Evening Star Newspaper, February 3, 1922, Page 6

] THE EVENING' STAR, WASHINGTON D. 0. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1922, 1HE EVENING With Sunday Morning Fdtion. WASHINGTON, D. G, THEODORE W. NOYES. . . . Editor The ME; Star Newspaper Company A Business Office, 11th 8t. and Pennsylv Chleng S IOFE, O 4180, Nasean: g0 Office: Tower Xuropean Office: 16 Regent St.. Fondon, Englana. ! With that ratio in effect, setting aside FRIDAY.......February 3, 1822 tor ten years, and it is to be prayed STAR, |treaty lies in the fact that a naval ratio has been established which abol- ishes naval competition by the five principal naval powers. of the world. and expected for all time, the blin insistence thgt a nation shall be the sole judge of its particular armament requirements, the very root of naval ve. | armament is cleft. It is perfectly clear that if the United States, England, Ja- pan, France and Italy are safe with The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning | the present allotment of ships they editlon, in delivered by earriers within tar elty 2t 60 conts per month : daily only, 45 cents per month: Suniay only, 20 eeats per month. O o ma Went by mail, or one Main 5000." Cotlection 10" made by at the each month. .Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. | Maryland and Virginia. ! would, barfing an almost Impossible - | threat from some nation without the agreement, be equally safe with that allotment halved, quartered or divided by ten. y ‘The ratio is the thing. Its establish- ment ends competitive naval arma- Daily lm'llysundny..ll yr., $8.40: 1 mo., 702 | ment. Competitive ' naval armament 1y Daily onl $6.00; 1 me Sunday onl; J.1yr. $2.40; 1 mo., All Other States. Dailv and Sunday 1yr. 51000 1 mo., Daily only . "$7.00: Sunday oni: Ir Soot Revival of the Snow Law. 20c | has ever been a breeder of interna- tional distrust. International distrust, ted by skillfully prepared propaganda m essential to hold the populace of the yr.. $2.00; 1 n®.. Zoc | competing nations quiescent under the expenditure of hundreds of millions of dollars, has ever been a breeder of war. The adoption of the ratio, accom- =" A sidewalk snow bill pends in Con-|panied with the ather signal achieve- gress. Under this bill snow must be | ments of the confarence’ in removing cleared from the sidewalk in front of { grounds-for international friction, is cent. Much depends, of course, upon the degree of free moisture—that is, the difference between ““dry” snow and “wet" snow. The medium snow makes the best snowball, not too slushy and not too fluffy. Mr. Edison’s machine | probably takes snow of all kinds and packs it into standard gized bricks, The compression is ~probably much greater than that effected by the boy. Compression means heat, and heat melts snow, so that in the act of com- pression the amount of free molsture is increased, part of it doubtless runs off and the result is a neary solid mass of a size convenient for stacking and later removal. b If this machine can work prac- tically and economically it can solve the problem of snow removal in cities. The difficulty in handling & heavy snowfall is not so much the scooping up of the snow as the dis- posal of if. The equipment required in a big place like New York is enor- mous to clear merely the main ar- terles of traffic, so long are they. A battery of a dozén snow-brick ma- chines would probably do the work of a hundred trucks and three hundred men, at perhaps less expense. Let it be hoped that the Edison “‘snowballer,” or something better of the same kind Press-Baiting in Congress As a Popular Indoors Sport It is a pity that Representative Ben Johnson cannot take the wise, just and liberal position which he has as- sumed in respect to increase of water supply and necessary protection of the water-supply system by construction of & new additional conduit, without soolding and slurring the Washington newspapers, which have been working in the public interest to the same end. He throws the great welght of his influence in favor of the building of an additional parallel condult, in order to meet the unexpected but possible emergency of a serious mishap to the single fifty-nine-year-old condult, upon_ which the District now relles. But he says: “The local press has placed the demand for ‘an additional local supply solely and entirely upon the theory that the water system had reached its limit of supply. * ¢ ¢ For a year or two now the local press, and particularly one paper, would make the people belleve that they were standing on the very verge of a water famine. No such thing is threatened, and no such thing will threaten, un- less, as I say, it is the unexpected that happens, and againat that certainly provision should be made.” 1y impotent to act unless thus spurred 1 short ana falled P! , # to erect this much-needed public building upon the site which it had acquired. The newspapers may possibly have assumed that their work was done when they had, as represented, prod- ded Congress into purchase of the archives building site, on_ the theory that erection of the bullding on the site would quickly and inevitably follow. Since obviously they have blundered in this assumption it is clearly their duty to respond to Mr. Johnson’s suggestion and to renew the clamor, which Mr. Johnson, repre- sents to be necessary to cause Con- gress to abandon inertia, neglect and hurtful delays, and to push the much- needed archives building to completion. * % % % “Only a few years ago the local press clamored and demanded that the property on Pennsylvania avenue, on the south side of the street, just this side of 16th street, should be purchas- ed for a public bullding. The clamor continued until the property was bought. Instantly after the property was bought and the money was pald the clamor ended. There stands the property now where the Poli Theater is, end there is no more dsmand, ex- WARNING! Say “Bayer” when you-buy Aspirin. When you see the name “Bayer” on tablets, you are get-| iting genuine Aspirin prescribed by physicians over 22 years | jand proved safe by millions for To Keep Our Painters Busy We are quoting specisl JJow prices on ail inting contracts to be completed uunf: February. 1114 8th St. N.W. Ph. N. 231-233, PAINTING DEPABTMENT " = 2 g 1 Notie of Removal I wish to annource the removal of my Optometri- cal Offices from the Evans [ Building to The Farragut Apartments Cor. 17th and Eye Stx. N.W. « ite Farragut Square), —whére T will be i1 more commodious quarters, and will be able to render even . pleoffender even Colds Headacie: Bleomenc Sifie cyesight service than Toothache Neuralgia Neuritis ever before. g Earache Lumbago Pain, Pain Bernard A. Baer | OPTOMETRIST i Accept only ‘‘Bayer”” package which contains proper directions. Cor 171l Suite 208, Farragut Apartments and Eye Stx. N.W. | 8 8| 2 thing, so far as : private paoperty within eight hours | the longest stride toward insuring the | will become a feature of future municl- e DL ik N thit fi;‘;‘;u‘g’g;;‘;d‘fig‘n‘ffl,';; from INinols | Handy “Bayer” boxes of 12 tablets—Also bottles of 24 and 100—Druggists. gl Telephone Franklln 7010, of daylight after the ceasing to fall { fhace of the world which has been ef- | oal winter equipment. Mr. Johnson, whatever his rea-|jang’ i Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufactore of Monoaceticacidester of Salleylicacid | g of any snow or sleet. This must be |fected through a quest which is ages sons, is h those who hive been} ¢t thus appears that the local press " done or dirccted to be done, by the oc- | old. cupant of the property, whether such occupant be owner, tenant or lessee. The proposition is a good one, and meets the approval of certainly nine- ! tenths of the people of Washington. (It also has the approval of quite as large percentage of home-owners as of lodgers. It is an old subject here. When ‘Washington was a small city it was a point of pride and responsibility with our old citizens to clear off the “pave- ment” in front of home or store. It was a local habit, and Washington children grew to manhood and woman- kood with the conviction that the side- ‘walk in front of the home was in part under their care. Here and there was @ neighbor who was indifferent to the comfort of the other neighbors and who did not feel himself bound by the local custom. Allen owners of unim- proved lots were the chief delinquents. Backed by popular opinion there came to be enacted a law which compelled A Friendly City. Out of the Knickerbocker disaster has come one good thing. It is as a ray of light in an otherwise dark cloud which has submerged a whole city, leaving mourning and sorrow in its wake. ‘Washington stands today a friend- lier city than it was before the catas- trophe. Every heart in the city was touched by the common sorrow, which came 8o suddenly, with the result that a new consciousness seems to have been born out of the ruins: Not only did the residents in the vicinity of 18th street and Columbia road display a -neighborliness which could not have been excelled in a small town, noted for such spirit, but the people of the.city at large, from the north to the south, and the east to the west, responded with the same great wave of compassion. owners to clear the sidewalks of snow ia front of their property. fining them in the Police Court for neglect of duty. and assessing the fines against the; property in the case of allen owner- ship. The law worked for a number of years. There were protests here and there and at length a test case. The law was declared unconstitutional. But, law or no law, the old-time ‘Washingtonian 'kept clearing the snow off “his” sidewalk, and newcom- ers to Washington were instructed in the exercise and generally adopted the custom. You can sep that common , custom of the city in operation today. { Nearly every home-owner, nearly every store-owner, nearly every house and store renter, cleared the snow off *his” sidewalk or cut & passage wide enough for easy walking. Only here and there in a neighborhood was an ‘owner or tenant who did not follow the local unwritten law, and neighbor- hood comment on this neglect of #duty” would not be pleasant for the offender to hear. Only a‘small number of Washingtonians need a law to com- pel them to cledr “tHeir” sidewalk, but those who do need such’a law should have it. Part of the pending bill would com- pel the District Commissioners to re- move the snow from street crossings, aldewalks in front of public buildings As a result It is possible to sense a new spirit in Washington, a better realization by the average man or woman one meets on a street car that, after all, in the final analysis there i3 not so much difference between man and man as some seem to think. Washingtonians should catch this { Spirit as a precious thing to have come 'oul of so great a tragedy. and hallow it in their daily lives as a memorial to the dead. In common with all large cities, the National Capital has suf- fered from charges that sometimes her pedple display snobbishness, and do not know how to respond pleasantly ‘when greeted on the street. Under the spell of the Knickerbocker tragedy this better feeling, this deeper realization of humanity and oneness, is here. It is the duty of every earnest man and woman to show forth daily something of this feeling. Make and keep Washington the friendly city. —_—————————— More Police Autos. Stinting the police is poor policy. The “force” should be adequately. cven generously, provided for, and the best that the people could give it would not be too good. In every emergency the Washington police show themselves to be men of courage, intelligence and fidelity. Never quite large enough and never quite well and the like. This used to be done, and { enough equipped, there are emer- the Commissioners will take up the;gencies which show shortcomings of obligation again if they are given the|the department for which no man in pablic money which the work calls for. | that department can be blamed. Therc — st The Threatened Coal Strike, “Attorney General Daugherty is bear- ing the threat of g coal strike in mind, gnd will take timely action for the pro- tection of the public in case of neces- sity. He is quoted as saying: ’ “The people of the country are tired of quarrels and strikes and being farcibly fed on both. They want fuel to keep them warm and food when they are hungry, and they can’t have either without work.” In ordinary times quarrels over wages and conditions of work and ptrikes growing out of them are gtrange enough, but in these times they are amazing and to the last de- gree reprefensible. .. These are extraordinary times. So , Much is out of plumb, the wonder is that headway in any line of endeavor can be made. Men of the largest ex- perience in affairs are often on their toes, and “stumped” as to the best course to pursue. 7 L And yet, in the thick of it all, lock- Jjouts and strikes occur, and production of the necessaries of life is halted. The country has never been brought face to face with the question of freez- ing or of starving. Need there be any doubt as to its dl!posiii’on or ability to meet such a situation? Is it conceiv- able that it would take such punish- ment lying down at anybody’s hands? In any steps the Attorney General may take to protect the public against widesnread svffering from disputes over wages and related matters he will have strong popular approval and support. ——————————— The ground hog this year called at- tention to a regrettable past with no assurances of & change of heart for the future. Some of the members of the farm bloc are regarded as more skilled in blocking than in farming. The Achievement. The tendency of the thoughtless to disparage the fine achievement of the ‘Washington conference in the fram- ing of the naval treaty emphasizes the comparatively trivial and neglects the all-important feature of a notable ac- gomplishment. For the question of how many ships ere scrapped and how many retained by the nations represented at the con- ference can have, in the final analysis. no°considerable influence on the pros- pects for future peace throughout the world. As an economic advantage to the natlons concerned the valué of re- _ducing armaments is apparent. But what & world imbued with a burning destre for peace has asked was in- fififtely more than economic advan- tazge. ,_ The tmportant feature of the naval ! is, for example, the matter of trans- port or means of quick transit. There is not enough motor apparatus for getting the main body of the force to points where it is urgently needed. There is a patrol wagon in each pre- cinct and a few autos at headquarters, but there are not enough machines to make the force sufficiently mobile to meet all emergency demands. The need for additional police autos was emphasized Saturday night.” Law and order must be insured in the National Capital, and one of the approved forms of insurance is a police force which shall be adequate and adequately equipped-for any event that may come to pass. ————————— Whep. workers refuse $2.80 a day at a time that invites every citizen to re- lieve an emergency, the unemploy- ment situation cannot be regarded as calling for any indiscriminate sym- pathy. X It is apparently the opinion of Sena- tor Capper that current amusement is less in need of art censorship than of expert building supervision. ——————— President Harding is in & position ta congratulate himself on the fact that the Washington conference car- ries 2 mesdage of hope to all nations. ———————— Edison’s Snowball Machine. During the present emergency, when the streets are packed with snow, Edi- son's resurrected snow-briquetting machine would prove of tremendous use. The necessity for clear streets in a great city was never more keenly shown than Siturday night, when the lives of scores rescued from the theater disaster hung upon the speed with which they could be conveyed to hospitals. 1f this motorized machine—invented forty years ago and forgotten by the inventor—could have been in active use here Saturday in numbers suf- ficlent to cope with the situation, all rellef work would have been.speeded up in direct ratio to the freedom of thoroughfares from snow. The development of, the machine whI be watched with interest by au- thorities, since Washington knows now beyond doubt that all lines of communication must be kept open for the unknown emergency which may happen in & second. The briquet- ting machine is designed to run along snow-coverpd - streets, scoop up the snow, press it into blocks and turn it out on the side in compact and consequently ‘condensed form. Any boy who has ever made a snowball knows that it takes a big double hana- ful of snow to pack down into a con- venient two-inch missile. That is to sy, the comprossion is at least 59 per 4 Senator Kenyon’s Future. Senator Kenyon's resignation from the upper chamber of Congress to ac- cept a federal judgeship brings up dis- cussion of traditions of evolution in public office-holding. It may well be asked if there is, indeed, any har@ and fast custom governing promotion that should be superior to personal preference as to the nature of public service a man can render. Aforetime, in many of the southern and western states, there existed a well defined route to high place in public affairs. A man went through the legislature to the national House of Representatives; then he became governor of his state and his next ambition usually was a seat In the United States Senate. There are several former governors in the Senate today. The records will have to be searched to show how many senators have gone on the bench. The man who would “rather be right than be President”—his name was legion. Willlam H. Taft went him one better—he would rather be Chief Jus- tice of the United States than be Presi- dent, and it came to pass that he was both. And w “right” all the time, as well. Mr, Kenyon's friends assume that he entertains the natural and laudable ambition to attain ultimately |a place on the Supreme bench. Chief Justice White was a senator of the United States before he became Chief Justice. ——————————— The scientific use of money is more important than mere perfunctory processes of restricting its expendi- ture. There is dften a disposition on the part of statesmanship to ‘confuse economies with economics. i The elimination of poison gas from warfare may assist in disposing of the tendency to regard a stenchful demon- stration as a legitimate argument in disposing of a dispute, i The old Greek players who gave their dramas in the open air net only developed classic models, but showed a prudent appreciation of the safety-first idea. } Students of the law of averages have not yet found any means of indicating how a surplus of snow can be made to provide against a deficit in water supply. f The Calvert Street bridge has al- ready been investigated, the report being, “What are you going to do about it?” i Lenin seems inclined to remodel his Political and economic ideas with a view to giving the public the kind of sovietism that it wants. i An investigation’ of Washington's water supply system is deferentially commended by students of the Dis- trict’s needs. { Golf is at present impossible, but the snow shovel is scientifically commend- ed as a promoter of beneficial exercise. SHOOTING STARS. - BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. 0ld Man Trouble. Old Man Trouble come a-knockin' at the door. I knew him when I saw him. He has been around before. I wouldn’t go to geet him, 'Cause I wasn’t pleased to meet him. His company is what I call—to say the least—a bore.’ I sent a little smiling child, instructing him to say, “Nobody home.” That youngster was 8o trustful and so gay Mister Trouble started grinning ‘When he saw that face so winning— And then he sang a song and went a-dancing on his way. “I am half tempted,” remarked Sen- ator Sorghum, “to start an inquiry.” “With what object?” “To find out what becomes of all the investigations.” Jud Tunkins says that as between a filvver and a hoss he favors the flivver, because it doesn’t offer any encourage- ment to the handbook men. . Companions of tfie Hour. The snowman soon must meet his end Beneath the sun’s bright ray. Like many another fragHe friend, He simply fades away. The Alert Business Man. “The Bible is the most widely read book in the world.” “Yes,” rejoined the complacent pub- lisher. “I think that well recognized fact reflects great credit on our circu- lation deprtm’ent." “1 expects all my friends will be angels some day,” said Uncle Eben: “but befo’ dey undertakes to play de harp I-hopes de mos’ of ‘em will have @ chanoe to take music lessona.™ fighting with all their might to re- lleve the capital community from the possible disaster threatened by reliance upon the single fifty-nine- year-old conduit through which it re- ceives its water supply. He s heartily welcome to the ranks of those who plan to secure a new ad- ditional conduit, and the single con- clusive reason which he assigns for this advocacy is that upon which the Army engineers and The Star also primarily rely. * ok kK Next, he scolds the local press, be- cause, on the strength of the reports of Army engineers that the old Aque- duct bridge was unsafe and might give way in the season of floods and Ice-jams, it frightened Congress into building a fine new million-dollar bridge alongside the old. The new bridge nears completion, and vet the tottering old Aqueduct bridge has not in fact fallen down! -« The Star is proud of the part it has played in urging the District’s leg- islature to adopt thé wise, broad and far-seeing policy in respect to Po- tomac bridges. which has resulted in the substitution of the Highway bridge and the new Rallroad bridge for the old flood-threatgning and disaster-menacing Long bridse dam, and in the substitution of an ade- quate and attractive modern struc- ture for the ugly and dangerous Aqueduct bridge. And The Star ap- peals with all its might to Congress to round out its Intelligent and be- | neficent bridge legislation by construc- tion of a memorial bridge from the Lincoln Memorial to Arlington. * %k ¥ % Of course, those who pointed out the public menace from the condition of the old Aqueduct bridge, who secured precautions in respect to its use, and safeguarding repairs, and finally the substitution for it of & new, safe and creditably attractive bridge, do not need, in order to be vindicated as public benefactors in this connec- tion, that the Aqueduct bridge, in spite of their warnings, shall be per- mitted actually to fall down, with possible loss of life. And the “alarmists” who call the attention of the community and Con- gress to menacés of this sort should not be silenced, but should be encour- aged in the public interest. For ex- ample, consider the Calvert Street bridge, which is viewed by many who use it, or have officially inspected it, as unsafe. These “alarmists” have endeavored to cause Congress to share their apprehensions to the end that a safe structure may Le substituted for a bridge of dubious safety. These men and women ¢o not want vindication as prophets of evil by the occurrence of a disaster there before Congress can be per- suaded to act. They want their leg- islature so to legislate that a new bridge shall be built there and that meanwhile the old structure shall be so tenderly handled that it shall still be standing when the new, safe bridge comes into use. Congress did well to respond to the warnings of the alarmists concerning the old Aqueduct bridge. And it will wisely heed the similar warnings concern- ing the Calvert Street bridge. * ok ¥ % | | i The next offense of the newspapeis is that they clamored for a hall of archives to protect valuable govern- ment records from theft and fire un- til Congress bought a site for such a bujlding, and then ceased their clamor; whereupon Congress, no longer spurred to wise legislative action, and avowed- compelled Congress to buy this south- of-the-Avenue property as the site of certnin public buildings, and then by ceasing to dominate Congress fur- ther became responsible for the failure of Congress to appropriate to erect those public bulldings. The theory that the local press has such power over Congress through its clamor and demands that {t_must bear the bur- den of responsibility for congressional neglects and blunders. if it falls to exercise this” alleged power wisely and unceasingly, is flattering but un- convincing. * K X % A slur modifies this flattery of the local press in the suggestion that its sole motive in dominating Congress with clamor and demands is sordid and mercenary, based upon a selfish interest in the sale of the land bought by the government. This slur is, The Star believes, totally undeserved, un- just and unfounded. The Star knows that the slur is utterly baseless so far as it is concerned. The action of the government fn buying these three squares south of the Avenue and then failing to use them as the sites of public Quildings is distinctly hurtfu! to the comnunity. It cuts down the District's tax reve- nue by exempting valuable real estate from taxation. It puts Uncle Sam in competition with local private in- dustries in respect to business activi- ties tax-fres in the government-own:d area. If Uncle Sam as hotel owner or theater owner, for instance, violates the law he cannot be sent to jall or the pen- itentiary like his private citizen com- petitors. The Star agrees with Mr. Johnson in condemning the government’'s inac- tivity in utilizing this area for the purpose for which it was purchased. The local press will doubtless gladly combine its imaginary power with Mr. Johnson’s real power to persuade or push Congress, our local legisla- ture, into carrying out thoroughly and completely the gre; public projects affectidg the District’'s water supply. Potomac bridges, & national archives building and south-of-the-Avenue de- velopment of sites for public build- ings. ERE Of course, in final analysis, Con- gress, the District's legislature, with its power of exclusive legislation, which it jealously retains and pro- tects, is solely responsible for legis- lative sins of commission and omis- sion, for, unwise-and hurtful legisla- tion and for injurious neglects to leg- islate, whether water supply, bridges, or public buildings are in question. Obligation follows power. Sole obli- gation follows exclusive power. The clamorous appeals or “demands™ of the local press and of Washington in general for legislative action aré|® - submitted in the wise and necessary exercise of the American right of petition, the only American right in relation to thejr legislation which is granted to the totally unrepresented people of the District. * k x % 1If to attract attention and to secure some measure of response this right of petition is occasionally exercised by Washington in too clamorous, or boisterous, or annoyingly persistent fashion, a share of the blame still at- taches to the District's legislature, which, instead of resenting and re- pelling with reproaches “Vashington's petitions, should in the exercise of its great and exclusive power be exce sively and sympathetically and pa- tiently considerate of even the clam- orous complaints of its impotent and petitioning constituency. EDITORIAL DIGEST . Toward a United Ireland. Much surprise was occasioned by the discovery that the Irish flag is blue instead of green—also much dis- appointment. Over here it seemed en- tirely out of drawing gor the Irish Free State, when after sev@ral cen- turies it finally acquired the right to a flag, to hoist one not of the emerald shade, with which Ireland has always been agsociated. Then a bright Amer- ican paragrapher proposed a way out | of the difficulty—why not mix the Ulster orange with the Free State blue and produce an Irish green? The as- tonishing success of the impromptu conference between Michael Collins, head of the provisional Irish govern- ment, and Sir James Craig, premier of Ulster, suggests the idea that perhaps the advice of the American has been acted on. Hopeful as the acceptance of the Irish treaty was, “it was realized that there could be no satisfactory solution while the country was divided against itself,” and, the Wilkes-Barre Record notes, “Ulster appeared to be as irrec- oncilable as it was in the most fiery period of agitation for separation.” But perhaps, “in spite of every ap- pearance to the contrary,” the Balti- more Sun suggests, “there is more of a spirit of nationality in Ireland than outsiders have supposed, and an Irish- man’s an Irishman for &’ that, wheth- er he lives in Belfast or Dublin.” In- stead of the “years of cautious nego- tion” which even the most hopeful be- lieved would be required “to reach a safe harbor of mutual forbearance and standing,” Collins and Craig “in sixty minutes outlined the modus vivendi.” basis Is an agreement covering five salient points, which the Water- Inlrx Republican gives thus: “A satisfactory solution of a means for determining the boundary between Ulster and South Ireland is reached boycotts are banned and measures o rellef for unemployed promised; the two governments will co-operate 1o settle the railroad strike; they will try to devise a more suitable instru- ment than the council of Ireland for dealing with problems affecting all Ireland.” ! The most immediate policy farmu-1 lated by the representatives of the two governments at their “accidental” meeting, arranged dby Lloyd George, is that of determining the boundary betwaen North and South Ireland. As the Boston Herald presents this prob- lem, it is an intricate one of give and take, and if they fuccued in a “friend- ly delimitation"” they will ve P formed “a remarkable feat and a very great service to both parts of the is- 1and,” for their agreement “may lead to general co-operatign, perhaps ulti- mate r:lou)' 'that it llNrauulyt -kt least co-operation. the New Yol Tribune bas no doubt, for “much more than the tracing of & frontier i ime ’ N . ‘ i volved,” since “railroads and postal services and trade do not like to stop at artificial borders when once those living on both sides have become ac- customed to unrestricted movement. Economics insensibly heals the watinds orl‘:“},"flls." i i s significant, in the opinion of the Newark News, that “northern Ire- land has evidently accepted the Irish Free State as permanently establish- ed,” for “it is there, and * * * the only wise course is,to make the best of it.”” And more significant still is the al- most incredible evidence, as the St. Louis Globe-Democrat sees it, that “North and South Ireland are pre- paring for common understandings without any help from London,” for, apparently, “Collins and Craig, on talking things over, have decided they do not want any British arbiter.” “In a word,” as the New York Globe puts it, “the ‘new machinery of govern- ment for a united Ireland will be built by Irishmen.” Thus “Irish politicians,” the Rochester Times-Union adds, “are steadlly vindicating their own claim, that with the baleful influence of Eng- lish politics removed, they can order their own destiny as wwll as any other people.” Further, the Indian- apolis News says, the understanding arrived at between the two represent- atives “is of such a nature-as to indi- cate a considerable degree of confi- dence of each government in the other."” But “even the greatest statesmen cannot perform miracles,” the New York Herald warns, and because “the 111 feeling has bitten deeply for generations into the people of both sections,” ‘“complete obliteration of the bitterness must not be expected too soon.” As the Birmingham News suggests, they aren’t all “wearin’ of the green” yet, but while there will still “be fighting now and then in Ireland,” the Reno Gazette is confi- dent that it will be “of small conse- quence, @nd_the welfare and happi- ness of a whole people will not be subject to the will of a small party of quarrelsome men,” for, as the New York World says, the Collins-Craig agreement holds ‘the germ'f a united Ireland.” “That schoolgirl complexion” isarti- ficlal. too.—Pittsburgh Gazette-Timés. 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