Evening Star Newspaper, February 25, 1922, Page 6

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1922. | / ; 7 X ‘..~ THE EVENING STAR,’ crimination on account of marriage or |der cover of night or fog, but their Ti m e for Spring C]e St A aas g - WASHINGTON, D. C., THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. A & zex.” alm or “control” was poor. They car- That is what the women are con-|ried on their operations in darkness. tending: that they have equal right of | In light they made good targets for * SATURDAY...February 25, 1922 THEODORE W. NOYES.......Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, 1s delivered by carriers within the eity at 80 cents per month: dally only, 45 cents per month: Sunday only, 20 cents per month. Or- ders may be sent by mail, or telephone Main 5000. Collection {s made by carrlers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dally and Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1 mo., T0c {ly enly. . .1yr., $6.00; 1 mo., 50c 8unday only..... . 1yr., §2.40; 1 mo., 20c All Other States. Dally and Sun 1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., Daily only. cer. ‘l' o 8oc Streets and Taxes. If statements by city officials and ‘citizens’ associations that the capital's Streets need repair require confirma- tion it is found in the pictures being printed in The Star and in such news . stories as that which appeared in The Star under the heading: “Mire Stalls Autos in Streets Lined by Fine Resi- dences.” The street situation is very much of & scandal, and because of the com- plexity of our government and our confused and uncertain fiscal relation- ship with the United States, the re- sponsibility cannot be put up to any particular person, and the group of persons on whom the responsibility rests is a very large one, busy with a million other matters, and there is no way of holding it to accountabili The responsible group is Congress. Of course, that group is morally account- able for neglect of responsibility. but “moral accountability” is only a phrase. How can anybody in the Dis. trict or all the bodies in the District hold Congress to accountability, moral or legal! People who live on streets hought property under a contract which by | rcasonable interpretation would en- titlc them to streets that would be safe and available for travel. They pay taxes, and they pay higher city taxes tnan the citizens of a majority of typi- cal American cities of Washington's class. They pay these taxes for the support of government. and the gov- ernment is under obligation not only to give them fire protection, police protection and other things, but to give them stfeets and keep those streets in condition for safe travel. The District government cannot make over or mend the streets without au- thority of and appropriation of moncy by Congress, and Congress refuses to put up the national share of money for this work and ties up the District's share. The situation is bad. The strects in the older parts of the city are in poor condition, those in the newer parts of the city are generally rough, broken and rutty, and those in the sections ‘where the city is growing in an effort to overcome the house shortage and mitigate the evil of high rents and crowded rooms, are rot streets ?L all. ————e——————— Hollywood. A good many persons are rising to the defense of Hollywood, & “‘movie” city in California. A few citizens of that town have become involved in scandal, and a murder, attracting much attention, was recently done there. From the defenders of Holly- wood and its inhabitants one gets the idea that Hollywooders and the movie people—actors and all—are being in- dicted by public opinion as immoral and much given to entanglement in murder and scandal. Reasonable people do not indict & class for the lapses of a few. The ac- tors, photographers, writers, man- agers, mechanics and all the others who make up the moving picture per- sonnel are folk who served in various kinds of work before they found em- ployment in the movies. It is a large class, and it must be composed of many kinds of persons. There must e good, bad and indifferent persons in #4%he moving picture class, just as in all _pther classes of mere mortals. It is » manifestly unfair to think of the peo- ple of one trade, or profession, or art, as being scandalous because a small fraction of 1 per cent of them get into trouble. To denounce Hollywood as an improper place to live because they have had a murder there is to speak .unfairly, foolishly. People of good - brains and good instincts do not thus make charges against a whole class. There are scandals and murders in all other clties, but it does not tend to prove that the people of those cities are given over to scandal and rnurqgr. f An effort to make a treaty perfectly clear and absolutely binding looks hopefully toward e situation which ‘will cause an impetuous nation to feel obliged at least to consult & lawyer “®efore breaking it. i Muscle Shoals ought to do & great ‘business some day, if publicity is of any edvantage. t i The call for Russia is, “Save the ‘women and children. Lenin and Trot- eky can take care of themselyes!” ‘The dirigible has a conspicuous rec- ord as a menace to non-combatants. T Equal Civil Rights. Five southern and border states, ac- cording to an announcement from the National Women's Party, will be called upon to consider at the sessions of their legislatures bills to secure for ‘women equal civil rights. Mississippi, Virginia, Maryland, South Carolina are the commonwealths enumerated. The ‘“woman's equal rights bill” was introduced in the Mis- sissippl legislature last week, and the women on firing line at Washington immediately secured from United States Senator Pat Harrison of that state emphatic indorsement of the movement they have undertaken. In his commendation Senator Harrison touched on the principle involved when he said, “Since the adoption and ratification of the nineteenth amend- ment to the federal Constitution giv- ing women the right to vote, no ob- stacle in the law should be coun- “tenanced that would allow ‘any dis- & Kentucky and suffrage with the men, and are In con- sequence entitled to like civil rights. Wisconsin has recognized their con- tention, and has enacted legislation so liberal that it might be said only the , {deep blue sky bounds their rights in that state. Women are by way of making them- selves felt in politics under the added power given them by the constitu-| tional amendment, thereby answering a query often put by the politicians, “What will they do with it?" It is to be observed that they are doing with it things for thefr own betterment us well as for general clvic progress. Tt has been a subject of comment that the women are not disturbing the fear- fully inclined politicians who appre- hended & feminine onslaught on man's time-honored prerogative of holding of- fice. Applicants for elective office are comparatively negligible among the women. But watch out for them, in the exercise Bf their new grant of power, when it comes to civic, moral and educational questions. In those spheres of influence they bid fair to rise and shine. —_————— Navy Personnel Reductions. Admiral Coontz, chief of naval opera- tions, in a recent hearing before the House committee on naval aifairs, on the subject of proposed reduction of the departmental estimates for the personnel of the Navy, made an ob- servation which should be given seri- cus consideration by the committee- men who are making up the bill for the support of the naval establishment ! for the next fiscal year. He said he had ;sat as a member of the committee of fifteen of the arms limitation confer- ence, out of which came the treaty 1ow pending before the Senate for the limitation of naval armament. He “knew what the foreigners thougl.t,” he sald, and with this knowledge and of all the circumstances, it was his de- | liberate judgment that 90,000 was the minimum number that should be pro- ivided. The chairman of the committee had intimated that 60,000 was the fig- jure in the minds af the committee. | Admiral Coontz's conviction was that jat least 63,500 men for service afloat should be provide In the past the impression may have at times existed in Congress that the Navy Department and naval offi- cors were intent upon aggrandizing the Navy. to get the most out of Con- {gress to be obtained, and that it was i the duty of Congress to check that dis- position. Whatever may have been the sityatiop in the past, a new condition {exi.i~ today. Tt has been demonstrated that the Navy has entered sincerely into the spirit of the arms limitation conference and has evidenced assent to necessary sacrifice involved in the !treaty which the conference brought Iforth. But the Navy knows where the re- duction goes below the gauge of rea- sorable limitation and becomes a men- ace to national protection. The Con- gress might well take expert advice on this subject. The suggested drastic cuts in appropriation strike at the very vitals ‘of naval efficlency—manpower, the human element in naval defensive gune on wheels or platforms. And dropping bombs is a noisy thing in land warfare, but counts for little un- less it is to stir up people to a greater determination to beat those who use the ways and weapons of assassina- tion. Wars are won by battles, and battles are won by men on foot carry- ing a rifle and a bayonet and backed up by gunfire. For observation and Information during the war the honors seem to rest with the plane. But these are things for the experts to thrash out among themselves, though experts in military matters and other matters do not agree more easily than those ex- perts whom we call doctors, lawyers, clergymen and politicians. New Jersey. Mr. Frelinghuysen, it is understood, will offer -for re-election. His candi- dacy will be supported by a record which has secured for him a prom- inent place in the Senite. It will be necessery, therefore, for the Jersey democrats to put up their strongest ! man against him if they are to enter- tain hopes of success. Joseph P. Tumulty has been men- tloned, largely, of course, on account of his intimate association with Wood- vow Wison. He declined an office tendered him by Mr. Wilson In the closing days of the latter's second ad- ministration, and cne interpretation put on his dectination was that he had in mind a political career of an am bitious kind. Now comes the suggestion that Gov Edwards aspires to the place. He has an organization. bullt in the main on his aggressive attitude as a wet; and so, shauld he run. the appeal would be in the name. of his proposition to make the state as wet as the Atlantic ocean. The ‘old democratic order in the state seems to have definltely nassed. Not a word is being siid about James nith, jr.. once powerful in the state, and one of the men Mr. Wilson to politics, nor a word shades of Jersey Blue and is taking his ease there now. How strong the Wilsonites may be in the commonwealth but a guess. In 1920 Jersey fell in with the prevail ing spirit and gave Mr. Harding a plurality of over a quarter million votes. It was the greatest sweep in the history of a state where politics is played up to the hilt. ———ete—————— Higher salaries for lawyers in gov- ernment service are advocated. This lawyers, but not enough good ones. ———— Safety-first students are becoming impressed by the fact that any day in the year is liable to become as danger- ous as the old-fashioned Fourth of July used to be. —_————— The Washington conference has called the attention of nations to the fact that it is easier to settle disputes Ly argument than by fighting. warfare. Several members of the committee suggested that the country is deter- mined upon lessened naval expendi- tures, a statement beyond dispute. But it is another thing to think that the country is ready or ever will be ready to carry that reduction to e point of gross disparity with other na- tions in defensive strength. Adjournment Day. Approximately, five weeks will bring us to April 1—the time set for the clearing of the House table of the last of the supply bills. Can the thing be done? Pregent prospects do not en- courage the hope. But if the thing is done will it be possible for the Senate to clear its table by June 1—the time set for the adjournment of Congress? It will push the Senate. The rules of that body favor debate, and there is a lot of debate in the supply bills and in other bills and matters on the Sen- ate's card. . It may be well, therefore, {o begin to think of a later day than the first summer day for adjournment. Congress cannot afford to rush busi- ness simply for early adjournment's sake. The business is too important. The question of supplies does not lend itself to a rushing program. Involved in it are economy and an adequate provision for the support of the gov- ernment under the new order of things. There must be economy. which is at once a pledge and a necessity. But at the same time the government must be supported in & way to insure successful functioning in all of its departments. To unduly skimp any one of them might result in injuring ———— New inventions bring new perils. Investigations will be required until human ingenuity ceases to be active, which will be never. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Caveman. ‘The caveman ‘Was a brave man— By the scientific records it is shown. DUnyielding, He was wielding A homemade hammer, neatly built of stone. Those days, far from present, for a caveman might be pleasant. But if one In modern thoroughfares could stray, He'd be badly bumped and battered; and perhaps entirely scattered By the motors that go moving on their way. A caveman ‘Was a grave man; . And he'd calmly hit a lady on the head, Assuring Love enduring As the bruised and blushing bride was homeward led. But today he’d sit all humble and he wouldn’t dare to grumble At the length of speeches, erudite and free, ‘Which from ladies find expression. He would make the sad confession That a caveman isn't what he used to be. Entertainment at Home. “You are much more serious in your all. Now ls the time for running the government in the most effective form. Its enemies are railing at it and de- manding changes in it, when, as a matter of fact, it still possesses, unim- paired, all the feafures which at the start challenged outside admiration, and in concerted action have produagd wondertul security and prosperity for the American people. —— Germans are sald to be rejoicing over the departure of United States troops. The troops may be relled on to reciprocate the sentiment. ————————— The plain American citizen files his income tax return and never thinks of such a thing as cancellation of in- debtedness. Blimp or Plane? The tragedy of the Roma raises the question whether that type of aircraft may not be condemned as an unair- worthy and useless in comparison with addresses than you used to be,” re- marked the friend. “Many’s the time when a mass meeting was held in your honor, you'd simply hire a band. tell & few anecdotes and let it go at that?” “True!” responded Senator Sorghum. “Modern invention has changed all that. I've got—~to give 'em real thoughts. You can't expect a states- man to go through life trying to com- pete with the phonographs and the comic supplements.” Jud Tunkins says there must be some unemployment or so many peo- ple wouldn't have time to attend all his wife's receptions and teas and so forth. In the Meantime. The gentle spring we soon shall see. The world its wintry garb will doff. Rut in the meantime there will be A lot of snow to shovel off. Adroit Publicity. “You once told me you were very much interested in the theory of evo- lution.™ ships of the plane type. The experts will have their day, and the discussion is already on. Discussion of this ques- tion springs-out afresh after each diri- gible disaster, but the dirigibllists have succeeded in maintaining that their type of craft is a potential national asset in war. A ! Lay opinion seems to be that the Zeppelins, or blimps, and other forms of steerable gasbags, did not cut an important figure in the war. From them were dropped bombs on cities un- “I am,” replied the member of the legislature.” “Then why did you introduce a bill to prevent it from being studied?” “People seemed to be forgetting all about it. I thought it would be & good idea to bring it back to popular atten- tion.” H “De trouble wif politics,” said Uncle ‘'Eben, “is dat it don’ pervide aginst a billion-dollar proposition occasionally driftin’ into charge of a two-bit intel- lect.” who introduced | about former Senator Martine, who at! the end of one term retired to the| suggestion may be designed to meet | complaints that there are too many ! To Increase OW comes on the vernal sea- son, and the hyacinth, tulip their yellow-green spikes through the soft sofl In the park beds and around private residences are a first Indication. But there are others, aplenty: President Harding has just sent to Congress a supplemental estimate funds for street cleaning purposes, so with. the first signs of spring come attendant suggestions of cleaning. Right here seems appro- priate a suggestion that the full amount estimated should be included In the deficiency bill already being framed. And there is every prospect that it will be, because the funds held in reserve by the District officials for the spring cleaning of streets were depleted for snow removal after the Lig storm, on the dircct assurance from Chairman Madden of the House appropriations committee that Con- gress would not be reluctant to make the amount good. ¢ * K ok % The plans of the District authorities for spring street cleaning must be an inspiration to householders, or per- haps the activity of the householders prodded up the officials, because the fact is that cverywhere throughout the city the resic than usual, sweeping up their side- walks, getting over-winter accumula- nd generally slicking up. Of course. the ground is as yet too wet to allow a thorough “clean-up” mpaign, but that is coming. When the District appropriation bill being framed by a subcommittee of the House appropriations committee, representatives of the Engineer Com missioner's office discussed the desira- bility of urging all people to clean up their premises and of compelling the owners of vacant lots to have th fiith, old cans and gencral rubbis have it done and collect thg costs from the property owners. As an il- tion, the committee was told of onsiderable clean-up of property fronting the Union s i tional conference on limitation a v The En- gineer Commi the committee that he belle ample authority under the health law {10 compel such a general clean-up o paign. E T This freshening up of the city, and tidying up after the winter, can come none too soon, because Washington has a distinction unique among the cities of the country in attracting a big throng of early spriflg visitors. The spring tourist season is almost with us Of courre, than Scrapping the Navy Yard Workers. Two incidents, which the Spring- field (Mass) Union (republican) de- scribes as “practically local.” the al- most simultaneous dismissal of a large umber of workers from the Wash- ington navy yard and the award of the contract for reconditioning the Leviathan to a private shipbuilding concern, have interested the country at large to the extent of provoking some discussion of the use to which the suspension of much of their work. Incidental to the main discussion is the reaction on the award of thé con- tract for more than eight milllons of ! dollars to be paid to the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Com- pany for work on the Leviathan. The Springfield Republican (independent), while admitting that the effort to ihave this work assigned to the Boston navy vard was “superfluous politic thinks that “so long as the govern- ment is operating navy yards it is the government's business to keep its own plants supplied with work.” The Boston Herald (independent Fepub- lican) confesses to “having refrained from saying anything at the time our people were pressing for the con- tract,” but now that “somebody else has the contract” and “we as & com- munity are in saokcloth and ashes, it ventures -to cbserve that ‘“the Tnited States is doing nothing any. where at less than double the cost of the same werk under private enter- prise.” On the other hand, the Rochester Times-(gnio ndependent). while disclaiming ‘@ny “sympathy for Senator Lodge,” feels that “his sug- gestion that the navy vards should have a chance on this work had much merit,” since “execution of the $8,000 000 Leviathan contract will keep sev eral hundred men constantly employ ed during a period of at least four- teen months,” to quote the Richmond rimes-Dispatch (democra The New York (democratic) thinks the government “could have figured on the basis of the $8,200,000 award to the Newport News company and could have al- lowed the navy yard workers a the government could meet the bid and so keep the navy yard employes working.” The New York Times (in- President’s support of the Shipping Board in its award of the contract to the lowest bidder “is in the interest competing_companies. with the New Orlegns States (demo- oratic), which thinks that “there is no reason why private shipbuilding concerns shouid not” have the right to bid for public work of this kind are capable of doing it as well and ply than the government yards. proper regard for economy in the use of public funds, combined with impelling considerations of gov- ernmental honesty to Induce Mr. Har- ding to_prevent an utterly ‘arbi- trary and unjustifiable discrimination against Newport News and in favor of Boston,” in the opinion of the Lynchburg News (democratic). Enumerating as “one. of the first ractical results of the disarmament fconference” the “incrense of several thousand in the number of unem- ployed,” the Philadelphia Record (in- dependent democratic) feels that the government, even though “trying to economize,” “should make a special point of providing work of some kind for all the igimediate victims of the disarmament conferéence.” Wayne News-Sentinel (republican) thinks the most of the dismizsed em- ployes “worked for absurdly high wages during the war and certainly have enough to keep them while they are looking about for new employ- ment. Does a’'nurse complain when the plague starts to recede because it threatens her with idleness? The Topeka Capital (republican), discussing the protest of Willlam H. Johnston to President Harding in be- Jf of the dismisged men, says that his preoccupation with the mis- fortune of the relatively few men thrown out of a job he forgets tite monumental benefits of limitation of naval armament to millions and hun- dreds of millions of people.” fter it has been decided to stop work, the American people would not tolerate the continued expenditures of millions of dollars per month upon ships tha had been marked for the scrap heap, thinks the' Fremont (Neb.) Tribune (republican), and the Florida Metrop- ®lis (dcl:)scrlflc) feels that “every dollar saved in government pay rolls should benefit the condition of the tax-ridden public,” and believes that “others than shipbuilders should b 121d off.” t in easy to sympathis. *and narcissus bulbs sending | from the budget bureau to provide| spring | ‘nts are now, more tion of trash out of their back yards! was | removed, and If they do not do it to! navy yards are to be put, now that] the naval treaty appears to warrantlby-products of chance to cut wages enough so that | dependent democratic) feels that the | of efficiency and fair dealing with the in agreement | and get it if they can sHow that they | | Beauty of City year, but even at that there isn't much time for cleaning before the customary Easter in. slon of high school parties from all over the country is due. As a matter of fact, already the appear ance of the vanguard of tourist par- ties has been noted at the Capitol From now on the guides will be kept bLusy and the city will see more and more touriets every week. Washington as a municipality and the people of Washington as a pub- lic-spirited eommunity actuated Wy civic pride will be anxious to have the federal city, extolled as the most beautiful in the world, looking its best for these spring visitors. very woman and child throughout District can do his or her part in the spring clean-up. £ % * x Soon the force of workmen from the propagating gardens, under the office of public bulldings and grounds, | of which Lieut. Col. Clarence O. 8her- irill is chlef in command, will be I cloaning out the flower beds jn the vcores of parks ecattered through- | out, the city. In some of these the bulb plants are now coming up: others have been permanently set out with hardy evergreen trees or ywith all-year rosebushes. In the greenhouses of thé propagating gar- dens the many thousands of bedding plants are now coming; along which in a coupia of months will be set out in the parks and circles in every sec- tlon of the city® Uncle S8am has besn rehanded in preparing to adorn the ity, juet as soon as the danger of & :killing frost has passed. | Theso are the days when the bud- {ding trees and the green creeping into the browns of winter are luring those who have kept close to snug apartments or to hotelz and theaters during the winter months out into Rock Creek Park and the country rambles. Members of the cablnet. with the President setting a good example, members of Congress, following the example of Senator Lodge, and offi clals generally can be seen every day hiking in the outskirts of the city and gettis personally acquainted with the mgnificent parkway gystem |:hfl)t will eventually encircle the cap- tal. The blood is stirring in the veins of men in just about the same way that the sap is in the trees. The call of new life is bringing the men who make the laws, many of them born {and reared in the country, out to com- mune with nature. And as they get out and circulate about the city, walk- ing the roads that lead into the neighboring states, and with their hearts attuned to the melodies of na- ture, and with clearer vision seeing the beautles of landscape—and oppor- tunities-—t is not unreasonable to ex. pect that they will be brought to better realization of the needs of the Distgict and the opportunities for them to help make this city, projected and laid out by Washington, achieve the best of its possibi usual this EDITORIAL DIGEST | with the present plight of the dis- { missed men, but it is sheer nonsense to may that the world must slways wag along. bearing thk burdens of enormous armaments d wars, to | give employment to men in power | mills and in navy yards." thinks the Fort W | cratie). | twae montl { would be | two month: hs inevitable. They have had &' notice. They have n een issed without warning. | The New York Call (socialistic) ob- seives that “state aid appears to be a magnificent thing for” railroads and shipping interests, “but machinists and the like? They nre cast aside as the Industrial regime. 1 The world has been made safe for something, but for whom and what millions of workingmen have ampl leisure to figure out for themselves. A Revolt' Against Ridicule. The city of Philadelphia and the state of Nevada have risen in the re- :sentment against a certain kind of ':lnnd.rdiud foolery which they be- lieve has worked to their detriment. | They have in indignation declared war on the jokesmiths. Philadel- phians have got tired of it. The lgng lane of their patience has reach- ed its turning. From now on the actors, lecturers, newspaper humor- ists who dig up the remains of that long-accepted jest about Quaker lrl!y slowness will expose themselves to retaliation. In Nevada it is the.State Journal of Reno which raises the standard of revolt. It says, with arf emphasis that means business, they have borne taunts as Jong as they are going_to. Just how the severities of Ne- vada's displeasure are to be visited on the jokers is not disclosed. The evil they have done the state also lacks gpecification. It, in reality, can scarcely be very great. It is difficult to imagine @n; done to the state by jokers. Chicago and Kansas were long _the targets of machine-made wit. ), _too, were Oshkosh, Kankakee and Kalamaszoo. All of them have thrived. A good deal of what is called American humor has two defects. It is not humor and it is not American. 1t is that kind of humor of which Philadelphia and Nevada have been {made the targets. Both are too big to be harmed by ridicule of this sort. —‘New York }vrald (independent). Should Women Smoke? One of the social signs of the times |is the spread of the smoking habit jamong women. only & fad, like bobbed halr, but Lady Nicotine, once admitted to the affec- tions, has a way of holding on to those ghe has vamped. It i get rid of her, to keep her away. ‘Women have smoked before today. but, 80 far as we know, the habit has | never been so widespread with the sex nor included so many young girls and young women. In Russia, we believe, the custom has long prevailed, and in England in recent years it be. come common in society. But the to- bacco habit has never flourished &o openly and s. unashamed among so- called respectable representatives of the supposedly more refined sex in the United States as it does today.—Balti- more Sun (inde| dent democratic). American Caste. We used to smilc in this country at the ridiculous Hindoo who could pol- ish silver but could not wash china, because that ‘was against his caste. No such nonsense in this country, said we. Americans were a practical people. We are learning more and more about the caste system. There are no longer handy men to be found —chaps who come into your house and fix ti¥ngs up generally— jacks of all trades, who are handy at them all. Nowadays if a nail § to be &riven be sure and get some one whose busifiess it is to handle a hammer. No wieljer of a trowel could think of driving-a nail.—The Johns- town Democrat (democratic). “Irish_to Hold Election—News_ head- line. Funeral notices later.—Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. What worries Congress is, can the farmers raise a majority?—Flint Daily Journal. Nature lovers already have heard the early spring twitters of the paint- ers, decorators and paperhangers.— St. Joseph News-Press. It' may be true he never told a lie; but,George didn’t have to make out an Income tax blank.—Atlanta Jour- nal. v man®who 15 alwi polite te his 'e in company doesn't always re. member that two Is company.—Bur- lington News. g ! 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