Evening Star Newspaper, June 17, 1923, Page 44

2 THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY..........Jvne 17, 1823 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Liusiness Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Ofice: 150 Nausau St. Chicago Office: Tower llundmt Curbpean Office: 16 Regent St., London, England. Evening Star. with the Sunday morniog edition, is delivered by carriers within the city 21 80 cents per montli: duily ouly, 45 cents month: Sund ) cents per month, Or- T went by muil or telephone Main on is made Ly carriers at the “nd of exch month Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance, Maryl nd Virginia. Daily and Sunday..13yr., $8.40; 1 mo., Daily only 1 yr., $6.00; 1 mo., Sunday only 1yr, $2.40; 1 mo. All Other States. Daily and Sunda 1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 85¢ Daile only.. r.. $7.00: 1 mo. sunday only 1yr,, $3.00; 1 mo., Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled the use for republication of all news dix. tehies credited to it or uot otherwise credited n this paper and alo the local uews pub. whed herein. All rights of publication of pec patehes her wrved German Psychology Again. man psychology. which through faulty processes played such an tant part in the of the reat war for that country, is at work gain, in the Ruhr. In addition to the policy of passive resistance against French of that the Germans are a paign sabotage. by a G its in loss the reu cam- ssination and Friday a train derailed bomb placed on the track and rench soldier was killed and sev- 1 pussengers were injured. Recent similar outrage was perpetrated in another section of the occupied ter vitory, and it is now assumed by the French authorities that these attempts ave being direeted by a definite organi ation and under sthing can be more surely caleu- lated the French deter- mination to hold on to the Ruhr, pend- satisfactory settlements on the account, than such efforts toll in lives from the oceupy i occupation conducting of secret s one leadership. to strengthen ing repa » take ing forces. s of crimes may not he divected from Berlin, but they are quite sur ut Herctofure when manifested to the oceupation the German au- thorities have declared that they could not be held responsible for the natural of the people to prevent the of their land. Disclaimers » been entered on the point of responsibility the government for the strik though the Berlin gov- ernment has undertaken to maintain i to the former Ruhr, which has been as a virtual con in the strikes. who falls in s the Ruhr occupation is to strengthen the determination ernment to adhere to the present policy. France cannot be trightened off few derailments and occasional sniping assassinations, this course of con calculated to make for per- part of the French. Tt each the Gi that were so throughout governme resist ance ach has been rts seizure have al ness payments’” workers of 1 led by n of i vega France fes: [ the likely of the y neh saldier Paris by a and persistence in duet sistence on the is seems impossible the glaringly demonstrated the course of the to man mind lessons war. —e—— Uncle Sam’s Borders. a hard time mus sundry kinds, phial of nar sling of a bunch of ‘King unlawful entry into the iverybody, urse, is the inflow liquor ming impossibility of pre venting practically a wholesale trade between (% a and the Bahamas with the United States. Now comes the President Harding feel ~ompelled to appeal to help the government erect barriers the g of diens into the country. The imm tion law, which fixes a quota for th nt) Unele Sam certainly ha protecting his glors of divers rom the con tic to the aliens s -ountry-. rders against and cyors of of of it that be to stronger statement he will Congre: against smugg of immigrants through the usual lawful way, does not Wrord @ quota enough to accommodate all who would like to come to the 1 of prosperity and promise. Trou is also experienced in keeping out \siatics who ave harred, and who can enter by being smuggled in. Sec Davis estimates that in New alone there 00 Chinese who ought he deported, if they could be rounded up, and that it would take a million dollars to get them out of the country Davis is reported as hold- outlook on the preven- ports and in a to to are 5, 10 ng a gloomy tion of smuggling aliens into the coun- | v. He thinks that the whole United States Army and Navy would be un \ble, it employed at the task, to make the border absolutely closed. His plan, which has indorsement of the admin- pelling the enrollment of aliens, and *hecking up on smugsgled immigrants in that way. Congress will have to deal with the subject at the next session, for exist- ing conditions are.a shame and a di zrace. They make Uncle Sam foolish in his inability to keep his own sor closed against ohjectionable in- truders, ————— Instead of sharks or sea serpents, tne enterprising coast resort will now advertise barrels and demijohns washed ashore. Colors for Killing Pain. A dispatch from San Francisco says that “the extraction of a tdoth does not hurt so much if the interior of the dentist's office is onxy-hued.” It was a Lit of caution which prompted the writer of that dispatch to set it down that the extraction does not hurt so much. If he had been a very careless fellow he might have said that the ex- traction of a tooth does not hurt at all if the interior of the dentist's office is cnyx-hued. The dispatch went on to say that “Members of the California State Dentists’ Association, 2,000 strong, in convention here, say that soothing colors have supplanted laughing gas, and that dangerous drugs and pain-killers are passe.” It i also said that the dentists have zone In for psychology. It often "~ happens that strange ¥ known to the German | look | i | | 1 i | | i { Buildings erected | required number. things are said in meetings of den- tists, lawyers, psychologists and even in meetings of physicians, and often these strange things are sent out to newspapers. They are sent out be- cause they wre strange, and for that reason are supposed to be the more interesting. It is most likely that in this convention of dentists some man spoke of the influence of the color of his office walls on the mental attitude of his patients. Perhaps some patient suggested it to him. No doubt he said that his observations were that his patients seemed to suffer less pain since he had the walls of his operat- ing room changed from red to blue or to “onyx-hue.” It is probable that 1,999 of the 2,000 dentists in the con- vention listened politely, let it go at that and did not believe 4 word of it. There is also the statement that dentists have gone in for psychology. Many men who minister to their sick and ailing fellows have already gone in for psychology, if by that is meant trying to keep the patient in good | spirits and to keep him from brooding on his troubles, Remarkable progress has been made in dentistry within ten years, and no doubt progress is still being made. So much progress has been made in the matter of local anesthesia that dgn- tists skillful and well practiced in the use of anesthetics can generally make extractions without pain to the patient. 1t is not likely that dentists are go- ing to turn aside from the means at hand and from a course which prom- ises much progress as the years go by to take up color schemes of interior decoration as a means of anesthetizing patients. It is conceivable that some color schemes might be devised which would produce general anesthesia in a sensitive patient, but it is possible the patient might never “come ———— The Building Cost Crisis. The New York building situation has reached a stage of crisis. The governors of the Building Trades Em- ployers’ Association, now considering matters affecting the wage scales and other issues, has adjourned until Wed. nesday, at which time it will decide definitely on a course of action. Three possibilities present themselves; a general lockout of 115,000 workers and the virtual suspension of $300,000,000 worth of construction: a compromise on the demands of the bricklayers, who ask $12 a day as a basic wage and a two-year contract; or complete surrender to the union demands. The matter is complicated by the fact that the mayor's special committee of the board of estimates has practically compelled the contractors who are erecting school buildings to agree to the union demand, with the additional condition that they will give the me- chanics steady employment except when circumstances arise beyond their control. On their side the brick- layers agree to man the schools to the It is now to be seen what effect this settlement on the school contracts will have on the de- cision of the general contractors, either to declare a shutdown or e compromise, or a surrender to the $12a-day demand. A complete stoppage of all construc- tion work in New York would, as stated, involve throwing into idleness about 115,000 workers, and would check projects of a cost estimated at § half a billion dollars. The total loss of { such a shutdown cannot be computed, because all these buildings are needed for business and housing purposes, and delay in their construction means serious loss to their owners and users. The conditions in New York are per- haps more acute than other cities, but the strain in the cost of building is { being felt everywhere. Numerous and important construction works are being held up all over the country, not { for lack of capital or workers or ma- terial, but because of the fear that building investments made at the pres. ent scale of costs will later not yield an adequate return in use or lease or | sale. In some cities only imperatively needed buildings are now under con struction If building costs fall, say two or three years later, the structures erect- ed during this period of high cost will represent a certain loss in returns. in less expensive conditions will have a marked advan- tage over those constructed during this present period as money makers or investments. Should the New York employing builders decide upon a complete shutdown the labor thrown into idleness in that city may flow elsewhere, perhaps to affect the mar- ket in general and possibly to cause a lowering of wage costs, or at least a check on the constant demands for increases. ———————— Those who desire to purchase 100,- 000 marks for $1 are advised to buy quickly if they do not wish to get istration, is the passage of a law com. | MOre for their money. ——————— As a young and ambitious nation Jugoslavia is disposed to pay as it goes and establish its credit for fu ture enterprise. R Hope for a Cancer Cure. Close upon the statement of Dr. W. J. Mayo, the eminent American sur- geon, that no cure for cancer has yet been found, comes the announcement of a trial in New York of a treatment by X-rays of this disease which, it is hoped, will lead to the conquest of this terrible disease. By means of & new device, which concentrates the rays directly upon the affected tissues, a patient has been subjected to fifty-six hours of practically constant ex- posure to rays produced by an electric current of 250,000 volts. Heretofore a current of only threefifths of this power has been used for a maximum of 100 minutes. The theory of the treatment is that the X-rays kill the cancerous cells and leave the healthy ones unharmed. Several weeks will be necessary to determine whether this treatment is successful. If this patient emerges from the experience with & marked improvement which persists there will be reason to hope that a great ad- vance has been made toward the solu- tion of this problem, which has so long baffled researchers in the science of cure. Cancer Is a mysterious discase, It THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JUNE 17, 1923—PART is an abnormal growth of tissue of & more or less malignant form taking many aspects, with a wide range of location and degrees of menace to life. Operations of removal have suc- ceeded in some cases, but usually they are undertaken too late for cure, after the disease has affected such wide area that removal is itself a menace 10 life, or after the patient has been too far depleted in strength to re- cover. Medicinal treatments, once ap- plied commonly, based upon what may be called folk remedies, have been long since abandoned by medical sclence as futile. In recent years experiments have been made with serum treat- ments, but 80 far with little success, though occasionally one is announced that for a time promises solution of the problem. At present the highest hope rests upon the X-ray or radium treatment. That a close relationship exists be- tween radium and the X-ray is now believed, and the electric current is being substituted for the emanations of the costly and rare product of pitchblende in many cases, with parently equivalent results. In this case in New York the high-power Xeray is definitely substituted for radium treatment. The question in- volved in it is whether the tremen- dous current of light which is poured into the body at the exposed point will have a deleterious effect upon jthe normal tissues while breaking down the abnormal or diseased part, and whether the system can then ab- sorb the latter without systemic poisoning. ——————— Pugilism as a Big Business. Prize fighting has got to be a big business, involving immense sums. Professional pugilism is financed, just like an industry. It is no longer a game for any man to undertake, for it must be organized and promoted like a railroad or a steel plant. Here is the case of Champion Dempsey, who recently won a big pot of coin by suc- cessfully defending his title against the Frenchman, Carpentier. His managers have since then been trying to arrange a match for him, but it is hard to find anybody who is competent to stand up against him, and hagder still to get a guarantee of expenses. A few weeks ago a series of matches came off in New York, conducted for | the benefit of a free milk fund, and some promising material was de- veloped for possible future engage ments with the “big pug.” Meanwhile enterprising westerners undertook to stage a match between Dempsey and an aspirant named Gibbons, to be fought at Shelby, Mont., on the 4th of July. Dempsey's managers demand- ed a guarantee of $300,000, of which £110,000 was paid at once. Now the time has come for the second install- ment on this tidy little sum, but the day of payment has passed, and at latest reports there is but $1,600 in itte treasury of the western pro- moters. So there is a question whether the Montana match will take place. This leaves the Dempsey headquar- ters in a sore state of mind, because there is now no opportunity to fix up a match anywhere else ‘for the big day, so Dempsey may have to be con- tent with his paltry $110,000 for doing nothing, assuming that the amount {already paid will be forfeited. Truly | the prize pugilist's life is a hard one. _— ———————— A great many firstrate ideas are i presented in commencement essays. The facilities for getting them before the general public are at present in- adequate, and powerful thoughts, like the waters of Niagara Falls, continue to run to waste. —_————————— The industrial court proved to the expression of one of those theories which did not work out. The episode will not discourage Kansas, which has prospered amazingly even while throwing one theory after another into the discard. { —_——————— The mysterious power of music can {not be denied. There is no telling { what the psychiatrists might do to a {man who, in cold-blooded conversa- the popular songs. — e | Refusal of France to quit the Ruhr until a reparations settlement is reached may dispose of any idea in Germany’'s mind that every delay that can be managed is an advantage. S —— The wet politicians evidently regard the prohibition enactment as some kind of a “good resolution” to be dis- pensed with as soon as the headache is over. —_——— The foreign demand for German ‘marks might be enhanced if they could be issued in a form that would permit them to be used as confetti. —_———— It is not unreasonable to expect that Col. Bryan will be on hand to propose an antl-evolution plank for the next democratic platform. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Perversity. Sometimes the more you tell a hoy It's wrong to swim on Sunday, The more he finds aquatic joy Most potent on that one day. The more you tell of crooked games, Some tragic and some funny, The more the bunco-steerer claims Your Uncle Reuben’s money. And boy and man are never rid Of grief—let none deny it. The more some fool scheme is forbid, The more you want to try it. Quadrillionaire’s Difficulty. Supposing that you own this earth— 'Tis plain that you will try it— How can you sell for what it's worth Or find some one to buy it? Obscurity. The berry nestles 'neath the leaf, Avoiding human kind; But when it's in the shortcake it Is harder still to find. Value of Publicity. The man who toils both morn and night— £ His merit, people doubt it. Success performs some labor slight And raises Cain about it. tion, repeated the words of some of | Some of Perils BY THOMAS R. MARSHALL, Former Vice Presldent of the United States. the dear departed days of In- diana politics, when we had just democrats, republicans and im- migrants to deal with, a party leader once was asked how he pro- posed to conduct the campaign. His answer was typical of the age. It was, “Boys, when you make scholars of all the school, school is out.” Oracular, indeed, was this state- ment, made mot $0 Many years ago. We are approaching, if we have not already reached, the time when scholars have been made of all the school, and school almost out. Times have changed. No longer can it be sald that results of the political game depend primarily upon the shrewdness of the players, or that secrecy as to moves, which then was one of the strong points of the game, is now essential, Voters have ceased to be checkers, white and black, be moved about by players of the game. They have had the breath of political life breathed into them, and they move thems, Much might be written relative merits of the old and new systems. Advantages and disadvan- tages of each might be noted. 1 care nothing about the merits and d merits so far as mere office holding nd party supremacy are concerned, yet 1 cannot be unmindful of the fact that it fs impossible in America to disassociate partisan habits from the conduct of those affairs which are far more Important than the tempo- rary holding of the reins of When in practice, regardless of any theory to which we held, we be to get away from representative gov- ernment, a new habit of political thinking began to develop. and nat- urally enough this habit invaded other avenues of life. Tt could not be otherwise than that a man of re- stricted environment and devoid of real education would become asser- tive and self-opinionated about every- thing coming under his attention after he had asserted himself on things political ficient much is ves. about the | experience to realize may truthfully be both sides of nearly cve he had been encouraged to believe that upon his jndgment hung the hopes and fears of humankind * % ox % In this of universal informa- tion more than ever before, perhaps, the old adage “A little learning is {» dangerous thing” holds good. It was a little learning that induced the surgeon with knowledge that a diseased appendix should be re- moved to cut into the left side of a patient and sever an intestine. 1 recall one of Bill Nye's stories. He s slumbering and snoring a lroad train when the rudely awakened him ished him against other passengers. that question, age on conductor and disturbing “Who told you demanded Ju. myself,” r whereupon the humorist advised “Don’t you know that you must not believe evervthing you hea Good advice it was for this day. Do not believe all vou hear, but take t to think out things along principles and ascertain the truth about them. The hardest thing for a do is to convince | wrong: the easiest. self that he is right. Throw off the restraint of principle, destroy the yardsticks of life, release the minds of individuals, and we will have some opinfons, honestly formed. as right and’ wrong. The Anglo- 'm who lives in the mountains is i God-fearing and religious man, but he writes his own commandments he determines his own conduct. The feud is not murder to the feudist, but self-defense: he can kill his enemy. hold family worship, and o to admon- the 1 man to to convinee him- Lord Mexborough, BY THE MARQU Lord Mexborough, who has just ar- rived from England, and who is !spending a few days at Ottawa pre- ious to visiting Washington and to making a more prolonged stay at Hot Springs, Va., where he spent the sum- mer some five years ago, is the sixth earl of his line and a soldfer by pro- fession, having rejolned at the out- jbreak of the great war his old regi- ment, the 2d Life Guard: with the |rank of captain, for service at the ifront in France. Although he is also [a viscount and a baron. vet he has no seat in the house of lords, as all his peerages are Irish. Unlike his elder half brother, who died as a Buddhist and was buried according to the rites of that creed. he has u strong strain of Jewish blood in his {feins. For his mother. although a convert to Roman Catholicism, was {by birth a Jewess, daughter of the rich philanthropist, John Raphael, one of the pillars of Jewish orthodoxy in London and who bequeathed to her extensive real estate holdings in the suburbs of the metropolis, notably those of Curbiton and Kingston. Lord Mexborough is, like his mother, a Roman Catholic, but his wife, a daughter of the second Lord Brad- bourne. is a Protestant. sion of the marriage of the present earl's sister, Lady Anne Savile, to the late Prince Louls of Ioewenstein- Wertheim, to argue that her mother was of Persian descent. But the move was unsuccessful and the result of Lady Anne's union to this singu- larly unfortunate scion of the me- diatized formerly German soverelgn house of Loewenstein-Wertheim was | regarded on the continent of Europe as a_morganatic alliance. She was never received at court abroad as Princess Loewenstein-Wertheim nor accorded any recognition mor allow- iance from the extensive family | estates of the princes of Loewenstein- { Wertheim. | Her husband, Prince Louis, it may Dbe recalled, was forced not long after his marriage in London, which was bitterly opposed by her family, to leave Europe in conseqquence of the persecution of the blackmailers and {sought refuge in the Philippines, where he joined the Aguinaldo insur- gents, being ultimately laid low by American bullets fired by an Oregon regiment. The widowed princess was a fre- quent visitor to America until the beginning of the great war and quite a familiar figure in New York, where at one time she endeavored to obtain financlal backing for an invention of hers designed to preserve people from seasickness. As she somewhat ingenuously admitted that she her- self had suffered terribly from mal de mer on her trip across the ocean, no enthusiasm was shown here in taking up her scheme. * ¥ ¥ X Lord Mexborough's father was a great traveler, especially in the orfent. He was the friend and travel- ing companion of Kinglake, the hi torian, and figures in that authors popular book ‘Eothen” under the transparent pseudonym of “Methley,” which is the name of the ancestral \country seat of the Mexborough Sa- viles since the reign of Queen Eliza- beth, when the mansion was built by 8ir John Savile, judge and baron of the court of the exchequer. Among the features at Methley are power. | Though lacking suf- | sserted on | himself that he is | An attempt was made on the occa- Which Lurk In Path of a Pure Democracy dreamless sleep. Men with such an outlook can set up little governments within the American government, be- come a law unto themselves, imagine they owe allegiance to something other than the Constitution and the laws, and yet regard themselves as patriotic citizens. What Is written is written for their enemies; it is not written for them. This would create turmoil enough in soclety. but the end ix not yet. The assumption of a right to govern their own con- duct carries no concessfon of a like right to others. Anything they do not like is condemned by them in solemn convocation. * ok k¥ Quite recently two girls were sus- pended from a college for smoking cigarettes. Whether the suspemsion was justifiable or not 1 do not pre- sume to s 1 do not know and it fx none of my business. Whose business {was it save the girls, their parents {and that of the officials of the institu- tion? But students of another col- lege circulated a round robin and con- the officials who suspended Their methods were char- acterized as autocratic, dictatorial and Victorian. 1 cannot refrain from expressing the wish in passing that me .of the students who signed the round robin would emulate the con- duct of Queen Victoria rather than enecr at it. 1 allude to the incident merely to call uttention how pure de- moeracy is beginning to work in a vernment that was not intended by its founders to be a pure democracy. Freedom is the universal er freedom from restraint, freedom from ‘hool restraint, freedom from law restraint, freedom from sex restraint, freedom from religious restraint. Isn't it about time to utter in the welter of words which are influencing conduct a few words about the principles and customs which enabled fren thinkers of today to reach their sublime agzre ment about the ideals of America ok k% When ancient Israel led the van- guard of the nations on the march i toward civilization one of her great kings placed upon record for the guidance of his people these words: “Walk about Zion, and go around about her; tell the towers thereof. | Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to !the generation following” He be- lieved Israel was all right. He bade his people observe, learn, understand Israel so they might be enabled to preserve it. He had hope that if they saw and knew and understood they would hold fast to the faith America was made great by many things, principally by veneration and respect for constituted authority, which demands quiet obedience to the mandates of the law and patient en- durance of unjust and unwarranted decisions until by orderly processes they may be altered. She was made great by each man sweeping his own dooryard rather than cleaning the yards of his neighbors when his own was cluttered up and unkept. She was made great more by a sense of individual responsibility for personal conduet than b any idea that each man was (o be a guardian of the con- duct of others. She was made great ! ompromise and adjustment, nsideration of the other man's viewpoint. e was made great by llowing the gospel to be preached by polished Paul in Athens and by plain Bartholomew in the fishing smacks by the sea. She was made great by recognition of the fact that the supreme duty of her citizens calls for malice toward none and charity for all Ours is a government of not of men, and government tion, even of the most dis- far worse confusion from fool- _America was made great by a b ding up, not by a tear- ing dow: by recognition of the truth that it is not what a man has nor what he does, but what he is, that marks him as a good or bad citizen. (Copsrighted, 1923, { demned the girls | I 215t Century Press | British Hero Of World War, to Visit Capital | E DE FONTENOY. | the queer old powder rooms. They arsi | @ series of cupboards, | than telephone | women a little larger booths, into which | men and of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries retired in order to be subjected to the repowder- ing of their wigs and of their hair. | Very few old-time mansions ave re- d them, and they are so scarce days that even where they sur- e their one-time use has been for- | gotten. |~ Methley likewise boasts of a pic- | ture gallery full of superh paintings by Sir Thomas Lawrence One of (flthI represents the wife of the third Earl of Mexborough and her first babs. Sir Thomas Lawrence had been commissioned and paid by the earl to paint her. He used to tak an inordinate time to finish his p | tures and had excused himself many times for his delay in delivering the picture. Years later, the earl met Sir Thomas out at dinner and declar- ed that he really must have the ple- ture. “Well," said Sir Thomas, “I've been |2 long time, I'll allow: but I've got | well forward with Lady Mexborough: it's the baby wants finishing. But if her ladyship would kindly bring the | baby and give me another sitting, I really will_finish.” “Well, Sir Thomas,” said Lord to give you another sitting as soon as vou like, but—the baby is now in the Guards * * % x Most of the perpetual pensions granted in times past, either by the crown or by parliament, have passed out of existence, through the extinc- tion of the heirs, or through com- mutation. Very few of them survive, among the most notable being that of $25,000 a year payable to the col- lateral heirs of England's naval hero, Lord Nelson. The present Earl Nelson is descended from Mrs. Thomas Bol- ton, the eldest sister of the victorious commander of the battle of Trafalgar. In the event of the failure of any male heirs of Mrs. Bolton, then the descendants in_the male line of his other sister, Catherine, married to George Matcham of Slaugham, Sus- sex, will inherit the earldom and the perpetual pension attached to the earldom. So that until all the de- scendante in the male line of the great admiral's two sisters, Mrs. Thomas Bolton and Mrs. George Matcham, die out and the earldom lapses, the pension of $25,000 will have to be paid by the British treasury. Another perpetual pension which is stijl being paid is that to the Lords Rodney as helrs of that great naval commander, Sir George Rodney, who was granted §10,000 a year for him- self and for his heirs in the male line direct in recognition of his vic- tory of the naval battle of Cape St. Vincent in 1780, and of his victory in 1782 over the French fleet command- ed by Admiral Comte de Grasse, a vic- tory which brought about the peace of Versailles in 1783. The present Lord Rodney, who distinguished him- self in the late war as a captain of dragoons, and later on as major of the " Tank Corps, makes his home with his wife and young children in | the Dominion, where he has a large | ranch in Alberta, near Fort Sas- katchewan, and where he thoroughly enjoys the free and active life. He has turned over his hereditary pen- sion to his widowed mother, and this raised a question in the house of com- mons the other day by the labor members as to whether he had any authority to transfer his rights to this perpetual pension to anybody else, the government stating in reply That there was nothing In the way of any such transfer, Mexborough, “my wife will be happy | 2 Capital Sidelights BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Fer the first time since Abraham Lincoln persuaded Congress to ad- mit Nevada to statehood thaat he might secure her additional votes in support of his war policies—a period of fifty-eight years—a native son of that state, in the person of Charles L. Richards, has been elected to Nevada's lone seat in the House of Representa- tives. Of ploneer ancestry, his father hav- ing been one of those intrepid Ameri- cans who helped to push the frontier westward and ever westward, born In a typlcal mining camp at Austin, Representative Richards is distinetly a product of Nevada. The story of his life s the story of that land of ro- mance As he himself tells it: “Nevada is a land where those who breathe the pure air of its deserts, those who sense the music of its Jone- liness, those who find joy jn its lim- itless ‘wpaces of sagebrush and sand, struggle on in search of the treasure in its hills, not so much for the hope of discovery as for the pure joy of the search. Tt is God's country, where one may truly listen to the heart isong that lence sings.” And Richards is akin to this spirit of the Sagebrush state. Born amid the "lul’r‘“u"dlngs of a typical Nevada mining town. the virus of treasure- seeking early entered his bl d, and since vyoung manhood he has been |through all of famous boom camps of Nevada—Goldfield, Manhat- tan, Tonopah. He has traversed its sagebrush deserts with the true spirit of the prospector. He has won and lost fortunes with a smile. At last he has wrested another fortune from the Nevada hills, but for him Nevada is still a land of romance. Richards worked his way through Stanford University, graduating ab- solutely “broke,” with his legal edu- catfon as his only asset. In 1889, the famous Jim Butler, known in Nevada as the “Father of and who died only a few g0, had discovered the rich ore deposits of that section. Thither in 1801 went Richards—and on foot, the entire 120 miles from Austin of e county. It s interesting to note that he jmmediately succeeded Tas- ker L. Oddle, present United States senator from Nevada and former gov- ernor of the state. But Richards was more than district attorney. He was speculating in mines and mining leases, building houses overnight, and taking his share in ’Hlu hectic speculation of the boom. After about four years of feverish making and spending of several for- jlunes, the bottom dropped out of the I Tonopah boom and he left Tonopah as he had come, on foot. The Manhattan mines, about fifty miles north of Tonopah, began to at- tract attention. Richards became in- terested and arrived just before the great boom. Here he opened a law 'trlfipn It was of the open-air varlety. {1t consisted of a tent and had as a ipart of its equipment a desk, which, {in reality, was a large plank nailed at one end to the tent post and sup- ported at the other by a stake driven in the ground. He bought the land 'n which the tent was erected, two plots, each 30 feet by 100 feet, and one a corner lot, for $150. One month later he sold the inside lot for $2,500. In drawing leases, contracts, incor- poration papers and similar legal ld-- uments, Richards, in his improvis- ed office, was taking In $200 a day. Shortly, on his remalning corner lot he constructed a $15.000 building, {In the rear of which he had his office, and from this structure he im: {mediately received rent of $1.000 per {month. There seemed no limit to the possibilities confronting the young ilawyer. Then one morning the wires brought word of the San Francisco carthquake. The operations at Man- hattan were heing financed almost entirely by Frisco capital. Smash! The San Francisco quake shattered the boom at Manhattan! The mines closed. Richards had dropped an- other fortune and had obligations of §20.000 facing him. othing daunted, he went out into the hills prospecting. He took with him his bride. Now with an old flivver, now with burros and again {with a team, they traversed the great jopen spaces of the desert from one water h to another, cooking their {meals over a fire of sa hrush and lying down under th a to sleep. After about two vears of this life, word came that ore had been found in_deep mining and Tonopah was jtuking a new lease on lfe. In 1911 iKichards returned to Tonopah {opened an office. lings became productive ag ithe aid of his wife, every cent of his Manhattan indebt- {edness and began to accumulate a ]u\ndwq fund against old arge. One dav a prospector walked into his office in Tonopah and sought to {interest him in a mine. As usual. his igood nature triumphed and he drew iup articles of incorporation, paid the fees out of his own pocket, and ad- vanced several hundred dollars to assist in working the mine. It turned out to be the Belcher Divide mine, one of the richest finds in Nevada. 1" Once again fate had laid in the {lap of Charles L. Richards an in- dependent fortune. This time he had the wise counsel and advice of his Wife and the keen remembrances of Inis previous ventures. There was to \e 1o more speculation. He has been his fortune in Nevada, but in_thos sound constructive enter- prises that will contribute to the |lasting building of the state. Richards takes a real joy in feeling that he is thus able to repay the state which gave him birth and from \hose hills his fortune came. x ok ok % Substitute advertising for ambas- sadors was the proposal made by Senator Walter E, Edge of New Jer- sey last week, in addressing the ad- vertising men. in conference at At- lantic City. He said: “Undoubtedly 4 ain. With |investing ing abroad if, in some cases. we sub- stituted advertising for ambassadors. Senator Edge spoke more authori- | tatively than most people supposed, because for the biggest part of his [life Senator Edge has been at the {nead of an advertising business which ihe himself originated, and which he expanded until branch offices were established in New York, London, Paris, Brussels, and elsewhere. i R S One of the attractive features {in the parade of the Nobles of the | Mystic Shrine was the historic In- dian outfit worn by Noble Haight of Yelduz Temple. Aberdeen, S. D. { Representative Royal Johnson, who is a long-time personal friend of W. H. Wilson, the illustrious poten- tate of this temple, and who per- sonally escorted the nobles from Aberdeen, says that this Indian re- galia was secured, after much diffi- culty, on the reservation west of the Missouri river, near McIntosh, S. D. According to Representative John- son, this outfit belongs to and is greatly prized by Big Chief Wanim- baluse (“Four Winds"), who is the son-in-law of the famous warrior and medicine man, Sitting Bull. He is one of the last of the fast-disap- pearing_aborigines of the Bullhead band of the Dakota Sioux Indian He has seen the passing of many summers and winters and he has been a silent witness to the ruthless slaughter and extinction of the buf- falo and all other wild game of his western plains. Many times has “Four Winds" visited Washington to see the great white father. for he has been the official representative of his tribe in many -councils. He has seen Wash- ington transformed from a straggling village with a few government build- ings into the city beautiful, with all its wonderful and very interesting monuments, structures and govern- mental activities. - Representative Johnson says that “Four Winds" belleves that the In- dlan fancy dress costume which was worn in the Shriners’ parade is the only complete costume owned by one individual Indian on the reservation. Many of the articles of adornment are of great age and have been hand- ed down from generation to genera- tion in his family. Only atter many powwows could he be persuaded to allow its use In the big demonstra- tion here. MEN AND AFFAIRS BY ROBERT T. SMALL. While the United States Commission is wrangling within it- self and with the President as to how it shall function in examining into the various schedules of the Fordney-McCumber tariff act, John T. Barnett of Colorado, for many vears Jdemocratic national commit- teeman for that state, and probably one of its next genators, comes out with a safe and sane tariff view which could, and should, take the tariff out of politics. Mr. Barnett is in Washington on legal “business. “I do not believe In a protective tariff,” he said to the writer; “nor do I believe insa tariff for revenue only. “What this country needs, in addi- tion to a good five-cent cigar, is 4 com- petitive tariff.” There is a slogan with which to win an election. It could be adopted by the grand old party itself, the party of protection; and it could easily be adopted by the democratic party and serve it in the winning of those in- terests that fear always that the democrats are going to open the gates of America to the dumpings of the old world. A competitive tariff-—one that en- ables the American producer to com- pete on terms of equality with for- eign countries which have an ad- vantage of cheaper raw materials or cheaper lahor cost A competitive tariff—the very name implies the flexibility which the Con- gress attempted to write into the Fordney-McCumber act A competitive tariff—it sound of falrness about Tariff has a it which and | Some of_ his old hold- | he cleared off | we would have a better understand-| cannot be mistaken There is no question but that the term “protective tariff" gives to the average man the fmpression that some interest is being “protected” by the government, protected against competition, at ultimate consumer and taxpayer. The term “competitive tariff” would con- vey an entirely different impression. The average American is fair-minded and therefore he likes to see falr competitive conditions established. A competitive tariff would serve every purpose of what is now known as “protection,” for the republican tar- 1ff makers themselves say they seek only to establish duties which will enable the American producer to meet the cost of production abroad. But so long as these same politi- clans rally under the banner of “pro- tection” there is bound to be the in- ference that they are in truth pro- tecting and coddling certain indus- tries rather than merely placing them on a competitive basis. The democratic party adheres the- oretically to the doctrine of a tariff for revenue only, ostensibly disre- garding the condition of home in- mention of “free trade.” In practice and in principle, how- ever, there are few democrats today who would be willing to tariff that would disregard home in- dustries entirely. But the tradition of the party has thrown business, as a rule, on the side of the republicans. If, however, the democratic party could be committed at this time to a competitive tariff, the whole political position of the two major parties would be shifted on this important issue. And nothing could be more Heard and Seen A chapter on pleasant people The world is so full of a number of things, 1 am sure we should all ihe as happy as kings,” sang the poet. {But from the way some folks act jone would think they never found anything or anybody worth while in the world. Grouch, grouch, grouch Indifference to others, lack of ele- mental courtesy, inability to recog- nize the good in the other fellow— these are some of the earmarks of of boor against whom one runs all too often 1t is, therefore, particularly pleas- ing to recall here a few of the cour- teous, decent-acting people one may meet in our great National Capital People met in_the passing of a week's work. Some of them * e Rev. Dr. James E. Freeman, Bishop- elect of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington. Dr. Freeman is a big, hearty. up- standing man, who can lead to Christ not only those who normally hear His message, but all those others who are hard to reach. In carrying on his high work, the bishop-elect does not lose bt of the ordinary man, nor of the or- dinary little civilities which men have come to expect of men who ain to do the right thing. A human fellow, indeed, is Dr. Free- man, with his little dog and his cie- arette; a man with an outspoken do more, I have no hesitancy in sa ing, to lead men to the Master, in his | work as bishop, than a hundred men Who preach brotherhood, but fall to exemplify it on the street * * % Postmaster William M. Mooney “Bill,” as he is known to every one. presides over one of the finest city post offices in the country. The new postmaster has jumped into control in a fashion that im- mensely pleases all his friends who sald he could do it. There is not a one of the 2,000 em- ployes of the city post office who hasn't a friend in the postmaster. Every man and woman knows it. It is because Bill is a human being, a man who greets you with a smile, that he is winning out in a big way at the post office. A pleasant man to meet, he is a pleasant man when you leave him. If You want to know one of the secrets of success, listen in some time when the postmaster says, “What can 1 do for you?" 'And he will do it, too. * * % Garland W. Powell, national direc- tor of the Americanism commission of the American Legion. He is that much talked of, but none too often found person, a’ “100 per cent American.” Although he presided over the con- ference of patriotic socleties last week at Memorial Continental Hall which drafted & new code for civilian usage of the flag, he was never once too darn busy to answer questions asked him. 1 have seen some of the finest folks in the world go crazy when attempt- ing to do anything out of the ordi- nary. Sweet women 1 have seen be- come rude as fishwives when spoken to during the course of a meeting they were conducting. But Powell, being a human being. as most soldiers are, was never too busy during the course of that two- day conference to answer que of help out in anything he coul the expense of the | dustry. with an oceasional whispered |one President of the United Stat write a Teal west. | west show the ordinary, common garden variety {ruptcy and a reorganization | | word of good cheer for all; who will | democratic than fair competition. It is an appealing term, that “com petitive tariff,” and if the republicar, platform writers of 1924 are wise in their generation they’ will seize thic idea of Colorado's leading democra and put it bodily into their procia mation of faith An American just made the business concern important ha discovery that one of its employes in Berlin, a German with a real idea of thrift in his head, has cashed none of his American checks since last Novem ber. Although this employe gives his firm only ary is $150 a week that he weeks in h total of $4,500. week have bee: 000 to the dollar. this German emplo his The firm figures checks for thirty . calling for a man marks this selling around 100. In other words part-time service, now has were to cash his American dollar checks into marks ut this rate he would have exactly 430 000,000 marks. or the normal equiva lent of more than $100,000,000 for hi< slightly more than one-half year « part-time work. One particularly interesting of the case is that the checks whic are being hoarded in Berlin are nu bank drafts or cashier's checks; the are merely the ordinary priva:- checks of the concern, drawn on bank here in Washington. The wis: German realizes, however, that thes: tokens of American credit are fa more precious than the paper co lateral of the German governmen and he is acting accordingly. The be lef is that he is saving the checks in order to make American invest ments. Then, even with the dividend~ he collects or_the coupons he clips he can still bé a “Rhine millionaire in marks. Meantime that 00,000-mark ba ance that he is holding sounds almos like a settlement of the reparations problem Dhase Like the motorman day off riding arou the front platform of troll Pat Sulli- van of Wyoming wandered into the grand wild west show and rodeo which came to Washington as a part of the entertainment for the Mystic Shriners. Pat Sullivan is by way of being republican national committee- man for Wyoming, and he is as biz in stature and in heart as the state from which he hails. Pat went wes! as a young Irish lad and grew up with the country, grew up into wealth and into « great power in national pol ties. Wyoming. it must is the real home of The Frontier day Cheyenne have who spent his d on a car, be remembered the real rodec celebrations racted than s 10 these marvelous exhibitions of cattle roping, broncho busting and all th. picturesque features of the life of th Too see a rodeo and wila pulled off on a city lo new experience for Pat. The show left him absolutely speechle but he came out of the inclostre with 2 grin on his face reaching from es to ear. For Pat Sullivan to see rodeo on the Union station plaza, i the National Capital, was truly lik- an old salt getting enthusiasm out o a painted ship on a painted ocean more a was a Fifty Years Ago in The Star When tory in the District became a the eariy seventies of last century had a long pre gram of public improvement s a heavy expend money. Eventually it ra serious financial difficulties culminated in virtual bank unde the organic act of 1878, Meanwhils the ery of economy in municipal ex pendityres was sounded. In The Sta: of June 9, 1873, is the following com ment upon one phase of this dema for economical administration. “The most rigid ecomomy in con ducting every branch of the go ernment of the District of Columbia has become a mnecessity. The tas of retrenchment is a very delicais one, however, and requires the mos! careful consideration of the legisia ture. The economy which woull destroy the efficiency of any depari ment of the public service must er tail much greater expense in the lon: run than the amount proposed to | saved “Instead of cutting down or cuttins off small salarles of necessary offi rs, thereby effecting a minuic aving, but offering a premium fo jobbing or corruption, let the list of officers be gone over carefully and all the useless ones lopped off. Re duce the number of salaried officers 1t can and ought to be done. ir. Thompson's ‘retrenchment bill as it passed the council, was in the main a good one, but by no mean unobjectionable. Some of its mo obnoxious provisions have bee stricken out by the house of delr gates, but the pressure brought 1o bear upon that body has caused ther to carry the amending process 1 far. “One of the most judicious amen! ments of the house was that strikine out the clause which provided tha the board of fire underwriters shou! - have the appointment of two firr commissioners In & Woard conslstine of five members, a proportion whi ought not to have been serious| considered. There is no good reaso why this should be so, but mav why it should not be. “With the co-operation of one othe member the underwriters would_co! trol the fire department. Wha might and probably would be tin result, even without such co-opera tion? A fire occurs. The energies i/ the firemen would inevitably 1w directed to saving the property ‘our companies.” The uninsure! would have to burn. This migh! make business for the insurar companies, but it is hardl a fai way of doing it. “Old_citizens can remember the time when the Firemen's Insuranc: badges on a building were all-power ful in attracting the streams of water from the engines, while property without that talisman was allowed to_burn. Other cities have passed through the same experience, but all we belleve have profited by it to divorce the fire department from the underwriters. Other arguments might be used against the measure. but the above ought to be sufficient to kill it. Let the fire department be free to save all the property pos- sible from the flames, whether in- sured or not."” te 1 Economy and Fire Protection. before it, with iture of into that a