not seemed that the ex- act terms upon which China took over the Tsingtao-Tsinanfu railrcad were of vital cencern., compared with the larger issues involved in the arms con- iference; but as settlement of these larger issues hinged largely upon an agreement being reached as to the Shantung rallroad, that question had become exaggerated into paramount importance. It threatened. indeed, to minimize, if not nullify. all the work of the conference. It had come to a point where public opinion regarded Shantung as a test of Japanese honor and desire for fair dealing, and in gome quarters there was suspicion that Japan was deliberately avoiding a Shantung settlement in order to es- cape being bound to other commit- ments.’ All that now is swept aside. ‘While formal acceptance of the com- promise proposal must await sanction from Peking, it is inconceivable that it will be rejected by the Chinese gov- erniment.. As a matter of course, it falls short of what China would like to get out of the settlement, but, hav- ing been stamped with the approval of the head of the American govern- est on the funded debt be continued to { ment, it undoubtedly represents the be paid 50 per cent from the revenues | maximum of concession obtainable at of the District of Columbia and 50 per |this time, and the gains made by China cent by appropriation from the moneys of the United States.” —————— Still in the Ring. Speaking at 3 belated Jackson day hanqflet at Dayton last night, former Gov. Cox, who carried the democratic standard in 1920, said: Our faith in the official pronounce- ments of 1920 is unaffected by the re- sult of the election of that year. We stand in our very tracks, just where | we were when the votes were counted. We have not retreated a step. The flag still files and we are ready for the next fight. = Under whose leadership? ‘Gov. Cox again? That of There are two views of this matter. | Pne js that Gov. Cox is barred by the .overwhelming character of his defeat. ‘. ¥ow could any enthusiasm be ex- ‘pected or worked up for a candidate who had lost his first battle in a rout? The other view makes that rout plead for the governor's renomination. The argument is that the country voted in 1920 under a misapprehension .—in a panic which misadvised as to the “~-fssues and their meaning. Why blame jov. Cox? He did his best to clear ‘the atmosphere, and events since have Justified his contentions. Why not Bive him the benefit of the change _now appearing in public sentiment? If e judgment of 1920 is to be reversed in 1924, why not under his leadership? -=-= This Dayton deliverance will not cause surprise anywhere. In the cam- _ palgn of two years ago Gov. Cox showed himself to be a man of spirit and bounce, not easily discouraged. It looked like a losing fight when he entered it, but in the face of that fact he took the stump and carried his message from ocean to ocean. The shelf rarely looks good to a man of his age. —_— As a public-spirited man, Mr. Barney Baruch gave his services to the gov- ernment for a dollar a year. He might be willing to work for the farmers for 50 cents. . Patent Office Legislation. ., Early concurrent action by the Sen- ate on the patent office increase bill i3 promised by the action of the Senate committee in reporting it favorably ‘without amendments. It should be considered as one of the most urgent items on the Senate calendar. Until this bill becomes a law there will be great anxiety respecting ‘the organi- zation of this most important branch of the government. Its condition has ‘been vividly demonstrated before com- “‘mittees of Congress. From every part ., of the country, from large and small 1ndustrial interests, from manufac- turers of every line and every, grade have come requests for a larger and ‘better paid force in the patent office. i “For upon the work of this office de- pends the welfare of the American industrial organization. The conges- 4 in other directions are too substantial and worth while to be jeopardized by refusal to accept something which her Dbest friend has recommended that she accept. ——————— The story that chemists had discov- ered a means of transmuting inferior | metals into gold has been declared & fiction. This disappointment has been {recurring through generations, ever since the old alchemists began their experiments. i A few of the nations who have bor- rowed money show a kindly disposi- tion to talk the situation over with TUncle Sam and try to persuade him not to worry. § Agricultural problems as they affect the masses will not be regarded as solved until tomatoes cost less than 30 or 40 cents a pound. $ A tendency to discourage the study of the classics may leave future genera- tions in doubt whether it was Romeo or Japan who said, “Parting is such sweet sorrow!” The'farmer has to watch the money market reports as closely as he does the almanac. Cloture and the Senate. A New York dispatch says: Speaking at the annual dinner of the Queens County Chamber of Com- merce, Senator Willls said a majority of the Senate was ready to enact legislation demanded by the farmers, laborers and merchants of the coun- try, but was blocked by obstruc- tionists. “The people want freedom of speech and the fullest legitimate debate, but they are unwilling that the business of the country should stand at atten- tion while congressional speeches are made on the philosophy of things in general,” he declared. Senator Willls said he favored a cloture rule limiting debate in the Senate to “a reasonable time.” “A reasonable time.” -How is that to be determined? Some measures have many angles, and angles multiply as discussion proceeds. Senators with suggestions to make object to inter. ference. They want a hearing and time enough for making themselves under- stood. d No senator ever confessed a filibus- tering purpose. He was not delaying action, but only striving to have in- telligent action taken. He was asking the Senate’s attention to something worthy of its attention. There is no more delicate or dificult question than that of cloture—the real article—for the Senate, and it is rendered the more delicate and diffi- cult by reason of the.rigid cloture prevailing in the House. The Senate, as the body of review, needs time for considering measures which, it is often charged, have been too briefly consid- ered by the House. Mr. Willis has had an exverience of the budget bureau by the Commis- sioners represented the maximum of need as limited by the statute whieh prohibits the submission of estimates beyond the prospective local revenues. They were then cut in the budget bureau to a point below these aciual needs. They are now cut far below the budget director's revision, and the result is a District bill which is in all particulars inadequate, which repre- sents unwise retrenchment, crippling economy and discouraging failure to provide properly for-the maintenance and development, of the capital munici- paiity. —_——————— Presidential Attire. Members of the Merchant Tailors Designers’ Association were received at the White House yesterday, and on their return from this call declared that President Harding is the best dressed man who has occupied the ‘exccutive mansion for many years. There is nothing political in this ob- servation, which should not be taken {in umbrage by the friends and parti- sans of any prior incumbent. Sartorial standards are impersonal and non- partisan. They are not even psycho- logical. A well dressed man is one who conforms to them. regardless of bis views, regardless even of his rhysiognomy. Of course, his figyre has much to do with the effect. Yet {a slender man may be perfection from | the tailor's point of view as well as a stouter man. It would be, of course, unfair to compare Mr. Wilson, for in- stance. with Mr. Cleveland in point of outline and ‘general architectural effect. Just so, to compare Lincoln an@ Harrison—the later Harrison— would be absurd as regards height and also contour. . \From the tailor's point of view “clothes make the man.” This is only partly true. Some of the most bril- ‘iant of American statesmen have been indifferent in respect to thelr wear. As a rule, of course, Presidents have been particular. Their office has com- pelled them to spruce up, if before entering it they were at all inclined toward slackness of garb. Being con- stantly on public view, as it were, they have had to consider their per- sonal appearance more distinctly than men in Congress, whote appearances are regulated only by their own desire to participate in debates. On the bench the silken gown makes all judges look alike as to their clothes. —— e China has attained the distinction of world-wide prestige as a patient and productive ultimate consumer. The “farmer in politics” in many instances avoids being explicit in in- dicating what he next intends to raise. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Disappearing Disciplifie. The world impetuous has grown. From discipline we're straying. Authority we used to own ‘We're frankly disobeying. And even Fashion, who decrees For skirts a lower station, Cannot conceal the wandering knees | cause of the Ford legend of achieve-{ From general observation. His Objection. “Your friends say they will sub- scribe liberally to any campaign fund in which you ere interested.” “I wish they wouldn't,” Senator Sorghum. “Do you object to their ing?” “No. What I object to is their talk- ing about it for publication.” protested subscrib- T, Jud Tunkins says there's always a charm in novelty. The less a man knows about a subject, the more he's liable to want to talk about it. Infinite Charm. I'm sorry ol Doc Einstein quit His talks about cosmology. 1 didn’t understand a bit— But I liked his phraseology. Mistaken Advice. “Didn’t you once advise people to wear patched trousers in aorder to economize?” 3 “I did,” said Mr. Dustin Stax. “It wasn’t very good advice at that. A lot of men became reconciled to the idea of sitting down on patched trousers {instead of hustling around to earn a new pair.” “ Wisdom and Wealth. “I understand you have all the money. you want,” said the anclent publisher. “I have,” answered Solomon. “Well, I'm sorry.” Those proverbs of yours are good stuff, I might have made some money for both of us by svndicating them.” : 2 resentation in cause it was absolutely necessary the federation of equal states ws: be converted into a Union, but the tion of the convention shows that original states, large and small, re- fused definitely to pledge equality to future new states, and ¥o far as the Constitution s concerned, reserved entire iiberty of action in respect to the conditions of admission. * ok % ¥ Cqngress, though not compelled by the Constitution to do 8o, has admit- .ed new states on equal terms with the old, limited, however, in the case of some of the later xtates, like Utah, by certaln irrevocable condi~ tions. The question of the power of Con- gress under the Constitution as stands to give national representution to the Ditsrict {8, however, academic. If the constitutional provisions taken together prevent the admission to the Unlon of a non-soverelgn state merely by act of Congress, these constitu- tional obstacies can, of course, be re- moved.by umendments to the Consti- tution itself. On the assumption that the Hemate only bel- f nation 1s essential to accomplieh that for which we petition, we are now asking for this very constitutional amendment. But it is contended that the Consti- tution prohibits its own amendment in the manner and for the purpose pro- pored by us. For the perpetual pro- tection of the small state no state is ever, without it& consent, to be de- ‘prived of its equal suffrage in the Senate. The question raised is whether the grant of one or two would impair the equal suffrage of any state or of all the states in the Senate, ind would thus require the unanimous consent of the states. The purpose of the provision was to protect the smaller states by giving them in perpetuity equal representa- :iluen with the larger states in the Sen- The entrance of two senators, resenting a new state. into the S ate does not affect this equality of representation irrespective of popula- tion; nor would the entry of one or two senators representing. the seat of government Impalir this equality. No hew state or American community given by the Constitution representa- tion in the Senate can have greater representation in that body than that ' enjoyed by Nevada or New York: n:r; can it have smaller re| t without its consent. ToRTetentation * ok ok % | The purpose of the Constitution to { protect the small state is defeated only if some other state has a greater representation in the Senate without the small state's consent. There is no o| tions have it} senators to the seat of government | gentina. and Is less capable of giving to all ita people the rights and privie leges that belong to citizens of a real ropresentative republic. These na- capitals in mnation-con- trolled federal districts, but .all tham piva tn *he nannta of thage M tion-controlled capitals and fed- €rai wisteicts the pamo Status and the same rights and privileges, in- cluding national representation, that are enjoyed by other Mexicans, Bra- zllians and Argentinians. - The imputation of impotency in the American national government is flatly contradicted by every line o the record. In -all executive, legisl tive and judicial Constitution-con- struing action of American history fuil national power has been assumed and enforced Is it conceivable that the for rs in tramng tae Constituli h fashion as to prot ¢, rights and digni feebler atutes. so worded ment as to render the new i | ment forever impotent to graut na- ! tional representation to a half millicn or a million of national taxpayers, soldiers, sailors and civiliang, resident @ change in the organic law of the)in the future in the ten-miles et | CEmOTA ) ! f at the time when the Constitution was framed one might have so i ptrued that instro=snt (a | of union between thirteen independ- i ent communities of varying popul !!mn. Jeaious. Wrangling, sdspiclous, apprehensive), {8 it conceivable that the Constitution can be so construed the Constitution the under survive Supreme Court and its su +casors President Jefferson's construction of the national powers in the Louisiana purchase; after the referendum verdict of the people in arms in the civil war; after the later constitutional amendments, including the civil war amendments and that providing for the popular election of senators: and after the nationalizing executive -actibn and legisiation in connection with the world war? The forefathers had no thought that the seat of government would remain without inhabitants: that it would not grow as a city like other American cities, and that this growth would be paralysed and not promoted by the fact that jt was the Nationa! Capital. George Washington looked for the development of a city in the ten-miles square which would be cer- tainly exceeded in population; he thought, only by Leondon. It is in- concelvable/that the forefathers ever intended the Americans collected in the seat of government to remain forever without the fundamental privilaea of represantation like other Americans—in a government of, by ana ior Lao peope. EDITORIAL DIGEST Mr. Ford and Muscle Shoals. Henry Ford, like one of James M. Barrie’s heroines, is *“one of those people around whom legends grow.” In Ford's case, as the Spokane Spokesman-Review (Independent re- publican) explains it, it is the legand of “success.” By it r. Ford has made himself valuable,” and “when he shows interest in an enterprise people begin to think it has a future.” Therefore, his interest in Muscle Shoals has become a public interest, and his dream of a vast industrial center in Alabama is greeted by a warm sympathy in the south that is finding expression in the demand of the southern press that his bid for Muscle Shoals be accepted. Indeed, the people of the entire country have “a tremendous stake in the affair,” the Christian Science Monitor (Bos- ton, independent) asserts, and, be- cause, as ope writer puts it, the chief output of the Muscle Shoals plant at present is “red tape,” the Monitor feels that “the hazard involved in taking up with Mr. Ford's offer is hardly greater than the hazard in- volved in not taking up with it.”” Be- i ment the San Antonio Light (inde- pendent) suggests that “what would be a great risk on the part of the government in dealing with some other man who wanted the Muscle Shodls property “would be a safer venture in dealing with Detroit's in- dustrial giant, for it “would be simply a. recognition of a kind of genius which, although perhaps in- explicable, has unmistakably produc- ed remarkable results in practical affairs. But the Topeka Capital (repub- lican) insists that “the bid should be {considered apart from Mr. Ford him- self, on its practical merits.” It glves the following “general description of the pgojec! and the proposition. “The government has spent about one hundred and two million dollars on the Miscle Shoals project. It has created a good deal by .this ouunay, comprising & complete cyanamide plant, to produce mitrates out of the air, this plant having been completed at & cost of sixty-nine milllons. About eighteen millions were spent |y, in other construction in cohnection with this plant. This is one unit of the project. Another is the construc- tion of dams of the Tennessee river shoals to supply water power to run the cyanamide plant. These dams are uncompleted, the government having spent altogether lbgut fifteen mil- lions on them. “For the completed eighty-seven- million dollar cyanamide plant and accessories Mr. Ford offers five mil- llons on terms to be agreed upon. For the dams and water power he proposes that the government go ahead and complete these works, with the understanding that the completed works shall be taken to represent a total cost of forty-eight. millions. * + ¢ In addition, the Ford offer is an -nnuu“‘ronu} of '1&:: 547 for 100 ears for the entire proj ” ‘What Mr. Ford proposes to do with the property If his contract is grant- ed, as outlined by the Arizona Re: publican (Phoenix, inde) ent pro- greseive),”is to locate in the south. for the anufacture of fertiliser and the, distribution of water power. “ore of the rrent jndusirlal aeniers of. the couplis. i SR T | & city seventy-five miles long, with a rural background carrying out a view long advocated by him that the fam- flies of workingmen should reside in communities where the advantages of rural life would not be entirely lost to_them.” It is the dream “of an industrial empire in the south,” says the Nash- ville Tennessean (independent demo- cratic), such as “many have dreameéd before him.” But by warding him the Muscle Shoals project” the confi- dence that men have in Henry Ford. “a_confidence born of achievement, ! will contribute largely” to the reall- zation of that dream. Switzerland's New President. Switzerland has chosen Dr. Robert Haab, a German Swiss of Zurich, as president for 1922. President Haab is a lawyer by profession, who in the war d|!rllyfld administrative ability as a raiiroed director. Since quitting this he has been a member of the fed- eral council. The Swies president does not have very extensive executive powers. He shares authority with the federal coun- cil, a body of seven men, over which he presides much as a chairman. Although the Swiss have a referendum and recall, popular elections of judges tn some can- tons and other practices of direct popular government, the members ‘of the federa! council are elected by the national council and by’the council of state, cor- responding to our House of Representa- ".'l;u and Senate, and not by popular e. ‘This system of indirect voting has re- sulted In continuity of policy in Swise federal affairs, for the councils Jave usually appointed tg office only men who have had long expérience in public af- fairs. The same men are re-elected to the federal council for term after term. ‘There are constitutionalists who would transplant Swiss institutions into other countries as a panacea for all political allments. The success of the Swiss overnment at home, however, is due less to its form than to the general tol- erance which characterizes Swiss polit- ical life and the pecullar geographical neighbora—New York: Herald (inde- pendent). ‘v:'hy tl: it nmlt they never can make reaty as clear and concise as a mo?llhpuon order?—Rochester Times- afon. Tony Sarg’s marionette show ad- vert! 100 wooden-headed actors.” ‘The large number being the unusual feature.—Nashville Tennessean. The Chinese feel that the much- talked-of open door should bear the word “Exit” in several foreign lan- guages.—Chicago Post. ‘While we are junking some battle- ships, much_could be -l;vsd by junk- ing some Washington clerkships.— c_ollmlgll (8. C.) Rucord. President Harding “1s clu.rftd with splitting his infinitives. 8till, if he splits them on a fifty-fifty basis, dem-. ocrsts have no right to complain.— Peoria ‘Transcrip S e ty “Ctvilization i lrnl{l an says ‘H. G. 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