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6 THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C WEDNESDAY . December 13, 1932 Gary and other magnates of the steel general and consule are intimately as- | industry, it is @ fundamental fact that Sociated with the policy of forwarding ' | the higher the livig standard of the;and extending our forelgn trade. On ! people the greater will be the pros- every account, therefore, the best men | perity of all the people. And the available should be commissioned for greater the prosperity of all the people these places. | the surer, in the long run, will be the | Mr. Hughes puts the case strikingly THEODORE W. NOYES......EditoF | profits of the steel mills. A safer and happily in saying that this service e S~ Commany Policy for the steel industry to pursue 'must be “democratized.” This is the The Evening Star Newspaper COMPANT | would be to set its engineering and In- ' era when everything, in America and New York Office. 150 Nasman St. i ventive geniuses at work devising : elsewhere, is in process of democrati- B e e e Englane' | e to eliminate the necessity of so zation. much unskilled labor, so that this, But the tribute he pays to those The Eventoe Star, with the Sunday mernii | work about the mills could be done'men of wealth who have sought this e e T A cmtn per by Americans, or at least by immi. | service without a thought but of the month: Sun . Or | grants who would receive an Ameri- public weal is most just. In preferring m‘.“ "”'.'.’"‘"" 1s can wage for an American day and, a life of public activity to one of pri- e | maintain an American standard of | vate ease and indulgence they have Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. |living. In the light of all that has given testimony of belng of the real Maryland and Virginia. !been accomplished in substituting American stuff. Daily and Sunday..1 yr.. $8.40: 1 mo., 10¢ { pechanical for man power, it would | —————— Dail; 1yr. $600: 1 mo., be a humiliating confession of incom-| Wilson Concentrates on Politics. petency to admit that this shame of { = o oAt oy L i Eai ctoeTmilial caance be eliming teas | In announcing the termination of 1ym 82 All Other States. g:}y and Sunday..1 yr. 5;°v The American peop's never will con !the law partnership of Wilson and o JE 23 < g 4 €OR°| Colby, Mr. Colby gives as the reaso Sunday oni 8. sent to let down the fmmigration bars | COLY: Mr. Colby = ! that the former President “is turning ;his energies once more . to subjects Member of the Associated Press. | merely that the steel mills may con- The Assoclated Preas is exclusively eutitled | Linue to be supplied with low-standard | (1 : 4 have long invited him.” €0 the uue for republication of sll news dis- I ationtilass By nep g 0 the e for republication of all ne labor. That the immigration laws! ™\ o Mo Tno he “hut with great tehes credited to it or not otherwise fl!‘:': hould be amended is generally ad.i this ‘pa 2 250 the locas news sl s - 5 o Tahod herein. "All “rights of publication mitied buc they il bo s mended with | foree since the November election. special disnatches herein are aiso reserved. Bl e Mr. Wilson, th good reason for Ship Bill and Farm Bill time may come when the people will | oo PACK il expects it to arrive in If the Senate wills, it can pass both | put up the bars altogether, to the end |~ el Thin caming back as he i the ship bill and thp farm credits bill | that what is left of America’s re-1, . o' "0 " Cae o6 revived Wilson- at this session. If it wills, it can block ! sources may be conserved for the de-! ism. The people have repented of the both bills, If it wills, it can pass one | scendants of Amercans. The steel! .t 'p.< rave in 1920, and are pre. at the expense of the other. There is | manufacturers would not be unwise | 1055 K0 B0 00 L Fe e OO BT a wide range of possible action or in-; to begin planning against such a day. ! pol they then unwisely con- action. ¢ g —_——————— { demned. TUnder the rules of the Senate, which John Wanamaker. ! Naturally, Mr. Wilson wants to di- have worked both good and ill in the past, it is possible to protract a fili- buster against any measure, especially in a short session. definitely limited as John Wanamaker's career, clused rect the flowing of this tide—wants to vesterday after an illness which he ! give his whole time to it. fought with the vigor that marked his| And then in politics Mr. Wilson will whole life, was a striking example of { be more at home than in the law. the success which comes from high | Years ago he met with no success at endowments of character. Like many | the bar, and soon left it for a teacher’s another American who has attained | chair. But in politics he has risen in to extent. It is therefore possible to pat up obstacles in the way of the ship bill to the end of effecting its complete obstruction before March 4. But it will take the shrewdest schem- ing and the most skillful management o prevent the nature of this purely | negative course from showing plainly | before the country as the destructive | maneuver of a minority. Advocacy of the farm credits bill does not in itself necessarily mean op- position to the ship bill. Many mem- bers of the Senate favor both, just as | =ome oppose both. If a sincere spirit of accomplishment prevailed a com- bination might be formed of the for- mer and insure the passage of both bills. If such a spirit does not prevail it may be possible for the opponents of each measure to insure the defeat; of both. Those who favor the farm credits Will and oppose the ship bill are of a disposition to plead that the latter can be passed only by the votes of sena- tors who have been defeated for re- election. This is an assumption, not assured. But in any case, it begs the question. The Senate, as it stands, Is charged with the duty of adopting or | rejecting this measure, regardless of ! the status cof its members in respect to the next Congress. The question of government aid for the merchant ma- rine has not been made an issue be- | fore the people to the extent that any mandate has been given against it. ‘The late elections are not to be re- #garded as indicating public disap- proval of the proposal. If the concluding session of a Con- gress is to vote upon nothing that is in any degree controverted, because; sSome members of it have been rejected | at the poils, the time has indeed come for a change in the calendar. But un- til such a change is effected, through ! the amendment of the Constitution, the retiring Congress stands charged | i with powers and responsibilities that { office, he laid the foundations for that, i pride in later years that he had alded to heights of prosperity and influence | twelve years to the proportions of a he was born humbly, his father being | world figure, and today meny of the a brickmaker. His first employment | men who followed him while he was earned him $1.25 a week, @s errand}in the White House are still in his boy in a store. Gifted with an instinc- | tratn. 2 tive sense of values, he was a mer-| There seems no reason to belleve chant of veritable genius. His enter- | that Mr. Wilson has In mind another prises in business succeeded. He had ! nomination to the presidency. Im- vision and he advanced constantly,|proved as his physical condition may never content to remain stationary.|be since retiring from office, it is not But his ambition was always tempered | such as would warrant his assumption with judgment, and he ventured noias a candidate of the dutles and re- further than his resources justified.! sponsibilities of a national campalgn, He bullt up a glgantic establishment ; und particularly not of the duties and which became one of the mercantile | responsibilitles of the presidency for institutions of this country, and his|another four years. success was In every respect deserved.| Hence the opinion, widely and for he always gave value, and his first | strongly entertained, that the object consideration was for the satisfaction ! cf his activity is control of the next of his customers. The basic principle | democratic national convention in the of his business was co-operation be-|interest of a man of his cholce and tween the vendor and the purchaser. the adoption of a platform of his con- A true Christian spirit animated Mr. | struction. Wanamaker in everything he did. He | S was intensely Interested In the wel-| 00 pu1 13373 was introduced fare of others, and whether they were |, 8 L i TS T roposal his employes or his fellow cltizens he o S0CET KSR CE L ceventh Con- sought to serve them. He not only | (TORHEM B0 B0 5 Lo e dle- 9 o iced the in-| ::;iz:“‘;' ‘;‘;;h:‘e‘;mg::“‘“ 4 Tis ex.| Posal record has been somewhat shy. ample was the more inspiring because ———— ————— of the purity of his own life. He hated! A speedy recovery for Mr. W. J. sham and deceit, and he carried (his; Burns is desirable as a matter of ex- motive into clvic affairs, participating | pediency as well as sympathy. The frequently in public activities, though, | crooks are becoming altogether too with a single exception, refusing to! bold. engage personally in official life. His service as Postmaster General was in| , jo R line with his keen interest for the bet- terment of the bustness administration of the government, and he contributed richly to its development. Though the | parcel post did not come to the point of accomplishment during his term of s ed justice of the peace as a ‘‘joke.” That is no novelty in American poli- i Many a man elevated to office has proved to be a joke. i | | i | l ‘The accident record affords little encouragement for the belief that i Safety week established the habit of ! care on the part of the motorists of invaluable institution, and it was his so materially in an achievement that Americanize the Washmgtonian' Politics at Large THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 0, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1922 \ District of Columbia Now Fitted for National Representation. From the repert of the Senate Distriot STanting satienal represe: 1L At the hearing in support of the amendment a great wealth of facts and figures was presented on the point of the District’s present fitness which Impressed your committee which, in substance, we submit for your consideration. in the counclis of the nation through by the folowing facts: Population. The census for the year 1910 give: the population of the District of Co. lumbia as 331,069, which exceeded that of six states, namely: The same census showed the popula: tion rapldly approaching three other states. namely Vermont, with 355,956; Montana, 376,053, and New Hampshire, 430,572, The census for the year 1920 shows a healthy growth in population for the District, and at that time it h; ‘ached 71. This population was greater than that of any oue of seve states, namely: Nevada. Wyoming. Delaware. Arisona. Vermont...., New Mexlco. Idaho... It also shows that two other states of the Unlon had but a slightly larger ocommittes on the ation o The Distin ot its chosen representatives is suggested oonstitutional amendment Columbia, 1000,000. while the amount actually | subscribed was $19,261,400, or a per {capita subscription or $52.20, which | was nearly four-fifths greater than {for the country as a whole, which was only 329.29. This per capita ex- ceeded the subscriptions of each of the { the second, which includes the state of iNew York. Of the second liberty loan, the quota scripiions amounted to $22,857,05 a per capita subscription of or swh {u was only $44.55. Dpita subscriptions for the District were In excesy of ten of the federal reserve districts, and only less than that In the first and second districts, | covering Boston and New York. | On the third liberty loan, the quota for the District of Columbla was $12,- 870,000, while the subscriptions of its i people ‘amounted to $25,992,250, or a lucr capita subscription of $64.98, as against $40.13 for the United States (at large. Again the per capita sub- | scription was considerably in excess ‘of that in each of the twelve federal reserve district except the second, includes the state of New | | which * York, The subscripti ons through the citi- strict of Columbia in | were greater ghteen tes, | bna, Ark. nsas, ; zens of the DI !the third lberty loan sissip) shire, North Dakota, | ! The number of subscribers to this {loan was also greater in the District i than in any one of the eighteen states ijust named except Arkansas, but in- icluding in its place Tennessee. The !proportion of the population who sub- scribed to this loan was greater in the District of Columbia than in any .Y_ N. 0. MESSENGER. Indications are accumulating that the next republican national convention will be called upon to deal with the question of the party going on record as to proposed modifications of the Vol- stead law. New York and P(~nm4yl-‘ HERE are 218 plate printers of the bureau of engraving and printing who feel today, that they have had a knock- out blow from the House of Represent- vania, it is believed by politiclans, will jatives because the House has voted for force the issue and will bs supported | the by groups in other state delegations. creating a bloc which cannot be ig- nored. The republican party organization in and twelve federal reserve districts except | New York state is in process of being reorgenized and will soon be under the leadership of men who are not inclined That the District of Columbia i3 en-lagsigned for the District of Colum- {to have the party hold out against what titled at the present time to participate bia was $20,000,000, whereas the sub- appears to be the wish of a large pro- introduction of modern power presses to supersede the hand presses with which money and bonds have been printed heretofore. The vote was 167 against 85, and that seems to end a thirty-six-year fight against the per- sistent effort to adopt power printing. There is strong resemblance in that struggle to the opposition, in times past, to all introductions of labor-sav- portion of the electorate of the state, | ing machinery, whether in the printing Credible information is at hand showing a similar tendency in the republican organization in Pennsylvania; disincli- ereas for the United States at large |28 8hown by the returns of the lates: | 'rade or other lines of industry, yet the Again the per |election on the subject of modification. | history of all such industries has ever shown that what geemed a deep dis- appointment to the skilled workman, at the time. has developed into his great | nation to shoulder the responsibiiity of | advantage later. putting the party practically in the at- titude of supplanting the old prohibition party as the upholder of strict prohibi- dom, they say. It would be futile to speculate mow on the outcome of this movement, but it would be senseless not to recognize that it is on. That there will be stren- uous resistance to the proposal to put a modification plank in the national plat- form is certain. The delegates from states that favor the strict enforcement of existing law will resist the sugge: | The Introduction of typesetting ma- chinery i a good example of that. Printers will remember, if old enough in the trude, how aghast they feit at | would be | the prospect that a machine able to set as much in an hour as they could et in a day, and no argument could convince thenm, then, that the re- sult could be anything but disastrous; vet in a remarkably short time, they learned to operate the very machine which had threatened to displace them. They found that thelr carnings were CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS. Vice President Marshall smiling tered where he “used to work, the page looked blank. * ok x ¥ Fat men make too conspicuous tar- gets, and an order has been issued in the Army that all officers must re- duce excess corpulency. The sur- geons declare that fat is due to igno. rance of health rules and lack of exercise, and it interferes with em- {elency. Welght is to be reduced | systematically, under direct super. { vision of the surgeons. Former Presi. { dent Tuft has demonstrated what war. |cess can be accomplished in that | direction, for he Is no longer counted among the over-corpulent. * X *x ¥ “The Campbells are coming, Ho, ho* Ho, ho!” It is not just Scotch Campbells that are to arrive, but seventy-five camel- { wLich are to come to the great Almas | Temple Shrine assembling in Was ington next Jume. They are from 2 camel farm in California, and the most significant part of their appear- {ance 15 that they are not all going back to California, but twenty-sev wll remain in Virginia, having bee sold to a farmer who proposes to start a camel ranch in the Old Domin. fon state. It is claimed that the farm, located near Manassas, n- nd i i i tion that the party Iy taking the Dlace | increased and the cheapimg of 8pe gl il of the prohibition party and will ud- | setting enhanced the demand for print. | THAIng camels, being very sandy and vance the contention that if there is 1c { ing o that their jobs became steadier | B A1¥. Thus, ‘perhaps, out of the ibe a division ulong wet and dry lines, | than ever. e the republican party should take high- o % O o it st moral stand upon l - D nlving O e oL aronae { There in more than a nical | cigarettes, and_ bair for artists ; A e e e e e e i The attitude of the republican 1eaders | art _and when the mechanleal part is | 0T°S" €oods. The famous ®ho will recommend having the Darty | gecomplished more . comple | i e e e tuke a new position on the Volstead ac { mechanism, it relieves the artist-printer | Kk * ¥ is characterized as being strictly utili- tariun and practical. It does not neces- sarily follow that they all believe in the ethical wisdom of modification, but for a greater exercise of his art. By putting art-printing inte the class where it 1s within reach of a great cllentele it widens the demand for it er | population, namely: New Hampshire, 443,083, ana Utah, 449,446. A comparison. therefore, of the cen- sus of 1910 and 1920 shows that the ratlo of increase of population has been maintained with the exception that the District has advanced ahead of Vermont and is rapldly approaching the population of Utah and New Hamp- | re. jone of the forty-eight states, and was about twice as great as the percent- ‘age of the country as a whole, which ranged from 29.07 for lIowa to 3.3 for North Carolina. The quota of the fourth liberty loan | asslgned to the District of Columbla | was $27,608.000, whereas the subscrip- | tlons amounted to $51,262.100, or a per | | eapita subscription of $127.61, which Federal Taxes. jwas nearly twice the per capita aub- The impression still exists smong ! scription for the United Setates as a some that the citizens of the District, whole, which was only $65. This are subject to the bounty of Congress | per capita subscription for the Dis- and that they contribute little or noth- ; trict of Columbla was agaln largely | ing to the maintenance of the federal!in excess of that of every federal re- covernment. The same Impresdon Is/serve district except the second,( sometimes evidenced in the discussions | which includes the state of New | "I’Yh(-‘ hal's of Congress. ; York. The official records of the Treasury | The aggregate subscriptiona from Department show that there was pald | the citizens of the District of Colum- P¥idhe cltizens of the District to the bia of the fourth liberty loan were ederal government by way of Internal | greater in amount than those of any revenue, customs and miscellaneous ! one of twenty-three states, namely: Pva S0t gtor the fiscal year ending | Alabuma, Arizona, Arkansas, Colora- Which asl6. the sum of $1.506,699.27, do, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Loulsi- Palihowas Ereater than similar taxes ana, Mafne, Mississippl, Montana, Ne- PRl the [Eovernment by any one of ; vada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, e neslatitholUnion. iNorth Carolina, North Dakota, Ok- 19117 (he fiscal year ending June 30,|iahoma. Oregon. South Carolina, - the same records disclose the |South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Wyom- fact that the citizens of the District | {ng. i = m{gu‘:rm;he federal government| The number of subscribers to this 2.608.204.40, ol curces the 8um of Joan n the District was greater than AimllaE pay et ‘};"‘hfi’ ter than |that in any one of twenty-five states, ninetee: e ¥ one of { while the proportion of the popula- cteen states of the Union. Includ-{ tjon of the District subseribing to ing the great states of Georgin and c Towa. It also appears that roe aa) thix loan, sccording to the Treasury year, the citizens of the District pald in federal taxes twice as much as that paid by any one of fourteen 1 i | | i Department, was 65.8 per cent, which | was much larger than in any one of the forty-eight states of the Union and about three times great as states and four times as much as any | the corresponding percentage for the one of eight states of the Union. T 3 Y For tho fiscal year ended June 30.! 5108 por req, SLates Which was only 1918, the same records disclose the ) Qifth or victory loan, the fact that the citizens of the District quota asslgned to_the District of Col ment through the same sources, the | Sy “;.‘,‘».’fi-rf&f{i’.fil’o‘)‘g'ex:msl;ng?fiu'ofi;. sum of $12,562,474.08. . The records for the fiscal year | c¢Ured from 132,189 subscribers. Postal Revenues. ended June 30, 1919, disclose that the 1 While the revenue derived by the! citizens of the District paid to the | government in sati. of like | e B "\which | Eovernment from the postal service in was made up of $5.92%.755.3% of 1| the District of Columbia Is perhap: not a criterion as to the amount of | business transacted, still it affords some | {indication certainly’ for comparison, Ig- | n:rlm{{ ent{:elyf the fact that at least tat North three-fourths of the postal matter from ! ;\r\%da. Wyoming and Vermont com- | which no revenue is derived the records | bine ’.‘1y"l;‘ltxpt:"sa’rrr|x:dercr;)rdihuh')§; that jdisclose the fact that the receipts of the | 7 ma v the District {local post office ending June 30, 1918, | through these internal revenue, cus-{ were $3.0: 1 come and exc -profit taxes and $9,.- 716,298.20 iniscellincous tanes which amount was greater than the aggre- gate of similar taxes paid by the states of North Dakota, New Mexico, 193.12, which was greater: jtain is a widely prevalling sentiment rather consider it a political exigency [and benefits the skilled workmen who which must be recognized and met by | know how 1o create it. This contem- affirmative action. They assert that the | 5iaic3 10t merely the 218 jobs imme- s diately affected at the bureau of en- vote last November showed plainly | graving and printing, but the whole that the voters in many states not only | range of printing in America. wanted this change, but In order to start * % % x the machinery were willing to desert party affiliation and go with the politi-{ When the sewing machine was in- vented there were riots because it would cal organization which favored It So, in the next republican natic convention the sontent o atona! ! destroy the opportunity of scamstresses, ;;l!" the vfl'l‘slpfll(]“ flk(:l h'lu be between j ¥et nothing has so alded the dress- he men who think that the party's!inakers i hit V] the men who think that the Party’smakers as the sewing machine. When served by keeping hands off the la for moral and ethical consideratior and those who will maintain th “practical politics” demand a declara- fon in ympathy with what they maf jsame opposition was shown. but they jhave made farming easler and enabled the fields to feed the masses. vention of the automobile displaced mil- lions of horses. but the horse breeders {now make more by riding in their own { machines, while {tions Steamships outrivalled railing vessels, but the saiflors are now skilied among the voters. x Xk x ¥ Tnless the democrats under the lead- ership of Gov. Biith, In the New York leglslature which meets Junuary | (REeeTe, I they have had the ambi- 1, succeed in repealing existing state ERE ? law and return to the primary system of nominating state officers, the Empire state blds fair in the new year to pre- sent the epectacle of politics being ruled by two strong men who will be practi- ally dictators to their respective par- tles. It will be something A serious fire in the White House | has left many timbers of the roof fand upper floor in a charred and ibe repaired. Congress has followed s | President Harding's policy of economy he o0 1 . “€008 o0 timen when Thomas ¢ | oo, Jerally, and w0 there bas been Platt and David B. Hill were the arbit- " Ay i ek i ers of the republican and democratic | PAITs—in parties, delay, for the fire was caused by the The republican organization by the | the British during the war first of the vear will be In control of Hence, nobody can credit all Senator Wadaworth. The defeat of Sen- | the economy in the delay of remodel ator Calder by a democrat leaves the Ing to the present administration. entire party machinery In the hand% of However. an estimate of the cost of Mr. Wadeworth, who will proceed, it is ' substituting fireproof beams and ef- 1d. to make many changes in minor facing all marks of the incendiary lcaderships and gather unto himself a ‘has been prepared by the officer in compact organization. 7 icharge of public “bulldings and Gov. Smith will be recognized as grounds. the unquestioned leader of his party, * ok ok ok through his control of patronage and his authority over the mayoralty of | New York city, with a grappling iton ' It is a great thing to be a page in What power the pages Tammany. ~ All democratic roads - vas illustrated a da will lead to Albany and the rwuhr!h_ul“ possess was illustrated a day or two highway to Washington will be well 80, When a new senator was found traveled what time Senator Wadsworth | puffing away at a cigar in his seat is at the capital. * * % x The forecasts frequently made by politicians that the formation of a new party In this country to advocate class | in that august assembly, and a page :instructed him as to what would hap- i pen if he did.not desist. But the full authority was even better illustrated when a man attempted to enter the {power harvesters were Invented the | ‘The In- gaged in other voca- | blackened condition which ought to | act, over a hundred vears | are not to be denied or lessened be-}| ‘Washington. toms and miscellaneous taxes for this {than the receipts of all the post officer cause of the happenings at the polls | in the preceding November. i ‘The ship bill is the paramount item | of business. If it is displaced to make | way for the farm credits bill it should | he upon the distinct understanding | that the ship bill will be given its fair chance of coming to a vote in season ! to effect final enactment in case the Senate votes yea. ———— Although, as an old proverb states, “‘there are no pockets in a shroud.” King Tutenkhamun of Egypt took ! about $40,000,000 worth of treasures with him to his tomb, which, after many centuries, have been brought forth. —_————— A Kansas City woman gets a ver- dict of $1,000 from a railroad company for having been made too stout for comfort by an accident on its line two | years ago. In this case the law's de- lay served the plaintiff better than | usual. i —_——— New York is just opening a new! subway for service. With several: others under construction, Manhattan | will soon have the most extensive un- | derworld in existence. | | | i i i i —_——— - Gary on Immigration. Judge Gary, head of the United! States Steel Corporation. finds fault| with the present 3 per cent immigra- | tion law. He complains that it is re-! sulting in a shortage of labor for un- skilled work about the steel mills, and | he thinks American industry is there- | by affected adversely. The trouble with | Judge Gary's position is that he re- gards labor for his steel mills along | with other raw materials, and the: rawer the labor is the better it suits} the purposes of the steel manufac-| turers. A twelve-hour day at minimum wages undoubtedly tends to fatten dividends on steel, but as to scarcity | of such labor affecting adversely | American industry as a whole, that is | another matter. No nation has yet ' grown prosperous through the process ! of lowering standards of living. Ex-! ploiters of low-standard labor may | prosper exceedingly, not to say ex- cessively, but that does not constitute national prosperity. The class of labor Judge Gary wants makes a minimum contribution to American well being. Its standard of living is so low that even on the wage it gets there is a margin for saving, but these savings do not go to increase the national | zations that are being formed. has given the people a facllity for cheap and safe transportation. John Wanamaker's death will cause sincere mourning on the part of those thousands with whom his life was closely associated, and general sorrow on the part of the people of the coun- try, who appreciated the worth of this great American, who gave to his coun- try the example of a useful construc-; tive service with sincere devotion to the highest precepts of the Christian life. ———— Q German murder quotations in terms i of marks leave much to the imagina- {tion in respect to the estimate of the | real value of the lives involved. i One danger to which & progressive bloc is exposed is that it may block itself by differences as to what consti- tutes progress. i A bloc that merely obstructs may have a hard time establishing itself as Efforts to save the street surfaces | Progressive. ! of Washington by limiting the loads H of trucks are not so important as SHOOTING STARS. measures to stop the deadly careless- ness with which many of them are driven. i ——————————— The famed inventive genius of!“Oh, for some lodge in a vast wilder- Americans is being taxed severely in ness!” finding names for all the new organi-| I thought it was a signal of distress. | But he who paused to quote the old ——————— refrain Cold airs from the west give point | Smiled gayly as I begged him to ex- to the questions asked of the coal| plain. dealers by the fact-finding commission regarding supplies and prices. —_———————— Turning in false fire alarms may be fun for the practical joker, but it is likely to cause a decidedly unpleasant reaction. —_————— Our Foreign Service. On Monday Secretary Hughes ap- BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A Lodge in the Wilderness. i “Why seek you some vast wilder- ness?” quoth I. “Would you from man’s uuodntlon; i fly? | “Nay, nay,” he answered. “You have How by this housing problem folks | are stirred. 2 1 surely heard ! “For building lots there now is such demand pc-ured'befure tbe Houst'a Sommit o That fields to suburbs overnight ex- on foreign affairs advocating a bill for pand. the reorganization and improvement of the foreign service of the govern-} ment. This is taken from a report of the proceedings: “You have got to democratize selec- tion of men for the diplomatic field,” Mr. Hughes said, “and I want to em- phasize that this proposal has no partisan or political aspect whatever. A sole desire is to use both the diplomatjc and the consular services to the highest degree and to put them on the basis where they ought to be. We have got to give the young man entering the fleld the assurance that he can live, get married and support himself along reasonable American standards.” He sald it was not good for the diplomatic service to be re- cruited wholly from young men of So, in a wilderness I'll settle down And build some bungalows and start a town.” Not Missing a Trick. “You can afford to laugh at your antagonist in debate.” 1 “I tried that once,” answered Sena-| tor Sorghum. “He very shrewdly| turned my demonstration to account as a tribute to his gifts for humor.” Jud Tunkins says that even wom- en's votes won't save the situation out | his way unless folks find some way to | improve the quality of the candidates. wealth. “I am the last man in the world to deny credit to young men —_— of fortune in the service,” said Mr. Difficult Game. Hughes. “I do not know what we could do unless we could draw onmen | The play at politics. runs high n;‘ °‘,‘,"“"§ rnd regnen‘liené vzl:g cou}g And history stands unheeded, ™~ 'ord to join us abroad. Bu ‘woul be a great misfortune and undemo-| FOW many people take a try! cratic for this government to arrange How few have e’er succeeded. its affairs in a way which would ex- clude the others.” e . This is not a new subject, but the| «would you marry a man for time is most fit for its revival, and it riches?” is most cogently handled by the Secre- “Not without careful inquiry,” re- {remains that when the United States jand Marine Corps for the Diatrict was Year were in excess of any one of fif- | in any one of the following states: Ari- teen states. {zona, Arkansas, Delaware, _Florida, The following tabulation shows the { Idaho, “Maine, Mississippi. Montana, taxes paid by each of these state: w Hampshire, New Mexico. Nevada. with the number of electoral votes rth Dakota, Oregon, Rhode lsland, to which they are respectively en-|South Carolina_South Dakota, Utah, titled: ‘ermont, West Virginia and Wyoming. It also appears that these receipts 1d Electoral ! i T i { exceeded the aggregate receipts of all District of Columbla S18645.05 °'® o the post offices in_Delaware, Nevada, Dakota .33 68 5, New .uexico and Wyoming combined, 'w Mexico .3‘1 which amounted to the sum of $2,987,- 3, 047.05. 3 4 Intelligence. 131 The census for the year 1910 shows 1o ! that the average percentage of illiteracy 9. for all classes of its population com- o ¢:bined was 7.7 for the United States, uth t 4! was 4 4| iliter: e 3ty Is The District's percentage of 'S as shown by this census was than any one of the following twen- ve states: Massachusetts, Rhode nd, Connecticut, New York, New Contribution of Troops. It is remarkable that although the 3! people of the District of Columbia i have been denfed those rights of par- ! ticipating in the affairs of the gov- ernment through the franchise which are conducive to patriotism, the fact nd. Virginia, West Virginia, North arolina. South Carolina, Florida. Geor- ntucky, Tennessee, Alabama Mis ppi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Okla | hor Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada. { Of the native whites of native par- ientage the percentage was six- itenths of 1 per cent for the District, states in offering their sons to fight i j1¢ the average percentage for the foriita canse: &Nt {United States was 3.7. A comparison Civil war—It is significant that the | Of the District in this respect with District of Columbla in each of the'the individual states shows that its controversies in which our people PETcentage of flliteracy of this class have been called to arms contributed ©f Peoble was less than half of any a larger number of its sons than its ONe of the following thirty-three quota. In the civil war they sent 16,- | States: Maine, New Hampshire, Ver- BSCimeniitolthe frone Acoorain ‘mont, Rhode Island, New York, New government statistics, the District's. Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, proportion of man power was thirty- 1llinois, Michigan, Towa, ' Missourl, five one-hundredths of 1 per cent of Kansas. Delaware, Maryland, Vir- the estimated loyal population of the Kinia, West Virginia, North Carolina, country as determined by the census)South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, of 1860, whereas it actually sent into service sixty-two one-hundredths of 1 per cent, or a proportion of about four-fifthis greater than its share. Spanish war—An examination of the census of 1900 discloses that the pro- portion of men which should properly come from the District was thirty- seven one-hundredths of 1 per cent, whereas it actually sent about one- fourth greater than the proportion properly chargeable, or about forty- six one-hundredths of 1 per cent. World war—An enviable record was made by the District of Columbia in the war with Germany. The total vol- untary enlistments in the Army, Navy has found itself involved in war, the people of the District have taken sec- ond placs to those of none of the sissippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Okla- homa, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona. ‘The same census shows that in the District of Columbia the illiteracy among the colored population was 13.5, or less than one-half the cor- responding figures for the United States, which was 30.4, and less than the same percentage for any one of the following nineteen states: In- diana, Missouri, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Caro- lina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mis- sissippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Okla- homa, New Mexico. ¢ comparison of the 1910 ce: with that of 1870, as well as the :l'l‘!:: cessive decennlal censuses, shows a remarkable increase in school at- tendance and decrease in illiteracy among the colored population. The percentage of f{lliteracy among col- ored persons of ten years of age and over decreased from 70.5 per cent in 1870 to 13.5 per cent in 1910, the lat- ter percentage being one-fifth as great as the former. A Demonstration of Fitness. The foregoing statistics constitute an unanswerable argument in sup- port of the legislation which we now recommend. They show that 437,000 8314, which was a larger number than’ in any one of seven states, namely, Nevada, Delaware, Arizona, Wyoming, Vermont, New Mexico and New Hampshire, and only a trifle less than in three other states. Under the first and second registrations, 9,631 were inducted into the service of the government, making a total of vol- untary enlistments and conscriptions into the service of the United States of 17,954 The voluntary enlistments were 46.33 per cent of the total inductions into the service. The percentage which these voluntary enlistments bear to the total number of enlist- 5} while for the District of Columbia it | ersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Mary- | Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mis- | { i 1 i i i i egislation would encounter difficulties through the Intrusion of the radical ele- | (0r Stopped him, with firmne ment seeking to get a foothold are al- ; ready being borne out. The convention now being held in {Cleveland of the farmer-labor-railway ocialist vote finds itself in hot water over the efforts of radicals, and, more- over, of some denounced as being worse than radicals, who “‘want in.” Even be- fore the credentials committee was able to make up the roster of the convention ithe row set in and raged furiously. Some of the socialists, although repre- sented in the original meeting of the “party for progressive political action™ at Chicago are now experiencing diffi- culty in getting into the convention. The Solid backbone of this proposed new political group is composed of some of the railway brotherhoods and allied union labor organizations. These men are neither anarchists. radicals or 1 socialists, but are straight out Ilg Americans. They have naturally re sented the appearance of _elemen which would in their estimation dilu the new party with radicalism, and in chamber, whose face was unfamiliar | wnite it may seem to ur | familtar with the possibilities of rats- {ing camels In America that the at- { tempt can never result in substantiai ! commercial returns, there is another | side of the experiment. We do intro- | duce exotic plants and make a suc- | cess of their reproduction in America: { the Department of Aegriculture is | constantly at work along that impor | tant line of development. We impor land export blocded live tock ibreeding purposes. The most con- | spicucus example of importing a n kind of stock is that of reindes { brought into Alaska only two or thr decades ago. Today, Alaska has ove 230.000 reindeer and they are useful both for transportation and for meat Two-thirds belong to native Alaskans and one-third to Laps and whites Bu? for that importation thousands of natives now would be starving or oh- jects of government support, like the Tndians. It is now pianned to carry a small herd of reindeer to Kodial Island, where natural grasses wiil supnort & large number. s With the Alaska illustration it ix easy to conceive that camels, as wel as Angora goats and other imported animals, may thrive and eventually one - H t the animal industries H ich we are more famiiiar. * x % % It ix a beautiful sentiment that i< expressed in a bill introduced in the House by Representative Wel= Goodvkoontz of West Virginia, to provide a bugler for every American cemetery in France, for the purpose of having him sound “taps’ evers night, in memory of America’s world war dead. Perhaps the sentiment is too unpractical for this material age. | but it appeals to the heart, for there is no train so sweet and weird as the long-drawn sadnese of “taps” But even “taps" would lose its sig- | nificance to the hearers in France. after awhile, for only those who have listened to it in the environment of war can understand its message. i ox ¥ % | To a layman it is a surprieng ! statement of Dr. William C. Fowler. District health officer. that more people of the District die of heart disease than of any other ailment. The rate amounts to 152 per 1,000 popula- tion. He therefore asks for funds for the establishment of a heart clinic, to to a certain new page. and the Youn&- pe contributed by public-spirited or- donors. It is found that one in every fifty children in school has a defective heart. If such as have bad hearts know their own condition they may so regulate their lives as to live for vears, whereas overstrain would serious and probably suddeniy fatal There are 1o funds available for such a clinic here, but in other large cities much good has been accomplished through such means. bidding his intrusion. “Oh, it's all righ ," pro- tested the man. work here.” But the protest was in vain. hat boy was as dauntless as the an- cient Roman: Lars Porsena of C! i By the nine gods he sw But the page's brave naught, for reinforceme the 1 i der, How Clemenceau Paid Expenses Of His Visit to This Country it in the North American Newspaper Alliance should accept and pay for a series of six articles by Clemenceau. EORGES CLEMENCEAU sails today for home, and it may not be amiss to tell now what the case of one element would : : assed @nd these articles were published at in- t uld pollute it might have embarrassed 14,28 charged in Monday's meeting of |, 8 G e was still our)tervals during the perfod of his vi n. him to el There were no restrictions in the con- * % x % Veteran politicians at the Capitol say that this incident furnishes ex- emplification of the inherent weak- ness of the practical working out of a plan for a party composed of spe- clal interests, such as the farmer, labor, rallway and socialist vote. The movement is born containing the germ of its own decay and failure, in that the alms and objectives of the | i | tract. Clemenceau wrote just what he | thought and the papers published what |he wrote, regardiess of their editorial | views on the subjects he diecussed. Out of the proceeds of his newepaper !articles the former premier paid all ex- penses of his American trip, even ine | sisting upon going into his own pocket 'to pay for the wreaths he placed upon i the tombs of Washingtun and other {famous Americans. In most of the | cities he visited he was a guest in the iprivate homes of friends, which gave him the quiet he desired and reduced but aside from the usual guest. It has to do with his trip to America and the financing of it; for be it known that Clemenceau, after more than half a century of devotion to pub- lic service, is a poor man., with no money to pay the costs of transatlantic jauntings. ? From his quict retreat at Vendee the veteran watched events go marching by and knew they were not going we The music_they marched to was dis- cordant and the marchers were out of had_seen but little of ! four year: expenses, f 3 classes composing It must of neces- | funinn in the wounds of war. and in courtesies cxtended distinguished visi- sity clash at times. The farmers ' France, particularly, sores were fester- tors. he declined to be placed under want lower freight rates, yet it is a | physical certainty that " if lower freights and passenger fares are ob- tained wages of rallway men must be f:: cut; and the malntaining wages and securing of be object of the railway bloc movement. of good in The socialists for their ity of the farmers, because they are destructive of property rights, and the radicals who would demolish every existing order of society are the natural enemies of farmer and work- | Domremy five hundred Iggman both. * ¥ X germ of incompatibility of interests. Class legislation does not alw: find its way clear when other class leglislation backs out from the siding onto the main line. * 'k k% President Harding is known to en- tertain very strong views upon these tter is the | the i It ! ipart have doctrines that would mot |t icommand the support of a major- | { { summoned him to play the role of It is predicted at the Capitol that ! gayi the progressive and the farmers’ bloc | zg they confronted the untutored coun- in Congress may shortly experience |try girl who won victories for an in- trouble over conflicting objectives in |grate king. { legislation now pending and feel the | brought him much of wisdom had given {destructive operation of the same pim little of wealth, but they had not s | his body. obligations to any one. * ok % ok i | And when it was found that Lis earu- ings had been more than his expendi- tures, Clemenceau announced that he could not bring himself to profit from w ; visit which had been 50 great a pleasura s t0 her policies and programe. and in which he had been accorded so * k% % Farm and generous a welcome. Accord ngly, he arrange that the surplus And there came to him a call not un- ;"0 rninee should be donated to the like that which came to a maiden at|fellowship fund of the field service of years ago.| American and French universities, ity Movement which has for its ol ‘the France was in danger and the ‘P'"“Imnhushmmt and maintenance of more | :;iendl)' ?l:‘gons Letween the United ulties confronted him, | States and France. oz Bt !™'So there has come to an end an un- |uaunl visit made under most unusual cumstances. It may be that Clemen- had | ceau is not the first European wvisitor who has come to us with & message and refused to take any of our dollars in exchange for it. but the number fx %0 small that the class to which he be- jongs is not at all 100 crowded for com- ort. Urges Poll on Sunday Movies and Singing ing. France, he feared, had lost the sympathy of the world and was in dan- ger of being left alone to nurse her urts, There had been blundering, he new. and while he did not hold his own country guiltless of misadventure e believed a better understanding of ser difficulties would bring softening in he judgments which had- been formed The years which failed to luy their heavy burden upon His spirits told him to jour- ney to America and interpret France. But he had not the means to go and he doubted if he had the strength. Funds were offered him, but he re- fused to accept money that entailed ob- ligation, He wanted to be free to speak his mind without restraint of any capital and help develop the country.|tary of State. Our foreign service It they are not hoarded against the|should be made attractive in every time of return to the home land they | way for men of ability and ambition. are sent oversea$ to help support rela-! Incumbents should feel secure in their tives there. Only a few of them be-|places and remunerated generously come citizens, and still fewer become | for their labors. desirable citizens. American ambassadors and minis-| in persuadin’ yoh friends to jine in de Despite the direct bearing it may | ters have questions of great moment | merriment when whut you needs is bave on the pocketbooks of Judgejto deal with, while American consuls|sympathy.” B plied Miss Cayenne. “Some men get rich by such close economy that no- body can break them of the habit.” | “De danger of tryin’ to laugh away yoh troubles,” said Uncle Eben, “is ments and inductions by way of registration was greater for the Dis- trict of Columbia than for any state of the Union except Rhode Island, Oregon, Washington, California and Maine, and more than one-third greater than the percentage of the country as a whole. Liberty Loans. The showing made by the people of the District of Columbia in the finan- cial support of the government through the purchase of liberty bonds is one of which they may well feel proud. The support thus afforded the government in each of the loans has been largely in excess of that given by very many of the states of the Union, and in each of five loans it far exceeded its quota. Of the liberty loan, the quota wad $10,- for the District of Columbia people, to whom the elective fran- chise is entirely denied, have been and are now ‘supporting the United States with a remarkable spirit of loyalty and devotion. In peace and war they have always acquitted themselves commendably. The per- centage of {lliteracy among them is but six-tenths of 1 per cent, and in- tellectually the Distriet of Columbia holds a place above thirty-three states of the Union. The people of the District are, therefore, both morally and mentally fit to exercise the right which they so earnestly seek as American citizens. Your committee believes that their appeal should no longer remain unheeded, and that now is the time to provide a'means to énible them to participate in the councils of the nation through their chosen represgntatives, nd he was too touchy of his %L’:fl%rnlo risk offending a benefactor. The Jecture platform was suggested as effective way to put over a message and to do it with profit, but he revolted inst asking people to pay to hear that he ards them as of great Im- lea in behalf of his native land. s % ;'lnpall)'. it was suggested by American portance to the country. that the newspapers in the The President feels that the best | fricnos othat (00 Irieq @ falr and un- two subjects, bloc movements and third party growths. He opposes both. When he talks upon these topics he shows by his earnestness interests of all the people will be for- warded by the existence of two virile, aggressive political | constantly facing each other alertly, { the minority party acting as a brake upon the majority. He feels that when the electorate breaks up into nondescript _ poli organisations there will come & menace to the or- nisation of this government and " this would be the only real dan- ger whioch is ever likely to threaten it prejudiced _forum through which he could reach millions, as against the organizations | thousands which could hear his voice; that he could write for the newspapers with the same freedom from restraint that he demanded for the Plfl(form. and that the newspapers would be willing to pay liberally for the product of his = *x ko 80 it was arranged that The Star and the leading newspapers associated with N To the Editor of The Star: We have had polls on prohibition and sundry other ctvic probleme—why not have a poll on the Sunday movie and community singing? Majority rule in civil affairs is an American truism. Do the majority of our people desire a tight Sunday—no movies, 1o theaters, no newspaper, no community singing in public schools? An expression of their opinion by bal- lot would be interesting. I have attended but one of the “eings” at Central High, and this one I enjoyed to the full. Sabbatarianism ls infinitely removed from Americanism, and Christianity is vasely more than "dlyl"—r:.h.!hefs the day be Friday or Saturday or Sunday. JOHN N. QUINN.,