Evening Star Newspaper, November 21, 1922, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday plornin‘ Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY. ... November 21, 1922 THEODORE W. NOYES.. per Company <t. and Tennsylvania Ave. ¢ York Office’ 13 st Chicazo Office: Tower Building. ’ European Office : 16 Regent St., London, England. nt by 5000, Collection 13 wade by carricrs at t «nd of each month Daily and Daily oniy Sunday only........ All Other Daily and Sunday. Daily on'y Sunday only Member of the Associated Press. The Associatel Pross ie exclusivel; 1o the use pat itted ation of all news d of otherwise credit the’ local, news s of publi T are alw rewerve for bl x cradited to it this paper and hereln. a An c h A The President's Address. Tt will be exceedingly difficult for the cpponents of government aid to American shipping to get away from the logic and hardheaded business sense of President Harding's address today hefore the jointly assembled houses of Cor e punctured ef- feetivy the “hogey man” cry that the ury is to be raided, and showed so conclusively that the mea: des asur zned to lessen in he advocat pres it that it the =ould be 1d reckiess opponent | ®no would out that argument azain. The President did well %iemself to the practical, the dol and cents, side of the discussion. The sentimental side, the patriotic and in- spirational side, is one to stir men's blood and make them dream dreams and sea vis But opposition to the upbuilding of an American mer- chant marine does not direct its at- tack at this side of the undertaking. Jts stock argument is that a time when the greatest need is for reduc tion of taxation is no time to think of paying out the people’s money as subsidy to shipping. It is this form of attack which the President meets ana puts to rout. It is costing the gov- ernment $30.000.000 a year to main- | tain the merchant marine on its ent bas nd that basis is neither an afficient nor a constructive one. He pmoposes to put it on a basis which will be both efficient and construc and to do it for about half what the present method costs. If that consti- tutes a “‘raid on the T sury™ it is a pity the Treasury is not more often raided in the same way. Three courses, the President told Cong . are open, and choice must be made among them. constructive, to enact the pending bill and under it build up a privately owned merchant marine, to serve the people in peace and be available to the government in time of war. The sec- ond is obstructive, to continue go ernment operation, with its enormous losses and discouragement to private enterprise, until the time of colossal failure comes inevitably. The third plan would be destructive, to scrap our three-billion-doliar fleet and admit our inability to compete with the other maritime nations of the world." With these alternatives driven home | tho part of those who use the streets, | to them, it does not seem possible that can people could hesitate in} the Amer making choice. The one thing needed is understanding, and the President has opened the way to understanding. If the word “subsidy” could be elimi nated there would be much less oppo- sition to the government's program, Iut upon the theory that payments under any other name would be as ob- jectionable, the ¥ tempt to evade the term. He merely reming Congr that the payment of subsidies is nothing new in our hi: tory have paid them for river and barbor improvements, for public roads and to the great transconti- nen ilways which made possible huilding up the west, whence ¢ strongest op- position to the prop id to Ameri- can shipping. In other ways special interest: inters the expenditure of money collected from ail the p and all the people approve of these expenditures because they know that, direetly or indirectly, all the people will benefit from them. And thu ized the illogic of inland opposition to upbuilding of the merchant mari . which just as surely will benefit all the people as all the people have heen henefited by elimina- tion of wheat rust, the stamping out of foot and mouth disease among cat- ion of the cotton boll empha tle or suppre weevil. The seaport cities help these thing d to pay for witheut protest, because they were national-minded and knew the agricultural sections could not be benefited without benetit coming to The first is| sident does not at-| | pend in 1arge measure the immediate|coveries on account of reparation: future of British politics. As The Star was pointing out yes- terday, there is a natural line of cleavage in British political sentiment between the conservative and the lib- cral medes of thought. In the old days :the parties divided between the tories tand the whigs. Latter-day designa- itions follow the same distinctions. Either the liberals will absorb the la- borites or the laborites will absorb the liberals. Just now there being more jlaberites than liberals in the house of commons naturally the former expect the primary place in the formation of the new bloc of opposition. But just to the degree that the laborites acquire {recruits from liberal ranks, as an op- ! position, the ministeripl party is likely ‘(U acquire recruits from the same | ranks. Thus the important question in par- liament now is whether the process of absorption is to begin at once. The prerogative of naming the opposition jleader is more than a formality. It is the symbol of the tendency of re- | nment, which will either restore fthe old liberal party to its former | stetus as a strong minority party or will advance the laborites into the | position of now the second and per- haps later the major political or- an{zation of the country. The Purpose of Safety Week. . Excellent work is being done in or- ganizing all the farces of the city for | the promotion of Safety week, which {will open next Monday. Groups of people naturally associated are being lenrolied as units. Plans are preparing for the employment of every facility to | bring to every Washingtonian within iseven days the fact that lifc on the | streets of this city is endangered by SS T , and that this sacrifice be prevented through care and ideration. an con {1t is as much, in fact. to the interest {of the driver as to the pedestrian to | observe rules of safety. There is no { ratural antagonism between these itwo classes of people. For the driver | becomes the pedestrian at times, and become the driver { the pedestrian m: tor the ven. Nobody 1s alway { cither afedt or awheel. And so it is | that mutaality of consideration is at the bottom of this effort to make the | streets safe. i Safety week, with all its speeches and pictures and radio and public ‘dnnmnslralions and publicity | however, have no value unless the |lessons are learned. unless the people of this community apply in their daily courses the principles of care. stretch of seven days of intensive | safety emphasis people drift back into their. old habits of procedure in the | streets, “jaywalking” and ‘*jaydriv- {ing." shortcutting and speeding. It {may be possible to keep the record clear of all accidents for seven days if everybody 1s careful and considerate and obeys both the regulations and the | rules of common sense. But little will have been gained if immediately the mishaps begin again and the coroner s kept busy with his inquests and the { hospital ambulances are sent hum- jming through the streets in response to hurry calls. | Habit! That Is the solution of the | traffic accident evil. The habit of care. on both sides, care on the part of the pedestrian and care on the part of the driver. That is what all this prepara- tion is for, to establish that habit on and that means all Washington. —————— “Parsifal” has been revived in Chi- cago. The incident is a reminder of | the benefit that might have resulted ihad the German government devoted more attention to the arts of music and less to the arts of war. —_———— Variations of opinion as to the cor- ‘irectness of his views on world affairs will not prevent Clemenceau from -} being held in high regard as an author | and tecturer. P — So many banquets have been organ- ized for Will Hays that it would seem | acquired a meal ticket perquisite. ————— Lenin and Trotsky have held on to i senting conservative sentiment. s B Suggestions for a new party always parties to touch upon in their plat- /i * forms. 1 Radical leaders often quarrel among i themselves like ordinary politicians, Germany’s New Government. Distinct encouragement is to be found in the make-up of the cabinet jof Chancellor Cuno, who has under- i taken the difficult task of steering the German government through the trou- ‘bled seas of reparations and internal i readjustments. It is the first distinct- This is a joint effort on the part of | those who walk and those who drive. | will, | Nothing wiil be gained if after this | | bring up some new ideas for the old | was forced into the position of stand- ing out for more than there was any chance of getting. The French are jeminently a practical people where finances are involved, and are not lack- ing in knowledge that a bird in the kand is worth several in the bush. If the new German government shows a disposition to get down to brass tacks, both as to reparations pay- ments and internal financial reforms, and England stands resolutely by France in insisting that it shall do so, the world has a right to expect that France will be reasonable, and will prefer the substance of actual cash to the shadow of unrecoverable sums. 1t is & long and painful road Europé has traveled since Germany was forced to put her signature to the | treaty of Versailles, and the nations in traveling it have been chastened. If a turning for the better has been reached, as there is reason to belleve there has, the going ought to be easie because of the difficulties of the past. Clemenceau’s Breakfast. American dietitians will be inter- ested in the regimen of Georges Cle- menceau, America's distinguished vis- itor. This old gentleman—he s past the age of elghty-one—is a remarkable example of sound health and vigor. He is,” despite his years, one of the { livest wires in the world today. And this is what he eats for breakfast: A bowl of onion soup, a bit of cheese and two hard-boiled eggs. Where are the coffee drinkers? Where are the anti- | cheesites? Where are the folks who think that an egg should never be glven over four minutes of contact { with boling water? This is a revelation to American breakfast eaters, and our people are rather strong on the first meal of the day, as a rule. A bit of fruit, some sort of a cereal, toast and a cup of ! coffee constitute the average matutinal menu. Eggs, to be sure, but soft-bolled or poached, or maybe fried. But hard- boiled! That is supposedly picnic food, because of the ease and safety of transportation. Evidently the Tiger has no fancy {for what in this country is broadly {known as “breakfast food.” Perhaps | before he gets away he will be intro- duced to the fifty-seven or more varie- ities of camouflaged cereals, grits, | cracks, kernels, shreds and the like, | that dominate the American breakfast {table. But if he is wise and has re- i gard for his health, of which there is {every evidence, he will make no ex- periments. Maybe onion soup will be- come popular here as a result of his example, with a “bit of cheese” to i give kick to the first digestive rite of the day. “Boring From Within.” The public is being asked to expect ia good deal of “boring from within. | gress as republicans and others as democrats are booked to scuttle the two old organizations and make for and manning a new ship. Is this booking authorized? Does it !rest upon more than discontent exist- !ing in both of the old parties, and {the marked frankness with which | some of the discontented -are express. {ing themselves? May not a man be exceedingly discontented, and yet no scuttler? Scuttling is questionable business. ! | purpose of sending the craft to the i bottom is queer employment. It is { doubtful if those willing to engage in {it—if there are any such—are nu- merous or capable enough to score success. Let it be admitted that there is ground for discontent in both of the {old parties—ground for demanding }and working for improvement in both. [ The country needs and deserves the ! best that party men can do. But everything in reason and bounds, and according to reputable and jaccepted methods. The situation is not idesperale in either party. Repairs in i both can be made without a thought of | scrapping either. { The atmosphere will clear. Such a | result as took place on the 7th instant reat agricultural | that in addition to his salary he had ! was bound to confuse things and pro- duce some extreme suggestions. ————— Regardless of the question i and particularly agricultural i power so long that they are now re-| Whether Santa Claus is @ myth, the are being helped through | garded by many Russlans as repre- | slogan “Shop early” is a strictly prac- tical proposition. —_——— | SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. ' ‘The Fleeting Show. “This world is but a fleeting show,” Said Hezekiah Bings. “I heard the maxim long ago. In memory it clings. way ‘To summer’s gorgeousness. ‘The autumn splendors on display Show beauty scarcely less. | “And as I watch one season fade To give another place, them. The President suggested that|ly bourgeois, or middle-class govern- I'm glad a spot for me was made the a; Itural ional-minded toda; that the maintenance of our flag on the high cern as it is to the concern of the sea- board states. —_————— In a few wecks the discussion of the 1922 coal situation will be over, and that of the 1923 situation will begin. —_——— John Barleycorn may be put out of business. but never out of politics. if equally The British “Opposition.” When pariiament met yesterday at London the most interesting question was whether the laborites or the lib- i ment, Germany has ever &:A\4,, and { reaction eliminated there is reason to i consistent amg straightforward policy {in dealing with her creditors. i But more encouraging even than ithe composition of the new minis- jtry is the fact that the dewnfall of ithe Wirth government did not bring {about the predicted catastrophe. That | bugaboo has long hung over the prob- lem of reparations and has prevented sottlements which otherwise might have been effected. Fear of it has been one of the chief causes of dis- agreement between France and Great Britain, and the resulting situation has been taken advantage of in the In universal space. . will recognize { With the extremes of radGxm and |Though I have little to bestow In life’s essential things, eas is as much to their con- bope that Gesxany will follow a more | I'm thankful just to see the show,” Says Hezekiah Bings. Demonstrations. sponded to you as one man.” { the voters at the polls. that they are natural enemies. In a Restaurant. The orchestra incessant toils Men elected to the Sixty-eighth Con-| shore with the object of constructing! Smuggling oneself aboard ship for the | The spring-time blossoms soon give “I understand your audiences re- “No,” replied Senator Sorghum. “To | 80lden weddings.” tell you the truth, the audiences sound- ed more numerously enthusiastic than Jud Tunkins says that motorists and pedestrians ought to get over the idea Let's walk to work with Washing- ton today. _ We find ourselves in & white-collar crowd. . There is not a pair.of over- alls in sight. One hundred thousand men, women and children—the last on their way to school—choke the streets.” The hour is 8:45, for all Washington goes to work at the same time. Every one is at his desk —or hers, for more than half of the workers are women—at the stroke of 9. The broad avenues are choked with automobiles. A third of the govern- ment employes have machines and park them by the tens of thousands near the department buildings during the day. The hurrying crowds over- flow the sidewalks. The street cars move at feeble speed, an almost un- broken line. A tall, erect figure strides with firm and vigorous step down Connecticut avenue. It is Charles Evans Hughes on his way to the State Department. Mr. Hughes moves faster than the current. He is geared to flve miles an hour in low speed and he carries a cane. One tells how our foreign affairs are proceeding by the cut of his white whiskers. When all goes well they are carefully clipped and com- paratively long. When troubles cloud the sky they are cut hastily and short. Mr. Hughes trims them Limself. All Is sercne today. A long, black, high-powered car glides Ly, picking its way through trafiic. At the wheel is a man In uni- I\'!l. it is Pershing, going down to jthe War Department for the day's work. The rear wheels of his car, we observe, are equipped with two tires each, and he travels fast. We shall have to beat the crowd if we want to see Work, Wallace or Davis on their way. All three live at the same big hotel, well out in resi- dential Washington. All three are at their desks long before the clerks of Washington are on their way. Secretary llace recent i i | Would Make Marriage as Well as Divorce More Difficult. The crucial objection” to political activities for women has always been, the Cedar Rapids Gazctte reminds us, the theoretical danger to “the tradi- tions of home life”” Now “women are planning to do something for the protection of the home and the stab- ilizing of our social life that men alone never would do,” and if they succeed “they will justify their right to the ballat.” The plan referred to lis the movement sponsored by the General Federation of Women's Clubs lfor uniform marriage Jaws throughout the forty-eight states, by means of a constitutional amendment, if necessary, by which both marriage and divorce will be {emade more difficult.” With the gen- eral purpose of the club women, and. on the whole, with their program, editors are In hearty sympathy, al- though there is a divergence of opin- jon as to the best way to accomplish that purpose. That such legislation s is proposed womld mark decided advance in_the welfare of society.” the Green Bay | Press Gazette is certain. and it agrees with the St, Paul Dispatch that “that great organization of women coul not undertake a better work within the scope of its purposes, and is en- titled to the most respectful con- sideration by the national and state legislative bodies.” for the end toward which it is working “is greatly to be desired. The need of uniformity in laws regulating hoth marriage and divorce “is apparent.” says the Albany News, for while such legislation has alwavs been the province of the states them- selves they have. as the Jackson Citizen Patriot puts it, “functioned The restlt, the Muncie Star 5. is that “at present we have al- most as many codes as there are “THE WAYS OF WASHINGTON BY WIILIAM PICKETT HELM. form with four stars on his epaulets. | EDITORIAL DIGEST and divorce | 1! last used to drive to work behind two spanking bays. Now, however, he uses an automobile. His chauffeur hasn’t missed getting him down to his desk at 8 o'clock more than & couple of times in & year. Becretary Davis sometimes walks part of the way, but generall uses his automo- bile. He, too, I8 it his desk at Postmaster General Work sits in & big limousine and enters his office promptly at 5 every morning. It is & new thing, this 8 o'clock day, new with the Harding administration. Cabinet officers used to come to work at any old time. Now—well, it's dif- ferent. We greet our old friend, Judge Mc- Chord, the chairman of the Inter- state Commerce Commission. He walks to work, a short half mile from his hotel, generally getting in at 9. The ten other commissioners follow his cue. A limousine of midnight blue rolls by, a solitary figure seated far over to the left in the tonneau can get. That is Hoover. He works half the night, it is rumored, and comes to his offices at any time be- tween 9 and 10:30. This morning he is with the rush-hour crowd. Secre- tary Hoover seldom smiles. He is looking out the window, as usual. The Secretary of War used to walk to work, but his physician has pre- scribed an auto ride of late. We see him promptly at 9, entering the door- way of his office. Mrs. Denby often goes down In the car of a morning ! with her husband, the Secretary of | the Navy. Let's cross over to the White House. Secretary Christian has been at his desk for ten minutes. He looks at his watch. It is 9 o'clock. He rises and steps across the cor- ridor to the President’s private office. “Good morning, Mr. President,” he calls out, his hand on the half-open door. And from within there comes the cheery reply: “Good morning, George.” All Washington is at work | | | end it may be doubted whether any | question related to marriage and di- {vprce can be effectually dealt with through legal _statutes. * * * If some one can find an antidote for so- phistication and a cure for the | scourge of popular cynicism the di- vorce and marriage problem will set- | tle Itself.” i s ! Christmas Eve Caroling. The quaint, piciuresque, attrac- tive and uplifting custom of Christ- | mas eve caroling through the streets of town and city has within the last few years attained a new vogue in this_country. id to have begun in Detroit eight vears ago, the re- vival of this anclent practice has spread until the records show that more than 600 cities and towns par- ticipated last year. and there were doubtless many more that were not recorded The idea is to orzanize long be- fore Christmas to have the singers, old and young, well trained. Christmas eve, various small groups. | garbed in bright red capes and real, pointed caps, travel slowly over territory aliotted to them, singing before each house in a window which a candie or other light is dis- played, and taking a collection for the Christmas cheer of the city's poor childre 1 Detro! cmfllors in twen! five groups, the movement has grown each year until, Christmas, 1,100 groups sang from 6 until 8 o'clock in the twilight traets, each group covering both des of a strcet for half a mile, or 1,100 miles of homes. The plan helps community spirit, kindles Christmas sentiment and re- vives a charming old usage. No other m so well expresses the true Christmas spirit as the carol of v. exultation, praise and devotion.— Albany Knickerbocker Press. i Better Lunches. Wherever hot lunches are served to school children, it is noted that the children do better work than they did on cold Junches. In most city schools states.” and these codes, the Kansas of the United -States the hot lunch has City Times adds. “are about as far apart” as can be imagined, “the varia- been in use so long that it is as per- tions running all the way from South § Carolina, which grants divorce on no grounds. to Nevada, which grants it on practically any cause the human mind can conceive.” “Laws regulating marriage and divorce should be uniform through- out the United States,” declares the of | Grand Rapids Herald, “berause con- ditions with which they deal are prac- tically uniform.” As the Philadelphia Public ‘Ledger expresses it, “there Is no essential difference in human nature or in personal character be- tween the inhabitants of the sea- boards or the inland reaches of Amer- ica to justify so many different sets of warring regulations with regard to _marriage and divorce.” H concerned. the proposed legislation, the Appleton (Wis.) Post Crescent points out, “would foolish marriages” through the ‘re- quired public notice or publication of banns, two weeks in advance of a wedding,” a scheme which the Grand Rapids Herald believes would make impossible “the ‘existence of a Crown Point (Indlana’s famous Green) centers in the United State: the facts are traced,” the paper con- tinues, “it is too often found that there is a direct relationship between h divorce.” To this Gazette adds that- “physicians, social workers and observers generally have for vears conceded that the ease with which marriage may be contracted constitutes a basic problem, to which can be traced many of the perplexing social questions of the present day.” The federation’s plan is merely one to “take the folly out of marriage,” as the Akron Beacon Journal sees it, tand “it simply had to come.” idea is adopted there will more elopements, not 8o romance and rasimess,” but be Divorce, under the program pro- posed by the organized women, would fncurable insanity, abandonment for one year, n- A divorce granted in any state would “no_di- vorced person would be eligible to These regu- be granted for “infidelity, cruel and inhuman treatment, or co: viction of an infamous crime.” be valld in all states, and remarry within one year. lations, “if carried out nationally,’ the Indianapolis Star thinks, “should improving g0 a long way toward So far_ as marriage regulation is revent hasty and Gretna or similar quick-marriage “When y and ill-considered marriage and the Kalamazoo If the “no much “more manent an institution as the textbook or the blackboard. In many rural schools the hot lunch has become an important factor within the last few vears, and the rural showing remarkable improvement in scholarship and health under the stimulus of better food. Where a hot lunch is not to be had, careful attention to the variety ang quality of the food in the lunch box may make up for the handicap of a cold meal. United States government nutrition specialists have been giving special attention to this subject of the school child’s lunch Many of the older folk grew up without any sci- entific attention having been bestowed upon their cold school lunch of bre:d and jelly, a_hunk of apple pte and maybe a bit of cold salt pork. But many of the older folk are now having their duodenums short circuited, too, and many others of them ate trving to get well by repeating doggerel about get- ting better and better Now that we have just begun to learn a few rudi- mentary facts about the human body and its mechanism, we certainly should desire that our children shail suffer less from hit-or-miss feeding than we may have suffered The school lunch is an important factor in the child's daily life Let's improve it—Wichita Eagle. ‘Will Ruth, crushed to earth, rise again?—Asneville Tiraes. Two robbers boarded an Ohio train, but the porter brushed them off. Greenville Pledmont. ‘In Paris they are sewing on silk eyelashes. That's a new way of keep- ing their lamps trimmed.—Nashville ‘Tennessean. M Now it isn’t anly the German mark, but the German government, that's ‘Wirth-less.—Philadelphia North Amer- ican. The' Army air service is perfecting an airplane which will fly without a pilot. And the chances are that, for a while, at least, it will fiy without a passenger. — Richmond ~ Times ~ Dis- patch. . Miss Alice Robertson thinks that men do not want women to hold office. It’s not so much, Alice, that they don't want women to hold the offices as that they want to hold the office themselves—Cleveland Plain Dealer. On of | beginaing with 250 | children are | THE LANTERN BY DON MAROQUIS. ‘What the world needs: more opti- mists to encourage it. What the optimists need: a more encouraging world. When a professional politician takes up an Idea; the world is safe from that Idea thereafter. It has passed definitely out of the realm of action, the country of reality. The so-called prohibition navy proves that there's many a ship "twixt the cup and ghe lip. ‘When you prove a thing against a man you don’t necessarily ‘make him like himself any the less. =4 /Government is the art of passing the buck. OUR OWN WALL MOTTOES. TEXTS THAT THUNDER “DO IT NOW!" ALWAYS PAINED MY NOBLE BROW. . DOWN WITH THAT ANTIQUE TRADITION! DOWN WITH TOIL AND SUPERSTITION Joy DWELLS WITHIN PROCRASTINATION. WHEN THAT FAl TAKE A VACATION TWO TYPES. There is a type of woman who 1s deemed “a vixen and & min Because—(a pretty how-de-do!)— She says the things she truly thinks! Another type of woman then Is called “a darling and a dear,” (Perhaps by nine in ev'ry ten!)— She says the things folks like to hear! —HAROLD, SETON. Women in this country are get- ting better and better, In every way, every day. - Their skirts are growing longer; they are smokipg less, drink- ing less and otherwise becoming such exemplary characters that even the most sensational preachers find little to preach against any more. We do not know whether it is cause and effect, or whether it is coincidence, but we point to the fact that_this change for the better has come about during the period since women have been openly attending prize fights. Let the =ocial analysts explain it as they will; we merely cheer for the fact itself. g It is feeling superior to our friends that keeps us friendly to them. We get 50 gloomy when the autumn | rains Come down and fill the city like a cup— come, to see The rain start suddenly to falling S A COMMUNICATION FROM ARCHY. boss the other day i heard an ant conversing with a flea small talk i said disgustedly and went away from there | | archy w. using so few contributions nowadays. We can't afford to let too many con- tributors in they seem to want to turn this department into a hu- morous column. Going to Heaven is a long, hard struggle, no doubt. But maybe it is worth it . there won't be any one with a pianola living above you. And as for hell ‘well, no one underneath can kick to the landlord if you want to dance a little. “] wonder why it is~ complained Fothergil Finch, the Boy Bard, “that Just one drink will go to my head?” And Capt. Fitzurse was cruel cause nature abhors a vacuum. Suppose the gloves I wear were shoes, And the else— : {*Twould hinder me in hoisting booze Or driving after smelts. Suppose the earth was made of coal And all the seas were lead, Where would the ostrich find a hole - In which to hide his head? shoes were something There is always the fellow who says after the fifth shot of bootleg hootch, “What this country needs is less whisky-drinking and legalized light wines and beers.” What has become of the old-fash- joned poet who used to wear a flow- ing tie and write rhymed verses? There is always something to be cheerful about, if you look for it . . . the price of money as meas- ured in food and clothes is getting lower and lower. ——— Franklinia Not Scarce To the Editor of The Star: 5 1 noticed in yesterday’'s issue of your paper an article on the Frank- linia, and the statement -that it is extremely rare, but that a few speci- mens are still to be found In Chevy Chase and elsewhere. A year or so ago & similar article appeared, I be- lieve, in your paper, in which it was stated that but one specimen re- mained in a garden in ‘Philadelphia. You also speak of an attempt to re- discover it in its habitat. Iam mere- 1y writing this to call attention to the fact that unquestionably there are many specimens to be found in pri- vate gardens, for this tree is not, or ‘was not, scarce years ago. It is more S. wants to know why we are ! enough to tell him that it was be-; BY PAUL V. The glory that is Washington of to-| day will prove but the first glinting of | Tosy morn, the forerunner of noontide, | for the Washington of the future is sure | to surpass in beauty, symmetry and | importance anything that we can vet 8See, except with the vision of prophecy. Congress is about to consider a building project amounting to more than $30,- 000,000, for the purpose of housing in government-owned structures all of the government bureaus, and these new buildings will probably be so placed as’ to develop L'Enfant’s original compre- henstve plan of “the City Beautiful.” * ko It is not architecture alone which dis- tinguishes Washington; no city sur- passes its arboreal beauty, though that feature i3 mnot fully appreciated by Congress, which recently has shown great and sad neglect of the trees which make the city noteworthy. Rock Creck Park excels Central Park, New York, inatural charm, but the sylvan creek is ,drying up because of .the encroach- {ments of residences, and the diverting of the nmatural drainage into sewers. Great primeval forest trees are being sacrificed in order to give room for brick and niortar. New rows of homes are planned to build, next spring, where old forests, with splendid trees and rocky bluffs now grace the landscape. The park board is jealous of the im- pending loss, but apparently is power- less, without an appropriation from Cougress to enable it to purchase the salients of forest land which nature | gives as a ready-made park. Will | Congress realize that a crisis confronts the park ystem, and that by next spring the hand of the vandal will have reaped the harvest of centuries of growth, | which, oncs destroyed, will never be re- ! placed? Within the last three months a great gash has been cut into the Rock Creek forest, near the Zoo, and further ::ll_:gsng projected for this winter, or spring, will sacrifice the rest of the “forest adjoining Park road, Rosc- mont place, and toward the Zoo, unless the park board intervenes and takes over ‘the land before it is everlastingly too late. That cannot be done without funds from a congressional appropria- tion. Will the money be forthcoming? ~Woodman, spare that tree”—multiplic by a few thousand. it * K ok & In a few years, with the develop- ment of the Potomac for ocean ves- sels, we shall have here—upon the opposité side of tie river, may we not hope?—a great industrial metropolis of a milion population. We shall realize, then, the wonderful value of the parks which lie now so freely open to development. * ¥ X % What constitutes the state? Not its buildings, but the spirit of its people What makes a political part Its organization? Its national executive committee? Its latest election p | form enunciation of doctrines !p(hlical econor Not at all. f but the clothes, and underneath h | all lles the developed the part it the breath of life. Many a party | has been dead and not buried for vears after it had lost its life-giving it—the soul w and breathed into ust that neither of the “old ties” will take these remarks to h. and have its feelings hurt, but it will certainly be desirable to turn on the galvanic battery to prove that one or two funerals are not next in order. * K ok * Yet think how frightened we'd be-! There is scarcely a divi . { tween the principles of republicanism and democracy today. In the recent | tariff debate we found strong demo- { cratic protectionists and some repub- | {licans wabt trade { on many thin ced in th { own districts. And now come cer | statesmen proclaiming that the co m the re try can never be saved f old actiona of both of th, ties, u o balance o what's man be but not a {lette bandw of the prog the safeguards of the am 0 i CAPITAL KEYNOTES . COLLINS. us, who have imagined we under- stood progressivism, as Roosevelt in- terpreted it, are prone to ask of the prophets of radical innovations of to- day: “Is it a Biddle?” The most radical innovation of the century was accomplished under the democratic administration in the adoption of prohibition. Was that a Biddie? TDoes that make all demo- crats progressives? Now come stanch adherents to the Harding adminis tration with the assurance that ft is the intention of President Harding tn “out-Herod Herod” by advocating legislation so very progressive that it "will take the breath away from the progressive bloc. But surely that must be a Biddle, since some of the progressives, under cloak of a party name, which they assume to have inherited. as Elisha did the cloak of Tlijah, are undertaking to overturn some of our century-old principles and become us cia. s soviet Rus- radical o As the g of “progres- sives” cross the brook, who still stand guard and ‘test the Shibboleth? Not every one that hoasts vagaries is en- titled to gressive. the sacred name of pro- * ¥ x X The American Constitution makes . this government the most conserv: tive in the world—now that kingv have gone out—for in the Europe governments a sudden turn of a vc of lack of confidence in the prer ana his cabinet puts a new cabinet and new policies in effect over nigl while in America an adverse vote of Congress has no effect on the ad- ministrative personnel pr policies, and even a tremendous overturn of the popular vote has to wait from No ember to March before a chang can take place. Yet, while the delay may . seem unreasonable to the rad- icals, when they become impatient, the really big issyes of a great na- annot suffer’so much by four 5 of con ation as they by impulsive action 100 mear the heat of a campaign contest.. Wa must remember the tremendous mo- mentum of the great republic and never overstrain the brakes nor jerk the machinery, lest the jar be dis- trous to both the mechanism and the passengers. The Leviathan is not navigated with jerks; neither should be the greatest ship of state that ever flouted through the ce: turies. It is not reactionary to he seriously deliberate in great issues. Let legislation be in view of its ¢f- fect upon future centuries * X K K One of the earliest acts of the pres- ent Congress should be to order a new census, to take the place of the 1820 census as a basis for the next election of members of Congress. Never be- fore has a census become obsolete so quickly as has the last decenniai owing to the unprecedented i of population throughout the There is no cull for an in- n the total number of repre- tives, but there is real value in sen o adjusting the apportionment that selected to Le equitably they will represent approximately cach the me number of constituents. ~What the country needs least of all is an inerease of the number of representa- tives. It would be much more de- rable to increase the ratio of con- stituents. which would enhance the honor of the service and lure bigger men to accept the responsibility. It might not be a delicate thing to sug- gest that the greater honor and re- sponsihility and power of the Senate of ninety-six members, on the whole brings @ personnel of weight and in fluence which would not be enhanced if the Senate should be incr me number as t 1t would cost 1 House truly of to make representative a new census than it will to the through i > its memi as proposed nty-five additional districts not numbers, is the essential rship need. * ok x % A correspondent suggests sub- itute for the Safety Week slogan st Get Hurt” He proposes jurt No One.” The substitute is less ish than the adopted slogan, but ! will it reach the driver who, today ccorches around the ‘corners and emushes into, the public traffic with disregard of the safety of oth- e is hardened to the risks he kes with the lives of others, but possibly he has forgot the risk ta 1f. Hence: “Don’t Get Hurt" zive even th st reckiess a idea as to martness. Now it combine the twa or over the of upreme Court—however _uncons it may be, however iadi it might run contrary to the ions of the republi that merelyr progressive or is it rad 1 revolution * ¥ * *x | A generation ago. when Edward, Prince of Wales. visited Philadelphia. he heard so many remarks in society ) concerning the Biddles that he be- came puzzled and asked in all inno- cence: “What's a Biddle?” Some of ! i To Lessen the lin The Star of November 13 | “Edison Woula Break Backbone of i C jving.” I note the | the High Cost of Living . {1 datsental. principle by means of which the spinal column | Shattered is stabilizing the currenc {on the cost of necessities, the basi |value” of which lished by a twent e ! Every consuming American !and e are all consumers, I believ Would welcome a reduction in the cost of living if that could be eflm-_ o tuch a manner as to work no in- Jury on any class of our citizen !'while at the same time pre; ! the integrity of our financial sysiem. Tn rogard to having a standard of varme ofher than goid, 1 desire to call Mttention to the fact that in January | agtention to Kvess before he Economi § Club of New York city. 1 proposed such ia standard. Quotation From Address. I will quote the words which I used casion: ¥ o Sking for a natural and in- variable unit of weights and measures the ion. acting on a hint from James o fhe inventor of the steam engine, selected one ten-millionth of the earth's quadrant. From th natural and invariable quantity sclentific weights and meusures derived. In like manner : standard of value for the gold dollar may be derived from a natural, in varjable quantity, measured by a r as unchangeable as the eurth’s quad- jrant or the velocity of light. This { quantity happens to be composed of basic _agricultural products. ~ Once agreed upon as the standard of value these products will become the sleep- less guardian of the farmer’s Tights. Anthropologists and physiologists will tell you that since man emerged from e French scientists of the first revo-| e gen will < into one, in not more than , we may ch him com- tter of fact, |the second slog | mittee really means H P | The plan of the Detroit mayor of | taking all violatots of traffic rules to | sucs and hospitals and foreing the morgues and hosy a | them 1o view their work is the best {educdtor vet devised. B T B T — Dr. Wiley’s View of Edison Plan Cost of Living the average tables of the cost of living prey month'y by the s sioa of the Department of Labor, and bated upon 100 as its standard senting the cost of the neces life for the vear 1913. On examining these tables over a long period 1 was struck with the fact that the index value of wheat was almost exactly that of the average index value of all the ssities of life, As other necessities of life, such as fuel, clothing, housing, houschold furnishin . vary with uste and the income of the individ- they cannot have that intimate and 3 sic_cost_of {living that atta For this {reason food Bi general, and especially heat in particula ¢ be regarded the least variable of all and thug suited to represent the fundamental | principle of human nutrition. No Change iIn Currency Needed. In my plan of stabiliz the dollar 1 did not contemplate change in_our currenc which should be maintained ) its present gold basis. As gold changes in value, according to yits abundance of scarcity, determined by | the only basic rules of value, supply and | demand, the Index value of food will {also change. Every month the table of lues is issued. On this value the in- {come of the laboring man and other small salaried worke il be based. | For instance. if the index v, i 1125 he will receive a compensatior per cent higher than that of 1913 annot give the details of this plat of a letter. I only de- attention to the fact that <o far as I know, it was the firsi »stion of. a scientific | means blishing a_standard of value based on foods. If the index | value increases the pay increases; 1 ithe index value falls the pay falls Thus the laboring man and other persons earning a small wage would always maintain the same relative position to the cost of living, and therefore, there will be no occasior | for strikes and discontent when suck | sire in i pu present conditions,” but if the pro- posal “hinges on getting an amend- ment to the federal Constitution it is My appetite for food. not likely to have very smooth sail- Iflged Very llks:ly :t“et!h"mjh:l "do’p- Knowledge ower. posed to surrendering their jurisdic- “Your boy Josh o Bower tion over the question of marriage our boy Josh doesn’t do much|gnd divorce,” the Oklahoma City Ok- work around the place.” lahoman ;"ifliu' l&n bwhlchdev:nt ‘l;a o 4 v strong effort shoul e made to ob- He doesn't have to,” replied | yin the enactment of uniform ma: Farmer Corntossel. “Josh brings home , riage nm} lli:vnrce we by the various the fact that knowledge is power. He's | state legislatures.” > ini th - knows how to start a flivver on & cold [ has - had enough of constitutional ‘morning.” amendifig for the present.” The elec- .5 | tions nr,;‘ied if_they proved hing, chances of & coalition of these ant. | exigencics of domestle polltics had to| “Imitation,” said Uncle Hben, “la 06 | Satias suibocley sad the theory mn ministerial elements, now or be considered, and the government,|sincerest flattery; ceppin’ when aboot. {der Which c%""uwwm’w Upon the degree of coalition will being unable to show substantial re-| legger uses wood sicohol,”.§ e ol FRE 4 | 2 thinkless to a thinking animal his average height and weight have not appreciably changed. The oldest skeleton known to be of human origin may be used im rebuilding a man of average weight and height. In the millions of years to come even the wisest eugenists are not likely to make any serious impression on the physiological needs of the average man. It has also been shown that| the average man needs about 3,000 heat units of balanced food per day to keep his human machine going. Thi. quantity of simple food each average man must have every day that he lives. It is, therefore, a natural, invariable, indispensable uait, which . never be abolished or chan . & B nasem a With measures rather crude. The appetite for music spoils than thirty years since I was per- fectly familiar with them. My father grew the Franklinia quite extensive- 1y, and there was a patch of them on the east side of Piney branch at a point where Arkansas avenue and Delafield place converge. Dr. Coville asked me about the same some years back, showing that it was well known. Y I have before me a catalogue of my father's, dated 1876, in which appears, la plan is established. Reminiscent of Populixm. In regard to the other features of Mr. Edison’'s communication they ar¢ reminiscent of the bygone days of populism. In his scheme Senatol Pfefter is redevivus. It almost re: calls the subsequent days of the fred silver campaign. It is possible with: out any dislocation of our financia position, or our industrial relations to pay a wage scale according to tht variation in the environment in Whick the worker lives and thus to stabil. ize not only the dollar, but the posi. tion of the wage earner. We would | need-ne government regulations, noi other socialistic or populistic meas. ures to secure the sane condition of aftairs which I have outlined above JH. W. WILEY. erals would assume the position of the pposition.” That question, however, ‘was not answered, as only the formali- ties of opening were observed and the issue of the minority leadership in the commons was postponed. It now ap- pears that an effdrt is being made, to compromise the matter, by the selec- tion of a single representative of the three groups, laborites and two sets of liberals. Whether such a man can be found is doubtful. But the very search for him will give perhaps a line on the full by those elements in Germany which aré opposed to any honest at- tempt to fulfill the requirements of the peace treaty. It is to be expected that London now will be willing to adopt a policy of greater firmness to- ward Germany, and with this willing- ness manifested France can afford to modify her demands. The French policy of demanding too much has undoubtedly been due in large measure to the fact that France has been receiving ‘too little. The One of the natural wonders of poli- tics is that when an officeholders goose is cooked he becomes a lame duck.—Norfolk V'rginian-Pilot. The former kaiser’s memoirs can be bought in Germany for 7 cents. The Germans have memories of their own. —Little Rock (Ark.) Gazette. The imperial klaxto” of the Ku Klux Klan and the primate pomposo of the Royal Order of Rhinoseri are much amused at the pretension of Mr. Hohenzollern’s bride in the calling herself “her imperial majesty the —_— “Franklinia Pubescens, an old but .- When _the.crack .of doom comes. no |beautiful native ghrub,3 to 3 ft., 50c.; doubt European statesmen will fold ’ f 4 to 6 ft., 76c.” It was, therefore, not thelr hands and wat for Americn 0 | L qeres .- e i | | 1 l l | l