Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1923, Page 6

g™ {fHE EVENING STAR, With Sundsy Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY. ..March 13, 1823 THEODORE W. NOYES......Editor Xbe Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th 8t. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 130 Nassau St. Chicago Office: Tower Bullding. n Office; 16 Regent St., London, The Evening Star, with the Sunday mornt wditlon. 15 dellvered by carrlers within the city at 80 cents per month; dally only, 45 cents &r fonth? su;{' oniy.'20 centa per month. Or- ers thay Do sent by mar or ‘teiephose 8000, Goilterion 1s” made’ by ewrrlers at ibe 836t €ach month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $8.40; 1 mo., 70c Dally only. - roeore 1 yr., $6.00; 1 mo., 600 Bunday oniy. 11 yr., $2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ All Other States. Dally and Sunday..1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 85¢ Daily only. . - Vo '57.00; 1 mo., 60c Bunday only! $3.00; 1 mo., Z5¢ Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press s exclusively entitled ®o the use for republication of all news dis- atclies credited to it or not otherwise credited n this paper and ‘also the local news pubd- lished “herein. Al rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. e ————— | Propose Ruhr Solution. The agrerment reached at Brussels between the French and Belgian pre- miers and proclaimed in an official an- nouncement may not result in an im. mediate solution of the problem of the Ruhr, but it certainly cuts the ground from under the German contention that the objective of the Ruhr adven- ture is not reparations but annex: tien. Poincare and Theunis assert that their governments are ready to with- draw French and Belgian troops progressively from the Ruhr as Ger- many makes payments on account of reparations, but that mere promises to pay will not be accepted. As that is precisely the program followed by the Germans when they occupied French territory to enforce collection of in- demnity following the war of 1871, the Berlin goternment will find it hard to support complaint that France and Belgium are dealing unjustly in the Ppresent instance, The Germans may contend that it is mpossible for them to make payments 50 long as their “workshop” is in the hands of their creditors, but such a plea cannot be made to hold water. The world is convinced that the Ger- man industrialists have sufficient hard cash sequestered abroad to pay a sub- stantial part of the sums now overdue, and thus to set in motion the process of evacuation. And as the evacuation progressed more and more of the pro- ductive resources of occupied territory would be released for creating the means of further payments. To distant cbservers it looks as if the Brussels pronouncement may point the way to solution of the entire prob- | lem of reparations, for it would put the good faith of both Germany and France to the test. And it is in a large measure because neither party has had confidence in the good faith of the other that matters have come to the pass they have. If the Germans show a real willingness to meet their obliga- tions by producing reasonable a amount of the ready money they are | first known to have there is little doubt but that a loan, guaranteed by the industrialists, could be floated and credits arranged for necessary raw | materials. And France would have to | meet a real exhibition of intention to pay in a spirit of accommedation, for failure to do so would confirm present | widespread suspicions of her real de- sires and purposes. There is every logical reason for accepting the Brussels proposal at its full face value. However well justified the ¥rench may feel their occupation | of the Ruhr to have been, they know ; now that it gives little promise of im- mediate benefits, and a graceful an«ll not unprofitable way out would be as| welcome to the French as it would be | 10 the rest of the world. i —_———— : . i Foreign Rum Runners. { Tondon and New York dispatches | reporting that rum fleets from two “, 1ions of the globe are preparing to at- tack the Atlantic seaboard of thel United States with their cargoes of ! probibited liquors, to be ultimate smugsled ashore, should constitute a subject of concern to the people of | this country. Tt is said that five ships operated under the flag of Panama by ! 2 German magnate, are to land colos- | al cargoes from Glasgow; that a| itish syndicate is to supplement the { ficct now anchored heyond the three- ! mile limit off the New Jersey shore | by an urmada of vessels from the| tnhainas, threatening a veritable flood of lquc not only bacred by the Con. stitution and the statute, but of ad- uiitted questionable quality. | Weird stories are told of the friction ! sand competition among the fleets and | of acts that recall the palmy days of | . Kidd in southern water; of * i sirates” who attack the smaller and rob them of their cargoes. huttle and corkscrew have repl the black emblem of skull and bones | While therc miay not be any canon | of international law which can be in-| voked against the practice of ships un-| der foreign flags thus approaching! the shores of a friendly nation to vio- | late its laws in fact, though not techni- | cally, there should exist a comity | &mong nations which weuid find some | means to prevent proceedings that| -nock the moral sense of this country and undermine the respect of our citi- zens for the law. —_———— The whole theory of the cighteenth amendment is summed up in the con- tention of Marcus Aurelius that “what is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee. ———————— Uncle Joe Cannon’s Sunset. So “Uncle Jo¢” Cannon is back Tiome. The press reports depict him alighting from the train wearied bhut undaunted, his soft brown hat cocked at a roguish angle, the famiiliar black sar sticking up deflantly. e al- lowed he was tired—"plumb worn out” is the expression out Danville way— 1d was coming home to rest up a bit und then take renewed interest in af- fairs. Perhaps, like Antacus of my- thology, he expects to gain increased strength by contact with the ground. Washington in fancy pictures him silhouetted in the sunset glow, sym- [ !ing and bath at the mission, were dis- | States, but @ number of men of a ce { thein. The prosperity of the United | bolical of his ending public career, and of the many useful years that lay behind him. But he is not to be re- garded as a pathetic figure by any manner of means, or comparable with so many men who have left Congress with a distinguished carcer and an enviable record of public service “broke” and dispirited. This sturdy old buck of the prairies while serving his country also conserved his private business affairs, though with never a taint of scandal. He owns the major interest in a tidy little bank and has his furm lands. Asked by a colleague before leaving how he would occupy his time, he re- plied, “Oh, I will go down to the bank and the boys will drop in to see me and pass the time of day.” And what interesting reminiscences of men and affairs “the boys” will hear. Too bad if there be not a *chicl amang them, tak'ng notes” for the benefit of pos- terity. And there we will leave him in the sunset glow of his years and career, an interesting figure of a great period —a link between Lincoln and us; for he was cotemporaneous with Lincoln, a figure who scems so remote from these times. ————————————— Brighter Street Lights. Better lighting for the streets is the promise of the electrical engineer of the District. All new electric light posts will carry a lamp of 250 candle- power, whereas, with few exceptions, the candlepower of the electric street lamps is now 100. On two streets— 15th and 17th between K and Massa- chusetts avenue—old-fashioned gas lamps have becn replaced with incan- descent electric lamps of 250 candle- power, and the illumination is much more effective than on those streets which are lighted, or rather which are not lighted, by the 100-candlepower lamps. The promise is that high- power bulbs will be installed on all new electric light posts, and that the 250-candlepower lamp will be the standard of the future. The hope is that a great many new electric light posts will be set up, and there is an- other hope that even on the old posts the new lamps may be substituted for those that are old and feeble. The dim-lighted residence streets of Wash- ington have been a subject of criticism for a long time. Many accidents have probably been due to this ineffective lighting, and there is no doubt that much inconvenience has been caused by it. That many of the streets were poorly lighted has been as well known at the District building as to any mo- torist or pedestrian, but there are limi tations upon governors, commissioners and other subrulers under our form of government. They cannot spend money that the ruling authority has not al lowed them. They have probably given the city as much light in the streets as | the funds for lighting would allow. But it is pleasing to note that a better day and a brighter night are in prospect. A raise in candlepower from 100 to 0 ought to lift some of the gloom from the streets at night. Gospel Mission Campaign. The fundraising campaign of the Gospel Mission goes well. It is the | general public money-getting “drive” which this worthy and active | institution has undertaken in seven- teen years, and its object i oli ng funds is to meet some outstanding debts, acquire an adjoining building to relieve congestion in the Chinese department and to bring the institu- tion upon a business hasis. This mis- sion has recently added to its activi- | ties an employment bureau and a col- | ored department to meet the demand | for mission service among colored | people. The “white ticket” plan re-| cently put into operation has proved a success in relieving persons from the importunities of “panhandlers™ and in | eping those professional beggars trom getting alms needed by persons in distress. Thousands of these tickets, entitling the bearer to free food, lodg- tributed among responsible citizens to be handed to mendicants on the stre The mission has a way of distingui i i I i | | | ing between needy peoplc and those who make a business of begzing. T mission runs a restaurant where meals are served at the smallest possible charge (o those persons who can pay, and free to those who canuot pay. There are dormitories for men, free Laths, a day nursery conducted in ! conncetion with the Child Welfare So- | ciety’s Gospel Mission center, a free| dispensary, # Chinese school and Americanization department and a ! home and prison visiting board. There | is also a children’s playground. The} mission is approved by the charities | indorsement committee, and its friends | throughout the District will not go wrong in helping this cause along. ——————————— Germans are reported about to en- gage in rum running into this coun- 1t may be they intend to pay off tions, after all. orah thinks the man who launched his postal card presidential | boom is a better judge of candidates than of methods. : H B ————— France and Belgium say to Ger-| many ve us action, not promises.” i Action of only one t though, d. v. —_———— Optimism. i have | United | Pessimists never been or popular loomsters™ in the tain type have always been busy at; the trade of “gloonfing.” Their spe- ! cialty has been in'locking for disaster. | Their vision has been trained to pick out a catastrophe in the fairest pro pect and to point to dark hours on the sunnicst day. The dismalists have been crying wolf £o long that many persons who lent an ear Lo their wail- ing are now turning a deaf car to States has not “busted.” It is ,\‘nlli booming. Railroad traffic and earnins arc coming on satisfactorily. st lished manufacturing concerns that | have been in the habit of making goods | at comfortable cost and selling at a| reasonable profit report that trade is doing well. Money is plentiful and cheap enough to do business with, and can be borrowed on easy terms when | the collateral is good. Bmployment for workingmen who will work is nor- mal or above the normal, and the free soup kitchen and the bread line are b | stuff they are likely to have a speedy “THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D.” C; TUESDAY, MARCH 13, T923 not much in evidence. Wage rates are high. Everything is high. Build- ing material is high, but building goes merrily on. A new home costs more money than it did a few years ago, but buyers have the money. We seem to have come to live upon a higher price level, and we may. stay there. That may be prophecy, but it is a strong probability. For centuries the world has been climbing in its stand- ards and cost of living, and yet it lives and flourishes. When you could buy two big Potomac shad for a quarter there were outcries about the high cost of living. OIld people at that time said that when they were chil. dren it was possible to buy two shad for a “levy” and four for a quarter. A hundred years ago a man probably made more ado In paying out 2§ cents for two shad than his grandson’s wife does today in paying a dollar and 4 quarter apiece for shad and ordering the fish dealer to send them home by automobile. ‘We are all getting along fairly well. The world never was a bed of thorn. less roses for most of us. Another Zuropean war has not broken out, though the prophets of gloom were sure it would be upon us by this time. England and France are not at bloody grips with Turkey. The Turks, who have had such astonishing success in hypnotizing the world into the belief that victory over the Greeks is the equivalent of final victory over the allies in the world war, seem con- descendingly willing to attend another Lausanne conversation par The war between Islam and Christendom ! has not yet broken out. The mighty conflict between the white and vellow races has not begun, and the avalanche of yellow hordes has not begun its avalanching work. Even the race war in this country is not raging. The panic that hopeful bears and sold-out bulls have been looking for has not come. The United States is doing busi- ness at the old stand, Men are plowing the peaceful fields and making ready for spring planting. Householders are raking up the litter on the lawns and trimming the rose bushes. The sound of saw and hammer is abroad in the! land. Factory whistles shriek at morn, noon and eventide. Really it seems that pessimism is out of joint, and that the occupation of the gloomster should be gone. ——————— James Cox has'announced that he will not consider the nomination in 1924 unless his party stands four square for American participation in the solving of the European tangle.! In the words of Jumes Russell Lowell, “consistency still wuz a part of his plan.” —_—————— The example of the member of the House banking and currency commit- tee who is going to take & university course in banking this summer could be followed with profit by the con-} stantly growing number of theoretical experts abroad toda ———e Probably Borah could not fairly be charged with red sympathles in his demand for the rele: i “political” prisonc s, queer coinciden. » that speaker was Samn Scarlett. —_—————— his fellow The doctor’s desc “fever girl” as an “hysterical malin- gerer,” after he lLad found the hot- | water bottle, was probably a compli. | ment compared to what he was calling | himse iption of the —————e Miss Alice Robertson plans to pub- | lish her *“memoirs” in the Congres.| ! | sional Record, but if they prove good resurrection and wider distribution. There are certain public men today who, like Diogenes, will desire to be buried face downward, on the theory that shortly after their death every- thing will be turned upside down. ! hot J e —— Given one could construct an effective paragraph upon the three thoughts, “international loans,"* “Ger- many’s printing presses” and ‘“‘easy time, 1 marks.” i g i The mistake of the “gob” who| awoke Secretary Denby to stand a ! midnight watch was in not knowing —_—————— Henry Foird believes 1 is to h the most prosperous vear since the war. This is a frank confession from a potential democratic candidate. that the Secretary is always on watch. 1 Z i i the failure of his plans. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Old Music Box. Its tones were tinkling once and gay; But now, unheeded in the gloom, It occupies, 'mid shadows gray, A dusty. unfrequented room. Yet, carelessly T sometimes pause And turn the key and bid it sound Despite the broken pegs and flaws Which so complainingly abound. The melodies are old and queer— You scarce would think that years ago They thrilled to every idle ear; And now for me alone they flow. [sven though cogs may squeak and jar And rhythms often feebly halt, They call sweet memories from afar. 1 love the theme and pass the fault. Perchance n lot or vours 'twill be Some ti in shadows to remain, When we are worn and out of key And strive for harmonies in vain, T hope some old-time loving friend Our dormant skill v deign to stir And find us, even to the end, Not as we are, but as we were. Oh, Nature knows her business. She does her work wu'f while. When she puts out an ahticle She puts it out in style. Jes' think what disappointment Would strike us mortal men Ef de turkey was created No bigger dan a wren! He wouldn’t be wu'f shootin’ On 'is perch up by de twig Ef de 'possum wa'n't no larger Dan a little guinea pig. Life wouldn't be wu'f livin® An we'd all go out of biz Ef de qui-nine pills was hefty As de watermillions 8. i THE WAYS OF WASHINGTON BY WILLIAM PICKETT HELM. NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM A check for $10,000,000 and a friend- 1y little scolding—the one occasioning ulmost as much surprise as the other —were once handed simultaneously by Andrew Carnegie to a noted Wash- ingtonian. The recipient was Robert 8. Woodward, the time about twelve years ago and the place Mr. Carne- gie's home In New York ecity. At that time Mr. Woodward was president of the Carnegle Institutio of Washington, the great foundation for scientific research which the iron- faster founded. Mr. Carnegle sum- moned Mr. Woodwurd to New York. ‘'m very busy,” Mr. Carnegile greeted Mr. Woodward. “You see here how many things I have to at- tend to.” And he waved his hand to- ward a desk purposely littered with " Mr. Carnegle con- “I dislike to be interrupted. inopportune time. tinued, You come at an He waxed quite petulant._ “I am most busy. - “But here” and he handed Mr. Woodward an envelope. “Take this and go into the other room and walt for a few minutes, if you will. This Wwill interest you. Mr. Woodward was greatly sur- prised and somewhat annoyed, but he did as requested. When he opened the envelope he found the check for $10.000,000. Meantime Mr. Carnegie ,had gone back to his desk in the ad- joining room. Mr. Woodward stepped to the door and beheld the ironmas- ter chuckling in enjoyment. It was Carnegie’s idea of a good joke. Mr. Carnegie announced the dona- tion a shiort time afterward. He sum- moned & newspaper man to his home and handed him a typewritten state- ment, which he, Mr. Carnegie, had dictated. The statement was written in sim- plified spelling, then one of Mr. Car- negie’s fads, and was in question and answer form. Mr. Carnegie had not only answered the questions, but had asked them ax well. All that was left for the reporter to do was to take the paper. It was a predigested in- terview, forerunner of the present- day statement or “hand-out” with which Washington abounds. What made it all the more inte esting was that Mr. Carnegie had changed it greatly, making the in- terlineations In his own handwrit- ing. The writer has the statement now, and reproduces it below as An- drew Carnegie's idea of a T newspaper interview. The or spelling is retaine . Ts the report correct that you | . h‘n?' given fen millions in bonds to|its kind in the world. That is the the Carnegie Institution of Wash-| vessel which Mr. Carnegic said was ington? “putting the world right” i A. Yes, it is correct. “It's here in Washington.” I was| Q. They had w large endowment|told. “Tied up at the foot of Seventh before, had they not? | street. T belic waiting orders for A -“they’ had. This ten mil-!its next cruise. _A. Yes they had This ten wB - o o —_—— EDITORIAL DIGEST Passing the Half-Way Mark, Verdict Is Uncertain. Reaching the half-way mark in his|ihe y, the | Tntianape llons of bonds makes the total of their endowment twenty-five milllons of dollars, but the institution has alredy scored successes to Jjustify even that sum. I bellev that the institution for research will repay ten fold in servis to the world. It hus alredy done wonders. Q. Cun you glv us an account of & fow of theése wonders? A. Yes, sir. You notist in the telegrafic’ news yesterday that the yacht Carnegie ~had just reacht Buenos Aires. That yacht is the first_ever bilt with bronze substitut- ed for fron; the latter deflects the magnetic needle and bronze does not. The result is that all former ol servations are inaccurate. * © ¢ The Carnegie is going over all the seas, year after year, putting the world right. But that'is not ail the institution is doing. Conslder the results achieved at, the great observatory on Mount Wil- son in California, established by the institution which' I visited last win- ter. The institution discovered a young genfus in Professor Hale who adopted an entirely new process, in- cluding_photography. His first plate taken just before my arrival revealed 16,000 new worlds, and he has written me since that his second plate has revealed 60,000 new worlds never seen by man, some of them ten times larger than our sun, The whole world is going to listen to the oracle on the top of Mount Wilson, and in a few years we shall know more about the universe than Gallileo ever drempt of. A new lens 100 inches in diameter is beiug pre- pared of three times more power than_any vet made. I hope T shall live long enough to hear the revela- tions that are to come from Profes- sor Hale on Mount Wilson, 1t is a triumf indeed for this voung continent of ours to be the Fevealer to the world of the prime mysteries of the universe and I resist_giving the institution ift. ldn' second the Muny other wonderful things that institution in Washington has in op- eration, the results of which promise to be equally satisfactory. Some da. it may need fifty millions of dollars. We can put no limit upon its achieve- ments. That fs what Andrew Carnegie thought of the great institution at Washington that bears his name. The ironmaster’s wish that he might live lonz enough to hear the revelations from Mount Wilson was fulfilled only in part, for he died a few years later. 1 ‘called up the institution on the telephone to ask the whereabouts of the Yacht Carnegie. the only one of ar (independent repub- sees the record “one of The result of w rageous initiative dent, hie cabinet lican), wi mreat ice e pas been much |at the head of the gover 1ental de- term of oftice, there b Bt M ot | artments and of the Sixty-seventh | more or less critical discus Congrese His future course will be alone of what President Harding | benetit the Ph delphia Bulletin Accomplished but concerniu his fu- | Gndependent” republican) | thinks. || 8 v will 1nake & swing around the o ture course. It seems to be ngr(\di‘.h_ Wunalad Lo ie el he now is an avowed candidate forrey) n and that he will “carry renominati the fight” not alone to the con mon ! & the democracy, but to the in- surgent element inside of the repub- lican national organization. Becaus of this there is a seeming inclination to suggest that the mnext Congress will be forced openly to clash with the executive before it is mauy d enem on the job. In “routine and business manase ment the administration has been notably successful and is entitled to great credit,” ins the Springtield Tnion (independent republicun), bu it holds that “failure to compel sc tlement of the coal and railway damaged it cvers The biggest thing, savs the ra Star Gazette (independent), he Washington conference of nit- tions and the treaties signed at that Pressing this closcly for hon- strikes has bad where Elw | time. ors is the settiement of the British debt. At mid-term it must be frank Iy revealed that he has been a d appoiutment s a President although he is greatly beloved as a man.” 1t likewise seems cer argues the Richmond News Leader (democrat). “the worst sailing of Mr. Harding is ahcad.” Personally. the Chattano ‘ews (democrat), holds, “he inves every suggested step with such a by s that a President can do bet- ter work in Washington if he occa- 1y goes to the country.” i | | i | | | | The or failure of the first two vears of the administration, the Rounoke World News (independent democrat) holds. “depends on the {point of view. The republican organt- i ation and the people of the United | ites have received what they bar-! d for. Woodrow Wilson led! gress, led the country, led the i iworld. President Harding has led | nothin ightly or wrongly thel {strong executiv i | | { i it of red tape and conditions | had conceived a dislike for a . President Harding's nemination and clection ealled for a return to the traditional methods of government by checks and balance, by and take.” And there will be very little change, the New rk Post (independent) holds, although “cir stances more powerful than the'’ fent’s self-denving conception of ! » may pel a revision of 1 To which the, York World (democrat) adds: “Mr. Hard- ing is an amiable man who has failed to contribute materially to the re- i construction of his own country or of { the world because he was pledged not ! to lead, because he was trained noti to lead. because he lacks the knowl- edge with which to lead.” But “his: two vears have heen valuable in ex-! perience,” the Reading Tribune (inde-{ pendent) holds. “and the showing ati ‘lose of his term will probably | exceed the showing of the first two wilderm “UNr the Wardi ini = < offec ¢ to throttle all hope of the Flarding administration is Shioply countaring, this argument, | I8 eat ‘ehanice Averin ihe s Orelb | e N 3 ribune (republician). | field” the Boston Globe (independent e e Yo e judkment the | feels, while the St. Joseph News Press S ent's record stands out as one | (republican) suggests = that _ <lr.) of notable achievement. He has doie ,!‘H;w “,“ 3 1;1‘“‘0“‘\‘1\‘ .m\v'vpvam?r 1o vhic! e both remarhable | McKinley, b i Tacks Meliniey e tars . things whici { oSt important adjunet—he lacks a A e Temarkable without being spec- j Murk Hanna, and he needs one. i acular.” Most of his promises lave 1£ happens that the times demand Peen i Knickerbocker ja_fighting President,” suzgests the Dbeen kept, the Albar Press (independent heet of debi epublicany says. Li 1§ p soln State Jour blican), “while fighting is not much !(independent re- Wi it is a svod : - mu tand it is 4 go0 A holds in his| to Mr. Harding's mind. The ultimate credit Dres et N of the first two i decision upon his adwinistration will | ars . Impressive, is Gepend very much on his development Sl larity ding | during the next vear and a half in e e by Kulama | the leadership which the times and remains unimpaired.” Zoo Gazette tindependent republi- my sces it, “and the public is mor helined to svmpathize with him in hie difficulties than to blame him for ‘he entire record is thought by the iy cindependent) 1o hicago News i strangely Inverted. 1t scems to in- dicate a presidential situation in N pressures from without are e influential thun impulses from contradiction to is the opin n ever. within.” o} m of the 0ld-Time Cemeteries = | Desecrated, Is Charge To the Editor of The Star: 1 don't belicve 1 was ever so sur- prised I found the old tery on Fairfax street and the old Quaker burial ground on Queen street, Dboth in the heart of the city of andria. Alexandria is full of histors and the descendants of many of the early people noted in history are liv- ing thero today. Therefore, she should do all in her power to pre- serve everything bearing on her carl: days and those who helped make this government what it is today. Instead of that what dees Alexandria do? One has but to look. The old Quaker cemetery in the very hcart of the city is used as a playground. Many of the stones are removed from their original places and resting aguinst the surrounding walls. Others are Jying flat on the ground to be tram- pled under foot. Belng Sunday, the gate was, locked, but the iron bars had been bent apart and the Loys passed through casily. In this ceme- tery rests the unmarked grave of Dr. Dick, Washington’s physician. The old Presbyterfan cemetery, on Falrfax street, is bLeing used for a chicken yard. Stove wood is lying on one stone, a chicken coop on an- other, chickens were roosting on one. one had pans of water for the chickens. A good-sized chicken.house is in the inclosure. pictures of this place. Stones broken to pleces and weeds so bigh that if 1 took twelve | circumstances are thrusting on him against his will” The Ta peka rdependent republ ean) “the prospeets of Hard- jinz's re-clection look better than a vear or six months ago. If after all the the luck to come before the this | were vears country in 1924 favored by u breeze| of prosperity and business revival he will have carned it. The last two years, as they are looked back upon. | tifying caution, a step | ather than plunging.” ta time, | Cites Reasons Against i | in my life as [ was the day | Star of March 8 ¥ Presbyterian ceme- | creased rates to be charged the wom- ! High Rents for Clerks To the Editor of The Star: ! Teading the article published in The ting to the in- of the government hotels, | it occurs to me that others who read ! Alex- | 1t would be inclined to think that the | ‘girls employed by Uncle Sam, and | living in the hotels, indulge in orgies ! of theaters, shampoos, expensive clothes and the last word of educa- tion; in fact, that their entire salary is cheerfully spent for the privilege of living in the hotels and securing | 2 maximum of the above incidentals. | As a matter of fact, it is safe to say | that 98 per cent of these same girls! have burdens the enormity and im-} portance of which are never known to | the outside world. For instance, there | are many who are taking care of “the | little old lady back home,” whose very | existence depends on the semi-month- Iy remittunces. Thens again, there fs the girl who is educating @, brother | or sister and the self-sacrificing wom- | 10 whose children are being educated ! to become better men and women and | citizens of the United States out of | the salary which she earns as an em- | plove of Uncle Sam, : Can it be said of these girl t ! their money is distributed freely for | the pleasures of life, and that they will ‘clheerfully consent to pay this, extra_charge when it means so much | to some one dcpendent upon them? HARRIET L. VAN LOXNE. 1 =0 old that the inscriptions are very dim and aimost unreadable. ¢ Has Alexandria none of the spirit they had been in leaf the stones would | of her early pioneers? bave been invisible. - These stones are C. W. AVERY, t |Intyre found himself at | The ruin fone dally press issue of our own en- ! ilightened times. There's your an-! swer. i * ok ¥k K i Certain _very marked points of | ithe Vis quite unusual BLOWING WEATHER. John T. Mc- Intyre. The Century Company. A brimming cup of Volstead brew to your good health, John Mcintyre! May you live long and prosper to do the like again! Could you? One won- ders. No matter. You've dome it once, in any event. * x kX To himself, one day, John Mclntyre said that he would write down ad- venture, & tale of clear romance, with the sea In it and the world astir around it. Upon the sea there should be far sailings blown by the winds of the other side of the world. And there should be storms, and wrecks, and mutiny, and murder even. And the evil deeds afloat should link up with foul designs ashore. There should be love, too, in this romance. He himself would create the man and the woman. He himself would see to it that they were made in the spirit of high emprise—no fiddling thing of moods and passion should pass here for the pure gold of love itself. And around these two he would set such things agoing as would prove the good stuff of their making. This ad- venture should have a fine free-boot- Ing swing to jt—but no Hawkins here, nor Dampler, nor Morgan, nor Teach, nor any other of that over- worked old brood of buccaneers. He would let these lio for another nap in the good bed of forgetting while he sought fresher men for the work in hand. All this he sald there should be in this adventure that he would write down. * ok % * But—where the time, the space, the mood? Not in the present certainly nor in the near past. ¥or true ro- mance demands distance to gather the purple bloom of enchantment. Besides, piracy in these nearer years is as dull as the day's work, indeed a part of it. So, moving backward to get good standing ground, John Me- the line which_separates the nineteenth cen- tury from the elghteenth. Only ai step or so into that older century— and his adventure was sct. For, there 1o his hand, for the using, history it- ®elf had shaped events as if with no other design than to give reality to the form and feature of his projected romance. He stood facing the high tide of the famous clipper-ship period. Out from the north Atlantic ports white wings were spreading o breast the waves, like flocks of huge sea birds. To the West Indies and the far east they sailed, homing in in one year, two years. with | goes that turned the warehouses of home ports into mammoth vaults of rich exotic werchandise. And at that moment, too, Ingland and France were at war, pestering the | seas with privateers that took scant | note of the rights of neutral craft. And there were other ships, also, in- nocent looking enough. that, outside the law. slipped away upon the sinis- ter bus ess of plunder and whatever | stood in_ between. Such was thel background which time and place spread for the adventure. * Ok kK The clipper trade had. in the course | of time, made the Rufus Stevens' Sons T e s N A R N EE b e e e ———————— CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS It made little difference how much a wounded soldier suffered while walting for the endless red tape of the Veterans' Bureau under the old regime, but a mighty difference whether that same veteran had put his case into the hands of a United States senator or even a representa- tive. This may scem to be a hack- neyed statement, but it takes on new significance when it becomes known that senatorial “pull” had become an institution—almost & corporation. To such a degree of development had it risen that an official of the Veterans' Bureau had been designated to occupy room 112, Senate Office building, where, with a corps of clerks, a regu- lar business of handling and expe- diting “senatorial cases” was carried on. Legionnaires bitterly complain that at the main offices of the bureau or- ders werc to give immediate atte tion to any letters or complaints trom congressmen, so that the key to the whole bureau administration was not merit of the claims of applicants, but “congressional pull.” If a claimant had no political pull his claim hung fire or was rejected as “not of service origin.” What were battles in France compared with battles upon Hill, Washlugton? * ¥ ¥ ¥ The Veterans’ Bureau, with its 5,000 employes, has instituted a method of its own as to medical practice with its employes. Absences on account of sickness, the frequent breaking down of the health of trained help, with consequent too heavy “turn- over,” are very costly. Hence Dr. Edwin Johnson of ‘the industrial hyvgiene section has begun a tematic survey of the health of all. Accurate records are kept of all sick- nesses and their causes traced and treatment by the medical Staff of the bureau is compulsory. compulsory vaccination and ventive measures to guard against prevalling sickness, such as influenza, typhoid fever and all contagious and malignant diseases. There are restrooms in the build- ing, and there an average of 120 cases receive care of the nurses daily. There is a thoroughly cquipped hos pital, with a dispensary and chemical laboratory. The object of maintaining this bu- reau hospital service for the 5,000 em- ployes {s primarily for its resultant increase in efliciency. It is not un- jcommon for factories and other busi- ness establishments where large num- bers of men and women are employed to maintain similar restrooms and hospitals. ‘Why, then, since the economic value of preventive measures to protect thousands against disease iS recog- nized as a good business investment, is it not instituted as a community practice in lieu of the present out-of- date, slipshod custom of self-diag- nosis and eleventh-hour attendance by a physician? * ok ok x Perhaps the first answer to that w rich and powerful concern. Its | REEE 3 ¥hips rivaled the best in number and jSuSEestion is that it coianocbelcn capaci Its warehouses stretched (foreed by law. Every man and in opulence along the waterfront. Its [woman must be left to choose his man power, from dock haud to clerk fown physician. Some are opposed to in counting house, was a unit of zeal jany and all _medical treatment. in the bus Its foreign 1ess of old Rufus Stevens, | nections were sound | and productive. Its local influence was of the highest. Then, in the full- | ness of vears, Rufus Stevens went his way and his son Charles reigned in his stead. Charles had the vision of old Rufus. He, too, saw new ships and bigger ones. But. on the side | of balance and business genius, the | son was a long way off from the father. But what matter? The good | old house could go on forever under | the momentum given it by the foun- | der. And evervbody loved Charles | Gven if he could mot always turn his | dreams to solid ledger accounts. Then | 2 disturbing thing happened. A rich | curgo #hip was lost with no word Sming back as to the where and the how of this disaster. And this hap- pened again. Rutus Stevens' Sons shivered w little, but’ went its steady | w Old Rufus himself. looking jojn., might have seen one of his! own elippers at secret anchorage and from it he might have scen. also. | smaller craft speeding furtively | away to lonely spots along the coast Where confedcrates took over and hid wvay the bales of fair merchandise He might have seen all this and, if he had, shrewd old Rufus would have | known that his beloved house was up ; against the moxst insidious and dangerous of all foes—those of his own household. Such was the im- mediate situation. * % * The business of the adventure it ve the house of Rufus ons from its enemies. Un- | der the easy rule of Charles cupidity ! ad found its place in the personal ambitions of a clever subordinate. | ¥rom this center a web of conspiracy | had spun out. including certain land | and sea agencies of the great busi- «, in a plot for self-enrichment i of the house would be a sequence in this plan. An-j Stevens, grandson, taking up | of his grandfather and his | proved himself. finally, to be in both brain and brawn of the whole ruffianly conspiratorial around him. This vouth was ubject of constant attack, usu- ¢ the ambush brand. Kidnaping i lone places. knife thrusts in the | drawn pistols facing him at! turnings, rough-and-tumble | expert and sinister wres- | —these were all in the day's | A young ! any- simple thony the uncle, the equal band the o dark., street fist fight tling bouts work for this amazing hero. French girl—the only we whera around in this storv—accom- iying her father on a business er-} rand to the house of Stevens' Sons, sometimes shared the dangers of An- | iy Stevens and sometimes rescucd n. All the time she was, to him, | object of inter on, per- i till finally questions became ind the two entered into a partnership of confidence and | There is a deal more hen—huv.’ an plexity, answers high love. vead it for yourself. Intyre lived up to his promise fu | writing down this adventure, you ( vourself will prove by jumping head | Toremost into every fracas and then ! out again, hot for the next one. Could any of it have happened? Reud | That John Me- i | workmanship stand out in this good | varn. One is the auihor's choice of background — the most romantic period of American sea history, the time of the clipper-ship supr Besides, he uses this period with such | discretion, with so keen a sense of the drama in_it, that the mere setting | contributes distinctly to the realis- tic effect of the action itgelf. The; land_sctting also receives the same intelligent _and finished attention. Much of thé atmosphere of the whole rises from the choice and handiing of this background. Again, John Me- | Tutyre has shown that he can create | human beings—as he said he would | do. And he is able to make so many | of them, each complete in his own | individual set of idiosyncrasies that i mark him off from tlie rest. Lvi- dently he sees each one whole, and upon thig foundation he works out infinite details of personality. Christopher Dent, the quaint oid apothecary, is as complete and as| roul as is Anthony himself or the| arch plotter, Isaac Weir. Once more, | author has the gift of the fit] thi word. One word delivers the thing | over. No other word will do. He| s, too, an ear for the sound of | linked words, an ear for cadence and In descriptions he 1f you want proof, of orders of sound. road of the search in midocean the lost clipper, the Rufus Stevel If You get no stir out of his picture of that graveyard of wrecked ships— why, then. I'm wrong, maybe. J anather word, John Mclntyre “can write a robust and going adventure. And he can write it, too, in the terms and the spirit of that which has come to bear the distinctive mname of literature, LG M Itime. jwar, macy. |e Granting the force of that objection against compulsory community health treatment, we might at least deveiop health insurance companies, includini full medical treatment at all times. . part ot the benefits of the policy This would introduce all the advan- tages of the Chinese practice of pay- ing physicians only while well and do away with self-diagnosis, groping for the right specialist and postpon- ing proper attention at the proper 1t would “standardize” medi- cal care, eliminate quacks and give dignity to the profession, which is now attained mainly by the outshin- sses among the doctors. night cover dentistry s icknesses are traced directiy to - perfect or diseased teeth. There exist health associations af- {relation of d A few days ago a cannon which had once belonged to a company com- manded by George Wathington was sold at auction at the Virginix town where it had stood for ncarly two centuries and it was knocked down to the highest bidder for $25. Th first law book that Abraham Lincoin ever studied (as certified by his law partner) was auctioned % New York this week and sold for $500. It was “The Revised Laws of Indiana,” about 100 vears old. The passion for old books is entirelv apart from a thirst for literature and the probabilities are that the $a00 Lincoln volume will be read no ofterer than the George Washington cannon will be fired. Aside from sen- timent, one is as worthless as tha other. * The cost of the Look Would pay the college expenses of a boy a whole vear in almost any of the great colleges. * ¥ ¥ ¥ ‘With all the months of congres- sional consideration of the classifica- tion bill, Congress finally passed it with serious blunders, affecting the pay of the poorer employes of the government—charwomen and manual laborers. Their pay is some $200 & year less than intended by the com- mittee, and the errors are said to be clerical blunders in official copying. The incident serves to demonstrate that the hurried and anxious passage of the measure in the closing hour: of the session was zll unnece: T for the new rates do not go into eftect for a year. The errors will be cor- rected mnext December, so no hard- a_)?ll whatever comes through them Yet this bill crowded out of consid- eration and passage the bill to adjust the pyy of school teachers and so lett Washington schools in a demorulizea state, for the teachers' increased pa would have affected the next term, beginning four months befors the next session of Congress meets. * kK ¥ President Harding's long letter to Bowdoin College, commending the college upon its establishing an in- stitute of modern history, emphasizes the superficiality of much of the his- tory instruction given In public schools and colleges. The Presiden® points to the vast importance of a more general familiarity with the story, not only of our own country. but ‘of all otlier countries, since our development cannot be understood without a knowledge of how it is linked with the growth and problems of other countries, * ok ok % Much has been said in the way of criticism of the history text books of the Washington schools. More mght be said of the failure of all schools to make history of the last decade alive to the pupils who happen to haie passed the particular grades where history is taught while so much of recent history has been in the mak- of the for example. To that «t’ come the importance of the daily study and discussion in ait grades above the primary of d pers, so that pupils will tie up ¥t book “lessons” of the cen- turies with the current events of the sent world, for most of the: nts have their roots in the centu- ceding. ing—of the causes and event wa world point n s linking present and past i elligent comprehension Wi'l be acquired and both history and “mews” will take on new interest This cannot be done with text books nor even with merely copies of thé daily papers: it must be iute préted by oral discussion, ied by 1 telligent teaching. History thus taugh becomes very different from the dry cs of battles; it takes ning, which fasemate to the skill of the on life and me in proportion teacher. President Harding says mos “It is everlastingly true that, on the t wisely fording periodic examinations with- out constant care, but that is all. The plan here suggested would give complete yearly medical attention at a fixed premium. lis to be found whole. the best guide to the future n the proper under- lessons of the past.” Ly P. V. Coilins.) standing of th right. 16: \Dr. A. C. Millspaugh, Assisted by British, Reorganizes Finances of Persian Empire BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. From Teheran comes the news of the excellent start made by the Amer- ican advisers, who, at the request of the shah's government, were selected Ly Secretary Hughes, in conjunction with Secretary Mellon, to take charge of the reorganization and administra- tion of the finances of that ancieut empire. The head of tlic mission, Dr. A. C. Millspaugh, who, with the titlc of administrator gencral of the finances, an excellent choice, has & William Morgan Shuster, who was treasurer general and financial ad- viser of Persia cleven or twelve years ago; for he has secured the cor- dial co-operation of the Britlsh au- thorities, which Shuster did not ¢njoy. In thoSe days prior to the great when Eungland and Rus:ia wera Virtually allied by the treaty of Reval concluded by Edward VIl and hephew. Czar Nicholas 11, efforts were ade by the British and MusCovite n governnients 1o avoid every possible cause of friction, aud cspecially was this the case in Persia, where until] the treaty in question the inter these two powers had usually flicted. 5 Conscquently, when Morgan Shuster. who had already earned the fll willj of the entire foreisn diplomatic cotps at Teheran by decining to pay the customary_official visits rcquired by ctiquette, bocame involved in a very bitter quarrel with the Russian min- “ter plenipotentiary, he failed to re- ceive the proper support from any ot its members, among the most preju- diced against him being his country woman, the American wife of the British’ envoy, the late Barclay, deughter of the late Henr G. Chapman of New York. ~Naturally tha Persian officials, Whose corruption and incompetence Morgan _Shuster had undertaken to reform, were en- ouraged by this attitude of the diplo. matic corps to defy his authort i< authority was not only defied, but also derided by the natives of ever. s His position became intoler- and he came home. * ok kK con- able The reasons which prompted the late Sir George Barclay, who was not | a success at Tcheran, to refuse his support to Morgan Shuster no longer exist. Russia has ceased to have any ties with Great Britain. Aside from the fact that the United States and Great Britain are working in closer sympathy and understanding | today than at any time in the history of the two nations, England has vast terests in Persia and is too keenly :.rx‘h-a to the importance of that country's economic reconstruction. the development of its resources and prospcrity and the maintenance ot fts national independence as a bul- wark against bolshevist designs upon ndia not to wish every kind of success to the American inission of Dr. Mills- augh. Pithe latter is receiving the most wholchearted support and backing from Sir Peroy Loraine, the British minister plenipotentiary, who pos- sesses a greater amount of cxperience of Fersia than almost any other member of King George's diplomatic service, while another of Dr. Mills- paugh's most powerful and useful supporters is 8ir Hugh Barnes, pr | | | reat advantage over his predecessor, | | nis | jauicle ts ot | ! [roint, r George | dent of the Tmperial Bank of Persta, former minister of finance and ot foreign affairs of India and one of the most distinguished veterans of the formerly magnificent English civil service of India. it Although it is too soon as vet to arrive at any satisfactory balance be- tween the expenditures’ of the gov- ernment and its revenues until the Ameriean mission is further advanced in its task of the reorzanization of the resources of the state, Dr. Mills- raugh and his associates have already inspired so much confidence at Tehe- ran thut he has Lad no difficulty in obtaining. through Sir Hugh Barnes. an advance from the Imperial Bank of Persia sufficient to cnable him to wipe out the deficit, probably the Tast one which the shai's government will be called upon to face. Of course, Dr. Millspaugh and his companions have taken warning from the past and arc exercising tha utmost tact and diplomucy, with the result that, being on friendly terms with all the foreign diplomatic corps, they likewise enjoy the respect and regard of the natives, who are very to see in which direction the wind blows. * x ox % So much dissatisfaction existy among the public in Great Britain over the outcome of the commission on the bestowal of peerages and othet hereditary honors in return for mers political support and monetary contri- butions to the pariy campaign funds that o powerful movement has been sturted in order to bring about another Inquiry, not only to prevent any further misuse of the roval pre- rogative, but, what is far more to the to expore the abuses of this nature in the past and to bring the rticipants in these transactions into public obloquy and to justice. The former commission called upon to deal with the matter is popularly charged with having devoted all tis eflorts to the prevention of cxposuro and to whitewashing the persons who Wwere known to be involved. A large element of the conserv tives luve joined with the radicals und with the labor members in a de- mand for turther investigation, poin:- ing out that for hundreds of years past the purchase and sale of peer- ages and other houors has been a criae in the exes of British law. Thus the Duke of Buckingham in tne reign of Charles I was Impeached by both houses of parliument for the sala of honors, a specific case being tne sule of 4 peerage to the Lord Roberts of the day for the sum of $40.000 Parliazment denounced it as a heinous crime. And Henry Grattan, the Irish patriot and leader of the Dublin par- liament .at Dublin, insisted in 1790 that the action of the then Lora |Castlereagh, afterward Lord London- derry, in distributing peerages in re- turn for votes in favor of the Act Union was still more impeachable and criminal than the offense of the Duke of Buckingham, since it was a mis- use of the prerogative of the crown to destroy the privileges of parlla- ment, and as an attempt to under- mine the fundamental laws of the land and the constitution of the realm. What was a crime in the reign or Charles 1 and in the days of Henry Grattan is a crime today. and thers are many dp!('blo in England who are determined not to let the matter rest and to bring the offenders to justice, especially the purchasers of heredie -/tary honors,