Evening Star Newspaper, January 26, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY.......January 26, 1823 THEODORE W. NOYES...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 111h 8. and Pennuzivania Ave. New Y Offi 50 N u St s Bullding. " Eandob. England. o edition, ive The m{ &t 60 cents per month: daily only. 45 cents pel month: Bunday only, 20 cents per month. OF. ders may be sent by mall or telephone Ma! . Collection fs made by carriers at the end of each month, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $8.40; 1 mo., 700 Daily only.. % 1,y $6.00; 1 mo., 50c. Sunday only. $2.40; 1 mo., 200 All Other States. Dally and Sunday..1 yr., $10.00: 1 mo., 88c Daily only. 1 £7.00: 1 mo., 80¢ Sunday onl $3.00; 1 mo., 26c Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press {s exclusively entitled #5 the use for republication of all news dis- ratches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local mews pub- 1ished b All rights of publication of wpacial %0 reserved. —— o ] The Attorney General Acquitted. In its adoption by an emphatic vote, 205 to 78, of a resolution from the committee on the judiciary the House of Representatives yesterday refused to impeach Attorney General Daugh- erty. This action was foreshadowed by the prior proceedings. The investi- gation by the judiciary committee dis- closed nothing upon which an im. peachment could be concelvably based. The member who brought the charges failed to adduce evidence, and when pressed to the point of proceeding in order refused to conform to the com- mittee’s rule and withdrew. The com- mittee could do nothing else than bring in the report which it did, and even one of the minority members so declared in the House yesterday, al- though demurring to the committee's failure to proceed further. There is no likelihood whatever that @ further pursuit of the case through- out the charges of the complainant g0 Office: flice : 16 Regent Star, with the Sunday red by carriers within Ch European Of The Evening elfv with the fullest production* of testi- | mony would have altered the findings, for there was even on the face of the allegations no justification for the ex- treme penalty of impeachment and dis- missal from office in any of the al- leged acts or failures of the Attorney General. 1t is a serious matter to accuse an officer of the government of misde- meanor warranting dismissal. Charges should never be lightly made of a character to involve such a possible course. Partisanship may dictate criti- cism of officials qf another party. But in this case the officer assalled was end is the Attorney Genergl of the United States, charged with high re- sponsibilities. To attack him was to attack the administration, the govern- ment. It is lamentable that upon so flimsy a basis should such charges | have been brought, and so far insisted upon that a committee of the House and finally the House itself should formally pass judgment upon them. The spectacle presented in this case 1s not an agreeable one. A member of the House of Representatives brings accusations which, it appears, have been promoted by interests gager to secure the ouster of the Attorney Gen- eral from his office. He has only the material furnished to him. Through perhaps conflicting counse! he fails to , conform to the requirements of the committee to which in regular pro- cedure the matter has been referred. He refuses to proceed in order and quits the case. Much time is wasted, much feeling is manifested and the net result is a complete clearance of the accused official. The pity is that the case was ever started, but, having been started, it is well that it has been closed with such an emphatic refusal of the House to heed unfounded allega- tions. ——— Political disturbances affect the gavety as well as the serious affairs of nations. The “Thanksgiving Turkey” joke has been superseded by the “Trply Ruhral” jeu d'esprit. The effort to be merry under distressing circumstances is heroic and deserves commendation, however elightly it may soothe or satisfy. ————— Tt is alleged that Kemal desires to be considered the George Washington of his country.- This is one of nu- merous liberties that have been taken with the name of Washington. A Vice Presidential Home. Tt has always seemed strange that though the United States government has provided from the outset an of- ficial home here in Washington for the President of the United States nothing has ever been done toward similar pro- vision for the Vice President, who is the potential chief executive. As a consequence this official has *lived around,” so to speak, now in a rented house, now in a hotel, and only rarely in a home of his own when he has been a man of sufficient private means to afford such a dwelling for the com- paratively brief spell of his assured term of office. Now it is proposed to provide a vice presidential home. Mrs. John B. Hen- derson, a public-spirited resident of this city for many years, has tendered to the United States, as & gift out- right, a mansion suitably designed and located to serve permanently as the ‘home of the Vice President. This gift is tendered in a patriotic spirit, and is the more impressive in view of the fact that the only condition coupled with it is that it shall be known as a memorial to her husband and her son. John B. Henderson was senator from Missouri at a critical period in the na- tion’s history during end after the «clvil war. He contributed richly to the sound legislation of the time. His in- terest covered a wide range, com- passing the foreign relations of the " government and the welfare and de- ‘velopment of Washington as the Capi- tal city. He made this city his home after his retirement from public life, and was a large factor in its improve- ment, & work which Mrs. Henderson has carried on since his death. Their son, John B, Henderson, 2d, who re- cently died, was & man of marked abllity as s sclentist, and added ma- terially to the store of knowledge by his researches, pursued so quietly that 9 \ few were aware of his capacity and industry in this direction. If the United States accepts this of- 'l.} 1t should be, of course, with as- ! surance of adequate provision for i maintenance. It would be no help to ! the incumbent of the vice presidential office—who is as a rule a man of mod- erate mesns—to encumber him with an officlal home costing him all of his comparatively small salary to main- tain it. The salary should be increased materially, or Congress should appro- priate annually a sufficient sum for the upkeep of an official home. The vice presidential office may be made of much greater importance than at present by provision of a home in which the second officer in the land can entertain on a proper scale. On many occasions he can represent the government, substituting for or sup- plementing the President. Washing- ton is yearly becoming more and more the objective of foreign visitors of note, official and otherwise, for whose reception provision must be made. The duty of their entertainment bears heavily upon the occupants of the ‘White House, and this duty, though pleasant, is onerous and might prop- erly bé divided. Acceptance of Mrs. Henderson's generous and noble- spirited gift with an assurance of a sultable annual provision which will relieve the Vice President of a burden which in some circumstances might be altogether too heavy to be borne, would enhance the dignity of the gov- ernment. The Ruhr Deadlock. ‘While the situation in the Ruhr is delicate in the extreme, and even dan- gerous, there is no actual break mak- ing for conflict. After two weeks of French occupation a veritable dead- lock has developed with neither side at advantage, and both sides at some dis- advantage. Insignificant conflicts have occurred on two occasions with some shedding of blood, but these are of no more moment than the ordinary police friction, save for the fact that on the one side is an inflamed German temper and on the other side a determination on the part of the French to persist in applying pressure until reparation obligations are fulfilled. ‘While the French have not yet ac- complished anything in the way of payments or deliveries of material by the occupation of the Ruhr, they have imposed a penalty upon the Germans through the refusal of the latter to work. Much suffering has been caused by the suspension of labor ordered from Berlin. The question arises whether the patriotic spirit will per- sist on the German side as long as that of the French. Already there are signs of dissatisfaction in Germany at the maneuvers of the government at Berlin, which has deliberately ordered | strikes, the sole effect of which has been to injure the Germans them- selves. Paris shows no signs of discourage- ment over the failure in the first two i weeks of occupation to effect pay- ments and deliveries. On the contrary, !the only criticism voiced is that the ministry has been too conservative and lenient. The reaction in Germany of a military spirit has had a counter reaction in France to justify and sus- tain the government in its adventure. Frenchmen are now pointing to the frank expressions of German inten- tion to seek vengeance as complete warrant for the military move. They ! are arguing thus: “We knew what the rest of the world did not, that Ger- many intends to strike us later if she dares; that she is preparing even now for another invasion of our land; that we are by our occupation of the Ruhr revealing this purpose, and we are making for peace rather than for war by this punitive expedition, which we hope will not lead to bloodshed, but will bring Germany to the point of meeting her obligations out of the re- sources which we know are available.” Certainly Germany has lost sym- pathy in some measure by her conduct since the occupation began. There has been no evidence of honest disposition to meet the requirements of the treaty of Versailles save at point of compul sion. Now she is in @ fix of her own making, from which she can only be extricated by French acknowledg- ment of fallure and withdrawal, which is altogether unlikely, or a confession with dependable guarantees of a sin- cere effort to do the utmost to pay, relying upon the justice of the allied powers to adjust the ultimate terms to her actual paying capacity. R e — Thanks transmitted by Ambassador ‘Wiedfeldt for the behavior of our men on the Rhine constitute a tribute as graceful as it is unusual. Whatever may have been the arrogance of Ger- many in moments of power, there is no questioning her excellent manners in time of adversity. The old slogan, “Werk or fight,” threatens revival in the Ruhr, with incidental controversy as to who shall do which, Some of the soldiers on the Rhine have exchanged international strife for family troubles. In the present coal sltuation the athléte who knows how to handle an ash sifter is the pet of the home. Exit the Boyden Furore. It is unlikely much more will be heard of the “pernicious activity” of Roland W. Boydén, American ob- server with the reparations commis- sion. Secretary Hughes has set forth the plain official facts in opposition to rumors and insinuations, and rumors and insinuations are forced into re- tirement. The ease with which the sensation was dispelled makes one wonder that it ever was given coun- tenance by responsible statesmen, who could at any time have had access to the information which now is thelr undoing.. The plain fact seems to be that it has been because of information.laid befare it by Mr. Boyden that this gov- ernment has been able to steer a course which has saved the country from embarrassments. It is not to be assumed that when Congress forbade American representation on the repa- rations commission - without its sanc- tion it had any purpose of cutting the State Department off from sources of trustworthy information. The most dyed-in-the.wool . “isolationist” would hardly go that far. It was to ascer- o "o tain facts and report them to his government that Mr. Boyden was at- tached“to the commission as an ob- server, and he seems to have done thet and nothing more. The much-discussed “American plan” of reparations seems not to have been a plan at all, but merely an outline of personal sugges- tions which Mr. Boyden prepared at the request of a member of the com- mission and to which no official con- sideration ever was given by the American State Department, In other words, it was on a par with some hun- dreds of: proposals for dealing with reparations which have been advanced by American editors and senators, col- lege professors and bankers, labor leaders and theorists of all sorts and descriptions. The Boyden incident is valuable chiefly as a demonstration of the fact that, under the present administration of the government, no senator can have an excuse for fathering misin- formation about the conduct of our foreign relations. Notice has been served before by Secretary Hughes that the records of the department are open to any senator in his con- fidential capacity as a constitutional adviser on foreign intercourse, and no senator should prefer to sponsor rumors rather than ascertain the facts. A Good Distriet Bill. In every aspect the District appro- priation bill which was passed yester- day by the Senate, and which now gbes to conference, is a satisfactory measure. It carries an appropriation of $24,469,985, an increase over the House bill of $2,391,378. Of this in- crease $165,878 was In the form of minor changes made directly by the appropriations committee, while $2,- 225,500 was added through amend- ments offered from the floor with the indorsement of that committee. These amendments effected the restoration to the bill of all the items that had been stricken out in the House on point of order after approval by the appropria tions committee. In other respects, however, the bill was improved as a District budget, for the Senate committee and the Sen- ate corrected in several instances the injustice of putting upon the District the whole cost of certain items of municipal maintenance, such as the playgrounds. Despite the formal com- pact, as it is in effect, of a division of District expenses on the 60-40 basis, a disposition has prevailed to disregard the equities and to impose upon the District 100 per cent of main- tenance expense, now in little items and again in large. This course of the Senate now in correcting certain of these injustices gives hope of further clearance later along this line. In the scope of the works provided for in this bill there is ground for con- gratulation. The total is a liberal one, though not up to the point of the esti- mates. The hope is that there will be agreement in conference mot only upon these added item: that were stricken from the bill in the House on point of order, despite their ap- proval by the House appropriations committee, but also upon other Senate | increases, and that the bill when it | comes from conference readjustment | will approximate closely the total now | carried and provide as liberally for | new and needed works of municipal equipment and development. { ———t——————— H Arguments against tax exemptions | favor the theory that in all transac- ! tions touching his interests Uncl Sam ought, as a patriotic right, to b a preferred creditor. —————— Ku Klux lawyers have not under-| taken the extreme expedient of claim- | ing that their mask is only one of these mysterious new beaufy devices. —_———— “To the victors belong the spoils,” but German economists insist that it is bad business to spoll the spolls be- fore collections can be made. ——————————————— Ireland has at least succeeded in keeping any fights in’ which she par- ticipates matters of purely local in- terest. 7 SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDBR JOHNSON. ~ Valentine of Awfulness. St. Valentine will soon preside anew. It may be right to pen a line or two Of people who are awful, Impolite, if not unlawful In the things that they attempt to say or do. Let us here salute the parent who has hurled For years with lips that never would | be furled, The surprising information To each friend and each relation That he has the smartest baby in the ‘world! l Not infrequently he leads us to sus- pect He's disposed to rest his massive in- tellect, And attempt by methods foxy To be scintillant by proxy And let children earn the family re- spect. | Like the busy brooklet which forever purled Streams of conversation babbled as they swirled, All supportin’ his conviction ‘Which defled all contradiction That he had the smartest baby in the world. Meeting Expenses. “A man should pay as he goes.” “Not in politics,” answered Senator Sorghum. “You never get anywhere if you try to finance your own cam- paign fund.” Jud Tunkins says a sclentist often makes a hit by using big words to tell you something you knew beforg. Residue. How many an ofl well do we find That fades into the empty alr, And, fading, only leaves behind Some deskroom and an empty chair. “Any rattlesnakes around here?"” “A few,” answered Cactus Joe, “but since prohibition came in they, ain't popular.” “Havin’ yoh own way ein't & sure sign of intelligence,” s3id Uncle Eben. “A mule allus gits de best of-an ob- stinacy contest.” A ‘THE WAYS OF WASHINGTON BY WILLIAM PICKETT HELM. “Mornin’, Henry.” “Mornin’, BHL" “Any mail this mornin’?" “Nothin’ but; same ol' thing.” “The women still at it?” “Yep, still at it That's what they're saying.these chilly mornings over at the State De- partment. The women have taken their pen in hand and they're writ- ing—writing all the way from Cape Cod to Catilina Island. Several bushels of letters come In every day. And every letter is about the new law giving women separate citizenship rights. The women worked for that law. They came down to Washington and they got on the job. They went be- tore the House committee and won their skirmish there; then they went before the. Benate committee. They won agaln, and then they began to tell Congress what to do. Congress heard and did as it was told. Pr dent Harding signed the bill last September. It has been-a law about three months. And now the women say they didn't get what they thought they were gotting—that somebody slipped a bad egg in the market bas- ket when their backs were turned. So they are writing to the Sta Department, which administers the law. And the State Department has just about decided that you can’t please the ladles, no matter what you do. Maj. Fred K. Nielsen, until recently solicitor for the State Department, Is an authority on this law. He sat up nights with It and nursed it before committee and took its temperature every 5o often when it was ailing. He knows more about it, perhaps, than any other living person. Not long ago there came to his of- fice a tall, angular lady with a strong mind who wanted to write & magazine article on the law and its operation. She was introduced to Maj. Nielsen. Now Maj. Nielsen, like the Hardin ust folks.” Democratic, easy going, informal and while bright as a new dime, not spectally Impressive to look at. The strong-minded lady stated her mission and Maj. Nielsen started to explain things. He had spoken a few words only when she interrupted him. *“I wonde: she sald, “if you don't want to send me on to some one else. The points I want covered will need a broad understanding of the law."” . inquired the solicitor. she went on blandly, fine legal discrimination.” “and Takes Something Besides Title To Make a Civilian a “Colonel” When does a colonel feel like a private? Answer: When he meets a student at a military academy on the street. Now that is not as idi- otic as it sounds. Of course, this does not apply to all colonels; In fact, most of them probably feel like generals when they meet young student but It does apply to one particular colonel, and there hangs a tale. Ex- planations are now in order. Robert N. Har- ROBERT N. mameEr. © T . hind the Washington Auditorium Corporation, which is building a con- vention hall in this city; presi- dent of the District National Bank, former president of the Washington Chamber of Commerce, and a man of many other activities, s known to many persons as “Colonel” Harper. This title descends from the time of the world’s fair in St. Louls, when Mr. Harper was appointed on the staff of the Governor of Virginia to assist the governor in carrying out the ceremonies incident to the occi ston. went the uniform, boots, braid, hat and eyerything; everything but an in- struction book on the art of being a colonel. Mr. Harper and the other “colonels” on the staft were dressed up “fit to kil but they soon found, to their embarrassment, that being a colonel was not as easy as it had seemed. Things were mild enough until the first day of the ceremonies. At that time they found that, although dressed and addressed as ‘“colonel, they were not at all cognizant of military tactics; that there feet never seemed to do the right thing, and EDITORIAL DIGEST Round the World by Wireless Telephony Next. The success of the wireless talk across the Atlantic by the heads of the American Telephone and Tel graph Company 1s acclaimed by editors generally as a step toward a complete globe-girdling experi- ment in the near futule. However, most of them voice & warning against a too confident assumption that the day when wired communications will be abandoned is In sight. There are many experiments yet to be com- pleted = before wireless talking methods will be an advance over the present plan, they insist. “Three thousand four hundred miles of sea and land were bridged with- out wir pointed out the Elmira Star-Gagette, “and the voice on Broadway _carried ‘as effectively across the At{l.ndc as it would across city So_rapldly are im- provements being made in this new branch of mechanical science that it is hard for the layman to keep the progress fixed in his mind. No soon- er Is one great achievement reported than another greater one follows on its heels. And much of this remark- able success is due to the ai boy, the youths who have rigged up radio apparatus with such bits of wire and ten-cent-store knobs, etc. limited means would pro: ing to make their improvised ap- paratus work with one ‘hook-up, they have tried others, and some of | d their more or less crude and some. times aimless experimenting has re sulted in overing methods that had merit. _Skilled electricians and radio experts have taken the boys' jdeas and worked them out len - tifically, but it was the boys who did much of the pioneering in radio tele: phony.’ \ rts that it is “on the ent Harding and Il i “Along with the “appointment | ! J cards” King these The new law, it may be remember- ed, provided, among chief benefite for the ladi that an American woman marrying & foreigner should not thereby lose her American citizen- ship. Under its generous provisions Mis: Tillie Smith of Cockeyed Center, Ind., might marry the Duke of Disaster and, while enjoying the title of duchess, still would retain the privi- lege of coming back to Indiana to vote and pay taxes. 8he would not become a subject of the duke’s king, but would remain a free-born American citizen. That was the way the law was in- tended to work. So far as the Ameri- oan girl is concerned it does work just that way. Tt works also for the American man—works in a way few anticipated it would. For, by the application of the new law, the American man marrying abroad no longer bestows American citizenship upon his bride. She is just a plain—well, she remains what she was, 8o far as the United States is concerned. If she were Fregch, she is still French; if she were British, she is still British. But where American law drops the matter, French and British and other laws take it up. These laws prescribe that when a French woman marries a foreigner she is no longer French, but of the nationality of the man she married. So do the British laws. Therefore the French or British brides of Americans abroad are neither French, British nor American. They have no standing in any coun- try in the world. Because of that they may not be granted passports. And if one wishes to travel these days one must have @ Ppassport, even if one is a bride. So far as passports are concerned, the bridegroom may take a wedding trip, but the bride can't go along. ‘The American law, to make it easy for the women thus deprived of all cit- izenship, prescribes that they may be- come. naturalized Americans after a continuous residence of one year in the United States. But how are they going to get here In the first place it they can't get a passport? Now that's the question that the women of America are asking the State Department by the bushel of letters every day. They have just found out. apparently, that this new-fangled law h: ingrowing nails, and they think a mean trick. it that in comparison with the military attitude and bearing of the students from military academles, they were poor officers, indeed. The crowning blow, however, fell that afternoon. “Colonel” Harper and &nother officer of like rank were walking down the street. Students were flocking throughout the town. The first set of students which ap- proached the “colonels.” seeing su- perfor officers in the offing, smartly saluted as they passed hat do I do now?” asked “Colo- Harper. . 'You've got me” replied the other. I guess we had better watch and what some of the real officers 0. They watched, and_were rewarded by the sight of officers returning alutes of soldlers and students. The difference between returning salutes d saluting first, however, they ed to grasp. he two “colonels” were “all set.” The next group of students they ap- proached they both stopped, and, to the dumbfoundment of the former, gave the boys a sharp salute and passed on. Not, however, before they had seen glances of amusement and never do,” muttered Harper to- his companion. 1I'm golng to find some y to learn how to be a colonel.” He did. For the next three mornings before breakf. £ any one had chanced to glan certain yard behind a certain hou in St. Louls, they would have seen a strange and un- illar sight. They would have seén a “colonel,” in full-dress uni- form, come smartly to attention at the command of a fifteen-year-old boy in the V. M. I. Military Academy regalia. They would have seen the| “colonel” approached the boy, the boy salute, and the “colonel” return It in the most approved fashion. They would have seen many other things, too, such as the “colonel” executing flank movements for an .imaginary company :and they would have heard the boy's command, “Company, halt,” ('llllvered in a loud and peremptory one. Suffice to say that after this in- ruction, which had been glven sur- ptitiously by the son of a friend, “Colonel” Harper was the envy of his comrades. He now felt that he ‘was _a true “colonel.” and that he could now Jjustify, by bearing and action, the exalted rank. George of England very soon to “have a little transatlantic chat in the in- terest of science” leads the Bing- hamton Press to suggest that “people who are minded to listen in on the conversation probably would be dis- appointed. They wouldn't mention anything as weighty as the foreign policy of their respective govern- | ments. Because George has nothing to say about Bonar Law’s foreign policies and Warren s still uncertain whether the United States Senate is ing to let him have one.” Joking de, the Baltimore American fin- sts that the “importance of these experiments” ~ cannot be _ overesti- mated. The fact that “a difference in pronunciation” hampered the under- standing in the first across-ocean sts_ will not matter, although “it; Tl be & long time befors the wire- | can be adapted to commercial or general purposes. The companies which are at work experimenting to produce sultable instruments fully expect to.be able to construct appa- ratus that will insure a round-the- world,twenty-four-hour-a-day service. ‘While it will be some time yet before Americans 11 able to call up friends in London, so rapld has been the march of mechanical invention in the past generation that reality has frequently outrun anything that the mere maker of fiction has imagined, and it may do so again.” To the “historic utterance ‘What has God wrought? which marked the advent of the telegraph service,” must be added, the New York Globe sug:- gests. “‘This is Mr. Thayer,’ the words with which Prelldelllll Thayer talk. | ! proot of the glant ress of the t. Practical use of wire. less telephony in transatlantic com: munication is still some distance for the number of wave gths avatlable is still so limited that not more than four or five con- versations are simultaneously pos- sible. But no one can doubt, in view of the record of the recent past, that difficulties . will. be overcome. strides in the prog- Says Germans Must Pay Writer Points to Indemnity Ex- acted of French 50 Years Ago. To _the Editor of The Star: Let us before indulging in ind's- criminate condemnation of the French invasion of Germany consider what would have been the coriduct of Ger- many and the condition of France had Germany prevailed in the world war. We feel justified in saying that France would have been reduced to a mere nonentity a nation, and, as for the rest of the world, England would be a second-rate power and our own country in the same condi- tion, as far as the old world is con- cerried, and perhaps struggling to maintain its ascendancy in the West ern hemisphere. Fifty years ago when the German troops occupied French territory the people of France, instead of making every possible effort to avold the penalty imposed by the triumphant Germans, met their onerous burdens like men and paid off the huge in- demnity demanded and rid France of the detested enemy before the time fixed arrived. The brutal state- ment of Bismarck that “he would bleed France white” is familiar to every one, as well as the act of wresting Alsace and Lorraine from France and adding them to Germany against the earnest expostulations of their inhabitants. It may be that France is wrong— that her actlon is precipitate and en- dangers the peace of the world. But what is she to do? What would we, as Americans, do under like condi- tions? Are the French people to re- main passive and permit the Ger- mans to evade their liabilities by adroit maneuvering and cleverly con- ceived appeals to the allied nations, who have no cause to fear, as France has, the future machinations and power of Germany? As France paid the enormous sum wrested from her half a century ago, so let Germany pay, part at least, of the indemnity caused by plunging the world into one of the most barbarous and devas- tating wars of modern times. A. R. FOX. Widening of M Street, Georgetown, Favored To the Editor of The Star: I read with interest your editorial on the widening of M street. For a long time the crossing of this street in Georgetown has been attended with considerable danger, especially for children. It becomes daily more #0. This fact {s well known, and de- mands no further expression of opin- ion from me. but does demand imme- diate attention from those In au- thority. With very few exceptions the buildings on the south side of the street from Rock creek to 34th street consist of old tenements—as places of business anything but important, and as places of residence a menace to health, fire traps. and a disgrace to the city. The lots are deep, and after a loss of sixty feet there would still remain land sufficlent for business purposes. MARGUERITE DU PONT LEE. Snow-Covered Curb Causes Auto Crash To the Editor of The Star: I witnessed an accident this morning that impressed me as a very good rea- ton why the much-discussed curbing | along the street car track on Connecti- cut avenue should be removed. ‘While coming south a short distance north of Newark street, I observed a large truck stalled in the middle of the street. Immediately in front of me was a small deiivery car. The driver was undoubtedly unaware of the curbing, the snow having made it almost entirely obacure, and as one would nat- urally do, he turned to the left to pass the truck, but on striking the curbing he went straight ahead instead of turning and crashed into the truck. I did not stop, -but I am sure it resulted in a bent' axle and fender, and possibly a broken radiator and wheel. WILLIAM G. HILL. Bury War-Time Hates Is Message to World There is a peculiar significance in the effect that the order of with- drawal of American troops from the Rhine had, apart from its political bearing. The people of Coblens expressed regret through the head burgomaster in an official message to the soldiers. And in a more personal way, we learn, the citizens expressed sadness that the Yanks had to leaye It is a strange worid. Just a few ars ago an American soldler at Coblenz would have been a target for a shot. And & German would have been fodder for our guns. For a few years now our soldiers have been camped among & former enemy. And nothing but the friendliest relations have existed. Is that not the way that humanity really wishes to ? Human nature is pretty much the same the world over. Civilized peoples want to live in peace. Where prejudice and hate are not fostered it is no great dif- ficulty to obtain tha: But fear warped the better judgment of national governments abroad, and the old hates and preju- dices smoldering in the hearts of millions. How did Germans_and the Yanks manage to cement their warm friendship? They just buried their war-time hates and prejudices. That is what the world must strive to do. —Omaha World-Herald. —— e e pessimist is the man who funes 5 Forget that income tax now due.—Ashville Time: When he brings her home after stepping on the gas gases on the step.—Greenville Piedmont. When the average man picks up the newspapers he has scattered, he fhinks he's a great help about the house.—Rochester Times-Union. For the sake of reocord, it should be noted that Paris got its name for gayety before the allied premiers be- gan meeting there.—Richmond Tim Dispatch. Coue's ey ed in laughter.” It is the chief char- acteristio of his Pollyanimation.—St. Paul Dispatch. A jury in Towa has fouhd & woman gulity of first-degree murder, and all she did was kill her husband—her own husband.—Philadelphia Record. New York would-be suicide turned on the gas, was brought back to life by a pulmotor and will now have to pay for the gas. °'Tis a hard world. —Pittsburgh Dispatch. East St. Louls woman who has ac- quired eleven husbands says she isn't dlucaur:god. Of course, had she only succecded in getting seven or clfht e might have accounted herself & .lm;l fallure.—St. Louls Post-Dis- patch. A California_judge has received au- thority to test forty-five samples of strong drink before handing down a decision in the liquor cases. If justice in California is not blind it may later.—Detrolt News. Never criticize movie star until you figure out the kind of ass you would be If you had that kind of salary.—Baltimore Sun. One substantial reason for believ- Ing that the millennium is some dis- tance in the future is that there is still a considerable amount of oil left in the world.—Seatt! “Detroit Speeders Given Sanity adline. The idea being, of T that drivers with whe in o have them In their hands.Nertolk ve n thel —Nol Virginian-Pllot. Times. ID CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. It may seem a mockery for scien- tists to make extensive tests of alr and temperature in these days of fuel scarcity, and then bring reports to the effect that it {s very bad for us to keep our. rooms overheated. With coal costing a shilling & shovel- ful, who is going to overdo the heat- ing? Yet many trust to habit for thelr temperature, and are uncom. fortable unless they are being par- bolled. Others trusting to their a tivities cannot realize that the stimu lated circulation of their blood mis- leads them dangerously as to the ac- tual temperature of the house for others’ safety and comfort. The cheapest medicine, in these days of colds and flu, is a 50-cent ther- mometer. Personal feelings are ab- solutely worthless as a guide, even for one’s self, still worse for other oc- cupants of the room. When in doubt, lower the heat, rather than raise it That not only saves coal, but pre- serves health.” Move about, ventilate, but do not swelter. The Engish pre- fer a temperature about 60 degrees Fahrenheit; Americans thrive best at 68, but too many demand 75 or 80. Above all things, keep the air pure by ventilation, for purity has nothing to do with temperature. There are people who persist in hermetically sealing themselves up at night. They are the most suscep- tible to colds and diseases. In this period of threatened epidemic of the flu or grippe, the more fresh, pure air one can breathe, the better, so long as it is not a direct draft, and hardly a draft {s as dangerous as breathing foul air. * ok x * Lumber cutting has greatly de- creased for the entire United States —a decline from 46,000,000,000 board feet in 1906 to 34,000,000,000 feet in 1920. The decrease applles mostly to the east, where timber is practically exhausted. The decrease is seen more strikingly when computed per capita. In 1906 it was 500 board feet per capita per annum; now it is only 320 board feet. The difference is made up with other building materials, 8o far as house bullding is concerned, to even a greater extent than is in- dicated by the drop from 500 to 320, for there is an increased demand for lumber for crates and packing of all kinds. The inventor of a packing container to be made with other than wood as its chief material will find a fortune. Composition made of fiber and metal may eventually be substituted. One-sixth of our entire demand for lumber is for use in pack- ing, according to data given out by the Department of Agriculture. * ok ok x If one were a statesman and had the power. he might render a great service to his country by securing a law requiring every rallroad and every highway for vehicles to line their rights of way with trees on both sides. To oftset such mileage as proved unsuitable for growing trees, let them plant double rows on each side of the roadways where sofl and ! climate are suitable. The counties and states should supervise the plant. ing and mafntain the growth. under xeneral federal supervision through the bureau of forestry. The value of the trees as windbreaks, their value ! a5 nut trees and as supplies for rail- | road ties and nacking.case lumber, | would begin to =ive a revenue hefore twenty vears. The forestry revenue to the government last year amount- ed to about $5000.000. vet it has hardly been counted upon, and only inadequately conserved. * ¥ x *x Tt is devoutly to be hopea that Commissioner Roy A. Haynes of the prohibition enforcement bureaii is incorrectly quoted as to his delcsion that the curse of the epidemic of nar. cotics which has taken hold of America will wear itself out through the public’s becoming educated as to its horrors. He hopes to see the peo- | ple shun the drug when they learn its evil. Then its traffic will be un-| profitable, That is a foolish hope. For half a' century a sifilar delusive hope might have lured the temperance element to | rest and wait until the masses saw that jatoxicants were bad, that they would cuit their use. and dis- tillers and brewers would go into tankruptcy because of the falling demand. The public is only beginning to wake up to the enormity of the nar- ocotlc curse, and the more the people realize the situation. the stronger will be the fight against it: but let no one imagine that the trafiic will be- come less profitable because of emo- tional preachments. It must be reach- ed by the law and by vigorous en- forcement. Penalties for trafficking in it must be Increased until they reach the helghts of the profits, for the traffic feeds upon its victims and every victim lures ten or twenty more. The immediate effect of the recent agitation will be to advertise the evil. and thousands will boast that they “can take it or leave it." for they “are strong.” So they will ex eriment. just to see what it is like- until they. too, are trapped by its evilish tentacles. Let no official be deceived Into thinking that to crush narcotics will be as easy as to over- come the intoxicant traffic. Ameri- cans use more narcotics than all the rest of the world combined, and sev- enteen times as much, per capita, as China ever did. To oyercome the evil requires both educated public sentiment and vigorous enforcement of laws. ECHOES FROM CUSTOMS RECEIPTS INCREASE UNDER NEW TARIFF ACT. The customs receipts up until the 19th of this month have been $276,- 766,391.37. For the corresponding period of the preceding year the amount collected was $164,829,465.07. In other words, there have been im. portations into the United States upon which tariff duties were collected that went Into the Treasury of the United States amounting to $112,000,000 more this year than during the correspond- ing period last year.—Senator Smoot, Utah, republican, AUTO DRIVERS GUILTY OF MURDER. There have been eight or ten deaths in the city of Washington within the last thirty days, due to reckless au- tomobile driving, and every man who caused one of those deaths is as guilty as if he had gone out and cut some- body’s. throat, because he could have avoided | do not care what the coroner may say in relieving him of punishment, 1 know he could have avoided it—Senator Caraway, Ar- kansas, democrat. CREATING SPECIAL PRIVILEGES. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, one of the most serious dangers that confronts the country today Is the creation of special priv- ileges and the enactment of legisla- tion which creates discrimination be- tween different classes of the popula- tion. That which is a crime for one is an innocent transaction for anoth- er. We have the formation of blocs in this country; I do not know what is the cause of the bloc, whether it is_the discriminatory legislation or whether the blocs cause the criminatory legislation. They act and react on each other. The fact that we have enacted these statutes which create discrimination makes it possible to bring into the body politic this dangerous feature of blocs.— flhpuunnun Burton, Ohio, repub- can. ~ I 4 ! | Which will brin; jof the Indies?" COLLINS. Who that has ever been a real boy can fail to/appreciate the boy spirit of the little prince (the son of a diplo- mat of high rank in one of the Wash- Ington embassies)? The boy yearned to acquire the respect of other boys, of the Boy Scouts, by doing a stunt/ that would prove his real “stuff.” The Boy Scouts have no regard for aristo- cratic lineage. To get out of the tenderfoot” class and he worthy of a_“second-class” status the boy must earn a dollar and bring it in to head- quarters. Unless he earns it by real work it is of no value at all. The prince wanted to earn a dollar. His noble father was shocked and sternly forbade such a plebjan act. Never- theless, the prince “snuk” out and bought some magazines and then re- talled them, from office to office, until he had sold all and held his first—and perhaps only—earned dollar. nelhat prince is a “regular feliow,” and e s prouder of that proof than If he had inherited a throne. But it does not take a prince to feel like that; gvery red-blooded boy knows the feel- ing. Every natural boy knows what it i, too, to have his own, wholly un- conventional ideals toward which he Wants to strive. It may be that the son of the plutocrat wants to be a policeman—it {s his healthiest am- bition, for he sees qualities of man- hood which inspire him. Whether in his matured manhood he serves on the force, or becomes a captain of in- dustry or a general of the army, ha retains the inspiration which awak- ened his soul, and it molds his life. That prince will become more then & courtier—he will be a master of achievement; he has the right spiri and the initlative. American bo: may emulate that kind of a prince of ellows, and be, th e good fel , themselves, real * k x ok Two significant sentiments have been expressed within the last two or three days, worthy of more than a passing reading. One was by Presi- dent Harding, in his letter to the Travel Club, which will hold its sec- ond annual meeting soon. He quoted the old saying that the traveler who would bring back With him the wealth of the Indles, must take the wealth of the Indies with him. The mind that is vacant receives no filling in travel. The ignorant and prejudiced finds no good thing come out of Nazareth. Many an American soldier sneered at all he came In con- tact with in Europe, because it was not just what he had been accustomed to on Main street of his own town Many an immigrant who comes to America. with a similarly closed mind is disappointed and homesick forever The trouble is not that ther. of the “wealth of the Indies the traveler does not have the *| intelligence and an open mind. * ¥ ¥ *x The second wise saying is that of Vice President Coolidge, in his speecl to the Sunday Evening Club in Chi- cago, last Sunday. It fits directl with President Harding's quotatior and counsel. Mr. Coolidge said it is a great mistake for any one to sup- pose that in some advanced state of civilization. one might live with effort and wholly at ease. “It requir less intelligence. less skillful effort to live among a tribe of savages than in modern society.” he said. “This ic the reason that to certain of our na- tive born, and more often to our for- eign born, the American republic proves a _disappointment. They thought that self-government meant the absence of all restraint; that in- dependence meant living without work. and that freedom was the privilege of doing what they wanted to do.”" * ok ok ok What is the thread that sews the Harding and the Coolidge thoughts together? That we are not creatures of our environment, but that our environment is always what we make it The bringing back the wealth of the Indies Is_impossible unless we carry the price with us—equal to the ‘wealth that we achieve. Test that by accompanying two persons to a great eollection of pictures— one person wholly ignorant of the fine arts, the other a connoisseur and a lover of the beautiful. Both have eyes to look upon the canvases. EMgSa he maa Whic h will be bored and acquire nothing? What makes erence? measures his pleasure i by its jazz and crash and the other by its emotion . _One measures his ap- preciation of literature by the ves sel he brings into the libras mind that has been made “full much reading. The other tal about the usefulness of books. and opines that of the making of books there is no end—nor use. And, as the Vice President de- clares, it is not that America or any civilized country has cheated with false ideas or misleading promises that brings disappointment, but that the one who decries his own ob- ligations is without the ability to realize the higher things of a higher civilization. He therefore lowers his environment to his own level. and remalns blind to the opportuni- ties all about him in such a land as America. That puts a pretty big responsi- bility upon the faultfinder who critiolses his surroundings and his opportunities, for there are ouly what he himself has made them—he brings out of them only the “wealth” according to what his own ideals _are when he approaches them. Patience! Contentment! Gratl- tude v CAPITOL HILL - WASHINGTON SHOULD BE SAFEST CITY. There is no reason why Washing- ton should not be the safest as well as the best paved and best lighted city in the country. It is not a com- mercial city; it is not an industrial city, and heavy traffic is not very great in_volume in comparison with such traffic in other cities. That may be one reason for the extreme rapid- ity with which automobiles are driven through the streets the moment they get out of sight of a policeman— Senator Lodge, Massachusetts, re- _| publican. MR. GARNER DOES NOT UNDERSTAND. It is not hard to explain how rich men will put their money into se- curities, but it is most difficult to explain why all the rich men are in favor of taking this privilege away from themselves (tax exempt securi- ties). —Representative Garner, demo- crat, Texas. THE BURDEN IS ON INDUSTRIAL SECURITIES. A man who earns his income or de- rives it from investment in any In- dustrial enterprise, or something that gives employment to labor or pro- duces things which are of vital in- terest to the American people, has to pay a tax, but the man who puts his money into non-taxable securities and whose only work is to deposit the check in his bank account is ab- solutely free from any taxation whatever. — Representative Long- worth, Ohio, republican. STATES AND MUNICIPALITIES RUNNING INTO DEBT. In 1913, and, if I remember correct- ly, for some years previously, only something between $300,000,000 and $400,000,000 was borrowed every year by the states and their political sub. divisions on an average. Today the average is more than & billion and a half of dollars every year—five times what it wused . to be.—Repre- sentative Longworth, Ohio, repub- can. / iz