Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1922, Page 50

2 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 10, 1922—PART 2. THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY.....December 10, 1922 THEODORE W. NOYES...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 150 Tower Rulldin that he purposes summoning at an|objective, comes within the means of early day a conference of governors to| many who have heretofore been de- seek better co-operation between state |barred from such en experience by and federal agencies in enforcement | considerations of expense. . of the law. Whatever personal opin-| The wise policy of preserving the fon may be as to the wisdom of the|natural wonders of this continent and Volstead act, that act is the law <f|making them accessible to the people the land, and every good American |is thus being constantly vindicated by will epplaud the President’s firm re-|the response of the public to the ad- solve that the law shall be respected. Illiteracy, immigration and child labor ere other subjects which the vantages afforded. A few years ago it was necessary to “sell” the parks as objects of visitation, to use & com- fice: 16 Regeat [ + London, England. | President urges upon the serious at-| mercial phrase. But now, as a result The Eventng Star. with the Sunday morni edition, is delivered by carriers within the eit: at 60 cents per moath; daily only, 45 cents month; Sunday only. 20 cents per month. ders may be sent by mail or telephone end of each month. Rate by Mnll—l’ny:lble in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunda Daily only Sunday on! 70c All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1yr., $10.00: 1 mo. Daily only. Sunday only. 60c The Associated Press is excl o the us: for republication of all n Tatdhes redioea ia e or ot othermiae cerdit paper and alwo the local news pub- Tished herein. Al rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. | Careless Mail Users. According to Post Office Department estimates, the American people who use the mails lost during the past tiscal year mo less than $423.000 ihrough carelessne: in their failure to address their letters. This is the fault not merely of those who wrote their addresses illegibly or incorrectly, but those who dropped into the mail boxes letters and packets without any directions at all. No less than 140,000 letters were thus posted “blind.” In addition 16.586.419 letters reached the dead letter (vffi\e as a result of care- iess addre: and more than 600,000 ' parcels failed of delivery from this cause, No wonder ihe Post Office Depart-! ment enjoins the people who use the mails to “be careful.” Safety first should be the rule. The post office does a remarkable work in decipher- ing and delivering badly addressed mail matter, but there are limits be-' vond which it cannot go. There are scrawls that even the most expert of the declphering squad cannot inter- pret. There are geographical mistakes that puzzle the most ingenious and imaginative of the dead letter force. In the case of the unaddressed mail it is finally necessary to open it. o determine if possible the name and address of the writer. This expedient | is always undesirab because one of ihe first principles of the postal serv- e is to respect the sanctity of mail matter. At this season of the year it is es- pecially important that all who use the mails should be careful. Christmas presents and greetings are posted in enormous volume, and in the conges- tion that results the danger of misde- liveries is increased. Careful mail users place upon their posted matter, both letters and pe names and addresses, so that in case of failure of delivery return can be de them. Only u small per- tage. however. of the users of the post do this, and the dead letter ofiice | finds its burden increased in conse- quence. ["'ncle Sam carries the people’'s mail with remarkable precision and ex- pedition, but he cannot render fully efficient service if the people them- selves are careless. Co-operation is necessary, and the least that can be expected of those who use the post is that they afford a fair chance of cor- rect handling through legible address- ing. Certainly there is no excuse for putting unaddressed mail Into the boxes. to —_— —————— “nele S - participant the Lausanne « might re- ve less alert and deferential con- sideration than he gets in his present position. ———— There are doubts as to whether the 'k man of Europe” 1s regaining strength or falling into greater de- lirfum. —————— The President’s Program. Yestirday The Star commented upon the President’s message with es- pecial reference to the remedies which lie piaposes to cure transy ‘ation evils. Cor sideration of the transpo: -ation problem flows naturally into con- sideration of the problems of the farmer, and the problems of the farmer Into those of the consuming public. Present difficulties of the farmer, the President finds, are due chiefly to the unevenness of deflation from war-time price levels and to the inequities of transportation charges. ¥rom the latter of these causes the consumers of farm products suffer along with the producers. Already a good deal has been done for the relief of agriculture, and the President recommends that temporary improvement in credit facilitics should be made permanent. But he recog- nizes that this alone is not sufficient to reach the fundamental difficulties of the farmer. Cheaper and better transportation, he insists, is necessary to permanent and deserved agricul- tural good fortune. And he would have a searching inquiry made into the unwarranted “spread” in prices be- tween the producer and consumer, to the end that ways may be devised 50¢c § 2 ages, their own | | tention of Congress. While recogniz- who are admitted to our shores. He urges passage of pending bills for the registration of allens and the estab- lishment of examining boards abroad to weed out undesirables at the source. Then he would have the fed- eral government devise means and the newcomers, so that the level of highest that is humanly possible. The President sees a close relation- ship between the problems of educa- tion and child labor. As the Supreme Court has twice held that legislation | for the regulation of child labor is out- |side the province of Congress, he recommends submission to the states {of an emendment to the Constitution giving Congress the authority it lacks. In the President’'s review of our foreign relations much is to be found {to gratify Americans and to provide ! food for thought to the statesmen and 1inhabitants of other lands. “I would ilike the Congress and the people of | the nation to believe,” he says, “that in a firm and considerate way we are | insistent upon American rights wher- {ever they may be questioned, and | deny no rights of others in the asser- { tion of our own.” He insists that we { have shirked no duty which comes of ! sympathy or fraternity or highest fel-! | lowship among nations, and that every obligation consonant with American of government is willingly met. And, in conclusion: *“We ask no one to assume responsibility for us; we as- sume no responsibility which others must bear for themselves, unless na- tionality is hopelessly swallowed up in internationalism.” On the whole, the President’s mes- sage is an able state paper, refreshing ifor its stalwart Americanism and valuable for its clear thinking at a time when there is so much muddled | thought In the world. Also it is note-! | worthy because of the high political | -ourage it manifests, for some of the things he recommends are bound to bring down upon his head a storm of | criticism. One thing else it makes clear. However much he may have appeared to have slackened the reins in the past, President Harding is the leader of his party today. He has stepped firmly into that position by giving his party the one thing it con- spicuously lacked—a program. By that program now the republican | party. no less than the President, must stand or fall. ————— America might be of assistance to .l Zurope if some practical program could be evolved permitting reference iof the Dardanelles question to the rivers and harbors committee. ————— If the claims of medical sclence as of efficlent work by the park service, '; ing that education of youths is pri-|the series of scenic splendors and in- t | marily the function of the states, he | spiring areas of Interest has been ‘Main | concelves it to be the duty of the fed- | made known to practically every per- llection is made by carriers at the | era]l government to look after allens|son in this country, and opportunity only i{s waiting for visiting them. America’s Fire Waste. « Astoria, Oreg., furnishes the latest example of American wastefulness through fire. Flames have swept a5c | effectively assist in the education of | through that city taking a toll of $15,- 000,000 in destroyed property, cover- 25¢ | American education may be made the | ing twenty-seven blocks. Fortunately no lives were lost directly, and not as many people were rendered homeless as in other conflagrations which have swept residential sections. Still it was an appalling loss, and the more so as doubtless investigation will prove it to be due to a careless cause—neglect of some simple rule of protection and prevention. At Newbern, N. C., recently a fire caused destruction of property valued at $2,650,000, and rendered many hun- dreds homeless. In that case investl- gation indicates incendiarism and an amazing slackness on the part of the fire-fighting forces, suggestive of a willingness that the flames should sweep unchecked. Flimsy construction caused the mounting of the loss. From the beginning of this year, as the records of news dispatches show, fires have been raging in all parts of the United States with tremendous losses. Destruction of less than $100.- 000 scarcely attracts attention. hotel, an industrial plant, or a series of bulldings, or an area of residences. In some cases the heart of a city is destroyed. At the present rate the losses in this country from flames will be in this year 1922 greater than ever, ve, perhaps, in some year of a holo- caust like that of Chicago, Boston, Baltimore or San Francisco. In 1921 New York city’s losses from fire were $15,000,000 greater than in 1920. And vet the fire department of that city is constantly being developed, as are those of other municipalities. Better apparatus. more highly-trained men, abundance of water seem to make no difference in the matter of keeping down this waste. Fires start with small beginnings and gain head- way before discovery or check. Con- centration of values is attributable in great measure to this steadily mount- ing loss in terms of billions. Better construction should always follow such a fire as that in Astoria. Better construction should precede, in- deed, but it seems to take a disaster to teach this lesson. Constant inspec- tion is necessary, with severe penal- tles for violation of fire-prevention rules. ‘Washington has one paramount need in this respect. It should have a high-pressure water service, to in- sure the business district against heavy loss. Such a system, whatever it may cost, is made essential by to prolonging human life continue to|the examples of other cities that are develop, the old story of Dr. Faustus | swept by flames. The immunity of and Mephisto will be due for revision [ the capital from heavy destruction in a modern setting. e There is not much encouragement in the theory that so long as various I military experts regard another war !as inevitable the U. S. A. might as i well get in early. ——— e ! Legal authority has its limitations. There is no way of securing an in- junction to prevent the thermometer from dropping in the presence of a coal shortage. ———te————— Fighting in Ireland has acquired a momentum which even under new conditions it will take time to over- come. e Having proved that England is not boass, the people of Ireland will proceed to decide among themselves who is. ———————————— The People’s Parks. An increase of 44,493 persons visit- ing the national parks of this country during the past fiscal year over the thus far does not guarantee against a disaster of unmeasurable magnitude in the future. i Husband killers have become so numerous that the promise to love, Now | With ample le it is an office building, again a depart- | politics keen, Mr. ideals and sanctioned under our form | ment store, or an apartment house or | residence in this town, can make his Mr. Wilson Keeps in Touch. In a letter to a Florida editor— written probably in response to one recelved—Woodrow Wilson recently ; BY THOMAS R. MARSHALL, The task of 1924 is to so mobilize our intellectual and moral forces as o assure a complete defeat of the party which has done the country so serious a disservice and to win again for our government the leadership in the affairs of the world which the re- publicans for the time being have deprived It, and personally I feel con- fident this can and will be done. My pulses are quickened by the prospect of battle. Mr. Wilson keeps in touch with his friends all over the country. Now from this, now from that, section, a letter on the subject of politics written by Mr. Wilson to some admirer finds its way into print. The recipient is al- ‘ways proud of his good fortune, and willing that the public shall share the missive with him. It was in this way that Mr. Cleve- land, between March, 1889, when he retired from the White House, until the meeting time of the democratic national convention in the summer of 1892, largely occupled himself. He conducted a voluminous correspond- ence with admirers—many of whom he had never seen—on the subject of | the democracy’s fature, uttering| cheering words. The result was that at that conven- tion sentiment for Mr. Cleveland was overwhelmingly strong, and he was nominated, hands down, for another— his third—try at the presidency. Mr. Wilson can hardly have a thought of heading his party's ticket himself in 1924, but it is most likely that he desires a voice in the choosing of the man, and in the construction of the platform on which the candidate shall stand. And letters in line with the one this Floridlan has just re- cefved will serve that purpose well. sure, and interest in Wilson, from his | influence felt in every state in the Union. And Florida, it may not be un- important to remember, is now the home state of William J. Bryan, who aleo, alert as at all times, is giving more or less attention to 1924. —_———e———— Foreign and Domestic Wets. The drys are not oblivious to the fact that the wets in their efforts for the control of Congress have the sym- pathy of large interests in France and Spain and Italy. The wine-makers in those countries are desirous of regaining @ market in America. When they had it they profited greatly. Since its loss they have found a big hole in their incomes. The situation has been thoroughly canvassed. Visitors from abroad have been taking “the lay of the land” and reporting to their principals at home. They are still on the job, and advised by their American friends that hard work, and plenty of it, is ahead; that the grade cannot be easily made. H Will this sympathy take practical form of some kind? Will it be possible for these foreign interests to do any- thing in America for the general good of the order? If anything of the sort is attempted it will have to be done with skill and { care. There is not the old-time sen-} sitiveness in this country about for- eign interference with our domestic affairs. Since the war closed we have heard a good deal from Europe on the subject of how we should conduct our affairs, and especially so as to min- ister to Europe's woes. America has been rechristened Altruria, and abun- dant advice received as to making our conduct square with a complete re-! nunciation of self. But this wet busine: is different. | honor and obey in the marriage cere- | That is something that should be set- request not to shoot. ——e——————— {mony may be superseded by a simple { tled without any foreign interference of ! jany kind, the drys assert, and, aware ias they are of how much concerned from a money peint of view foreign Events continue to call attention to; wets are in the wet crusade in this the fact that as compared with most international assemblages the Wash- ington conference got & remarkable amount of action. L I every proposed amendment were to be adopted the United States Con- stitution would become almost as un- wieldy as the treaty of Versallles. l Berlin extravagance is attributed to the desire of paper mark owners to get rid of them while there is still something they will buy. 4 vear previous is a most gratifying in- dication that the pecple of the Unitea| The country is dry, with a certain amount of seepage which the authori- States are coming to appreclate the remarkable advantages which these federal reservations offer to them. The total attendance in the parks was 1,216,490, 60 per cent of these people traveling in their own motors. More than two-thirds of these motor tourists | camped out in the parks. No wonder the director of the national park serv- ice in his annual report says that “it is obvious that the parks are among the most popular institutions fostered iby the government.” ties will endeavor to correct. i SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Sad Sultan. The Turkish life brings new regrets That all the world must note. The harem’s using cigarettes And wives all want to vote, Not only did these 1,216,490 people enjoy the natural wonders for the preservation of which the parks have been created, but in reaching them they traveled considerable distances, many of them crossing the continent. The travel entailed thus amounted to hundreds of millions of miles. In no other way, probably, could so many For drink the richest may not call, ‘Though 'neath & palace dome. 1t is no wonder, after all, ‘The sultan’s leaving home. Public Life. “What is the most annoying feature of public lite?” “Not getting enough publicity,” re- whereby the farmer will recelve more [ Americans have been made acquainted plled Senator Sorghum. of what the consumer pays and the | with the country, with its vast extent, consumer pay less for what the farmer grows. Better respect for the law is de- manded by the President, not ohly from allens, but from Americans as well, He believes the contempt in which so many citizens hold the pro- hibition enforcement law is a de- moralizing example to newlyarrived immigrants, and that it threatens to undermine the very foundations of the republic. He thinks it unlikely the eighteenth amendment ever will be repealed, and he doubts if the legisla- tion enacted for its enforcement is vontrary to the wishes of a majority of the people. If it is contrary to the popular will, he argues that rigorous and literal enforcement is the way to concentrate public attention on any requisite modification, and he calls upon all good citizens to support the government in such a program. B9 this is added the annoummn’t ms great variety of features and re- sources. Such travel is certain to make for good citizenship, for a feeling of part- nership in the most wonderful country in the world, for greater loyalty to American institutions. These visits to the national parks, moreover, were health-giving. Accora- ing to the director’s estimates, nearly 500,000 people camped out in the parks during the fiscal year, and they were undoubtedly benefited physically by this experience. With the constant increase in motoring it is likely that a much greater number will in the course of the current fiscal year un- dertake this method of park visiting. Facllities have been provided in the perks for camping, and every induce- ment bas been offered to the people. to take advantage of them. In conse- quence @ transcontinemtal tour by motor, with the parks as the main Jud Tunkins says & man is judged by the company he invests in. The Most of What Happens. Oh, statesman guest, we greet you. It’s usually thus: ‘We say we're pleased to meet you' And you say the same to us. Complete Authority. “Are you master in your own house?” “I'll say I am,” replied Mr. Meek- ton. ‘‘Henrietta goes out every day and leaves me absolute boss of two cats, a dog, four goldfish and a canary bird.” “Idleness wouldn' be so bad,” said tonted to jee’ 1oaf an’ not git Mto mis- chief. country, the domestic drys are going to watch the corners with unusual diligence as egainst forelgn wet aid between now and November, 1924. Jackson Day. On the suggestion of Chairman Hull of the democratic national committee the coming Jackson day will be cele- brated throughout the country with dinners, eaten in memory of Old Iick- ory and as an inspiration to the best party endeavors in 1924. ‘When it comes to the rank and file, Jackson holds over Jefferson. The lat- Former Vice President of the United States. N the midst of abounding pros- perity or under the stress of adverse circumstances it 1s quite natural that the reli- &ious sentiments of a people taken a8 a whole should be found at ebb tide. Outward and visible observ- ance of the regular ordinances of the church continues, but it comes to be largely perfunctory. We mumble our creeds and we glibly Tepeat our prayers, but the real religion which made the creed and wrote the prayer ceases to have much of & hold upon us, and still less upon our conduct. However, ‘we must not lay this entirely at the feet of immediate circum- stances. Civilization is slow of growth and faith in a religion is long In dying. The times simply accentuate the spiritual condition. In contemplation of the things that are taking place in the near east, and to a lesser extent in the far east, it is to he remembered that there are to be found men the world around who are pointing the finger of scorn at Christianity. They are saying that tried as a cure for the {lls of the world it has proven a faflure. Pointing out that most of the natfons engazed in the world war were Christian nations, they are mocking: “See how these Christians hated each other, how each in the name of the Nazarene killed and pillaged.” Tf any one of the nations waged the ‘war with the approval of Jehovah, how could any other nation have waged the same war with similar pretentions, they fnquire. adding querfes like these: “Is this God in whom vou say vou believe a divisi- ble being. part of Him with one of the contending forces and part of Him with the other?' “Can vonu strika blows at each other in the helief and with the assurance that tle blows are struck fn a righteons ause with the approval of a right- cous ruler of the universe?” Ques- tions, such as these, are vexing and unsettling the religious faith of mankind. * X K x If it were possible to establish that the war was waged with real religious sentiment behind dt there would be much to justify the sneer that curls upon the lip of the aver- age man when we avow our faith in the principles of the Christian religion. He would have some right to suspect that we were insincere. But Christianity waged no war, made no fight. Tlostile nations may have had, in truth Aid have, rulers who believed in Christ, and millions of men in arms under these rulers may have had. and did have. a like faith. but the war of the world was not produced by the faith of the Galllean. It was not waged with His knowledze and consent. It did not exemplify the vrinciples which He sought to in- still into men as their guide posts along the journey of life. Laughed " at by authority and sneered at by philosophy, just as the Savior was persecuted, despised and rejected of men, Christianity, nevertheless, permeated the Ro- man empire, ‘insidiously yet power- fully. until (most remarkable of historic events) it became the re- ligion of Rome without a single blow having been struck. That losed what Christianity can ac- iplish when prosccuted in ac- cordance with the ideas of its founder. Not by might nor by power. not by sword nor subma- rine, but by the invisible spirit, it achieves its mission among men and nations. Likewise with liberty. Nelther liberty nor Christianity 18 a benefaction that can be bestowed upon an individual or a people. Each is @ birth from within and must be given its opportunity to develop. * s xx The slow growth of Christian missions in the orient has led hun- dreds of good people to belleve that tlie effort to christianize the east is a vain and futile one. They say that the orfental mind is not fitted for the reception of Chris- tian teaching. They object. there- fore. to what they call the wasts of money in this effort. These good persons must not forget that many young men of the east are l r Polities at Home|Conduct of Christian Nations Deters Growth of Christianity educated in the schools and col- leges of the occident. Into their young minds are instilled the basic principles of democracy. They proclaim at least with lp service their faith in the Christian religion. These young men catch a vision of a better system of civil government than theirs at home. They unconsclously obtain an fdea lhl.t Christianity spells not only democracy, but peace. They imbibe the belief that nations which govern themselves are co! mitted to the principle of self- government for the entire world and that the Christian religion is not to be imposed upon peoples by any human power. They return to their native land filled with zeal for our governments and with con- fidence in the avowed faith of the people of the west. They begin the teaching of democracy. They announce the doctrine of self-de- termination. They advocate the formation of a people's govern- ment guided and controlled by the people. They proclaim the woc- trine of the freedom of religious thought. Assuming that in the human affairs of their own country the religious view of a man has nothing to do with his right to self-government, these orientals, with occidental insight, acknowl- edge with confidence to the French and English of the orfent that they are converts to the theory of the right of & people to alter and re- form their government at their own will, and courteously suggest that all westerners withdraw and permit the easterners to try as an experiment what westerners pro- claim to be an assured success. What answer do they receive? Only this everywhere and alway: that there are exceptions to all Tules and your case is an excep- tion. We have a zone of influence from which we cannot afford to withdraw lest some other Chris- tian nation should Immedlately occupy it to our detriment, say the French. the British or some other occidental. * x x * And right at this point civil government as theoretically de- fined and practically controlled enters as a prevailing factor in the progress of the Christian religion. The man of the orient has a dif- ferent mind from the man of the occident. He is far more spiritual and religious in character, but ‘when the oriental is asked to con- template the truths and virtues of the Christian religion he views them from the standpoint. not of books upon religious philosophy, but from the standpoint of actual occurrence in the course of life. He cannot disassociate the religion of the west trom the civil govern- ment of the west. He feels that democracy and _Christlanity go hand in hand. He cannot under- stand_how it can be that he is denfed his democratic right of government and then solemnly warned it is his duty to accept with full faith democratic religion. 1 wonder that any mind that cares anything about consistency can satisfactorily grasp why democratic Christian people should attempt to force Jewish rule upon a country overwhelmingly Moham- medan in religion. The Japanese are unable to understand why we have any more right to talk about the “yellow peril” than they have to talk about the white peril. Christianity and business and statecraft may form a partnership, but it will be a bad buriness it will conduct unless Christianity is the majority stockholder and as such elects the board of directors and controls the business of the firm. Christianity will have its free rein and uninterrupted course just as soon as western nations realize that they can't teach a people one principle and follow another in their dealings with them. It de- mands the withdrawal from all territory of those persons who prate about democracy and yet in its name seek to establish their sway over others. The orient is to be converted to the truths of the Christian religion when the men who say they believe in it get out of the orient and stay out. ‘This is not a question exclusive- 1y of religion but of international politics as well. These zones of influence may widen until the people of the east will confuse government with religion, and should that unfortunate time ever come we shall have what some persons even now are speaking of in whispers—a holy war. (Copyrightad, 1923, by Thomas R. Marshall.) Foreign Trade Contract Court NWARRANTED repudiation of contracts in foreign trade iz a growing menace and the establishment of some fed- eral agency that will issue certificates of examination attesting conformity of shipment with samples is proposed to relieve the situation and aid in |building up commercial honor. Mercantile circles In many lands are considering this problem and its solu- ter was a sage, and played the part | tion is of vital importance to foreign to perfection. He had learning, and |trade, A. J. Wolfe, chief of the division was of & speculative disposition. He|of commercial law of the United was in character and at his best at|States bureau of foreign and domes- Monticello, after the fret of office and | tic commerce, points out. action was over. He reveled in his| Enlishtened merchants of the prin- lbrary, and entertained what 1n that 1081 Sommercial nationt, who Tecor” day, was called’ carriags scompeny?; ho’n.or. are seeking to eliminate the to the queen's taste. The perfect high- | vy} of unwarranted contract repudia- Brow; It iyou plosse. tion based on specious pleas, and to Jackson was not a lowbrow, in any | acilitate an equitable adjustment of sense. But he was more-sided than |complaints that are justified. Jefferson, and touched the everyday| It has been pointed out by men at more points. He was a man of ac- | high in commercial circles and stress- tion as well as of thought—was sol-| o8 ‘:rm"";{"fi' ":;’gm:';‘:,'l‘:h:‘t che dier, ' lawyer, D statesman, politician, w:?xld be a fine thing if buyeérs and ee that the certifi- man of the crowd, all in one. In camp | sellers were to a by som ‘e planning and in the fleld fighting; at | fats OfSXamization by soms Aithors the polftical council table advising as .uod; glpp::"'w'h' a:.;n;%l:f‘ gl: to policies; on the race track Whicl 850! ded as final and as rendering a ing the “ponies” and picking winners, | suscquant complaint impossibte, he was equally at home and deferred| The Department of Commerce has been entertaining the proposal that to. Ola Hickory at the Hermitage, |, gtart be made with certain com- spent and awalting the end, was not | modities and with countries {n which In many cases of pi mercial discipline has attained a|at the factory lnlo strong and ex- It is patent that the!pensive cases rénders an ou com: as happy or impressive as Jefferson high standard. l l had been at Monticello. Jackson, then, is the man. He makes & strong appeal to the individual and to the crowd, In his grave nearly eighty years, he stands out still as a democrat of democrats, in whose name and in memory of whose achievements much can be, and much is, invoked in campalgn years, when party blood is up and spellbinders are exercising their voices on the voters. Chairman Hull, & Tennessean, pro- poses for January 8, 1923, the well known and oft-repeated toast, Andrew Jackson. —————— The President’s Thanksgiving proc- lamation is soon followed by a mes- agency passing upon the shi would have to enjoy the con of both parties to the sales contract— the buyer and seller. 1t is evere test of both to abide by the consequence of eventually proves unprofitable. comparatively easy to 4o so wh con itions are normal or better. But when all about him_failures, crises and uncertainties shake the structure siness and undermine ?tfy.hl'ix. t must be npnel?“ e e mecoantils oorus| bl nion - 5.".-m?,°!n¢ by & kmwlcfln tht m- other party to the contrao in no way responsible for the l’ln&- tion which has arisen, sympaf with him and is willing, voluntarily, o Adclrd index of commercial honor is kept by the export director of one of the foremost sAmerican interna- sage to Congress indicating a number | {ional merchandising concerns. Oon of things for which we may hope to be :vmte thankful @ year hence. ———te Public interest shifts rapidly. By t.h.l( mm“flflm “relics” at tu-ml-mhltnn. cards he keeps the nam who honor their signature to = eonu'nt' ‘:l all cos s ‘I%. 'm‘ .:‘u;um 0 s o' et and J‘.‘u is not.hln‘ in lln ay of ucommodl on’ th h hose New Brunswick are begiuning to |8 correspondingly kept of tyees Who ‘wonder what they wanted with them. jtjons to extort uu’llau by un- ipathises ito mvo him all the moral support warranted complaints, by threats of repudiation and by brazen defiance. * * % % It is & comforting realization that in all countries and at all times there are found firms that belong on this white Index, Mr. Wolfe points Jut. And it is & chastening thought that the black index is not free from the names of any natlonality. A sys- tem, therefore, whereby the tempta- tion to make unwarranted claims could be reduced to a minimum would be welcomed by trade-squars con- cerns in all countrles. Such a sys- tem must be practical, economical, equitable. Here, again, we find that some com- modities lend themselves more read- ily to such tests and examination than others. It is perfectly feasible in the case of steel, oil, cotton, grain, etc., since trade assoclations have es- tablished recognized standards for certain of these, but in many other commodities the situation is different. Leather, for example, by its very nature, does not lend " itself to standardization. Having its origin in the skin of a living animal, it starts as an individualistic article, which, by sorting, may fall into certain roughly distinguished groups. The exigencies of tanning, which npole the skin to the action of chemical: varying in their efrect, the tullblllty of the sorter, the disposition of the buyer a destination to be over-exact- ing, the difference in assortment in two countries—all these make fertile ground for dispute. h 1 ment | amination at the port of shipment dence | impractical. * % * The trade association of the Amer- f & bargain that|ican leather industry, the Tanners' It .l;'c“ncil. has suggested an arrange- ment for dealing with such com- plaints before they arise, as follows: The shipper of American leather to foreign countries is to specify that should there be complaint as to qual- ity the buyer may refer the case to the nearest American consul or representative of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, and may return what may be determined to be a reasonable sample (together with an affidavit reciting the circum- stances) to the Tanners' Council. with the request that its arbitration board paws on the complaint. There are indications that & imlhr plan be adopted by other ti associations, with modifications Io meet the specific needs of each !M. and of certain ll.rl.l ‘The P! a central age! for dealing wm: unmolmu Inndln: themolvu to list | quick and ive by | verse. l‘ll.-m‘. M. ife llzl after having this entire subject very close study. Heard and Scen Fifity Years Ago i | i iit set up in a = {bother of disposing of it afterward, are | were ‘NEW YORK, December 9. VERYBODY sits around as if they were expecting some- thing to happen that never (13 does,” a Denver man com- mented to me, after an evening spent in visiting various of the restaurants and night clubs. What he sald was true. Night after night there goes on in New York a ceaseless search for pleasure—for some- thing novel and exciting that will break the monotony of life for those who have t0o much money and too little to do. The Jaded rich, New Yorkers and visi- tors, rush frantically to each new musi- cal comedy, each new dancing club, each new restaurant as it opens, paying five dollars, ten dollars, any price for places, hoping always for a new thrill. and finding always the same old stuff, sitting and letting themselves be bored as they wait for *‘something new to happen,” which seldom occurs. Having a good time all the time is hard work. Bargains fa Smart § F COURSE it would be beneath the dignity of the smart avenue shops that cater to the ultra-rich ever to hold “bargain sales.” If such vuigar methods were ever attempted thei supercilious salesladies would probably go on strike, but nevertheless mome- thing does happen. As the end of each selling season ap- | proaches, these smart shops on aud | near G6th avenue send out to the en tire list of their customers engraved in- vitations to “a private sale.” sales gowns, hats, everything in stock. is closed out at prices about one-third of what they were at the beginning of ; the season. ,This enables the shop to start each new season with all fresh stock, and also enables women whose soctal position is better than their in- ¢ come to have hats and gowns from a smart shop at prices they can afford. Strange Holiday Customs. EW YORK'S big foreign population has brought with it many forelgn customs that look strange to Amer- ican eyes. I have never forgotten how astonished I was the first Thanksgiving : I spent in New York to see the streets | filled with masquerading youngsters all begging for pennies, some of the boys with their faces blacked, others dressed | in girls' clothes, and some with gro- tesque masks. I suspect it is an im- ported ltalian carnival habit. The beg ging, however, has become s0 annoying ;n.u recently the police have forbid- en it While the Christmas tree still prevails in families where there are chiidren, the difficulties and fire-peril of having all apartment, and the gradually diminishing the use of tre. The custom of exchanging gifts in New York is now confined in most cases to | members of the family. With the long list of acquaintances that one inevitably gets in a big city it is much simpler sn;ll cheaper to exchange Christmas cards. Interest in the West. LTHOUGH New York is often ac- cused of believing that America | ends at the Hudson river, and of being | uninterested and uninformed ahout the rest of the country. there are sev- eral Indications of a growing desire on the part of New Yorkers for more ‘make her debut Heard and Seen Two hours a day was too much SOME INSIDE STUFF ABOUT NEW YORK BY WILLIAM JOHNSTO! At these | knowledge of the United States, par- ticularly of the west. The recent ex- hibition of a collection of “Beadies’ dime noveis” at the public library a1 tracted many students of history who defended their intercst in these old thrillers on the ground that they re- corded the deeds of such Amer! Dioneers as Daniel Boone, Kit Carson and Buffalo Bill Some of these dime novels ut salex have brought as much as $60 cach. Al a sale just ended at the Anderson Gallerfes amazingly high prices were paid for original material relating to the early west $290 wax puid for Aldrich’s “Overland ornia.” .00 fo copy of the Weekly Pacific News printed on wrap- Ping paper, $400 for a Mormon tract and $500 for an 1822 document on colonizing Texas. The Vogue for Foreign Food. YEAR or =0 ago there was a fad for Chinese food and a chop sue: {place at Columbus Circle was packed jevery night, but recently the vogue is for things Russian and Hawalian One of the season's debutantes, eager do something novel, entertained 1 {her friends at 2 Hawailan restauran: jin the West Forties, where, ! decorated jof chickes in room- ith wreaths of lef, curr: Hawali style, was served as a Hawalian orchestra played. Tw. Russian restaurants that serve cah- bage roup and the odd little gancake are also much patronized, the vorus for things Russian having been en- phasized by the presence in York of many Russians of cultur and the success of the hauve Souris theater. Inspired by the latter th~ art theater is to be bhrought » New York for eight weeks next {January. Every effort is being ma 10 launch it as a soclety affair, th- list of patrons including such persor - Straight, Marsha'i Harrs Pav ¥ield and M rop. y The p rf! roance v {all in Russ | &lexei Tolsts! |viten.” tickets are §11 each, [dunfu]!\ plaving the game of ing the leaders and has already sn Iped up most of them, although it ‘: {safe to say that not one-tenth of th {audience will be able to understan: a word of the porformance. But i1 is the thing to do, and that’s that The Newest Musical Show. DON'T know why they keep oi calling them musical £hows, fi here isn't a voice in this ome. A complained to me at the ope: new Dillingham plece, While his eriticis: ¢ nor pains had bee i spared 10 make the production attracty lto the eye. and the girls assen least pretiy and wonder costumed. With Johnnie and Ray {1ey in the cast there were some amus- ing acrobatic moments, and the cast in- cluded such favorites as Fred and ‘Adele Astaire and the Brown Brothers With their ®axophones. The best song in it to my mind was ‘“Have You For- gotten Me” biues, fung by Grace Hayes in the cabharet meene. As iS getting to jbe the theatrl ! om, ihe first-night audience Was u beside: celebriti il - Mount - batten, and in Mrs. Bidd! }llukec party )H\% Cathleen \a ml.-rh(' Flfty Years ' in The Star (5 in fof the Bunch and Judy j 7as fair, no oy Ac work, 8o he quit. Really, you know. this thing of working all of two hours is unthink- | i It 18 a fact of interest in conmection able. What? town restaurant felt just that way about it. He had been working for the establishment for twenty-four e For the past few vears he came and went much as he pleased. beinz re- tired. in a sense. and yet not retired, in_another sense. Recently the management required him to serve behind the counter from 11 am to 1 p.m. every day. Ho stood it for several weeks. Then he went to see the big boss. “It’s too hard.” he maid. “I'm sorry.” sahl the boss. you can stand it.” “I resign.” declared the employe. And he dia. The testy old kentlmn is one of the joys of the world. He is to de met with everywhere. Sometimes he bumps against vou on the sidewalk and proceeds to deliver & lecture on careless walkers. Often he walks along the wrong side of the walk. then blames every one he mects for not observing traf- fic_rules. Wherever he in found. however. he is a joy forever, if not a thing of beauty. Of course. it is necessary for This emplove of a certain down- | “T guess | | with the Education week that has just closed, and Thomas Jefferson probably not known to Public School Head. X077 ' icans. that Thomas Jefferson was @t fone time president of the board of trustees of tie W N publie sehools. This fact is discl in 2 ticle in The Star of Decemi deseribing the dedication af the then new Jefferson Sehiool buil ing, at the eorner of 6th and D streets southwest, which took place on that day. In the course of his remarks at the exercises Mr. J. Ormond Wil- son, superintendent of schools, said: “Turning back and passing over a period of sixty-seven years we find that on Monday, August 5, 1805, in a room in the then National Capitol, little assembly composed of Pohmr' Brent. Samuel H. Smith, William Cranch. William Brent. George Blug- den, John Dempsey and Nicholas King met together to organize the first Washington ‘Board of Trustees of i Public Schools” The book containinge 1he record of the proceedings of thes: trustecs and their successors down to the year 1818 ix now preserved in the Library of Congress, and in the min- utes of that first meeting are found the beholder to take him with z [the following entries: smile. If your sense of humor Ix lost the testy old gentleman becomes a bore, if not a positive nuisance. The other day on a street car onc *“'On proceeding to ballot for a president of the board Thomas Jefler- son was unanimously elected.’ The president being absent. Robert Brent was chosen chairman of the meeting. On motion of Mr. Smith. the chairman ‘was requested to acquaint the presi- dent with his unanimous election. At a meeting held on Monday, September 2. 1805, ‘the chairman lay before the board a letter from Mr. defferson wither the c(u\duclor. to whom hel!isnlf)lnr his acceptance of the of- waa speakin ffice. On motipn of Mr. Smith, th. 2 Piid & full fare for a seat and 1. president’s letter was ordered fo b ve lo stand. I'll stand where I|entered in the minutes’ It is in t | following words: | of his ilk_received the unspoken blessini of most of people on the car. His volcs came floating on the; heated air from the rear platform. “I'll stand where I please,” said the testy one, in accents biting enough to * * Annually at this season of the year the Post Office Department issues its = * % “*Monticello, August 14, 1805. “‘Sir: A considerable journey southwardly from this has prevented “two-way” notice in regard to Christ- ‘mas seals on parcel post packages. Stickers and seals of all kinds are ordinarilly forbidden on the address side of parcels They interfere with the cancelling of postage stamps. But at Christmas time postal au- thorities, recognizing the fact that| people simply will p! the seals wh!re mey",’,'.m waive the order until after the Christmas holidays. “It {s all right for the people to put the seals on the front of packages,” the department tells postmasters. “But_tell the people that they mustn’t do it.” the order continues, in_effect. Good old Santa Cllu!' e Do you know what 2 dime looks Uke? Sure? Most people have a pretty good general ides What & ten-oent plece looks like, but when it comes to de- talls their concept i» hazy. same thing applles to the nlc’nk|:l‘ penny, quarter and half dol- e next time you have specimens | or'n;u these coins In_your pocket, preferably both the old and new de’ signs. try this out on the crowd. Erobably not one person in & hu AM can tell {uu precisely what is on both sides coin. They will be able to ull you 2 woman’s head on one side of the now dime, for in- stance, but not what is on the re: dunM :’filfln-;““ B. TRACEWELL, my sooner acknowledging letters from yourself, from Mr. Gardiner and Mr. 8. H. Smith, announcing that 1 bad been elected by the city council a jtrustee for the public schools to be (emmmhea at Washington, and by the trustees to preside at their board. {1 receive with due sensibility these iproofs of confidence from the city , council and the board of trustees, aza 1ask the favor of you to tender them imy just acknowledgments. Sincerely knowledge promot the happiness of men, 1 should ev be disposed to contribute my en- ideavors toward its extension, and in the instance under consideration will willingly undertake the duties pro- posed to me, 30 far as others of para- mount obligation will permit my at- tention to them. I pray you to accept my friendly salutations and assur- ances of great respect and esteem. “*(Signed) 'ruom EFFERSON." belleving that ‘ * “Mr. Jefferson was re-elected an- nually and continued president of the board for three successive years, when his term of office as President of il United States expired and he returned to Monticello. “The public schools were sustained by funds derived part from taxes and in part from sub- scriptions of citizens. A list of the nun- of the subscribers, with the t given by each, varying Sl to !200. ‘was entered on the record of the board, and in t.hn list we find Ing: Jefterson, two llars.’ " ICM“ at that time from