Evening Star Newspaper, January 14, 1923, Page 42

2 THE SUNDAY;‘STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 14 1923—PART ‘2. THE EVENING STAR,["”' though it Is certatnly at no dia- | is really @ happier boy than one who With Sunday Morning Edition.” . WASHINGTON, D, C. SUNDAY.......January 14, 1823 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company usiness Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. ew York Ofice: 150 Nassau St. Cricago Office: Tower Bulld! c ng. European Oftice: 14 Regent St., London, Eigtand. The Evening Star, with the SBunday mors! ~dition, 1 delivered by carriers within the elty 2t 80 cents per month; daily only, 43 cents per month: Sundey only, 20 cents per month, Or- iers may bs seot by wail or telephono Main 000, Collection is made by carriers &t the 0 0f cach moBLD. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance, Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1 mo., T0c Dafly onl: .1yr., $6.00; 1 mo., 50c Sunday on 1yr., $2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ All Other States. Duily only Sunday ¢ Meniber of the Associated Press. The Assacisted Press is exclusively entitled To the use for republication of ull news dis- Atches credited (o it or not otherwise credited " this paper and alvo the local mews pub- i All rights of publication of herein_are also_rexerved. Washington's Hospital Needs. It is doubtful if there is any single o0 upon which the health of @ com- unity more directly depends than s hospitals. It is inevitable, that Washington should rave concern the fact that ¥ is today greatly underhos- pitaliz d This fact has. within the last few weeks, been clearly established, being tie toundation upon which the cam- palgn for increasing the accommoda- tions of Garfleld Memorial Hospital is tased. It has been shown that eminent medical authorities, such as Dr.{ George E. Vincent, head of the Rocke- telier Foundation. and Dr. Royal §. "opeland, former health commissioner of New York, and recently elected ex senator from th state, A the conviction that ever: ould have at least fifty inspital beds for cach 10,000 of its population, It is pointed out that New York just meets this minimum re- ircment, that Philadelphia has 56 per 10,000 of its inhabitants, Baltimore 'S and Boston §1. Washington, the Capital city of the nation, has but 37.7 ner 10,000 of its 450,000 inhabitants, or, tn other words, has but 1,695 beds of its minimum requirement of 2,250, The results of this disturbing fact evidence. At this time of with the peak of the hospital § ad still to be ched in February | d March, patients sceking hospitali- zation, needing it with all the urgency 5 inevitably ; denied accommodation which Particularly is this true private rooms at the care and they require. of those desiring moderate cost. The residents of Washington be- Meve that they are entitled, s a mat- ter of course, to the assurance that should they or one of their family re- hospital attention wiil available in their hour of need. Yet hospitals in Washington are not built aintained to the tent of any Jarge contributions from the tax funds of the communil s there any sgic phrase which can bring them into being overnight. It is well for the community to know of and to ponder upon these facts. It is well for us to appreciate that dol- lars, and many of them, are essential to bring the hospital facilities of Wash- ington up to the established minimum requirement. It is well for us to real- ize that our need being evident we, as sndividuals who are proud to pay our way as we go. cannot look to (mmel ne else to furnish the hospital bed or | voom whi v may requive ! for ourselve of our fa to- morrow H The authorities of Garficld Memorial j Hospital are performing their obvious duty to the community in calling at- tention to the need for prompt steps toward remedying a situation fraught with menace. Those who are engaged in forwarding the campaign for the mecessary funds are performing a &plendid civic service. It remains for the community €0 to respond to a frank and unexaggerated presentation of facts as to demonstrate again its good judgment and its appreciation of individual and civic responsibilities. e Genial references to Uncle Joe Can- non continue to enliven the public vrints. Whether in politics or out, t'ncle Joe is always in the hands of his friends. hs\l quire we person 1 One-Man Cars. On the 21st of next month the Pub- Iic Utilities Commission will hear argu- ments for and against the one-man cars now in use in this city on certain lines. That date has been eet for a hiearing on the subject, which has al- ready been congidered by the commis- sion, with the result of a ruling to the effect that the cars are perfectly safe for public use. Since that ruling ‘was rendered much dissatisfaction has been felt and expressed on the part of the people in the sections in which these cars are operated. Numerous citizens’ associations have recorded thelr disapproval, and the hearing now ordered has resulted from these mani- festations of dissent. Bince the first one-man cars were put in use in Washington marked im- provements have been made in them. THe first cars of this type were trans- formed old cars. Now special ap- pMances have been perfected which in- crease their safety of operation. On these cars of the new type devices are praovided by which it is impossible for the operator to start wihle the doors are open and, moreover, the car stops automatically when his hand is re- moved from the controller. This pre- vents the premature starting of the car while a person is entering or leav- fng, and it is claimed that this type of car s actually safer in point of the possible injury to persons entering and Jeaving than other types of cars in which operation is governed by both conductor and motorman. Still the public, so far as expressions have been made of feeling on the sub- ject, regards the one-man car as an jnadequate vehicle. It has the disad- vantage, even despite the provision of railings at the front door, of requiring wntrance and exit at the same point. It fs believed to be slower in operation ghan the twomen car of the usual l i them is a contribution to the genci advantage in this respect to the center- entrance two-man car, where both en- trance and exit occur ‘st & single point, and without any provision for separating incoming and outgoing passengers. The one-man car is not materially slower in operation by rea- son of the fact that the motorman must take the fares in addition to operating the mechanism. No car can be started until the steps are cleared and the doors are closed, and the fare- taking process may be as slow at the conductor's end as at the condyctor- motorman end. The two-man car has perhaps a slight advantage on the one-man cars of the latest type, in that the conductor can give the start- ing signal after closing the doors be- fore he has taken or supervised the taking of the fares of all those im- pounded on the rear platform, while the one-man operator cannot start his car until the last fare is in the box. One objection against the one-man car is that the single operator is sub- Ject to a much greater strain than either operator on the two-man car. The one-man operator is constantly oc- cupled, with the running of his car while in motion, watching every traffic signal and all street conditions beside handling his mechanism, and attend- ing closely to fare collections, transfer issues and change-making while the car is at a standstill. Conductors and motormen on the two-man cars have their intervals of comparative rest, and it is a question whether this con- stant strain on the one-man car Is not too great, whether it does not make for accidents. All these matters will be discussed at the hearing, and the commission will then consider whether this type of car, which isa means of company econ- omy, is suitable for the public service. The People’s Savings. For some days past the United Siates government has been redeem- ing war savings certificates purchased by the people during the period of war-time loans. Many millions of dol- lars have been turned back to their owners in the form of savings. While some of this money has been applied directly to the payment of bills, for the purchase of luxuries, maybe for auto- mobiles, or possibly homes, a large percentage of it has sought invest. ment. Nobody knows at this time how much of it has gone into bad invest- ments, shrewd schemes that sound al- luring but will never pay dividends and will probably never return the principal. In anticipation of the day. of refund- ing the government officials sounded a warning, and bankers throughout the country carried the word through their communities urging holders of these certificates to beware of un- principled promoters who would sure- ly seek these funds as quickly as they were available. Probably these warn- Ings had e very good effect. But it is difficult to persuade all inexperienced investors to beware of high-percentage proposals that are without substantial foundation. In yesterday's Star was printed a letter from the director of the United States government savings system re- peating this warning, which is season- able, inasmuch as a large sum re- mains yet to be repaid to the holders o certificates, and probably a con- siderable part of the money already paid in redemption is still awaiting re- investment. There is no lack of good sound in- vestment opportunities. They do not pay or promise to pay high rates of interest, 10 or 20 per cent. They are not likely to make the investor rich quickly. But at 6, 6 and even 7 per cent they are reliably productive of returns. Moreover, they represent substantial productive industries oy business enterprises. Investment ~in) al | prosperity. Any reliable broker or| banker can be trusted to recommend such investments, or at least to point them out without specific recommenda- tion. Any such adviser may surely be depended on to point out the faulty and dangerous achemes for which the money of the people is now being sought. It is doubly calamitous for the peo- ple to be fooled into meking bad in- vestments, for they not only lose their money, but they lose faith. The war loans taught @ valuable lesson in thrift and savings. Tt will be most un- fortunate if that lesson is now forgot- ten and the certificate redemptions are wasted in the purchase of worth- less securities, for enrichment only of scheming promoters. Dr. Coue treated a newspaper men suffering from nervousness and suc: ceeded in making him write legibly. Every composing room should give three cheers for the doctor. Visiting Russian musicians end dane- ers will be able to take home some in- teresting art effects if they make a proper study of American jazz. It must be said in favor of Ireland that she is conducting her troubles without attempting to draw the west. ern hemisphere into them. ‘Washington’s Boy Soouts. It is estimated that there are 20,000 boys in this city of Boy Scout age. Of these 4,100 have been enrolled during the past year. This leaves nearly 16,000 boys yet to be brought into line. Every one of them should be added to the ranks of this organization, which is one of the best schools of citizen- ship. In the country at large there are 400,000 members of the Boy Scouts, and @ nation-wide round-up is to be undertaken to add 100,000 to that num- ber. The President has indorsed the movement and offered American flags and pennants to the councils and troops that succeed in raising their quotas. ‘Washington should win one of the President’s flags. It has to get but a small percentage of the 100,000 new members in order to do this, and with 16,000 availables here surely it can win a trophy. To be a Boy Scout means a good deal more than wearing a uniform on occasions and doing stunts at exhibi- tions and occasionally going on hikes. It means service in all matters, con- sideration for others, attention to the work in hand, whether it is at scheol, at home er in business. The trus. does not know the orgenization. It will be the best thing that could happen to Washington if every ong of the 16,000 remaining avallables were brought in line. Washington would, indeed, then enjoy a proud distinction, 88 a 100 per cent scout city. It would win the biggest flag in the President's collection, . Old-Fashioned Winter, We have not had any “old-fashioned winter" this season, but it is too early for congratulations. Students of me- teorology, with statistics at hand, say that taking into account a long term of years there is no downward trend in the average winter temperature nor upward trend in summer. There have been and are to be winters of unusue} length and cold and summers of extraordinary heat and length. Many an old-timer carries in his mind thoughts of an exceptional winter when Washington was snowbound and the Potomac ice-locked for weeks. Ft ‘would require a most extraordinary “spell” of weather to bring that about now. Communication by steam and electricity is harder to tie up than formerly. Trains are heavier and more numerous and repair work quicker and more effective. Fifty years ago snow that would block. the streets {s pound- ed into slush by traffic, and sleigh bells on the Avenue get no chance. Per- haps a greater tonnage of traffic passes up and down the Avenue in an hour now than passed in a week fifty years ago. Perhaps more people pass the intersection of 11th and F streets in a day than lived in Washington fifty years ago. One cannot be exact about these things. Motor plows, mo- tor sweepers and gangs of men attack the snow now. In the matter of the ice-locked river there are no doubt tugs passing up and down that are stronger icebreakers than the Pilot Boy, George Law, Lady of the Lake, George Leary and the other steam- boats of long ago, and it would be ice of most unusual thickness that would hold up the government vessels and the Norfolk boats that ply the Poto- mac now. Russian Blasphemy. Shocking things come often in the news from Russia, but it is doubtful if any item from that mad land has given a tenser sense of pain and re- vulsion to many millions of Americans and other peoples than that which The Star lately published under the heading “Effigies of the Deity Are Burned In Grotesque Moscow Carni. val.” The second “bank” of the “head” was “Communists Launch ‘Attack on Heaven' With Great Public Burlesque on' Religions of the World.” It was set down that “The climax of the cele- bration came when the young people gleefully tossed into the flames straw and paper figures representing the deities of the Christian, Mohammedan, Jewish and Buddhist religions,” and “Flaring stars of red, burlesques of the star of Bethlehem, were held aloft at the head of the parade, followed by posters and banners on which were daubed cartoons of deities and saints.” Such a wanton show of monstrous implety and sacrilege has not been seen or heard of since the French revolution. When the American’ tréops lea¥ing Germany met French troops, no band was 80 inconsiderate as toplay, “When he comes in, I'm going out!” The Jersey coast is reported to be #o haunted by rum smugglers that the old sea serpent may be expected to reappear at any moment. Instead of having to manage cabinet officials, Wilhelm Hohenzollern now finds his heavisst responsibilitles in firing @ cook or a butler. The prophets who predicted a long, hard winter are contemplating their coal bills and confessing they ought to be wrong, et e France is not seeking to beat swords, into plowshares, but may be willing to turn them into coal shovels. B e It is hard to remember dates, but Maryland makes no excuses for a man ‘whose motor wears & '22 tag. et The income tax grows less, but does not become more popular. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Some Day Song. The wind severe tried to spoil our cheer And the world seemed in all wrong. ‘Then the sun shone clear and & breeze drew near Singin’ the some day song. ‘Then it whispered low, “All the frost an® snow ‘Will be meltin” away ere long. We'll forget the woe an’ we'll say, ‘Let's go' An’ keep singin’ the some day song.” Dangerous Comparison. “Why don’t you tell a few humorous anecdotes in your speeches as you used to?" “I'm afrald to,” replied Senator Sor- ghum, “I found several constituents going back on me because I wasn't as good as their favorite vaudeville en- tertainer.” Jud Tunkins says when you tell your troubles you merely expose your short suit. Musings of a Motor Cop. ‘Hortense heard of “autosuggestion™ with glee, And said, “That is sure the suggestion for me!” ‘Then she sighed in regret, “I supposed it would give A suggestion for some way of parking my fiiv.” *“A farmer has to be patient.” “Yes,” replied Farmer Corntossel; “but he overdoes it when he don't do nothin’ but sit on a fence an® wait for a real estate boom.” “Dar is such & thing as misplaced bravery,” said Uncle Eben. “Tryin' to, interduce loaded dice in our Saturday Evenin' Club crap game ain’ nuffin® buba waste of courage.” z Politics at Home/Holds Women Now Have Power To Win All “Rights” They Ask - Harrison and the Presidency. The discussion of Mr, Wilson's name in. connection with a third presiden- tial nomination has revived a story re- lating to the suggestion of a third nomination for President Harrison. In the contest for the republican nomination in 1896 William McKinley and Thomas B, Reed were making it warm for each other.” They were clever politiclans, and each had the support of many as clever politicians as himself. In fact, there was so much clevérness engaged and so much feel- ing being eroused, some uneasiness showed f{tself, and speculation about Gen. Harrison for the emergency be- gan, It ran on this line: Gen. Harrison had shown quality when in the White House. He had given the country a good administration. His defeat for re- election had been the result of condi- tions for which he was not responsible, He was still in health and vigor, and after a rest of four years would return to the field of action in prime spirit. Moreover, the second Cleveland ad- ministration was drawing to a de- pressed close. It had failed, and the democracy was in a blue funk. The eastern wing was not flapping in uni- son with the western wing. Why not take the country's judgment on Gen. Harrison under circumstances that would be much more just and favora- ble to him than had been those of 18927 While expressing deep appreciation of the compliment, Gen. Harrison de- clined. He declared that the party was entitled to a new name. It had, he said, dealt generously with him in giving him two nominations and one election, and he had nothing further to ask at its hands. The McKinley-Reed duel proceeded, with the result thoroughly acceptable to the Harrisonites, and particularly those living in the middle country where both Harrison and McKinley lived. “Tickets, Please! So far as the republicans are con- cerned, the demand is easily met. There is today but one ticket in sight —the old ticket. Harding and Coolidge look good for renomination. They have been working well together, and are in full agreement as to the present and the immediate future. The considera- tions that dictated yoking them in 1920 are still persuasive, and now there are others favoring keeping them in harness together. They make a likely pair. ‘The democrats are not o fortunate. Their recent successes have quickened their pulses, and a small forest of presidential lightning rods may be plainly seen. Ambitious men are on the alert. But a presidential candidate must have a running mate. Who for second place on that side of the line? ‘Two points enter into the equation— the geographical and the factional. Geography, like youth, will be served, If the first man is taken from the east, the second, according to cus- tom, should represent the west or the middle country, and vice versa. In 1920 the middle country headed both of the national tickets, and the east furnished both of the vice presidential candidates. Factions inhere in vigorous partles, and will have recognition. The demo- cratic party et present, and likely still to be next vear, is part Wilson and part anti-Wilson. If the Wilsonites draw first place, the enti-Wilsonites will claim, and secure, second, and vice versa. { Booming a man for first place, there- { fore, is not enough for a democratic ; boomer. Whether he mentions him or | {not, now or soon, he should have in { the back of his head a man for second place, meeting the two requirements mentioned, and otherwise strengthen- ing the ticket. The Buckeye Trio. ©Ohio holds on to the spotlight. She still has three democratic sons con- sidered of presidential size in connec- fion with next year. Mr. Pomerene has dropped out, but A. Victor Dona- hey has taken his place. ‘The latter was inaugurated governor on the 8th instant—Jackson day. He is of the Jackson school. No frills. By his order, the ceremonies were of the simplest. After taking the cath of of- fice he delivered an address covering only ten minutes, and then went to work. Jackson, wearing his carpet slippers and smoking his corncob pipe, could not himself have been more democratic. Mr. Donahey, it will be remembered, made the race for governor two years ago, and was buried under the repub- lican landslide. In presenting him for nomination this year his friends took the ground thet the elections of 1920 had been held under abnormal condi- tions which no longer existed. Give bim a chance for his white alley, and he would win. He got the chance, and won handsomely. ‘This is the argument in use by the friends of Gov. Cox. He, they claim, was another victim of the abnormality of two years ago. Give him another chance under the changed conditions, and he will win. The present Cox boom rests largely upon that conten- tion, and Mr. Donahey’s election, the Coxites assert, proves the case. Gov. Donahey is in office, while Gov. Cox and Judge Clarke are in private life. This is at once for and against him, His office gives him a pull on the party organization at home, but his actions—whatever he does—will sub- Jject him to criticism right elong. First thing, though, he must estab- lish, for use away from homie, the proper pronunciation of his name. No uncertainty should exist on that point. Russia will send players to this country to instruct us in arts, select- ing as a subject for dramatic demon- stration the career of Ivan the Ter- rible. The event should not be taken too seriously as an incident of Lenin's policy of terrorizing the world. { Assertion that “war between France and Germany is only a question of time” repeats & historic phrase. The hope that an ancient neighborly an- tipathy would be adjusted has proved in vain, & BY THOMAS R. MARSHALL, Former Vice President of the United States, HE world has passed in the last four years from a wel- ter of war into a welter ofgwords, Every phase of the war's aftermath, every phase of the peace, has been discussed and rediscussed. What causéd things to be as they are; how they might be better; how even Yyet they can be rectificd; why we should and should not forgive the war debt; how atrocities would have been prevented if we had accepted a mandate for Armenia and what a boat we would be in if the mandate had been accepted; why Wilson was right and why he was wrong; what good Clemen- ceau has done and what evil he has wrought—these and 2 hun- dred collateral questions have en- gaged our thoughts and made us vocal. If not for the divertisement of a few murders and of a college professor's antics in his real cinema, “From Wife to Wife and Back Again, or How I Failed in Judgment of Women,” we might have become groggy In an attempt to reach a conclusion about world affairs. So strenuous have been events of our political 1ife combining do- mestic with foreign affairs that I found consideration of the plea of our American women for full equality as soothing as a sedative. Be it known, it is neither through desire nor purpose to enter into controversy with the National Woman's Party that I write this, I well realize how easy it is to stir the animosities of the gentler, fiercer sex. That man is not wise Who fails to don kid gloves, pref- erably white, when handling the new demands of women for un- qualified equality in law, conduct and thought. * ¥ % x 1 am distinctly in favor of re- laxation from the attempt to solve the problems of life, death and Im- mortality as applied to nations. To divert the mind for a time from a serious question to a frivolous one, or even to another serious ques- tion, is to send it back to con- sideration of the first question rested and refreshed. Any respite 18 bound to be beneficial, Aside from its proposition that Wwomen ought to be admitted to the priesthood, the pronouncement of the National Woman's Party as a statement of principle probably meets no grave objection in the minds of right-thinking men. And as to thelr admission to the priest- hood, the women themeselves will no doubt remember that the state does not scek to influence the laws, ordinances and customs of re. ligious denominations. The Ku Klux Klan, if one may helieve what he reads, is partially engaged in this work now. If go, that is an- other reason why the invisible em- pire will not survive. After twen. ty-seven years of married life I ‘would not say that a woman counld not do anything to the accomplish- ment of which she sets her head and jaw. But I am doubtful Wwhether she will ever persuade the Pope to bestow on her the privi- leges of the oonfessfonal. This, however, is immate: for with developments of the radio It will £oon be unsafe for a man to think of anything he does not desire his e to know all promises to accomplis what philosophers, religlous teachers and legislators have been unable to bring about—a single standard of morals. * o ox ¥ Sight Is lost of the fact that the emergenge of woman, not from tha ‘legal status, but from the real status of a femme covert to a femme sole, was not brought about primarily by leglslation. She came into her own from a legislative standpoint after she came into her own from the ethical standpoint. Justice and fair dealing have been enlarged in the consideration of her problems more by judicially made than by legislatively made law. The courts as a whols have never had a squiire deal upon the Question as to whether they wera governed by precedent or whether ti:ey tossed precedent to the winds when confronting the day of a finer EMAND is being made by law authorities throughout the country, and by leaders of both political parties in the House and Senate, that action be taken by the Senate before the close of the present Congress upon the world's greatest law book, which has already been twice approved by the House. The author of this great work, which is the consolidation, codifica- tion, revision and re-enactment of all the general and permanent laws of the United States, is Representative Edward C. Little of Kansas, chairman of the House committee on revision of the laws. After twenty-two months of work, day and night, upon this very important and authoritative Dbook of reference by the House com- mittee it was unanimously approved by the House and stands in type to- day, ready for the prompt' printing and binding as a permanent volume of inestimable value. * % x * There has been no oriticism of this work, except by the Navy Depart- ment, which sought to have certain acts of Congress omitted, and Chair- man Little ralsed a laugh in the House the other day when he ex- plained that this deals merely with & decision on precedence of officers in going in to a dinner party. At the same time Representative R, Walton Moore of Virginia, democrat, sharply criticized the delay of Congress in falling to pass this measure. To offset this single objection, there has been a flood of letters and resolu- tlons from the highest legal authori- o isap- ties in this country commendin, Little bill and expressing this authoritative volume. ample, John H. Wigmore, law-author and dean of the Northwestern Uni- versity School of Law, has written several times regarding this “excel- lent revision of the of the United States." He says: “I have ad- mired the speed with which you have made the compilation, and have lamented the delay in taking action upon it.” He is using this Little com- pfluhn in bringing down to date hi: own_standard work on “Evidence. He has carefully gone !hronfi revised code (as prepared by Repre- sentative Little) and has noted all the present laws by reference thereto. * K K % The Senate has had this Little com- pilation of all the federal laws, pass- ed unanimously by the House, for twenty months without a committee meeting being held upon it. The drive is_now being made by leaders in both'House and Senate and by the legal profession to get action in the Senate committee, of which Senator Richard P._ Ernst of Kentucky is chairman. w#llinlo of theln-ad for action, Dean Wigmore 8ays: “The interval since the last oMeial | ethical civilization. Of course, there are some courts that are run a8 are second-hand clothing stores. They have large stocks of prece- dents on hand. If they do not find a suit that exactly fits they make necessary alterations in order that the litigant may be clad in what they call justice. These courts, however, have become the excep- tion. The enlightened judge of today Is far more Interested in having counsel tell him what he thinks is justice, and why, than to have him recall what somebody else declared was justice a hun- dred years ago. Justice may still be blind, but phe is getting ac- customed’ to negotiating the streets, and the number of accidents she suffers is growing fewer right along. - * k% % 1 oncde was unfortunate enough to draw for a client the man in a divorce suit begun on the charge of cruel and inhuman treatment. The facts were that the frate hus- band at a dinner party had soberly announced that his wife was so devoid of brains that she did not have sense enough to boil cold water properly. It was not a jest- ing remark, but a deliberate in- sult. Pawing around in the re- ports seeking for precedents that would disclose that no reason for a divorce existed, 1 ran across o New England case of the year 1840. A Presbyterian elder had insisted that his wife, who was a Methodist, attend his church. Upon her refusal he tied her up with a halter, placed her in the back of a wagon, drove to the Presbyterian Church, unloaded her by force and compelled her to sit through a sermon on foreordination. In the suit for divorce upon the ground of cruel and inhuman treatment the New England court decided in substance that, though it was un- doubtedly the law that a man might chastise his wife within reasonable bounds, the elder had gone a bit too far. The court try- ing my case believed that my client had gone too far likewise. Let the women of the land get it into their heade that the Con- stitution is not a Procrustean bed, but rather an elastic instrument that will fit the common sense and common morals of the time. With 1o change whatever in the consti- tution of the state the supreme court of Indiana in 1918 held con- stitutional a prohibition law it had declared unconstitutional in 55. = % % Jf it be true as intimated by the pronouncement that woman is the governed half of soclety and even if there bs any viclous eystem in the law-making and the law-deter- mining bodles of our land, it will not be necessary to force rectifica- tion of the evil by legislation. Woman has the bailot now. If she who desired and she who did not de- sire suffrage will do what that so-called right, which has been granted, imposes as a duty upon her—conscientiously devote her- self to a study of the laws which gos ern and control her at the present time—he wili realize new laws are not needed. No right-thinking man ever doubted that woman was his equal: not a few of us believed her his superlor. She may be able to accomplish limitless good in the way of public_ service, but there is_a barrfer beyond which she cannot pass. She may think like a man and talk like a man and act like a man, but she cannot become a man. If she is willing to recog- nize that two sexes still exist even though rights are equal and that the dutles of suffrage and citizen- ship rest alike upon both sexes, problems which now vex her will soon solve themselves. The question, is this man-made law or woman-made law? ought never to arise in public dlscussion. Whatever the law inquiry concern- ing 1t should be directed only along the line whether it is abreast of the civilization, judgment and con- science of the age in which we live. To arraign sex against sex in the consideration of public ques- tions will prove wholly dangerous It will be a sorry world If all wom en think one way and all men an- other. The consideration of publiz questions must be bisexual. Tha preparation for the discharge cf the duties of the franchise must ot be Jeft to sexual interpreta- on. (Copyright, 1922, by Thomas R. Marshall.) revision of 1874-78 is the longest tha has ever elapsed in any Jurlafllcllol: except Illinois. In this state, owing to the small compass and the biennial appearance of & one-volume private edition, with the session duly inter- spersed, the bar has suffered no in- convenience. But in the federal laws the bulk and contents of the inter- vening legislation has now piled up into & mess which is a terror to the practitioner and a shocking waste of time. The state of things has now become intolerable. Since the com- pletion of your draft revision the failure to act has become a disgrace on the part of Congress. The shame of leaving the federal laws in this condition is no longer excusable on any ground.” As an illustration of how senators feel, Senator Nelson, chairman of the Senate judiciary committee, thinks very highly of " the work done by Representative Little and thinks that the recodification law ought to be passed without delay. Senator Ernst has promised many members in both the Senate and House to report the bill favorably long since, but so far his committes has not even met to consider it. * % ¥ % At present if one wishes to ascer- tain what the law is on any point, in order to be accurate he must examine thirty-six great law books. Much of the law is hidden in appropriation acts and is as difficult to locate as a needle in a haystack. The ink was scarcely dry on the first print of the old Revised Statutes of 1874 when Congress had to pass another law to correct thirty-four mistakes and this second law was made an appendix in the same book. Now, while the Senate has been refraining from action upon the Little bill, Representative Little h. been busy preparing two mew_bills, roval of the delay .in issuance Of!which he introduced In the Houce For ex-|last week, one to correct some slight errors that have been found In his recodification during the intervening twenty months, representing all that could be found after careful scrutiny by all departments of the govern- ment and the best legal research work of the country; the other sup- plementing his work with annota- tions. Representative Little shows that besides the thirty-four mistakes cor- rected in the 1874 compilation, 242 more mistakes were corrected again in 1877, and in 1878 a second cor- rected edition was published. In pre- paring his code Representative Little found sixty omissions that have for forty-eight years been absent from the Revised Statutes, and put them into the code. Yet all the lawyers concede that the Revised Statutes Is the greatest law book in the world. Since his bill passed the House Rep- resentative Little has found sixty-six mistakes in it, mostly slight mistakes in the wording. As his bill is three times as long as the Revised Statutes, 1f it contained the same percentage of errors as has been found in that greatest of all law mu,. it would 1,008 errors instead of Demand for Greatest Law Book| l l | SOME INSIDE STUFF ABOUT NEW YORK BY WILLIAM JOHNSTON. NEW YORK, January 12. I is always an inspiration to me to attend the opera, (13 ) { “You dropped your bag,” he sald, Me chanically she took it, and he van ished. A minute later she discovered * sald| that with him had vanished a brace the dowager sitting next to|let she was wearing. The bracclet, {1 me In the box at the Metro- | happened, was only junk, but in th. politan. “I do not mean the music, but the list of boxholders. That list is convincing proof that America is still the land of opportunity. Look at| s pACHI KIN the names. Half of the men at least are self-made, poor boys who have | worked their own way to the top. There's one for example”—she pointed t0 & name well known in industry—"I remember him when his father had a little tobacco shop and the family lived in two or three rooms behind it. He used to deliver our milk. Now they say he is worth forty millions. Gatti Casazza at the Metropolitan this year has introduced two 1nno- vations that are meeting with general approval from opera goers. “Parsi- fal,” which used to be almost an all- day affair, lasting from 11 o'clock until 6, has been considerably short- ened. In the recent revival of Ros- #ini's last opera, “Willlam Tell,” the delightful overture wus played at the beginning of the second act instead of the first, giving late arrivals & chance to hear it. As the fashionable hour for dining in New York is now 8 o'clock, opera box parties seldom arrive in time for any of the first act. Emile Coue Drinks Coffee. 'USBANDS whose wives are always insisting that they are drinking too much coffes may find comfort in the example of Coue. I was chatting with this distinguished propagandist of autosuggestion at a tea the other day, when one of the ladies insisted on his having some tea. “Do you drink tea and coftee” I|(iire Sherida asked him. “Certainly. not? Tea, coffee, water, wine, ever thing. What difference does it make? He is a typical middle-class French- | Al man, shori, clk -1 3 ged, with & white beard and a broad forehead. He speaks English, often misaccented, but intelligible. The most impressive thing about him is his simple sincerity. He believes de- voutly in himself and his message. ‘Wherever he appears he is sur- rounded by a clamoring multitude, portrait painters demanding a sitting, clergymen offering him their pulpits, magazine editors insistent on articles. | xpeing that are little known. society women, with dinner invita- tions, doctors demanding his opinions. to say nothing of scores of people|lohn with various ailments eager to be treated. Strange Things Happen. NOT long ago I was tulking to alustrade pr spinster who lives in a quiet Con- necticut village. “I should think you'd be afraid to £o out in the streets in New York,” she said. “I read in the papers about the murders and hold-ups you have there every day.” According to the vital statistics New York has an average of one mur- der a day. but in the years I have been in the metropolis I never have happened to see either a murder or a hold-up, though I did see something happen not long ago as the crowd emerged from the opera. A woman with her husband was amazed to find i AL Coue answered, “why | Vincent A | | i bag that was not hers was elev. dollars and a gold vanity case. An Interesting Japanese. SUKE came to this country twenty odd years ago to be educated in an American uni versity and has been here ever since His education completed, he was fired with three ambitions, to master English more thoroughly than other Ja ese, to have articles printed in every American magazine and to become a tennis champion. In the first two am bitlons he was successful, but 1 do not think he ever succeeded in winning i tennis cup. ' Now, after all these years he is going back 'to Japan for the first time for a visit, with commissions to write articles for a newspaper, a weekly and a monthly magazine. More than any other Japanese, in my opinion, he has been responsible for diffusing knowledge about Japan in this count for he, like the able Japanese cons | Beneral, Kvo Kumasali, has a_compre- hension of the American viewpoint which is something that most Japan diplomats fail to grasp. Many Paintings Exhibited. CORES of exhib place at this season of the yea: in New York. It is the tradition of art circles to have them open with “Varnishing day,” an invited affal the day before the public is admitted The last one I attended, that of the new Society of Artists at the Ander son galleries, was interesting because of the celebrities it attracted from th: society and art world. At the t table were Mrs. William Astor Chau ler, Mrs. Paul Dougherty, Mrs. Efror Zimbalist, Miss Elsie De Wolfe and . while among those in specting the pictuges I noticed Burrymore, Cl ence H. M Mrs. Ralph Pulitz Alma Gluck, George Barr McCuteheon Nast ‘and Frank nest Lawson had 3 e landscapes on view George Luks a painting or two and Joseph Pennell some of hix etchings. With the many other fine pictures shown it is a show worth seeing. N = of paintings Sights in the Churches. ANY of the churches of the me tropolis have sights well wort! In the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of St the Divine, on Morningsi there has just been set up « ue of Jo of Arc, by Anna _ Hayatr, that Is well worth looking at, after the visitor has inspected the twenty celebrities in stone in the bal nted by the daughters of Gen. Delafield. Each of these figures represents the most notable charac- ters of each of the centuries. Tn the Chapel of the Intercession Broadw: and 155th st t, there w recently set up and blessed a stone from St. Ethelburga's Church in Lon- don, where Hendrik Hudson and his crew took communion the Sunday be- fore sailing for America. Another interesting relic that has just come to New York is the plano used by Richard Wagner in compos- ing “Parsival” and “The Ring.' It was presented to Wagner by Ludwig of Bavaria. Just now it is being shown at No 457 §th avenue, bu: eventually it will be placed in one of igh a man thrusting something at her.ithe museums. Heard and Seen There will come to Washington this week Emile Coue of Nancy educator, not “miracle man.’ His name is pronounced four way: Some say “Coo-ay,” some say “Cool others pronounce it “Coo,” and a few have been known to come out with “Cow.” Only the first is correct. Just as there is only one proper way to pronounce the name, there is only | discussed as follows in The Star © one right way to look at the man and his message. Just as 75 per cent of the pronounciations are Wrong. are 75 per cent of the ideas about him. | Coue is not a “doctor.” He heals no one, and never has healed anybody. He is the first one to say so. He is an educator, pure and simple. With a fervor and convictlon that have swept his simple message around the world, he brings tidings of self- help, self-confidence and optimism. He is the exponent of the inner hap- piness. so * % * In view of the good in the man’s message, in view of his simple hon- esty and unworldliness, it is difficult to understand the attitude of those, even though their number be small, who scoff at Coueism. Perhaps no better touchstone to reveal a certaln trait in human na- ture could be desired than Coue. His method of induced autosugges- tion is so simple that it offends some. These people fall into two classes. those who are ultra-intellectual and those who normally sneer at anything that is new. Both classes at first say, “Why, it's all bunk.” Later, when the thing has spread widely, they declare, “Oh, it's old stu But both refuse the message. That is the point. They will have none of it. So they miss a good thing. * * ¥ Nobody who believes in Coue and what he fs trying to do will spend much time in attempting to argue anybody into taking it up. Those who need what he has to give will freely accept it, as -he freely gives it. verything for nothing” way they express it lan i n_our own country of “go- getters” and blah-blah, it must be admitted there exists a great deal of timldity, much lack of self-confidence, and some sadness, All of these people can be helped by Coue. His childishly simple for- mula, at which the people who know it all laugh, Is just the sort of thing needed by thousands of people. * is the in his native CE W Local doctors already report the finding of strings bearing twenty knots in many sick rooms in Wash- ingtotn. These strings are part of the (oue method. being used by believers to count the number of times they re- peat the general formula, the now famous “Day by day. in every way, I'm getting better and better.” Physicians, almost without excep- tion, are welcoming this new way by means of which their patlents are implanting in themselves new depths of self-confidence in the healing powers of nature, ths “res medicatrix naturae” of the anclents. * * * But perhaps the greatest gain to be secured by the average person from practicing the Coue method is a new sense of happiness, It comes tc pass, as M. Coue says it’ will. Inner wells of happiness seem to be tanped, so that where b fore existed only vague unhappiness, real happiness comes into beiug. As the old sadness was without reason. so the new inner happiness seems to be without reason, until the “method” {s remembered. ‘Then it is realized that by means of this simplo method, the gift of a real humanitarian, touch with the infinite. CHARLES | Fifty Years Ago in The Star. Susan B. Anthony often proudly re- ferred in her arguments for woman suffrage to the Susan B. Anthony's fact that ahe Y had once been Arrest for Voting. . ccteq forat- This incident is tempting to vote. : January 10, 18 “In the case of Susan B. Anthon) and fourteen other Wwomen arre: 1 Rochester. N. voting iilegaily, M the counsel for Miss A. bro historical facts wort 4 plying to cuting counsel that at the time of the adoption of the Constitution women were not allowed to vote from any state in the Union, Mr. Van V. denied the truthfulness of the assertion. He said in the case of New Jersey, where for years the women voted and their right to do so was recognized by the state statutes. In the vear 1800, he sald, the women generally voted at the presidential election.” The con- stitution of Georgia adopted, in 1789 permitted women to vote and he understood they availed themselves of the privilege. “In this case,’ said he, ‘women have broken down all the barriers spoker of by Judge Cartter and have actually voted. 1In_the action brought women in the D. €. against inspectors who refused their votes Judge Car ter holds that the Constitution gives the right to vote to women, but that Congress must first enact laws to enable them to exercise the right of suffrage. This inability has becn over- come by Miss Anthony without the ald of Congress. He then went on (o argue that in construing the Consti- tution we are not to ask what the framers of different sectlons Intended. but what the people who adopt the entire instrument intend and under- stand by it. “*“This defendant statemen rs he, ‘believed she had a right to vote and exerciser that right; she had no intent to break the law and is no criminal; and wc must find that they committed an fmmoral lack and intended to violate the law or s not hold them The judge didn't seem to take this ingenlous view of the case. however and required bail for the trial of th prisoners. Miss Anthony refused t give ball, she now says. because she desired the matter 1o be placed fn such a legal attitude that it could be brought before the United States Supreme Court for a decision. “As stated elsewhere in our col- umns today, Susan will be here nex! week to look after Congress and ‘run’ the annual conveniion of the Nationa! Woman Suffrage Assoctation, of which she is president. She has announced her intention of having no sideshows this vear at the convention, so there will be no room for the little red- heuded man carrying a banner in scribed ‘Peace on earth. good will 1o men,’ and bearing ethnographic rep resentations, who occupied g promi- nent place on the platform last year As to dissertations on dress reform the social evil, lectures to mothers. etc., she'll have none of it. Susan doesn't want any nonsense this year: not she. She wants everybody who takes part in the convention to go in hammer and tongs for woman suf- frage and nothing else, She believes. naturally enough, that suffrage once secured the settlement of side lssues will speedily be accomplished.” A letter had been received by Mrs. Beiva A. Lockwood from Miss An- thony, it appears in the news col- umns of the same issue, the great suffrage leader said: “We meun to hav surveyed, but now of legialative 1 do not ti vention should discuss any of laterals. but only just the top root. that is the ballot secured in our hands In our May convention we will dis- cuss side questions. but not in Wash- s every question At this Stuge, both 1 proceedi hington con- one is put in|ington. Just now we cannot afford to give the assembled hundseds any- E. TRACEWELL. !thing but strong meat.” V-