Evening Star Newspaper, January 21, 1923, Page 36

THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. AWABHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY.......Jenuary 21, 1923 THEODORE W, NOYES. ... Bditor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Businegs Offce, 11th 8t. and Penvazivania Ave. e 100 Nassdu New Yotk Of 100, Naseke t Bt.; London, Buslead. Evening Star, with the Sunday mera! edition, To delfvered by Sartiors within the CT At 60 cents per month; daily ouly, 45 cents per cents per moath, month; Bunday only, ders may be ent. By mail or telephooe Mata 5000, ~Collection is made by cal the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. $715,000 ahd. the, other of $3,250,000, both of these estimates being exclu- sive of the damage to the steam rail- road on Water street, On thfl account and for other reasons the Commission- ers report to the House District com- mittee that they cannot approve the Bill submitted to and propose in substitution for thé Virginia avenue extension elther the widening of M street or the erection of & viaduct to carry traffic from the bridge across M strest north to P and Q streets. Of thess two alternatives the former would seem to be the more practicable and the less subject to objectlons, al- though, &s recently pointed out in The Star, the widening of M street would entall material property damage and would probably cost heavily. This oc | Street 18 built out to the sidewalk with Daily and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 8¢ Daily only L1y, $1.00; 1 mo., 60c Sunday only 00; 1 mo., 25¢ Member of the Associated Prees. The Associeted Press is exclusively eatitied to tie ‘use for republication of all mews dis- patches credited to it or not otherwise eredited in this paper and also the local news ot publication OF hereln. Al _right special dispatches hereln are alvo reserved. Recognize District Surplus Now. The joint select committes of Con- sress, investigating the District sur- plus, will ask Congress that the date of limitation for submitting its report (the first Monday in February) be ex- tended. It is intimated that the com- mittee will not accept as conclusive the Mayes and Spalding accountings for the period between 1874 and 1911, as adjudicated by Congress, but will have a reaccounting covering the whole period since 1874. . Though some sacrifice by Washing- ton of equitable credits of the past would be involved, the capital commu- nity has hoped that the Congress which enacted the new fiscal law of June 29, 1022, as a permanent peace settlement in our fiscal relations, would itself construe and apply this law to accomplish its beneficent intent, and by fixing anew the permanent 60-40 ratio for the future and by settling and wip- ing from the slate all credits and debits of the past would go far to- ward removing a hurtful, irritating, strife-breeding issue from the relations of nation and capital. 1f the decisions of past Congresses upon the accountings of Mayes and Spalding wers treated as conclusive, =0 far at least as credits of the United States were concerned, and the finding by Haskins and Selis of a free District surplus (at least $4,676,457.85) were ac- cepted as the result of a full statement of account of the period 1911 to 1822, the jont select committee could quick- ly recommend and this Congress could adopt with little waste of preclous time a wise and just settlement that would mean comparative peace in our fiscal relations that would endure for many years. Iven if, as is now apparently. in- tended, the final balancing of the equi- tablé credits of nation and capital since 1874 is postponed to the next Congress, Washington urges that the Joint select commitiee without delay put upon the records of this Congress, which dies next 4th of March, formal recognition of the existence of & con- crete District free surplus in the Treasury, which should be subject to appropriation. The existence and mini- mum amount of this District Treasury surplus constitute the conspicuous specific, unanimous vital finding of our separate groups of expert ac- countants. As our citizens’ joint committee urges in its brief, the doing of immed!. ate justice by this Congress in respect to the existing surplus will endanger no interest of the United States. “'Con- gress is now and will continue to be in complets and exclusive control of all the District’s revenues and assets, and can make equitable readjustments of such credits in dispute at any timeand at its pleasure, with no chance of loss to the United States, if by any possi- bility the District should hereafter be found to be indebted, legally or moral- 1y, in any amount to the United States.” The Prevalent Grip. There s a high degree of prevalence of grip at present in this country, but 0 far ag the reports show it is not the disease of high mortality that pre- vailed here four years ago. While some physicians may call this aflment influenza, it is not to be confused with the epidemic of that name which, ap- parently coming from Europe in the fall of 1918, swept over the United States and took a heavy toll in lives. The “grip” of today is perhape a wild form of influenza, inasmuch as it is a germ infection which affects the mucous membranes and the respire. tory tract. If neglected and of & se- vere type it may develop into pneu. monia. Prompt attention and care, however, will check it in all but the rarest cases. At this season of the year such af- fiictions are to be expected in some neasure. Exposure to cold, especial- 1y drafts of chilly alr, may lead to *“colds,” which may run into serious complications. Carelessness in the . matter of dress or lack of attention to the general bodily tone will bring on inflammation. Prompt treatment will break up a cold, but promiscuous dos- ing is inadvisable, Just now this matter of preventing colds 4s rendered more difficult than usual by reason of the fuel shortage. Many houses are chilly below the point of wholesome temperature, just as many are kept too hot, which is quits as dangerous. There s no occasion whatever for general alarm 0 long as the outbreak does not take on the aspects of the visitation of 1918, Washington, hev- ing just heard an eminent French pro- pounder of the principle of self- preservation, may keep itself in heaith by persistent and habitual assertion. B — ‘The Island of Yap has faded from attention. TIts resources included meither coal nor ofi. i The Widening of M Street. The Commissioners heve disap. proved the proposition to relieve the congestion‘at the Georgetown end of the Key bridge by extending Virginia venue from its present terminus in = northwesterly direction. The costs, they say, would be too grest. one plan javelwing an estimated expenditure of l business houses, and to widen it would compel slicing off their fronts on one eide and perhaps both sides of the street. Problems of this character have sel- dom arisen in the District, because the streets were planned on a broad scale, and ample room has heretofore been avallable for street widening to meet changed conditions. In other citles, however, this matter has proved most troublesome. In Baltimore, for ex- ample, the narrowness of the streets in the business section has been a serious handicap. After the big fire of nineteen years ago it was expected that the streets would be liberally widened In reconstruction, but only & few are o treated, and the congestion 1s almost as severe in that city now as ever. Indeed, the traffic is much heavier, and the need of wider streets 1s more keenly felt. In Paris for a number of years street widening has been undertaken in connection with the straightening out of old thoroughfares, and immense sums have been spent. The fronts of entire blocks of houses have been silced off, end the appeatrance of the older part of the c¢ity has been greatly changed in consequence. Many his- toric landmarks have been destroyed. If M street is to be widened to meet the requirements of the heavier traffic to and from the new bridge this work should be started at once. The cost of it will increase with delay. ——————————— The French Adventure. France's occupation of the Ruhr district has in the first ten days of the movement netted no returns in sup- plies, nor has it hastened, apparently, the process of reparations. On the other hand, it has not led to any armed conflict, and with the close of the week the strain, though still great, ‘was visibly lessened. The Germans have opposed the French movement by negation rather than active action. They have refused to work, under orders from Berlin, the government there adopting a policy of industrial passivity, while loudly pro- testing against what is denounced as @ violation of the treaty of Versailles. On thelr part the French have adopted vigorous measures of punishment, ar- resting & number of those directly re- sponsible for the industrial Inactivity. Some talk developed during the early part of the week of a separatist movement in Bavaria, which, if carried into effect, would threaten the col- lapss of the German “empire” and probably the fall of the republican gov- ernment at Berlin. The most serious menace attending the French occupation of the Ruhr has been e suggestion of Russian ac- tion in behaif of Germany. Mysterious exchanges between Berlin and Moscow have taken place, but no dependable report has come to indicate an agree- ment, and no actual movement has oc- curred on the part of Russian forces. To reach the scene of the French oc- cupation it would be necessary for Russian troops to pass through the neutral territory of Poland or Czecho- slovakia, which would probably stout- 1y resist. ‘Whether the occupation will succeed or not remains a question. Success in this case means the collection of ma- terfals or funds. The French have seized the customs in the Rhine dis- trict, but the small amounts taken will not even pay the cost of the troop movement into the Ruhr. Obviously if the Germans will not work the mines, for the product of which the occupa- tion has been undertaken, it will be necessary for France to conscript la- bor in Germany or to bring it from France or Belgium on theé one hand. or to acknowledge the failure of the enterprise. Thus far there has been no sign in France itself of any marked reaction against the government on the score of its adventure. Poincare has ap-| parently a virtually solid support, and to this point is fully justified by the national feeling in breaking away from the prescribed reparations procedure. | Italy’s part in this situation appears to be that of & power friendly to France in its movement, but hopeful of & mediation which will avert con- fiict and promote collections. ' In this country sentiment, which was at first critical of France, is swinging to her side, and there is now prevalent s hope that the occupation of the Ruhr will speedily result in a German realization of the obligations entailed by the treaty of Versallles; which, despite the pleas and claims of Berlin, remains in force as a formal settlement. ————— Reorganizers of the democratic party will breathe easier on finding that Mr. Harvey has sailed back to England without completing arrange- ments for the re-establishment of Harvey's Weekly. The corner saloon has vanished. The next move is to provide for the ef- facement of the bootlegger. Memorial Bridge and River Traffio. It should not de difficult to meet the objections that have been advanced to the conmstruction of a low-structure memorial bridge to Arlington, on be- half of the business interests using the river at and immediately below George- town. A draw is practicable and, in fact, in the plans for this structure favored by the Commission of Fine Arts, in distinction from the high- structure bridge proposed for the New York avenue site, g draw of the bas- cule type was included. It is not nec- essary to hold rigidly to the non-draw bridge, with no bridge at eIl s an al- ternative, A bascule draw would not be inar- 5 snkey ‘tistic, and would not detract from the dignity of the Memorial bridge. Stich drews are im use elsewhers, capable of belng quickly operatsd dnd, when opened, presenting absolute barriers to traffic by the raised leaves. In fact, & bascule drew is infinitely safer than @ swing draw in this respect. The shipping which must pass the bridge point, requiring the opening of @ draw, {8 not so heavy as to compel freqtient openings. In all likelthood the channel span of the dridge will in any case afford & sufficlent clearance to permit the passage of all but sea- going craft, of which but few pass to the wharves of the upper river. By hinging the stacks of tugs such craft can pass beneath a bridge. This rule is supposed to be in force at present to lessen the number of times the draw spans in the Highway and Rail- road bridges must be opened. It is, however, not fully enforced, with the result that the draw is swung more frequently than would be absolutely needed. It is, of course, inconcelvable that any difference on the score of & draw span would stop the construction of the Arlington Memorial bridge, angd it is evident now, following the hearing of Friday on the subject, that a spirit of accommodation prevails on both sides, and the present prospect is that the bridge will be designed to meet the river conditions, and that the draw thus provided will be of a type to con- form to the requirements of an artis- tic memorial structure. ———— Great Growth. It has been sald in The Star that “Tt is the confident expectation that the year 1923 will see the greatest number of new bulldings, in terms of value, {added in the history of the capital. Estimates of the engineer department of the District indicate that $42,000,000 will be spent in bullding operations during the year, while in 1817 the sum spent In works for which permits were issued was $15,600,000. The growth of Washington is stupendous and astonishing. The city practically covers the District of Columbia, and paved, electriclighted and solidly built-up streets run through the old “county of Washington.” It requires no figures to show to the old Wash- ingtonian how wonderful has been the growth of the city during two genera tions. Men just graying around the temples remember that they hunted rabbits and partridges where now are square miles of buildings. Farms, “old flelds” and long, wide stretches of woods lay north of the “Boundary.’ The Tth Street pike, the 14th Street road and the Rockvills pike from the heights of Georgetown led through country which only a venturesome imagination would forecast as being closely built and settled within a few years. North, east and west the popu- lation of the District has spread be- vond the District boundary ltnes. Tt was only a few years ago that men assuming the attitude of longrange prophets would say that sometime the District would hate half a million population. At this time many men are saying with confidence that the time is not far in the future when ‘Washington will be a city of a million people. A gasoline tax would be welcome if the taxpayer could require it to take into constderation the quality as well as the quantity consumed. Year by year the gas has been getting poorer and poorer, loading the motor with carbon end the oil with crude petro- leum. In studying the reorganization of the democratic party it must be ad- mitted that Col. Bryan has clinched the anti-Darwin vote beyond dispute. Babe Ruth is announcing a series of home runs for next season, thus con- tributing his share to the interest in baee ball as a winter sport. Dr. Coue has left the city, leaving regular physicians to do the best they ean in applying old methods of treat- ment to the grip. ‘The only suggestion that Mustapha Kemal has offered for betterment is en implied argument for fireproof construction. Many loyal democrats think that Mr. McAdoo could run the government better than he ren the railroads. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSOX Problems. Problems are so very many That & man who hasn't any Is a very strange exception to the rule. They grow harder as years gather, And you often think you'd rather Have the kind they used to hand you out at school. Problems gravely economic, Problems cruel, ‘problems comic, Problems that relate to things both old and new— Notwithstanding the professor And the ordinary guesser, Everybody has his little sum to Eager to Oblige. “‘Your later speeches have suggest- ed an appeal to the highbrow,” re- marked the suspicious constituent. “I have to do something like that once in awhile,” replied Senator Sor- ghum. “A highbrow has a vote, same as anybody else.” — Jud Tunkins says a reformer is too frequently & men who can't be re- formed. Irapervious fo Suggestion. “I'm getting better every day!" I thought the words would cheer me. A brutal grip germ came my way Angd never seemed to hear me. An Unworthy Beneficlary. - “Prohibition is a great benefit to the bootlegger,” remarked Uncle Bill Bottletop. “How do you make that out?” ‘'His businees is 50 risky that he has 0 keep cold sober all the time.” - i o — “A man dat plays wif loaded dice,’ said Uncle Eben, “loses in self. Tespect dan kin ever- be up e him in money.’ b } h Politics at Home{Marshall Would Restore - Personal Touch in Charity Names and Slogans. . “What's in & name?” is & famous query the author himself answers. ‘With us a short name goes well on & presidential ticket, and a ticket com- posed of two short names has often proved a treasure, lending itself hap- pily for shouting purposes. Going back to *4¢ we come to Polk end Dallasrthe ticket with which the democrats won that year. Coming for- ward then to '52 we find Plerce and nother democratic winner. 8 it looked as if the democrats were ‘‘up against it.” Buchanan and Breckinridge could not be pronounced “trippingly.” But then came the felici- tous abbreviation for campaign pur- poses, and “Buck and Breck Swept the deck.” In '68 the republicans were fortu- nate in Grant and Colfax, and in '72 in Grant and Wilson. i In '76—an exceedingly. trying year for them—the republicans won by the narrowest of margins with Hayes and Wheeler, a ticket answering as a campaign cry as well as any in the range of our history. Since then neither party has had the use in this way of short names, and yet both have had success with long and trying names. In '92 Cleveland and Stevenson taxed the tongue se- verely, and in 1904 the republicans had a similar experience with Roose- velt and Fairbanks. “The tumult and the shouting” counts for a good deal in our presiden- tial years. There is something in a short name and a good deal in a short slogan. It is important to start the “push” right, and often easy then to keep it going. Give the crowds in- spiring cries, and whether thefte is imuch or little of substance in them they vield results at the polls. { i Some Tastes in Inaugurals. | Arrangements were complete for a great demonstration at Albany when the Miller rule came to an end and the Smith rule began. His friends had put “Al"” over by such an overwhelming majority—a record in a gubernatorial contest—they appropriately reasoned that they should put him in by a simi- lar show of favor and enthusiasm. H The stage had been set for a huge | street parade. ‘‘Al” was to be escorted to the capitol by tens of ghousands of marching men, upstate reinforcing Tammany for the occasion. But “the clerk of the weather,” so- called, had not been “fixed.” Resenting the slight, that functionary sent a heavy fall of snow and sleet on the town that day, and the parade had to be abandoned. The capitol buflding, however, was jammed with Smith men, and they gave “Al” a rousing send-off, and he gave them a rousing inalgural address. A few days later Gov.-elect Donahey of Ohio took the reins of office. He had been successtul at the polls by a large majority after a defeat for the office by a large majority two years previously. But his inaugural was simplicity itself. He appeared, hung his hat on the peg, delivered a little talk covering only some ten minutes— too short and too informal to be called an address—and went to work. Last week Gov.elect Siizer of New Jersey put on the harness. Ie had been swept in on the wet wave of No- vember. There was a huge demonstra- tion In his honor, a long street parade and all the rest of it, and he delivered an elaborate inaugural address. There is a good deal to be sald—and | it has often been said—on both sides | of this question. Advocates of Jeffer- sonian simplicity have made the sub- ject attractive, and evidently Gov. Donahey is of the Jeffersonian school. “Al" Smith could not be, because he 1s a Tammany man. —_—————— Oscar W. Underwood. There is quite a little talk again about Mr. Underwood. That is to say, about him for President. WWhether he 1s giving it countenance is not known. Those ndulging in it are men of con- sequence in the business world as well as in the political world, and what they say is treated with much re- spect. At Baltimore in 1912 Mr. Underwood in the ballotings cut an attractive fig- ure. He was young for the contest— under fifty. He was southern, and for many years the south had been effac- ing herself at democratic national con- ventions, permitting the presidential nomination to go to the east, or the west, or to the middle country, as 1 seemed to assure success at the polls. But at Baltimore eleven years ago Champ Clark and Mr. Underwood stood up and asked that their supporters be counted, and Mr, Clark's were so nu- merous they came within an ace of sweeping the nomination into his sack. Mr, Underwood, of/course, made no sign in 1916, That year Mr. Wilson had the nomination nalled down be- fore the convention met. He made no effort in 1820, looking on probably with the conviction that the party would have no chance under any leader, and under Gov. Cox it proved not to have a Chinaman’s chance. 1£.Mr. Underwood puts out his head this. year, he will miss & man who at Paltimore and before in 1912 was a tower of strength to his candidacy. John H. Bankhead was one of the best politicians in the country, and probably the best from the south at that time in public life. He enjoyed the confidence of his eastern brethren in unusual degree, and when hy an- nounced for Mr. Underwood, while the east did not rush to the Alabamian's support, it showed not the slightest alarm st the suggestion of putting the 's aftairé under the direction of & man living far south of Mason and Dixon's line. 3 e Ot e Voteless delegates for the District ot Columbia in Congress would find themselves face to face with the fact. that in what Uncle-Joe Cannon calls “the final analysis” the most influen- tial speech consists of the monosylla- ble, ““aye” or “no. —————— In considering the desirability of a draw span’in the Arlington Memorial bridge it is urged that Georgetown has had & commercial past ahd is en- i itled to its ahanoes for & ‘mercial future. BY THOMAS X. MARSHALL. Former Vice Prestdent of the United States. ROGRESS, however much to be desired, is not aways Wholly good. T would not condemn it for that. but I Wwold ltke to modify some of the methods that go with it, and sub- stitute humanism for much of its science/ When I first began to constder life in its reality, there was not only a political separation of church and state, but there was a distinet cleavage between the funotions of each. The state left many- things to the exclusive at- tentiop of the church, and the church cheerfully accepted the responsibility that went with the doing of those things. Politically, church and state yet are separate. Men still may wor- ship God according to the dio- tates of their own consclences. Organizations may be cont ting that right in America today, but there is more frowning down of these ‘organizations than of the religlous freedom they dispute. The violence and intimidation Which these organizations seem to sanction are offensive to the great mass of men and women through- out this nation. Their indigna- nation will bring rebuke and pun- ilshment. ¥ ok ok It is true, howsaver. that the line of demarkation between the fune- tlons of state and church is dis- appearing under the scientificmeth- ods of modern times. More and more the church !s turning to the &tate for aid in the things that fnl;l,'nerly the church was able and Willing to do. The church has fos- tered this movement, not with f:n!y intention of entering a union with the state, but because of a belief that it was #o essentially right that 1t ought to impress its princi- :—l:e,e L:d theories to the fullest de- ossible upon clv! - ment in Amertca. ¥ €ovech ave in mind the changed at- titude toward the dispensation of arity. Of course, never was it @oubted that it was a proper func- tion of the state to dispense char- ity In a general way to its un- fortunate citizens and the famflies of those cltizens. Or charitable andeleemosynary Institutions etand as monuments to a sympathetic and benevolent public. But in the large class that needed and de- served ald were many who held church membership and came with- in the definitlon of the communion of saints. The church used to be- lleve it was {ts duty to look after those who were of its own com- munion. In 8o doing, we 414 not pretend to be dispensing charity. We were simply living up to our profession of falth. The beneficia- ries were of our own household and entitled to the surpls of good things which had been entrusted to us as stewards of the Master. This dispensation had in it that kind of charity which the revised ver- sion tranelated into love. It was not a handing down from above, It was a passing of comfort from brother %o brother. * k% % T am not foollsh enough to assert that our modern method of scientific relief has not eliminated much of want, migery and suffering that formerly waqg endured. That is where progress comes in. But I deplore that Telief has been reduced to a sclentific basls, whether administered wholly by the state, or by church and state in conjunetion, or by private en- terprise pure benefaction. I grant that our sclentific methods are of unutterable value in the complexity of modern life, but their adoption has eliminated from Christian charity that which I wish might be restored—the per- sonal touch in its dispensation. Of lack of facilities to minister to minds and bodies diseased, there is scarcely any, but like all scien- tific methods, these facilities are cold, calculating, deliberative, ma- chine-like. I am reminded of the as upbraided for fail- the eyes of a patient ‘who had died in the night. Her dfl-’nn ‘was that her chart carried no snhn ay methods of sclence that only the great middle class of Amer- icans fail to receive proper treat- ment of thélr {ils, e immensely and or, by reaso ern charity, are the beneficia- es of the most advanced knowl- edge and highest skill. Money for charity is now ob- tanable everywhere, both by gov- ernment appropriation and private contribution. When the public fails to contribute state legisla- tures and the National Congress draw on their treasuries. The trouble is people give of their money alons, not of their sym- pathy. And whether we give much or little, wé are prone to think we have done enough—all .that is_to be e: of us, in fact, when we have made our do- nation. By the work {tself we eannot be bothered. Hired belp can .be obtained with the money we gl The hired help is also supposed to furnish whatever of personal touch is required. w ok k¥ This is the usual &evelopment: Kind-hearted souls concelve some new Institution to alleviate the sorrows of mankind. They inter- est their friends and the public to the extent of raising enough money to get the project under way. As the days go by en- thuslasm begins to flag, interest to dle. It is then suggested that the city or the state or the gen- eral government can do the work better, get greater results. In the end, ‘that which was started private philanthropy becomes public enterprise. We all can well remember when mont physiclans were glad to give part of their time to free clinics, When 1 was temporarily domicfled in the city of Washington many of e 1 ing medical men " chee fully gave voluntary service in be- half of sick infants whose parents were too poor to pay for expert advice and treatment. To expand the work beyond the point which it eould reach a private bene- faction, its sponsors decided to ask the Congresas for a small ap- propriation. The Congress com- plled by voting money. Soon the voluntary service of experts com- menced to be curbed. 1 am Rold that doctors and surgeons must now be paid for the services which they previously were glad to do- nate. In many cities of America the free clinic, save for the edu- catlon of medical students and internes, is a thing of the past. The workman is worthy of his hire. T utter no criticism. I only deplore that the personal touch has disappeared. * * 2 a * The reduction to a scientific basis of the discharge of needful duties to soclety has brought the formation of many socleties, some necessary for the jurisdiction of worthy work, others which attempt duplication and still others which have no work to do and conse- quently do none. Until personal interest is restored generous per- sons of a community will continue to contribute to organizations which have no real reason for ex- istence. I do not speak of fake organizations, established in the name of charity, but of need- less and superfluous organizations which are duplicating or imitating the activities of others. We have not only sclentific methods of treating the needs of our unfortunates. but of acquiring needs to treat their needs. Pro- fessional solicitors are engaged at a certain percentage to canvase for funds. These Christian charity promoters no doubt are successful. They get the money art for themselves and part for the cause. Charity {s not only charity, but it has become a business. 1 would hold tight to the scien- tific standards of today, but I would take charity out of govern- ment and out of business and re- » it as one of the real Chris- tian virtues. (Oopyright, 1923, by Thomas R. Marehail.) Inside Stuff About New York BY WILLIAM JOHNSTON. NEW YORK, January 20, A big city, provides opportunities for many odd ways of making money. I know one man who makes $7,000, or $3,000 & year working three or four hours & day as a “sharpshooter.”” He rides about the city in his automobile | p looking for likely spots where bill- boards may be erected, gets options, and then sells them to the biil-post- o ing companies. Another marn I know who has mon- ey invests only in undivided inter: ests In corner property. Wherever he can find an heir who owns an eighth or = quarter in any corner bullding he makes him & cash offer. He figures that most corner proper- ties will increass in valub, and the other heirs, if they ever wish to sell, will have to meet liis figure. This far he has found his plan very profitable. These Crowded Schoels. Many persons who come to New York from smaller cities start out by trying to send their children-to the public schools, but they soon find out that going to a public school in New York is vastly different from most other parts of the country. In one school, for instance, No. 80, which happens to be in the Coney Island dls- trict, there are 4,330 pupils registered and only sittings for 1,904, One hun- dred and seven classes are taught in thirty-nine rooms, so there is very 1ittle opportunity for any child to get any sort of an education. Negligent as Father Knickerbocker may be of his youngsters’ learning, he does take pretty good care of théir health. All the four million dollars’ worth of { that the city eats each is ! ly_inspected, as is the ik suppiy. Efforts are now being made to extend the inspection system and make it uniform for all the sub- urban territory about New York, for now when £ or milk is condemned ere it often is rushed out to the sub- urbs and-sold before an order de- stroying it can be mat through. The city's second annual health show opens next week, and all sorts of plans are used in conjunction with it to get the children and teachers in- terested in the subject of health. The city's health records contain & card index history of the oncoming gen- ration—birth, contagious diseas vaccinations and school attendan up to the time working papers are fs- sued. - ' Churches Follpw the Style. ‘You can find any sort of a church you want to in New York, there even Deing two Mormon congregations, and| & in the effort te fill the pews they of« ter all sorts of sttractioms, motion pictures, boys’ bands, violin solois organ recitals, addresses by celebrities like Admiral Sims, and many of the clergymen seem to endeavor to keep their sermon topics right up to date. ‘With Coue attracting public atten- tion, I notice the following sermon B3 “The Healing ‘Divine Power of Sugges- tlo ‘Christian the Healer, True Mind Cure, By Faith' ersonal Power,” and Laws of Autosuggestion.” Presently after Cous has departed, if affairs abroad are not settled, the s ‘will be on international topics. A Judge’s Suggestion. The profusion of pretty things that appeal to the feminine mind displayed 80 lavishly in New York's great de- partment stores not only leads many of the women to live beyond thelr means, or their husbands 'means, but drives scores of them to shoplifting. In a single court the other day there were 117 women charged with shop- lifting, and the detectives recognized none of them as a professional. So many of them presented ocertificates from doctors, pleading their mental ocondition as an exouse, that Judge Freschl was moved to remark: It might be a good idea to smend all these women to the psychopathic ‘ward for mental observation.” Nor do I think his remark was meant to be entirely facetfous, for Judge Freschi and I haye had many conversations together on the sub- ject of whether or not all criminals are not abnormal and fit subjects for clinical treatment. Even. more than the averige, Judge Freschi has studied his job and has written sev- eral interesting articles on varfous phases of criminology. Parties on Shipboard. One of the novelties that a seaport affords is the opportunities it gives for having parties on shipboard while the vessel is In port. Sometimes, as when & new liner- is commissioned, those parties take the form of func- tions to which several hundred invi- tations are issued, but more often they are oconfined to friends of some of the ship's officers. A dinner is served by the stewards, just as If the vessel were at sea, and afterward there is dancing to the musio of the ship’s orchestra. Not long agd I at- tended one where the captain was & an, and the anclent ceremon: ring th Was obr There wers a dosen guests, and in came a doszen stewards, each dressed in ' kilts, bearing aloft the nationsl deinty ‘of Scotland. Twice ed about the table before each guest you bav e U b A fl.nn: enjoy it. i i [usica, MEN_ AND AFFAIRS BY ROBERT T. SMALL. EPRESENTATIVE NICHOLAS LONGWORTH'S ambition to become leader of the National ! House of Representatives is about to be realized. The ‘reg- ulars” among the republicans in the House have had Mr. Longworth slated for the job ever since Mr. Mondell made his ill-fated decision to stand [©0f course, for the Senate in Wyoming last fall, but the insurgents started a boom for . Representative Graham of Illinois, which threatened trouble for a time. The insurgents made entirely too much nolse with their boom. It White House. The Taft appointments to the high court were: Chief Justice White. Charles Evans Hughes Horace H. Lurton. Joseph R. Lamar. Willis Van Devanter. Mahlon Pitney. Of these, only Justice Van Devante: remains on the bench. Mr. Hughes is Secretary of State Justice Pitney retired on the first of the year through a special act o: Congress. Justices White, Lamar and Lurton have passed on. There are now on_the bench one McKinley appointee, Mr. Justice Mc Kenna; one Roosevelt appointee, M: Justice Holmes; one Taft appointec startled the Longworth cohorts into | Mr. Justice Van Devanter; two Wilsor action and they seem today to have the situation pretty well nailed down. President Harding has had a very particular interest in the success of “Nick” Longworth. It is an {hterest which goes back to the Chicago conven- tion in 1920, and to the sénatorial fight in Ohio that year. When Mr. Harding went to Chicago he harbored two conflicting ambitions. IHe wanted the republican nomination for President, and, failing that he wanted to suc- ceed Tmselt in the United States Senate. Mr. Harding did not share the faith of his closer friends that he had a No. 1 change for the Presi- dential nomination, but he knew he could have the senatorial renomination for the asking. It so happened that Mr. Harding had to make a deflnite decision as to entering the senatorial primaries on Friday midnight of national convention week. That was the last moment for filing his papers. It was not alone a trying time for Mr. Harding. It was equall trying for Mr. Long- worth, for had told “Warren’ that he would file for the senatorial nomination if the latter did not. Mr. Harding sald he would certainly stand for re-election to the Senate if he failed in the higher ambition. Mr. Longworth s=aid he would take no action until Mr. Harding knew what his own decision ould be, When Friday night of convention week arrived the fight for the nomination looked like a deadlock between Gov. Lowden of 1llinois, and Ge Leonard Wood. Senator Hard ing’s friends assured him that this situation was exactly to their liking nd that he would be chosen as the compromise candidate. Mr. Harding wanted to believe this| good news, but again he was skep- tical approached papers were | for filing. So were ) Meantime, Col. George Harvey. ator Murray Crane and Mr. Harding's senatorial Columbue all reads fck Longworth's se. to decide onthe tion. Harry Daughert; them from time to time. ) kept approaching relentlessl ever, and when Mr. Harding p.m. had received no reassuring word from the big conference he directed that his senatorial papers be filed. He wanted to be certain of succeeding himself, no matter what the decision of the convention might be. Ilis ac tion in filing automatically shut Nick Longworth out Next day Mr. Harding ed for the presidenc for Longworth to file for the s He had to content himself wi election to the House, and it was then his eyes turned toward the se leadership on the floor. In the mstances can be seen how Harding has been that should sueceed. AT T seems but a few days ago that the entire nation was commenting upon the fact that it had fallen to the lot of Willlam Howard Taft as President of the United States vir- tually to recomstitute the personnel of the Supreme Court. Including the slevation of Mr. Justice White to the Chief Justiceship, Mr. Taft was credited with six appointments to a court of nine judges. Today Mr. Taft sits on the benc of the Supreme Court as Chief Jus and beslde him there is but one of the six men he named. Yet only ten vea have elapsed since Mr. Taft left th anxjous Mr. ok s The hour of midnight Friday | s nomirat- | 1 | | | | | i | appointees, Justices McReynolds and Brandels; three Harding appointees Mr. Chief Justice Taft and Justice< George Sutherland and Pierce Butle: There exists also one vacancy, whicl AMr. Harding just now is endeavoring to fill without Invoking the wrath of ‘the interests,” the farm bloc, the progressives, the ol guard, and al the other variteties of representative and senator, The Supreme Court, which, during the Taft regime in the White House took on quite a southern tinge, seem &t the present moment to be going west. Justice McKenna halls fron California, Justice Sutherland fro: Utah, Justice Van Devanter from Wyoming and Justice Butler frox Minnesota. The east claims but tw: justices in Messrs. Holmes « Brandels, and both are from Mas: chusetts. Mr. Taft of Ohio, represent the middle west, and Justice Mc Reynolds of Tennessee, the south e HE life of the diplomatist is - hard one. He, above all men, mus' always know the difference betwee: tweedle-Gum and tweedle-dee. Dee ma be perfectly all right and absolutel bombproof, whereas dum may lead t. dire disaster. And so, when a diplomatic repres tive of a great country has me; “memorandum" in his system, he by no means give any one pression that he has a “plan.” Eis. there will be international compli tions, followed by cabled explanation officlal _statements and all the what nots of modern diplomatic machine: Likewise, when a great nation Ifke the United States has merely a *sug gestion” to make to Europe, it 18 en tirely wrong for another great nation like France, for instance, to gather the impression ‘that the “suggestion” is : “proposition.” Washington has been struggling witl the verbal nuances during the week, and a number of incidents w which_the public is more or less awar. have emphasized the care with whicl the diplomat or State Department offi cer must select his language. Not onl: must words be chosen for thelr exac glish, for instance, chosen also for thet 5 At one time it was sup- posed that real diplo thrived upon ds of a double meaning, but that is gone. In writing the treaty of Versailles th authors realized that a one-langu treaty might lead to embarrassing d putes, and so the treaty was writ both in English and tn French. Desp this precaution dangerous ambiguit: has been found in the treaty of its most important clauses ope i torn today over the questio to whether or not France has the righ to act agalinst rance may b alons whether the treaty gave her tha right or not. but she bases her actio on the paragraph which says that aft er a default by Germany, the allied and soclated powers shall have the rght to inflict various financial prohibitions and reprisals, and to take “in géneral such other measures as the respective governments may determine to be nec- essary in the circumstances.” The French claim that the word *re spective” gave each ally the right tc determine its own action In the circum- stances. The Germans say that the d_‘“governments” implies that join® tion would be necessary. the framers of the treat. res as the respective g jointly determine to be ut the very importan- ¥ is not there. Hence the prospect of an age-long discussion a< to whether or not the treaty has been violated and annulled, claims it hasn't ta sho e has and ance claims Heard and Seen Fifty Years Ago in The Star. Was he an honest man Diogenes might have been abie to tell, but the man he “struck” was not. “Mister,” he said. “give me I want to get & cup of coftee.” “Pwo cents?* Inquired the victim. “Why, a cup of coffee costs 5 cents.” “I know,” replied tho ragged one “But I already got 8 cents.” - * There is a certain neighborhood in Washington where all the boys are golng barehecaded this winter. The healthy fashion was started by two boys, brothers, who for years have gone without hats the year around. - When they entered high school and became members of the cadet corps it was thought they would take to head coverings for zood. But they did not Only when in their uniforms wouid they wear hats On the coldest winter days, rain or shine, snow or sleet, these two lads ight be meen going around bare. their thick hair giving all rotection necessary, seemingls, cents. the for they were—and are—the pictures of health. Then other boys in their home block took up the idea. so today there is @ sort of epidemic of atted 11 wrapped up in overcoats, Put wedting no hats or caps. The youngsters seem to be thriving upon it, too. * X As a matter of fact, Why not? A thick head of halr is as good as any hat, and it the hair is not thick fresh air will help to make it go. Our earliest anoestors went around without hats. A caveman who had dared to appear in a derby or a “high hat” would have been chased to the outer realms, undoubtedly. Hats are absurd. If you have any doubt about that statement, just take & look at the next man you see com- ing along in a “stove pipe.” Even the claim of covering cannot be of- fered as a defense for the monstros- ity. Nor will the plea of diplomatic ‘usage save it from being absurd. The hat ls 8 symbol, as well as an article of wear. It is 4 symbol of our herd-mind, wherein all must do what all do, on pain of disapproval of the rest. it you want to experience the soorn of your brethrem, both known and Unknown, reaching back to the far days just after the caveman era, after men had-taken to hats, walk down Pennsylvania avenye without a hat or cap on. v * Hall and farewell, M. Coue’ You' impressed your sincerity, your earnestness, your goodness upon the National Capital of a great nation. We found you the living embodi- ment of what Marcus Aurelius wrote 2,000 vears ago: “‘Speak not of what 2 good man should be, but be such. Ve treasure thé memory of your smile and the simple, naive manner in which you said, am not a mira- cle worker. Iam only a man—a good if you will—but only a man.* Also that time when, “about to change from English to French, you said, “I am more I when 1 speak French.” ou are not a “standardized oiti- You_are a perwonality.; You Emile Coue, and no other.’ You yourself. hen a man achleves he is a man indeed. CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. zen. are a that Fifty years ago the Potomac rive flats in the neighborhood of Washing ton were unreclaimed Washington’s and there wasno con ception of the Im Harbor. 1ho work that wa- later undertaken, and that resulted iz the great parks developed from the old, miasmatic “bottoms,” that gave Washington so bad a name on the scoro of health. Ordtnary harbor im provements, however, were sought as a matter of commercial importance tc the capital. In The Star of Januar: 14, 1873, 1s the following: “Annually large appropriations are made by Congress for harbor i provements. ete, throughout the country, many of them of doubtfu utility, but which find their way into the bill under the logrolling process The member from Mud Creek gets ar appropriation for a dry dock fn hi bayou by votlng for appropriations for sloughs and bayous in the dis. tricts of other members. The harbo: of Washington, In which the govern- ment 18 so desply interested by rea- s0n of Its navy yard and arsenal, gots no annual appropriation, stmply be- cause we had no voting representa- tion in Congress to take a hand in the logrolling process. This seems anything but falr, and we trust the present -Congress’ will not continue the unjust discrimination against our harbor.” * = ¥ ‘ The National Woman Suffrage As soctation met in Washington on the 16th of January, 1873, s“m and much interest being Tr manifested in the pro- OUSETS. ceedings in view of the late expertence of Susan I Anthony, who had been arrested in New York for voting. But Miss Anthony was not as spectacular a figure at the meeting as another woman, who for many years was a “drawing card” at these meétings. This was Dr. Mary E. Walker, dress reformer extraordinary and indefati- gable protagonist for “equal rights.” Dr. Walker, according to The Star of January 17, 1873, appeared at the sec- ond day's session and took the plat- form. The Star thus describes her appearance: “The doctor was dressed in her usual style and wore a long blue- black coat and pants of the same color. She had on a substantial palr of gaiters and wore a long gold chain and her usual short curls. She spoke with considerable earnestness and the occasional applause which she re- ceived seemed to inspirit her and en- courage her to continue her remarks, which lasted about an hour.” In respect to her garb, Dr. Walker said that time was when Miss An- thony, Mrs. Stanton and others, in cluding Lucy Stone, believed in dress reform and wore apparel somewhat similar to her own, “but they were too cowardly to continue to wear it and fight it out on that line, as she had done.” She had been arrested seven times for wearing her present and comfortable costume, which had been put forward as a pretext for keeping her off the women suffrage Blatlorm.