Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, « With Sm)fi, Munlgl' Edition, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY......January 22, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES...Editor The Evening Star Newspz.per Company The Evenine Star. with the Sunday morning | edition, is delivered by carriers within the city cents ner month: dally onix. 45 cents per month: Sunday only. 20 cents per month. Or- ders may be sent by mail or telephone Maln 5000 Collection fs made by carriers at the end of sach month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, Daily and Sunddy Daily only Sunday only. All Other States. Suaduy..1 yT., $10.00; 1 mo., 88¢ 1yr. $7.00: 1 mo., A0c 1yr., 1 mo., 8¢ Member of the Associated Press, The Assocluted Press is exclusively entitied o the ‘use for ‘republication of il news dis- Patches credited 10'1L or Dot ofberwise credited in this paper and aleo the local news pub- lisbed “herelo. " All rights of publication of special dispatches berein are also reserved. Daily and Daily only Sunday only Washington's “Surplus” Plea. When the joint select analyzes the reports submitted to it by its official accountants, by the Treasury Department, by the Atto ney General's office. by the Distri auditor, by Accountant Tweedale and by the citizens' joint committee it will make two discoveries: First, that all agree that there is now an ac- cumulated tax surplus, at- least $4,676,457.95, 10 the.credit of the Dis- trict in the United States Treasury. Second: That the suggestions of ‘Haskins and Sells of possible hitherto overlooked equitable credits of the TUnited States since 1874, consideration of which might reduce the amount of the District surplus. are rejected in nearly every instance by the repre- sentatives of the Treasury Depart- ment and of the Department of Ju: tice, and the- few fragments that remain arc demolished by Auditor Donovan, Accountant Tweedale and the citizens' joint committee. Of course. these reports comment- ing upon Haskins and Sells’ report do not attack Haskins and Sells either as accountants or logicians. In addi- tion to the finding of a concrete free surplus to the credit of the District in the Treasury. Haskins and Sells make no specific clean-cut regom- mendation affecting the surplu. merely call attention, in response to the directions of the joint select com- mittee, to certain facts and figures, worthy in their opinion to be con- sidered in the search for United States cradits since 1874. They pass no opin- ion upon the merits of these suggested possible offsetting credits of the United States, and consequently denial by the other accountants that any credit of the United States is discoverable in these claims is no reflection whatever upon the fairness or efficiency of Haskins and Sells. The joint select committee is re- quested to report “what surplus, if any, the District of Columbia has to its credit on the books of the Treasury of the United States which has been acquired by taxation or from licenses.” The committee is in position to make this report today. The testimony of their officfal ' accountants, sustained by the opinions of their expert ad- visers from the Treasury Department and the Attorney General's office, justi- fles them in reporting to Congress that there is such a surplus, and that 1t dmounts as a minimum to $4,676,- 457.95. Even if the joint select committee should decide that there are other questions put to it, like that concern- ing net moral and legal indebtednesses, which it cannot answer properly in the life of this Congress, and that answer to them must go over to an- other Congress, there is no_reason why this postponement shoyld ‘work delay in reporting to this. Congress the answer to the primary vital ques- tion of the present concrete existence of a District surplus. ‘Washington urges with al¥ its might that in the interest of equity the joint select committee report as quickly as possible, in time for consideration and action by this Copgress, its specific finding in respect to the existence and amount of a District tax surplus in the Treasury. ———— A lame duck is not as hopeless as he is sometimes represented. He fre. quently evolites into the best kind of @ dark horse for another campaign. —_———— France, in addition to new military responsibilitics. has undertaken to manage a rather complicated phase of big business. g —_——— The Ruhr district is the scene of a mnew kind of unemployment problem. The Archives Building. In the Senate Saturday an amend- ment was adopted to the independent offices bill appropriating $500,000 to begin work on the construction.of an archives building in this city to house the government’s permanent non-cur- rent records of value. The structure is to cost not more than $2,500,000, and it should be located on land already owned by the United States west of the Pan-American and south of the Interior Department bulldings. . This provision is in accordance with the recommendations of the Public Buildings Commissfon, though when the bill was reported back from the appropriations committee . it carried only an item of $1,000,000 for the con- struction’ of stacks in the Pension buflding and _omitted the archives buflding. The latter was added with the egreement of the committee, and, retalned against a point of ofder, on the ground that it had beén virtually suthorized in past legislation, it will £0 to conferénce with full prestige. n ‘the courss of the discussion in the Senate Baturday mention was on several occasions of 'the *newspaper agitation', which had been eonduoted in’ Washington for & num- ber of years.in favor of the construc- tion of en archives bullding. Intima- committee | They | | | the interest of the Washington press in matters of govérnment bujlding en- terprise. It need scarcely be -sald, however, that this motive is altogether wrongly stated. The Star has been per- i sistent in its urgings on this and other i matters of needed government equip- ment in this city. 1t has consistently opposed the placing of government buildings in the parks, not because location elsewhere would result in the purchase of property as a matter of profit to land awners, but because of the vital importance of preserving the parks from encroachments in view of the economical disposition of Congress to utilize vacant land already owned by the government. As for the purchase of sites for pub- [lic buildings, it is always to be borne in mind that every time a syuare is taken for such a purpose a lacge unit of value is removed from the realm of taxation. Tk the government's holdings increase in this city, which is strictly limited in area and eannot grow, the tax burden upon the remainder of privately owned property is increased. Thus locally seltish viewpoint would dictate the use of park lands rather than the acquisi- tion of additional private lands for such purposes. In this matter of the archives of the government there can be no question of the need from a business point of { view of a proper fireproof. permanent It is the greatest une that in the course of the i housing for them. i good f exposed by the haphazard, makeshift methods of document storage in vogue. The hope of all who are concerned in the proper equipment of the govern- ment here at the-capital is that not only this building will be provided for af the present session, but that at the next session, if not at this, provision will be mad® for other urgently needed buildings to replace those that are now rented. Strike in Ruhr Mine: Events are moving howdown™ in the Rubr. With rail- - workers refusing to move trains, { the miners begin today a more or less general strike as a protest against | French occupation, and there is pros- ! pect that the scores of thousands of workers in industrial plants will join the walkout. Added to this passive re- sistance by Ruhr labor, the German | Ainance minister has issued an order { forbidding payment of coal taxes,and export dues to French. The French must swiftly to bring matters to a head, or their “productive guarantee” will prove a water haul, and they will have a starving populatioi on their hands, with ‘unguessable possibilities of riot- ing and bloodshed. That the Paris government is keen- Iy alive to the dangers of the situation evidenced by the new reparations proposals which have been formulated by Premier Poincare and his ministry. A maratorium is provided with a lcan of 3,000,000,000 goid marks, to be guar- anteed by the heads of German indus- try, but it is stipulated as a basic con: dition for the moratorium and loan gram in the Ruhr must cease, If this plan is approved by the reparations commission Germany must accept it, or on February 1 she will be declared in default on cash reparations as well as on deliveries in kind. The few remaining days of January, therefore, will be critical ones for Eu- of minor defaults in wood and coal de- liveries. If there now is to be a major default in cash reparations, penalties of corresponding severity would not leave the Germans much in the way of liberty or resources. France has entered upon the adventure, however wisely or unwisely, of collecting repa- rations at the point of the bayonet, and it is difficult to see how she could tufn back now in the face of German opposition. To admit defeat in the un- dertaking would be as injurious to her prestige as a disastrous military re- verse, and it is probable no French government could survive which emu- lated the example of that French king who at Calais marched up the hill and then marched down agaif. Nor is it an easy choice which the government at Berlin must make. The non-German world has no sympathy with the policy of evasion which Ber- lin has pursued, and undeniably pres- ent difficulties are the logical result of past offendings, but the world need not withhold appreciation of the dilemma of the Cuno government. Damnation i seems to sit on either horn. - Yielding to the French would bring all the op- position clements in Germany down upon it, while continued resistance is to invite sure destruction at the hands of France, —————— A new kind of currency has been in- troduced in Germany as the result of the Frénch occupation. A man in that part of the world has to be a lightning calculdator to count his change cor- rectly. ——————— Demand for coal during this excep- tionally mild winter has been lessened, but not enough to reduce the price. ——— ot There are intimations that in addi- tion to collecting indemnity France is inclined to pay off old scores. —————coa——— The watch on the Rhine is sounding like an alarm clock. . —————— The “Revolution of Youth.” New York police yesterday raided a resort in Greenwich Village and arrested about twenty young people, literally boys and girls, on various charges of drinking and improper dancing. When arraigned at the police station the girls all claimed to be more than eighteen, but .it is be- lieved that some of them are much younger. This raid, it is said, is but the beginning of an effort to clean up that part of town which has be- come notorious as the resort and habitation of the immoral, convention- defying youth of the metropolis. The attitude of these young people is a symptom of a most distressing condition on the part of the youth of America at this time. They dis- play & ‘contempt ‘for “restraint, for parental ;guidance, for Home in- fluences that in s a gloomy forecast of the next gemeration, N consequence ‘is that as . years of consideration of this .suhjn-rl‘ {the government has not suffered an | irreparable loss, to which it has been | customs and | the | move | that all opposition to the French pro-} rope. The Ruhr was occupied because | York is not alone in this pecullar manifestation. It is in evidence here -and all other citles. It is & “tendency’ of the times. . Some think that it is the result of the war, with its sudden maturing of minds, ‘its influence toward sophisti- cation, its hardening effects. Young men were sent into military service rom the shelter of homes, to asso- clate with elders and with experienc that changed all their standards of value. Young girls went into “war work” that involved closest associa- tion with men, with little regard for what society has known as the pro- prietics of relationship. Whether it is the war or some other influence, certainly the youth of to- day is less respectful and less con- siderate. It is not a matter of prohi- bition. 1t is just u general develop- |ment and there is cause for concern in it. Yet “flapperism™ is not neces- sarily a permenent thing. It will probably pass. It is, indved, passing now. The very spectacle of unre- strained youth disporting in defiance of conventional rules of conduct has begun to work a cure. Parents are awakening to their responsibilities, to realize that they have given too much liberty and too little guidance in many cases to their children. They are coming to sce that they have failed, { verhaps, to make the home sufficiently attractive to hold their boys and girls | within its shelter and influence. i ' The problem of juvenile delinquency | is. largely. a problem of parental| i failure. That fact is coming to be| realized now more definitely since the | flapper and her male counterpart be- gan to manifest in what has betn called the revolution of youth. If it is a revolution it will probably work its course around to a better con- dition. ——— Gov. Smith and Patronage. No great amount of sympathy will be felt or expressed for those New York republicans who put a too literal interpretation on Gov. Smith's talk and promises about patronage in case of democratic success. The demo- { crats succeeded, and by & majority o { large they are cocky, beyvond all precedent. They want everything in sight, and are moving to secure it. ! In the languagé of Theodore Roose- { velt, the Tammanyites are practic: men, and are looking for leadership. his majority would not have reached | the impressive election figure it did if the democrats had not been inspi {by the belief that in the matter patronage, as other things, “Al" would | Dbe found sound on the goose. There are controversies: charges of | ! double-crossings. But they inhere in | i vigorous politics, and New York knows no other kind of politics. Gov. Smith ‘:\s the record is showing. is playing | ’lhe game so as to reward the hungry | and the thirsty —_———— When mention of rcorganization of the democratic party is mentioned at- tention is immediately invited to the | tact that Mr. McAdoo, through a long and successful career, has been one | of our leading organizers. ——————— Lenin and Trotsky were careful to | provide that sovietism should not un- dertake any scheme for rotation in office. —_———————— The former Sultan of Turkey simply keeps going, and does not appear to care whether he gets any letters from | home or not. ——————— The movies reflect comedy and ro; mance on the screen. Their tragedies are expressed through the news col- umns. —————————— The next Safety-first week should provide for a street illumination for the benefit of motorists. ———————— Investigations in Louisiana begin to make “‘the hooded mob” look like the hoodooed mob. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Outlaws. ‘With thrills renewed of youthful cheer The tale of Robin Hood we hear, ‘Whose chivalry and sentiment Fill every mind with gay content. Oh, Robin bold, with what disdain You'd view the modern lawless. train! You used the arrow and the bow And pulled no gat upon a foe. { You danced upon the village green; No “shimmy” there was ever seen. The lusty bugle note you blew And jazz cffects you never knew. You drank good ale and would not pass ‘Wood alcohol to fill the glass. You did not learn narcotic joys Nor peddle dope to girls and boys. You courteously received a guest And oft essisted the oppressed. The gold-brick game you did not play Nor with bad oil stocks bump the jay. Strange outlaws now we daily see, Crime isn’t what it used to be. Our outlaws are not kind and good Like you, old-timer, Robin Hood. Oratorical Difficulty. “In order to make a great speech you've got to talk about the things|training, of which 9.796 were in the | which some members of the nearest to the hearts of the people.” “Yes,” rejoined Senator Scrghum; but & man in my position can’t limit his speeches to base ball and the mo- tion pictures.” Jud Tunkins says when you tell & man to laugh at his troubles you ‘merely convince him you've got e poor sense of humor. Historic Fact. This lesson should be learned by heart; | Suppose, for example, that a married | sovereign nation, Its truth does not diminish: 'A fight is never hard to start, But always hard to finish. Promoting Circulation. “Haven't you stopped that poker an?" P “No,” answered Cactus Joe. got to keep it going as an economic measure. A lot of these Crimson Gulchers won't work unless they're broke.” “Life ain’ sociable like it used to be,” maid Uncle Eben, “When. peopl pass dey don't say, Howdy do.” Dey jes Washington Observations BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. When he returns to the White House offices this week, President Harding will seek solace, as is his wont when the day's formal business 1s over, in his pipe. Recent visitors have noted a new object of adorn- ment on the President’s busy desk. It fs a pipe cabipet with a rack on which usually three homespun briars are slung, each bearing visible and aromatic evidence of service. Like lesser male mortals, President Hard- ing finds repose and Inspiration in the pipe, and some of the welghtiest af- fairs of state habe been discussed with_callers as he tugged away at it. The President is fond of cigar- ettes. too, and likes to “dry smoke™ a cigar. 'When Clemenceau lunched at the White House, Mr. Harding tried in vain to induce the old French- man to join him in tobacco, “The Tiger” renounced the weed twenty years ago and attributes his longev- ity and buoyancy to that self-denial. * ¥ ¥ ¥ Assuredly many citizens of the re- public will applaud Secretary Weeks' red-blooded rebuke of the congres- sional ‘cheese-parers, who have just cut off Gen. Harbord's $6,000 annual retirement pay. As chief of service of supplies in the A. E. F., Harbord probably saved the United States, Treasury every month of the war al sum equivalent to his retirement al- lowance for a thousand vears. What he save the country by his states- manlike inquiry into and recommen- i dation against acceptance of the Ar- menian mandate is hardly calculable in money. * %ok % o Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire is undoubtedly the cham- pion linguist of Congress. He can nold forth eloquently, not only in native English, but in French and Greek. The other night at the dinner of the New England Society in New York. Moses lapsed into a considerable quotation in Latin. That caused some of his hearers to think he could spell- bind in the tongue of the Roman senate, but he explained that was an assumption irreconcilable, as It were, with the facts. k. The republican national would like to hold the 1 national conventior in San The fame of. the demoecratic pow- wow of 1920 at the Golden Gate is the Incitement. Probably if it were not for a lurking fear thaf a San Fran- cisco conclave would unduly promote the ambitions of Hiram Johnson no other convention city would be in the running. That contingency is weigh- ing heavily with the political leaders in whose hands the selection rests. The democrats had such a good time in California that they. too. vearn once again to assemble in '24 within committee -| has repeated himself but once. San Francisco's hospitable gates. But there's a rub with a personal angle in their considerations, too. k:cAdoo will be California’s favorite son, and other deserving democrats are’ afraid his Iocllll m';o"t' might “steal” the con- vention, just as republican politi fear a Hiram stampede. A * ko ok Elihu Root, like Sifakespeare, never repeats. That is to say, hardly ever. Root’s speeches have been collected in a seven-volume series published by the Harvard Press under the title of ““Addresses on Government and Citi- zenship.” They comprise all his im- portant utterances since he entered public life as a United States district attorney, in 1883. In the-intervening forty years, the compilers affirm, Root He quoted a second time a statement b John Marshall in the celebrated Mar: bury agt. Madison decision holding that the United States Supreme Court could HF:( aside an unconstitutional act of Congrese. An dighth volume will embrace Root's addresses at The Hague in 1921, when the world court of justice was organized, and at Washington during the armament and far captern conference. - v ' * k% & This week’s performances of “Rigo- letto” b¥ the Washington Opera Com- pany—the capital's annual attempt to create adequate sentiment in favor of an established opera here—are en- listing the attention of musie-lovin, Americans far removed from the Dis- trict of Columbia. Samuel Fels, Phil- adelphia philanthropist, has headed a list of subscribers ready to pledge $1.000 aplece for the perpetuation of opera in Washington. He intends the foundation as a' tribute to the fine “Rigoletto” cycle beginning to- night. Senator Fletcher of Florida long has tucked away in the archives of the Capitol a bill for the endow- ment of a national school of music at Washington. He hopes some day it may emerge from the pigeon-hole stage and become an act of Congress. Mr. Fletcher considers it incongru- ous that the capital of the world's wealthiest country should be without the musical facilities with which the smallest sized European capital is permanently equipped. * %ok ¥ ot all the important historical ex- cavations taking place in Egypt. A large hole on New Jersey avenue, Washington, where ground is broken for a hotel de luxe. has yielded an interesting piece of Americana—a well preserved copy of the Vir- ginia Argus. dated 1809 Workingmen digging placements for steel posts on the site of the old Meigs mansion disinterred box containing the aper. Newsprint was evidently of more durable character a century ago. The Argus features the pres- ence of “Menacing British Frigates Off the Carolina Coast.”” There is an advertisement offering to exchange a barrel of gunpowder for a cow (Copsright, 1823) new EDITORIAL DIGEST Color Line at Harvard Arouses! Animated Discussion. One of the warmest newspaper | discussions of recent years has been precipitated by the refusal of Presi- dent Lowell of Harvard University | to allow Roscoe Conkling. Bruce, srandson of Blanche K. Bruce, negro United States senator from Missis. sippi in 1 to secure quarters in the freshmen’s halls there. The fact that it was Harvard which takes this step, aithough Bruce's father is himself a,graduate of that particular university and won the highest hoonrs while there. has added to the bitterness of the discussion and both sides of the racial problem are rep. resented in the opinions voiced b: fditors. regardless of their territorial tion. “Under Charles W, never had a race Lawrence Lowell it has had two race issues in one year.” points out the New York World, which insists that there has been “a change of soul at the top which has communicated itself to the university. In the place of Eliot, who embodied a stern but liberal virtue of New England, there sits a man who has lost his grip on the great traditions which made Harvard one of the true spiritual centers of American life. Harvard with the prejudices of a summer hotel. Harvard with the standards of a country club, is not the Harvard of her .greatest sons. It is not the Harvard of its most loyal graduates. but a Harvard temporarily at sea in a disordered world.” ~This likewlse is the view of the New York Post. which, characterizing President Loweli's declaration as “frank,” con- tinues: “This defense is itself a con- fession that Harvard has abandoned one of its proudest ideals at the very moment when that ideal is in special need of being upheld,” while the so- cialistic New York Call asserts that “Harvard University has been Jim Crowed, and no amount of evasion can obscure this fact.” 'A_distinctly contrary view is that which is entertained by the Charlotte Observer, which feels that “the prop- osition that the colored man should compel the white man to live with him was a little bit too strong for eyen the president of Harvard. M: be Bruce will decide on keeping his wson away from Harvard. Undoubtedly that would be better for the colored vouth than to be sent there to live up to the ideals the father enter- tains about the privileges. The Har- vard president knows how to stave oft trouble.” The “problem is deli- cate, the Cincinnati Times- Star, and while Harvard was “the great intellectual center of abolition. and the beacon whose light attracted freedom in the reconstructive period, ECHOES FROM Eliot Harvard issue. TUnder A. MORE _THAN 100,000 TRAINING AS OFFICERS. The figures show that during the current year there were 103,999 in advanced course. It is estimated that thére will be 110,000 in tralning during the next fiscal year.—Representative Anthony, Kansas, republican. THE EVILS OF TAX-EXEMPT SECURITIES. By far the of tax exemption s that it completely upsets the purpose of graduated taxes. In the first place, it enables those with property incomes to e: cape the burden of progressive rates, thereby causing the burden to be -mmf to others less able to pay. person without dependent ochlldren receives a yearly net income of $50,- 000—after payi state taxes-—from real estate valued at $1,000,000. Un- der the revenue act in foree in 1922 his federal income tax would be $6,640. If he converted his real estate into 5 per cent tax-exempt bonds at par, his property and income ta: thereafter would be nothing, his net “We've [iincome would in no way be dimin- ished, while the man who received the | same income from personal services, from farms, from city real te or from taxable securities would con- tinue to pay a tax of $6,640.—Repre-. sentative Greene, lowa, republican. THE FARM BLOO DIVIDED. - The _agricultural blog ‘- so-called, seemis to have ne to 50 Tar ‘| ot amusement. I _.mfl this should be remembered in judging President Lowell. He has done noth- ing that would prevent voung Bruce from graduating from Harvard, from becoming the orator of his class, or from achieving the honor of a Phi Beta membership. All he has done is to deny Bruce. in pursuance of a rule of the university, a room in cer- tain dormifories.” There is a some- at hum@rous aspect. as well. the ashville Banner points out, because in the very home and bailiwick of Senator Lodge and Representative Tinkham, when.the test comes, & n &ro, however worthy his antecedents and mental and character equipments, is not so highly esteemed as to en- title him to the privilege accorded to white youths.” Yet after all “it is tragic that the race issue has invaded Harvard” the New Haven Register insists, as ‘it is absurd to maintain that colored and white cannot dwell together in peace and harmony.” Tt is “unfortunate” that' Bruce should force this position, the Peters- burg Progress and Index-Appeal holds, yet it thinks the “whole mat- ter is a striking illustration of the hypocrisy of many New Englanders in dealing with the colored man and the subject of race prejudice.” The incidert is incapable of any de- fense whatever, in the opinion of the Akron Beacon-Journal. which says this “is the first time in history that any great educational institution north of the Ohio river has adminis- tered such a rebuff to a third genera- tion colored man. The nation's oldest institutio instruct ‘English and Indian youths in knowledge and Godliness’ fas drifted afar from the liberal land- marks of its first days.” If the ques- tion was simply ore of offending southern students, the New Bedford Standard holds that “those who go to Harvard should accept the Harvard tradition of equal opportunity to ne- groes. Rather than to abandon th principle it would be better to forezo southern representation. Why should nybody occupying a room in a large building care who occupies other rooms under the same roof? Mem bers of the freshmen's class are s regated in certain dormitories, but there is no'ruie whtch says they must be chums against their Inclination.” The fault lies very much with Mr. Lowell, thé New York Globe feels, be- cause “the president of Harvard Unl- versity has, in truth. done as much as any man to stimulate race preju- dice during the last few months. First his anti-Jewish policy and now his anti-negro decision ald neither the university nor the country.” Urging that Lowell “reconsider his decision,” and praising the “restraint” of Mr. Bruce, the Hartford Times says “there good llne in Harvard's solemn anthem which shouldn’t be de- leted in practice. It is ‘Let not moss- covered error moor thee by its side while the world on truth's currents glides by'.” CAPITOL HILL any longer—Senator Simmons, North Carolina, democrat. LIKE JAY BIRDS IN A NEST. I for one am resentful of this idea, House encourage, that constitutional gov- ernment has broken down and the House of Representatives has not the capacity to frame 'supply bills, but that we should sit here like a bunch of young jay birds in a nest with our mouths open‘and swallow any rev nue or expenditure. worm .that the in our mouths. — Representative ‘Wingo, Arkansas, democrat. g1 of learning, established to | U. S. Paid Allies Cash. Writer Cites Payment for Privi leges in “Square Deal.” To_the Editor of The Sta In The Star of January 15, written by Rev. W. Clews for,your editorial page, appears an article favoriag cancellation of part or whole of the war debt, under the hcading, “Square Deal to Britain.” There are no doubt many Americans who were surprised at the intimation that the United States did not give her allies a “square deal.” 1 would like to sug: gest that the writer read the report of the committee on judiciary of the United States Senate, which is filed in the Senate; and the reports of our War Industries Board and of the liquidating commission. The latter can also be obtained through the Senate. e may be enlightene@ and possi- bly shocked to find that the United tates gave her allies more than a “square deal” but that the allies took every adyantage and used every method ‘to_gain a few dollars, gold, from the United States. While the United States was neutral, the allies entered into an.agreement among themselves to control war prices, 80 that each should receive benefit there- from. When the United States got into the war she was excluded from this agreement. The European coun- tries which had been driven to join themselves as allies by a common enemy assumed this attitude: “Ager- ica is a new country; she is a wealthy ngtion. Tax her to the limit!” This they did. “The Yank has no business intuition. and more money than he knows what to do with. Why not cut him down a few billion?” Which they did. Dr. Clews continued: “England was forced to buy her war necessities in America. therefore the money re- | mained here.” This is an unfounded | and preposterous statement. Britain bought her goods in London, from | English firms. paying them exorbi- tant profiteers’ prices, whereas the London merchants bought goods in America and imported them into Eng- land at prices controlled by our Amer- ican board of control. All of the money borrowed in the United States by the allies was not by any means used for further prosecution of the war, but a large amoupt of it was used to pay old debts. During the war, did the allies think of it as being evervbody's war, and did they suggest that all the essen- tials be contributed in common for the carrying on of the war? No! No! Why did they not? Because the Unit- ed States of America was paying | them cash for all her privileges and necessities. America did pay cash, good American gold and silver, for the transportation of her troops. for billets for the housing of troops. for railroad transportation, for land in ! which she dug trenches'and on which she constructed railroads. for ter- | rain which had to be occupied by American troops. Are the allies will- ing to return the cash, dollar for dol- lar, that the United States paid in gold. for the debts which she in- curred during the war? Decidedly not. What they have, they want to keep: what they owe, they want to !be forgiven. If the allies will re- |turn the money paid in cash to them by the United States during the war, then I see no reason why we should not forgive them their debts. Why does not the gentleman sug- gest that the allies be given uncon- | ditional permission to tax the people of the United States to their hearts’ content, without giving us any voice in the assessing or apportioning of the taxes we pay? In other words, are we ready to turn the government of our country over to the countries of Europe, which have as vet to prove that they can govern themselves? No! European dictation is a thing of the past. JOHN A. SMITH. Adds Word for France. One Who Recalls Invasion by _Germans Indorses Ruhr Move. To the Editor of The Sta 1 concur “heartily _with Ifabella Campbell’s “Word for France” in your last night's .edition, criticizing only its_moderation. There Is an increasing sickly sen timentalism creeping into the news reports about poor Germany: repara- tions are unbearably severe; the allies are bleeding her white. Which re- {minds me of the man who protested at the extravagance of his wife, who was forever dunning him for money. When usked what in the world she jdid with it all, he sald he didn't know: he hadn't given her any yet. So_with German: Nothing which Germany can suffer at the hands of France and Belgium, short of the cruel and unusual. could wring one throb of pity from my chest. France is keeping order, de- stroying nothing; establishing milk distributions for the babies in the Ruhr. Germany wantonly destroyed all she couldn't steal and dashed out {the babies’ brains against a conven- lunz stone wall. It is earnestly to be | hoped, however, that France and Bel- gium are assured of finishing what they have started. for they must cer- iniy finish it alone this time, “And Ger- i s Campbell can pay: make no mistake abou It is true, and most obviously 50 to those who have inspected the: country. The public is familiar with reports of the prosperous condition of factories, farming; mining, horse racing, theatricals, etc. to which I imay add evidence in still another line. A friend of mine last summer made an extended inspection of the principal German bench shows to se- cure some Doberman Pinschers; and. as he had visited other bench shows there before the great war, he was astonished (to find them befter than ever before; greater entries; greater attendance and far greater sales prices, ‘A thousand dollars apiece was the price of a pair of Pinschers. About the same time I commissioned a man to buy some Harlequin Danes for me, who, after scouring the coun. try, reported that all the good ones had been sold at. tremendous prices. One had been offered to him for $5,000, United States money, which was so poor that he would not have paid importation charges on him. 1 think this discredits the propaganda representing poor Hans butchering and eating his canine pets. Let me suggest that when one finds himself palpitating with pity for the unspeakable boche he shail review that part of “The Four Horsemen” which describes: the invasion. HOWE TOTTEN. Few Realize Bigness of Modern Vessels 1t is almost impossible for the mind to form a clear and adequate concep- tion of the size of modern steamship ‘We read that they are 800, 500 o 1,000 feet long, that their tonnage is 50 many thousands, and 5o on, but th figures are so large that we fail to grasp their significance. Perhaps one might get a more im- pressive idea from the size of some of their smalier-parts. The Aquitania is now in dock at Southampton for her annual overhauling. AS & part of sa most conspicuous evil | budget bureau condescends to stick | the process a new centerpiece is to be put into her rudder. This new .piece, made of cast steel, weighs just twenty tons, It is large enough to have a FOREIGN NATIONS MUST RESPECT | hollow chamber {nto whioh workmen AMERICAN PROHIBITION. ‘The time has come when the people of the TUnited States mus domestic policy, adopted after a po- litical struggl years' duration, the will of the peopls of the United States is to be subordinated to the dictates of the mercenary demands of the whisky interests of Europe. Representativo Cramton, Michigan, re- Ppublican. w BOOTLEGGERS REGARDED WITH AMUSEMENT. . The bootleggers and the other sinister elements which have been galled into_existence by futile at- tempts to enforce lessyre are regarded by most '.'5"10’“ h‘mum one of the gravest ever - assert their right to | 5,4, require foreign nations to observe a of more than fifty or else confess thatlihem will ever influence history as m‘rhuo here ons that enter in order to inspect the hinge’ mechanism. The entire rudder has a weight of eighty tons. But it these modern monsters of the are wholly beyond comparison anything, that ever sailed the prior to the few decade is little chance that any one wit] se there some of the comparatively diminutiy boats of the past have done. The ma- terial that went into the building of the Mayflower, for example, might be 50 well hidden in out-of-the-way cor- ners of the Aquitania that it would take long searching to find it agal but neither”the Aquitania mor any, other single one of these present-day’ giants of ocean navigation can affect the destiny of the world as it was af- fected by the Mayflower's famous voy'- age three centuries ago. We are tempted to glory in the bigness of our present way of doing things, but after a\. ‘when we glance back over human i board CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS. There has been 'much talk, in and out of Gongress, to the effect that private profiteering in supplies for warfare is wicked, and showld be stopped. It Is advocated that the government should manufacture its own war material, and that in case of war, not only the young men should be drafted into the Army, to serve at the front, but manufactures should be drafted as well for the pub- o good. 16 is apparent that there are men in high position who do mnot adhere to the doctrine that the government should supply its own needs. Per- haps the idea smacks too much of soclaltsm, but, at all events, the plan of Representative Hull (republican) of Towa, as outlined in a bill pend- ing. for all government navy yards to be utilized in the manufaoture of government supplies, 0 far as prac- ticable, receives opposition from Sec- retary Weeks, who wants the bill amended o as to give optside con- tractors 25 per cent handicap in all bids to make the supplies for the government. If the government were again to face war, calling for supplies which it could create in its navy vard at a cost of $1,000,000 to the tax- payer, it would be required to hand t a contract to any private bidder willing to do that million dollars’ worth of work for £1,250,000, * % * Here iy another instance of Thrift week: It costs money to install and mainta'n clectric light in the school bulldings. It costs money to supply buildings enough to furnish all the school children with a full day's course in school, because there are t0o many children to fit the seats. So they have double shifts, beginning early and running iate in the day. Tt grows dusk long before school is dis- missed. but there are no other means of lighting some of the schoolrooms but tallow candles—I almost wrote tallow dlps” This being Thrift week, it s well to point out what thrift means to some folks. It means defective evesight to 7,000 Washing- ton school children, according to Health Officer Fowler. This is what he ey “Hundreds of these children are Paving the way for a lifetime of dis- eased vision, and many are beginning a decline into total blindness. Two- thirds of those who appear unac- countably stupid are suffering from one of three mala adenoids, dis- eased tonsils or defective vision." Thrift! It shows on the annual ex- pense account how much money is saved by using tallow candles in- stead of electric lights. Eyes do not show on the balance sheet. It is to the “credit” of a thrifty Congress to save lights, and sacrifice the eves which may become as blind as the on of some &tatesmen. *xox % Col. Charles E. Forbes, director of the Veterans' Bureau. declared to the cliques and cabals and self-seeking placeholders that that bureau cannot be run by more than one head at a time. and so long as he is the head,| he is going to run it for the benefit of the veterans, to the best of his ability. That is right. There must be one deciding head of all institutions and business enterprisef—a “supreme court” of last resort. Then that head must receive credit and blame. * ok ok Apropos of that, or anything that fits it, there is the Washington school board: also the District Commis- sioners. Who is responsible for the management and success of the schools? There appears to be a differ- ence of opinion. The school board de- cides to conduct a vocational school— the Commissioners are not “sold” on the scheme, and refuse to O. K. a bill of expense to the amount of $200 or £300 for supplies. Again, the school decides unanimousiy that cer- tain appliances are needed in the girls’ gvmnesium, out the Distriet Commissioners quiz the school hoard | and ask it to reconsider its vote. It reconsiders and reiterates its unani- mous vote for the appliances. Somebody rises to a point of order or parliamentary question of priv- flege to wit: Who was elected to run the schools? Why?. Another question of order: Are the Washington schools €0 _extraordina- rily equipped tha' it behooves a suffer- ing nation to call a halt upon extrav- agance? What is the reputation of the capital's schools in that regard? * % ¥ ¥ Half a century ago. advertising con- sisted in a painted sign over a gen- eral store's door, reading: “John Jenes; dealer in general merchan: ais When the mail-order firms first de- veloped, advertising consisted in more Sri9Pee tricky, misieading, bombastic pretenses of marvelous bargains. It Was wholly unreliable. A certain mail-order firm. now one of the great- est in the world, began by advertis- ing to sell a beautiful upholstered set of parlor furniture for 98 cents Ol"fl)’ one set to be sold in a town. (“Order early, %0 as to be the first from your town to get this wonderful bargain.”) In agate type just be- fore ~the great meventy-two-point gothic type, was printed the unim- portant ‘word, “miniature,” but few readers noticed it, and fewer still comprehended the dictionary meaning of ‘miniature.” Thousands of orders flooded the mails for those magnificent parlor suites, which the buyers pledged to show their neighbors. in consideration of the merely introductory price of 98 cents. The miniature sofa was o and a half inches,long. Each chair was a cubic inch. and the tahle was in proportion. That was “advertie- ing.” forty years ago. The post office authorities were helpless, for the ud- vertisement distinctly d it was “miniature” furniture % ok ok % But something mors powerful than the government did stop that sort of “advertising.” 1t was public con- demnation. It was the lesson that honesty—not literal honesty alone, but moral honesty—is the only thing that pays in business. Trickiness burns itself out in a day; honesty of statement grows brighter as the dav advances, just as does the rising sun That lesson was learned by the mini ture tricksters, and after awhile they Aeveloped genuine mail-order hu: ness running into millions of dollars a month. but enly after they hegan telling the truth. Not every trickste: learns that lesson o well as they did S ( Today the public well cated to demand good faith in adver tising that a single trick 1 would bring bankruptey to the great- est house in business—or come near to it as to call for a receiver and change of management. Not only does the public now de- mand good faith in advertising, but also information that s reliable. Advertising is not an “art” it is a sclence. It must be based on knowl- edge of facts, else it has little in- fluence. It requires research and careful work in compiling data. for it is the chart on which all business is navigated. * %k X %k In pursuance of this development of advertising, a new Better Bu: Bureau, established under the sanc- tion of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, is about to be opened in Washington < bureau will occupy a building and be manned by experts in all lines of business. whose function will be to wmather facts bearing upon business. Repre- sentatives will be in tou with every government department and bureau and with Congress for the purpose of compiling facts which will Dbe re- ported to the advertising clubs for their guidance in_business policies vertising. The head of this Francis X. Wholley Tt is as long a reach from the ad- vertising of fifty vears ago to this latest development of scientific re- search foundation of modern adver- tising as it is from the tallow candle and ox cart of fifty vears ago to the radio and airplane of today PRS- nese There is dignity and serious p pose in the kind of fact advertisi as above indicated. But what shall be said of another innovation in pub- licity—the balloon billboard? Tt is the mountebank of advertising—and no play on words is intended. Within a month Washington is to find its sky invaded by a huge. ugly monstrosity in the form of a statiopary gas bag. chich will serve as a screen against to_project lantern “signs” or In place of the moon We may behold fifty-seven varietics of breakfast foods. and numerous cures for tired feelings. and the merits of typewriters. and the glories of spring millinery. and the bargains at the d partment stores. The stars shall «i together, but their keynote will be the latest stunt of the ohild milljon- hic ‘ads. faire actor or the beauties of the let. Think of the desecration of thy eternal skies! ¥k ox ¥ Ard that isn't the worst of There is a trick aviator who can fly 120 miles a minute—or hour. or week —and write with a smoke-penel! across the whole heavens, while he files. “Excelsior Tobacco” or ‘“whew Licorice Plug’ That will be a pillar of cloud by day; the heavenly movy will be a pillar of fire by night. We have just begun picking the music of the spheres out of the ether bv radio. and now the atmosphere s to be blotted and contaminated with smoke and fire—and thev call that ndvertising. A with_it! If there is no discrimination between that desecration and real advertising, th there is really no distinction betweer fame and notoriety. The grand oper prima donna screeches not so loud as the street hawker. Shall fame b measured by noise? Shall the pecul- jar, the clown, the jack-in-a-box. compete with the truly great and no- ble? Advertising, too, has its quacks. its charlatans. Fake doctors are not thriving as of yore; the public standards are higher. Fired From Democratic Meeting, But Became Democratic Senator David I. Walsh, the first democrat to be elected United States senator in Massachsettes in sixty-eight years, and fourth in the history of the Sen- ate, was ejected {from a democratic meeting—the first he ever attended —-held in Clinton, Mass, in 1884 At that time Senator Walsh was ayoungster twelve years old. Al- though he early became interested in politics, . and was elected to the state legislature when he was twenty-t hr e e years old, it was not his love of politics that led him to the democratic rally in the old town hall of Clinton, in 1884, but love for his elder brother John. John Walsh, who died in 1887, when he was only twenty-seven years old, made his mark as a brilliant speaker. In fact, Senator Walsh has been told by friends older than himself that while: the senator had got on pret- ty well in the law and in politics, if his brother John had lived, it would not have been David who attained the greatest prominence of the nine brothers and sis *| So it was to hear his brother John deliver an address at the democratic rally that David Walsh joined a torchlight parade and finaliy sought to enter the h: ‘There was a po- liceman at the door, however, most forbidding in appearance. Natural- ly young Walsh ducke elbow, and tried to slide in unnoticed. But this was not to be. A huge hand fell on his shoulder, which, the sena- tor says, felt like a ton of bricks on his*spirits. o % ‘Out you g said the big cop, “no room here for kids.” And out David went. But he caught sight of a man in the crowd a moment later whom he knew, and hailed him. , mister; take me in,” the boy SENATOR WALSH. under his| realized that it was John W, brother that was seeking admission o again he stormed the citadel, and this time, backed up by his man friend he got past the policeman. and heard his first political speech, delivered by his own brother. Senator Walsh was a student at Holy Cross College for three years and then went to Boston University Law School. While at college he took part in debates. He early dis- covered he had no ear for music and he gave his attention fo cultiy vating his_voice for speaking. This led him also to take part in ciass dra- matics. Not long ago an old friend of college days roared with laughter over the effect produced by Senator Walsh, when he delivered a speech in “Julius Ceasar. “T suppose,” Senator Walsh said to him, “that my declamation was pretty poor.” g “Tt wasn't that.” replied his friend. “I was thinking of the way your toga fitted.” Tn the Boston University Law School he was elected president of the class, and also he held one of th» homors dubbed “orations” when came to graduation. His election av president of the class was unexpected. The fraternity men -and - the antl- frats were engaged in a bitter strus- gle for this office. David Walsh wae chosen temporary presiding officer while the discussions and wrangles were underway. Many stormy meet- ings were held, and neither side could seoure a victory. In the end thev compromised on David Walsh, elect- ing him practically by a unanimous vote. Senator Walsh was admitted to the ibar in 1897. 1In less than a month afterward he was called upon, counsel for an Italian charged Wi clubbing another in an_attempt at murder, to face Herbert Parker, then district’ attorney and afterward at- i torney general of the state. While he did not win the case, he sucteeded in having & verdiet of simple assaulf, brought in. At this same session of' the court young Walsh, addressing Judge Blodgett on a matter of sen- tence, received his first calldown from the bench. “Your honor.” he said to the judge. “I_am satisfled that this man is not & bad character, and his unfortunate “You are satisfied,” judge. “"Pray what has ’lln"wltl'lt! T am theé-one as h ! roared the it got to “sattey ' 1l 1 1 \