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Quick Trial Demanded.

A woman who was arrested in
JuareZ for the murder Of Jake l..
Namon of Oklahoma set a new stand
ard when she made arrangements for
surrendering to the police. Being on
Mexican soil. she had a certain ad-
vantage which she pressed to the point
Of STIMULATING conditions. She said she
would yield to arrest If it was prom
Used that she would be taken at once
to Oklahoma, released under bond,
tried without delay and allowed to have
Christmas dinner with her parents.
The most striking Of these conditions
is that OF her requirement that she
be tried at once. Usually a person &C.
cused Of crime plays for delay. This
woman wants the proceedings hasten.
ed. 1t would be well If all cases were
on that basis. with or without condi.
tons. Why should there be a long
procedure? Because. unfortunately,
criminal trials are protracted as a rule,
often with the effect of confusing
rather than clarifying the issues. In
practically every case the essential
facts can be brought clearly to light
and to the understanding Of the jury
In q few hours. But nowadays in a
celebrated case one witness may be
on the stand for a week. telling and
retelling q story that could be plainly
and truthfully told in twenty minutes.
The result of all this examination and
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cross-examination. argument, expert
testimony. hypothetical questions, re-
buttal and sur-rebuttal is to spin out
procedure not merely for days, but for
weeks, and to choke the calendars of
the courts until in most cities the
average time between the commission
Of a crime and the trial is a year. This
Oklahoma case may stimulate public
demand throughout the country for
shorter. quicker trials reduced to the
principle of finding out the truth.
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POLITICS AT HOME
A Wilson Autobiography.

This Is from a story about a recent
interview Secretary Tumulty had with
the President:
The President. Mr.. Tumulty said.
stated In the course of the talk that
writing of memoirs for an autobiog-
raphy, as 1t was form of literature
which had never greatly appealed to
him. 1t has been generally under
stood that when Mr.. Wilson retired
from office he will take up the prepa-
ratlon OF history of the world war"
In the end, Mr.. Wilson may be
forced to a composition for which he
confesses he has no prediction. He
may have to rescue himself from the
excessive eulogies of his biographers
on the one hand, and from the severe
criticisms of his opponents on the
other hand. Both are busy with his
name and fame. His part in the world
war, and particularly his part in the
Paris peace conference, have made
him shining mark.
Macaulay says that photographers
are peculiarly exposed to the Lues
Boswelliana, or disease of admira-
ton; and the performances of some
Of Mr.. Wilson's biographers bear out
the statement. So that an autobiog-
raphy. or something answering that
purpose, would appear to be Mr.. Viii.
sons best means for reaching pos
terity in the proper guise.
Take the case Of Franklin. Without
the aid OF that most interesting auto
biography. it would be impossible to
adequately appraise that wonderful
man. Take the case of John Quincy
Adams. Without the aid Of that most
interesting diary and those very in
teresting personal letters. which, to-
gether, answer as an autobiography,
it would be impossible to appraise at
his true value the most intellectual of
those intellectual Adamses.
A history of the world war by Mr.,
Wilson would be a notable work. But
a volume by him with special reference
to his stay and experiences in the
White House would outsell and out
live it. He has spent eight years in
that domicile. six Of which have wit
messed a world commotion uneuualed
for history making.
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Albert J. Beveridge.

Former Senator Beveridse Is
figuring in political gossip again. He
retired from office nearly ten years
ago, as the result Of difference with
his party on the tariff question. He
was member Of the faction that Cd
posed the Payne-Aldrich measure, and
his course proved unpopular at home
The next year he offered for re-elec
ton and was defeated. In 1912 he SUP.
ported Roosevelt against Taft for Pres
ident. which still further "queered'
him with the Indiana republicans.
Mr.. Beveridge is fifty-eight-still. a
young man as politicians are reckoned
He is an orator of power. During his
two terms in the Senate he enjoyed
much favorable notice. He was indus.
trious in his committee work and
prominent in the debates. Some of his
friends thought him Of presidential
size. and doomed him for his party's
leadership.
Like Theodore Roosevelt, whom he
admired and followed, Mr.. Beveridee
did not remain out Of the republican
party long. Bull moosery sat lightly
on him. By 1916 he had resumed his
old affiliations, and stumped the coun-
try that year for Charles E. Hughes.
So that talk Of Mr.. Beveridge for the
Senate again, or for some important
post under the Harding administra-
ton. secures attention.
Since leaving Office Mr.. Beveridee
has turned author and written a life
of Chief Justice John Marshall which
lawyers and politicians alike praise
for thoroughness and readableness.
The great Virginian-the most strik.
ing figure in our judicial annals-is
presented in all his force and rugged.
ness. and brought close to the every.
day understanding. The work is re-
garded as one Of the principal bio.
graphical successes Of the period.
Which shows that Mr.. Beveridee IL
as clever with his pen as with his
tongue.
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Apparently tho London govern
ment and Sim Fein are trying to
bury the hatchet-in each other
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.
BY the time an Immigrant gets ac-
customed to the climate, he begins
to worry about the hordes Of aliens
coming in.-Baltimore Sun.
"The Wild Western Bandit Has
Died Out" says a headline. And a
million movie fans will rise up and
his boots on.-SAvannah News.
Austria has been elected to a po-
sition in tho league Of nations. whom
what she wanted was a place At the
lunch counter.-DalIas EewA
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~HRIsTMAs baskets the
whole year through, in
which more than $4,000
children share, with the
real Christmas anticipation and ex-
cited curiosity to see what the bas-
ket contains. recurrent every two
months, making at least six Santa
Claus visits-that is one way the
Public Library makes the boys and
girls happy and keeps them inter-
ested in their school work.
Just as mystery and anticipation
lie in the lumpy and odd-shaped
Christmas packages. about which
the children are gathering and
making merry Yuletide, so also the
same eager anticipation and Curl
osity send them hurrying and sour
rying to meet the delivery car of
the Public Library as it leaves, al
most any day of the year. baskets
of books at the school door. True
Christmas baskets are these, and
if one Is lucky and happens to be q.
near a school building at the right
moment one may see the boys and
girls gathering about the car with
cheers, demanding, els our teacher
getting books" Hope there are
some good adventure stories"
Gee! Didn't our teacher get
anyT" isn't she ever going to get
us ?'-this from the disappoint-
ed ones. The chauffeur. the all
the-year-round Santa Claus, Is a
friend of all.
X \
The excitement does not end with
the delivery, for pandemonium.
more or less, according to the
teacher, reigns when the basket is
opened. Why not7 What would
you do? There Is one book for each
child. but only one, and the ques-
ton is who will decide on each and
claim 1t first? Which of all is best?
There are fascinating possibilities
from fairy tales to 1.-THE Boys
Book of Submarines" from Daniel
Boone" to What Katy Did at
School," from Memoirs of White
Elephant" to ION the Battlefield Of
Engineering" from Architecture
Shown to Children" to Little
Women" or Sarah Brewsters
Relatives" from AN Explorers
Adventure in Tibet to knights of
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1924.

Somebody, evidently without having
given much thought to the subject
warns Mr.. Harding against taking
anybody into his cabinet who might
become q rival in 1924.
Mr.. Harding will start with two ad.
vantages so FAR as denomination is
concerned. His party has not declared
against a second term. On the con.
trary. its rule has been to indorse a
successful incumbent Of the presi.
dency for a second try at tho ONCE.
It did not renominate Mr.. Hayes be.
cause he did not desire the honor.
and it did not nominate Mr.. Arthur.
who had come to the ONCE through the
death Of his chief.
In 1924 the matter Of years will be
in Mr.. Harding's favor. He will then
be on the eve Of sixty, and carrying
no weight for age.
For the other points involved Mr..
Harding must, of course, take his
chances. He will give the country the
best that is in him, and If that best
scores. and his record in office comes
up to what his friends without excep.
ton now predict, he will have every.
thing his own way at the next re-
publican national convention, and
probably in the campaign to follow.
No one should shut his eyes to the
fact, however, that the coming three
years are going to be severe in point of
test. Mr.. Harding will have some hard
nuts to crack. Both foreign and do
nestle affairs will require most care
full handling. The world is out of
joint. and we with It, and normal will
not be restored soon, or easily. Still.
everything attempted must be with
that object in view; and Mr.. Harding
will be in the forefront Of action and
exposed at all times to criticism and
held responsible for any failures that
may be recorded.
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Europe to Restore Another Crown.

Apparently the peace treaty did
not make Europe as safe for
democracy as the more optimistic
imagine, if we take the returnof Con-
stantine and the news from hungary
as indications. A representative of
the London Daily Herald sends the
following interview from Budapest:
There will be a king again in Hun
gary" said the premier, Count Ieleky'
in answer to my question. during an
interview on Sunday. He refused to
specify the date when the new king
would arrive, and wouldn't name him.
From all sides 1 heard the same
story. Hungary's aristocrats must
have some sort of king, though
it doesn't matter much who. How
ever, Teleky admitted that the king
advent wouldn't necessarily re-estap-
lish the country's prosperity.
He stated that the economic sltua-
ton of the country was lamentaole.
Several weeks ago he was faced
with the bitter alternativ on account
of lack of coal, of either shutting
down factories or railways. ne caoss
to shut down the former, and ADDED
$4,000 unemployed to those already
starving and freezing in Budapests
east end. The unemployed in the
HUNGARIAN capital now exceed one
half of all the workers.
Food was getting scarce, lor one
thing, he said. the flour mills, through
lack of coal. had temporarily stopped
Now they are working again, but the
peasant, he added, didn't want to give
wheat to the city. He didn't want
"Said Teieky, We've decided to
make forcible requisitions from the
peasants.' At a matter of fact, 1T is
an open secret that such requisitions
have been going on for a long time.
If Teleky were Lenin. the reactionary
press would gloat over this ADMISSION
Of failure to conciliate the peasants.
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The German ambassador with whom
the American ambassador refused to
sit at Paris banquet is apparently
inclined to prolong the after-dinner
speaking.
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Rumored Italian ugoslav Alliance

The Epoca (Italy) publishes the fol-
lowing article on the subject para
doxicai as it may seem) of a rumored
alliance with Jugoslavia:
att is said that the origin or the
Rapallo agreement is as follows: II
seems that important agreements.
both economic and commercial, have
been concluded with the new neigh
boring state which latterly has had
great dieillusions on account OF
frances attitude. France has the idea
az reconstructinE a new Great Austria
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Wall street is never sure whether
the market has taken a substantial
upward turn, or whether the bears
are simply engaged in a unanimous
movement to take profits.
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Politics in French Murder Trials.

The Paris Journal des Debats has
some significant things to say apropos
of the acquittal Of the murderer OF
| the Albanian stateman Essad Pasha,
who, it will be remembered, was shot
| by an Albanian youth few months
ago in front of Paris hotel
| When the case was tried, it quickly
began to resemble the topsy-turvy af-
/ fair related by j. NJ. Barrie, in which
the judge charged the jury that the
question was mot whether a murder
had been committed, but whether in
isis case (the killing of an editor) 1t
was a criminal offense."
The comment Of the Debats is as
I! follows:
! THE jury Of the Seine has again
rendered one of it's deplorably fantas-
tic verdicts. 1t has acuitted the
murderer of Essad Pasha, although the
crime was a fragrant one and the ac-
cused, conscious of his guilt, limited
his defense to that of non-premedita-
| ton. Yet the same jury had, at its
last sittings, shown a stern sense of
| justice and had unhesitatingly con-
victed the defendants that appeared
before it.
! In this Essad Pasha affair there
were, moreover. several particularly
| good reasons why the jury should not
/ fail in its mission of Furnishing the
guilty. In the first place, there is the
elementary principle that in a civilized
country nopooy mas the right TO take
justice into his own hands; and that
foreigners who are given the hospi-
tality Of France are especially bound
not to disturb the public peace and
order.
yet it is not hard to understand
the reasons for this scandalous ac-
quittal. The arguments took such a
turn that the question discussed be-
fore the jury was not whether the
accused was guilty of having killed
Essad, but whether Essad deserved the
praise or the blame of history.
whether he had been a faithful ally
of France or a traitor to everybody,
or a cruel tyrant
ut seems that on these questions
everybody does not agree. and the
jury did not want to take the re-
sponsibility OF deciding the argu-'
ment"
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Weapon-carrying threatens to be so
common in metropolitan circles that
caro- win have 10 be exercised In pro-
vidlng countersigns to distinguish
friend from foe.
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In spite Of poverty various sections
Of Europe manage to find the funds
for some obviously expensive repre-
sentation in this country.
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China has high-cost-of-living prob.
lem on hand that makes the average
demonstration in that line seem slight
by comparison.
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Announcements Of passed dividends
are likely to make it harder than
ever for New York musical managers
to entertain the tired business man.
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According to reports, it seems posi-
lively necessary to interfere with
some Of the quaint time-honored Gus
toms Of certain sections Of Haiti.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-26

Senators who have been mentioned
for cabinet positions viii still be avail.
able for advice in the event Of their
deciding to remain on duty at the
Capitol.
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The real test Of Martens influence
will come when he gets home and
turns in his expense account.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-26

Without a vigorous program of tar
in legislation. it might not seem like
the same old republican party.
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an unusual and much appreciated
contribution to Christmas cheer.
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The German Workers Stride.

With American employers arming
for a campaign against the closed
shop and labor rallying it's forces
for a defensive war, it is interesting
to note the steps taken by the new
German republic for stopping up
production by cooperation.
Germany is attempting to take
great strides industrially, says the
London Daily News. workers coun-
ellis in every business and factory
are established under the republican
constitution and are the foundation
CT a national reorganization with
joint parliament of masters and men
at it's apex.
This is the Federal Economic
Council and it has large powers. II
can initiate laws on industrial mat
ters; and whether the government
approves them or not, they must be
introduced to the reichstag. And
the government cannot bring in an
industrial bill without first submit
ting it to the economic parliament
Trade unions from the beginning
have regarded this system as the
first step toward industrial democ-
racy. Despite the communists OPP
position they have now captured the
tend to run 1t.
workers are being trained for
management by the thousand. A CEN
trail college has been established in
Berlin to organize courses in factory
control, research, invention, costing,
welfare and kindred subjects. AL
ready more than FIVE hundred schools.
many of them of a permanent char
actar, have been set up in the cities
and towns Of Germany"
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DIGEST OF FOREIGN PRESS

to prevent the Austrian republic from
| uniting with Germany. but 1t does not
| trouble her whether this new Greae
Austria. Matched in Paris. might set
herself up against Italy ana even
against Serbia"
The Tempo publishes an article on
the same question, saying:
The same day on which the Rapailo
treaty was signed the Stefant agency
issued the following bulletin: After
long discussion the Serb-Croat-
Slovene plenipotentiaries came to a
formal agreement concerning tne es-
sential interests of the two coun-
tries in central Europe with a view
to insuring the execution OF the
treaties of St. German and Tr1anon.
This Stefani bulletin. which ought
to be considered official. is very i'm
portant. 1t throws new light on the
goes beyond the boundary of the Ad-
Ratio, beyond which Italy for SIX
years would see nothing else, ana II
places this agreement in the frame
of general European politics.
Certain people. precisely IN trying
to include the Rapallo treaty in Eu-
ropean politics thought it ought to
be connected essentially with the In
terviews of Lucerne and especially OF
AK les Bains, reducing 1t to an cpl
sode only of the entente politics. or
even of imperialistic French politics.
which would have forced Jugoslavia
to agree, and in return would have
had Italy on her side in the great
European questions. If we look at
the permanent rather than the
Temporary results of the Italian-Jugo-
slav agreement it appears at quite
a different angle. Rather than look
upon it as a new product Of the en-
tente policy-this policy which is
trying to break up Europe into small
pieces and to hold central Europe in
slavery for the profit of one or more
imperialiStic powerS-we cannot fail
to look upon it as an important
progress from a point OF view of
overcoming the international condi-
tions caused by the war, OF recon-
structing central Europe and estab-
fishing a European balance of power"
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Go in Baskets,
Find Eager Welcome

King Arthur" or 1.-The Jungle
Book" from Storytelling Poems"
to "a Tale of Chinese Gordon" Not
quite these titles all in the same
basket, for each collection is care
fully selected. with respect to the
ages and special interests Of the
particular group of children-still,
the range is about as great.
There is waiting list" started
Immediately for most of the more
popular books, and a great time
is had by all" exchanging their
views about the different books.
There is almost always a scramble
at the tine of exchange, for in two
months the basket will be recalled
by the library and another will be
supplied. Although 1t is practically
impossible for any child to read
all of the books while they are
lent to that particular school,
the record cards frequently show
that the more popular books have
been used by ten to nineteen of the
pupils.
X X
The teachers testify that, besides
giving pleasure, these baskets Of
books arouse in the children more
interest in their class work and
that. while they cause considerable
excitement and some disorder on
arrival, they have a strong tend
ENJOY to improve the school disci-
pline and exercise a general REIN
ing influence. Many of the teachers
have been thus led into confer
ences with the library officials, and
in this way more systematic
course Of reading has been worked
out for the children. SO that uncon-
sciously they are taking an extra
school course, which is especially
effective because they go at 1t as
pleasure and recreation rather
than as an irksome duty.
1t is through these baskets
Christmas baskets, whether deliv-
cred in September. December or
May. and they are delivered every
day during the school year-that
the Public Library reaches over
$4,000 children Of the city who can
not or do not come to the library
and for whom it has no branch
children's room or other means Of
serving.
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The Siege
of Paris.

The rose-colored picture OF inc
French situation at Paris presented in
the London kilograms of the New
York World, to the effect that Paris as
| fully provisioned for three months
further siege, and that the Parisians
are in a position to turn the tables on
the besiegers and drive them from
Versailles by their heavier guns. Is
singularly at variance with the CIR
cumstantial details of what is really
going on in Paris. set forth IN PAL
loon letter published in the Manches-
ter Guardian According to TINS ietter
the yivacity of the PariSianS has given
way to utter dependency. and famine
presses upon them so terribly thae
bread riots are with Difficulty sup
dressed There is much drunkenness
in consequence of the misery ana pri-
vations of the siege, and from tne
same cause there have been some fVo
cases of insanity since the investment.
The mortality of the week previous
to the date of the letter, November -.
showed 2,064 deaths. against l.ssS the
week before, the usual weekly num-
Der in Paris at that time OF Inc year
being 1900
'sThe fallacy of the expectation that
the Parisians should make any enec-
tive sortie en- masse is also SHOWN py
the fact that two-thirds of the army
of Paris is composed of shopkeepers
and workmen, most of them married,
who will not risk their lives and those
of their families in an undertaking
most of them deem hopeless.
1T may DE that the Germans may
not have their heavy siege guns IN
position for a bombardment. but II SO
it is very likely for the reason that
the bombardment of the city has not
been really contemplated. While the
surrender of the city through famine
is but a question of days. they have
no need to do more than maintain that
investment"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-26

Mr.. De Valera may be crossing tho
ocean on the Flying Dutchman."-
Pittsburgh Dispatch
We bet that If we did get news
from Mars, it would be that Mars
is having a crime wave.-St Louis
Globe-Democrat,
Chicago municipal authorities are
investigating restaurant soup to as
certain IL there is anything besides
profit in it-Sioux City Journal.
It is surprising news to hear that
a telegraph messenger boy has been
killed. Most people thought that
they were Observation-Disclosures
horc-IN. c. News.
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Passive Attitude.

Passive Attitude.
Are you going to turn over a new
leaf on the first Of january"
whats the use Of my trying to
think up anything personal in the way
Of reformation" reJoined Uncle Bill
Bottletop. "We,l soon have blue laws
to cover every possible contingency. !"