Evening Star Newspaper, January 12, 1923, Page 6

G THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. .January 12, 1823 THEODORE W. NOYES...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. w York Office: 150 Nassau 8 ‘hicago Office: Tower Buildin Huropean Offic : 18 Regent St., Londo nd. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning +dition. s delivered by carriers within the ety ¢t 00 cents per month: duily ouly. 43 cents per month: Sunday only, 20 cents per mqath. Or- Aers miay be sent by mail or telephone Main 5000, 'Collection is made by carrlers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1y Daily only. Sunday only All Other States. Dally and Suaday..1yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 85¢ y. 1yr, $7.00; 1 mo, 60c 1yr., $3.00; 1 mo,, 25¢ Member of the Associated Press. The Amoclated Press Is exclnsively entitled o the use for republication of all news dis- ches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the loeal news pub- Jished herein. Al rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. — ey The District’s Surplus a Fact. As a result of the auditing of Dis- trict-federal finances just completed by the accountants engaged by the joint select committee under the act of June 29, 1922, charged with a de- termination of the amount, if any, of surplus District tax revenues lying in the Treasury, they report, as a neces- sary deduction from their tabular Ex- hibit A, that there js without any question a sum of at least $4,671,196.97 of District money in the custody of the United States not subject to imme- dlate appropriation. At the same time. the accountants state, the Treasu (United States general accounting of- flce) has shown a balance or surplus of District tax revenues lying unex- pended there of $4,676,45 The Dis- trict auditor's report shows a free sur- plus of District money amounting to $4,677,347.90, These three statements of the account are to all practical pur- poses identical, there being a differ- ence of only $6,150.93 between the highest, that of the District auditor, | and the lowesi. that of the joint com- mittee’s accountants. Whatever the amount. whether that stated by the accountants, or that stated by the Treasury, or that stated by the District auditor, the widest pos- sible difference being $6,150.93, this re- port establishes the fact that there is a specific concrete free surplus of Dis- trict tax revenues in the Treasury consisting of unappropriated District money. Thus the surplus is proved to be no myth, as has been urged in Con- gress, but a definite credit balance, subject to any deductions or any in-| creases which Congress may make based upon inquiry into the compara- | tive equities. As to the merits of possible offsets in favor of the United States which the accountants, as directed by the committee, suggest for consideration, they express no opinion. Though they do not point to them in their report, the District has certain offsets or claims of its own to suggest and to urge. These claims will be stated to the joint select committee, which will then determine whether it will now re- open the whole accounting back to 1874 and balance the proved equitable credits of District and United States, respectiv or will rest content at this time with recognizing the present actual credit of the District of at least $4,671,196.97, on the Treasury books, and leave to the future the increase or decrease of thig surplus by deliberate adjudication of the opposing claims to | equitable credits by the Distrigt and the United States, respectively. Constantine. Ex-King Constantine of Greece did not long survive his second exile from Athens, and perhaps his death was the happlest possible ending of a career that could not have been brightened by any conceivable future change. During his first exile Con- stantine, or “Tino,” as he was more famillarly known in Europe, was ener- getic in his efforts at restoration, which were finally successful. But he returned to Greece in circumstances that made irresistibly for more trou- ble. He succeeded to an impossible adventure in arms in Asla Minor. The collapse of the Greek campaign there compelled his abdication. At the outbreak of the great war Constantine's partiality for Germany, occasioned by the fact that his wife was sister of the kaiser, placed him in 4 most difficult position, and Greece suffered seriously in consequence. He could not clear himself of this asso- clation, and his later troubles may all be attributed to the relationship with Germany and his failure to express the Greek sentiment in the war. In Greece Constantine was an alien, after all. His father, son of the King of Denmark, had given the country an intelligent rule and had won to e great degree the sympathies and un- derstanding of the Greek people. Con- stantine, succeeding him upon his as- sassination, did not, however, succeed him in the respect and affections of the Greeks, and the war was his un- doing. It is doubtless well for Greece that Constantine has passed, for he would have remained, despite his formal abdication, & potential center of intrigue for restoration. Now he is removed by death, and the Greek prob- lem, difficult at best, will be perhaps brought closer to solution in conse- quence. B Germany's protests that she is not sufficiently prosperous to feel like en- tertaining guests make no difference to France. e —————— “Eat, Drink and Be Merry.” Rum running is not only lucrative but joyous. The runners are merry fellows, having the time of their lives. A rum fleet, deep in the water with the stuff, is off the coasts of New York and New Jersey and communicating with ease with the shore. This is taken from a dispatch from Highlands, N. J.: The rum runners make not the least offort to disguise their actions. The transier from power boat to trucl and p oy THE EVENING song and bantering. It is & lucrative | driven In the city ct Bridgeport itself, day for every one. and the police declare that no less Appropriately enough, this occurs in | tnan §50 residents of that city are the state’ which the wets carried in |,y driving such machines, bought in November by en enormous majority.|go0q faith from agents of the ring, The successful candidate for United|gng that in other parts of Connecticut the state “as wet as the Atlantic ocean Well, there is the state and there tion of affairs about. as large. And this deflance of the law is of- fered as one of the reasons why the law should be modified or repealed! The bootlegger and his patron make themselves superior to the law. ————— Radio and the Lawbreakers. possibility is suggested by the pro- is now considering the proposal. telephone are employed in criminal constituted the chief reliance of the police in following fugitives from jus- city, but millions of people, who be- fact lles a disadvantage in the broad- casting method through the giving of information are sought by the police. It is extremely difficult now for a known lawbreaker to escape. If a de- seription of him 1s available it can be placed in the possession of police offi- cials in every city within a few hours of the commission of the crime. Photographs already widely distributed of previously' mrrested persons are available for reference. If the fugitive is a newcomer in the ranks of law- Lreakers, and his photegraph -is to be | had, it can be sent out to the confines of the country within a few days, trav- eling almost as fast as he can go him- { self. The radio will not facilitate this { process of identification unless devices Ifor the reproduction of pictures by wireless are perfected. The meshes of the law's net are un- doubtedly becoming finer, and the net | itself extending, despite the vast area, to be covered within this jurisdiction, the plight of the persop who seeks to escape has become, indeed, desperate. If the procedure of trial and punish- ment were as speedy, law enforcement in the United States would be, indeed, { effective, but, unfortunately, it would seem that the more efficient the process of criminal catching becomes the slower goes the work of the agency for trial and punishment. ————tee Jackson Day and November. The response to the appeal of Chair- man Hull of the democratic national committee for a Jackson day celebra- tion of the signs of the times as con- tained in the November elections was not general. At any rate, the dis- patches have carried little on the sub- Ject. { Jackson is still revered, and Jackson { day still & great anniversary. But the { public is busy with live and throbbing topics. World conditions are again tense. All eyes are on Europe, and all interest centers. in what is taking is again in the air. ‘There was a response at Springfield, 1111, and some vigorous party talk in- { dulged in. The principal speaker was Senator-elect Ralston of Indiana, a next door neighbor, and by his own people as well as by some others re- garded as of presidential size. He in- veighed against what he called “the republican policy of international iso- lation.” The tone of the occasion was jubi- lant. The democracy was hailed as comihg back, and as certain to arrive next year. The shibboleth of the even- ing—though Mr. Ralston himself did not use it—was “Treat 'em rough!” meaning, of course, the republicans. Something softer and more argu- The democracy, though with an im- proved outlook, is far from being out of the woods yet, and is scheduled for some rough going before the time ar- rives for nominating its next national ticket and constructing its mext na- tional platform. * ——— Wilhelm Hohenzollern can at least feel that he will not be held responsi- ble for any fighting that may result from the present Franco-German situ- ation. ——— Paris possibly resents the fact that a number of Germans have been ex- perimenting with gliders when they might have been shoveling coal. ————— Senators who insist that we are al- ready in European affairs must admit we are not as far in them as we might be. ————— Motor Thieving. tice. The radio permits an immediate | repulsive to men. broadcasting of information in all di-|all women is another question. Women rectlons. A single message transmitted | have been courageous from Washington, for example, reaches | civic responsibilities and are likely not only all police officials in every | in most instances to be no less fearless States senator was the man who 88 (qnq fn Massachusetts at least 1,200 governor had expressed & wish t0 8€e | .arg of the same kind are in use. It has long been evident that the motor thieves operating in different cities were under some sort of central the ocean, and the rum runners are | cuiqance, or at least that they knew doing their best to bring that condl-| well how'to dispose of their plunder. ‘While some motor thefts are doubt- It is & remirkable situation, there | oes sporadic cases induced by oppor- and elsewhere. Prohibition is the 18 | yunitv and sudden impulse, plainly & of the land, and yet, in this open Way | majority of the cars stolen have been and in other open ways, it is being|igpen for vending to a “fence” con- mocked. Great sums of money are in-| g,oteq hy shrewd and resourceful peo- vested for lawless purposes, and great | pjo The gevice of changing the dis- sums made from the investments. NO | gy iehine niarys and numbers has legitimate business is yielding Profits | poen suspected, but until now it was not known just where and how' this ‘was done, Fifty dollars’ worth of work on a stolen car can render it almost undistinguishable. While the owner may know it through the “feel” of the engine and other intimate signs, even as a mother knows her child. it is difficult to prove property when all the “The “long arm of the law” may be | formal tokens of identity have been increased in length by the radio. This | obliterated. This trade in stolen motors is cost- posal of a “wireless net” over the en-|ing the people of this country millions tire country for the arrest of desperate | of dollars annually, Motor insurance criminals by the police of all cities | companies, which has just been advanced {rom [theft as well as damage, have been Detroit. Maj. Sullivan, superintendent | conducting & vigorous campalgn of of police here, has been consulted and | research and detection, and there is issuing policies against hope now that the center of the traffic At present the telegraph and the | has been discovered, and that this in- dustry of car stealing will be effective. pursuit, even as formerly the mails |1y checked. Capital punishment for women is ‘Whether it is so to in assuming in demanding that punishments legal- come thereby informed of the requisi- |1y incurred shall not be walved out of tion for arrest. Possibly in this latter | deference to their sex. R An effart to maintain French tradl- to the criminals them-|tions for politeness is evident in the selves or their friends or others who | reparations note to Germany. The ef- are beyond the pale of law and have a | fort is, in fact, too evident to seem sympathetic feeling for all those Who | spontaneous. Turkey sees no reason for courts to adjudicate rights of foreigners, assum- ing there can be no circumstances in which foreigners had any rights in the first place. ‘Will Hays, in permitting the picture producers to designate him a ‘“dic- tator,” accepted a title which is pre earious in every human relationship. If the numerous processes of mental healing all prove effective the drug stores will not need to sell much be- sides picture cards and soda water, Dr. Coue chosé about the only large and influential country on the world map that seemed eligible to a serene, contemplative state of mind. In spite of the fact that President { Ebert holds the position of highest political authority, Hugo Stinnes has most of the influence. There are far more vicious offenders against the law, but the violator of motor regulations is the one who gets caught first and oftenest. Liloyd Gecrge was correct in predict. ing trouble, although there is nothing to suggest that he could have prevent- ed most of it had he remained in office. Total abstinence as a religious and political obligation does not prevent the Turk from occasionally becoming drunk with power. The two leading democracies in Europe are making little headway toward harmony in promoting their political ideals. Remarks by Dr. Coue are reassur- place there. A fear prevalls that war {ing. Europe should be persuaded to make a special study of the prineiples he lays down. Among the many great objections to war, the greatest is that it is con- tagious. SHOOTING STARS. ’ BY PHILANDER JOHNSOX. Current Literature. Granddad says that long ago, ‘When he was a studious kid, It was rather nice to know ‘What the great world said and did. Now and then the papers brought Various items touching crime, mentative might have been better. | But they did not turn your thought To such doings all the time. Had a yacht race now and then, Or a celebration grand; Great orations by big men And sweet music by the band. Then the underworld obscure Did not spoil light-hearted glee— Granddad says that literature TIs not what it used to be. Prudent Quietude. “What are your constituents saying { about your record in Congress?” | Five men have been arrested a!‘ Bridgeport. Conn., being agents of a gang of automobile thieves in New York. It is belleved that an immense business is being done in the disposal of stolen cars, and an estimate has been made that plifered machines have been shipped out of New York lately at the rate of thirty a day. The Bridgeport men, it is charged, have been engaged in the work of altering the distinguishing marks on the machines. By means of acids and dyes all numbers on the motor parts are obliterated and trans- formed, so that it is very difficult to identify a machine thus treated, ‘Nothing, ghum. “Haven't you been able to interest them?” “Fve done better than that. I've avoid- ed attracting the attention of friends in @‘manner that will simply wake up my enemies.” Jud Tunkins says he can't tell by the sound whether the cook is break- ing dishes or his boy is practicing for his jazz orchestra. The Oyster. replied Senator Sor- on @ charge ofimye gygter in his silent shell Resides alone in dumb content, And finds it comforting to dwell ‘Where no one bothers him for rent. Utility. “Radio will displace the telegraph.” “Not entirely,” said Cactus Joe. “Radio may suffice for conversation, but when the posse catches a hoss thief there's nothin’ ‘'so hendy es e telegraph pole.” “Never imagine,” said Uncle Eben, “dat you kin git so "“ don’t STAR, WASHINGTO! Washington BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Quite apart from his official status, | no man in the United States has a | deeper personal interest in events of the moment than Dr. Otto Wiedfeldt, the German ambassador at Washing- ton. Previous to his entry into the diplomatic service Dr. Wiedfeldt was & director of the Krupp works and restded at Essen, the center of the new French occupational movement in the Ruhr. Probably by this time the former Wiedfeldt mansion is serv- ing as a billet for officers of the French “mission of control.” It will be particularly interesting to learn whether Villa Hugel, the Krupp an- | cestral castle on the outskirts of Es- sen, has been commandeered by the French for residential purposes. It is the home of Frau Bertha Krupp von Bohlen, the “cannon queen after whom ‘the “Big Bertha” that rained ruln on Paris from a range of seven- ty-five miles was named. Frau Krupp von Bohlen was*married at Villa Hu- gel in the presence of the kaiser in October, 1906. £ixiw ¥ President Harding and Secretary Hughes received their latest authentic reports of German economlc condi- tions from Jeremiah W. Jenks. For- merly professor of political economy at Cornell and now director of the division of oriental commerce and politics at New York University, Dr. Jenks is probably America’s most ver- satlle authority on world economics. He returned from Burope in Decem- ber, after serving on'a commission of international experts invited by Ger- many to study her financial situation and recommend a way out of the tan- gle. John Maynard Keynes was the British member of the commission. Dr. Jenks was in Washington recent- 1y and communicated unoffictally with government authorities Interested in the reparations crisis. The commis- sion report, in which the American economist concurred, mdvocated a (,erm_fln moratorium of two ¥ 'S both*for cash payments and deliver- fes in kind. Upon the granting of such a moratorfum, the commission thought, it would be feasible to_sta- bilize the German mark on the basis of about 3,600 marks to the dollar. through the use of the Reichsbank's gold reserve. * % ¥ ¥ One of the most distinguished Brit- ishers ever to set foot on the soil of Washington tarried there incognito a fortnight ago under the auspices of Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury. He was none other than Thomas Gainsborough's celebrated “Blue Boy,” who recently passed into the possession of the California col- | lector, Henry E. Huntington, at a price approximating $1,000,000. En route from its recent owner, the Duke of Westminstet, to its future domicile at the Golden Gate, the painting was loaned to Secretary Mellon, a pas- sfonate art connofsseur, for a week | end. “The Blue Boy,” ensconced in | the drawing room of the beautiful | Mellon apartment in Massachusetts avenue, received the homage of a se lect and privileged company of Wash ington picture lovers. Mr. Mellon himself “sat before the celebrated Gainsborough for hours in transfixed | admiration. * *x % % There is sadness in the Washin, ton diplomatic corps over the sudden | death In Greece of Jonkheer William | H. K. de Beaufort, until March, 1922, | & popular official of the Dutch leg: jof his “back from Elba’ D. Observations tion in the United States. do Beaufort ended a fine career at ‘Washington, extending over ten years, by serving as one of the Netherlands’ delegates at the conference on far eastern problems, No forelg: identified himself more successfully with American life and customs. So- ciety man, athlete and all-around good fellow, de Beaufort's statuesque figure was long famillar in the cap- ital. He was raised to the rank of minister to Athens while still on the sunny side of forty, and looked for- ward to a distinguished carcer in Dutch politics. The jonkheer was a cousin of the Washington confer- ence beauty, Mme, de With. £ x¥e King Constantine of Greece, who has just dled in exile, shrank from publicity with the coyness of an Amerlcan politiclan, He had a spe- cial fondness for American news- paper men, and “cultivated” them as- sidiously during the period of his first banishment in Switzerland, two or three vears ago. When “Tino" re- turned to Athens, rehabllitated, aboard a Greek battleship from Brindisi he insisted upon taking with him all the American and European correspondents he could drum up, in order that they might adequately brogdcast to the universe the story expedition. Constantine was so delighted with the services of one American scribe in particular, Paxton Hibben, a kins- man of the president of Princeton, that “Tino” named a street after him in Athens. * x ok K The President and Mrs. Harding are planning upon spending at least three weeks at the McLean villa in Palm Beach in March. All depends upon Mrs. Harding's recuperative progress in the meantime. She still lives for the most part the life of a wheel-chair invalid, but it is not an inactive life, for she insists upon “motoring” about the White House with conslderable vigor In order per- sonally to superintend affairs, When some particularly favored guest is at the executive mansion he is accord- ed the privilege of relieving the first lady’s regular attendant and piloting the “boardwalk car.” * k% % One of the features of the new Hotel President, adjacent to the House office building, will be automatic bells connected with Serate and House for | summoning members to roll calls. There also will be a subteranean tun- nel leading to the Capitol and to the Senate and House office buildings. As an up-to-date touch, the ho will contain a gnovie theater for the exclusive projeftion of films of “legis- lative interest. * ok ok % Ernest Abbott, editor of The Out- look, is giving the Washington poli- tical situation a microscopic inspec- tion. He says the one regret of his life is that he didn't follow in the footsteps of his celebrated father, the late Lyman Abbott,- and learn law Before practicing journalism. Fol- lowing the civil war both Lyman Ab- bott and his brother were active at- | torneys in New York city. The for- mer always attributed his knowl- edge of “life” to the experiences he encountered while pursuing evidence in .defense of libel actions brought agalnst a famous New York news- paper. opsright, 1923) EDITORIAL DIGEST Entente Break Causes Forebodings. The bresk at Parls, when the Brit- ish premier withdrew after refusing to mccept the program of France for dealing with Germany, has caused a general feeling of pessimism In edi- torial circles. Failure to agree nat- urally endangers the future rela- tions of England and France, but there is a voiced hope that the good sense of the chiefs of both countries will yet find a way whereby a new European line-up will not become necessary. The situation, however, s conceded to remain most dangerous, and a single false step might spell ruin to the world. Dissolution of the entente compels the observation from the Baltimore News that “it is a sign that it is not practicable. It has not always worked for good by any means, but its disappearance would work a very definite evil. . The entente could be {led to rash common adventure, but | there can be no unity for correction jof mistakes made in common.” The | Springfield Union inclines to the opin- {ion that the break “may clear the air and bring the really vital ques- tions involved to the front in such {a way that the ipfluence of the United States may be brought to bear upon the situatio It is the ver- dict of the Springfleld Republican, however, that unless the United Stat ‘were to assure France that it would put all of its power back of & new reparations settlement, re- vised downward drastically in ac- cordance with Germany's capacity to pay without being ruined” the crisis cannot be ended, and it is convinced no such solution is to be had. Yet, while the collapse naturally “threat- ens a crisis,” the York Post points out, it “has not precipitated a crisi 5o that “the opportunity lies open for the mobilization of our good serv- ices, i only we have the will” Likewise there is no occasion for alarm at the moment, as the Roanoke World News sees it, and, after re- viewing the developments In great detall, It suggests that “there never has been a situation to which the say- ing, ‘Time will tell’ was more appli- cable than now existing.” The Rich- mond Times-Dispatch holds that “it is reasonably clear that France is drifting toward a step the nature of which fully justifies all of M. Poin- care's ‘great anxietles’” Occupation of“(hie Ruhr, the Boston Globe is con- vinced, spells danger “not to Ger- many alone, but France; and not to France and Germany alone, but all Europe and Amerjca. For the finan- cial and economic solidarity of the world affairs rest upon delicate ad- justments of credit; and to add Ger. many and France to the list now com- prising Russia and Austria would quickly upset the whole. “There “ought not to be any mistake about what the decision means, the opinion of the New York World, because “Great Britain and America now are neutral as between France and Germany. It means that any German disorder that may be provok- od is France's affair, with such as- sistance as she can obtain from Bel- fum and the redoubtable Mussolini. t may mean the end of all repara- tions out of if German o Gloomy France. But it may mean even worse things than that. for the policy of Poincare is, in perfectly plain lan- guage, the policy of another France- erman war. About that Great Brit- ain and America will inevitably have something to say. They will say ft, as M. Poincare, no doubt, understands, not as the allies of France, but as two world powers vitally concerned in the peace of the fyorld, ~France ving chosen to taRe a fre their hands are also frear c° Nn%: Accepting this as the summary of the situation, and agreeing to the ex- treme gravity of the outlook, the Knoxville Sentinel see ope in the adage that “the darke: hour is just before the dswn. Ope timism S wiser and more profitable than pessimism. It is better to hope than to give way to the suggestions of despair. Let us hope therefore that something will yet occur or be done to save us from the worst conse- quences of this situation.” Inasmuch as both premiers voiced their mutual friendship, even after differences in policy forced the break, the Asheville Times feels “in such an atmosphere it should not be impossible to effect some compromise that would be rea- sonably satisfactory to both coun- {ries and that would save the world rom a serlous crisis.” Support of Italy and Belgium was “the’ tramp card,” the Boston Transcript holds, and indicates the strength of France, which “already influences in no small degree the policies of the little en- tente. The break with Great Britain leaves France for the time being the leading figure on the diplomatic chess- board of the continent. Even though she has no warlike intentions against any of her neighbors, the position is one that is not without peril. For M. Poincare and his associates the mo- ment is one that carries great re- sponsibilities.” “Which has the better understand- ing of German psychology no one can answer_postively” says the Newark News, “but in adventuring upon the course she has chosen France takes a great responsibility and may make the situation a great deal worse in- stead of improving it. The easiest | way for those who question the wis- 'dom of France's policy is to take a pessimistic view, which may easily exceed all warrant; for France is not so rash as it sometimes appears. She is going into the thing after studying it from all sides, and there is every reason to belieye that she will pro- ceed moderately, experimentally, and with ‘an avenue of retreat open in case she finds this method threatens disaster.” The %ery fact that this short-lived conference developed that both France and Great Britain were willing to reduce the amount of the German, . debt “is encouraging at least” the Chicago News says, and while France may “use forcé to ef- fect guarantees she will seek in every way to make the movement appear economic rather than militaristic. Comes to Defense of French Attitude To the Editor of The Star: 1t was refreshing to read the article in The Star of January 8, by E. M. Cushing, showing that there is one individual in the United States who has real sympathy for France, one who can envisage her point of view sufficiently to realize what France has suffered, what she has been deprived of and her needs of today in order to regain normalcy; one who upholds her in taking supreme measures “to enforce the collection of reparations to which she is entitled, and which Germany, under the treaty, agreed to_pa: Since the war we have all become Shylocks, interested chiefly in. de- manding her last penny of prineipal and interest on our debt. ‘What has become of the lofty sentiments and {deals which prompt- ed our entrance into the war? They mz-*m h:v‘z been cast aside and bee, prT. uns) condif 0, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1923. Key Mansigpn Remains Report of “Razing” Historic Georgetown Home Is Denied. To the Editor of The Sta There seems to be & wrong impres- Jonkheer | 8lon gaining ground now that the re- naming of the new bridge across the Potomac at Georgetown is being agitated—to the effect that the old home of my grandfather, Francis Scott Key, located at the Georgetown end of the new bridge, has been de- molished. “Now razed” and “site of Key mansion” is the way my grand-; father’s home is alluded to in a re- cently published District of Columbia | D. A. R. historical girectory. These terms are entirely wrong and mis- leading. old house for thirty years of his mar- ried life; it was his home at the time of the writing of “The Star Spangled | Banner”; all of his children (eleven in number, including my own father, who was the youngest son), were born in the “Key mansion.” Living in Washington, T have, of course, been familiar with the condition of the old family home, and was deeply inter- ested in the efforts made by a patri- otic committee headed by Admiral George Dewey to save the house for the American people. This project failed, for lack of funds, and the house was remodeled in 1913 for busi- ness purposes. The contractor who signed statement to this effect—that the house is st the front wall ‘was removed and the attle leveled to a flat roof for the sec- ond story. The law office adjoining, which was used by my grandfather, was built up an additional story and also changed into a business property. Much of the home remains, however floors, partitions, windows and th basement, where the dining room was located. The condition, therefore, of the “old Key home" is that described in “the short but simple annals” of many historic homes of Washington, “remodeled for business purposes.” MARY TAYLOE KEY McBLAIR. Ruling Evokes Protest’ Writer Would Have Those Now on Retired List Get Increase. To the Editor of The St: The recommendation of the board of actuaries (as reported in your valu- able columns on Tuesday, in regard to an increase in the amount now paid as an annuity to civir retired em- ployes) exempting from the benefits of the proposed increase those now on the retired list has already caused much discussion and amazement among those who have been unfortu- nately compelled Involuntarily, be- cause of age, to leave the government service during the past two years. Upon what grounds is this grossl unjust discrimination based? Why should not the comparatively few now in enforced retirement, after a faith- ful service of thirty or more vears, to perform the duties required of them, be entitled to share in the much- needed additional pittance to be doled out In future from their own monthly contribution? The proposition is simply incom- prehensible and it is unbelievable that the sense of justice and generosity among our national lawmakers will sanction ft. utter inadequacy of the amount now paid to eke out hardly a decent, not to say comfortable, living, particuiarly by those who have dependents, would be an almost unpardonable cruelty. It has been clearly established over and over again that in this era of the high cost of living .from $30 to 1$60 a month is not suffftient to obtain the necessaries of life. It must be remembered, too, that the increase that {s now asked and that is so eagerly and anxfously awaited by ail {concerned does not come out of the |government exchequer, but out of the contfibution of 2% per cent of the employes’ salaries. In view of these facts it is the sense of the many interested that a vigorous protest be made against the {denial of those now on the retired list from particjpation in the pro- d increase. e A CHARLES F. KREH. |Problems of British Taxation Explained To the Editor of The Sta about to visit the United Kingdom, to know the extremely complicated and technical character of the law relating to tax liability In order that they may avold pitfalls. Thus a person having a residence in England to which he can return at any-time he wishes is liable to tax on the whole of his remittances home for any tax year he visits the United Kingdom. A .common instance is a man whose wife resides in England. For any tax year In which he does not visit the United Kingdom at all he has no tax to pay whatever so far as remittances home are concerned out of his foreign and colonial in- come, but if he spends a day in Eng- | land he is caught for the whole year. | On the other hand, a man who has no residence in the United Kingdom can spend any time there less than six months without incurring any | tax liability on colonial or foreign in- | come whether remitted or not. i It is not known as much as it should be among non-residents that they are free from British tax on for- eign and colonial income, even if it happens to be pald in the United [ Kingdom, and on most of the war loan stocks. If the tax should be de- ducted it can generally be recovered full. I o that all non-resident British subjects and a few other persons can get some kind of relief in regard to fncome from which British tax is de- ducted, the amount depending upon the proportion their total income from all sources bears to the British part of it. CHAS. H. TOLLEY. Claims Washington Ignorantly Lighted To the Editor of The Star: 1 have been reading your articles on street lighting in The Star. I have been in the lighting game for the past thirty years, and have always wondered why Washington was the worst lighted city in the United States. I made this remark to an official of the Potomac Electric Power Company, and he answered my remark by saying ‘“Absolutely.” 1 asked him why they used the opal glass in city lights. His answer was, “Government specifications.’ Said I, ‘Don’t you know this glass destroys 60 per cent of the light?” He answer- ed by saying, “Seventy per cent when they are dirty, which they are most of the time.” . For the amount of money paid ‘Washington gets less light than any city in the United States. The answer is “Ignorance.” A. M. McALLISTER. Scores Viaduct Lighting To the Editor of The Sts While investigating the question of the city’s lighting, would it not be well to Inquire why the lights in the viaduct, or tunnel, of K street north- east are lighted at 4 o'clock in the evening sometimes put out, as prative t 5:30, My grandfather lived in this | did_the work has recently given a ! Il standing, that only | and still physically and mentaily fit! To do so, in view of the| Tt will probably interest your read- ers, especially such of them as are| |Youth Played Chivalrous Role In Mountain Battle for Girl — ‘Washington is awaking to discover that what statesmen have been call- ing by the jawbreaking name “propa- ganda” s just plain, old-fashioned advertising. The Advertising Commis- sion of the Associated Adver- tising Clubs of America—the em- bodiment of all that is wise and expert and full of knowledge In pub- licity—has come here to tell each other and “tell the world” that the | sreatest of the graces is advertising. And, as if to echo their doctrines, today's cable from London tells of the forced sale of a famous old shoe- blacking manufacturing establish- ment in that metropolls. Day & Martin—made famous by Dickens in his novels. The sole cause of the fall- ure was that it had refused to ad- vertise. That is the statement of its general manager. He declares that its stockholders were opposed to spend- ing anything for advertising, and now the business has dwindled, though he believes it could yet be resurrected by judicious publicity. It is getting publicity through its mon- strous failure to comprehend that an advertisement in a Dickens novel a century ago {s not sufficlently alive for present-day profits. * ¥ ok % The shoe blacking is just as good today as it was in the time of Dickens. | It makes the leather soft, it makes it black, it gives it a mirror-like polish, and there is n6 other blacking that is better. But today’s population does not get its information of shoe polish from novels a century old; the peo- ple of today read the newspapers and magazines. The most egregious blunder made by Ralph Waldo Emerson in his es- says was that in which he announced that all that was necessary to win success was to produce something a little better than anybody else pro- {duced, and, though you' hid yourself in the midst of a wilderness, the world would soon make a beaten path to your retreat. Not only did he theo- rize that advertising was unneces- i sary, but he believed that merit, like virtue, s its own reward—its own guarantee of success. That is all that a last century New England philoso- pher knew about business. Today's bootblack might enlighten him. if questioned as to why he shines shoes with some other make of blacking than Day & Martin's. The boot- black would laugh at the notion that a blacking he had never heard of was good, simply because a novel he had never read had said so. a hun dred vears ago. But the smug British stockholdars “knew that what was good enough for their fathers wa bally good to the end of the world.’ The British worship antiquity, almost ith orlental faith. Hence, in thi case, the forced sale of the good name and the lost fame are wholly attrib- {uted by its dicapped manager to |1ack of modern advertising. *ixik There used to be a good deal of that sort of “conservatism” even in America, but not so much in recent decades. The firm with the Day & | Martin blindness “goes to the dick- ens” long before a century, in on- ward-pushing eompetition. The best advertised man in Amer- fet today is a Frenchman—Coue—but he has the secret which underlies success in all advertising. Coue tells us that the strongest motive in hu- man_life is imagination, and he is right. The advertisement stimulates imagination in the reader—incites, through that imagination, a vision of delight or longing to get whatever is advertised. Every veritsement can be subjected to just that test. It may contain a world of facts and a logical argument and an exact draught of all the mechanism of the thing advertised, but if it lacks that appeal to the human imagination to create the desire to ppssess what is advertised it is dead. ue himself demonstrates that prin- Wple by avoiding details of how his formula works, while he excites won- der and interest and craving for its results. There Is no difference, then. between the psychology of selling {shoe polish or selling health—it is all in exciting wholesome vision of power to_accomplish, with what is {offered. That comes only by telling— | by reiteration—by “letting vour light so shine that men seeing your good nt the same power. Then they “bu: * k k% Advertising is not a mere trick of Those brave and bold days of vore when valliant men fought for lady fair and bore oft the charming damsel to their own domain had no far-off glamour in the young life of John i o Quillin Tilson, be- i ~ause he himself 1 was the hero in fust such an es. successful ad-: -apade in the Tennessee mount- ains when he was *hivalrous fifteen. And now for many | years the charm- ing maiden has been the wife of another man. Representative Tilson has served in one war and a near-war. During the war with Spain he ,was second lieutenant in the 6thi United States Volunteer In- fantry. From the end of the Spanish war to November 8, 1916, he served lin the 2a Connecticut Infantry. He i responded to the call of the Presi- {dent on June 20, 1916, and was {lieutenant colonel in command of his iregiment on the Mexican border. Each time he expected to see actual | fighting, but though_ double a vet- eran he was never under fire except as noted above. There is @ “wart” sticking out on { the boundary line of Tennessee, pro- {truding over into North Carolina. That “wart” is mountainous region out by five parallel valleys—and it is [ historic entirely aside from the fact that Tilson was born there in a log cabin, when moonshine was really made from good corn. The neck of this “wart” was like the pass of Ther- mopylae, when, during the ¢ivil war |the northern troops, under Birn- !side came up the valley from Knox- ville and were spreading into North Carolina. They found this' pass | blocked by a barricade of southrons. So much for background, and now to REP, TILSON. | Tilson's tale: He dwelt in Central valley, where for several years they had had schools, and where the boys and girls were beginning to Consider them- selves in the highbrow class because they were mastering the elemlents of primary arithmetic, and some of them were in the fifth grade. In & neigh- boring valley, called “Sodom,” it was the boast of the cotemporary youth Reihts CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V, COLLINS. modern business; it is not modern « all. It is the underlying principle of the churches in doing missionary work: “Go ye into all the world ani preach my ‘Gospel” means “God’s spell’ 1. e., “story.” It is de fined sometimes as ‘‘good tidings. but the original Anglo-Saxon, fron which our word comes, was “God's spell.” Yet in spite of that Injunc tion the churches have only recenti: taken hold of the power of tellini the world the story or tidings as | is now doing through even the art that was onee believed to belonged to the devil—printing. Should men light a candle and hide it under bushel? Emerson’s philosophy was that they should do that stupld ac! Day & Martin did it. The successors of Day & Martin will set thelr polish on a stick at “top of column, next to pure reading matter,” that it may rival Liberty Enlightening the Worid * % ok ¥ There is no more scientific art that the art are of advertising, and Wash ington has meceived new inspiratior from its visitors, the experts of that art. * ¥ ¥ ¥ Senator James Reed of Missour! has introduced an issue.in Congres: which seems likely to start some thing. In his resolution asking ou: State Department to sound out Eng- land and France as to whether they would be willing to consider nego- tiations to sell to us their holding- of fslands in the Carribean sea, as part payment of their debts to us There will be much to be said or both sides of that interesting propc sitlon. On one side there will be sharges of a policy of imperialistic tendencies, and on_ the other side we shall hear all about the Monrc« Doctrine and the history of how often the friendly relations be tween nations last only a generation to be reversed by the followinc generation, and war ensued. This principle has been demonstrated bs our close alllance with France dur- ing_the revolution, followed by war in 1795, and the generation of dis putes of the spoilation claims grow ing out of that war. In the e=am. manner we were at peace with Eng land in 1783, only to be at logge: heads again with & dozen vears and at war again a quarter of a cen tury fter the peace of Yorktown. The Monroe doctrine came near causing war between us and France. Spain and Austria over Maximilian's tenure on the throne of Mexico after Ithe close of our civil war, and it brought from President Cleveland an ultimatum of war against England over Venezuela only twenty-five years ago. ‘We are on friendly terms with al European nations today, but what will tomorrow hold? That is the line of argument for the peaceful purchase iof islands close to our shores and dominating the Panama canal and the mouth of the Mississippi river, as well as Atlantic ports. What the republicans, or other democrats, will answer to that propesition of pur- chase of the islands remains to be heard, for the whole matter came to the Senate without warning. There can be no compulsion about the negotiations. It is not taking the islands rather than lose the debt for neither England nor France will repudiate their obligations, but there are hopes that the purchase might be so negotiated as to be of mutual advantage. | { * ¥ R ¥ There are speeial benefits to derived through calling in a doct to feel the pulse of a government department. Ever since Dr. Work became Postmaster General the em- ploves' have been feeling better Maybe it has been due to their in aginations, but now it is planned to glve all the post office employe throughout the country tangible rea sons for feeling better; all are to b vaccinated for smallpex, typhold anc paratyphold. It is just like going into the Army again, and they won't come back—to work—-"till it'’s over. over there"—wherever the 330,000 vaccinated arms happen to be. If that is wise treatment 330,000 government employes, it equally wise for all civillans. We grow careless even though we know that the value and safety of vaccina- tion have been scientifically demon- strated, so_that they are no longer debatable. ‘The free inoculations of the post office employes are not com- pulsory, but are reccmmended, and provision has been made through the Unfted States public health service to give the inoculations. be 1 valley and rented some Tilson's father. His name may have been Hensley, but that makes no never mind, because he {s_merel: serving here as a “John Doe" i« bring the case into court. This m &rew a corn crop and then arranged for a “corn shockin'” (mark you, it wasn't 2 husking bee, as they wouli say in New England, where Tilsor | has spent his maturer vears). To this | “corn_shockin' " he iavited his old | pals from Sodom as well as his new | friends, the educated voung men of ;Central valley. With the Sodomites | came his sister Mary, who, like Eve | started all the trouble. Having a brother in school in Ce: tral valley, Mary's allegiance was di { vided. During the shockin' such a di | vergence of opinion sprang up be {tween the Central valleyites, proud of their scholastic attainments, and the Sodomites, equally proud of the fact that they were getting alone without book iarnin’, that the forme: decided to withdraw 'their culture a finish the party at the home of Ti son’s father. The S8odom visitors h: no objection at all to this—in fa encouraged it—until they learne« that it was part of the plan to take Mary along. Then they {ssued & ultimatum. In view of the fact that they were going to the log-cabin domicile Tilson's father, this strapping you was picked to be Mary's escort, whil« the others were to deploy as a real guard. It was a pitch-black night with no electric street lights to aid the gunmen, for in those days ir the primitive country these youns men_all_carried revolvers, and mos of the Sodomites also carried squir rel rifles. With Tilson making a strategio re treat with the girl. the maddene: Sodom swains opened fire from secu rity behind stumps and trees and out- buildings and corneribs. The learned young men from Central valiey werc not too proud to fight. Far from it They fired back vallantly from behind worm tences and shocks of corn. Looking back today Tilson, from his military experience, says that the proper tactics would have been a rear guard action until he and the girl got Gut of range, but there were tw principal obstacles to this. First, the girl herself was unwilling to leave the fight which she rather enjoyed, since she was the admired cause of the fra :nd, second, Tilson himself want- ed to stay with his schoolmates and fight it out. Under this policy the battle contin- ued for some time, until several hun- dred shots had been exchanged. Torn ‘twixt love of the fight and duty to get the girl to & place of safety, Til- son finally tore himse®f away and hus- tled the damsel to his father’s home a log cabin fortress. When their am- munition was exhausted the gunme:n of the rival valleys stopped ting for good and sufficient reason. Mary had coms to Central valley t stay, and Tilson knew her well for many “years—until he journeyed to Yale in_quest of more advanced “book Jarnin’ "—and Mary gave her heart to B ~reminiscent o Sk land from