Evening Star Newspaper, November 23, 1924, Page 50

HE EVENING STAR With Sundsy Mornisg Editien. WASHINGTON, D. C. UNDAY.....Novumber 23, 1924 S R B e 'HEODORE W. NOYES. . . .Editor Evening Star Newspaper Company usiness Office, 11th St. and Pennayivanis Ave. 6w York Office: 110 Eatt 42nd St. = Chieago Office: Tower Building Furopean oce: 8 Regent 8t.,London, England. t/“The Evening Star. with the Sunddy mormnidg afption " la" dctivered "oy, carriers within ‘thg $fe§ 4E 80 cents per month: dally on, cents per month: Bundi ', 20 cen er b Orders may be sént mail or tele- pheme Ma . Collection {s made by chr. riers at the end of cach month, “ Rate hy Mall—Payable in Advance. Maryland asd Daily and Sunda: Daily only Sunday only All Other Statés. Daily and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00:1 mo., 85¢ Daily only .1yr., $7.00;1 mo., 60¢ Sunday only ....1yr.. $3.00;1 mo., 25c Member of the Adsociated Prews, The Atxoctated Troas fs exelasively entitied to tha ube for republication of all news dis- ;emnes credited 1o 1t or Pt otherwive eredited o this paper apd also the local uéws pub. Haned hérein " Al rights of publieation of #mecial dispatehes horein & werved — — Hope for Enfranchisement. Senator Capper of Kansas brings an encouraging message to Washing. ton on his return from the West for the session of Congress. e indicates that the progressive element in the Western and Middle Western States is in favor of granting national rep- resentation to the District of Colum- bia. Personally he is an advocate of such enfranchisement. He believes the District should be represented in both houses of Congress, and he be- lieves further that if an aniendment to the Federal Constitution to that ef- fect were put up to the States for ratification there would be “immed!- ate and unanimous actlon to give the citizens of this city their rights as American citizens.” In his advocacy of national repre- sentation for the District. Senator Capper goes the whole way, He favors the right to vote for presidentlal elec- tors, the right to sue and be sued in the Federal courts and the right to eléct Representatives to hoth houses of Congress. e believes, in short, in the joint resolution which is now pending in Congress proposing an amendment to the Constitution giving Corgress the power to enact legisla- tion to these ends. In the recent campaign an inten- sive effort was made by national or- ganizations to arouse ‘the people to the point of voting in full. The re- sponse, however, was not as great as ‘was hoped. So far the returns do not indicate a material, if any, gain In the percentage of the eligible voters who went to the polls, although the grand total of votes cast was probably in- creased somewhat over 1920. This campalign for a fuller partici- pation by the people in the election should have called national attention to the fact that the District is dis- franchised, that nearly haif a million Americans resident at the seat of Gov- ernment are barred from: eny’ par- ticipation inthé makfng of laws di- rectly affecting themselves and in the selection of the Executive. A surprisingly large number of people do not realize this fact. Wash- ingtonians who travel into the States find that the statement of their political impotency is received with astonish- ment, while visitors to the Capital from the States learn of it with sur- prise. And the reaction to this in- formation is almost invariably a con- demnation of the injustice under ‘which the Washingtonion has been suffering for many years. The fact that inequitable dis- crimination has been practiced for more than a century and a quarter without correction is no reason for its indefinite continuance. Washington is now asking specifically and urgent- ly for relief from the un-Ameérican deprivation of the vote. It has formpu- lated a plan of ralief, and it hopes that with the eid and through the in. fluence of such true friends as Sena- tor Capper it will be granted. If it is not granted at this coming session in the form of the adoption of a joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment the effort will be con- tinued in the mext Congress and re- peated until in the end, however long the delay, this Americanization of the Washingtonian is secured. ——r———— It is too much to expect that Wall Street quotations will continue to go up indefinitely. If that were possible the entire population could quit work end become financiers. —— e The Root of the Evil. At present the only method of as- certaining the fitness of a person to opérate a motor car in the streets of ‘Washington is to subject him to an examination in the rules and to e €est of his abllity to handle a machine. These oral and physical examinations are conducted with as great thorough- mness a&s circumstances permit, but théy do not reach the point where they develop the responsibility of the occupant. There is no inquiry into woharacter or into financial capacity to meet obligations entalled in the Tourse of motor accidents. Just as anybody can, under the present laws, buy a deadly weapon by giving any name and eny address to the dealer and 8o become equipped to kill, so eny person who can answer a few “uestions and can prove his ability %o handle a machine can secure a license to drive through the Capital's stréets, That there are many now licensed to drive in this District who are not qualified in the sense of moral and financial responsibllity is evident from the high percentage of accidents and. the large casualty list. For in virtually every case of e so-called ac- cident there is fault on one side or the other. Only too plain is it that there is excessive speeding in defiance of the rules. Only too clear is it that there are many car drivers who are utterly indifferent to the safety of others. Recent cases have shown that there are drivers who have no sense of responsibility -for the consequences of their recklessness. No matter how glibly and accurate- 1y the test questions may be answered ‘by the applicant for a license, he may be finclined to ignore all the rules which he so promptly ‘@nd corréctly fécites. No mattér 10 New York to cash in on his labers, fiow - skilifully he | but he found difficulty in reaching the, handles the machiné in his tést ride | market for his nuggeéts. They were with a policéman at his_side he tay, when alone, be a speéd demon, a road hog and a chronic rule bréaker, Yet until he comes to grief tirougn a wreck i eciroumstances: that do not permit his escape he may pursue his career of criminal carelessness un- hampered by the law. Plainly the standard of fitness for the privilégeé—and it is & privilege and not & right—of operating a dangerous machine in the streéts of the city is not suficiently high. Certainly thére is no adequate safeguard against ir- responsibility. The reckless driver who damages the machine of a law- abiding, careful motorist gives mno guarantee of reimbursement. The lw réquires him to give nene. in many cases thé machine he drives is his only security, and it often is under, mortgage, so that it cannot be levied against in the satisfaction of a judg- thent. Al these considerations are to be taken into account in the drafting of new laws or new rules affdcting the traflle situation in the Distrlet, which imperatively demands a drastic re- vislon. Thé mere readjustment of 'ho scale of fihes or other penalties will not meet the need, What is required is some plan of licensing that will keep the reckless, the law-defiant, the incompetent and the irresponsible off the streets as drivers. Incldentally, that will lessen the number of cars and so relieve the traffie conditions in other respects. For the plain trith of the matter is that there are too many motors now in use in this city, chiefly by reason of the fact that many of the cars are driven by per: sons who should never be licensed, ———— Republicans and Regularity. The Republican leaders of the Sen- ate aré inclined toward a wise course in the reorganization incident to the death of Senator Lodge. They will, it is expected, summon to the caucus which will fill the vacancies thereby caused all members of the party who hold their seats under that .designa- tion, irrespective of their courses dur- ing the récent campaign. Specifically Senalors La Follette and Brookhart will be thus included. despite the fact that the former headed a third-party ticket for the presidency and the lat- ter repudiated the party's nominee for President in his own race for the Senate. Should Senators La Folletts and Brookhart ignore the call to attend the caucus they will thereby place themselves outside of the Republican ranks. Should they attend they will be bound to act as Republicans dur- ing the session. It is for them to de- cide, and not for thoss who manage Republican affairs in the upper house of Congress. For they undoubtedly hold their seats as Republicans. They were elected as such. This caucus is for the closing session of the present Congress, and has nothing to do with the organization of the Senate for the next Congress. In the next Congress Mr. Brookhart's status will be per- haps somewhn'mflmnl. owing to the circumstanceés of the past campaign, and yet he will be certified for his new term as a Republican. He ran for that office on that ticket and was electéd as @ Republican, notwithstand- ing the fact that in the course of the campaign the Republican Staté com- mittee declared that he had ceased to be a Republican through his attitude toward the party's presidential ticket. In addition to these two, who oc- cupy & peculiar position in respect to party affairs, there are several other members of the Senaté who are Re- publicans by formal designation and long sérvice, but who are somewhat independent of the party organization. They will, of course, be summoned to the caucus and will doubtless re- spond. They may not hold themselves bound by the decisions reached at the caucus. Unless the caucus should adopt a rule of discipline requiring all Senators to abide by the decisions of the majority this freedom of action will be untestricted. There is no in. dication of such a coercive rule, how- ever. The questions before the Repud. lican caucus at this session are per- sonal. The election of a leader to suc- ceed Mr. Lodge, and the selection of committeé members to fill the va- canciés caused by his death will con- stitute the chief, perhaps the sole business. There is small chance, there- fore, of any comptilsory ection, for naturally those attending the caucus will at least negatively assent by their votes in the Senate itself to the se- lections of the caucus, Should any of those attending the caucus vote other- wise such votes will rémain for con- sideration at the next session in de- termination of the question of “regu- larity.” . > The Réepubflcan party should pro- ceed In legislation in harmony with the progressive elements. The course of wisdom lies in a coalition of forces, not in separation and antagonism. The vote of the country cast on the 4th of this month was a rebuke to radicalism and also & rebuke to the bloc system in Congress. Yet those who have constituted the blocs here- tofore, Republicans by name, are to be considered as party men and their services utilized in the framing of the legislative program for the remainder of this Congress and during the next one, it the Republican party is to prosper and is to carry out the man- date given it on election day. ——— Admirers of La Follette are still sure that his poor showing in the Bal- lot was due to a sort of Halloween scare in which Gov. Charles Bryan figured as chief bogie man. B T A Champion Gold Digger. A bluff, hearty miner from the great open spaces, rugged, honest, sim of speech, sat in a Neéw York cafe and with the generosity of his kind treated all about him to drinks. It is not re- lated whether they were soft or other- wise, but they served the purpose of winning the interest ahd sympathetic attention of & group. to whom the frontiersman unfoided e, tale of ad- venlure, of hardship in the wild lands where nafure yields her riches ingly at the cost of great toil. To lustrate his story he to be had at a discount. He would sell the lot for $2,000, The éyes of his hearers gleamed. Some 6né sug- gested thzt they pool their resources. They bargained and got the collection for the amount asked, paid 6n the nail. The proprietor of the cafs con- tributed $1,600, and the nuggéts weré left in his possession. He gloated 6ver them for a while and then exam- ined them a littlé more clowely. Hé found they ylelded to digital treat- ment, and after working at oné of them & bit He managed 16 unfold it. 'Theti, being of an emotional European race, he emitted the cry ef one who is mortally wounded. For tho nugget thus dissected proved to bo merely the cap of a catsup bottle that had been hammered into, a lump, The dthers were all of the same character. A little later the police were notified that the wite of a retired policeman, hotel kéeper @t Minééla, Long Island, had parted with $2,400 for a similar coliection of cholce junk. It is an old, old game, as old as time. Probably back in the stone age shrewd ones sold sandstone axes In the guise of flints. 1n modern days the gold bricks and the package of green goods have figured in the an- nals of doubtful financial enterprise. There seems to be no limit to the credulity of peopie. Tt 18 all a ques- tion of make-up and style. This miner from the great open spaces of today rhay nexk week be working as @ elick, smooth salesman of phony securities. It he is wise he will change his role quickly, for tho State troopers are looking for him. With $4.400 in cash as his proceeds in two operations he is financed for a long jump to ofher flelds where the pickings are just as easy. For gullibllity is not 2 matter of geography. He may even now be showing his hatd-earned wealth. right here in Washington. Age of Fish and Fowl. News comes from Kirchbarken of the capture in a canal there of a German carp 160 years old. The Associated Press says: “The cente- narian ceught in a net, after being taken to town in a tank and exam- ined by sclentists, was liberated in the canal where it was taken, the fishermen bélieving this act would bring them good luck.” There is much intérest in the age of fish. Every now and then a dispatch comes telling of the capture of a very 6ld carp. There is not the same keen scientific interest in the age of fowl as in the age of fish. The great age at which some hens and roosters die in the vicinity of Washington seems to pass unnoticed except by those who eat them. It is believed that on mome of the automobile roads near Washington, and perhaps in the city itself, chickens are served which have mchiéved a more interesting age than this 100-year-cld German carp. ——————————— Science now listens in on the roar of the atoms as they move under the in- fluence of a magnet. At present so marvelous an achievement means nothing practical. The future is cer- tain to reveal the phenomenon as the basis of some surprisingly useful dem- onstration as yet undreamed of. ——————— The L'Enfant plans for the streets of Waehington have been admired by artists. If they could have been drawn with foreknowledge of traffic congestion and housing shortage they might have been still better. ———————— Having been in pelitics all his life Calvin Coolldge was hailed with con- fidence by the people as a man who thoroughly knows the game without ever- having plaved it for his own profit. ——— et Destroying the Washington {s a diffi- cult undertaking. But there is no doubt that the work will be a&ccom- plished in & far shorter time than it would take to build another ship like it B European nations have made some bold experiments testing out how far nations cant go in moré of less reck- less enterprises without utter damage to credit in financial circles, SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON A Query Forever Apropos. My dear old Grandma used to sigh In tones exceeding vexed, As new inventions met her eye, “Now, what will folks do nex Ana still as years go rolling by, Her progeny perplexed Say, as we glance from earth “Now, what will folke do nex Independent Aftitude. “Did your election cost you much money?"’ “No,” answered Senator Sorghum; “just enough to prevent the foiks from suspecting me of trying to get Into the election as a deadhead.” Paradex, A paradox my heart'doth clutch As 1 the income tax explore. * I'm sorry that mine is so much— And yet I -wish that if were more. sky, Jud Tunkins says as e prohibition- ist he's tempted to go out West where irrigation makes people ready to fight for plain water. ' Identifications, We used to know the “boss” of yore By his hard work around the store; But now we-know him by the way He haunts the goif course every day. “Did you see the tall buildings in New York?” “No,” answered Farmer Corntossel. “The taxicabs run so fast vertical I never had:a chance to look horizon- tal.’ Cheer and the Flagon. _ The owner gay of the cafe ‘These warnig words let slip; “In glee you may remark, ‘Hoorey,’ But cut out the ‘Hip, Hip,' " “Most times,” said Uncle Eden, ’ good-natured and easy o please.” Use of English Urged . To Promote Solidarity BY THOS. R. MARSHALL, Formiér Vice Président of the Uniled g © Stated. o T lo-not at all strange that the con- fusion of ton, at Babel brought abo® a conflict as to supériority of fades Which bécame cénturies old. Ever today, and in our country, the man who does not speak the English language is regarded by many as belonging to an inferior people, notwlithstanding that the his- tory of thé world discloseés that every tongue has .its virtues and every race its vices. On the other hand, proponents of the compulsory use of English in the United States are la- beled “Anglo-maniac The charge is fréely made against them that they weuld like to strike the “New" out of New England. They are éven suspected of being- desirous that our country sgain become an appanage of the Briti=h crown. They are ac- cused of triing to make Englishmen out of Irishmen, Germans, Italians. I have ohsérved resentment on the part of Americans at any reference to_Anglo-Saxon civilizatiod. The térm seems to inspire in ecer- tain minds (he concept that those who use it belleve. that America is really Anglo-Saxon. Of course, such is not the case. To the contrary, they are well prepared to argue that even the British lsles are not in blood Anglo-Saxon. -They like to think of the British as the poet laureate de- scribed them in . his welcome to Quéen Alexandria: Sazon and Norman and Dase hre we, . But all of us Danes in our welcome to thee. 4 A NS, Here in” America, where we have of récent yéars been repudiating the melting pot, the term “Anglo-Saxon” does mot i any respect imply tha we aré Anglo-Saxon by blood. This was @istinctly pointed out in a most interesting discussion In the United States Senate which I well remem- ber. The chiet participants were John Sharp Willlams of Mississippi and James A. O'Gorman of New York. These Senators, both well versed in history and skillful at debate, got fnto a heated argument over the make-up of the American revolution- ary army. Willlams is of Welsh ex- traction. He is not Anglo-Saxon, not even English, save as he speaks the English tongue. e contended that there were few Irishmen in the Revolutionary Army, that in fact it was largely English U'Gorman, who traces his lineasge to the crald Isle, would have none of this. o Insisted that thé Army was largely Irish. Each drew on his storehouse of historic knowl- edge. Each plied the arts of public discourse, which both knew so well. Neither was able to make the other vield. But the Senate was enter- talned and instructed. Those of us who listened got a new slant on the term “Anglo-Saxon.” We were brought to the conviction that our repudiation of the melting pot had not changed the history of our peo- ple. * Kk ok % This year happens to be the ter- cénterary of the Huguenot Walloon immigration into America, and for somé months now argument has again been heard that the causes of the American Revolution were not English at 2ll. We have been rein- formed that the struggle to impress men with regard to their right to | worship God as they pleased and to es- | tablish a government that would be satisfactory to the governed found its real origin among refugees from That commecial aviation has been so little developed in the United States is a source of chargrin to the military and naval authorities, as well as to the Department of Com- merce and other branches of the Gov- ernment service and to the President. To the end that more rapid progress may be made the Navy Department is willing to entertain proposals from private companies for the purchase or lease of the two giant dirigibles now owned by the Government. One Is the famous ZR-3, which recently as- tonished the world by making a successful flight from Germany to Lake- hurst, N. J. crossing the Atlantic Ocean in half the time required by the fastest ocean steamships. “The other is the Shenandoah, the Nav dirigible, which crossed the continent. The fact that the military branches of the Government have such an in- terest in the development of com- mercial aviation {s not due solely to their desirs to develop trade. It is realized by the officers in charge of aeronautics in the War and Navy Departments that the best backbone which a fighting force can have is a strong commercial air fleet. One important aspect of the situ- ation is that with no demand for commerclal alrcraft, the number of manufacturing plants capable of turning out planes and dirigibles is few. In the event of a sudden need for aircraft thers would be no manu- facturing industry which could be Quickly mobilized for production. But if thers were a steady demand for commercial planes, such factories would spring into existence and be ready for an emergency. Furthermore, if the country were eriss-crossed by airplanes many of the planes and ships could, in time of need, be speedily converted for outright military purposes or at least for transportation of supplies in the course of mobilization. It will be remembered that during the last war the military authorities were about as much Interested in the construction of merchant ships of war ships. Every merchant ship was regarded as a source of strength to both Army and Navy. The same would be trué and in perhaps a high- er degree in the case of aircraft. Plan Not Settled Yet. The plan to lease or sell the two great dirigibles for trade purposes is 8o far only in embryo. The Navy Department has not definitely agreed to let them go, but has said that it would be glad to entertain proposals. In all probability were the ships put into private hands there would be some provision in the contract to the effect that in time of an emergency they should be turned back to the Government at its option. The Shipping Board has chartered many merchant vessels to private parties with a similar provision, so thers would be nothing unusual about such proceduré and no special hardship on the private companies undertaking to operate them. Capital has been discouraged so far from going into the business of commercial aviation in this country because it was felt. the art still was in gn experimental stage. Fear of loss_of life and property, high initial cosfand rapid depreclation as well h operating costs and the lack n adequate insurance system have been deterrents. It ‘was not S0 many years ago that no adequate stém of marine insurance existed and now that branch of the business 1s_as well organized as any. Lack of legislation on the licen: ing of pilots has been mentioned as a further retarding cause of develop- men! In fact, a whole new juri prudence of air traffic probably will havé to be built up. Névertheless, it is feit that time rapidly is approaching when Amer- fcan business enterprise will ocon- sider it is time to move. In Europe (it 15 to grant free French. tyranny and English domi- i 7 that the source of it he. states of Pligrim and Puritan passed through Holland on their way from England to America. . 1f Blood made thought; if our view upon life-and its problems is to be traced exclusively to the race from which we sprang, then we might have reason for the bellef that al- though wé are an English-speaking people, we are not English and do not have an Anglo-S8axon clvilization. But I for one am not convinced that the blood which flows in my veins controls my thought and conduct. Oni the contrary, 1 am quite satisfied that the Jife I Jead, the persons with whom ¥ associate, .the problems that I consider, the.argumeénts that 1 hear, the Ropes that are within me, are the dominating’ factors in my life. ‘Thérefore, the demand for the use of the English Janguage is not 16 be regarded me and by those who believe as I belfave as.a desire td re- turn this country fo Great Britain, The purpose of the dempand is clear; in among our people in their djscussion of the problems that comfront- them. Our languago should Have the same meaning {o all. Every one in Amer- fca ought to be able to undérstand what any one else says. LI The claim that otrs is an Anglo- Saxon ofvilization is-mot a clalm that we can trace r blood to elther Angle or Saxo: It is. rather a claim an Anglo-Saxon . ‘mind, which Rrants that the {ndividual is to have free play in the uso of the faculties God has given him:.that autocracy and monarchy are slowly fading from the vMion of mapkind, and that con- saltation ' among citizéns ultimately shall’ determine the common will. Such a mind it was which clashed with John at Runnymeade, which gave to the world Hampden, Shakes- peare. Milton; hich toppled a Charles oft his tftone; which sep. @rated from the mother country this vast dominion noéw popularly termed “America.” It was the Anglo-Saxon mind which taught the British em- Dire that local self-government for her colonies afforded the only means of keeping the empire intact. It was also the mind which persnaded the empire against any attempt, con- scious or intentional, at wounding the feelings and sensibilitles of Jew or Greek, Catholle or Protestant. It is the mind that obeys the law while it'remains the law; it is patient and long suffering, yet if authority, drunk with power, falls to listen to justice, it {s a mind which does not hesitate to stamp out wrong, peace- . foreibly if it must. our claim to Anglo-Saxon civilization embodying peace and concord among those who speak the English tongue must not be miscon- strued as a purpose or a desire to look down upon any race on earth. Rather, let it be understood as our view that speaking the same lan- guage, living under the same laws, heirs to the same glorious promises, we are to talk to each other face to face in one common language. In that way we can stand for a system of government which broadens down from precedent to precedent. Cos- mopolitan as we are In blood, we are nevertheless English in our idea that the organized control of the people affords greater freedom and peace than any other form of government. (Copyright, 1924, by 21st Century Press.) May Commercialize Dirigibles BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. commercial aviation has developed to an astonishing degree. There is a network of air lines between the cap- itals of Hurope. The London and Parfs route maintains frequent serv- ice on regular schedule. It has long been sald that fashion- able London wopien buy their gowns in Paris and fashionable Paris men buy their clothes and haberdashery from the world famous Bond street shops of London. The air traffic shows this to be largely true. A surprising proportion of the London-Paris air traflic is in gowns going from Paris to London and men’s effects going in the opposite direction. The cost of operating alr lines Is so high that only freight which bears a high value in relation to its weight can be ship- pea to advantage. There is a great amount of such freight and it is near- 1y always desired by purchasers in & hurry. It is pointed out by the proponents of commrecial aviation that the rich banker’s wife in a Middle Western town would not balk at paying a €004 round sum to get a dress from a Fifth avenue shop in a few hou Jewelry, money, valuable papers have values so high in relation to their weight that it would pay to trensport them by air. . Europe Uses Airplanes. The Eugopean lines so far have been operated exclusively by heavier- than-air machines, that is, airplanes. England, however, is bullding twe memmoth dirigibles to enter the In- dian and the Australian trade and Spain is building one to trade across the Atlantic with South American countries. This is regarded as a spe- clally practical enterprise as the shortest distance across the Atlantic from Monrovia, in Liberia, not far south of Spain on the Africen coast, to Pernambuco, in Brazil. The Navy Department has been in- formed that the two new British diri- gibles will be twice as large as the great ZR-3. That alrship has a gas capacity ‘of 2,400,000 cubic feet. The British ships will each have a ca- pacity of 5,000,000 cubic feet. The ex- perts in aeronautics, it appears, have discovered that the larger gas capac- ity up to a reaspnable point, the low- er the cost of carrying freight. A ship twice as big the ZR-3 will have a lifting power, and, therefore, a carry- ing capacity of a good deal more than twice as great. This seems to forecast that airships will get bigger and bigger. ‘Thé Navy Department shortly will begin a series of flights with the two dirigibles for the purpose of deter- mining costs of operation. The ma- terial gained from these experiments will be made avallable to commercial interests intending to enter the busi- Dess. The data are expected to form a basis on which rates for carrying passengers and goods may be wisely calculated. s Cost of Dirigible Flights. ‘The cost of operating dirigibles is great. The initial cost of the ships is high, of cour: There must be maintained an expensive organization to keep them running. Hangars, mooring masts ang fuel supply sta- tions are necessary. Présumably either the Federal Government or local governments would be willing to establish lighthouses for night travel, but even these rhight have to be pro- vided by the operating companies. More aid from Congress is expected in the future than has been vouch- safed In the past, however. The record- breaking trips of the two American dirigibles, the round-the-world flight, the dawn-to-dusk transcontjnental flight and other outstanding aeronau- ‘The may not be far glstant when travel by air will be mot uncommon. o Capital Sidelights ‘With Congreds coming back to town and with scores of House mem- bérs fresh from their campaigns, in which they voeiférously told the vot- ers about much legislation they are going to insist on having passed, it is timely to recall Washington's comment that the Senate would act 84 8 sauder In which the hot tea of the House would be cooled. ‘The Incoming session of Congress is prineipally for consideration of the appropriation or Government supply Bills. The Budgét Buréau is up to its meck in the final grapple with the-intricate toils of tho Federal budget, which must be submitted just a8 soon a&s Congréss convenes. In searching through the thousand and .more pages of the budget to find some funds that can be cut out or eut down in order that the cost of Government may be reduced, Brig. Gen. Herbert M. Lord says he finds himself almost as badly off as the darky who applled for credit at a The proprietor want- ed to know ‘“how come” he wanted credit when he had had a good cot- 1t was dis way. De ducks got_about all dat cotfon crop.” “What do you mean—the ducks got 17 2 “Well,” explained the old sent dat cotton up to Mempht dey ‘ducts wo much for freight, *ducts so much for storage, ‘ducts so much for faxes, 'ducts s much for commission—yes, sah, de ‘ducts done got "bout all dat cotton.” “After we have deducted from the estimated total expenditures the grand total of amounts which cannot be modified and must fairly be re- garded as constant or fixed charges,” Gen. Lord explains, “we find com- paratively littie for practical écono- my, but we are attacking this with our two most trenchant Weapons— co-operation and co-ordination, which spell team-work and mean economy.” * kK In explaining the scientific and his- toric method of reduction employed by the Budget Bureau, Gen. Lord re- calls the story of the prince and the painter. To dstermine the finest plece in the artist's collection the prince had some of his retainers raise the cry of “fire” in the nelghborhood. At the first alarm the artist seized his most treasured possession, and thus the prince located the gem of the collection. “This is the scientific principle ap- plied by the Bureau of the Budget to the agencles of the Government to make them disclose their priorities. In most cases it works admirably, in others not so wel.” said Gen. Lord. “Some of the departments allocated the reductions to jtems that under the law could not be reduced, or took advantage of other methods which tended to defeat the yery purpose of the procedure. It was as if the artist at the first alarm had said to the prince: ‘The fire must be up the street somewhere. Let's sit in the window and see the crowd go by." " But commenting drily that “a few new troubles more or do_not disturb the budget office,” Gen. Lord philosophizes, in the words of Lioyd George, that “a change of troubles is as good as a vacation.” * K x % « Gen. Lord says he will continue to preach and practice a rigid Federal economy—-till the sun grows cold, and the stars are old, and the leaves of the judgment book unfold,” which he interprets thus: “That economy has been established as a permanent policy in Government operation and preventable waste fis not contem- | plated, and will not be countenanced.” He says: “We want economy for the love of it, economy because it is} right, economy that is the result of personal initlative, savings made by Government servants who are more Interested in the conservation of the Nation's money, supplies and time than they are in the protection and care of thelr own personal posses- sions. And we have a right to expect this quality of service, for, as the President has stated, ‘public service Is a sacred trust’ and we are the rustees.” Gen. Lord advises those as. soclated with him in the business or- gamization of the Government. * ok ok % When Congress gets back, in a few weeks, another attempt is going to be made to have installed in the House an electro-mechanical auto- matic roll call system, such as Con- gress has been considering for 10 {years. This was first proposed by Representative Allan B, Walsh of! New Jersey, an electrical engineer, | who was ably supported by some of his colleagues, including Representa- {tive Peter G. Ten Eyck, who had been for many years identified with the signaling department of the New York Central Railroad. There is still in the House one member of the special committes who studled the Question exhaustively 10-years ago— Representative M. Clyde Kelly of Pennsylvania. Impetus has been given to this pro- posed economy-efficiency improve- ment in the machinery of Congress by the fact that such equipment has just been installed in the House of Delegates of the Virginia Legisla. ture—the product of a young Wash- ington inventor—Marshall F. Thomp- son. Electrical voting is no longer an experiment. Five State legislatures have adopted and are now using this modern system of electrical roll calls while our national legislators here in the National Capital continue to struggle along with the antiquag- ed, time-wasting, ineflicient and in- accurate system of oral roll call. Forty-three State legislatures meet this Winter and in each one of them resolutions will be considered providing for the use of automatic roll calls. fi Combining the - perfected loud speaker with automatic roll call, it would be possible fos a member of Congress to sit in his office and listen to all debate, which he seldom hears under present practice, and answer roll calls on such minor matters as & point of no quorum, without hav- ing to leave his office. With an automatic system the House could have 36 minutes on each record vote. There are about 500 roll calls during each session, which consume approximately 63 days of five hours each. The same number of roll calls could be made by such equipment as is now at work In the Virginia Legislature in 18 days, al- lowing members 10 minutes in which to_register their vote. Veteran employes of the House have figured that with this electrical voting system the House could trans- act the same volume of business and adjourn three months _earlier, . or three months' time could be added to each session without a dollar of additional expen:e. * % 2 While the statisticians are figuring out the records on the largest vote ever recelved by a member. of Con- gress, it is confidently claimed that this honor belongs to.Senator Arthur Capper. of Kansas, now the®third largest publisher in the United States, who used to trundle his entire cii culation to the post office in a2 wheel- barrow. In 1918 Capper came to the Senate with the amasing plurality of 162,000; and now he is re-elected by the almost unbelievable plurality of 235,000, sweeping the State by 35,000 ahead of Coolidge and Dawes in a record vote. . Milkm!:n Taking the Air. by the Angeles Times. in England. Case of hitching your milk wagon to a star. b 2 Mgt g -." would bring us bad luck! ‘rom ] They're delivering milk by airplane ;g wht the reverse fs. BY ROBERT Gus Karger in life and in death i1- lustrated anew the important rela- tionship the Washington correspond- ent bears to the Government and_ to the people of the Government. Mr. Karger, for 20 years correspondent of the Cincinnati Times-Star, had had an intimate assoclation with the pub- Hc men of his day. He had known the Presidents from Roosevelt in Washington, and he had known Mc- Kinley well before he came to the Capital. Karger was one of the cor- respondents in whom every one re- posed confidence and confidences; His advice was sought by cabinet officers and other high officlals and more than often acted upon. Theto {s no place in all the world where the newspaper man and his “news sources” met on such terms of equality as Washington. In a small- er way the same conditions prevail at various state capitals: but in Washington, where the corps of cor- respondents s counted in the hundreds and where the ramifications of Govern- ment spread so far and 50 wide, there is & relationship which is unique, to say the lessi. Paying tribute to Gus Karger and through him to the corps whose finer traditions he always fought to main- tain, were not alone the President of the United States and the Chief Jus- tice of the Supreme Court, but many other dignitaries of Government. Jolning Mr. Coolidge and Mr. Taft at the funeral services held in Washing- ton were the Epeaker of the House, Mr. Gillett, virtually all of the Sen- ators who were in the Capital at the time; Willlam M. Butler, chair- man of the Republican national com- mittee; John Hays Hammond, the noted mining engineer, and a varied host of others. * %k % Within hut a little more than the space of a year three vetera the correspondents’ corps in Wash- ington have passed away. The first to go was Eddle Hood of the As- soclated Pre Then followed Matt Tighe of the Hearst sgervices and lastly the much loved Gus Karger. It seems as if again the old rule of three has worked its inexorable fate, All three of these correspondents personally were mourned by Mr. Taft. He had known them as cabi- net officer, as President, as private citizen, as a contributer to the papers himself, and lastly, as Chief Justfve. Although cloistered by his present high judicial position, Mr. Taft never has lost {nterest in.the | newspaper men. His long service in Washington has thrown him in close | contact with the profession from time Heard apd Seen There is just one week left in which to pay your real estate taxes. At least haif of the total assessment must be in the hands of the collector of taxes of the District by the close of business November 30. The tax office is one of the most in- teresting places in the District Build- ing. Situated, as most people know, in the south corridor of the first floor of the building at Fourteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue. it sees all types and conditions of men and women. | All last week they streamed in. to get their tax bills on their housex and lots for the year. Three lines were formed at the cashier’s windows after | they had secured their blils. ‘ Getting your bill is an interesting procedure. For the benefit of renters and apartment house dwellers, we will describe the process, 5o that at some future date, when they enter the lists of home ownership, they may know just what to do and how to do it. To those who have gone through the mill the description ought to take on some of the interest which attaches to the story of a base ball game which one has seen. The game is one thing; reading about it in the papers the nxet day is another. ‘Why, to many a base ball game would not be a game unless they could read about it afterward! The same tralt is seen in those to whom no event is real until something is printed about it. * i * % The first step is to euter the Dis- | trict Bullding, of course. One may do | this either through the front en-| trance or one of the side doors, pref- | erably the portal on the east. If| you go In on the first floor, which. is elevated, you simply walk around the corridor. Entering from the street level, however, you can take an elevator. There a courteous conductress of the “Ift” will tell you just where to go. The car starts up, then jerks back- ward, the door opens for others to enter. “May I get in?" asks a facetious gentleman. He Is assured he may get in. This he proceeds to do, with a grin that signifies to all, strangers and those “in the know,” that this ig a subline plece of drollery. “I am an officlal here.” he seems to eay, as plain as day. “And, of course, T have every right in the world to enter this elevator—my humble request was just by way of a standing Jjoke, you know.” Upstairs one starts around the cor- ridor, peering curlously at various offices as he goes along. There is something about golng on such a search that appeals to the hunter in man. Hunting, you know, is not always confined to rabbits and other feroclous animals. This seems to be the floor of count- ers. Counters loom over and forbid- ding through doors to right and left. Here is where Yo pay Your automo- bile taxes. Several gray-haired men wearing bright gold eyeglasses are at work in there, But where is the tax office you seek? Ah, thers it is! You enter a big office, where there are any num- ber of cages, behind which stand girls. The windows are labeled with various numbers indicating the square and lot number. To know city is divided for realty purposes. It is necessary to know your own square and lot nmumber. To know merely your street address would do you little good. If that were all you knew, probably you would have to go Off to some other office to 1ook the matter up. - Luckily you know your square and lot. You have it down in the com- partment of vour brain where You house your telephone number, ete. “ra llke my bill” you tell the young lady with bobbed halr, after you find your proper window. “What is your street address?” she asks, after you have told her care- fully the square and lot. She hands you the bill,’and jots down the street on a plece of paper she keeps herself. . Have you ‘ever handled a railroad ticket to Callfornia? Well, the tax bill is something like that. ' You un- reel it with one hand, while you at- tempt to hold it with the other, try- ing to glimpse the writing on both | sides. It is worse than a Thinese laundry ticket, you decide. It has six sec- tions, half of them in red, half in black, all reading very much alike, When you think you have solved! them, you discover gourself wonder- | At last you make out that it is permissible to pay haif the tax at this time, the remainder In May. You get in one of the eashier’s lnes, at last arrive at the window, ‘where you give the cashier the en- tire bill and your persongl check for half the ampunt. He takes the bill, T. SMALL. to time and, the esteem in which he has held its members speaks Wworlds for the ethics of journallam as prac- ticed in the heart 6f the Nation. * * ¥ % Mrs. Florence Kling Harding suf- fered a keen disappointment just be- fore her death. She lost her vote in the presidential election. Iither due to the approach of her fatal illness or oversight she neglected to reg- ister. This was discovered after the books were closed. The widow of Pres- ident Mgrding was much chagrined. An appeal was made to the Secretary of State of Ohlo for a special dis- pensation, but after considering the matter at some length, that officlal came to the conclusion thefe was no loophole in the law ef which ad- vantago could be taken. Only those who knew Mrs. Harding's deep inter- est in politics can_ appreciate how this dliemma hurt her. * ¥ % ¥ C. €. Jlamlin of Colorado Springs, Republican national _ committeeman from the Pikes Peak State, who was & White House caller during the past week in Washington, is the owner of two papers in his home town—ail the papers, in fact, that the fown boasts. llosalso is a great friend of Dr. Hubert Work, Secretary of the Interior, and also of Colorado. At the close of the national cam- paign Dr. Work was in Colorado Springs and_went to Mr. Hamlin's newspaper offices to see him. The national committeeman and editor was out. When he came in he was told of the visit and immediately left to look up the cabinet officer. Mr. Hamlin had scarcely left his office when one of the heads of de- partment stuck his head in the door “Where's the boss?” he asked. “Out looking for Work,” replied an assistant without blinking an eye “Oh, my Lord,” exclaimed the in- quirer, “what will he do with it when he finds it!” S The private gecretary to Secretary Mellon of the Treasury is Mr. Six- smith. A great many persons have wondered at the derivation of the name. To at least one Washington correspondent there no longer s any mystery connected with it. George Holmes, playing in . the newspaper men's Fall golf tournament at the Congressional Country Club, started the first hole with a 6, then the second und the third and so on down the line. “I know how that rame,” quoth George, be a six-smith myself. (Coprright, 1924.) Fifty Years Ago In The Star Painters and photographers have for many vears found rich material d Local Scenery in K‘m’.n’égmf “tor Photography. their brushes and the scenic cameras. That attractions of the Cap- ital's environs were appreclated half century 2go is_attested by the following in The Star of November 21, 1874: he abundant material afforded by the immediate vicinity of Washing- ton for attra d permanently pleasing landscape pictures has long been shown by the studies and sketches in oil and water colors brought to the notice of the public by local artists, but it remained for Mr, Jarvis, a young but accomplished landscape photographer of this city, to demonstrate the possibilities of our near surfounding scenery for artistic stereoscopic views. During the past Summer he spent much time taking pictures in the lovely valley of Rock Creek and the result is a scries of views which, in point of quiet beauty and artistic effect, will be found very hard to excel. In fact, they will not suffer by comparison with like representations of the fa- mous artists’ book locality in the White Mountain count or the choleest bits of rural English scenery, and when they are placed before the public they cannot fail to become widely popular, both as desirable ad- ditfons to a general collection and as appropriate souvenirs to be carried home by visiting Summer Mr. Jarvis hopes to extend the range of his camera and give glimpses of other localities not less charming than the one under notice: but what he has alveady done in this way shows that one need not go out of sight of the dome of the Cap- itol to find as pretty little peep: nature as eye ever rested upon.’ * guy sot his 1'm getting to * x Visitors to the Capitol have for many years been interested in the nusual clock The History Clock the old Hou at the Capitol. §f . ehrosensa, tives, now the Statuary Hall. In The Star of No- vember 21, 1871, is a letter written by Benjamin H. Latrobe, son of the former architect of the Capitol, with reference to a preceding publication in The Star rleating to the author- ship of the sculpture, which is en- titled “History in the Car of Time" “I have not seen the handbook of Mr. Keim” (De B. Randolph Keim). which states the work to have been designed and executed by Charles Franzoni in 1830. Upon looking. however, over the portfolio contain- ing the working drawings of the Capftol, made by my father whi architect of the building, a position which he held from 1803 to 1817, 1 find one in which the entrance door in question is exhibited and a draw- ing of the figure, in his own hand. in which the idea is embodied, al- though not exactly in the form in which it appears in the actual sculp- ture. The winged car is turned to- ward the left instead of the right hand, and the figure of History fs seated Instead of standing. She rests the book upon her lap, her right hand holding the pen. while her left hand holds up a small mirror. The wheel of the car represents the dial of the clock as in the executed work. “The date of the drawing is August 12, 1815, and ifmediately over the date are the words ‘copy delivered to Mr, Blagden,’ who was the master stone cutter of the Capitol at that time, but with no more to do with the sculpture than concerned the general plan. It must be evident therefore, that the leading idea of the work was conceived and ex- pressed by the architect long before the design as well as the execution of it in marble is said to have been due to Mr. Franzoni. True, it does not appear from the drawing who may have originally suggested it. Mr. Franzonl was an accomplished Itallan sculptor, employed, along with several others of his nation, by my father to assist in embellishing the Capltol with statuary and sculpture, and it is possible the thought so happily concelved may also have origlnated with the artist who so cleverly carried it out. The probabil- ities are, however, the other wa with thie present vecord in the draw- ing before me, and in view of the mitted genlus of the architect tears off part, shoves some of it across to a young man. The young man hands you a Te- ceipt, and you are about to walk off, when he calls You back to recelve the remainder of your bill. “You will need that néxt Spring,” he says. 585 CHARLES E. TRACEWELL,