Evening Star Newspaper, November 9, 1922, Page 6

6 TIPS EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. . THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1922. THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY. .. November 9, 1022 THEODORE W. NOYES.......Editor ' Tne Evening Star Newspaper Company | and Pennsylvania Ave. 150 Naswau 8 Tower Building. 16 tegent 8t., London, England. ‘Chicago Offie: hle Turopean Utlies : . with the Sunday morntag The Evening St in the city edition, is deiivered 2t 80 conts per o month; Sunday o eod of each month. Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. and Sunday.. $8.40: ¥ only Bunday only Daily Dail Member of the Associated Press. | The Assaciated Pross is exclusively entitied 1o the use for republication of all news dis- patches ited to it or not otherwise credited | $n 103 paper and iso the local news pub- Yinhed ~herein. of apecial dispa o A rights of pablicatl are uise resert Narrow Congressional Majorities. Republicar of the House, row appears to be quite definitely as- sured sult of Tuesday's elec- tion. though by @ riajority that since Yesterday morning's reports has been creasing. The republican shuwn by the returns us they | stand vow, will be from twelve to fif-| teen. Cowmpared with the overwhelm- | ity in the Gouse today. this | till it | ed repub- beth branches of | control as a r steadily mna -an najority ¢ tremendoas republ prescnt Congress gained in the | eiection of 1920, thus reduced, resulted from the lundsiide of that vear. The ticket, for wt 000,000 st, swept into legis- y republican candi- in normal years would have e, it any. of election. Close | e niade then strongly re-| any norwally demo- moder margin } ngly smail | action in-| ck to the democratic | © numiber of these normally | i was ca lative office 1 small cha; icts v publican te mally republican distric Reduction the House majority from the immense figure of the 1920 | of election has been discounted ever | sinee the late campaign opened. Few | democratic observers of the trend ex- rected a national overturn. Few re- publicans feared great a change as that which occurred. A majority of thirty or forty was about the av- erage of expectation. The result is| lower than that. 1 Therce will be changes in personnel | that will affect the organization ma- terially. Some famillar faces will be missing from hoth House and Senate. The House republican leader had dready eliminated himself with his candidacy for the Senate. Apparently Chairman Voistead of the judiciary committee hds been defeated. Mr. Gillett is returned and his re-election to the speakership is on the cards, though, Yith a much reduced majority and with a number of progressives the House, the continuation of the present organization is net positively assured. 2 In both houses the republican mar- sin is so small—approximately, at the reckoning on present returns, twelve in the House and eight to twelve in the Senate, according as the results in Washington and North Dakota| may be finally determined—that En)ali, groups of, the less reguiar repub- licans in the two houses may hold thé balance of power. The party ~aucuses wiil be less unwieldy, how- ever, and, save for the possibility of | revolt by these small groups, there is | # better prospect of action by Con-i gress in these circumstances. i —_——— Wiil Hays' retirement from politics will now be explained by jubilant dem- ocrats on the theory that he would rather lock at the pictures than see| the handwriting on the wall. ————————— Election forecasters are in many cases most interesting in explaining | just what happened to upset their ¢al- culations. i i ! The solid south sometimes melts a little, but solidifies again on short notice. The Truculent Turk. Anxiety regarding the near eastern | situation increases at the European capitals as evidence is strengthened that radicals are gaining control of the Turkish nationalist government and that Mustapha Kemal, no longer master of the situation, is unable to keep.his promises to the allles. It has been ‘known for some time that the Russian soviet.influence had affected the Angora agsembly and that the de- 'mands of the nationalists for the com- plete .control of Constantinople and Thrace were inspired from Moscow. Kemal, in whom the allied govern- ments felt confidence on the score of | integrity of purpose, appears to have lost his grip, the fanatics at Angora dictating policles that if pursued would surely lead to either a confiict with 'the western powers or their ab- Ject. surrender to the Turks. Postponement of the Lausanne con- ference from the date first set was the immediate consequence of the re- cent coup of the nationalists in over- tkrowing the sultanate and demanding the withdrawal of allied troops from Constantinople. It is now felt that . this postponement was a mistake and conferences are in progress to the end of hastening the meeting, rather than delaying it, on the ground that the sooner the matter is brought to de- cision by an international méeting the| better for the peace of Hurope. It is quite obviously in accord with the policy of the bolshevik govern- ment of Russia to cause trouble for the western European powers by thrusting the Turk forward and up- setting the agreements regarding the control of the straits and administra- tion. of Turkey in Europe. The soviet could ask for nothing better than a division between the allied govern- ments on this as on any other ques- tion of international policy. [t would a0 R Ry perous as they jat the polls Tuesday is 1 of two years 0. aixo some of the | bl Should the fanetics at Angora take cemplete control of the nationalist povernment, perhaps sweeping Kemal Pasha aside—report already has it i that he has been accused of treachery, In the Angora assembly—a showdown | will inevitably result at Constantino- The, allied governments cannot ple. possibly yield to the present demands without compromising the whole case, rendering the Lausanne conference futile. In order that that conference, : when held, should have an authorita- !tive volce, there must be somefhing The nationalists are now trying to determine things in ad- vance of the mceting. 1f the allies vield to thelr present requirements doubtedly others will be voiced and, vith bayonets drawn to enforce them, the natioaalists wiil proceed to & com- i plete re-establishment of Turkish au- thority over the area formerly con- trolled by the sultanate fn Europe. ————————— Business as Usual. Out of the welter of the disappointed Lopes and shattered ambitlons of Tues- duy's election there is one cause for rejoleing common to all the people. There is nothing In the aggregate result which ought to Interfere in the slightest degree with continued fm- provement In business conditions: Those responsible for conduct of the federal government have received no mandate for reversal of any policy entered upon, and, as there is no pros- pect of any such reversal for at least two years. there is no excuse for any industry holding back because of un- | certainty as to what the future may bring. 1f the coming two years are as pros- promise today to be the discontent which manifested itself likely to have disappeared as a political influence by November, 1924. HNowever blameles: the party in power may be, it always must suffer at an election which comes in a year of depressiun. Likewise, regardless of the source from which piosperity may flow, the party in pewer reaps the benefit when the electors go to the polle. In this re- spect the republican party just now 5 fortunate. depression which followed in the wake of war was just as inevitable as was reaction from the political landslide Both the business imiprovement and the political reac- {tion having come and gone, we are cnce again on the way to normaley in Loth business and politics. The re- sult probably will be as beneficlal to the one as to the other. Cleared for the time being of the fogs of partisan controversy. oppor- tunity now will be afforded for a fair trizl of the new tariff law, which is admittedly an experiment. When the | voters went to the polls Tuesday they had before them only the high rates written into that measure. Its “‘flexi- bility” feature was littlc considered. because it yet has had no chance to cperate. The Tariff Commission, though hampered by the meagerness of its appropriation, is rapidly reor- ganizing its forces to discharge the new duties placed upon it, and in the near future the ellmination by executive decree of inequities in the law will be undertaken. A new chap- ter in the relationship of government tc business is to be written, and if the record to be set down is as beneficent as the proponents of a flexible tariff hope and belfeve, the benefits will flow tc every man and woman, regardless of how they voted for senator and representative. Prosperity is on its way, and prosperity is like the rains from heaven—it draws no party lines. The District and the Election. Senate changes resulting from Tues- day’s election will cause the departure of some of the District’s very good friends in that body. Senators du Pont, Townsend, Keilogg, Frelinghuy- ven, Caider, Pomerene‘and Culberson ! have always been stanch.in their sup- port of the best interests of the capi- tal in legislative matters. Senator Beveridge, who but for the demccratic overturn in Indiana would have en-| tered the Senate. showed during his previous term there a constructive, kindly intereet toward the District. From Ohio, in replacement of Senator Pomerene, always a helpful friend of ‘Washington, will come Representative I'ess, who in the House has shown the same disposition. sors of those who will go in March from the upper branch of Congress will prove satisfactory District legis- lators, with a full appreciation of the local needs and equities. The District at every election stands to lose some of its best friends from Congress, and is always hopeful that those who re- place them will speedily gain the capi- tal viewpoint. On the House side at least six of the members of the Dis- trict committee will be replaced—Rep- resentatives Wheeler, Lee and Mills- paugh through defeat at the polls— while three others—Representatives Focht, Walters and Brown—were not candidates. 'This means a large over- turn in committee personnel in the next Congress. Thus the committee will have, apart from other changes, a new membership of about 25 per cent, with a new chairman. I All & defeated candidate gets out of bis campaign is good practice for a series of lectures. * A true statesman never allows one adverse election to discourage him. f Continued Republican Control. The retention of control on Capitol Hill by the republican party is fortu- nate for the country. The passing of that control, even in one house of the new Congress, would have .brought legislative matters out of the routine to a halt,and this is no time for halting. Much important business is pressing. and, with Congress and the President in accord It can be promptly trans- acted. A ‘“drive’ for such a result we should witness. The heroic reduction of the repub- ican majorities on thé Hill should, and may, work to the advantage of both the country and that party. It will force the party to walk warily. Surefootedness will be of supreme ne- cessity. The party hes not now; as. some of its leaders seemed to think it had two years'ago, the warld in & tmuch prefer Turkish control of the!sling. Meesures must be ‘prepared 7straits to an allled control. \ with the greatest care, and passed in jreasonable time. It is safe to say, in- | deed. that the legislative program of the Sixty-eighth Congress will not be in any of its features twelve months behind time. New leadership in both branches must appear; and in the House this ‘will be of great moment. The present leadership is passing. Mr. Mondell, | Mr. Fordney and Mr. Campbell will retire to private life in March. S Their successors, it is hardly neces- sary ‘to say, will each tackle & man's job. The card will contaln measures relating to the country’s greatest in- terests, and a presidential campaign will be opening. And the work of that session will be In some, and maybe large, measure the basis of the re- publican appeal to the people that year. . i The Senate's Minority Leadership. Mr. Underwood makes this an- rouncemert respecting the minority leadership in the next Senate: ‘The condition of my health makes It advisable both in justice to the party and to myself that I should not ask to be re-elected. I do not want my friends to feel any unnecessary alarm about my health, but it {s not fobust enough for me to conlinue after March the duties of leadership, which reguire such con- stant attendance. Both surprise and regret will be widely occasioned by this intelligence. Surprise, because the Alabama senator has only peached his sixtieth year, and been so active in affairs the matter of his health has never before been sug- rested. He has looked like & driving force good for years yet. Indeed, he | HowHayFeverSpoiledaFarmer, ‘But Gave Capital Its Librarian T was hay feverspoiled a farmer and made a good librarian for the Na- tional Capital out of Dr. George F. Bowerman. In his early youth “GIff" Bowerman got what he considered a flying start ou the road to fortune and had visions of self-earned affuence in later life. Now it is proverbial that men who devote themselves to close Intimacy with books and finding In them the wisdom of the ages and passing it slong to posterity are seldom if ever blessed with more than a comfortable existence. There- fore, it took some- thing of an earth- quake In his affairs to tear “GIff” away trom his pastoral pursults and recon- clle him to sur- render the hope of down to life work as a librarian. Here's the short and simple annal: “GIff” Bowerman earned his first “fortune—or 50 It seemed to him then —picking potatoes on his father's farm at 1 cent a bushel, when he was eight years old. He was brought up on a farm in western New York. One of the biggest crops was potatoes, and in that particular summer his father raised 3,000 bushels. Young “Giff” gathered DR. BOWERMAN. wealth and settle | has been under pepular discussion for | 1000 Lughel baskets full, although he | © seat on the bench of the United|wus 50 small he could not move the | put in the bank in a neighboring vil- lay there for several years, until the wrecking of a bank in a neighboring large city brought down the village bank and wiped out every cent of the potato-picking savings. 3 The summer he wag twelve his father bought an additional farm. Farm help iput to plowing. There were no child {1abor laws then, and espeeially in the country districts. Fortunately the sofl was rich loam, with few stones, &0 the young plowman was able to plow pretty well except when the plow struck a stone. was, of course, too small to pull the plow and the three-horse whiffletree back, and so in order to do a good job I was obliged to turn about and come back into the furrow again,” Dr. Bower- man recalls. “But I think that the necessity f3P| my helping with the thrashing and other dusty work had more to do with my decision not to be a farmer than any- thing else,” he explains. As a matter of fact he has suffered from hay fever all his Hfe. That dusty farm work brought on paroxysms of sneezing and asthma, such as to In- capacitate him. This led him to de- cide upon some work away from the |farm. Thus he sneesed his way into | the educational world through years of | preparation as a librarian. £ | He likes to go into the country, but {couldn't be hired to stay there the year round. But with all his knowledge of books was 80 goarce that young George' Was |eoung in Mr, Lan Letters of Franklin K. Lane Revelations of the War Cabinet and Intimate lage—and felt a plutecrat. This money | | Views of National and World Figures by the For- mer Secretary of the Interior. (Copyright, 1988, by Auze W. Lase.) INSTALLMENT Ne. 8. From “Notes on Cabinet Meetings” fil November 1, 1918. At last week’s cabinet we talked of Austria—again we talked lke a cabinet. The President said that he did not know to whom to reply, as things were breaking up so com- pletely. There was no Austria-Hun- gary. Secretary Wilson suggested that, of course, their army was still under control of the empire, and that the answer would have to go to it. Theoretically, the President said, German-Austria should go to Ger- many, as all were of one language and one race, but this would mean the establishment of a great central Roman Catholic nation, which would be under control of the papacy, and would be particularly objectionable to Italy, I said that such an arrange- ment would mean a Germany on two seas, and would leave the Germans victors after all. The President read dispatches from Europe on the situa- tion in Germany—the first received in many months. Nothing w: said of politics—al- though things are at a white heat lover the President's appeal to the {country to elect a democratic Con |gress. He made a mistake. * * 11s certainly in splendid humor and in good trim—not worried a bit. And why ghould he be, for the world is at his feet, eating out of his hand! No Caesar ever had such a triumph! s e The Powell- Transpor- tation Company has used +Goodyear Tires on prac- tically all its trucks for the last two vears. One set of its Goodycar Cords has been in constant use for almost a vear of low- tire-cost hauling. November 6, 1913. Yesterday we had an election. T had expected we would win because ! the President had made a personal | appeal for a vote of confidence, and all other members of the cabinet had | followed suit except Baker, who said he wanted to keep the Army out of politics. The President thought it was necessary to make such an ap- peal. He liked the idea of personal leadership, and he has received a slap in the face—for both houses are in the balance. This is the culmination of the policy Burleson urged when he got the President to sign a tele- gram which he (Burleson) had writ- | ten opposing Representative Slayden, | his personal enemy, from San An- tonlo, and, in effect, nominating Burleson’s brother-in-law for Con- gress. We heard of it by the Presi- dent bringing it up at cabinet. Burle- son worked it through Tumulty. The Presidert said that he did not know | whether to write other letters of a Goodyear Truck Tires are sold and serviced by the local Goodyear Truck Tire Service Sta. tion Dealer. GOODSYEAR For Sale by Mid-Washington Service Co. INC. 1602 14th St. N.W. Phone North 366 Improvement from the | There is indeed rea- ; son to’expect that the other succes-| States Supreme Court, Regret because he is highly es- teemed on both sides of the chamber for his personal qualities and ingratiat- ing address. The succession? Had Mr. Hitchcock been re-elected he would be figuring prominently in the speculation. But with Mr. Underwood and Mr. Hitch cock out of the equation, to whom will the Senate minority fall? leglslation, familiarity with parlia- mentary law and practice, what is called levelheadedness under pressure and diligence without ceasing. There are a number of able men on the democratic side of the chamber, tut is there one likely to come more generally under discussion for this place than Mr. Simmons? The North Carolinian is in the middle of his | | ixty-cight, fourth term as | worker. | l The early designers of the map of ‘Washington did not realize what a benefit the extraordinary width of Pennsylvania avenue would prove to election night assemblages. i 1 l It is not always easy to determine whether voters favored some particu- lar candidate because he was a “wet"” or in spite of the fact. i Indiana is evidently too fond of its literary men to risk losing their serv- ices as such by putting them into politics. 1 In this country, certain political elements coalesced decided it was liquidate. as in England, that had time to l It is lucky that Lloyd George took a vacation while in office. He has no time to spare for gardening at present. 1 The electjon showed a disposition in various states to recognize the present period as one of reconstruction. ‘ The old arguments assert them- selves in Ireland, including even the hunger strike. l Pre-election quietude that was ascribed to apathy now appears to have been due to high tensicn. | # Jersey antidry politicians figured that Gov. Edwards was entitled to the solid summer resort vote. Washington did not vote. but the town has its favorite adopted sons, revertheless. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOIINSON Despair. Taik not to me of jest and song: Tell me no wheezes, old or new: Where optimism once was strong,” T must admit, I'm feeling blue. The Fates on whom I had relied Have left me stranded, tired and tricked. T sit and moan in shattered pride, “My favorite candidate got licked!” VWhy should another man's affairs Be so significant to me? Have I not private griefs and cares * In an array most sad to see? Yet all of these I now forget Because one bubble bright is pricked And leaves me sighing in regret, “My favorite candidate got licked! Fast Work. “Do you think a term of office ought to be longer?” - “Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum. doesn’t seem like much more than an excursion to Washington, with a part of his expenses paid.” Jud Tunkins says one good thing the automobile has done is to make the streets unsafe for the fool election ‘Letters who ride in a wheelbarrow or roll a peanut up a hill. senator, a ready debater and a tireless | baskets. The $10 he earned that season he !he has never found In any of them a My notfon was, and I told him so at similar nature as to Vardaman, Hard- wick et al. I advised against It, say- ing that the voters had sense enough Burlc- ! cure for his hay fever, EDITORIAL DIGEST International Policies Will Make or Break Mussolini. His international program must the view of most American editors. The Intense policy of nationalism that the fasclati stands for, and which has been fully approved by the new pre- mier, must carry with it-expansion. This will rean, at the very ouiset, un- less moderation prevalls, serious trou- I ble with Jugoslavia and constant fric- tion with all of the other nations of ! Burope. Editors express the hope ! that for the time being Mussolini will devote his energies to working out a strong domestic policy. 1If he does this, then the result must be very beneficial to all Italy, they are con- vinced. Everywhere the hope is ex- pres that this “peacetul revoiu- tion” will restore Italy to her proper place in the association of world na- tions, stabilizc her currency and bring her economic prosperity. {pose is of the highest, and their ulti- | mate goal is moderation and a re- nascent Italy.” As premier, Dr. Mus- solini finds himself “facing = fleld that is full of sunken roads the Pittzburgh _Leader continues, and “what the fascisti want, what they demand, may be revolutionary, aside from what Mussolini can get even with the backing of a militant army of 500,000 men. The new leader may be able to steer his course through the storm which his merest proposal will arouse, but the odds seem to {be against his success. The larger inations have larger ambitions, their | stake is heavier and their determina- itlon coircspondingly sterner. Tak- Rome by .storm at a moment of critical weakness will be found a i much easier role than taking Europe oft her guard or making imperialistic juse of military force.” The very lact lthat “the fascisti now effect their {ends by pelitical means rather than by force directed against the Eov- {ernment” has been a very hopefu! jsign. in the opinion of the Seattic Times. Reviewing the activities of Musso- 1ini since he initiated his movement {to combat the socialists, the Savannah ! Press recalls that whiie “the regime 1of the fascisti has been lawless it has been effective. They have black shirts |embroidered with skull and bones But they wear no masks and they act in the open. The difficulty is going to { There is nu_question that the “fas- cistl saved Italy during the years !immediately after the war,” the Cin- cinnati Times-Star declares, and it holds_that, even though Mussolini may “have gone too far,” he and his organization are “patriots, thelr pur- and it fears that, “desplte the ap parent general satisfaction with Uic fascistl triumph and the personnei and general alms of the organiza- tion, Italy has before it an ‘era of | The place calls for experience in;make or break Benino Mussolini in|factions and turmoll.” The New York Times points out that “the honeymoon is over,” and. “having had its day of hurrahs, fire- works and brass bands, Dr. Musso- lini's government is settling down to work. And if Mussolini hopes to | &0 brck to the schemes of five years 4go he will have to remember one factor which was not present then, but fills most of the foreground now—Mustapha Kemal.” To the Rochester Times-Union adds that “any domestic benefits which the fas- be ncutralized if that program should jinclude an uggressive attitude to- jward other nations, with the in- evitable accompaniment of heavy jartillery and naval expenses.” Marshall's Metaphorical Cigar. Thomas Riley Marshall of Indiana, who used to be our humorous Vice President, is getting well pald for using & nickel clgar as a metaphor and not letting on that it was a + metaphor. One day somebody asked him what ailed the country and he sald what this | ! cigar. Everybody supposed he meant what {he said, and all the men who used to get a good cigar for a nickel and who now pay a dime for smokes of two-for quality rose up and sald yes, that was what the country need- good nickel cigar. Cigar manufacturers, that he meant it. Each and every ohe took issue with him, however. The country did not need a good 5- fcent cigar. It had a good b5-cent cigar. And each and every one of them sent Marshall a box by way of proof. There he was with about a million nickel cigars on his hands. He couldn't smoke thcem himself, and, as he was uot running for office, he couldn't give them away. Now comes the ex-Vice President and says it is all a mistake und he lis a very much misunderstood man. { That nickel ci ing about was a mctaphor. What he meant was that the country needed {to ket back to the nickel-cigar plane jof living. And he hoped the cigar manufacturers would stop sending him nickel cigars. 3 All right. Now we understand each other. But why didn’t he say it was la mctaphorical cigar that he was i talking about? He should have said: “What this country needs is a meta- phoricsl rickel cigar.” too, thought Then every- { body would have known what kind lof a cigar he.meant and there would not have been any misunderstanding bo to train them. When men once sict | or hard feelings.—8t . rithout the law it is not casy to bring | ispaten, o ne*—St. Louls Post them back.” They have a ‘“reaso for being” says the Fiint Journal.| Sims has retired from salt water, “due to the fact that the govern- ment hag boen too weak to defend the middle and upper classes against a communistic minority. Today the government and the majority of the people look upon the fascistl as their {deliverers _from _bolshevism.' = The Kansas City Times is Inclined to !think that “maybe the king smiled & {1ittle tg himself when he offered Mus- : solini /his chance. 8t nobody knows Iwetter than the king that governing iTtaly is not an easy job. The fascisti | movement seems to be an organized i protest agalnst the old deal in gov- jernment. Tie outsiders want gov- ernment pesSed around a little more. Add to this that the fascisti move- ment is strongly—even fantastically— | nationalistic, and it can be seen that lit is bound to shake the dry .bones of government pretty audibly. It has ,hnd an easy march so far, but now, we suspget. its troubles will begin.” But | “through it all” suggests the Oak- land Tribune, “Rome, the eternal, remains tranquil, enthyoned on her seven hills, dreaming of the past, while the yellow waters of the ‘Tiber, Father Tiber, to whom the Romans pray,’ flow in the ancient channel to Ostia and. the sea. The program of the new govern- ment. the Buffalo-Times believes, one of. stabilizagdon, but its terms are general.”. And “as far as Italy proper is concerned, the move a good —one,” the Indianapolis News thinks; - but the - §t. Louts Globe- Democrat is another which is con- {nternational | tion, the Roanoke World-News de- clares that “the method of the strong arm employed in obtaining control of the Itallan government cannot, of course, be approved for a moment.” but not from hot water.—Greenville Piedmont. The doctors, we presumne, are mnot contributing to the fund for publicity for National Apple week.—Littie Rock Arkansas Gazette. The transfer of the Astor wealth from America to England still leaves quite a little money in the United States.—Boston Tranecript. | A Michigan clubwoman wapts kiss- ing declared unconstitutional, and | ®anlzed. Luckily, the nineteenth amendment was passed first. and there doesn't seem to ba much danger. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. We sometimes are inclined to won- der if the 3 Union fisn't s murder probe.—New, Orleans Times-Picayune. Yes, the burdens are fairly well distributed between the sexes after all and we'd about as soon crank the Ford as the Dover eggbeater.—Co- lumbus Ohio State Journal. “There’s one good thing.about that { war of mine.” mused Willlam. “With- {out it I never could have announced T |was giving my bride 800,000,000 i marks' worth of Jjewelry. ton | Traveler. The conviction in Cleveland of a woman on a manslaughter charge is, it seems, one of those things that will sometimes happen under the jury sys- tem.—Indianapolis News. They sentenced a lawless Minne- sota youth to stay in his home town five years. The judge had been read- ing “Main Street,” and the offender kad to take the consequences.—Chi- cago News. Few Are in Danger From Soft Living| Irving Bacheller, speaking before the Philadelphia Forum, finds som thing very much the matter with the American home today. He blames The Work of the H. E. S. To the Bditor of The Star: Several times lately the Humane Soclety has been confused with the Humane Education Society, an en- tirely different orgunization. The Humane Soclety is chiefly con- which ; cisti program may bring about will! country needed was a good J-cent; that he was talk-! an anti-k'ssing league is being or-| a meeting three or four weeks ago, that the country would give him a l\'o(e of confidence because it wanted to strengthen his hand. But Burleson sald that the party wanted a leader |with guts—this was his word and it jwas a challenge to his (the Presi- dent's) virility, that was at once mani- fest. The country thinks that the Presi- dent lowered himself by his letter calling for a partisan victory at this time. ® © * But he likes the idea of personal party leadership—cabinet responsibility 1s still in his mind. Col. House's book, “Phillp Dru,” fa- vors t, and all that book has sald should be comes about slowly, even woman suffrage. The President comes to “Philip Dru” in the end. And yet they say that House has no power, * * © i November &, 1918. At cabinet some one asked if Ger- many would accept armistice terms. Tihe President said he thought so. P The President spoke of the bolshe- viki having decided upon a revolu- tion in Germany, Hungary and Switzerland, and that they had $10,- 000,000 ready in Switzerland, besides ‘more money in Swedish banks held by the Jews from Russia, ready for the campaign of propaganda. He read a dispatch from the French min- ister in Berne to Jusserand telllng of this conspiracy. Houston suggested the advisability of stopping it by seizing the money and interning the agitators. After some discussion the President directed Lansinz to ask the governments in Switzerland and Swe- den to get the men and money and hold them and then to notify the allies of what we had done and sug- gest that they do likewise. Lansing sug- gested a joint note, but the President vetoed this idea, wanting us to take the initiative. He spoke of always having been sympathetic with Japan in her war with Russia and thought {that the latter would hawe to work out her own salvation. But he was in favor of sending food to France, Belgium, Italy, Serbia, Rumania and Bulgaria just as soon as possibie; and the need was great also in Austria. He said that the terms had been agreed upon, but he did not say what they were, further than to say that the council at Versailles had agreed to his fourteen polnts, with two reser- vations—(1) as to the meaning of the freedom of the seas; (2) as to the meaning of the restoration of Bel- glum and France. This word he had directed Lansing to give to the Swiss minister for Germany, and to notify Germany also that Foch would talk the terms of armistice. ® * * He | 1 Writing in the Pavis Oeuvre about the Fordney-McCumber tariff law, J. Aubry says: “The law is undoubtedly the wost jmposing edifice which has ever been erected to the glory of protectionism. 1t will certainly have the effect of re- stricting American consumption of for- eign products. At the present time French exports to America amount to more than 3.000,000,000 francs a year. ! These have been largely restricted by prohibition laws: but the law seems likely to deal them a still more severe blow. Silk, lace, Paris erticles, will now be burdened with such heavy taxes as to make the price prohibitive, even for those who pay in dollars. ““The new tariff gives rise to another problem of still greater importance not Snly for France, but for other European nations. It directly affects que: Hon of European debts to America. For, as we are all aware, it America really wants to be paid, it is scarcely Possible unless Europe sends quantities of goods to be paid in dollars In order 25 meet her liabllities. But the new law literally bars the way to these "gox Thus America places us in an imposs ble_position. “Eome say, we m Y n Lo e tanmot but observe the lesson taught by the voting of the bonus bill. The bonus bill is a measure for grant- ing an indemnity to every American we must not take Amer- Daid oo serlously. Budgets for Girls : Latest in Finance The very young girl, be she called IFrance Views New U.'S. Tariff As Barrier to Debt Payment to take care of these people. son said “the people like a leader with gut: The word struck the Prexi- dent’s fancy, and although Lansing. Houston and Wilson also protested, in as strong a manner as any one ever does protest, the letters were issued. * * * Even before the Slay den letter was one indorsing Davies in Wisconsin as against Lenroot. @ * * Then came the letter to the people of the whole country, reflect- ing upon the republicans, saying that they were In great part pro-war, but not pro-administration. 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We felt sure | that we would carry both, and did: {not apprectate the extent to which, the republicans would be consolidated | by the President’s letter, which, from ' what 1 hear, was one of the inducing causes of the result, although not 1 any means the only one; for the feel- lln. in the north and west was strong | that the south was in some way be- | ing preferred. 1 am fresh from a | talk with Senator Phelan, who, to my | surprise, tells me that these were the ! {factors in the New England states. {from which he has just come. * * ¢ i The Wilson administration may be ! judged by the great things that it} has done—the unparalleled things— | i i | Guarantecd to kil ext mate rais. leaviog o unp) life by A, Buy Poison, 1-1b. o ) and S 705 €th St. N.W. Prompt Attention. [4 o g laving disease. ary Rat sfacturs McGRAHA Mail Orders Gi period, while the Versaflles confer- ence and the fourteen points of Wil- son’s message will have books written {about them for a century to come. | soldier who fought i the war. which | for some time would amount to 50,000 francs. The total sum needed for this | measure would be $1,000,000.000, or . about 50,000,000.000 franc. ment of the European war deb; be largely used to make up this suni. “1t is only right to mention tiat || President Harding and the majority | of the Senate are against the immedi- « ate voting of this law. Mr. Ha declared recently that 3 ates could not at present bea weight of such a burden. incumbered | as she is by a deficit of $650.000,000.- €00. Is this welght then which the TUnited States declares herself unable to bear, to be put on the shoulders of ily mortgaged, of Im- or especially of DROOP’S Music House poverished Ital mutilated France? “According to the last vote of the chamber of representatives we must believe that the majority of these American deputies answer this ques- tion in the affirmative. If this is the case. is it not high time for Europe to understand that she must unite at lall costs in a constructive policy? Qur {best American friends continually Like Lemonade Has All the Splendid Bowel Action without the Awful Taste give us this advice. They tell us that by continuing our internal quar- rels we do away with all argument which might react against the selfish| tendencies of a large party of their | compatriots. This is a point of view | which we must not neglect at a time | when American exigencies threaten to aggravate still more the dificul- /ith which Europe is contend- annem that Mrs. Cammack especially | urges upon well-to-do parents of e: travagant daughters. A fixed allow- | ance, out of which the girl is e =zcted to pay her expenses and buy | all her clothes, is the best way of i teaching financial responsibility to “They put a man in office and let hi out so quick that his experience Variability. The vote so I®rge that we admire From view may soon be hid And-leave us sadly to inquire, ““Where hasthat landslide slid?” ¥ A Brief Loneliness. “Would you obfect to your wife go- ing to Congress?” 3 “Not under- the present circum- stances,” answered Mr. Meekton. - “I'd know she’d probably be honje soon.” “'Tain’ much use standin’. aroun’ tellin’ yoh.troubles,” said Uncle Eben. “Anybody dat has time to Jisten pa- tlent ain’ workin’ sn’ cphsequep can't lend you o money." parental complalsance or a good deal of the- trouble.” Children of what he calls the India rubber parent, “are brought up to regard life as an 1 and of ice cream in an ocean of candies and chocolates,” and “Douglas Fair- banks has taken the place of Alfred Tennyso 5 There is always something for the moralist to mourn over in the .upe bringing of the young. The moralist is inclined to forget, however; that the exceptio: always declares itself more nolsily than the normal. The egreglous.and the excessive sticks out and shrieks to be seen. Most people are running no risk of beln1 demoral- ized by luxuries or by soft living, be- cause most peeple cannot afford these things, and must alive,~Philadelph! keep busy to keep ia* Public Ledger. cerned with prosecuting cases of flapper, subdeb or kid, gets into al- crueity to horses. It has little to do with cases of dogs and other small animals. It does not provide homes for any animals. Bocl.!]! The ~Humane Education maintains a home for dogs in a small country place, and is preparing to obtain a home on a larger scale for all animals. The Animal Resoue ue receives homeless animals, and kills most of them after holding them a short time, Their work is very much like that of the District pound. They are sel- dom able to obtain good homes for the animals. < ‘The Humane Education Soclety does not kill any animal lta:t is not hope- lessly sick. It s only locl‘t!‘ Deaniols Gnis sooietz will buy & i lcountlroy pl-fiflf‘or eir work of :gu ove T anl 8. > THOMAS W, GILMER. ost everything these days, but it :ll a surprise to find her discussed in connéction with the big bankers" 1 convention recently held in New York city. It is a woman banker, Mrs. Kay Cammack, assistant secretary of the New York Trust Company, who is responsible for bringing in the frivolous youns person, for Mrs. Cam- mack, outside of office hours, is de- voted to the work of teaching young | girls (generally rich girls) te keep budgets. She believes, as she recent- 1y stated in an interview. that no one needs budgeting so much as the: young girl at school. A budget, of course, presIDposes an‘allowance and it is the allowance girls .who don't have to work for their living. The fathers who permit their daughters to run up: larxe | bills, or who hand out extra amounts on request for this, that and the! other luxury, without any account- Ing, are simply fostering financial ignorance and inviting extravagance. | No matter how much or how little a | girl may have to spend, it should be a definite sum, and she should be put Upon he# own ‘responsibility in the matter of spending It This s the _doctrine which Mrs, Cammacl - % preaches, and, in talks to girls at “‘““"f"“-‘"““"» bilious. or sick, boarding .schools, she advises them ;enjoyall the splendid phiysic-action on to make oruthb‘udscu for ;he w}:!e the bowels of a dose of epsom salls spending of their money, and teaches | (i o - et s thom Tow to do Tt It in her idea | ¥ithout the awtul wasie and naush | that the banks have a certain duty |A Tew .dents Dbuys’ a package o in helping young people to under- | “Epsonade Salts” the ‘wonderful dis- covery of the American Epsom Asso- stand the value of money, and to learn how to spend it wisely.—Ohio |ciation. 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