Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1923, Page 6

f 6 - —————————————————] THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY..........April 20, 1923 ..Edito; THEODORE W. NOYES. e Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and insylvania Ave. New Yark Office: 150 waan O Chicago Office: Tower Bullding. uropean Ofee: 16 Regont Ht., London, England. Star, with the Sunday morning riers within the ¥ only, 45 cents outh: Bunduy only, 20 ceate per month, ers giay be went by mail, 5000, Collection s made by carriers at the *ad of each mouth. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily only.. Bunday only. All Other States. Dally and Sunday..1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 86¢ Daily only. yr., $1.00; 1 mo., 60c Bunday only. $3.00; 1 Member of the Associated Press, The Assoclated Press fs exclusivaly entitled fo the ‘use for republication of il news di atches credited to it or not otherwise credited | where n this paper and also the local news pub- 1isned ‘herefn. Al rights of publication of clal dispatches hereln are also reserved. Uncle Sam's Long Arm. It has never yet been determined I H | the occasion of his testimony and pre- sented on the whole a rather attrac- tive appearance. His voice was low, his words were carefully choflen, and he told a story of merciful treat- ment of the convicts, suggesting that the punishments which he was com- pelled as a guard to administe; had in the traditional language of the tather to his derelict son hurt him worse than the objects of his punish- ment. One of the correspondents at Tallahassee says, however, that de- spite the obvious grooming, there was ! no disguising the hardness of his or telephone ‘Main | mouth or the cold quality of his eye. In truth, size is not particularly a measure of brutality, and good clothes may cover a vicious disposition. It would be @ mistake to judge the methods of procedure in the Florida convict camps from the sartorial or tonsorial accomplishments of the wit- ness-in-chief now under accusation. ‘This whole question 18 revolting, mo..l-'mfbu! it must be probed thoroughly. The convict lease system is a bad one, and the hope Is that Florida will abolish it, and that all other states it prevalls will follow suit. Brutalities are certain to develop out of a system of hiripg out those who have been adjudged guilty of law- breaking to do the work of private concerns or individuals. It is pepnage, virtually slavery, and cruelties are in- how long is the arm of the BOVern- | egeapable. Perhaps the death of one ment of the United States. As the Years go by it reaches farther and farther out to safeguard the welfare of the American people and to pro- mote thelr interests. Alexander Hamil- ston never dreamed of a central gov- erament as strong as the government of today, and the modern disciples of Thomas Jefferson vie with the politi- cal progeny of the federalists in trying to make it stronger. Whenever there comes a time of distress, whether from economic or other causes, it is to Washington the people turn in- stinctively for rellef. ‘'The Constitu- tion has been stretched far beyond the conception of a Marshall, and where it has not proved sufficiently elastic the states have surrendered more of the powers reserved to them. Now the long arm of the govern- ment reaches out again, this time to save the people from the extortions of the sugar profiteers and to bring the profiteers to hook. The powers of in- junction are employed to put an end to sugar speculation; evidences of conspiracy are to be sought and, if found, the conspirators are to be pun- ished. And nowhere, except possibly in quarters directly profiting from the sugar gamble, is a word of protest heard. It is a sign of the times which ., should not be lost on interests and industries which have not yet learned what “service” means, and still sub- scribe to “the public be damned” doc- trine of industrial bourbonism. There never was a time when the people Were so heavily taxed to support their government, and they are determined that in return the government shall function efficiently and directly in their behalf. The government which does this will win and hold the sup- port of the people; the government which fails cannot endure. It is incomprehensible that men with the ability to attain captaincy of industry are so blind they cannot Tead the handwriting on the wall. The days when “big business” was free to exploit the public are gone, and gone forever. There is not yet any general gentiment for government ownership of essential industries, because the people do mnot believe government | ownership and operation can be made efficlent, but there s almost unanimous gentiment in favor of strict govern- ment regulation of those industries which will not regulate themselves | and learn that service to the public is paramount to profits. The people epprove that their government should have & long arm, and that at the end of that long arm should be a heavy hand. ———— Trial Street Lamps. Experiments with high-power elec- tric street lights, soon to be made on Rhode Island avenue hetween 7th and | 9th streets, will be watched with in- | terest. It is known to everybody that | Washington streets are mot so well lighted as they should be, and it should | also be known to everybody that the District government is aware of this end is seeking with all means at its command to remedy the defect. The lights to be erected will be of 400 candlepower at corners and of 250! candlepower between corners. The | great majority of the 10,000 electric street lamps in use are of only 100 candlepower. The coming experiment will not only have to do with the power of the lamps, but with their height above the street and evenness of radiation. Reflectors, which will threw most of the light into the street and yet create no shadow on the side- walk, will be given a trial. If these lights are successful they will soon supplant the lights on Pennsylvania avenue, 14th street northward from Thomas Circle and other much- traveled streets. Even though the| lights to be tried out should not meet expectations, experiments with other lamps will be made. The solution of the streetlighting problem is to be found in lamps of higher power than those now in use, but there are prob- lems involved other than the simple increase in candlepower, and the peo- ple have faith that the superintendent of lighting will solve them. —————— “Boss” Murphy of Tammany Hall testifies in court that he withdrew from a war.time concern because it was mmaking too much money. He must have given the shade of Croker & rude shake. / Mussolini praised a policeman who held him up for breaking a traffic rule, ‘The man is a born politiclan. Florida'’s Gentle Flogger. Some surprise has been manifested man will prove a small sacrifice to bring ahout a reform. German Disorders. A violent outbreak in the city of Mulheim, Germany, is attributed to a communist movement to break down the Berlin government. Specifically the disorders at Mulheim are due to a demand of the unemployed of that city for an increase of the doles given by the government to maintain them in their strike against the French oc- cupation of the Ruhr. This is pos- sibly only a pretext for disorder. The municipal authorities have refused the demands for larger doles, and at pres- ent Mulheim is the scene of conflict between the rioters, who have ob- tained arms by looting the gun stores of the city, and the police, who have been besleged in the town hall. It is indicated in today's dispatches that similar outbreaks are feared in other cities in the Ruhr, though the latest report from Mulheim states that the authorities have for the present regained control. The French have thus far refused to Intervene, and have at the same time forbidden the sending of German forces into Mulhelm to suppress the rioting. This apparently contradictory position is thus explained: The French are not responsible for the main- tenance of civil order, but at the same time refuse to permit any concentra- tion of German forces for the purpose of suppressing the rioting, as these might be recruited to the point of in- volving a direct conflict between French and German troops, France maintains that the troubles @t Mulhelm are none of its concern, that it cannot undertike to administer such matters as the regulation of doles granted by the German government in support of the strike started and maintained to prevent the collection of the reparations payments demand- ed of Germany. To intervene at Mul- Heim with troops would be, in effect, to hold up the hands of the German gov- ernment in {ts refusal of reparations. Just how far this policy of non- intervention can be maintained is a question. If the troubles spread from Mulheim to other cities, and the Ruhr field becomes generally chaotic, the French must act in self-protection. But they will probably act directly, and not by permitting the Berlin gov- ernment to fill the fleld with troops. Back of all these disturbances is the menace of a communist reaction against the German government of the nature of the sparticide revolt of several years ago. In other words, it is a gesture of bolshevism. Evident- i1y France is not gravely alarmed at the extent of this menace, to judge from its present posture of watchful! walting. ————————— Seventeen home runs in the first three days of big-league play this sea- son. Either the pitchers have gone back or batters have grown more wicked with the willow. ————— The “dance marathon” mortality record opens with the death of a long- distance shuffler at North Tonawanda, N. Y., after eighty-seven hours. Others are certain to follow. ————— German jobless ones are rioting at Mulheim in & demand for larger doles from the Berlin government. Taking their cue from the French repara- tions seekers, perhaps. ——————— Sugal speculators may make a big profit now, but it will hardly sweeten the “‘uses of adversity” if they go to prison. e Let Them Shuffie! As long as everybody else is doing it Washington may as well have a go at organized marathon “dancing.” The contestants enter the competitions at their own risk after undergoing medi- cal examinations. If the public is willing to pay for the “pleasure” of seeing a bunch of bedraggled men and women shuffling over a-floor to tire- somely iterated strains, let the show go on. These contests will probably be promoted as long as there is suf- flelent public patronage to pay for the prizes, the rent of halls, the hire of musicians and a.profit. The police have no particular reason for inter- vening In the circumstances, unless the spectacle becomés a public scandal. True, one man has already died of marathon dancing up in New York state, and in all probability other fatalities will occur. Maybe there will be some here. There is a fine question of just how far this possibility is one of the attractions to the public in at the appearance of the official flog. | ratronizing these exhibitions. ger of the Florida convict camp, who, under indictment for murder for hav- Judging from the photographs that have been printed of the.contestants ing caused the death of a prisoner |in “action” there is nothing especlal- appeared before the state legislative | ly elevating or, inspiring about the per- <committee which is probing this ques- tion. formance. The dancing is not grace- Judging by his work, he had|ful, the costumes soon become worn been visualized as a powerful brute,|and unsightly, the men discard their Instead, he disclosed himself as a|coats and collars and, in truth, a dapper man of thirtyfive, five feet|crew of track hands working on a cight inches in height, weighing 138 | railroad is 2 much more ennobling and {/ ueuads. Ha had been “dolled up” for | reslly more picturesque view of hu.|for perking space.—Baltimory Sun. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1923. manity than these seekers after purses and “honors.” But, after all, it is their game, and if the people will pro- vide the stake they may as well be permitted to play it. Those of the longdistance dancers who have fami- lies may have something to reckon with on the side in the matter of { moral responsibility. In that case the childrgn are out of luck. The Handicappers. The, political forecasters are having | hard sledding in their search for the likely choice of the democratic na- tional convention of & candidate for “timber,” but upon a survey some ob- gome political or strategical weakness is alleged. The “dopesters” go round and roynd in a circle and then scan the horizon for some upshoot outside the circle. ‘They agree that as the cards fall now Mr. McAdoo seems to have the largest tangible political asset in the support of large sections of organized labor in the north and a pretty good personal crganization in the south. By way of offset to this element of strength they assert that it consti- tutes a handicap to him with con- servative democrats and “big busi- ness.” They admit, however, that it is quite probable he will appear at the democratic national convention with more delegates at the outset than any other now being discussed, and will make an impressive showing on the first ballot. Senator Underwood of Alabama is beyond criticism in ability, character and experience in national affairs— but, alas! he is from the south, and northern states will hesitate to select a southern man as the candidate. Against Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York uprise immediately sectarian ob- Jections, whether unjust or not, appre- hended to be potent in the elections. Senator-elect Copeland of New York is talked about. ““Oh, he is Mr. Hearst's * they cry. comes along as subject of comment; an able man, admittedly, but some of the doubtful murmur at his age. For- mer Gov. Cox of Ohio is declared to be handicapped by his crushing de- feat in 1920. John W. Davis of West Virginia is classed as coming from a non-pivotal stete, and possibly to be cbjected to on account of his relations as counsel to “high finance.” And so down the iine. Whereupon they turn in bewilder- ment and say: “Oh, where is some rising young democrat from the mid- dle west?” and echo, up to this time, can only answer, “Where?" —— The new mayor of Chicago has started municipal housecleaning by cutting 2,000 city employes from the pay roll, holdovers from the previous administration. The virtue of his ac- and number of subsequent appoint- ments. It almost seems to the world at large that Premier Poincare might wisely substitute for these repeated reaffirmations of the adamant and un- swerving nature of the French policy iin the Ruhr the simple daily bulletin, “France stands pat.” —_——ee————— New York persists in the daylight- saving habit regardless of the con- venience of other communities, which is a characteristic metropolitan atti- tude. Institution of government suits to stop sugar speculation are reminders of the days of yore when “Teddy put teeth in the trust laws.” At all events, the marathon shuf- flers soon get too tired to do any of the shimmy steps that are calculated to offend refined tastes. The weather no longer offers any excuse for the househoider who neg- lects to rake up his front yard. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSOY. A Busy Day. He hurried to his office. But met upon the way Some interesting people ‘With several things to say. And as before his desk he sat Full oft he paused to greet Some callers unexpected whom He was well pleased to meet. He talked about the tariff; He talked about base ball; He talked about the latest plays. The clock upon the wall Kept ticking on until he cried, In tones akin to pain, “Great Scott! I'll have to get away Or else I'll miss my train!” No wonder that his conscience Feels a peculiar smart ‘When his devoted family Takes him unto its heart, And every one on tiptoe goes, And mother, with a frown, Says, “Father's very tired ’cause He works so hard downtown!” Incantation, Hyah dem frogs a-talkin’ funny Yonder by de crick? Dem is all magicians, honey, Practicin’ a trick. Dey is conjurin’ out de bloomin’ An’ de butterflies, Things new shapes will be assumin’ Right befo® yo' eyes! Mutterin®, singin’, scoldin’, screamin — Hahd to understand— But dey’'ll have dis ol’ place seemin” Jes' like fairyland! The Kicker. He kigked in language flercely strong At all that happened here below. He said the world was wholly wrong— And did his best to make it so. ————tee——— If a painter wants to win fame all he will have to do will be to sketch two matrons at the salad counter of a cafeteria and label it indecision.—Mil- waukee Journal. —— ettt Nearly all abuses contain the seed of ‘their own destruction, and even- tually people will be driven farmward the presidency. There is no dearth of | Jectlon is urged against each stand:| Senator-elect Ralston of Indlana: | | his friends fear the delegates from tne | and of Charlemagne Tower of Phila- | WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE Three unobtrusive days are Lord Robert Cecil's Washington program. Between his arrival this noon and his departure rly on Monday he will make but one semi-public appearance —at this noon’s luncheon of Overseas ‘Writers. There he will have delivered his only address in Washington, and that will be confidentlal and not re- ported. It was by Lord Robert's spe- clal wish that no public speaking en- gagement wus made for him at the capital. President Harding, Secretary Hughes and Woodrow Wilson are the only Washingtonians with whom the RBritish statesman made more or less known appointments. But he will meet a number of other distinguished persons and conduct with them an exchange of views on mutually Inter- esting themes. Senator Borah will | meet Lord Robert, and so will Secre- | tary Hoover, who had many a tilt during the war with the British min- ister of blockade while Hoover was feeding Belgium. At the two dinners in his honor—tonight at the home of his host. Henry White, and tomorrow night with Sir Auckland Geddes, at the British embassy—Lord Robert will| meet large companies of men and | ‘women qualified to supply him with | an authentic cross-section of Ameri- can opinion. i R Elthu Root, Nicholas Murray Butler, Alfred Holman, Oscar S. Straus, Henry 8. Pritchett and John W. Davis are among the men of natlonal renown due in Washington for today's annual meeting of trustees of the Carnegle | Endowment for International Peace.! They are called upon, with other business, to fill three vacancies on | their board, occasioned by the deaths | of Charles T. Tavlor of Pittsburgh, | president of the Carnegle Hero Fund, delphia, and by the resignation of former 'Senator John Sharp Willlams | of Mississippi. The Carnegle Endow- | ment, unbeknown to the country at| large, is doing big and effective work | in the realm of international good | Will. Its series of publications, edited | by the indefatigable Dr. James Brown | tributions | It ‘i spending | | 8cott, I8 one of the vital con to modern history. $200,000 on rebullding the public library of the city of Rhelms; $100.000 on reconstruction of the University of Louvain's library: 3100000 on a| library for the Roval University of| Belgrade. and $100.000 on a model | public square, with needed ‘communal bulldings, for the town of Fargniers, | fn the department of the Alsne. The | square will be known as the Place Carnegie. ® £ xox Golf at length has found its Shelley, | and in the person of an official of the | American government. Francis Bow- | ler Keene, United States consul gen- | eral at Rome since 1917, is about to | break Into verse to the extent of an entire volume on the joys and woes | of President Harding's favorite pas- time. It is called ries of the Links” and will shortly make its ap- pearance in London. = Doubtless an American edition is under way. Mr. Keene is a Milwaukeean by birth and . in his sixty.seventh vear. A Harvard man and one-time edltor, he has been in the consular service since 1903. Keene Is a passionate golfer and his poetic apotheosis of the game which [romotes health and induces profanity s his maiden venture in authorship. The Washington Safety Council has put up one of its yellow posters, “It's better to be careful than to be crip- pled.” on a pillar in the cloistered corridors of the Department of State. A wag from one of the foreign em- hassles mays It's manifestly a warn- ing to Secretary Hughes In connec tion with possible “involvements’ over the Chester oll concession in Turkey. * % ¥ Great Britain has just taken a leaf out of Uncle Sam's book by renounc- ing the balance of the 1900 Boxer in- demnity due her from China. The United States moved In that direction more than twenty years ago, Suggest- ing to the Chinese government that the money should be devoted to Chi- nese education. The result was the dispatch to American colleges and universities of a host of students of the Sze and Koo type, who were des. tined, a few years later, to hecome the maater minds of the new China— now and then, at least, The British have tardily realized the political ex- pedlency of America’s which. despite its altruistio origin, undoubtedly went far toward estab- lishing the popularity and prestige of the United States in China. Like ourselves, the British proposs that the indemnity balance due them at Peking he appropriated for Chinese educational purposes. * ¥ ok % Miss Janet Richards, the current events “talk lady,” as she describes herself, is off for Europe in May in quest of new stores of facts and im- pressions for her popular classes in ‘Washington, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston and New York. The nominal purpose of her trip {5 to act as dele- gate at the International Women's Suffrage Congress in Rome. But her malin objective, she avers, is Benito Mussolinl. Miss Richards thinks Mus- =olini is the most invigorating blast of fresh air that has blown across the political universe in a generation, “We could use him in America.” Miss lnllt‘hnrdx opines, “if not several of him."” * * ok % M. Mdrc Peter, Swiss minister to the United States, is educating his son and heir at Harvard. The for- mer German emperor planned to send his fifth son, Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia, to Harvard, but aban- doned the notion because he feared a European royalty attending an Amer- fcan unlversity would be overlion- ized and deprived of an opportunity to absorb real “Americanism.” Those were the davs the bumptious Willia was paying vigorous court to guil less Columbia. Japen has a flour!s ing Harvard club, the oldest organi- zatlon of American alumni in Nippon, It recently elected Tokutaro Sakal of Toklo, class of ‘97, ag president. (Copyright, 1923.) EDITORIAL DIGEST tion will be measured by the nnlurcl(il'owih of Religion a Facer for the Pessimists. Announcement by the Federal Coun- il of Churches that the various re- ligious bodies of the United States made the greatest gain in their his- tory during the last twelve months and that 1,220,428 members were add- ed to their rolls is very significant of the trend of the times, editors as- sert. They point out that this seems to be a direct answer to the pessi- mistically inclined who have been bewailing the fact that the nation seemed headed to the “demnition bow-wows” because of the generally reported increase in lawlessness. “It is getting to be good form now to be a church member,” suggests the Charleston Mail. “In fact, everybody seems to be doing it. There is a wide diversity of sects where those hold- ing peculiar religious views may find a church home, while a great many of the strictly doctrinal churches are liberal in admitting members without trying to impose on them their pe- culiar doctrines. Religion s not looked upon now in quite the light of some time back, a matter for Sunday and for the preacher. Religion fs being taken into the laboratory of every-duy life, and there is being subjected to the most crucial tests. 1f statistics tell the corect story, then religion has been the gainer by hav- ing life put into it and by having its real essence disclosed 8o that man- kind may take hold of the real vital principle and the real saving power. There has been a real ‘revival in religlon all over the ocountry,” the Dayton News points out, in citing that “we have in round numbers in America 110,000,000 people. The total church membership at the present time is a little above 47.000,000. When one takes into consideration the varfous elements which enter into our national life this total is im- pressive. There are 29,000 more con- gregations than ministers in the Protestant fleld, but this is explained in part by the fact that in many rural | districts one pastor handles several churches. Taken by and large, the religlous census for the nation is en- couraging. It is a mark of distinction and discloses a very commendable situation.” This view is concurred in by the New York Globe, which as-| sorts “in the large the detailed study | of the statistics certainly indicates merica _is continuing, at least e e Within “the boundaries of the old codes. Whether the actual observance of our religious traditions fa what it was is another question.; Within the generation numerous at- | tractive and active competitors to the ohurch service, notable among them the automobile, with golf as an important adjunct, have developed. But If the automobile has kept peo- ple away from church it has also made it easier for them to get to church. Incidentally, those who in- eist that prohibition was forced upon the country by a vindictive minority will do well to study these figures. Not all church members are in favor of prohibition, but it was in the | Columbus enormous church constituencies that the forces which put the amendment through were found.” e complete statistics “give 16" 5 Selletn that “the peopls of this country were ‘all the time growing more irreliglous and that the churches were losing their hold on the popula- tion.,” says the New London Day, and they “indicate that the people of the United States are by no means so generally opposed to religion as some people think. Of course, many of those who are counted in the poll are not particularly active in the denom- inations to which they are credited, which may cause those who are in- terested in rellgious matters to spe ulate on what would happen in the United States if every person who is counted as religious should If‘\'v up to the best teaching of the church with which he Is affillated.” There is ab- solutely no question that “we are making progress along _religious lines,” the Roanoke Times holds, and “the’ rellgious hunger which gripped the masses of mankind all through the ages of human experi- is as far from being appeased as - To which the New York Times adds that “the people seek religion. not as a narcotic. but as nourishing Sefence, with all its ministries, can itself give no advice 2s to the eternal purpose of existence, except to assure us that it has been an in- | ereasing purpose as traced by micro- scope and telescope through the ages. and. moreover. that it has not walked | with aimless feet.” Which Jeads the Dispatch to point out “whatever may be the shortcomings of the religion of any and all of us, it certainly cannot be sald that we are characteristically an anti-reli- glous, or even a non-religlous people. There is a distinct possibility that “a great religious revival is dawn- ing in America,” the Jersey City Jour- nal suggests, and “this renewed in- terest is coming steadilv—not in the sudden flash that might quickly die out. If it develops. and there is no reason to belleve that it will not, it may assume proportions that will be epoch-making in the history of Amer- fcan Christdanity.”” There should also be in this exhibit “a great deal that makes for the peace of mind of those who have been harboring a fear that the country is fast heading toward moral, spiritual and religious bank- ruptcy as one of the results of the world war,” says the Minneapolis Tribune. in recalling the so-called waves of crime, disrespect for the laws and the like. “A notable aspect of this movement,” the Tribune co tinue: “is the fact that S0 ma Rro men, hitherto without church ‘affiliation, have gone into the churches as members. Business men of large affairs all over the country have been serfously impressed that an urgent need of the day is a_renaissance of the religlous spirit. They have acted on their convictions of becoming church members, thus setting_exam- ples for others still outside the fold of the religlous organization. Never- theless, the figures are a surprise, the Muncle Star feels. because “the rural churches, especially, were believed to have suffered from lack of interest and fnability to get regular pastors willing to minister to the flock at such & small remuneration and under conditions which often prove discour- aging. But some rural churches are served by laymen. The growing ac- tivity on the part of lay members in one of the significant developments of the year. Many denominations have recognized the need of paying their ministers a living wake, and also of providing for them after their years of usefulness in the pulpit have ex- pired, and that is largely responsible for the {ncrease in the number of those making the ministry thelr life work. Jefferson Memorial Foundation Program. The Thomas Jefferson Memorlal Foundation is soon to make applica- tion at Albany, N. Y., for incorpora- tion. The foundation is composed of several socleties and groups in differ- ent parts of the country that are interested in perpetuating the mem- ory of the man who wrote the Dec- laration of Independence. The first object of the organization is to se- cure_funds to_ purchase Monticello, the home of Jefferson, and to pre serve it as a national memorial. Jeferson, with Jackson, is a saint of the democratic party. Thomas Jefterson is something more. He was the author of the Declaration of In- dependence, and this alone makes his name worthy of being held in remem brance not only by the people of this ocountry but by’ the peoples of the world. The plan to preserve the Jefferson home at Monticello is worthy. ‘The homes, and in some cases the birthplace of several Presidents of the United States have been pre- served. Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington, stands/ first in the affection and reverence of the people. Today the house in which Theodore Roossvelt was born In New York city 18 _under process of resto- ration for preservation as a memo- rial. The log cabin in which Lin. coln was been preserved, cabin in which in the days of his struggles for a livelihood also has been saved. Sentiment plans to pi nation’s lea present in all the Sentiment never has Post. generosity, | has { Upholds Senator Ladd. Writer Believes Collins Did Not Understand His Remarks. To the Editor of The Star: In view of the fact that you have given considerable space in the col- {umns of your paper to the review by |Paul V. Collins of Senator E. F. Ladd’s laddress given before the young men of the Methodist conference recently held in Washington, D. C., as one of the individuals who made up the au- dience on that occasion, as well as be- ing a member of that great unorgan- tzed mass—the Amerfcan public—T wish to make a few observations as to certain misstatements and false de- ductions on the part of Mr. Collins in his resume of the senator's address. Evidently Mr. Collins signally failed to comprehend the obvious intent and \purpose, the elevated spirit of the senator's message to the conference. In the first place, your correspond- ent injected a question which has no 1bearing, directly or indirectl subject matter of the senator's ad- dress. Not only did he resort to ir- relevancy, but he showed his con- | tempt for the intelligence of the read- |ln' public when he attempted to dis- cuss the economic situation of the |North Dakota farmers. Mr. Collins' western farmers was replete with gratuitious assumptions, unverified assertions and erroneous deductions. There is no warrant or justification for his apparent ignorance of the sub- ject he tried to discuss. He would Pprobably be surprised to learn that the program of the North Dakota farmers has stood the test of the Su- preme Court of the United States, and his attack on their movement can be construed as an indirect attack on the court for declaring that their program was constitutional, Staté In Republican. When he see belleve that North Dakota has sone into bolshevism it is time to bear in mind that North Dakota is a repub- lican state, and I think figures will bear me out when 1 say that, accord- ing to population, it was the strong- est republican state in thé Union in the election of 1904. The background of the farmers' movement was sim- ply the right of the people to run thelr own affairs without any undue outside Interference. For years these tarmers had been the victims of & de- liberate system of exploitation on the part of wheat gamblers, investment bankers, chambers of commerce and rallroads. After years of toil they found that they were reduced to a system of economic servitude more cruel, even though it might appear more refined, than the physical servi- tude of former days. What honest man does not admire them for their strike for liberty? Mr. Collins would take the position that the preachers and leaders of the church are not discussing economic matters. As a matter of fact, he wiil have to attend church only a few times to become aware of the fact that they are. Senator Ladd’s posi- tion wasd that since they are discuss- ing such matters that they should do #0 intelligently—that they should nct take the copyrighted ideas of particular groups of economists and financiers. He did not even ask that they take his ideas, he simply de- clared that it was their duty to spend enough time in the study of these questions to know the truth before ihey began to preach It to their Duty of Church. Mr. Collins thinks the preachers | should discuss “the sickness of the j=oul” and leave these other matters 1o the professionals. The New Testament is full of economics, the Old Testament shows that all such matters were left in the hands of the spiritual leaders. Mr. Collins would have the church keep “hands off " and Dermit a few Erasping com: sclenceless, greedy individuals bind the people in economic servitude to them. After Solomon's death the kingdom was divided, rely over an econajdg question. ' The king an- swered the demands of the people by saying: * father made your yoke heavy and 1 will add to your yoke; my father also chastised with whips, but T will chastise with scorpion: The disciples recognized the eco- nomio tasks of the church. The ‘deacons” of the church were elected for the purpose of looking after the poor of the church, the distribution of alms. the furnisling of food. The word “deacon” signifies servant. Work of Disciples. The twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them and .A\'e"l{ i9 not reason that we should leave lh_n word of God and serve tables. Wherefore, brethren, look ve out amoug you seven men of honest re- port, full of the holy ghost and wis- dom, whom we may Aappoint over this business.” During the whole of the ministry of Christ he was constantly looking after the physical as well as the spiritual needs of the people with whom he came In contact. enator Ladd did not ask the ya men of the Methodist conference 15 ignore the spiritual, but he nply asked that they inteliigently approach the physical problems of church mem- bers. The office of the church is to condemn wrong wherever it sees f{t, According to_ the philosophy of Mr. Collins, the church would stay out of all great moral question not discuss the whisky question, white slavery, gambling. or immorality of any description. 1t would simply try to give out food for spiritual thought and nothing more. Has Mr. Collins read the fifth chapter of James fourth verse is as follow: ‘Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down vour fields. which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are_entered into the ears of the of Sabaoth.” SeRTont Figure of Raft. Mr. Collins’ analogy of the raft is like the rest of his laborious effort af reasoning, faulty. Senator Ladd did not suggest that the shipwrecked sailor be not thrown a line, but the thing he suggested was the proper {instruction beforehand that would keep the ship off the rocks so that there would be no shipwrecked salior. We are headed toward the rocks in our economics. The church, by in- telligence, can help steer us away; but {f it listens to the siren songs of those economists and financiers who seek economic conditions that will place them masters of a modern feudalism. grave dangers lie ahead of n‘]e church in the anguish of our peo- ple. Senator Ladd. evidently, was not misunderstood by the young men of the Methodist conference nor by the preachers present. It remained for Mr. Collins to become so thoroughly confused. At the close of the sen- ator's address, the pastor of the church arose and pald a very sincere tribute to the senator, commenting upon his address, and clearly showing that they understood and appreciated what he had to say. THOMAS F. MONAHAN. In a Few Words. Neither autocracy nor anarchy can {nvade this land so long as the great body of Abraham Lincoln’s “common people” retain their habit of sane second thought. —JOHN HAYS HAMMOND, It our prosperity is short-lived it will be because we ride it too hard. All parties concerned .ought to bg level-headed enough to see the dan- ger and guard against it. 2 —CHARLES E. MITCHELL, Although the women have not the vote in France, they. ‘enjoy mors rights than do the women of our country. —MRS. 0. H. P. BELMONT., If the situation had been reversed, 1f we had been in Germany's place, and if we had belleved that losing the war would have meant the domi- nation of our country by Germany, we, too, would have sunk ships with- out warning. ~—ADMIRAL SIMS, No self-respecting Jew can afford to be other than clannish. We are not wflll;\ to be raeelved on sufterance or with reservations. +~SAMUEL UNTERMYER. ‘discussion of the movement of the! ! to have your readers | it would | CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS There is reason for rejoicing by both the farmer and the bread-eater (including the farmer as a breads eater) in the decision of the Supreme | Court upholding the law to stop | gambling in grain. There can never be any benefit to the public in the grain gambling of the chambers of commerce and boards of trade, or whatever other name the speculators assume. The traders often buy and scll hundréds of times more “grain” than the furmers have raised, for the salcs on ‘change have no bearing upon the amount of grain -in_existence. The same carload of grain may be bought and sold fifty times in a single day, or no grain at all figure in the “future de- livery" sales. * %ok K The result of this speculation ig to annihilate the supply and demand for actual grain as a factor In fixing price, and so the farmer is not only fghting the uncertainties of mnature in undertaking to ralse a crop, but still more the uncertainties of the speculative market:as to the price ke will receive for his years toil. The pretense that it is \mr!'eficml to the farmers that the “dealers” shall be gpermitted to “hedge” is proved clearly u false pretense to Justify gambling. 1f the gamblers must bet, they would do far less harm to, the honest producer if they> would base their bets on the weather, and lot dling with “supply and demand.” ok K K Tt has been a long and discouraging fight to get the legislatlon through Congress gnd the Supreme Court, but the victory at last will go far toward encouraging the grain raisers. It will tend to clear the boards of trade of the class of dealers who have never added to thelir eficiency in handling actual grain, and the functions of the grain market will more nearl re- semble those of the stookvar in serving as a gateway between pro- ducers and consumers. It puts the Secretary of Agriculture in control of the market methods. o 5 There will be a shrinkage of “sales’ which will strike terror into the heart of the observer who may not know that of the 100 per cent daily sales at least 99 were mere “wind,” and 1 per cent the real grain. * * x en it is realized that the 500. ing Shriners who are expected to b in Washington during the first week of June amount to one-fourt the number of soldiers of the Amer can expeditionary forces, the prob: lem of their transportation from all parts of the continent will be apore clated. Has been such a gathering v of country creagses the time approaches. problems of housing and feeding an army for a week, in a city 430,000 population, is a gigantic on but it is heing handled in advanc by most systematic methods All_citizens are urged to buy their own food supplies in advance, and ali comfortable homes may be called upon to open their doors for lodgers. There are many of the local con re who have had Army ex- perience in the service of gupplies. ina mothing is being left to chance or emergency condition The prudent visitor, whether com- ing by railroad traln or by automo- bile. will find it to his advantage to come early and avoid the rush. by Fetting settled before the rush be- ins. & »oorox 1f the parents of Washington school children were raising hogs, instead of just children, and the expert should discover that the hogs were being underfed and were being maltreated by racing down the lanes, instead of being well fed and given normal rest, what would happen? They would BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Every German newspaper advertis- ing titles of nobility for sale should be prosecuted for fraud, and every transaction in which a German title |is transferred frem its original owner to a profiteer, through alleged adop- tion, is a swindle, in Germany, and in W' the Hapsburg empire. At was citizens archi. once and women by fulfilling certain con- ditions_and following certain rules. But e the adoption, when legal- {1y performed, gave to the adopted person the right to the surname of his adoptive father, there was no possible to transmit any nobiliary title that he possessed to his adopted son or daughter. It was only through the favor of the erown, and then in par- ticularly rare cases, that the sov ereign would revive in an adopted son, or in a son-in-law, the adopter's title. But it had to be a new grant. * ¥k Xk X Now that the various republican governments of Germany and of the former Hapsburg dynasties have lost their crowns, there is no longer any means of reviving such distinctions. or, indeed, of creating titles of no- bility. In fact, most of the new re- publics have not only abolished titles of nobility, but even prohibited their use under heavy pains and penalties. It naturally follows that if ft-was im- possible to transmit a title through adoption in the da of the mon- archies, it is still less possible now that the powers of creation of these titles no longer exist, and that their use is barred by la; The game_restrictions have always existed in France, alike in roval, im- perfal and republican regimes. There is the case, for instance, of the last Duke of Aumont, who atter the revo- lution n Paris of 1830, which drove King Charles X from the throne, re- tired to. I3gypt and spent all the re- maindeér of his life on an island of the Nile near Cairo. It was the Duke of Aumont who in his youth had been one of the pages of King Louis XVIIL While in Egypt, having no children he ended by adopting his secretary not related to him by any ties of blood, and on his death bequeathed to him all his magnificent collection of silver plate, all his art treasures, and, indeed, all his property. But he could not transmit to him his title of nobility by adoption, and 80 it was as plain Mr. d’Aumont, and not as Duke d’Aumont, that he ran the racing stable which he had in- herited ' from bis pemefactor. - The only way a woman can acquire a title is by marrying the possessor of some such distinction, and then she is only allowed to retain the honor until her union {s dissolved ‘and she is compelled by the courts to resume her matden name. So I would urge any Americans traveling abread to beware of any offers-which may be tendered to them by swindlers offer- ing to-secure the distinction in ques- tion through adoption or purchase. * kK K King George and Queen Mary will avail themselves of their impending sojourn in Rome to visit the magnifi- cent monument_erected by the great sculptor Canova, at the instance of Plus VII, over ‘the tombs of the son and grandson of James II of Great Britain, known, respectively, as the old pretender and as the young pre- tender, both:of whom died at Rome, as did alsp the young 'pretender’s mother, Pfncess Maria Clementina Sobleska, ughter of the war- the crops mature without their med- | 1 Titles Now Being Offered for & Cannot be Delivered to Purchasers Before the overthrow of the mon-| were permitted to adopt young men | means by which the latter was able | efther cease to raise hogs, confessin that it was too much bothe they would cep them pe part of the time, and woul their feed. Perhaps some parents think that the rules which stockraisers find essential to their apply white. They what some people v hogs, and so they produced razorbacks, which could outrun a do. * ok ¥ % Dr. Joscph Murphy, chicf medi inspectpr of the Washington scho reports that 30 per cent of all U children of the schools are T per cent below standard weight. He declares that this is due to two causes: Ton much gadding about to parties, with too late hours and too poor nutrition The children who are using the vitality for midweek parties other entertainments cannot do jus tice to themselves in their studies They become tired, listle: and w out fnterest in self-improveme Children who do not drink milk and eat fresh vegetabies meat cannot keep up their strengti on the candy they eat between mea Candy 1s mainly a stimulant—a s stitute for intoxicants—and contains comparatively little food value The necessary vitamins are to be found mainly in niilk and fresh vegetables especially “green ¥ It is one of the axioms of the stock raiser. that the little pig o | which {8 not properly nourighed from the first day, tegularly, throughout its growing. period becomes stunted Im» am of feeding there efface that stunting. | come sick, it may but it « 3 that it would ha not suffered early bas is no physical or hygienic diff between the feeding and develo of a pig or & child. Thirty of Washington's children are bel 7 per cent stunted. However, Dr. Washingtonians % dition prevails In other citi are there not more strong m women, mentally as well as ph cally? Why were 25 per cent of th young men in the draft found u physically to do a man's part In war? Becaus probably, 3 unted their childhood dieting and improper We raising too ba and not enough * ok ok % The Shipping Board plars to ccmpel ship owners to buy its ships to get rid of its competition, according to the recent statement on authority The government is not limited what its losses may be, and its ol is to outbid private owners for tra until the competition becomes killing It seems to be the method whic has given a ma to many trust, except that trust, desiring to k o puts its pric down below | competitor can reach, in urde'_ T bankrupt the other party. Then when it has rid itself of ¢ ! it recoup with nonopo! The Shipping Board does | Kill 1ts Drivate competitors: it to drive itself out of the fiel in order to do so it will force its com- petitors to help it unl In defense they will do it selves driven out—by tion.” Which will win? * ok ok % In line with its strong patrioti; the Soci of the Daughters of the American Revolution goe as favoring a strong Navy. R resolutions to that effect and ple the influence of the society the efforts of the pacifists have been adapted unan (Copyrig) ne char asenrcs ame con- I opoly © s 1d, ale | rior King of Poland, Turkish sicge of Vie Hungary from her Ottoman 1 | Her marriage was not a happ But she was officially acknowledged as Queen of England by Pope (I e ent XI, who placed the Muti Pa on the square of the Holy Apos her dispo: . _Entombed with e honors in . Peter's, a splendid Lu | rather tnartistic memorial was erect ed by Pope Benedict XIV over Le tomb. | Beneath the Canova monun which marks the tombs of her hu | band and that of her eldest son, some times called the voung ier, it the great cathedral, there lies : | her Younger son. Henry Stuart, died “as a_cardinal of the ‘atholic Church, and who known to have received a p $2 a year from King « lof 'England during all the closin: | vears ot his life. An inscription o the monument proclaims been King Henry IX of ¢ and Ireland. i * Lord Berwick., whose Attingham Hall, ne just been the s burglar: s'of a number of old maste @or several years connected with British embassy in Paris, where he | had many Amerlcan friends. Indeed | they looked upon him as a { desirable bachelor, and his marri to one of his own countrywom namely, Edith, daughter of Mr. : Mrs, William Stokes H Venice—created much disappointmen: | " "The pictures Attingham Hall were very fine. The collection lid been formed by the third Lord B wick during his residence in Italy | British ambassador to the court Naples, and included. until the rece hurglary, some of the finest works Murillo, of Velasquez and of Titia Lord Berwick's family, which bea: the patronymie of Hill, is descendod from one John Hurwood, a linon draper at Shrewsbury, who marrind Margaret, sister of Richard Hill, Kinw Willlam TI's _pavmaster general the army in Flanders. This paymas ter amassed, as army paymasters were apt to do in tho: enormous fortune, which he divide Dbetween his two nephews—the on a son of his brother, a drugkist u Wem, who became the ancestor of ti present Viscount Hill, while the oth nephew and heir of the molety of the paymaster's w Thomas Harwood, son of his and of the latter's husband, Shrewsbury dry goods man. * % ok K Tom Harwood, on the strength of his legacy,» assumed his uncle patronymic_of Hill, became memb: ot parliament for Shrewsbury, serv for a time us British envoy at Bris sels, and declined the offer of ua Irish peérage on the ground that it was not good enoukh, as it did not carry with it @ seat in the houge of lords. His son, Noel Hill, made suca a_nuisance of himself in the ho of commons that, solely in order to get rid of him, he was elevaied to tio house of lords “for his parliament. services,” assuming the title of Lo Berwick of Attingham, Contrary to what has been alleged in print, the late Sir Rowland inill, fattier of the penny post system in Great Britaih, was no connectjol g3 the houses of either Lord Hill .or Lord Berwick, but was the son Thomas W. Hill, & Birmingh, schoolmaster. Lord Berwick, by-the-by, takes I title, not, as 8o many imagine, from Berwick-on-Tweed, but from the maor of Berwick Mavilston, the latter a cor- ruption of the French Malvolsin, in the parish _of Atcham, a few milés [rom Shrewsbury, and of the London und the rd