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The Washington herald., 1920-11-30
Russian Refugees.

= VACUATION of the Crimea and the sudden
deposit in and about Constantinople of not
less than $4,000 Russian refugees has raised
Tor relief agencies and for governments important
new issues. On simple grounds of humanity succor
will be provided and funds for relief work accepted
without undue scrutiny of their 1t is not
time to ask whether the unclad, unfed and shelter
less represent the best the worst of the Russian
population, whether their are not of
their making. The Good Samaritan knew
when to be social scientist and political reformer
and when not. His job to help a man who was
down and out and he did it.
Fortunately the United States has administra-
tive agencies the ground that have kept neutral
through all the long of their service in Europe
and in the Near East; and with relays of funds they
can speed up functioning Increased personnel also
can be effected by concentration of the European
staff the problem
With immediate needs cared for and economic
distress ended, problem will still remain, which
will give the chancelleries some trouble to settle 1t
IS part OF the general problem with its ramihcations
wherever Russians of the "old regime" have gone
Japan has had to face it in the Far East The
powers now in control of Turkey by Wrangers de-
feat, have been made keenly aware of the situation
The question is, where these refugees to settle
permanently, if not permanently at least until
they return home? Shall combatant refugees
basis Who will maintain them economically as
suming land for their colonization can be found?
Italy docs not seem to be especially inclined to
Welcome them to home along the Adriatic
Greece has troubles enough of her arising from
royalist ambitions without seeking for settlers
with little sympathy for democracy. So much of
Turkey d. is militant is Bolshevik and not only is
inhosptablc but hostile to the refugees. Who then
iS to toward solution of the problem?
The most sensible suggestion thus far made is
to SCgregatc them the North African coast, and
put them under cooperative international control
long it may be necessary to for them
Humanitarian grounds.
= In the last analysis OF course, come what may
IN Russia, the refugees Of the weto-do-class will
do either of two things, either return to Russia
wcarcd oi Soviet rule, they will filter slowly but
surely into lands where to be royalists consti-
tutionalists is not heinous crime Meantime there
will be terrible suffering physical and mental; and
in some rctribution for past tyrannies and
sins, Destiny having brought the wheel full turn.
The Washington herald., 1920-11-30
Protecting Business Credit Abroad.

Cancellation" OF orders by purchasers OF goods,
orders given prior to the present process OF defa
ton in retail prices has raised issues of morals in
business with which some OF the leading CONNER
cia organizations of this country graphing.
The extent to which the practice has gone during
the past hvc months has caused concern, especially
among manufacturers and wholesale dealers; and
men OF older generation, long in trade, are
pointing TO the fact as another sign of loss of
tionsl morale.
Whether this be so or not, the fact to be noted
is that the alleged "welching" has not been confined
TO the United States, and much the same condition
of affairs is worrying British promoters of industry
and trade, and in their indictment they have singled
out Americans : sharing in the disposition to
evade contractura obligations. Forced by defensive
action OF the American Chamber of Commerce in
London to prove their charges. the textile makers
Of Manchester and Lancashire, who talked in terms
OF loss OF millions, have filed evidence in seven
cases. With this evidence the London organization
and the Chamber of Commerce Of the United States
will deal. Jf. later, more evidence is presented by
the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, that testi-
nfony also will be taken up, examined, and the
offenders in this country dealt with.
Friends OF the Chamber of Commerce OF the
United States and OF the International Chamber of
Commerce, newly founded, will welcome the op-
portunty presented by this concrete case, to make
their influence felt positively on debatabe issues Of
trade ethics as well as on the technical details of
commercial expansion. 1t is field in which they
can work freely most OF the time and with no lack
of Jobs Collective condemnation by these organi-
zations of proved instances of lack of honor and
fair play would go far to stop them.
The Washington herald., 1920-11-30
Heat Paid for With Rent.

Apartment dweTlers will undoubtedly godspeed
the bill making it an ofTense for landlords to fail to
furnish adequate heat for apartments. The bill is
sponsored by the District Rent Commission, and it
is hoped that Congress will act on it shortly
1t certainly seems reasonable that Stated de-
gree Of heat should be maintained in an apartment
in which heat is one of the considerations for which
rent is paid Not only discomfort results from the
landlords failure to live up to the spirit of his
contract. Serious illness may be contracted by chill
dren and persons not constitutionally robust The
Rent Commission states that it has received many
complaints charging sickness due to cold apart
ments. Direct responsibility in such cases, morally
if not legally at present, would seem to extend to
the landlord, who either through niggardliness or
negligence fails to have proper temperature
maintained in the building.
While the health department has authority to
compel the maintenance of comfortable temperatures
in apartments where there is illness. its scope
to be covered to locking the garage door after the
car is stolen. While the baby is catching cold
father contracts bronchitis because of frigid radi-
ators there is authority that force landlord
to furnish adequate heat. He may construe "heat"
as few smouldering Goals in the furnace and
mean (mean is right) temperature of 40 degrees,
and there is no one to say an efectual nay to him.
The Rent Commission has ordered offending apart
ment owners to maintain reasonable temperature,
it is said, with result beyond complete ignore
ment of the order. Only action by Congress cam
put teeth" into the commissions order.
Practically all of the apartment house owners
in the District, sure, possessed of too
high an order of ethics to deliberately deprive ten
ants OF the heat they have paid for But in every
community there the Uriah Heeps, petty skin
hints and careless ones. These should be brought
to realization that heating apartment means
the maintenance of a temperature of some 6s de-
gress. al least, and that radiator is not an orna-
ment devised to make a lease look more attractive
The Washington herald., 1920-11-30
13 d. c. OFFICERS
ARMY PROMOTIONS

Thirteen Washington men are
among a list given out yesterday
by the War Department in an
nouncemcnt OF appointments 70 Of
fcerships in the regular army e.
the result OF examinations held in
October.
They arc as follows: ouartermaF
ter Corps. captain. Walter A. Swal-
low; office Of the Quartcrmastcr
General, first lieutenant. Thomas J.
Powell, 2l2 Thirteenth street north
cast: Medical Corps. major. Henry
Fenno Sawtelle. s0Ol Eleventh
street northwest; Captain. Alfred NJ.
Bidwell. 1916 Euclid street north
west; first lieutenant, Virgil r.
Lewis, 500 p street northwest;
Corps of Engineers. captain, Will
liam V. Hill. 73O Seventeenth street
northwest: Air Service. captain,
James F. Doherty; Office of Chief
of Air Service, second lieutenant.
James ]. Langin, Y. NJ. c. A;
Cavalry, captain. Charles S. Miller,
The Toronto; Coast Artillery. sec
ond lieutenant, George J. B. Fisher.
Office of Quartefmaster General; In
fantry. captains. Eugene +. Barton.
War Department: william A Wood
lief, War Department; FIRST lieuten-
ant, Samuel L. Buracker. Richmond
Hotel.
The Washington herald., 1920-11-30
U.S.-TAUGHT WOMEN
WIN CANNING HONOR

PARIS, Nov. 29.-The canning unit
OF the American Committee for
Devastated France won the gold
medal at the horticultural exhibi-
tion held recently under the aus
pices of the Horticultural Society
Of France. The award was made on
a collection of 1000 jars of fruit and
vegetables prepared this summer
under the supervision of Mrs.
Bernice Davis. director of the cam
ming unit for the American COM
mittee. who visited twenty-six de-
partments and gave demonstrations
in home canning.
The canning unit was initiated
by the American committee and
works under the direction Of the
minister of Agriculture Courses
of instruction have been given at
Grignon, the national school of agri-
culture. and during the, past sum-
mer fifty-one demonstrations have
been given in twenty-six depart
ments with a total attendance of
$3.50 persons.
The Washington herald., 1920-11-30

the Rio Grande are to be present at the inaugura-
ton ceremonies. The determination that this will
make possible will be educational and beneficial,
especially in cases where the guests come from
States along the border. No omen for the future
is more propitious than the conversion of the Tex
ans to confidence in the coming administration and
in Mexico's serious intention to quit hating the
"Gringo" and to pass out OF the of incessant
revolution and factional vendetta,
A majority of the people of the United States
want to be friends with Mexicans They do not
wish to exploit them to acquire them forcibly
as fellow citizens Their advice to Mr.. Harding is
not that given by Mr.. Hearst, who wants the
United States to become a power extending its
area south to the Panama Canal Such advice is
evil in intention and would rouse against the
United States hatreds and suspicious OF a malign
sort, among people south of Panama whom we want
friends
Mexican land rights and our trading rights can
be reconciled without resort to war, and with
President Obregon in command at Mexico City
there will be reliance diplomacy and arbitration
to bring about such reconciliation and cooperative
action. He has much of the ideasm Of Madero
without the obstinacy and suspicion of Carranza.
friend of the people without being dema-
gogue in denunciation of the wealthy, whether ma
tive foreign, who are indispensable if the nation
is to be put on its feet economically. He has been
successful military leader, but also au excellent
civil administrator. If he marshal sufficient
number of dsinterested subordinates to execute his
policies of state, he will make his mark in national
history.
The Washington herald., 1920-11-30
~ DO YOU KNOW
/ OUR BIBLE?
CONTINUED FROM YESTERDAY.
CHAPTER Is.
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CHAPTER Is.
the Philistines' corn with foxes and Ere.
brands. His wHe and her father are
burnt by the Philistines. samson
smiteth item hip and thigh. 0 He is
bound by the men Of Judah. and de-
hyered to the Philtstines. IL He kiIieth
them with a jTThOne- is God msketh
the fountain En-h4kkore for him in Lehi.
But it came to pass within a
while after. in the time OF wheat
harvest, that Samson visited his
wife with a kid and he said, l will
go in to my wife into the chamber.
But her father would not suffer
him TO go in.
And her father said. i verify
thought that thou hadst utterly
hated her: therefore ] gave her TO
thy companion: is not her younger
sister fairer than she? take her, !
pray thee, instead of her.
: And Samson said concerning
them. Now shall l be more blame
less than the Philistines, though l
do them a displeasure.
And Samson went and caught
three hundred foxes, and took fire
brands, and turned tail to tail, and
put a firebrand in the midst be-
tween two tails.
And when he had set the
brands on fire. he let them go into
the standing corn of the Philistines
and burnt up both the shocks, and
also the standing corn, with the
vineyards and olives.
Then the Philistines said.
Who hath done this? And they an
swered. Samson. the son in law of
the Timnite. because he had taken
his wife, and given her to his COM
panion. And the Philistines came
ur. and burnt her and her father
with fire.
And Samson said unto them.
Though ye have Done this: yet will
be avenged of you, and after that
/ will cease.
Ito BE CsntInaed.D
The Washington herald., 1920-11-30
DINNER HOUND
MAY SUFFER
Winter May Be Hard for
Those Who Dine Out
Regularly.
BY. O. O. M'rNTYRE.

NEW YORK. N9y. ss.-rhis is go
Ing to be an extfemey poor winter
for the Dinner Hound. During the
war he nourished because the male
companion was hard to find. The
dinner hound is that odd species
that only a great metropolis can
produce. He depends upon his per-
sonality for nutrimeAt-and spends
about $6 a week for room Nd
breakfasts.
He sings a little, talks a littls
and has mastered the latest step OF
the fox trot. Foolish -matrons made
his life one sweet song in war time.
He had luncheon and dinner en-
gagements for every day in the
week and as a result he didn't have
to work much. Anyway, in his set
to be in trade is vulgar.
At dinners he could handy words
and say things to shock the ladies
The latter is a valuable perquisite
for II takes the guests minds of
the food. The dinner hound. how
ever. finds himself out in the cold
now that thousands of young men
have Seturned from France and are
settled down to their accustomed
routine.
The police say that there were
actually several thousand of these
idlers. many with petty police rec
ords. invited TO some of the best
hn In, Il
How many matrons were black
mailed will never be known, for
blackmail is a crime that rarely
reaches public prints.
Just now the dinner hounds have
drifted down to Greenwich Village
and are losfing about the coffee
their old tricks OF cadging food and
drink in exchange for airy per-
sifiage. One of them is said to
bought a meal-save breakfast
for more than a year.
Still another Is seen nightly with
a short haired free thinker. reputed
to possess one of the most widely
scattered brains in the village. They
pose as poet and artist to the village
visitor. temporarily down on their
luck but willing to starve for dear
Arts sake. 1t has proved so profit
able that both have quit their jobs
The graduates of New York
Barber College gave a dinner in a
basement restaurant in Houston
street one night last week. This Is
the yell they gave when the food
arrived:
Cut his lip, cash his jaw:
Leave his face-Raw! Raw! Raw!
Horrors! Beaunash, who makes
literary mountains out of sartorial
le-hills in New York theater pro-
grams. predicts this gloomy future.
Says Beau: Velvet topcoats. II
sounds horrific to the bon pere de
famille, but the fashion is spon-
sored by one of the biguiG tailors
who serves a distinguished clientele
of sophisticated beaux." But Beau
nash. likes to spring surprises. He
predicted lace shirts for men sew
eral years ago. He writes with his
tongue in his cheek-and in real
life wears speckled collars.
Ben Ami, a Russian, who only re-
Gently learned to speak English. Is
being hailed as another Mansfield
He stirred the critics SO that Mr.
Woollcott. Of the Times, and Mr..
Broun. of the Tribune. actually
cheered with the rest of the audi
ence. Ami has been appearing in
Russian plays on the East Side but
with no great success. Arthur Hop
kins induced him to learn English.
Then he presented him in a play and
skeptical audience went and was
conquered. The actor is believed 10
be the find of the decade.
The Washington herald., 1920-11-30
LET'S DRAG FOR COAL
THEY THREW INTO SEA

LIBAU, Nov. 2s.-They are fish
ing for their coal An this port i'm the
Baltic republic of Latvia. During
their forced evacuation from the
Baltic countries the Germans loaded
all supplies and plunder they could
gather on barges and ships and sent
them to German ports.
They employed local Let's as
stevedores. compelling them to- work
at the point of a bayonet. The Let's,
loyal even under duress, managed to
drop overheard one bag for every
two put into the ships.
Now one sees Let's of all classes
fishing the dock waters with short,
loosely corded nets. Their long
poles easily locate the sunken sacks
of coal
The Washington herald., 1920-11-30
DIS USES DEMO TIC
LEADERSHIP

10 the kdItor, Ine washington Herald:
The reactionary ard compromising
tendencies of Republicanism which
arc soon to succeed the progressive
and rock-ribbed doctrines of an en-
lightened Democracy should afford
the retiring party an excellent op-
portunity to dispense with a person
who has long fattened upon the
spoils OF defeat. who has contrib
uted nothing but discredit to it's
councils-unless IL be a few pacific
treaties that might well have been
negotiated by any obscure UNDER
secretary in his office-and whose
meddlesome bombast. when properly
pricked. will be seen to have been
but a negative bubble upon the
salted seas of a dismal discomfort.
The noblest notes in the recently
concluded campaign were sounded
by Gov. Cox and an illustrious in
Cumbent who upon vacsting his ex-
allied office will enter the hall of
perpetual fame. to which honor.
universal appreciation must eventu-
ally elect him.
The underlying principles OF
Democracy can never die. but
gathering increased voltage from a
temporary defeat shall shine with
added lustre, leading all forward
looking members of mankind tow
ard the constructive planes of polit-
ical. economic and socialistic ad-
justment.
Democracy's choice at San Fran
cisco has eminently demonstrated
his fitness for its leadership and in
the momentous matters which in the
coming years shall seek solution he
should be retained as its active
head. Very respectfully,
ALFRED A. GUY.
November 19, 1920.
The Washington herald., 1920-11-30
EATING CORN.

In eating corn upon the cob
you do a decorative Job. by nicely
smearing up the beak and spread
ing
butter on the cheek.
You grab an ear both left and
right-assault IL wildly. bite
by bite-get all you can within
your chop and then apply the
facial mop.
The main object is 20 smear
and grease the face from ear to
a secondary aim. indeed, to hnd
enjoyment and a feed.
Who then completes a cob OF corn
and Is not CREASED and all forlorn
has missed the pleasure OF the feat
and does a trick that few can beat.
n. A. LUFBURROW.
lcopynsht. lao. by TIA ncclus sz.6sn.AS
The Washington herald., 1920-11-30
Clearing the Decks for Oregon.

Members OF the De la Huerta cabinet have placed
in his hands their designations to give Presi-
dent Obregon a free hand when he takes up the
reius of Office the first Order reigns through
out Mexico to unusual degree. Negotiations
with the United States and with European nations
by men in sympathy with Obregon's convictions
have made the outlook bright for Mexicos bettered
status with her creditors and with foreigners hoping
to continue doing business within her borders.
: The President-elect without betraying his
admittedly progressive following has made it quite
dear that he is not radical, and that the RED"
element of the workers OF the nation with their
Russian co-plotters to have short shrift
= On the whole our neighboring republic has rea
SON to be optimistic about its future; and we are
glad that so many governors of States north of
The Washington herald., 1920-11-30
Makes Dolls of New Clay,
More Cheap and Durable

A California man. HIT. Epperson
of Albany, in that State, has invent
ed a new plastic composition for the
manufacture of dolls. 1t is more
lasting than "bisque" and in other
respects superior for the purpose.
ALREADY factory for the, produc-
tion Of dolls of this material is in
operation and is turning them out
in large quantities for the American n
market. Our erstwhile dependence
upon Germany and other foreign
countries for playthings may be said
no longer to exist. American toys
are driving out the imported very
rapidly. and the California dolls will
be an important help in this direc-
tion.
Mr.. Epperson's dolls are nodded
from clay composition and are
cheap and durable.
The Washington herald., 1920-11-30
MAGNESIUM MADE
FROM SEA WATER

A Christiania message reports
that a prominent Norwegian scien-
tist. Prof. Holland Hansen, has de-
livered a lecture upon the possibili-
ties of the utilization of sea water
for obtaining raw material for Nor
wegian industry. He declared that
the Norwegian salt works at Bergen
would be able to produce yearly
500 tons of salt and 100 tons of me-
tsllic magnesium. besides gypsum
and other things.
The raw materials used were sea
water and electric power. Metallic
magnesium was IS per cent lighter
than aluminium. and an alloy with
so per cent of magnesium had ex-
cellent qualities, and was most prof
liable for use for all motors, espe-
cially for those Of airplanes. motor
cars and electric tramcars. The
lightness of the metal rendered pos
sible the saving of a large amount
of power. For example, there would
be a saving of so per cent in the
case of tramcars and the alloy would
be as good as the best cast-iron and
steel.
The Washington herald., 1920-11-30
Not a Real Substitute.

l. That gasoline substitute which
Jones invented seems pretty good.
Why do you think he'll never sell
Well, III tell you. the stun is
pretty fair for propelling motors
but its absolutely no good for clean
Ing gloves"
The Washington herald., 1920-11-30
OUR AIMS.

OUR AIMS.
Care they yours2)
Let me be little kinder,
Let me be a little binder
To the faults of those about me;
Let me pdaise little more;
Let me be. when I am weary,
Jest little bit more CHEEKY.
Let me serve a little better
Those that I am striving for.
Let me be a little braver
When temptation bids me waver.
Let me strive a little harder
To be all that l should be;
Let me be a little meeker
With the brother that Is weaker,
Let me think more of my neighbor
And little less of me-"
The Washington herald., 1920-11-30

form had at least one virtue-that
OF brevity. 1t was The Dictator
ship of the Proletariat-the Aboli-
tion Of Parliament" The Red cam
paign, however, was seriously han
dicapped by the fact that they were
unable to come to terms with the
Social Democrats for bipartisan
support of certain candidates for
the National Assembly. They made
the further mistake OF selecting as
their candidates men who were for
eigners Of Eastern origin and who.
therefore, did not appeal TO the av-
crage workmen Of Vienna. Just
previous to the election the Com
munists realized their mistake and
withdrew many of their candidates
and nominated in their stead native
workmen. The results of the cleo
tion show how ineffective this Com
munist campaign was. even when
unrestricted by government inter-
ference and subsidized with abun-
dant funds. In the last. National
Assembly the Communists had five
seats: in the new assembly they
will have one.
Power. Mt Ebb.
1t is doubtful IL the Communists
will be able to exercise on the new
government even as much influence
as they had on the government Of
the Social Democrats. Through the
Kreisarbeiterat (The District La
borers' Soviet), whose members are
the representatives of the Socialist
and Communist lakorers, the Boz
sheviks were able to bring pressure
to bear on the old government
which was reflected in its anti
policy. In the new gov
ernment this relationship will not
exist; and unless the Communists
and the Socialists, now bitterly at
odds, are able to ute in their oppo-
sition to the conservative groups,
there is no danger of a surprise ac-
ton from the Left which might re-
suit in the establishment of the
dictatorship of the proletariat. The
greatest danger is in the close CO.
operation of the Austrian .Commun-
lists with Lenin. who not only is
lavish in supplying funds, but ex-
ercises the prerogatives of dIcta-
torship " shaping the policies of
his Austrian adherents. As a mat
ter OF fact, the people of Vienna do
not seem to be greatly apprehensive
of Communism Even without the
dictatorship, the proletariat is bet
ter on than any other class Of the
population with the exception of the
peasants. The majority of the pop
ulation is too much engrossed in
the struggle for existence to be in
terested in abstract political theory,
and as long as the workmen occupy
the most favorable position in Aus
trian life. there is little in the prom
Use of the dictatorship of the prole-
tariat to attract them