Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Bdition. WASHINGTON, D, C. TUESDAY.......January 9, 1823 THEODORE W. NOYES..,Editor e The Evening Star Newspaper Company Busivess Offce. 1115 8t. and Pennwivasie Ave: ow York Offics; 150 Namau Bt. Chicago Office: Tower Bulldiag, uropess Ofice: 16 Regeot B, Landes, fag Star. with the Bunday morsing Gelivered by carciers within the eity Jrr moatn; aafly ou's. 45 cents pet iay only, 20 cents per moath. dera Thay be yent by mall or teiephone Main 8000, “Collection ie made by carviers at the end of esch mooth. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. month: Bun ors Daily and Sunday..1 Dally ontyr ey Ay 36.00 Sunday only. ¥r. 40; 2 ATl Other States. 1ly and Suoday..1 yr., $10.00; 1 Daily only, 13 e Sunday only. mo., 85¢ mo., §0c 25c iy exclusively entitied fori_of all news dis- credited Justifiable Optimism. The men who control both houses of Congress, both parties in Congress and both appropriations and District committees of Congress have by word and act shown keen appreciation of the necessity of meeting todky to tie maximum degree the capital's neg- itcted municipul war-time needs, espe- cially in respect to schools, streets and water supply; and « determination to remedy quickly these accumulated neglects to the full extent of the reve- nue-producing burden that the capi- tal's taxpayers of this year, local and national, can reasonably be called upen to bear. Recognition of this fact prevents Washington from falling into the depths of hopeless' discouragement on account of the mutilation of the District appropriations bill in the jealous wrangle of members of the District and appropriations committees qver questions of committee jurisdiction. The intent of the District's legisia- ture, thus indicated, will undoubtedly result at this session in the enactment of this wise and vitally important ap- propriative legislation. Obviously this intent can be crystallized into law at this session only through the medium of the District appropriations bill. But the reopening of the quéstion by the discussion and action in the House, accompanied by the advocacy of a broader and more liberal meeting of school needs even than that proposed by the appropriations committee, may result_in final passage of the appro- priations bill in a shape to bestow a maximum of wise benefits upon the distressed capital community. It is inconceivable that our legisla- ture should permit its wholesome in- tent to be defeated by internal wran- zles over technicalities among mem- bers all of whom wish to help and not to hinder the upbullding of the capital. The Drunkard’s Gallery. Trom Des Moines, Towa: Chlef of Police John B. Hammond has assembled his firkt collection of “gee yourself when you're drunk” photographs, and will begin distribu- tlon of the souvenirs to men arrested for intoxication as soon as tha clty's legal department gives its approval of che chief's novel plan for reducing the prohibition law violations. The number of pictures or names of those photographed were kept secret by the ehlef. The Star referred to this matter the other day. It is decidedly one of in- terest. May a man be “mugged” for intoxi- cation? Made upon recovery to see | himself as others saw him while he! was full of booze? Would it act as a deterrent? It might, particdlarly in cases of| men who when sober present a good appearance. Booze is no respecter of persons. It plays frightful tricks of | every kind with those whom it mas- ters, running & rough hand over a handsome phiz, and converting & homely ene into something even worse. Why not give the camera a chance? Nearly everything else has been tried, and tried in vain on too many per- sons. Lectyres, pleadings, loss of place and companions are an old story, The line of indulgers continues much too { duly have been entering on the first stage. Assuming prompt detection—which is not assured, as, for instance, see the Hall-Mills case in° New Brunswick, N. J.—it is doubtful’ whether indict- ment would heve been rendered by now. The trial itselt would probably have been protracted for weeks. If conviction were had within a year after the killing it would have been not an average but an unusually ex- pedited case of major crime. Then upon conviction, if that were had, there would be appeals and repeated appeals, and if execution occurred within two years the case would have been set down as & fair instance of Judicial expeditior. Protraction of these criminal cases does not make for greater certainty of justice. Tt is altogether probable that in the Bywaters-Thompson case jus- tice was done, that the acchsed had their fullest possible chance, and that the delay of procedure would not have saved them. Without reference to the question of capital punishment, whether right or wrong; it is undoubt- edly to the.public interest and se- curity that the law should move swift- 1y and inexorably. The punishment of these two people, gulity of an unpardonable capital crime, within 100 days of its commis- sion, cannot fail to have a most pro- found effect upon the people of Eng- land s a warning, a lesson and @ demonstration of the law. . In this country only in the rarest cases does the law work swiftly enough to make such an impression upon the minds of the people. —————— Great Britain to Pay. Americans will like the straight- from-the-shoulder talk of Stanley Baldwin, chancellor of the British ex. chequer and head of the mission the Lendon government has sent here to fund the debt owed by Great Britain to the United States. “We have come,” he says, “with the express intention of paying our debt, and it is owing to the practical difficulties of making in- ternational payments that we are about to consult with you in order to accomplish the end which we both tave in view." And again: “OQur wish is to approach the discussion as busi- ness men seeking a business solution of what is fundamentally & business problem.” Here is an official expression of the British view of the debt question which exactly coincides with the American view. It is @ business ques- tion which must be settled along busi- ress lines. It Is neither a poljtical nor a sentimental question, and neither politics nor .sentirfent can play any proper part in its solution. Thus at the first joint sessions of the British and American commissions they have gotten down to brass tacks, irrelevant side issues are eliminated, and the Ay is. opened to finding the answer to the one question, which is a twin | question, that must be answered, to wit: How can Great Britain pay with- out undue hardships to her people, and how can America recelve payment without injury to our own economic system? Mr. Baldwin asserts that pay- ments wholly In gold are out of the qubstion. This leaves payments to be made partly in goods orservice, or both. The British chancellor sees very practical and serious difficulties both in the making and in the receiving of | service and goods payments. But Americans do not believe these diffi- culties are too serlous to be over- come, and it is apparent that Mr. Baldwin is far fram despairing, for he declares that “For myself, T look for- ward to the meetings of the commis- sion with hope and confidence. I be-| lteve that T shall not be disappointed.” | A solvent debtor ‘who approaches liquidation of his indebtedness in such a spirit need never fear that his| creditor will be unreasonable or un-| harsh. The British delegates, having in view obtaining the easiest possible terms, could not have made a better approach. Had they come whin- ing, pleading a poverty which does | not exist, or had they questioned the | validity of the debt and the marall obligation whieh it involves, there | would have been an American reac- tion in favor of “putting on the! screws.” But the British having en- tered upon the undertaking in & manly | and straightforward manner, they ! will find no disposition to leave any removable difficulties in the way of a successful outcome. long, and is defying even the prohibi- tion 1gw. v The camera has been introduced into many new flelds in the past few vears, and with many excellent re. sults. There may be beneficial uses for it in this field. At any rate, the field is =0 worthy of eultivation, every means shoyld be employed to develop Wwhat- ever of public as well as private good | it Is thought te contain, I e Dr. Coue does not claim to speak perfect English, but is content to find it getting better and better every day. et e D, C; motorists find with regret that Marylend’s favorite game continues to be e “British Juptice. A fresh {llustration of the speed of Britiah justice has just been given in the execution in Lendon.today of a mian and & woman convicted and sen- tenced to die for the murder of the ‘women's husband in that city on the 4th of October last, & little ' mere than thres monthe ago. This case attracted the widest of attention, not only througheut England, but in this coun. try, It waa the not unysual “triangle, and sueh crimes have not been infre- auent, But the circumstances caused it to be of mere than ordinary inter- est, Bvan before the conviction of both of those gccused & sentliment developed in Fngland in their faver, and whan they were condemned to death it grew inte sn ynusual volime. . Letters and petitions poyred in upon the home sec- retary, the officis! who has cherge of pardons and reprieves. It Is stated that more then & million people urged commutation for et least the woman, it waa alleged, had inspired the ‘man te commit the crime, while others pleaded for ‘him as the victim ‘of her wilee, Agrinst sl of these plsss and Drotests, howsver, the home office wes obdyrate, and the sentence was ex- The discussion across the Rhine still consists of France's inquiry, "“What are you going to do about it?' and| Germany’s response to the same effect. | Investigation in New York cafes dis- closes the fact that almost any night can be as busy for prohibition agent. a9 if it were New Year eve, England takes a great step toward simplifying international finance by annouyncing that the way to.get rig of a debt is to pay it. Point-of-Order Opposition. The Distriet appropriation bill has been more than usually subjected in itm course threugh the House this year to points of order against new legisla- tion, As one after another objection been raised on this score itemws have been stricken from the bill with- out regard to their merits, including some of the most urgently needed pro- visions, Appropriations for new school buildings and sites have gone out, the item for a site for.a new branch of the Public Library has been put aside and other essential warks have been denied on this same .point of order against “legislation.” There would be ljttle reason to protest this situation if coupled with every| point of order raised against these items in the District appropriation bill a guarantes were given that the Hoyse would give consideration to substantive legislation making the necessary besic suthorisgtiong for theme new works and acquisitions of site. But unfortunately there is no such guarantee. It has become almost impossible to get Distriot legisiation through the House, “Distriet day" is denied. Only rarely does the District committes get ® chance at the calendar, Whereas in former years it was possible for that bout as much chance of passage as a democratic party measure in & re- publican House and vice verss, Of course, it is expected that the Senate will replace these items, which, baving the approval of the House ap- propriations committee, may be ex- pected to remain in the bill in confer- ence. Inasmuch as i gvery case these paragraphs went out of {he bill mere- 1y on the raising of & tecinical objec- tion, without a vote, there is no_tacti cal obstacle to their restoration and final enactment, assuming that the Senate wishes and the conferées and the House sre willing. But the pro- cedure, nevertheless, is distressing. Private and Public Service. The President and the ‘public are being reminded now of how much ex- cellent material for high office there is in the country. 'Speculation about Secretary Fall's successor is bringing the fact out. 1t embraces not only the transfer of men from one place to an- other, but the mention of men Mther- to unassociated with political service of any kind, and yet instantly recog- nized as having the stuff of such serv- ice in them. Nearly every administration has given lllustrations. A new President has taken up his duties and introduced to the country in one appointment or anothér some man about whom the public knew nothing, but he & good deal—some man with whom he had had intimate dealings and found capa- ble and trustworthy. In a number of cases, too, such ap: pointments have signally justified themselves, giving opportunity for the display in public interests of talents that had hitherto been devoted to pri- vate interests. This is one of the buttresses of our institutions. We grow many men of this sort in America. They develop well under the knowledge and assur« ance that as citizens much responsi- bilify rests upon them, and they should qualify for any guty under the government to which they may be called. The private citizen of today may by a turn of fortune's wheel be a public official tomorrow, and should be ready to take up his burden when called. ——————— Medieval torture methods now sus: pected at Mer Rouge awaken univer- sal resentment. doubtedly progressed. The time way when such demonstrations were wide- Iy approved as forms of popular and moral entertalnment. —_———— Canadians while digging for water struck gold. This is a deviation from the experiences of stock investors who seek precious minerals and find only water. By running from his harem, Moham med VI demonstrated that there is at least one Turk who is willing to go a long way for the sake of peace. Prohibition authorities claim that a diplomat from abroad should be meas- ured net only for his official capacity but for his carrying capacity. Lenin and Trotsky have evidently devised a civil service arrangement that thoroughly protects their own particular government jobs. Countries with great reputations for thrift in all other respects have been recklessly wastefyl in burning money for war purposes. When he allowed militarists to push him into war, Wilhelm thought he would secure credit instead of having to assume blame. There may be time for a number of cabinet rumors as to a new Secretary of the Interior before the 4th of next March. More generous appropriations for street lighting would be of assistance in the prevention of automobile acoi- dents. Sacrileges in Moscow call attention to the tendency of sovietism to be as reckless in religion as it is in politics, In certain metropolitan poker circles the card sharp has retired in favor of the simple, unassuming burglar. Europe has a series of political en- tanglements that long ago reached the hard-knot stage. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JORNSON. Oh, Wind! The wind comes whistlin' loudly Where the winter skies are gra; It moves along 8o proudly That the branches band and sway. Oh, Wind, as you blow coldly, You show us mighty soon ‘That what you whistle beldly 1s & no 'count sort o’ tune. Your style's not eperatic; Not even jolly jazz. A quality emphatic Is "bout all it ever has, Oh, Wind, as.you come stormin’ ‘Where clouds shut out the moon, 11l say what you're performin’ Is & no "eount sort o' tune. Futile Guidance, 3 “Why can't we show European na- » way out of her dificulties,” 'We can,” eald Senator Sorghum. “‘But some of 'em are too excited tc follow direction: Simp and Dype. Jud Tunkins says: “Simplicity, which much respect will agk, is often for duplicity the mask. Musings of a Moter Cop, Hortense Magee had chanced to stray ‘Where the Potomac flows serene. Bald she, “That watef's in the way. Why could it not be gaseline?” Plumage, “Riches have wings,” ready-made philosopher. “You can see that,” answered Miss remarked the The world has un.| jbrother. hington Observations BY Attorney General Daugherty h betaken himself to Tom Taggart's celebrated rest-cure for overworked democrats at French Lick Springs, Ind., to lay up for general repairs. Barring a brief sojourn in the south ast year, Mr. Daugherty has been un- interruptedly on duty at the Depart- ment of Justice since/ March, 1921. His physicians and friends joined in persuading bim that it was his priv- and duty to take a rest. He has been at French Lick a week and will remain there the better part of this month.. Few regimes at the Depart- ment of Justice have weathered more | un strenuous times than those which At- torney General Daugherty has had to face. Between the throes of patron a federal prosecutions and im peachment threats, his days have been long and weary. The chronic {llness of Mrs, Daugherty, to whom the Attorney General is deeply devot- ed. has weighed upon his thought and spirit, too. * o % % Rumblings reach this observer that a storm may presently break around the worthy head of Maj. Gen. Jame: G. Harbord, who has just relinquished the deputy-chiefshin of staff of tiie United States Army. Gen. Harbord abandoned his military career to be- come president of the Radio Corpora- tion of America at an emolument richly in excess of his Army income, There weres rivals for the radio pos! From those quarters, it appears, the attention of Congress has been called to the fact that since 1896 the naval appropriations have prohibited any of- ficer who leaves the sea service for private employment from ,recelving retirement pay if the new connection involves business relations with gov- ment departments. For some un- accountgble reason no such provision was_ever applied to the Army. As the Radio Corporation is & large pur- veyor of apparatus to both the Army and Navy, certain suthorities hold th.t the regulations ought to be made operative in Gen. Harbord's case. If. as threatened, the y rule s made applicable to the Army. Gen. Harbord may be cut off from his $6,000 annual retirement pay. % % On one of his recent preparedness crusade tours across the country Gen. Pershing was accompanied by his sis- ter, who is well known in Washing- ton. While the generalissimo of the A. E. F., was addressing the multitude in @ certain middle west community, & local celebrity begulled Miss Pershing with compliments for her gallant “You ought to be excesding- he remarked ‘Out here we think he's the greatest man in the United States. Our folls never tire of recalling that wonderful speech of his the day he arrived in Paris: ‘Lafollette. we are here. * %k * Ira Nelson Morris, American minis- ter to Sweden, is slated for retirement this spring from the post he has oe- cupied at Stockholm continuously since July, 1914. He will be one of the last Wilson administration diplo- matic holdovers to make way for a Harding appointes. Mr. Morris has been in the United States on leave for several months, and will probably re- turn to Sweden shortly to present his s proud of the general letters of withdrawal. Plunged into the thick of world war diplomatic snarls at the outset of his mission in Stockholm, Mr. Morris made a oredi- table record in connection with tick- lish affairs intrusted to his care. A son of the late multi-millionaire Chi- he has' FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. traveled extensively and is the au book.called “With the Trade l t diplomatie cha Th’o erlmh T¥or nt of ‘Warren from the am- bassadorship to Japan may lead to the transfer to Toklo of * Ambassador Houghton from Berlin. Mr. Ho is sald not to be enamored of ence in Germany and (o have expr. ed a preferance for service in the land of the chrysanthemums, rlrdlnl ornc assy to former . ¥rank 0. Low. den of Illinols. Mr. Lowden's friends say he cannot be eliminated from the I.l'-ntbflrht:.o:o Tho cherish presidentiul n . If they are speak- ing by the book % havdry th Lowden would re. rod. * ok oW By a coincldence both our ambas- sador and consul general at London happen to be in Washington at the same time. respectively, Col Geor Harvey and Robert Peet Skinner. It ny AND WORK. Hepry Ford. ,,!',fl.f'.’w' Page & Co. n 'Why be poor?'—Henry Ford speak- FPoverty ean be cured, Work. will do ft. Work'is & natural human function. Just ax simpl that. * ok x ¥ An exciting story, this. It is the story of work, with success coming along merely as & logical effect of the quality of that work. A point to remember in the career of Henry Ford. Some years back there was the boy on his father's farm, one out of many thousands-of these. To- day there is one of the richest and most notable of ‘men. And the run between these two stakes has been 2 gwift ore. The boy ‘began it. e fought resolutely against the waste of boy that went into farm work. nd by he came to fight, &s reso uccenstully isn't the firat time Harvey and Skin- 4 ner have been in close azsoclation. In the Jong ago both were aotive news: papermen, attached to the staff of the New York World. Harvey was a po- litical correspondent and Skinner a chopper of copy on the “night desk.” More than once, as he now relates Wwith considerable gusto, it became Skinne Iny who would have craved privilege in cotemporary times, Ak * ook ¥ Fred W. Uphem of Chicago, watch- dog of the G. O, P. treasury, has just left Washington fter one of his fort- nightly conferences with President Harding and other republican chief- tains. The friendship between the Harding and . Upham families is more than a political tie. No guests are more welcome at the White House than the republican national committee treasurer and his wife, a charming Jowan. Upham, it Is an open secret, could have had and stil) can have anything within President Harding's gift the way of prefer. ment.. When somebedy this eok asked the Chicagoun, who has r fysed cabinet office and forelgn a bawsudorships, whether it is true that he has only to ask In order to receive, Upham rejoined with # story. “Over in Paris,” he sald, ‘ithere's a one day with another American when we saw the correspondent approsch- ing. 1 said " comes a fellow who can have any- thing he wante in France, I guess.' My friend retorted, ‘Well, why doesn’t he get a shave R Laurence Ginnell, the eminent Irish politfeiun, who has just arrived in the United States as envoy of the De Valera insurrectionists, once had to be earried out of the house of com. mons by four husky British police- men. Mr. Ginnell, in pre-Free State days, represented his native county |of Westmeath in the British parlia- ment. During one of the heated Irish debates of eight or ten years ago the member for Westmeath insisted upon addressing the speaker in Gaelle. Calls to order and commands to use the king’s English made no impres- sion upon Ginnell, Finally the ser- geant-at-arms was ordered to clear for action, and, with “bobbies” tug- ging at each of his arms. and legs. the Trish M. P. was yanked out of the house, shouilng Gaelic deflance all the way. (Copyrig) 1928 £ Y cago packer and a Yale THE WAYS OF WASHINGTON BY WILLIAM PICKETT HELM. Theodore Roosevelt has been dead; tinker's dam. Personally, that is en- four years. ing his last sleep. Time flies. Why, it seems but yes- terday (and vet it was éleven years ago) that a group of us, some of us olese to his confidence & to hfs distrust, sat with him every few days in his office in New York city, where ‘he thundered once & week in Lyman Abbott's Outlook. It s the 23d day of January, 1912, About twenty of us are grouped around Col. Roosevelt: He is sitting divectly beneath a ‘picture of Shake- speare. The governors of six States have united in asking him to run again for the presidency—to enter the lists for the republican nomination at Chi- cago the follawing June. Roosevalt hasn't said he would, nor has he sald he wouldn't. The coun- try I8 wondering. His. efiice is the target far every lette within a thousand miles. nd some close | ¢t.” he replied. r-writing crank | His pleture | NeID him2 . her @ check and started an H is often In the newspapers, his name | is the central thought of long articles every day. We—the newspaper correspondents —have just seen the colonel purge us of one of our number. Tt was a tellow, the colonel sald, who had broken faith with him, ‘a rare ooc- cufrence. “When thiz tion first wtugted, several ago.” Roosevelt 18 saying. Wussled. . T did -not know ju to do about It wrestled with myself for several Then, finally, 1 decided to treat the m v tmpersonally. I en- desvored to efface myself and to learn what the people.of the country really want. nd having reached that oon- | olysion.” the colonel coneluded, his eyes twinkiing and his jaws snapping, in & pecullarly- Rooseveltian ure that used to delight his audiences, “1 have been having & bully time and have been perfectly happy ever.since.” talk of my nemiria- months “T was it what “What do you think of the boom for you?” one of us asked. - “I will tell you frankly—though I do so only to guide you in writing your 1t seems hardly so long ago | tirely my attitude.” i a8 that—that day they found him sleep- We asked him about his correspond- ence, if there were anything in it he could make public with propriety. “I wish you could see the letters I “I remgmber .one 1 got the other day frem a southern brother. My reagon for remembering it was that it was written {n simplified spelling. It said, “We are going to send a solid'—only he spelt it s-o-I-a-d —'delegation for you to the national convention. What have you got to say about it? * “I concluded that T didn’t have any- thing to say about it, so I didn’t say anything. hat reminds me of another letter —one I received from an estimable lady while T was in the White House, he wrote in most pathetic strain that an old Rough Rider had been re. duced to direst poverty. He had camped with me, eaten with me and was shot beside me. Would 1 please sent investigation, 1 found that my sup. posed Rough Rider chum was a col- ored man." Here the colonel again. “And, inasmuch as the Rough Riders w a Jilyswhite regiment, I swp- pese my colored frlend had got his wires crossed somewhere.” Varieus miner political luminaries had flashed inlo print at that time, each elaiming that he could say, on Roosevelt's authority, that he would or wouldn't run for the presidency. ‘We asked him about these false alarms. “When 1 have anything to say on that subject,” he announced, “T'll say it over my own signature and you will know it well in advance. am sure” he went on, “you gen- tlemen must rewlize why I haven't anawered .all such questions—why I'm saying nothing at all. “Consider ‘for a moment what woyld happen if 1 did attemipt to answer them. For every question I sheuld answer today ‘there would be twenty to answer tomorrow. Within a week I would be doing nothing’ except ans. swering questions. Soot “I can't do it, of coyrse. smiled broadly For in- stories, I think it is & bubble that|stance, the other day I was surprised will burst long before convention day, ‘We protested, but he shook his head. “There are five months between now and convention time," he reminded us. “Would you accept the nomination?* The golonel smiled broadly. “T've been pretty successful in dodg- ing that duestion, haven't 1" he par- red. -“Tou know, gentlémen, I'm be- ginning to think that I'm fairly astute —that T have fair, ordinary intelH- genees, after all” $ The smile fled' quickly. His jaws snapped. He stood up. He lifted his wapd high above his head in an im. perious gesture. His fist smote the big picture above him, starting it to swaying, an incident to which he paid vSeriously,” he said, "I don't caye & d to learn that a gentleman in Nee braska announced positively that 1 would not run, He claimed to have had correspondence with me on the subject. “I couldn't vecall him st ali—had never heard of him. But I lopked up the correspondence and found that, technically, he was right. He had had correspondence with me. “He had written if T would say the word Nabragka would send a delega. tion 'to Chicago instructed for me, And 1 had replied: ‘T thank you for your letter of the 10th. I am not a candidate for any office’ And that was the correspondence. “And, of course, the gentleman from Nebraska now. finds himself in t| Ansiide Clup.” et o compensat, days Henry's head was full of wheel to which any old machine, no matter how decrepit, made = certaln appeal This seemingly worthless thing be- csme bis, playfeliow till, under his zealous and knowing urge, it began in to live up, even though feebly, to its destiny of making things £o. He set the old machine more than once to farmins. % * % kW But the farm was, clearly, not the place for young Henry Ford. Ma chinery was his passion, Mechanios, focused upon the horseless vehicle, became his wbsorption. To bulld these motors, to threwd the highways with them, this sppeared to him to be the right answer to his smbition. Having definftely decided upon this #s & career, Mr. Ford at once entered upon & o line of preparation for it. One of these produced pure ex- perimentation in mechanies applied to @ definite object. The other covered & careful study of-the psychology of the human in his regctions to any roduct of trade. And these (WO Reide wors in Drocess of exhaustive lexaminaation long befo wotusl opening up of busin Mr. Ford had the notion that ever; | obligatory for his product was ready to be consid- ered as an article of trade, Another point to remembar—one of the high points, in fact, to keep in mind when studying the phenomenal busines: uccess of Henry Ford: His stan then was, and still is, that business . service. Now, service While money—profit—as its prime obs Jective calls for a quite opposite line of procedure, Mr. Ford chose the former. To servé as many people as possible— that Is thg goal of &ll business. That gOR sets the price of the commoaity #1850 to as low @ level as its consistent with its high quality., And this high quality must, In any ‘event, be main- Another axiom of good busi- nes The product must, through constant study and experiment, murch toward ap increasing simplicity of con- struction in order that its ailments may be treated at heme, outside the high-priced office of the expert. AsS waste is eliminated in the manufge- r price levels for hed, the price of ust, too, follow this lower trend. Now, these prineiples apply to any business in the world where the object is service to the consumer rather than profit to the producer. Mr. Ford says thut he hus followed thesé principles ‘throyughout hix " astonishingly suce ful caree He says, moreover, ®hat, follow! the theory that business is service, and minding the rules that this fheory imposes, one cannot help mak- ing money, provided, of courge, that he be dealing in u generally useful or_desirable produc The business potentialities of the h are as yet hardly touched. As under science. continue to open up. it will be possible for everybody ta have congeninl work. Then'if he lock upon his occupation as publie service, and ¥ he, besides, apply to it the principles whieh this conception implies, he may rest assured, not only of an existence free from want, but of one | that is lighted as well by th: ¥ sf life in rieh abundance. This ¢ answer to the problem of poverty. * K x % Probably there is no business plant in the world where waste has been s0 sclentifically treated, with complete elimination as the objeet of sueh study, as in the Ford plant, There I8 in this book & vivid description of the direction.- the extent. the detall of the waste-8aving proeesal These apply to the human element as well as to the & of material and time. Economy of every sort that produc- n can concelve is here raised to the d worked out to the Most interesting suggestiv: Mr. Ford economy of effort in many began a8 & boy en the today he says of th tarmer that if his methods in e branch of farm work were not so plorably wasteful he would be pre perous within reason, in good timi and ill, with na need of bloes and other channels for the solicitation of government support. * % % ¥ Mr. Ford has & good deal to say of the business that is founded upon the notion of profit—of business that begins at the profit end of the enters yrise rather than-at the service end of it. He is Inelined to exclude all such from legitimate business. Plenty of paople will have plenty to respect to this. ovaing "o "the _author, hases. These are mllflng PO ultimate d highl studie Puving things, carrying {hifgs—pro- duction, congumption, transportation. Just rolling money over and over to Pave it get bigs not respectable business, In hi of 'thinking. The money rocess s not producing anything. s not working., And, in order to b long to legitimate business, monsy must go to work at some honest catl- ing. Where do the financlers belong in this scheme? * k% ok o Mr, Ford is a stickler ér his theory that “work is a natural human fune- tion: Everybody must work—every- body ‘except the sick and the old. Yes, all prisoners should be self=sups porting, and should support thelr familiés besides. This thay put gome man stuff into them, where depend takes out what little of this they | may -have remal ulnr‘ This theory does away. in his mind, with the majority of charitable enter- prises, since these interfere with self- $ffort, destroy what proper sense of pride one may have and generally Work to the enfeeblement of the re- alpient 6f such effort.- - Lo BN And experts? - Mr. Ford has no use whatever for anybody -going sbout under the label of “expert) and he fves some very convincing reasons for "this state of mind. % K % Back of this conqueror in the fleld of enterprige there is another man— one who Ukes. hirds and buflds a sanctuary for them on the Dearborn farm; one who used to tramp the flelds with John Burroughs and Thomas Edison with 811 the rebust joy of a boy of ten. He wlil tramp he fields agam with Thomas Edizon, And these two men are not StrAngers to each.other. They prove to "th g Rl by ¢ - CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS, A five-millon-dollar ‘monument will keep alive the memory of the coun- try lawyer of Frederick, Md., and later district attorney of the District of Columbia. Few conquerors—few of the great of the earth—are hon- ored with nobler piles of granite than the great stone-arch bridge across the Potomac, which, by act of the House, certain to be confirmed in the Senate, will be oficially known as “the Key bridge in memory of Francly Scott Key, author of “The Star Spangled Banner.” The bridge was so designated, origi- nally, because it starts its flight acros: the river from the immediate locality where Key's home stood, snd it is & very great thing that one of the grandest monuments in America, next o Liberty Enlightening the World, i dedicated to a patriotic defense of home and freedom rather than the l:lbwlod glories of martial aggres- sion. O thus be it ever when fraemen shall stand Batwaen their loved Bomes and the war's desc- ation. ok %k % Attentfon! Salute! Wherever the stirring strains which the present generation has learned to associate with that song are heard Americans salute. Why is not legislation en- acted making it officially the na- tional hymn? Where is there & bet- ter national hymn in any nataion? is there opposition influence against its adoption lest we give offense to England? If that be our attitude, then let us apologize for the Dec- laration of Independence. The song expresses no bitterness against the English as English, but only as In- and foas of America. The poet was not, thinking objectively of Eng- land, but subjectively of our Amer- jean freedom and American homes. Do we think less of them than he? The fos may have been any na- tionality. The character of foes would haye been the same. "Tis the star spangled banner! O long may it wav, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! * % % * Comparatively few of us ever read the words of the song to appreciate its sentiment and passionate patriot- ism. To hear it recited by & trained reader is as thrilling s anything in the English language. It should be ry school child to ory before he passes the eighth grade: not merely to sing it. but to recite it. Its sentiments should be taught as fundamental to good citigenship. It is infinitely more ingpiring than Britain's “God Save the King." It is {n the same class, but purer i triotism than the ‘Marseillaise France. Where is there & nationsl hymn that is its equal? commit it to m o . Chief Justice Walter I McCoy the District Supreme Court ing”" process that is going on in our District school in Americanization of ulieni District of Columbia doubtless ap- plies with equal force to other states. Here we have 20,000 foreign-bern, of whom 14,000 are net naturalized, and 2,000 adults are {lliterates, Of these ,000, only 100 attend the American- ization school to overcome thelr igno- rance of English and of American institutions and ideal Until recently thers was a section of the District where no English was spoken, even though peopled by im- migrants wito - had children and grandchildren born in thiz country. They lived for decades under the shadow of the Americap Capltol with oyt becoming Americanized. If syc has been posgible in the ver{ herd quarters of Americanism, what are the conditions in some of ‘the remote regions of the west and the slums of our great citles? Buch “colon| of allen ntiment are propagation nests for foreign propaganda against our American (nstitutions and gov . They should be ed and purified with American ogone. WhY s it asks Justice MeCoy, “that we talk so much about the ne- cessity of edycating the foreigners in oyr midst to speak our language and understand the genius of our inst tutions and then do o little to prov that we mean what wo say—if we do mean it? Are we §o certain that propaganda from Russia, spresd by foreigners and by our own traitors, will not yield its crop? ‘What he points out as to the )« There is much discussion amongst statesmen and other citizens about the value of the “literacy test” for trying out’ would-be immigrants, What does it amount to, to discover that & Greek reads Greek or a Rus- slan reads Russian? The only test that amounts to any valué for such & try-out is whether the immigrant is willing 1o learn to speak and read and think American. There Is room in America for 50,000,000 more real Ameri- cans, regardless of their birthj . but T crowds us “like (he misehIer” 1o ks that there are in the District of C lumbla 14,000 allens who never want to achleve Americanism. There 15 mighty little room for undesirable citizens, and “ingrown” allens just that., “Welcome to our city, ready to become candidates for citi- zenship in due time. This seems to be the idea of the chief justice, and most Americans agree with it. * ok Golf is a dull gume; tennis is insipid: base ball is algebra, and that is the most exciting and thrilling fun in life. Ainsworth Rucker i3 a teacher of mathematics—I mean of sporting mathematics or mathematical sport— In the Shaw High School of Washing- ton. Two weeks ago he introduced algebrajc. base ball in his class, and every problem is = play. It is & con- test of wits in the class and is prov- ing a deceided “hit” No other fun counts beside the algebra clags, and the game becomes o enthusiastic and noisy that it threatens to disturb ail the rest of the school. Later in the algebra course thero will be relay races, foolball ttas. ~ No longer is school This recalls a statement Jy from & Chicago judge of the flapper show- was all sound, but stimulating, for it had grown eluggish. What the atrophied pate needs is to become an algebra fan. hat s iife without its enthus: asms? It {s herd to reason out w this or that enthusiasm exists in other persons, but each of us knows that If he lost his interest in his vo- cation or his avocation Iife would be colorlese and dead. That is what has happened to school studies when the student finds them dull and uninter- esting. Happy {8 the teacher who can put enthusism into so dead study as algebra. Win the algebra ame and you huve won life itzell® ou have the secret of success—the value of “x.”" * % k¥ The bill introduced by Senator rookhart of Towa, defining the legal status of children under eighteen years of age and exempting them from prosecution In criminal courts for offenses against federal law, is & bold plece of proposed legislation and will reeeive careful consideration by all who are interested in child wel- fare. It s proposed to substitute « United States parental court fn place of the criminal courts for trying child nders. “One reason there has been no fed- tion along the juvenils suys Senator Brookhart the prohibitive constitutional pro- sions Telative to ‘dye process of faw’ ¢ ¢ ¢ But by the application of the law of irresponsibility of cer- tain_children we lift them out of legal responsibility under criminal law and establish « United Stat parental eourt, or which wil] prevent ing of little chjldren into responsible c‘llli ns for iegal or criminal prosccu- tion. The intent of the bill'is commended by friends of -ehildren, but there up- pears some question as to whether it does ‘ot extend the age limit too high. Many hardened criminals de- velop at the age of eighteen. Delib- erate murders are comamitted at that age or younger. In the czse of giris, - they reach their age of fyll powers and responsibility und come ints pos- ression of their inherited property at eighteen. chological = tests of adults show rarely any adult | that §s psychologically older or more developed than the “mental age” of ixteen. As the theory of the pro- posed law Is to tuke account of the mental and moral irresponsibility of the offender, & question seems to lie as to whether his years from birth are what must be the gulde or his pavchological “mentel age, reslly what fmp him in his condyct and relations to rociety, Frontier Lawyer’s First Case Won Him Two Pigs as a Fee Two pigs. paid over by a Yankee tammer In -the then wilds of Minne- sots, was the fee received by Knute ison, new @nd for Many years pust United States senator, for his first legal - ¢age in Minnesota. . Senator Nelson migrated to Minnesota in 1871 from Wisconsin, i where he had served as soldler and leg islater, and where he had studied law. He moved bag and baggage to Alex- { andria, Minn., and hung out his shingle. The cen- tral and northern part of Minnesota was really a part § of the “frontier” in these days. NELSO! Within a short i ™. time after his ar- rival Mr. Nelson was requested by another lawver, who, by the way, was prosecuting wttorney for the county, to handle a ease for him in which the ownerehip of a-horse was involved, Mr, Nelgon found that to try the case before a justice of the peace it was necessary for him to travel gonid twenty. miles in the country. So he hired & horse to carry him and off he went. ‘When he arrived at the home of the Justioe of the peace he found that the justics of the peace and the attorney for the opposing side had taiked the case over and apparently had reachad an agreement unfaversble to Mr, Ne son’s, client. Whereupon the formi Union sdidier decided he would have to put the fear of the law into the heart of the justiee of the peace. He talked so impressively that finally the Justjoe began to believe that If he now decided the gase against Mr. Nel. (the justice) would surely g0 to ial Ho not unnaturally he -d cided the case in.fayor of Mr. Nel: son’s. client, end Mr. Nelson, after having dinner with the justice, hiteh. ad up his hired horse and drove back to Alexandris. t i A judgment was eptered in- faver o Mr, Nelson's. client, & Yankee farmer, who had moved west as did so many others in thase days, for §125. Now, the Jawyer who Had originaily inter~ gated Mr. Nelgop in the case heard of udgment -and, witheut il fi'flgrw' any e oluss anta collected the money as attorney in the case. His next step wag a long one, He moved hyrriedly away from Alexandria und Minnesota. o it looked as though Mr. Nelgon's client had lost his case and his money, after all, and Mr. Nelson had lost his fee and besides was out §3 for the hire of a horse, Several months passed by. Mr. Nel- son was awakened early one morning by & visitor, the Yankee farmer tor whom he had ‘won the case. The farmer had arisen by starlight and hitched up his ox team and come into town, The farmer told Mr. Nelson he thought it was a “dad blasted shame” that. after all his trouble, Mr. Nelson should receive nothing in thé way ofia fee. ol havo. some ’llr;: shoats. W e gome of ] the farmer asked. S s pmme “Bring_‘em along." was the repl of Mr. Nelson.! And in about tws weeks the farmer was back again With two fine little White pigs. Mr. Nelson took them in and put them In_the ‘vard in an old packing box, intending te have ‘& pigpen built later in the duy and fatten the pigs, He went downtown after entertaining hig farmer client at ' breakfast. When he came back the pigs were gone. . Mr. Nelson thought this was prob- ably the end of the matter. Hide nor hair of the white pigs could be dis- covered. Some ten days later the proprietor of & hotel in Alexandria came to Mr, Nelson's oMice Lo find out whether he should, secording to law. e hotel ‘yard & short time a ghort time d had made themselves at advert! come to befare re the pige. but looking Ilke ave been through s sald Mr. ‘Nelson, “are my pigs. nd he took them home, and this time his fee stayed with him. $ince these days Mr, Nelson has n a member of the House, Bov- ernor of his state twiee and Unita Htates sermtor since March 4, 1890, Never has he falled to carry his own Home town and county by an over- wmnclplnl majority when he ran for o o8, He started his travels &t an wu e When he was six years o his family . emigrated from Norway the United Btates and loosted n * leggo. XU move wus to Wis- gansin. . While there the olvil war broke out and Mr. Nelson, enly # boy. enllsted in the 4th Wisconsin -Reg ment and served throughoyt the wur. A vivid recellection of wur tig the mule meat which he ute while @ gfllon” of the Confederaley wfter @ had been shet t Hudson. ‘l:}"“"‘? I3 (v{mm"n‘ tanted hester: o Benatdr Nei- W no longer whit they might uwg‘r