Evening Star Newspaper, March 30, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, With Sundsy Morning Edition. . WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY ....March 30, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES S e The Evening Star Newspaper Company Businoas Office, 11th 8t. and Pennasivania Ave. New York Office: 130 Nassau St. Chicago Office: Tower Building. ¥aropess Office: 16 Regent 8t., London, England. The Evening Star, with the Sanday morning edition, is dellvered by carriers within the city 2t 60 c r month; daily only, 40 cents per mouth; Sunday only. 40 ceats per month. Or- slars may be gent by mail, or telephone Main 1000, Collectton is made by carciers at the «ad of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virgi Daily and Sunday Daily only. #unday enly Editor All Other States. Daily and Sunda; $10.00; 1 mo.. 83c only... $7.00: 1 mo., 60: tundey only. $3.00; 1 mo., 2c Member of the Associated Press, & Associated Prepw is exclusively ontitled # tic use for republication of s.1 news dis fnrnu creaited to it or not otherwise coedited n this paper sad also the lo news pub- Tished Lierel One-Way Streets. Commissioner Oyster bhas an un sound viewpotat upon the ituation. The lateat mantfesta- tion of this ability €ves upon a veal problem of modern sivie ltfe 18 his attifude in regard to one-way streets. he police Commissioner is seriously considering the establishment of a rumber of additional one-way Streets in the downtown section a® a means of improving traflic conditions. That such improvement will result if they are established within reason there can be little doubt. One-way streets conduce to pedes- teian eafety, which is. after all, the tuing that must be given first con- sideration in any proper treatment of 2 city's traffic problems. The list of lled and maimed has grown to pre- posterous proporifons. In the days n the west was “wild and woolly™ cne might meet dedth from e bullet eet. but it is doubt- a town s 43 great as one ruls today on uny large city's thoroughfares. Osl the means of destruction is large and runs on wheels, instead of being small and gliding through the air ! But death Ly automobile, as de builet, comes unseen in of cases. to fice fr t one, the majority to attempt has once ! for th m a bullet after 0 there for surprised pedestrian to escape maiming or death once he fecls bimeelf under the wheels of an auto- roktle. It docs no earthly good to rail reicss pedestri Maybe he was careless, e he was not —the point 18 of no particular interest 0 a city head who is attempting to save life and conduct the traflic, hoth pedestrian and vehicular, in the fash- fon best for One-way str allowing walk ers to know exactly from which di rection the cars are coming. will end in great measure. at least, the stant succession -of speeding puzzles which confront a pedestrian today on streets directions. On the one-wa: the man afcot—the womar . the child afoot. the automobile ow exactly into what he | nges when he steps from the curb. utomobilists the one-way hould offer better going and faster going. on the whole. Above all, and this must not bo forgotten, it will lessen his ehance of hitting any one and therefore cdnduce to greater enja; ment of the ride. There is no more iy attitude than that held by some s that the average automo- t is thirsting for the life of ever an afoot. The average man who sits at a wheel has a heart surprisingly anybody else’s. The one-way street 1zht to help him as much as it helps one. , ———— Many a hard fall should be written on the credit side of the ledger. Wit ness the Prince of Wales, who, when thrown in a recent stecplechase, won for himself the applause of the Brit- ish nation by rescuing his drowning horse. ——— The alteration of & much-discussed regulation establishes the fact that the District bullding is neither hedged in with prejudice nor fenced with stub- btornness. o New Orjeans city employes are to have their salary checks sent to their Lhomes. but we are not advised whether an indersement by friend wife is to e required. 1t develops that the Panamae canal 19 10 all intents and purposes unpro- tected against .hostile attack. So is Jack Dempsey’s chin. The packer merger being complete, we wait with resignation to see what it will do to us. Scnator Capper on Prohibition. When Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York, in transmitting to Congress the resolution of the New York legislature petitioning for meadification of the Volstead act by Congress, chose the method of sending a copy to each member of the next House and Senate he opencd the way for a lively corre- soondence. The resolution made statements and set forth arguments which are being challenged by the defenders of the eighteenth amend- maent and the supporters of the act of Congress carrying out thé pro- visions of the amendment. Several ®enators and representatives-elect have taken pen in hand to reply to 1the Empire-state executive, who will probably find his mail crowded as time goes on. Senator Capper of Kansas is the Jatest one to take issue with the as- sertions contained in the terms of the resolutton. In a letter which he has sent to Gov. Smith the Kansas states- man takes up the contentlon in the resolution ‘that national prohibition “has resultéd in widespread contempt for and violation of the law, illegal trafllo in lquors and official corrup- tlon” Senator Capper controverts the claim that the law breeds crime and ) ublication of | to look with clear | the chance was anyway near | today | As it does no good | is little ; con- i where automobiles come from | official corruption, end insists that “prohibition statutes enforced, instead of tending to increase crime and offi- clal corruption, afford one of the surest methods of reducing them to a minimum He says that what the advocates of light wine and beer really want is a beverage that is, in fact, in- toxicating. . To permit light wines and beers, Senator Capper contends would be to perpetuate the alcoholic appetite, which, he alleges, is the cause of the present violation of the law. Even such a modification, he holds, would prove unsatisfactory to the ‘‘wets,” who, once it was granted. would seek further concessions. He insists upon strict enforcement of existing law and { resists temporizing measures. The country is interested in the | arguments over the question of modi- | fication of the Volstead act. with many i people who are against distilled liquors i advocating light wines and beer. It is { well that the discussion is to be out in the open and conducted by persons of importance whose arguments and con- tentions will attract attention. | —_————— i | @ermany's Loan Fiasco. Whatever the causes which resulted in failure of Germany's $50,000,000 | | | | | internal gold loan, the outcome puts | out of present reckoning the idea that German {ndustrinlists are in mood to place their “hidden wealth” at the servica of their government. With only 25 per cent of the loan subscribed, | and with indications that these sub- seriptions came largely from small {n- vestors, the evidence seems clear that Stinnes and the other industrial lead- ers are not giving the Cuno govern- ment the support to which it would ! | scem entitied. tn view of its defecence | { to the big buslness magnates. { I Whether this virtual failure of the | | gold lean will send the mark. which Inas been practically stationary for several wecks, on another downward | plunge remains to be seen, but it cer- | tatnly will operate to discourage the notion of an early foreign loan to Ger- many, and thereby will knock tie props from under informal programs for adjustment of the reparations prob- IR Foreign investors are likely to ireason that if the German magnates, not enough confidence in their government to take over a trifiing| $30.000,000 loan Germany is a poor risk for o ers when it comes to hundreds of millions of dellare. | ! Failure of the loan offers un inter- | | esting study of the peace versus war | | psvchology of the German people. | The eigith German war loan. floated | {in the spring of 1918, was underwrit- | ted by the people for $3.700.600,000. ¢ Five years later—years during which the Germans have been more steadily | employed than any other peoples of | Europe—they are le or unwilling to lend r government $50,000.000 {urgently needed to save its currency | from complete 1085 of value. Tt would | be absurd to believe the German peo- ple wera unable to take up this loan. s0 the concluslon ls forced that they | prefer to let things go completely to| i gmash and then rebuild on the ruins! rather than attempt to save the pres- | lent structure. If this is a correct in- | terpretation of the German mind the outlook for Burope | a and all the maneuve! 1 { counter-maneuvering of statesmen and | financiers but child’s piay while walt- ing for the holocaust ! ——————— i { Water During Shrine Week. | i For many vears Washington lLas| had menace of a water shortage | | before it, and in summer it has been { necessary to put into effect ! economies flow of public fountains has been cut' off, regulations for sprinkling lawns | and flower beds have been adopted | and the men of the water department have kept eyes and ears open for leaks in the pipes under ground end in; houses. There is some talk that the water supply mdy mot be equal to the! } demand made on it during Shrine {weel, but the superintendent of the | water department and the essictant | engineer commissioner in charge of ithat department believe that we will | get through all right, and that nobody { need feel thirsty for lack of water. If the weather is hot when the Shrine ihost comes in early June, and the chances are that it will not be, it wiil be desirable to restrict the use of wa- ter on lawns, but the fountains should Dbe kept going if this can be done. The water authorities say thaet 000,000 gallons are about the safe maximum daily capacity of the water system. During the first weck in June last year daily consumption ranged from 62.- 100,000 to 65,000,000 gallons. Shrine week guests will largely swell the population, but there will probably be no increase in water consumption. in proportion to the population increase. We have the word of the water depart. ment officials that the plant will fur- nish all the water needed, and on this assurance we @nd our visitors may rest content. n the use of wi | ———— e ;I's druv & truck THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 19 ©of beauty. But there are persons in this land of the brave who will not have their allegiance to the old-fash- ioned American cherry tree diverted by these big pink bloomers. The Amerfcan cherry tree—the dear old “blackheart” end ‘“redheart"—is en- shrined in the memory of many of us. In the counties about Washington and in the ‘““county of Washington” many & “cherry walk' led from the big gate on the quiet dusty road to the garden of roses and lilacs about the home. Most of those trees are dead. Perhaps if the ghost of one of those old trees, with a shroud of white blossoms around it, should walk up to one of the Jap cherry trees, dressed in a pink kimono, it would say something like this: “Ah, my pink lady! You beauti- ful doll! T did not give myself up to flowers that crowds might gape at me! I was known by my fruit. T fur- nished the table with ripe cherrles and preserved cherries, and I also pro- duced an unconstitutional drink called ‘cherry bounce. with striped ele- phants and delirium tremens in every quart! Boys used to climb me to steal my fruit. They loved me. and 1 loved them. I am descended from cherries { which Lucullus brought from Cerasus in Pontus after Mithridates was beaten, and Cerasus is my tamily name. Cherrydale {s named after me. Also Cherry IIill, on the Baltimore pike. T look with disdain on cherry | trees whose principal occupation is posing as bouquets.” ———— Gardening. Many Washingtonians. especiaily those who live far enough away from the crowded parts of the city to have a piece of land. are reading just now en interesting and Leautiful trated publication called & Through the minds of the readers run thoughts of a garden from which come tons of the tenderest cab- bage, red sweet heats, green peas, mealy potatoes and onions beyond praise. To the reader of the catalogue come visions. e sees himself with rolled-up sleeves and with spade or hoe. He sees himsel? pulling up rad- ishes as big as turnips, and gathering tomatoes so big that he can lift but one at a tin in his dream is as big as & barrel, and the watermelon is so juicy that it starts a flood when cut. Thoughts are turning to the spring and summer garden, and n all the dreamers’ dreams come true soed catalogue. News From Florida. One cannot but observe the pro ch Florida kinz as a polit resort and news center. The President goes there, # many-time and still re. ceptive candidate for President lives there, and groups of Warwicks sit on the hotel porches and make Pres dents. Correspondents gather under the palms and chart the career of great man and plot the future of other. The Florida date line has be come familfar in the newspapers. Not long ago the coun looked on the Peninsula state as the home of orange and the alligator. Lut most of the news that there has to do with candidates and candidacles, cenventions and paigns —_———— A fourteen-year-old New T, prodigy spealks twelve languages, but i he will learn tp worth while in one it wil valuable accomplishment. now cam- something be a more The spirit of “Old Hickory adany against nullification Jackeon statue site. seems the . SHOOTING STARS. £Y PHILANDER JOHNSON Versatilits. I's done mos' ev'y ki useter drive a dray: An’ once I done kep' shovelin® coal clean through de blessed day. o work: I | T's lookin® foh experience, I's waiti: foh to git A chance at sumpin® what I ain't attempted vit. I's follered up a mule along de tow- path day by day: an’ rassled wif de baggage on a dray; But dar's jes’ one occupation dat I thinks would suit my style— I'd like to try @ job o’ millionairin’ foh awhile. nebber Dey tells me dat's about de hardes'| labor dat dar is. But I bet it ain’ sufficient to give me no rheumatiz. I been a~cuttin’ corn 60 much I reckons ‘twould be strange If T couldn’ stan' de straln o’ cuttin’ coupens foh a change. T doesn’ ask foh idleness. I only wants to try My han’ at every kin’ o’ work dat comes a-passin’ by. I merely names my preffunce, an’ it ain’ no cause to smile— I'd like to try & job o' millionarin’ foh Disclosures at the Michigan trial of communists indicate that Russla not only expected to be recognized by the United States, but cxpected to be recognized as en overlord. ——————e Over in Baitimore police magistrates hold that a feilow who owns a dime is not a vagrant. A ‘“red” tirade on the subject of “the price of justice” is to be anticipated. ————— Cherry Trees. | The Japanese cherry trees in Poto- | mac Park will soon be pink. It is re- markable what a socfal success these cherry trees have been among Wash- ington people -and Washington visi- tors, and when in flower the trees have come to be rated as one of the “'sights’ of the capital. Thousands of persons who have no praise for a fragrant budding sassafras tree, a stalwart rough-barked persimmon trec or a stout old locust that clothes itself with drooping clusters of white, sweet- smelling flowers clap their hands in rapture at the spectacle of the bios- soming cherry trees. Blossoms, not cherries, are the main feature of these trees; They are ornamental, and in that way are they useful. A sternly practical man might say that they are ornamental and not useful, but no such ungenerous remark should be made about stranger trees that have come across the seas to show us how cherry trees should bloom with a maximum awhile. . Spontaneity. Here an’ there an’ now @n’ then Comes the fleeting moment when Life is sweet, an® sorrow flie: Nothin’ goes contrarywise. Like the treasures in the earth— We don’t re'ly know their worth, ‘When at first they gleam so fair, Now an’ then an’ here an’ there. Here an’ there an’ now an’ then Smiles light up an’ fade again, Like the stars that shine on high, Brighter ’gainst a darkened sky; Unexpected as the flower Blossomin’ in some tangled bower, Come life's pleasures, sweet and rare, Now an’ then an’ here an’ there. ———————— Every one person in thirty-five is employed in the telephone industry, according to an official report, but even this may be the wrong number.— Little Rock (Ark.) Gazette. ————— “Home, Sweet Home,” will be 100 years old in May. And some of us are still making payments on it—Tulsa Tribune. ———————— While we are paying for- the war, France is warring for the pay Greenville Piedmont. R e a— The best filling station ever buiq the dining room.—Pueblo Star-Jourygl. thoughl somewhat misleading ! Eacih head of cabbage | comes from THE WAYS OF WASHINGTON BY WILLIAM PICKETT HELM. Buppose Uncle S8am should drop in for tea one of these flne wfternoons and say: “Young man, 1 want you to do my traveling for me hereafter. Instead of sending this, that and the other official or employe out on the road, T am going to get you to do it all for me. “All youll have to do is.travel. You'll go at government expense all over the United States—indeed, all over the world. You won't have any work to do; but 1 shall expect you to do all the traveling for me that under the present scheme of things is done during a yvear by my varlous servants” Would you take him up? pretty soft, doesn’t it? Nothing to do but ride on the trai no work involved: a lower berth every night; three square meals every day;: & peek into every corner of the land. You'd be the envy of the aliey. But w would it come out in the end? Vell, let's see. 1t sounds Don't take the offer. You'd be gone a2 long. long time. be changed very, very you got back home. For Uncle Sam's employes travel- cd a total of §84,795.308 miles during a recent year, uccording to a rough j tabulation based on flgures of his | trunsportation expert, who functions junder the Bureau of the Budget and {its boss, General Herbert M. Lord. | And that {s & long way trom home. In round figu: . it is about flve and one-half times the distance from the earth to the sun. And that's too far i for anyhody to go. It you should get on trafin o Union Station at, say, 9 lo'clock mext Monduy morning and start out on the job, and if that train should avcrage forty miles an hour every ur til] on ne buck i wouldn't come ho: again for years. And in that period the neighbors all would have died and automoblie reciprocity with Maryland =~ would have become an accomplished fact— mavybe. much when a railroad 1,602 So say the figures of the federal traffic board, which, under the Bureau of the Budget, is co-ordinating the transportation activities of the gov- erpment of the United States, Most of all that traveling was done by troops. The year In question, 1921, was somewhat unusual for troop moveme: en at that it { wasn't nearly Y a travel year as 1920. In 1821 the cost of tr portation of troops was about $2 000.000; in 1921 it ran up to more £100.000.000. ppose. therefore. we eliminated the troops from the bargain, and merely took on the traveling of the {etvilian employes. How would we fare case. we wouldn't be | Capitalism vs. Socialism Debate May Have Important Results. | “The mother cf parliaments was transformed the time Lo ito the mother of deoating societivs,” remarks New York Pos when i Snowden, laber member, Cis- d his resol n calling tor the gradual supersossion” of capitalism Ty “an industrizl and social Sorder ownership and of the instru- and distric ion In tie moas, the Post gees on in g back the days used to be frequen s don for Rome nting ktat dcbate on reselution of that charucter must of necessity Le | wholly acadenic and without results |in legislation, American editors kce it @s none the less a significant de- celopment in British polit That a vote taken on the resolution may produce new political alignments is regarded as entirely ssible by American commentato: From the Amcrican \iewpoin e { civilization than tae o for the establ system by leglslation vould be seri- | ously dlecussed in the British pa | ment 15 a wmatter of soine momcnt in jitself. As the New York Globe 1t, “it could have happened nowhere else in the world.” That a national legisluture “should devots tuse which might otherwise be spent 1 talking for buncombe In an orderl; and constructive delate on Capite ism versus alism” the Baltimor Sun finds “indeed surprising to our minds,” the difference Iying in the fact that “dispassionate discussion cf the abillty of the capitalist system to solve its accumulating problems is as rare in this country as it is ¢ mon in Englan Chronicls “wonders what would ha pen if an American congressman should intraduce such a bill. Wouid tre majority opposed to him permit a seriovs, long-arawn<out discussion, or would they mob him Pointing to th repressionist tactics followed A this country whers advocacy of socinllsm is concerned, as excmpli- fied In the trial of communists now going on'in Michigan, the Chicugo Post asks which policy’ 1 better, “to bring the issue into the fleld of clear ohservatlon and frank discussion. or to drive it under cover? Is it better to deal with it in parliament. where it must stand on its own feet and defend itself in debate, or to hale it into court as a criminal and make it resort o every technicality, subter- fuge and evasion which is possible in order to escape? i In a Few Words. ‘ It is better to have a nation You | mistrust in the league where rou can. rieep an eye on it, than outside where soes you eannot. —LORD ROBERT CECIL. The English are not tolerant enough as a race to be made total abstainers by an act of parliament. = P2 {USTIN HARRISON. For fifty years I have been building up a job that suited mo and if the ‘I Amertcan public want me for Presi- t they'll have to want me pretty g:.lnll, = —HENRY FORD. There are at least three thousand shops in New York where one can buy malt extract or other ingredlents suf- ficient to intoxicate the whole city. —JOHN A. DEWAR. It seems to me we have to guard sgainst a tendency to an increased and undue paternalism in legislation. —LILLIAN STORY GRIFFIN. The good ladies of the Women's Christian Temperance Union should fight as hard against rouge as they d6 against liquor. Excessive external decoration Is just as bad as excessive nternal _decoration. I FATE SENATOR LOVE (X. Y.) things -were different in T sa; et Vet thirty years randfather's day, S0 Robert Louls Stevenson referred t0 marriage as “a sort of friendship ized by e police.” TeCOBNSHN BEECHER WARD, JR. The oftspring of a suicide feels an fmperative desire at some time in his i8|)i%e to end his existence.in the same manner. -PAUL. BOUM!'!' The place would | you | resolv- « act that a resolution declaring | ment of a socislistic 2 =second, a combination of the liberals | fone 80 long. Wed be home again n 300 year In addition to sending his em- over the country. Uncle the railrcads and steam. ship lines extensively for the trans- portation of his property. ~You'd be amazed at the federal junk of vari- ous sorts that travels over the rails. Useful junk, I mean. All of it im- portant to some activity of the gov- ernment. All wanted some place where it fsn't. In 1921, Uncle Sam epent an aver- age of $100.000 every working hour of every business day for the trans- portatéon of his employes and his possessions. The total figured up to about $215,000,000. Truly a tidy sum! It would run the departments of State, Justice, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor und Treasury complete for an entire yea® and in addition have g left-over big enough to pay Interest on a quarter of billion dollars of liberty bonds If it were invested at 6 per cent the principal and interest would the salaries of our senators and rep- resentatives, thair mileage and other expenses, for nearly half a century. Until about elghteen months ago this money was spent by the various branches of the government wholly independent ope of another. But now it is different.’ Gen. Dawes, the first director of the bureau of the budget, Inaugurated the federal trafic board to effect economies, where possible, in the gov- ernment’s transportation bill Gen. Lord continued the good work. Cow mander €. G. Mayo of the Navy De- partment wus placed at the head of the board. A group of some of the railroad executivek of the country agreed to officlute as an advisory committee. Then the board and the committee set to work to figure out economies. Without going into details, be it culd that economies were fumediate- forthcoming. * Nobody knows just how much the saving will amount to. for it is 4 hard thing to measure that sort of gaving in dollars and cents But it is certain that it will foot up not less than $1.000.000 a vear, and it may be much more. one case the Interstate merce Commission, boss of our rai roads, had a shipment of 10 pounds of material lying in San Fran- cis Tt was wanted in Washington | The federsl traffic board got busy. Instead of ehipping the oods by mon carrler it had them brought Norfolk by Navy transport. } Then the board called | moving the stuff from | Washington. “The raflroads’ lowest bid was $1.03 per 100 pounds. The board dickered with the st companies and got the fizure down {0 42 cents per 100 pounds 0] t one shipment aione the gov- | ernment suved $7,589.22. or miore than sufficient to pay a noble congressman a full year's salary. n to © bids on oriolk to EDITORIAL DIGEST to as Democrat faet that the staid old parliament actuaily took official no- ce of a soclalist’s speech,” and the reason, many American editore point out, is not hard to find; it les, t! | St. "Louis Globe De: suye {the obvious strength of the party.” That party, the Philage Public Ledger info “is T ond strongest party i One of thees days labor may govern England. That is why the Snowden |resolution has been dignified. for the first time in the history of the Bri | 1sh parliament, by organized suppo However academic the debate an the resolution may he, “its conse- | quences can hardly stop” with & f the Newark News thinks, ocialism has been made & po- |1itical issue.” After the vote on the resolution. “the isuc between c italism and socialism is to be carried |to the country. Mu pends. there- fore, upon the resul the vote, if the labor p stands ol even strong. for socialism, it wil coma a_politi in the election,” and * sue compels people to thl through and form more understan ing and definite opinio Speculating on the probable results | of the vote on the resclution in the Louse of commone, American writers look for two developments—first |split In the labor party itself, the strict laborites voting against the pro- posal of the soctalist laborites. and or {and conservatives against the labor iparty. The M!lwaukee Sentinel finds Ithe most ‘“‘enlightening” development in a cable dispatch stating that “it was noticeable that the front bench was practically deserted by the most important labor leaders during Snowden's speech.” Before Snowden {7can hope to convert parliament and ithe nation.” the Sentinel suggests. of the labor party The result, the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette agrees, “may be the division of the labor part which is now powerful, into a fran soctalist party and a labor pariy The Detroit Free Press t I1ikely that a good many “have been flirting with the Iabor ety © = o turn away from labor candidates and toward their old allegiance if e doctrine of the Enowden resolution is firmly support- {ed_by labor in parliament. But “the challenging fact which confronts sturdy, conservative old England.” and which makes possible a serlous discussion of such a chal- |lenge as Snowden has issued, the St. Louis Post Dispatch points out, Is that “when conditions become intol- erable change ls_inevitable” *“With half or more of every Income going into the coffers of the state. says the Knickerbocker Press (Albany), with ~ millions unemploved; with scores of anclent estates auctioned off to any buyer because the gentry can no longer maintain them, 1ife itself veering from a somewhat adorable mid-Victorian placidity into a decidedly catch-as-catch-can af- falr, England is not well prepared to argue that ‘capltallsm’ has made the vorld a good place to live in.” A Land of Contrasts. They came, they ®aw, they criti- cized; this has been the adventure of 80 many distinguished European visi- tors to America in tho last year or so, and their parting admonitions have been so curiously diverse that ofttimes we have been more dis- traught than impressed. Spending a week in the northeast, another inks !t berals wlho and the Pacific coast not so much as a day of their eminent observation,| they have gone home with minds fully made up as to what America is, what she thinks and feels, what she neecds for her soul's salvation. In a refreshingly different strain, speaks the Dean of Windsor, who sailed the other day after having seen much more of this country’s different regions and different moods than do most brief sojourners. “A land of violent contrasts,” he reports, and goes on to particularize: “In no land is there a class so unblushingly given to the worship of mammon; but in no land have I found s0 many men simply and wholeheartedly sacrificing opportunities of wealth and power to serve their country or help their fel- lowmen in laborious work without re- ward or even recognition. In no country is there such prompt rerction to pure idealism. In no country is there such blatant vulgarity, and vet no country has such exquisitely elabo- rate refinement. No country has such almost brutal lawlessness, and yot no country has such tender, affectiontte home life. No country has such ar- rogant conceit, and yet no country has_such noble modesty.” Whatever else may be' said of America, in praise or dispraise, this diversity of human nature, with Its dramatic contrasts, is unmistakable.— biggest | hip | or | 1abor | “he will have to convert the leaders ! and” with | in; the middle west, and giving the south | Discusses Jackson Statue. Writer Suggests Giant Memorial in Lafayette Square to Replace It. To the Editor of The Star: Relative to the proposed transposi- tion of statues I beg to offer the'fol- lowing suggestions: For the present let the Jackson statue remain where it is, but a Mttle later, when taxes are not quite o high, let the “hobby horse” be removed to gome less cen- tral place and let some work be sub- stituted_which will be worthy of the location. With the memorials al- ready existi and projected there will 'be no rdkson for turther monu- mental honors to Washington, and in any case the equestrian statue from the circle will not size up to the re- anirements. The situation is Drob- ably the finest in all Washington for imonumental purposes and should be utilized. for an elaborate artistic cre- ation of national significance. An appropriate subject for such a work will be found in the history of constitutional liberty. There ghould be, in the first place, an oblong stone platform with sultable approaches and surrounded by a parapet. In the cen- tesd should stand a colossal female figure representing the Spirit of Con- stitutional Liberty. The parapet should be surmounted, at points se- lected according to rules of art, by figures, on a smaller scale, of men who have made important contribu- tions to the evolution of this liberty, such ay Milton, Hampden, etc. Tho panels of the parapet should contain suitable relfefs, inecriptions and em- Liems. Historical scenes, such as the extortion of the Magna Charta from King John, should be represented. The subjects should be chosen by & learned ‘commission, and the cholce should he governed strictly by the main idea and by historfcal fact without regard to the prejudices of any race, religion or_ religlous sect. party or other political or goelal class. This cholce of &ubject, moreover, ! besldes appealing to a lofty national sentiment, would he highly appro- priate to the particuler environment. The corners of the square are occu- pied by the figures of friends of non- xon races who helped us in the struggle for independence, hut every well informed person knows that we owe the spirit of constitutional lib- erty far more to Great Britain her- tclf than to any foreign person or peopls. The monument proposed recognize -this fact and would thus be complimentary to the mill- tary figures in the corners. Why should we not honor our friends of our own household as well as strangers, and our spiritual forbears as_well as our military helpers? The remainder of Lafayette Square {should be set apart for memorials to | foreigners whom America dellghts to honor. If it is historically authenti- cated that Queen Victoria eald, “We I will have no war with America,” she should bave some kind of s monu- ment hLere. De Tocquelle and James B are personalities who {might well be ooneidered in_ this view. TIn the future it is to be hoped there will be many foreigners, not merely friends of ours, but world benefactors, whose memory the Amer- ican people will wish to cherish EDWARD 8. STEELE. Lauds B. H. Warner. ‘Corro:pondem Pays Tribute to Memory of Civic Leader. To tie Editor of The Star: most gratifying to see those n. H. B. T. Mactarland and Darlington, being honored by rials. But what about that 1. the late B. H. Warner? I have been looking up his varied activities business, education, re- ligion and charity, and the lst is lamazing. To begin with his business record. 1 find he was onc of the founders of the Board of Trade and its second president; member of the Chamber of Commerce and of the committee of lone hundred: one of the organizers of the Columbia Title Company, also of the Columbla Flre Insurance Com- pany; charter member of the Metro politan Savings Bank and of the Cen- | tral National and the Second National {banks. He was chief organizer of the Washington Loan and Trust Com- pany and of the Columbia National Bank, and president of both these in- stitutions. He was also a Girector of {the National Metropolitan Bank and of the National Safe Deposit and Trust Company. Backed Civic Betterment. In all civic matters Mr. Warner's interest and activity were tirele ome of our finest statues, buildings |and parks are monuments to his un- {ceasing energy and devotion to the National Capital. He was ons of the founders of the Public Library, and vice president from its incorporation it was through his efforts that Mr. | Carnegie gave to our city the Library | building. Ho was one of the trustees of the American University, also of Howard University. He was for a time president of the Alumnl Asso- ciation of Georga Washington Cni- oot Mr. interested s president of the Y. gave liberally to it. Hle was for years head of the Gospel Mission. He was one of the founders of the Presby- terian Home for the Aged and took an active interest in that institution. He was a trustee of the Church of the Covenant, and also trustee of the Na- tional Training School for Boys. He was for many vears president of the Emergeney Hospital and of the Cen- tral Disp He was secretary of the Yellow Fever Ald Scciety, an one time he was president of the local branch of the Red Cross. He founded the Patriotic Legion. which had for its objects “To insyire greater respect and love for the flag: a deeper spirit of pa- triotism and_devotion to the ideals and welfare of the nation; to improve and elevate, in e vy, the citizenship of the United States. Built Noyes Library. For many years Mr. Warner made his home at Kensington, Md, and there he built the Warner Memorial urch, in memory of his father. He also built the public sington, naming it Y brary” in_honor of Ins valued friend, the late Crosby S. Noye: T should not close this remarkable l1ist without referring to what was perhaps the most notable and far- reaching of all—his unfailing kindness and helpfulness to young men start- ing out for themselves. How many of these he advised, encouraged and advanced on the road to success! Their name is legion.” M. MAYNARD. i Warner was very religious and in every good work. He M. C. A and | i i { | Deplores Controversy Over Memorial Day To the Fditor of The Star; 1 notico that the annual claimants for the honor of having suggested | Memorial day to my father, Gen. John A. Logan, have commenced to appear in print. This yearly discussion seems to me senscless, when Gen. Logan's order as commander-in-chief of the Grand Army_of the Republic estab- ished beyond all question his having suggested” it, and by his making it an obligation of the Grand Army no one else has the slightest claim to this honor, nor has any one section of the country. Gen. Logan was not in Petersburg, va, as recently stated by one self- appointed authority, before or after the issuance of his order. These many claimants failed to come forward In Gen. Logan’s lifetime; some were not even born who assume to know the true history, and one—his adjutant reneral—merely acted in a clerical Capacity when the order was issued. T trust this well established fact will cease to be questioned and that this one of the greatest tributes to loyalty which has, since the world war, become an international service to “all comrades who died in defense of their country” will be allowed to remain in history to my father's (Gen. Logan's) credit as a lesson in pa- triotism for this and all future gener- ations. MARY LOGAN TUCKER. iskill CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS Happy s the man who bought his home & year ago, rather than the one who thought prices were too Righ and that he would walt for costs of mate- rials and wages to get back to nor- malcy. The index figures show that both materfal and labor cost between 2 and 30 per cent more this spring than they did a year ago. On the basis of cost of reproduction, valdes of all bufldings might be computed now at 25 per cent increase over what they were & year ago. Rents may not go up in proportion, if there are fewer renters now demanding homes Lumber which was sold two ye ugo for $40, now costs §120. Stec which sold & year ago for $i0 a ton now costs 368. As these increases | have not come spasmodically, there appears little prospect of a decline. | Perhaps Uncle Sam will heed Scere- tary Hoover's advice to let private builders have a chance now and for public building to wait for a slump, then equalize the pressure by erecting public works needed * ¥ * Secretary Hoover has quit calling for wheatless weeks and even for| sugarless weeks, but now ing for a “better home weclk,” gin June 4. Everybody over nation 1s to get together and not only wish they had better homes, but study how to standardize designs and sizes of parts, 80 a8 to cut out waste- ful costs. Through standardization of win- dows, doors and even cornices and porchies. very considerable savings can be effectsd, because more of t work can be turned oGt by machiner: A good demonstration of this princ ple is found in comparing the cost of | the material for ready-for-the-ham- | mer buildings, supplied by central factories, with similar building mate- rial cut by hand. * Just as we get the lesson learned that an automobile must never ap- proach another machine on the road without dimming its headlights, here comes the bureau of standards with a test showing that to dim the head- lights adds to the danger. It {8 now alleged that where two machines ap- proach each other, if their headlights are dimmed, neither driver can see bevond the approaching machine. | The point to keep in mind is that the | 1ight must be g0 adjusted as not to throw a glare into & pedestrian’s eyes nor the eyés of an approaching driver. The glare must be directed upon the ground. ! * The Secretary of Labor Dayis, commits hims to commendation of the teach: | trades in public schools. e says the | ing demand of America is forp skilled mechanics. He attributes this demand to incr d population which has grown out of proportion to the number of skilled mechanics, and to the “advanced methods used in all trades. It requires more technical now to be a skilled mechanic | than it Qid_a generation ago, and there is not place where & Youth without means can get that sort of education “Trade training should start in th grade schools” save the Secretary He goes further and sars that “no boy or girl should be given a diploma from the high schools unless they are then qualified to become If-support- ing n a fairly lberal way.” PR By that it is understood that the Secretary of Lezbor wants all boys and girls to learn tradas—much as the cld-time idea that if a boy Knew & trade he would never want tor a chance to carn a living. That idea not sound, as may be concretely il- lustrated br the very recent expe- Chief of Bolsheviki Knocked Down in BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. | Italy's supreme court of justice at Rome has just issued a decision which is of interest to every civilized power that allows the presence of any agent or representative of the soviet gov- ernment of Russia within its borders. Not long ago a Russian of the name| of Vorovsky, resident in Rome, as chief of a trade delegation of the bolsheviki junta at Moscow, hap- pened to overturn inadvertently, a table at which was seated a well known member of the smart hunt club to which the young crown prince has just been elected. As the soviet delegate—not only refrained from e: pressing his regret, but even refused to offer any apologies for his boorish awkwardness and lack of considera- tion, the Itallan had recourae to the only alternative. Mo gave him, first of all, a resounding ack on cheek and when Vorovsky raised h cane the Italian proceeded to kno him down. As the police declined to interfere and Vorovsky was ignominiously cjected from the restaurant, hastened to lodge a complaint with Premier Mussolini and with the de- partment of foreign affairs, demand- ing redress. The Italian government decided to ignore the complaint, and thereupon the Russtan appealed to the Italian courts, charging his us- sailant with assault, and the restau- rant with having subjected him to maltreatment and humiliation. The magistrate declined to accord any sort of reparation to the petitioner, and threw his case out of court. He then carried it to the highest tribunal of appeal in the kingdom. which took the ground that as chief of a trade delegation of the soviet government Vorovsky had no diplomatic status whatever, . and that since Italy had absolutely refused to concede any kind of official recognition to the soviet government, Mr. Vorovsky had no standing in the eyes of Italfan law, other than that of an ordinary alien, and an undesirable one at that nable therefore, to obtain any judicial satistaction for the castiga- tion to which he had been subjccted, and having _destroyed whatever chances he might have had of se- curing satistaction on the so-called fleld of honor (that is to say, through challenging his assallant to fight a duel) when he involked the interven- tion of the law, Mr. Vorovsky has rendered his continued residence in Italy quite impossible. For he had virtually placed himself bevond the pale of social intercourse with any Ttalian officials or club men. He ha: indeed, put himself in such a position as to make it impossible for any man of the world to do otherwise than to ignore him and to turn his back upon him as a social outcast and pariah. < ¥ % * Ex-Queen Milena had, to such an extent, abandoned the claims of her sons and.grandchildren to the de- funct throne of Montencgro that at the time of her death the other day she had completed all her arrange- ments for taking up her residence with her two daughters, the Prin- cesses Xenia and Vera, at Belgrade, in one of the wings of the royal pal- ace, as a member’ Of tNE “Serbia: tretar: rience of the expert press printers of the bureau of engraving and printing After they had spent the prime ycars of tholr lives as experts in hand printing the introduction of improved machines throws them out of emplo ment. That is cited only a< zn illus- tration of the fact that mer=lv learn- ing a trade—useful as that may be after one has disciplined his mind learned the elemental stadies— trade ix an unsafe reliar the foundation of sound & cation. What boy or teen vears of ago knows w her life work is to be? V who has reached mature years working along lines he ex follow when he was a child Dayis, the iron moldc It is all very weil to bands to obey the will, ev ginning manual train grades, but it is folly to trade teaching in schools way that it inte “three Rs” and a g of the world and its affairs tory and present ideals means advocates college courses for all, would be folly to forcé t mechanic” to ste fc college, it wo bo to stultify t natural brains by depriving him of ti mentals of s . which will to grasp thé problems ow. Tomorrow is g« P’ most of the method in all trades. here s “the vil of yesterday? re is the wheelwrigh t ge bl rpente scraper driver makes to do tha si - lest ope great factor: The ded The immediate future when the boys of the pres: in productive periods hood—is to be a less power from Muscie Shoals a the tides of machine be our man whom to run a st Houses stone or there il Secretary Davis that “ed ofsflux as man of ciemental ar That shortens besides adding car trade appre riculy t arti (Copyright real Trade Delegation Restaurant at Rome house, of of an Her reigning grandmother Serbla. and a allowance fri eldest son, the o fol, renounced u she wa g Alexandc entitled to civil list £ro when he waiv- hal? of his nephew, manner, stronghold of Mount Lovehe ing the Black mountain, to trians in the great war. The young Prince Michael is i establ h Paul and Emm wheroe th the former P ried to the Belg | Errembault-Dudzcel | King Alexander's are in receipt his privy pur The countess has be. tiful woman; she w at one time, wealt stantinovi Col. Vladt an American the former Anne York, and one. glan’ Baron V o stantinovitch was to marred the ill-fated Alexanc Obrenovit h It was because the match fa last moment to materializc, the Jast of the Obrenov. tracted a disgraceful rr the infamous Draga M: both were butchered of their guard way for the pr in the Cutting ime mated to ere. N There has been pressed as to what had be. Nathalie Constantinoviteh after secured her divorce from I but utterly unprincipled Prince 2 of Montenegro, whose name will al- ways figure in history as the bet of his coun as ha astronghold of his people for gold, and s one of the very few i ticlpants in the greatewar to h earned the stigma of a traitor. It will, therefore, interest many to know that she and her three boys are now 1iving under the protection under the roof, and on the bounty . the present King of Serbia. Nofie of the obituaries of tiw Lord Weardale, the one-time P4 Stanhope, who was £o widely k in America. through hia leader. the intsrnational conferenc celebration of the centenas treaty of Ghent, make any mention the fact that on one memorable nie ve lent dog whipping at the Euston rail- road terminus in London by a furfated and militunt sulfra; who had mistaken him for of Résebury, then primo minister. T resemblance between the two men ins thoss days very pronounced i Lord Weardale was to such an extent taken by surprise that his by o means fair assaflant was able to cover his face with weales before he had time to attempt to protect himself and before the witnesses of the as- sault could interfere. It was all the morc unjust Lord Weardale, who was aiso lewd of the English delegation to the in- ternational parliamentary congre held In St. Louls in 1903, Wis an vanced radical. a champion of frage and professed views, almost extreme as those of his great father, the third and rcvoluti Earl of Stanhope, the Intimate fr d_, of Robespierre, of MarAt and of sn="¢ leaders of the ¥yench terror of .