Evening Star Newspaper, February 13, 1922, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, * With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY......February 13, 1 THEODORE W. NOYES.......Editor and Pemnsyivania Ave: [} the “wizard.” The legal representative of the bankrupt declares that there 'was no violation of law, that the man had simply lost mosey by speculation. i This is the usual plea when a blue-sky promoter and investment magician | «finds the demands for accountings to !be greater than cash on hand. In I Ponzi's case if was contended that if he had been let alone he would have THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, FEBRUARY ‘13, 1922. the immi.r’ntlon problem needed no special attention. Foreigners sought Amegica of their own' accord, 80 to say. Those who came had felt no spur but & deaire to improve their fortunes. ‘They knew of America from reading Ior the new country and its matchiess \opportunities; and having the neces- *nry means for making a.change they ,hesded this way. As a rule they were Grounds of Kéynes’ Argument [ | ~ Why Treaty Must Be Revised NOTHER era of controversy and discussion is due to fol- “low publication of John May- cannot 1ow honorably alter simply be- ! cause we have the power. When It is realized that the total amount assessed for pensions and al- CUT PRICES AT ALL OUR STORES New Stores Added to Cur Chain Cuieago Otice: Tomer Buliglog " |"‘“’ :"‘;’l jonevery, "‘-t“’“:‘-fi In 129;GQMDIG people and made good citi- nard Koynes' new book, “A|lowances 1s twice that for wrestora-| Ofice : 16 Regent 5t., London, England. | Case of Miller, the New York financiai ; zens. The west and the northwest re-| Revision of the Treaty,” just issued tion,” the importance of this phase e meteor of several years ago, the plea icexvea gréat numbers, and they assist. fas a sequel to his “Economic Conse- | eth® FeParations question is readily Now Open to Serve You el Egening Star. with the Suntas morsing | was advanced that he was on the eve led in the wonderful development of |quences of the Peace” In the two et 21,80 cents pér month; daily en'y. 45 conts por;0f a big clean-up for his customers |those sections. jyears which have elapsed since pub-| g, oo Tl ARSI e t onth; Sunday only. 20 ceats pet onth. Or- | when the skeptic law intervened. So( Then followed the time when fmmi. [lication of Keynes' first book thel, - mm:t:on PSR e » o » tele 5000." Cotlection #' made by carrirs ut tie | with Bischoff, Chicago’s aspirant for | gration became a sort of industry; end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginla. Daily and unday..1y a Daily only.. Sunday only. All Other States. Daily and Sunday..1yr., $19.00; 1 mo.. 85¢ mo., 60c. Daily only. J1yr. $7 Sunday only -1¥r., $3.00; 1 mo.. 25¢ = + mo., 70¢ mo., 20¢ mo.; 50 | the’financial nall of fame. The best that Bischoff's attorney can see now in the case is a 10 per cent dividend i for the customers. 8o it goes, time after time, with the jdesire for sudden riches always great {enough to"overcome the laws of cau- tion and common sense. A plausible iquick-profits proposition wi!' draw ipatrenages notwithstanding the tre~‘ { quency with which the falsity of such when men and women in Europe were drummed up by steamship companies and railroad companies for the money there was in their transportation, and dumped in large numbers on our shores and distributed over the country. Such a change in matters created many abuses, and protection against them became not only advisable but necessary. And this protection is more necessary now than ever as a result world has moved a long way in some directions, and has made little move- ment at all in others. Developments of those two years have' given Keynes numerous opportunities for “I told you so,” and have necessi- tated from him equally numerous ex- cuses and explanations, Some of the hurtful things he predicted as a consequence of the treaty of peace have actually come to pass. He art- fully explains that the reason more of them have not come to pass is be- glons {s fmmoral is based on the con- 1 | tentfon that it is grossly excessive and not in accord with admitted facts, and In support of this he sets forth a rather terrifying array of figures. The sub-| ject is a long and intricate one, bu(fi sufficlent {llumination on the Keynes ! method is to be found In his treatment of dwellings in the invaded region of France. | He quotes official statistics to the effect that 293,733 houses were totally ! [destroyea and '296.502 were partly de- stroyed. Taking ss an average thati| the dumaged houses were half de- 326 11th St. SE. LYON PARK, VA. GAITHERSBURG, MD. The Lesson of the is ex = - : Collapse. jschemes is exposed. There will be a of the war. The peaple of Europe are | uuge literal enforcement of the terms [stroyed. this would fgure 'as _the o many different theories have |“Ponzi” somewhere every few years,|in a state of deep unrest, and unde-{,¢ the’treaty has not been attempted. | ®duivalent of 442,000 houses wholly de- been advanced to account for the m|.’tor the lessons of one big bubble- |sirables as weH as desirables. In the AR :“’:,’f‘-h The """:‘cl‘;z‘;,';;';w""b‘}‘m'! . Save One Cent a Car ‘ lapse of the Knickerbocker roof, each |bursting are quickly. forgotien. The | millions are Aguring on new locations | yoo o\ o oo oo o ing this sum - the number of houses, | L from the point of view of an engineer- |sad part of it is that most of the vic-fand casily become the prey of eX-|oconc . aocione i wot while every[it 1S an average claim of 39.480 per ing expert, that the conclusion is in- |tims of these swindles are igforant ploiters. one s willin, m’ b talo et lothite house. Had all the houses damaged | Cakes evitable that in a construction of this | people who have mever heard of th . . Desuwlicllysldestioy saiiiihe Faverass) e e e “5“";;"‘“ ”:‘r‘“ :” ”d' “h“ l‘"e maves h“r’ ,:he troatment he prescribes and is anx-|claim per house would have been about for re are many dangers. To|frauds that have gone before. The nter Thanderstorm hall be tak ,000. The houses destroyed and dam- avoid all of these calls for a n | fakers: play upon this lack of knowl- Wi Th 5 ous ithet othes; yartslsasii unq | 4Eed were chiefly peasants’ and miners’ | : s mactol DAY DO ck of knowl| . v rk had a thunderstorm yes-|DY others, no one has yet been found|cottages and the tenements of small ] more comprehensive and exacting code | edge, and there seems to be no way of Y8 | ho is willing to undergo the treat- [country towns. He quotes M. Loucheur, | Save 3 Cents of building regulations than that which has been in force in the Dis- trict, and consequently for a larger and more aetive force of inspes Lo insure observance of the regulations. ispreading the warning that no project {lha( promises quick wealth is safe: Farin Values Coming Back® A siatement just issued by the War terday. with an electrical display that lasted more than an hour, and a tre- mendous drenching downpour of rain. ‘The phenomenon, of course, started all the weatherwise to buzzing. What t could it portend? A change of season? ment as a whole. Germany probably would come nearest being willing to take the whole treatment, yet there are some parts of it whith Germany believes would violently disagree with minister "of construction, as saying | such houses were worth about $1,000 | each before the war. but would «ost | $3.000 each to rebuild since the war. The claim for damage to houses is exclusive of furniture and fittings, | \v;l:lch is made the basis of a sepa- : rate > se | her. There are only a few ingredients Wit {in the prescription which France is claim for $2.850,000,000. These thecries of the cause of the 50:000 1 590, ouses destroyed and dam-, collapse touch upen tihe strength of GRANULATED SUGAR 5Yci: Finance Corporation gives an encour- | Somebody has been recently talking the walls, the strength of steel, the design of the roof construction. the manner of assembling and placing the steel, the fabrication of the concrete roof siab. If all of the hy] eses are +eorrect the marvel is that the building ‘stood long enough for completion. The importance of this present in- quiry into the Knickerbocker case is evidenced by the fact that every tech- _ pical journal in the country is print- ~ing exha e articles on the subject. written by special representatives who are eminent in the engineering pro- fession. It is recognized ‘hat this is not merely a local question, for buiid irgs of this type. large auditorium: without interior columns. are in serv- ire in practically every large city. ow- ing to the recent rapid development of the motion picture business. The Knickerbo collapse naturally sug- gests similar possibilities elsewhere, @nd the keenest concern is felt on the seore of the structural dependability of all bui'dings of this type. There are two phases to this present question. one as to the future and cne as to the present. For the future, security can be insured by the adop- tion of building rules which will cover every conceivable possibility of weakness, with assurance that the rules will be cbserved. As to the present. however, it is difficult to see how a thorough research can be made Into standing structures to ascertain ‘whether they are fully safe. Certainly no pains shou'd be spared to examine them. It might be assumed that the plans themselves would show, but can it be taken for granted that the plans represent the actual conditions? It has been proposed that just as soon as the investigation into the col- lapse is conciuded a start should be made upon the writing of a model building code for Washington, de- signed to give the capital an assured in the construction ‘While this may suggest the familiar process of locking the door after the stable has been looted, it is neverthe- less highly desirable. But it will be idle to write such a building code if an adequate force is not provided to insure its complete enforcement. Abraham Lincoln. From the numerous addresses just delivered throughout the country with ices as their subject three notable things stand out afresh. (1) He was not ti most prominent eandidate at the convention which gave him his first presidential nom- ination. He was favorably known as - man and debater. but his reputation ‘and position were considerably sub- ordinate to those of Mr. Seward. Even his most ardent admirers did not credit him with the genius for politics and affairs he subsequently showed himself possessed of. (2) Although in office he had dis- closed his full powers—had managed men and business with consummate ability, and written his wonderful state papers—there were doubts with- in a few months of polling day—he | gntertained them himself—abeut the ““success of his appeal for re-election. He had gone 80 far as to consider his eourse in case bf defeat. (3) Although in his death his coun- trymen and the world at large prompt- *ily recognized the fact that a. great J#nd strong man had fallen, it took time for them to reach the proper ap- praisement of his towering stature and wnique personality. The loss was no- where asscssed at the true figure. Some years were required to reveal him as worthy of assignment among the remarkable men of all recorded time, and his public services as among the most heroic and beneficent ever rendered to mankind. The story, from first to last, is so fascinating and inspiring. the most gifted among those who have attempt- ability to do-it justice. —t———— . A new tangle in the problem of dis- tribution is now presented by the un- distributed profits of corporations. ——————— Another Ponzi. Another “Ponzi” has been exposed in Chicago through an application for bankruptcy. The western ‘“‘wizard” y.appears to have followed the usual “get-rich-quick” practice to lure his wvictims. He promised big returns for investments, and by paying heavily in & few cases he won a reputation in short order as a man of extraordinary ", capacity for finding profits for his ~“‘patrons. In some cases 40 per cent was paid on shortterm loans, ‘and #ieven as high as 100 per cent in a few s instances. Most of the customers ‘i were foreigners, and some of them epent all their savings in the so-called investments. One man sold his home public or private. | 000 ang turned over $6,200 to] At the outset, l-;ll for many year; iagricultural industry. Where all was isloom and discouragement imonths ago there now is renewed hope and the promise of better days ahead. The economic fact that the world still imust be fed and that there is no sur- plus in the world pool of foodstuffs is beginning to assert itself. and the inevitable rebound from too violent de- flation of farm prices has set in. Corn. which sold at 20 centsa bushel at country elevators four months ago, row brings 40 cents, a price still too {low, but making a worth-w1ile differ- jence to the corn grower. Farmers in { position to feed their corn to hogs are idoing a great deal betier. pork prices {10day netting them 80 to 90 cents a {hushel for grain marketed “on the iheof.” Demoralization in the cattle i market is passing away, and no longer |is there danger that breeding herds jwill be broken up and sold for | slaughter. Young siock also is being i held for feeders instead of being sacri- ! ficed. Sheep are selling freely at prices isatisfactory to the growers and feed- jers, and there is'a broad market for fwool and®hides. Cotton growers now { have little cause for complaint. There lis no indication anvwhere that there {\51il be serious curtailment of planting the seasonh soon to open. | ‘The first impulse of the city dweller {is to think of these facts as meaning only that he will have to pay more for ! food and clothing. but that is a short- Isighted view of it. Cheap food and i clothing are desirable, of courge, but not when their cheapness results from lack of profit or actual loss to the pro- ducer. The men and women engaged {in agriculture represent 40 per cent of {the purchasing power of the country, {and when their power to purchase is Iseriously reduced by too low prices {for their products there is no line of 1 commerce or industry which does not | | suffer. It is a cause for congratulation i to all the people that the farmer is not {50 badly hurt as he thought he was. i Edison’s Birthday. ! Thomas A. Edison, whose name and |achievements are known to every IAme:imn, has just celebrated at East lorange the seventy-fifth anniversary {of his birth. “I hope you will have {several more birthdays,” some one isaid to him. “I shall have fifteen {more,” said Mr. Edison. { If that optimistic remark had come any other man the listener | might have taken it with a grain of {galt, but coming from the lips of the |great inventor himself it comes with authority. Those interested in the science of longevity will watch with {interest the passing years to see how inearly right the “wizard” was. ! The whole life, career and habits of i Edison led up to this remark. When {he makes it his millions of admirers {have no other desire than to take it lat its face value, and believe that the | wise and good man who said it meant {exactly what he said. Whether it is a i “scientific” statement or not does not imatter so much. The sublime con- {fidence it shows is what counts. ! One of the great secrets of the { power of. the “wizard of East Orange” {is his ability to trust absolutely in the { power that brought him here and that isustains his life. He has no fears of 1the future, any more than he has of the past. There is work to be done, iand he is the man to do it. “I shall ihave fifteen more,” is his answer to ithe one who can wish him but “sev- !eral more birthdays.” That his won- | derful confidence shall prove right in | every detail—“and then some"—is the !wtsh of every one. ————— It should not be difficult for the United States Senate to get through with this tréaty discussion moge {rapidly than it did with the one pre- { vious. i ——— In its number of days February in quantity. It is the month of heroic i birthdays. —————————— Genoa faces as an interesting pre- |1zminary a discussion as to whether i there is to be any Genoa conference. —————— As usual “Old Sol” asserted himself as the most reliable street cleaner Iatter 2 heavy snow. The Immigration Restrictions. The commissioner general of immi- gration in an address delivered In this city Saturday night gave this in- formation: The government was 100 years old before any laws for immigration were made. About 1882, when the first re- strictions were_enacted, there were only four classifications for exclugion’ Persons who were criminals, insune, diseased and those who were likely to become & public charge were not ad- mitted, while now there are thirty reasons for keeping immigranta out of the country. aging summary of conditions In the]about the shifting of the poles. Th!n.l I too. it may have becn due to sun news from Miami that an astronomer | has found a new crop of freckles on the solar face. Winter thunderstorms are not so| rare as to be really sensational.” But | they are nevertheless somewhat star- tling. Come to think of it. however, | there is no particular reason why elec- tricity should not be generated in win- ter clouds as well as summer. It is all ! a question of alternations of heat and | !cold. Of course, in summer time there } iis"more heat than in winter, but then fin winter there is more cold than in summer. The only thing paradoxical about an electric display in winter is that ordinarily lightning follows ex- treme heat. After all, weather is weather, robody can find out very much about | it. Forecasters can get sdme advance | information about it if the country is | wide enough and the bulletins are prompt and correct. A barometer is a big help, but the barometer without the telegraph or telephone is of little value. If this country were a small island in the middle of the Pacific it and ! the way of weather, greater surprises than that caused by vesterday's lhun-s derstorm in New York. ' ———————— { Parson Weems, who started the George Washington cherry tree $tory. is now generally regarded as one of those chroniclers who are inclined to substitute allureinents of personal style for authentic information. ————— i Paris speakg sarcastically of tha| personal economies practiced by Wil- helm when he was kaiser. He evident- jly foresaw not merely a rainy day but a downright tempest. ‘ i The suggestion by France that part of her debt be paid in champagne re- calls the ancient, naive inquiry. “What is the Constitution among friends?” 3 ! 1t is now expected that Yap will be restored to a place in public attention | i more proportionate to its actual size | {and population. | i Edison expects to live to be ninety years old. This means fifteen more years of hard work and honest enjoy- ment of life. ‘ SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Friend in Need. The admirations that I feel Are numerous and strong. I reverence a man with zeal l To conquer what is wrong. T hail the few by whom are done i The works that we admire. | And often, most of all the one ‘Who tends my furnace fire. When all the world seems dark and cold I hear a joyous sound. A message bringing bliss untold Comes from the depths profound. The statesman with his learned plan, The poet with his lyre, Cannot delight me like the man ‘Who tends my furnace fire. Observing the Day. “Are you going to make a speech on George Washington's birthday?” “No,” said Senator Sorghum. “I am going to devote: that day to careful study. Too many of us are ready to talk about a great man instead of get- ting intimately acquainted ourselves with the important things the great man himself may have sald.” Jud Tunkins says it's all wrong to think that in business friendship ceases. The fact that they are obliged ed to fell it have confessed to an in- |makes up in quality for what it lacks| = = 0\ husiness with one another { is all that keeps a lot of people even a {little bit friendly. Deliberate Slight. An_opportunity will knock, they say, For each in a community. [But some of us will simply '.llrn‘.'.y { And knock the opportufiity. - ‘Unmistakable Signal. “There must be trouble across the street!” said the stranger in Crimson Gulch: “What makes you think 80?” in¢ quired Threefinger Sam. I just heard a pistol shot.” “Don’t let it skeer you. The boys are tired of poker and are learnin’ to play bridge whist. That’s Piute Pete's way of signalin’ fur trumps.” “Lawyers,” sald Uncle Eben, “mos’ly acks so_unpleasant cross-examinin’ folks -datI can’t see how so many of '-mm“m““W' willing to take at all, vet those few she believes are necessary to the save a few|spots, and sure enough today comes!ing of her life. Opinion in this coun- try might be one of detached willing. ness to see the experiment tried, were it not for the one dose America is asked to swallow. But when Keynes makes cancellation of a large part of European indebtedness to the United States an essential part of his doctoring, he immediately loses popu- larity as a doctor. However violently - other economists and the statesmen of the world may disagree with Keynes, they find it rather easier to denounce than to answer him. Not having any con- i stituency to propitiate or political responsibilities to shoulder, he deals with concrete facts and deals with them in a way which touches a sore world on its sorest spots. There never has been any serious attempt to refute the facts he marshals for his arguments, but the conclusions’ he jdraws 'Trom them have been subject to more controversy, probably, than the post-war utterances of any other private person. * £ % % All the discussion in his new book, as wids the case with his first one, centers around the question of how much in the way of reparations ought to be and can be extracted from Germany. Keynes finds im- would suffer a good many surprises in 'morality in the amount finally fixed by the reparations commission ($56,- 000,000,000) for two major reasons. One is that, according to his conten- tion, the makers of the Versallles treaty were debarred by the armistice terms from figuring pensions and al- lowances to dependents in the as- sessment against Germany. That is !a contention which was stoutly sup- ported at Paris by the American delegation, until President Wilson finally gave in to the insistence of | Clemenceau. In order to get an understanding of this question it is necessary to go back to the basic armistice terms submitted to Germany by President Wilson, after they had been ap- proved by the allled supreme coun- cil, the famous “fourteen points” and the President’s subsequent addresses. The fourt®en points had provided for complete restoration of invaded ter- ritories. A subsequent address had declared “there shall be no annex- ations, no contributions, no punitive damages.” The allies added to the Wilson terms a provision that “com- pensation will be made by Germany for all damage done to the civilian population of the allies and their property by the aggressions of Ger- many by land, by sea and from the air.” And at the last moment and without any importance being at- tached to them, according to Keynes, the words “without prejudice to any subsequent claims and demands on the part of the allies,” were added to the notification to Germany of the armistice terms. 5 It is because of this “without preju- dice” reservation that it now is sought to justify the demand for pensions and allowances. Keynes argues that with €qual logic it could be held to justify demand that Germany pay the whole cost of the war, and that thus inter- preted the fourteen points, the subse- quent addresses and the sea and air damage stipulation would lose all mean- ing as principles upon which the peace was to be based. In support of his contention that enlargement of the de- mand upon Germany was immoral, he iquotes President Wilson that “it “is clearly inccnsistent with what we de- led ‘the enemy to expect and aged, this would amount to an aver- | sge clalm of nearly $5,000 for furni- | ture and fittings in each house of a Deasant or miner destroyed or dam- aged. “I hesitate to guess,” says | Keynes. “how great an overestimate shows itself here.” _Tlo claims of Great Britain, Bel- gium, Italy and other allies are sub- Jected to the same scrutiny and scal- ing. -but the detalls would tax in- terest after the case of the French Fouses. * K ¥ & So, after two years of additional study of the problem, -Keynes still is of opinion that the treaty must be revised, both because it is immoral and because it is impossible of exe- cution. He hopes the United Statesi will be willing to assist in_such re- vision. If not, he wants it under- taken without’ American assistance. In view of what he believes to be both just and possible, he wants the problem of FEuropean affairs set- tled on_ this basie: . Great Britain and. if possible, Anierica, too. {o cancel all debts owing them from the governments of Europe and to waive their claims to any share of German reparation. 2. Germany to pay 1.260.000,000 gold marks (about $300,000,000) per annum for thirty years and to hold avail- able a lump sum of 1,000,000.000 gold marke for assistance to Poland and Austria. ¥ 3. The annual payments from Ger- many to be assigned in the shares of 1,080.000.000 gold marks to France and '180,000.000 to Belgium. Italy ‘and the other allies. except France and Belgium, would waive their claims to reparations and. in return, would have forgiven them the debts they owe to England “and. | it possible, America, to ‘This, Mr. Keynes argues, would be a just, sensible and permanent settle- ment and he adds: “If France were to refuse it, she would indeed be sacrificing the substance to the shadow.” =k ok % Mr. Keynes thinks eventually the United States will cancel the Euro- pean debt, but he concedes that agi- tation to that end at this time may be premature. For the present, there- fore, he thinks, “America must pre- tend she is going to demand the money and’ Europe must pretend she is going to pay it His consideration of the debt ques- tion gives us an entertaining look at ourselves through British eyes. He thinks “Americans want to be gen- erous to Europe, both out of good | feeling and because many of them lnow suspect that any other course would upsetaheir own economic equi- jibrium. ‘But they don’t want to be ‘done’" And then he goes on to paint this picture: “The average American, I fancy, wouid like to see the European na- tions approaching him with a pathetic light in their eves and the cash in their hands, saying, ‘America, we owe yo * our liberty and our life; here we brin, what we can in grateful thanks, mone¢ © got Wrung by grievous taxa- tion .ro& the widow and the orphan, but saved, the best fruits of victory, out of the abolition of armaments, militarism, empire and internal strife, made possible by the help you freely gave us.’ And then the average Amer- fcan would reply: ‘I honor you for ydur integrity. It is what I ex- pected. But I did not enter the war for profit or to invest my money well. I have had my reward in the words you have just uttered. The loans are forgiven. Return to your homes and use the resources I release to uplift the poor and the unfortunat - EDITORIAL DIGEST Outlawing Darwin From Kentucky. Kentucky i in in the throes of an abolition movement—this one aiming to free the young idea from the insidious influence of the Dar- winian theory of evolution. A bill before the legislature, supported by the House committee and disepproved by the Senate's, provides that: “It shall be unlawful in any school or college or institution of learning maintained in whole or in part b; Y this state, by funds raised by taxa- tion, for any one to teach any theory {of evolution that derives man from the brute or any other form of life, ® ¢ * No text book containing any such teaching shall be adopted for use in any -such school or college or insti- tution of learning. * ¢ ® Any per- son violating any of the provisions of this section shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $1,000." When first introduced, the New York Call reports, the bill “was con- sidered one of the annual freaks in- troduced into every legislature,” but it aroused much serious discussion within and without the state, and now, with the two houses of the law- making body reflecting the diyision of opinion among Kentuckians, “feel- ing is running elmost as high as in a presidential campaign,” according to the Philadelphia Record. The Savannah News, somewhat aghast at the bigotry threatening the Blue Grass country. wonders if pro- hibition has anything to do with it. But whether or not the product of the celebrated elghteenth amendment, the Springfield Blr.ubl(eln is certain that the proposed law is “just moon- shine.” However, its author “meant well, no doubt” the Kansas City TRimes fe Probably “he heard abont the theory of evolution, and, although it is plain he did not under- stand it—he was a legislator, you know—his mind received a grea! shock, probably its first. His first thought, when he recovered, was to protect other minds_that never have been shocked, and. of course, he could think of no other way to do it than to decree a law forbidding shocks.™ ‘As im those other days, when Ken- tucky was ono- of the outposts of a mighty movement, carpetbaggers are taking @ hand, in defense and op- position. The president of the state university “has called upon his inter- collegiate associates to enter their protests,” and, according to the New Haven Journal-Courfer, “the lrw ears,” for a2 s opiE S protests in goodly number and in a serious frame of mind” New Haven's_own, institution of learning warns Kentucky that such crusading “is certain to make her the laughing stock of the world,” while Butlér of Columbia insists that if the job is to be donme at all it must be done .thoroughly, and made “to include in its prohibition the use of any book in which the word evolution is ce- fined, used or referred to in any way. It might even be desirable to include a prohibition on books that use any of the letters by which the word evolution could be used,” so as to avoid the ingenious manipulations | of the unserupulous. To their assistance the proponents of the bill have called that “peren- nial carpetbagger,” William Jennings Bryan. He has visited Kentucky, “and against his speeches nothing that the greatest educators and min- isters of the land have had to say has been able to prevail” the Charleston News and Courier ob- serves. The commoner “has found a new i tinues, “one which may well last him ‘“from now on,’ as Irvin Cobb would put it and, ceived in Kentucky,” we may find him swept into the Senate on that issue by the votes of the citizens of Florida. But the Johnstown. Demo- crat thinks that “when Willlam Jennings Bryan undertakes to sweep back the rising tides of human knowledge he has perhaps set him- I self as dubious a task as that to 'hlsh old King Canute put his fe¢ble Poor. Eve, she never had'a henna hat.—Syracuse Herald. Los Angelgs seems ambitious of be- coming the center of depopulation.-— Columbia, (8. C.) Record. i Evolution: The Hague—yision; Ver- sailles — revision; Washingfon — super- vision.—Columbus Dispatch. Any proposed &hip canal that doesn’t contemplate reaching New York is not feasible.—Toledo Rlade. Speaking "of dangerous localitles, there' are dynamite factories_and {’lollywoodv Calif.—St. Joseph News Tess. + The “hew naval agréements forbid capital ships to carry larger than sixtesn-inch guns. 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