Evening Star Newspaper, June 17, 1922, Page 6

“r 6 THE EVENING STAR. With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY.......June 17, 1922 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Bush iness Office, 11th St. and Pennaylvania Ave. Office. s oy irst National k nullal:I Regent St., London, Knglaad. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, 1s delivered by carriers within the city at @0 cents per month: dally only, 45 cents mer month: S ‘cents per month. Or- ¥ be sent by mall, or telephone Matn 6000. ~ Collectlon fs made by carricrs it the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia Daily and Sunday..1yr.. Daily only. ¥ 5. Sunday only All Other States. Dally and Sunday.1y=., $10.00; 1 mo., 85¢ Daily only. 17r. $7.00; 1 mo., 60c Sunday only 1yr.. $3.00; 1 mo.. 25¢ Merit System Upheld. In a short and to-the-point state- ment, said to have been approved by President Harding, Secretary Mellon disposes of “the allegation that the Treasury is filled with active demo- cratic partisans who are disloyal to the administration and, therefore, im- peding the work of the government. “Those democrats who hold positions in the Treasury,” says Mr. Mellon, “have been retained because of their qualifications for the offices they hold, and I have had no evidence of partisan activity on their part.” In these few words is expressed the sence of the application of the stem to the public service. These men are democrats, but they have peculiar qualifications for the work they are doing and are not en- gaging in active partisan politics. Therefore, a republican administra- tion retains them. Not only is such a policy sound ad- ministration of the government, but it is the very best of politics. Where there is one voter interested in the ob- taining of jobs for party workers there are hundreds interested only in an efficient and business-like administra- tion of the public service, and no ad- mir will lose favor with the people because it is broad enough and courageous enough to say an emphatic “po” to the pc al spoil The entire attempt to bring about discharge of a hundred or more im- portant Treasury employes was so clumsy and amateurish that it re- flected little credit upon its anonymous s and never had a chance of g the public favorably. Sec- retary Mellon's assertion that “the statement is the preduct of a few self- ishly ambitious employes and some discredited former employes™ would } seem to be a sufficient explanation. The incident now happily is closed, and closed hap) Faithful and ef- ficient employes of the government who abstain from offensive partisan ectivity know the political axman will not get their heads, and the country knows the Harding administration does not intend to turn the public service over to the spollsmen. And only the spoilsmen are displeased in consequence thereof. Mexico. For some years Mexico has stood in need of money, and arrangements have just been completed in New | York to supply her. Her interests were represented by Finance Minister de la Huerta of the Obregon government, and those who negotiated with him were members of the international committee of bankers on Mexico, with American bankers in the lead. If this shall have the effect, as; doubtless it will, of strengthening the Obregon government, the satisfaction in this country will be considerable. As has several times heen said, and is of wide note, the Obregon govern- | ment looks more like a government | and functions more satisfactorily than any government that has appeared in Mexico since the fall of Diaz. The man at the head of it is a competent soldier as well as a competent civilian, and is trusted and highly respected by a large portion of the Mexican peo- ple. He is not a stranger in this country, and has many well wishers on this side of the boundary line. But one thing would appear to be lacking now, and that should, and probably will, follow. American recog- nition of the Obregon government would give it standing in England and Europe, and thoroughly stabilize it; and negotiations to that end, long pending, should be brought to a satis- factory conclusion. Secretary Hughes has stated the American case with great fairness, and President Obregon could do no better thing than deal with the matter on the Hughes basis. ———— Chief Justice Taft modestly says he is going to Europe to make some re- searches in connection with the law. 1t is more than possible that he could tell Europe a few things if she cared 1o listen. Messages From Mars. Guglielmo Marconi, ploneer of wire- less, has just reached this cbuntry on his yacht-laboratory, from which some thought he was experimenting on the voyage over with messages to and from Mars. The red planet is now ‘within about 45,000,000 miles of the earth, the closest approach in recent times, and there is much interest in the possibility of interplanetary com- munication. But Marconi declares that he has made no attempts to “ralse” Mars or to listen in on any- thing that Mars might possibly be sending. True, he did last winter in- tercept what appeared to be an unin- telligible message projected in 150,000- meter wave lengths. The earth, he says, knows no such wave length, and cryptic as it was the message in that abpormal rhythm was an unearthly thing. But Marconi does not propose to pursue this spook of the ether, for there is too much work to be done here within the mundane atmosphere with radio to justify the expenditure ot time and energy on what would e almost certainly an unprofitable re- | To consider the question serious- 1y, it must be understood first of all that communication with Mars by telligible code. Thirdly, and in truth of primary importance, it presupposes the habitation of Mars by sentient beings capable of invention and at least equal knowledge of the universe with earth dwellers and equal curi- osity. Marconi's 150,000-meter message, if message it was, may mean that Mars has people end that the Martians have radio, and that they have a higher power than we and are actual- ly trying to send us communications. Or it may mean merely that there is a rhythmic vibratjon of the ether that has no human significance—if Mar- tlans be humn—flut,ll perhaps akin to the northern lights or some such phenomenon. The fact that nobody has yet developed 150,000-meter wave lengths does not necessarily mean that they do not exist in the at- mosphere. Mars will probably remain a puzzle, however close the planet approaches the earth. It may yield its secrets to the telescope. Possibly the radio will in time contribute to earthly knowl- edge of Martian conditions. But in the absence of a cosmic lariguage the difficulties of comprehension are plain- ly insuperable. Speculation, however, will always continue, growing more keen every time the orbits of the two planets bring them into relative and approximate nearness. The Berliner Helicopter. From the beginning of the develop- ment of the heavier-thanair “flying machine” efforts have been made by inventors in different countries to evolve @ device capable of rising with- out a preliminary run and descending without a final slide over the ground. For it has been always recognized that the necessity of propelling a plane horizontally before putting it into the air and at the end of the flight im- posed a handicapping condition that limited its usefulness. The ‘“helicop- ter,” or “gyrocopter,” was sought that would make a vertical ascent and a speedy and fully controlled flight and a final safe vertical descent. From time to time reports have come from other countries that such a ma- chine had been perfected, and hopes rose that the problem had been solved, only to have them disappointed anew by subsequent disclosures that the ex- periments were not yet satisfactory. Now it would appear that to a Washingtonian and his son belongs the credit of first effecting the vertical beginning and ending of air flight with speedy and controlled horizontal progress. Emile Berliner, one of the foremost of modern inventors and highly honored for the number of valuable contributions he has made to scientific advance, has been at work on this problem for a long period. In recent .years he has transferred the work to his son Henry, who has with skill and patience carried on the task, and now success appears to have been achieved. Yesterday the Berliner helicopter made a demonstration flight in the presence of representatives of the gov- ernment. It rose vertically, advanced at the will of the operator horizontal- ly and descended vertically in such a manner as to prove that the problem has at last been solved, at least in principle. Development of the ma- chine to the point of practical use ‘would seem now to be a matter of de- tail, of increase of power and of study by operators of the peculiar im- pulse factors. ‘The advantages of a vertical ascent and descent in e “flving machine” is obvious. With such an apparatus—it can hardly be styled a plane inasmuch as the supporting element is not a series of planes but a combination of propellers—no large area is required. Ascent can be made from a gpace merely large enough to contain the machine, and descent can be made upon a space no larger. The roof of a house, the deck of a ship, the interior of a fort can become the point of start and finish of a flight. It is a matter of gratification to ‘Washingtonians that apparently the first real success in helicopter inven- tion has been scored by father and son who are in every sense their fel- low citizens. Mr. Berliner, senior, has been of late years engaged in valuable constructive work in the preservation of health and has relinquished his scientific fleld largely to his son. Their joint achievement is a triumph of science that has infinite possibilities that cannot be fully measured. et Representatives of the press are not made particularly welcome at The Hague parley. Evidently there is no aspiration to make The Hague the literary center that Washington be- came during the record-making peace conference. ————————— The ancient mariner of the poem said, “Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink.”” The present tendency is to avert any such situa. tion. . ———————— A substitution of electricity for the rope cannot be relied on to make the candidate for capital punishment any more comfortable in mind. The editor of the little Annapolis publication called “The Lucky Bag” did not find it any mascot. e e B Administration and Primaries. This is taken from a special to The Star from Columbus: The repeated manifestation of re- action against the administration wing of the party in the primary elec- tions in other states has been used by some here as & basis for the predic- tion that the candidates known to have the favor of the administration wjl suffer severe cuts in the pri- maries. It was distinctly stated and widely circulated before a single primary had been hejd that the President would take no pert in any of them; that he would strictly observe a hands-off policy in every atate. In Indiana there was a sort of temptation. Mr. New was one of the President’s intimate friandsand ardent | supporters. He was pressed hard from the first, with the chances slight- 1y favoring Mr. Beveridge. But the President made no sign, was not asked to do 80, and Mr. Beveridge was nom. inated. Immediately the nomination was made, Mr. Beveridge pledged his sup- I the party in Indiana the administra. tion is not responsible. It any republican candidates in Ohio or elsewhere are secretly run- ning as anti-administration men, and as such are nominated, shall we see thenr turn then to the administration for support? Sure! And complain bit- terly if they fail to recetve it. But they will recolve it. The ad- ministration is not running amuck, nor encouraging others to do s0. A lively shindy is in progress, and before election day republicans will see the necessity, if they can see anything, of fighting the common enemy instead of one another. New York’s Short Campaign. The campaign in New York this year. will be short. Nominations will not be made until late September, leaving only about four weeks for stumping and other purposes. Short, but lively. Once the game is called in that state it 1s played with & rush, and to the limit. Everything Boes. While it seems certain that Gov. Miller will be renominated, he has not yet replied definitely to overtures. He entered politics reluctantly, and more than once has expressed a desire to return to the law. These are lush times for litigation, and fees are large. At the bar again, Gov. Miller, who ranks high in his profession, would be in clover. But he has given the state a good administration, and the leaders of his party are united in the opinion that he should repeat. Probably he will. The democrats are in a spirited con- troversy as to their candidate. Former Gov. Al Smith seems to toy with the suggestion of his name, while Mayor Hylan is insisting that his duty calls for his presence in his present office during the time for which he was elected. The need of a strong man to face Gov. Miller is recognized. National matters are but little un- der discussion. Mr. Harding's renom- ination is accepted as a certainty, but his opponent is not yet in sight from the New TYork observation tower. The democrats are hoping he may de velop in the coming state race and give them the prominence they desire at the party's next national conven- tion. e e Showing His Hand. The President is in dead earnest on the subject of an American merchant marine. Congress has it flat. There was need of just such an expression. Much is said about foreign opposi- tion to the entrance of America Into the fleld of sea-carriers. Some inven- tion may be employed. Some exag- geration may mark the gossip. The subject lends itself somewhat to that sort of thing. But Congress can afford to put that aside. Whatever there may be in it, it is not sufficient to support the action desired. America should not become a | eea-carrier simply because established sea-carriers object, if they do object. ‘We should enter that fleld because destiny beckons. We belong there. We were once powerful there. It is more inviting now than then. We have far more reason for such a tivity than we had then. We are a great producing nation, and seeking forelgn markets for our productiont Naturally, we desire to deliver them in foreign ports ourselves. It is to our Interest to do so. No partisan question is involved The President's recommendation is not that of & party leader, but that of the leader of all the people in & matter concerning them all. If we es- tablish ourselves profitably and per- manently as a sea-cerrier, Americans in all walks of life and business will benefit in the advanced prestige of the country. ————————— Russia’s luck might have been bet- ter if it had been as successful in de- veloping constructive statesmen and capitalists as it has been in develop- ing accomplished exponents of terpsi- chorean art. The threat of a railway strike has come to be regarded as an annual summer incident. According to reports, on the banks of the Potomac there is an army of bootleggers. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Near Neighbors. “This world is growin’ mighty small,” Said Hezekiah Bings. “Men are just neighbors, after all, Both common folks and kings. ‘We send a message through the air To countries far away, Or hear from over yon, somewhere, ‘What others have to say. “The oceans do not seem so wide; The continents contract, As airships fly on every side, So speedy and exact. Minds are alert for friendship's call; Fights are forgotten things. This world is growin’ mighty small, Said Hesekiah Bings. More Artistic. “The feminine voice is now being heard in politics,” said the positive ‘woman. “I'm glad of it,” replied Senator Sorghum. “The effect is more artistic when the cheers at a mass meeting have the benefit of sopranos in bring- ing out the harmony.” Jud Tunkins says he doesn’t believe there would be so many gossips if there weren't 50 many good listeners. Musings of a Motor Cep. She breaks engagements now and then. Indulgence is requested. Hortense can never tell just when Her fliv will get arrested. Color Needful. “Why do they use such bright colors in bathing suits?” tention to the fact that it is being ‘worn.’ “De man dst likes to hear hisself talk,” said Uncle Eben, ‘“is Jucky in allus ‘havin’ an eudience dat's ap] clative, even- if'it-ain> very big. THE EVENING BTAR, WASHINGTON, Healthier Corps of Teachers | D. O, NATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1922. ~ for D. C. Schools Now Assuredi j)lkgman,’g HROUGH compulsory physical examination of all candidates for teaching positions, the District public school system within the last year has made a great stride toward a goal set by school au- thoritles for a superior quality of teaching service, unequaled in any city of the United States. Although objectionable~to the vast majority of applicants for teaching Positions In the Washington schools, the required physical examination hi resulted in a marked improvement in the health of the individual teachers, while, at the same time, It has greatly Increased the efficiency of the teach- Ing corps. * The rules of the board of education provide that all persons who are can- didates for teaching positions shall Ppass a rigld physical examination be- fore being appointed. They came on the heels of the passage of the teach- ers' retirement act and its varlous provisions for annuities for incapaci- tated teachers, which also now make tha_physical examination a necessity. * ok ok K During the period of the war, when the supply of teachers was not as large as the demand, it was found im- possible to enforce the rules. Now that the supply of teachers is more nearly normal, the practice of passing upon the physical qualifications of all candldates is being vigorously en- forced, and every teacher appointed to a position In the schools is not only educationally but physically qualified. ince the physical been made compulsory, the Inspection force of the schools, which is headed by Dr. Jo- seph A. Murphy, has turned down per- manently about fifteen candidates for t Ing positions. Hungreds of others, however, who were found to examinations fore in the newspapers of the coun- try. The problem is revived by the an- nouncement of Gifford Pinchot that it cost him and members of his fami- ly more than $124,000 to make the successful campaign In the recent Pennsylvania primaries. Most of the papers agree that the expense was justified because it was “for edu- have physical defects, upon the ad- vice of Dr. Murphy, had them cor- pointed by the board of education. * *x ¥ ¥ been forced to turn down flatly,” sald Dr. Murphy, “were absolutely deaf, While others were blind in one eye. A other permanent organic troubles. “It {s & mistake to put teadhers Does the Primary System Necessi- tate Lavish Expenditures? whether the popular primary does not actually prevent a poor man be- coming a successful candidate for cational purposes,” but many editors contend {t shows that money still well as in general elections. The actual cost of such a campaign must be considered In connection mittedly spent. as The Star recently never been sold and is not now for been made and money figures quoted there in isolated cases election spend- the main, results have been obtained that Pinchot was well able to spare consideration, the Rock Island Argus (democratic) says, and “while he evi- nothing to show that it was wrongly paign largely without help in all quired a_large expenditure.” Inai iting campaign expenditures, Pinchot much more, the Newark News (inde- discussion of the matter cannot es- The News considers that the lesson shall be arbitrarily fixed” for cam- bly with “due cognizance taken of to be appealed to the larger is the ing that “the per capita element is one Somewhat simllar vlews are en- (Independent), which gecalls *that Pinchot “was up against an almost was to take his cause to the people. 20 vastly populated a state as Penn- to publicity. This is expensive. Pinchot won and apparently fairly, The fact that most of the “profes- sional politiclans are using the cost of the primary system as an argu- rected and were subsequently ap- “Some of the applicants we have few of them had tuberculosis and The much-discussed question nomination {s again very much to the sums the chief essential in primary as as Pinchot was compelled to wage ‘with any discussion of the amount ad- pointed out, adding that “America has ale. At times grave charges have in support .of them, and-here and ing has been ill-advisedly free. But, in without money pressure.” The fact the money also must be taken into dently spent money freel there is spent. He had to carry on a cam- parts of a great state, and this re- much as Pensylvania has no law I ang his friends might have spent pendent) points out, but it says any cape reference to the Newberry case. must be whether “a moderate sum paign expenditures everywhere, po: the fact that the larger the electorate outlay morally permissible,” and add- of powerful weight.” tertained by the Nashville Banner invincible machine. His only chance This he could not do in person in sylvania. His resort, therefore, was however deplorable it may be that portunities requires such outlays. ment for the return to the conven- is regrettable, in the view of the Roanoke World News (democratic), because “the campaign reports from Mr. Pinchot come as a displeasing anti-climax to his splen- did victory. The money factor in pri- maries must somehow be minimized it the primary system is to endure.” Accepting that Pinchot could not have been nominated without hav- ing spent this money, the Raleigh News and Obgerver (democratic) asks “How can the evil and degrada- tlon of the use of money in primaries and elections be prevented? That Is a question that must be answered, and answered right, or public office will become a matter of barter and no poor man without rich backers can aspire to public position. The amount spent was not large, when compared with the usual e: penditures of the old machine in Pennsylvania, in_the opinion of the Burlington Free Press (independent), and it is convinced that “to say the direct primary system is responsible for the corrupt use of money in po- litical campaigns is to write one's selt down as lacking knowledge of political history and current events, as well as deficient in common sense. In point of fact, the direct rimary, with women participating, s making it possible to drive co! rupt men out of politics, and Penn- lyfvlnll. and Indiana are merely the be; mnln‘I of a new day. 'fh' iladelphia Record (demo- ic) “Insists, and will continue to do so until the result needed is a: rived at, that the Pinchot statement is fraudulent and clearly intended to deceive. No statement has as yet been made ,public regarding the amount of money collected and con- some of the leading sul Mr. Pinchot, nor has a count been made how a single dollar of such funds was used. And why should not the Attormey General Jook into the matter of the numerous conapirators who are arranging to fiout the law covering the publica- tion of sworn statements of ca collections and expenditures?” " gGeranton Times (democratic) joins with the Record, asking: “Is the election of & Governor of Pennfyl- vania this- year to be bought? Is with such defects in front of normal | children in a schoolroom day after day. It is not good prychology- A Targe majority of the applicants for teaching positions who failed to pass the initial physical examiantions, Dr. Murphy pointed out, have taken the advice of the medical inspectors and have either corrected their de- fects or are now doing so. * k * % The most prevalent of physical de- fects discovered, Dr. Murphy sald, are defective vision, defective adenoids and tonsils and bad teeth. Many cases of underweight also have been discovered during the examinations, he asserted, and the persons con- cerned have been told how to regain their normal weight. Until they do s0, their appointment as teachers is held in abeyance. “Any defects which have a bearing on the applicant’s health,” Dr. Murphy declared, ave to be corrected, other- The rigld physical examination normal schools who are Gnder train- ing to become teachers. The exam- Inations are glven before the girls begin their course in the normal schools, and those found to have physical defects are advised to have | them corrected. Periodically, subse- quent examinations are given to as- certain if the students are following the advice of the physicians and no- tations made as to whether their physical conditlon is improving. éonsequenlly. the girls in the high schools who are planning to make teaching thelr career, Dr. Murphy are beginning to vealize that they have to be in good health to become teachers. This fact is reflect- ed In the Increased popularity of the physical training classes in -the high schools. - Dr. Murphy is confident that the physical examinations of the cand dates for teaching positions has raised the standard of efficiency in the teaching personnel, and he be- lleves it will ultimately give Wasl ington a corps of healthy, as well as I highly qualified, teacher: fie is now advocating that the physical examinations be made a re- quirement for teachers who become eligible for promotion. ~This addi- tional work, he said, will necessitate the enlargement of the medical exam- {ning force, which is not only under- manned at present, but underpaid. EDITORIAL DIGEST there not some way to halt the pur- chase of the governorship of Pen: sylvania?’ The Philadelphia Bulle- tin (independent), declaring there is no suspicion that any of the Pinchot fund partook of a “slush fund,” says that “a slush fund of such dimensions would be a scandal. An educational campaign fund of this size consti- tutes no less & problem. When it becomes necessary that a candidate before the Pennsylvania primaries must either be a rich man or have the backing of men competent to raise hundreds of thousands of dol lars there is danger and the direct expression of popular will Is handi- capped.” Still, from a distance expenditures seemed all right, the Louisville Post (independent), argu- ing that while “no right-thinking person approves of lavish expenditure of money in elections, an educational campaign ean not be made in a big state without spending money,” and the Grand Rapids Press believes that the law “should limit newspaper and pamphlet advertising to a definite amount. It should limit central office clerical expense to a definite amount, and expenditures for other worke! should be absolutely barred. And It should apply to a candidate's com- mittee as well as himself. ‘What Will He See? Rip Van Winkle slept for twenty years In the Catskills, and when he returned to his native village he found things changed. This country had in the meantime become a repub- lle, his wife had died and even hi dog did not recognise him. But this 1s only a story, not much more credi- ble than the legend on which Wash- ington Irving based his famous nar- rative. When Roald Amundsen, noted ex- recently on his seven- the polar regions, however, he laid the foundations of a narrative which has more realism about it than do the fanciful most of our storm-tossed wanderers and many-year sleepers. Th e plorer, if he has luck, rellli is going to be out of touch with the world's nd what h speculation. The world move than it did in Rip Van Winkle's day. Had our arctic explorer left in 1914 in July and returned in 1921 he would have found it almost impossible to glve credence to an account of the great war. The political changes Which took place in Europe during those years would have sounded to him very much like a fairy tale. ‘What will greet this traveler when he returns in 19297 What new won- ders on the earth and in the air shall we have to explain to him? By that time the airplane may be a sufficient- ly common sight 80 that we pay no more attention to it than we do now to a passing automobile. By that time the radiophone mi have been perfected and put to uses the nature and extent of which even the boldest may hot forecast, or shall we say broadcast, today. Even in the political field it is not safo to predict that when Roald Amundsen returns from his seven- year winter camping he will see no such violent changes the seven years just passed witnessed in the af- fairs of the world—Detroit News. The End of a Legend. The Lillian Russell legend of eter- nal youth has been rudely interrupt- ed. 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