Evening Star Newspaper, January 10, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY. .January 10, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Busivess Office, 11th t. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 150 Nassay Chicago Office: Tower Build! Wurepedn Office : 18 Regent St., London, The Brening Star, with the Sunday moral sdition, is dellvered by carriers within the #t 60 cents per month: daily only, 45 cents Snaday only, 20 cents per month. ders wmay be sent by mail or telephone Maia lection 15 made by carriers at the end of cach month. land. ing y Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday. Daily only. ' Sunday on All Other States. Dally and Sunday..] yr., $10.00; 1 mo., Daily only. $7.00: 1 mo., B Sunday oni¥ w5, yr. §8.00: 1 mol Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled o the use for republication of all news dis- ratches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- lished “herein. ~All rigivts of publication of special d es hereln are also reserved. e Liberality to Debtors. | Well established public opinion | against cancellation of the debts owed | this government by the governments of Europe never has had in it any- thing of the spirit of the ruthless ereditor, Americans want these debts | recognized,” and in time want them paid, but it would be dificult to find anywhere a man or woman who would wish these obligations to béar unduly upon the peoples who wese our friends and allies in the great war. If there hag been anywhere in this country any spirit of resentment or impatience it has not been because Europe has been unable to pay. but because of oc- casional manifestations of unwilling: ness to pay. 1t is to be expected. therefore. that if President Harding goes to Congress | with a request for amendment of the | law creating the debt-funding commis- | sion, making it possible for the com- mission to uccord casier terms to the debtor nations, his request will re- ceive sympathetic consideration. As the law now stands, the commission | can accept funding bonds only if they mature within twenty-five yvears and | hear an interest rate not lower thaf ! 413 per cent. So far as it is possible to gauge the desires of the American people, they would be perfectly willing | to have repayments strung out over | a longer period of years and would be satisfied with an interest rate lower than that specified in the act of Con- | gress And if this is a correct interpreta- tlon of the wishes of the American peopie there ought to be no hesitancy in Congress about granting such amelioration as the President may re- quest. The money this government loaned the governments of Europe, tinder authority of an act of Congress, was money for which the American people had worked and saved, and if the difference between the interest rate paid by debtor governments and the rate this government pays on its borrowings creates a deficit, that deficit will have to be made up by further taxing of the people's earn- ings. So it becomes primarily the concern of the whole American people, and there has been no manifestation of public opinion which would justify Congress in believing that the people wouid rather forego settlement than to | settle on some terms other than those | laid down by Congress in the act| creating the funding commission. Next to settlement of the probleni of | German reparations, settlement of the | interallied debt problem is of primary | importance to the world. Great Brit- ain now has a commission here seel ing an adjustment. If its mission is: successful cother adjustments are| hound to follow. and soon the world | will be able to settle down to work | de without the uncertainty of these debts hanging like a dark and depressing cloud over the intercourse | of nations. 7 —_————— America and Europe. ! There are three things patent to! every reading and reflecting Amer can, and important for every such | American to consider. ! (1) Europe does not understang | America—is not properly advised either as to the full meaning or the practical workings of our institutions. | She has been too busy with her own | affairs and their conduct to make the | proper study of governmental develop- ments ‘on this continent. There is a| going concern over here of greater size | and far greater consequence than she | has been dreaming of. ' (2) She ought to understand Amer- | ica. We are a world power. op the eve of a large extension of vur foreign | trade, and on that account, if on no| other, worthy of her close attention. | She will meet us more and more as a compétitor for business: and the better and more thorough her appraisement of us the better it will be for her, for us, and for the world. (3) She stands in the way at last of acquiring the necessary information. | As a nation we are manifesting our- selves frankly as to the problems the war has produced, and giving all nec- e8sary assurances as to our purposes and exhibitions of our capacity to carry them out. American institutions are functioning in the normal way. Isolation is an absurd charge to bring against us. We never have tried to live to qurselves, and never shall | try. We could mot if we would pur-; sue any such policy. But there is a vast ‘difference between co-operating with the world according to our*lights and limitatione for progress’ sake, and mixing intimately and indiscriminate- 1y in the age-old hatreds and revenges of other countries. 1 Times have changed in the past twenty years. War rumors now ema- nate from Paris instead of Berlin. e Revenue and the Session. ‘Yesterday's Star carried this news note: ‘The House ways and means commit- tee decided today that no bills affect- ing revenues would be reported at t“c session except those of a purely gmergen nature or of direct assist- 4n [ ‘!'rus:r in t ise lru. T to keep the decks clear H wigned to amend the tarift yavenue | | tariff out of politic | when the truck was hit. Had this oc- { the' crossing continues in use. with! | of barriers. ! should be worthy ! pelled to ask for a supplementary ap- la: ‘was put befo: the committee in a resolution by Representative Lon worth, repubilcan, Ohfo, and was adopted by virtually a unanimous vote, Members agreed with the view that'in the short time remmalining be- fore adjournment, March 4, it would to take up the general run of pending revenue measures. An excellent decision. Not only is time lacking, but there is no necessity for taking up revenue measures at this session. The laws on the books are working as well as could be ex- pected in the circumstances that exist; and incidentally it may be mentioned that late reports from the Treasury Department compliment the Fordney tariff on the record it is making. It is producing a gratifying amount of revenue, and not hampering business. Revenue measures—some of small, some of large moment—are certain to be presented to the next Congress, whether that body meets in special session in the spring, or next winter at the regularly appointed time. Taxa- tion we shall always hdve with us; and however near together the two old parties may have drawn on sqme { subjects, they are still far apart on the subject of raising the wind for the government’s support. Besides, next year is presidential year, and, as usual, every subject carrying politics will be drafted for service. And the tariff always has car- vied, is now carrying, and always will carry, politice. The moon could as easily be taken out of the sky as the ————— Truck Hit, Train Derailed. A grade-crossing accident occurred | yesterday afternoon just outside of Baltimore that shows in clear manner | the extreme danger attending the maintenance of these death traps on the trunk lines of the railroads of this country. A truck stalled in crossing the tracks of the Pennsylvania main line between Baltimore and Washing- ton. When it became evident that the motor could not be started in time to avold a wreck from a fast express, then known to be approaching, the driver and residents of the suburb ran down the track and lighted flares to warn the engineer. For some rea- son the locomotive driver did not see the signals and crashed into the truck, demolishing it and carrying the wreck- age some distance down the track, while the brakes were working, until the debris caught in a switch and caused the derailment of the locomo- tive. Fortunately no one was hurt. But it is little less than miraculous that the train, which was running, it is estimated, at fully sixty miles an hour, was not immediately ditched curred a frightful loss of life would | have resulted. Almost daily in some part of the country grade-crossing accidents oc- | cur, taking now one, mow two. and| again more lives in each case. Seldom is a motor hit by a train without fatalities. The motors are so much | lighter than the locomotives that they are usually brushed aside with little | shock to the trains, but this accident near Baltimore shows what may hap- | pen when a heavy truck is hit. ! 1f every time a motor is hit at a grade crossing, with or. without loss of life, that crossing were cured, by the establishment of: overpass or un- derpass, some progress would be made | toward -emancipation from this evil.| But this is not done. A fatality otcurs | at a crossing. sometimes an entire family is wiped out of existence, and | seldom any improvement in the way | H This condition cannot be tolerated | indefinitely. Whoever is to blame, the | road users for failure to observe cau- tion, or the railroads for continuing to maintain their tracks at grade, or | the state or municipal authorities for failure to compel changes, the sacri-| fices continue, with an annual toll in lives that mounts into the many hun- dreds. State legislation requiring the { cure of the grade crossings, upon whatever terms may be deemed most ; equitable, 1s necessary to reach the| root of the evil. i SO — { When Dr. Coué says imagination is | the greatest human faculty plains the readiness with which many intelligent people convince themselves | that every bundle of oil stock certifi-{ cates represents a fortune, H ——— e H The threats of war in Europe may | account for Bergdoll's extreme anx-| ty to get back into ‘the United| tates of America. ———— The Ku Klux Klan, onee the sub- ject of some levity, i3 now being taken g { by the Louisiana authorities with more ousness than it desires. ————————— The District of Columbia schools of the residents Washington attracts from all parts of the country, ————— France insists that there are forms of coal shortage which call for des:! perate methods. i i Our Dark Streets. Not only are there not enough streét lights in Washington to . make the! streets safe after dark. but the funds | provided for the maintenance of those | that are installed do not suffice to keep them burning through -the year. The Commissioners have been com- propriation of $23,000 to meintain the lighting system of the District for” the remainder of the fiscal year. Recently The Star has been printing | a series of articles showing the condi- tions in the streets after dark—condi- tions that are surely no less than dis- graceful considering the importance of the city. Many of the streets are so dark that it is highly dangerous to operate a motor car after 7 o'clock at this season of the year, and it is equal- ly dangerous for persons to walk be-! yond the curbs. The {rees are, even in January, 8o thick as to shade the streets deeply. The rays of the aver- 'age lamp do not penetrate more than a few yards beyond the post. Between lamps is dense blackness, save on thé nights of the moon .in its major as- pects. \d Some years ago Washington depend- ed upon the moon for street illumina- tion; save In its “dark” phases. The street-lighting schedule conformed to the lunar calendar, Consequently when the moon was in the full, or thereabouts, no lamps were lighted, \ ; ¥ i i and if clouds came the streets were absolutely dark. An afrocious murder was committed one nfght in these clr- cumsthnces, “and 80 shocked - was ‘Washington tnat Congress was shocked as_ well and the present system of year-round lighting was adopted. But year-round lighting with insuf- ficieht and Inadequate lamps is little better than the lamp:plus-moon sys- tem of former times. Therewure spaces in this city without lamps that are so long that the highwayman has ample opportunity to rob and even’ to slay without a chance of hindrance. And these are not remote places, either. Some ‘of them may be found in_the very heart of the city, in the thickly populated residential section and even in the business district. K More and brighter lamps are an im- perative necessity. The city's toll of accidents and crinfes will grow heavier as the time is permitted to pass with- out the correction of this condition. Gen. Crowder and Cuba. Gen. Crowder would make an ideal minister to Cuba. He has been in the island long enough to familiarize him- selt with every phase of the public business, and by his course has won the confidence of the Cubans and the approval of the authorities at home here. He possesses tact firmnes and would., wi all be sure, repeat in the vegular diplomatic field the success he has achieved as the- special representative of two Presidents, While the billet does not bulk large in our diplomatic service, it is vet in the circumstances that exist one of difficulty, and should be fllled with that fact in view. Our 'relations with Cuba are intimate and unusual, and our obligations to her as well as to the outside world respecting her demand the most careful treatment. Cuba is sharing in the distresses that afflict all the nations, big and little. 0 nation has escaped. All are finding the goaing hard, and gre de- pressed by the present outlook. Our sympathies are sincerely with Cuba, and have often been expressed. We are standing sponsor for her. and want her to remain an individual in heg own right, with her own flag fly- ing. There are schemers and busy- bodies there and here desirous of for ing annexation, but there is no repre- sentative sentiment in America which favors raising the Stars and Stripes over the Queen of the Antilles. —_——————————— Night Sessions. In the strenuous work of the re- mainder of the winter night sessions are suggested. If ordered, they are not likely to ac complish much. Th never Oftener than not, they are a mere ges- ture, and, as a rule, the gesture fail After a few tiresome and ineffective attempts at keeping a quorum and do- ing business, they are discontinued. Take the Senate. The majority of the members are elder men, robust enough for hard work at regular hours and under system, and ghey perform a good deal of it. But break into their system and and particularly too long hours, and m: you put them at a disadvantage. They | { grow impatient, short of temper, -and ! cease to be either good companions or good Tegislators. i Such work as Congress, has now in kand and will’from time to time take up calls for calm thinking, with every body in kelter and physicaily and men- tally at his best. And nobody is at his best, or even fit at all. while dozing in his chair, or watching the clock for bedtime. There will be plenty of daylight be- tween now and March 4 for all prac- tical purposes if it is practically dis- tributed and employed. The situation ras its difficulties and ticklish fea- tures. but as veterans are in charge at both ends of the Capitol it ought not | to get out of hand and become un- wanageable. ————————————— Germany has done her best to turn out enough paper marks to satisfy France if she were willing to accept a fuel substitute. ——————— The valentine will soon come hand. and so by way of contrast wi the income tax biank. IRy No Turkish diplomat has vet con- sidered it necessary to offer a word of apology for burning Smyrna. to 1 SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNS Januar{ Rose. Sun came shining On a January day. It bade us quit reffining And keep thinking of the Ma The rosebush felt a flurry And was too much in a hurry For it started. in a-budding, just throw itself away. Rose, don’t grumble, Just because you didn't know There's a time for resting humble ‘While the frosty breezes blow. 1t is dangerous.to treasure Every fleeting glow of pleasure And life is all the sweeter if you live a little slow. Playing Safe. ‘“‘Are you going to have a presiden- tial boom next year?" “Not if 1 can avoid replied Senator Sorghum. “It isn't always safe for a statesman to call the at- tention of his local constituency to it { what the rest of the country thinks of him."” Jud Tunkins says it'sa pity several smart men couldn’t have submitted their love letters to lawyers, the same as other important documents. Acquiring Polish, The tyrant now retires from view; No longer are his moods ‘endured. ‘While helpful hands reach folk apew, The mailed fist's being nianicured;, . In Rural Maryland. “How did you know that was a Dis trict-of Columbia automobile’ “I can distinguish any of 'em in the | distance,” replied Farmer Corntossel, by the rattle of thelr numerous tags.” “Charily. beging at. home,” said Uncle” Eben, “but_yoy .wouldn’t be- resources and | do, Washington Observations BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Thirty-two years ago, when Thomas Francis Bayard, second of his name and fifth of his line to be @ United States senator from Delaware, wa: a student at the Yale law school, he prepared @ brief which. excited the lively admiration of his féllow class- men. One of them, venting his en- thusiasm when Bayard, fhen in his twenty-third year, read the brief, ex. claimed: “I'll bet any man in this claes $10 that Tom Bayard will end up in the United States Senate.” The challenge was accepted by a-fellow student with less faith in the young luwyer's future. All three men have lived to see the -realization pf the nrophecy on which the wager was based. = Facetious correspondence about jt was exchanged ‘in November following Senator Bayard's election to both the unexpired and full sena- toria]l terms in Delaware two months ago.' Last week the bet was paid. * ok k% & Ambassador Harvey brings to Wash- ington a story about Stanley Bald- win, member of parliament, British chancellor of the exchequer, now in negotiation with the American fund- & commission, that is destined to immortalize Baldwin's name in British history, In 1917, when allied. war fortunes were at their lowest ebb and British credit. particul verge of exhaustion. Baldwin financial secretary of the treasury. He is a man of considerable means— worth perhapé $4.000,000 or $5.000.000. Where John Bull was next to turn for ready sinews of war was sorely perplexing the. British government. Baldwin “decided upon an uncon- ventional recourse. He offered to place one-half of his entire private fortune at the disposal of the treasury at market prices of the securities he was ready to turn over and take for them the equivalent in British con- sols. Having done that, Baldwin felt justified in going officially to the Rritish nation, as eventually was done, and requiring them also to trade their foreign-security holdings for British war obligations. The result was the prompt accretion to the im- perial treasury of a vast fund of cash means and the effective salvage of the credit situation. * ¥ k X hoping over at |partment of the Interior statesman who - succeeds Secretary | Fall on March ¢ will have a short Iname. It appears there is a ceaseless | stream of official documents requir- ing the Secretary of the Interior's | autographed signature and if a name {s long as Frelinghuysen or Poindex- ter has to be affixed to every one visions of much time consumed are conjured up. Four-letter signatures like Lane and 'all, the s show, can he attached with lightning- {like ‘dispate The name of New would have even greater advantages La gOssip anent cabinet shifts in rch sends Dr. Hubert Work to the Department of the Interior and Sen- ator Harry S. New of Indiana to the postmaster generalship.” New, con- templating renomination and re- elec n to the Senate, is understood to have declined the opportunity te {supplant Will H. Hays a year ago. 1 * * % ! in on | | They're the De- that the | | { Since Monday of this week Henry 1J. Allen of Kansas has been what a {once distinguished son of the Sun- impose irregular hours.; !: Communist Prog ! ers’ Party Spells Failure. | The announced program of the | workers' party, made public after the jrecent convention in New York condemnation from editors brings generally. For the most part it is ac- cepted the arguments and claims of the organization are absurd on their face. but a concerted warning sounded agalnst holding this line of agitation too cheap. The Dayton News emphasizes this movement must not be confused with the American Federation of Labor de claring “it goes without saying, w !Lelieve, that in so far as the workers | party hopes to bore from within in ]!hn- labor unions of the country, its purposes are doomed to defeat. The {American workingman is not so easily {Tooled by promises of the utopian age which these rascals predict {be ushered in with the balance of po- {litical pewer in their hands. It takes ia lot of nerve, backed. of course, by sheer ignorance on the part of the soviets to attempt to invade the ranks {of patriotic workingmen in America. | If they possessed average intelligence | these soviet propagandists wouldn't even attempt such a movement.” This very much the opinion of the New { York Post which also calls attention {to the fact that“ku Klux and com- {munism stand side by side on the { front page today and the connection !hetween them is something much real than the break of the and, in conclusion, argues they “dre as one in rejecting the principles jand procedure of demoeracy. They wure both for the rule of force as prac- ticed by & minority. Ku Klux in Louisiana and distateérship of the pro- letariat in Russia agree in showing what happens when a self-constituted ! minority sets out to save the masses |against their will. The first thing ithat happens is terror. The second { thing that happens is the emergence of ignoble motives. The supposed bene- ficiaries of klan actiyity or communist | activity become it vietim: The fact that the leaders are out- spoken as to their plass cauges the Detroit Free Press to suggest that “the country will know how to deal { with this particular workers' party if it ever sees fit to translate its writ- ten program into -action. It will hardly know what to think of them, however, when they talk, as they do, about enlisting the American farmer i their_cause. If there is one eco- nomic doctrine that farmer ‘believes in -more than another, it is his right to his farm gnd any profit he may make for himself and his posterity. He does not believe that ahy one on earth has a right to take his land away from him or to seize the crops that he raised on the land, and if the workers' party does not kngw that it has a great deal to It is “revolution that is their nd “small army and navy agi- tation” fits in well with their plans, in the opinion of the Lowell Leader, which feels convinced that “when the reds begin to throw off their mask, as they did in the New York conven- tion, it is time for loyal American la- i bor and for every good citizen to dig However, ‘“the prospect for the is not encouraging, even to the as-the Utica Press sees {t, while the-Portsmouth Star warmly indorses the denunciation of the party voiced by Samuel Gompers. president of the American Federation of Labor, who pledged labor to combat its policies. There is Do political danger threat- ened” from the workers' party, the Atlanta Censtitution feels, but it does think American citizens “should keep its members personally under surve lance to guard against the commis- sion of overt acts”” In doing this it also is well,. the Binghamton Press argues, to remember “the party is a child of the politicdl ambitions of Lenin,” but “as long as the scum of gram of New Work- more news, foreign lands is permitted to come| here we might as well make up our minds to be prepared for all the trqu- ble and annoyance it cam make.” ‘Un- til “the stomachs of Americans are empty, and honest labor is jmpossi bl &c Baltimoré American suggests i the | was | EDITORIAL DIGEST will | the American | flower state, John J. Ingalls, immor- talized as a “statesman out of & job. He relinquished the governorship at Topeka on January 8. His friends in Washington understand that “Hank” Allen will divide his time between editing_his newspaper, the Wichita Dally * Beaco! Chautauqua -lec- turlng. Thers is a widespread de- mand to hear the originator of the Kansas industrial relations law ex plain its origin and operution, an Mr. Alleri intends avalling himsell of a good g\uny speaking Invitatione. He is not Blind, of course, to the po- Hitical prestige and popularity bound to accrue from -spell-binding activi- ties through the¢ Main streets and 6th avenues of the land. Gov. Allen is still un the sunny side of fifty-five. ;{el is ambitious, popular—and hope- ul. ok J. Martin Miller, author of “The Amazing Story of Henry Ford,” was in Cincinnati the.other day and en- countered the following sign ‘in a window: HENRY FORD First-Class Shaving Parlor Having survived a Henry Ford car, Mr. Miller decided to venture a Henry Ford shave and walked in. Ton- worial conversation ensued, in the course of which Barber Ford confided that he and his wife had recently lvluiud the Ford Motor Works at Highland Park, near Detroit. Visitors iregister before being shown through. Wlen the man at the guides' desk saw the Cincinnati barber's signature e insisicd upon knowing whether the visitor was “kidding” or not Documentary evidence of their real identity naving been exhibited. the Cincinnati Fords were extended the courtesies of the establishment with special cordiality. Mr. Miller told the other Henry Ford the story and the' man who wouldn't object to being Pregident enjoyed it hugely. * ok x % Apropos current prohibition revela- tions in Washington, am authority who prefers not to be quoted says there are two kinds of diplomatic establishments here—embassies and bootlegations. | | koo of the American troops from the Rhine racalls. the competition that has raged at the War Department for four years to secure Coblenz billets. It is said there have been on the average 100 appli- cations for every officer’s post avail- able in Gen. Allen's command. The financial attractiveness of life in Ger- many on American dollars was tife chief incentive to our underpaid Army 1 officers to be transferred to Castle hrenbreitstein. Since 1918 many of them have taken their emtire fami- lies to Germany and placed their chil- dren in continental schools, the cost both of living and education. when translated from American gold into deprefiated European currency. rep- resenting a fabulous rise | ‘ome. If Senator Borah vields to entreaties to deliver public addresses in Eyrope it will not be @ desire for financial profit that tempts him. His friends declare ‘that the silver-tongued lda hoan for vears has had laying on his desk seductive offers from great cor- poration law Arms in New York, Chi- | cago and other cities proffering part- nerships at incomes such as the Pres- lrlenl_ o the United States enjoys. “Bill" prefers to remain the idol of the Gem state—Idaho's modest nick- name-at a salary a tenth of what he might command” as a metropolitan {Jurs lawyer. (Copyright. 1923.) Pdssible recall i | and. as a rule. rude to savi protest voiced, however; by ihe New York obe to the demand of the American Defense Sociaty that the party be suppressed and also against any interference with the coming of the Russian soviet players. In the latter case the Globe feelp that “such suppression gave the political ancestors of Lenin a hold on the Rus- sian popular imagination. . There should be no toleration of it here where our laws supposedly protect us from extremists who believe in bloody revolutions and extremists who be- lieve in the certain forms of tyranny which have caused them.” This view finds no favor with the Providence Journal, which in turn insists “it unbelievable that any large propor- {tion of American workers will be caught by the chaff of the mispamed workers’ party, but if its dangerous propaganda is permitted to continuc unchallenged we will merely invite trouble for ourselves in the enl:™ ‘The central idea of the commun- istic scheme.” as the Springicld nion sees it. “is to tumble success into a heap so that failure can pick | a living out of the ruins.” The nam-f | l announcements, however, are inter- preted by the Hartford Courant as a confession of failure and it sarc tically suggests that “on the whole a good time was had by all at the con- vention. The capitalists will tremble from henceforth unless they are lost to all sense of shame.” Because there was no interference with the conven- tion, and every one had a right to say what he pleased’ is “better.” says the New York World, “than raiding com- munist sessions ‘in the Michigan woods and jailing men for members- {hiip in the . W. W. The guarantees of free speech apply to thé workers' party as well as to other rarties, and it is a sign of the dying out of anti bolshe i en we begin to apply them.” While this is true. it does not lessen the responsibility of the government “to be on guard.” the Wilkes-Barre Record feels, because while the organization may not be |great numerically, it is in the power of a small minority to do much mis- | ehief by constant activity. An American Heroine. The other day New York's highest military honor, a distinguished serv- e medal, s pinned upon the breast of Camilla Treadwell. Miss Tread- well wéars decorations from every }one of the allied nations, having given | nine_years of her life to service in the hospitals of France and of other countriés of Europe. Not only does this American heroine | wear the white and geld decoration of the French legion of honor, but she is an honorary corporal of 'the 15th Battalion of French Chasseurs, and has no less than eight medais of I honor from that country. It was in | France that she spent most of her seven years of service abroad and was a hospital nurse during many of the most important engagements. Frequently she was in the front-line dressing stations, in territory which, as a rule, was closed to women. By her courage, fortitude and be- | neficent toil. Miss Treadwell has | added another star (o the bright | galaxy of American womanhood— Rochester Herald. gl T, IUrges Flag Perpetually Wave on New Bridge the Editor of The Star: The name of Francis Scett Key and the beautiful national hymn, “The Star Spangled Banner,” are in- geparable and imperishable.. There- fore it is eminently fitting that the new bridge spanning the Potomac, being located so near the site of his home in West Washington, should be named for him and dedicated to his memory.. | =~ Fitting the occasion, let there be a parade of all arms of the service, raising of the flag—never to be low- ered—so that it may be seen from “the dawn's early light’ to “the t's _last gleaming,” closing with a saliite of forty-eight guns, Let the name U6 Key. Tet the flag iy 1™ boo ™ TAMES FUNK, |Protests Rebuilding Politics at Large BY N. 0. MESSENGER. Reports are coming to political managers of a decided drift in rail- road labor circles toward socialism. They are of a character and appar- ent authenticity to causé uneasiness and as a result republican party man- agers are setting on foot a move- ment to stabilize that section of .the vote which has gone along with the G. O. P. in the past. Unobtrusively, but with earnestness, vigorous mis- slonary work is to be conducted in the coming months in the hope of holding these republicans to their old party allegiance. Republican leaders are at a loss. to account:for the threatened defection om.any ground other than the effect of the propaganda in favor of gov- ernment ownership of _railroads, which, it 1x said, seems to be steadily growing in volume and effect. * ¥ k X It had been hoped that since the settlement of the Tailroad strike and the establishment of closer relations between employers and employed still better harmony would result as time went on. It was also thought that railroad labor, being of a higher grade than some other branches of indus- try, would furnish a less promising fleld for the spread of socjalistic do. trines, and the reports of the spread of the infection came as something of a surprise and shock to the poli- ticians * x ox % The political e¢onomjsfs find diffi- culty in reconciling facts and theo-| ries about the increase of socialism | in the United States. The statement is frequently heard that sociallsm cannot spread in a land where so many people own their own homes and where there are such substantial savings accounts. It is estimated by the American Bankers' Assoclation that there are in the country some 27,000,000 savings accounts. The deposits are figured as reaching the sum of $17,000,000,000. In addition. to be classed as savings, are the billions of dollars invested i liberty bonds and which are dis- tributed among people of 'small means as well as held in large sums by the wealthy and as trust funds. The politicians are puszled to un- derstand how communistic and social- istic propaganda can make headway in the existence of these facts. Xk New York republicans, coming out of the daze into which they were thrown by their smashing defeat of last November, are preparing to fight Lack at . Alfred E, Smith in his program of progressive legislation for the Empire state. One of the republican leaders in the legislature was rudé enough the other day to all some of the governor's policies “bunk” and from that branched out n endeavor to prove that the are impracticable and could not be work- ed out. Kspecial criticism was made of the pian for municipal control of transportation utilities. It was charged that the overlapping of urban and suburban lines would render it impossible to devise a working plan for municipal direction. The democtats have been claiming that the republicans would be forced by pressure of public opinion to fall in line with Gov. Smith and the demo- cratic, policies. but the republican leaders are showing resistance, pro- ceeding upon the theory that not all of the votes which elected Mr. Smith governor can be counted upon as sup- porting the radical democratic poli- cies. ok x It is 2 fact that when the demo- cratic platform went through the statd convention at Syracuse, con- taining radical prepositions which made-many of the old-line democrats gasp, there were sundry winkings of the eve as if to express the sugges- ton. 'Oh, these will nevér be car- ried out; they are just a “good enoug! Morgen' for vote-getting purposes. It was realized at the time that their adoption was a prerequisite to hold- ing a certain element of radical sup- port to the demoeratic ticket. * ok % % But Gov. Smith surprised the poli- ticians _ immediately upon taking office. Tn his message to the legisla- ture last week he said: “Thé future security of democratic government rests upon the obligation of parties first to ascertaln the public will and after that to make it effective. recent election cannot leave doubt! in any one's mind that a demand was made by the great majority of the people of the state to enact a| program of which they had full and debated for many weeks in all parts | of the state So it would seem that. whether the governor himself approves all of the radical doctrines or not. he takes the position that the voters do and tha ICis his duty and the party's to carr out the pledges made in the plat- form -and do the things which the people have shown by their votes they, wish done. i | i * ok ok K National politicians at Washington the bill to abolish ghe nemination of | state officers by state conventions! !and réturn to the direct primary s¥s-|gctent tem. The democrats in both houses of the legislature will be for-it, but, < the republicans control one branch | Y @ narrow margin, its passage can only be effected by the avfirmmivel Vote of progressive republicans. i There is sharp division of senti- { menj among republicans on this sub- | ject in the nation at large, and it is| 1o be expected that the same will be reflected among New York_republi- | can legislators. I New York re-| furne to the primary plan, impetus will be given the movement for na tion-wide primaries. of Knickerbocker . To the Editor of The Star: Within three weeks of the anni- versary of the most terrible disaster that has befallen l(hll city, and one of the worst of the country at large, the collapsing of the Knickerbocker roof, and while the hearts of those afflicted are torn with mrief and anguish as the time approaches, an article appears in your issue of Jan- uary 6 announcing the rebuilding of Same at once. This plan still further evidences to .the general public the callous indifference displayed to those who have pleaded against the re building vroject. A few weeks ago | a monument to the nigety-seven chil- | dren that were killed on our streets, in a year, was unveiled with appro: priate devotional eXercises. A fine thing. But what of the ninety-seven lives lost in & &ingle night and in a place in which they, at least, believed | themselves safe? < Shall their memorial be the new home € mirth and their devotional | exercides the noisy din of workmen Wielding chisel, hammer and saw? ‘Why not make a picnic grounds of Flanders field? & LILLIE R. LOCKHART. ——t———— When two live cheaper than one they feel that way.—Binghamton Sun, Yale has a mentality test for stu- dents. Wonder if Edison could pass it—Greenville Piedmont. A _headline says: “She Still Paints at 87 Of course, and passes for half that.—Sioux City Journal. of repara- 8 tion conferences that-do nothing but| rg-pare.—Norfolk Virginian Pilot, ! versation with a ver: {and tell her ] never want her t§ CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS The Post Office Department has been caught napping. It announced a few days ago that the appearance of the portrait of Martha Washington on & new 4-cent stamp next Monday, Janu- ary 15, would be the first time the face of a woman had been so honored in the history of the United States Post Office. Immediately the phila- tolists came’ forward with a stamp issued in 1902 bearing Martha Wash- ington’s face, and one fssued in 1893 bore the face of Queen Isabella of Spain. Strange that the experts of both the Post Office Department and the Bureau of Engraving and Print- ing had completely forgotten the 1902 stamp and neglected to check up tneir records. However, it is more than a coinci- dence that in all the history of Amer- fean womanhood no woman stands out in the same class of distinction as Martha Washington, the wife of the first President. If the Post Office Department had remembered the 1902 stamp. what other woman would have beer selected in place of Mrs. Wash- ington? Some months ago, at the request of a South American lady of note, a special committee of public men was appointed to name the te leading women of American history The committee began its work most blithely. but what has become of its st ? What woman in our history stands next to Martha Washingto nence? s it Susan B. Anthony. was the voneer in women's rights saual sufrage? Or Frane Wil- lard, th/ pioneer of prohibition? Or Clera Bartoh, who foundéd the Amer- fean BPed Cross Association? When the nixt stamp is set apart to the honer of an American woman whose face will appear upon it? ik g » At the conference of women, called by the Department of Labor. which will meet in Washington this week there will be a great assemblage of representative women on behalf of labot inter also delegates from the Daughters of the American Revo- lutinn and the Federations of Wom- en's Clubs and from church organiz tigns of all creeds. But there will b# no national officer representing the women's party. because nothing in terests the controlling officers thereof who tunless it reiterates that women are at least equal Iy can deny.” equal! to men, “which x Why, they are tw * ko % The biggest instance of locking the stable door after the horse has been stolen appears in the bill to be intro- duced in a few days by Senator Brookhart to make stock dividends illegal He claims that these are subterfuges to avoid excess profits| taxes and income taxes. and he cites a list of corporations prepared at his request by mission after the Supreme Court had ruled that there is nothing in ex ing law to stop such evasion. Tn that list he undertakes to show fhat com- panies have declared dividends in stock amounting to 3.300 per cent of their original capitalization, and the total of such dividends amounts to moge than_ $2.000.000.000. The taxes thefeby sidstepped amount to hun- dreds of millions. according to the senator. Tt is believed impossible-to make the proposed law retroactiv * k% Lothar Witzke, the German spy who was convicted in war-time of espion- age and sentenced to die, but whose sentence was commuted to imprison- ment, subject to parole:in 1935, is likely to be released through the in- tervention of the German ambassador. It is argued that he is “the la&t of the political prisoners” and therefore ought to be let go. The basis is not accurate, for he is not the last of the prisoners; and. even if he were, that does not constitute grounds for clem- ency. Here is an opportunity to test Germany's Exchange Witzke for Grover C. Bergdoll. Two of a kind; Germany harbors one, we hold the other; ‘let’s swap. Bergdoll is probably the last, or at least the most conspicuous, of the traitors whose family aca; cquntry only to use it to betray country. Why should America more lemient than Germany? * * ¥ X Tn confirmation of Keynotes' state- ment recently, that farmers cause their own freight bills to swell by not culling their potatoes before ship- ment, and grading or cleaning the grain and other shipments, comes now a statement from the Depart- ment of Agriculture, published in its the be {complete knowledge, because it Was|qeeify bulletin, Weather, Crops and the Federal Trade Com-| uired wealth in this! “Sackers- of bulk potatoes are structed to throw ol.ll,n the poor ’~\')\; and it is not uncommon to see ass culled as much as 3,000 pounds or even more. * ® * This jg aimost i total loss to the thipper. ® * & Tha average freight to Chicago from those Sates contributing, the major part or Chicago's supply 1s'ahout 30 cets e That indigates a waste of $8 per « in_freight ‘alone, aside from the d: preciation in price even for the cepted potatces, The culls do not b for sorting labor. What applies potatoes fits all other crops. * ¥ % % A South Carolina state senator, M Baggett, has hit upon a novel a radical plan to curb Ku Klux activ ties. He has introduced a bill in {1 legislature making it a felon any man to appear off of his Lremises so disguised as to conceal his identity. The simplicity of the o s‘urx;::klzfoqlg..x;d only by Colum- which haa bama reat mow * x % The Ball bill; now pending, will rv quire all automobile drivers to p $15 a vear for a $3.000 bond to cov: {liability in case of accident. Ti opposition comes from three <ourc The drivers belicve it which should not be put the insurance companies at hardslip castepr fess that they consider the condit of Washington fhic bad they would lose mor to against accidents on posed, and some of the lieve that being insured to make the drivers more than they already are. There are o more_than 100,000 licensed drivers the District. The insurance cr panies recommend that the gover |ment pay, the damages and tax t Ipublic generally. whether driv lautomobiles or not. This is sa be the plan in some European cou tries. Tt would catch the jay walk as well as the drivers * % % * so thas terms pro public be would tend carele It the go ent ever insured own buildings it would have tiff premium on the extra hazar of the White House from report of Licut. « intendent of {buildings. The garre Iproof. None of the skeletons" but ther all arou When t was rebuilt, after the 110 vears ago. e wag known of m against fire. It inexcusable to ix ditions and the nating danger. to pay Judging 1 perrill, sup grounds 2 ! is not fir closetg cont are flre da e White He British hur paratively thods to safeg would certainly e the present er possibility of elit { . gest criticis ation rest by th® Natior facturers One ithe present law hias made Assoc of Ma | pointing out that the provision limit ng the immigration on the hasis « per cent of each mationality | here in 1910, accor to the eens does not net mome of the nat {of Ttalians permi {der the present law | year there came nearly the full anota of the stro immig been | tion ny increase cd to come in < 42,000, and i $0.000, apparently but during the d 53.000 lialians returnes . §0 that there was a n ldecrease of 13.000 instead of the 27 iparent ase of 40.000 There were other recommendations and the House will investigate t} cituation through a special commit [tee. One test recommended for al shmert is the literacy test, in whicl the association eoincides with the veto of President Wilson One of the causes of the high cost of tiving is the of farn labor, and it ix proposed that the in migration . laws should be adminis {tered jointly by the « tarfes « | Agricultdre, Commerce afd Labor stead -of by the of Lat lone, who is not in bhab! with the needs of commeree. There are millions in Europe star |ing for an oppaxtunity to 1abor: lare million of our farms needir {their help: there are millions of J in factories and commerce which do not call for highly trained labhor roustabout jobs—w' _:l ar lack ithe very help ciemoring »'uy' admis on. 'The assoclation of munufac ivers W strongly supporting immi Hration restriction WEAinst erimi: and diseased mmigrants, but ur the admission of av lable labvar Tch needed. even for .lowerity cost of food production on the fa~. o tha benefit of the skilled labor ond mechanics now Justly complat ing of the high cost of living shor is Secretary touch, pro! the farm nor o HERE and THERE in WASHINGTON BY “THE MAJOR” All pictures that are painted are {will follow with interest the fate of | not bright, all presents we receive are not gold, all songs we hear are not all stories that come to our n have not pleasant endings. The mail, the other morning, brought me a word picture that is vouched for by the sender as being true, and lest 1 mar the story I am reproducing it just as it came. The luxurious room littered with expeiisive gifts, jewelry, fans, gauzy laces, gloves. perfume, filmy stockings., cobwebby handkerchiefs, together with tisue paper, gold cord and other appurtenances attending the tying up and dispatching of these stly trifle: N‘A%ytht secretary entered she heard the mistress of the house at the telephone, saying in that peculiarly cooling voice which indicated a con: dear friend. “Yes, my busband and 1 are going to New York at noon. We will be at the hotel for a little while—Oh! he Went to his cousin’s for the holidays. T Gust had to send him away.—You know the school is closed for over two weeks and 1 could never have stood having him around all that time. What is it? . Oh! 1 am sure of it. Good-bye dear! ‘Catching sight of the secretary, Ehe said, “I wish you would send back those tickets to the Orphans’ Relief Ball, T don’t want them, and here— this.” snatching up an open letter she ontinued. “telephone to that womlnn &iv long as 1 harmon \e another massage as | live—and never to come near the house again—she’s no.good. Tele- phone, then write confirming it.” Looking over the carefully worded note with its respectful request for ehecls for past treatments and clos- ng with “best wishes for a happy hristmas,” the secretary felt a pang of sympathy for the kindly faced, Dlainly dressed woman, with the sad eyes. whom she had occasionally met on her visits to the house. “I don't Want to tell her that” she thought: “she looks as if she needed her salary as much—as much as I do—and at Christmas, t00.” A “Please phone at once Miss came the impatient voice. Closing the door and calling the number given, the secretary, wording it as tactfully as she could, gave the unpleasant message. | 2 “But 1 was engaged—khe promised.” came back a distressed voice. “and_ I need it, and at Christmas time!” “I am sorry, but I am obliged to e the me: “Yes, yes, Its—it's all - right—I guess we updarstand. The voice broke in a little sob, “thank Yo o } with back to ass ful gifts to b xigh the secretary W ¢ in tyjng up the beaut sent'to brilliant soci leaders and ladies whose husbund were high in_official circles. 11« heart was vather sore. She he could give no' presents, and sh missed the joy of plannin scheming over the individual After the long illness with its attc ant _expenses which even weighed her down. her slender ary would permit of no such indu gence, and her Christmas giving has perforce been limited to the not very large contribution poked into th Salvation Army kettle on a-busy cor ner. Not the di t ho i even the .luxury of with the dear_ jolly family Her throat tightened a pictured that gathering. The {ing open fire, the delicious i cedar, the gleam of holly herr long row of stockings. just had been hung for all the vears could remember. men and men as all were now. with thi locks and frost-touched temples the coming ristmas the vear fell away, 2 1dhood stoct ings were alw It was hard not to feel biuc fcially as the kindly mother i daughter, in whose apartme secretary had one small poom gone away for their family reun and there was not even cheer greeting to be received on her retu at_night, But the debts and doctors must be paid. and, thank God was well again. and even the meu salary she was receiving from mistress of millions was at keeping the wolf from the dour though he never seemed to tar ther away than just around the near est corner, and often he nearly his nose in. Her reverie was broke, the voice of authority handed over an extrava be fixed up: “Miss T as “hi wo ning with t leas in-upon I its owne ant trifle to T have decided 1 may stay in New York a while and not need you any longer. You better find something else to do. And open the package which me from Mrs. Blank, and read what she has written, on her card.” With bands that retary opened a jeweler's case con taining an exquisite’ nd expensive brooch, and picking up the card bear- ing the name of & prominent society leader. she read.in a voice which would not stay quite stead “To dear Mrs, hoping she will’ give to those arbound her much happlness. in the coming year as she has dome ia 1934 w wid hal shook the sec-