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6 THE EVENING. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1922. ditions, leaving the individual roads to effect adjustments with their em- ployes. An announcement of the course decided upon says it marks the passing of nation-wide treatment of strikes and strike threats. The theory of the executives is that it is impossible to deal equitably with labor on a nation-wide basis, because of varying conditions on different roads and in different parts of the country, THE EVENING STAR, ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY.......December 8, 1922 THEODORE W. NOYES.......Editor . " ¥he Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. oty o o Suing e o E O o : and they held that so long as the sys- uropean : 16 Reger .. London, England. = ofe e meo e tem of nation-wide treatment con- The Evening Star, with the Sunday morsing | tinued it would be impossible to get Sdition. 1s delivered by carrlers withla the % | back to economical operation of the ey e T, 2oty o Geiephane. ata | FO88. 8000.” Cotlcetion 1s’ made by carrlers at ga For many years the plan of each end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virzinia. road handling its own labor problems' prevailed, and that it generally was satisfactory both to the workers and Daily and Sunday..1yr.. $8.40; : mo. 13: managements is attested by the rarity Daily only.. +-.1yT.. $6.00; 1 m 3 Bunday oniy 1 YE 8240} 1 mo., 20c of strikes. The system did not prevent national officers of the brotherhoods functioning as representatives of the men, but as each case was considered on its merits and with local conditions in view it generally was easier to ar- rive at understandings. Public interest in the matter lies in the possibility that it may serve to re- move the recurring menaces of na- tion-wide suspension of transporta- tion. All sqrts of proposals end pro- grams to that end have been ad- vanced, but this one has the recom- mendation of having worked with rea- sonable success in the past, and in that respect it has e big advantage cver untried experiments. All Other States. Daily and Sunda; Daily only Bunday onl Member of the Associated Press. The Ascociated Press {s exclusively entitied o the use Sor repablication of all news dis- tehes credited to it or not otherwise eredited this_paper and also the locar news pub- Ifalied Berein. ANl richts of publication of special dtana herein are aim reserved. { Freedom of the Straits. A good deal of uneasiness was caused allied circles at Lausanne by the prospect of Russian support of “furkish pretensions in the near east seitlements, and there was special ap- | Pprehension of trouble when it caine to dealing with the question of the Dar- danelles and the Bosporus. Turkish insistance that Russia should be ad- mitted to full discussion of this ques- tion iaken to mean that a Russo- Turkish program had been agreed +upon in advance, and it was feared that when this issue was reached the break so often narrowly averted would eurely come. Whether these apprehensions were without warrant or whether at the last moment Turkey saw things in a new light does not appear, but devel- opments have left Russia in the posi- tion of making impossible demands for Turkey and then having Turkey repu- diate the demands. Tchitcherin is left out in the rain without an umbrella, while Ismet Pasha finds shelter under the wings of the allied program. Tor generations the securing of a port on warm waters and free access, thence to the seven seas has been a cardinal principle of Russian policy, and Ru entered the world war “District Day” in the House. Despite a petition signed by ten members of the House District com- mittee, the leaders have declined to set aside next Monday as “District day,” although under the ordinary schedule of procedure that would be the regular assignment of time for local legislation. This refusal, it is ex- plained, is not due to any antagonism toward the items on the calendar which awalit action, but is attributed to the fact that the House is congest- ed with the consideration of appro- priation bills end cannot spare the time at present for District matters. This is the usual experience of the District. For many years it has strug- gled to get its ““day” in Congress. A long time ago “District day” was fairly regularly observed, but in the recent past that item on the calendar has been honored more in the breach than in the observance. The District has got its “day” only by grace of ex- treme consideration and, incidentally, when nothing else pressed. The re- sult has been that District legislation has been congested, sometimes, it is true, to the advantage of the com- munity in that measures that have not been given the most careful commit- tee c:sideration and that have not {been assuredly beneficial have been Llocked from enactment. One result of the almost systematic denial of District day in the House has been that measures of importance, { prevented from consideration on their merits, have had to be added to appro- priation bills as riders. Recently, how- with the understanding that victory for the allies would give her control Constantinople and the straits. ssia’s collapse and the separate peace she made deprived her of this reward following the armistice, but at Lausanne the allies brought forth a program which gave to Russia all the substance of the things for which she has so long contended. Instead! of grabbing at so unexpected an op- portunity, the Russian delegates coun- tered with a proposal that control of the stralts be turned over absolute- to be patrolled by Turk- . And Turkey rejects|ever, this has become next to impos- this free-will offering, not because |sible by the rigid insistence upon the she would not like to have it, but|rule against legislation in the money because she knows she cannot get it. Confronted on one hand by a solid allied front, having the moral support of the United States, and on the other with Russia as a rod to lean upon. the wily Turk was not long in deciding which side of his bread was spread with butter. The ‘Turkish counter proposals, though not & complete acceptance of the allied program, recognize that the straits should be free in peace and war, and against this the Russian delegates at Lausanne protest in vain. —_———————— The Smith Boom. @ov.-elect “Al” Smith of New York is making the acquaintance of the expectations created by his phenom- enal victory, and finds he must hurry. He takes hold at the beginnirng of the new year. He will not be a stranger to his office. He has served a term as gov- ernor, and acquitted himself well. But the situation of today is more difficult than the situation he encoun- tered when he first tackled the busi- ness of the state. New York is strug- gling with her share of the general commotion. And then another thing. At the be- ginning of his first term Tammany's favorite had in view only his relation to state matters. He was probably considering no bigger things. He was concerned principally, if not solely, ‘with making a good record at Albany for state consumption. Now all is different. There is a Smith boom for President, and the ‘boomers are edjuring the boomee to lend a hand by administering his. of- fice with the national opportunity con- stantly in mind. “Al” Smith, as he wishes to be known, is personally popular, and one of the cleverest of New York poli- ticians. How seriously he takes his presidential boom {is his own secret. But, in the nature of things, he can- not be indifferent to the compliment conveyed, nor cold toward its authors, and it is altogether likely that he is going to tread his path warily during the coming eighteen months, until the meeting day of the next democratic znational convention. —————————— The divorce news reveals the fact that Cupid is as busy an old myth as Santa Claus himself. bilis. Attendance in the House on District day is never large. It has been pro- posed in the past that e night session be occasionally devoted to this line of xbuslness‘ True, the attendance at isuch e night session will be small, { comprising only those who are in- timately concerned, and who con- trict legislators, but something would be accomplished. The night session held every fortnight would at least keep the District calendar clear of unobjected cases and would relieve the House of the reproach of failing in its constitutional duty es the lower branch of the District's legislature. ——— Detroit is @ wonderful town for automobiles, and Senator James Couzens has had aell kinds of experi- ence with them. On the District of Columbia committee Senator Couzens should be a great help in solving traf- fic problems. ———————— Coal conferences are as uncertain in their results as conferences of in- ternational concern. In most cases the delegates might as well transmit their immutable views by letter, and save time and traveling expenses. i Rapid work in mining circles will have to be accomplished to prevent this winter’s snow shovel from being far busier than the coal shovel. After being aerrested, the handbook men have time to make book among themselves as to when they will be sentenced, if ever. ———————————— The Farmer and His Woes. From Farm Life, & publication, as its name implies, devoted to the in- terests of agriculture: The usual autumnal corn-burning canard has started the rounds of the press. Since it would take about $25 worth of corn to produce as much heat as a ton of soft coal, it is ap- parent that, even in this year of high coal and reasonably priced corn, there is not much danger that any great quantity of corn will be burned for fuel. It wouldn't pay. And anybody who has ever tried burning corn knows that it makes an exceedingly poor fuel. We know what we_ are talking about, because we were bliz- zard-bound for a few days in Minne- sota one time, and trled to boil pota- toes on a corn-fed kitchen range. When they begin to circulate the rumors about burning corn we refuse to become excited. That the farmers are at present under the harrow is beyond dispute. ‘That legislative provisions for their relief should be made is generally ad- vocated. But that in forwarding those ends exaggerations are indulged in need surprise no one. It has always been s0. Thirty years ago, when populism, making eppeal for the farmers, was shaking the, country, much of an extravagant ne- ture was uttered by the leaders of that movement. Jerry Simpson of Kansas had e gift for that sort of thing, and while 2 member of the House often entertained audiences on Capitol HIlL On one occasion, after Mr. Simpeon had poured out his soul in unusual fullness in favor of & project for the benefit of the farmers, Thomas B. Reed, then the republican leadet, took the flooy and opined in this wise: There is no need of telling very poor children there ig no Santa Claus. They know it. Railroad Wages. A pay increase totaling $1,800,000 a year has been granted 30,000 main- tenance of way employes of the Penn- sylvania rallway system, and adjust- ments are to be negotiated with other classes of workers. The increases are ot large individually, ranging from 1 cent to 5 cents an hour, but in the aggregate they amount to e considera- ble sum, and at least are & move up- ward instead of downward. Apparent- 1y the men are satisfled, and that is the important thing from the public' point of view. Special interest attaches to this set- tlement in view of the action taken yesterday in New York by the Asso- ciation of Rallway Executives, when it decided to wittidraw, so far as pos- sible, from ell connection with future glisputes as to wages and working con- scientiously regard themselves as Dis-| ‘when a young man I spent some time in the west and made the acquaint- ance of its hospitable and resourceful people and took speclal note of the land, and I tell you now, sir, at this long time after, that If we had such soil in Maine we'd sell it by the bushel.” It is unnecessary to say that that j particular projsct of Mr. Simpson :failed to get by. The House, as did { Mr. Reed, remained cold to the 8imp- son plea. | ——t e The Supplies and the Session. A word about the supply bills. They ought not to be used in any parliamen- tary maneuverings. The way should be kept open for them. They are en- titled to the right of it. If that is done |all of them can be disposed of in good | shape and season. Uncle Sam will get | March 4. It has been too often the case that the supply bills at both long sessions and short sessions of Congress have been juggled with in behalfs alto- gether foreign to their nature and pur- poses. In this way jams have been produced and good bills end bad bills alike affected. Always a bad policy, such would be a particularly bad policy now. The supply bills carry more items and larger figures than ever before. The {—probably the biggest thing of the |kind in existence—and its appeals {merit thorough examination and in- telligent decision. Congress can get through in the time allotted if that time is fairly em- ployed. A great deal can be accom- plished in three months, and especial- 1y under competent leadership. ‘The leadership on Capitol Hill on both sides is competent. But it is also human, and when politics “bites” it is apt to respond. Let us all hope that it may not “bite” deeply in the com- | ing three months, and that in the mat- ter of supplies the interests of the country, and not simply party inter- iests, may be kept prominently and steadily in front and on view. —_————————— { America. Now and then we seem to fall below par in appreciation of ourselves, but outsiders. America looks so good in English eyes, English emigrants head in this i direction notwithstanding appeals that they consider other parts of the em- pire. They have heard of the opportu- nities and the wages in this country, ciding a change of residence. Canadians are showing the same disposition. They are crossing the line into the United States in such num- bers the Canadian authorities have checking the hegira. ‘When the question of new homes for the people who have been made homeless by the clash of the Greeks and Turks is mentioned America is at once introduced. Send them here is the suggestion in that quarter of the world. It is assumed that we are in better condition to receive homeless people in numbers and make them at home than any other people. America is the greatest going con- | cern in existence. Disturbed as is our I business, heavy as are our taxes, dis- contented as are so many of our citi- zens, and extravagantly as that dis content is expressed, the lure of Amer- jca continues. Even those deported for their abuse of the government— the Goldmans, the Berkmans and the i like—want to return after a brief ex- i perience abroad. . And yet, from top to bottom—from Capitol Hill to the curbstone—one may hear America traduced as “in- terestridden” and fast approaching the bow-wows. —————————— The rate at which distant stars travel is calculated to call forth rev- erent admiration for the manner in which the traffic regulations of the .universe have been established. ———— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Rejuvenation. Father Time has doffed his whiskers And he wears the latest styles. He has joined the jaunty friskers And in youthful spirit smiles. For the scientists are saying— And we hope they tell the truth— ‘That mankind will soon be straying Through an everlasting youth. Tliness need not cause a panic. By the years do not be scared. By some erudite mechanic All your works can be repaired. But perhaps when here you've waited For a thousand years or so, And no longer are elated By events that come and go, 1 Once again you'll turn to science ‘With a hope that's all serene, For some mystical appliance ‘That will give a change of acene. Needs of the Time. “What are you working at?”* “Figuring on how the votes are like- 1y to go next election.” “I hoped you were at work on & truly great oration.” 0. These days & man doesn't want to be a rhetoriclan. He wants to be a lightning calculator.” Jud Tunkins says & man who al- ways tells the truth is to be admired, unless he's so foolish as to tell all the truth he knows. Musings of a Motor Cop, Hortense had made a speedy start. She murmured with a smile, “The towns should farther be apart To make the ride worth while!” Defeating the Oracle. “What does Cayote Charlie mean by going around barefoot in all kinds of weather?” . “He's kind o’ scared en’ superst!- tious,” replied Cactus Joe. *“A fortune teller sized him up for & regular bad man an’ tried to flatter him by telling him he would dje with his boots on.” his rations, and the table on Canltol" iHilI will be cleared with ease by | | h i national establishment is & huge thing | and Hughey Jennings playing. we do not lose in the appreclation of |count of the continuous use of the | member of tho United States Tariff and make a bee-line for them in de- While the Law Remains Effective | taken the matter up in the hope of |Harding of the danger In disregard- |of the materials so that they would CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS, Can Blow Glass for a Living THE WAYS OF If He Loses Seat in Congress|| WASHINGTON BY WILLIAM PICKETT HELM. HE Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace, is the most Down in Foggy Bottom, that stretch | inveterate optimist in the of reclaimed land just east of the Lin- cabinet. He tells us that the coln Memorial, the Navy Department |fact that farmers are leaving thelr is bullding a vault. To all appear- |farms twice as fast this year as ever ances it is just an ordinary big, fire- ;before, is & “hopeful sign,” for “this proof vault, not 8o large, perhaps, as|shifting will be normal again only hundreds of other vaults, not so ex- | When there is a proper adjustment of pensive and not nearly so good look- ) Prices, a change that is already tak- ing. ing place. But in one respect, it is different.| Mr. Wallace evidently reads poetry, For in this vault will be placed a|and knows the good adage: million and a quarter feet of motion Never despair; picture film—about 235 miles—which Il Gukest iy will tell, to coming generations, the x Will have passed away. story of the American Navy of t0day | The fact that the desperate one and of the past twenty years.. may also “pass away,” in the mean- The film fh to be stored away is a mere detail. Be an opti- darkness. Tt will keep indefinitely. A |mist! Agriculture, above all oecupa- hundred years, or two hundred, hence | tjons, demands that its workers be it will show as clearly on the screen |optimists, to a degree of enthusiasm as it shows today. that no crop failures, no slump in == prices, no pests, no rallroad strikes, no sickness nor any disappointments can dampen their hopes for the mor- Yorn generations! The thought stirs} ‘o0 "m0 ¢oves amount to 9.8 per the imagination. What wiil be ¢on-{cent of their incomes. Bully! Then ditions in the world when the film |the income will net less, and so the is shown a century hence? taxes ought to be less, next year. The higher the taxes, the better for the ‘WIll there be navies then so power- | optimist, for they take away that ful and great that our mammoth | which causes taxes. Wages of men working in the or- fighting ships of today will be weak |, 1;Cg" jnqustries are still from 50 jand puny in comparison? Or will war |¢; 100 per cent higher than the pre- {have been banished from the world, |war average, while farm incomes are i B below pre-war level. Eut that is en- making the display of today's floating ) [0l Lie (0o, for the farmers mar- fortresses a relic of times that the {yoy (herefore. is solid and future will regard as semi-barbarous? | ous. and since his own income i Whatever the conditions of thati{vown. he is not tempted to become a spendthrift, especially while prices dim day, there will be much to show. | henGiRRtE, ETReCElz, JUV are sky- high. when Mike asked Pat where the pup was going, and got for reply: T don’t know. and he don't know, and he's done et his tag.” “;::w 2 new rule 15 about to be in- rated in the trafic rules of n!ruh Eton, whereby any automobile at is left standing in the congested Streets longer than half an hour will e put in the position of the lost pup —the police are to “cat” its tag. That will sidetrack the automobile the owner appears in Police and redeems the tag, for an automo- bile on the st unthiskabie Teet without a2 tag is The management of the Veterans' Bureau 1s in for a roasting from many of the employes over its al- leged harshness in decreeing that hereafter emploves who are mot at their desks. ready for work, when the 9 o'clock gong strikes, will lose the full day's pay. But how unrea- sonable the rule really is may be judged by a little figuring. There are between 6,000 and 7,000 gmlfloyer! Ten minutes’ loss for even half of them amounts to 583 hours, or over twelve weeks for one person. How many would claim that when an em- ploye is deliberately absent twelve weeks he or sh G she should expect to be lungs, and on account of the terrific heat, the furnace being at 2,600 de- grees Fahrenheit. Insurance under- writers are very reluctant to take this class of business. Due to overezer- tion and overheating, pulmonary dis- eases result and the death rate is heavy. It requires an exceedingly active man, and glassworkers rarely follow the trade after they reach mid- dle life, if they survive until then. But Fred Zihiman hopped to it, and was one of the youngest journeymen in this country when he had the trade learned at the age of fifteen. The factory made all sorts of fancy goods, including glass canes to hang on | Christmas trees. paper weights and L e eoday | the tinsel for Christmas trees. Be- B when he fash. | cause of the shortage of labor, street loned an eluborate | §amins from New York were brought lass cane that|in- To Fred was intrusted the trying Was presented to |task of keeping them in order to Eddle Hanlon, now | Prévent excessive waste in breakage park commis.|Of the fragile product. That was his REP. SIHLMAN. _\ = - of Baltl. |Stert as a labor leader. more, who ‘“opened” the Memorial| At the age of twenty-four the men stadlum for the Army-Marine Corps|commenced to elect him to important foot ball game the other day, when |Dositions in labor organizations. Hanlon was manager of the pennant- | “When I realized how much was de- winning Baltimore “Orloles,” with|pendent upon me,” Repreentative such men as McGraw, Willie Keeler [Zihlman explains, “to see that the wives and children of these workmen | ot a square deal In life, T was stag- gered. T was woefully ignorant. Tt burned in on me that I must fit my- | elf for the work laid upon me. I must learn about production and sell- ing costs and all else on which labor arguments lean. So I set to work studying.” He worked alternately, one week days and one week nights, and put his spare time into studying. HERE is one glassblower in Congress, who went into the factory when only eleven years old as bread-winner of his family, who at fifteen was a jour- neyman, and who had devoted his entire life to bettering the condition under which his fellow-men work, educating himself, that he might plead their cause more effectively. That'sRepresenta- tive Fred N. Zihl- ] man of Maryland, now chairman of the labor commit- tee of the House. And Zihlman is | ‘What a story it will tell to those un- 1o: for one perso n of ten minutes a day amounts to a week's :"aclllnn le\'er.\’ year, in addition to he regular holidays an - e ¥s and leaves a 1 there will be sone = let out; will they b- £ slackers at o are that a © habitually- - minutes during the ¥. for the tardiness lack of interest in the In the elder days of the European countries most of the best quality glass came from Vienna. The mixing 2rdy one —tard properly fuse and clarify and carry e wonderful coloring was a secret art. i The high degree. of sklill that made Venice and Vienna famous placed these artists in the front ranks, and they were for the most part members There will be—probably, for as yet * * x % the film of this particular scene I8} Speaking sincerely, this being an in private hands—the great white]agricultural optimist has its draw- fleet with which Theodore Roosevelt|backs. We may as well face the course. gpecial _interferences. which the victim has no control, account for occasional lateness, even for the most punctual, but the record show are never late in keeping an appoint ment; they arrive on the dot. Slovenly h mark of fussiness: it is a mark .ove not sleep. lest thou come to of the nobility. His presentation of the cause of the g awoke the world to America’s|facts: The trek away from the farm ws that condition to be excep- To Fred Zihiman the art was hand- | workingman attracted wide atten- | go opgep, is & serious indication that agricul- ;‘;’2::';'113"‘1:1'; Busioess s m'er:rg-':':figf- tion and in 1909 Zthiman was elected from the gl. factory bench to oc- cupy a seat in the Maryland state senate, representing Allegheny county. | When the session of the senate closed he went back to the glass factory, and when the senate reconvened he lald down his blowpipe again. He served as republican floor leader in the senate, 1914-1916. When he first ran for Congress there was an interesting spectacle of this glassblower contending against as a very unhealthy occupation on ac-|a coal miner, David J. Lewis, now a ed down, father to son. The elder Zihlman, with his two brothers, emi- grated from Switzerland right after the civil war and opened a glass fac- tory, in a very small way, in Cumber- land, Md. They were pioneers in the manufacture of thin-blown drinking glasses. Fred’s father suffered a breakdown and Fred went in to support the family at the tender age of eleven, when the pay was 35 cents a day. Now, glassblowing is looked upon That fleet, as it satled from Norfolk, | ture is tottering, and will fall unless as it came within sight of the Golden { something radical is done to relieve Gate, as it rode at anchor in the har- |it. That must increase net profits. bor at San Francisco, as It steamed |{Farming is a business, just like home again from its long crulse— |manufacturing. Merely increasing the that 1s a picture still in existence; | borrowing credit at bank is not going one the department wants to get for [to keep the factory running perma- its collection. nently, unless,nbyh(he use of fhas And “Fighting Bob" Evans. long | (oo, 0ol RS BIEE oture o- since gone to his reward. His plc- |ing to entice the former farmers back ture is there, too. to the old farms, away from their city So also are pictures of the hero |jobs at good wages. unless it can be of Manila bay. folks think that punctuality is a exactness and perfection. Ppoverty: open thine eves. and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.” = * % % % To be a Roman citizen was once a £reat honor and privilege. To be an Amerfean citizen today is equzl tn that ancient honor. and it is alwars £Tatifying to find & court that appre- ciates that the honor should not be lightly bestowed upon the unworthy. John A. Valltes. a Greek, came to America in 1888 and, although in i 915 he took out his first papers de- claring his desire to be naturalized. vet he evaded the draft in 1917, on e { the ground that he was a citizen of a b¢ ! neutral country—Greece—and when that evasi made known to the upon his application al papers. they were re- by Justice Bailey of the Dis- Supreme Court on the ground 4t he had shown that he wanted the benefits of citizenship without the ob- ligations accompanying the same. * % % % All patriotic Americans feel that refusal was ht made to pay them as well as do the city jobs. In all farm economy, we must keep that fundamental clear be- fore us. All Geep_discussion as to credits is & waste of brains, so long as year after farm debts grow. We need . fegislation making illegal th charges of middlemen and freights above a reasonable percentage o what is paid the producer. It is just | as important that the farmers subsidized” as that any form commerce to carry abroad the sur plus of the farms receive a subsi The farmers® “subsidy” need n S be a real subsidy: all that is needed| i is protection against the unreason able spread between the farm fiel and the consumers table. spread can and should be limited by law, and when the excess middlemen | find it unprofitable to continue in the | compensation allowed them phrase Mr. Wallace. hopeful sign, ‘Those pictures go back almost to the infancy of the art. They are not so good as some that follow. Notable among these is the story of the Navy in the great war. Of this, there are many reels. Some were made under fire of enemy guns; many others, too, were made at great risk to the camera men. All of them tell their own story of the American y during those eventful vears. The War Department has the story of what our armies did in France, but those pictures are in the department’s possession and presumably will not be stored with the pictures of the Navy. Golng back a bit, there is the story . of Vera Cruz. The Navy has films. | onid readjus The dep=rture ! < Saken fn Battle, iahowiog thel ATEre | ot s Taiaiies = ilimoon be i epianed :h""‘d g DB S0 [susny gyt W these films was taken by a little fel- | 1R (00 Lo D i A ki IRy low, Hans Wagner, who, after war|plicated and parasitical. 1 sponsibilities. That does mot was declared, managed to get back to * % % x ‘:Zflyi:e&lf lufwur dul)‘.;ul to dvllc 5 e of peace. Mei Germany and Join the army. He was| . socretary of Labor, Mr. Davis. | pelong to mens ciube which ooaee 1 i - = e He e o | tells us that the immigration quotas tuke civic betterment: they have no permissable -under the present law TiSht to shirk. Women should belong detachment. s » to women's societies for help to the Wagner, with his camera, boarded | [0T England, Wales, Scotland, Ire- | helpless. That is far more important a battleship forty miles out from the | 18nd. Sweden, Denmark, Holland and | than merely belonging to the church Virginia capes. He had the’ permis- | Germany were not half exhausted. |and listening to inspiring sermons sion, of course, of the Secretary of |In Other words, the law would have {70 (WIS, music The man or the Navy. A tug carried him out on | admitted from those countries twice'gions of public questions &nd who a long chase of the battleship and the | 28 many as wanted to come, and the purposely neglects to vote is no bet- transfer of Hans and his impedimenta | only would-be Immigrants who were | teT than the Greek who has lived in {was made In a heavy sea and at con- | barred were from the undesirable na- | 1o ae calaredote mthg gt refused 'y duty either for America siderable risk. tionalities. He therefore belleves or Greece. that the recent agitation for lib-| Some will say he is an undesirable eralizing the law comes from em- | citizen and should Le deported back loyers who are uninformed as to the | to Greece, in the midst of Greece's | present war. But what shall be done to the native American who is as great a shirk as the Greek alien? Shall he be defranchised, on the ground that we do not fe pup in a crate at an express office, swine? B pentiu kb Plea for Adequate Retirement Pay for Government Employes blowpipe causing expansion of the | Commission. EDITORIAL DIGEST every effort to modify the drastic terms of the Volstead act. The saloonkeepers brought about prohi- | bition and, just as surely. the pro- fessional prohibitionists and their in- experienced though sincere amateur associates have brought about disre- spect for prohibition laws. The saloonkeepers went too far and the | prohibitionists have gone too far." It is also the bellef of the Buffalo imes (independent democratic) that the people violate the Volstead law because it s a law repugnant to economic, commercial, social and medical necessity and Impossible to reconcile with human nature. _That is no excuse for violating it. But it is a condition of affairs that does call Wwith unanswerable argument and resonant emphasis for its repeal or modification,” “Prohibition is & ghastly failure,” asserts the St. Louls Post-Dispatch (independent)), “but the deplorable conditions that excite It Must Be Fully Enforced. The various statements dealing | with the seeming fallure of prohibi-' tion, ranging from that of President ing the law to the assault on non- enforcement by Maj. Reed, the junior senator from Pennsylvania, have aroused general comment on the situ ation. It seems to be agreed by edi tors—those who favor as well as those who oppose the Volstead law—that so long as it is on the statute books it ought to be enforced. Many believe its repeal would be a good thing. Others place the blame for failure on favoritism in appointing enforcement agents. the President’s apprehension and anx- It requires a force of only jiety are not the final consequences enforce the narcotic laws,” says the|of this tyranny. The breakdown of Baltimore Sun (democratic), but “to | §overnment is the sinister threat of 2 : present condition enforce the Volstead act the govern- | PURElC CQRAILONE 0 o necessity. ment employs a force of 3.22 the New TYork Post (independent) that act, alas, is not enforced e feels, that “a thoroughgoing reor- Christian Science Monitor (independ- ; ganization of the prohibition ma- ent) insists that President Harding(chinery with an eve to thorough- “knows that he, and he alone, will be | going enforcement” be made. *Con- held responsible by the people,” and | gressional majorities are still over- that complete enforcement 1 be whelmingly for the law and sur- of an advantage to him and to his'render now would be the surrender party that none can overestimate.” lof an army to an army greatly in- The present system holds “nelther|ferior in size. Wars that do not go sense nor honor,” the New York Globe | well may yet be won by the applica- (independent) argues, and inasmuch|tion of sufficient backbone.” The as this is well known, “Instead of | various developments, however, im- viewing with alarm and appealing to | pel the New Haven Journal Courier the people, the administration will do | (independent) to inquire whether well to meditate upon its own Te-|“the time has not come for the advo- sgu::ilbgll)'- lThl_i_xil:ls?dLl::n:flr‘l:o? cates of nr‘t:ihmulon and its opponents of the Scranton Times c). [ to set asl 3 Which holds that “the trouble is in i PR together calmly consider the situa- the method of appointing enforce- | tion from the point of view of the ment officers. Many of these are un- | general welfare.” But it is the euited in their jobs and entirely out|opinion of the Cincinnati Times-Sta: of sympathy with thelr work.” There (republican) that “the matter of en- should be co-operation from the pub- | forcement 18 h lic as well as officlaldom, the Utica Duch Iargersquestion than prohibition. da. h Poess (republican) 18 convinoed, bes . coambiie ooitasd by e g e use “when the cabinet recognizes|ruption. Ugly deals are being made, situation of such gravity it is de-}although nobody belleves that the acribed as ‘deplorable’ it is about time men_ higher up know_of or condone for Mr. John R. Public to ask himself | axisti i , S cilitnets seally Beine bx ghcd a | ane condlifions - Dot s erlevons is the on that the real issue citizen as he would have his neigh-| today is ‘Shall we have prohibition oors believe.” In this very conne modified by the corrupt practices of «on, however, the Philadelphia Pu officials or shall thep r:odmcmon. tic_ Ledger (independent republican) | come as the result of amendments cuggests that -“some peoble are dis- (o the law, duly enacted? Shall the posed to wonder now whether the|pootlegger and the grafter amend the most serlous aspects of the situation | laws in eftect, ur co 2 as It now confronts the President are 3 orishallions conEreas men amend them in fact?” And the not due to the overzealousness of the | Boston Transcript (independent re- supporters of too d W publican) insists that hether the ”;& umf"(:.l!p:g;la T the boverel | Volstead act atands or {s amended or p: R Ao repealed, the method of enforcement, There are pictures of four Presi- dents among the Navy's collection— | facts. Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson and Harding. * % % % A hundred years hence they will be] For years, the picture of utter loss flashed on the screen—two hundred— | has been best told in the story of the | even longer, perhaps. Their value and interest then will be comparable to the interest which would attach now to a motion picture, say, of George Washington, or of Lin- coln delivering his Gettysburg ad- dress. Scores of pictures of Theodore Roosevelt are in the collection. Nearly all of them show him at public functions. Only two motion pictures were ever taken of Theodore Roose- | To the Editor of The Star: el " velt at Oyster Bay. One of these was| The eves of almost the entire gov-| pladina made by the late Hal Reld, the play- | ernment service will now be eagarly | condition, why Should conereor poed ;;lth! h(lnd hth:lr orl ?n‘:luo Reld). {and prayerfully looking to Congress !:'__en l;()]yl’r‘ln!‘lhad rem‘-’r lhn:‘ is ®so e other was directed by a news-|during its present scselon for the Soi’f npionedl Sanalmestall By paper man whom the colonel liked. |passage of the bill No. 6433, now pend- | Svill srn wor 1ony e e That one was taken in 1912. Ing. to increase the annuity retire- ence of The Star in the effort to ment for civilian employes reaching E_:":'llfy'::a“)}e e peee ) fl:hg'- certain ages (from the present maxi- | fands of government employes® mum of $720 per annum to a mini-| CHARLES F. KREH. mum of $180) to the allowances indi- | T have never |C8ted for the varlous classes in uld‘ | starving those who serve the military “They have asked me to get you at home,” the newspaper man ex-| plained. “They want to show you in private life. ‘The colonel smiled. permitted it," he said, “and I don't (P!l 13 confessed. The mask of hypocrisy must be thrown off and profession of favor for the law given force, or confession made of disfavor.” The New York, World (democrat), taking a somewhat similar view, is convinced that the “difficulty is not with the officials or with the public It is with the law itself. So long as the Volstead act remains as it is, dis- regard for at least one article in the federal code will be as natural for most people as breathing, and the corruption of a large percentage of publio servants follows as in- evitably as night after day.” Local influence may the solution, how- ever, in the opinion of the BSouth Bend Tribune (independent), which argues that “if the states do thelir duty no argument for prohibition modification on a basis of non-en- forcement oan stand.” And the Pitt: burgh Leader (progressive repub- lican) suggests that “only a fool will clalm the Volstead law is enforoed or has been enforced since it became operative ‘Whether it can be en- forced is another angle. Enforcement | has never been tried. The thing to be decided is whether we shall make & really honest effort to enforce or to begin plans for modification or nombl( repeal.” In this connection he Chicago News (independent) in- sists that “scandalous inefficiency due to the spoils Ig!tflm of appointments has added much to the amazingly bad record of the enforcement service.” There is & possibility, the Detroit Freo Press (independent) says. that ‘s oalm, nate, uncolored pio- ture of conditions from an authorita- tiva source may serve to shock the people of the United into some sort of healthful realization of the sin the: tting against themselves in becoming a nation of rebels against law, and not aguinst law handed down to them from others, but against law they them- welves have ordered or made.” In- dorsing this_line of argument, the Press (independent) ih- sists that “a given law may be good or bed, but a law that is not enforced against all alike is always bad.” 8till the Chicazn Tribune (repub- lican) holds that “lawmakers must have some respect for law them- selves. It must not violate funda. mental principles. That is the be- sinning of trouble.” ‘The Norfolk !M‘f:r-mlwel (in- dependent democratic) thinks that if the President wants to bring about “respect for prohidition he will use opt And he did, even to chopping down | a tree In front of the camera. i The dogs of war will always find nour- {shment while there are so many bone- heads in the world.—Columbia Record. ‘Was it a prohecy of radio when it war said that it 18 more blessed to give than to recelve’—Greenville Piedmont. The report is out that Chaplin will marry again. Have you noticed that movie wedding reports always eay— again?—Kalamazoo Gagette. An economist man who tells you what to do with your money lmr’{ou have done something else with it.—New York American. tat de;:n ienty holds, “It must be capable | 5 long a8 it remains on the statute liko the idea now. There is & pri Experience has demonstrated—and, | ht ‘unhesitatingly to give every 3 t and its failure | O0& i tree! grmentiie af Tautien The reporter was sorry. He had |minded semator and representative | Happened in the Streets. eaning Somethi ifferent = M g Something Different. “Very well” sald the for the men who have given twenty-|g ,¢ o¢ the District buflding com- ] eke out anything like a comfortable guage notes that the phrase “two or| during the vear 1921, though it dis- sum of $60 a month and less. meais)(one [iThe Mist Lot stamiliag [ Sont of Uving, particularly n N S w | from accidents in or on the streets of minute,” for instance, means any- of our representatives must and do ! piaren were due to trafic on the hour. Our critic has pointed out that|r, the Editor of The Star: employes who have (unfortunately for oke.” “I hold no briet for” their own premises or homes, some of place in its history dating back to|Experience and competency and ng to have idown the steps or over the balusters, north from a point near Fair Haven those qualifications, their age ishel simply devoured with curlosity.” “My away, feeding upon their pittance negligence on the part of their par- introduction for an apology or an ex- | ing, thence east, following the Anne 2 i K- Government employ e are oavs geal, | ticular care to Instruct men to when some one has mistaken it. Ex-|joying a most fertile and productive 5 idering D |ing In going to school and returning old opera Pinafore, “Things aro sei-|To the average citizen of Baltimore her salary toward R el R et ner of Massachusetts avenue and 18th ard. to this domain does not exceed thirty f: ) has “already ! Siderants :;‘rv E, most wise precaution. trariwige, have found the Dbeauties|ment is not obliged at this time, and i ca; E At one time it was thought that the and with a quick appreciation of it{its own exchequer. bill approved 10, 1922, it will bé seen that|accidents, but this practice has di- operations st the North Be: E pay of Army officers. o protest 15 |accidents in the thoroughfares and it our taxable basis. But our road sys- | i8 | there seems to be every reason to:the public thoroughfares have greatly needed is an extension of the con the victim. If, as has been said, lic 'streets. Naturally they would the bay, where most of the develop- nga C n is entirely inequitable and In- | everythi into coasideration, . it “fi mileage to and from Washingtén over the ‘we fear we have a sense resents Juxury; in the other ho! neay future, and regular book, cries to heaven for drastic 5 of enforcement and must b enforced; | reform. The drys and the wets, alike, |about a man's home that should not |We think, to the entire satisfac- Of 97 Fatal Accidents Only 14 else ourisheory mos gy be invade tion of every considerate and fair- possible effort to clean this _foul DiREHe Apet IR ioks ECReTnmnL almost promised to make good on get- | (and we believe all of them to be To the Editor of The Star: ting the picture, he explained. iwch)—“l“ it is almost impossible| oOn the memorial erected on the colonel. | five or thirty vears of their lives in Somebody who has been investigat-|.rpy¢g gifferent. I'll glve you & good | faithful service to the government to memorating the death of ninety-seven ing the curlosities of the English lan-| ! Chlifies (by Mt in’ Wastibeion or even decent living for themselves - three”” always means three or more, and thetr dependents on the meager |TUIIE (e MeRt 1o Rt and that “one or two" seldom, if ever, { They know, too, in view of the high | ply that their ST e R Maryland Co: {cost of living, particularly in Wash; 1 = Wilh Possibilities days” of old age. Furthermore, all| Only the deaths of fourteen of these wherelfrom five minutas’ito helf ‘an realize how extremely difficult it is = RAseead for men, particularly ex-government |streets. Many et their fate by ac- et reminds M o mef toncaas{ There s & section of Maryland on cldents which took place In or on Sw you keeppaute o Ltell my| o west side of the bay that has a |themselves) reached the age of sev- 1 am now going to defend—-" ¢nty to obtaln employment elseWherS: | ihem being burned or scalded, and in “While I do not wish to appear criti-| sjonial dsys. It les in 2 boundary |physical ability seem to avail but|some instances they have (fallen oI 0 o3t | between the Chesapeake and running |little nowadays, for, notwithstanding no busines: ,”” means “I am | against them. They are thus com- and it is more than likely that some simply devoured with curlosity.” “My | to West river, thence west to David- | pelled to linger in idlerreas and Tust | of these accidents were the result of Seeds o explanation.” 1s the usual |sonville, thence south to Hills Land- sway. feeding upor thel i te be | e I tion %o one could possibly have | Arundel county line, to the beginning, | STUfTed out from time to etefuty The chief of police has taken par- mistaken my meaning” {s what we say | This is & beautiful land, not only en- | ;, 22¥ STl T70h G the square deal | tleular care to fnatrc L his men_to T o expression 1 o AiMcuit ait. | aves, but containing many homes of | OuT, legislators will mot lose oK | the streets, particularly whilo cross- As they used to sing in the famous | people of rare culture and refinement. | o, t7% JCR Voo 00, v employe of | the government is contributing Z% | therefrom. It may have been noticed dom what they seem, skim milk mas- | this is alien soil, though in point of that an officer is on duty at the cor- uerades as cream.”—Anaconda Stand- | fact the distance from the latter place f their annufties, and Q the payment of their , . from this monthly payment a street while the children are as- —_ miles. But thanks to improved state sembling for attendance for school. A h‘zh. ‘n.o,i-lvz who says :: ;‘Ig gflwuen ‘Washington motorists, con- | g ccumulats that the govern- g iy gt 3 who says — urveillance s0 maintained Asheville Times. and natural advantages as well as|propgbly will not be for years in’ the vicinity of other school the nearness to the natlo come, if ever, to pay anything out of children on roller skates playingk - bay resort features have within the| L ce to the about the public streets would cause past two years developed bullding | Jasiuary 10, 3 ach, OW- | niliony of doliors have been &ppro- ' minished. It is due to the vigHance ‘ngs, Masons and Back Bay resorts,|priated for the increase of retirediof our police that there are few and incidentally adding millions to Tude againat the retirement system!is hoped that the mext report will ‘em at the present tims doe-wn:‘!t‘fnr-lmr the military establishment, but|show that aceidents to children in nish adequate acl 68, a ) protest against the glaring dikcrimi- | diminished. From all times children crete road from Hills Landing, Pa-|nation of which the civil servant is; have made a playground of the pub- tuxent river, to Tracys i@nding, on “th Army and Navy scheme of retire-!seek these localities while engaged- ing of the beaches is going on, mak-| ment is equitable” then the civil:in their games and sports. ing & short cut and reducing the!schem fl{ adequate. Relativel: retire- that_the chief of police has 1 third of the distance and making{ment sllowance in_the one case rep- trackiess trolley & possibility in . ocase Jater the-exten-'almost starvation. There is not & e nnhlgiE TR e e Tt = lu Fo phy than there' 15 in