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The Washington herald., 1921-02-17
Kicked Upstairs.

Many a kick is a boost and the gentlemen on
the Hill who would impeach Judge Kenesaw Noun
tain Lands have brought a demonstration of ap-
proval OF the Judge that is nationwide. Instead of
being worried, he may we'll feel triumphant
Judge Lands has his faults, but they are large
ly those which the result of excess of good.
1t may be bad taste and wrong precedent for him
to accept large salary baseball arbiter, but the
purpose is clearly the opposite of that charged
by Representative Welty to rather eradicate the
supposed sting Of his remarks
1t is left for the Senate to vocafzc that other
charge against the judge, that he released on his
own recognizance pending his decision as to where
to send him for punishment, young man guilty of
embezzling 100000. He also took occasion to Gen.
sure the bank directors who paid this young man
but 500 month while intrusting him with response
bilities that made possible so large a theft.
In this he seems to have struck popular chord,
little loose perhaps, but responding with loud &C
cord to his thump. 1t is safe to say Judge Lands
will not have to defend himself before a court of
impeachment After a byplay quite of the same
stripe as his own favorte form OF melodrama, the
incident will close and the curtain drop.
1t may be OF passing interest to know that the
bank did not lose penny OF the 100000. After he
had taken the money the boys better nature won.
He told his mother and then confessed to the au-
hortes. Stealing is stealing, but "extenuating cir
cumstances" are words familiar in all administra-
ton of criminal law.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-17
No Cause to Worry.

Modestly and with becoming diffidence, Mr..
Harding has asked Congress to favor him by
getting down to business and at least pass the
appropriation bills. Congress will do this. 1t will
have a whirlwind finish.
The present situation does not alarm the old
stagers. They have seen its like before. After
debating everything under Heaven, all that is on
land and water, there will be an exhibition of
racing speed which will appropriate from the
Treasury billions the ordinary buys street
tokens
IF there are mistakes the next Congress can
rccfy them. There never will be a time when
we will not have the deficiency bills with us as
a sort of ever present help in trouble. They cover
a multitude of sins of omission
Mr. Harding should know Congress we'll
CROUCH not to take it seriously. 1t do this
Nor itself sufficiently without outside assistance
II has to vocaze this it would not be ade-
quately evidenced to the public
But when that is done, when the public has
been duly impressed, Congress always gives an
example of hurry-up, of lightning dispatch which
is so breath-taking as to leave it devocal-
lied. Some may wonder that when it has
this capacity to dispatch business it prefers, so
often, to spend the dog days in Washington.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-17
People Buy What They Want.

Made in Germany" Two years ago those
three words were anathema to Americans A few
days ago those who bought received valentines,
and that was pretty much every one, saw them
plainly stamped nearly all of them.
They of the kind, in production, in which
Germany excells They of the same ex-
ceIlence in prewar days. They had not de-
Perforated, but rather improved in design and
workmanship. They sold at the prewar price.
Valentines buta straw the trade waters,
but they show which way the currents come and
go. These Made in Germany" show that the
Germans have not lost their painstakng diligence,
their pride OF workmanship, their art in industry.
They not the only German speciality which
has returned to the American market Last Christ
mas many, if not most, of the decorations for
Christmas trees and of the toys and dolls which
were found in the stores were from that source.
They did not need to be labeled. They were
distinctively of German excellence. They showed
II At those people had turned from war products
The Washington herald., 1921-02-17
Boy-Ed Sees u. S.
Wed to Germany
For Mutual Help
Especial Gable Dispatch to
The WILMINGTON Herald.N

Inc Wilmington Herald.
BERLIN, Feb. l6.-Your CORE
spondent has received a letter from
Capt. Boy-Ed showing that even in
the midst of a honeymoon his keen
political instincts are still to the
fore and that he is striving toward
economic nuptials of Germany and
the United States as a compliment
to his own international marriage.
Capt. Boy Ed. who is in charge Of
shipping and colonial questions for
the North German Hansa League.
writes:
Il have made it my professional
mission in life to work against the
impossibilities of the Versailles
treaty. My economic and political
creed is that in view of statistics.
the French will is to destroy, and
in view of our English competitor.
Germany can only exist if it works
with the United States and supports
Russia's reconstruction"
The former naval attache. who is
honeymooning at Lubbock, will re
side with his bride at the Hotel
Four Seasons. in Hamburg, where
Mrs. Mackay Smith. his wifr's
mother, also will remain for a time.
Copyright 1891. Public Ledger Co.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-17
Passing the Buck.

The Republicans in Congress should not be too
complacent over Senator Underwoods announce
ment that President Wilson will veto the Fordney
tariff measure, if passed The responsibility would
not end there. Ii would be but passed along to
Mr.. Harding.
At first blush there may be consolation in the
thought that the mere passage of the bill would
square accounts with the farmers who sup
posed to demand it. If then Mr.. Wilson vetoed
it, the onus OF blame would rest him; he would
once be inferred in that hole" frequently
and joyousy prepared for him.
But the next Congress will be Overwhelmingly
Republican. The President will be Republican. If
this Congress makes this bill party measure by
its adoption and a Democrat is ccnsured for veto
ing it, just what possible excuse the next Con-
gress have for not making it first order of BUSH
ness, rushing it through and sending it to the
White House?
1t has been debated The last word will have
been said for and against it. 1t will be made
leader in the Republican program. 1t is recognized
as at the head of the emergency list. Emergencies
do not wait Just what will be farmer judgment
of party good faith if after eleventh hour veto
the next Congress declares by silence that the
emergency but a pretense and the bill but a
sop with known veto to jerk it away?
The Washington herald., 1921-02-17
iM-iMrMTN-rrTr
WOMEN TO USE VOTE
TO GAIN Equality.

Am rican women are not going to
sit back and wait for men legisIa-
tors to remove discriminatory stat
utes in their own good time, but are
going to use the vote to gain equal
ity with men before, the law. says
Mrs. H. o. Havemeyer, of New York
City, widow of the sugar king, who,
despite the protests of a conserva-
tive family, put both money and
personality into the militant femi-
mist movement in this country.
Mrs. Havemeyer will be remem-
bered as the Jam Queen" OF the
war, who sent hundreds of thou
sands of Jars of jam to the boys In
Europe. She startled New York :
exclusive circles by leaving her
home to speak upon the streets for
the cause of suffrage, TO be finally
jailed in the District of Columbia
during the intensive campaign OF
1918. 1t was also she who address
ed both Cox and Harding before rno
election of November last, asking
for their support of the Nineteenth
amendment.
Because of existing inequalities
Mrs. Havemeyer believes that it will
be still some time before women will
be able to participate in national
politics on an even footing with
men.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-17
PATENT OFFICE
GETS INCREASES

The House yesterday passed the
conference report on the Nolan bill
providing for a reorganization and
enlargement of the Patent Office,
including substantial increases in
the saleries of employees. The meas
ure cow goes to the President for
signature.
Business interests have been de-
manding such action on the grounds
that the Patent Office is SO far be-
hind in its work that patents can
not be obtained for two years after
an application,
The Washington herald., 1921-02-17

to the family industrial inheritance. They have
gone back to production of the things distinc-
lively German which bear the stamp of the genera
tons of training and into which they put so much
of themselves.
This country may impose tariffs, but tariffs
alone do not result in imparting beauty real ar
tistry, care in minute details and all that makes
quality. The imposed impossible tariff
Yet in six years other workmen did not produce
German speciates marked with German excel
lence
But beyond this the greater significance lies
in the fact that already human nature, rather than
forgiveness of sins, has asserted itself in ignoring
the. Made in Germany" stamp. 1t but proves
that people buy what they want. They buy for
price and quality
Whether the product from one spot
in the world another makes little difference.
In buying we all ignore prejudices, even ha-
treds The most difficult of all weapons to use
in a sustained offensive is the trade boycott.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-17
STUDY GEOLOGIC
FORMATIONS OF UTAH.

In the geologic time called Lower
Triassic, eastern Arizona was part
of an arid continent, and to the
west was open sea, J. B. Reeside and
Harvey Bassler, of the Geological
Survey, have found out as a result
of their work of tracing out the
boundaries of the different geologic
formations of the Carboniferous and
Triassic times. Various formations.
including the Supai, Coconino, Kai-
bab, have been described.
The Moenkopi formation at Vir-
gin City. Utah, is producing a small
amount of petroleum, and they re-
port there is some prospect that oil
may be found at other places in the
region in older teds than that for
nation.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-17
Local Players Present
Passion Play Tonight

With a cast of local players. The
Upper Room" a passion play, will
be presented at $50 tonight for the
first time here at Carroll Hall. 924
G street northwest, under the aus
pices of the Catholic WOmen's Serv-
ice Club.
Miss Dorothy Callahan will play
the leading role. Miss Elsie Herman
instructor in dramatiCs at Trinity
College, is directing the play. The
play produces a picture of the in
cidents that occurred in the house
of Achaz during the period from
the night of the Last Supper to the
evening of Good Friday.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-17
DEMANDS ON AUTO STORAGE
BATTERY INVESTIGATED.

Just what are the instantaneous
demands that are made upon the
storage battery of an automobile
when the engine is being cranked
has been Investigated by G. w. vi
nal and c. L. Snyder OF the Bureau
of Standards.
Using an oscillagraph both cur
rent and voltage fluctuations were
measured, and it has been found
that the method provides an exact
means of measuring the speed of ro-
tation and detecting small changes
in speed from. one revolution to an
other.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-17
ARMY VOCATIONAL TRAINING
ENDANGERED, SAYS DIR, MANN.

Vocational training in the army
will be killed if Congress accepts
the recommendations of the Appro-
priatiOns Committee of the House
md cuts the vocational training ap-
preparation to $1,000, 900, limiting
the civilian expenditure to half, DR..
Charles r. Mann told the Washing
ton Society of Engineers at its meet
ing last night at the Cosmos Club,
in explaining the educational work
that the army has been instituting
since the war. Appropriations for
this year are $3.5OO.OOO and for last
year were 100000.
There are at least 100000 young
men in the army who have entered
because of promises. of education,
given under full authority of the
statutes by responsible government
fficials. said DR.. Mann. ITO aboI-
tsh this schooling at the present
time would, be for the government
to break its contract with these
Young men"
Because of the civilian influences
during the war. the army has be-
come one of the best institutions in
the country for training young men
to productive citizenship, DR.. Mann
pointed out.
This education in the army has
won the support of all the higher
army officers, who recognize in it
a powerful means of securing better
recruits and making better SOL
diers," DR.. Mann declared. TT has
also won the cordial support of all
civilians, who have Investigated ii
because 1t turns out men who on
discharge from the army are pro-
ductive and loyal citizens"
The Washington herald., 1921-02-17
VET SCORES WOMEN cLERks.

To the Editor. The Wasbtnrrou Hs-sId.
Would Force Out Women Who
Don't Need Jobs"
The above heading caught nv evs
in reading tho morning Ts-a.l. D.
was signed by A. Arms,roug
Would like 10 add word on The
subject. agree with Armstrong
il certainly should ue done. uu-
Armstrong. you bit Of big u-uru-
iul that tIm,.
The writer is visitor 10 Wash
ingtOn. came here to find our why
one legged. one armed utrr-. a
Vet could not get compensate :-nw
Uncle Sam-COnseqUently ! am 20 -
position to comment on SON, - ~
employees in War Risk Ius-rr7. 70
Bureau.
feel quite certain pho .rarL-
could be made II the Ann. -r I...-
gIoa and Veterans of F.-. 81 Ma
went to the mat WIZ. -.- rfT
Service Commission ~ .rs.-r,l
that former service U-.. .... U.r.rr
were given the jobs AID thar n.rfr
widows and girls he secured Mt
On account OF silk hose ,.. .-.- ...
account Of their d, str- IN r,rfs-
efficient service.
want to he fair .- wy s.err-
ment so wish TO s'ar .a~. r
contact with some ma, ar5 e, --- o
employees in the War r ~h Bureau
who are honestly a ,r-c.- ..'r r-.e
SAM mean that a.. w.r, r-o
few" are doing is tho .- saliva
tion for the poor dcv..s r..1 ... 70
disabled in the recent N.- w -a
il not for those few Iowa E .-l. -~-
we'll, ! hate to think -u r.---,.a
and forty dollars bonus. s-r.-
and twice that for the loyal. r9.-
cient few. But to think Of soma
Of them getting il,
The fellows on tho Hi a-o no.
at fault; it's your Civil S--,-~a Com
mission. Get after rh,~ and zog
will get results.
II this finds space in The Hrrs.d
! shall take a copy hack r0-r .u
California and let Hiram johnson
read il. it may help sors
Good luck to the move.
A. r. THOMSON.
washington Feb II
The Washington herald., 1921-02-17
Scientific
Notes and
Comment
Calendar of Meetings.;
Activities of Societies
In Washington

Academy of Sciences,
Cosmos Club, this evening, sis
o'clock. DR.. L. o. Howard, chief
of the Bureau of Entomology, will
deliver an address, illustrated
with lantern slides and motion
Pictures on Hoy the Government
Is Fighting Insects" The public
is invited.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-17
PROTESTS SOFT BERTHS FOR
RED CROSS EMPLOYEES HERE.

PROTESTS SOFT BERTHs FOR
RED CROSS EMPLOYEES HERE.
To the Editor, The Washington herald.
There are a great many women
employed in the Red Gross who's.
husbands draw a salary Of s. 500
10 $4,000 a year. This is paid bv
the public Now. would 81 not h,
better TO give these positions 10
people OF mature years who couIs
and would work for less salary
give more TO the needy. sick and
wounded and take care Of the blind
Some never had a husband. son
or brother In the wal. and never
paid more than 81 memb,rship Zee
so az TO get a position
A great deal Of the work could
be condensed and done by loW-ssI-
aried employees, who I understand
do nothing. Some do the work ~
two or three and receive small
salaries. not enough 70 live ON and
keep a small family.
was in the Red CruSs about
three weeks ago and saw three
or four names on a door asked
a girl what these men did. SIN.
said Nothing: one man work.. bur
the others don't" said. What
does he do She replied All over
the great building" have vUn-
dered how one man could work
all over Then began 10 wondc-
why they employed the .rhsrs
Probably because the public is easy
with their money. Why not lot
the man that does the work draw
the money? That is my idea uf
work
There surely must be a mIstake
OF one man over all these build
ings. He must be- a warrhmau.
But found out differently. He
is a hard worker. drawing a small
salary. That Us vhy he worhs
hard 20 hold hls place.
am a widow. worked during
the war for nothing for the Red
Cross in Philadelphia ] could have
used salary. but did not ask fur
a dollar. Let us hope that as time
goes on things will work aur as
they should hS. ] shall e. hack
to Philadelphia. where ] haf. .taI
for years I am now IS. and spend
every winter in Washington Phil
sdelphia people d. not r-v ro r.b
you every place you enter
NE MILLER.
Philadelphia
The Washington herald., 1921-02-17
Want Adoption Legalized.

Cleveland Kennicutt and his wife,
Helen Kennicutt, Of $50 L street
northwest, asked the District Su-
preme Court yesterday TO legalize
their adoption OF Frederick V.
Reamy, born June 10. 1917. The
petition, which was filed by Attor-
ncy David Wiener, contains the
consent Of the boys father, william
1. Reamy. The court was told that
the boys mother was dead and that
the petltioners are ehIldle@&
The Washington herald., 1921-02-17
SAYS HE'D FIGHT ENGLAND,
EVEN IF ALLIED WITH AMERICA

~ ~ ~ ALLIED WITH ANERICA
10 the Editor, The WashinEt0r ua-af
As days pass and We In-z 70
little ireland. We see THAI rns-v
week the situation in THAI u-r.--
luhate country is brought fu-rr.-
from a settlement. in spite nr rr..
fact that there must be an r-E %
sH Things. The atrocities tha. are
being permitted by Amorr.a.> sic
lence grows daily as the Brush gov
ernment'S servants bus, rnS-r-
selves with new methods ~ toy
rorism. That government ur.-n "a
so much talked OF by the American
press as the Creates humanitarian
nation on the face of the man -
now engaged in carrying on its I0r-
res as hostages prowiu,rr Trrs0
citizens, something that tRe Ger
mans knew tho world would Mt
stand for. SO they did not --v r,
The English are doing r and set
away with IT, The British Huns 80
now making the Irish peonr.. f-Ht
their own. Recently the Huns 0--
dered every man and lad r-0r =
to IS to report to the commando
in-chief OF their area and -nr q
regiment to fight the T,-uh'i077
army This Is called STUPID my TIE
leading English newspap, n.' " -
shall soon find some Arr.-..77
paper like the New York Times
write a nice little editorfar and an-
prove OF such a thing All 7 have g
say is that when another wa com"
on ] shall not be on tho sid" -
England even II have To take arms
against America.
] served in the Canadian army f0r
five years and saw two and ouc-hs.f
wears at the front ] am American
born and am now in tn, Unite
States army, having just ro'1rnC1
from Ireland where was recently
| discharged from the Canadian army
Corp. PHILLIP BLAKE.
Canadian Army.
Washfnrton
The Washington herald., 1921-02-17

Paderewski dropped the crown Of his art to
put on the crown OF patriot. He has now,
sadder and wiser, found that he drops the sub
stance for the shadow and that the role OF
patriot is not something outside and apart
The Washington herald., 1921-02-17

In declaring they will make their own repa-
ration proposals at London, the Germans admit
that at least some measure of guilt is theirs
with an attendant obligation to repair their
lawless ravages
The Washington herald., 1921-02-17

Harding is no slouch as a nimrod. He
hooked the biggest fish at Chicago and re-
peated the performance in Florida. 1t will soon
be known whether he has a lot of big ones or
some minnows in his Cabinet net.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-17
IDENTIFY PLANTS
BY THE USE OF SEEDS.

Seeds can be used for Identifying
and classifying plants just in the
same way that the other parts of
the plant are now used in system
attic botany, said Prof. F. H. Hill.
man, of the Department of Agricul-
ture. in the plant life lecture given
by the Wild Flower Reservation So
ciety in cooperation with the Com
munity Center Department at the
Wilson Normal School last night.
Each seed has it's own charac-
teristics and many of the depart-
ment's assistants, who have not
even studied botany, are expert in
plant identification through seeds"
said Prof. Hillman, in explaining
that this method of plant identifi-
cation can be applied in the field.
AS yet there is no literature on
this relatively new phase of botany,
he said.
Our common violet and wild
geranium throw their seeds several
feet when they wish to distribute
them, he pointed out. Other seeds
stick to moving objects, blow about
or are carried by water Two ex-
amples of the wind-blown type are
the milk-weed and the dandelion,
whose seeds are very different bot
anically, he pointed out.
''Our Importation of foreign seeds
in large quantity from France,
Italy and other countries introduces
incidentally many foreign plants" "
he said in stating that many very
common plants found in America
were introduced from Europe
Foreign seeds also arrive Id straw
used for packing and other Import,
The Washington herald., 1921-02-17

The saddcst words of tongue or pen to
many is that they face time when patent
medicines will cease to be beverage and re-
turn to their original field of cure for every
known i'll save of that of sobriety.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-17

ed material. Here in Washington
along railroad tracks are found
strange plants that were transport
ed in material shipped here from
other parts of the country. he said
The Washington herald., 1921-02-17

This war has conclusively proved that the
vanquished cannot be made to pay all of any
wars cost. The victors, too, must pay.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-17

Of Other
Ed i t o r S
Brief Comment From
Leading Newspapers
Throughout Nation
The Casc Of Mr. DeI...
Now Ynrk MnrIdl

or Debs' guilt there is no doub;
His conviction has been affirmed by
the highest court in the land; his
sentence is not opeh to criticism
II the war were stin IN progress not
the slightest effort Would probably
be made to obtain his Release by any
one except visionaries.I
But the war is ovet Debs has
been in prison nearlyl two years
having been inCarCAated five
months after the armstice. The
feeling that he has beet punished
enough is seconded by thh fact that
the time has passed whcd his oppo-
sition to the war could dS any par.
ticular harm. In fact. ~ may be
now more of a disturbing Element in
prison than he would be Olt Of II.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-17

1t takes heap evidence to convict
lyncher than the lyncher reqhired to hang his
victim.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-17
New York Timed

On what ground could Mr.. Wilson
pardon this man? Ddbs is thor
oughly unrepentant And defiant.
Why shouldn't he pay fhe full pen
atty? Is a dangerous Fiminsl. who
did his worst against the United
States and is ready ID do II again,
to be let loose beca fse he has a
pleasant disposition? % his friends,
travelling outside the record OF his
case, think that he dSserVes ENecu-
tive clemency becauie he has pro-
claimed himself "a Bofshevtk? Does
his health suffer? TIE health OF the
body polite is some hat more i'm
portant than his. II Is where he
belongs. He shouidt stsy there.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-17
New York Tribupe }


A duly convicted offenderl who ap-
peals to the pardoninE power on the
ground that he is sincerely &orry for
his crime and recognizes the right
fulness of his punishment seldom
finds the gates of mercy 3osed TO
him.
But Eugene V. Debs has not thus
presented himself. II he abd those
who speak for him are mott misrep-
resented he says that il Etven an
other opportunity he would do again
that which he did. Such recalci-
trancy gives no standing foom for
pardon except II be acknowledged
Mr.. Debs is released frou1 obliga-
tions to the law. And IL he may
claim such release then az others
may.
The public takes no pleasure Ir
keeping any man in prisonf least oi
all a man of the amiable( personal
qualities of the recent Socialist can
didate for the PresidentN Thu
there is no rancor in thd rejection
Of his application.