Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1925, Page 6

vest from the public busthess. His service to State and country has cov: ered a long period of yea That he will be called upon again and again to serve the people, in one capacity or another, even though he does not as- sume public office, is to be expected. When the world was still an armed camp and there loorned hefore it & race in epmpetitive armaments that threat- ened to burden still further the masses THE EVENING STAR| N With Sunday Morning Editiou. posal for American adherence to the protocol establishing the Permanent Court of International Justice. Some of the leaders of the Senate, both majority and minority, are said to be reluctant to take up the World Court resolution, but there is strong belief among Senators of both perties that the country wants action, and will not be inclined to excuse further | United States, is a very common one. . : { Ih, what? delay.” At yesterday's session Senator | Safety in Reciprocity. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN® THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. .- WASHINCTON, D. C. FRIDAY. .. March 6, 1925 D. C. Motorists and Pedestrians Urged to Avoid Accidents. To the Editor of The Star: Reciprocity 1s a virtue which is es- sential to the life, liberty and safety of both pedestrians and automobilists in the streets of Washington. *THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Buasiness Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvanfa Ave. Q. Will'there be automobile races on the Laurel irack this Summer?—R MW E- A, ‘Since“the publication of the 1925 | scheduie datés have been arranged for races . for /the Baltimore-Washington coasts from the nmorth, while vessels from the south will pick up the light at Cape Henry, Va,, first proaching directly from the would probably pick up both about the same time. Waiting for the company to go, whille 80 glad to hear your voice. Ves—" not a favorite indoor eport In these She'll talk for at least a half hour, you tell yourself. Mrs. Lefton-Jones is quite a talker. = Vessels tward ights New York Offes: 110 Fast 42ad St = “Chicago Ofice : Tower Tuilding European 0} 16 Regent St., London, The Evening Star. with the Susday moraing tha within edition, is delivered by carriers v only, city at 60 ceats per month: d cents per month; Sunday oniy. month. Orders may be sent by mail or phone Main 5000. Fiers at the end of each wmonth. tele. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance, Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday. .1 yr.. $8.40; 1 Daily only 1vr,$6.00: 1 Sunday onl, Tyr,$2.40:1 All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00; 1 Daily only.......1yr., $7.00;1 Sunday only 1yr, $3.00;1 Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitle: o the ‘use for republication of all news dis patches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub. lished herein. Al rights ecial dispatches herein reserved. The Public Welfare Bill. 1t is hardly probable that the Vice President had the District public wel- fare bill in mind when he administered ‘Wednesday's vigorous lecture to the Senate upon the unpractical qualities of certain of its rules. Yet so per- fectly does the fate of that measure exemplify those weaknesses in Senate procedure against which he inveighed that it might well have been delib- erately selected to lend additional em- phasis to his abstract indictment. The bill in question was in nowise haphazard legislation, hastily drafted to meet a dubious need. It represented thie earnest, painstaking and practical effort of a duly appointed commission, composed of 18 admirably equipped Washingtonians to apply urgently needed reform to local public welfare administration. The commission dur- ing the four months of its labors had | at its disposal the ad?ice and ald of the Russell Sage Foundation, which s _at least as well advised upon the the- ory and practice of welfare adminis- tration as any organization world. Every opportunity was af- forded any one interested to state his | or her viewpoint upen the various matters to be dealt with in the bill, | problems which have vexed Europe and the completed measure was a sin- cere effort to reconcile opinions wherever they ar A minimum of opposition to the provisions involved was expressed, cither before the commission or be- fore the House or Senate committees which later handled the bill. It was favorably reported by each of these committees to its respective branch of the Congress. It was unanimously passed by the House. It was heartily favored by Senator Ball, chairman af the Senate District committee, and by a vast majority of his confreres. Not an intimation had been given that it would fail of passage in the Senate. And then, in the closing days of the session, it was done to death by the quietly voieed and unexplained objec: tion bf a Senator to its introduction under the upanimous-consent rule. Of course, it i{s perfectly true that this would have been impossible had the bill been brought forward earlier, se. when unanimous consent would not | have been required for action upon it. Of course, it is perfectly true that the measure might have been unwise from 8enator Gerry's individual view- voint, And, of course, Senator Gerry’s Rhode * Island constituents are not overconcerned in the matter of the bill in question. But where one man, provided e is willing to assume the heavy moral responsibility for his ac- tion, is in & position to render utterly futile the carefully considered judg- ment of the duly appointed representa- 400,000, of the entire lower house of Congress, of those of his ecolleagues charged with the study of the meas- ure in question and of a great major- ity of those other Senators to whose attention the bill had been more or less intently directed—something, as Vice President Dawes so bluntly put it, is being overlooked in the rights of the American people as contrasted with the rights of the individual Sena- tor. If Senator Gerry was led to his ac- tion in the matter of the District public welfare bill by any local ad- viger, he was {ll advised. The com- munity has been demonstrated heart- ily to favor the &ill which he killed and that type of opposition which doe: its work furtively rather than in the open is never to be depended upon. If he acted solely upon his own judg- ment, he will, it is to be optimistically anticipated, be given the opportunity to vindicate his judgment early in the next regular session of Congress, when the bill will be reintroduced and the laborious preliminary work be gone over again. And if, when he shall have ut last disclosed the basis for his ob- jection to thre bill, the bill passes the Senate, the demonstration of the in- defensible nature of a rule which en- abled him to.frustrate a much-to-be- desired plece of legislation will be com- plete. i ’ ————————— The contemplation of Charles E. Hughes as a plain private citizen is one of the most memorable incidents of a memorable March. o Phe inauguration was not an os: tentatious affair, but it did the work expected of it with entire efficiency. A Great Public Servant. Charles Evans Hughes, a great pub- lic servant, a great American, today takes His place once more in the ranks @ private citizans. For four years his has béen the hand which directéd the prectical operdtion of the foreign pol- icy of the United States. Called to the State Departmnent by the late Presi- dent Harding, Mr. Hughes undertook the difficult - job of steering America’s course sp as to avoid the pitfalls of foreign entanglements in 4 world that still struggled with post-war problems. He leaves his great office with the policy of this Government firmly es- tablished, with the censciousness’ of a Jjob well and faithtully accomplished. Mr; Hughes -goes to a well merited S 20 cents per ollection Is made by car- | to limit armaments of publication of in the conflicting | of the peoples, Mr. Hughes, speaking {for America at the Washington arms sounded a will not conference, The world note of hope. soon forget the | message which flashed from Washing- ton when the Secretary of State, head of the American delegation, announced that the United States believed In Iimitation of armaments and the way s to limit them, This great American. with the ver) simplicity of his statement. gave to the world the cdrrect interpretation of America’s desire for peace and willingness to help bring it about. The movement—more practical than 4any other in the gropings of the na accord— sh- con- tions toward international then formally launched at the W ington conference promises to | tinue. To Mr. Hughes is due the lion's shiare of the credit. ¥Few men have been so honored by the nation and so deservedly. M. Hughes was twice Governor of the Empire State. For six years he served as associate justice of the Supreme Court. He was drafted by the Repub- lican party to make the race for Presi- dent in 1916. But his public service began before he was governor. As chief investigator of the gas trust in New York City and the insurance com- panies, he rendered great service to the toiling masses. During his incumbency as Secretary of State, the United States formaliy negottated peace with Germany and Austria. The pledges of the United States have been scrupulously ob- served with regard to all the world. hand, his suggestions have met with quicker approval, perhaps than in the case of many other men who have occupied the office of Secretary of State. He has been steadfast in his determination that the United States should recognize no government which would not fulfill its international ob- ligations. On the other hand, he has aided whenever possible in the settle- ment of the economic and political since the armistice. e — The New Traffic Code. Traffic conditions in the National Capital should show improvement when the provisions of the new traffic code, enacted by the Sixty-eighth Con- gress, go into effect. For the first time in the history of the city Washington will not only have an adequate set of regulations, but the funds to carry them out. Briefly the new code provides for 100 new policemen, 2 new judges, a traffic director, drastic penalties for hitand-run drivers, smoke-screen users and reckless driving, yearly operators’ permits at a charge of $1 and @ speed limit of 22 miles in the city proper with authority to the directar to raise this limit on arterial highways. No speed limit was provided for the sub- urbs, where the reckless driving clause will prevail. | ‘With 100 additional policemen Wash- ington will have enough guardians of the law to see that it is not flouted; with two additional judges offenders competent traffic director, spending his entire time seeking constant improve- ment, there is every reason to look toward the future with confidence. Decent motorists will co-operate be- cause they know that the new code is | | Mr. Hughes has been granted a freer | :n-umpellhlg fundamental reasons’” Swanson of Virginia reintroduced his resolution for adherence, with reserva- tions, and Senator ‘Willls of Ohio re offered his resolution embodying the Harding-Hughes reservations, which have the approval of President Cool- idge. As the resolution of Senator Pepper, proviging for a World Court detached from the Leugue of Nations, Willis resolution pending as a substi- tute, it would not be necessary await @ report from the committee on foreign relations. > Hands of World Court advocates in the Senate are substantially strength- ened by the House vote of 301 to 28 in favor of adherence. The House, of course, has no constitutional voice as to ratification of the protocol, but general legislation would be necessary to make the United States a member of the court in full standing, and the House declares its willingness to do its share in the enactment of such legislation. It not disclosed whether the Pres. ident intends to press for consideration of the court proposal at the special session, but that he would welcome such’ consideration Is indicated from the tone of his inaugural address. In reiterating his bellef that we should {become a member of the court, { President said: “Where great prob- |lems are involved, where great move- ments are under way which promise much for the welfare of humanity by reason of the very fact that many other pations have given such move- ments their actual support, we ought not to withhold our own sanetion be- cause of any &mall and inessentiml difference, but only upon the ground of the most important and compeiling fundamental reasons. If there are any ‘important and we should not adhere to the World Court protocol, with reservations |along the lines proposed by former ; Secretary Hughes, they have not been publicly disclosed by opponents of the court. Certainly the American peo- ple §aw no such reasons when they ! went to the polls last November, for | President Coolidge had made the court an issue in his campaign, and his un- | precedented majority was in afirma- tion of the World Court as well as | other Coolidge dolicies. { ———re— | 1t is but natural for New York to assume that an inauguration which did not include Al. Smith in the pa rade would inevitably prove a com- paratively quiet affair. ————— - Play producers in New York may as well give up the rough speeches. There is evidently no way of conferring the profanity privilege as a special and limited grant. o The war in China goes on, evidently | having been adopted by a people of institution. ——— For the moment the lifting of a voice may take precedence over the question of elevating guns. will get speedy justice, and with a| o i SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON | iy { Prophecy Fulfilled. ‘l When down the Avenue I strayed As happy as a clam, reasonable; joy-riders, hit-and-runners, { 1 step with the discreet parade, smoke-screen users and others of that ilk probably will not co-operate, but as | far as can be ascerfained there are no tives of a community of upward of | loopholes in the new regulations, and this type of driver will find himself faced with penalties which are calcu- lated to discourage the most persistent lawbreaker. Motorists. should not be raisled by the new speed limit. Congress, in pass ing the bill, was eareful to see that it contained & reckless driving provision which will n.dequfle!y protect the pub- lic. Although the new limit is 22 miles an hour, there will be no immunity for a motorist who drives at this rate of speed in a congested downtown section and, when agrested, pleads that he was within the limit. He may be charged with regkless driving, which carries heavy penaities. In selecting the new traffic director it is hoped that the Commissioners will not act with haste. The importance of the new office, with the traffic problem cne of the biggest faced by municipal authorities throughout the country, cannot be minimized, and it is essen- tial .that care should be used in ap- ‘pointing only a man who possesses bread vision, reasonableness and the faculty of co-operation with both pub- lic and police. - —— Vice President Dawes and the United States Senate will have to un- derstand each other if the business of the country is to go on. The early interchange will no doubt prove a means of avolding delay in arriving at a working basis. e Those who cherish Pennsylvania avenue as the scene of spectacular en- thusiasms have only to wait for a tri- umphant season ‘for the Washington’| ball club of the arrival of Barnum and Bailey's circus. . ———— The World Court. With the Senate in special session for the consideration of executive busi- ness, there is prospect of actiom on several international agreements which have.been long neglected: The coun- try ‘has about equal cause for rejolc- ing and regret that along with the ad- journment of Congress went adjourn- ment on numerous important' matters of domestic legislation, but there are few possibilities of harm and many of profit in clearing the Senate’s calendar of pending foreign questions. The treaty of Lausanne, concluding peace with Turkey, and the Isle of Pines treaty, which has been before, the Sen- ate-for 20 years, are scheduled to be acted upom, and -there now seems a chance of obtalning action on the pro- March came in like a Lamb. But when a certain speech 1 heard From an official scion. I vowed, with feelings deeply stirred, March came in like a Lion. And so we feel the Winter blast Amid the vernal weather: The Lion and the Lamb at last Are cozily together. Proud. “Were you In the parade? “I was,” answered Senator Sorghum, “and T want to tell you it was a proud and happy moment. 1 shall never for- get the satisfaction of riding the entire length of the Avenue without a chance of being held up by a traffic cop.” Playmates. Maria loved to sing and shout And Helen liked to carol; * The springtime weather brought them out In holiday apparel. Maria is a lovely lass And so is gentle Helen. But, joln 'em—and what comes to pass There isn't any tellin’! Jud Tunkins says a woman who smokes and drinks s mighty liable to get hooked up to a man who loves chocolates and uses perfume. Ornate Assumptions. “I believe in the wisdom of the plain “Yes,” said Miss Cayenne, “but there aren’t ‘any plain peoplé any more. Everybody T méet regards himself somse kind of a fancy article.”. Gloom at the Gulch. “Crimson Guich is much quieter than it used to be,” commented the visitor. ves,” answered Cactus Joe. “Thi old spirit is gone. Motors and radio have overwhelmed us with the influ- ence of an effete civilization. I'm thinkin' of startin’ a movement to change the name of the place to ‘Pink Ravine." " An Outeast. I do not care’for salad. 1 don’t like lemonade. I can’t abide the ballad To jazzy measures made. And so the years have flitted ' 'Mid ‘scenes of stress and strife Because I am unfitted To lead the sacial life! “De world is gittin’ better,” said Uncle Eben, “but in dishere grand march of improvement e of ua in. divigzles feet.” is already before the Senate, with the | to| the | why | conservative inclinations as a national | || WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. insisses on - draggin’ delrl It is a recreation forced upon us by kind triends and acquaintances who llke us 0 much that they needs must call upon us when we are slvepy. So what can we sey? Not a thiug! Ours but to yawn be- {hind our hand and cast sidelong | giances at the clock, the old grand | father clock, that seems to wearily | wag its big pendulum in deflance of the hours. The clock is bored, too, but contin- ues to say “Tick-toek, tick-tock” in vain. “The guests do not take the hint. They take no hints at all. Hints | were made for other occasfons, evi- jdently; not for this one. ‘I Waiting for the company 1o go gives the lle to the old maxim about “Tem- pue fugit”" Time neither fies, runs, walks, crawls or creeps. Time, when we are walting for the | company to go, has @ bad cuse of the { ®out or some other mundsne mulady which Incapacitates the old fellow from moving with his accustomed speed. { Time, in such a cuse, is slower than a Wisconsin avenue street car. It is more snail-like than the humble slug, more slugzish than the schoolboy with his shining morning face, or old Towser when he sees you with switch to punish him for some in- ’I'I'A\'llah of the house rules. When we are waiting for the hon- lored guests to go away Time reverses | whole laws of nature and sets at | naught the Einstein theory of rela- ‘ll\'lly We seem sunk in a mors a | sector of space where all comparisons | vanish, where the hours pass in a sort of drowsy desuctude akin to that which enfolded the Lotus Eaters of Tennyson. *x ox “Well, nobody will come to see us this evening. it is raining so.” says the Missus, “That suits me,”" you reply. “I am tired and sleepy, and T guess 1 will 80 to bed at 8 o'clock. Yessir, at 8 o'clock.” The thought is a novel one “At 8 o'clock,” vou repeat, to il\xrn‘ that the household heard the exact hour. While vou do not emu- late some of the neighbors, and stay {up until 3 or 4 a.un., you of' stay up s late as 10 o'clock. Sometimes you | remain out of bed%as late s 11 p.m. nd occasionally until midnight later, when you take in a theater. To go to sleep at 8 o'clock, how- ever, 18 somewhat novel; at least, be { “punch.” Even so gentle a procedure |as “hitting the hay" must have ‘pep’ | &na “punch” in it nowadays. | T don't guess any one will cail on us tonight,” the Missus chimes in, looking out the windows, where the table lamps in the houses wcross the | street throw wide flarés on' the dark, | wet street A lone pedestrian leans against the circle of the street lamp. A wind ic blowing up. The rain, beating down at & steady pace, hits the man in the face. We see him tuck his coat collar up | close around his neck before he is {1ost to sight in the ‘dark | “A good night to be indoors,” says the Missus. for those | who to stay i them. “That's ‘fjust what I say,” you agree. Your family is not run on the lines of the comic supplements, wherein all 13 discord and squabble. piness prevail in your home. Just then the telephone rings. Missus answers it. (She always does, biess her.) You listen to the conver- sation with lazy dlsregard. | “Hello. hello—yes—oh, yes—why, is it you, Mrs. Lefton-Jones? Oh. I am “A good night have warm homes The There are as many angles to the Dawes episode as quills on a porcu- pine’'s back: and it bristles with just as many possibilities of trouble. The {Senate cloakrooms seethe with tales of the milk that has already been spilled and of the bucketfuls that are {still to slop over. You will hear, first ]of all, that the White House is an- I noyed; to the point of rage. over the whole business, Eyewitnesses are even telling of the curl of anger on Mr. Coohdge's lips when the Vice President was performing. Less cre- dence is given to presidential objec- tions to Dawes’ “theft of the show" on Inauguration day than to Mr. Cool- idge's reported distress over the out- break of an administration feud with the Senate. More than once during the past year the President has regis- tered displeasure with the time-kill- ing habits of Congress. He would like to break them. He recognizes their iniquity. But it is not his way to big-stick Capito] Hill into good be- {havior. Therefore, he deplores the Dawes system of clubbing Congress into reform. * % % & It is notorious that Dawes was not the Coolidge choice for the vice presi- dential nomination in 1924. When this writer, with a priority that almost entitled him to be an “original Dawes man,” suggested {n April last, while Dawes was not vet home from Eu- rope, that the hero of the German reparations plan would be an ideal Coolidge running mate, a vigorous demurrer was entered in quarters close to the throme. It was asserted that “Hell-and-Marla” would mar the picture the President's friends were anxious to present to the country, of a ticket balanced with calm and cau- tion at both ends. As all the world knows, Chairman Butler and other Coolidge leaders at tKe Cleveland con- vention only took Gen. Dawes for sec. ond place because they had no alter- native. They preferred Lowden, elther of the Burtons (the late presi dent of Michigan University or Theo~ dore E. of Ohio), Borah, Kenyon, Sanders, Hoover—anybody almost but the Illinois brigadier. In plain truth, the Coolidge commanders feared the fnevitable, and the inevitable, they now are eclrcumstantially alleged to believe, has happened, though a little more speedily than was expected. ¢ * ok ik ok What has Dawes up his sleeve? Does he really mean to crusade for reform of Senate procedure? Don Quixote tilting at windmills had nothing on the Vice President, ff that is Dawes’ actual aspiration. Does he mean to shoot at the moon, and, when convinced that he has missed fire, quit office? One wild yarn in eirculation on Capltol Hill credits him with that incredible intention. Has Dawes 1928 pregidential ambitions. Does he hope to do nothing more than to challenge public thought on congres- sional reform, make it'his platform and go to the country on that para- mount issue four years hence? Those guesses are hazarded in Washington, teo, in connection with Dawes' amaz- ing onslaught. L I S Did 1 say “amazing”? Anybody with a tithe of X-ray knowledge of Dawes ought not to be amazed at all by the history he made In the Senate chamber on Inauguration day. His whole career has been an amazi one, dating from the time, in 1896, when he attracted Mark Hanna's at- tention by organizing Illinois for McKinley. Washington, least of all, ought to have been taken off its feet by Dawes' vice presidential debut. It stiil has fresh memories- of how Be pitched high explosive into the or | sufficlently 8o to give the idew some | wind as he comes in view beneath the | Peace, hap- | What's that? “Oh, we will be dellghted to have You,” comes the vofce of your wife. Delighted to have who? “We were just wondering what we would do this evening, “cooes the; Missus, smillng sweetly into the phone, as she hangs up. * ok ok “Would you beliove it, Mr. and Mrs. J. Horace Lefton-Jones are coming 10 call Storms your sweet creature, rushing into the living room. “And upon all the lect this one! “Of 831 the nights in the year! echio, * hopeles<ly, Lefton-Jones such a heelthy chss. He delights in | breasting the cold north winds. The | harder it ruins, the better J. Horace you “Well, put your ¥ the Missus, ‘Nl straighten things up & bit” “Darn it, just when I was so sleepy 1 could not stend up, here they have | to come and spoil it all” It is not long before the front door bell rings. There they are! | 7Ob, we are so glad to see you!” “Well, we thought We wuold be |Sure and catch vou at home tonight. |Sure you weren't going out”" | _“On. nwo We were just wondering | Whit ‘we would do with ourselves, | when you called up. 8o glad you came, collar buck on So, ut ubout 8 p.m., you begin wait- ! ing for the company to go. You try to entertain them with the radio. The super-het is working to perfection, despite, or probably be- cause of, the inclement weather. You bring in Kansas City on the loud | Speuker as clear as a bell. But Mrs. Leiton-Jones is busy with | description of her new ensemble | dress. wnd old Lefty himself is sim- | Ply bursting with information con- cerning that new Destructo car he has just purchased, the one with the dappled fawn enamel in the fashion- |able French nude shade. Despairing to entertain the guests with the radio, you put a few records len the trusty old phonograph. They |are great disks At the end, Mrs. | Jones “Charming!" and Lefty snorts, ¥!" But you realize that neither heard a note, You give it up. | vour easy chair, and let them ramble |on. Then the soft cushions begin to get in their deadly work. You feel | vourself going to sleep. With a start you pull yourself together. Surely it must be § o'clock You take a surreptitious glance at the clock. It shows: Eight-fifteen o'clock. With a mufled groan you throw yoursel? into the verbal arena. just a8 Mrs. Lefton-Jones expatiates on the success of her last card party, and Lefty recalls the day he first tried to play golf. You grow slespier and sleepier Waves of slumber beat upon you. but every time you manage to come out on top. How long, oh, Lord, how long! Will they never go? Evidently ,not. The clock ticks slower and slower. It is 9 o'clock now. They cannot be expected to eave before 10:30, and 11 o'clock orobably will see them still there. Ages pass You recall that time, in early childhood, when the minister | called, and you had to sit up with the grown-ups until he chose to go. Your mother had to carry you to bed. Ages pass away. You believe im- plicitly, now. in the huge age of the earth. You are willing to believe in anything, in everything but one thing—that Mr. and Mrs. J. Horace | Lefton-Jones will ever go. You have |those “waiting-for-the-company-to-go "blues.” congressional investigating commit- tee that was {rying to pry, penny- wise, Into Pershing’s military ex- | penditures in France. No Govern- ment official, either, has forgotten {the meat and manner of Dawes' | maiden fulmination as Director of the Budget in 1921. With the entire | cabinet and hundreds of high execu- | tive officials as his audience, Dawes talked to them as if they were a classroom of unruly schoolboys. It was the tone he adopted for reading the riot act to the Senate, * % % % One questions whether the Vice President played wise personal poli- | tics on March 4. He came into office with Progressive hatred assured him, in consequence of his frontal attack on La Follette, Wheeler, Brookhart et al. last summer. Now he has accumulated a fresh crop of foes among the Republican old guard. If Dawes intends, to remain a Repub- lican, he thus has sown enmities in both wings of the G. O. P. Perhaps he fizures that, on the lssue he has raised, those enmities outweigh any friendships he may have cemented by suppressing his emotions. A former cabinet officer from Illinols, who came to town to sece Dawes inaugurated, said: “Don’t let the Republican party fool itself. Dawes will grow. He always grows. His career reveals no backward steps.” * ® ok % Dawes' friends Insist that he has struck a popular chord. Their confi- dent guess is that he will Have a 800d press, from coast to coast. They say he chose a psychological moment at which to call attention to the €hortcomings of Congress, and of the Senate in particular. They believe the country is ready to fellow the lead of a man who projects a prac- tical program for speeding up legis- lative business at Washington. It is i5 years ago since insurgent leader- spip within the Republican party swept Cannonism into oblivion. Men like Duwes hold that the fillbuster, with its attendant parliamentary evils, is quite as subversive of popu- lar government as Cannonism ever was. The Senate rules are clothed in & garb of decorous formality. But in practice they can be just as ob- structive of congressional progress as the more avowedly tyrannical tenets of Cannonism were. * ok ok %! ' The late Gus Karger, veteran ‘Washington newspaper correspondent, went to “Tom” Marshall, soon after the &hts of the year, to se- | is | g likes it. y in a resigned tone. ! You sink back ing | ing around the circl | that former Vice President took office, in 1918, and Said: - 2 Mr. Vice President, we hear you're going to try te turn this office of yours into'a real job. How about {17 Mr. Marshall replied: “Gus, it can't be done: The Vice President always has been the chambermaid to the King, and that's what he'll al- ways be.” (Copyright, 1925.) Should Help Some. From the Oincinnati Enquirer, 1f they made Congress enforce every law it passes before it passed another, we have an idea there would be quite some fdlling off in the law-passing business. . History Is Explained. ¥rom the London Humorist. the cross-word puzzle had Its origin in anclent Egypt. This explains why the Israelites werc 8o dnxious to fice into the wilderness. 1 2 So much has been said and, sebm- Ingly, so little has been accomplished in the task of making the streets of Washington safe for the public. Bach day as we scan the lines of our daily papers we are brought face to face with some dreadful accident, and as we read we cannot help but wonder Iif our turn is next. The District of Columbia has laid down certain laws which govern the movements of horse and power drawn .vehicles, but where are the laws that regulate the movements of the pe- trians? This 18 not an unheard- Of question, for some of our most pro- gressive cliies have laws that restrict the Jay walker and other indulgences that are practiced here in Washing- ton. Laws for both of the above mentioned are necessary and,will not impose a burden upon either, if each will think of the other and remember that each one has an equal right. But laws are mere scraps of paper scat- tered to the four winds if they are observed by a few and allowed tp be disregarded by many. 1 do not mean to side with either the pedestrian or the driver, but I -believe that each can be a little more thoughtful of the other and thereby reduce tiie number of accidents in the City of Washington. | The new traffic bill provides & speed limit of 22 miles per hour through the congested districts, and this does not mean 30 and 40 miles per hour. The traffic regulations specify that no au- tomobile shall pass a street car while | same |8 standing still, or is in the act of stopping, until all passengers have reached a point of safety. The regulations further state that auto- j mobiles must not at any time, while the car Is at rest, or in the act of stopping, come any closer than 15 feet from sald car. This gives the passengers ample time to reach a point of safety before the trafc starts. Of course, there are certain wide avenues and streets which do not come under this law, but even on those so designated the distance should be closely observed. Another thing that I have noticed, especially of the traffic here in Washington, is that most of them step on the gas at intersections to beat the other fellow across, rather than step on the brakes and take time to look before crossing. When you do this, you not only take a long chance of meeting another per- son who is just as eager to get there { a5 you are, but you also endanger the Uves of some who are physically un- | able to get out of the way of a fast moving vehicle. Slow up while driv- and don't try to form a foot ball interference so those on foot cannot pass. Oftentimes I have waited fully three minutes at Thomas Circle for trafic to pass, «nd just when I was In the act of stepping off the curb, several times I have noticed the driver of an approaching car step on the gas and foroe me back to the sidewalk. Is that the right spirit, 1 ask you? My motto while crossing every street is “Stop, look and live,” and T am sure that these words have saved my life on several occasions. Now for a few remarks to taose who walk. In the first place, pedes- trians should be made to cross the streets at intersections and not just anywhere that they may feel so dis- posed. This gives the automobiles more freedom and will lessen the chances of accidents in Washington. This lal is enforced in other cities, and surely we can do it here. Try to cross the streets of Birmingham in the middle of the block and see what happens! If you are in the act of crossing a street and a heavily loaded truck or automobile is com- ing up the hill, give him the right of | way Instead of forcing him to stall his engine under a heavy load.. When You'are crossing any street and. meet an automebile, give the signal so that the driver of the car will know what you are going to do. He is just as anxious to know which way vou are EOINE 45 you are to know the route that-hé is going to take. This is es- pecially important on the circles. Glve him the right of way by stand- ing perfectly still, motioning to him to proceed, and see if you don't feel better for having done so. Try it once—it won't hurt you or cost you a penny These are just a few suggestions that T have found very helpful, and I believe that if both™ parties would co-operate in this matter we would solve some of the causes of accidents here in Washington. If he or she glves you the right of way, tip your hat or in some way give the signal that you really appreciated the favor. This is far better than the growl that you often get, and, besides, growls and frowns ‘cause wrinkles, while smilles tgke them away. Try it! T. B. WILTSHIRE. ——— The Real Suwanee Eiver. Some bright young men of the United States Geological Survey have gone into southern Georgia and northern Florida to make certain in- vestigations. They have found that 2 stream known locally as the Suwanee (or Sewanee or Swanee) River is only an ‘ordinary creek, af- fording some sort of lazy outlet to the waters of the Okefinokee Swamp, and is as unimportant and unlovely as swamp creeks wysually are. That was all right and part of their business.- But when these young men—or somebody_for them—went so far as to report that the immortal river of Stephen C. Moster’s song is little better than a mere ditch they committed a colossal error. It is a blunder to which very practical men and very literal minds are particular- ly susceptible. They have confused the realm of geography with that of imagination and have fallen into the fallacy of trying to measure with gauges and surveyors' chains some- thing which is beyond logarithms and laughs at all the laws of trigo- nometry. The real Swanee River does not rise in any part of Georgla. It rises in the highest mountains of the hu- man soul and is fed by the deepest springs in the human heart. It does net flow through the swampy regions of Florida, but through the pleasant, sunny lands of memory. It does not empty into a material sea, but into ;hg glorious ocean of unfulfilled ms, It la the shores of childhood. Its current _ripples with the low, sweet melody of recollections, soft- ened and made misty by distance. There is such myStical power in its waters that whoever finds himselt wearied and worn by the struggle of lving has only to quaff and gain nepenthe. 3 It Is far, far away, but the heart is ever turning to it, because there's | sisting of 376 square miles. | been the | Q. What , kind Kteisler use?—: A. He uses a Josef Guanerius, 1752, of a violin does Q. What chemical will stop the rust action of “sait water on truck frarhes used for ice. creum delivery’—L. B. 8. A., Frequent painting is the only method known for protecting steel against salt wate s Q. How many processes are there in the making of a modern shoe*—W. H. T. A. In making an ordinary ehoe today theye are 174 machine operations, per- forfigd upon 154 machines and 26 hand operations, or atogether 210 processes by’a proportionate number of work peo- ple. Q. Are there gapphires that are not blue?—B. 5. T, A. There are white, yellow and pink sapphires, speedwiy at Laurel, Md. The races will | be run on June 20 and October 10. | + | 1ands arranged?— which Maj. Archie Butt was one | to Rome as unofficial ambassador for | President Roosevelt which Q. When was Hongkong ceded to the Britsh’—S. C, F. A. Hongkong was ceded to the Brit- ish In 1842 by. the treaty of Nanking Four square miles of mainland were first leased then ceded in perpetuity by the Peking convention of 1860. In 1898 China ceded the territory behind the Kowloon Peninsula on a lease of 99 years, con- Possession was taken by the British in 189 York to San Honolulu by the Panama C A. Francisco, water bLedn nal?—W. D. Distances from New York to San Francisco by water, former 13,135 wiles; via Panama Canal, 5,265 miles. New York to Hawali, former all- water route, 12,800 miles; by canal, 7,000 miler. New York to Manila, via Hawaii, -former route, 17,800 miles; by canal, 12,000 miles j Manila and shortened by Q How tall Charlie Paddock—W. W. B. A. Nurmi is 5 feet § inches tall, and Paddock 5 feet 10 inches, re Paavo Nurmi Q. When did Duncan Phyfe livi T A A. This famous American maker was born in 1854 Q. Which is the largest cave in the world?—W. W, F. A. Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, is con- sidered the largest cave in the world, in | that it has the longest avenues and has more completely explored than other caves. The Carlsbad Caverns con- tain the greatest number of chamber Q. How close to the road must rural | mail boxes be put?—c. J. S A. The Post Office Department says | that rural mail boxes must be placed so that the carrier can serve the box with- out dismounting from his vehicle. cabinet 1766 and died Q. What makes varnish chec lz.q P faex A. _It is usually due fo the fact that treme heat or cold; or is due to an in- terior grade of varnish, Q. Where was Joaquin Miller born? V. BE.D. A. The poet’s birth occurred in' a the time it crossed the 1 Indiana from Ohio, Q. Is 1t known; how long ago the preumatic. organ was {nvented’— D. A. E. A. This style of organ made its appearance in the fourth ‘century. It was used on festive occasions for secular purposes. ine dividing Q. What is the strongest light on the Virginia coast?—C. K. A.. Hog Island light station, with a lumifious intensity of 280,000 candles, Virginia, and will be the one first secn by BY WILLIAM ARTICLE IX. France herself apparently has not vet realized how greatly to her own interest it would be to fund her debt 1o the United States. But the official figures at Washington tell the story of huge savings that would accrue to the French taxpayers if the gov- funding arrangement similar, for in- stance, to that already made by Great Britain. Let the figures tell story: France 171.672.48. terest. this sum runs to somewhat more than $146,800,000. Every vear the Federal Government charges France on its books with this unpaid in- terest. It has been accumulating since May 15! 1919. The total unpaid interest now runs to more than $800,- one-fourth of the principal. $16,500 an Hour Penalty. That, of course, is at simple in- terest. It is equivalent to an ac- cumulating bill of somewhat more than $12,000,000 & month, $400,000 & day, $16,500 an hour. Thus, as France procrastinates she is storing up a penalty which, of coures, must be met sometime in the future, of $16,500 an hour for her procrastination. That figure is based on a 5 per cent in- terest rate on her loan. Leaving the French situation for a moment to examine what has been done in the case of Great Britain, we find that she, t00, was paving in- terest at the rate of § per cent until arrangements were made to fund her debt. When that was done, the in- terest rate, by mutual agreement, dropped to 3 per cent for the first 10 years and 3% per cent thereafter. What was .the result? The annual interest charge agalnst Great Britain dropped from $230.000,000 a vear. on a 5 per cent basis, to about $135, 000,000 a year on a 3 per cent basis, a saving to British taxpayers of ap- proximately $92,000,000 annualiy. And so it came about that the in- terest charge against Great Britain, under the funding arrangement, is now less each vear by nearly $9,000,- 000 than the interest charge against France. And Great Britain owes us. in round figures, about $4,600,000,000 as compared with $2,933,000,000_ (on which the $146,600,000 annual inter- est charge is made) owing to us by France. In other words, Great where the old folks stay. On its banks may be only a hut among the bushes, but the bees are still hum- ming around it by day and the banjo is still tumming there in the star- Hght. And so they will continué to do while memories of home and sim- ple hopes and affections are the most Pprized possessions of mankind. - It was in a quaint jargon, such as probably was never actually spoken. by anybody, . that Foster .first sang about. it. Nevertheless, his plaintive ditty has become one of the great songs of all times. The surveyors who would find the true Swan Florida swamps but among the ma- jestic streams of infinite tendern and love—From the New York Tele- Britain, ewing us half as much again as France, is paying annually less In interest than the amount charged annually on our books against the French' government. . . That, Has been brought about purely 4{hrough the British debt funding &r- | rangement.. $ £ ‘" In the Case of France. - How ; would it work out in the case of-France? There 8 no doubt whatever that . Witited- States, _government would welcome French debt funding on the same basis:as that on which the British debt is funded. Bqually, According to-a Boston newapaper,| River must hunt not among the|there is no doubt that the interest rate on the French debt, now 5 per cent, will drop to 3 per cent—at least for a 10-year period, as in the oase of Great Britain—the day such How much has the trip from New | and | in | | “Toxophilu: | game as being chiefly by the wor | ing the furniture has been exposed to ex- | | still prevatling in covered wagon ip 1841, “at or about | | attendance at | est attendance | Director, is the strongest light on the coast of ernment of France were to make a the | would pay hourly The principal of the amount loaned | (exclusive of her notes for!$100 a minute in interest by funding purchases of war supplies) is $2.933,- | her debt on the same basis as that For that we hold her de- | mand notes bearing 5 per cent in-|France made one s Every year the interest on|half years ago, ere | chairman) Q. How was the sale of the S. D, Mr. Taft, other forming a commission wen friar A. In 1900 gentlemen with in an effort to settle the matter of the “friar lands question. He arranged, on behaif of the Philippine government, to pur chase the same for $7,000,000, f amount the friar lands bonds of the Philippine Islands were issued The lands are gradually being sold the Government upon ve casy terms anad installments to the tenants Q. s there such a rank as a lance corporal7—J. S. C. A. A lance corporal is provi- sional appointment without the pay of permanent rank. When vacancies occur as corporals the man who it considered for the appointment such a vacancy is made & lance cor- poral with duties of a corporal, but not the pay cf a corporal. If he quali- fies and makes good at this provi- a ta sional appointmenf he is\made a reg lar corporal‘and his rank is confirmed with the pay of a corporal Q. passengers A. The New ¥ New Haven a Hdrtford Railroad has averaged the most passengers for year This is due to the¥fact that thi carries hundreds of commuters New York Cit Q. Is me ettes or cigars? A. The latest figures for a sing year are: Cigarettes, $800,000,00 and $610,600,000 for€eigars, Q.. Why are display set at S. K A. The position of the hands of a %lock Is one which has been selected for the reason that it furmishes the greatest facility to meet the requ ment for painting the longer name above the hands and the shorter word below. The minute hand has been varied in position from 17 to 25 min- utes after 8. Sometimes the longer name requires.to_be written in a semi-circle above the hands. There have been storiés connected with th death of -Lincoln, that the position of the hands is .commemorative of th hour of the death, but this is not tru Q ne R A. The game of horseshoes is based on quoits, which is a pastime sembling the ancient discus throwing of Greéce. Few traces of a game re- sembling quoits can be found on continent of “Europe and its oriz ay be sopght for en the hord lands of Scotland and England. TI are references to it fnthe midlands from the begipning of the entury. ASeHam, in b (1545), refers to tI What railr carries A J. the money sper —H. E. L for cigar clocks alway How long have people made a of “ pitching horsesho n E who often used hor of quoits, a custo country distric classes, shoes for want Q. Please give comparative for the largest single @ay’s. ance at the Chicago world fair Louis and San rancisco.—~F. W A. Chicago day was the peak of the the Columbian Expo- sition, when on October &, 1893, Ti6.- 881 persons were admitted. In the St. Louis Exposition, 1904, the great- was duriag one das in April, when 187393 were prese In the Panama-Pacific Expsition at San Francisco. the greatest day December 4, 1815, when mc 350,000 persons were admitte (Readers of The Duening Star shon send their questions to The i formation Bureau, Frederic J. Hask Twenty-first - and C atre The only charge for this cents in stamps for returi northwest. service is 2 vessels approaching these | postage.) THE STORY OF THE FRENCH DEBT P. HELM. IR, a funding arrangement mated with France, At the present rate of 5 per ce the annual fnterest on the French debt is about: $146.600,000; af 3 per cent it would. fall to about $58,000,000. a saving of $38,600,000 a vear to the French people. And as savings o, that sum-is considerable. 1t would mean that the present charge of $400,000 a day would be cut to $240 000; that the French ‘government interest of $10,000 is consum- instead. of $16.500. France thus could save more than on which the British debt ep, two to fund Secretary is fur and her Mellon ed de is de- scribes it “In July, 1922, the French govern- ment sent a special mission, headed by Jean V. Parmentier, diector of the movement of funds of the French treasury, to the United States to dis- how 000,000, or considerably in excess of | cuss with the American Debt Fundin Commission (of which Mr. Mell certain data relative to the French debt to this government M. Parmentier placed in the hands of the commission certain data relative to the financial and economic situa- tion of France. “He explained the position of his government in respect to funding its debt, stating that he had Dbeen designated by the French government to -afford the commission complete in- formation as to the financial con dition of his government, but that the lattdr did not consider it possible at that time to enter Into any definite engagements for a funding or settie- ment of its debt. Asked Indefinite Postponement. “He further stated that it was his government's desire to postpone for an indefinite period consideration of this matter, until the financial situa- tion- of France should become more clear, particular] E to reparation receipts from Germany. The com- mission’s position on the subject was explained to M. Parmentier, and es- pecially its desire that a funding of the Frenc¢h debt should take place in the near future. % “August 17, 1922, 3. Parmentier in- formed the chairman of.the commis- sion ‘that he had. heen keeping his government Informed of the progress made in the negotiations and that he had received a ecable instructing him to Teturn for a-#all discussion with his governmént of the situation as it had developed. “The chairman replied that, in his view, it could only be beneficial if M. Parmentier shoyld in person dis- ou with his government the nego- tiations which had taken place be- tween him and the commission. M Parmentler, returned to France shortly after this conference.” ‘That was the first and last move taken by Franee officially to fund her debt to the United, States. The next development of conseguence was. the recent Marin speech. in the French Chamber of Deputies, Jasting five hours, in which an attempt was made to show that the debt should be can- celed. The echo of that speech and the warm applause it evoked in the chamber and - in Frgnce generally is still ringing throughout the United States. i B (The end.) 4 (Copyright, 1928.)