Evening Star Newspaper, April 9, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY... ...April 9, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES.. Edito: The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 150 Nassau fOt. Chicago Office: Tower Building. Luropean Office: 16 Regent 8t., London, England. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, is delivered by carriers within the city at 60 cents per month; dally only, 45 cents per mouth; Sunday only, 20 cents per month. Or- ders may be sent by mail, or telephone Main B000. ~Collection {s made by carriers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday. Dalily only. Bunday only All Other States Daily and Sunda Daily only ¥r., Sunday only......1yr. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Pross fs exclusively entitled fo the ‘use for republication of all news dis- mtches credited t 1t or not otherwise credited n this paper and also the local news pub: Jished ‘herein. " All ‘rights of publication of ®pecial dispatches herein are also reserved. = i — A Revised League of Nations? omes now a tmportant democ vised plan of a le g to the po jority sentiment vorable to the such a league. suggestion from an atic source of a re gue of nations look sible creation of a ma- in this country fa- United States joining Franklin D. Roosevelt, former assistant secretary of the N end democratic candidate for Vice President in 1920, in an interview pub- lish€d in The Star Sunday, said: T be- lMeve that every one who thinks that the United States should join the league believes that it must be a re- vised league.” He went on to explain that “there have been great changes in the world since the covenant of the league of nations was written and conditions have changed.” The fact that Mr. Roosevelt had had | a long talk with former President Wil- son last week may or may not have any significance in connection with this utterance, but be that as it may the prominence of Mr. Roosevelt in the councils of the democratic party sives it weight and makes it worthy of consideration. Unfortunately, asked by the | interviewer in what way should the pian of a league of nations be changed to make it possible for the United States to join, Mr. Rousevelt “laugh- ingly declined to v." It will be recalled that the Scnate of the United States undertook the task of modify ing the original covenant of the league So that this country might join, but after a majority of the Senate had | agreed on the reservations. President Wilson's own party sufficient votes to defeat ratification of the treaty. Mr. when Roosevelt mac comment to the effect number of republicans as well as democrats favor the entry of this country into a league of nations. Judge Clarke's non-partisan organi- zation is at this time busily urag- ing and fostering sentiment favorable | t0 putting the United States in. The | voters of America, by a majority of | 7,000,000, voiced sanction of opposition to the original league. It would be interesting to have a definite suggestion of a revised of a plan which might be calcu 10 change the expressed sentiment of the country. one pertinent that a great enc Improving the River Front. The Commissioners in preparing ap- | propriation estimates for submission 10 the next Congress are including | figures for the reclamation of the river front. Plans for bringing about this improvement contemplate repaving of | Water street, replacing many old | wooden structure with buildings of architectural merit which will be rent- ed for business purposes, and con- structing a quay along the waterside which would give docking facilities for all the water traffic which Washington now has and make some provision for the future. The jagged line of wharves, many of them past repair. would be blotted out. Water street, because of its rough paving, is now nearly a ‘waste street, while it might be made @ great boulevard connecting Potomac Park with a large and populous sec- tion of the city, making for the con- venience of many thousands of our people and relieving of some of their traffic pressure the present automobile streets leading to the park. The mat- ter ought to be pressed. While mil- lions of dollars have been spent in the reclamation of Potomac flats and the creation of Potomac Park a large j recent meeting in the woods, resolved | ipu on much longer as they have been | them back from sensible and states- { Ruhr | without widespread ruin. and occupa | rations is proving equally ruinous to|{ part of the “old city,” or South Wash. ington, opposite the park, has not been liberally treated. The thought which the Commissioners have is to make ‘the Washington business water front an admirable thing to look on while better serving the interests of trade, to transform wide and historic Water street into @& gay and prosperous thoroughfare and to greatly increase the means of communication between South Washington and Potomac Park. ———— Proposal of Treasury officials to dis- continue issue of two-dollar bills raises the query as to why they ever were issued. They may or may not be un- lucky, but they certainly are unneces- sary. Andre Tardieu says the French are passively active in the Ruhr. He might have added that the Germans are actively passive. American bluejackets are elevating their gunnery, despite failure to ele- vate the guns. The Cherry Trees. The Jap cherry trees held a Sunday reception, and their guests filled Poto- n k. There would have been move callers had April served a better day. It is said that the trees are pleased with the attention shown them by the Washingtonese. A dendrologist who knows the language of trees and speaks Jap-cherrynese reports that the leader of the trees said: “We came ‘here as missionaries to show the wild and untutored trees of America what can be done in making blossoms, and we would give every lady and little girl @ bunch of our flowers if the park police Wwowld let. us We thank, 2 The Star reporter for the press no- tices given us and the staff photogra- pher for putting our picture In the| paper. Of course, we miss dear old Fujiyama, and no more can we see the peaks of Norikura, Tateyama end Shirane-san, but the heights of Arling- ton and Anacostia are quite impres- sive. ‘We miss the steaming, smoking craters of Noboribetsu, Tarumei and the rest and we hava not felt a first- class earthquake since we left home. We have grown fond of the Potomac and the Eastern branch, because we are shy on big rivers at home, but Ishikari and Shinano do fairly well in rainy spells, and when we lived at home we had big views of the Pacific, the Sea of Japan and the glorious In- land sea, besides Biwa, Shoji, Hakone and other lovely lakes. How do we like our neighbors? Well, the willows are the oldest family in the park, and they are sometimes ragged and gloomy. Some of them are called weep- ing willows, while we are cheery trees."” An old apple tree living in the suburbs has said: “It's a crime to tax people to support parks for foreign cherry trees; besides, these Mikado- Yum-Yum-Katisha trees are not cherry trees, but cherryless trees. My friends tell me that when I am in blos- som T am quite as good-looking as they, and I know that with one limb I can turn out more cider, apple pies, apple dumplings and apple sauce than a sarkful of these alien trees.” It is reported that Potomac Chapter | of the Society of Native Trees, at a that Dogwood, Redbud, Shadbush and Magnolia be given police protection against city nature lovers and other robhers that they might show people what real blossoms are. Messrs. Oak, Pine and Elm were appointed a com- mittee to wait on Col. Sherrill and ask that Dogwoond, Redbud, Shadbush and other natives of the District be allowed to live in Potomac Park to show the people that Japanese trees are not the only trees that can put on stunningi clothes in spring. | ————— Shifts in Ruhr Problem. Despite yesterday's “gesture,” when five French ministers went to diffe ent parts of the republic and in publ addresses disavowed any change in French plans with respect to occups tion of the Ruhr, there is accumulat-! ing evidence that the Ruhr situation is changing rapidly, and that the period of drifting is approaching an end. What that end will be no one is wise enough, or foolish enough, to pre- dict, but it is manifest that neither France nor Germany nor the rest of | Europe can endure that things should | going. The situation seemingly has ut reached a point where the de-| vising of a way to save the faces of the French and German governments is practically all that stands in the way of scttlement. Both governments have committed themselves to attitudes from which it is likely they now would be glad to re- tire, but neither government is so se- curely intrenched that it can risk the political consequences which would be | involved in a retreat. At every sign of weakening the opposition comes for- ward to make trouble, and both Poin- care and Cuno are kept between the devil and the blue sea, their own hasty promises and pronouncements holding i nlike courses of action. So far as it is possible to see behind the scenes either at Paris or Berlin, it realized in both capitals that the problem now has reached stage where compromise is the only ay out. The Germans cannot con- tinue passive resistance much longer m; is a tion which is non-productive of repa- the French. But occupation has had | this benefit, that it undoubtedly has convinced Germany that It cannot es-| cape reparations payments, and as “i was apparent German determination not to pay reparations that brought ! about occupation, to that extent it has been & success. As the French prob. | ably never did expect to collect the| full amount of reparations provided in the treaty of Versailles, and as the Germans now know they must pay to the limit of their ability, the way to settlement becomes the establishment of Germany's paying capacity. Reconvening today of the British parliament is calculated to hasten the showdown between France and Ger- many. British anxiety to have the problem disposed of is approaching desperation, and Bonar Law is faced with the necessity of showing that his policy of benevolent neutrality will not prove utterly ruinous to Great PBritain. And in the background looms Lioyd George, ready to force the issue at any auspicious moment, with a view to regaining power. Nothing is more dreaded in France than return of Lioyd George to the British premier- ship, and the mere threat of such an event is enough to make Poincare and his ministry doubly anxious to find some solution for the Ruhr. —_——— There is @ lot in Mr. Bryan's more or less reminiscent claim that “we cannot abolish war and prepare for it, too.” But it is well to bear in mind that one can prepare “against” as well as “for" a given contingency. —_——— It might be a good idea to persuade some of our leading politicians to en- ter the big canoe regatta in June, that they might get firsthand data es to the dangers incident to rocking the boat. Maj. Gen. Patrick says the United States spent $669,577,563 on world war aviation. High flylng, but worth it. Memorial Day Crowd. The Shrine convention in the first week of June is to give us also the greatest Memorial day crowd that Washington has ever known. The estimate is that 150,000 Shriners will be in Washington on May 30, and there is no estimate of the number of visitors not members of the Shrine who will be here. It seems certain that the number will be large. The major ceremonies of Memorial day are held at Arlington, while solemn ceremontes are held at Soldiers’ Home, Battle-Ground cemetery, St. Elizabeth’s and at many other cemeteries. It is likely thet the greater part of the | its place as a model city, and it seems |food and raw materials. { plain courage. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO ND. —_— . e, e WAPHNGION, D). U, MONDAY, AN Y M. CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS visiting host will go to Arlington. Every Washingtonian knows how all ways to the national cemetery on the Virginia hills are crowded on Memo- rial day, end it can easily be under- stood what preparations must be made for guiding the crowd on next Memorial day. Police arrangements for keeping traffic flowing across the bridges and through the streets and roads leading to the bridges must he as near perfection as possible. It is re- called that at the ceremony of the burial of the unknown soldier traffic jams occurred at one: of the tidal basin bridges and at the Highway bridge. That was a mighty crowd, but was probably not so great a crowd as will turn toward Arlington on May 30. The electric railroads may be depended on to do the best they can in handling the traffic which comes their way. The need of the Memorial bridge below Analostan Island and above the Highway bridge is often emphasized, and it is regretted that such a bridge is not already in posi- tion to give its service to the crowds that will be here on Memorial day and in Shrine weck. More Firefighters Needed. It is said that the Commissioners may not ask the next Congress for an appropriation to begin work on a sys- tem of high-pressure water mains in the business section. Many things are reeded in the capital that it may keep not possible that work can be prose- cuted on all the betterment projects. In the matter of protection from fire and plague we have made a big gain in beginning work on the second con- duit from Great Falls and in making ready for the construction of addi- tional reservoirs. An urgent and im- mediate need of the District is an in- crease in the fire department, and to supply it with reserve apparatus to replace breakdowns. It is said that the Commissioners in their next estimates, while postponing consideration of the project for high-pressure water mains will stress the need for a larger fire- fighting force. It has been impossible to keep the fire department in step with the growth of the city. The size and height of buildings have been in- creased, and thousands of houses are now under construction in neighbor hoods where it was thought a few vears ago there could never be a call for a fire engine. The “old city” is building higher and thicker, and the new city is spreading outward at an unprecedented rate. ———— Post-war unsettlement hits both ways in Europe. Most countries are suffering because debasement of their currencies makes it impossible to buy The Swiss are suffering because their good cur- rency makes it impossible to sell fin- ished products —_———— The announcement that the Turks are going to Lausanne in a friendly spirit is the first plausible excuse for that cynical query of Goldsmith, “And | what is friendship but a name? { —_—— Reports from the valley of Virginia forecast a bumper apple crop, after several years of failures. It may cost less next winter to keep the doctor away. The Jones® chief ingredient in Senator recipe for party success is But it seems a difficult dose for some partisans to take. —_——— That Moscow censorship comes too late to save the soviet government from world indignation. The great red spot on Jupiter does not mean that the giant planet has gone bolshevik SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON An Indication. He's goin’ to be a genius, that long- legged boy of ours, He's goin' ahead an’ develop some wonderful mental powers. We used to be right discouraged by noting his indolence, But now we know that he moves so slow because of his thoughts immense. I've seen him sit as the hours passed by beneath an orchard limb, The same as ol' Isaac Newton did when the apple fell on him. But the thing that proves that he's talented, an’ proves it good an’ strong, Is this one significant circumstance, he’s lettin’ his hair grow long. | I can't yet see what his line will be. Perhaps he will stump the state An’ wave his hair as an orator, de- cidin’ a nation’s fate; Or maybe he’ll turn to music an’ soothe us with gentle joy— He could beat the world on @ jewsharp when he was a little boy. Perhaps he will be a painter, or a poet whose tuneful mood | ' : tute, ‘Will wake our souls toappreciate some succulent breakfas’ food. But whether it's speeches or pictures or the starry paths of song, ‘We know he has started for some- thing, 'cause he's lettin’ his hair grow long. The Days. Got to start another week! Laws a-goodness, me! Days, dey seem to hop along As hasty as kin be. I likes to min’ my manners, But it ain’ no use to try; I can’t say, “Howdy, Monday,"” 'Foh nex’ Saturday comes by! It ain’ no use o' tryin’ ‘When dey acts in sech style; T'd sholy work a little Ef dey'd only wait awhile. But laws-a-goodness, honey, Dey comes along so fas’ Dat I stan’s in admiration Jes’ to watch 'em whizzin’ pas’! —_——— By practicing thrift you will gain the love and admiration of your pros- pective heirs.—Cincinnati Enquirer. ———— The difference between TRip Van ‘Winkle and a lot of folks is—Rip woke up.—~Des Moines Tribune. B — Maybe some archeologist could dig up our last summer's straw lid— ‘Wichita Beacon, Y, APRIL 9, 1923 PACIFISM BY ARCHIBALD HOPKINS. If a burglar comes to rob you, Ask him fin. To resist a fellow creature is a sin, So let him have your cash, After all it's only trash: Non-resistance is the only way to win. If a ruffian assaults you, Don’t complain: Mankind were meant to give and suffer pain. Abolish the police And assaults at once will cease; Preparedness is neither safe nor sane, If a brute insults your sister, Why object? You never should get angry: just reflect If you cringe and run away, The truly good will say, Behold another one of the elect. Say nothing with the very ightest dash Of anything belligerent or rash. If ever as a Nation We should beg for reparation, Let it be on terms reducible to cash If your neighbor carries on A Dloody brawl, Burning, plundering and killing great and small, The way to serve humanity Is to treat him with urbanity, Until there's no one left to kill at all. Whatever else you do stay Unprepared. The fear of any danger's only shared By scurvy politicians And those who make Send our M Of the rea, Dismantle all your forts; The parasitic Army Must disband Teach them how Pole and mast. For our liberty to fight, The flag? Provocative of silly, Are the brave 1t you'll Your treubles all will And you'll live There isn’t any reason to be s munitions cared, avy to the bottom If your carriers are threatened they can flee. They will cerve for peaceful sports, Where strife and bloodshed nevermore shall be They are nothing but u curse on every hand Let them learn to work their way; to run away When enemies invade the helpless land. Haul Old Glory down from every It recalls a_bloody, dark and baleful past, When we thought that we were right But we've learned how very wrong we were at last Why should you love and venerate It 1s nothing but a variegated rag, And this vaunted patriotism Is a cause of needless schism, harmful brag. The people who have trouble nly be a coward or a slave cease, in blessed peace Remember you have got a skin to save WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE All roads that politicians travel lead to Des Moines this week Utterances of national and tional significance are expected the annual convention of the League of Woman Voters in the lowa metrop- olis. In the muddled state of inter- national affairs, Herbert Hoove: dress on ‘“‘America’s Responsibility for World Peace” is bound to attract attention. It is certain to be inter- preted as administration doctrine and woman interna- at - i | irreconcilables will have their ears| Lora | Yational Tribune, wants the American Legion to take over Memorial day | close to the Hawkeye ground. Robert Cecil, who seems to have made a league of nations convert in the person of Senator Pepper, will have opportunity at Des Moines on Friday to say something more about the league's readiness to “Ameri- canize” itself. The national chair- women of the republican and demo- cratic parties—Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton and Mrs. Emily will be at Des Moines, too, singing the praises of their respective organ- izations and urging women to line up with a political organization instead of remaining nondescript. * ok ko Sir Auckland Gedde of Great Britain; Jules Jusserand, ambassador of France, and John D. Rockefeller will be the principal fig- ambassador lures at the annual dinner of tne Na-| tional Institute of Social Sciences in New York on April 25. They will be awarded the gold medal of the insti- | and the two ambassadors will speak, - presumably on the interna- tional situation. Charles B. Daven- port, biologist, and Emory R. John- son, dean of the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Penn- sylvania. also will receive the insti- tute’'s medal Dr. Davenport has compiled a profound work on “Army Anthropology,” dealing with qualities and defects found in the men drafted into military service during the world war. * % % % Somebody—perhaps a democrat— has sent this observer the observation that “the initials of the republican party, G. O. P., are no longer a mys- tery. They mean ‘going out pronto.’ " Pronto, it appears, is Spanish for P. D. Q * ok xok Prince Caetani—pronounced Guy-a- tahney—the mining engineer and gal- lant soldier who is now Italian am- bassador to the United States, has introduced an entirely new code of ethics in Washington diplomacy. He tells the truth even under embar- rassing circumstances. The other day the prince had an appointment to receive a well known Washingtonian. The latter was at the embassy on the tick of the designated hour. The ambassador was not on hand, and his Secretaries denied knowledge of the engagement. They said they would Soviet Prevents Relief. High Customs Cause Failure to Deliver Supplies for Sufferers. To the Editor of The Star: May I attract the attention of your readers to the following: Several ladies, at the initiative of an American physician, desired to come to the help of the unhappy Rus- lids, unemployed and children. packages and clothing were sent through the American Relief Admin- istration, together with a few parcel post packages containing both worn clothes and other wearing apparel of the very cheapest kind—socks at $4.40 per dozen, slippers at 90 cents per pair, woolen gloves at $2.20 per dozen, sweaters ranging from $2.90 to $5.00, and so forth. AIl these things were sent in the fall. Great was the surprise of the benefactors when their gifts were recently re- turned to them owing to the fact that the recipients were unable to pay the exorbitant duties which the soviet customs deem proper to charge. In point of fact, these unfortunate Russians in the soviet Eldorado are able to earn some 20,000,000 roubles per month for a long day’s work. This being 80, how can they pay & 20,000,000-rouble duty on a pair of well Blair— | get him on the telephone, at home Prince Caetani, who speaks the Amer- ican language fluently, flashed back this message: “Tell Mr. - I'm ter- ribly sorry, but have no alibi 1 for. t all about the appointment. That must be the Mussolini touch. Ambassador Caetani ought to have said he was “in conference” or un. ;luvr.rl:nlhl‘_\' detained. He js having a OOK at immigrant condi 8 >4 Island this week e * % x €ol. John McElroy. hale und hearty ivil war veteran and editor of the * from the Grand Army of the Republic. The Grand Army of the Republic, Which created the day, is not only Leing decimated so rapidly that it can no longer adequately supervise the commemoration, but it also sees Memorial day falling into decay. ‘If it isn’t to be given over entirely to base ball, horse racing and says Col. McElroy, “the | Younger element must carry on where we old fellows will soon have to give up. I'd like to see a community of interest between the Grand Army of the Republic and the Legion for the purpose of perpetuating Memorial day in u:--:::rd with its original traditions.” The Grand Army of the Republic once had 400,000 members. T day ning ranks hardly embrace 100,000. * % x x Organized labor is understood to be | clearing for action against Woodrow | Wilson's candidate for the United s Senate from Colorado, Huston Thompson, acting chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. Edward Keating, editor of Labor, the Wash- ington organ of railroad men's or- ganizations, is due in Denver this week to add his counsel to that which Messrs, Wilson, McAdoo and Bryan have tendered Gov. Sweet. Thompson and Sweet are warm per- sonal friends. The governor and Mr: Thompson celebrate their birthdays on the same day. Mrs. Thompson was a Miss Cordes of Denver, and comes from an’ old-time family of Colorado pioneers. Her husband is a native Pennsylvanian who began law at Denver in 1899. Thompson i3 talking at the Des Moines women's convention. ok ok % For the first time a Japanese news organization has sent a native Japa- nese permanently to Washington as its correspondent. He is Mr. Kawa- kami, who represents the Nichi-Nichi of Tokio, and the Mai-Nichi of Osaka, which are issued by the same pro- prietors. The Osaka paper publishes an edition in English and the Toklo journal is about to establish one. Mr, Kawakami represented his papers at the Washington conference and wrote an informative book about it. He was educated in the United States and has an American wife. The decision of his organization to station him at Wash- ington denotes Japan's virile interest in American affairs. (Copyright, 1923.) slippers or 2,500,000,000 rubles for a parcel of worn clothes weighing about six pounds? The poorer a man, the more he is in need of help. The soviet commissars, however, neglect to take this fact into consideration. The workers of soviet Russia have to endure intolerable conditions of economic_ruin, and yet they are not exempt from the disastrous conse- quences of the custom system impos- ed by the bolshevikl upon the people at large. Even trained nurses who have lost their health receive no in- dulgence and consequently are com- pelled to refuse whatever is being sent to them. Thus invalids, and old men and women, and children, at whose ex- pense the bolsheviki desire to profit, have remained this cold winter with: out warm things, shoes and stock- ings. Meanwhile, it is heralded in the press that Mrs. Kalinine, wife of the soviet's president, is expected here on a mission ostensibly to collect funds for destitute children, the very chil- dren who were prevented from bene- fiting by the gifts sent by charitable persons from thjs country. It is interesting to know whether the donations received by Mrs. Kali- nine here will be subject in soviet Russia to a-duty that will be higher than the value of the collections themselves. As yet the bolsheviki have avow- edly failed in working out construc- tive economlic policies. In justice to them it must be admitted, however, that they proved successful In fos- tering_a system of extortion which skins both the living and the dead. BORIS BRASOL, Chairman Ruasian National Socletyn vrize | its thin- ! practicing | Gives Facts on Memorial.l Cornelius B. Hite Writes of First Public Flower Strewing. To the Editor of The Star: Two articles lately appeared in The Evening Star of Washington, D. C.—one March 24, by Isabel Wor- rel Ball, and other March 30, by Mary Logan Tucker. 1In both the unqualified assertion is made that “Memorial day” did not originate in the south, as the “suggestion that Memorial day is strictly of ‘southern origin' Is amusing in the light ot history,” says Miss Ball. While Miss Rutherford, I'm sure. is fully competent to take care o herself in this and every other con- troversy connected with her duties as historian general of U. D. C. I hope she will pardon my intrusion. in consideration of the facts stated herein below, which she may not know. In 1867 T was living at Winchester, Va., and on_June 6, 1867, we dedicated there the “Stonewall cemetery” under appropriate ceremonics, with Henry A. Wise, vernor of Virginia, as orator, and Daniel Lucas as poct The people of Winchester had al- ays been devoted to the cause of the and as early as October, 1865, an astociation of some of the prominent ladies was formed for thfi‘ purpose of collecting the bodies of | soldiers buried in that general section of the state and reinterring them, both known and unknown, in a suit- able plat of ground to be selected and bought near the town, and this was all done by the winter and spring of 1866, Now flowers may have been, and doubtless were, placed on the graves in June, 1866, but it was June 6, 1867, that the first public flower-strewing took place, and this custom has con- tinued ever since. This e nt trans- pired about a year before Gen. Lo- gan's order No. 11, in May, 1868, re- ferred to by Mi Ball Therefore, in_view of the foregoing statement of faets, the “Confederate Memorial Association” of Winchester, Va., must have the credit of inaugu- rating second to the Georgin leg ture act of 1866 the annual and beau- tiful custom of decorating with flow- ers the graves of our soldiers Final I will state that I have not seen Miss Rutherford's article, but, judging from Miss Ball's and M Tuckers, the crux of this controversy is, where and when did the yearly custom in our country of Strewing flowers on soldiers’ graves originate since 18657 It is well known that flowers have been put on and grown on graves from of old. but this is sidestepping the issue, and until Miss Ball and Mrs. Tucker can prove that the cus- tom originated somewhere earlier than the Georgia act of 1866, and the dedicating ceremonies at Winchester, June 6. 1867, th ve both lost out. CORNELIUS BALDWIN HITE. Traffic Signs Defended. Jay Walkers Held Chiefly Those Who Should Know Better. To the Bditor of The Star: T read with much regret and some chagrin the letter of Henry Oldys, published in The ar of April 2, tal ing exception to and requesting the removal of the signs erected for and to the benefit of the jay walkers. 1 annot agree with Mr. Oldys that the jay walker is usually a feeble old lady or gentleman or a young child !T don't believe one-twentieth of the jay walkers come within either of e classes, but they will almost invariably be found to be between the two of them. The worst form of jav walking is { that of a person who is walking down j the strect and. arriving at a cros ing, wants to continue down the other sidé of the street and proceeds diag nally from one corner across to the opposite one instead of crossing each street at a right angle. The old and {tottering person will not take a !chance on crossing in the diagonal manner, but will cross each at righc angles ‘and will almost invariably stop and look before proceeding. The | Young child will usually display more { sense than to cross in that manner. | The person who is usually guilty of the infraction of such rules of com- mon sense is the spry, agile person, who thinks that he or she is able to take care of themselves in any cir- cumstance. The writer drives a machine every day and has seen such persons caught right in the center of inter- secting streets by three or four m chines turning around the various corners. A pedestrian has no more business at that point of a street in the congested section than a hog has in a china closet. It is not very unusual to see young or middle-aged persons undertake to make a diago- nal crossing of a street while read- ing_a newspaper or book The traffic authorities are to be commended for placing such striking signs before the grossly careless el ment of the pedestrians. They were not put up for the careful person. The only criticism the writer sees of such signs is that there are not a fourth enough of them. I wish it was possible to have one “bob” up in front of every jay walker and stare him in the face until he learns how to cross the street. If this was possible there would not be many pedestrians_hit by machines. On behalf of every man or woman who drives a machine ard tries to prevent colliding with pedestrians, and every pedestrian who does not want to be hit by a machine, I want to request the traffic authorities to place many more of such signs in conspicuous places make them so striking that even the critics will have to read them. 1 cannot conceive of any one placing civic pride above the legitimate pro- tection of life and limb. THOMAS D. GANNAWAY. a i i | 1 1 as possible, and {Says Filipinos Wear Proper Street Clothes To the Editor of The Star Please allow me space, on behalf of the Filipino people, to protest against the statements and pictures published in your sports section on April 4 from the pen of Mr. Ripley and dated at Manila, P. L. His statement that “a_ Filipino wears little else besides a hat, he is usually naked from the waist up.” is an unjustifiable insult to the Filipino Deople, for it is absolutely untrue. I feel sure that there are scores of persons living in _Washington who have been in Manila and will do my race the justice to corroborate my statements in this regard. T myself have lived in Manila for years, and 1 have never seen a man | on the street there “naked from his! waist up.” If one should so appear he would be arrested as promptly as in Washington. I am willing to concede that some of the mountain people, less than 4 | per cent of the total population of the islands, may go only partly clothed, but as to the 10,000,000 typi- cal Filipinos who are Christians and | civilized, and have been so for 300 years, Mr. Ripley's statement is cer- tainly a misrepresentation ‘We have on file at the office of the Philippine Press Bureau, 549 Munsey building, Washington, any number of snapshots of crowds of people and | street scenes in Manila. These are | not_especially posed pictures, but are typical every-day scenes of Manila life. We will be glad to show these pictures to any one who may be in- terested. It seems almost unnecessary | to us to say that not one half-naked person is revealed. It is such exaggerated statements as those of Mr. Ripley which make the Filipino people more determined than any other one_ thing to have their independence. We have pride, and misrepresentation makes it only more difficult to maintain the friendly Telationship now existing between the American and Filipino peoples, which we are so anxiously and in such good faith trying to perpetuate. ALFREDO -SAMSON, Secretary, Philippine Press Bureats | The Secretary of Labor, Mr. Davis, arguing .against the continuance of twelve-hour shifts in the iron and steel industry, expressed a belief that whatever the increased cost of the | eight-hour system would be, in the price of stecl, the public would be willing to pay it, because of human- itarian considerations. Whether that argument would hold good, so far as the willingness is concerned, there is no doubt that, if the eight-hour sy tem could be put into force by law, and made universal, the public would pay the cost of production, for there would be nothing else to do about it. The only consideration of importance is the humanitarian one of life and health and the right to live joyfully, which every citizen is entitled to. x ok ok ok Almost within the memory of men now living, the farmer habitually worked twelve or fourteen hours a day. The mechanic always worked | ten hours. The housewife thought it no unexpected hardship to toil twelve to fifteen hours Now it is almost universal that eight hours is a day’s work, for all kinds of labor on wages. The time will come to apply it fo the housewife and the iron molder and all other relics of barbarism of toil. > xieie Dr. Fowler, health officer, advises | the public not to kill mad dogs, but just turn them over to him. That will enable the doctor to see whether they are really mad or only a little! put out about something. He does not specify how one to go about the act of “turning them over,” but persumably it is quite like the recipe for cooking a hare: “First catch your hare.” * ¥ x x It time for Americans to mincing with enemies of the govern- ment and propagators of sovietism and pacificism. Treason flaunts its red flag within the very shadow of the Capitol, and sentimental women seek to throw discredit upon the nation’s means of defense and to malign the spirit of patriotic sacri- fice, us if it were lust for war and bloodshed. It is time to call a spade a spade, and treason treason. Secretary Weeks | of the War Department evidently be- | 1i s that the slanderers of the na- | tion's d should be expo for what are—either propa- gandists jetism or weaklings of patriotism. They are either unin-{ formed, or, if informed as to facts, are treasonable propagandists and national enemies. * x % is 810D | fender the. of 50 On what authority did the so-called ¢ National Council for the Prevention of War, or the League for Peace and Liberty, or whatever else it calls its organization, make the false claim that 85 per cent of the nation's rev- enue goes for the prosecution of war and the maintenance of the Army and N 1al statistics show that only t is required for the sup port of the Army and Navy in al their military branches. To get higher percentage there must be cluded, according to Secretary Week the cost of unpreparedness due to = i | the | terest of “workers.” |red meeting in a hall belonging t i he ties? Even that wouid save nothing not even the self-respect of an Amer ican. Would they turn the shel shocked of the world war into the streets or the lunatic asylums? Yet without counting in all the horrible effects of the struggles for liberty, as manifested by the crippled and the helpless aged, the total run- ning expense of our very mild mily tary defense is only 13.5 per cen’ instead of 87 per cent, of the ion's annual expense. All government must cost something and must either be ready to defend itself ar. anarchy and foreign encroachme: g0 down into supine weaknes: T e Secretary Weeks points out t the active armies of Europe numb 645,000 men; Asia, 1,829,000; Africa, 000, and all America—North and South-—369,000. * * * *¥ Conquered and down Germany main- tains, under authority of the V sailles treaty, an army of 100,000 domestic policing, with a populat of only 60.000,000. The Army of t United States, with our populat of nearly double that of Germ: only 136,000, Yet we are unconq ed—though not unconquerable if we listen to the council of unprepared- ness, Each American soldier is defending an average of wealth amount $2,560,000; each British soldicr defen pro rata wealth of $245.600—about tenth what the American de The French poilu defends $1 ’ | the Ttalian $120,000 and the Japa $90,000. Secretary “public opinion American system of gove If the nation is to survive, have an intelligent public opin The corruption of that opinion is an act which clearly indicates the bad faith of those v purport to be actuated by sinc interest in the national welfare 0k Imost simultaneously attack of the League for Peace Liberty came the meeting of the called Workers' Party, advocatir Russian sovietism and revolution America, abolishing capital in the ir They held th Weeks is the points out power beh e w Washington bank. The bank had leased the hall to Zionists, and t had subrented it to the reds 1 result is a cancellation of the to the Zionists and a warning from the police that no such meeting w! tolerated hereafter in Wash ington unu in ther st repe caw dowr The naval hydrogr mariners to phenomena they discover vovages. One of the fi states that a British image of a steamer upsi bearing north.” ng incompr hensible in that, -7 It was t soul of the Ship subsidy mirage chasing the Fiving man. 1t has to _go_on and on forever th No hope. The merchant m rine is pretty topsy-turvy generall: any Du * * x % Vice President Coolidge a to a breathlessly waiting pub) President Harding's renomi and re-election would be demanded exactly such sentimental talk as the peace Societies are now giving out, | ind to the cost of maintaining the | pension bureau and the veterans' aid. Fiiw What part of the great expense of caring for the men who lost their ab to care for themselves through their heroic defemse of the ation would the pacifists now stop? Would they have the octogenari-n veterans of the civil war go to the poorhouses of their respective courn- Report That Bonar Law May Starts Speculat BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Persistent reports continue to come from London concerning the impend- ing retirement of Andrew Bonar Law from the premiership, due to his fail- ing health, It may be recalled that its complete breakdown compelled him to retire from parliamentary and public life in 1921, entailing the res- tenation ~of | hls seat in'the Lioye| George cabinet as lord privy seal, and as government leader of the house of commons. After a prolonged rest abroad, he recovered last year suffi-| ciently to reappear in parliament, it | being understood, however, that ’II?’ physicians would not on any account | Permit him to resume the burdens of | Bovernment _office. However, he gradual became more and more active again in the political questions of the da and when conservativ as the result of Lord Yuumznr:‘s vit- Hiolic campaign against Lloyd George, Qeclined to follow the latter any longer, and broke up the coalition. thus involving his retirement from office and the disappearance of his cabinet, the premiership was thrust upon Andrew Bonar Law. Tt was admitted at the time that the terrible burdens of the office, thpecially in these times of inter- mational and domestic crises, might affect his health, although every ef- fort is being made by his colleagues to spare him. But the labors, and above all the anxieties of the place have been too much for him, and his condition is such that his retirement may be looked for at any moment. * ok ok x Naturally there is much discussion as to his suceessorship. It has nar- rowed down to two men—one of them fs the Marquis of Curzon and the other Stanley Baldwin, at present chancellor of the exchequer, and who was over here in January last for the Durposa of negotiating the arrange- Thents for the funding of the British War debt in the United States. Past experience has shown that the government of the day has always Suffered when its premier was in the house of lords, and he could only air his views and defend them In the lower house, through a representa- tive. The late Marquis of Salisbury and Lord Rosebery were alike gravely handicapped in this fashion when they occupied the premiership, and o strongly was this recognized through- out the nineteenth century that one of the most powerful, and. above all, _0( masterful prime ministers of the Vic- torian era, Lord Palmerston, although & viscount and a knight of the garter, dewolutely declined _throughout his lita to nccept an English peerage, and insisted upon contenting himself Hith his Irish viscountcy, which en- abled m to git in the house of com- Mons for an English constituency. Tt is regarded as certain. therefore, that the premiership will be allotted to Stanley Baldwin, whose experi- ence of politics and_public affairs dates merely from 1917, when he was {nduced by his old friend Bonar Law to patriotically give his services to the government as financial secretary of the treasury and after that as President of the board of trade—that {s to say, as minister of commerce Until then he had restricted his activ- ities and his energies as one of the great captains of industry of the Kingdom to the chairmanship of the big Swansea iron and coal concern of Baldwins, Ltd., and as one of the railroad magnates of the United Kingdom. All those problems of in- ternational relations which play &0 great a role In the policies of the British empire, largely on grounds that are ultimately economic, and which Lord Curzon, like Lord Balfour and Lord Grey of Fallodon, has at his fingers' ends, having devoted his entire life to their study and to keeping abreast of thelr develop- ments, are relatively terra incognita | to national service. and a by the peoy added, as if passing afterthought: “I have no announcement to m this tin. of my own pians for the future Now it is Mr. Harding's move What if he should say, "One good term deserves another. What's ti matter with my vice? Is he a men ster of such hideous mien, and a Somehow Pope didn't word' the poer just as I mean it.” ow, it is all so sudden-like (Coprright, 1823, by P. ¥. Collins.) Return ion as to Successor tanley Baldwin. He has littie 7 tience with internationalism in the sense of wider world citizenship. And it is not in the upper chamber but : tha house of commons that the po cles not alone of the nation but « the entire empire are initiated, structed and determined. EE IR ' there u is by far the bes Of the two men. that Lord Curzon equipped man for the post, as far as ex perience and mastery of all the the sand and one questions at home abroad requiring the attention the decision of the prime minister of the British empire are concerne« The whole of Lord Curzon's life since he left the University of Oxford wit the very highest honors has been dr voted to public affairs: that is to sa It is a care tending over forty-three vears, dur ing the course of which he has h almost conceivable office that fer. including that secretary of state and of viceroy India, the presidency of the pric: council, tha presidency of the air ministry during the great war, a the leadership ¢ the government the house of lords since 1916, the g retaryship of state for foreign fairs for the past six yvears, and m bership of the war cabinet through out the world conflict and until aft: the restoration of peace. He has als been a most active chancellor of t} University of Oxford, president of Royal Geographical Society, and la but not least in merican eyes twice sought a helpmate among t daughters of Uncle Sam. * % % % But he would be handicapped premier by the fact that he is i times over a peer of the realm therefore precluded from any in the debates in the house of mons. He is rather inclined to I down upon nations which ! Almighty has neglected to bless the benefits of British rule, and he conveys the impressio of skepticisn as to the good to be accomplished consulting with any other powe except the United States for the pu pose of solving world problems. Not that he wishes to press unduly t British point of view on foreign 1 tions: his foreign poli as_ prem would be largely one of good-naturh tolerance of other people—and to hav as few dealings with them as pos sible. He estimates evervthing from the English standpoint. Indeed, it is a habit of mind with him: so much that in 1ISWer to a’qu ion in th house of commons the other day with Fegard to the fluctuations o pound sterling in_relation to can currency, he instin on the spur of the m the dollar that fluctuate pound.” Should he become would be every reason to congratu late one’'s self that he had been the United States last winter and that he should have made himself thor oughly acquainted with the American point of view, of which he had no r‘nn('f‘l‘llfln before crossing the At lantic, and that he should have estab- lished cordial and sympathetic rel tioris based on mutual compreh with the leading statesmen and leads ers of the great business world of America. He is essentially a business man, with a face, the temperament. and something of the manner of the bull terrier. Indeed, he is today a statesman of the aggressive a masterful type, impressing one with a kind of scornful courage; not muci glven to defense, hut preferring 'o meet attack with counter attack. His qualities of leadership are precisely those of courage, strength and deter- mination. ‘These are those whi strongly to his countrymen, who will view his advent to the premlerthip with an infinitely greater degree of satisfaction than any of the foreign powers—except the United States 2 Ame tively re: premier, the ch appeal most