Evening Star Newspaper, January 16, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR ! stock the yards for the summer and *| tall purchases. With Sunday Morning Edition. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C. TJESDAY.....January 16, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office. 111h St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 150 Nassau 8i. Chicago Office: Tower Bullding. European Office : 16 Regent St.. London, England. | The Erening Star. with the Sunday mornin »dition, 1a delvered by carriers within fhe eity at 80 centa per month: daily on's. 45 cents per month: Sunday only, 20 cents per month. OF- flors way be sent by mal or telephoue Maln 5000. "Colection fs made Ly carriers at the wnd of each month. Rate by Mail—Pagable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunda; Daily only. Bunday only. 1¥r.. $6.0 All Other States. Daily and Suaday Daily only. Sunday only $7.00: 1 mo.. #0c $3.00: T mo., 25¢ Member of the Associnted Press. The Associated Press is exclnsively eutitied o the use for republication of all news dis- patelies credited to it or not ofherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- lished “berein. All rights of pullication of special dispatches herein are slso reserved. —_— e German Resistance Fautile. It probably is a matter for surpris that French occupation of the has been attended by no more serious disorders than have far been re. pofted. Human nature being as it is. it would have been too much to expect the Germans to submit to the occupa- tion without any show of opposition, but the French appear to be conduct- ing themselves with admirable straint and moderation. that the incident at Bochumi, where French soldiers fired into a crowd, kill- ing one person and wounding others, was provoked by the mob first having fired on the French troops. A. single volley seems to have been sufficient to s0 take the fight out of the Germans, and | the French were. content to let it go at that. The attitude of the German govern- ment and industrial leaders is aggr vating in the extreme, and the French apparently have mno choice except cither to put the screws on tighter or admit the failure of And the French, of course, are not go- ing to admit failure this early in the game, into whatever admissions fu- ture developments may force them. Americans were opposed to occupation of the Ruhr, not because they did not believe it was justified, but because they thought it unwise. The French thought otherwise, and took action which was well within their Having taken the step, they row are doing exactly what any other self- respecting government would do in like olrcumstances—they are trying to mike occupation effective and thus demonstrate the wisdom of their course. If they are pushing into Ger- | many beyond the limits of their orig- inal announcement, it is because the Germans are doing everything in their power to thwart the French program. However natural the resentment which Germany feels. impartial ob- servers cannot but b§lieve the Berlin government is making a serious mis- take, and one which is bound to result in unnecessary injury and hardships. ‘The Germans certainly have mistaken the temper of the French government and people if they believe that the placing of obstacles in the way of the French program will cause the French to ebandon it. French penetration of German territory will continue until either results are obtained or the French are satisfied that the impos- sibility of obtaining results is due to something other than German “pas- sive” resistance. Mr. Bryan Cautious. In an interview yesterday, Mn. Bryan, after declaring for progressive policles—relief for the farmers, Justice | for the wage-earners and the curbing of profiteers—said @s respects next vear: Of course, no one can say at the present time to what extent interna tional affairs may divert attention from purely domesic questions in 1924. The longer one takes part in public life the less inclined he becomes to Zuess far in advance. Experience teaches that many changes are pos- sible In these times in a very short period. Mr. Bryan has been taking part in public life—our national public life— for & quarter century. In that time he has known many predictions made, and probably made not a few himself. He speaks from experience. ‘What he says is distinctly true. Pre dicting “far in aedvance” is always risky. It has never been more risky than now. Indeed, conditions are such it is not worth while. For there has never before been so much pertinence to the old question, who may say what a day may bring forth? It Europe and the near east light up with war flames again the effect is certain to be world-wide. In some way —possibly in several ways—we shall inevitably feel it. We could not es- cape. < So that forecasting next year's cam- paign at this time cannot be a serious performance, and matters are too grave for reckless speculation or idle talk. But 1924 is not far off, and when it arrives, with its engagements and obli- sations, the politicians will have to meet it and bestir themselves. A winter season may escape the severe cold wave, but never the grip germ, Next Season’s Coal Supply. ‘While confidence is expressed by the coal commission in its report to the President and Congress that an agree- ment will be reached in the near fu- ture to avert a widespread cessation of mine operations in the union fields mext April, it must be borne in mind that this covers only the bituminous supply, inasmuch as the contract here in the anthracite field has been shifted from April 1 to September 1. It is, of ocourse, to be hoped that a similar egreement will be made to insure hard coal mining continuously into the next eontract year. Under the former conditions, with the contract year beginning April 1, most of the anthracite supply for the winter following was mined under new T, $2.10: 1 mo., 20¢ | $10.00: 1 mo.. 86c | Rubr | it develops the adventure. | rights. | It is naturally expect- | ed that with the present contract run- ning into September 1 a large accumu- lation of anthracite will be possibie | during the spring and summer to fore- | stall the possibility of a suspension of work in September. In this connection,a statement madoi by the commission in its report is to be carefully considered. With refer- ence to the carriage of coal the com- mission notes that' there can be no satisfactory solution of the transporta- | { tion problem *'so long as the railroads | are subjected to peak loads of coal traflic at the season when the demands {of agriculture and industry are at their height.” By April 1 the “winter” demand has | Leen fully supplied from the mines. 1t | should be assured that coal is moved for the winter use immediately. The congestion that occurs at ship- | ping points should be avoided by the | earliest possible transport of anthr | cite to the point of retail distribution. | i The coal that is put over the rails im-, mediately will not clog the lines. That | will the yards, but it is better to have the yards choked at the, distributing end than the stock | piles choked at the preloading end. | Early buying of coal is therefore to | be urged upon everybody. If the coal | is moved immediately from the mines, | s stored early at the distributing yard, | ordered at once by the consumers—if, | n short, the domestic bins are filled | to capacity by midsummer, before the | { crop movement ‘begins over the rail- | 1oads—there will be no “fuel 1 % { next winter, even though a strike oc- | {curs on the 1st of September. : The anthracite-using public. there- | fore, must be persuaded to oror early. | | The situation demands co-operation of i this character. It should not be diff- cult to convince the retail users of anthracite. in view of their present experiences with short' allotments. to take this step to forestall another| shortage. ext i 1 perhaps choke i lem’ ' i | An Unsafety Week. Washington started an ‘“unsafety esterday, when four people led by automobiles and one by car, and several were usly injured by motors. | January 15, 1923, will stand as one of the blackest days in the history of the | city in point of street cagualties. The habit of carefulness on the part of both drivers and pedestrians has not been acquired. The lesson of the | terrible consequences of inattention, speed and indifference to rules su ! posed to have been taught by bitter experience, and particularly by .the safety week' demonstrations of a | short time ago has not been learned. In at least one case of those that so i tragically marked yesterday's happen- jing excessive speed was accountable. A machine was being driven at a fu: fous pace along the highway and } struck two people walking along the road, passing on without pausing, @ { shocking exhibition of callousness. { In the other cases there may have been fault on both sides, on the part | of the pedestrians or on the side of {the motorists. But in every case it iwas the motor that did the Killing. Had these machines been driven at a | more considerate rate of speed so that { { they would have been quickly halted ‘probably none of those hit would have | been killed or badly hurt. ! In considering who is to blame in | the matter of these traffic accidents | it is to be borne in mind that a ma-| jority of the street mishaps due to| breaches of the rules are between mani chine and machine, and not between machine and pedestrian. Every day there are numerous collisions, side- swipes, bumps and scrapes, or wrecks, due to sudden sideswings to avoid col- lision. In some of them the occupants of the machines are hurt and in some only the motors are damaged. But this long and continuing list of motor clashes shows clearly that a great many of those who drive cars do not observe the rules and are not careful. Forfeiture of license would seem to e the proper remedy as against those who flagrantly disobey rules that are made for the safety of all. As the case stands now there is practically no penalty when a pedestrian is hit, whether killed or merely injured. In all but the rarest instances the drivers of cars in such cases are exonerated. Prosecutions are o few as to be con- splcuously exceptional. Yet the deaths continue and the pedestrian is blamed, when it is patent to any observer of street conditions that there is more careless driving than careless walk. ing. Something must be done to save lives. ———————— street more less ser The coal consumer cannot under- take to have an argument with the dealer that will last as long as the dis- cussion between miner and operator. The wage-earners may lay up a strike fund, but the fuel-burners have found no way to lay up a community coal pile to be drawn against in climatic emergency. An eight-yearold motion picture star is worth several million dollars. There is no doubt about his having been one of those good boys who al- ways saved their money. e The strikers at the Bochum steel factories, now taken over by French troops, are not altogether out of sym- pathy with their old employers. The Ambassadorship to Cuba. Raising the Cuban diplomatic billet from @ mission to an embassy finds here and there a critic. Why, it is asked, have put that post on a par with the great European and Asiatic posts? Several reasons why. An excellent one is that Cuba, though a small coun. try, is @ near neighbor and our rela- tions with her are intimate and un- usual. We stand for her with the out- side world, and should help her in every way to stand for herself. She is important to us and we to her in the present posture of world affairs, and developments may emphasize the re- lationship, Our iifterests in the West Indies will increase rather than dimin- ish, and Cuba will remain Queen of the Antilles. ¢ ‘We are starting with the right man’ in the new order of things. Gen. Crowder has exceptional qualifications for the duties he will take up—or rather for continuing the duties he | understand | tive THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, TUESDAY. JANUARY 16, has for several, years had in hand. In a way and to a degree, he has been an ambassador ever since his arrival in the island. But, after his stay, we shall con- tinue to need men of his quafity and cquipment at Havana. Hence the wisdom of making the post attractive to such men—of paying them well— the salary of an ambassador is now 00 smali—and of investing them with full diplomatic dignity. A great deal of important work will be transacted at Havana right along. A Master of Det: From a report of the Mann memo rial service held in the hall of the | House Sunday: Speaker Gillett how such close touch legislatoin, and Mr. Mann kept in with all details of Democratic Leader {Garrett said he often marveled at the ability of Mr. Mann to grasp the in- timate knowledge of legislation which characterized his extended service, Tr from both sides of chamber, and well deserved. Mr. Mann was a master of legisla- detail—probably the most con- summate master the House has known in a generation. His industry was un- flagging. He was always and forever on the job. His vigilance was cease- less. ‘He was never caught asleep at the switch. His patience was inex- haustible. He would listen to any ex- planation number of explanations of any measure in hand for action. There is no thrill in this sorf utes the of ! work. The legislator who performs it | is seldom fully appreciated during his life. His eye is too keen to please those are in haste to put things over, ur those whose measures will not bear a close examination. He stops jobs. He balks intended raids on the Treasury. In a word. his success is is who | often at the expense of his popularity. But he comes into his own later, as Mr. Mann did, when his course is fin- ished and the record is appraised at its true value. Mr. Mann cared nothing for show. | He was all for business, and wanted business transacted in a plain way. He was no wordspinner, and held in small esteem what he called “fancy phrases.” His party in the next House—indeed, the country—will miss him. Men so capable, and so willing | to address themselves as a duty ta the humdrum do not often appear in | office. B The activities of Mr. serve to suggest to Mr. an association McAdoo may Will Hays that with the motion pic- i tures need not permanently destroy a man’s taste for politics. ¥ The fact that Russia has not done much with political economy does not prevent her from insisting that she is strong on art and literature. When investigation reveals the fact that-prices are too high, the average consumer can usually declare in all candor that he knew it first, The impeachment rumor oc ally asserts itself, but with nothing like the emphasis and reliabifity of the resignation rumor. Moscow promises to send us some good actors in generous return for the | bad actors the I. W. W. sent over to ! Europe. When Clemencesu was here he talked interestingly to the American people, but evidently did not tell all he knew. Barnum said, “The public likes to be humbugged,” but did not imply that | every amateur is competent to do the trick. The process of, political evolution going on in Europe does not particu- larly interest Col. Bryan at present. ——— The German paper mark again re- cedes in value, but a lump of coal be- comes more precious every day. The occupation of the Ruhr shows signs of being busier in a military than an industrial sense. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Miss History. ©Oh, Miss History, standin’ on the shelf, You keep a-tellin’ stories till you must repeat yourself. You show how back in Eden fam'ly trouble came to view— Oh, Miss History, tell us something new! Oh, Miss History, a-taikin’ kind Until you lose your temper and are changin’ of your mind! You make a happy promise; then you leave us feelin’ blue— Oh, Miss History, tell us something new! big an’ ©Oh, Miss History, you've been a-makin’ laws; The righteous folks obey 'em and are givin’ ’em applause, But the sinner keeps a-doin’ same as like he used to do— ©Oh, Miss History, tell us something new! Extreme Measures, “I understand you have taken up the study of hypnotism. I have,” replied Senator Sorghum. “A lot of the folks out home are be- coming so dissatisfied the only way to get 'em to vote for me will be to mes- merize ‘em.” Jud Tunkins says he was once one of those “happy barefoot boys,” but he’s been a heap more comfortable since he was able to wear shoes. Musings of a Motor Cop. - As o'er Hortense sweet slumber crept An earthquake through the city swept. Hortense dreamed on, believing that She fiivvered and a tire went flat, Power of Suggestion. “Why do you agrieulturists find so much fault?” “I dunno,” rejoined Farmer Corn- tossel, “it's something we catch from you all speechmakin’ politicians.” “Time is money,” sald Uncle Eben, “but de kind of money & loafer’s time is wuth s aid he never could | Few Americans ever had to their credit the cosmopolitan experiences | of George+Horton, consul general at Smyrna, now on leave In Washington. Into seventeen years in the underpaid employ of Uncle Sam Mr. Horton has crowded an eternity of hard servic President Roosevelt sent him us con- sul general to Athens in 1905, and |during the Taft administration he was transferred to Saloniki (Turkey) and later to Smyrna. After the United States entered the war In 1917, Horton was sent back to Salonlki, be- cause of its political importance to the allied cause. In May, 1919, he was restored to his old post at Smyrna, j“men he still holds. He kept the Stars and Stripes flying during “the [ sacking of the city by the ‘While America was a neutral, | General Horton, at Smyrn; looked after the interests of the TUnited States, Great Britain, France. Italy, Russla. Serbia, Montenegro and Rumania. He was the busiest man in Asia Minor. Horton's wife is a Greek lady. formerly named Saco- poulo, an Athenian. Forw There is due in New York today or tomorrow for a week's sojourn on American soil the Viscount Burnham, one of London's great newspaper magnates. He Is the proprietor and publisher of the Daily Telegraph. ord Burnham carries the initials > H." after his name, meaning com panion of honor, one of the titles cre. jated for particularly meritorious serv- lice to the British war cause. The West Indies is Lord Burnham's {only port of call on our side of the Atlantic besfles New York. He is en route to India to attend a British imperial press conference and will discuss empire publicity with the Jamaicans and the Bermudans. Those loyal subjects of his Britannic ma. esty's oversea dominions chronically complain of the inadequacy of com- munication between themselves and their mother country. Cable tolls are 75 cents a word and the mall service doesn’t compare with the faciliti between America and Great Brifain, or between Canada and the British Isles. Lord Burnham, a great British imperialist, intends bettering thos conditions, if he can. The Pllgrims of America, of which Chauncey M. Depew is president, will “entertain him on January 23 * % k% Consul i { | €crtain republican leaders affirm, asseverate and aver that Dr. Royal S. Copeland, senator-elect from New York, is really a G. 0. P. man, though he won as a democrat in the “Al" Smith landslide. Said republicans as- | sert that Dr. Copeland became mayor | 1of Ann Arbor in 1901 on their ticket| and claim, too. that he voted for| Harding and Coolidge in 1920. Cope- Jand, who calls himself an ophthal- mologist. ought to bring some useful knowledge of foreign affairs into the Senate. After leaving the University | Congress Should Aid British Debt Mission. These seems to be general agree- | ment among American editors that | every possible assistance should be given, not alone by the administra- tion, but by Congress, to the British | debt ‘adjustment commission 8o that | that particular set of obligations, at | least, can be adjusted, funded and | gotten out of the way Mr. Baldwin’s frankness in statjng | that the debt was such that if the American law on the subject re- mained in force it would mean £60, 000,000 expense annually, which was too great a burden for Britain at| present, leads the New York Globe | to suggest that “his frankness was | to be regretted” as it “adds another | difficulty to an already delicate situa- | tion.” statement, however, proves to the Sioux City Tribune “the proposition will never down that the questions of reparations and al- lied debts must be settled as one problem.” And it confirms the be- lief of the Roanoke Times that “it| is to the interest of both countries | to avoid, or at least minimize, any | {1esulting disturbance of exchange” {in all neogtiations and Congress should do its part as asked, because “there is gothing to be gained except | ill will by pressing a_ willing but| temporarily embarrassed debtor. It | !is much easier to say ‘pay us what { | you owe’ than it is to advance a defi nite, comprehensive and satisfactory method of payment.” The question of abandoning the debt long ago has beerf disposed of, the Philadelphia_Record holds, ani because of this fact, the British a titude “that debts which are not di honored and repudiated must be paid is pleasing, and “the funding of the British war debt will strengthen the credit of Great Britain in the finan- cial markets of the world” ~The Grand Rapids Herald feels that this country “must grant whatever the final necessitios 6f the occasion r. quire. This is all the Baldwin ml sion asks. To ask less would be an insult to British solvency and a relapse from the bases of Sound in- ECHOES FROM ‘WEAK FOREIGN POLICY. The nations lu:chled‘ wi.l:_l c;’r:' ted States In the great wi - H;‘-::: as selfish the neutral attitude we at first assumed, and they deplore the refusal to participate in arrange- ments for peace and the rehabilita- tion of Europe—Senator Robinson, Arkansas, democrat. THE DIRECT PRIMARY. 1 firmly believe that our govern- ment, for its success, certainly for its efficient functioning, depends upon par- ties. The direct primary * * ¢ de- stroys the power of parties to legislate, and permits a few by a combination with the minority party. to either defeat legislation entirely or to prevent the carrying out of 'policies for which that party stands pledged.—Senator Ball, Delaware, republican. AMENDING THE DEBT-FUNDING ACT. t to know on what basis -Z’V&.’“u‘fing. and we must have that knowledge before we amend the debt commission ‘law. So I submit that every parliamentary tactic will be re- sorted to in order to prevent such an amendment as has been suggested un- $il our debt commission and the for- eign commissions take, us into their confidence. 1 protest’ against the secfecy of these negotiations—Senator McKellar, Tennessee, democrat. FREE SEEDS. S 1 appeal to the senstor to let us cdontinue in the bill the item for seed distribution. If it shall be con- tinued, dens will spring up as if by magic; choice green vegetables pasking in the sun and reveling in l rain will rise up and call him blessed, and when the table groans with a variety of fruits of the garden and the faces about such a splendid repast are beaming with smiles, all will efully remember that while republican senators were proposing 2 subsidy of $60,000,000 to the ship- ping trust they paused long enough to permit $360,000 to be appropriated to_encourage citizens everywhere to, raise their own vegetables by dis- tributing a.wt. them a variety of choice vegetable seed. I appeal to the senator from Massachusetts to harden not his heart.—Senator Hefiin, [1920. Washington Observations BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WIL — of Michigan, he took post-graduste wcourses in England, France, Germany, Bwitzerland and Belgium, and is master of the languages of those countries. He has been a delegate to many foreign medical congresses. * ok ok ox Solicitor General James M. Beck has just concluded the argument beéfore the Supreme Court of one of the un- usual cases now and then brought be- fore our tribunal of last resort. coneerns the attempt of high-caste Hindu of full Indian blood to retain American citizenship. His name is a Bhagat Singh Thind and he was nat- | uralized over the objection of the United States in Oregon in November, Thind claims he is a white per- ®on within the meaning of our stat- utes. U'ncle Sam denies that conten- tion. In a brief that mingles power and eloguence Solicitor General Beck quotes Iidmund Burke's celebrated address in the house of lords at _the trial of Warren Hastings, in which Burke contraverted the claims of In- dians to be ranked as white men. “That speech,” says Mr. Beck, “was probably well known to those who In itiated ~our naturalization policy. The' solicitor gengral also cites Rud- yard Kipling on the “White Man's Burden,” declaring: “While the prob- lem of British rule in India our affair, whatever may be tho white man’s burden the ‘Hindu does not share it, but rather. he imposes it.” The present case is not unlike the Ozawa case, recently decided in the Supreme Court adversely to the Japa- nese petitioner's contention that he was @ “free white person * % ox Advices reach America from Japan to the effect that if Roscoe Arbuckle is denied the right to star in fitmdom in his own country he will open a cafe in Tokio. Arrangements to that end ‘were completed when ‘“Fatty” was in exile in Japan last year. Ar- buckle received tumultuous ovations at Tokio and assurances that the San Francisco episode which arrested his popularity in America had not dim- med his luster in Nippon. Japanese capital for a Tokio cafe venture was promised him and even the name of such an_establishment was decided. it is to be “Debu-kun," meaning ‘Mr. Fatty,” by which title twe rotund screen star is known to millions of Nipponese. ok ox Future citizens of the District of Columbia—the high school boys and girls of Washington—are allve to the necessities and aspirations of the community to which they belong. The English class of the third vear at Central High School this week held a debate on the venerable question of the District's right to suffrage. The toys and girls who advanced the af- firmative side of the issue won. They stressed the point that taxation with- out representation is as wnjust today as It was in Patrick Heénry's time. (Copyright, 19237 EDITORIAL DIGEST ternational credit. . To ask more would be an-affront on British honor. To. grant less would be a stigma upon American wisdom and legiti- mate American contribution to in- tetnational fraternity.” . Regardless of all else the Chicago News is con- vinced that “President Harding's sug- geation that Congress loosen the shackles on the debt-funding com- mission is wise. It ought to be acted upon” ThTs likewise is the opinion of the Baltimore News, which holds that “until Congress removes | the restrictions which have been laid upon *the refunding commission, or else reaflirms them, negotiations be- tween our people and the British will be purely for the purpose of killing time.” th assistant, Mr. Baldwin and_ his' chief Mr. Montague C. Norman. are British financiers of the best type,” says the Nashville Banner. which feels that their standing will | make it easy for this government to | 1! i gesture, is not | jend so terrible. | ticate. 1923. NEW BOOKS I AT RANDOM A BOOK ABOUT MYSELF. By Theo- dore Dreiser. Boni & Liveright. This bas been called an honest book. It fIs. Honesty, however, is not the motive power behind it. Self- absorption is the driving force of the istory. And a perfect abandon of self- disclosure delivers it. Honesty is a mere uccident in this passion for self- expression, where nothing pertaining to the writer is negligible, where everything is vital words. Mr. Dreiser does. He here gravely offers a 500-page volume to project the content of a four-year period of his, to him, momentous daily existence. Only that innocence of mind possessed by children alone— children and a few Mr. Dreisers— could, in sober earnest, achieve this His. painstaking devotion to all the multifarious *detajls of him- self containd a glint of humor for the reader, while to the writer it is obviously up to the last letter a most serious business. And to be sure, everybody is to himself a business Fortunate the one, how: ever, who learns to laugh a little now and then over the fix he is in. This is the fix that we are all in. Mr Dreiser -is one of the unlucky who never for an instant sees the joke ot himself. o If the author were to build a house in the manner of his building this book any one qualified to pass upon his work would say, right off, that he was no architect; that he had not the ghost of a notion of those pro- rortions upon which any structure depends for much of its beauty and for the most of its stability. And Mr. Dreiser would say that he knew this very well; that he was not try- ing to create architectural units, but that, rather, he was following the pling of thé Almighty, who never takes the trouble to show to man any complete and rounded aspects of life, but leads him instead through a hit- or-miss welter of events, which He suddenly shuts off squarely before one can gather even a hint of gen- eral design or purpose or of his own individual part in working out some special pataterd. God, and the Hus- sian writers, and Mr. Dreiser, all work that way. ' * % % % Tramping the Chicago streets on the trail of news, this *overgrown, unwaywise boy became an explorer, an avid youth hunting life. And he came upon wonderful things Over- Joyed, he found out that the big city was of itself a personality, with hours of bewitchment upon it—the nignt, the brooding dawn, the open day. Amazed, he discovered much about the sublimate chemistry of all cre- ation—man, human life, so beautiful These contacts soak- ed through his senses down into his emotions. The boy became , over- charged and was likely to explode with the wonder of its existence. A little part of this he came gradually to let out on paper for newspaper print. Much the larger part of it, however, went into romantic philan- derings,” tenuous and unreal as dreams. Phe lovely chin and throat curve of a girl, or sheen of hair, or lure of glance, would send him off into some impossible seventh heaven. He mouthed queer things—some of it poetry—and worked out social theo- ries of his own—marriage a mistake; too many delays gbout it, the delay of courtship, the delay of engagements, the delay of the marriage ceremony itself: better to seize life hot off the| fire than to wait till it has grown clammy and tasteless like a cold pan- cake. ~He is vain, small advances in the For he did advance. A little of th surge got into his writing and the powers caught the difference between his copy and that of the more sophis. They thought, guardedly, it might go, that they might press game. that not be unreasonable” in meeting the |give the fellow a little more rope situation becuuse has never been a nation to undue hardships on any other with which it has been associated by the chances of peace or war, but it is very properly impressed with the be- Mef that loans made in good faith should be repiid in the same manner. It is safe to believe that war debts will be settled by this country on any reasonable basis, but absolutely without reference to cancellation as a possibility’ The request that the terms be made “elastic’ a “re sonable request, one that Congress should ungrulingly grant,” the Bos- ton Transcript is assured.’ This is as well the opinfon of the New York Post, which suggests that “if we shrink from the thought of Germany in a collapss, dragging down with her the creditor nations, we cannot contemplate with _equanimity . the crippling of Gireat Britain's economic life carrying with it the enfeeble- ment of the economlc pulse of the world at large. If common prudence and the recognition of the unity of world interest leads us to preach forbearance toward the aggressor in the war, there surely is an equal reason for practicing ferbearance to- ward an ally in the war and a nation which not so very long ago we were in the habit of regarding as our partner in the maintendnce of world peace. CAPITOL HILL THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION. The proposition for the Federal Trade Commission, as orfginally pre- sented on the floor of this House, was that it was to be a helpful agency to the business of the country, and, so far as I know, no one ever thought that it would become a smelling com- mission, looking into what it could find in the way of an excuse for prose- cution just because somebody “had succeeded in business.—Representa- tive Fess, Ohio, republican. COMPETITION IN. INDUSTRY. The principal object of competition is to drive out the competitor. Com- petition is destroying itself with the certainly of the operation of a mathe- natical law. When you have a cor- poration of $20,000,000 capital in an industry, and you have ten or fifteen or twenty men of a small capital of $5,000, these twenty men eannot exist in the industry.—Representative Lon- don, New York, soclalist. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TALKING AND SWEARING. 1 talked to a character witness who hed many favorable things to say about my client. When I called him to the stand in behalf of my client, to my amazement he testified he would not believe him under oath. I was dumfounded. “Do you not remember having a conversation with me this morning, and you said he was a man of good character, and you .would believe him on his oath?’ He re- plied: “Yes, squire—but, the situation is different. 1 was talking then, and I am swearing now.”—Representative Heflin of Alabama, democrat. THE BUDGET BUREAU UNDER FIRE. & ‘What is Congress for? Why pay 435 members to represent the Amer- ican people in the other branch of Congress if you are going to have a budget bureau of seven men to sit in judgment in these matters (agri- ural appropriations), and over- ride r will?—Senator Heflln, Ala- the United States| impose ! point now and then. The basic fact at this a_belated and painful adolescence— crazy and dazed with himself and with life a large part of the time. And he tells all he knows right in this book—at any rate, one hopes that he knows no more than he has told here. e x * The newspaper proved finally not to be his medium. The story, he feit, would make a better channel for him. So he fell to reading the best of our Inevitably an| jauthor in this state of being runs to serious | absurd, bombastic, grotesque, inordinately proud of his} s that the youth was sufferng| BY PAUL V. When has any economist boasted of the thriftiness of a community as proved. by the fact that most of its inhabitants rented their homes rather than investing in them? When has a| Jandlord computed his rent at a lower rate than the intefest value of the investment, ‘plus the annual depre- ciation ds the building grows old, and plus the cost of running, heating and lighting it? * Washington is to celebrate week soon, and day will be de- | voted especially to the cconomy of | owning instead of renting. Aside| from the convenience,:efliciency and| | comtort of occupying a building ex-| pressly planned for the purpose tol which it is put, the emphasis is to be | laid upop the fact that no investor| knowingly cheats himself in com- puting his rent rate on the interestj value of the money invested, as com- pared with what he would get on that amount if loaned on good curity. The owner, of course, gives| himself the benefit of all doubts and fixes his rents at the outside margin That is why thrift is measured not the great number of renters, but by the number of money-saving owners. * From that standpoint there is no more thriftless individual in Wagh-| ington than Uncle Sam. Hg has| plenty of cash which he might use in| erecting his own home, with special] quarters for the Secretary of Com-| merce, the Secretary of Labor and the ySecretary of State, besides quarter: owned by the government for twenty-| two bureaus of the Department of| Agriculture. Instead of thriftily be- coming his own landlord he persists in paying out millions of dollars an- nually in rent receipts! Uncle Sam can borrow capital for less than 5 per cent—yes, for less than 4 per cent— while other people have to pay from 6 to 8 per cent for what they need for building investments. The other tolks are clamoring for their own buildings to stop the loss of high rents. Uncle Sam is timidly wait- ing for what? For building cosi to come down. When building sts come down, rents will also’come down | proportionately, and then he will find | no greater reason for building than| is apparent now. Rents take their| cue from building costs and always| will. The government gets its loans for about half what private ndi- viduals but pays more for its| rentals than careful private renters, pay. Hence the arguments for gov-| ernment-owned departhent uildin are twice as potent as for private in-| vestors and home owners. To coim-| plete the needed government build- ings will’probably require four or five' years. Thrift one £ e | “Spare us from seeing the blue sky converted into a billboard!” is the cry of the lovers of nature and the beautiful. Here comes an applica tion to the District Cofamissioners, on | behalf of an Englishman, who want to employ an aviator who can write| letters & mile in length with a smoke pencil upon the blue sky while he speeds 120 miles an hour. That the application is in earnest is proved by the fact that the sky-writing has been done, and even in the same issue of the news telling about the appli- cation’ there comes the story from t California coast to the effect that a fog-bound ship summoned a pilot by writing’ with its powerful searchlight the word “pilot’” across the sky ‘ADDY\Al the fog. { | + & % At a dinner given in honor of M. Albert Thomas, director of the Inter- national Labor Organizataion of Eu- irope, the president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, Mr.| Julius H. Barnes, spoke in favor of| {the chamber of commerce becoming laffiliated with the international labor union. He disavowed any desire to level down American labor to the! grade of that of Europe, but rather; favored helping to “level up” Euro-| pean labor conditions. | President Barnes added: “It is with {speech CAPITAL KEYNOTES . COLLINS. That is a very interesting project and one which is o big that it can- not be comptehended without clearer elucidation as to just how the cham- ber of commerce, while maintaining its policy of open shop in America, is to become a part of an international labor organization. Neither Mr. Barnes nor M. Thomas has clearly set forth the plan of the international organization. How is American labor going about ti task of clevating the wages and livi standards of labor in Russia many, France or any other Eu war-stricken country? Thesproject is one which must appeal to the sym- pathies of all hymane people. there a practicable plan which may Jft it out of the merely ideal? The average efficiency of an America charic is several times that of average of the workmen of any tion of Europe—he will turn out se al times as much work per day as he European. * 1s it hoped to per- suade the Buropean to speed up ana earn as well as receive more? * v e The United States is interested in having Europe prosperous, for only & DProsperous customer is ustomer. Therefore, chamber of commerce, farmers and A\ » is the ' na a profitable not only the but > out manufacturers, are in terested in the success of any effor 0 @hhance the wages and standards of the European workers. The secret of helping along the return to the prosperity is partly demonstrated | the recent refusal of the Umited States to sell 500,000 rifles to Russia and a large supply of munitions 1o another Kuropean country. rifles which a It isnot 4 will aid Europe’s pros perity, but disarmament; and America might better turn the swords and rifles into plowshares than sell tiem to Europe at any price. *ixrxie Aren’'t college professors queer sometimes? Out in Chicago a pro- fessor astonished the facuity of great college by saying that the reason the professors could not teach the undergraduates anything was be- cause they did not know anything and the students had found it out. At the same time another college pro- fessor, speaking before the women s industrial convention in Washington solemly declared that the time was coming when men would do the housework and women would be en ployed digging ditches and 1 streets, running banks and perhaps. who knows, molding the laws of the country, in the halls of Congress and. in the White House. On that very day, too. Representative Robertson— our “Aunt Alice"—was telling a New York audience that women are fitted to be governors nor anything like that. With all this conflict of prophecy and judgment on the sexes, “where 4 are we at?’ That professor who would #et men to sweeping and to washing dishes left town before his had been reported and had eached the board of trade and the United States Chamber of Commerce There is more hope for the alleged ignorance of the Chicago professor * than there is for this man who would make squaw men of us all. There is a saying: “The man who knows noth- ing, and knows that he knows noth ing, teach him, for there is hope for such.” (The task is assigned to the undergraduates of the Chicago col- lege) But the professor who telis industrial woman that she may ex- pect men to do the knitting and tena he baby has not yet reached the ‘eend of larnin’.” Waste no time on him. for W was plum scared Wher he saw that feminine audience before him and he was not conscious of whaty he said. 'Tain't =o! There will be no more free seeds sent out by the statesmen of Con- gress to their admiring constituents. The House voted the seeds out sev- eral days ago, and now the Senate has given the death blow to the hopes of reinstatement of the $360,000 item to the agricultural bill. Never has a petty abuse died so hard a death as has this seed donation. It amounts o nothing to the individual bene- ficiary and its political advantage to the member of Congress has always | been doubtful and wholly unjustified + clean i/ L story-writers—Howells and the rest.inic jgea that the Chamber of Com-|It has mever been supported by any No, no: none of this would do—pretty, volite, polished things, but not real, had mothing at all to do with life. At the most these were but variants of the old fairy tale. Then he came upon Balzac and ate him up. Here was the very stuft of life, and here was the way to put it across. And by and by there will emerge Theodore Dreiser, writer of sprawling, cumber- some novels that are, nevertheless, acutely consclous of the ways of the human heart, hand in glove with the contradictions and vagaries of human behaviors. To go back to the book in hand, here is a big, bewlldered, groping. persistently groping, human, infinitely pathetio, not in himself alone as Theodore Dreiser, but as a! human implication in the wilderness ‘of life. A lovable person, too: but he would not care a straw for that. * ok ok ok A _THOUSAND AND ONE AFTER- NOONS IN CHICAGO. By Ben Hecht. Coviel-McGee. Another Chicago newspaper man. Awother rebel against the “hypocri- sies” of life and- letters. novelist, this one of a realism so deep and “thick as to menace one some- times with the ooze and slime of It. A genulne artist’ at heart; ifi be- havior, g freakish gamin who should be spanked. A follower of Theodore Drefser, whom. in frank homage, he classes with those “great questioners of the desires of the heart—Dostoev- sky, Schopenhauer, Dreiser and fah” ~ For the book in hand Ben lecht had a vision of the daily paper illuminated with bits of life—news, in fact—done in terms of literary art. ‘Why not? 8o, slipping into the role of the Lady Scheherezade, he betook himself to the streets of Chicago for a story & day, not to save his head, as in the case of the lady herself, but to indulge his literary soul instead. And these are the stories. Unlike Dreiser. Ben Hecht keeps himself in the background. His ego is less fm- portunate, less devouring than is that of Dreiser. He is the complete artist here—feeling. appraising, composing. vitalising, tailying the work step by step with the fact—a sincere and honest fellow getting the thrust and throb of life into these words. From street and alley. from police court and man hunt. from shop and dive, from lovely lake-washed afaternoons and deep_star-spangled nights—from these and nine hundred ‘and ninety- five other sources at hand he draws the substance of, this enchantment. For much of it fs enchantment.. All of it is of a quality to make one for- ®et, for the moment at least, his later literary misbehaviors — “Gargoyles.” for instance—which, in sum, convicts Hecht of, being completely destitute of any sense of the fitness of things. Even a very dull person can realize that a theme whose essential essence is privacy is constitutionally unfitted to provide suggestions for a street parade. Not Hecht—he does not see this. The illustrations? - Astonishing and, at first, past finding out, ex: that they jump out at one from in'a bisarre and audacfous at- tadk. TaM Another | is seri- of | merce of the United States ously considering the advisability participating, so that we may under- stand and influence comparative world | industrial relations.” 2 official or unofficial connection witit the legitimate interests of farming or gardening such as the Department of Agriculture, the farm press or the numerous organizataions of farmers. All these opposed it as a mere graft. Why has it died so hard? Failed to Find a Capitol Bar; i fi Alleged fniquities of life at the { capital of the nation, and particularly withing ‘the Capitol building, in 1910 ihad percolated to Gulfport, Missis- sippi, and the dis- trict thereabouts. { . Now Mississippi was very . “dry” ! even then, and the report that it was | possible to buy and drink- liquor across a bar in the Capitol caused | as much of a sen: sation in those parts . as the charges made by Representative Upshaw of Geor- gia today that members of Con- gress are wetting their whistles through the aid of bootleggers at the Capitol ' Pat Harrison, now Mississippi, was at that time dis- trict atorney. He has determined to make the race for member of the House from his district. An opponent by the mame of Tyler' was also in the running. And Mr. Tyler lighted upon a popular platform “plank” to drive the (supposed) bar out of the Capitol of the United States, Now Mr. Harrison did not Wish to adopt a platform plank of his opponent, particularly one upon which Tyler was laying such stress. Ow the other hand, the district was very “dry,” and it would have never done to oppose Tyler's stand on this:important ques- tion of relieving the lawmakers from the temptation of Bachus. So Mr. Harrison hit upon the plan of declar- ing that so far as lay in"his power, he would discourage the uke of liquor in the Capitol building when he got to Washington—if he did get there. As a matter of fact Mr. Har- rison at that time had never been in the Capitol at Washington. i Semator Harrison. senator from i Therefqre, Couldn’t Abolish Tt denouncing the bar in the Capitol was heard far and near. Of course, Mr. Harrison was heard occasionally on the same subject. Finally election day rolled around, and Mr. Harrison! was the winner. When he reached Washington, one of the first objects of interest which | the new congressman sought out w. the bar 4t the Capitol. Not, of course, to take a drink, but-merely 1o contem- plate it with a view to carrving out his pre-election pledges, if possible. There was no bar at the Capitol. he discovered. and what's more. there hadn’t been an open bar at the Capi- toi for a number of years. In his younger days, Mr. Harrison had been a newsboy, selling_pape in his home town of Crystal Springs, Miss. He wag a kind of supernews- boy, before he passed this phase of his career, making as much as $100 a month, which helped him along with his education and finally to college. One day after he had come to repre- sent Mississippi in the House, he found package of twenty-five newspaper: Memphi papers, ad- dressed to him. They were old papers. printed years befo Mr. Harrison couldn’t " understand why they had been sent to him, and flung them up on a shelf, to iie forgotten. Then came a letter from friends in Crystal Sp It appeared that the o'd railroad station had been torn down and the puckage of newspapers ad- dressed to Mr. Harrison had been un- earthed. They had been thrown from a train and lodged beneath the platform and there they had remained for veas So some of his frien mindful of his newspaper days, had thoughtfully forwarded them to Washington, Probably thousands of his country think of Senator Pat Harrison as “Irish,” at least of Irish descent. But they are all wrong. He is not, Wtien he was christened_his name was B. Patton Harrison. Patton was a family name and his family under- took to call the youngster “Patton.” His intimates fell into the habit of calling him “Pat” but it was well Tecognized that his right name was Patton. When he made a &id for political preferment Mr. Harrison fourd that in one pars of his district many of the people were Irish an: of irish extraction. His manager suggested that it would be well to advertise him as “Pat” Harrison_in this section of the state, and as Pat he was advertised. The name sinc aban i J “The campaign raged up and down the distri, Mg, Tyler's eloquence in In fact, Senator Harrison has doned the Patton entirely. He signs himself today simply Pat Harrison. A\