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SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1923
OUR SLOGAN:
The Evening Journal—the First
Paper of the First City of the First
State.
GET DOWN TO BUSINESS.
1YJ-OW that the Democratic State Legielature and the
In Republican Levy Court of New Castle county
have organized, each body should settle down and
legislate for the benefit of the public.
The Democratic «teering committee, which is to te.l
what to do
and what not to do, and to eerve. In a sense, as a «uper
Legislature, expect« to get In full working trim about
The sooner it formuUtesrits
the middle of next week.
and eubmits it to the public for scrutiny, the
program
better that public will like It, because the Democratic
majorities In the Senate and the Hou«e are going to
have an exceedingly discriminating and critical public
to deni with this session. That public will be quick to
the difference between measures proposed In good
sense
faith and those offered ln the hope that they "will put
the Republican party In a hole."
Nor should the Republican Levy Court of New
Castle county Ignore th« fact that It« conduct la being
scrutinised closely by the taxpayer« ln this county.
They watched with displeasure the unseemly scramble
to effect organisation and are hopeful that, now the
initial difficulty has been overcome, the Commission
Republican« and Democrat«, will «ettle down to the
era,
laudable task of giving the people a buslneas-llV« ad
ministration of oounty affairs.
AN .APPRECIATION
7E received this morning the following letter,
which explains itself:
UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
Washington, D. C., Jan. 4, 1923.
To the Editor of
The Evening Journal,
Wilmington, Del.
Sir—The Commission has been informed by th« eeq
retary of the local board of civil service examiners in
your city that your paper has rendered valuable as
sistance by publishing notices of examinations for the
Federal civil service.
The Commieelon wishes to exprees to you Its appro
I{ Is tlie aim of the
eiatlon of your help in Its work.
Commission to keep the Federal civil service recruited
at all times with the best grade of workers available in
the various line«. The government, serving ns It does
all the people. Is entitled to the best in Its personnel. A
which helps to recruit the civil estabiish
newspaper
ment renders an important public servlca.
It is evident that practically all newspaper publisher«
recognise the value to their readers of the notice« of
civil service examinations. Many examination an
nouncements have a peculiar local Interest, such as an
nouncements of exsmlnatlon« for position« in post
The positions in Washing
ton, as you doubtless know, are. under tho law, appor
tioned among the several State* and Territories on a
population basis, and newspaper publisher« feel that
offices, custom houses, etc.
their readers should have equal opportunity with others
in the competition for these departmental positions.
The Commission hope* that it may have your con
tinued cooperation in this important work.
By direction of the Commission:
Very respectfully,
JOHN T. DOYLE,
Secretary.
It Is a duty we owe to the American public and to
- the Federal g6vernment to do everything within reason
to assist an official department ln putting over its bene
ficial tasks, and we assure the United States Civil Ser
vice Commission that it has been a pleasure to do what
We have done to promote the effectiveness of Its work.
CONSERVE THE ARBUTUS
ÎRE Is «omething from the New York Herald that
should Interest Delaware lovers of wild flowers:
II
To The New York Herald—The editorial sxtJcle about
wildflower sanctuaries is timely and sensible. -As for
the arbutus, which you rightly term the "daintiest and
most fragrant of early spring flowers," it may be of in
terest to call attention to the fact ths* for twenty-four
years the following has been on the statute books of
Connecticut:
"Willful destruction of trailing arbutus—Every per
son who shall willfully destroy, pull up, tear up or dig
up any trailing arbutus from the land of another, or
; - who shall sell, expose for sale or purchase or have In
his possession any trailing arbutus with the roots or
underground stems attached, taken from land not
' owned or occupied by him, shall be fined not more than
J20."
J. H. NETTLETON.
New Milford, Conn,, Jan. 6.
There are hundred* of places in Delaware today ln
which trailing arbutus grows. There are thousand« of
persons who go out In the spring and despofl those ar
tutus bed*, not only of their beautiful waxen flowers
but also of th* plants themselves. Because of the prac
tice of pulling the arbutus vines up by the roots the
patches are becoming smaller and smaller each year.
Unless something be done soofl, the arbutus will dis
appear from the list of Delaware wild flowers. The
Connecticut law would be a good one to have ln the
Delaware statute books, not especially for the protec
tion of the arbutus flowers, but to make It possible for
property owners to put an end to the destructive prac
tice of jrulllng the plants up the roots.
.a.
THE STING AT THE OTHER END
BROKERAGE firm ln Louisville falls. Queer
story comes out. Last summer the firm ordered
1300.000 worth of an oil stock, sold It to a customer at
thirty cents a «hare, then discovered later the cost was
130 a ehaxe. The flrm'e loss was $29.70 on each of
10.000 shares.
This should get a grin out of the millions of stock
market "tapeworms" who are nursing memories of
paying dollars for stocks worth cents.
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I MAY VICTORY FOLLOW DEFEAT
/''«REATLY to the disappointment of the faculft'.
IaJ" student body and friend* of the L'nlverslty of
Delaware, the basketball team of that Inert.tiKIon has
been defeated In the second game of the season,
opponent last evening waa the Brooklyn Poly team.
The score was 16 to 11. It is a striking fact that all
eleven point* made by Delaware were scored by one
man—Jackson, who made seven out of fifteen free
throws and one field goal.
The first game of the season was with the Philadel
phia Dental College team, and Delaware won.
The good wishes of everyone in Delaware will ac
company the Blue and Gold players this evening when,
at West Point, they battle with the strong Army team.
If they succeed in defeating the Army it will more than
compensate for the defeat suffered in Brooklyn
Its
AMERICANS AND TOBACCO
MERICANS during 1922 smoked about 64,590 mil
lion cigarette«, 6,900 million cigars and 490 mil
lion pounds of pipe tobacco.
This wsa about 600 cigarette«, sixty cigars and four
pounds of pipe tobacco for every man, woman and
child.
The Indians certainly started something when they
handed the white man's first pip* of tobacco to Sir
Walter Raleigh.
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TOP OF THE MONEY HTLL
T 45 the average man has more money than he ever
had before—or will ever have again. The top of
the money hill, in most lives, ts the forty-fifth birthday.
From them on. it's usually a down hill trip. And fewer
men have 1100 or more at 76 than at 26, though they've
had fifty more years for accumulating.
These figure* are announced by Joseph J. Devney.
insurance man, aJter an investigation helped by 1 .000
bankers,
The lesson behind It all 1* that the average person 1«
a money failure, and that to succeed you have to do
better than the average ip work, thrift, Judgment and
cunning. I
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WORLD WAR AND ITS COST
HE total cost of the World War wa* more than 835
billion dotlars. This is the latest estimate by Car
I
negie Endowment for International Peace. So the con
flict cost about eighty billions a year. Not long since
we thought It a stupendous achievement when the hero
of "Brewster's Million«'' «pent a million In a year.
Every fifty years there's a big war to wipe out most
If
of what the people have saved since the last one.
we can «top these wars, the prosperity of the average
parson In a few centuries will be fabulous. Interna
tional thrift and war bills Just about o«nc.l each other
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in the long run. as many Delawareans no doubt realize.
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P ROHIBITION whisky, has increased, by a half, the I
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number rejected when they try to take out in.um ■
The figure I
ANOTHER RECORD BROKEN
HE shorthand speed record Is broken again, this
tim« by Nathan Behrln, New Tork court stenog
rapher. In the penoil «print he takes down 360 word«
a minute with only two error«.
Few persons nan read that fast, or even think at *
speed of 860 words a minute.
To Wilmington Ians we would ssy that It will be best
to go slower and avoid the two errors, in everyday life.
Accuracy Is a greater asset than «peed. A email error
upsets the whole thing, Just as no chain is stronger
than it« weakest link. A platitude? Ye«. AU truths
are platitude«.
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BOOTLEG AND INSURANCE
ance. So estimate« the Inaurance Frees.
seems impossibly high. However, It'» true that a large j
part of the population I« committing slow suicide by
the boofteg route. .
Insurance experts say the situation will right itself
to normal within five or ten more years. By that lira«,
they figure, tho drinkers will be reposing In black coate |
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that open ln the hack.
London i sends word that Americans have contracted
for 100,000 tons of cogl to be shipped from Welsh
mines in the èarly «prlng. The buyer la said to be ex
pecting another strike among American coal miners.
That's possible, even probable, If wage negotiations now
being conducted In Chicago end in a deadlock. Add
your own comment. That'll be easy to the average
Delaware consumer.
Cigar ashes on the rug don't look a bit worse than
face powder scattered all over the dresser.—Topeka
Capital.
With the Paragraphen
George Benson has recently become disabled so he
could not attend to any of his business except the fox
hunting.—View Point correspondence Arkansas Coun
tlan.
! The Boston tea party has not been forgotten and Bun
ker Hill Monument still stands. But Boston cannot get
out ot the habtt of making history. Now It lets a wait
ing world know that Its flappers ara wearing their
foloshee hooked and not flying ln the wind.—*New York
Herald.
We have before us a leaflet entitled "Canadian View
of the Allied Debt," written by T. B. Macauley. president
of the Sun Life Assurance Company, of Montreal, ad
dressed to Bernard Baruch, U. 8. A., in which It it laid
down flat that it le the duty of the United States to can
cel the aforesaid debt. Ding, dong! The propaganda
clapperr never rests.—Kearney (Neb.) Hub.
* ' *
One reason why the Leader is often a little bit late In
oomin, out i. that we frequently have a number of fair
visitors who come In to leave a news item or an ad or
something of the kind, and at such times we always,
llke a true Southern gentleman, take our pipe out of
our m^uth and lay it down somewhere, and after they
are gone It always takes about fifteen minutes to find it
again—Tarpon Springs (Fs ) Leader.
?—:—:—:
If you have prosperity In the head it will often spread
to the pocketbook. |
GEMS OF THOUGHT '
Get a crooked man ln a tight place and watch him
twist. •
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* Don't fool yourself. Every worthy man respects the
fellow that lives within his means.
Duty never carries with It the threat of punishment,
nor does It bribe with promised blis«.
Debt Is a despot—it sways a crushing scepter. Aver
age poverty carries with it a sense of freedom.
Those who bear their troubles bravely always seem
to have more of them to bear than anybody else.
The child who regard* his parents a* a mere con
venience, later will regard them as a mere nuisance.
When our caller says, "Now let's get down to busi
ness," he is usually going to propose something you
don't want to hear.
They may wear them a while but long skirts never
w.ll be popular while women remember that long skirt«
make them look older.
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Another Reparations
Conference Has Failed
(From the New York Herald).
| A startling break has come be
tween Poincare and Bonar Daw over
reparations. An agreement between
them at no time eeemed probable,
but at no time did It seem possible
that so abrupt a termination of dis
cussion In the Paris conference
could happen.
In this situation America owes it
to herself and to the world to de
mand that all thle bickering that
gets nowhere be replaced by arbi
tration, which, aftpr all, is the com
mon-sense and eminently fair me
thod of settling differences.
France and Great Britain ^iave
differed both as to the amount of
reparations to be obtained from Ger
many and the methods by which
payment^ shall be obtained.
However lamentable such a re
sult of the Paris conference of Pre
mier* may be, It is preferable that
the deep disagreement« between
British
should be frankly acknowledged
than that reparations should
ttnue to be the eport of such am
biguous compromises and ingenious
combinations as have marked their
treatment in the pa«t.
promises and combinations
shown no way out of the reparations
maze. They have served but to in
crease irritation between allies.
France made up her mind a long
time ago as to her policy with
gard to Germany. Sooner or later
she would in any case have consid
ered herself obliged
guaranties for German payment that
have proved unacceptable to Britain.
Such being the case, thé rupture has
at least this merit, that 4t brings to
a head a crisis which could not
manently ba avoided
grew in danger every further day
It was suppressed.
British and American economists
survey the prospect with the gravest
concsrn. They see In Frenoh action
and Continental policies
con
Such corn
have
re
to take the
per
and which
The Paris, Outcome
(From the New York Tribune)
,h ® >«"* repamtlon. d *« d -
lock by reaching a negative one. 'It
an am i ca pi e rupture," a British
"France goes
In this sense
The Paris reparations conference
failed to reach a positive agree
ment. But It may be said to have
practical progress h«s been made
toward enforcing the Versailles
Treaty, since up to now Great Bri
tain has nsver been willing to lift
her veto on separate action by
France. •
changed.
Italy and Belgium'have gravitated
away from the British and toward
the French view. Mussolini has not
such faith in German protestations
of inability to pay as Nlttl and
FacH had. Greet Britain is now
outvoted three to one In the Repa
ration Commtasion, which ts the le
gaily constituted organ for the «n
forcement of the treaty. The Bri
ttsh are bound by that document,
They are hardly In a position to
protest against it majority method
of * nforclng u . They at llb .
erty, how*ver, .to observe enforce
epokesman said,
ahead without us."
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Circumstances -have
ment from the aide Une«,
British diplomacy at the peace
conference inflated the German
reparation account by insisting on
the inclusion of pensions and al
lotments. But from the signing of
,he treaty on Lloyd George brought
ail his ingenuity to Ijear to decrease
German payments. These have been
scaled down from time to time,
But the Allied ultimatum to Ger
any, carrying the Reparation Com
mission's total, assessed as from
May 1. 1*21, still stand« as the
financial penalty Imposed upon the
». t » , . _
At London last month and In
Paris this month Great Britain
rrcesed for reductions and for what!
amounted to a radical revision of
offered to «ccept revision, particu- !
larly of the amount to be collect- (
ed from Germany. But ehe has |
stood out for compensations in the!
j wa y of »hsolute guaranties that j
Germany will pay any reduced sum.
j In thia "h' ha * had ,h ® concurrence j
: of Belgium «nd Jtn'Y- |
A remark made by Premier
Theunls of Belgium Illuminated the j
j situation in the conference. Dis
I cussing the British proposals and
t or and I
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France Misread Britain
(From the New York Herald.)
France sees In Bonar Law's rep-1
aratlons proposals proof that ln Brit-i
aln personalities may change, and
wit hr them method and manner, but
that in the long run national policy
pollcy -
By France, reparations,are treated
a« being at least a* much a political
as they are an economlo question, for
ranking certainly equal with French
remains unaltered.
When news of Lloyd George's fall
was received ln Paris it was greeted
che „ ra ln th „ thea ,res. A
stranger might have Imagined that
the French had won a splendid vie-j
tory, so extravagant was the Joy of
the public at the disappearance of
the man who did more than anybody
els« to mobilize Britain's fighting
strength in the war. It had become
the custom to blame Lloyd George
suffered
by France In the vain attempts to
apply to Germany the provisions of
the Treaty of Versailles.
for every disappointment
Frenchmen had persuaded them-1
selves that the British Prime Min
lister held office in direct opposition
to the country's wishes and that with
his departure from offloe all Franco
Britlsh differences over reparations
would he removed by acceptance in
England of the French point of view.
They refused to heed the suggestion
that whoever might follow Lloyd
George would he ruled by the same
conditions thaï dictated the funda
mental lines of the Welshman's pol
icy and that «11 they could reason
ably expect would be a difference in
the manner ot
presenting British
desire for restoration of devastated
the certainty that German credit,
the restoration of which they deem
to be essential to the economic and
social recovery of Europe, will be
still further impaired, and that
France, by acting in the face of the
opinion of those countries which are
the real money center» of the world,
may well endanger her own financial
standing.
While It is difficult to discern ex
actly what, will be the political ef
fects of this first definite breakdown
of cooperation between France and
Britain, cooperation consecrated in
a million graves, the/e are never
theless two things that are clear.
In the flnst place. Bonar Law,
whose sympathy"with France Is un
feigned and sincere, will do his ut
most to confine tho disagreement to
this one point, and will strive to
continue in other matters the coop
Nevertheless,
the break is bound to hare a pro
found and lasting effect upon peo
ples' minds on both sides of the
Channel. Many persons in England,
and Bonar Law Is among them,
have'watched with envy the free
dom of America from the colls of
European entanglement«. Indeed,
when France threatened not to
eratlon of the past.
support British
Btraits, Bonar Law «poke plainly of
Britain Imitating the United Statee
and restricting her attention to the
more immediate interest« of the
"whn. tt a
■While It needs a romantic eye to
see Britain as an Atlantic Power, and
not as a Continental Power, and not
as London cablegrams suggested yes
terday, it does not require any great
stretch of Imagination to conceive
that the Paris breakdown may lead
action In the
to lessening Britain's
purely Continental affair« and to a
corresponding growth in her inter
est in developing her imperial
sources
concern in
re
| effort."
forts so far have been to evade
j payment. Is it not high time to
make her reqiliz» that she must
I show better faith .than
| France which they
l he said dryly; "Perhaps Germany
might be called upon to make some
Germany's only serious ef
contemplated.
shs has
I shown or pass over to her creditors
the task of collecting what her own
! government so obstinately with
! holds?
I It would be a long step toward
| an intelligent execution of the
I treaty if France were to experl
ment with the means'of coercion
| put In her hands by Germany's de
fault. Will an economic occupa
tion of the Ruhr as well as the
Rhineland produce reparation pay
ments? Whether it does or it does
not, it Is better to let France try
her hand. If she Is mistaken it
w l!l he easier for her to come
around hereafter to Great Britain's
view.
l n 1871 Germany held French
territory while th» p-,„.i,
p a y w« indemntty Sheoc
cupled northeastern France France
would occupy a corresponding por-!
tion of German territory The
Germans did not have to collect
their own reparations The French
have to. and the treaty allows them
to. There I. nothing unusual or!'
dlatiyrblng In thin—except to the
great German industrialists
have the Berlin government In their
power and have been egging it
to nullify the tretty
French rights are clear
bad faith Is equally clear
i, entitled to his experiment, which
may help to bring the Germans to
the <r senses. Until now they have
hanked on an Allied deadlock .to
frustrate the treaty
their Jugular vein, Bonar Law said
i n t h e conference. Rut will not
who
on
German
Poincare
The Ruhr Is
Germany drop at last her
resistance and camouflait« of in
digence when she feels
fingers near her throat?
These things are worth discover
ing. The Paris conference has
therefore been far from fruitless
In giving France a free hand it hae
apparently opened the way for an
other advance in the elow awkward
process by which Germén crimes
are to he. punished aid a new order
based on the peace treaties Is to
he est
sullen
French
districts Is France's conception of Its
need of military security. Island,
Britain has no euch political and
j military 'considerations to put In
| balance against the demand for
Industrial population for
two sons were lost In the war. It Is
perfectly within the right« of France
to differ from the British attitude,
hut since the submission of the Brit
lish plan, she can no longer he ln any
the
Its
employ
j ment and the necessity of putting
end to nar*do*io*i
have Ldè rhe fitàte comn re,,
j aa * Tn ® "''to comparatively
rich at the expense of th« Impover
(shed taxpayer,
an
| atlon is
This statement of the British «Hu
as true today as it
was a
year ago. and no change of Premiers,
tio general elections could alter It
Bonar Law's plan has aroused In
! ParlB lb e criticism that even Llovd
t° 801 '*e would not have dared to put
'forward such drastic proposals for
settlement of the
j t j, e interallied debt,
reparations and
This opinion is
probably right, for one of the
of British dissatisfaction with Lloyd
! George was embodied in the
! tion that in nearly every conference
1 his courage failed him
1 moment, and he sacrificed his free
idom of action to hla own art of «ub
tie compromise.
causes
nsser
at the last
France would do well to ponder
the fact that whatever suspicions of
pro-German leaning may attach to
the old school of British Liberalism,
no one oan reasonably charge British
Conservatives with an intention to
let Germany off lightly. Least of all
could such a charge be reasonably
brought against Bonar Law. whose
doubt as to what that attitude is.
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The Making of Cabinets
(From the Washington Post)
The forthcoming retirement of
the Secretary of the Interior, Hon.
Albert B. Fall, on March- 4 next,
brings to mind many Interesting
points regarding the selection of
member« of the Cabinet, Mr. Fall
has found It necessary to assume
personal direction of his business
affairs—a call that can not be lon
Rer labored. The President will lose
a
strong, virile and sagacious ad
viser, but he will not lose «
friend. The two men aro too close
friends to be parted by the exlgen
cles of politics or business. A re
markable tribute to the retiring
member of the Cabinet is to be
found in the informal admission by
Pre«ldent Harding that he had
urged Mr. Fall to take a place on the
United States Supreme Court. The
Secretary of the Interior leaves
office with the respect of all his
associates and with the host wishes
of the people.
Adthough there may be suggee
lions from tho President's friends
as to the availability of Individuals
as Secretary Fall's sucraesor, there
made a matter of political pressure,
The President 1« entitled to select
his own Cabinet without reference
to political claims.
will be comparatively little gratui
tous advice for the selection of an
adviser holding such intimate and
confidential
relations can not be
Apparently the quention of terri
torial availability enters into the
selection of certain Cabinet mem
v* r *' FOr ** ampIe ' Secrf ' tary of lh "
Navy for many years was selected
from one of the State« on the At
lantlc seaboard. In the first Lincoln ;
administratratlon—to go no further ,
ba, 'k—Gideon Welles of Connectl
cut. headed that department, and he :
wa * succeeded by Robeson, of New
J ,f, r! ' ey 'J:! 1<lnd,0r ' ,°L N ' W
shire, TVhltney and Tracy, of New
Yorjt, Long. Moody and Meyer, of |
. taseachusetts. Bonaparte, of Mary- |
land, and Josephus Daniels, of j
North Caroline. President Roose
veil In hla first administration ap- |
The Break at Paris
(From the Washington Poet.)
The disagreement between Great |
Britain and France, while it was ap- I
a most f
j
. !
w8r ° ho P e * t hat the two principal ,
a!lles would be able to compose their j
differences, in view of the fact that I
they agreed upon the «um total ]
I which Germany should pay. But j
they have split upon the question of i
method. Thle break appears to be j
aèrupt and irreparable, because of j
j the fundamentally opposite theories
! upon which the two governments ,
base their proposals. j
The British proposition is based j
upon the theory that Germany can '
and will pay if proper opportunity is j
offered. In order to create this op
portunity, the British government
think« that German sovereignty |
should not be unduly Infringed. It |
is suggested that If German territory j
be occl *P ied 1111(1 German resources
be administered by the allies, there i
bB - holding the Ger- ,
' man government to account.
The French plan Is based upon the :
I conviction that Germany will evade
^ payment if p0S3lb ' 9 ' and that safe- |
! Ruards must ba p,ai ' ed «round any i
arrangement for assisting Germany j
0 recover h * r ba, ' nc *' Therefore |
the French plan provides for an I
allied commission, to collect taxe* ;
on the coal production ln the Ruhr,
to tax German exports, and also to
tax Imports Into the Rhineland,
The commission would he presided
over by a Frenchman. The latter
provision is especially obnoxious
to the British who insist that
prehended, is nevertheless
disagreeable development. There
German eoverefgnty would be so hu
miliated by this arrangement that
Germany could not be expected to
co-operate In the scheme, which
thereupon would fail to produce the
revenue counted upon by th# French.
Many subordinate #ut Important
ttems ln the two plans mane them
Immigration vs . Assimilation
(From ths New York Tribune.)
The present discussion «bout les
sening the restrictions upon immi
gration seems to overlook the fact
that the main purpose of limitation
is to give the country time to assim
ilate Its enormous numbers of for
eign horn.
Since I860 nearly 4.000,000 Ger
mans, more than the same number
of Italians, about 3,600,000 Russians
arid about 3,000,000 Austro-Hun
garians have come into this country.
There have been besides many mil
lions of other foreigners. With the
growing tendency on the part of the
newcomers to settle in colonies, the
contact with American life and In
stitutions has necessarily been less
and the process of assimilation
correspondingly slower. Unfortu
nately .the attitude of the native
Americans hae only too often made
assimilation more difficult. Their
dislike of "foreigners," which goss
Editorial Opinion
T
The hearings before the House
merchant marine committee on the
Kellogg-White Federal ra lo
bill have proved Illuminative ana
Interesting. They have established,
eveh to the vninitiated the existence
of a state of bedlam in the air
which, if not speedily brought to an
end, will render valueless for prac
tical purposes what at first gave
promise of being a most useful in
ventlon. The trouble appear# to be
that there are too many broadcasting
stations in operation. There are 569
of them, and It is from them that
Interference fh the air largely comes,
It Is no wonder that there Is chaos
when Jazz bands, sermon*, crop re
ports, sporting results, concerts and
many other things beeide« are run
simultaneously oh the same wave
length«, and It 1« easy to understand
that in the absence of regulation the
useful possibilities of the whole art
of wire!««* would run serious risk of
REGULATION OF RADIO.
From the Washington Post.
pointed Paul Morton, of Illinois, but
replaced him with Victor H. Met
calf? of California, who was suc
ceeded by Truman H. Newberry, of
Michigan, the first Secretary of the
Navy, to be appointed from the ter
ritory of the Great Bakes. Generally
speaking, Secretaries of the Navy
here have selected from the East,
and from States bordering on salt
water.
So with the Interior Department,
The first Secretary of the Interior
was Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, ap
pointed in Zachary Taylor's Cabinet
in 1849. At the time Ohio was the
real West, with all the problem« of
development and protectio.ii of nat
ural resources no longer applicable
to territory east of the Mississippi
river. Subsequent Presidents fol
lowed the «tar of empire and went
farther into the West for their Sec
retaries of the Interior. McClelland
of Michigan, Usher, of Indiana, Har
lan * 01 Iowa, Zachariah Chandler,
Michigan, Carl Sohurz, of Mlseurl,
Kirkwood, of Iowai Teller, of Colo
'" ado > Vilas, of Wisaonstn, Npble,
Francis and Hitchcock, of Missouri,
Ballinger, of Washington, Franklin
K. Lane, of California, and lastly
Secretary Fall, who hails from New
Mexico—these form in part the im
posing list of those who have di
rected the destinies of the Depart
ment of the Interior for a half een -
„ r " th * p9r,od since the creation
t * ie portfolio of the Interior its
^ hHJ ' ° C , C . a8l ° nlI ' y bf ' t f, n . Ch T n
foom one of the Eastern States, but
In the selection of Secretaries of thej
Interior it would appear that Presi
dents have very generally recognlzezd
that the great States of the West
had a logical claim to epecial con-'
sidération.
th,s anaI °ry may be Included
the Department of Agriculture.
which was created at the close of
the second Cleveland administration
in 1889. The first Secretary of Ag
rlculture wa» Norman J. Coleman,
of Missouri, who wa« succeeded
tury.
irreconcilable.
The French proposal
to cut dowi\ the sum total of repara
tione is based - for instance, upon th*
acceptance of German Class C bonds!
by Britain in payment of the Franch
debt. As these bonds are worthless,
the proposal is rejected. The British
pIan Provides that financial super
vt * lon ot Germany should be under a
"foreism finance council" composed
of members äppointed by Great Bri
tain, France. Italy, Belgium, the
United States, and a neutral country,
The chairman of the council would
bft the German finance minister, who
would have no vote except in case of
a tie, in which case he would have
tb e casting vote. This feature is
especially obnoxious to the French
government, which Insists that it Is
equivalent to turning over to Ger
many the enforcement of the Ver
sallies Treaty.
The British and French govern
ment« having reached a dPadIock
and the British premier havina
withdrawn from the Terence It *
reported that the French and Bel
gian governments are exchanging
views in regard to possible Joint ac
tion. They are military alUss. and
Belgium is bound to co-operate with
France ln the event of military op
eraUons against Germany. The
French plan provides that the pen
alty for refusal to accept it shall be
military occupation of the districts
of Essen and Bochum and all the
rest of the valley of tho Ruhr, as ma
be decided upon by Marshal Foch
and the establishment of a customs
frontier around ail the territory
occupied. '
Italy's stand Is not clearly defined,
beyond the effort of the Italian del
egate to induce the British to accept
the French plan without the pro
sion for military penalties. Whether
Itaij will agree to the French plan
in full remains to be seen, but it Is
plainly to bo seen that Premier Mus
back a century or more, has helped
keep the aliens apart from the
tive born.
The contention of the restrictlon
lst« is that even the present per
centage of foreign bom in ths coun
try (13.2 per cent of the total popu
lation and 14.4 per cent of the total
white population) Is formldabls.
Instead of adding more foreigners
unfamiliar with American ways,
they any, it is better to absorb
of those we already have.
America needs time in which to
accomplish this absorption. It is for
this reason that stringent limitation,
at least for a decade, is needed. The
present percentage basis, although
not necessarily final, presents the
fairest plan of limitation eo far
offered. It' should certainly receive
a longer and fuller try-out before
amendments other than those cal
culated to èase Its operation are eeri
ously considered.
na
more
circumstances remedial legislation
| wouId ï( ,, m to be urgently needed.
| Thp w „ ns draftfd provld „ that
j to the Department ot Commerce
sh&u be jntrusted Kcne rai super
vjslon 0V er radio communication. To
on6 portion of it, namely, that which
8 ti pu | a t e9 that, whenever government
apparatus is used for other than
government business, it shall come
under the supervision of the Depart
ment of Commerce, the army and
na vy entered vigorous protest. There
are no doubt good grounds for thia
action, but surely that le a matter
for interdepartmental adjustment,
which may be effected without
prejudicing the chances of enact
ment of an otherwise laudable and
necessary piece of legislation. j
. -* .
COAL MINE HOLIDAYS.
From the New York Herald.
The State fuel Administrator, Mr.
|tt oodtn, announces that the Christ
mas week holidays reduced the pro
being undermined. Under such
r>
Jeremiah M. Rusk, of Wlsooiu
"Uncle Jerry," as he was known
the farmers throughout the coun
to Morton, of Nebras
gave way
who was succeeded by James \N
son, of Iowa. He served in the CJ
inet through successive adminlst
tlons from 1889 to March 4, 19j
when President Wilson appolnj
another man from the agricultJ
belt, Moredith, of Iowa whose si
eessor In the present Administrât!
Secretary Wallace, Is also from tt
great agricultural Commonwsaltj
Some comment has been heard
connection with the selection of
successor to Secretary Fall as
whether or not tie choice wm
fall on a Republican who had he
defeated In the recent electlt
norit y ot th ® votes his favor <
election day because he ha« be
loyal to his party and not becau
There would appear to be no soul
reason for excluding for appoid
ment to any public office, eltH
within the Cabinet or outside of I
an individual who has served H
country and his party well, becavl
he has been defeated in an eld
tlon. I
Elections are not always deft
mined on the merits of candidat!
Sometimes they turn on issu
which for the moment may be u
popular with a given constituent
and the candidate standing with )
party and representing those issu
or policies finds himself with a in
h , ...„individual I
}ug own p e0 pj ft ' Defeat under sur
circumstances should not exclu]
from consideration for appointmel
10 high political office any ma
whose qualiflctions are such th]
he is entitled to be oonsldered
i n other words, the so-calltj
"lame duck" whose infirmity cid
be traced to loyalty to and zeal fd
the principle« and polleie. of th
party which he represents ought t
rest easy In the conviètlon that th
misfortune of a single election su
tained in that way. doe« not necet
rarily spell the close of his publ|
by'life.
, solini has reversed the policy pur
f sued by his predecessor, who leaneJ
j toward the British side in the repara
tions conferences. Presumably Ital!
i would make no protest in the even]
of Independent action by France
j This seems to be the position of thi
British government, which has gon<
| no further than expressing the opin.
Ion that the French plan, If attempt!
j ed, would not be successful. On thj
f*-ce of the situation, therefore]
France and .Belgium are free to go
forward with the French plan, bu
on their own responsibility, am
without receiving the co-operation ot
tbe ailles In the makeup of the com.
mission that would impose taxes and
collect revenues in the Rhineland
and Ruhr valley,
The attitude of the United States
government was defined some days
a ko by Secretary Hughes, who stated
, if th * Parls conference should
fal1 to f' 11 ' 1 a solution of tho repara
tlons question the United States
T„ ,d that
rne<l j° appo ' nl
I, *"* i T rt flba . nclPr8 and economists
. V, 1an independent examination
" ,„,® rma " y * condition. This com
r appointed, would ascer
" erman 5 r could pay
'J""V 1 "' ifr ^ hat condition.,
Tbe governments would be free to
a,-c, ' pt or reject the finding of the
** 1hey P ,ea5ed - The
bbJ,>9t of th ® commission would be tx>
JlvTlîLLf® 1 faCtS ,
* , 18 an " P eo P' 9 could form
'g ent opinion with a view
r P°, 1 ? act ' on !n the direction of
claTrel^io^ 8 ^
war debts
Apparentlv It I. th.
France to proceed wUh the French
plan, or a modification of it lei!
Belgian co-operation. But the sltti
atlon is subject to changes, and a few
days may witness startling and un
expected developments. * U "
governments
a commission
upon which
commer
payments of all
of
duetton In the anthracite nrtne* about
500,000 tons. The
allotmsnts to
this State were 130,000 tons «hört
the normal consumption.
The falling off
of
of mining in
Christina« week Is
no surprise to
persons familiar with the
ways of
coal miner«. The general mishand
ling of the coal induatry Is
slble for the holiday wayg of'*the
miners. They have so many enforc
ed holidays, thanks to the Irregu
larlty of demand ln their business,
that they take holiday* wnenever
there is an excuse,
with them.
reapon
It Is a habit
The philosophy of the miner
easy to understand. Why shouldn't *
he knock off work for two or three
days at Christmas when he knows
that it means to him only that h" «
will have two or three more day« of
work In the dull season next spring?
It Is quite hitman for the worried
consumer to say that in time« Ilk«*
these the miner should
holidays; that he should work plght
and day until the shortage is made
up. But It Is equally human for the 4
miner to remember that he has been
Idle many a spring because the
sumer refused to buy coal before«
late summer.
Tho consumer Is having an object
lesson in the ups and downs of the
"° al "? T,"*J""**
dtocouraging «ones It his *de«J«r*
that the coal indutsry has broken,
down under the blow of last sum-*
mer's strike. Tie must realize that
unless somethlns'ls done to refont
tbe evi!« of the industry the
poriences of this winter may be
peated any winter,
President Harding's commise!«». „
ls now at work on the great problem
of standardizing the coal Indsiats?
11 must find a way to give steadmv
work to the miners. It must produr»*
a P ,an equalize cost« in tho var
l° us fields, making cheap production
In the fat mines counterbalance.
costly production In the lean
11 must show a method of Insuring
a steady flow from the mines to the
[!!?,. ÄlI o the >ear round '
The Government, the mine
ers, the miners, the dealers and the
public all must cooperate in this
important work, but It remains for
the Government to point the way.
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