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Evening star., 1920-01-04
The Fourteenth Census,

For the fourteenth time Uncle Sam
is now counting his people. He is do
ing it systematically, on a big scale,
having prepared for months in ad-
vance for this decennial enumeration.
The primary purpose of the census is
to ascertain the population in order
to determine the size of the House of
Representatives, under the constitu-
tional provision that Representatives
and direct taxes shall be apportioned
among the several states which may
be included within this Union accord.
ing to their respective numbers"
For long period after the first
census these decennial enumerations
were conducted strictly for this pur-
pose of determining the ratio of rep
resentatives in Congress, but eventual
ly advantage was taken of the oppor-
tunity to utilize the survey for the
development Of other Statistics. In
recent years the census has been q
most valuable performance, eliciting
facts and figures regarding national
conditions. The population feature
Of the census, though still the primary
object, is accompanied by an exten.
sive survey Of social, industrial, agri-
cultural and economic conditions
From the census bureaus returns and
compilations and bulletins the people
derive much valuable information
Business is guided, research is aided
and in general the census work per
mits the people Of the country tt
know precisely the conditions il
which they live, the trend Of move
usnts and the rate Of development.
The first census disclosed a nationa
population Of s92s,214. That was il
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&rmany's Army.

A statement comes from London
that Germany's armed forces are now
estimated by the British war Office
to be nearly . million men, which is
about ten times the number allowed
under the terms Of the peace treaty.
Reduction of the force to 100000 must
be effected by March 81. There is no
reason at present to doubt that the
terms of the treaty will be met in
this particular. Rumors of secret
mobile army in Germany Of sufficient
size to deliver q disastrous blow
against the allies as soon as their
forces have been demobilized have
lately prevailed, but British officers
returning from Germany declare
there is NO truth in them.
Germany is in no condition econom-
ically or spiritually for another con-
fict, for many years. The old au-
tocracy has been swept away and with
it has gone the power to compel mill
tary service in any cause for any &C.
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17so. The subsequent deeennial fg-

1790. The subsequent decennial hg'
ures show the growth Of the country
graphically. In 1910 the enumeration
disclosed 91,962, ,266 people in conti-
mental United States. Subsequent es'
Inmates based on carefully devised
formulas have brought the total up
to 105, ,253, 300 in 1918. 1t is believed
that the fourteenth census will show
= continental population close upon
11o,OOO,OOo.
Between national counts cities, with
an eye to their needs and ambitions,
conduct their own enumerations, and
there is, as rule, dissatisfaction with
the federal census returns, which are
normally below the local counts. From
now until the announcement of the
population reports by the census bu-
reau there will be keen interest. Ger
tain cities are hot rivals for su-
premacy. For instance, Cleveland
and Detroit, at present relatively
sixth and seventh in rank in the
United States, according to tho
census estimates Of 1913, are now
each hoping to be accredited with a
population of 100000. Both of
them have advanced in rank since the
1900 census, and Detroit has gone for
ward since the 1910 count. Detroit's
rapid rise gives it present hope that
it will displace Cleveland as the sixth
city, and some enthusiastic Detroiters
even hope that the fifth place, now
occupied by Boston, and possibly the
fourth, held by St. Louis, may be at
tanned in the new decennial count.
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Make Retirement q Certainty!

COnnQenC expectation IL oAp1ceSeu
that the civil retirement bill, which
has been favorably reported to both
houses from committee, will be
enacted into law at the present ses-
sion. This should surely be the case.
The measure, after years Of careful
consideration and many changes
from the original proposal, has now
the Endorsement Of practically every
responsible administrative official. It
is urged as necessary for the relief
of the government from the weight
of approximation in the service, and
quite as necessary for the relief of
the workers who have grown old in
the governments employ.
No matter what the reclassifcation
commission may report in the way Of
a scheme of co-ordinated compensa-
tions and definitions of duties, there
must be some form of retirement to
prevent congestion in the service.
The scale of pay may not be per-
feetly worked out for action this
year, though that is highly desirable.
But the retirement bill can be
enacted into law independently Of
the readjustment Of salaries. It
should not be held for consideration
along with whatever form Of basic
legislation the commission proposes
and the congressional committees ap-
prove.
Retirement Of the civilian en-.
ployes of the government will not
cost the government . cent, in terms
Of actual efficiency. It will actually
save the government money. It is
now proposed. upon cost'division
basis, with the clerks themselves ul-
timately carrying the major part of
the expense. Actually, in respect to
practical economy, whatever the gov
eminent contributes toward retire
ment pay will be a rich Investment
in more effective work.
It is stated that those in charge
Of the bill in the two houses expect
to see it made part Of the stated leg
islative program. This is important.
The bill should not be left to take
its chances on the calendar or to
come into competition with other
measures that may for the moment
appeal more strongly to members for
time. The session will be crowded
with matters Of urgency, and unless
there is agreement now by those
charged with the framing of the pro-
gram that this meritorious and now
virtually unchallenged proposal shall
be given a distinct position as one
of the things that surely will be put
through before adjournment, it may
halt and wait and, as it has so often
before, 60 over to another session, or
possibly to another Congress.
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Alien and Domestic Radicals.

:. One of the difficulties attending
the effective roundup of radicals IN
this country that the government Is
at present undertaking lies In the
fact that under the present laws it
is hard to "get" those who are Amer
lean citizens but who are engaged in
harmful propaganda. So wide Is the
latitude of free speech in this coun-
try that Americans can with i'm
punity participate in communlstlc
movements, can openly declare for
governmental changes, can express
themselves freely in criticism of the
institutions of government and the
acts of officials. Criticism is regarded
as an inalienable right. When per
sons of this ilk are found in bad
company, associating with avowed
anarchists and representatives Of the
soviet system of government, the
presumption is naturally that they
are themselves seeking to promote
the cause of anarchism through the
overthrow of our existing system.
Yet when they are brought to book
in court there is little, perhaps, upon
which to convict them Of actual Sc
dition.
Much, of course, will be accom-
plished by purging the country of the
pernicious alien radicals who form in
many cases the leaders and in most
cases the bulk of the following of
these seditious groups. 1t is esti-
mated that Of the 4,500 corralled in
the recent raids fully half are sub
ject to deportation. This process can
be continued proftably, and if the
doors are barred firmly against the
ingress of others the national system
may be gradually cleansed of this
poisonous influence. There will re-
main, however, those who have been
infected by the Virus Of social 'un'
rest who, being of native birth or
acquired citizenship, cannot be de-.
ported, but must be dealt with here
under the laws framed for the pro-
lection of public order and the pres
ervationA of the state. - .-s.-..s..
The Department Of Justice, in pro-
ceeding against these propagandists,
both alien and native, should give
the public welfare the benefit of all
doubts. If person is innocent Of
intent to promote the overthrow Of
government he will have a chance in
court. He will not be presumed
guilty because Of his associations. But
he will pay at least the penalty of
being compelled to defend himself
before the law for joining in sub
versive propaganda.
No good citizen can daily with this
pernicious thing, generally and
vaguely styled radicalism, which
means, when stated in its clearest
terms, anarchism. No matter how
restless or dissatisfied, OF critical Of
present institutions or administra-
tive measures, the American who be-
ieves that after all ours is the best
form Of government, who believes in
government itself, should hold strict
1y aloof from the mischief makers
who are trying to enroll the discon-
tented into an army Of revolt.
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POLITICS AT HOME
An Aroused Electorate.

Evidence multiplies that this
years campaign will be q hummer
from coast to coast, from start to
finish. The republicans are stirring
even in states where for long time
they have not had look-in. In The
Stars special correspondence from
Florida, printed recently. the an
nouncement appeared of the purpose
Of the local republicans to put state
ticket in the field. The split IN the
ranks of the Texas democrats is
widening, and giving the republicans
Of tho state something they take to
be hope. In North Carolina the re-
pubicans are decidedly perky, whiN
in Virginia they are preparing to
nominate a candidate for United
States senator against Carter Glass,
who is expected to ask Endorsement
at the polls of his appointment by
Gov. Davis to the Martin vacancy.
In the border states of Maryland,
Kentucky and Missouri the repub-
licans are in high feather. In 1918
in Missouri they won easily in con-
test for United States senator, while
in Maryland last November they lost
the race for governor by only few
hundred votes-in the circumstances,
victory. The Kentucky result was
what is called a dandy. The repub-
ican candidate romped away with
the governorship. He was forty
thousand to the good at the polls.
Such a getting upstairs in the Blue
grass state was never known before.
If these are new signs and condi-
tions, it is to be remembered that
these are new times. Everything,
everywhere, is new. A new world ex-
lists. New problems are to be solved.
New obligations press. While still
operating under the old and original
charter-and let us hope that we
may long continue to do so-we have
ourselves many new things in hand.
We are inaugurating new era
So it will be good thing for us
if everybody entitled to the ballot
lends a hand this year. Everybody
has a stake in the game. There has
not in half a century been such a
call to the electorate as is now re-
verberating. The voters must come
out.
Just now new parties and threats
Of new parties are in the air. The
disgruntled are very much in evil
dence. Old assaults on the two old
parties are being renewed. Both are
again posted as corrupt and archaic,
and the people urged to scrap them.
In the main this humor will pass.
The contest in good time will show
the two old entrants battling for su-
premacy in much the same old
fashion and with some Of the same
old cries, with many of the voters
now talking rebellion back in their
old party places doing their little
best as of old.
Evening star., 1920-01-04
HEARD AND SEEN.

Of the fieas and stops 'em from jump
| ing This was news to me-that
| fleas have wings"
Another story Of how an innocent
person may get his foot into it."
Standing at lunch counter,
young man happened to see a cock
roach crawling over the counter. in
tent on marauding a pile of sand
wiches.
AS the roach crawled along the edge
of the counter 2 young woman came
along and started to lean on the mar
BILE edge. She didn't see what the
young man did. and was blithely pro-
ceeding to smash the roach, when the
man grabbed her sleeve and pulled
her arm back.
The girl turned in astonishment a
look Of inquiry in her eyes.
The young man, in explanation, mo-
toned at the counter.
The girl looked, and saw a beauti-
fully clean counter. and that was all
the roach had crawled out of sight.
"Well?" asked the girl. not exactly
liking her sleeve to be pulled
The young man, mentally cursine
the agility or the roach. could only
point dumbly at the counter and smile
foolishly. At least, that was the way
he felt
IF you didn't see it, I'm glad" he
said, heroically.
Why is it all the people in a street
car listen eagerly whenever two per-
sons happen to talk?
The phenomenon can be witnessed in
almost any street car whenever two
persons with anything really to say to
each other start talking. The kindly
old lady looking out the window will
stop doing that and take in every
word. The people all along the line
Of seats. II it happens to be a box
car" will one and all eye the takers
and not miss a syllable.
Listening to other people talk on
street cars is a cousin to that other
street car vice-looking over your
fellow passengers shoulder to read
his newspaper. 1t is pretty hard to
make a whole street car full of people
stop listening to others talking, but
here is the way newspaper reader
stopped one of these "over-the-shoul-
der" readers.
First, he stopped reading and folded
up his paper.
The old gentleman was not to be
nonplussed so easily.
May / borrow your paper" he
asked.
i SuppOSc yOu may ans" CT Gu tuo
younger man. with perfect politeness,
but with an accent on the word may"
The old gentleman caught the ems
phasis.
what did you say" he asked.
81 said. Il suppose you may" an.
swered the young man, with great
truthfulness.
.'Humph" snorted the old fellow.
But he didn't borrow the paper.
CHARLES Z. TRACEWELL.
Evening star., 1920-01-04
"Young Teddy"

A young man makes his debut in
political Office this week Of whom high
hopes are entertained by his friends.
He is expected to 60 far, and with
speed. This is Theodore Roosevelt
"Young Teddy"-son and namesake of
the public favorite whose untimely
death the country still mourns.
Following in the paternal footsteps,
3Young Teddy" begins as member of
the New York assembly. The session
opens at Albany Wednesday, and will
afford the debutant opportunity to
show his quality. The states affairs
are not in the best of condition.
Taxes are high. Expenses have been
increasing. The people are murmur-
ing about number Of things.
To add to tho interest, not to say
the gayety, Of the situation the gov
ernor is a democrat, while the legis-
lature is republican. And this is presi-
Dental year.
It is a situation in which the father
would have delighted. He loved a
SCRAP" and handled himself well in
one. He frequently started one.
He became SO masterful a poll
tician, popular appraisement Of him
is of a man who went unerringly at,
and to, things. But he did not. He
had to learn his trade, and blundered
occasionally during his apprentice.
ship.
He came near to blundering Is late
as 1900, after reaching as high q
place Is the governorship. His first
inclination was to refuse the use Of
his name that year for his party's
vice presidential nomination, and it
required strong pressure on the part
Of his friends to bring him round.
Fortunately for him they succeeded,
and fate, in q few months after he
had been invested with the Office,
landed him in tho White House.
he blundered seriously and dis
astrously in 1912, whom he split his
party and sent it to defeat. BE
never saw it in control again, al
though four years later he exerted
himself to the utmost to repair the
injury he had done.
But in a number Of places, and IN
a striking way Of his own, he did
some notable things, and earned the
reputation he enjoyed. He possessed
all the elements of leadership in a
combination which has not been
paralleled in our history.
The son starts in this long, deer
shadow. He cannot hope, and pre-.
sumably will not try, to duplicate
his fathers achievements in kind OF
degree. He must make his own way
in the circumstances that surround
him and with the material fortune
provides. That he may 60 far will be
the wish of his fathers as well as OF
his own friends; and, taken together
they must be numerous. And if he
applies himself as diligently and
learns his trade as thoroughly as his
father did, he should put something
very much worth while ON tlf> credit
side Of the ledger.
Evening star., 1920-01-04

Some Of the old directors are won
dering whether when the railroads are
turned back they will be expected to
sign for them as received in good
order.
Evening star., 1920-01-04

So long as Lenin has announced a
terrorizing bolshevik policy for this
country it is as well to let the reds
have tho first scare.
Evening star., 1920-01-04

Scientists who suspected that the
Gulf stream had shifted so as to
change the North American climate
have had their fears set at rest by the
recent temperature.
Evening star., 1920-01-04

There will be some long sessions in
Chicago and st. Louis if nominating
conventions find themselves called
upon to settle all the questions agitat-
ing the public mind.
Evening star., 1920-01-04

A New York banker returned from
the theater to find that his home had
been robbed. It is q hard life for
the "tired business man."
Evening star., 1920-01-04

New York banqueters who carry
their own beverages have no one to
blame in case Of wood alcohol symp-
toms.
Evening star., 1920-01-04

Statisticians who specialize on ad-
vances in food prices have been busy
for several years without developing
much work for the minus mark.
Evening star., 1920-01-04

There is not much economic enthusi-
asm over the fact that the demand for
railway facilities is greater than the
supply.
Evening star., 1920-01-04

. Senator Harding attracts wide at
tention as q statesman who is as will
ing to answer questions as to. pro.
pound them.
Evening star., 1920-01-04

There will not be much sympathy
for any effort to introduce "strike
carly" Is . springtime slogan.
Evening star., 1920-01-04
A pessimist,s Obseryation.
Rivalry Removed.

"Why do you SAY you admire
Shakespeare, whom You always select
jazs entsYtainment~
'It's this way" replied MI. Hibrouz-
or. "When I hear An actor reciting
Shakespeare I always feel that could
do it a. well, or maybe better, myself.
But when it comes to jazz I'm forced
to admit that couldn't compete"
Evening star., 1920-01-04

Mexico's duties on gasoline and ker-
osene indicate that Carranza would
rather be an oil king than a dictator.
Evening star., 1920-01-04

Uncle Bill Bottletop thinks the wood
alcohol radiator is a mighty poor sub
stitute for the old water wagon; also
that it leads to many . coroner's GER
tifcate takin' the place Of . New Year
resolution.
Evening star., 1920-01-04
Unemployed Facilities.
When winter grows frozen and steely
This thought win intIude:
Cold storage is offered too freely,
With not enough food.

at is sometimes necessary" said
Jud Tunkins, "to wallop . mule. But
the man who breaks q rib or . leg
doin' it is NO good disciplinarisn."
Evening star., 1920-01-04
REMEMBERING
the Houses.

Perhaps the only trafic dog in
Washington is to be seen of sun
shiny afternoons at 18th street and
Columbia road. taking instructions
from a real traffic cop" located there.
This traffic dog is big. lanky Aire-
dale belonging to a householder UP
the block a way. The big dog seems
to have taken quite a fancy to the
policeman. after the manner of dogs.
and comes out to assist him whenever
he can.
stand, and on this he and his friend
the dog stand. The cop directs the
traffic, Of course. but the dog takes
great interest in the proceedings,
standing faithfully by his friends
side for hours at a time. scarcely
moving.
The Airedale has the making of a
great traffic policeman. his friend the
real policeman says. The dog is
fearless, and often manifests this
trait by standing out over the car
track until pulled in by his friend in
blue. Often the hand yanks him onto
the stand just in time to miss an on
Forty years in tho District of Co
lumbia without having set foot on
the streets!
the sisters of the Visitation Convent.
formerly located at Connecticut ave-
nue. and L street northwest, ] am told
on authority. For forty years these
sisters lived in the school, taking their
exercise in the spacious grounds back
Of the building. surrounded by a high
wall.
AS you go past the building now
you see it almost RACED to the ground
having been sold recently for a big
price. So tho good sisters at last
came forth from their cells and trod
again the streets OF the National
Capital for tho first time in forty
years.
Do fieas have wings?
Unless one had seen a picture of a
flea drawn under a microscope this
question might prove a veritable puz-
illustrator Of the bureau of ento-
mology, Department of Agriculture,
enlightened the joint congressional
commission on reclassification of sal
aries recently on this very point.
Counting the hairs on a worm and
the joints in "cootie" are merely
part of the job which Mr.. Bradford
encounters in the course of his work
for the bureau of entomology. After
explaining to the commission the
processes of his delicate and inter-
ssting work. unique in the govern
ment service, Mr.. Bradford smiled and
said:
his fea powder gets under the wings
Evening star., 1920-01-04
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PH1LANDER JOHNSON.

Phrsseology.
Oh, phraseologyl
Your music we enjoy,
When themes Of sociology
Your energies employ;
BUT
You do not put -four in the barrel.
You do not put coal in the bin. You
do not buy wearing apparel, nor Ill
out a pocketbook thin. You do not
put cakes on tho griddle. Wh.n the
fats in the IRE, moro or less, You
simply PROFOUND new riddle and ask
everybody to guess.
Oh, phraseologyi
You como with cadence fine.
From beans back to biology
+ You lead us down the line;
BUT
You do not put coats on our shoul-
ders. You do not put shoes on our feet
You do not remove ruts and boulders
which on the long journey we meet,
The toll that demands bone and gristle
You seldom make out to reveal Your
tendency's too much to whistle, with
not enough shove on the wheel.
A Pessimist's Observation.
1--WE have NO army Of the unem-
ployed."
IT don't know" rejoined Mr.. Grow.
cher. "After watching . few Of the
helpers who have come along in con-
nection with various kinds Of work,
have concluded that we have q large
number in a state Of unemployment
The difference is that they get paid
for it."
Evening star., 1920-01-04


that only nve are engaged directly in
the promotion and development Of
foreign trade to any considerable ex-
tent, departments of Commerce. State
and Agriculture, Pan-American Union
and the International High Commits
sion. The Shipping Board and the
Railroad Administration are engaged
operation of carriers except that the
supercargoes of the Shipping Board
collect general trade information
when in foreign ports. The Interstate
Commerce Commission touches the
field of foreign trade only with ref
erence to freight rates on export and
import shipments in transit within
the territory Of the United States. The
Tariff Commission functioning as an
advisory body to Congress on tariff
questions investigates industries at
home and abroad. The Federal Trade
Commission is limited to the investi-
CATION of combinations in foreign
trade. The Treasury Department.
through it's customs division. is the
source Of information for statistics
of imports and exports. The Federal
Reserve Board and the War Finance
eign trade by negotiating foreign
loans and maintaining banking con-
nections abroad. The Department OF
the Interior through the bureau Of
mines and the geological survey as
sist indirectly in foreign trade mat
ters by making occasional investiga-
tfons of tho mineral resources and
Industries Of foreign countries.