Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY. . ..March 27, 1823 T:HEODORE W. NOYES. The Evening Star Newspaper Company Rusisers OMice. 11t St. and Pennayivanis Ave. New York Office: 180 Nassau Bt. Chicago Office: Tower Bullding, Puropean OfSice: 16 Regeat 5t., London, England. ..Editor The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning ~ditlon, 18 dslivered by carriers within the clty 1 60 cepts per month; dally only. 45 cents meuth; Sunday ouly. 20 cents per month. Or- ders may be sent by mail, or hone Main 009, “Collection 15 made by carriers at the end 0f each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 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Yesterday's action of the board of principals in withdrawing its recommendation to the superintendent of schools that a rwo-year han be placed on interhigh school contests was in conformity with the best interests of the youth of Washington and will meet with the approval of the public generally. ‘The main objection advanced agalnst the interschool games waa that they operated to sacrifice the physical de- velopment of the general student body for the sake of the superdevelopment of the few who were fortunate enough 1o “make” the teams. This ebjection is to be obviated under the plan for more general participation in athletics by all the students and the employ- ment of an increased number of phy- sical instructors. The principals recognized, as was wointed out by The Star, that the spirit of manliness and hardihood de- veloped in athletic contests’ where rivairy is keen is too precious an as- set to be sacrificed if any other way out of the difficulty could be found, and they have justified the confidence which The Star expressed thet it was possible for them to find a way. It is now up to the school authori- tles to see that the rivairy in future contests is elean and manly, and that there is inculcated in contestants the spirit which holds that “it isn't the winning that counts; it's' the way you play the game.” ‘Washington at Easter. It may become the fashion or the abit for Americans to make an Zaster visit to Washington. The idea nleases. It is said in the news columns that “the vanguard of what promises to be the largest crowd of Easter visitors has arrived.” Many thousands nf Americans make an Easter trip. ‘The Easter pilgrimage to Atlantic City is an “institution,” and why not an Zaster pilgrimage to Washington? ‘This is the premier sightseeing city of America. Generally it is in leaf and flower dress at Easter. The parks are green, the sun is bright and the Potomac shines. It is casy to think of vest numbers of people from all parts of America making their way to their capital on Easter to visit the great structure with the big dome, to look on the high and wondrously im- pressive menument to Washington, to zather at the superb memorial to Lin- coln, to drive or walk in Rock Creek or Potomac Park, which rate among the world’s wonder spots, and to make little journeys to Arlington and Mount Vernon. 1f Lord Robert Cecil tells us all about the league of nations we may 'earn some additional reasons why America should not beleng. ‘The attention of discontented Ameri. can labor is called to the fact that British farm laborers are striking for & wage of $7.35 a week. It Washington had all. the new achoo! buildings it needs there would e opportunity to use both sets of pro- posed names. Tt is reported China is unable to pay ite debts. Well, what of it? How Do They Get That Way? Hugo Stinnes, the German indus- triel magnate, has been in Rome in consultation with Judge Elbert H. Gary and other American financial Teaders. An Associated Press dispatch from the Italian capital says: “From conversations which Stinnes has had with the Amerlcan delegates to the congress of the International Chamber of Commerce, it appears that he came 0 Rome when he heard of American’ proposals thet & portion or all of the war debts owing to the United States would be remitted after the European states had given assurances that they would put their finances in order.” ‘What American proposals; by whom put forward and by what authority? 1¢ they were advanced by Judge Gary and the American delegates to the congress of the International Cham. ber of Commerce they could have been no more than expressions of the per- sonal willingness of those gentlemen to assent to such a program. It is known that some very eminent Amer- jcan financlers have been frank and open advocates of cancellation, but it %o happens that these eminent finan- olers ars not the authorized spokes- ‘men of the American people, to whom the war debts are owed and who will have to stand the loss if Kurope does not pay. Certainly no accredited rep- resentative of this government ad- venced any such proposals at Rome or elsewhere, for outside the Congress of the United States there is not ‘odged anywhere. authority to make - such @ proposal. 1f the great Herr Stinnes traveled all the way to Rome under such a mis- apprehension it is to be feared some one has been ‘‘spoofing’ him. If the only fruit of his journey was to learn that certain American financiers, spoken of generally as’international bankers, are willing to cance! the war debts, he learned mothing new. Some of these bankers have long been con- ducting procancellation propegands, but they have not made eny eppreci- able headway in converting either public opinion or members of Congress to their hypothesis. The difficulty with whoever it was that advanced the ‘‘American pro- posals” at Rome, and with other can- cellationists, i{s that they have set out from the wrong starting point. ' They want to give away the people’s money {instead of their own. In addition to the eleven billion dollars owed the American government, FEurope is debtor to this country to the extent of two or three billion dollars in the form of commercial credits and private loans. If the international bankers and other cancellationists want to take over these debts and cancel them for the purpose of helping along gen- eral world recovery no one will inter. pose any objection. And when by do- ing this they have shown their own willingnees to make sacrifices they will be in position with better grace to talk sacrifice at the expense of over- | burdened American taxpayers. 1 Pan-American Amity. Secretary of State Hughes' mes- sage of amity to the Pan-American conference in Santiago, Chile, delivered j through Ambassador Henry P. Fletch- er, head of the American delegation, is & sincere and frank exposition of the sentiment of the people of the United States toward the peoples of the states of the southern continent. It breathes not only the spirit of { friendliness which animates the citi- zenship of the northern republic for { their neighbors to the southward, but makes a sensible and practical sug- gestion how to foster and maintain concord. Secretary Hughes goes to the heart of the matter when he says, “'All prob- lems find solution among those who desire to be friendly and just, and the present imperative demand of eiviliza- tion itself is that nations shall set themselves with all their resources of intelligence and skill to the elimina- tion of sources of controversy, and shall earnestly and dillgently seck for their manifold ills the cures which can only be found in friendship and good taith.” Mere formal arrangements be. tween nations, the message said, are futile in the absence of good will. This statement was exempiified in the fruits of the Washington arms limitation conference. It was only by the application of the doctrine of good intent, of the will to maintain peace. that such farreaching results were attained, especially in the happy out- come of the negotfations to solve high- Iy threatening problems in the rela- tions between China and Japan in the Shantung affair, and in the effecting of the four-power pact to conserve peace in the Pacific. Secretary Hughes points out how in- tent and good will can be fostered among all the republics of the two continents by “friendly collaboration of states secure in their recognized equality, in their mutual respect and ment of justice.” He points out that “there are no controversies among us that cannot be settled by the processes of reason.” But the processes of rea- son will not function unless there exists the basic element of the will to have peace, and it will be encouraged by just such conferences as the one now being held in Santiago. Bernhardt. News of the death and reviews of prominent place in newspapers throughout the world today. The death of this noted woman is a topic of discussion, oral and written, the |world over. No other woman of the stage was so widely known as Mme. Bernhardt, and it is no doubt true i that no other actress of any time was known to so many people. Her pass- ing brings a sense of deep regret to millions of men and women the whole world round. Mme. Bernhardt had been in the public eve many years as a great actress and en otherwise re. markable woman. It has been said of her by men acquainted with history of the drama, and who have compared and analyzed accounts of those wom- en who achieved fame in the theater during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, that she was the actress supreme. This is probably a just esti- mate. Tt is significant that since the late '60s until the year of her death intellectual men end women who paid particular ettention to drama and the stage agreed that Mme. Bernhardt was the greatest of actresses. She could simulate all the emotions and make them appear real. She had e voice of remarkable mellowness, flexi- bility and expressiveness. She was magnetic and highly intelligent. The lines of great writers never suffered by her delivery of them. Although her fame was founded on her work as an actress that fame ex- panded far beyond the theater and things associated with the playhouse, She was. a Frenchwomsn known to and almost hysterically praised by the French people for her patriotism, charity, French spirit and absorption in the ideals of her race. She was known to most persons throughout the workd who read newspapers and books ifor her vivid end daring personality, ’her splendid zeal in any interest that { engaged her and her brave contempt for the flls which age brought to her. There is a wide reading today of nar- ratives of the death and the life of Sareh Bernhardt. There is nothing like getting the other fellow’s point of view. Former President Wilson now Is in position to sympathize with congressmen who used to pester him for jobs for friends, B Memorial Trees. Memorial trees are increasing. As an exampls the Massachusetts Bo- ciety of Washington is to set out forty such trees near the Lincoln Memorial. Often one gets a glimpse of the plant- ing of memorial trees, It is a cere- mony that seems to be coming into favor, and there will be soon so meny ‘memerial trees in Washington that in order to find a particular tree a men will have to turn to a catalogue. This form of tres planting {8 & good prac- tice, and Washington® welcomes {t, Not 1ong ago the old Washingtonian who was interested in such things in the supremacy of the common senti- | the life of Sarah Bernhardt hold a; THE “EVENING STAR, knew all or most of the memorial trees In Washington. A memorial tree was then something different from that of the present. It was not planted 63 & memorial to & man. Generally it was set out by some famous Ameri- can, and -after his death came to be looked on as @ memorial to him. This ‘was the case of Crittenden oak, the Lot M. Morrill tree, the Beck elm, the Sumner tree, the Jefferson Davis tree, the Edwin Forrest tree and e score or more others which were pianted in the Botanic Garden when the late William R. Smith was its superintendent. There was another class of memorial trees. These were called memorials to this man and of that man because of some assoclation between the tree and the man. There were the Humboldt sassafras trees in the Soldiers’ Home grounds, once the property of the Riggs family, and before that . the property of the White and Bracken- ridge families. Humboldt, when he visited Washington in the course of his travels around the world, exam- ined these sassafras trees, commended them for their size, age and fragrance, and long, long efter that they came to be called the Humboldt trees. There was also the Webster tree, which stood in the grounds of the Vineyard, once the property of Conrad Robin- son, and before that the home of John Agg. Under that tree Danlel Webster sat and talked and drank with John Agg and his wife, who seems to have been quite a writer in her day. The old Washingtonians called that the Webster tree because of its assocla- tions. A few years ago it was a tall, lifeless trunk clothed with ivy, end perhaps it is not standing now. There i was the John Howard Payne chestnut, ern branch near Anacostia. The legend wag that Payne and George W. Tal- burtt, owner of the property, used to sit on a seat bullt around the trunk of the tres and drink in large number those ancient things known then as toddies and mint juleps. That tree passed by storm twenty years ago. The planting of memortal trees by the Massachusetts Society will be an impressive and pleasing event, and it is said that other state societies in Washington will set out trees in memory of some great man or event. Perhaps before long the parks and public reservations in Washington will be shaded by memortal groves. ————— Maryland cow which committed suicide by jumping into a creek, one finds a new pathos in those lines of James T. Fields Oh, to bo home again, home again! lUnder hie apple boughs, down by the mill*™ l They are urging psychology | metaphysics as the means to the end of world reconstruction. The difficulty 1s that Tom and Dick and Harry are only wiling to take the stuff in homeo- pathic doses. home again, ni —_———— ———— Growers complain of a combine to force cotton prices down; consumers complain of a combine to force sugar prices up. Both sets of complainants might combine to hold both prices level —_———— Leaders of both parties are reported as believing the high cost of living will be a 1924 campaign issue. Which will grab “the cheap dinner pail” as its slogan? ——— The phrase, “going north for a change of air" takes on new meaning. They are talking about an Army and Navy air race to the north pole this summ: ———— So far as the New York district is concerned, dry chiefs may come and dry chiefs may go, but the bootleggers seem to go on forever. All rural industry is not facing bankruptcy. One Maryland county just harvested a muskrat crop worth half a millon dollars. Cooper’s pen would find new themes of thrill and pathos in the story of Old Posey—"last of the Piute rebels.” SHOOTING STARS. PY PHILANDER JOHNSON An Early Lesson. My dad, he says, he says tc me, I've got to realize That work must never disagree ‘With folks that want a prize In this here life. But, goodness land, It strikes me as a rule There ain't enough o' circus and There's too blame much o' school. It's mighty tryin’ in the spring ‘To have to settle down. I'm thinkin’ 'bout the sawdust ring An’ wishin’ fur the clown. I long to hear the big brass band An’ gee the tricky mule. There ain’t enough o' circus and There's too blame much o’ school. But dad, he says I might as well Git used to feelin’ so. ‘He says, the honest truth to tell, He'd shorely like to go Afishin’, or with gun in hand, Or loafin’ where it's cool. He says 'twould be & circus, and Plain duty’s wuss than school. An’ 80 T'll strive an’ btand the stress Axn’ cheerful seek to be. ‘What's good enough for dad, I guess, Is good enough fur me. But when I think how things are planned It does seem downright crool. There ain’t enough o' circus and ‘There's tod blame much o' school. A Perverse Conclusion, ©Oh, white man hab a heap o’ sense; He read a book all day; He's allus worryin’ 'bout expense An’ nebber stops to play. De rabbit run; de squirrel climb From spring titme till de fall; Dey seems to hab a happy time ‘Wifout no brains at all. * De white man figger all day long, As bothered a8 kin be; De wild bird eings a little song An' gits his house rent frée. Dis ol book learnin’ doesn’t fit De pace dat I has set. Tt ‘pears like de mo’ brains you git De mo' you's gwine to fret, which stood on the banks of the Eest-; Reading the story of the rmstnl(ici and | WASHINGTON, - -D.-- G5 THE WAYS OF WASHINGTON BY WILLIAM PICKETT HELM. Every time the clock ticks Uncle lam's busy tax collectors teke in §13. It's a great system, marvelously eMcient, and so on. Yet there are some crabbed souls who m to think the government can be im- proved on. Not many people can improve on that record. The clock tioks fairly regularly, you know. Every sixty ticks, or every minute, Uncle Sam has taken in about $780 more. Every, hour hig receipts amount to abodt $46.750. Bvery day they are upward of $1,121,000. That means every busi- ness day, of course. In a year's time the collections reach about $3.600,- 000,000. 3 Hold your breath until you become uncomfortable—Uncle Sam has colv lected about $1,000 while you were doing so. Some of us can hold our breaths while he collects $1,500. You and I and all the rest of us workingmen and women in the United States chip in to make this great oollection possible. It might interest us, therefore, to know of the ways in which the money is collected. To begin, we can't concelve of any such sum as $3,600,000,000. It's too much money for us to visualize. It it were all pajd in gold, it would use | up nearly all the gold ‘In the United States at the present time (exclusive of gold in the form of jeweiry, etc.), or more thun a third of all the gold coin and bulllon in the world. We'll have to come down to a figure we can understand if we are to get a fair idea of how this money is col- lected and who pays it. Consider $100. We can all stand and respect that know what It will buy in grr clothing, rent, labor, and so on. Out of every $100 the federal gov- ernment takes in during the course of a year more than half, or $50.44, comes from the income taxpayer. Thosoe troublesome returns which you recently made out and sent mlong with your check to the collector | helped to make up more than half of | Uncle Sam's receipte. But there are a great many other things. There's the taritf, for in- stance. If furnished Uncle Sam $5.69 out of every $100 that went Into his treasury in 1921, That form of taxa- tion iy indirect. We don't see {t, but we feel it. Tt is figured in the cost of every ported article we buy, with a few minor exceptions. | Some folks .think, too, that ft ls| figured in the cost of things made | right here at home. There a: ing schools of thought on (¥ ject. The difference of opinion has settled national clections and has made and unmade presidents Since 1921 a new tariff been placed on the books. and as a result a Tigher proportion of Uncle Sam’s $100 will come from that source this year. under- sum. We eries, jaw has| The man or woman who uses to- | bacco slips quite & nice little bit of | change into Uncle Sam’s pocket. Dur- | Ing 1921 tobacco taxes amounted to | {$6.60 out of every $100 taken in You can see the tobacco tax in the EDITORIA Rhine Army Cost Is a Debt of Honor. The failure of the allied govern- ments to meet the payments from the money they already have ool- lected from Germany of the cost of the American Army of ocoupation is displeasing to most editors, who argue that this is a debt of honor which must be met. They likewise Dpoint out that the troops were kept on t! ailies for the “moral effect” they ! would have, and the suggestion that this country apply the cost of seized shipping on the amount of the bill does not sit very well. The very fact that the ships which the allies would have “assayed" as partial payment for the United States are practically unsalable at the pres- ent moment is commented on by the Mobile Register, which suggests that at present figures they are worth ¥about $30 a ton. If the ships still re- tained cannot ‘be sold they are not even worth $30 & ton to the American government. Apparently the allies, { stend of paying the American gover ment directly, and regarding the cost American occupation as an ob- em to the United ited States to as sume the burden.” The who! vors. of “International dishonesty,’ o Aberdeen World insists, because he allies made a bargain with this country that the cost of maintaining the American soldiers on the Rhine would be paid out of German pay- ments made for that express purpose. Germany has paid for the cost of maintaining all those soldiers: the al- lies have kept the money and they now tell us to lobk to Germany for our money. In private business af- fairs that sort of thing would britg a law sult and probable criminal ac- tion. In international affairs it sim- ply leads to diplomatic notes. The allies at the peace conference divided the world among them. They took everything on which they could lay their hands. This countty asked and took nothing. It made a bargain on the cost of maintaining American troops on the Rhine. This country rrusted the allles. They have failed to keep their part of the contract. Not only that, but they have misappropri- ated money that belongs to the United ates. According to the European program we are to bear the burdens of the world, we are to do all the jobs Europe does not want to do, to give our money, time and energy freely to Europs, while Europe goes out and gobbles_up the prise spots of the world. We have failed to fall in with that program; therefors Burope as- sails us as a Shylock. It s high time that Shylock told a few plain truth: There is a possibility, however, that too much attention is being given to this one particular claim in the opin- ion of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, which points out that the joint com. mission which is to meet fn Washing- ton next month will have to deal with claims amounting to about a billion dollars. This amount will “hrink in the hearings,” it says, and it.wonders. “when the amounts Germany must pay are fixed how.will she payithem? What will . the amounts‘returned be worth when_Germany {s judgment- roof?’ In_this latter connection the Riew York Tribune points out that “if Germany had not defaulted collee- tions, starting a ltg behind would not have worrfed us, But the Germans cut off their remittances. The repara- tions commission has suggested that this country settle its account in part out of seized German property. Here | The Lopkou; A recent editorial in The Ey-nlnc Star has this to say about citizens’ as- sociations in the District of Columbia: { | | | | These citizens’ associations are i1ke lookouts on the watch towers of the city. They are alwaye.bringing under public discussion some better- ment for the city. Each is a forum in which District affairs are discussed. They are such val o clvic center: that every Washingtonian should be, & member of the assootation in the territory in:which-he lives. We belleve it to be not only the duty, but & privilege as well, for ths residents of the District each to' do his or her bit in furthering the proper | administration and development of the federal territory. It seems ¢ us that the man, or woman unwilling'to do? | tax on sti) Rhine at the request of the | revenue stamps on each box of clgars or clgarettes and on smoking and chewing tobacco and snuff. 3 Cigar smokers pald Uncle S8am $1.10 of the $100. Cigarette smokers con- tributed $3.36. The man who chews it or puts it In his pipe nd smokes it contributed $1.62. Our friends, the snuff users, handed the govern- ment 17 cents. Even the man who rolls his own came through with 2 cents of the $100 a8 his tax on the rice paper.he used Do vou go to the theater or the movies? Tncle Sam takes that 10 Bor cent you pay over and above the 0x office prices for your tickets. In 1821 the. sum thus collected ampunted to $1.17 out of the $100. In addi- tion, the theaters paid a direct tax amounting to 4 cents. g here fs also & cute little tax on automobiles and trucks. In: 1921 Uncle 8am collected $1.58 out of each $100 in that manner. Thes 'tax on tires brought him in another 96 cents. On plancs. organe and phonographs the government. collected in 1921 a tax equal to 12 cents on the $100 of federal receipts. On spor:lnT'l good: including tennis racquets, he col lected 5 cents. . Busy little jaws that yearn for chewing gum worked to the cxtent of contributing about 2 cents out of every $100 the government took in And’ the candy-eaters back in paid Vnecle Sam 33 cents, or about one three-hundredth part of all he collected from overy source of in- come. There {5 a tax on estates. That brought in $3.40 out of every $100. The man who was fined in the fed- eral courts or by other agencies of the federal government for some de- linquency. paid ip, all told, about 50 cents on each $100 the government took tn. ‘We sold some of our surplus mate- rials bought during the war In the expectation that it would taks us |longer than it 4id to lick the Kaiser. They were sold. at prices below cost in most casas, but the total amounted to $2.18. to apply on that §190 we are constdering. In addition, the-sale of miscellaneous government property brought in £5 cents more 2 Bixty-seven cents came batk in fthe form of interest on money lent our allies. Tho government also lant money to the farmers, the railroads: the exporters and other classes .of people during the war. The pald some of it back in 192i—about $3 on that $100. And, dear me, here fs $111 that came in as the tax on distilled spirits. How can that be in these days of the eighteenth amendme: Well, it secmns that the tax is patd fot when the liquor -is made, but when it is Withdrawn from bound. During the vear the government re- 3,350 in taxes on al nes and other spirits leg withdrawn from bohded warehouses, il the way from a.year and a half to two_years and a half after prohibition beécame’ the law of the land. Three cents of that sum was the ng wines and t was paid d alcohol. a $100 bul. 00 such bills cordlals. Nearly all the on the real hard stuff an We hav. There were collected during L DIGEST is a tangihle Wieb to make use of as liquidatable collateral. Yet all the German seized roperty here could not extingu th private American ¢ tional claims pay us. The logic ompels us to insist hall also pay us, allfed debtors in so assiet them in paying us. The allied suggestion “is much too clever” in the opinion of the Manchester Unlo tha.t “‘as to m thers is no or fe there the least t the American cos of oc- cupation should have been et along with that of ¥French and British occupa- tion. The latest proposition is that the United States subtract from the s demanded the value of the German ships taken by us in e war. ‘Ger- many wns stepped. ' Vast territorial possessions were taken from.her. Has anybody proposed thus far that the value of a large part of the African con- tinent be subtracted from the cos of French occupation? Hardly! When our French friends much too ask us to do precisely what they have not done they invite attention ing up of the bulk of the reparations pa rents to date support of their v fine ar not nts out the York World, *that Secretary Hughes is €0 simple minded a8 to suppos= that the Jiles will either collect a quarter of a bLillion cash from Germany for the United States, or that they will turn over any part of that which Germany has already paid and they have already spent. Whatever the legal formula, our v chance of payment fs out of G man's fature payments. It is, of course, altied policy to tie our government with the future German payments so that we shail give our moral support to the business of collection. 1If our govern- ment refuses to be tied up jt can prob- ably say good-bve to this quarter of a billion for a very long time to come There is no reason in. the nature of things. why the United States should not share in tha collection of repara- tions. The French wish us to do that. Mr, Hughes might very well reply that if o are to pool our claims we shall have to be consulted &bout the terms Imposed on Germany. The United States cannot lend itself to the game of trying fo get golden eggs and pats de fois gras out ef the same goose.” So far as the charges of too much commer- cizlism are concerned, the Boston P avers that “we are wiling to aceept e criticism of considering debts and reparations in a ‘commercial spirit.’ but we should be greatly obliged if the allies in this matter of occupation costs get down to the level of ordinarily good ‘business men.” “It 48 a_complicated situation,” as the Saginaw News-Courier sees it, “and he is a true optimist who can see in what has happened any immediate prospeot of payments of any kind. There is the refiection, however, that had the Sen- ate not willed otherwise the United Btates would have been represented on the reparations commission by a repre- sentative entitled to be heard as well as peen. Had that policy obtained we ‘would have had our share of payments al- ready made.” In addition. as the Wash- ington Post points out, ‘‘Americans do not_forget that their Army was main- tained far many months on the Rhine at the request of the allied govern- ments.” The Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tel- egraph Insists that, because of this very fact, payment “is & debt of honor owed us by the allies, but we are not Insist- ent on any immediate payment. Our government 1s contending for a princi- le.. Our late comrades in arms no oubt will perceive ' the . propriety of kesping faith. All ‘we akk is that they Kothe By the terms of a fust and plain agreement. on the quer tne attitude that Germany nd shall pay ou fa that wil that bit is lacking in patriotfsm, and, more, is an unfit member of organized soclety. 7 i The fundamental basis of cémmunal life {s rautual £o-operation in promot- Ing the geneyal good. It would seem thpossible for one to sit by and see others working in that behalf without feeling e senge of dereliction from his own fnactivity.: > 1 g Every intelligent mén; and woman , {] 5 neeléd b the watch towers to WHich The Star:Tefers. - It is your duty to carry the nessage to your neighbor. Invite him-to come into the membership of our body. It ‘wiil be for his good, for your good and the natfon.—Neighboritood ewe. o [ - PUESDAY, MAROH 1521 ) _NEW BOOKS “AT RANDOM . TH PARTY BATTLES OF THE JACKSON PERIOD. By Claude G. Bowers. Houghton-Mifiin Com- pany. 2 2 We can easlly recall certaln things that ‘came to pass a acant hundred years ago. . Or, once inside this book, 80 it~ seems to us. = For there Is here none of the thinned-out effect of gecond-hand Knowledge. On the contrary, the bulk and variety of its lUving detalls present to us a reality in ‘which we ourselves ssem to have moved.once, and to which, under this good "guidance, we are now return- ing. Therefore it is in a ‘spirit of uctual remembering that we here set out to take a look over the federal city of that earlier day. Familiar to us’in_ ‘that remoter atmosphers are the Capitol, the White House, the few' rigble dwellings, the huddles of mean structures, the little streets roaming at will. We fecl again the stir of that interesting and unique lite of the young capital, 'soclal and litical. But -on this particular day here s definite point and destination to our -outfaring. We are headed upon . Gadsby's—you recall tho fa- mous hostelry, standing ~where the National Hotel stands today. For, on this morning, Andrew. Jackson, the new President of the United States, is at Gadsby's, waiting to take the oath-of ofice. And we, surrounded by triumphant = democrats, among whom are a handful of disapponted and bitter’ whigs, are moving upon Gudsby's to catch & possible glimpse of the new man. * % w % A new man abd new tims Mr. Bowers assures us that the Jackson perfod, In which we are at the mo- ment standing, is the scene of thel! most dramatic and significant politi- cal battles ever staged in America between the foundation of the re- public and the admlinistration of Woodrow Wilson. And this book rounds, out a -body of concreto, evi- dence ‘in support of his assertion. The significance of these battles lies chiefly in the fact that they stand as the orfgin and to. an extent as the interpretation of many forces and agencles of largs potency in the po- litical field of the present. CRe in the Jackson period that this country becomes, for the-first time, a democracy in fact. Prior to this the government has been the affair of the Intellectuals and the men of wealth. Washington, Hamil- ton, the Adamses, Jeferson, He.the broad theories of democracy which . he held—Webater, Calhoun, Clay, the bankers, the blg ~mer-|{ chants—these have, in effect, been the government. But an expansion of the voting right has graudally in- cluded the laborer, the factory hand, the mechanic, the small farmer and shopkeeper. ' These hereafter are to have a growing influence in a gov- ernment. “by the psople.’ The im- medjate need {5 to educate the new voters in political facts and habits of thought, to hold them together, to organize them into groups of poilti- cal activity and usefulness. * ok ow ok | Ity CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS Pat was a city man, but he wan- dered out into, tha country, one har- vest time, for a month or two of farm work ‘at harvest wag: He worked hard all day, the first day on & farm, and when he and the farmer and the other hands came dn from the fleld he found two hours of stable chores ahead "of them all hefore supper. That repast was eaten by lamplight. Then Pat was shown where to take a little lamp after supper, and he got to his bed more dead than allve. He ‘was instantly snoring the sleep of the. ultra-tired. “Pat! Pat! Time to get up!" came the voice of his boss, and, scarcely knowing how, he groped 'his way downstairs, where he found the table again get and lighted with lamps. He ate heartily, and as he rose and stratehed himself he exclaimed: “Ha! Too moopers in wan night, begorrah! Hooray for bed egain!" But the boss explained that this was breakfast and it was time to harness up, for “the evening and ahe morn- ing were first day.” That boss was a_real “dirt farmer.” Maybe he was Secretary of Agriculture Henry ‘Wallace, for ‘Wallace has the farm habit of early risinz. and counta that day lost whose rising sun does not find his work about half done. % ¥ % Now, dn Towa farmer belleves in all labor-saving machinery. On the Wallace farm there is everything, from a caterpillar manure spreader a comblnation plow, harrow, seeder, sprayer and alarm clock all in one, together with extra attach- ments. such as & corn harvester, shredder and enstlage cutter. When this dirt farmer looked over Uncle Sam's farm, called the Department of Agri- culture, he spied a little thing-um g, which was not running, but looked interesting. “What's this?" he inquired. “That's a time clock. It was left here by an efficlency engineer, but t ran down the day after he left, and | obody knows the combination’ He caid that when you punch a card In the slot. in the morning and evening. you know whether you have earned ( the munificent salary Uncle pays for| science The explanation was enlightening. | _“Ab, ha' Do tel!" retorted the Tonorable Secretary of farming. “Again ah, ha' Havae the blacksmith wind | up and notify everybody to ‘Punch, brother: punch!’ "’ “That is when the war began. Who won the war? R There is in the department one sci- entist named after a ahfllp-—'norecl—t but that is the only thing sheeplsh about him This Dorset.ram once found a serum which stopped }.0!, cholera, and so he saved millions of dollars annually to swine interests. | Punch? . A Dorset punch? He may be a ram, but not a billy goat. A TDorset_punch like any common goat? But—again 1 say, butt— There is a Rock—. F.—a regular| Aorndck. He goes to Siam and Bu ma and pushes tigers and eleplants There is around President Jackson a band of unofficlal supporters, de- {risively called the kitchen cabinet by the defeated and embittered whigs. These are shrewd. far-seeing, de- voted men, keen to the motives Iying back of human action;. commanding and persuasive men. industrious, in- ventive, tenacious men, who for the first time embody the practical poli- tician and project him into publlc affairs. At the head of this band is Amos Kendall, a genius of politi- cal sagacity and organizing pow master of the art of personal appeal Amos Kendall stands as a worthy forbear of ‘the mamr who today or- ganizes political campaigns, deploys political armies and conberves, in season and out. the principles and octrines and policies of his party. flere, fQr the first time also, doe; party government in its full signifi- cance come into action. i * % % % { At this point, too, the party press {begins an acute and ceaseless ac- tivity. Again it is Amos Kendall who, realizing that the increasing body of voters must be both edu- cated and stirred, swings the press into line to deliver the common_peo- ple, body -and boots, into .the Jack- sonfan camp. An amasingly clever and ingenious press, this, a _vigi- jlant and " sleeping thing, ' ready to {pounce in ruthless’ enmity upon any sin, or upom any .foible even, of the opposing party. The country is flooded with campalgn documents, with political pamphlets, with cate chisms of party- doctrine, with car: toons and advertisements, exactly as it i3 in these later days. outstanding issues of the period are the “bank” and “nullification.” The former, with its war cry of ‘“soulless corporations” and “sons of toil” sounds like yesterday 'and serves in both cases to intensify class preju- dice and class hatred. The latter, the obsession of Calhoun, is sowing the seeds of secession and civil war, The immediate “spoils” policy of Jackson becomes -an incomparable explosive - political around the “bank” and *'nul and “spils" that the party battles of the period are raging. * ok X ¥ In the hands of the author this eight-year span in the thirties of the nineteenth century becomes a stage. Upon it is set the drama of party strife in a political democracy. The new and untrained are standing up against old practitioners in the pro- fession of government. The new are truculent, @ part of their newness. The ol are haughty in a traditicpal self-sufficiency and security. Class against class Is rampant {n & country founded upon the pleasing pronounce- ment that all mén are equal. There is rough work on the one hand, a supercilious efficiency on the other. But the truculance slips gradually into plajn hard work under a com- bined leadership of unsurpassed power. The supsrmen begin to fid- get—a little; to .get nerve—eome. But the battle is_on. Out of it many things are falling away; use- le things surviving long beyond their original function—rudimentary organs of government, ealculated, lke the 8 of the human, to do much future mischief. Out of it, too, are rising many new views and prac- tices that a hundred years of politi- cal experfence beyond this period; will not have exhausted and will not have cast asid * % % % The excitements of the period as they are brought out here leave one with two distinct impressions. The first is that times have for the better. To be sure, pelitical strife. nowadays holds much that is unworthy in_-motive and. method. But' it is-an Innocent 11:4 innocuous adventuyre compared with the party battles of the Jackson period. If one had to choose’a single word tocover this strife, he would, after careful thought, the - word scurrilous— “containing:low indecency -or abuse.” That's. the - word. ~Bribery, slander, blackmall, -vilification of women and plain everyday ese, the thirties,” eabody, the gentle .art of v e But this is a book of evidence. The author submits a long list of original documents and books of high au- thority from which he gathersd and sifted the -fects - underlying this . _The second siriking .effect of dy is that there were after all, no gods thoge days. 'And we have all been brought up on those old supermen—majestic, high-minded, elo- uent, triotic, self-sacrificing men. ot one that has not somewh: upon. him the mark of the beast. Human, We made’ the mistake of u ting fundamental fact. I T R irritant to this highly inflamed and| off rare plants so he can get the sceds, that he may cure lepro: o can heave a rock like the powerful Katrinka, but will he punch a @inky litele time-card like a er? ooner will he chip a pebble oft shoulder und fling it at the honorable | Seci rv with enough punch in it for a | radical revolution. And ask Dr.-Leland O. Howard, the bugologist, to. punch when he comes in, at sunrise, after chasing lght- ning bugs and frogs and cootles and other wild beasts all night? Be rea- sonable. man. . Let’s talk it over. Why, think of the mosquitoes he has caught—and flies! There are no flles on_him. He will not—never—eter- nally—punch. Sooner will ‘be fill the box with a hornets' nest and let the Secretary do all the punching. And_ A D, Shamel, who demon- strated té all fruit growers how to debutante their fruit trees and bring them out in high society! He would sconer lose the last letter of his sur- | name and go_around the rest of his life A D—— Shame than stultify his pride and come in like a frost-bitten bud with*his-heart blackened with a disgraceful punch. * ¥ k% And so on down the line of several thousand highbrows. What does this IN A FEW is trus -that Rolls-Ro: sometimes. placed at the disposal of Follies” girls by ardent admirers But it is difficult to decide at once whether the gentleman you meet un- The two |[der such circumstances is a prosper- {— ous milliopaire or merely a_bootleg- ser. —MARGIE WHITTINGTON. The only perfect king is a living king. and if errors of state craft morals and_theolgy justify exhuma tion much English dust would be dis- urbed. E. T. RAYMOND. Civilization has been purchased very deariy by the development of a jarge number of chronic diseases trom which uncivilized natives are quite free, —SIR;W. ARBUTHNOT LANE, We dancing * teachers’ and dance- hail. owners are seeking, like others who‘aré harassed. merely to protect oursélyes from an . unrepresentative minority whose business is the cap talizatfon of intolerance. —LOUIS;H. CHALIF. . am" going ‘to play “Hamlet” at the” Little -Theater in Los Angeles. M#ybe I won't be the best Hamlet the world has ever seen, but it's a cinch T won't be the worst. - —CHARLES CHAPLIN. Frange could destroy London and almost every great center of popula- tion in England tomrorrow if she so desired. - —LORD BIRKENHEAD. Favors the Transfer Of Washington Statue To the Editor of The Star: As opinions of the general public are invited as to the propristy of the contemplated removal of the Wash- ington statue to the Lafayette square site, now occupled by the Andrew Jack- gon statue, 1 suggest that the removal be made, as the Lafayette square site is the most appropriate one in all the -District for ~the Washington statue site; and the wonder is that it was not.put there at first, and, as & matter of course, the ‘square should be_renamed “Washington.” Now, the question is, what to do with ihe Jackson t.h;“le‘: & would suggest as to this, he Sherman S e be removed to the Washington circle site and the Jackson statue laced on the present Sherman loca- ion, as I regard this as second only to its present site in Lafayetts square, being about as near the White House and in a very con- spicuous place, which the distin- guished services of the general fully call. for. With the Sherman statue ‘at- (the present). Washington circle, and with the oircle renamed “Shérman” I think Gen. Tecumseh Sherman Would be highly honored, and, especially &o, in occupying tho site selected for the great Washington, who was “first in War; first in peace; and first in the hearts of his countrymen CORNELIUS B. HITE. alive as the moment through which we are passing and as. 1. Much more significant, too, since the drama here is made of high points in the development of our political life. Its oftect will be, first, to rouss contro- versy. That Is not important. Its worthy effect will be to help in the overthrow of the old order of his- tory, -an. umrut.rlflulf and, :h:{.:l,fll’,ll;j. 4 yal!'of yha cal BT P e S admit t Luan o the p rfiggl = 1 ?hlfl.‘ Qrt farmer Secretary think this is— a stamp factory, or.a great national sclentific research laboratory? “The guard dies, but it never punches!” shout the Napoleonic life guard. And the farmer Secro takes philosophically and. ehews his stras and never notices whether it punch or the ensilage cutter t making that grinding noiss. L What a lot of sentimentality tnere Us left in this progressive world, which does nothing but prate about things it does not understand! One day it leads good, kind-hearted ladies to telling the Secretary of State that ha ought to complicate America with Russia’s governmental problams Probably not one of them has ever been €0 Russia, but they are kind and so they sympathize with tha under dog, forgetting that America has problems of its own, and thar in- ternational relations are complicated, and with entangling ramifications, so that none who has not access to tha reliable facts and conditions can poe sibly form an intelligent {dea of the best course to recommend America_has recognized Russia's need for food -and medical uid and has gone to the rellef. By helping organize the doctors of Ruesla 12.000 hospitals have been established America has given, froe, many hip loads of grain and other food and clothing supplies. But diplomatis recognition of the soviet gover: ent of Russfa, which has risen to power by bloody tyr 1y, murdering hun dreds of thousands of its own peorde and threatening to overturn allotiier governments, appears to Secretary Hughes to be too serious a proposal for kind ladles, without diplomatic knowledge, to meddie with. % ow % 0 less unreasonable, it is claimed by sclentists, is the effort of laymen who are absolutely Ignorant of th subject, to undertuke to stop eclen- tific research, through vivisection, o the ground of pity for the gulnea pig, jthe cat or dog operated upon whi under the Influence of ether, Vivise tion has discovered serums and vac cinés which have saved millions of human lives. Yet rather than c sider those lives saved by the ad- vance of scientific remedies or pre- ventives of diseasa the sent ntalist would plead for the dumb bea whose lite may be sacrificed t! men may live Unless they are vegetarians they are very inconsistent in not demand- ing the stopping of all abattoirs, where enimals are not even glven anesthetics while having their throats cut_or their skulls broken When Jacob had Ieaac tied to tha sacrificial altar and the knife ralsed to. kill him, behold, @ ram was d covered and substituted, and some kind of @ beast has been used eve since 1o gave the sacrifice of the sons of men. - This is a subject which is &tjr- ring Washington just now. A prost nent clergyman, the president of tk Humane Soclety, startled certain of his hearers a_day or two ago by de- fending the humaneness of vivisee- tion and even advocating the use of the dead bodies of criminals for dis section in the Intorest of science. *w % It is authoritatively estimated that the total amount of property stole fthrough burglary and larceny, alt ‘over the United States, does not ex- ceed $250,000,000 & year. Compare that with the Joot charged against wa~ grafters. There are single lines of graft and fraud which, as alleged, amount to more than 'all the larcenies and burglaries combined. ~The present gamble in sugar is estimated to-equal ame-fifth of ' the total haul of tze crooks in & year through prosaio safe-blowing, window-iimmying and | pocket-picking. - Most of the thieves and burglars- eventually make amends in penitentiaries. How many war grafters are yet serving time alfhough four years have passed si the war, and a vear since the D partment of Justice received an ex- tra appropriation of millions for de- fense, but not one cent for procrasti- nation? . (Copyright, 1923, by P. V. Colliss) WORDS United States is & contrasts. In no ot there such blatant vulga no other country has s lelaborate refinement. RY RE ALBERT RAILL CHAPLAIN TO SK1 ‘LAND. — country ty, and ve exquisitely A democrat in the davs of J was a crusader. A republ n days of Lincoln was an apostle. Give [the people the issues and the pro- |gram and those heroic days in party politics will return ENATOR BORAH The ejection of one’s mother-in-law trom the house cannot be lcgally in- terpreted as disturbing_the peace. ) —JUDGE "‘SAMUEL UTLEY (Massa- chusetts). Oh, yes, the revolution was terrib’a in Moscow—it {nterrupted the wo f “the ballet school three whole ceks. ~—MLLE. ABRAMOVA of Ballet, 1t Congress passed every bill that asks for an appropriation, the gov ernment would be bankrupt in a month. J ~—NICHOLAS LONGWORTH the Russian The modern woman refuses to a cept her sex. The wise, witty en-| chantresses of other centuries recog- nized that a woman's only road to| happlness and success was that of]| femininity, and they took it. ~VAN VENNING “Under What Law?” Correspondent Propounds Quory to D. C. Commissioner Keller. To the FA167of The:Star: 1 have noticed ig The Star that Co!l Keller, Commissioners’ office, de] cided an@ published:that he proposes to issue no more’ permits for hedge: or fences as he daes not ke the! and wants Washington to be as beay tiful as possibie. Under what'law does Col. work when he says that he will reg-| ulate what Deople flant on. the prop- erty that théy have purchased and| aid for end which they have worked| Bira’ls bowutify? Just what has hel got to do wi it it people plant| things that meet with the approval of their- neighbora and thers is no| complaint flled that the things plant- ed are injurlous, poisonous, or tgnd to depreciate the value of the ad- Joining properties? It what the paper has published is correct, then there is no reason why he should not prescribe pale .pin roses instead of the vivid colors, the vivid colors being too loud. ~And. therefore, not chic according to his lights. ‘As & matter of fact I did not know that one had to'get & permit to plant hedges, and I know that thousands ® been planted without said, per- As a matter of fact, even then, mit: whty should those that have hedges be allowed to continue to enjoy them and thefr next door neighbors be forbidden this privilege? Vhere is the justice in this? I have a hedge and‘a fine one, so that there is no personal grievance in this. will hat the hedgé is an abomina- ostman who wishe§) to ong lawns withoyt any re- o8, mcbukha. and deco- * B, JACKBON, e