Evening Star Newspaper, August 16, 1925, Page 38

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All rights of publication ©f apecial dispatches he: e also reserved. c— ——— + The Belgian Debt. Negotiations looking to the funding of the Belgian debt to the United States have proceeded with some measure of syccess during the last week. The ultimate decision in the matter, however, may rest with Presi dent Coolidge and the Belgian cabinet, with whom the American and Belgian commissioners will now consult. Among the obstacles settle- ment which have been overcome, ac- ording to officials of the Treasury Department, was the Belgian sug- gestion that the pre-armistice part of the debt be cared for out of German reparations. Belgium, it appears, has agreed to fund the entire debt with- out reference to the reparations due Belgium from Germany. This decision on the part of the Belgian commis- sion Is wise and very satisfactory to the United States. The claim had been advanced that the late President Woodrow Wilson in Paris gave some assurance that the pre- e debt of Belgium to the United States would be pald for out of German repara- tions. But the vernment of the United States has steadfastly main- tained it would not agree to substi- tute German reparations for any of the debts owed this country the allied nations. It has refused to he drawn into the position of collecting German reparations for any ather to a rmis by Concessions the commissioners include & moratorium on interest and interest mewhat than those for British: American debt seitlement States is not are (he people of America desirous of fuirly and considerately Belgium, for which they have a feeling of friend ip and & tion. Al arrangements made. with regard 10 the foreign debts, however, must in the end be passed upon by Cengress. The settlement with Great Britain was regarded as eminently fair, in- deed, it was criticized as being too lenient by some members of Congress. Agreements with other nations, there- fore, which go bevond the terms ac- corded Great Britain will be care- fully scanned when they come befare Congress for approval. The Belgian debt amounts in round numbers to $450.000,600. 1f important concessions are 1o be made, on part of are said the American rates lower the provided in is usnrious, rticutarly with rong dealing mi should first be Coolidge and that reason the President will be kept fully informed of the progress of the negotiations would be idle to deny that Am. holds that the time has :pproved by for President cican opinion today come fo funding money of was the foreign debts. The loaned with the full un- derstanding that the debts would he funded, and promptly ' funded. The pressing of debtors is not a pleasant task, and our debtors sheuld not make necessary imperative demands for set- tiement. et e Swimming the English Channel has & slight advantage over Arctic ex- ploration in the fact that there is leas delay in notifying relutives if any- thing goes wrong. et Widows and the Senate. The Governor of North Dakota is considering the appointment of the widow of the late Senator Edwin F. T.add to All the unexpired term of that R8enator, if reports are to be credited. 1t is not ve: determined that the gov- ernor has a right te make an ap- pointment to Il the vaeancy, in view of the fact that the Legislature of North Daketa has never enacted a law giving him that power since the adoption of the constitutional amend- ment providing for the direct ele tlon of Senators. But, neverthe the talk of Mrs. Ladd as a successor to her husband, through appointment by the governor, has sprung up. The women of the country not un- naturally are desirous of having woman members of the' Senate. Some of them endeavored to prevail upon Mras. La Follette, widow of the late Senator Robert M. La Follette, to be- come a candidate for election to fill the Wisconsin vacancy. Mrs. La Fol- Jette declined, saying that it would be “against nature” for her to seek the political leadership of Wisconsin, and that she intended to occupy herself with bringing up to date the biog. raphy of her husband. Mrs. La Follette's appears a wise decision. Because a woman has been the wife of a Senator does not neces- sarily fit her to step into the Senate of the United States. This is said without disparagement of either Mrs, Ta Follette or Mrs. Ladd. But since the adoption of the equal suffrage constitutional amendment there has been in some quarters & kind of senti- mental demand that widows or daugh- ters of dead Representatives and Sen- ators be appointed or elected to fill the places made vacant. The job of heing a member of Congress, Senate or Heuse, should not be ladled out merely for sentimental reasons. A NG STAR|knowies .....August 16, 1925 .Editor | carriers within cents Der month. Ordera max be sent by mail or Collection is made by he United | wading poal the | American commissioners believe they 1t definite action looking to the | onemic and peliti: day should be a prime requisite, and ability to deal with these problems, another. A gov- lernor of a State should appoint as Senator, if the duty devolves upon him, a man or woman qualified to fill the great office—for it is a great office—one who is at least a potential recipient of the support of the voters at the polls. The problems confronting the Con- gress at Its coming session will tax the powers of the ablest legislators, and the Governor of North Dakota doubtless will have this fact in mind when he appoints, if he does appoint, A successor to Senator Ladd. The suggestion has been advanced that the Senaté might agree to seat the widow of their late colleague from North Dakota when they would be un- willing to permit the appointment of another under the clrcumstances. But cal prob! | such a suggestion could scarcely be seriously advanced. The Senate is a Jealous guardian of its membership. No Senator is seated unless it can be demonstrated beyond the slightest doubt that he is entitled to member- ship. whether he comes as an ap- pointes or through election. Before the Governor of North Dakota, ther: fore, decides to appoint a Senater to succeed Senator Ladd, the question s 16 his full vight to make such an appointment should be finally settled. ——— Playgrounds. “The supervisor of playgrounds in her annual veport to the Commission ers emphasizes the need of recreation equipment. The desirability of the plavground has passed beyond tha stage of debate. AN sound arguments are on the side of play spaces for the children. Everybody believes in them. In other years it was necessary 1o convert a considerable number to the doctrine that it is goed policy in a city. to provide public grounds for children with play in supervision, and it is recalled that it was necessary to convert large numbers to the idea that it was good policy, even a duty, for the city or Stats to provide schooling for children. It was necessary to con- vert many to the thought that it is wise policy for a city to set apart tracts of land as parks. Newer cities have got the playground ides and a giving it application. Older cities have found it more dificult for obvious rea- sons to take land of high value, with- draw it from the tax list and devote it te public recreation, but the old towns have generally come around and are seiting apart playgrounds for chil- dren. The supervisor urges that Wash- ington plavgrounds be kept open all the vear, that school playgrounds be kept open in vacation term, that every plavground have a field house for play use in bad weather and that every playgronnd have a wading pool. The If there is one thing & <hild adores when davs and months are hot it is a wading place. It is recrestion that takes s child's mind of it= serious problems. Smile if vou Il but if vou will reflect you can think back to childhood days and re- call that your problems seemed as op- pressive as today's problems of mak- ing ends meet and answering the calls of tax collectors. The problem of learning lessons was a tough one. Smiles and approbation of parents and teacher must be had, but the garden was such a lovely place to play in, the porch steps were such a suitable place for plaving jacks, the safe and quiet sidewalk was the very place for roll- ing a hoop and the common was a fine place to play ball. The necess of learning lessons by heart was a hardship. There was also the problem of convineing mother that another slice of bread with butter and sugar mighty problem of earning ten cenis by running the shining disc might be changed into a base ball. There was the problem of working the old man so that he would loosen up for a glass of seda water or a paper bag of molasses taff; The problem of getting a pair of rubber boots or & velocipede was one of the serious things of life, Washington boys and girls, when the town was small, did not need pub lic grohnds as children need them now. Houses had “yards” or gardens, and so common that few per sons thought of sticking up signs Keep off the Grase.” llouses had yooms large enough for plaving Puss- Wantsa-Corner.and Blind-Man's-Buff. Many boys, of ten, took to playing In the street and it was only now and then that one was knocked down by a horse. car, a cart, brougham. victoria, lan dau, phaeton, buggy or sulky. Some vash and adventurous boys took to the alleys and commons. Desperate boys would make excursions to the utter- most parts of the world, such as Me- ridian Hill or Bloomingdale, and some reckless: boys who knew not fear would g0 to such fearsome distances as Mount Pleasant, Klingle Ford and Pierce’s Mill. In view of changed con- ditions in the city and the higher standard of scholarship and deport- ment demunded of little children al- most anybody can see that the public playground is a good thin; oo Fashions are constantly changing. It is not likely that any secret socie- ties will wear masks hereafter. grass City-te-City Airplanin, An idea of the possibility of aerial rapid transit will be gained from the flight of the Navy seaplane the other day trom Philadelphia to Washington, a distance of 180 miles, in forty min- utes. The route covered was not the shortest between the two citles, for the plane was fitted with pontoons in- stead of landing wheels, and an almost all-water course was followed, which meant some deflections from the air- line. Furthermore, the plane was heavier than is usual, owing to the equipment with pontoons, which, it is estimated, cut the speed down by at least twenty miles an hour. To travel from Philadelphia to Washington in considerably less than the time required to go from Balti- more to. Washington by the fastest train®ia an. achievement of note. Un- doubtedly if plane transit is ever es. tablished for. general transportation a rate of at least 120 miles an hour will would do no harm, and there was the| ands or pulling weeds that | { When T upto the mar reaching the mature age | THE be maintained on the ly much faster. At that between Washington and New York is possible within two hours, as against five hours of the railroad express serv- lce at present. however, it is always to be borne in mind that the starting and landing points for planes are usually at some distance from urban centers. The fiying flelds are in the suburbs, sev- eral miles from the business sections. To the time of actual transit by air must be added the time required to o to and come from the flelds. In the case of the recent flight from Philadelphia to Washington almost as many minutes would have been neces- sary for a passenger in making one of these comnections as in the flight itself. 1t Is impossible to foresee the de- velopment in this respect, but in view of ihe remarkable advance in aviation during the past fifteen years it is by no means unreasonabie to look for the establishment of regular plane pes- senger services withim a decade. Will that mean the making of provision in the hearts of cities far the departure and arrival of air expoesses? Certainly a city designed anew for modern and immediately prospective conditions would posaess such a. feature. In this connection it may be sug- gested that possibly the helicopter, or vertleally ascending and descending plane. may wolve this problem of the space requited for starting and land ing. That device Ix et in the experi mental stage, with progress noted from time to time in its evolution. With verticdilly @risiog and descending machines large spaces would not bhe needed, and at the speed of the plane that the other day Mew from Phila- delphia to Washington city-to-city flights wauld be 3t the minimum of time expenditure. — e——— its mind off the presidential nomina- tion long enough to concentrate on the selection of a mayor. The great Ameri- can metropolis has long had & way of treating natlanal politics ax a side show, important mainly as it might serve as a town-boosting proposition SRy Sk As a religianist, the late W. Bryan was no Henry Ward Beecher As a critic of the Bible, Mr. Darrow is no Robert J. Ingersoll. The rhetori cal champions of the past still hold their supremacy. c———— - There i< no reading more heipful and satistying than that of the Bible. The recent attention directed to the first chapter of Genesis may persuade many people to proceed through the entire Book. r——— 8 The enormous issue of paper marks does e affect the o the Hoh enzollern revenues. value w the ex-Kaiser's atever other m takes, he was Loo wise 10 take any bad money. have been = E—— very time John D. Rockefellor gives away & silver dime the fact is reported so conspicuously that his magnificent donations to science and philanthropy are momentarily forgot- tem. ———. Henry Ford plawe the game of civili- zation both ways. While desiring to g0 back to the okd dances, he is ear- nest and practical in seeking the most advanced paces in air transportation. be und wat checked if it becomes thoroughly tood that the North Pole is all and no oil. Tariff wars are threatened. If they be made to take the place of other wars. peace-loving humanity will be satisfied. . can ——— — admittedly not & success up to now as & means of providing political jobs. —.— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Fishing. I cannot fish with rod and reel. My leisure won't permit And yet 2 joy I can’t conceal Through consciousness will flit— t stray And hear this welcome sound: The choicest croakers sell today At twenty cents per pound. iding Public Preference. “Are vou in fayor of reviving the old dancps?” “Certainly,” answered Senatr So ghum. “But I have had trouble enough, and I decline to propose an amendment to the United States Con- stitution making ‘em compulsory.” The Utilitarian Aspect of Unco-ordinat- ed Sound. we Geese cackled and saved Rome, know. Let's tolerate the Jazzy show. Some benefit may vet be known From warblings of the saxophone. Jud Tunkins says every time he goes fishing he finds it hard to uecide whether he's happy or lonesome. High Cost of Food. Unto the monkey I draw fear. And I grow apprehensive. If T display my liking queer, The peanut, now already dear, May grow still more expensive. Disdain of Riches. “Would you marry & man simply because he is wealthy?" *“No!" protested Miss Cayvenne. “He might be a bootlegger.” Longfellow Up to Date, The Launching of the Ship Faretells & wondrous trip. Feel A Thrill Of Life along Her Keel.” But let the Rum Boat pause in fear, Some Coast Guard craft is drawing near. Human understandin’ might be bet-| ter,” said Uncle Eben, “if everybody was as polite to one another as dey is head walter.” In computing intercity flight time, | - 16, EVERYDAY RELIGION BY RIGHT REV, JAMES Bishop of Power of Example. 1 . xx.8—"Then went in also that other diseiple “What you are speaks so loud I can- nbt hear what vou say’* was Emerson’s way of ‘speaking of unconscious influ- ence. ‘There is a subtle influerce that proceeds from us sometimes without our knowledge, and it may be an influ- ence that affects for good or ill the lives af those about us. I once asked a man Whom' I had known to be openly antagonistic 16 the Christian religion what effected the change in his life. He had at the time become a deyout and loyal member of the Chris- tian church. "His answer was sugges- tive. Referring fo a business colleague The New York Democracy has taken l under whom he worked, he said: “A man cannot be askoclated in the office with one who is as consistent a Christlan as our mutual friend is with- out coming at length to fall under the spell of his persuasive ‘Influence.” The friend to whom he alluded was not & man who wore his heart on his sleeve, nor was he given very much to talking about his Christian faith. He lived it. That was enougn. In u word, | he was what the apostle describes as | “a living epistle, read and known of all men.” ‘The testimony of dailv habii is greater than the testimony of the lips All 100 frequently our habits deny what our lips profess. It is something move than our bond that guarantees to the world our character. The above text furnishes a striking fllusiration of the power of example Two men were running in haste to discover whether their Master had really risen from His tomb. The younger was fleeter of foot and out distanced hix older colleague. . Arriv ing first at the tomb, he looked in FREEMAN, D, D., W as {through its low archway, but the shadows within repelled him and he stood hesitatingly without. Presently the older disciple, joined him, and without hesitation he Immediately entered the tomb to confirm for him- self the reported sftuation. There was evidently no word spoken between the two men, but, encouraged by the ex- ample of Peter, we read “then went in also that other disciple.”” The courage disclosed by Peter dispelied the fears of the younger man, How illustrative this is of all of life's experiences! To live our lives with no conscious responsibility -for the influence they exercise upon the world ubout us is unreasonable and grossly selfish. He was right who said “No man liveth to himself.” Human societyAs a vast interlocking system, and so sensitive iy it that it feels the weakness or the strength of all its members. If the power of our example were known to each one of us, it we could know what results ac- crue to it, we would either be ex- hilarated or profoundly depressed Our expressed loyalties, whether to church, state or soclety, are confirmed or negatived by what we are, rather than by what we say. Precept is val- uable, but 1t must be made active and effective through practice. The old Scotch woman who sald that she would rather see her pastor walk from the chureh door to the pulpit than to hear ‘any other man preach paid s lofty tribute 1o his character Loyalty to Christ and His teachings | must take on some more definite form | than the pious recital of a creed or an jttitude of reverence in His sanctuary | The world through which we move | will accept .our creeds only in so far ® confirm them by our life. prright. 102 MOTOR TRAFFIC PROBLEM BY FRE Every man has hix own idea of what constitutes the most serious problem Je may | m fal | . traftic officlal, before the Ameriean nation today, but it is probable that many people would agree that the problem of handling trafic—vehicular and _pedestrian—is the outstanding one. Toduy more at tention fs being pald to this than ever before in the history of the world. There are three principal parties at interest. all eager for some solution. First. the automaobile driver, who finds that his car is not so useful as it used to be because traffic congestion and traMc regulations detract largely from the advantage of expeditious move ment which he formerly enjoyed. He finds that he cannot get from his home to his downtown office in a hurry, and that he cannot dash to catch & train or hasten to his country club or back home to be in time for dinner. He finds that his car is not, ax formerly, s means of bridging the gap of distance because he cannot actually tion. When he arrives there. he either is not permitted by regulations to park or. if regulations do not forbid, some one else is there ahead of him The Mot t Balked. In conseguence he must do whii Iy business men are doing in cities ver the country—that is. drive as far downiown possible. park his car and then take subway, elevated surface car, taxicah or his own two legs ax means of continuing the jour nex. Add to this the cost of inter mittent fines for infractions of mani fold ordinances and ations, and it is discovered that the usefulness of the automobile has materially de. clined. The second party at intevest is the pedestrian. Is it irue that there are more automobiles in the United States than there are telephones? But even 50, the number of persons lacking cars remains in the majority. The pedes- trian has discovered that the streets which he helps build and maintain through heavy taxes are no longer his. he venture on a journey exceeding one city block in distance. or at most four A rush to the Arctic regions will [blocks if he is willing to travel in a|drivers cireult He finds that the ti get from one place another has heen doubled and tripled use of the obstruetions presented by automo. bile traffic. He finds he must carry more aceldent insurance to protect his family or his heirs because of the en haneed risk of daily life. Polar Regions Safer One of the intrepid explorers ne required to to bec han Streets. wh now are with Comdr. MacMillan on his | Entorcement of the Volstead law is | polar expedition was questioned shortly before starting as to whether he was not_uppalled at the dangers confronting him. He replied seriously that he believed he ran a greater risk dally in the city In which he lived than any risk he would encounter in the far North. he third party at interest is the Wwho has as difficult” & ‘American administrator, He is pestered on both sides, both by automobilists and by pedestrians. Ile has the task of enubling the motorist (o obtain relief from traffic congestion and the task of safeguarding the lives of pedestrians. He is like the two taced Roman god.Janus who looked both ways. The traffic director has evolved many schemes. There is the one-way street schemé which is notably helpful to the pedestrian because he is fairly well as- sured that he need look out only cars coming at him from one direction Of course, he must bear in mind the ariver who drives against the traffic on @ one-way street and is amazed that other drivers are all going the wrong way. Such drivers exist, being close kin to the woman watching the jub as any make a | &0 1o hix destina- | Only at risk of life and limb mayv | DERIC ], HASKIN | parade who noted that all the troops | but her son were out of step. | The boulevard system is another in- | vention of the modern traffic director. | Under this system certain streets are |designated as boulevards and every car approaching from a cross street (must come 1o a complete stop and |await the change of traffic. This en- ubles greater speed on the boulevard, | moves traffic out of congestion mo: rapidly and lessens cro ng accidents. ! The traffic cop is as modern s the motor age. Not so long ago ne one ‘hud heard of such an officer # good one he helps, but it Is the ex- |perience of trafc directors that an un | skilled traffic cop can cause more con. | gestion than he relieves. Designs painted on streets, signs of |all sorts, speed limits and parking {rules are all developments brought {about by the new order. i Motor Fatalities Decrease. | It appears that these devices helping to cut down motor fatalities The peak hus passed and, although the | use of motor cars by the general pub. |lic is on the increase, !show u decrease. The ratio of fatalities (o the number | let us hope t 1917, | will of cars in operation By 1 in 1921 it was in 1823, 108 This rad her of o every biles. Grade ecrossing accidents also have passed their peuk, due to the work | of both the railroads and the traffic |directors. In 1920 there were 1,791 |fatalities: in 1921, there were 1,705 {in 1922, this had ‘risen to 1,810, and |in 1823 fi reached a peak of 2,268. This was a vear of intensive cam- | palgns preaching caution and safety |and in 1924 the number had fallen to 2,149 Punishments for reckless driving are becoming more severe and this may, perhaps, have something to do with the improvements noted. Per- haps the most curious new expedient lof the authorities to impress upon i the crime they have com- | mitted in killing pedestrians or others {has been adopted, according to re- ports, by the Tndianapolis wuthorities. | The zuilty driver will be compelled to spend an hour in the morgue with {his victim. This grim ordinance is almost certain to be held unlawful jas it transgresses the constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusnal punishmens, was 178 in 118: in 1922 it was 112 nd in 1924 only 9% » figure refers to the num tal motor car accidents out 100,000 registered Heavier Penalties. There is an increasing tendency to |impose heavier sentences on reckles: wotorists and 0 give more-actunl | prison sentences instead of fines. The I.\(m'\' is told of one gilded youth w o had a pussion for speeding. He was repeatedly arrested and fined. After many such experiences he asked the Jjudkg hefore whom he was brought it he might not be permitied to legve a blank signed check with the court so the wuthorities could fill it out and save him u trip. This is the sort of driver the judges are now putting in jail. One other interested party to this motor problem who might be men- tioned is the automobile manufac- turer himsell. 1If traffic becomes so congested that cars are of less use and if pedestrian prejudice grows to a point where the automobile is re- jgarded ax a distinct menace. rather jthan & great and useful invention, the motor manufacturer may find himself confronted with a waning business. With all these forces at work an the problem it would appear that some progress will be made in reach- ing-a solution. A Rejoinder to Mr On the To the Editor of The Star In the letter published in the Evening Star on August 13 Mr. S. Panaretoff appears to endow me with the opinion of not wanting the Greek crimes to appear before the Amer- ican public. This is erroneous. Crimes have heen committed on both sides. But it is evident that Mr. Panaretofl. aspires to monopolize the right to present the Bulgarians as the eternal victims and the Greeks as the executioners. 1 consider myself happy to have been able to certify, through Mr. Panaretoff himself, the murder of four Greeks, among whom was & woman, and have him furnish me with the name of ‘the murderer. I note with satisfaction that the lat- ter has been arrested, according to Mr. Panaretoff’s statement. I also note that in the correspond- ence of Mr. Junius Wood no mention whatever has been made of this Quadruple murder. 1 wish to point out that the facts about Tarlis, referred to by Mr. Pan- aretoff, and also in_the correspond- ence from Bulgaria, have already, for “She Starts, She Moves, She Seems To | o o) & VEAT: been brought (o the at- tention of public opinion. In commenorating again a sad anniversary they should at least add that the offieer responsible for these deeds was court-martialed and on January 13, 1925; was condemned to 15 years' hard labor. ‘I notice .that this fact has been omitted in the cor- respondence from Bulgaria. - Mr. Panaretoff delights in making a distinction® between crimes, char- acterizing as revenge those of which the Greeks are victims, and as polit- Panaretoff Macedonian Crimes leal those of which the Bulgarians are victims, and, naturally, he is only interested in the latter ones, and without realizing it he justifies the murders committed through ven- geance. In order to be agreeable to him, I beg to add that: 1. The house of Tosta Liaros To- lidis was pillaged at Dolno Vodan; 2. The Greek. Argyre Gadas, living at Zouklalna, was attacked in his home: 3. Athanase Taratas, citizen Koulaina, had his home pillaged; 4. Threatening letters were sent to the Greek merchants at Stenimacha ordering them to abandon their prop- erty and leave Bulgaria; 5. George Micharlo, Stavro Antonof and Euripldes Hadjikyriakos were brutalized in the streets of Varna by Bulgarian officers because they spoke Greek; % 6. Forced settlements of Bulgarian emigrants had been made exclusively in the home of Greek minorities in the provinces of Bourgas and Philip- popoli: 7. A bomb had heen thrown in the square of the ancient Greek Church at Bourgas, which is surrounded by Greek houses; 8. Three bombs had been thrown in the vard of the home of Nicoglou Brothers at Sofia. These erimes were also reported to the council of the League of Nations in January of this yvear nd up to that time none of the participants of -these crimes had been. arrested or apprehended. As a last fact | am adding the of If he is| are | futal accidents | 0 this figure had dropped to 119;, {are asking ey automo- | what | that | raw o 1925—PART Blind Man’s Buff in Diplomacy By Herbert Adams Gibbons, A hopeful_sign of the times is the announcement. that the new Walter Hines Piage School of International Relations, soon to be opened as a d partment “of Johns Hapkins Univer- sity, 13 going in.for research work on the same basis and in the same spirit as the other graduate schools that have made Johns Hopkins famous. There will be frank round-table dis- cussions of the economic causes of wars, and the maladies from which the world suffers, unrest, competitive armaments, hatred, are going to be cold-bloodedly examined in clinics, Scientific and unprejudiced han- dling of the problems of foreign rela- tions has never yet heen attempted in an American university. Blas and and bile, lack of balance, the influence of the subjective mind, havesheen only too apparent in the teaching of co- temporary history in our higher in- stitutions of learning, and the books that they have written show that many college professors make the study of international relations a game of blind man's buff. Bandaging their eyes so that they will not have to aee the causes that give rise to the problems they discuss. these gentle- men grope out into the dark, and what comes under their hand thev put in the seat of honor. Hence we have secondary or minor causes of friction among nations featured and exhaustively examined. Vital issues are passed over in silence. At Williamstown Conference. Iach year at the Williamstown conference we have seen the game of blind man's buff delightfully played, but it has never been maore strikingly illustrated than this Summer in the bland advice given to Italy to control her birth rate. A Fascist Senator had given a powerful expose of Italy's in- ternational outlook, indicating the causes of confiict with other powers. Population was bearing down on food supply; emigration to the United States was cut to virtually nothing; Italy could find a certain measure of relief elsewhere, especially in North- ern Africa, close to her own shores «nd in her own seas; but she could not brook the thought of losing to Italian nationhood and culture these emigrants whom France was trying to Gallicize, aithough. in the case of Tunis and Morocco. France was sim- ply the protecting power and not the owner of these former provinces of the remedy was for the Italian gov- fessor answered in great detail that the remedy was for the ltalian gov- ernment 1o induce the methers of ltaly to have less children. So ever: one at Williamstown excitedly cem- menced to talk birth contrel, and the Italian’s solemn warning was wasted. Is & Williamstown audience like the Athenians who faced Paul on Mars Hill? Wants Pla When Tualy in the Sun. s in the clinic at ! Baltimore, und an American doctor of international relations proposes birth ontrol as the solution of her malady at some other doctor speak up and say that (1) the proposition Is absurd, because (a) Italy to do something ix forbidden by law in o nd (b) Ialy is a Catholic ¢ and the church definitely forbids Prof. Bust suggests: and (2) the Italian race, being like other races. notably our own. is not seeking a means of bare subsistance but Is dreaming of a place in the sun —as Germany dreamed: and is still dreaming, and as Japan Is dreaming. The same question came up at Ha- wali recently, and the Americans had nothing to They immediately raised other minor issues as smoke screens, just as Prof. East did at Williamstown, and went on with futile discussion. The disease from which Japan, like Germany and Italy, is suffering, and which will inevitably lead to war unless we apply the remedy, was ignored. When we get through our games of blind man’s buff and take the band- ages from our eves we cannot fall to put our hands on the underlying ause of wars which no League of Nations, under existing conditions and codification of international law, can reach. The world's colonizing areas, materials, and markets are un. equally distributed. Great Britain all over the world and France and the United States in large parts of the world enjoving advantages dened to othey nations. Disaster or Wa Their people have ng need of birth control, and do not have to emigrate and lose their nationality or language. un try that | own coun- | greatly Their manufacturers have free access to most of the world's raw materials and markets. Thelr banks amd mer- chant marine and export houses oper ate under their own flag and their own laws. It is not humen nature for other powerful nations to accept this state of affairs indefinitely. To change the existing world status quo they will use the same means that we used in the past to arrive at our present position—war, At Johns Hopkins these facts will be established, and then it is hoped| that we shall see clearly the alterna- tives; finding a wayv to let others share what we enjoy on equal terms, or maintaining a large army and vy to defend our privileged posi- tion. (Covyright. 1925.) ———— Values le_l!dle The building of big estates by mil- lionaires appears a good way for them to get rid of some of their superfiuous wealth, judging from the manner these estates dwindle in value when put on she market. There have been numerous examples of this, the sale of the half-million-dollar Lambert es- tate in this city being one. The latest, however, 18 that of the estate of the late Willlam K. Vanderbilt, known as ldlehour, on Long Island, Wwhich is said to have cost over $7,000, 000. The 900-acre estate, which had passed into the hands of an organiza- Big En;le tion which proposed to develep it into- a country club, was sold the other day under foreclosure proceedings - for $528.000._Paterson_Morning Call. murder of M. Nicolaidis at Stanimaka in_Bulgaria a fortnight ago. I hope Mr. Panaretoff’s curiosity will - be satisfied and your readers will appreciate that it was not just a whim on my part when I said that. I wished to refrain from citing any further atrocitie: Mr. Panaretoff forgets that in 1906 tens of thousands of Greeks, in the midst of peace and without any rea- son, weré expelled from Bulgaria and deprived of their property. And to quote Mr. Panaretofl’s own words, I am sure your readers are not so simple-minded as to attach much importance to the way things are presented to them. My object was to prove that it was a poor policy to try to influence publie opinfon by presenting to it only one side of the question. I succeeded, with the help of Mr. Panaretoff, to show that the Greeks are murdered and ill-treated in Bulgaria. And 1 continue to believe that in- stead of desiring to perpetrate hatred and - transport - quarrels - to another country it would be much better 1o seek the means to avold them in th tuture. ; 3 % SOTBRIOS NICHOLBON. . MEN AND BY ROBERT That grand old battler, the United States Senate, may occasionally be down, but it is never out. One heard a short time ago that in the grand reorganization of the prohibition en- forcement machinery of the Gavern- ment politics was ta be adjourned, sine die. The Treasury Department, and Gen. Lincoln C. Andrews, dry generalissimo and admiralissimo, were 1o brook neither interference noi dictation from any source which might be even quasi-political. Twen- ily-two grand regional directors, to replace the politically controlled State directors, were to be appointed solely because of the look in their eagle eves, or the red blood of courage which coursed in their veins, or the clean, clear cut of their jibs. It was to be almost a sine qua non that the new directors must not even know a United States Senator by name. Party workers were to be barred and if the applicant had never registered or voted or enrolled in a political ‘machine” so much the better. The dear old United States Senate, which always is butting into Federal | appointrients, was to ke given a solar | plexus blow, or a clip on the point of | the jaw, or an uppercut back of the| ear. It was going to be something terrible. Senators were ‘not to go| running around the Treasury building and the new directors would owe no alleglance to any senatorial person or| thing. | The Senate was down at last. But was it out? Oh, no, The referee h: not even begun the count of 10 befor the Senate was on its feel and had rushed into a clinch with its new challengers from behind the big granite plllars at Fifteenth street and Pennsylvanla avenue. The struggle was short and fierce. At the finish the old battler from the north wing of Capitol Hill once more was returned the winner. The Treasury and the prohibition general- issimo threw the towel into the ring and tossed the sponge in the air. “We'll be good; we'll be good,” the; cried And so today, director’s qualifications scanned, the Senators interested In the divisional territory are called in consultation and their wishes in the matter are to be the deciding factor as to whether the candidate is accept- ed or rejected. The Senators are even naming the applicants for examina- tion. The Senate can be a mean oppo-| nent. The Senate can refuse to con firm executive appointments. It Is| only in theory that the three con-| stitutional branches of the Govern-| ment are entirely separate and apart. | The 0ld Senate can wallop a prospec- | tive judge of the Supreme Court just| as it can wallop & presidential selec- tion for a cabinet portfolio. It not only can but does—on occasion. The Senate ulso can sit down rather squarely on the appropriations to be made for certain hureaus. In fagt. | under the rulex. even one disgruntled | as each divisional are heing | Court of the United | ington not AFFAIRS 7. SMALL. Senator can play hob with an entire Government bureau. Senator Johnson of California re cently was not consulted by President Caolidge concerning the appointment of a Federal judge to sit at San Fran eisco. Confirmation of this judee has been held up. Senator Hiram has d he is persona non grata to him Therefore he will continue to fight the nomination—and probably success fully, for Senators havea way of stick ing together on such things. It ix all very well to decry and deplore the United States Senate, but it is rather unsafe to count it out. * ko % The year-old controversy to who won the war is about to be settied at last. An attractive voung lady of Milwaukee was vecently a visitor iz Washington. In ,418 she had been a war worker, had given up the com forts of the old homestead by Lake Michigan and had domiciled herself with another patriotic girl in a hot and stuffy room just under a blister ing tin roof. On her visit to Washington the ex- war worker rIiurally wanted o sed the scene of her bellicose endeavors. Her soul was stirred to the call of patviotism. She had taken the civil | service examination and passed Al here's won “Ah." she exclaimed old place; there's where I war.’ She Bureau “Yes I did the The was gauing at the Weather sir,” she added: “that is where my war work. Some of the other girls were inclined to smile a1 me. They were working in the War Department or Navy Department But I won the v What could have been more important than 1o provide the hovs with good weather, | ask vou. That's what I did. i x s An associate justice of the Supreme States was almost arrested for housebreaking in Wash %0 very long ago. No wonder 4 national crime commission has been organized. This particulas Justice has but recently arrived in the Capital. With a young real estate agent he had gone io look at u fur nished house. The two entered with the proper keys, looked about the first floor for a few minutes znd then the agent went below to turn on the electric switch. Standing alone in t} upper hall, the dignified judge found himself confronted by four big private “‘bulis, all demanding at once to know what the unoffending jurist meant and asking further as to all his accomplices It seems the house again: burglars. a little the owner had neglected to the aforesaid young agent. When the owner on the telephone by the astonished detectives. he thought it was, all a very great joke. Maybe if that owner ever gets before the Supreme Court he will find & new brand of humor awaiting him (Covsright. 1 was wired fact which to mention real estate was called Fifty Years Ago In The Star Half g century ago Washington was stirred by the arrest of @ ‘Treasury clerk and two citizens of the . Capital for the | Local Police Solve pore from the Treasury Crime. cash room of the Treasury on the 2d of June, 1875, more than two months earlier, of a package of money of the value of $47,097.65, mostly in $500 bills. The Secret Service of the Treasury had net been able to solve the mystery of the disappearance of this money, but members of the ‘Washington detective force traced the thieves and arrested them. Most of the money was recovered. The case naturally aroused keen interest, es- pecially in view of the fact that it was the Distriet’s police force that solved the crime. The Star of August 10, 1574, says “The statement put forth by the| Secret Service force of the Freasury | relative to the late arrests of parties | charged with the robbery of $47,000 from the Treasury comes rather late. | The statement intimates that the ar-| rest was somewhat premature, and | embraces almost daily reports to Chief | Washburn” (of the secret service) “from members of his force, who had Halleck” (the Treasury clerk) “‘under surveillance from the Tth of New York by Messrs. McDevitt and McElfresh of this city. The reason given by Mr. Washburn's men for the non-arrest of Halleck was their failure to obtaln anything llke satisfactory legal evidence of his implication in the robbery. In this very important particular, however, it must be ad- mitted that the local detectives got considerably the start of the Treasury people, since it is quite unitkely that the arrests would have been made at the time they were made without con- clusive evidence, to them, of the gullt of the parties apprehended. The offi- cers making the arrests had had al- together too much expérience in their peculiar line of business to act deci- sively in similar cases without evi- dence which would, in their opinion, stand any legal test to which it might be subjected. At any rate, subsequent events proved the wisdom of the ar- rests at the time they were made, as there is scarce room to doubt that the gullty parties are in custody. We are inclined to believe that Mr. Washburn made a mistake when he declined to invoke the ald of our local detectives in unmasking the robbers." A E f * * Washington's street railway system has been developed largely in imita- tion of those of other cities Horse cars were not established Open Cars nere until after they had been operated elsewhere. Urged. 770" open car. #o com: fortable for car riders in this climate in Summer, came from an out-of-town example. In The §t‘r of August 11, 1875, is the following: ‘Why do not some of our enter- prising street railway directors put open cars on their lines during the Symmer as is done in Brooklyn and other cities? The expense of such cars ought to be considerably less than that of the sweatboxes in ordinary use, and once purchased they could run for vears, They are certainly far preferable to the Inclosed cars in warm weather, and, as usually con- structed, will carry. twice as many passengers. Besides this, everybody is sure to get a seat, as there is no standing room in the car. Where they have been tried they have always run crowded, while the closed cars on the same lines have been compara- tively empty. Imost any one would be willing to wait 10 or 15 minutes or walk a couple of squares for the satisfaction of securing a comfortable ride. Which of our street railway companies will move first In this mat- ter? By common consent, with its wide and well paved streeis and ave- nues, its numerous parks, its abun- dance -of shade trees and its magnificent public buildings, Wash- ington is conceded to he the finest city in the Union. It ought not to be behind-hand in any of the modern conveniences possessed by many other cities, and open cars which would enable strangers and citi- zens to get a fair view of the land- scape about them would be well patronized.’ | June| aid often enough until the time of his apprehension in | This and That By Charles E. Tracewell. Jack Spratt started off seross v to call on his little dog friend Most people have heard of ¢ cit frienaships, few perhaps, have ever seen one in operation Snooks is very small rrier, a sort of Airedale-looking dog on a re duced scale, with black coat, large ears and very eves. She has one consuming interest in lite, and that is roaring at the lamp- lighter every evening when he comes through the alley. Her bark is entirely out of all pro portion to her size, enough to make any lighter of lamps tremble in his boots, except that this particular fel- low long ago got over being afraid of this dog. How can any one be scared of a dog that wags its tail while it barks? *x % ¥ Jack Spratt, the came 1o the fence around Snooks’ yard. He hopped to the top rail with the easy grace of his tribe. Once there, he balanced himseif with his white nose poking over into the vard, his water. melon-striped body along the bar, his long tail waving gracefully east lthough trusting fuly in friend, Jack believed that caution the better part of valor, as has been He gave Snooks nox n and big brown browf cat, his a mean look. Snooks, for her name. Very few know that the word “snook” means lo sneak, being de rived from the same middle English word, “'snooken,” from which we gei “snoop.” commonly used. Now the word “snoken’ meant to sniff. that being the original meaning of both “snook” and *snoop'. A Snooks, in her turn, waggled nose at Jack. The cat cautiously let himeelf down into the yard, at the same time keeping a wary eve on the small_dog. about his size Jack sidled over to the dog's dish, still containing some bits of meal and proceeded to sample the left overs. Finding a bit to his huddled down in the grass, and turned his head over on the right side, in the regular cat way. Then he proceeded to close his eyes. while de vouring the meat with many a hearty animal noise. All this Snooks watched from a feet, in a sort of detached way, as if not particularly interested in cats or this cat. Perhaps ~ Snooks was thinking. “Look at that hog! Why, he had a half pound of beefsteak, not 15 min- utes ago, followed by a bowl of real cream. That Jack Spratt ain't a cat —he’'s a hog, that what he is.”” E Not minding these strictures in the least, Jack proceeded to lick up the last crumb of the dog's dinner, after which he leisurely licked his chops Then he started to wash his face. The dog, casting glances neither to the right nor left of her, ambled down the path to the garage, and there stretched herself out, waiting for her favorite enemy, the lamplighter. By this time Spratt was com mencing on his left ear. Lopping out that red tongue, he bathed his paw in sallva, then passed it up over his ear. This he repeated time and again, ‘At last he achieved his objective, turning his ear wrong side out. This plasters the member flat to the side of the head, making & very comical looking cat, indeed. Jack washed the ear vigorously, until it suddenly turned right side out, after which he devoted a similar amount of time and saliva to the right ear, with a similar result. His white shirt front gleamed in the gathering dusk. He looked down the path at his little dog friend. She was sniffing suspiciously up the alley The lamplighter was on his way! “Well, good-bye, Snooks, ole gal.” meowed Spratt, as he sprang lightly over the fence for home. ——— A Racdonahia Wik, From the Ohio Stats Journal, We often wish some one would pull our flexible tariff down for a change her part, lived up to liking, Spratt instead of up, if only to see whether it would werk all right.