Evening Star Newspaper, January 5, 1923, Page 6

Fg = THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morllln!» El"?l}l_lvl_ WASHINGTON, D. C. January 5. 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Tusipess Ofice, 11(h St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Ofiee; 150 Nausau St. Chicags Ofice: « Tower Bullding. Juropean Otfice : 16 Legent St., London, England. The Exeninz Star. with the Sunday morning edstion, 1s de carriers within the elty At 80 cents per month: daily only, 45 cents per 3 cents per month. OF- ders mag e sent by mail or telephone Main 7000. “Collection is made by carriers at the €nd of each wontl Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1 vr., $8.40: 1m L All Other States. Suada; » $10.00; 1 mo., 85¢ 4 $7.00; 1 wo., §0c . $3.00; 1 mo., 25¢ Daily and Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitied *5 the use for republication of all news dis- Patches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and aiso the loeal news pub- lished ~herein. khis of publication of pecial dispat in 50 reserved. —_——— What Next in Europe? The attitude of the world with re- spect to the European situation might he described as that of hoping for the best while fearing the worst. A reak between France aln on the question of reparations has been expected and dreaded as a catas- trophe of the first magnitude. But it often happens that anticipation is much worse than realization, and now that the break has come, definitely and scemingly irrevocably, things may not go so utterly to smash as has| been predicted. Much will depend upon the good sense and moderation displayed by France in her new-found freedom of action, gnificant feature, and per- haps @ restraining one, is that France is not confronted by that moral isola- tion which had been assumed would accompany a program of independent actlon. Belgium probably will go along with her in any course decided upon. Whatever may eventually be the Itallan position toward armed seizures in Germany, as between Great Brit- ain and France, the moral weight of ltaly, for the present at least, is with the latter. Great Britain. in fact, is in a2 measure a victim of that moral isolation with which she had threat- ened France. As between the former allies in Eu- rope, American opinion, ing some overt act, can afford to be neutral. Putting aside the question of armed force against Germany, Amer- feans do mot find any reason to be partisan as between the specific repa- rations plans advanced by Poincare »nd Bonar Law. The British plan is 50 tnvolved and complex that it is diffi- cult to figure just how it would work out, but the one thing which appears conspicuously plain is that British in. terests have been well looked after. The French plan. aside from the guar- antees, does not appear strikingly mere harsh. Both plans mix repara. ilons up with interallied debts in @ way that Americans believe to be both un- fair and unworkable. As indicated by Secretary Hughes’ spesch at New Haven and in other of- ficial utterances, this government is utterly opposed to the theory of col- lecting debts at the point of the sword, and believes that much harm and no good could come from the forcible seizure of additional German territory. But if she will refrain from military pressure, no good reason is seen here why France should not try in her own way to collect reparations. No such success has attended joint effort as to condemn individual effort in advance. There remains a week until Janu- ary 15, the date upon which expected German default will end the present reparations status. In that time it is 1o be hoped that wise counsel will pre- vail at Paris, and that when the day of action comes reasonableness and sanity will control the policy of France. Poincare has before him a zreat opportunity, not only to make secure his own fame as a statesman, but to restore in the world now shaken confidence in the good intentions of his government. So far as the United States is concerned, France still has sympathy and moral support. But judgment in the United States today is in a state of suspension. Sympathy and moral support will be quickly withdrawn #¢ it is demonstrated now that German territory and not repara- tions is the objective of French policy. German statesmanship will be care- ful not to disturb any prospect of dts- agreement among the allles. Having sent over large quantities of gold, Europe is perfectly willing to tell T'ncle Sam what to do with it. The Public Building Program. In its report to the Senate the Pub- lic Buildings Commission, recommend- ing the adoption of a comprehensive building program involving the ex- penditure of $30,000,000 for the con- struction of suitable public structures in Washington, notes the annual rent- als paid in this city by the govern- ment. On the 22d of May, 1919, the vent bill of the United States here was $1,135,897.28. Capitalizing at 6 per cent, that represented some $18,- 931,000, or more than half the maxi- mum amount proposed by the commis- slon. By the 1st of December, 1922, by reason of the closing and curtailing of war-time agencles and the con- solidation of offices in the “‘temporary"” war buildings, the annual rent bill had been reduced to $524,693.04. This at 6 per cent capftalizes at $8,744,900, or more than e third of the minimum sum suggested for the comprehensive program. While some further econ- omies are proposed through the vaca- tion of rented bulldings and the con- tinued consolidation of various offices in the “temporary"” buildings, the rent bill cannot be cut down by more than $100,000, short of the erecidon of per- nanent housings for the government offices. At the utmost of the further aconomies in sight there will remain a rent outlay representing & ocapital investment of over §7,000,000, At present the sconomiss from the heavy war-time costs are being effect- 98 through the use mainly of the two and Great Brit-| least pend- | concrete structures on Potomac Park, which, though designated as tempo- rary, are of such stable materials that there is a prospect of their contirued use for some years, while the other buildings of slighter structure erected in haste, also in parks, are rapidly ap- proaching the point of dissolution. It is not to be contemplated that the United States will continue indefinite- 1y to use these buildings that trespass upon the reservations. ‘While in point of space, light and ventilation these buildings are suitable for public service purposes, they are too large for effective administration. Moreover, it is not good practice to house half a dozen different organiza- tions under a single roof. These bulld- ings were designed for a homogéneous use and were admirable for the pur- poses of war-time administration. But ever since the curtailment of the war- time forces began the tendency has been to house there all sorts of bu- reaus, branches of departments and miscellaneous offices, until now the di- rectory of one or two of these build- ings resembles that of a great com- mercial office structure, and capable, Indeed, is any one who can find his ‘way about. Expert guides are almost necessary to direct even occupants of the bullding to destinations outside of | their own immediate environment. TUse of these buildings, of course. saves rent, and as long as they stand jand are in good condition naturally they should be utilized by the govern- ment. But no building pregram should be contemplated that does not include their vacation in a short time and the provision of suitable distinct depart- ment and bureau structures, not on the parks but on other land, for the forces now assembled in them. 1 } i | The New Bridge Approach. Modification of the plan adopted by the District Commissioners for the Georgetown approach to the new bridge across the Potomac west of | Rock creek—which it is hoped Con- gress will soon formally designate the Key bridge, in honor of the author of “The Star Spangled Banner"—assures | the provision of ample space at that| point to insure convenience of traffic, | even in heavy use. The plan as at first adopted provided for a compara- tively narrow line of approach, and in circumstances to entall great expense in the future if more room were dem- onstrated to be needed, as it is well {assured it will be. Now, although the features of the alternative Plan D, which include the establiskment of an ‘island of safety” at the bridge ap- ! proach, are not all adopted. the non- building space at the north end of the {bridge will be ample for immediate |and possible future uses and for car | track rearrangement which will insure a maximum of public convenience and security. In this connection it is noted that M | street, which will be the main artery of traffic to and from the bridge for connection with the Washington side, | is too narrow for satisfactory bridge | use. It is possible either to widen this ‘| street, at a large expense, or to extend | Virginia avenue to the bridge en- trance, at an expense that remains to be computed. Of these two plans, both of which have been proposed, the lat- ter would seem to be the better. It will assure two lines of traffic instead of one, It will give a shorter means of access to the Georgetown terminus of the bridge than that which is af- forded by M street. It will correct un- desirable conditions and facilitate im- provements in an area that, by reason of its comparative inaccessibility, is |{now dormant. A bill to this end is pending in Congress. It should be given early attention, to the end of providing as quickly as possible for the heavy traffic which will be borne by the new bridge, certain to grow as the region in Virginia reached by the improved viaduct increases in popula- tion. Campaign Managers. ‘The story about the early retirement of Chairman Adams of the republican national committee is denfed. It was not persuasive. Mr. Adams brought home the bacon in November. It was not as large a slice as desired, but the performance in the circumstances was pralse- worthy. Things, through no fault of | Mr. Adams, were greatly mixed in the recent campaign, and, as usual, th party in control was held accountable | for much for which it was not re- sponsible. But the fact of moment is that the republicans will control both houses of the next Congress, end will thus have it In thelr power to make a strong appeal through their record at the first sesslon for support in the| presidential campaign. And Mr. Adams shares in the credit for that. There i{s no suggestion respecting Chairman Hull of the democratic na- tional committee. Presumably, he, too, will continue in office-until convention time next year. His work last fall was creditable to himself and satisfactory to his party. The men who will conduct the cam- paigns of the major parties in 1924 will be named after the parties have made their nominations. A presiden- tial nominee has the privilegs of se- lecting the manager of his contest for election, and usually calls to his side a close and trusted friend who knows the ropes and how to pull them. Both Mr. Adams and Mr. Hull know the ropes; and pulled them strepuously last year. And they may pull them again. ‘Washington, D. C., continues to grow, but the appropriations by Con- gress do not increase in proportion, The liquor question has expanded from local option to & matter of inter netional jurisdiction, Mr. Wilson and His Friends, Mr. Wilson and the league of na- tions are much in the picture, and democrats who are hoping to see their party’s campaign next year pitched in a different key would do well to take notice, In New York next week the league of nations non-partisan committes will give a dinner, at which Judge Clarke of Ohio, who recently retired from the Supreme bench in order to take the etump In advocacy of the entrance of Americs into the league, will speak. 1t will be his first appearance in his | stances of extreme difficulty. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO ‘ Washington Observation I mew role, and as he is suspected of presidential aspirations his remarks will be widely read and closely ex- amined. He is credited with superior oratorical abliity. ‘The other day the Woodrow Wilson League of New Jersey sent Mr. Wil- son Christmas greetings and pledged him support, and in reply received the following: I am strengthened by the thought of such support. I believe that we shall all have the gratification in the near future of seeing the principles wo believe in adopted by an over- whelming majority of the voters of this country. The campaign is on. The Wilsonites are in motion, and thelr leader s en- couraging them. He s writing and recelving many letters bearing on the issue he has most at heart—the league of nations. His past is socketed in that, and he is staking his future on it. There are anti-Wilson democrats— anti on the league and on other issues —but they are not as vet organized. It may be that this activity in Wil- sonite circles will rouse them, and that we shall sce eighteen months in ad- vance of national convention time a general stir on the democratic side of the fence. Making Good. The new tariff law in operation is making good. It is not checking im- ports. It is producing revenue. If it continues to show such results it will be an important republican asset in next year's campaign. The law was enacted circum- There ‘were republicans opposed to any tariff action whatever. They held that busi- ness conditions everywhere, at home and abroad, were too unsettied to en- able the taking of successful action. ‘Wait awhile. Let revision go over un- til the next Congress unless a change in the conditions took place promptly. Those who insisted on action, and forced it, found the going hard. Statis- tics were gathered and digested under stress. Doubt was thrown on some of them. Some business interests did not co-operate cordially. But, slowly, the work was per- formed, and, at last, a new law, fash- joned on protection lines as they had been affected by the war, took the place of the Underwood law. Business is still much unsettled, and may continue so for some time yet. But if, even at that disadvantage, the Fordney law can, and does, make its way, there will be less and less heard about amending it. and nothing more at all probably about repealing it. The revision is entitled to a show for its white alley, according to the rules of the game; and that show will run for in {about two years. The next vote on the revision will take place in November of next year. ————— People who wear milllons of dollars worth of diamonds to a rough poker party in New York should not be sur- prised if the attention of some of the players wanders from the jack pot to the jewelr: It Wilhelm Hohenzollern isthe great and resourceful statesman he once considered himself, now is the time for him to offer a few practical sugges- tions for the benefit of his country. Ambassador Harvey is one distin. guished arrival from abroad who makes it clear that he did not come over to this country to lecture. If Bergdoll has been looking around to see whether his troubles have “blown over” he cannot fail to be disappointed. The detectives and reporters have evidently all left New Brunswick, N. J., for good and gone down to Mer Rouge. The custom of retaining a cabinet resignation in the status of a lingering rumor is not as much in favor as for- merly. France and England have become notable for developments in the ir- reconcilable school of statesmanship. e e o Latinist lexicographer will be willing to indorse the suggestion that “fascisti” is Italian for Ku Klux Klan. The Navy of the future is expected to experience a great uplift by means of airships, SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON “Well Enough.” “Let well enough alone,” they say. But proverbs often go astray. All things in this great universe Must change for better or for worse. A comfortable little fish To swim for centurles might wish; Yet felt the urge, 'mid calm and storm, To evolute to higher form. ‘The romping little pollywog Grows and is eaten as & frog. . “Let well enough alons?”" Oh, sen, You'll find it simply can't be done! Modified Candor, “A man in your position should never say & thing he does not mean.” “You can’t avoid it,” confided Sena- tor Sorghum. “Every now and then you've got to introduce a bill to humor some cranky but influential con- stituent.” Jud Tunkins says what a friend of his thinks is & political band wagen sounds more like an out-of-date pheno- graph record. Conferences. In vonferences let men mix And put their views in writing, ‘When they are talking palitics, At least they are not fighting. The Metropolitan Urge. ‘Why do you insist on going to the legislature? Do you expect to reform anything?” “No,” said Farmer Corntossel. “What I'm after is a good excuse for getting to town awhile and looking at the movin’ pictures,” “De man dat talks loud,” said Uncle Eben, “is generally tryin' to git you excited =o's he kin put sumbin’ over on you.” Fifty-two vears ago this January there was another Franco-German reparations conference in Paris, or rather in Versallles, with the French in the hapless role of the suppltant for better terms. Paris had capitu- lated to the victorlous German armies. Bismarck, the iron chan- cellor, was diotating what Germany intended to be crushing terms to the vanquished foe—oession of Alsace and Lorraine. and an indemnity of one billon gold dollars (“five milliards of francs”). The Germans first de- manded $1,200,000,000, but Emperor William, T reduced Bismarck's figures to a round $1,000,000,000. France was required to consent to the occupation of her territory by German troops until the last centime of the in- demnity was paid. Bismarck calcu- lated that the conquerors heel would be on the French neck for the better part of a generation. France paid off everything in five months. It cost her an extra 40,000,000 to escape the indignity of a German military occupation of Paris. Bismarck's asking price for that concesslon was $200,000,000, * ok ok % Canada is officfally represented on the British debt commission about to open negotiations in Washington. The Dominion's spokesman is Loring C. Christie, legal adviser to the de- partment of external affairs at Ot- tawa. He was in Washington a vear ago in that capacity, as a member of the Canadian delegation to the ar- manent conference. It is not gen- erally understood that Canada, like the United States, is one of Great Britain's creditors. The Dominion's advances to the mother country dur- ing the world war aggregated a bil- lion dollars—the exact figures are $997,339,901. A vast portion of that sum was devoted to transport of the Canadlan expeditionary forces to the European battlefields, while the resi- due, for the most part, was spent in munitions and supplies produced on Dominion soil. As there i3 still a substantial balance due the Canadian treasury, our virlle neighbors to the north have a direct interest in the American-British. financlal “peace conference” now to be convened on the Potomao. Britain has been pay ing Canada off at the rate of $5.000, 000 a month. * % % Thanks to the fabulous American dollars in Polish marks, Prince Eugene Lubomirski, late Polish minister at Washington, has recently become the possessor by pur- chase of a huge slice of Polish ter- ritory. Both the prince and his con- sort were thrifty spirits and, ac- cording to their friends, put away thelr diplomatic income in the United States, paid In dollars, against the time they could translate it into the depreciated coin of their own realm When the Lubomirskis quit the le- gation at Washington, in December, moreover, there is understood to have been due them at Warsaw scven or eight months’ back pay—in dollar valuation. With the combined treas ure in Polish marks, plus the results of sales of the prince’s ancestral cs tates in Austrian Poland, where h. formerly lived, he has bought gij tic tracts in what was formerly man Poland. He now purposes living the life of a landowner and lord of domains exceeding in area the realms of the richest kings of ancient Poland. The Lubomirskis have left thelr eldest son, Eugene, in New York, where he is studving American banking methods. A younger son is at Oxford. value of & & Washington's most wonderful col- lectlon of autographed photographs adorns the walls of John Hays Ham- Mer Rouge Assassins Must Be Punished. A general demand that the entire responsibility for the crimes in More- house parish, La., attributed generally to the Ku Klux Klan, be fixed is voiced by newspapers everywhere { throughout the United State: “We care not what the victims of these mob murders may have done,” {insists the Danville Reglister, “the fmurders themselves cannot be pal- liated or condoned. It is no longer exclusive business of the people and the courts and the law authorities of Loutsiana; it 1s the inescapable ob- ligation of the people of the whole country, more especlally of humane and Christian people, not alone to de- nounce these erimes, but to clamor for the extreme punishment of all in- volved in committing them.” It is the opinfon of the Chattanooga Times, however, that “it {s resentment agalnst the actlon of the governor and not !sympathy with the mob” which has {caused “Indifference at Mer Rouge.” {and it holds that “it is humiliating as well as a demoralizing thing for the authorities, of southern states es- | pectally, to ba thus admitting that they are not able to manage their own internal affairs.” This all may be true, but the Hartford Times believes that “the normal, human, friendly give and take of village life has been superseded by unnatural hate and Mer Rouge, and “this is the ;zrx?\:x paradise, the logical con- sequence of masking, intelerance, bigotry and mumbeo-jumbo.” And the Harrisburg Telegraph suggests that, inasmuch as “the Ku Klux has little to recommend, it probably will die { out for lack of an issue.” The developments in Louisiana have | dealt “a death blow to the klan,” the |St. Louis Globe-Democrat feels, and “the publicity attending these bar- barous murders has been complete and pitiless at every stage and is most fortunate, for there is no doubt that there are thousands of members of the klan whe have been led into it in the belief that its purposes are wholly righteeus, and who will not rest under an implication or suspicion that they are in any way a party to crime.” Looking at the situation from a neighborly viewpeint, the New Or- leans State feels that “the trials, in the Interest both of the state and the prisoners, should be held in some other parish, Their result will decide whether or not we are to have order- ly government or invisible govern- ment—whethér the state is to be su- preme or the administration of jus- tice iz to pass into the hands of a masked mob.” If the trials definitely “connect the klan with assassination,” the Scranton Times is convinced its “end” will be In sight, but “in the meantime there is a plain duty con- fronting liberal, clean-minded Intel- ligent Americans to sound » warning wud Diveutest Lhe dauger widen will ! EDITORIAL DIGEST D. O, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1923. CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLIN: BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. mond’s study in his Tudor mansion on Kalorama road. Personally-in- scribed portraits from the notables of nearly every country on earth are there. Hardly an American of emi- nence during the present generation 13 missing from this “picturized” Val- halla. Probably the likeness Mr. Hammond cherishes the most, for their friendship is of the Damon and Pythias brand, 1s that of Willlam Howard Taft. It is dated in the troublous fading hours of the Taft administration, and the dedlication reads: “To Jack, with love from Bill.” Mr. Taft is an around-the-corner neighbor of the Hammonds, as was Warren G. Harding when he in- scribed his photograph: “With the greetings and gratitude of a neigh- ber. friend and fellow-worker in the common cause.” A portrait of Sam- uel Gompers is adorned with this legend: “To the most constructive, practical, radical and democratic mil- lionaire T have ever met—John Hays Hammond.” * k% x The Harding administration is get- ting to be a quite considerable ag- gregation of “lterary cusses” Sec- retarles Davis and Hoover have pub- llshed books within the past year. Sollcitor General James M. Beck re- ently issued in volume form his lectures at Gray's Inn, London. on “The Constitution of the United United States” It is dedicated to Harry M. Daugherty—“a true and loyal friend, a fair and chivalrous foe” The Beck book contains a preface by the Earl Balfour. Presi- dent Harding himself is on many bookshelves throughout the land as the author of *“Our Common Country” and “Rededicating Amer- ica,” both of them collections of public addresses. Mr. Harding once was a _chautauqua speaker. Hun- dreds of audiences in big brown tents, mostly in the middle west, have heard him discourse eloquently on Alexan- der Hamilton. * ok ¥ % One of the diverting reports in cir- cumstantial circulation in Washing- ton concerns the ambition of Albert Jeremiah Beveridge to become gov- ernor of Porto Rico in the event of E. Mont Reily's retirement. It is said that the distinguished lame duck from Indiana has selected the salu- brious clime of Porto Rico as an ideal atmosphere in which to com- plete his projected monumental life | of Abrakam Lincoln. Meantime, the | invincible Reily resignation rumor lacks the bone and sinew of fact When he was in Washington the | other day the governor reminded his friends that immediately after the death of Theodore Rooscvelt, five years ago this week, Relly began the organization of the original “Hard- ing-for-President” movement. As gratitude is one of Mr. Harding’s out. standing traits, Mr. Beveridge will probably not write his Lincoln in the | gubernatorial mansion at San Juan, P. R % bk Base ball has its heroes a boys all the year round. center flelder of the Washington American League team, plays golf [at the Argyle Club, on the outskirts of Petworth, D, C. Every time he | turns the links ng the | Sam Rice, H on up there are | scrambles among the caddies, oc | slonally winding up in fisticuffs, for [ the honor of carrying Rice's imple- {ments. Although he has been a golfer only since the close of the 1922 base ! ball season, Rice negotiates eighteen holes habitually around 85—a better batting average, he avers, than he is ever likely to achieve on the dia- mond (Copyright, 1923.) come from suppori or membership in an organization like the klan which hides behind a mask or hood, operates in the dark, thrives on bigotry and narrow-mindedness and is fearful of having its membership known to the world.” Characterizing the murders as “un- speakable and foul,” the New Orleans Item is convinced that the “United States contains not one good citizen possessing an elementary understand- ing of the foundations upon which free democratic institutions rest who will not hope that the impending in- quiry will uncover the whole horri- ble and detestable guilt for this More- house parish attack on Louisiana’ statehood.” It should be remembered, however, the Charleston Mail insists, that “klansmen deny any connection with the crime” and it points out that after Individual responsibillty has been fixed “It will be time enough to consider the question whether any organization prompted it, and If so, what kind of organization.” Accept- ing this view, the Baltimore Sun in- quires whether “any klan officlal can convipce any one that the outrage | which has shocked the nation would have occurred even though the Ku Kiux Klan had never been resuscitat- ed from its grave, If this deed was done by others did not the klan's ex- ample of masking and secrecy in- spire it?" The credit for compelling the investigation is given by the Wa- terbury Republican to Gov, John M. Parker, who s “a genuine American. He has refused to allow the murde; to be hushed up, It is a salutary thing that one of the southern states has such & man for governor, It ca. not fail to make a deep impression on all of the south, and we may expect that klanism, breught face to face with real Americanism, will suffer badly by the contrast.” It is th opinion of the Rockford Star that “the conditions in Louisiana should be an object lesson to men who may have been inveigled into the klan by having their patriotism appealed to, or {o men who have joined it for political or fraternal reasons. The state is being saved by a courageous official and the state militia, and_the klan, whatever may have been the aims of its promoters or mambers, is a rank enemy of & clety. “The pewer of the terrorists” says “is_shown by the fact that they were abls to keep the matter under cover for menths. Only after the governor appealed to the federal government for aid in re- storing order in his state was some definite action take: Even if the klan is not guilty in this particular crime, “it has only itself to blame for the accusations against it,” the Hart- ford Courant says, becauke “it is the only masked organization of which we know, In time some of its mem- bers will shift the white mask for a black one which they themselves will not remove.” And “murder is no le: horrid when committed in the name of & law which is degraded by the as. sociation than when it stalks undis- ised at midnight,” says the St. Paul ispatch. “The cleaning up of that section of Loulsiana is demanded by every instinct of justice and civiliza- tion.” After his vacillating talk in the east it is hoped Gov. Parker iy hiy la earnest now.’ } victims. jto_th . Camp Humphreys. Story of Its Site Recalled From Past 'Centuries. The auction flag may fly over Fort Humphreys, or Camp Humphreys, &s it {s better known to Washingtonfans. Senator Wadsworth, chairman of the military affairs committee, has intro- duced a bill providing for the sale by the War Department of about fifty parcels of military property no longer needed for military uses. Before the great war and for 176 years this tract was known as Belvoir and the old steamboat landing thers was called ‘White House, from the fact that back of the landing was a small bri house, kept whitewashed or painted White, as an aid to navigation. T many years a colored man named Tate kept an ofl lamp burning at night in one of the windows of the little house for river men to steer by, for the Yo tomac channel cuts across from off Marshall Hall to the blufts of Belvoir #nd runs close along the shore. White House Landing was a Wash- ington excursion and picnic place of about the same antiquity as Glymont, Green Springs, above Georgetown, and Custis Spring, on the Arlington es- tate. About 1740 William Fairfax and his wife Deborah built & big brick house on this bluff. William was a cousin of Thomas Lord Fairfax and came down from Salem, Mass., where he was collector of the port, to serve as the Virginia agent of Lord Fairfax, who had come into possession of that roval grant to 6,000,000 acres gener- ally called the Colepeper-Fairfax grant. William airfax called his home tract Belvoir and this tract ad- Joined that which Lawrence W ash- ¢ ington named ount Vernon. One of | William's d ters was married o | Lawrence Washington and another to John Carlyle of Alexandri. The two sons of William Fairfax-——George Wil- | lia and ~ware boyhood ({\tnd:« of George Washington. The Fairfax house was burned down dur- ing the American revolution and the brick heaps of the house, stable and other outbuildings were upgrown with treos when the War Department took over the tract as aj engineer training camp. Willlam and Deborah, other members of the family and numerous servants were laid to rest in a burlal plot near the house and white marble monuments to the owner and his wifc stood in those woods until the out- break of the civil war. During the four yvears of war the monuments were destroyed or hauled away and the site of the graves was forgotten. The engineers relocated and appro- priately marked them, _The bluffs of Belvoir, with those of Fort Foote, Fort Washington, Indian Head, Freestone Point, Glymont and Maryland Point, offer’ some of the| finest river and land vistas to be seen | this side of the cliffs of Stratford, or Nomini cliffs, on the lower Potomac. Calls on Girls to Wed Maimed Veterans | one of the st corners of the of Washington there stands each evening between 5 and 6 a fine, tall lad | selling papers. The news sheets are piled beside him, topped by a cigar bo: to receive the coin, for both of this| young man's arms are gone and the mpty sleeves of his coat are inverted and belted in. I spoke to the vouth and he responded gratefully to my interest. Bitterly he told me that there was no hope of arti- ficial arms for him. as his own had been dragged from their sockets. He said | that he had neither father, mother nor | home: that he lived in a furnished room | uind hired a man to take care of him. 1| advised him fo marry, but he looked | very doubtful of finding any girl un-| selfish encugh to undertake the lov- ing service. Yet think how sorely he needs the ministration of tender hands! And_why shouldn't girle marry 2 In the service of mankind this v has parted with the most indis- pensable members of the body. Here is an opportunity for some fine. un- selfish girl, who perhaps is also alone in the world—to live a life of beauti- ful service in return for a home. a husband and a wealth of affection | and gratitude. And what more can any true woman ask than to be use- ful and to be loved. Perhaps some girl earns enough for herself and a little nore. Perhaps the boy gets a pension. | Apart, these two lead empty lives. | Tnited—neither would be lonely homeless or unloved any more. Tn this country there are 26,000 war Think what it would mean o boys it girls offered them- selves as wives and helpmates! The girls must do the proposing. for these lads are very sensitive about th handicaps. Rise to your patriotic duty. Eirls of 1923, and be hand and feet and eves and nerves for those who have surrendered these members of ir body for your protection! e TSRS T Dy ALBIN. Winchester, Va. or Americanism Stimulus ’ Seen in Star Article | To the Editor of The Star: l T cannot let this first day of the| New Year pass by wifhout express- {ng myself as to the wholesome at- tituda of The Star toward all things making for the betterment of human- {ty in S0 many directions that it is impossible to name them all This evening. however, I wish par- ticularly to mention the “Capltal Keynotes” column, and call attention to the especially fine article by Mr. Paul V. Collins on a topic on which such opinions as he expresses are: reatly needed. H e only those who need them most | could be made to read them! T ‘am optimistic by nature. and especially as regards the loyalty, in- i tegrity and patriotism of Amerlrsn&g At least T used to be so, but as I look about me now and see Amer- tean ecitizens, mot the uneducated. or i aven the forelgn elements, with whom | We could and should have patience. but the so-called better class of cit- | izens, deliberately« ignoring their dut; tizens to keep their coun- | It laws, I feel that 1 am fast| drifting Into pessimism, Such_ articles as this of Mr. Col- lins’ should be printed and reprinted and again reprinted, for surely if read it would cause an' arrest of thought in those now apparently blind to duty. If it be true that “prohibition does not. make lawbreakers, but simply revenls them.” then let all decent people thank God for prohibition, or other thing that shows us whither we are drifting, that before it be too late, we shall turn face about and set ourselves to making us individually worthy to be citizens of the country planned by our fore- fathers, a country whose ummi pro- tects its weak, whose liberty is not license to do wrong, the country of Washington. of Lincoln and Roose velt. ~ LOUISA S. WEIGHTMAN. Dope Smugglers Beat Bootleggers at Tricks The ingenuity of the manufacturers and purveyors of bootleg has chal- lenged something akin te admiration, as it has been revealed from time to to time since the prohibition era be- gan. More tricks have been resorted to than are known to the cleverest writers of fiction; more novel forms of camouflage have besn employed than the war-makers dreamed of in their most inspired moments, But {t would seem that the.dope smugglers have the bootleg artists beaten at the game, They have - vantage in that their commodity s of slight_bulk, and_ evidences multiply that they are making the most of it, Out of Vancouver, to cite the latest innovation, has cdme report of dope being smuggled across by the ald of carrier pigeons, The employment of these capable birds in illicit trade seems to bs about the last step in artifice. But it fsn't. First thing we know. we will hear of something aven wore aovel aud yausual than that, Congrees and the President again Gisagree in the matter of rewarding or supporting the veterans who fought that the government at Wash- ington should still live. The Presi- dent in vetoing the Bursum bill, which gave an increased pension to veterans of former wars (prior to the world war)—3$50 instead of 330 to widows and $72 to the veterans— puts his objection on the ground that it 1s not fair to discriminate between the widows of the civil war and those of the world war. American Legion- aires do not, as a class, feel any jealousy of the rewards given civil war veterans, who are now all old men. Nor do they feel jealous of $50 a month given to support the de- clining vears of the widows of the civil war veterans, for they, too. are old. If a few cases may exist where & younger woman married a veteran prior to 1915, the limit named in the bill, it is inconceivable that she mar- ried him for his pension and has nursed his declining vears from a mercenary consideration. * ok ok The feeling amongst the world war [veterans s unsolfish sympathy with the claims of the clvil and Spanish war beneficiaries of the proposed in-| crease of pension in view of the age and decrepitude of the old veterans and their widows. This is entirely apart from any consideration of the world war so-called adjusted compen- sation, and they regret any embar- rassment on the part of the Presi dent, who referred to supposed unfairness of not granting the same pension to world war widows those of previous wars. The problems are so different that the leglonaires do mnot ask that their account be taken into consideration at all in connection wlith aiding the seventy and eighty-year-old veterans of wars covered by the Bursum bill. The legion has never asked for a pension for the 4,500,000 veterans of the world war, recognizing that it would be impracticable; but it would be very hard to discover any legion- aire who would hesitate in sincere support of the most liberal care of the aged veterans and their widows of the Mexican, clvil and Spanish wars. If the details of the vetoed Bursum_bill prove objectionable to the Executive, they hope further oare- ful consideration will clear away whatever clouds Its successful fru- ftion. 1t will be but a few more years when the muster of those pro- tected by the Bursum bill will cease to bring the sturdy answers, “Hers Ty as to two It was almost a case of “didu't know it was loaded” when the su- perintendent of police and the as- eistant superintendent began playing {with their new gun fllled with tear gas. All boys have some such experience with popguns and cannons at some time in their callow days. “I'Il Just let out a little,” remarked the assistant, fonddng his Pandora box. He opened it just a little and nearly fainted in its recoil before he could shut it off. One shot will il & room 100 feet square and 10 feet high with more tears than Niobe needs for a full bath. That “just a_little nearly emptied the great District building of its weeping officials and the several thousands of “foolish vir- gins, male and female, ho in line for their 1923 automobile tags. No wonder they wept But Wwh should *‘just a little” c: e weep and wailing and gnashing of teeth of all the hundreds of officials? Wouldn't that incident make a great theme for a sermon? 1 am spoiling many a good sermon by squeezing its freshne: dry. Firstly brethren, thers is the innocent young man with temptation in his hand. He wants to see what effect “just a lit- tle” will have. A joke, perhaps? No; tampering with ovil is a fore- runner of tears and gnashing of teeth. And, secondly, note how far- reaching is the effect. It stops ascending _elevators—prevents others from heights to which they aspire It stops grave business. It brings anguish and tears to the friends and enemies alike. “Man’'s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.” Lastly, this teargun is go- ing to be in the hands of officers and_avengers of law and order. It blinds; it knocks out. We See now what ~has ailed Justice all these years: she and Pandora let their cu- rlosity get away with their dlscre tion—like certain police—and that's the result. Justice Is blind, for ehe Eot an especially big dose. Avoid “just a lttle” and you will smile, no weep. The good are always hap * ok % x January 17 is Ben Frankiin's birt day (1706), and that will mark th beginning of Thrift week through out the United States. * The Post Offico Department is making great preparations to honor both the man in whose memory the Thrift week = set apart and also the principles of thrift and saving which he taug! 80 successfully. A special messag: will be went to all post offices, o which there are 4,000, and its th be the importance of = thrift. The week will be mark also by a new postage stamp bearing Franklin's portrait and some thrif motto. me The Franklin School building is the Possessor of a silver bell which used to ring the children in and out of school from 1869 to 1899, until late sleeping society folks protested tha it woke them up at the unearthly hour of 9 o'clock, and so all school bells were muzzied. This sllver tongued instrument tintinnabula tion has been silent for over twent vears—the only Was Known to keep still s ngton Tong bell eve ~but ne ited to sing once mar: xing. thou and sweet it has been in It may need o “u still clear When lcause i jArmy and | flappers, th {horns. no cong | comparatively istreet car gon ling bicveles and That silver bell girls “who arc grandparents. te ve vl me ite voice noise avy was disturbed ofticers and = were 1o - automobl sted traflic strects and little clanging o There w. some sleigh belis rang for ‘boys anc now grav-headed Ring out, wild bell and tell us their pranks' What PIty that it was not released fron lis hermitage lefore Npw Year night How many of s Inotable silver tongued orators fts silver thros train” = tink Some critics ¢ shibit e man la: arre for v the law that laws. and 11 ! of the liquor laws, besides 25,0 other offenses. Upon the argur that law t are violated should not be enforced, traffic laws are the wors: all laws. Let us suspend |trafflc laws. Traffic recklessness Kills and maims, almost as ¥ hootch. Nearly half of the arre made would never have been mads therc were no traffic laws. Wha speeders do kill occasionally? Let th jaywalkers look out next tin There were v a few more fa automobile accidents than there were murders and manslaughters. Thero gre applications for permis {sion 1o "develop more water power than would double the entire water power now in use in the Unites States. The water power commis | sion has no funds to investigate th japplications. and =0 the progress t ampered and of nEr i hind developm. | pear € 000 he eating be harne nation. nd waitin ed to do the worl * ok % % The two great issues vet before Congress are the rural credits bil and the immigration question. The rural credits bill is likely to take precedence. Senator Carter Glass re marked & day or two ago that thers 'are many statesmen interested how to get the fa debt b making but fow to he am Just wl contending t out of debt stic v of ¢ “apital notes for some’ time import. problem of how to increase net profits |than bank credits. The credits wi {follow profits, but profits do no lalways follow loans. Marine Band Drummer Boy Now Head of Veterans’ Bureau ANY a little shaver who beat | his new Christmas drun til the family wished Claus had used more d tion went to bed and dreamed he was playing in the United State Marine Band and marching down historic Pennsylvania avenue in an inaugural pa- rade to the plaud fl ot the multitude. That wasn't any Aream, but a sure- enough experience, for a certain youngster named Forbes when he \was under thir- teen years of age. And he wasn't beating a drum in the Marine Band for fun, or honor, or exaltation, or glory, but because COL. FORBES. 1, peeded a job. Incidentally, that episode gave him his start on the way to high public office. When this voungster applied for a Job learning to beat a drum with the Marine Band he had just returned from a voyage of two vears and eight months to Australia as an apprentice before the mast on an old square- rigger. and had an ugly wound on his head, where he had been hit with a bel mess-in when the crew was being shanghaled Maj. Gen. Wendell C. Neville, as- sistant to the commandant of the Marine Corps, and Brig. Gen. George Richards, paymaster of the corps, Were then second lleutenants. They felt sorry for the youngster who had s in cing pin when he attempted to | already had such life and showed h kindness is like. There was Fugitt. who training hardened by board, f ard knocks out of n what a touch of one musicia special youngster's rough work to feathering his touch wif the drumsticks. In due time he ge to be quite an efficient drummer boy and was applauded as he trudged | along with the bana | But young Forbes' education had {been “sadly meglected.” Ho barel: knew what the instde of “an old New England red schoolhouse™” was lik A sergeant of marines named Prentis gave him his first book learnins spelling and grammar and sums " mu tiplication and fraction The long and the short of t Forbes served out four vears enlistment in the Marine Corps whe on a tour around the world on the w York, commanded by Cap Robley D. Evans and with Gen. Ruf; Lane, then a second licutenant, marine officer. He made # couple of trips filibustering between Cubu and Florida on the schooner Threc Friends, was captured several times and had all the thrills of a hardy life One day during the Christmas-New Year holldays George Fugitt called at the United States Vetcrans’ Burea: | and had a pleasantly reminiscent hou: | with Col. C. R. Forbes, whom he hud taught to play the drum and who | e had not scen since 1592. Fu is now retired. He congratulated I former protege on the climb he h 1 made in thirty years. Col. Forbes hus sent an invitation to Sergt. Prentiss who was his first real teacher, come to Washington and pay him a visit. George interes hands took the on it was Suggests Method of vaenfiné War, To the Editor of The Start For once in my life T was talking today at breakfast to a sclentist. I scized the occasion to msk & New Year question, the New Year belng a | season of hope. “How is it” sald I, “that with all our advance during the past century in matters mechanical and sclentific there has been such very small, it any, advance in things political?” The reply was that while sclentists worked. to advance science, politicians mostly maneuvered, to advance them- selves, How serious 1s the nced for sclence in government may easily be shown by the fact that we have been spend- ing over 90 per cent of our resources for destructive purposes ahd less than 10 per cent for constructive. And peliticlans still urge “prepared ness” as the sole method of avolding | this ridiculous and contemptible con- dition. The very same puerile pap i= | being fed to every people the world over. ‘. | " How to stop this folly and chang. ithe method has been suggested a | follows: |, When international friction threate:.« to start the fires of war just put the political and journalistic firebrands into a field with a machine gun for each gang ,and say: “Gentlemen settle your self-made difculties in fittedn minutes or turn loose your guns on each other.” They'd settle, Mr. Editor, you bet and the rest of us would have a lof of happy New Years. EDWARD BERWICk.