Evening Star Newspaper, November 17, 1922, Page 6

6 THE EVENING STAR,' With Banday Morsing Edition. WABHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY.....November 17, 1922 THEODORE W. NOYES......Editor She Evening Star Newspaper Company Business OFce. 11th St. and Peonsylvania Ave. N York Office: 150 snan St Chicago Office: ‘Tower Bulldiag, Europeas Office : 16 Regent 8t., London, The Evening Ktar, with the Sunday maer@ 43 cents | Or. edition, s delivered by carciers within th 1 at 60 cents per month; dally month; Suuda. cral only, A dern way be sent by m £300. Collection 1s™ ma ezd of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virgina. Pally and Sunda! . $5.40: 1 mo., T0c Daily only. ! $6.00: 1 mo., 60¢ ESunday only B $2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ All Other States. Dxily and Sunday..l $10.09; 1 mo., 85¢ Daily cn'y. 1 7.00; 1 mo., Sunday only. $3.00; 1 mo., 26¢ Member of the Associated Press. The Assoclated Press {n excinsively entitied o the use for republication of all mews dis. atches credited to it or not otherwise credited muonth. i, ‘or telephone Main de by carriers at the yr. yT. {2 this paper and a'so the local news pubd. 1tsked herein. All rights of publication of srecial d'anatches hers aleo ressrved Reclassification. An appeal to President Harding by the National Federation of Federal elécted was evidently not adopted the laborities as & champion or leader. {Of all the thirty woman candidates; The game of politice—politics bas’ 1only two were elected, including Lady Astor. The failure of the others is re- garded merely as an indication that | the British voters.are not yet ready in: general to look upon women as avail- able parliamentary “material.” The net result of this election is the establishment of the British govern- strong ministerial party. Whether the ! ! and the anti-labor groups. In the main the result doubtless spells stability, es- pecially in the fleld of international | politics. intercourse. ——— Mussolini’s Challenge. Mussolini takes the center of the Furopean stage, which recently Kemal Pasha, still standing in Asia, occupled by deputy. The Italian premler, leader of the recent bloodless revolution, Iprove. that he is no mere maker of gestures. He makes no pretense of his | purpose to bring about a revolution in } fact in Italian affairs, to give his coun- try a government -of action rather than one of speculation and compro- mise. At Rome yesterday Mussolini stood forth in the chamber of deputies and TH ™ay it be said that eternal vigllarice is the price of good government. come to be known as & game—ia ‘the greatest game that men play. And now that women are sitting ‘in, the than ever. activity than ever. The new partici- pants are eager to acquire skiil, and, therefore, eager for practice. g nglana. | ment definitely upon the basis of al!. Organization work costs money. { Canvassing the United States and organization of that party is sound|keeping track of shiftings between o'y 'yoi 4l o they dash forth on remains for test. The issues are some- | compaigns cannot be done for @ BONE. the trall of the quarry. what vague, save as between the labor ; The work calls for experts, and eX-|poticeable ls the wonderful Increase perts are worthy of their hire. * This sort of politics is not corrupt Indeed, its tendency is to prevent corrupt politics. The better the situation is understood, the more promptly and correctly all changes are noted, appraised and recorded; the less likely are ‘“plungers” with gam- bling instincts to be attracted to poli- tlcs as an “investment.” —————e——————— Blue Ribbon Winners. A horse which had been driven be- tween the shafts of a garbage wagon at Fort Riley, Kan.,, was entered in the national horse show at New York, where he captured the blue ribbon and the coveted cup for chargers. He was lifted from his menial drudgery and elevated to the ranks of champions be- game is greater and more exciting! There is nced of more! : ; E EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO !' D, '! Here and There in Washington | BY “THE LREADY many Washingtonians | have availed themselves of | the enjoyment of the hunting season apd hardly a day passes but that dozens of men motor jout to points of vantage in Maryland ior Virginia. It is really astonishing how sweet to the ears is the baying Likewlise in appetite and the restful slum- iber that follows a day's hunting. All of which brings to mind a story that is going the rounds concerning what happened to @ local huntsman. 1t appears that this young man, who is rather a falr shot, has been brag- ging for the last month about what | an excellent marksman heé was. In fact, he quite emphasized his prowess with shotgun and rifls, and his overcon- fidence resulted in his undoing. Last Monday afternoon he and a party of others departed for the hills of Vir- glnia and shortly after dusk arrived at the home of the one Who was to be host during the couple ‘of days’ shooting. After partaking of true Virginia hospitality the party retired for the night, so as to get an early | start. It was not until about 11| o'clock, however, that they managed MAJOR” of them to indulge I smile. The amused ol J. Burns. nye quiet little n8 was Willlam * ok k% PEAKING of detectived reminds me that the astute head of the in- vestigating department of the United States Shipping Board, Frank Burke, is a many-sided genius, for in addi- tion to being able to run down and ferret out crimes of a complex char- acter he is u mechanical genius his latest achlevement being the con- s'ructton of a smart-lookin~ motor boat that is capable of making twen- | vinced they were erroneous: ty-three knots per hour. Imorder to achieve this speed without using one of the mammanth gas engines that are usually installed, Burke secured and put in place a 100-horsepower air- plane motor, with the result that he has one of the fastest boats on the river. * ok k% RATHER choleric retired officer whose evesight is not qnite so good as it formerly was happened to be standing at the corner of 17th and H streets the other morninz whan he saw a trolley car come round the curve opposite the Metropolitan Club His comment was as follows: “With the prices they are charging us for Empl for the early enactment of the reclassification bill puts that matter directly in the line of executive recom ndation to Congress. The President is rold that “as a measure of efficiency and economy administration this !l is second to none that will come before Congress at its next sessions.” &g declared his independence of parlia-|cause some man, with a more discern- Imemary support. His words are re-!ing eve than most, recognized inherent | knowledged Dick ~Dead-Eye g-:lh » markable in their directness and|qualities which environment had ..n,;':“f:;-‘ ‘fldfih:v;nhl': ’::«lio l:;:;s;;” ‘:‘:' | ance: ; pe missed, 4 e but obliterated. But for the chance ofi, /0" yifly the same misfbrtune, and this man’s coming, the equine aristo-’ crat of today might have dragged out his weary life providing motive power for the garbage cart. 1 am today performing in this hall ! what {8 an act of purely formal defer- ence toward you, and for which I do inot seek your thanks. Italy has given herself 2 government ‘outside, above to scare up any game and the ac- s0 it occurred all during the day, not a' single cottontall reposed in his bag when the tired and hungry party came In for supper. That night the Reclassification is an urgent business | and against any designation by par- reed of the government. Until it is|liament. Now I affirm that revolution > has its Tights, and I add that I am effected the appropriations for the ad- | p52. "\ "ofder to defend and make ministrative work of the United Stated | most of the black shirts’ revolution by essary. and cquilibrium in the history of the At present the government's ad-|nation. ministrative machinery is a patch-{ Italy has suffered during recent work, the result of many years of oc-:years from parliamentary instability. casional additions and enlargements, | Minlstries have fallen one after an- witheut co-ordination. There I8 no|other because of the inability of their stem. A Cwil vice Commission | leaders to control combinations in the regulates, in la measure, the ap-deputfes. Compromises have led them pointment of the personnel, assigning | into difficult paths. During the recent for service to various de-communist manifestations the govern- romin us as they are re-| ment was not strong enough to adopt effective measures of suppression, and had it not been for the fascisti, led by Mussolini, Italy would have been turned over to a soviet rule. Mussolini would not, of course, adopt such an attitude or take such a tone in addressing the deputies if he were not backed by a large, compact, determined force of ardent loyalists, opposed to the communist elements. He mentions this force thus: With 300,000 youths perfectly armed and ready for anything, I might have punished the enemlies of the fascismo. I might have bivouacked my troops In this very hall. I might have closed ?-fl:;:'?'mw:nd ole 2 1'”.‘:' L 9;{ of our own fortunes and the captains s : 2 han?e den‘e lh::;n things, bu{—n";t‘aat of our souls, but, after all, fate deals for the present—I have not wished to | the cards, and we are more or less do Sheme { nelpless pawns in the playing of the No more definite warning could have | game. We strive, we succeed or fail, | been given than that, especlally the ,nq merit or the lack of merit is not | phrase “at least for the present.” The | ype whole of it. Virtue does not always | challenge is unmistakable. Mussolini | irjymph, much as we would like to be- | will stand or fall on it. For Italy her-| eve it does, and the laborer often is| | seif the result must be good. In thelpqr, than worthy of the wage he gets. | | Deld o foreign relations there may be | ne thing that keeps us striving is | iffcultles. The fascist! leader de-|orarnal hope that the discerning eye | clares for the maintenance of treatles: oy not pass us by, and that the | and for the support of Italy’s allles. | gegriny which shapes our ends will de- | But he pronounces this formula: “We | cree tnat to us shall come the favora- i give nothing if we recelve nothing in | pje happenings of time and chance. return.” Italy must have its quid pro \ quo. Wil that be Flume? Wil it bea; 7/iqep women have removed thelr larger vote In the councils of thef 4o n0 YO e themselves powers? politically. The terrible Turk may find S = himself compelled to give up massacre The South and the Saddle. programs in order to study the prob- The mention of the name of Mr.{lems pertaining to fashions and votes Garrett of Tennessee In connection | for womer. with the minority leadership in the House end that of Mr. Simmons of | North Carolina in connection with the minority leadership in the Senate has partments and bur «quired, but with no regulation as to duties or pay, with no uniformity in respect to relative responsibility nndi compe: fon. Many widely differing standards are | maintained at present in the depart»] mental and bureau service. Each or- genization is a distinct unit in re- #pect to its duties and pay scales. When Congress appropriates for the edministrrtive service it Is met with a. confusion that necessarily makes for waste, while in the service itself in- Sustice is done to many through the Inequalities that prevall. Reciassification is simply a measure of equalization, such a3 any business ofganization would adopt. The pend- ing bill has been passed by the House by an overwheiming majority and has n approved by the Senate commit- on civil service. Now it is hoped that the President will put the matter quarely up to Congress as a duty which it owes to the government, to adopt a measure that establishes the principle of uniformity of dutles and pay, and that for the first time in its history puts the federal administration upcn an even foundation in respect 0 its working personnel. 1f there are faults in that measure they can be corpected. ngress has at ali times the power «? amendment. It should not continue to delay action in the hope of securing a: the outset so perfect a law that it will never require change. Such a law has never yet been enacted, and prob- ebly never will. —————————— 3ir. Scrymgeour of Dundee will bel “he first prohibitionist candidate tol The name of the horse was “Sub- mersible.” What coincidence of fit- ness! Not only was he submersibla, but he had been submerged. Fate had played a scurvy trick upon him, and then made recompense. What a ser- mon is there, what a theme for the philosopher! A text for the sermon might well be: “The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nelther yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."” Fate is as prankish in ings with men as with horses. Un- numbered ‘‘Submersible: of the human kind are doing the ' humble work of the world, while the prizes and blue ribbons of life go to their in- ferfors. Now and then some master with a discerning eye chances by and the merits of a submerged one are given recognition. But this happens so seldom that we always wonder at it. Once hitched to the garbage wagon of drudging toll, it is not often that either horse or man escapes. ‘We may think we are the architects its deal- young man came in for quite a lot of | Joshing and he retired a dlsheartened | and crestfallen young person. It was not until the next morning that he| was enlightened as to why his marks- manship had been so poor the day Dbefore; one of the party told him that In order to deprive him of some of his egotism they had substituted shells| containing no shot. It cured him of | * ok %k transportation it is an outrage for the company to permit such disrep- utable-looking cars to run through our city streets. I think that T shall write a letter 10 the authorities con- cerning the matter.”” The criticism, however, was not a just one. Had the morning been less misty and the critic’s eyesight keener he would have noticed that it was the sandcar on its | early morning round of the company's trackage. * ok x ¥ HE other day while strolling dowr F street T happened to run across 8 friend of mine, a retired banker who is always doing something for somebody, one of those individuals tha- Just cannot help going to the ald of som: cne that he happens to hear is in dis- tress, and, accosting him, T asked wha* ! he was dolng slowlv walking down ‘hn thoroughfare and he made reply as follows: “About two months beforr Christmas 1 make up a list of the his habit of bragging. E\'ERY one who knows Willlam J Burns, head of the bureau of in} | | | vestigation of the Department of Jus: | ° ) The Shipping Board, with a number of lawsuits on hand, is wondering tice, knows that he is one of the best | dressed men In the country: in facti| this famous sleuth looks far more!| like a prosperous banker or cabinet| officer than the detectives described | in storles. Some time ago two men were discussing, while riding in a street car, the famous investigator and one of them, in a volce that could | be heard several seats away, declared that he knew Burns very well, that he had seen him upon many oc- casions; whereupon his friend asked Just what kind of a looking man the detective was. The first speaker de- scribed a man about six feet two,|gifts until they can spare a few |.nq I feel justified in proceeding upor hours, and it also makes it easier for | yhe theory that every man weighing about 220 pounds, coal- black halr, bushy eyebrows, clean | shaven and a man who wore oh! well, | fairly good clothes. All of which | things that T want to give my friends then I take that list downtown with me and I go window-stonping ‘o se if I can see something that I thin) they will like better, and if I fin® something that I think will give them more pleasure I go In and buy it and make the change on my list. I like to do my shopping early because I can pick and choose at leisure and 1 think that the greatest joy one car have is selecting the gift, and then besides that I am not in the way of others who have, because of limited time, to put off their selection of the clerks.” A splendid early” slogan argument for the that | caused a gentleman seated in the rear | year. EDITORIAL DIGEST Method t6 End Auto Slayings Still Remains to Be Devised. Announcement by the census bu- reau of a great increasc in the num- ber of fatalities due to automobile travel has emphasized the fact that|ine 4 ! gures avallable show increases {no method whereby such killings can | in all cities and states and that the| o o 5 1 Entest embarrassing him. be reduced or checked has as yet been suggested. Btrict enforcement {of all existing laws and prison sen-|many. but the latter seldom | tences help, are put into effect, editors argue, and | they seem convinced that until pedes- fand mu trian and autoist get together for a campatgn of mutual co-operation no- | ticeable relief hardly can be looked for. whether it is not almost as hard to i “In the face of this growing prob- our more France.” important campalg: in the Binghamton Press for a worthy cause. These people we are killing here at home are simply | victims of our stupid mania for speed.” It also “is no consolation.” the Watertown S:andard believes, “tha number of deaths does not grow in proportion to the number of auto- mobiles. A single death is one too In very few cases i8 an in- stance of killing by automobile actually unavoidable." There is a “city hazard that exists' be taken into considera- tion, the St. Joseph News-Press points out, but “recklessness is a heartless addition to hazard caused by disre- gard of human security. One man convicted of manslaughter and put behind the bars will do more to curb reckless driving than any other one evoked the familiar protest against *“the south in the saddle.” The answer i8 as familiar as the enter parliament. In England, as in America, a lot of things the old fore- | casters sald could never heppen have come to pass. ———— Iin in the majority or in the minority protest. Why, whether the democracy | The recklessness of humanity is riade evident by the fact that special safety movemente have to be organ-; zed in order to persuade people to show a decent respect for their own | Tives. ———— The education of youth requires gymnasium and outdoor work in «rder to prepare for the hazing that cs tho threshold of ad- A Clear Conservative Majority. Wednesday's elections in Great Brit- ain resulted in an unecxpectedly large, clear mafority for the conservative| varty. Andrew Bonar Law, premler,. il have a margin of at least eighty- seven votes in commons, Wwhereas when the balloting started it was ex- pected that he. would have but a plurality, and would be obliged to sum- mon aid from one of the liberal groups to maintain his ministry. Next In importance to that rellfllle 15 the rise of the labor party to second | place tn the parliamentary equation. While the conservatives have suffered, | despite their success, a net loss of twenty-three seats in commons, the laborites have gained sixty, giving them at latest reports 138, and a lead of eighty-four over the Georgian lib- erals, who rank as third party. The third important result is the relegation of Lloyd George to a rela- tively obscure position es to his own * following, his group now standing at fitty-four, a net loss of seventy-three seats. While the former premier may remain as a factor in the parliamen- tary situation, by reason of his ability | to cause embarrassment, this election 1s regarded at present as putting him definitely out of reckoning as & pos- aible future organiger of a govern- ment. Such a prediction, however, is not safely to be pressed, as the Welsh- man has a surprising way of recupera- tion. He has, it is true, never before euffered so.emphatic a defeat in an pear in the returns. One avowed com munist will sit in the next house, and one prohibitionist. Unless a bye-elec- tion shouid be held, and favors him, ‘Winston . Churchill, long a figure of .prominence in British political affairs, will disappear from pariiament, through a defeat which it is reported . -mtaggered him. H. G. Wells, labor can- didate for the house, remains in doubt of his fate. He made a turgid canvess ..¢hioch aroused 80 interest, and even if on Capitol Hill, should not the south be in the saddle? The south Is the democracy’s “steady.” Now end then, this year, there s a democratic eruption in other sections. The east, the west, the mid- dle country will show it in their con- gressional delegations. But never for long. Maybe at the next election local sentiment will force the democrats out and the republi- cans in. Not so in the south. The south sticks. She resists all efforts to dis- lodge the democracy even for a sea- son. She goes to the polls and plumps for democratic candidates year after year. She never tires of voting the party label. g The result, of course, is that the ex- perienced democrats in both House and Senate are at all times southern men, Such is the case today, and such will be the case when the Sixty- ighth Congress organizes. Mr. rett has been in the House nearly twenty years, Mr. Simmons in the Scuate nearly twenty-two years. Both men, therefore, are veteran legislators, and leadership demands men who know their way around— men who have had e large experience in law-making and are familiar with congresslonal methods and processes. —————pe——————— An effort is being made to modify the issue between the drys and wets 8o as to permit moisture without a freshet. b ————————— There will be no doubt es to the position of Victor Berger as leader of his party in Congress. ————ag—————— Already Under Way. * Says. Chairman Hull of the demo- cratic national committee: The victory won by the democrats |- in the late election has heartened the democratic party throughout the na- tion and cfeated a general desire | among democratic leaders for the im- mediate beginning of an active pre dential campaign. ‘The campaign of 1924 is already un- der way. Wednesday morning, the 8th, saw stir and bustle in the organization circles of both of the old parties. There are no idle periods in those circles nowedays. What is known as “the eternal git-upand-git” 1is the latest, the present, wear. We have now. continuous politics. The game never._ stops. Wall, why should it stop? Eternal wiglianee- 15 the price of ltberty. So cancel contracts for ships as it is to arrange for International scrapping of the completed product. $ The present unassertiveness of James Cox may be in discreet defer- ence to those who 'say the democratic party is going to need a dark horse. § ‘Whenever Kemal approaches a vil- lage the inhabitants begin to negotiate for fire and theft insurance. f A soulful ballad entitled “Some- where in Europe” might be dedicated to Grover Bergdoll and Bill Heywood. | New Brunswick has become famous as a town where very few people stay home nights. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSOX. A Sunset. The glowing vapors in the west Rise slowly, and the colors flare As if some Rosicrucian test Had set the universe a-glare. ‘The Power whose unmeasured sway Directs the mysteries sublime, Has dyopped another yesterday Into the Crucible of Time. Endless Mathematics. “You do & great deal of arithmetic in your leisure moments.” “Calculation i{s unavoidable,” replied Senator Sorghum; “when a man in my position gets through figuring on elec- tion returns he’s got to keep figuring Just as hard on how he's going to live on a government salary.” Jud Tunkins says &n anarchist ‘wants to abolish all governments only in the hope of starting a new one that will suit himself and friends. . Habit, The kaiser said: ‘“We must connect ‘With money the dear people make. Since taxes we cannot collect, - Some wedding presents we will take.” " Coming His Way. “Rattlesnake Pete seems powerful indignant ‘ebout some of your re- marks.” replied Cactus Joe; *“but he hasn't nerve enough to back up his indignation with any action.” “But he says he’s lookin’ for you with a gun.” “I hope he finds me. I need a gun.” “When you hears a whole roomful |0t people all talkin’ at once,” said Uncle Eben, “you reslise dar is jags eomversation as wall 85 ass music.” lem.” says the Newark News, “which | jgency. When the automobile driver {ts the more potgnant because the|who has been arrested for speeding {annual toll is composed largely of|never wants to be arrested again the children, we have been helpless thus | death list will stop going up and {tar. Our traMc organizations, our|Ztart Eolng down.” ~This rule, how- ever, should work both ways, accord- | persistent publicity as to the dangers {of the roads and the streets, both for { motoriats and for the victims of mo- itors, have thus far failed to keep !down the growth of accldents due to motorized vehicles stable, even when the growth of such vehicles is con- |sidered.” There is great difiiculty in {suggesting any real remedy, in the Ionlnion of the Canton News, because “the human element is the chief fac- {tor in all the efforts at conservation jof life,” and the News points out that as long as all safety precautions are systematically disregarded, no change can be expected. Until drastic penal- {ties for carelessness and negligence {are imposed by courts, the Plttsburgh | Gazette-Times holds “it will be a credulous person who will expect 1fatal accidents to be diminished.” It iis, however, the view of the St. Paul Dispatch that, while “fatal accidents showed an {ncrease of 28 per cent be- tween 1917 and 1921, according to the report of the census bureau,” the “statement takes no account of the great increase in the number of cars used {n the same period,” which also is of very great importance to a proper understanding of the situation. Because safety devices to date “are still crude and unsatizfactory,” the Milwaukee Sentinel agrees that “the necessity for unceasing vigilance and constant maintenance of every safety effort becomes more apparent.” One excellent method along this line. the Boston Post holds, Is that “parents must " teach their children how to avoid street perils” and communities must provide “suitable playing grounds. There is nothing better. nothing more humane, than the lat- ter. Our boys and girls must be saved from death on the public roads.” In- | dorsing this idea in every way, the {Columbus (Ohio) State Journal also feels that “the individual driver must take a firmer grasp on his responsi- bilities.” Amplifying this, the Albany Knickerbocker-Press points out that | “the only safety for all lies in the absolute refusal of every man or woman at the wheel of an automo- bile to perm't the car to move into any predicament in which there should’ be danger. One can skate over thin ice a thousand times, but it s on the thousand-and-first at- tempt that trouble comes and crushed and broken bodies are frequently past mending.” Excusing speeders, In- toxicated drivers and other menacing motorists not only adds to the dan- geors, “but never does any good,” the Shreveport Journal argues, while ‘“on the other hand it will bring harm. There must be vigorous, determined ‘War upon these offenders if the death rate is to be lowered.” There are plenty of drivers “who have run their cars tens of thousands of miles without so much as killing a chicken,” thé Chicago Journal points out, and it belleves “every youngster learning to drive should be taught his first lesson that an automobile Is 2 deadly weapon, to be handled as carefully as a rifle. If more_started their driving in that way fewer would end it in court.” In order better to accomplish such a task the Utica Press would have “more rigid requirements, vhich ude the untried and un- t the steerin, of cal treets and highways crowded with such trafo.” Inci- den y “we are killing more per- S0DS ‘every year in our ts and 'ways than were killed in one of R e ¢y would exc ‘wheels.| - ing to the Little Rock Arkansas Democrat, because “when & motorist violates a law and for his carele: ness kills a pedestrian it 18 slaughter, nothing ‘less. When a pedestrian walks in front of an automobile the driver of which is obeying the traffic laws, it is suicide—not Intentional self-destruction. but suicide via the carelessness and ignorance route.” The Kansas City Star belleves the ac- cident peak has been reached and that from now on ‘regulation of traffic will become easfer and safety measures will have a chance with motorist and pedestrian alike.” Page Sherlock Holmes. What a pity that Sherlock Holmes is not alive in the flesh to solve the latest Scotland Yard mystery! It is just ‘the kind of problem that would excite his wits. He would find it none the less interesting because‘the crime was directed at Scotland Yard itself, for Holmes was never quite so happy as when he was beating the vard at its own work. Sir Willlam Hopwood, the distin- guished head of the London police establishment. received some choco- lates through the mail. True to mas- culine instinct, he ate them without pausing to investigate their pedigree, He was taken violently fll and sub- sequent investigations showed that the candy contained heavy doses of deadly polson. The detectives are scouring London in their man hunt. They are spurred to greater activity because the of- fense ds a challenge to the intelli- mence of the yard itself. They may find the culprit and then again their efforts may prove unavailing. Even if they are successful, however, their solution to the mysery will lack the dramatic qualities with which Holmes ';10“1(! have invested it—Asheville mes. It's a long worm that has no turn- ing.—Columbia Record. The name of Rev. Kvale, who de- feated Volstead, s pronounced “Kwalkey,” as in Kwalley-fied— Philadelphia Record. A Harvard professor says nervous prostration is a luxury disease. The; poor must keep on working.—Colo- rado Springs Telegraph. Also, there appears to have been a little something brewing at home for! Mr. Volstead.—Detroit News. ‘What's in a name? one of two girls who quit college be- cause they couldn’t smoke. uske- gon Chronicle. The ex-kaiser’s book reminds us that Grimm, the author of fairy tales, ° was also a German.—Greenville Pled- mont. An Italian artist is coming over “to ' paint American women.” The im- pertinent thing! en can_paint themselves—C (S. C) State. So live, girls, that it will never be up to you to tell the reporter in a voice choked with emotion that you ‘olumbia plan to devote the remainder of your;you State life to forgetting.—Colombus Ohio Journal. ' PESEERSROR we read every |\r. Everyman down whenever public D {under all circumstances Wilson re- | :!erlx. and “our soldiers died at least | wards himself as a free man. and that | Miss Camel was | The American wom- ; Letters of Franklin K. Lane Revelations of the War Cabinet and Intimate Views of National and World Figures by the For- mer Secretary of the Interior. (Copyright, 1932, by Aane W. Lase.) | INSTALLMENT NO. 16, The followinz of Mr. Lane's letters written just before and after becom- ing a member of the cabinet, show the wide range of subjects his interest touched and his readiness to aban- don preconceived opinions when con- To Hon. Woodrow Wilson: Washington, June 8, 1916. My Dear Mr. President: 1 see b the papers that it is repeatedly = nounced that you are writing the| ladorm. Now, I wan. to the !iberty of saying that this is not alto- zether good news to me. Our plat- form should contaln such an appre- ! ‘lation of you and your administra- | tion that you could not write it, much | ‘ess have it known that you have written it. It should be one long joy- ‘ul shout of exultation over the achievements of the administration, and I can’t quite see you leading the shout. The republican party was for half A century a constructive party, and To John H. Wigmore: Washing'on, January 8. 1913 Like 80 many of the southerners, 1 fear that Wilson's Idea fs that ‘he can declare a general poliey and be indifferent as to the men who carry it out. There Is a certain lack o effectiveness running through th south whicia makes for sloppiness and a lack of precision. I have founc that generalizations do not get any- where. The strength of any proposi | he democratic v: party was the part: tion lies in its application. Therall { ¢ negation and complaint. Wenhlvz roads and the trusts and the pack |.aken the play from them. The ers, and all the others who are vio- lating the statutes, are indifferent a- to how big the law is and upon wha' lemocratic party has become. the sarty of construction. You have out- ined new policles and put them into sound principles it is based, provided “flect through every department, from iate to Labor. Therefo - “orm should be generously filled with vords of boasting that will hearten ‘nd make proud the democrats of the | ‘ountry—a plain tale of ¢ things | “mply done. If there is any truth at all in the rewspaper statement and any pur- s0se in making it. perhaps the end hat is desired might be reaclied by : statement that you are not under- aking to write the platform, but’ hat, at the request of -some of the ~aders, you are glving them a con- Tete statement of your forelgnl nolicy. Faithfully yours, FRANKLIN K. LANE.- I they have a lot of speechmakers to enforce the law. They don't care what the law Is; their only concerr is as to its enforcement. I am goinc | to give the democratic party fou vears of honest trial, and then if { has not more precision, definitenes and clearness of alm, am going to call myself a progressive, or a repub- lican, or sometHing else. ‘Wilson is strong, capable of keep ing his own counsel, and capable o making up his own mind. In thes three respects he differs materiall: from our present President, whos« last flop on the arbitration of the Panama canal proposftion is charac- toriatic. = @@ 5 To John H. Wigmore: Washington, January 20, 1913. ‘Washington is now greatly stirred To Hon. Woodrow Wilson: ‘Washington, August 25, 1916, because Wilson has frowned upon thr augural ball—a very proper frown to my way of thinking: but, inas much as all of the merchants whr My Dear Mr. President: 1 have hac alks this morning with three men 1l of them democrats, all of them i { ! | ‘trongly for you under any circum- nces. None of them is relae o railroads or to labor unions. Two f them have recently been out of this ity and belleve that they have a nowledge of the feeling of the coun ry. All express the same view, and want to tell it to you in case you ~rite a message to Congtess. They say that the people do mnor ~rasp the meaning of your statemen- hat soclety has made its judgment n favor of an eight-hour day. This “he people think, is a matter that can “e arbitrated. They ask Why can't ‘t be arbitrated? They say that the ntry feels that You have lined ourself up with the advance money for the inaugura ceremontes recoup themselves fromw the receipts from the inaugural ball | there is much weeping and wafl'n and gnashing of teeth, and Wilso~ will enter Washington, in my jud~ ment, & very unpopular President tocally. The fact is, I think, he i APt to prove one of the most tre mendously disliked men in Washinz- *on that ever has been here. He has a great disrespect for in Alviduals, and, so far as I can dis |~over. a very large respect for the mass. His code s a littie new to us | WA RS i i i should help him, and that it Is within his “Wilson's) proper_function to throw | Trevocably for an eight-hour da | moinet the milrords. who | bitrate the necessity for putting in {an eight-hour day immediately, and irrespective of . the additional cost | jto the railroads. They say that the Y, as <00d requires It, and that his silence never estops him from interfering a* lany time. Perhaps you cannot make {out just what this means. I am dic-| tating, eltting 1n my room at home | MR are attempting to bludgeon the with & very bad cold, and perhaps 1 |railroads into granting their demand do not know precisely what I mean rw‘hiclh hh's “";;"';;how;;;’ ‘;" V::‘; myself; but I am trying to say that|Ple to be reasonable. s arm 2 i) > is that the men should have ten hours' pay for eight hours' work or less They say that if this question can- not be arbitrated the rallroads mst | yield on every question, i he is bound by no ties whatever to 40 anything or to follow any course: that he recognizes no such thing as consistency. or loglc, or gratitude, as end thar | freight rates and passenger rates, in- stead of going down, as they have.for the past twenty years, must inevi- ey tably increasingly €0 up. They say To Walter H. Page: that the people do not realige that Washington, March 12, 1913. |you have been willing to ‘entertain The President is the most charming jany proposition made by the rail- e o e labor unions |- man imaginable to work with. Most { roads, but that you have stood stead- of us In politics have been used to|fastly for something which the men) being lled about, but there has been | have demanded. a particularly active set of liars cn-| Now, all of this indicates a lack of gaged in giving the country the {m- |knowledge of what your position has pression that W. W. was what we call |been. I am giving you the gist of out west & “cold nose.” He is the|these tonversations because they rep- most sympathetic, cordial and con- |resent a point of view, so that if you siderate presiding officer that can be imagined. And he sees so clearly. He has no fog in his brain. As you perhaps know, I didn't want to go into the cabinet, but T am de- | Gesire you may meet such criticism. You must remember, Mr. President, that the American people have not had for fifty years a President who was not at this period in a campaign {bending all of his power to puraly personal and political ends. Your i ideality and unseifishness are so rarc that things need to be made particu- (larly clear to them. lighted that I was given the oppor- tunity and accepted it, because of the wersonal relationship; and I think all e cabinet feel the way that I do. if we can’t make this thing a success the democratic party is absolutely Faithtally yours, gone and entirely useless. FRANKLIN K. LANE. — Defends Gas Expe_rimenlgfion on Animals. To the Editor of The Star: God bless the women! When the" world begins to appear a trifle common- place and prosaic, and boredom like Banquo's ghost percolates the blue funk jof a wholly tranquil evening, one of the gentler sex will come to the rescue if you give her half a chance. For those of us who are married we may find her without stirring far from the golden oak morris chair; for those of us who are not so lucky we may have to look in at Keith's occaslonally, but on two ev aings of late I have found her on The Star editorial page, bewitchingly entertaining in her wolfskin of serious- ness. Miss Hough and Miss McCaffrey, in | recent letters to the editor, have buckled on their armor, and, entering the lists against the warrior Gen. Fries, have endeavored to find the weak point in his helmet of logic with their. leveled Watermans. As I have noticed that Gen. Fries intends to answer further in another pub- lication, 1 hope that he will not take, it amiss if I add a word or two here. A week or ten days ago Miss Hough aimed three queries at Gen. Fries in her letter to The Star. I cannot “surp the right answer, as that is Gen. Fries' prerogative, but I can -prescribe a Iliative In the interim—a case of the Fa-mfly doctor applying the generally edies before the specialist ar- Miss Hough hood to pay every decade or so for the most costly of all criminal vices, unpreparedness. 1 realize that you do not wish to imply that you would prefer the future sacrifice of the sons, and possibly daughters, too, of Lother women, to that of a few dogs at the present time. And surely you must realize that any dogs used in necessary experimentation would have been shot long before by. the pound- master in the cities from which they were obtained. I hope you realize that I use the word “necessary” ad- visedly. There i8 no haze surroumd- ing the fact that this experimentation is necessary. It Is the choice of a few animals now or a host of other people’s sons at some later time. And then the third: “3. If such experiments are heln(l made, is it with the knowledge and | sanction of the high Army officials ultimately responsible?” . Let me teil you a secret, Miss Hough. I have noticed that there are quite a few more children per square iinch In the average Army officer's home than there are in the average civilian's home. You might ask “why" sometime in The Star editorial col- umpn, and know that in doing 80 you are going to “stump” the entire-Army | into Incoherent silence. But the fact: will nevertheless remain that when- ever you speak of “race suicide” to an Army officer he thinks that you are starting to give him a tip on a new entry at Laure]. This being 80, it nec~ essarily follows that Army officials, high or low, would rather see a few animals experimented upon than have their sons uselessly sacrificed in the next war. They know that any such useless sacrifice is the price of unpre- paredness, and in this particular case the unpreparedness would take the form of the physiological and patho- logical fundamentals connected with the science of war. All thinking peo- ple with children will express the; same opinion. Of course, Miss Hough, it goes with- out saying that people who actually compare the worth of dogs with chil- dren would be unable to follow this or any other line of reasoning, and 1 would not, for the world, impiy that you were trying to make any" such contrast. In your case 1 realize that you had not arrived at a last analysis 8t the time of writing. The last | analysis cannot be otherwise worded than the choice between the few ani- mals and the many humans. Person- ally, Miss Hough, I would sacrifice all the dogs In the world if it would bring back one American boy from his hero's grave in France, and were you to disagree with me I would alter the statement by hypothetical assur- ance that the-one boy would be your own—awakening from a sleep in for- | egn sofl that began October, 1818— | and then surely you would be in ac- . cord with the world of thinking par- enthood. R. L. ADAMS. ! known remd¢ vives for consultation. “gymptomizes” as follows:. & “1. Is the United States experiment- ing with poisonous gases after going on record, through her duly accredit- ed representatives, as opposed to their use? Falr enough, but let me ask one, too: Are you, Miss Hough, satisfied with “going on record” against thieves entering your home, or do you lack your doors in addition to your decla- ration of disapprobation. ‘And the second s like unto it: “2, Are such experiments being car- ried on at Edgewood Arsenal at the ost of suffering to animals?" Regardless of the exact answer, | Miss’ Hough, would you prefer that mothers offer their children for nec- essary experimentation in the place of animals? If you will recall, many : mothers lost their boys on the fields | ot France in the late war. Had ex- 1 periments been conducted prior to the war instead of during the war, many lives would have been saved to those mothers. _Were you blessed with children of Your own, Miss Hough, reali; one or more ters is a rather high ask motherh sons or price %o 004 and father- Bread dnd Spread—come ahead—to Breakfast, D.irmer—and ‘Supper. OBODY will need'a second call when the hot break- fast cakes, the dinner bread and the fluffy supper biscuits are spread with always fresh ucoa Ie's pure and rich and so deli- | cious in flavor—once you try it, you'll always buy it. Nucoa is made from the purest of vegetable fats and pasteurized milk. It comes to you abso- lutely guaraniced. 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