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6 THE FEVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. C. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1923. THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY. .February 23, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES. Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Peunsylvania Ave. New York Ofee? 150 Ao St Chicako Offce: Tower Tilding. European Oftice: 16 Regent St., Loudon, Engiand. wdav morning | riers within the eity cents per | tii. Or- one Maln | carriers ut the | The Evening St edition, s delive: 80 cents mionth: Sund ders way he ¥ 8000. ~Collection is' made’ by end of each mouth, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virg: Daily and Sunday..1 $8.40; 1 mo., 702 Tially onl, L'yr., $8.00; 1 mo., 50 Sunday oniy. . 11 yr. $2.400 1 mo., 200 i i i All Other States. | 1 yr., $10.00: 1 mo.. S5 Iy £7.00: 1 mo.. 60 | 5¢ | Daily and Daily onl. Sunday ol sunday The Asso s #o (e e for republication of a1l patehes eruited 1 1t or not otheri Tn s ‘paper and als ‘the- Jocal shed “Torein. Al Fiehts of puld enecial dispatehes hereln are aiso T o Bonus or Reclassification. Tt must be taken for granted that if | reclassitication is not enacted at this | session, with the essential accompany- | ing appropriations to it into | practical effect, Congress will vote the $240 bonus to the government ployes that is now regarded as in lieu of a horizontal increase in salary. Any other would be tantamount to believing that Congres is willing to the pay of the government workers by an average of at least 20 per cent. For that is what the bonus stands at today with refer- ence to the average department com- pensatlon. It has been frequently stated that failure of reclassification would not | entall this loss in pay, that Congress would surely continue the bor But it is known also that the bonus is re- garded as a disagreeable, undesirable expedicnt, savoring of charity, un- equal in its benefits and disproportion- ate. 1t has, however, become an estab- lshed factor, and it cannot be elim- inated save by the substitution of a carefully considered salary scale that udjusts to all grades of employment. 1t will be a pity if all the work that has been done toward reclassi- flcation should now be lost through failure to agree on details. Some doubt is expressed whether the bill can cbtain a hearing in the Senate, carr R em- supposition reduce s as can a [ that there i an emersency door lexit. Against this is countered the! claim that in a sudden rush such a door could not be opened quickly, and, | moreover, gives exit upon the inner | side of the track in the path of a| { counter-passing Proponents of the car, on the other hand, point to} the fact that never has such a panic oceurred | emains tinally the question wheth-| car. er the car is expeditious in operation. | crities aver that it “drags” the voad. that the ator ¢ pos- sibly conduct his fare transections in the limited space allowed as quickly | who bas no other the made-over cars | are not as speedy | as the special-type cars, | nd it may be that the Utilities Com- mission in finding will order the abandenment of these nakeshift one- | man cars while waiting for the equip of the lines with newer hicles such as. it is reported, have been ordered in advance of the de- cision. | ———————.————————— H Defend American Industry. Even at governmen is S0 de- and there will be general approval of the action yester- day of the House appropriations com- mittee in reporting favorably on the request of Secretaries Hoover and Wallace for $500,000 with which to conduct an inquiry into the production and marketing of rubber, 'nitrates and sisal. This is a national defense fund to arm America, not against the possibilities of a conflict some time in the future, but to protect American industry in a conflict which already is being waged. Rubber, nitrate and sisal are three raw materials which are absolutely | necessary to national well-being and | prosperity, and none of them is pro- duced in any considerable quantities in American territory or territory un- der American control. The production and marketing of these essentials are in the hands largely of our trade competitors. There is unmistakable evidence, Secretary Hoover showed at the hearings before the House com- mittee, that these trade competitors have formed or are forming combina- tions to control these materials in a manner which will be detrimental to American industry. “The time has come,” he said, “when we must make some sort of national defense against this price control.” An ironical feature of the situation thus presented is that some of the sources of supply of the materlals which are now being exploited to our onductor duties. Certainly used for this servic in operation its e ve on time when economy expenditure in 1 nece sirable sary, even if agreement is had in commit- tee. If brought into the Senate at ence, however, even with the filibuster In progress against the ship bill, there would surely be a chance for it dur- ing that period of the day when mis- cellaneous business is transacted. This is an economy measure for the government as well as an equity meas- ure for the employes of the govern- ment. Although perhaps the aggre- grate of appropriations may be in- creased slightly, the net effect will be greater cfficlency, and, therefore, a saving. A test of this measure s the averago of departmental service say injury came under control of our trade competitors as a result of the world war which we helped them to win. The United States did not ask for or receive any part of this war booty, but in relinquishing claims which we could have with entire propriety put forward it hardly could have been foreseen that this policy of generosity would be turned into a weapon to be used against us. Ever since the mak- ing of the peace there has come from Europe constant and insistent demand that the United States should show unselfishness and altruism in dealing with our former associates in the war, five years hence, not immediately, and it 1s to be taken as assured that with- in that time after enactment the good effect of a businesslike system of duty wussignments in the government serv- ice will be manifested. Mrs. John A. Logan. In the death of Mrs. John A. Logan WVashington loses a resident of many wears who was at all times intensely devoted to its welfare, and at the same time a patriotic inspiration for all Amerlcans. Mrs. Logan was a remark- able woman, with a wide breadth of view, an unflagging spirit. a high conception of the duties of citizenship. She aided in the prosecution of all causes making for the upbuilding of the mnational character. Tt was her thought, put into execution by her dis- tinguished husband, then head of the Grand Army of the Republic, to de- vote one particular day of the year to commemoration of the services of those who fell in war. Thus Memorial day is her own monument, and-the nation owes her a debt of gratitude for its conception. Despite the advance of years Mrs. Logan continued un- remittingly in her labors for Ameri- canism, and was to the time of her final {llness a force for advancement toward the national ideal. She was one of America’s most distinguished women. ———————————— ‘When the time comes for a United States of Europe, modeled after the system of the U. A., George Wash- ington’s birthday will be due for recog- nition as a world holiday. The One-Man Car Hearing. A direct conflict of opinion develops in the matter of the oneanan car, which was made the subject of al hearing Wednesday before the Public Utilities mmission. Representa- tives of the citizens' associations and wunorganized residents of the capital strongly demanded the abolition of this type of car, while experts con- sulted by the commission declared it %o be not only an efficient but a safe | wvehicle. The commission takes the ! natter under advisement and later | ‘will render its decision, perhaps influ- enced by an engineering representa. tive who i to go on a tour of in- #pection to cities where this type of car is operated. 1 Tt was a striking fact that almost | i i ncidental with the hearing a coroner’s | jury was considering the case of a| woman killed by one of these cars the | other day in this city. The jury re- turned a verdict of accidental death and absolved the car und its operator | of responsibility. | As fm the safety of the public out- side the car, this type is probably | as dependable as any other, unless, through a multiplicity of duties, the operator is not capable of exercising | 1he quick judgment required in emer- | sencies. The new type of one-man | car, built especially for this use, is probably quite as safe as a two-man car as regards boarding and leaving passengers, for the car cannot be started while the doors are open. Com- plaint is made that there is danger in case of panic caused by a short- circuft or any other mishap to thh givcirical cquipment. 1t is answered but Americans have been forced re- luctantly to the conclusion that Eu- rope’s desire for unselfishness and altruism is a very one-sided affair. If the $500,000 recommended by the House appropriations committee is made available by the present Con- | priation bill save the sign { President, | pass having left a numbe nade by Congress, and when one of these Americans, in addition to com- pulsory puyments to the government, wants (o make a patriotic gift it is well not to discourage such a spirit. The District's Fiscal Legislation. All proceedings are now complete In the enactment of the District appro ture of the which will, of cour: The District gets tionally well rounded, budget, and is gratified. It suffers sume disappointments, notably in re- gard to the of certain parks, which it was hoped would be provided for, and what may be the last oppor- tunity for their acquisition. In some of the totals, too, there is cause for re- gret, the scaling | through which this bill, with others, has had to of items in dequately provided. Yet, on the whole, it is a good bill, a workable budget, an advance, and it pa moreover, in good season, so that it has not been subjected to the pressure of last-minute congestion. To those members of the House and Senate who have given the District this admirable annual budget bill the District is thankful. It is particularly gratified that it has been spared this year the anxiety that it has suffered in the recent past on the score of the ratio of contributions to the capital maintenance fund by the District payers and the federal government. It is naturally somewhat disturbed by the proposal to reopen this whole ques- tion of ratio and to substitute for a fixed percentage of federal contribu- tion a lump sum unrelated to the total. Appreciation of the new District appropriation bill is increased by rea- son of the findings of the joint select committee that recently reported a District ownership of surplus tax rev- enue funds In the Treasury amount- ing to the net sum of $4,438,154.92, a finding that has been followed up by a definite proposal in the form of an amendment to a deficiency bill to es- tablish the District's title to this sum and to put it in the way of appropria- tion on the basis of other District rev- enues. If this enactment is effected the District will feel that its fiscal cquities have been conserved at this session. aflixed. an excep sutisfactory loss 9, Auto Reciprocity. There is a fair prospect that the gasoline tax and automobile reciproc- ity bill may be pushed through Con- gress at this session, notwithstanding the jam of the closing days. Repre- sentative Zihlman, the main force be- hind this bill, feels hopeful of success, It is reported that he has conferred with Speaker Glllott, that the Speaker has read the bill and the report on it and “is now disposed to put it on the suspension list and to recognize Mr. Zihlman when he calls up this meas- ure on one of the closing days.” This is the bill which will bring about auto- mobile reciprocity with Maryland, a consummation devoutly to be wished. It has been indorsed by the District Commissloners and the automobile as- sociations of the District and Mar, lland. The bill provides that it shall not become effective unless the state of Maryland enters into a reciprocal agreement by July 1. Auto reciprocity exists between the District of Colum- bia and other states than Maryland. Reciprocity with our neighbor state, the mother state of the District, and gress, Secretary Ioover plans an ag- gressive campaign to offset the efforts of these combinations, and in this he will have the support of American in- dustry as a whole, for every line of industry, particularly agriculture, is menaced by this effort to “hog” the world’s supply of essential raw ma- terials. —_———— Rider Haggard, objecting to disre- spect to the Pharaohs, reveals the English novelist in disquisition on political ethics from an ancient as well as a modern viewpolnt. ———— A survey of the surrounding maps may enable Lenin and Trotsky to feel that they have, after all, managed to establish a comparatively peaceful state of affairs. A great deal of admiration goes to Senator Borah for his industrious ef- fort to embellish the Congressional Record with a bright idea a day. —_——— Russia’s undeveloped resources are at least beginning to be utilized to the extent of supporting the nation’s own peasant population. The Henderson Offer. Discussion of the proffered gift of an appropriate home for the Vice President of the United States did not end with the adverse report of the Senate committee on public buildings. Senator Pomerene, speaking in the Senate, took the committee to task for declining the gift, holding that any decision in that matter should have been made by the Senate itself. He maintained that the committee should have reported the Warren bill, providing for the acceptance of the | gift, to the Senate, that the Senate| might act on it. He thought it wrong that the committee should send a letter to Mrs. Henderson declining | the gift. During the discussion Sena-| tor Curtis remarked that the appro- priations committee had been polled, and that it was indicated that the com- mittee was favorable to making the needed appropriation for the upkeep of the proposed home for Vice Presi- dents. Opinion runs strong that the Vice President is underpaid; that is, paid below the increased living charges of our times, and that it would be a handsome and proper thing for the government to provide him with an of- ficial residence in Washington suitably maintained. Some Vice Presidents have lived in boarding houses in Wash- ington, but these gentlemen generally seek to maintain a home establish- ment, which is an undertaking that takes & mighty slice off the salary or slices it away altogether. When an American for patriotic motives wishes |, to make the government a costly and appropriate gift there might be less delicacy or obstinacy about its ac- ceptance. Americans of great wealth and of little wealth are taxed with an wron hand to meet appropriations one of the suburban states of the capital, s much more important. There is a general hope that the pend- ing bill will become a law. ‘The great party a statesman favors may not make so much difference in his career as the particular bloc he belongs to. A popular clergyman can always command more interest for a dissent- ing opinion than a judge of the Su- preme Court. A slight menace to traffic is the well meaning officer who gets mixed up as to which way he has planted his own go-go sign. —————— Mussolinl has attained an astonish- ing amount of power, and the world now waits to see what he is going to do with it. The worst of all the income tax dodgers is the manufacturer of coun- terfeit money. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Counterfeiting. There's counterfeit money now going the rounds, And counterfeit labels where liquor abounds. There are counterfeits, too, of a dif- ferent kind, To lighten the purse and to baffle the mind. I There's the counterfeit smile and the counterfeit tear; The counterfeit greeting with counter- feit cheer. So many transactions ar bluft That it's hard to be sure of the genu- ine stuff. Lased on a When the Lame Duck Flies. “Is our friend a lame duck?” ““That’s what we call him in political circles,” replied Senator Sorghum. *‘His business friends refer to him as having been promoted to a higher salary.” Jud Tunkins says courage is a queer thing. Many a man will face a gun calmly and quail at the sight of a pick- ax or a snow shovel. Outdoor Enthusiasm. A nature sharp I sometimes meet Whose plan seems very good. He does not hunt arbutus sweet. He keeps on cutting wood. Art Interference. “Do you take music lessons?” “No,” replied the little girl; “mother says my practicing interferes with the phonograph.” “De man dat brags 'bout hisself,” said Uncle Eben, “does of his work jes' doin’ dat.” e [ WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Politicians in Washington expect {today to mark the formal launch of the Ford-for-President boom. The Michigan state democratic conven- tion Is being held at Detroit, and d is sitting In It as a delegate. At last autumn’s convention, when Woodbridge N. Ferris was indorsed {for United States senator, Ford's po- titlcal agents planned have th ‘democrats of the state formally |pledgo themselves to the automobile {magnate’s presidential ambitions. erris, It was understood, frustrated |that project on the alleged ground |1t would militate ngainst his chances of election to the Senate. ling achieved his ambition— edly with Ford support at the Novem- prob- bar- of Ford's forlorn lenders are con- riers th hope. Democratic ivinced the king of the flivvers will {be an official contender for the 1924 nomination, but profess not to take Ihis contention s { | in Theophile Delcasse, celebrated for- mer French minister of forelgn af- fairs, just dead at the age of seven- ty-one, was Germany's arch foo while {in charge of France's international | relations from 1898 to 1905. He was driven from office practically at the manized” the Post Office Department under Postmaster General Hays' ephemeral administration, recently “turned-from a trip through central and eastern Kurope on behalf of the American Jewish Distribution Com- mittee. Within the past year the Jews of the United States raised $17,- 000,000 for amellorati of ‘thelr oppressed co-rellgionists the old world. Dr. Frankel thi the worst s over, barring new co vulsions precipitated by political up heavals, and that even In countries like Russia and Poland, where condl. tlons were serious, (e situation of the Jewish inhabitant will remaln atisfactory and hopeful as long as ars or revolutions do not ensue. * ok K With the arrival In Washington of Ambassador Fletcher, chlef of the Americun delegatlon to the pan- American conference in Chlle, meet- ings of the delegation will be con- vened for the purpose of famliliarizing its members with the Unlted States’ uttitude on conference topics. Tk agenda ltems in which we are mainly Interested concern “closer assocla- tion of the republics of the Amerl- can continent” and “conslderations arising out of an encroachment by a non-American power on the rights of an American nation.” The first-named involves the Uruguayan proposal for a league of American natlons; the other comprehends the Monroe doc- trine. Our delegation, as customary Ibehest of Emperor Willlam 11 on the [occasion of the Franco-German con- {troversy over Morocco. At Berlin and Paris it was generally under- stood that the kaiser threatened the French with invasfon and war if they did not remove Delcasse from the Qual d'Orsay. ‘They yielded, and Delcasse was transferred to thé min- istership of the marine, dedicating his energles thenceforward to building up the French navy against “the day.” Like so many French statesmen, Del- casse was @ newspaper man by pro- fession and entered politics as a spe- clalist in foreign affairs. Toward the end of the Spanish-American war, in 1899, he acted as a mediator. For a short period after the outbreak of the world war Delcasse was again foreign minister. * X x *x President Harding has no more ar- dent “booster” than his wife, the first lady of the land, to whom he has |been devoting unremitting attention since she was stricken with illness last summer. Not long ago some one who had written an account of Mr. and Mrs. Harding's home life in the White House sent Mrs. Harding a copy of the article. She acknowl- edged it in a courteous letter, say- ing: “You are entirely too compliment- ary, as far as I am concerned, but Mr. Harding deserves every word that you uttered in his behal * * k ok Dr. Lee K. Frankel, the New York economist and sociologist, who “hu- i on such occaslons, will go to Santiago ith definite instructions from the President and Secretary of State. WIIL it have specific directlons to lend the United States’ support to item XVIII of the conference program, dealing with *“measures adapted to secure progressive diminution in the consumption of alcoholic beverages”? * ¥ ok X There Is a much-marrfed Washing- ton soclety leader, now living hap- pily with her third husband, who has monogrammed her limousine with a flower, after which she is named, in- stead of initlals. When Interpellated on the subject, as she admits she 1s, from time to time, she says that after one experfence in having the letter- ing altered to coincide with changed matrimonial conditions, she decided to substitute a design which would typify that part of her name which remains with her. EE News writers and story tellers In ‘Washington are going to miss “Uncle Joe” Cannon after March 4, for a vital professional reason. Since time immemorial there has been an un- written law on Capitol HIIl, against which Cannon never led a fillbuster, that any yarn, anecdote or eplsode good enough to print if it could be hung on somebody, might, without fear of denifal, be pinned on him. He has never demanded a retraction or sued for libel. Washington will not soon know his like. (Copyright, 1023.) EDITORIAL DIGEST Central American Entente Cordiale | Blazes Way for Santiago Confer- | ence. | The treaty, just signed at Washing- ton, designed to prevent revolutions and wars In and between Central American countries is accepted by many editors as an omen of hope for the extension of such a plan to all of the western hemisphere at the coming pan-American conference at Santiago. It shows what can be done when a concerted “get-together” movement is initiated, they say, and some go So far as to suggest that eventually from this humble begin- ning a real assoclation of natlons which will make for world peace may spring. It Is, however. the opinlon of the Boston Transcript that “Secretary Hughes acted wisely in courteously ibut firmly turning down the informal suggestion that the league of nations should be represented at the coming iSantiago conference.” The new treaty just signed, the Transcript argues, “is a credit to American statesman- ship. Our stake in Central America makes the negotiation of this treat: of particular importance to us. Rev lution or war in Central America con- stitutes a menace to the security of the Panama canal, and, if the Jogic of events should make necessary the building of another canal, it will be still _more imperative that we be guarded against trouble. Such assur- ance seems now to be obtained by the treaty signed in Washington." Even should the treaties not altogether re- move the danger of war, the Pitts- burgh Sun considers “the new organ- jization, with the United States stand- ing by as a friend of all, should be able to adjust all disputes. It I3 to be hoped that the era of ultimatums is past in America and that soon right and justice. enthroned in Central America, will_extend its empire over the world.” The delegates, departing for their homes, carry with them, the Providence Journal thinks, “knowl- edge that the United States has an interest in the security and progress of Central America which, while be- nevolent, may be displayed with an ungloved hand if peace rather than war does not become the habit. The heaf of covenants will promote the former if they are faithfully ob- served.” Initiated “on a small scale, he Chattanocoga News points out {*the methods which work out suc cesstully in Central America may ap- ply equally well to Europe. or per- haps to the whole world. There are {reaily no limits to the beneficence of disarmament. friendly concerted un- derstanding and arbitration. Secre- tary Hughes ought to clevate his vision.” Indor thus made crat recall American ECHOES FROM i ing the suggestion which is| the St. Louis Globe-Demo- | that when the Central v was initiated “a hope ! | | i 1 'ORY TO REPEAT t Are we, following this war, to lapse | back into a policy of military unpre- | paredness us we have done before? We have only to read history to sece that after achieving our independence we immediately forgot that that in- dependence was achieved by our abil ity to fight for it—Representative Newton, Minnesota, republican. THE BACKBONE OF THE REGULAR ARMY. Those fine old white-hajred Regular Army non-commissioned officers, who ackbone of our military enlisted in th service for thirty or forty years.—Representative Greene, Vermont, republican. NLY Y WHERE This is the only democratic country in the world where, after the people have spoken at an election and have clearly indicated that they do not want certain legislation, a majority of left-overs can proceed to put over legislation for the express purpose of defeating the will of the people be- fore the new representatives recently elected to take their places can take their seats and be sworn in.—Senator Williams Mississlodl democraty was expressed that it might lay down the lines along which a conference of greater scope and larger jurisdiction might be conducted. Its success gives a bright promise for the future. Our diplomacy is moving under the right romptings in the right direction. We ave much reason to believe that this attractive object lesson was planned with a view to greater things.” The next step, the Detroit Free Press in turn points out, “will come In the pan-American congress soon to fol- low at Santlago. The prime ingred!- ents of a successful conference are good faith and reasonableness.” This is also very much the opinion of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, which now sees the Central American repub- lics “squarely in line with the policies exemplified by the Washington con- ference for limitation of armaments and the world arbitration court,” thus taking a long step along the road toward world peace. It {s “to such influences” that “the world must look for its greatest guarantees against war,” suggests the Atlanta Journal. Whatever makes for con- cord and commmon helpfulness among the nations of this hemisphere is to be welcomed at all times, and par- ticularly when dissension is ®o ominous a note in world affalrs. The two Americas have mutual concern not alone in commerce, but in all that touches their prosperity, their prin- ciples and ideals of government, their stake in a_clvillzation that stands imperiled. to work in harmony.” The Boston Globe belleves that be- {lication of my letter will be greatly to Santiago we should |appreciated. fore we go recognize Mexico, greatest challenge to our principles n this continent. Is it more impor- tant to wrangle about oil than to co- operate toward friendship? Here we have an opportunity at our doors, a moral opportunity. Here is one of the world’s loose ends of disorganization lying under our hands. With the pan- American conference looming {s it not time to rediscover generosity and Eather it up?” The test of the Central American _agreement must come, lowever, before anything else, the New York Times belleves and it argues that this will “be fidelity to the agreement to limit armaments. Large armies, of which the officers only were uniformed, have been the bane of all of these republios except Costa Rica. Without peace and sta- bility Central America cannot have publle works and civilization.” But when “five republics do all that these have done,” the New York World sug- gests, “they have gone almost the whole way toward peace among them- selves. They have put into practice principles America stood for in the world war.” are in position, with their “great po- tentlal resources, to secure great re- sults,” the Wilkes-Barre Record holds, “provided they act hereafter in good faith. With the help of foreign capi- tal and immigrants the latent re- sources mow can be developed, the wilderness can be penctrated with new enterprises and the territory can be made to blossom with abundant riches. CAPITOL HILL as ‘here is the DON'T CRIPPLE THE RESERVES. But the gentlemen who cut it (the Regular Army) down said, “We have the National Guard and we have the reserve.” Now, for God's sake, gentle- men, do not undertake to cripple the Natlonal Guard or the organized re- serves. — Representative McKenzie, republican. THE CAPACITY OF CANADA. At the same time, the present popu- lation, numbering nearly 9,000,000 souls, can be multiplied several times and not yet have exhausted the natural wealth of the Canadian do- minion. —Senator Reed, Missour, democrat. THE AIRPLANE AND THE FARMER. Under average conditions a plane could poison (against the boll weevil) from two to five hundred acres per hour, and under the best conditions as high as 1,000 acres per hour, with a consumption of about one-half as much polson per acre as the ground machines, at a total cost of operation per acre of less than, the labor cost of aperating the grolNd machines.— Representative Wil louisiana, democrat. R Having done this, they | Defends 8-Cent Fare. High Cost of Railway Mainte- To the Fditor of The Star: Many things have been said written just for the “sake of argu- ment.” But as your columns are too valuable to allow space for mere argument on any subject 1 beg space to say just a few words for the “sake of Justic Now, in this world of trials and tribulations, il of us would like to “get by” as easily and as cheaply as may be possible.” But fs It just right 1o keen up the fight against the rresent ecight-cent street car fare, | while the companies concerned must also share the high cost of living, such as the construction of new cars, the increase of wages pald to their employes, 10 say nothing of the tre- mendous amount of money paid out to lay almost new tracks on nearly all of their lines? Have not the steam rallway com- panies increased thelr fares almost beyond the point of poor loved ones ever visiting each other again, and not a slngle “mass meeting” or “in- dignation meeting” been called to Dprotest against it? Has not the price of a loaf of bread been increased from 6 cents to 8 cents, even with the former size of the loaf cut? And has not the price of sugar and other necessities of life taken a shameful Jump within the last fortnight with- out any “just” mass meetings having been called? I am ondeavoring to show these things and to ask the above ques tions, not for the “sake of argument, but for the “sake of justice” toward all and speclal favors toward none. Tt seems that it would be time enough to call on the street cars to make a reduction in the eight-cent fare after some of the other more flagrant profiteers had been called down. Doesn’t this seem fair? Let's see, first, about the eight-cent loaf, for, without it, we are too weak and feeble to put up a successful fight For their own good and |have for the world’s good it behooves them | mercy.” on empty stomachs. INGHAM. T c oul Duty of America In Monroe Doctrine To the Editor of The Star: This vear our citizens are to cele- brate the centenary of the promulga- tion to the world of the Monroe doc- trine, Those familiar with the message on which the doctrine is founded will know that it contains many words | and propositions. Chief among the latter is that stating that the United States of America would regard any extension of the Kuropean system em of militarism and im- perialism) “to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety. With the existing nance Cited as Matter of Justice. | and | colonies and dependencies of any European power we have not inte fered and shall not interfere. But with the governments who have de- clared their independence and whose independence we have acknowledged, we could not view any Interposition for the purpose of oppressing them, or controlling in any other matter their destiny, by any European power in any other light than a manifesta- tion of an unfriendly disposition to- ward the United Stutes.” So far our citizens accept Monroe's views as impeachable and as a firm founda- tion for future policy. But Monroe went further. He knew that his {llustrious predecessor, George Washington, had made early acknowledgment of the new French republic, in spite of its bloody guillo- tine and untold horrors. So, in the same message he lays down the rule that our duty also was *“not to in- terfere in the Internal concerns of any of its powers: to consider the government de facto as the legitimate government for us; to cultivate friendly relations with it, and to pre- serve those relations by a just, firm and manly policy Have we forgotten this part of his doctrine in our treatment of Mexlco and Russla, or have we been—nay are we?—endeavoring “to interfere in me’ huirnal concerns” of those countries, both of whic friendship? B How far right was—and is—Monroe in his doctrine? Or, was he mis- taken? EDWARD BERWICK. Denounces Vivisection. ‘To the Editor of The Star: To my mind, the press Is the great- est medium for educating the public. | Grave are Its responsibilities when | untruths are set forth, as has been done innocently by some editors, who relied upon the statements of vivi sectors. Since no two human beings are alike, greater is the difference be tween the human and subhuman live and when we realize that nature i$ true {n that “We reap that which we sown,” then Mercy begets and_cruelty begets sorrow. euftering and death, hence the pub- Any searcher after truth who reads in inal technical terms, pos- sibly with the aid of a medical dic- tionary, an account of a vivisectional experiment as described by its author in 'some medical journal, cannot fail to notice how successfully the true nature of the performance is ob- scured not only by the technical terms used, but by what we may term the fmpassivity of the performer. H may be describing a deed which, if done in the open street, because of its cruelty, would arouse the utmost in- dignation, vyet he exhibits no more feeling than as if he were writing of the sawing or cutting of wood or stone. Few laymen read thesé tech- nical descriptions of what is done in physiological laboratories. They are not written for laymen, but for the profession; they are not in the least attractive to the ordinary reader, nor are they very accessible. All this constitutes the real reason why such statements as those mado by & lay advocate of vivisection concerning what he has been told by doctors and what he has been allowed to see in laboratories can induce women’s ciubs and others to vote In favor of vivisection. ~They think they have been fully informed. They have not. They hear about anesthesia, but noth- ing about days. weeks and months of subsequent suffering of the victims shut in uncomfortable cages, nor of the kind of experiments in which the use of anesthetics is impossible. They may know that dogs are more used in experiment than any other animal, but they are not told that as real ancsthetics are quickly fatal to dog. other substances are used which onl stupefy, or which render them inc pable ‘of motion without in the least affecting sensation. Sometimes noth- ing is given, the animal being so bound that he can neither move nor ery. Tn a recent article this charged anti-vivisectionists with willful misrepresentation. He is ex- ceedingly rude, and his accusation was futile, as he could not support it by proof. Is it likely that people whose mora] sense has Impelled them to spend years of self-sacrifice in an unpopular cause would willfully mis- represent? Neither is there any temptation to misrepresent or exag- gerate when there is ample docu- mentary evidence of the truth of their contention. They can rejolce that the cause is growing more unpopular, and, besides that, all reforms must begin with minorities. Discourteous personalities cannot in any case support argument. In man- uals of parliamentary law it is laid down as a rule that while a measure may be reprobated in strong terms, to arraign the motives of those who propose or advocate it is a personal- ity and against order. This can properly apply to all ar- guments, and, therefore, here and now, while omitting the expression of any opinion concerning the mo- tives of conduct of those who sup- port vivisection, we denounce the thing itself as deteghably cruel, un- scientific in any true sense, mislead- ing and worthy of universal reproba- tion and of the extinction which will be its ultimate fate; for day by.day the signs of its unpopularity are growing. Awaiting your courtesy in the pub- lication of the above, I am, with ap- M, ¥, LOVELL. | layman {spurned, | giance CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS. “There was an old woman who lived in a shoei b She had so many children she didn't know what to do.” That old woman found a right ol tion of her problem, but what shall Unele Sam do with all his hundreds and thousands of children when the soulless railroad corporation Swoops down upon the Plaza, to shoo voung lady employes out of all the government hotels hoe leather gone up. There are other re why uncle can't follow the woman's example. The Haltimore and owns part which these hotels time r. They only temporary meet the war emergency, but they have proved ideal homes for the young ladles, at a great saving money, as compared with the accom modations elsewhere, and the been very profitable’ to the Eov ment, in spite of the econemy rentals charged. So the hLotels have becn continued, and might well be con- tined until either the government or the raflroad company really wanted to put the land to better uses. * o ‘There are two conslderations which the present order to vacate suggest First, In view of thc government's demonstration of the profitableness of the enterprise—paying some $80.000 a year, net—it would pay a private or semi-private company to follow the government's plan by erecting barracks de luxe for the thousands of government employes—barracks for bachelor girls and other barracks for bachelor men. The barracks need not be adjoining the Capitol, as these are, but upon less valuable ground. even some dis- tance from the main offices of the government, The modern con- venlences and the parlors as well as the social features of such munities make them very attractive especially to young ladies who: homes are not accessible. A matron and reasonable rules give protection which cannot always be guaranteed in an average boarding house or tment. Second: So long ts mot capacity for all who to take advantage of the hotels, should there not be a turn-about rule, limiting tenure of & room to one year, if there persists an anxicus waiting list least, so long as the hotels are ow and controlled b should only the first exclusive advantage? It the 2,600 present occupants are turned loose upon the TOOMINg capac ity of the city there is going to he trouble. “To vour tents. oh, Isracl And here come the 400,000 Shriners, and after awldla there will come 15,000 alley dwellers 'n’ everythin Might charter B. & O. sleeping cars and rent berths, but would not that be heaping coals of fire upon the heads of the B. & O. officials? And coal costs ton much to be Might have to resign and get mar- ried! It's just awfull There have never existed neighbor- ing nations which have lived contin- uously in such cordial relations as have the United States and Canada. The more than 3,000-mile boundary between the two nations has not a fort mor a gun upon all its length, and, aside from the perinds when we were at war with Great Britain, it never has been protected. If ever there has been a demonstration of “love thy nelghbor as thyself.” it has been found in the neighborliness of the two great nations of North America Yet Canada has remalned aloof from the Pan-American Unfon! That union is unique. It includes all na tions of North and South Americ xeept Mexico and Cana The Mex sons old Ohto Rallroad of the land on were buflt in were intended structures, to mpany of v for comers be give Firmness of Curzon Insures Law BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. King Fuad and his ministers have climbed down as the result of what, was virtually an ultimatum presented Ito them by England's plentpotentiary | Allen- | in Egypt, Field Marshal Lord by. He gave them twenty-four hours in which to vield, and after Fuad and | his ministers had been in conTmdous sesslon for eighteen hours at the Ab- deen Palace they notified Lord Al- lenby that they agreed to eliminate from the new constitution, now about to be promulgated, all mentfon of the gnadmissible pretensions of Fuad to proclaim himself in that document to be the sovereign of the dan. The Egyptian government likewlse gave its consent, heretofore denied, for the {ssue of an indemnity edict approv- ing everything that had been done in the past by Great Britain, or at its behest, in Egypt. Lord Allenby, pur- suant to the instructions from Lord Curzon, for which he had asked by ble, gave King Fuad to understand in his ultimatum that if the Egyp tian government did not vield on both points within the time limit, Great Britain would resumo her full Jiberty of action In the land of the Nile, and regard the experiment of ereignty of King Fuad and of Egypt as at an end. The firmness shown by Tord Cur- zon and Lord Allenby has had a very sobering effect upon the natives in Egypt, and there i< no doubt that but what from henceforth there will be a far more drastic enforcement law and order by the native authori- ties—a greater amount of protection afforded to foreigners—especially to Englishmen, the frequency of murder- ous assaults upon whom had become alarming in the extreme, and an creased deferenc to British advice and recommendations, whicn during the past vear have besn too often and cven derided. It also dispel the uneasiness which had been created in_the Sudan among the natives, who dreaded above every- thing else to have to give their all to the Egyptian government instead of to Great Brlain, to whom they owe their liberation from the destructive tyranny of the dervish leader and Madhi, and the wondertul prosperity which’ they are now joying—thanks to her maintena law, order and the rights to propert and the influx of large sums «f ling lish money for the developmen: of the resources of the country. * ko Lord Sheffield, who has just becn celebrating his golden wedding ann versary with his wife, a sister of Sir Hugh Bell, the north of England ironmaster (father of Miss Gertrude Bell, the uncrowned Queen of Mesi- potamia), is a remarkably clever and gifted man, who is not without a touch of eccentricity. For he is the only peer who has undertaken to champion in the house of lords. the cause of Russia’s blood-stained bol- sheviki, who have brought such di. honor, 'ruin and devastation upon their country. He has taken up the cudgels in their behalf, and in_ an extraordinary speech, delivered last vear in the upper chamber of West- minster, assailed the government for the alloged injustice and harshness which had characterized its treatment of Trotsky, Lenin, Tchitcherin, and their fellow anarchists. He also urg- ed that there was no evidence to sup- port the charges of their having be- trayed ia to Germany. He r ceived a_seathing rebuke Ru in Keply from Lor Zon, iu the nawne of the the | the | quasi sov- | will | fean government recognized by hence Mexice at present the United States cannot sit in with th Pan-American | Union, whose heags quarters is in Washington e whose presiding officer i the Secre tary of State of the United States | But no such handi bars Canada | She has not dong be free from | her indepena upon Great Britai as she is now. It is understood tha Canada will soon have the right t | independent lomatie repres | tion "here, and it is hoped that | will bring her membership in Pan-American Union, } kN is not & » 1 n s n, i thar > the cted >an-American bui'd the ha Ca; welcoms Lver sin | ing was e been out fo {John Barrett, who developed | union under Secretary of State I | Root, calls attention to the fact tha ! tollowing M. true tions, the ¢ t of arms wa atcheons of the jong in the e building tehstring a dian Root's special nadian eoz included with the es twenty other erica | cornice A of t chair it tuble escutcheon upon the council vacant chair The addition ¢ cils of the for “the was prepared Tt is time | : Canada to the coun- western hemisphere would mean much in additional strength and influence in a measure which has pre vented all wars fn the hemisphere it was founded, over thirty years ago. lach month, around | the common council table, all diplo { matic representatives of the nations to discuss whatever is of in st, or whatever seems to tend tc ard trouble betw v of the na tio As # peace maker, that cour cil has had no equal in thie history « civilization. Canada cannot afford 1t ! in out of it, nor the unie Tong afford to let Canadi chair stand vacant Canada stands first the nations of the hemisphere, second n commerce, and fifth in populatior It is closer in blood tics and sympe thics to the United States than an other nation A very large percent tage of Canadian ecit nship is Amer ican. Our interests are mutual upo many of the great issues * * ok nte the in area, of al February 22 was the birthday of the man first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts not of his country- men only but of democrats through- out the world. George Washington the traditional lover of truth, even beyvond most men, had more lies told about him by a preac r than any other man of his gen ion. Rev. Mr. Weems claimed to have been rector of Mount Vernon parish E s such, the pastor of George ngton. There never was such a parish, and he never was Washing ton’s pastor, though he may have preaxched once or twice with the tinguished farmer in his congrega It was Weems who told the herry tree story and the colt story how George, while a boy, broke a colt thorough that it burst a blood vessal and died, whereupon George ran once to his mother and teld { her. % ok x After Washington had conquere the British, and received Cornwallis surrender Yorktown, he wrote these words of warning, which might well be inscribed upon’ the walls of Congress: “If we are wise, lot us prepars fo {the worst. There is nothing whi will soon produce a speedy and honorable peace as a state of pren- aration for war; and we must efther do this, or lay our account to patch up an inglorious peace, after all the toil, blood and treasure we have spent.”’ 1t would certainly be useful to pair those words upon the Senate desk o a distinguished irreconcilable, who has recently taken the nosition tha moral suasion will produ at (Coprright, 1923, by P. V. Callios.) and Allenby and Order in Egypt administration, which met with versal approval and applause on the f the remainder of the members per ho teld is the Jay chieftain the Congregational Church in Ei L His only su {of 114 tular Bishop of Emmau. s his home at Rome, and for « wis regarded as inspiring tual s, very re ers und dispatches publ ndon Times, under the R dealing with Vatican a man date, | papal matte { An elder b the Jate Lo a convert to Islam, rneonsecrated Fark. the rding 1 fendi Tmav e for London Lord Sheflicld's the former Hon. nley, enjoys having been British f Lord Sheffiel of Alderly, w. nd was buried in ground in _ Alderly family place in Cheshire oslem rites by Ridjag u, the spiritual adviser Turkish embassy in youngest daughter, H tr Venetia the distinction ot the first member of the Deerige to abjure Chris for the sake of Judaism, ir to save her husband, the Rt Tdwin Samuel Montagu, former secretary of state for India, fron disinheritance. His father, the late Lord Swaythling, was the leader of the strictest and most orthodox ele ment of English Judaism, and pro- d_in his will that no son or d; ghter of his who married outsids of the Jewish faith should share i his colossal fortune. Mrs. Montagu by the way, presented her husband with a son on the day of the golden wedding of her parents One of Lord Sheflield's nephews, St George Lane Fox-Pitt, is a professin.: Buddhist, while one of his brothers i v, now dead, was a self-pro imed atheist. Lord Sheflield's elder son and heir I8 the Hon. Sir Lyulph Stanley, who served throughout the great war as governor of the Aus- tralian colony of Victoria, after hav- ing put in scveral vears in the hous of ecommons. He is married to Miss rdon, a great-grand- the famous actor, John The first Lord Sheflield, from whor the present peer is descended on the distaff side, recetved his coronet @ reward for having saved the Bank of England at a moment when the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street was in greater danger than at any other moment._of her existence—namely ng the terrible Gordon riots of . In fact, had it not been. for } Cob. Jolin Baker Iolroyd, with a Sus sex militia regiment of his own rais the London mob would have suc | cec@ed in storming, looting and d.- | stroving the most famous financial | institution in the world. Col. Hol- rovd managed to beat off the mob's attack upon the bank only after some very hard fighting, In the fol- lowing vear the colonel was reward- ed with an Trish barony, taking his title from Sheffield Park, in Sussex, which he had inherited from his ma- ternal uncle, Rev. James Baker. His Trish peerage was granted, with spe- cial remainder to his daughter his first marriage, and that is how it happens to come into the posses- ion of its present holder, head of « junior branch of the historic house of Stanley and who is his great- grandson. The title of Lord Shefield and the name of Sheield Park are familiar to bibliophiles this side of the Atlan- tic. For the late Lord Sheffield dis- persed by sale at Sotheby's, in Lon- don. his magnificent and unique collection of books, pamphlets, ete., relating to America, nearly all of which were purchased for collectors in the United Statea, I Canada’s”,