Evening Star Newspaper, January 18, 1923, Page 6

L [THE 'EVENING STAR, .__W“Il Sunday Morning Edition. ! WASHINGTON, D. C. 'HURSDAY....January 18, 1923 -— THEODORE W. NOYES...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania.Ave. ew York Office: 150 Nassau St. o Chicago Office: Tower Bullflln% Office : 16 Regent St., London, England. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning dition, {s delivered by carriers within-the city #t 80 cents per month: daily enly. 45 cents per menth; Sunday only, 20 cents per month. Or- ders may be went by mail or telephone Maln 000, Collection fs made by catriers at the d of each mouth, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $8.40; 1 mo., T0c Daily only 4 .1¥r.. $6.00; 1 mo., 50c Sunday oniy. ... .. 1 yr., §2.10; 1 mo., 20¢ ‘All Other States. Dally and Sunday..1 yr., Dalily only. a1 Bunday o Member of the Associated Press. The Aésociated Press is cxclusively entitied o the use for republication of all news dis- patches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- lished “herefn. ~All rights of publication of ecial hereio are also reserve e ——— Winter’s Sharp Touch. Washington is feeling its first really severe cold of the winter. It does not welcome the drop in temperature. It might do so if its coal bins were even half filled and the fair assurance of getling enougl last out the cold But with the coal in the cellar measured by the bushel rather than the ‘ton, and with the substitutes melting away rapidly, the state of the thermometer means distress of mind and impending dis- tress of body. A few years ago, when the rail lines ‘were choked with trafic and the weather Was severe, with a great deal of snow covering the countryside and blocking the tracks, this ‘city, with others, suffered severely from fuel shortage. liveries by rail and even moré difficult to gét deliveries by wagon. The local dealers werc hard pre the slender stocks they The result was houses in this city were cold, many people were exposed to disease and many of them, indeed, succumbed. This winter there is no serious track blockade. | The tracks are open, or may be opened by express orders, to the movement of fuel. There is a comparative shortage at the mines, owing to the fact that the strike cut down the spring and summer. produc- tion to practically nothing during sev- eral months. Despite the endeavors ©of commissions, both state and fed- eral, distribution has proceeded un- equally. Perhaps every eity feels that it is the victim of discrimination. Cer- tainly Washington feels thus, and that feeling increases the distress by add ing a sense of injustice to the phy strain. ‘Without doubt the local fuel dealers are doing their best to supply the people. They cannot give them all the coal they want. They are urging the use of substitutes for anthracite and are eking out their short receipts with care to provide a maximum number of persons with enough fuel to keep the fires going. By use of. substitutes, coke, bri- quettes and other sources of heat, this difficult time can probably be tided over. ndeed, there is no doubt that the winter will be passed without dis- ester. was some m sed were able that many to obtain, is sical of keeping from ‘freezing. . Those ‘who have enough fuel stored in their houses to insure the keeping of fires should refrain from seeking more, as an insurance, for every ton they take out of the common stock is denied to others who need it more urgently. Moderation in-the use of fuel and the aedoption of substitutes for an- thracite will greatly and in getting past these next few weeks, when .the thermometer will range between freez. ing and zero and when perhaps snow will come to add to discomforts and dangers. —_———— North and South America. ‘Secretary Hughes' second visit - to South America—let us all hope condi tions permit h'm to make it=follow- ing hard upon the first, will testify to the most friendly interest taken by this_country in that quarter of the hemisphere. 3 And why not the niost friendly in terest? The western hemisphere is the new world. Advanced as it is, its development has but begun. Why should not North America and South America cultivate relations of every kind: calculated to benefit both, and push_the hemisphere along the path of peace and progres The old world is in a state of dis- traction. ‘Old sores have opened and are discharging freely. The situ- ation is appalling, and even lieved now or soon, how loug they will stay relieved will be a problem. _This carries a lesson the new world should thorougaly learn. We on this side the big water should not ‘permit our affairs to take any such direc- tions, but should keep them sound and in a course of friendly assistance and co-operation. Mr. Hughes is the fourth Secretary of State within a score of years to visit South America with a message of good will. Mr. Root, Mr. Knox and Mr. Colby all returned with apprecia- tive reports of their Teceptions, and Mr. Fughes on his first visit had an experience of like character. A sec- ond such experience doubtless awaits him, —mom———— THe grip garm is an impudent creature that does not hesitate to defy Coue himself.’ The Traffic Problem. New ¥ork's traffic problem is great and growing. rapidly in-gravity. So many motor cars'ply the streets that congestion occurs in every section. On the principal. thoroughfares the lines of vehicles are almost continuous, and whenever the stream is checked to permit . cross-wise movement the blockades back up the lines almost solidly. So serious has this situation become that official thought is being given to the question of limiting the numbet of licenses. Magistrate House of the traffic court Is quoted in an interview as of the fuel to It was difficult to get de-| i to handle | 1t is inconceivable that an en-| tire city should be left without means | if re-| lessness may cause the loss of & home: opinion that it may be necessary for the city to ask a legislative enactment or to exercise arbitrary power to cut down the fleets of automoblies now crowding the highways. If the yearly percentage of cars increases at the rate of the last two years, he says, trafic will sgon come to a standstill for want of space in which to move. Since the beginning of the year the traflic court has heard 49,000 cases, and fines amounting to $500,000 have been assessed. Motoring has become the chief occu- pation of the American people, it would seem from any observation of conditions in the cities and the coun- try sections. The people are riding by the millions, wheréas a couple of decades ago only thousands moved about-by their own means of trans- port. The motor is used for the short- est distances. Errands of a few blocks 1l for motor service. Business trans- port demands motors, Social activi- ties are generally predicated upon per- sonal transportation. Pleasure riding has become a fixed American habit. Will it be possible to check the num- bers of motors in use by limiting the licenses? New York will have a tre-{ mendous fight on its hands if it seeks | through official agencies to shut off this source’ of supply of individual transport. Where can the line be drawn? Business first, naturally. But are tbe streets to be used only for strict business? What of the business men who regard the transportation of their persons as_of as much impor- tance as the movement of goods? he motor in truth, de- veloped rapidly that cities that were buiit with regard for the traffic of a slower pace cannot accommodate the volume of use. Regulations serve to lessen dangers and to facilitate movemets, but if the volume con- tinues to grow rules will operate main. 1y to redyce movement and to Increase congestion. Plainly, the problem in a great center like New York, and in less degree in other places where the geographical conditions are more fa- vorable to trafic movement, is one of the most serious of the time. car has; Bryan and Cockran. Near an and and personal fri ds, of the same political party Bryan and Bourke Cock m born for antago- nisms on some public questions. Years ago, when Mr. Bryan was the democratic candidate for President on L osilver platform; Mr. Cc w supporting a bolting movement on a gold platform. Mr. Bryan ated, and Mr. Cockran wa a share of the credit, or blame, just as one is inclined to assess the result. The mon on thus disposed of, prohibition after awhile became an issue. Mr. Bryan took the dry side, and was as dry as Sahara. Mr. Cock- ran took the wet side, and in his p nouncements was as wet as the lantic ocean. They met at San Francisco in 1920, Both were delegates to the democratic national convention, Mr. Bryan striv- ing for a dry platform, Mr. Cockran for a wet one. Both failed. The de- mocracy in its deliverance dodged. But the candidate nominated was wet enough to suit Mr. ‘Cockran, and so wet Mr. Bryan refused to stump {for him. e did not make a speech { during the campaign. Yesterday the two men spoke in this jcity, Mr. Bryan at a meeting of the ‘Woman'’s Christian Temperance Union of the District of Columbia, and Mr. Cockran in his place as a member of the House. Mr. Bryan's address was militantly dry, Mr. Cockran’s as mili- tantly wet will_meet at the next demo- tional convention. again as delegates probably, and the duel will De resumed. members Wil an vet ques - At- H | : The Army and Navy. The rejection yesterday without a record voté of a proposition to reduce | | the size of the Army from 125.000 to | {100,000 men placed a feather in the ! 1a p of the House. It showed the i proper appreciation of the situation; lana representing sentiment on both | sides of the chamber it is assuring to | a gratifying degree. | ‘Surely neither the Army nor the avy is too large. Neither, indeed, |is as large as professional opinion jrecommends. Congress - might in- { crease the size of both, and only meet | hes of those trained in the art! of war-and wearing the decorations of ; {arduous services performed in the| i field | But, whatever their size. both the | {Army and the Navy should be gen- {erously supported—kept fit in every | particular—be dependable weapons of | j defense at all times and at a moment's { notice—be worthy of the flag in any emergenc: Unele Sam’cannot afford another ex- | perience with unpreparedness. The | one of six years ago was not only ex-| { pensive.in blood and treasure, but hu- | miliating to national pride. We shared | in’the world'’s amazement that at such | a time one of the greatest of the nations should be floundering around to get into action. We did not know the shortcomings until they were ex-| posed before our eyes. We are not touting for war. But if war comes again we should be ready and take our stand promptly and sus- tain the record we made in the world war on both land and sea after we got ready and warmed up to the work. i { he wis Wilhelm Hohenzollern once had the audacity to think that he was a bigger man than Hugo Stinnes. Political - influence cannot avail against plain influenza. The Winter Fire Risk. Now is the time for everybody to be most scrupulously ecareful about fires. With the thermometer on the decline there is a tendency to force the stoves and furnaces to higher ef- ficiency. This means perhaps over- heated flues, or it may be that hot ashes are carelessly handled. What. ever the cause, it is @ fact of record that the number of fire alarms always increases with the drop of the tem- perature. And by an unfortunate logic fire fighting is hardest at such a season, so-that small blazes are more likely to develop into big ones. It is far better to have a cold house! than none at all, and yet a little care- i 1 lto [ proposes to Somebody’s .carelessness caused the destruction of an apartment houss in this city the other night, with the ouster of & number of familles, who, of.course, seek shelter elsewhere, Thes were extremely fortunate to escape with their lives. Had the fire occurred @ few hours later doubtless many would have been killed by fumes or flames. Whether that ‘fire was due to bad construction or bad management, or whether, as the records indicate, there was delay in reaching the fire perhaps owing to inadequate alarm boxes, the fact stands that a blaze was started that could have been avolded with the exercise of prudence and with close regard for the safety of the premises. Although a little fire may be checked by prompt response on the part of the fire company, there is always a risk. The fire department works under a severe handicap at this season. It is hard to get motor engines started, for ; one thing. The streets may be slip- pery with sleet or snow. The water plugs may be frozen, It is hard to handle all the apparatus. Efficiency, in short, is greatly reduced and the people are correspondingly exposed to loss, and even to death, in conse- quence. All these factors put a particular responsibility upon the householder at this season of the year, or upon those who are in charge of large buildings housing many people. Furnaces and stoves and other forms of heating ap- paratus must be watched closely, be Nothing risks must be taken for g run. I must ar New York. Tammany is prominently in the pic- ture. It has been supreme in town for several years, and now is again su- preme in the state. Mayor Hylan and Gov. Smith give it great confidence. But, much as this is, it is not all Tammany aspires to be supreme in the country, It would add the presi- dency to the mayoralty and the gov- ernorship, and become, as it were, the whole thing. This does not mean that the organi- zation is grooming Gov. Smith for the democratic nomination in 1924. Tt is supposed to have that matter under advisement, but with knowledge that there are difficulties in the way. The governor, a thorough politician, is said not to be showing any, excite- ment over the suggestion that he will be unbeatable in the next democratic national convention for the party’s na- tional leadership. He knows what lic before him for the coming eighteen | months, and that it is not safe to cal culate his probable strength in mid summer, 1924, by his strength today But if Tammany can name the man —though he be none of its own—it will feel much at home in Washington in case of his election during his stay in the White Hou: At present Leader Murphy is doubtedly playing in great luck. un- His record in office throws that of the most | successful of his predecessors into the shade, and gives him rank with the foremost of his managing men. B — Every business man is willing to let a motor car park long enough in front of his shop to permit the occu- pants to transact such business as they may have with him, Every car contains somebody’s customer or em- ploye and in affairs not to be casually disposed of with the cffhand admonition to move on. party’s is a factor Do constabulary —_—————— News from abroad is calculated to persuade the American cansumer to | pay his coal bill and be thankful mat- ters are not as bad as they might be. ———— The Ku Klux Klan rider may yet be compelled to carry a license tag and sound a horn when threatening the safety of individuals. —_——————————— As a world terror spreader Lenin is obliged to confess himself inferior several polit! now asserting themselves. —_————————— Every time trouble is threatened be- tween France and Germany, Belgium finds itself in a foreign entanglement. As an expert forester Gifford Pinchot eliminate wood alcohol from Pennsylvania. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNS Improvement, Januafy goin’ strong! What's the use o' sighin'? February won't be long. Swift the days are flyin'. March will bring a stormy blow. Then comes: April's play day. Next the world will be aglow With the lovely May day. So the seasons go their way, Never tired or tearful, Gettin’ better every’day An’ tryin® to be cheertul. Recitation. “Can you recite the Declaration of Independence?” “Yes,” replled Senator Sorghum; “provided you can find e few people who are willing to sit still and listen to it.” Jud Tunkins says he'd gladly tell his troubles to a policeman; only, in his part of town, where are you going to find one? Precious Carbon. ‘There’s carbon in a lump of coal. There's carbon in a diamond rare. 1 could not say to save my soul ‘Which form of carbon seems most fair. " Local Spirit. . “I understand Crimson Gulch is going to build a new jail.” “Yes,” replied Cactus Joe. ‘The first proposition was to build a new hotel, but we decided that if there was to be any further housing accommo- dations they ought to be for the bene- fit of our own citizens.” “A kindness,” said Uncle Eben, “is soon fohgot. I don't pertend to re- member all dé gemmen dat has give me dollar bills, but I kin spot a man dat hands me = tencent tip foh | THE EVENING STAR; WASHINGTON, s - D. ©, THURSDAY. FANUARY 18, 1623." — e Washington Observations BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Mrs. David Jayne Hill, who has just been laid to rest—a vietim of the motor juggernaut in Washington— served her country with Spartan cour- age In Berlin, in the years before the war, The pompous kaiser, flattered by the sumptuous social regime main-. tained by Ambassador Charlemagne Tower, objected to President Roose- velt's appointment of Dr. Hill, be- cause Willlam II had heard Mrs. Hill was a modest lady who cared little for court flummery. The Prussian au- tocrat had recently christened Mrs. Tower, a gifted hostess, “a Moltke of and told people he under-! :stood " Mxs. Hill “simply helped her | husband write international history.” ( Roosevelt told the Kaiser that Ber- lin would accept the Hills, or get no ambassador at all. They came and won their spurs. It was no easy role for Mrs. Hill, despite her previous ex- perlence as' a diplomat's wife :in Switzerland, the Netherlands. She played it bravely and successfully i and quit Berlin after three years uni- . versally esteemed and beloved. * ok % % There is a wonderful old darkey walter at the National Press Club named McDowell, who claims to be half Scotch. His long career as a servitor—he is an octogenarian—em- braces employment with Samuel J. Tilden and Nelson A. Miles. As a boy in Virginia, " had the distinetion of going to Sunday school under ! Stonewall Juckson at Lexington. He was a steward on Gov. Tilden’s yacht nd visited Europe with him in the ly seventies. McDowell's sense of mor is boundless. The other day a Press Club member asked him to fetch a book. “Sorry,” said Me, “but 1 ain't allowed to do that. ‘Il go get the liberian. He ‘tends to the books.” £ % x Two venerable Americans who once were in the United States Senate to- gether, William A. Clark of Montana, and Elihu Root of New York, met in| Washington this week for the first| time in many Clark was eighty-four this month. Root will be seventy-eight on February 15. The western multi-millionaire has grown a lttle near-sighted and deaf in re- cent years. Root remembcred him, but | the New Yorker had escaped his' for- mer colleague from the Bonanza State. 'What the name?” asked Clark, as epped up to him at the Civi conference and shook hands. was the reply, and then “Root” again, this time in a semi- shout. There was an effusive reunion when it fi 1y wned on Clark who | the stranger was. * % % x P. Fletcher, ambassador to who is coming home to head | EDITORIA Occupation of the Ruhr Causes Serious Apprehension. Franc upation of the Rubr, | although backed by Belgium and Ital and the German attitude of passive re- sistance towand it, has made the Euro- pean situation extremely dangerous. in the opinion of most editorial writers. | They point out that while nothing | critical may develop at this time | the seeds for future wars are being sown, although there are a great number who sympathize with France and her viewpoint “Resistance in the slightést degree | will mean recourse to arms by French troops.” the Pittsburgh - leader convinced. “and the result. of ening volley not hard to re< Casting aside 1 inelination to pessimis! there is sufficient | ground fi believing. as a result of | the movement of France and in the recall of the German ambassado from France and Belgium, that. stir- ring day are ahead and that the papers will again be called upon to relate the horrors of another war.” While the “world hopes the move- ment will not result in war,” the Cc lumbus (Ohio) State Journal says it “will feel the strain until the reaction fol- lowing the occupation has been de- velope and the results are in evi dence and' can be fairly estimated.” It also must & erstood, the Cin- cinnati Enquuirer points out, that “Ger- many is not a dead nation. but a virile i plereis and the invasion, how- ever justified, “may unite the German people to dangerous resistance, may inspire tremendous antagonisms else- | where, may rekindle the flames of far-reaching war and ultimately leave E to meet without sympathy or | sistance the wrath, wreck and ruin | 1ch a policy is calculated to bring upon her in unhappy days to come.” | While France “is risking every- thing on the rash course she is ta ing.” the Toronto Star seems to think that “it is possible that Britain Is | not sure that a hard jolt to Germany | may not have its uses in expediting a { zeneral settlement.” The Danville Register sharply .comments on .the { “sympathy expressed by certain papers for Germany, which it de- clares is *“colored in larger centers jof German populatign” and “caters to the pro-Germans.” Because, after all, it is very much in the nature of an “experiment” that the French have {undertaken, the Lincoln Journal re- ealls it is “forgetting England in Ireland and in the Transvaal, and forgetting Germany In Belgium and Isace-Lorraine and the Israelites in gypt, France proposes to control {the muscles of an unwilling people. {This repeats an old and generally jdisastrous experiment. - Meanwhile the Germans seem inclined to try out jon an unprecedented scale the policy of non-resistance. The world is not often privileged to witness so stu- pendous a drama.” Because both America and Great Britain prove” the action the Wichita Eagle is convinced the “ultimate conse- quences will be disastrous” and shows ECHOES FROM years. Root Henry Belgium | ! | the | is | | | 1 “disap- | | | i { 5 TOO MANY CREDIT MERCHANTS. There are too many credit mer- chants today, as there are too many meat markets and grecery stores. One-half the number of banks now in existence could easily and evenly dis- tribute all the credits required to meet every legitimate demand—thirty thou- {sand commercial banks .means. 625 banks for “évery state, a bank for every 3,500 inhabitants, a bank for every 800 families—Senator McLean (Connecticut), republican. FARMER'S INTEREST THAT OF CONSUM It will be much more equitable and profitable for the consumer in the jlong run to pay a living .price to the farmer.—Senator MeLean - (Connecti- cut), republican. WHAT THE FARMERS WANT? Apparently what the fagmers now want and expect Congréss to invent and apply is.a banking machine .of mechanical accuracy, a sort of autd- matic credit sprinkler, possessed of prophetic vision and ultimate wis- dom, that will open. and shut the valves of credit entirely free from the errors and desires of human agencies, ntil “peace shall come as a river and glory as a flowing stream.”—Senator McLean (Connecticut), republican. - FARMERS IN DEBT. The farmers of Germany are.more nearly out of debt than the farmers of the United States and a larger pro- ortion of them own their own farms. { bu |toward a fallen the United States delegation at the Pan-American conference in Chile, was one of Roosevelt's rough riders. It was his comradeship-in-arms with ‘Teddy” that led Fletcher into the diplomatic career. Soon after the colonel succeeded McKinley in the presidendy, in 1901, Fletcher turned up one day in Washington, having been honorably discharged from vol- unteer service in the Philippines. Roosevelt recognized Fletcher's tal- ents for foreign service and appointed him a second secretary of legation in China. Then came appointments to Portugal, back to China, then as min- |ister and ambassador to Chile and finally ambassador to Mexico. * K ok K Robert C. Morris, the agent of the United States for presentation of American -claims before the mixed American-German commission, has selected a couple of lieutenants who have unique qualifications for their jobs in respect of thelr names. Ono 1s Morgan, which means “morrow” in German, and the other is Morrow, which means “morgen” in that lan- guage. * ok ok k¥ One of the reasons impelling Her- bert. Hoover to prefer the joys he has at the Department of Commerce to those he knows not of at the Interior Department is the amazing volume of ness inquiries now reaching the department from the country. When Hoover took charge in March, 1921 inquiries averaged 300 or 400 a day Now they mount up to 100,000 a month. It is the Secretary’s ambition to turn his department into as ef- fective and automatically running a machine as the Department of Agri- culture long since became. He wants to whip It into such shape that, no matter who comes or goes, it will ba a great mill of the government, grind- ing day in and day out for trade, in- dustry and finance as efficiently as the Agricultural Department always has done for the farming constitu- ency. 4 * % x % Most Americans sat up and won- dered at recent statistics that “little Uruguay,” with a population less than that of Philadelphia, leads the world in the supply of wool to the United States. She sells us 28 per cent of wll clothing wool we import. The state might well have been the do main of Abraham. for its sheep lands and #heep production are enormous. In 1922 there were, round ).000,000 wool-bearing quadrupeds in Uruguay The country is bigger than ecither North Dakota or Oklahoma. with its mrea of 72,150 square miles (Copsright, 1923) L DIGEST that Clemenceau’s “me: 1t did not ring true nation that believes i foe.” Characterizing the tion as merely emph: ace of Fre Herald says afoot Europe come devils existing situa- the Dulutr ear are again and anything { the operation of these twin which are the bane of man- kind. But, “Germany has no money,” the Philadelphia ~Evening Public Ledger points out, and “a few arrogant Germans have a great deal. t Paris may hope to.open pocketbooks that wouldn't open voluntarily at the high moment of a‘crisis that threat- ens the peace not only.af Germany. but of the whole Eurdpean eontinent.” This crisis.might have been averted if the - Urited ' States had acted “promptly and sanely,” the Baltimore Sun holds, but now or. the preent we can only watch the course of events unless we areé prepared to offer a remedy that is worth while. But if the French annexation of the Ruhr results in economlc or military calam- ity, we may be sure that. soon or late, we shail have to pay part of the bili of “¢oits™ Regardless of the stern criticism that has been aroused. the Cleveland Plain Dealer suggests that “nothing except force has accom- plished anything and nothing else seems likely to accomplish anvthing France, supported by Belgium and Italy, belleves that compellipg Ger- many to pay is the most important consideration. England believes tt will be important. but not most im- portant. If the French experiment fails no one will be paid. If it suc- ceeds, England will come in for her yments.” the opinion of the Springfield Republlcan. “Poincare is a man of one idea, and his idea is one not suited to peace and reconstruction. If it is to prevail indefinitely in France there will be Jittie hope of peace dur or the next generation. Since its pres- ent government is too set on aggres- sive policies to be amenable to friend- Iy advice from outside, it is hard to see how a great catastrophe can be averted except by the rise of new French leaders before irreparable harm has been done.” ‘“To the English eaking world seems clear,” the Detroit Free Press says, “that the policy being pursued means the indefinite postponement of German rehabilltation and of German ability to pay large sums. |t also means a prolongation of the period in which Germany must be econom- ically sick and hénce a center of dan- ger in the whole economic and polit- ical structure of Europe.” And it is admitted there “would have been dif. ficulties had America stood by Eu- Tope.” " argues the Roanoke World- “nobody denies it. But it re quires a strange line of reasoning in- deed to figure out how the situation n it could possibly have become worse for | Europe and worse for us than it is tos day had we gone in and attempted to assist_the nations of Europe in mak- ing practical application of the prin- ciples of Christianity to their prob- lems instead of following such a pol- icy as that which Mr. Harding has pursued. CAPITOL HILL WHAT THE FARMER LACKS, After he produces, the farmer be- comes a merchant, but a merchant without the credit -facilities of the middlemen and speculators _ with whom he deals—Senator Capper (Kansas), republican. UP TO THE PEOPLE. I think the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Upshaw) in trying to sweep the House of prohibition has helped to “overset it,” for If. as he says, gov- ernors, members of Congress, senators and other high offigials deride the eighteenth amendnierlt and violate the Volstead act, certainly that shows the American people, who elect these same high officials; consider the Vol stead act as a joke.—Representative Hill (Maryland), republican, A WINTER WHITE HOUSE NEXT? I notice that another charitably minded individual, wbo has passed away lately, has offered property for establishing what he calls a_summer White House soméwhedre else than in Washington. There should be but one White . House' in’ this government of ours,-and that is here in Washington. ‘There is too much growing tendency to ereate aristocracies and to follow tk . example st up by royalty in other countries, by monarchies In other countries. Certain people would have a summer White House in the north and an aytumn White House some- where else, and & winter White House in Floride. It is following European example: a little to. much. I am The North BY LEILA MECHLIN, Window -When painters, sculptors, writers and musicians get together they gen- erally talk about art, for to them it is of all the most interesting and ab- sorbing subject. Such a group, meet.’ ing, we will say, behind a north win- dow, lately fell to discussing ex- pressionism, which, as all know, is supposedly the essence of the so- called modern art. Who propounded the question s to what expression- ism in art really is doesn’t matter, but the answer was given by an ex- ponent of modernism in the drama, a distinguished Russian producer of plays. What he said in substance was this: Expressionism in art s not an effort to reproduce nature, but to present in visible form what the art- ist himself thinks about nature; in other words, personal reaction. To fllustrate his meaning he told a story about Van Gough, who, he said, one time painted a portrait of ‘a friend who had dark hair, dark eyes and a rather sallow complexion, but who was to him a “radiant personality.” When the painting was completed it showed the subject with golden hair, blue eyes and high coloring. Having his attention called to this apparent discrepancy, Van Gough said: “Of course, of course; T did not paint him as he is; I painted him as he ap- pears to me; I have expressed my Personal reaction.” Likewise, according to this theory, when an artist who is an ex- pressionist paints a group of objects— a bowl, some flowers, a bit of textile —he does not attempt to paint them as they appear, but as he himself thinks of them, showing the inside as well as the outside of the bowl, the side that is visible and the side that is not. Also when the producer who i an expressionist puts a play on the stage he does not fecl bound to present it as the author wrote it; his endeavor is to present the emo- tions that it produces in himself. To the layman listener this all sounded like arrant nonsense, but it explained modernistic art with great clarity. A writer present, boldly speaking up, asked where the author came in? And if inanimate things could have spoken they probably would have cried out to know what part they played in the general scheme. Curiously enough, not a sin- gle person seemed to have, for one moment, considered, first, whether the thing expressed was worth expre ing, and, second, whether the expres. sionist himself had emotions which were sufficfently important to deserve handing on. Not once was the word beauty mentioned. ¥ Ew s Now, of course, to an extent the expressionists are right. What they overlook is the fact that every artist ‘\Ahr; has achieved distinction, fr the earliest day to this, an expressionist. Put to painting the same ‘\Ihblh’l' it be still life or landscape lor figures, and thege will six al { solutely different pictures, because each will have his own personal view- point individual vision. The greatest characters that have been created in fletion are those about whom i possible to have a dif ference of opinion. Walter Hamp. den's Hamlet differs widely from that of Booth, David Warfleld's Shy- lock from that of Sir Henry Irving, because each is a personal expre: sion or interpretation, made great by as near an approach as possible perfection in art. Gutzon Borglim once said that it was quite unnecessary for artists to try to be original.. If they would eimply be content to be thetmelves they would have to be yoriginal, for ne two people are alike. H p 56 B 0 »m six artists composition, and it n York, } Artist exhibition. trumpeting leaders, tea, attention. There sculpture and the the Anderson so-called Galleries, “New’ So. New ety of of much of social is attracting wide are ' paintings, work in black and white, some by artists who have at- {tained great distinction, but in entire exhibition there is scarcely a single work in which the element lof beauty is evident. and there are many of pronounced ugliness showing extraordinary crudity expression—figures il drawn, Ishapen, wross and repulsive; jscapes which would be laughable in their absurdity and distortion were they not pathetic—colors which clash and jungle—an aggregation of hid- couness. produced not by those of feeble ability groping for expression, and | because the patronage ete., of land- {found ugliness more aliuring than {beauty. Tt is a startling, an astound- ing display, and evidences what ex- pressionism may lead to-if it is,not sanely interpreted. * k% % Jame M. Barrie “Margaret Ogilvie” that the chief end and aim of all art is to open the eyes of those who will look to beau- tiful thoughts and beautiful th It is beécause the so-called expres- ionists do not open our eyes to beau- tiful thoughts and beautiful things {that we quarrel with them. The trouble is, they have nothing to say that is worth the saying. But, luckily, their name is not, as yet, legion. Let them express what they please, for well we know that unless their work possess the element of beauty they will not survive beyond their day. i | has said in. his | * * Not many blocks distant”from the ! building in which the New Society is | exhibiting s a little exhibition room, | the Arden Gallery, wherein is being shown a group_ of paintings by Rob- | ert Spencer—pictures of homely sub- | jects such as are found in a little i Pennsylvania mill town. tenements jwith their repetition of blank win-§ i'dows staring stupidly upon the pass- ing world, factory buildings, dreary roadsldes; yet interpreted in such wise that the sensitive observer finds therein not only an element of beauty, but significance in relation to the great ever-present problem of .cotemporary life. Mr. Spencer interprets these scenes in an extraordinary personal manner, in such wise that those who see them not only feel the emotion that he has felt, but are made thoughtful them- selyes. He opens the eyes of the on- looker to beauty which might other- wise have passed unseen, and he does it through his consummate knowledge of art and his deep, sympathetic un- derstanding, both as man and artisl. The Phillips Gallery in this city con- tains several examples of Mr. Spen- | cer's work. * & ok % There is an amazing ignorance in this country of cotemporary Amer- jean_artists, an ignorance which does not exist merely among those classed as ignorant. Sometimes this leads to amusing errors. A short time ago two ladies visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art In New York stopped in front of a paint'ng by Cecelia Beaux, who among portrait painters today ranks with the foremost, not only in America, but abroad. One of these ladies, reading the appended same | in reality | to | is holding its fourth annual} the | and | mis- | CAPITAL KEYNCTE Americans are oft accused of waste- fulness. What we waste would wholly support some thriftier people. There exists in Washington an Institute of Economics, founded by the Carnegie Corporation. It has just become a home owner, through the beneficence of its president, Mr. Robert S. Brookings, Who has donated to it an elght-story bufld- ing as its national headquartes It is equipped, therefore, it may be assumed, to investigate, and perhaps solve, the problem as to what is America's great- est waste. If that is not the most im- portant problem for an institute of eco- nomics, what can be? We strain at gnats and swallow cam- els of waste. The capital is agog over the accusation of the Coal Fact-finding Commission that retailers and railroads and mine operators are profiteering at the expense of the innocent bystander— the consumer—who is paying from $16 to $18 a ton for anthracite, which used to cost less than half its present extor- tionate price. But is that “waste”? 'Why make a fuss over being gouged $5 a ton or more by the handlers of coal, when all that they take fyom us is put into circulation? That is not waste, at all, any more, than grinding up wheat info flour is waste; it merely changes the form of ‘matter or money. The sclentific axiom on the indestructibility of matter answers as to the supposed waste ng overcharged by dealers, “robled” by railroads < wyers or clothiers. 11 simply _stimulates circulation: it de- | stroys ngthing. But here is waste: There are more than 200,000 extra coal miners in the coal fields. 1If they worked full time they would mine too much coal to enable the operators to sell at the present high prices, and so they aver- age only 203 working days a year, ac- cording to the fact-finding commis- sion. The other 100 working days, which each man wastes each year, are paid for, but are lost, for the men do nothing in those davs to earn their pay., That pay is secured through inflated wages while they do work, for the miners receive pay enough to support their families, not 203 days, but 365 days. That 100 day labor lost is absolute waste, for the miners, while idle, nothing clse; their potential ene might as well | be Th. ar drones who e contributing nothing ! waste! The lost time can never be made up, no mat- r how hard an effort be made, vasted, forever! % to society. Wa It is an artificial condition of so- ciety which tolerates such profligacy of time—the mogt prevcious asset of mankind. It is robbery of civilization which enables a conspiracy of op- erators and 8 to hold up men for artificial price, lest full norn ovutput (which come from full-time work) fore down the price, until today’s shivering and fr be stoppe Time tiveness never cter an a might most of ezing would lost in be sifted nity, like clinkers sifted from the j burned-out coals, and regained to warm over again. This is the great problem which we would put: up to the Institute of Sconomics, How shall we save un productive lost time? Not by agrec ments to stop production. Every such’ agreement’ Is ‘treason to man- kind. 1t is the duty of ecvery able- bodfed and able-minded man to work full working t The world owes no drome a living. unproduc- 2 was proposed, last full. at the coal strik e time that legislation should be adopted which would require all coal inines 1o make yearly contracts for full { working time of their mir and the | Interstate Commerce Commission was |to see that only such mines as made such full yearly contracts would get car The result of close down the ! mines, force into other cmp surplus miners, and stabili which employed miners round. This proposition came }less authority than Preside i Yet. since the str more has been heard 10 reorganize the industr; other industries -ndent. The peace and prosperity of the whole peo- ple rests upon that stabilization. One of all that the nation_spends for fore, is waste. Not that all third goes to the support of the plus, but idle, miners, though they of rs, sueh a pr yment the the mir the vear from no Hardin nothing that sane plan on which all policy { would able 1% this |but those well cquipped, who have | et the lion's share of it but the rest goes into the waste | demorali of transportati ation and the upset condit {of the cnabling conscicncele {dealers, wholesale and retail. to {advantage of “the innocent bystander. y ns There {plan to s nothing unreasonable in the facilities upon the mines which give year-round cont oricentrate {10 keep their m vear. There | expetting the ince they eat al to favor the b is nothing unreasonable s to work it whic 0 days a in 00 days, rs busy mine > days. {i mine { tuvors se of pro- lduction and ease of transportation, The [one great waste—the 100 duys of ide- {ness (not Sundays and 14 [days for an _inexcusable {leak in ou bly situated as to the e all | would | BY PAUL V. COLLINS. That artificial restraint of output, a defensicless waste, is not confined to coal mining, although it is perhaps more flagrant in mining than in other forms of industry. The one form of production which it has not yct con- taminated with its false doctrine is agriculture. Ifarmers have no unified control and, therefore, their output is Hmited only by their individual guesses as to market conditions and by individual energy. The result is that farmers have been the greatest victims of the methods of super- organized production of what they have to buy, while they must scll what they produce only according what the weather has permitted then to grow and harvest, in proportion 1o the demand of the market. So the farmers waste their cnergy .not, as often alleged. through overproduction. but through lack of scientific distribu- ion. It is unsafe to make that statement in the hearing of certain schools of farm economics, which allege (and Prove) that often farmers make more net profit when they have emall ylelds than with “bumper crops.” The prov- ing of that claim does not, however, constitute an answer to the problem of restraint of production, for the reason is that when our farmers have short yields, und high prices it is d to restricted distribution, and not to a glutting of the world need Now the distinet pla perfected congressmen organize nt grea { farm trust a prop law. Tt pledge at | farmers of jacreage -of the st | according- to " what percentuge the | managers estimate will be necessary to restrain production, 5o as to main- tain prices.” Any farmer wlo refuses to join the corner will find his barn painted yellow by roving bands of the “regulars” and-he and his fami will be boycotted. ot alone the farmers will Le urged into this unfon, but alse-the millers and elevator firms, ®o tha all such will pledge that they w not buy from any “vellow” farmer, and will buy only from the “regu- lars” at the “stabillzed” price.. I that way the “stabilized” price will be maintained, the “yellow” farmer will be without a market (until he is hoycotted into joining the regu- lars)." and the millers will be foreed to stand by the regulars, under pr alty of having their supplies shut off and their mills thrown into idle- ness, being Amic arops * The essential parteof this proposed farmer combine is the 1 fal agreeme restrict percentage acreage—to a certain of every m lie idle It might be put into some other than the standard crops or it might lie fallow, but, under absolute’ agree ment, the land must not be put ints the crops that the state or wational managers do mot indorse. The whole object is to les en the world supp of food in order to force the markel to maintain prices. Millions will hungry—will starve to death—by of reduced world supply- coretically, the farmfrs whe ail at the fountain head will price. It is jdentical i principle with the surplué coal miner situation. The farmers and the miners want their pr regardless of time and acreage wasted. Yet time and idle land wasted are wasted forever. { i | ® his statement that even land left is ap eternal waste is made knowledge that fallow land, cultivated, while fallow. takes on increased”fertilite, and will pro duce more abundantly the succeed years when it i ‘cropped, All that is familiar to the promoters of thi cornering and crop-reduction’ plan, s¢ that the increased femtility of fal- low land will be taken -into ‘consin: eration the allotting “ef for the following years. As for changing off into other crops, nobody who is at all acquainted with the lethurgy of the mass of farmers in the face of the urging by scientific teachers recommending crop rotation. ously on a sudden 18 to the possibilities of in- troducing new crops where habit has persisted in only a few old crops. Like | the coal miners, they will work along [ the old lines or they will not work-= and idle energy is lost energy, and | irretricwable waste. i the I in acreage | lightt acres let it tand membe Lest the reader pass his scheme to curtail thinking it but gossip, stated that one of the oldes experienced agricultural the House is working out the me ure to introduce it soon the Norris bill is killed—or at the coming session—and he-has the backing of some of the agricultural publishers The Norris bill proposes that the government &b into the business uf cornering the grain market. by bu ing all that the farmers produce, at & fixed and guaranteed price and theén selling at the market price, the gen- eral taxpayer to stand the inevitable loss, This new measure will “stop overproduction at the fountain head and by cornering the entire outpy force the world to support the f ers. while they lessen the food. The | farmers will “then be on the same { footing as thé surplus: miners are tor ove: B be host of, by as ‘Believe It or Not, One Member Of Congress Dislikes Publicity Just fix it in your mind that mest men in Congress live on publicity, introduce bills for a thou- newspaper and one things in which con- stituents may be interested, pre- pare long specch- es, have them printed in the Congressional Record, then have reprints made and frank them out by the wholesale throughout their home districts. Then meet Rep- resentative John Garner of Texas. democratic whip. just completing his twentieth con- secutive year in the House, and at present his party’s-leader-on the ways and means, the great tax-raising com- mittee. sand JOHN GARNER. Garner eschews all the well known publicity tactics and thereby stands as “different” among his fellows in Congress. ‘When Garner went to the Texas legislature in 1899 he introduced just one bill in four years, and that was against it all, and I Believe the people | 1abel, Giving title -und artist, said: |passed and promptly vetoed by Gov. of this. coi simplicit; try want a little more n the manner of their liv- inning with- the .chief officer -~ Blanton “Cecelia Beaux—who is she? To which her friend replied 1 don't re- call; exactly, but I do know.that art ‘sohool {n Parls has been named after ber” Sayres, who had.-previously served oighteen years in the national House of Représentatives and been chairman of the appropfiations committes, 1 Garner proposed to cut the state of Texas up into He was | cartooned and denounced as *“crazy,” but he still that such legis lation would prove of the best inter est to Texas and the entire coun Another interesting incident in Gar ner’'s service in the Tex legislature came when a tax bill was under con sideration. Garnmer spoke on one side sixteen times and Cecil Smith spoke on the other side seventeen times “That seventeenth of Smith's seems to have been effective,’” ‘for the tax bill five state believe: speech says ner, was de- | teatea.” During twenty in rner has held his record for ducing the smallest number of bills of any member. He has not averagéd ' two bills u session for the entire twenty years. He has not introduced a single bill for the last four years.? He never wrote a speech in his lif. they are all extemporaneous He has not had a single speech re<: printed from the Récard and sent ogf to his constituents. during the entire twenty yvears. Following this same policy of keep- ing himself in the background, resentative Garner issued a formal statement the other day in the inter: ests of party harmony, forestalling an | effort among his friends to run hify" for democratic leader in the nexf. Congress, by declaring that Repre< sentative Finis J. Garrett of Tepues-, seé will be the unanimous choide of " the minority Yor that-distinction, years Congress