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The Washington herald., 1921-05-25
The Spirit of Helping.

To the Editor. The Washington Herald:
Quite a few inquiries have been
made as to the manner in which the
employees Of the Bureau Of War
Risk Insurance are viewing the con-
templated reduction Of personnel in
the near future. Being on the 'fn-
side" the writer desires to state
that these employees are facing the
future with the same grim determi-
nation and grit that We displayed
when coming here from our several
homes, when our country called"
The Hon. J. B. Milliken, assist
ant to the director, with whom the
writer was in immediate contact in
this bureau for over fifteen months,
In an interview recently in a local
paper spoke of the number expected
to be dismissed. The employees here
have only buckled down harder.
feeling that when the time come TO
60, that they will leave with a clear
conscience, knowing that all duties
have been well done
The writer has covered the bureau
hundreds of times and is proud to
testify publicly that we boast OF
such efficient. energetic and con-
scientious corps OF workers. The
reason is because that we desire to
help the man who risked all to win
the war. save Europe and incident
ally place our own America in a
position where her advice will be
sought in all matters of worId-in-
terest. Aside OF smeliorating the
condition of our boys" we feel
that every step we take, every letter
written. every case adjusted, and in
fact every duty performed has in
some wise helped the other fellow" 4"
The writer feels what he has said
here is a small effort in trying to
express the spirit OF The Bureau Of
War Risk Insurance"
Respectfully yours.
REV. ]. LUTHER MARTIN.
Washington, May 20.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-25

maybe second cousins Of his friends back home.
He asks. but asks in vain. The Washingtonian
with swelling chest, will tell him of square in
which two of the trees are the same of
another where there are more varieties of trees
than anywhere else in the world Pinned down to
certain individuals of species, the Washingtonian
says: @Oh that is pine" or birch, or an oak.
or maple. which is as definite as to say President
Harding is man. So it is that the Washing.
tonian's pride is mistaken.
A bare fact counts little with the inqurihg
human mind, If not joined with the particulars,
the how, why and which. If Washington would
merit, its pride in this wonderful arboretum-we
like that word-it must give the specific informa-
ton even its own residents want but do not have
II it would make these remarkable collections Of
trees of value in than shade to its own
people, to its children and its guests. it must
make it easy for them all to learn what all wish
to know. :.
1t would be a simple matter, comparatively to
give this information stamped on indestructible
tags of tin or like material. Then each could
read for himself and get value from this educa-
tional storehouse. There such tags on half
dozen or so trees scattered here and there. They
should be all of them Inconspicuous signs,
not out of harmony with the artistic, might be
given added information to the number OF
varieties OF trees in square, something in
general about them, such as brief history Of
the Japanese cherry border along the Speedway.
An illustrated booklet could tell more in detail.
with illustrations and in this way this collection Of
the arbor family be made of real value. This
would be of value, also, to Washington as meeting
a national obligation. Those who came here to
see, would go home with feeling of thankfulness
and of compensation. Indeed, it would be as well
to leave the monuments and statues unlettered
and unsung, as this great museum of trees
The Washington herald., 1921-05-25
No anonynSus c0nnunt-
cations will be printed in
the "Open Court column
THE EDITOR
Are the Japanese Crowded?
10 the Editor. The w,shinston Herald:

To the Editor. The Washington Herald:
The statement that Japan is so
overcrowded that she must find
room for her surplus population
outside of her own country has been
so plausibly and effectively used as
to deceive the very elect.
Japan has a population of 2o3 to
the square mile. Switzerland has a
population of 234 to the square mile.
Germany had. before the war, al;
Italy, 3ls; the United Kingdom, 373;
Holland, 4s3, and Belgium, $50.
Japan has Formosa, but she is not
colonizing II to any great extent.
She has recently seized Sakhalin
with no other hindrance than
grandmotherly liftly of the brows
by the United States. Does she
want Sakhalin for her surplus popu-
lation? Not a bit OF IL.
Her surplus population pours into
Shantung, which already had q pop
ulation two and a half times as
dense as her own. Why? Because
the results Of German thrift there
are ready to fall into her lap ready
made.
She overfiows into Korea, al
though that country's population Is
practically the same as Japans
There she takes the we'll titled farms
beyond the endurance of the own
ers, then she conhscates the land
and sells It on favorable terms ia
the japanese. The Koreans car
move on and out, or lie down and
die. It is all one to the 'paternal
Japanese government.
The truth is, the Japanese people
are living upon 40 per cent Of their
own land. The other so per cent OF
good arabic land is held by tht
crown and the nobility. Let five-
sixths of this land be released for
the use of the people and We need
hear no more about the overcrowd.
ed condition of Japan during our
lifetime, or the lifetime of our chill
dren, or our children's children for
many generations to come.
VIRGINIA L. BEERS,
Peking, China, April IS. 1921.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-25
Washington's Arboretum:

WTASHlNGTON has in its parks probably the
W. finest, if not the greatest arboretunr in the
world. We told there are squares, beautifully
wooded, where two OF the many trees are
OF just the same variety To the nature student
il is mine of demonstrated information. To m.
casual visitor it is full OF interest and provoking
lack of information. To Washngtorians it is
source of mistaken pride.
No one can walk along the streets of this city
under the glorious shade of the trees, or look
along them through miles OF over-archng boughs,
and not wish to know the Names the family. the
species and distinctive variety of the trees he sees
II he walks through the squares, his desire is
heightened He what seems familiar, vet on
close examination he finds to be only sisters or
The Washington herald., 1921-05-25
In Re MIR. Green.

To the Editor, The wsshinrton Herald:
read in yesterdays Herald the
letter written by Andrew Jordan
Green in which he states that Brit
ain was fighting for civilization
and her rights in 177s. and that
one-third OF the American colonists
were aiding her. Ii is inconceiv-
able to me how anyone can make
such a statement as this in the
United States, and ] wish TO call the
same to the attention OF all true
Americans in order to show the
kind of propaganda being spread in
this country by ro-English sym
pathiEers. Anyone reading these
remarks by Mr.. Green and not ia
milisr with American history,
would infer that George Washing
ton and his co-patriots were a Sc;
OF uncivilized barbsrians and that
Mother England was right in try
ing to keep them in subjection.
Yours truly.
MICHAEL p. JUNGHANS
Washington, May Is.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-25
Says Moratorium Crbs
Speculation in Exchange

The partial moratorium recently
decreed in Peru 10 intended TO curb
speculation in foreign exchange and
usurious interest rates, according
to a dispatch from Consul Waters,
at Lima, to the department of COM
merce yesterday.
Under the terms of the morato-
rum. 10 per cent is the highest
rate of interest that can be legally
charged by any bank or banking
house. it was stated. Only one bank
has withdrawn its loans as a re-
suit.
Business conditions in Peru have
shown a steady Improvement. the
dispatch added.
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in the University of Hard Knocks.
They have seen hard times come
and go and they rarely whine.
sat next one middle-aged man and
tried to stir him to conversation.
He said little, but he preached a
sermon in these few words: IF ia
only gone to school when / had tae
chanst"
Another clean-cut young fellow.
whose worn shoes told of his long
tramps in quest of work, said: Il
was making $50 a week during the
war. Had my chance. The draft
board doctors turned me down.
spent it all. Just today pawned
four silk shirts on the Bowery for
so cents apiece"
She was q chic little sprite, wear
ing the Roll Your Own" stockings,
a jaunty Tam and skirts. Oh, so
very short From a little French
hair dressing shop where waves are
made permanent she stepped into a
Robins egg blue lsundslet. while
the chauffeur waited for the trafic
signal to move she took a cigarette
from the window contsiner in the
car and lighted it-inhalins with
the snap that goes with experience.
An elderly man passed. He looked
in the car. stopped and tapred on
the window. She opened the door
and shouted: Hello. daddy" And
then the car moved on. leaving me
an innocent bystsnder wondering
in my bourgeoisie way IL IL really
was her father.
when Maurice Maeterlinck was
in New York he was besieged by
movie producers to write for the
films. He finally signed one con-
tract and was induced to go to
Csliforia to study screen technique.
The head OF the Aim company is an
enterprisinE fellow. who was raised
on the east side. He accompanied
the poet to the train. and shaking
his hand. said: "well, good-by. Mr..
Materlinck. I hope you make
goodr
The Washington herald., 1921-05-25
NEW WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
LAW FoR DISTRICT. JUNE 3

After June the District will have
a new weights and measures Law.
that regulates the weight OF bread
sold and prescribes other changes
in existing regulations that will
work 20 the advantage and protec-
ton Of the consumer ,Georfe NJ
Roberts. superintendent of weights,
measures and markets Of the Dis
trict government told the weights
and measures conference at the bu-
resu Of standards
1t is expected that the District
weights and measures department
will be aule to accomplish much
under our old law" Mr.. Roberts said.
The New law provides, among
other things. that bread shall be
manufactured or sold only in losves
of certain definite weights. While
the owners OF some Of our large
baking establishments have eN-
pressed dissatisfaction with this
provision. feel sure that IL will
prove of much public benefit and l
believe that after il has been given
a thorough trial the bakers them
selves will be pleased with IT,"
The law also provides that ice
and coal shall be sold only by
weight: il fixes standard containers
for fruits and vegetables and pro-
vides that when sold otherwise than
in such standard containers these
commodities shall be sold by weights
or count. This will, OF course. re-
suit in practically all retail sales Of
fruits and vegetables, except berries
and other small fruits. being sold by
weight. Dry measures will be prac-
tically outlawed in the District Of
Columia
The system of charging fees for
making tests is abolished, and the
maximum punishment for violations
is increased from a fine OF 500 10
$500 with six months imprisonment
thrown in for good measure"
The Washington herald., 1921-05-25

interest to the readers Of The
Washington Herald:
jamestown Founded l6o7.-Onthe
James river. and can be reached by
motor from Williamsburg. Here
Capt John Smith landed in 1907 and
established the first permanent
English settlement; FIRST church
built in 1910, and there may also be
found here many interesting relics
Of the first settlement. carefully
conserved by the Society for the
Preservattss Of Virginia Antiqui-
ties. The trip there makes a splen-
did days outing. Grounds open
daily except Sunday.
JAMES KEATING.
Washington, May %.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-25
Blu Fires Pound Loaf
As Bread Standard

Senator Ball. OF Delaware, intro
duced q bill Monday fixing the
pound loaf as the standard weight
for bread in the District.
Each loaf must bear a white label
printed In large black type. giving
the weight. name and address OF
the baker. Restrictions are pro-
vided for the baking OF bread Of
special weights.
The measure was referred 20 the
District committee. where q sim
liar measure was under consiosra-
tion last year.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-25
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cAeaie.I seeiefy Of wsshf.Ete.- In
terror building. this evening, Q y
m. Motion pictures from the bu-
reau OF mines. on The Story Of
OIL" The Story of Armco Ingot
Iron" and The Story Of Sulphur"
weights and measures eenference.
bureau Of standards. today, 10 a.
m Address by Secretary OF Com
merce Herbert Hoover; The Test
ing Of Liquid Measuring Devices
BY r. w. Smith. OF the bureau OF
standards: report of the commit
tee on weight Standardization OF
bread; report OF committee on
specifications and toierances. l:30
D. m. general discussions on the
following topics: Standardization
of containers for foods. net weight
marking on packages Of commodi-
ties other than foods: properequip-
ment for testing wagon and auto
mobile truck scales: proper seal
ing Of commercial weighing and
measuring apparatus: uniform
bushel weights. elimination Of dry
measures. -Four .. m, automobile
ride around Washington
The Washington herald., 1921-05-25
Open C6urt lie tiers to The Heralh
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personal contact. said this be-
fore President Wilson went abroad.
and also before Mr.. Ford went
abroad on his abortive peace trip.
FRANCIS B. LIvEsEY.
West Friendship, Nd.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-25
More About jamestown.

To the Editor. The wsshinFton Herald:
There appears in today's Herald.
in The Open Court Column" an
article, entitled: would Buy
jamestown Island" The following
article will. in all probability. be of
The Washington herald., 1921-05-25

You can trust almost everybody except the
man who doesn't desire profit and cares only
for the principle of the thing
The Washington herald., 1921-05-25

Not the least tragic part of moving is that
the furniture always looks cheap and shoddy
when parked the walk.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-25

II for no other reason, Germany should pay
the indemnity just to preserve the spotless purity
of her good name.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-25

OF course the sex problem is annoying. but
the problems would be much more complicated
if there was no sex
The Washington herald., 1921-05-25

The desire to have the best navy in the world
doesn't cost as much as the desire to have the
best car in the community.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-25

! Among other characteristics of this age that
should be preserved for posterity is form of
government.
The Washington herald., 1921-05-25

AT any rate, this custom of revealing the ankles
gives the homely girl fair chance
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-22
CRISIS BUT NOT WRECK

fFtHE delicacy of the Anglo Irish situation
II Is exempliied in the care bestowed BY
both sides in framing the communique an
bouncing a break in the London parleys.
Were the crisis irreparable 1t is extremely
nnlikely that such extreme punctilio would
hsve prevailed.
Breaches that cannot be mended are usually
tdsnalized by displays OF fireworks by both
groups Of partisans. Nothing Of the sort
distinguishes the present situation.
Mr.. de Valera headed for Dublin. where
presumably he will communicate to his col
leagues the British proposals which, as mat
ters now stand have been deemed a barrier
to negotiations. The cautious announcement
from Downing Street clearly presages his
return. Without undue optimism. there
fore, II may be conjectured that the Irish
leader has gone home for instructions.
Outsiders throughout the world can only
hope that the spirit Of compromise Is not
yet wholly extinguished. The responsible.
ties of Britain and ireland are equally
pressing. Civilization will receive a shock-
inK setback il some way leading TO further
nego. .intions vs. NOT found
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-22
POLITICAL MASoUERADING

A PPEALS for a stronger program of the
"A Democratic Party in Philadelphia need
carry no date. 1t is difficult to cite any
occasion for the last half century in which
the standing of the national rival of Repub-
dcanism was not equivocal in this city.
Speaking at n partisan dinner the other
1isht, Edgar W. Lank. chairman of the
Democratic City Committee, uttered the
venerable plea for real CO. operation and
for the cessation of petty, insincere, gener-
ally tin horn local politics in the party of
which he Is a spokesman. The familiar
nature OF his lamentations does not invali-
date the force of his contentious.
Good government in America is unques-
tionably fortified BY the sturdy clash of DO
Itical parties. Such healthy conflict has
had comparatively little effect upon the ad-
ministration of Philadelphia. where so called
"Democracy' has so often been merely an
exhibition of sell outs and masquerades
Should such a miracle as an authentic
Democratic minority ever be contaminated
here its opponents need NOT be troubled The
Republicanism Of the city is traditional and
Hkely to endure. What has grievously af-
fected local political conditions has been
the creation Of such absurdities as Penrose
Democrats. Ware Democrats and the like.
inevitable instruments of corruption and
degeneracy in their relations to both parties
Mr.. Lank's ideas Of reformation are
sound. Given the stamp of genuineness on
local party labels. some Of the most inioui-
tous sources Of intrigue barter and trickery
are certain to dry up. The public could not
fail to profit by such change.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-22
THE MOB AGAIN

VJNHE /. W. w. u organized and directed
l. to bring about the success of tho One
Big Union and TO encourage the dream Of a
world soviet and universal dictation by the
proletariat by direct action.
The Ku Klux Klan and organizations
formed in imitation Of It are supposed to
he at work in the interest Of what their de-
luded leaders call 100 per cent Americanism.
A mob in the TurloCk district of Cali
fornia. led, according TO reports, by mem
bers Of the I. w. W., applied to Japanese
fruit pickers whom they forced out Of the
region the same methods which the mobs Of
80 called respectable citizens in Texas and
Georgia have been applying to white men
and Negroes singled out for punishment
What Is more, the ]. w. w. mob in the
California fruit growing country dealt with
the japanese workmen just as, in days not
long past, respectable citizens in Western
communities dealt with other members of
the /. W. w. They used methods of terror.
ism and informally deported the japanese
without consulting the courts or the police.
~ the I. W. W. is to be suppressed and
antagonized. what is to be done about the
direct actionists who masquerade more dan
gerously and more powerfully under other
dssignationss What action Is more direct
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-22
BALL THAT WAS TRULY BASE

TESTlMONY provided by Bill Burns. one.
i time ball player and chief witness for
the State of Illinois. in the final airing OF
the scandal which grew out of an organized
effort to "ix' Worlds Series games, proves
that there were in the old White Sox few
men who deserve to be known rs the Grover
Bergdolls Of ball.
Burns and some of his associates-some
bf them idolized by all Chicago fans-frst
agreed to lose a certain number of games.
They lost two. They refused to lose
third one latter they had failed to receive
the money promised them by a gambling
syndicate First the fans were double
crossed and then the double cross was giyen
to the double crossers.
The major leagues do not appear to have
suffered any noticeable loss of support or
prestige because of the exposures in illinois,
Baseball is not crooked. 1t Is not crooked
because, as the evidence in the present in
stance seems TO show. a man who would
attempt TO play the part Of betrayer Is not
likely to have fiber Of the sort needed even
by a consistent crook.
II is not often that justice works out a,
Satisfactorily as II did in the case of the
accused members Of the Chicago team Tho
men were discredited and banned. And tho
axers who tried TO rot out organized ban by
bribery were themselves betrayed before they
xad had good start at their work.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-22

A WARD WAR SIGHTED

A LTHOCGH new life has been injected
"A into the proposal to divide the Twenty
second Ward by the favorable rccommcnda-
tion Of the special commission appointed by
the Court of Quarter Sessions. the preroga.
tives Of the voters themselves are not in the
least invaded.
Should the Court itself approve the re-
port on August 20, the date set for
ruling, the question must be referred to the
voters of the district for decision by ballot
for or against in the fall election. Division
politics will then have its innings.
Already suspicious of gcrrymandering
purposes are prevalent. Residents Of the
Twenty second Ward are traditionally in
dependent politically. and il is improbable
that scheme will escape careful scrutiny.
Councilman Roper, who originally advo-
cntcd splitting the ward. has experienced a
change of heart. and now prophesies that the
voters will defeat it. In any event, one of
the liveliest Of narrowly local political con
tests of recent years is in prospect.
incidentally. it may be forecast that the
independent voters Of the Twenty second
Ward will be exceedingly loath TO surrender
gains spiritcdly won in a succession Of cleo
lions
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-22
NO PRELUDES TO THE PARLEY

THE assurances from what is termed "a
i well-informed quarter in London that
any and all formal conferences dealing with
Far Eastern questions will be held in Amer
lea are not only tribute to the Importance
Of the Washington program, but welcome
concession to fair play.
With no disposition to be dictatorial. the
American Government is altogether justified
in desiring that the Washington parleys
shall mark fresh approaches to n delicate
theme. One object of the concave would
be mserably defeated were the interval be-
tween now and next November to be spent
abroad in formal deliberations lending ad-
ditional rigidity to the problems scheduled
for frank discussion
That the leading dependencies Of Great
Britain are averse to forestalling the issues
is exceedingly likely. 1t is no secret that
they are much more in accord with the
United States on the subject OF the Anglo
japanese Treaty than with the mother coun-
try. Colonial interests cannot be ignored
when the parleys are opened in the national
capital
The recent imperial conference carried
them as far as was consistent with the in
complete stage Of world issue. Wash
ington offers the opportunity for defnitive
settlement.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-22

TO heighten the grandeur of periods and
perorations. The total cost Of this tinker
ing, so far as II affects the Government
Printing Office, is fixed at about S1,OOO,OOo
annually.
While it is more than PROBABLE that Cen
eral Dawes, like some miliions Of his coun-
trymcn, Is neither an inveterate nor an
ecstatic reader Of the Congressional Record,
his attitude toward the revised addresses
seems to be triHe unfeeling.
There may be times in which even Sena-
tors and Representatives entertain certain
regret for the matter and the manner Of their
vocal outgivings in congressional halls
Should they be deprived the privilege OF
decorating their efforts, OF adorning them
with grace. literary polish and general vcr-
bal elegance?
Deny them, and they may come to hesi-
tate before speaking at all. Compared with
such nation wide shock as would ensue
from congressional reticence. million
dollar preservative outlay ranks as ne
cessity.