Evening Star Newspaper, December 28, 1922, Page 6

— 6 ™ THE EVENING STAR, ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY. . . December 28, 1922 THEODORE W. NOYES. ‘The Evening Star Newspaper Company Tusiness Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office 0 Nassau St. Chicago Office: Tower I‘ulh.llllii European Office : 16 Regent 3t., London, ngland. The Eyening Star. with the Sunday morning ~dition, i delivered by carriers within the city #t 60 cents per monthi; dally only, 43 cents per month: Sunday only, 20 cents per month. Or- ders may be sent by mail, or telephone Main 5000. Collectlon 1s made’ by carrlers at the end of cach month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1y Daily only s Sunday oni All Other States. Daily and Sunday..1yr., $10.00; 1 mo., &c Daily only.. G 60c Sunday only Member of the Associated Press. The Associnted Press in exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis- patches credited 1o it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- Tished ~here All rights of publication of apecial dispatches herein are also reserved. —_— Next Year's New Buildings. Estimates have heen made by the eagineer department of the District fovernment indicating that the build- ifig operations in Washington during the year 1923 will reach the astonish- ing total of $42,000,000, an increase of $7,000,000 over the record tor o current vear. While not all of this sum will be spent on new construc- tions, it is the confident expectation that the year 1923 will see the greatest number of new buildings. in terms of value, added in the history of the capital. To gain an idea of what £42,000,000 in building works means fa Washington, it is necessary to revert to the year 1917, before this country entered the war, when in normal conditions over $15,600,000 was spent in works for which permits were issued. During the war there was necessarily a decrease, but in 1920 tle value of permits more than doubled the value of the year preced- ing, rcaching the total of $22,659,452. Last vear there was a slight reaction, but the vear now closing has seen the issue of permits calling for $35,000,000 worth of work. Most of this money will be spent rext year in the construction of hous- Ings, apartments and individual homes. These are greatly needed, for the housing shortage is still felt seriously in Washington. But office buildings and other commercial structures are in prospect in the development of busi- ness Washington and some of these buildings. of a semi-official character, will be notable additions to the capital. Had it been said five or six years ago that cver $40.000,000 would be spent in a single year in new building works in this city the prediction would have been scoffed as absurd. Yet now in the light of the recent advances, without reference to the higher costs of construction, it is quite conceivable that within a few vears the District's annual new bulld- ing bill will approximate $100,000,000. Certainly at the piesent rate of ad- vance that figure will be attained within a decade. Unfortunately, the government is not building for its needs as rapidly as it should. And those needs are urgent and numerous. Uncle Sam is paying rent here at the capital at an extravagant rate — extravagant in terms of true economy—and he is not getting the service that he requires out of the equipment. A broad scheme of public building constructions is con- templated, but fears are felt that con- siderations of *“economy” will cause another postponement, whereas the hest economy will lie in the line of the immediate undertaking of these long-delaved public building enter- prises. A Notable Make no mistake. sion of Congress is going to be one of great interest. Tt opened that way. It is developing that wa In the Senate, for an instance, the pending question is of world-wide ap- plication and significance. It goes to the root of our national power. It plays upon the unhappy conditions everywhere prevailing today. Uni- versal attention is fixed on this coun- try, and our national legislators are zrappling with the problems pre- sented. They are competent men. Among them are men of high ability, learned in the law, widely read in general and political history, students of govern- ment, and experienced in all matters of large legislation. These men showed their quality when the Paris peace treaty was up. They debated that in a way to com- mand not only the closest attention here at home, but everywhere. Prob- ably never before had such lengthy reports gone abroad of debates on Capitol Hill. - They will show their quality again. The inspiration is as great now as then. All they say will have a bear- ing on America, present and future. ‘We shall be learning from them at home here as well as foreigners. ‘There is no question, indeed, more intriguing at this time than that of our substantial and successful scheme of government subjected to the pres- sure of the momentous conditions throughout the world produced by the war. Session. The present ses- —————— No statesman can be so thoroughly irreconcilable as to disregard the oc- casional necessity of conciliation in conducting public affairs. Mr. Wilson's Leadership. In felicitating Mr. Wilson on reaching his sixty-sixth milestone, which he passes today, former Secre- tary of War Baker assures him that “millions of Americans welcome you back to active leadership in our coun- sels for progressive and helpful na- tional policies.” This is in the key of the old guard. All who were intimately associated with Mr. Wilson while he was Pres:- dent see things coming his way again, and see him rising to meet them. They confess his leadership now as they did then. They are looking to him to chart the course for 1924, and they will follow it. Nl ‘There is & good deal of speculation about what that course will be, and the volume is all the greater by rea- son of the fact that Mr. Wilson leaves a good deal for speculation. He takes few into his confidence at any time while planning, and sometimes nobody at all. General opinion, however, forecasts the ledgue of nations as prominent zmong the issues that will lie in that course. Mr, Wilson believes in the league now as firmly as when he first presented the Paris peace treaty to the Senate for ratification. The Sen- ate’s refusal to ratify without reserva- tions did not change his view. The popular verdict of 1920 did not feaze him. He is still for the league; and the prediction is that if his advice is taken at the next democratic national convention the next democratic plat- form will declare for the rejected Paris pact. Lausanne Nearing Crisis. | i Cable dispatches from Lausanne in- dicate that next week is likely to see a crisis in the negotiations between the allied powers and the Turks, and the outlook for a successful outcome from these negotions is far from promising. Great Britain’s uncompromising an- nouncement that she will not surren- der claim to Mosul and its oil flelds apparently has brought things to a head, and Lord Curzon's assertion that the British delegation cannot even consider such a proposal prem- ises to stiffen opposition to projected mpromises on other pending ques- tions. i As a matter of fact, despite the weeks of negotiation at Lausanne. nothing of major importance has actu- ally been settled. Capitulations, con- trol of the straits and the rights of minorities are just about where they were when the conference convened. Some partial agreements “in princi- ple” with respect to the straits have been arrived at, but there is absolute lack of agreement as to how those principles shall be apphed. Capitula- tions and the rights of minorities have remained In a continuous deadlock. There is growing suspicion that Russia is playing a much more sinister part than was considered possible after the apparent rebuff administered to the Moscow delegation by the Turk- ish envoys. When Ismet Pasha re- jected the Russian plan for control of the straits and indicated a willingness to compromise on some modified form of international control it was as- sumed that Russia would pass from the scene as a potent influence in the deliberations; but there is reason tobe- lieve that behind the scenes the soviet spokesmen may wield a greater influ- ence that it would have been possible for them to have exercised in the open. A good deal of Turkish stub- bornness today is attributed to secret Russian machinations. What the effect would be of a break- down in the negotiations is difficult to estimate. The allies are ‘handicapped by their sincere and open desire to avoid hostilities with the Turks. The Turks may not want war, any more than the allies do. but they have taken the attitude of willingness to fight all Europe, if necessary, rather than yield any part of national sovereignty, and this gives them an immense advantage in the final show-down. In the end, of course, war would mean the com- plete crushing of Turkey, but the Turks are banking on the assumption that the peoples of the allied nations are bitterly opposed to any further fighting, and that assumption is carry- ing them & long way in directions in i which it would not be possible for them to go at all in other circum- etances. i It is not probable that Mussolini will remain free from embarrassment at the hands of those who, while ap- proving of his principles, envy his po- sition of leadership. i Turkish statesmen desire a dignified place among nations for their coun- try, vet persist in policies which are as undignified as they are merciless. \ In view of the numerous traffic reg- ulations, & law-abiding motorist needs a good memory as well as good in- tentions. } Justice is classically depicted as blindfolded, but not as wearing a mask and domino. The joyride is recognized as the probable promoter of an unhappy New Year. Wilbur F. Crafts. Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts, who died in this city yesterday after a shockingly brief illness, was a true type of the sincere, ardent reformer, & man with- out fear, aggressive in his methods, regardless of the effect of his en- deavors upon the esteem of others, intent alone upon the attainment of his ends. And they were good and worthy ends, the suppression of vice and crime, the prevention of immoral practices, the stoppage of illicit traffic of all kinds tending to debase hu- manity. Few men engaged in such works have had any measure of success ap- proaching that which was won through Dr. Crafts’ efforts. Repre- senting as its active agent an organi- zation of churches and other asso- ciations aiming at the suppression of immorality, he labored chiefly in ‘Washington and with Congress. He was indefatigable in his espousal and advocacy of measures of reform. He appeared continually before commit- tees, he labored with individual legis- lators, he spread the word of his .proplllnd.l in the press. He knew the congressional situation as few men have ever known it and e long list of achievements in the framing and the execution of good laws stands now to his credit, as a” memorial. 1t is the wont of some to scorn the reformer as a meddler, a busybody who seeks to spoil pleasure, who would heve all humanity patterned after a rigid model. These say: “You cannot make men good by denying them that which they want.” Wilbur F. Crafts was not deterred in his ef- forts by such sentiments, which were frankly and even offensively expressed and applied to him and his associates in these reform measures. He knew. that the way of the worker in the field of reform is hard and the harder THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, 2 it was the more vigorously he pur- sued {t. ‘That humanity has béen benefited by the achievements of this man and his organization cannot be questioned. Temptations haye been removed from the paths of many. Evil practices have been checked. A higher stand- ard of morality has been established. ‘Wilbur F. Crafts, sacrificing himself in his labor, scored-a measure of suc- cess which is achieved by few men. ‘Washington’s Dark Streets. Tnasmuch as more accidents to pedestrians occur after nightfall in this city than at any other hour of the day the question arises whether the streets of Washington are suf- ficiently lighted. Every motorist de- clares that it is next to impossible to see persons afoot as they cross the streets. On some streets it is impos- sible to discern moving figures a few vards ahead. On very dark nights, ‘when the skies are overcast, the lamps give insufficient jllumination to throw into vision any but large bodies, such as machines and other vehicles. In these circumstances no degree of care on the part of the motorists will assure safety short of the slowing down of cars to a six-mile pace. That, of course, is out of the question, un- less the traffic is to be virtually checked. If all pedestrians were re- quired to cross the streets at the in- tersections @ six-mile pace at such points would be possible and safe. At such points the illumination is usually sufficient to permit visibility of per- sons moving between curbs. But there are points where even at the crossings the streets are dark. The lamps are sufficient neither in number nor in power to throw light enough there to disclose objects moving in the path of vehicles. The fact is that Washington is not adequately or safe- ly illuminated. A small increase in the sums for street lighting is provided for in the estimates now before Congress. Con- ditions are such that at least twice the amount that has been added to the budget should be voted. The sum of $35,000 is asked as the budget now stands for new lamps, which means the addition of lamps in outlying sec- tions and the replacement of old lamps with better ones of higher illuminat- ing power. It is not thought that this increase will suffice to yield the neces- sary improvement to make the streets of the capital safe. Every death at night by traffic acci- dents is an argument for a material addition to the appropriations for this purpose. Washington should not re- main so unsafe at night that it be- comes perilous for any person to ven- ture forth afoot save in the few bril liantly lighted thoroughfares. i Lenin threatencd a reign of terror. Kemal put the threat into execution in a manner which might reasonably cause Lenin himself to hesitate about going into partnership. ! It is often necessary for an irrecon- cilable to modify his opinions in view of what he regards es a prospect of personal isolation. § In order to finance Europe with con- fidence it is necessary to have assur- ance that they are all for working and not for fighting. ‘ The ex-kaiser insists on regarding himself as a lame duck, with a chance of being along with the flock another | season. f i Some press agent might make a hit by advertising his star as a pattern | of domestic propriety. | l Wilhelm's excuse is that invariably offered by the unsuccessful ruler. He got into bad compan i Disarmament programs of the fu- ture will have to deal with airships and poison gases. f Pictures can be sent by radio, but beef and potatoes still have to use the | freight cars. As office holders, Lenin and Trotsky have at least succeeded in stabilizing themselves. | SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOH 1923. Fare you well, old "22. & Number '23 is due, ! With the new things that we need— | Clear the tragk and let 'er speed! i Old impressions of dismay l In perspective fade away. Sound the whistle; ring the beil! Good old *22, farewell! i New ideas, well controlled. { New contenders, wise and -bold, These make up the freight we see As we welcome '23. General Tendency. “It seems necessary for people to make the same New Year resolutions | over and,over again.” “Of course,” replied Senator Sor- ghum. “It's human nature to an- nounce intentions and then forget them. The nation’s most eminent minds do the same thing in political platforms.” Jud Tunkins says, in view of the inflammabillty of Santy's whiskers, some grateful mortal ought to present the good old fellow with a razor. Incidental Endeavor. The artist on her weddings and di- vorces And interviews of fable and of fact So many hours each day employs her forces ‘We wonder when she gets the time to act! Modern Improvements. “So there's the old Crimson Gulch jail,” exclaimefl the man whé was re- turning efter a long absence. “It used to be,” corrected Cactus Joe. “Since this bootleg stuff has been circulatin’ we've had to turn it into a hospital.” 3 “A few people manages to get all de attention,” said Uncle Eben. “De boy dat eats de most ple an’ turkey today will swallow de most medicine tolmorrow.” ¢ 2 2 icaucus, i poor quality of appointments, and to HERE and THERE in WASHINGTON BY “THE OMETIMES the ladies are not con- tent to merely observe the usual things that happen quietly and, in an orderly manner, but insist upon their husbands taking them to places where things out of the ordinary may happen, which brings to mind the story & well-known professional man’told me the other day, a story that concerns two happenings. His wife once or twice a week insisted that they dine out urging that it broke tho monotony and gave her a chance to see new faces and get new ideas. Upon a particular occasion she wanted to visit one of the cafes where they serve certain beverages, not tea, coffee or milk, in little after-dinner cups, and she hoped that while they were there the place could be raided so that she might see just how the prohibition men conduct_their little surprise parties. The husband, being a good fellow and very much in love with friend wife, took Ler to one of the places but nothing happened and she returned home with- out the desired thrill. A few nights later, to her great annoyance, the place was visited by some of Commissioner Haynes' men and a_ good haul was made. This experience having passed her by only made her the more eager, and she insisted that they visit another place..and hubby, hoping that the second visit might hdve the same ending. took her. They had finished about half the courses when a rather large and force- ful “gent” concluded that he had not heen given the attention that was due one of his station and procecded to raise a roughhouse, and his friends, approving of his course, lent their phy- sical, as well as moral aid. The pro- prietor and his waiters formed the op- posing forces and the battle waged gloriously, one of the diners was being ejected vin the long front step route. Fricnd husband was enfoving the scrim- mage when he heard a shrick, and be- held, upon turning, friend wife struggling for ‘breath trying to utter a dozen sentences at _once. When he finally managed to calm her and the belligerent: had all been hurled out to the unsym- pathetic world she managed to say “one of those brutes hugwed me on his wa out, let's go home.” Since that tim devoted hubby has been eating his din ner at home and after the meal wifey comes over to his side and murmurs | “Isn't it just wonderful that we do no have to leave our peaceful fireside, and he, the hypocrite. savs it is. but that now and then he thinks that it would be an excellent idea if they dined | out occassionall | * kK ok I OME people are only tone deaf while | others think in an abstracted man- | ner, which emphasizes the fact that| popular songs linger in the subconscious mind longer than we imnagine. The | other evening two ladies were sitting | in the lobby of a well-known hotel when | the great clock, built on the lines of | “grandfather's clock that stood on the shelf” suddenly chimed the three-quar-, ter-hour, whereupon one of the fair ones exclaimed to her companion, “What are | the words to that”" “Three O'clock in | the Morning” must have been stored | away {n one of the little cells in the | thing e call our brain. MAJOR” \HE recent action of the distribu- tor of a well known make of automoblles—no, I don't mean fliv- vers—in establishing a school waere the owners of the make of cars he sells gain an intimate knowledge of the component parts of their cars 18 an excellent one, for it will not only result in the car haying a longer service life, but it will bring to the realization of the autoist the fact that all parts of his car must be kept up to concert pitch, and this in itself will result in the brakes of the car always being at that point of effl- ciency desired by those who want to assist in making every one of the fifty-two weeks in the year a safety- first week. . *x X OMETIMES you hear of a man who is torn by two emotions and you sympathize with him, for you, no doubt, have been placed in the same position. Over at Fort Myer is & colonel, Rivers by name, Who is an excellent officer, just the sort of per- son that you would have in command of troops in case of war, one of the officers that seems intuitively to know how to handle a difficult situ- ation and does it without fuss or feathers. The colonel, in addition to keeping the post up to the highest standard of efficiency, is lntereale'd in the game that some call COW- pasture pool—i. e., goif—and is cons ildered ome of the crack putters of this section of the country, being able o sink them nearly as well as Wal- ter Hagen. Some time ago, accord- ing to an intimate friend of his he was handling one of the new sabers that forms part of the equipment of the present-day cavalryman. and, after Jiggling it around for a few Moments, put it aside with a sigh evidently pondering whether it would interfere with the high degree ot flexibility of his wrist muscles, which had been trained in the art of putt- ing. It was as if the colonel then and thare resolved to master the new weapon even if it spoiled his game—a partan sacrifice indeed. P OME men have a peculiar sense of humor, while others carry revenze to a scientific conclusion; all of which is pertinent to the actions of the former husband of 2 woman who has recently appeared, uUpon Tnumerous occasions, in the public prints. The latest tale to be printed about the really attractive woman was of her marriage to an excellent chap, but one of the kind of individuals who always appeared to be meekness per- Sonified—the kind that you naturally imagine will permit a woman to rule them with a hand of iron. When the divorced husband of the lady in question heard of the marriage he cast about for a suitable present 1o send his matrimonial successor. e sent a book. the title of which was “The Martyr.” EDITORIAL DIGEST Nothing Really Helpful From Gov- | ernors’ Conference. \o doubt ‘a pleasant time was had | by all’" at the White House luncheon | at which President Harding enter-| tained the governors of fourteen states brought to Washington to dis- cuss prohibition enforcement, but the Richmond Times-Dispatch voices the conclusions of most newspapers when | it adds that “out of it came nothing | at all.” and the “national scandal” is no_nearer an end than it was before the conference. It wasn't even a conference, the Chicago Journal insists, “it was a a gathering of the camel guards. The chiefs of most wet states were conspicuous by their absence. Only the governor of Maryland was present to disturb the otherwise per- fect harmony which ptevailed in favor of enforcing an unenforceable stat- ute.” From this view the Cleveland Plain Dealer vigorously dissents. “Here were state execu repre- senting practically every section of the country it s ‘and almost without exception they subscribe to the opinion that prohibition is here to stay, that enforcement rather than liberalization of dry laws is to be looked for, and that sentiment in their states Is becoming increasingly favor- able to strict obedience to the law.” The Baltimore Sun, however. reminds us_that “every governor is also a politician.”” and being a politician he “talked according to the way he thought would be popular at home. The governors of West Virginia and Virginia say it has been a long time between legal drinks and they are piously glad of it. but they say noth- ing of the mefarious work that goes on under the tolerant gaze of the moon.” The New York Globe believes that the “mere meeting” of the national and state executives “will have a value in itself.” for “it lends the stamp of two great branches of go: ernment to the upholding of the law. nd while “scarcely more than the nrface” of the problem scratched, the Newark News suggests that “the conference served as a clearing house of information and complaints of the laxity of federal enforcement and the show that if the states are to be ex- pected to tighten up enforcement €o must the nation. But the Knickerhocker Press (Al- bany) is convinced that “the cure will have to go deeper than a mere ex- change of views.” and it does not ap- pear that “anvthing conclusive™ came ut of the conference. The very novelty” of such a proceeding as that of a “federal executive appealing to state executives in his task of en- forcing federal law.” as the Spring- field Union sees it, points to the “one great cause of the difficulties and fail- ures. Where the authority is divided there is likely to be no authority. and the Philadelphia Evening Ledger agrees that “enforcement of prohibi- tion cannot be controlled by gover- nors, as the governors themselves must know,” ‘for. as the Asheville (X. C.) Times explains it. “individual -states are not showing any interest in enforcement. Through a policy of sabotage and studied neglect, they are | in effect attempting to bring the 1aw into contempt.” Aside from the something ought to be done about it." the governors “have not contrib- ufed a single suggestion that meet the primary issue.” the Philadelphia Public Ledger thinks, “with the ex- ception of their proposal of a cam- paign of education.’ However, “if education be needed. and that will hardly be questioned, it might pe well to begin not at the bottom, but' at the top. There are officials who have solemnly sworn to defend and sup- port the Constitutlon of the United States who make no concealment of their contempt for the prohibition amendment, 'Who serve intoxicants to their guests and who are for law en- forcement only with their lips. There governors who sin in this conviction that respect. One of the few constructive sug- gestions that came out of the confer- ence was that which the Baltimore American calls the “slightly ambigu- ous” statement of Gov. Cox of Massa- chusetts asserting “more money and more honorable men are necessary.” This is often the case, the American admits, “but the governor is not quot~ ed as suggesting where the money or the more honorable men are to come from. However, if more money. is necessary ‘“the federal government should be prepared to spend more money on enforcement and must see to it that the character of the én- forcement personnel is radically im proved and that methods are rends more efficient,” the New York insists, “for it is by no means inevit- able that the enforcement service shall be manned by low-class job hunters.” But “the richest frult of the confer- ence of state governors With the President.” the St. Louls Post Dis- patch finds in “the inhibitlon against le and criticism touching prohi bition on the part of the newspaper: Here, it announces, s the remedy— the newspapers will quit joking and the people laughing about prohibition the sacred bull may survive.” There- fore, “drape the desks of the flippant columnist and the pungent para- grapher in inky crepe. Hush the voice of the comedian. The life of prohibition at stake” Or, the Philadelphia Bulletin suggests, “if every one were to try repeating fift: times a day the magic formula, ‘Day by day, in every way, we are growing drier, drier, drier/ the prohibition laws soon would become’ self-enforc- ing. Our Men Poor Love-Makers. A Prussian named Goslar, who has written a book about the impression of America he got during a visit here last year. says that he was struck by the indifference of American men and women to the kind of love-making which s practiced in every city and most of the villages of Europe, and he drew the conclusion that the at- mosphere in America is “non-erotic. Americans whose chief business is love-making are indeed rare. The American man has been accused of being an awkward dunce at the art. and this has been glven as the rea- son why some American women of means and soclal position prefer the society of European aristocrats to that of American men of affairs. But if American men are second- raters when it comes to making love they rank high as husbands, and that, according to the view of European women, is to be preferred in a man to any other quality. however, seems to have overlooked this phase of the question. He refers in puzzled terms to the indifference of American men to love- making as a business and the equal indifference of American women to the casual attention of freelance lovers, skilled in the arts of pleasure, but lacking the substantial qualities of manhpod. He thinks America somewhat prim. If this is primness the world needs more of it, especially the European world, for it is the distinguishing mark of a civilization which, what- lever its shortcomings. is essentially sound in its attitude toward the home; -and so long as the home is su- preme in the eyes of the average man and woman most other questions will take care of themselves.—Providence Tribune. As an arouser of Ame.ican enthu- siasm for France, Clemenceau is a very nice old man.—Duluth Herald. A famous violinist has just called off his engagement. Couldn’t har- monize, we suppose.—Dayton News. There is some complaint that the construction of hospitals is not keep- ing pace with motor car production.— Little Rock Arkansas Gazette. We suppose the world makes a beaten track also to the door of the man who makes a better moonshine. —Greenville Piedmont. ‘Wallie Reid is said to have used seven kinds of dope. Wonder how many kinds some of these here sce- nario writers use>—Omaha World Herald. Tn certain ways. on certain days, this old world is getting beiter and better. On other- days you wouldn’t notice it so much.—Boston Transcript. The world isn't really growing bet- ter. It just seems that way because you don’t hear the word “sweetie” s0 much.—Hartford Times. Clemenceau attributes his longev- ity to grapefruit. It only remains for some one to atfribute longevity to button shoes.—St. Paul Dispatch. . Stanislaw Wojclechowsk' was eleot’- ed President of Poland. If freedom shrieked when Koscuisko fell, what | Herr Goslar, | erected kind of a yell is she going to let| ‘out if anything happens to Wojcie- chowski?—Chicago Tribune. Radio concerts are now being ad- ministered to patients undergoing major operations. For our part, we'll continue to take dur ether pure, if the doctors have no objection.—Chi- cago News. Ir's hard to tell who gets colder, the man v ho sits in the house and thinks he is cold or the one who goes out, looks .at the thermometer and o News, year, he ia.- 0., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1922, The North Window BY LEILA MECHLIN. A well known landscape painter was recently painting on a roadside in Penn- sylvania. His peltures Included not only a broad sweep of flelds, some trees and a winter sky, but also, to the left In the composition, was a barn. Just a8 his picture was nearing completion ;‘l:i owner of the barn sauntered by and 2 look at the painting. *Does my barn look Itke that to you the painter. “Yes, it doe: Teply ; “how does it look to you?" “Well, Dot like that," he said, “but 1 wished i gid, That's the way 1'd Iike it to look." nd then, after a pause. “Plcture for salez” Being answered in the affirma- Ve, ;and giving the matter a_little thought, he made an offer : T don't know how much you get for your pictures, ut I tell you what Yl do, I'll give you three tons of hay for that one.” Now regardless of what hay may be Selling for at the present time, that Wwas a pretty generous offer. It was one man’s work for the other’s. The painter appreciated the offer, as he might not have a much larger one from some one else; explaining that he hoped to get $2,000 for that particular picture —and the chances are that he will—he told the farmer that if he would be sat- isfled with possibly a smaller canvas he would come back three weeks from then and do another picture of his barn for him, and he did. So the farmer is now the proud possessor of a_Redfiel bought at his own price, and Mr, Red- fleld has the satisfaction of knowing zg::(g;n particular picture was greatly an e Covetany will always be genuine:y This is the sort of sale that gives,an artist real inspiration. for art is not. after all, a game that a man can play alone. A painter paints a picture be- cause he wants to show some one else something which seems to him beauti- ful. A poet writes a poem for some- what the same reason. Inevitably, thes have the other person in mind. = If ail ears were deaf and all eyes blind. there, would probably be no more poems and no more pictures. Lester Hornby in a letter to a friend said recently: I make a sketch because it gives me extreme pleasure. 1If it hecomes work I know there will be just that much less genuine freedom of emotion—that much less art in it. By that I do not mean to say that I believe there is no work in art, but that it should not show, and that the really fine things come’ quite freely and easily. like Rembrandt's sketch of his faiher: it couldn’t havetaken him more than fiftcen minutes. And such sketches are so simple that many people be- lieve they could do so themselves, it doesn’t look difficult. and to the artist it was not difficult: it was his most natural form of expression. Some- where in Shelley’s letters he tells of coming upon a spring bubbling up from its source in the ro freely and joyously, as he had always imag- ined a poem should spring from the heart of a poet. Well, it is so 1 1i to see pictures—and so L try to do them.” * ok ¥ x And when pictures are done this as a rule they are good pictures, afford untold pleasure to who could not produce them iemselves, but to whom they message. Price connected works of art is, after all. only a meas- ure of appreciation. That which is really desired if for sale is bought, and the more who desire it and the rarer the object, the greater the price. One cannot say’ that the “Blue Boy was not worth the price Mr. Hunt- fngton paid for him, something like three-quarters of a million of dollars, because there is only one “Blue Boy™ and ‘there can never be another. In the same way it is not just to declare that a cotemporary artist should ask five or #ix thousand dollars for his paintings. It is not what he asks, but what he gets, and if his pictures are worth five or six thousand dollars to some people their price is thus fixed. There is only one person in many thousands who has the ability ta create a great work of art. perhaps only one or two in several genera- tions. ~ Such a talent is precious as well a8 rare. And yet there are those who feel that art should always be given away, and that the minute an artist puts a price on his work he be- comes commercial. mission to make an etching in a semi- public building in Washington re- cently, a distinguished etcher was asked whether it was his intention to put the etching to a commercial pur- pose. His prompt response the etching will be for sale.” this reason there was hesitation granting the permission. The great masters of the past have sold their works, obtaining for them sums only too pitifully little. During the war, when bank securities were very low, rich people abroad put their v in paintings and etc lieving them the safest pessible in- vestments, But the people who traf- fic in works of art are not those who create them, and if an artist lives I his products (and some do) he does well. with in * k% x X Brander Matthews, in an address made before the American Academy of Arts and Letters some time ago, spoke of “the art: and so they are. Life would be a dreary place without them. The art- ists are the great givers, and at this of all times of the vear they should be most gratefully remembered. Com- paratively few monuments have been America to artists. There is a saying that artists build their own monuments. Surely Sir Christo- pher Wren could have no monument equal to St. Paul's Cathedral, in Lon- don, which he designed: the Lincoln Memorial. in Washington, will keep in memor Henry Bacon, its architect. it is a gracious thing, as some of the foreign countries have done, to rear: monuments in appreciation of the art- ists of greatest ability—those who have produced works of supreme beauty which the people of genera- tions have united in admiring. This recalls a little incident that occurred at The Hague some vears ago. The social season was at its height: the opera house was crowded with well dressed men and women; in a few minutes the performance was to begin; all was expectancy. An old man entered the auditorium and made his way to one of the boxes. As his presence became known the entire {audience rose and remained standing until he was seated. Was he a royal a_great moble? Not at He was Josef Israels, the Dutch genre painter, born a Jew of humble { parents, whose pictures of Dutch peasant life had brought distinction not only to himself, but all Holland— a simple, modest old man, but a great artist in honoring whom the Holland- ers did honor to themselves. Pleads for Christmas Ideals for Entire Year To_the Editor of The Sta; I was much impressed with your Christmas day editorial, especially after attending midnight mass at the Church of the Sacred Heart and early Christmas morning services at the Luther Place Memorial Church, where both ministers expressed the same sentiment, though using different phraseology, as advanced by your edi- torial. Here were leaders of different groups putting forth their best thoughts on this greatest of days, all agreeing that the gospel of Jesus Christ is the only-need of the world in its present chaos of thought and action. The practical thought that came to my mind was when we of different schools of thought and prac- tice can agree on the great essen- tials, why can’t we get together and do something for the uplift of the world instead of eternally talk- ing about it, letting our selfishness throughout the remainder of the year supersede the high ideals held on this one day. . ‘The newspapers of the world have a great opportunity to lead the peo- ple in right thinking, and it is hoped that graft, greed and other material sins will not prevent editorials in the same spirit as the Christmas day not | Requesting per- | s, be- | which adorn 1ife"—| for all time the name of | But vet! CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS, With the end of forests in plain sight, as estimated by experts of the bureau of forestry, so that another decade will find some varieties of lumber obsolete, and two decades will find practically all of the present standard varieties exhausted, it is no wonder that President Harding has decided that the policy of conserva- tion as maintained under the Depart- ment of Agriculture shall be con- tinued. Proper handling of the forests means the-culling out only of matured timber, from year to year, and never the complete ‘devastation of a tract. It results in stimulating instead of stopping the annual production of forests. To turn over the already de- pleted forests to management less scientific and openly committed to ex- ploitation of our natural resources would result only in hastening the complete destruction of timber, ac- cording to the conservationists. The gossip that indicates that Secretary Fall of the Department of the Inte- rior intends to resign from the cabinet because he is not permitted ‘to take over the forestry bureau is flatly de- nied by Mr. Fall. It s not confirmed authoritatively by any officials, and 80 the guesses as to whether his suc- cessor will be Senator Frank B. Kel logg of Minnesota, Senator Harry New of Indiana or Carmi Thompson of Ohio are all premature. All are good friends of the President. * % % % More than half the automobiles of Washington are doomed to lie idle next week, because their owners have been dilatory regarding the 1923 tags. It will do no good to apologize to the policeman next Monday, or to claim that the tag has been bought but not attached. “Tell that to the judge,” will be the only answer. And there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth by these 45,000 inexperienced pedestrians standing on the curbs a watching us drive by. They will be the worst fav-walkers in the ; too. for they have seen £0 much jay- walking, as they haughtily drove, that they do not know that there is any other kind. Maybe some «f us forehanded tag-proud wretches might be induced to speculate in tags. How much am I bid for a brand-new pair of nice brown 1923 tags? How much? Will accept a 1922 limousine as part payment, balance cash. These tags are guaranteed in perfect running or- der and only a limousine in equal condition will be considered. How much_am I bid? Going! Going® That foolish virgin in the pink sweat er getsem, * ¥ x X If this world does not tilt up with- in the next few vears it will not be the fault of engineers. Now comes House Leader Mondell with a bill granting the consent of the federal | zovernment to the Colorado river irri- gation project, which will require also the sanction of seven state legis- latures. It is a project which will mpletely overshadow the Muscle Shoals scheme, and. according to Sec- cretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, one of the world's most successful en. gineers, this will be the biggest irri- gation and power plant in the world. So gre: it be, he declares, that it must alwavs be owned and directly | controlled by the government. and, if that pronouncement rules, the same policy of government ownership will ventually be applied to Muscle | Shoals. Between Glenn Canyon in Colorado and Boulder Canyon in Nevada, savs Hoover, there will be developed n three to four million horse- power. all of which will be owned by the people. and provided to them at the lowe * Ok Xk X Can any one conjecture what that wiil mean in the revolution of the industries of that region? Mr. Hoover says the benefits must accrue mainly to agriculture, which is true, but when the desert is made to blossom as a rose abundance of food. but there will be varied industries which will convert that part of the great American desert into a beehive of manufactur- ing, and nobody can imagine what will be the ultimate result. vond the veil which shuts out the future. When the great debate was on over the saving of Oregon, Daniel Webster questioned as to whether it would ever be worth saving, as com- pared with the value of the New foundland Bshing privileges. When ward committed his “folly” of buy- ing Alaska for $7,000,000 people thought he was squandering the pub- lic treasury for an iceberg. Even when all Louisiana territory was was condemned as a financial blunder. because it was mostly the “Great American Desert, where nobody but Indians and buffalo could ever live. The day will come when the Great Excavatiens Bring Back Fond Memory To the Editor of The Star: ticls in the Star of November 11 de- scribing the excavations being made for the foundations of the new Hotel Walker at Connecticut avenue and De Sales street, as it brought to my mind_ som® very pleasant memories of my childhood da*s. The old home- stead where 1 was raised was lo- cated on New York avenue between 17th and 1Sth streets. upon the site now occupied by the Emergency Hos- pital, and when as a lad 1 attended {the 'grammar school (the |schools were not graded in those idays) taught by the redoubtable “Strong John Thomson,” a two- story brick school located on the southwest corner of 14th and Q ‘slree(s, we “first ward” boys used to nings along {journey mornings and ev the east bank of the creek mentioned | that used to flow in across that southward square. As I recollect, it was a ravine av- eraging about eight or ten feet wide and five or six deep, with the creek small in dry weather but swollen in wet, with clay banks ang pebbly bot- tom. One of my companions was the late William R. Singleton, who, I { think, won & scholarship to Colum- bian College, now George Washing- ton University. From about K street horthward to the “boundary,” as Flor- da avenue was then called, the {squares now occupied by some of { Washington's most expensive and {beautiful homes, churches and busi ness buildings and completely b up were then mostly ‘ vacant fields with here and scattering homesteads and occasional squatters’ shacks, where cows pas- tured and pigs and chickens abounded. Over toward 17th and 14th streets the squares were comparatively built up. 1 was the architect for three residences built some years after- wards on the north side of De Salzs street for the late Thomas Darden. 1 remember the playground of our school was the square immediately north and west of the school buildin, where many & hard-fought game of “ghinny” or “bandy” was played in the frosty winter days or base ball in the summer. Looking across the “commons” to the north we could see Meridian hill and the ruins then standing of the old Kalorama home- stead, which had, I think, been de- stroyed by fire. Only a few blocks up 14th street was the Washington Orphan Asylum, then, I think, occu- piled temporarily by the State De- partment, the original building front- ing on 14th street being designed by my uncle, the late John C. Harkneas, ard up on the hill, fronting on 14th, street, the old Columbian College building. _‘There were many other “first ward” your article, gonally t possible cost, ] there will not only be an | Men are blind; they cannot see be- | bought of Napoleon for §15,000.000 it . 1 read with much interest the ar-| public | Sahara of Africa will be flooded by the sea, for most of it is below sea level, and when that Js accomplished what will happen to the earth's equ librium? When the Colorado bas is flooded, how much will it tilt the continent? Not so much physically perhaps, as it will industrially. 1l feed 50,000,000 more Ameri * % % * Cupid is having a peck of troubls in the District of Columbia thes: da First, he leaves the making of a matrimonial contract entirely the hands of daddy, and dadd 3 it all up by forgetting o the matter to his sixteen daughter. What has she to do wit %0 momentous a matter, She is only the bride-to-be. she learns gbout it she disappe and then her mother has nervor prostration. so she returns, and jo: fully announces that of course &F will marry the Chinaman—for whs made it all so horrible was the fact that the groom was = Chinaman Now, was that not enough to mal any ‘self-respect righ school resent the father's diaboli ment, simply excusing 1 saying that the man Was ric e must admire the self-sacrifice o the damsel—swert little high schoo girl of Washington! Cupid ought 1 Save her. But he won't, for sha i« Chinese, too, and it is aceordis {0 Chinese custom, except the ity of the bride's timid flight And then there is the stance wherein is shown it is that true love run groom of twenty-eight years artually marries his stepmother of forty-twn only to find out an hour after 1 had kissed his bride that the forbids marriage of or of a lot of oth cluding _his mot great-grandfath stepdaughter's se ton provoking to pose this man had s his stepmother. and sunj: had several children came hiy stepmothe Would the new stepfather Fate to his stepbrothers and sty But he must step down is married and not mar does not know whether to bride stepma or wifex St. Paul must have liad a lot of ex perfence when he gave such advice about matrimony. Josh ings’ advice, too, was famous: “Dor’t * % % % Senator Curtis, the modern Dio who started out to trace an honest-to goodness bootlegger, whether statesmin or page, found Mr. Alibi the first dax out. Of course, that colored waiter w not carrying the hootch to a senatoria {party, when he got nervous and dro; ped the bottle, while headed toward iaenmonal alcove. * sah—oh, sah”’ He had “just found somethh slippery in his pocket and he aens goin® to 'quire if some gemmen had los Somethin’. S'all that was. Yas. sal name's Halibut, but some gemmen cal - Bof names is fish: Why all this mystery and disguise connection with the alleged attempt Grover Cleveland Bergdoll to re-ent America secretly by the back doc the Pacific coast? When the prodigs son came home he did not put ou al All the American Lesic would welcome the sight of Bergdoll in fact, there is always a light burnh in the window to guide him back. Th jalien property custodian has a g ring he would like to put on his finge: ‘and some veal he might roast for lin and a merry dance to give him, he Wil come home. Yes, a very merr dance. Come dance! right. | The old vear goes American man at work who wants to work, unless he physically unah's 1!0 work, and with wages of the trad. | workers higher than ever known b [fore. And yet all is mot well whi | the high cost of living persist | the ruinous returns to fond produc While all the rest of the world suffering from an actual and ier | shortage of food. Ameriga is suffer {from the high cost of what little foor dribbles through the excessive cost of | distribution, while as much waste as_ever reaches the « Our world statesmen have 1 problems to prevent a holocaust of wi and our home economists have their no acute problem of food butic and our law makers and law executives have their still more imminently da gerous problem of how 1o restore d. respect of all_the people fo all ti. |law and the Constitution. The who | world seems to be wrestling with prob- |lems peculiar to the day—the close of {1922, “What mys s held in the ve about to open? Denies That Disease | Is Spread by Laundries To the Editor of The Star: Several Washington laundry ow: |who seem to think that an injustice has been done them have called my |attention to an article that appeared lin your issue of Wednesday. Decem | ber 20 (column 5, page 37). Knowins the fairmess of most newspapers when a matter is presented to thent in its true sense, I am taking the 11! lerty of giving you a few facts f your consideration. To begin with, the statement “contagious _disease brous through outside laundries.” is in {rect. You have only to refer 1o &0\ | ernment records to_establish proct this. It has been proved that all & | ments laundered in a power plant bsolutely freed from vermin and | sent home sanitary. In the olden days supplies that were possibly injurious to tender skin | might have been used, but these are {things of the past. Only harmless ingredients are used in the modern laundry of today. The supplies are o° the very best, and any attempt mad: by a concern to scll the laundry | owner something that is not up to t standard would soon find iteelf « the rocks of disaste | The Laundry Owne | ciation maintains Mellon Institut home—welcome? A merry Also veal! Start the New Y * % x * out ‘with every is National Ass fellowship in the Pittsburgh, and all supplies are subjected to a chemicil sanalysis to prove their merit. This bureau of chemical research has becn the subject of many articles in tionally known publications, such the Literary Digest, Success and many others. The November issue of Success, for instance, tells in a ver concise manner of ' the wonderful work that is carried on by the va rious fellowships at the Mellon 1u stitute. i 1t perhaps will interest you to know that the Laundry Owners’ National As sociation is now establishing the American Institute of Launderinz, which will be located at Joltet, 11! Here laundry managers and superin- tendents will be instructed in evers known science of correct laundering and employes of laundry owners who hold membership in the national as- soclation will have the advantage of going_to this institution and trained scientifically in launderin: methods and practices. J. M. THACKER. Editor Laundry Age I———-——_—, boys older than 1 and in the classes in the school ahead of me who took these daily journeys along the creek and my memory on reading your ar- ticle went back to the balmy summer and frosty winter morn and evenings when as heart and care free boys with our books under our arms we sauntered along its banks on our way to and from school. CHARLES A. HARKNESS.