Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1922, Page 6

1 ; 8 ___—————:—_—__—___—__m__———___——.————_.—_—— THE EVENING ST. 'AR, | that is involved In an immediate re- *! sponse and the ordinary perils of the With Sunday Morning Edition. | gireete are ‘multiplied. So that every time a false alarm is sounded the city WASHINGTON, D. C. i3 exposed to additional dangers. ‘WEDNESDAY .December 20, 1922 | Furthermore, a false alarm is de- — | moralizing to the fire department. In- THEODORE W. NOYES......Editor . evitably a needless run lessens the ! vigor of each company so summaned. The Evening Star Newspaper Company | When these false alarms are con- Bustaess Oice, 11th St. and Peunsslvania Ave. | tinued day atter day and night after | ™ Tower Building ! night, until they reach an average of | European Oftice : 16 Regent St., London, England. ; one in every thirty-two hours, the city's security from fire is lowercd. Recently two men were arrested on rge of sounding false alarms, one | “m a member of the dgpartment. | i ‘The Evening Sta edition, 1s delivered at 60 cents per month month: Sunday only, e xnt by m Teetlon 15 made” by . with the Sunday morning rrices within the city are now awaiting trial. It Is} { rare. however. that those who pull the i boses without cause can be identified T'mo., 7oe.and the fire depactment is at the! . 1mo. Sue | tricksters, or of those - 1mo., <ound the alarms for the | ! Other States. urpose of creating a diversion to, .1 mo.. hief. ! 1ce has been ordered | « who sound the alarms . ver caught they | the utmost i ty and given the limit of the| law, and if a few such punishments s not check the practice, which has | become a public 1ce, these penal- ies showld be d by statute to’ sounding of false alarms too indulgence. Dally and Sund Dally only Sunday only . Al Daily and Sunday..1yr. Inally only Sunday onl $10 o Member of the Assoc The Associaied Pross is exi to the uwe for republ e patches credited to it or ¢ in_this paper and also th lished “herein. Al rights of paht special diciate s T me Public Service. i In accepting his vesiz Jf that Institation the tru B — of the Univer of Ivar 3 adopted and cabled 1o conard | The Buck Lines. Woeod the following | tration of the value and the pIhe trustees of sity of te branch library facili Pennsylvania profoundly r T yeur | tiic phatic decision, but realizing its fin i el Gl L bow again. as they have in U x the seencs that Lave been to the pu uty which you have a wted since its openin at the new way o1 us of i e it I itheast Lranch of the Public Li . wary. F poned « Lis month, wil a stu this institution h: | Wi cver since with re mmmsl and borrowers, until the shelves ha e § been virtually empty, and even the 1oan™ of additional volumes from the ary. which can ill spare| < not sufficed to meet the de- | Gen. Waood's action of sacritice to public The post at Philadelphia was | with every prospect of a stable tenure. Tut the country bec oned, and the A in the midst ! hilippine billet was ac- | ge o g, ated. according to | cepted. Hinrary radius How long Gen. Wood will remain = Manila E n. As Ic course, as h i the billet tance. W far east, and unsettled condition Men of the Wood s n *d—con:petent He daty before p accept public s anch build ted a pic- nt of vaiting for admittancs iscouragements and due to the lack of of personal comifort and monef re < flic the pressure c e y | tinues and cven increases The f: Competency is widespread. It in-i« tnat the pecple of that section of heres in our institutions. “The republic | (pa city, lon= denied access to a dis- Is opportunity.” and men and Women | (ripyting center, are book hungry, ! Wwithin reach rise to it. | and the ook lines are to be considered | Seltsacrifice is more rarely found.| gy quite as worthy of attention and | It is not common. Ease and reward | rojjef as the bread lines that are oc-| make a strong appeal to everyday ! casionally formed when phy human nature. But the country aticer s felt by a communi | this disturbed period needs In eVery | one of the children who managed ,,‘! important post a person equal to itS, got a volume from the southeast duties, and should not be denied. | pranch told her teacher later that it | had been read by every member of | Progress and Progressives. the household. It was a book of fairy | As Mme. Roland might say—and |Stories. Can anything more pointedl { probably would i living—"0, Prog. | prove the need of an early filling of all { ress, what amazing propositions are | the shelves at this branch and the es-{ presented in thy name!” { tablishment and- stocking of other So-called—self-named — progressives | branches throughout the city? are much in evidences in Congress| It was stated in connection with the and out. Each is carrying a pack— | opening of the southeast branch Santa Claus fashion—filled with | these regional distributing schemes for saving the day and the | Serve as the arteries of the Lbrar, government. He gives you choice. | System through which the circulation There is notLing niggardly in his na. | flows. Just as there must %e blood in | ture. | the human system to maintain heaith | As a rule, he is sincere. He has con- | and life, so there must be books in vinced himself that things are all|the library system to keep up the in-i awry. He is likewise patriotic. He is | tellectual life &f the community. not seeking the destruction of the gov- ———————— i n r LIPSy event. thie pollcy: set forety by Peals_to ithe imaglnation: ‘of ‘every: e b iml‘;'m > _"h'“, et been sent on other assign-jih au¥ CHERL L0 B0 Ygencrally re- body Interested in education or ethics. | and_comprchensive program of pro- | wants improvement in the conduct of| Americans do not want a shalby, = islation by cannibal natives, who prepared for { the lower house republican by a bli ; ; O e ey ke | 0o ore Tl Gemniation adds s is “final" the Mobile @ feasting. Suddenly up came the|greatly reduced mafority. public affairs, and busies himself in pla i { voice to the demand for more money St leons Jut it “is not con. chief of the tribe, and he, after gazing { The republicans in Both chambers devising means for bringing it about. | Sreatest, most beautiful and most; . " poo0 Only those remain to be | vincing.” obviously reflection on upon the prisoners, set them free and | Will be immediately put on record tc The danger lies in the epidemic that | Pearly perfect capital in the world, a what are known as our free in gave them safe conduct to their mis- make good their declarations of in- = e epemie at| ital that will outdo Parls, Londo: jenrolled that have not yet had a|ti However haphazard prohibi- sionary station. terest in the policies which many of exists. A fad is running. Taking the | capital that will | =, ™ | chance to record themselves. enforcement may have been ou do not recognize me,” said the {them claim to favor, and some of Constitution apart and passing upon |2nd Rome in every way that a na-| under the doctrine oncurrent chief to the young men of the cloth, { Which doubtless would be proposed tion’s capital may. More Americans | S Dowers' it is better, the Register “but I know vou well emough. You [by republicans if that party con- were along with me at Balliol three jtrolled the governorship and legis its timbers—usually in a spirit of con- demnation—has become almost a| sport. are interested in Washington than in any other city, for with practically all | But maybe there is safety, too, in | Americans ““‘h"“—‘l"“ ‘:“l‘_‘elm“‘ I a L o SSen. for that principle was not Now, savs the advocate of the higher | ture will, politicians sag, demon: the epidemic. So many are bitten and | teresting. the most thought-of and the | 0 Tetognized in the Constitution educations, there is proof of the bene- [to the voters h York democratic or republican, most read-of city outside of their own | home town. Every Washingtonian ! who travels can' test this out with| active under the bite, they may foil | one another. Divisions among them are showing, and when extremists fall out men of conservative opinions get| Men and women he talks with instatesmen at e s R and :K{:“flersi:fhf: the. tuture. i Again, the dusky leader of the savages | platform at the polls last November. thelr due—thelr chance to shape| trains, hotels, stores and streets. He |highly enlarged coalition suggestlon. | *py,c’court has, indeed. advanced va was narrow In his statements He| Thus sentiment for 1354 Wil be 1o | novnt fhebry." but perhaps, the Hart- sald that he, as a Balliol man, would | the maKing. and the voters, even so can prove up this statement with men | things in\ a conservative way and! spirit. he meets in any place within the | SHOOTING STARS. | o o the Volstead act is being pose the prisoners had been of Exeter | the great contest for national and +Progress, of course, is imperative, | bounds of the United States. | Spenty, defantly and proftably vio or Magtalen—what then? Or suppose |state control in that year. | 5 " <5 * . jority i Y Pl v VSON. lated demands that there shou! be that they ha een Cambridge men ¥ e X The push is so great withstanding it| The vast majority aoyAm Suicsud B RHILANDER JOENEON: tome such departur To this the whom he had met at the. oatirnoast . b is out of the question. The question | Want their capital to be one of superb e e Tournal-Courier replies Would they have escaped so easily? In Ohio it is thought that the re- is, Whither? and how far and fast? | public buildings. ample parks, smooth, | Help Wanted. Qirectly, doubting that the Times, The ethical side of the story must be { publicans are’likely to run closer to o R { clean, brightlighted and well ordered | Friend Santy put away his sled. i chles) e iieome faced. Thero 18 o hint that the mis | regular conservative legislative form { streets: they want Washington to have | An airship he secured instead. B sk, “that because @ asan old college chum. Was his word | than in New York. The difficulty in The situation cannot be regarded as | unhopeful when the most peace-loving | the best water serv nation in the world is securing con-| trol of the money which might be| -e, police, fire| buildings. They expect Washington toy) d lavishly squandered on munitions. be the “last word” In civic govern-ip, o pefore he had hard luck. e is crumbling faster than even.the chief, “unless you have credentials | given Mr. Fess for the Senate, would ment. Americans are proud of the| D adisupnosed: AP ou must base your kindness on some- : 1 . 2 el el e owentits | A badjtojsceicisomefoth eripiEn e etk Virginian-Pilot secs | thing besides a previous acquaintance | SPREAr 1o be favorable to the drys Various governments who have ap-| - % = | They took him for a bootleg man. 1t the ifth amendment has merely ' which I do not recall, Pretend to be | But, (he Political manipulators Wit Plied for tunds are heginming to shake €61 Sccure and justified in that pride. their heads sadly at Uncle Sam and | NOWHeTe In citles, towns or country | assert that they no longer believe in ol € Tt an American who thinks or speaks of | i tion of new associations. They can be | the statement that there was nothing |senger boy wildly dashing down toland stand upon the wet and dry | created whenever a group of people |doing in Washington and this is what i where he hoped to get a cognition | aw [ forces. Some of the “territories” of ! tain way conflict over territory means | tie s {tie point of interference and a lessen- | foreign posscssiona and delieate fal, lched the happy. carefree throng | New Yorl ir t onomous vigor of the in-|rics for milacy's wear. T watched the into one of our many beautiful { S0 in New York. reputed to be the stronghold of cohiservatism, is Yound $ dividual sroups of cal hun-; ; service and school system and school | Because he hit another plane. DOrt & aasurance of the Bill of Rights would never have accepted life and | NESDAY, - DECEMBER 20, 1922. THE EVENING® STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WED the basis of the widest territorial in- clusion and the most distinct responsi- bility, undertook to establish'a series of boundaries which would be respect- ed and would furnish the foundation of future developments. Naturally, some opposition arose on the part ef associations that thought that their d THERE in WASHINGTON | | | Politics at Large BY N, O, MESSENGER. HERE an BY “THE MAJOR” The drift of political sentiment in such key states as New York, Ohio and ‘Indiana is being watched closely by politiclans, looking forward to the influence which these commonwealths will exert In the presidential election in 1924. It may be said that the in- terest of republicans in possible de- velopments takes on a keener shade of anxiety than is felt by the demo- crats. This is ascribed to the fact that the democratic party is more “set” and definite in its declaratiops OMETIMES you hear an indi-to show the beautiful things in atock. vidual Zay there Isn't a thing |1 dropped into a one-arm lunchroom, territories were being curtailed, and doing in this town. The discon- [my continental breakfast not having partly in consequence of that factor tented one is wrong; there 'Is ' proved sufficient to withstand the nothing came of the effort. The Fed-|always something in this or any other cravings brought by the cool, crisp eration of Citizens’ Associations did [town. There are many things of in- mornipg. I heard an eminent jurist effect such a mapping of the District, | terest taking place every day, but the discussing Clemenceau’s visit, but the but unfortunately it does not include 7€t trouble s that the majority of fone who listened was thinking more all of the associations, and its jurisdic. | PEOPLe do not take hieed of things that |about 1 e 5 " ha s something that is|good ball team 3 ;‘:;;j:’;rlt:z;‘;’z‘e‘;" pEsinotbessint | of particular interest to them. After | talk with the others ran mosily of Christ e i having heard just such a remark the |mas and the gifts they were going to s “|other day I started out to disprove |buy. On the street 1 saw a mes- a question and on progressivism than the in the same neighborhood feel that happened. 1 saw a great hole being that would mean a larger Christmas/republicans. their inte ts are not being sufficient-| made in Mother Earth. It was to be present. Then I entered one of the New, York democrats, for example, Iy rded or thelr wishes prop |the cellar and subcellar of a ten-story |city's stores and saw a great con- |have gone to the most extren® pos office building. I saw two large steam |course of humans, each endeavoring ;‘lx';z ll:'l{lhaw.- ever taken in the shovels at work scooping up hundreds | to get the greatest value for the | proqening® ;o %y cfaimed by of pourfds of earth at a time, lifting {money expended. 1 saw tired, but|socialism and radicalism. it to mid-air, swinging it around over | o clerks, answering Qquestions|a movement in-the republican rank 2 adiovdrd Ballts in New York to emulate in a milder l;“c"x< 55‘3:“’ depositing the dirt ' ¢nat would have taxed the wisdom of | degree the democratic attitude on therein, and saw the trucks roll away ‘golom 1 dered how the floor | state and national is: oAt tione - ¥ 'Solomgn. wondere national issues. the associations are elongated, and it, with four tons or more. I noticed wlkers could possibly remember in * ok ok ok is natural that as the city develops|with a new interest these big excav: chat part of the store each line of | significa i : h 2nd as population shifts somewhat the | tors, awkward looking thi iv ficanoeie attachicd N e S0 | b ooking things, giving |the goods was kept. 1 caughta car—|tion of nine republican members of outer ends, so to speak. should break | the appearance of a shanty, from i was filled with freight, partly hu- i¢he Unjted States House of Repre- off under independent auspices. which stuck out a huge arm, and sus- man partly presents. 1 tarried not.|sentatives in making a “direct appeal A careful consideration of this whole | Pended from this a great bar. the®nd | for, as crowded as the sidewalks!,, giate Chairman Morris of the re- stion should be had through the | Of Which was attached to the scoop. |might be, locomotion there could be|pypiican gtate committee to call a or perhaps through a|One could not Imagine for a moment {paq with greater comfort. 1 went|oonrerence of republicans in the - e Commissioners: | that this collection of steel. wood 4nd | through the market and watched the r the Commissioners' | ' i "performn efficientiys but it | e Kt 1s 5. wewildering | H0u%@ and In the legislature, of state | presentatives of all the| qjq. put awkward loc 15 it was i e ATana e W | SO dcemeniandBeoRE Y SHED B0 T iations, whether or not they are | ; 14 maze. ibutiif you (s cuss and advise on the proper policy asigr b RIS R AR L e nv vou will find that it runs with-{to pursue in order to uphold r-pul ers of the federation. In a eer-| cihetic duncer. [ dows r | saw hawkers of |liéan principles and ideals and re ir store window 1 saw istore the faith of the people in our ction. a wat: vend rs of | civie health, but it can be carried tonovel bits of from cne of our ion to yield a maximum of swictly local expression, but undoubt- ealy it tends somewhat to scatter ents us me San tprrty by adopting a constructive and nd noveltles of Yuletide. Ijpriiresvive program in the state of 1 rrier going from door o door oy on his Lick he bore a bulzinz pack, | w smsement palaces. 1 watched the | 0n e ol O . To be | 3 ndow-shoppers, viewed some me-{sure, i* is no p enipg 10 An a‘- P while in his arms he carried many |chanical toys. 1saw the great presses |preciable degree thus far, since the A Fair Carpetbagger. letters, boxes, packages, and such like. | eatins up thousands and thousands of | 910 Kuard leaders do not seem Git Some of her political opponents are |I viewed a stalled electric car, beauti- | yards of ribbons of white paper; Ilconference. They @y modlfy their disposed to treat Lady Astor as a car-|ful work of the builder's art, but a|saw these same presses dellver the resistance later, however. petbagzer. At a meeting the other |sad. helpless thing without motor |finished product with the news of the * * % % Y. when an effort was made to,howl {POWer- On the next corner was|world delivered to you fresh and} 1t was a bold and frank admission he# down, one of the howlers burst |Guiscppe. on his cart reposed fruit | clean for but two pennies. 1 saw a| wpich the nine rgpresentafives in ey it and other tempting things. His com- | steel worker perched high on @ web- | conoroce made to the publie in their Well, her ladyship might do worse. |Ponion of warmer days, Jocko, was [like structure, apparently Unconcerh: yetier. to the state chairman. Srelacy enjoying a respite, but with the warm |ed that many feet separated him from | ., . satd, ca would be glad to recelve her, | 4 i 3 . “It is our bellef,” they sald. “that L e e eaiGE ek 0avs ol euiing ghe (wouldiagainivers (ol gronna S Teaw, & head onficols o, s tate i St Bwastioyery helmed h") DL A g '@ would | form before his owner's organ. Then [lision between two flivvers. I saw af, = eTactivont becance oncy v effect an entrance into poli-|my gaze rested upon a little old crea- {big bus with a load of happy, laugh- ek il ) nd become as prominent in that [ture selling mistletoe. I saw men Lok ling young fc Surista . 1iaay partydllost contact iwith ithe ipeonls ide the water as she has{at it out of the corner ot their eyes|business men passing to and rml“";" A g '"‘(“’! ':’|“" ;","," o ;. e and T hea : SR b s ~ 3 o Adence and support at the polls. . th de. Awjond T heard youns girls giggle asjeach intent upon doing that which ol Ge "o “ihtire state ticket, th: 1t for office in | they passed it b and 1 cou'd not {would increase his bank account. Ifcontrol of the state scnate by th e~ native state, or |PeID paraphrase and thin and al- [saw th- newsboys darting hither and | democratic party and the defeat 1<band's, she would | Wa¥8 the twain will meet 1 enter- |thither. carrying great bundles of :!Many republic congressng 5 3 e¢d an F street shop, where ! saw |ps ¢ 3 nad as | nssemblymen was serious re e | trect shop. where ! saw | papers under their arms, and as the | which must be beautiful things from the studio of : New rk. her be an interestin iken 2 : e cun sank to rest in the hills over Ar-|and repaired hv adopting brof America has changed a good deal un san and repaired by adopling vroper e Aslor ,m’"nm‘ p,frmu‘ufl iRenefolique fanostivessiile offmod: Hiington fwayi ‘saw! stream sfiofimen polic e e lern artists. 1 saw a staty by and women, their labors finished for > of our part 2 as respects the participation of her!{Gereme a bit by Virleus and other . You say there I3 nothing|] LR T S ex in public affairs. It is hospitably | works by Schwartz, lischer and Sei- hington? 1f so, you, Then they proceeded to p disposed toward women in that rela- |fert. 1 found the proprictor had the must be blind, for round the - Imeasures which they ‘hought worthy a a h ki I of the high- | adoption t n put the par tion today: and a woman who speaks |soul of an artist—he sol . e 3 o o o again p e party < well as she does, and pro it vt ite sd;'?)txumm vays and byways there is much that | cloger touch with the people. The as well as she does, an prock . ain, genuinely pleased you can find. first would be restoration of state herself as frankly, would have no wide direct primaries and abandon ment of the convention system o sreat difficulty about making a place { nomina‘ing state officers. They urged fc I, { reorganization of the state govern- i ment through constitutional amend- But Lady Astor is likely to retain {ment providing for short ballot and int out he and her British citizenship, iclimination of overlapping and use- nd fight it out on the present line less departments, commissions and Politics in England is as exciting and | Scrapping of “Double Jeopardy” | are as zealous as they should be, they | Seats e inviting as In America, and as she Doctrine U idabl | will find in the United States courts |a)f cities and villazes, particularly in octrine Unavoidable. { many cases to which they can devote | trancit matters: improvement of ter- has won her spurs, so to say, she should continue to wear them. Put to it, she will probably learn the art of howling herself, and. in the pres- “Melancholy reflection on the Erad- | the buery St the g:;’ei"cl';;";g;;“;: minal markets to facilitate distribu- ual evapcration of basic human the same thought, “bootleggers are | \iate “r':,‘:,,}',‘,’,m;'[‘“"‘f’;{‘“r";o"{?:‘l'?""“‘ 4 rights under the heat of zealous re- LUt Xoing to be permitted to laugh | lation to stimulate homebuilds o mowling crowd, how! back, |107m" 15 indulged in by many papers e o orcer® (] bY hur- | commission to Investigate minimum {Bbsides the Norfolk Virsintan-Filot| court and Setting off with & tr'fiing | LA5e rates for women and children’ 8 yomen ‘“eki‘";:‘"fs “"'h the 1ast {y; considering the decision just ren-| fine when Uncle Sam desires (as he | gomination; climination of the dircer | word. why should they not become £0 1 gered by the United States Supreme | SONCClvably might) a real trial and { sottlement ‘provision of the work- | ol L = 7 e <entence that widl co g b as politicians for the last howl? Court that violators of the prohibi={ " om tho ‘;"hl:‘;_l h‘;l:}! mt ltimore | MEN'S compensation act. & ' L e tibn laws can be punished under both N interprets the new ruling a state and federal courts for the same PArripg co-operation between state| While the republicans of N : offense. To many editofs that de- 204 federal authorities since it willl,re pondering whether they n . 2 7 2 % -y i te to maintain independ- | . Y. 5 tle and the man with the market 8ays| ; ion s a direct repudiation of the e bility o fisan S $ ‘etems s 8% When the entire |meet and discuss the advi be has to pay too much. The middle |Gy gmendment, which assures that Spirit of the concurrent power clause |adopting these policles, the demo- man attends to his ledger and says|n, person shall “be subj The farmer savs he is paid too lit- : t for the {]'l‘z"‘m“;"‘_"“g"“di‘"gg»“;}“; predicates not[crats will be meeting in legislative | nothing. same offense to be twice put in ing of federal and state jurisdic-|assembly and seeking to put many jeopardy of life or limb." Other tions.” lof the suggestions on the statute writers argue, with thé court, that. ° e books. The legislature meets in Jan- violation of separate laws constitutes Cannibals and Colleges. uary, at which time Gov. Smith, who separate offenses, each of which is From London comes a tale that ap-|will have been inaugurated on New case GIRinCESD and camera men | punishable under the law wiolate Year day, will have submitted a broad —_————————— Difficulty may be experienced in re- viving interest in the New Brunswick There are moments of coal shortage | contends, “that a great many gullty persons should escape adequate pun- Years ago. and. of course, no Balliol [ lature. that leave the average citizen uncer-|PETsons SOt (SRPG MOt ciple of man could think of eating a fellow | The course of the republicans in tain as to whether he is to retain even | ‘onge in jeopardy’ should be over- Balliol man.” the next few weeks in the le a Thoughtlessly, but ‘,emus; the o nrz‘ of gux_ng( to college. But is it? The lmm'-l 2rienaly ol oh S 2 e o |perience of men had shown ti three missionaries may say so, but |actually friendly to the progressive Any invitation by Turkey to unite | BERIREE | O T dministration of jus- what benefit had the cannibal chief, |and even radical legislation which the forces with her will be studied by the | {jco had in the past been abusive of who by this time may have been de- | Voters are construed to have demand. would very prob- posed by his tribe as a weakling?|ed in their support of the democratic ford Times grants, “the manner in not eat another Balliol man. Sup- far in advance, will be lining up for He had to come to earth again Shngle act which lacks popular sup- ' sufficient in a case like this? The Eng- |Ohio the republicans seem to be fac- Dort has crented its own evils a lfhman we used to meet in novels |ing is to stick together on the wet fon i b e 5 v ion. The preponderat- e wt the Constitution is to be set frecdom under false pretemses. “My |2nd dry quest| He put his treasures in a truck, and 3’ Y that is true, the old re- zood fellow,” he would have said %o | ing sentiment, judging from the vote een Sconveniently explained away.” humane, or admit that you fea position is unheld by ' swift arrival of a Hri(ixhywnrshi[:. {)}I‘.lel ; i ady in the field with sug- 3 but the court's ey So, all good citizens, draw near Dt e er papérs. It needs to be please do not expect me to admit have gestion that unless the republican party yield something to_the demand | outside of Washington wili one meet mg lend a hand for Christmas cheer.! onsidered.”, the Knickerbocker Press ing known a perfect stranger at Ox- 3 leld =0 thing to the demand or modification stead act 1 must take ¢) argues, “that the guar- ford."—New York Herald. e el ;fi{ggg‘)o)r the Bill of Rights, g0 called. | it will be impossible to hold in line {a stinted or stunted Capital city. And help out good old Santa Claus! e e YaE bl Sl —_—————— : i ! |aholy only to federal procedure and| Moo thousands of regular republicans who | A'fow Karhicdn Edvarmmgite e e | s AP0 at o avall under state liwe, o Con:‘:::nbi 3‘:::‘ tth: Sahara. |aro insistent upon modification. I ing gotten used to it, appear to prefer| There seems to be slight necessity i sy Rt ATeral ktates in their own con-! g in oy, et Lot dniEanis diana is expected to be the scene a state of economic instabllity. i of turning to America for advice as| Do you think collections can be| '{ytions. Thus the federal Consti-i . e capitals of other nations| Indiana is expected o R to the European situation so long as | made in Burope?” fution's promise that o ome fn to be' WL ALicth Possessiond in the at-jof scramble sl o 5 ; i - : v a ou other in pro- False Alarms. Mr. Lioyd George appears to know| L can't say this early.” replled|placed, W 0o iner than to forbid weeks by three Freneh army engl | gressiviem. Indlana may have a an = { exactly what ought to.be done. Senator Sorghum. “UP to the present | STNE B30 Meing twice tried in a neers to cross the Sahara desert in &res! 3 ¢ An epidemic of false fire alarms has | ; f SO e ot those mations. demt | 1S "enre upon one. charge, and sgeoially constructed motor ‘cars, | [didate for the presidential nomina- evailed in this city f i does not protect him from a_ dupli- hat the motor car has gone far to | tion in the person of Senator and for- - - i city for several! mpe manner in which the most seri.( S€m to me to have gotten even soj So°%, Tl osecution under state law." folve the problem of brief visits into|mer Gov. Ralston. Indiana democrats months. Since the 1st of July to date | ;.o troubles fade with time is illus. | 127 @8 to collect their thoughts.” The Lynchburg News brings up aq- the desert has lone been established. | sre thought to be preparing to set there have been 135 of the i & le. The eizhteen = 2 nough to tate sprogressivism as th X ese needless | ¢ 1oq by the fact that nchody now | i T other angle. e fftn amendment, It permit the cars to pass over it.- But D o ek hould serve as & stand- summons of the fire department, while mentions the TIsland of Yap. Jud Tunkins says any policeman Gnrs out, and “if that amn"amnml. 2,000-mile journcy across the desert|grq for other states and expect to during the whole of last year only 181 : will tell you there's an important dif-{ P0%} 5rizes’a suspension of the ‘twice (1o made ¢ery difficult for the reason 2rich republican progress! were sounded. At the present rate ————=eee——— | ference hetween the Christmas spirit |in jeepardy’ doctrine as embodied In fEhet e BEVCRIUTerS must take alons | not find thelr own party s virile all records will be braken for the ring.| 1t 18 certain that Gov. Henry Allen {;5q Christmas spirita. the fifth amendment, then the 50be \ Jio IR g Sd Tood athe hole trip. | enough. ing of alarm bells without cause. il gmantuliy Beee s San v leron (oo ‘,’:.fi;:'er':?t?s:tg‘d 37 “the prohibition | we are told that, despite the tropical| ° — 5 | “Klan- | : ” “we are to as-|sun of midday, the mercury some- . Those who us wantonly pul th | 278" (e name o€ e uta to ke | Mestmgs U0 » Moter Gon. | Shentmen, S0 ek 1t | it arvps Sine o ek | Woman and Cigarettes. leverg of the fire boxes perhaps do n % - ortense’s flivver took a e 3 the body of organic law | in the Sahara at night, 2 i (n6 dangers that areplnvolv:<:| And then lay down upon its side. Erafted upon L1¢ nchangeable provi- It is a daring explolt that these men Eeatyhit itwas Beemel e oo e In thelr action. The other night, how.] Citizens’ Association Boundaries. |1t next rolled over once or twice. Islon. & boeiiion. hlthithe gusnss ' DO g Derioh icarabiy1e e pet | To win & tale madds coF O O vaa ‘moth, ever, a fatal accident occurred in this| Another jurisdictional conflict has|Hortense looked on and sald, oL ouptedly, the Providence Jour: | molor cars break down ot the gaso- | bowered el e, melting eweetncas of south. city which gives emphasis to the| arisen in regard to the boundaries of nicet nal, "el“‘,‘[f,','fl'{':,',,.i‘é"ffgm"fia:&’snflgps!lmck alive. ‘And, after all, noshing |Beek Cuplds rajtures swapning micotine, | warning of risk. An engine company | citizens® associations. One of the older [ «yg T can keep the lessons up, o G tho. fransressor.” | deinlie will ke’ Sccomplishell, Thess | o0, witi"\obacs ok’ salt, acrid seent” was responding to an alarm which | associations has entered & protest |y have it trained, just like a pu; Heretofore a person varrested for 11} 000 GlCUgn” they” succeed, only ‘the | Snrow w N out ‘compelling charm, awas; I'll hay pup. fn “alconolio beverag: proved to be without cause, and an|now against the formation of a new |y tnink that in another week "c.i.;n:rgfl o o the eourt heshouid | highly daring will attempt the sam | we held S I e aged man was struck by one of the | one within its territorial limitsand its|mne gear old thing will learn to be tried in. * ¢ & The bootiegger | s Lol oy R X;‘r‘l.; o mot break the dalnty magic apell fire wagons and killed. This might, of | admission to the Federation of Citi- Legpeak’!” naturally, if he had a ;fih‘“‘;’d‘gr“m A cnlld's character is made in the |By which so long you've tamed us passing : peal would elect to be t first four years. Let's hope that isn't |y, ot profane the pure and mystic’shrine course, have happened if there had.zens' Associations. The older body ‘een a fire, but the fact that the com- now threatens to withdraw from the pany had been brought out of its| federation if the newcomer is per- house uselessly to satisfy somebody's, mitted to remain. These conflicts over perverse sense of entertainment adds | territorial rights have arisen on sev- to the tragedy. . l ‘Whenever the fire companies aresiderable difficulty before adjustment. speeded out of their houses there is| Some of them, in fact, have never danger in the streets. They must go| been adjusted. traffic must be checked or deflected | realizing the importance of maintain- easier law,” in cases where state and ., . of 5 peace—Akrom Beacon-Jour- | Where mother, sweetheart, wife hold sway a foderal codes d'fer in severity, Now | 0y° . fampl:: Out. Lo preme Court saya “that there 1@ 1 “ | Lat not s subtle charm be marred or broke, ‘Do you know the story of Moses, (1% “guch way out”; rather, “he IS| .what” asks a writer, “is so do- | Nor drive out incense with tobacce smoke. in the bullrushes?” - Wable to trial in both jurisdictions and) mestic as the clock?” ~ Well, _there's ARCHIBALD HOPKINS, ta two penalties”” The new policy af in.—Detroit Fre ) Lopens the way to closer co-operation tholsstelver J e Press. PPSTSCRIPT. * “Yes,” replied the precocious small Though it be thought unpardonable temerity eral occasions and have caused con-|poy. ‘“That was one way of solving|petween federal and State officers in| They say misery loves company, but |1 must say just a word of your posterity. ous! ‘wasn't it!” cing prohibitio the Pitts- | purkey wants no other nation in its liale, the certin final I the housing peoblem, o SOl setto: Times thinks, and “If | straita—Greenville Piedmont. e O e evers call and tissues “« . o) suitable advantage is taken of public e ites effects, a0 deadly and unmerited, Poverty din' no disgrace,” said | SHitAB1® ALIAN L ectsion there will| Five hundred woman students are | Will by our children surcly be inberited rtual immunity to | in American medical colleges. More “e"m i hm" dum“ rt<m the alarm. ears the C tf R i ’s ar- d of the v 1 rapidly to the point of the alarm. All Some y ago the Commissioners, | Uncle Eben, ‘ceppi..' when it's ar- ::n ;nme&mu"' 5 ets that poflos ra women 274 equIDBIRE them: | 1o Just s hour died of = to make way for them in the haste]ing these organizations of citizens on rived at by de bootleg an’ crap game DO rs have been granting, and, selves to make men take 3 dose of | Wien e S20h ‘the Bad route.” 1 z ) police and county prosecutors their own medicine.—Seattle Times. . " A Jors i rdtes s ] b ; - 7 ihoth ‘orget th tic i W York {: “| being regarded as one of the experts BY PAUL V. There is one “spread” which is even worse than that between what the farmer gets for his crops and what the consumer pays for his food—it is the “spread” between what af householder would have to pay some willing shoveler 1o clean off the snow | from his sidewalk within eight hours, of daylight after the snow falls and what he will have to pay to the court | when the city cleans it off for him and sends him the bill, through the Police Court. The first cost would be about 50 cents—unless the aforesaid | householder elects to do it himself; but when the city does it the bill will be hetween $28 and $30. The | Of anthracite into Can “spread” amounts to 5600 per cent which, we must confess, i exorbi- thnt and adds sefiously to the hizh cost of living. The only way to ave it js to ex under the sidew and build a red-hot flre heneath, so! s to roast snow as It falls, in-! ad of ing” the off 1s who their sworn du who Ewcars at them, * X Competition is the life of trade. A depart nt store of W: ngton plans to send out broadeast s after Christmas, which will serve as exercises and directions for reducing | corpulency. 1t is expected that hun- dreds of patrons of wireless will listen-in and 12 the exercise: Sill g he But now comes | viest man on the police force ¥$ thot he is repeating the new psyehola 4l magie words “Day ! : in every v 1 am growi ér and thinner.” and he alleg bhe s Josing twenty pounds £ this man v to_eombine | methods of reducing and then shut-off until he grew ther itself. ¥ * x % arraignment of | hington police methods which i : made by Roymond Hitte, now serv-| g a sentence of five years in theg penitentiary as a marcotic addict. He | alleges that he, was arrested - last spring and was oblized by the court to take a for the narcotic| habit. He t that he was cured, after a thirty-six-hour treat- ment. as he v able to keep awav from his ts for weeks Then | certain police paid him to act as aj decoy in the huying of the drugz, in| er that they might procure ev dence aguinst the sellers. In that| way. he allezes he was induced to! -enter his oid baunts, and he soon | ound that with the temptation fore him he could not re: into the very Wa jdrugz. So now he is suffe sentence for five years. Tt possible for any one, with- | ion. to judie as to the 3 ry of police temp- tion, but the charge is serious enough to warrant careful inquiry by authc ot scounized. of 2o ) cles at+ least, that the v fied in i Z ymmit e inals. Detectives must d other thods of efficiency in their work. * ok ok % ont investi The government claim that world war veterans cannot have cause for complaint that tkey have mnot quate hospitalization, since there at present £000 vacant beds, avail- able as needed, is not frank. The total £,000 might be vacant, and vet there might not be capacity of a kind to meet the needs. Vacant beds pos- sibly in very distant parts of the country. or in the wrong kind of hospital, would go to make up statis- ics, but do good whatever in & way. for one cannot send r patient, for example, in- shock ward. It is unfair to quote such misleading * ok kK It would be hard to conceive the attempt of our immigration officials to differentiate between nationalities coming as immigrants to Ellis Island, as urged by the British ambassad Sir Auckland Geddes. While we may ve no clause in any treaties com- pelling ue to accord to all national- 11l favors that we do to the t favored nation.” it must be that the government cannot nvidious distinctions. When izens of foreign coyntries come to our es, do they’ not comne as prospective Americans, or do they come as hyphenated Europeans? If they are all to be Americans, they' 'CAPITAL KEYNOTES v, regardless of | 3 | guarding the coal supp < jright 1 Lo Something remarkable would' ! | thers ! they go can ! reliable women at all impors stat . COLLINS. e all on the same footing. How- Sver. . the 5 ary of Labor, Mr Davis, S s at it is the plan that enlarged accommodations shall be provided, so that no national- ity will have occasion to get a bad at our segr are one a certain 2 3 under 18 n law, created whethe Sth avenue. * Representatives are aroused over the continue is =0 serious a Representative bro) complains that the « flering fron ge, while the Canadian city of <hart Windsor, Just across the river, is . i K abundance of America thrac He dovs not el 0 that is fair to our ow has introduced a re shipments abro utors are now m gations along simi It is openly pred Jk for sther w spring, every p gives str 1o the ¢ is no mo: te problem before gress this winter than that of sal. of the 1 tion. Repetition st seucon’s strike and this win ntolerable, a weakness of the the g 1 ‘ ¢ whether e right to t is paramo: Represen: timel ada is favored in its supply of Ame rat Canadi our Interstate ( control, are much than freight rates to Ameri the influence of the ra r dian shipn ted by 1 eported that C ently oads W This will be find commt Congress expec * % % =% Into the maclstrom of mysteric disappearance thers vanish more th 130 girls a week, in Amer 1y be surm! relatives 1 friends, but craily understood by the T Aid Society. That society m ns. whose mission s s and women t e in str te Knowled or route: 102 look i wit boardir bulwark a other fa ted & 1 ty. not Jarge cities, it is noted that in Wasi- alone, during the first eleve ths The Monday Evening Club, whi includes gome of the officers of th Chamber of Commerc sug hold upon the sche ed to the District oposes that the D s and p s school system should be sui- d comprehensively by ion to be appointed ing the W for the schools of America certainly plenty of room fc ment they will ideal, but there improvements derr ed are prov. for an ant cen compulsory atiend pert periodical ph of all full accommodations for all pupils. ins classes and only half-days cach vision_ f 1 attention to smaller classes and Among Longworth to Fill Cannon Role As Hook for Hanging Anecdotes ICHOLA GWORTH of | Ohio is slated for the repub- | lean floor leadership of the House in the next Congress. if present plans carry, and barring, some unexpected and violent reversal | of political form n the republican | aucus which will hoose the floor cader. His selec- | ion will be due t ecognition of his vorth and merits s a parliamen- | arian and states ian and to hi vide personal sopularity with; 1is colleagues. There is probably no man in the House who is so| universally liked and as well esteemed as he—a com- bination of affection and appreciation. | It might easily have fallen out that ' circumstances and environment would have developed only the good fellow- ship side of him. Scion of a wealthy family, popular in important social circles of the National Capital, with some men the temptation to lead an easy-going life in Congress and bask in the glow of personal friendship might have controlled his course. But It was not so with him. He took his congressional career serlously, realizing opportunities ahead of serv- ice to his country and of making a name for himself. So, at the outset, ! he commenced to study. the tasks of } a legislator of parts. He drudged: away on parliamentary cedure, watching the methods of the late James R. Mann and realizing how! that. leader, admittedly one of the most efficient who ever conducted the party and legislative fights on the: floor of the House, had been able to}] do so only by hard work and con-! stant watchfulness. Mr. Longworth studied the tariff, 14 LONGWORTH. in the House on that subject. He has kept track of all important leg- islative subjects of consideration and action, He is a politician and a strategist. He Is a progressive, but was not.a bull moose radical. His ideag and atms are progressive and the opposite of reactionary. ! went down to the river and descricd That is Mr., Lox the states man, legislator and party man What might be called his “h ture side” is attractive. His dispo an sition is genial and, like About Adham, he likes his fellowman day the House embled for extraordinary session | inning vember 20, after the election in which so many of his colleagues went down to defeat, he strolled th h the members’ lobby before the House o There everybody was gathered, © gratulating the victorious or condol ing with the vietims. “There comes somebody cried. and imme rounded by democrats licans, all « their gratifica- tion that *“Nick' had come through.” There is only one cloud that looms, in his future as a leader. e wall have to be the legatee of “Uncle Joc™ Cannon s the butt of every g i story that is told about congress- men—the human hook to hang it on For years Mr. Cannon has patiently nedly filled this role. 1le s himself that long ago he told '—his colleagues—and the newspaper men not to he o tomake him the figure in any good story; that he was becoming used to jt. But now he is going out, so that Mr. Long- worth will carry on for him. o a repub- Mr. Longworth was defeated for one term, in a democratic landslide, by Stanley M. Bowdle, who at a meetin referring to the fact that Mr. Long- worth's cranium is deficient in hir-, sute adornment, said jubilantly, “Nu- ture scalped ‘Nick, but I skfnn.d him.” Mr. Longworth tells one on him- self. He wanted to see a certain oil constituent of his, who was by wav of being an ardent fisherman. [le the objcet of his search anchored out in the stream, with pipe and rod. Rowing out to him he was reccived rather coldly. “You don’t seem glad to sce me,” said Mr. Longworth, T ain't glad to see ye, and 1 ain't sorry to ‘see ye.” Vhat then? “Pishin’” was the sententious re- tort, and the visitor rowed back wnd sat’ on & log until his constituent came ashore, L]