Evening Star Newspaper, June 18, 1922, Page 42

r THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY THEODORE W. NOYES. ...June 18, 1022 _Editor The Ev ning Star Newspaper Company Busizess St. and Pennsylvania Ave. . ve: 150 Nassau Chicago U tional Bauk Dullding. t St., London, Eugland. BOG0. end of cach m Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virgini Daily -and 1yr., $5.40; 1 mo., Daily only 1yr., $6.00; 1 1mo Sunday only 1 yr., §2.40; All Other States. v amd Sunday 00; Trail 1 510 s Y- major entered Ly the Railr m of & lahor, > 1 mibers of the inst the e av minority my represent wit rulin; the luction the to strike of sense fairn, public men have heen this court, three repres and thre recent public the dissented. fecting n o and the which lubor members b latest v tind the Agiinst vlerks, tiven bor bers in the ¥ is an ves in deciston as though an Supreme Court of in d of I nited § Were a ust upheld by court. One of statement of s thus quoted: ¢ that aimed sue - unnecessar i ex fu C Wages issue language ne s would re 70, 50 rity ad Labor Board e in dissenting the de- ve ing. the ren, a of ndi- or of the iatc the senting v advise the people to the the the to just If nine ist- il ain inference that the wage s failed, and that the employes therefore justified 1o use power » 1o s they have influence the labor mar uch wer as they have™ means plainly . and thus the remarkable t is pre 1 of members of a court condemning the action of that : ind virtually advocating law- to the point of McCormack. the victim in this case, occurred before the District boundary was crossed, that is the imaginary diagonal line running to Jones point, the jurisdiction over the case lies in either Virginia or Maryland, accord- ing to the position of the hoat at the pe, presumably in Virginia, as the steamer would make toward that shore in moving in the direction of the Alexandria wharf. If, however, the stabbing occurred north of that line the jurisdiction lies in the District of Columbia, unless it was while the steamer was tied to the wharf at : in which case the juris- {diction lies in Virginia. | Originally the jurisdiction was as- sumed in Alexandria, for there lay tie body of the vietim, who was land- ed for hospital treatment. The firs | inquest was held in that city. Now, however, there is evidence 10 show that the stabbing occurred between the Jones point line and the Alexan- wharf, and the District is pre- g .to take ju in 1 over the ase and to hold a second inquest. In Jf wccusation and indictment the sed will probably be tried in this crever lies the jurisdiction, how- ever, in the specific matter of this {erime, there is no doubt of the need of a thorough clearing out of the law- vho infest the beats and the whether in Virginia, in in the District of Colum- [ bia. The people of Washington and of Alexandria are jointly concerned in this matter, for to them the river of- fers their best opportunity for outings in summ nd they should be pro- tected from rowdyism and drunken Lehavior und the impudent overtures of bootl and the danger of dis- order engendered by this traffic on the {boats and at ' i Mexico and Europe Debt. Buropean statesmen and financiers might learn some useful lessons by a study of the negotiations just con- cluded in New York for funding of the Mexican external!debt, amounting to $300.000.000 of principal and $200,- 000,000 of unpaid interest. The agree- ment entered into, if approved by ident Obregon and the holders of A an bonds, will place the finances of the republic on a sound and work- able basis, and undoubtedly will make for increased prosperity not only in Mexico but in the United States and other countries which do business with he An official statement issued follow- signing of the compact says that the agreement re- ites the determination of the Mexi- n government to fulfill its obli ns to the full extent of its capacity > Minis| la Huerta im- d the group of American bank- ‘nting the bondholders that jing s a preliminary Y- r de pre s Tepr Mexico really intended in good faith to do this, and the rest thereupon he- came relatively simple. The condi- to be made as easy for Mex- aRsas Spintans ible without injustice to the bondholders. In order that Mexico this char-1 ¢ have a chance to get back on ity s acceptance of the 1ule | po fuet, sinking fund requirements of the majority in spirit as well as in {00 G0 Rl g five act. 1€ the minority members of the |are NN T et 18 wage board cannot accept the Andings |,y grtized over a period of gf ke mjorsty they ghodid e without interest. This latter conc m. The demand a reorgan with the pub —————— appealing by implication to the labor strike in + and non-ac- of the award is caleulated to aid the cause of not labor Extension of Fourteenth Street. Unfortunate delzy has been caused ir. the enactment of the bill for the extension of 14th street by the de- cision of the House committee on mill- affairs to grant no hearing on the subject, and thus, in effect, to postpone action for the vinder of the present session. This bill provides for carrying 14th street northward to the District line, putting it through the grounds of Walter Reed Hospital and making pos the Capita! Traction system additional rapid transit service to region Iying east of Rock Creek P ble the extension of to give the ark and west of Georgia avenue. This part of the ict, though developing, is held under some restraint by lack of facilities. projects, designed to contribute to relief of the housing congestion in District, are suspended on this count. The people living north of hospital, both in the District and vet the Large construction the the ac- the in Maryland, are urgent in their demand for additional transit accommodations. The bill has the full approval of Seer ry of War, afte with the hospital authol the -onsultation ties, and is =0 drawn as to insure adequate pro- tection to that institution from noise and from danger to inma 1o controversy over it and no rea: appears why it should not be enact es. There is son ted. There is no particular pressure upon the time of the House at present, and it is difficult to unde ter of such slight consequence to zress, but of such serious importa; to the capital, should not be gi prompt consideration. —_——— stand why a mat- “on- nce ven Trotsky's future may be regarded as insecure unless Lenin has had kindly thought to provide for his sociate in his will. —_———— the as- “Drink to me only with thine eyes,” sang the graceful old poet, but the wets continue to insist that it can't be done. The River Crime Jurisdiction The steamer Macalester trag edy sion represents a sacrifice on the part of the bordholders, but it is only what any intelligent ereditor is willing to do when ‘an embarrassed debtor gives evidence of willingness and determina- tion to pay. no particular par- A solution of the Americans have ! tiality for Mexico. Mexican debt problem made pos- sible by the ‘“determination of the Mexican government to fulfill its obli- gations to the full extent of its ca- pacity.” When European debtors ap- proach the subject of their obligations to America in the same frame of mind, and with equally convincing evidences of sincerity, it will be pos- { sible speedily to arrive at adjustments fair both to the borrowers and the lenders. i Subdivisions of sentiment may go too far. Statesmen who stand firmly by the theory that political parties are essential to good government be- come a little doubtful as to the efficacy of blocs. i Musical crities doubt whether “The Star Spangled Banner” is worthy to be the national anthem. Old Vox Populi says it is; which settles the matter. } As a referee, Lloyd George finds his job even harder than that of Judge Landis or Will Hays. Ireland has a splendid political fu- ture, but is a little slow in getting started on it. i A Monarchical “Putsch” Predicted. A week from next Wednesday, June 28, may be a day of violent disturb- ance in Germany, according to a Ber- lin socialist newspaper, which prints an article stating that a pan-German “putsch” has been planned for that day. which is the anniversary of the signing of the treaty of Versailles. A “putsch” is a concerted, pre-arranged, movement for a political object. Kapp, who died the other day, made one when he tried to re-establish the monarchy about two years or so ago. Another monarchical drive is predict- ed now, and treaty day is said to have tbeen chosen for the effort, or at least for demonstrations to test out the sentiment of the people. The Berlin paper calls upon all socialists to be on has brought to the front an interest- | guard against any such movement. ing question regarding jurisdiction which may have an important bearing | doing” in Germany is not lacking. Ex- in the settlement of cases growing out of that affair. The resort from which the steamer started on the homeward trip, and where, it is alleged, the trou- ble began, culminating in the tragedy, is in Maryland. The channel of the{Ludendorff have recently been tour- river through which the boat passes in its course lies equally’ in Maryland and Virginia, and the steamer is times wholly in one state or in other, and at times in both at at the the same moment. Shortly below Alex- { andria, however, the District boundary is crossed as that line runs south- westerly to the southern original Dis- trict cornerstone, which forms part of the foundation of the lighthouse at the District boundary extends to Virginia shore. Jones point. From that point upward the Evidence that there is ‘“'something tra precautions have been taken to guard President Ebert when he visits Bavaria, and Chancellor Wirth is also now specially guarded, in view of threats against him. Hindenburg and ing Germany, speaking on occasions in their military uniforms, and, while very carefully phrasing their expres- sions, quite obviously appealing to the old military spirit aend hinting at monarchical restoration. So active have they been that a demand has been made by some of the soclalist leaders for the cancellation of their pensions if they persist in going about in uniform as propagandists for a change of government. Recently in the course of memoirs If the stabbing .qf|the former crown prince wrote in @ |ler dog, =g THE SUNDAY, STAR, WASHINéTON, D. C, JUNE 18 1922_PART 2. vein to indicate that he still hopes for a recall to Germany. Now the former kaiser is about to appear as anauthor, arrangements having just been made for the publication of his memoirs. That this will be in large measurc a political document is hardly to be doubted. Publication, however, is not to begin for over two months, and so there can be no relation be- tween it and the demonstration said to have been planned for treaty day, June 28. If there is any connection whatever between the kaiser's book and the plans of the managers of the “putsch” the affair of a week from Wednesday will probably take the form merely of a test of public temper. It does not follow, of course, that a monarchical *“putsch” would make for the restoration of either the former kaiser or his eldest son. Indeed, it is not at all certain that a monarchical movement would be in favor of the Hohenzollerns. There is a large senti- rient in favor of Rupprecht of Bavaria, I now the head of the house of Wllllrx- bach. Monarchical sentiment is said ito be strong in Bavaria, and disarma- ment has been less faithfully carried out there than in other parts of Ger- jmany. It may be the source of the next “‘putsch.’ ——t———————— Rock Creek Pollution. Investigation of the subject of Rock creek pollution has led to some im- portant disclosures which should quickly be followed by corrective ac- tion. It is now plain that there is a promiscuous use of the creek and its tributaries for sewage disposal by a number of Maryland communities. In one case a sewage disposal plant has | been provided, but there is reason to believe that it is not effective, and that the sewage is permitted to flow into the creek in its raw state through a tributary. All such uses of these waters, whether for untreated or treated sewage, is most objectionable. and upon the completion of the pres- ent survey, which will establish all the facts, the necessary steps should be | taken to stop them. It has been stated by one of the sanitary engineers examining into this matter that Rock creek is so badly polluted now that it will take several vears to cleanse it. This gloomy pros- pect, however, is in no way a justifica- tion for continued use of this water- ed system for sewage disposal. In other words, there is no warrant for going on with the insanitary practices simply because of the damage already done. The creek must be protected from further pollution, even if it may remain in questionable condition for eral seasons. It is intolerable to have this stream, which is the chief | feature of the capital's greatest park, used as a sewer in any degree. e — New York managers announce nu- merous productions of European gaiety. Tt was thought that European mentality was too seriously engaged to permit its attention to frivolous creations for the mimic scene. —_——————— No scientist can convince & member of Congress that any communication with Mars can be of equal importance with returns from his own mundane distriet. } Radio in itself is wonderful, but it has not yet found the means of pre- { venting the dull and perfunctory “en- tertainer” from butting in. f Never ask a policeman ,whether it is hot enough for him. His oppressive summer uniform answers the question on sight. i The cost of food has threatened to make the kitchenette tragedy as prom- inent in attention as the bedroom farce. Z § John Barleycorn is the great “kick” specialist. The wets and the drys are both kicking. T An interesting situation arises when an “old guard” confronts a new politi- cal era. . SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. i Greetings From Mars. And if I could communicate With some one up in Mars, Defying distances so great Up yonder 'mongst the stars, I wonder what strange things he'd tell, ‘What mysteries reveal Of motives new, man to compel; New ways to think and feel. Yet greetings are about the same *Mongst men both far and near, And if some vibrant message came From that long distant sphere The speaker, hidden from our view, Might be content to say In friendly accents, “Howdydo! It's very warm today. Unconsidered. “How do you stand on prohibition?"” “I'm for it,” replied Senator Sor- ghum, emphatically. “The bootleggers out my way are making quite e little money, but they are not influencing any votes." Jud Tunkins says jazz has at last given the man who can’t carry & tune a chance to assert himself es a musician. Modern improvements are more merciful than the old devices. The man who used to blow out the gas has been superseded by the girl who burns herself with an electric curling iron. Not So Serious, After All. We might regard ours as e happy fate, ‘With little misbehaving, If life presented problems no more great Than that of daylight-saving. Showing Claws. “It seems that there has been a lit- tle snubbing among the students at the Naval Academy.” “Yes,” replied Miss Cayenn: afraid a few of the boys are training themselves to become not sea dogs but sea cats.” Z “A man is entitled to his own opin- ion, even if he's wrong,” said Uncle Eben; “same as he's entitled to a yal- if he happens tb wan oe.” n A Ohio. Good for Ohio, where politics has always been played with a will and skill earning for the state the sobriquet of “the modern mother of Presidents’! Men have been developed in the con tests there who subsequently became country-wide figures of country-wide importance. Some characteristically live and vigorous politics is being played there now, with everybody on both sides alert. There are thirteen candidates for governor—nine republicans and four democrats. There are six candi- dates for United States senator—four republicans and two democrats. For the minor places on the state tickets and for other places there are candi- dates galore. The woods are full of them. The primary election when nominations will be fmade takes place in August. Come one, come all, in Ohio and elsewhere! This is a time when Amer- ica expects every man to do his duty. She wants, and needs, the best men in office, executive, legislative and ju- dicial. There is an abundance of work to be done. We are adjusting our- selves to new world conditions, and only men of vision and grasp can render the proper service. In Ohio particularly the urge should be, and evidently is, strong. An Ohio man is in the White House. Another presides in the Supreme Court of the United States, and two of the associate justices of that court are Buckeyes. And still another Ohio man presides over the Department of Justice. Some state! And the record should be kept up. At a time when 80 much is in the scale, and so many new things are being fashioned and so many old things refashioned, the commonwealth which has played so notable a part in the past should keep her place as a force in all the national endeavors. * Parties and Discipline. For years the republican party was described, and praised, as the party of discipline. It often showed teamwork of the highest value. This was as- cribed to its repeated successes. It “got there" at the polls. True, there were feuds and faction- isms now and then. The Greeley split was notable, though it did not defeat ‘the party. The Blaine-Conkling epi- sode also was notable, and that did defeat the party. It brought in Mr. Cleveland. The Roosevelt-Taft row brought in Mr. Wilson. Still, in the main, the republicans held together well, and occupied the ‘White House for the quarter century between 1861-85, and the sixteen years between 1887-1913. It was the democratic party that made reputation for unmanageable- ness. It lashed out repeatedly, and in that way blundered often. Mr. Cleve- .land'! first administration failed, and his second all but wrecked the party. |\\'hen the republicans came back in March, 1897, they found everything in disorder. TUnder Mr. Wilson the democracy, especially on Capitol Hill, gave some triking exhibitions of order and a common purpose. -1t did things—not always for the best, but in a way to command attention for obedience to rule. Not until Mr. Wilson made his unaccountable appeal for the election of a partisan Congress to deal with a non-partisan situation—in the fall of 1918—and his record at the Paris peace conference, did he lose his hold on the team over which he held the reins. Henry Watterson described Mr. Wilson as a schoolmaster—said he had carried with him into politics the methods and spirit of the classroom. At any rate, certain it is that while President Mr. Wilson gave orders with much firmness, and insisted on strict compliance with all orders is- sued. And, as a rule, the class com- plied. Senator La Follette. Mr. La Follette's enthusiastic recep- tion at Cincinnati is giving rise to some inquiries. Does the White House still linger in the back of his head? If the situation in the next two years should take a turn encour- aging the organization of a third party meking an appeal to both discontent- ed republicans and discontented demo- crats would he accept the leadership? If so, what would be his chances of success? The Wisconsin senator has just passed his sixty-seventh milestone. His first appearance in Washington was as a member of the Forty-ninth Congress, thirty-seven years ago. He instantly attracted attention by his advanced views and their oratorical presentation. His admirers began to describe him as ‘“the coming man.” He became “the rising hope” of a re- form movement in the northwest, which affected both parties, .and which, it was freely predicted, would spread over theé country. He thus antedated Theodore Roose- velt as a national figure and influence. The latter had but a parochial audi- ence when Mr. La Follette was ad- dressing the nation. But something—just what it would be hard to say—happened, and the ‘Wisconsin man fell back. Mr. Roose- velt came to the front with a rush, and was never headed egain. He be- came “the rising hope” of the pro- gressives, and realized his and their hopes. He put on the books some of the measures Mr. La Follette in the days of his leadership had outlined. After three terms in the House Mr. La Follette dropped out of nationa! life, had three terms as Governor of ‘Wisconsin, returned then to Congress, and is now closing his third term in the Senate. He is standing for the fourth, and, of course, must achieve it if he is to figure prominently in the presidential calculations of the com- ing two years. He was elected to all the offices he has held as a republican, and is today affiliating with that party. ————————— Lord Northcliffe finds himself com- pelled to take a rest. That other fa- mous editor, George Harvey, is doing the same thing.' 1. W. 'W. people in Em'mhqu learned to ‘ Turning Away Women in Scotland From Unionism BY THOMAS R. MARSHALL. Preaident of the ed States. EDINBURGH, June 3, 1922. He who comes to Scotland to find any definite truth of which he was not possessed before he start- ed will be disappointed. Truth may be at the bottom of some well in Scotland, but no one seems to know where the well is. In fact, 1 wonder what use Scotland would have for a well as the na- Qlonal drink is not water but whisky. One is surprised not to find deso- lation as a war aftermath. He would expect that the loss of life would have nearly exhausted the man power of Scotland and that here, if anywhere on earth, labor would be at a premium. Yet the economic life seems to be much the same as that of other peoples. Thousands of ex-service men are out of employment and partial reason for this may be found in the disrupted condition generally of the financial system of the world. Even the cab driver knows that something is wrong with finance. T had no sooner tossed my bag into the taxi when the driver, a red-cheeked. jolly chap, exclaimed, “That's right, take good care of the bullion, we're needing it over here.” The merest tyro in eco- nomic conditions is able to note how exchange affects the world’s business life, and the canny Scot, if you Go not look out. will give vou an American dime for an Eng- lish six pence, thus in a_measure helping to restore the parity. But moving cause, as exchange 1s. ot the disturbance in the world's work, it is not exclusive nor in my opinion controlling. * ok kK Malthus thought he had dis- covered a law, which disclosed that war and famine and pestilence were necessary adjuncts to the economy of the world. Before statistics weré kept he definitely proved. at least to his own satia- faction, that these evils were the way in which a glut of population might be disposed of. But Scot- 1and"offers another disproof of his theory. Tt is not lack of man power. but rather an inabilitv or nnwillingness to work, which is delaying rehabilitation of the business life of the country. Tt ix not mine to judge o} he right or the wrong of the contro- versy going on. Hence my sug- gestion that 1 had not been en- abled to ascertain anv ultimate truth which T had not carried with me from America. I have found that so far as the primal passions of mankind are concerned. the veople of Scotland are very much like the peonle of the Tnited States—even like the people of my own Indiana. On one hand 1 hear that a fair measure of prosperitv might be returned and unemplovment re- duced to a minimum if it were not for the persistent efforts of labor unions to maintain the war scale of wages. Assertion is made that sacrifices of labor in the cause of liberty were largely vocal. and complaint is more than sing that hecause of a new post-war spirit that come over him, the laboring man. who formerly was s to do what he could. now 'nly what he has to do and no more. * k% x From the other side T hear that employers are attempting by suc- cessive cuts to restore the wage scale of 1914, and incidentally to destroy unionism. With the employer declaring that the moment he attempts to approach compromise or adjust- ment his concessions are rejected., and with unionists suspicious that their organizations are being un- determined. is it not natural that T fail to detect anv particular dif- ference in conditions here and at home? There is, however, one element in the controversy here between unionism and the employers which is lacking in America. Laboring women are rebelling against the union. They frankly declare that what they want {s work—not con- troversy. While they would pre- fer short hours and high wages, they are willing to take longer hours and less wages, rather than remain idle. Women did much of the work during the war and are doing their full share now. They re- veal a resoluteness toward life, its problems and its duties. Their attitude may reflect a growing view among laboring women of the British Isles. If so, danger signals are appearing. Labor or- ganizgations and their leaders may well take notice of the spirit of the Sgotch labor woman. Here, as elsewhere, danger lies more in success than in compro- mise. Whoever he may be, and on which ever side of the contro- versy he may takg a stand, suc- cess is quite likely to be the pre- cursor of his downfall. Struggles,’ obstacles, difficulties, alternate failures and successes are the things that make that humility of mind which is necessary to a fair- 1y contented life. It is interesting to read the tab- lets erected here in Edinburgh to commemorate the names of the men who rescued this or that cita- del from the unholy hand of the English. It is' even more interest- ing to hear some immovable fol- lower of John Knox recount his death struggle for Scotland with Mgry Queen of Scots, revealing in every tone he uses his pride in the ‘Free Kirk of Scotland, but always with a tinge of sadness for the fate of the queen, Some how it seems that successes which are foynded on animosities carried to the death leave bitter tastes. These are happler times than those old days for Scotland. The country seems to be quite content that George the Fifth shall be at the head of the Church of England and of the established Church of Scot- Jand at the same time. But it is idle to philosophize about a past in which we did not live and which we cannot revive. It is sufficlent to observe that re- sults are satisfactory. The prob- lem of today is whether the ques- tions which confront not Scotland alone, but the civilized world. are to be settled in the old way, by power, or in the newer and better way, by persuasion. There must come into the settiement of these questions if we are to avold war, the great national characteristic of the Scotch. In all the troublous centuries of this country’s history, when Highlander and Lowlander lifted cattle and cut throats, when princes were murdered and Eng- land was fought with all hatred, every man was religious. * K * % T never was more impressed of the necessity of the injection of genuine religious sentiment into the settlement of world problems than I was a recent Sabbath day, when T sat in old St. George's and listened to a sermon from the 1ips of a brother of Hughie Black. Not since my own mother passed bevond human ken had I heard the place of torment mentioned other than profanely, vulgarly or hu- morously. But on this day T heard again _the good. old-fashioned word, hell, reverently used and spoken with an assurance that convinced me that the minister believed in it. He set my easy American conscience to work in consideration of the question whether it were not a reality. 1 do not attempt to define it nor to determine whether it is a place or a condition. I am quite satisfied that it is a moral necessity. I de- sire no one to suffer it nor run the chance thereof. but either God or man must restore it to the economy of the world if there is to be a definite assurance of the peaceful solution of the problems which vex statesmen and break the hearts of the lovers of human- \ 1 nd. We cannot reach the right end by walking the ways of success and power alone. Those Ways lead but to the grave of happi- ness. We cannot reach the right so long as the future holds only reward and no punishment for the successful. In all relations of life each man, high or low, what- ever course or conduct he may seek to pursue, must feel that he should walk justly. and he must believe that for injustice there is a hell. It Is far more important in the relations of life just now to have a fear of hell than a hope of heaven. May the free Kirk of Scotland keep hell burning ‘til man deals with man as though all were the sons of the self-same | l od. (Copyright, 21st OCentury Press.) Foreign Trade Credit Guards NE of the great evils men- acing the foreign trade of the United States has been the abuse of credits granted foreign purchasers by the American merchants. Secretary Hoover's or- ganization, built up with a special view to working out foreign trade problems, has made a particular study of this situation and urges that the only effective method of dealing with such customgrs is to have a central body of credit men that would warn prospective credit granters, report abuse of credit to all mercantile agencies and banks, exchange ledger experiences and present a united front which would soon make it im- possible for such debtors to find new victims. . This means setting up machinery, on a non-profit-making basis, backed by the prestige of national organiza- tion, functioning through carefully selected agents throughout the world, and instantly available to any Ameri- can creditor at cest. * % x ok The Hoover organization has not rested there. While walting for the American business organizations to establish such a central credit agency. they have utilized official interven- tion as a temporary makeshift. At the present time the division of com- mercial laws, one of Hoover's new agencies, undertakes to pass on col- lections and where possible to sug- gest the proper method of handling them. In some instances where the services of & lawyer cannot be pro- cured, this government agency under- takes, in co-opération with the De- partment of State, or through the feld men of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, to intervene in the adjustment. This work is not attempted where a collection agency or a law firm can take care of the trouble promptly or economically, A. J. Wolfe, chief of the division of commer law, explains. ‘American consular officers and the fleldé men of the bureau of foreign and domestic - commerce have done excellent work in this direction. It must be borne in mind, howgever, that such help i1s not rendered where other satisfactory means of adjustment are available, and in submitting these matters either to consuls or to the bureau's fleld men it must be left en- tirely to their discretion and judg- ment just what they can do. ‘Their lnl}rvenflofl is generally lim- fted to @ -friendly call and a firm statement of 'the case, and it has fre. quently happened th tion has been successful. B are limits to this activity—neither consuls nor the buseau's fleld men should be considered collection agent: and at best their intervention mu: be regarded as a temporary make. shift, to tide affairs over until the ‘work of dealing with delinquent ac- counts; in all countries is carried on hu,.l ...l‘ o{lnl‘lh‘ug“n created and main- ined for rpose. points out, that American official rep- resentatives have been able to point to the government's readiness to in- tervene in behalf of aggrieved for- eign firms where they bave a just complaint against their American connections. The increased number of applications to the federal bureau for ald in this direction is eloquent testimony to the confidence felt by the business world abroad in the im- partiality of American officlal efforts 1o promote rational and just methods in international commercial transac- tions. In emrl\ullll\t the need for an or- ganization of nation-wide scope to cope with foreign collections on the basis of meeting expenses only, as the best solution of the existing prob- lem, the Hoover organization argues about as follows: Such an organization could insure to specially selected attorneys a con- stant volume of busineas and enable them to employ persons specially trained for colléction work, insteai of using for this work men whose time is too valuable. At the same time the oversight would be in com- petent hands. This would reduce the cost of collecting to a minimum. TUnder such circumstances an attor- ney mlfl\t undertake the collection of small items as a part of current business, whereas now upon receiving an individual small claim he is forced to decline it. Such an organization could collect a certain claims by merely writing a tactful Jetter. It could investigate circum- stances permitting the extension of time to a dobtor without hurting his credit standing and without incurring that resentment which appeal to law always arouses. * k ¥ % A careful study of unsatisfactory accounts submitted to the Depart- ment of Commerce for advice and as- sistance toward getting an ' adjust- ment show clearly that in many cases overdue accounts abroad are caused by carelessness in granting credits. 1f the credit man will realize that he has no right to take chances, that he must obtain reliable credit informa- tion through recognized channels be- fore shipping, he will not find himself in the position of asking official in- tervention in the collection of hope- less accounts. The service of mercantile agencies, banks and other institutions special- izing in the furnishing of credit in- formation is essential in eliminating from a list of customers those con- cerns which are unreliable or have been guilty of bad faith. No collec- tion agency, no attorney, no consul, no commercial attache should be ex- pected to make any headway with & claim based upon the credit man’ reckless sanction of & shipment with- out the precaution of having first ob- tained dependable and complete credit information. The entire situation could be nicely handled if there were a better net- work of American bank branches abroad to give service that foreign banks will not perform for American treditors. Congress urges this fm- provement. AN | Heard and Seen|Fifty Years Ago ‘Well, children, you ought to have been there! Because when Dr. 8. W. Stratton, director of the bureau of standards, gives his annual party for the chil- dren of the employes of the bureauv it is “some party.” Steam merry-go-round, ponies for the little ones to ride, plenty of ice cream cones, lemonade—oh, it was & | managed to get passage. great afternoon! Dr. Stratton is perhaps the only official in Washington who owns a merry-go-round. He brings it out once @ year on the June parties, such as he gave Thursday for the chil- dren. The bureau grounds were crowded. Every child present was welghed and measured, down to the kilogram. The bureau of standards has the latest measuring devices, 50 that each little boy and éach little girl was measured to the gram. * * % There is one young man in this city who is glad Flag day is over. He never did like to recite poetry, anyway. He is in the sixth grade at the Henry D. Cooke School. “Father,” he said one day, “I have to learn a poem about the flag.” So his father hunted him up a nice little poem, entitled “The American Flag,"” which the boy memorized. You have heard how It begins: “When freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night And left the stars of glory there.” On Flag day forty children in the class arose to recite. Our hero was next to last. The first child started out, “When freefom from her moun- tain height,” etc. The second child began, “When freedom from her mountain height.” The third child, striking a pose, said: ““When freedom from her mountain height.” etc. Thirty-seven out of the forty chil- dren had memorized the same poem! - * ¥ She is a pretty girl. Very pretty. She works in a Bovernment depart- ment, She had read about the plans to dedicate the Francis Scott Key monument. “What did Francis she asked her “boss.” “He wrote ‘Home, Sweet Home, replied the boss, by way of a joke. But she never caught on. “Oh, yes,” she said. ,Scott Key do?” = * x Some bees in a barrel, at 16th and Harvard streets, created considerable excitement last week. A bee enthusiast was informed by a friend that the bees had swarmed in a barrel at the point indicated. He got out his mask, gloves and smoker, and sallled forth. Sure enough, there were the bees. He put down the nice hive he had brought along, and began smoking the bees into it Just as he got the last bee trans- ferred a carpenter appeared upon the scene, making his entry from the ;.;hurch construction under way close Y., “Those are my bees,” proclaimed the carpenter. “What do you mean, ‘my bees' asked the bee-man. “They are in my hive.” The carpenter scratched his head. “That’s true.” he replied. “But you got them out of my barrel. 1 got them off of that limb." “Well, T'll tell vou what I'll do.” repiied the apiarist, finally. “We'll toss up for hive and bees. If it comes heads, 1 take all: If talls, you get the bees and my hive.” The coin was spun. ““Now heart is in the right place” said the winner. “T will get these bees going nicely, and then bring you a hive." CHARLES TRACEWELL. It fell heads.! just to show you that my | 1 jger. i in The Star Occasionally, half a century aga the Potomac river steamers and res sorts were the scenet A Riotat ©of lively fights in the course of excursions, Glymont. \yen rough characters The happen- Ings of a few days ago on the steamet o Macalester give news item in The & telling of one of thes the steamer Waw 1, which had been chartered Wi Light Infantry Battalion for nual excursion to Gly thirty notorious roughs, calling them- selves the “Hayscales” tried to gel passage on the morning were excluded. They did, contrive to get on buard the in the afternoon, but until neared Glymont there wus order. Just before the dock reached a row started be 1 one the “Hayscales” and another pusse but the “settlement” wis po poned until land was reached. the antagonists went to the he finlshed their fight. Thi going, and some of the interrupted a danc A melee resulted, a p and fired and a man was whereupon the crowd surge in search of the shooter. wh the woods and was finally and badly beaten. Capt. Waush the light infantry ordered the rticular rof June disturbances on hin its Abo T wais whe bly sounded. and military order was formed Ly the militian who dis- persed the belligerents, took the ring= leaders on board the boat an ced them up in staterooms. The its news account, noted that th previous an excursion at Hall had been broken up | and urged that * done to protect ists against rowdies.” €xe “We have always maintained.” says The Star of June 13, 18 hat when Congress saw i3 District Appropriations for “Permanent Capital.” ,, . ; , = some effort to help itself in the way of improvements, that body wou a4 not fail to give co-operative = ance. This has been the result, o« is shown by the exceptionally liberal ¢ Congress for follow the appropriations made 1 the District this session, upon the development tensive system of improve tered upon by the board The tedious o ation into Distr fossil £ N = of . ter and to bring out in the merits of the p ments, and directly that investigation partisan speech Roosevelt the: were voted by good work of beautifying W ton. The grand end however, by the deterininat the District to help itself is t plosion of the project for the removil »{ the Capital. and with it the dis lution of the last shadow that over the prospects of Wa sognized alrcady heavy appropriatic yngress in aid of 1 ashir Iis Capital, we presume, is 4 f With nearly two million dc public buildings and impr for the Federal Capital appror ess for the next fiscal it there is no prospe DIGEST OF FOREIGN PRES n International Military Control. BERLIN.—Erich Dombrowski, asso- ciate editor of the Berlin Pageblatt. declares that the Anspach affair eclipses anything of its kind in his- tory. He says: “The story of Capt. von Koepenick, which amused the world for a day, is nothing beside the Anspach affair. In the first case that was nothing but a joke. A number of officials were taken in by a Prussian officer's uni- form. But this time the same uni- form has played a much more serious part. A political prisoner has been trying to excite once more the en- tente, and particularly France against Germany by inventing a story of mili- tary preparatives, of transport of arms, of secret police measures, etc. “A young man, Erich Anspach, has been providing the allied commis- sions continually with false docu- ments on all sorts of questions. It is true he managed to procure letter- heads of all the ministers, and used false seals; yet the abundance of “facts” in all domains ought to have roused the suspiclons of the for- eign commissions. The credulity of M. Mollet and those about him, is extraordinary. “It was on these ‘documents’ that M. Briand, at the Washington con- ference; Lefevre, Maginot, Poincare have based their incendiary speeches against the ‘German peril’ against military machinations and goodness knows what else. These documents have been largely the cause of the sharp notes from the allies on the subject of disarmament where the ‘attitude of obstruction before the military commission’ was denounced. Tt is on these documents that France bases her claim to maintain continual military control. “These gentlemen of the interallied commission, who have believed everything as gospel with extraor- dinary credulity and have transmit- ted it to Paris and elsewhere, have not compromised themselves alone, but their governments as well. The whole of humanity ought to burst ercentage of | with laughter on hearing of this farce played on the petty distrust of the organs of foreign control in Germany. Moliere would have found in it @ subject for a new comedy. Gogal might have added a satire to his ‘revisor. But both of these are dead, and the French, in their hys- terical fear of German revenge, have lost their hi comical in this situation, where a forger is making game of their offi- cial representatives in Germany, as well as of their high functionaries in Paris. If the riddiculous kills, as the proverb says, there ought not still to be an allied commission in Germany. Lightning Struck by an Airplane. LONDON.—Capt. E. D. C. Herne, & cross-Channel air pilot, has had the extraordinary experience of striking the path of a flash of lighting while in flight at & speed of 100 miles an hour, according to the Daily Express. t. Herne recently made a record df\l‘b’le trip between London and Paris single flying day. mv;nne‘w-ln: along the airway to Parls he observed heavy thunder- clouds above the Channel. ~—He was skirting these when he suddenly saw two nt‘lllala vivid flashes of light- ning near his machine. The aeroplane seemed to shudder and hesitate, then, recovernig itself rapldly, continued smoothly in flight. . Capt Hearne called up the nearest jand station by wireless telephone and asked whether they thought the trailing wire ot his apparatus might be connected in any way with this henomenon. They advised him to ?m.a":a |‘nm temporarily, which he mptly did. wl‘: h’u often been & matter of > EE umor and all sense of the | | speculation should an aeroy confirmation of t the lightning machine and down its and continue earthward damaging the craft The Crops of Europe. the path of « = Some experts By T eri adventure ¢ t International Institute of Agricul at Rome, the area under wheat | teen countries in the northern h sphere is estimated at 117.04 acres, or 2.1 per cent less than n 1921. The area under rye in elevin countries is estimated 1.421.0 acres, or an increase of on last year. The condition of the cereal on May 1 is given as average in tria, Belgium, Italy and | as somewhat under France. It is estimated that the total pro- duction of winter wheat in the Unid States will be about 13,000,000 qrs very slightly less than last while the yield of rve is place 9,200,000 ars., or 36.7 per ¢ than in 1921. Million More Men Under Arms LONDON.—The Times says that dressing the third annual meeting er A ¢ the General Councll of the Leagu: of Nations' Union, in the Central Hull Westminster, when delegates fronm wid parts of the country wWere prescily Lord Robert Cecil said the memiv = ship now was approaching two lui- dred thousand and there were o1 ¥ nineteen constituencies w it branches. It was a terrible fact that tl«'o should be now in Europe a mi . more armed men than there werc fore the war, especially when it remembercd that Germany, Aus: Bulgaria and Hungary were pre cally disarmed. Wherever one loci d there appeared to be a revival du' .g the last few months of the militur- istic spirit of apparent forgetfuli.ss of the lessons of the war. The n st disquieting symptom was a tende cy toward the definite revival and a- crease of the grouping of Europ in nations. The Russo-German ment was an ominéus fact. H. vas not confident that people knew ¢ve:y thing that was implied by the axr ment. There were ®igns that otle groups would be drawn up in - to counteract the e group. Hostile groups would that the whole ideals and objects 1T which_the league existed would pe - 0.8 s el r to struggle his hardest to the prestige and power of the I Lord Grey of Fallodon was re-ciec'= ed president, and the prime minister, Lord Balfour, Mr. Asquith and Mr. .. R. Clynes, honorary presidents. Tla Duke of Devonshire and Lord Shui- tleworth were added to the list of vice presidents. Prof. Murray the union must be to promote the It union of the nations separated by tha late war without estranging any «f our les. A serious estrangement between France and England woud be as great a hindrance to Europeia reconstruction as the permanent ©:= tracism of Germany and Russia from the comity of Europe. A wise polic would be vigilant to avert eit o these disasters, even if necessary- it the cost of great patlence and of MW= terial sacrifices. They hoped that full use of the league machinery would b made in carrying out any conclusio by the powers at Genoa, and the: trusted that the importance of ni cluding Germany and Russia withi the league at the earliest poc<=t' moment would not be lost sight of. said that the policy of e re o THE SUNDAY, STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JUNE 18 192 PART 2. e ——— — e e s ————— v’ [Politics at Home Laboring v 14 t ¢ ‘ )