Evening Star Newspaper, November 23, 1925, Page 6

6 THE EVEN NG STAR, WASHINGTON, THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C MONDAY.....November 23, 1925 THEODORE W. NOYES...E B . 11th St a New York Offic Chicazo Offiee Buropean Office Pennevivania Ave 170 Fast 42nd St. Tower Build 14 Regent St.. 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Mr. Cleveland, in the method of opera- ient ships Daiton’s report recognizes, ap- that a direct Government to shipping is not to be ex- pected at this time. He urge fore, that every effort be made to bring the operation of the Government fleet to the highest te of efficiency, so reduced while the ican commerce and the nse may still be met ad- The greater the reduction the greater the possibility and probability of placing the ship fnes in pri American hands for continued continuous operation an end which is contemplated in the present merchant marine act, passed by Cc ce the close of the World War. One of the proposals made by Mr. Dalton to wout this greater efficiency economy the com. plete separation of the Fleet Corpora- enda G rey cently study Dalton, was « by of from a over th tion of the Gover Mr. parent subsidy neutral controversy st that costs may be needs of Am nattonal def equately in costs an bring and is tion and the Shipping Board, with the cperation of the ships entirely in the hands of the former, and the latte: to continue function -as a semi Jjudicial and regulatory body, as it was originally intended to be. He proposes that the present con- tract between the Government and the operators of the ships should be 80 amended that the operators shall become more personally interested in the profits and losses of the ships they handle. Under the present con- tract the Government pays all the losses and at the same time guaran- tees the operators a commission on all the business carried to and from this country. In his proposal that the Fleet Cor- poration be separated from the Ship- ping Board and set up as an inde- pendent operating agency, under the authority, however, of the President of the United States, the President A to a also | wouta appotnt the prestdent of the | Fleet Corporation under the proposed {plan and the latter would be presi- dent of a board of directors and chief executive of the The board of directors, he suggests, should he composed of the Secretaries of War, Navy and Commerce and the Postmaster General, augmented pos sibly by three persons representing the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts. Mr. Dalton would utilize the close contact of the Department of Com- merce in matters international trade. Mr. upon corporation. of Dalton lays particular stre the need of economy and effi in dealing with the Govern- ment merchant fleet, and it is to that particularly recommends the separation of the Fleet Corporation and the Shipping Board and their functions of operation and regulation, respectively. President Coolidge, it is expected will give careful consideration to the of his special investigator in submitting recommendations to Con- gress regarding the merchant marine. The of Mr. Dalton that | the three coasts be given representa | tion on the proposed board of direc | tors of the Fleet Corporation is new and should meet effectually the criti m that under more unified control interests of the various sections might at times be overlooked. ciency end he report gestion e e | The French Crisis. France has reached a serious crisis A coalition supported of divergent small groups in the Chamber of Deputies, has been defeated on its finance measure, designed to stabilize provide means obligations soon in finance and politics ministry, for time by precariously a composite the for funding | to mature. An th { created, and unhappily with no assur- ince of a parliamentary support for \ ministry organized to carry on the administration and to propose definite and to of emergen ! currency the v is fiscal measures. But there is basis for belief that the emergency will be met and that this is, like many another in the of the French republic. will be surmounted. The parliamen tary situation will remain unchanged for the present. Not until an election | is held can there be any re of parties. I t even a itive yporting majority or enduring But t 10t g0 administration leg - measures can gnment h elec | tion we ministry st bloc of parties tion ca bankr inists, thus h po tructive up a ident patch and meet th it wil nment mmediate emersenc subject ersal at him 1lconte i In causes an France, “appeal to the ¢ in h the Ch veve of Depusies is d for a term of four years, and sslon cannot be dissolved by the ve with the of The present Chamber was cted 1924 and has, three years to serve, Were there in France two com pactly defined political parties, as in this country, or even three parties, as in England, there would be fewer sterfal overturns and political With the Chamber of Depu- however, divided into ten or twelve groups, coherence of policy is difficult to secure, virtually impossi- ble. Hence the constant shifting of responsibility. s America is the richest country on carth; so rich, In fact, that it can oc- casionally buy a little gold brick or a package of green goods and never really miss the money. As a matter of moral example, however, it is re. garded as desirable for Uncle Sam to upon a recognition of the standards of business chliga- consent : Senate. in insist ethical tion. o The Farm Problem. Senator Capper of Kansas comes to Washington imbued with the feeling that, while conditions have materially improved for the farmers of the great Middle West and West, something must still be done to place agriculture on an economic parity with industry and labor in this country. He scents a battle against the protective tariff unless the Republican Congress turns its attention to a solution of the problem which continues to face the producers of the great staple crops of this country. The Democrats are al- ready summoning the farmers to the fray, urging them to abandon the Re- publican party, which, they say, and a1y correctly, is responsible for the protective tariff. Either the protective tariff can be made a real benefit to the farmers— it already benefits many of them—or it cannot. Those who oppose the pro- tective tariff insist that the price of grains and other staple farm products is made not in American markets, but in Liverpool and London. Of what use, they contend, is the protective tariff to American producers of these crops, particularly in view of the fact that there is always a surplus of these staples which must be sold abroad. If this surplus is not sold abroad, then the American market is glutted and prices are forced down here. If the tariff wall is to be used as a real means of defense for American producers of these staple crops, then therefore, | it must be raised so high that similar foreign products cannot be brought into this country in competition with American. The surplus of the Amerl can crops, after the requirements of the domestic market have been met, must be sold abroad at the prices pre vailing outside of the United States, presumably at a lower rate than these products bring in America. The galn made by the farmers on the part of their crops sold in this country would losses which they sustained in their sales abroad.- It has been charged by opponents of the protective tariff that manufacturers of steel and other prod ucts in America have sold these s products at lower prices to foreign buyers than {n the American market and that they have been enabled to give foreign consumers better than they give American. But it is apparent that unless they had been able to sell at higher prices in the domestic market they would not have been able to produce or to sell a sur- plus abroad or to keep their factories and mills operating at full time. There seems to be no way of pre venting a production of surplus agri cultural products in this country. If a crop brings high prices one vear it is to be expected that the next year the farmers will plant a greater acre- age. To prevent such a surplus prob ably would be a disaster for some other countries which rely upon Amer ica for foudstuffs. The fundamental fore, make some prov marketing this arplus, and same time keep the prices of the domestic market high enough to give the farmers fair return f their investment and labor. Some of the members of Congress vored the establishment of a Govern ment export corpo in the McNary-Haugen bill, would take the surplus and hold them for sale, so that prices in the domestic market might be higher. But the other there is a sincere desire to keep Government out prices there on for at the ained in problem, is to a have fa ion, as provided which over, crops s0 the on of or of the business ng and selling farm produc other price fixing to, in this country. The surplus farm products provide which must me there will ricultural depressioon en frowned upon, a real {ir dar problem possible, r of a or always | o It is usual fol { express a belief | man nature remains as it is wa | inevitable. This or profes | attitude t th nope that the standards and ideals « | human nature will advance as ¢ a military that expe so long & hore less sional 1 prevent | tion pre religion n Doyle aviating colonel a4 ressed When phia exac Smedley Butl town ks a t on a waiters threat New Year eve. 1 is careful the onut-of. decide by mail. en a wa oss the big town by and orde! vers ma e Soviet Russia undertook to | the world only to disc ! reform | issue. i r——— | Florida has established herself in historic regard as the land of sunshine and salesmanship. ———— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A Brave Outsider. In old Philadelphy, a gallant marine | Appeared with a mission most high, To make the town morals all pure and serene As those of the Heavenly sky. But the old town politely remarked, “Do not shove! We want to stay where we are at. We're famed as the City of Brotherly Love. You do not belong to our Frat.” Spellbinding. “Do you 'know how to sway public opinion”” “I once thought T knew,” answered | Senator Sorghum, *but T now find my- self guessing what public opinion may be at the immediate moment so that I in a loud tone of voice.” Going Still Further. The world will soon be so polite That none will dare to start a fight. Next we'll proceed our ways to cease Ot killing folks in time of peace. Jud Tunkins says a dog is his mas- ter's faithful and admiring friend, which goes to show that canines may very intelligent judges of human na- ture. No Serious Objection, “What is your opinion of bobbed hair?” “It does no harm,” answered Mr. Meekton. “If Henrietta insists on wearing short skirts, short hair isn't going to make her look any funnier.” Modern Polonius. If you would find a station fit, Your high-brow aspirations quit. Beware the Greek and Latin lore Which may define you as a bore. Wear such apparel as you choose, But see that you have proper shoes As you display true social pep And learn to do the Charleston step. . “Dar 'pears to be moral benefit in de game of golf,” said Uncle Eben. ‘A golf course is one place where even de most hard-headed person can't lallus have his own way.” .- v have to offset, and more than offset. | hand can be on the safe side and say ‘ves' | have lovely dispositions without being | “Will you try to induce the Tele- phone Company to tell you what time it is?" Templeton Jones called to his wife. “They answer oom. tor the second barometer. Why not?” won't tell you, Templeton,” a4 Mrs. Jones, from the living Jones was up in his “observ s he called the small room on floor where he had his he called. “They used to. “Don’t you nounced some would have to seribers the tin umount of tin reason as that? Well,” replied Jone tral and ask f how it is possible to discover the exact time of day in Washington, D. There was some petulance in Jones' voice. Now that he stopped to think bhout it, he remember that the Teleph Company had advertised the discontinuance of the time-telling servic Too many instead at t remember they an time ago that they liscontinue giving sub on account of the it took, or some such “call up Cen she can tell you lazy women king up on the Jones had con but he I wanted lling up ntel ited otten the an- e clock, 1t the time hat. Now time hir other Mrs. Jor to the receiver had a ello girls Telephone girls, not much different from other Sometimes the way a subseriber or am i “rubs them the wrong wiy there is a world of iman ‘entral, can you me out the correct time es test Mrs. J will be to glance w to know ‘it was a horse of s the saying is. downstairs, sauntered with her best saunter weet voice, one that the generally he self, color,” a liked it known, are folks 15k how to sked vole find Information,” re ir, with some ch of ice in it Jones—and M 1" on line find out what he “Call ¥ n, or the dhsery Informat Mrs, 1 her, a has | re THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. D. C, MOXDAY, NOVEMBER 2: 1925. Lord, T could go out and buy a clock by this time.” T will try the Naval Observatory was all Mrs. Jones said. Calmly, the wife of the man up- stairs fingered the telephone book “Natlonal ional—National—" she read on, through the list of “National® this and that. Ah! hel s—Naval Observa- tory, Thirty-fourth and Massachusetts wvenue northwest, West 1634. the fourth time Mrs. receiver from the she pleaded, with ve me \West 1634." Bror-rorr “Hello, Naval Observatory.’ Is this the Naval Observatory?" Yes, this is the Naval Obs Jones hook infinite n you tell me the correct time 01 p.m.,” answered the voice. Thank you!" Hanging up the Jones triumphantly Mrs. stair- telephone, faced the 1 minute after 9 my watch was slow,” abovestairs. Tt cer- {tainly took vou long enough to find out.” | “Well, suppose you come down and try it.’ Templeton Jones, with the correct his pocket, was pleasantly ex- pansive, when he arrived in the living | “Have you ever noticed,” he asked | nis wife, “how big firms tend to ¢ down on privileges when they bec hug ul | H thir of telling the criber wants it it. The Teleph; Company poss know what exigency | exists when 2 man calls up te know | the exact tin | “I remember the time when they always told you just what time | was, ‘and they were glad to do it, Loo. | course, perhaps it aid t | time t it seems to me that it wis A It hen a know too much d have been told th ke you rations, and use Information Naval Observ- in that chai the exi 2 ended e ne back, the every month > father of the hen e the drug sto away t one table: surope S By Getting at Primal Cause BY FRANK H. SIMONDS, to stay home | wer at last that | its doctrines constituted merely a local | be the | to serve ce if it was not for hi al to understand Ev ditions The subm cerned ation British - s, with peace than the use of alcok The submarine isolation and _immunity, arly brought ruin to F reatest war in her hist peril was just surm 1s the threat submarine. New developments bestow upon it the complete ss it nearly had. ag! in the deadl there the m deadl mted implic { All British effort since the war has been directed at the abolition of the submarine, not as a detail in a_cam paign for peace, but in an attempt to restore to Britain the supreme ad vantage she used to enjoy in war namely immunity, security insured by a fleet which not alone protected her shores from invasion but insured her food supply. In reality the British mpaign against the submarine is a war not a peace operation. It is to restore the conditions under which in war Britain would be safe. So much for the submarine circum- Was ar of hington in the v disclosed during the conference. The British | position of the inhabitants a city walled by stone and impr able to attack while the enemy uses bows and yarrows but vulnerable when artillery |arriv They abolish the use of ar- tillery as the British would forbid the use of the submarine. ek illustrates ension of 1ce in nts. But the whole episode Senator Borah's misapp what has actually been taking Europe and what Locarno repre Having for a brief moment played with the more or less American idea of peace insured by the prohibition of war and the creation of the leazue on the basis on which President Wil- son desired to establish it, Europe has abandoned this experiment as hope- less. It has perceived that war can be prevented only by force or by the com- position of the difficulties which cause war. It has perceived also that force is a variable element and that there- fore peace created by force must be impermanent and instable. Peace be- tween France and Germany, for ex- ample, might temporarily be insured by the preservation of large garrisons on the Rhine, but the grievance thus created would in the end generate force superior to that of restraint and we should have an explosion. Thus while Senator Borah and many other Americans have been sin- cerely advocating peace by the prohi- bition of war, Kuropeans have been working upon the principle that war is only one of the last manifestations of a disease, that to deal with this di ease you have to deal with causes, not the consequences. Thus Europe has, for example, reasoned that mere- ly to inhibit war would not prevent a Franco-German conflict. To pre- vent this war, which is a peril, per- haps the most immediate in Europe, you have got to arrive at a settle- ment, a tolerable adjustment between stance, the fact of which was perfect- | That the guars is what relatively is that what counts Stresen her on o ind By r have been able to s mportant: | ann and and on the down and nt between | -at ns, The Li e condemned lty tive pun the member nations to keep the pea without regard to her own conception of the treaty. Locar ents an agreement between France on a_ situatic antees tance by zue of Nat fol. v erma e b y under pen nee se of war | s it was held by might have been of war if held by France. case inhibit f war was operation one natlo rather fi; resign, was prep. t to acquire ned on the possession of | Alsace-Lorraine France could bej endured by Germany. and if so, on| what conditions. At Locarno the con- | ditions were d covered, To outlaw war whi move those causes of w so strong that just many. It it X than failing to re- r which are whole nation regards | the act of prohibiting war as unjust and immoral is futile. While twenty millions of Poles were subject to three alien tyranni no international dec- laration against war could have any | Polish value, because it condemn the Poles to eternal slavery. What Europe is trying to do is to strike at the cause of war, knowing that as they are eliminated prohibition ef war becomes unnecessary or aca- demic. * ok Furope has discovered just as clearly s Senator Borah, although in a totally different way, that the league cannot keep world peace. It can administer u state of peace so long as all concerned are ready to submit the situation to peaceful means or while the great powers are sufficlently united to give to the league the power and prestige of their support. That is why the re- cent Greco-Bulgarian mess had no ser(n\ffi consequences and the league functioned admirably. But, conversely, it is why the league failed half a dozen times, A peaceful Europe, and that is what we have now, is, with utmost caution and deiiberation, knowing the past difficulties caused by undue E seeking to approach the proh- lem of peace by the elimination of the causes of conflict which exist and cannot be abolished by any paper fiat against war. One day, perhaps, in the distant future, when the several European states have accepted an adjustment of their present griev- ances, it may be possible to bring all to a joyful common resignation of war, but in reality such a resignation will be no more than the acknowl- edzment that causes for war have been eliminated. As long as this is a major griev- ance in Europe, affecting any people, big or little, dividing two nations, a prohibition of war is as futile as a congressional law against typhoid. You have to attack not the symptoms of the disease but the sources of con- tagion—and war is no more than a symptom of a disease. Mr. Wilson wanted to arrive at peace by a sud- den spiritual regeneration, Europe is striving to arrive at peace by a { common good to w | that. Admiral Sims’ Criticism Of Officers Unjustified. To the Editor of The Star The times seem out of joint. Army and Navy officers of high rank seeking to outdo each other in making gt couched in abrupt and harsh terms, nst their brother of ficers and the services in which thei lives have been passed. Col. Mitchell’s case is before an Army court, and the court will settle it. But my old friend, Admiral Sims, has broken into the limelight in the most startling and dramatic manne by a statement that seven of the ad mirals on the active list are unedu cated and unfit to command. This statement reflects on the en tire list of als, because he names only one of the seven Will you permit one who has known ind loved the Navy longer than Ad miral Sims to say something in reply” us is a big man physically and ally, he has done good work for the Nuvy and rendered exceptional service to the country, but he has not received thé promotion that was due to him; perhaps this has left I ittle sore, and inclined to tuke ndiced views. cory seen ral has tak al War na he i fit to command this theory, he na chief of operatior demolish agut, Dew all proved the! He are ve charges, s to be that unle n a year's course olleze and uneducated s Admi one of the sev theory, make his enémies ison ne neither did F his Collexe 10 demand eisewhere for fiv 1 once im that engraved rinwright well that they r condemn the ser » not spend mor condemn i States, who the Congress t ons and the are ¢ r propriz ROBERT M. THOMPSON. ————— Police Are Justified In Use of Firearms no matter han see op axpect cs and encountered s gh-powerad 1 heavy a rhaps they expect the poli e the criminals by sprinkling salt thelr ta It was desmed fusti hle to ask hundreds of thousands of fhe best of America’s vou trenches and to die by the s that wrong should rope. But it now pears that wa e to let the erimi 1 element walk aw: because “somehody T ht in a mobile? » live “landers tens of t not triumph in ! fwht eot shot” If t move is made to stop them. I can see no sound reason for expect ing a man who risks his lif every day in supnort lave and er for the it until he has a or a knife slipped e he malkes a nd. which is bullet through } hetween i move to defe 1self mora to the point, if 1 am called to serve jury and the evidence shows that the person shot by a pol; man had a eriminal record or was gaged in an occupation rttled course of actlon in deflance of aw T intend to resolve all doubts in favor of the policeman. And that's FRANK G. CAMPBELL. ———— Safe Assumption. 1 on a From the Indianapolis Star The motorist who can't see the traf- fic signal for the snow would do well to_assume that it sa meticulously restricted operation in sanitation. It is precisely the same misappre- hension which mars Senator Borah's honest and earnest efforts to forward the cause of disarmament. Again he arms as the menace and would cike them from the hands. Yet it is on the morrow of Locarno that Paris dispatches tell us that the French are now ready to reduce mili- tary service from a year and a half to one year. So much Locarno reduces the military value of the danger they have maintained their army to face. 1f tomorrow the danger be further re- duced the army will grow smaller also. ok % ok The huge armies of Europe in 1914 were themselves one sign of the great fear, distrust, jealousy which existed. Every onc was afraid and every one was armed. but back of the fear of armies lay the fundamental fear of the purpose and designs of other countries. The armies were one of the grave consequences of the state of mind, their existence brought ob- vious and real perils, but they were not a cause in themselves but a symp- tom; the cure did not lie and could not lie in abolishing them, first be- cause it was imposible while the spirit remained, and, second, could the spirit be_modified they would disappear. No people in the world are more honestly or more earnestly working for peace than the British. but the submarine incident has no relation to peace but discloses natural fear that in a new war this weapon would prove more deadly than in the last. There- fore to make this agitation a basis for a larger campalgn against war is quite irrational. (Copyright. 1028.) v with the town | ANSWER BY FREDERIC Q. In the Government Purk at Crater Lake a figure on the side of as “The Lady the made it7—J. B. I A. The National Park Service that in 1917 the Un gineers we tioned | camp in « Lake Stationed them surgeon Russell diana chiseled the I of a rock chosen pose. The W fore his work Bush left the park with his task N tional Woods st Q. What plaving th A. D, These or buss How R ten fi Q grown? vating popeorn Q. When : Mathewson die”- A. Christy Ma anac Lake, N. Y 11 a.m., of tuberey dent, hewson October lar pneum made durin the ing this p boby rep esents 3.49" poun Is the use o | | | la he sixth ye TO QUESTIONS > J. HASKIN. BY FREDERI( WILLIAM WILE | erally ind among women wives become fracas were hu in the day inder H that hand o | hands h it - wh has acquire bhecause of leil case. T that_half a mirals | educated™ | sentment in the Navy, especilly some of Sims' war-time “A Leonard! A Leonard! dom for a Leon the War Departmy King Richard III's lizht o events observers say that if th had wo-fisted, one-armed 1 like Maj. Henry Leonard, U i retired, to function as judze at the Mitchell court-m recent painful gone unrecorded the pinch-hitter the Nav the breach the other advocate at the Shen to supersede Capt ar after Leonard, Washington, D. C., joined the Corps in 1899 he had his le shot off in action durin rebellion in China. But a leatherneck until his tirement in 1911. When War broke out, despite physical ability, Leonard sought active serv ice and was commissioned as a morale officer among our forces in the Eu ropean battle zone on land and sea Being minus an arm doesn’'t partic larly bother Leonard. He can almost anything a twoarmed man can do, including the driving a high-powered al staff threw as h_inquiry automobile. | Ao e | Representative Meyer Jacobstein Democrat, of the Rochester, N. Y. district, which recently tried to con- | vert him from a_Congressman into mayor, is house huntinz in Washin, ton. The other da Coolidge to designate Hoover as set tler of the coal strike. The Congress man reminded of that while in specting an apartment in the Capital The landlord was anxious to do bu ness with Jacobstein and, as a special argument, assured him that was plenty of coal in the bui bins - to keep tenants warm Winter. * * Fifth avenue had one of the rudest shocks in its luxurious existence when it learned, last week, that Mrs, Cool- idge was going to spend her afte: noon in New York looking at old fu niture at the Metropolitan Museum instead of new clothes in the shops. | The whole retail organism of the metropolis, from proprietors to bob- | bed-haired saleswomen, was “set” for | the Fi Lady of the land. They o ~ nequivoc > ‘World Cour ce on foreisn tor on ing within the par I will promise with court that in wa flict with the ract the party made with the people.” has o the Americs i eral, Robert Peet Skinner making his annual lea visit to Washi n and States. No n fore officer of any rank has ever tinuous oad th President McKinley, who cot e is, 1S Unitedt service achieved in hi knew as a u Skinner his of Americ 1807, Since span of 28 ed, st London_and mong his years as a cor 4 kinner has rendered service at tl head of speclal missions Liberia and Abyssinia. Not the least effective piece of his life’s wol » says, w performed “G; xey’s pul, licity man when the hobo arn marched on \Washington early the 90s. NG cessively Paris. o i (Copyright, 1925.)