Evening Star Newspaper, November 20, 1922, Page 6

-a 6 THE EVENING STAR,! With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. G. | MONDAY. ....November 20, 1922 i the liberals of the past and the con-|of life here. sumption of the twoparty division!the principles upon which this govern- along the old-time conservative and | ment is based should be given to every Uberal lines, the laborites drawing to, themselves the more pronounced of i servatives absorbing the less radical} i THEODORE W. NOYES......Editor | The Evening Star Newspaper Company | Peunsyivania Ave. Nasnau A European O and. | with the Sunday morning arriers witliin the elty | iy on'y, 43 cents per wouth. Or- . or telephone Main by carriers at the | The Evenfug Sta edition, Is delivered y . Collection is ma end of each month. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1yr., $3.40: 1 mo., Daily only. ayr § 1 mo., 50¢ ! Bunday only 2ue | All Other State: unday..1 yr.. $19.00: 1 mo.. 85c | $700: 1 mo., ml Daily and Daily o Sunday only. yr.. $3.00; 1 mo., 26¢ Member of the Associated Press. ! The Associated Preas is exclusively entitled | to the use for republication of all news dis- patehes credited fo it or not otherwise credited | in this paper and aiso the loral news pub- | lished herein. All rights of publication of | anecial dispateiies horein are also reserved ! | must be shown. The Newberry Case Closed. h Senator Newberry's resignation | closes a case that has heen a cause of much bitterness ever since the election ; of 1918. Plans to recpen the matter | at the present session had been rounced, though with little chance of | @ reversal of the vote of last January | whereby Mr. Newberry declared § entitled to his seat. The fact that} changes in the Senate would probably | wipe out the narrow margin in his| favor in the next Congress and that a move would surely be made to take advantage of that condition may have | had an influence in the writing of the | resignation. Senator Newberry puts his action upon the basis of the re- cent election in Michigan, where his warm supporter, Senator Townsend, | was defeated. The situation, he says, | renders futile further service in the| Senate. | Senator predi- cated upon his frecdom from personal ¢ culpability, has not only relieved him | personally from embarrassments that | were becoming unbearable. but has also relieved his party of a handicap, | removing one of the factors of dis- turbance from which it has suffered for four years. The Senate voted tol seat him on the record. coupling vindi- | cation of him personaily with denunci-| ation of the excessive use of money in elections. 1t was charged that partisan politics had induced the tion, and the matter he issue which the democratic party | pressed with vigor and. as the election | indicated, with some measure of suc- cess. Condemnation of the wrongful and excessive use of money in elections has been universaily expressed by the people. including the multitude who refuse to belicve for an instant that Mr. Newberry knew of law violations in his senatorial campaign. The “New- | berry case” has thus had its beneficial result in a warning—formally ex- pressed in the Senate’s resolution of | last January—to all parties and all | candidates. To continuous vigorous de- nunciation of the excessive use of money in elections all thoughtful Americans will say. Amen. wa Newberry's action, 2 i Senate’s ac- | me a political i i i The Call and the Question. This may be said respecting the American merchant marine question, which now takes the center of the stage on Capitol Hill: (1) Tt is an important and most; pertinent question. The movement for ( an increased foreign trade will be fu- tile unless provision is made for de- livering sales in American bottoms. To depend on our competitors for helpful service would invite failure. Natural- ly. they will help themselves. A merchant marine would in case of war become an invaluable ad- junct of the Navy. The naval authori- ties, therefore, are advocates of al merchant fleet adequate not only for peace purposcs—trade purposes—but | also for war purposes. They want to} be properly equipped in case the coun- try at any time is challenged on the ‘water. 3 It is a familiar question. Dis- cussion, in Congress and out, has| played around it for years, and every phase of it has received attention. i (4) It is not a party question. Some of the warmest advocates of a mer- chant marine both as respects peace and war are democrats. The fact that a republican President has put him- self squarely behind the proposition does not make it unacceptable tothem. For these reasons protracted debate will be unnecessary, and a filibuster ‘would militate against public interests, Let & vote be taken in good season, and the matter, one way or the other, disposed of. The President is making no undue call upon Congress by ask- ing for action at this time. { ! A conference which does not develop new possibilities of war is now regard- ed as a very successful occasion. 1 ! ‘Mussolini conveys the combined im- pressions of an autocrat and a leader of the mob. The New British Alignment. The elections in Great Britain last week resulting in the return of a large, clear, conservative majority in the house of commons have had the further effect of developing a new alignment of parties which will prob- ably have an important bearing upon the political future of the country. As the parties will line up in the com- mons the conservatives will exceed by approximately eighty-seven votes all the opposition. | posed of at the earliest possible d: { Constitution provided this method of | of the former liberals. In such an alignment the conserva- tives have the better chance of suc-! cess in a national election as long as| the laberite movement is chiefly sup-| ported by the organized working} { classes. There are some eight million |anhood of the nation to enlist in the )trade unionists in Great Britain atjwork of teaching. They cannot conceivably !says, “needs their youth, eagerness :galn a majority unless they can se-!and enthusiasm, this time. cure the support of the middle classes, i who in all such divisions hold the bal-! tensively consider the problem of how Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. |ance of power. In the main the appeal ' to spread the educational work, how i of the laborite group for such support to improve it, how to recruit the ranks 70c; must be in terms of prospective de-,of teachers. Much good will come crease of the tax burden. But the pro-! | posals for nationalization with which | upon this vital question. the labor party is chiefly identified do | not make for a lightening of the taxes | certain at the outset if such plans| were adopted. On the contrary, in all | countries where nationalization has been tried the taxes have paid the, COsts. The average British voter is like the man from Missouri in this country; he; It is the task of the | British labor party leaders, therefore, to show the voters of the middle class, small property holders in the main and the chief bearers of the tax bur-| den, that through nationalizing of in-} Gustries and utilities and resources will come a lessening of the weight they must carry for the support of the state. If the British labor party's program is modified with less of nationalization and more of practical reform, and| with no relationship to the interna- tionalist movements that are always suspected of Russlan extremism, the old liberal vote may be revived. At any ! rate, the labor party, now established as the second in rank and .as the veritable opposition in parliament, has | its chance to replace the old liberal | organization that in the past has had its full share of opportunities for con- trol of the government. The Daugherty Impeachment. As a matter of justice to Mr. Daugherty, and in the interest of good government, the charges preferred inI the House of Representatives against | the Attorney General should be di: If his cnemies can show before the | House committee on the judiclary a | reasonable probability that Mr. Daugherty has been guilty of impeach- able offenses, the House should im-| peach him promptly and bring him to! trial before the Senate. If they cannot | make such a showing the country has a right to know that the charges are without substantial basis. and Mr. Daugherty has a right to vindication. | that he may discharge the important duties of his office without this handi- cap. 1t is a very grave and serious mat- ter to enter upon the impeachment of | an officer of the government, and when a member in the exercise of this high privilege rises in his place in the House and makes demand for im- peachment he assumes a grave and serious responsibility. No member. it is to be assumed, mindful of his cath and his obligations under it, would exercise this privilege for the satisfac- tion of personal aggrievement or to gain partisan advantage. Therefore, a! demand for impeachment cannot be treated lightly or put aslde as inconse- quential. When the framers of the removal from office they intended it as | @ last resort to gain relief from in- tolerable eonditions, and that this view has been accepted by successive Con- gresses is attested by the relatively few times in which resort has been | had to it. i No friend of the Attorney General | could wish for or strive to delay ac-{ tion on the charges against him. Mr.} Daugherty himself demands an early hearing. and to this every considera-{ tion of falrness and public policy en- titles him. If he is guilty of the mal- administration of his office, he should ! be removed from it. If he is not, he | should be vindicated, and his vindica- tion would serve as a reminder and a warning that this final recourse of the people’s representatives against ex- ecutive abuses should not be invoked | lightly or for trivial cause. ———— If December is reached without a snowstorm the theories that the climatic conditions are undergoing change will be entitled to serious in- vestigation. —_———— The fashion directors maintain a strict one-way system of styles in price tags. The desirability of peace is uni- versally recognized, but everybody wants it on his own terms. Education Week. In all the range of the “weeks” ae.l I voted to nation-wide promotion of spe- cial purposes ‘there is none more im- portant than that which has just been | proclaimed by President Harding, thei week of December 3-9, set aside for the consideration of education. As the President says, “the strength and se- curity of the nation will always rest ir the intelligent body of its people.” Upon the degree that that intelligence is cultivated and developed depends the stability of this great institution, the United States. It has been often said that com- munistic radicalism can never prevail in this country because of the high percentage of literacy among the people. Russia has frequently in recent times been pointed out as an evidence of the evil of an uneducated : protection. ! politi THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO! | |Here and There in Washington American child in terms to make him realize the blessings of liberty in terms Wrong education is the cause of much of the ferment here es else- where. Perverted notions obtain’ in consequence of inadequate funda- mental training and only partial en- lightenment. The President calls for the young manhood and young wom- “Education,” he For one week this country will im from such a concentrated thought Mr. Kitchin's Return. Mr. Kitchin has not been in action | eral years ago, he collupsed, and since then. by his doctor's order, he has been in retirement. He took no part except as adviser in the long and bit- ter tussle over the Fordney tariff re- sion. He is stronger now, and there is promise that he will appear in his old form in the activities of the Sixty- eighth Congress. The time will suit him, and one of he leading issues before that body to him. Kitchin has Mr. tariff. He is an aggres the old democratic doctrine of e tariff pecialized on the ive exponent of for revenue only. During his long service in the House he has often led the debate on the democratic side of the chamber in the denunclation of The war has probably changed his views but little if any on that subject. The President says—and most per- suasively—that the present generation will not see the prohibition question taken out of politics. There appears full warrant for saying the same thing, and even mores about the tarift ques- tion. As stoutly as at the start of our governmental venture, men still differ cating protection. others as warmly opposing it—and square off at each other whenever opportunity presents itself. Since we have the tariff with us steadily, therefore, it will profit us all it in every contest each side of the question Is presented by those who have made a study of it. Mr. Wells Overwhelmed. Congratulations to Mr. H. G. Wells, ; to the labor party of Great Britain, to the reading public everywhere! He has been soundly beaten in his effort as a laborite to break into parliament. He will time in attendance on legislative pro- ceedings not in his line; not be obliged to prepare “pieces™ of doubtful merit | United States. It also served to direct He lattention to the fact that he still is ! [0, a factor that must be reckoned with lin the democratic party. as it did. so closely on the heels of | Wit (G LId Jill yet lea !the election results, there was a gen- feral acceptance of the former chief iexecutive's utterances as serving no- | tice that he again feels sufl factive to assume leadership of that; the country which and without appeal to listeners. can proceed now, pen in hand, with tasks for which he is eminently fitted, and hope to contribute not only to the entertainment but %o the instruction and general benefit of mankind. The times are dbut of joint. So much is unsettled and needs to be put in proper place again, specialists are the real need of the hour. The tools to the { man who can use them. Hence, strange tools should not be put into unskilled hands. The world needs finished and durable work by those thoroughly com- petent and experienced. And yet others have ‘“erred and { strayed” in their efforts and ambitions as Mr. Wells has. Paderewski, con- sidered by many pianist of his generation—the wizard of the keyboard—took a shy at Polish =, only to find the game beyond him. Wisely enough, he has turned his back on that turmoil and will ad- dress himself again to the fleld where there will be no uncertainty about his performances. That old saw about the shoemaker still holds good. When competent, he should stick to his last. N —— The bears of Wall street refuse to assert sympathetic relation with the genial and optimistic old Teddy bear. ————— Germany is willing to pay all kinds of reparations if some one will give her the money. The Hall homicide has produced lit- tle evidence, but an enormous amount of gossip. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. .Injun Summer. Injun Summer—that's the time ‘When the year is in its prime! No miore roses fadin’ fast; No. more vi'lets that can’t last! All the cares of summer days Fade an’ let us seek the ways That will lead to gentle rest ‘When the year is at its best. Talk of jonquils in the spring ‘When the birds are caroling! Talk of roses in the June ‘When the locusts are a-tune! Talk about the Katydid Singin’ somewhere safely hid— - Injun Summer! That's the time ‘When the year is in its prime! Paternalism. “George Washington was the father of his country.” “So he was,” replied Senator Sor- have some mighty headstrong chil- dren.” Jud Tunkins says that every time Next. will come|body politic. And America has felt{he hears about a peace conference he the laborites with 141 votes, end|secured against such a violent revo-|gets nervous for fear another war is back of them will stand two groups of | lutionary reaction on the score of the| going to start. liberals, Asquithians' and Georgites, with 109, or thereabouts, with a small superior intelligence of its citizens. Yet there is always room for advance- ‘Temperament, sprinkling of variously inclined mem-|ment. Ignorance still prevails in some | Some said her show of temperament bers in addition. Thus the labor party degree in some quarters. The schools In art performed its missien. becomes the second in rank. It is,|are not sufficient even now to reach|And others said it merely meant therefore, most distinctly the “‘opposi- tion.” Inasmuch as the remainder of the opposition is divided into two wings the laborites can claim the prerogatives of the chief minority party. 3 all of the younger generation, and the vital importance of education is not fully appreciated In every state. relating to the extent and the quality An ugly disposition. Entertainment. “No, of the education of the people. It isf., . .oye of slighting those who neg- The significance of this new align- | necessary that there should not only |, 1.4 to entertain me.” ment is not to be mistaken. - British political parties are in a state of transition. and it is believed in Eng:- | citisenship which is conducted in them | rible sot in: his own. be more schools, but that the téaching should be sound, that the training in not have to waste valuable persons the first | ghum. “But @ father is very liable to | 3ud “ parties Two questions present themselves, emz:.{:“:‘:l ;:“, Mgm’t.o;"the ke “A mule,” said Uncle Eben, “is ter-| demooratic party, that, to say the least, strange; ‘winter. Chase, thereabouts a ton. with all the at $19.50. there exists today country a feeling public makes up its Iyou will ha {mines and mining. a thing cannot be don times the unexpected dos * ok k% music before or the edges | address on {took occasion to renew tions provisions ithe international !following in dorses his policies. {tion where neighborly was needed,” say World (democratic), Wi litical parties more ago. With Mr. Wil ihopes and belie |of recent decisions, | (democratic) that =ource. Taking this says: l tumult and shoutin ‘ed him,” says the | Journal '(independent). iple's affairs. {he calls that ‘peace’ ithe state of his health the Richmond (independent t so certain that Mr. Wil- ey olicies into the of the United States, 'wo years ago the an News-Leader son can force his future progr ONGRESS is with us once more and 1 know of no more ap- propriate time than this to . call the attention of the law- makers to the fact that some coal dealers are behaving in a manner more especially after have been promised that no exorbitant charges would be made for coal this A friend of mine, who lives in Chevy Just over the District line, thought, some time 220, that he would play the part of a wise householder | and fill his coal bin at the named | rate of $16.50 per ton, and so called | upon the purveyor of the heating ma- terial with checkbook in hand, ready | to purchase the necessity, which, at the mouth of the mine, costs §3 or i { He was Informed for some time. Overexerting himself { that he could have but one ton at in a House debate on a warm day sev- | that price, but he could be supplied “premiums” he desired The last clection demonstrated that throughout of unrest and might not be a bad idea for those who would garner unto themselves an un- earned and abnormal profit to be con- tent with an honest bonus, for if the mind to drastic action it will do o, and then ve government control of Of course, {will be many who will say that such e. Armistice Day Address Brings| Sharp Conflict of Opinion. his indorse- | 2ot “We have given advice and exhorta- BY “THE somewhat we the | it take there but some- | s happen. FOR a long time we have been ac- customed to hearing splendid se- !lections rendered by the orchestras in the different movle houses, and really | some of the pieces that have been played have been in the nature of an education to those who have never had an opportunity to hear real good to attend classes for he ! therein, the Following. | iently ! in- | “Wilse L |to the front as vital | majority MAJOR” brought melody from that organ the like of which they had not heard for many a day. At the conclusion of his a hush for & moment and then those who had en- }joved the treat gave evidence of their appreciation by long and vigorous applause. It wasindeed a treat to hear | real music instead of that vulgariza- tion of melody that they have termed performance there Wi Jazz. * ok kK Washingtonlans VERAL eridge that had ticket of their own making. men. however, if they from view. D. C, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1922 —I I LANTERN have changed the plans that they were | to put in operation had Albert J. Bev- been elected to the Senate |from Indiana. The men mentioned i had planned to carry on a campaign for its object the securing |of delegates to the next republican convention, all of whom were to be | pledged to vote first, last and all time | for the one-time favorite son of the Hoosler state, and it was hoped that events would cause the present oc- cupant of the Executive Mansion to withdraw from the race in 1924, and { then they would be able to put out a These desire to be | President makers, must look around ! for another candidate, for Beveridge iasa presidential possibility has pusuedlwhn are 5o sunken in Iniquity that All of which brings to]they do enjoy such inventions of the ! niind the old saw that runa, “Oh. that [devil? THE BY DON MARQUIS. Sammie the Bootlegger was in to see us yesterday—a social call, it was, and not a professional visit. We asked Sammie several ques- tions: Q. Do you wish, Sammie, to see the iniquitous corner saloon, with all its woe and wretchedness, return? A. No. Q. Do you wish, Sammie, to see the eighteenth amendment to the Constitution repealed, so that the un- righteous traffic in hearts and souls and homes will once more again be legalized? A. No! No! Q. Do you wish, Sammie, that the wicked people who still want to pour liquid damnation down their vil- lainous throats should be allowed to concoct in their own homes wines and beers and whiskies from the damnable plant life that still insists on fermenting? A. No! No! No! Q. Do you wish, Sammie, to see; some modification of the Volstead act which will permit an enjoyment of wines and beers on the part of those mine enemy might write a book!"” Tho.i A. Oh, no! No, né! Never! biography of the Kaiser, pra; man eridge on November 7. * ¥k * HERE is no doubt that by the time cold, reflecting pool | in front of the Lincoln Memorial will | be in shape to be used as a skating ! pond for those who delight to indulge While Wash- | ington does not have many days of where other than Jazz was taught. | real good ice skating, there are, how- | The other night 1 dropped in to see|ever, a number of men and women a reel or two at one of the cinemas | who take kindly to this form of ex- on F street and after the orchestra ercise and among them are some real finlshed its work for that period of | experts who learned the art before {the evening a young chup rat down iat the organ and commenced to play. For the moment the audience thought | it is perfectly safe and also that it Is about the tariff—some warmly Advo-[;; youlq be the regular program, but |within easy walking distance of many ithe young artist, for a real artist is car lines. he, soon had those present sitting on of their chairs, winter comes with its biting winds the in this form of sport. ming here. tr: No doubt, of a chance to skate. 1 EDITORIAL DIGEST come a hero of romance rather than but the fact that some people are still think- 2 " ling of him in the latter role is proof Former President Woodrow Wilson's | of the one great need of the demo- Armistice day, when he!cratic party—and a need which do now appear likely of fulfillment the opposite of the ment of the Versailles treaty, With yijew entertained by the Birmingham especial attention to the league of na- contained reopened the general controversy over ations of a hero of partisan polities, This i directly Ne is ards international matters ans dead. 1ANO0OR: ews part, of the sick “man for its believes the people back to fultiil old w hatred: their d from its cessp Fulilling a Prophecy. Kipling's prophecy, ght Mal | prising degree of fulfillment. co-operation the “and that s pledged in the name of both po- than two vears “Trying to construct something out of a negation which his {schoolmaster mind rashly assumes to ibe no negation at all, in order to sup- Iport the previous fallacies to which his misconcelved omniscience pledg- Wwall “Mr. Wilson pically breaks off his own point. Where, and if, he is thinking con- structively, he means the active co- ation for meddling in other peo- ples But he is neither think- |ing nor speaking constructively when York | help | New the World s that. in the light we today our faith in the future is the opinion of the Baltimor. r. Wilson natu- irally feels intensively on the subject, land some of those who oppos ileague of nations deserve his i But the great majority of Americans, it is to be assumed, were earn patriotic in their attitude, according ito thelr lights, and appeals to thelr reason were apt to be more per- suasive than denuncia\lxnn from any nto the New York Tribune (republican) It is gratifying all around to note that he has now regained his fighting spirit and is again polishing up his polemical adjectives. The good wishes of the country go out to him in his first reappearance as a war- horse who scents the battle afar and ’(a eager to engage once more in its renew Lt n may, d the corn. st and | account, incurable Street Because of demo- swer would have been fully nega- | but, whereas tive, sey City Journal lieves that “the former once again _unerringly —who can say?” et (democratic) “be- ‘The Jer. President has icans the country ‘:l:!n‘:rrved. holiday or no hollday, in a | their minds. spoken for over on a Armistice day has been observed, holiday or no holiday, in a !fn:hlnn that befitted it and in a way that should produce results.’ & The Chicago Tribune (progressive republican} icans have nation.” Kansas City Star lican) holds that left him isolated. hand, dgment which are final judgments. right in statemen statesmen are P that “‘up to this time our for- B eicv 1 wholly nebulous, unformed. &a it has any trend, if it moves elgn But argues that “most Amer- been made llwllre of l\'le ndness of their decision not to :g‘l‘mt:rsl'n ‘Mr. Wilson's folly, but if the democratic leaders think we are mistaken in this another discussion will not be without advantage to the Indorsing this attitude, the (progressive repub- «“Mr. Wilson is still living in the past. It is hard for a man ‘once the centfiphof things_to e world has move: realize that t! Pl the Newark News (independ- ent) holds ll‘hl! "hl: brief n.pnedec.):’:rl:é the moral sense et the ca\lrtl)l in merican people make their b D“}l.:". ‘Wilson was that certain ipping backward,” the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch (inde- endent democratic) is convinced, and night flying. have become vital ment of air travel. The Post Office Department to st mail radio direction finders, Postal saying tha the mail ships. been quoted a dodging all manner passes, turn-indi corders and drift: tors, hundred miles an hour. High in the air. traveling on a stralght line. “With with e of the one-time ruler of Ger- did not materially assist Bev- One of the great at- stions of the reflecting pool is that there will be ndreds who will avail themselves (democratic), which says that| et a force to reckon with. | times one’s patience is rewarded. { The Wilson ideals and policles, as re- and the duty of the United States. are by nc They will forge rapldly issues again.” (democratic), that the “vast “have come of S street. d America to heritage by rescuing the of 0ol in it attempt to establish non-stop coast- service depends upon radlo fleld localizers and radiophones to guide pilots have t they would rather fly at night if they have the guidance of radlo than in the daytime when fog often lies in wait for them and forces them to fly low, of obstacles. | They prefer radio apparatus in good working condition to the best com- distance dicators, The com- passes spin and most of the other apparatus becomes useless when the plane twists in a “tight corner” at a there are radio messages that enable the flyer to go toward the electric beacon as thought He can fly through the fog.or high above As to the lighthouses for air travel- ers that Kipling picturesquely de- scribes, their wonder is already ap- proached in the high power search lights that have become an acknowl- edged necessity on landing flelds. As yet they are without the picturesque titles which he accords to them and bulletins are not yet posted. as he has related, concerning the unrelia- bility of lights in the Malayan archi- pélago on account of earthquakes, but in these details, as in the rest of his prophecy, we have seventy-seven years in which to make them reality. Judging from the prozr;:s already | ¢on, “ex: in that time.—St. Joseph News. made, his prophecy may the life of a man. New Jersey justice may now sur- pass even this master of imagination. For it seems possible that the cred- ibility of the chief witness in the Hall-Mills murder mystery may de- pend on—a flyspeck. It is not beyond the bounds of pos- sibility that the life of one or n?ura persons may depend on a penciled calendar. Whether this note was penciled two | feature news values. months ago or only recently may t a jury toward belief or disbelief Mrs. Gibson’s story. And a flyspeck may determine whether the note was|off a mad bull made at the time claimed. If the fly. speck is on top of the writing it will tend to prove the note valid. If the note on Mrs. Gibson's about a plece of string that changed its the has already reached sur- In this limaginative vision of the future Kip- | ling mentioned the wireless on air- i innocence. ships and stressed the importance of light signals on the ground to direct These two features in the develop- Te- 2ded | 1ost three fingers from my right hand Q. What is it that you wish for,| things as they is. A New Jersey preacher announces as the theme for a common sermon: Which Shall It Be—God or Golf?" Personally, we do not see why a man cannot have both. But, then, we know little of golf. We have deveral friends who, if they are compelled to choose, will not hesitate an instant. No one welcomes Clemenceau to genuine America with fervor than Capt. Fitzurse. Clemenceau was, day, a famous duelist, and Fitsurse claims to be the person who taught him that terrible thrust with the sword which discomfited so many of “The Tiger's” political foes. in his “Will you recall yourself to M. ?" we asked the captain. said the captain, seek him out. "I shall not av. He ma Sammie? A. Kid, I'm perfectly satisfied with l forgot- ten me. He did not know me under the name of Fitzurs We said nothing. We were not so Indiscreet as to ask the captain how it happened that he had laid aside the proud name of Fitsurse, even temporarily, for an alias. not question the captain concerning |such matters. One waits and some- 1“1 was in Paris,” said the captain, clearing his throa on a4 delicate and dangerous mission, undertaken {as a favor to a great emperor, when I first met M. Clemenceau. As the harm in hinting that he was a mem ber of the celebrated Romanoff {family. “The mission had for its object the recovery of some letters written by an Infatuated grand duke to an un- advantage of the duke's youth and Naturally, 1 operated un der an assumed name—I gave myself out as a maitre d'armes and opened a fencing school in Paris. M. Clem- enceau was one of my promising pupils. “If Georges cares to seek out his old master—the man who made him what he is, for his political rise in its early stages was based upon his cleverness and coolness as a duelist —that is one thing. seek him out.” “But were you successful in your mission in Paris?” we asked. The captain took a little gold case from his waistcoat pocket and drew from it a silver collar button. +~ “I am entitled to wear that if I choose,” he said proudly. “I was successful, and the czar, as my re- ward, made me a grand commander in the Order of the Silver Collar But- ton—perhaps the most exclusive or- der in thc world. Few people know that the order exists, and there are less than a dozen men alive who know why it exists. M. Clemenceau himself does not have this order.” The captain was silent for a mo- ment, and then he added, with a sigh: “I think, on the whole, I may say that I earned that silver collar but- 1 recovered the letters, but I in doing it” The complete autobiography of Capt. Peter Fitzurse will be publish- ed in this column, and, positively, no- where else. (Copyright, 1922,) Right to Existence Earned by the Dog Novelty is the newspaper man's guags for the measurement of That is why urn | the report from Dowagiac of a dog which has been badly hurt in driving that attacked his mistress was less interesting than the story from Scotts Bluff, Neb., of a writing rune over the speck it would |man who jumped into a swift stream impeach the testimony. Detective story writers have to be more ingenious to match actual ex- periences.—New York World. She’s a kaiserin; he’s a kaisero Syracuse Herald. No, it isn't because the country w: Chile that it shook.—Canton fim':f tory. The appeal of the European nations: Day by iday intevey e e w i - | hsasiof ido, direction, it moves toward ‘pnlr:l':!lyplflon in the affairs of Bu- rope and the east. And the men who ek to check the movement are ‘slipping backward’. "1’).’6“‘ who had spiring “hoped for an In- ‘message got nothing of the » the Worcester Telegram (re- :lll'l‘i?iun) asserts. It is the same old story again—insisting that the Ver- saflies treaty means a ‘just peace’ d accusing those who think other- I:‘;sn of unworthy motives. Until Mr. Wilson admits that opponents of the women.” replied Miss Cayenne; “far |league and treaty have something on their side his messages can appeal only to fanatical mén and hysterical His address llkewise em- phasized the lack of leadership in the the timore = News (republican), WAY. §'°"‘? o Nuumr. considers opinion of It more ing debtor and debtor.—Worcester | 1arity. Telegram. Late in life sucoess expands the ly ex- waistband. Early in life it m pands the hatband.—Duluth Last November we were counting the money disarmament would save ‘What did you do with yours?— us. Nashville Tenneasean. =y Now that the gultan is looking for a_newspaper column on how to keep harmony in the household.—Little Rock Arkan- work he might start sas Democrat. No, gentle reader, road hogs are n included in the plg census now being taken by the government.—Bridge- port Post. average There's always & way, and it may be | friends mlfy S haar | Bioraere. f their Rest appearance. in that the thirsty traveler can as'a membér of the grow- in an effort to save his dog and was drowned. It is common occurrence for dogs to risk their lives to save human beings. It isn't common for Ut~ | humans to take chances to save dogs. Perhaps that is as it should be. Perhaps it is foolish for a man to i his life for a dog. But it is a poor rule that won't work both ways. More and more you are likely ‘to saving men these days. Canine pets are returning to popu: For this fact many reaso might be given, of which the doj value as a2 nightwatch and as companion for chldren will be the chief. Whatever the reason, we may erald. | be sure that every dog taken into sign home as a pet must justify itself to assure a pillow in the corner and food. ‘That isn't always true of humans. When you see 2 man on the street you can’t always be sure that he h: ned the-right to exist by accomplishing worthwhlie deeds, by being = kind father, by serving his community or by earning respect of those about him. But whenever you see a_dog these days you can mark ot | that dog down as somebody's friend. pay the license tax and provide him ‘with bonui of dogs themselves | be ashamed of their race—physically M Georges| ‘more | Peter | Capt. | One does | Rreat emperor is now dead. I see no| scrupulous woman who had taken| But I shall not| Somebody thinks nnnugh of him to Maybe that is why the heroes and trustworthy th, S trom_ the BY PAUL V. MERICANS have had cause to|®Pines and thrown-back shoulders and pouter-pigeon chests, in contrast the recent |, the slouch of the finest regiments of English or French, in the same parade? Americans are not all Apollos, but is it fair to denounce us as cripples and w _resent most of criticisms of their conduct, glven so freely by foreign hypercritics. We are told that we are dishonorable, tricky, greedy, penurious In expecting a twelve-bil- lion-dollar bagatelle of a loan really to be pald back, and also, according to a French-American legionnaire, even the American Legion is deca- dent, thus verifying Kippling's dis- covery that all decent Americans died in the civil war. But while in our sensitive self-pride we object to what the paragons of Europeans say about us, much of that resentment is but the expression of self-defense, or of chagrin that we have not carried our bluff as we had expected to do. Even the ostrich ob- jects to being called squint-eyed, though its head is in the sand. ¥k ok x However, now that our faultfinders have shut their eyes, and we are just here by ourselves, lct us confess that the joke is on them, in that they have not half seen what we know of our- selves. The half has not been told, and if there are no European report- ers, poets or librarians around, we may concede that Americans ought to and intellectually. We are fifty-fifty real upstanding men women (€0 present company will take no offense), but the other half are just like Richard 111 That dogs bark ai me ax | * ok ¥ * And then our ignorance isappalling, | fac We, who think we belong to th world’s “smart set” and boast of our great system of free schools, thank Providence that we are not like other men, steeped in flliteracy, prejudice and etupidity. Not of the firm-lipped American—the high-browed Yankee— is the question to be asked: “Who loosened and let down this jaw | We have read history and recall | that with the Jaw the ass | Samson played smas a a loosed lower maxillary—like som which have by wabbiing lat but those loose and frightful jaws histor. ve always belonged ea { the Atlantic, while we have sat smug, | {and grinned; we may get lockjaw, | { but never the wabbies, like England and France, et al. ¥ ok & % Now come Secretary of War-Weeks of | of | {and Gen. Pershing telling us the thing ! | we had hoped everybody had forgot- | ten—that in the draft for the world | ;wur it was discovered that half U § American youns men were lik ard 111, and a quarter could no which end of a newspaper or book to { hold to the top, for they were utterly unable to read or write | Sinee we are ofiic i semething ought to be | k % ¥ H No man can do justice to his soul or his brains if he is a physical ting. Tru exception was weak and sickly, and y. {poetry which lives—but he could not | live on his stuff today, writing it for | magazines, What did Pope over ie of the “eternal triamgie i Pope was a genius, and with geniuses, just as ail signs {dry weather. v reminded, e about we i wrote 1 rules fail | iin The first Tequisite to modern su is a sound body. it b The Army deman usiness insists upon it; the cour it shing and have Americans that 3 etting-up _exercises. ‘The gener ems to think thai that will mat over the Richard Three-eves of i Inited States “t10of-sweet” but evi- dently he knows more about major ! tactics than he does of hog-raisin lIn ali the agricultural colleges it is | taught that if the feeder of pigs ever {lets his piglets starve. even for a few { days, so that they fail to make prog- ! iress daily and steadily from the day jof birth. they are stunted irredeen jably. All the cramming of feed i subsequent days will not make th hog he might have been. Perhaps that is what the poet referred to in con- | nection with “tongue or pen.” Let us learn from the “pen” that “once a irunt always a runt.” and “the saddest | of these™ is the human runt. That is| just what half of American man- | hood is. ! cretary Weeks Tuded chat they all 1 * X ;t“)‘: In verification of the poet of “all sad things” we cite also what Dr. | Holmes said concerning when to be- gin in the matter of developing the { child—was it not to be 100 years be- | jfore birth? Now what does Gen. | { Pershing expect to make out of our awkward squads of ancestors. even with all the setting-up exercises, b drills and climbing over the | ‘Can storied urn or animated | bust” beat the A. E. F.? Is not the | general unfair to the doughboy and the rookie? *x & * % In all seriousness, has any observer of soldiers on parade—for instance. on the Fourth of July. 1919, in Paris —compared the physique of the American columns, with their straight Use of Poison Gas In War Disapproved. To the Editor of The Star: . Mr. R. L. Adams. in his defense of | gas experimentation on animals, modestly states that pending Gen. Frics' reply to Miss Hough's ques- tions, he will “prescribe a palliative | in the interim.” Like many so-called palliatives, Mr. Adams’ proved quite ineftectual. We lock our doors against thieves; we punish the thieves when caughti becausc they trespass rights. When & nation resorts to the ! use of poison gas In either offensive or defensive warfare it transgresses | every recognized rule of combat and becomes an outlaw among nations. The world has not forgotten the hor- ror it felt when Germany added poi- CAPITAL KEYNOTES of the American Army was the nine- days’ wonder and admiration of the Europeans. not so symmetrical and mighty brawn as ought to see the rest of the worl of them. {ancestors of the generations of the century beginniug about die and the next, and not only would sc}- The of *!the more p stunt is glorfous. Soon fiving througl than t Lout-or. for th outdoors except exercise for ex. | have ministers of education | the book. but the i established | t COLLINS. rack klings? Come. The physiqu let us reason together. It may be true that half of us are ot the ideal man., but-—you Europeans, for example. We'll com - pare limbs and torsos with' the best * * % * The practical point is what arc Wwe going to do about it. At best, il we can hope to do is to improve the 2000; the is cast for our own generation ting-up gymnastics fail to make over, the children of civil war ancestors but it is not the best method of get- ting the best out of our own present environment and opportunities. systemat bending of gymnastics might help stop the phy sical decadence, swinging spines of arme a in meaningiess but a better u 'd is to put the whole mind and in accord with cotemporaneous vironment. Who is 80 blind as not to =ea that this age isx different, most radic: from the conditions of former wutomobile has g Longlegs b limbs to the r: all the world iorizon has widened by hunc miles. A tour with outdoor « is worth t rs of indoor & crely to the but to the lungs. A hike ix n a trapeze. A Bo) louds and defying the sun’s beaming will make men but a little lower nels, Away with your -up exercises. Us fresh uir and all The most worthless thigg is art for art's sake— cise's sake. in the world * ok k% As for the illiteracy of the age in America, that i3 a crime of our legis- latures and executives. It is a crimo not an oversight or a matter of no 1sequenc We Ve sown the wind of indifference; shall we reap whirlind of sullen unrest with demagogic! betruyal of the ntry through ignorance of a q the of i1s p > e Ak menace of Am * x vk BT 4 the horrible igno- world-war No one imag| ranes of Americans until the draft disclosed ft. A quarter of 1 men of Graft age wera proved unabl to read or write, and so what is tru of the men must be even worse of the womer it is notoricus that girls are "t Iy given as much ooling in rland boys nd that for boyvs is sb 1y inadquate. In some of the Lern states. even amongst the whites. over 60 per cent read « write. In some 1o manufacturing districts of the the proport nable to read or write the langu. f this country is hardly any Yet An the 1 cent, becyuse onfessed. portion Pershin conf addressing an educa- ced the Lo nee, expr 1t out of the conference would come “some system which can be 4 throughout our public schools whereby the lessons of patriotism anid the zation to the country and those things that go to make up & itizenship may be t t e ffective max be adopted as a general pr That nildren country.” th A s throughont th i quite besid 1 our little mark: tis Ahous. - Quit nagging the scho 1) them instead—bhut I Quarter or half the po ~ not reached by the ter them in the high and compel ther come them hefore thes ix the crus federal com the f the whole proble pulsory laws forcing illiteracy out into the very gulf stream. it has no place under Ol Glory. If un amens ment of the Constitution is nec sary to give power for a federal 1 and a federal supervision of educa- tion, &0 be it. We should have the commissioner of education in the President’s cabinet, other nations in their cabinets. Representative Sydney Anderson of Minnesota has summed up the cause of the overturning of so many con- gressmen in the recent election: Al due to too much Congres He sayse no party can keep Congre sion cleven months and get away with it. “You have got to maintain per- sonal contact with the voters.” We wonder why Mr. Anderson for ook the old classic in summing up the situation. He might have pointed out that Congress was parlous, but the shorter and more effective expres- sion is that of the bird: “Polly you talk too much!” Ain't Congress u bird? Would Impress Lesson Of Horn-Locked Deer To the Editor of The Star: There has just come to my desk a book with the rather, queer title of “Robinsgon Crusoe, Social Engineer The author is Mg. Henry E. Judl of Washington. D. C. I have not read ee opening para- graphs of the foreword, whicl 1 quote, should be printed in letters of gold, framed and placed over U calendar for the new ycar in ev in s ioffice and every home in the United States, In remote recesses of lonely moun- n sides travelers frequently have found the skeleton remains of two animals lying side by side, as if they had perished together by mutual corl- sent. It is a curious phenomenon. “It means that two buck deer had engaged in mortal combat and locked horns in a war of extermination, from which the only escape was by slow starvation. It was a peace withoyt son gas to her long list of unpar- victory for either. It was the peace of death. ther could entangle the donable sins. Must we hasten to emulate her shame? i Mr. Adams waxes sentimental over other without entangling himsel You cannot hold another man dow saving the lives of children by the unlimited use of poison gas. What about the children of other parents? Parent-love is the same the world[ over. Are we perfecting poison gas| to protect our own children, or to kill the children of our enemies? Are we not deliberately perfecting a jethal weapon capable of destroying mankind, of destroying civilization? Like myself, doubtle: Hough would gladly sacrifice all dogs if it would bring a cessation of the use of poison gas in any future war. But to sacrifice them in order to perfect and increase its use is, Indeed, a useless slaughter of the innocents. Mr. Adams says if these experiments had been made before the war, in-; stead of during it, many lives would have been saved. He would have been fully as logical in saving that had we not entered the war at all no lives would have been lost. The fact remains that through the use of poison gas thousands of additional lives were sacrificed. The outraged conscience of the world demand: that its future use be banned. ‘Were the fine sentiments of Amer- ca's representatives at the arms con- ference but vain words, a sham wall behind which we perfect ourselves in a mode of warfare condemned by the clvilized world? ESTELLE AUBBEY BROWN, in thesgutter without remaining dow in_the gutter with him. “The tragedy of the Born-locked deer aptly exhibits the condition ot capitalists and laborers during the past 150 years. They, too, as in the case of the deer, have like interests. These like interests ure common in- terests. Industrial conflicts are, there- fore, civil wars. Mutual hatred, as| with the der, has blinded them to this| fact and produced tragic results.’ ETHELBERT STEWART. . United States Commissioner « of Labor Statistics. Honor to Logan To the Editor of The Star: ‘Washington is generally extolled for its numerous beautiful parks Quite a number of these are in cir. cular form and are, therefore, called circle: Nearly all of them bear thq names of great Americans except on —namely, lowa Circl We hav Washington, Thomas, Scott. Dupont and Sheridan cles. Now, why coul not lowa Circle be called Logan Cir. cle, a® it is now graced by an eques. trian monument of Gen. gan, cer. tainly a hero worthy *o have the ci cle called after him? .- FRED J. BRAENDLI .