Evening Star Newspaper, April 2, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING sTAR,!-very generation—it has been found | have to mow their lawne in December VENI) ‘With Eund.y Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY..... THEODORE W. NOYES.. The Evening Star Newspaper Company Bastaegs Ottice, 11t St syivanta Ave, New Yo Chicago Offc 4 Ruropesn Office: 16 Regent St., Loados, Logland. and Ponn: 150 N The Evening Star, with the Sunday marning rdition, is delivered by carriers withip the city 2t 6 ceats per month; dully onlr. 43 cents per moxth; Sunday onlr. - month. Or- ders may be seat by mail, or telephome Main 0 Collection i3 made by carriers at the ©f cach month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1 mo., 700 Daily only 1yr. $6.00; 1 mo.. S0 unday onl . , $2.40; 1 mo., 20c All Other States. Daily and 1 mo., 86 Daily only g $3.00; 1 mo., Member of the Associated Press, The Associated Press is cxclusively entitled fo the use for republication of ail news dis- Patches credited to it or not otherwise credited n this paper rud also tie local news pub- | ton of | ithed “hereln. Al Hghts of publl wpectal dispatches Loreln are also reserved. . .April 2, 19223 < Arbor Day Proclamation. The Commissioners in their Arbor day proclamation make an appeal to izens to give attention to the har snonious planting of shrubs and fowers, the guarding of trees from depredations and the maintenance of varks and highways “in fitting beauty by keeping intact thelr shrubbery and flowers.” Tt is an appeal which will strike home to many persons, s hoped it will inspire every home- <eeper in the District to plant shrub. bery and flowers where they will im- prove the aspect of the home and to bestow some care on the thi ars already zrowing. Beaut the assets of the city. The Commis sioners say t “with the approach of spring, as Washington appears to 1s once more in radfant verdancy. the Commissioners of the District of Co- lumbia take occasion to to the at- tention of the cittzens necessity for considesing bequeathed to ht of the fathers of ti trees.”” They scels to awake of those waking by say on have been giv enues and gorgcol the fore- city, our the pride 1de needs Wa . shady aspects, wrough , and heauty cit is alluited a eng recogn Spring is here come gardens bhe but ite can planted where they should be, Arbor day is broad ugh in signiticance to call for the planting of shrubs and fl It also calls not only for the pla s but for the protectl ment of thc trees and s ove- 1bs we have. The Middey Lenten Services. The midday Lente: Keith's Theater concluded upon Saturday singing of “The Atonement,” ogntata. Throughout the Lenten sea- #on, a period remarkable this year for its many days of snow and rain. au ences of from 730 to 00 have gath n to the notable ad- e to the services a tremendous significance in the popular response to these meet- ings. Conducted upon a strictly non- sectarian basis, purposed to stimulate the epiritual, intellectual and patriotic fervor of the commun they have <ripped the hearts and minds of those who have attended. They proclaim in irrefutable fashion the fact that the »usy men and women of today, for all thelr engrossment in the petty ma- oblems of the hour, are snthuslastically receptive of an oppor- tunity to think upon those broad and Tofty pianes cntial to the moral progress of any community or nation. Happily the midday Lenten services may now be accepted as a local fix- ture. Plans are afoot, in response to a general demand, to have them ex- tended to certain of the departments next year, and it has even been sug- sested that the name of the ssrvices e changed and that they be run rhroughout the vear. Whether or not it be found prectical to meet either of these suggestions, we have the happy assurance that, in the years ahead, Washington is to have full op- portunity to continue its splendid re- sponse to an imperative call. —————— Headline: “Want U. S. Capital in Southern China.” Even a little more far-fetched than the plans to move it to various parts of the United States. i e e It is hard to writc & paragraph about the Easter temperature. The tendency is to write a book or one word. services fittingly with the a sacred dresses inc: There & ©Oh, well, that Easter finery is just as fine today as if yesterday had been oalmy. No Gag for the Soldiers. There is a natural cleavage of opinion be¢tween peace organizations and military men. It seems easy for the peace men to SE% Ppeace throuxh'- out the future and far warriors to sce war. One set'of men insists that talk of universal peace is mischievous and misleading ;in that it operates against measures for protection against war and victorious prosecution of « war should it come. The other set insists that talk of coming wars and prepara- tions for war invite and hasten war. We have always had with us those who claim that non-preparation for war promotes peace, and we have also had with us those who con- tend that adequacy of preparation for war tends to postpone or avert war. It i3 a question on which men divi@e. There are proball® extremists en both sides. Some men argue that an attitude of absolute non-resistance is the better, and others that we should not only hold ourselves in readi- ness to give blow for blow, but that we ghould stand réady to give the first blow. The weight of opinion among Americans favors adequacy of naval and military preparation for war, but there is division of opinion as to what <constitates adequacy. Whenever war a5 come to us—gad it has come in | < and it} ent gift | | that our preparation was inadequate. { It s reported that requests have been made on Secretary Weeks to “prevent Army officers from speaking publicly in regard to their profession and using language which conflicts ‘with the aims of certain peace organi- zations.” It is also reported that the Secretary “might answer the requests by making plain the right of officers to act as individuals and by revealing to the country the 'menacing and un- patriotic program of certain organiza- tions.’ " Such action by the Secretary of War would be well regarded by the mass of the American people. They lcan see no reason why those who speak for preperation for future war thould be muzzled. If the peace or- ganizations cannot meet the argu- ments of the warrlors it does not speak well for the cause they espouse. Tt seems that some members of peace organizations ‘would not only muster out all troops, scuttle warships and break the sword, but would also' gag those who say that as war has come upon us many times in the life of the republic it will come again, and that its coming should find us ready. The argument should be allowed to go on i | ! | g0ods to the people. fair pl ing. ——— Business Highs and Lows. Tt has long been recognized that the Lusiness cycle—recurring perfods of boom times and hard times—was il- logical and uncomplimentary to the civilization of the present century, but we now have before us for the first time the results of a comprehen- sive study of this phenomenon, with sume suggestions for corrective poli- cies. The survey was made by a spe { etal Committee appointed by President Harding's unemployment conference, {and more than a year was spent on | the A summary of the report has just been released by Secretary Hoover, who was chairman of the conference. According to the committee. in th absence of crop failures or other un. avoidable catastrophes, prosperity in this country ought to be continuous, not at the high peak, but at an aver- age which in the long run of yvears would be better for evervbody. The reason prosper i3 not thus benefi. cently d uted, the committee | finds, mes we lose our heads and dissipate | our gains result that the overexpansion, | 1089 of efficlency. waste and estrava | mance bring on a period of depre { We undergo a long season of punish- ment £ and after we have made cconomic atonement we dart again to by up toward prosperity. But instead of remembering the les- It would not be v for one side to do all the talk- i | | { i i | r our sin rors. we go ahead making the same old mistakes over again. | The committee makes a number of | recommendations as to things we {should and should not do to maint ian even prosperity. Chief among {them are bank control of credit ex- i pansion end inflation: greater care in {industrial expansion: regt { Bublic works to take up slack in un. | employment: creation of unemploy- ment reserve funds; establishment of a national system of employment bu- reaus, and the publication of more prompt and dependable statistical in- formation as to Industrial conditions. It will be noted that only & minor {part of this program looks to govern- be achieved in its major parts only by the initlative and through the co- operation of the people generally, and | betore these can be had a nation-wide {campatgn of education will be neces- The committee wh - has dope a ellent wor and wmade an excellent report, but litt) good will have been accomplished if the matter is allowed to rest there. Not only the agaencies of the govern- ment but organized industry and or- ganized labor ought to take up the campaign and push it along. The ob- | jective sought is one in which there is no clashing of conflicting interests. —————— Increase in Cars. That there is a steady increase in the number of automobiles in Wash- ington is obvious, hut it is interesting to have the figures from the District building. The superintendent of licenses says that 67,000 tags have been {ssued this year, which is an in- {crease of 17,200 over the number is-| isued to this date last year, and he predicts that before the close of 1923 100.000 tags will be issued. The issue iof tags now averages 300 @ ddy. The jauto season is opening, and the spring purche of cars goes on at a rate that shows no algn of slackenin, Traffic problems become hardey as cars increase, but the problems will have to be met. There is no other way. The number of cars will continue to in- crease for an indefinite time. —_——— In these days of aggravated femi- nine insubordination what must the answer be to that query of Lord Byron: “But, oh. fectual Inform us truly, have they not hen- pecked you all?” ——————— That German chemist who claims he can extract gas from water might try his hand at extracting the water from German currency. —————— By dancing twenty-seven hours without stopping e Broadway jazz ar- tist has sutceeded in proving that they are not all dead yet. lords of ladies intel- ‘Weather Prophets. Weather prophets find their fairest opportunity -in foul weather. When winter {3 severe and spring extremely cold some prophets tell that there twill be no summer, end that frost and January winds will prevail in August, while other prophets, apparently of equal reliadbility, tell that summer will be the hottest and driest or the hot- test and wettest ever known. Then, in summer, when a sizzard sizzes, the prophets also get busy. The following winter, according to one set, will be so cold that steamboats will stop running on the Potomac river and men may skate from Little Falls to Point Look- out. Another set of prophets will say that & hot summer means e warm winter, and fl: ‘homekeepers will and the disputants should show theiry is because in periods of flush | £ons of the past and avolding its er-| tion ot ! ment initiative and regulation. It can i i conducted | and screen against flles in February. Prophets use the breastbone of a blue goose, the bark of an oak tree, certain signs given out by squirrels and other sclentific aids to prophecy. The news tells that a set of prophets in the north, where it is still unduly cold, are predicting that next summer there will_be no_ summer, and that the weather will be as cold as it was in the summer of 1816, when frost formed every month and no crops were raised. ——— More Taxes. - Representative Frear of Wisconsin, & republican member of the ultra- progressive bloc in the House, gives an outline of ‘the legislation his col- leagues of the bloc will propose in the next Congress. Iis remarks are given added weight by reason of the fact that he will be a member of the ways and means committes in that body, and may be accepted as an authority on taxation and tariff. Some of the proposed legislation may be considered radical and calculated to meet vigorous resistance. Indeed, Mr. Frear frankly admits the unlikelthood of enacting some of the bills to be of- fered, but promises there will be agita- tion and constant pressure, with ef- fort to attract the attention of the country to them, Restoration of the excess profits tax, ! with higher rate of tax in the higher brackets, is expected by the bloc to find favor among democrats and pro- gressive republicans. The proposed imposition of & retroactive tax on un- | no doubt will be bitterly fought and its constitutionality challenged. An increase in taxes on inheritances will i be proposed, as well a9 a tax on gifts to prevent evasion of estate taxes. It will also be sought to lift the ban of secrecy now imposed on tax and in come records. The Dbloc will seek a constitutional amendment to reach both tax-exempt securities and stock dividends. | In announcing the program of the { ultra-progressives Mr. Frear says that all members, regardless of group or party, will be invited to assist the bloc {in carrying it out. The bloe, it is un- derstood, is to epply the pressure o {a balance of power eought to be ob tained through emalga ———————————— It French expectati can tourists will spe ithat country th the question of immed | payments by G { more or less academ! { ———— { | »ns that Aw | s are realized, ate repara become ns to get the * ups by the French in |ing four Krupp directors for inciti { Rubr disturbances is calculated t | give uneasiness to certain high person- uges at Berlin, ——— i i Decislon of the government to take | potitics out of probibition enforcer lmay be productive of results. and politics always did make combine: i : A cable dispatch { Germany was a day of moy | mi { of atonement. { e { The weather keeps on breaking new {records with the monotonous regu- larity of @ Johnny Ray or & Welsmul. | It ——— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Tribulation. world keeps a-travelin’ as hard as it kin go; Travelin' through de sunshine an’ i travelin’ through de snow, | Travelin’ through de roses, an’ trav- elin’ through de rocks, @Gittin' some caresses, an’ a mighty sight o' knocks. It's been a-goin' dat wav ever since long, long ego. iAn‘ it's gwine to keep a-goin' foh e million vears or so. Dis ol An’ I sometimes specks de sorrows an’ de jovs dat I goes through Don't 'mount to nothin’ like s much as I suppose dey do. It's hahd to bear de penaities when fortune doesn’t smile, But when you counts ‘em up, it's only foh a little while. jperiences you runs across mighty tough. foh sho’, s ol world's got to stan’ em foh a million years or so. I De ’s is But An Ordeal. ‘When father's up at break of day An’ lookin® very glum; ‘When our old dog just hides away An’ waits for night to come; When sister-lets her hair hang down An' wears a funny blouse, It's pretty plain to all the town ‘That mother's cleanin’ house. ‘When preakfast is a flerce pretence An’ dinner is & joke; ‘When rugs are hangin’ on the fence An' bric-a-brac is broke, We tiptoe round, e-feelin’ sad. An’ still as any mouse, Fur home, sweet home, goes to the bad ‘When mother’s cleanin’ house. Security. Go to bed, sleepy head, De wind will sing e song. De moonbeam’s watchin’ by voh bed, An’ nuffin’s goin’ wrong: Ain’t no cause to stay awake Like ol’ folks sech as me, 'Case po one's gwinter try to make TYou mis'able, you see. Go to bed, sleepy head, De world was made foh you Yoh life is %11 befo’ you spread An’ friends is fond an’ true. De ol’ folks, dey's de servin’ men Dat trembles when you weep, An’ watches till you smile again: So, honey, go to sleep. Carl Sandburg defines poetry as “a silver of the moon lost in the belly of & golden frog.” To us the definition is not satisfactory. It is hoped that some bright inmate of a psychopathic ward mey yet give a clearer one.—Toledo Blade. ——— It seems certain the Prince of Wales will not be “the man on horseback.” He can't stay on.—Greenville Pled- mont. iz i distributed earnings of corporations | $400,000.000 in | tght properly be followed by a period ! WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC 1s the repubiican party going to write a strong anti-Ku Klux Klan plank into its presidential platform in 1924?° Within the past few days tWo G. O. P. leaders, both state chalr- men—R. B, Creager of Texas and Lawrence Lyons of Indlana—have Creager is a warm friend of Presi- dent Harding. He and F. E. Scobey, director of the mint, were joint hosts of the Hardings in December, 1920, immediately after clection, on the occasion of the fll-starred and avin- try vacation at Point Jsabel, Tex: Creager. who lives at Brownsville, long hus been slated to Lo our first ambassador to Mexico when the United States decides to admit the Obregon regime to the soclety of nations, Senator Walter E. Edge pf New Jersey is employing the congres- slonal recess in sharpening his ora- torlcal axes for a prohibition debate in Newark on April 24. The Anti- Saloon League of New Jersey challenged’ Edge to a public discus- sion and gave him the chofce titles. He selected “The tiveness of thé Volst was approved by the challengers on condition that Edge permits discus- slon of proposals for muking enforoe- ment efficacious. The debate will take place in Newark's biggest hall, the Kruger Auditorium. = Senator Edge's opponent will be a Jersey '!'r:' leader, former Assemblyman George V. Hobart. Each contestant will get half the admission tiec and bear ha'f © of the mee One of the se Lat have oozed out since the adjourtment of Con- gress is the real reason for non-ap- pointment of W, Harding Alabama to 4 new term as governor of the Federal Reserve Board. Sena- tor Heflin of Alabama is said to have assured President Harding that the appointment of W. P. Harding would bhe “personally tve” to him (Heflin). Under th red rules of senatorial courte which . the Presideht, as a former senator, pro- foundly respects, it would have been unorthodox to press for confirma. tion, especially 23 the T obfec- tor came from the nom state So the services of an eminently worthy official were sacrificed on th alter of & congressional shibboleth of Dr. tists Hata. one of the Japanese wien now in Washington Fuests of the Rockete , is the most minent Nippon has thus fame | rasts upon 1909 a4 1910 with Paul er Foundatior cdical men produced I§ collaboration in the Prof. i late Italian Hyphenism No More Wel- come Than Any Other. transplanting o ism to the United States is = 0 be tolerated, in view of American editors, than is the trans- planting of German junkerism or Russian sovietism. Hence. while a few writers see promise of good in the proposed program of organization 1into fascisti of g in this cour look upo as 1 encourage di- and which, even if e of good, i which wi vided allegiance, it could be produc eded here. “The fasc ve dc necessary work in Ital Free Press acknowledge: They have saved the peuinsula from con }trol by communistic and bolshevis clements that were plaving directly into the hands of Lenin. The eco- principles and practices of thes ti are sound. They are patriotic nd rnationallstic But the reason for this success, the New Vork Herald says, is that the movement Eréew from Italy's soul. It did not 3 {from Switzerlgnd or orway or {America,” for “great social and po- { litical movements succeed only in the €oil from h they spring fascisti of Musasolini conquer cause Italy needed them.” but are ‘not transplantable. the St. Joseph “we have no c tascisti in its in_Europe.” That fascism ment {ndigenous to Italy is the very reason why it mhst not be permitted to gain_a foothold among Italians in the United States, m: maintain, and however successful it has been “in_conducting the Italian government in a efficient manner does not alter the fact,” the Canton News points-out, that it secured con trol “by threat of force, by defiance of all constitutional ‘guarantees.” To encourage that doctrine in this cou try, adds the Boston Transcript, to invite danger and disorder. It means the importation of European disturbances into our cities and towne; for already the nation and communistic factions among the Italians have begun to clash, and & systematic organization of extreme nationalists will tend to aggravate the enmities and inflame the pas- | sions of the Italians among u Analyzing the program as given the sponsors of the movement, tha Asheville Times finds that it “need occasion no alarm.” Its javowed objects, says the Times, “are such that any American could sub- scribe to them without doing vio- lence to his citizenship. They in- glude such worthy purposes as teach- ing the Italian his obligations to the land of his adoption, prevention. of unemployment, aid for the immi- grants and help for disabled veter- ans of the world war. The fascisti of North America are mnot to par- ticipate as & unit in American poli- tics” So long as the fascisti in this country “lives up to these avowed in tentions, and assumes no political as- pect,” the Wheeling Intelligencer IN A FEW WORDS A United States of Europe. formed lon the basis of George Washington’ { United States in the new world, is the only salvation for the continent. —MAXMILLIAN HARDEN. troit s 2 politic In Arabia all a man has to do_to rid himself of his wife is to clap his hands three times and say, “I divorce you.” Consequently, all the Arabian women take great pains to behave elves. e fRS. ROSITA FORBES. There have been few periods in the history of the United States when the moral tone of the country has been as low as at present. 2EX-SENATOR EVERETT COLBY. The Ruhr today is the new Serbia of Europe, the torch for another war. —PIERREPONT B. NOYES. checks of all city employes of NewY omeans will Be gent to. their wives in the future. After that, if the ladies can’t control the money, it is nobody’s fault but their own. —COMMISSIONER MURPHY. It takes a Roosevelt in America or a Lloyd George in England to make sure that the electorate is never bored, and this type of states- man Is by no means o hum common r garden variety anywhere. o—gENATOR GEORGE. H. MOSES. France is seeking to establish a new Alsace-Lorraine—a sad endin 1573 war fought for tho liveration o nations. emell P EXPREMIER ASQUITH. issued vigorous anti-klan manifestos. WILLIAM WILE Ehrlich on the experiments that re- sulted in Ehriich's ocelebrated “606" cure. Hata was the German savant's principal coadjutor at the Royal In- stitute for Experimental ‘Therapeutics t Frankfort-on-the-Main. The Jap- anese sclentist 18 more at home in German than in English, and the brother medics whom he is meeting in America converse with him in the language in which Hata and Ehrlich worked. L If Hiram Johnson and George Moses while in Europe hear about go- ings on at Oxford University, certain American Rhodes acholars may be in for prosecution for high treason. Ox- ford has established, for the purpose ot giving undergraduates practice in international affairs, & minfature league of nations, made up of spokes- men of the many countries repre- sented in the student body. Twenty- two nationalities composed the first meeting, held in November, 1921. A delegate from India, Mr. Mahmood, was first president of the “league assembl: Since then numerous questions have been debated, colnci- dent with their discusslon at Geneva —among them, reparations, Shan- tung, the Egyptian mandate, the | Epirus dispute between Greece and Albania gnd_admission of women to league. R. M. Carson of Michigen was president for one session, while 5.8 Smith of Oregon functioned as an expert from Germany. Amacker of Louistana, L. J. By ame of Wisconsin (page “Bob” La Tollette), W. R. Burwell of Rhode 1s- land and’S. 'W. Washington of West Virginia have &ll served as American delegates at varfous times. United tates delegates this year include one yoman ‘undergraduate, Mixs L. C ower: ok % & Roy Martin, general manager of the Associated Press, was & high private in the grand avmy of patriotic tour- Easter holiday resort. He came to show his tw. ear-old daughter Mount Wernon. “I've been to Wash- ington & hupdred times.” sald Martin, but had not been to Mount Vernon since I myself was twelve. Wonder if there aren't thousands of resident Washingtonians who have never been there at all.” * ¥ The courtesies of the port are ex- tended to congressional lame ducks by former comrades still on their of- ficial feet. Which is to say that many senators and representatives who fell by the wayside in 1922 are still to be seen on Capitol Hill. They officially ceased to be on March 4, but several ontinue to inhabit their old offices, and can be seen lunching in the Sen ate restaurant—the House cafe is closed. They're even at liberty to utilize their former congressional sta. tionery. Once an M. C., always an M. C. (Copyright, 1923.) EDITORIAL DIGEST | can find “no serious obiection organization. In Black Hand, C o():;r Italtan s=oct. S wide attention in this country peaceful and law-abiding orrgt:x)nzfl- tlon, such as the fasciett purports to efreshing addi i St poputati can be depend " t1ive up to its tenets in lheet:!-) Pirtion of the Watertown Standard, believes to be ‘“inconceivable” likellhood “that the many Italians Wwhose home has been in America for years. whose prosperity came here, children ara bein; our schools an Pt g called Americ; will place any or. “ above the toe Constitution.” Nevertheless, “the name itself of the organization is agains: it in the first ‘piace,” the Springfield Repub- lican holds, for it carries the sug- n emphasis upon of ‘racial soltdarity—a pan-italieniom as it were—tending unduly to in- crease and perpetuats an undesirab separatences; in a word, Tvphenism. That is also the basis for the Ta- coma Ledger's objection to the move- ment, fostered, as it appears to be a foreign gov o paper sees it, “it is an affirmation by the Ttalian government that there is such a thing as dual citizenship: that while an Italian may become an American citizen by naturalization, he still retains his alleglance to the mother count: That is a doctrine hich cannot 'be accepted by Amer- ans,” and “if the fascieti organiza- tion contemplates that holding of Italians in the United States to Ital ian alleglance and Italian citizenship, then the fascisti is as great a menace to Americanism as was the organiza. tion established in this country with money appropriated by Kaiser Wil- helm and the imperial German gov. ernment” " And if the movement ‘means anything.” the Norfolk Led- ger-Dispatch thinks, means that Mussolini and his followers would have Italiane in America ignore what for want of a better word, we call Americanization and continue to owe and pay alleglance to Ttaly.” a doc- trine which the paper repudiates be- cause, It says, the rule that “no man €an serve two masters is as literally true today as it was centuries ago," and “our Italian-born or Itallan-dé- scended citizenry 18 too valuable for us to permit it to lose any of its valuer - Mussolini's injunction, the Steuben- ville Herald-Star reports, “is 'that the good Itallans in America should beware of bolsheviem, " and appar- ently it is the intentlon to organize them to combat bolshevist tendencies, In this connection the Hartford Times quotes the Corriere d’America as saying that “this is not a duty that rests upon foreigners, even if it were necessary. Supporting this position the Times repll Exactly! Have we no Willlam J. 'Burns, no Senator Lusk, no woman's patriotic party? If there be communists at large these 100 per cent patriots may be trusted to see that they are investigated and apprehended. We need no assistance from the Italian tascistl. We have ‘black shirts' of our own. The great trouble is that so many find difficulty in keeping them on.” That “Indian Uprising.” ‘Whenever an Indlan gets “bad” and commite a crime and a few of his tribesmen attempt to aid or conceal him, the episode grows to the dig- nity of an “uprising of the redskins.” Nine thousand boys at once begin to prepare for an excursion to the west. If any one has ever in his travels seen a Plute Indian he has seen the last answer in degenerate native Americans. One or more hard-bolled Indians committing crimes of the same character as those done in populous communities where they are of such high frequency that they are given small attention have stirred the front pages into action in'the past week. That these “outbreaks” took place in the most isolated and least visited of the wonderland of the west added to the opportunity for dime novel frills and thrills. Had white men performed the feat of escaping from jail and been given aid and assistance by a dozen rene- gade, sheep-stealing ruystlers, we would have heard nothing of it east of Denver. The Piute is famous for a cake made from a meal of ground grasshoppers and for h: water for bathing purpo like many a white mai trouble when filled wit voltage moonshine of {llicit com. merce. “But as for an “uprising, there is far more danger in our own ffete east than In the sublime scenery of southern Utah.—Janes- ville Gazette. N otential for the high- ists who chose Washington as an |} which attract | . | wear, that an ordinary leather ghoe d Who are proud to be | ernment, for, as the | THE WAYS OF WASHINGTON BY WILLIAM PICKETT HELM Did it ever occur to you as you walk, tramp, run, glide or dance through life that one of the most essentigl little things to your hap- piness is the sole of your shoe? If your sole is good, all is well; but & poor sole, llke a poor soul, is the cause of almost endless vexation and worry. Uncle Sam is Interested in your sole as well as your soul. He takes fleeting notice of the one in the guar- antee that you may develop it as you wlll; the other, however, he himself tests in the mill of wear and tear. Not a sole touches earth, pavement or floor whose twin has not been thoroughly tested by the government of the United Statea. The bureau of standards, one of the most wonderful workshops in the world, knows more about your sole than you know yourgelf. In the sylvan surroundings” of Rock Creek Park the practical leather experts of the bureau have set themselves to the work of testing soles. They do this in the most common- place and practical method imagin- able. They simply wear the soles on their own shoes. Employes of all grades, from laborers to high bu- reau officlals, wear samples of sole leather. Each sole tester keeps a card show- ing the history of the test. For ex- ample, a card would show the date of "the commencement of the teat, the weight of the man wearing the sole, whether he had a peculiar or {unusual way of walking and what {ind of ground he walked on The men who test soles usually | wear & sample of one kind of leather lon one foot and another kind on the other. In that manner a comparison {can be made. After a time, or when the sample wmoles are badly worn, they are measured and weighed and their wearing qualities established. During the war the sclentists call- {ed on the boys at Camp Meads to 1p the sole-testing experimenta. Doughboys, whose spectalty i3 walk- ing s wecll as fighting, gave the samples the severest tests imagin- lable. Policemen and firemen have assist- ed gince then. The police, however, are on their feet too much and the firemen hardly encugh to afford the Droper Boft of tests, 8o the burcau jrather aiscourages the use of these two classes of employes for the | work. | Ar the ultimate test, the scientists heve rigged up a stepping machine. It is a contraption that would make Weston ~ and other long-distance strollers green with envy. Forty miles before breakfast is &s nothing to this machine A revolving wheel and an abrasive jdisk form the main theme of the istepping study. ‘The current is turnied on: the wheel revolves; the test, consisting of 40,000 revolutions about 40,000 steps or 40 miles—is under way. When the sole comes off the patented stepper it has been tried and tested. There are other ways of testing {soles. Also there are kinds of eoles o test than those of ordinary {leather. One of the methods in use via the route of chemical analysts. The leather-testing laboratory has a complete tanning outfit, including {the smell. TIncluded in the work is | the tanning of rabbit skins, showing i beyond question that the work is ad- vancing by leaps and bounds Shark skins, too, are being tested as shoe soles and uppers. It sounds |fishy, doesn’t it? But shark skin has ! good qualities. For instance, it re- i{tains a finish, after a long period of I does ‘not retai | Plgskin is being investigated in {view of the great quantitics of it | which now go to waste. How is t | wasted? We eat it. Of 60,000,000 for so hogs elaughtered yearly but a mall proportion are skinned. Conse- uedmly when we buy bacon we buy {rind. A pig is not only traditionally slip- ery, but once caught its hide is hard | to remove. It is also full of grease, which makes tanning difficult. The experts are working on a | method of degreasing pigskin and of tanning it economically. They are jalso perfecting a process of tanning | sheepskins, so that a sheepskin may be useful to some one else besides the graduates of our colleges and universities. Treat a sheepekin right and it will make good shoe leather. In addition, the bureau tests shoe soles made of various compounds. One of these, the Army hob-pall shoe, can be worn ninety days before the actual leather becomes noticeably affected One of the obsolete things the bu- reau used to test is hanging on the wall as an exhibit. It is a pair of massive shoes with soles at least an inch thick. “What are those things?’ I asked “You don’'t have to worry about hem,” my informant replied. “They ! n't used any more.” No? Well, what are they, any- | WWhy, they sre brewery shoes.” American Composers Praise Star Editorial To the Editor of The B Our attention has just been called to the editorial in vour issue of the th instant, under the heading “Worthy of His Hire” referring to the position of American composers, authors and publishers, with refer- nce to the public performance of their Copyrighted works by radio broadcasting. We wish to voice our thanks for the falrness and justice of your com- m These men, who contribute so much to the morale and welfare of the natfon, are asking only for what they consider feir and just reoofm- tlon from an_ industry the develop- ment of which may very logically in years to come deprive them of most of their present sources of revenue. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF COM- POSERS, AUTHORS AND PUB- LISHERS. By J. C. Rosenthal, General Manager. Jay-Walking Advice Resented by Citizen To the Editor of The Btar: There has recently appeared all about the streets of Washington a sign to the effect that the jay-walker may be taking & short cut to the hospital. As the victim of an auto- mobile accident—the go-called “fay- walker'—is generally & fesble, old r gentleman, or & young child, ln‘ldirn:n %l such accidents are due to recklees driving, and as these fre- quent accidents are deplorable and not to be treated with fiippanoy, the signs in questlon are an offense against decency, justice and proper dignity. They are deeply mortifying fo°a Washingtonian who has pride in his cilyfi and Dhoxld l?e removed at riiest opportunity. e o oLpys. | HENRY Statue to Jackson Called Monstrosity To the Editor of The Star: It seems impossible to keep politics out of the discussion of even works of art. The Jackson statue is a montrosity and, therefore, a disgrace to the menmory of the hero of New Orlean: The patriotic services of Andrew Jackson are in the elags of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. He is entitled to an imposing memo- rial in a commanding location. Now is the time to take steps to honor the man who 8tood by the Constitution and the laws of the United States and erect to him a monument i Lafayette Square that will be am efmament to tho Capital city. A. R. HOLDEN. CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS “It's an i1l wind that blows no- body"—wild ducks and woodcocks. The Department of Agriculture con- trols Center market and finds one of its meat counters violating the game laws. It prosecutes the culprit, who is fined $300, and all his tllicit game goes to Walter Reed Hospital to re- fresh sick and wounded veterans of the world war. It is very bad to violate game laws, but if you must do so and get caught at it, remem- ber the hospitals. * ¥ ox % ‘The National Republican, the or- gan of the national republican ex- ecutive committee, protests against the resolution introduced by the American delegation to the interna- tional conference .at Rome. That resolution called for a new interna- tional egonomical conference, which would discuss, and perhaps resolve to pool, all the economic problems of nations. The organ of the G. O. P. protests against further involving this country {n the affairs and financee of Europe, but ends its pro- test with the concession that if pri- vate individudls or banks of Amer- ica want to loar their money to Europe, there is nothing to prevent, but that the people ought to have a voice before any more public funds are 50 loaned * ox ¥ @ Agreeing with the last proposition —that no more national loans should be tolerated without a voice from the electorate—does it follow that the people are not concerned even in the lending of private funds abroad? Every millior: dollars, even of private money, which is loaned to foreign borrowers, takes away that much otherwise avaflable funds for lend- ing to productive Industry in America, and not only boosts inter- eFt rates at home, but tends to crip- ple_enterprise and depress wages. While foreign loans cannot be bar- red from investors, do not these bankers, who enjoy the protection of the American government, owe a pa- triotic obligation to their own coun- try and its prosperity, paramount even to thelr own profiis? If that be the cace, then i it absolute that loans to forelgn enterprise muat never be taxed by the American go ernment. at a higher rate than in- vestments in American industries? Does the protest of the National Re: publican go far enough? ¥ % ¥ % “Give women liberty or give them —what they want,” appears to be the theme of an impassioned addrese by Mrs. Emily Newell Blair, vice chair- man of the democratic national com- mittee. She feels so sorry for the republican women who arc not per- mitted to sit in with the men on the national committee of the G. O. P. She says: “In 1924 we nominate a President. What part can woman have in choosing that man? The re- ublican women, provided there will e a few credited to that convention, will have to renominate the candi- date chosen for them. In the demo- cratic party the field will be open and free.” N It is too bad. It's just like matri- mony, where the women don't have a chance at all. They just h to accept any old stick of a man who happens to think about proposing. Now the democratic women can get together and decide to run one of their own sex. That's liberty. Every year will he leap year by and by, and them they can agree on what man ia worthy of their political sup- port. After all is the reference to t non-chofce of femininity in case of matrimony conclusive? Women do not often do the proposing—they have fun letting the men stammer through that tortuous ordeal—but what about their hypnotic power tn leading the poor chaps on to their | the da doom? 1Is all that tremendous fem- into a conventlon where the men hold a majority? Sometimes the “balance of power’ completely un- balances the powers. “Why worry?” “One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred p: * k% The authorities of who control our downsittings, if not 1 | | our uprisings, have wisoly decided that they went too far in denouncing all fences and hedges in our front yards. So now they that what is one other's landscaps gardenin, Chesterfleld was never a me the District Commissioners he saw the matter in the when ho said: “One man m steal a horse than another the hedge. It all depends on whose clipped press one referring to th still serving pr pressing themselves ing the He thinks war is unju it {8 his absoluto right to If a crank should be slug, be his honest, crank a right to proclain places? If a man of gasoline would flagration. is it a curtail natural liberty to stop him be he persuades ‘a thousand othe: agres witn hig inciplent incendiari: and begin organizing maso squads? “Liberty for the individua! does and ought never exist P patriot, “except eubordir welfare of the wh Such “liberty” is not barbarous license, of protection These is much r: leged miscarriage of it 18 applied to men v truction to.the Ame Na at t adds Mnks that @ The power of events and publio s always understood It i the language o in great art, tech play a most subordi: it “lNterary art” never has been gr. NOt CarTy a message heart Three illustrations: There {8 today in Pari D of sculpture, of a French soldier shakine hands with an American veteran, but because the artist had left upon the hand of t Paris populace !s in demanded th: the gloves, coldness w the pollu an rades in a cause. art-saturated Fran ¥ o Second: In hibition a large couple are sitting bes provided table. while reading a letter from from far-off America lies an American five- tho letter is addre dear parents,” and signed, “Katie. Does it not tell the heart-to-heart story of loving faithfu! it not a tie that bind countries through fami No wonder the window layed ie constantl ned countenances. Third: This cor he woman is heir daughter Beside her ar bill, and B {ington—so close t no names. ational her Justly 1 highest dishonorable n y sulted in popular f previous fdol. The disapp: t but there seemed no ch tricve. A famous cartoon public ,attention to its unre attitude toward the great man, « later that cartoon e to Wash- s ington and was b ce to face with the subject of his picture. His- tory will not record how the hero, who had faced canno nd 8! clasped both hands of the artist, i wordless thanks, and broke down Ir tears, nor how t that, ¥ before ti th | trunks with the Inine power paralyzed when it gets| Switzerland, ungrateful cartoon had Washington | that cartoon take had mot been appeared in the fury of oxen.” |it had started a publ All t could not written w, have rde of literatu ccomplishad ad done o cffective (Copyright. 1623, by P. V. Collins.) Prince Thurn and Taxis, Living in Honored Guest at Masonic Dinner BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY A few weeks ago & number of the Sunday illustrated supplements of | divorced Prince Louis d. at Cannes in the south of spending much of her time de la Rochefoucauld mo France, her W Ligne the great dally papers throughont|1909. the country printed a picture of a reception given by the Freemasons It is onl, to Prince Alesand of New York, in honor of the mem- | of Thurn and Taxis to cxplain that e bers of the lodges of Illinois, where | is but distantly rel figuring among the principal guests was a Prince Thurn and Taxis, the atter wearing. suspended ribbon from his neck. 4he rather striking insignia of the Austrian Langue of the Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem, an order which, dating from the dave of the crusades, formerly owned the Island of Malta, and which, until the great war, re- tained a sufficlent degree of sover- eign status to maintain an ambassa- dor at the oourts of Vienna and of Pesth, its envoys there, and al the court of the Vatican, ranking on an equal footing with other foreign am- bassadors. It {8 an Intensely Cath- ollo order, which exaots of its mem- Dbers the possession of several genera- tions of exclusively Roman Catholic ancestors, both on the fathor's and mother's side of the house. That antagonism exists between the Roman _Catholic Church and Free- masonry is a generally accepted fact. The presence, therefore, of a Prince Thurn and Taxis, arrayed in the in- signia of such an exclusively Roman Catholic order as that of the Knights of St. John' of Jerusalem, at a purely Masonic gathering, attracted a good deal of attention, and has brought me many inquiries from readers as to the identity of this particular rince. o * ¥ % ¥ It may be stated in reply that he i{s the younger son and namesake of the late Prince Alexander of Thurn end Taxis, who was so often In America, about thirty years ago, In connection with industrial enterprises in which he was engaged—notabiy in a number "of Siberlan gold mining companies for which he had secured o certain amount of American capi- tal. In somé of them he was repre- sented here by the late Nugent Rob- ingon of New York. Some of these companies proved successful; others, notably the so-called “Domains” com- any, with a capital of some $6,000, 00, formed for the purpose of work- ing certaln gold mines in the Altai Nertchingk district of the late czar's crown domains in Siberia, came to fef and led to no end of litigation, fr “the" varlous continental capitals of Europe, in London, and also in New Yorl The late Prince Alexander was a man of much charm and persuasion, ried to Princess Marie Hohenlohe, and was & privy counselor of his soverelgn. His younger son, now in this country, has Inherited his tastes and his spirit of e’!'aurprlu. and is now in business in New York. He is about forty-two years of age: w. formerly o lleutenant of cavalry in the Austrian army, and a titular chamberlain at the court of Vienna. He married in Paris some eighteen years ago, the Belglan Princess Mario de Ligne, who after bearing him three children—two boys and a girl- secured a decree of judicial separa- tion from Rim, and now makes her home at Villa 12 Ro ( | notorious in the United d to his ce Victor of Thurn &ame £0 unenviably tes and England gome years ago. not only in connection with fin regula: ties, but also with his matrimon ventures, several American lad having laid claim to b a wives, among them Miss Lida Eleanor Nichols of Uniontown, Pa., divorced wife of Gerald Purcell Fitzgerald, a Irish county magnate, while anothe: claimant to the titie of Princ Victor Hohenlohe was a Broadwa footlight favorite. Prince Victor Hohenlohe before coming to America had been turned out in disgrace fron the Austrian army, In which he had held a commission of lieutenant of the 9th Hussars. * ¥ % ¥ The Thurn and Taxis family is of Lombardian origin, and flourished a Bergamo in the twelfth century. The princely title of the house, whose name had been transformed from Tasso # into Taxis, dates from the beginning of the seventeenth century, while fn 1608 it became possessed of the hereditary office of postmaster ge eral of the holy Roman empire, abol- ished by Napoleon at the beginning of the last century. Until a few years before the world war, Prince Aibe head of the family, Duke of Worst, and of Donau Staufen, retained the most extraordinary franking privi leges as & perquisite of Lis hereditar: ostmaster generalship, which, thougi e had lost it as far as the Germu: empire was concerned, Le had tained for the Kingdom of Bavaris These privileges grew so oncrous the Munich parliament voted a s of a million marks in order to pu chase them from the prince. What led to this was that the prince, in sp of his colossal weaith, had abu: franking privileges to an extent » known even in Congress at Wash ington, having caused the whole of | the building material required for tha construction of a chateau which erected in a remofe portion of t Bavarian highlands to be sent mail—that is to say, at the expense of the postal department by rail and road from nearly one end of tie king. dom to the other. Among the many romances and tragedies of the house of Thurn and Taxis, one of the most extraordinary is that of its chlef, who toward the end of the eighteenth century, finding that his wife, a member of the now- reigning family of Italy. had been faithless to her marriage vou caused her to be decapitated private- 1y at his palace of Ludwiglust by t public executfoner of Strassbur Those who wish for a more complet description of this trag! find 1t in the worke of Thack w.0 makes his hero, Barry I toll the story as he claims to have re- ceived it from the princess’ husbapd himself. 3 3 remote cousin, Pri: and Taxis, who be: