Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-23
BY NEwBoLD MOVES.

Y Gle SAM has about made up his mind
that it is high time for his nephews
and nieces and the yet unadopted
! guests who today within his house
~ hold to recognize his authority as head
of the establishment in which every in
habitant of these United States lives. With his
mind made up to that point he has announced
that each and every lad and lass who plays in his
yard must play according to his conception of
the game or move on. or words to that effect
And the whiskers on the old gentleman's chin are
stuck aggressively forward as he speaks, hir-
suite condition evidencing, to all who know our
uncle we'll. that he means business.
The pronunciamento is highly popular one
throughout Uncle Sans household. To his
bona fde nephews and nieces it gives promise
that the period when self-invted guests to the
family estate might with impunity trample the
flower beds. smash the furniture. throw monkey
wrenches in the power plant and mock at the
family escutcheon were at an end. But there
is one phase of their uncles ultmatum which
puzzles them. 1t lies in that portion of his
words which say in effect. to his guests who
came to his home when his doors WERE open
to all: You must decide whether you
become members of my family not. If you
don't go home. If you do you must obtain
stipulated quota of knowledge. Snap into it,
boys and girls
Now. that's all very we'll far it goes.
But the thing that is puzzling this particular
nephew of yours. Uncle Sam, along with Others
is whether when you insist that Yong and Leo
and Siegfried and HanSel, and Zovanovich and
the rest acquire certain quota of knowledge
while visiting you, you don't very definitely OBJ
lisate yourself to place the means whereby that
knowledge can be gained within their reach
You do. And you have in measure that
obligation by furthering and encouraging the
work of characterization. But nephew of
yours who feels very strongly that this is
of the most important jobs you have on hand
these days went out to Just what facilities
available here in Washington.
Now. Washington is your particular
of your estate, Uncle Sam. 1t is where you love
to sit, either at work at play. 1t is the most
beautifully furnished; the gardens upon which
the windows open the most fragrant the
view the fairest in the world. And it is here
that the nephews and nieces from every corner
of your broad estate come to visit you, sure of
a welcome. They feel. with justice. that here
dered. For every corner of the chamber is daily
under your eye, and every phase of the manner
in which it is run is subject to your dctation>
alone. Here your nephewS and nieces have even
more intimate relation to you than the rest
for to the others you have given voice in man.
agement of the estate while these have only
your voice to depend upon.
What did your inquistive nephew find here
in Washington, he sought the facilities of
fered for the Americanization of your guests?
He found that you have within the past year
provided $12,500 for Americanization work with
in the District of Columbia, expenditure car
ried the District appropriation bill for the
current year. He found that with this fund