Evening Star Newspaper, January 27, 1922, Page 6

_,.o_‘ THE EVENING STAR. With Sundsy Morning Edition. — WLSHINGI'ON. D. C. nmAY......Juuury 27, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Offics, 11th St. and Pennsylvanis Ave. Qiengd Omcvs Tower B ice: er By Buropean uild Ofice: 16 Regent !!% Star, with the Sunday morning ored by carviers wiin the ity Jer month; .nny only, 43 cents per adsy onl ents per month. OF- & Tent By math X elephone Male llection i made b: e84 of each month. Rate by Man—l’-nbln in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dafly and Sundi ..lyr $8.40; 1 mo., 70c Datty “only.oo-v.1yre $6.00; 1 mo., 69 Sunday only. [1'yr. $2.40; 1 mo., 300 All Other States. Dafly and Sunda: -1 mmr: 0., 85¢ Daily only. i il o, 80 Bookmakers and Bootleggers, In the National Capital law is being mocked and brought into contempt by the unchecked activities of book- makers and bootleggers. The {llicit gamblers and liquor dealers have fixed places of business, drummers for trade, established telephone connec- tions, and lack only painted signs and ‘window displays to have full status as commercial establishments. It is al- most as easy to put down a bet on the races or buy a “shorty” of alleged lquor as it is to purchase a cigar or & pound of sugar. ‘The percentages of arrests are so emall and the chances of punishment when arrested so remoto that they can be accepted as natural risks of business, little if any meore serlous than the hazard of fire or other perils to legitimate enterprise. * And the profits of the business are so enor- mous that occasional arrests and im- position of moderate fines become a joke. The bookmaker who is haled into court and fined $100 has only to spread a false tip next day, catch & few more suckers, and he is ahead of the game. Profits frem the sale of a few quarts of the stuff now sold as whisky will pay the bootlegger’'s fine. All the fines imposed in the course of a year on both bookmakers and bootleggers would not amount to a fraction of the taxes they would be required to pay were their business not outside the law. The police and enforcement officers do make arrests now and then, but the number is unaccountably small compared with the numbers engaged in the outlaw enterprises and the open- ness of the traffic. And even then it is a long time between ‘arrest and pun- ishment, if punishment comes at all. The offender is not kept long away from his business, for the professional bondsman is at hand, anxious to go se- curity for so good a risk. If, after al- most interminable delays, conviction is obtained and a penalty is imposed, the 3ail sentence is likely to be remitted or the prisoner placed on “probation.” The number of bookmakers and boot- leggers who actually get behind prison bars is so negligible that it fails utterly to serve as a deterrent to the criminals. Bookmaking and bootlegging are ° Just as much crimes as are burglary and arson. Not only are the book- makers and the bootleggers them- selves engaged in crime, but they are making criminals of their victims, and they are making abettors of crime of “respectable” citizens who smile tol- erantly at evasion and violation of the law and find amusement in it. They are more a menace to society and Zood government than the burglar and the firebug. —————— The Buckeye Democraoy. The Dayton banquet makes plainer still what already was very plain, that the democrats of Ohio will exert them- selves to the utmost to carry the state this year, for effect not only at home ‘but on the country at large. Ohio is the President’s state, and should it go against him two years after going overwhelmingly for him, the repub- lican discouragement would become widespread. Conslider the Buckeye Big Four, and how they are related to the coming campaign: Gov. Cox has his lightning rod up for 1924. Once is not enough for him. He wants another try at the White House, and thinks another will be suc- cessful. And it must be admitted that democratic success in Ohio next No- vember would advance Cox stock con- siderably. Mr. Pomerene wants another term in the Senate, and is reasonably as- sured of renomination. He makes a good figure in the Senate, and has strength at home. Former Gov. Harmon is willing to re-enter politics and lend the use of his name to his party this year. He is un- der consideration for the guberna- torial nomination. George White, former chairman of the democratic national committee, is foot loose, and while an aspirant for governor will support the party’s nom- inee with all the power he possesses. ‘This is a formidable team, end, pull- ing together, should make the contest one of “pep” and spirit. The repub- licans must look ajive. . Lenin and Trotsky constitute the only “bloc” that has any real political influence in Russia. ‘Watch the Gas Heaters. ‘Warning is given by the fire chief to all users of gas heaters to be ex- tremely careful in their use, not only on the scors of exposure of flame to contact with light materials, but the leakage of gas through loose connec- tions and deteriorated tubings. The other day a weman was burned to death in this city when her dress ig- nited from an open-flame heater. This thing 'may occur in eny home wheu w88 is used for heating purposes. Cer- wn types of heaters are comparative- ere the flame is confined in even these, if overheated, = = | l tubes should be frequently renewed. Metal-covered tubes ars superior, for they lessen the danger of leaks. But even metal tubes have rubber joint caps which lose thelr elasticity, and consequently loosen at the point of contact and permit gas to escape. All these matters should be care- fully borne in mind and the equip- ment of a gas heater frequently exam- ined. Ifthere is any odor of gas in an apartment where a ges heater is used it is a sign of danger. Do not tolerate it because it is only a whiff. That whiff may grow Into a volume at any time. Regard the first eniff of {llum- o | inating gas as & red flag on the road, and immediately look into the cou- plings and tubings and keys of the equipment. A little attention at such times will prevent disaster. The Anti-Lynching Bill. The House yesterday, by a majority of over & hundred, passed the antl- lynching bill. Seventeen republicans voted against and elght democrats for the measure. The fight will be re- newed in the Senate. Surely the lynching evil should be stamped out, and as surely it never will be stamped out unless the na- tional government by some means takes a hand. The evil has grown aelarmingly of late years, and is now no longer sec- tional or racial. Mobs have appeared in all sections and taken victims from both races. They started with the rope, then added the pistol, and then the torch, in carrying out their pur- poses; and not long since at a farm in Georgia human beings were chained together, weighted with stones, and drowned in a running stream. Statistics are kept, and one year’s ferocities are compared with another’s in point of numbers and character. It so happened that yesterday while the House was taking this action Canadian authorities were refusing ex- tradition papers in the case of an American negro wanted in North Caro- lina on serious charges who had found | refuge in the Dominion. He had plead- ed-that if returned to the United States he would be lynched; and the Canadi- ans, familiar with our lynching rec- ord, granted him protection by releas- ing him from custody. Canada is a friendly country, and our relations with her preclude the thought that she would have taken this action unless convinced of its jus- tice. . Since our reputation for violence is spreading and injuring us abroad, i ; " THE EVENING warned against taking chances alone anywhere on skates. ‘When the basin is put into service steps should be provided at close in- tervals all around the edge to permit free access to and exit from the ice. This is a wonderful surface and makes an {deal skating pond. But In the past there has been danger of con- gestion at certain points where the ice is entered and left. It should be pos- sible to reach the surface from a dozen places, at least. A skating pond on the reflecting basin would be even better in point of safety. than the tidal basin, because of the shallower depth of water. A seri- ous accident could not occur there, and it will be possible by successive flood- ings to add to the thickness of the ice and insure a good surface at all times. It is, furthermore, conveniently acces- sible. ‘Washington has many facilities for this most enjoyable outdoor winter sport. It is unusually well equipped {n this respect. It has, indeed, better op- portunifies for skating than the weather permits. The local winters are not severe enough to make and maintain ice for long perfods, buf when the ice does come it is enjoyed by thousands. Among the dwellers here are many from the north, accus- tomed to sharp winters and low tem- peratures and all-winter skating. Southerners, too, have learned to en- Joy this delightful and invigorating and healthful sport. Washington thus is a common meeting ground for skaters of both sections of the country. The long-time Washingtonian well re- members “Babcock’s lake,” mnorth of the Washington Monument, which was filled up because it was feared that the scepage would affect the foundation of the great shaft. f A refusal to limit senatorial speeches strictly to the subject in hand will protect the arts of oratory from dangerous discouragement. It often happens that the most entertain- ing epigram or the most striking period In & speech is more or less in the nature of a by-product. ~ English citizens should not regret the transfer of the Galnsborough “Blue Boy” to America. The price America is willing to pay for art, whether pictorial, musical or literary, ought to be regarded as a compliment to any nation that can produce the oods. European impressions of America every effort should be exerted to make | have always been prominent in litera- the law as respects human life su- preme within our borders. —_——————————— ‘What Will the Answer Be? The political situation in the coun- try, except in the lower south where the democratic party has a sure thing at all times, is such as to cause specu- lation galore, and a general feeling of uncertainty. Is the democratic party coming back, and will the first evidence of the fact be registered in November? There are democrats who answer yes con- fidently, and républicans who answer no a little hesitatingly. One hears this confessed on all sides: The colossal and masterful com- bination which swept the country in November, 1920, no longer exists. Many of the democrats who expressed discontent then have returned to the old fold and will be “regular” this year, while there are republicans mur- muring about the way things have been going on Capitol Hill for the past nine months. In their organization work the democrats are rounding up the voters ‘who “erred and strayed” from the well beaten path two years ago, and are not without hope of driving in with them enough discontented republicans to give victory. The republicans in their organiza- tion work are proceeding upon the proposition that, brought face to face with the necessity of choosing between old-time friends and old-time oppo- nents, the murmuring members of the heousehold will decide to bear the ills that exist rather than take chances of bringing on greater ones. It is a situation that appeals strong- 1y to the fighting spirit, and both par- ties are full of fighters. And as both parties are measurebly in action al- ready, there will be nine months of & struggle certain to grow in intensity as it progresses. —————————e The subject of forest conservation, which has for many years been prom- inent in scientific discussion, is now commended to the consideration of the farmer. It opens into & long, difficult lile of thought, whose conclusions so far have been umsatisfactory. The farmer 1s used to struggling with hard problems, being ren.n!od as & most in- Justrious citizen, with abundant time nevertheless for lelsurely cogitation on theoretical lines. ——— China mildly suggests that as the most anclent nation on earth she is old enough to conduct her own public utilities. ——————te———— Occasionally the handbook makers come to attention with the reminder that bootlegging does not afford the only illicit and untaxed profits. ———— o It is now intimated that a great deal of money went up in the air, whileair- ships did not. The nations of Europe do not look forward to an Uncle Samless parley with any confidence v‘vmtevur. _ Skating in Washington. Skating time has come. Ice on the ‘basin and ice on Rock creek. Ice per- haps on the reflecting basin east of the Lincoln Memorial. Ios on the river. In some places it is now perfectly safe. In other places it is not safe yet. Officlal supervision is given to the thickness of the ice, and the word will be given when in the judgment of they authorities it is safe to venture on any prescribed surface. Until that comes everybody should be cautious. Skating accidents come from two causes, venturing individually on thin ico and the overcrowding of the sur- face.. There is more danger in the case of the individual skater who goes out before the ics is tested, and who &lips ture, and as a return of compliment American impressions of Europe are now assuming impoftance in diplo- macy. ‘Those who say that the Washington conference has been without effect are not giving conslderation to France's warning that it has probably started something. } Mr. James M. Cox does not make it exactly clear whether his recent speech is to be contemplated as the epilogue of the late campaign or the prologue of the next. } The original propositions on which Lenin founded the so-called soviet gov- ernment do not appear to have any more permanent status than the av- erage party platform. i Congress has brought out, the fact that some of our District officials ‘are so economical and unostentatious as to be willing to ride in the modest flivver. | The statement by mine owners that the uitimate consumer will have to bear the cost of any increase in wages is one of the safest predictions re- cently ventured. | German statesmen evidently assume that a reparation payment will be more appreciated if made to seem as hard as possible. i An adequate water supply is, after all, & very modest request for the Capital city of the greatest nation in the world. i Language grows more refined. In the old days what is now termed a “bloc” would have been called a “gansg. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Ponce De Leon. 0Old Poncie took & trip to smiling Flofida, they say, To taste the waters flowing there that make men young and gay. And when he left the big hotel it caused him some unrest To find his board bill called for all the coin that he possessed. But presently a ray of comfort flut- tered through his heart. He paid the bill and joyously made ready to depart. “That fountain has performed, the trick!” he murmured all serene. *“It's evident that I appear exceeding young and green.” s Gone Higher Up. “Are there many grafters in poll- tica?” *No, sir,” replied Senator Sarghum, emphatically. “A really expert grafter nowadays takes life so easy that he doesn't have to bother with the ordi- nary work of politics.” J’nfi Tunkins says ‘vpu.mlam is a pleasant dream, end pessimism.{s the useful but unwelcome alarm clock. Good As New. Oh, Congress 1s & busy spot. For turther laws the people call, Though We elready have a lot ‘That never have been used at all. The Proprieties. > *Your grandmother #ays your style of costume 18 improper.” “She's right,” replied Miss Cayenne. "Itvmlflhe-—torsnndmfl:c. An Impressioh. X *“What do you think of that ‘farm bloc’ tn Congress?” “Alhrulhlvomfil.whk. through & hole or breaks through the | notice, surface when there is no one near to BTAR WASHINGTON The Agricultural Conference and the Country’s Vital Need BY THOMAS NELSON PAGE. ‘To the Editor of The Star: HAVE been much struck by the small amount of attention glven | in the press to the work of the important and far-reaching ag- ricultural conference at present taking place In this city at the call of the government. The President’'s admirable address at the opening of the sesslon was| quite generally reported In full, and rightly, for he spoke in clear terms for both the government and the peo- ple. But the sound and thoughtful speeches and suggestions which have been made, presenting the conditions of agricultural life in all sections of this country and representing the ex- periences and feelings of the people connected therewith, in all sections, have been given little, if any, space or attention In the columns of the press. Now it may be sald that the press is for the purpose of giving news that will Interest its readers. But what has taken place at the large auditorium of the Willard Hotel and in the committes ' rooms would be news it it were put forth in the press. It may not be news to every one that the vast farming elements are mani- festly at a cruel disadvantage, due to the exorbitant charges of the freight carriers and the huge rake-off of the middlemen and to the combinations that are keeping down prices for the producer and keeping up prices for | the consumer, but I think that the extent of the disadvantage—the ex- tent of the unequal burden that is placed on the farming element and the extent to which that element is awakened at last to this inequality, and the seriousness with which it is proposed to find a remedy therefor ‘would be news. * | * % x It might not be news that the farm- ers of the corn belt in the west are burning corn because in present con- ditions of transportation charges and marketing expenses it Is cheaper for them to burn corn than coal; cheaper for farmers there and elgewhere to limit the raising of cattle under pres- ent conditions than to carry it on as heretofore. But yet it would be news ! it the public were informed how de perately in earnest the representa. tives of the farming element are to| £0 to the hottom of the causes of this | inequality which is cutting the very | roots of “the necessarles of life not| only for other countrivs, where. ac-| cording to the news, today given| forth, great myriads of people are! almost starving to death, but for our | own country as well. The imposition has become so great that at last the entire agricultural population is being aroused and the farmers are calling on the govern- ment for ai1d. Hitherto they have been laughed at—their efforts to meet the combinations against them have been treated with contempt. Today, they EDITORIAL DIGEST Financing the Soldier Bonus. “This session of Congress will see the passage of a soldier bonus bill,” is the unequivocal statement of the | Philadelphia Public Ledger (inde- pendent), and it seems to be gen- erally accepted by newspapers that the prediction is correct. *“The mer- its of the bonus,” says the Pitts- burgh Sun (democratic), “seem not to be taken into consideration by the administration,” and it expresses the prevailing democratic sentiment when it says further that “the chief desire 4t Washington seems tb be to satisfy the veterans, who as a potential po- 1litical power are not to be scoffed at, and to delude the taxpayers gen- erally into thinlkfhg that the bonus is costing them nothing.” In fact the Sioux City Journal (republican) finds “the republicans in Congress between the devil and the-deep sea on this proposition, damned if they do and_damned if they don't.” The New York Times (independ- ent democratic) stigmatizes the pra- posed legislation as a “bribe” to the soldier vote to save republican con- gressmen “from defeat next fall” but granting that the movement may be “largely political,” the Lansing State Journal (independent) suggests that “Inasmuch as numerous popular tests disclose that the voters are for the bonus in thelr own states, those who are hoping for re-election this|ant coming fall can hardly be blamed for taking the. stand they do.” But “the bonus question is loaded,” as the Philadelphia Public Ledger goes on to say. President Harding has made it unmistakably clear that he will not approve bonus legislation that does not carry with it a definite means for ralsing the money ap- propriated, and the New York Post (independent) is sure that “the ocountry will thorougnly approve this demand that Congress shall not shift its responsibility.” Although, as the Richmond Times Dispatch (démo- cratic) puts it, “legislators with more faith than judgment have assured the country that there would be no difficulty about raising the bonu: money,” there still remains to be de- vised a conerem working plan to- ward t.hnt en Three plans, the Springfield Union (republ!cn,n) '.allu us, have been pro- posed, each of which, incidentally, "hu.s a few friends and more enemies.” These are: First, an issue of bonds up to the sum required; second, the use of interest payments on the eleven "billion dollar foreign debt to our government; and third, a special tax levy, for which there have been two suggestions, a sales tax and a tax on light wines and beer.” Thus far most of the editorial dis-. cussion has been upon the second of these proposals, and debate was be- coming exceedingly lively when the President voiced his disapproval of the scheme In such manner as make its adoption unlikely. If, as the | 8T8 o4 Russia was a great mnkef. ‘Maybe Chicag o ol oo o “tho bongs| she will be sgain. the end. the :’;’:‘ 37 &t st the interest recetved from|British hunger, & oraving drizen by out o thirty millions who live by English foreign debtors was “in the nature of trial balloons launched to test the winds of public sentiment,” the reaction must have been decisive, for the newspaper friends of the proposi- tion are few indeed. The South Bend Tribune (independent republican) sees “poetic justice” in such an ar- rangement, for “the American soldiers. fought for the cause in behalf of which the debts were contracted,” and “both form part of the contri- bution this country made toward winning the war’; therefore it is fitting that “the returns from one should be devoted to manifesting eppreciation of the other.” ‘The Buffalo Express (fhdependent republican) thinks “there will be no ob]sctlon" to such use of payments the loans once “they begin to nu in,” and the El Paso Times (danwcn!.lc), while granting that this way of financing the bonus “may not be the best method,” feels none maunu:n"u such a measvre it would be formal and| .., deflniv.e notification to those countries that we intend to get our money eventually.” But most of the opinfon coincides more_closely with the declaration of the New York World (democratic) that “a more vicious, & more mis- chievous proposal has never been made.” By promising “to devote the interest of the allied debt to a bonus,” t.he ‘World asserts, the majority party hopes placate business while at the same time quieting the servi: men until after another Congress i chosen,” since “the republican leaders are well aware that they cannot: by means of. taxstion; Of | out of his bones, Africa will be no can ' probably eke it out by gétting . 0, FRIDAY JANUARY 27, 1922, are combining and beginning to look to forming =n agricuitural “black’ o | Ccngress. There are some 30,000,000 of them—an Imposing number—they only need leaders. ER This creation of *“blocks” In our Congress, if it {s carried through, would be in {tself one of the most rad- ical changes that our government has ever undergone; for the block-system legislatlve action as carried on in some of the European governments, is as essentlally different from what has always been the system of repro- Headquarters for Edison Mazda Lamps sentative government in this country ¢ as can be.imagined, and yet it is ap- parently the natural and possibly, s only effective means of securing a remedy - for the present disastious conditions of our agricultural popue- lation. What I say is not in a spirit of critlelsm or of pessimism. 1 write you thus, because I feel that the pres- ent situation Is so manifestly one in which the great farming class of this country has been victimized by com- binations of one kind or another— that the whole country should take steps and without delay, to assist in remedying what must, unless correct- ed, bring universal disaster upon our people—not only upon the agricul- tural class (the disaster has come to them already), but upon the whole body of our people. And when the element which farms the land Is driven by reasons beyond their- control to suspend the work of production, the imposition has passed beyond them and is upon the whole community. Therefore, I say that it Is not only the task of the agricul- turalist to find out by whom the imposi- tion is practiced, but of the whole community, wh!ch 1s indirectly vic- timized with him, PP, ‘When throughout this country the agencles that Interpose between the producers and the consumers—the farmers and householders, rural and urban—take as toll so unconsclonable a part of the products of the farm as the transportation companies and middleman agencies are shown by all the reports to do, it is a deadly blow, little less than a crime. It is pos- ibly not withig the statute; but it is| blow at the welfare not only of the | armers, but of the entire American | people. 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N.W. chuse the business elements that sup- port the republican party will not stand a general increase in taxes.’ Even if the money received from fcreign nations applied to the sol- diers’ bonus instead of the liberty bend account,” as required by liberty bond legislation, who, asks the Grand Rapids Press (independent), .“will have to retire the liberty bonds?” The obvious answer, which it gives, is, “the American people—by taxes.” Whatever machinery is adopted, it must still be borne in mind, as many writers in accord with the Indian- apolis News (independent) insist, that “the money will come trom the Amer- ican people, including the soldiers themselves,” for, “directly or indirect- ly, it will have to come out of taxes.” If members of Congress “feel that they must vote for bonus legislation in order to secure thelr return to the House or Senate,” the Spokane Spokesman Review (independent re- publican) holds that “they should be made to face their constituents frank- 1y in the coming campaign and be compelled to admit to the voters that the immediate tax burden is going to |, be heavied by reason of the bonus,” for “nothing can change the fact,” the ‘Wheeling Intelligencer (republican) adds, “that it will be heavy additional taxation.” A British Dilemma. The English brethren of the loom and mill are In a cold sweat over the pro‘hlem of how they may touch pitch not be deflled. Wanting the Rus- sian trade, hungering for it mightily, they do not want Lenin in London rambling about and stirring up the English reds. Seams and cracks are openin the old British empire. 'l'he mar Ou of used to be are goln With a marvelous political lkm the British overlords, men of the old Norman and Celtic strains, are holding the out- lines of a chi world domain in place. Things are being patched up in Ireland, the old England taking the hateful dose of the Irish Free State as gallant gentlemen and without a grimace. It means much, too, this loss of trade, jobs, lands, titles and prerogatives. Market, markets—that {s the cry and the moan and the mutter of Eng- land. Those who see far vision the need. Those who run by instinct and walk by impulse feel ft. It find trade, give work, swap goods for bread or twenty million tolk must get out of England. So the English sigh over th lost Russian markets. It is Russi nothing for England in the old world. Japan is tumbling bales and frails, boxes and cartons of “Made-in-Japan” stuff into Asia. In the Yangtse val- ley cotton spindles are beginning thelr hum. Indla is increasing her manufactures yearly. African markets? Africa is saturat- ed with goods. Unless some way can be deviged to make the black man want soffething hard enough to work for it, td take the tropi laginess The Greatest Sale of floarf, Shoes For Women We Ever Held! Never have we held a sale which aroused such intense buying interest as this semi- annual event now in prog- ress. It is the talk of the town. And you will quickly understand WHY when you see the astounding values we are offering. There are thousands of pairs to choose from—all our own regular stock, smashed in prices regardless of cost or 498 ] 55 o8 t market. PERFECTLY MADE mills and British ships, will get Eng- land into Russia. Needs must when necessity whips.—Philadelphia Public Leger (lndeuendmt). It lgnol'l.nea is really bliss, then why are so many of us' unhappy? —A!hevllla Times. e_would welcome your bank le- count” remarks a passing ad. would, too; let's look for IL—Bufldo Express. “Most of thogs Who 1ive to be elghty are vegetarians.” Huh. We thought éhey ‘were octogenarians.—Baltimore un. Rumor has it that Mr. Hay’s salary will not be so large ag stated, but he A Sale Without a Single Drawback. Nothing Missing! The selection is enormous—Boots, Oxfords, One and Two Strap Pumps and Sandals, Hand turned and welt soles: prime quality : leathers—brown, tan and black calf skin, kid skin, suede, patent colt, Y patent kid—in all styles of heels, Military, Cuban, French and Baby Louis. All sizas and widths will be found in these big assortments. PROMPT SERVICE TO ALL. 'COME TOMORROW. Newark Shoe Steres e 3 WASHINGTON STORES . 913 Pa. Ave. NW. 1“2 7th St. N.W. Open Saturday Nights passes to the movies.—Boston Tran- script. If President Harding ware a venge- ful gnan, he might retaliate on the 8 by appointing one of their stars to the vacant cabinet position.— Nashville Banner. The President says no single public improvement has done more for the general good than highway construc- tion. It has paved the way, at least. —Seattle Times, 711 H St, NE.