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Does De Valer* Mom K?
? F DE VALERA is serious in hi? latest statement.
the Irislt people have but the choice of
* repudiating hi* leadership or of following him
' l?ck into war. It may be his statement was but a
I feeler, known in certain circles as a "bluff.'' A
' -ii- report from Dublin. July 23. after his con?rmftee
with Lloyd George, reported him as sayVing
"We shall talk of freedom no more for we
; .hall have if On July 25. another report, also
" Dublin, declared it as officially announced,
' ifTft "peace will be reached."
?--t)e Vakra, to going to London and while
there, was reported as refusing to make any state'i
11 irnt until he had consulted with his associates
" aW until the British proposal was submitted to
Dail Eireann. That there might be a full and
Tie expression of opinion, the thirty-six member,
of tfie Sinn Fein legislative body, held in detention
,Stops and jails, even one convicted by court-mar'
tial, were released. It was certainly the supposition
that the offer would b? fully discussed and debated
by these representatives and a decision
reached by them.
On August 14 the terms of dominion rule made
if i& Ireland through De Valera, his reply and the
!! answer to this, were made public, not in Dublin,
but in London. Until then neither the British nor
Irish people knew what was the form of the offer,
j; nar whal were its terms. The next day in opening
l_>ail Eireann, De Valera announced the rejection
Z of the offer and emphasized this the following day.
There certainly was no time for any expression of
Irish opinion; the offer had not even been submitted
to the Dail. much less discussed: there had
' been no debate; and no popular expression for or
against.
The rejection came from De \ alera with the
i! -apposed approval of his associates, but not from
lSL Eireann nor the Irish people. The Irish have
I! ,^0 chance to pass upon it. They have had no
jmncc to form an unbiased judgment. They have
? h'Au. given but the choice of following him into
another war. or the uphill task of rejecting his
leadership. He makes a point that in the condition
Ireland is expressly denied the right to
t seeede. This might as well have been omitted.
To strike it out now would carry this implied right,
it which no dominion has. save by revolution, unless
r.reat Britain chooses to grant it rather than use
force.
When the Irish people greeted the truce with
;; p,avers of thanksgiving and the utmost rejoicing.
" they must have known that dominion rule was the
(I utmost they could expect. They surely did not
; expect to gain the expressed right to secede whrn'
ever they might wish. In his rejection of the offer
L in-principle as well as in conditions, we do not believe
De Valera represents what would be the
(itt expression of Irish will, nor what the Irish
; people mo?t desire. The end is not come, but we
J^ot believe it will come through further blooded
and ruin. We believe a way will be found,
1 though De Valera has made it harder to find, un'
less he is merely making a stage gesture.
* Communism as applied in Russia, follow!
the Biblical dictum: "He that hath, to him
<hall be given; and he that hath not, from him
t (fltall be taken away even that which he hath."
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Eleven Column! of Amendments.
THE one extreme fault of the new revenue bill,
as The Herald sees it is the fact that it is not
a bill for a new law. but a series of amendments
of 20,000 v^ords in the total. To make the law,
' one law, these two will have to be read, studied and
! construed together. Instead of simplifying, this
1 will greatly complicate the law as a whole and make
its construction more the work of a "Philadelphia
lawyer" and impossible to the average business man.
Why the committee chose this method rather
' than rewriting and making one complete act, is be!
yond any but Congressional ken. It should not be
made more necessary than before to hire a lawyer
to find what the tax is, even by a man of moderate
income. It should not be made necessary to read
the two laws together when they could be easily
combined in one. Reference to sections, subdivisions
of sections and the fact of amendment, which
are all mystifying, would not appear and only the
009 .document would have to be consulted.
1 1 1 1 The amendments as offered by the committee,
"vJwtr* published by the New York Times and fill
columns of small type set solid. To piece
I jififft amendments into the presen: law will make
y a# old-fashioned New England patch-work quilt.
Sflr its form as amendments the bill will create a
4 temper among taxpayers not favorable to the Con*
gressional majority. The mere convolutions created
will arouse hostility and profanity? All of this can
T be avoided by merely rewriting the law as a whole,
* really simplifying it as promised and not making it
vastly more complex, as is now proposid
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The railroads suffer while the automobile
*) business flourishes. Is this because freight v
m r^tcs stay up, while automobile prices have
Z dropped?
AtUetic Stadium.
_ HE HERALD most earnestly supports the
t movement for a great athletic stadium in
8Washington. It would not only; make this a center
Muf '.national and international ?port contests, but
juo^ld be a great impulse to amateur sport throughout!
the country. It would give a field for intracity
j-poh meets and for developing the athletic ability
S10 be found here in abundance. The 200 athletic
^ ndi. sport clubs here show the unusual interest,
^hardly equalled to any other City.
". - m Such- a center would bring all of these together,
nit alone for rivalry, but for acquaintance. It
4_pkjad give opportunities to develop champions, to
"fillI competent trainers, to make up teams drawn
?itTthe clubs, and consolidate an enthusiasm
j| now scattered, while it would also stiniu
_ _ ^ , ? r-, ?a?I a r-51 V ^
lite the interest of the inflivklutl Arganizatloni hi
their own activities.
But beyond *11 this, it would be a stimulus to
athletics throughout the country of which this is the
Capital. If there must be war preparedness, there is
none better than to develop every boy* and every
young man in his physical prowess. If there are
physical defects* organized sports will disclose
them, that thejr may be cured. The best possible
war preparedness is to make this a nation of athletes,
a nation of young men physically powerful,
with that trained initiative and responsibility, selfreliance
and self-confidence which comes through
American sports.
Every army officer has attributed very much
of the superior fighting quality of the American
soldier to the national fondness for competitive
games and spbrts. These made intelligent fighters,
with dash, caution and persistence. Moreover, it
trains a great body of young men as ready for war
without promoting war, withdrawing them from j
industry or burdening the country with taxes. It ,
promotes efficiency, arouses pride in achievement,
makes better workers, and produces a better organized
nation fit for any service with the shortest
possible period of distinctively army training.
For still another reason The Herald supports
this movement. It will be something Washington
has done for itself and there is a lot of broadgauged
pride in this. Washington will find, also,
that the more its people do for themselves the more
ready Congress will be to help do those- things in
which it should rightly share the expense. "Do it
for Washington" is the best possible shibboleth to
build up the city and bring a greater sense of pride
to all our citizens. Every one is most interested in
a city which is most independently interested in
itself.
We wonder if Senators Borah and Johnson
ever had a Tittle talk together to which the
public was not invited?
Kits and Make Up.
GREAT BRITAIN and France have kissed and
made up. Wise John Bull has taken La
Belle in his ardent, if somewhat awkward embrace,
and has planted a cordial salute on each of her
blushing cheeks. Silesia is referred to the league
council with' a mutual agreement to abide by its
decision. Reinforcements will be sent to Silesia
to prevent any more outbreaks or any balking by
Germany or Poland when the decision comes.
The collection of customs on German exports
at the Rhine will be terminated, but the military
sanctions will continue until the Germans disarm in
more than pretense. All France s feeling that Great
Britain was extending aid and comfort to the common
enemy is dissipated by Lloyd George's report
to the Commons. They are united and both facc
the same way?across the Rhine.
In this same report on world conditions. tHe
premier referred to the coming disarmament conference
in a way which shows that his country and
ours will come with one mind, to end so far as possible
any threat oi future wars. He said that the
happenings at the supreme council meeting had
shown all its members just what another war would
mean today. He then added:
"The disarmament conference in Washingi
ton will not come an hour too soon," he said.
"But even such a conference will not suffice un- :
les sthere is constant vigilancc on the part ot
federated nations with a world-wide purpose of
making certain that ambition and greed may
nevcf again plunge the world into the quagmire
of wretchedness."
No country could undertake war under present
conditions and live to tell the story. This is but
the more evident after standing for }hrce years on
! the edge of the "quagmire of wretchedness." The
j awfulness of slaughter would not be worse than the
! after consequences. It would make this world a
j shambles and no country has such an excess oi
folly as to ventnre it. There is no national leadership
anywhere, unimpressed with the awfulness of
I war's consequences, if not of war itself, and the
time when a people could be led into a foreign war
as an antidote for internal disturbance, is gone.
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Summer seems to have put on too much
steam in June to have the fuel supply last.
What's the Use?
HOW far the proceedings of the disarmament
conference should be open to the public is
a burning question with those whose superior critical
gifts are admitted. Just what is it the people
of this country wish to know and should know?
As it is, they know the conference is to be held
and when and where. They know,-in general terms,
what the discussions will cover and the broad subjects
on which agreement will be sought.
They know that Secretary Hughes will head
this country's delegation and will guide its strategy |
and tactics. They know that Senator Lodge will
be associated with him, and they will be told the j
other delegates as soon as selected. Whenever the |
program is definitely outlined, they will be told just (
what it is and it will then be thrown open to them
for* discussion. Everyone can offer his advice. In ]
this way Mr. Hughes will get a hatful of supposed
public opinion, as every editorial writer always
states definitely and exactly what people feel, want
and believe.
If the actual meetings and discussions were
open to the public, what would happen? Only
what happens every day upon the HH1. All important
matters would be discussed and settled somewhere
else. All the fun would be pulled off
somewhere else. The "brutal language," the hairpulling.
plain speaking, naughty words ancTtiejr
ruptures would occur in other places than the conference
chamber. There would be no reaching" for
American whiskers in public.
All the stage business at the formal meetings
would be like a session of our Senate. There would,
be dignified entrances, casual exchanges of greetings,
the proper posings for the effect upon the galleries,
a short prayer, the sfiorter the more approved, a
few set speeches agreed upon in advance, and such
format action as also had been agreed upon, with ,
adjournment. It would be very gratifying t?
actually see and hear the mellifluous?or otherwisetone*
of the foreign delegates. _ It would be a lifelong
hallmark to listen to the spellbinding oratory
of Lloyd George and Briand, the latter speaking
only in French. No hall would be large enough, if
a'l might come.
But what is the use? No matter what the put.
ward-appearance may be, the actual work, the feal
negotiations, the serious discussions, the settling
of all differences, will be in private. The public
will know what it i* desired they should know and
this will com* mainly a* propaganda in the usual
form of "a distinguished member of such and ?uch
a delegation gives your correspondent wholly reliable
information that," etc., etc.
Prices have not yet dropped to where luxury
taxes are not a
NEW YORK, Aug. 1^?-Thoughts
while strolling around Now York:
A scorching day. No ons wants to
| work. And iomewh?r?- * big Idea
Is being born. It's been many days
sines I've had a brain throb. Boss
Lord, of the old Sun. going Into the
Lotuji Club. Theaters. ' Tea rooms.
Hows of women's shops. Trails of'1
extravagance leading to nowhere.
Young dandies In low-slung cars!
hitting It up for ths beaches. Hair
like the gloes of a seal's coat. And
the air of well-bred, bored indlffsr-'
ence. And over across the way the
park benches are filled with men J
whose faces sre- tense with stark]
realities. What a world! Wish P
had a chair on the Paris, boalo-?
vards.
Two girls in a limousine with
their bsre knees showing. Hal{
nude children grouped about at
water hydrant? Tenderloin hotels.
Windows crowded by betrayals of
illicit housekeeping. Milk bottles,
biscuit carbons and rotting fruit. A
public fountain, throbbing and
fslllng like the heart-beat of ? hot,
tired city. v
An Itallkn clay modeller working
in a stuffy asphalted court. A window
of freshly boiled lobsters, as
red as a cardinal's cap. Panhandler?
drifting toward the piers for new
arrivals. Verminous lodging houses
snd scarred cafes. Meals of spa*
ghetti and sour home-brewed wine.
I?emon shipments from Palermo.
The smell of garllo and rat-tailed
stogies.
Wonder whatever became of the
sport shirt? Dusk comes to Broadway.
All the buildings pearled with
, electric globes. Engaging and provocative
women. Overhaughty and
overdressed. In clear daylight they
look like wilted lettuce leaves.
Here's a little place where Horace
Greeley used to come for hot biscuits
and honey. It was out In the
country then. Now it is Fortyseventh
street snd Broadway.
Audacious .young eyes and clicking
high heels. Street hawkers
selling silk knitted ties for 5 cents
each. There goes Pearl White In
the Claridge. The movie houses are
ballyhooing for patrons. Last year
you couldn't get standing room.
Around the corner is Beefsteak
Charlie's. And there's where I cat.
In a movie studio in the Bronx
they were filming the bedroom of a
duke in the ducal castle. The director.
shirtless and perspiring,
enme in to give It the final Inspection
before the camera man began
to "shoot." He noticed a small
white cuspidor near the bed.
".Say!" he shouted, purpling with
rage, "how many times have I got
to tell you that this is the Miroom
of a duke? l?ook at that cuspidor
there?that little bit of cuspidor?what
you want-is a great big.
snsppv. brass spittoon."
The Pa'ais Royal is the last stand
of the cabaret. It has always been
a money-inaking restaurant. It has
opened In midsummer In new dress.
A Japanese garden effect is maintained
which Is striking. There are
pagodas, hillsides, running water,
huge lanterns and huge umbrellas
done In a red and white t??nt effect.
Paul Whlteman's orchestra satiates
those who thirst for jar*. Gil Boag.
a former newspaper man. is owner
the l'alais Royal. II** told me
that the only way he could figure a
newspaper man eating regularly
was to own a restaurant.
A Madison avenue social queen
gave an affair the other evening
after the theater to which was invited
a well-known comedian to set
as entertainer. When he arrived
and was introduced the hostess Inquired
If he would like a small
hottlc of wine. His reply was:
"Atta broad-minded person!"
What the Stars Indicatel
(Copyright. 1921. by SIH'lure Newspaper
Syndicate.)
FRIDAY, AUGl'ST IS. 1*81.
This is - t a lucky day, according
| to astrology, for Uranus and Venus
are both in malefic aspect.
During this configuration women
are subject to many ill omens, for'
they are to be targets of fate, the!
seers declare.
Much activity is presaged for
women who will engage in large
public enterprises, many of which
will fail, but on the ruins of old
projects new ones will succeed.
During this configuration women
will be inclined to find fault with
one another and dissensions In their
organizations will be common.
Uranus is in a place supposed to
increase social ambitions and to
disturb existing friendships.
The seers declare that this is a
transition time in which many problems
involving human relations,
| wHl be worked out, but thfs will
cause much controversy and unpleasantness.
Venus is in an aspect that bodes
ill for the success of the theater.
Actors and actresses may expect
a* season of changes and uncertainty.
Love affairs are not well directed!
| today and may be exceedingly die- ;
i appointing.
Summer resort love affairs this!
season are likely to be even more;
undecisive than usual. Conditions j
seem to encourage fickleness and
1 inconstancy.
Nervous diseases will multiply at
t s time, for the luman mind will
j be obsessed by many strange l<^as.
While Uranus has evlf power the.
world will be more mad than usual.
Persons whose birthdats It is have
the augury of travel and change.
I Chldren bor^ on this day may, be |
Lr r St leas ature, tut VSTy lucky.
Mount Rainier OfRciaU
Accept Bank's Bond Bid
MOUNT RAINIER Md.. Au?.,ll._
The mayor and town counclf haa
accepted the bid of the Pttnce
(leorice* Bank for the purchase of
'410.00* in bond*, the proceed* of
'which will used t> build rnaitg,
sidewalk* and rulveM* here.
The rounrll la authorised by act
of the legislature to laaue tin.ooi)
. tVaMia.. en V .r* jV
ot exceeding l?.?0f **arly.
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T4? ?J)lln W * rut r*. gypsies mi tmdmy.
iAe ot* Umt amuuri ware mHwi? ?Caaaparerf ?e the magwfde W t/>? *?*/
smuggling imdmmto j W tarfay. q
Says Prohibition Fails. "?,v* dw"l on ,hi* ?-"** -*^-'"
' _ ., . . . . only one who ever professed to have
T. the Rdltor. The W.rtl^to. Hersld Th. K.raM lu. f?ad that as?ta>? ,h|g pow,r an<J h# on,y clalmed It
I wish to dissent from some of #WB la"a f?w i'nstAnoe^w** lnd tk*M *hen hi* ordinary powers could not
the conclusions arrived at by Joseph )^Ta ?*cap?d nnr mUm. Va will k?r?- be relied upon as a Justification for
Fratantuona in hia "Open Court** ift? :?t?ir? Mt esly Um mm tat th* a proposed undertaking. No Britletter.
dimury *ddr??s. Ik? Op?? Ossrt^wat nubject ever claimed to possess
He sayp that the saloon ha* been r*s*l. infonrntiTs 'dlltuuii "a* itltT *uch power, and he .would be
eliminated, and thot future genera- m?*t *f opiuion. I laughed at If h** bad Furthermore,
tion* will not have th? temptations L_________? i vou . oniond that thia unwritten unto
indulge in intoxicants; the resuli .-ears a* part of the *upreme law ^" blc something, this nebulous
thut we will have a race of men of lh, tand aml .lboot th, onlv thinK abstraction styled Britain's foreign
clear-eyed, healthy and with brains ,hMt , ,hal hll? r,.*?Hed from It.!1*'-*"'- , , * *orl o1 bill of intercapable
of straight thinking. thr general contempt that is now n*"0nal ri*h'': ?r great chat ter. It
An a public Institution the saloon h^1,i fur MlJ la^ in thc mind* of a,,n,' lo establish the rights of Che
iif of the past, but It stills exists thoM criminally inclined. British in all parta of the world.
In a more iniquitous form In blind Kr<?n :in 'observation ??f flic pji*t ,f rarr1rs everywh^e the safety in
pig's, soft drink parlors. In restau-jtwo year, and the existing < ?<* >? J1.''- Tty ?,nd , < '***
ranta. barber shop*. loUKlnB hon?f:. ,hllt c,j,t, in the law's enforcement. ,lb*r,>' '"I'owa the r.rittah aubject.
In cellar*, back alley hole-ln-the- , ?)t|lillK fwr ,ho t?tllr,, liul HII ?? we.nn incredible that a thins
walls and diver* other place* lhat ini.,,,s,,i violation of the law and ,"*t n,T" P?l <?lo word*,
will K've cover to the bootlecRer. ? ~riidllB| di*sulutl?n of the will to f rrd,"<'^ to writ.ns or e*pre*aed
In many of the large cities the rnfoTcr tt. formula or even suiteeawd in
i saloon still exlats. hut in * .-overt Tht. ,nor,?rhmeni on the police , *n be any ?ort of a bill of
way and in many instance* even by p,,?rr ?r the individual States of International ri^ht, ?r great
"protection" of the authorities t(M. t-n|<)11# ,hat necessarily la an rhi"r,<"r " '* difficult, perhap* ntIchargred
with the enforcement of the incident In the application or the ,crlv impossible to the man In the
|l?w- la?. I. also a matter of ftiterest and ?"*? *? "nderatand how thia ?nI
In the first place the Eighteen!h : importa nee but of course cannot fce L*??" ?yaBt,t>' can tablinh Brit'amendment
was passed at a time ,jt.an with here rights all o\er the world, carry
when the country was in the throe* 'IIAHI.ES O. 1MKRCE. safety everywhere to life, property
i of a great war. 1 Phoebus. Va. "nd ,radf of what It has t? do with
People aecepted the proposal a* British liberty following tbe*Brlt1
an economical aid to win the war. l- iL n _* pnmicciAM subject or in what reape?*t BritMost
people believe in tcmperancs " in" V OmflllSMOn. liberty difTer? from liberty In
a* regards the use of alcoholic ??? Tw ,hr Kdiior The Wellington Herald: central?human liberty for example
rages and we all bel|#ved it ia a As very much ha* been said, and When we remember that Interna*
most excellent virtue for the other' is being said, for and against the tlonal trade ig not warfare, that It
fellow so we voted in the leginla- 1 retention of the Bent rommisalon. 1 doe* not involve aggreaaion on one
tors. who. In the respective States | l>eg space through the t>pen Court to *id.- and rssistaaei on the other, but
ratified the amendment. ad<| Just a few words in the affirm- mutual ?-?.n*cnt snd reciprocal reIfowever,
the biennisl election of atlve. lations. we are at los* to understand
IMS disclosed an anomalous result Why was it necessary lor the what idea you w ish to express when
In California, un the t??l ot ; resident to appoint the Kent Com- you say that back of "every new
State the elector had tho privlltgs! mission? The answer is: To pro- trade ronte of all foreign commerce
of voting ' yes" or "no" on a pro- : t*u" t#'n?nts and to make it ?tood an army and a navy."
posed constitutional amendment (o! somewhat possible for the poar Th?-ugh ties* people say that <ireat
make California State-wide dry. The working class of people to live un- nritain's srmy and navy forced
amendment failed by an overwhelm-j der * shelter in the Nation a Capitol trade sith China and the 1'nlted
ing majority; yet the same elector* ! Am* since it wa* necessary to ap- state* with Japan. But this is not
on the same ballot named the mem- l??int that commission it is cer- th* faH. What was done in both
hers of the Stats legislature that tainlv just as necessary to .retain case* was not to force the people
ratified the Eighteenth amendment J1- ^I0J?e ?* the on Cap!- to trade, but to Induce their governby
onl* seven di*?entinir Tote*. ' ar>' n1^ " * Ju*t * ,u> ments to let them. It take* two to
What does thl* dfcicloae? That the *ve ' * '' ' ?/ * Rent Commls niate a bargain, and to every trade
astute and cunnlne manager* of the f!i'*nded for two year*, while ,i,er mu,t be two partiea w ho m?"dry"
movement had aeen to It that ? "on,v" seVen" Tones' " d"ir' '? trad, anS wh e
only auch men who favored the pro ,'d ,h ,"'11 . ^ ,hi. 'tion* reciprocal. If the peohlbltlon
question were placed on t<-. ut- a the writer looka at thia , i>|,ina >n(j j,pan didn't deticket.
The l.*?e waa clouded l? the rent question, rongrea* could not do v.? 0 ??"n? of the'r
mind* of the "wet," bv the proposed <*' <^ "SSTZ " ">- haveVeTfut'le
constitutional amendment, and the '"Jurr tnan to aOollah the Kent Arml? ,nd navl,. hav,
ie^ut.Tre.rdl?teVw7re"eirc,?de bc.Tth "fHce is 'Swa't t^e f^But ?>?*? ' ommerce. stimulated tr^de or
The "drv" leaders thouaht straight ,he most Important edict has been " advanced thr progress
and oh..cfl? overlooked. And the health office of civilisation, and they never will.
Thoma* Marshall then vice Pres should warn our lawmakers to T *" MOXAHAN
ident m^e-t"e rem^ l..t wl?nr P?7"Sem'selvV. Vnd "h,nK,?n' D_?l
in Richmond that had there been P*r* . *f.th*r "f i *- . . .
a secret ballot on the prohibition ?Mcken c^.v For manv ot Cfeses Issue,
amendment In the Senate, not mora then) ,.ou|<] shudd<.r to how To the Ml..r, T?e BeraM
thanJ? per cent would have favored many |e an crowdcd ,nt0 0JW In Open Court of recent date
It. We Indorse prohibition when we houge d , h w Lanaln, aavs "If
are acting In a public capacity and , bathin* facilities "
violate /it secretly a, individual ThTnTet the Rent Oommlaslon V" *"OW ^ 1
members of society. , remain' to *'v' Justinian a little food for
Mr. Fratantuona erroneously eon- j c CUNNINGHAM. thought." Now. what is the qualoludes
that time will eradicate the ... , .
evils that he is frank to admit now . _ .. ? u> and n?ture of the food. Ju*t
exist in enforcing prohibition. He (JUCStlOnS r oreljfn POUCy let the readers of the Open Court
assumes that when all the living Editorial. consider it: "We presume if Adam
violators. of the law shall have _ ., __ were still alive and the owner of
massed on to that realm where cock- T* u? Mltor. The Wsrtiagtoa BersM: the biggest navy on earth that a lot
Tails, mint Juleps, and gin rickles In your Intensely Interesting and of people would think Jt worth
art part of the dally menu, the peo- illuminating editorial entitled "Our while -to tickle the vanity of the
pie who succeed them here will be Foreign Policy-/ It appear, that jrou old gentleman by telling him howfree
of the evils Vnfortunately, have drawn conclusions that are much honor belonged to him for beperhaps.
but we cannot hope or ex- not supported by broad, general ing the father of all the great men
pect that all the boose-hounds, hot- f*"s but obviously refute the con- that ever lived."
tie dtinkera bootleggers, home elusions you have so confidently What has such irrelevancy to
brewers, bathroom and basement reached. ror instance you state do with the matter at issue, namely,
distillers Canadian booze runners that: "Great Britain's foreign policy what England has contributed to tne
and trusted arlstocratc club em- U 0*ed. It is a growth of cen- world In law. philosophy, literature,
ploves. are all going to die on some turies. It has never been put Into civil and religious liberty, all of
certain day. The "coming genera- words by anyone. It Is not en- which tend to the betterment of th.
tion" Is coming in every day and Is pressed in formula. But every Brit- Unman race. In former letters Jusllkewlse
being Initiated into the all- ish subject the world over know, tin I an has mentioned In detail what
tsotnprehenslve national sport of vlo- "hat it Is: and parties come and go England has contributed to the
latlng the national prohibition but It goes on unchanged, immut- world, more than all other nations
law. No one la barred in this smooth *ble, as determined as if of a writ- combined And that statement hae
and enticing game and anyone ??n ten constitution." n??*r been disproved, notwithstandnl*v
It. The expert players Impart A superficial analysis of the fore- Ing many critics have entered the
their sk'll and fineness to those iu*t *oing statement will ahow that it discusalon. but every one avoiding
breaking In. with the result that !a self-contradictory. the l.eue. Wh> ? Because history is
there are aiway^more players thai. ? ?s you assert Great Britain s on the side of Justinian. And these
ne?ess?ry to keep the game going foreign policies is fixed then it can- critic, being unable to refute the
merrily not be s growth of centuries. For facta, "try to give fpod for thought,"
All levity aside in the history of the obvious reason that fixed things but in ret.llty dodge the issue by e?iurisprudence
It' Is an Invariable are not capable of growth. If Great deavoring to confaee It with exrule
that no prohibition law can be Britain's foreign policy has never traneous matter
suocessfullv enforced that is op- been put in words or expressed in Mr. tditor, this is my last epistle
posed even by a strong and militant formula how is it possible for every on this particular theme and I wish
minority and In the present in- British subject the world over te to thank you for the liberal space
stance how futile must be ?*e ef- know, exactly what It isT By what you have allowed me In the Open
forts to enforce Vhe law when we medium has It been communicated Court. I fear it bad become somesee
the beet elements In ou- social to him? Has he been miraculously what nauseating to the readers ?.f
fabric winking at the law's vtela- endowed with the power of hearing the Open Court who will be as glad
tion. The Klghteenth amendment voices In the air and seeing visions as Justinian that It l?acl?cd laatse
has beer, established ever .two oa the bol-itom' Of all the asea thai Jt *T*fc!AN.
su|l|p^
Arorrr it. twzi. I
atn I
AM COUXTin SfEED. I
Knctaaara ftN otten lateraatadl
la the davalopaMat of this country!
4W th9 MUMcrtUM byl
CBRcraas of a bill recently i?tre-l
+**4 to provide for the i iimpl,!!,,,!
j? ,tk? topographical lurvev of tbel
tallod Btatea. Approximated Mori
perhaps 7t par cant of the area of I
thla country haa no topographic!
?f the accuracy required aJ
l the baala for industrial. engineering
and scientific operatloaa. ^1
! TW expenditure of trminl
I daring a pari<% of twenty years y|
aaa template* by the bill offered bfl
" Praaaatatlve Henry W. Temple ofl
I Pennsylvania. but engineers poiaS
I out that the nation will received!
|?i?ch greater return for such aS
expenditure, and that It is not a!
running expense but a permanent
investment, just as are the reclamation
projects and the Panama Canal.
* w* are to continue nt the rata
of progress being made now la our
topographic mapping and control
surveys aa the baa Is for such maps
It wm be Iff years or more before
the work Is completed and. la the
meantime, all the areas of the country
which are undergoing development
would have to be reeurveyed
a number of timee." declaree Maj.
William Bowie, chief of the division
of geodesy of the L\ & Coaat aad
Geodetic Survey aad vioe chairman
of the Federal Board of Surveys
nd Maps. Today we do not kno?.
and I venture the aaaertlon that no
expert in the field of any one of the
natural resources knows within *
per cent what we actually hsve
b*v? ?^d them right along aad
v e have the feeling that when v .
uae up any one thing there will
always be something to tske ltd
1 Mace. It is only when we have
actually discovered, mapped and
measured the extent of our reM>urces
that we will be able to
adopt some wise plan for their use
and conservation." '
Before sn Investlgstor In any
field, that has to do with the lay
?f the land, can do his work most
efficiently he must hsve s map o(
;that region, it Is pointed out. This
j is true whether he be a chaaer of
I insects, a classifier of plsnts and
flowers, a geologist hunting burled
treasure, an engineer locating m
I large water-power project, or Jus:
a plain business man planning a
Issles campaign
FISHES. Aa WELL At BATHER*.
OBJ KIT TO OIL O* BEACH t:*.
Tar and oil floating on the ocoar
snd being driven in on the beachtf
is becoming a national menace, botl
to bathers snd summer visitors t<
seaside resorts and to marine llf<
and vegetation along our shorea.
In the vicinity of New Tork. li
Delaware Bay and in lower Chess
peske Bay and along the Southeri
gulf coast the waste oil thrown ou
| by tankers, oil-burning stesmenfl
shore ess producing plsnts. ml
even small launched hss become >1
plentiful that it has ruined bathinfl
in many places and threatens tfl
exterminate the food fish. o>ste?
clams, crabs and lobsters thst are fl
part of our nations 1 food supply. I
The Bureau of Fisheries of thH
Desert men t of Commerce hss beaH
Investigating the extent of the dsafl
age being done and resolutions
a recent conference called by Kafl
retary Hoover to consider wstfl
pollution and fish protection d^|
, els red thst unless conditions afl
promptly remedied our shore flsll
eries at least will steadily dcciinH
and in s fern- years will be almofl
altogether ruined. I
A hill is now before Congress, Iifl
troduced by Representative T. fl
Appleby, of New Jersey, that makfl
it Megs' to pollute the navigab^J
waters of the United States by
snd other refuse mstter. I
The oil Is thrown into the oce^H
'by tankers snd oil-burners tb^f
' wssh the waste oil and eedimen^R
lout of their tanks. Oil rsflaerlfl
and gas plants on shore and rive^B
are also offenders, and in siafl
: cases slow lesks in petroleyH
tanks on the water front contribuH
.their share of the trouble.
The oil pollution Is not conflnfl
to the ocean shores, however.
some Inlsnd streams are cover^B
with oil as well as polluted wi^|
sewage and trade wastes.
TIM GRIB PTKVM I
KORT1 TEARS I* BO ABO.
Insect longevity records appeerH
have been brokn by the finding H
a soft white mood boring grub thH
had spent more than forty years
ia thoroughly seasoned birch boa^H
iflve-rights of an inch thick. In^|
book-cane at Mount Pleasant. lotfl
J The owner of the old book-case
covered a newly-made opening a^R
a conies! pile of wood chewinga. 4^^
traded he mstureed lsrvg and
\* it to 11 K. Jaques, of the lows wfl
leysn College.
Be:rg a biologist. Mr. Jsques
it in n box and let it develop I^H
'an adult beetle. It proved to
Eburia quadrlgemlnate Ssy. a lonH
|corn commonly known as the hon^H
V locust borer, which is recorded
jan inlibaitant of hickory sab a^H
honey locust. H
In a communication to Sctaa^f
the' office journal of the Amerhg^H
Association for tht Advancement
'Science. Mr. Jaque* wonders h^H
and why this Insect should
spent so many humdrum years li^H
I board without coming out for H
and water.
Previous records show thst t^H
'similar beetles wrre found la an
|door-sill, when scientists were a^H
'that the eggs were laid there nl^^J
<teen years before.
AXCIEXT ROYAL PI RPLE I
IMKHIOR TO MODERN Ultv
Tyrian purple, the most fam^H
'dye of antiquity, wis so expeaf^H
that in the reign of Diocletian
i pound of purple wool coat
which would make the dye
worth about $5,000 a pound, fa t^H
Professor Friadlander gstherad
000 of the aea snail* from which fl^H
i ancient dye was made and prapi^H
la little of the coloring mattar.
I investigations showed it to ba Id^H
tlcal with a dye known ta gflH
thetic chemists but not usad on H
count of Its Inferiority to other aH
thetic dyes which are both dtH
and com mo:, at the present dap.
The Messsbi Range, ana of H
six famous iron ranges of th?
Superior region, hss produced
j than 4t.0ta.oo0 tona of Iron ore
yoar
A radically new type af alrpl^H
with huge box-1lk< fuselage or b^H
| instead of the cramped
I streamlined fuselage of the
.nary plane, has l?een given a?gQ^^|
fal prelimiaar> trials.
