Evening Star Newspaper, August 14, 1922, Page 6

i THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. — 'WASHINGTON, D.<C. MONDAY.... ugust 14, 1028 LT PO THEODORE W. NOYES...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th §t. aod Pennsylvania Awe. Offce: 150 N 8 New York assau St. Chlcago Office: First Na Baak Bulding. . with the Sunday The Event, ‘morntng edition, is de'finre by carriers within the city 8t 60 cents per monthi: daily oply, 45 cents per "Dfifllh: Sunday Dfll!"N t:lnlll r;eerll‘"hnt:::'ll(l,lrl; 5 e et ol S end of each menth. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dafly and Sunday..1 70¢c 50c 20c mo., 85¢ mo.. 6 mo.. 25¢ Datly and Sunday. Taily only Sunday only Crisis in Rail Strike. The time has arrvived when the gov- ernment must assert, and make good the assertion, that the right of the pub- lic to have transportation is superior to the rights either of the owners of the raliroads or railroad labor. The President, as head of thg sovernment and spokesman for all the people, has patiently endeavored to bring about a peaceful adjustment of the dispute. His latest effort, apparently, has failed, and it is difficult to see what new proposdl of mediation be could put forward with any prospect of suc- cess. It is indicated that as a first step the government is prepared to use all its powers to prevent unlawful in- terference with the movement of trains. The telegram sent by Mr. Harding to the Governor of Arizona and the instructions given by the At- torney General to the United States district attorney at Los Angeles are comforting assurances that the gov- ernment will not be weak-kneed in the exercise of those powers. So far as protection to men willing to work will keep the trains moving, the public can dismiss concern. The government can and will afford that protection. But numbers of men refuse to work. The attitude of the railway execu- tives as they left Washington, that they expected a “fight to the finish is not fortunate. A fight to a finish could mean but one thing, the com- plete crushing of the unions of rail- way workers now on strike. The other organized railroad workers are not go- ing to see these unions crushed with- out an effort to succor them. It may be more or less of a pretext that rail- road equipment has deteriorated to a point where operation of trains is un- safe, or that the employment of drmed guards endangers life, but if the train- men avail themselves of such pretext and refuse to work the results will be no less disastrous. No amount of pro- tection will keep the trains moving if men cannot be found able and willing to operate them. Ability to keep a few trains moving will not meet the necessities of the public. If and when the coal strike is settled, maximum transportation will be necessary in order to prevent a fuel famine. It is fortunate at this time of crisis that tomorrow will see both houses of Congressiagain in session. Whatever additional authority the President may need to deal with the situation should be given promptly. Extraordinary powers were freely conferred upon the executive when the nation faced the perils of war, and the peril the nation faces today is no less real. No greater disaster to America ever was threatened cn the battlefields of France than would be invelved now in a complete breakdown of transporta- tion. It is no time for excitement, or for hasty words or deeds. But the emer- gency is a very real one, and the gov- ernment must be courageous and reso- lute in meeting it. And in whatever course necessity may require it to fol- low the government is entitled to the unwavering support of every loyal American. It is the government of the United States, not merely the ad- ministration which is being put to this severe test, and if the government fails to come through successfully the very theory of government of, for and by the peo- ple_will have been discredited. e — Germany has not gone far enough in cheap production to turn out any article of merchandise that a mark will buy. Congress is slow in some matters, but has demonstrated its capacity for fast work in a railway crisis. Lord Northeliffe. Lord Northcliffe's death, fore- shadowed by his desperate illness for the favorable outcome.of which there was small hope, removes a notable figure, not only from the fleld of Brit- ish journalism, but from the world fleld as well. The rise of this man from a position of obscurity within a few years to a power almost equal to that of the premier ofsEngland is one of the romances of journalism “and politics. Alfred Harmsworth, born in Ireland of parents in comfortable cir- cumstances, was a newspaper man from his first activity. He gained his start upward through his slirewd judg- ment of the force of public curiosity. He was' employed in a humble ca- pacity in charge of the writing of answers to correspondents for a Lon- don publishing house. He measured shrewdly the keen desire of people to “know things.” So he started a week- ly periodical called Answers, which specialized in replies. It gained an enormous circulation and laid the foundation for the Harmsworth for- tunes. Other ventures followed Answers until Harmsworth founded the Daily Mail, the first London morning news- paper to sell for half a penny, or 1 cent in American coinage. It also was an immediate success, gained a large circulation and acquired political prestige. Harmsworth's stroke in pur- chasing the control of the ndon that will not surely avail if increasing’ of President Harding, | was an sstonishing combination. It reqilred a man of Harmeworth's versatility and esudacity to- eccom- plish it. mand Harmsworth, or to use his ac- quired title Lord Northcliffe, wielded an immense power in Great Britain But these were not the only organs through which he wrought upon pub- {tic opinion. He was the owner of somle sixty periodicals with & circulation of about 20,000,000 copies. His influence | was exerted constructively during the early stages of the war, when he cour- ageously exposed the shortcomings of the' British munitions service and forced a change of policy. One of the most important consequences of this venture was the break-up of the As- quith ministry and the elevation of Lioyd George to the premiersip. Yet this did not form a partnership. The two men were not always harmonious; were, in fact, at times at serious odds. Harmsworth, always a politician, never feared to score the government, just as the premier, though not al- ways subscribing to Harmsworth's policies or principles, would often use the “Northcliffe press” for the ad- vancement of his own policies. ° It will require a long retrospective to determine Lord Northcliffe’s true relationship to British prosperity and progress during the two decades of his career as an influential publisher. By many now he is rated as a self- scekings shallow man working upon public prejudices and regardless of high principles of public morals and taste. On the other hand, he is by some viewed as a sincere reformer. He unquestionably infused a new spirit into British journalism. He speeded up the pace. His metheds were not al- ways scrupulous, but they attracted attention. He believed in making a noise in order to gain a hearing. He died at an early age, being only fifty- seven, but probably his work was real- ly done. He had, indeed, begun to de- cline in his powers before his last ill- ness developed, and it was doubtless fortunate for his fame that his death came when it did. Seniority the Real Issue. L. E. Sheppard, president of the order of conductors, is quoted in & statement as follows on the subject of seniarity: I would like to call attention to the fact that seniority isn't the only issue before us—there are several other fundamentals. The real issue is the status of mey on strike. We hold they are not dismissed, that they have not resigned. that they are awziting a settiement of difficulties which have put them temporarily out of service, and that in the meantime theif rights are merely suspended. 3 According to this proposition an em- ploye in any business who is a mem- ber of a union may quit work at any time in any circumstances and retain all the rights or privileges that he may have acquired through continu- {ous employment. It is mot contended that if a man is dismissed from his job he holds this status. It is not contend- ed that if he leaves as an individual ibe('ause e is dissatisfied he holds his place on the roils. It is not even as- serted that if he is laid off on account of slack business he keeps his seniority position as against any other man who may be appointed in his stead. But it is contended that men may quit in a through the curtailment or the actual suspension of business in order to force demands and still hold all the irights of seniority, all pension equi- ties, all sick benefit allowances, all vriority status as against newcomers. The whole issue in this matter is that collective bargaining, as it is !c&lled, means the right of collective | self-dismissal without any penalty save i temporary loss of wages. There is no legalized right to strike. The law does not recognize any collective quitting as an established privilege which in- curs no penalty. Therefore, it is idle to contend that the law requires the preservation of seniority rights in case of a strike. On the other hand, the law of business equity in industrial {relations assuredly is based upon the principle that if men quit because they are dissatisfled and because they wish to force betterments they must risk a status that they have acquired through continuous service. Mr. Sheppard first declares that the senjority question is not the only is- sue, and then urges, that it is the pri- mary issue. It is, indeed, at this stage practically all there is unsettled be- tween the rauro-q- and the employes. Seniority was the rock upon which agreement split in both of the Presi- dent’s proposals. If the railroads had agreed .to waive eeniority altogether, as the first plan contemplated, the strike would have been over now. If the men had agreed to refer seniority to the Labor Board, as the second pro- posal contemplated, the strike would have been ended. So seniority re- mains, after all, the one big issue, and in this issue the logic is unques- tionably on the side of the railroad executives. € f It is not aiways easy for @ &tates- man in discussing the tariff to avoid allowing his rhetoric to confuse his arithmetic. - f Any kind of a financial theorist can get a hearing in Russia except one who insists on the old ideas of hard work, thrift and well protected credit. There have been workless days fqr many, but unaccompanied by facili- ties for enjoying e summer vacation. No Gates—Train Wrecked! From Annandale, Minn., comes an account of automoblle-train collision that differentiates from the “usual grade-crossing accident. A tryck carrying two men approached a track. A freight train was standing on a sid- ing, and members of its crew tried to £ive warning to the truck driver, who, however, proceeded upon the main track, only to be hit by a pgssenger train. The collision derailed the train, throwing it over upon the freight, and as a result eight people were killed and forty were injured. The two occu- pants of the truck also lost their lives. AlmosPinvariably when a train hits an automobile it simply demolishes the vehicle and keeps on the rails, the victims being the occupants of the mo- tor cars. Heavy trucks, however, are 2 different matter, as this case jn u:gn.-h shows. Thus the reliread the Thunfle}nr. ‘with the liberal Mall | becomes a Qeciledly interested party. ‘With these two organs at his com- | when their own traffic is endangered body for the purpose of causing loss | As long as only the ‘public is kilied by trespass upon grade grossings, through carelessness of drivers, the railroads are not so greatly concerned.” But {by such trespass it becomes more es- sential to safeguard the crossings. There was no barrier of any kind at the Annandale crossing, and the truck had free access to the tracks. It is all very well to put the burden of responsibility upon the motorists and .other drivers for all grade-cross- ing accidents on the ground that they should safeguard themsélves by halt- ing before crossing. But there is still a decided responsibility’ for the rail- roads to make the crossings more se- cure. Certainly if barriers are erected at the crossings and are lowered when a train appreaches there is no con- cetvable excuse for any driver to en- ter the raflroad right of way. This is, perhaps, & bad time to pro- pose expensive equipment in the safe- guarding of grade crossings, with the railroads afflicted by strikes that may spread to e nation-wide tie-up of the lines. But the Annandale accident, nevertheless, should be recorded as a definite instance of rallroad loss through failure to protect the trains from trespass, a loss which would have been averted by a small expendi- ture for gates. i Mississippi Tomorrow. The Mississippi primary—a one- party affair—takes place tomorrow. Mr. Wilson is a factor, but not to the extent he was in the Missouri primary. He feels toward Mr. Vardaman as bit- terly as toward Mr. Reed, but his pro- nouncement against the farmer has not been as conspicuously used as was his pronouncement against the latter. Still, that he is anti-Vardaman has been well known in the Bayon state. To what extent the Wilson reverse in Missouri has affected the situation in Mississippi is @ question. It came late—has had only two weeks in which to work. But that it has been used in Mr. Vardaman's behalf is & reasonable guess. The senatorial contest is three- carnered. One of the cundidutes is a woman. She is a good speaker, and has canvassed the state. Her candi- dacy has been recetved with all re- spect, and forecasts give her a good vote. It is not likely, however, that she will be nominated. % As elsewhere in the country, the women are reported as greatly inter- ested, though mot all of them in the woman candidate. Still, if a large numberssupport her the effect will be to ‘encourage aspirations for office among women and increase the num- ber of candidates another year. As the nomination will be equivalent to election, the state after tomorrow will return to routine and calmly await election day. f In the opinion of Will Hays some allowance should be made for the mo- tion picture because of its youth. As an industry the film business is com- paratively young, but some of those engaged in it are old enough to know better. f Such books as “Alice in Wonder- land” and “Robinson Crusoe” are being commended to children. The children had not lost sight of them. They are merely being rediscovered by the old folks. f i In discussing entistrike legislation a member of Congress naturally pauses to consider not only the wel- fare of the public at large, but his popularity with his own particular { constituency. *. A valet who pretended he was of noble birth proved to be an imposter and a blackmailer. The episode is an- other unfortunate discouragement to the genuine noblemen who are willing to work for an honest living. f An instrument designed to detect false testimony has not proved practi- cal for court purposes. It is suspected of tendencies to prevaricate on its own account. ! Efforts to laugh the flapper out of existence proved unsuccessful, owing to a lingering doubt as to whether she should be classified as humor or pathos. It is evidently suspected by Senator Borah that Europe's financial stress cannot be relieved until an expensive taste for fancy firearms is conquered. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Election Day. In days of old the statesman bold Went forth with oratory. But the campaign today, we're told, Is quite a different story. A big brass band parades the land ‘With lusty demonstrations. ‘Whije voters throng on every hand To hear the syncopations. Once all demure in homes secure The ladies sat in rogkers, But now with minds serene and sure They vote in knickerbockers. The merry game, the film stars’ fame, Arrive from each direction, And circus-day seems downright tame Compared to an election. Melodious Irony. “Why did the tears come int6 yoyr eyes when theband played “Hail, the Gang’s All Here?” “In “view of the factional fights we've been having,” replied Senator Sorghum, “the tume’ sounded down- right ironical.” = 2 Jud Tunkins says so'few efficiency experts.are now touring the country he guesses they must have gone to work. 3 — Language. In language lies thé human power ‘Which helps us live at ease, Unless we argue by the hour Until we starve or freeze. Summer Compliment. 3 “I willlay my fortune at your feet.” “The fortune is rather small. “So are the feet.” “Ever since I kin remember, Uncle Eben, “de high cost of ¥xin' besn mentioned by earcless psople as said has HE other day—Friday, to be exact—a very charming young ‘woman, feeling the need of exercise, elected to walk, rather than ride, to her home, and as she was crossing the park in Dupont Circle she stopped for & moment to rest. Hardly had she seated herself when a dear, sweet, gray-haired little lady with an old-fashioned bow ask- ed permission to sit beside her. Per- mission was, of course, granted, and this {s what happened: The young woman, noticing that her companion was using @ rather wnique fan, asked if she had become overheated, having in mind going to get the little bit of Dresden-like person a drink of cool water. The diminutive one re- plied that she was not at all warm— in fact, she considered the day very comfortable, but she was using the fan because she liked it. She further confided that in the early part of her life she never had had any girlhood and she was now enjoying what was denied her in earlier days. Perhaps it is better that we give it in the little old lady's words, which ran about as follows: “I never had any real girlhood and I determined about six months ago that I was going to make up for lost time. Yesterddy I went downtown to one of the shops and saw two lovely fans and bought them. T don't suppose that 1 had used one over twenty or thirty minutes when a woman stopped me—one of those demanded to know where I got those fans. I asked her if she meant where | I-bought them. She apologized. “I stopped at the house of a friend, intending to give her the fan I am carrying and to keep the other for myself, but as she hinted too strong- ly for this‘one I made her take the other one. 1 never in my life have had the courage to speak up for my rights, but I am just enjoying it— oh, you don't know how much! I go to the movies now ard some of these evenings I am goifig to visit the roof gardens. Just because I am eighty years old is no reason why I should act like a dignified old clam.” Blessings on thy head, Oh maid of former years, may these, thy twilight hours, be filled with happiness, not tears! Happiness is meant for all, although at times there is woe and weal, but, after all, we measure, not by age, but rather how we feel. * % * * tune is going to smile on you and sometimes the very thihg that you are dodging 1s the thing that Fiction Censorship Reaches Limit of “the Ridiculous. The proposal to submit fiction man- uscript to a trial by judge and jury to insure their being, like a -certain well advertised commodity, 99.4¢ per cent pure, has reached the limit of the ridiculous in the movement toward “regulation,” in the opinion of most editors. . Some writers, to be sure, discuss seriously the effort of John S. Sumner of the Socfety for the Suppression of Vice to establish a tribunal “selected by the authors, the publishers, the read- ing pubMo and the public authorities,” which woul pass upon alb-gnatter sub- mitted. They feel, with the Manchester Tnion, that we are faced withga situ: tlon with respect to tendencies in mod- ern literature which ‘“demands pretty rtadical measures.” Any réader of cur- rent fiction, the Union maintains, ‘‘can recall readily enough books in which indecency ranges from frank to the rank. Some of these books have sold largely, and the temptation to"further violation of the decencies in print is manifest enough.” It is well known, the Petersburg Prog- ress and Index Appeal asserts, “that things are now being written and pub- lished which could not have appeared in print a few years back except in books intended for private circulation.” 8ince “the same thing is true in every- day conversation,” the assumption is that writers take advantage of this trend, hoping, “by appealing to the prurient, to stimulate sales of their work and thereby put coin in " their purses,” ‘and the paper adds, “it must be confessed that it seems to work out as they hope and plan.” Because of this undeniable trend toward the “improper” in literature, distracted _ publishers, according to the New York Post, “want a boss no less than the movie producers, the- atrical men and base ball magnates. They seek the protection of central con- trol, not only because unprincipled pub- lishers have them at a disadvantage in a market where salaciousness is in de- mand, but also because they know that official censorship might go further and cost them more.” It is possible the Springfleld Re- publican_believes, that such a sys- tem as Sumner proposes, which cer- tain publishers are reported to be oonsidering, “iff well administered, might promdte a reasonably liberal view on ethical questions. It may be that the cumulative effect of the reasoned opinions of an intelligent and fair-minded jury would be to build up little by little a rational and generally accepted standard of what is permissible. But anting all that can be said in condemnation of present-day tend- encies in _literature, as practically all editorial writers unreservedly do, are oensorship and dictation after all the solution to the problem? Are we, for example, the Philadelphia Bulletin asks, “to license the pub- lishers to print books with one-half of 1 per cent of sex appeal? If it has proved so difficult for chemists and physicians to determine pre- cisely what percentage of alcohol content is intoxicating, where is the men who will undertake to tell us with the' voice of authority just what should be the sex content in a thrill- “manu authors, ities and reading public, while it might be possible to arrange ‘“‘some form of voluntary oensorship” be tween the first two group: Baltimore American sees chaos in any attempt to extend supervision beyond those groups. “Public au- thorities, it i{s not anarchy to say, do not represent abstract omnisci- enoe or eternal justice,” while so far as the “reading public” is concerne: the American comment diffidult enough to obtain a sion in a presidentizl electio: whioch two historic parties, b highly organized, marshal their fol lowers. The ‘reading public ocon- sists of millions of unorganized and uno! able rpeople of the widest variety of taste and ‘knowledge, far whom there is no known present, vice of choosing representatives.” Further, the New York Tribune in- sists, censorship “could neve: voluntary. It would always have ‘to be exercised by somé person &ppoint- ed for that purpose, .and upon the personsl point of view of such a per- son would depend the reading matter given to the public.” It would go even deeper than that, as the Boston Globe analyses it. It is not only that ‘oensorship ‘‘prevents sincere work from .\ein“ publia::’ It nro"r:nu at art from - s0 much =8 bacat the Globe 57 | rn, use, argut ffort necessary for the produc-|in = WOTk 18 80 tion of first-rate that if you sow the . art| or thinker's mind the doubt of his being Here and There in Washington l W { BY “THE MAJOR” modern-day assertive creatures—and ! OU never can tell when good for-! EDITORIAL DIGEST % {the next one coming along. He may will mean money in your pocket. A& friend of mine, who has, upon numer- ous occasions, bsen besloged by people wanting him to subscribe to this-or that thing, heard a few da ago that a young man had been oall- ing at his ofMce to see him. Dis- missing the matter as one of _the “usual touches,” he thought mo mor about it until & couple days ago, when he was cornered by the man and handed a check. It appears that my friend had, several months ago, put in & claim for the loas of a stolen piece of property to an insurance company and had forgotten all about it. The pecular part of the matter is that the check was delivered just a day or two before my friend left on his vacation. * ok k¥ ANY people have often wondered as to how the term “Peacock Alley” originated. l’er&pl the most lkely story of its origin is that given by the wife of a former, senator, who, at the Willard the other night, sai “In the days of the war of "61-G5, in the corridor of Washington's leading ! hotel the young maidens used to walk jup and down gowned in dresses hav- ling voluminous skirts and these were of many brilllant hueg, A crabbed old colonel, just back from the front, was deldyed one night in his anxious march to the bar by these young women. Glving them a withering glance, he snorted: ‘Humph! They strut up and down here just like & 1of of peacocks.” A very likely ex- ! planation as to the origin of the term. l * k k% EVERAL weeks ago a friend of mine thought that he would save some money by taking a little boat that runs across to the golf links, and so, coming down on the 7th street car, he went to the wharf, only to be informed that the boat no long- er ran on Sunday mornings. Peeved, he hired a man to row him across the stream and as they approached the seawall he tossed his bag of clubs up and, on the very brink of the stone parapet, they teetered, only to go kerplunk into the water. They were fine Scotch clubs and, with the ex- ception of the twd wooden ones, they reposed just out of reach in the water. He told the ferryman to go to the morgue and get a pair of the tomgs they use in locating bodies. The boatman rowed across the river, secured the implements and, after half an hour's fishing, managed rescue the clubs. Bill, §3.50—to say nothing of an hour or more lost. Tenny wise and pound foolisim allowed to make public the result of his honest thinking, you paralyze his powers at the start. If you add the difficulty of preordained discourage- ment. you risk making his work im- possible.” Censorship in literature “will mean that any rcal progress to- ward artistic salvation will be next to tmpossible,” declares the Hartford Times, in view of which danger it is amazed that the movement in that di- rection has “excited go little protest from those Who gre most affected— the great reading public. Efficiency Gone to Seed. The word ‘efficiency has been much’ overworked and most peopls are tired of it, having found that the rules laid down by “experts™ seldom result in more work accomplished. But experts are still on the job. They have one in the Navy Department at Washington. Everything that can distract the attention of the em. ployes from the business of the Navy must be eliminated. Hence this “of- ficial memorandum No. 45.” copies of which the clerks found on their desks a few days ago. “The paymaster general appreci ates the beauty of flowers, but feels that they do not contribute to the businesslike appearance of a business office. It is therefore directed that hereafter no flowers appear on the desks or elsewhere in this bureau. This office memorandum will take e fect immediately.’ Consider for a moment the dry-as- dust martinet who could issue that order. Reflect on the kind of office boss who could see in a rose or a lalf- dozen pinks in a glass of water on a desk a disturbing influence. To that solemn functionary, who must be & source of amusemant to the heedless creatures who have been bringing an occasional bouguet into the rooms sacred to the affairs of the Navy, the effect of the blossoms must be to pre- vent concentration of emind on the statistical lore over which they labor and what is worse than to let the mind wander for a moment from the thrilling figures? Romance does not, associate itself with the government offices, where many employes are old and gray halred, yet even they are not neces- sarily beyond Being cheered by the ight of gay blossoms. They might even, the paymaster general to the contrary notwithstanding, be in- spired to greater activity in naval bookkeeping by the reminder that there is a brighter world outside the gray walla. But there are young men and women in these offices, and where youth is is romance. Yet no one there can say: It was nothing but rose I gave her. Nothing but a rose, for he will not be allowed to give it to “her”—not in that office. The rule is there and must be obeyed. Its only explanation is that some people are born with drab minds.—Denver Kocky Mountain News. Strept Car Fares at $1 Per Week. ‘Tacoma, Wash., i8 trying as experi- ment in street railway management. The plan is to sell permits, each good for seven days, entitling the holder, in exchange for $1, to ride anywhere on the lines of the Tacoma Railway and Power Company. The holder may, if he chooses, get off one of the cars of the company only to get on l 1 ride to one end of a line and back, and repeat the process for as many trips as that car will make. Or h may change, at pleasure, from one line to another, in this manner ot sight-seeing. There is no limit to hi use of his dollar permit except the end of the week. The permits are transferable, it be- ing manifestly impossible to under- take identifications in such a Any member of a family can use the {ssued to the head of thi ouge.—St. Louls Globe-Democrat. Columbus—the man who discovered a place for Europe to borrow money. ashvilie Tennessean. Pity the poor Russian schoolboy who must do his sums in rubles.— Asheville Times. Everybody seems to have the in- alienable fight to quit work, except mother.—Indianapolis Star. The rail and union executives are standing M&l but Harding thinks can win wi full House.—Virgin ian-Pflot and Norfolk Landmark. Senator Johnson wants a prohibitive duty on foreign nuts. What's the matter with the -Immigration laws? —Nawark Star-Eagle. rm Hl:;’: msmthsn1 no fun summer—“too many g ozer 4 "" !:‘thto -lv‘ar- Faanie turn: 0 ew. P Geo. Phitt Co., Inc., 52505 Proportionate fares from other points oj—=alc—=lol—=lalc——0la]———|o]—=lol—| Painting. —Paperhanging. ~Upholstering. Have the Work Dene Now. 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