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6 THE EVENING STAR, ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY..........May 7, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES. The Evening Star Newspaper Company | Business Office, 11th Bt. Ivania Ave. R Kl e Tower Bul Ruropean Offics: 10 ogeat St.. Londoo. Evgland. with the Sunday moraiag sdition, fs deilvered by carrlers withio the cit 2t 60 r month; daily only. 45 cents month: Sunday only. 20 cents per month. ders may be nent by mail, or telephone 8000, " Cotlection s made by carriers at end of each month. 5 Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dafly and Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1 m: Daily only.. .1 yr., $6.00; 1 mo., 50¢ €unday only. The Evening Star, 1¥r., $2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ All Other States. 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Tt ssary o sagize an expedition, which, after fighting. reached the capital wsed the besieged | und res the beginning of u new development | in China Now comes unother banditry with foreigners A railroad train has beer 1 fe and f the travelers tuken pris oner, including Americans of | high station. 1t is evident that the | attack was deliberately planned secure th people as hostages. An international situation of gravity is precipitated i Conditi been | chuotic eral ‘armies” have been engaged in com- bat with ing success. The gov- nment at Peking is not recognized | reported by certain of the prov- inces. the capital of south- arn China, has been passing back and forth hand. Banditry | s flourished in the absence of stable | «dministration. In these became nece international shar i rel ued the prisoners. This wus | outbreak of § vietims. | captured by of a thousand irregular u‘mm.\-i‘ ny some to! Ching have many month: var is Canton, from hand to conditions the case re- sembles some respects that of 1900, when it was impossible to deal with a responsible government and it e for the foreign ers tc directly with trmy of rescue and temporary oceu- pation. Late dispatches state that the ban-j dits have threatened to kil all the nan prisoners if troops are vecalled. At the > time it is stated that the t are pursuing the brigands. it carried | into effect und the captives are slain those governments whose nationals have murdered must adopt measures of punishment if the Chinese zovernment at this prisuls and recompr Suspicion arises that this act of move t force foreign intervention in the tan- zled affairs of China. It is impossi- ble to understand the motives of these people. It may he that this crime is a recurrence of the savage anti- foreigner feeling that manifested so tragically twenty-three years ago. Whatever the cause or the purpose, it} 18 necessary to use the utmost means | to rescuc these unfortunate victims of the brigand force and to insure against repetition. in me necessia how- intervene an the not ar been of whatever it may con. | effect re- ! sist time, cannot re- ! immediately the bandits is While the m to cluse the New York Sugar Ex change proceeds the prices keep on the jump up and down. The sugar boyeott P the short cut to permanent r . | —_——— H i i irgument on the injunc- pably duct —_———— i A recent headline read: “Negroes in | Motor Car Caught With Bad Booze.” | Why the word “bad,” unless for the sake of alliteration? —_———— Peace-Time Financing. When the United States entered the | nd enorn expenditur were ineurred financial operation of sigantic magnitude was begun. Money | s borrowed from the people by the | ernment in immense sums, greater than had ever been raised before in this country. In “liberty” loans bil- ions were drawn into the Treasury. By sale of war stamps and savings certificates millions were obtained in small individuai sums. Back and forth this tremendous volume of money flowed, into the Treasury and back into circulation through vast war ex- penditures. Actually more money was in all borrowed by the government than was in existence. For it bor- rowed the same money several times over, constantly piling up its obliga- tlons to refund. These war-time loans of various kinds and sums and conditions were so arranged that the debt would bel spread over a long term of years.| When the armistice came and the tide of outlay slackened the refunding problem had to be faced. It was even more difficult than that of raising the cash. Tt was necessary to maintain the government on a higher scale of expenditure than ever before, to cur- tail exbenses as quickly as possible, to raise revenue to the point of meet- ing both current and extraordinary needs and vet not to the point of crip- pling industry. These Treasury operations have been conducted with a remarkable suc- cess. Every obligation has been met, every dollar due has been paid on the nail, at no time has there been any disturbance of the money market, no ‘hoost in interest rates, no drainage of ftunds from the channels of business development which at the close of the ‘war required refilling. They have been met without & heavily burdensome in- crease in taxes. While econom#ft in governmental éxpenditure T7T) I’wn a | canceled iof its serving a useful effected they have not gone to the point of crippling the federal adminis- tration or throwing out of employ- ment great numbers simultaneously to add to the problem of idleness which was necessarily acute In the first few months of peace. The latest move in the process of ufter-war filnancing is an announce- ment of a new issue of $400,000,000 of Treasury notes at 4% per cent, to complete the refunding and retiring of the “victory notes™ at the same rate of interest. This issue will complete the tirst phase of the war-debt refund- ing. It is expected that the issue will be immiediately absorbed without ‘any disturbance. Tn this connection it is important to note that since April 30, 1921, a re- tirement of $1,500,000,000 in federal securities will have been effected by the close of the current fiscal year, at which time the gross public debt, it is estimated, will have been reduced to about $22,400,000,000. It is further to be noted as a feature of this extraordinarily successful han. dling of the war-debt problem that as a result of economies in current ex penditures there will be in the Treas }ury on June 30. it is estimated, a sur plus of $125,000,000, or more than twice as much as was figured a few days ago by the director of the budget. Ten years ago the prospect of a public debt of over twenty-two billion dollars would have been viewed by the country as appalling. as a sure sign of national bankruptey. Today that debt is not regarded with the least alarm. It has been financed ably and without disturbance, the govern ment has continued in its procedure unchecked, industry has thrived and progressed. The country is hard at work making money, spending it and menting its obligation —————————— Let Uncle Sam Do It! lutest Paris note reparations, in which Belgium joins, the French idea seems to be that the full claim for war damages against Germany must be collected; that Germany shall be required to pay all it can, and the United States the rest. There nothing particularly new in this proposal. but now it is ad- vanced in an offi document ad- dressed to the German government and hecomes a part of the French and lelgian reparations progran It is true that the French foreign office is not so blunt and undiplomatic as to ask the United States to help pay the German war debt, but it amounts to that when it is declared that France and Belgium cannot ac- cept a reduction in their shaves of the claim against Germany, except that they are “ready to offset them with interallied debts.” The logic of this sug- gestion Ix difficult follow. It is agreed by the allies and subscribed to by this country that Germany should > required to pay to the limit of her abilities toward repairing the damage she wantonly inflicted. That is just and right. But after Gern: has paid to the limit of her abilities, if there still is damage unrepaired. why should the United States, one of the vietor nations, and which contributed so largely to the winning of the wi According to the on is al tes o is n be called upon to make up the deticit? | If France is to be consistent, after Germany has paid to the limit of her abilities and the United States has the French debt. the neu- trals ought to be asked to chip in and muke up any balance remaining un raid. If it could be so arranged that France was the only nation which did not suffer financial losses as a result of the war it would leave that country in a happy position to pursue its pro gram of dominance on the continent of Europe. Aside from the direct bid for can cellation of interallied debts. there is nathing specially notable in the latest French note. The proposal of Ger- many to pay 0.000,000,000 gold marks in full settlement of all reparatione claims is categorically refused, as ¥ also the demand of Berlin for evacua- tion of the Ruhr in advance of pay- ments. There is no indication of wil- lingness to compromise in any respect for the sake of solution of theprob- em. The idea of an international commission to determine Germany" paying capacity is rejected, and notice jis practically served upon Germany ! that it will not be worth while to sub- mit any further proposals so long as her “passive” resistance in the Ruhr continues, However disappointing the French note may be in its lack of any disposi tion to compromise, there is a chance purpose by bringing Germany to a realization that artful dodging will not avail, and that she must “talk turkey” if she ever is to be relieved of the burden of Ruhr occupation. That this may be accom- plished seems more hopeful in view of the fact that the British government also has declared the Cuno proposal unsatisfactory, and has urged Ger- many to make a more practical offer. —————— Chauncey Depew at eighty-nine shows signs of failure of his diplo- matic powers in questioning the great- ness of some of America’s most fa- mous women. ———— A sixteen-year-old boy steals $1.500. and at the end of one week in New York is caught with $50 left. He must have been economizing. ——————— Fifteen traffic accidents in Washing- ton yesterday. Gentle spring seems to have arrived permanently. —_——— Gov. Smith’s Dilemma. Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York is represented as being in a quan- dary whether he shall sign the bill re- pealing the Mullan-Gage prohibition enforcement act or veto it. His de- cision will not be reached until after public hearings on the bill during the ‘week of May 21. In the meantime he will take a rest, which may be seri- ously disturbed by his pondering over the question. Albany dispatches point out several angles of the proposition facing the governor. It is assumed that his per- sonal inclination would be to sign the bill, which action would run true to the promises of the platform on which he was elected, but it is said he would thereby effectually destroy himself as a presidential possibility, if he really entertains aspirations in that direc- tion. On that question pelitical opin- - THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ®, MONDAY, IA¥. v, 1923 OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE ion is divided, but there is no doubt among the politiclans that Tammany aims to take him to the national con- vention for “trading” purposes, even if Tammany does not consider him a potential winner. But would he be a sound apple for trading is the ques- tion, after having delivered a well nigh fatal thrust at pronibition enforce- ment? There are only a handful of states that are classed as wet—New York, New Jersey, Indiana, Illinois, Maryland, Wisconsin—to support a ‘wet candidate, If Gov. Smith signs the bill he will be regarded as the arch-enemy of pro- hibition, not only for what he would have done in New York, but for the moral effect in other states. It is ex- pected that if the repeal bill stands up efforts will be made at once in other states to repeal similar enforcement laws. The course of New York will have set an example to be widely cited and to furnish encouragement to the wets. The repeal bill was passed by the narrowest margin, one vote in the as- sembly and three in the senate. The question is already being asked, does such a margin constitute a “mandate from the people” urging the governor to sign? The governor is in a serious predicament, and the moral responsi- bility upon him is great. All agree that if he signs the bill New York state will be deluged with smuggled liquor. Maj. Chandler, head of the state police, said after a drive one year ago that it would take the whole United States Army to police the bor- der effectually. | | e Potomac Park Barracks. body in Washington will con- sider it good news that the wooden barrack buildings in East Potomac Park are to be torn down. The esti- mate has been made that it will re- quire about three months to remove and store elsewhere the government material now stored in these worn and weather-beaten buildings, and that when this is done the old structures will be razed and the camp site cleared. These structures, hastily put up for the shelter of infantry troops on guard duty at Washington during the war, have stood too long. That may be said of a number of other war emergency structures. It is not always easy to get rid of a building erected to meet an emergency, for when the first emergency is passed another is apt to arise calling for the retention of the structure. A temporary building may have a long life. Tho business of the government grows fast, and it is often necessary to make use of any kind of building at hand. It wa feared by some persons that these temporary buildings in East Potomac Park might stand for an indefinite term of years. Happily this is not to be the case. They are to go. It is said that space is being found in other of the government’s temporary buildings in Washington for storing the supplied| now in the park barracks, and that nothing is likely to arise to render the old harracks of further use to the gov- ernment. Their removal will effect a marked improvement in East Potomac Eve ———————— Sioux Indians are going to court to sue the government for $700.000,000 worth of land. But the claimants are probably innocent of any intention to make a pun. ——————— { The Massachusetts party that came { here to plant trees around the Lincoln | Memorial has departed for home. It |is wondered if the Potomac spring | shad has in the slightest degree shaken their allegiance to the sacred cod? | | —_———— ! Unele Joe Cannon is eighty-seven ! vears of age today. What are the odds {that some silver-tongued Danville tor will not refer to the statesman cighty-seven years young? The dogwood blossoms lost another skirgmh yesterday. We Americans a®” _und to prove ourselves a dom- inant race. SHOOTING STARS. PHILANDER JOHNSON Questions of Terminolog: Of a spot that was dear to my child- hood I'd sing In the vein reminiscent so often em- ployed; Of the trees and the blossoms, the cool crystal spring, The moss underfoot and the vines that would cling, To shelter the day-dreams which there T enjoyed. But I shudder and vainly endeavor to write! Some rough pioneer caused this ter- rible plight. Both meter and rhyme ment stick— It is known to the public foot Crick in astonish- “‘Gander- I'd fain write some lines to a lady so fair, A lady so graceful and gentle of voice, A ripple of song that would sweetly declare That she is @ being whose charms are so rare As to render her worthy a poten- tate's choice. But my efforts poetic to lift her to H fame Are checked when I find I must men- tion her name. My prospects poetic have gone to the dogs Because she was christened ‘“Mehita- bel Boggs!” Before and After. ‘Whene'er the home club loses out Remarks are charged with gloom and doubt. “The pitcher has a putty arm. The fielders should be on a farm. But what could you expect from skates, From those predestined second-rates?” And then the wise ones in a row Stand up and shout, “T told you so.” But when the home club wins a game The place resounds with glad acclaim, Somebody says: “I had a hunch, Those people were a winning bunch. 1 sized 'em up the very day ‘When first they brought ’em out to play. And then the wise ones in a row Stand up and shout, “T told you so!™ WASHINGTON John Sherman's native town Mansfield, Ohio, will celebrate with pomp on May 10 the one-hundredth anniversary of his birth. G commemorative addresses. President Harding Is expected to send a stir- ring message. John Sherman 1831 to 1897. Just previous to enter- ing the Senate, he was Secretary of the Treasury in President Hayes' cabinet. He left the Senate on March 4, 1897, with two more years to serv in order to become Secretary of State in the first McKinley cabinet. Thus his entire political life was associated with Ohlo and Ohloans, who honor him as one of their really eminent sons. Sherman peered sagaciously into the future of the republic. In the earliest hours of the civil war, he sald: “Let me record a prediction The government will arise from this strife greater, stronger and more prosperous than ever.” * k% ¥ ‘More business in government, and less government in Lusiness”—prom. ises to become a Kuropean slogan, too. It was quoted at the recent con- gress of the International Chamber of Commerce in Rome, by Fred 1 Kent, New York banker, as a pri [ciple which Kuropean states in the throes of reconstruction might well adopt. Authorship of the phrase, it is not generally known, is in dispute Mr. Harding is sald to claim patentee rights. Senator Walter I Edge of New Jersey is understood to acknowl- edge i parentage, while Albert D Lasker's friends aver it was, in fact, the child of his fertile brain o ox % Senator Smith W Iowa has gone abroad, to study co-operative marketing to obtain a close-up of worid wickedness. But his fricuds aflirm his principal purpose is up European interest in the forthcoming “shoot™ of the International ifle As- sociation in the United Stafe. Brookhart not only s preswent of the Nuational Rifle Association, but captained the American Palma rifle team which has Reld the world cham- pionship since 1912, 0 the foreign ambassadors and ministers in Wash- ington to whom the Hawkeye radical disclosed his European plans, he con- veyed the definite impression that the rifle range. not international politics, the thing nearest to his heart Brookhart of presumably nd court to drum is A Czechslovakia's able yout to the United States. Dr Stepanek, will retire from the dipio- will matic service and leave Washingt Northern Migration of Negroes Presents a Serious Problem. The increasing mnegro migration from the south is accepted as be due almost entirely to the shorta commen labor in northern industries which have resulted in wage a vances which attract the worker from the farms. But there is a very de- editors of the nation whether the newcomers will be permanent dents, and whether, also, their leaving will seriously injure the south It is the high wages and better conditions that attracting the negroes northward, says, wrguing that “if scarcity val begins_ to operate in the distribu- tion of better conditions for the akilled, th so-called labor shortage Will not be without its benefits. When there enough jobs to go round, those o work at them are not likely be treated as hunkies™ gs di responsit an PrroTizing. the y Eagle thi but “if plan ars would compel fair play for the | negroes, recognizing their rights un- der the Constitution, no temptatior would draw the negro away from the cotton states. Climate, home ties race inertfa, all are powerful forces against wage offers. But the planters {have preferred a different policy. and have only themselves to blame {f labor ig leaving them.” In some re- spects this view has the indorsement of the Chattanooga News, which feels “the time is surely coming when 1f ing in the south will have to he made {more attractive for the negro or else wa are golng to lose the advantage have had because of his amiability {as a day laborer.” The exodus from ithe farm is in no way sectional, but !the “south has no means of replen- tishing its depleted supply,” the Phil- {adelphia Bulletin points out. while {“the limited acreage and reduced i crope, which are likely to result, may {be to the financial advantage of the favored ones who can carry on and possibly realize higher prices, but no section can prosper when a large part of its potential wealth-producing re- sources must remain unutilized.” On the ground, the Columbia State says the majority of negroes are leaving the cities and towns rather than the country and “less than half of those {leaving have been farmer ! In the view of the New York P'ost, ‘as a whole the migration is a ben fit to both =ections and race: There is room for a wider distribution Southerners still need to learn thai the negro is an asset which must be not merely well treated, but com- peted for; and they should make good thelr old boasts that they know best how to care for him” Whether that atement {8 S0 or not, the Ralcigh News and Observer holds “the negro's best chance §s in the south. But a more general distribution is not to Why Children Lie, and Way to Cure Judge Ben B. Lindsey, nationally and internationally famed as a spe. cialist on the subject of juvenile de b2 a are the Boston w to audiences on “Why Kids Lie.” In his opinion the chief causes are misdi- rected loyalty, misdirected energy and misdirected imagination. Behind these he sees defects in the home and the school and even in the church and the state. The prime cause of lying is fear. ‘When there is no fear of conse- quences it is as easy to tell the truth as to tell a lie, and the truth will be told unless lying has become a habit. Fear I8 a natural instinct and never can be entirely eliminated, but, like every other force, it can be directed to serve a good purpose. If there were more fear of public opinion there would be less fear of the law that is Its expression. Love is a greater force than®fear, but, unlike fear, it cannot be forced upon children. The child that loves its parents will be inclined to be trutthful to them, and if it is trained to love for and loyalty to its country, it will grow up to respect its law: Children want to be strong, and i 1ying is presented to them as a form of weakness they will want to be truthful. Develop their strength of character and they will scorn to lle. But the parent must be as strong as the child, that is as strong in charac- ter. The bullying father is apt to have an untruthful son, and if the habit of 1ying is checked in the home, as it can be checked by loving kind- ness and understanding, [t iz mot 5o likely to be developed’ in relations with™ the outside world, and Judge Lindsey is right in saying that from les it is an easy step to larceny.—San Francisco Bulletin. President Harding’s famous dictum | of on May 20. was | $101 United States senator from Ohio from | &¢C} | ! cided difference of opinion among the | Globe | | i | linquency, has been lecturing to large | jward | that He wlll continue to resid in America in a sem’-official capacity mainly as a student ani chronicler of economic developments, Dr. Step- Postmaster | anek’s last official duties will be con- neral Harry S. New and Senators | cerned Willls and Fess of Ohio, will deliver | with the debt-funding mission which Washington in a cw days. The study ng Czech republic owes Uncle Sam, with mulated interest, 000,000 Dr. Stepa has been dited to this countr: . 1921, and rendered y in advancing hoslovakia's . He is prime favorite of President Masaryk, and is marked for high political honors in his country in days to come. * k X % Edward M. House, who will shortly leave for his annual visit to Europe eredited with the mandership-in-chief of the John W. Davis boom for the democratic pres- idential nomination. taciturn Texan whom nicknamed “President T-hoat,” the House maneuvers, if such there be, are being conducted with a high degree of invisibility. Davis himself also is enacting shrinking violet. No man & demand for publie speeches, and he can seldom b introduced without subtle references to what 1924 1 hold in store for him. Speaking before the editors’ so- clety in Washington recently at the table with President Harding sted himself of a picturcs Euglish. He deseribed campaign tour in Maine 4 year or two ago as “a futile raid on’ the embattled fastnesses of the Pine Tree state.” * Czechoslovakian s due in is om- As becomes the Col. Harvey Wilson's a demoerat and states- and ad- Foreign diplomatists men in Washington alliterative description ministration’s project United States into th They call it the “H-H-H" scheme, to its warm support Hughes and Hoover * x % terse for the to fake the world court v 1 Hardin Horton, the Ame lite by sul g out of at Smyrna been prom; at Budapest the next ( omission who v burned the Turks 16 has ner wa: house wnd home ted to His frie gress its Horte r his pe H neral hopeful th will repair of predece pensate 000 £ Secretary mended that last winter resolutic Eratity f services wh ing and e feared lead to a b . lem in oth There mind s the ro migration i Ivnehin pe type ton field slumy have Ala pateh and When in the north. as w of doing, 1 be acking to Georgy and Petarshurg Progress and Index insists “northern men do not erstand negroes and negroes who north from the hon understand norther. . pe Appeal =0 soutk people. to feel eaving will are inclined oes Who are back, just as th But meanw supply the situation south apparently has a great number of ne s that could be spared to other if they were really need when t negro is gone 1 probably be her labor to t eir place. 1t require some At and re- arrangement. hut the h not KOIng to Starve to death or go back- becausn ‘cuffee’ gots out of Suggestions which are made i ions the provent negroes s the Pittsinrsh Chron- Telegraph the declaration that “If right is denicd as so many others have her the federal authorit Kinz into this mat- is happier and more contented n he south, ially the typical southe negro. i% wiven w square de he is not_inclined to © his old home™ Whila this, of course, ad mittedly is true. the Pittsburgh Press holds “higher wages in northern in dustries are doubtiess the chicf ma net, lthough Jim Crow c nd numerous other anti-nesro discrim- inations in th th may, also be factor. If Judge Gary cannot secure looser Immigration laws to aid the tacl mills in getting labor from ¥u- rope the immigration of the southern Dblacks into northern cities will likely encouraged.” The result must serious fo the them- . the Grand Rapid points because “vital statistics show are twelve negro deaths 1o every ten negro births in the north, whide in the southern districts, three roes are born to every two that die.” seetions this him. it is time oS were To Under normal ¢ s the there In a Few Words. The faults of the individual mem- bers of Congress are those of the American people. The ridicule of any particular member is usually ridicule of the voters who elected him. —SENATOR FREDERICK W. DAL- To those of European expect to bri in one d any othe rain. labor who & about “the revolution May day is as good a . particularly if it doesn't —SAMUEL GOMPELS. The composite of perfect womanly beauty has an American figure. mouth and teeth and Italian eves and nose and an Irish complexion. Qualities of other nations aren’t needed. —FLORENZ ZIEGFELD, Jr. England is a land of class without segregation, while America is a land of segregation wihout class. —BASIL KING. We'll get revergze if it takes a hundred years. History repeats it- self. What 1 wish more than any- thing in the world is that I might again take up arms against France. —MARSHAL VON HINDENBURG. We are living in a fool's paradise. In certain lines in America w¢ have prosperity, but the idleness of the rest of the world should wa us that our prosperity is likely to be transient. —SENATOR ROYAL S. COPELAND, Not a single international problem that faced us two vears ago has been solved. Peace is still looking around Europe for a place to lay her head. —GOV. GEORGE SILZFR (N. J.). The wettest dry spot today is In- finitely better than the driest wet spot of pre-prohibition day —WILLIAM H. ANDERSO the | Denies Credit to Jefferson District Woman Says He Didn’t Write Declaration. To the Exitor of The Star: I kave walited thinking that some one would come forward and say what I am about to write, but now I feel T must tell what my great-great- grandmother, Margaret Maffitt Whann, stated many years ago. She sald the Declaration of Independence was written by Richard Henry Lee and not by Thomas Jefferson, as people gen- erally suppose. When it became time to send the document Mr. Lee was ill, 50 it was sent by Mr. Jefferson. I think if people could only examine | the writing of the document they would be convinced that what I say is {true. The writing in the body of the | instrument is totally different from I Mr. Jefferson's signature. The decla- ration was drawn up and framed by jthe members of the convention of {1776. As a number of my ancestors were members of that convention, 1 do not think I should sit quietly by and allow some one else to have the credit that belongs to those men. 1 do not believe that Jefferson was |a member of that convention. I have never heard it so stated, Mr. Jeffer- son lived in Georgetown, on Jefferson | street dlrectly below the canal on the cast side of the street going south from M. The Rev. Willlam Maffitt, Mrs, Whann's brother, was chaplain for a time in the national House of Repre- sentatives, Mr. Mafitt married Mrs. Turberville, daughter of Richard Henry Lee, the son of Thomas Lee of Stafford, Westmoreland county, Va. Richard Henry Lee died at Chantfily, the home of his daughter, June 19, 1794 William Maffit built Chantilly and lived there in 1768, when his Etep- | daughter, Cornelia Turbervilie, grew | up and married Mr. Stuart. Mr. Mafftt, {having lost his wife, moved to his- jtoric old Fairfax, Va., and built Sa- lona Hall, @ substantial square brick structure, situated upon a slight em- inence. It was within these walls that President and Mrs. Madison took refuge when fleeing from British vio- —it was there our Declaration endence found security for Mrs. Madison was a relative of the Lees and her name will ever live in loving remembranc in the hearts of her countrymen. When the capital was besieged and every mo- ment they expected the buildings to be burned to the ground this noble woman, regardless of life, refused to leave the White House until she had taken from its frame the Declaration of Independe Mrs. Maffitt was the widow of Charles Heale Carter, half-uncle of G Robert E. Lee A. Their home was at Shirley, o Janes river. The daughte Carter, arried Rev. Thomas Bloom- er Balch, who lies buried in Oak Hill cemetery. Mr. Balch was a noted personage of Georgetown. I believe credit should where credit is due. of the convention of twelve immortal judges of Frederick, Md., were the first to stand forth our independenc and 1 think it disgrace that these men have a ¥ recognition of what ey did; they certainly take prece- nce of the signers. Col. Benjamin Mackall of Calvert, Md., was one of first five judges of the court of !s of Maryland and was a mem- that convention. MERVELL MACKALL. eis the usan be given The members 1778, like the is a ver h Should Bar Carnivals E Writer Says D. C. Should Keep Out Itinerant Side Shows. the Editor of The Star: From time to time protests are de against the permission that is ziven by the District Commissioners ¥ carnivals and tent shows | to set up their packs in various parts ' the city. They are now coming here in numbers, because they | are being driven from various citles in the east and west, that it Is time for Washington to follow the pro- cities and stop them from atting up their side shows in thisj city i Unlike respectable circuses like Barnum and Bailey, which charge a fixed sum for admission and give the peopla their money's worth, these shows charge no fixed sum for ad- mission, but a certain amount to see wch side show. Then there are numerous chance games which muiet innocent victims of their money and | before a person Is through he may | have paid as high as $10.00 to see| the show 1 hese shows do not attract a very | desirable element They stay for| Weeks at a time. They take from the ! ty thousands of doilars and do no| good for the community. Under an old regulation adopted in they pay the ridiculous fec of | a day—think of it, a show using | h acres of land—while a neighbor- | ini business pays large taxes and rents It is hoped that our commercial| bodies like the Chamber of Commerce., | Board of Trade, Merchants and Manu- | facturer ociation, our churches and our numerous welfare and woman's organizations will protest 1o the District Commissioners to pre- vent the indiscriminate granting of license to itinerant side shows and: carni t faets are called to their attention they will stop them from coming to Washington, Respectfuily yours, 0 so ma gressive G. FREY. Wants Law to Curb Flower Destruction Te the Editor of The Star: Al those who are interested in the preservation of wild flowers and other objects of natural beauty in the Dis- trict should thank The Star for the consistent interest it has shown in such things, and especlally for the cartoon in last Sunday’s Star showing the “Scenmery Sovietists.” Probably there were some who saw that draw- ing who saw the lesson and refrained from indulging their natural desire to pluck armfuls of wild flowers, but many of the motorists on the Conduit road that Sunday afternoon were ap- parently not affected by it Automo- biles were piled high with dogwood. It is no wonder that so little of that | beautiful tree is now to be seen along that road, for dogwood Is fast going the way of rhododendron, laurel, pink azalea and redbud to extermination. What people do not gather for them- selves children along the way gather and sell to passersby for a small price. One car that was seen on Sunday was decorated with a whole small dog- wood tree, fastened erect in front of its engine, much to the admiration, no doubt, of the young people in the tonneau. One cannot help hoping that next Sunday will be ralny, so that there will De less destruction. Why will people seek to express their pleasure in natural beauty by tearing up as much of it as possible to _carry home for their own private enjoyment? If no appeals will cause the motorist to restrain his desire for flowers nothing short of a law to prevent selling of certain kinds of plants will stop the street venders, who scour the woods for the finest Specimens, that they may sell them, Can we get su a law in the Istrict? E. L. STONE. { tracted als, and it is certain that if theld CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS. The weekly report on business con- ditions. by the Department of Com- merce. Indicates that building ac- tivitles continued brisk throughout April. Exports of wheat and corn during the last week of April were the highest since early March, flnl!l the number of unused freight cars | was reduced from 66,041 of the last| week of February to only 34,343 for | the middle of April. The cost of food dropped to the lowest index since last | October. All this shows prosperity for every. body except the farmer—the food producer. * ¥ X X While the United States is thus pros- pering, it seems that Central and South | America are finding dull business, but conditions are gradually Improving. | No country in the world shows the | active prosperity of the United States. | Even sugar refiners are managing to ! eko out a fair living. While the index | cost of food shows a lowering of | prices generally, it should not be! construed that that is working seri ous hardship upon the sugar refiner: These refined gentlemen are not even | scared by the boycott. * kX * How the joy-killers do like to scare | us! Lumber is to disappear within | fitteen years, oysters are going, and | bass in the Potomac and other | streams within reach will soon be gone, If fishers are not restricted | and the law enforced against the use | of ines and the sale of baby b ther. won't be any use having week | ends any more. Nothing to do but work and golf. | * ¥ X X There’ has been another shot that | is heard around the world. It is the four-inch shot fired last Thursday by the United States revenue cutte Seneca across the bows of rum runners in New York harbor. It routed ‘em, it scouted 'em and put them all to flight. This is the open- | ing shot of the government's war in carnest upon the pirates, following | ho Tecent decision of the Supreme ourt. It is stated emphatically at headquarters, in Washington, that the laws will be enforced with all the | means in the power of the govern- | ment. The time for temporizing has passed. Since the Supreme Court has ruled that the “Constitution does not fol- low the flag.” so far as to make the déck of even a government-owned steamer American territory, subject to the land laws, it would be possible for President Harding to restore the sale of intoxicants to American ves- | sels outside of the three-mila limit. !Gen | There is no likelihood of his doing ! 50, however, because ho feels that that would be only temporary, and in violation of the spirit, if not the let- ter, of the law. X x s It is reported that sugar sells retail in England for 4 cents a pound. In view of America’s international generosity in supplying coal for Eng- | land's province—Canada—while our nationals were freezing, it is sugz- gested that a few shiploads of 4-cent sugar, right now, would help some. % ok The District of Columbia Federa- tion of Women's Clubs has resolved to support the boycott of sugar, and appeals to all the 2,000,000 members of women's clubs, all over America, to do likewise. What is that quota | sands | total, be assumed to equal the t | the ‘in tion ahout tha terror scorned? of a woman * x % % Col. Sherrill, superintendent of pui lio bulldings and srounds, is an ex pert accountant, for he ¥s that amazing to discover how many cit zens of the District ma cilitics © use of the provided 1 50,000 yersons j tennis; 300,000 used athing beach of the Potoma and “hundreds of thousands’ part in other sports. One of “other sports” was the great game statistic The aside total of the above from the “hundreds who_used other amounts to 700,000, out of a popula- s tion of 446,000." If the “hundreds of thousands” not added in this paitr thers pop balan: figur we have a sporting or athleti lation of 1,000,000, and th of the 446,000 total just mos in automobiles, and peedes whom the automobiles season we shall not have our midst, and the only subs: in the way of wild sport, will be the Shrine and the circus. Both have camels to park. Next vear the Dis trict will help park the elephant ar donkey, but i this season, for so m * * an ov Ingress Thers is a probability Dawes' new nonpartisan oy of “Minute Men of tho Cun which he 18 forming spread to Washington purpose of the fend the enforcement whether the part aws vored by the individual or Dawes says he expects its pr to be exxpressed in the plat both the republican and parties. He will confine energies to promoting th tion only in Illinoi, eral, very close to Gen. Dawe: today that the idea is sp i all over th Dawes is daily ¢ n Tilinois ot Ger siples ms of his personat organiz letter: In a speech delivered this week the subject of the spread of and anarchy and revolutior Wade H. I forr general of Ohio, declared tha there are 5.000,000 reds in this coun try who are reading 400 publicatic is known Department of Jus tice to ba vported by the the soviet gov ney ernment foment unrest, America. among two the soldiers lors of th 3 gandists are mpting t turn their guns on thei fighters when the revoluti the 12,000,000 colored which is being taught white man of props congress of the inte Moscow. four Ameri Kates were present and he declares that 000 was then voted to f the United s partly to meet t vation that the Minute ) onstitution & eanized onpai hishiv lines. 1 ciety of will be welcome units. but all wt w themselves 1o uphold the ¢ nd all laws as ther r may h er, be lawfully passed The old-time government will be p tected in Its full eflicic (Co Te 1t ver: of hatred At ationale Mr, 2 fund of upon patriotie, eing a so 1 chligate netitution W exist, orf Doting Mammas Take Long Chane In Sending Boys to English School: BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. | American parents will be more chary about sending their sons to complete their education and to ac-| quire Oxford or Cambridge culture— | hey are quite distinct from one an- other—at English universities. For their boy confronted there b perils of their families over here have no conception. According to a decision just | dered by Sir Rizby Swift. one of the | $30,000 a vear judges of the king's bench dlvision of the high court of Justice in London, a contract to marry is just as binding as a commercial contract. Tt is not necessary that the contract should be in writing—a ver- bal agreement is sufficient. A young man takes a yvoung woman out to dinner, and over the champagne—of course, it is in England—asks her to ! marry him. Or, if she is the elder of | the two, £he is apt to ask him vy in the affirmative. s heen entered into as enforceable as the lease of a house. A contract thus made is given less serious thought and consideration than the purchase or sale of a horse— vet, a horse can be resold or gotten | id of in twenty dozen other different ways, whereas a contract to wed is apparently almost irrevocable. The case before Sir Righy and in which he was asked to pro- nounce judgment. was a breach of promise suit. The male defendant demurred at marrying the girl on the ground that after a thus lightly con- agreement she had grossly insulted his mother. To this the learned judge pointed out that if a fsplay of temper were to be held to prove unfitness for marriage. half the weddings fn the country might never take place. Tt had been generally understood until now that written evidence In the form of love letters were neces- sary_as evidence to establish a suit for breach of promise. But. accord- ing to Sir Rigby Swift. this is not so. A mere verbal contract is quite sufficlent—especially if there happens to be a witness in the shape, for in- stance, of a walter at the dinner table. But, even the witness is not a sine qua non. This opens up new horizons, and it has been suggested that in view of the general Ignorance which prevails as to the valldity of verbal contracts, a copy of Sir Rigby Swift's court cision should be posted to every m tary mess, and should appear on all the college notice boards of the various universities. * k% % Brahan Castle, which has played so great a role in the history of Scot- land, and which was the ancestral home of the late Lord Seaforth, has been left. together with his extens: estates in Rosshire, according to hi will just probated, for life to his childless widow, only child and hejress of the late Edward Steinkopf of Berkeley Square, London, who in ad- dition to being the chief owner of the Apolonaris Springs in Germany, was for many years the proprietor of the St. James’ Gazette, which he pur- chased under a promise from Prince Bismarck to supply him with special information. The St. James Gazette was until the day of Mr. Steinkopf’s are which ren- | Swift, death, regarded as the mouthplece of the German government in the Eng- lish press, and it was owing to the intimate relations between its edito- rial rooms and the German depart- ment of foreign affairs in the ‘Wilhelm Strasse in Berlin, that Fred- erick Greenwood, the famous editor who had created the paper, summarily sovered his connection. The widowed Lady Seaforth has, however, very little sympathy with the land of her father’s origin. For, happening to be in Germany when the great war broke out, she was arrested there as an English spy by the Teuton author- itles, was subjected to a great deal of il1 treatment before being able to clear herself of the imputation, and e oner of part of the « When Lady Seat landed property of her hushan cluding Brahan Castls 1go to 1 grandnephew, the Hon Francis Ala: Broderick, now thi vears of age.s and of the Larl of Middietor recently in this country—by his ond marriage. 17is former Madeiine Staniey, is Gaughter of Lady St He the late Lord Seiforth. The propert is left to the on the conditior that on atta his majority he as sumes the name and tha arms of the MacKenzies of Seaforth, and it probable that then the peerage o his granduncle, the late Lord Sea forth. will be revived in his favor— not only for the sitke of perpety this histc i with and the broad lands associated therewith, lut alse in recongition of the great services t the state rendered 1 father, the present Lord Middleton, who hus hel many cabinet offices, and wh an important role in the nes that have brought about the Jative independence of Ircland Lord Middleton's eldest son count Dunsford, recently in crica and whose actress wife, the forme Pegey Rush. is now making a theatr cul tour of tha United Stafes * ¥ son present wifa, ths the on! or, sister of its connection? Pl ations leg s Vi So great is the difficulty which been experienced i times in erecting tlan obelisks in York. on the square of Basilica in Rome, on the Concorde in Paris and on the embankment in London the most up-to-date and veloped mechanical contrivances modern science. that spc long been rife as to how tians the of t managed to set these so-c of Cleopatra up in their land of the Nile—onc ones being the obelisk in the iis suburb of Cairo. * K * These obelis as most know, great columns of welghing 500 tons or mo. strain of raising a _ shaft of 1l welght from a horizontal into standing position is something t rific Indeed. the operation of puttin into an upright position the now in Europe and Amerfca has bec) so ticklish that when the Needie Cleopatra. was ele to its s the square of St s’ at Rome pontift of the day wave solute stlen decreeing for any one—man, woman or who raised his or her voice whil shaft was being lifted. At thc critical moment, when the seemed to be slipping and the in danger of falling in such a as to break {tself into fragments iy its own weight, a sailor from Ostia velled out, the rope This was done and the shaft and successfully raiscd. was brought before tho Pope. liut instead of being turned over to the executioner for hiz disobedience of, the papal commands, received by way of a reward, a title of nobility and the hereditary prerogative of furnish- Ing all the sacred palms that are used by the Vatican on Palm Sunday The riddle has now been solv Richard Engelbach, the learne spector of antiquities in upper Bgypt. who shows that the method adopted by the Egyptians of three and four thousand vears ago, was to build a embankment of brick and then to roll up the obelisk on rollers until a fun- nel like shaft wus reached at the end of the embankment, where the gran- ite monolith, instead. of being raisdt up, was let down into the funnel-lika shaft that had been prepared for its reception. That is how it was put into place. relatively moder Egyy Ne Peter 40 with ¢ by has the various Central Vark sranite L and the ™ te o o orders for ab ath f child t most rope