Evening Star Newspaper, April 16, 1924, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Kdition. WASHINGTON, D. C. - WEDNESDAY.....April 16, 1924 THEODORE W. "‘QOYBS - Editor The Fvening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennaylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 Bast $2nd St. Chicago Office: Tower Inliging. Fogopeas Office: 16 RezentSt., Lontan, Baglasd. The Evening Star, with the Su~dav morning »dition, 1s delivered by ca ‘within the #ity af 60 cents per month: daily omly, 45 ats, P, month; Sanday only % cents. yor onth. . Orders may be sent by mall or teje- noue ‘Main 5000, Collection iz mede by car- ers ot {be ead of each month. Raie by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryiand and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..15r., $8.49; 1 me., T0c Daily only. 137, 36.00;1 mo,, 50c Sunday only......13r, §2,40; 1 mo., 20c All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1 yr., $10.01 Daily only Sunday only. 1 mo., 85¢ $7.00; 1 mo., 60¢ $3.00; 1 mo., 25¢ Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled !o the use for republication of all vews dis. patches credited 1o it or Dot otherwise credited New Powers for Commissioners. Tnfluential Senators of the District committee have indicated a desire on the part of Congress to relieve itself, 80 far as the Constitution and sound nolicy permit, of the details of local municipal legislation by transferring " to the District Commissioners a maxi- mum power of enacting purely nicipal regulations. They have asked the Commissioners to suggest to thew specific items of munictpal legislation which can with advantage be placed within the Commissioners’ jurisdic- in order to respond most effectively to this request, the Commissioners have I their turn asked suggestions from heads of departments at the Dis- trict building and advice from the leading citizens' organizations con- cerning the form that their recom- mendations to Congress on the sub- ject should take. And for convenience of consideration, without adopting any m, the Commissioners t together into a tentative bill a wide range of suggestfons of en- larged power. This tentative bill was explained last night at a Chamber of Commerce meeting by Commissioner Bell in gen- eral terms and by Auditor Donovan detail. The suggestion of the tenta- bill that appointment of the board education should be transferred to Commissioners was vigorously at- cked by Mr. Glassie, reporting from the public schools committee of the chamber, and discussion of this one itam not only used up the available time last night but was carried over to a future special meeting. The suggestion to the Commission- ers arising from this incident is per- haps to confine their recommenda- tions of enlargement of power to ex- tensions of their jurisdiction as mu- nicipal legislators, and not at this time to urge increase of their execu- tive powers of appointment. The Sen- ate committee indicates that Congress is disposed to enact quickly a law which will have the tendency to re- lieve Congress of the necessity of han- _dling the minute details of municipal legislation. Tt has not indicated a de- sire to relieve the President or the Judges of the Supreme Court of the District of the trouble of exercising any appointive power which the law now intrusts to or imposes upon them. The thought is that if the Commis- sioners now suggest only such in- creases of their powers of municipal legislation as will tend to relieve Con- gress there Is chance of quick enact- ment; but that if they couple with these recommendations renewal of the oid and bitter controversy over the appointment of the board of educa- tion the whole legislation will be haited and defeated and nothing what. ever of benefit will be accomplished. It might be wise tactics to omit en- tirely from the present proposed bill thé section which seeks for the Com- missioners the power to appoint police end municipal judges, board of educa- tion, ete., ete., and then to concentrate with vigor to secure from a willing Congress a maximum of transfer of power of municipal legislation. Bene- fit would result even if Congress granted to the Commissioners legisia- tive powers which violated the prohibi- tion against any delegation by Con- gress of its general power of exclusive legislation in the District, laid down by the Supreme Court of the District i the case of Van Ryswick vs. Roach, In this way a test case might be made which would reopen for consideration by ‘the District courts. and the Su- preme Court of the United States the doctrine laid down by Van Ryswick vs, Roach. Many Washingionians are confident that the courts in_the light of today's conditions would drastically th have | tendered him by th& naetional conven- tion, is expected to give material im- petus to the effurts his friends have been waking to forward his nomina- tion. He must be rackoned with now in all discussions of cafdidates, no matter whether the claim is made that there are certain igsuperable obstacles to his nomination. He himseif will 86 noth. ing in his own behalf, but his friends are not to be inactive, and they are both numerous dnd influentil in the higher councils of the Democratic party. The presentation of his nane was made the cecasion for a demonstration deseribed in the telegraphic reports as of singular sincerity and enthusiasm, leading many of his supporters to feel that “'his nomination was by no means impossible or, improbabi ‘Whether this is an overoptimistic view will de- pend upon the response to the efforts his supporters will make {n other large states in the next few weeks. “There is no doubt that the contest for the nomination will liven up with Pthe actual entrance of this candidate. ———— Germany Still Dodging. Germany epparently finds it difficult to break away from old habits. Ever since the armistice the Germans have been squirming and dodging in effort to evads shouldering burdens justly arising from the war, uud now there | seemingly is a disposition to follow the mame course with respect to the Teport of the Dawes committee of ex- | perts. The Berlin government has a | cepted the report as a “basis for dis- | cusi evidently in the hope that | some softening of the terms may be accomplished. It is & good guess that the Berlin ! government will not be permitied to reopen for discussion the terms of reparations payment. The British gov- | ernment hus accepted the Dawes re- | port as an “indivisible whoie,” and if France backs up that position Ger- | many will have to sign on the dotted | line or take the consequences. | Yesterday’s decisions in London and | Berlin place the Paris government in a somewhut embarrassing position. | There have been indications that | France, while finding the Dawes re- port acceptable in principle, would like to attach to acceptance of it | tain restrictions and reservations. Now | there are two obstacles in the way of | such & program. First, it would im- | peril Anglo-French solidarity, which is | recognized as necessmry in order to compel Germany to live up to the terms imposed. And, in the second place, if France insists upon attaching conditions to acceptance it will be more difficult to demand that Ger- many’s acceptance he unqualified. It would seem that it would be the part ot wisdom for France, too, to regurd the report as an “ihdivisible whol.." It is réported from Berlin that at yesterday's conference of party lead- ers with Chancelior Marx there wae “a pronounced feeling of depression over the burdens that eventuslly will be imposed upon Germany.” That, of course, is not surpriging. No one ex- pected the Germans to be elated. But it must be remembered that there long has been “a pronounced feeltng of de- pression” in France and Belgium dand Britain over the burdens which Ger- many’s war madness imposed upon the peoples of those nations. Memorial Continental Hall. If one needed a reminder of the can Revolution, which mo one does, the resolution looking to a larger head- quarters building of the society in Washington would be such a reminder. 'One of the early resolutions of this the thirty-third Continental Congress proposes the appointment of a commit- tee to report at the next convention of the society on a plan for financing the construction of & building at Washing- ton to contain “an auditorfum ade- quate for the future proper deating of our ever-increasing membership.” When the corner stone of Memoria! Continentdl Hill was laid in 1904, and when the building was practically fin- ished in 1997, it was believed it would meet future requirements of the so- ciety. The site of the present bullding, bought in’ 1902 or 1903, was the old Thomas Carbery property, and in 1914 and since that time the Daughters have considerably increased their hold- ings in the square between 17th, 18th, Cand D streets. Whether the commit- tee which would be named under the pending resolution would favor the en- largement of the present bullding or its replacement by a greater structure, and how the society will view the ques- tion, is a matter for future determina- tion. The society has outgrown its present headquarters and the audi- torium is too small. In the Continental Con, werd. demied seats {n the hall because of lack of space. ——————— Public policy may demand that the senatorial investigators study Depart- ment of Justice files in secret. If there uodify the decision in Van Ryswick vs. Roach it they had the opportinity. This. modification of. Van Ryswick ve. Roach would be made most advan- tageously. to Washington if it came efter the District had setured voting representation in Congress through constitutional ‘amendment. But the District, buffeted legiglatively trom pil- jar to post, will doubtless take it thankfully whenever it can get it. ——— " . Confirmation. The people of Washington extend ‘warmest, heartiest congratulations to the Commissioners on their .¢onfirma- . tion for a new term.of loyal, devoted . community service. The President, the Senate and the Capital com- ‘munity have united in approving their - first term, and will co-operate to bring » maximum of success in public serv- ice to the new term upen which they are now entering with every one's good wishes. Gov. Smith’s Candidacy. Appearing in the role of an actual Instead of & potential candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York will -loom large on thg Democratic political horizon from now on. This metamorphosis, which occufred yes- terday in the Democratic.state conven: i . inig-he would accept. the nomination if are any more harrowing details the average citizen will be just as well pleased to mise them. In base bal ciréles it is reasonably assumed that the Whits House is more favorable to Walter Jolmson than to Hiram. s His latest dash for freedom brings up a new angle which threatens to bring Harry Thaw ‘into conflict with the 8. P. C. A. Nothing the .primaries can say appears to shake the New York Democracy’s faith fu Gov: Smith asa favorite son. 5 —————— ¢ The list of citizens’ associations which express opposition to the board of education’s censorship order length- ens. The Northeast Citizens' Associa- tion has adopted a resolution against the order, and has said that it “dis- approves of any semblance of gecrecy in the conduct of public affairs.* The Lincoln Park Citizens’ Association has urged the boatd of education to re. scind its order “because of the prob- able tendency of the selected few to withhold ‘matters of public interest from the press.” The Park View Citi- zens' Assoclation has resolved that it |. “feels ghat news of the schools is pub- lic -property, and that neither the board of education nor any person has, growth of the Daughters of the Ameri. | ess now in session 333 alternates | a right to withhold such news.” The North Washington Citizens' Associa- tion has adopted @ resolution of pro- test in this matter. Perhaps other citi- zens’ associations have taken similar action, and there is little doubt that All of them will enter thelr opposition if the order is not rescinded. The president of the board of education has said that the matter will be further considered at the next meeting of the board, and the intimation has been given that the board will revoke its recent order. The Star has previously sald: “Community Wwelfare demands the closest, most barmonlous co cperation between all the newspapers and the sechool authorities. There should be no permanent barriers, sug- gesting suspicion and distrust, to sepa- rate them. Press censorship is an un- popular and thankless task. The board ought not to impose it long upon Supt. Ballou uniess it hus some socret grudge against him.” The indications are that the censor- ship order will not long stand. Four to Nothing. ‘Washington wishes to express, doss express, {ts gratification because of the result”of a certain struggle yes- terday. The city expresses its thanks to the weather for its kindness, to President . Coolidge, Secretary Wilbur and Clark Calvin Griffith for their ac- tivities, and also to the Marine Band and Meyer Goldman's band for their activities. But while Washington offers its thanks to the President of the /United States, the Secretary of the Navy and Mr. Griffith for their em- inent services, it espectally wishes to express its thanks to Walter Johnson fer his zea! and for his “untiring ef- for Some expressions of approval were vouchsafed to Mr, Johnson yesterday. Washington elso expresses its appre- ciation of the laudable and quite suc- cessful endeavors of Messrs. Judge, Harris, Rice, Goslin, Fisher, Prothro, Peck'paugh and Ruel, valiant and stendy Washingtonians all! Washing- ton's fame was known from sea to sea and on foreign shores before the sun went down. It was one of those mighty crowds which are callad ‘“record- breakers” that saw Washington bring in four runs and did not =ee & ringle | Philadelphian make a tour of the | sacks. —————— | Ohio always has been and probably always will be a state whose political influence is great. Mr, Daugherty an- rounces that he has no intention of changing his residencs, which also intention of quitting the ga: ———— Ineligibility to hold office under the United States government does not mean any great change in Bergdoll's prospects. The chances of his being elected or appointed to any position of résponsil have long been very slight. ; ———— in the midst of a epring housecleaning that compels him to keep hard at work when a new official is customarily al- lowed to devota most of his time for awhile to receiving ovations. —————— Tokio is now being rocked by a‘dil matic earthquake; which bas‘an ad- | vantage over the geographical in being | more or less manageable by human intelligence in a way that will avert disaster. ————— Congress developed an immediate precisely what the meaning of Ambas- sador Hanihara's phrase, “grave con- | sequences,” might be. ———— The prudent homehunter feels obliged to go ahead and find a place to .move his furniture into without wait- ing for Congress to effect a definite settlement of a difffeult situation. SHOOTING STARS. EY PHILANDER JOHNBON Cherry Blossoms. Cherry blossome by the river, Smiling brightly every year, Where the leaves are all aquive: And the April sRies are clear! In our serious reflections, As the doubts and cares intrude Bringing pleasant recolleetions Of a frank and genial mood. Smiling every year so brightly At.the sun that smiles on all, They are not forgotteq lightly, Even when their petals fall. Though the sultry hours grow weaty, Though the wintry tempests roar, Well we know, with message cheery, They™!l be blossoming as of yore. Quotations. “Politicians used to quote more poetry in thelr speeches.” ' “Maybe it would be better to re- sume the practice,” mused Senator Sorghum. “Some of us would be more comfortable today if we had stuck to poetical quotations instead of fooling ‘with market quotations.” Jud Tunkins says the theory of re- incarnation is needed by a few men he knows. It would take several life- times to enable ‘em to do what 'ud pass reasonably for a week's work. It mukes the stout policeman fret— . Hie strength too far is tested— ‘When everybody wants to get Somebody else arrested. A Policy Approved. “I understand the sheriff threatens to send all you poker players to jail.” “Us taxpayers bas thought the mat- ter over,” answered Cactus Joe, “an’ ‘we've agreed that it's a good idea. We've got a.fine steam-heated “jail, with nobody to spesk of occupyin’ it. It 'ud be about as comfortable a place as any for & friendly an' prolonged | card game,” g Changing Reguirements. “My boy Josh used to enjoy them little bedtime stories,” sald Farmer Corntossel. o “‘Has he outgrown them?” “Yep, What he needs mow is some kind’ of a little alarm-clock story to get him out o’ bed In the morning.” “Parrots. uses profanity de same as people,” said Uncle Eben. “Dey ain’ got no information to convey, but dey nte to be noticed.™ to promote the fame of the city. | might seem to imply that he has no | The new Attorney General urrived | and uncompromising curiosity as to| - WASHINGTON, . D. (... WEDNESDAY, SUPERPOWER: A NEW ERA’ By WILL P. KENNED No. 3—What Superpower Means in the Home. Superpower will take the drudgery. out of the housewife's life, giving her more time for recreation, culture, business, ‘politicd and humanijtarian activities, bes!des leaving her more of the family income that now goes into food. S Blectric power in the homs is large- 1y a question of prices—the price of energy and the price of equipment. Everywhere we see that as the price of electric energy goes down in the homs, new household facilities are added. First it was the electric light, then the electric toaster, electric sweeper, curling iron, halr dryer, bot- tle warmer, a fan to cool the air in summer, a heater to give warmth in cooler weather, washing machines and sewing machines. Most of these facilities take but a comparatively small amount of en- ergy and are used regardless of the price of the energy. But when we get around to heating water and cooking by electricity or attempting uny general heating in the home the power must be cheap, in order to com- Pete In cost with the coal or gas range. Of course, people are shifting little by little over to.the electric stove, even If the cost is much higher, because of the greater convenience and cleanliness. Cooking by Absent Treatment. The housewife has to watch the gas and coal stove to see that the correct temperature is maintained. But with tho clectric range she ‘will not be obliged to spand long hours in a hot and smoky kitchen. Electric cooking is not likely to be | generally adopted while the price of power is 10 cents per kilowatt hour, as it is in Washington at present. The soction of the United States that has most electric appliances in the home { 1s Californi That is partly due to climate, but large factor, also, is | that of rute adjustment. For the pur- | po¥s of securing as large us possible use of energy in the homes the west- ern utilities companies have adopted { @ system something like this: They charge, say, about 6 nts. for the first forty kilowatt hours. which is ahout | sufficient to light the house. Then | the rate drops to 4 cents for the next | bicck, which ocovers such uses as | toustars, percolators. swaepers, elec- | trio iruns and washing machines. | Then the rate is dropped to 2 cents. Wwhich covers the use of' power for | heating and cooking. Calfornia the Eleetric State. The result of this policy is that in | | California more electric power is usea | per capita than anywhere else In ‘the | world. "0t course, it must be remem- | which has at least 75 | hydropower, and that this servics is | handled by superpower systems that | get economies from group opeiation, thus giving the lowest energy and the greatest per capita use. In the eastern part of tha country, per cent of rate IN TODAY’S A few weeks ago William Greene, chatrman of the ways and means committee of the Houss, re- cetved a telegram from 2 physician | of Buffalo urging him to use all his influence to kill the Porter bill limit- ing impertation of opium to prevent the manufacture of leroin. The learned doctor added: “If Is about time that orant laymen ceased foolishly ‘Umiting physicians in the legitimate praction of nfedicine. Kindly use your whole influence to prevent further encroachment upen physicians' rights To this telegram Mr. Greene re- piled: 1 would say that Congress, realizing that it is composed of ‘ig- | norant laymen' so far as the use of | oplates is conoerned, acts only upon the best advice obtainable.” Extremely few physicians suppért heroin as an alleged inedicine, and they are mot in agreement with the United States public health service,d nor with the American Medical So- ciety (comprising 80 per cent of all the physicians of America), nor with | the Army, the Navy nor the Vet- [ erans’ Bureau;’and certainly not with the surgeons of the leading Peniten- | tiaries or of workheuses of vuf great | cittes. | x R, P | just completed extensive hearings om. | the Porter bill and will report It unanimously and urgently for I port of the testimony makes. ong shudder at the enormous evil.and. the rapidity with which It has cors upoh Americans within a decadg, particu- ! 2 csekes con~ riy the youth of both.sekes' cai: Verting them into violent and unras | strained criminals of the most des- | perate class. No other form i of }oplumAmurpmne. codeine or cgcs Phas more than a third of ‘the strength of heroin, nor do those ether salts even approach heroin in ita.vio- lent and conscienteless crimingl im- P * X ¥ ¥ ’1_ ~ This is what Dr. Amos O, ‘Sajiires, ‘chiet surgeon of Sing Sing Prison, testified about heroin: £ “Prior to 1019 the, drug. ‘addictd concern as in the last few vl ’hd;— ,lr; 17 th were Jess than four-tent 0 Por cent. " In 1820 they had ineréjsed, 00 per cent; in 1922 over 540 ‘per cent and in 1923 over 900 per cent. one out of ‘every eleven is an addict. = This 18 true of women as well as men. Their ages run as low as sixteen years, but the ayerage i twenty-four yeafs. Now 86 per cent of the man addicts are heroin ad- dicts, 1 per cent cocaine and 3 or 4 per cent are mixed—take both heroin and morphine. The heroin addicts average &4 year younger the ers. OiFhe effect of heroin is very much more severe oh the body than alco- hol and there is-less hope -for a man who is an addict getting well than for an_ aleoholic’s recoversy. In tho ‘Atianta penitentiary 18 per cent of the convicts are herdin ad- dicts; in the St. Louis workhouse, 16 per cent. ‘Rere are more than -a million addicts in the United States. * X ¥ ¥ Dr. Squires and other testified that the i{ncreased use of opiates, espe- cially heroin, has no relation. te pro- nibition of alcoholic liquor. An alco- hol-craving victim is not inclined to turn to a sedative. That man wants timulant. ® Dr. Squires stated that when an addict reaches Sing Sing the treat- ment given him is immediate and complete, cutting off his supply of heroin (except in cases of tuhercu- losis, where a ‘tapering-off” treat- ment is given by using a milder form of opium). The agony af the patient is terrible. Yet so broken down is the mentality of such a vietim of heroin that, though “cured” for years in prigon, he is likely to fall again as soon as released. - * % % K Similar testimony was given by several medical experts with large hospital experience. It was testified that leaders of criminal.gangs in the big cities, although not themselves addicts, always give heroin to thelr than bered that California is fn a region | Out- dlate passage. A perusal of the re- (in Sing Sing) did nog‘i\la'ifll.!’gfil‘ ‘whan we get plants efficiently inter- econnectad in groups, we can get much lower rates tor eleotrio energy in the home than now, but it is doubtful if ever we will get down as low, as the rates for water-generated energy in California. Another place whers electric. energy s used extensively in the home is In Qntario, where the power is furnished by a hydroeiectric’ com- mission and wheré a flat rate is charged for the service in the home, regardless of cost of delivery. which is lower even to the household than to the big stores. Fower can be delivered to a factory cheaper than to & home, because there s steady use of the power for eight or ten hours a day, while in the home it is used only a small portion of the time and in irregular quantities, so that the wires, transformers and meters are lsing idle most of the time. To Eacournge Use of Curremt. As o business policy rate schedule adjustment something along the line of the Ontario plan will probably be adopted In the eastern part of the United States to encourage the use of electric cnergy more generally in the liome. Something like a 50 per cent reduction in the household rate for power might bo secured with only a siight Increase in the rate for industrial consumption. Then, as the increased uee for domestic service grows, it will work back to a self- paying basis, because you do not have to” have any new wires or equip- ment, but " simply pull in more energy over the same equipment. With the coming of superpowsr systems the housewifs will havs more of her income left for other usee than Lo buy food, because superpower will make food cheaper when our idle water power is put to work, | Labor and fertilizer are the farmers’ principal production costs. ‘When electric energy iz delivered to him cheap on the farm ha will bs able to pay better wages to fewer hands. Superpower will pluck out of the air nitrogen, which is an essential and k%8 been the mOSt expensive -in- gredient in fertilizer. He will then be able to grow better cropa at a re- duced cost. | Rednees Hazard of Farmer. The hazards of the farmer will also be reduced. Electrically operated | pumps will remove the ‘danger of | droughts and the radio give warning ugainst storms, frosts and floods. With the radio and with electric | nousehold devices life on the farm | will be more attractive and | profitable. | much ing all manufactured products that come into the home; they will be cheuper because superpower will make it possible to produce larger quantities at & lower cost. Superpower will do for the house- wife what the “flivver” has done for so many American families in moder- ate circumstances. It will about a social as well as economi and industrial revolution. SPOTLIGHT BY PAUL V. COLLINS men when sent out on a violent crime, for it destroys all conscience— all sense, ot obligation to fellow men nd gives an abnormal courage and quickness of action. * * * * In December, 1916, Dr. Rupert Blue, then surgeon genersl of the public. health service, iseued an official or- lder to medical officers stating that | *heroin as a palliative in certain res- piratory affections serves no purpose which cannot be acocomplished by other agents as effectively and with- | out the attendant possibility of grave dieaster. You ara therefore directed to discontinue dispensing heroin or s salts at relief stations and send all stock of these drugs now on hand 1o the purveying depot at Washing- ten.” In Deoember, 1923, Dr. M. W. Ire- |1and, surgeon general of the Army, ordered the total discontinuance of heroin ifh the Army. On February 2, 1924, the surgeon general of the Navy #ave the same order. Mareh 10, 1924, | the assistant direotor of the Veterans | Bureau ardered its use stopped in all vetofan# hoepitals. { The American Medicali Society, at its mepting/in New Oflsans in 1920, !through: a uhanimous wote of its house of delegates, “resolved that | heroin be eliminated from all medici- nal preparations and that it should The ways and means committee haginge bo promembed or dispensed. and importation, manufactures that ke mparta p&le shou prohibited in the sty oir canrot be bought #tores, set, according to Dr. Charles at drug W. Richardson of Washington, thers 15 'used’ annudlfy in New York alone #or: the production of addiots 76,000 ounces *of ‘herofn (“snow’"), although 14,008 physicians use only 58 ounces. All the rest is smuggled and ped- dled by heroin bootleggers. The traffic i3 extremely diffioult to stop, because the dose is so small that a thousand doMars’ worth can be car- Tied in & vest pocket and $25.000 in & suit case.. A first dose is enough to dothrone reason and all conscience and gonvert the victim into a reck- less, violent eriminal, with inflated egotigy. and with desperation to get more. \on * x * % Frem the' beginning, the fight aghinst opium has been led by the Unitad $tates., Tt iz chiefly opposed ;by Great Britdin because nearly half Of.Britajfi’s’ revenues for the suppert of her colonfes come from govern- ment monoPoly of oplum. Chiefly | in 1ndia theculture of poppies, the source of opium, is encouraged by the government. ' Any farmer desir- ing o raise poppies can get a license stating the acreage, and whatever capital he needs is provided without interest upon a government loan. All the erop is delivered to government opium factories. China has been the worst sufferer | from enforced traffic in India-produced opium. In 1844, the United States made its first ‘opium treaty with China, whereby this country agreed that any American dealing in opium in China should be prosecuted by the Chinese courts with no protection from our courts. In 1858 this agree- ment was extended so that any Amer- iean veasel carrying opium into China would be forfeited to China. Later treaties _expanded our concessions, giving China free hand with Ameri- can opium smugglers, and the same treaties were made as to Korea and Japan. * K ok ok When we acquired the Philippine Islands, the opium abuse was said to be impossible to suppress. In 1900 the Philippines imported of - opium 224,000 pounds; in 1901, 369,000 pounds. Eighteen years after, in 1918, the islands imported only 235 pounds and in 1921 only 192 pounds. We have demonstrated that the open imports can be stopped, but smuggling can be controlled only by curtalling ‘the world supply where the” poppies are grown—mainly in India, Persia, Turkey and Egypt. The masses of the English people are said to be uninformed as to the terrible responsibility of their gov- efnment, dominated by greed, not only official, but of corrupt trafick- ers and smugglers.. ! (Capy=ight; 1924, by Paal V. Callins. 3 | same words over and oves As regarding food, 5o also regard- | | at the polls. bring | /APRIL 16, 1922 Politics at Lafgt: President Coolidge has 434 delegates ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN to the national conventien, leaving) oaly 62 to go, and he will get those and others before the end of this month, Did.any one sy, “It is all over but the shouting”? * % And now they are talking zbout having the President drop in on the convention in person, recetve formal notification of his nomination, deliver his acceptance speech and start the campaign on the spot with a whoop and hurrah. That would certainly put some “gin- ger” Into the campalgn and be an innovation of sorts. ** %% ‘Women are fo attend the Republican national convention in numbers, New York state sending nine delegates. Rhode Island will send one woman delegate, with one man delegate from each of its thirteen districts. The women of Cleveland are organ- i3ing to set a record of hospitality and entertainment for the national convention. * ¥ ¥ 5 Daniel Ladd Rockwell, Mr. McAdoo's general campalgn manager, writes to Washington, taking issue with the recent statement of former Repre- sentative Carlin, Senator Under- wood's Washington manager, _that Scnator Underwood had won 15 out of the 26 lowa delegates. He says that Mr. McAdoo will have 23, the ather 3 going to Gov. Alfred B. Smith of New York, * ¥ ¥ ¥ Democratic politicians noted with interest the attack of Gov. Neff of Texas upon Mr. McAdoo and Senator Underwood. The governor, who is influential in Texas politics, said of Mr. McAdoo: “Mr. McAdoo has made himself un- available. His own testimony makes it unthinkable for him to secure the Democratic nomination.” He charac- terized Senator Underwood as a “gen- tleman and a statesman of recognized ability,” but said that he is im- possible on account of his hostile atti- tude to prohibition. Gov. Neff insists that the delegation shall £0 to the convention uninstruct- ed, “else they will be like a bunch of wax figures, or parrots eaying the| McAdoo headquarters in Chieago are conducting a lively campaign and sending out highly favorable reports | of his progress as the campaign | waxes. They claim that Senator Reed | is not likely to even appear in the | Missouri state convention after his| defeat in the recent primaries. | The loss of Illinois to Mr. MeAdoo | is admitted, but his headquarters charge it was due to crooked work | By e | Women will be largely in evidence at | the Democratic national convention | Thus far delegates at large and | district delegates have been gelected n Maine, New Hampshire, Porto Rico, | Arizona and Kansas. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York has been appointed by Chair- | man Hull of the Democratic national | committee chalrman of an advisory | committee of women to formulate | planks on social welfare legislation, which will be submitted to the plat- form committee of the national con- vention. | Mre. Roosevelt will select for the committee women who are nationally known as experts in various social welfare endeavors. * x 2 % The American Economist, official organ of the old guard, high-tariff protectionists, is despondent over the outlook for the Republican party next fall, because, it says, the party is not stiff-necked cnough on the tariff. Indeed, it even apprehends defeat of the party. “As the sitvation is at the present time," says this old guard organ, “the Republican party is beaten—beaten not by its enemies, the free fraders, by its own apathy and indifference, its own half-heartedness. Not since 1900 has the tariff been made the dominant issue in any.campalgn. Tha main difference between the two par- ties is their difference on the tariff. Without the policy of an adequate | tariff in the interest of American la- bor and capital, there is Httle to choose between ‘the Republican and Democratic parties. “Unless the Republican leaders come out and fight for the dominant doctrine and define the issue of the campaign, instead of letting the Dem- ocrats define it, the Republicans may as well throw up their hands and not waste -time foolish! “There is vet time for Re;‘uh]im\ns to- save the party, but they cannot do. so by ‘pussy-footing.' The thing, the only thing, for protectionists to do is to come right out squarely for protec. tion, to tell the truth abeut the poliey which has always brought prosperity to the nation. They must not hesitate to tell the truth about free trade, and that truth {s that every time the party of free trade has had control of the government the mation has had hard times, unemployment and suffer- ing as a_direct result of free-trade fallacies.” ¥ * x % That is the extreme high protection point of view. It 13 not shared by the Progressive Republicans, who think that thé tariff is too high al- ready and who advocate lower rates. Of course it is absolutely rejected by the Democrats, who are going to make demand for lower tariff owe of the principal issues of the campaign. A current statement from ‘the Demo- cratic national committee has this to say upon the subject: 5 “Demands for reduction of.the tariff are coming these 'days from quarters from which the authors of the Ford- ney-3fcCumber tariff act probably least expected them when the law was being written in 1923, Agricul- tural publications and thousands of individual farmers in the west have Joined the cry for a revision down- ward as the only sure and permapent relief that can be given to agriculture, “In many instances the insistence on a reduction of the present Re- publican tariff is founded on the ar- guments which Democratic senators and rcpresentatives urged against its passage. The Nebraska Unfon Farm. er, official publication of an:impor- tant agricultural group, is-making plain to the farmera of that state that _the Republican tariff iy one of ;he principal causes of their present ress. “Speaking of the MoNary-Haugen bill now pending in Congre: the Nebraska Farmer Union ‘In- stead of concocting various boot- strap-lifting schames to put the price of farm produats out of line with the world level, why not reduce’ the ex- cessive tariff on manufactured.goods and bring them down to the world level? “‘Lower tariff duties would permit the people of Europe to sell more g00ds to-us, and thereby enable them to buy ore of our farm products, Thus our foreign market would be fmproved. Tmproved markets both at home and abroad would certainiy increase prices for farm products.’ * K % & The Democratic national commit- tee, through its publicity bureau, in- sists that no matter which of the proe gressive groups in Congress wins in the ultimate disposition of surtax rates in the rovenue bill “the admin. istration will lose.” The committes sees western Republicans in revoit against the Mellon rates and claims that the instinct of self-preservation will prompt them “to inflict a second humiliation upon President Coolidge and Secretary Mellon when the .tax- revision bill, proposing the lafter's rates on the higher surtaxes comes to.a voto i the s?flf‘l.v.\"‘-‘lTQD:l | the Hohenzollern family. | having been born | he blamed the Democrats as obstruc- | Q. Give' a list of the citier, in the United States that have adopted the commission plan of government—I. E. B. A. Mors than 300 cities of the United States have adopted commis- slon form of government, notably: Buffajo, N. Y.; New Orleans, Jersey City, Portland, Oreg.; St. Paul, Oak- land, Memphis, Des Moines and Gal- veston. Of the larger municipalities which have adopted the plan, only two, Denver and Salem, have aban- doned 1t. Q. Does food that is perfectly fresh over cause botullnus poisoning?— B. N. G. A. It does not; neither is this form of poison produced in. the body after the food is eaten. The bactertum must grow in and decompose the food. ' To produce an outbreak, food must have been kept under conditions which permitted this organism Lo gTow ani to produce the poison. 3 Q. When was Halley's comet last visible and when will it conie again? —J. G. I A. Halley's comat 1910 in all parts of the earth. It is| due to return 1956, On May 14, 1910, a few days befors the nearest | approach of Halley's comet, the length of the tail was 50 degrees, or 20,000,- | 000 miles, and the width of the bright | head was 300,000 mil Halley's | comet is known as a comet of one large tail. The character of ths tail at the next appearance cannot be predicted. was visible in | Q._Where are sugar beets raised?— A. The chief sources of bect sugar are in the countries of rope, the United States and Australia The | sugar beet ETOws best in temper: climates, while sugaf cane grows in tropical and semi-tropical climates. In the United States sugar cane| is raised in Texas and Louisiana, while beet sugar production is at its height in Colorado, Utah, California and Michigan. Q. Did the “White Lady” appear| to the Kaiser of Germany just before | the world war?—M. M. | A. Thers have been many rumors | concerning the appearance of the| “White Lady” immediately preceding and during the world war, but noth- | inz definite can be stated. Accord- | ing to tradition tho appearance of | the “White Lady" forebodes death to | The story | is & relio of old Teutonic mythology. The lady probably represents Holda or Berchta, the goddess, who received | the souls of maldens and children. | The first recorded instance of her ap- | pearance was in the sixteenth| century. The last recorded ap-| pearance was {n 1879 just prior to the | death of Prince Waldemar. xq. How old Galll-Curet? A-| . K. | A. She is thirty-four vyears old, | in_Milan, Ttaly, November 15, 1889. She made her | debut as Gilda in ‘“Rigoletto” in the| Constanze Theater In Rome in 1803. | Q. Who w: is he original of Ernest in Hawthorne's “Great Stone Face? —A. A - { A. Carl Van Doren in introduction | | range"? to “Seven Stories” says: “Varfous at- tempts have been made to identifs Ernest with some real original, and Emerson has been oftenest suggested There seems to be 10 warrant for this. however, mor can Mr. Gather. 8old and old ‘Blood and Thunder i {alled definitely "this or that his orical personage. Qld_Stony Phiz i admittadly drawn frv.m(s!)anlr,-x Web- #ter, who at the time the tale ap peared was the political idol of New England." Q. Is it true that some radio l’{rnndv'nhlzm;;!a.uam» can relay Lo on and Suropean mes: - J H M. s i e A. It is possible mesgages have not t England, but English messages have been relayed om this side. In the future it Will probably be done fre quently, Q. What country has the mont Dpopulation, to the square mile>—-D, T. A. A recent compilation sta England density of popula average of 66§.2 pers mile. gium i5 second with lation of §52.7 to the square the " Netherlands third wi The United States had persons to the square r United States n_ relayed in to an “quare 4 popu Q. What is meant by * What s the range’’ of a Springfield rifie A. The Ordnanc: the term “poin rifle means the point. @t bullet is located whera it same elevation gs wi muzzle of the riflé after has been fired. Theé “poir range” of the Springfield r A distance of [0 Yards f muzzle. Q. . H. A A. The blue peteriis is raised ships as a'$a It is a rectangular blua while center of the same shape, but of about one-fourth the- dimensions It iz the letter P of ¢he’international code, but when hoigfed alone at the fore truck or top of the foremast signi fies that the vessel read. o sall or will sail shortl In the United States flag called the cornet is used as a sailing signal. Blue peter is also a local name applied to th coot, cr mudhen Q. Wh lifting gas? A. Hydrogen is th ful lifting gas and next in Jifting pow #3 per cent of the hydrogen. but ally v inflammab Q. external A. Ethyl or grain be sed internally x Wood aleohol sonous and s not be used ternally « natured al whic externally. (Let The &tar Information Bureci. Frederic J. Haskén, director, 9 North Capitol street, answer your 110 The only charge for this servier cents in stamps for return pos W is <igmat with a powerful most power. the has externally Pepper’s Address in Maine Evokes Editorial Criticis N The speech of Senator Pepper at] the - Maine Republican convention, called by many the keynote of the Republican campaign and denied of- ficial sanction by the President, has! furhished a delightful morsel to the Democratic editors throughout the country and brought forth the criti- cism of independent nawspapers with a lavish hand. Some editors of the opposite political faith to the senator | rose, or sank as the case may be, to bitter words In discussing the speech that most Republicans have, to say the least, considered unfortunate In the opinion of the Newark News (independent), “Mr. Pepper was mnot consciously trying to be funny when tionists, saving that they had ‘hit America’ while aiming at the Re-| publicans. It did not ocour to him to blame the Progressives for traf- ficking with the enemy. His logic is | akin to that of the youngster who complained that the plate glass win- dow Lad no business to get in the way of the batted ball” The only thing| Senator Pepper can really mean, the Milwaukee Journal (independent) clares, “is that it is all right for gov ernment to be granting favors to spe- | cial interests and all wrong to let the public find it out; that it not repub- licanism or democracy. Using a great party for that #nd is the thing that destroys confidence and makes radi- cals” In ‘& somewhat sardonic vein, the Davenport Democrat (Democratic) suggests “"Senator Papper evidently tried to be honest With his audience and convince them that, as only three of ten cabinet mempers appointed by | the late President Harding had gone | wrong, they ought to be satisfied with 70 per cent efficiency.” The New York Evening World (Democratic) points out that he expresses “no evidence of | shame because three members of & cabinet have been forced by outraged public opinion into private life; not even the faintest suggestion of em barrassment.” The Springfield Re-| publican (independent) ugrees that | the Pépper speech “was not a shining succees in this difficult line; and more agility than the senator has displayed is required if the counter offensive of the Democrats is not:to have deadly resnlts.” To which the Brooklyn Eagle (Democratic) adds, “The senator's utterances were distinguished for their strange mixture of candor and contradiction.” | t. * % * i Perhaps, to make his point, the El Paso Herald (independent) suggests, “the senator has slightly overstated the case.” For when he lays the third movement on the doorstep of the Sen- ate Democrats and asserts that the enemy ‘aimed at ys and hit America,’ the St Paul Dispatch (independent) | is confident “the public fully under- stands - that here is a declaration which demands a reservation or tw: In ‘this gonnection the Lynchburg News (Dpmocratic) asks, “What would theserpartisan Republicans have done had there been a I%ail and a Daugher- ty and & Forbes and a Denby in the last Democratic administration? In the answer may be olearly read the real hypocriey which animates the present Republican attituds-~the folly and the mendacity of it.” Whatever may be thought of the ns!au"A on the Democrats, the Louisville Courier- Journal (Democratic) conténds has not soothed or solidified the Repub. licans nor helped to remove the possi bility, nodv.errlhlm; to the speaker, < arty. " 7 o e Phoaville Sentinel (inde- pendent Democratic) puts it, “the peo- ple are not to be deceived always by | talk, and will show their disgust for filth and_erookedness. in the Novem. ber elections.” When the distin- guished keynoter, according to the calamaz00 Gazette (Republican), “turned aside from candor bitterly to charge the opposition party with un- worthy partisan motives in exposing the bad spots in the adminiStration his effectiveness disappeared. The American people can contemplate the ocoming ol”; powerful third party with much less dread than the delib- erate covering up of officlal corfup- tion. * % % * The Springfield News (Democratic) maintains thut Senator Popper 1s 100 | intelligent a gentleman to_put “mach | stock in his own charges. He has tried to ‘@vért public atlention from ’ the source of all thi, ss ing the finger of shame tow who turned up corruption in pub affairs.” The Hartford Times (I cratic) calls attention to the fac: Mr. Pepfer dismisses the mess tn Washington by loadin the grave of Presi: brands-as a ghoul and one ¥ to use the revelations for ca: s, _and it excla t'What prostitution lofty idealism to the groes deman of p.* All of which ynchbure Advanc the Pitisburgh Sun (De the good taste of the i utting all the at Washingto f a dead Pres by suc speech 1 ne Philadelphia Republican) 55 dependent ed the situation as i e partv handicapped .by blocs Sehate ond. Ho and ‘undeniably arrying _the burden of mistakes Which cannot noWw ba.corrected, bu what he had t6-say was inferestine chiefly as a foreword as to-{he party’s position in the coming chm The Portiand .Express (Repu however, feels “Tic was own personal view and Wi spokesman of the White House the administration.” o T Tribuhe - (indepen sperch is part shows the t to clean which every one has hoped for. Seranton Republican (ind Repiiblican), hat after the keynote the Rspu convention of Mi lected its dele- gates with inst; 1pport Coolidge for President. it taches significance to this cause “outside of two occ: the first timg a Republican <td vention in Maine has delegates and alternates in behalf of a presidential candidate.” The gen- eral trend of opinion is summed up by the-Rochester Times- penaent) - when it saye laki sech 4= & W the impression fngton are Bulleti holds “he h yund, It hous The red, o Service Must Be Back Of Advertising, Is View To the Editor of The Blar: Agvertising was - advértised last week with the offering of substantial prizes, and advertising seems to be the thought and talk just now The writer, connected with depart- ment store advertising for forty years, would suggest that advertising only ends in the newspapers. It be- gins in_the store, Wi the atmos- phere. . This stote atmbsphere is com- poged.of many dngredients, the lack- ing of any one being fatal. ‘What if the newspaper advertising 1s‘most eloquent and luring—if mer- chandise and the service rendered be lacking, will not the rcaction be greater than if the newspaper adver- tisement wero not so promising? Ac- cording to the store atmosphere will be the ruccess or failure of the writ- ten advertisement 3 Thus it is that some advertisemen —few and simple in words—can at- tract greater response than the Bla- tant announcements. It because of the storc atmnsphere. That the heads of all department and speciaity #tores are at last learn- ing the fallacy of exaggerated state- ments and the all-important neees- sity of improved service is being more and more recognized—and those that fail do not escape direct punish- ment. . The daily readers of The Star‘and other Washington newspapers should know that every advertisement is now criticized by the Bettar Business Bureau. and that for anv deviation from the absolute truth the offender is called to task in a way to be fully effective. R0 that at last even those most delinquent are now reforming, per advertising' is proving nd more a source of proft to and the merchants, because ential of advertising—the store almosphere—is. _improving in. sueh Wit KENT.