Evening Star Newspaper, November 15, 1922, Page 6

6 R THE EVENING STAR. ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY . November 15, 1922 THEODORE W. NOYES. spaper Company L £10.00; 1 mo. Daily day..1 5T e Daily ony $7.00; 1 mo., £unday only $3.00: 1 mo., The Assaclated Tr o ue for tapuhi tod o It or no atherw! pateles o this paper and a'ko the loeal mews i <ited Al rights of publi e diemateles horein are alse T The Downfall of Wirth. © whi for months a4 ded dves which view s taken of and own ¢ ther nf ther fusion amd ¢} d Wirth in th m oo | «l in ve heen more | ) thi of n re iV Lo pr state than allied been modified on the Wirth could 1 rvive L and mor cutckly co nivrence ernn ¢ been o matte socialis inu tive the don: revolving ar ton, it s vernme Tt ofte an cvent ticipat Le so in ermment. Hes, parti & subsid, s that the ne n t will have t0 tion of had pictured it, nd it may vas i the f the If it serves o brin the policy wed in Germany, apart instead of diuys abead wiil it of tr disaster alwa draw her, the wering The President and Shipping. The B etand to Lis ship subsidy bill. ssident, it is announ: in the matter o He ought No more important measure, will hel yresented at the coming + the consideration of Congress. Trade, forci; and dome viving. The outlook, both at abroad, is improvin, We are looking to trade for the way | out of our difficult We are fluuxing[ on a greatly increased foreign trade. | We shall have a good deal to sell, and | Liurope, for a long time, will need al | we have to ! But in orde | ers for such service, those outsiders our trade rivals, would | be folly. They. and those whose trade i { H i ,\]’ ¢ must be we were soliciting, would laugh at u: and be entiticd to their amus. A merchant fleet, therefore, is a prime necessity, Without one we shall be helple With one we should real- ize our highest trade expectations. The st ul sea carriers of this cra subsidize their merchant fleets. We shall be stackinz up against them Can we hope to do so successfully un Jess we put our ships on at least cquality with theirs? There is no politics in the question, and as a matter of fact both parties ere divided on it. Among those shying the word subsidy are republicans as well as democrats. an ! In summing up the election demo- cratic opinion appears to be that it might have been better, and republi- can opinion that it might have been worse. ? Washington has beautiful parks, but is not well equipped with parKing £pace. 1 Pictures and Safety. Motion pictures are to be taken of the traffic conditions in this city to be shown on the screens throughout the District during the week which is to open the year-round campaign for safety. These films will show some extraordlnary happenings. They will show people walking heedlessly through crowded streets, stepping off curbs without ascertaining the state of the traffic,.moving with their heads turned away from the point of possible danger, making sudden jumps in front of motors and street cars, darting around behind cars only to be met by others moving in an opposite direc- tion; in short, doing all sorts of fool- hardy, reckless and unconsciously death-inviting things. They will show motorists cutting corners, turning the ? wrong way, speeding up to get ahead ,of others at intersections, rushing " across intermections without regard “for the people efot, overtaking cther (d as an- | | repartes oer @ cars on the wrong side, backing out i from parking spaces without looking to see what is coming from behind. doing the hundred and one things that contribute to the accident record, pictures will not be “staged.” will be taken just as the trafic | happens to L. It is impossible to ex- pose a reel at any crowded point in this city without catching some of these breaks and breaches and narrow apes, and perhaps some of the re- sulting accidents. But, unfortunately, the percentage of care in the streets is still so low that any observer, and i especially one with a record-making machine like a motion picture camera, can note evidences of carelessless and thoughtlessness at any time of the & Will these visual proofs of inatten- tion and indifference have their effect in inducing better habits? It is the hepe, of course, that they will. But there is vays a tendency to say, lhat eould never happen to me. e declere, “I am very careful in the streets: T alws look in the right direction we 1 go out on the pave- ments and I never take chances.” And next time they go into the I the very traflic they may do the very things tinvite dis Or the motorist fmay say, am upulously obsery- nt of all the rules; I never cut a v and | never jump a gap, and 1 over a crosswalk without for the pedestrians.” And yet e ip he may do any one of | these thines through force of habit. | Tie safety habit must be cultivated. "It cun be. Pictures and print and the ‘n word will help, In the week of sive sational campaigni to be Reld all these media of i struction: and reminder will be em- and the hope is that man smians who are now habit izent of themselves and othe in contrast habitually n is at beconi Autumn Weather. As bright day has succeeded bright hington has found itself ¢ wondering, “How long will But even if today is the end at there rets a re no A ¢ all the coal that has been nrd Ithoug autumn, de » recall a more pleasant of the old signs the mind, have 1t the fallen . the air has has been usual al fall scason 1t is not so g erisy = 1 of the in s all its own, nd after- < just glad to be . just to be alive. home the full narrow lim of within which man While the race is lar stran is ty survive the sixty-l IW-Zero ature of the arctie regions, and exist in the torrid zone, it is only comfortable in a range In this lati- bouts marks t where the average person 1t fifteen degre cins to frel o Jishty degrees. | fand he warm. 1 Man himself has bren able to ereas Htures quid air. and hun- higher than blood furnace and und one thinks of wi high dezrees nature might able to wipe mankind off the the carth almost overnight. and within at a limited s her powers in thi dal tempe many degrees as in zero, . yet lizes seale she nianife regard, he to be @ univ 1 beneficence. Nature may be crucl in some of her moods, but she kind. This autumn o 1022 shows it. ————————— Winston Churchill called hecklers young reptiles” and “idiots.” English usually mild. but the sionally becomes a trifle hum is | rugged. ————————— Interesting letters reveal the fact that a cabinet officer may be thinking hardest when he has least to say for publication, —_————————— Chile's earthquake calls attention to the fact that the western hemisphere, as well as the old world, has its needs of benevolent liberality. —_————————— Kemal listens to demands made upon him with the air of abstraction characteristic of a man who has been interrupted during a busy day. —_— ———————— Fogs and Elections. American elections are scheduled for November, and frequently bad weather prevails at the time and has an effect upon the results. Especially in the earlier times, when roads were sketchy and treacherous in the au- tumn, rains on election day had the effect of cutting down the votes. In recent years, with the improvement of the highways and the widespread use of motor cars, rain on election day has not had so much of a bearing upon the results, for farmers have been able to go long distances despite the in- clemency of the season. Still in such a wide expanse of country the weather remains a factor in even our most im- portant national contests. The elections in Great Britain may be similarly affected, but not by rain. Fog is reported to prevail heavily throughout the greater part of the country, and the leaders on all sides —there are many sides in this fight— are wondering how the vapors will af- fect their chances. The conservatives, it is thought, will suffer most. And yet this is singular, for the conserva- tives are chiefly of the more affluent class who have means of comfortable transport to and from the polls. Those who have never been in a British fog may not fully appreciate its terrors. It settles down like an im- penetrable screen. People have been lost for hours even in their own towns, wandering about helplessly searching for familiar landmarks. All sense of direction is gone, even at midday, for the sun cannot pierce the blanket. The fog is treacherous, too, for it lifts and descends suddenly in spots. It may be perfectly clear for a space of a block or twe for a few minutes, and then without warning become thick ¢ struck with what seems '3 THE EVENING STAR, lagain. All traffic is slowed to a walk, save in the underground lines. This is the season of the worst fogs in England, November and December being particularly marked by these | visitations. Thus a British election scheduled for this season is just as subject to the influence of the weather as the American election, which is al- ways held in November. Shrewd politi- cal management in Great Britain has sometimes taken advantage of “this fact in the precipitation of a general ielection at the time when fogs may prevail. The present campaign, how- ever, was brought about by events far beyond the calculations of the politi- cally weather-wise. Stumping at Home and Abroad. In the British campalgn H. G. Wells was a disappointment on the stump. | He read his addresses, and they proved | to be over the heads of his hearers. His audiences showed impatience and disappointment, and acted as though they had been misled as to the candi- date. The voters had gathered expect- ing bread, in the shape of a rousing appeal garnished with elocution and gesture, and were handed a stone, in the shape of a lecture delivered in the sing-song of an unexcited reader. Thus was history repeated. In one of our middle states—the home of | stumpers, and the scene of many stir- ring campaigns—a leading party some | vears ago nominated, probably by way of variety, a seholarly man, who, with- out preparation, could no more have addressed an audlence at any length than he could have reached up and removed the moon from the sky. So on his first appearance in the campaign he drew forth a formidable roll of manuscript and began reading in even tones and composed manner. His audience bore with him for a short time, and then an impatient fel- low sitting in a prominent place in the hall interrupted with the exclamation: “Don't read no letter! Speak your piece!” Result, collapse. The candidate could not speak his piece, and could | get no further with the reading of his “letter,” and sat down. The American was snowed under at the polls. What will be the fate of Mr, Wells today? —————————— Ants and Grasshoppers. hn D. Rockefeller, jr., addressing class.in New York Sunday, gave some advice that should be spread before a larger number than his immediate hearers. It may be thus summed: Save your pennies, work | eight hours a day, write down how {you spend every penny you receive, make a budget at the beginning of each year and live within it, and do not run an automobile unless you can afford it. There are many who would deride this advice, on the ground that it i tends to the making of “tight-wads.” 1 mon expression. Mankind s to some divided into two groups, those who are liberal in thelr use of money and those who are close. But liberality | reans often looseness and lack of con- ! sideration for others. Closeness may | merely mean a reckoning for the fu- i ture. | It is the old story of the ant and the { grasshopper. There are many gras | hoppers today stepping on the gas and turning on the music machines—and torrowing money to support these | luxuries. Their familics are perhaps having a happy time for a while, but the lack of margin on the domestic {books is causing a growing anxiety {and a diminishing return in comforts | and even necessitics. ‘Have a good time toda says the | grasshopper, “for you're a long time | who follows the | dead The man TRockefeller advice will have perhaps { auite as good a time, and he will live ger, as a rule. ———t—————— Both the democratic and republican machines look as if they might be bet- iter for more attention from the re- i pair men. e The democratic gains were not quite sufficient to justify the announcement that the Congressional Record has gone under a new management. ——— ilon | autumn days are not necessarily as melancholy as poets have represented them. Witnesses in the New Brunswick case make the course of justice slower | by refusing to believe one another. —_——————————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Skirt Lengths. ‘We're very much embarrassed In our happy little home. The styles are always changing. ‘We obey them as they roam. & The skirts are now worn longer And no stockings are in view, Except in rainy weather, ‘When they show an inch or two. But when we go out walking ‘We're compelled to blush and frown, For grandma is old-fashioned And won't let her dresses down. No Sentiment. “There isn't as much sentiment in music as many people suppose,” said Senator Sorghum. “Why do you think s0?” “The brasa band that plays ‘See, the Conquering Hero Comes,’ is just as cheerful about playing ‘Farewell For- ever’ when the election is over.” Jud Tunkins says he hates to see a bootlegger trying to claim credit for being sober and industrious. Musings of a Motor Cop. Malaria gave Hortense & thrill And made her shake and shiver: 8he dozed and murmured, “I'm not T'm jolting in my fiivver.” . Signs of the Future. ““What is the dear little boy going to be when he grows up?” “I don't know,” replied the weary mother. “Judging from the wall paper and everything else he touches I think maybe he'll be a finger-print expert.” “A man dat allus says jes’ whut he thinks,” said Uncle Eben, “is mighty liable at times te sound kind o i Scorn of the close-reckoner is a com- | Many democrats are asserting that | Jolt Given Youthful Shyness Gave World a Great Educator LD SAWNEY,” less famil- | to be announced he did not show up. iarly known in more dig- | He couldn’t bear the humiliation and nified parlance as Senator |the look of disappointment in “Old W. R. Webb of Tennessee, | Stwney's” eyes. But John won the who was famous In his day all over |Prize, hands down, the judges said. the south for having exerted a notable influence on educatlion, and who |Of his self-conscious eyes. And when founded the unique secondary school—;Cecil Rhodes, the “empire builde ‘Webb School—at Bellbuckle, Tenn., was | Who gave Rhodesla, which s one- in a quandary. distraught. All efforts |third the size of the United States, to had failed to awaken the self-confi- |the British government, started giv- dence and assnr- | ing scholarships in the United States, ance of one of his|John took the initiative and went most capable pu-|after one. pils. This boy was| Cecil Rhodes’ idea was for the pro- brilliantly clever, | motion of peace by bringing about a as well as a good 1ight understanding betwesn the student, so “Old | United States, Great Britain and Ger- wney” had de-|many. He figured that these three ded, but he just!could control the world. As cduca- couldn't that there were | means to the great end of better un: hundreds of other | derstanding, he offered scholarships f{ boys who might|in every state in the United States, In g know just asjevery colony of the Britlsh empiré much, it not more|and fifteen in Germany—tenable in than, himself. *Old | Oxford University. awney” tricd; John won and made nly to jolt the reputation In athletic young man into p, while at Oxford. (43 an enviable as well as in He spent JOHN J. TIGERT. roper appreciation of the old proverb, | three years in study and travel all ‘Know thyself.” over rope. “John, if you saw $50 dangling from| Well, John opines today that all of a branch of a tree, couldn’t you lis progresgion in life dates back to knock it down?" *“Old Sawney" a nl}llldl first awakening when “Old his protege. Uneasily, shifting from Sawney” said: “John if you saw $30 one foot to the other, John admitted angling from a tree, could you knock he could. “Then do it,” ordered “Old it down?" Sawney,” directing John that he must His success at Oxford brought John capture a prize of $50 offered by Ly cable the offer of 4 position to be- Vanderbilt University in Nashville! gin work as a full professor in a col- for the best entrance exam. lege. and two vears afterward he was John plugged hard, knowing he president of the college. could rot win, but determined not to He is John J. Tigert, United Stat shame his benefactor more than could commissioner of education, and a be helped. He took the examination, member of the Federal Board for Va- but on the day when the results were | cationa! Educatior. EDITORIAL DIGEST habltually done, and modern legisla- tion irresistibly tends toward the bestowal of ‘special’ legal protection.” The government, nevertheless, the Ohio State Journal (Columbug) de- clares, “has no business to go out its way to recognize and set up a tificial sex distinctions. As nearly is possible in view of the phys an? functonal differences between men and women, all citizens should under the law." The Knie also i pronounc court that | 4 “ealamity tabor will arninges it would the plagu a: Invalidation of Minimum Woman Wage Law Generally Disapproved. Coincident with the renewed ac- tivities of the National Wumen's Party to secure the repeal of all leg- islative discrimination against wom- en comes the decision of the Court {of Appeals of the District of Colum- bla, invalidating the District minl- mum wage law, which, as one writer expresses it ives point to the pro- tests” against this effort of the ultra- feminist_group. In the decislon thejuffo “argues, in effect,” to quote the by law 2‘1‘3\;5 Times, “that since women|f0und and involved as is th % vl|ll'(\hli‘lll the Mobile Register, sup. are politically equal with men they fporting the economic theory of the must be treated physically and L and i District_court, maintains that “the teonomically equal.” thus. the Phila-|minimum wase is not the solution delphia Bulletin points out, den “justification for prefe What They Pay. nomic legislation for women While the decision challenges, There are men who go down to the well “the essential fairness {sea in ships, but it requires far more |tice of the minimum wage 1 0 o down in the mines for is its political ect that re £ Another mine blast has horri- most attention in editorial discussion,|fied the country, and three-score although the economic theories put [delvers in the earth have paid with forth by the court are also attacked their live and, in & few papers, supported. 1 our tuel'is e We balk at pay- This “opinion of 4 federal court.”|ing a few dollars a ton for the stuff. & The Boston | Traveler. “sounds ! We say it is tbo high, that some one more like an attorney's brief for one|ls profitecring, and e believe that 5186 of a case than an opinion of the MINers are too particular, that d bench,” for, the FPittsburgh Leader) 'I -'""l-: are excessive for pay and con- adds, “when the highest court of re- digons, =L : ] View picks out such phrases as ‘indis- | But the miners themselves are con- eriminate legislation’ and judicial | v aying for eur eoal with ry' the man on the curbstone! Dlooad, « their lives ?fr‘a’fv‘lis pardoned for absorbing th in order that the industries of i of the wage-fixing its opinion Ving | ment | nation may ate a smes Tmpression that exalted Judges, after{{1€ TALON fnay, operate and homes 211F are mot essentially different from |y WITH: Operators may boast that the eitizen of common cl many other forms of work—and parture from judicial calm and YHAt miners age is too pronounced to he ignored.” from extreme heat and cold; that ac- As editors all point out, minimum feigents ure rare. wage legislation has been declared. And yet these big disasters are constitutional heretofore in €Ver¥.frequent. They come apparently case where the issue has been raised. i without warning and when they oc- and the New York Globe notes that|cur the victims have little chance of the decision of the District Court of 'cscape, are penned up, doomed to die. Appeals “is the first announcement | When miners go down to work they that any high American court consid-{never know whether they shall re- ered the minimum wage law imp turn to the light again. Sihle under the Constitution.” If this| It is the risk they must take. Qecision 1% sustained by the United|return, Il the rest of us can do is States Supreme Court, to which the to see that thelr monetary rewards matter will mow go. the Boston|are sufficlent, that every Transeript points out that it will “de- | precaution thrown about Steay @il tninimun wage leglslation,” | work, that mines are rigidly inspec and that on “the contention that men and women are now on an equality before the la: The theory that “because women have been accorded equality in polit- ical and commercial fields they mno longer need special protection” is. the New York Globe says. “a doctrine preached with equal vehemence by ir- reconciliable feminists and die-hard tories,” but in the opinion of the | Newark News “It is somewhat to be {doubted Whether the entry of women into industry has been carriad far enough to disassociate them( from their old relationships and chang the more or less casual nature of their employment to such an extent that it can be argued that the welfare of women is adequately guarded by the fact that they have been given political rights.” The Manchester Unlon regards the dgcision as being “In the very spirit of eighteenth times. Our coal should not be spo: ted with blood, and need not b | the operators will not take too big a ishare of the high prices we pay for | themselves—Lansing State Journal. Plenty of Time, Ladies. examination of the Congr Directory, whether the latest edition or a “back number” be used, {will disclose, among other that our national legislature is cor posed almost entirely of men wh jhave had some very practical politi ‘cal experience. Tt will be found that for most of them membership in Congress represents a promotion. They have advanced, and not always with meteoric swiftness, through various stages of public service! How foolish, then, are the tears of { discouragement that are belng shed over the rather uniform oor show- century individualism, with- its in- | SreF S T O, Do e sistence upon the unqualfied right of | recent congressional elections! Quite Individual contract, and woman is Te- |apart from the undoubted prejudice garded as being on precisely the same on the part of many voters against plane economically as man because she ' the idea of women in office, the fac- is on the same plane politically.” The tor of experience and preparation fallacy of that argument inspires the :must be considered as a large part Boston Globe to satire. “Perhaps.” it|of the true explanation. These terms says,."the nineteenth amendment gave |are used here, not in relation to women ‘commercial equality’ with | women's fitness for high office, but men in the District of Columbia. But |with respect to their chances of win- in other important industrial and ning high office. Sex distinctions commercial districts of the nation she agide, they occupy a political status has not vet discovered the equality.|practically identical with that of the Her victory in winning the vote con- [ young man whose first vote was cast cerns merely her political activities. | just a few years ago. In other words It it has overcome these other handi- the women, as voters—hence as poli- caps supposed still, among unlearned | ticians—are _ still in their early folk, to confront her In her strug-|twenties. Why should they feel dis- gle for eguality in commercial life, it [ couraged over exclusion at so tender T8 Interesting to know that fact, and [an age from the most {mportant—if the court has advanced popular know- | sometimes. _disgusting — legislati ledge considerably. It will be news!body in the world? A glance at the to most women in business, the pro- |list of offices to which members of fessions- and_industry.” thelr sex have been elected leads to Quite as remarkable, however, in the feeling that they are really ad- the opinfon of the New York World, | vancing = very — rapidly. — Richmond “ig the economic dictum on which the | Times Dispatch. o whole judgment is made to turn: ‘No greater calamity could befall the| Every man is the architect of his own érs of .this country than to | air castles.—Greenville Piedmont. have ‘the legialath r to fi AV the legislative powe o 23 O the World | One way to reileve traffic congestion o e is sell autos for cash only.—Nashville n sional ‘Editorially discussing the “dry ship” situation, the London Expreas say: *‘No, Ohristopher Columbus did not discover America. It was often dis- covered before, but it was always ‘hushed up! The United States ap- parently dealre forgetfulness once more.. Mr. Harding, the President, has now Issued an edict under which no ship, whatever its natlonality may be, can enter territorial waters of the United States carrying intoxicating liquor of any category, whether it be Barantly "some legal rlght_for, thia ren "mlhl. but it u“nt in accordance wages upheld.’ " asks, “a province .of the courts to set up economic theorlislnf ]th:ir own Tennessean. nd decide cases accordingly?” e en u; e woman earn- ers of & number of states, the New | Ohlo State Journal York Times reminds u We don’t need an invention to make couyrts have sustained movtes talk, but something to keep out shuddering.” while “as to the con-| movie patrons from it.—Rochester stitutional _reservation of human | Times-Union. rights ‘to the whole peopls and not = to any favored class,’ a series of acts| For 4ts_thickness, paper is a tough for the protection of minors, factory | product. It has to be to stand the mod- workers, rallway workers and so on|ern novels printed on it.—Norfolk testified that what can't be done is ' Ledger-Dispatch. . . . An English View of Dry Ship Regulation. with the custom, the rules of whick usually dominate jnternational eom- munication. “The result will be curious. The habits of English shipping cannot be resolved by American Presidents, un- less they lead to definite evil. It is, therefore, probable - that the pas- senger ships of England will in the rear future end their cross-Atlantic service at Halifax, Nova Scotia, to the exclusion of New York. In which case, any idea: of helping American steamship companies, now suffering from the dryness of their atmosphere, must go by the seaboard. President Harding will have cut off Ameriea’s mose to spite its face.” - — l That rubbed some of the sleep vat| forgettional ties are the strongest, as a; protected | Inl ed and a close guard kept at all! 150 long as the law does not put a ,_WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1922. Letters of Franklin K. Lane Views of National and W 14, INSTALLMENT No. Mr. Lane was a democrat and a party man, but his Americanism was much more pronounced than his par- tisanship. In one of his letters, al- ready published. he stated that he would be disposed to vote for Hoove. for President, on whatever ticket nominated, and he never made any attempt to conceal his warm admirs tion for Theodore Roosevelt. In April, 1910, whemw Col. Roosevelt wa returning from his African huntin trip, Mr. Lane wrote ‘the following letter to iue former President: “Mr. Kellogg tells me that he ex- pects to see you in Europe, and 1 avail myself of his offer to carry o word of welcome to you, inasmuch as 1 must leave for Europe the day after your arrival in New York, the President having appointed me as @ delegate to the International Rall- way Congress at Bern. “The country Is awaiting you anx iously—not out of mere curiosity t¢ know what your attitude will be but to lead it, to give it direction The public opinion which you devel- oped in favor of the ‘square dea is stronger today than when you lef and your personal following is large | today than it ever has beer There is mno feeling (or If ther is any it is negligible) that th President (Taft) has been conscious- | ly disloyal to the policies which you inaugurated, or to his public prom- ises. He is patriotic, conscientious and lovable. This was your own vl as expressed to me, and this view ha: been confirmed by my personal ex perlence with him. It 18 also, T be lieve, the judgment of the countr at large. But the people do not fer that they control the government « that their interests will be safeguarc ed by a relationship that is purel diplomatic between the White Hous and Congress. In short, we have new consciousness of democrac | largely resulting from your admin Revelations of the War Cabinet and Intimate mer Secretary of the Interior. (Copyright, 1922, by Anne W. Lane.) | that the a orld Figures by the For- fore acceding to the call, which T be- | lieve will certainly come, that it is | more than party-wide, and that it is| sufliciently strong to overcome the | trend toward democratic success. 1f 1] were asked I would say that 1 think | both of these conditions are present— | re to have you again is| much broader than any party, and #o | large that it would insure your vie-| tory: but no man is as wise a judg of these things as the man himself whose fortunes arec at stake. “Thanking you azain for the pleas- ure of a luncheon, believe me, as al- ways, faithfully yours, “FRANKLIN K. LANE."” Roosevelt in a letter marked pri-| vate and confidential replicd= 20 V"% That 1s a reanly kind anal friendly letter from you and 1 appre- cfate it. Now, 1 agree absolutely with | you that T have no business under any circumstances to accept any suci call. aven in the greatly improbable event | of Its coming, unless I am convinced | that the need is national, a need of the people and not merely a need of | he party. But as for considering m;,-i wn ghances in any such event, my ‘ear fellow, I simply would not knn“—l “ow to go about it. 1 am always| redited with far more politicall -agacity than T really possess. I act| surely on public grounds, and then | his proves often to be good policy. | *00. 1 assure you with all possible| sincerity that T have not thought and | .m n8t thinking of the nomination, ‘nd that under no ciTcumstances vould T in the remotest degree plan o bring about my nomination. I do ‘ot want to he President again, I am ‘ot a candidate, T have not the slight- <f idea of becoming a candtdate and “ do not for one moment believe that { ny such condition of affairs will ~ise that would make it necessary to ansider me accepting the nomina- on. But as for the effect upon mv wn personal fortunes, T would no* ‘now low to consider it, because T{ istration, and It is such that 1th character of government which satis fled the people of twenty years ug is found lacking today. Practicall | all the eriticism to which this ad ministration has been subjecter arises out of the feellng of the pec ple that their opinions and desire: | are not suffictently consuited, and they are suspicious of everythinr { and everybody that i3 not open an | frank with them. “Outside of a few of the large: states, the entire country is insur i gent, and insurgency means revol | against taking orders. The prospec is that the mext House will be dem- oeratic, but the democrats apparently lack a realization of the many new problems upon wWhich the country is divided. Their success would not in dicate the acceptance of any positiv program of legislation; it would b a vbte of lack of confidence in th: republican party because. it has al- lowed apparent party interest to ris: superior to public good. The pros- pect is that every measure wWhich Congress will pass at this sessior will be wise and in line with your policies, but the people do not feel that they are passing the bills. “I have presumed to say this much. thinking that perhaps you would re- gard my opinion as entirely unbiased. and in the hope that I might throw some light upon what I regard as the fundamental trouble which has to | be dealt wWith. Whether you choose | to re-enter political life or not, men of all parties desire your leadership { ana will accept your advice as they will that of none othe | 1 t | From Berlin Mr. Lane recelved from 1 col. Roosevelt, dated May 13, 1910, | these lines: we o o I think your letter most in- teresting. As far as I can judge you have about sized up the situation right. With hearty good wishes, | dent he will make. vould not have the vaguest idea what I he effect would be. except that ac-! ording to my own view it could not | nt be bad and unpleasant for me per- | From the personal stand- | ,uld view the nomination to ‘he presidency as a real and serious sfortune. Nothing would pers ne to take it, unless it appeared that! ‘he people reaily wished me to do a “iven job which I could not honor- ahly shirk. ® ¢ *7 “onally. inint 1 The shifting scenes on the political <tage always interested Mr. Lane 2nd he watched the play always with § “een understanding. Shortly before ! +he inauguration of Taft he wrote m} his brother, George W. Lane: i “The Harrlman crowd seems to ‘hink that they will all be on good rerms with Taft, but unless I'm mis- +aken in the man they will be great- v fooled. * * * “Have you noticed that nice point of constitutional law, dug up by a newspaper reporter, which renders Knox ineligible as Secretary of State? He voted for an increase in the sal-{ ary of the Secretary of State three vears ago They will try to avoid the eficct of the constitutional inhi- | bition by repealing the act increasing | the salal Technically this won't] do Knox any good. although it willl probably be upheld by the courts, if § the matter is ever taken into the courts. 2oosevelt is very nervous these hut as he said to me the other | “They know that I am Prest-| dent right up to March 4" | In the latter part of March, 1809, | following the Taft fnauguration, Mr. Lane wrote to Charles K. McClatehy | of Sacramento: H “No one yet knows from Mr. Taft's line of policy what kind of a Presi- Everybody is giving him the benefit of the doubt.; | faithtully yours, “THEODORE ROOSEVEL' In December, 1811, Mr. Lane again i wrote Col. Roosevelt, as follows: ©I have been thinking over what I {sald yesterday, and I am going to pre- | gume upon my friendship and, I may | say, my affection for you to make a ' suggestion: ! “Even though the call comes from a united party and under circumstances | the most flattering, do not accept it unless you are convinced of l\(fo‘ things: (1) That you are needed from | a national standpoint and not merely from a party standpoint; (2) that you are certain of election. wSacrifice for one's country issplen- did, but sacrifice for one's party is foolish. You m feel assured be- Would Control Speed By Mechanical Device To the Bditor of The Star: Out of a great mass of suggestions now being made for the proposed Safety week, the writer wishes to call your attention to the fact that 1 | physical check upon speed demons there will never be real safety for the citizens of this or any other city in the United States, It occurred to me that probably some of the ingenious minds which are now working on the automobile problem might be able to figure out some plan by which it will be possi- ble to centrol the speed of an auto- mobile engine by a speed regulator, so that there will be a limit to the speed to which the engine would go | European The thing, I find, that hangs over all | Presidents and other public men here to terrify them is the fear of bad| times. The greatness of Roosevelt lay, in a sense, in his recklessness. These people undoubtedly have the power to bring on panics whenever they want to and to depress busl- ness, and they will exercise that pow- er as against any administration that does mnot play their game, and the ‘money power,’ as we used to call it.: allows the President and Congress a certain scope—a field within which it may move, but If it goes outside that field and follows policies or-de- mands measures which interfere with the game as played by the high financiers, they do not hesitate 10 use their ‘big stick,’ which is the threat of business depression. * ¢ * Urges United Policy Against United States The Copenhagen Politiken advocates a united economic policy to defend Eu- rope from the United States of America. “When Americans speak about the situation they generally shake their heads and say that it is Europe’s own fault if she will not un- derstand international solidarity and the necessity of working together with all the peoples of the earth. And they like to add to the reproofs to the old world some evidence of the ideal- ism which relgns In the states. But n future such remarks will probably not make much impression in Europe. For with the new customs tariff America marches undoubtedly at the head of the most insane economic policy of our times. It _is like in the city limits, and enother speed for out-of-town driving. 3 By this, I mean that all city driv- ing could be regulated at a properly designated place, where some one would set the speed of the engine for city driving, and if the party wul going out of town, then the mech- apism could be changed for faster driving. Under the law, this mechanism ‘would bg subject to inspection at any time, the same as license tags, rear- end lights, or any of the other things which the law requires. so that the average man today who does city driving would find it mighty hard to cut loose in the city because of the controlled speed of the engine, which mechanism, in turn, could be set by the hand of the law. 4 E. R. HAAS, Director National Radio Inatitute. “How_is the situation? s this: Europe owes America $15,000,- 000,000, and the states are demanding the money on the table with Increas- ing impatience. But how is this pos- sible? Debts can be paid in gold, goods or services. There is very little gold in Europe. America has already col- lected the greater part of it and does not want any more. But America does not want goods, either, and with re- gard to the so-called services the situation is such that the states’ policy tends to having all goods either to or from America transported in ships bullt in the United States. “In other words, America’s eco- nomic policy is inventing all sorts of ways to isolate the land and to make 1t impossible for Europe to pay her debts, Thia is an incomprehensible policy, the unfortunate effects of which, in relation to the economicand commercial situation, are certain. 1s it not time that Europe started a European policy? No longer to follow the exhortations from the other side of the Atlantic, but to join In united Gefonse agninst attacks from U. 8. A" I 5. 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