Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1922, Page 16

i | | .|, "found that it pays to spend millions 'THE SUNDAY_STAR, WABHINGTON D. !on comprehensive, definitely pianned|erous. Gratuities are given on all THE EVENING STAR, | = With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY.....December 24, 1922 - to_spend hundreds of thousands on|tered about freely. Here is a *“Christ- piecemeal constructions so spread out | mas box” that meana the miseting of over the years that by the time all | real need—not the piling up of funds the main arteries are properly paved|for those who are not actuslly in those treated earlier are in disrepair.| want, but the supply of necessities for For the effectiveness of a state’s good llhou ‘who have no means. roads system depends upon its com: The “fourteen opportunities” mean The Evening Star Newspaper Company | pleteness and the high standard uni-|more than simply providing the essen- Business Office, 11th 8t. and Pennsylvania Ave. | formly maintained. tials of life for the seventy individuals embraced in the “budget.” It means, rather, preserving fourteen homes. If 5 < The Wilsonites. Two men who served Mr. Wilson as advisers when he was in the White House and stand close to him today are William G. McAdoo and Josephus Daniels, THEODORE W. NOYES. ..Editor Chicass P o Bt A full series of through trunk lines European Office: 16 Itegent St., London, England. | of good roads, with secondsry links and branches, would yleld Virginia an | all the money that is asked for them oo Eyeoing Star, with the Sunday momitf | onse return In the expenditures|is granted the people of Washington :t“ l‘lh u;?. ber ::lnn mug[:.l:} 4:“ :e&u Per | within the state of people from other | will be assured that these domestic e unday ol it 'vephone Main | parts of the country. Maryland has|establishments, these home groups, will be maintained throughout the year. And that means probebly that most of them will be tided over the period of stress, so that next year good speakers, and in request. In the recent campaign both were on the stump, and since election day both have continued their activities. Both discuss live political issues. 5000. Collection ts made by carriers at the bl st skione o o | found that its expenditures in road ! building have brought a rich per- Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. |centage of profit. Sections of that Maryland and Virginia. state which a few years ago were iso- Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $8.40; 1 mo., 70c | lated and remote, and in which llmel they can go on without aid or with ?.,‘.’.’.1’15’33.., e :En{xg gfi money was ever spent from outside, ! less assistance. In some cases there -1yr, $2.40:1mo, 2001, " 1ow in the enjoyment of such|is sickness. In other cases there are minor children who a little later will be able to work for the family sus- Tuesday night last, taking fo- text the armament conference held i:: this town last winter. He declared that the meeting “failed of its purpose, and that Great Britain and Japan got the better of the United States.” prosperity as has never been known All Other States. . 1 mo., 85c | before. All the dwellers participate in This 18 Wilsonite doctrine, and will Daily and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00 Daily only. 1y this quickening of trade and inflow | tenance. All of these cases are worthy, | be stressed by the Wilsonites fn the Sunday only of funds. and the seventy for whom this help{ campaign of 1924. is asked deserve the fullest measure of the city’s generosity. These men while on tour pick up a good deal of valuable political in- formation. They meet local political leaders, and inform themselves as to Member of the Associated Press. 1f this question is submitted to the the Asecciatud Frees ln sacisively eatitios DEODIO O Virginia they should antwer to the use for repubiication of all '".:dfl:l‘ it in the afirmative. Apart from the tehes credited to it or not otherwise ci Datchen et I O Bt oeal newn pub: | Prospect of profiting through the l C, DECEMBER - 1922—PART 2. _ Should Be Day of Consecration NY THOMAS R. MARSHALL, Fermer Vice President of the United States. Both are clever politicians, and have ITO the infinite shadows that not abated their interest in politics gird our little life around since retiring from office. Both are those particles of time which we call days. have, slipped away until once again Au- rora, Mother of Morn, has ushered in another Christmas. Many theo- rists in the past year have sought Mr. Danels spoke in Wichita, Kan,,| 0 treat the world as though men were niade in the mass, but if they are half as wise as they have been enthusiastic, they must by now have caught a glimmering of the fact that the mass, after all, is made up of Individuals, who, think- ing allke about many things, think differently about othe act largely from self-interest. Any apostate emperor upon his death- bed may cry, “ hast conquered.” But if he means that He has conquered all man- kind, the dying confession is as by one, and Gallilean, Thou There is scarce a soul so lost to he B . All h it blication r i . 5;:3, e ehen heri L are 4l rescrved. ° | opening up of their territory to tour-| . 0 o) sirike is dafly wreaking its | 1008l political sentiment. foolish as — == ist travel they will profit constantly | Lo/ o o nce on Washington, not only in | This information is, of course, at made ft in the facilitation of their own busi- Mr. Wilson’s service, and will be of| Jove that it does not strive to bow empty coal bins, but in a greatly in- Queries to Senator Borah. l ness. Senator Borah and his colleagues. creased smoke nulsance from the use : : —_———— of the soft coal that fills bins that|the next campaign. It is information| i4o"Christ of who are urging the President of the h in hi vt that part TUnited States to call an international Santa Claus. heretofore have been strangers to this | he needs in his business, and, collected | yet to be This s childhood economic conference, owe it to their| It is not necessary to assure the carbon-loaded fuel. own proposal, if to nothing else, to little children of Washington that enlighten the public as to what they | Santa Claus is a real man. They know believe might be accomplished by such | this as well as they know that fairies @ gathering of benefit to Europe with- make their home in buttercups in out injury to the United States. The |spring, that fays perch among the American people are ready and willing | blooming hyacinths and lilacs, that 10 do anything they fairly can do to;elfs play among the ruby berries of help Europe out of its difficulties, but ' the holly trees and that goblins haunt the results at Genoa and other eco-| the recesses of the woods where ferns fiomic conferences have not been such jand mosses grow. They know that as to inspire belief that another con- | Santa Claus hands out gifts just as ference at this time, even with thejwell as they know that angels dwell Tnited States sitting in, would belin the sky and come close to little productive of benefits. beds in the nursery at home. They There is only oue basis for believing | know these things better than do the that a conference would be more help- | bigger boys and girls and the grown- ful by reason of American participa- | ups, because they are closer to the tion, and that is that the debts owed | fairies and the angels. Perhaps there this country by Kurope should be|are in ‘Washington some big boysand placed on the agenda and their cancel- | some girls who have deserted their Jation or reduction subjected to con-|dolls who will say that Santa Claus is ference negotiations. 1f these debts|a myth, though it is more probable that are mot to be taken into the confer-| in speaking current English they willi ence, it is difficult to see what could | say that Santa Claus is a pipe-dream. Those who are situated so that the view from their windows takes in the roof lines of the downtown district are constantly concerned over the smoky haze that dims the once bright atmosphere of Washington. The mind's eye sees the tiny particles of soot drifting down over the majestic white dome of the Capitol, the digni- fied White House, the granite columns of the Treasury and the ornate walls old leader will continue their leader, and have great influence with them as to the democracy and its course in 1924. child of the State, War and Navy building, to say nothing of the many business buildings and apartment houses of the vicinity, and day by day in every way not making them grow better and better. There is @ pecullar depth and sin- The McKinley Tariff Law. favored The Star the other day, Mr. Edward G. Riggs, the well known political writer of New York, differed oo the feeling of love and ad-| yitn The Star respecting the cause of miration ashingtonians have|iho republican defeat in 1892. He as- for their city, and this feeling is being | crined it to the McKinley tariff law, conatantly outraged these days by the | ongcted two years before, instead of to derredations of the soft-coalamoke | o 1omestead riot, which had oc- demons that pour from so many chim- 7 known thus by personal friends and support-| May 1t impress upon the world - filled with wars and woes, with ers, he may rely upon it. env: = y, hatred and uncharitableness The Wilsonites are early in the fleld,| the value of the greatest thing in industrious in their activities and set- :.':fp_:: :-hy in ‘l:: cr:dll.:- a{‘”u" - new vision of the dignity, ting a lively pace for other ites of the | (he glory and the responsibility of democratic persuasion. They are not| twentieth century life. May it tend likely to prove fickle and between this| !0 convince that whai we are counts far more than what we time and next national convention! seem to be. time transfer their allegiance. The| sade of hatred or bitterness against existing conditions, nor against the men who made th tions. Let it rather be a day of philosophic - thought that' every a pocket edition to be d studied by all men of that great edition—the Babe born in the manger. B 1 signal help to him in his planning for| in adoration over the cradle of some little one which become his life Let us mark no cru- condi- * * ¥ In a communication with which he Hard-boiled as men become In the hot waters of adversity, 1 have yet to find a man so lost to hope and sentiment that to him do not come certain days which enlarge his sympathies and for thelr hours at least cause him to forget the cuts and brulses of misfortune. He may be seamed, scarred and battered by the storms of life; he curred only a short time before, and| may have been tossed hither and he accomplished that could not as|Yet, if they study school history, or | neys. | quoted President Harrison as of that{ thither upon the angry seas of The Treasury Department naturaily regrets the necessity of interfering with Christmas cheer to the extent of warning Santa Claus not to take any counterfeit money. well or better be accomplished by the | any other kind of history, they cher- Yuropean nations conferring among ish a good many myths themselves. themselves. Senator Borah intimates | And grown-ups usually cling to some that he is not willing that the eleven | kind of myth through life, the main Dillion dollars of indebtedness owed [ myth being that they know more and America should be taken into an In-|are more important than other men. ternational conference for adjustment. Little children are experts on Santa And unless they have changed their | Claus. Years ago many of our citi- minds overnight, the American peo-: zens, before they put on trousers or ple certainly would not be willing. wore their hair ‘done-up,” knew All the conference proposals which | Santa Claus by the name of Kris have emanated from Europe, and | Kringle, and some of them, because which have found this country cold, |of their imperfect knowledge of lan- have almed at scaling down the debts | guage, pronounced it K'iss K'ingle. owed the United States in exchange [ But that was a long time ago—long for a scaling down of the reparations | before Washingtonians rode in auto- claims against Germany. That there | mobiles and went to moving pictures. should be such a scaling down of | It can be shown that Santa Claus and debts has been the only reason Europe | Kris Kringle are the same old man. has desired America should sit in an | Why he uses two names is nons of economic conference. For President |our business, and at this season of Harding to call an international con-|the year he has no time to talk to ference and in the call to bar discus- | reporters. It does not matter, any- sion of the debts would serve only to|how. Santa Claus by any other name increase the resentment which Eu-;would be just as kind. Perhaps Kris 1ope already feels because this coun- Kringle may be north polar English try has insisted upon taking an Amer- | for Santa Claus. ‘There are some jcan, rather than a European, view | things about this Santa Claus matter of the money we loaned to enable the { which our gravest and most reverend allles to prosecute the war. selgnors do not understand, and there For this government to summon|are many other matters concerning the nations to a conference and then | man, the earth and heavens ‘which to have nothing substantial or prac-|the most exalted intelligence cannot tical to propose would make us the!understand. But in the matter of Jaughing-stock of the world. What is|Santa Claus little children are ex- it. then, that Senator Borah would | perts, and their knowledge is profound have the American delegates propose |and exact and based on experience, ts such a conference as he wants | observation—and gifts. .alled? Would he have them propose| It is a question with mnany men ierely that France surrender a part | whether one Santa Claus can mnow| f her reparations claims, without of- | serve the whole world of little chil- jering France anything in return?dren. His business has grown. Tn- irench reaction to such a proposal is | believing men have thrown many ob- not difficult to imagine. Would he pro- | stacles in his way. Steam radiators pose that England forgive the debtsjand hot-water plants have displaced owed her by France, while still in-|most of the wide chimneys and big, sisting that England pay what she]open fireplaces. Traffic turns the owes America? That would put a|snow along the roads into grimy pretty heavy strain upon Anglo-Amer- | slush, and gangs of men clear the BY PHILANDER JOHNSOX. ican friendship. Would he propose an | snow from the streets—sometimes. [— into the league of nations, and forth- American loan of a billion or billions | Then, many little children live in Belinda. with his name became associated with of dellars to enable Germany to pay | apartment houses, where the roofs are | Belinda is a belle, forsooth, his party’s mext nomination for the 1eperations? That suggestion has been | ever so much higher than the roofs Yet I'm compelled to own up presidency. Was his putting off of the analyzed and rejected as impractical { of the old Washington homes. It I liked her better in her youth black silk gown influenced by the Ly this country’s best financial minds. | seems hard to understand how Santa| Than now that she is grown up. fates of Salmon P. Chase—another But certainly, in urging that such a | Claus can personally conduct his | On Christmas day I used to make Buckeye—and Stephen J. Field, both conference be called, Senator Borah | whole delivery service. The difficulty The presents that came handy, of whom while members of the Su- has some conception of a program|may be explained by reasoning that A book, = doll, some ginger cake preme Court sought & presidential which would govern its proceedings.(S. C. has adapted himself to the And oranges and candy. nomination in vain? The pedple would lika to know what { changed conditions and that he now True, Charles E. Hughes held on to that prggram is. They are reluctant | has a staff of associate and assistant s his gown, and was nominated for the e A coat that's trimmed with sable, | presidency v.ith ease. The hoodoo did to .condemn offhand any well inten-|Santa Clauses, that trucks and air-i ‘5 tioned proposal for helping Europe, | planes have supplanted the old sleigh Au‘““::‘"‘ that costs by far not work es egainst him. But Mr. but they are a sreat deal more re.land reindeer team, and that messages | . o O%® TN ghis Stnner tabialki) Hughes' case is exceptional, as he iuctant to take a leap in the dark.|now pass between little children and| ™ ' !‘“‘m e sets my head awhirl himself is an exceptional man. with the certain knowledge that in | the north pole by wireless instead of | , . d°h s my humble duty, Only three men who have occupied whatever spot they land it is going to | post. er more as just a girl the White House sew previous serv- Then as & full-blown beauty. jce on the bench—Andrew Jackson, be among unpleasant things. ! o e ———————— Willias —————e The Oberammergau players reso- Fellow Feeling. M Van Bupen a8 A “Is Santa Claus & myth in your o No doubt Santa Claus would dis- | lutely refuse the offers of motion pic- opinion?” Jackson was so tempestuous & man, tribute more coal this year if he could | ture producers. Yet it might be a to assoclate him with is difficult to e him “T don’t hesitate to say so,” replied i > make the required arrangements with | good thing for everybody if the devout the fuel authorities. Seiit of the famicusGerman! VIIAES| genater Bovatins.. “And ounintialy | Jo0icAl duties.c And Fot he was for & respect. I judge his case by my own. —————————— could be substituted for the revelrous Virginia's Roads. ! atmosphere of Hollywood. Many people out my way regard me Gov. Trinkle of Virginia has called N I T as @ man of great power and influ- a1, extra session of the state legiala.| The extraordinary volume of Christ | ence, swaying affairs by force of in- ture for February 20 for several spe.| Ma8 buying this year bears out the| tellect and disdaining my own inter- cific purposes, the first of which lg | Prediction some time ago that business | ests that I may serve the cause of ‘the mueation” of providing fands for | conditions would be favorable. Friend | mankind. I am something of a myth the highway department to take care Santa Claus is unassuming, but re-| myself.” of - its immediate and reasonable |liable, asa chronicler of financial con- — needs.” It is the governor’s intention | ditions- Jud Tunkins says his idea of e Utopia is & government that makes it s easy to procure a sandwich as it 10 recommend to the legislature mere- Iy temporary provision for this de- The Fourteen Chances. Pértment and the reference to the'peo-| With the close of the account of the| '3 0 et & handful of blotters or.a Me for action at the next election of | fourteen opportunities fund yesterday | “1enda™ the question of a bond issue or any |afterncon & little more than half of Soundproot Affecti cthef method of financing the high-} the amount necessary to care for the Drum, trumpet and whistl way development of the state. fitty-three children and seventeen Gt m’:h‘ R adults during 1923 had been sub-| rhe cold air will mm:“"‘ ‘With holiday noise. pretation of the result of his second among - his republican assoclates. Opinions differ in Italy as to whether Mussolini has accomplished a sweep- ing reform or has only succeeded in establishing a new political party. An old-fashioned Christmas with plenty of snow on the ground would be more in demand if it were not for a new-fashioned coal situation. When this was repeated to Gen. The season for defective fiues haa |1y, but made no comment. sin. pessed. The inflammable Christmas A lost baby was found in a Cleve- land mail bag. There is absolutely no limit to the versatile efficiency of our Post Office Department. years its author was Governor of Ohio. The Hohenzollern family is now re- ported to be studying the authority of the mother-in-law as an interesting phase of eutocracy. Holiday crowds have made the mu- tual antipathy of the wild driver and the jay-walker even greater than usual. 4 The traffic policeman saves & num. i vi i { 3 proposing its revision, not in repudia- Der of lives daily without securing any { yjon but in readjustment, of the wl!o_\-l cour recognition in the way of hero medals. | o¢ protection. daw ————— On the 1st of January the siogan == e shifts from “Shop early” to “Psy The Judiciary and Politics. promptly.” Is Judge Clarke of Ohio super- stitious? Does he believe in the hoodoo SHOOTIN! "ARS, in politics? STARS. He left the Supreme bench to advo- cate the entrance of the United States But now she wants & motor car, of Kinderhook” soon “found” himselt, | 5% Had Taft been able to shape his|min even the presidency of the United|sorey States and made straight from his| regis! Cincinnati place to the place he now occupies. But, although circuitously, he finally reached the desired goal, greatly to the pleasure and, of course, to the profit of the people of the Virginia has come to the point where it is necessary to proceed on a | scribed. With two days remaining for large scale with its good road build-|the grasping of these opportunities ing.” Although & fow highways have| ton of the fourteen chances are yet| ‘Tyencs 1o moirer. been improved, the average of the|open, so that there is still a possibility Their nts stil i » state in low in this respect, and the | for Washingtonians to contribute to - ppoizitle B 10N haws 0ld Dominion has been distanced by | this most worthy Christmas charity. it S other states. Yet there are the best of| Washington has never failed in this Turning Athletics to Account. reasons for good highways in Vir-|respect since the “‘opportunities™ plan to d —— e ested Cletnenceau in this country was | tool able for motoring at all seasons. . will go to a definite designated bent ——— Other states have gone into good | ficlary and in circumstances to assure| “A man kin have an education dat roads work on a-large scale with|a meximum of good result. he can’t use,” sald Uncle Eben, “mme economy and with profit. They have| At this season of the year the spiyit as'he kin have & grand piano wifout bein’ able to plsy t” ed us. r patriof catches ag: Nearly to a man they blamed the riot,| ¢ 4 mother's eye and feels once and Gen. Charles H. Grosvenor of| more the enveloping arms which Ohio, in Congress at that time—a man | Would keep him forever mafe from - storm and shipwreck. 52 st -onx convictions andlacid lapeech | BT A e —described Mr, Carnegie s *'a bandy- rl}x{ht coulrle. i \ umanity at its best grows im- legged ingrate, who had permitted & | ,,iient over manifest wrongs for labor dispute to get out of hand and| which it is not to blame, and over develop into a bloody collision, and ::h;!lrnswvrflnt-mwmechmflln:n thel; J s ce eanness of thus smash the party whose tariff| our own hearts rather than in the policy had made him.” motives of our fellow men. In all the years of Christian culture and pride, passion or dissipation; h; lovnlm may be spent and almost hopele 1f such was Gen. Harrison’s inter-| of ever reaching harbor, yet. when :Il bl:rll;dl);‘c‘amtll?rolunfl the sun reaks forth for a little while, and campaign he stood almost alone| in the calm he hears again the progress we have not yet learned Harrison he smiled broadly and bland-| to disassociate the sinner from his e have not learned that tree is now ng ready for business | Within a few weeks of its enactment,| nation. anger is & two-edged sword. Even The McKinley law was voted upon | clergymen suffer righteous indig- We lo: our taste for *| things that are; when they have with the fire insurance policy. and under the influence of & protract- | LA\MER IRAL BEeL AT, U et ed congressional debate which had| anything justifiable to obtain a been unususlly bitter. But in a few| change. We forget the unnum- bered blessings of the age and land in which we live and would tear and in a few more years President of | down our civilization to correct a the United States. both honors coming | S¥stem which we think has wrong- - p It Is fortunate that once a to him largely because of the record| year the natal day of the republic he had made in Congress as & cham-| comes tnrv.;'nm!.l s.z;“‘.b t.hfla Il?n run out, hearing the bands play plon of protection. s and listening to the perfervid ora- As President, Mr. McKinley signed| tory of the Fourth of July speaker the Dingley tariff law, which was ‘h';in(l us back tmlt:“:hmwlllrl::‘l.' e renew our fal at liberty socketed in the same principles the| gJna justice can be and must be McKinley law had carried, and which | within the‘hllmlu o€ the law and not through revolution. may in operation had so completely served | 7O bring the perm-nent change its purpose and lifted the business of | we think should be, but it changes the country out of the slough of de- rfr the dn); at 'fi?'i nr'r v:'uwlrxt‘: the way in whic] shou spond that in & few years—at Buffalo p ought about. Even the tears in 1901—the President felt justified in| that wet the cheeka of the prof- iteer at the singing of the “Star Spangled Banner” do good. Of we do not see by arly light what so proud. i [ 1 P ple whose supreme glory was in the ragged continental, and now ‘Wwe see a people whose ambition is st ly divided between pelf and will s 1y we halled at the twilight's last gleaming. Then we hailed tism. Yet, &8 we his tears, we say this fellow's heart is all right, and it is not needful e e e e ettt e e e e e e e s o S to revolt to turn his footsteps to the better way. e *x And s0 we come to this our | NEW YORK, December 23, 1922. |ing the holidays, and what with home- childhood’s day. If we be wise NE of the most amazing things ; coming sons and daughters and holiday men, whether from the east or to me about this years|visitors, tickets for the really good shows ‘west, we bring our gold and frank- Christmas shopping in New | will probably be'as expensive and hard incense and myrrh and lay them York was the brisk trade in that hold the |cocktail shakers. In every store at the|a joint theatrical ticket office where = democracy may |counter where these were displased was | tickets for wll shows may be bought at beslde the cradl only true kin Justly worship. If we be right we (& long line of waiting customers. A |price i met with many predictions of think of life, liberty and the pur- suit of happiness in the language of childhood. We see they are divine and helpless. We apprehend that they come from the very heart of God and are the very essence of all just human government. The day of Bethlehem’s Child and all T uho | o Gutae aud-aoas ace _\Po]iticl atHome|Tomorrow, Day of Childhood, the children take off our sh us an unclouded vision surer faith that some day men will |arrest all who drink in the restaurants, | pated in the ca pture of Jerusalem. vonhlp{’ not strength, majesty, |the metropolis refuses to take it seri-|He is now back here lecturing on ggr::"lro‘::l g':t l:;!irg trust 'hlc'; . As a Broadway cynic put it, | “The British Sense of Humor." New Sorme tcom out fal ithe i ker f em up before | york having discovered that he was eyes of these little ones involun- tarily our thoughts run back to the Little One of long ago. Whether from the religious or the patriotic viewpoint we contemplate Him in His lowly surroundings, there will gleam of the divine if & man would enter into the kingdom of God or the kingdom of democracy he must become as a little child. The un- fortunates of the world are not those who are in sickness, poverty. sorrow, or In prison, but those to ‘whom it has neéver been given to catch a gleam of what childhood and childhood’'s mind, exemplified come to u truth tha either in the Babe of Bethlehem or Twi Te mes {to him. When he reported it to the ark. Two reasons are assigned for - in every bube since born. mean (o | heir MitnEhigh rents and the | byt uee It was He who shoutd Fe- democracy and the world. * % % I cannot even yet speak of him |Ine death of “Nigger Mike" Salter.|him. When he reported the occur- ' for whom I grieve without a |the passing of the last of the char- el Tt st T e | e Frioticus heratitn | (oL S IaL CEEIGIOEY lof ) SeCOVIRE bt He was and is and ever will be so | Lhe, 4278 of Steve Brodie and Chuck [fourth time the kevs were handed Shoied o ae DS T smcih Boubt er. He then wired Gen, Allenby. whether his Dblessed should be used even for purpose. For three years he spell- ed for me in every ripple of laugh- ry lisping word God . With a smile nd 2 gaze unafraid ter and his and demo: upon his lip he looked into the eyes Prince of Wales and said, “Who ‘the unconsclous transmission through all the cen: uries from Bethlehem to Wash- i 2 {urles from Bethiehem lo Wash- | Ppresident Harding is 2 good busi- in 'l'he Star tory that goodness is not afrald of {mess man. Ereatneas.” Tt fa only the harsh ex | 1€ any one had any doubts on that ndemocra ! o8 Of cundemocratic and |score, they would have been dispelled consclousness, class-consciousness are you?' It tr self-s¢ :la::eb;:::nu- &g -:nn.L gia has jon the personal tour of inspection irds Hopat =E ut the ade by the latter last week of the e rian. lessons he ta = S lessons he taught me dbide and |, opoged sites for the Arlinston |New Building Need of Alns=oreh purple curtains which thus far |memorial bridge. Lit i F. i,:on'nn ' ess. n s an- hide from me the sunset of my life. Happler far today are those yet linger with It is my day of memory. whose child the: It theirs of realization. * % x ¥ Would all days were childhood's days! Would men everywhere could realize that as childhood is the one thing in life which we love and guard and serve, so he comes nearest to the divine plan who seeks mot his own good brother's injury it knows that “Imperial a dead and turned to clay. but serves | I¢ was this idea. apparently. that| recapitulated and it was stated B Lo mtop & ctack 10 keeP the mind lied him to select the site leading [all possible accommodation which when she said to her niece, across the river from the Lincoln | might be provided within the Caplitol dear, after fifty, nothing We have not forgotten wrongs that ambitious men have |Of & rondpoint on Columbla Island, bullding a_projection brought upon the world, but to- |With three main roads diverging. Ol e orn. front of the Lapitol day we just dom't thifk about * would be filled in twenty years' them. We have our children, our . % ordinary growth of the library. faith, our country. It is niversary of the incarn i day dedicated and co! Bot o reform but to regeneration. | vears found the trip with the Presi-|into a space too crowded for proper o we love our brother, our coun- i Doime love v Srathersionr sonu- |gent tiarimorning adistinet novels I do, we shall let this be just the first of mll days of regeneration. |goIng to personally inspect the pro- .{:::':: l::m“ dl: to evcrg‘u;holv posed bridze sites was when the big thought and purpose which we |ywhitg House car drew up at the en- is no space for the arrangement or Christ chil, or any other child, |trance, just outside the correspond-|of which, therefore, remain compara’ and the morrow's morn let us be | ents’ room. tively useless for reference until conduct the (Copyright, 1922, by Thomas B. Marshall) | gwife walk to the west side, to look S TR T hesitl | ek, 102 by Tooman B Mambany Foil Copiers of U. S. Designs [ St siin o S i sorts of trickery to secure! American designs and then made | \06 Matters of detail cheap copies and reproductions of United States machinery by use of inferfor materials and workmanship. This unfair competition has been growing to such an extent that the United States buresu of foreign and domestic commerce has made & spe- cial study of this menace not only to the trade of individual manufac- turers in this country, but even of greater menace through besmirching the hard-won reputation for quality of American manufacturers. This is particularly important be- cause our export trade in machinery court is expanding splendidly. Lo sl L wmm‘:: turers in the United States, therefore, Tennosees, o should safeguard to the fullest extent upon his record in the place. their interests abroad, because their Van Buren entered public life as|rights surrogate of his county. But the “Fox | value very rapidl inevitably increase Manufac- MERICAN manufacturers must | foll sharp-practice rivals over- | gxpery gram w seas, who have resorted to all | mit outline drawings, including the | United Ftatea walked in. and through | proper prin¢ipal dimensions, but not to the river side, while camera men in y in foreign terri- H. Rastall, chief of the indus- switched to politics, and, with Jack-| trial mtm:'hlnl‘rv d‘l:‘r;na:m of t:h.co ’ 0! ore! estic m- son’s ald, reached the top. He suc-|Fea% Of {0l it guccesstul copy- | ¢ ceeded his preceptor in the presidency. | ing o bu- be prevented by keeping in the limitations of ‘forelgn pr course he would have “cut out” the .‘;‘.‘.“D‘;‘I‘:y llow e ot EECHYS governor generalship of the Philip-| American m nufacturers will find it advantageous to give I rotectio pines, the secretaryship of War &nd mvtmlr‘iruru w:f‘l‘u’ueurln: pro- vises further that a 'n patent fi‘hu or by properly ring trade marks. some months ago. come widely known, and & great Vi riety of products are shown there to coun! prospective buyers from many coun-, <2 tries. Reports received by the United j man: States Department of Commerce, de- One of the things that most inter-| "W\ o™ norticularly the machine- ing don on, enlarge upon. “Don't you approve of my interest | long ago. Yet there are a number |strated their l;nrl * % % % There was a great fair in Leipsig ‘This fair has be- re copies machines that had demon- t lnm-orvlu in many the fact these ! & Then back into the cars—off agal Masses of books, pamphlets, news- ‘ posal to be. accompanied by detalled again at the Lincoln Memorial! [ papers. engravings, etc., in the course working drawings. In such case an got thrills not on the pro- | of collation, cataloging, labeling and nced manufscturer will sub- en the President of the lumpln,. in preparation for their ocation in the lbrary, are * % ¥ % clared the President. Those who be- B Because American machinery is|jjeve in the influence of the occult P [ good is the resson foreign manufac- fterward that it was here| .pi:;jer these adverse circumstances turers are 8o keen to copy it. Our{they gota i by dered at that th favor of the Lincoln Memo- |it must not be wondered at that the manufacturers can prevent this if| el site for the bridge. Library of Con- they bear in mind the peculiar dis- abilities of these foreign shops. One of the most obvious of these is in the selection of materials. The Amerl market 1s Tich in the varlety of iron, steel and other bullding materi: available. No other manufacturing | Arlington cemetery. Midway between country has equal supplies of steel of | tne McClellan and Sheridan gates Yarying carbon comtent or Of Lhe #he- | everybody got out again, while the clal oys. The forel cannot distinguish the: ecti and e been m of this probl turers be careful not to divulge the I vercoat collars, more ad- speoifications of the materials used, | "Byiion for. . tion of one narro o heat treatment and other proo- “*","::"g,:""".":‘_ massive, fine face capable of seating esses applied beyond the merest gen- | ° compels us to and stand rever- ently upon this holy ground. Tt 18 revealed to us that it is not the strong, the mighty and the powerfal that make life worth liv- ing, but rather it is the helpless, trustful confidence of childhood, I¢ us of our years, paralyses |gift for his daughter, it certainly seemed our petty ambitions, takes out the ta y sines. 1 RJAVIAN GIEBERT. whe usel ts b interrogation point which time P T put into our minds, leads us back to the dawnings of life and gives memory The world has forgotten for today its ills and petty grievances. For the moment SOME INSIDE STUFF ABOUT NEW YORK BY WILLIAM JOHNSTON. to get as ever. The projected idea of an advance of 10 cent over the box office story is going the rounds of an old me- | failure. When a young man takes hix chanic in Brooklyn who for several g:‘lnfi‘r; to dinne:':‘ndm-h- oi:mle-; years worked on a novel idea for a )., Beh 1 ORELRM SN, 908 BRI get the tickets no matte v oockiail shaker. Prohibltion came along | cort - A cloals deater- with, 3 310:000 and his family urged him to abandon |order in sight from an out-of- m buy- it, but he went ahead and patented it. | §f naturally takes bim to whatever show o see, no ma v - I understand that his royalties on it—|mium he has to pay for Uickatn, L’{z— since prohibition. mind you—have given | ticket speculators continue to thrive. I him & emall fortune. Pk i g e T e eawould not wo w There has also been a fine trade in | Yorke—an ordinance compeliing all thea- pocket flasks of all sorts. There is |ters to keep alternate rows of seats or nothing unusual, of course, in picking | S8I¢ e e T o v el gift of this sort for a man, but when | e public and the speculators & chance. 2 father the other day showed me a he had bought as a Christmas| A Briten With a Sense of Humor. well known here as an actor went back to England when the war 2 |talk of 300 injunctions and threats to | PeSan, became a major. and partici- a humorist by the story he told of the capture of Jerusalem, which ac- / The Passiag of Chinatown. cording to his version happened like LTHOUGH New York streets in | P! " he British army was encamped the theatrical district still have pear Jerusalem. A Tommle, in search many sightseeing busses, where|of fresh eggs, blundered into the nolsy barkers depict the glories of | Wrong direction and found himeelf in evacuated city. To his amage- visiting Chinatown by night, that|pent a group of white-bearded offi- quarter of the city has long ceased to | clals’ insisted on handing him the offer much of interest. A fake opium | keys of the city. He hurried back to camp and reported to his captain den and joss house and a few Chinese | 5 TaT0 70 TEPETIEC 12 the capta stores are all there is to see, most of | told the colonel. ‘The colonel im- the Chinese in the quarter having|mediately hastened into Jerusalem moved to elther Jersey City or New-|and insisted on the keys being handed t persistent interference of the police . .oive the keys, so the; v, y were handed with their favorite game of fan-tan.| gmeially, and for the third time, to who ran a Doyers street 8aloon, Was | runce {o the division commander, he 2 erusalem has surrendered to me." A Busy Theatrieal Week. uickly Gen. Allenby wired back. TH four new plays opening the | “You are mistaken. I will arrive in week before Christmas and elght | L7092y jtooffically recelte th openings Christmas night there ! records that it xas Gen. Allenby promises to be no lack of variety dur- |did. Heard and Seen Fifty Years Ago 2 a holy of the Twenty-five years before the new had he accompanied the President g Library of Congress was occupled ‘The President ruled sentiment out rigkt at the start. nual report called pointed attention The site for the proposed bridge|[to the urgent need for additional at New York avenue, the site for the |quarters for the great book collec- proposed bridge across from the|tion. This report is summarized I Lincoln Memorial, both were viewed |The Star of December 21, 1812 in by him from the larger standpoint. | part, as follows: It was the “picture” which Presl-| “The subject of providing an en- dent Harding wanted to see turn out | larged space for the library, mnow right, and he always kept this in|numbering a quarter of a milllon view. | volumes, and for the copyright busi- How would the whole thing look? |ness and archives, now very inad- That seemed to be the question in |equately provided for, demands the his mind, as far as those who were |early and careful attention of Con- privileged to be in the party were |gress. In my last report the leading Caesar, |able to tell. facts of this necessity were briefly to his m three to tteza” | Memorial, and to propose the building would be exhausted in froi al Ave years, while the utmost space the an- | Even blase news; m 2 “From the nature of the case, the jpaper en who e on. It - evil and inconvenience mow experi- ecrated |have covered the White House for| ;cad of contracting a great library arrangement is constantly growing The wooden cases, 100 in number reluctantly introduced a year ago to { accommodate the overflow of the al- coves, are approximately filled. There The first they had any idea he was filing of the current periodicals, many Taxis were called hurriedly, news- | bound. paper men piling in, their cars fol- “The library has no packing room lowing after the President’'s own. To and the heavy receipts of books from the Naval Hospital, and out, then a|all quarters by daily mails and other- wise, the bindery business, the cata- loging of the books, the correspond- ’ across the Potomac. d‘g'::e Proponents of the New York |ence of the library, the direction of istants and the extensive daily ors of the cfuyflfh'. a-pr.rcamx, site. He maintained judicial calm. all constantly going on in those No one could tell wr{g: he really [public parts of the library which thought about the matte: should be kept free for readers. necessarily glways under the eve and clicked. almost under the feet of members of “It is the picture. gentlemen Congress and other visitors. “hunch” that the President Rule of Silence sress. with all its . apparent advan- Often Violated. ¢ages an thelargest and one of the most progressive of American librariee, is comparatively an unfit place for students. The ex- igencies of its current business in- volve an smount of verbal directions. d consequently interruption to the of road in—out again— | *" oaDaihe rott o Faoft, semi-frozen, | studies of readers, which are incom- cold ground, while the wind whipped | patible with that rule of silence which cross the river. More wape should be the law of all great libra- atamping on the ground. more ries of reference. With the excep- w reading room in * * ¥ Into the automobiles went the party can | again. Then came & spin across High- way bridge, and over the roads to President was shown more maps. the north wing, d out along the [only twenty readers, the entire eralitien. On the other hand, It 18 OFeen | r AR Vars thine ¢ the south end of the | Library of Congress affords 1o PISco od salesmanship to allow it to be | 100" Georgetown bridge. Plloted by nown that special allo: sed, and that :\I and is practiced. * % % % Foreign producers are disposed to |cours emphasise “workmanship,” Nor dld the President shiver into his word is used in the sense of hand-|“Although the wind was blowing fitting. American manufacturers {more than \m-k} 3 f.r:.lld“!.ndl‘lbfflumi should stress the superiority of their |iRE'S overcost ol Foitevery breese own workmanship, lettin, t Hoc et strier Intorchangest L ct interc] 11} maintained, and where parts = ea|® o - ‘within, say u.l thonumln.h of an inch, it * ® oo esmanship to advertise Invigorated, although slightly shiv- By judicious salesmanship American |ering, the party returned to the White jmanufacturers of ltnmhlnlnry can re-{gouse, the President and the mem- amount of copying now be- bers of the two commissions to short- is tha ey can increase pres- tige of their own products, and they rease the volume of th 5 oc! can inc grapefruit. It is surprising that it|that a urprising number of business by showing buyers the d o o ey should not have been familiar to him | 42008, T2 of well known [fects in units coln Memorial to the Arlingtol < zinia. The state possesses great natu-| was adopted to submit the needs of | in £ 7 inquired lilngs France has to learn of in |countrle ‘Whether thesq copies were B traetions for-tourtste. 1¢ has an | spécific familics o the people. Tt will| "rpes "':mu e = made in England or Trence of Otat - unusual.number of interesting points | not fail now. The only question is| only I think you'd be miore help to 1o that American designs were repro- ,1hat would draw & large traffic within | who will take advantage of the chance | me in managing the hired help if you b duced at a roduo'floo&t- po! its boundaries if the roads were suit-| to do @ bit of Christmas giving s o iicletie. o BoEig. Bullders, all over (he Wer riess that are coples., Th a d for the qulet hp‘““lnl.:!t study, but di t | is subject to the constant annoyance co‘l;n% I?fillfl:;“:’n;“:::‘:::n g‘r‘ufi- of compulsory violations of its rule ~ rding stepped out over the | of silence by its own officers and by crushed stone and mud of the incom- Ll;aulr:‘-:h:‘ :;{n ::-munt processions pisteirentibat, € iichaAe "“. addition to the functions of the librarian of the whole cop; it business of the United States, involv- ing the custody of & vast number of records, and oalling for a amount of clerical labor, makes the present library apartments yet more unfit and inadequate. The extensive character of this business, with its nstant increase and the inconveh- fence and obstruction attending its transaction in the midst of the much- frequented reading room of the 1ibrary, add a conclusive argument, if such were needed, to the demonstra- tion of the absolute 4 erecting & separate kuilding for the new library and copyright department conjoined. but theloopt collar. it be|Som% s o easily with . He kept pac not suf- | Col. g?r'rfll. ‘whose military stride 1s ly announce that the bridge would eir own | run across the river from the Lin- cemetery. tloTn:: two-hour trip afforded an un- usual chance, even ‘::;‘:::‘v:;e:-: e o Brestaent In sction. It o b | umes in the collection, were 100,000 and In 1873 there were 246,000, and he estimated that by 1900 the library would consist of 700.000 vol- umes, 1.250,000 by 1925, and 2,500,000 by ‘That his calculations, howe: