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- =6 g THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 0., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1928. . 1924. That 1s, ratification effected be-'tho public school force was estab- THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. W@NEBDAY .February 14, 1923 THEDDORE W. NOYES......Editor The_Evening Star Newspaper Company Businegs Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office 150 Nassan Chicago Office: Tower Rullding. European Office: 16 Regent St., Landon, England, he Evenin Star, with the Sunday morning o, 15 aei by carriers within the city onth; daily only, 45 eents per only, 20 cents per month. Or- e sent by mali, ortelophione Maln lection is made by carriers at the end of each mouth. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dally and Sunday..1 yr., $3.40; 1 mo., 70¢ Daily only y Sunday oni All Other States. Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., Dally only.. X Sunday only Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled | o the use for republication of all news dis- credited to it or not otherwise credited per and also the local news pubs n. Al rights of publication of ~in are also reserved. oerard ‘Washington's National Taxes. The charge is sometimes made that ‘Washington and the Washingtonians have contributed nothing toward the Ppublic buildings and grounds of the capital. The o nal public buildings and grounds, as everybody knows, were paid for out of the proceeds of the sale of Washington lots donated to the government by Washingtonians. In effect, the federal government thus paid nothing for the parks and public buildings of the original city. The streets were the direct gift of the orig- inal Washingtonians. The Washington Monument was thus built upon ground in effect donat- ed by Washingtonians and erected to the height of over 150 feet by private subscriptions in which Washingtonians participated. It is inaccurate to say that the Dis- trict of Columbia has contributed nothing toward the cost of modern public buildings and grounds paid for out of national funds. The residents of the District of Columbia pay ‘na- tional taxes precisely on the same basis as other Americans. For this purpose and for the purpose of fight- ing as soldiers in defense of the flag, they are Americans, to the same e tent as the citizens of any state. ‘Washingtonians, instead of contrib- uting little or nothing toward capital upbuilding and adornment, have given (1) the ground from the proceeds of the sale of which as lots the original public parks were secured and all the original public buildings were erected and for many years maintained and developed; (2) the broad streets and avenues of the capital, constituting more than one-half of the original city; (3) mearly all the cost of municipal maintenance of the nation’s city up to 18748, and since that time one-half, and now 60 per cent, of such cost, and (@) from the very beginning down to the present day Washingtonians have contributed to the national funds used for the development of the nation’s city on the same basis as other Ameri- cans, and In amount per capita far more than the average American out- side of Washington, The fact that the people of the Dis- trict of Columbla contribute on equal terms with the people of the states to- ‘ward all national taxes, and that it is their money as much as the money of the people of any state which Is spent in national development of the nation’s city, in payment of salaries of repre- sentatives, senators and President, or for any other national purpose, is often overlooked. Washington Auditorium. The District Commissioners have is- sued a permit for the erection of the Washington Auditorium, on which the foundation work has been in progress | for some time. A great building will | soon be set before the eyes of Wash- | ington and the country in the block | between New York avenue and 19th and E streets, in that old-new section of the city west of 17th street and south of the Avenue. The matter of & structure appropriate in design and | Jocation and suitable for large conven- tions and other great gatherings of people has been discussed for thirty or forty years. Perhaps if the records were searched it would be found that the discussion of the subject began further back than that. Here we ave | on the eve of the construction of such & building. Washington city has grown up to the idea, and all the people offer their hest wishes to the Washington Auditorium and the corporation which is erecting it. —_—a—————— The republicans have moved faster than the democrats in campaign preparations, being at least fairly mgreed as to who the next presidential candidate is going to be. Constitutional Change Complexes. ‘While there is no assurance that the joint resolution to amend the Consti- tution by changing the dates for the meeting of the newly elected Congress and for the inauguration of the Presi- dent will pass both houses at the pres- ent rapidly waning session, the fact that the uppér house gave its assent with little debate and with no dispost- tion for delay signifies that congres- sional sentiment is strongly set for the proposed change. According to the proposed amend- ment, as it was approved yesterday by the Senate, the Congress chosen in November will assemble the first Mon- day of the following January. It will organize and, presumably, act as the canvassing board for the electoral votes and render the verdict within the next fortnight. On the third Mon- day in January, two weeks after the fore November, 1924, would result in a January-meeting Congress, but not a January-inaugurated President, for the present presidential term does not expire until March 4, 1925. If this amendment is adopted by Congress, and ratified within the next year and a half—that is—before the November election in 1924—the term of the newly chosen President and Vice President will not be four years, but three years end a little less than eleven months. They would be in- augurated March 4, 1925, and quit of- fice on the third Monday in January, 1929. Similarly, members of Congress elected in November, 1922, the now sitting members, will remain until March 4, 1925. Now comes a complication. What of the senators whose terms do mnot expire until March 4, 1929, those elect- ed in November, 1922? Suppose the amendment is ratified before the next congressional elections. Senators are chosen to take their seats in January, 1925, to retire six years later, 1931. The Sixty-ninth Congress will meet in January, 1925, and will supposedly end on the eve of the first Monday in Janu- ary, 1927. The Seventieth Congress will meet in January, 1927, and will cease on the eve of the same day in January, 1929. But there are certain senators, elected in November, 1922, who cannot be retired until March 4, 1929. Others must be elected the No- vember preceding to take their places in March or to overlap in service be- tween January and March. Thus the Seventieth Congress will consist of a newly elected House and a partly soon-to-retire Senate. For the pro- posed amendment does not apply to the terms of senators or representa- tives already elected. It is not an easy thing to change the federal schedule. This amendment looks simple, but in analysis and pros- pective practice it seems to be de- cidedly complex. Possibly these com- plexities, one of which has just been pointed out, will give pause in Con- gress before final approval and the amendment is submitted to the legisla- tures for ratification. Bonar Law's Warnings. Opening of the British parliament yesterday was attended with more than usual interest because of two fac- tors, the definite beginning of the new ministerial regime in legislative pro- gram, and the disclosure of the atti- tude of the government at London in respect to the two delicate situations abroad, the Ruhr and the near east. Premier Bonar Law's speech, follow- ing that of the king, was in a way a warning, first to France, that the al- liance would not necessarily be main- tained if events in the Ruhr make it necessary for England to withdraw her troops from the Rhineland; second to Turkey, that, despite any war- weariness England might feel, conflict to maintain the status quo in that area will not be avoided. Bonar Law did not go so far as to define the possible cause of a with- drawal from the Rhine. Either France or Germany, he sald, may make it im- possible for England to maintain her forces. Further conflicts between the French and Germans, such as at Gel- senkirchen, where lives have been lost and reprisals have been undertaken, are doubtless in this category of pos- sible causes. The premier went so far as to say that withdrawal would be a great misfortune, for it would mean the end of the entente. Apparently there was no coupling of the two situations, the Ruhr and the near east. Mr, Bonar Law did not sug- gest that a breach of the entente over the Ruhr would lessen England's re- sponsibility in the Turkish ecrisis. Thus there may be an entente in the near east, while it dissolves in Ger- many. The premier, it is to be noted, declared his belief that Turkey will sign the treaty proposed rather than fight. ‘Without doubt the ministry will now be attacked for its foreign policies, and | it 1s perhaps quite willing to stand the brunt of such an onset in parliament, which would serve, in some measure, | to lessen the pressure upon it on the score of the domestic situation, ‘which | remains delicate. The laborites, who occupy a strong minority position, are ! not concerned in forelgn affairs, so long as they do not react upon the in- dustrial conditions at home. They want the unemployment problem solved, living conditions improved, wages raised and advance made to- ward economic stabilization. If the Georgeites concentrate upon the for- cign situation they are better equipped to set the pace in parllament, leaving the laborites to trail with occasional openings for attack. It is obviously not the policy of the Georgeites to play into the labor party's hands by making domestic conditions the prime issue, for on such questions their record is not so good from the labor point of view as to relleve them of responsi- bility and attack. Thus the present strength of the ministry lies in the fact that it faces an opposition divided in Interest. ———————— The German republicans think they might make a success of their new form of government if the neighboring republicans would give them a little more encouragement. ———————— Standard Oll has the distinction of carrying so many high-salaried men on it pay roll that the intellectual super- vision needed to improve the gas ought to be easily available. ————— Rumors that private egencles fake radical disturbances indicate that de- tectives, as well as detective novelists, have imagination. The School Pay Bill. " 1t is especially to be désired that the District shall have another day in the House this sesslon. Certain legislation houses have thus met, the President §s to be inaugurated, and his term of four years will begin from that day. In practical effect, as the amend- ment is now worded, these changes will not affect the terms of members of Congress or of the President and ‘Vice President elected before the final ratification of the amendment. Thus smmediate adoption by Congress and ratification by the states within eight- een months would not. bring about a January inauguration in 1925, though §t might effect a January assemblage ot the Congress elected in November, is awaiting action that is of prime im- portance. One of the bills which has come from the House District commit- tee, and which, it is expected, will be put forward on the next occasion, is the measure known as the teachers’ salary bill, already passed by the Sen- ate and amended by the House com- mittee. In respect to this measure it should be noted that it is the first move for establishing a statutory pay basls for the teachers that has been made since 1906. In the so-called organic act passed in that year a scale of pay for lished. BSince then various changes have been effected, but always by means of the appropriation acts from time to time as occaslons have arisen. The need of changes has been great in the sixteen years. Conditions fr. the schools and general conditions have altered materially in that period. Now it is proposed to write a new substan- tive law which puts into definite form the successive school salary changes effected by the appropriation acts with adjustments to bring the system up to the point of present-day requirements. In consequence of the process of amendment by appropriation acts the school pay system is at present incon- sistent in many respects, and various inequities have grown out of the need of administrative adjustments as a re- sult. This now-pending measure, which needs but House action to put it in conference stage, and, therefore, in the way of final enactment before March 4, will give the school system, with little increase in the total appro- priations at present, a carefully bal- anced pay scale, with increases as- sured to officers and teachers who have for a long time been working with in- adequate compensation. Under the House committee amendments one in- advertent injustice of the Senate bill will be corrected. As the bill was first passed certain teachers for whose benefit the measure was framed would actually lose money for the next five years. Under the proposed amend- ment this moderate increase of 4% per cent will begin at once. If only to effect the passage of this bill and its submission to conference with a good chance for its final enact- ment at this session, another District day should be granted in the House. This meritorious bill should not be permitted to die for lack of attention. New Building Needed. ‘The commissioner of internal rev- enue has advised the public buildings commission that if the internal rev- enue bureau could be housed in an adequate building, instead of in eight buildings and parts of buildings, the government would probably save $1,- 000,000 a year. The commissioner urges that his bureau be housed in a building of its own to contain about 700,000 square feet, the cost of which he estimates at $2,500,000. It is an old argument, and a sound one, that the government can conduct its business better and cheaper in a building suited to the purpose. The bureau of internal revenue is in a particularly bad way in that its force and offices are scattered about the city. Ever since the govern- ment came to the District of Columbia its bullding operations have lagged far behind its needs. It has generally taken a good many years of clamor and reports to get Congress to provide a building in which a government de- partment or bureau might conduct its affalrs with a semblance of order and economy. It is hoped that the commis- sloner of internal revenue may make a record in getting for his bureau the bullding it needs. —_———— Ambassador Harvey has no reti- cence about court knickerbockers or afternoon tea, these things affording topics for general conversation, with- out risk of diplomatic disclosures. —_——————————— Charles M. Schwab says the steel business needs more labor. This an- nouncement is an assurance that there need be no revival of the non-employ- ment discussion. —_—————— — Edison declares that he has no less than forty-five unused ideas for the betterment of the Navy. Admiral Sims is frank in asserting that he has more than that many. —_——— It is easier to sympathize with Wil- helm Hohenzollern in any troubles he may have at present than it was in those he insisted on sharing with the world. ——— Moscow’s declaration of neutrality recalls the historic fact that neutrals make terrific fighters if they are ever compelled to abandon their chosen policy. Turkey suspends conversation long enough to take a thoughtful look at England’s naval parade. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Psychology and the Valentine, To a psychologist I spoke. He brought me strange surprises. Each sentiment seems but a joke Since hearing his surmises. The love of family and friends ‘Which I so dearly cherish Is but a complex, he contends, ‘Which nature won't let perish. When I indite a valentine To her of my affections, What I supposed were thoughts of mine Prove mere world-old reflections. ©Oh, Cupid, let your quiver fall! Although the statement vexes, ‘This “love” is made up, after all, Of affects and reflexes. Diffused Energies, “Do you think we have great orators in politics?” “Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum. “The trouble is that most of us are doing so much for the lecture bureaus and the magazines we don’t get time to put our best work in our speeches.” Jud Tunkins says patience and per- severance accomplish great things for some people, but don’'t even teach others to play a good game of check- ers. Musings of a Motor Cop. Al traffic rules are made anew ‘To check the whirl so dizzy, If I enforce just one or two, T'll keep my whole day busy. Intelligence Test. *“One of these newfangled games costs forty and fifty dollars a set,” re- marked Mrs. Corntossel. “It means nothin’ to me,” answered the farmer. “If I was foolish enough to pay that much fur it I wouldn't ex- pect to have sense enough to learn it.” “Troubl; énme- easy,” said Uncle Eben. “You has to hunt work, but it's allus easy to find & crap gameS L% WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Dr. Baltasar Brum, the Republic of Uruguay, who has Just formulated a plan for a pan- American league of nations, will re- tire from office in a fortnight, at the completion of his four-year term in the presidency. Formerly Uruguayan secretary of state, Dr. Brum is one of the youngest men who ever achleved the chlef magistracy of his country, belng only thirty-nine years old today. He is of Portuguese- Brazillan origin, despite the Teutonic aspect of his surname. Dr. Brum is a divorcee, and took pubiic occasion to say he will not marry again. The constitution of Uruguay does not permit a retiring president to aspire to the office a second time until after a lapse of eight years. Brum visited the United States, while secretary of state, in 1918. He is & progressive in politica and an ardent champion of unrestricted interna- tional arbitration. Treaties to that end were signed by Uruguay with Great Britaln, France and Italy. Brum's successor in the presidency Is Senor Serrato, a bank president. * ok ox % Unnoticed by his compatriots, ex- cept philologists who observe such things, President Harding has con- tributed a new idiom to the Ameri- can language. Ever since he put “normalcy” on the map, Mr. Hard- ing’s excursions into unexplored rhe- torical regions have been carefully studied. It was In his recent message on the British debt that the Presi- dent spoke of the negotiated ad- Justment being a “plight” against “war and war expenditures.” We are ac- customed to another and more de- pressing thought when ordinarily we talk of a “plight,” though, when used as a verb in connection with lovers' troth, the word has a sweeter ring. There's a man In Washing- ton who, evidently like President Harding, looks upon the dictionary as a wondrous realm crammed with gems and treasure beyond the imag- inings of folks who search it only when In doubt how to spell a word. He is Wendell Phillips Stafford, as- sociate justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columblia. Justice Stafford, a gifted poet, has composed a brilllant ode to the dictionary, “All the literature of our language is in that one book,” says Stafford, “and anybody could write an immortal work if he could put its contents to- gether In the right order. * ok ok % Pen picture, supplied by an Ameri- can colleague on the peace confer- ence military commission, of Gen- eral Degoutte, the master of the Ruh “A typical French general. Met the president ofthey should not pass. A roly-poly, Jovial, priest-like sort of Frenchman, Who twirls his eyeglasses on a string in his pensive moments. The ideal wearer of the velvet glove that en- cases the hand of iron. A believer to the depth of his marrow in the right and might of France, and determined to impose her will. Suave, concili- atory, gentle and just, but granite at the psychological moment. Never had Frante a soldier who was so much the right man in the right place as Degoutte in the Ruhr. * ok ok % Representative Richard Yates, con- gressman-at-large from Illinois, for- mer governor of that state and him- self the son of its famous civil war governor, was in lively demand this year, as usual, for Lincoln day speeches. His father was a boon com- panion of the Great Emancipator. Representative Yates is fond of re- calling, doubtless on the testimony of his paternal ancestor, that Lincoln was an Inveterate office-seeker in the days before he became President. In Sangamon county and in Illinols, and in the city of Springfield, “Old Abe” ran, or tried to run, for nearly every public position in the voters' gift. None, it would appear, was con- sidered beneath his dignity, and he aspired to many in vain. * kK K A cabinet officer, discussing with the present writer Senator Brookhart's recent prediction that Congress one day would be “run” exclusively by blocs and on the bloc system, ven- tured to suggest a brand-new sort of bloc. It was already In existence, he said. It had many members. It was bi-partisan and non-partisan, It played no favorites. It had few scru- ples. It had everything, in short, the cabinet minister averred, except a name. So he christened it. He called it “The Malice Bloc.” * ok * % American lumbermen on the Pacific coast recently presented Thomas Sam- mons, United States consul general at Melbourne, Australia, with the tall- est flagpole in the world. It is nearly 200 feet long. As Mr. Sammons pre- sides over no American officlal prem- ises where the giant could be suitably set up, he decided to bestow the flag- pole upon the Australian government. It was first put up adjacent to the federal buildings at Melbourne and the Stars and Stripes floated over Aus- tralian official territory for the first time in the commonwealth's history. Later Australia declded to transfer the flagpole to Canberra, the new capital, situated approximately mid- way between Sydney and Melbourne, but it could not be transported with- out cutting it into pieces. Therefore the pole recently was shipped to the billi Point, where it can be seen far out to sea. Its tiptop light at night Germans once before in a decisive en- gagement, when he repulsed them on the Chemin des Dames, on the road to Verdun, which the French vowed will be the first land signal to be sighted by all vessels, both from the United States and elsewhere. (Copyright, 1923.) THE WAYS OF WASHINGTON BY WILLIAM PICKETT HELM. Washington is the most beautiful city In the United States, in the opin- fon of the chairman of the Fine Arts Commission, Charles Moore, but it is to become yet more beautiful. Mr. Moore was talking the other day with a group of representatives about the future of the city. Among them were Messrs. Willlam R. Wood, Edward H. Wason and L. J. Dickin- son, Representative Wood agreed with Mr. Moore. “Washington is a beautiful city,” Mr. Wood said, “but it would be still more beautiful if you would devote & little of your time to cleaning up Pennsylvania avenue.” “All right,” responded Chalrman Moore, “let us get those street car tracks relocated on 3d street, clean out this place in front of the Capitol and then go to work and clean up the Avenue.” “What do you mean by relocating the street car tracks on 3d street? Mr. Dickinson asked. “Take the tracks away from in] front of the Capitol ad make thel Botanic Garden really a part of the Capitol grounds, as originally in- tendes “Where would you put the street car tracks?” “Back on 3d street. Then let them come on up 3d street and make lst street practically a part of the Capitol grounds. That would be much cheaper for the trolley companies, because they now have two circles they have to go around.” Sounds rather ambitious, doesn't it? Bue the Fine Arts Commission chair- man has more to tell. S “What would you do with the space | between the present Capitol grounds!of the value of the site) cost “about | and the Grant monument?” asked Mr. ‘Wason. “Would you have that a pub- lic highway “That would be controlled in the same way as the drives in the Capi- tol grounds.” “It would be a Capitol driveway?” “Yes. Mr. Wason remarked that the great- est disappointment to a strapger com- ing to Washington was the appear- ance of Pennsylvania avenue. Mr. Moore agreed. What 1 meant” Mr. Wood went on, “was to get rid of these unsightly pulldings on Pennsylvania avenue, because, if 1 understand correctly, the original scheme was to have all the ground on each side of the Avenue occupled by oftice bulldings, so that there would be one grand avenue to he Capitol.” tA(‘ll D? which led Mr. Moore to re- mark that the original plan provided for a mall with government struc- tures on each side; that on the north- ern side of the mall there would be ho private structures, but public office buildings to Pennsylvania avenue, The northern side of Pennsylvania avenue, under the plan, would be available for private building. And then the chairman of the Fine Arts Commission made this significant tement: S e are going to have within the Replies to Mr. Wiley To the Editor of The Star: next twenty-five years, let us say, more public building in the District of Columbia than there has been sinco 1500.” That 1s a lot of building. As we recount the great structures which now house the government, we must indeed be on the threshold of a gi- gantic public building boom if we are to double our present structures in_twenty-five years. “I5 this bullding going to be fed- eral or private?” Mr. Wood asked. “It is going to be public bullding,” Mr. Moore replied. “It is thirty-eight cars since a real department build- ng was completed In this town; thirty-eight or forty years.” Oné thought at once of the mam moth structure that houses the Inte- rior Department, completed within the t five or six years. t s very necessary to watcl public building in Washingto Moore continued, as if in answer to this thought, “or we shall find men doing what the late Secretary of the Interfor did. “He got an appropriation for build- ing the geological survey building and the bureau of mines and located the Interior Department in the build- ing. The building is so big that there is no landscape about it—it oc- cuples every bit of the space—and it is too big a building to have any- vhere in the District of Columbia. t is absolutely a commercial office building. The bureau of mines should have been located out in the country, and so should the geological survey. where they could have plenty of land to_expand.” Mr. Dickinson asked about the two white buildings back of the present Agricultural building. “These buildings are merely two wings,” Mr. Moore replied. “The plans contemplate a new building joining them.” Did you ever walk from one of those buildings to the other? The proposed new building will be a com- modious one. The Treasury annex. riext to Riggs Natfonal Bank, in Mr. Dickinson's opinion, is purely an office building and (presumably partly on account flve times the amount you really should put into an office bullding.” He asked if we could not get away |from such massive structures simply for office use. Mr. Moore agreed heartily. “But that building,” Mr. Moore con- tinued, “is'a part of the frame of the White' House. “All three sides of Lafayette Square should have monumental buildings. There should be a State Department building, containing with other things, rooms for the entertainment of foreign visitors, “The Treasury annex is a part of that scheme. Only one-third of the contemplated building has boon con- structed. The completed building will extend to H street.” And when it does, of course the Belasco Theater, the Dolly Madison house (now occupied by the Cosmos Club) and the intervening buildings will be razed to make way for the newer structure. Mr. Moore and the representatives were not just passing a pleasant half- hour in_day dreaming. They -were talking business and talking officially. Their remarks were printed and dis- tributed by the government. The oc- casion happened to be a meeting of the appropriations subcommittee and remarks quoted above may be found on pages 427, 428 and 429 of the printed hearings on the appropriation Dbill for_independent offices for the coming fiscal year. on French in Ruhr. the use of the trenches during the war? Does Mr. Wiley know France Will your paper publish this answer to W. H. Wiley’s communication in your paper of Tuesday night? I ask Mr. Wiley if he does not know France forced war on Prussia in 1870. Before that, does he know that, on what was then considered good au- thority, the French sent their Ambas- sador Bennedita ta the Prussian gov- ernment, suggesting war be made on Belgium' and Luxemberg, 8o France could annex these two countries?, This act has never been denied by the - French government. Did not France wmeize Nice and Savoy from Italy when Italy was not in a position to offer defense? Now France wants to seize charged this government for the land where this government erected con- crete wharves? Does Mr. Wiley know that France charged this government for transportation of our troops? Can Mr. Wiley state one noble, generous act Franoce did for this government during the war and up to the pres- ent? The French Ambassador Jusserand, in an address, said if the Germans would only say they are sorry the French would melt! Does Mr. Wiley agree with this statement, and would the French troops melt—or be washed out of the Ruhr on billows of their own tears? Does Mr. Wiley doubt the word of American corerspondents that the French have colored troops in entrance to Sydney harbor, at Kirri- Politics at Large BY N. 0, MESSENGER. Democratic sources at the Capitol supply the positive assertion that former President Woodrow Wilson is intent upon taking an active interest in influencing the selection of the democratic candidate for the presi- dency next year and in the shaping of the party’s policies and platform. It 1s sald that while Mr. Wilson's physical condition would utterly pre- clude the thought of himself as a possible candidate for the nomination, his mind is as clear as before he was stricken; that his love for and loy- alty to his party are as sincere and forvent as ever, and that he is willing to expend every effort to further the success of the democracy. It s sald that in the campaign last fall Mr. Wilson predicted with won- derful accuracy the result of the elec- tions and that at this time he Is fore- casting a democratic victory in the presidential and congressional elec- tlons of 1924. ¥k x % The statement is also made a ‘he Capitol that, contrary to generally accepted supposition, Mr, Wilson is not backing the fortunes of Mr. Cox of Ohio, but, in fact, regards the handicap of the 1920 defeat as lfkely to outwelgh his renewed advocacy of the league of nations in his avall- abllity as a presidential candidate for 1924, * Kk % ‘When the poet in that beloved Irish song, “The Wearing of the Green,” described Ireland as “the most dis- tressful country that you have ever seen,” he overlooked Indiana—that is, If he had politics in mind. And re- publican politics, particularly; for at this time the republican party in the Hoosier state is in a condition of fac- tlonal turmoil surpassing the recol- lection of the oldest inhabitants. And that is “saying a w-h-o-l-¢ lot.” To be sure, they are not hanging men and women for the wearing of the green, but they are slashing right and left ‘among themsclves for the wearing of the colors of Senator Harry 5. New, Senator James E. Wat- son and former Senator Albert J. Beveridge. It is a three-cornered fight and it 1s bloody. At the present time Senator New may be said to be suffering the fate of the innocent by- stander. He is a conspicuous exam- ?le of the victim of the slings and Arrows of outrageous political in- gratitude, which many a man has suf- fered before, but his is a notable case. If he is appointed to the cabinet—as all but one of the republican mem- {bers of the Indiana delegation in the House fervently desire and hope—he will leave the Watson and Beveridge jfactions in the state still flying at jeach others throats. Republican {leaders who are watching the Indiana mix-up from the side lines are won- dering what new figure will arise in |the state if the Beveridge and Wat- son factions succeed in their efforts to destroy each other. Of course, Mr. Watson and Mr. Beveridge dis- clalm personal respensibility for the lcourse of the respective factionists and their disavowal must be accepted at its face. The factionists are de- scribed as being “out of hand.” * Kok X Minnesota is described as being an- other state where “there s a heap sight of trouble on the old man's mind"—speaking of the regular re- publicans. No republican leader of saplency Is inclined to predict how the party will line up, come 1924. Time was not long since when Min- nesota was regarded as a rock-ribbed republican state in national elec- tions. It slipped a cog last year. It Is said there never was a more sur- prised man in the world than Senator Kellogg at his defeat for re-election to the United States Senate. Even the popular idol, Gov. Preus, found his plurality cut to a mere 16,000. The republican debacle was attribu- ted to political Infection from adja- cent and neighboring states. There filtered Into the republican political soil streams from the non-partisan reservoirs of North Dakota and the soclalistic impounding dams of Wis- consin and Michigan, waters which brought forth a crop of voters pro- testing against the old republican party. ‘Tis a sad tale; and the worst of it is, the regulars fear that the end {s not yet. * k ko x Pennsylvania and New Jersey sup- ply an example of two neighbor states whose executive policies are conflicting. In New Jersey the policy jhas been declared to be acceptable iby a majority of the voters—a policy as “wet as the Atlantic ocean.” They elected Mr. Silzer governor. In Penn- sylvania there is strong contention that a majority of the people sympa- thize with the New Jersey wets, but did not vote that way when they elected Gifford Pinchot governor. So how can one go outside the record in deciding if the contention is correct? Gov. Pinchot has declared that he will drive every bootlegger and saloon out of the state. Some wag pulled a good one the other He said that all the “good people” of New Jersey wish they had Pinchot for their governor, while all the “good fellows” of Penn- nia wish they had Silmer for In the meéantime, it is de- clared that in Philadelphia, burgh, and especially in the mining cities of Wilkes-Barre and Scranton, the “good fellows” can get real, genulne, first-class pre-war beer right {over the counter. * ok ok ok Senator Hiram Johnson of Califor- nia is very much in the eye of the politicians at this time over conflict- ing published reports of his course in the next presidential campaign re- garding his possible candldacy for the nomination. Some reports published in the met- ropolitan press declare with positive- ness that he will not contest the pro- posal to renominate President Hard- ing. Others state with equal force of assertion that he will “shy his hat in the ring” if the state legislatures, which are now considering selection of delegates to national convention iby primarfes, should in numbers suthi- cient to make a dent in the present system enact the legislation. In the meantime the senator is not suffering loss of prestize while the dQiscussion rages. He is being kept in the limelight, which is not_a bad thing in any event. Senator Johnsc is the idol of his own state; he has a following in Michigan, New Jersey { fcontests. | His friends say he can be depended make the appropriate announcement of his attitude, and that whatever po- sition he takes will be maintained scrupulously or supported vigorously. * ok ok K Democrats in Congress are watch- ing keenly the course of legislation recommended by the administration, getting ready to animadvert upon the possible failure of any measure con- sidered of prime importance.. It isad- mitted that they will have some diffi- culty in getting comfort out of criti- cizing the appropriations, for figures supporting economical administration of ‘the government run on the ledger to the credit of the administration and the Congress. Nevertheless and notwithstanding, they will make the usual effort the minority has made In the past, whether democratic or republican, to contend that “figures do lie” and that legerdemain of bookkeeping Is respon- sible for the majority's favorable asser- tions. After Congress closes, March 4, ten days will be allowed for extension the Ruhr section of Germany. This|Germany and German women lrelol remarks in the Congressional Rec- arranged for with Russia in 1917, before Russia became sovietized. i not l& for forced by the French in command to put up with the dutrageous -aetions of th |_troops? s 5 S Pl ord and all ‘the democratic leaders leu get in '.hei:lm-( licks to portray the light, Pitts- | and in the south, as shown by past| upon at the psychological moment to | CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS. The difference between the rela- tions of cabinet officials and legisla- tive bodles, in America and in Euro- pean governments, was strikingly il- lustrated last week. A request was made by motion of Senator Robinson, on behalf of the committee on for- elgn relations, that Secretary of State Hughes appear before the committee to explain verbally all about the ac- tivities of Observer Boyden at the meetings of the reparations commis- sion In Parls. Secretary Hughes re- sponded by letter to the chairman of the committee, declining to appear for cross-examination. He stated that he would furnish whatever spe- cific information the committee de- sired, but that he would not appear personally. In Europe, a cabinet of- ficlal expects to appear before parlia- ment whenever any question is up for discussion, and be heckled by the opposition. But there a cabinet is answerable directly to parliament. Not so in the United States. It is the officlal ud- viser of the President and not of Congress, although the President himself is restricted somewhat through the constitutional provision that he shall act by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Senate may advise the President, but not the President’s cabinet. * ok kK Representative Burton gave some enlightening facts to the House in connection with his explanation of the negotiations the British loan set- tlement. He was a member of the commission to make the terms. When questioned as to why the secrecy of the negotiations, he replied in the language of Lloyd George: “Any one who has ever been a member of a family of more than three would see the howling absurdity of holding an international confereénce in public.” Great Britain's total worth is es- timated at $80,000,000,000, against which there 18 a debt of $35.000,000,000. The assets of the United States amount to $280,000,000,000, with an indebtdeness of not to exceed $23,- 000,000,000. The ‘per capita tax of the British citizens for all purposes is $100 a year; that of the American is $55, inclusive of national, state and local. * X % % Produdtion! Production! That is the only source of world wealth. America s using up her timber at a rate four times as fast as it is growing in the forests. That is not “production.” The world is using up its supply of ootton faster than cot- ton is being raised The world’s stock of cotton August 21, was 14,752,000 bales, and two years later it was only 6,621,000 bales. In America, August 1, 1921, we had 9,351,000 bales, and August 1, uwzzl, 2on ;-;lzx.ann bales. It is estimate t by next August 1, w shall hold only 2,775,000 bales: i * * * ¥ In spite of the increased tariff on imports, the volume of our imports is increasing, and the volume of our exports is decreasing. This seems to upsct all the tariff theories of both varties, but there is another explana- tion than mere tariff protection and its apparent inadequacy to protect. It is that Europe, in spite of wars and rumors of wars, is getting on her feet again, and is beginning to increase her own production. That fact reduces her need to buy so of foreign manufactures, and at the same time it increases the goods she may sell to foreign countries. _ The exports in the last year were 5500000 tons less than the year before. The imports of dry cargoes increased from_ 7,000,000 tons to 13,- 000,000 tons. Pirt of this increase was attributable to the imports of coal, during the coal strike, but, even’ after the strike was ended, and coal ceased to be imported, the gen< eral imports of the last thres months of 1922 were twice as much as during the same months of 1921. These fig+ ures all relate exclusively to ocean transportation and do not include the traffic of the great lakes. * K K % With the Methodist conference ad- vocating the firing upon and sinking of rum-carrying vessels which hover off our shores, outside the three-mile limit, it seems a pity that America ever fought the war of 1812 and won the freedom of the seas. It seemed 2 pity of the same kind when an American war vessel stopped a Brit- ish ship upon the high seas and took therefrom, by force, the Confederate agents, Mason and Slidell. We apolo- gized for that in order to avold war with England. We had won the issue of 1812 only too well, However, the three-mile limit was established upon the principle that that was as far as a cannon on shore could defend the sovereignty of a nation. It was the range of a shore gun that fixed the limit; we would be satisfled if that same measure continued to apply now. We have guns which, during the world war, hit targets over thirty miles away. There is an unfinished gun now lving in the navy yard shop which will shoot 110 miles.” Why should we stick to an obsolete measure? Why should Eng- land or any other c ed nation expect us to continue pine with pirates preying upon , Jjust off shore? Thero are all sorts of units of measure. Let us stick to our gun range, and declare that our jurisdic- tion extends, as it did 100 vears azo, as far as we can shoot. Down eouth they do not always measure b: nor by vards. Sometimes it is runs, two whoops and a holler. southerner knows exactly how far that is, just as our gunners know how far they would be Methodistic if they shot as the Methodists resolve. *xx* The Salvation Army has undertaken one of the most beneficlal programs for the coming vear that it has lald out since 1ts foundation. It purposes to conduct a campaign to Inform voung men and women of the small towns as to the disappointments they will face if they migrate to the big cities, unprepared to meet the com- petition and temptations of city life It would be folly to advise all sma town residents to Temain all their lives within the environment of their births. The big citles are made up of the people who were born in the country or village. The leading men of New York—the bankers and la vers and merchants—are mostly coun try born. The strongest men in Con- gress and in official life come from’ farms or small towns. There, in the small communities, the man discovers his capacities. He is not overawed by his nelghbors so that he dare not he self-expressive, If, after having found one’s self. he dares face new difficul- ties in the greater cities, well and 2000, There are vastly greater oppor- tunities, as well as greater difficulties, in the metropolis than in the village. To achieve success in any large clty one must have self-reliance, inde- pendence and knowledze of definits means cf doing something better than somebody else does it. Sometimes these requirements are not so in- exorable in the community whers everybody knows everybody and fam- ily influence s stronger. The Salv tion Army will use tact and knowl- edge of conditions in giving its coun- sel. One thing is sure: The advice of the Salvation Army sincere. It is dependable, * Kk ok % Now recant all your data regarding the political changes imminent in ‘Washington. The President has indi- cated that the princpal trouble with all the reports of cabinet changes and dlrl‘lclmg:uc" appointments is that ain't o, Should Prince of Wales Remain Single He Would Break Century-Old Tradition BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Since certain responsible organs of the London press have taken upon themselves to a: rt in print that the Prince of Wales has no intention of marrying, the possibility has loomed up in the minds of the English peo- ple of the heir to the throne remain- ing a bachelor. Indeed, so general that the prince is determined to re- main single, that the bride-elect of his brother, the Duke of York, is freely spoken of as destined to be- come the next Queen of England. Should there be any foundation for this report about King George's heir apparent, he would furnish the first instance in all the thousand years of English history of a bachelor {Prince of Wales. All of them were jmarried; Arthur, Prince of Wales, {the early age of fifteen—the only ex- ceptions having been Edward IV, son land heir, who was smothered in ichildhood’ in the Tower of London {along with his brother, the Duke of {York, by order of his uncle and iguardian, who usurped the throne as {Richara TII; and Henry, Prince of Wales, elder brother of Charles I, who {dicd at the age of eighteen and was buried in Wesminster Abbey, Even that unfortun: Frederick {Lewis, Prince of Wa father of {King ‘George IIL a ne'er-do-well, of {whom it was written, by way of an epitaph, 1t's only Fred, Who way alive’ and now is dead, S0 there’s no more that need be sai {contracted, in response to popular {clamor and to the insistence of the {Bovernment of the day, a matrimonial alliance with Princess Augusta, oungest daughter of the crazy Duke {Frederick II of Saxe-Gotha, who bore {him no less than seven children. | This masterful lady played a nota- ble role after her husband's death as Princess of Wales and acquired so much influence upon her eldest son, George 1II, that she virtually domi- inated and 'controlled the policies of {Great Britain throughout the early years of his reign, working in con- junction with her favorite statesman, Lord Bute. In fact, Lord Bute and the widowed Princess of Wales are denounced in English history as the virtual authors of that iniquitous leg- {islation which led to the revolt of {the British trans-Atlantic colonies inow comprised in the United States. * o x %k In view of the fact that the ques- tion of peace and war in the south- east of Europe and in Asia Minor, land, indeed, throughout the near orient, rests not with any single mili- tary or political leader, but entirely with the Turkish nationalist assem- bly at Angora, which dictates its views to Kemal Pasha and to the members of his government, it may be just as well to call attention to the composition of this most extra- ordinary legislative body in the world. Its nucleus is composed of 150 Turks of exceptional enlighten- ment and intelligence, Who on the day when Great Britain tock posses- sion of the Turkish parliament at Constantinople, in 1919, were arrested by the English authorities, along with the cabinet ministers, and con- the worst possible|veyed on board English warships to Malts, has become the popular impression | lelder brother of Henry VIII, even at | prisoners of state during the follow- ing two years. They were well treated, on the whole; by the English authorities with courtesy and con- sideration and had plenty of time and opportunity to develop their fu |ture plans, which, on their liberationzs took the form of the organization 0% & nationalist legislature at Angc beyond the reach of the allied guns. They are very level-headed, up-to= date, thoroughly acquainted with the past and present conditions of Tur— ey, and of the role which has bee played therein by the jealousies and: rivalries of the various foreign pow- ers, and of the advantages which ey has always been able to de from the dissensions among her foreign foes, rendering united action. against the Ottoman empire well- nigh impossible. They are keenl {alive to the intrigues of foreign con- tinental governments for selfish pur- so are firmly convin ure of their countr i its former friend- ship with Great Britain. Eng| policies in recent vears, it is true= have done much fo embitter them: against her. But, with all that, there is no foreign power for which they entertain so profound a respect and in whom they are ready to repose so implicit a degree of confldence as England. * X x X The remaining 30 or 40 per cent of the Angora mbly are, for the most part, illiterate and were elected by the various towns and districts of Asia Minor. Thus, the most pic- turesque of them all fs the deputy for Dersim. He is a Kurd, who speaks- Turkish with great difficulty and no European language. His name 13 Diab. He is over ninety years old, {is very tall, perfectly ercct, with ja long, white beard and large, pierc- |ing blue eyes. He wears no glasses, retaing all his facultles, wears his Kurdish headdress and robes, ‘and |lives when at home, like most of his constituents, almost exclusively on the milk of his mountain goats and on bread, a diet which seems condu-' cive to longevity, since many of his: | constituents are over 120 years of: tage. Naturally his views and those of his fellow-Kurdish deputies are of the most limited and restricted de- |scription where foreign affairs are concerned. The more enlightened element, the former prisoners of state at Malta, experience the utmost diffi- culty in_endeavoring to convey to these Kurd fellow-legislators of theirs—such as to old Diab—the na- ture of the situation by which the Turkish delegates have been con- fronted in the congress of Lausanne. * Xk k x Another very remarkable figure of the assembly, and one of its ablest and most progressive mem, is the | “Brand tchelebl,” the hereditary chiet. of the Order of Dancing Dervishes. In his long, brown cylinder felt head- gear and his ecclesiastical robes he presents a striking appearance and is revered by all present as being de- scended from a family considerably older than that of Osman, to which the present caliph, or non-temporal sultan, belongs. The composition of the nationalist assembly at Angora, thus so oddly composed on the whole, offers a pros- pect of peace rather than war, and shows a disposition to lean her upon Great Britain than upon th would-be allies at Moscow and at where they were @etalned as Berlin. .