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The Washington herald., 1921-05-24
The Possum Comes to Life.

THERE is much encouragement from Germany.
L She seems at least. to have changed her men
tai attitude. The reports which come from there
bring new feeling, different spirit Sullen ugli-
ness appears to be- replaced by feeling of conf
dence Now that reparatons have taken definite
FORM burden seems to have lifted.
Germany knows. always has known, that she
could pay. The fearfulness and reluctance of her
leaders to actually sign the pact and take the re-
sponsibity may have been the product of the imme-
late Berlin environment and misjudgment of the
temper and will of the German people as a whole.
Wirth may have made himself immensely popular
by simply having the courage to do the obviously
inevitable and ending the strain of uncertainty.
Germany, for the time, fears, breads,
France no less than France fears Germany. She
knows now she must pay or lose control OF the
Rhur, which would be to lose her industrial heart.
1t would be as if an enemy took military possession
in this country OF all the Pittsburgh zone with the
neighbor coal regions and administered it for its
own advantage.
When Germany annexed the Alsace-Lorrane
region with its great iron deposits she shipped the
to the Ruhr where is the coal The Pittsburgh
situation is fair parallel She developed her great
industrial plants in the northern region distant from
the iron mines, but close to coal. They were, also,
closer to her ports, simplifying export distr
button
IL france, naVlng recovered the ore, CoulQ also
control the great steel mills and coal, she would
have no industrial rival in all Europe and Ger
manys doom would be well nigh sealed, until the
time came when France released her hold. Even
then, she might find her trade transferred to Lor-
raine built up while she held in leash So it is
that when it had to be, Germany yielded as she had
to yield to save her industrial life.
So too, she will pay. just outside the door
will stand the French armw, waiting relentless and
hoping. Possibly her changed attitude does not
come more from relief of tension than from baking
the desire of France She knows, toe. that
Great Britain only less concerned than herself to
hold French ambition short of oversteppng British
industrial powers. She is assured, also, that Ameri
cas- great sympathy for France falls short of in
dorsing her own bankruptcy. '~
With this brighter outlook and this knowing
the limit of her liability, Germany apparently will
settle work. She has made her first payment and
if report is correct, has arranged to meet the total
100000 gold marks to complete this. 1t need
not surprise the world if she undertakes to rival
the French record after 1871 and no one should be
deceived longer believing that she lacks great
reserves of wealth.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-24
Sidewalk Scrambles.

To the Editor. The washington Herald:
viii The Herald not add to Its
previous inestimabie services to
Washington. a little advice to the
walking public?
In no other city have l seen such
a number of persons who. with per-
tinacious unanimity. walk on the
wrong side or the sidewalk.
Barring a small proportion of Pc
destrians who are on the wrong
side for the purpose OF looking into
the shop windows, not one person
in a score goes to the right" OF
course, the inconvenience to the rule
observing public is not so great as
why not walk on the right side?
Even more annoying are the mis-
takes made in passing the person
ahead. The one coming from the
rear should pass on the left of the
person or persons in front of him.
This is reasonable, for IL the per-
son ahead was to turn for a passer-
by, he goes. or should go, to the
right II the person behind him
tries to pass at his right. there is
every prospect OF collision. or an
unpleasant brushing into or push
ing.
So, pedestrians, why not observe
the long-established rules OF the
sidewalk, and not register as ,Ssf
and Rube from Hicktown. on the
Pike when you take your Walk
abroad, E't j. h. H.
washington, May 1s.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-24
Open Cburt Letters to The Heralh
Ms@4#kS6la1S SbBHn~gSp&H RossSssfFASaaA fSaa

the views of the people they write
about-so ] am easing" you an
advance tip on how the average
soldier feels about this Stacker list.
There are two kinds of people in
the United States now-speaking Of
those persons within the draft
ages-hose that were in the serv-
ice, and those that were not. The
world Is interested in knowing who
this latter class Is and the pubiics-
tion of the Stacker list is about the
way TO put il over"
Publish IL to the world. Let us
have the entire list OF names. The
corrections can be made. and if a
soldier here and there is unjustly
recorded. you can bet he will have
il corrected "toot sweet"-snd he
won't have any hard feelings" in
the matter because he will realize
IL is all for good cause. OF
course. il is going to take the roof
off a lot of bogus patriot homes,
but these nag wavers ought to be
exposed. The press OF the country
has a chance to do something for
future generations and IL .ought to
come across.
Stop craw- fishing and IL you
haven't got quits" enough to pub
lIsh news that is news-independ-
ens of outside or inside influences.
for the sake Of common decency
restrain your criticism of the slack
er list. Ii rasps on the soldiers
nerves. Very respectfully.
u.sh;nrtor Nav IL
The Washington herald., 1921-05-24
No anonymous communi-
cations will be priated In
the -Open Court column.
THE EDITOR.

ceed according 10 law is in the di-
rection of civiliza tion.
All our peeopie must he made to
realize that. for their own security
and the security of those depending
upon them for protection, every
person supposed to have committee
a crime shall be treated accoroinA
10 law. which means that he shall
be Cd accused according to law;
f2) taken into custody according to
'aw: CD held for trial under bail or
in Jail according to law; 90 tried
lccording to law: (5D defended ac-
cording to law: C6D convicted Gf
guilty. according to law: G) pun
shed tH conTctedD according to
law.
II the foregoing is made our only
rule of action, we shall have secur-
ity. liberty and justice.
That rule will exclude accusa-
;icn and conviction by newspaper
publication.
II there are young men who are
believed to have violated the law
during our late war. the proper
course is 10 bring them before reg
llarly established tribunals through
complaint according to law. and
there proceed according TO law with
the opportunity for defense which
is essential to security, to liberty
and justice.
Mention has been made of legis-
iative action intended to make news
papers immune against prosecution
for such publication.
Has Congress or any other branch
or dcnsrtment of our governmen,
tfe power to take from an innocent
man his right of action against a
newspaper for such a publication:
CYRUS KEHR.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-24
TREE RINGS TELL HISTORY
OF ANCIENT INDIAN RUINS,

Giant trees Of the Southwestern
plateaus are a time link between
the civilization Of today and the
ages when prehistoric Indians erect,
ed stane and timber temples IN ~.
canyons Of what is now Arizona and
New Mexico, DR.. A. E. Douglass. OF
the University of Arizona. at Tue.
son, Ariz- has discovered. He has
found that the beams used in the
construction Of these ancient houses
contain the same annual rings OF
growth that are present in tRes
that are now alive and growing on
the Colorado plateau. and he is
making these records Of nature
bring to life long buried historic
facts about the ruins.
In the dry regions Of the South
west pine trees are strongly af-
! fected by climatic conditions, put-
ting on larger rings when the rain
fsll is abundant and forming very
thin rings when the season is dry -
DR.. Douglass explains. These char
scteristics may be found in prac-
tically all the trees in the forests
on the Colorado plateau in North
ern Arizona and New Mexico, and
n~is possible to Identify the same
rings in nearly all the trees"
In. the hundreds % tree trunk
which the Indians used In con.
structing the great bulIdIng at Az
tee. y. Mex. he has found il easy TO
trace identical rings, and by as
signing a number to certain ones a
simple counting Of the rings to tn.
OUTSIDE gave the relative dates at
cut.
By this method he has sscertsined
that the great building of $50 rooms
at Aztec took only about ten wears
to build. and that the structure ~a.
begun at the east end and finished
at the west: that in one case .,
three stories they must have heen
built in immediate succession
Still more interesting wa, ,he dIs.
covery that the tree rines in ~.
timbers in the great ruin Of Pueblo
Bonito in Chaco Canyon ns,v -,
south Of Aztec. not only show mat
they were cut within a very few
years Of each other, but also show
that they were cut from FORTY "a
torty-fve years before the timber,
al Aztec. This gives then the actual
number Of years between the con-
struction of two great Pueblo build
ings. and opens up the way for q
oehnite chronology of the various
ruins Of the Southwest.
The trees that were cut down age.
ago by the Indians. and that now
share equally with the livinr trees
Of today in the honor Of being the
most authentic pages Of earliest his
tory. were transported many miles
to the building sites The Indians
used their trunks as beams 20 make
the ceilings for their larger rooms
Across these beams they laid small.
straight poles. and on the poles they
placed brush and a thick earther
floor. Some Of the ruins contain
200 or 500 rooms
The Washington herald., 1921-05-24
When Good Fellows Get Together.

a SYMPATHETIC court discovered technical
"A flaw in the search warrant which led to the
arrest of Back Bay Harvard professor for dislo-
eating the Volstesd act. The still was there in
court, bright, shiny copper of large capacity. The
worns-~as there, but declined to turn on its master
The liquor was there and the professor had pub
hcy admitted his guilt; his defense being the ex-
that all his associates were also guilty in the
same degree.
But there was in the warrant as to the
house raided This enough. Whether the
errof-xot in by inadvertence, or by malice afore-
thought; whether the judge was Influenced by the
aristocratic mien OF the STILL the rigidty of the
worm the excellence of the product the high social
connections or the gentleman 'barkeep," or solely
by extreme devotion to the sanctty of the letter of
the law, the result was the same
The accused dismissed. The court gave a
lofty disquistion the sacredness of the home
rather than of the law, and upon the great respon-
sbility of the court to observe the most minute de-
tail of the laws letter, matter what any citizen
nigh have done to the law as a whole 1t is such
courts and such culprits who doing most to dis
credit the Volstead act.
Ii is the business men, those of social and busi-
standing who more often violate it, than do
the working classes. Far more complaint comes
from ,1he former. than from the latter. As their
cellars dry. their voices lifted against the in
iauessof the law, they gather together to knock
The Washington herald., 1921-05-24
Italian Elections.

THE Italian elections did not give the Giolitti
i government distinct majority If Ferrero,
the of Italian publicsts is right, it is better
it is In his prediction letter published in The
Herald, he said that what Italy needed not a
victory by any one party, but agreement on ma
tona policy within the parliament by controlling
group of parties.
There is much substance in this II, as he said,
the parties can forget their petty personal and po-
ltcal differences, and their leaders their equally
petty ambitions, it will be better for Italy than if
should have such parliamentary follow
ing to make him almost dictator for the period
of the parliament There ten distinct parties
with elected representatives many of them but per-
sonal to certain leaders credited with certain policies
which usually simmer down to a political itch for
office.
Ciolittl has such party who returned 100 dele
gates. Other men in the government have others
under various Names which give the government a
total of 22I. Nitti, the former PREMIER has bloc
of Al votes bare majority of the climber is 26S
and with 22I as start, it should not be difficult
to form controlling combination, and will not be,
unless the various leaders more for their
personal fortunes, than for their country.
Such ambitions have wrecked many govern
ment at serious cost to their countries. We are in
clined to take Ferrcros judgment that the best
thing that can happen to Italy at this time is an
agreement within the parliament itself upon ma
tional program. The occasion will nearly compel
this as another enforced appeal to the country fol-
lowing close upon this one, might be disastrous.
Also, no one could hope for better result than
from this election while it might be far The
campaign was accented with violence. In places
and at times this reached close to DEFIANCE OF gov
ernment and Italy should not tempt the fates too
far, while period of stable wise government, con-
ciatory of factions, will place her far the way
to economic recovery
The Washington herald., 1921-05-24
Wants Justice for "Slackers.'

To the Editor, The Washington herso'
The editorial in The Washington
Herald of the 18th instant, entitled
The Stacker Lists" argues for pro-
cedure in an orderly manner and in
conformity to justice.
Our traditions and the Constitu-
ton Of the United States and the
constitutions of the states, and our
laws based on those traditions and
provide course OF
procedure with criminals.
Those traditions and those funda-
mental documents emphasize the
general proposition. that no persons
should be convicted of any crime
without due process OF law.
Yet. among our people, even
among many of our intelligeht peo-
pie, there is, unfortunately, a ten
dency to accuse and convict with
out due process of law" In some
localities IL a man L. deemed to
have committed a crime. another
man or q group of men will shoot
him from ambush. or they will go
to his house at night and through
some pretext have him come out
side and then shoot him. In other
localities. might riders" appear at
the home of a man who is deemed
to need punishment. call him out
and beat him or shoot him or burn
him and perhaps also burn his
house. In other cases q man under
arrest for a crime or q supposed
crime is. taken from the officers and
shot or hanged or burned. In yet
other cases an accused person AT
ready lodged in a jail is taken from
the jail by mob and hanged or
shot or burned. In some cases a
mob~takes this. course after an ac-
Cursed has been arrested. lodged in
jail, and convicted lin court the
punishment according to law thus
being prevented.
Whenever any man or any group
of men or a large number of men
undertake to accuse and convict
and condemn and punish BY their
own. procedure. outside of the pro-
cedure prescribed by law, an ex-
tremely serious offense, .threatcning
the rights and liberties and security
CT all the people. Is committed.
The present effort to print in
newspapers and other periodicals
the names OF. large numbers of
young men as criminals, isr also an
attempt at accusation an4 convic-
tion Swithout due process of law"
In essence. this Is no different from
the other cases mentioned above,
and IT. Is no less an sbcroachmen,
upon the security and liberty. which
all -scis,zens should seek ito more
frnnix establish. ~ ~ ~ sg'ss !.
,forts outside OF the law, with
out due process of law Is inlthc
direction Of anarchy. Enqrt to pre-
The Washington herald., 1921-05-24
ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICIRT -
RELATED TO Sun SPOTS

A ifth natural phenomenan. at
mospheric electricity. has been
fo1nd to be related TO solar activity,
DR.. Louis A. Bauer. director of the
department OF terrestrial magnetism
Of the Carnegie Institution Of wash
ington told the Philosophical So
ciety at its last meeting.
Connections between sun-spot ac-
tiyity. disturbance of the esrth's
magnetism, earth-cUrents. and po-
lar lights have been worked out
previously by various Investigators"
he said. The recent severe mag
netic DISTURBANCES and earth-curren nts
which accompanied a week ago the
remarkable sun-spot activity and
brilliant display Of polar lights has
drawn renewed attention to the re-
lationships between these four
classes of natural phenomena
In speaking Of the new relation
ship, DR.. Bauer explained that owing
20 the many disturbances 10 which
the atmospheric-electric elements
are subject. as for example during
the cloudy and rainy weather. IL has
been more difficult to establish the
existence OF definite variations ef
the chief stmospheric-electric ele-
ments during the well-known sun
spot cycle Of somewhat over IL years
than in the case of magnetic ef-
fec:s, earth currents and polar
lights. The new results found are
based upon stmospheric-electri data
obtained chiefly at four European
observatories between 1885 and
1919. the combined data in the case
of the Potential-grsdient thus COW
cring about two sun-spot cycles Re-
cent observations on board the Car
negie also indicate a decrease in the
electric potentisl-gradient since
1917. when sun-spot activity was at
a maximum.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-24
Wants Stacker List Published

10 the Editor, The Washington Herald;
Sir: Why the anxiety of your pa
per- like many Others. to suppress
the publication Of the Stacker list,
am an American soldier-did
my bit. in the late war-and am
proud Of the honor that feeling
gives me, For you to say that the
incorrect publication of my name as
Stacker would be a calamity is
poppycock. II my name is pub
lished Incorrectly I have nv dis
charge-and my good right hand
and with such implements 1t is only
necessary for me to use a few min
utes and address a letter to the
adjutant general and We editor
ana have just due accorded me. !
am not prepared to believe that the
Stacker list is so replete with er-
rors, as You editors would have the
public believe--and simply because
there are several glaring inaccura-
cies Is no argument for suppress
ing the entire list. The suspicion
has entered my midland il must
occur to others who do their own
thinking-that the preaching of the
press against this publication is in
nuenced more by a desire to shield
frtends--than the desire to protect
an honorable soldier The argument
is too far-fetched-it doesn't have a
logical ring. -
Whom are you protecting-your
friends or their sons, A couple of
columns are devoted to a story, of
how judge sentenced Mrs. Berg
doll to Jail because she aided her
sonsLbut believe me the average
soldier is more anxious to see this
siacker list published than to read
tale Of how a woman was sent to
jail because her motives for wrong
doing were maternal. -
We want an accurate line ON the
boys that held our Jobs dpwn dur
ing the war. We wanttto know the
names OF the .highbrows- that
forsook their frpck coats and So
ciety manners to assume uuimpor-
tsnt jobs ine the shipyards or who
motored away From their exemption
districts until the war blew over.
Editors get paid for interpreting
The Washington herald., 1921-05-24

holes in it, Yet strange to say. If they had to vote.
they would vote for the law almost as unit just
as they voted for prohibition
Their complaints largely pretense. They
are generous and freehearted. If one gets bottle
bootleg the real goods-there is no fun. or
comradeship in drinking it alone He shares it
with his friends knowing they viii return the
party" in kind when they can They like the taste,
but more they like the fellowship which goes with
it. Tongues oosened, always wag and minds inspir-
ised, exaggerate.
But those who fondly believe that all this is
more than two fingers perhaps four. deep
reckon without knowing There is no more chance
of repeating the Volstead act. than there is Of re-
pealing the Ten Commandments as both are broken
with about equal freedom and frequency.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-24
Victims Identify Loot
Stolen by Rich Woman

CHICAGO. May %. - Victims
whose homes were looted by Mrs.
Eta He'll, wife of Joseph s. He'll,
banker and investment broker, ap-
peared at the town hall police sta
ton today to identify their prop
erty. Among the victims who iden-
tified loot was Mrs. Frederick B.
Hoffman, wife of an Official Of the
Chicago Surface Lines. She said
she. employed Mrs. He'll as a maid,
under the name of Edith West. The
maid left with jewels. clothing
and linens valued at $500.
Mrs. He'll is believed to have
stolen more than $4,000 in jewelry,
clothing and bric-a-brac from
those who employed her. Mrs. He'll
is said to have suffered mental
and physical collapse, Mr.. He'll
will pay for all his wife's thefts.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-24
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sTUEsDAy. MAY a. isa.
District 81 Cslu.hsa Desfsi seesesy.
George Washington university
medical school this evening. a
D. M Dr. Alfred q walker Of
New York city will talk on Some
Practical Things Of Daily Occur
renee In Practice"
Fssrseestk sssssl ce.fere.ce q
weights and measures. bureau of
standards today. 10 a m. Bread
Legislation from the Bakers Stand
point" by H T. Barnard. al
rector. American institute Of
baking; Proposed Bread Weight
Legislation in Illinois" by WILL
lam Z. p. Ciuett. OF Chicago;
Enforcement Of Bread Legisls-
tion," by Charles N. Fuller. Of
Los Angeles. Cal; manufacturer
exhibit Of liquid measuring de-
vices. 1870 D. m. Detecting
Shortages. Securing Evidence and
Prosecuting Onenders." by r. p.
Barron. Of Minnesota: "Destins-
tion Weighing of Coal" by T. L
Irvine. Salt Lake City. Utah:
Testing Of Mine Scales" by
Louis A Fischer. chief Of the di-
vision OF weights and measures,
bureau OF standards.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-24

To the Editor, The Washington Herald:
was raised in Ifugao. and min
sleI Nith TIE people in the noun
tain province. who are so pictur-
esquely depicted by newspaper cor
respondents (who, by the way, have
to earn their saIaries) as toters Of
hatchets and bolos- I also pos
sesseed and toted these implements
Cfor implements they are) and used
them almost constantly. Now, don't
be shocked, because, like the rest
of the natives there, used them
only for cutting wood for fuel "a
constant necessity in those psrts)
and for cutting down trees for
building purposes and for clearing
fields and gardens of weeds and
shrubbery. These tools were never
used and are not used. nor is there
any intention to use them in wars
against our people who live in the
lowlands. In the first place. we
people of the highlands have no de-
sire 70 make war against our people
of the lowlsnds.
The people Of the mountain prov
ince love, above all things, peace.
They have been taught and know
that only. in peace can sdyancement
be attained Like their Christian
countrymen. they are beginning TO
practice the teachings OF Christian
ity-righteousness, justice, love for
one another. peacefulness, indus
try, etc. And there is nothing that
is more pronouncedly disliked by
the people of the mountain province
than uprisings.
As a native OF the mountain prov
ince 4 wish to say further that:
Like the rest OF our Christian fell
low countrymen. we also desire in
dependence for our dear country
with special regard to myself. !
must say that l am getting tired of
waiting for it): that we do not con-
slider ourselves any more honest or
dependable than our fellow coun-
trymen Of the lowlsnds 1--WE have
not that sort OF spirit, SO to spesk)
and that all this tommyrot that
ther. will be trouble between the
people of the highlands and those
Of the Iowlands as soon as we are
given Independence. IL all bunk.
because like our Christisn- fellow
countrymen, we of the highlands
know that Independence viii sliot
10 us a place in the sun, which we
are sure of readily attaining IL we
all cooperate with one another. and
not by jumping at each other
throats.
ADRIANo KIMAYoNG.
"a Filipino from Ifugao. Mountain
Province p ID ----.- -s,'-..---
washington. May 20.