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Elihu Root.

Will Mr.. Root upon his return-he
is expected shortly-take the stump'
While in Europe this time he has been
in communication with many leading
statesmen. His mission has had to do
with the organization of an interna-
tional court of justice. He is an ad-
vocate of peace. Considered in con-
nection with public business, he is
probably the most capable all-around
American living. Theodore Roosevelt
"a high sponsor-pronounced him the
best qualified man for public Office he
had ever met.
A republican, with experience in
both executive and legislative work !;
mentioned at one time for the presi-
,dency; when not in Office valued
adviser of his party from private life,
Mr.. Root has views which should carry
far at this time. The topics are big,
and he is a big man. In matters of
law duu luduCc anu ue Is
an authority. !
Stump-speaking is not strictly in
Mr.. Roots line. He has no hurrah in
his composition, but is self-centered
man who deals very effectively in pure
reason.
But as both the topics and. the situa-
ton are unusual, several speeches by
him-one, say, in New York, one in Chi
cago and one in st. Louis-would prob
ably advance his party's interests.
Whether we shall see Mr.. Root in
Office again is question discussed in
both political and business circles. He
has health still, and continues to take
keen interest in affairs. There are
many persons, indeed, who lament the
fact that the country during the recent
years of commotion and travail did not
enjoy the benefit of his services in
some public station, where his large
gifts could have found opportunity
for employment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-22
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHII4ANDER JOHNSON.

Where Interest Ceased.
A man of erudition took an eloquent
position
Concerning all the topics Of the day.
He would write and he would lecture,
he would argue and conjecture
AS the precious moments wandered
on their way.
With gesture most cratic he would
strike a pose dramatic
And describe the errors which around
us Turk;
He used language scientific. He was
learned and prolific,
But he hadn't any taste for real
work.
Through all mortal mans dominions
he would scatter his opinions
In monologue and essay and debate.
If old stories grave or pleasant were
not quite in style at present
He would alter them and bring them
up 20 date.
His industrious endeavor was both YER
satile and clever.
No field of enterprise he seemed to
shirk
Excepting one. We note it with much
sorrow as we quote it
He hadn't any taste for real work.
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THREE PLANS TO GIVE
CAPITAL MORE WATER

much as I want to-" was the COM
plant which came to the water de-
partment.
Officials of the department had to
explain in reply that it was not a
question of the people being able
to pay for the water, but a prob
lem of conserving it during the
hours of the day when the load is
heaviest. so that the city will not
exceed the safe capacity of the
conduit.
Large quantities of water have
been saved in the past few years
by shutting down the fountains in
public parks and also by the de-
lection of underground leaks.
With all of these precautionary
measures the average daily con-
sumption of water during the last
fiscal year was 66,75O,000 gallons.
which was dangerously close to
the estimated safe capacity of the
conduit. 6s,ooo,ooo gallons.
x X x X
Since 1908 Congress has ammo
priated about $4,000 for investiga-
lions and surveys of various proi-
ects for increasing the city's water
supply, but none of the projects
has ever been carried out.
AS result of these various srr-
veys three plans for increasing the
supply now stand out and proha-
bly, will be dealt with by the water
power commission in it's report
which must be submitted to Con-
gress by January 1. The three
projects are:
The joint power and water supply
plan. p'
The parallel conduit project.
The Patuxent river proposal.
The first plan, briefly, would me-
cessitate the construction of
high dam in the Potomac about a
third of mile above Chain bridge.
Power would be generated by
using the head created by the dam.
The city's water supply would be
increased by pumping to the Dale
carIia reservoir from the lake
formed by the dam. If this project
were carried out it would be ne
cessary to enlarge the delivery
pipes between Dalecarlia reservoir
and the alteration plant.
The cost of the dam, land.
fowage rights and damages was
estimated in the Washington
queduct report of last year at
$16,923,0o0. The cost of equip
ment that would be needed to
pump the additional water supply
to Dalecarlia, the relocating of the
Chesapeake and Ohio canal and
the laying of new conduits to the
liberation plant was estimated in
the same report at $11.S47,o 900.
This would make the total initial
expenditure for this joint power
and water-supply project $2S.77o.-
900. The figures probably would
be higher under existing prices.
The second proposition contem-
plates merely the construction OF
another conduit similar to and
parallel with the existing one from
the dam at Great Falls to Dale
carlia reservoir, with additional
tunnel to carry it from there to
the filtration plant. The estimated
cost of this plan under last years
prices was $9.12s,720. This plan,
however. leaves out of considera-
ton the development OF electric
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-22
thea most impor-
-. tant question to the people
of the District of Columbia

of the District of Columbia
that will come before the
next session of Congress will be
the report of the waterpower COM
mission on the best means OF in
creasing the city's water supply.
This question of increasing the
water supply has been discussed so
much and investigated so often IN
the last twelve years that the
average Washingtonian-a per-
haps some members of Congress
have underestimate the serious
ness of the situation which has
developed in the nations capital
during that time.
Careful computations show that
with a normal increase in popula-
ton the water that can be deliver
ed to the city through the present
system will become inadequate by
1925.
This statement emphasizes the
Importance of having Congress APP
propriate at the earliest possible
date for the beginning of work on
a new conduit, either from Great
Falls or the Patuxent river.
X X X
With $4,000 appropriated at the
last session of Congress, the water
mower commission is now having
surveys made to determine what 1t
would cost to carry out the various
projects that have been put for
ward to furnish an additional
water supply. The commission also
is instructed to report on the feas-
Utility of developing electric cur
rent from the water power OF Great
Falls.
Beginning Tuesday morning the
commission will hold hearings in
the auditorium of the Interior De-
nartment building to obtain the
views of local business men and
civic organizations as to both the
best means of increasing the water
supply and the development of
Waterpower from Great Falls.
Invita- tions to testify have been
sent to the District Commissioners,
the public service commissions of
Maryland and Virginia. the Poto-
mac Electric Power Company,
Washington Railway and Electric
Company, Capital Traction Com
pany. Washington and Old Dominion
Railway Company, Board of Trade,
ChamD Der OIL Commerce anu MSF-
chants and Manufacturers Associa-
ton.
Representative of these organ
izations and companies will be ask
ed to give their views as to the
economic wisdom of developing
water power from Great Falls in
conjunction with plan for in~
creasing the water supply.
That some residents of Washing
tou do not realize how close the
city is to a. water famine was
brought to the attention of officials
of the water department SHORTLY
after the Commissioners enacted
the regulation prohibiting the
watering of lawns in summer, ex-
cept between and s o'clock in the
morning and evening.
'If am able and willing to pay
70. the " aver way can't / use as
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-22
Suffrage and Electoral Votes.

Speculation runs now as to the po-
litical effect of the enfranchisement of
the women on national scale, as eff
fected by the vote of Tennessee for the
Anthony amendment This is on the
assumption that the ratification will
not be reconsidered in Tennessee or
invalidated by adverse court decision.
And also on the assumption that the
women in all the states will vote in
November, even though some of the
states may not make specific provision
in their own statutes for this enlarge
ment of the franchise
In 1916 women voted the presiden-
tial ticket in Wyoming, Colorado,
Idaho, Utah, Washington, California,
Arizona, Kansas, Oregon, Montana
Nevada and Illinois. These states
gave 81 democratic electoral votes and
81 republican. Since 1916 suffrage
has been granted to women in New
York, Oklahoma, Michigan, South Da-
kota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Ten
nessee, Rhode Island, Indiana, Iowa,
Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin,
Ohio (subject to referendum and
Kentucky. In these states the electoral
vote in 1916 was 80 democratic
and 129 republican. Thus in the states
where women are now enfranchised,
apart from the federal amendment, the
electoral votes on the 1916 basis are
143 democratic and 1873 republican.
The electoral votes of the twenty
states where the women are not yet
locally enfranchised and are therefore
dependent upon the federal amend
ment-Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut,
Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana,
Maryland, Massachusetts,, Mississippi,
New Hampshire, New Jersey, New
Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania,
South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Vir-
ginia and West Virginia-were in 1916
$50 democratic and 81 republican, West
Virginia casting one democratic and
seven republican votes.
The electoral vote in 1916 was 277
democratic and 254 republican. 1t is
an interesting fact that the electoral
votes in the states in which the women
have, by state enactment or by fed
eral amendment, been since enfran-
chised are exactly evenly divided be-
tween the two parties on the 1916
basis, or 220 republican and 22O demo-
cratic. So that it is impossible on the
basis Of the electoral returns Of four
years ago to figure out what effect the
addition of the women to the electorate
will have this year.
Should the amendment fail of effect
in time for the November election,
through adverse court decision, the loss
of woman votes in November will be
heaviest in democratic states. Should
the court fail to act by November
and the women in all the states then
vote on the strength Of the nineteenth
amendment, and the court then declare
it invalid through the irregufarity of
Tennessee's ratification, 221 electoral
votes would be affected, possibly in
validated, leaving the electoral col
lege stand, on the basis of 1916, 163
republican and lat democratic.
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current from the water power of

current from the water power or
Great Falls.
The third. or Patuxent project.
provides for the construction of
a masonry dam across the Patux-
ent river near the Columbia turn
pike, a few miles north of the
District of Columbia, which would
form an impounding reservoir Of
approximately 2,700 acres. Under
this plan the additional water sup
ply would be delivered by gravity
to the filtration plant.
In the Washington aqueduct re-
port for last year the initial cost
of carrying out this plan was esti-
mated at S11 ,955,300, at prices then
prevailing.
f. D. Hardy, present superintend-
ent of the Washington aqueduct
and filtration pant. devoted con-
siderable time to study of this
project for the War Department
in 1913.
While the aqueduct report for
last year shows the initial cost of
the Patuxent project to be great
err than that of builing another
conduit from Great Falls. advo-
Gates of the Patuxent plan advance
several strong arguments in it's
favor.
First, they argue that Patuxent
water Is fHucH SoiteF III quality
than Potomac water.
Another argument advanced is
that the Patuxent is far less liable
to be polluted by the building up
of industries in future years than
is the Potomac.
It is further commended by those
who believe in the Patuxent plan
that it is safer for the city to de-
rive it's water supply from two
ho - hi
all from one source, where an acct
dent or the act of an enemy might
cut off the whole supply at one
blow.
An enabling act by the Maryland
legislature would be necessary to
carry out the Patuxent project.
Whatever plan the waterpower
commission recommends to Con-
gress in January, the people of the
District probably will unite in an
effort to have Congress act favor
ably upon 1t next year. Even i'm
mediate action by Congress would
leave only four years in which to
provide the additional supply in
order to furnish sufficient water
for the population which Wash
ington is expected to have in 1925.
When Gen. W. c. Langfitt, Corps
of Engineers. made his survey of
the water situation in 1913 he esti-
mated that the population of
Washington in 1920 would be 405.-
900. AS a result of the war the
figure is actually close to 100000.
He predicted then that in 1920 the
average daily consumption of
water would be 100000 gallons.
For the fiscal year ending in June
of this year the actual average
was 6S,750,000.
This comparison Of figures as to
population between 1913 and 1920
shows clearly that if the need for
providing an additional water sup
ply was sufficiently apparent to
warrant investigation seven years
ago 1t is far more urgent now,
when the city has at least $4,000
more inhabitants.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-22
Idiosyncrasies of Ice.

"Never mind" exclaimed the illog
ical optimist; "there will be plenty of
ice next winter"
"That's the trouble about ice," re-
piled Mr.. Growcher. "There is always
a surplus when it is needed and a
shortage when it is not"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-22
Impressions.

Impressions.
'That antagonist of yours says he
is going to leave footprints in the sands
of time"
"He WON'T" replied Senator Sor-
ghum. ellis mind is in the clouds. He
is an intellectual aviator. When he
comes down he will leave a dent, not
footprint"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-22
1t Sometimes Happens.

It Sometimes Happens.
The swords to plowshares once he
turned
To pacify our lives.
He's dug the plowshares up, we've
learned,
And turned them back to knives.
Jud Tunkins says the only thing he
knows in favor of ouija board is that
it can entertain a party without try
ing to sing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-22

A vast number of Ohio editors who
have not the advantage of being presi-
dental candidates are patiently and in
dustriously doing the best they can with
old fashioned methods of circulation
boosting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-22

The campaign orator is always con-
fronted with more or less difficulty in
making statistics interesting and at
the same time keeping them accurate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-22

It is recognized as impossible to 20
through an entire campaign without
a few suggestions of willful misrepre.
sentation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-22

Every republican believes that Hiram
johnson is thinking up some speeches
so great that people will understand
why they took little time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-22

Lenin probably thought the situa-
ton was difficult, or he would not have
sent Trotsky to the front instead Of
going himself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-22

Ponzi is rapidly approaching stu
alton in which he can no longer claim
the rather elaborate courtesy of desig-
nation as high financier.
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Psychological ADVANTAGE,

don't you object to all this talk
about the high cost of everything9"
"Not at ALL" replied the profteer.
'1t prepares the mind of customer
for what he may expect and saves ar
gument."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-22

A large number of people are hop
ing that crops will be sufficiently good
to keep Farmer Villa cheerfully in
terested in his present occupation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-22

Women have often kept men guess
ing, but never on so large a scale as
since they began to vote.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-22

Ponzi is perhaps too cool and cal.
culating to permit him to be described
as a frenzied financier.
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Our Lumber
Imports.

tanned in the United
States. The imports of cedar amount
to about 100000 board feet annual
ly and of mahogany about 5O,O0O,0O0
annually.
Co Sawlogs and manufactured Ium-
Der from Canada, shipped into the
United States by the natural routes
OF commerce on the Atlantic and Pa
cifc coasts and by favorable railroad
channels. These total about 1,OO0,-
100000 feet annually. Canada, in adj
dition, ships in about billion
shingles annually. These importations
compete directly with similar United
States products. The ebb and flow of
lumber across the Canadian border is
about even as regards exports and
imports.
CD Paper and materials for paper
making. The imports of pulp wood
pulp and manufactured paper in 1918,
practically all of which came from
Canada, was approximately 2.071 900
tons. The imports were still greater
in 1919. Canada furnishes about two
thirds of the news print paper con-
sumed in the United States. a pro-
portion which will grow steadily un-
less the foreign trade policy adopted
by Canada prevents.
The two important classes of prod
ucts for which the United States now
depends on foreign countries are cab
met and other extremely valuable
woods from tropical countries and
paper or its raw materials Cur de-
pendence upon Canada for paper is an
extremely important factor which
which must be reckoned with for
many years to come. and Congress is
going to have a special and exhaus-
tive study of this situation made dur
ing the incoming session. This re-
suits in part from the depletion of
pulp-making woods in the eastern
part of the United States and in part
from transport and manufacturing
conditions which have prevented the
paper making industry from utilizing
pulp timbers available in the western
states and Alaska Adequate devel-
opment of our western pulp-wood re-
sources could make the United States
Independent, as it has not been for
the past decade, of foreign supplies
of paper. WILL P. KENNEDY.
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What Kinds Europe
Now REQUIRES.

ity products. because it is exactly
such products which are short the
world over and which lumber i'm
porting nations are most DESTROYS to
get from this country. The effect
will be most pronounced with respect
to American hardwoods. The foreign
demands include not only cabinet.
furniture making and finishing woods
of special beauty like walnut or
quartered oak. but also many woods
used in manufacturing essentials of
commerce and industry. like oak and
hickory wagon stock. ash and
hickory handles. woods used in agrI-
cultural implements. The supply in
this country of old-grown hardwoods
from which most of these products
are obtained is nearing its end Our
domestic industries are securing such
materials with increasing difficulties
and multiplied costs.
The eventual solution of the prob
lem presented by an active foreign
trade is identical with the remedy for
depletion through domestic con-
sumption-namely. not to restrict the
use, but to increase the production of
timber by getting alleforest- growing
lands at work. This remedy, how
ever, will not entirely meet the need
throughout the world for timber of
high quality. AS a rule, such mate
rial cannot be grown in less than $50
years and even If every acre of de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-22

While seeking to maintain a
dominant position in world trade
there are some
Needed Here. branches of COM
rr.l1.. merce in which the
United States must
of these is in the expectation of hard
woods. The United States can well
afford to sell softwoods in the
worlds market. but care must be TAX
en- that the hardwood sales do not
endanger domestic industries.
These are conclusions reached by
Secretary Meredith of the Depart
ment of Agriculture. after an extern
sive study of lumber exports in COM
parison with timber depletion, and
have been reported by him to Con-
gress in reply to an inquiry fathered
by Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas.
Europe. emerging from the war. is
expected to call upon the United
States annually for about twice the
quantity of lumber that was shipped
across the Atlantic before the war.
and the biggest concern is because
the demand for the future will be
mostly for hardwoods, while in the
past it was 20 per cent for softwoods.
mostly southern pine. Great Britain.
France, Italy, Germany. Belgium and
Holland are lumber importing ma
tons; now experiencing exceptional
and often acute shortages of wood as
an aftermath of the war. Railroad
ties by the million are now being; ne
gotiated for by Great Britain and
France.
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The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning
edition. is delivered by carriers within the city
at 60 cents per month; daily only. A. cents per
month: Sunday only. 20 cents per month. Or
ders may be sent by mail, or telephone Main
5000 Collection is made by carriers at the
end Of each month.
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Lumber Not Needed
for Reconstruction.


of building lumber required in the re-
construction of western Europe. Eu-
rope has quantities of timber suita-
BILE for such purposes in Russia, Fin
land, Sweden, Norway and the new
countries carved out of the Austro-
Hungarian empire. Large lumber
stocks have accumulated along the
Baltic sea during the war.
Europe does demand high-grade
timber products from the United
States. which American industries
can i'll afford to spare-such as large
structural and ship timbers. flooring.
hardwood slaves and furniture. i'm
plement and vehicle stockton which
the demand viii steadily increase.
Hickory and ash handles, for example.
are now going to Europe in consider
able quantities. the foreign demand
for these products again being a fac
tor which affects stock and prices in
the domestic markets.
While the European trade consti-
tutes only about 40 per cent of the
United States exports of lumber. de-
velopment of Central and South
Am erica. parts of Africa, China, Aus
tralia and New Zealand will natur-
ally result in gradual increase of
lumber exports to those countries.