Evening Star Newspaper, January 13, 1923, Page 6

rg ™ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO} THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY....January 13, 1823 THEODORE W. NOYES...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office. 11th 8t. and Pennsylvania Ave, New York Office; 150 Nassau 8 ofice: Tower Bullding, 18 Regent St., London, England. The Breninz Star. with the Sundey mofsing 4ition, Is delivered by carriers within the eity at 60 cents per month: daily only. 43 cents per month: Sunday only, 20 cents per month. ders be weat by mail or telephor 5 tion is made by carrlers month 5 the end of e Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..] yr., $5.40; 1 mo., T0c Daily onl $6.00; 1 m Sunday oniy $2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ All Other States. Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 85¢ Daily only, T 00; 1 mo., 80¢ .00; 1 mo., 25¢ Member of the Associated Press. exclusively entitied me for- repubiication of rediied to it or not othe v and als the local news p All “rights of publication of “lies hereln are also reserved. patches in this pa France Gets a Moratorium. Decision of the reparations commis- many until February the 500,000,000 gold marks Monday on reparations ac- count is apparently a wmoratorium in the interest of the Paris rather than of the Berlin government. As Ger- many cannot pay the half-billion marks either on January 15 or Febru- ary 1, it manifestly is of no great con- cern to her, now that the Ruhr has been occupied by French troops, when the default is declared. But France Las her bands so full just now with the Ruhr adventure that she is not cager to have a new complication to deal with. It is indicated that during the re- maining weeks of January an effort will be made to reach some sort of an adjustment of cash reparations. It is suggested that France will propose a conterence on the subject, to which the United States would be invited, and that the object would be to work out conditions under which a two- year moratorium would be granted. Whether such a conference would be productive of results may reasonably be doubted. With the sftuation as it stands, it is to be taken for granted that terms for a moratorium would he such terms as were satisfactory to ‘rance, and that about all the part eat Britain and the United States would play would be either to sign on the dotted line or to refuse to sign. Now that the French government has undertaken to go it alone in the col- lection of reparations, the French peo- ple are not likely to be satisfied with anything short of a thorough try-out of that program. If reconcilement of French and British views was impos- sible at the premiers’ conference at the beginning of January it will be impossible at any conference likely to be held soon. No concealment is made in Paris of the fact that the German policy of “passive resistance” is giving the French government serious concern. 1t is beginning to be realized that France is not equipped to operate at maximum capacity the great indus- tries of the Ruhr, and unless there is such maximum operation this particu lar “productive guarantee” promises 1o be a water haul so far as produc- tivity is concerned. Failure of the Rubr venture would be humiliating to France, but it ought to be made plain by all the allied and associated powers that Germany will not be per-| mitted to profit by such fallure. If some other method of collecting repa- rations has to be decided upon, it will not be @ method that will exact from Germany less than the full amount which is within her capacity to pay. Disclosure that France has made a mistake will not be accepted as a res son why France should have less than the fullest possible justic slon to give ¢ 1 due to pay nest i A New Boom. The Ralston boom is in evidence— modestly, of course, as becomes a be- | ginner, The elect from Indiana may | count upon a degree of interest for | two reasons. He is a new man in the national field. Curiosity will run, therefore, as to what sort of man he is; his record in local politics; his tastes; his characteristics. Discussion of him will be a change from discus- sions of Cox and McAdoo and Smith nd others. all of whom have been pretty thoroughly discussed. He makes appeal to interest. too, as the man who defeated Beveridge. He was the surprise of last year. His| election not tipped by anybody, in | any quai on either side. The suc- cess of Beveridge was claimed con-| fidently by the republic nd almost conceded by the democrats, on the score of the former senator's elo- quence, and the crowds that gathered at all of his appointments. And yet when the votes were counted Ralston led the famous orator by a large ma- Jority. He proved to be a husky vote- ter. ; nd then Indiana is an interesting state. She is no stranger in & presi- dentjal equation. Only Ohio among the middle commonwealths tops her in ombgilist of sons who have been can- vassed in connection with presidential ““¥omiinations, For half a century at the national conventions of both parties Indianians have played prominent parts: and the stock has probably not run out. Intensive politics has always been the rule on the Wabasgh. i er International law has not been able es yvet to put any nation under bond | 10 keep the peace. Parks and Public Buildings. Yesterday, it is announced, the cab- inet discussed plans for the develop- ment of Washington proposed and ap- proved by the Fine Arts Commission, @nd it is stated these projects were ap- proved with enthusiasm. The Presi- dent and his advisers were warm in their approbation of these plans, which have been formulated for several years, and have been held in abeyance for lack of a suitable Treasury condi- tion for their undertaking. These projects, which include the “development of the Mall of Poto- - { bitter the facts were not widely ad- the great triangle between the Mall and Pennsylvania avenue, are closely assoclated with the government’s pub- lic building program latel§" reported upon by a commission. Indeed, the two plans should be co-ordinated, and there is at present prospect that this will be the case. The other day The Star pointed out that it is poor economy for the gov- ernment to postpone actual building construction on the ground of Treas- ury stringeney, for its rent bill, now between five and six hundred thousand dollars ehnually, stands as a most un- economical capital charge. The time to cut losses {s the time of tight money, and this rent outlay is a loss. True economy calls for expenditure. 1t may be well to wait a little longer for the beginning of the development projects contemplated, but the bulld- ings that the government urgently re- quires should be undertaken now. Yesterday's cabinet session on the park development plan doubtless in- cluded consideration of the very grave building needs of the federal service. It is indicated that disapproval was expressed of the passage of an omnibus public buildings bill at this session, but that should not preclude a vote authorizing the first steps toward carrying out the plans recommended by the Public Bulldings Commission as the first stage of the great work of giving the government a suitable equipment for doing its business. ———— Fourteenth Street Extension. Action by the House District com- mittee favorable to the bill to extend 14th street should increase the chance of that measure, previously passed by the Senate, to be enacted finally at this session. It has already been de- layed serfously, and the possibility of further postponement ciuses appre- hension. If not passed by the House at this session the bill dies, and all the work now accomplished must be done over again in the next Congress, In favor of this proposal is a large body of public opinion, expressed re- cently before the House cofmittee. Some objections have been raised, but they have not weighed in the balance against the urgent reasons edvanced for the extension of the street, permit- ting an extension of the car line to give & large, rapidly growing popula- tion traction facllities. The most merious cbstacle to this improvement was that of the War De- partment’s opposition originally on the score of the possible Injury to its in- terests at Walter Reed Hospital,} through the grounds of which the | street will have to be cut. That op- position, however, has been with- drawn, and the War Department is supporting the street-extension bill on terms which assure the safety of the patients at the hospital. The improve- ment will, it is indeed believed, be ad- vantageous to that institution. The growth of Washington is so rapid toward the north that every practicable artery of traflic should be provided. The park areas to a large extent choke these natural lines of travel, and it {s urgent that every pos- sible avenue be afforded on the north and south lines. Fourteenth street ex- tended will give facllity to a great number of people who are now serious- 1y inconvenienced by the lack of trans- portation facilities. Patronage. President Wilson seemed to have fewer than the usual difficulties about | patronage. At any rate, the topic dur.! ing his eight years in the White House | occupied far less than the usual space | in the newspapers. True, during his | second term the war absorbed atten-! tion. But even during his first term, | when republicans were being displaced in numbers for democrats, the public heard little about the contests for the places. If they were numerous and i vertised; and there was no sulking on that score reported when Mr. Wilson came up for re-election. President Harding seems to be equal- 1y fortunate, It is nearly two years he began his distribution of of- displacing demoecrats for repub- licans, and yet no loud outery over his has at any time been ralsed. The places have not gone begging by | any means. Contests for many of them | have been staged, but were so well managed and satisfactorily settled no violent resentments resulted. Have Mr, Wilson and Mr. Harding { an unusual faculty as referees—fc cutting and distributing pie? Or have | methods of approach to the pie counter and of passing up platters been im-' proving of late years? Not so long ago a change of administration from : one party to the other almost oc-| casioned riots when ple-cutting be- gan: and columns of newspaper space | were devoted to claims and counter claims of those seeking presidential favor, and then to the wails el the disappointed. ———— Salem, Mass., does. not want Ku Kilux parades, even though & proces- sion i regarded as the most harmless form of demonstration a secret so- clety can undertake. —_—————— A phase of European controversy relates to the question of who shall be the coal barons of the Rhine. ————— France may dictate fashions for the ‘world, but not political poliele: ————————— Ruble Quotations, For a time after the smash-up in Russia started and the ruble began to fall, the people on this side of the wa- ter took a somewhat sporting interest in the fluctuations of Muscovite money, and quotations were watched rather closely. After a time, however, the ruble dropped out of the list in the foreign exchanges, which were clogged with marks and kronen at the point of almost infinitesimal expression. So for & long time there has been no real line on what a ruble is actually worth. Tt has become a sort of mythical mone- tary figure. A dispatch hes just come from Moscow, however, that for the first time in many months gives a clye to the current quotations, It says that the exchange has been jumping about at Moscow in extraordinary fashion. On the $th of January the doliar rose from 40,000,000 to 60,000,000 rubles, and this advance in dollars, ‘which meant e fall in rubles, was at- i into forelgn currency. Last Monday, however, there was a sharp drop in dollars, which has continued, and the latest quotation is 34,000,000 rubles to the dollar. Normally two rubles make & dollar—that {s, rubles of the old kind, not the rubles that have been lately printed in thousand-ton lots. Possibly there is a little hope for the ruble if it can recover in a few days from a quotation of 60,000,000 to 34,000,000 to the dollar. Another shift of 26,000,000 ‘woflld bring the ruble down to 8,000,- 000 to the dollar, which, while very far from the two-for-one ratio, would get the Russian unit somewhere within microscopic relationship. Park Plans That Cannot Wait. In dealing with certain kinds of pub- lic improvements it is possible with- out serious loss or injury to postpone action for the sake of Immediate econ- omy. Works of one kind can be de- ferred for a more favorable season, when money is more plentiful or when construction costs are lower. But in other matters immediate action is not only desirable but necessary. Of this kind is the proposition for the acquisi- tion of two tracts of land for park pur- poses in the District, the Klingle Ford and Piney Branch areas, purchase of which will gomplete the Rock Creek- Zoo park system and assure the pres- ervation of natural beautfes that will add greatly to the park attractions of the capital. Bullding operations are advancing upon these areas. Unless Congress makes provision for their purchase at once they will be lost forever, They lie in the immediate line of improve- ments and already encroachments have begun upon them. When the trees have been cut and the banks have been leveled and the hollows fille? and houses have been built it will be physically impossible ever to re. gain them. = The House appropriations commit- tee cut these items from the District bill, $150.000 for the acquisition of the Klingle Ford valley and $200,000 for the Piney Branch valley. To assure the addition of these areas to the park system it will be necessary for the Senate to adopt the two items and t6 hold them in the bill through the con- ference. If this is not done it seems to be assured that both will quickly pass out of the range of possible ac- quisition. The Next Congress. The best provision against an exua session of the next Congress will be the proper attention to business at the present regular session of the existin, Congress. not only of the routine, but of such other measures us are now in hand and on which the country is expecting action. There should be no left-overs. The new Congress is entitled 0 a clean slate. Enough will be written on it as time passes to take up its full atten- tion. Moreover, its first work—whether at an extra sessfon in the spring, or at the regular session next winter and later—will have a bearing on the presi dential campaign of 1924, and on that account should be done with delibera- tion. It should not have to divide tinie j With any other work. Sufficiert unto the session is the card thereof. So much for domestic matters. As for forelgn matters, they are on the knees of the gods. They cannot be forecast. What may take place in Eu- Tope or in the mear east, or in both quarters. in the coming months is any- body’s guess. The situation is ticklish, and may develop gravely. But if developments are su, force any sort of notice by this coun- try—and that means by Congress—it will be easy for the President to sum- mon that body. Uncle Sam has the first call on the legislators; and when- ever he needs their services they are his to command. Congress can be ase sembled in short order. —_————— Chicago packers do not want their profits inspected. There are phases of business in which it is considered in- delicate to brag. —_——— Present circumstances should leave Wilhelm Hohenzollern content to fig- ure as one of the lame ducks of Euro- pean royalty. as to At least one of the world lnxleli. L] has been eliminated. Nobody mentions the Island of Yap. SHOOTING STARS. 1Y PHILANDER JOHNSON. ‘The Thirteenth. Because I'm superstitious, 1 did no work today. The date was inauepicious, As many people say. ‘While we are contemplating The jinx’s subtle art, Each Friday finds me waiting For hoodoos to depart. Of course, for other reasons, On Sundays T must rest; And mind, throughout the seasons, Each holiday with zest. The days that are remaining In number are but small. I find myself complaining That I need work at all! The Artistically Ornate Negative. “A man in your position must learn to say ‘no.’ “Not exactly,” replied Senator Sor- ghum. “He must learn to say the equivalent of it in terms of eloquent and sympathetic circumlocution which will leave the constituent under the impression that he has received a fa- vor.” Jud Tunkins says machinery gets damaged in the hands of a driver who thinks it ain't runnin’ unless it squeaks and rattles. Solace From Science. The coal and the petroleum In time must all give out; And people will, when those days come, Have less to fight about. When Popularity Ceases. “Is a good loser popular?” ““He is,” replied Cactus Joe, “until the game is over and he tries to bor- Let the tables be cleared, | THE WAYS OF WASHINGTON BY WILLIAM PICKETT HELM. or the Senate finds himself in & warm- ish dispute with some other gentl man on the opposite side. Once in a great while the dispute breaks out into flames. On such oc- casions It is not uncommon for the disputants to call each other pet names. Sometimes, but not often, one man calls another a liar. When that happens the two oppbnents generally make for each other, but are restrain- ed trom combat by loving friends. ‘Then the newspapers come out with a nice little story and a headline, “Lie 1s Passed on Floor of Congress.” ¥or a day or so there's a pretty howdy-do, with lots of editorfal dis- cussion about the decay of the good old courtesy that used to prevall. Stuff and nonsense! Likewlse, fid- dlesticks! Nothing has decayed. Courtesy flourishes as never before in the halls of Congress, and th naughty little word sort of thing compared to the gre shakes thit used to come off {n tho “good old days" some folks are S0 prone to lament. When John Quincy Adams was President, nearly a century ago, he once sent his son, John Adams, who #l%0 was hig privete secretary, to the Capitol with & messuge to the House and Senate. Adams had delivered the message to the Speaker of the House and was on his way to the Senate chamber when one Russell Jarvis, editor of the aph, overtook him. “You {nsulted me and some ladies who were with me at the White House ption a week ago,” Jarvis ex- med. What if T did,” retorted Adams. Whereupon Jarvis pulled the secre tarial nose and boxed the secretarial ears. Representative Dorsey of Mary- land, hearing the commotion, came to Adams' relief and parted them, President Adams, in great indigna- tion, sent a special message to Con- gress relating entirely to the fnci- dent. Both houses appointed investi- Eators and a report was submitted. But neither jority nor minority recommended punishment for Jarvi On another occasion John Randolph of Roanoke, then senator from. Vir- infa. entered the Senate chamber wear- ng silver spurs, carrying & heavy riding whip and followed by a hound dog. which crouched under his desk. He kept his giding gloves on his hands 4s he spoke and delivered u_veritable tirade. Every few minutes he would e and in a low vol vMore porter, “Tims | And “Tims,” the assistant doorkeepcr, | would march down the aisle with & foaming glass of the stuff that later mude Volstead famous. This Randolph would gulp down. Here is the way he referred to his.cotemporaries EDITORIA The Theory Itself Is Old, But the Application Is New. The immediate disclaimer that he was a “miracle man,” which Prof. Coue uttered on his arrival in the United States, disarmed many who were inclined to be critical toward his visit. In consequence there is a disposition to urge that he be given a falr and courteous hearipg every- where on the ground that the whole world just now needs a doctrine of cheerfulness and optimism, and that that, in effect, is what the visiting Frenchman has brought with him “All he doe Pites- h Leade induce | to use all their resources to {help themselves. But Dr. Mesmer. juges ago, knew and taught the same | thing. There is nothing new in.Coue.” iHe is “no_charlatan,” points out the Albany erbocker Press, d “has no wish to clash with medical men. He has an idea which, as .he ‘.—ontanu. is far more ancient than Ihe ix. ile thinks it has done some | good. e hopes it will do more good.” {In this very connection, it should be remembered, the Albany News con- tinues “those who really wish to help jothers and try to do so rarely have megaphone minds. Big ideas have been used for poll-parrot bywords | from the days of Upper Thebes. But If the ideas are hig enough they sur- vive.” His plan supplements the skill lof the physician. as the Baltimore {American sees it. inasmuch as “the | I physiclan can. with difficulty, heal a | sufferer who has not the will to get | | weil, and M. claims no more { than to help rouse that will And | it is because his theory is “age-old™ | that “Coue is wise in refusing to hold | ciinics.” the Asbury Park Press says because this “exonerates him of any charge of operating under false pre- tenges. The interesting thing about Coue's visit is the same thing that was of interest in the visits of Sir Conan Dovle, Sir Oliver Lodge and a host of others. It is the insatiable gulllbility of the American public— a public that belittles the wonderful discoveries and the scientific research of its own natlon and indulges in parox- ysms of enthusiasm over visitors from | other lands who come laden with an- cient theories they exchange for good American dollars.” “Coue should be given a fair and courteous hearing in this countr: the Lynchburg News insists. *His| {errand is likely to be-helpfyl. In any : {event, it seems to be humanely and | nobly’ inspired. For this, if for { naught else, his message deserves to | be respectfully received and thought- { fully considered.” There is no mys- { tery in his methods and “he seeks to {awaken people to the possibility of | | better thought about themselves and their conditions,” explains the Utica Observer-Dispatch, and “he believes, and he has pretty sure ground for his belief, as he has seen tens of thousands find improvement through following his method, that with bet- ter thinking mankind is certain to receive benefit.” Characterizing hi plan as a “system of common sense,” people 1 Te the Editor of The Star: Just as the people are getting cash | for the government war securities | now falling due, an extra effort is, being made by the swindlers and fake stock operators to get their money away from them. About & year ago when the Ponzi and Bishop exposures showed how easy it was to dupe the people and take millions from them, the press of the country took up the subject and in news articles and editorials did a noble work. This united effort in daily and weekly newspapers, in peri- odicals and other publications did much to check the work of the get- rich-quick operators, and to show the people that there were far better methods of investing their money. Working In_conjunction with the press of the country at that time was the United States government savings system. The government did all in its power to promote thrift and check wild-cat Investments. As.a part of the great thrift and savings move- ment it offered the people a safe in- vestment in Treasury savings certifi- cates, government obligations sold on a discount basis and yielding interest at & per cent, compounded semi-an- In the people to | h President Adams, “traitor. Daniel Webster, “a vile slanderer.” John Holmes, *‘a dangerous fool." Edward Livingston, *“the most cone temptible and degraded of beings,” Pleasant little person to have around the home, what? How long would he last in.Congress today? Yet for all his abuse he was net once called to order. * Randolph and Henry Clay fought a duel—bloodless—as the!result of one of Randolph’s attacks in the Senate. But the first prize formpeal action rests not with the Senate, but the House. One of the finesy fist Nights ever seen occurred on the floor of the House in the late '50°s. The admissioh of Kan- sas was under discussion. Grow of Pennsylvania, republican, standing on the democratic side, obfected to Gen. Quitman, Mexican war veteran, making any remarks. “Get over on your own side of the filoule."‘ ordered Keitt of South Caro- It"s & free place,” Grow shot back. vl;.l.nd "‘";ll'c lease." ou're a republican puppy,” shouted/ Keitt. 4 “All the sanie,” sald Grow, “hers T stand and no negro slavedriver can crack his whip over m Then they started for eachf other and the big show was on. A dozen democrats and a dozen re- publicans made for them all &t once. Keltt was knocked down, Lovejoy and Lamar of Mississippl pawed at each other, each to hold the other back. Covode of Pennsylvania picked up an earthen-ware cuspidor to throw, but it was knocked from his hand by an op- ponent. Montgomery of Pennsylvania mad for the center of the fight. A repr: sentative of Virgini 1d his hand on the Pennsylvanian's arm to detain him. ‘Take it off or I'll knock you down,” Montgomery ordered. It was taken off. Potter of Wisconsin jumped feet foremost into the struggling men and pummeled heads right and left. Barksdale Grabbed Grow. Potter dealt Barksdale a terriffic blow. Barksdalo dropped Grow and made for Washburne of lllinots, thinking that gentleman had struck him. Washburne's brother, from Wisoon sin, saw Barksdale’s maneuver and made for him. He hit Barksdale in the face and then grabbed him by the hair to drag him aside and pummel him. He gave @ mighty heave and—— Barksdale’s wig ocame off in his ds, sending him sprawling back- ards to the floor. As he fell he threw the wig at Barksdale, whose baldness was re- vealed for the first time to his fel- lows. Barksdale pounced on the wig and jammed it on his head—wrong side out. Seldom has man appeared so ludi- crous. The fighters paused. That pause was futal. They all stopped fighting to laugh at Barksdale and a few minutes later everybody' was shaking hands. L DIGEST the ianapolis News *finds his medicine is hope fanned to a bright flame—an alllance of good doctoring and right thinking, a combination aghinst which a curable disease stands little chance of persisting and which is not 'w.” There is plenty of room here for him, the Charleston Mail is convinced, “so long as there is given fttin recognition to two things-—the matural limitation and the fact that this fleld i{s an obscure one in fch there is much yetr to be learned.” This likewise is the view of the Boston Transeript, which re- marks that he “fs neither to be ®corned nor swallowed whole. Science, which is experience plus knowledg: will in his » as in all others, prove the thing and hold fast to that which is good in § In addition, he fac that he refuses to profit neially by his American tour in- creaxes one's confidence in his sin- cerity,” the Columbus Journal holds, and “there Is a great need for cheer- fulness just now. His visit ought to do us good. Applied Coueism might be a sol- vent” in many fields, the Minneapolis Tribune holds, becaus ne cannot be a Couelst without heing an opti- mist, and the optimist who can keep his optimism in proper control is just now an unusually desirable citizen Old or new, however, the New York ning World would “give him v chance to demonstrate his theor; 1t is because he “belfeves some- thing” that he is so strong. the Brooklyn Eagle holds, and “his dis- tinction lies in the fact that he ree- ognizes and emphasizes his limita- tions. M. Coue merely Insists that the imagination be aliowed to play @ part in establishing faith in im- proving the body. As he sayvs, his message ix as old as the hills, but every new discovery has strengthened it. “The new psychology verifies the old truth. Psychoanaiysis is only the more complicated description of the mechanism of the subconscious mind. where autosuggestion operates. It should be eas for M. Coue to spread nis doctrine and his visit should stimulate interest in a form of self-help which is too little used. He shows a “profound insight info Amerfcan nature and more ability to work it for all it {8 worth,” in re- fusing to give a single demonstration of the power of his doctrine “because he must needs be lecturing,” the Roanoke World-News somewhat sar- castically suggests, but, even grant- ing that, it Is the opinion of the St. Paul Dispatch that “he benefits all those whom he can induce to have more confidence in themselves and quit crying over spilled milk. As long as one really believes a thing it is 30" There is danger, the Ana- conda Standard points out. in the fact that “the lay public cannot ¢*s- criminate between. {liness where auto- suggestion is sufiicient to effect a cure and others in which the services of a physiclan are’so absolutely in- dispensable that the longer he goes without them, every day and in every way. the patient will get worse and worse.” But, “as he Is a kindly old man. with a twinkle in his eyes and a smile on his lips,” he will be “wel- come in America,” the Wheeling In- telligencer insists. Again Warns Investors' Against Swindlers. | with bogus stock and “get-rich-quick” propositions. Swindlers Again Active. The joint campalgn of the govern- ment and the press had & good effect, The Yeports from all over the coun- try showed that the people heeded the warnings. But the memory of the people is short. They do not re- member for long all that has been told of the Ponzis and Bishops, or of the smaller gold brick perpetrators. Of late reports have begun to appear showing that these human vultures are again {reyln( upon the public in the hope of getting part of the $625,- 000,000 which the government is now paying out on the matured 1918 war savings stamps. The bogus oil wells and gold mines are again in evidence, Beautifully engraved stock certifi- cates are being put out with glitter. ing t@les of quick wealth, Many de- vices for ‘trapping the unwary and taking thelr money from them are in evidence throughout the country. On this account it is time to est. The government is doing all can; it has offered & safe and good paying investment, but more is n ed. Again there iv an opportunity for the press of the country to ren- der good service.: ‘We need & revival of the campalgn against the fraudu- lent schemers and venders of fake stocks. It has almost beco: a pub. lic duty to protect the people against these pliers of & nefarious trade. LEW CE, Jr., N, D. C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1923. The Library Table By The Beeklover The presence of Hugh Waipole in the United States on & lecture tour, ‘which will thelude Washington in the near future, arouses Interest in all lovers of Walpole's novels. His first appeal to American readers was through “Fortitude,” & long biograph- ical novel concerned with Peter ‘Westcott, beginning muoh in the style of Thackeray and ending with a thor- oughly modern note. “The Duche of Wrexe’ and “The Green Mirror” are loosely connected through cer- taln characters common to both; for ‘Walpole, llke Galsworthy, allows us to continue our acquaintance with some '~ of our favorite characters through several books. His Trench- ard family, llke Galsworthy's For- sytes, seem as real as our own rela- tives. * K k¥ Walpole's “The Dark Forest” and “The Secret Clty” have Russia as their setting; the first 8 2 war novel and both are te: with Russian superstltion and psychio intuition. In “The Derk Forest” the same super- stition is & motive of the story which eppears in the tragedy of Andreyev, now being presented in this coun- try, “He Who Gets Slapped”—namely, that if a woman who {8 beloved by two men dies, the man who first fol- lows her Into the beyond will be her lover through eternity. * ok % % In “The Captives,” a novel of vari- outs sorts of fanaticlsm, Walpole seems hardly at his usual level of restraint and balance, but - “The Young Enchanted,” published in 1921, is again one of his best. In this Peter Westcott of “Fortitude” and Henry and Millicent Trenchard of “The Green Mirror” are brought to- gother and we are shown how youth always enchantment. * K ok London clubs have been famous since the time of Addison. not only as soclal but also as literary and political centers. From the latter half of the seventeenth century to the early part of the nineteenth, some of the most distinguished of these clubs were located in St. James street. A recent book, by Beresford Chan- emorials of St. James gives the history of the street s origin as a country lane and of all its various clubs. The first club was White's, established In 1697: and this was followed by the Cocoa Tree, 1746; Boodle's, 1762; Brooks', 1764, and Arthur's, 1763 All were original- Iy cocoa houses and became clubs through the initiative of their proprietors, who at the proper time |approached groups of their leading {clients with the suggestion that their louses be made exclusive clubs. Regular patrons agreed to pay a cer- tain fee, strangers were excluded, and {henceforth the cocoa house (forerun- |ner of the modern tearoom) was a club. The story of the St. James street clubs in Mr. Chancellor’s book is an interesting one, with its descrip- tions of the gambling, the dandyism and the political intrigues that went on in them, and its account of their famous frequenters, including Wal- pole, Lord Chesterfield, Pitt. Fox and Beau Brummell, . ok ox ox W. L. George has so frequently ad- mitted himself ‘to be the leading co- temporary expert on feminine psy- ology that it would be enlightening if he could be persuaded to respond to @ questionnaire on the subject. The first question should be, “Where in life do you find the women whom You analyze in your novels?’ Partic- ularly we should like to ask if he considers Claire Caldecot in “Her Un- welcome Husband” a real woman. Such a blend of self-love and unself- ishness, of daring and conventional- ity, of intelligence and high-strung nerves, as she Is represented to be might "conceivbaly submit to black- mail in order to protect the reputa- tion of the lover who, after many years of devotion. has deserted her for a younger woman. She might coneeivably take back the rake of a husband who frankly returns to her because he sees that the time has come when he must pay by a prema- ture and decrepit old age for the life he has led. But never, never, would such & woman as Claire, fearing and hating her husband as she dues. and lving & life he wishes to conceal, carelessly allow him for vears to be In possession of a latchkey to her house and thus able at any moment lof the day or night to surprisc and terrify her: when it would have.been S0 easy to change the lock and ndd {an inner bolt Mr. Seorge docs not understand the nerves Jf the med- ern woman. * % ox o Vitamines have now taken their place among the hygienic and therapeutic sub- Ject about which every up-to-date person should be ‘able to talk glibly; that is with tonsils, proteids, radium, bacillus Bulgaricus, pyechotherapy and Camp's daily dozen. Even the children in the {fourth and fifth” grades know about tamines, upon which they are sys- tematically fed by careful mothers; and the elderly dyspeptic clips from the newspapers advertisements of yeast and various vitamine tablets and pastes, Any one'who feels, however, that his knowledge of vitamines is Insufficient or inaccurate will find the subject thor- oughly discussed by an expert in Dr. Emmett Holt's new book “Food, Health and Growth.” In this we learn that there are three kinds of vitamines: Vitamine A, found in butter fat, egg yolk, liver, ‘kidneys, cod liver ofi, ang most green vegetables; vitamine B, found in yeast, most meats, grains, nu’m, E"mr( lr:ldl!ruit Julces, and vita- mine C, found In most vegetable: frulls, but ot in Times. oo e #nd * ok % % One of the many evidences of the keen interest felt by Americans in both the far and the near east is the magazine Asia, published by the American Asiatic Assoclation, which is just celebrating the fifth anni- versary of its founding. The avowed purpose of. the magazine is “to con- tribute to a satisfactory adjustment of the relations between Asiatic coun- tries and the rest of the world by the removal of sources of misunderstand- ing and the dissipation,of ignorant prejudices.” Some of the general sub- d In lIssues of Asia are y In the orient; orlental politics. art, literature and science American achievements in the east a possible Jewish empire; Russian influence in the east; British colonial administration and' jungle life and hunting. * ¥ * ¥ A new document on the immigra- tion question equal as literature to Mary Austin's “The Promised Land’ and “They Who Knock at Our Gates, is Henry Morgenthau's “All in a Life- time,” the story of his own life. It did not take Mr. Morgenthau long to become Americanized and then to be- come a part of the world of big busi- ness. The intensely interesting nar- rative is divided into three n‘lrtlr— business, politics and social N 'n\:,'bgh Mr. Morgenthau's :M‘z:’c: tion in polities is fairly recent, he de- votes to it almost & third of his book. CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS, If all of Washington were not agos over the European orisis, more at- tention would be given to the con- vention of women now being held In the hall of the National Museum. It is significant that the few hundred women there assembled represent millions engaged in gainful occupa- tlons, and Secretary Davis of the De- partment of Labor, under whose call the convention is held, declares that one-fifth of the women of the United States are engaged In industry. The Secretary uttered a keynote for the convention when he called for meas- ures which would eliminate from wage industry all mothers of depend- ent children. One in ten married women, he sald, are working for Wwages at the expense of their homes, Americans have been inclined toy look down upon Europe in the matter of treatment of women. do not harness our women to wagons, along- side of cows or dogs, as is done in Europe. We do not work our women in the fields, as a rule. Our women do not carry hLuge loads upon their heads.. 8o we flatter ourselves that our American women are treated as the queens of the earth—which they are, of course. But here comes an official state- ment that one out of ten wives have to work for wages, and among them are thousands of mothers needed at home. Surely that is as great & problem as how to run for Congress. How will the women's conference solve the problem? Secretary Davis announced that he was in favor of a rule or law giving women “equal pay for equal work.” but how shal] such a rule be appiled? What is “equal work” when phvsical powers differ. and the physically “weaker sex" must have the “wind tempered to the shorn 14 e fact that women are physically incapable of doing all the rough work that men do does not argue inferi- ority, for the converse also is true Women are certainly not “weaker” than men. in intellect—they are only different; and right there is the point which cannot be decided ith & “hu rah, boys. let's be fai i there will be an adjustment of social conditions which will be made to & nicety, and femininity will really come into its own. In the meanwhile there is always danger of injuring the case by making tog hard and fast rules, with no power to enforce them, A rule that if two persons are hook- keepers, employed at the same desk. they must receive equal pay, under all circumstances, will usually result in the employment of two men, rather than an and a woman, unless the woman is markedly the more expert. Either the woman loses her oppor- tunity by insisting on equal pay. when she cannot work overtime, ~cannot work all the time and cannot do many things that the man may do as a mat- ter, of course—either she loses her opportunity to get the position or she brings to her task surplus talent. Tn either case the rule of equal pay for equal work does her an injustice and works a hardship. This is not ideal— but it is fact. It will be most inter- esting to note how the women's con- ference faces the fact. 7 PR The condition especially deplored by Secretary Davis—that of mothers who must neglect their children to help earn their daily bread—is simpler of solution, but even less likely to be solved immediately. “The poor ye have always with you” To say to the mother who is blessed with bables and cursed with poverty that she must not work to support her family is impossible, unless some substitute for her wages is provided. For some inscrutable reason, it Is the poor who have the most children. The only an- swer to that problem is the mothers' pension. Not all the states have yet provided that progressive measure of relief. % % o The high cost of living does not seem inclined toward normalcy vet. In the large cities, according to the Department of Labor, the cost in- creased during the month ending De- cember 13 from 1 to 8 per cent. It s still 55 per cent higher In Washington than it was in 1913. Wages of the skilled mechanics remain from 100 to 400 per cent higher than ten years ago. £0 it & not those who are suf- fering from the H. C. L., but the salaried man and the man of fixed in- come. The skilled mechanics of the building trades are happy, in this open winter and the continued de- mard for building. Wages show no inclination to come down, though some of the shop trades—metal work- ers, etc.—are increasing In unem- ployment. Only the farmer is feeling the full forée of the changed condi- tions, since what he has to Sell shows less advance than what he has to buy. * ok ok The government hotels, or rooming houses for women employed in the departments, have proved profitable to the government to the extent of $86,000 & year, according to. Repre- sentative Wood, and that congress- man—and probably others—will sup- port a bill to rebuild the hotels else- where, in case that they have to be torn down where they are now locat- ed, in front of Union station. Repre- sentative Stafford of Wisconsin d fends the idea of government-ow: homes for the employes by comparing them to the dormitories provided for cadets at the naval and military academies. Other representatives, in opposition, say that the cases are not parallel. 'because the cadets are housed in dormitories from the stand point of military control as a unit, rather than because of economical reasons. They argue that it s more nearly parallel to the Army treatment of officers, who are given “commuta tion of quarters” and permitted to room where they please, in manv cages. Ofcers greatly prefer such Uberty. The women employed at the Aevartments, they claim, are paid full wages, with the understanding that thev are to Fupport themselves Whatever may be the outcome of the discussion of government “dor- mitories” there ix a great object le: 80n in the profitableness of these go grnment hotels. They are popul because they eive freedom. yet con- serve respectabllity beyond question. and they afford better accommoda- tions for less cost than can be gotten in private boarding houses or homes. And. with all their superior advarn- tages. in both comforts and economy they have produced a handsome net nrofit for the landlord—¥nele Sam- while caring for nearly 2.000 tenants If that be the experience of the government, why should not private enterpriga take the cue and bulid similar “hptels,” with similar prices and similar chaperonage? The ca pacity of the present governme: “hotels” 1s inadeauate to meet the full demand.and, if the Arts and ence Association project to build a great permanent exnosition upon the site now occupied by the hotels ma tures. as it iz likely to do, all these will be demolished. Some_ unselfish benefactor mav eus ily find that his investment will & handrome dividend if he foll along the lines of the governm. management and doex not attemnt profiteer. Tt is unlikely that the nur ber yof such tenants will ever T fewer in Washington than ther & now. There is prohably no other ci which has just such a situation. T turn an extra 2.000 young womei upon the city rooms in priv. the supply of accommodations. home shortage is already acute * %% In the course of a speech rec Senator McCumber upon the sever farm credits’ measures pending, the able senator from the agricultur state of North Dakota deprecated 1 socialistic tendencies of some of il pending bills—especially the proposs that the government buy all farm pro duce at guaranteed rates and sell u market rates, the government unde taking to corner the sunply and sne late on the demand. Then the sen: referred to a bill which. he % been Iying for more than a year in archives of the commiftee on agrici ture, for the purpose of authorizing the states to organize state farm c anerative associations. which will h linked into a great national associatio! and which could corner and control 1} markets to the farmers’ advanta« He pointed to the familiar fact that 1 farmers are the only class of produ ers who are not sufficiently organized 1« sell to the best advantage. ¥ x % % Senator Poindexter interrupted t} senatof from North Dakota to ask i there was any need of special legls tion to enable the farmers to go aheu: under existing laws, which exemp j farmer co-operative associations fror I ttie restritions of trupte, and:Senator | MeCumber conceded that no additiona! {laws were reaily necessary, but he thought the law referred to would courage farmers to so organize, e tifough they could organize without * % % x This little collogquy passed witho { attracting the attention it deserved Therein is the very heart of all the farmers’ market troubles. Instead getting together, simply under permi sive laws, for the protection of their mutual interests, they wait for Con gress to tell them specifically what |to do—organize. They are waiting Senator McCumber, for the as surance “that the goverament wi supervise their co-operative associa ton, just as it supervises the bunk- ing ‘inetitutions of the country.” It the farmérs did so organize, na- tionally, and come to Congress with u powerfu] assoclation, appealing for governmeutal inspection and super vision, does anybody think ther wvould be any delay in giving them at they would ask? — It is not p psed that any socialistic vagar included. such as haye taker naor McCumber's own state government ould not be asked to capitalize the association. It would do nothing but inspect the integrity of officials appointed by the member- ship to control and transact its mar keting. Thg bill sleeps in the com mittee, hence its details are not ye discussed. said Compelled to Go as a Gunman To Save Wound Once—and once only-=in his long ars of practice as a hard-riding country doctor did Senator L. Helsler Ball of Dalaware, chairman of the Senate District committee, carry a gun. That is. a gun for purposes oth- er than hunting. The incident happened upward of twenty years ago. when the senator was living at his home in Marshall- ton, Del. An Ital- ian workman em- ployed in quarries nearby, in & fit of Jealous rage, had shot his wife—us. ng a shotgun. The woman was in a precarious condi- sion. The hus- band, after shoot- ing his wife, an- nounced that she must dle, and that {f any doctor came to give her treat- ment he intended to shoot the doc- tor. It was at this juncture that Dr. Ball was called upon to save the woman's life. He was told he had better arm himself, for the husband had sworn to kill'a doctor if he appeared on the scene. Now, Dr. Ball did not own a revolver. He had been accustomed to %o about his practice at all hours of the day and night, and into all kinds of quarters, no matter how roug! tirely unarmed. Naturally, however, he took notice of the warning given him. He had his man hitch up his buggy, while he went to the nearest hardware shop dnd purchased a gun, Joaded it and slipped It into his pocket. Dr. Ball had some distance to drive before he could reach the woman, who had been filled full of shot by her husband. When he drew near the house, however, he could see three hundred yards up the straight, narrow road, the husband lying behind the fence with his shotgun res‘ing on a rail, trained exactly on the approach- 1 and bUEEY. £ ST M o oy s no o St = Sl SENATOR BALL. ed Woman’s Life | the-man lying in wait for him | Dr. Ball, instead of provekin | ther bloodshed, turned Mis hor a side road and made a detour |ing up to the house where the wound ed woman lay from the outher sid: while the husband continued o wate: !in his old place. In the meuntime the | police had been summoned and the husband. with his gun in on= hand and his shoes in another, made an a tempt to get away. He was arrcsted however. Dr. Ball. ignorant of what had han pened to the husband, who for all he knew might have returned to the home &t any time, entered the house and began picking shot out of the wife. Senator Ball is a native of Dela- ware, where his ancestors settled up- ward of 200 years ago: in fact, they took up a_royal grant of 500 acres in 1859. His father, John 1, farmer, on part of the old original grant, ‘reared a family of six sons and iwo daughters. ~ Five of the brothers attended cotlege, and Sen jator Ball graduated from Delawure College in Nework and then deter mined to study medicine, going to University of Pennsylvania for thix purpose. * Although his father w jpaying the bills, young Ball spent hi« ivacations at home working in' the fields and helping to pay his own way When the wheat in his father's fields was ripening one season, while “Hels,” as his family and friends called him, was at home, he told hix father he would be able to harvest 1.000 bushels. But ‘the older Ball d. nied this. He insisted there would b no more than 800 bushels of wheat in the crop. “Give me all over 800," son eagerly. “Yes,” was the reply. When the harvest was made, there were 1,050 bushels of wheat, and the son's share was. 250 bushels. The father made good his promise, and the young student sofd the wheat and used the money to pay his expenses ut the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. It was J. Edward Addicks, the ma who sought for so long to become United States senator from Delaw that turned Dr. Ball from medicine! tu politics. Addicks lived in Boston, but had & summer home in Delaware, and when he announced h¢ Intended to represent Delaware in the Senate, many Delawareans were up in arms, among them Dr, Ball. The doctor, known to thousands in the staf gan_sn astive 'much to do in asked the