Evening Star Newspaper, April 30, 1923, Page 6

[ THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY.........April 30, 1823 Editor THEODORE W. NOYES. The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 150 Nassan 8t. Chicago Office: Tower Bullding. Puropean Ottice: 16 Regent St., London, England. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morniog ediifon, 18 delivered by carriers within the city #1 60 cents per montly; daily only, 43 cents per Touth: Sunday omy, 20 cents per month. Oe- ders may be sent by mail, or telephone Main €000, Collection is made by carriers at the end of each month. Rato by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Daily only. Sunday only. All Other States. Paily and Sunday..1 yr., $10.80; 1 mo., 85¢ Daily “only. 1yr., $7.00i 1 mo., 60 Sunday onl. C1yr. $3.00; 1mo. 25c Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press s exclusively entitled fo the ‘use for republication of all mews dis- patches credited ta it or not otherwise credited !t this puper and also the local news pub- Tiehed herein. Al rights of publication of | Attempts to attribute to the ister influence” of international bank- rs the recommendation by President Harding that the United States under sertain conditions enter the Per-| nanent Court of International Justice are plainly inspired by a desire to be- | sloud the question before the Amel people. Those advancing this argument are depending upon the wport memory of the public. They are ~eckoning upon a complete ignering of the record. In his speech delivered Friday night n this city Secretary Hughes, in an- the question, “Why should here be a Permanent Court instead | of temporary arbitral tribunals?” point- »d out that Secretary Hay instructed e American delegates to the first/ fague conference in 1899 to present @ plan for an international tribunal of « permanent character. Thus nearly a wuarter of a century ago this govern- ment took its stand as advocating an nternational institution competent to | @ecide disputes between nations. This | offort was successtul completely. | While the project was not atdopted. the conference an improvement practice providing a procedure and an chitrators from which be constituted to de- © such eontroversies as the par- to submit. ond Hague conference an t was made to find a satisfactory hod cting the judges tor the | permanent but it did not suc- this reason the project Nevertheless, there was hope and the American report- | «1 to this government that with “a ttle time, littie and the k is accomplished.” ord bears ample ju Secretary Hughes’ “the establishment Court of International Jus. | “continued to be a cardinal ! can swering not existing code of ~ligibi tribunals t ties might agr the sed by mig! court, eed, and for i delegates @ patience o ti- § i state of a} cation for ment that Permane; tice” ha: cature of It there was nspired by ither “malevolent” n 189 there Am Suspicl The of promoting and participating in a world tribunal to lessen the danger of ; war and promote the chances of peace approved Dby this country without to partisan poli- tics. Tt was regavded as sound Amer- | 1can doctrine. not republican or demo- cratic doc Now it national interests influences at worl | evidence of | inte hanking and | was no rican . polic was, reference ine is propused that the United | States shall. under certain safeguard- | ing 1, join a world court which has heen made possible along the very lines sought in 1899, and sub- wently a result of the great war, of an international agency which the selection ind maintenance of a court personnel of satistactory character. What has happencd meanwhile to cause the pro- nosal siled as dangerous, as as inimical to national integrity .and security, as the inspira- tion of malevolent forces and sinister Simply the fact that the that is now used by the other uations, and that it is proposed the Fnited tes shall use to maintain this court, the development of which Ras Dheen the consistent wish of this government for a quarter of a cen- tury, is itself under the ban of public disapproval in this country. Secretary Hug so clear that none but a determined partisan an fail to see that utilization of the ougue of nations as a means to the | ~nd of & world court for the settiement of disputes on a basis of international tuw does not mean and does not in- volve membership in the league, or any obligation whatever to join it now orin the future. He shows, as the President has shown heretofore, that i secking now to participate in the <upport of a Permanent Court of In- ternational Justice this government is <imply carrying on one of its tradi- tional purposes. ——— conditi by the creation, as assur. to be a un-American, ifluences? 1gency it Lynchers in Missouri used an acef ene torch to open the cell of their vietim. Modern science and anclent brutality combine in strange fashion. —— Many a youngster is inclined to vote spring a *“total loss” now that the cir- cus parade has been cut out of the program. —————— {lationship established by the Constitu- | hold its institutions. | these { tiont i THE KEVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1923 —__—m—‘___——————————"—‘—*—-‘-—————'_——* CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS how urgent the requirement for & new law or amendment of an old law, or. funds for some important public work, or to meet Some acute emwergency, there is a disposition to postpone, to “let it go over until next session.’ “Forget-me-not,” says the District to Congress. Remember my peculiar obligations as the national city, my steady and great growth from a few thousands to nearly half a million. Remember my especial need of school facllities for the teaching of not only my children but the children of those who are here on government business. Remc.aber my poor streets, worn out in government work and neglected, when a little more money for main- tenance would keep them in good cwler. Remember that we must keep up here a high standard of public health to safeguard not only our own | but our guests from all over the country and from different parts of the world. Remember our fire and police needs, which are as much for the benefit of the United States as the ‘Washingtonian. So the District is continually asking Congress for attention, not selfishly, but in a spirit of self-preservation, and in a spirit of national pride as well. “Forget-me-not” is a token of the re- tion between the federal government and the seat of government. Knute Nelson. In the death of Knute Neison nation suffers a loss, for in the truest | sense he was a national figure, per- forming a distinctive. duty and ful- filling & service for which he was pe- culiarly fitted. It would seem that destiny had chosen him for a particu- | lar role. had endowed him with the | the to fill it. His most { ability end given him the opportunity | distinguished service to the country of his adoption, extending ! over a wide span of years, will be! found in what he did to assist In mal ing patriotic American citizens of the fellow countrymen of the land of his | and their birth. He was a steadyins | and inspiring influence to the embryo | :ns which increased in power as| the vears passéd. Never did he lose his hold upon their respect for his character or their admiration and af. fection. He taught them to love the Tnited States and to cherish and up- i | He set them an example when he shouldered a musket and marched n." the ranks of the Union army in the | civil war, fulfiiling his cath of n:u!ux'ul:—‘ zation by his willingness to support | the Constitution of the United States. | In late years he | steadying influence upon them. £ nesota was being invaded by radical doctrines which had secured hold else-: where and were spreading their roots’ into that state, up to that time very'! conservative. He sought to hold higl‘ followers in line in resistance t strange political teachings. The co servatives will miss him in Minné- sota, with his rugged honesty of chax-| acter, his non-sophistical mind and | his good common sense. To the House and Senate he brought ! accentuated his Min- ame traits and applied them to | He | and | the welfare of the whole country legislated alike for e for all classes of people. Rather sh. it be said that he recognized no clus: ‘There was not an atom of the dema-| gogue in his -up. Congress will | miss him as well o Minnesota i mak —_———— Shrine Week Regulations. In connection with Shrine cpnven- traffic regulations the Cgmmis- | sioners promulgate other rules; which | will make for the comfort and security | of the vast throng and the success of | Shrine weck. No barrels, or | other obs g the sidewalk along the line of mar, There have been rules to this-effect at | other big gatherings in Washington, | but the rules have been more honored | in the breach than the okservance., There have not been enough police to | enforce the rules. It is believed that | i {the regulations will be enforced dur-! ing Shrine week. The demand for window and stand seats will be very | great and seats on balcohies before buildings will be sold, but the Com- missioners rule that *“no balconies or | porches along the line of the parade shall be used until they have been in- spected by the building office.”” Con- fetti and ticklers “‘or other devices that might annoy the public” are prohibited. | Confetti and ticklers are harmless, but { in the hands of thoughtléss or uncouth | persons they may cause discomfort and provoke disorder. :Peddlers must | secure the approval of the concession | committee at Shrine headquarters ini addition to paying the District license. | This regulation should prevent the hawking of questionable or objection- able “novelties.” Toy pistols and im- itation pistols are under the ban. This will put a crimp in the aspiration of | certain persons who think it the height | of frolicsomeness and pleasantry to scare timid persons by pointing a pistol at them. —_———————— Local bootleggers have reason to be | alarmed at the report that 'another flying squadron of dry sleuths will soon visit the capital. This practice of shuffling the enforcement pack occa- slonally is makirig the law-beating game very difficult. ————————— An American clergyman, in a Mos- cow speech, declares that Russia is in the same condition as this country in 1776. It would perhaps be his wisest course to imitate “Big Bill” Haywood | and stay there for security. ——————— Forget-Me-Not ! Tt is proposed that the District Com- inlssioners officially recognize the for- get-me-not as the District's flower. This suggestion is made seriously as an appropriate expression of the chief need of the District in its relation to Congress and the country at lerge. The District {s subject to congres- sional mercy. It must take its laws from that body and its allowance of spending money. It begs to be remem- Dered, and the forgetrme-not is a sym- bol of that wish. Sometimes Congress remembers the District too well, without remembering the principles of equity that should govern in the federal control of the capital municipality. But most of the ‘time ‘the District is forgotten, its Baltimore “marathoners” danced when arrested -in a raid and while ‘waiting in the station house for bail. They literally obeved the traditional police command to “keep moving.” The Local Flood. ‘Washington's experience Saturday night with & flooding downpour of rain was fortunately not as disastrous as it might have been had the rainfall been as heavy throughout the local area @s it was in the eastern section. The storm .seemed to center in a trough that ran in a northeasterly di- rection from the vicinity of Alexan- dria up the: Eastern branch, flooding the District territory mainly on the south side of the branch, with some damage in adjacent Maryland. m.ll not channels of drainage chuld not dispose of it. Tiay streams became torrents in & few minutes. Pesple were caught in the opem and marodned on suddenly formed istands, or were forced to wade to safety on the higher land. Houses were cut off by the surrounding wa- ters. Motor cars Were swept away and two persons weve drowned. Build- ings were carried off their foundatjons by the mushing forrent. Immense quantities of soil were washed away and heavy damage was done in this manner. H There is no ! protection against these swiftly forming storms. No mat- ter how large sewers may be, they are likely to clog With debris, and then are useless at Yhe time of greatest need. In the less thickly settled parts of the District conditions are favorable to inandation. Large areas have been stripped of trées in preparation for subdtvision and building. In a storm like that of ‘Saturday night these places are scored by the rain and vast quantities of* dirt are sluiced down sometimes upon streets and again into the vards of residences. New unpaved roads and streets are quickly transformed-into gulleys. The only comfort in such a case as that of Saturday night is that it might have been much worse. The District has not in; the past suffered heavily from these visitations of nature, but each one, Devertheless, teaches its les- son of preparedness and shows the importames of continuous work in the provision of ample drainage fucilities on a larce scale, with a view to the assured growth of the capital to the District boundaries. e Rescued From Afghans. Details of the rescue of Molly Ellis from Afghan tribesmen will probably make a story of unusual dramatic iinteres:. Two weeks ago this girl of fitteen; daughter of the British com- mander at Kohat, in the Punjab, was stolen) by a band of Afghans, who urdered her mother and made for :?h- kil It was thought at first she had been murdered, but she was n in tke company of the tribesmen and British it in pursuit. Mrs Starr, a woman physician, volun teered to v her, and it is now antounced from Simla that she has succeeded, and is on her way back to Tifah with the girl. who, though weak and bruised, is reported to be well. “That part of the world is wild and mountainous. It a land of danger of rude pa and undisciplined epirits. The marvel is that t &irl has been brought back and Lspecially through the efforts of one woman, traveling fearlessly into the troops were s “ne ce, who went into lines o reach Molly Ellis, is a representative of the medical missionaries in India who have done invaluable work in the saving of lives in that These people work quietly and effectively. They allay trouble. They cure disease, they bring about a better understand ing between natives and rulers. They true missioners in every sense and now one of them, doubtless with- the Afghan s land. are {out the least thought of fame or re ndered a service that will name known throughout ward, has r make her the world. ——————— Indiana republicans say they are any world court til! they get it e i plained to them by Jim Watson and their other congre tives, by Heck! onal representa- ——————— The United States Coal Commission ias been asked to investigate the|@s the Seattle Times sees it, “that will | 000,000 annual “war chest” of the United Mine Workers of America. In view of recent history it is a safe bet said chest contains offensive weapons more lethal than plain money. e Miss Ruth Grifiis, an Indian girl, told the Community Music Association last night that the red man never ings to please his audience. Ndr does always the paleface, either. CAnC ST S The circus is here, and hetter than ever. But we never yet have seen the “Blood-Sweating Behemoth of Holy Wrif D — The head of Scotland Yard is here ing Ambassador Geddes. Probably enjoying a vacation from being baffled. Shortstop Everett Scott, like Tenny- son’s brook, goes on forever. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON A Suburban /Twas ever thus, hour,” The poet sang so sweet. Whene'er 1 plant a garden flower It proves to be a beet. Tomato plants with care brought out, Far from the climate rude, ‘When in the sunshine set about Are only cut-worm food. since childhood’s The sweet corn and sprout, Now cherished with such glee, ‘Will furnish dainty food, no doubt, But not for you and me. That market basket once despised ‘We'll carry as of yore. The place where hopes are realized Is in the grocery store. the cabbage The Agreeable Idler. The bee is never known to shirk, 1t's always on the wing. The butterfly, it does no work— But then, it doesn't sing. Tense Interest. A game of ball she went to see; She deftly kept the score, And when the bleachers cheered with glee She helped the general roar. She talked of strikes and liners hot, Of grounders and of flies. She seemed to know a wondrous lot That filled him with surprise. But when, en route for second base, The star O'Muggles slid, She said, with terror in her face, “Oh, Jack, what made him skid?” And, 'spite of the exulting throng, She worried and she fussed, And thought the play ‘had all been s young | WASHINGTON BY FREDERIC President Harding s immeasurably more effective as an extempore speaker than when he divests him- self of a prepared manuscript. Amer- ica’s most critical, perhaps most cynical, audiences had an opportunity last week to convince themselves on that score. In New York the Presi- dent spoke before a huge assemblage of editors and publishers and in Washington he communed with a se- lect company of editors and corre- spondents. Many of them heard Harding on both occasions. Their judgment is unanimous that his “talk” in Washington was in every respect more impressive than his “ad- dress” in New York. It is into his unrehearsed speeches that the Presi- dent crowds all of the “human” note, natural charm and transparent sin- cerity which distinguished him. He ieschews oratorical effects on these occasions and is invariably at his best. * ok ok ok Knute Nelson was the first Scan- dinavian-born to achieve high rank in American public life. He came here from Norway at the age of six, {so for all practical purposes he was a thoroughgoing American. None of our citizens of Scandinavian extrac- tion, with the possible exception of the late John Johnson, also of Min- nesots, attained such Ronors as came to Nelson, but Johnson was born in the United States. At one time, dur- {g his governorship of Minnesota, Johnson loomed as the democratic rartv’s favorite for the presidency ! Knute Nelson incarnated for his race 1in American politics the possibilities to which Carl Schurz rose among our German-born, and to a lesser degres, those which W. Bourke Cockran. son of Erin, exemplified. 1 * ko X | From an informed quarter ®his ob- iserver is assured that no fewer than [three members of the Harding cabinet iare in disagreement with the Presi- dent's world court program. In a spirit of loyalty to the administration they are keeping their opposition to themselves. Thelr emotions are akin to those of Senators Lodge and Wat- son—that the paramount considera- tion at this juncture is G. O. P. har mony, and that no “good republicar usly endanger it. The officers in question. while of President eleetion, realize it would at once be- come doubtful if the world court fssue were to be permitted to split the re- publican party in twain. * o % x cabinet confident Col. Theodore Roosevell hiever eats lunch. He has become an inveterate {two-mecal-a-day man. As wmuch as ‘perils of a hostile region. Mrs. Starr, |POsSible, he dodges invitations to mid- | {day m. Is. If he has to attend he only goes through the motions of eating. Ovdinarily he puts in a full day at the Navy Department without any- !thing savoring of a noontime pause for food. “I'm blessed with a prodi- | gious appetite,” is the colonel's explana. fl’erplexities of Chester Lease May Prove Most Embarrassing. With the Lagsinne conference once more in session editors are deeply, Uinterested in the possibility that it may ifiterfere with the action of the going to commit themselves on| Turkih national assembly in ratify- | ing the Chester oil claims and railway franchises. This development em- | pifasizes the great part oil is playing n world affairs today and editors point jout that embarrassments to this coun- {try very casily may develop. | “The Turks have created an issue,” perplex not only Lausanne delegates {but also statesmen at Washington, {London and Paris. The Chester plan {dates back to 1908. Its ratification fnow involves the English mandate | over Mesopotamia and the sovereignty ! of the kingdom of Iraq, set up in 1921 | by Great Britain. The French ob- !jection is to the granting of Anatolia railway privileg Parls claims she was given promises of rail conces. {sions immediately ldarove the Greeks out of Asia Minor. | Bagdad. with 170,000 inhablitants, is {'the capital of Iraq. and the city of Mosul, with a population of 90,000, s on the site of ancient Nineveh. {The treasures of antiquity divide | world powers today.” ~The very fact :that this is only a single factor in the truggle for oil” is not generally realized, the Balt Lake Deseret Néws asserts, although “international busi- ness is measured largely In terms of oil today. More and more, all kinds of transportation are depending upon {it. Billions of dollars’ worth of ofl ire used every vear by steamships, railroad engines and automobiles { Prospectors both at home and abroad understand that oil is the key to the } world’s future -commercial interests. !The competition for oil wells is mul- itiplying so rapidly, almost fiercely {that it would not 'be surprising if ipetroleum should become the cause {of serious international trouble,” i It is a gathering “of the ghosts,”™ suggests the Duluth Herald, inasmuch {as “about this oil pool there is the ghost of the old Turkish government. the new Turkey, British, French and American concessions, British sover- eignty, the authority of the-league of {nations, rights of the kingdom of { Iraq. contentions of France and Rus- |sia, »and Brother Jonathan claiming equality of treatment as one of the | victors of the war. It is certain that our government will go no further than to Insist that its nationals be given a day in court and just treat- {ment before an impartial tribunal i This is traditional American policy and the policy of all civilized statea. At _the same timé, it appeals to the universal conscience of disinterested mankind.” The suggestion is put forth by the Columbus Dispatch that “there Is . considerable = section of American sentiment which does not like the apparent relation between pro-Turkish propaganda in America and the granting of the Chester con- cession in Angora. According to the Chester propaganda. one might al- most say that the Turks have been the one kindly and virtuous people in the midst of "a cruel and wicked world conspiring against them. Wil America reverse her attitude toward the Turks because of these. conces- sions?” Tn addition, it would be most unfortunate, as the Indianapolis News analyzes the situation, “to allow Harding's re- ! after the Turks| OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM WILE tion, “so to keep down welght T just cut out lunch. I feel heaps better for the self-denial” With a dafly com- bination of squash-racquets, horse back riding and work young “T. R." claims to have solved the Droblem of keeping fit. * K k% When you ask republican leaders why Calvin Coolldge lsn't likely to be Warren G. Harding’s fellow “ban- ner-bearer” in 1924, they'll tell you the G. O. P. is not accustomed to re- nominate its Vice Presidents. That has been the almost invariable rule since 1864. Hannibal Hamlin, Lin- coln’s first Vice President, was suc- ceeded In Lincoln's second term by Andrew Johnson. Grant's first Vice President, Schuyler Colfax, gave way to Henry Wilson on the second Grant ticket. When Benjamin Harrison was renominated in 1892, his Vice Presi- dent, Levi P. Morton, was relegated, and ' Whitelaw Reld named In his place. ' McKinley’s Vice President, Garret A. Hobart, dled during his term of office. Charles W. Fairbanks, who was Vice President under Roose- velt, failed of renomination in_ 1908 and’gave way to “Sunny Jim” Sher- man on the first Taft ticket. Sherman is the only republican Vice President renominated in sixty years. The cur- rent “tip” is that President Harding's running mate next vear will be a world war veteran. Senator David A. Reed, Col. Thomas W. Miller, Col Roosevelt and Gen. Frank T. Hines are on the eligible list. i PR One of America’s grand old women, Miss Mary E. McDowel!, has just been appointed to the cabinet of Chicagn's new democratic mayor, Judge Dever, as commissioner of She is in her sixty-ninth year, vigorous as a girl of fifty. better part of half a century Miss McDowell has been an active worker in soctal politics, as a ploneer both in | women's trade unfonism and suffrage. ISince 1593 she has been director of the University of Chicago's celebrated “settlement” in the stock yards dis- trict. Miss McDowell has been abroad on numerous sociological missions and during the t yvear has spent & good deal of time in Czechoslovakia. I She knows the seam slde of Chicago through and through. and the city's cast alien element looks upon 4s a queen mother. * ok % ¥ friends welcome California that Jullus but Hosts of from news Gate.” is successfully combating his physical breakdown of last year, and expects to return to Washington for his twelfth term in the House as fit as a fiddle. San Francisco, where he is rusticating and recovering, never allows Kahn to be opposed when he runs for Congress. He is a republican, but the democrats invariably indorse him. | Californiun, who put through the draft bill in 1817, was an actor in | early life. Kahn's proudest memories concern the days when he played with win Booth, Joseph Jefferson, Tomaso Salvini and Clara Morris i (Coprright, 10 EDITORIAL DIGEST peace to be menaced and siattered by these concessions. There is oi enough In the world for all, as there is trade enough and wealth enough, but there is very far from being enough of peace, orde: 0-operation, confidence and good w Tt would be a pity, and more than that, a dis- grace, if the efforts to establisii peace, order, co-operation. confidence and 1 800d will—that is to restore the world {to a civilized condition—should be diverted to a selfish scramble for concessions, tive. Tt is’indeed. time ‘to dethrone make way for the serious considera- tion of the larger matters throughout the world.” “The Chester concessfon,” the Syra- cuse Herald carefully points out. “is a | reminder that we are establishing a {far-flung line of investments in the i foreign danger zones which our gov- | ernment nas been so anxious to keep { at full arm's length. It is enough to give Senator Johnson. now traveling |in Europe, a fresh fit of staggers, |Dflrfl1‘ullr1_\' in view of the fact that i tropical Turkey is a rather poor mar- ket for California nuts and branges.” There alw. fs the possibility. as }well, the Knoxville Sentinel holds. { that there may result “a political and have never before engaged in, and which may require full membership in the world court, and possibly in the league of nations itself, to enable us to maintain and emerge from grace- fully.” Even so, the St. Paul Dispatch goes on, “the United States is defi- nitely out in_the world. Our inter- ests, to which our whole economy is {adjusting _itself, are extended tc iSiberia, China, 'the Pacific islands, Innd Central America. Africa and Asia Minor. | that politically our interests are not | similarly extended. and useless to ig- nore the responsibilities and duties essential to the interest and econom: of the nation which are implied our expansion.” In contrast to this view, the Chicago Journal feels “the whole concession business ought to be abolished. No first-class power grants exclusive concessions to outside capi- tal. ~ Such privileges are wheedled, builled or bargained from compara- tively weak and ill-developed nations and are a fruitful source of trouble tand international fll will. As for ‘rebuilding Turkey,’ that can be ac- complished only by rebuilding or abolishing the Turks, and that is not a job for the strongest syndicate.” Adding to_this line of thought. the New York World believes that “for all spots in this world where the vices of the old diplomacy are virulent, Turkey is perhaps the worst. The Chester cohcession issues out of the very hottest of imperialistic intrigue. It is entangled with a series of in- trigues and chicanery which reach into all the foreign offices, in Europe. This concession is, first of all, a po- maneuver to draw us into a sordid imperialistic struggle.” This argu- ment finds no favorable response so far as the Boston Transcript is con- cerned, that newspaper believing “the concessions should be an asset in the adjustment of our commercial rights in the Near East. We have Insisted upon equality of economic opportun- ity, yet it is noterious that no such equality has éxisted in dividing up the near eastern spoils. The Chester grant gave us a far better chance to insist that the maximum of equality of economic opportunity be put in every-day practice and not reserved for the post-prandial diversions of imperialistic statesmen.” Wants Country To Foster Rubber To the Editor of The Star: Much of our complaint against the advance in the sugar price is like the charge I have seen in the press that the Englishman is gouging us in the price of rubber. We forget that Eng- land had the forethought to iplant rubber in the far east when it was $3 per pound, and that we had the sdme opportunity, but not the in- clination. And now, by reason of his large planting, rubber declined to 15 cents per pound. This Englishman sought to protect his investment by restricting shipments; and 80 increas. ed the price to 35 cents. We Amer- icans comme;‘o-d‘ to cry that we are’ being gouse < g Yes, we should probably plant rub- ber mearby, but certainly mot in the |ing promised her independence, she would not belong to us when the trees produce. Furthermore, mno economic reason exists for planting rubber anywhere; but there is a political reason, the possession of our own supply in time of war. Even if we continued to control the Philippines, 80 long as there are tried places to plant rubber within three or four days of us, why should we put the commodity to the sea hazard of several weeks' trip and the additional one involving possibility of an attacking enemy during a war when It would be most needed? Had England not kept: her rubber and jute from Germany, and we wWheat and cotton, the result of the war el Mot Just <his ke~ us re- ould o ) flect what hould do: Control public welfare. | For the | her | Kahn, | “member of Congress for the Golden | Not everybody knows that the | and so rendered ineffec- ! King Oil' for the present at least and | diplomatic entanglement such as we | Tt is useless to pretend , in | litical -thing, brought forward as a | Defends Mme. Kalinin Former Russian Relief Worker Protests Banning Her. To the Editor of The Star: May 1 be given & limited amount of space in The Star wherein to ex- Dpress my protest against a very re- cent official act of our Secretary of State, Mr. Charles Evans Hughes? As a former reliet worker in soviet Russla, I want to strongly protest against the exclusion of Mme. Eka- terina Kalinin from the United States, where she was coming solely to ap- peal for the salvage of the children of her noble country, the Russian soclalist federated soviet republic. It does not seem to me that this ac- | tion by our government is either in | good-taste or in accord with that high humanitarianism that has characte ized our attitude toward the suf- ferings of Russia and the rest of Europe, subsequent to the conclusion of the recent great war. We have saved millions of Russian children from death, not at all because we liked or approved the Russian gov. ernment, but because we are a humane’ people. To now make an about face hecause we do not sanc tion what the government of Russia has done, and to punish the children |of holy Russia on that account, ix a futlle gesture As a veteran of the world war (having served with the Rainbow, 42d Division past national first vice president of the Rainbow Div fon Veterans' Association; as an ac- tive member in the American Legion, he Veterans of Forcign W and | the Sons of the American Revolution, 1 can scarcely be charged with having any Interest in “red” or Russian propaganda in these United States of America, or elsewhere. But having served in Ru assistant to the medical director of the Russlan unit of the Amerlcan Re- lief Administration, I do know the existing need there for the continning of child-help, and I know, too, that {Mme. Ekaterina Kalinin's' sole con- | cern has all along been the welfare of the children of Russia (regardless jof the religious or political beliefs jof their respective parents). To icharge the wife of the president of |Russia with political motives in jcoming to our United States of Amer- {ica is not to know the woman. She had nothing whatsoever to do with the condemnation of Vicar-General Butkewicz, whose appeal for clemency | as rejected by the exccutive com- mittee “of the all-Russian congri of soviets, in which a majority of the members are peasants, and de- vout Christians, by the w I do not approve of their action, n the execution of Manager Butke- wicz, as I am opposed to capital {punishment (regardless of what the proven charges may be), but I do N0t sce. either, what it has to do with Mme. Ekaterina Kalinin in her sincere and Christian endeavors to save as many as possible of the Ri sian children and infants from death, flinesses, cold and hunger. We should. I belie ather encourage child salvage In soviet Russia than cc demn it, since the future of Russia is plainly in the hands of the children of ‘that land. 7 ia as an BENTLEY MULFORD. Urges Seats for To the Editor of The Star: Shortly before the death of Mal. Pullman, late chief of police, I wrote to hi sgesting the placing of col- {lapsible seats on the metal uprights {holding the go-go signs at fixed posts, | s0 that when traflic died down, now and then the weary offieer could find a few seconds relief. Maj. Pullman re- plied that the plan was not feasible, But T believe that it is not only easible, but advisable, humane, Ten years ago, the idea of a mo- torman being provided with folding stovl and permitted to now and then tired leg musclies, when trafi. slow-down warranted, would not hay been considered “feasible But th innovation was tried out and is now rt of the regular equipment of traffic policeman. standing on fixed post. largely unprotected from wintery bLiasts or summer's glare and torturing heat, his arms going like windmills, his eyes seemingly watch- ing four directiums at one time, has n endurance test that few of us could lope to pass During all but the most crowded | hours of the morning and at evening, | when offices are closing down and | {traffic 1s at high tide, there are sec onds. even minutes. when the col- | 1 ble seat could be detached from ! | the iron upright and the traflic cop ! lowed an instant's relaxation. T have made it a point to verify these | traffic lulls for myself. i Why is not the idea practicable?| Could it not, at . be: given a! | fair trial. Je SPHINE TIGHE Flowers for Dancer : While Needy Starve | ‘To the Bditor of The Star: | Last Saturday night a man walke into a neat little shop on 9th street and asked the manager if he would | inot like to send some flowers to the | {lady who was running up such a splendid record in the delightful{ marathon donce at the Coliseum. “It will be a zood advertisement for iyou." be said nd she deserves them. ! ITwo people have already given her a |hundred dollars exch tonjght. We | {have three Cadillacs waiting to take {her and the others across the line at midnight.” And T dly handed {over. Th ne night T saw hungry littl s looking in at the restaurant window; I saw hungry little mouths | that had not tasted a Square meal for {days; T saw rough > hands that had been gathering old papers and carrying them long distances to sell | for a few cents: I saw ill shod little ifeet’ that had been faithfully carry- ing their owner here and there day after day while he earned a little to help out at hbme; but no one thought of them as dancing feet. and no one thought them worth while. 1 saw old women—women who were deserving of rest after the long en- durance test t had been their: still trudging along, carrying with| their bundles of wood and other things no flowers, no hundred-dollar bills that had been handed them on {the way, nothing save the realization jthat they must o on and on until they retired unnoticed from ‘the floor lof life, and with no Joud acelaim for having broken a record. And when, exhausted, they do come near the end of that great marathon, knowing that the bright Sunday morning is close at hand, no one comes to cheer them “across the line” no one asks for flowers to buoy up their heavy -feet and heavier heart. No one thinks of it is a good advertisement. What difference it makes. how _our energies are spent! JOSEPH 5. MCILWAIN. In a Few Words. The Government of the United States in relation to Its merchant ves- i sels is not unlike a hungry man hold- | ing a hot potato, who desires to sat- isfy his hunger and build up his i .strength but is inclined to drop the food in order mot to burn his finger: —THOMAS R: MARSHALL. The job of American business men right now is to keep an even keel and steer a straight course. Business is on a firm foundation, but it must be kept there. B “_CHARLES M. SCHWAB. Those who seek destruction of in- dividual rights under the guise of government activity instigated for the general good are more dangerous than those who counsel out-and-out revolution. ~VICE PRESIDENT CALVIN COOL- ‘We may hate, fear and loathe war, but mereiy repeating this phrase will| not prevent war. Mars is unfortu- nately not & fellower of Dr. Coue. 1 PWIGH “To add another tint unto the rain- ) only safety, then. will lie in our wea bow is wasteful and ridiculous ex-|ing nic ana | $ido blinders L muuve and orangs, cess,” said Mr. Shakespeare, Secretary Hoover goes him one better. Mr. Hoover wants to standardize the rainbow, and make it unlawful for dark purple goggles, with and a of sea-mist gray to softey the ensemble. One firm alone is g$ ing to spend $2,000 on decorating ) roof of its bullding, and the Avenue from the Capitol to the State, War it to show so many meedless colors. | and Navy Bullding will be like the The rainbow primary and secondary colors and tints and shades shows bad taste and “wasteful and ridiculous excess.” At a national conference of paint and varnish manufacturers, called by | ecretary Hoover, it was‘agreed that house paints’ should be cut to thirty- two colors and barn roofs to four colors. There are to be only. eight colors for floors, sixteen for walls, eight for automobiles and carrlages and ten for enamels. Just why the color killers stopped hefore attacking the rouged cheeks penciled eyebrows and tinted hair was not explained, beyond the natural timidity of man. Nor how the viol: tion of the standard tints will be controlled when a householder finds none to suit him and proceeds to do his own mixing. X %k Taste indicated by the right choice of color, and it may also be shown by the omission of the tone or tint which is needed to make up a “balanced ration” of color. It is just as easy to violate the bal ancing of color as it is to violate the ilanced ration. Tt takes all the col- ors of the spectroscope, which & =plit from pure white light, to into a balanced color scheme. With s missing the eye remains unsatis- fied. A picture on a wall may not include all colors—it is to be hoped that it does not—but unless the pic- ture. plus its environment tints, docs make up a perfect spectroscope of color, the eve will unconsciously feel the lack and soon tire. A canvas is “decorative” when it supplies th missing note of the environment. What that missing note is upon the colors predominati environment. Ak The same principles apply to the painting of a house. What color it should take depends upon what are the prevailing colors of the “pictur: —the landscape surrounding it. To overstandardize paints, therefore, may succeed commercially, but not artis- tical The result may be a jangle of discords in place of a balanced color. Colors, rather than harmon: This may reduce the demand fc ready-mixed “colors,” overstandardized A noted- American artist once marked concerning the raw colo the Mexican costumes: “The Mexi like colors, rather than color.” had no prejudice against any color of the spectroscope. but he protested against the crude brilliance of the Mexican barbarity, which was on par with the love of children for no * He {in place of melody and tone. * % There i€ just as much blunder in persisting in “artistic putty color, as in emerald green out of place Corot is delightfully neutral, but no more of a colorist than Manet. who delights in the pure colors of the spectroscope, exquisitely balanced. After all, nature is a preity fair color- ist and nature' the colors of the rainbow,” though she loves color, rather than colors. Cov. eted “simplicity” means pure har- mony—not pauclty. Secretary Hoover has not yet standardized nature, else how drab would be the tone of the spring blos- soms and somber gray the tender | toliage? * % ko Washington will be & kaleidoscope of color during Shrine week—the first week of June. The reporters tell us that “red, white, blue, green and yel- low will predominate.” Note the verb—"predominate.” The BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENO Although the Hapsburg monarchies were never a colonial power, t, curiously enough, it is nowhere that the dynasty and honored than in Africa. the Hapsburg double-headed Indeed, eagle, the Hapsburg rulers—namely, that of Empress Maria Theresa, who died in 1780, are more widely known among the natives throughout northern Africa, central Africa, Abyssinia and in Arabia, than the heraldic emblems or features of any other sovereigm, living or dead. This strange condition of affairs is due to the fact that the silver coins known as the Maria Theresa “thaler,” or dollar, which have not heen legal tender in Austria or Hungary since the early portion of the nineteentl century, remained the principal and most popular form of currency in parts of the dark continent, in and oven In central Asia hey were legal tender in Algiers, in Tun and in F pt uap to about forty years ago, when France and Great Britain substituted their own coinages and currencies in licu of the Maria Theresa dollar. But, while the British and Ligyptian authorit the land of the Nile and the Fre government officials in Algeria and Moroceo refuse to accept these dollars as legal tender, the mnatives continue to use them and most of the commercial transactfons among them- selves_mre carried on by means of these Maria Theresa dollars * % Xk which now owns h all that Ttaly, inorthern portion of Africa which up until about fifteen years ago formed part of the Ottoman empire as its|{roitiy ISterian. John, province of Tripoli, has endeavored in. vain to supplant the Maria Theresa dollars by a five-lire silver coin of the same size and consisting of the same amount of silver metal as the Muaria Theresa dollar, but adorned with the heraldic emblems of Ttaly and the effigy of King Vi tor Emmanuel III, in lieu of that of the great Hapsburg empress who carried on such an obstinate war during seven long years against Frederick the Greaf. . The natives, however. have been quick to notice the difference of tho two coins. regard the flve-lire silver piece h suspicion _and distaste and insist to such an extent upon re- taining the old Hapsburg dollar as their favorite form of currency that the Italian government has actually been obliged to appeal to the Au trian treasury to mint at Vienna many millions of this particular coin for use in its colonial dominion of Tripoli and also in those of Erythrea and Somali, both-bordering on Abys sinfa, whero the Maria Theresa dol- lar still continues to be the only legal tender. * ok %k ¥ The old matrix of these Maria Theresa dollars has mever changed, and the result is that these coins still bear the date of 1780, which, by the way, was the year in which Maria Theresa died; also her face and the Austrian double-headed eagle. These coins were regularly minted at Vienna at, the expense and to the order of the Itallan government until the great war, and since the dce of Versailles the arrangement t:...;n 1, the “governmnts of Vienns and of Rome in conneotion with the off of | special has| mix | palette is rich in “all | 1§ tor which flaunts all the!|front line of the armies, from Swit- | zerland to the channel, on armistice night. It will be not a “great white way,” but a “glorious spectroscope.” in ‘which Mr. Hoover's standardized solor scheme will be illustrated in a thousand bejeweled sunbursts, which have exploded #hd besplattered ever, - thing. * ik U Secretary of War Weeks has called for a conference of Army chaplains to be held at the War Department June 6 to §, with the view to consult- ing how to give more intensive moral training to the soldiers. All denomi- nations will be represented, and the Secretary asks all to be prepared u dvise how to “strengthen the 1 ligious program for the Regular Army posts and stations and safeguard voung men who enter the various trainings.” There are still some people think that to be a good soldier must be “hard-boiled” and “toug! but the world war demonstrated that there is nothing in religion that tei.ds to make a man facing the realitios less of a manly man and a dangerous soldier for the enemy. A chaplain of long experience at the front relates how he was speaking toy a regiment which was about to go into the trench On the Jast eve ng before the forward march, he asked the men which they would Jre- that evening—a movie or a dis- cussion of religion. It was a rough crowd, €0 faf as appearances went. but he was somewhat surprised at the response his quéstion drew, when a man in the rear called out: “To hell with the movies, we want the truth!® who ne * % & x That plaus mself demand won immedfate & and the chaplain—who war a man's man—preached them the most earnest sermon in his power. Tt is evident that the Secre tary of War—an Annapolls graduate and a rear admiral of the Nav: knows that, after all, the men have serious side and that “they want the truth” S ke o The samé men who in thé A. E. I enjoyed the knock-out boxing stunts ] the Y. M. C. A. came to periods when they would say, quite as pro- fanely, “We want the truth,” and the ind of chaplains who were fit to be chaplains appreciated the emphasis of the profanity. though it had not been taught in the theological semi- i nary. +]been resumed. is more widely known| {and the effigy of the greatest of all| Tunis | I EE R. Green, director the national speakers' bureau of the Red Cross Society, says that 47 per cent of the world’s wealth lies n the United States, which makes it very important. that all possible measurcs be taken to icach preparedness for elf-defense against the forces that ttack the nation from within as we!l as from outside. * k% * There is to be a dam of the Susque- hanna river between Perryyille and Conowingo, Md., which will develop power avallable to Philadelphia Washington, Trenton and Wilming- ton, according to an application filed last Friday by the Susquehanna Power Company, It is estimated that the dam will develop 860,000 horse- power. Water will come from 3 drainage area in Penmsylvania cov- ering 27000 square miles. Such power as that will relieve the output of many a coal mine by its substitution of €0 much “white coal.” (Copyright, 1923, by P. V. Collins. Dr. Thomas {Ancient Hapsburg Coins Hold Favor In Northern Africa Despite Italian s [ Indeed, it was in c with this matter that Austrian _premier recently visited Rome and conferred at considerabie length with Premier Mussolini, How these Austrian dollars managed to secure euch a hold upon the popu- larity of the natives of northern Africa, of ‘Arabia, Abyssinia—even clsewhere in the orient—is a rather curious piece of history. In the -early part of thw eighteenth century the trade of m-:: Spain and of the Republic of Venic in the Mediterranean, was réduced al- most to the vanishing point, and the Austrians, quick to see the opportunity started in to acquire it by every means in_their power. The Levantine trade of the Austrian empire received for a time great ex tension, and, gradually acquiring that commerce of the countries bor- dering on the Mediterranean, it nat urally followed that the Austrian coins’ —that is to say, the silver ones—be- came a favorite legal tender. They pleased the natives and secured a hold on their confidence and favgr which has endured ever since, although Aus- tria has long ceased to maintdin uny trade worthy of the mame with the: dusky-inhabited countrie: * ok ok % King George's bestowal of the & tish Order of the Thistle upon his son the Duke of York, on tho occasion of his wedding in Westminster Abbey last week has naturally attracted attention to this great order of Scottish chivairs. which, though ranking in the . British empire second ouly after the Order of the Garter, i3 nevertheless very much older in date of creation. For whereus the Order of the Garter was founded only in the reign of King Edward 111 the” Order of the Thistle goes hundreds of years further back According to that wonderful old ottish historian. John Lesley, when s was at- by Athelstan King of tie ons he calle@ to Tig as- sistance Achaius King of the ' who joined him with 10,000 subjects. On the eve of the battie the” enemy endeavored to surprise King Achatus and King Hungus by creeping farefooted across the up- proaches to their camp. Thistles abounded there as elsewhere in Scc land, and the enemy, treading on thes: thistles with their bare feet, und their naked legs torn by the thoi could not refrain from uttering howls of pain and of dismay, with the re sult that the Picts and the Scots w« awakened in time from their slum- bers, and not only beat bac enemy, but inflicted upon them most signal defeat. % From that time forth, namely, the tenth century, the thistle beca the national emblem and chosen flower of Scotland, and to this day the arms of Scotland are emblazoned with the spiked {nvolucer which speaks to all the significant wonls. ‘Nemo, me impune lacessit” (No one touches me with impunity), which is the motto of the Order of the Thistle. The latter is belleved by all good Scots to have been founded to com- memorate that ‘battle and that victory over the invader. Indeed, the golden collar of the order is composed of links in the form of thistles, and the order has always been known as tje “Most Ancient Order of the Thistid" an order which s restricted excla- sively to Scottish peers and to princes of the relgning house by virtue of thelr. Stuart ancestry, and which has nection ot S tacked West of hie u never ‘included any foreign sovereign ¢ or foreign prince or foreign statesman