Evening Star Newspaper, August 20, 1922, Page 26

THE EVENING STAR, With Sundsy Merning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. 4uwpay....... August 20, 1028 THEODORE W. NOYES...Editor o7 T The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11¢h 8¢, and Tennaylvania Ave. Oma: ¥ atlonsl. Bank Il‘lllllls‘ Chi Office: First llx?':l Office: 8"0'“! 8t., London, Englan The Ewning Ster, with the Bundsy morning editien, is delivered by carriers withia the city at 60 cents per month: dally ealy. 46 cents per month; Bunday only, 20 cents per month. Or- ders may be sent by mall or telephone Main ‘000 _Collection is made by carriers at the €nd of esch month. "Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. . and Vieglala. Pany ony 86: 1 mo. 506 Sunday only ‘mo., 20¢ All Other States. Sunday.1 yr., $10.0 yr. Daily and ly an 10 Daily only. Sunday only. Bookmaking and Tipselling. The law prohibits bookmaking and gambling on horse racing in the Dis- trict of Columbia. Establishments known as poolrooms, where such bets are placed and bettors are paid—when they win, which is not oftéen—are un- der the ban, and may be raided and those in charge held for trial. Yet race track gambling prevails throughout ‘ihe District almost openly. Places are in plain evidence in this city where, through the congregation of crowds and the open display of race track in- formation, and even in some cases of sheets of betting odds, it is obvious to any person who passes that illegal #ambling is in progress. Now and then such & place is raided and the pro- prietors or backers are held: some- times indictments are returned, but actual trials are rare and punishment 1s still more infrequent. There is a sad hitch in the enforcement of this law. Meanwhile a lively business is done in the sale of tips on the races, in sheet form and in periodicals issued for that specific purpose. These tips are sold openly, are broadly placarded and are eagerly sought by that pecul- iarly gullible species of humanity known as the easy mark poolroom player. The chief of police states that there is no law against the sale of thesa tips. But if there were a law, if the traffie in these information sheets, which are issued solely for the purpese of in- ducing betting on the races, were prohibited by statute, what assurance is there of enforcement? The game {tself is under the ban of law, and vet it thrives. It does not seem to matter that the tips that are sold at varying rates are almost giways worthless. They com- mand a market nevertheless. For it is the natwre of things that the race track gembling addict is easy to fool. He can be “played” through either tips or bets. He is trying, in effect, to get Something for nothing, to make money without working, to win e stake. He is not even @ good gambler, for he has no jwdgment whatever in the game he plays. He knows nothing about the hor#ss that are being Tun at distant tracks. He knows ndthing about the jockeys riding them or the men own- ing them or training them. He cares Aothing whether the rdces are straight or crooked. Indeed, the crookeder the track the more likely he is to play the races on it. That apparently is part of the fascination of the game. Many thousands of dollars are squandered daily in this city in thé purchase of these worthless tips and in bets. The promioters of the game get the big profits. Very few race players win in the long run. They lose Just enough to keep them, perhaps, al- ways hoping to get square. Many of them borrow money to play, and some of them “borrow"” it without permis- sion. In many a home thére is want because the one responsible for its maintenance is squandering many doi- lara every week in this ftile game of chance. Even if the police cannot get con- wvictions, théey should continue to rhake arrests and to clean up these open re- sorts. Put the poolroom promoters to the expense of getting bonds and en- gaging legal counsel. Keep on arrest- ing them if they return to business. Let the cases pile up, if they will, in court. Some day there will bé a reckoning, end in the meéantime why not make a test of the sale of these tips that are plainly inducements to break the law by arresting those who openly offer them for sale? ————————— " %¥he District of Columbia taxpayer s permitted to feel ffee from any con- scientious pangs as to his share of de- mand on the United States Treasury. —_——— ‘The world war has left a Ilarge dmount of propaganda talent in evi- dence which does riot know exactly what to do with itself. . —_—— et Artificial restriction enhances the Gpit of carbon, whether In thé form of dimaonds or coal. 01d Aqueduct Bridge. 1t is announced that #ithough the new bridge at Georgetowh will Be upened for general traffic in January the old Aqueduct bridge will be kept in ecommission for some months lohger, inasmuch it will bé impossiblé td oomplete the railroad equipment by the first of the year. Thiis this venérs- bie structure will remain whil8 its suc- dessor is in use. Of course, eventually the old bridge will be destroyed. It was so planned when the new bridge was first proposed, because the “Aque- duct” is, as it chences to be located, 4n obstruction to the river channel. , There Will be & certain séntimental régret at the passing of Adquédyct bridgé. It has béén an histofic lana- mafk. Oddly énough few péople deem 1o knoW that its hamé i8 st a mére tancitul title, but ib derivéd from thé fact that originally this bridge actudi- iy carriéd thé Chéddpeake atid Ohio cahal across the Potomdc on its wiy tp Alekandrid. The canal Was borne qver thé rivér in & Woodéh troukh Be- nédth the passengér platform of thé brigge. For @ good many Vears after a4 Aliddndris branch of the canal coased to be of-use this trough ré- imainéd A1Ed With Watér, Arippink con- stintly iitto Wi river; miueh to thé dia- comfiture of pleifé Partih if bouts. It was a regular practice to raise um- e D e e e e e brellas while passing wnder Aqueduct bridge. Then the trough was takén out and the bridge was remodeled to become & conventional highway struc- ture, later with car tracks. From time to time the piers of the Aqueduct bridge have been under grave suspicion. More than one of them has gone off plumb owing to ex- cavations at the bases caused by the scouring of the current. On one occa- sion the tiiting of a pier caused the buckling of the ralling. The bridge was put out.of commission fqr some time while the hole was plugged. Large sums have been spent in patch- ing up this old structure. It has never been made so0 secure as to command the public confidence. Ingonstructing the new bridge the conditions that have menaced the old one have been carefully atudied, and the successor structure is believed to be far beyond any possibility of weak- ness. The plers are larger and offer & much stouter resistance to the stream. The danger to the Aqueduct bridge always came from the freshets, when great masses of ice were borne down stream in the spring or quanti- tles of drift material were dashed against the piers. The new bridge is 8o placed that this factor is greatly lessened. When the old bridge is razed un- doubtedly the entire structure will be wiped away, including the piers down to foundation. Thus will pass a fa- mous structure that has carried mil- lions of people, has done ita work faithfully, though at times under a cloud of suspicion, has seen the pass- ing of the canal and the coming of trolley cars and now of motors. The pity is.that it cannot be kept as a souvenir. The Men From Camp Meade. In response to the invitation of the government some 28,000 men have en- rolled themselves this summer for drill at the various student military train- ing camps. Their purpose has been to prepare themselves for possible serv- ice in case of national need. About 1,000 men have gone from Washing- ton and the nearby states to Camp Meade, where for some time past they have been undergoing drill and train- ing. The Star has undertaken to bring these men from Camp Meade to Wash- ington tomorrow for the purpose of a parade in this city and review by the President, possibly an address by-him. This visit of these thousand men to Washington tomorrow will be of far more than local importance. It will be a symbol of the service of all the other thousands who have left their work and at sacrifices often heavy have presented themselves for training. Six years ago training camps wéré being conducted in advance of the United States’ entry in the great war. They were of an inestimable value when later it becameé necessary to or- ganize an army in a great hurry. It had been felt for some time before then that the most urgent néed of this country in the matter of its de- fense was the preparation of thou- sands of younger citizens for possiblé future military duty. The lesson of the war has not been fully learned in this respect. Instead of 28,000 men in training this summer there should be over 100,000 mén. Fdr it another war should come in which the United States must join, or if this country were attacked by & foreign enemy, it would be necessary to ralse quickly an army that could not pos- sibly be officered by the now available material. The purpose of sending these men to camp is to maké poten- tial officers and trainers of other men for the emergency that, while it is everybody’s prayer it may never comme, is yet to be reckoned with as one of the possibilitiés of natiofial existence. ‘Washington should give e heéarty reception tomorrow to these mén from Camp Meade, many of whom aré its own citizens. The capital should rhake them feel that their seivice in camp is appreciated, that the time they are spending is well spént, that the sacri- fices they are making are good invest- ments. President Harding's presence as reviewing officer, and possibly his words, will attest to the gratitude of the government. The Star is glad to have been able to promote this expédi- tion from Camp Meade to Washing- ton. i Maryland agents who fell int6 a vat of moonshine may call for thé use of life-preservers in operations on land as well as at sea. \ Strikés attract more atténtion in the U. S. A. than in Européan couh- tries, wher for many years théy have been customary. } Daylight-saving provided no meéans of averting the enormous waste of working time arising from a stfike situation. t The ultimate consumer is éxpécted to be patient even to the point when there is nothing" provided for him to consume. ¥ The New York Stock Exchange, as Well a8 thie village constablé; offérs dis. cotifagements to thé fmotor Efithusiast. } No referenice to the Rallway Labor Board fails to givée it full credit for the most Jaudable intentions. 3 PR An Expért on Prohibition. 1t has com® to bé tHe fashion in some quarters to béllevé that the pro- hibition enforcement forces are com- posed of men who do not believe in the iaw; and that they are meérély “going through the motitns” of meintainin the statute. This is bused upoh thé fact that but few casés-have béen 48 véloged bf cofrupt proRiBition éfitoree- rhent ofcials, whib Adve blén unduly tenpted by bribés. THede fhef, RoW- &vér, have been #limindted, 47d Ntt1s 18 now Heard™ of thé pFohibition én- forcement force in & Wiy to BlEFEst iRdifference, Incompétehce or inMé- cérity. On thé cbntidry, thé torce fhom thé commissionér down i Workiig iligently and with incréasing s#act- | iveness. : The other night in New Jersey, i &n address before the Counéll of Ciurches of that state, Federal Com: missioner Haynes madé & deciafation that ahould give & sévéré joit t6 tHoed that are fighting prohibition, seékifi§ to 'break down the law and moving for its repeal or amendment. He prophe- sied that the eighteen amendment would never be m or annulled, and appealed to the atry to sup- port in the electionh this year candi- dates who have ‘‘come out fully and, patriotically on the side of law and order.” This coming from the man who has direct responsibility for the enforee- ment of the prohibition law, who knows all the difficulties in the way of carrying it inta effect, will have great weight with those who ars, perhaps, now in the “twilight zone” between wet and dry. The commissioner ap- peals for “law and ‘order.” He knows as fully as any other American how clogely allied are liquor and disorder, and he seeks for a full expression of the national sentiment in favor of law maintenance. It has been often sald by opponents of the eighteenth amendment that it was slipped through before the coun- try realized what was being done, that there was no majority support for it, and that a square referendum on the subject would result in its repeal or at least in a very material modification of the enforcement law. Commissioner Haynes notes the fact that since the eighteenth amendment ‘was adopted by Congress and ratified by more than three-fourths of the states the nine- teenth amendment has been also adopted and ratified, giving the wom- en the right to vote throughout the country on all national questions. ‘Whatever may have been the situation in 1919, when the eighteenth amend- ment was adopted, in respect to ma- jority opinion, there can be no doubt of a decided dry majority now, with this full enfranchisement of the wom- en, for the women of this country are, perhaps, the strongest advocates of prohibition, having been the greatest sufferers in the past from the liquor traffic. —————tt—e—ee Famous Men. Fame reaches men by strange.chan- nels. Some acquire it through physi- cal prowe: s hitters of home runs in the game of base ball, soms by wearing big shoes and microscopie mustaches in motion pictures, some by dolng more airplane loops than anybody else in a single flight, some by making record speeches in public debate. There is no end to the variety of modes by which men’s names are brought up from the mass for brief attention. Perhaps the most remarkable is the manner in which U. B. Chase, jr., of New Orleans—pity his first name is not known—has been crowned as one of the “world's heroes.” By eating more crayfish than any other of ten contestants Chase has been found & world champion. By the time all the others had dropped out of the contest he had consumed five bucketfuls of the crustaceans, which In their shells weighed about sixty pounds. This was the capacity contest. Earlier in the day a speed contest had been wen by “Hop” Luthy, who ate 100 erayfish in two minutes and thirty-six seconds, but his title to the great honor was later challenged by the runner-up, who insisted that the winneér had not licked the shella clea, and a sécond competi- tion wijl soon be held. Now, this is real constructive work. These men are doing something very well worth while. They are contribut- ing to the #orld's happiness and peace. Just incidentally it may be wondered who paye for thé crayfish. But, sadly énough, the thought persists that the fiames of Chase and Luthy will sooh be forgotten as other notables crowd in upon public attention. A fortnight hence thelr prodigious feats will have been overshadowed by some bridge jufiper, or perhaps by a ball player making inore home runs in one game than were ever known before. Fame is really a fickle creature. } Statisticians have not yet gotten to- gether the cold, hard facts as to what contérences hdve cost the world in cash. g The summer sedsions of Congress frequently bring up the most impor- tant business that it has to transact. ————————— ——————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNBON. Waited along through the wistful year, ‘Whert thé wintér skies were gray, Any action of violence among strik- nrest. That comés oni & lazy day. clear Afid T sdid to myself at 1ast it's Béré; Aid the wofld so big Brought fio Mgh £ [ fiear ©Oh, thé World seeiiis to cherish a love ers is naturally seized upon by the 1. W. W. as a vindication of its prin- ciples. For the little hour of careless cheer The wihd was soft 4nd the sky was Whers the ripplés weré dll at pldy, We afé due for a lagy day! Of fear, Afd the Heavefla were- bfight &nd g1y, X But an impudént Wwasp catne Hovéfing To erhbittér that lazy day. sinceré For & placid ahd peaceful way, But some insect is cértain to appear And derhdlish the lazy day. “Ard you what théy tall & practicai politician?” “No,” replied Senator Sorghum; “I used to be one, but sentiment Gut my way Has run to o Many new theorles that I feel calldd upon at timés to seem as impractical as possiblé.” Jud Tufiking sayh fiar n would regret his tarhe it & could/Bee the atituss postefity will pt up. - 5 he Doubthul 4 T Wintér Will, ere 1ofik, draw Aeat; 1t would Be nice Wers coal as certiln t6 be fiere A# snow and fce. _ No Provettion. “You hive discontifiuéd’ wédrlig Four hair , Over your ears.” : 7 “popliéd Miss. Cayenne, “It Was ussiesh. I couldn’t have it thick encugh to keep Gut the jest music.” ‘Dar's % aiffeuity AkeRd,” said Uncle @bn; “foh de man dat,&its to imagin- in® B il BOEHS ail Nib ‘troubiés by) bein' ficky in a crap game.” Politicsat Home|Marhall Finds Money Chaos The Third Party. In all the speculation about a new party—an organization to be composed of republicans and democrats Giscon- tented at home as matters now stand —four men are prominent as to the leadership, Senators Borsh, Johnson and La Follette, and William Ran- dolph Hearst. Three republioans, end one democrat. It is due the quartet to point out that as yet not one has jumped his reservation. Mr. Borah sits (n the Bea- ate as & republican. Mr. Johnwon and Mr. La Follette are ‘candidates for re- nomination as repyblicans, and it suc- cesaful will ask for election aa repub- licans. Mr. Hearst s a candidate for the democratic nomination for Gover- nor of New York, with the object, it is believed, of making Albany & stepping- stone to Washington—the governor- ship 4f the Empire state a “lift” to the presidency of the United States. In bolder quarters speculation goes to the extent of siate-making for 1 As for example, the queéstion is asked, How would the ticket of Borah and Hearit, or Johnson and Hearst, or La Follette and Hearst, or Hearst and any one of the republican trio, serve? How strong would be the appeal to the people on what in some circles is called progressiveness, in others radi- calness? Geographically it will be seen that with Mr. Hearst either in first or sec- ond place the old east and west divi- sion would be observed, Mr. Hearst by reason of his residence being rated as an eastern man, while the three re- publicans are westepn. Mr. Johnson and Mr. La Follette are likely to achieve both renomination and re-election, but Mr. Hearst in his aspirations for the New York gov- ernorship is beset with difficuities. It he fails to secure as a democrat,either nomination or election he will neces. sarily lose in the third-party equation, it he is not eliminated altogéther from the whole national equation. Mississippi. Mr. Vardaman's performance, al- though inconclusive, is something to consider. His health prevented such a contest as Mr. Reed made in Missouri. His campaign was in the hands of his friends, who canvassed the state for him, and so well that he came out at the head of the poll. As in the case of Mr. Reed, Mr. Vardaman's real antagonist was for- mer President Wilson, with whom while the latter was in the White House and he in the Senate he did not get on comfortably. They were hever on terfne. Mr. Reed and Mr. Wilson at ohe time were. A card which Mr. Reed was able to play with much effect in his campaign was a Yetter Mr. Wilson had forgotten writing, complimenting and thanking him for certain services rendered the democracy’s policies in the Senate. Mr. Vardaman had no such letter. His case was one of plain, conféssed and unbroken incompatibllity. There had never been a period of cordiality between him and Mr. Wilson. Mr. Vérdaman resented. as Mr. Reed did, the interference of Mr. Wil- son in a matter which he contended ‘was outside Mr. Wilson's proper con- cern. His view was that the democ- racy of Mississippi, with his senatorial record before them, were competent to pass upon his democracy and his deé- serts without afy outside suggestiohs or assistance. The run-off between Mr. Vardaman and Mr. Stephens will afford a lively fortnight for the people of the Bayou state. Polling day is September 5. Mr. Vardaman starts with a lead of 7.500 votés. Miss Kearney, who @rops out, advises her friends to support Mr. Stephens. But it remains to be séen whether she can swing her following in that way. The Vardaman managers will, of course, make a dead set for the Kearneyites, and if they succeed in capturing half of the number will be ablé to shake hands with themselvés. —_——tee————— The Party Label. This comment about the Missouri caimpaign {8 heard in Wilsonian cir- cles: Long’s support came from the country districts, wheré the péople take their politics seriously and are not manipulable by fine words or work. Reed's support camé from the cities—principally St. Louis and Kan- sas City—where politics is something of a trade and combinations are easily made. This 8ort of gereralifation is mis- l1édding. A votér living at a distdnce frofh ““thé big rodd” may také his poll- tics 80 “‘seriously” thit hé bécomes lit- tlé better than dn automaton. He votes @ labéi. Tell him a policy is democratic or republican, ahd he is for it, as he may incline in & party way. On thé Other hand, the voter who Itves oh “‘the b papés, afid #etd ther hot from the presses evefy ddy; Who attends pubile méetings fréquently and héars politi- cal issues discusséd by political iead- ers, keeps up with the procession and usually has an opihion worth record- ing on éléction day. A party label can- fiot sksily Be tibed to palm off & spuri- 6ud thing on him. The anti-Reed eampalgn Where it proved strongest was iadé on the simplé fact, iincontésted, that the séna- tor had opposéd & measure submiitted by & deihocratic President; &énd on the ebfitéhtion ‘thit hé had théréby out- fawed Hiris8it a8 & Pafly MAfA. The fashsure itsdlf carmié in fof iithe if any discussion, The anti-R8ed ter votea for o labél—the Wuson labet—al- though two years béfore tank of thou- sands of democrats; in Missouri And S1sewhers, had fejectéd that Wbel, and i Fodd”; WHO takes the | o5 " In Europe a Bar to Business BY THONAS R. lm‘ Former Viee Proaldeat of the United Btates. MUNICH, July. 1922. T have been long enough in Europe to auscertain that uncer- tainty in money is t root of most of the economical difficulties now confronting the world. I have heard bamkers talk of liquid as- sets and I have sten assets which seemed to be suficiently liquid to be lashed into a storm. Condi- tions'in Germany are of the same order, though of lesser severity than those in Aystria. T did mot have the same good luck, how- ever. I purchased marks at 330 to the doliar and before I suc- ceeded in getting rid of them they were worth 500 to the dollar. This tendition of &ffairs finds no reasomable explapation in my mind. T have long been ac- quainted with the fluctuation {in the purchasink power of a dollar, seeing it shift from year to year 28 the curremcy was inflated or A but I never before had to do with money that hift 10 per cemt in its ag power while it was ssed over the banker's * * % % From all outward appearance Germany is prosperous There are fewer than 20,000 unemployed, T am told. The crops are fine. The peasant is doing his best to re- habilitate his country. If ahy criticlsm were to be made as to working conditions it would be that two hours is too long to take in eating lunch. Notwithstanding their prosper- ity, every one in Germany seems to feel worry for himself and for everybody else. The German re- gards himself as the most abused man on earth. T heard mournful complaints that the French had the audseity where there wi vacant room in a house to q ter one of the roldlers of occu tion in that room. T came near getting myself into trouble hy re- calling that the Germans had not occupied vacant rooms when they were in France. hutall rooms, and that when they got through they had destroved the buildings. T asked whether the French gen- eral in charge snoke English and wi told they did not know. T asked his name and was informed that they did not know and did not care. As I lingered T learhed they hated the French. all Frenchmen alike. The German is revealing the human trait of the average man anywhere, for it is the law of life that the one person who we never forgive is the person t whom we have done an injury. * % * % On the ground that a defeated people Is entitled to justice. Ger- many is saying that she cannot pay her bill to France and to the allies. And the remarkable thing to me is that the financiers who fixed the amount of indemnity aré now jolning in the atatement to the effect that she cannot comply with the terms of the treaty. My respect for the wisdom of finan- clers has been impaired. To just a plain man it would seem as though there were only one of two things to be done. éither to confiscate all German property or to fix the indemnity within the Bounds of reason. The first was not even consldered and the seé< ond apparently was not dene. I do not know how much Germany can pay. but T am quite convinced that if the time wasted in arguing that she could not pay anything had been devoted to tryving to do something &he would have done more than she has done and would have rétained the confilence of men who thought and belleved when she shifted ffom a monarchy to a republic that she shifted her ideals also and was willing to pay the bill which her rulers had im- posed upon her. T am not pretend- ing to say that Germany has the counter which to meet the Indemnity. 1 recognize that she 1s hampered by the 1egtalation of the world in the Wixposal of her ucts. But if she cannot pay gold, she can try to pay in kia Up o this good hour 1 have not found it in my consciemce to find fawit with Framce for the mainte- nahce of her army and the in- siptence upon her indemnity. T found ne feeling of hatred of Ger- many in Framee. I found only a fear that the old military system might revived and that the homes, lives and lberty of the French people might again be im- periled. If France could be- as- sured by Great Britain and Amer- ica that she need no longer fear the German menace and that they would come to her assistance should danger threaten. France would, in the Intetest of the world and the rehabilitation of Germany, consent to a change in the terms he indemnity. Let us in Amer- ica not be 100 censorious over the seemingly granite stand of France until we ourselves ratify the treaty tQ come to her assistance should Germany ever aggin threat- en her with armed force. % k% Whether Germany's financial plight is the working of some in- exorable law or whether it be the result of efforts on the partiof the German government to depreciate the mark in order to show its in- ability to pay the indemnity ac- complishes nothing along the line of commerce. Nearly four years have gone by mince the armistice. There is still no solvent and re- sponstble banking #nd currency ayatem in Europe. Exchange has not been stabilized. Business is a . gamble. Worse than that. the gambling has gone o the médinm of the exchange of husiness. Fi- nanciers of the world have pro- posed remedies. but they have put none of them into effect nor en- deavorad to ascertain whather any would work. Money will not bhe invested without a reasonable nrobability that it is safe, although it iz alwavs willing to flirt and gamble. So what the financlers have not heen ahle to do and have not tried to do in order to render ble the businéss transactions of the world the husiness men have heen endeavoring to do. Business tries to cure its own wounds as eeks to restore the ravages * % * *x There was formed nearly three years ago at Antwerp what may briefly be explained asan exchange market with periodical settlements. This market, at slight expense, agreed to carry out all exchange operations with fortnightly deliv- eries within a period of six months. 1t was not a perféct syatem, but it did enable persons, particularly those engaged in foreign trade, to establish their sales and purchases over a period of twelve months and enable them to take cost prices with practical précision at s=peci- fled periods. Tt ix to be hoped that this exchange market will be established elsewheré in Europe. If it should accomplish nothing elge, it would settle the quéstion as to whether the rates of exchange were béing manipulated for po- litical or gambling purposes. The vast amount of the exchange com- mbdities made in thésé markets would méasurably re-batablish again in force the old aw of #up- ply and demand. and would dis- close the true value of foréign ex- change. 1 had hoped and believed long ere thix the moneyed men of the world would devise some plan to restore the equilibrium. The world cannot wait much longer upon them. The market exchange is not perfect. but it would-help. Thé business men of America mav well study the Antwerp plan. 1 speak with no authority. but with Kood inténtion. when I suggest that their investigation would show it to be helpful to the foreign com- merce of Ameérica, and consequent- 1¥ to the world. (Copsfight, 1922. by Thomas R. Mafkhall.) | 1 1 l | | !. | s a World Trade for U. S. Chemicals \ HERE is an up-to-date ro- mance of industty in the story of how within five years the United States jump- ed from dependence upon Germany for chemical supplies to an enviable position as wofld trader in thése basle products that enter into the fhanufdcturé of practically every commodity in daily use. During the world war a great chemical industry was nhurtufed in this country which had ematched the United States from the merciless domination of Gérman cartels, and the position of the chemical engineer 48 & ploneer In progress, as a founda- tion builder for industry, and as an ally in_the manufacture of thé eount- less products that enter into the daily life of every American was emphasized. = Since thé war, during thé read- justmént pérlod, the necessity for mairtaining and developing the chemical industry in thé United States beyond rivalry by Germany or any other country has been- in- lenllagfl by #otual busiriéss experi- énée no 1848 than by thé students of military protectedness and by debate in Congress. * X X % So atrongly _stressed is this ne- ‘cégsity that Herbert oovet, an indiustrial enginéér bf wofld fecbgnition aild experience, has ak an_important stép in the reorgani- Bon o e uics’ s ew chemimi érce, in: P & flvfimfl in the burésu of foréigh and domestic commerce, Whith has Jul gun_to ‘tnrnctlon. with €. ef. reneral purpose of this aid; Ahari ch at thHEIF Adisposal accuraté and ae- tailed Information o? the markets in_forsign countries for their f“" ucts. t course, fer yéars thére -isan Imlugng up in the United 8 cériairi brarichés 81 thé chémi- tal industry that have grown to out- standing importance, such s min- ng o pmn_ % in Flo t.._a tijfe of comifiére] Pér- ifi?. JIANUACYGE mever Belors Has the whols-ensriteal tndustry been co-or- &N levelo) ole, e TN 88én T militer n; e o e B emacy: & now: ® X * ¥ Somié jdes of thé way in which the by g chemica and 1t8 votel & stralgit Tepubliskn fatirial ]e'f:gnl:nl; E":‘t;{“f.‘:};'"‘""“ it ticket: ing srtsrpriaeh s o oWn ifi & 1tét of wihé Big rodd” vots, iiforined dnd lugu oLt 6 :'fi!'l:l:fll 1‘ :nd;n d:llr:g ari _ififl.h:"vé, oftén Has wmuch to|}ill Be &l ',','2,,,6 remical afih'-':'é"'f'; i SR L R O Ryes and cosi-(hF e%mwfi palnits &nd varhishes: 28 in the present cFiald, WhIEh Eompeis fértiliser Mmatétials; bo GeFmany to admit her Mabiuty to pay, it is uselesd to rémind héf of the un- pardonable extravagatice With which she hes béén wasting moriey. tical ® ' assuined that th | Heartiest co-operation with “the trade” tas alréady been established. althbugh the new division was not organized until August 1. One of the first steps has Been the compilation of a list of domestic firms interestéd in the development of foreign trade. This list is known as “the exporters’ index.” and will sérvé as a basia for distribution of information on trade opportunities and eonditions in for- e division a1 e ‘division also is engagéd in or- ganizing advidory committees for each of the vafidus branchés of the chemical industry, to co-operate with the Departmént of Commerce —ac- cording to the Hoover system, such as was employed so effectively whén he was war-time chief of the Food Administration, and in his big drive to make the United States efficlen | prospérous by eliminating the wi in industry. “Where there is a tra association already exifting in the in- dusitry, coritact relations will be es- tablishéd through a corhmittée ap- pointed by that association. Secre- t;r{ oover and C. R. De Long. chief of the division, havé diready recélvéa assurancés from certain of the trade associations in the chemical industry of thejr willingness to co-opgrate with hé chemical division in furtherifig oreign trade. The depaftthent has officizlly announced that the néw di- vlil‘on is desirous at all times of re- cel vlnf suggéstiond from representa- n thé industry of méthods by tives which it ean be of aid to domestic Him- | manufacturers. * % 2 x Anothér féaturée of the work ot this division will be & periodic analysis of 9;8 ,unqttuln.t}l im‘vfir; "fl“l'tuc'tcol\i" éring practically roducts of thé ehémical ndustry. Such an anslysis R. | has just been completed for the twelve months ended June. 30, 1322. This shows that tFe total export tradé in chémicals and ,allléd -products was valued at $100,618,943 for the fiscal ygar. as asainst about $220,000,000 for 1821. From these figures it cannot be efé was & B0 per eént decrease in éXports, ah t fim;)m: Qecur:_: énd!hla vali cts eéxported during that period, D Lont pornts oul™ 1h the mere important chemicdls thérs Weré buth muked‘d-ge_ml :ml important in- creases in the quantities shipped from the United !&-u The expott classifiction for chémi- cal products has been expended con- sjderably bénm_ll_r" am- J’fiinry of this yéar. Severkl afticlés fof which export statistics are first slown for the six months period endéd Juné 30, Inicate an imporFtant irade in these items. For example, dextriié was bxported {5 {he extdnt of 7158950 Pounds and sluminum sulphate 11,- 986,218 pounds.’ * R 2% _Thé foréign tradé in_coal-tar dyés, colofs and stains, except color lzkes, showed 2 markéd decréasé from 17, us {or the flscal yéar 1 21 to only :,gfi,“mlz. TRe 80 pér cént & IR thé vidlué of foréign shi was a of the éas| e | of 27,000,000 inhabitants. Heard and See Such a generation! There go the little Mappers. inno- cently indifferent to the talk which they have caused. Watch the swebt barbarians, all at play, and .dmnf that the ages have not seen their equal. As Tiny Tim didn't say. “Gud{ bless 'em, every one.” | It is, indeed, a wonderful age in| which we live, as evary age before | wap wonderful in its time, and as! very age wil? be, thank heaven. It | was Lucretius who first told of the old plowman, gazing forlornly over the land, and sighing for a return of the “old days." Thete is @ woman in this town who | does not belong 1o the tribe of sigh- ing plowmen. She belleves that life| is good, and not wickefl. She is free, that s all, refusing to be held down by the old oppressions and inhibi- tions. 5 She has a little boy just about old enough to talk. The other day, at a function she| was giving, something went wrong. It was a slight thing, but enough to irritate her. Ladies of the old school would have expressed vexation. Z his modern lady—and she is such in the best sense of the term “gen- tlewoman"—used a plain epithet. “Oh, you shouldn’t use such words before little Frankle,” a woman friend laughed. “Oh, he can swear,” the mother “Say ‘Damn’ for the * * % Thunderstorms have been rather frequent here this summer. During one particularly severe storm, while the thunder was rolling. Jimmy, eight years old, became rather annoying to his four-year-old brother. An unusually loud clap finally drove Jimmy away from teasing Bill. “What is the thunder for?' asked the four-year-old. The father, thinking to drive home a lesson in conduct, sald: “It is to make bad boys be good.” “Jimmy looked properiy squelched. ‘Then the storm cleared up. Small Bill, formerly much subdued, got his cqurage back, and began to tease the penitent James. At last the older boy could stand the annoyance no longer. He walked over to the window. “Lord, send some more thunder,” he said, earnestly. * * % 1 remember Lord Northcliffe. He was a great man. one of the type that someé think is rapidly dis- appearing from the earth. but which perhaps always will be on earth to push the old world onward. Some years ago I met him in the office of the then Secretary of Com- | merce Redfield. What impressed me mostly was the tremendous thick-set vigor of the man. His face was clear and pink. and his head set down squarely on his shoulders. He was a massive Englishman of Bnglishmen. “No wonder,” 1 remember I thought at the time, “that this man has suc- ceeded. Any man who looks like that would be a success.’ His dress was Immaculate, his h pleasant, his power undoubted. e seemed like some great automo- bile engine. purring along slowly. but able at any moment to spring into ninety miles an hour. CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Fifty Ye;irs Ago * in The Star Horgee Greeley's candidaey fur- 2 nished materis| nnnu Gm[e’ for mnation-wire oY o e e AMusement dur asa “Chamois.” |, (he summos and autumn of 1872, not. the least of the fun heing supplied by the na neuvers of the democratic press “swallow” us @ presidential candidate one whom it had been so hortly. be fore denouncing in savage terms a republican. In The Star of Augus<! 14. 1872, ix thé following regar the campaign efforts of a Greeley supporter: “If one thing more than another is calculated to overcome us like o jsummer's cloud this hot weather it 1. e of the gepufles 1 before the 1 1t s nardly wort the ecstatic and Good Greeley. while to refer to the unkind thi that paper. said of Greeley a yeur ago. These have been all wiped ou! It lips are now trained to the right pucker to say only mellifiluous rthinzs in regard to the delightful Horace He is altogether lovely. He is nat only as wise as olomon and as that of a new-born babr. as that of a new horn babe of unsophisticated innocen: honest: “In a long time we have seen noth ing more charming in the way o’ Boswellian hero worship than Patriot’s description (per correspond- ent) of the *Ascent of Mount Kear- i sarge by Horace Greeley." The great ascents of all other mountains by other great men from Hannibal to Napoleon fade out. wilt and dry up before the scaling of Mount Kear- ) sarge by Horace Greeley as deseribei by the Washington Pairiot. “\We wish we had room to repro- duce the vivid pleture. how My Greeley, ‘feeling strong and heartv.’ | determined despite all remonstrances 1o attempt the ascent to the sumimit ‘over a foot path where only a mule could be Itly not to break a nec! zed a stoui stick.' and, by four gentlemen,” started off with grea! briskn The ascent ‘was through a wood on the hillside where the font path led over rugged and brol stones and then diverged into an o space made of hard xmooth rock forming a sort of prodiglous tiled roof to the mountain.' These rocks were ‘most slippery and dangerous but ‘the sturdy Philoxopher sculed them like a chamois of the Alps and the rest of the party had frequently to call a halt on him in order 1o et them catch their second wind." “It is then set forth in efusioe terms how a little girl who, through long experience in climhinz moun- tains, was a proficient, ‘was the one who could at all ~ompete the hardy Philosopher in of crossing chasms rocky mountain sides’ rustic beaux and were on the mountain top when ‘the tonishment at finding a coming Presi- august party’ arrived and ‘their as- dent in such a spot may be imagined. We should think so. No wonder they were astonished to se: a fai bald-headed old man bounding up the mountain side 1lke a chamois of he Alps. followed by a little girl and four perspiring admisers shouting. ‘kx- celgior, excelsior.’ Since the time when Mr. iick- wick made such frantic exeriions to keep up with the shooting party and was carrfed home in a Wheclbarrow we have seen nothing to compare with the Patriot's desaription uf Horace Greeley as a chamois of the But, seriously, is it expected this mountain-climbing gush twaddle is going to help Greeley to the presidency? DIGEST OF FOREIGN PRES German and French Birth Rate. FRANKFORT.—A writer from | Frankfort, in the Paris Eclair, com- | pares the respective populations of France and Germany and claims that fifty years hence Germany will have 93,000,000 inhabitants and France scarcely 45,000.000. He si “Swarms of children are fo be seen in the gardens and parks and they are increasing rapidly in the poorer quarters of the town. Coming from France the difference is striking, dis- tressing, in fact. Germany is not only passing through a period of remark- able progperits. but in spite of her losses in the war, in spite of the blockadé. the food restrictions and | the high prices with which she contending. she is giving proof of the | most extraordinary fecundity. ! “German’s progress during the last century has been remarkabile, still more remarkable even than that of our Latin sister Ital¥, who has doub- | led the total of her population in a hundred years. In 1816 Germany had 24,833,000 inhabitants, and in 1914, on the cve of the war, she had 67,790.000. That is to say. that in less than a hundrea years her population had al- most trebled. “jt we take a recent period from 1865 to 1914. France gained in this space of time 1.700.000 inhabitants. ‘while Germany had the huge increase “Gérmany lost about §.000.000 peo- ple through the territorial clauses of the Versailles treaty. and these have been attributed respectively to France, Belgium, Poland and Den- mark; besides this she lost nearly two million men in the war. “In 1919 statistics showed an in-| Grease of 282,230 births. and in 1920 of 623,367 births, not including Meck- iénburg and Wurttemberg. During the five years of war the civilian popula- tion of Germany increased by 744.067 inbabitants, which explains that the census of the 8th of October g&ves Germany a population of 59,500,000 inhabitarnts. “The increase in the birth rate is still _coninuing. In the first six months of 1921 it amountéd to 369,000, which would give a total for the whole year of more than 700,000. “'At this rate Germany will soon fill up the §aps caused by the war and the esace and will regain her pre-war level n about ten years' time. Taking into account the ehormous number of repatriated persons caused by the ter- ritorial amputations, the population must at the present time. ! of Gérman; % wlt’nh!a zaggération, amount to 62,000,000, while that of France scarcely amounts to 39,000,000, _ “It4 surface i# not more than 184.- :00 #quaré fiflés, but there aré about 40 inhabitants to thé squafe milé, an extraordinary proportion. And it is because of this proportion that Ger- many is unable to feed all her people gnd that she is obliged, by the very force of things, to seek some fiéld of éxpdtision, st the presént tifme in Rusala. It is thé fatiious ‘Drang nach n' come to life sgain. “The following table shows the progress of Germany comparéd with that of Francéduring 1920 & Prince, Germanr, et Ry Yy e 3 fanabitants i 7 1631 m"fisl'«'i'.. 4 108 “THe rec: atistics show a rapid The Crisis. TURIN.—Writing in La Stampa. 4. Levi della Vida says: “Since the ‘war governments' caine to an end with the fall of the Or- lando cabinet, in May, 1919. four min- istries have succeeded each uther in Italy in little more than three yewrs. and none of them—except that of Giolitti—lasted for a whole vear “If we take this fact, eloquent in itself, into consideration, and realiz: the ever-increasing difficulties with which the new cabinets were ¢ fronted, and remember that the signs of an approaching crisis and the more or less secret plans in connection with it became &pparent almost regularly at the beginning of the new governments' activities and ally that many of the€e 1- not & remained in power only a the ¢ of equivocations and isr-nsactione tending rather to perpeu.ite than 1 te the initial amg.guity of onstitution—if all thi. be taken without prejudice uf party. we must admit it is no exas- geration to that Italy at the present time is not confronted with & government crisis, but rather with o erisis of its institutions. “The almost optimistic skepticism which is the greatesat virtue and at the same time the greatest fault the ltalian people makes them their c: into account clined to laugh at and unheed the warnings of pessimists, with the ‘Things will arrange If it be true on the one hand that sufiden solutions are very rare, and that the shock of conflicting forces almost always engenders equi- librium, it _is none the less true, on the other hand, that such an equili- brium is often worse than disorde: and very soon new conflicts arise, if does not indeed happen that maras- mus and degeneration take the place of eguilibrium. “The great danger nowa throughout the “world, but larly in Italy, is that while the o side of the edifice of institutions still cxists, the inside nas entirely crum- bled fo pieces, without anything be- ing built up in its stead. “One of the chief causes of the suc~ ess_of the fascisti in Italy consisis n the brutal frankness with which they recognize the incapacity of the constitutional government 10 under- stand and regulate present-day po- litical and economical realities. “The only efficlent weapon ainst bolshevism consists in the suppréssion of the causes which created it and keep it alive. The only remedy against the revolution of the lower classes is the revolution of the higher classes. Revolution does not alwass mean riots in public places, bloodshett and executions. The sanguinary con- flicts which for a year and a half have afflicted Italy are civil war, but not revolution. Revolution, in a certain sense, took place in the unwonted displacement of political and social values caused by the war. “The urgent problem, then, is to ad> just the state af law to a state of fact. The institutions which no longer correspond to the exigiencids of reali- ties must be modified if they are nov to crumble to pieces, leaving behind them emptiness and anarchy. The grave financial and economical situa- tions can also only be remedied Ly providing new methods of production and distribution of wealth, or by new methods of fiscal taxation. “A government which had enough energy and intelligence to announce and carry out—a thorough revisioi of legislation and administration could bring about the pacification of the country more rapidly and surely than any police measures.. Such a pacifici tioh would be all th® more rapid be- cause a government constituted om these lines would immediately inspire the public with confidence. “The Italian crisis is chiefly a crisis of confidence. Thé masses—and this word includes not onit the proletaris:: but also the majority of the middle classes who do not interest them- gelves directly in politics—have lost i tic: X i68ies And RFEWorks, ar ul hce and 4 new | faith in He capacity and the #ood 5 s & fiylhg staet, | 9,000,000 pounds. AMORE fértiliser will,of the government. e Bureat | materials exports of ammonium sul- ‘Do we mean to remain with our} *The confidence of the Italian p stredm pll‘n moreé doubléd in quu&tll crossed in facé of this danger|ple in their rlers must be restored, rodic- [ whilé medicinal and pharmaceutical | which 18 "thfedténing ‘us, a danger|and in order to bring this about the o vatl. | Dré ons slurtipéd off 16 oné-thira | which 18 411 the mofe séricus because | rulers must begin by deserving this cHemical | 87 export valies in 1921. fun the risk of being submerged |trust. This Is a simple program to, id| There was a notiseable jmprove- &m x our nel.hkum? 1f | announce, bl’l *:flcull to. put Into ing! ent in the foréign ma; ka 7 nayal | the préséht proportions continité, in | practice. 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