Evening Star Newspaper, June 22, 1922, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR. With Sunday Morning Edition. U dsmdumseadtagicmn oo, WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY. . .....June 22, 1922 A THEODCRE W. NOYES. ...Editor K Evening Star Newspaper Company ioual ildls e odon, Bugiens. | Chieagy Office: Pirst wiapean Office: 3 Rege: The Evening Star, with the Sunday morminy ediTioa, s delivered by carriers withfu the ciry | At B cents or month: daily ouiy, 43 cents wer n#nth: Sunday ouly, 20 cemts per moath. OF- be seat by mail, or telephone Main by earriers 3t the Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. . Maryland and Virginia. Dafly and Sunday 70¢ Daily and Sunday. Taily only.... Sunday only District and Federal Equities. going to delve into h of counterclaims If Congress i the past in par in favor of the United States to offset | the five millions of accumulated tax | surplus to the credit of the District | of Columbia, and is guing at the same time to take into the calculation ! financial equities of the District in the same perfod. there is no disposi- uén on the District's part’ to limit } the investigation soon to be made by | a jeint sclect committee of Congress | of the ng financial equit “’1 the perivd sinee 1878. The District | readily assents to tite proposal to| push the date back to 1874 and sug-{ gests that in order to do full equity | the investigation should go back to 1790, when the financial relations of | the nation and the Capital community | had their beginning. 1f old claims | \d equities prior to 1878 are to be revived in favor of the United States | then they must also in consisteney and fairness be revived in favor of Washington. Tf the halfand-half principle is applied, as it has been. in | cqualizing expenditures between id 1878 on the interest en the 3.65 Tonds, this same principle should be applied to all other -expenditures on the Distric account between ‘|‘Tl and ! and these expendi 5 | should also be equalized. The reports | of the municipal finance committee | of the Board of Trade in 19121914 in-| vestigate fully and state in detail the | whole of this account between the United States and the District of Co-| luwbia and show that in an equeliz: of the expenditures shown in thi for four years between int the 1874 and 1878 the United States is indebted to the Distric It any claims and equities against | the District prior to 1878 are to be | viewed as surviving the District's bhankrup! settlement of 1878, then claims and equities for the District must be treated as similarly endowed ; with cortinued life or with a like | possibility resurrection. If the ! District of today to be held re-| sponsible for any neglected debits of | the District prior to 1878 it must also | have the benefit of old Washington's unsatisfied equities and partly unpaid credits. 1f Uncle Sam as a creditor can convey himself forty-five vears or a half century or a century back into| the past he must go back similarly as a debtor and meet now the un- satisfied equity against him which arose from the circumstances of the founding of the original city. The| original owners of Washington do- nated five-sevenths of the city's soil | and vieldeéd the right of self-govern- | ment to the nation on the under-; standing and.implied agreement that | the nation wee to build up here a magnificent capital at its own ex- pense, reimbursing itseif, in part, from the proceeds of the sale of donated lots. A pretentious city was planned, and Jots were sold by the government on the strength of this understanding. ¥or three-fourths of a century the na- | 1lon violated or neglected the obliga- tions which it had thus incurred. In| 187§ the government, which had in | 1he - heginning impliedly undertaken ; 10 meet all the expenses of capital-; making and then shifted that burden, | §n the maln, tgon private citizens, | decided that justice required it to pay | one-half of the District’s expenses. From these facts two equities in favor of Washiggton's people and | mgainst Uncle Sam arise: (1) For the payment of much more than one-half | f the local community’s capitaFmak- ing expenditures from 1790, based on 1he nation’s undertaking to meet these expenses itself at the founding of the ¢ity; (2) for the repayment to Wash- ington of whatever its people had paid ! more than the United States, apply- jng to the past the half-and-half principle of the organic act. The second equity has been for- mally urged upon Uncje Sam. The (Poland) report of the House eommit- 1e€ on the judiciary, June, 1874, said: *From a statement of expenditures by the government by the Treasury Department up to 1871 we find: " The 1ctal expenditures up to 1871 for im- provements of avenues and streets, hy the government but a little over $1,000,000; during which period the local government for the District has expended over nine times that amount.” In explaining to the House the bill | which became ths organic act of 1878, Representative Hendee said: “Since the seat of government was perma- nently established in this District the entire expenditures of the Unlled’ States for improvementd in the Dis- trict have been about $9,000,000. while the amount paid by citizens of the District for the same purpose exceeds the sum of $34,000,000. ¥u; pther words, the amount taken from the pockets of cltizens of the District and put into these improvements is about four times the amount.which has been appropriated by the federal government. I make these state- jments upon data furnished from the Wreasury Department and other de- ents of the government, which Ftve accurately the items, with dates of appropriations, etc.” The report of the Commissioners vot! the District for 1878 gives the figures of the exhibit which has been pre- pared under the direction of t.hel fidéasury Department showing alt the B for-asromssant, Disirio 1 jare convinced that the result will be | soon be enacted, would have been on purposes within the District of Co” lumbia from 1790 to 1876.” After de- ducting from the total expenditure of the people of the District $22,186,650 of bonded debt (one-half of which the United States has been paying ‘since 1878), the Commissioners report that there still remains an absolutely paid- up expenditure by :he people of the District greater than that of the United States by $16,150,770.74. In respect to this amount the Commis- sioners report: “H an equal division of the ex- penditures for the local government between the United States and the District of Columbis is a just one, as is now admitted, then the United States is in equity ‘a debtor to the District of Columbis, as above shown.” The old claim of the District against the nation, which revives, if it was not merged in the bankruptcy settle- ment of 1878, thus amounts' to more than $16,000,000. Until récently both ation and District have accepted the legislation of 1878 as a settlement in bankruptcy of the District's finances into which its past debits and credits merged. Between 1874 and 1878 the District was in the hands of national receivers in bankruptcy. The District had been rendered bankrupt by the failure of Uncle Sam, debtor in many millions, to meet his capital-making obligations. In 1878 the affairs of this bankrupt were settled by a com- promise agreement affecting both past and future. Uncle Sam's debt to the District was discharged by these pro- ceedings in bankruptcy, except as carried over into the agreement of 1378, and so were all the debts of the bankrupt capital. The investigations of the joint select committee may so clearly develop the ! fact of a bankruptcy settlement in 187§ that the committee will decide not to consider any claims or equities, cither in favor of the District or of the United States, prior to that date. If, however, impartial investigation is made of the opposing equities Ofi both ior to 1878, Washingtonians | to increase the District's present redit of $5,000,000 instead of elim- ting it. Restoring the Bonus. In amending the goverament em- ploye “bonus” bill laid before it yes- terday the House displayed a proper consideration for the equities. Rarely is a recommendation of the appro-j priations committec rejected, but that! bearing on the compensation of the| executive force of the government was so contrary to expectation and, | in fact, to assurances already given | that the reaction against it was im- mediate and positive. Evidently it was as much of a surprise to thej House to find the bonus borne in the | bill reduced as it was to the govern-| ment employes. It was effectively pointed out in the course of the debate yesterday that this so-called bonus is not in truth a bonus, not a gift or a compensation for extra services. Tt is an addition to the basic pay of the clerks to ad- just it to present conditions. Tt can- not be compared with the war-time increases in wages and salaries in private employmient. Tho=o increages were made on top of scales then cl; mensurate, whereas the government pay scale, remaining unchanged for more than half a century, was wholly out of balance with economic condi- tions. The bonus, socalled, merely served to bring the government's average pay closer to the normal standard of compensation. Had the clerks been paid as they should at the begirning of the war-time infla-| tion a bonus would have carried them, far beyond the point of thelr present range. Thus to reduce the bonus by 25 per cent would not be a scaling down similur to that which has taken place in the trades and business em- ployments. It would be an actual re- duction below the normal living wage. This view of the matter was clearly tuken by the majority of the House vesterday, which voted by over two to one in committee of the whole to restqre the bonus to the $240 point and in the House in final vote on the amendment by 220 to 38. - This em- phatic declaration in favor of continu- ing the bonus at the former rate should preclude any move to reduce it when the bill is considered in the Senate, This action of the House is espe- cially important in view of the fact that the proposed definite readjust- ment of ealaries is to be based upon the pay actually recefved at the tihe | of the passage of the reclassification bill, including the bonus. If the re- duction recommended by the appro- priations committee had been effective the readjustment of pay under the new law, which it is expected will the lower basi: * Having become familiar, the radio, like the phonograph, is now. judged !by the kind of tune that is played on it. l The successful diplomat must know precisely the point at which diplomacy transforms itself into lobbying. i Making traffic regulations for the ocean is one of the responsibilities resting heavily on nations just now. The Railroad Strike Vote, ‘While officials of the railway unfons affected by the wage cut to become effective July 1 are reported-as dis- appointed at the slowness of.returns from the strike vote, they continue to express confidence that a strike will be authorized by an overwheiming majority. But there is evident™in their tone when they discuss the pros- pects of a strike today a change which is an encouragement to the public. -At the time the strike vote was ordered the officials of the unions took the public attitude that the decision as to a strike rested with the men, that a majority vote in favor of a strike would be regarded by them as a man- date. They how hold’that the strike vote amounts only te a vote of confi- dence in the union. leaders, authoriz- ing them to use their judgment as to whether there shall be a suspension of work. AR i This_leaves the way open for a Iast-minute apprafsal. of public -senti- merit dnd s decision based on the out- look-at the:end of June, It is mot ~ 'THE EVENING. to be doubted that the statement by Chairman Hooper of ‘the Ryilway Labor Board has had fing effect, and if it does not influence the men in the casting of their vgges, it cer- tainly: has influenced pufjlic opinion und, makes more serious tBe responsi- bility which the union leaders are to assume if they are the ones who are to decide for or against a strike. The mine strike has dragged along week after week without arousing any great amount of public interest, sim- ply because the public has not felt the pinch of any coal shortage and winter is still too far away for the householder” to begin ‘to’ worry over empty bins. But it is different with transportation. = A strike which tied up the railroads would bring on an! immediate pinch, and public_opinion would get busy. One of the things the labor leaders claim to want is an aroused public opinion. Whether | they would want it after getting it remains to be seen. It might not work out in the way they apparently believe it would. ———— Correcting Unfair Discriminations. In arranging for the jnvelllgltlon of the opposing equities of the Dis- trict and the United States the new fiscal law is unfortunately worded to give the impression that the search for | District equities is mot to be facili- tated in the same degree as that for the.equities of the United States. For example, the accountants to be em- ployed to ascertain the statistical facts cannot include any accountant who resides fn the District, or who has ever been employed by the District or Fed- eral govarnment. The United States is to have special counsel named by the Attorney General to represent or to protect its interests hefore the tribunal. But no attorney and-no accountant to represent the interests of the District is to be appointed and paid from the fund to meet the ex- penditures of the joint committee, to which the District contributes 60 per cent. Furthermore, the tribunal before which the interests of the United | Stafes are thus elaborately and dis- criminatingly protected is appointed by the United States from the repre- sentatives of the United States in the national legiski ure. and any member of Congress may intervene as addi- tional special volunteer counsel for the United States. l Uncle Sam, the all-powerful, whol needs no protection, is thus tenderly and discriminatingly shielded, while the impotent capital (-nmmunlty.] without representation, in either courb‘ paid advccates or accountant wit- nesses, is left entircly unprotected. ! Washington is confident, however, | that the jaint select committee, chosen in pursuance of the law, will be con- stituted in such fashion as to perform its functions impartially, and even sympathetically, supplying itself that protection to the helpless party to the controversy which a discriminating and unfair law by its literal terms entirely fails to give. f Suggestions that the flapper be laughed out of attention have not proved practical. Nobody could have a hearty laugh for every flapper loom- ing into the landscape. There are limits to human endurance. i Women are prwln\gjo gucceasful in politics that it will soon be cus- tomary to introduce a speech In elther house of Congress with the phrase, “ladies and gentlemen.’ f * The world would be easler In mind if Marconi could, as a statesman, in- vent practical devices for government as easlly as he invents extraordinary mechanisms. i l Vesuvius is active agaln, but, ac- cording to experts, not dangerously so. The famous volcano has given several historic reminders of the dan- gers of overconfidence. l Even if science perfects a method of storing warmth direct from the sun, there will remain the danger of a strike in the solar heat works. l It will not always be easy to keep current politics out of the Fourth of July speeches now in course of prep- aration. { Therel was no means suggested in connection with daylight-saving for laying by en extra smount on the longest day in the summer, i There would be general sejoicing in Mexico if all that country's enterprises were as prosperous as Mexican Pe- troleum. s SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER, JOHNSON. . Fashion’s Bouquet. ’ She seemed a shrinking“violet Before she bobbed her hair. No blossom that you ever met Revealed a charm so rare. R Ang like a flow'r she still wili bev ! ‘Whatever. styles may comie. Her hair now makes her look to me Like a chrysanthemum. - Irrationalities. N “Is there anything more foolish than the furs a ‘woman wears Ln’ | summer?” “Yes,” replied Miss Cayenne; “the heavy uniform a policeman is com- pelled to wear in summer.” Jud Tunkins says after looking at a fashion parade he Bas decided that it all the world's ‘a stage it ought to have more dressing rooms. Musings of a Motor Cop. With motofs running every: way While. raucous: horns complatn, July the Fourth, I'm here to. say, Cannot be’safe nor sane. = <5 Excessive Fortune, * - I held fours twice: and & royal Aush last night,” mused Plute. Pete. “That's. wonderful luck!” “Not in €rimson Guich. It'll be weary /months Heforé suspicion’ dies down sufficlently to let me sit in an- other poker game.” l “A lot of talk,” said Uncle Eben, “don’t inerest nobody ceppin’*de per-| dat's doln" as'What you ays ‘to's nidle or & pair o” dice.” {the request of 1kept within bounds.” The STAR, WASHINGTON D. O, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1922. Senators Are Takem to Task - For Defacing Wa]ls of Capitol " ANDALISM in the Senate wing of the Capitol—with the Sen- ators playing the part of van- dals—is the latest charge brought against that body. The ac- cusation is made by a Semator, Mr. King of Utah. On the ground. floor of the Senate wing, the walls and ceiling of ‘the corridors are beautifully. deeorated with paintings, executed by and un- der the direction of Constantine Brumidi, an Italian artist of repute who spent twenty-six years of his life’ In Washington, and & great part of the time at work on mural decora- tlons and fresco paintings in the Capltol. o The corridars on the ground floor of the Senate wing are the wonder of millions of visitors to Washington. The Capitol guides never fail to point out the exquisite detail of the decorations. For more than half a century these decorations have keen one of the principal features of in- terest in the Capitol building. * ¥ X ¥ But apparently the mural decora- tions mean little to senators when it comes to utilitarian matters. For at the Senate rules committee, which has charge of the distribution of of- fice space to the Senators and all things pertaining to their comfort, influential senators, | tory ° persistent visitors and the senators find & measure of greater privacy. 8o vigorous has been the protest of Senator King to the rules commit- tee against what he terms this latest act of vandalism that it is not likely further doors will be cut in the deco- rated walls of the Senate wing. * ok % % A couple of years ago the Senate employed & widely known artist, Charles Ayers Whipple of Boston, Mass., to restore the very decorations which have been removed to make more room for Senator McCormick. Mr. Whipple Is still engaged in his work of restoration and. with re- markable skill is putting jnto fresh condition the paintings which ‘have becn discolored by time and defaced by careless passers by. He has still a considerable section of these deco- rations to go over. From the viewpoint of Senator King none but Americans would permit the destruction of priccless mural deco- rations, the equal of any fresco work to be found in the palaces of the old world, to make way for mere doors, particularly when other doorways can be used with little difficulty to reach the samo rooms. Senato’ King, how- ever, doés not belleve that the sena- will hereafter disregard tnhe artistic value of the decorations and permit them to be cut away. ERE Brumidi, who had charge of the has permitted the panelled walls 0 {mural decorations, and who had with be cut away to provide an extra door. |y here and thegp. This was done to care for former Senator John Walter Smith of Maryland, when he was in the Senate a few years ago. But Senator Mediil McCormick is the latest offender. Not only has an- other panel been cut away to provide an additional doorway to his office, but a huge wood and glass partition has been erected to turn one end of one of the corridors into an ante room for him. This not only disturbs the symmetry and harmony of the corri- dors, but shuts off from public view a considerable section of the mural decorations. * % * Not many years ago at a cost of about $4,000,000 the Congress erected a marble office building for the use of the ninety-six senators, on a corner to the northwest of the Capitol building. And each of the Senators has a suite of offices in that building. But ever since the office bullding was erected the principal aim of the sena- tors, when it comes to office space, is to find _some accommodations for thelr private offices in the Capitol building itself. In the first place, they can have an office which is close to the Senate chamber, if they suc- ceed in obtaining one of the Capitol rooms. ‘This is a distinct advantage when {t comes to answering roll calls. In the second place, these pri- vate offices are not ily located b the work other artists of great ability, is recognized as qne of the great painters of his day. He was a native of Rome, where he was born in 1805. He died here in 1380. He was at one time commissioned to restore the Loggia of Raphael in the Vatican. In addition to being 2 painter, Brumidi was a captain of the national guard. He refused to order his command to fire on the people and was thrown into prison for fourteen months, and_through the influence of Pope Plus IX he was released with- out a trial, and then determined to come to the new world. He came to this country in 1852 and later be- came an American citizen. The sohd construction of the Capitol building suggested to Brumidi that a superior style of decoration in real fresco should prevail, as in the palaces of Augustus and Nero and the bathe ot Titus and Livia at Rome. His sug- gestions were accepted and he was commissioned to undertake the work. In addition to the corridors, Brumidi decorated the President's room, paint- ed the canopy of the dome, a part of the historical frieze in the rotunda, and decorated the rooms of th House committee on post offices and post roads, the Senate appropriations committea and the Senate District committe E: in EDITORIAL DIGEST Unanimous Demand That Coal Strike Be Ended. The country is becoming gravely concerned over the continuation of | the coal strike. Empty bins, and the seeming inability of officialdom to “get action” from either side, forces memory back to war winters when thers was much ‘suffering. There is voiced a concerted demand by editors, without regard to their political be- liet, for the adoption of measures that will send the men back to the mines and end the strike before the rail- roads are congested with erop move- ments and the like. After watching with keen interest the afforts of Secretary Hoover to get profiteering minimized without ap- parent success, the Boston Traveler declures that, “if the process of Hooverlzing isn’t golng to work with the coal interests, then the sooner the administration goes before Congress with definite demands for an exten- sion of authority over the . mining and sale of coal the better it will be. The country will be in a bad fix for fuel next winter if action is deferred much longer.” The memory of the Pitts- burgh Leader is still working, so it recalls that during the “war days the maximum price agreement fell into the nation’s experience, What the price is at the point of production has no relation to the price at the point of consumption. Those who remember the sugar hunting days will not need to look further for their parallel. Which leads the Chicago Daily News likewise to recall that “the Bland bill for the creation of a fact-finding commission to determine the basic conditions of a just solution of the coal problem, and thus directly or in- directly lead to an adjustment of the present controversy,” still is before Congress and to wonder “why it is not pushed.” The Newark News in turn calls attention to the fact that the “consumer. has no redress as hard coal needs accumulate.” It points out that “the hard coal miners had no grievance,” but that the suspension in that industry was due entirely to “the desire of the international union to use hard coal to force public opin- jon to shorten the period of idleness in the soft coal industry.” The con- sumer can do nothing, it continues, “gave to wait, But a determined ef- fort from Washington to end an in- tolerable situation is something for which he watches with growing im- patience.” The grave danger to industry of in- areasing prices is pointed out by the Appleton Post-Crescent, which de- clares that “cheap coal is as neces- sary to commerce as low freight rates. It would not materially im- prove business to cut trafic charges and at the same time raise, coal prites” The efforts of Hérbert Hoover, the Knoxville Sentinel is convinced, have falled “to protect the consumer: and it would have been better “to have left the price- fixing in the hands of the operators.” Hoover's endeavor to get eastern consumers to buy Alabama coal is indorsed by the St. Paul Dispatch, which points out that “it will help the northwest materially in the fall and winter if the New England and New York consumers of hard coal may be induced to usé something else in case of a shortage.” In this connection the St. Louis Post-Dispatch emphasiz=s that “mere assumption of responsibil- ity on the part of the government will not serve the purposes of fuel. The government may have a plan that itis Keeping under its hat. Without a plan it. may have good luck. But coal consumers would like to know wheth- er it is discharging its responsibility in advance by making sure of an un- interrupted IIIP?I cof : That the public may bécome “pan- icky” at any moment is the opinion of the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, and en “supplies will be laid in irre- spective of cost. The surest and safest’ way to prevent prices from niounting to the sky is to effect a settlement of the strike. Restricted supplies, empty coal bins and the approach of winter are inconsistent with reasonable prices.” ~Indorsing this position, the New York World recalls that the transporting and dis- tributing companies are not parties to any of Mr. Hoover's negotiations and “they will take for coal what it will bring; in the past they have not been above pocketing that proportion of the profits ‘which conscientious mining companles: refused to -touch. And it is the ratail price, not the price at the mine mouth, which in- terests the public.” for a settlement, the New York believes that “coal should be rationed 80 as to go where it is most needed. and charges for it ought easily to be Brooklyn Eagle also suggests that “actual con- sumption is so far in éxcess of pro- duction that unpleasant effects can- not long be delayed if the strike con- tinues, and it does n>t appear that eny compromise io in While vu.uln‘ in wi " - This being £o0. the New Yorik Tribune be- lieves, the suggested zoaeme will pre- vent a repetition of the 19120 goug- ing, and “Mr. Hoover's plan holds out hope for the public pur But does it contribute materially 1o the set- tlement of the strike, which brings dapger to the public's nurse” Suggestions of forcing arbitration have been made, but the Jersey Jour- nal belleves that “if the mine owners and the mine workers arbitrate there must be'a thcit promise given to the pudlic that the verdict will be accept- ed. Arbitration cannot be used mere- ly as a grab-bag for one side or the other to try out its luck.” And the Minneapolis Star I8 distinctly skep- tical that the public will benefit in any manner until the strike actually is mettled, suggesting that while “Mr. Hoover may be able to convince the coal owners that It is better policy for them not to exact the last pourrd of flegh the coal conference will prob- ably turn fteeif Into u dixcussion of how much the American patient can stand In the way of skimning.” ‘Who Precedes Whom? It s very sad to learn that in Hawail a major general and a rear admiral are prevented from going to the same dinner because there is a guestion as to which should go first. Each officer insists that he should precede the other, by virtue of his rank, and their respective depart- ments at Washington have been un- able to declde this momentous ques- on, Surely this question of precedence can be settled before it disrupts the government or causes a volcanic erup- tion In Hawaiian society. In lieu of a final official decision from Washing- ton, a_mere civilian would think that the officers could forget their rank for the nonce. and pretend that they're just gentlemen, following the rule of ordinary social behavior, which is to let the other man go first. And yet that might not solve the problem. The thing might change into an interminable Alphonse and Gaston act, with the gold-braided officers and all the other guests starving at the door of the dining room. It is an awful situation—Elmira Star-Gazette. + “Moral Issues.” ‘When is a moral issue not a moral issue? Mrs. Margot Asquith, who has put her feet on the desks of more prime ministers than any living wom- an, and Gene Stratton® Porter, who has done more for sugar-and-spice- and-everything-nice than anybody ex- cept President Harding, are at issue on the morality of cigarette smoking for women. Mrs. Porter, in McCall's Magazine, urges a government curb on “indecent literature,” which she implies is making girls smoke cigar- ettes and go about haif-clothed” by describing “‘people who lead such lives.” Mrs. Asquith, asked from coast to coast what she thinks of knee-length skirts and ladies’ size cigarettes, replies irritably, “What on earth difference does it make Mrs. Porter, on the other hand, sees moral issues all about her. She can name a dozen magazines that shock her “almost to paralysis.” They should be suppressed, she believes, to protect the innocent girls from con- tl(!;;hll(lon. course, one man's moral is: another man's subject of complets in: difference. Clgarette smoking among women probably heightens the blood pressure and irritates the nervous system, but, after all, it is not much more a moral issue than overeatin which also heightens the blood pre; sure, or undersleeping, which also i ritates the nervous system. A read. ing of Mrs. Asquith’s memoirs wonld doubtless heighten Mrs. Porter's blood pressure, and certainly Mrs. Asquith's nervous system would not stand more than a_very small dose of “Laddie. These “moral i how they suc- ceed one another. artford Times. Our idea of hard luck is a fat man! atq dance on & hot night.—Flint, Micn., Journal. , The honeyinoon is over when he no longer d: the sporting page when she ts on a dance record—Birmingham ews. Experience is not only an expensi: teacher, but an Inefiicient one as well, = Wichita Eagle. — Lips that touch the lipstick«shall never eat the corn on the cob.—Nashville Ten- nessean. 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