Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1922, Page 6

F G s THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY. .. ..December 12. 1032 — . THEODORE W. NOYES......Editor A'he Evening Star Newspaper Company Eusiness Office. 11 ond Peunsylvania Ave. New York Officg: 130 Naswnu St Chicago Office™ Towe European Office : 16 I switle the Sunday merning within the eity The Evening ta: Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dai 5 1yr., §8.40; 1 mo., 7 h:i‘l.v and Sunday..lyr. :r..oo o Sunday on! B 2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ All Other States. s Daily and Sunday..1 yr.. $10.00; 1 mo., 85¢ Dany only 15¥r., $7.00: 1 mo., 8% Sunday only. $3.00; 1 mo., 25¢ Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press in exclusively entitled 1o the use for republication of all news dis- patches credited to it or Dot otherwise credited 3n this_paper and alvo the locm news pud Yisied herein. Al rights of pubilestion of svecial dispatches herein are aio reserved. e Premiers Fail Again: £ ‘Hope that some sort of a permanent =olution of the reparations problem might be found at the London confer- ence of allied premiers now has to be abandoned. Being unable to lay even 1he basis of an agreement, they have adjourned their conference until Janu- ary 2, less than two weeks before the 15th of January, when the meratorium sranted Germany expires and a new arrangement becomes imperative. Yormal disclaimers that there has Leen any break-up of the eatente rve merely to show the serfousness the situation. It probably is true there has been no rupture of fifendly relations among the allies, but it ap- pears equally true that, for the time being at deast, Great Britain and France have found it Impossible to co-operate in a policy toward Gel As matters now stand, the prospects are that after German default on January France will occupy the troo and that such lack British operation, but that it will have the ¢ and open disapproval of the Dritish government and people. The cnly alternative in sight is that be- tween now and the middle of Janu: the allies may agree upon another makeshift and tempos reparations ogram which will gerve to stave off the oft-threatened crisis. but will only prolong the intolerable conditions which are sieadily undermining the Kurepean structure. At this distance it is difficult to determine whether it would be better in the long run to patch up another truce or to allow | things to come to a head. and then to start over again on a new basis. Cer- tainly four vears of temporizing have not improved conditions in Europe. and it is the helief of all students of the situation that permanent solution «f the reparations cannot be much icnger postponed, if Europe is to es- cape another disastrous war and eco- nemie collapse. As has become the habit when Euro- pean statesmen get up against the im- pos: interests, they turn to the United States witih a plea for help. The pro- posal now is advanced, more or less officially, that in order to persuade France to reduce her reparations claim against Germany, Great tain is willing to join with the nfted States in canceling the war debts owed | them by France. It is stated that be- 1ween now and January 2 the Wash- ington gevernment is to be “felt out” slong that line. In response to such a Teeler this government cculd only re- riy that Congress, having taken ad- justment of the allied indebtedness out of the hands of the executive and lodged it with a special commission, and that commission having been specifically denied authority to cancel any part of the indebtedncss, nothing can be done unless Congress re- —_——— | tude 15 undertaken at once some part of it will be delayed to the point of pestponing seriously the consumma- n of the whole. The water exten- n preject must be considered as one . enterprise, and not as a series of works, to be provided for in sequence. Provisions. therefore, should be made for the connections now. 80 that by the time the additional conduit country has come, and what should be done if the country is to be saved. He i3 bold in the assertion that the two old parties are in need of new leaders; that, as at present led, they are not forward-looking,® but have €8 too often for the “‘irterests”; that the proper leadera are available, and, unless chosen, a third party will be the answer. THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON, D.. ¢ | Americanize the Washlngtonian NEW BOOKS The Senate District Committee’s Argu- ment for National Representation. ility of reconciling nationalistic | To the republicans he recommends with others Hiram Johnson of Cali- fornia; to the democrats, almost solely, Willlam Randolph Hearst of New York and California. The Golden state is a great state, but is not this suggestion.of Mayor Hylan a sort of trust in restraint of nomlnations? Where do the other states come in? Besides, what be- comes of William G. }ic.\doo, who has gone to the Goiden state (o live, and is suspected of harboring o desire to epend a term or two in the White House? jand veservoir facflities are provided the system of distribution will beavail- able to send the water to all users. As for the high-pressure service, onsidered as a safeguard against the destruction of incalculable values by i fire, the government is especially and i directly concerned. 8Such a system would cover the area occupied by the public buildings. Even with the addi- tional supply of water from Great YTalls assured by the increase of the conduit equipment the mains would not suffice to furnish water enough to fight a fire of first magnitude such those that have visited other cities, and such as may. with the most scrupulous precautions, visit Wash- ington and menace the very organiz- tion of the government itself. The installation of a high-pressure service should not be reckoned as part of the preject of increasing the sup- ply, save as it will when installed lessen the drain upon the mains for firefighting purposes. It should be viewed as an independent proposition and undertaken as such. Though esti- mates and recommendations have been | jssue. withheld at present, in deference to; If the Arkansas senator was speak- the requirement to keep all appropria-!ing in general terms he was doing no tions to the lowest possible limit, this{more than is often done in politics, item should be considered nevertheless | Lgth inside and outside of Congress. by Congress as one of the essentiuls | Byt if his remarks were based upon of public security. statistics; If he has a ligt of the re- —_—— publican members of the House and | The Fuel Situation. { Senate. who pitched their campaigns Washington is beginning to fecl tae I the Key of the ship subsidy Lill und | cramp of coal shortage and the plh(:hllonv he will greatly strengthen his of high prices for fucl. Householders | 8ide of the controversy by publishing are becoming desperately anxious for | it. “More than fifty” is a considerable their supply. They are getting small | humber. doles from dealers, at higher prices| A filibuster against this measure is than many are able to afford, and with | threatened. It Is conceded that if al-| little or no assurance of further allot- | lowed to come to a vote the measure | ments. A tendency to push the rates; will pass. : higher appears, and the fact-finding| This bill is not bracketable with the commission has undertaken an in-!&ntilynching bill, which a threatened quiry, summoning scveral of the local | filibuster has jus! defeated. That car- dealers to ascertain, if possible, the re- | rled. though not justly, a sectional ponsibility for price-boosting, of | tang. Democratic senators from the which complaint has been made. | south felt moved to go all lensths Pleas have been made to housthoid- | @8ainst the Dyer bill. 4 ers and other large fuel users to adup:l But there is nothing sectional or sudstitutes for anthracite, but the sup- | Partisan in the merchant marine ques- plies of these substitutes have not | tion. and it should not be blocked by been adequate to prevent high prices | Partisan tactics for partisan purposes. for them as well. Whichever way the | As for the charge that it is “lame ¢ individual buyer turns he meets a for- i duck legisiation.” the answer is that bidding scale of rates and a reluctant | “1ame duck legislation™ is as constitu- delivery. { tional as any other. In a sense, all the Undoubtedly there is a shortage of | legialation of the session will be of anthracite. The mining of this fuel | the “lame duck™ variety. was resumed later than in the bitu-| —_————————— { minous field. Five months of idlenessi If the clubs and associations now left the stocks in the yards of dis-{ planning Christmas cheer for the chil- tributors exhausted, and the rescrve |dren of the poor of Washington carry | piles at the mines and the wholesaling | out all their present proposals there | points lowered almost tq the ground |should not be one unhappy face in this {Tevel. Nothing but rationing as com-! city on the morning of the 25th. } ! The Shipping Bill. This is taken from a report of yes- terday's proceedings in the Senate: sailed the shipping bill, declaring that it was unpopular with the people. He sald_that before the wecent elections the bill had not been pressed because the republicans feared that if it were taken up they would lose the election. He sald that as a matter of fact the ?plng bill was a campaign issue, and that more than fifty rtpub“cnnl members of the House and Senate had been "defeated on account of that| | l | i | | l ! i i | ) | 1 |a | Senator Robinson of Arkansas as- - Distinct advance has been scored during the closing year 1922 in the campalgn of the people of the District of Columbfa for the right of national representation in the House, the Sen- ate and the electoral college. For the first time since this effort to secure the Americanization of the Washing- tonians was started a committee of Congress has made g favorable report on the proposed constitutional amend- ment empowering Congress to grant the desired representation. This re- port was made by the District com- mittee of the Senate and is_an in- spiration to all of voteless Washing- ‘| ton to make redoudled efforts in this cause the House Jjudiclary com- mittee. Congress’ in general and the Ppeople of the states. The report of the Senate District committee is an able review of the proposal and of the reasons in politi- cal equity for its,adoption. The text of it, which will be printed in this #nd succeeding fssues of The Star, follows: 12 Your commitiee having carefully corsidered Senate joint resolution 123 and having held full hearings at which both the advocates and the op- Pponents cf this resolution were heard. report the resolution favorably and recommend that it bespassed, and that the proposed constitutional ment be submitted to the states for ratification. Senate Joint resolution 133 proposes amendment of the Constitution of the United States by inserting at end of section 3, article 1V, the following words: “The Congress shall have power to admit to the status of cltizens of a state the residents of the District constituting the seat of the govern- ment of the United States, creatgl by article I, section 8, for the purpose of representation in the Congress and among the electors of President and Vice President and for the purpose of suing und being sued in the courts of the United States under the provisions of article 111, section 2. “When the Congress shall exercise power the residents of such Dis- trict shall be entitled to elect one or two senators. as determined by the Congress, representatives in the House, accordink to their numbers as determined by the decennial enumera- tion, and presidential electors equal in number to their aggregate repre- sentation in the House and Senate. ““The Congress shall provide by law the qualification of voters and the time and manner of choosing the senutor or senators, the representa- tive or representatives and the elec- tors herein authorized. “The Congress shall have power to make all laws which shall be neces- cution the foregoing power." ‘This resolution thus propose: ) A new constitutional power for Con- gress: (2) a new right and power for residents of the District, to be en- joyed when Congress in its discretion shall exercise its new constitutional power. New 'Power for Congrens; New Right for District. 1. The new constitutional power for Congress which is sought is the pPower to grant national voting repre- in House, Senate and electoral col- lege, with access to the federai courts, without depriving Congress of over the seat of government given by section 8, article I, of the Consti- l ! plete and systematic as possible couls ——— e | prevent general suffering. Somehow | The mystery lovers are forced now, ilha rationing process has not been |for lack of greater excitement, to! carried out satisfactorily. It has been | wonder where Mrs. Phillips, the Cali- possible for some consumers to get all | fornia hammer slayer, {8 at present. they require, while others have had! B e i to be content with driblets. Clemenceau at Chicago declared | If ecxcessive charges prevail injthat he is a “dirt farmer.” Maybe he Washington, does the fault lie with{can e persuaded to stay over here | the distributor or with the wholesaler? | and join the progressive movement, ‘ { The “fact-finding” commission should T e e fbe abie to ascertain. It there ist ooy clected President of Po-| | profiteering at the expense of the |, . gy snowballed by the irate popu- | } :::‘:l;‘g :‘:’;!:r;?‘a':;‘;!g:?e‘ta:' lace of Warsaw. He is probably thank- can be found to effect it. ful that only snow was used. : Meanwhile, Washington must have R A T i coal or efficient and sufficient substi-| Willam Jennings Bryan may “qual-{ tutes, ify as an expert” in his testimony that | et GG { the electoral college is an outworn in-| 1 stitution. H Mr. Bryan’s Alertness. P e i Mr. Bryam® is alert—keeps his eyei Just at present more Americans are | steadily on the gun. Whenever ques-{ interested in possible base ball deals i tions unusually interesting are in!than in the European reparations ibhand or under informal discussion on | question. ! H { Capitol Hill he manages to “make” | ———e. | Washington for a call or a brief visit.| 1In a few states the Barleycorn poli- He has just paid us a call, spent ‘lhichns have taken up the formula, day on the hill conferring with friends tution; without making a residents of the District Any other privilcges, powers and attributes of citizens of a state than those specifical- 1y enumerated. 2. The privilege, right and power to be enjoyed by residents of the District, when the amendment shall have been ratified. and when the new power of Congress shall have been exercised, is voting participation by ! the District residents on American principles in the national ment which taxes them, makes all laws for them and sends them and their sons to war, and access like that of citizens of a state to the fed- eral courts, their relation to which is now, the United States Supreme. Court amend- | sary and proper for carrying Into exe- | sentation to residents of the District| the power of exclusive legislation! state of | the District, and without granting to, govern- | to without committing Congres: this when or how it shall exercise power. Rounding Out Equitably Powers of i Congress. TUnder the power to admit new | states and to regulate territory be- longing to the United States €on- gress now'has the power to admit to .representation in Congress and the electoral college the people of {all the territory belonging to the United States, except the District con- stituting the’ seat of government of | the United Staten. The constitutional provision giving Congress, the power of exclusive legis- lation in the seat of government de- prives Congress of the power to dd- mit the seat of government.to repre- sentation in Congress and the elec- { toral college through the statehood | Rate, since full statehood for the Dis- trict would destroy the exclusive | power of legislation in che District | bestowed unon Congress by the Con- stitution. The courts have held that Congress may not even delegate this constitutional power; much less can Congress destroy it or surrender it completely. The problem is to find a way to give the people of the District the Tepresentation to which they are en- | titlad as national Americans in Con- | #rees amd the electoral coliege, with access to the federal courts. -vithout | depriving Congress of the exclusi lewirluive control of tho h che Consiituticn Imposes A1¢ which, urts sav, it o {1t surrende* witheut sp.ific | scitutional amentment | Harmonizing _Two i Princt The’ pending resolution (S. J. Res. 133) solves this problem by empow- ering Congress not to admit the Dis- trict to statehood, which would de- stroy its power of exclusive legisla- tion. but to grant to District resi- dents representation likie that of citi- zens of a state in Congress and the electoral college (with access to the federal courts) and no other powers and attributes of statehood than those specifically enumerated. This solution of the problem harmonizes two great American principles: First, that In our representative republic, subject to limitations and conditions juniformly applied. all national Amer- icans ought to have the opportunity to participate in thelr national gov- ernment. and, second, the principle Jaid down by the forefathers as a na- tional pecessity that the nation, through Congress, should have exclu- sive control of the nation’s capital. No reason appears why Congress should not approve the proposition to grant itself this new. wholesome power, logically and equitably round- ing out the existing corresponding constitutional power which it now ipossesses in respect to every foot of territory belorging to the United States except the District constitut- ing the seat of government of the T'nited States, the District of Co- lumbia. Congreas Is Empowered, Not Directed Adoption of the conetitutional amendment, while it arms Congress With a new power, does not commit Congress as to when it shall exer- cise this power. and the amendment may thus be favored both by those who urge immedlate exercise of the power as soon as the constitutional amendment is ratified and also by those who wish to relleve Congress {frum the shame of this peculiar im- potency, but desire to postpone exer- cixe of the power until the District i { better fitted, in thelr opiniovn, to en- joy national representation. = 1" Adoption of the amendment !s thus {urged (1) from the viewpoint of Justice to the people of the District on the ground they are now fitted to enfoy and to meet the responsibilities of this right and power. and (2) solely from the national viewpoint as a cure of national. impotency, irre {spective of the time when for t | District’s benefit the new constitu® | tional power shall be exercised, The advocates of Senate joint reso- lution 133 vigorously contend that the Iresidents of the District are now en- titled in population, in resources, in literacy, in public epirit, and in loyal Americanism to recelve this right and power, it except as the result of constitu- tional amendment makirg the exclusive legislation clause of the Constitution consistent with the enjoyment of this right and power, the Constitution should be at once amended as proposed in the joint resolution, in order that prompt Justice may be done to the Americans of the District. The Constitution should | be quickly amended as proposed, and | the power sranted to Congress should, they urge. be exercised at once. Relieve the Shame of National I Ppotency. Your committee are convinced that, District. al Americas | | and since they cannot enjoy ., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1922. AT RANDOM THE CATHEDRAL Hugh Waipole. (Doran.) By way of “The Cathedral” Hugh Walpole has created a distinct per- sonality for the most persistently confronting fact of the world today. That is, he has given a body and a soul—feelings, motives and action to 2 single aspect of the present world iTevolution, a revolution whose sigp of success is change—a vital change in human relations. This conflict 2n open one and as far-reaching a: the earth itself. It gathers, to either one side of the battle line or the other, all classes, occupations, be- liefs. Struggle and change—this is the war cry which the revolution promises to throw down the barriers between the two contending sides of industry. between the upper and low- er crusts of soclety, between the con- servative and liberal in politics, be- jtween dogma and reality in religion. {A subject deep enough and wide enough for a thousand authors and 1len thousand books. * % % = Holding fast to “siruggle and change” as the heart of the whole matter, Mr. Walpole, out from this panorama of modern revolution. has chosen religion as the fleld of con- flict. Now; away back in buman be- ginnings. man, after he had secured food and shelter and a mate, would have had a fairly clear path had it not been for the ferocity of the nat- ural world around him—the cold, the fiood. the drought, the tornado. the lightning. These were terrifying things. This early man had to have i his own fears, he made God. Re- ligion, therefor®, is one of the first, one of the deepest sources, one of the most passionate of human emo- tions. It provides great and poignant theme for a drama of life. But the story of religion, even of one religion among the many, is too long for any single projection. R What Mr. Walpole does to meet the necessity of limitation is to take his theme to a little cathedral town in the west of England. Moreover, to secure room outside the immediate and shifting weiter of things. he moves the drama back a quarter of a century, timing it with the Queen's ijubilee vear. an event that serves a good minor purpose here. This move backward sets an flluminating per- jspective, also, for the revolutionary drift that had, even then, made sig-i nificant headway. * % % % Beside the river Pol there lifts a | g1ant rock, part of the solid earth it- self. From this rock rises the great Polchester cathedral—perfect symbol i of permanence and power and beauty. xDown the hillside and along the vai- ley straggles the town of Polchester. a dull little place, filled with dull Kt- a god to save him. And so. put of ! CAPITAL KEYNOTES. BY PAUL V. COLLINS, United States has been importing coal from Eng- land within the last-three or four months, because of our coal strike. We now have barely 60 per cent of our normal demand, vet the federal fuel director, C. E. Spens, ad- vocates, before the House interstate nd foreign commerce committee, that no embargo should be put on the ex- portation of coal to Canada. Mr. Spens bases his support of the ex- porting of coal upon an alleged agreement between President Hard- ing and the Canadian government, prior to the establishment of his coal- control office. He favors treating Canada in a “neighborly manner.” anyhow, and advocates selling coal to her even while Americans are cut down. In remiv +n this, Paenressntstive John Jacoh Ror-re of Maoesachusstts neints out that Canad~ evidentlv doec not take the same reizhhorly attftude when it comzer to our getting her pulp wond for the manuf-cture of pape Tt is arened that if we must warm Canada with our much-nesded coal she <hould let us have puln wond free of duty. Here apnaar tn be an idea' <ituation for apnl¥ine the McKinlev idea of tariff reciprocity. The much- talked-of Canadian recinrocitv pact of 1911 was not real reciprocity, for McKinley's reciprocity was the i thet we should give a concession i | tari® to impovts which we cann jn-oduce in exchange for a racinrocal concession hy th r eonntrr on Conde wh neiuce. Tt which ara rat meadnend i the rreinrocatine Amatew., Whe ahanld we giva Canad enal exeent in t=ada for her puln. duty free on both ftems? L The experiment of twin mail boxes Ifor recelving the mail upon the streets has proved so successful that it will be extended throughout the count: One box is marked to re- celve only letters addressed to local partles and the other for all out-of- town mall. Tt i= found that the pub- lic. even from the start. have rema- rated 94 per cant of the letters. That saves lahor and time in sending the mail to ite destination. * % There ave many suggestions for tax- Ing tourists who come into the Dis- trict or into a state, because the touf- st has not shared in the expense of Maryland taxes Washingtonians who jdrive their automobiles even just across the District line. The whole principle of such tava. tion is irconsistent with the furda- sental idea of the unity of the whale nited States. Grant that the pa nz tourist has not helped nav for the partienlar ro»d over which he trav- theusands of local peonle have Dai n nrenart'en to the! vee Stotes are forhidden by the ~d States Constitution to har out | products of other states except when {they can prove that they are merely exercising nolice powers for =a Pr reasons. Maryland collects o tariff: on flour. into Mar land from hough the t tle people And upon these YVarious;manufacture- pavs s in Mary- littlenesses—empty or mean or fool-{land &nd i th flour ish or vicious—Mr. Walpole exercises {ground in B: jan infinite patience and fidelity of{ Tt might hring more orofit to the {portrayal 1t is a stupe’ying crowd. {District of Columb! instead of One, reading. is. more than once, |driving visitors awav by arnoving tempted to cut and run, in search of {automobile taxes. they were encour- a liveller company. It is'a good thing. {2€+1 to come and camp here. in suit- for him, that he does not. For this{able locations. and trade h our arid stretch of literal local humanity turns out to be, in effect, a measured arena, a sanded ring, in which there is to be, later, a great and heroic struggle, flerce and Implacable. * ¥ %k o= But. for a leng time in the story. the arena is not apparent. Instead. Polchester is simply a fit stage fo the fine and commanding figure of Archdeacon Brandon. A splendid man to look upon is the archdeacon—a touch of the Greek, a shade of the Norse, in the full effect. Even the dull folks of the town call him, in ad- miring fealty, “the king of Polches- ter.” "A friendly man of innumerable genlal condescensions from his high and absorbing mission of holding fast to those obligations—doctrine, cere- monial, formalism—imposed by the tradition of the cathedral itself. And above all does he set his face against uny approach of innovation. * ¥ ¥ % Then Canon Ronder came. A tubby little man, this, with a boy’s smile— a genial fellow who suggests noth ing more serious than the desire t get along all right with everybody. Ronder's way. Not long after his merchants, visit the governmental de- partments and comprehend better the functions of their government and the beauties of the capital. Of rourse they should be registered for jden- tification in case of trafic accidents. ibut that is 2 mere rolice regulation {which could be covered by a nominal fee. i The fact that a state has invested in i®ood roads is mo justification for her {taxing visitors: the good roads may ibecome more profitable in proportion to their success in luring visitors. Clties often spend millions of dollars for expositions or conventions merely upon the expectation that the thou- sands of visitors to be attracted will trade while in the cities, and so the investment will return good profits. iLet good roads be treated as expo- isitions or other great sattractions. and ithe profits will exceed the pres tag-returns. especiaily when reciproc- ity with the rest of the country { considered. i ( 1 3 * * = % The United States now holds more |than $3.175.000.000 gold. The entire iworld's supply of gold. inclusive of the above, iz $9.000.000.000; hence we ave more than a third of it all. But suppose we had not an ounce of gold. {and Beld. instead. more than a third {of all the food and clothing and im- the upkeep of the highways he uses | necessaries which have been produc- £d by our energy and industry. Gold, 100, 18 produced by men's energy and labor, but the value of gold lies al- most exclusively in its exchangeabil- ity for other commodities, which have Intrinstc value for actual consump- . bence far more vi h.; i tal value than 00 much stress is 1aid on our mere #old. The nations of Europe spend | their brain-power in envying us be- cause ‘of our great “weulth” Our wealth jies mot in our gold, but the identical element that all me possess—working energ;. Before the war the United States possessed less than one billion in gold—now more than three times that. But how man: Americans have more to eat. more t wear and better homes than they ha. before the war? Even those who are getting higher wages are finding that all that they buy costs in proportion to their own increase of wages. Does the Treasury hoard of gold help their enjoyment of life> No, only the smooth-running wheels of business and energy of manufactures and building trades giving jols to the workers assure comfort. It is our own work which brings us profit The prosperity of all depends upon equitable distribution of opportun:- ies to share in production through the work of all classes. It is produc tion—not Treasury hoards—which counts. And that same production-op portunity is the only or ever. for Europe ing else is wealth S thy brow shalt thou eat thy bread’ The gambler rever profits permaner! Iy—hls is not a labor of production All he gets ix Jost by another gam- ler. The ce- actually creates wealth. and - else does. President Harding n his message {0 Congress expressed the thought | that motor transportation should not “ompetegwith the rafiroads. Lut mere- t1y serve as tocal fecders to the frei trains. He said: “If {reight trafli b motor were charged with its propor tionate share of highway construc tion we should find it wasteful more costly than like service by rail™” Undoubtedly that is true, yet whe: has cost alone been accepted as the deciding factor in the acceptance « |mud-rn improvements? The use kerosene was more expensive thar | the tallow din; the electric light co more than the “coal-oil” lamp. Yet as better ways are found the old '~ superseded. The use of motor vans for many kinds of freight, althoug' costing more per ton-mile than rail transportation. will force its way int favor because it {8 more conv nt Household goods can be thus tran ported hundreds of miles withou® ating. and without the extra haul- both ends of the railroads; the haul by motor is completed and d¢ livers made even before the freigh train is certainly made up and clears the vard. The huge vans travel a° !the rate of 200 miles a day. of twenty- | four hours.” whils the actual averag: movement of freight cars is twenty miles a day—inclusive of tim. los i 1road freight is awkwardiy {handied. in that it has not adop ithe unit system of loading plar . Louis invent years ago a S ned a stes] uait to be made in variou: Sizes, so that all units would fit witl {others, to make up & car. These unite i made square like a steel safe. o | be filled and locked at the station. at: when the train arrived a crane wou' ! qet them unon the skeleton car. : ! feady loaded. The process of loading lonto the train then would be ohe o Seconds instead of hours. and the mileage of the train. relieved of the daye of idle cars. would be increased times. Farm mot ore ought to be equipped with the stesl units &0 that thex cou's bas loaded and locked on the farm hauled to the station ready to be lifted directly onto the skeleton cars and not opened until ther reach the marker That will help solve the economs of transportation far the farmers freight and will utilize both ra!l and motor to far better advantage than s done now Speed of service would eliminate the present extravagant requirement of rolling stock. R It is all very well to argue that it is not fair to the investors of railroads for { the highwars to be used free for mote: | trafic which parallels railroads. but ithat is not the way to meet businest competition. The onls way that rai- roa#s will keep up with motor traffic is | to demonstrate that ther can give more | satisfactory service. and since the off i cial statietics now show an average Liou ! per car of only twenty miles per twen! four hours. who wiil sax rhat they have {no room for improvement® i As to the use of highw: i motor trucks, why not? The lwere used free by ox carts. ther &b- all kinds of vehicles and e icars. The railroads excrcise “le S e | “day by day we are getting wetter and | has said, on a lower plane than that | ment mightask just how France's debt | 213, exchanging banter OPPO- | wetter. {of allens. nents, and passed on to the balmier i Ratification of the proposed consti- P 5 ————— il thi to :::;:n;d\&::ne:‘mfaf:cr: :hctp:::s!flr £ Fioatd [Eie 16 exex wnd abyays | tutional ‘amendment “will thus cure ent crisis, in view of th ha et mighs s ot o Francesae of condemnation for any rouie wans. The highwayvs belonz to t people, and are for whatever usc is fo! the greatest convenience of the m arrival in Polchester there arose be fore the cathedral board the ap-|some little country in Europe held all {the gold mow in our vaults. Would proaching need to fill the living of | % e i Pybus St Anthony—a slight matter | that change make us any irrespective of the present fithess ori lements of production—and suppose | unfitness of District residents to enjoy | the American right to be granted by Clemenceau can prove a perfectalibi | the impotency of Congress to grant country is not pressing for immediate payment of either principal or inter- est. ———— e Whether the Senate situation will present that traditional problem in political physics of the irresistible force and the immovable body depends upon the irresistibility of the ship bill and the immovability of the filibuster. ————— Premier Mussolini's first experience in an international conference doubt- less imposed a rigorous restraint upon his impetuous and dictatorial manner of dealing with assemblages. ————te———— ‘Washington's Water Needs. ‘Washington's three outstanding wa- ter problems are stated to be as fol- lows: To complete in the shortest pos- sible time the new conduit from Great Fealls, now under construction after many years of delay; to secure from Congress syfficlent allotments of money annually to make the neces- sary extensions in service and trunk mains to get the water to the users after it has reached the reservoirs, and to install & high-pressure system of wmains in the business section to safe- suard the city from the menace of &reat fires. % ‘These three needs, which were stated in a comprehensive article printed in The Star Sunday, require no elaboration. Save possibly for the last of them they are accepted at the Capitol as vitally essential, and no doubt §s felt that those who frame the appropriation bills will do’ their ut- most to forward them. Expressions of this intention are given, and the only «question at present is whether the amount albtted for the coming fiscal vear will be $1,500,000, as proposed by the budget burcau for the continua- tion of the initial construction work, or $1,730,000, as estimated by the en- sineers as the amount that can and should be cxpended during the year. It will be a serious error if the work of constructing the connections and the additional mains is postponed un- til the completion of the conduit. The primary need Is to give Washington more water as speedily as possible. Experience has shown that unless every Phase of a work of this magni- 55 a welcome visitor. Something new in the way of gossip about Mr. Bryan has grown out of the statement that Mr, Norris of Nebraska does not desire another term in the Senate, and may not care even to fill out his present term. This question is asked: If Mr. Norris who becomes Governor of Nebraska January 1, appoint Brother Willlam to the vacancy?, Two things would appear to make a Floridian—so much so his name has senatorship in the Peninsula state. A seat in the Senate would hamper his best foot-loose—at liberty to go Lere, there and yonder &s the humor strikes him, or the political situation seems to call. He is not assoclable with the humdrum, the routine, the everyday, what you please. As a zest, and should not be differently as- signed. He serves himself and his party best in that capacity. # Disarmament finds the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg so weaponless that it must borrow a ‘“seventy-five” from France with which to salute the ex- pected ducal heir. Which is carrying things pretty far. i . Quizzing coal dealers may at least make it warm for them, if not for the householders. Shopping early also means early in the day. to avoid the afternoon street car rush. l i { | i | in respect to responsibility for the ‘breakdown of the London conference. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Monotonous Music. ‘were to resign, would Brother Charles, | The dove of peace looked from the | &helf And murmured in despair, “That history repeats herself, ‘The scholars oft declare. this unlikely. Brother Willilam is now | yyith promises too lightly turned And broken all too soon, been canvassed in connection with & |y i5 high time that history learned To sing another tune. him—tie him down to a job. He is at | “She scarce has breathed a measure { be impotent to participate like other soft Such as I love to coo, Before harsh notes resound aloft ‘With threats of strife anew. The pipes of peace too soon forsook, There sounds the war bassoon. “rover” he plays the game with great | It's time that history undertook To sing another tune.” Proximity Avoided. “Have you forgiven that old politi- cal enemy of yours?"” “Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum. “But I'm not going to let him know it for fear he will cultivate friendly relations and get close enough to make another reach for my scalp.” Jud Tunkins says & man often goes to a great deal of trouble and risk to speak his mind, only to find that it doesn’t make any difference. Publicity Leaflets. “To issue paper marks is wis A German statesman spoke— “Because each mrves to advertise national representation to any part of the territory belonging to the United States, by extending this pow- er to the District constituting the the United Congress when it exerclses its new | constitutional power. this joint- resolu- tion should be promptly passed by two- thirds of Congress, and the proposed iseat of government of | States, and will tend to cure the im-|copatitutional amendment ratified by jpotency of the District to participate | three-fourths of the states, in order on American principles tional+government. Curing Twofold Impotency. Your committee is convinced that jboth impotencies should be cured— {that of Congress at once, and that of ithe District at the fitting time in the futuresin the judgment of Congress. {We agree that Congress should not !be impotent to grant national repre- {gentation to any group of Americans jqualified under the usual tests for such representation. And we agree that the District people should not | { tmpotency to cure, when it pleases. the evil of un-American, totally non- representative government, at the very heart of the nation, the seat of the national government. Conviction of present lack of fitness of District resi- dents for national representation. or despair of such fitness in the near fu- ture, logically, affects only the future date to be fifld, when Congress shall wisely and justly exeroise this power. It has no logical tendency to delay the ratification of the amendment itself. Congress should not lack the power ito Americanize the District, no matter how long its judgment may impel it to delay the actual exercise of this power when secu! 5 - Natlonal honor is touched by impo- tency of the national government to grant national representation to any welt populated, intelligent, resourceful, American community. Congress should by constitutional amendment have this power, for reasons affecting solely the national prestige and irrespective of any immediate obligation to the people of ‘the District. While proof of present Americans in the national councils jafter demonstration of fitness in population, . resources and . other American attributes, provided such representation can be secured with- out dentroying or impairing the pow- ,er of exclusive legislation in the District now possessed by Congress. We are convinced that adoption of S. J. Res. 133 and ratification of the constitutional amendment pro- posed by it will result in curing both Impotencies, without disturbing in|fitness of the District in lat the least the exclusive legislative |resources for national refi':l::nu'&:n"llg power of Congress in the District. it thus appears, not an indispensable We see no reason whatever why |prerequisite of adoption and ratifi Congress should not approve this|of the proposed amgndm'ent, the d.l::‘t;:r: grant to itsel :t 2 new constitu|stration of that fitness naturally in- tional power; extending its existing tes and strengthens powers on logical and equitable lines, G Smoncient ra advocacy. Warning to Hunters of Christmas Greens. To tle Editor of The Star: 1 the joint protection of the owner of There has been 50 much vandalism | the adjoining land and the state in recent years in cutting Christmas | Po8rd of forestry. J:'m"fie"{:fl;’:”:: trees, mutilating and destroying holly,: must do so under the immediate su- laurel and other greens along the ratvlslon of a state forester, and this highways, due largely to the practice ({8 8180 true of the. telegraph and ephone companes. of owners of automobiles taking their |- "In 1913, in order to check the in- friends and familils ofit into the coun- | creasing dumage to evergreen and to relieve the nation of the shame of : ‘The fact that we are broke.” Mayor Hylan’s Nominations. Mayor Hylan would fot permit the use of his name In connection with the try for Christmas tree foraging expe- ditions, that serious damage has been done to the roadside foliage and the neighboring forest in all sections of 4 flowering . trees, with the advice and A;;n;l:l;uon & measurel and had passed through the M; legislature, which makes it ;‘;’;‘-dn- measure was prepa co-operation of the Maryland Forestrr 2 | i l nomination for Governor of New York which fell to “Al” Smith. He has re- peatedly tapped on the wrists his more fervent friends who insist on seeing in him a future President of the United States. He insists on holding down his present job, and declares that when his time is up he will re- turn to private life, thankful for honors received but soliciting no more. Still the mayor has views about politics, the present pass to which the spicion. “8o you think the judge gave you an unreasonably long sentence?” “L have my suspicions,” answered Bill the Burg. “They're putting on musical shows in the penitentiary and 1 am considered an awful good Renamed. “A man dat keeps losin’ good- natured at de races,” said Uncle Eben, “thinks he's a philésopher, but he's what 1'a call e foolhossifer,” * | meanor for any. person to remowvs the country, particularly in reglons| .y, cyut break, injure or destroy ‘n;: which are near to large citles and tree, b, vine or flower from the have good roads. Many city folks|land or premises of another, without seem to have the idea that the forests; the written consent of such owner, are public property and that they have| first had and obtained, or under his a free right to enter them at will and | personal supervision. This measure is to chop and hack to their hearts' con- {now the law and carries with it tent. N penalty of $25 fine up to imprisonment . There are no public lands in this | for ninety days. Vicinity, and every foot of forest is| This year the Maryland Forestry As- the property of some private owner, | sociation has decided to take an aec- who has to pay®taxes for the privilege | tive part in aiding In the enforcement of owning TL In Maryland the land-|of this law and its members hope to owner's title runa‘to the middte of the | bring to trial all persons-who wanton. A the ti d |1y violate it. public highway, and e trees and|ly LIVER L, s along the roadside are I allong day. It is a ;m itself, bug one which, in the con- 1 flict that it caused. lifts the action of : tide of! i this _romance into the full revolution. On one side of the Pybus business stands the archdea- i con, stanch for the traditions o jthe religious 'past. On the other ! side there appears to be nothing more than a vague unformulated thought itoward a progressive man for the {Pybus living. Ronder's way again. * ® % % And the great fight is on. At first {it has no appearance of struggle. i True, Archdeacon Brandon is much | | excited and prodigiously active. But | is0 far as one can see, he has no an- | tagonist. And when finally his op- | ponents do step into the open Rond- | ancial dictators of the world? That tle nation. with all the excess of 1d. would find it of little use unless we would sell her food and other fin oodrow Wilson the day he was nominated for the DPresi- dency. For a fieeting moment I saw 1 sat beside V7 him again today. He passed me in his motor car. and with a flash of old- time recognition smiled. bowed and er Is not among them. That is not{waved. For 2 second our cars were his way. The Pybus matter splits|abreast. Then silently, savc for the the town of FPolchester—almostimysical hum of whirring wheels, his everybody, at first. on the side of the archdeacon. Later, hawever, no- | body knows how or why, the bulk! shifts to the other side. * k¥ ¥ Meanwhile other things are hap- | pening. The archdeacon’s boy goes wrong in a way to dent the surface of traditional class feeling. And one morning his wife—a wisp of a woman who had never before owned up to having a soul of her own—looked ! straight at her majestic husband and saild: “I have hated you for twenty years.” With that she walked out and away—with another man. And, all the time, the Pybus living is, openly or secretly, sapping the power and prestige of the archdeacon. So the story goes on, climbing and climbing to greater intensity of feel- ing, to deeper significance of action, to a more certain sense of disaster. ‘When doom does fall it is in a quiet gathering that resembles outwardly a bank directors’ meeting, or some such modern contrivance for carry- ing business forward. That is Ron- der's way. They are voting to fill the Pybus 1iving. And the great arch- deacon is fedeated. EE A big and inclusive story that works to & tremendous climax out of d | the laws of its own blood and being alone. It ig the new against the old, reality against tradition, freedom sgainst authority—these hostile ideas projected by way of two as remark- able and complete characters as have moved a roman orward in many & leepl: rsonal way;' for the fall o A ehdeacon Brandon' ia of a dignity. and a pathos, and a hopelessness, that call again into mind no less figures than those of Samson and of Lear. And the great cathedral is llke the world of mature—beautiful, yet terrible in K8 of mere mane | G. M, smart equipage, lustrous in the au- tumn sunshine, drew away, passing the White House, and he was gone. My eyes followed him. As he pass- ed the mansion where for a spell he shaped the destinies of the world, he looked neither to the right nor the left. His unwavering gaze was straight ahead, eyes down. shoulders somewhat stooped. The roadway. not the White House, held his attention. In the blue blur of the smoke from his car, old memories took form. 1 saw him sitting of a summer's night on the lawn ef the governor's house at Sea Girt. The air was chill and he had wrapped a blanket about him. Around him were grouped a score of newspaper men, waiting for the final word from Baltimore. From within a tent, pitched a dozen feet away, came the chatter of & telegraph key. The tide of battle was running high. Ballot sucleded ballot without re- sult. Every few minutes the operator ‘would shout out the latest word. And ‘Wilson? He was telling stories. The conflict over his name seemed to him a thing utterly impersonal. For two hours | ne sat there, most of the time leading the conveggation. He delighted in making limericks. 1 remember one: «For beauty I am not a star; There are others more lovely, by far; But my face, I don’t mind it, For 1 am behind it, It's the people in front that I jar.” It is the 3d of March, 1913. Wood- row Wilson is leaving Princeton. On the twenty-odd pleces of baggage which le opy the station platform THE WAYS OF WASHINGTON BY WILLIAM PICKETT HELM. e keep up with modern progress «rd they will demonstrate their own usefulnes< there are cards, each bearing, in his own handwriting. the words, “Wood- row Wilson, White House, Washing- ton.” The special train stands on & slding. At last the party and the baggage are wboard. All Princeton i+ guthered around the observation plat- . form of his private car. Slowly the train begins to move The strains of Princeton’s hymn roll . from a thousand throats. A spare. immaculate figure steps through the | door. alone. The silk hat is doffed— !it was the first he ever owned. He stands erect: his lips move; he is | singing. And as the train gathers {speed there come. as his last words | to Princeton, the 1ast line of the song. “Three cheers for Old Nassau.” The world worshiped and the worui | rejected. What of him now? He lives a hermit's life. Even his daughters do not know his private telephone number. The city may not love him, but it has deep and pathetic concern in all that touches him. And he himself shows the harsh marks of time. His face is seamed with fur- rows. His shoulders stoop as if under an iInvisible burden of years and trouble. His hair has whitened and sometimes goes too long without cut- ting. He sits in his seat as an old man. Such have been the ways of Wash- ington with yesterday's immortal. —_—te———— It was with surprise we read that r. W. J. Bryan's auto had crashed into 2 woman candidate’'s car ou! west, as we had never known him to run quite so close to another candi- date before.—Grand Rapids Press. Y “German immigration is increasirg. -—News item. Hans across the eh?—Asheville Tim: If you haven't anything elsc to be grateful for, be thankful just be- cause Thanksgiving day will soon be here.—Asheville Times. - Bonar Law is now engaged in put- ting the try in ministry.—Evassville Ceurier. 1