Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1923, Page 6

A 6 THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition — WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY. ...January 25, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office. 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 150 Nassau 8t. Chicago Office; Tower Buildin Buropean Office : 16 Regent St., London, England The Evening Star, with the Sunday morniog 2fition. s delivered by carriers within the eity dnilx any. 45 cent conts per mont! i mail or telephone Main by carriers at the &t 60 cents per mant! i month: Sunday onl ders may be sent B000. CoLlection is ma and of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Paily and Sunday..1 yr., $8.40; 1 mo. Daily only.. 1 yr.! $6.00: 1 mo. Sunday only . $2.40; 1 mo., 20c 70c All Other States. Dafly and Sunday..1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 8¢ Dalily cnl: .1yr.. $7.00; 1 mo., 60c Bunday oniy $3.00: 1 mo., 2c Member of the Associated Press. The Associnted Press is exclusively enti‘led 5 the une on of all news dis- pateles credi se credited in (his ‘paper and also the local news pub- Tished “herein. " All rights of publication of wpecial disnatches hereln arc also reserved. d to it or not other: == —— | The Greater Washington. Tn his course of his talk before the Arlingion County Civie Feder oiher night at Cherrydale, Va., Charles re, chairman of the Commission Arts, broadened the vision of to the perspective of the He referred “ine 18 that are now either in the | tion that will, making or in contem when completed, add tractions, nc of t adj; nection Mr, Washin people w dren today We needs It is urgently important to bear in mind this fact, so pointedly stated. Washington will grow in time to the million point—not the Greater Wash- ington that includes portions of Vir- ginia and Maryland, but the Wash- ington “within the walls,” so to speak, within the curtailed boundaries of the original ten miles square. And the population of that ton will be far more than a million. In all directions the capital com- munity, District, Virginia and Mary- land, increasing in population. Homemaking is progressing at a rate that three or four decades ago would have been considered impossible. The particular community in which Mr. Moore delivered his address is an example of this development. A quar- ter of a centu 0 it was under the blight of evil conditions, the resort of lawbreakers and law-defiers, a ring- controlled county that could not pos sibly prosper until the state intervened and effected a clearance. When once these conditions were corrected Alex- andria county, now Arlington county, recovered and went ahead rapidly. Now it is active, thriving, growing, ‘with keen civic spirit and a deep inter- est in the general welfare, not alone of the immediate region, but of the ‘whole capital. Co-operation will be necessary to effect the development of which Mr. Moore spoke the other night, those in the two states working with those in the District to the end of making the Greater Washington that is the hope and ideal of all. hly to the at- v of the District, but ent regic In this con- Moore sai will cont a million hin the lifetime of our chil- and no provision we may make will be adequate for them. rould at least provide for present The President's Recovery. President Harding’s recovery from | his indisposition, which is of the prev- alent type characteristic of winter, has been gratifvingly rapid. He is now virtually back at werk after near- 1v @ week of enforced vacation. Mr. Harding's description of himself at the outset of the attack has doubtless appealed to all of those who are touched with the grip germ. He said he felt “no good all over.” That is a graphic statement of the sensation of this ailment. It is one of the most utterly depleting of ills. The presidency is a difficult office, highly exacting in its demands upon the strength of the incumbent. There is no real rest for him from the be- ginning to the end of his term. When he is not actually at his desk attend- ing to the routine of papers, reports, letters and recommendations, or listen- ing to the talk of callers, all of whom ‘want something done or not done, he is burdened with the responsibilities that inhere in the position. He may Jeave Washington for a “rest,” but the office pursues him. He may for a few hours, or even perhaps a few days, seek isolation at some point re- mote from the capital, but the wires are never cut and the wireless is never still. He is “in touch” constantly, A man must have a remarkable constitution to stand this strain in these days. The President is the cen- tering point upon which hopes and aspirations, desires, plans and designs of countless people center. The un- written, unspoken thought that thus concentrates upon the occupant of the ‘White House is in itself an incessant pressure. In this present case the President has @ particular burden to bear in the {llness of his wife, who, though much improved from her serious ill- ness, is still in an invalid state and her suffering has naturally reacted upon him. There is reason for the ‘warmest congratulation to both Mr. and Mrs. Harding upon their recovery, and to the President especially on his so prompt restoration to health. —_——— Motor problems are small matters compared to the efforts to enforce new traffic regulations in the Ruhr. ———— America Escapes Rebuff. Those well intentioned but badly informed Americans who have been insisting that this government inter- vene in the controversy between France and Germany may now be thankful that the President and his Secretary of State had the wisdom and patience not to rush in with premature tenders of good offices. An offer by Italy of mediation has been scornfully rejected by the Berlin gov- ernment and there is no reason to belleve that outside interference would be more welcome to France than to Germany. Apperently conditions in the Ruhr must get worse before they can be expected to get better. '\It s beginning to be suspected that )] Or- | s0c | ation the | eater Washing- | French occupation of the Ruhr was net altogether unwelcome to the Cuno government and the big industrial leaders who are its mainstays. In all past negotiations with respect to rep- arations the French have held the | threat of occupation as a trump card in reserve, and so long as it was unplayed they had a decided advan- tage over their. adversaries. Now, with this trump card played, the French must win with it or else oc- cupy a less advantageous position in | future negotiations. And the Ger- mans do not believe the French can make occupation win. They recognize that they must suffef for the present, but in the long run they think they will gain, and a reparations bill amounting to more than thirty billion | dollars is decidedly a matter to be considered in its long-run aspects. No concelvable damage resulting from { French occupation of the Ruhr would overcome the advantage of a substan- tial reduction in the reparations total. On the face of it, therefore, Ger- many can well afford to let matters progress a considerable distance be- fore mediation would work to her ad- vantage. And the French, of course, are not going to admit defeat thus early in the game. They have no choice now but to play out their hand, tor admission of their inability to col- lect reparations would involve admis- sion of Germany’s inability to pay. and reduction in the reparations total would follow as an inevitable conse- Guence. The time may come when the United States government can play a helpful part in bringing about settlement of the reparations problem. And when that time comes we will be in a much { better position to help if we have not inn-judived our good oftices by thrust- ing them forward before either party is in mood to welcome them. Diplo- macy is still @ game which has to be played with care and circumspection and with some knowledge of facts and circumstancés. i ———— Car Fares and Contracts. In the course of the debate on the | District appropriation bill in the Sen- ate sterday the question of the rate of fares on Washington street rail- ways was broached in connection with certuin street improvements, and the proposition was advanced that the |present rate of fare, being higher than five cents, or six tickets for a quarter, is a breach of contract. The { senator cited certain laws relating to {the incorporation of the two com- panies, specifying these rates as a maximum, and later he offered an amendment in the form of a proviso that the appropriations in the par- ticular section to which it was pro- posed to attach it should not become vailable until the Utilities Commis- {sion should reduce the fares to that ‘minimum. This amendment was, ) however, objected to on point of order as legislation on an appropriation bill. This matter of the street railway fares in the District cannot he settled rightly by such a method as a per- emptory reduction in the rate of fare specified in the original “contracts” cited in the Senate vesterday. The Public Utilities Commission ir charged by law with the duty of fixing the rates, and it is held that that law creating the commission supersedes charter fare limitations. cise of that power the Utilities Com- mission has changed the rates several times. Yesterday the grant of a higher rate was mentioned as a “war measure.”” Tt was only that in the 1 {sense that war conditions were such that a higher rate of fare was nec- essary to enable the local companies to subsist. Since the war the rate has been lowered. though not to the point of five cents straight or six tickets for a quarter. As was stated in the debate yester- day, & merger of the two railroad companies would undoubtedly in the circumstances be the best means of ef- fecting a reduction of fare. As long as the two systems remain separate it is necessary to fix the fare with re- gard to the needs of the less affluent of the two corporations. Under con- golidation unquestionably the fare could be reduced considerably, but that consolidation cannot be forced justly by the imposition of a lower fare rate either by statute or by ad- ministrative action. The District wants lower street car fares. It recognizes fully that the present rate, while only barely high enough to yield a reasonable return of profit to one of the companies, is Ligher than the reasonable return re- quirements of the other company. It knows also that two rates of fare, ad- justed to the respective necessities of the two companies, would work not only a hardship upon the less affluent, by the diversion of traffic from it, but would probably precipitate a worse condition than exists today. It looks, therefore, to consolidation on some equitable terms of these two com- panies, thus permitting the Utilities Commission to fix a rate of fare that is right for the companies and right for the public, and that conforms to the principle of uniformity upon which the charters granted to the two companies, as cited yesterday in de- bate, were based. The ex-kaiser at least enjoyed the proud position of a leader in plans for world conquest and did not remain after they went wrong to help in the arguments with the bill collectors. —_—————— Germany’s political genius is versa- tile. Formerly the ruthless heavy villain, the role changes to that of the heroine in distress. Hospitals for Washington. The failure of the Garfield Memorial Hospital to acquire, in the week set aside for the campaign, the $500,000 essential to increasing its hospital facilities by 100 beds and providing & home for its nurses has a connotation under which the District of Columbia may not rest. The urgent need of the community for a prompt and substan. tial increase in its hospital facilities has been laid before the public with fairness and force. That need is to- day emphasized by the statement made on responsible authority that for the past several days, with the peak of local hospitalization yet to be reached for the year, there has not been & vacant room . and on certain days not a vacant bed in the local hos- In the exer-| pitals. A group of close to 350 enthu- siastic and public-spirited men and women have devoted their time and energy to the personal presentation of the facts in the case to prospective centributors. And on Monday night, the date set for the termination of the campaign, the total of contributions received had reached less than 50 per cent of the requisite figure, The failure involved may not be laid at the door of the hospital authori- ties, nor of those whose hands and hearts have been devoted to the too often thankless task of telling Wash- ington the unvarnished truth concern- ing its hospital needs. In the face of every interest, selfish or unseifish; in the face of every dictate of mind or conscience, the failure is that of the city of Washington up to this time adequately to meet a civic obligation as essential to its collective and in- dividual security and well being as isa sewage system or & pure water supply or paved streets. The city stands in urgent need of a prompt increase in its hospital facili- ties. Logically, it may be argued that the proper method of meeting that need is through municipal taxation. Yet common sense answers that that method may not be applied today for tomorrow, and it is for tomorrow that this extremely critical condition must be met. There is no practical way today for any individual to insure hospital facili- | ties for himselt or his family when he may need them other than by con- tributing the dollars whereby those facilities may be constructed. Over and above this obvious fact, which is as irrefutable as any basis for life, fire or accident insurance, towers the obli- gation of those who are able to fur- nish hospital facilities for their neigh- bors who are unable to provide them | both marri; for themselves. A city which will not | manifestly do from its own pocket care for its citi- zens, rich or poor, when sickness over- takes them, is blind or worse. That shall never be saild of Wash- ington, the Capital city of a nation which prides itse]f upon its foresight and philanthropy. The Garfield Hos- pital campaign has been extended. It must be vigorously continued until the requisite sum shall have been raised. There are tens of thousands of Wash- ingtonians who owe it to themselves and the city to play their part in upbuilding Washington's hospital There are thousands able to construct as a memorial the room which they may need tomorrow. May they step forward with that grace and enthu- siasm becoming to those who pride themselves upon “paying as they go.” —_———————— A crime wave is reported from New York, on the heels of Mayor Hylan's trip to Florida. Mr. Hylan said he ‘would return if criminals started any- thing and it will be their own fault if they are compelled to face a man in a state of especial exasperatiqn because his vacation has been spoile,l. —————————————— Col. Bryan, after discussing evolu- tion, comments on French policies. Neither of these topics is likely to put any hurdles in his way should he loom up as a dark horse, ——— Russia has a number of gloomy dramas that might be sent out ai incidents of Lenin’s old policy of ter- rorizing the world. —_————— The only benefit observable in a i heavy snow is that it obstructs ve- hicles sufficiently to simplify the parking problem. —_————— Great Britain and Turkey have a fuel problem of their own in connec- tion with the oil fields at Mosul. No nation truly respectful toward the principles of thrift would be willing to fight on borrowed money. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Mr. Wiseman. I love the man who comes along And tells me all about it. His reason why I'm right or wrong I hear end cannot doubt it. 1 plod along and read with care, In quest of information. {He gets enough and some to spare | By idle contemplation. | Just what is bad and what is good He speedily determines. | If they would hear him talk, He could Placate the French and Germans. He knows how quarrels should be met When swords in menace glisten. The trouble is. he cannot get The proper folks to listen. He knows the laws of every land And those-of every village. H#4d check, if he had full command, All tendency to pillage. He knows what art and literature Should offer to the classes, And easy methods to secure Contentment for the masses. I throw my little book away. It holds no thrill inspiring. T'd rather be from day to day His auditor edmiring. So positive is every plan He makes, I dare not flout it. Life would be dull without the man ‘Who tells me all about it. Always the Politician. “People always wait till he is dead to praise & poet.” “Poets are jealous,” replied Senator Sorghum. “Why praise one and make a lot of enemies?” Jud Tunkins says the loud talk of the feller who thinks he’s the life of the party is what makes you welcoms the jazz band. s ‘More Precious than Gold. ‘The coal man has a merry fling Amid the gathering frost. I take what he may choose to bring And never ask the cost. From the Soil to the City. “People forsake the country and throng ta the overcrowded cities.” “Yes,” replied the old mountaineer. “I'm thinkin' of goin’ along. The moonshinin’ has more modern con- veniences an’ the market is a heap faster.” “De big talker,” said Uncle Eben, “mostly ain’'t original. Ready-made shoes allus squeaks de loudest.” | | C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1923. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., . s Washington Observatiors BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Representative Frank L. Greene of Vermont is one of the members of the lower house of the Sixty-seventh Congress . who will be translated into gress. As he's been a senator-elect since November, some of his friends are in a quandary whether to' address him as “Mr. Congressman” or “Sen- ator.” Greene has solved their dif- ficulties. “Call me Frank,” Is the happy medium he suggests. Greene, like S0 many of our public men, is a newspaper man degenerated Into a politician. He came out of the Span- ish-American war a colonel after en- listing as a private. The new Green mountain solon is one of the ac- knowledged wits of Congress. He can reel off good stories by the furlong and never repeats. Greene likes to recall the rebuke he once got at the hands of an anecdotal victim in Ver- mont. “Ever heard this story be- fore?" the representative asked, stop- ping in its midst. “Well, never at such length,” was the crushing reply. * ko ¥ Overheard at a congressional din- ner this weel Mrs. A—You know, Harding is bellicose. Mrs. B—You mean Mr. Taft, don't 1 think Mr. joinder to a fair member of the for- eign diplomatic set who mistook him for the Chief Justice. There is & con- siderable facial resemblance between the former President and the former ambassador. am sorry, madame,” said Dr. Hill, “but I am only Mr. Taft in reduced circumstances.” * ok x Senator Arthur Capper, who is try- ing to induce Congr to improve ge and divorce conditions, n't think the modern dance is conducive to matrimonial woes. The leader of the farm bloc is one of the most ardent, as well as one of the most accomplished, dev- otees of terpsichore in Washington. He is equally at home in the stately waltz or amid the gyrations of jaza. At Secretary Hughes' reception in th Pan-American Union this week, Sen ator Capper and Secretary Wallace made public manifestation of the amenities that prevail betwsen the farm bloc and the Department of Agriculture by dancing frequently with each other’ wive: Senator Shortridge of California and Senator David 1. Walsh of Massachuse “stepping” members of Congre: %ok % Somebody asked a member of the cabinet who is “the most influential man in Washington The answer was, “Miss Janet Richards.” It was a tribute to the fact that that ex traordinarily well informed “talk lady,” as she calls herself, molds im- portant public opinion in the capital through her Monday discourses on current events. Among the thousands who_ sip of political wisdom at her inexhaustible fountain are the wives nd daughters of cabinet ministers, nators, representatives and diplo- mats. They have implicit faith in “Janet's” facts and fancies. They you? Which recalls David Jayne Hill's re- ! { marks. identify themselves with them per- suasively when the men come home night. As in every great capital women in Washington exercise vast, if_subtle. influence on the course of public affairs. Bismarck always pre- ferred an ambassador’s wife as a din- ner companion and usually arranged to have one. He hoasted he could ac- complish mare “through the women” than by the routine methods of di- plomacy. scorns notes when he recites well known poems or passages from famous speeches of American orators. At the Bethesda Women's Club the other dav Gov. Shaw rendered a bal- lad celebrated in Washington in the dhys of Senator Jones of Nevada. Jones was a considerable rhymester and composed many jingles of the west he loved and sprang from. Shaw thought it timel pending religious controversies New York—to recite some ver: written by Jones, called “Silver Jack They tell of a two-fisted. hard-boiled Nevada miner who refused to permit a brother roughneck to stand up in a mining camp barroom and deny the validity of the Bible. “Silver Jack" mopped the floor with the non-leelies - er and converted him into a devout, it disheveled, member of the God-fear- ing community. * ko % August Thyssen, the veteran Ruhr fronmaster. whose son Fritz was court-martialed by the French, is known as the “Andrew Carnegie of Germany. In view of certain n Teutons call him “King Thyssen” because of his long-time supremacy in the Rhenish coal, iron and steel trade. He is eightv-one vears old, wears three-dollar suits of ready-made clothes, and on his family coat-of-arms is emblazoned the slo- gan: “If I rest, I rust” Thyssen in- augurated his career in the ear! ties on $6,000, with which he built a rolling_mill, "employing _sixt Today he is the master of indusi comparable to those controlled by the United States Steel Corporation, with a pay roll of 160,000 men and more. He started Germany on her ill-star- red Moroccan adventure fifteen or eighteen vears ago by offering to loan Sultan Abdul Aziz a bundred miliivn when marks were not st money, in return for a mononoly of Morocco's iron ore deposits. ook ok In the lounge of & populous down- town hotel the other night sat. then tried to stand, two young mon who had quite unmistakably been hover- ing o'er the flagon. The more co- herent of the translucent twain mo- tioned to the assembled guests in the lounge as does a man abou dress an_audience. gled. “Folks. if chance to vote on prohibition, vote against it. It cost me $35 to get this jag, and I used to get it for $5.” (Coprright, 1923.) to ad- “Folks.’ he gur- you ever get a EDITORIAL DIGEST Herrin Verdict Characterized Miscarriage of Justice. The verdict of acquittal in the first of the trials of the men indicted for the murders at the Lester strip mine in Willlamson county, Ill, last June, has been warmly denounced by most of the newspapers of the country. It is accepted that inasmuch as the state placed its strongest cases on trial first there can be little doudt that no one will ever be punished for the mob outrages. Of course “Herrin acquits herself,” argues the New York World, in char- acterizing the verdict as “a defeat for civilized government in the United States. There is no doubt that the murder was committed. There can be no doubt that there are plenty of wit- nesses who could have placed the guilt where it belonged. The Ku Klux Klan at Mer Rouge and the lynoh-law government of Harrison will both derive comfort from this verdict. It is the most extraordinary modern example of the power of a lo- cal group to commit crimes of vio- ler.ce and then clear itself technically in the courts. Yet this may not be the end of the story. The alibis of the Mer Rouge klan have already be- &un to crack at the seams. At Herrin the whole town carries the burden of a guilty conscience, which should bring further revelations before the case is forgotten.’ To which the so- clalistic New York Call replies that the “jury was representative of Wil- llamson county, wheére the facts are best known. The Herrin acquittal is more than a vindication of the tradi- tional American right of self-defense. It is a crushing condemnation of the practice of ‘proteoting property’ with privately employed gunmen, who usurp the police wer of the state and In nine out of ten cases deliber- ately provoke violence to prolong their jobs. The real responsibility for the deaths at Herrin rests squarely upon the shoulders df W. J. Lester nd those behind him, who imported armed thugs into a peaceful commu- nity. And Lester and his assoclates are the men who should be in the criminal dock —not the five miners Jjust acquitted. This_acquittal is received by the Springfleld Republican as a “bitter travesty on justice in the state of Tllinofs. Yet the circumstances of the acquittal are peculiar. The jury was composed of farmers living in Wil- liamson county, where the massacre of the non-union miners took place. Farmers are not usually sympathetic with labor unions or with rough treatment of scabs and strikebreak- e One is driven to the conclusion that the jury found the legal evidence against these five defendants insuf- ficlent to warrant a verdict of guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Convinc. ing evidence that might have been | Recalls War of 1870 Writer Declares French Were Aggressors in That Conflict. Te the Editor of The Star: In The Star of Friday, January 19, appeared a very interesting letter by Mr. Archibald Hopkins regarding the occupation of the Ruhr valley by the French, and which, as he points out, seems entirely justified. Then he goes on to say that Bismarck, in order to consolidate the newly formed German empire, deliberately provoked and brought on a war with France in 1870. This war resulted in France losing the two provinces- of -Alsace and Lorraine, and of being compelled to pay $1,000,000,000 to the victor. Now, there Was no mm‘“t empire at this time, and it was only this war ious German states to consolidate under the lead- ership of Prussia. : 1 have before me Ridphth's History of the World, and on page 1263 and 1264 of volume 3 is given a full and detailed account of the events which led up to that brief war, so disastrous snd humilisting to the French. The events set forth are briefly Eathered at an early date prob. Slipped through “the fgers of iy prr;secu!(p( attorneys because of in action. No one will ever be punished for this crime, aithough the mob had no thought of concealment. The case presents’ an example of the break- down of the state.” While this is in part true, the Scranton Times also feels that'the verdict “brings forcibly to attention the difficulties of obtain- ing a conviction in a case wherein. apparently, a whole community is in- volved. Local prejudices play a most important part and prosecution is fraught with many difficulties. Still mob violence and mob rule must be suppressed if orderly government is to be maintained in this country. It is a reflection on our jury system that convictions in such cases as that of Herrin are almost impossible to ob- tain.” = Subscribing to this_sentiment, the Pittsburgh Dispatch also argues that “if there is one need paramount today it is to impress upon and con- vince every one that the corner stone of self-government and of security of person and property is in common submission to the law and the main- tenance of public order. e decision of the jury was to expected, the Peorla Transcrint poiney out, because ‘“verdicts of gullty rarely are returned in a_community frozen with terrorism. The jury did the obvious fact in the obvious way. The people of Willlamson county protect- ed what they conceived to be their Vvital interests; if the state of Illinois had been. equally alert and deter- mined, the massacre would not have occurred.” This is also in part the view of the Portland Express, which holds that the result means that ‘murder is no crime in Herrin, and, further, that the verdict, and the comment thereon of the attor- neys for the accused, would seem to mean that “when & group of miners leave their places the operations must remain idle and if any other men choose to take their places the mem- bers of the unfon would be legally and morally justified in shooting from ambush those who were doing the work which they had refused to a The crimes at Herrin were the logical sequence of the Gompers doctrine of labor above the law. It is a doctrine which, if allowed to prevail, would result' in the destruction of ‘all our institutions and the fallure of free overnment.” This particular verdiot owever, the Lafayette Journal- Courier 'hopes, “marks only a stage in’ the court proceedings. One thing is certain, justice will not be and moclefy will not be app safeguarded until punishment reached the guilty. 1t is not for ont® siders to attempt to say who is guilty, The placing of Infamy and penalties an, thincia™" uty of the state of e verdict “was no_ surpri; the Indlanapolis Star, which finds tha “really surprising feature is that the prosecution was able to get on the jury several members who even hesic tated to acquit the accused, who were willing to defy the spirit of the com.. munity in an attempt to reach a verdict of gullty.” The Wilkes-Barre Record, on its part, feels the deci- sion was “amasing” and _indicates hat one noliahe most deplorabie ¢ day and gene! cehnss etishela generation will ——— these: Queen Isabella been driven from me"’thgopx.x‘e'.l ond the Spanish authorities, after much deliberation, gave their votes to Prince Laeggla of Hohenszollern, a relative of King Willlam of Prussia, To this the French made a vigorous protest on the ground that this would tend to a union of interests between Germany and Spain, and thus be in- jurious to the honor and influence of France; consequently the Frech am- bassador at Berlin was ordered by Napoleon III to demand of Kin, liam that he should not allow {’flmw Leopold to accept the Spanish crown. 1;0 tthllllbfl'i: king replied that he w. not al erty to prevent an act which he had never advised. ‘While this reply was in transit, Prince Leopold sent word declining the honor of the Spanish cortes. Not.content with this, a second.d mand was made on King William, which required him to give ngludga that no prince of the house of Hohen- sqn.rn Bbould_ever become 5. candl: ate for the Spanish throne, and it was said to have been delivered to him in a very discourteous and in- sulting manner, while he was on the ublic promenade. ' This was on_the of July, 1970, d on the 18th France declared war against Prussia. ‘While we sympathize with France ;n h..r'; ri‘lglc”l‘l:'r‘l. do not let us orget the fac o case. GEOQ. W, PAYSON, \ * ok Kk ¥ ! There is no more graceful elocu- tionist in Washington than Leslie M. Shaw, twice Governor of JTowa and Becretary of the Treasury throughout most of Roosevelt's administration. He has & prodigious memory and The North Window BY LEILA MECHLIN. Art has its parlor bolsheviks well as government—those who would tear down and deface; who would substitute ugliness for beauty; who oppose law and order in every form. As a rule they are not persons of large talent or achievement, and their chief desire is to call attention to themselves, but they pretend to 80 much wisdom and make so bold a claim to insight and knowledge that they decelve not a few, and thus r tard progress and create confusio To some the antics of such persons are amusing; to others they are sad and revolting, and over all who dare to make protest is held the bludgeon that critics In times past have made mistakes. The French impressionists, we are told, were once laughed at and are now adored; the greatest masters were in their own day unappreciated, and it ig true that any new movement is opposed by those who are ultra- conservative, but this is no reason why judgment should be suspended. Indeed, if the fact were known, those who advocate extreme medernism in art are quite as intolerant and nar- row of mind, if not more so, than those who oppose them. And the worst of it is that the modernists, in many instances, do not even belleve in themselves. They do not love thetr art. The trickery of it engages their attention and each strives to outdo the other in extravagance, in a dis- play of what Is termed originality. But, after all, they need not be taken too ‘seriously’ art which has survived through so many centuries is not to be destroyed nor lost, though its glory may be hidden temporarily. * ¥ ok ¥ Possibly s a reaction from mod- ernism in art, the anecdotal picture, which has for some time been out of style, is returning to favor. Kenyon Cox once sald that the reason that plctures of this sort had become un- Popular was that artists had chosen subjects which were too trivial and had presented them weakly. The great. Rembrandt painted story-tell- ing plctures and produced great Works of art. Vermeer pictured co- temporary Dutch life and did it mag- nificently, Winslow Homer's paint- ings almost all are of an Illustrative haracter, such, for example, as his ATl Well” or “Eight Bells.” But'the value of these works rests not on the subject matter presented, but Father on the beautiful way In which it has been interpreted through the art of inter. the pain o In England the anecdotal painting has always held prominent place. Ho- garth's great ‘“conversational’ pic- tures were painted to draw the at- tention of the public to the shallow- ness of social life in the upper classes. The pre-Raphaelite brotherhood in- variably produced subject pictures. Sir Alma_ Tadema, whose London house, in St. John's Wood, was famous for its beauty, spent years learning to transcribe with realistic accuracy the appearance of marble. and paint- ed pictures of Roman life purely lustrative. The current number of t| Burlington Magasine has an article by an English author on Frith's paint- ing, “Derby Day,” in the National Gallery, lauding it in unmeasured terms, and this is the leading con- nolsseur’s magazine of art in Great Britain. Is it that the English are behind the times or ahead of them? Is history about to repeat itself or i modernism driven public opinion to the opposite extreme? * K ok K The National Gallery, in London, has recently issued an illustrated guide book for the benefit of those visitors who wish Instruction and have not long to tarry. Taking up the con- sideration of the works of later day painters, it makes mention of the three paintings by Whistler—his two nes and “The Little White Girl,” all three famous works—and compares them with the “Derby Day,"” by Frith, to the detriment of the for- mer. “Frith's masterpiece.” savs the writer, “in spite of the harshly col- ored sky and its somewhat common and crowded aspect, contains so mugh admirable work, clever painting, clever characterization and lively color that we can come to it again and again with pleasure. Whistler's nocturnes are delightful pieces of airy, mysterious color, beautifully laid in and broadly if capriciously designed, but, after all, things which we must not see too often or we shall exhaust their charm.” What_an extraordinary point of view! The one a picture which tells its story once and for all, without charm of color, beauty of surface, harmony of tone—a trivial theme rendered with technical cleverness, but little or no art; the others lovely symphonies of color, exquisitely ren- dered, which takes on new meaning under every new light and at each new angle; the one bound to grow through familiarity as boresome as an old man's tale oft repeated: the others as inexhaustible in beauty as nature itself. But so it goes—many men of many minds. In New York recently, at the Union League Club, has been held an in- teresting exhibition of early Ameri- can portralts, lent by private owners. Twenty-one in all were shown and among them was what is supposed to be the first portrait ever painted in this country, a likeness of Adrian Van der Donck, by Jacobus Gergitzer Strycker. Strycker came from the Netherlands to New Netherland in 1651 and is de- scribed as “a gentleman of corsidera- ble means and decided culture—farm- er. magistrate, trader and limner. The portrait is straightforward, sim- ple and direct, and by no means an uncreditable performance, though it is not & great work of art. Tradition has it that Strycker’s wife was a con- nection of the lady Rembrandt's son Titus married, but Strycker himself, as an artist, was far removed from the great master. His work, as an example of early American portrai- ture. is vastly interesting, but it should not be forgotten that he him- elf was no more American than Hol- oin was English and that he had back of him the vast and rich tra- ditions of Dutch art. How interest- ing it would have been and how proud we should be today, if Rembrandt, instead of Jacobus Gerritzer Strycker, had emigrated to America! If this had happened should we be exploiting ‘his portraits today as amazing prod. ucts of an immature civilization? Ob. viously, American art has its roots in the art of England, France and Italy and is only distinctively Ameri- can as it has come to reflect Ameri- can characteristics and Amerioan life. When the word art i{s mentioned the majority of persons immediately think of paintings and sculpture, but the term Is more inolusive than this. It applies equally to many other things—in fact, art lurks ofttimes in most unexpected quarter: For ex- ample, during the past week it was displayed In the arrangement of a show window of & large department store on T strest. The window dress- er had had things to paint with in. tead of pigments, but he had cre ated a picture, and he had employed just the same principles of art, color arrangement, balance in composition, eta., as the artist who actually paints pictures behind the north window. ‘The chief factor in his composition was a gToup of orange-colored hats, and to offset them he placed in a dark jar on a table to the right some branches of a shrub bea:Ing orange. colored berries. It was just the right touch in the right place and to the observant it spoke the language of art—it was art. Or for another instance—the view which those who have been lucky enough to attend the receptions re- cently., held at the Pan-American ‘Unlon have got when looking out of the windows of the beautiful Hall of the Americas. The little bullding in the rear has a three-arched loggia, the walls of which are faced with blus tiles (made, by the way, by an art who is a potter) and 1lit by concealed electric lights,. which is reflected in all its colorfulness in the mirror-llke pool at its feet. “How like a Max- fleld Parrish!” many have been heard to exclaim. And so it is—a picture wrought_ in real things—a work of art. Ind, artists do ot % ad SabsrDehig aorih windows. CAPITAL KEYNOTES =~ ———— 5 BY PAUL V. COLLINS. The work of being a statesman is no joke. It is so serious that it is sometimes mournful. Valuable time wes spent in the House last week de- bating what had happened to the missing napkins in the House res taurant. One member after another, figuratively, turned his pockets wrong side out and exclaimed: “Search me!" Not a trace of the missing linen could be found, and the mystery deepened as the debate progressed. ‘“Aunt Alice.” who is an experienced keeper of restaurants, could throw no light on the subject, for she has not had much experience feeding representa- tives, and she, perhaps, used paper napkins, the same as those found In the ancient tomb of King Tatukhu:- man in Egypt. This practice of hand- ing congressmen real linen napkins is just a sample of the utter extrava- gance handed down from the last ad- ministration, and when we get back to normaley’ the statesmen will wipe their mustaches upon their coat- sleeves or they will go engravied. The folly of giving napkins out promis- cuously, while people in other parts of the world are starving for the scraps of the Congressional lunch-orgies must and shall be stopped; The Ro- mans used napkins—and Rome fell. * ok X X Then there was a cannon shot that was heard around the world when it went out over the House radio. Rep- resentative Joe Cannon appealed for economy of paper, and begged the House to quit having 5o many useless roll calls, which simply filled the Record instead of the House. He pointed to the fact that the sale of the waste paper brought into the na- tional coffers some $10,000 a year, but the pure white paper cost five to ten times as much as they got for it after thelr names were printed in these useless roll calls. Stop it! Stop the flow of oratory, too. It is like paint- ing the lily—‘wasteful and ridiculous excess."” * ok ok The Labor Department states that the cost of living is 11 per cent less than it was in 1921, Maybe that is because most of us have gotten down to plain living and high thinking. Let us not flatter ourselves that if we still insisted on porterhouse instead of rump we would find our savings account growing again—or yet. It still costs 66 per cent more than it did before the war. * ¥ ¥ ¥ The American Tree Association, or- ganized by Charles Lathrop Pack, formerly president of the American Forestry Association, has for its main object to persuade the American peo- ple to plant a million trees in 1923, the semi-centennial of the founding of Arbor day. To become a member of the tree-planting association, all that is necessary is to certify that you have planted at least one tree in 1923—any kind of a tree. There is a movement on foot to per- suade all states to contribute memo; trees to be planted around Lincoln's memorial in Washington. States should correspond with Lieut. Col. C. O. Sherrill, superintendent of pub- Iic parks and buildings of the District of Columbia, for instructions. 3 In addition to this voluntary move: ment of individual tree planting, there ought to be a general rule that all appropriations for the federal and state ald for roads should require e planting of double rows of trees the entire length of the highways, as is the custom in Europae. In that way, millions of trees will eventualiy spread over the country, afford| cooling shade for the roadways creating timber equivalent to an exe tensive forest. When the centennia} of Arbor day arrives, these treesiof 1923 will be stately old monarchs. ef the forest and highways, of which fhe nation will be proud. ? W If Maj. Gen. Harbord had been..a fossil, when the age limit required him to retire from the Army, there would have been no question as’to the continuance of his retirement pay of major general. After forty years' service to his country, he rose from the grade of a private to the rank of a major, at the entry of America into the world war—thanks to th¢ inanimate system of promotion only in the order of seniority. When active duty at the front sifted talent from mediocrity, Maj. Harbord, by leaps, rose to the grade of major geny eral on his merits as an organize: and he served most brijliantiy at the head of the service of supplies, aftef he had done valiapt service in the battle line in command of the 2d Division. t Now that he retires by law, and is too able and valuable to remain idle; he becomes the head of & great co poration dealing in radio outfite Consequently the House of Repp sentatives punishes him for not being a has-been by refusing to allow him the Mgular pay of a retired officer. It Is_no wonder that Secretary of War Weeks protests that it is a great plece of injustice. Does it not mark the Inappreciation of the Congress? Secretary Weeks contrasts that treat- ment by America of a most distin. gulshed soldier with the policies of European countries. to heap honors upon their notable defenders. The officers’ retired pay is nat a charify to keep them from Suffering: it is part of the contract compensation. Tt cannot be refused without dishonpr. * kox % The Department of Commerce dis- covered last week that a_farmer in Canada had produced, by accident, 4 seedless apple. Now comes Harry Jones of Bradrick, Ohio, opposite Huntington, W. Va., who announces that he has fifteen trees hearing seed- less apples. These trees do mof bloom, but the fruit bud swelly gradually into an apple, as figs grow —without petals. Perhaps Secretary Hoover did not recognize apples that grew like figs, but he may recall that in Eden apple trees and fig trees had close relationship, at least commere cially. if not botanically. Why g% to Canada? * ¥ % * Representative Frear of Wisconsia proposes to suspend the Constitutiof and the Supreme Court. That is the biggest contract undertaken for somé time. In his new soldiers' bonus bill he has written this clause: 3 No part of this act shall be ren? dered invalid by the decision of apy court if more than one justice dis- sents from such decision, and the holding of any part of this act in- valid shall not affect the remainder of the act.” 2 It seems not to have occurred to the learned representative from Wis- consin that the Supreme Court was not created by an act of Congress and that Congress has no power whatever to limit the judgment of that supreme tribunal. Only a con- stitutional amendment can affect the powers of the Supreme Court—a col- lateral branch of thig three-part gov- erngnent—Ilegisiative, executive and Jjudicial. g When Socialist Meets Socialist One May Seek to Convert Other Shortly after his first election to Congress eight years ago, Meyer Lon- don, the only socialist in the House, who came to this country from Rus- sla when he was twenty years old and who for thir- {ty vears has been active in the so- calist and labor movement, was on his way to Chi- cago. He entered the dining car carry- ing & book by Henry Bergson, the French philos- opher, on “Crea- tive Evolution.” While waiting for MEYER LONDON. 1 ginner to be served hé perused this book. The chajr opposite him at the table was taken by & middle-aged man Who in every way was typical of the western lawyer. This man seemed to take an Interest in the title of the book Lon- don was reading, and after a time engaged Mr. London in conversation. he longer he talked the more evident it became that he was trying to convert me to soctallsm, dently thought that any one who read Bergson's philosophy ought to prove a good disciple for socialist doc- trines.” Mr. London has an interesting per- ECHOES FROM WHY NOT KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK? 1 think they (the Shipping Board) have made very considerable prog- ress in the direction of effecting economies, but my question is, Why et weary of well-doing? Why, since fhey have attained this high state of efficiency, do they propo aside and almost give away the ships and pay somebody else to operate them?—Senator ~Fletcher, Florida, democrat. THE BLOODSUCKERS OF SHIPPING. The repair yards are the blood- suckers of shipping. They will sim- ply take the life out of shipping if they are allowed their own way with reference to repair expenses.—Senator Fletcher, Florida, democrat. WOODEN-SHIP PROBLEM ENDED. The wooden-ship problem no longer exists. They have all been disposed of during the last year. We held a public auction and disposed of $310,- 000,000 worth of wooden ships for $7.760,000.—Chairman Lasker of Ship- ping Board to House commlittee. WHEN I8 SOCIALISM NOT SOCIALISM? To call a thing socialism does not make it soclalism, and if you are op- posed to every socialistic measure you ought to oppose every public school, because there is not a. more soclalistic institution in the world than the public schools. The great individualist phjlosopher, Herbert Spencer, opposed the introduction of the public school system on_the ground that it was socialistic.—Rep resentative London, New York, so: e sonality, and as he travele about a great deal it is ‘mot &t all unusual for his train companions to becoms interested in him. His custom, how- ever, is to allow them to do most of the talking—so he let this dining car vis-a-vis argue on i “When he finally presented the ar gument that no relief can come tp the world unless the statesmen, the men of public affairs, seriously take up the subject of social science,” said Mr. London, “I thought it high time to let him know who T was, so T tgld him that he was trying to convert.td, socialism a man who couldn’t remem- ber the time when he wasn't a 0~ clalist in heart, mind ‘&d"feed, amd who happened to be the enly socialist elected to the United States.Congress. “What was ‘my amazement,” con. tinued Mr. London with a pleasant chuckle, “to have ‘him.‘come back'at me with the reply that he was the candldate of the socialist party for Vice President, Seymour Stpdman of Chicago. by “We appreciated tHe situation} London_dryly remarked—two of e most prominent socialists in'the Unir- ed States trying . to cofvert each other to soclalism—thereby giving witness that a socialist can see & joke even when it is on himself. Stedman and London had met about twenty years before, but didn't hap- pen to recognize each other when seated on opposite sides of & dining car table. ik CAPITOL HILL CUT OUT ALL THE REST. - ‘The truth of the matter is that we ought to furnish to the Vice Pr dent of the United States, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the general of the Army, the rapking ad- miral of the Navy and dach cabinel officer a passenger automobile—that would be fourteen in all—and wé ought to cut out all the rest of tham, Senator McKellar, Tennessee, dema- crat. HARBORD AND THE SOLDIERS’ BONUS. . . I do not want to be put in the at- titude of ecriticizsing Gen." Harbord; I think he is a most excellent man, and it may be true, and probably is, thaf the House made a mistake in denx‘ ing him his retirement pay; but I say that he will be'treated no worse if retirement pay shall be denied him, than have been. all the boys wila served this country and who ha; been denied adjusted compensationiew Senator Caraway, Arkansas, demos crat. 3 ABLE TO PROTECT THEMSELVES. ] 1f there is any body of men in thé world who can protect themselves, it is the Shriners. — Representati Tincher, Kansas, republican. B JUST SUPPOSE. A Suppose the government went in{e the law. business and provided fi each and every litigant a counsel an stated what the fees of that coun should be and how much time he should give to his business, whethay he should be employed in this sect or that section; but that no person this country could hire a lawyer wl out going to the United States ernment and taking the laavyer tl the United States government sho: LR e Massachusetts, y b3