Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1924, Page 29

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Daily and Sund: Daily only.........1 Sunday only weolyr, Member of the Associated Press, The Associated Press ix exclusively entitied to ihe use for republication of all patebes credited to it or not otherw in this paper and also the local lished herein. Al rights of special dispatches bey $3.00; 1 mo, Germany and Reparations. ‘Evideoces appear that the German government is disposed to accept the reparations plan and to carry it out in xood faith. At least, judging from ex. pressions by leading Gierman official personages and from the action of the parliamentary bodies, the project of the expert body has been regarded in trermany the ultimate decision which must be obeyed. A recent dispatch from Paris states that the reparation commission has virtually told Germany to get down 10 work preparatory to a blanket ac- ceptance of the expert reports. Time for delaying dickering has passed. There will no advantage to Ger- any to prolong the procedure. On 1he contrary, it will be greatly to Ger- many’s advantage to hasten. The death of Stinnes has apparently ded the situation. That remarkable mian was i factor in the case, and no- body knows precisely which way his tutluenc swung. But it was known it he stood for industrial control, If be e could huve mancuvered so as to ef- | fect w settlement through the leading industrialists of Englamd and France, regardless of the political require wents of the government at Berlin, he id probubly have worked out that ution. it it would h of the problem. But Stinnes sone, at the height of his power, and pparently there no one of his magnitude to replace him. The govern- ment seems to be free to act as it will. Nobody has really doubted Ger- many’s ability to meet her war obliga tions if the spirit prevailed at Berlin Despite the collapse of the currency svstem, due to manipula tions, there is a substantial industrial foundation in Nothing was really destroyed by the war. No lands were ravaged, plants were wrecked, no mines were flooded, no soil was polluted. The shops and mills and farms are as productive as ever. The people, despite some slacken- ing due to underfeeding, are practi cally as capable of production as ever, There are not so many of them. just as there are not so many Frenchmen, or Englishmen, or ltalians, or Bel- wians, of the able-bodicd f uges. But if Germany works world well knows Germany solution ve been) s is deliberate that country, no great as the 1 work it can produce a surplus wherewith to | pay its debts, incurred by the failure of its {lladvised, wanton attack upon other lands. Now comes the test. A practical, equitable plan bas been framed by disinterested economic experts, who have taken every factor into con- sideration. It has met with general ap- proval as workable and bearable. Any sign of sidestepping delay, token of aceept ec or any disinclination to the project in good f; ita requirer oductive facturers are constantly adding to the power of the trucks and to their carrying capaclty. In one respect the motor transport business has been in a singular evolu- tion. It has had to adapt itself to the change in conditions which has been wrought by the development of the motor itself. Delivery trficks have had to be devised that will fit into the scheme of the crowded streets, the congestion of which is due in great measure to the enormous in-rease of the use of gas-engine vehicles. Short- bodied, but powerful, “lorries,” as they are called in England, are required to work their way through the densely occupied thoroughfares. Motor manufacturers are constantly studying solutions for the problem of getting the greatest possible use out of the least compass of machinery and body. Lawmakers, state and munici- pal. are studying solutions for the problem of getting the greatest pos- sible number of vehicles through a given area of street surfaces with a minimum of accident. And all this wonderful chunge has come about in @ short span of years, all from those first crade, noisy, slow, complicated and veritably fruil wheeled toys that went chugging and coughing through the streets und over the roads for short distances well within the lively memory of the younger middle- aged people of today. Will an equal space of time bring changes as great? The Democratic Convention. A report from New York states that the local Democratic leaders charged with the responsibility for managing the Democratic national convention to be held there in June are gravely con- cerned over the question of how to ac- commodate the crowds. Madison | Square Garden, already chosen as the scene of the big meeting, will hold about 14,000 people, and it has been estimated that already at least ten times that number are clamoring for tickets. Consequently ious con- sideration has been given to the pro- posal already advanced to hold some of the sessions in one of the biz ball parks, where from 60.000 to 70,000 spectators might be sccommoduted. If the convention is to be run as a show certainly larger accommodations will be needed than those of Madison Square Garden to prevent heart burn- ing on the part of disappointed appli cants. But primarily the convention is not @ show. It is a serious business affair, conducted for the purpose of nominating a Democratic ticket and framing a Democratic platform. Ex- perience has proved that a tremendous convention crowd does not mean a pre- ponderant public support at the polls in November. The chances are that if 70,000 people were admitted to one of the sessiona of the New York meeting at least a third of them would be Re- publicans, even in a place so largely Democratic as New York. Not all of those who attend campaign rallies ad- | dressed by famous speakers are of the political persuasion of the spellbinders There wouid be no advantage to the Democratic party to hold its nominat- ing meeting in the presence of an im- mense muititude. The election is not Boing to be determined by the size of the crowds at the ticket-making as- semblages, or by the volume of cheer- ing evoked by the spelibinding on those occasions. It is a long, long way from June to November, and the echoes of the crowds at the nominating meet- ngs die away even before the formal notification of the cundidate The Democratic managers would be well advised 1o go slowly in this mat- ter of turning the nominating meeting into a great public spectacle compara- ble to & ball game or & prize fight. A ticket named on the ground of a world series match or of a fistic encounter {in prison for act, Dr. Edward Rumely, for- | might suffer in the public mind by the suggestion of the environment. - PEE, The musical lobby assembled in | h and to carry oyt | Washington in connection with radio ents will be understood by | legisiation might do something to quiet | the world as a confession by Germany | the temperamental tempest in Con- | that there i& no sincerity in the pro- | testations of willingness to abide by the just determinations of an impar- Much news space has been devoted to the limgering illness of Pingy, Paderewski’s Pekingese pup. The em- inent pianist is described as having re- fused to meke a sound that would dis- turb the last moments of his pet. Then when doggie lingered rather top long for dramatic proportion in artistic grief Paderewski is said to have ex- ciaimed, “Why can he not die heroical- 1v, as the pet of an artist should” One of the penalties a great artist seems obliged to meet is that of giving carte nche to publicity agents in render- ing him personally ridiculous. gress by dashing off & few gay and | origimal melodies to accompany the | daily proceedings. e ——— By enjoying himself in Montmartre the Prince of Wales established a spirit of French-English cordility without reference to political considerations of any kind. By taking his pleasures tactfully a prince may render some ex- cellent service. —————— If the idea of saying as little as pos- sible on the witness stand was his, Harry Thaw is more than sane. He is sagacious. e A new ' republic may be quickly formed, but its success depends on the kind of meterial it has to work with. ———— Former Gov. Walton has convinced the world that, after all, the agitation in which he figured was only a ripple on the surface of Oklahoma politics. Motor Car Development. When the first motor cars were de- vised they were considered as a new mechanical toy, interesting, but not especially important. Men rode in them as adventures. They were barely as speedy as horse-drawn vehicles, especially on runs of several miles. Much good-natured fun was given ex- pression at their expense. Little did the scoffers think how far the develop- ments of & few years would carry the “red devils" that were propelled by gasoline, then a new fuel. Today the motor car, in its manifold forms, is the supreme mode of trans- port for this country. It has betome a serious rival of the railroad for pas- enger and even for freight carriage. Its compass is limitless. Families cross the continent in cars of a cheap- ness of initial cost that is in itself one of the marvels of the great develop- ment. Entire households are shipped across many hundreds of miles to es- cape the rigors of northern winters and to enjoy the balmy airs of the =southland. Rural life is transformed and urban life is greatly changed by the gas-engine carriage. In business transport the motor car has become a factor of first impor- tance. In city deliveries it has vir- tnally displaced the horse-drawn truck or wagon. It has claimed a large and increasing share of the commodity freight bueiness. Each vear finds this phase of the motor vehicle reaching & higher stage of develo] ————— The ancestral martial spirit stirs in the D. A. R. every time the meeting proceeds to the election of officers. Americans and Mah-Jong. A story that comes out of the west, which may be restated as out of the east, for it really comes from China via the Pacific coast, may be viewed as a vindication of the new American habit of playing mah-jong, or pung chow, or by whatever other name the celestial game with the picturesquely marked tiles may be called. It appears that an American, one of those cap- tured by bandits on the occasion of wreck of an express train and held for ransom, saved the lives of his entire party by playing this ancient game with the brigand chieftain. He and the other captives played in relays for many hours at a strefch, and so in- terested the leader of the gang that he forgot all t punishments and re- prisals. And they piayed him skill- fully, too, and practically broke even with him at the end of the long bout. So protracted was the match that time was allowed for friends of the captives to negotiate for @ ransom, which was effected. This ie something new in tradition. It has always been regurded as unwise to meet & Chinaman at his own game. Bret Harte has celebrated the celestial as ane who is pecullar for “‘ways that are dark and tricks that are vain.” The Chinaman is instinctively a gam- bler. He plays every game for all it is worth. His impassive face never re. flects his “hand.” He, is by nature qualified to be a super poker player. But Americans can usually hold their THE SUNDAY STAR jong, or pung chow, is so essentially a Chinese game that it was, indeed, a grave risk for the captives in the in- stance just noted to stake their lives virtually on the outcome of a match at this pastime. It may be that this incident will stimulate the practice of mah-jong in this country. While not all Americans expect to visit China, yet a thorough acquaintance with the game would be quite likely to come in handy for those who do go to that strange land. Apart from the possibility of meeting up with brigandage and having to play for life and liberty, skill in the han- dling of the tiles could not fail to be a useful accomplishment. Certainly a Chinaman will be likely to have & pro- found respect for a westerner capable of beating him at his own game, just as an American cannot fail to have a high regard for the celestial who can hold his own in a western pastime. The Blockaded Tourists. An extraordinary situation has just been resolved into orderly procedure on the California-Arizona border, near Yuma, where several huridred motor ists were held in check in the former state, prohibited from entering the lat- ter on account of 4n embargo against the foot-und-mouth disease, which pre- vails in California. These motorists are mainly winter tourists who have gone to the coast to avoid the cold weather of the east and north, and are now on their way back home. They are mostly people of slender means, and many of them are reported to be in a deplorable situation, with failing funds and no prospect of replenish- ment. The President conveyed to the Governor of Arizona a message suggesting that some method be adopt- ed whereby the quarantine could be lifted sufficiently to allow these tour- ists to pass quickly through the state on their way home, and the governor, after replying that Arizona would be ‘courting disaster” by any modifica- tion of the ban against California products and vehicular traffic, decided to open the gates and relieve the con- gestion at the boundary. * This situation illustrates the large volume of winter motor tourist traffic, and the peculir condition of large numbers of those who thus travel long distances in search of more clement weather. They start out with barely enough to meet their expenses on a moderate scale while traveling and sojourning. They count upon avoid- ance of rents and upon rigid economy in food provision. Many of them seck work on the way or at the places of winter rest. They are of all trades and occupations, and some find employ- ment at good wages. But their disposi- tion to flock to certain points of tourist camping tends to congest the labor market, and often they are unable to find engagements. —— While a thirty-day prison resident vielation of the alien enem mer New York newspaper publisher, was made chicken custodian. This ought to equip him for the manage- ment of a poultry journal. which/ would satisfy any unquenchable desire for print and at the same time be free from political entanglements. The arrangements for next summer are going along so smoothly and quiet ly. that there are moments of leisure to’ revive gossip about the 1920 cam. paign. ———————— New York will at least see to it that Gov. Smith secures courteous recogni- tion as the Empire state’s favorite son. e w————— In seeking to avert one kind of “grave consequences” Japanese diplo- macy faces another. » The wife-beater has been replaced in attention toa large degree by the hus. vand-shooter. ————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. April Muddle. Sweet Spring is returning! She lands with a thud, ‘While we are discerning A landscape of mud. There’s mud in the byways, , Where blooming should be, And mud in the highways For all men to see. The citizen shivers In sorrow complete. There's mud on our flivvers And mud on our feet. Time's path finds us grieving, © Since those who desire Footprints to be leaving Get clogged in the mire. More mud is predicted To add to our pain; Must life be afflicted ‘With mud on the brain! Hope Eternal. “Will our friend leave politica?” “Nobody leaves politics,” answered Senator Sorghum. “A man mey §o into the discard, but he always looks forward to another shuffle and a new deal.” Jud Tunkins says he disapproves of the follies of fashion, but he's liberal- minded enough to wish he bad suf- ficient money to join in. The Continuous Ballot. “Come one, come all,” the statesmen | say; “There’'s voting to be done each day.” The primaries are in their prime, And keep us voting all the time, v Hilarities in Space. ‘Scientists say that radio will eventually enable people in other worlds to look at one another.” “If our present styles continue that long,” remarked Miss Cayenne, “some distant planet i3 going to get a good laugh. Flavoring. 'You have lost interest in your mint bed,” said the neighbor. ‘Mint won't conceal the flavor of bootleg licker,” answered Uncle Bill Eottletop. “I'm now cultivatin’ red pepper.” “De stinglest man 1 knows,” said Uncle Eben, “is allus savin’ up money only jes' foh @& hoss race of & crap @ - : B | the canon BY THOS. R. MARSHALL, Former Vice President of the United Statew. I would that the thoughts of the everyday man throughout the ages had been recorded. 1t would be in- teresting to know how they differed from those of the men who dominated their times, whose names loom large in history and whose thoughts adorn its printed pages. But in the absence of recorded knowledge it is safe to assume that the thoughts of the lead- ers of a people were the thoughts of the people themsclves, who held in their hearts what their spokcsmen expressed. In almost every age and every clime the supreme search has been the search for God. Unfortunately, the most diflicult thing i : emprise has been {0 djauskociate the divine from the human. Most of the £0ds that have been found have corn tained only such divine qualities us the,man himself saw fit to endow hem with; the res - be ze them v est huve been largely The slow-revolving ages have hent the back of man, until he stands W vast interrogution point looking over all time and asking why. He scems to demand of God what he d demand of any one else in the affairs of life. He does his business largely upon faith in the integrity of the man With whom he is dealing. He mar- ries under the belief that he is about to enter heaven. He observes the wonderful advance in scientific re- search and accepts as true uncompre- hended explanations. But when it comes to any revelation of God. man insists upon’ putting it to the touch- stone of his own knowledge and com- prehension. He demands proof under the law with which he is ronversant refusing to believe that thers can he anvthing miraculous, anvthing accom- plished under laws of which he is not | cognizant. * k% % story abounds arts and sciences. Civilizations in which they grew and flourished have dis- n.npeued from the face of the earth. Yet, =0 far as recorded facts are con- cerned, no man disputes them. ‘here was @ Tyrian pugple and there was a Venetian glass; nobody denies it. No reference either is to be found in the Holy Scriptures. If referen had been so corded, no doubt so aknostic would have entered denial ¥rian purple would have be to defective evesight. There is noth ing in the Bibl more inexplicable, less understood. more mirac ulous than the telegraph. telephone, electric light or radio, with fumiliar. I have been wondering if our civili- 7ation should Ko down in the dust, if all trace and rememberance of it should he lost to human kind, if it should be huried from sight like Babylon and Nineveh of old, if scientific methods of today were all forgotten and no record of them wis laft, if all that remained was simply & description of the manifestation of these wonderful discoverine in some book that had been incorporated in f the Holy Seriptures. how many m would aceept the truth of the discoveries, how many would re- ject them as mers mythe, dreams, fantasies of disordered minds: and how mamy would assert that these things had been recorded tn please the credulity of the human race and 10 Induce acceptance of & divine reves lation. Onec thing I know: here is I lost in lost which we are so n traced | the | nothing more marvelous than these things in the miracles recorded in the gospels. It is lack of faith that limits the era within which men are seckers after God. * % % % Faster day is here again. Count- less men are saying this is another one of the myths which have been used to fool mankind. They ar doubters, honest, some of them, ig- norant others, and depraved. A few are smiling at the faith of those who bel in the resurrection, Yet myths usually spring from some ul- terior purpose. They are concelved and disseminated with some end in view. Out of their impress upon the human mind, the authors hope to reap advantuge. Those who doubt the risen Lord do not say that authors of the record xought honor or reward, or dreamed that out of it ever would come to them either greatness or glo 1t was written by those who served und sacrificed It was repeated by those who were despised and rejected of men. It may be a lie, but no son for the telling of it cver has been found. It muy be a myth, but none 1 answer why those who told it should have done so. Nuture satisfies, and nature's leaves nothing incomplete. The flower fills its mission, the bird its destiny, The suns in their courses accomplish their purposes. Only man, if he rise not from the dead, Eoes to an uncompleted end. Those who belfeve in God must believe that He would not leave the soul of man unuatisfied or any good want unsup- phied a * E %k Easter, of course. means nothing to those who neither belicve in God nor iseck after Him, but to those who be- lieve or seek, it is the rewriting, year after vear, of the final chapter in the history and destiny of men. It marke the only human consolation. It gives evidence of the only fulfillment of human hope. It squares a man's doubts about the goodness and mercy of his Maker with his own intellect. 1t helps him to believe that the soul of man goes on and on to higher and finer things, if he will but have it so. It rolls the stone away from the sepulchre, where the heart aches of life entombed. and brings out faith and hope again in the sunlight It Is the day of universal hope. The resurrec evidence human are on has its support history. T would be admitted in any justice; fair-minded man anywhere would ‘render a verdict that it did occur. The world is dark enough even with this truth. There are clouds enough about us. even with the breaking of this hope upon our horizon. Why will men cry when they may lasgh? Why will they mourn when they may rejoice? Why will they seek fo doubt when they may belisve? Why will they put on sack cloth when they may be clothed |in garments of light? Faith mov mountains. huilds up just causes strovs iniquity: it is the shield buckler of truth: it overcomas all brings in_the dawn of evervthing that has heautified and glorified the world. Supreme faith of a life here- aftar is & consolation for the life we now live. It is the crowning glors of a Christian civilization, which civilization is the mountain peak of human histors. (Copyrigat, 10z as much as any fact 'he evidence court of by Twenty-first Proes.) Centary NEW DUTY FOR SUPREME COURT BY FREDERIC J. HASKI Along with various proposals to Nmit or curtain the power of the Supreme Court of the United States to nullify aa act of Congress by declaring it to be unconstitutional has come new suggestion to extend or imcrease the powers of the court. The Supreme Court is now a brake or check upom Congress. The new proposal would make it an aid or wiviser to Congress on constitutional questions. In’ effect it would make possible what would he the ecquiva- lent of advance decisions from the court the constitutionality of important measures under considera- tion by the government In addition, the court would also draft amendments to the Constitn- tion, which, if adopted, wouid re- move the constitutional objections to a law that had been passed or that was about to be enacted. By way of illustrating how this new proposal would work, the legis- lation prohibiting or regulating child labor may be cited. The Supreme Court has held two different child labor laws uncomstitutional. If t new proposal were in effect Congress would submit & proposed child labor law to the court and ask for an opinion as to its constitutionality. 1f the court found the proposed measure to be in conflict with the Constitution it would so certify to Congress and, in addition, would sug- Zest the form of an amendment to the Constitution which would obviate all such objections to the measure. Or.. if Congress had already passed a new child labor law without get- ting an advance opinion from the Supreme Court, and the latter should in time hand down a decision finding the law to be unconstitutional, then the court would also submit to Con- gress the form of an amendment to the Constitution under which such a law could be passed. Congress would, In turn, be required {mmediately to submit 'the proposed constitutional amendment to the legislatures of the several states, Minnesota Man Sponwer. William Andecson, director of the bureau for research in government of the University of Minnesota, is the sponsor for the new idea about what to do with the Supreme Court. Un- der present conditions, he says, the action of the court upon measures involving constitutional amendments must always be, or appear to be, purely negative, whereas it should be affirmative and constructive. As a matter of fact, as Mr. Ander- son points out, the court does play a highly constructive part in the development of American constitu- tional law, but to’the great masses of the people it seems to have a solely destructive influence. If it sustains an act of Congress the fact escapes general notice, or the court is given no credit, becauso the et is, after all, the work of Congross But when it declares a law to be unconstitutional everybody knows about it, if it is a popular or im- portant measure, and instead of blaming Congress for enacting a law that is unconstitutional, public opin- jon usually criticizes the court for doing its plain duty in decreeing that the act of Congress shall not stand. Nothing _can be done by the Supreme Court, as its powers are now defined. toward helping Congress or the President in solving the con- stitutional problems which arise in connection” with peogiany of eco- a as to legislative branch of the | | tell Congress that what has heen done is wrong but it cannot point out how 4 measure should be framed to wvuid conflict with the organic law Eoth houses of Comgress spend a great deal of time in un almost futile argument of constitu- tional question,” says Mr. Anderson. “After the argument has heen com- pleted and the bill has been passed, and even after the act has been enforced for some months or years. the Supreme Court may by a per- tectly proper decision deciare that the entire action was illegal. Not Gieod Teamwork. “The waste of time and public | must be obvious to every one. Pub- lic hopes may be raised very | and held high for some time. only tn | be dashed to the ground some months or years later by a Supreme Court decision. This certainly is not good teamwork in government. It is not necessary and is perhaps not desira- ble to take from the Suprems Court the power to pass upon questions of constitutionality. It might well, how- ever, be given the power to advise Congress upon constitmtfonal ques- tions and also to assist in drafting constitutional amegdments to over- come diffculties in the enactment of laws.” To carry out the idea of the gen- tleman from Minnesota it would be necessary, of course, to amend the Constitution somewhat as follows: By joint resolution passed by a ma- jority of the members of both houses and approved by the President, the Congress shall have power to sub- mit to the Supreme Court any pro- posed bill, with the request that said court certify to Cangress its opinion upon the constitutionality of said bill if enacted into law. The Supreme Court shall without undue delay cer- tify to the respective houses of Con- gress its opinion as to the constitu- tionality of such proposed measurs, together with its reasons for holding such opinion. In case the court be of opinion that the bill in question would be unconstitutional if enacted. it shall submit with its reply a draft of a proposed amendment to the Constitution with a certificate saying that in the opinfon of the members of the court such amendment, if made a part of the Constitution, would obviate the constitutional ob- jections to the proposed measure. Further Provisions., A further amendment outlined by Mr. Anderson would cover the situ- ation arising when the Supreme Court ‘| has definitely declared a law to be uneonstituticnal. le would also pro- vide for argument before the Supreme Court by members of the judiclary committees of both the House and the Senate, and for the presentation of briefs by interested parties for the enlightment of the court in questions presented to it. Whether an advance opinion by the Supreme Court that u proposed law is constitutional would make it such, or whether the court would have to do double duty and pass upon legi lation both before and after its pas- sage, is not explained by the pro- nonent of the new plan. Neither is it made clear just how the court could be expected to dispose of the vast amount of additional work involved und still pass upon all the other cases that come to it. In fuct, leaders in Congress are in- clined to believa that all the vari- ous proposals fdr tinkering with the powers and duties of the great judicial Jeibunat_wih he.."o\lhnd in o end to be arguments ting well enocagh alone today | nigh | WASHINGTON, D. €., APRIL 20, 1924— PART 2 Easter Miracle Squares Doubts Of Man in Justice of Creator Capital Sidelights BY WILL P, KENNEDY. The passage of the Johnson immi- gration restriction bill marks the successful issue of a quarter of a century of personal interest in Asiatic exclusion, as well as the re- striction of Immigration generally. In his office today Representative Albert Johnson of Washington state has dis- played as a trophy a small, crudely ex- ccuted cartoon printed twenty-five years ago in the Tacoma News, He was then editor of that paper and designed the cartoon, which, under the caption “The Human Balance of Trade,” rep- resented a scales, on one pan of which were a horde of conlies being brought in from Japan to live as peons, and on the other the same ship on its re- turn voyage, carrying American sol- diers to the Philippines. The legend benecath this cartoon reads: “The flower of the United States going out to fight and die in the Philippines and the scum of Japan coming in.” In those days the Japanese who came to the United States were actual coolies. - Representative Johnson has work on th problem every day He and Representative Raker of ( fornia have heen on the immigration committee for eleven years and have done excellent teamwork wll that time. The As exclusion le tion was not n campuign issue them, as has been charged. In fact, all v_:qn(lul:urs for Congress in their districts and all presidential candi- i~ aid stress on the exclusion of the orientals. This Jegi to do away with the gentlemen's agreement has been under consideration for vears. The rst proposal of a questionnaire over- seas for aliens and entrance on a sertificate was in a bill introduced by Representative Johnson in_ De- cember, 1920, and passed by the House the game month. For that bill to suspend immigration the Senate sub- stituted the ota propesal. The present measure has tha examination and certificate plan very carefully worked out as a result of constant work by the committee since then— about three and a half years. The first suspension of immigra- tion bill was proposed by the late Judge Burnett after the armistice, and it was at one time placed on the calendar of the Ho , but never act- ed upon by the House itself. The Burnett bill had so many exemptions that it was difficult to tell what it would exclude. For example, those fleeing political persecution, “wheth- er shown by overt acts or not.”" That provision alon. would have let in about one-third of Europe, a< later developments have demonstrated. The printed hearings on the immi gration bill run into many volumes :qu hundreds of thousands of pug < The tendency of all witnesses was (o cuss individual cases and to go into detuils, #o it is hard even for a real student of the problem to read the hearings. | Out of the discussion of the Japa- nese question has come a new, official government book on the subject. The immigration committee has author- ized the publication of all of the offi- cial documents between the House committee and the Departments of State and Justice on this subject printed in a special volume, The immigration committes has al- ready started work an a deportation bill designed 1o take care of thoce alien< convicted of vielatione nf the narcotic and prohibition laws * o+ % o» Al his life Representative Roval © Tohngan of South Dakota has been | interested in boys' camps. Traveling | back and forth to his home in Aber- dern ha makes the trip by antomobile camping along the way with his two sons. This week he Boy Scouts for is taking some fifty a five-duy camping t o arine headquarters a A B P e L s | are the “sons and grandsons of mem- | bers of Congress.” A feature of the camp will be lectufes on battles of the world war, with officers who were | with Representative Johnson in these | battles overseas giving the boys | tirst-hund uccount of those momen- | tous events in history. The Boy Scouts will have explained to them the French 75 gun, aircraft, automatic rifles and such and such instruments of practical warfare. They will see the crack marine team work out on the rifle range for the Olympic games, _Later in the summer Representa- tive Johnson will conduct another cump on the shores of “the historic Potomac.” * % x x The National Museum will before | loni be pregented with some of the finest exhibits of horns of the prac- tically extinet Texas longhorns which money involved in such a proceeding | are now displaved in the office of | Representative Texas. Quinn Williams of One pair of horns measures 7 feet 6 inches from tip to tip and the other more than 6 feet. They came off cattle that ranged on the Rio Grande in the 80s, one of them off a steer seven years old and another nine years old. Representative Williams has always been a stockman and specialized in keeping in touch with such matters. He is the only member of the Taxas delegation in Congress who is not a lawyer. Thirteen is tbe lucky number for Representative Williams. There are thirteen letters in his name, he rep- Tesents the thirteenth congressional district, was elected on the thirteenth day of the month and beat his com- bined opposition by more than 1,300 votes. * ok % Representative Henry P. Rainey, whose bushy whitened locks and mag- nificent physique make him a con- spicuous figure in the House and who 1s one of the most popular chautau- qua orators in Congress, was the champion boxer of his college and can still go a fast bout. He was train- ed by the Dole Brothers, both of whom wers lightweight champions. He graduated from the same college as President Coolidge, Attorney Gen- era) Stone and Speaker Gillett, Am- herst College. 3 Representative Rainey was an all- around athlete in his college days, and Wwhen at home, on his farm. just out- side of Carrollton. 111, keeps up ex- ercise by riding horseback. Represent- ative Rainey has departed from the usual losing methods of farming and adopted profitable mathods. He raises deer for one thing and quit growing wheat entirely. He operates an up-to- date dairy, with 100 pure bred Hol- stein-Fricsian cattle, belongs to pure bred cattle and hog associations and is producing 140 gallons of milk a day. e has.a motorized farm with every- thing operated by electric motors so that thirty-five cows are milked in thirty minutes by machinery. Because of this the dairy does not interfere with ordinary farm work. He sells pure bred Holsteins and pure bred Hampshire hogs. x %X %k R During the primarics Representative Elllot W. Sproul's opponent, Judge Sadler, commented extensively that the representative is an old man in broken health and that his constitu- ency ought to send & committes to ‘Washington to investigate his condi- tion and induce him to retire before he suffered a complete collapse. One of the features of Representa- tive Sproul's campaign for re-election, and which did more than anything eclse to win him the nomination, was a challenge to Judge Sadler for a foot race at any distance from a quar- ter mile to a mile for $1,000 a side, the entire purse to be turned over to some local charity. As Rep- resentative Sproul is sixty-eight years old, while his adversai is some thir- teen years younger, he iz conceding qQuite 3 bit, - but wager has not MEN AND BY ROBERT The American friends of the Prince of Wales have read with delight the last few days of his refusal to leave Paris and go back to the more or less drab existence of London, where he Is always under the watchful eye of a somewhat mid-Victorian mother and a more or less dispiriied father. The little prince is not a chip of the old block: he goes back an entire genera- tion to the much-loved Edward VII, who in his younger days Prince of Wales led much the same sort of care-free lifo that the prince is living today. was the favorite playground rd and whenever he turned up at Windsor, at Buckingham James', it always was a case of “Cherchez le Paris’ There are| many memories of Edward VII to be | encountered in Paris. Among them one | of the larger hotels which bears name is called by the Parisians “Edouarsettes,” to give the pro- nunciation rather than the spelling. King George hus been rather a sol- emn soul as a monarch, very much married and all that sort of thing, but, nevertheless, there is a twinkle in his eye at times which suggests some- thing of his pleasure-loving father and wh been handed on in greater degree to his princeling n. * * ¥ x The stories coming from Paris of late hours and dancing and parties recall an incident of the Prince of Wales' visit to Washington in 1920, At that time he was under much restraint, traveling of- ficially in his “proper person” and not incognito, as he happily has heen in Paris. So it was arranged that the prince should call upon President Wil- son. Mr. Wilsan was confined to his bed at the time. and so the heir to the Brit- ish throne was shown directly intn the sickroom There was no trace of embarrassment on either side. and goon the conversa- tion between the President and the he apparent drifted into a semi-personal and humorcus vein. Finally the Presi- dent turned (o the prince and said “Do you know that the room in which you are at this moment wus the one oc- cupied by your grandfather when he visited Washington as Prince of Wales™" The prince scemed much impressed. The President went on: ‘And there is 4 legend hers at the White House that on one night your dis- tinguished grandparent, who had been quite fed up with all the official atten- tion and official guarding bestowed upon | him, cscaped by one of the windows of this’ room, went downtown and hud real night of it.” The prince grinned with evident satis- faction. Then he gave Mr. Wilson a real surpris “Please, Mr. President.” he that Kdwardish twinkle in his 1 usk just which window it w. Heard and Seen Automobile courtesy reached climax here one day last week A gentleman was wheeling his off- | epring alonz 16th street, pre to giving the child a | L Meridian Park Now 16th straet mare the timid pedestrian. unwary takes his life into h at many poinis along Particu- larly at 16th street and Columbia road is crossing attended by hazard. The man wheeling the baby car- riage stopped at the curb, just as a great Army truck came roaring alons. He had as leave wheeled his descendant beneath the wheels of a real juggernaut But, to his amazement, of the truck was human being, evidentiy. He stopped the great ve- hicle, motioned for the man to wheel the baby across, and effectively blocked traffic behind the truck The Army man on the truck waved a non-regulation but cheery hand at the caravan as it reached the other sidewalk, then started his vehicle with a roar. “Must have one of his own,” mured the grateful father. Hats off to the driver of Army truck . 51473, its paratory airing in is a sort of night- The hands it the driver a mur- * + % | Surely the world is going ahead. | It some of the gypsy tribes frequenting | the National Capital bought them- selves automobile trucks. | In place of the ol wagon, with a dog running along beneath, and vari- |ons members of the family peeping | out from the dark mystery of the wagon depth, the modern auto truck transperted the gypey household, bag and baggage. The Chinese laundryman has come to the front now. Someway or ofher, mo one ever dream=d honest John would carry laundry around in an automobile. The typical Chinese laundry seemed asfixed as the pyramids, as unchange- able as the Sphinx, as everlasting as time. Charlie, and John, and Sam and all the other capabie fellows from across the seas have washed collars so long and delivered them at the counter, after matching the pink papers with the black characters upon them. that it did not appear business could ever be carried on any other way. But that is the very thing that has happened, if one can beliove the names upon a glistening new auto- mobile wagon which is running around Washington these days. The Chinese laundry is growing up. * * « T saw men elimbing Tike monkeys on the top of perhaps the biggest crane ever seen here, on the site of a new theater oomstruction, and 1 thought they earn all they make per day, climbing around like that. They were perched on the top peak of the crane, at least as high as four stpries, perched out over nothins, geemingly very much at home, fixing some little kink that had gotten out of order. Below in the streets, and along the sidewalks, an interested gailery of tired business men got a vicarious threill out of watching the men clamber around. Thelr descent formed the climax of an interesting afternoon. Clasping a cable with their knees, and another with their arms, they slid down us nice as you please. “I wouldn't do that for a milllon dollars,” said one man on the strect to another. was two or three years ago that B Py The battle of the grass seed is on in communities throughout the city. Under the beneficent influence of the rain of Thursday and Friday, seed planted during the week got its first real impetus. Now sowers of various brands are betting upon their favorite The next six weeks will tell the story, whether so-and-so mixture is Letter than thus-and-thus bran', It is a great’ game, and the bes. 1noking lawn is the prize. The beau- | Rorah, « | customhouse | them, AFFAIRS T. SMALL And he looked wistfully about room. the * K % * It was a peculiarly fitting thing that Senator Borah of Idaho should have been chosen chairman of the special Senate committee which is making an invekt gation of the indictment returned’ against Senator Wheeler, the “prosecu tor” of the Daugherty committee, in his home state of Montina. Senator Borah himseif was once under indictment at a time of public hysteria, and had to euf- fer the inconvenience of a public trial which the federal prosecators tried 10 stretch out over several weeks, and which resulted in a verdict of not guilty as quickly as the jury could leave the box and return again. This was away back in 1907 just after Mr. Borah had heen elected to the Senate for the first time, and also when he was acting as chief prosecutor of “Big Bill"” Haywood. on trial for conspiracy in _connection with the murder of Gov. Steunenberi of Idaho, as a part of the reign of terror started by the miners during the Cripple Creek strik President Roosevelt had been mak ing a great drive on the land frauds prosecutions. Billy Burns, who hax been a storm center of the Daugherts investigations and who sent agents out to Montana to help in the indict ment of Senator Wheeler, conducted most of the Jand fraud cases as special agent in the Department the Interior. He was not In on t Borah case, however. ah w the attorney for a pany in ldaho and sorf of pretext an indictment wasx obtained against him. Jt always was claimed that political enemies wer: responsible. In any event, when the trial came off, and the writer was there as a reporter, the evidence was almost criminally insufficient, so mnch so, in fact, that after listening to it for ten dave or more the presiding judge announced that nothinz had been shown in any way to connect Senator Borah with the alleged frauds Thus if it should prove that polit- jcal enmity is behind the Wheeler indictments, as friends claim, Senator all persons, will have with the accused man P — Senator Moses of New Hampshire says the investigations at Washing ton remind him of old friend Henry Hayward back home. Every spring, it seems, old Henry gets out and looks Mount Washington Then he prognosticates the weather thus “Well, the warm weat big lumb on the flimsiest sympath at to be no melts aim't i ain't moing till the snow on the mountain; and the snow going to melt the mountain it gets to be wurm weather 1n other w the senator believes the investigations won't stop until “they get something” and if they “get” something”’ they won't stop Fifty Years Ago In The Star Half a rentury ago Wash neton wa by text the secasiona stirred changes public that many books" parents deep! A Change of Text Books. used in hools: foriat time tor the the and sears afterward school were bought by pupils and were not furnished, as in large measure is the case today, by District. Hence, when a change was ordered a heavy cost ‘cll upon the people and a loud clamor arose in consequence. Such a protest is voiced in The Star of Apri , as fol- the the report of *h school board last = be scen that the be publishers” drumm now gath; he ‘fixed things' for school books was w-il founded. project was carried out precisely upon the plan of tactis timted in the expose in this column on Monday The preliminary move was for & change of geographies, without desig- o to be substituted, the hers making common cause to effect this and agreeing to ght it out amongst themselves as to whose geography shall take the place of the one ousted. The main force of the Jobby seems to be emploved. how aver. in_behalf of the publisher for whom Col. Stocking of New York fame appears, and it is retty evident that his baok will be selacted.’ ta the disgust of the other parties to the combination Those of however, who publish other text books besides zeographies may get their share of the piander when the system of changes in rogard te the rest of the books is f carried out “The book displaced last night was Cornell's Geography. There is no oc- casion for sympathy, however. with publisher of this zeogtaphy on defeat, as-his boox was thrust on the schools only a few months ago by the same system of drumming and lobbying that has now been brought into play so successfully to effect an other change. We protested in br- half of the victimized parents against the change when Cornell's Geog- raphy was substituted for amother quite as good, made for no satisfac- tory reason outside of .the interesis of the competing publishers. “These changes of schonl books, ocourring at constantly diminishing intervals, are an outra=: upon par- ents, and it is quite time that some check should be put upen the praec- tice. As we ha Iready suggested a law similar b that propose in some of th forbidding « change of school books oftener than once in five years, would afford a remedy. Tt would at least secure that interval of relief from the raids of the book flends und their drummers and lobbyists.” * % x % An impressive service occurred in this city April 17, 1874, according to The Star of the fol- Lorenzo DoW 1owing dav. when Reinterred. the remains of Lo- renzo Dow, 2 fa- mous preacher of the latter part of the eighteenth and the early part of the nineteenth century, terred from the old Holmead Ceme- tery, at the corner of 20th and Bound- ary streets, which had been con- demned, to Oak Hill Cometery. Meth- odist clergymen of the District offici- ated at this burial service, forty years after the evangelis: had been laid to rest. The Star's account says “The surviving reiatives of Lorenzo Dow in_Connecticut on learning (i the boatd of health of this city had condemned the Holmead burying ground addressed a letter 5 Prof. Loomis, whose mother was a cousin of the deceased, asking him to take charge of the remains and forward them to Connecticut, to be deposited by the side of Harlan Page—who held a similar relation to the Presbyterian Church as that held by Lorenzo Dow to the Methodist—and Nathan Hale, who was hung by the British for hit fdelity to the American church and institutions. Measures had also been taken by these relatives to erect u monument over his grave, but i is not yet decided whether the remalus will be removed from this District.” Among those present at the cere- mony at Oak Hill were Rev. B. D. Owen, chairman of the committee on removal: W. W. Corcoran, donor of the new burial site; Rev. J. W. Speake, presidimg elder of the Wash- in&ton ‘district; Rev. H. A. Clevelund of Foundry Church: Prof. Loomis,\ Whose mother was a first cousin of Lorenzo Dow: Mr. Reardin, F, G. Cal- proceedings ht it will and that nother change of The were re-in- tfication_of Washington will be the Lposuite TRACEWELL. vert, W. H. Womersley, B. F. Moffitt J. B. Hines and members of the M sonic Lraternity.