Evening Star Newspaper, February 4, 1922, Page 6

"HE EVENING STAR. With Sunday Morning Fsition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY....February 4, 1933 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pronsylvanis Ave. New York Dmr':-v:'lliufll.ln 8t. Offce: 16 Regent 8t Lovdon. Eagland. e eey sely. 30 eents pe lors . ma; sent mail, or tel 8000, " Gollection 1s” made by carriers at fhe ead of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1 yr.. $8.40: 1 mo., 0 Daily only.. ... $6. Sunday only. ..1yr.. $2.40. 1 mo., 20c Al Qther States. Daily and Sunday 1 yr., $10.00: Daily only.........1yr., $7.00 Sunday only. -lyr., $3.00 : 1 mo.. 25e : 1 mo.. 60c 1 mo.. 2ac The Bawes Simile. In that homely and effective simile of which he is so adept a master, Charles G. Dawes, director of the budget, yesterday expounded to his official, audience his conception of the relationship between Congress and the budget bureau. The legislative and executive heads of the government “determine how the ship sails,” he said, “and the budget bureau deter- mines how far she sails.” Aad again. ‘It Congress should decide that gar- bage should be spread upon the White House steps—much as we love the Fresident—it would be for the budget bureau to advise how the largest amount of garbage could be spread in the most economic manner.” Director Dawes' theory as to legisla- ‘tive, executive and budget relation- ships would seem to be the sound and logical one. It was hardly to be sup- posed that in creating the bureau of Which the vigorous and picturesque general is the head the executive and congressional authorities proposed to ‘relinquish thereto their responsibility for determining the projects essential to the forward march of the nation or any section thereof. Most certainly it is the duty of Congress, advised by the competent executives, to deter- mine what is to be done, and of the budget bureau to determine how to carry out the congressional decisions with the largest gconemy. -Yet in the case of the District of Co- lumbia at least that relationship, prop- erly admitted by Gen. Dawes and, it is to be presumed, fully understood upon Capitol Hill. has been completely re- versed. The District estimates, drafted by competent executive authority in the persons of Commissioners who, in the words cf Representative Moore, *know best about the needs and neces- sities of the District,” were upon being sent to the budget bureau cut in items and figures with extreme severity. Forwarded from the bureau to Con- gress, the House committee which re- ceived them accepted the figures ar- rived at in the process of mutilation at the hands of the budget bureau as the maximum which could be appro- priated, and upon that basis proceeded .to cut those figures on their own part ‘with perfervid enthusiasm. Examining the facts, one discovers that, far from confining itself to the legitimate funétions which Gen. Dawes asserts belongs to it, the budget bu- reau has in the case of the District determined “‘how the ship sails.” Con- gress, to complete the reversal of Gen. Dawes’ theory, has then—through the process of cutting appropriations—de- termined “how far.” It was the budget bureau which de- termined what streets in the District require attention, and not the Commis- sioners or Congress. It was the budget bureau which decided that the District could get along with $100,000 less than the Commissioners deemed necessary for the removal of refuse and which made a 30 per cent cut in the play- ground appropriation sought. It was the budget bureau and not Congress which threw out from the estimates appropriations asked by those “who know best about the needs and neces- sities of the District” of $600,000 for park development, $400,000 for munici- pal stables, $180,000 for the Calvert | : l 00; 1 mo.. 50c | \ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1922. the House and Senate, as well as to|ity as a power that can punish, that *| Secretary Fall of the Interior Depart- ment, a fund of information and sug- gestion, the result of observation, which should be valuable. lost 10,000 in population in a decade, but the future is brighter. This year will witness the opening of the rail- road from the coast to the interior. ‘What alls Alaska? Gov. Bone as serts that the most urgent need is a “co-ordinated and simplified system of | the conflict. administration™ to replace the bureau- cratic government. The governor asks for centralization of authority and re- sponsibility. He maintains that the bureaucratic government, long fasten- ed upon the territory, has spelled de- lay, decay and lost population. Fortunately. the territory has friends in high places at Washington, from President Harding. Secretary Fall, Senator New, chairman of the Senate committee on territories; Represent- ative Curry. chairman’of the House commiztee, and down the line of execu- tive. legislative and administrative au- thority. Gov. Bone is on the spot, the will in Congress ta do is existent. The friends of Alaska throughout the country can reasonably expect prompt action from Congress. % Shifting the Spotlight. Congress, after next Monday. will stend in the full glare of the spotlight of public Interest and concern, for the past twelve weeks to great extent di-|work on an archives | can, indeed, ruin a nation. Mr. Root maintained that the agree- ment is based upon the fundamental Alaska has jideas of humanity and right:conduct upon which the public opinion of the world has reached decisive judgment, and this constitutes, he held, the great- est power known to human history. This power, he asserted, dominated the outcome of the world war, datermined Those cynics who have held that the submarine rules will fail in the stress of conflict Mr. Root characterized as near-sighted, with these decisive facts beyond their vislon. It was not to be expected that the men who drew up the submarine agreement would present humanity with an empty shell of words, to be crushed under the heel of force and as- sumed national necessity. Mr. Root pointed out that no necessity can be superlor to judgment of civilization which outlaws specified phases of sub- marine activity. This consideration he regarded as the guarantee of the ef- fectiveness of the pact. - The Archives Building. The national archives building meets another delay. It is the House of Representatives which throws the switch and ‘shunts this project to a siding. In refusing to concur in a Senate amendment carrying appro- priation of half a million dollars to provide a site and other preliminary building the verted to the arms and far eastern | House commits a plece of economy parley. Issues of domestic impertance will be before the | lose a vast. treasure. international and | which may save a sum of money and The need for national legislative body in which allisuch a bullding has been admitted for elements of the population will be in- i more than a hundred years. Few men terested. It may be sald in verity that | doubt that such a building would jus- never before hzs the American capital | tify its cost. The building has been been more conspicuous in the eyes of | urged, and conscientiously urged, be- the country than in these stirringcause of the danger of loss by fire of times. - national records. No considerable Public interest will first and most | number of our records are kept under strongly attach to the action of the |reasonably fireproof conditions, and a Senate on the treaties negotiated | vast number of them are kept in quar- through the Washington conference | ters which are not fire-resistant. Great and submitted to the constitutional | numbers are kept in fire-traps. There ratifying body. Next, the soldiers’ {ought not to be much longer a delay compensation bill, with its attendant | in putting up a fireproof home for the features of taxation, touching every | national records. individual in the land. Then, the —_—————————— tariff, which also involves t:lamuon.] It is so customary to comment on and the great supply bills for the!the shortcomings of telephone service government’s upkeep to be met by the | that it is only proper to recall the fact taxpayers—taxes, taxes everywhere, |that ‘“central” was remarkably re- and all of them to be earned by the liable during the blizzard. The demand people. on the phones was enormous, owing If the score of millions of communi- | to the fact that they were for awhile cations from the people to the ad-{the only means of communication, and visory council of the American dele- | the demand was met with patience. #ation to the conference, and the flood | courtesy and competence. of press comment. can be taken as in- dicative, popular interest in the Sen- ate’s action on the treaties will be in- tense. President Harding and the leaders of both political parties in the Senate predict ratification. To the average citizen it is unthinkable that the epochal achievements of the great- est peace conference the world has ever known should be nullified. More than that, the country will manifest impatience and resentment if there is undue delay in ratification. President Harding’s insistence that the bonus bill shall carry provisions for meeting the obligations the legis- lation incurs is assented to, Chairman Fordney of the ways and means com- mittee announces, which is as it should be. If there is to be legislation now upon the subject it should be ef- fective and unequivocal in the terms of its complete effectiveness, so that the country will know what it faces. The Lincoln Day Banquet. This announcement is made in con- nection with the Lincoln day banquet to be given a week hence by the ———sts e Educators at Princeton may be jus- tified in preferring that the younger students do not keep motor cars. A man who is trying to keep a motor in good running order is likely at times to experience an intellectual and emo- tional strain calculated to interfere with study. ———— e While Mr. Cox may be regarded by the national democracy as a less ex- perienced leader than Col. Bryan, he has the advantage of active discipline in a mere modern school, ——— American players, having formed an organization, are now seeking to find a reliable way of making the distinc- tion between an English actor as an artist and as a strikebreaker. ——— Arrangements for the Genoa confer- ference have not yet reached a point which promises much enthusiasm in singing *“Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here!" ——— China has supplied the world with a League of Republican State Clubs of | jarge amount of business without the District: s It is the aim of those in charge of the banquet to make the affair one of significance as well as enjoyment. It is to be in the form of an old-time republican love feast, and it is esti- mated that it will be marked by the largest gathering of nationally promi- nent republicans in Washington with- in the last ten years. A function appealing so strongly should be made annual. Like Washington, and in equal de- gree, Lincoln has become a national asset—a national inspiration. All Americans today confess his genius, his loving patriotism and the inestima- ble value of his services to the coun- Street bridge, $25,000 for two swim-itry. He was not only a great Amer- ming pools for playgrounds, etc., etc. ‘The homely and effective simile of Gen. Dawes may truly apply to other sections of the nation, with their in- terests jealously guarded by chosen representatives upon Capitol Hill. But in the case of the capital of the na- tion it would appear that the budget Bureau is accorded particular powers, provided only that it use them to cut the District estimates and leave Con- «gress a free hand to cut them egain. t A simple promenade through the Yhoroughfares of this city will enable any member of Congress to do some interesting investigation at first hand concerning the needs of the District of Columbia. f The interests of peace may be pro- moted if an industrious enthusiasm in ‘getting out of debt can be substituted for ambitions of conquest. i The commerce of the world is eager to get to the close of conversational preliminaries and speed up the actual trading. l Even militaristic opinion is inclined to favor the idea of getting one war paid for before another is started. —— . | The eternal triangle of producer, middleman and consumer is again up for consideration. ot ‘What Ails Alaska? * President Harding is to visit Alaska, it is announced, an honor to the ter- ritory without precedent. Praises be if even the announcement serves to awaken interest in the region and stimulate concern in Congress over the proposed legislation for adminis- trative reforms. Alasks, admitted to -be the most Jealously cherished and assertedly the “most mdly neglected posgession of the -+ people of the United States, is by way of coming into its own, actording to Soot? C. Bone, the lately appointed governor, who, after six months’ ex- perience in office, has returned to ‘Washington on official business. He iz bringing to President Harding and o the committees on territortes of e ican, but is rated now as one of the great figures of world history. At the same time the republicans are well justified in conjuring as party men with his name. He was a party man, and his partys leader at a time of unexampled storm and stress in the country's affairs. Largely through party agencles, he saved the Union, and thereby performed a service for which even the survivors of those who then opposed him are grateful today. As Jackson was a democrat, led his party to victory, and is still a hero of that household, Lincoln was a repub- lican, led his party twice to victory, turned both victories to the noblest account, and is still the most com- manding figure in the republican galaxy. In the language of Edwin M. Stanton, Lincoln “belongs to theages.” But the present age in America—dis- turbed profoundly, es id is—has good reason to recall all that he did and left to those coming after him. ————t— Whije their country is endeavoring to arrange for a demand for merchan- dise, German strikers are so incon- siderate as to endeavor to interfere ‘with the supply. e Instead of threatening terrorism, the Russian bolshevists are turning their attention to the more practical enterprise of making friends. —_——————————— Superstitious fears are entertained that the ground hog saw his shadow. If he did he was obliged to dig a long way out of a snow drift. Power of Public Opinion. Elihu Root; taking cognizance of the occasionally expressed apprehension that in the exigency of war the arms parley agreement limiting submarine warfare will fail of effectiveness, pointed out the foundation upon which rests confidence that it will not be vio. lated. That foundation, as he asserted, conaists of the “public opinion of the civilized world.” Standing upon such a base, the agreement differs from a superstructure of rules of warfare, the mere handiwork of diplomatists. He ‘classed the massed opinfon of human- 4 working into a position to take much of a rake-off on its own account. ————————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. No Encare, Oh, Mr. Blizzard! You have left us in dismay, . And now we're simply hopin® you have traveled on your way. i You acted ‘mighty ‘“‘upty,” threw us in the drift, And never pald attention to the pro- test we would lift. ‘We got the plow and shovel, and at last we cleared the track, And we only ask your promise that you aren’t coming back. as you Sunshine came a-smilin’ through the early winter sky. Then the wind began to whimper and the snow began to fly. You weren't satisfied to add so freely to our cares. g You took a mean advantage and you caught us unawares. Now, every time a frosty wind comes shiverin’ 'round the shack, ‘We say, “All is forgiven, if you only won't come back!” Into the Sunlight. “I understand you think of retiring from public life and going into the motion picture industry.” “I shoyldn't call it ‘retiring from public life, " rejoined Senator Sor- ghum. “For a statesman to associate himself with the fllms these days is like emerging from comparative obscurity.” Jud Tunkins says there are mo- ments when he would rather hear the scrape of a snow shovel on the side- walk than the finest phonograph ever invented. Too Much of the Beautiful, A snowflake is of delicate design, A crystal wrought in beauty superfine. But snowflakes multiplied in streets and ditches Present, @ sad embarrassment of riches. i + Transformation. “I never like to see,husband and wife as partners in a bridge game,” remarked Miss Cayenne. “What's the objection?” “It will probably cease to be a game and become & family quarrel.” Avolding Aloofness. “Why are you agriculturists always complaining?” “I dunno,” answered Farmer Corn- tossel. “I mever met anybody in any walk of life who didn’t have something to kick about. Maybe us farmers just doin in so's to keep from seeming un- sociable. Startling Crime Statistics E startling presentation of statistics on crime In the Dis- H trict of Columbia embodied in * an address of Representative Tinkham to the House in the course of Tuesday's debate cannot fail to arouse combined amazement apd dis- quiet in the minds of residents of the National Capital. Advised that between the vears 1910 and 1920—a perlod during { wiich the Increase in population tor the District is estimated at 32.2 per cent— the total number of cases recorded in both branches of the local Police Court increased §5.7, the city-wide audience of the gentleman from Massachusetts !xs still unprepared for the full facts in the case. Those facts, marshaled by their collector in grim array,are pre- sented conclusively and without the adornments of elocution. We learn that during the ten-year period in question grand larceny cases in the District of Columbla increased by 161, per cent, forgery by 71 per cent, receiving stolen goods by 600 per cent, assault with dangerous weapon by 83 per cent and assault to kill by 200 per cent. It Is interesting to note that, while there have been decreases in ‘certain crimes and others have in eftect but kept pace with the Increase in population, the more violent types of criminality, with the exception of assault to rape, attempted rape and rape, showed marked percentage in- icreases. This unhappy fact culmi- Inales in the proof that during the dec- de under consideration murder in the istrict increased from seven cases to thirty-eight cases, or 413 per cent, and manslaughter from six cases' to twenty-lthree cases, or 243 per cent. The increase in the total of the two ¢crimes combined figures at 350 per cent. * ok ok % Astounding and distressing though these statistics will be to the average man and woman resident in the Dis- trict, their effect would be somewhat less stunning could it be shown that since the end of the period they cover there has been a decrease in local crime. Nineteen twenty, it will be properly asserted, !s more than a full year behind us today. What of 19217 Yet even here there is no escaping the relentless statistics produced by Representative Tinkham. It is pointed 40,000 persons have left the District, or slightly less than 10 per cent, while simple assault has increased by 21 per cent, assault to kill by 131-3 per cent, housebreaking by 60 per cent, assault to rape, etc, by 243 per cent, manslaughter by 26 per cent and murder by 16 per cent. Driving home his contentions with unswerving insistence, Representative Tinkham demonstrated that, accord- ing to available figures, there were more than two and a half times as many murders in the District in 1920 ias there were in the huge city of London: that Scotland, with a popu- lation ten times as great as the Dis- trict, has less than half as many mur- ders, and finally that the District, the seat of the United States gov- ernment, has a_higher rate per capita 1 of murders than any city in the world. * ¥ ¥ % Appalling facts, these—facts which cannot but bring to every Washingto- nian keen humiliation and the unquali- fied determination to end the forward march of crime percentages in the city he loves best. Yet in the consideration of those facts, in the quest for a means whereby to render them less menacing, one all-important consideration should: not be overlooked. Representative Tink- ham, faced with the task of making a specilic point in a limited period of time, may be readily excused for the failure fo allude thereto. The consideration in point is effectively dealt with by Charles Frederick Potter in the February issue of Current History. ; The phenomenon of rapid crime in- crease in recent years is very far from unique to the National Capital. Investi- gatlon established it as being practically universal throughout the cities of the United States. Tn the year ended August 31, 1921, there_were, according to the Ameri- can Bankers' Assoclation statistics, 136 hold-ups and 319 burglaries of banks—a bank robbery in_some form every nineteen hours and fifteen min- | utes” of the year—and this without out that since the 1920 census about | For the District apd Nation |law of indlvi taking into account those which oc- curred in banks not members of the association, numbering well over one- third of the association membership. ; opulation ‘The professional criminal of the nation is estimated tent authority at 300,000 The sum of $302,788,000 is set forth as the probable approximate loss in 1921 by theft with and without vio- ‘ence! * % % % Losses by theft aggregating $1.630.- 009 were reported to the police of Boston in 1920, as compared with an annual average of $816,341 for the five immediately preceding years, or an increase of practically 100 per cént. Baltimore reported $1,347,402 stolen In 1919, as compared with $410,486 in 1912. Chicago reported $3,974,326 stolen in 1921, Murders in Chicago, reported as 352 in 1921—almost one a day through- out the vear—show a steady increase since 1910, amounting to 12i per cent for the total period. Cleveland, with one-tenth the population of London, had twice as many murders as that metropolis in 1918. Los Angeles, one- twentieth the size of London., had ten more murders than the latter city in 1917. According to the only avafl- able murder statistics of a reputable nature covering the whole country, 69,377 murders were committed in the United States from 1912 to 1918. The total number of battle deaths- of American soldiers in the world war was 50,327, * ¥ K % Admitting that the necessary steps to better this appalling condition of affairs must in the muin be taken by the respective communities affected, it is well to understand and to take into account the clear fact that what, Mr. Carter characterizes as the cur- rent “carnival of erime” natlonal rather than a local phenomenon. For any consideration of the facts must lead to earnest anxiety to first ex- plain and then alter them, and any plan for such alteration would fail of full effectiveness if concelved in a narrower perspective than that which a study of the full facts would insure. It is interesting to note the dif- ferent explanations and_corrective measures volunteered by Representa- tive Tinkham and Mr. Carter for the phenomena they have expounded. The former, who absolves the District police force from any responsibility in the premises, attributes the spread of crime in the District to the com bined influence of the tendency of Congresses, with which the District has been “in such close assoclation.” to “refuse obedience to the fundamental law which governs them, namely, the Constitution”; of “the lessening by ual {reedom and indi- vidual responsibility,” and of “the destruction and elimination of the American home.” By implication, for he volunteers no direct remedy, he sets forth that with these three ills col‘;racted the crime increase would end. PR Mr. Carter. on the other hand, ad- vances a somewhat different expla- nation and suggests a definite reme- dy. Crime increase, he contends, is due largely to lack of uniformity, certainty and severity in, law en- forcement, pointing out that out of 679 homicide cases in New York city in 1920 but one conviction of murder in the first degree was obtained. He places the burden of responsibility squarely upon the shoulders of the generai public, which, he says, elects representatives who enact “statutes restricting judges, prosecutors and police in the performance of their duty and conserving the rights of wrongdoers until the superior rights of society have been altogether - sight of.”” He suggests a concrete | of remedial steps to better what he holds to be an intolerable condition of affairs, concluding tions with a quotation from Jud; Rezalsky to the effect that * time for well metaning reformers who have wasted a good deal of and given too much conside: hardened criminals to steo permit honest citisens to proctection the courts want to give them.” Both. gentlemen certainly furnish food for earnest thought to Wash- ington, the country at large, and the fionfreu of the United States in pare cular. EDITORIAL DIGEST Japan’s Siberian Policy. Twy years ago the Japanese pre- [ mier made the declaration that “Japan has absolutely no territorial ambitions in 'Siberia; she will not take a single square foot of terri- tory, and the minute the red menace is settled she will withdraw every soldier.” Now the Japanese ambassa- dor to the United States has assured the far east conference that the mili- tary occupation of Russian territory “is only a temporary meagure and will naturally come to an end as soon as a satistactory solution of the ques- tion shall have been arranged .will: an orderly Russian government. It is the fixed and settled policy of Japan to respect the territorial integ- Tity of Russia and to observe the principle of non-intervention in the internal affairs of that country. 4 Commenting on Premier Hara's statement of 1920, the Louisville Post. remarked at that time that it was not altogether promising, _since “Japan is to be the judge” of an “or- derly” condition in Russia, 'hl:fh would make withdrawal po.!‘!l e. Further, the utter lack of any. sug- gested time limit on the oficup‘llon reminded the Post that ‘England went into Egypt twenty-five or more Vears ago with no intention of stay. ing there, but England is in Egypt ‘°§’-§¥ Post was expre: v newspaper ;!“n‘:-:‘gdeclnrllion of two years &go, but it is just as good an index to the opinions of the press on ‘Baron Shlge- hara's decllrlt}on otc}:::l;e::e “T; 's_position is a * A &‘e“‘v'Ypoork Times reminds us, lpd“(he Siberian question is obviously ‘“not one to start a shower of stones thrown from international glass house: The reply of the Japanese government, it points out “is _mucl the same as that which the English government forty years ago gave in regard to withdrawing from Egypt.’ Eveh our own government is always consumed with anxiety to remove military pressure” from HII.K.L Santo Domingo and Nicaragua, and “to leave them free to develop their own insti- tutions, but somehow the exact hour does not arrive.” ‘s case It is a matter of Bt I D ge. as many writers N lated pled l:a vllg EThepPros'ldence _Journnl tells t into Siberia with etha pAmurluns, British and French during the war. The Csecho- slovaks, fighting by the side of the Russians, were then in danger, and valuable military stores at Viadivos- tok needed guarding.. The agreement was that each nation should furnish approximately seven thousand troops, which were to be withdrawn when the original purpose of the expedition had been carried oyt. The Americans, British and French retired long ago. Not only have the Japanese remained, but they have increased their forces to between fifty and seventy thousand men. They have usurped the trade in the region they occupy, taken .over the fisheries and In other ways in- frlnnd‘nn"nuul‘ln";lqu under the elf-protection. “’}:laeol,':icl ’Preul holds that “the facts, so far as known,” sustain Ja- pan’s contention “that maintenance of her forces in eastern Siberia is necessary because the country is in a dllnrdmied Mui"l "h"""m"fi':: - vt:- cordingly, s reasonable, - ol not be undertaken *“un- stable, responsible gov- stablished ' there.” i what ‘political stability’ is?" asks the Lexington Leader, or “when it is at- tained? and what Japanese security demands? It is perfectly evident that, resting her promise of ultimate with- drawal on such a basis, Japan can remain in eastern Siberia as long as it suits her purpose.” That purpose, as the Louisville Post sees it, is not territorial aggreasion, but to get “the money Russia owes her. That she will have.” and the Post thinks Japan has no i{dea of withdrawing her troops until she gets it. “It is idle to talk of any people es- tablishing a strong, stable govern- ment while a foreign army occuples their territory and hampers and sub- verts the governmental efforts of the people,” declares the Waterbury (Conn.) Republican, and “it is ob- vious that if Japan continues to oc- cupy eastern Siberia and follow the same policy she has been following the Russians will never be able to es- tablish a government that Japan will consider stable.” To get around the difficulty which the Philadeiphia Public Ledger (independent) also sees in determining “the stability of any government anywhere in an unstable Russia,” the Springfleld Republican suggests “International investigation, from time to time, of the need of continued military occupation by for- eign troops.” Ocean Liners to Ireland. Among other signs of new condi- tions in Ireland is the announcement from New York of plans under way there for establishing between Irish and American ports ste whose vessels will c the Irish Free State. One company has already been incorporated as the Irish-American Line, and the organi- zation of another is expected to be completed in a few d Surely there is re: 8 new situation, to believe that things are going better with the world. Hav- ing her own trade will give Ireland that outlet for. individual and na- tional effort which nations are com- ing more and more to accept as a right of peoples which must be ob- served and conserved.—Buffalo Cou- rier (democratic). The ‘great Shackleton died, it might be said, with his arctics on.—Philadel- phia Record. Rumor is defined as a “fiying report,” but that “f” in flying seems super- fluous.—Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont. People agree when talking of the weather because all political parties are in favor of weather.—Toledo Blade. There is an opera called “Snegou- rotchka.” Surely by any other name it would sound as sweet.——New York Post. France is gently reminded that the hand that rocks the boat isn't that hand that rules the world.—Baltimore Sun. The man chiefly responsible for the present rate of forelgn exchange was the inventor of the printing press.— Rochester Times-Union. “Her halr always exqulsitely dressed and her ghoes in perfect shape. No more in the way of dress is required of any woman."—London Deily Mir, vor. Britain's balmy climate.—Syra- cuse Herald. 2 wish, might expressed th be a “boptlegger for chap who is satisfied ~Johnstown 'Democrat. ‘There is one & mijlion- To Keep Our Painters Busy We are quoting special low prices on all painting ecoatracts to be completed during Pebruary. = x. FERGUSON c. 3114 9th St. N.W. Ph. N. 231-233. PAINTING DEPARTMENT Look What Has Happened ! “BURCHELL’S” | Bouguet Coffee | i et il | Superbly Flavored pened in the price of glass for build- ing purpdses. Compared with 1920 we are now selling — 1920 1922 $100 worth of Skyligg ..gh“h e e r 25c Lb. Burchell’s $100 worth of Window Glass for 460 325 100 worth irrors ot . -,—: bl ;mo worth of Plate Glass for - ;;g PERPETUAL The higher the rise the greater the drop. Our loss is your gain but liquidation had BU“.‘DING to come. Architects,ownersand builders ASSOCIATION Pays 6 Per Cent on shares maturing in 43 or 83 months. It Pays 4 Per Cent on chares withdrawn be- fore maturity Assets More Than $7,000,000 Surplus Nearing $800,000 ducts justly famous for more than halfa century is still maintained. Four Large Plants For quick and economical distribution of glass in the north, south and central east. Philadelphia, Pa. Rochester, N. Y. Washington, D. C. Albany, N. Y. Send orders to plant nearest to you. Founded 1864 HIRES TURNER GLASS COMPANY . “Lighthouse”* Rosslyn, Va. AMES BERRY. Prestdent QeeliGlase WASHINGTON, D. C. 3 JOSHUA W. CARR. Seeretary District National Bank 1406 G Street The Valor of Discretion Takes courage to make up your mind to SAVE. That’s true. But a moment’s reflection convinces that the discreet thing to do is out of the income of the pres- ent to sgve for the future. What'’s right is worth doing heartily. It only means curbing the spending—thinking twice before parting with your money for something that on second thought you really don’t care anything about. ~ Just take that momey—put it in our Savings De- partment and every time you conquer the impulse to spend—add that to the Savings Account. It'll grow faster than you realize. ‘ * Money-in Bank is a tremendously influential asset. All the while it’s here we're paying interest at the rate of 3%. Begin—right now. R. N. Harper, President H. L. Offutt, Jr., Cullier‘ Vige Presidents W. P. Lipscomb C. J. Gockeler Lewis Holmes N. L. Sansbury