Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1922, Page 38

TE["EIM 5 BTA,R' ::"‘:"m{‘cl' ‘been necessary in fi e e —_— : wAsHINGEON,/B. e s up ly out ly assem| ma- SUNDAY.....September 24, 1028, |, "5\ as & fact, when the war came the governmen: was very far THEODORE W, NOYES...Bator| i faing equlpped with its own out- fit, 80 that its rent %oll, already large, Representative Langley's proposal is to adopt a camprehensive ‘building 0. | program. Corifirion sense dictates that no other plan should be followed, but that every new government building should be designed and placed with reference to a harmonious scheme. Haphazard locations may be es ex- pensive as bad construction, But the adoption of the program and the pro- vision of funds for its execution should not wait on the settlement of disputes over sites or designs. What is needed is a broad authorization for & bulld- Ing commission empoweted to proceed at_once.to.act continuously without further specific legislative authority, with assurance of unfailing funds; to erect the bulldings that the govern- ment really requires for a businesslike, decent and truly ecortomical transac- tion of its affairs. Chicago Office: Firat Buropean Office: 3 Regent 8t., v The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, is delivered by carriers within the city at 80 cents per month: di month; Sunday only, 20 eents . ders may be sent by mall or telepbope Maln 5000. _Collection is made by carriers at the end of each month. Rato by Mail—Payable in Advance, Maryland and Virginia. = 1mo., 70¢ 1yr., $6.00: 1 mo., 50c 1y, $2.40; 1 mo,, 30¢ Sunday only. All Other States. Paily and Sunday.1 yr., $10.0 Daily only Sunday only Washington Twenty Years Hence. Estimates by engineers of the tele- phone company, who have been re- cently studying the local situation to determine the prospective require- ments of the service, place the popula- tion of Washington twenty vyears hence at 645,000. This is reckoned on the basis of the growth heretofore, and represents the scientific judgment of men whose business it is to foresee ‘ conditions. Many Washingtonians may regard this figure as too low. But when the fact is borne in mind that the present population is about 438,000 it is to be seen that the increase of the telephone engineers' estimate is 207,000, or 47 per cent above the pres- ent population. Enless Washington is affected by extraordinary conditions such as those of the great war it is not at all likely to grow at a more rapid pace than that. At that rate the capi- tal will approximately reach the mil- lion mark in forty years. That is plenty fast enough to grow. There is no particular reason why the city of Washington should boom in size more rapidly. Nothing is to be gained by inordinate growth, and much may be lost. Washington is unique in that it has a rigid limit of possible area. Short of the recession | of the Virginia area of the original District the Federal city cannot be enlarged, and that is an extremely un- likely chance. Therefore, population increase inescapably means congestion. Other cities grow by expansion out- ward, but Washington, already touch- ing the boundaries with urban condi- tions, is likely by 1943 to have spread out in all directions from the center to the boundaries in degree of density that 1s not known elsewhere. In their estimates the telephone en- gineers take into account the immedi- ate suburbs of the capital in Maryland and Virginia, and they flgure on a population in that area by 1943 of about 79,000, so that what may be called the metropolitan district for twenty-one years hence will comprise 2 population of approximately 724,000. If the suburban area is to be: included regardless of state lines the million point is fairly certsin ito be reached ‘well within a range of forty years. The greater Washington toward which the ambitious District resident looks is not necessarily a tremendous aggregation of human units, but a bet- ter equipped city, a city of good streets, good schools, peace and com- fort, a city of prosperity and not of congestion, a city of sapitary homes. and a high average of public health. The telephone compeny is anxjous to learn the prospect of demands upon its service in the future in order to be prepared to meet them. The Wash- ingtonian is anxious to know how to administer & munieipalify of 645,000 inhabitants. e : 1 mo., 85¢ 1mo., 60c 1 mo., 25c Feeding the Multitude. 3 One of the local Shriners has been computing the commissary supplies that will be required to feed the visitors on the occasion of the big con- vention of that order here next June. These are the figures: 600,000 loaves of bread, 600,000 pounds of meat, 300, 000 fishes, 300,000 chickens, 2,400,000 eggs, 300,000 pounds of butter;, 1,200, 000 cigars, 600,000 pounds of -fruit, 600,000 quarts of coffee, 100,000 pounds of candy. Moreover, 200,000 gallons of gasoline will be needed. Study ‘of those figures indicates the size of the job that any city unde: takes when it asks a big national or- ganization to visit it for its meeting. The estimated attendance at the Shriners™ convention next June is 300,000, or 50,000 more than attended the San Francisco meeting. This larger attendance is based on the fact that fully 70 per cent of the member- ship of the ordér lives east of the Mis- sissippl, and ‘Washington is therefore nearer for & greater nimber thdn was San Francisca. =~ ° 1f the work of feeding the great Shriné army in June fell upon oné or- ganigation it would be an Immense task. But @s a matter of fact it will be done by hundreds of agencies, all well organized. Washington is near the sources of supply,.and when a quarter of a million people or more come here for an inauguration or & convention it simply means that new orders for supplies are increased in proportion to the expected attendance. ‘Washington has entertained great numbers often in the past, and as far as the provisioning of the 300,000 Shriners 1s concerned it will have no dificulty. There may be some trouble on the score of housing, but that is being now studied out carefully, and without question in good season ac- commodations will be provided for everybody, in hotels,.in homes, in rail- road cars and possibly on steamboats. ‘moored in the harber. Those whi ‘e in chatge of the local arrangements” are moving with wise foresight to make all the provisione possible in edvance. They are organ- izing their committees covering every possible feature of the work. Those comprising these committees have in many. cases had abundance of experi- ence, for Washington has played host often in the past. Tk & ————tre Bavaria' Shuts ‘the Door. " _ Official announcement has been made at Munich that owing to eco- nomic conditions the goveérnment ' of Bavaria will henceforth permit no more tourists to visit or sojourn in that country, and that permits will be granted only those who have valid rea- sons for such visits, and these will be issued for only limited ‘periods. For- eigners who buy in-excessive quanti- ties articles of daily nee¢ or *‘who otherwise prove themselves objection- able” will be expelled. This, taken on its face, shows ‘an economic stringency. in Bavarla that is ‘surprising even to those who real- ize the séricus stfess of conditions throughout Germany. .It is plain that Bavarfe needs supplies‘more than the cash of visitors, which ought to be most welcome- there.- . But -is it,.in truth, wholly an ecenomic measure? The suggestion immediately .arises that possibly this order has a political significance. =~ -Bavaria, it is well Xnown, is_the center of' the monarchical movement in Germany. So far as known there is utsch” In centemplation. At present the reaction is against the monarchists .in consequence of the murder of Rathenau; which set back Airship accidents are frequent. So are automobile accidents. The airship has not had nearly as many ‘safe- guards thrown about it-as the automo- bile, and makes a very fair safety rec- ord in comparison. —_——— Prices on the stock exchange would be more reliable as indicators of pros- perity if they were not so largely in- fluenced by people who are only trying to guess the market. —_——— It is regrettable that @ man of Mus- tapha Kemal's aggressivé political am- bitions cannot be compelled to give an explicit accounting as to his campaign funds. N ————— . A Public Building Plan. Representative Langley, chairman of the House committee on public buildings and grounds, and -ranking member of the public buildings com- mission, announces that at the next session of Congress, though a short one, he will seek the enactment of & bill providing for a truly economic housing of the government’s bureaus and departments. Such an economic housing, Mr. Langley holds, is only possible through the Ccomstruction of government-owned buildings, per- manent, suitably piaced and designed to accord with the character of the capital. In the matter of its housing accom- modations the government has lived from band to mouth for meny years, indeed, practically ever .since. its or: ganization. It has never had & com- plete outfit of its owri. It has alwdys borrowed, so to speak, by renting bulldings put up by others, -some of them designed for:pubtic service pur- poses, others used -as makeshifts and transformed by B féw changes. ' In the course of the last half-cen- tury the government:'has: spent in rents far more than as much money as ‘was required for all the structures that its steadily expanding needs’de- manded. In the-last quarter-century it has thas dpent’int ‘rents enough to put up all the buildings that are es- sential at this timé' for' a proper ac: commodation of its digencles housed in privately owned quarters. "' - one never knows what mey be brew- Ing. The expulsion of foreigners from Bavaria ‘may very. possibly have e meaning in this.connection. It would surely seem that the cash of visitors would be highly welcomed in Bavaria as'in any-other part of Ger- many. Practicglly all those who enter the country have money to spend. If it is only & question of their buying too much the Bavarian government could certainly exerciss- supervision and restraint. Most of thode who visit live ‘at places of public accommoda- tion, ‘where the supply of daily neces-: sities-is in the control of those directly undet’ government supervision. Thus tc Is. eyident thiat ‘elther- the’ economic situation -is even worse thaid .it hds epbeared” to be heretofore, “or, that sometHing is dbing of & political char: acter, and Bavaria s taking precau- tions to keep out all “undesirables™ as In accordance with Jong custom, ths ‘propositions for revising the neir. tariff will be heard from-a!most immediately. Trafic and Skip Stops; When the Commissioners take up for consideration the question of the skip stops, which -should be soon, in response to a.petition from one of the citizens’ associations, they should bear In mind one: factor of the cade that s of importance apart from the conven- lence of passengers dnd car compenies. This is the relatfon between the strest cars and the vehicular traffic. Under the bld ystem, wiien cars stopped uni- xmmm-rd,loumnsm the restoration project seriously. But| IND proaching & ¢r to look for the motorist cann pens to know the location of every skip-stop point in town, whether tks car will stop before crossing the street or will cross without check. Accidents undoubtedly happen on acoount of this Iack of uniformity, and more will oc- cur in- the future if the skip-stop sys- tem is maintained. ) The motorist has much to learn in the traffic rules book.. He has toacquire e long list of “‘don’ts” and an equal- 1y long list of “do's.”” If he cAn pass a 100 per cent examination in the regu- lations he is little short of & marvel. In addition, however, under these con- ditions of today, he must for his own security learn the stopping points of the street cars. It is to be doubted if a quarter of the motor drivers in this city know all the-stops. Strangers can- not be expected to know any of them, whatever the car-stop rules may be in their own cities. Skip stops are being abandoned in other citles because they no longer serve their first purpose of lessening fuel consumption end speeding trafc at time of extraordinary congestion. ‘Washington, however, continues per- sistent, not becsuse it is convenient for thé people, but because it is estab- lished. If public wishes were con- cerned-+and the railways are run pri- marily for the public convenience— the system would be abandoned at once and the cars brought back to the near-side stop that everybody knows and is of meximum accommodation and greatest safety. Movies in Tibet. A dispatch from London, pinted in The Star the other day, {llustratés the rapldity and completeness with which old barriers have -been broken down and old prejudices removed. A British Buddist mission is now on its way into Tibet for the purpose of opening that country to certain modern ideas A large stock of motion picture ma- terial is being taken by the expedition, both to show the Tibetans the wonders of the cinema and to obtain movies of scenes in the forbidden land. Just & few years ago Intrepid ex- plorers were trying to make their way into Tibet. One after another they climbed the Himalayas and sought en- trance beyond the great rock wall be- hind which the lamas held their people in rigid seclusion. Only from the south was it possible to make such an en- trance, although on the mnorth the country was physically open. The great Gobi desert, however, was as ef- fective a blockade as Mount Everest and its compenions of the greatest barrier in the world. A few of these trespassers got through, some of them returning to tell tales of terrible hard- ships. From others nothing was ever heard again. Then an expedition, mili- tary in character, but bearing mes- sages of peace, went across the hills end penetrated Lhasa. The Dalal lama fled northward, but a treaty was made and Tibet was effectually opened to commerce and to occasional travel. Still Tibet has remained a land of mystery: Now it is proposed to tempt the Tibetans with motion pictures. They are a simple people, not nearly as truculent as the lamas would bave them appear. It is probable that they will be vastly amused by the movies: 1 so we may expect to see Tibet on the “silver screen” in a few mont’u, showing to millions scenes that have hitherto been witnessed by only a few hundreds and bringing Tibet at ltfl into communion with the rest of th¢ world. —_———— Unless Dr. Einstein takes the trou- ble to make reference to relativity be- fore long the public is in danger of losing all interest in finding out how it.works. —_————————— Néw York affairs have always re- vealed men who were able to wield a remarkable amount of influence with- out being able to achieve office. —————————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDBR JOHNEON. - A prisoner stood in the day dock, -A man of middle years, 3 He plalnly felt a cruel shock, His eyes filled up with tears. He murmured, “Judge, don’t be un- kind, But let me out on ball, And-bear this circumstance in mind; I've never been to jail. ’ 3 “The penitentiaries today ‘Are elegant and warm; {They lead a scientific way To cilture and reform. P And since’ that motor cop has shown ‘How much my morals fail, In mercy, let this fact be known: T've never been to jail. “My youtli's advantages were small. 1 studied here and there, 1 never had what you might call Preparatory care. So, ere my penalty you set, ) Give heed unto my wail, Be generous, judge, and don't forget I've never been to jail.” #T can't say your speeches show much originality.” “Originality isn't what I'm after,” replied Sepator Sorghum. “My oon- stituents can think up more new ideas in a week than I could suggest to Con- gress in a lifetime.” - - - ° = o ey Jud Tunkins says ho man can econ: omize enaiigh to suit his wife until he learns to make a complete-lunch of a spoonful of ice cream or & Iettuce leaf. _ An 014, 0Md Story. Soclety is much to blame, And sinful schemes are -worked anew. . 3 7 Grandfather always sald the same, » My great-grandfather said so, t0o. .- Modern . “Is §1 Simtin Requirements, ‘what you'd call & good awake ite inspirin’ en® if-it-puts me to sleepit’s restful.. i broke down when former Gov. McCafl refused to lead it. Mr. Walker, who did lead it, is a bright young man, but known principally as the son - of his father, @ rugged and aggressive poli- ticlan, who passed from the scene some years ago. The son does not carry guns enough to dispose 6f an old ship of the line with the record of thé Lodge ship. There is prediction that the senator will achieve another emashing victory on election day. The democracy, it is asserted, did not in the primary put,its best foot foremost.- Its candidate for the Senate Is a man of high standing, socially and otherwise, but not com- parable in’ point of ability or mchieve- ment with his republican opyonent. ' The friends of Mr. Lodge, indeed, placé him high in Bay state history. They reckon him as the ‘most con- siderable man to hold the atate’s com- mission in the Senate since the days of Mr. Sumner. Their culogy is ex- pressed in warm terms. As Webster ‘was the foremost man of his day in the fight for a broad and binding in- terpretation of the Camstitution, and Bumner the foremost man of his day in the fight against .African slavery, 80 is Lodge the foreinost man and in- |, fluence of this day in. holding the coun- try in the matter of foreign relations true to the course chartéd by the fathers. The friends of the senator, howevér, for all their high appraisement of him and confidence in his star, are taking no chances, but organizing for a thorough campalign. They realize that the times are greatly disturbed; that much is in flux; that in such a state of things changes may come swiftly, and that vigilance is necessary in pro- tecting the fortunes even of a leader as conspicuous and as capable as Mr. Lodge. And so they will strive to put him over in November by a signal ma- Jority. —_——e——————— Definitions Wanted. A good deal is being sald in political circles about reactionaries and pro- gressives. Are not definitions in order? ‘Who are the reactionaries? Who of any consequence are proposing a re- turn to old conditions? Who does not know that those conditions have passed and cannot be restored? Who with any claims to consideration for public office or for a seat among unofficial party advisers are in darkness or doubt about the fact that the war produced far-reaching changes ‘in many things, and that American’ af- fairs must be adjusted to meet the re- quirements of a new world? Such being the case, are not all of us necessarily progressives? We can- not go backward. We cannot stand still. Hence, we must go forward. It is imperative—something inescapable. Does not the question, therefore, re- | late to the direction and the speed of | our movement? May it not be put in this form: Whither? and how fast? ‘We are going forward, and at some,! speed. We cannot do otherwise. We are one of the great nations, and should, and' may, with good manage- ment, become the greatest of all. So. that let us debate those two propositions—whither? and .how fast? —and not waste our breath or spoll white paper debating the undesired and the impossible. ¢ ‘We made progress—good. progress— before the war. As a matter of fact, there has never in our history been a real]ly standpat period. We have al- ways kept on keeping on—had to do it because of our size and our place in a world of movement. And progress is as imperative now as at any former | time. A Lost Leader. Interest in politics manifested with- in the t year by George B. Mc- Clellan has led to moye than one sug- gestion- that he might be meditating e return to political life. Maybe Mr. Murphy- would put him up; ‘as Mr. Croker in his day used to do, for a seat in-the House. How about this year? Not this year. The Tammany nom- inations for Congress were announced last week, and Mr. McClellan’s name ‘was not on the list. High hopes centered in this man ‘when he was first introduced on Capi- tol Hill. He had but recently left col- lege; was bright and ambitious; bore a distinguished name and bhore it well. ‘Why not in time the governorship of New York, and then, in further time, the presidency of the United Btates?- Something slipped. Mr, McClellan did not get further than the mayoralty of Greater New York, He and Mr; Murphy did not hit it off well together, and he stalled in that office. The present would appear to be s good time for a man of Mr, McClel: lan’s caliber and experionce to take s hend In New York. The democracy of the state is greatly reduced in the matter of leadership, Clavelands, Hjlls, Whitneys, Lamonts, . Flowers are not in action, or even on the hori- zon. At Syracuse this' weok a candi- date for governor is.to be nominated, and but two names are undar serious discussion in connection with the honor of carrying the party's banner in the campaign. Mr. McClellan is no longar .o youth; and yet isas far from being an old man. In years and strength he- would fully meet the requirements of leadership, But it may he that politics, and par- ticularly the strenuous New York brand, no longer appeals to him. -He is a man of scholarly tastes and at- tainments, has Weveral books to.his | credit, and has done semothing of note as a teacher in the fleld of education. And, as he is “snugly fixed” @s re' spects finances, hé can choose his em- ployment. - > o B Food distributed In aroas of starva- tion was well bestowed when it put men in working trim, but not so well bestowed when it only seryed to make them available for militaristic ex- ploitation. More war means' mote fqmine. L S Leading native residents of the ¥s- 1and of Yap are ne doubt wondering{ of: ‘whiat hiss become of \helr prospects of prominence. ; - Vrges Franco- ¢ Tei BY THOMAS R. MARSHALL, Former Vice President of the United F the motto “Safety First” ap- peals to the average Ameri- can, then ‘I suggest he take with a’grain of ‘salt the writ- . ings from Europe of any of. that large body of ex-everybodies; in- cluding. myself, who have been traveling over it with lightning speed. The more I see, the more uncertain J become. The more I héar, the gréater I doubt. I trust no one will' take anything I-write as expreasive-of an ultimate: fact from which there is no escape. I ‘convey merely my own opinion, “galried, I- vealize, by contact with the few rather than with- the many. When ‘I left America, the sub- ject of -universal interest was’the’ rehabilitation of Europe. .-In- timately conpected with this wore the relations between France and Germany. Most persons belleved that the establishment of right re- lations between these two coun- tries would be a great step to- ward the restoration of the -eco- nomic situation in continental Hurope.. Quite closely allied “to America could or should do touch- ing those relations. v * kK X I probably. ought not to have formed an opinion on what I have been” seeing and hearing, yet,® nevertheless, I did, I am con- vinced that Germany has not changed her attitude of mind to- ward the French republic. deed, so far as I can learn, she has begun a system of education, both by publlc speeches and private talks, to put herself wholly in the Flght With reference to the war and France entirely in the wrong. The Uermdn people are being schooled in the belief that Ger- many cannot pay the indemnity, will not pay it, and ought not to pay it; that Germany was the vic- tim and not the ageressor in the war; that France invaded her ters ritory with armed forces, and that the battles she waged were purely those of self-defense. The common sense of mankind must inevitably belleve that.the Germans,_ hate the French. This hatred, accentuated by post-war. bitterness and animosities, will Togically lead to trouble in the.- future. "So far as I can ascertain, the Krench limit their hatred to the German military system. It does not include the (Jerman peo- ple. French bitterness is directed at the German theory of govern- ment, which Is still being taught. * ¥ Xk ¥ 1 was at Rheims, which prior to the great war was a city of 125,000 people. Jts magnificent ca- thedral dated back to the four- teénth ° century—the cathedral whewe Joan of Arc was conse- crated for her patriotic mission and where most of the {llustrious kings of France were crowned. It was -a eity rich in historic incl- dents, but of no military or strategic value, Yet, because the Germans were unable to drive the French army back, they bombard- ed the town and riddled the cathe- dral with shot and shell, Fear of German militarism w voiced " by residents of the city, One man told me that hls ‘grand- Aatlier's home wad destroyéd bg the Germans in 1812, that it was rebuilt and again destroyed by the Germans_in 1870, that his father again rebuilt it and that again it was destroyed by the Germans in 1915. Others with whom I talked. expresked a dread and fear of the militaristic ideas of thé German: people. Point was made that Ger- many in twenty-five years would have a popylation twice as large as that of France. * ¥ * % One resident recalling that Bis- mark’s altered telegram led to the Franco-Prussian war in 1870, to the defeat of France and to the treaty of Paris, pointed out that it took France thirty years to pay ECRETARY HOOVER is urging the need of federal, and state commercial arbitration laws and of making commercial arbitration treaties with: foreign .nations.as a most effective way to make business safe and sane, economical and de- pendable. Representative Leonidas C. Dyer of Missouri, a member of the House judiclary committee, and sev- eral members of the House cominittee on Interstate and foreign commerce and of the foreign affairg committee have been in conference with the ex- perts of the Department of Commerce upon -the proposed program to make commercial arbitration effective. The recommendations of & confer- ence upon this subject, called to- gothor nearly & year ago by Becre- tary Hoover, and which have been indorsed b: . J. Wolfe, ehlef of t division of commercial law of the Department of Commeree, ars briatly; (1) A federal law to take care of {nterstate and of foreign commercs; (2)- a uniform_state arbitration law to take care of commerce Within.the states; and (3) commerclal. arbitration treaties to take care of fareign. trad! Naturally, the intreduction.of legl§~ lation in forty-eight, states.is bound to be a slow process, and a federal bl is heing urged as the {deal solu~. tion expected to meet about 2 R kK W S With regard to foreign.lands, the experience of the division-of com- mercial law’ durlng the ' fhlrteen months_that have elapsed:since its formation as an important part of the reorganization. of thd TCommerce Department hy . Secretary Hdoyer "to make. it- more- practically, segviceadle fo ‘Américan ~business “haw clearly brought.out the fact, Mr; Woife says, that litigation 4n foreign lands, based upon contracts with foreign.eustoms érs is destruciive. If arbitration is of 'all to the consumer—will be the inevitable re- sult. The recently alarming and a gravated evll of rejection of mer- | b chandise’ without cause will, in & large measure, be prevented, Nt is belleved by. those. in Congress and the Commerce Department, who have ‘been stullying ‘this problem through the. commercial arbitration system. . Commercial arbitration, it is point- ed out by Mr. Wolfe and argued by members of the House committee on interstate and foreign commerce, ‘is far from s mere theory champloned by college economists. Neither is it a hobby of doctrinaires, nor yet an Incidental phase of commercial rela-| tions of interest to some and of 1o con- cern to others. Commercial arbitra- which is universally’ ad- the practical appHeation Drlndgl& of mitted,” pat “which 40 business within a ou tejes. and hetween diffarent til1 in {ts infancy. Am«-fl‘ a system of commercial nm emove Fear of this was the problem as to what. - In- | iean Pact the indemnity. He did not husitate to express his fear that future ‘War would arise between the two countries unless a different atti- tude- is "devel arid maintained. No one imagines that Germany can pay the full indemnity in gold. - There Is 1one to be ob- tai; But it is easy to com- pr!hkl:\‘fl ‘bo"hus'ranchmln. who worked _for, y years to pay Germany, are sensitive over- thé efforts of the German government to -be ‘relleved from the payment of the present indemnity, g I b One of the first things, that is needful in the rehabilitation of Europe is a new. gleam of common sense upon the part of Germans. It i3 np particular wrong has been pointed out €0y tinuance of the sameé course Of eonduct * is° ‘inexousable. . Germany and France should. 'come- on‘some sort of an economio un- derstanding, Germany. should frankly admit the error.of the militaristic * state -of mind; - should firmly establiah = her . republican form of government and- skould seek - friendly politi and com- mercial relations --with . France. That- France would meet her.4n a proper spirit. 7 have no-doubt. So great is her dread and fear that the future may bring more wars, ‘that she would welcome anything that contained & measure of se- curity ‘against war's recurren The ‘statesmen of France would “be - wise enmough, I believe, to nsent ‘to a:reduction of the. emnity, if, with Its- reduction, ‘jthere could come a -fravk expia- nation of the-catses of .the groat war, a sincere desire-to prevent recurrence and honest efforts. to cultivate social - and - economic friendship: So long as-these two nations efther -hate or. fear each other, there is not much hope for early restoration of normal con- ditions in continental Europe. * ok ¥k And now in the light of things as I saw them, what is my 1§ pression as to the duty of Amer- fca? For the most part my prin- ciples seem to be only mottoes to hang upon the walls of time. They are always facing oondi- tions. which cannét. be met and consequently 1pust be turmed to the” wall. I not - convinced, however, ‘that the American peo- ple have lost all sense' of moral obligation for the' results’ that flow _through the world out’of the conclusion of the great War: "I believe " con ehtly *with their own best interests they would be willing to do anything they might safely do Yo, bring about 2 friendly feeling- between France and Germany. * k x % T am quite satisfied that the fears of France would, be at once re- moved if the American Senate would ratify the treaty negotiated by President Wilson, promising aid to France in the event that Ge: many again jnvaded ber territory. 1 am sure that if President Har *ing would negotiate-a new tresty whereby France. and -America pledged themselvea to.come.-to tho aid of each other, in the event of attack by Germany, this would r move the fear of the French.pe: ple. True, this is opposed to a cient American doctripe. -t would - be an entangling alliance, and much as I regard the fear and sufferings of Fra 1 could not find it.in my mail propose jt if 1 were not:satisfied that nothing but good woyld come of it. The Monroe doctrine has maintained its virility for a hundred years. Never has an ‘American been called ypon to de- fend it, although at any time American boys might-have been transported lto fie‘ntrnl oL Sgulh Anperice in lis.defens s _bare "m (nvu sufficie aste; these aRliancesg ar the naki 'dct that we had prom jsed to come to the aid of France in the event of German invasion “would prevent invasion. France could disband her army, which n irrifant to the people of Germany. It would be a long step toward the better under- standing between the French and German paoxlel and a splendid move toward the' restoration:of friendsirip and trade. (Copyright, 1922, by’ Thoma R.. Marshall.) \Drafting Trade Arbitration Law would have made impossible “that wave of cancellations® rejections and insincere complaints which not -leng ago threatened to disrupt the entire tabric of, international commerce. It is a ‘Phenomenon with Which the business ‘worid unfortunately has be- come too familiar that In the wake of a declining market there comes an epidemfc ‘of Yaulffindl: houid a manufacturer -h.lf o and honestly pack: oods .and’ still foar that the cargo will not meet an equally honest asoeptance? Commer- cial arbitration is put forward as the solution -of ‘this diffoulty, - If mer- chants ipclude In their ocentracts a clause submitting disputes that may arii to arbitratien; if the laws of states and nations lend prestige of legal .recognition to arbitration awards honestly and competently ren- dered; if treaties between nations provide that such awar, national validity; then | contract-jumper and o sion-extorter will pass inte eblivion with “such other aneisnt abuses commerce as pirasy and-the like. impetus to the pramatin of commer- cial arbitration, Can any one doub Mr. Wolfe ‘asks men wiifi'the widest experience in both demestis and for- eign trade, that henestly adminfs- tered-arbitration nnmulr’r- :r‘lth'"t'l:- backing of home Jaw_and .intern tional treaty agreementis, aoyld hav cleared the tanglea betwean fotel merchants’'and their eustomers after the collapse of the more eficlently and with around than litigation? Commerciak arbitratior conservatiom—mnot - terial things - as - prol rights and business r*ufln- more of such intangl Dlll? 1 elements of comméros - aa b henor, business safety-and- busin, friendship.,. The. Amerioan. Har tion, at its convention in Ba ousl ‘ederal statute 't states and mforcable. unanimously tre 1 P This polnt is also mtir :nb’::!n of ,on_mm:{.l Itration ne | conceras v merchant wlio see o basr [ tion 18 & ‘éonstructive movement, the | fac ;i.taon ’n’ effin! on, as oy :1 recen emphasised™ b: i o | available-in the Moscow | stas abject : ( v » e 055 e g B Almost continuous sessions of Sress during several years have “‘wonted” ‘Washington to the sight of the flylng over the two wings of pitol’ that when they were J dropped with the guvels of the presiding Officers the other day the big white bullding on the hill looked strange. Yet no difference was appreciable,in the city otherwise. Congress comes and 80es nowadays with only the indiviidual reactions caused by the departure of a few.score of peaple, perhaps a couple of thousand in alL When the city was smaller in popila- tion, & few decades ago, the comings and goings of Congress meant much. At the beginning of a session everything was erilivened; hotels were well filled, streets were faller, places of public amusement did better business and the street cars were more crowded. ‘Just so when the hoiuses, adjourned thése igns , as the phrase rap. Wash- ington was empty. & This present adjournment, almost co- inciding with the reopei f 1] schoals: Bas ieen scarcely moticeahle, 'or two weeks past families have beer moving back from “their summer out- énn. thousands returning to remain uring the coming ten or eleven months. For every ons outgoing 88 n- twenty or more -journeying Washing- shows a sign o e absence of th Capital winge. hind city scarcel the hegira; sa ¢ o the ive Yor {h +*4 . Human nature {8 nothing if not Inconsistent. An instance developed the other day in a section of Wash- ‘Ington where the street car tracks are more than usually out of order. A broken yoke has for some time past caused a terrific bang whenever a.car has moved over-the line at | ians that point—or rather four bangs - for side. Porck conversation had b subject to .llnerrupluinl u.: c:-“;: led Trayed by the bombardment - Com plaint had been made to the “proper authorities” - and the - neighborhood waited. - The noise continued. Patient acceptance of the banging succeeded. sphere. Started to Work to repair the broke Jot Onre "of these mlchlne-gu: break up the concréte. The man on protests against the banging cars in al “It's outrageous,” he declared, “that the people's peace and comfort are gut there—enough to wake.the dead! And 3o actually went out in the street and asked the ‘boss of the job the noise. Of course, the bo the machine-gun kept on had ceased to bang as they passed. ish_ now when any one mentjons each cdr, one for each wheel on that passed. Nervaes had been j: The noise became part of the atmo- One day, recently, a track gang n drills was brought into service to the porch, who had been ‘loudest -in tl’ie' btl‘lnnlng became highly in- not respected. ' Listen to that row complain to the Commissioners.” to desist because he could not stand t sputtering, and the next day the care The man on the porch is a bit sheep- nofse. b * ¥ Little pitchers, .our grandmothers used to say, have big ears. Modern parents are not as careful in their speech as were. those of the day when that truth was generally recognized. A proud father had recent occasion to appreciate. his own failing in this respect. His daughter, aged -five, dropped her fork at the breakfast table. Annoyed by her own breach of conduct, she- exclaime: [“Hell's bells, there goes my forl The family ast in. petrified astonish- ment. . Finally, father found his vul‘cwe' o 5 re did you get that expres- slon?". he asked, chokingly. » ‘Why, 1 heard you say. it yourself the other day, when you burned your finger with a match” the youngster replied. x Censorship is now the rule in.that household. Alsage-Lorraine Again a Problem. BERLIN.—Poincare’s action in ex- pelling the.- people of Alsace and Lorraine from their own soil has greatly increased the desire for the autonomy of these states, ac- cording to a writer in'the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, It says: “Among all the shameful acts of M. " Poincare which he pretends to commit in the name of the French nation, this expulsion of the inhabi- tants of Alsace-Lorraine from their own country is the most shameful because it is devold of all political motive, because there is no idea of & ‘sanction’ or a ‘restoration’ against Germany, but because it hits Alsace and Lorraine, which i3 supposed to enjoy the rights of members of the French state. When the ‘1iberators’ of this country expelled old men, ‘women and children without allow- ing them to take any belongings in the winter of 1918, it might have been calied the madness of the tonqueror. But if the same things happen today, it is not the bosches which are at- tacked, but old Alsatian families who wanted to claim French nationality. By this act M. Poincare, and with him the Freénch nation, has shown clearly for the first time that the Alsatian-Lorrainians are not French. “This sanction of Poincare has also its political signification. The Alsat- ian pa La_ Republic wrote tha Poincare's . measur: ‘were a proof | that the Paris government had taken 10 notice of the desires of the repre- sentatives and of the Alsatian press, “fit expressed the real will of the peo plp. This has caused the utter fail- ure. of French policy in Alsace-Lor- rajne. _This rénewed expulsion of Alsace-Lorraine citjzens ghown things very clearly.” Or does M. Poincare want to_expel all the Alsatian-Lor- rainian Alsace-Lorraine is not France. The desire for autonfony is increasing. . The thore France resorts gn{to methods of violence against the rights of people to their own lan- guage and wWays ofiliving, the geajer will be this desire. History proves that this tenacious and strong people have never allowed themselves to bs absorbed by a foreign nation. - And, however disagreeable it may be to M. Poincare and .his .friends, the Algatian people.consider their fron: tier to,be the Vosges, as it has been for. all time. T Impersonated Russian’ Royalty. LONDON.—The Petrograd corres- pandent of the Post say:! New. detalls in connection with the recent trial by .the Penza Revolu- tionary Tribunal of Claudla Polikar- povich, Sasha Prudentov and Pela- geya Klimova, who have been sen- tenced to.'death for claiming to be, r-ar:uvaly. .the late Empress of Russia, the cssrevitch, and one of the late czars ;daughte: are now press. From facts disclosed at the trial it seems that in -the.summer of -1919 rumor was circulated that the late mpress, - her. ‘son, and one daughter were. hiding- from the bolsheviks in | the Holy Assumption Convent in the Kragnoslobodsk district of the Penza govermment. - The - local cheka -im vg'o-ll‘bly proceeded to. . investigate the matter and discovered that.a ‘woman- phgrim, bearing-the name of Claudia Polll ovich, who bors a to the popular g at the of.a widel the convent. e | 1,600,000 francs befol Seen|Fifty Ye&llvrs- Con- 20 - yserving as a juror. l I 1000 for whioh " in The Star There was no public utllities com- mission in Washington fitty years ago, 50 that citizens Snit to Annul the who felt that W. & G. Charter. ;s m 770 : to complain gainst the street railway companies had to go to court with their griev- ances. In The Star of September 16. 1872, is an account of a suit entered in the Supreme Coyrt of the District. by District Attorney George P, Fishef for the repeal of the charter of the Washington and Georgetown Railway Company. The informatioa recited several grounds for repeal in th failure 6f the company o comply with its charter requirements. It had not conformed to the altered grades and pavements on certain streets. It had not laid its road “around the southern boundary of the Capitol grounds and along sald southern boundary east- erly to Pennsylvania avenue.” That the company, “with intent to defeat the provisions of the charter in gard to fares and transportation, h: adopted certain ‘transfer regulations under which it refuses and neglects to carry passengers at a rate of fare not exceeding 5 cents between efther terminus of said main railway and the terminus of either of its said branch rallways” It had falled to return the value as real estate of the f{ roads for assessment and taxtion. Tt had neglected to keep its tracks and a space of two feft beyond wel and In good order. 7 e ther grounds of complaint were gited. The company had not placed rst-class cars on its lines and had not rur the cars during the day as often as every five minutes, except 7th and 14th streets. dnd on It had failed to pro- vide passenger room, ticket offices and depots for the convenience of the public, particularly at the intersec- tons of 7th and 15th streets with '.P:n;x_‘l;;(lvnnln avenue. It had falled ake an annual - o ims report to Con * * % Carnivals of crime are not particu- larly a modern manifestation in this country. One of Chicago Anti-Crime them was the e subject of com- Committee. plaint and comment fifty years ago, as noted by the following in The Star of Septem- ber 17, 1872: “It is a curfous commentary upon the results of the sickly sentimental ism_upon the subject of capital pun ishment put forward of late vears th the newspapers all over the countr: ard urging the organization of vari- ous agencies, outside or co-operative with the law officers, to put up some bar against the ‘carnival of crime’ pre- vailing. In Chicago a citizens’ com- mittee of twenty-five has been a) pointed to aid the city authorities in the prompt arrest, speedy trial and sure punishment of crimin; lessness, robbe even murd having become alarmingly frequent in that city, and tke police and courts having proved powerless to stay the evil. At the meeting at which this committee was established, an even ing or two ago, at the call of leadins merchants, bankers and other bus ness men, the most vigorous enforc: ment of the law: ind the most tho ough execution and the severest pen- alties were strenuously advocate State Attorney Reed lectured the mer- chants and b s men, the ve! class who called the meeting, for maneuvering as to keep clear of ser: ing on the juries, and among other de- fects pointed out the absurdity of th. law in practically debarring a man who reads the daily newspapers fro Mr. Reed said that in one murder case alone he had been compelied to y-six men they had read a news- paper account of the terrible affal The committee of twenty-five is e powered to offer reward, engage cou sel and employ the services of speclal detectives in other agencies, whenever. deemed advisable by it, and it is ex- pected. that the funds for the work will be furnished by voluntary sub- scriptions of the law-loving and law - abiding people of the city.” Digest of Foreign Pressv student of e theological college and an amateur actor. Prudentov arrived at the convent in the guise of a pil- grim and after the ad nuns disguised him as a novice and he remained in the convent. The third “pretender,” Pelageya Klimova, was a former Red Cross nurse. In December, 1919, the cheka ar- rested the three pretenders, who were transferred to the Penza prison, from which, with the connivance of the guards and warders, - they soon es- caped. For over two years they lived in hiding In the surrounding country- side where the peasants vied with one another in giving them refuge Finally the three were once more arrested and committed for trial together with the mother superfor of the convent, six nuns and ten pe ants, who were accused of hiding an abetting the “pretenders.” Dumb Take the Air-Cure. LONDON.—The Croydon alr station is becoming the Mecoa of the aficted who have read of asroplane cures and :lre anxious to seek health up “in the ue.” The d and dumb, particularly, have great faith in the ability of @aeroplane acrobatics to cure them. Agdt People who have been told by their ~ medical advisers that the only hops they have of ever speaking or hear- ing is to receive some shock, are eager to try the effect of travelin in a_small joy-ride aerq with the thrills of 100ps, spina‘and sudden dives. So far no cures have been ! reported. Scaydal of Devastated Regions. LOMDON.—The Paris correspondent of the Dally News says that undeér the heading “Phantom Glass Works." what is alleged to be an extraordf- nary scandal in the devastated YF— glons is drawn attention to by the pres: It.is stated that nufacturerfo! weighing machines at Valencienne M. Armand, who had before the wa bought for 250,000 francs® two. out- of-date factorles which he ‘mesnt to scrap. but which were destroyed in the German bombardment: (1) Entered a claim with the in- dustrial _reconstruction office, after the armistice, for 13,000,000 'francs, this being the equivalent of 3.000,000 francs at whi he assesses hi losses at the pre-war value. (2) Applied, pending the payment of this sum, for an advance of 3,000~ 000 francs to build a glass works, and recelved half that sum by falsely representing that the work had bee completed and by showing fictitio contractors’ bl The scandal is said to have bee known for more than twelve month but the minister of the liberated re- glons has now tales= 2otion. and the | magistrate Lern has openéu &n in- quiry against Armand. In regard to the advance of 3,000~ ~e asked the re- construction office he was aw. a grant of 1,060,000 franca, but this was afterward canceled. Then, s i6 alleged, he got into communication Wwith an official who had orginally been charged to Teport on his case, and later was told that an advance rad been granted to him, not of 105,000 trancs, but of ‘the full 3006000 he had asked for. Betore the money could be recelved from the reconstruction office the latter had to be furnished with proof that the glass works had been bullt, and it Is further declared that the so- called proof was supplied in the form of bogus accounts. On the.strength. of these papers ” | Armand actually received, it is sa e his proceed: attention. {0