Evening Star Newspaper, May 2, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING - STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY......May 2, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES.. The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th § fa Ave. Few York Office: n ot Chicago Office: Tower Bullding. European Otfice: 16 ltegent St., London, England. e Evening Star, with the Sunday morning efitian, 1a delivered by carriers within the city 2t 6) cents per month; daily only, 4D cents per mouth: Supday only, 20 cents per month dere may be went by mall, or telophone Main £000. " Collection 1s made by carriers at ead of each moath. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. i 1 yr., §8.40; 1 mo., T0¢ 113, $6.00; 1 mo.. 50c 1yr., $2/40; 1 mo., 20c | Sunday only All Other States. Daily and Sunday. $10.00; 1 mo., 850 Daily only, $7.00; 1 mo., 60> sunday only $3.00; 1 mo., 2b¢ i { | Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press ix exclusively antitle to the ‘use for republication of all news dis ratches credited ta it or not otherwi Germany's New Offer. So far as the financiul part of Ger- s new ions offer is con- it scems on its face to he fair wonable, und if there was a bability that Germany would be ! 1 alle to carry out s te 1t part of the ofic ht to he cer o France and the crediter nations. Berlin propose the sim total of Germany's obligations | under the Versailles treaty be fixed at | ' billion gold mark: “mproxi- $7,500,000,000. This is e to| repar: & eed upon as the n Giermany’s capacity to p sponds to the average of mates of damages inflicted upon civilian popu- i s ations in the invaded territories and | s the result of ruthlessness at sea. This, it has been contended with a show of justice, is all the allies were titied to claim under the Wilson urteen points upon which the armi- stice was predicated. Whether many able to car out the financial part of her offer i another matter. She proposes to pa; rwenty billion gold marks, or approxi- nately §£5,000.000,000, on or hefore Jul; 1. 1927, the money to be raised by an ernational loan. It is difficult to see much money is to be raised o short a time. The only place it possibly could come from is the United ates, and this country is not going have tive billion dollars to lend rmany or any one eclse in the next four years. American railroads need | several billion dollars in order to make our transportation system adequate, end American investors are likely to regard them as a good deal better risk thun the German government. The EBerlin offer proposes that another five billion marks be raised by 1929 and the emaining sum by 1931, which would | clear up the entire reparations system in a perlod of eight years: a consum- mation devoutly to be wished, of ~-ourse, however impractical it may be. It is hardly necessary to worry about raising the second and third install- ments. They can be raised if the first 1, and if the first cannot the others do not matter. The Berlin proposals for a non- aggression agreement with France do not appear to conform to the forecasts, but seemingly are worthy of examina- Advanced by any nation other n Germany they ought to be ac- ‘ptable. In brief, Berlin offers to as. sure peace by a compact for the arbi- tration of juridical disputes, with a s of reconciliation for all other conflicts, after the example of the Bryan treati The difficulty of ac- cepting this lies in Germany's “scrap of paper” attitude toward the treaty suaranteeing the neutrality of Bel- ium. France is likely to insist upon something more substantial than Ger- many’s plighted word to make her borders safe. sut the chief obstacle to acceptance of the Berlin offer lies in the declara- tions with respect to occupation of the Ruhr. It is asserted that the “pflssn’e! resistance” will be continued *‘until | occupied in excess of the stipulations of the Versailles treaty are vacuated, and until conditions on the | Rhine are restored according to the terms laid down in the Rhineland agreement.” It is a safe guess that France will not abandon her hold on the Ruhr until a substantial sum has been paid over in cash, and Germany diselaiins ability to raise cash so long as the Ruhr is occupied. So the dead- lowk would seem to be as tight as ever. ‘B@r7 i a palpable bid for American sapport in declarations of readiness to cept the Hughes suggestions as an alternative, and in professed willing- ness to have the President of the United States name -an arbiter, but Americun opinion is not likely to rise to such a bait. More details are need- ed before it is possible to judge either the practicability or the sin- cerity of the German offer. ———————— i tion nroce The American Indians are worth in all a billion dollars, the Department of the Interior estimates, The whole country has not vet been taken from them. i A Mild May Day. May day has passed without a dis- aster. In Paris there was some local disturbance, with rioting between sroups of communist demonstrators and the police. In Milan a conflict oc- curred between radicals and fascistl. There was fighting also in ' Buenos *Aires. But 'in the main the occasion was far less troublesome than had Jeen anticipated. The Paris riots, it would seem, were not dgliberately " planned, but were rather the result of perhaps indiscreet police interference with open<air demonstrations that if unmolested would probably have evaporated in speech and song. The reassuring feature of yester- day’s record is that there was no sign of a sdncerted international move- ment, n® suggestion of an organized vrising of the discontented elements in different countries. In Paris, the scene of the most serious of the disturb- ances, the. numbers engaged in the demonstratione were relatively small. It was in Germeay that the worst was feared. But in that country the THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1923. e e e A e e e R R L BB i Tt S e By day passed with little trouble. The Munich parade of communists was the most spectacular manifestation of all, and that was orderly and without any especial significance. In this country May day was scarce- 1y to be noticed as different from other days. The truth is that here the work- ers are too busily engaged to demon- strate. As was pointed out the other day, unemployment is at an exception- ally low ebb and labor i& now com- manding a premium, with a rising scale of wages. The country is in a period of prosperity, wholesome and prospectively continuous. Discontent exists, of course, in some quurters and in some trades. A few strikes are in progress, but less than the normal number and involving altogether a small percentage of the country working forces. Had there been in Europeau cities 4 general spontancous outburst of pro- test yesterday there would have been occasion for concern. It is known that from the “third internationale” at Moscow still flows an influence for di order and dissent, for radical revolt against organization. But in none of the four countries to the west of Rus- sia, where it was undoubtedly hoped by bolshevik leaders to set in motion the forces of revolt, England, France, Italy and Germany, has there heen a vesponse. The complete failure of the sovict experiment in Russia has un- doubtedly becn fully appreciated by the workers in other lands, and thus the bolshevik influence has waned to the point where soclety may fecl once | secure from that menuce No World Court Campaign. e President, it is stated at the White House, does not propuse to con- duct a ampaign of education” on the the world court. Having put the mat- ter before the Senate in an official com- munication, d having subsequently t torth his reasons before the people in the form of a public address, he will rest the case and make no further ef- forts at present to affect public opinion on the subjs Truth is, the proposal has been most effectively dent and the Secretary State in their respective addres: There no immediate reason for further argu- ment. The two speeches of Mr, Hard- ing and Mr. Hughes, in New York and in this city, leave little if anything more to be said. In his New York speech the President distineuy declared that he does not regard American participation in the Permanent Court of International Jus- tice as a paramount issue. To pursue the proposal further and persistently in a series of public addresses or offi- cial statements would be to make it appear as such an issue. In point of practical procedure there is nothing now to be done. The matter is up to Congress. The President has proposed co-operation with the court on certain of { conditions which require legislative action. Congress is not now in session. There is no occasion for further pu suit of the subject, save upon the theory of evoking public pressure upon Congress for action at the next session which opens in December. Seven months must elapse before the session opens, and in that time much will hap- pen to deritand public attention. It would be impossible to maintain a high degree of interest in the world court proposal for that period. Thus, as a matter of strategy. if strategy is to be employed in this case, it would be poor policy to urge the proposal persis ently. Doubtless when Congress convenes, perhaps before that date, the question will become again of debating value. The opponents of the President’s pro- posal may be relied upon to bring it to the front with objections. Tt will then { be in order for the affirmative side of the case to be restated. Meanwhile it may be expected that national organi- zations of citizens wilt express them- selves on the question. By December stated by both the Presi- | | guests. It is not & question whether it 118 right or wrong to take a drink of | whisicy. The question 1s whether it is right or wrong to take a drink of poison, labeled whisky. With every- thing functioning normally in the city the authorities say that @ very high percentage of the samples of bootleg liquor analyzed by them has been poisonous or highly injurious to health, It may be that even worse stuff than this will be brought in during Shrine weele. Every citizen sheuld be on his guard against bootleg liquor, no mat- ter what tale the seller tells as to how he got it or where it came from. In the matter of rum-running the lid should be clamped down as tight as the law can clamp it. —_——— Sugar Boycott Approved. An authoritative statement at the White House that President Harding approves the proposed housewives' plan to minimize consumption of sugar 110 the end of lowering the prices of {that commodity may be expected to | give impetus to the nation-wide move- ment now gathering headway. Care was taken in the explanation of the { President’s attitude to point out that 1it would be out of the question for the government officially to participate in such an effort; only recognize the situatl out of the inflated prices is so far as 1t may involve violation of the law, land, it was added, the government is i | {a doing this. i | that lessening consumption is & justi- i tiable method of resisting speculative i prices in a food commodity. His word ! to the housewives might be translated a9 being, “More power to you; the gov- crnment will not disapprove of course and will help in another w if the law is being transgres: Sharp breaks in the sugar market in Vew York have occurred alrea the speculators vision the magnitude of the movement. They are fully cognizant of what can be done to them by concerted mass action of the house- holders of the land and all the mem- bers of their families. When the plan Isucceeds, as succeed it must as soon as all communities swing into action to- zether, the result may point the way to deal with other “corners” in food- stuffs and staples. 1t is well worth trying out. ————— The Instructive Visiting Nurs clety set out to raise cnoush money to enable it to maintain its work for two vears. Its campaign will end next Saturday, and at present it has only about one-third the needed sum. Ask yourself how you would like to see your city, the capital of the nation, doing without such an organization. —_—————— Joseph Conrad, author of gea thrill- ers, lately arrived at New Yor! de- scribes himself as a seaman born and bred, and adds, “Even to this day 1 do not 'like writing.” Wonder just what he could do if he did! —_—————— A man was hit with a sugar bowl Iin a lunchroom row. If the assailant { was charged for the contents, as well as with being disorderly, it will have proved an expensive day for him. —_————— Thirty-five nerican miners sailing for Russia hoist the red flag of the soviet on their steamship. This olly Leon id to bear the soviet em- blem, | s0- ——————— “Pyramid Buying Seen as Peril to | Business” runs a recent financial page headline. So is playing faro. ——— Air experts say Washington would be at the complete mercy of an air lattack. Anything else? ——— Many a missing girl did not know she was a prominent member of “so- clety” until she read the papers. ‘Whatever y,ou see around town that the government can i n growing Presldent Harding is known to feel} mely, the hole in a doughnut. | WASHINGTON BY FREDERIC Capt. Marshall Field, grandson of the merchant prince who founded the Fleld Museum of Natural History at Chicago, has endowed with $50,000 six separate expeditions of explora- tion of the United States, South America and Asia. In the Colorado desert Field investigators will In- quire into the connection between the joriental Apaches and the Navajo |Indians. In Brazil geologists will ex- plore the mines of preclous stones in search of specimen minerals relating | to diamonds. Others will Inspect sil- | yer and copper regions in Peru and i Bolivia and the nitrate flelds of Chile. ISt & third party of geologists will delve in Patagonia for the vertebrae of prehistoric animals, and then, in quest of similar ,material, invade the pampas of Argentina and the caves of {northern Brazil. Botanical and zoo- logical researchers will ramble through the mountains of central {Peruand the tributaries of the Ama- {zon. An expedition of archeologists hopes to establish the relationship he- tween the old civilizations of the {Americas. Five vears will be spent jby the various Field natural-history {sleuths In pursuit of their quarry. * ok ok X A cardinal. a politician and a police- jman were the three old world visi- tors to whom President Harding re- d in his speech to American #t Washington as having re- ted for him a despairing i of transatlantic conditions. | His informants were Cardinal Faul- haber of Munich; Lord Robert Cecil, league of nations missionary, and Sir Willlam Harwood, head of Scotland Yard. “A trio of outstanding Euro- peans” was the President's descrip- {tion of his callers. Their recital of ithe chaos “over there” Mr. publicly acknowledged, made a_deep fmpression uvon him. It impelled him to warn the editors that “clvilization” is headed for the rocks. * ok % ¥ Judge Samuel Alschuler of Chicage who spent the winter in Washington as a member of the coal fact-finding commission, has joined the veteran {benedicts’ class. He has just celebrated entry upon his sixty-fourth year by marrying, having been throughout {his life a supposedly incorrigible bach- lor. Judge Aschuler, who was appoint- ed to the United States circuit court by President Wilson in 1915, never functioned as a full-fledged member of the coal comn sion bLecause of the statute which forbids a federal official to hold two offices. He did not take the formal oath as 2 member of the com- sion_or sign any of its minutes. It was planned to pass a special law enabling him to ‘serve, but as it {was never enacted, Judgs Alschuler decided to retire. ' His co-operation was particularly v e lLecause of his services in_ar ing the 1918 packers' sirike for the Department of | Labor. i Henry Lane Wilson of Indiana is in Washington and has paid his re- spects at the White House. son was Amerlcan am sador to Mexico from 1909 to 1913 and is reput- i | lP-mssia’s R i i | i BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Prince Guido Lazarus Henckel Donnersmarck, von heretofore renowned as quite wealthiest nobld of Prus- sia, and, indeed, of all Germany, has just abjured his German citizenship and sceured naturalization as a Fole. From this industrial gnd territorial mag- whose wealth at the time {father's death in alone, was officiall, ’t!ull purposes at £65,000,000, and who, in addition to numerous other inter- jests. is the head of the greatest film {trust in Central Europe, regards the { political and economi I many, and more especially of Prussia, { with profound misgiving. He evident- 1y considers the prospects of Poland public opinion may have begun to{is new and puzzling is for the Shriners, | more promising, and as offering a crystallize, but after all the question is for Congress to decide. It can only be made a political issue by the de-| liberate maneuvers of partisans who, for personal purposes, wish to make capital out of a matter that should be kept wholly outside of the realm of politics. made thirty-two They moves on each side between the hours of 9 and | 12 pm. in the national championship chess tourney in New York. This is at about the rate of some of the mara- thon dancers. The first load of watermelons has gone through Washington en route | for the metropolitan market. Never mind; we beat them on shad roe. It begins to look as if the overdose of sovietism taken by suffering Rus- sia would act as its own emetic. Pre- liminary spasms are noted. Lord Carnarvon is laid away in his tomb. Suppose some descendant of present-day Egyptian fellaheen disin- ters him along about 32237 Clamp Down the Lid. The prohibition commissioner calls for the observance of order during Shrine week. He means by this that the law against liquor must be ob- served. He has called on hotels, res- taurants and citizens to co-operate in every way possible that the law shall be observed. A great responsibility ‘will rest upon the people of the city. It is going to be a problem to make comfortable the many thousands of our fellow Americans who are coming to their capital. The city is crowded, as every other American city is crowded. We have the same housing shortage that all other cities in the United States have. Tq make room for the visitors and to feed and shelter them will tax the capacity of the city, but the work of making room f&r them will give us pleasure. ‘When the great crowd comes the normal activities of the city and its government may be thrown somewhat out of gear. The lawless element often finds its fairest opportunity in a crowd, and illicit distillers and rum- runners will seek to take advantage of the congestion and confusion. The town will be full of men who are away from home and the carnival spirit will prevail. The temptation to drink may be put before many of the SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Joyous Imitation. De dandelion said: “Dat violet is sad an’ blue! She seems so very timid, knowin' what to do! {An’ de lily is so white dat all her loveliness so rare Sort o' carries a reminder of de sor- rows we must bear. Dar’s lots o' flowers whose gold is flaunted boldly far an’ wide, An’ some of 'em wears purple, which, dey tells me, stands foh pride, But as foh me, I's gwinter stan’ foh H cheerfulness an’ fun. ! I's gwinter give a little imitation of de sun.” i H scarcely De dandelion spread his rays all even- ly around An’ celebrate de break o’ day by risin® f'um de ground. He jes’ kep’ on a-smilin’ an’ th'oo de hours, Not axin’ no attention like de regular garden flowers. He didn’ make no question 'bout de i climate dat was due, | But came along all confident, a-greetin’ me an’ you. He sho'ly was a comfort an’ our hearts he sho'ly won, Dat dandelion givin' imitations of de sun. i a-shinin® It's time to move! It's time to leave ‘The old house or the flat. But parting does not bid us grieve. ‘The patriarchal rat, Likewise the festive mouse so small ‘Who sought to be & pet— ‘We say farewell to one and all ‘Without the least regret. The paper that in streaks is torn; ‘Thei plaster that is loose, The locks and hinges all too worn To be of serious use, ‘We leave them joyously behind, Nor feel the slightest care For what the landlord grim may find Charged up to wear and tear. The place to which we're moving seems A glimpse of paradise. Yet rats e'en now disturb our dreams And playful are the mice. The same old leaks and cracks appear, And soon we'll fiercely vow ‘That we again will move next yesr, Just as we're moving now, | greater decrec of assurance of secu- irily of property and life. Like others, he is impressed with {the conviction that Germany is des-+ itined to undergo many drastic and | revolutionary changes of a social, po- | litical and economic nature before she iflnan settles down to any stable conditions normal power in the {concert of nations. She has vet to appreciate the extent of her defeat {in_the great war. which she =o { Rratuitously provoked. She has vet to pay the price of that defeat to the victors, und to fulfill the conditions which ehe solemnly pledged herself to terms of the peace for which she craved, in November, 1918. 3 * k% ¥ Monarchical disturbances — and, {above all, popular uprisings against { the profitecrs and selfish rich by the masses, and even by the educated classes, who find that the worthless paper currency mo longer can pur- chase food and subsistence, are driv- en by hunger and despair to plunder and to rapine with general anarchy and chaos, will be the share of Ger- many before she recovers her senses. Bolshevism of the Muscovite brand, even if called by another name, looms largely upon her horizon. Under the circumstances it is not surprising that her credit both at home and abroad should be inferior to that of Poland, and that a particu- larly wide-awake’ and ° up-to-date magnate of the industrial, financial and social world like Prince Donners- marck, should transfer his allegiance from Berlin to Poland, to the safety and future of which France, and in a lesser degree Great Britain, are committed, and which commands the sympathy,’ the good will and moral support of the United States. * ok Ok K Prince Donnersmarck, now in his thirty-fifth year, and who made him- self personally acquainted with many of the great industries which he in- herited from his father by working as a collier, as a factory hand, as a mechanic, as a minor, as a steel worker, etc, is descended from that valet of Emperor Rudolf II, Lazarus Henckel, who became that monarch's most trusted confidant, his purchasing and financial agent, and ultimately his banker. Lazarus Henckel was a Christian of Jewish parents, and to- ward the closing years of his life had amassed so much wealth as to en- able him to lgan very large sums of. money to his Imperial master. He did not do this without insis ing on good securities {EmpeYor Rudol? lay dying, rather ungrateful fashion, for: closed his mortgage on the kaiser’ magnificent chateau and estate of Neudeck, near Tarnowits in Upper Silesia, and assumed po: ere- of, Neudeck remaining. the country seat of the Henck to this day, family Mr. Wil- | it would uppear that this| outlook of Ger- | 's|of the principal OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM WILE ed to be & receptive candidate for the post when Uncle Sam and Alvaro Obregon are again on speaking terms. Wilson’s name has been as- soclated, too, with the ambassador- ship at Constantinople, when we re- sume relations with the Turk. He is an old-time “career” diplomat, datin from the McKinley administration, under which he was appointed min- ister to Chile in 1897. * % k% Into one of Washington's popular eating emporiums this week strolled a statuesque westerner—tall, hand- some, brawny and sombrero-clad. The aroma of the virile plains saturated every fiber of his being. When he deposited himself at a table, his hulk and bulk nearly sprawled across it. “Bill” Hart in all his movie glory never shone a more resplendent speci- men of the wild and wooly country “where a man's a mant Nearby sat a couple of young woman government clerks, entranced and transfied. They, too, were from “out where the west begins,” and they sighed in al- most audlble admiration of the stranger’s herculean presence. Then came disenchantment. He told the waltress to bring him milk-toast and a cup of tea. * ok Kk % President Harding is looking for “a man who knows the business” to succeed Albert D. Lasker as chalr- {man of the Shipping Board. There is no lack of Americans capable of ad- l ministering the white-clephant brapch of the government, but though many might be called, few would con- sent to be chosen. P. A. S. Franklin of the International Mercantile Marine, Alfred Gilbert Smith, presi- dent of the American Steamship Owners’ Assoclation and head of the Ward Line, Oakley Munson of the Munson Line, Oakley Wood of the Barber Line, Captaln Robert Dollar of the Dollar Line, and R. H. M Robinson, vice president of the Harri- man United American Lines, are types of the practical shipping men Uncle Sam would like to draft, but probably their kind is not to be had for love or money. * % % x Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York, who may be the “Mr. X" of the entangled 1924 democratic presiden- tial situation, is about to deploy him- self before the democrats of Dixle. Josephus Daniels will chaperone him through North Carolina and later on Senator Copeland will address the legislature of Georgia by invitation Copeland recently endeared himself to democratic national headquarters by a bit of self-sacrifice. Chairman Cor- dell Hull was billed to speak in Read- ing, Pa., but family distress required him to cancel the engagement. The natlonal committee appealed to Cope- land to act us pinch-hitter. The sen- ator was booked to appear the same night in New York at the meeting to welcome Lord Robert Cecll. “Prefer a democratic jamboree to an English lord any old time,” wired Copeland. (Copsright 1923.) i 5 1 1 chest Noblman, in Fear Of German Collapse, Becomes a Pole | Some years before his death, Em~ peror Rudolf had ennobled his ex- valet and banker, bestowing upon him the additional nobillary name of Yon Donnersmarck, and thirty vears later his son was made a baron of | the holy Roman empire under the ame name. A grandson of old Laz- arus became Count HencKel von Don- nersmarck in 1651 and fn 1901 Count Guido Henckel ~ von _ Donnersmarck Wwas created Prussian Prince of Don- nersmarck and a serene highness b: the ex-kaiser. i L The present prince, second of his line, much of whose wealth consists of mines — particularly those of coal and zinc—and whose old father ! was until his death the phosphate | king of central Iurope, enjoying a virtual monopoly of its production, is | marriea to Princess Anne of Sayn- | Wittgenstein, who has inherited much | of the beauty of her lpvely and fas- | cinating mother, JuNe Cavalcanti | d’Alburquerque de Villeneuve. He | has two little boys, and that he is | not ashamed of his semitic descent from Emperor Rudolf’s valet is shown | by tho fact that his eldest boy, like himself and like his father before him, includes among his names that| of Lazarus. The prince is the offspring of his {father's second marriage to Cather- | ine de Slepzow, a clever and brilliant | Russtan, divorced wife of that Count Mouravieff who was minister of jus- Itice at Petrograd, and who died so | mysteriously as ambassador of the |late czar at Rome. It is nccessary to explain this, for the first wife of !the late prince was a very different kind of woman; in fact, one of the | most notorious women of the nine- teenth century, and whose hoodooed mansion, or rather palace, in the Champs Elysces is now occupied by the Travelers' Club in Parls. She ‘was the daughter of a little Jewish tailor of the name of Lachmann, at Moscow, who had come to Paris in the train of some Russian nobleman, was abandoned by him -there, and then, after leading the life of a woman of the atreets, managed to fascinate the composer and musician Herz, who had the impudence to pass her off as his wife at one of the pri- vate concerts given by the Empress Eugenie at St. Cloud. Ejected from the palace under cir- cumstances of the utmost ignominy, the sensation created by the affair gave her a vogue among the women of .the half-world, of which she be- came, in the course of time, a leader, accumulating _the enormous fortune which enabled her to have built for herself the mansion of the Champs Elysees, now the Travelers’ Club. * K K % After inveigling a perfectly authentic Portuguese Marquis of Paiva to marry her—he blew his brains out a few weeks later—she wound up by inducing .the then Count Donnersmarck to bestow upon her his hand and his fortune. She became, first as Marquise de Paiva, and then as Countess Donnersmarck, one of the principal secret agents of Bismarck before_the war of 1870, and on her ac- tivities in this connection being brought to light on the restoration of peace, she left Paris and spent the remainder of her days at Neudeck, converting the chateau as nearly as possible into an imitation of the Palace of St. Cloud, whence she had been expelled by Queen Eugenie. She vented her spite against the em- srell by purchasing many of the latter's nest -jewels, as well as the exquisite furniture of Eugenie's private boudoir in the Tuilleries—the furniture in ques- tion being distributed in the pig pens farms at Neudeck. Abandoned by her husband, though he left her free to live at Neudeck and to spend his colossal wealth, she was sud- e e famous lvv";linu }ina dicd in 1881. Politics at Large Here comes back again that periodi- cal visitor—the rumor of opposition to President Harding’s renomination. Sometimes the gossip bears the hall- mark of republican factionallsm, other times it {s discerned as dis- guised democratic propaganda, but the latest visitor is in the open, emanat- ing from the democratic national committee. From the publicity branch of the committee there comes the statement that “with the practical politiclans and leading officlals of the republican organization ranging themselves against President Harding his defeat for renomination in 1924— if he does not withdraw his candidacy before the next national convention opens—Is fast becoming inevitable in the opinion of those whose business it 18 to read political signs and por- tents.” i Then the statement goes on to quote an unnamed republican senator to the effect that the President could not carry Illinols in a primary contest with Senator Hiram Johnson of Cali- fornia; it says that Senator Moses will see to' it that New Hampshire is not counted for Harding and that Senator Brandegee will answer for Connecti- cut; that New York and New Jersey are lukewarm; that Senators Pepper and ‘Reed of Pennsylvania are miffed over patronage; that North Dakota, Idaho and Montfana will not support him; that the entire radical vote of the middle west is determined on his overthrow. * ¥ k% Then the statement gives the milk in the cocoanut of the renomination situation in the republican party in its closing paragrap “It President Harding is not renom- inated,” it fays, “and his chances are waning rapidly, he will have the cold comfort that Chester A. Arthur had forty vears ago: that iz, witnessing the defeat of his substitute.” That is what many republicans think, putting aside all question of the President’s increasing popularity in the country, which they believe to be a fact. Unquestionably there may be some factional republicans who may prefer themselves or another as a candidate of the republican party in 1924, but they come face to face with the proposition set down in the die- tum aforegoing, and must consider party salvation first. * ok ok ok At the Capitol the other day the present writer asked one of those practical politigians, a republican, of the “hard-boiled” type, what effect he thought the President's pushing of the world court plan would have upon the party iIn the presidential elections in case there is marked dissent within the party over the questio: “It will not have decisive effect one way or the other,” he replied. “The deciding element in the election will | be whether as the elections come on labor is fully employed in this coun- try, business continues good, railways are prosperous and wages are satis- factory. The rank and file of the voters will allow the academicians to wrestle over the world court to their hearts’ content, and will continue in power the administration in which these favorable conditions have arisen.” i * * % ok It this is a correct interpretation of the attitude of the mass of the electorate, it must be admitted that prospects for republican success are looking up. A country-wide survey of {the employment and wage condition furnished by the Assoclated Press! yesterday shows that unemployment has practically ceased. There is an actual shortage of some classes of la- bor in twenty-three states of the Union. In twenty-one other statesun- employment has been absorbed. Only in four states— Oklahoma, Georgia, nessee and South Carolina—are | there more workers than jobs. Wag. have been Increased in_many state: with more in prospect. There are but nine strikes of any consequence in the forty-eight states of the Union. Pros- perity is in evidenco everywhere, { ERE I Y i When the Senate takes up for con- | sideration at the next session Presi- dent Harding’s recommendation for {adhesion of the United States to the | Permanent Court of International Justice, it is likely that the hardest work of the proponents of the plan will be to get it reported out of the; {committee on forelgn relations. In ithat body are intrenched as members some of the most bitter opponents of the suggestion. They include Sena- tors Borah of Idaho, Brandegec of Connecticut, Johnson of California and Moses of New Hampshire. Sena- itor Lodge has not announced his atti- tude bevond letting it be known that the plan submitted will necessarily have to be amended with copious re: ervations. When the committee is reorgan- ized three republican vacancies on it will have to be filled—Senators New Kellogg _and McCumber having gone out of the Senate. A struggle is pected to ensue over filling these {cancies. Naturally, the administra- itlon would like to see genators a signed to the committee who may be classed as friendly to the administra tion’s policies. The radicals m: additional representation on th mittee. Three democratic _vacancles are to be filled—Senators Hitchcock of Ne- braska, Williams of Mississippi and {Pomerene of Ohlo having retired. ‘Whoever are assigned to flil their places may be counted upon to sup- port the general plan of the Pres! dent, but it is possible they will muke trouble by insisting upon a broader | scope, tending toward the league of lnauonn. i | 1 1 * % % % Once the adhesion plan is reported out of committee—"if and when"—it will enter upon another rough road. In open Senate the democrats will be betweon two temptations—to join with _discontented republicans who would like to harass the administra- tion, or to remain true to their ideals of participation of this country in a movement looking to preservation of international peace with justice and voto for the plan. KK % Senator Lodge has prophesied that the world court plan as proposed by the President will be modified by reservations of a character calculated to smooth out opposition to it and especlally to forestall a possible split in_the republican party aver it. That is recognized by other repub- licans to be a man's size undertaking and Senator Lodge appreciates the fact. There are some republicans who seem bound and determined to create friction within the party, and Senator Lodge, who was so suc- cessful in the role of a conciliator of the republican factions during the pendency of the Versailles treaty, with {its league of nationg covenan realizes that he will have to do it all over agall * k k x The condition in the Senate when it takes up the plan will be in a way similar to the fight over the league of nations. President Wilson found himself opposed in the Senate by & hardy and determined group of democrats, who fought his . plans tooth and nall. Now President Hard- ing will b6 placed in a position which has many of the same features, with the difference that the opposing group in his party will exceed in numbers those democrats who stood out against President Wilson. * K K % Republican politicians are stiil gossiping—under their breath—about whether Vice President Coolidge wants & renomination or not. The Vice President appears to be oc- the poaition “of wait- ing- for y. to_eay something. out loud CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. “Home, sweet home,” glorified, is being erected with the speed of a stage setting in the rear of the Treasury in honor of the 100th anni- versary, May 8, of the first public rendition of the famous song of John Howard Payne, the man who never really had a home. The original building . in which Payne was born, on Long Island, serves as the model for the main lines of the new building, but its in- terior is different and expresses mod- ern architectural ideals of a model seven-room house. After ercction, with all the modern and antique fur- nishings combined, the “home” will be used as an exhibition of a cen- tury's progress only a few days where it Is building and then it will “roam” to a permanent setting else- where. * ok % & Amongst modern conveniences, which the author of the song never knew and which will be shown in the new “replica” of the original “home, sweet home,” will be found hot an cold running water, eloctric cooking, lighting, sweeping; also an electric doorbell and varfous lesser electrical contrivances. Will there not also be @ radiophone by which the occupants may listen in, even to Algiers, Payne's official residence, where he was con. sul? No home s modern 0 Payne's swoet song is that nothing Jike these, not even the splendor pleasures’ and palaces,” can take th place of the harm from the skics’ which hallows the real home. * %k k & Home is where the heart is—where love reigns, where the family is a unit, independent of outside attrac- tions and mechanical contrivances. We Americans sometimes arrogate to ourselves a superiority, shared per- haps with the English, but with credit refused to some other nation- alities, betause, for example, other languages have no word with the exact meaning of “home” We have often heard the French taunted with the fact that there s no such word as “home” in the French language, | but to any one who has lived in| French families, the devotion of mem- bers of the family to their parents gives the lie to the thought that lan- | Ruage mukes u home, or the lack of it.! Would that the new replica of the ) house of the song might remind mil- lions of Ainericans that home is not in | the movie, nor the dance marathon, nor the automobile, but in the lov- ing hearts of parent and child, brother and sister, Has the modern home become too mechanized? Probably not, for the ing has been lifted is not the cau. of forgetting what home may be to aids release the mother to a broader and better life than her grandmother | Two very Young children were heard discussing the recent death of the consoled her playmate by saying that | her own grandmother, tco, had died, | “grandmothers were not very last- ing.” In the days when “Home, Sweet “01d” at fifty—far older than they are aft- rocking air beside the fireplace. where she sat and knitted and dozed, children. Tod: the mother at fifty is just beginning to be caretree |ul e | At the National Press Club fast strated the jnost marvelous miracle of the age. By its development, with- home will be as far in advance of any home of today. as the replica is in place on Long Island, of a century or a century and a quarter ago. Jenkins, the inventor of the moving picture. It is his invention which is * % % x fact that the drudgery of housckeep- loving hearts. The present mechanical ever knew. i | grandmother of one, when the second some time previous, and after all, Home" was first sung, mothers were the proper mother found her or told folklore stories to her grand- attend her social activities. | Saturday cvening there was demon- in the next five years, the up-to-date advance of the original Payne birth- The demonstrator was Francis C. now giving delight daily, all over the ! Problem of Letting Down the Bars Is Most Serious. Suggestions by Judge Gary of the United Stat cel Corporation that the immigration laws be amended so that unskilled laborers can be brought into America to meet an ex- isting labor shortage generally are opposed by editors. A few sec the Gary suggestion as wise, but the great majority hold that the present plan seems working wisely. “The spirit that would shut out the brawn and muscle of Europe is the spirit that smashied the spinning jen- nies in tie early nineteenth century,” | argues the Brookiyn Eagle. ‘It i equally unintelligent. Unskilled labor is needed everywhere. Kurope has it to spare. But timorous politicians in Washington let Gompers swing the whip over them and do his bid- ding. Ono party is as bad as the Admitting there seems some for additional unskilled labor, the Pittsburgh Guzette-Times believes that “the task for states- manship that intorests itself in the tmmigration problem is to devise plan whereby Americanism can be preserved without putting an unnec- | essary penalty on American industry. And because this is an accepted fact the Waterbury Republican holds “to the extent that Mr. Gary is advocat- ing that corporations should regain their privilege of virtually conscript- ing unlimited quantities of cheap labor from abroad, his position will certainly be opposed by a solid wall of popular opinion by no means con- fined to the laboring class. It is a plea for liberty to enlist new recruits for the already great army of discon- tent in this country.” Both sides to the immigration problem are extreme, the Boston Post insists, and certain select classes would be welcome, ut we can hardly expect to always have sufficient labor for boom times unless we are willing to have too many idle | hands in times of depression.” “The real purpose of the present law was to prevent this country from being flooded by aliens faster than they can_be assimilated,” says the Newark News. “It serves no true purpose to attempt to conceal its real aim, which was to favor those north Europeans who were among the first settlers and put the brakes on those of distinct eastern arfcestry. It has twg Sreat weaknesses. The first of e is that it provides no selective principle, except first come, first served. The second is that the de- barring ought to be done on the other side of the ocean. It is not an economic act, although in all pe- riods of expansion it is bound to have economic effects. It is intended as an Amerl on act, and, as such,__this purpose was put ahead of any ssible économic “effetts!” | jority «COLLINS His name s sdison’s, but the en it will bs. annihilated possible to a < in all homes 3 sit in world, to “movie fans not o fam a day is coming w Mr. Jenkind 1 tance and made to every telephon whereby one y cha ¢ his own fireside tually see. pictured upon’ his' own all as a’ movi at is going on anywhere in all the w Where a radio wireless This does photograph see that are reproduction— ctual scene while rring. By radio, 1 1 at the sam time hear the actual sounds of what he is beholding pvith his cyes, thous the event is on the other side of the world. The whole world muy be eye witnesses of a battie in mid-oce 4Cross tue seas; it may hear the he ing of the guns, and see the airpl batties above the clouds or in depths of the ocean. Sitting in “home sweet home.” we shall witness the pomp and glory o nt- not a picture of it, but the re ne and listen in to the blare of its trum pets, or to songs of grand opera 5,000 miles away. it The inventor tol had been working for yeurs o problem of transmitting wireless ra but had by not overcoming cer links. He has found the links in certain revolving g mechanically ruled ier v ) baffed technic ting o been in a contro! the reprodu duce par dations, 3 ending station reproduce lines are so fine that they are ble as lines, making masses of light and shadc—making a reproduct the original clear movie pictur picture” need not be h, but actual living scenc, shown throu lens. It is not the te terests the layman, ous accomplishment. nothing heretofor ed 5o peals to the imugination. Its in mate relation with the environments of every living pe is bevond ex aggeration. 1t will Lo a horizon wide as universe It will make every shut-in a globe trotter without lcaving his bed "Mid pleasures and palaces thous may roam Be It ever so gl home, invie N seene, sent ompar the ous, * This is not theors his apparatus at the actually transmitted photo reproduced them. His expla the wireless transmissi lucid and scientific he ready demonstrated sion by sending por! ington to Philadelphia A single sendin a thousand or any ing stations, and the newsyp tomorrow will be illustr pictures of worldwide day, It is even conceivable that the day may como when the wireless vis ion will be synchronized with radio- telephony, so that daily newspapers will superseded entire by the electric marvel just introd Tts possibilities for police and for every other fo intelligence are so revolu no ima ) can bézin limits. T sign lan ub, and phs and Press « ions 1 and as tran pers of 4 with nes of to- The paraly the mornins : parts of the we Wha would ba to be ali av! Our orefuthers were caterpillars; wc are in the chr. ; tomorrow will coms the butterflies. Will their beau their flights give them mor s than e of if we dwell in ne: ent, to us ximple ple ad their re mances and their’ joys (Copy I, V. Callins.) Further develop L¥nchburg New “hoped, in_the cent American the internal peace the land. the great industrial capt will complain to absolutely futile purpose. And this will occur if our people keen in mind the large, ncontestable truth, that wh of sedition in the Uni fter it gripped in war ¢ and whatever there nd nat s thought, iys it 1) terest ¢ moand i ¢ 1 tr quillity of 'n ates Germa bolshevism in the United traced to indiscriminate as the chief and controllin To the Cincinnati Times-Star it see “amazing that a man of Judge G: intelligence has never discovered her Ming more imports liko the United S pment of material re- understands the id will do the W mreat ma which by i tes th, . on guestion right thing, uniess of America in restriction gocs to sleep whi » small minority wh the _gates swung wide open t the Sen and House into a helicf that it rep- resents public opinion. “From the standpoint of those agree with Judg Knickerbocker 1 ment will be opinion, but ther not agrec. In fact law was en 150 10 a fee immigr considered e many \e present jmmigr ted much in ng that the furus imilable aliens ought to be checked as in response to the wishes of th who would like to see labor scaren and high.” That opinion is also en- ned by the Bultal . which ests “ff we must have more fm- let.us have the right kind. Kk nd_women who will be easily assimilated politically The selective principle should he & developed that our ports will ba closed to all other: fety lies in that direction.” 3 The New Orleans Times-Picayune is certain “ways can be found here at home to relieve the shortage in con- siderable degree, if only the ingenious gentlemen who demand more jmmi- grants, regardless, will turn thelr at tention and talents to search for thos Detter ways. Unfortunately it scems they will 1ot take up that search so loug as any hope or chance of letting down the bars survives.” There is “comfort in the labor shortas Allentown Chroniclo feels, and tween the two situations we'll choota the labor shortage rather than the las bor surplus” In addition “the publia prejudice against a larger volume of cheap immigration is probably too strong to be overcome Ly an appre= hension of the consequences of lahor shortage foreshadowed by the chajr- man of the ion,” the migration ay Lo get a compromise with Jabor on the question, if i compromise is necessary to get Congress to loosen up on immigration, will logically he through an understanding witn iha Garys of industry to take care of tha menace of unemployment. Perhapj they can do it. The problem iz on& they have never got down to. But 1§ fe evidently their problem.*