Evening Star Newspaper, February 5, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY......February 5, 1923, THEODORE W, NOYES.,...Editor | The Evening Star Newspaper Company | Busingss Office, 11th $t. and Pennsylvawia Ave. | « New York Office: 150 Nawau St. Chicago Office: Tower Building, . European Office: 18 Regent St., Lgodon, Engiand. The Evening Star, with the Sunday moraing edition, is delivercd by carrlers-within the city | 8¢ 60 cents per monh; dul.¥ on'y. 43 centa per | month: ay only, 20 ceits per month. O ders may be sent by ‘mail, or. telepiome M; 5000. " Collection- s made by s at the ead of each mouth. Rate by Mail—Payable in’ Advanice, | Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1 mo,, 702 Dally only. yr., $6,00; 1 mo., boe Sunday onl; $2.40; 1 mo., 200 o All Other States. * Dally and Sunday..1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 85¢ Daily only. 5 $7.00: 1 mo.. Sunday onl. $3.00; 1 mo., :5¢ Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitied fe the use for republication of -wll news dis- patches credited to It or not ‘ofherwise credited in ‘this ‘paper and aiso the. local mews pub- lished “herein. All ri f po tion of special Al 180 rererved. —_— i Rules for Walkers. In jts recommendations to the Dis- trict Commissioners the traffic com- mittee that has for some time past been considering the problem of rules and measures for prevention of acci- dents in Washington offers the follow- ing fifteen points for the regulation and guidance of pedestrians. These are as follows: Keep to the right on sidewalk, cross- walk, roadway and passageway (but on highway without sidewalk Keep to | the left so as-to have ar view of ap- proaching traffic): vbserve traffic be- fore stepping from curb and keep off roadway except when crossing; keep out of traffic whirlpools; cross road- way at right a not diagonally , if re: ssible, on w crose valke waich for traffic oticery’ signals | and heed tratfic signs and limits; stand on sidewalk or within safety zones while waiting for street cars; face and step toward front of car when alighting: watch out for traffic when obliged to puss from behind ear; ob- serve traflic when alighting from car; enter and leave car-stop safety zone | only at cresswalk; don't stand in the middle of a sidewalk, but to either sid put of the wi do not loiier on a walk or before an entrance, when sidewulks ure narrow se the one on the righf; do not walk more { than two abreast on a crosswalk or | busy thoroushfare; hand or foot-pro- | pelled conve 1 skaters, when | on roadway, must obsceve vehicular | regulations, These pr and sound. positions are all reasonable 1f all pedestrians will ob- | serve them the accident record will be lessened. Unquestionably many of the mishaps in the streets result from carelessness on the part of those who | walk, people stepping out from the curbs without observing traffic condi- tions, moving irregularly in the streets in the stream of trafic, crossing streets on diagonals with thefr backs to oncoming vehicles, trying to “save | time” by jumping ahead of moving cars, doing, in short, many things that are dangerous In the necessarily crowded streets of a modern city. If all pedestrians in Washington would observe these rules responsi’ bility for traffic accidents in which people afoot are the victims would rest squarely with the drivers of mo- tors and wagons. The people who walk should observe the rules. even though they may never be given the form of law. The only point in wri ing them into law in any form is to cstablish the question of responsi- bility in case of accident. If a person | does any one of the things that are; proscribed he is in some measure him- | self to blame for the consequences, | But this is not a matter of fixing | blame or holdirg anybody accouatable | for punishment or in d point is to safeguard life and limb, to make Washington safer, to give the! people Who afoot a better chance ! of security. They must, in large meas. | ure, protect themselves. But the must not be left, with ail their regard | for reasenable rules, at the merey of | careless or speeding drivers. Jt is| necessary 1o check reckless motoring | if the streets are to he safe. { In the matter of the lights at night, | it must be borne in mind that the per- | son who drives must be governed by the conditions. 1f the lights are so| dim that it is difficdit to see people wio are ahead then cars must be kept under strict control, so that if @ per- | son suddenly comes in view the driver | can check his machine in time to avold | a collision. It is, of course, up to the | people afoot at night to watch for the lights of machines. An- approaching machine properly lighted can’be seen, evén when a pedestrian cannot be secn. But there must be the same con | sideration for ‘the pedestrian affer | dark as ‘during the day, and, in fact, more consideration in view: of the lack i ot proper illunrination. ——— John D. Rockefeller plays golf while his vast fortune works for the health of humanity. A man's greatness con- | slsts partly in recognizing his own limitations. As number of discovaries which render his name a subject of grateful respect would have been de- “aved or defeated if John D. had un- dertaken arbitrarily to superviss the laboratory work. e ———— The influenza germ hag been isolat- ed. This statement does not imply the discovery of @ means of compelling it to retire into harmless seclusion. —_——— Every. time science conquers a germ it 1s proper to say, “We are getting bet- ter and better,” without any special reference to Dr. Coue. A Fortunate Flivver. When a cold-wave forecast was is- sued from- the weather bureau Satur- day morning many a heart in Wash- ington Yell heavily. The prospect of.a sharp drop in the temperature was e gloomy one, with the coal bins nearly enipty and dealers saying only that they would “'do the best they could” _to replénish the’ stock. There were visions of heavy snow, like that of a little more than & year ago, fears of 4 protracted “mpell - of - near-zero weather. . The thérmometer. did drop; but not so far as had been indicated 2 There was' some &now, light dusting that caused In ‘short, the cold wave Nobody i8 disippointed. Washington is not & pleasant city in the event of ‘winter storms. It is & poor snew town. Its average Semperature et this time ‘be open night and day, and Mr. Bloom | him. | horizon widens after a few months in | goad idea, and the claimants and peti- ! ciation a resolution favoring ‘the con- | cal { prominent of year is a mear “mean' between the invigorating dry cold of the more northerly places and the balmy " seft alrs of the south. ‘When snow comes. it is apt to becomé slush modbp, Or it first melts and ‘then freezes.into dirty piles of glacier-like masses that offend the senses ‘and add to - the. sickness records. \ : ‘With February well begun not much time is left for winter. According to all experience the worst is’, usually whom expected nheritance, “The will, which has Just besn flled T probate, stipulates that. the house- is to be divided betweer theni, Néw eéverybody knows that a house cannot be split up into separaie entities like & bunch ot money or a lot of furniture, but Nich- olas Caruso—who claimed- kirship to the late tenor of that namé—saw a way to do almost that thing. To his son James he left the: first floor of, the house and a small storeroom under over by March 4, though that day has | the’ porch. To Joseph he left 'the sec- occasionally inthe past been a terror. Five or six weeks more will pass Lhol danger point, and every day that now. goes without snow is a clear gafn. It begins to lock as though this will be a winter of remarkable mildness and, therefore, considering the coal situa- tion; there is reason for general con- gratulation. But, then, one can never tell. ‘Boreas may just be lying low to swing a blast this way that will make us forget all about the blessings thus far enjoyed this season and make us wail £8r spring. —— e The Congress Job. Yol Bloom, who was elected to the next Congress the other day.in New York at a bye-election-to il a vacancy caused by death, has started right. He takes. his Congress job seriously. In his district are many people of his own race, and they have claime to prose- cute and pleas to present, especially in the matfer of immigration. So Repre- sentative-elect Bloom announces that he is going to open an office and will establish a force of clerks and engage | a lawyer and will give his constituents service at first hand. The office will will not limit its service to the people of the nineteenth New York district, Why not? A member of Congress represents the people, all the people, and particularly those who choose The closer he keeps in touch with them the better he. represents them. Bloom probably knows that he will not, certainly for some time, cut much of a figure in what are called national questions. They do not par- ticularly interest him, nor do they greatly concern the average person in the nineteenth New York district. But there are other matters that do con- cern them, and Bloom proposes to be on the job on them. Hence the office near the corner af Broadway and 96th street, in the midst of the constitu- ency, which will probably be one of the busiest places in that part of New York—for ‘a time. Maybe when the Washington Representative Bloom will not be so greatly interested in his New York office. Meanwhile, it is a tioners of the ninetgenth district will doubtless appreciate it. s Library Headquarters. Washington is steadily becoming the general headquarters of all Amerl- can socleties and associations. ‘Now we‘have the proposal that Washington hall be made the headquarters of ‘the American Library Association, and that a headquarters bullding to cost{ between $500,000 and $1,000,000. shall { be constructed here. The Amerlmn] Library Association' has taken the; matter under consideration -at, differ-} ent times,-and at a recent meeting of the District-of Columbia Library Asso-| ruction of such a bullding was | up the price as high as the traffic will | passed. It Is a just and proper pro-| posal. In-the first place, Washington | Is Washington, and there i only one | Washington in the United States,!| though numerous towns, counties and one state are so named. It is the real | scarcely less pieagant to collect a debt | glad library center. of Amerfca. In book | mazes. The | collections it stands with London, | credit is-one that muet be respected | | unless the attempt. is made to repudi: | have | pleted with even German Paris and Rome. There is the national | library, which is called the Library of | Cengress. There are the Washington | Public Library, the scientific or techni. | libraries of various branches of | government, the university li- es gnd the various department libraries.” There are many privute H- brarfes of great value in Washington which in time will find their way fnto] the libraries that are open to’ the pub- | lie. Washington would welcome the | American Library Association. the brs 1 { { The Washington Audience. In an’‘advance notice of grand opera in Washington it was sald: “The out- | standing feature is not in the company | itself, but in the audience. No other ! city in the United States can produce | one similar to that which will attend | on the opening.night. High officials! of thé government, the Army, Navy nd Marine Corps, members of. the diplomatie ¢orps, city authorities and'! members in Washington | lite all will make up one of the most brilliant groups that ever attended an | opera.” i *This is a fact that Washingtonians generally overlook. “Notables” are so} numerous in Washington that we of | the capital take an assembly thickly sprinkled with famous men as a mat- ter of course. A Washington audience drawn by some noteworthy event will contain more” men whose names are familiar - the country over than .an audience in any other city. Men dis- tinguistied in the.art of war aend in, othey arts, in the' sciences, in diplo- macy and in statecraft are-there. The President s present. Politics is al- ways represented by men who are dis- tinguished. or notorious. One cannot say with assurance that these person- ages are any more appreclative of; music or the dramatic art than men whohave not won- distinction ds ad- mirals, génerals, .judges, ' senators, representatives,. cabinet -offiters -and the like, but they help to make up:any big audience which gets together-in Washington. z ———— A visit to America is contemplated by Liloyd George. The U. S, A..is be- coming a_favorite scene of rest and study for retired European statesmen. Reminders are urgently ‘offeréd to the Ku Klux Klan that it is not sup- poséd to do-all the investigating. A A House Divided.. Port Chester, N. Y., has just pro- duced a veritable Solomon!. He is, 16 be sure, now passed out of the land of the living, but his memory remains as that of a wise man who has solveda difficuit problem in & manner warthy of the anciént Xing of Terael. Hig estate chiefiy consisted of @ dwelling house, and there were three sons, all of e { petual 1 are the Inconsequéntial surroundings. ond floor; the cellar and the rear porch, and to Angelo was bequeathed the ‘third floor, ‘with ‘two.rooms M the | basement. So muoh for the will. But ) how will it work out in practice? ‘If these are three loving brothers, of an amenable disposition, they will live In contentment and harmony in the divid- ed house. If one.of them however, is independently inclined there .may be trouble. This, it is true, is the day bf dwelling subdivision. Apartments arg the order of the times. Many a house has: been -cut up into layers and sec- tions, so to speak, but the ownership has almost invariably rested with one person. Joseph may want to sell his part of the house, or Angelo his sec- tion, or' James his molety. As each will be owner in fee sfmple he can in law do so. But what of the lot? Pre. sumably each of the. three has a third share in the land, without *which the house is valueless. Joseph cannot sell his part of the house and take away his' third of the site.” Whoever buys from him acquires a third right in the ground. It {s easy to sce that in a few Years the case may be serlously com- plicated by all sorts of ownerships un- less these brothers do the plainly wise thing and two of them sell to the third, and thus consolidate ownership in one person. Perbaps Nicholas Caruso was putting his sons to a test. . *“Legation Liquor.” A resolution has been Introduced in | Congress calling upon’ the State and Treasury departments for reports as to the amount of ‘lquor imported by the legations and embassies in Wash- ington. Representative Cramton, who introduced the resolution, is quoted as saying: “The importation and use of ilquors for foreign embassics and lega- tlons has been the subject of country- | wide discussion. This has been par- ticularly true in Washington, where | the problem of enforcement of the eighteenth amendent is- said to be acutely affected by the presence of these liquors.” It is true.that there is a great deal of talk about the mat- ter. Very likely when the real state | of facts g brought out it will be found | that there has been much misrepre- sentation and exaggeration. It is a most convenient explanation as to the source of contraband liquor. Men,who use false labels on bottles of false wileky do not hesitate to say that it is “legation stuff.” ‘If they did not get it out of a legation they will general- | iy say that it came from a‘government warehouse. Getting u ocase of liquor from a legation helps to make danger ous liquor seem respectable to a pur- chaser and alds the seiler in holding | bear. Undoubtedly there are ieaks} from ‘legations - and embassies, and these leaks should be stopped, but it will' probably be founid that the!at the number of things we have noti “flood” of legation liquor about which | 80 mahy men are talkihg is reauy‘do-,, ing very little flooding. ~ | i England will pay her debts in all honesty, and is too henest to affect that the obligation is a source of glee- | ful enthusigsm. _It is sometimes | than to pay it, but the principle of ! ate the system on which the business | of the worid is founded. | —_——— | Motion picture stars make the mis- ! take of permitting themselves: to be’| made- too, famous for nratters which | have nothing to'do with the art of the | scresn: , | —————— The Chinese objéct to motor hearses. | Many occidentals share the prejudice The automobile honk offers. an. un-| melodlous ‘prelude for thé sound of iabriel's horn.' ! ————— It is a very large world, and it m become necessary to regard the p quarrel between France and | Germany as only an incident of its af- | fairs. | z i Russia’s undeveloped rescurces have | no doubt tempted a number -of German finunclers to go east.and grow up with the country. 2 ———— - i SHOOTING STARS. i —_— i BY PHILANDER JOHNSON; ! Work. When _lazy hours- with pleasure fraught 5 r Invite & man to shirk, <k How melancholy is thé thought “I've got to go té Work!" 5 Yet,-oh, how'bitter seems the loss That leaves you feeling’blue, When, you are: told by eome rough _:boss, v ;s “There ain't no work for yo it Capabilities. 2 “‘Geapge Washington was incapablé of taisehood. : - i “Don't you think,” said Senator Sor: ghum, deferentially, “that this impres- slon"may have bgen dué te the fact: that - Ggorge's-presy agents- ‘were not incapable in-that direction.” ** -~ Jud Tunkins says prohibition ‘as spolled miince pie., All yoti seem t6'get Musings of a Motor Cop. Hortense Magee surveved with glee, The : hearse :that. runs by - motor’ o pOWE. - 4C S e ““When:T start heavenward;" 'siid she, “Please make it gixty miles an ““Who's “the ‘worst poker player in Crimson Guich!” : < NThree-finger Sam. He wins so miuch money there ain't ne accountin’ fur it excep’ on the theory-of dumb luck. \““Sgme folks,” said Uncle: Ebéh, “is 80 ‘dusy ‘bothéitn’ 'bout:de ‘debis of Europe dat dey- clean fohgite. w ‘&t de* corner grocer: {ship jthat very ‘i The 8! by the Akron Beacon-Journal 4lican), which does not beltéve thaf : Secretary ‘Wailace ¥ent-out.a re- quest the other day to all employes of the Department of, Agricultire. He told them he and His immegiate fl_were trying .in every way to save yoney for the'goveramént. He asked thém to.do/1ikewise; He told ‘them that the Treasury: faced a big deficit at the eng of this fisoa year, the 30th of next June. It amounted to several hundred millipns —though it has been shrunk quite a bit since then—and he wanted every one to help with all his might to.save, Some of the employes wrote back to the Secretary. All of them sald they would help. A few of the replies’ were quite unusual: “I, v flmng position of fire- man and drawing laborer pay. I save the djfference between maximeént pa: of -fireman ' and _manuel laborer, wrote.one mai “Then I am econom- ical with materrel and also assisted in planing the change of grates in bollers which saves quite a’ bit of coal. which means money.” The -spelling wasn't the ‘best; but the saving in coal amounted to about 400 tons a year. Another worker wrote: “By using brooms longer than others would have used them I have save 4 brooms. .@n a similar manner I have save 4 mops 3 dust pans 3 brushes 60 cakes soap 40° washing powder. “Now saving 30 Ib. ice per day.” . A third employe, ‘addressing the Secretary as “sir,’ asserted: “i save all the iight posible and it i see any gas gets lit or other lights burning 1 put them out in order to save light.” But a fourth worker carried oft the palm with this: 3 | —— —-, do make this state- ment that T have keep the foard trudk in good condition and keep it bissy at work and keep the men ail bissy and seen that there .is nothing wasted during the time to the best of my_knowledge.” Gen. Lord, the director of the bu- reau’ of the budget, citing instances of saving and dealing in figures that mounted into round billions, descend- ed from the higher mathematics of money during his address the other day before the business organization of government to mention these four cuses of individual effort. 4 dollar misspelled and saved,” he said, “outwelghs in the scale of effi- cient and faithful service many dol- lars correctly spelled and misspent.” The exercise of intelligence, how- ever, is occasionally absent when cmployes on saving beént attempt to follow orders too literally. Gen. Lord gave an illustration or so of such instances. The government has established the practice of buying nothing when the material wanted is available as UARY -5, 1923. | Wionld ‘Harness ‘Potoinac|’ % Prg T surflus in another - branch _of ‘the service. Articles in stock must: be: used first. If there aren’t.any of the desired articles in -stock, then 'and’ only then may the, government o into the market. 4 2] . Not long_ago a government em- ploye in Seattle sent through a reqdisition for lumber. Another em- loyce, eager to--save, fognd that umber of the 'kind 'desired was {available at Hog Island, Pa.y Hverything was in_readiness to ship ‘the Hog Island. lumber across the ‘continent, at a freight rate sev- eral times as much as the value of the jumber itdelf, when the plan was discovered by the man Bigher up and called off. =t In-another ‘case an employe in San Francisco ordered muriatic acld. The reqgisition came ¢hrough the clear- ing hbuse here and an exchange clerk learneéd that murigtic acid was in stock. as surplus in a Carolifia town. - A bottle, as ordered, was sent to San Francisco, ‘The freight was 36— the value ofthe acid in Sap Fran- cisco $1.50. < - - » Such mistakes are rare. They weigh nothing whatever in. the_ bal- ance against the trémendous savings that have been effected by the plan. But these savings, in order to be e fective, do require teamwork. “In_one of the northern provinces of Luzon,” says Gen. Lord, “a tribes- man tried to move a big log with a team of four carabaos, or water buf- falos, hitched tandem. “After several unsuccessful efforts he detached the leading carabao and tied it to a tree. He then tried to move the log with three carabaos. “But they didn't move it. He de- tached another carabao and tied it to the same tree. Then he got en- ‘thusiastic with the two remaining carabaos. They moved work.” and That was pulled—and team- tugged the log. A bureau official came to Gen. Lord’s office with a plan for saving money. It would have meant grea ly increased work—and personnel— for his bureau, and would have greatly diminished the activities of other government agencies engaged in somewhat related work. And that reminded Gen. Lord of a story. “A Scot lay dying in a hospital. Apparently he was beyond all help. 80 the nurse came to him, and, lean. ing over, asked him if any last Tequest he wanted fulfil “Yes,' he said, ‘before I die I want once more to hear the music of my native land. I‘want to hear the bag- pipes.” 1f I can only hear them once more.. T shall die happy.’ “And so they sent for the bag- pipes. The plpers came to the hos- pital and played for their stricken countryman. . “He got well; the rest of the pa- tients died.” EDITORIAL DIGEST League of Nations Meeting in Paris Incites New Debates, The meeting of the league of natlons council, now in progress in Paris, tns directed attention anew to the recen address of Gov. James M. Cox, demo- ins which Mr. Cox asserted that were Andrew Jackson alive he would advo- cate. this eountry joining the league. | speech by Ohio's former governor the [t0_waste this income could be used 1so held that much of the ! name of Wilson is not once mention- | for the benefit of the people. furnish- | ir. Cox present turmofl in Europe would have been avoided had the treaty of Versailles been ratified by the Senate. ‘One cannot read the speech of Go Cox,"‘says the Indlanapolis News (in- dependent), “without beingsurprised We have refused to gd into We have no ‘association We are unrepresented on We re- done. the Jeague. ot nations.’ the reparations commission. | fused to ratify a treaty which would ditions | have made it impossible to provide [Tole of mentor of ev the Turk with arms. We did not in- tervene to adjust the reparations tangle—we did nothing. - Chancellor Wirth said that he would have been to have a careful economic ex- amination of Germany made ‘under the impartial auspices of American leadership.’ We might by this time had .a league of nations com- How ,much upcertainty, settlement, - Suffering ~ and might have been avoided if w migery e had {made _that examinution and done| nothing more, in addition, - than . co- operate with the reparations commis- sion, one may, perhaps, falntly imag- ine:’ 1t seems certaim that there would -have been no -French' move- ment Into the Ruhr—there assuredly would not have been had we ratified the guarantee ‘treaty France— another thing that ye have left un- done.” This i in part lkewise the view of the Cleveland Piain -Dealer (indepéndent “democratie), which serts “supporters of the league will agree with Mr. Cox that had the “nited States Kept faith with its allies and entered the organ at its Inception the later 1 Enrope nfight have been more credit- able to all - concerned. They il gree, too, that the Harding admint tration should long before now have taken steps -looking to an ‘asocia- tlon of nations.’ If the pledges of the !late presidential campaign were made n sincerity. These things have thelr place in current political discussion, They may or, may-not dominate the nvention of 1924, Friends of (he e perform a public service | keeping the dexirabHi{y of member- betore the -country. -The sup- port_given the proposal by, such men as Mr. Cox dnd former Associate Justice Clarke -constitutes a sefvice much -needs performing. leasue jgcue is kept alive by nts in Burope as well as by the vities of its friends in this couns Party leaders could not forget if they would: What they ma: choose to say about it M the pla {forms-next vear hinges on considera- tions not now foreseeable.” 3 The contrary viewpoint is voicad repub- Mr. Cox ‘properly “conjured up 'the ECHOES - FROM FRANCE'S POST-WAR . ; : EXPENDITURES. Gt So far Frarce hag expendéd $8,000,- 000,000 upon her - devastations ‘and war pensions and Germany has paid her not over a quarter of this amount. —“Representative Lindbergef, Cali fornia, republican. y 2 SAME TERMS FOR ALE FOREIGN DERTORS. - We ought'to make éxgefly the same terms with P;ln\‘fe M&}zelgl;\lmm:ug the other. couuntries a with (?l‘tst PBritain—~Senator. MeKel- lar, Tennessee, Gemocrat.. WHAT THE PEOPLE AY. THE RAILROAD! - L ear the people of the: United St :(Ifi( 3",’“’ thefi':'xilroads $5,500,000,- 000. This is aimost twice as mueh as the national goveriment cost them.— Senator Capper..Kansas, republlean, WHAT HAS BUCOME OF THAE- - OLD “PATERNALISM” CRY! A few years ago if one talked about domk{-fi'uuzba ‘the-farmer there was alwayh & orv. of patérnalism, and even yet some would ignore the rights of those who prodtrce the féod and the raiment for the more than & hundred millién® eltizeng of the ‘republic.— Senator Trammell, Flovida, democrat. EARNED AND UNBARNED INCOMES. - - P A man who labors to earn an: Ifl" come which barely supports his famh- ily should not be taxed as much ‘as one whose income is from bonds and rents and does ‘not have:to jabor.— Senator Harris, Georgla, democrat. t {hear repeated the alleged horrors of spirit of Jackson,” the Journal hold- {ng that “in his day the great Jack- son was not accused of being in- sanely prejudiced in favor of old | world interests in preference to those | {of America. Some of his political { enemies even accused him of en idln‘ul"lnx the public peace with oth- er countries by his brusque way of jeratic presidential candidate in 1920, | promoting the welfare of his own.|amount of power mnot needed by the {Andrew Jackson has been a loni | time dead, but Woodrow Wilson lives. {Yet, in the print of a four-column | red. Perhaps this is no worge tha: omitting the name of Léncoln_from a | review of the civil war. There| {should be more harmony of methed | jamong the willing workers who | | Would monopolize the service of ex-| I ploiting tranquillity to Europe.” The | Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune (re- publitan) likewise is another which thinks Gov. Cox is mistaken in try- | jing to keep the league as a “present | itxsue” while the Charleston, Mail | ! (republican) defends the polfcy of {the Harding administration as sane, hecause “if we should feel that con- | impelled us to assume the vthing that | {happens on the globe we should xoon ! ifind that there were other natlons | {who wanted o have a suy, and the | 1most to say. The European nations | are mow engaged in an attempt 1o | {settle Asia Minor affairs without the | inecessity of going to war. Both jthese nations and the Turks know | jour sentiments as well as we do— | and they know just as well as we do | that we will not go to war to en-| force them—and foree only is wiat! {the Turk respects.” { Inasmuch as Mr. Cox “went to Eu- | Tope to see for himself.” the Knox- | tville Sentinel (independent demo- cratic) Is convinced that his words | must be seriously coneidered, because he “has not only paid hir respects to ! the. administration of the party in {power. but he hax given notice to lukewarm or anti-league of nations leaders or retreaters in his own | | party that if they undertake to bar out ‘or ditch the league issue they will have a fight on their hands with- i the party's ranks. And it is a| warning, we imagine, that they will imot treit cavalierly or lightly ignore. public sentiment turning day | more and more, away from | disgraceful exhibitions of im-| the administration is mak- }ing in the foreign field, and realizing how much of the disastrous situations in Furope and the near east could and would have: been averted | America’s steadving counsel and co- | operation, many of the recalcitrants will find it to their interest, to join the swelling throngs that W C for ‘a change in our forelgn polic: It 15 also the opinion of the Balti- | i more Sun (democratic) that Gov. Cox ! ‘gave expression to a feeling which | is daily becoming_more general and more insistent. The immense ma- | jority glven him probably led the President to fmagine that an aseo- ciation of nations had bhecome a negz- ligible issue and that he could for- iget his campalgn utterances without | |danger. And so he might have done | {had’ things run &moothly in Europe. But_instead of-doing that they Kave grown worse and worse and now our ‘foreign policy. has hecome the para- mount issue of the hour. When Mr. Cox_makes this tha principal theme of his speech he is only giving voice i to the criticism that is in every one's : mind.” CAPITOL HILL CHILD LABOR NOT ALWAYS A DETRIMENT. 1 |*T was on_a farm until 1 was| twenty-one years of age, except the months 1 was at school. I began| work- on the: farm when I was six| yeary of age. It may be this experi- 1 ence which preserves my calm and |’ withholds my indignation when I} child: labor.—Senator Fletcher, Flor- iday democrat. THE: PLASTERER HAS HIS DAY. On & buildings being erected in Phijadelphia, which 1 think \was fin- ished a short time ago. I am informed | that plasterers reccived $33 a day.. |Allowlnr 300 days for a working | yedr, that would amount to $9,900 ! I per. Vear.—Senator McCumber, North: | Dakota, republican. ‘WHERE THE MIDDLEMAN AND THE FABRMER CLASH, . ‘The busine| pects to buy! what it cost {o o of the man. who ex. rm products for: haif roduce them would be disturbed if farm credit were ex- ter until the producer could realize Ithelr worth—Senator Caraway, Atk- ahsas, democrat. 3 1ONE OF THE CHIEF GLORIES JFHE CONSTITUTION. oF } I, have always thought that one of the chief glories of the Constitu- ton- Is ‘the fact that yoy cannot | take. t&he .h";.t f:gm thell;‘a kt orl :‘he' gged street u n without either Bmm .w,:, s consent.or: giving| him' ‘rompensation -for. the - rags.- Representative Jones, Texas, demo- 2 {pay the expenses each year without {they speak loud enough they jShriner would therefore be 67 times ployment approximately Tw% o -— Writer Sees Great Saving in Proj- 6t for. Householders of D. C. the Bditor of The Stay: . In my last letter to' The Star, No- vember, 27, 1 tried to show the value of the Potomac water power to the city. I-'have been pleased to learn! that many well informed persons con- firm the statements made. The city not using the water power for a hun- dred years or more has been forced to birn-ceal:ihatexd at:s” gfeat expense. Last year the District used 350,000 tons of coal, Which cost about $2,000,- 000, whils the water power was wast- ed, dnd-11ght und electric power bills were 50 per cent'jnore for every. fam- ily than they ‘would have been if wllar“fower had been used. Toronto and_Windsor, Canada, paid 2 cents per ikflowatt "hour; while ‘we pay 10 centeand we hetie one of tna best water powers in the world'for gener- ating electricity. _ : A dam At Chaln bridge and another above Great Falls would probably (Bupplythe city with electricity, but thé Senaté has pIoposed to, hamness thg branches of the Potomag in Mary- land, . Virginia, Pennsylvania: and West Virginia, and has had able en- gincers survey the tract of country and make-a very-full and-complete repoft.:- These branches have a drain- age of 11,000 square miles of moun- talnous country and deep valleys. The scheme proposed, if carried out, would furnish power to run all the railroads, it would rin all the fac- tories, uld cultivate all the farms, light ‘and heat every home and sup- ply them with power for small elec- tric motor machines. Now, all this power goes to waste. Reports Answer Every Question. When 1 visited the Potomac and its branches west of Washington last year and saw Its vast and almost unlimited water power, I became anxlous that the people of this city should appreciate its value and not ceuse calling for our Senate to harness that power and convert some or all of it into electricity. Some one besides the writer has been praying. Our engineers have done a marvelous work and their reports answer al- most every question that it is desir- able to ask. The cost of every por- tion of the work is glven in minute detail and the value of the work it will do when finished. Maj. M. C. Tyler, Corps of Engi-| neers, in his very able report on ‘development of Great Fafls for pow- er and supply of water for the Dis- triet of Columbla” gives in detail descriptions of six different projects. QL these he prefers two, which are known as Potomac projects D and E. These include the work alteady done in the District, a dam at the District line, the Dalecarlia reservoir, the new conduit to Great Falls now being bullt which will take the water at the level of 180 feet above the tide water. The lock in the new dam at Great Falls will relieve the canal company of - maintaining five locks and twenty-six miles of canal. The | project will be complete and, it is expected, will supply the demand of the government and District for elec- tricity. When there is greater de- mand, the extension of the system to the west and south along the Po- tomac and its branches can be made at a comparatively small expense. Will Pay for Cost: The dydro-electric power of Potomac and its branches when harnessed will soon pay for its cost | and furnish our city and country homes with light, heat and power in abundance at a very great dis- count on_our present prices. Any the government or Déstrict could be sold nd the proceeds would form a per- manent inchme. Instead of going| ng the poor with many necessaries and luxuries which they could not supply from their earnings. n the hands of a capable manager many millions of dollars could be used to add to the comforts of the people and from 360,000 to 500,000 ( ons of coal saved per year. . Will this God-given power be allowed to! g0_to waste another 100 years? Will| not the people demand its construc-} tion when they know that the profits of the project when completed will ny additional tax of the people? cannot close this article without asking why we are required to pay 10 | ents per kilowatt hour for electricity | when_our neighbors on the north_pay | only 2 cents. Winnipeg furnishes 5,000 families with light, heat and power for 1 cent, and makes a profit to pay for the original cost and upkeep of the plant. It is not to serve the people or | to save them taxes that the water | power is allowed to g0 to waste, instead | of turning it into cheap electricity to serve the people and save them drudg- ery. None of nature's forces is better appreciated today or more highly valued than is electricity, and nothing con- tributes more to the welfare of our people. Let the people speak and de- mand their rights and be served. It will be heard. VM. H. H. PHILLIPS, Ph. D. Shrine Committee’s Calculations Disputed | | { To the Editor of The Star: I feel constrained to take issue with the committee of the Mystic Shriners in their calculations in regard to the ' 800-foot man mentioned in The Star | of yesterday. H It is & well established geometrical | principle that the volumes of similar | solids are to each other as the cubes of like dimensions. It does not mat- ! ter at all what the shape of the| solids is. provided the shapes of the | objects which it is desired to com- | pare are exactly simflar. It is to be presumed that the 900-foot Shriner | which the committee had in mind was | proportioned exactly the same as six-foot Shriner. The cubical con- tents (which would be identical with the . weight, provided he were con- structed as an ordinary man) of this 900-foot Shriner, as compared with A six-foot Shriner, would be as the ! cube of 6 is to the cube of 900. The cube of 6 is 216, and the cube of 900 is 729,000,000; 729,000,000 divided by 216 “equals 3,375.000. Therefore, a Shriner 900 feet tall would be equiv- alent (if exactly similarly propor- | tioned) to over three million ordinary Shriners. R To find the helght of a Shriner| equivalent to 300,000 ordinary Shrin- ers, you simply extract the cube root of 300.000. The cube root is found to be a little less than 67, for 67 cubed equals 300,763. The ' hypothetical the height of the ordinary Shrinér, or (on the basis of a six-foot man) 4 feet tall, which is, of course, le: thars the height of the Washingto Monument. We all wish well for the Shriners, and we ‘oconeequently hope ‘that the committee will not take its figures too seriously in making plans for the coming convention. CHARLES H. PROBERT. "Consider the Hobo.. To the Editér of The Stas Most people do not understand the true status of the .hobo under the Foke of present.day soclety.: If they i'will read Jack London's baok, “War of {he Classes,” they will readily learn to appreciate that he is the vietim of economic injustice, and not a creature apart from the genegal run of m-n—l kind, unwilling _to sreate labor. 5 o through According London's book, _ if 100,000 hoboes suddenly: obtalned em- t i 100,000 em- ed“‘workérs would tmmediately be thrown it. ‘The hobo merely an unemployed orker, he i8'a migratory person who, when he can’ secyre work, often per. forms the most useful, dangerous, gruelli; and poorly. pald labor for our présent jnhumang soclety. 1 was a'delegate to.the hoboes' con- vention at Columbus, Ohio, anid' there 1 beheld some of the best bralns of this country. Gus Schaeffer, in par- ticular, jmpressed WMme. greatly, and. Harry O. Wilson astonfshed me with his dramatic talent. , Such revolutionary enthusiasm; such 1, n::nq‘:l«:h‘ e (they airs fiy * 1, for one, ‘16ve them- (they ‘ars- blcod brothers). and Danton loved them also. EDWARD J. IRVINE. "The suggestion of the Secrétary of the Navy, Mr. Depby, that authority should he given by Congréss for the sgle of uniforms to former members’ of the Navy ig a most worthy fdea. The same plan might well'be follow- ed in the Army. 'Many soldiers and saflors who served in the world war founa their uniférms too shabby fro;ft wear after their: discharges;.and. yet they take pride in having the unmi~ | form all their Myes for-use on special occasions, when the veterans parade. Many find that in the,four or five years since they left the service they have become too. stout to get:into the old uniforms. The proposition from Secretary Denby will enable the sailors to outfit therhselves without much expense and #o. keep up~their pride of service and ¢ultivate pa- triotism not only ‘in the veterans’ own hearts, but in the oncomini gen- eration of their children, After the civil * war, .the Grang Army. of the Republic and the vet- erans of the Confederacy adopted dis- tinetive "uniforms, different from those in which they had fought, and the American Legion has often’ dis- cussed. similar action, but up to date has come to no decivion. There is a sentiment in favor of a legion uni- form which will wipe out distinc- tions between officers and enlisted men, and also between Army and Navy—one uniform for all services and all ranks. That may come, eventually, but in the meanwhile the Denby suggestion fits the present need. Besides, the Navy and Army stores include vast quantities of sur- plus umiforms, which might thus be converted into cash. *® %k ¥ * One of the most sensible moves that has yet been made in the ant{-nar- cotic fight is the order of the Treas- ury absolutely barring all importa- tions of the drugs even for medicinal purposes. There iv already in Amer- ica enough confiscated narcotics to supply for many years to come all legitimate uses. Still larger quanti- ties are held in the stocks of deal- ers. The Treasury Department points out that there 'is no reason whatever for importing any more. The embargo is made legal under a law passed last May, known as the Jones-Miller law. It embargoes not only to continental United States. but also to all American colonies. be found that there becomes a short- age of any particular narcotic need- ed in medicine, special permits will be granted to meet the need, but the government is determined to do all in its power to fight the evil of dope, which is fast becoming a greater menace than alcoholism ever was. * kK ¥ ¥ The favorite sport of some state: men is not golf. but log-rolling. TUn- less the votes of such for the national need of a safe deposit for the great historical records—an archives build- g—he offs with compensatory votes or post offices at Squidunk and Hella- balloo, they are determined to risk fire and robbery rather than permit the archives of the nation to be safe- guarded. So it is on the agenda of Congress that there is to be no ap- propriation for an archives building. Such a policy of the penny-wise man insurance expense,” by insurance on his home. terly regretting hik folly embers are raked over. What can be ater folly, for Congress. than to refuse to make safe the nation's irre- placeable records, which are daily ex- posed to fire and other disasters? That these dangers are not fmaginary, note the destructive fire amongst the arehlves of the Department of Com- merce within the last two or three years, two fires in the Treasury and one in the White House. No fire in- who “saves carrving no though bit. { surance adjuster would pass on- the present condition of the archives of the government as anything but haz- ardous. Even the plan to erect shelves in the Pension building's great court is onlv a makeshift, for in case of fire in the many offices of the building, the damage by water and smoke would be unavoidable. A vote for the needed buildings of the National Capital has has no value at all toward @ re-election of a con- gressman, while a new post ofice in 1r it equivalent to that | when the ! _-BY PAUL"¥. COLLINS. - ; wn, Wwould make him & hero and his rétarn doubly sure. Un- fortunately, Postmasier General Work has rdfsed hopes by his advocacy of ; n extensivé pre i bullaing of post o country, am lh& !aentnwn t saftiid weighs light ugon thé; statesmen. . = R K | his. home thri out the t thaf Presi- ned thatprogram the corisciences of b * manufacturing chewing gum @mounted t0-$3,343,000 in 1921, and the sales $35,865,000. The differencé mieasures tlie ¢ost of raw materfal and profits. In 1921 the sales fell off $12.- 375,000, as compared withy1919. Ameri- ecans are the only peopls.fiy.the world addicted to the habit. Of what good is 1t? It ‘stimulates salivé) but no longer is it fgshionable to pit, so of what use 18°the ‘surptus sallva? Time was when a man who cofild hit a knothole - twenty “fegt away witn every spit'Was a hero, but today that is oné of the lost arts. - P “Say, Sambo, d'ye knew why it i3 that & 'cow slobbers “No, Mister Jones. “Why 1s it that cow slobbers?" “*Cause ghe can't spi SRS Why all this-dispute, as to whether the Barbara Prietchie incident, as re- lated in Whittier's poem, ever took place or not? If a thousand witnesses testified that they had been in Fred- erick, Md., when Stonewall Jackson magched through and that they had not heard his command: “Who touches a hair on yon gray head dies like & dog,” and one credible witness testi- fied that he had heard the command the direct testimony might balance and the case go to the “jury’—the public. But there is mothing so in- conclusive as direct testimony, not even circumstantial evidence. That story may all be fiction, yet it is truer than fact if it is in char- ter with.what some aged patriot ould have done in defending her flag and what Stonewall Jackson would have done under those conditions. The -incident illustrates an eternal type of herolc character, and the quibbling over whether: it occurred JOF did mot occur is asfde from the I'main truth of the story” Whittier was not a news reportér: he was & poet. As & poet it was his purpose | to depict the essential truths of type. l‘thete~ is a “truth” which is true than true. The chivalry of Stonewall Jackson was a fact: the deflant patriotism of venerabie old age d spising_death, but loving the ideal, was true. * % ¥ % Australia offers a million farms to a million immigrants and will pay the travel expenses, send the farmers first to a training school to teach | them . 1ocal conditions and approved methods, then lend them $2,500 to set them up in farming. ‘The. settler will amortize his debt on such a basis as will enable him to pay a low interest annually, with 1 per cent added to apply @s a payment on the princial; that” will pay off the whole debt in thirty-8ix and one-half years. Contrast that liberal policy with that of America, which offers no in- ducement to farm settlers and limits all immigration to only about a third of the million. Australla does not hold this offer open to all nationali- ties, but to British only. America might select its immigrants as rig- idly as does Australia. But, no mat- ter how desirable the persons may be who apply, they will be shut out ou a blind quota basis if the applicant's netionai quota 4s aiready exhausted. | * ¥ X X “Speech is silver; silence is golden.” It costs the Treasury over $713,000 for the speeches of congressmen In print- ing the Congressional Record. Wou- der if that old story about the bird who sollloguiged, “Polly, you talk too | much,” " really did not mean Con- | Sresss ITRIs. session talked. $200,000 | worth more than the previous session. | “Worth” does not seem just the right word. Maybe the proofreader will change it. 'Failed to Become Enamored of Either Pothooks or Putty Knife Although he has tried many occu- pations since he first saw the light of day in Wash- ington, District of Columbia, sixty vears ago, 4. . Harry pingham, second vice president of the Washington Board of Trade, a member of the Gridiron Club, and promineént in civic work in his home town, has long since ‘crossed ** stenographer '’ J. Harry Cunningham.and “glazier” off his list. After finishing school, young Cun- ningham began to look around for something to do. After much cogi- tating, he decided that he would take up stcnography in one of the business schools. A single day's at- tendance, plus a headache, convinced young Cunningham that’ it wasn't the business for him. He then wandered into the plant of the Maurice Joyce Engraving Com~ pany. He was given a place, and showed such aptitude for the work that he stayed with them for many years. Engraving in thove days was done on chalk plates, ‘and Mr. Cun- ningham estimates that he made nearly 2,000 of the earliest newspaper routs” in this manner. > It turned out later that it was only by the luckiest change that Mr. Cun- ningham secured the job. Ten minutes nearly Cun- | before he applied one of thé employes had left the company to go to an< other city, and young Cunningham was taken on. ‘When he became a glagier he was a schoolboy. attending the old Franklin School. The year was 1881 and old- timers_in National Capital lore tell us that it was a hard winter. Plenty {of snow and everything. That was how Mr. Cunningham became a gla- zier. % ot It was a Saturday afternoon and an exciting snowball fight was' in Prog- ress in the school yard. Teams had been selected and the fight waged fast and furious. Grabbing up an ex- ceptionally adaptable bit of snow, young Cunningham. after molding it into a firsi-claes missile, let fly at the enemy.- The ball traveled straighty but not at his opponent. A tinkle of glass and young Cun- ningham was petrified. He had smashed a window in the principal's office. The fight stopped while an investigation was conducted. It was found that the office was un- occupied. That was the first ray of hope for the trembling boy, whose mind had conjured all sorts of horr ble results. T The next chapter findé young C ningham streaking for home to con- fide, imn_his_father. The required money was furnished and he broke all_records getting & pane of glass and returning to the school. The good-hearted janftor let him in, and the glass was replaced with shaking fingers, one of which he cut,almost off in the operation. He decided from that day that he would engage in no more’ €nowball fights in the proximity of windous and that he would never again le a glazler. U’rges Patriotic Plea In Behalf of Dry Law To the Editor of The Star That we are beginning at the wrong end in our efforts 'to enforce -the eighteenth amendment by’ the &py system, arrests and confiscation of property may be easily seen by com- paring these practices with the anti- quated method of school discipline. Isn’t it just like the day of monitors, corporal punishment and confiscation of the child's property, which never cured, but only created more and more cunning and desire to ‘Butwit au- thority? Why not emulate the mod- ern method of school discipline, which strives to create a desire to obey? And how can this be accomplished in-the caxe of prohibition? By gl’ofll- ganda such as was common during the war, when thousands of good speakers. were willing -and. glad to stand up" in. every public place and tell us what our patriotic duty was, and when an extra lump of sugar »wag Jooked .upon with scorn. 1¥ would seem that publi¢ sentiment in favor of prohibition would be suf- ficlent to see that it Is enforced with- ’ out such drastic means, else how was it allowed to become a law? Why were its opponents not busy with their brass bands and banners before it was approved by their state legis- latures? Because public sentiment wanted prohibition. Then where are its adherents today? Have they slunk back_into their shells afraid to come out and show their colors? Far worse than silence is the atti- tude of many a good citizen whe, would scorn to break the eighteenth amendment himaelf, hl* who_delights in the rich story of how the other fellow -outwitted . the = prohibition agent. ‘The common, jokes on drink- ing, smuggling and bootlegging have Bezome all too common with the otherwise good citizen. ‘What we need is thousands of pa-~ ttiotje citizens wha will.comse out and show. thely scorn:for thé lawbreakers, - thousands more who will talk pr hibition at every opportunity. ing at their tongues’ ends ready argus ments for its enforcement, and thou- sands more who will stand up in pub. lic places and preach prohibition ar v.h‘;x preached_liberty:loan | t us gat busy with.prop: yor the enemy will have us 24 the same game, L. 0. BURROUGHS. of government . The Wagé¥'of 2,678 persons engaged / A