Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1923, Page 6

: THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1923. . ___M__—_—L_____:_J___z_____%__*—“_“___ | I ) N | ving.” When a driver a man | ing, but the cries have not disturbed THE EVENING STAR,|drivins When o driver nits e A WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS The Library Table CAPITAL KEYNOTES in the street it is nearly always be-|the dancers. These long-distance ___With Sunday Mornfng Edition. |09 a¢ first to be @ case of reckless |dances may develop into six-day WASHINGTON, D. €. By Th S 8 BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE s s BY PAUL V. COLLINS driving, but Investigation often shows|dances, and this recalls that a gen- SATURDAY.......April 14, 1833 fashloned, the public “went in” for A new hook. that should have a that the driver was a careful driver.|eration or two ago, when what are Perhaps safe driving would be that|now old-fashioned people were new- Editor THEODORE W. NOYES. Otfie, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. v 1y J00, Nasaau ot. Tower Bul : ent St., London, England. Chicn Furopean Otlice: 16 Star, with the Sunday morning arriers within the city anily only, 45 cents per ents per month. OF- . v Lelephone ' Maln fers at The Eenin . elfserad b 2160 cents per month “indny oniy. 40 durs may e aent by u 000. Collection s’ made by carrl ud of each month, iate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Tily and Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1 mo., ’W? Daily only. 1 yr., $6.00; 1 mo., 50¢ Sunday oniy All Other Stat Dily and Sunday..1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 85¢ Daily only £7.00; 1 mo., 80¢ Sunday ouly. $3.00; 1 mo., 25¢ Member of the Associated Press. The Associnted Press 1« exclusively entitled fo the wse for republication of all news dis- atclies credited to it or not othersise credited | this paper and also the local news pub. Iished “herein. All rights of publication of pectal dispatehes hereln are also reserved. Recovery in Europe. H president of the of Commerce of the United back from Europe in an optimistic mood. He found on every hand signs of progress toward re- covery from the ill effects of war and the Llunders of the peace, and fore- sees at an early day a decided expan- in the of the world. still and festering such as the Rubr, Russia and near cast, but in the main Europe work, and work is the one and only remedy which can possibly bring about recovery. Other forms of treatment are needed for af- tlicted parts, of but work— the production of necessary things— coes at the root of the trouble, and without it other applications would be of little or no avail. This is not only encouraging news for those Americans who have been despondent to the future of the world, indication of the com- mo v of t government, which refused to be swept off its feet by clamoring for cancellation of debts, international economic conferences and other drastic measures to save the mnations, this one among them, from all zoing to pot together. The attitude of the United States govern- ment has nsistently that no effective help could extended by this country until Europe was in & mood to help itself. Now that there is evidence of such a mood in Europe it is probable that American assistance will be estended more and more, but through private channels. The farther along Europe progresses in its proc- esses of production the easier it will be to arrange credits for the supplies it needs from this side of the Atlan- tic. Plenty of American dollars are available for the furtherance of Amer- ican trade and for safe and profitable investment abroad. The purpose for which American dollars have not been available was for pouring into a sink hole which had created by the almost complete breakdown of produc- tive effort and of the will to produce Such v in Europe as Mr. Thurnes reports is the one thing needed to the prosperity which is returning this country. Though Europe normally is a pur- comparatively small | Chamber States, Hus Barnes, is on Ther commerce are sory the is getting back to course, as been ¢ be been even stabili 1o insure to chaser of only percentage of our total produ is essential to balanced industry that the market for 11 surplus be constant and reliable, With this mar- industry will need hold of apprehension of the this ket assured hack futu ne k because —_———————— Friday the 13th. rant for the popu ons are chang- scoff at this and figures, but some men as much about the meteorologists, and that of bygone winters and iggers.”” Here is Aprill Once all Washington knew hier as a blithe, fair maid who came in & gay Dolly Varden frock and wore hat a r with flowers. e wor her hair. She turf starred with dandelions. She brought days that were bright and sunny. The breezes came up from the south and were charged with the scent of the magnolia. Such rains as we had were anly April showers. There would be a tumbling of glittering raindrops and then the sun would shine, but now we keep the furnace going and are think- ing of ordering half-ton of coal. But it w much of April that she should give us a bright and genial day on Friday the 13th, —_——— 1t will be some time before it is de- termined whether Lord Cecil's appeal to the women of the country to put ihe United States into the league was i compliment to feminine perspicacity or a slur upon it. —————— Secrotar continues to in- that theorctical pacifism is & synonym for unconseious disloyalty. There is lar belief ti ing.” Meteo produce th say they k weather as their memory summers sea Hogist w a vered o) blossoms in soft green S| capered on another s sist “Heavy Penalties.” The waflic engineer of the Public Ttilities Commission comes back to Washington with the “severe penalty’ idea for reckless motorists. It will be remembered that the Commissioners’ waflic committee recommended severe penalties, that various civic bodies have recommended severe penalties and that the police department stands for severe penalties. It was believed that the Police Court was dealing out severe penalties to reckless drivers. There is too much reckless driving and too much reckless walking. Every Man using a car sees persons stepping from behind parked autos between orners without giving a thought to traffic. He sees persons of all classes stepping off the curb between cross- ings without looking to see if a car muy be coming toward them. He sees persons cutting diagonally across streets reading a newspaper or a let- ter. He sees many step across the yath of a moving car who 'seem to be saying, “Hit me if you dare.” There vre many loose definitions of “reckless | on, it | of course, asking too driving where & car is moving slowly and where the driver is so alert that he sees an obstruction the instant it appears, and so quick to act that he cuts off the gas, puts on the brake and stops the car in its own length. Few drivers are so careful and quick to see and act. The carcful driver |l should certainly go slow at street crossings and should exercise extreme caution In rounding corners. That many drivers are not careful at cross- ings and at corners may be noted by anybody many times a da: Lord Cecil’s Plea to Women. Lord Robert Cecil, who is touring this country to arouse sentiment fa- vorable to the United States joining the league of nations, is making a spe- cial plea to women, based apparently upon the idea that woman is more re- sponsive to appeals to the sensibili- ties and that she has a deeper horror of war than man. Speaking in Des Moines yesterday before an audience in which were delegates to the con.- | vention of the National League of Woman Voters, in session there, Lord Cecll addressed himself directly to them. “Women have, or ought to have, a speclal passion for peace,” was his declaration, as he sought to differentiate them from men in this regard. There is probably much to be said upon that point, and he went on to | enlarge upon the theme by claiming that women suffer more from the ! hardships of war than men. It was an { eloquent plea and a subtle one. But it | {was based upon taking for granted that the league of nations constitutes a preventive against future wars. The debates in the Senate disclosed that it is not a barrier, and that the cov. enant of the league of nations con- tains stipulations calculated to lead to war in certain cases and contingen- cles. A majority of the voters of this country sustained that interpretation of the league in the election of 1920. Woman voters of the United States are not to be assembled in mass and classified because of their tender | hearts. They will use their heads as well, and while thousands of them think that the United States should join the league, other thousands will hold to the contrary, and it the issue comes to the ballot box again will so vote. The ald of women in an en- deavor to stampede the United States into the league on a wave of senti- mentality is being invoked. If all woman voters couid be drafted into a solid phalanx In support of the league the movement could succeed, because they would then, with the men who favor the league, constitute a large majority. The Daughters. We do have important elections in Washington, notwithstanding certain disabilities under which the people of the District live. The next election, which may be classed as important, is that of the D, A. R. The thirty- second congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution will convene on Monday and on Thursday. accord- {ing to the schedule, the election of rational officers of the soclety will be held. As is usual in the congress end national elections of the Daugh ters, there will be some politics and | it is known that among the Daughters the brand of politics is never dry and | dull, but that, on the contrary, is ani- | mated and sparkiing. Already the Daughters are arriving in Washington from every section of the United States and many parts of the world outside of the United States, and those who live in Washington—for we have the good fortune to number many Daughters among our people—are busy, busy, busy. There are strong | ties between this patriotic society and the city of Washington. This is the hirthplace of the soclety. It was or- ganized here in October, 1890, and this city is ite officlal home. Of- ficially, it keeps house here in one of the beautiful buildings of the cap- ital, and that means, of course, in 1 i 1 i world. In what a wonderful way the society has grown is known to ever: body. The good that it has done in | patriotic ways is also known to nearly | everybody. Washington is very glad | that the Daughters and their congress are to be with us again. We are sorry | that spring is not more manifest in | flowers and foliage, but the people of Washington cannot help this. They | suspect that there is a conspiracy between Miss April and the coal déal-| ers, but probably before the congress meets on Monday, and certainly be- fore it adjourns, all the spring flowers will be smiling for the Daughters. It is too late to suggest to the wife iwho divorced her husband because, with other things, he had refused to converse with her for fifteen years, a perusal of that excellent play byl Anatole France entitled “The Man Who Marrfed 2 Dumb Wife.” | { ! Now Italy is in line with a declara- tion of intention to pay its debt to America in full. The “hold-outs,” as the base ball writers term them, are decreasing in number. Pot-shooting at Mussolini is likely to be a less popular sport in Italy since he winged and captured one of his as- eailants. Endurance Dancing. Long-distance non-stop dancing is advancing in favor. Once upon a time the aim of dancers was to be graceful. Dancers next got the idea that the proper thing was to be acrobaetic and contortional. Now the idea 8 coming that the dance may be an endurance test. A Cleveland woman, at this minute, holds the “marathon” dancing record, having kept her feet going for fifty-two hours and sixteen minutes. She took milk, soup and sandwiches during her dance, and her weight dropped from 113 to 108 pounds. A physician said that she might have kept going a few hours more without dropping from exhaustion. Some folk will call this dancing silly, but silly things “take” with silly people. Old- fashioned persons have cried out against many modern forms of danc- | of music supervisors' ence, said that * Banner” “is probably the most diffi- cult song for the human voice to ne- gotiate,” and he urged that a sub. stitute for the national chosen dignified expression of émotion found in American. life.” “The Star Spangled Banner” is not difficulties is not disputed. not be the hardest song, but it is too much for most of us. six-day walking matches and six-day bicycle matches. wore themselves down bones and sometimes collapsed. The newspapers and the publi of these sports. ‘Walkers and riders to skin and made much They passed. The long-distance non-stop dance will pass. Most persons feel that when they start in at 9 or 10 o'clock, and do not “sit out” a single dance, they have had enough at 3 o'clock in the morning. —_——— The National Song. The superintendent of public schools Cleveland, speaking before the national confer- he Star Spangled anthem be containing “some beautiful, It may be that probably the most dificult song.” It seems that one hears great singers in opera and concert who get away with songs that are more difficult, but that “The Star Spangled Banuner” presents It may Not only can most of us not carry the tune from the low to the topmost notes without bringing tears or laughter to our- selves and pain to the listeners, but it seems very hard in committing the words to memory to get farther along than “Oh, say! Can you see by the dawn's early light.” ‘Writing a national song to order seems to be an exceedingly easy thing to do. Many musicians and others have done it. The trouble comes in getting the common people to know that it is the national song. One can put a picture of the Ameri- can flag on the cover and print this caption, *“A national =ong, entitled ‘Hip, Hip, Hurray for Uncle Sam! but nobody seems to pay any atten- tion to it other than the author and perhaps his mother. It is very dis- heartening. Some time there may come along & national song which, be cause of its assoclations, its inspira- tion @nd other factors, will be uni- versally acclaimed as the natlonal song, but until then we will continue to try to sing “The Star Spangled Banner.” It is a magnificent melody with very words expressing noble sentiments. Men much prefer this song to all the other national songs turned out by their musiclan fellow citizens, even though they can do nothing more than stand when the band plays “The Star Spangled Ban- ner.” —————— If Bulgaria cannot find at home enough communists upon whom to force communism we have here an as. sortment of “reds” and “pinks” and other professed radicals we would be glad to send her for purposes of ex- perimentation. ——— good The German role of turnip is not being played very convincingly, and France and Belgium have decided to try & little more pressure to see what can be squeezed out. ———— The headline “hil Again Chosen Lausanne Observer” conjures up the plcture of America watching the near ecast negotiations as children, round- | eved, watch the circus. —_——— What is the country coming to. anyway? A crowd of 200 constituents surrounded the home of an Illinois office-holder and demanded that he keep hig election promises Agreement tc ation the, Lansing-Ishii agreement with Japan marks another triumph for the kind of diplomacy that is characterized by straightforward dealing. —_——— Prospecti entries for the presidential handicap might come 1924 to one of the beautitul bulldings of the | town next week and get some pointers | from the D. A. R. SHOOTING STARS. KY PHILANDER JOHNSoN The Sparrow. Sparrow on de window siil Come, one April day, Seems to say. “You all keep still, Kickin' dat a wa; "Tain’t no use of arguin’ 'Less in work you're strong I can't talk nor even sing, But I gits along. “Things is goin’ to. happen right; ‘Wouldn't git much done If T sat up all de night ‘Worryin’ "bout de sun. I keeps workin’ an’ ain't vexed If I's blamed or praised; Gits de nes’ all built, an’ next, Has de family raised.” Miscalculation. Moved by a sweet and ancient lay Into the world I went one day. “I shot an arrow in the air; It fell to earth, T know not where.” It was a fine experiment. On further practice I was bent. More complicated methods I With confldence was fain to try. The arrow which so sweetly sang 1 traded for a boomerang. With eyes alert and buoyant nerves T gayly said, “Just watch my curves.” 1 saw the missile onward fiit, Nor cared @ rap whom it might hit. I turned around to bow, because I was expecting great applause. ©Oh, recklessly superior sense, ‘Which takes no heed of consequence! That boomerang made me a wreck, ‘The spot it lit on was my neck! The Tardy Flower. De crocus comes a-laughin’ An’ a-noddin’ at de sun; Arbutus push de leaves away, An’ say, “My rest is done.” De violet keeps a-dreamin’ on, - She isn’ waked up yet. She's de beauty of de family An’ was allus raised & pet. Admiral Chester, Gen. Goethals, Kermit Roosevelt and their asso- clates seem ordained to play the role of regenerators of Turkey that pre- Wwar Germans planned to enact. The great Deutsche Bank of Berlin and its presiding genius, Arthur von Gwinner, in 1914 were In virtual con- trol of the economic destinies of Asia Minor. Von Gwinner, writing in the Nineteenth Century, in Junme, 1909, of the El Dorado the Germans were to evolve out of the plains of Ana- tolla, quoted the following lines from Goethe’s “Faust” as a prophecy of Germany's future in the near east: To many millions apace I thus should give, ‘Though not secure, yot free to toll and live; Green flelds and fertile; men. with eattle blent, TUpon the newest carth would dwell content, Rettled forthwith npe the firm based hill, Lplifted by u valiant peopls skill; Within a land like paradise. The whirligi of time, alded by the Angora assembly, has decreed that the Yankees, not the Germans, shall be the liant people” of Goethe's fantasy. * ok x * Circumstantial reports persist in well informed quarters that Attorney General Daugherty's health leaves much to be desircd Some of his friends belleve it is permanently shattered. They are confident Mr. Daugherty wlill have to take things far easier than ever before when he returns to the Department of Justice. Though positively asserted that his retirement is not contemplated, rea- #ons of health make it a possibility that both he and President Harding may have to face sooner than either desires. The Damon and Pythia: relationship between the two mel has not been shaken by recent event in_connection with the President's 1924 intentions * % * % Great transatlantic stearicrs bear- ing historic names will take the seas this summer about the same time Columbla’s new gem of the ocean, the Leviathan, enters commission. One is the Itallan liner, Julius Caesar; the other is queen of the recreated Hamburg-American fleet, the Albert Ballin. The German ship is named jafter the merchant prince of Ham- burg, who committed sulcide during the war out of remorse over Ger- many's folly In risking her mighty commercial position by a futile war. The colossal Vaterland, now the Amerlcan Leviathan, and the Impera- tor, now the British'Berengaria, were the children of Albert Ballin's brain. Wren he got his first job with the Hamburg-American line as an emi- | grant agent, In 1886, Its total ton- nage was 60,000. He lived to launch one of its ships that alone was as big as that. * k¥ X With the revival of league of na- tions discussion, more people than ever are anxlous for personal com- munifon with Woodrow Wilson. His mailbag in § street is heavier than ever. Its burden consists largely of requests for expressio: of th Issue With Pacifists Was Clearly| Defined. | i Secretary Weeks apparently has the | sympathy of editors in his refusal to “muzzls” Army officers, chiefly Gen. | Amos A. Fries, chief of the chemical | warfare division, and in his charac- | terization as “false” the claim that more than 85 per cent of the national budget goes for war purposes. Some | {editors argue that he went “a trifie | ifar” in his assault upon pacifists gen- |erally, but for the most part his en- tire statement is heartily commended. The Secreta is “rather swweping in his charges against American pa- jcifists” as the Chicago Daily News iinlorpre(s the reply, but it considers {“he performed a distinct service as {to the cause of sound progress based jon clear thinking by refuting the oft- irepeated statement that “more than | 85 per cent of the federal budget will §0 for past and future wars' It is of course extirely proper to urge wise ieconomy in appropriations for na- tional defense, but it is hardly sincere to inveigh against militarisin where it does not exist and give the impres- sfon that vast sums of money are be- ing wasted on needless defensive | measures.” The Paul Dispatch, {likewise, thinks that the Secretary |went sumewhat far in_his charges, {but it feels sure that “what should end the controversy is that we are epending less for the national de- {fense than in 191 nd there are but few straight-thinking people who be- lieve we can afford to cut more ]'dl-upl_\‘ What we have to spend for pensions, rehabilitation and war debts jwe canuot escupe. Secretary Weeks is perhaps worrving unnecessarily over the pacifists. Their maunder- ings do not amount to much. Com- plaints from taxpavers are much more | to the point” The fact that “war certainly does impose enormous bur- dens on the people of this country, and of all countries.” must, of course, be agreed to. the Indianapolis News says, “but this Is no argument for doing away with our Army and Navy, or for refusing to maintain them in the highest degree of efficlency and | adequate strength. Mr. Weeks insists that the amount now spent for this purpose is not excessive. He very properly condemns those who center their fire solely on our defenses rather than on the condi- tions that make the keeping up of these defenses necessary. = Arma- ments should be reduced and are be- ing in this country. Those who are | | EDITORIAL DIGEST best informed think that Congress went too far in the reduction of the Army. Our people are not militaris- tic, nor is our government. Nor is our Army itself. But the great things to be overcome are the feelings of susplcion and distrust, and that self- sufficient spirit which sees safety and honor in isolation.” It is an organized attack, the Bos- ton Transcript is certain, that is be- ing made on the national defense system, and “the mendacity of the pacifist lobby which Secretary Weeks has finally exposed. the cowardly cunning with which' it has juggled figures and distorted facts, the large number of teachers and preachers who have been caught in the posses- ston of its contaminating goods, ought to provide for the plain people who think a timely and enduring warning. Whether the cost of this campaign of lying in regard to our That broad human sympathy which is a dominant characteristic of the American people finds gratification in the news that President Harding re- turns to his tasks free from the do- mestic anxiety caused by his wife’ impaired health. Both have profited by their five-week vacation in the sunny southland, and Mrs. Harding particularly showed a decided gain in strength when she reached Wash- ington. cisions to be made in the near furnee are of wide-reaching import. American membership in the Perma- nent Court of International Justice seems lfkely to remain an open ques. tion, pending an exhaustive discus- sion’ of the conditions under which this government would give its ad- herence to the tribunal. Meanwhile the price of sugar is & matter which immediately interests g | ‘Wilsonian view about world court and league developments, and there are incessant appeals for audiences. Mr. Wilson notifies his correspondents that the demands upon b ne are such that he finds It nocemwary to conflne his appointments for the pres- ent to short Interviews with old per- sonal friend: Fifteen minutos in usually the maximum perfod assigned to individual callers. An exception Is lkely to be made In favor of Lord Robert Cecll, who arrives in Wush- Ington next week. * ok ok o James M. Beck, solicitor general of the United States, in an nddress he is delivering before important bLar assoclations this spring, makes i teresting statistical ¢isclosures nhout the Supreme Court. About 30,000 lawyers are entitled to practice there, The greater number have never had @ case in the court; only a few have had many cases. Mr. Beck himself hay argued nearly the largest num- ber, his total, until recently, having been exceeded only by thos of the late John G. Johnson ana John W, Davis. Charles . Hughes had twenty-four cames and Ehhu Root seventeen. Tn the past five years the Supremo ' Court has had " on the average of 1,054 cases pending euch term, disposed of ut un annu average of 625. At present, unless a fitto, S dvanced, it requires about “en monthy after docluo et fefeen mon cleeting before * ok ok e The Landmark, orgin of the Eng- lish-Speaking Union in London, pub- lishes a fulsome tribute to Ambas- sador Harvey from the pen of Sydney Brooks, one of Britain's foremost publicists. Terming Harvey “a great Anglo-American,” Brooks' panegyric concludes: “No man of our time done more to free Anglo-American riendship from frictions that threat- ened to chafe it sorely than has Mr Harvey in the past two years.” Some. body suggests the real Teason of Col, Harvey's " impending return s fto hustle Uncle Sam into making the new Amerfcan embassy in London habitable. Since he arrived at the court of St. James two years ago Harvey has been a roofless wanderer, The colonel is coming home aut his own request, and for purely persona awvn req or purely personal * ook % Ma). Gen. Henry T. Allen, U. §. A., writes “retired” behind his name to. day. after forty-five years in the Army, including West Point. Many regTet that Gen. Allen is permitted to leave the active list with his serv- ices on the Rhine inadequately recog- nized. There may be efforts in the rext Congress to re; h Une of his admlrer!n:-‘;n;r;‘ observer that Allen has received hard. Iy anything more than the attentions bestowed upon a popular Washington d ! Other countries whose bublic servants play the combined role of soldier and_ statesman that Allen enacted in Germany reward them handsomely. Britain makes such men earls and gives them an olde age allowance of $250,000, Which re- ;;1“» f\l,)lil’ Adr}xln'nl Sims’ unaccepted . M. is still rus: g a e Navy DS 3L s ting at the Navy « e omission. ked to this national defense i enemies, domestic or by the s paid for by alien .]u"‘“du?ell‘ or agencies, c fringe’ their victima, nothing short of o con® gressional fnvestigation can show Pending such a probe the Secretary has turned the lght of truth on thers sappers which will scatter them in confusion, and it has not been turned on a day too soon.” This position strongly is indorsed by the (Chicage Post, which characterizes the Ppacifist campaign as “dishonest and mic. chievous. The security of American peace is threatened by its persistent bombardment of Congress and it constant effort to build backfires of misinformed sentiment. The warning of Secretary Weeks must be heeded It is time for intelligent Americnn- ism to combat this attack upon sane, Gerderate and necessary policies of ‘Admittedly many people do not beljev of & miiltary iind, reeds rather than tends to eii But how they can hold this view is difficult to understand when the his- tory of the natlon is considered. The tragically unnecessary loss of life that has been caused through lack of readiness in all of the U nited States wars forms a lesson whic the nation cannot seem to absorb. Good citizens are being misled by organizations working directly along the lines laid down by Moscow.” All who take Dledges such as that of the Women's International League of Peace and Freedom, the Wilkes-Barre Record points out, “in the event the United States is assailed by a foreign coun- try would be on the same plane as the slackers and the treasonable paci: fists during the recent war. An atti- tude of that kind would be an invi- tation to an attack upon the United States by a country inclined to trump up a deceitful grievance.” Because this certainly is so, the Manchester Union says, “Secretary Weeks de- clines to deprive the country of the benefits of expert knowledge. His de- cision is entirely proper. It has the sovereign virtue of clear common sense.” Tt is the further conviction of the Providence Journal that “be- tween sincere advocates of peace and professional soldlers there need be no difference of opinfon. The function of the latter is not to promote war but to be prepared for it when it comes. And that is but the duty of the whole people. There ought to be no room for soviet agencies in the United States. On the other hand, the American people welcome the in- struction which responsible Army and Navy officers are especially qualified to impart on the text: ‘Eternal vigi- lance s the price of liberty.’ ** “The pacifists today are against any degree of military preparedness, says - the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. “They assert it is unnecessary. Among the greater nations the United States 1s disarmed, judging by the standards set for Germany by those who van- quished it in war. One hundred thou- sand officers and men are allowed Germany for deferse. Our country has, Including the Regular Army, re- serves on active duty and the Philip- pine Scouts, 136,619 officers and men in military mervice. This is not mili- tarism.” “The Secretary is ‘“right- cously severe” in his_strictures, the Williamsport Sun holds, and ‘hile there “may be some who will strongly object to his declaration that the; propagandists whom he denounces are public enemies, it is well that he should call atfention to misleading statements that have been mado and issue the warning that he has.” honest and loyal € In preparedness thinking that it i —————————————————————————————————————————— Vacation Well Fits President for Tasks. every household in the United States, and if the Tariff Commission shall report an alibl for the Fordney-Mec- Cumber schedules a greater responsi- bility will rest upon the chief exeou- tive to search out the cause of ex- tortionate prices and ocorrect It. The Shipping Board has its im- mediate problem of disposing of the idle and wasteful fleet, regardless of the ultimate action of Congress as to ship subsidy. The President must find another dirt farmer for the Federal Reserve Board. There are lying on the executive table problems in Mexico, in Cuba, in Panama, in Europe and the orient. There are world-wide problems in oll. A month of playtime between the adjournment of Congress and the tackling of such a program is not to be begrudged the chief executive by a nation that looks for clear-headed thinking and effective action.—Phila- delphia Bulletin, atrong appeal to Washingtonians is “The Return of the Middle Class,” John Corbin, since a large part of this clty's population is included in his definition of the middle class. It comprises all persons who are obliged to earn their living by their brains and not primarily by manual labor. The class includes, according to the author, clerke, professional men and women, authors and artists, farmers, small dealers and small manufacturers; the classification is designed to exclude the hand laborer on the one slde and the capitalist on the other. ~Mr. Corbin often refers to the middle class as the “new poor,” and holds that thefr new poverty has been brought about by the recent crushing burdens laid upon them He ways: “When wages are ralsed and raised agaln the capitalist survives by p. ing the buck to the consum whke earner casily meets creased prices with his Increased wages. But the middle-class folk, who cannot pass the buck and whose Jarfes remain relatively stationary, are crushed lower and lower in the scale of lving.” %ok The worst sufferer of all the middle class hus been the woman, and it 18 also she—"the valiant woman, he calls her—who will do most to pull the class up. Ie says: he the in- “If free Institutions are to justify) themselves there must n" ever- increasing supply of citizens, well born, well bred and well cducated. To allow this the middle class must win a fairer cconomic standing, especial- Iy its women. They must have the new work and the sufficient without which poli ul equality is a mockery. ® ® * ‘Votes for women' must give way to ‘Jobs for women!" " In another place he writes: “As €oon as children are in school and o« the mother &hould have the duty and privilege of productive labor, re- warded by ecconomic standing. Only thus can omen find full freedom in self-expression—the opportunity to render due service as enfranchised citizens.” Other forces author expects through which the to sec the return of the middle cluss are the industrial republic and the middle class union. By the industrial republic he means form of industrial organization by which capital, brains and labor shail co-operate, instead of working at €ross purposes as at present. Though he does not enunclate it, the author's slogan seems to be: “Brain workers of the world, unite * ok * Archibald Marshall has turned to the Clinton family, many of us learned to love five earlier books—his best. I think “The Squire’s Daughter,” “The Eldest Son,” “The Honor of the Clin- tons,” “The Old Order Changeth” and The Clintons and Others.” In these books the twins, Joan Nancy, were the most entertaining, if not' the most serlous, characters. Their youthful escapades, their quar- rels with each other and their teasing of their much tried governess, their growing dignity and Importance, and finally their love affairs and 3 riages, were all woven into th, rative of the Clinton family. Mr. Marshall has written book in the series. “The Twins and Other Stories able to resume our acquaintance with piquant Joan and demure Nancy. * % %% The art of writing correct English seems to be falling into disuse; or is there no longer such a thing correct Engl 1s any expression allowable, ¥ it is used often enough? We know that there are critics who defend the use of “it me” and “ain’t,” but we have a sus- picion_that when writers of standing use what is popularly known as bad grammar they do €0 accidentully dnd because they are literary ‘The following examples have been taken from recent books: “57st Loe Strachey. “The Adventure (ing”’; “Then every one would be expected to flop down on thelr Knees, and again, ry one of my iIntimate friends at Balliol were public school boys. Joseph Hergesheimer. “The Bright Shawl”: t was entered through a long corridor of pillars capped in black onyx with wicker chairs.” Hugh Walpole, “The Cathedral”: “Polehester now could boast one of the richest revenues of any cathedral in Europe.” and again, “Before night took every one and stretched them upon their backs to dream Eden Phillpotts, “The Red Red maynes’: “The annual crop of mul- berry leaves in the valleys beneath were well nigh exhausted. The late Mrs. Humphry Ward was a frequent violator of the rules of grammar, especially in the novels of her later again re- whom in his nother Clinte as 1t is reported that one of our minor American poets in answer to the question, “What book would you like most to have written?” replied: “The Home Book of Verse.” The modesty of the wish can best be appreciated when it is stated that the last edition of this portly volume of more than 4.000 pages printed on thin Bible paper contains all of the important shorter poems in the English lan- guage, o far as the editor, Burton E. Stevenson, could secure the con- sent of copyright owners for reprint- ing. * % x % Probably the most popular German writer of the last decade of the nine- teenth century, at least outside h own country., Hermann Sudermann, was early in the twentieth century more or lass eclipsed by Gerhart Hauptmann when extreme realism began to giv way before symbolism and fmpres- sionism. Now, after a long silence, Sudermann has published. not another novel, but the story of his early life unde the title “Das Bilderbuch Meiner Jugend.” The narrative be- gins with recollections of his earlies childhood in his Fast Prussian hom: where poverty and robust, wholesome 1iving were mingled. His school life, his apprenticeship to the village chemist, his gymnasium studies and his first attempts at writing. his amorous adventures, the university years, when he became a radical, and his entering upon a literary career are all described with enthusiasm. The story stops with his twenty- fourth year. It is announced, that an English edition will shortly be pub- 1shed. F i The revival of interest in Egypt has led the publishers of Philip S. Marden's “Egyptian Days” to reissue the book. In it the author tells how one of the greatest of the Luxor temples was discovered. A peasant scraped a hole in the floor of his hut to hide a few coins, but to his amaze- ment when he dropped them in he heard them fall a_considerable dis- tance. He made his hole larger and went after them and fell through to the pavements of the old temple, the existence of which no one in the superimposed village had known. So he got back his coins and the Egyptol- oglsts one more vast monument of the it 153 * ok Kk Readers of The Star who have fol- lowed the travel articles of Frank G. ‘arpenter for So many years are leased to know that Mr. Carpenter is now engaged in revising his writ- ings and issuing them in a series of handsomely printed volumes. T learn that there are likely to be about thirty volumes in this world travel library. The four volumes now published ar: entitled: “The Holy Land and Syria,” “From Tangier to Tripoll,” “Alaska. Our Northern Wonderland,” and “The ‘Tail of the B'mlar!lerg" the last on Argentina and Chlle : bY | informative. pay | e | and we are | The mail often contai of a newspaper writer ns comments, spicy and There comes to Capital Keynotes a protest at the chronology assigned to the period when twelve and fifteen hours constituted u normal day's work for a wage earner. ‘Almost within the memory of men now 1iving,” Capital Keynotes re corded, and a correspondent reucte with a breeze: “Say, old man"—how did he guess age ke that?—¥if you will come arourd some day 1 will introduce you to a4 man, by no means very old, v has @ distinet recollection whe was employed as a mule tender and driver on the canal, constdered that a da was not obliged to p, Wours in the perform of dutics was a ‘light’ indeed :I:‘ullrn\mq that, as a devil i a coun try printing oftice, his duties constant attention fo and frequently fourteen, hours ¢ without diminishing the vigor enthuslasi In the pursuit of knowl- cdize of the ‘“art prescrvative. ™ Tho correspondent enumorates his later ¢ atfons, including fifteen hours a day as laborer on a California ranch, and, fAfteen miles’ horseback ride, morning and evening, to set type “every working and editor. | PR “Really,” adds’ the correspondent, “the short hours now enjoyed by practically all tollers m o | something of a ‘plenic’ when [ pared with what T went through not very old, either. It me thut one of the difficulties or present generation is that they Erie who he L very and which % sixte in active his required iy, on a daily; and, s p finall hour” oprictor s me 1 am to | the » constantly their chosen I pations as was formerly the | Hard work and ‘long hou {harmed w young person.- * ok % x to F. W | Capita readers to bear out mule drivers, editors, be included the 1y such a subject as earning wages Be reasonab Recreation is thing; work anothe Pat, the old-time the right ldea when he explained that he merely carried the bricks up the ladder and the men up there “did all the work joury w paper man, works fo the joy of it. H his o1 plaint is that the devil does trol the clock better by “adva {the spark” two hours in the morn- and “retarding it” several hours around midnigiit. The writer is not quite sure about the i drivers, {but really sces 1 aift | ence. It would to ma certain which was the nd whi the driver, and that only discovered by the kick. | said, “The play's the these Volsteadi * Keynotes the ete., consi aim that ould not in eration one hod carrier, had even any wages, | news- sut for ot could b Shakespeare th but in By way of long-distanc tiou the word comes to Washing that a Kan doctor discovers that the brain consists of 15 per cent fat and 85 per cent water. It was known has Leen on the years, but it is news {learn about the fat. That's what the matter with Kansas, eh? Nobody {loves a fat brain. Furthermore, that can change the whole n water to doctor says ature of he { Minimum Wage Act Hit *| Lawyer. Upholding Supreme Court. Sees Probable Evil in Law. i To the Biitor of The Star The usual hue and cry over sion of the Supreme Court declaring an act of Congress invalid for {tion of the Constitution has already arisen over the decision on the ac providing a minimum wage for wom- en in the District of Columbia the ancient hydra of amendi Constitution to prevent decisi 5-to-4 ruling or decision ° lifts head. Senator Borah and Mr. Gom- | pers already have ralsed that que tion and declare it to be a one-ma- jority decision—a 5-to-1 dec Why, indeed, by the Borah and Gon pers rule it is a 6-t10-3 decision—two- thirds’ majority. What more is want- ed than that? The decision was made by of eight justices. Justice did not sit in the case at ail. Borah and Gompers take t participating justice and add him to the three of the minority and make it a 5-to-4 decision. They can show no rightful monopoly on the rule they jemploy, and I have as much author- ity to add the non-participating jus- tice to the majority and make it a 5-t0-3 decision as they have to add him to the minority and make it a 5-to-4 decision. Then some hyperbolical diatribes are indulged in on a “one-majority" decision, There is no statutory law comman Ing respect to the dignity of the Su- preme Court, and there ought to be none. But there Is a law of public opinion, and, I might add, there ought to be one of self-respect, that does command it from every good citizen, I have cursorily examined the opin- fon of Justice “Sutherlund—and of Chief Justice Taft and Justice Holmes —flled in the Supreme Court librar and my recollection is that Justice sutherland-—nor either of the others— does not use the phrase “selling 1 bor,” except where he is quoting from a former decision of the court. Yet much *“indignation” expressed in the public criticisms over the court's reducing human labor to a selling commodity! By the consensus tices, assenting and dissenting, they are. to employ the phrase of Justi Holmes, “pricking” a way along the line of principle laid down in former decisions, involving construc tion of the same clause or phrase of the Constitution. In each decision or case they are compelled to ag the rule of interpretation to a st of facts with a phase differentiated from any former one. On the question of constitutional validity five justices travel to one conclusion and three Lo the opposite, all relving on the same former decisions on kindred ques- tions. Aside from the question of consti- tutionality, the majority of opinion is the only public utterance, so far, in favor of that vast miillons of women, both white and colored. and especially the latter, who are, by the circumstances of life's denouements coupled with nature’s limitations. ir capable of earning “$16 per weck.” 1f such a law were held constitutional and all the states should enact such a statute—and Congress, too, for the District of Columbia—what. would become of the independence of those millions of women. Under such laws they must ds organize some means of a livelihood for themselves, indi- vidually. Th 't get jobs as em- ployes, no matter Low much they might' desire them, at less than the statutory minimuin wage. The would have to organize individual wash-tubberies; for they have not the combined mental cquipment and physical powers and capacity to or- ganize pretentious industries. That a dec viola- £ the @ court Brandeis Messrs, d- of all the jus- Jeust twelve, | and i are not required to apply themselves | appeals to other | non- man by injecting mors fat or mors Water—or fomething—into the h Je even tells us that by such fnjec- ¢ what we woulg which would the cop this eon ined K xhilarat quent depressi from 15 per RaS vears after the ment has becoms | the dand. Wit and more pho Mavbe Pre rstandy t) possessed i turned e eltement on the d returned sist t diplomat {ernment tative ment igion after cre of If that willir inc ished w war discovered of the world out ands, looking wealth We the | revoiy We w still have wtlaw dec lawed war, but against the outlaws IN A FEW WORDS seems to e 1 Sk i even e spevel carrios FORMAN | Again ! =13 been Slon —SIR AR CONAN DOYLY T don't try should. to win t brai - ald th then | | MAETALLY Nazmova ‘ : | Why prohibit | aleoho not on b that would prohibit toxicating phra > —MAXIMILIAN HARDI { The definition of bolshsviem i sm, plus terrc PHILLIP SNOW DE -_— tuke to would subje them ¢ the ties e statu enforce payment of an equably . resulfs that 1 add $6 “per wee plain result r who weel mployer must “ult applicatic 1ot this the wh n prowre. will | but by { the rise you go. | Ther. decision |itself to ‘my mind. ung jure to moro fullv stres | that the act of Consrets | to wamen of ‘ti who_have not of self-protectic bodied in tie v is but « of the that that i Iy mb i pow opportunity it s establ rminatiof 1o ht of Sutfrage s L oxer her son. pr privileges, halance of of sui more d take battles their anc and men. W reasoni jur 1o forever renove dence on ma the consid determined the LAf that were iniporia utherland suggests woman’s present stuatus th i prineiple of law under which can established mum wage, wen erally, equally applicabl to men all ag with Justice He * remark that “it wou take more than constitutional amendment to convince me that t is no difference between a man woman.” Yet she is mengally to the man and slways was mental forces wre the rough those crease of in fi her superiority in sbilities_casiiy make Stion. The nt of the | spe 1l comes ¢ ter for my As Justic the that would con deterrent and injury to th. fenseless and helpless class of her sex. I do mot belicve the women a8 a class are dolng so., L. L HARD the kind