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The Washington Chamber of Commerce was organized to promote the general welfare of the citizens ' of the District of Columbia; to adopt by concrete thought and activity ways and means for the advance . meat of their business interests; to promote and nurture industry and a closer relationship between citizens. That is a fair interpretation of the spirit back of the very live body of men working, unselfishly, for the ad vancement of the District and its people. Are you doing your share? Are you a member? ? * ? , ? THE NATIONAL DAILY THE WASHINGTON TIMES ?MAY 18..< 1920 neil.lirtd at tfc. Unit* 8ft- PlMt I ?? El WW <9 11 I IW ?W II I?1 W ?r c*rrl.r. SO, Mouth; B, Ifoll. . T.M Max Nordau on "a Double Morality" He Thinks Individuals and Nations Should Be Bound by the Same Laws. But He Will Wait a Long Time to See It. v You will read in this column by Dr. Max Nordau an eaaay on "The Crime of War." He takes the stand that the moral law applying to individuals forbidding them to kill each other should apply also to nations. His view is interesting, even though somewhat ahead of the present standards of human beings. A race that has ONE kind of morality for men and another for women will probably continue for a long time to have a double standard for INDIVIDUALS and for NATIONS. The individual is bound to treat fairly the other individ ual It is man against man. But the head of a nation looks upon himself, on a large scale, as the head of a family. A man, for instance, might step back and allow himself to be drowned or burned rather than crowd out children or women. But if his own children were concerned, the aver age man, without asking about right or wrong, would fight to get his children first to a safe place. If he did not, he would not be much of a father. The first duty of a father is to take care of those for whom he is responsible?his own children; next for the children of others. Statesmen of this day?it may change later?look upon themselves as bound first to take care of those for whom they are responsible?their own citisens?and the citizen* of other nations later. Eventually we may all become literally brothers as indf. viduals and as nations. But the time hasn't come yet. What Dr. Nordau writes follows, and it will interest yon. THE CRIME OF WAR. , By DR. MAX NORDAU. ' The animal world stands under | the law of the Jungle; mankind i ha* placed itself under the moral f law. This sentence comprises the j essence of the history of clvilisa t Hon. But is humanity civilized? The question is pertinent, after the ghoulish five years which we have Jnst lived. In his private rela tions man makes a show of obey i Ins the moral law; society has im ' posed on all its members, except * the small minority of born criml ! nals, the duty of controlling bes tial instincts, of respecting the ! rights and feelings of their fellow sen. But the nations have not yet recognized as binding the moral jBommandments that sway the con duct of the individuals. The re lations from State to State still . Are determined by the law of the , jungle. Men who would resent it as a '/grave offense if their morality Should be put in doubt discuss 'mi iii ml J the question whether the l-0tate, in its commissions and '^?mlaaions, owes submission to the ?tanoral rules which apply to Indl rviduAl acts, and most of them ar Mrive at the conclusion that the tBtate In its relations to other States must not be restrained by 'moral considerations. Formerly, In the times of Fred ,'Ssrlck the Great and Napoleon I., 4*the criminal propensities of gov ernments were euphemistically pciept "Shate reason," "raison /d'etat." In the last quarter of the elneteenth century they received le name of "Realpolltik." The worst immorality of the Ktate is an ajnrrcsaive war with the view of realizing some sort of C&in, the conquest of territory, the mrtortion of money, privileges or auialogus advantages, the augmen tation of power, glory. War is the sum total of all crimes against life and property. All means are legitimate lo ward off such abominations; therefore the defen sive war of the assaulted is not only justified, but sacred. And just as it is the duty of every col lectivity to maintain courts of law, police and prisons, thus it Is an elementary obligation of every State to remain well armed, equip ped and powerful as long as we ravo to reckon with the existence of "Realpolitiker" who do not recog nize the binding force of morality for tho Stn'e. Will War End? To discuss the question whether war will ever be abolished seems idle. It is no use to contrsdict those who declare it eternal. It is impossible that it will last as long as vice, sin and crime, in the totnl ex term'nation of which I. too, do not believe. In mankind there will ("ibably never be wanting mor i 1 specimens and degenerates whose egotism is monstrously hy pertrophied. whose impulses are exceptionally violent, whose power of Inhibition is rudimentary or absent, who suffer from emotional insensibility, and are. therefore, incapable of any sympathy for their fellow men, and who are too feeble-minded to foraee the effects of their actions. But one thing is to state a de plorable fact and another thing is to glorify it To say that war is part of the order of the worid in stituted by God is blasphemy, al though it is Field Marshal Moltke who made this utterance. To go into ecstacy about war, to sing it, to vaunt it as developing the most exalted virtues in man, is praising crime, an act which is defined ana punished by criminal law. All morality has its root in the desire of men to live peaceably together in society, to enjoy greater security of life and prop erty and to multiply the possibili ties of happiness. According to Hobbes the primitive condition of mankind is the war of everyone against everyone to which only the constitution of the State has put an end. If, however, the State unchajns aggressive wars, it hurls mankind back to its origins and destroys the work which it is its task to create. The Stoic Sen eca proclaims: "Homo res sacra homini," "man is a sacred object to man." The "Realpolitiker" who praise war, repeat with Hobbes: "Homo homini lupus," "man is a wolf to man." Tne duty of the moral man is to return from Hobbes to Seneca. If within the State it has be come possible to tame the wolf instincts in man and to bring him under the sway of right, this must be possible also in the re lations between State and Stato. He who denies this on principle, denies morality in general, not only for the State, but also for tho individual. He who admits it theoretically but in practice passes sneerinsrly over it, is a bandit and it is obligatory to treat him like every other robber and assassin who for the sake of satisfying his wolf's appetite tramples right and manners under his feet and acts in the fashion of the fero cious brute. Can Peace Re Forced? To this, it is true, the moralist objects with sadness, the Real politiker with an irony which pre tends to superiority that the $tate has created organs for keeping down the individual bandit, while such organs for the curbing of bandit States do not exist. This argument may have been true be fore the world war; it holds no longer good since the League of Nations has been called into being. It is only an embyronic organism as yet, it has not yet the vigor which it requires if it is to exer cise satisfactorily its functions of a supreme court of justice among the nations of the world. But It is sure to reach siz? and vigor that will enable it to fulfill the duty as signed to it by the reason, logic and moral sense of civilised man kind. This, however, is a question of practice, not of principle. Ethical philosophy proves irrefutably that there is only one morality, not one for the private individual and an other which in reality is the au dacious negation of the first, for the State and its policy. He who maintains the thesis of the double morality shows only that he does not even possess the single one. Historic Surrenders By T. E. POWERS . Beatrice Fairfax Writes of the Problems and Pitfalls of Workers Here Especially for Washington Women DEAR M18S FAIRFAX: I wint to get your advice on a certain subjact that my mother and I can't agree on. I am eighteen yearn old and am living In the country. The other night I wanted to etay In town and go to a show with a boy friend. I would have gotten home about 0 o'clock that night and would have walked about half a mile with thin young man. ! couldn't see any thing wrong In doing this, and I couldn't see that the people of the community would have any right to nay anything against me, but my mother insisted that It didn't look well So. we are leaving it to you to decide for us and are anxious to hear your advice. K. K. O. AND HSR MOTHER. Your mother is acting on the safe and sound principle of being safe rather than sorry and in that she is quite right. A girl of eight een cannot be too careful either in what she does or what people think she does. Personally I would not be so much concerned about whether the neighbors would talk or not as I would whether the boy is the right sort of boy. It is natural that a girl your age should want jrouog friends and young amusements and the best course ia not to circumscribe a girl's activities and make her unhappy or sullen or both, as it is to regu late and sponsor her amusements so that they will be the right sort with the right sort of boys and girlg. In this instance much de pends on the young man and what you know about him. A happy solution of this particular instance would have been for the young man to lnvit? your mother to ac company you. However, if I wore your mother, I should worry more about the safety of the half-mile walk and the reputation of the young man than I would about the opinion of tb? community. D1CAR MTM FAIRFAX: I Just wish to say a few vnHi In regard to glrla who are known as w?r worker*. Poring; the short time I have been In Washington I have he*rd numer ou* remarks made against these girls, who. In my opinion, deserve as much credit as the soldier or sailor. I have been out with several war workers, who live In far away cities, and am pleased to say that the evening* spent with them have been much more pleasant than those spent with Washington glrla. I am not a realdent of Washington, and, therefore, do not find girls of this city as much "up to the stand ard as those of ofher cities." A NEW YORK ROT. Comparison! are, an always, odious. This young New Yorker is quite right in praising the many fine girls who came here to help in the war emergency, but he makes a mistake when he critieixes any girl from any locality. Geog raphy has little to do with kinas of girls. There are all kind's in all places. MY DKAR MTSS FAIRFAX: I wish you to solve a problem that has grown troublesome I am twenty-four T?*r? of age and am married. My hair haa been coming out dreadfully on account of recent lllneaa and la no uneven that It Is a great worry. Do you think It would be appropriate to have It "bobbed ?" One of my girl friend* tella me that a jrtrl twenty-four would look odd with bobbed hair, and that everyone would aay I was trying to look too young. UNDECIDED. Moot ffirU who have "bobbed" their hair have regretted it. It's more or less of a fad and it isn't suited to all and every occasion. For outdoor life it's quite attrac tive; for evening affairs it is most inappropriate. As a relief for hair in poor health, "bobbing" is almost useless. The best thine to do is to have your hair treated at some reliable place. Just after the "flu" epidemic, when many women found that the disease had practically ruined their hair, a great many had their heads shaved and wore "transformations" until their own hair grew out again. That was drastic treatment, I'll admit but the only sure method of Whaft Doing; Where; When T?4?y. Annual Plnnar and Klrrtlon Tjpothataa of Waahln?ton. N?w Khbltt Hot*). Four teenth and I" ilrfrta northwest. A p. m. Meeting Delaware Klate Hnrlety, Wllaon Normal flrhool, Eleventh and Hirvtrd atreala. I p. m. Raaab?n?fit. l,onl* ?? Washington, Amerlnaa t.aague flaaeball Park. flavanth and Florida avanua north waat. !:>? p. m. Ctreua - Rarnnm * Nailer and Rlngllng Brothera combined. aho? grounda. Fif teenth and H atraala northaaat. I II fcnd I t* p. m Intarria* r(ivarl. Maura. OI%? hona and O'llarn Cluba. 1111 R atrMI norlhwaat. I p m Meating- Petwnrih ntHena' Aaaorlafloij arhool bouad. Figfcih and flhaphard atraat*. I ? ML AMUl Bmlnaaa Meatus?Oalimtla TT?I varvtt* Alumnae CI oh. l?lt Wawar* MrMl north* eat. I a I*. Larturo -Tonrr-aoman John C. nak*r Thomson Community Cantar. Twelfth and I, if r?*rI noflhwo?t. * |J. m M?.-tln|r llllnola fltato Sorlatjr, Thnmmr ftohnol, Twalfth and I. ilrMU northw?at. t p. m Danrr Trlnltr fommunltj Hnun. Third and C ?tr?ata northwest. I ll p m. W?Mln* cWaahlnilon roat, No 1. American t.??lon. Carroll Inatltuta Hall. Ill Tenth etr?e# northweat, I p m. Tomorrow. R???t>el1 Practice Alva Trlanjle flecre*. tto? Center. Twentieth and** etreete north ? I p m firt* Blue Triangle Rooraatlon Center. Twaatlath an! ? atraata northwaat. I p rrt I |T?. ? insuring a healthy growth later. If you will send me a self-ad dressed envelope. I shall be glad to advise you in greater detail. DKAR MISS FAIRFAX: You are to be heartily commend ed for your sound, wholesome ad vice to the large family of "your girls" on the question of kissing. From personal observation. I know that the girl who refuses to become a mere plaything for her friends of the other sex, have the respect, and are honored (perhaps not by "males," but) by "men." Your comment on "U EV letter of April 21 is excellent. Just the other day the wedding bells in Washington were pealed. A wom an. loved and honored by all who know her. but who never In sny way lowered her womanhood, was married to a minister of the goapel. She was well beyond "marriage able" age?apparently wan des tined to travel the eolltary way to the end of life. She did not mope nor mourn, she made her life a use ful one. At last after these many days "ha" (a noble specimen of clean, wholesome manhood), came along and everyone is made happy by this marriage. Keep on In your God-honored work of having your alrla etand fast by their colors. Men respect modest women tha painted, toualed and frousled piece of humanity In petticoats la looked upon a? '? play thing never as a future wife A MAN WHO APMIRKH YOU. Nnthinpr like actual experience to convince girls that self-respect and dignity wins in the end. Here, apparently, is another case where a woman failed to attract a numerous array of men, but. finally attracted the right sort of man in the right sort of wav. Better ta marry right and wall, ?van in tha afternoon of life, than b? that unhappy eraatura? tha flirt finding heraalf Anally an old ?aid. The Proposed Increase of ' Telephone Rates By BILL PRICE. ? The local telephone company appears to have been J absolutely frank in offering to the Public Utilities Commis sion and to the general public every available fact bearing upon its application for increase of rates in this city. It is to be commended for this. We have at least brought utility corporations in Washington to the point where they really do recognize that the public, which foots the bills?but i? getting to the point where it cannot much longer stand the strain?is entitled to know just why it should dig into its pockets for more money for these utilities. If there is a weak point in the case presented to the Utilities Commission by the company, it is in the failure to satisfactorily allocate the huge increased capitalization as between the Government's demands and those of the Wash ington public. The company claims this is not possible. Threp years ago the P. U. C. agreed upon the valuation of the properties of the local company, usable in the District of Columbia, as $6,200,000. The company accepted these figures. Now the company tells the P. U. C. that in three ^ years it spent over $8,000,000 more in the District, bringing ^ its book value to more than $14,000,000. It eliminates close to $2,000,000 of this, however, and asks that the rates be fixed so that it will receive a return upon a total book value of $12,600,000, a war increase in capitalization of $6,400,000. The P. U. C. now has its experts at work to ascertain how much of this new book value is real; what obsolescence there may be in the pre-war plant, and whether it is possi ble |o allocate this big increase as between the Government and the public. As Washington was the center of war activities, the local company was called upon to serve the Government's interests ahead of all others, hesitating at no expense to meet the Government's demands and give its business right of way. New conduits, new stations by the thousands, new exchanges were established. From 25,000 telephone stations in 1916, the total is now over 82,000. The company claims the Government was liberal in its settlement of these ex penditures. The question arises, however, as to how much ? j of this enormous increase is properly chargeable to the Washington public. Washington did increase in population and business activities, and her people have used the telephone freely. Still, it does not look possible that more than $2,000,000 of the $6,400,000 increased capitalization should have to be given a return by Washington people. HEARD AND SEEN "DOW OS ELEPHANTS. J. IRWIN ESTERLY write? that there 1b a way of getting "down" off elephants. In spite of what H and S folks have written. He says that Miss Georgia N. McNaHy, in her book. "The Babyhood of Wild Beasts," writes this: I "A baby elephant Is a helpless little | fellow. ? ? ? His soft, wrinkled skia is covered with down." etc. After reading of the marriage of Mr. Mosely, M- P., and Lady Curson. Cognac Sa;n remarked: "The M. P. ?ure have gene up in society since I vu In the A. E. F." The old cry wa? that the M. P. won the war. CI^AUDB E. CAMPBELL Heard and Seen is the cheapest and best amusement in town. Beats the movies. DEWEY L. SUIT. We certainly hope the congrea slonal In realisation into the In creased coat of bread will be a little more thoroush than their In vestlgatlon into the Increaaed car fares and the atreet car situation READER. Patterson and Hackensack report respectively. K.2 per cent and 26.7 per cent. The governor holds out for 100 per cent. WM. P REU88. A MONKEY FOR F STRF.KT. I am negotiating for a dignified looking monkey. Expect to dree* him In one of the ao-called monkey back suit* and take him for a atroll up F atreet te llth. Introducing him to the human monkeya en that thoroughfare. J. B. L. BRIEF CONVERSATION. "Plenty money?" "No. Honey." "Tlan't funny." "Juat punny." C. J. MRNA8CO. How would "Profiteering Troches" do for the tokens? C. W. HUGHES. WAVY YARI> CAKK KATF.RS A funny chap In the Navy Yard write* that a "cake eaterr' union" has been organised In the Miscellaneous Hhop of the Navy Yard, and give* a list of officers, the Initiation fee be Ing one hand-knitted sweater. Any body who knows that Nary Yard bunch know* that a cake eater keap* farther away from there than a rrow does from a roan wltf> a gut). I would like te know if you mined A A P, Old Dutch, and Pigtfly Wiggljr would U be Sanitjfll How did Gen. PERSHING gtt the name of "Black Jack?" C. T. DAVIS. ALLEY'S EGG PROBLEM. The sharks all tell W. W. ALLET that the lady with the eggs had IS to ? tart with. At the first store she left "% and H. making 8: at the second store' 3^ and Vi, making 4; at the third store, IS and %. making 2; having one egg left. Problem worked by F. E. TAYLOR. C. T. DAVIS, W. D. PAYNE, FTLANK J. HT7XKEL8, . "BOB" CHEEKS, MARTHA H. SMITH. ' CHARLES A. PETERSON. B. <X VIA. THOMAS FITZGERALD, SAMTJKL LEVIN. 12 years old. RAT A. GRANT and THOMAS FITZGERALD send neat drawtas* an swering the water-gas-eleetlic light problem of C. R. K. It Is not poaafhle to publish these drawings, bovtrw. I also note at Plmlleo that Cook wan ready to nerve a meal wfth the Hot Stuff and the Slippery Efan, but Who Cores what they had? C.U.K. While passing along O street 8o? Say night T saw a foreigner throw mm American boy out of his place and hH him several hot wallops as be did so. Along comes a policeman and arraata the boy. the foralrner telling the oop he would be down to proseeute tb? boy. How could that policeman Knew who was at fault? Why not arreat both until the facts ware ksowaT Why humiliate the American boyT J. I. SMITH. An American Oak. If a woman shot bar hnshand. would an aeroplane hanrar? m BUCK WEAVEl. * rAMf HTEH3S SALE. Doesn't It seem unjust to taxpayer* who were so generous !n responding lo all drmsnd* for money during the war, to now be shut out of the r.aaap Meigs ssle* All material Is to b? kM ss an entirety, which prevents "the little fellow" sharing In the sale. Lib erty bond' were sold Individually, not roliectlvely. 8 AUBINOB. ITALIANS AND GARLICK. The controvorsy over garlic resort ing m m rslber hoi reply from a "TO# per ront Italian," has brought eevaral snswers lo th" Italian contributor, dome of thsm stronger In tone tbsn garlic is In smMI. Wt must avoid contention MILO H. who started the racket, now :i*k?: "How'll you have your gravv mil. with or without garPe*" ^ lift' writer ssvs garlic Is dell .-I' ? if tr*vi*s snd flaverina end t 1 n \'< i* remirks that same Amer ican. it queer things at wrong tin"' th? day Out W?at. be Say a * the Majority of peaple kstv vktt ??