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6 THE ' EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1923. WI——L——L————“—” CAPITAL KEYNOTES [THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY. March 2, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES......Editor ' Tbe Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th Bt. and Pennsylvania Ave. icago Office: Tower uropean Office: 16 Regent 5t., London, England. The Evening Btar, with the Sunday morning Wticion, 1s dellvered by carriers within the ity at 60 cent r month; daily only, 45 cents menth: Sunday oal 20 cents per month. O rs ma; t r Lelephone 8000, &“eflt::: s’ fl:s. Dol e rs at the ead of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dally and Sun 1 mo., 706 Daily only Bunday only Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press fa exclusively entitied to the use for republication of all news dis- rll‘:hn credited to It or not otherwise credited - this paper and also the Jocal news w: bed herein. Al District Surplus Situation. ‘Washington is disappointed that a Yoint of order prevented the Senate from attaching an amendment to the pending deflciency appropriation bill settiing the account between the TUnited States and the District and de- claring available for appropriation the surplus in favor of the District found by the joint select committee to exist. The finding of the existence and amount of the surplus expresses the opinion of all the Senate members of the joint committee and two out of three of the House members. The Senate and House District committees have both approved the legislation ‘which closes the account of the United States and the District in conformity with the recommendation of the joint committee. Tt is too late in the session to ennct this legislation except as an emendment to an appropriation bill, and the point of order in the Senate Pprevents its enactment us an appro- priation bill rider. The situation, however, presents features of gratification and encour- agement to the people of Washington, The basic queries propounded to the Jjoint select committee were: (1) What, if any, surplus in favor of the District exists in the Treasury as shown by the Treasury books? (2) What credits, legal or moral, in favor of the United States or of the District exist to de- crease or so incrcase this surplus? The Treasury Department. through the controller general and the general agcounting office, with representatives of the Department of Justice assent- 1ing, answers the first question by re- porting an existing concrete balance in the Treasury to the credit of the District of more than seven million dollars, to be reduced by payment of outstanding obligations to the four and one-half millions of free surplus found and reported by the joint Melect com- mittee. The committee, basing its decision on the findings of its own accountants and on the representations of the Treasury Department, the Depart- ment of Justice and of the auditor and accountants representing the Dis- trict, finds that the District’s surplus on the Treasury books must, if moral and legal considerations are applied, be reduced by a comparatively small amount, leaving the net free surplus in favor of the District which the jolnt committee finds and reports to Congress. Today's net result is not hurtful to the District. For the controller gen- eral's office has itself exploded the de- lusion that our surplus is a myth, and failure of Congress to act upon the re- ductions in thls surplus recommended by the joint committee leaves intact ‘the surplus found by the Treasury De- partment and the joint committee to exist to the District’s credit in the ‘Treasury. To be sure, the account between the United States and the District has not been closed, as so many in and out of Congress desired, in the inter- est of peace and of National Capital welfare. But the actual existence of @ real District surplus has been dem- onstrated or admitted, and if a future Congress shall ghoulishly resurrect dead and buriedalleged indebtednesses of the past, whether of principal or interest, against the District, the Dis- triet is prepared to demonstrate to any equitable tribunal that as a resur- rectionist it can dig up more District credits than can be unearthed in favor of the United States. ———— The weather burcau regards March 1 as the beginning of spring. The average man, wno has always so re- garded it himself, perhaps will be will- ing to admit that the bureau is right sometimes. —————— Gypsies may be picturesque and @irty, but the health department does not ses why they need to be both. An AntiFlirt Club is all right, but 8t is entifiirt girls that are needed first, last and all the time. Bourke Cockran. Death of Bourke Cockran—he was always best known by his abbreviated name, and few would recognize him if.styled Willlam B. Céckran—revives ‘memories of the days when he was in his best form @s a political orator, day mn he made the walls of convention o ring with his eloquence, when his flowing mene would toss above the sea of heads like the crest of Neptune's horse ebove the waves, and his won- derful voice would ring even éver the clamor of his delighted hearers. He fhad the gift of the silver tongue, the) persuasive phrase, the felicitous har- meny of tone and eentence that make the orator. It seems a long time since Richard Croker used to go to the big pplitical gatherings with his two spokesmen, Bourke Cockran and John Fellows, antitheses in appearance, but brethren in the art of political expresaion. Croker was “no speechmaker. - He picked his men for that purpose, end 4n Pellows and Cockran he had a re- pwariable pair. Each man had his epecialty, Fellows in satire and Cock. them they could hold eny convention spellbound for hours it need be, and on the stump in campaigns they were marvels at votemaking. But Bourke Cockran's abllities were not measured alone by his gift of speech. He was a legislator of ability. He had keen mind, & sharp intellect, with ability to analyze a subject thor- oughly. When he spoke it was with information. He never went unpre- pared into the arens, and in a debate he was a formidable antagonist. It has been sald that Bourke Cock- ran should have gone up the line to the Senate from the House, in which he eat on several returns for a good many years. But it is questfnable whether he would havée shown as brightly in the Senate as he did in the House. He needed the larger audience for his best effects. He llked close con- tacts with men. Though himself a man of dignity, he rathet shrank from the more austere atmosphere of sena- torfal procedure. His sllver voice is stilled. It was heard only & few hours ago in the House in a ringing speech that showed no impairment of powers of reasoning or of expression, and those who knew and loved Bourke Cockran as @ friend are glad to know that he went out with no slackening of his capacity, and that his last scene in life was a birthday party in celebration of his sixty-ninth year, He will be mourned as a good friend, and long remembered as one who left his mark on the rec- ords of American affairs. Germany's “Warning.” Reading of the statement issued yvesterday from the German embassy in Washington leaves & decidedly un- pleasant taste in the mouth. On its face it is @ warning that an “explo- sion” is llkely to occur soon in the Ruhr, and that the German govern- ment disclaims responsibility for the consequences, but it requires no great stretch of the imagination to read into the statement an invitation to the population of the occupled area to go ahcad and explode, with assurances of the sympathy If not the active sup- port of the government at Berlin, The statement is calculated to have about the same effect on the Ruhr situation as oil has when applied to smolder- ing fire. It is asserted in the statement that the German government still main- taing a policy of “mere passive resist- ance,” but fear is expressed that the population may let itself be led into acts of desperation, in which event the German government “will not be in a position to guarantee the mainte. nance of peace and order.” The Ger- man government's policy of ‘‘mere passive resistance’” has consisted in openly encouraging inhabitants of the occupied territory to engage in sabot- age and other forms of resistance which are anything but passive, and nothing has been more conspicuously | 1acking in the attitude of Berlin than a desire for “peace and order.” It ig true that the German security police have been disarmed by the French, but the security police, under the circumstances, were not agencies of peace and order. In fact, their dis- armement removed a very serious menace to peace. The Berlin govern- ment s not quite able to make the world believe thess police would have turned their weapons agalnst the civilian population in order to prevent an uprising, so their only function in the event of trouble apparently would have been to resist the French, which as @ method of preserving peace is an idea on which Berlin enjoys a monop- oly. If there is such an “explosion” in the Ruhr as the German embassy evi- dently fears, whether directly or re- motely inspired by this latest official German outgiving, the government at Berlin will have to suffer the conse- quences, however much it may dis claim responsibility. As an appeal to the sympathies of this country the statement is a failure, for it leaves American emotions cold. It is interest- ing chiefly as another curious example of the German way of seelng things. Dr. Hubert Work belleves post- masterships should be business ap- pointments, Certainly there is enough business in the postal service to war- rant some such course, Although reorganization has gone by the boards, end reclassification is tottering, government employes still can readjust their living expenses to meet thelr salaries. Mrs. ruck will coritest her defeat at the primaries. You cannot blame any woman for wanting to have the last word. Some crowded street cgra are enough to make any man feel like pummeling somebody. The New Eastern High School. Formal opening and occupation of the new Eastern High School yester- day starts & memory test for Wash- ingtonians. When was that bullding started? Unless one has the records right et hand #t is impossidble to state with any degres of confidence just how many years ago it was that the first steps were taken to provide an adequate home for this institution. It was “before the war,” gnyway. Older Washingtonians will remember the controversy over tle site, which slowed up the enterprise for month: Then they will remember the con- troversy over the design, which added its bid to the delay. Then there was a series of controvérsies over more money for the improvement. The question of materials and that of the contract furnishéd more ground for procrastination. And then, in later years, well within the recollection of the youngers, thére were questions ot auditorium and equipment and & stage. Now, at last, the Eastern High School {8 finished, and Yesterday the students marched to it from the old bullding, and theré was & ceremony of flag-ralsing under the auspices of the alumni-~& much larger body than that of the graduates when the bulld- ing was first conceived—and at last Eastern High Scheol became one of the working units of the local educa- tional system. In all these years of waliting. the area immediately around the site has greatly developed. When ths location |in many more cases than at present. great mistake was being made' in putting the new “Eastern” so far out on the outskirts, so distant from the sectionul center of population. ' Now that center has moved appreciably nearer to the school site, and thou- sands more people are living. within a radius of three or four blocks. So the delay has not been wholly frultless. It has brought the community which the achool is to serve closer through srowth, It all the public schools in Wash- ington were eévolved at the rate of the new Eastern High School the capi- tal would indeed be in a very bad way for educational housing. But, though not an average, this case may be cited as a good reason for a systematic con- struction program covering a long period of the years with a definite provision for annual additions to the school plant. Only thus can Washing- ton make good its arrears with some measure of assurance for future de- velopment. ———————————— Too Poor to Marry. “Too poor to marry,” says Charlle Chapiin. “He ought to marry a rich woman,” says Pola, his aforetime flancee.. So the match is off, that match that hes done its bit for good publicity for the two shrinking movie stars. And the world laughs again at Charlle, as it has laughed #o often be- fore. For it is to laugh, this new stunt of his, of faltering from the responsi- Dility of matrimony because he cannot be sure of having enough to support a wife. He has tried it once, and it was a faflure, just because of an in- compatible difference of temperament on the score of the household bills. Wil the world think less of or laugh not quite so heartily at the comic fel- low with the unruly feet because he is a “tightwad”? When it sees him next on the screen will it think of him as the man who counts the pennies while the bank acoount is bulging with dol- lars? Probably not. It is the picture that tells the story, not the sentiment behind the personality. The relativity theory is involved in this situation. What is a marriageable fortune? Many e man marries on $10 a week and thanks his stars he can find & woman who is willing to take & chance with him. Usually he makes good. Matrimonial happiness is not a matter of the weekly pay envelope. Most marriages that fall, indeed, are wrecked by too much cash. Perhaps in the back of Charlie’s mind is a glim- mer of this truth. Maybe he secretly longs for the day when he was & cir- cus clown, getting, at the most, $25 a week. —————— Citizens’ Associations. The Southeast Citizens' Association 15 the latest of these organizations to g0 on record in favor of an additional Police Court judge in order that the court may be in session from 10 in the morning tiil 10 at night, that prisoners of the police may have prompt trial The need for more manpower in the Police Court, a8 well @s on the police force, has often been polnted out, but not s much emphasis has been put on the needs of the Police Court as on the needs of the police force. The point which attracts attention in the. actlon of the Southeast Assoclation is| the interest in public affairs taken by i the organizations of the citizens. It is & point thet is not always appreciated by the public, and perhaps is under- stood by only a small part ef the pub- llc. These citizens' associations are like lookouts on the watchtowers of the city. They are’always bringing under public discussion some better- ment for the city. Each is a forum in which District affairs are discussed. ‘They are such valuable civic centers that every Washingtonian should be a member of the association in the ter- ritory in which he lives. —_——————— An Erie railroad baggage man is re- tiring after sixty-three years of serv- fee without taking a day off. As he is evidently of an industrious disposi- tion he might devote his leisure now to lecturing to American youth on the delights and profits of diligence. —_————————— George Harvey first shocked the British public by some plain talking about the debt, then he turned right around and paid a high and deserved tribute to the Prince of Wales. He ‘was always an egile performer. ———teeee New Zealand has just heard Troy, ¥., by radio. The New Yark town famous for haberdashery has almost gucceeded in putting a collar ’'round the world's neck. Traffic violations are growing less numerous. The inveterate speedster naturally resents the delay involved in a jail sojourn. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. No Longer in Evidence. My New-Year resolution In moth balls I have packed, For it was getting wrinkled And shabby, for a fact. ‘And when, next January, I bring it forth to view, That New Year resolution Will be just a3 good as new. Fame's Delay. “What do you think of Tutan- khamen?" “He's one of those chaps,™ replied Senator Sorghum, ““who get a lot of wonderful publicity so long after their death thet it doesn’t do any good.” Jud Tunkins says he's glad efter- noon téa haa gotten to be as popular as early morning ice water used to be. Musings of a Moter Cop. T did not tell Hortense to go, But had to let her pass. She gmiled at me and stubbed her toe And stepped upon the gas. Reminder of Thrift. “Why ‘dp they ‘throw rice after a newly married couple?” “Possibly,” sald Miss Cayenne, “asa reminder that it's the last day in their livés when they'll have breakfast food to waste,” s b “Moat of yoh troubles,” said:Uncle Eben, “is yoh own fault. But @it fict, WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE It is not given to many men to adorn the politics of four successive decades. Yet that was Bourke Cock- ran’s distinction. He brought with him from County Sligo in 1871, aged seventeen, an Irish silver tongue, and from the moment he was admitted to the New York bar, in 1876, Cockran was an oratorical power in state and national politics. Enduring fame came from his speeches at the democratic conventions of 1884 and 1892, when he vainly opposed the nomination of Grover Cleveland for President. His great voice was raised for McKinley in 1896 on the gold issue, but revert- ed to Bryan in 1900 on the anti- imperialism lssue. Had he been born an American, Cockran's eloguence might have made him a presidential possibility, as Bryan's specchmaking enfus did In his case. In 1920, at San Francisco, Cockran's sonorous nomination of “Al” Smith swept the convention off its feet, as did his ef- fort on behalf of a “wet" plank. Cock ran's imagery was spontaneous and never studied. At San Francisco the spotlight suddenly was turned on him as he rose to speak. It blinded him and was switched off. “I thank you,” said Cockran, in his Tichest brogue. “I am now submerged in that obscurity which best becomes me.” * ok ok % One of the eleventh:hour acts of the Sixty-seventh Congress was tho pas- sage of the filled milk bill. After the demise of -the ship subsldy, that ill- starred” measure became known on Capitol JYill ag the spilled milk bill. Tt hardly deserves the mic for there’s 1o luck of fate. The filled mil as few peo- ple outalde of farmers and dairy folks know, prohibits interstate commerc in a condensed milk product largel posed of cocoanut oi! and alle to interfere with infantile‘de ment. * k% x Herbert Hoover's “American. Indi- viduallsm" is crowding Coue's first aid to the distressed as a best seller. Bales have mounted to figures that have far outrun either the author’s or the pudlishers’ expectations. Hoover rejojces at the size of his royalty checks, because he assigned the pro- ceeds to a philanthropic fund in which he is deeply interested. The Secretary of Commerce is probably the first cabinet officer in American history who doesn’t get any pay—his salary s turned over to special as- sistants for whom budge: makes no allowance. * % & Col. Harvey, if correctly reported, is likely to hear from his Pilgrims’ dinner reference in London to the ‘“‘mother {and irresist country.” The idea that Britain is the motherland of the United States period- fcally riles Americans through whose veins flows no corpuscle of Anglo-Saxon blood. Britain was not the *mother country” of Roosevelt, who was Dutch by extraction; nor would it be acknowl- edged 28 such by Senator Owen of Oklahoma, who is proud of his Chero- kee ancestry; or by Senator Broussard of Louislana, who {8 part French; or by either of the Walshes, who claimed Erig as their motherland; or by Knute Nelson, who sprang from vikings in Norway; or by Oscar S. Straus, who was born in by Nikola Tesla, who is Greek. Of “foreign white stock™ in the United States in 192 taling 36,398,955, English and were the mother tongues of only about one-quarter—9,729,365. Germanic mother tongues came next, with 8,622,498 repre- sentatives. * % * % These are the hours when some of the finer sides of American politics are re- vealed—when politicians are parting company, at the break-up of an old Congress, some never to meet again on terms of companionship. At such times partisanship vanishes and comradeship prevails. The rancors of the floor are forgotten. ~Republicans and democrats exchange handclasps and shoulder pats in a spirit of brotherly love, which is seldom felgned. Farewells are particu- larly polgnant amons senators. Men like Pomerene and Hitchcock, who dis- appear from the democratic 'side, and republicans like Kellogg, Frelinghuysen, Sutherland, Calder, Townsend, McCum ber and France, enjoy strong friend- ships among their colleagues, rooted in the years, and when good-byes are said on Sunday they will be tinged with real sadness. . * With tourist tide flowin le toward Florida, Kenneth L. Roberts, who vers” Wasnington for the Saturday Evening Post, has written a timely volume called “The un Hunters.” It is dedicated to “Juan Ponce de Leon, who found in 1513 that Florida wasn't all it was cracked up to be, but who liked it well enough to go ack. Roberts' book is devoted to ‘adventures and observations among the native and migratory tribes of Florida, including the stoical time- killers of Palm Beach, the gcntle and gregarious tin-canners of the remote interior, and the vivacious and semi- tolent peoples of Miami and its pur- leu: the s Almost for the first time since he ba- se President, Mr. Harding will have to break the Sabbath on March 4, to be at the Capitol and sign the last-minute Senate. At the -seventh Con- gress expects to die with its boots on and be at work practically till the last second of its ol noon of March 4 been infrequent dented, in the history of Congress. (Copyright, 1923.) EDITORIAL DIGEST Warm Welcome Voiced Over) Matthewson's Return. | fatty, that's ali!” i The return of “Big Six” to organ- | ized base ball, even though he does | enter the ranks of the magnates, has | sent & thrill throughout the coun- try's sport-loving populace. When | the anclent recorder voiced the &lo- | gan that “a good name is better| than great riches” he probably had | in m¥nd a B. C. “Matthewson,” inas-' much as it seems to be fully agreed that such an appellation is the only one possible in this fnstance. Christy Matthewson is welcomed back to organized base ball as repre- senting all that is best in it. A= a player he was ‘“square writers agree, and there is a general accept- ance that as a magnate he will stand between the fans and the profiteers and will do much to remove the bad| taste left by such charges of commer- | lism as resulted when both the ants and Yankees strengthened| teams in midseason last vear. “Matty's life,” the Dayton News points out, has been an inspiration to thousands of corner-lot beginners in the great national sport. His triumphs on the diamond have been the thems of many a well written yarn. He hag fought vallantly, like the good soldier he is, to overcome the physical ailments which took him away from his chosen life wor It must be a vast pleasure to know that he is going back into the game he loved so much and where he gained such universal attention and respect.” In addition the Brooklyn Eagle feels certain that “he would rather pull the Boston Braves out of the ditch and build up a winning team than show a profit. That is the spirit that makes base ball a great sport. His playing days are over, but he_ still_has one of the best base ball brains in the sport and a lot of heart to put into his new wor Thousands of followers will “greet him with enthusiasm,” as the Lynch- burg Advance sees 'it, because ‘no more picturesque plaver ever per- formed in base ball. No player has ever been any more popular with the fans. Matthewson has always heen & gentleman both on and off the field and that has been an invaluable as- set to him. His most recent fight against the white plague was a bat- tle with heavy odds against him._ But Matthewson has won and thou- sands of admirers in every section of the base ball-loving world will wish him success in his new undertaking. The fact that he had to leave New York is cause for sincere regret there. which is_volced by the New York Evening World, saying: “There is a big place in the heart of New York for him. He earned it fair and square. New York congratulates Boston. Quite without regard for the base ball end of it, Boston gains a good citizen.’ % The finest type of professional base ball player that the diamond has ever produced,” s the way the Roanoke Times characterizes the new head of the Braves. “It was beyond a doubt a shrewd and popular move ECHOES FROM PROFITS OF THE GOVERNMENT GRAIN CORPORATION. I made an effort to find out from those in charge of the affairs of the Grain Corporation here in Washington just how much profit the government made out of handling the farmers’ wheat during the war. Those in charge seemed to be able to give but yery little information on the subject. have been advised from other sources, however, that the profit of the government for handling the farmers’ wheat was somewhere be- 'ween $75,000,000 and $100,000,000.— Eenuor Gooding, Idaho, republican. WHERE SOME OF THE MILK GOES. In this country we produce approxi- mately 1,600,000,000 pounds of evap- lorated milk, and in 1920 we were roducing §5.000,000 pounds of this lled milk.—Senator Ladd, North Da. kota. republican. CONFISCATING PRIVATE PROPERTY. : As to our own precedents, 1 think the gentleman who said we had never confiscated any enemy property has forgotten that when the revolution- ary war was going on eleven of the thirteen colonles confiscated ‘the property of those of their citizens ——who remained loyal to Great Britain. Representative Temple, Pennsylvania, { culosis,” | points | greatest of the new owners to prevail on him to associate himself with them in the atty’s connection with the lub as president will give it a place 1 the good will of the public that could have been obtained in no other ay.” In coming to Boston there is ‘visible evidence that he has won his fight with the grim disease of tuber- the ~ Manchester Union which s one of the efactions the lovers of an sport have had_in several years, Seeing this mighty pitcher of a few vears ago able again to become active participant in the game, even though such participation does not mean donning a uniform. He played the game of life as he played the game of the diamond, in Clean and splendid fashion. He ex- nibited the same traits of character when he became an active partici- pant in the world war, responsible for his severe breakdown in health. And doubtless it was due to this ®alient fact that he has been able to make such a splendid recovery.” “It may be taken for granted.” the Waterbury Republican insists, “that so long as he remains at the head of the Braves no attempt to influence the outcome of @ pennant race by money will ever be countenanced. Not the least impressive phase of his latest exploit is that he has contrived to save enough money from his earnings in base ball to make investment in a major league club possible.” The mere fact that he mever had a “big head”_endeared him to the fans, the New York Tribune holds, and, in ad- dition, “while few men gather fame on the dlamond after ‘glass arm’ and ‘charleyhorse’ doom them to other ac- tivities, Matthewson was one of the few. He played the game like & sports- man. and it is the hope of all of the 110,000,000 Americans that he prosper in his new position according to his great deserts” And, if his “return is & miracle, it is a mighty popular mir- acle.” in the opinion of the Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune, “because he had been regarded as out of the game for cod. He will be given an ovation in ordial acclaim of hand and heart and voviferous demonstration from grand- stand to bleachers, and vice versa, when he comes to Cincinnati. Then; to show him that we mean it person- ally, Individually and not colleotively, his team wiil be given an equally warm reception in way of a most aw- ful beating.” Always a universal fa- vorite, he still retains that popularity in every way, the Philadelphia Bulle- tin is convinced, “because he had as perfect a control over himself as of the fadeaways he put over the plate. He was, to use a favorite phrase of Roosevelt, as clean as a hound's tooth. He had poise and pluck. and speed and brains; but more than all of these, he had character.” The new “home town" opinion, as oiced by the Boston Traveler, is that the change ought to be a good thing for professional base bail in this lo- cality. The new head of the organi- zation is a base ball plaver. That is likely to mean something. It may mean more emphasis upon bass ball a8 a sport and_less upon its commer- clal aspect. Practical management there must be. But better base ball will in itself be highly practical.” Warmly indorsing this sentiment, the Harrisburg Telegraph, after ing tribute to Matty's record, says, “Now that he has come back as an owner and manager there will be a general hope that he may celebrate the event with a top-notcher team and a cham- plonship at the end of the season.” CAPITOL HILL WHY THE DISCRIMINATION? It is a strange thing that a boy who is eighteen years old is thought to be old enough to learn a trade which he is to’ follow all the days of his life, because nobody objects to his being an apprentice to learn a trade. But if he says he wants te go into the Army, which {8 another trade, then we find that he is tc young and that somebody is taking advantage of his inexperience.—Rep~ {’aunu 've Greene, Vermont, repub- can, WHAT THE RESERVE OFFICERS GIVE UP. There {8 no attraction for a reserve officer !uo to a sand dump like Camp Meade and spend fifteen days in the middle of the summer in the hot sun when he would like to -go off on a pleasant vacation elsewhere. —Representative Hill, Maryland, re- publican. A PATHETIC out sa healthful, | BELIEF. One of the pathetically false beliefs of the country is that the war gave us a merchani marine—Senator Fre- linghuysen, New Jersey, republican, THE WORLD LOOKING TO THE UNITED STATES. The world 18 looking for the moral leadership of the one great, disinter- uud.nlt-fivunlu’ Defends Muzzy’s History Book Is Fair and Concise, Says Correspondent, Answering Critics To Editor of The Star: I have been much interested in the comments concerning Muzzy's Hi tory ~which 1 have read from time to time in your paper. Again last night T read Mr. Russell's attack upon this history. He speaks of Muzzy's “inaccuracfes” ~and _very plainly demonstrates his own. Mr. Muzzy makes very pronounced mention of the battle of Lexington, not in one line as was affirmed, but in a Dage description which includes a map of the battle ftself. It is true that the pages which are devoted to the revolutionary war are few, but they are a part of a good-sized section of the book which is devoted to & de- tailed account of the “separation of the colonfes from England, Mr. Muzzy made his description of the war itself short and concise, knowing full well that the young men and women of high school age knew the history of that war, and knew the story of the lives and activities of the noble men and women who made it that our nation be born. Mr. Muzzy wrote his history for the advanced student. He is concerned that the causes and underlying principles which led to the war be known, and he describes them in mpartial and careful detail. His his- tory is_the history of the develop- ment of our political existence, and in_no other school history is this better done. 3 Surely the great conflicts which raged concerning the interpretation of our Constitutidn, the forming of a natlonal policy, both domestic and foreign, the questions involving the declaration of wars that threatened and materialized, the issues at stake which led to our own internal con- flict cannot bo called “trifiing politi- cal confiicts.” f T have read and studied histories and am much impressed with Muzzs's impartial presentation of the two sides of the question involved. Are Muzzy's crities afraid ~that —our youth be told the truth? To know the truth will not make young men and women less loyal or patriotic That_spirit cannot_be fostered alons in the schools. *But to know the truth will_make them just. FLORENCE G. MILLER. ———— Auto Placard Scored. possible “No Use Telling Careless Drivers They Are Criminal,” Says Citizen. To the Editor of The Star: A short time since, much to my wonderment and surprise, there ap- peared on the streets of our fair city a prominent legend, in the Spanish national colors, proclaiming to the populace the fact that “The Carele: Driver 1s a Criminal.” Inasmuch as drivers, careless or otherwise, never read signs unless a traffic cop stands beneath them (I know, for I am at times a driver). the essential purpose of this decorative display has been worrying me ever since. Can it be that there is any one sa foolish as to imagine that a careless driver (even if he reads the sign) will be struck with remorse for his carelessness and immediately reform? One might just well expect a _sign asserting that d Dogs Are Murderers’ to quell an epidemic of rables, or one insist- ing that “Mosquitoes Are Bloodsuck- erg” to sweep away those pests in the twinkling of an eye. True, the dogs and mosquitoes cannot read and the motorist can, but the #ituations are otherwise identical. If I label a boot- legger a scoundrel for preying upon the weakness of his fellows, or de- nounce a politician as a bonehead, the first will still gather in the shekels and the latter will ttribute my re- marke to spleen. Assuming. however, that I am wrong and that there is merit in this method of checking traffic mishaps, then its application is too limited. We should not confine our attention sole- 1y to the careless driver. The care- less pedestrian deserves our earnest consideration, and we can do no te ter than to proclaim in letters six feet high that “The Jaywalker Is An Ass” The traffic officer, likewise, who permits a lady's smile «r a gentle- man's good cigar to influence his judgment might be commemorated in 2 billboard epigram as “The Ogling Officer Is An Idiot.” Again, if this method of reducing reckless driving is really efficacious, why should it apply only to censure of the guilty? Certalnly, a judicious administration of praise once fn so often has a tendency to improve mo. rale. Why not, therefore, place a lit- tie emphasis on the other side of the plcture? For instance, I should like to see the merits of the considerate driver proclaimed in some such fash- ion as “The Careful Chauffeur De- serves a Crown.” and the pedestrian recognized as “The Patient Pedes: trian Should Live Long and Prospe: But when this plan is carried out, 1 trembla to thitk of the appearance of our principal thoroughfares. No one will imagine that he is living in the capital of the nation. His one thought will be that he {s far out on the Lin- coln or National highway, whers one biilboard follows another and the beauties of nature are enhanced by man ARTHUR VAN METER. Woman Defends Her Sex in Public Life To the Editor of The Star: With vour permission I would like to answer a question propounded by a correspondent of your widely eir- culated_and reliable paper in the issue of February 10, 1823. “Why 18 a congresswoman?” From the standpoint of experience I would say, the congresswoman {s because of the failure of the congressman. Your correspondent. in his attempt to rele- gate woman to the realms of the ridiculous. has, because of his ig- norance of the recognition the world is according to equality of woman, v and spiritually, with succecded in placing ch realm. This gentleman is evidently a cen- behind his time—a sort of Rip Van Winkle product. The day of woman is here—woman lawyers, doc- tors, preachers, policewomen and even congresswomen. From _the standpoint of personal opinion, I would say, &s this correspondent evi- dently thinks, that woman's peculiar sphere 18 in the home. The Bible, the only authority on any subject, past, present or future, accords her this place. Abnormal con- ditions have forced woman into pub- 1o life. Many, many women are out in the workaday world today, not from cholice, but because of the fail- ure of man to provide for the home he has brought into existence. One outstanding fact in her favor is, she has always accomplished whatever she has undertaken when that was based upon necessity and under- standing. MRS. E. BURKS. Urges Donors Decide On Mammy Memorial To the Editor of The Sfar: s The plethora of advice given through our newspapers as to “the form” the Mammy Memorial should take makes one wonder if the.oon- tributors through their committee are o be given no volce. Such attempted interference with and regulation of a harmless private glft should not be encouraged—it is, In essence, the attempted coerclon of a few southern women, who have offered a beautiful gift in a Leautiful spirit. “The Home for the Women” idea is good, as is Mrs, Far rington’s school project, but is ther to be nho place In our educational scheme for just the appreclation of art for art's sake (as in the statue in Rock Creek) apart from the ever- lasting “practical side.” I write as a visiting New England woman, with a Cape Cod ancestry stretching back for 300 years—hardly to be accused of too much sentl- e N HAMLIN KNP Aged Colored BY PAUL V. COLLINS. Much s said about the dangir of introducing soclalism through the in- coming {immigrams from Europe. Thatls one of the bugbears flaunted to frighten away the movement among employers for the encouraging of unskilled labor. 1f there is rea- son for that fear, what is the ex- planation of the fact that states which have the greatest percentage of forelgn-born whites over twenty- one years of -age do not cast the largest soclalistic votes at eleotions? * ¥ k¥ ‘Wisconsin ranks first in its social- ism, as measured by votes at the last presidential election. It has 28.4 per cent of forelgn-born citizens, and cast 12.1 per cent of its votes for the soctalist ticket. New Hampshire has 29.2 per cent of foreign-born, and a vote only 0.8 per per cent socialistic; Rhode Island's population is 42.6 per cent foreign- born and only 2.6 per cent socialistic. New Jersey has 41 per cent foreign born and only 3 per cent socialistic. Pennsylvania has 25.3 per cent for- eign-born and only 3.8 per cent social- istic. * k¥ % Native Americans are ambitious to rise above unskilled labor; they learn trades. Furopeans follow the ex- ample of Americans after a few years, but when they arrive as tmmigrants they are content to do the rough work, for the pay is better than skilled labor gets in_their home- land. It is argued that unless we permit unskilled immigrants to enter the rough work, which requires no skill, will have to be done by our skilled workmen, at wages out of proportion to the value of the work. * % k% ‘There is one class of un-Americans which finds little sympathy either in labor circles or among employers. It 18 {llustrated by the case of Tony Bovo, an Itallan who came to the United States thirty-two years ago. He {8 a boilermaker and, in Youngs- town, Ohio, he has prospered, built a home, reared a family and established himself—in thirty-two years. That i almost equal to the average gen- eration, yet, though he is the father of two sons born in America, he has never learned to speak or write forty words of the United States language. Last summer he and his family re- turned to Italy for a visit wealthy American held up at sland as an immi- grant, unable to take the literacy test. There may be reasons why the lit- eracy test is unreliable ard fault: but there can be no debate over the undesirabllity of a foreigner who continues to.despise his adopted coun- try so much that in thirty-two vears he refuses to'learn its language or apply for citizenship papers. America is not a cow to be milked, nor a mine to be robbed. deepset as it room for him. If his alienship is so appears we have no * ¥ % x main objection to admitting orientals is their inability to affiliate with us, yet there are other races equally clannish. In the miring regions it has been discovered that from 60 to 96 per cent of the aliens never ask for Americantzation, They are still subject to Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Rumania or Poland, The same i3 true in the packing plants of Chicago and the cotton mills of New England. These men are not socialists, but neither are they ericans, with a feeling of sympathy for our institu- as a] and now he u' | tions. 1In time of war their preju- dices are with their native count‘rleu' for they neiiher read nor speak our language, and, therefore, are deaf and blind to American ideals or American rights in case of trouble. They as oriental as are Japanese or Chinese and may well be treated on the same footing. We have undertaken to cut loose from the entanglements of old Europe, politically; let the same principle apply to Europe industrially, 80 that we should proclaim an indus- trial Monroe doctrine: “America is not open to European exploitation. America {8 for Americans, including native and adopted. If alien-born would come and be of us, well; if they would come only to exploit American * opportunities, we have no room for such.” *x x ¥ Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney need not lose sleep over the carping of ama- teur critics of her latest statue. The mounted figure of Buffalo Bill, which she has just finished and intends t. present to the Wyoming town, Cody, named In his honor, may not comply with tho rules and regulations of some of the rockinghorses tliting upon pedestals in various parks and capltals, but the whole group—hor: and rider—possesses the pep and vi- rility of the subject, and much of the statuesque quality of line and mass, which, from a technical standpoint, marks the masterploce. Critics who have but a hazy idea of how many legs a horse has, including its tail, venture to tell the sculptor that her horse Is lamed, and that Buf falo Bill was “to kind a man to cpur a lame and falling horse. Thev a sert that the horse is in a positioa of torture. Their comments are silly and {ndicate how few of them have ever geen a cowboy upon a western pony. They may be judging the vigor of this cowboy in action, by contrast- ing it with the stately rider leading a parade upon Pennsylvania avenue. ‘The action of the prancing horse does glve the effect of falling, but that is to the credit of the sculpture. What s a horse's prancing but a series of falls, caught by his quick- ness of 1imb? What {s @ man's walk but a series of falls with recovery by his forward step? To have depicted the virile cowboy and western pony as posing in statu- esque placidity would have been o foreign to their habits and nature as to have been absurd. Motion must be out of equilibrium or it would not be motion. There is manifest action, life, in this statue, which is quite remark able and true. Would that we migl trade the Gen. Jackson hobbyhorge of Jackson Park for this fine plece of equestrianism of Buffalo Bill and pony. There is no city in America, if any in the wide world, which serves so often as does Washington as the heppy bunting ground for artists seeking admittance into public favor through meretricfous means. They come from near and far, to volun- teer to paint the portrait of the Pres- ident or some lesser dignitary of the government. They may pose as hav ing a commission from some librar: for the portrait, when, ten chances to one, the only object is notoriet: which serves then as a means of get ting rich orders from members of s ciety. urely there ought to he an art censor who could meet importu nate artists and demand evidences of their fame elsewhere before they are turned loose upon suffering pub lic officials. In New York last week an ar was arrested for painting a carica ture of Representative Volstead et al Where—oh, where is our Ashur or Einstein, who will shadow the po: traitists even now contemplating fu ture attacks on oficial Washingto nians? (Copyright, 1823, by P. V. Collis.) Heinrich von Eckhardt, Lately Killed. Was Active Anti-American Propagandist BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENO Few in America will mourn the death of Heinrich von Eckhardt, the German minister plenipotentiary C through a fall from a precipice while engaged in a mysterious mountain- eering expedition in the Andes. For, throughout the great war, and until well into 1919, he was the most active agent and resourceful leader of all the anti-American propagan- da and agitation in the new world. As the kaiser’s minister in Mexico, he availed himself of his diplomatic im- munities and privileges to Instigate, foster and finance innumerable out- rages against American life and prop- ehty—not only south but also north of the Rio Grande. There was no end to his malignan- cy. He cost the United States many hundreds of lives and many millions of dollars in destruction of property, and from Mexico he initlated, after the expul n of Count Bernstorft from the United States, the most nefarious and criminal activitles of Germany in America. It is no exag- geration to state that he rendered himself guilty of the violation of overy law .of honor, officfal and per- sonal, in Mexico, and having shown the most shameless disregard of the ethics and obligations that from time immemorial have governed the con- duet of diplomatic representatives, obligations observed even by the mi-barbarou and half-clvilized natlong, the government at Washing- ton, naturally, manifested considera- ble hesitation about permitting him to trgverse the United States in the summer of 1919, from the Mexican frontier to New York in order to embark there for Rotterdam, en routs for Berlin, His assurances of good conduct during the trip were looked upon as so worthless that he had to travel from the Rlo Grande to New York virtually in bond, and he was kept under the closest observation of the United States secret service,j until his ship had passed the Nar- rows, outward bound. % ¥ After his arrival in Berlin ae de- voted himself to the organization of numerous ingenious schemes with a view to securing Teuton control of trade and industry—not alone in Mexico, but in the other Latin American republics, and for combat- ing the interests of the United States there, with every intrigue and in- sidious device at his command. He was instrumental also in the sale to Mexico of all sorts of Teuton war material, of explosives, and especially of military aircraft, which, according | e, where he has just been killed | secret service, correspordence which passed betweer von Eckhardt and the Berlin go:- ernment on the one hand, and the Mexican authorities and the Japanese legation in Mexico, on the other, fell into the hands of the United States and were officially published at Washington. Von Eckhardt leaves a widow and three children—two boys and a girl— who had been tended for many years by a trusted governess of the name of Emmy Melzahn, also very active n German maneuvers against the nited States. * * ¥ % In view of the fact that the arl of Granard 18 a particularly generous and open-handed landlord, a devout Catholic, brought up under the per- sonal supervision of his father's most intimate friend, the late Cardinal Newman, and that the Lords of Gran- ard were among the most vigorous opponents of the Act of Union at the close of the eighteenth century, and that moreover the present peer is a senator of the Free State of Ireland and has all along been a consistent champion of Irish home rule and na- tionalism, it does seem a totally in- excusable oufrage that Forbes Castle, his ancestral home én County Long- ford, should have been completely de- stroyed with all ite valuable con- tents and old-time treasures through the explosion of bombs allegedly by the followers of De Valera. Several hundreds of thousands of his New York wife's good American dollars were spent in restoring the custle and in equipping it with every luxury and modern comfort, wh i the cot- tages and farms on the estate had been repaired and improved in the most generous fashion. One would have imagined that Lord and Lady Granard. the latter a daughter of Ogden Mills of New York. did not have 2 single enemy in the Emerald Isle. But they have shared the fate of other tried sympathizers and friends of Irish mationalism. and have been bereft of their principal home and of {ts contents by an act of outrageous viclousness. * %k % A1l the landed property of the Lords of Granard {e situated in the Emerald Isle, with which they have been iden- tifled for the last 300 years. Yet the may be described as of Scottish o gin. Indeed, s head of one of the branches of the ancient Scottieh house of Forbes, the Earl of Granard can claim descent from Robert 11T of Scotland. For the first Lord Forbes married Lady Elizabeth Douglas only child of Princess Mary of Scot- land, who was a daughter of King Robert. A Sir Arthur Forbes settled in Ireland in 1620, obtained large es- tates there under grants from James L and was killed in & duel at Ham- to the terms of Marshal Foch's burg, where he went to fight for King armistice and of the treaty of Ver- sailles, should have been surrendered by Germany to France and to the other powers of the entente. He was equally responsible for the large number of former officers of the kalser who sought and found after the war service in the army of Mesxico. While in Mexico during the war he presented to the latter's government a proposal emanating at his sugges- tion from Alfred Zimmerman, then minister of foréign affairs at Berlin, for the conclusion of an alliance be- tween Mexico and Japan and Ger- many against the entente, promising that in the event of victory, Mexico should meceive & portion of Texas and all the tersitory had at one time belonged to bher. Copiea of all the Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, and for the cause of Protestantism. His son was created Earl of Granard by Charles I, and is on record as having suggested to_that monarch the foun- dation of Kilmainham Hospital in Dublin. The present Lord Granard owes his in life to the sense of humeor ome of his fellge Guards, with th intention of playiug a joke upon him rote him a fletitious letter from new premier. offering him the office at court of master of the horse. Lord Granard, taking the matter quite_seriously. waited on the king 4 to take his pieasure about the mat- ter. Edward VII, quickly alive to the hoax, turned the joke on its perpe- trators by promptly appointing Lord Granerd, then quite a-young man, to the place. | —