Evening Star Newspaper, March 21, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2f, 1923 e e e ——————————————————————— e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e B e OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM WILE ! l | THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. ‘WEDNESDAY. ...March 21, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES. Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office Nassau St. hieago OMces Tower Buildiog, Buropean Office: 16 Regent St., London, England. Tre Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, is delivered by carriers within the city at 60 cents per month; daily only, 40 cents per month: Sunday only. ts per month. Or- ders may be sent by " or 'telephone Main 0. Collection is 1 by carrlers at the end of each month. Rate b, Mail—Payable in Advance. ryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1 yr., §8.40; 1 mo. Dally only.........1yr, $6.00; 1 mo. Sunday only.......1yr, §2.40; 1 mo., S0c 20¢ All Other States. Dally and Sunday..1 yr., $10.00: 1 mo., 85¢ 60c 25¢ Member of the Associated Press, The Assuciated Pross s exclusively entitled o the use for republication of all news d patches eradited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and alse the local news pub- Iished herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Straightforward Diplomacy. There is not oftgn fqund a better example of straightforwardness and frankness in diplomacy than the statements given out by Mr, Hughes, the Secretary of State, and Col. Roose- velt, the stant secretary of the avy, correcting erroneous impres- sions they had inadvertently given re- garding the British naval program. as; found. Both France end Germany reparations, but while each is per- sistent in calling attention to the mis- takes of the other, neither is willing to admit itself otherwise than blameless. And while each is striving at whatever cost to “save its face,” both are head- ed for a smash from which all the world is bound to suffar. The laborites demand that either the United States or the league of na- ticns be called upon to act as arbiter in a settlemerft of the problem of repa- rations. Unfortunately, the United States, at least, cannot act upon in- vitation of the labor parliamentarians. This government has made it plain that it stands ready to use its good offices, but first there must be present two prerequisites now conspicuously lacking. The first is a willingness by the parties in interest to submit their cause to arbitration, and the second a formal expression by these govern- ments of desire that America assume the role of arbiter. Until these missing clements are present, urgings from is caused during the pollination period ?| have made mistakes with respect to | of treés, which lasts with us from the flowering of the trees until about the 1st of May. Formerly when a mys- terious inflammation of the eyes and membranes of the nose and throat set in late in summer end early autumn men classed it as a “‘cold in the head.’ Later the affiction was ascribed to frritation caused by floating pollen of goldenrod, and many persons would avoid the plant as they would poison ivy. But goldenrod is hard to get away from In summer and fall. It grows nearly everywhere in the tem- perate zone. One must go far north or to great altitudes to avoid this flower. Later it was pointed out that pollen of the goldenrod is relatively heavy, and that it does not fill the air as does pollen of other plants. The ragweed, those varieties known as “common” and “giant,” were placed under charges of causing hay fever. All the world knows that the pollen of this weed Is very light and travels far and wide in a breeze, and that it will scatter over quite a wide radius while Europe and demands in this country i the air is still. Now we are told that that the United States inject itself into the controversy will be equally in vain, The American Way. In striking contrast to the friction created by France's methods of collect- ing reparations from Germany is the picture presented of the negotiations of the United States in securing re- imbursement for the expenses of American occupation of the Rhineland under the armistice stipulations. Eliot Wadsworth, assistant secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Accepting as true what they had r son to believe were reliable reports, that since the Washington conference is the representative of this govern- ment in the conferences now being held in Paris, the proceedings of which many spring “colds” are the spring type of hay fever, and that it 1s caused by pollen of alder, birch, maple, elm and other trees. We seem to be sur- rounded by more dangers than we thought. Notwithstanding preventive measures and various ‘“cures,” we seem to have hay fevey with us still, but perhaps scientists are getting the upper hand of it or will at last bring the disease to terms. ——— For Safety in the Streets. Recent action by firms operating “fleets” of automobiles will give the public an opportunity of helping to enforce traffic regulations. This action of various firms is not expected to the British were rcconstructing their | promise to bring about an amicable | make the streets safe, but it is a battleships in ways to make them|gettlement, o based upon equity as to | move toward safety. All business firms more formidable, they gave currency leave this country satisfled and both using automobiles should co-operate to the reports in a formal way, the Germany and our late allies lacking |for the benefit of the public and for former in a public address and the lat- ter in testimony before committees of Congress. But now, being assured by the British government that the re- ports were incorrect, they frankly acknowledge their error, and make their amends in a way which assures that the correction will be given even wider circulation than the original er- roncous statements. Diplopacy such as this cannot help but make for better understanding and closer friendship between the two nations. It is to be regretted that a like spirit is not more general in in- ternational intercourse, but unfortu- nately there has been handed down from less enlightened times a diplo- matic theory that it is beneath the dignity of a government or a states- man ever to acknowledge error, no matter how blamelessly they may have fallen into it. A case in point is the unhappy assertion by Lord Balfour on behalf of the British gov- ernment that the United States in ef- fect required Great Britain to guar- antee war loans made to other Euro- pean allies. The -rtion is disproved by every particle of available evidence, and has been specifically denied by the present officiuls of the Treasury, by Mr. McAdoo, who was Secretary of the Treasury at the time the loans were made, and by others who had first-hand knowledge of the trans tions. But so far the Balfour state- ment stands as the official declaration of the British government—not a vital- ly serious matter, it is true, but a constant irritant to Americans and a cloud on the relations of the two great English-speaking nations. There is no thought that Lord Bal- four was intentionally misleading in his statement. It is believed that he was the victim of faulty memory or erroneo information, but it un- denlably has ereated a bad impression that he has not shown the same readi- ! ness to correct an injustice that Mr. Hughes and Col. Roosevelt have| shown in the matter of British ships. They accepted without question the word of the British government tiat they had been misinformed. There ap- parently is lacking an equal British readiness to accept the American ‘word. —— The Shrine. It will outdo all the triumphal dis-| plays of Rome. The imperial potentate | says that the coming display “is to be | the diapason of a great people at peace, zathering about the standards | of liberty, singing the songs of happi- ness and dancing with unshackled feet.” And, “the great event will end in the allegory of a harmonious coun- ry.” This has to do with the coming of the Shriners. One hundred and thirty-five temples—count them—will be here, “the largest number of tem- ples ever assembled.” On Tuesday, June 5, will be the great parade of patrols, bands, chanters and other Shrine units from the Capitol to ‘Washington Circle. There will be memorable ceremonies, and in the evenings there will be fireworks. Al- ready the District authorities are making ready to “handle” the crowd, | and everybody in Washington is mak- ing ready to welcome the crowd. It is believed that the session of the Mys- le Shrine will draw more strangers to ‘Washington than an inauguration. Perhaps even a greater crowd will come than used to come to those real inaugurations when we had inaugura. lon ceremonles with an inauguration ‘ball and promenade concerts included. The old town will be open to the Shriners. Of course, “open” in this sense means that the town will extend the greatest hospitality conformable ‘with the Constitution. —_—— A Yonkers judge declines to fine speeders on the ground that it would ambunt to “selling” the privilege. No such objection attaches to jail sen- ‘tences. —_——————— A sure sign of spring: Georgia peach krop reported seriously damaged. —_—— Too Costly Pride. Tn their declaration that nelther France nor Germany should permit pride to stand in the way of a settle- ment of the Ruhr-deadlock, the inter- mnational labor parliamentarians in ses- slon at Paris have hit the nail on the head. If the nations primarily inter- ested would only put aside that pride ‘which impels them to uphold past er- yors of omission and commission, and get down to the realities of the situa- ton, there is no reasonable doubt that # Way to ssttiement would speedily be, any ground for resentment or bitter- ness. An Associated Press dispatch from Paris quotes Assistant Secretary Wadsworth as expressing optimism with regard to the ultimate outcome of the negotiations, although, the allied powers had not yet formu- lated definite proposals as to the method of payment to the United States, he could not go into details. The details yet to be dealt with com- prise the number of installment pay- ments: how they are to be paid; what priority would be given the United States; whether the United States should be given a certain percentage of German reparations payments and how Belgium’s priority will be af- fected. One suggestion advanced is the pay- ment of $20,000,000 annually for twelve years. While Mr. Wadsworth is of opinion that such a sum is but a slight percentage of Germany’s real ability to pay, he indicated that this belief would not operate to balk a set- tlement. This expression may be re- garded as indicative of the disposition of the United States, which no doubt is reflective of the attitude of the peo- ple of this country. A similar spirit vas manifest in the acceptance by our citizens of the terms of the British debt settlement, regarded as very gen- erous to Great Britain. The object then was to “get the settlement be- hind us,” and Assistant Secretary Wadsworth seems wisely inclined to the same policy in the current nego- tiations. Raules of the Air. ‘The air is coming into the news. The United States may bring about ac- tion for an agreement between nations on rules of the air for radio and air- craft. The State Department has a re- port of @& commission which met at The Hague to consider this question, and that report may be the basis for an international conference called by this. government to formulate and agree on rules for use of the air. Those interested in wireless have a keen understanding of the need of air rules. Messages that should go through ought to have a clear track. Already there is great disturbance be- cause of interference. Commercial broadcasting stations complain of it, {and it is discouraging to radio users. Though the situation at present is in- convenient rather than serious it might easily become grave. There is a meeting in Washington now of the National Radio Chamber of Commerce for the purpose of working out regu- lations and making suggestions for the prevention of interference. This is a technical matter, and it is a safe conjecture that the radio experts will solve the problems that ere before them. The Amaryllis in Favor. The popularity of a flower show, and of the amaryllis show in particu- lar, may be gauged by the attendance figures. Of the amaryllis show it was | said that 16,810 persons visited it on Sunday. Roughly, that would be one visitor every two and one-half seconds of the time the flowers were on ex- hibition from 9 a.m, to 9 pm. This was not a flower show in the broadest sense, being an exhibit of a number of varieties of the same species and the difference between the varietles being mainly in color rather than in form. The brilllance of the flowers seems to have caught the public fancy, and it may be that we will have an amaryllis boom during which it will be thought that no home will be com- plete without an amaryllis, just es a few years ago it seemed that every home must have a rubber plant. —————— If the weather does not steady down the odes to spring this year are likely to be based on a combination of the meters of “Come, Gentle Spring!™ and “'Twas the Night Before Christmas.” ———————— ‘The real Franco-German deadlock: Germany wants to know how much cash France expects; France wants to know how much cash Germany can pay. —_———e—————— Hay Fever. The spring type of hay fever is something new to most persons, but it would seem that there must be such a malady, because it is announced that the Women's Welfare Association “will resume its clinic for the pre- ventive treatment of thet disease, of which esthma is & frequent after- math!* It is said that much bay fever, since- the purpose of making their employes careful and rule-obeying, and weeding out those who are careless or rule- defying.' This new group, names of members of which have been given in the news columns, co-operates with the Washington Safety Council, and each member of the group invites a written report of any infringement of a traffic rule by an employe. Carried out, this plan will have a helpful ef- fect. It will give each firm a check on its drivers. Could the plan be entered into by all firms sending machines through the streets a material reduc- tion in the number of accidents ought to be brought about. ——————— News dispatches indicate that the communists, wisely despairing of mak- ing any considerable progress with their doctrines on this side of the At- lantic, are going to try to spite us by founding a “United States” in Europe. ———— Possibly it is desire to be at the re- ceiving instead of the paying end of the world's largest debt that is caus- ing British emigration to the United States to break all fecords. —_——— Mr. Baruch advocates taking the reparations problem out of the realm of politics and human emotion. If that could be done there would not be any reparations problem. ————— Yesterday's 50-point rise in Piggly Wiggly stock, which was followed by a most abrupt break, shows what can happen when this little pig goes to a market frequented by bulls and bears. ——— A Ruhr offer direct from Stinnes to France might prove attractive, as about all Germany's real cash would be back of it. —_——— Mr. Bryan puts aside the crown. He wants the democrats to nominate a man not previously identified with presidential contests. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Nothing New. There's nothing new in politics, There's nothing new in art; ‘The Chinese say they know it all Before we get a start. And men who view the pyramids And travel at their ease Declare that the Egyptians were Ahead of the Chinese. Each little jest that one essays, Each passing verbal trick, Is very likely to be found On some Assyrian brick. But why pursue the doleful theme, Since no relief we view? There’s nothing new in telling men There is nothing new. The Radiator. ©Oh, the weary radiator; it has toiled the winter throug! We nourished it with soft coal and with boards and barrels, t0o; We utterly forgot it when it did its duty well; ‘Wher it failed, our indignation impossible to tell. ‘We were often fain to chide it es a source of much distress ‘When it used to raise a racket, just to ease its loneliness. ‘We begrudged it all amusement, and ‘we thought it very wrong For it to find a little leak and sizzle forth & song. 'twas Ere long ’twill have to meet the bene- factor's usual lot; The spring will gently blossom forth and then 'twill be forgot, And folks who turn to cleaning house will speak in accents rude About the room it takes. And this is ‘human gratitude! Language. Language, whose mighty spell could .raise ‘Mankind from dull ‘and brutish ways, ‘Which reaches empty air to frame ‘The hero-making word of fame. Language, which formed ambitious plan, ‘When Caesar ruled his fellow man, ‘Which told the passion and the woe Of lovers true, like Romeo. Language, the first of all our arts, Yet simplést index of our hearts; Language, to which our caps we doff— Is now most used in talking golf, WASHINGTON BY FREDERIC Some significance is attached to the fact that Attorney General Daugh- erty’s announcement of President Hard- ing’s designs on a second term made no mention of Calvin Coolidge. Now and then it is whispered that the Vice President may not be renom- inated and that Mr. Harding will be given another running mate in 1924. Failure of the Senate on March 4th to give its presiding officer the cus- tomary vote of thanks, while pri- marily due to obstructive tactics by Senator Heflin, is recalled in connec- tion with the Coolidge vice presi- dential talk. Gen. Charles G. Dawes of Illinois, is being named as a possi- ble tail-end for the Harding ticket next year. So is former Gov. Henry {J- Allen of Kansas. Allen was to have had the place in 1920, but Leonard Wood's supporters ‘withdrew their Cacking of "disappointment over Allen’s speech in which the gen- eral’s name was placed in nomination. Allen has just gone to the near east for chautauqua lecture material. * ok ok ¥ Maj. Gen. Hugh L. Scott, U. S. A retired, been appointed chairman of the newly created state highway commissinn of New Jersey by Gov. olizer. Since he left the Army, Scott has lived at Princeton. The grizzled old Indian fighter, whom the redmen christened “Man Who Talks With His Fingers,” retains a lively Interest In the wards of the on, being an active member of the board of Indian commissioners. They are fervently hoping that the white man who “speaks” so eloguently the universal sign language of the tribesmen will not let zeal for roadbuilding Kkill his enthusiasm for the Indians, among whom he lived, fought and worked for years. Scott has blazed many a trail through the untrodden western country and places pecullarly expert experience at Gov. Silzer's command. * ok kK Diplomatic quarters in Washington are buzzing over the real reason for the indefinitely delayed return of a certaln capable and popular chief of legation—a minister plenipotentiary. The facts are just trickling through from his remote capital. He is a bachelor and when he arrived in the United States two years ago brought with him an extraordinarily accom- plished kinswoman, to be his chief aide in both a diplomatic and social sense. She was duly accredited in the State Department list and trans- acted no little of the minister's pro- fessional business. Now, sad to re- late, it has come to the attention of his foreign government that “petti- coat influence” unduly predominated EDITORIAL DIGEST Miss Lyons Got What She Started Out For. The successful hoax whereby Evelyn Lyons deceived the doctors in attend- ance so that they believed her “running a temperature” unheard of in medical annals is made the occasion for much humorous comment by editors of the country. Anyhow it “placed Escanaba on the map,” as the Boston Globe sees it, and that newspaper thinks Evelyn Lyons “is suffering mentally rather than physi- cally. The malady is in her head. It 1s by no means an uncommon one. If all of those who are afflicted with craze for publicity were as gifted with orginality as the girl who fooled the octors the newspapers would be driven out of business. A slip of a girl put the medical profession in a ridiculous light. The guffaws are at the expense of the doctors. But, after all, they demonstrated that fhey are human. Not so, argues the Pittsburgh Press. tw of a semsibla child. Yet woman is old enough to have been a professional nurse. Even as a demon- stration of the gullibility of educated men, such as doctors, it is hardly worth all the paper and ink that has been spent on it. Vanity and an insane de sire to attract attention must have been the motive, rather than a desiie to show doctors how are. And that kind of insanitv—the Chicago doctors call it hysteria—is very common nowadays. An inside view of the young lady’s brain would be Inter- esting.” In this connection, ‘“now the hoax has been exposed,” the Pittsburgh Chronic Telegraph suggests, ‘“‘there Wil be universal wonder at the exceed- ing credulity of the attending physi- cian. The center of the sensation, rev- eled for three weeks in_ her suddenly found fame which now has turned to notoriety. Her daily correspondence in- creased to hundreds of letters. It is true that those who discovered the de- ception were physicians, but they had done some independent thinking and had come to the conclusion that the case required not medical skill. but some clever detective work. Tha ex- planation is that the person who delib- erately shams illness for the mere pur- pose of arousing sympathy and causing a sensatlon is mentally unbalanced t an extent calling for radical treatment. “Hers will become a classic_exam- ple of malingering,” suggests the Bal- timore American, “a record case of imposture of a kind to which medical practitioners are occasionally ex- posed, but with rare instances of a deception so long continued or so cleverly exercised. The fact that the perpetrator of the trick at Eccanaba has been a nurse and was familiar with medical treatment may suggest the animus of her imposture. But, certainly, it she aspired to fame as the author of the prize hoax of its kind in modern times the fame is all her own.” This young woman, how- ever, “will surely seek new worlds to conquer,” argues the Hartford Cour- ant. “She is only eighteen and al- Says Jackson Fought In Revolutionary War To the Editor of The Star; In Sunday Star I find an Interest- ing article headed “Shift of Statues.” It alleges as a reason for removing Gen. Jackson's rampant equsetrian statue from its old site in Lafayette Park “that all the statues there are of revoluntionary heroes, except Jackson's” Is this historically true? i My recollection of Jackson's his- tory is that he was not only a rev- olutionary soldier, but also, though only a half-grown boy—a born hero —conspicuous while a prisoner of war in the British camp by indig- nantly refusing, when ordered, to black a British officers boots, and de- fled them with form, “by the Eternal” Away from books, I have now to rely on a memo- ry not too reliable at eighty-five. But if Jackson was not a hero of the revolution, as brave and deflant as Nathan Hale even, then my mem- ory is much at fault. He was nine years old when Jefferson wrote the Declaration—eight when Washington assumed command at Cambridge. Clem, “the Drummer Boy of Chicka- mauga”—now a major general, retir- ed—in one historlc moment became not only a soldier of the civil war, but- a herolc world figure, as the Confederate general fell dead under Johnny’s accurate aim. Some one says the young man Jack- son was not regularly enlisted—nor was Gen. Clem, & tragic mo- i ai s a very cheap trick, not worthy | this yvoung ! unsuspecting they | trus Jacksonian | at the legation, and neither the min- ister nor his fair relative is to re- turn to Washington. * K K Kk Cleveland is making a strenuous bid for one or both of the great national conventions in 1924. San Francisco, which did itself proud at the San Francisco conclave in 1920, would like a chance to entertain the repub- licans on the same hospitable scale next year. St. Louis, Kansas City and Chicago also are contenders for both the democratic and the G. O. P. pow- wows. National committees expect a city which bids for a convention to come forward with at least $125,000 for actual expenses. These consist of printing (tickets alone cost $25,000), convention hall decorations, music, flowers and hotel headquarters for the extensive staff of the national committee. Usually an additional $125,000 for “entertainment” has to be guaranteed. * k% % David F. Houston, who was alter- nately Secretary of Agriculture and Secretary of the Treasury during the Wilson administrations, is the very latest democratic presidential “pos- sibility.” His friends say that Hous- ton's particular claim to favor, apart from his intrinsic merits, is that he's the only man in the field who might be called a favorite sonsat-large. By which they mean that he was_born in North Carolina, lived fn South Carolina, was graduated from Har- vard, has been a university president in Texas and Missouri and now is domiciled in New York, where H has president of the Bell * ok kK And still they come—the invincible Davises, who are joining the Harding administration in groups. Having ac- quired the assistant secretaryships of war and commerce, the clan now sends David Willlam Davis, former Governor of Idaho, to be a special assistant secretary of the interior. His mission, this observer is inform- ed, is to concentrate upon a vast Co- lumbia river reclamation project. £ ay The Americanization of the once idyllic land of Nippon proceeds apace. Tokio {s about to construct a network of subways on the Yankee model. The Foundation Company of New York, an international building syndi- cate, has obtained the contract, and an initial loan of $15,000,000 on ac- | count of a project ultimately to cost $40,000,000, has been made by Ameri- can and British bankers. (Copyright, 1923.) Veady the physicians have made many repairs and alterations in Evelyn's | earthly tabernacle, for she has to her |credit” three operations, exclusive of | theexcision or elimination of the hot- | water bottle, one automobile accident land a love affair. She may not ar- ve, but she has at least taken a run- ning start for the hospital for the in- sane.” Yet, while she “may be an hysterical malingerer.” as described, |the Raleigh Times points out that “the common run of folks, especially those who have experienced the dis- lcomfort of holding a thermometer junder the tongue while the doctor de- {cided between bread pills and epsom | {salts will not be able to resist the {temptation to chuckle at the joke. | |She’ wolld never have been able to put such a thing over on a veterina- |Hian. But the doctors are looking for something they can thgorize tabout. So keen are they for unusual |Symptoms that we sometimes wonder if some of them do not prefer cases vhich they do not understand those which they do. But the girl is lucky. 1Tt is a wonder she was not operated on to find the source of her : heat. to is nothing amazin, 8ay! the Pittsburgh Post, “that lghe df\)(‘fi tors were fooled at first with this case. Practically all who summon them are sick, or imagine they are. t(hvre can be no reflection upon the intelligence of the person who is de jceived where there is every reason to | expect action in good faith. That an | |@abnormal person seeking publicity is | able for a time, by feigning illness, to ! fool the doctors simply emphasizes |that the physicians are so used to honesty on the part of patients as| scarcely to give a thought to the pos- sibility of finding _dishonesty." " 1t was suggested by the Chicago Jour- nal that this “is a case for Coue, and the incident proves once more that a hysterical person, secking a chance to pose as a freak or as & martyr, cannot only imitate any disease known, but can improve on nature. A woman who will go to such pains fo decelve her [friends and attendants cannot be called ‘well’ in af | sense of that term.” T IPEOnSE If all she wanted was “notor . the Columbus Journal feels “she eor. tainly got that at the expense of the attending physicians, who must feel sufficiently sheepish to wish the Birl's temperature really had been 14 long enough to bring results. o which the Utica Press adds, “The laugh certainly is on the doctors who let the announcement of such an ab-. normal temperature be made without making absolutely sure that it was correctly taken. If sufficient atten- tion had been given to details even & hysterical girl ought not to be able | to fool those in attendance.” She was a true “notoriety craver,” as:the Nor- folk Ledger Dispatch sees the case, and “it is not to be belleved thut Miss Lyons was trying to ridicule any physician or any number of physi- cians, and mere hysteria would no(' account for her practice of decet.| Perhaps she could think of no other way to attain notoriety, so she select- ed the novel but childish method of faking an unheard-of temperature.” | | | Raps “Intangible’® Tax As Penalty on Thrift To the Editor of The Star: I read with some interest that portiort of an editorial which ap- peared in The Star of yesterday which said: “Anything that will di- rect the people’s minds to saving part of their earnings is to be com- mended and supported.” It seems to me that when the people of the Dis- trict of Columbia are punished for saving, under the intangible tax law, which directs that a tax be paid on| money in bank, cash in your pocket and on certain stocks, that the en- couragement to save is, in part, elim- inated. Is there not some prospect 1 that such an iniquitous law may some day be repealed? I have heard it I stated that a second tax (and possi- bly a third tax) might easily be exacted. ANTHONY C. ADDISON. —eee ment came that stamped him as a hero. Neither was on any roll of paper then—both on fame eternal roll now. Age is not relevant here. Even Joan de Arc became immortal at fourteen! If it were, Jackson was ten when Saratoga was fought and fourteen when Corn- wallis surrendered. He was really a revolutionary hero, as truly as Ro- chambeau or Lafayette—this young hero who a few years later was the hero of New Orleans and President. It were well to consider clre(lllwl before trifiilng with that old monu- ment in Lafayette Square, gray with years apd dlike, enshrined in im- mortal sentiment as holy as the stars in our PRIV, DALZELLy itime the effect is grad {which Politics at Large BY N, O. IESIING;:R- “You cannot beat somebody with nobody” is an old aphorism among politiclans which seems to have ap- pealed to the republican leiders who have launched President Harding's campaign for renomination. There is a “somebody” in the fleld now in whose behal? it is announced by re- sponsible individuals that he is an avowed candidate for nomination by the republican party as its candidate for election to the office of President of the United States. This does uot debar other somebodies from stepping forward with the same aspiration—as many, indeed, as may see fit to do so. But “the point is, they will have to step forward pretty soon if they ex- pect to get anywhere. The longer they defer the stronger will grow the organization of the announced candi- date. Politicians have a keen in- stinct for allying themselves with a Drospective winner. It may be reasonably expected, the politicians say, that the primarics ror the selection of delegates to the na- tional convention will send some delegates who will express preference for otner candidates than President Harding. It is quite likely that two states will support “favorite sons.” Wisconsin may be expected to de- clare for Senator La Follette. It de- pends upon Senator Hiram Johnson's dictum whether California will go to the convention with his name upon its banners or fall in line behind President Harding's candidacy. In the meantime the President's backers in California will not let the grass BTOW under their feet in strengthen Ing their organizataion in that state. * ok ok k¥ The men who will be in charge of the President's campaign for re- nomination have not the scintilla of 4 doubt as to his nomination and never have had. The only question under debate recently was as to the time for announcement of his candi- dacy. The reasons for their belief in the inevitability of his standing for a second term, provided he kept his health, were gbvious, including not only his own vindication, but the vindication of the party, the republi- can Congress and the administration. This accounts for the fact that there has been more discussion in the re- publican leadership lately of plans and prospects for carrying the eiec tion than there has been of announce ment of his candidacy. It may be stated that for many weeks past the republican leadership has been mak- ing a quiet but very painstaking sur- vey of the state of pubiic political sentiment in the country and b been reassured by the returns, They are not advancing a forlorn hope in taking the field at this early day for the presidential campaign of 1924, but are going forward with a degree of confidence which is very marked in view of the bitter criticism with which the democrats have deluged the republicans in the past year. The re ports of the republican scouts agree that if the criticism registered at the Iy wearing off. * kK k¥ What the republican managers ex- pect, jn their view into the future, is | that President Harding’s and the party’s prestige will steadily grow as the months advance. They think that when the laws passed by the Sixty- seventh Congress and the first ses- sion of the xty-eighth Congress, will also be under republicar organization, begin to operate and their beneficent effects become mdre evident popular favor will set in to- ward the republicans. They are Sure President Harding will add in his personal appearance before the voters to the good impression he created in the campaign of 1920 and as he re ites the record of the republican party in fulfilling the promises made | in that campaign, * K K Kk Here is a psychological considera- tion which the republican managers believe will operate to the advantage of their party: Taking for granted that President Harding will be renominated and that there will be no factional split in consequence, they point out that the republican party has to all intents and purposes a candidate right now President. The candidate for President of the democratic party will not be known until some time in June, 1924, There will be a num- ber of candidates for the democratic nomination prior thereto, but the party’s candigate for election will not be known until the convention has {named him. Those aspirants for the democratic nomination will have diverse per- sonal views on party policies and the platform will not be written until a few months before the election. The republickn party’s prospective plat- form fo? the 1924 campaign can be practically visuadized now, as there is slight likelihood of its varying in radical degree from the one upon which the republican party rode to victory and into power in 1920. e A A So, it is contended, the country at this hour has a foundation of per- formance, past and prospective, of the republican party upon which to base judgment; has before it a man in proper person to size up and esti- mate as the almost certain candidate of the republican party in 1924. On the other hand, the politicians say, the democrats have only visions of a possible candidate and a platform. * ok ok ¥ The reaction of the democratic man- agement to the announcement of President Harding’s candidacy for re- nomination has been awaited with interest by the republican leaders. 1t was forthcoming promptly in a state- ment by Judge Cordell Hull, chair- man of the democratic national com- mittee, which was given as full pub- licity in the press, as the official pro- nouncement of the democratic man- agement warranted. = The republican management iS ex- pected to come back with a refuta- tlon of the charges of Judge Hull, although it is realized that it will be to some degree handicapped by the fact that the national committee is not supposed to be associated with candidacies except for election. But the national committee is within its rights in defending the course of the party in Congress and of the “ad- ministration” right in the middle of the party’'s present tenure of office, authority and legislative activity. * % % * As the republican politicians ana- lyzed the statement of the democratio national chairman the gravamen of his charges was that the announc ment of President Harding's cand dacy at this time was necessitated by what Judge Hull asserted be “the fact that his administration to date has been the most-conspicuous failure of any in the twenty-nine national administration: The statement also |charged that on account of this many republicans were looking about for another possible candidate. This statement was thought by re- publican politiclans to forecast the probable line of attack on the admin- istration and the party by the demo- crats in the coming month. Some of the republicans say It revealed a paucity of political ammunition ot heavy caliber in the possession of the democrats, and, anyhow, it shows the Jocation nd range of the enemy artillery, the effect of which the re- publicans hope to overcome between now and November, 1924. * % kX The democratic managers are su- premely confident—and they are sin- cere in it, too—of victory in 1924. As stated by Judge Hull, “one of the outstanding features of the campaign of 1924, will be the record of omission and commission of the Harding ad- ministration,” upon which issue ne says “the democratic party is ready now ‘to go to bat.” The republican managers declare they are just as ready to step up to the plate on that lgflo’ ana that they betere election daye CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS The Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover, believes in a campaign of education as the best means of de- veloping good judgment in both buyer and seller of all kinds of merchan- dise. Ignorance of conditions is waat makes for haphazard guessing and blind speculation. He would there- fore eliminate speculation by giving genuine and reliable information as to market conditions to all legiti- mate trade—such data us has been available heretofore mainly to big business only. He is therefore planning to compile all trade statistics gathered, not only by the Department of Commerce, bul also by the numerous trade assoc tions, and publish those data for d. tribution to the trade associations and .all parties interested. This will provide a sort of clearing house of legitimate data for legitimate trade and ought to curb specuiation and bring a contraction in the spread of cost of distribution from producers o consumers. The plan has the hearty indorsement and co-operation of the Manufacturers’ Association, but prob- ably not of the bulls and boars of Wall street. The stock in trade of the latter class is the secret informa- tion they gather, and especially the ignorance of facts by the general public. It is hard to bet on a sure thing when both parties know what is what. * k ok % How much does Congress cost per hour? It could be figured more closely than the present rough com- putation used herein to illustrate the extravagance of congressional econo- imists. These figures are close enough o start some accurate accountant to checking up the pennies. There are 435 representatives draw- ing 37,500 a year and perhaps an average of $500 mileage. To that add clerical expenses of, say, $3,000 a year, making, for very rough calcula- tion, a total cost of not less than $4.785.000 a year for the House alone, Probably the actual total is a million morc. Congress is .in_ session about siX months a year, averaging five hours a day, aside from time in their offices—a total of 1,440 hours, costing $4.785,000, or $3,322.50 an hour for every hour of persifiage and states- maniike discussion. In the closing hours of the last ses sion a bill was up to raise the salary of the House janitor $300 a year. The Senate janitor gets $500 more | than s paid the House janitor. Nearly an hour of precious time was | consumed by the statesmen debating |that $300 item and proving to the| constituents back at home how eco- nomical are their great representa- tives. The poor janitor lost his $300 and the public lost at least $3,000 This same House spends hours and | hours—costing over $3,322.50 an| hour—discussing local city affairs like a common village council rather than intrust such petty responsibilities to some local body or commission. 1f ! refuses self-government to Washing- tonians and once a week or once a| month spends from $15,000 to $25,000 | of time on evicting negroes out alley tenements, or paving certain| stréets, or refusing to build school- houses' because they cost money. * ¥ x % The Senate may be equally “eco-| nomical,” for it is noted that “by unanimous consent” the last issue of | the Congressional Record comprised | 208 pages of speeches which the courtesy of the Congress had given | members “leave to extend” and of that great mass.of verbiage fitty pages were monopolized by one |senator. The cost of pulishing tne | | Record is a page, so the speaches of that one orator—which were never {actually delivered anywhere—cost for t one publication no less than 2.500. It is pretty safe to estimate that they will not be fully read by twenty-five constituents and not by half a dozen other citizens, but the taxpayer pays the expense. The to- tal circulation of the Congressional i BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. | When nations nominate one of their | citizens to represent them abroad in the capacity of envoy it is customary | for them to inquire of the govern-| ment to which he is to be accredited whether any objections would be en- tertained to his appointment. Cases in which exception is taken to the nominee are by no means rare. Em- perors Alexander IIT and Nicholas 11| as well as Francis Joseph of Austria | and ex-Emperor William, are on rec- ord as having on several occasions | declined to receive men whom it was proposed to dispatch as representa- tives of foreign powers to their capi- tals. There have been instances when foreign governments have even intimated to the United States that| jthe men whom it had proposed tof designate as ministers would fail to| iplease, and it may be recallea that {for some years the United States was represented at Vienna only by charge d'affaires, because Emperor | Francis Joseph had offered objections on religious and social grounds to the American citizen whom the Presi- dent of the day had proposed for the post of envoy to Vienna. : One of the affairs of this kind which attracted unusual attention was the action of Edward VII when he caused the Turkkish government to be noti- | fied that Rechid Bey, who had been appointed by Sultan Abdul Hamid as| ampassador to Great Britain, was| “persona non grata” and would not be welcomed at the court of St. James. The sublime porte had been over- hasty in its appointment of Rechid Bey. for, without waiting to hear from London, it had not only publicly | gazetted the nomination, ~but had| actually intrusted him with his let- ters of credence and had dispatched him to join his post. Fortunately, he| was reached in Paris, before crossing | the channel, and was ordered to re- turn at once to Constantinople, where in due course the nomination was| canceled and another Turkish diplo- mat less objectionable to King Ed- ward was_found and duly sent to London, while Rechid Bey was con- soled with the ambassadorship at Petrograd. . | | | * oK K x Turkey has been particularly un- happy in the selection of those whom | she sends to represent her abroad and | cannot be congratulated on the choice | which she is reported by the cable| dispatches to have made of Nihad| Rechad Bey for the difficult and deli- cate position of Ottoman ambassador | at Washington. For Rechad Bey.l whe during the past twelve months} has been representing in a very un- satisfactory manner the Angora gov- ernment in London, though without Dbeing recognized at court as a mem- ber of the diplomatic corps, and merely received at the foreign' office on rare occasions as “diplomatic agent,” has gone out of his way while in London to assail in print and in the form of public interviews both President Harding and Secretary; Hughes. He complains in the course of this interview that the administration in taking any exception to the 'treat- ment of the Ghristian minofity in Asia Minor is guilty of “lamentable igno- rance”; that its views are “based on the wildest and most unreliable of evidence,” are “born of hate.” are characterized by “insult” and by “powerless threats,” and intimates that the government at Washington has become an “instrument of foreign intrigue and has endeavored to use the question of the protection of the Christian _ minorities in Asia Minor as & pretext for in of |5 | |cuss [utterance of Record is 40,000, of which all is give free, through the courtesy of mem- bers of Congress, except about 400 copies’to paying subscribers, * k ¥ * Postal laws and regulations forbi: free circulation of newspapers a other publications and forbid publi cations in the mails at ond (newspaper) rates of Dos which appear “primarily for advertising purposes” That does not apply to ongressional Record, althouzh Is practically all free 'circulation a 1y all for “advertising That one day's issue cost yers over $10,000, plus It was quite a library in itself - library of 40,000 volumes of 208 e The Sons of the American Revo tion have waked up to the importar of proving to the Daughters ther that they, too, are worthy of the sires. Years ugo the we clined to patronize the Daug but since the latter have erected million-dollar national headquarters in Washington and gained over 160 000 membership the So chance 10 maintain rightfully belongs to they have decided to imitate their Sisters, of the American Re ralse $500,000 with wh national headqua genealogical librar registrar general The purpose of these tv ganizations is not self-ad many outsiders belicve, but development of Amecrican the encouragement of pure ism E of the Amers lution has & membership 1 000, but with headquarte nite activities that enrollment n casily be multiplied Erety There is a fifteen-year-old has come to Wi o strate speed on a typewriter, whic she claims, amounts to 800 letters minute. That is over 120 word sixty seconds. Furthermore ather says she hus a ve 64,000 words. Most college § sors would be proud to be credi with a_ vocabulary of 10.000 word most of the general public get alon with about 3,000 words not understand over 1,000 word Wouldn't it be awful to « 64,000-word member of Congre have him or her engage in a ter? How could the opposition word in edgewi %k When a cabinet official “has lite answer” to give against governm means someth ftuation Hoover of ommerce regardi eries of Alaska °t_apart cert containing _the breeding grounc mon and put a protective ba fishing salmon in that territory. es the wrath of the salmon con which have shown interest only in their Immediate profits none in conservation of Salmon the permanent supp There danger in fishi bres grounds that the wou killed. It is one of the peeuli Pacific_salmon that, al range the ocean most of come into 1in Alaska rivers drive against the stream, jum acing rapids, u t Sons the 2 them. At undertake the Daught lution it de I Reve of 184 girl shington anad some can- and get no po- to a contention policies 4t hat artment : salmon fis President | tory of A the lust industr are a preciou pecple, and W to demand th diminished in action of the p. is more precious nance of our nation: (Oopyright, 1923, L their T rsons to whom than the mauint food supply.” P. V. Collins.) Proposed New Ottoman Ambassador Held to Be Unwise Choice for Post domestic affairs o is jealous of its soverei * x 0% These utterances, which were ma in London in November last, furnish sufficient evidence the fact that Rechad Bey possesses neither the tact nor yet the diplomacy needed to di American interests in Turkey and affecting Ti with either President Hardi Sec Hughes. Having his about the governm States and about those American nation rection of its of ey given such public derogatory opinions of the United destinic | scarcely expect to be we at Washington #s persona grata or ! find himself in any kit : and courteous cor ) members of the United sov ernment with whom he will be called upon to deal In one word, Rechad Bey seems t be a Turkish diplomat of the same stripe as Rustem Pasha of unsavor memory, wh toward the close of 1914, was compelled to take It parture from Washin noon ac of the outrageous interviews he published in the pre: in which he contended that the Christian ini- norities in Turkey were fnfinitely better treated than the colored popu- lation in the United States and th Philippines under the American and when summoned to the Whit House to give an explanation of his utterances _and of his conduct to President Wilson he impudently ad- hered to his statements and gave Woodrow Wilson to understand th: or bl unt w Iboth he and his government would ', well to do ures” in water and the away with the the Philippines horrible lvnchings and massacres of blacks which occur daily in the United States” before offering any ad co to Turkey or presuming to in- terfere there in behalf of the Arme. nian and_ Greek minorities Asia Minor, who are suffering. as n | Christians, but as political agitator: engaged in undermining the sover- eignty of the Ottoman empire.” * k. f It will be seen from this that Rus- tem Bey employed in his remarks to President Wilson and in his inter views in the American press almost the same arguments and even th very same phrases as those employed by Rechad Bey in his interview of last November about the present |administration at Washington—that Rechad Bey who, through lessness and through his of the veriest rudimen macy, did_so much_to om situation between Great ritain Turkey. The Turks are n tractable. Ismet Pasha, the Turk plenipotentiary at Lausanne, is a man of understanding, for when, on his return from Lausanne, he was asked by the national assembly at Angora (o obtain_certain guarantees from the English commander-in-chief in Tus~ key, Gen, Sir C e Harrington, h‘a repiled: *I have Gen. Harringtes's word; that is sufficient for all pur- poses.” If Ismet Pasha could not complete the negotiations at Lau- sanne it was solely because it was necessary for him to rveturn to An- gora to persuade the intransigent minority of the national assembly there to accept his view As for Rustem, now Angora envoy to Rome, he is a renegade Pole of the name of Alfred Bilinski, who, expel- led from the dual empire for dishon- esty, sought refuge in Egypf, where he was expelled as a mischief-making journalist of the financial order by Lord Kitchener, and then, making his way to Constantinople, abjured Chris- tianity for Islam in order to become Turkish ambassador to the Uniteq his the the States. /!