Evening Star Newspaper, February 22, 1924, Page 6

[] THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1924 ! | | THE EVENING With Sunday Morning ldition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY......February 2, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES. . The Evening Star Newspaper Compa esx Office. 11th St. and Penussivanis A W VO s 110 Bact 45nd RE i o Tower Rulkiin xem L. London, .. Editor ngland. adition, 1% delive Ty A o conts b mout Janth." Orders Sen “hone Main How Cotlection | Fiers at the end uf exch monfh < made by car Rate by Mail—Payable in Adva £5.40 $6.00 % $240; { which land the { with co All Other States. 00 : 1 o 1 mo. 11 mo. Dhaily and & ¥ onl i 1y Sunday only... Member of the Associated Press. Tie Assoviated 1 Sk i S e e vncciut dpatebed hesein are exlusively entitled George Washington's Faith. George Washington's Lirthday become an American institution. i vbservance s general, even though | there may be no elaborate ceremonial { proceedings. Activities ave slackened, | and in some assemblages the “Farc. | well Addres: read as an injunction | the memory of the man who con- | tributed so much 1o the strength of | the republic. o Washington's bisthday briuge forth | many thoughts regarding (he condi- | tions that prevailed when the firs President was living as compared with ' those that are today. Then the foun-| | has Its | dations of the new government were | public huilding bill for the District of | i this great scan nd he makes plain his be-§ lief that there should be new build-| insecure. Then ; the establ as an| independent organization was regard- | ed as an experiment. Now it is ac- cepted by the world as permanent and | @ areat success. e strong. here were charges of graft and i would like to have Congress meet the ! corruption then. as there are tod Men were accused of venality, as now Juman natuve has hot changed in the se of a century and a quarter. | Washington held the highest ideals of | Popular government and had faith in | the ability of the American people to | rule themsclves. But he saw the weaknesses of humanity « as he saw «trength, and he gave sol- | cmn warning of the perils thar heset the path of the new republic i If the first President were alive fo- | day he would be proud of the accom- | iishments achieved by the people! whom he led througi the war of in-! dependence and through the petiod of constructive organization, He would be confirmed in his faith. The occa- | sional outbreaks of violent partisan- ship and the open accusations of fraud | would not shake his confidence. P Washington was a practical man, | thoroughly acquainted with the proc- | esses of busin trader. a keen bargainer. an accurate | 1 cor valuer. He was une of the weaithiest ! bt $0 large thut it ought not to be, st | be H men of his time, his wealtli resulting | tndertaken at this time. Whether a : from his industry and acumen. Ther was not the slightest taint upon his fortune. He abhorred dishonesty of every kind and in every degree. But he was no dreaming idealist. and he recognized that government requires | constant watchfuln gainst the cupidity of men. trying times there remains the abiding | faith of the people. planted by George | Washington’s works and words, in! the everlasting righteousness of al zovernment which is founded in mu- | ality of interest. There is no vea.| son today for despair in the per.' raanence of the institution which hf" largely instrumental in estab- { ‘cwned by the government is also ad- | ' No “Lenin Tree.” Organization is announced from As- bury Park, N. J., of the “Lenin Memo- | rial Tree Institute.” Its purpose is to' simulate interaet in the pianting of trees to perpetuate the name of the! late soviet premier throughout the ! United States. One who describes him- | self in the public announcement as director of the institute says that he for permission to plant a tree in mem- | ory of Lenin on 16th street. where | trees are now growing as memorials | to the war dead. 1t is incon tion able that such a peti- if it has been presented to the Dist Commissioners. should aranted. Tt is incohceivable that tree in memory of a man who' known lo the world as colai Lenin, | head of one of the cruelest and most | ously tyrannical and malevolently | subversive governmental organizations | in the world's history. should ever be! planted in this country nd especially in the Natlonal Capital. . i The very proposal to place a tree in | memory of Lenin in the street that it i= designed is to be lined with natural | arowths in honor of the men of Wash- | ington who fell in the world war, is ' an insult to them and to those who | cherish them in (heir hearts. be i} s | It may be that George Harvey is go- | ing to start another campaign publica- | tion. but he will have to wait awhile | in order to avoid the sensational com- ' petition of the oil ne ————— The Good 0ld Days, | Tn that interesting little feature in | The Star, “A Bit of the Past,” ing ! ment —_————— { There was not &s much money float- {ing around, and not as much talk {about i sums in congressional in- | vestigations and the newspapers. but {the average fellow who would do a day’s work got his share of the cir- | culating medium. Extravagance was I not as fashionable as now. Many of our prominent and rich citizens were { noted for their economy. A man who | wonld work could get as good food tand as much of it as an industrious | man today. His home was heated by srates, stoves or “latrobes lived at a considerable distance from the heart of (he business section, was the corner of Tth street Avenue, his home was lighted Lail Tamps, but he knew noth- ing of hot-water heating plants and incundescent Lulbs and was content. When he struck a blue-head sulphur i and lighted his oil lamp he hortled at the progress that had been made since his father's time, L when the house was lighted with can- j 5 N - i dles and tullow dips and women roiled ; If Washington's Spifit Were Here. paper into “lamplighters” to save e pretty good days. There {is generally work if a man will work, | scandal investigation, how much less {and many of those who will not work | diflicult it would be to evolve seem to wear good clothes, 5o to the theater and keep out of the work- house. Nearly every man goes to the movies and rides in an automobile, whether he can afford to do it or not. Boye seem to know more than boys | did forty vears ago, but even then a bot on reaching the mature age of fifteen or sixteen considered the man” back number. These protiy selves have a gzood time. ————— Public Buildings. President. Coolidge is firm for a Columbi; ings at Washington for the State De- partment., Department of Justice, Department of Agriculture and the internal revenue bLureau, and he need of the sovernment for archives building Representati Langley Ken- tucky. chairman of the House com- mittee -on public buaildings and grounds, and Representative Cla of Florida of that commiftee consultation with the President this matrer, and Representative Lang- ley has said that he will call a meet- ing of his committee within a day or 20 10 determine what public building legislation to bring hefore (‘ongress a session. Langley has previously spoken in favor Jf a seneral building bill, making @ start in taking care of the overnment's housing needs through- out the country. t the same time provide for construction of buildings needed at Washington. Whether such measure can bhe passed by this uncertain. The President an a Congress He was a shrewd | Das expressed the view that the cost ! of a general building program would Lill to provide for the government's Lousing needs at Washington with- out taking into immediute :ount the goverrment's housing needs else- { where would b passed by this Con- ; there. gress is also uncertain. The Presi dent has expressed himself in favor of the Public Buildings Commission. Tt i e sense of Congress on portant question ment is in want of housing space ut Waghington is admitted. That build- ings in which gevernment busir transacted should be that purpose and that they this should be mitted. ———— Col. Bryan ‘will be democratic national announces no prozr on hand at convention. He m. and will prob- ably rely on his famous specinity .,r' rising to an cmergency. e After some deliberation Mr. James “ox decided that the democratic party should be led by a man who has had -xperience as a candidate. ———————— The question of prohibition enforce- | has become seriously compl cated with that of the reckless use of firearms ————— When money talks in France the franc at its present rating is not a { good orator for Poincare. In sorrow more than in anger the United States Senate is moved to shed a few profiteers. A Professional Firebug. About eighteen nionths ago a series of fires started in certain ‘“wet wash™ Jaundries in New York city that had all the appearance of incendiarism. Tt was notable that the establishments ! burned were outside of an organiza- tlon corr prising most of the laundries of this character, and suspicion arose that they were deliberately set in pur- nose of putting them out of busincss. Investication followed and the assist- “nt_manager. of the association was tinally arrested and accused of taving i had these fires started by agents. He{yoyry, { was (g indicted and is now on trial. ‘Thre¢ gangsters were also arrested ond they hdve confessed to setting: and if he | sood days, and between our-| it 3% still possible for a man to} on | lear that we are soon to have | im- That the govern-| designed for | the | STAR pointments as well as they do now.'(hu crime it is most important to note { that the confessing firebug acknowl- edges that he had been dolng it for vears, Thls means that there wus a market for his sorvicos; that there has | Tieen a practice of incendiarism, pos- wibly for insurance, perhaps for re- venge or terrorism. This clue to past uctivities should be followed. The testimony of a scoundrel like this may not be sufficient in itself to cause conviction. but it would be at least integesting to know who has been hir- ing him In the past. Thers is no more dangerous prac- tice than arson, no worse crime. It | menaces the lives of people by whole- cule, innocent peaple who have noth- ing to do with the interests or issues "m'.'ul\'cu. Posxibly this man’'s testi- {mony throws lght on a Jarge number | { of tenement house fires in New York ¢ty in which in the past few vears many people been burned to! death. have ! 1t the spirit of George Washington :l‘ll' great exemplar of truthfulnes | could animate the evidence in the oil { 1 | the ! {truth, the whole truth and nothing ibut the-truth. Contrast the veracil { whiclt he preached and practiced, trom {the day of the cherry tree incident { throughout his whole life, with some of the features starring the oil-inquir testimony., | Charges of lies. fulse evidence, insinu- ations more deadly than downright | usation in their insidious effects. ! ause harder to combat, are shot through the web and woof of the evi- | { dence, enveloping truth black | garment. Oh. for ton hatehet for the inquir The American people want the i i in truth i . and the com- spe counsel en- gaged by the vernment are intent upon getting it if possible f It will be unfortunate if a lasting impression should survive to the end of the investigation that any of the truth is left at the bottom of the well. Fortunately, the admitted sin-| verity of the inv ors to get all | the truth. together with the natural {urse of party politics to faciiitate its | Qisrlosure. holds out reasonable hope { that far as mittec and the as humanly possible will be don : N 1 i Germun scientista are not in full! laccord with (he idea of a demand! {for a return of all their s in jexchange tor the formula of their {recently discovered cure for isicknese. It may have occurred to {the patient wnd sincere 1 {scientist tha: ‘he less he has to do; { with the German politiclan th it will be for himself and world in general | ————— | Protest has often been !salaries paid by the Unii ! government are unreas small The liberality” of the Doheny wage ;!r‘.‘lh- makes them lock smaller than Tetter for the ever, ———— Washington cannot boast a Florida | !climate, but It manages to interest ! ‘some of the most prominent people who formerly passed their winte ———— As w furmer newspaper reporier Mr. | ithis plan, and a gilty-milliondollar § yanderlip should have remembered | No matter how high may roll the!luilding extension program for the.(he jmportance of verif : waves of political bitterness in these | Capital has received the approval of | jtems before commun % his ing them in | { print. ‘ ———— ! Secretury Mellon will at least by | given credit for being the man who {aroused interest in tax reduetion to a ‘ point that made action seem probable.’ — When offered an oil retainer inbridge Colby simply said. It was one of the briefest and speeches he ever made. ———— Mr. host | i .1t has long beenya part of Atiorney | | General Dnugherty’s regular business {to listen patiently 1o resignation rumors —————— Congress is often mentioned in terms | [of disaragement, but enecey and money are lavishly emplayed in «foris ! to obtain its influence. i ———— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSOX. i i i Something Missing. “I've never been arrested yet Said Hezekiah Bings. “That fate is one I haven't met In Fortune's various flings. | I haven't hit the motér gait That gives the cops & thriil: Though, if T save my coin and wait, Perhaps, some day, T will. | i i i i | ! i | | | i A market tip T never had That brought me fudden gain So great that all my friends grew sad And asked me to explain. The pace that Destiny has set No great excitement brings I've never been arrested vet,” Said Hezekiah Bings. ! Explanations. “Have you ever been tempted o speculate in the stock market “No." answered Senator Sorghum. “There's too much explanation in- volved. If ¥ou win you've got to ex- | plain to the public, and if you lose e got to explain to your family. Jud Tunkins says his folks are play- ing a little mah-jong, and ke thinks l reminiscences of men who when they the fires at the instance and in the{he begins to understand why the Chi- were boys ‘“‘carried” The Star. the veterans said: “Forty Washington was a fine everybody was happy and everything lovely. But look at it today! Good- night!” Senator Copeland, in a speech at the Women's City Club, said: “Go back fifty years. The average age of fuen and women then was forty-two years. Today it is fifty-three. And yet we hear a lot of old fogies croaking about ‘the good old days. These are the; ‘good old days.' We live longer; wel enjoy more.” . There i8 something on both ‘sides of this question. There was more room in Washington forty vears ago and all was quieter. Horse cars were slower than electric cars and automiobiles, | but people kept affice hours and ap- one of ; ray of the accused man. One of them has just given his testimony with @ nonchalance that is amazing. He told in the plainest terms and without the least reluctance or emo- tion that he had hired out at the rate of $50 a week to do this work. He eaid that at the time of the first of the fires he was already a veteran of the practice of arson. “It wasn't any- thing new to me,” he said: “I'd been doing it for vears.” All thes> laundries thus fired were in buildings occupied by families. One of them in the tenement district held about 250 persons. The fire was set at night while these people were asleep. Tor =tarting this blaze the gangster vs ho zot a honus of $40 in addi- tion to his weckly wage. Apart from the cold-bloodedness of nese alwaya seem to be fighting about something. Over Three Thousand Years, T thought I heard King Tut declare, In language dignified but strong, “While I appreciate your care, This funeral’s lasting much too long!” An Element of Good Falth. “Did you let that bootlegger fool you?” “Not altogether.,” answered Uncle Bill Bottletop. “The liquor is syn- thetic and the label is counterfeit, but the glass in the bottle is genuine.” ‘Solomon must have been sho'nuff wige,” said, Uncle Eben. “He managed 0 be de richest man on earth without gettin’ investigated.” { cipul feature—intended to divert the ‘our immigrants—is questioned seri- {ously by the immigration committee {dation, the Senate immigration com- fu in -ping rman | o | miex ! sume that he must be “getting a good {interest where the motivating impulse IN TODAY’S SPOTLIGHT BY PAUL V. COLLINS There is no more complicated ques- tion confronting Congress than that of Iimmigration restriction. There are as many differing viewpoints upon the subject as thers are conflicting interests plus diverse mental incli- nations as to the rights of humanity to “Inherit the earth,” and of Amer- icans to safeguard their own in- heritance. There are today three dis- tinctive measures before Congress af- fecting this question. The Johnson bill has been under consideration of the House and has been reported out favorably by tho committes on immigration. Its prin- preponderating quotas from southern and eastern Kurope to northsrn and Wwestern countries as the source of of the Senate. The Johnson measure will substitute the census of 1890 for the census of 1910 (the present basis) and will «dmit from each na- tionality 200 plus 2 per cent of the respective nationalities s o in the United States in 1590, he object of goine back 10 u cen- sus_thirty-four s old for the basis is to find o ans of lessening the mizrution from southern Lnrope. It woulil cut the quota from Ital example, from the present down o 4.089. Tt would increase the quota of Germany from the present to Aside from Great Britain’s quota, the only country which would have an increused quota Is Germany. Great Brit land would be allowed of 51, The total effect of the Johneon law would be to cut the per quetas from 7.803 down (o 16! P as * raking the Johmson bill u. mittee, through Pennsylvania, presented « bill last Monda, which introduces some de- cidedly novel features into the basis for the quotas. Instead of going back arbitrarily to tlie 1890 ceneus to find a basis which will discriminate against nations non grata, it takes the censuses of 1910 and 1920 combined, mainly for the purpose of discovering not what n tional is supposed to be most d. sirable, but what nationality already | Ly i cord in the Urited proves be most readily o0 Americanization. N: ipt has ever ber Senator Reed of E t for encouraging future tions of the most readlly Americ tion N of the Reed bill prov nual quota of nation- 0. und in addition tum of the number | individuals of such | dent in continentul determined by the census of 19 When have appearad by the census that more than one-half of | the foreign-born individuals of any rationality then resident in continen- United St had bec tlized citizens of the Uni there Shull be added to the quoti of that nationality an additional 4 per- entum of the number of forelgn-born individuals of such nationallly resi- dent In continental United States as determined by the census of 1910.° * % ok alizy theret, | | The uever Le compulsory nuturalization of aliens. It is in- disputable, however, that alien colo. in the United States, speaking foreign tongues. malntaining foreign community interests, are un-American | and w menace to the republic The plun Is intended 28 an ince tive to immigrants to become Amer- !icanized und to reward such nafional- ities i apprec proportion us they show an| ation of American citizenship. The fewer “foreignized aliens” we have in America, say the immigration experts, the better. PR Another measure in the Senate in- troduced by Senators Watson and Moses is the bill drawn by Seere- tary of Labor Davis. This proposes a ! Income Tax a Burden. “Tax-Free” Securities in - “Tax-Discounted.” To the Editor of The Star: Now that the subject of the income tax is being discussed daily In the Papers, it might be well to consider it from a different point of view than that usually advanced, and so I am telling you this little story as an il- lustration. Some time ago Fact l I met a lawyer 2 per cent quota, based upon the cen- 2us of 1910—which would cut down | Whom I had not seen for some years. the quotas one-third of that of the I asked him what he was doing. He | clud now | were present law. The outstanding festure of the Davis-Watsof-Moses bill_is a pro- vision which would delegate to the Secretary of Labor, conditions, the power to suspend re- striction as to certain kinds of labor: (Section 8) “Where the petition is filed in behalf of a skilled or un- skilled laborer, that labor of lik kind_unemiployed cannot be found in the United States, and that a strike or lockout does mot exist or ifmpend in_the particular industry seeking to import such skilled or un~ skilled labor." Y Another provision (section 13) em- powers the Dresident, upon recom- mendation of the Secretaries of Labor and Commerce, to proclaim a total suspension of immigration or a sus- pension from certain countries, either to continental or insular parts of the United States, on the ground of un- employment of labor already in such regions. " “This whole tendency of delegating power to cabinet officers or to th Chief Executive to loose or fo strengthen restriction according to their discretion, in place of congres- sionul control, will be u matter call- ing forth discussion when the bills reich (he floor of both branches of | Congress. * ¥ k * There are other features iu common of all the bills, which are intended to humanize the law's harshness in ex z immigrants who had come after severe strug even to the portals of their “Promized Land, only to_ be harred by technicalitiey and turned buck after having spent their savings on the long journey. ANl new measures are providing for some eystem of immigra- tion certificates, to be issued at the source of the migration, by our consuls. These certificates will not guarantee ad- mission, but their absence will prevent he coming of thousands of absolutely inadmissibles—imbeciles, insane, illit- erate, criminals, disea ete. ‘ * ures also provide aguinst the eruelt fhe present law in separy ing families. Children under cighteen years, it unmarried, wiil. ecter with their parents, regardiess of the quo Wives will come in with their husban The number of trugedies of such sep- arations under the inflexible law as it stands hus been exaggeruted through 1eporters publish stox hased upon if they were permunent is whispered about the Al e he press, g “soh sions Te- as c De- c 1 titeral in- terpratations of the fuw * % x % “ couple b Fo itlustration, Lt ied started from their home in through Poland. While in Polar wife guve Lirth to a daughter, who the time thes arrived in America wae three weeks old vorn in Polund was « Pole, and Poland's quota was exhausted. hence the baby ould 1ot be admitted. whose quoti was st ible. Secretary Da strue tent. not the letter, of the law, und_ordered the daughter 1o come n_with her parents. Hereafter, the law. as humane interpretation, will W] e fumily. including 1 children under eighteen s in erbs mis well us admit the unmicrried dmissible (Copyright, 1924, by Pavi V. Coliius Do You Believe the Other Fellow Is Sincere ? BY JOHN CARLYLE Are you one of those persons who are always walking around the other fellow to see whether he has a rock in his hand ad to say, some of the wost su cessful men in every community- successtul us fur as money and p tion are concerned —are the most “hard-boiled” They are suspicious of every other man's effort | if they cannot see a practical motive. | If he is doing a ®ood deed, of un- usual proportions. they instantir as- | i instantiy | thing out of IL.* They suspect partisanship where it does not exist. They suspect selfish ] is altruism. 1 It is true that these doubting citi- zens, whose thumbs are always down and eyebrows always raised, have a great deal of experisnce and prece- dent to just their sordid suspicion. But they have neifher right nor justi- fication for refusing, automatically, to give credit for sincerity where such credit is due. Sit in any group of men and talk about the plans of really fur-visioned citizens for human betterment and what will you hear? COURAGE “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of gy ' | i Wankisgten Ignored Disconragements. George Washington’s elder brothers were sent to Europe to be educated, but he was cleven when his father died and left the mother only the homestead farm at Bridges Creek, Va., as her sole inheritance. The | boy had to attend the crude schools | nearby until sixteen. He studied sur- veying and was successful at the work, but had to abandon it to take 2 brother on a hopeless quest for health in the Bahamas. When the French invaded the Ohio country he, at twenty, took charge when Col. Fry died, won a victory and later wisely withdrew before su- perior French forces, for which act he was reduced in rank. ‘After Gen. Braddock had been wounded Washington took charge of the retreat, was made chief of staff, and later, with Gen. Forbes, com- Dleted the journey and the capture of fort Duquesne. Ffoon aiterward he was elected to the Virginia house of and married Mrs. Custis. He invested in the Mississippi Company, induced friends to subscribe, then spent seven years trying to secure a grant from the crown, but all was lost when the K:n was difident and knew little about military tactics, and against his will was made commander-in- chief of the revolutionary forces, serving without pay. The army was an armed mob, enlistments were rui ning out and virtually he had to o ganize a new force. Congress med- dled, men deserted and criticism was bitter as he Wll’rgulhad back through New Jersey. en the capture of Trenton changed sneers to praise, I the mnext - eighteen months other American generals won success while | certain is it that there hat is he going to get out o ' What is he up te? Where does he met his? i 58 With the aver: proposal before Congre. or a President’s messege, you hear? “Ife !s trying to steal the oredit from the other party. He is feather- ing his nest. He is passing the buck. He s unloading something. He getling out from under.” _Unquestionably there is much in- sincerity in the world. But just as s o great deal of sincerity. Just as certain is It that thousands of people—your friends and mine—do deeds without number that have no motive other than kindness and an honest wish to be of service. The latest national victim of the assumption of insincerity is Fdward Bok. Naturally enough, in line with this prevalent habit of ours. most of us walked wround Mr. Bok to see what he had in his other han As if the desire to end war is not motive enough for any normal man! Haif the world is prostrate because of a terrible conflict. and vet when man propos end money to in- quire into ways and means to put an end to war, we raise our eyebrows once more and whisper: “What is he trying to put over? There is no finer resolve that mun can make than the resolve to give the other fellow the assumption of sins cerity. ge citizen a a new bill nd what do (Copyright. 1%24.) he y:—tudrr;n nndh trouble. Valley Forge, the attempt to put Gates in Bis pluce, and the Wransing of Congress. Next came the three- year wait outside New York for the i'rench fleet. But hc never was dis- couraged. Peace restored, he retired, borrow- ed funds and bought more land, but was practically drafted as President. He was re-elected, and his decision to keep out of foreign affairs caused rabid hatred. At the time of his death he was honored by the world as a man and a statesman. Rated according to pres- ent-day standard of riches, he was a multimillionaire. (Copyright, 1924.) In a Few Words. When a man says that the country s going to the dogs we may be sure that he is on good terms with his banker. —DEAN INGE. Socialism has achieved its purpose in Moscow. All are cqual—all hav level—the poorest level. —CLARE SHERIDAN. 1t is bad, exceedingly bad philoso- Pby to spend all of childhood prepar- ing for adulthood and all of adult- hood preparing for the hereafter. —PROF. WILLIAM T. ROOT. There Flapperism is the revolt of the in. sulted intelligemce of youth agalnst the miserable hypocrisy of parents. —R‘KE..“V‘ CHARLES FRANCIS POT- 1 believe in giving little girls doll: that are slightly cross-eyed and which therefore must have the sym- pathy of their owner. A doll that is round-shouldered, bowlegged and dingtoed also promotes the real maternal feeling. ~—PROF. GEORGE JOHNSON. ‘Harvard University. Ninety per cent of the police force in Philadeiphia is all right, 5 per cent are a little weak and the other & per cent nmobods can do anything with except a hangman. ' —GEN, BUTLER. { under certain! in g suspen- | The baby having been | Yeass—or pos- | Iy under twenty-one, when the father replied that he was spending most of {his time on income tax work. I n- quired, “What do vou think the in- come'tax costs the people if you take lxmo tousideration individual extra office expense, including clerk hire. bookkeeping and legal advice, the cost to trust companies and banks, he cost of collection, including la; ults, both to the individual and the government. e thought for z mo- ment and then said, “Between 75 and 100 per cent.” 1 asked next, “Suppose we add to this the disadvantage of having money put into so-called tux- exemp! securities and keepin of commercial enterprises? thought for a little while and “That would bring it up far bevond 100 per cent und possibly Lo 150 per jcent.” This was higher than I es- |Pec(ed. but since that time I put { the proposition up to ut least a dozen {lawyers, some of them eminent in | their profession. telling them of the just na to be u spite tax, and like everything else done for spite reacts on those who hold the spite. Kven though it were, it would be justifiable if it a -omplished the results d it not be well now to d out what the situation rather than to continue in all this labor 10w expended to compute, enforce and collect the income tix were eliminated, it could be applied to constructi 1 tmore to the net gain to the country. _Mr. Mellon's plan i right direction and is undoubtedly a compromise between his real views and what he thinks Congress may sgree to at the present time, and un- 1til it has been sufliciently educated along this line to realize that the ncome tax really fails in the object for which is was intended and reacts | upon :‘r;n)se for whose benelit it was | by |discount or pr the differen. these s good ac- t tax-exempt has led the gen- sunderstand is a eral public to really & < equul to e in the annual net in- i that not free crty or in- the inhe on equally {come itax is the same in the present e discount prepayment featy ws citfes, counties, states, territories, the na- tional government. federal lund ban nd j t stock bunke issuing securities to borrow money at from 1% per cent less than they have 1o pay There are two remedies counted or prepaid price {or i und ural course to time of redemption. but it would probably be possible to prevent the issuance of wmore such rities b constitutional iment. However, this would i {because cach of the government banks 10w enjoving the right to i {such securities at a reduced interest rate would be very willing to have the new order of things applicd to all except to itself. Far the best method would e to dopt Mr. Meilon's plan immediatel {with a further reduction each year Ifor say two or at most three vears until at the end of that time the icome ta would be entire elim- inated. The efiect of the adoption of ithis method would be the immediate | i to in- nd iner ! dustri iquent ri sing flow of me securities, with their conse price and a_correspond- in demand for so-called in the near curities would ecuri- i future nomn ve to compel n a practically equal footi WILLIAM PHELPS E. Franklin’s Son Never Returned to America! the American people wers rasped to Mo the Editor of The St Please allow me 10 muke one correc- tion in the interesting write-up of the meeting of the Society of Natives in The Star of February 16. From the article I am made to say that after the revolutionary war, William Franklin returned : This does not happen to be the case, for after sailing for London in Au- gust, 1782, he never visited his native 1and. But let me tell the whole story. particularly that part relating to Franklin's ‘son, as 1 am sure it will be interesting to the readers of The Star. Benjamin Frankli ; liam, was born at Philadelphia in 1731. {1In 1750, his father, speaking of him, {says: “Will is now nineteen years of {uge—a tall, proper youth, and much jof a beau" A close companionship {seems to have existed hetween father jand son, and when Benjamin Frank slin was appointed by the colony of 1 Philadelphia_as its agent in lLondon, ihe took William along. Here the son studied law. in the Middle Temple and was admitted to the bar, and later, when the degrec of doctor of laws was_conferred on the elder Franklin by the University of Oxford, the same institution also conferred upon Wil- liam the_degree of master of ar and in 1762 hc was appointed royal governor of New Jersey. He was then thirty-two years of age., Upon his return to New Jersey the following year to assume the dutics of his oflice he w: escorted to the seat of the colonial government with as much pomp as was customary in those days. In his administrations Franklin ap- to pears to have becn mild and con- ciliatory, and_ became very popular With the peoplé of New Jersey until ihis refusal in 1774 to call the colo- nial assembly ~togzether to appoint i delegates to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Instead of follow- ing the example of his illustrious ather, he took sides with the Brit- sh, and soon afterward. under an or- der trom the Contimental Congrees, thn was_in 1776 sent under guard to Gov. Trumbull in Connecticut, by | whom he was kept a prisoner until 11778, when he was exchanged for Brig, Gen. Thompson, an American of. ficer, Franklin sought protection un- ider the wing of the British army in {New York cit g { When he was made a prisoner in {1776, his wife, an Englishwoman, jwi he had married abroad, remain- ed'in Amboy. N. J. She was allowed to seek Brilish protection in New York, where she died while her hus- band was_still a prisoner in Con- necticut, He is said to have loved her tenderly, and when the war was over he had a tablet placed to her memory in_the chancel of St. Paul's Church in New York, where she was buried. . In August, 1782, Franklin sailed for England, never to return to America. He received from the Brit- ish government 1.800 pounds for his personal losses and an annual pension of 800 pounds for life. He again mar- ried and had one son, Willlam Temple Franklin, and died November 17, 1813. Naturally, during the whole of the revolutionary war there was no in- tercourse between father and son, and the estrangement continued long afterward, and, in fact. the wound was never healed. When traveling abroad, Benjamin Franklin saw his son on several occasions, and some limited correspondence took place between theny, but it is evident e never fully ince securi- | issued must run their nat- | amend- | this country. | Q. Do animals sense beforehand that an earthquake is coming?—A. M. A. It is generally believed that an- imals do detect the coming of an earthquake long before men are aware of the danger. They exhibit extreme terror and seem to seek the companionship of man. Q. Are the mountains on the moon higher than those on the earth? lc. 3. B A: If tne deductions of most as- mountains of the moon are higher {than earth mountains. In the Lieb- jritz runge of the south polar region i 26,000 feet, or 7.000 feet higsher than {the carth’s highest mountain—Mount iverest Q the Muud Adums retired ~0. P. . A Adams {vears ugo. Since then she has de- {voted much time to cxperiments in Iprojecting moving pictures in broad day. and in natural colors. Her {methods have met with suflicient sue- s¢ to warrant fheir use in picture ymaking. Has stug; ath from retired about five Spurrell hus invented 10 has experimented installation in_ Holborn . London, England. The br: are 8 by 4 inches, and it i supposed {them wi i ; s 1 Islands <o nds were dis- sccond Vir- and her v 1zi ompanions Creulu Q. What was the duy er of cattle that compris. est receipts in Chicago’—2. McG. A. The Department of Agriculture ys the following are the largest Teceipts ever received at the Chicazo yards: On November 16, 1908, Chicago received 49,128 cattle; the three next largest one day's receipts are cember 9, 1918, when 46,111 we ceived: December 13, 1909, eptember 28, 1902, ‘when 441 were received. { the num- i De- af ba javor of pigeons’ eges were lused, respectively. to represent votes for and sgainst a candidate for such {election, and, although this hod i now ‘gencrally obsolete, the term survives both as noun The rules of most clubs Iprovide that a stated proportion of y i halis” shall exclude candidut i propused for elec cluded een black-Valled; inow usnally conducted b, [in which the favorable s are not distinguished by difier- t colored balls & ers are the color hus ast into different ments of a bsllot box a re fuvor e said to 1 but the ballot ording as rrse to the ive nume and popui cst City in the United fwhich has street cars.—M. J. The American dution savs that information that the smallest cily in the ] which has street car Mo.. with a in 1920, and a provided and L. of B service Power udents uttend the Universit anto Tomas in nila?™=G, G. A. This university. {founded twenty-five { Harvard, has at pre student: which was years before ent abont 1,000 ! {tronomers are correct, soms of the 1abor, | is one mountain with an altitude of | pa i the uigh- | Slectric Railway | Ma- ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. What i wheel?—K. A. An artillery wheel is a form of wheel where the spokes enter the hub in the form of a wedge. Thi type of wheel is used both on aute- mobiles and wagons. Q. Please give form of formal invi- {ations for use at a colonial party? . L H. A In the museum of the D. A. .. Continental Hall, is a copper plats made in 1767, upon which an invit tion to a dance is engraved. The form ,._Mr.and Mrs. Blank Present their Compliments to Miss Don And Ask the Favour of Miss Doe’s Company at a Dance at the Town IHouse o Thursday at the Commencemen: B.—This Admission to Be Delivered at the Door. i Q 1 canned reindeer meat e [market>—G. B. K. o | _A. While it does not appear on ‘h~ market at present, the availability of reindeer meat for canning has baen pointed out. Reindeer meat is o stu- ¢, schiedules them in ebruary 20 to March j delphia, Mareh 27 to April 5, 1 Boston, from April 9 to April 13 Q. meant by an artillers Ple food of the northlanders and i pronounced excellent by epicures in warmer climutes Where are the Oberammergau now?—k. F. itinerary, which i Where is the most importunt Sk A. Probably the Nantucket light- | ship holds this pluce. A new vessel | ha d the old ship. This one Las . jother 2o r 14 powertul steam bl and full light will have tanks ani enoush vear [ @ {arilis wear out?— monds in diamond L. K They do wear out. pon the nature drilled how wear. It depends f the rock to be rapidly the ' diamonds Q@ In wuction what is meant by saying that the table carries one of the player: W one player is not willing 1o « stake at the end of cach inings or losses are di »ng the other n 4 {rubber h vided | Q. What part ed fn newspapers | Approximaiely 1 advert newspaper: 1 Q. fore: the pts ot in per cent appeared the presen @ country Does s in developn » of national interfere with resource K “boom” davs fol- on common where the, Iy owned and no con haracter of vu! It contributes 1of nd permanent develop. ources. One of the recent sald | of the Bear Valley unit, 830 milli foet, in eastern Oregon. The sale o timber will bring in & commo: railroad eighty miles long ana a wmill and a 'SSO1 manufactur- ling plants cutting 50,000.000 feet « {Year for all time. This will stimu- late all business and particulativ | the full asvclopment of all agricu | tural re furnishing ho { transpor: { tiber s priva How wde of bread cun barrel of flour he averuge 0, although | varies from 240 to 210, (Have yow «_ guestion you wan! onswered? Send it to The Star In- Jormation Bureaw, Frederic J. Has- kin, director, 1220 North Capitol street. The ‘ondy ckarge for this Service iy 2 eents én stamps for re- fumn postage.) ‘Broadcasting Admitted Gossip Outra When Frank A Vanderlip br cust what he later admitted to be backstairs gossip the sensibilities of o) - | the limit of endurance. The reaction !is apparent in the nation-wide dis- jgust that has followed Mr. Vander- {lip’s failure either to back up his charges or adequately explain his laction. That he “just slopped over” is the way most editors put it ! “The contrast between Vanderiip's ! Ossining speech and his testimony be- {fore the Senate committee,” in the pinion of the Omaha World-Herald, s strongly suggestive of the appeal {from Philip drunk to Philip sober.” |For to the average sincere citizen, the Detroit News declares, °Mr. Van- derlip's mental processes in this in- stance are hard to follow.” Because, ineapolis Tribune continues, he made {“a sorry spectacle of himself, with explanations that did_not explain.” The St. Paul Pioneer-Press has “mo word in its vocabulary that ade- quately can characterize cither M Vanderlip's speech or his apology, because “if the history of the coun- try offers a more prominent instance of irresponsible chatter in a high place, when and_where was i After this the San Antonio Light doubts that “the American people will put any credence in any \hing Mé‘l. n derlip may say concerning public af- e than that, the Portland Express feels, “If anyihing can be worse, he assisted in shaking public confidence in government itself. The Sioux City Journal, moreove: maintaing “he will be fortunate i the stench of his own making does not nauseate him. even as it has sickened the best element of the American peopl Likewise, in the judgment of the Cincinnati ' Times- Star, “the mud Mr. Vanderlip slung will come off,” but “he himself is steeped_everlastingly in the stuff he So glibly propels at the defenseless ad as well us the living. i "3 Indeed, nothing, the Lynchburg Vews insists, “can well avail to re- lieve Mr. Vanderlip from the highly embarmssing dilemma, as having raised ugly and vociferous clamor in respget to matters in which he was not sufficiently informed and about which he could have informed him- gelf had he taken the trouble to do so.” The Buffalo News also feels “the Shame of his action he will not soon five down.” In short, “Mr. Vanderlip stands convicted of the rankest sort ————————————————— orgave William for the part he took forE e ‘war for independence. In his will he says: . “The part he acted against me in the late war, which is of public noto- risty, will account for my leaving Rim no more of an estate he endeavor- ed to deprive me of.” Elsewhere he says: “My son is estranged from me by the part he took in the late war, and keeps aloof, residing in England, whose cause he espoused, whereby the old proverb is exemplified: My son’s my son till ho gets him a_wife, Rut my daughter is my daughter all the days of her life.’" JOHN CLAGETT PROCTOR. { when haled to Washington, the Min-} ged American Sentiment hich the Scranton Republican There are only two wavs to rebuke such reckless slan- v. One is by public con demnation: the other is through the courts. Conceding that Mr. Vanderlip's mo- tive may " have been sincere, the Lynchburg Advance, nevertheless finds “the method by which he sough!( to put an end to rumors is discred- itable to his purported intellect and Jjudgment.” For the rumor, according to the Grand Rapids Press, empty that it would be sure to die of inanition anyway, but Mr. Vanderlin made it important.” The Wichita Beacon agrees that he “failed to realize for a moment that the world regarded him as a_gentle- man and a great American.” Although riticized by Vanderlip for not bring- ing the rumors to light, the Indi- anapolis News suggests “the mews- { papers need not shrink from a com- | parison between their methods and those of Mr. Vanderlip.” The Knox lle Sentinel goes still farther angh. brands him “ass and dolt of the densest type. We thank heaven that Lie does not belong to the reputable profession of journalism. and we are also gzlad that he made it clearis known that he is a republican and a frequent contributor to the campaign funds of the party whose late chiel- tain he =o basely maligned.” The New Orleans Times furthermore is glad that “his testi- mony before the Senate ecommittes ruther effectually dispels the thought that anything more than garbage- { digging rumor was behind the gossip reflecti upon former President | Harding's sale of the Marion Star.” ] *x x % In the opinion of the Milwaukes Journal “we are beginning to reap the harvest from the lack of courage and leadership in high places,” and, “if there be other gentlemen in high places who also are frightened by the crop of wild oats that is sprouting, they can best aid in undoing the harm, not by giving volce to rumors, but by leadifg the nation back from the sordid depths of greed.” Inci- dentally, “for the loose-lipped parti- san and conscious rabble-rouser,” the New York Post finds, “there is a les son in the ‘mare’s mest’ of Mr. Van- derlip.” - The Lansing State Journal consid- ers the slur by Vanderlip inexcusable, “it may serve to clear the minds 3 the public as to the doubt cast Upon thé Eovernment: and exRibit iy its true light the character of those who seek to tear down those placed in high office.” so, “‘perhaps, after all Vanderlip has performed a_service. The Springfield Union concurs in thix belief, because “it must be admitted that it has served to put a base rumor out of commission and has given the public full assurance of that which there is no reason to doubt—the hon- orable purpose and integrity of Mr. Hardin "The Albany Knickerbocker Press also_believes “the public's confidence in the integrity of Mr. Harding will be buttressed by this development, and perhaps the ‘scandalmongers will be rebuked in a way to make them Jess reckless hereafter.” While prompt _resentment of the slander of the dead “was characteristic of Amer- ican love for fair play,” the Philadel- phia Bulletin concludes “that same Amcrican ideal ought to condemu slanderous rumor concerning the liv- ing, where there is nu substance of fa-t behind the veiled accusation. Picayune