Evening Star Newspaper, November 26, 1922, Page 44

THE EVENING 'STAR ‘With Sunday Moraing WASHINGTON, D. C; SUNDAY.....November 26, 1922 THEODORE W. NOYES. ..Editor + |"This 13,8 most healthtul condition, and #1if may be attributed in large measure 10 the thrift habit induoed in war-time by the purchase of bonds and savings certificates. There is a certain risk of wastage in the redemption of these war savings certificates and the plasing of this large sum of money in the hends of The Evening Star Newspaper Company | the people in units of $100°'and up’ Business Ctlice, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 150 Chicagy Ofce: Tower Bullding. European Office: 16 Regent St., Lopdon, Englard. The Evening Star, with the Sundsy morning . is delivered by carrlers within the city taily ouly, 45 cents per cents per month. Ot month; Sunday only, be sent by mail or telephose Main ders may 3000, Collection is made by carriers at the end of each mouth: Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginis. 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The commis- sion holds that there is a legitimate the rved function « Hot now also to o In oy sion talk plying of the bu field for bus . “but this does not lie in the multiplication of lines or vehicles” veaching the center of town. Direct petition between bus tines and car fines is not now possible s of the wid ntenance v differing condi and the tion. At " dis- bus cannot strect as 1uny a single Yot it is run without the heavy ov head cost of wacklaying and main- tenance. If the bus can operate for a smaller cost per passenger over as g an average haul it can compete, inevitable that it wiil com- if it becomes the ission to and it e eventuaily. v of the utilities com &llow such comnpetition as may threat- en to render worthless the large in in tracks of the traction It cannot be said that the bus line s more flexible than the track line, o its value depends upon occupying a fixed route. It cannot gain patron- age if it is constantly shifted in its course. A bus line that is now oper- ated on one set of streets and again on another is at a heavy disadvantage as against the fixed route of & street car line. 1 bu are he devetoped ders and not as trunk routes they uld have reciprocal relatiens with the traction companies. Tt is not de- sirable that fecder bus lines should operate in the now uncovered sections of the District in circumstances to compel the payment of double fares. At present the busses operated by a traction company are the only ones that thus transfer. In existing condi- tions the bus service is virtually in competition with the traction servi An ideal urban transportation ta as es 1o into trunk voutes with ti o number stion in the heart of with a sufficient re accommodations for all passengers at all hours on all lines. 1t may be that eventually the bus will replace the street car, but to do s0 some equitable means must be found to avoid the destruction of the property rights and values now repre- sented in the tracks which have been iaid to meet the public requirements in the course of years. —————————— A determination to enforce 1. shibi- tion more strictly’ may be regai «d as «specially appropriate at a time when ihoughtfulness for humdn safety is uppermost. —_——e———— None of the Chicago packers has =uggested a method of reorganization that will materially reduce the price per pound of steak. ———————————— Although temporarily out of a posi- 1ion, Lloyd George vigorously declines to be listed as one of England's un- employed. is i Statistics indicate that alcohol killing as many people as gasoline. ——— The People’s Savings. On the 1st of January $625,000,000 in war savings certificates will fall due for payment by the United States "Treasury. If the holders of these cer- tificates, many of them bought in the form of the small war savings stamps, desire they can be transformed into «cash or into other securities of-the T'nited States bearing 4 per cent in- terest and redeemable in five years. “irculars have been sent to the hold- ers of these certificates by the Treas- ury setting forth the conditions of ex- change. It is to be hoped that this great sum of money will not be taken out of in- sestment and spent for immediate uses. This money is now working Yor. the good of the country just as deft- nitely as though it were put into other channels of circulation through -a great multitude of individual expendi- ‘tures. Moreover, it is earning a return for its owners and, if reinvested in either government securities or other holdings, will continue to earn profits. A recent compilation by the savings Tank division of the American Bank- ers’ Association shows that for the first time there are more savings ac- «ounts in America than there are Tamilies, and that one-half of all bank deposits and one-third of all bank re- ywources are in: the savings accounts. ward, in that they may be tempted and lured into unwise investments, In every compmunity agepcies for the gathering in of these small invest- ments without proper security are ac- tive. Certain classes of pchemes thrive upon the -inexperience of the small in- vestor. Despite all efforts to drive them out of business they continue. The best way to fight them is to show the peoplé who have money to invest that thére is danger in buying any form of security without the advice of disinterested persons. If the holders of these certificates which are to be redeemed on the 1st of January do not wish to transform them into Treasiry savings certifi- |vates, as proposed by the Treasury, land want to reinvest the cash they receive from the government they should consult with bankers or with generul brokers who have no interest in the promotion of particular stocks. Dissipation of this large sum of { money by thriftless expenditure or by the purchase of worthless securities will be a great misfortune. The ac- cumulation of $625,000,000 represents a valuable national asset. It should not be squandered. i The School Report. 1t is expected that very shortly a report will be received by the joint coungressional committee on the Dis- trict public schools from the Pennsyl- j vania state superintendent of educa- tion, who was requested by the com- mittee to submit his suggestions re- garding means to be adopted to im- prove the local system. Sendtor Cap- per, chairman of the committee, hopes to submit the report to Congress at an early date, embodying the findings and recommendations of the educators headed by Dr. Finegan, who had been working on the matter. And it is the hope of. the chairman further that legislation may be enacted for the benefit of the schools before the close { of this present Congress next March. LI assuredly the hope of this community that such action may be taken Lefore the end of the session, for if the matter goes over to the next Congress another delay is almost cer- tain, since it will have to be taken up then by the new Congress as a new item, with perhaps a fresh investiga- tion by a committee differently consti- tuted. In such circumstances ection could hardly be expected before an- other year at least. The public school needs of the Dis- rict are urgent now, and every month of delay is adding to the difficulties. A comprehensive building program is necessary to relieve the congestion in the schools at present, and to assure adequate room for the pupils in the future. Makeshift provisions dp not reach the root of the evil. They are expedients. Portable buildings, me schools, platoon organiza- tion are all of this character. The an- nual additions to the schpol population are now barely cared for by new con- struction authorized unsystematically and spasmodically in appropriation bills. Actually nothing is being done, in effect, 1o care for the arrears. If the report of the joint committee is submitted early enough this winter the appropriation bill can be framed in accordance, and thus provision made for immediate start on the build- ing program. If the matter is post- poned until late in the session it may be impossible to reach the budget with these provisions. and thus another year will be lost in the actual start- ing of the work, unless, as now seems unlikely, an extra session of the new i i ”‘ | Congress is called in the spring. h iand the hope is that when the report | has been finally framed and submitted it will not lead to long debate either in the District committees or in the houses, but will be put upon its pas- sage as u matter of especial urgency, with the appropriation bill shaped in accordance. ——————— The ~invisible empire might be spared some embarrassment if it could be made illegal for a mischievous or malicious outsider to impersonate a :Ku Klux Klanner. ——————— I Mexico is very successfully combat- ling the loose impression that her two | great political parties are the office holders on one side and brigands on the other. —_—— A great many war reminiscences are. being revived, but too many of them are about alleged profiteering. H ———te ‘ Clemenceau hes taken up the dis- | cusston in America where he left it off in France. ————— Floods in the Sahara. Floods in the Sahara desert! Rail- road trains tied up by torrents! Native quarters washed away by the firat rains since 1917! These are surprising items in a news dispatch from Biskra, Algeria, about conditions in the 8a-| hara. They tend to dispel a popular no- tion of the great African sand plain. Evidently the precipitation down there is spasmodic. With five-year lapses be- tween rainfalls it is no wonder that the channels are choked when the moisture does coge. L The Sahare desert presents one of the most interesting problems that science has ever sought to solve. There are evidences that once a great civilization existed there, and that it was a land of plenty, of rich proguc- tion and of agreeable climate. The soil, it is known, is potentially fertile. Although vast quantities of sand sweep over it and pile Into mountains that change with the winds, yet when water is let.in, as at the oases where springs exist, a speedy growth de- velops end sometimes strange plants appear, doubtless from seeds that have 1ain dormant for centuries. Plans have been made from time to time for {rrigation, but the area is so immense, and the sources of water are 50 remote and undependable, that lit- tle progress has been made. Yet there ate - thriving communities in the desert, some large cities and some productive areas: scattered, however, 0 widely apart that they are veritable oases in the midst of & forbidding waste. Until the tmade winds. change little s to be expested {3 the way of Sahara development, for those winds are not rainmakers, They are drying winds, and they wweep with persist- ence over the land and suck up fits molsture and bring little or no rain, and that in spasmodic quantities. Still, the possibilities in the Sahgra &re so grest that man continues his effort to redeem this vast space and to make it useful. It has been sald that the world's granary lies potentisl- ly in that region, and the hope of its development keeps up the endeavor to conquer the Sahara. B e A Deeds Record Office Needed. The recorder of deeds, in a letter addressed to Senator Capper of Kan- sas, points out the need of a new bullding for his office, and suggests the appropriation of $250,000 for that purpose. That amount of money has been turned over to the federal Treas- ury during the past few years as the surplus over the running expenses of the establishment. In other words, the recorder of deeds office is suf- ficiently meore than self-upporting from the fees it receives to have paid for an adequate home in a short period. At present this office is housed in- adequately in rented quarters. It has, in truth, never had a suitable home. For many years it occupled & corner in the courthouse, where it was crowded in dark and inconvenient rooms, jts invaluable files exposed to loss. Only within recent years was the equipment of the office improved to reduce the risk of fire destruction. A suitable home for the recorder’s office cannot be denied by Congress on the score of esonomy, for, as stated, the fees suffice to finance the con- struction. Unless Congress wishes to maintain the office as @ money-making institution, in the profits of which the United States shares, either the sur- plus of its revenues should be applied to a building or the scale of fees should be reduced to yield the service to the public at cost. ‘This matter deserves to be pressed vigorously in Congress, for the public convenience is not met now by the equipment of this establishment, which is so vitally important to the welfare of Washington. The Drift of the Dressmakers. The dressmakers of Paris are wor- ried. For some time past they have seen the young women of the French capital drifting away from the indus- try that has made that city famous as a center of fashion. They have turned their backs on the ataliers where frocks and hats are created and have sought employment in banks and offices as stenographers. This tendency has be-| come so marked that finally the Paris Dressmakers’ Association has organ- ized @ movement to win back the girls and to hold them in the trade. It has started a competition among dress- making apprentices, offering prizes of 1,000 to 250 francs for the winners. The candidates must have been two years with the same house. A myth has long prevailed that the Paris dressmakers are chiefly men. It is true that some “man milliners” have hecome famous, but it has been an open secret that thelr success has been mainly due to the taste and skill of the women who have created the designs with which their names have been connected. These men have been good business managers, shrewd ad- vertisers and sklillful exploiters of the craft and judgment and inventiveness of those behind the screen doors of the ‘workshops. Rarely has 2 man himself been a creator of women's wear. The competition for the services of { woman workers between the offices and the workshop is felt in other cities ithan Paris, Higher scales of pay pre- vail in the latter lines. The hours ns! exacting. The natural consequence is that if the dressmaking and millinery trade is to retain skilled girls and women it must pay enough to hold them, and thue the possibility presents itself of an even higher range of bills for feminine wearing apparel. —— st ‘The parking problem deserves all the serious consideration that can be commanded for it. When a flivver is parked it may be slightly in the way, but it is not threatening anybody’s life. ——————— Pessimists continue to hint that there should be little regret about scrapping the old battleships, as they lare not likely to cut much of e figure in the “next war,” anyhow. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Entertaining. The man who gets the most applause | When he has made a speech, { 1s seldom sent to make the laws i To rule us and to teach. I Jud Tunkins says the trouble about @ loafin’ job fs that a man has to | i The various auditors agree. As back to home they jog. “The speakin’ was, it ‘pears to me. A right good monologue.” Enthusiasms. “Why don’t you give us some of the good old-time oratory?” asked the constituent. “Can’t get up the inspiration, some- how,” answered Senator Sorghum. “Why don’t you give us some of the good old-time audiences?” ‘work so hard in order to look busy. Household Treasures. The salon bright, with works of art, Now plays in life & little part— Unto the cellar we draw nigh ‘To measure up the coal supply. Sniln‘ '_UT‘ID Game. “Some mighty small men manage to grab off a heap of authority,” re- marked Three-finger Sam. ~ “Yes,” rejoined Cactus Joe, “in order to keep the game of life inter- estin’ every once in awhile it seems necessary to make deuces wild.” “De old crowd criticizes de new crowd wvery superior,” said Uncle once de new crowd ftself.” Eben, “In spite of de fuct dat it waa|credit for sharing Politics at Home _+Harding asd McKinley. Mr. Harding has taken kis stand on the ship subsidy question with full knowledge of the size nd complexion of the opposition that exists on Capl- tol Hill, and his friends effirm that he posscsses, end will show, the quali- ties necessary to the tusele. As he is often likened to Mr. Mc- Kinley fn methods and disposition, featyres of the McKimley reeord in the White House are properly recalled. Mr. McKinley was a peace-loving man-—a believer in conferences and e promoter of teemwork. He would make concessions in reason sand ses- son, but when the limit was reached in a controversy no man was firmer in supporting his side. ¥ He showed this spirit in the matter of the war with Spain, when he re- fused to be hurried into hostilities, but onee in them carried himself -with in- creasing determination to the end. He showed it in the matter of tak- ing over the Philippines, which when first suggested was frowned upon se- verely in certain republican .circles. Neévertheless, he took over the archi- pelago and secured the ratification of the peace treaty with Spain. He showed it in what proved to be his last public utterance. When his} purpose to ask for & revision of the Dingley tariff law leaked out he was advised by powerful leaders in his party not to do it. They as much as threatened him with opposition in Congress and predicted fallure for his. proposition. But that Buffalo eudi- ence—his last—heard him decree in unexcited words and manner the re- vision he thought ought to be made, and there can be no doubt that had he lived he would have pressed his case and won it at the next congres- sional gession. ‘There was no pose, no noise, no ex- cessive proclamation in Mr. McKinley —as there never is about any man of true determination—but in every pinch he was resolutely there “with the goods.” R —— Mr. Bryan and the Wets. Before the democratic wets put the finishing touches to their plans for 1924 they should take Mr, Bryan into account. The three-times-loser has not lost ell, by any manner of means. He is far from being a dud. He has life in him yet, any amount of fight, and his following, by and large, is considera- ble end devoted. If Semator-elect Edwards may be accounted as wet as the Atlantic ocean Mr. Bryan may be described as dry as Sahara. In the matter of the drink traffic—to drink, or not to drink —he stands for aridity itself. Moreover. he has stood for it for years. He believes, and many of his friends do, t in all three of hie preaidential races he encountered the solid opposition of those engaged in the menufacture or retail sale of in- toxicating liquors. He has good and sufficient reason, therefore, aside from his moral convic- tion, for standing out against the drink traffic, drink traffickers and all their works, to the bitter end. He has felt the “steam” of their blows. So if the wets control the next democratic national convention, - sert in the platform a plank suitable for their purposes and nominate a candidate for President:in sympathy ‘with their performance, what will be the chances of Mr. Bryan's support? How will it be possible for them to coax or commandeer him for cam- paign purposes? But more than this. How in such circumstances would it be possible for Mr. Bryan merely to refuse support to his party? How could he afford to be a mere “looker-on in Vienna,” with the return of both the saloon and John Barleycorn threatened, and everybody. Thus the time margin is narrow,,a rule are shorter and the work is less; on one side or the other, armed cap- a-pie, and in action? ——— Albert J. Beveridge. There was disappointment as well as surprise at the failure of Mr. Beveridge to “‘come back.” The stage, 80 to say, had been set for his re- eppearance in the Senate. All the re- ports had promised his election, and these had given rise to many tributes to his fine talents and accounts of his Successes when 'in senatorial commis- sion. Many persons—not all of them republicans—welcomed the thought of enjoying again on Capitol Hill the de- liverances of an orator of powef and @ man of wide reading and serious purposes and reflections. Such an orator, in either House or Senate, makes a place for himeelf out- side of his party affiliations. An ad- vance notice of a speech by him—one is usually put out—fills the galleries to the limit on the day appointed. Long queues, ®s in front of a theater when a favorite actor is to appear, form early, and patientl” await the opening of the doors. In his day Mr. Ingalls of Kansas achieved this distinction. At e little later day Mr. Wolcott of Colorado achieved it. On a field day in the Senate either of them, almost in- variably, addressed a chamber crowd: ed upsteirs and down, and nejther ever disappointed.an audience. Both weré ‘inspired by @ sea of expectant faces. : So rapid are shiftings in politics— now a man is in office, now out—that but few members of the present Sen- ate have ever heard Mr." Beveridge| speak. All have heard about the man and his oratorical gift, and all weré looking forward pleasantly to what seemed to be his certain.return. The future? At sixty Mr. Beveridge is still young in appearance, in grasp of public affairs and in the spirit with which he. takes sides and supports his side. ‘His circumstances are such he can afford politics, and the politics of the immediste and early future will tempt him’to pick his flint and try again for the honors of public sta- ———————— Old-time politiclans recognize a tendency among European delegates to treat a peace conference more or less like one of those ancient rallies | tions™ has at the pie'counter. . . _ . . France is not militaristio, but re- fuses to give the rematnder af Burope | shail her feolings tn the matter. 43 R4 | i H 1 i 1 or to 1 groups. of. A {SafriSunia n the popuiation (that te, | I ; ay 9 Suppress Ku Klux Klan Is to Esiforee Law Empartially BY THOMAS R. MARSENALL, Former Viee Prasident of the United States. FEDERAL SYSTEM of gov- erament, considered im the light of efficiency, has dis advaptages over a strop: 1y centsralized government. The benefits srising from such & sys- tem are so manifold, however, as more than to counterbalance the lack of efficlency. This should Bave been more seriously coneid- ered when the states consented to a division of their police powers. So lopg as,a government remains supreme and.retains exclusive ju- rigdiction over crimes and misde- meanors it is comparatively easy to ascertain who is responsible for apy fatlure to administer justice and to fix the cause of its miscar- risge. In the administration of the criminal law, as in mest ac- tivities of life, it is beyond perad- venture that what is everybody's pusiness {s nobody's business. The - effort to make the probibition amendment bottle and bulle b; An‘lz :fi“flfmfl‘fmm for much of the faiture at eaforcement. The ges- . eral government _either should have exclusive - jurisdiction or should compel the severgl states 10 enact and enforce ail needful legislation under the am: nt. « % % g Not selely with reference o pro- - hibition, but ia connection with nearly every statutory crime com- plaint is geperal about lax law en- forcement. You hear of it where- ever you go. Reports of bar 28s0- clations, addresses by distimguish- ea lawyers, fulminations from the pulpit.and editorials in the press deal with the subject. The evil is manifest. This in itself would be bad enough were the citizenship of America, contemplating it with the view of doing something about stitution of natiop or state.: It an organigation of his own to ac- more trouble in the world than H i it, of removing the evil in one of n does mot uppear, however, that being Jooked to. Unfortunately, not wait. What he wants he be redressed without delay. If the 1ardy in beginning actios, the complish the purpose. anything else, patriotism being ‘ 1 | { the legal ways provided by Con+ regular processes of the law are the Ameriean is & man who can- wants at once. Grievances muet state or nation fails to act or is American likely enough will form Religion probably has caused next. A combination of the two, which is not unusual or fnfre- quent. is superb as s trouble- maker. As religious differences become acute men of one faith mark men of different faith tentially, 1f not actually, crimi- nal, as dangerous to organized so- clety. Then is produced a situs- tion in which men, not authorized by the law to do so. are apt to take it upon themselves to ferret out violations of the law, bring violators to justice and administer punishment. Whenever and where- ever men assume judicial author- ity citizens may well give serious thought to what is going on about them. * % k ¥ In America ust now. there is an unknown number of unknown men who seem convinced that the law is not enforceable, that many crimes arise from religlous or- ganizations, or that law violators are acquitted on account of their church affiliations. dnstead ‘gt pledging themselves to be law- abiding and volunteering their services to ]aw enforcement offi- cers against all violators, they have banded secretly together. I suppose that members of the Ku Klux Klan justify their activities on the ground that conditions are 50 bad, politics so corrupt and law- enforcement so lax, that it is nec- essary for men who really beHeve in American principles unitedly to resist churchly influence and their No doubt they re- call the good that was done in the early days of the west by vigilants’ committees in cleaning up communities. The record of the original kian in the south after the civil war in removing the incubus of ignorant negro domina- | How to Distfibfite;HQuse Seats. ‘With the results of the 1920 census tong since known and with the presi- dential election coming on, Congress must soon aguin concern itself about the reapportionment of representatives in conformity with the enumeration of the population as provided for'in the Constitutfon. In view of this members, especially from tiose stites which will either gain or lose repre- Sentatjon through thereapportionment, are studying a report made By the| advisory committee to the director of censis regarding the methods ‘of ‘ap: portionment. Two methods are advocated: First, that of ‘major fractions,” devised by Prof. W. F. Wilcox of Cornell Uni- versity.in 1910 and used in the ap- portionment of 1911, an econd, the “method of equal proportions de- vised by Prof. E. V. Huntington of Harvard. Unpiversity in December, 1920, and brought to the attention of Congress through a letter to Chair- man Siegel of the House commitise an the censys. To the “method of major fractions” there may be added & method devised by Prof. F. W. Otwens, also of Corneil University, iny February, 1921, and named by him the “method of least errors.” Prof. Owens’ method. it happens, although independently conceived and resting on somewhat different premises, leads to precisefy the same apportionmen| as the “method of major fractions.” The advisory committee Bays th: may be taken, therefore, as adding. strength to the claims of that method.” Moreover, the advisory mmittee finds that Prof. Huntington's “method " -ts “virtually e nate ratios,” developed by Dr. Hill of the bureau of census and ommended by Dr. E. Dana Durand, then-director of the census, for adop- tion in 191L." o LR * k k¥ ' In discussing the “method of major fraction the advisory committee took: into account the suggestions ot Prof, Owens, as well ad those of Prof. | ed. Wwiilcox, and joined. Dr. Hill's sug- gestions with those of Prof. Hunting-| ton in consideration of the. “methot of equsl proportione™ - | “The conclusions reached ‘ar 3 That the “method of .equal propor- tions” leads. ta an_apportionment .in which the ratios between the repre- sentation and the population of the. several states are as’ nearly alike as is possible. .-It thus’.complies: with the conditions imposed by a literal interpretation of the requirements of the Constitution. = That the. “method of major the "welght ack of 1t precedent. . Logically, however, can be -urportqd only_hy the Constitution requites, niot that the ratios between thé representation and the population of the'geyeral stated. ba mll' as nearly &s, possible,| that representation {ndividusls frac- of it but to. ! inconsistent - results. - holding that | 4 Hnlro-t Jikely js in their minds. far from my purpose to im- Pugn their motives or 10 deny their &o0d purpeses. Rather, I hold the w0 good will be sub- ing to stop this force. Most klan wisely. * % % ¥ This case came to my attention. It §s {lluminative of klan methods. A teacher in one of the western states was accused by a girl pupll of improper advances. He belonged to the Mormon faith in a com- munity that was largely Mormon, with . members of that church dominant fn business and in social and educational activities. He wus -promptly ascquitted. The Eu Klux of a neighboring town, whether for religious reasons or not, 1°do not know, sat in solemn conclave on the case and decided _that ‘the law had failed tp punish & erimind), ‘wheréupon this uitra- Ardicial organization aefzed the ac- Sysed by stealth and punished him, e teacher caused ‘the arrest of the father of the pupil and others and the justice of the peace, who hiad acquitted him. held four to the grand jury.- The governor of the state offered a reward for in- formation that would reveal the identity of the persons who en- gaged in the whipping. Then ap- peared newspaper statements. au- thorized by the kian, to the effect -that the men accused by the school teacher of having participated in his punishment had no hand in the affafr, that he had been chastised by the knights of the kian under ‘orders of the invisible empire and that his punishment had followed 2 groes miscarriage of justice. % % ¥ It is one of the strange manifes- tations of human nature that of- “ ficlals charged with the -adminis- tration of the law become more hostile toward an organization which ‘assumes their prerogative than toward other offenders. They will be extremely zealous in hunt- ing out these self-constituted law -enforgers, oblivious to the fact ,that impartial enforcement of the law on their part would eliminate reason for private organizations 1fke the kian. Indiana uped to bave “white "cappers,” men who took it upon themselves to administer punish- ment whenever they conceived that the law officers or courts had falled. They were periodically active in the southera counties of the state. “As govérnor I bent the Ppower of the state toward punish- ment We got the ri ter and sent. him 'to the penitentiary for #wo years. Since then there has “white capping” in In- * attention to law enforcement or these ‘organizations of ultra ju- dicial character will not only con- tinue to exist, but will grow. In the Indiana - countfes in' which “white capping” existed, law en- forcement was of low grade. Many respectable citizens were members of the “white cap” organizations, because they believed in law and order. With the punishment of the chief, came a stricter enforce- ment of Iaw by the regular offi- <lals. There disappeared the seeming necessity of “white cap- ping” and finally the “white cap” organizations. * x x x ‘We may as well not deceive our- selves about the Ku Klux Klan. Tt will not be laughed down, nor leg- islated down. Reason for its ex- stence must be destroyed. Tt will dieappear with impartial law en- forcement. Soclety takes care of itself. It will stand only so long the sneers and contempt of the Jawless. 1t may for 2 time regard ‘with complaceney other indifference on the part of executlve officers, but finadly it will demand law and order even though violating both to get them, These organizations will be destroyed more rapidly by the stern enforcement of the law against all criminals than by efforts to identify and punish the _ “men behind the masks. Of course, they should be punished, but mor: important is a change of condi- tions in America 8o (thefr ex- cesses may not be Sustified. 7 (Gopyright 1922 by Thomas R, Marshall.y thelr “shares” in their respective rep- resentatives) shall \be as nearly. - form as possible, irrespective of their places of -residefce. - That it is mot clear. cial - interpretation of -the Constitu- tion," which alone is consistent with the use of-the “method of major fracttons,” s to he preferred to other possible special interpretations which lead to other methods of apportion- that the spe- nt. g m'i'he advisory committee concludes. therefore, that the “method of équal proportions,” consistent as it is with the literal meaning of the words of the Constitution, is logically superior ta the “methad of major fractions.” in reaching. its concluslons’ the com- mittee sought the counsel of Prof. Irving Fisher of Yaie University. In summarizing its findings the committee Says: It is clear tha quires that the allocatibn of represent- atives among the several states shall be proportionate to the distribution of popul (It 15 ly ctear at. there is anything in the con- Illhlflnl: . requirement, which sug- ges}s that one of the forms in which sucli apportionmert ratios or propor- tion¥ may be ecxpressed should be preferred to another. * R k¥ < The “method of major fractions” utilizes onky one of several ways of expressing apportionment.ratios.. The “method .of- equal -proportions” util- {zes all of these ways without incon- sistency. The latter-method,. there- fore, has-a broader basis., There is no mathematical or logical ground for preferring the one form of expression of the apportionment ratio used in-the “mefhod of major fractions” to other forms of expres- siop. . These pther forms lead, when similar processes of computation are employed, to different and, therefore, the Constitution re- The “method of major fractions" logically implles preference for a special meaning which.may be. at- tached to.one of the forms in which apportionment ratios may be express- .. ‘fe.attach to.ratios meanings whichvary with the forms in which the ratios -are. expressed is to intér- pret- them as .something else than ; .In_the “method .of major fraction: the “nearness” of the ratios.of repre- sentatives and,population for the sev- eral. states. is_messured by abszolute differences.. . The. “‘method of equal proportions? utilizes relative differ- ences.’. The relative scalé is to be pre- ferred, the adyisory committee con- cludes. . . > +.The. Housg census committee in presenting..its report last July, pro- v&dm‘ for. an, increaae of twenty-five i the membership of the House to 460 members, dodged this decfsion, “Jt s not pecessary te discuss,the. méthod adopted, as hoth plans known s l%' pox. ox Cofusll nmhaa.“:‘d‘_ mt-l. D '11 ehch :flnr ‘when tY:‘: p ‘ber of the House is fixed at no"m y | unot! | | l(;th. but all of them bave been called 1 NEW YORK, November 25, 1932, XN important part of the suc- cess game as' it is Diayed in New York consists of “being seen” at the right places. The list includes the opera, theater open- ings, public dinners and luncheons and even fumerals. At the last rites over a celebrity there is always a horde of the ambitious oncoming, who hope they will be observed there and mistaken for friends of the de- ceased. The succession of public dinners at this season keeps the climbers busy. Ithe chamber of commerce dinner, the merchants’, the motion plcture board of trade, the Clemencean and several others following in quick succession. At each of these dinners many of the same faces are seen. Now that liquor is no longer served at public ban- quets, the demand for humorous speakers has increased. New York has a “blg five” of funny 'after- dinner speakers, Patrick Francls Murphy, Job E. Hedges, Augustus Thomas, Simeon Ford and Irvin S. on so often that they are practically on strike, and the committees in charge of dinners are at their wit's end to find new humorists. owtowing to Titles. LASE as New York would like to Delleve itself to be, it always gets a thrill out of titled visitors, and women 'fortunate enough to have a| prince or & baron at dinner are quick to send their list of guests to the so- clety editors. The New York social lions of ‘the moment have been Lord and Lady Mountbatten. As he is a cousin of the King of England and she, as Edwina Ashley, was the rich- est heiress in England, they naturally are receiving much attentjon, and there is a flood of invitations pouring into their apartment at the Rite. The | young couple seem to be getting a lot of fun out of their American trip, and are mixing democratically with a Jot of stage and film folk. Omne of Lord Mountbatten's pet stories is about their reception in Hollywood, where they wcre Charlie Chaplin's Bues Charlie met them at the station in a Heard and Seen Bernard Webb is Postmaster Gen- eral Work’s messenger. Webb came into prominerice when ! Jli some high diving along the win- he was messenger to Will H. Hays. The postmaster of Scottsville, Va., sent Postmaster General Hays a fine opossum. It came in a box delivered at Wardman Park, Hays was stopping. ‘Webb, alone in the Postmaster Gen- eral's apartment, managed to get the possum out of the box. Then the ani- mal managed to get away from Webb. After demonstrating his paces to the astonlshed colored man the opossum dow tops, while the messenger sent out an 8. O. S. for help. ‘Well, Postmaster Gault caught an- other fat possum recently and decided to send it to Dr. Work. The beast came in a box. through which were punched a number of small holes. Some wag placed the box bencath the desk occupied by Webb and said nothing about it. When the messenger saw that box he leaned down to investigate. Some kind of a critter was rumbling arpund in there. He could hear it and almost see it. E He feared the worst. Yep, the box was just like that one he opened last year: ie went in to see an affictal. ay. boss, what you going to do with that box out there under my desk?" he asked. Visions of opening her opossum cage came into his ead. “Oh. I don’t know." b sald the official casually. Webb retired to contemplate the box again. The more he looked the less he liked the-looks of that box. “Boss,” sald Webb, after another half-hour had gone by, “don't you want me to send that .box down- stairs?” h, I don't know-—haven't decided O what to do with It yet,” replied the of officlal. So it went through the day, with the opossum inspecting the box ‘from the inside, Webb looking it over from the outside. In the end everything came out all right for every one ex- cept the possum. * % : Raccqon and opossum hunting, by the way, is one of the popular sports right now with some of the young- blood messengers at the Washington city post office. Some good dogs, a keen autumn night, a coon fleeing for its life, and you have all the dngredients for ajier of art was advanced fifty yea:s royal sport, according to the enthusi- asts. £ Some coons are run for hours, fin- | Corcoran Art School 'he ©pe aNny being brought to bay, when the dogs are sent on the animal. ‘Tne coon then proceeds to take artistic slices out of the dogs’ Jaws. There seems to be a sort of honor |nouncement to this effect was D The code | g iy The Star of November 21, among the_coon hunters. calls for a chance for the coon.. 1f he can fight the dogs to a standstill— lick . considerably more ' than his welght in dogs, whip several dogs, In|art for the practical instruc fact— he is entitled ta his.life. One messenger was telling of the offense of another coon hunter. ~He wag going to knock that coon |coran’s munificent gift to the city, th. on the head with an axe he 8ald)corooran Art Gallery. The best pro warmly, “but 1 stopped him. ‘I won’t hunt with any man that kills a coon with an axe,’ I told him. ‘If he beats the dogs he is entitled to. his get- away.’ " - * * Poggy is three, going on four. One day her mother warned heripeople might pass an hour or tw. about playing in the street. Soon, however, she saw Peggy and Mary, her friend, running across from | jze and utilize the gailery by mak : curb to curb. “Why .dld vou do that, Peggy” asked: her mother. not to get into dange! ell,” declared Peg, ™1 stayed out of danger, but Mary always does Gan- ger.” * father one day mot to go out of th house. Looking -out the windg saw Miss Peggy. “«pidn’t T tell you not to go 0ut?’[ciency of accommodations at the it the father inquired. “0h, father,” she replied, *“you should see the cute little flowers growing Out|of art, and on their arrival the, there.” “Yes, 1 ha yery _ pretty, told you not to?" g "FWQII’." -returned P.gw in_themost. innogent tons. “how about 1t SO CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. "~ ABOUT NEW YORK that stood and was = where | The End of a time for a improvement in mu- “Didn't T tell you | probation, * % ai a6 cf = % her | wil Thie sameé child was told by ee Eallery. w, there he|at many foreign capitals whiclh Proi no doubt they are|wiil form an replied her father.|able feature of its attractions. t how abotit your going out ~when jart {disreputable looking fiivver and ed to drive them 1o his home. § way there the car broke down, - Charlie fussed about for three-qu ters of un hour apparently tryin fix it. When they were beginnine ' &€t uneasy and unnoyed, Doug I's banks' Rolls Royce rolled un carried themn off in state, as arranged by Charlie—his own jd- a joke on them. Pronounciag the Faselati. ITH its large Italian populatic New York is gradually bei corrected into pronouncing properly. The “o" in the s sounded as a soft “ch” as in other Italian words iike “collo” and ” and the final the “ee.” Another word with which 11 metropolis is struggling 18 the nan of the Czech playwright, who L« two of the season’s succesees, “Ti World We Live In" and A friend from Prague tells the name of Karl Kapek nounced as if it was spelled peck.” Picturing the Tiger. RYBODY in the city was eag. to see Clemenceau, and seats £ the Metropolitan Opera House for % | only speech last Tuesday were cug |1y sought, in most cases in v | Everybody who has seen him at his vigor, for he eig! Short, heavy-bodied. his tanned. ¥ kled face has almost a Mongol cast. A gray felt hat hides his b | mess. He has bushy gray eyebrow {and an unkempt gray mustach. H < {face in repose is stern, but softens as he smiles. His expressive eves a7 light brown. He speaks excellcr English, and is a forceful phras: maker. To the American Legion | satd ‘You are the men I want see. Your thoughts are the ones t! count.” He has a sense of humc Asked about American wo anewered, “At my 2ge all women ar: alike.” Although Jean Lonquet. t} French soclalist leader lecturin: here, insists that Clemenceau, happens to be his godfather, does n represent the real sentiment France, undoubtedly the “Tiger | Bpeeches will carry great weight wit | American opinion. éFifty Years Ago in The Star The Star of November 20, 1872 nounces the completion of a Nuisance. picipal conditio This was the construction of the ! street sewer. The Star's account ¢f this work follows: “Yesterday afternoon the B street* sewer, laid near the site of the old Washington city canal—the stundi nulsance of the capital for nearly b a century back—was completed, th connection made and the water for the first time came rushing down. leaving the serpentine channel of the canal hard and dry. The sewer com mences at 7th strect and extends 1 17th street, a distance of one mil: Measrs. Gantz and Appleman wers the contractors for that portion i tween 7th and 15th streets, 3.40 fe and Strong & Co. the lower sec 1.800 feet. This Work was extrer difficult. the ground being marshy u requiring the shoreing of the bani |and as the large laterals wer stantly emptying their conten lets had to be made for b i powerful ployed “Thers were rec struction of this wor br brick contractors at their v Long bridge. There need Do prehension of this ewer bLurstit as the entire area it drains nov but 837 acres. Other large have been connected with the Tilwr which drain over 3,000 acres and th L street sewer in the northweste part of the city. The work was dc under the personal supervision Mr. R. C. Phillips. chief engineer of the board of public works; ) J. Burroughs, supervising the the contractors, and Mr. Joha Stanley, acting for the hoard morning Messrs. Cluss and 1" examined the work and fo the very best materfal had ! and having ascertained that the late storms not one brick been displaced they expressed conli- dence in its strength With the excen- tion of a drunken man falling i'v the excavation and onr of the wor men being slightly bruised by th upsetting of a barrow of hrivks o m, no accident occurred during Steam pump: Vad hi work, which was commenced « first of June last™ - Washington's development s a «en- by the ning of school i conmnectio gailery. Ar nt 187 Established. x with the Corcoran as follows: “It is understood that a sinoc? 1 of students and amateurs will be estal, lished in connection with Mr. Cor fesrora will be engaged, and thus th gallery will not only be an ornamen to the capital and a point of inter to visitors, but an institution « learning in the direction of drawinz painting, -sculpture, etc. The or inal design was to make it simply depository of paintings where ti. pleasantly, but this failed to full: realize the benevolent design of 2 Corcoran and he determined to vit. ing it _a positive Instructor in m: ters of art. ‘This plan is cne whi b must be hailed with universal ap 8ince f{ts consummation will add fully 100 per cent to the value of the gallery. Prof. Henr: secretary and director of the Smi sonian Institution, in pursuance o the scheme of Smithson ‘to increass d d!ffuse knowledge among men. 1l be a valuable contributor to th+ ‘The institution at presen’ has credit for specimens of art ! the way of paintings and eculpture Henry has been in no haste to d¢ mand, mainly because of the inusufli stitution. When the art gallery thrown open to the public. howeyer requests will be made for these works will Dbe at once placed in the gali~ interesting and v The school in connectlyn with the lery has the warm inda-sement of f. Henry, who for one wlii do all in his power to enhance its useful- ness.” 4