Evening Star Newspaper, June 23, 1929, Page 29

J - IS - A i t EDITORIAL SECTION he Sunday Star. Part 2—8 Pages WASHINGTON, N, £5 SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 23, 1929. REAPPORTIONMENT LINKED| WITH FARM AID AND TARIFF Special Session of Congress Illustrates Vital Lines Between Three Pieces of Legislation: WY MARK SULLIVAN. was. Every preceding nlp&ruonmmt OMETIMES an event in the day's | i 0UT, history began with, the assumps e i S Soinea’ o & o . Thus the size of the long vista of history that 1t is | grew from 65 members in 1792 to 435 :;!v so:{etlma too t:umus bes th 1011, of geccP. o SIS, 100 3 group | ™ The Claehlal siastng point o al the such a relation to each other that it is interesting to observe their unity. Both these kinds of satisfaction are illustrated by the present session of Required by Constitution. ‘The Constitution requires that a cen- sus of the United States shall be taken Formerly, duly fc p Ament.” Tn1020 » e~ e B - N i & census was % but no reapportionment was| There was this metive that Senator ent, | Gillett mentioned for ice to the made. As respects reapportionm resistanc jonment carried out last month ;hmmmnmdgmnuurnuxly ‘motive of individual. memk 0_years. For this default various reasons have and 3 said—and hi ] ] i 5 § ! i ¥ o i g B B& i i i ki ¥ i £ il k g5t i b o the Lower m(m ot ,"“ z 1 : £ i J i and | z Called 23 Wet 128 = i iz :i Hy % 8 o i | 4 i I H ! i i g g £ z i H : i ] g ] J g é_! & i L t g otas. . q“l.lk:wise. immigration is related to the protective tariff on manufacturing. Most of the aliens in the cities of .the East_were brought to America by the direct action of heads of industries, who wanted them for cheap labor. East Thrust Back. Nor does this end the historical unity n§ ul,'lelcl‘:‘l:m;' u;:rt..mm sequence of w] a LEo o Gl aisn g ouf mmeev that altens. should Dot counted, the East thrust back. i posed there should be excluded from Zh"; count the Southern Negroes who do g::mt session of tory of the past, one 5 than us a Tefrain running through the whole the current volume. “The | sessios 's deal- speeches mmlqummn going back to the attention to the unity of the | rel controversies of the sixteenth business which compose work-of the it Congress. After nearly 10 years of fallure to Srmress began last monin the work mon e Worl t. They started by |c that it is not desirable to in- s sentative Tinkham of Massachusetts | not vote—which would have reduced |pvel BY JOSEPH CAILLAUX, Pormer Premier of Prance. X BY WILLIAM HARD. MONG the men manifestly des- tined to high power in the - ate is David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania. £y He has been spending most of his time-ever since President Hoover amalnmofleetuglmmdn lling the President on one of the nt's cherished the his hborhood and when it was represented in court by his e. . That did not stop him. He began his career in politics by to be a ju elections and challenging (on the ground of non- residency) the vote of Philander C. Knox, his father’s law partner and an incumbent successively of the offices of Attorney General of the United States, Secretary of State of the United States and United States Senator. ‘That did not stop him. His State is one which is.in a-high degree controlled by empl He made his first legis] by persuading the- Legislature in the loud ‘remonstrances- from em- ployers to -enact: @ -law- -whereby em- ployers weuld -out of their own purses pay automatic. -eompensation - to em- ployes for - accidents - incurred in the course of employment.. . . ‘That_did-not stop him, - .. . Immigration Restriction. Promoted to Washington, he signalized his advent. into.the Senate by depriving Pennsylvania . employers of their prime source of cheap. labor through becoming the principal senatorial suthor of the drutl““ lc immigration restriction law of ‘That did not stop him. Spull.n{ on the floor of the Senate regarding the victory of Willlam 8. Vare George Wharton in the remarked: , constituents voted like dunder- That did not stop him. His constitu- ents re-elected him to the Senate in 1928 by & majority of almost a million, 1ngUit o 132 press in the phrase toout ’t‘hn" and feeling o-orry‘ = for it, upe- clally because of not having really meant it, he dolefully commented upon his own tongue by saying: . “Well, flnitumn'z byeehg this it would have been something else next week anyway.” N He was, of course, a soldier in the Great War. He got ready for it two years ahead of time. He was one of the fiiteniicit e s primary in Pennsylvania “e‘ llug,.ylu irked tion of President and Vice President is f members lose & certain amount of ‘electors and States having large cities will That ber is, that many members will be PFurther yet, delegates who' compose ‘The fact that | away from the rural States and given ntial nominat conventions in of its essen- | to States ha large citfes. parties are dist ited in roughly use' it ran counter to| The politie tlnl.Mb no | the same n as members of Peoples May Become Engulfed Is Civilization Now Dying? in Sloth and Ignorance, Is Claim—Rule of Science Feared JOSEPH CAILLAUX. tion both ‘of morality and of material well being. Such a definition—which grasps as nearly as possible a fleeting evilization,” which is constantly on the tongues of politicians of all of opinion, w is to be met with in a d issuing daily from the press, is not susecptible to a defini- table to ever{ one, for the 3 reason that its -meaning differs with each one who uses- it. Let us endeavor to catalogue—to classify— it. A word, frst dfldl, no more than tion can make progress is by remain- ing constantly under the influence of past ages, by living under the aegis of a long line of phantoms. I will not dwell on this. I will confine myself to 'saying that, if the teaching of those who only sterility of tho an_ecstatic contemplation True, in the decisive T present it, this applies g 'Réed_- Defies Obstacles o e\ e HE 1S ONE OF THE THREE OR FOUR GREAT ACCUMULATORS OF Pennsylvania Senator Has Met Difficulties All His Life—Refuses to Be Tied by Party DATA IN THE SENATE. original ‘organizers of the first civilian military ' training umnr at Plattsburg in 1915. In 1917 he enlisted in ‘war ril 6, the day . In July, 1917, he went to Prance as a major in the 311th Pleld Artillery. He fought in the Meuse-Argonne offensive. He re- turned to the United States, entered the Senate in 1922 and voted against the bonus for veterans. ‘That did not stop him at all. He has far more than his mlny proportion of the veteran vote of State. Veterans and- their organizations go to him as toa l&echl friend upon whose special sympathy they can confidently count. He voted .aga! the n-Fitzgerald law for the benefit of emergency offi- cers use it contained no corre- sponding benefit for privates. Cannot Forecast Vote. ‘You cannot precalculate his vote through any theory based upon his _oqnl‘l"nr profesgional or financial gins or assoclations. He was born to what might be called, with sufficient respect and without undue.awe, the purple of Pittsburgh. His great-great- grandfather was sued in the eighteenth century by George ‘ashington of Mount Vernon, Va., to determine the ownership of most of the land in what is now Wi n County, Pa. Washington lost the case. The Mr. Reed of that day won it. The jul sisted of gentlemen who, like were sitting on the land that Mr. ‘Washington claimed. The Mr.“llued o!t !hlt‘dly. &elltgel e great-great-grandfather of Bavid Alken "Reed ot Bennsylvania, became also the great-grandfather of James A. Reed of Missourl. Whatever he may have been as a man, he was |5U cantankerous as an ancestor. . David Alken Reed’s father was an eminent assoclate of the eminent metal magnates of Western Pennsylvania. He per- ori- ? was the most intimite friend of Andrew W. Mellon, who ied the metal conceal the fact thal in order to follow my meaning, both distinctions, espe- clally the second, must interpreted. u: tg:un‘ll)et as ‘rer:tmuwul men—they great majority—to whom “‘Prog- m‘ and Civilization” before releasing, 3 e control of heat, of the move- and e. Another hundred, another two hung years—what is this in the life of the nature will be a of the realisis to trust pflm-m.w. (éanunueq,op Sixth Page.) semi. ‘as that-of Less inclined than to_time, the Utol aluminum from ignominy' to ity. He counbon'tzg with Gary in 8 3 , Was to Mr. Frick in bmhmfl%nd. ship. The -boy David Aiken Reed began with aspirations—that is, he started a net per. It was a very local affair, for tion among his father’s Pitts- burgh .neighbors. He unscrupulonsly dragoohed almost all those neighbors into becoming subscribers. .| circulation of the paper % more umns. It achieved a great success in its treatment of the famous Homestead strike. Iblaoud “ut:'lk mb"t‘: numer-, ous assaults upon strikers by the guards of Mr. Pflck‘apclml mills. ~ It, accord- ingly, all across the front page, called Mr. Frick a “murderer.” That was the it edition that the paper ever had. boy editor’s father bought up the coples as fast as the boy could print them. It did not stop the boy. He was rap- idly on his way. He arrived at Prince- ton College at the age of 15. There, in continuation of his twin ties of being always both deep in study and in trouble, he threw an orange, to be arrested \for It rolled physically” struggled for it. and was away from both of grabbed .by young David. He hurled it | try new planets and be ‘very freely | 0 m orces, this ment of water, of the flow of the tides, | 15 bring the NEW "NAVAL ATTITUDE EXPECTED OF M’'DONALD Knowing America, England’s Skilled Premier Probably Will Avoid Issues Distasteful Here. BY FRANK H. SIMONDS. \EWS of -a projected visit by Ramsay M d, new Labor prime minister, to America has served to set in motion again discussion of the naval issue between the United States and Great Britain. Beyond any question, the re- turn of MacDonald to Downing Street does insure that the naval %pute will be treated on the British e in an entirely different it from that dis- closed by the ldwin cabinet. Nor is it to be questioned that British dis- gust with the blunders of the Tory gov- ernment contributed to their complete disaster in the election of May 30. MacDonald is credited with the be- lief ‘that the transformation of lo- American relations Ix‘ one of the L uence. once a pacifist, as internationalist and one of the rare British .public who know their United States well. Certain difficulties, however, do mani- uestion of physical 'glc fleets is rfi.uv&xy e ted to greater_question of the freedom -of seas. But in the present state of American public opinion and "v:hm'l:‘ ml;mtuduue uu- ere is manifest ¢ r 4y might lead not to but to still further chaos. r . Mr. MacDonald has in mind is an effort to relate the traditional view of the United States to starts with only possible war for future is a war either Eeit nialh | i tions o:'e constraint ‘to be exerted Since the United States is not a mem- the seas, like ‘all similar | Shall never g:u'nu, can be interpreted in any num- bvi of ways. What On the other hand, if it were left for the United States to decide of and for itself whether a nation had been gullty or not, then the British could have no security in advance that theis decision to support a League decision would not involve them in a controversy with an presently decide e League ver- dict was inequitable. -+ America Would Stand Off. In the nature of things the United States is not in a position to determine instantly what European nation is the aggressor in any quarrel, nor do the Gesize 15 ake part in sy’ Buropean e any pean conflict, because they believe that, whatever may be the actual precipitat~ ing cause of a new war. it will almost certainly be, like the World War, the consequence of & whole host of circum- stances born of the peculiar conditions. In case of & new European struggle we should instantly be assailed by & propaganda coming from both sides. Beyond much doubt, both the Men | so-called aggressor and the opponents would bé represented by large groups in our population. ‘The desire to keep out of a new mess would be accentu- ated by all that has happened as a consequence of our participation in the World War. In fact, our demand for an equal fleet with Britain is mfiamd np::\mour dedl: ‘:a ;n in- against g df“f an; interference with our ts. e But Mr. MacDonald’s proposal, whatever form it may take, assumes that we shall be at once concerned of- goe| CIVIL SERVICE CHARACTERIZED AS BEST IN MERIT SYSTEM BY JESSIE DELL, United States Civil Service Commissloner. T 1S common for to think and spesk of a permmll:: the Fed- clerk,” and: un:' ".us impres- creates an sion. that all who work for the Gov~ ernment are clerks. While it is true that a great many clerks are employed by the Government, :ll'p:ehuy in the postal service, it is whose work is not at all of a clerical nature. Nearly all the occupations found in private employment are also represented in the Government service —scientists, engineers and other tech- nical men and. women, many of them highly specialized—as well as all the trades and skilled occupations in the Army and Nayy factories and in the €hops, laboratories and other establish- ments maintained by the Government in all parts of the country. ‘The great army of Federal civil employes is more than.a half million. . . . Government’s Varied Duties. the mariner and warns him of on our shores. It brin S through an open window. It smashed |parts of the world to find out whether the glass of another windo onward, alighted on a table, peacefully disposed lady. A few miuutes later youn arrested for ‘“assault upon a lady. The warrant so He was haled before a squire. While zhe squire was . earnestly entering the | be thousands of miles away. in'a David stole ‘harge book young the warrant and put it into his pocket | paper money used in the mother (u!:- gm“u' the: terways. - other wa . in Pittsburgh at the | battleshi, dies found that he had | > iosests. T and uently into his trunk. cldunwunybu.qwhenyhh lovin packed his trunk end of the term and been ‘the whole evening. to explain to her such was ‘merely the hraseology nmmhmmmzma stinctivel best available lawyer. He reflected surely nobody could know more about law than a professor of law. Woodrow ‘was Princeton’s professor of law in preparation resident. David Aiken Reed took him orange i till its gravity was wholly overborne by his uncontrollable laughter. = He ccessfully adjusted it with the 1:\1“ and added young David to the little list of the boys in whom he had an af- fectionate inte 5 rest. ‘The affection lasted for many years, until there came the tragedy of (Continued on Fourth Page.) - i w, traveled | they can be grown profitably in Ameri- bounced | can soil. from the table lnfl violently hit a |the food we eat that it may be free David was | safeguards our health in a hundred e body” of | other ways. It charged him. from for becoming Princeton's | o' R B It keeps a watchful eye on from poisons and adulterations, and collects our letters and the mail boxes and de- livers them to our correspondents, may- It makes the coin and prints the transaction of business. It digs canals and It builds the habits of . It patrols and pro- tects the forests, it reclaims desert and examines the national hnhd. un 568,715 in Civilian Army. On June 30, 1928, the date of the latest compilation, there were 568,715 executive civil service States, with 438,057 on June 30, 1016, a 1lin of {;o.su in 1.3 years. The ll;m Serv- , which is practically self-sustalning, emplo) !lo.lgfi. leaving 257,780 as the wotal gr the other nine major true that there are thousands | ulation ments and the independent bureaus and ‘commissions. ‘The number employed in the District of Columbia on 103 wis ‘The high point, of course, was reached during flnm ‘World War, the greatest number being 917,760, of whom 117,760 weri’.emplo:ed In the District of Co- umbia. ‘The ‘lowest figure since the World War was 546,341, on December 31, 1926, of - whom 59,669 were in the District of “There is every reason to be- for December 31, in be l’!lnhedm b and of the countr'ymlnd the t\um development of business, the Federal civil ‘service will correspondingly In- crease. . Postal Service Increases. ‘The net gain of 130,658 over the pre= war figure is easlly explained. The growth in the Postal Service during the 12-year period was 60,050. The per- centage of increase in the number of Vetes exist before the World War. - A gain of 878 in the Treasury Department is argeable to the e: other dutles and to the enforcement of mf ::;’::53 :"bv' ted ' n nt bureaus created 'during and since the war employ in ite 2,977 the large: mflfi A ns, st of :hu the Sfi;':l.nl Board, with 1,675. Law Limits United States Employes. All of this leaves 22,820 as the total Increase between 1916 and 1928 in the eight major departments and the nu- law. Und denc; cases d‘l:rrvlnt (g 'uelwom positions - and elsewhere at comfortable and then never went near the office in which they were to work. The momhum at the salary do the ", for them and other half, ‘There is ample to