Evening Star Newspaper, January 7, 1923, Page 38

9 THE ‘EVENING -STAR, ‘With Sunday Morning Edition, WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY.......January 7, 1023 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th 6t. and Pet New York Office: 150 Nassau 8t. Chictgo Ofice: Towsr Bullding. Zuropean Office: 18 Regent Bt., Landos, The Event edition, 18 at 60 cents with the Sunday morning by carriers within the city month: daily only, 45 cents per month: Sunday only, £ cents per month. O ders may bo sent by mail or telephone Main 7000, " Colieetion in made by carriers at the “nd of each moath, Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dally and Sunday..1yr., $8.40;1 mo., 70¢ Datly only.. .......1¥ ‘zoo 1mo., 50c 1yr., Sunday on 140; 1 mo.. 20c All Other States. Dafly and Sunday.1yr., $10.00; 1 mo. Daily only.........13T., $7.00;1m Sunday only yr., $3.00; 1 mo,, Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press in exclusively entitied to the use for republication of. all news dix- ontches credited to It or not otherwise credited u this paper and also the local news pub- ‘ished herein. All rights of pubiication of wpecial dispatches herein are ulso reserved. 85¢ 80c 2c The Anacostia Park Work. In the latest District appropriation bill now pending are provisions for continuing the dredging work in the Anacostia below Benning bridge, $30,000 being granted, leaving to be accomplished only the sea-wall con- struction, which wiil require future .ppropriations of about $500,000. The 5il aso carrles an item of $50,000, astim ted at one-third of the total sum neceseary to develop the reclaimed area @s a recreation park, this sum to he applied to the south shore between the Anacostia and Pennsylvania Ave- nue tridges. Both of these items are in line with the jrogram of Anacostia park de. velopraent heretofore adopted. Btill the general project, however near vomplete below Benning bridge, is halted by reason of a stipulation pre- viously made by Congress to make no beginning on the plan above that bridge. In another part of The Star to- day Is printed an article which sets forth the reasons for an early assump- *ion of this upper branch of the work, ‘The civic organizations of the District have all expressed themselves strongly in favor of the prosecution of the work above the bridge. Certain plans ap- proved by the Fine Arts Commission and by other bodies concerned in the development of the capital are halted, and until Congress lifts the ban against the pressing of the work north of the bridge this great improvement will remain incomplete. Tt s not to be contemplated that this work will permanently stand in this present condition. The primary rea- son for the reclamation of the Ana- costia is the improvement of the pub- lic health, through the transtormation of the marshes into solid ground above the reach of high tide and their utilization for park purposes. At pres- ent these marshes north of the bridge, as well as formerly south, are malaria hreeders, and as the population spreads out into that region these cons ditions will be more and more detri- mental and injurious. Two bridges at present block the improvement. The one at Benning carries, in addition to a heavy vehicu- ar traffic, the cars of the Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis line and the cars that run to Chesapeake Junction. A new bridge is needed. Above, the tracks of the Pennsylvania raflroad crosg the stream on,a low bridge, and in the event of the filling of the flats 2nd the tmprovement of the reciaimed land this line may prove an obstacle. At Potomac Park the tracks are car- ried meross both park and river at an «levation which permits passage be- ieath. In the new Anacostia Park it w:All be possible to assure vehicular ac- vess throughout by spans above the tracks. A question has arisen as to the pro- vislop of draws in the bridges of the upper portion yet to be developed. At present there is practically no use of the stream that would call for such spans. The question is whether with the reclamation of the flats and the deepening of the channel water traic may be developed of e nature to re- quire draws. This would seem to be unlikely, as there is no commercial «nd to be served In the upper reaches of the Anacostia, though once sea- zoing ships docked at Bladensburg. This matter should be soon deter- mined. It is possible that Congress may et the present session express its wish in the matter, even though no eppropriation is made for work ebove the bridge during the coming fiscal ————— A new political organization is usuai- v suggested by a man who feels com- vetent to step forward and be the life of the party, A Wonderful Change! “Annihilation of space” and “an- nihilation of distance” are popular phrases, and they have been popular ever since electric messages began to tick between Washington and Balti- 1more and the early locomotives began to spin off miles at the surprising pace of twenty to the hour. When men wpeak now of the annihilation of space and distance they have in mind not only the telegraph, cable and steam locomotive, but the wireless telegraph end telephone, the mirplane end the auto. When they speak of space and distance they are usually thinking of the distance between Washington and Paris, Washington and London, Wash- ington and Moscow, Washington and Peking end other places that are thousands of miles away. But let one glimpse shorter distances end places near home. A few years ago the meain roads feading south, east, north and west from Washington were rough or miry, wccording to the weather, and along each was a succession of steep hills. Up and down these long hills it was poor horsemanship to force a horse faster than a walk, and with a loaded team on the upgrade the driver often got down and walked to ease the bur- den on his team. The trip by road to Rockville was long and tiresome, and on to Frederick meant & day of toll- wome travel. To Leesburg it was the eame. To Fredericksburg in.a day Fasataxon mae and team. With any sort of a load one would probably’ spendthe night ata “Fermers’ Rest” or a “Travelers' Rest" at Occoquan and make the city on the Rappahannock the next day. To go down to Plscat- away and back in a day was a feat to be talked about, and citizens would cluster around the stable to look at the horse or team that did it. Sur- rattsville, T. B. and Brandywine were long trips with many hills to be climbed up and down. To go to Port Tobacco, Leonardtown and St. Marys City & man would generally make preparations for a steamboat trip, and would say farewells to his friends as though going on a voyage. Any old ‘Washingtonlan can think of a hun- dred other places in our region a trip to which was quite an adventure or event, And now! A man cranks his car or presses the self-starter and goes to Frederick or Fredericksburg' or Bene- dict or ‘Annapolis or Purcellville or Bluemont or Marlboro and is back home in time for dinner. To run down from Washington to Piney Point or Point Lookout and back is scarcely worth making comment on. And the telephone! One just rings up relatives or friends in what was not long ago a remote part of King Willlam, King George, Westmoreland, Northumber- land, Loudoun, Charles or Anne Arun- del county and tells them that he is coming down to dinner, will be there n an hour or so, but must be back in Washington in time for the theater! Truly, & wonderful change! Funding of War Debts. Formal negotiations are scheduled to begin tomorrow between the com- mission sent to this country by the British government and the American commission on the funding of debts growing out of the world war. Be- cause of the stabilizing and confidence- inspiring effect adjustment of this in- debtedness would have on a financially troubled world, it is to be hoped the two commissions will bring their la- bors to early and successful conclu- sion. Failure to reach an agreement would have serious consequences, which would not be confined to the two countries directly involved. The American commission is bound by restrictions laid down in the act of Congress providing for its appoint- ment, and in view of the fact that nearly & score of debtor nations are to be dealt with, it would be desirable to have the commission given wider latitude of judgment. But examination ot the law does not disclose that these restrictions are necessarily such as to make impossible funding of the British debt. If the American commission should grant the British government the easfest terms possible under the law, it is not believed the annuail pay- ments required would be beyond the capacity of the British treasury. The restriction which has been so much criticized, both in Europe and in this country, reads as follows: “Pro- vided, That nothing contained in this act shall be construed to authorize or empower the cominission to extend the | time of maturity of any such bonds or other obligations due the United States of America by any forelgn government beyond June 15, 1947, or to fix the rate of Interest at less than 41, per centum per annum.” General interpretation of the law has been that it required 43 per cent interest and en annual payment on principal sufficlent to liquidate the debt within twenty-five years, but at- tention now {s called to the fact that there is nothing in the law to prevent acceptance of bonds which would ma- tyre in their entirety on June 15, 1947, with no sinking fund provision whatever, which would reduce hy more than half the usual estimates of the annual sums Great Britain would be called upon to pay. With this light on the restrictions which Congress has seen fit to lay down, it would seem that if the commission now here falls to enter into some arrangement for funding the British debt it will be for some reason other than that Con- gress has imposed conditions calling for yearly payments beyond the capac- ity of the British government and people. “At midnight in his guarded tent the Turk was dreaming of the hour when Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, should tremble at his power.” It is nearly a hundred years since Fitz- Greene Halleck wrote these lines. The Turk 1s still dreaming. Germeny Is in the position of the man who Is willing to pay his debts i¢ his creditors will give him a good business tip and finance the enter- prise. The nearer the moment for re- organizing the democratic party ad- vances, the more interest Col. W. J. Eryan appears to take in evolution. 1In order to preserve a placid mind under present circumstances, the dove of peace should take coolng lessons from Dr. Coue. < 1t is not an easy matter to frame an entente which does not eventually pro- mote misunderstanding. Europe has reverted to its ancient custom of being in & state of near-war. A Bafe Skating Basin, Filling of the great reflecting basin at the Lincoln Memorial assures the capital of a safe and convenient skat- ing rink in winter when. the weather permits. This great basin, half e mile Jong and 200 feet wide, will accommo- date a great number of skaters. In. asmuch as the water is only three and & half feet deep in the basin there is no possible danger in its use, and as there is no current the ice will form to the requisite thickness in a short time and will remain longer than in the case of a body of moving water. Furthermore, the surface can be re: stored as it becomes worn. Thus there is @ prospect that for the first time in its history the capital will have & place for the most enjoyable of winter sports without the least risk. A good many years ago the ouly safe place for skaters in this city was Babcock lake, a shallow stretch of water n the northern section of the Monuments grounds. It was not large, but it served for that time and was the scene of great enjoyment. When the government .undertook - the -com-| | Public THE 8 UNDAY pletion of the Monument, which en- tailed a change in the foundations, it was considered wise t6 fill up this}. “lake,” and also the fish-propagating pools which lay nearby, and which bad served for skating in winter, because of the possibllity of seepage affecting the stability of the shaft. Then the tidal basin was developed as a feature of Potomac Park and it became the skating ground for Wash- ington. A deplorable accident occurred there some years after its usé for thig purpose began, due to the rise and fall of the water weakening the ice sur- tace, several people losing their lives. The basin has continued In use, with especial precautions against overload- ing the surface at any particular point of entrance or exit, and it is undoubt- edly the most satisfactory “rink™ that could be provided, save for the abrupt- ness of the walls encircling it, except at the bathing beach. The reflecting basin at the memo- rial is easily reached, and will doubt- less afford pleasure for multitudes without the slightest risk to anybody. Washington does not enjoy many skating days in the winter, and it is gratifying now to have such an ad- mirable place for this sport as the new basin affords. Changes. One cannot count and cannot name the great buildings that have been set up in Washington within the brief time which men commonly call “a few years.” There are scores of bhusiness buildings any one of which cost more money than a solid block of business structures in the Washington of thirty or forty years ago. In the city are scores, no doubt hundreds, of private dwellings which cost more money than many of the fashionably built-up acres in the Washington of “a few years ago.” In the matter of apart- ment houses, hotels and theaters th incredase in number, convenienc luxury and cost has been most re markable. The public and semi-public buildings make quite a list. For one there is Union station, a railroad terminal of great size and archite tural excellence. To many Washing- tonians it seems only a few years in the past when we had the old red brick Pennsylvania “depot’ corner of 6th and B streets and the gray and sooty Baltimore and Ohio “depot” set in a hole at New Jersey avenue and C street. There are thou- sands of Washingtonians who car in their memory a picture of the rows of brick houses where the Library of Congress and the House and Senate oftice bufldings stand. There new City Post Office building, so dif- ferent from the Washington post of- fice which was long housed in the old structure between Loulsiana avenue and C street near Tth. There are the new National Museum building and the new bullding of the Washington Library. “A few vears ago” 17th street south of the Avenue was a rutty and miry way, with two or three ruinous old houses and a number of frame shanties on the west side. Now on its west side are the Corcoran Art is Gallery, Continental Hall, Red Cross | and Pan-American bulldings, each of them an architectural credit to the capital of the United States. There is 16th street, now one of the great ways of Washington, but which a few years ago was a narrow dirt road leading through Meridian village. And so the story runs, or would run, at great length if one should set it all down. e Each war is more terrible than its predecessor, but great wars are usual- Iy at least a generation apart, 8o that those who prepare for the “next war” have not before them the vivid pie- ture of the horrors involved. e ——————— It is but fair to impress the fact that the shot fired at Paderewski was prompted by political fanaticlsm and had nothing to do with his art as a planist. Having failed to offer any real en- lightenment on @ complicated situation, | most of the eminent European fiction | writers have gobe back to writing fiction. Mussolini has succeeded in demon- strating that it is possible to advocate conservative principles and law-abid- Ing industry, and still show pep. Lenin's physicians were summoned from Berlin. Evidently sovietism has not developed medical sclénce to a de- gree that he considers reliable. Col. Harvey is one distinguished wvisitor from abroad who is not expect- ed to ring the door bell at ex-President Wilson's residence. Bergdoll is one of those people who take delight in disappointing a recep- tion committee. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Overdoing it. It is our duty plain to do Our best to help a fellow man; And should he ask for help anew ‘To heed the call as best we can. But when too frequently he calls We fear his mood we cannot please, Unless we put on overalls ‘While he pursues the path of ease. Brief Luxury. | “Can & man draw a government salery without a great deal of work and responsibility?” “Only for @ little while,” rejoined Senator Sorghum. “And who wants to be a lame duck?” Jud Tunkins says a gossip is ob- Jectionable enough, but the enthusias- tic audience is worse. - ‘The Dance. In dances old some clumsy swain Would step upon a lady's train. But dresses now are briefly neat. Besides, nobody lifts his feet. An Assistance, *“Do you make any money raising tobaceco?"” “Yes," replied Farmer Corntossel. I ot 'most enough out of the last crop to keep our boy Josh in cigarettes.” ifou kin work harder,” sald Uncle Eben, “dodgin’ work dan you'd have to work doln’ de work.” at the| the | STAR, WASHINGTON Wilson and Cleveland. Were Mr. Wilson in kelter—as in 1912 when first nominated, or in 1916 when renominated—there is small risk in the statement that he would be like- 1y to lead his party again in 1924. There {s an unmistakable swing to- ward him. Wilsonites, in office and out, are exceedingly cocky and active. They neglect no occasion to testify to their continued confidence in him. They improve every one in some way to signify that their confidence s com- plete and supreme. Now it Is by personal letter. Now by a group telegram. Now by a reso- lution adopted at a meeting making an expression of the kind appropriate. Now it is by a public demonstration in front of his residence, as has a number of times been staged, It was Mr. Cleveland's robust phy- sical condition that madé it easy for his friends to call him back to leader- ship in 1892, His four years as Presi- dent—March 4, 1885, to March 4, 1889 —had been strenuous and taxing even for a man of his hardy physique. But | he had had four years of comparative |rest, and when the democratic tional ‘convention miet at Chicago in the summer of 1892 it was of general knowledge that he was fit as a fiddle in every way to perform all the duties of national leadership again and an- swer to all the demands of another four years in the White House. 8o when his name was presented to | the convention it was received with a whoop. The most brilliant speech of the meeting in opposition—that of Bourke Cockran, threatening the party with the loss of New York in case of Mr. Cleveland’s nomination—answered only as entertainment. -1t was admired and applauded as an exhibition of fireworks, but Mr. Cleveland was nom- inated with ease, and subsequently carried New York, with Mr: Cpckran and the whole of Tammany in his train. na- ———————————— i The Bryans. ! | It & slang phrase is permissibie, you | can't lose the Bryans. They seem { made for the spotlight. and the spot- {light for them. There are two. William J. is a vet- | cran figure. For a quarter century he has held his own with the most inter esting Americans of his generation. He has never been able to make the supreme grade, but has always made great time on the road. And he is still fon the road, making time, making friends and holding his own with the best of the travelers. The way he manages to stand off Father Time is} a lesson in sparring that should be widely learned. No. 2 has now appeared. Charles W. is the younger brother of Wil-| {am J. ot so showy, but credited with a level head and good staying power. Ue is at last, after several| attempts, the Covernor of Nebraska, jand, for the time, the most potent democratic figure in the state. Will he essay to become a national !qure? The question is already under discussion, and the answer i# & ques- tion. Why not? Why, It he suceeeds in his present office, should he not aim higher? . . He will not have to wait long for a opportunity to try his luck. Senator { Norris has announced that he will not stand for another term; and with him out of the picture on the one side, and | Mr. Hitcheock in defeat on the other, | Bryan may be tempted to trans- fer his activities, If it is possible, to this good town of Washington. How would Senator Bryan sound? i { At present there 1s a truce between ! the Bryans and Mr. Hitchcock. But lin politics truces are seldom long- ived. Suppose, after a brief retire- ment, Mr. Hitchcock should be seized { with a desire to come back and should ;(hnliengn Gov. Bryan to a test of strength. what a tussle that would be! e e Something New and Unique. The Ford boom is sui generis. We have had nothing like it in our politi- cal affairs. The contentien of the Fordites is that the existing American emergehcy is non-political. What, they inquire, has politics to do with it. Why ask a remedy of politics? The emergency, we are told, is a business matter, and should be treated as such. Put business on its fect again. Resume production and dis- | tribution on a generous scale, and all j will be well again. Who for director-in-chief of the job? Who but the man standing among the foremost of business captains, and in ! the business world has accomplished wonders? Henry Ford, we are remind- ed, represents all that is clean and helpful ‘and successful in business, and. we are assured that with him in the White House every man would have a paying Job, and business would soon be humming again. Hence the boom, the slogan: Henry Ford for President, and America again in kelter! ! It is admitted that Mr. Ford is not !a politician, and cares little, and knows less, about the game. He does not desire a strictly party nomination !on a party platform. That would tie his hands, and prevent the exercise of his best talents. Why, then, liken him, as his boom- ers are dojng, to Mr. Lincoln? What likeness exists? Mr. Lincoln was a party man. Never was there a stouter one. He was twice elected President on party pledges, and did his best i while in office to redeem them. He was a politiclan—the master Ameri- can politiclan of his generation, and eppraised by historians as one of the master politicians of all times and countries. Mr. Lincoln at the head of the great Ford enterprise at Detroit would probably fail. Would Mr. Ford fit any better in the White House? ————————— Los Angeles is dealing severely with joy riders, and so indirectly reaching the reckless element that evades pun- ishment for other offenses. Nearly everybody bent on & “high old time” regards a motor car as 4 necessary part of the equipment. —————————— ‘Motion " picture producers aré not unanimous n thelr approval of Will Hays' decisions. Differences of opin- jon_are what make a “dictator” seem consistent D BY THOMAS R. MARSHALL, Former Viee Prealdent of the United States. HY the sudden zeal and enthusiastic demand on all sides for the Amer- canization of the for- elgner who has come to live with us permanently? Do we fear that the tug of the heartstring for the kith beyond the sea will pull him away from his alleglance to his adopted country and draw him to hostile groups that may be plan- ning to embarrass, undermine, destroy this government? Not particularly susceptible to fads myself, T nevertheless have become profoundly convinced that a paramount necessity demands in in the United States a cohesive population, trained in the principles of the republic. Tt has become imperative that we have a people who not only know the principles of our government, but who be- lleve fn them and are willing to dle for them. The problem is far more difficult than at one time T conceived it to be, however. I had thought that _ forbidding all languages save the English would suffice; I believed that the con- stant use of the English language, even by compulsion, would lead to a study of the Constitution and the basic principles of our government. and 1 assumed that knowledge of these principles would at once as- sure acceptance of them as intel- lectual concepts and invariuble rules of conduct. On the contrary, men, it seems, may wrangle and dispute in English over principles of our government and remain as far apart in their judgments as though they _ spoke different tongues. EngilsH-speaking men all over the United States right now are not only in dispute about their government's form. but are declar- ing that it is a failure and ought to be changed. We may be Amer- icanizing men by teaching them in the English language the different theoties touching a people's rule, but manifestly it is not American- ization in the sense that all our Deople are being made to belleve in the principles underlying rule by the people. * & % & No difference what the form of Zovernment, one essential that ap- pertains to It 1s that there can be no government without law. And law without obedlence or enforce- ment {s nothing more than a legls- lative joke. The object of the Americanization of the forelgner is to convince him that ours 18 the Dbest government in the world; that he is a part of it and has a hand in the management of its destiny: that a majority, ruling with due respect for the rights of minori- ties, is supreme; and that in.a peopl government it is the duty of ev oitizen, when the ma- jority has spoken, to obey its de- cree until by orderly processes a reversal of public sentiment Is registered at the ballot box. He 18 a poor advocate for the change of a law who breaks and flouts it. It so happens that most teaching is about 90 per cent ex- ample and 10 per cent precept. Those of us churchmen who some- times rail at the pulpit ought td stop and make & survey of the pew. We probably would find the real weak- ness of the church there. There is more difference between pray- ing on Sunday and preying the rest of the week than can be ac- counted for by the mere speliing of the word. E x oo No person comes to our shores without _conception of the fict . _C, JANUARY 7, 1923—PART 2. Politics at Home|Americans Should Respect Law | | To Win the Respect of Aliens| that law is a universal necessity. He no sooner accumulates our lan- guage than he hears enunciated statements, on all men and special pi none, Naturally, he assumes that whenever the law is not volun- tarily obeyed it is enforced by the power of the state. Naturally, too, he assumes there is no privileged class in America. He subjects himself to the process of Ameri- canization with these two ideas firmly fixed in his mind. He lia- tens with appreciation to their elaboration, assyming. of course, that the men who preach these doctrines to him practice them, everywhere and alway; Sooner or later, however, he begins to study his teachers, to examine the conduct of the men who _taught him his new principles. Then is when our Americanization proc becomes groggy. Patriotism has taken many a tumble because it rested only upon the protestations of a man who did nothing else but wave the flag. * ok % Men of foreign birth were work- ing in a factorv in which children under fourteen years of age could not, under the law, be employed. Government inspectors, ferreting out violations of the law, found the American flag floating over the factory when they visited it They were told it always floated to show that the factory was 100 per cent American. By careful in- vestigation, the inspectors estab- lished the fact that children as young as eight years were work- jng in the factory, and that the flag had been run up as a signal to them not to come to work until it wgs dropped. What, I wonder, was the reflex ‘action upon the minds of the foreigners of that factory. When citizens of foreign birth note the attitude of mind and ob- serve the conduct of other citizens. who appear to be leaders fn_all walks of life, toward the Vol- stoad law, what {deas do they gain wbout thia government, wWhat 'fm- pression do they receive as to the kind of Americans they ought to be? I refer to prohibition only to illustrate weaknesses In the Amer- icanization of the foreign born. Wyl they take much stock in prin- clrgen of law obedience and law enforcement when they find that the principles are not obeyed by the very men who enunciated them, and that the government cannot or will not enforce obedi- ence? * ok ok ¥ We are going to have much dif- fleulty in teaching our forelgn- born man to be & law-ablding citi- zen 50 long as he has examples of so-called good citizens who reserve the right to eliminate cesdain laws from among those which they vol- untarily obey. And we are doing a very bad thing when we tell him that the law cannot be enforced. That should not be sald of any law, and no law should be re- pealed because it cannot be en- forced. It should be enfotced to the strictest letter of it until eiti- zens, voluntarfly obeying it. g0 about its repeal in an orderly man- ner. We do not make Christians by teaching them to mumble creeds. We cannot make Ameri- cans out of forelgners by teach- ing them principles and at the game time showing them that loy- alty to ‘them is merely lip service. We will make of them good Amer- icans only when we keep and en- force our laws. (Copyright 1922 by Thomas . Marshail) U. S. Brands Must Mean Quality PPRECTIATION of and confl- dence in American aims and methods, with an ablding mean depenadble quality, must be de- veloped throughout the markets of the world as the surest basls for In- creasing and stable foreign commerce, | federal department, according to officlals of the Depart- ment of Commerce who have been|ed insome directions. This has taken | o 5rig (s the man who counts. glving intensive study to forelgn trade policy. “Selling the house before attempt- ing to sell the merchandise is recog: nized ss good busine: by mol American manufacturers,” Dr. Jullus Klein, director of the bureau of for- elgn and domestic commerce, em- phasizes. He points out that in pur- suance of this policy before salesmen are sent on the road they are trained and schooled in impressing upon their customers the rellability of the con- cern represented. “In foreign trade it is equally de- sirable thst the natlon should be sold,” says Dr. Klein. No matter how well a trede mark may be known, it is always associated in the mind of the foreign buyer with the country in which the goods are mad “Some forelgn countries have real- ized this,” Dr. Kiein's study has shown him, “and they have gone to extreme lengths in endeavoring to create the feeling that articles made in that particular country were good merchandise simply because they were made there.” The officials of the Commerce Department believe that is going too far, but insist that there I3 a certain value to all Americans {n helping merchants in foreign coun- tries to know more about the United States and to.understand what this country stands for In the industrial and commercial world. * ok ok x One important factor I disseminat- ing this world market understanding is through motion pictures, Which visualize our large factories making enormous quantities of goods and which show how careful these fac- tories are in their tests and exact In their measurements. Trade journals published in this country and clreu- lated among foreign buyers which tell of our industry and commerce, and which explain our motives and ambitions, are recognized by govern- ment offielals as valuable mission- arles, which make easier the path of every American traveling salesman. The drive being made within the textile industry for better branding and better labeling of American i textiles is an {llustration of the many that can increase their own foreign sales, while at t! me time bettering American overseas com merce materially by making American trade marks stand for de pendable quality and arants honest materials, workmanship and uantity. - For years the manufacture and sale of American textiles has received real impetus through the organization within the several textile industries and trades of representative and effi- clent trade associations, according to Lincoln Cromwell, who has pectal study of this question at the Tequest of the Department of Com- merce. The Textile Trade Association is not new in America, for. probably the oldest trad ciation in the United States is the .National Asso- clation of Cotton Manufacturers, es- tablished -in N -England in 1884, American. textiles have been sold in industr! 'the world markets by brands and labels for generations. Their trade has prospered mainly through -the smaintenance of well. Te- ! | trust that Amerioan brands| | ‘s been very active garded reputations for' qaallty snd . honesty, held synonymous with the identifying brand, name or label. P With the ramifications In the textile lines witnessed in recent years, it has been no more than natural, Mr. Crom- well points out in his report to the that a certaln looseness of description has develop- force mainly in the misbranding and labeling of certain more or less re- stricted lines of goods. To counteract this tendency, which inevitably would have reacted against the best interests of the several in- dustri and particularly in foreign markets, the representative trade as- sociations have stepped to the fore with the adoption of well regulated programs of action which have been highly suecessful. Their succe has been in a great measure due to the assistance and advice of the Federal Trade Commission, which has lent its best offices to a ready solution of the difficult problems at hand. In fact, in many instances the Federal Trade Commission has taken the initlative. The Silk . Association of America was the first textile trade assocli to develop this line of work. It be- gen its program by securing in 1918 an order from the Federal Trade Com- mission to protect the genuine silk product of association members from the unfair competition of cotton thread. -Along with other trade assoclations the ailk assoctation is now workin toward the enactment by Congress of legislation which will .pro the buyer of textiles, particularly silk, by proyiding definite punishment for the misbranding or misrepresentation of msuch articles. Incidental to the actual work of detecting and fighting mishranding the silk association con- ducts for the uss of the textile in- .jdustry & trade-mark registration bureau, where the names of fabries of all kinds are filed, with data on date of first use, description of ma- terial to which they are applied and whether or not registration has been obtained in the United States patent office. * ok ok This bureau ‘acts as a check on cases of duplication or confliction of trade names, and in addition serves as a source of Information on the filing of misleading trade names. " The Knit Goods Manufacturers of America was the next trade assocla- tion to follow the trall toward bet- ter textile labeling offer by the Federal Trade Commission. The Falr Trade League carried to the courts their case against deceptive labeling and fraudulent advertising vestigating committee from this trade jon found . usin llhl.ll = meaning was 2 misieading dieserip- tion of the goods made and mi rk.t'?l. A long list of improper labels was cited, with = recommendation th they be dropped at once.and that only such labels should be used there- after as were true and exact beyond sny misunderstanding. This repert ‘was unanimously adopted and a copy filed with the Federal Trade Com- mission. The Nationg! Association of Hoslery and Underwear Manufacturers also in freeing holsery labels ‘and stampings from words which might deceive the sumer—=&t home and abr American Assoclation of Woolen and ‘Worsted Manufacturers has for two years carried on a spirited campalgn againat misbranding. It 180 tively Interested in current brand- -1abeling logislatios also A A textlle trade* assoclations. NEW YORK, January 6. VEN before the arrival from France of Dr. Emil Coue New York has taken enthuslasti- cally to Couelsm. Its phrases e already become cvery-day topics i nd jests. They talk over the bridge |table about Coue hands. At dinners ithe women exchange confidences |about its effects. Many of them have purchased strings of Céue beads, {While others are molding their own jfrom wax, twenty beads that are used to- ocount the twenty times that you are supposed to say each night and morning. “Day by day In every way I am getting better and better.” One enthusiast has Invented a set of Coue playing cards, with the leg- end across the face of each card. The theory is that as you play soll- talre you unconsclously absorb the doctrine. A Coue toy s on the mar- ket, a circle with the alphabet and the words “Yea" and “No.” You operate it by swinging a little lead {plummet over a circle in the center. {1t you are asked a question your sub- consclous mind makes the plummet swing in the right direction. There's one thing about this new fad that is to its advantage—it doesn’t cost anything. Dectors Are Distrusifal. | A8 Dr. Coue gives his clinics tree, New York's doctors naturally re- gard with skepticism persons who heal without charging for it. The {medical assoclations are on watch for any infractions of their sacred code. Doctors when asked for an !opinfon of the value of the Coue method shake thelr heads dublously. As one of them sald to me: “Thera are undoybtedly many cases, particularly of neurotics, helped by self-suggestion, but the danger that it may be tried for organic diseuses. Coueism will never curs u broken leg or a cancer.” 8till, in my opinlon, it is not going to hurt America much to get itself thinking that everything better and better. Must Write Disgnoses Now. I ;\ cised by the New York surgeons |in making dlagnoses before they operate. In one of the big hospitals it is compulsory for the surgeon to make and sign a written didgnosis be- fore he begins to cut. As @ result of this plan there is less guesswork. The record for the year showed only & per cent of errors in diagnosis, and that is certainly a fine record New York Schools Criticized. TEW YORK business men often IN complain to me that the city's public schools are not thorough in téaching the common branches. Their chief grievance seems to be that sec- Petaries and stenographers educated in New York cannot spell and display & woeful Ignorance of geography, frequently being unable to tell in Heard and Seen How many men in the government departments are working at one thing and wishing that they were doing another? 0Of cour such cross purposes in life are not confined to the depart- ments alone. In almost all walks of Industry it is possible to find men and ‘women who have held down a cer- tain job for yeats, yet all the time had = hankering to be doing some- thing elge. Most people have the feeling that under different circumetances they might have succeeded more brilliantly in some other line. The master brick- layer has a secret conviction that if had been different he might have astonished the world at the piano. ‘The literary man, {n the secret r cesses of i has @ sort o eubconsclous feeling that the man who works Ith his hands, who bullds the really solid things in the e therefore feels that if fate had been kind to him he might have been today the very best bricklayer In the world. - * * In the government departments there is an astonishing number of persons, I am convinced, who are tolling away with typewriter and pen, who ought to be playing in orchestra, treading the boards of the stage, or engaged in other forms.of art work. It 18 hardly possible to go into any office, in any government bureau, without finding, sooner or later, some man or woman whose Secrot enthu- slasm s the writing game, or the music game, or the acting game. They get their living by writin “yours of the first Instant received, and in reply would say,” stc.. but they get their happiness in another fash- fon. No member of Congress, on an inspection trip through a federal bu- reau, can know what he sees He may o away imagining he saw ve men and twelve women in- sly tolling away for Uucle g:mrlma_.{" he 414 see that. They Were working, and putting in good licks at it, too. But little did the congressman, per- Raps, reslize that the rather snappily dressed man he put down for an extra efficient clerk was in reality one of the best amateur actors in the District. tw S s " wpusic has always been my hobby, declared an official in omne bureau. His eves lit up as he spoke of it. “You see, 1 got & job in the gov- ernment and it was & good job, too, tor a country boy,” he continued. “I t, and have been here ever i IX :m satisfied. Yes. "Hut music is the thing I like best. 1 envy the happy people in opers and on the concert stage. I do & bit of singing myself, but, of course, not ShEt'] would 1f I bad gone ahead e more or 1 like that every- various bu- give but concen- ¢ people, conveniently e eady reference by the student of human natui What is true of the people in the government true of people in the world at large. Thrice happy are those who have found what they can do, what they love to do—and do it! . * % Perhaps the strangest case along this line is thet of the keen private secretary to & high official. He wants to be a hypnotist. If you were to sk him point blank, he would laugh t_you. ‘when he was & boy he sent nus‘!‘:r ® “course In hypnotism” and mastered it so well that in thirty minutes he was able to astonish the - natives of his town. 1t actually worked. Aa the boy grew older he put away such childish thing: Today he realis: h tonishment. that Prof. Emile Prench exponent of autosuggestion. who {s now in this country, got his preliminary ldn; lrofl exactly the same course. on hypnotisi !u.p::u h‘z l&‘ a;m.'o- with that ¢ ] e did! C.HARLE! B. TRACEWELL. reaus with some as- Coue, gourse, is golng | 'UCH greater care is being exer-| SOME INSIDE STUFF ABOUT NEW YORK BY WILLIAM JOHNSTON. oly what “state the principal: cities. gre From my own experience with stenog- raphers I am fnclined to believe th criticism warranted. I have found that stenographers educated fn New Jersey, in the middle west and on the Pacific coast are much better in formed. Tt could hardly be otherwisc for the schools of New.York are al ways vastly overcrowded with man) part-time classes; the classes ibig that the overworked and undi paid teachers can give little individ: attention to any pupil ‘ Bésides, the currlculum includes too great « variety of subjects. = Speaking of Spelling. IF‘ you wish to test the ability-of some of your friends to spell you might try on them a 115t of words tha: was given me at a dinner in-.the Washington Square district not- leng since. I am purposely misspellin: one or two of them here. This is the list: Harassed, embarrassed, inocujats innuendo, repellant, superced- plaguey, rarefy, picknicking. New York's Northward Tren, 'HE recent fortieth anniversary « the Casino’s opening emphasize the northward trend of the city amusement district, which now ex | tends into the sixties. When Rudolpl Aronson first opened this famous olu playhouse for musical comedies, the general opinion was that it was to far uptown to prosper. Now it is & the lower edge of the theatrical dir trict. ‘The Shuberts have consistent! kept it for its original purpose, an many fine musical plays have: bee: presented there. The main thorough fares in the city are now becomine too valuable for theaters-and most o the new ones erected are on the sid: { streets. the Hippodrome o | Sixth ave oun to be transfor: ed into a b 5 huilding. Revenue from skyscrapers are larger and mo: | regular than from theaters. A Story About the Fascisti. IR BASIL THOMPSON, who the head the ifish inte: gence office & war, enter | tatned some of us luncheon th other day with amusing st {about how the fuscisti iu Italy brok the general strike in Milan | months ago. The communists huc {planned the strike as the beginning of a revolution. At a fixed hour o the second day of the strike, seven teen selected speakers were to ap pear at various poiuts and begir inflammatory speeches. The pre ceding night each of the seventee: speakers was v 1 in his home b: two powerful shirted fascist One of then revolver “draw: the other e hottle. “Tal your choice.” said. sternly Naturally, ench uker asked wha was in hottle, suspecting poisoy “Castor sald the -fascist grimly. 1 du il hag cnded 3 seventesn speukers electeu rather than be there wer to | sho! no speeches Fifty Years Ago i» I ‘'The Star.- A reaction against the pron {use of intoxicante, especially at =6« j functions, was. ol | Less Drinking scrvavle fifiy 5 H ago in Washi 0] | on New Year. k1 tyeahined Whereas the X Tear receptions hud 1 notoriou for the liberalits which stron drink was dispe i name o hospitality. the prations” of 18 were markedly more temperate. , T | Star of Januar vear says “We suppose gtlon never had 50 decent and ailogcthier satisfactor an observance o Year day u~ on yesterday, uvtwithstanding he large number of cfizens ‘recelvin and the large number of calls madr This agreeable and notewor ehange i due, aubt, to the fac that wines and louors were taboos at a large numior of the best table: in Washington. und that, where useq they were kept in the backgrou while the post of honor and attra tion was given to coffee, chacolat: and other drinks ‘that cheer buf. in- ebriate not’ When liberal Yipsts of the prominence of Gov. Cooke, AL R . Shepherd, Marshal Brown, ex-Mayo: Wallach, 'ex-Mayor Emory, apd yer; many others of like standjng.. banigh intoxleating drinks from their ricep. tion tables as on vyesterday (¢ f: pretty sure indication that n bettes . fashion is to take thé place B i in maudlin, tipsy observance of t| which in the past-has been carr] such an offensive and disgusting #x tent that at one time for someyears leading citizens were compelled to close their doors on New Yeaf day th keep out the boozy crowd. Repbmbie in the history of the city there nevar were 50 few headaches the day aftér ;4"9" Year as on the 2d of Januari®: A movement was started fof establishment of a high schoo! ‘af crowning featur: A Move for a of the cupital's pub . lic - school systen: High School. g7y yvears, ago though it did mot Tesult i3 sach un Vinstitution in being in {ts own hbme for over nine years thereafter. _Iu The Star of January 2, 1873, is the following: oe “The board of school trustees, any Supt. Wilson in their annual reportx coincide in their views relative 1o the desirability of a high school for pu- pils of the public schools who have completed the ordinary course of in- struction. The trustees in their re- port say: ‘All our efforts at further devel opment must-be more or less cramy. until the system here, as in ‘other cities, is rounded out and perfected by such an institution.’ Supt. Wilson recomsmads that the ‘fund to endow public schools,’ whicl, with the interest, now amounts to $80,000, be used to purchase @ sit:- and erect a building for this school Our city has made wonderful prog- ress in the way of school buildings and educational facilities generally in the past ten years, but there i et room for further improvement There is no good reason, as the su-- perintendent says, why our . public schools should not keep pace with | the progress of the capital in other | respects: why, in fact, they shouid | not_even outsirip, in point of excel- lence, those of any other city in the Unlon. There is no valid reason. ither, why Congress' should not:ald ducation in the District of Columb! s it has aided it in the territories.” As a result of this recommendation: persisted in during subsequent years. a high school was established in the seventies and maintained, In rented quarters, for weveral years; It was not untii 1882, however, that a build 'ing specially designed for this pur- pose was provided. - That building wes erected on O street between 6th and 7th streets. and was fof years the only white high schodl in Wash- ington, the coiored ‘high school occu- pying & bullding on 17th street, be tween P and Q streets. That original building, which eventually caie to be known as “Central High,” iz now he seat of one of the Junior bigh schoo)s, it having been continuously i uke far school purposes for forty ‘years. ..