Evening Star Newspaper, June 13, 1923, Page 6

.THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY THEODORE W. NOYES., The Evening Star Newspaper Company and Per ivania Ave o St Aj 3 ding. Furopean Office: 16 Regent 8t., London, England. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning nlf'endrby carriers within the city 1y, 45 ('Q':ll T nte per month. Or- A1 or 'telephone Main by carriers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. % " Maryland and Virginia. s Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $8.40; 1 mo., Daily ‘only )11 yr., $6.00: 1 mo.. 5oc Eunday only.......1yr., $2.40; 1 mo,, ¥0c All Other States. Daily and Sunday.:1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 85¢ Daily only $7.00; 1 mo., 60c Sunday oni: c Member of the Associated Press, in exclusively entitled for republication of all news dis- atchies credited to it or not otherwise credited n this paper and also the local mews pub. tished hereln. ANl rights of publication of apecial dispatches herein afe also reserved. Apparently the Bulgarian crisis has not passed with the overthrow of the ! - Stambculisky government, and it may not puss even with the death of the former premier, who is now a fugitive and whose capture and execution may occur at any hour. Indeed, it is pos- sible that Stamboulisky's death may precipitate a counter revolution by the Ppeasants, who are strongly armed and stoutly partisan of the ousted leader. One factor, however, makes for peace, accordi to the dispatches now at hand. It is stated that the peasants, who are almost to a man adherents of the ex-premier, are just now too busy in the campaign. But there is no guessing the temperament of these pecple. They ave highly inflammable, and in t present they are acutely jealous of new govern- ment that has’just succeeded to that of their idol Stamboulisky. They may catch fire regardless of crops, with the résult of civil war, the end of which ot be seen. It now appears that the veve precipitated by~ Stamboulisky's de- mand upon King Boris to mak him dictator, which would reduce the mon- arch! to a puppet role. Boris tem- perized and doubtless was instrunen- “1al in bringing about the reaction headeéd by Zankoff. Some doubi hus been thrown upon the iffluence in this revolt of Rado slavoff, the former premier, now an exile in Beriin. 1t was helieved at fivst that througd friends in Bulzaria he had engincered the overturn of Stam- boulisky, and that he would return with pardon und perhaps rise again to power, But a late d lin represents Radoslavoff as express. ing doubts of his pardon, though he is satisfied with the course of events in Bulgaria and predicts the cure of her ills under the new regime. A second Bulgarian revolution, with the peasantry enlisted, is case t wag affairs in the Balkans. Already there are signs of international uneasiness, both in the Balkans and in western Europe. That region is a tinder box, and there is much inflammable ma- terial to be iznited by a ehance spark such as that which has just. been struck at Sofia. ——————— The New Engineer Commissioner. Assignment of Maj. J. Franklin Bell | to be Engineer Conmmissioner of the District fills the vacancy left by the yesignation of Col. Keller, who left the Army to enter private sefvice. Whil Maj. Bell has had two tours of duty in Washington, he has never served with the District government, and so will come to his new duties without ny specitic knowledge of this detail. "The post of Engineer Commissioner has difficulties that are not fully ap- precigted by those who are for the first time detailed to the District mu- Anh-)pal service. This officer must be an administrator in conjunction with two civilians. He must come in daily ontact with the citizens who seek im- , provements and the correction of un- satisfactory conditions. He serves on the Public Utilities Commission by virtue:of his office, and usually as its chairman. In that capacity he deals :dxrecllv with one of the most impor- 1ant features of the municipal serv +lce, that of transportation. In particular matter the Engineer Com- | missioner, ‘in such a-capacity, has a most difficult problem to handle be- cause of the present financial condi- tions affecting the traction companies. Taken altogther, the role of En- gineer Commissioner of the District is . one that vequires an exceptioral ca- “pacity. The officer thus detailed must --be_tactful as well as efficient, con- sidetate of the point of view of the civilian as well as capable of handling technical details. Maj. Bell's experi- ences have been varied, his details have covered wide range. and it is to be hoped that he will bring to this new detail the qualifications that will en able him to render full service as Dis- 1rfef Commissioner to the entire satis- tacfion of the community. —_———— Democratic forecasters are confi- dently announcing the opinion that the 1920 landslide is about ready to throw into reverse. Homes. ‘The home is not a decaying institu- tion in America if one may judge by ‘the number of dwelling houses stand- .ing, Building and projected. It may be | ~argued that the vtombination - of al house and a family does not makeé ul ““home,” but at least it will be admit- i ted_thai.a dwelllng” house for one| family is a place where a home may be. The National Association of Real Estale Boards says that-there is still a shortage of 700,000 homes in the country, which ‘is 300,000 below the shortage, of two years ago. The nor- madl annual demand for homes in the| friends outside of the prison walls| His oil stove he burns in the hot United States calls for 350,000 to 400, < 000 new houses. 3 .-One often _hears. the Where,_do, the people come from to - take these houses? There is an an- swer. Yourg people are being married 4« by .thoysands every day.” John has een living at home or baarding’ at ..June 18, 1923 Editor gathering their crops to engage | patch from Ber- | this | ple have been planning for months to set up a home of their own. And they g0 to it! Multiply that situation by many thousands. Tt is estimated that new-married persons call for the build- ing of 280,000 houses a year. - A young married couple has been living in lodgings or doing light house- keeping in two rooms. The family be- gins to grow. Advertisements in the papers tell of little houses out where the grass is green and the dalisies grow and that can be bought on “easy terms.” And there is another home, or at least another household is set up. Muitiply that situation by thousands every year. A couple lives in a rented house. | Generally they pay, even in normal | times, interest on the cost price plus | taxes and insurance and something i for depreciation. They want to build or to buy a ready-built house. That situation cannot be multiplied by as large a figure as formerly because there are fewer rented houses. Many owners who used to let houses have | been selling while the selling is good. There are people in flats who grow weury of that style of living and go in for @ home of thelr own. There is also a “backwash,” as it were. A good ! many people tire of keeping house fand want to get into small “apart- ments.” And that is the kind of an apartment they generally get into. ————————— Rescue. Few westerners know the Chinese mind. Indeeg, it is doubtful if any westerner ever fully comprehends the oriental processes of reasoning. Occa- sionally 4 man appears who, with the occidental peint of view, is able to | reach the rcots of eastern logic suf. { ficier.tly to deal with the celestial. Such a man, apparently, is Roy An- derson, American, who has jus ducted successful the negoti ms for the release of the men held captive by Chinese bandits in the mountains { of Shantung province. These men were captured on the 6th of May, with others taken from a train derailed by the brigands. Some of the con- | | | these eight were taken into the fast- | nesses of @ mountain retreat and the held for ransom in extravagant terms. Dealings with the brigands were diffi cult because of the lack of authorita- tive government in Chin: Fears were felt lest the captives would be put to death. It was recognized as difficuit I to.make the brigands realize their own peril from foreign intervention and ! puni men | ‘There was, however, within Enf actlon a man who knew how to range ! deal with the Chinese, how to ubserve | { their love of cercmony and to present | to them arguments that appealed to ! thelr reason. This was Anderson, long a resident in the cast, and familiar { with the complexities of Chinese forms and rituais of social and pelitical in- tercourse. Now these eight men are rescucd. not through the payment of ransom or | | through intervention by force, but by | the ‘exercises of - patience and diplo- | {macy. Their return is well nigh would bring | miraculous. in the course of the weeks | about a most dangerous condition of | that have elapsed since their capture | | they have doubtless been in_danger of | death constantly. They could not be assured of ‘safety ‘vernight. At any time. jealousies among the bandits i might have brokeh out to the point of ! their “slaughter. Or suspicion of the { good faith of those. pleading for .their | release might lead to an impatient bandonment of the whole enterprise, with a consequent sacrifice of the in- nocent victims These men will have a thrilling where they can relax from their strain and narrate their experiences. 1t will be one of the wonder stories of i the time. Perhaps they may be abie ito throw some light upon the real cause of China's present troubles, i which have just been aggravated by the flight of the president of the Pe- | ! long king government. They return, indeed, { from the bandit lair to find China in even worse condition than when they were captured. Now will come an effort by govern- ments whose nationals have been thus outraged and endangered to obtain in- demnities for them and guarantees of security for foreigners hereafter in China. It is difficult to see how either | ndemnities or guarantees can be exacted from China, divided as it is nto contending factions, with no se- cure government anywhere. Meanwhile Roy Anderson deserves ! the praise and thanks of the western world for his achievement in securing the rescue of these eight men. He was himself in danger. He met the difficult | situation with diplomacy and courage. { He is the real hero of this episode which has ended thus happily without i a tragedy |, ——————e—— ; An English critic is qioted as say- | ing that American telegraph poles are | inartistic. Much as this may hurt, it |is a relief to know that the minds of | English litterati are at last finding re- lief from the responsibility of deliver- on his world relationship. —— New York city desires to entertain | the next democratic national conven- i tion. The Tammany tiger is evidently | desirous of getting better acquainted with the national democracy so as to at close-range acquaintance. ————— When marathon dancers perform | the innocent bystander gets no eredit { for an endurance test as he listens to the jazz band. . ————— More Trouble for Brindell. There is no énd to the troubles of | Robert P. Brindell, one-time labor or- ganizer of the building-trades of the New York district. - First he got into jail by taking ‘“inducements” for the calling’ off of strikes that he had himself promoted: Then, quite re- cently, he was caught holding secret conferences * with his - family and 'and was sent to another institution i where the discipline is'much more se- | question, | vere. Now comes an indictment for i perjury in connection with his income _tax returns. It appears that Brindell, ‘in ‘his eturn for 1920, gave his income as §21,287 &ndhis tax 'as '$1,358.5! After his conviction for taking money prisoners were rcicased at once, butj story to tell when they get to the point { ing earnest instructions to Uncle Sam | | show what a genial animal he may be | -] Mre. Jones' on Main street. Susie has | from contractors and building owners ?| been living at ‘home. The: young cou, to “prevent” strikes, or to settle them after they had been called, representa- tives of the government took up the matter of his income end. found that Brindell's total income for the year 1920 was $108,680, and that he should have paid a tax of $36,366. In other words, he had failed to inclyde in his income the amounts received outside of his salary and returns from his investments. The difference between .his reported income and that which the trial brought to light was the graft which he had enjoyed. So that when Brinde]l leaves the penitentiary | at the cloge of his term someyears hence he will face this indictment, which may be the cause of a return to prison, Verily the way of the transgressor is hard if he fails to cover his ‘tracks, 1 The Wet Issue Shaping. | Inexorably the real issue in the wet and dry situation is taking form. It is not 8o much whether there is to be modification of the Volstead act, with the recognition of wines and beer. The i real.issue is whether there is to be en- | torcement of existing faw or potential nullification by the states. New York's {action in repealing the enforcement act has flung the challenge to the country. In the Illinois legislature yesterday { the mauntlet was promptly picked up { by tie supporters of law and order. By a vote of 32 te 18 the senate de- feated the bill to repeal the state search and seizure act. The house had previously, by a vote of 78 to 70, passed a similar bill to second read- ing, without necessarily insuring final adoption. The close vote was followed by scenes of tumuit. In Wisconsin a few days ago a flurry arose over the pending repeal bill, which was prompt- Iy suppressed by Senator La Follette, who, astute politician that he is, real- ized that his party could not afford to afliliate with the wets from the angle | of non-enforcement of law, although Wisconsin is regarded as a wet state. In point of fact, the wets have got- ten off on the wrong foot in their march toward modification when they approach it from the direction of non- enforcement. Their opponents are given a tremendous advantage, and | they themseives take on a handicap. | The majority timent of the coun- will not indorse the states delib- crately ignoring a federal statute. | ! Whether the Volstead act does or | does not provide a reasonable declara | tion of what is an intoxicant may be a | [ fair subject of discussion, but the| answer is not to be reached throug! ignoring the law, but by enforcing it | until it is amended, if the majority desire it amended. i se _—— The f at unions have had their troubles with the judicial branch of the government does not prevent a ng sentiment in various labor cir- for absolute government owner ship. —_— e It may be assumed from his various remarks that Col. Bryan regards the idea of evolution as worthy to he !classed as a hallucination such as might arise in alcoholic delirium. —_——— i Canada is disposed to establish rela- | tions with the U. 8. A. which will per- | {mit the discussion of diplomatic and commercial matters of mutual interest on terms of neighborly directness. | —_——— Responsibilities of a ngtional chai man are so great that moments in- evitably arise that bring up the old| { question of whether a man can be) a:rputer than his party. ——— { European statesmen look to Amer- lica for help in the way of money. but | do not yet make many earnest appeals | for advice as to better management of resources in hand. , ————— | Germany wants her dve patents iback. However careless that nation | imay be about curreney. it is thrifty ' (and conservative where permanent | values are concerned. | | i ——— A popular impression gains ground ! that the raiiroad business ought to be developing more transportation and less legislation. D —————— Austria, among the first countries to feel the symptoms of war, is among | the first to be on its way to secure re- habilitation. —_——— | i Anything with which the reader does i not personally agree is liable to im-| press him as propaganda. H i ’ Mythology of the future may have | to enroll old Father Neptune as one of | our most industrious bootleggers. —_——————— SHOOTING STARS. SBY PHILANDER JOHNSON. i i Never Pleased. The weather kicker holds. his rul His ways are never reasonable. When days are miild and nigh cool i He wails, “It's 80 unseasonable:" | ! I i i are | A Day's Work. Early in de mornin’ While de grass is. wet wid dew, 1 telis myself a story "Bout de work I's gwine to do. An’ I sits beneath a shade tree _ Whah de sunlight loves to play, ‘An’ de ol clock keeps a-strikin’ While de daytime runs away. t l i Six o'clock an’ seven o'clock; Eight o'clock an’ nine; 1*'s noon befo’ you knows it. An’' de dinner bell soun’s fine One o'clock an’ two o'clock: Three o'clock an’ fo'— Da's all de time 1's paid fob, An’ 1 das'n work no mo’: Another Idiocy. The lightning ' bug's foily will often amaze; - - Reproof is but wasting your breath, sum- | mer days, ¢ And in ‘winter he freezes to death. . A Satisfaction. The man who has insomnia Exclaimed, “Revenge is sweet! The flerce mosquito's held at bay. The while he fain would eat!” jeountry { and Beatty, to | gard i sale of all the cost i many orders of knighthood. in a Pic-| | Fiela ! for him a monetary grant by i ment { they | monetary rewards WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC How many speeches will President Harding deliver between the time he -leaves Washington on June 20| and the date of his return in August? Nineteen “set” addresses are on his program, but, as the President's recent week end experlence in Dela- ware denoted, that doesn't mean much. When Mr. Harding left for Delaware, it was affirmed at the White House ‘as “authentic, final and everlastingly true” that it would be a speechless trip. Yet, though he was away only a day, the President spoke six times. Considering that he will travel thousands of miles, cross ten or a‘dozen states and be Rone seven weeks, it Is safe to as- sume that joyous multitudes in vil- lages, towns and cities will extort many an uncontemplated utterance from Mr. Harding. Public men can seldom withstand the populace when it's clamoring: “Speech! Speech!” And “no” is the most difficult word in the President’s lexicon. x o % % Truman H. Newberry, former United States senator from Michigan, who has been lost to sight for past year, has just returned to the from “an extensive trip through the far east. On the eve of his departure from Tokio in May. he gave a newspaper interview that delighted the Japanese. Newberry aid Japan should never have been compelled to evacuate Shantung, add- ing: “Those respousible for the clause in the league of nations treaty which called upon Japan to glve Shantung back to China should be made to govern China until she is able to take care of herself.” An- other American investigator now in- specting conditions in the far east is Representative J. Mayhew Wain- wright, assistant secretary of war during the first two years of the Harding administration. The Philip- pines are the particular object of Mr. Wainwright's inquiries. o Latin American circles in Washing- ton are buzzing with a story .of the strained relations that existed at the recent pan-American conference in Chile between the United States dele- ation and the representatives of Cuba. According to the yarn that is spun, Gen. Crowdeér, our ambassador at Havana, has latterly been address- ing wome pretty stff notes to the Cuban president, Senor Zavas. For months - Crowder, acting on a's instructions, has beap at- tempting to induce the Cuban govern- ment to put its economic and political hou in orde President Britain In Awards Great NOY. wers BY THE MARQUISE DE FON Great Britain all the p that took part in the great war has rous in the matt orded to her victorioi military and naval commander Whereas France contented herself with. the bestowal of the batons of field marshal upon Joffre. Foch, Petain and Lyautey, along with the somewhat meager full pay attached {o that office for the remainder of their days, and King Vietor Emman- uel accorded a dukedom to his Gen- eralissimo Diaz. while the Congress of the United States took the peculia course of depriving its principal com- o hich anders of the promotions w manderta Swon on the battlefield in France, reducing them to their ante bellum rank and pay, the colitary case of Gen. Pershing. Britain conferred upon her principal ommanders orders of knighthood hereditary titles and peerages, with ats in the house of lords, while par gene been most g rewards pted large grants of money | e, I the gol the Lords Haig | n of nwnxd:“ ch. in the c which. i ke f(". of $500.000 each. while o e ina Allenbs half of that amount, the smaljest awards being those of $125.000.° It must be thoroughly understood that these monetary rewards were not nts; by the crown. but were voted almost unanimously by parliament a: the representatives of the people few words, therefore, should he given by way of explanation with re- to England's alleged niggardly treatment of the widow of the late Gen. Sir John Cowans, and the pub- licity given on both sides of the Atlantic to the exhibitton for public ly insignia of his cld Marshals received cadilly shop window in London Lad *owans. called upon explanation, complained bitteriy <he had been compelled to sell her husband’s orders because of the in- adequacy of her widow's pension and of the government's failure to deal With her husband as it had dealt with Marshals Lord Haig, Lord French and Lord Allenby. parlia- Tt is only fair to Lady Cowans o say that she herself did not put her husband’s orders on sale. The parties responsible for this were the executors of Sir John's will. When came to deal with his estate which did not exceed $40,000, they found that it was more than swal- dowed up by his debts, which were of a heavy character, and as the deco- rations formed part of his estate. so {hey had no alternative but to have them sold S o S Cow. the reason why parliament failed to vote any monetary reward to Sir John Cowans was that instead of figuring in any of the victorles of the war as a commander in the field, or even as a combatant, his role, al- though of the utmost importance as quartermaster general, was purely administrative and restricted to desk duty in London. It was Lord Kitch- ener, it may be remembered. who was -responsible for the creation of that wonderful army of close upon 5,000,000 men, whom he literally raised from the very ground after the beginning of the war. to supple- ment the “contemptible little army” (to use ex-Emperor William's phrase- ology) of barely a quarter of a mil- lion men at the outset of the strug- gle. Yet Kitchener, because he had not been & combatant in-the- field, but had remained at home as secretary of state for war, was not remem- bered by parliament when it voted to. the victorious commanders, although without him the conflict’ might have had a far sorrier ending as far as the British empire, France and the allies in gen- eral were concerned. Had any money been voted (not to him, for he was dead at the time—drowned at Sea while in the service of the nation) his brother and nephew, who herited his property and his titles, { would not have been obliged to lease |to strangers the Broom Hall estate, in Kent, his favorite home and where I he had assembled all his treasures. {1f there was no vote of money for | Kitchener’s soldier brother and sailor | nephew there was no particular rea- {son why there should be any mone- | tary. vote ‘fgr Sir John Cowans. ok Trug«he.dld wonderfully well as quartérmaster general. As such he had 46" provide for the Teqiirements of afmies of near fiye milllon men, operating ‘In ‘all parts of the world, n France, in Flanders, in -northern Italy, 4fi ‘¢the Balkans, on the penin- sular -of: -Galliol), in° south, west and east Afgica, on the eastern and on _the western frentiers. of Egypt. in Palestine, in Arabia, in Asia Minor, Mesopotaniik, - Persia,’ in European and Asiatic Russia and ‘Jast but not least im China. 'An English force, under the command of Gen. Nathanie Barnardiston, participated in the op- the | of | Great | in securing | in-{ WILLIAM WILE said to have cabled the Cuban min. ister at Santiago the text of some of Crowder's communications, and these ~—always according to the tale now circulating {n Washington—were cir- culated in those conference quarters where they were designed to do the most harm. * ok ok * Relentless and merciless are the conscientious minfons who preside over the permit division of the prohi- bition enforcement unit. One day this week a Washingtonian applied for the privilege of transporting to the capital a couple of cases of pre- Volstead vintages bequeathed to him in the testament of his lately de- ceased mother. The permit division returned a courteous but categorical “no.” To soften the blow, It was un- applicant that he's no worse off than a certain federal dignitary who re- cently tried and failed to import a small stock from Pennsylvania. * ok ok K James Martin Miller, who writes for Henry Ford's Dearborn Independent from Washington, publishes a pep- | pery interview with Mrs. O. H. P. Bel. {mont, dictatress of the natjonal woman's party. Miller asked Mrs. Belmont if, when a woman is Presi- dent of the United States, her hus- band would be known as the first gentleman of the land. “Certainly, and why not?’ bellowed Mrs. Bel- mont. “But supposing a maiden lady should become President?” observed Miller. “Why, she'd have a million proposals to marry the day she was nominated,” efaculated the woman’s party generalissimo. “You men are always looking for soft snaps. * ox ox % Edward Everett Erodie, American minister_to Stam, has arrived in the 3 States on his first leave of | absence since President Harding sent him back to Bangkok In 1921. n Oregonian, and will be in his home state to help welcome the presiden- tial party at the end of June. Like so many of our present diplomatic of- ficers, Mr. Brodie is a newspaper pub- lisher, heing the proprietor of the Morning Knterprise of Oregon He is accredited to the world's last |remaining absolute monarchy. The | Siamese have not been contaminated | by the modern rage for democracy. Throughout a history stretching into the dim and distant past. they have | never been under the authority of an |alien regime. Though its rulers are royal autocrats, Siam is called Thai by its inhabitants. meaning “free.” | They are about 10,000,000 altogether, populatink an area the size of New England, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania combined (Copyright Most Generous for War Gallantry era nated seizur man | over, which eulr and upation of the ¢ colony of Kiaochou. M. the British quartermaster ge eral was called upon to either furnish outright or else to contribute to the equipment and supplies of all sorts of foreig: ry forces. There is no exagge the magnitude of the details that fall to a quarter- master general’s department a great war. It means the furnishing of the armies in the field with food 2nd drink. with buttons, boots, shirts, socks. mounts and remounts, Wagons, } hospital supplies, uniforms. belts. helmets. caps—in fact, there is no end to the catalogue of the supply serv- ices for an army of millions in a great war. By common consent British army was the best fed. the best clothed. and from a physical point of view the best cared for of any of the armies in the fleld, at ©ny rate until the American serv- ces got into their stride during the | last year of the conflict. All this was dne to the extraordinary powers organization and {o the resourceful- ness of John Cowans. He re- i peatedly asked 1o go to the front to see some of the Aghting. but he uld not be spared from the war department in_ Whitehall Not merely millions, but even bil- lions. of dollars passed through his ha and it is a matter of pride that whatever charges of dishonesty and_corruption were brought against civilian contractors, the officers of the regular v, and first and foremost mong them. Gen. Sir John Cowans, |did their duty in a patriotic and dis- interested manner. above all reproach and suspicion as far as their integrity and efficiency of service were con- cerned. True, there was a consider- able amount of extravagance, owing to_the impossibility of determining beforehand the duration of the con- flict, and likewise attributable to the disposition of the contractors to take improper and extortionate advantage of the urgent necessities of the army. But it is all to the credit of Sir John Cowans that, with the billions of money that ed through his hands during the four vears of war, his unrivaled opportunities of quietly and secretly enriching himself, he should have died heavily in debt’and without making any his widow, who is now dependent upon her regular army pension of barely $1,200, since she has refused the additional grant of $500 a year from the civil list of the crown. £ %k x In spité of these incalculably valu- able services of Sir John Cowans. {which it needed a soldier of the |regular army to appreciate at its true worth, the late quartermaster general was not persona grata at Westminster or with the public. It may be recalled that he was at lone moment during the war the ob- 1ject of such a storm of popular | prejudice that his retirement was demanded in parliament and clam- ored for by the press. and that it was only because he was regarded indispensable in the office of juartermaster general that he was | kept_at post and escaped ship- wreck of his career. It was in con- nection with a_now almost forgot ten episode, where his courtesy, good mnature and friendship caused | him to succumb to !coat influences, en tout bien et tout i honneur. the lady in the case being ia near septuagenarian, to the extent of becominz the principal party to the war departmentS persecution of a certain young officer of humble birth and remarkable gdod looks and_who had been badly wounded in France. The treatment which the voung officer received from the war department at the instance of the great lady, whose exaggerated devo- jtion and care he had misinterpreted, {was of a particularly harsh charac- lter. It must be confessed that in this unfortunate matter. distressing to her gallant and popular husband and to her two daughters, a_duchess and a foreign princess, the indiscre- n Japan's that of the lady involved. and the denunciation which he incurred was of a particularly savage nature, especially in parliament, from which it would have under the circum- stances been hopeless to look for any monetary grant. Then. tco. when the war was over and_ his services were still badly needed in order to deal with the frightfully défficult problem of get- ting rid of all the surplus supplies, amounting in value to hundreds of millions of pounds sterling. a prob- lem which We understood better than any one else, he suddenly resigned and left the government in the lurch in order to enter the service of the so-called Shell Transport and Trad- ing Company, embracing a number of concerns, including the Mexican Eagle oil interests. Before his ar- rangements with the latter could be finally. concluded he suddenly died in the south of France—that Is to say, before he had time to derive any benefit from the new venture upon which he was embarking. Since then his widow has assailed every statesman, in and out of office, in turn, with her grievances on the score of the alleged niggardliness of staté and people in failing. to monetarily reward her husband or to make what she considers adequate provision for herself. officially imparted to the unsuccessful | city. | the | of | and | provision for | certain petti- | tion displayed by Sir John rivaled | Politics at Large Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York continues to occupy a conspicuous position in the public limelight, the result of his signing the prohibition repeal bill, thereby placing himself at the head of the movement for modification of the Volstead act. But in a statement he is quoted as having made In Chicago the day before yesterday the New York ex- ecutive declared he is not a candidate for the democratic presidential nomi- nation. He did not say he would not be a candidate or that he wouhl not take the nomination if offered. He stopped over in Chicago on his Way to French Lick Springs, Ind.. whither bound for rest and recuper- ation and where he expects to meet some prominent democratic politi- cians. A special dispatch to the N e New York 'I;‘rlbune 8ays Gov. Smith was asked the direct question: *, re you a candi- for President?” to ~which he ;'exsprmded as directly, “I am not.” Tt ble[lu!d that a strong sentiment is e piaTaved against Gov. Smith's 'l'n"”!hee candidacy for the nomination B south, where the Ku Klux lan s powerful, on account of his religious afMliation. and it is being );l;xg!r;‘:te% that if he were nominated 3 emocrat o mignt be' broken up, ¢ 01T souh o ow % Gov. Smith and William J. Bryan enlivened politics this week by a kind of joint debate in which they nmcagfd through the newspapers. :he :\ew York Times haa requested is views upon a series of questions propounded to him, bearing on the prohibition question and its applics- | ton to democratic politics. o swering the questions, Mr. Brygx': pro. l‘_Pede to “take a fall” out of Gov. Smith and his attitude toward state rights and the liquor question. % { e “gota rise” out of the governor i promptly. who proceeded by return mail to lash out at Mr. Bryan without mincing words. In passing, G0V, Smith took occasion to express his real opinion of the Volstead act, in harsh words. “Mr. Bryan knows as well as I do." he said, istead act 1s a dishonest and hypo- critical interpretation of the eighi- eenth amendment. He knows as well I do that the fanatical drys in ntrol of Congress wrote that law to accomplish thelr narrow and big- oted purposes and not to give honest In—xnr asion to a constitutional amend- ment ntinuing., Gov. Smith sald: “If { Mr. Bryan's reasoning {s to be fol- “that the Voi-{ CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. The market price of flour falls 30 cents a barrel, and the market price of bread rises 1 cent a loaf. This refers to the price of Minneapolis flour. Local bakers of Washington Lelittle that fall on the alleged ground that it comes from ‘“one par- ticular mill” Minneapolis is the largest primary grain market in the world and the largest flour-producing city in the world, with the largest individual mills in the world; hence it is as- sumed that as goes Minneapolis flour, so goes the flour of the whole market. Thirty cents a barrel does not seem to the layman to be much of a fall in price, yet it is sald to exceed the usual total milling profit on flour. As a barrel of flour (196 pounds) makes from 280 to 300 pound loaves of bread, 30 cents drop would make no appreciable difference in the cost of the bread—nor should 30 cents rise. The difference between 156 rounds of flour and 250 or 300 pourds of bread 1s said to represent the milk, | potatoes. Jard, sugar and water which | are the ingredients aside from flour. | Practically all ingredients have tend- . ed to decrease. Even sugar—which is not a great item in bread—is com- ing down. o The only element which has risen in cost is the wages of the baker: Just what the increase in wages would figure in a loaf of bread would require an eficiency expert to com- pute, but the workmen claim that their increase of wages amounts to a mere fraction of a cent a loaf, while the hakeries are adding a cent a loaf to the customer, and harvesting the diffcrence as their own added profit. * x ox % The Department of Agriculture re- ports that during the last two wee at eleven principal grain markets the price of wheat has fallen an av- { erage of 11 cents a bushel.s It takes four and one-half bushels of whea to make a barrel of flonr, therefore the fail in the price of wheat is equivalent to about 50 cents a barrel of flour. while the lers give the public the benefit of only 30 cents. An Agricultural Department official remarks This appears o be a concrete ex- | ample of how the advantages stick | to the fingers of the gaod folks be- | tween—alias middlemen—the millers lowed to its logical conclusion, three- quarters of 1 per cent of alcohol in a beverage intoxicates. Nobody with an ounce of brains believes that. That much alcohol might well be discov ered In a lump of sugar, but narrow- minded men must of necessity follow narrow views and it is that same nar- row-mindedness which makes them intolerant of others on any question, no matter how well founded.” k% Mr. Bryan. in his article, had fre- quently referred to Gov. Smith's pos- sible candidacy for presidential nom: nation and had flouted the idea of his success as preposterous. On that point Gov. Smith replied: “Unlike himself I am not a candidate. When been selected by the people. But in Mr. Bryan's case a wise and discrimi- nating electorate usually takes care to see that Mr. Bryan stays home.” * ok k¥ In the course of his % | Bryan made some assertions and pre- isented some statistics to disparage the prospects of the wets to accom- plish any results against the eighteenth amendment or in commit- ting the democratic party to a wet polley. He asserted that the eight- eenth amendment was the result of | the longest contest ever waged at the polls, pointing out that nearly fifty vears elapsed since the beginning of the fight by a few women in Ohio and the victory of 1920 “Thirty-three states.” he said, “ban- ished the saloon by their own inde- pendent act. nearly all of them by constitutional amendments.” He add- | ed that “over two-thirds of the mem- bers of hoth houses voted to submit prohibition and forty-six states rati- fied the amendment. The people bave jelected five dry Congresses in suc- |‘cession. The first one made the Dis- i triet of Columbia dry: the second by {more than a two-thirds vote submit- ted national prohibition; the third by {more_than a_two-thirds vote passed | the Volstead law: the fourth by more ithan a two-thirds vote passed the | anti-beer bill. The present Congress | has not vet voted on the question. but { wets have made material gains | "“As the national House of Repre- | sentatives.” Mr. Bryan contended. { elected b districts approximately ‘equsx in size. the affirmative vote in i five successive Houses would indicate ja permanent sentiment in favor of " prohibition as a national policy.” { * % x * ! Touching upon the prospects of the democratic party being controlied by | the wets, Mr. Bryan had this to sa { “The democratic party has had an {honorable part in bringing prohibi- ! tion, having furnished as large a per- {centage in both houses as the re- | publican party. Is it likely that demo- cratic advocates of prohibition will permit the party to be made the ! champion of the liquor traffic? Are.the defenders of the home likely to be less earnest than the defenders of the saloon?’ Mr. Bryan evidently is counting heavily on the votes of women in the democratic party to prevent its cap- ture by the wets in the 1924 national convention. They will vote, of course. on the selection of delegate: It is impossible,” Mr. Brvan said, “to esti- mate at this time with accuracy the jrelative strength of the two sides. but it must be remembered that the women vote now." Then he made this point: “If prohi- bition could be secured when only a few women voted, is it likely to be abandoned when all the women can vote. The democratic party was made dry by the male vote; the mothers. wives, daughters and sisters will add | their strength to the dry side in the democratic party as well as in the | republican party.” * Kok ok Mr. Bryan insisted that the wets have no thoughts of repealing the eighteenth amendment, and argued that “if they could not control one- third of both houses, which would have enabled them to prevent sub- mission of prohibition, how can they { expect to obtain two-thirds of both houses to resubmit prohibition? It they could not control one branch of the legislature In: each of thirteen states. which would have enabled them to prevent ratification, how can i'they hope to secure . seventy-two i branches in the legislatures of thirty- |six states. the number necessary to ratify an amendment repealing prohi- Dition?” * %ok w “The answer to His questions which the wets have advanced from time to time is advancement of the claim | that experience with prohibition has developed a change of sentiment among_voters, looking to modifica- tion of the strict Volstead act, but very few wets expect repeal of the amendment. Gov. Smith in his mem- orandum accompanying the prohibi- tion enforcement repeal bill declared the other day the saloon never will and never should be restored in this country. T have been in the past. I have usually | is | profiting 20 cents net. when the farmers lose 50 cents. and the hak- eries paving their workmen a slight increase of wages and charging the public several times the amount in the increased cost of bread.” Pl | * The average consumption of flour per person is about one barrel a year 1ot all in bread. but in all forms. | I Reducing it all to terms of bread.| with increase of 1 cent a loaf| for 250 loaves a year. it means about }$2.80 a year per person increased co: {of living. or ahout $11 per family. ! Adding the 50 cents loss per barrel to the fazmer. the snread between the produd®r and_ultimate consumer is | ased $11.30. even while costs of | production are falling. ) Kansas farmers have heen looking | to a_July harvest of a_humner crop, but floods within the Iast few davs | have worked great destruction. Won't comebody repeat recent calculations showing the vast increase in farm nrosperity? | *r ok % | their permanent homes. | the state COLLINS. of making: them intelligent Ameri- cans. The schools will'be €0 arrange as not to {nterfere with the aliejs’ daily employment, but they will be of very great advantage to those w really want to adopt America There are in America about 7.000.011 aliens, aside from immigrants w Lave acquired citizenship. To «h sorb so large an element of forciur ers and retain the ideals of Amerii. it is claimed by Secretary Davis require systematic action/ It i< hardship, he argues, to require thos who are to enjoy the benefits « American institutions to fit then selves to enjoy their rights. priv leges and obligations, intelligentl and if they are not content to pa 310 or $15 a year for the instructio needed, they lack the epirit of desir able citizens. The Secretary helieves that to retain 6 per cent of our popu- lation with foreign sympathics wnc alien ideals is too much of a handican upon American ideals. It is prohable that somewhat similar measures to reach American illiterates mayv he urged upon states, if it ba found tha | federal legislation avould be permisst ble. The idea is to put a premium o education and a handicap on per sistent and willful illiteracy. Son of the southern states are bec aroused to the need of stronger mez s ures to overcome high percentag. illiteracy, ard the Davis expe: with aliens will be watched great intere mer wit Aok e Henry Ford wants to use the Nau and Army to enforce the prohi laws. President Harding ther: refers the proposition to the Depart ment of Justice, which refers it to Assistant Attorney General Mise W+ lebrant, who has special charge prohibition matters. While Mr. makes a good ver for the mone she advises that the Army and > are busy with their legitimate fu tions. might add to cope of the duties of the Army - Navy, ipon Ford Congress but has not done so since 1 4 In political campaigns follow the civil war. a favorite slogan of republicans was, “Vote as you sho Now the Costello Post of the Amer can Legion, believing in actions cr sistent with talk, has passed a lution condemning national offi of the legion who sailed last to Europe on a British vessel. inste of an American ship. the Preside Harding. which sailed on tl day. The Costello Legionnaires tui the stand that, since.the legion ob zation makes members pledge 100 p cent Americanism, the high a ought to sail accordingly. Protest have been duly filed at national he quarters of the legion. * ok k% The Supreme Court h West Virginia has no right to «: force unconstitutional lawe fort ng the sale of natural gas ou! until all intrastate den is complied with. The brought on behalf of Ohio users West Virginia gas. The principle involved is that ti can be no tariff or other commer Larriers hetween Last winter cussion as to th wer s ruled tha case stat there was much justice of pern the ®shipment of American coal Canada while American consun.cr were suffering for deliveries principles are different there. for (ar ada is a foreign country. though is doubtful if there could be any lin upheld that would undertake an « bargo on exports. The Constituti Speaking vof o prinociousness or the present generation vouth § brings attention to the news that the | son of Wagner s about to tour Amer- | ica: the thirteen-year-old of | Douglas Fairbanks recently d | from Paris just in time to sign his| name on the dotted line of a contract {alleged to give the hoy $1.000 a week as “leading man” in a movie. In Europe it appears that war. the son of a gun, is about all that is left to { tour from the Ruhr to Japan. The sons who reach America will keep away from bad association with the bad Loy of Europe. * X ok % son arri in The Secretary of Labor. Mr. Davis, is developing a bill to be presented to the next Congress, which will assess all aliens a special tax of from $10 to $15 a vear for the support of ! Americanization schools. The aliens | then will be required to attend these schoois. established for the purpose there is no reason to believe that the | iLet Supreme Court Keep Powers, | Majority of Editors Demand. { 1f public opinion is at all repre- Isented by the press of the country, {there 1s an oyerwhelmingly strong |sentiment in America against taking “the final say” as to a law away from the Supreme Court and turning it over to Congress. However, there is a coterie of editors who believe the | {bare majority ruling of the highest | !{ribunal should be changed so as to nake a two-thirds vote necessary before declaring any w unconsti- tutional. i Chief Justice Taft, speaking at substantial Cincinnati, at the unveiling of the Chase monument, brought about this ! ldance of editorial pens. 1In his ad- |aress he took occasion to dwell upon ithe attacks made on the Supreme iCourt in Chase's time, and, as the {Logansport ~ Pharos-Tribune says, 1“drew an opportune moral from the !fallure” of those onslaughts. In mentioning Taft'’s speech the |New York Tribune ‘points out that {the Supreme Court *“came through {unscathed. * * * Its critics have inever been able to show us how we {could get along without it” Wen- {dell Phillips was one of those in past | civil war days who wanted to get rid of the court, says the Boston Herald, and “surely this sounds very much like what we are hearing today. {Says the Chicago Daily News: “Impa- }uent congressional groups and at times leven congressional majotities have {resented the annulment of invalid {legisiation, born of passion or of partisan zeal and fanaticism ‘and Sometimes of worthy impulses. But the court has continued calmly to | exercise its functions.” In looking back on the earlier attack, deelares the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, no one “can have anything other than loathing for Thad Stevens and the majority that responded to his hymn {of hate againt the south.” “Indeed, ithe Bridgeport Evening Post empha- sizes, “the verdict of the American Deople after reflective _consideration 5f these controversies invariably has been with the court. The position of the critics, in the present as in the past, is quite untenable. The demand for curtailment of the court's powers is called “temporary by the Terre Haute Star. “The Supreme Court” it continues, still stands as the bulwark guarding the fundamental law of the nation.” “It is folly,” declares the Newark Evening News, “to pretend that the average American would not rather Jeave his life and property in the hands of the Supreme Court than in the hands of Congress” The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times con- {ion of the Indianapolis New ] | Evening News forbids suchga law. e « Now Chairman the House appropriations with 2 gehuine case of reincarnati of Benjamin Franklin's and frugality 1 and circumsta out No I¢ Harvey dangle of Great Britain breeches. He especially now comes Maddey co simplic all pony of diploma shall Ambas the Empe and India e should wear bis long P that even the lad skirts are long. Also ministers to China and France must shou economy, and depend on logic to wir their pleas. Chairman Madden | from Illinois. and it isn't done any more out there—the fantastic dress and the costly raiment and the lux- urious coach It served to make comment in I, don when Ambassador Harvey drov a_flivver down Piceadilly, he hein his own chauffeur: but mow all clear. He must have had a po. card from Mr. Madden. (Copyright. 1023, bs I wants around i Y. Collins EDITORIAL DIGEST curs in that view, saving ° is too readily subject to he by a noisy minoMty.” The very un- popularity of a decision, in the oni best proof of its soundnes . Complaints against the bunal. it continues, are “all old stuff, nd quite as objectionable ncw ¢ sixty vears ago.” Simpls its_powers, says the Alba s some would t them. would weaken the governimncnt itself, and the people will alwins realize this.” To lessen the pewers of the court just now certainly is wise, the” Chicago Daily Jour agree This court. says t was_established local prejudices.” bly “sensibiliti ties are ruflle given the right to overrile court’s decision as to constitutiont ity of its enactments, says the Pl delphia Evening Bulletin, “it v possess the right to amend the (ot stitution at the pleasure of twr thirds of its members.” The Bosic Post speaks of “mischievous tempts to turn the last word, ove Congress, hoping they will ba fu Present critics of the court, the I troit Free Press suggests, may the story of earlier atta warning” and instruction of the nation is “more respeet f Supreme Court. not the weaken its functioning_powers,” insists Canton (Ohio) Daily N Wit Jt* says the Albany kerbe Press, “the nation itself would pr bly have fallen apart long ago. Yet there are editors who 1} two-thirds rule. Here's the York World, for justance, w! holds “that the court would be stronger 1f two-thirds of the jus were necessary: to-a decision de: ing an act * * * unconstitutio Such a requirement would ren the possibility of a single. justi acting as umpire in a decision for against an act” which - had | the be limit e Roanoke Tim avowedly to and often inevit of local comr But if Congress N jrassed by both houses of Congr or a state legislature, declares Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. “Fiv. four is the division which has b reported often enough to challe public attention.” the New © Yor Globe points out. “The pillars the repubtc would not be shaken six to three were called for, a tvwo- thirds majority.” Yes, the Prov dence Evening Tribune admits, " might be wise t6 change the presen majority system of ruling." The Worcester Dally Tribune the Cincinnati Enquirer can't see that argument. . “Under the- present method.” “the first points. gut, - least flve -men must agree befo! we follow their interpretation of ti Constitution.. Under the two-thi rule, in some cases, we would have to- follow the interpretation of fo men.” And the Enquirer adds: a decision five to four it is/as like & that the five are right as it would be that the seven of the nine were right” and hurries to a conclusion that critics of the court merely “are chewing over an old cud.” 4 { ]