Evening Star Newspaper, December 17, 1922, Page 50

2 THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY.....December 17, 1922 THEODORE W. NOYES...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office. 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. rcagy T York Ofce: 160 Nassau 8t. Chicago Office: Tower Bullding. Luropean Office: 16 Regent lmon.!n‘llld. The Evening Star. with the Sunday morning rdition, is delivered by carriers within the city at 60 cents per month: daily only. 45 cents per vonth; Sunday only, 20 cents per month. Or- fers may be sent by mail or telephone Main 3000, Collection is made by carriers at the vud of esch month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 1yT., $8.4 1yr., $ Member of the Associated Press. Associated Press is exclusively entitled use for republication of all news dis- d to it or not otherwise credited r and wiso the local news pub- All rights of publication of . Z ot patches credi Reclassification. Scnate appropriations commit- continues to hold hearings on the fication bill, which, after ap- proval Ly the committee on the civil service, was referred there for further consideration. Action at the present session is urgently desired, to the end that the proposed reorganization of the departmental service may be ef- fected by the beginuing of the next fiscal yvear. Reclassitication in principle is dem- onstrated to be necessary to permit the establishment of the government rec A8 service upon the basis of efficiency and standardization of duties and com- It is an essential in all siness institutions that workers <hould be rated according to their re- sponsibi and paid in keeping. The sovernment, grown in the course of aecades from a few thousands of em- ployes to 75,000 in this city, alone of the larze employers fails to maintain such a system. The bill that has already passed the House and has received the approval of one of the Senate committees is the product of a long and careful con- sideration of the subject by a group of departmental and bureau workers who have contributed to the project their t as to the most efficient and di on of labors and classi- i n of duties and pay. Their mendations, modified in certain respects and co-ordinated with the general scheme of departmental or- ganization, have been embodied in a measure that is recognized as a fair allotment. Delay in the consideration of the sure by the Senate endangers its « e of passage at this session. It is desirable that when the bill is final- 1y reported to the Senate it should be given the support of all who believe in the principle of reclassification. At the short session obstruction may mean defeat for even the most meri- torious measure. Therefore if the present consideration by the appro- priations committee works to the end of adjusting differences it is well spent. Failure to pass this bill, in some form, at the present session means that a great work will have to be done over again in the next Congress, for it will die with this session. Despite the number and importance of the measures that are now before the body it would surely seem that the Senate can find time before edjourn- ment to take up and pass to confer- ence this bill, which means such a ma- terial economy to the government and such an advance toward the highest effictency in its working force. ——————— The head of a bankrupt New York firm of “business builders,” it is stated in court, said that his salary was $1,900 a week. The question arises, whose business was buiit by such means? ————— A Connecticut tramp, denied aid at a back door, stepped into a touring car and drove off in search of a warmer welcome. Perhaps the car was the cause of his distress. ———————— The chlef of the weather bureau should be added to the fact-finding coal commission in order to assure full command of the situation. juds! ~quitabl met me: Skip-Stops and Traffic. i Consideration of the skip-stop sys- ter is about to be undertaken by the Public Utilities Commission, with a view to determining whether that ex- vedient, adopted during the extreme | ongestion of war times, should now be continued. Two questlons are in- volved, the movement of the traffic in the streets and the convenienc of street car passengers. Undoubtedly from the latter point of view the skip- stop is a nuisance. It lengthens the | distances that must be covered by | passengers in reaching and leaving cars. It entails delays on their part which are not compensated for by the slightly more rapid movement of the cars. It exposes them unduly to the severities of the winter weather. The retention of the rule requiring vehicles to be halted fifteen feet be- hind street cars that are stopping to take on or to let off passengers ren- ders it advisable, for the facilitation of the street traffic, to reduce the num- ber of car stops to a minimum. The more frequently the cars are halted in the downtown streets the more often motors are blocked on car line streets, save those that are equipped with car-loading platforms. Plainly skip-stops are necessary in the crowded downtown section unless more platforms are installed, to the end of reducing the delays incident to the observance of the protective fifteen-foot rule. : It would seem to be possible to adjust this matter on the basis of the trafic. Let the skip-stops stand in the crowded sections and abolish them in the outer ranges of the city, where the traffic is lighter. Study of the street conditions should readily dis- closs the radius at which corner-by- corner stops can be restored without hampering the movement of vehicles. It should always ba remembered that the street railways carry more passengers than the motor vehicles, numerous as the latter have become, and that the convenience of the great- er number is conserved by the adop- tion of rules which will give to car passengers the greatest facllity of access. At present in outlying sec- tions of the city, where the traffic is light, it is frequently necessary to walk two or perhaps three blocks to reach a street car beyond the distance formerly required. The time covered by these morning and evening walks must be added to the travel time re- quired of the car riders in going to and from their daily work. Facllita- tion of car movements means no gain to them. The skip-stops were adopted as a means of lessening, not the street congestion but the track congestion, at a time when the city was over- whelmingly filled with newcomers. Meanwhile the traffic problem has be- come acute. The problem for the Utilities Commission is to determine where lies the point of greatest public convenienc ——————— School Sites. A new site has been proposed for the McKinley Manual Training School at a considerable distance from the present building, which has been long outgrown. This site is of a nature to permit the construction not only of a much larger building immediately, but its extension in the future, should enlargement be necessary. It should be the policy in the plac- ing of new school buildings to select ground that will afford a meximum of room for future development. Much of the trouble of the present arises from the fact that buildings have been placed on inadequate lots, with fixed boundaries such as to cramp and pre- vent expansion. The Business High School is a case directly in point. It has long since reached the limits of the lot and has far outgrown. The McKinley, or Technical, High School has been enlarged until it, too, has reached confining boundary lines, and jts further expansion is not possible save at very great expense. No school should ever be located I save with a view to its development and the increase of its use, unless the policy of smaller buildings is adopted. Experience proves that the larger building, preferably the twenty-four- room building in the graded schools, is the me t economical and eflicient. A unit school like the McKinley High School or the Business High School should be housed under a single roof, or in a specially planned group closely connected. The time may come when the Tech- nical High School will be divided into two sectionally located separate insti- tutions, as was the case with the academic high schools—increased from one to three. At present, however, there is no disposition thus to mul- tiply, and students go to the McKin- ley, @s to the Business, from all parts of the District. In selecting a site for a school con- sideration should be given not merely to the plan of the building of today and the possible building of the fu- ture, but to the recreation space re- quirements of such an institution. At present the McKinley High School has no “playground,” nor has the Busi- ress High School. The students of those schools must find their outdoor recreation in the streets. This is true of several of the grade schools, one of which, located at 10th and H streets, has but a patch of “yard,” with the result that the little children are forced at recess into the streets and are in extreme danger from the traffic. All of these faults should be scrupu- lously guarded against in subsequent school emplacements, and the con- sideration of cost of sites should al- ways be had with a view to the ul- timate utility, safety and economy of the school establishment. ——————— It is a strange fact that in nearly every case of fatality in the streets the motor car has been strictly “under control.” Which suggests that per- haps the pedestrians should be sub- jected to speed limits rather than the motorists. —_———————— Friday's turnover of $1,975,000,000 is calculated to make the European nations feel all the more certain that America is destined to play Santa Claus to save them from collapse. ——————— 1If the householder is to be stopped from “shopping around” for his coal surely some arrangement should be made to guarantee him deliveries from some quarter. ———————————— Three comets and a brand-new star simultaneously in evidence are giving the astronomers the busiest season they have had for years. ———te————— So far Germany has not hinted at offering Bergdoll as a security for an American loan. ———————— Virginia Avenue Extension. A proposal to extend Virginla ave- nue west of Rock creek to the north end of the new bridge in Georgetown has been made in a bill introduced in the House yesterday. The purpose is to provide a suitable outlet for traffic from the bridge and to prevent con- gestion on M street, which is now the only practicable means of approach to the bridge from the east. M street, or ‘Bridge street,” as it used to be called ingthe old days, i8 crowded now, and moreover carries double car tracks. It cannot be widened without destroying business property. Nor, indeed, can Virginia avenue be extended west of Rock creek without entailing some destruction of property. The choice lies between a widened thoroughfare or two streets. In the circumstances there would seem to be no doubt as to the better method. Owing to the topography of the river side of Georgetown conditions are difficult in adjusting modern traf- fic. It is inconceivable, however, that this problem should remain unsolved simply because of those difficulties. Greater aobstacles have been overcome in the past, and this should not be permitted to remain indefinitely, en- tailing delays and involving dangers. Until the proposed Arlington memo- rial bridge is built the new bridge at Georgetown—which it is hoped will be officially named the Key bridge—will remain the chief means of access to THE SUNDAY Arlington and Fort Myer and the Vir- ginia area, which is so rapidly develop- ing. Even with the memorial bridge constructed and in use it will be an artery of first importance. And it is essential that the approaches should be free, with a maximum of room for the flow of traffic. This matter demands early con- sideration. Plans must be prepared and estimates made for the work of cutting this avenue through to the bridgehead, and if the project were approved now, with the utmost speed in these preparations and in construc- tion, several years must elapse before the highway can be opened. Mean- while, the traffic, which is sure to in- crease as the region across the river grows in population, will become bur- densome with only a single artery of approach. The World'’s Biggest Business. ‘The biggest business of the world is conducted right here in Washing- ton. Its treasurer’'s office at the cor- ner of Pennsylvania avenue and 15th street is thé scene of the greatest transactions known to man. Take Friday's record, for example. In one day one billion dollars’ worth of victory notes were redeemed, $275,000,- 000 was collected in income and profits taxes and two issues of notes totaling $700,000,000 were floated. Here was a day's “‘overturn” of $1,975,000,000. Of course, this was not a regular or average day. Tt was one of the excep- tional cases, but at that it was an in- dex of the volume of business that Uncle Sam transacts annually. Few Americans realize the magni- tude of the operations centering here, the vast numbers who are directed from headquarters in this city and the tremendous sums that are handled. business has increased enormously since August, 1914. There has been a reaction, to be sure, but still the size of the government machine has re- mained much enlarged over that of nine years ago. The departmental population of this city, for example, is about double what it was in 1916, though much reduced from the peak of the period when the United States was in the war. A day's business of nearly two bil- lion dollars requires a most effective organization. The United States has such an organization, the product of vears of development. There are some misadjustments in the government's system, some overlappings and lack of co-ordination between departments, but the Treasury stands as a model of efficiency and integrity. It handles these big sums, reaching hundreds of billions, without slip or slackness. Despite all that is said in criticilsm regarding the “red tape” of govern- ment procedure, Uncle Sam’s work is carried on with remarkable expedition and effectiveness. A certain amount of red tape is necessary to check against errors and losses. In the Treasury these checks are especially required. As a result of them that de- partment stands today with probably the highest record ever scored in the history of the world In respect to pre- cislon and with the lowest record of losses. } “Back to the mines,” says Commis- sioner Keller, in search of facts re- garding high prices and short sup- plies. The phrase is as pregnant as when it is used to herald the end of a strike. } Somehow the spectacle of a motor car that has been smashed in an ac- cident does not seem to cure the habit of reckless driving, however large the crowd it attracts. i The householder is far from cheered as he looks at the vacant fuel bin and then goes upstairs to read that “hope” is entertained that there will be no coal strike next year. l It will be quite safe to call almost anybody in Washington ‘governor” tomorrow, with nearly half of the state executives in conference here, i If Poland persists in cutting fits presidential term down to two days it may be difficult to induce anybody to run for the office. l New York is at last putting its ban on jazz. But that is no assurance that the next craze will not be quite as ridiculous. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. l l ! Mystery’s Charm. ‘We like what we don't understand. ‘We scorn the truth that's close at { hand, | And vainly strive from day to day { To solve some mystery far away. The distant stars in space we heed And calculate their size and speed, Forgetful of the wonders shown | By this great earth which is our own. ‘We sympathize from time to time ‘With mishap in a foreign clime, And 1s we generously explore, i Forget the sorrows at our door. ‘We scan the future and the past, Although our present needs are vast And claim the best at our command— We like what we don’t understand. Present, But Not In the Swim. “Four years isn’t a very long period of public service.” “No,” replied Senator Sorghum; “a man doesn’t get well started holding &n office before he's liable to begin feeling like a lame duck.’ Jud Tunkins says anybody can be an optimist when things are coming his way. Costume. ‘Willle in a foet ball game ‘Would, they say, be very tame, Mother makes him wear the suit Just because it looks so cute. ‘Tables Turned. “You used to scorn the cigars your wife gave you for Christmas.” “Yes. Now she makes fun of my cigarettes.” “Whut I'd like,” said Uncle Eben, one o' dese here jobs where it 'pears like @ man don’ have much to do "cep’ git his picture took.” The magnitude of the government!| STAR, WASHIN Politicsat Home Q Roosevelt and La Follette. Mr. La Follette is the most prom- inent, and incontestably the most ac- tive, of those at present agitating in favor of what passes hazily by the name of “progressivism,” and popular expectation picks him as leader two years hence if a third party results. This occasions much talk about the ‘Wisconsin senator, his taléhts and temperament, and one encounters the question @s to how it came to pass that Theodore Roosevelt overtook and sidetracked him as a crusader in the cause of reform. The semator had the start, and in some things the advan- tage, but Mr. Rogsevelt “got there,” and the senator is still struggling for first place. A persuasive opinion expressed is that it was largely a matter of tem- perament. Mr. Roosevelt was down- right, determined, and at times stub- born, but much that has come to light since his death—personal letters and that sort of thing—shows that he often sought counsel. and not infre- quently was guided by it in the more important matters of policy. Mr. La Follette, on the other hand, if we may believe some of his ap- praisers, is more on the Wilson order. He has no counselors, but only lieu- tenants. e plays a lone hand, and holds his cards close to his vest. He not only does not ask advice, but re- sents it when volunteered. He plans his battles without assistance, makes his dispositions after his own notions, and holds file leaders to the strictest accountability. In this latest movement the senator is assoclated with some strong men, built on his own pattern, and, like him, accustomed to issuing orders and insisting on their acceptance. How will they hit it off together? So much is in the scale, and so much depends on nice adjustments, this progressi ism play is certain to attract a great deal of the closest attention. —_—————— The Conventions and 1924. Although a year will elapse before the two national committees meet to choose the convention citles for 1924, discussion of the subject has already begun. The west has been remembered in Denver and San Francisco, and both cities were complimented on their hos- pitality. Both gave the candidates presented a square deal. The middle country has repeatedly sas City have played host to the pol ticians, and played it well. Chicago has been chosen so often, she has ecome to be known as the Convention city. In the matter of railroad con- nections and hotel accommodations she “holds over” her rivals for recog- nition in convention years. In Minneapolis the northwest was recognized some years ago, while ten vears ago Baltimore, a southern cit: entertained the dem . For many years the east has not been a bidde ew York city has not housed a national convention since 1868, nor Philadelphia since 1900. But what is the matter with Boston, with Providence, with New laven, with Trenton? Are they not all right? And shall we see them get their dander up and try for the coming honors? by the climate. Midsummer finds them all pretty hot, while politicians, mill- ing around in a contest for a presiden- tial nomination, generate sufficient heat to suit all tastes and purpose There will be the usual talk about sticking up prices and gOUBINg guests, and pledges demanded—and given— about such practices, but that has come to be a comedy feature of such contests. Nobody takes it seriously, or remembers it twenty minutes after the convention citles have been chosen. Chairman Hull's Suggestion. Did Chairman Hull err—diplomati- cally, let us say—in asking for the national celebration of the November election returns in the name of Jack- son? Jackson day dinners are recom- mended to the faithful throughout the country. Should it not have been in the name of Wilson? Let us consider a thing or two. Mr. Hull is a Tennesseean. He was “raised” on Jackson. The Hermitage is near Nashville. How natural in him, therefore, in thinking of & demo- cratic celebration to think of it in the name of his hero! Disloyalty to, or neglect of, the memory of Old Hick- oty would cost a Tennessee democrat his standing at home. Mr, Wilson is not only alive, but, politically speaking, kicking. He is clearly defined now as a figure in the next great quadrennial tussle. Belief is strong in both parties that he as- pires to dominate the next democratic national convention, not for the pur- pose of taking the nomination for him- gelf, but for that of bestowing it on some man he thinks best prepared to champion Wilsonism in that year's campaign. So that if Chairman Hull had made his suggestion in the name of Wilson instead of Jackson, he might have been accused of using his office im- properly—of putting it at the service of the Wilson boom and maneuver. There are three brands, so to say, of democracy. The Jeffersonian and Wilsonian brands are severely intel- lectual. They make good talk for the Iibrary, or for the lecture hall, but for the hustings, where the plain people gather and demand the real stuff, the Jacksonian brand holds- over both. And at this day the demecratic party is making the effort of its modern life to appear as the friend and repre- sentative of the plain peopls, and as willing to do everything possible for them and in their name. ————— The “unspeakable Turk” may yet sucoeed in putting all the European nations on ‘speaking terms—Cincin- nat! Enquirer, i l ! A reader asks why typewriters are 8o seldom any gecd after the first visit of a repair man, But why limit that question to typewriters?—Kan- sas City Star: Maybe one reason that the men lave made a failure of running the world is because the women have made a failure of the men.—Columbia Record. + Nios thing about applaudi: you don’t get an encore. Press. movies is ttsburgh been remembered. St. Louis and Kan- The lower southern cities are barred | GTON, D. C, DECEMBER 17, 1922—PAR! uestion of Unskilled Worker’s 2. Right to a Wife and Family BY THOMAS R. MARSHALL, Former I are gravely told that unskilled workmen should be pald a wage which is inadequate to enable them to support a wife and child. This suggests that soclety does not need or wish children of such sires, and, inferentially, that these children, if not nuisances, are at best a source of worry and ‘vexation. The old-fashioned man who read Apostle Paul's diatribes agalnst marriage no doubt was impressed with the logic of the apostle’s ar- gument upon this much vexed so- clal relation, until and unless he happened to see the one fair wom- an beneath the sun, whereupon most likely he straightway cast the humped-backed Paul into the discard, notwithstanding the canon of holy Scripture was rent in twain, It is lucky that all men are not compelled to face the ques- tion of marriage from the stand- point of whether they can afford a wife and children. + The new gospel limits the inhibi- tion solely to the unskilled wage earner. It is difficult to under- stand this limitation. One won- ders whether it is based upon the welfare of the present or the fare of the future. Any man who is happily married will give the subject only a smiling glance. He Wwho is unhappily married may give his assent as did the Englishman to the formula that marriages would be happier if they were all made by the lord chancellor. But this new pronouncement in the socfal and economic life of the public deserves more than a smile or a sneer. e If there ever was a time when need of plain men to do plain work existed this s the day. Unskilled labor, consclentiously performed, is at a premium. Many men who claim to be skilled workmen in fact are not. To deny this would be toying with the truth. The im- provement in machinery has made the so-called skilled workman, lberally speaking, half skilled ard half machine. Whether we have been educating the people or not T do not say, but from innumerable plugs we have been turning upon them the nozzles of education and at least wetting them down with information. I often have wondered whether much is to be galned by training @ man with @ natural bent toward chicken stealing for the more remunerative profession of forgers 1t may be that in the development ¢ Amerlca’s wonderful inventive afus discoveries will vet be de as will enable us to do all the world’s work by machinery. In that happy day, it is to be hoped that men who operate the ma- chinery will be sufficiently skilled as to justify their receiving wages sufficient to justify marriage and the rearing of families. But as vet there are things left in life that must be done by the hand of man untrained to follow specifie vocation. This fact ought to be complete just jon for this kind of 2 man. Are we to ha social and economic arrange- ment that will forbid in a democ- racy the existence of such a man? Is it the hope that when the pres- ent unskilled workman dies child- less civiligation will have ad- vanced so far as not to need his successor? * ok k ok This may be a new Utopia, but it would be unsafe to await its ar- rival. We might find ourself bank- rupt and starving. The tireory might do for a monarchy, but it s not consistent with a democ- racy where we prate about the rights of man to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Indeed, it might with equal propriety be suggested that anybody that does not meet the requirements of life 1n any particular shall be deprived {Finaneing Farm Surplus ROPOSAL to restore well round- ed industrial activity and gen- eral prosperity through finan- cing the marketing abroad of the surplus products of the farm is made by Represcntative A. P. Nelson, republican, of Minnesota, himself a financier, In a bill which he has In- troduced In the House, and which Senator Peter Norbeck of South Da-| Senate. Norbeck bill kota is fathering in the Briefly, the Nelson- provides for the War Finance Corpo- | ration to purchase drafts or other in- struments against grain shipments abroad. The drafts are to be drawn against and guaranteed by good, reputable forelgn importers and then guaranteed by the forelgn govern- ments where tho grain is shipped. A revolving fund for this purpose is provided in the amount of $200.000. So that this measure really proposes temporarily to extend the powers of the War Finance Corporation by au- thorizing it to advance money to for- elgners, when properly secured, for the purpose of aiding exports of our foodstuffs and thereby increasing the shipment of our surplus crops abroad. | How this will help all industry and lead to general prosperity is argued thus by Representative Nelson: The farmer is the purchasing agent for 40 to 45 per cent of all the manufactured products in this nation. He must be enabled to become a purchaser by selling his own products at a profit, otherwise within two years stagna- tion will be produced by his paralyzed purchasing power. Unless he is able to sell at & profit, he cannot buy: if he cannot buy, the factories must shut down; if the factories shut down, the workers In the factories will be thrown out of employment; if they have no work, they will get no pay and cannot buy, and we come back to the farmer, who will have no market for his crops. 1t's a vicious circle, and Secretary Wallaco and Assistant Secretary Pugsley agree that this is the way it must work out economi- cally. P “The farmer must be rehabilitated if our commercial and_economic life is to be stabilized,” Representative Nelson emphasizes. The situation of the farmer is very trying and acute, President Harding has told Congress. In a good many instances it is not a question of extending more credit, because often the farmer is not now able to pay taxes and interest on the eredit he already has, If he is given more credit, it will, to a certain ex- tent, be putting him in a worse hole, because he will have more interest to pay. “The big thing,” Representative Nelson argues, “is to fix it up so that the farmer will get more for what he produces. He must get a price for what he sells that will let him pay his way nr.:;’i xelt a margin over the cost of production. ‘His bill proposes to do this by get- ing: the surplus production of the armer sold in foreign markets as fast as it can be absorbed in a safe &nd sane way. Thus we would get rid of the surplus that is a glut on the home market, forcing prices down. AB the surplus is sold abroad of wife and childten. 1 take it that if we were to take a vote, which is a good way to settle things in a democracy, on whether the unskilled workman or the wild-oats-sowing rich son should be denied the right of marriage and family, the good hard common sense of the country would render a verdict in favor of the honest hard-working laborer. Not what a man does but how he does it, -whether his labor be skilled or un- skilled, should be the measure of his glory in a republic. The issues of life and death will in very much as they now are rdless of the schemes and of those who would theories change them. We may lay impious hands upon the Ark of the Co we shall nant if we will, but never be able to break it open, much less take out and destro the Book of the Law. Man and woman have been joined together as husband and wife by either God or a marrying justice since time began. It been of no mo- ment whether parents or preachers or political economists advised the £tep. In the future, as in the past, youth will he served. * ok k ok The quarrel goes on whether en- vironment or heredity makes the men. One can successfully up- hold cither side of the contro- versy. Much as we think we know about it, we know little about it. There is a saying in the middle west that it is just three generations from shirt | sleeves to shirt sleeves. The ex- pression epitomizes that an un- kil workman m by pers verance, thrift, foresight, make a fortune, that his son may regard his solo business in life to be to spend the fortune, and that his grandson may be back to the k., shovel or ax. It is unfor- tunate that we did not establish the economic limitations to th right of life, liberty #nd the pur- happine: ecarly in the of our country. If we had r it. say ‘along about 1800, lazy, unskilled, incompetent Thomas Lincoln would have been denicd the luxury of a family. The world would have been saved from the birth of Abraham Lin- coln. The black man might still be in slavery and we could breed a crop of unskilled laborers suf- :k‘h-nl frttiln' t the demands of the imes without dange of flooding the market e It well impossible to prevent sed people of intellec- fual capacity from pouring their ‘nefactions upon needy world ho best of us a vaond - 8o sure that we know what is bes world that we cannot r(‘f[rn,{?lrfr‘ts:: imposing our Views. But some- how our blessings will not soak .:x»l:.m:‘?‘vnw Bieart of man. The low is quite willing to trade ‘advice’ for o conires By with a little kindness thrown in. He seems to feel that he must work out his own salvati s fon {v:r n;\dhtrunh!mr The (mo“(;'ek: sire of the normal man let alone in this. e E ¥ ok % Real reforms always have and always will start in the masses of society—not in the brains of men and women who never as- sociated with the masses. The best of us as well as the worst of us have u fecling of resentment about many things which doubtless would be good for us, but which we prefer to discover for ourselves. With timidity 1 venture to assert that the world is being uplifted too much. The one periment of cating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden ought to have taught that there some things it is just as well for us not_to know. It will tend to peace if we will let peo- ple go on marrying in the old way. It will accomplish much if precept and example we can till into American society the al belief that there are no such per se. as masses and We must catch the real of democracy. which Is nothing more than the idea that all labor is honorable, that he is an artisan who loves his work and does it well, that to such a one the republic helds out the ample prize of opportunity. (Copyright, 1922, by Thomas R. Marshall.) Exports | prices would gradually go up. while !the farmer would be receiving addi- al revenue from his foreign sales, i h would help to finance his pro- i duction of the food supply for the na- tion. The Nelson-Norbeek bill does not provide for anvthing but what is safe and sane financing. It calls for i sufficient and proper collateral or guarantee so as to reduce losses of the Finance. Corporation to what are ordinary_ safeguards of flnance in i trade. Representative Nelson calls ' attention that the joint resolution that called for the rehabilitation of the War Finance Corporation was { executed with a view to assisting in the financing of the exportation of agricultural and other products to foreign countries. But in the act itseyf, section 23. the operations are limited practically to the TUnited States when it savs: “All notes or other instruments evidencing ad- vances to persons outside the United States shall be in terms payable in thé United States, in currency of the United States, and shall be secured by adequate guaranties or indorse- ments in the United States or by “warehouse receipts, acceptable col- ylateral or other instruments in writ- | ing conveying or securing marketable !titla to agricultural products in the | United States.” L | So, the Nelscn-Norbeck bill simply { makes possible that the War Finance Corporation shall become the means of handling the surplus products of agriculture and to sell them to for- | eign consumers or In foreign markets upon sufficient gua. anties. Under this blll an exporter in this country milght buy 1,000,000 bushels of wheat for $1,000,000 and ship . it ito an fmporter in Spain. The ex- | porte would draw a draft for three months, or longer, on the Spanish Importer for $1,000,000, The Spanish importer would accept it by writing his name across the face, which would hold him responsible. The importer would then take it to the Spanish Eovernment, which would cause it to be indorsed by the proper officer, which would make the government Also responsible. This draft would then be maliled to the United States exporter, He could cash it in at the War Finance Corporation and take the money and buy another shipment for another foreign country or the same country, X The foreign | tmporter would sell this 1,000,000 bushels of wheat to millers on, say ninety days’ time, The mil- Jers would sell to the bakers on ninety days’ time. The bakers would make it into bread and sell to their custo- mers, who would pay cash in small amounts, The bakers wouid then pay the miller, the miller the importer and the importer would pay the War Finance Corporation. lv{;nen the l?nned States gave 20,000,- 000 bushels of grain to Russia, im- mediately corn went up 15 to 20 cents a bushel and wheat went up several cents & bushel, showing that as soon as a few million bushels surplus of grain is removed then the value of the entire holdings is increased On 3,000,000,000 bushels of corn at 10 cents & bushel it would mean $300,- 000,000. On 800,000,000 bushels of wheat at 10 cehts a bushel it would mean $80,000,000. l {dend check, but what it holds is a | | | NEW YORK, December 16. S most New Yorkers, they get five or fift dollars a year, 1, beyond their incomes, wnes the Christmas season approaches, the many charitable institutions of the metropolis are driven to all sorts of expedients to try to raise the funds they need. Every mail is burdened With their appeals, and I wonder sometimes if the printing and postage do not absorb too lurge a proportion of the donations for charity. Mot of these institutions now so-called “wiiciency” methods. ficial-looking envelope wrrives, be ing in one corner, “Thomas W. L. mont, treasurer.” At first sight 1 looks as if it might contain a divi lot of tube ulosis fund stamps, for which . You ure expected emit. Special appeals are b e holiday. Your birthday by an appeal from some hospitul Your luncheons are interrupted by contribution box haken tnder vyur nose by a pretty girl. And at every corner in the business district is collector for some sort of u Christ- mas fund, often advertised by a bell- ringer. = * ¥ ¥ ¥ Christmas Sales Everywhere. GREAT varlety of gifts to select from is one of the advantages, or disadvantages, of metropolitan life. As Christmas approaches there is not a hotel without a sale of some sort going on under the name of chari Italian laces, bags made by the sight- less; Ukrainian needlework, work of the ‘Greenwich Village weavers, toye made by old men, trinkets made by disabled soldiers. The New York store tide assemble an arra all parts of the world. In fact, if You know whe to look for them t = kets from every land can be found at any time in the city. A friend of mine who recently made a Balkan trip spent a day or two before he went buying remembrances for his friends 50 that he would not be bLothered ith shopping and customs whil abroad. After his return he distribut ed the things, bought right in New York, and none of his friends was the wiser. . 100, at Yule- of gifts from A Fashion Hint for Men. a group that dropped in at house for a bite to eat after the play the other evening was Ray Long, who is reputed to get a President's salary for running a group of u zines. A new dinner coat that = by the ladies present. of black velvet and with it he w @ black velvet wai tashioned black These stocks, by the wa ing again into vogue, though Gilbert, the architect, and several of the artists have been wearing hem for years. Properly made, they cost from $5 to $7 each The =il top_hat has almost p: out of use in New York. At a 1 day reception the other day only one was visible, and even at ti they are scldom scen, being largely reserved for funerals and But at the Metropolitan there scems now to be an increasing use of t collapsible opera hat, which a he It had lap re my | wearing was instantly acclaimed | i old- | SOME INSIDE STUFF ABOUT NEW YORK BY WILLIAM JOHNSTON. whether ! Fvoklyn. thousand | hut, I suspee: up to or! change. £easory ago could be found only in The diflic getting in and out of limousi a ton is r for the Modern Bankers All Talkers. V_\m. ST 10 keen § cent re ha reversal of this pol week passes w it the so-called internat aking specches. The freque 1 but shut re entire ting pre-war prics ver compelled to for e relati our relat American rations tion th tendi ually rl presentation ni nd the owed us by Covir sixty ye lenn Frank's Thea N ANK who student draft the nations, n Society’s Latest Fad. EX AUSTIN Heard and Seen my friends, including what I know about Coue and his method of autosuggestion. The writer was perhaps one of the first persons in Washington to test out autosuggestion according to the method of Emile Coue of Nan France. Last June in an F street bookstore I ran across a thin little volume, “The Practice of Autosuggestion,” by C. Harry Brooks, in which is an ac- count of the Coue clinic, the psycho- logical basls for the method used and an account of the “method” it- self. During_ August there appeared in local bookstores the first translation ! of M. Coue’s own pamphlet, “Self Mastery Through Conscious Auto- suggestion.” With the aid of these two books. particularly the former— for Coue is a doer rather than a writer—it was easy for any one to put the method into practice. - * % To embolden the timid and the skeptical, let me get personal just for a space. All my life I suffered with so-called sick headaches. The best orthodox medical opinifon regards them as probably hereditary. “My boy,” the wise men would sa “this thing will wear itself out by the time you are fifty vears old.” But that was not very encouraging —something like “Oh, don't worry; it will be all the same when you are a hundred years old!" By attention to the general laws of hyglene, as best I could, I managed to stop the frequency of the head- aches. Then T found Coue. Since last June I have had but one attack, and that not a bad one. Is thera anything In it? Well, just try it for yourself Tven if you have only enough belief in it just to try it, that is enough for a beginning. Conviction will grow with success. * * “Day by day, In every way, I'm get. ting hetter and better.’ That is the sentence which M. Coue has sent around the world. It is so simple, just a little sen- tence, made out of words like any other sentence, that when one first beholds it he is apt to ridicule the whole thing. But there is genius in it. A man who has spent his life study- ing the things of the mind, Coue has boiled all his experience down into that sentence—and a bit more. After all, there 1s a great deal more to Coueism _than just that one sentence. For the Coue (pronounced “Coo- ay”) method 18 8o simple that it is inclusive and so easy that it is great. “Why, we have been teaching right thought for vears!” they exclaim But it is something like Columbus and his egg. It was easy enough after he showed them how. Some- thing like Alexander the Great and his Gordian knot. After he cut in that way anybody might have thought of it. The great merit of Coue, and one which no amount of skepticism or sneering will obliterate, is that he has come forward with a simple. tan- gible, practical method for putting into effect great broad laws of psy- chology- % * * Coue's method is not & religion. Let that become known widely, for many seem to think that it has some- thing to do with religious beliefs. It has not. It is science—merely an eminently practical method of ena- bling the conscious mind to direct the subconscious mind. By use of the imagination, or thought, as directed by Coue, one is able to help himself in many ways. As - that great psychologist, Je of Nazareth, sald centuries ago, “As 13 your faith, so be it unto you.” CHARLES E. TRACEWBLL. have asked me to tell them | | i \ | Fifty Years Ago in The Star W. W. Corcoran’s “Harewood,” known as about was add comy to Enlargement of D Soldiers’ Home. |, by purchase fifty vears ugo, Star, in its issue of December 10, commenting the m t s this institution he home was founded by Licut General Scott who, during the Mexica war, levied contributions upon severi of the larger cities of Mexico, A por tion of these moneys was expended for 1 commis the purchase of clothing sary stores for t nder, §118,000, tation, was <h superannuated soldiers of the Regula Army. The home has proved one the most beneficent of our national ir stitutions and has sheltered and fo thousands of veterans who might othe wise have lived on the grudging ch rit of friends and relative to be a self-suppo since it asks no_appropriations froi Congress and whoily upon the small sun tributed by eve Army, the pensions s per month cor soldier of the Regula: of in upon the c order of ¢ tial of th of soidiers. These Source = of revenue are quite adequate in suj port of the home: in fact, the late pui cl e was paid for out of qui larg surplus on hand, and it is the intention of the board of commissioners to «x- pend a part of what remains in the erection of additional buildings to me: ' the continuall: g demand for more accomn; ns. The home will then be equal in capacity to the na sylum for di . Ohio. led volunteers & “When the Harewood estate, whicl is contigmous to the grounds of th home, is laid off in footpaths, drive | miniature lakes, etz the home will be one of the most beautiful and attractive features of the Capital. The home itself o interest from the the summer resort of 1 during the rebeilion.’ On the night of December 10, 1872, 4 fire occurred in a ith avenuc hote York,and cleven Fatal Fire Shows of the scrvant . wirls employed Fire E!CBPC Need' in the estab- lishment wera burned to death. The Star of the twelfth, commenting upon this tragedy. called attention to the fact that the building was not equipped with fire escapes, and that the laws in re- spect to them were £0 lax as 10 permit such lapses of construction and main- tenance. It continued: *“What seems to be a positive necos ity are municipal rezulations in every ", say over two stories high, to vide a_stationary fire room from the second story upward. “This could be done at slight expense, 2 the escape need mot be anything mor: . than a rope ladder, or & simpl: knotted rope, reaching from the window to within a few feet of the ground. down which persons in the upper rooms might glide in safety. Time under xuch circumstances s en better than money, and with such a stationary fire escape in every room not & moment need be lost in waiting for afd from the outsida of the building. 1f such regula- tions were enforced every occupant of the room, like the possessor of a berth on a steamer sloeping with a Jife pre- server under his head or within reach would know the exact location of the fire escape and just how to use it for his own preservation. In the case of (B fire at the Fifth Avenue Hotel the un fortunate servants in the upper stories were effectually cut off from escape by means of a burning cased windows. and per: before ald could reach th contrivance of i ro pe—supposing that no bar exikt prevent egress by the windows—would doubtless hive saved their lives”"