Evening Star Newspaper, April 23, 1923, Page 6

6 THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Editiou. WASHINGTON, D. C. April 23, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES........Editol ¥ Evening Star Newspaper Company Bosisens Office. 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 150 Nassau fit. Chicago Office: Tower Bullding. Buropean Office: 18 Regeat 8t., Lomdon, England. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning «tition. is Gelfvered by carriers within the clty at 6o c r month: daily only, 45 ceats per mouth: Sunday only. 20 cents per month. Or- hone Main B30, Eablilin’ b7 mace vy carelers st 5o end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1y 1 mo.. Dafly only. All Other States. Daily and Sunday..1 vr., §10.00: 1 mo., 85¢ ly only 3 $7.00: 1 mo.. 60¢ Sunday oniy $3.00; 1 mo., Member of the Associated Press. s is exclusiely entitled fo the ust for repu on of all mews dis- patches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pubd lished herein. Al rights of publication of epecial dispatches herein are also reserved. e Let Us Have Fiscal Peace! It is to be hoped that Representa- 1ive Cramton’s proposition, made in the last Congress. to substitute a lump- sum contribution by the nation toward capital upbuilding in place of its pro- nortionate contribution on the 40-60 hasis, will not be revived in the next Congress. The effect of its revival will be to reopan the fiscal relations peace set- ilement of June 29, 1922, and to plunge ihe House and Senate into the old hurtful, hateful, wearisome wrangle over the issue of definite or indefinite ‘proportionate contributions toward capital upbuilding, and over the ratio "(30-30. or 60-40, or some other) of def- inite proportionate contribution. The understanding when the act of June 29, 1922, was agreed upon by House and Senate construed that act a& @ compromise measure. disposing for many years of these troublesome | fiseal relation ues. The District's contribution toward capital upbuilding awas increased from 30 to 60 per cent; its tax on intangible personalty was increased 63 and the foundation ng its rvealty tax: it was deprived credit for large sums of m receipts hitherto solely enjoved. this actlon inflicting u heavy loss, and it was compelled to accumulate from its | tax money of present years (every cent of which was nceded to meet the urgent municipal needs of today) a fund of millions to provide in advance § for meeting the first half-year ex-| penses of 19 n partial compensa- tion for these drastic exactions the | was to cnjoy for five years| .and indefinitely thereafter, of approximate certainty as to its rates of proportionate con- tribution; it was through increased respect to be shown to the Commis- sioners’ estimates to have in substance the privilege of influential participa- don in shaping appropriations of which it should pay 60 per cent, and | it was to be spared for a long period the burtful deadlocks over ratios be- tween House and Senate which an- nually endangered the District appro- priations and undeservedly prejudiced ; House sentiment against the capital | community. The vital feature of the act of 1922, carried over from the act of 1878, is} that it fixes a definite equitable standard of national participation in capital making. related to the contri- bution exacted in taxes from the capi- tal cemmunity, and does not leave this standard to the shiftings of caprice. 1In 1838, in taking from the District the power of self-taxation and in exer- eising the power of taxation without _representation over the District, the mation safeguarded the capital com- ‘munity by the pledge that to every doliar collected in taxes from the local taxpayers should be added a dollar from the national Treasury, and that the aggregate revenue should be ex- pended for capital upbuilding. This provision protected the District from " excessive taxation by causing a tax- gatherer, alien to the unrepresented District, to appropriate from his own | * treasury for the District's benefit | every time he appropriated from the ‘District’s tax revenue. Every dollar be took under the taxing power from the local community increased corre- apondingly his own capital contribu- tion. The law of 1922 vetains the prin- {viple of definite related capital con fributions in which the law of 187 -:was rooted. That the ratio of this re “/iation was changed from 50-50 to 60-40 | does not alter the basic principle in- ~volved. ‘The Cramton proposition destroys all relation between the national and local contributions, and, leaving all __taxing power in the hands of the | “tnited States, deprives the unrepre. sented capital of its safeguard against axcessive taxation by a taxing body in which it is not represented. Adoption of the Cramton plan would gobably deprive the District of the ! nation’s proportionate ~contribution, ‘when the surplus, which the Treasury authorities officially report to be in the Treasury 1o the District's credit, comes to be appropriated and expend- d for the District's benefit. This surplus was accumulated un- der the half-and-half law, and is part of tax money collected to pay the District's half of estimated capital ex- penditures, but left by Congress un- expended. Since the only authority to collect this tax money was the law - applying the money to payment of the Distriet’s half of capital expenditures, whenever it is actually appropriated @nd used for the District's benefit it ~should equitably be expended with e corregponding contribution of a like +ssmount from the Treasury in ac- cordance with the halfand-half law under which it was collected, even if fhe nation’s proportionate contribution has in the meanwhile been changed. But some influential and able legisla- tors think that law and equity will be observed if the surplus is used as part +.of the District's proportionate contri- hution in accordance with the ratio at the time of appropriation instead of the ratio at the time of collection. If this theory prevailed our surplus, when eppropriated under the 60-40 ratio, swould be increased two-thirds, instead of-belng-doublad “under-the | sive neous { Yany proportionete incregse whatever { passes over the falls. 50-50 ratio. But ff, proposed by Mr. Cramton, the law were amended to eliminate the payment of any definite ratio of proportionate contribution the surplus would be expended without by the nation. Thus a surplus of four and a half miilion dollars would mlean nine millions for the capital's upbuild- ing if expended on the 50-50 ratio; seven and a haif millions if expended on the 60.40 ratio, and four and a half millions only if expended on & novatio basis as proposed by Mr. Cramton. Adoption of the proposal to destroy the 60-40 ratio and to substitute a lump contribution thus threatens a loss to the District in respect to sur- plus alone of a minimum of three mil- lion dollars. The contribution of a lump sum an- nually by the nation toward capital upbuilding in lieu of a proportionate contribution would be justified if the primary responsibility and power in respect to District finances were trans- ferred simultaneously to the District with the nation as only an incidental ron-controlling contributor. But if the Cramton bill were adopted full and! exclusive control of District finances | and exercised by Congress represent- ing the nation, the District would have no greater power of self-taxation than it now possesses, the wrangling in Congress would be just as bitter and hurtful and irritating over the amount of the lumpsum contribution as in the past over the equitable ratio, and the only effect of the change would be to forbid Congress to appropriate for the capital from the Treasury more than a filxed maximum amount. and to separate this contribution from all relation to that of the capital. Wash- ington would thus be deprived of its safeguard against excessive and un- just taxation by .a taxing body in which it is not represented without any compensating benefits whatever. The act of June 29, 1822, was im- posed upon us as & compromise peace measure. Tt increased our taxes, ré- duced our exclusive revenues and bur- dened taxpayers of the present with | the abligations of taxpayers of the fu- ture. Oifsetting these drastic exac-j tions it afirmed the principle of def-| inite proportionate contribution and | promised us the bl ngs of fiscal peace and a period of o ion of fric- tion-breeding controversy ‘ow that the definite 60-40 ratio is fixed in the new law by compromise agrecment will not the District in fair- ress be permitted to adjust itself to its | new fiscal organic act and to begin to enjoy the promised bliss of fiscal peace The Cramton proposition threatens loss of millions in connection wiih the surplus, repudiates the agreement upon the 60-10 ratio, substitutes a s tem of indefinite unrelated contribu- tion by capital and nation and pre- cipitates Washington taxpayers into | the fiscal chaos from which they have | recently emerged. —_———— Saved From the Ice. With a temperature in this city yesterday of 80 degrees it is strange to read in the dispatches of the rescue of the icebound party of | woodsmen from an island in Lake Michigan. After- unsuccessful efforts by airplane to reach these eight men and one woman there marooned an ice-breaking railroad car ferry was forced through the floes. It took the steamer five hours to cut through the ice. The great lakes. especially in thej northern reaches, hold their ice to a late date, but navigation, as a rule, begins before now. The present sea- €on has been a severe onc. Had the weather been as mild in that latitude this year as last there would have been no trouble about reaching the marooned woodsmen, or, indeed, no trouble on their side about getting away. Three men did desert the camp, taking the desperate chance to go over the ice to the mainland, which they managed to reach in safety, and to give the word of their comrades’ urgent need of food. It was @ heavy risk. for they had to cross numerous soft places and leap ice cracks. Had they not done so in all likelihood these people would have starved to death, for they werel practically at the end of their rations ! of frozen potatoes and beans when the steamer reached them. When the ice breaks up in the upper lakes it passes down into Huron and Erie with great force. By the time it has reached Niagara, however, it is broken and much of | it is dissolved. By no means all of | the enormous mass of upper lake ice ! This movement | takes place within a few days, and | and taxation would still be rculned] after a severe winter, when the ice Las frozen to an unusual thickness, the floe movement eastward has a tre- mendous force that does much’ dam- age. Yet incredibly soon after the movement starts a great fleet is ply- ing these waters, conducting a traffic that at Detroit, in the narrows of the rivers between Turon and Erie, is reckoned as the heaviest volume in the world. —————— An Elmwood, Ohio, grade-crossing watchman quit work at midnight. The trains and motor cars continued notwithstanding. Result; five dead! —— The tercenteriary of the publication of Shakespeare's first folio finds the musical comedy still jigging along. Protect the Horses! In a fire in this city early vesterday morning, which destroyed a lumber yard, thirty-four-horses were burned to death in a stable. These animals could not be rescued. It would have taken a large force of men working with the greatest speed and far more suc- cess in handling the frightened ani- mals'than is ususlly met to lead them to safety. The poor creatures were trapped practically without a chance. This disaster brings once more to attention the question of insuring fireproof shelter for draft animals. As a rule at present the stables in which they are kept are highly inflammable, some of them are mere sheds, and in most cases they are fillsd with hay. At night the horses are tled In thelr stalls and the outer doors of the sta- bles are locked. 1f the building catches fire the chances are a hundred to one agalnst tho rescus of the occupants. In the Ught of the fire of y’ncuy THE EVENIN morning it would be well for the Com- missioners to order e survey to deter- mine stable conditions in the District, to ascertain the places where there is danger ®f a repetition of that shock- ing happening. —————— Senator Ia Follette's Addresses. Senator La Follette, it is under- stood, contemplates responding to a number of invitations he has received to deliver addresses in several sec- tions of the cauntry and to various organizations, ' farmers’ gatherings and chautauqua associations. The speeches are to be made about the time the President makes his seriea of addresses on national topics as he stops along the way to Alaska. It is explained that Senator La Follette's plans are not to be construed as “camping on the President's trail,” for such is not his intention. Even so, ‘the coincidence of their speechmaking will attract natlonal attention. ‘The President has dis- tinctly disavowed intending making a political cangpaign out of his trip and deprecdted comment giving a po- litical aspect to it. He will speak on nationsl topics necessarily, how- ever, and on policies and plans for fegislation, especially railroad legis- lation, it is said. * President Harding's views on rail- road legislation may be expected to vary from the Wisconsin statesman’s and the country will be thus given an opportunity to have the two sides of the transportation case put before them by two notable men. —_———————— Woodland Fires. News of woodland fires comes from several districts near Washington and from many places farther off. News of this kind comes ewery spring. in spite of exhortations to take the steps necessary to avoid a danger- ous menace. These woodland fires ought not to be. They cause heavy loss to many persons and destroy ma terial much needed now. anfl which will be more needed as time passes. All these fires are preventable by the exercise of a little carefglness, yet to ask carctulness of all persons is toask a great deal. Perhaps it is asking the impossible. Some of the waste is due to run-away fires. In “burning over™ land in the 'spring clean-up the blaze sometimes gets beyond bounds, Brush fires often throw sparks and blazing twigs into nearby woodland. Men in passing through the woods throw away a lighted match, the burning end of a cigar or a cigarette or they knock out by the pathside hot ashes from & pipe. Dry leaves and brush catch fire and soon acres of woodland are in flames. For mgny years men have heen warned against dropping ligited matct live “butts’ and red pipe shes or near woodland, and to pay strict attention to brush and clean- up fires, yet every year we have the same stories of woodiand fires and the loss of good timber and firewood and destruction of houses and barns. A soviet judge at Warsaw sen- tences seven highwaymen to death. Nothing surprising in that fact. But when it develops that the judge is a ‘bobbed-halr. girl of twenty the case takes on an international aspect of interest. ———————— March automobile production in the Tnited States totaled 340,239 ma- chines. the number of old ones scrapped, it is safe to assume that the traffic con- ditions ‘have - grown worse in conse- quence. Medical opinion is unanimous that long-distance dancing is a sure cause of eventual decay of the human sys- tem. The longer the dance the shorter the survival. Was it in memory of the Com- moner that & major league base ball team Saturday beat its opponent by the score of 16 to 1? ‘Washington has six weeks to pre- pare for the big Shrine party and judging from present activities it will be ready in good time. Such fires as that of Sunday morn- ing here give point to the demand for fireproof stables for horses. . ' SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Too Much to Expect. Amid philosophies that fly, ‘With fancy’s rainbow colors fraught, Perhaps it might be well to try A simple, unpretentious thought; So here's a.line for joyous youth As well as manhood’'s toilsome prime; Remember, son. this simple truth: You can't be lucky all the time. The wheels of fate as they go ‘round Must turn for loss as well as gain. Some blame as well as- praise must sound, And great reforms prove oft in vain. And so, when wearying in the strife, Do not forget this homely rhyme, ‘Be brave gnd play the game of lif You can't be lucky all the time. Posterity. ‘We are not doing much for posterity’s sake & In art or in story or song:" We're -inclined to insist that some chance it shail take, As we did, ¢n things going wrong. ‘We question the wisdom of Piléng up wealth, To be handed to leisurely youth. ‘We simply advise on some matters of health And the beauty of telling the truth. ‘We dress up the girls and the grand- ‘mothers, too, In clothes that look twisted and queer. The shapes and the trimmings pre- sented to view In their turn will no doubt disap- pear. The fashion designs unto which people bow ‘Will one day become subjects for chaff. We're not doing much for posterity now— - Taoepting to give it & lugh, While there is no record of ! Immortals For His Many Great Services to France|Writr Dissgrees With Dr. HE MARQUIJE DE FONTENOY. The' Academy of France has hon- ored itself by the election of Charles Jonnart last week to the restricted ranks of its forty immortals. As general rule the membership is lim- ited to those who have attained lit- erary eminence. But exceptions have occasionally been made from time to time in faver of those who have de- served well of the nation, and who, by their services of inestimable value to their country, have been designated by popular sentiment, rathér than through the choice of mere high- brows, to what s, after all, probably ! the great distinction that France can bestow upon her citizens whom she is anxfous to honor. Thus, if Georges Clemenceau clected to the membership of the Academy, it was not hecause of his one or two novels, and of his reveral plays, which cannot be regarded in the light of masterpieces of literature, but because this old veteran of tha war of 1 brought close upon half a century later the great war of 1914 to a victorious conclusion in 1918, and restored to his native land those two provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, Which he had seen torn from the flanks of France in 1871. ¥ % % ok 1#Marshal Foch and Marshal Joftre were elected to the Academy, it was as victorious commanders of the great war, and as organizers of the restora- tion of the Military prestige of their [native land, rather than for anything that they might have written. Mar. shal Lyautey was elected to the Acad- emy in recognition of his fnvaluable services fn bringing the empire of Morocco under French control and ownership with a minimum ‘of fric- tion and expense. and in converting it by means of masterly administra- tion into one of the richest, most useful and promising of France's oversea dominions. And now the Academy has elected Jonnart as a tribute to his public services rather than to his literary or artistic eminence. He has been. in turn. governor meneral of Algeria, where he covered himself with lau- rels. ¥e has bheen sident of the Suez Canal Commany: le has been miniater of the blockade. and also of foreign affairs. As snecial ambassa- dor. he has restorad friendly rela- tions hetween the French governm and the Vatican. whose diplomati. intercourse had heen suspended for many vears. and today church and state in France are once more re- was understandine. Moreover, he enjoys tlie distinetion Of having ‘removed a reigning king from his throne. 1916, when the pro-German proclivities and sympa- ithies of the te Constantine of | Greece. and expecially his tolerance of the massacre of an unarmed party of French mailors in the strects of Ath almost under the verv win- dows of his palace, had rendered his | continuance en the throne impossible, Jonnard by means of his tactful and persuasive’ arguments induced {Stantine, with his wife and chi {to abandon not only his thr falso to leava the country for Swit- zerland—that is to say, for foreign exile—thus relieving both France and Great Britain of the. obligation to seize him in his palace and forcibly 110 deport him. It was no easy jnb. | For Constantine was noted for hig obatinacy. and, moreover, his Hohen- zollern “wifs ‘and his pro-German entourage wera inciting him to res to the uttermost. >k x % These are-only a few illustrations of the part which he has played. It Public sentiment were to be consulted, rather than the maneuvers and in- trigues of the various factions into which the chamber of deputies and the senate are split up, there is no fdoubt but what he would have been elected to the presidency of the re- public ere this. But the radical £Toups in the chamber dread his par- ticularly cordial relations with the t00 rich and too independent to ever sacrifice his consclence to their views. The French politicians always prefer WASHINGTON BY FREDERIC President Harding's forthcoming swing around the circle” will start. in effect, if not actually, when he leaves Washington tonight to address tomorrow’s Associated Press luncheon in New York. Mr. Harding's speech will be an unmistakable ‘“keynote.” He will talk as President of the Tnited States, not as a prospective candidate for re-slection. He will advocate national policies, not party programs. The President recently jconfessed that he seldom knows just | exactly what he is going to say in a speech until the eleventh hour. He { has spent a busy week end sketching | the broad outlines of his New York jaddress. It will probably be in print {before his departure, but last-minute changes would accord with Mr. Hard- ing's time-honored habit. On the world court the President will be heard from in unambiguous terms. They will bring small comfort to the timorous G. O. P. souls who paint doleful pictures of a party split if Mz Harding insists upon an interna- tional measure espoused in turn by William McKinley, Theodore Roose- velt, Willlam H. Taft, John Hay, Elihu Root and Charles E. Hughes. The Harding jaw was never set | squarer for' a knock-down and drag- out fight. It will be in full working order in the banqueting hall of the Waldorf-Astoria tomorrow. * % k¥ Thrée notable names have been add- ed to.the board of trustees of the Carnegie Endowment for Intertia tional Peace to flll vacancies caused by deatlr or resignation—Senstor Oscar: W. -Underwood of Alabama, former Gov. Frank O. Lowden of .Il- linois and Charles S. Hamlin of Massachusetts, 2 mémber of the Fed- eral Reserve Board. Senator Under- wood takes the place assigned to the south, formerly occupied by former Senater John Sharp Williams of Mis- sissippl. _ All three of the new Car- negie trustees are'avowed apostles o(|A:|.rlcln co-operation in world af- fairs * ok k % Unless present plans are revised, the reconstructed Leviathan, queen of the American merchant marine, will make a trial trip from New York to southern American waters before em- barking upon her maiden transatlan- tic voyage. It is proposed to send the Leviathan from Norfolk to New York during the first fortnight in June and get up steam for a coast- wise spin_on or about June 18. The trial run, to and fre, will occupy wbout & week, Three or four hundred invited guests probably will make up the ship's company. All is set for a magnificent send-off when the Levia- than lifts anchor for her first journey mmm&u;w States passenger t ™ b united and working in harmony and | - . ¢ | duchess a weak and manageabie man for the chief magistracy of the nation to one who has a will of his own. and who will not bow submissivel to their caprices, their extravagances and their wishes. Jonnart is very independent by rea- son of his wealth. The emoluments of office have no importance in his . He knows perfectly well that, pecially now since he has been elected to the Academy of Franc there is no other office or dignity open to him, since he realizes that the presidency of the republic is beyond his reach. In fact, he is 8o rich and 50 eminent that he can afford to en- joy the Juxury of a conscience and to remain indifferent to considerations of expediency. A devout Catholic, a thorough man of the world, married to a daughter of M. Aynard, the ex- tremely influential financial magnate &nd deputy of the department of the Rhone, he owns at least u dozen cha- | teaus, ‘Lis principal country seat being jin the immediate neighborhood of the Duc de Luynes at Dampierre. He is universally respected both at home and abroad, and, now that he has reached the academy. may be said to have at- tained the climax of his carcer. PEE e It will be interesting to know if Dr. Banting, for whom the Ontario government has just endowed a chair of medicine in the University of To- l;omo, in recognition of his discovery f insulin, the cure for diabetes and other maladies of a kindred character. is a son or nephew. as reported, of the celebrated Dr. Banting of a quar- ter of a century ago, the originator of what {8 still known as the Banting cure for obesity. The among his patients many crowned heads, including King Luis and King Carlos of Vortugai, the now ex-King ot Wurttemberg, the late German em- press, and, for a time, King Edward. He was warmly recommended to the mother of Queen Mary, the latc Duch- ess of Teck, in her youth the most handsome and throughout her life one of the most popular of the Eng- lish princesses of the blood, who in her closing vears undermined her constitution, sapped her vitality and impaired her strength to such a de- gree by her cfforts # reduce her pro- nounced embonpoint that she was in i capable of resisting the sickness which eventually carried her off. In consequence of strong | mendations. she invited T to call upon her one day Lodge, at Richmor living at the ment she perc troduced into ceedingly corpulent y dirappointment. d been told | much about the number of po | that he had cked off from his ow {figure that ad expected thing approaching a slim weight last, recovarin rself, sh, “I'm afraid, Dr. Banting though you have been of ver arsistan to others, u h fer yourself' he repl recom- Banting 2 ce Wi | ting frock ¢ (had been ¢ {did_ his g a demon rledl ple: h. r uble yourself z But he was not to be refused He began to fumble at his suspenders. The duchess could stand it no longer. rang the bell for an “attendant and left the room. | "1t was only when the equerry ap- peared upon the scene that poor Dr. | Banting had an opportunity of ex- | plaining matters. He showed the | equerry that in order to demonstrate | the marvelous effect of his system, his practice was to encase himself in | sort of wicker-basket work arrange- | ment. which he carrled in front of | him, ‘and .which exactly corresponded ! to the figure which he had posseesed until he had taken cteps to reduce it {and which gave him the aprearance of a man of eighteen or sort of wicker basketwork | ment was removed. he showed a slim and thin Dr. Banting, with a weight | of not above twelve stone. But the | process of removal was too much for the duchess. He had been unable ni church. and. also, in their eyes. he is) to complete the demonstration. and the royal lady could never be induced to allow him to repeat it and to carry it to its conclusion. OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM WILE the most joyous 4th of July fn the history of New York harbor * x % Efforts are in progress to induce one of Europe's foremost statesmen tauqua speaking tour in the United States next autumn or winter. These are some of the figures submitted to him as evidence of the magnitude of the lecture-going habit in North America: Chautauquas in T. S. and Ca Lrceum courses in U Chautauqua_lectures. Lyceum lectures 3 Annual chatauqua admissione. Estimated lrceum attendance People reached by lectures. * % % % R. P. Schwerin of San Francisco, who {s battling for American radio rights in China against powerful Japanese opponents, was in early life the right-hand man of Collis P, Hunt- ington, celebrated western railroad ploneer. When Huntington passed from the scene, although he and E. H. Harriman were deadly foes, Schwerin transferred his activities to Harri- man’s service and became one of his most trusted lieutenants. Later Schwerin was vice president of the Southern Pacific, and afterward presi- dent of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. A few years ago, long be- fore radio had become either a pop- ular craze or a commercial possibility, Schwerin discerned its future and or- ganized the Federal Telegraph Com- pany of California. It is the only concern in the United States which maintaing a regular commercigl int-to-point radio service, an) erates regularly between Los An- eles. San Francisco, Portland and tie. It is the Federal company for whose Chinese rights the United States s now at bat in Peking. * ok ok X An American writer recently was sent to Europe by a publishing house | to produce biographical sketches of | outstanding old world figures of the post-war era. Among the manu- scripts he sent along the other day was a narrative of Lord Northcliffe. His editor cabled: “Can’t use North- ciiffe or any other obituary notices.” The writer flashed back: “Mussolini bats for Northcliffe.” * %k ok Gilbert M. Hitchgock of Nebraska s not a statesman out of a job, for he has left the Senate only to resume his real profession, that of an editor. He reappeared publicly in his original capacity in Waghington at the recent luncheon which Overseas Writers gave In honor of Lord Robert Cecil. Hitchcock started out in life as a lawyer, but founded a newspaper in Omaha in 1885 and has been a pub- lisher ever since. He qualified at the Cecil luncheon as editor of his own paper, the World-Herald, for which he is umponfl!y“ucun: as Washing- ton corres] o (Coprright, 1028.) ’ latter had’ eteen | arrange- ¢ to undertake a country-wide chau- | ' Wiley's Spirited Defense. To the Bditor of The Btar: May I have the privilege of pre- senting my viewpoint of matters is- cussed by Dr. Harvey Wiley in the columns of a recent Sunday's Star, and perhaps thereby adding a little to the discussion in which he has taken part? With some portions of his letter I am in hearty agreement, and he has quoted extensively from a document- ary source to support his views. As 1 read his letter, however, it seemed to me that he labored unduly to present matters in a light favorable to France, and that the historical accuracy of his remarks suffered thereby. I have 'rcad his letter with great interest, and it is not in a spirit of antagonism that I subject it to my eriticism. Nor is it with the purpose of holding a brief for Germany, for 1 sympathize heartily with Frang attitude in many things. 1 have felt with him that there is an organized propaganda abroad in the land to discredit France in the eyes of Amer- fca, but, unlike him, I am not taken up only with the pro-German sources of this. The latter is to be expected and is easily recognized. There are, however, other sources and they are traveling discreetly concealed. Seekn Imperialinm., Beginning with the Washington conference, at which the French with characteristic honesty stated their views on naval affairs in & way dis- tinctly challenging to Great Britain, there has been in this country a steady and concerted effort in many sectors to pldce upon France the stigma of imperalistic policy—and I believe France is following such & policy. However, that it is a discredit to her, and even disreputable for her 10 attempt this, is a view not justified in my opinion. She is not alone; there are other empires with all the attributes of imperialism who bask in the sunshine of public favor at times and take on themselves the rola of defenders of civilization to euphonize their imperialism ! The success of France today irri- {tates, perhaps frigitens, one of these e es which now eee to discredit ? the eyes of the world, as it sueccessfully and rapidly turned nent of the world agalnst idan empire when sought to Iv:mmnaxc the continent b | British Expansion. opinion the action of Britain legitimate as the desire of i for expansion power, {They are phases merely of a struggle s repeated itself in centuries the desire of France for al domination and the crea- Britain to de ation. In notes 1 | Washington conference, in January, I find the thought | expr that from that period I felt wouid date the open struggle be- tween France and England Gt had {alrcady begun in camera at P 3 ¢ ris 4 1918) “and the inception of & Brite h cffort to alienate the sentimental 1(1d=1\:n of our people rance by reas 3 re_}'oluunn. on of episodes of the hat Bismarck and others i in Germany in 1570 desired war with France is historically true. But this fact does not per se explain the causes of*the Franco-Prussian war, as {apparently Dr. Wiley intends that it should. Nor can I find therein a relevaney to the present actions of France. ‘nor to the French part [the Ruhr, nor any justification for ils use as an apology for France. uch & peculiar and narrow assump. tion ignores the fact of the French jealousy of the growing power of Frussia, in whom she saw able organizer of a determined opp sition ‘among the feeble German states. which France had so fre. {auently kept in subjection. It ignores jalso the efforts of Napoleon' III to strengthen at that time his govern- ment in the affection of the French {Deople, by restoring the military jsplendor of the Great Napoleon, by a ivigorous policy against Prussia. It {passes over jn silence the dictatortal |action of France_in the matter of a |successor o the " Spanish_ throne, jwhich undoubtedly showed Bismarck, ! 8 well as any one who sensed the undercurrents of “the situation, that |# test-of strength with France must {come, and from Bismarck's stand {point’ that moment was the most | tavorable for German success. i Impartial View | Chir shocked moral senge in the Ems jtelegram affairs ought not to prevent an intelligent weighing of all the causes and factors involved. I grant, though, that it is almost a universal |practice that men judge historical fevents as the feelings dictate rather {than as their reason might guide them. or as if they were more desir- ous of denouncing an act of which they cannot approve rather than of estimating its historical value. With respect to the acquisition of Savoy and Nice by France in 1860, i Dr. Wiley does not point out that the jaid of the French emperor was grant- {ed to the Sardinians against Austria largely because France was a jealous rival of the latter, and had been promised Savoy and Nice (regardless of the wishes of the natives) in case of a successtul issue of the war. The cause of Italian liberty had little to do with the whole maneuver, for on), ten years previous France had inter- fered in the affairs of the republic of Rome and had caused its downfall, actuated by the same dislike for Aui tria. It must be recalled, too, that the surrender of Savoy and Nice to France by Cavour embittered man Italians, among them Garibaldi, a noted and ardent champion of Italian independence. Black Troops on Rhine. The weakest paragraph in Dr. Wiley's letter is that in which he at- tempts to refute the just criticism of France, in which many of her friends have joined, that the military command found It necessary or de- sirable to billet black troops tn the Rhineland. I quote fit, because it 1s in a vein that will appeal to man; well meaning folk who.do not think any too deeply, and for that reason it should be unmasked as illogical and,_deceptive. He writes: “My critic deplores the sending of French colonial troops into occupled Ger- many. A few such troops have been so placed. Do we forget that we sent 200,000 colored soldiers across Ithe sea and quartered them among the French? Does history show they were: not recelved by the French with joy? I there any historical evidence that they were not brave and patriotic American soldiers? Does not Germany also protest against French troops in the Ruhr?” Senator Hitchcock presented in the Senate & 'mass of authentic data, which showed that not a few colonials were so placed in one of the most highly developed districts of Europe. but that they have b present in thousands, that they have perpetrated many outrages, and fur- ther that the German _government was compelled by the French com- mand to provide bordelles with white inmates for these savages and half- civilized troops, whose bravery and patriotism I do not decry, but who are not civilized, regardless of these qualities. Is No Comparison. I cannot ttace Dr. Wiley's logic as to the anslogy between our send- ing Americ; In my is as France gone contin by i tion stroy that made on the toward | in} Begro troops to France i l'ARs WASHINGTON, D. CE M.OND;AY! APRIL [ Jonnart Made One of Forty CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAULV. “I {ylly realize the honflr you have paid me, and I wish to be worthy, and feel very humble. But yet L feel proud that 1 have been called upon to fill so high an office. If I should feel proud in the wrong.way the sight of that flag waving before mé will keep me steady. ‘Keep steady'— that is my keynote.” These were the words of the newly elected president general of the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion, Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, for~ mer state regent of Pennsylvania, in acknowledging her election. To head such an organization of nearly 200,- 000 of the best patriots of American women is enough to make any woman “feel proud.” And with that pride comes the hum- bleness which goes with every great responsibility. The influence upon the publioc loyalty to the ideals of Amer- fcanism which that society exerts is not surpassed by that of any other organization. The membership is made up of women of superior in- telligence and social standing in their respective communities. They are the local leaders. and in many cases the national leaders, in many activities. P What a mighty difference there is in the kinds of “pride”! One is the pride of opportunity, not of past achievement, and it is hard to sepa- rate such pride from genulne hu- mility. There is another pride which 1s the haughtiness of triumph, but of | that “wrong Kind.” Mrs. Cook ehow- | od that she has not a shadow, while | she turns to “Old Glory” to kéep her steady. Could any one imagine a Narcissus turning to the embiem of high ideals as e corrector of his vanity? Can we think of the pride of feminine folly in such an atmosphere? It is. perhaps. more than the speaker realized when she spoke &0 feelingly, the very es- sence of the D. A. R. spirlt. which makes the organization 8o powerful— the pride of service, of loyalty to the country and its highest ideals. * ok ok * f Here is a ocontrast: Before the White House, pickets wearing the | and bearing banners appealing to the | President to pardon convicted slack- ers and traitors New York, a vetoran with oncl "pty slecve (for he had lost an | arm in the battle of Soissons) hunt- | ing in vain for employment, while trying to live on the $25 a month al- | lowed him by the Veterans' Bureau. He grew hungry—desperately hungry He asked some one on the street to help him. He was arrested then for begging. om % % % The convicts are well fed, they had not begged, they had tried to cripple the Army 5 the battle of Soissoms, where the {who begged had lost his arm 'e beggar was sentenced crminate te of two a « of his service for his the White House pi v uniform wait until the 1l President to pardon traitors bcfore they appeal for the buddie who beg- ged with an emply sleeve and an | empty stomach? i *x % * x { Of course he ought not to have| begged. He ought to—well, what ought a starving, crippled, discour- aged veteran to have done? The Vet- erans’ Bureau, under the present ad- ministration, in co-operation with | the American Legion, is likely to in- vestigate the case and see that that veteran is given vocatlonal training 80 that even with one arm, some work will be found that he will be trained to do. Probably he did not know how to get “influence™ that would move the previous administration of the bureau. It takes time, even now. | to reach all worthy cases | There ig better work for the uni- | formed, discharged veterans than parading for traitors, in Washing- ton. while one-armed soldlers are hungry. = wl i to i S There seems to be a query among lawyers and police as to whether there is law which will enable the police to stop the so-calied marathon dancing. In North Tonawanda, N. Y., | Homer Morehouse danced eighty- | seven hours and fell dead. Tn Hous- ton, Tex.. Goldie Hughes danced fifty- four hours. until her condition be- came so alarming that her partner| carried her foreibly off the floor, and | her doctor found her in a comatose state, with acute dilation of the heart. | In New York city a waitress danced ninety hours. In Washington two or | more men have already swooned from | the overstrain. and one woman has | been carried off the floor in hysterics. | * ¥ ¥ ¥ In most states there are laws against suicide, and severe penalties | for aiding a suicide. There are laws | forbidding bull fights, cock fights and knockout prize fights. There is not a | reputable physician in America who . and the billeting of savage blacks and half blacks in German homes The two are not comparable, and no unbiased thinker attempts to place them in the same category or to draw, if possible, analogies which can only be so weak as to be silly. | The remaining sentences of the paragraph are equally illogical and | attempt ta evade the issue by a| shifting of scenes. I regret Dr. Wiley | felt impelled to seize upon such tot- | tering attempts at refutation in order to defend France for an action which is a8 impolitic as it i wrong. which enables observers to say that she. too, is not free from those unlikable characteristics which have in late years been considered the exclusive property of the German make-up. To defend & palpable wrong is but to accentuate it. and the more frantic the apology the more convincing be- comes the guilt. It is regrettable that France saw fit to 5toop to such meth- ods_as have been used in the Rhine- land. With his love for France I have| no quarrel; it is admirable. It is true that France has given many great men and great ideas to the world— and so has Germany. If Germany had her Bismarck, her Ludendorff, her ‘Wilhelm II, honesty will compel us aleo to recall that France has pro- duced a Richetieu, a Louis XIV and & Napoleon Bonaparte. Dr. Wikey men- tions the last as a great leader of France; undoubtedly so, but with qualities of character and ambitions which cost Europe much suffering defore they were defeated. Perhaps.| also. Dr. Wiley does not recall that| it was this leader of France who rob- bed the museums of ltaly to enrich | the halls of Paris, and despoiled the galleries of Berlin in 1805 in order to adorn the French capital with| booty. ‘The moral is, if I may utter one. that if one seeks honestly to analyze historical episodes and seek basic cause for them one must first strip oft the prejudices and bias which dislike for enemies or alien policies engender in one's heart. Biased study of his- tory is as dangerous to the individual as to the state and leads to uncon- scious dishonesty and mental stultifi- cation. Let me add that I do not fear that Dr. Wiley is possessed of such quali- | ties. for his analytic mind knows a situation, even when his enthusiasm beclouds his discussion of it. But others not 8o alert mentally may see in his paragraphs an infal- lible dictum only and be encouraged in that habit of thought, wholly un- scientific, which choo: tors that it lik least effort in the elopment of its opinions. I am sure he would re that as much as I. H. C. DIE] i i | o1y ja . COLLINS will not certify to the permanent a dangerous injury to the heart duced by the overstrain of the dar ing craze. It is po iicid It has 1ot even the saving merit o terpischorean grace. and dancis masters protest that it is hringin: thelr art into disrepute. The whrling dervishes of Africa. can beat any champic marathom. The terror-stricken ple of the plague in Europe according to Dr. Hugh S surgeon general of the Lni public health service, used craze, to bluff their terrq danced on the streets for da they fell exhausted and Rollers can outwhi the dancers. and thev cuse that they self-hypr elves into a furore. and know any hetter. The same state of defective a dancing mouse, born w tive brain which makes its ress one dizzy whirl. ing either new or herofc in durance dance. Ex Out in the Mississippl valley they do not speclalize in weaklin a move fs under way to revi terest in long-distance walk doctrine is being promoted Heart-of-America Walking Kansas City. One of its leaders lawyer, is renorted to have sat pace by walking sixtv-three infles three daxs Asia ard 1 of the peo them ' ire Compare the pleasure and walking acress country, and the beauties of nature ith this senseless whirli hin a roped tnclosure. test endurance, just as well dancing, but it will expand tha 1 with oxvgen 1 expand the br with sky and land sights such Horatio and tha dancers never d ed of Tha present generatinn danger of forgetting how to awinz to the automobile 1t hres-m t seein uniform of the world war veterans|!| ington vis Th Vext structi wwera nurs ed conth the noor. who for then: ead e thern nt “the next dynamite alen savs terest of ¢ a large crop of cer t then secure six m e farmer i might be able to se denendence.” It seems a pity to cron of food as the perity, when there are world who are starving. ator's- reasoniag as #n o proeperity s sound. There i sibility of farmers v mether and co erops. so the only will be the hest * prices. Farm labor shor the Department « Supply on April 1 was only £ Agric of normal of last year is most gevere in the industrial re gions from New land to the Mis sisslppi river. Pe toward the short crop wished for by Senator Lenroot * * T One of the most imp ents in agricultural bus last decade. Brow and vege! wheles, Such sales arc held daily in the lar cities, and they are efitir interests through competd tion and expert salesr ip. They bring together Luyers in competitior with each other. 1In 1912 the gross sales of fuch auctions amounted to $42,000,000, in 1917 (o $65.000,000, and in 1921 to $148.000.000. This covers only the markets of fourtcen of the large cities, with a population of 21,- 940,000, or 14 per cent of the urban population of the country. The main trouble with farmers selling their crops has heen that they werc at the merey of the markets. but the auction method reverses that conditio (Copyright. 1 s P V. Colline | is the reating ans Bernhardt’s Poverty. It was the bitter irony of fate that Sarah Bernhardt, the greatest actress and one of the most famous person- alities of her day, should die in pov- erty, her chosen burial site in the hands of her creditors, her funeral expenses pald by the people of her home city. She had been feted and honored and praised all over the world; wealth had been lavished upon her in great measure, but it had stayed with her. In her old age broken in health, she was broke also in fortune, been compelled to part with of her dearest treasures that ight live when death had ed her career, while th undertaker pared ‘her remains for the f process servers roamed through he home seeking property upon which they might le She may have been vain and fool ish in her life, careless with he financial affairs, but the burden of poverty in her last days, and the ter- ror of being penniless when no longer able to work and earn, was i sorrow no critic of the woman would have wished her to know. The stage has In its history few greater suc cesses _than were won by her; the stage has few more tragic chapter than the poverty and privation that were her portion in the last day The brilliance of her career was no greater than the gloom that as a about when the end came —Columbus Ohfo State Journal. In a Few Words. There is a lot of brilliance and dash among the young writers, but it would be a good thing for them all if they would go back and read Shakespear: and the old Testament. —E. A. ROBINSON. Crime is miore sinister today than thirty yvears ago, because it is les spontaneous. —DR. CHARLES PARKHURST. American _women posscss. above women of all other nations. the fac ulty of retaining their vouthful an pearance. —MISS JEANNETTE There are very few vounz peop who e balanced enough to copr with succe: Adulation in adoles- eence is very difficult to deal with. —JOHN DREW, FRANKLIN