Evening Star Newspaper, February 8, 1924, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR ‘With Susday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY. .February 8, 1924 s Ce e A *THEODORE W. NOYES. .. Editor| e 2 e e The Evening Star Newspaper Company' Busizess’ Offfce, 11th St. aod Penmsylvania Ave, " New Tork Office: 110 Fast 42ad St. 3 icao Ofce: Tower Bulidiog, - Europesn Offce: 16 Regent £t., London, Engtand, - The Evening Star, with the Sundey morning vdition, is delivered by carriers. within the on, is de by e ne o ernment is not paying bigh enough rent. The situetion is unsatisfactory to the tenant and the lan@lords. It is also shown that the rental is but @ small part of the expenso to the gov- ernment, a great loss being due to in- creased cost of, atmimigtration result. . country for even so worthy @ purpose | he; ing from inadequate housing and scat- ‘tered quarters. The controller general has estimated tmt $250,000 = year would be saved by his bffice if it were trought together in oné building, and the commissioner of internal revenue has estimated a greater saving in id- per | ministration eost if all the parts of 'mont) o phone Main 5000. Tiers at the end of cuch month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virgint, Dail d Sunday..lyr, $8.40; 1 mo., . D:II; ;:ly. })":.. $6.00; 1 mo., 50c Sunday onl 1yr., $2.40; 1 mo., 20¢c Ly All Other States. * paily and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00 aily enly. yr., § 3 1m0, Sunday onl ; 1 mo., Z5¢ Member of the Assbeiated Press. The Associated Prese is exciusively entitled fo the uae for republicatiou of all news d patches credited 1o it or not otherwise cred! in this paper apd also the local mews pub- lished herein. All rights of- publication ot special dispafches hereln sre also reserved. pehaital il Sk e Lioyd George “Misquoted.” - David Liovd George takes refuge in a long-established dugout from the} barrage of puslic criticism aroused by the publication of an “interview” in which _he declared, in effect, that] Woodrow Wilson had during the peace conference, in his, Lloyd George's, absence in London, entered-into a -£ocret agreement with Clemenceau for the French occupation of the German " Rhineland..- He denies the interview. ‘That s a classic defense of the public personage who has said either the right thing et the wrong time or the wrong thing at any time. In this case the interviewer blandly accepts the Implication of misquotation and con- firms the former premier’s declaration that he made no charge or complaint against Mr. Wilson. It would appear that the statement . attributed to Mr. Lloyd George, ac- cording to the explanations now forth- coming, occurred in the course of a protracted conversation held -some time ago in preparation of-an article about the home life of the Welsh tatesman. That it was produced at this particular time; when the world _was observing the mourning of the "'American people for their former “President, gave it, perhaps, an unwar- ranted significance. Possibly Mr. Lloyd George had nothing to do with its im- mediate publication. It is hinted, how- cver, that he was aware that it was rthicoming, and was willing to allow *he British people tb view Hit'as hav- ing sought in the peace conference to .prevent the adoption of a palicy of ‘peaco thut England has always op posed. Lloyd George is out of office, >and for the present out of favor. In such a situation publicity may not be amiss. - * But publicity is of two kinds, as certain American statesmen and poli- ticians are now learning to their sor- row, and the kind that Mr. Liloyd _-George has obtained from the so-called Wilson_interview is of a decidedly questionable character. He has sought to square himself by asserting that he never cast reflections upon Mr. Wil son's acts er motives. He pays him a high ‘tributs. He puts the onus of the “misquotation” whon his friend, the Journalist. who wrote the article in .question, The friend takes his medi- cinc and accepts the blamec for the blunder. The incident is ‘closed—per- ~haps. Porhaps‘ Premier Macdonald - has been greatly embafrassed by this ef- fair, for he has been seeking. to put Anglo-French relations upon a more “friendly” basis, and the Lloyd George intervicw has given umbrage to ,Frenchmen as well as, to Americans. The reaction may be ultimately to the good of this endeavor, but it is dificult to see how it can possibly redound to the politicat advantage ‘of Lloyd George, who is_jn the awkward posi- tion of ‘at least having an indiscreet friend. 4 —_———— Instrictions from the Gérman gov- rnment bave embarrassed the Berlin representative herc. A German gov- ernment_has often done .the same thing. -An intimate biography might disclose eyidence that even “the wily Bernstorfl” had his troubles with the _bome offices. —————————— Even the passing of 3,000 years can- not allay. suspicion. The magnificent relics unearthed at Luxor provide seri- ous evidence to. the effect that Tut- ank-Amen was an unmitigated grafter. ————— Perhaps Clemenceau did not realize ow, merious what ‘he said of Lioyd George would sound when transiated ““Into plain monosyllahic English. s In sddition to its other ‘duties; the United States’ Senate is now engaged in supervising an interesting output _of resignation rumors, ————— Government’s Rented Quarters. ~ Facts stipporting the bill for a' gov- -'ernment. bullding program ‘at Wash. ~ington bave been submitted to Senator Fernald, chalrman of the committee on public buildings, at his request, by _ Col. Sherrill, officer in charge of- pub- ““lic buildings and grounds. These facts - from a government source will be put ~"before the special subcommittee named ““te consider the Smoot bill to appro- priate over a serics of years $50,000,- -1 000 for- conmstructing public buildings *at thé Capital, and which was drafted in line with recommendations made by President Caolidge in messages to Con- _ gress. The’facts have been of public “knowledge for a long time and their - correctness 1s.not questioned, but it is ‘satisfactory to know that they are be- fore’ members of the Senate in’ due .«Zorm, and it {8 believed that they must ~ have weight in helping the committee on public buildings to reach a just Jeonclusion. . In addition to inconvenience, lost “motion and the unseemliness of the government carrying on ‘s lafge part “of its business in crowded and fIl- daptéd rented quarters with- offices of the same department in different ~parts of the city, it is pointed out that the government is paying more than:$673,000 & year in rent. Land- { lor8s are pressing the government for - higher rental, and urider"‘conditions a7 De semt by m: “Cottection 13 made by car- ; 1 mo., 85¢ 80c i l that buresn could be <ollected under one roof. The fire danger is great in many of the bulldings, and there is no security for impertant and irreplace- able public records. It is a situation needing a speedy remedy. Casting About. ‘While it may be premature to pass final judgment upon the extent to which Mr. McAdoo's candidacy for the presidential nomination has been dam- fted | aged by the disclosure of his past con- nection with the Doheny oil interests until thé reaction of public opinion upon his explanation before the com- mittee is manifest, it is significant that some of his stanchest friends are said to be already looking over the fleld of possible alternative candidates. A number of them are in this:city now and conferences are being held from time to time to appraise the sit- uation. 1t is said to be Mr. McAdoo's policy 10 go before the investiguting commit- tee and put up a strenuous defense of his legal connection, resenting stoutly the drawing of unfaverable inference by the public that it has been in any ‘way discreditablé ‘and then to bide his time befare shaping his political plans for the future wuntil the reaction of the public is sensed. -In the meantime, however, his friends and supporters cannot be ob- livious to the possibility that they may ultimately find it expediept to turn elsewhere for 'a man to’ whom they can throw the McAdoo support, if the reaction should prove disappointing to them and to Mr. McAdoo. One sug- gestion has been made that they may find Fiomer S. Cummings of Connecti- cut available as a candidate upon whom they can unite. Mr. Cummings was former chairman of the demo- cratic national committee and very popular with the leaders. He an- nounced himeelf in faver of Mr. Mec- Adoo at the meeting of the national committee here a short time ugo, und is regarded as his close friend. 1t Mr. Cummings should become a candidate an interesting situation would arise in New England, with Connecticut and Massachusetts close neighbore. having Coolidge and Cum- mings in the limelight. —_——t——————— A Wilson Memorial. Already the matter of the national memortal to Woodrow Wilson is under discussion. It was, indced, broached even befors his durial on Wednesday. No organization has yet been formed, bat doubtless it will be soon effected to include a ‘large group of people, wide- ly representativo and urdent admlirers of the late former President. They will have to consider two major ques- tions, the form of the memorial and the provision of funds for its creation. Of these two the former will be the more difficult.” Thére can be no ques- tion of abundent funds for a per- manent monumental token of the es- tesm of the people to be erected pre- sumably here at. the Capital for him who has just passed. The matter of the form.of the. memorial will, as in all other cases heretofore, prove a cause of perplexity. There is always a wide difference of opinion on such a matter. Sometimes these doubts cause delays and even protracted postpone- ment. ‘The national memorial to Lin- coln was not dedicated until more than half a century after his death. The_ national monument .to Washing- ton, though planned earlier, was not finished until nearly ninety years af- ter his death. The hope is that the memorfal to Wilson will be more quickly evolved, and that it will rise to completion within the lives of those who knew.and those who worked with the former President. The moving of we mode: uwelling from Shefman Plaza is necessarily a slow process.. It {s now referred to by ‘motorists in detour as “the bomeless house.”.. ., Twenty years ago the njstoric fire swept Baltimore,, and_ Baltimore is proud to say it' has never been the same. tawn since. The bureeu of engraving and print- ing may ‘be ‘the next institution re- quested to-stand in line and wait to be invéstigated, . f The German Loan. ‘Wall street 18 keenly sensitive to public fecling, and may,be relied upon as a barometer of sentiment. There- fore, when Wall street says, as it is now saying, that the German embassy flag incident: in.connection with the death of Woodrow Wilson militates against the stfecess of @ German food loan in this’ country it may be ac- cepted a8 an accurate forecast. For ‘Wall atreet 36 not sentimental, It has no hypersensitiveness on the subject of forms anid ceremonies. It views all matters from a business point of view. The proposed loan is to raise money in_this country for the relief of the suffering peoplé ' of Germany. The amount named ‘is $70,000,000. Ordi- narily a lodn of that size would be quickly absorbed, if the interest rate was suitable. But already doubt has been"felt on ‘the scor'e of the success .of this offering in view of the feeling ‘widely prevalent in this country that Germany has not -sincerely tried to carry out her ¢bligations under the peace treaty, has notaccepted her de- feat. Yet there has been a disposition here to'render help to the innocent German victims of officia] and dynastic blundering. e The flag Incident, however it may result as affects the’ official status of the aembassador, has undoubtedly shocked the American people, though perhaps it has not surprised them. By some it is put down as merely an- other case of stupid faflure to under- stand national sentiment, @ fresh manifestation of the faulty peychology ( 71 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, -D. -C,.-FRIDAY. F.EBRIIABY.‘B, -1924, ‘which Ted Germany i‘iw the war and {into the wickedness of its prosecution. ' But, however it nmy be-reckohed, tte aftair of e %ay uhdoubtedly makes it more @iMqult ‘than ever to borrow money from the people of this |85 the relief 8t the suffering Germans. Perhape there are encugh Americans with strong German sympathies to take these bonds. ‘If 5o the loan will be floated. Otherwise it will have to stand as a charity appeal to an unaym- pathetic public. 3 —_——— Progress is being made for a Dis- trict of Columbia manufacturers’ ex- hibit. The proposal to hold such an exhibit has' been’ approved by the board of directors of the Washington Chamber ‘of Commetce and will be recommended to the chamber at fits next meeting. It i» sald that many members of the organtmation have ex- pressed sentiments favorable to the exhibition, and in discussing the mat- ter .one member detailed scores of articles manufactured in the Capital, and said that “few persons realize the manufacturing that is done - here.” That was a conservative statement. Though the value of non-government manufactures in Washington does not give it rank among large industrial cities there are a number of industries which should be classed as important, and in variety of manufactures Wash- {ington holds @ much higher place than is generally known. An exhidition of Disteict manufac- tures would enlighten ciffsens of the District and perhaps would be revelation to thousands of people in the nearby ®tates. While publishing, printing and lithographing, bakery products, ice, confectionery, ice cream, meat packing, coffee roasting, planing mill products, copper, tin and sheet iron work and foundry and machine shop products are the large manufac- tures of the District, there are hun- dreds of small industries which turn out about everything which a man and his family need. There are few things used in the home or- carried on the person that are not made in Washington. Many of these small and “light" industries are capable of expansion, and an ex- hibit such as proposed would be an jadvertisement of District manafac- tutes to people of the District and parts of the country not far from Washington. It might result in de- cided encouragement to home manu- facture, would give makers of a great variety of useful articles an opportu- nity to express themselves in a public way and would educate thousands of our citizens in knowledge that govern- ment business is not the only work carried on in Washington. The Price of Gasoline. If any’ stimulant to public interest in the oil investigation was needed it will be furnished by the inquiry which President Coolidge has ordered into the recent increases in the price of gasoline. Tt is tough enough on the rublic to be robbed at either end of the oil game, but when both ends are played against the middle that long- suffering public feels an irresistible impulse to get up on its hind legs and yell for the polico. That there should be profiteering in gasoline distifled from crude oil im- | rroperly taken from public lands own- ied by all the people would pretty nearly- be what modern youngsters call “the limit.” All that would re- main to compléte the circle would be a federal tax on gasoline to reimburse the government for whatever losses it may . have suffered through improper taking of the crude ofl. ° Users of gasoline are told that the extra cents per gallon are tacked on in complignce with the inexorable law of supply and demand, into which there enters, of course, the cost of production. Mr. Doheny has recently revealed some of the charges which figure in ¢il production coets; so Why grumble? What is happening in the case of gasoline is only what always happens to the ultimate consumer. | ‘Whatever Mr. Doheny’s faults might be it must be admitted that parsimony was not among them. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Plodding Along. Plodding along—plodding along! Sometimes @ sorrow and sometimes a song. . Sun by day, and the stars by night, Or & storm cloud shutting them all from sight. Even the sun and the stars on high Go plodding along as the years pass by, And we know somewhere we shall rest and smile . And learn why the journey is worth the while. S Research. “A statesman should have a studious and ‘inquiring mind.” “Certainly,” answered Senator Sor- ghum. “Investigation is a large part of his regular business.” Jud Tunkins says telling .a man exactly what you think of him may he courageous, but it's mighty poor sales- The OHl In slippery places rs stand. The witnesses they’re bidding To show how oil in Teapot Land Set reputations skidding. In Peril. - “Crimson Gulch has had the reputa- tion’ of starting a great deal of rough work.” 'Yes,” answered Cactus Joe, “and I'm afraid that reputation is going to break out all over again. It's rumored by geologists that there's a whole lot of ofl in the.neighborhood .ready to break out any minute.” ¥ _Hopeful Words, “If 1 drink this bootleg’ liguor. will I have @ headache next morning?” “I dunno,”answered Uncle Bill Bot- tletop. “‘Mebbe you won't-live till next morning.” > “A friend,” said Uncle Eben."‘would allue rather give You advice dan lend IN TODAY'S SPOTLIGHT BY PAUL V. CQLLINS ton a ‘conterence of agricuitural econ- omists. They .propose. to revolution- ize the distribution of foods in Ameri- ca in such & why as to destroy the profits of present distributors amounting to fifteen billions of dol- lurs annually. It 1s more for each year than the total debt of Europe o the United States plus.accumulated interest to date. Senator Arthur Capper—who talks to more farfmers every week. than any other man in America—made a speech at this conference in which he sald concrete things, among which was this: “Seven and a half billion dollars is what the farmer is collecting fof products of tho farm. “For these same products the ‘con- sumer pays twenty-two and. a half blilion dollars. “The huge fitteen billion-dollar dif- forence—called the ‘spread’—Is. ab- sorbed by dealers, speculators and other toll-takers. ere is -important high-cost-of- 1jving ~ intormation, underpald- rmer news, 1t explains the rise and rapid development of the co-operative markoting movement in the United States—a movemeont everybody should help along.” * K ¥ K s Another speaker at this conference was former Gov. Lowden—producer of cows and grain and Pullman cars— sometime prospective ' inhabitant of the White. House. Ho told his fellow economists: 3 “In all other industries there has been u growing tendency-to stabillao prices.” This has been éffected largely through the organisation of a few great_corporations which have taken the place of innumerablo smaller in- dependent units scattered over the “Not only are there fewer manufac- turers relative to production,. in every line, but they in turn are or- ganized into a great national body Which meets usually once a year and considors questions of world supply and dcmand and other subjects of common interest to the industries. “Theso great companies therefore are able to pian the next year's cam- paign intelligently and to adjust their production to the probable demand. From time to time they fix their price upon their product, ~which _re- Tnains until new conditlons requir a change." St this point in the governors address somebody might have invoked tho Sherman anti-trust law against price fixing, but since there 18 now pending a bill in Congress to fix the price of wheat by law the outery Might have been taken for propa- ganda. Gov. Lowden proceeded to point out that “to fix the market price of farm products fairly the law of supply and demand is effective only with free competition on both sides. Among the causes which may defeat free competition, Hadley, former Presi- dent of Yale University, in his work | on economics, places ignorance first. In other words, thero must be equality of understanding botween buyers and scllers befors this law can operate successfully.’ Tt fo impossible, he deduced, £or in- dividual farmers to gather the neces- Sary data as to world supply and demand, as can great business or ganizatiors. Therefore, farmess mus organize co-operatively for the mar-) keting of their products to stand on| an equality with other business or-} ganizations. Up to this point Gov. Lowden appeared to be approving o the price-fixing bill now before Con- Bress. Next he had a g00d word to say of another measure which proposes to buy up. 200.000,000 bushels of wheat— the supposed surplus of lust year's crop—and dump it In Europe for what it will bring, while protecting the home market with the tarift agalnst importing wheat: He eaid: “If a great commodity marketing organization of any farm product handled the bulk of that product. it could treat {ts exportablo surplus'in one way and the great resiqué in an- | other way, just as the manufacturer does; 2 | 9°%F the price receivea from export !sa.lu abroad is below the cost of pro- i I { 18 now in sesaion in Washing- [ dyction, thereby entalling & 1086 upon the producer, the organized producers Ag:"q‘lhtl'pl'rucllll.;h Droduet " can do $ ng. - They may requin under their contracts with the indi- vidual ucers that. they feduce production “sufficlently. so, that the portion of the ‘product which:: go into-export should be reduced to the minimum, ther ‘Wwordy. the farm- would be doing thfough coroper: exactly what other”great fndu tries have done through corporations. They would put théir great business on_a-business basis.” E Owing to the fact that farmers now receive such a small percentage of what the consumer pays. the gov- ornor argued that the course of con- trol of selling ‘price would nof in-|h creare the cost of living to the con- sumer. He emphi his bellef that the farmers can get relief only by their own omnlllnfi—-not by government measures. e, there- fore, seemed to stop ‘short of sup- porting the Norris bill, which pro- poses to wipe out the middlemen by having the government become -thg glant middleman for farm commod- itles. If the government thus stands as arbitrator of rewards to pro- ducers and also of costs to consum- ers, there will be neutrality, indeed, as well as saving of unnecessary ex- pense of distribution—aocording to the supporters of the Norrls measure. e plan of Gov. Lowden becomes abrorbed only In the Interests of pro- ducers, relying on their generosity and justice not to oppress consum- ers by repeating the undue rapacity of the famous poultry raiser who slew the golden-egged goose. * ok k% Whether the fate of ihe middle- man is to be slaughtered by co-oper- ators or by lawmakers, his lot is not a happy one. Co-operation has be- come a great factor of production in Europe. It flourishes somewhat ‘in cortain regions in our own country, but mainly among our adopted citizens, rather than among native Americans. American farmers, like American eoldiers, want all to be of- ficers—captains of their own fate— rather than to fall in line and. keep step with thirty-inoh psces. o co-operative movement i3 less than seventy-five years old. It be- Zan in England in 1844, when a group of twenty-eight weavers wore starv- ing. owing to oppressive wages and high cost of food. They began by uniting their purchasing orders for, staples, buying in wholesale lots. They mold to themeselves, not at cost, but at regular market prices, and kept the “profits” in their joint treas- ury until the end of the year, when, all costs having been paid, dividends were declared. Now they own the largest chain of businesses in Eng- land, with bakerles and factories the greatest in the world and with ships ard fisherlea s ese co-operatives do a by exceeding ‘a billion dollars -u;e‘::" in England. They increased the vol- ume of business 26 per cent in 1920. What might such as they not do'in the more populous United States? Russia — ignorant, as some of us conceive {t—Russia does @ great co-operative business. Fifteen years ago Russia had .5.000 co-operative societies; now 30,000 such. The co-operatives have opened and financed a co-operative university at Moscow. Belgium, France, Ger- many, Itaiy, Austfia, Sweden, Nor- way, Finland, Switzeriand, Hungary, Czechoslovakia—all have gotten away from middlemen’s throttling grip, and now do business largely through co- opfration. Even Japan—the world's greatest imitator—has 9,000 societies, with a membeérship of 900,000 con- sumers and producers. Everywhere it Is consumers as well as producers who are interested in co-opérative plans. The United States has few con- sumers’ co-operative societies, but the producers are busy. They have Neld their second National Council of Farmers' Co-Operative Marketing Asy sociations, and they ar nhing abolish the middlemen—and to tel the unorganised consumers that the: are generous and. will not keep al the $15,000,000,000 a year which the middiemen ‘are’ now getting. (Copyright, 198, by Paul V. Colliss.) semi-barbarous, (Editors Divided on Effect Of Anderson’s Convictiop The conviction of Willlam H, An- | derson, superintendent of the Anti- Saloon League of New York and-one of the prominent national figures in prohibition work, ‘admittedly is & blow to Anderson. Indireatly, it is agresd also that ‘the jury's verdict has injured the cause ho served. A man cannot stand on what he claims is a moral issue and theén engage in forgery without, aside.from his per- sonal gullt, reflecting on the ‘cause which he represents, most editors agree, They feel, however, that.the unfortune incident should serve as a needed lesson in the ranks of both the wets and the. drys all over the country. S : This thought particularly is stressed by the Milwaukee Journal, which holds “the Anti-Saloon League should welcome the verdict, even though it may mean prison for its executive head fn New York because “if evil has crept {nto the dry cause, then the shoyld welcome a houseclean- Furthermore, the wets ‘might make ‘m"‘lwn\'ln that direction. by getting the bootlegger and the smug- Slor Off thelr backa’ . The slgnif. cance of the affair {s not. o much that it reveals Anderson as a forger. Dbut the attitude of the directors and supporters of the league who in- dorse him, according to,the Chi Tribune, which insists “that is the indictment ‘of the whole arguniza- tion.” _ Incidentally; “it may damege the osuse of prohibition ' serleusly with - dispasglonate ' people,” 1 opinion of the Baltimore Sun, ank and file of prohibitionists. be- n ~ the 1t the faith.” unreasonable attitude would. t discredit their cause far- more.than Mr. Anderson has don s ok x % The New York Times regrets-this attltude, because friends and backers ‘of "Anderson “should wait: until all the facts are clear as sunlight before forming- final judgment,” . jnasmuch as “to do otherwise is to confuse in the public mind a good cause with the bad character of some who have sought to identify themselyes with it” As_ the Cleveland Plain gees " it, ““the case Of erson 1 o lead- ‘well be taken to heart bev eagu 7 lar faver, as it ers everywhere. is to continue in popul should, it must use the utmast care in getting néne but the ablest, clean- est and mol“ ‘nre?:me men for its g of ty. For, as m“g:-‘na Rapids Herald points out, *ino organization needs to be as care- ful of a rigid adherence to.business- 1ike and open financial m ‘as one which depends upon public confi- dence for its influence U] The source and-use of -its funds must have regular publicity if thers is to be any assurance that the.Anti-Saloon League will not turn into a schaol for scandal.” And any organieation which ‘stands out against such a wlwgfi the D Free Press- clatms, urts every cause that -%\lunload.ay l:}l:? licitatior Incinni el hr ‘concurs in this Delief. , The In- a tanapolis News .suggests, - further, -that “the- New York organization, un- 4 have the Constif oh | property owned such men as Anderson near the top of its organization.” 3 The Newark News. however, feels “there are literally thousands of the most sincere and conscientious people in this organisation who sharo in no way in Anderson’s disgrace.” Fur. thermore, “what has been shown up in New York is no worse than what may be expected of any other big organization of the sort when loosely run.” After all, thoush‘ the Reading Tribune declares, the drys “must bear in mind that men who choose to re- form the nation must first of all be impeccable in their own conduct.” * K ¥ ¥ ‘While the Springfleld Republican insists Anderson's ¢onviction ‘s the climax to a series of incidents identi- fled with his name which throw grave doubt upon the wisdom of the New York Anti-Saloon League's persist- ence in retalning him in his present office.” Because, as the Brooklyr Eagle holds, “it I8 not too much to say that his frequent diatribes against men and newspapers that ventured to disagree with him have don¢ more harm to the organization he has mis- represented than the juggling of ac- counts for which he was convicted.” 6 Buffalo News &lsa holds this opinion, cith the Rockefellers as among those he estranged from sup- port of the league. Since he created only enemies, from which nothing is the San Antonio L‘:fhl trange l ed, of the Anti-Saloon Tealize that simple and fundamental fact” But there will be cause foi Eeloloing, the Hartford Times feels, “4f the jury verdict serves to- silence at least for a time Anderson’s vicfous tongue,” for *never was a discipld of temperance more intemperate than he has been in abuse.” . As the Bt Paul Dispatch puts it; “he seems to have felt that a little irregularity there might be permitted him because he .was 8o scrupulously rrect on the one thi: that reall only_a a wrong by an indi- vidual does not chuz-glhey mu of his cause.” Snggests Amendment To End Car Fare Row To the Bditer of The Star. It is rather strange and amazing to hear that the traction companies are holding up the public, when, as every one knows, without the sanction of the Utility Commission and the courts it would be impossible. Furthermore, the Utility Commission and the copfts are helpless to-dc otherwise on .ac- count of the Constitution. So instead of talking about and criticizing the effect or result, why don’t those desir- ing an arbitrary fare without d to the value of the property seek to amended to de- can, between private by public utilities and that by others no': engaged? itution fine, if they | .| has_delayed this lon ive time &8 2 ST £ Plea for Alley Dwellers. Practical - Aid, Not Criticism. | Needed, Says Writer. To ‘the Mditor of The Star. - During the last four years. Wash- Ington bas. come to the conclusion that as a social improvement ‘our alieys should be abolished, first, ‘be- causs they conatitute s breeding place for ‘erime; second, Hving: conditions &re very. insanitary and a menace to ‘the health of not. only ‘the dwsllers therein, but those surrounding: the alleys; third, the fire hazard is great; fourth: they mar the beauty of the National Capital. Now all of these high-sounding phrases appeal to the rent gouger and those who live and can afford to live in comfortable but to. the alley dweller in rCase at present it will bring on hardships, which in numerous in- stances cannot be explained. The aley dweller has been made the goat for landlord, health department, police department and all the res who are now struggling to abolish his place of abode, without even try- ing to render aid, when it is sadly needed. I dare say that although our alley population numbers 10,060, nine- enths would not be there if they could move elsewhere, and while the sanitary, social and criminal condl- tions are exposed, it would be fitting to take .into consideration .the eco- nomic_and industrial conditions ‘as well. The majority of the males are common laborers and the females domestic workers, so considering the economic side, where they may in some cases be able to pay $15 to $30 per month for better homes, sanita- tion and healthful living conditions would not be lm:rov because there ‘would be better homes for a few, but crowded homes for the majority that could not pay big rent and as a result would have to rent out part of their home. 8ince 1914 the alley dwellers have been tho victims of "exploitation by #ome of the most unscrupulous land, lords in any place on earth. Year by year, they in the most dismal manner, incr beyond reason without making the smallest effort to improve the propertics, and having been bled to the utmost where their earnings would not afford them to pay more, the houses arc left to decay even upon the victims. Crime in the'alleys is fostered and fed by those who do not and would not live in'one. Space will not permit ed the rents ‘me to divulge the instances of well dressed citizens frequenting ‘the al- leys in search of their favored hobby amid filth, disease and everything that goes with it. Why, you can find men today who will go in an alley to buy a drink that wouldn’t go in 2 saloon when they were open. The city ash and trash collectors do not go_in most alleys to collect trash and ashes unless the backways of houses on the street force them to. As the regulations cal] for ash cans and trash bags, most of them will not empty any otaer receptacle and this is one of the main causes of the ac- cumulation of dirt. The garbage man and the swesper do manage to get in them once a Week or every.ten days. Policemen as a rule visit all when they hear an unusual disturd ance, to serve a warrant or subpoena, s0 non-vigilance of the law also alds in fostering some of the ev This statement is not in defense of the alleys. 1 for one would gladly approve of the project to abolish them. But why swop the devil for the witch? If we must abolish one of the National Capital's eyesores, let's take in considel ion g¢he economic and in- dustrial side as well, be lenient with the unfortunate victims of circum- stances, take them out of the alleys and with that charity of Christian brotherhood lend them the necessary aid to social and healthful uplift. 1f we can aid the orphans of Ar- menia and Greece, the starving Chi- nese and Germans, the war victims of Belgium and Italy, disorganized Rus- sia and Austria-Hungary, let us turn our eves toward home in the nation's beautiful Capital city and help the victims of the alleys. True charity home. . SesaRial I'?(r)nvt'ARD A: WALKER. * Answers Bonus Attack. Legionaire Replies to Letter of .. J. Bentley Mulford. To the Editor of The Star: I have read with interest and amusement the latest effusion from the pen of Mr. J. Bentley Mulford, on the so-cajled “Soldiers’ Bonus.” * ‘The Ex-Service Men's Anti-bonus League, Inc. i§ numerically strong only in-New York city, where a sur- vey indicates that the ex-service men were coerced. by threats of- loss-of their jobs into opposing the act under @iscussion. In-other localities this organization is composed almost en- tirely. of officers of a higher rank than would benefit under the measure, nd who were well taken care of hile in the serviee. Since the August P. Gardner Post, which is composed almost exclusively of officers above the rank included in the bill, and men so situated finan- clally that the passage of a bonus bill would be more of a detriment than a benefit, went on record as opposing the adjusted compensation act, several posts of the Legion have passed unanimously. resolutions in- dorsing the bill, including my own post, Stuart Walcott Post, No. 10, which is composed largely of pro- fessional men, who are accustomed to -doing thelr own thinking. It is sirange that the same men who are vociferously in favor of granting the same retirement .privileges to volunteer officers as are enjoyed by those of the Regular Army are oppos- ing adjusted compensation. Why ehould special legislation for officers be favored, while benefits for enlist- ed men are opposed? Mr. Mulford shows exceedingly or taste in ridiculing the Rainbow ivision Association - because refused to go on record as opposed to the bonus. tween his statement of the failure of the Rainbow Division to pass a reso- lation cnndamnu:{ the bonus, and the statement that 85 per cent of the veterans are opposed to the bonus is plain to be seen by any one of average intelligence. ~Mr. Mulford seems to think, to quote that old war song, “they are all out of Step t him." bfiInlsml‘u:ll as Mr. Mulford seems to be endeavoring to give the impres- slonthat he {s voicing the sentiments of his post, George Washington Post, No. 1, the ploneer of the Legion, it might be well to state that Mr. Mul- ford has-been & resident of Néw Jer- sey for the past two vears, during. which time he has not sttended any ty | meetings of his post. Furthermore, -George Washington Fost, in its e Caction on the subject, went on record as unanimously indorsing the ed compensation ac “#l‘;:lly. if Mr. J. Bentley Mulford has not sufficient interest in his post to attend its r:eeunig ::afl ;fiohe g w Do I T e majority of 1t tie should not wait to be but should, in fairness to nvictions, resign immedi- nd why he Surely the -bonus League, fiaown oo Bl%ie™") Cannot understa % Men’s Antl Ex-Service fo suited to his type of hi the organization which !’?e“gontdell:l‘nn so_heartily. Certainly he will not be so lon convictions as he is in the American Legion. JOHN R. DOWER. Btuart Walcott Post, No. 10, A, L. —— Plea Made for Horse. To the Biitor of The Blar. ’ The “model house” south of the T¥easury might be all right in show- fig how to save the housewife steps, but it sure does not showsthe same humane treatment with the poor old they are using to move it an’'t the owners of set an example by uslng the modern way of moving a house in- stead bf tying & horse up and making him go round and round in a circie like the ancients? 2 tractor to_it hit ‘Why not hitch ul TR iaet it The discrepancy be-' jome in_ his the “model BY FREDERIC J: HASKIN Q. It & German police dog can be shipped to this country, what would the duty be?—L. H. K. A Dogs can be imported. The customhouse says that If a dog ls being imported for breeding pur- poses, be will be admitted free, but his pedigree would have to be shown. If be is coming merely as a live animal or pet, the duty will be 15 per cent. In efther case the animal would have tg be quarantined, and after serving quarantine, would be turned over to its owner. Q. Do pipes on the front of a pipe. organ play?—J. V. A. The organ pipes which are placed in view do not, as a rule, “gpeak.” /They are generally used ely for decorative purposcs. In.the organs which are now being con- structed it frequently happens that no pipes of any kind are visible. Q. What are the salaries of the members of ‘the British cabinet?— A. The salary of the prime minister is £5,000 per year. This {5 also the salary of other members of the cabinet, with the exception of the following: President of the board of agriculture and fisheries, 2,000, and mintster of labor, £2,000. Q. Could .there be & ralnbow at noon or before sunrise?’—k. G. A. The United States Naval Ob- servatory says that this is possible. In latitude 40 degrees there might be a rainbow at noon between the mid- dle of October and the first of March.|_¢ The upper portion of &.rainbow may b? formed « few minutes before sun- rise. Q. What is the status of women in regard to suffrage in dinavia, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Ituly and France?—N. T. G 2 A. In Sweden, Norway, Joeland, Denmark, Germany and Autria wom- en have full suff Switzerland, Italy and France have not granted the suffrage Lo women, although such an act passed the lower house in Italy and was defeated in Francoe by a narrow margin. Q. What is the largest ranch in Texas?—J. M. A. The Department of Agriculture says that the King ranch, at Kings- ville, Tex., is the largest ranch in the 'state. It comprises 1,250,000 acree of land, and has a railroad run- ning through it eighty-nine miles in length. Q. Is “all right” ever written as one word?—J. W. A. Thig is often done, but is in- correct. ‘There is no such word as “allright” or “alright.” Q. Who said *England calls for my corpse; I will not keep her wait- ing”?—A. 0. D. A. Napolepn 1weeks before hi: Q. What was the origin of the {order of Elks>—R. D. F. A. The Bencvolent and Protcctive lO_rdzr of Elks was founded fn 1565 in New York from an older social and benevolent soélaty, the Jolly Corks. Tho Grand Lodge was incorpo: March 10, 1871, © i o Breach of Eti | s0_exclaimed three s death. ANSWERS TO QUESTION Q. What aré the dimensions of the fl_"t;“'fi" one-pasgenger - alrplane?— A. The War Department says that the smallest one-passengeér airplano is 15 feet long, weighs 20' Ppounds (minus the weight of thé pilot), is equipped with 15-horsepower, 2-cylin- der engine and has a wing spréad of 40 feet. This plane belongs to the French government and was run by a Frenchman named M. Dewoitine. Q. Where canan eleven-place loga- rithmic table be found?- e B P. . The Naval itory says that that there is an eleven-place logas rithmic table by Borda and Delambre, published at Paris, 1800. This work may be consuited in the great publia ltbraries. B Q. Hlow often should the water bg changed in a hot-wmter heating plant?>—E. A, P. A. The bureau of mines says that the less often water is changed the better. Rusting is caused by the free oXygen in water. After water ix boiled, oxygen {s driven off and no more rusting will occur. Q. Is burglary a crime that can bo committed only at night?—T. C. A. At common law burglary is tho breaking and entering of the houso of another in the night time, with in- tent to commit a felony therein. In New York and in some other states in which the New York statute has been udopted burglary in the firs: degree must be committed at night, but burglary in the second and third degrees may be committed in the daytime. Q Who invented the fireless cooker? ! A. It 15 impossible to say cxactly whero the principle of the fireless cooker originated. It was known to tho Jows many ocenturies 4go, who used bage of foathers for insulation. Sweden {s reported to be the homg of the hay box, which was the immec- dlate predecessor of the modern firc less cooker. Q. What is the measure of & “point” in type?—J. G. R- A. A point is the unit of measure- ment in, types, each point being about one-seventy-socond of an inch, Q. What is meant by seniority rights of rallway employes?™—R. T. A. The seniority rights of the r: road workers get them promotion: more desirable positions, transfers: ete., in the order of their length of servico, and also hold them their jobs in case men are being laid off until all thoss of shorter service have been discharged. Q. How many kinds of elm trecs are there?—D. K. §. A. There are about twenty known species of elms. Q. How many freight cars werc Sebt_sysrdaty during tho war?—K. A. The War Department says that 19,271 freight cars wero shipped to the fighting forces. These would make one solld train more than 11U miles long. - (If you have a question wou want answered, send it to The Star Infor- mation Bureay, Ky J. Haskin, director, 1220 North Capitol strect. Inclose 2 oenis in stamps for return postage.) quette Seen In Embassy Flag Incident BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. When official mourning is pro- oclaimed by foreign rulers the envoys acerqditéd to his government are re- quired by international comity and diplomatio etiquette to conform to his wishes and to adopt outward sem- blance of grief, no matter how in- different the defunct may have been to the ministers government.. The observance of offictal mourning is particularly incumbent upon the am- bassadors, who, in a far more special degree than a mere ministers, are supposed to represent the personality of their ruler and, a5 such, occupy a high oficial position as his court or !in his entourage and are regarded as part and parcel of his official family. Queen Victoria had a perfect army Of German relatives, some of them quite obscure. But whenever any of them died she would order a more or less extended term of court mourning, in which the foreign diplomatic corps in London was compelled to take part. ! And when Napoleon 11I and Empress Eugenie dled in exile in England at; an interval of more than forty, years and the court of St. James was or- dered into official mourning by the British sovereign even the ambassa dor of the republic of ce Wi asa ber of the English monarch’'s court and official family, obliged to don habiliments of woe, to put all his servants into mourning liveries and to cancel all festivities which he might have planned. For violating this cast-iron rule and for declining to withdraw his invitations for a big dinner-two days after the receipt in England of the news of the tragic death in South Africa of the exiled P1:u Imperial of France, the Mar- qulis of Montebello, then charge d'af- ifaires” of France in London, was 1transferred at Queen Victoria's in- i stance by his government to another post. Under the circumstances some one in Congress should ask whether in declining to comply with President Coolidge’s decree for thirty days of officlal - mourning for Woodrow Wil- son, and In refusing to put his nae tional flag at half mast, save under compulsion during the active funeral, or to take any other notice of the former President's demise on Mon- day on the pretext that he was only a private citisen, the German am- bassador at Washington, who is a jbusiness man, was acting through ig- norance of diplomatic custom or whether in view of the insulting references in the German press, it was meant as a deliberate slur upon the memory of Woodrow Wilson and a gross effront to President Coolidge and the American people. % % ¥ Young Lord Foley and his rather pretty wife have through their law- yers appealed to the London police authorities at Scotland Yard for pro- tection against a persecution to which they have been subjected for some two or three months past in the form of a series of anonymous let- ters conveying all kinds of threats and menaces against Lady Foley and against their little boy, who was christened at St. Mary’s Church, Bryanston square, in London in Sep- tember last, Gen. the Hon: Sir Arthur Stanley, brother of the /Ear]l of Derby, secretary of state for war in the recent Baldwin cabinet, | about which nothing was known to the public until several months after t had taken place. It wae celebrated in May. 1922, at the Marylebonc reg- ister office, in London, and at the time Lord Foley's e was recorded as twenty-four and that of his bride as twenty-seven, her namo being given as “Minoru Ggeenstone, usually known ag Minor? Barrie, Spinster’” and her address as the Curzon Hotel, in the West End of London. * x x x Lord Foley since the persecution of his wife has engaged the attention of the police, has amplified the infor- mation contaired at thc Marylebonc register office to the extent of as- serting that Lady Foley is the daugh- ter of a South African mine owner of the name of Harry Greenstone and sists that he had been acquaintéd with Lady Foley for a considerable time before he had married her and that he knew all about her family, also that since their marriage they bad paid a prolonged visit to her Iriends and relatives in South Africs and that the Insipuations containea in the anonymous letter that ho h: been trapped into a matrimonial al- liance which he should never have made were without the slightest foundation. It is only a few months ago that young Lord Foley placed on the mar- ket for sale his country seat in Sur- rey known as Roxley Lodge, news Esher,-which bad been in the posses- slon of his family for generations It was sold, with all its cuntents, in- cluding a number of old masters, some magnificent old china and an extremely valuable library, the chief treasures of which were four Shake- speare folios of great age and rarity. The impression gained ground that Lord Fole; is place, even at « sacrifice, ge his wife had no: found the social atmospherc of the county very congenial. Lord Foley succeeded his second cousin In the family honors, in 1918, just after having been invalided home from the tront in France, where he spent two years as lieutenant of the Royal Fly- ing Corps. * ok ok % His father was Henty St Johu Foley of the foreign office and Ris mother, Lady Mary Folcy, was the youngest daughter of the third Earl of Normanton. The Foleys havo al- ways been noted for thetr good looks, [ which are inherited, in all probabil- ity, more fromthc wife of the third Lord Foley, daughter of the second Duke of Leinster. She and her sister, Lady Olivia Fitzgerald, who married the eighth Lord Kinnaird, were such superb beauties that when as girls they used to visit the theater at Dub- 1in the whole house was wont to rise in enthusiastic applause of their loveliness. The founder of the Fpley family was a well-to-do fron master of Stourbridge, In Worcestershire, and acquired in the latter half of the sev- enteenth century a very large for- tune through his discovery of tha continental methods of treating iron and producing stecl. He did this at the risk of his life. Being an ad- being present in the rolec of god- father. Simultaneously other equally anonymous missives couched in & different form of typewriting have been received by Lady Foley demand- ing large sums of money under di- verse threats, the lawyers and the police having reason to believe that they emanate from the same source. The person under suspicion, though no success has attended as yet the efforts . to bring the guilt home to her, {8 ® woman of title and of some notorief Sooner or later the au- thorities will succeed in securing tha necessary evidence against her and then her arrest and her trial are certain to create a sensation and to result in & “cause celebre.” Lady Foley’'s health has been to such an extent affacted by the persecution that she has had to retire to a nursing home and -all sorts.of precautions have been taken with regard to the safety of her baby boy. A curious feature of the affair was the secrecy observed in connection with Lord and Lady Foley's marriage, mirable violinist, he became for the time being a wandering minstrel and tramped n:ndl and barefoot from many, Bohemia, northern Italy -and Spain, endeavoring to find out all the secrets of the production of iron and steel. At one time he thought he had accomplished his ends, and returned home only to find that something was missing, 5o he went again abroad I;h fhfl's ‘flddll.ay mu‘c:l“to the dismay of the foreign ironm: rs and of their gullds. .In fact, aftér his return to England several attempts ‘were made .by their emissaries to murder him and to wreck his works at Stourbridge, as they realized that his acquisition of their so jealously guarded business was destined to cost them the Englieh, Scotel and Irish 'trade, but also to bring:fnto the field a very dangerous rival in the cony tinental rket. He figures in th lnduuulmfllnory of England and In the annals of his family as “Fiddier Foley.” s