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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-10-29
Aid for Unemployed.

To the Editor, The Washington Herald;
Now that the unemployment con-
ference has adjourned I have a sue.
gestion to make: There's plenty OF
work for many q day In drainage and
irrigation. So much Of the best land
Is idle because Of the need Of drain
age and millions Of dollars are lost
annually because of needed irriTa-
ton. Because q section of country
gets heavy rains sometimes is no ar
gument against irrigation.
A farmer, especially a truck
grower should have water for his
crops whenever they need II. He
buys cosby fertilizer and seeds. After
planting them the land becomes dry
and they fan to come UP. II it Is dry
when plants are young they grow SC
slow the insects devour them. Their
again after a crop has been well cul
tivated and the prospects are good
for a bumper crop II there's draught
at maturity the crop Is sure to b.
short.
Some no doubt win say we make
more than We can sell now. A little
thought on this matter should dispe
all fear Of overproduction, notvith
standing all the ravages Of the re
cent war and the IN the population q
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-10-29
S o S Call for Mothers.

THE head of the women's bureau Of the Dis
i trict police department in discussing juvenile
delinquency before a citizens association said:
"We are begging mothers to be mothers. That is
what we need more than anything else today" This
S o S call for mothers is not limited to the
National Capital In every city in the United
States Juvenile court judges, probation officers,
teacl efs and social workers are begging mothers
to be mothers.
In an effort to supply substitute for home
training the State is gradually assuming parental
responsibilities and legislation is tending more and
more toward the socialized home. Community
motherhood is taking the place of the individual
brand and the community center is taking the
place of the home. The pocewoman represents
the spirit of motherhood on the city streets and
the public school teacher finds the teaching of aca-
demc subjects but part of her daily task, for she
must give physical and a respon sibty
of moral training that once the work of the
home.
If, as many social workers believe, this is
merely a period of transition between the individual
home and the socialized home, then the sooner the
evolution is made the better for the child and the
future of society. But fortunately the majority of
people still believe that even an average mother is
better than the State a parent and that what we
need today is to make parents responsible for the
home and the training of children.
Let us hope that some public spirited man or
woman will do for the lost art of motherhood what
Theodore Roosevelt did for the Ten Command
ments Or perhaps some organization could arouse
the mothers of the country to sense of their re-
sponsibites in the training of children as the
League of Women Voters has made them realize
their duties as citizens srr.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-10-29

an exhaustess supply of raw materials IN her for
eign dominions in distant lands Japan's source of
raw materials logically and quite necessarily. must
be on the mainland Of Asia.
She is now, if let alone, in possession OF all the
territory she needs for this supply. This same
territory viii provide in large measure markets for
her finished products She could surrender her
claim to racial equality, which is the.right of emil
grafton to any other land; she could without loss
but with actual gain, limit her ornaments to a
minimum with other countries, if merely permitted
to retain what she has to assure her raw materials
for an intensive industrial future.
Her possession of these lands outside her Dor
ders, she claims as facts accomplished as vested
rights. She might even agree to give up her po-
ltcal control in Shantung and Siberia, if confirmed
in her mining, railroad and other interests there,
with the right of economic penetration independent
of other nations, and common interest in all con-
sortiums which may be organized.
Can the United States deny this? Can Japan
be denied the right to do what we have done in
Mexico and the Central Americas? Can she be de-
MED the north half of Sakhalin island, which was
practically bought from the former Russian gov
ernment when retain the Virgin Islands bought
from Denmark? There is a basis for possible
agreement, but it is not an all give and no get;
nor all get and give. 1t is not all on one side
Indeed the successful international statesman is the
one who the other fellows point of view first,
and matches it in advance of its proposal.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-10-29

producing the hest results both for
promoter and consumer. so IL will
continue til the end OF time or as
long as man strives TO Guido his
fellow man by producing better
quality and labor.
In the beginning Is effort, then
opportunity, then comes compeu-
ton. to be followed by combination.
which means monopoly, finally maxi
ing individual effort subservient to
the rules of profits.
Monopoly is power; power in the
hands of the INSCRIPTIONS means
pressure to the limit; IL is useless
to delve in the different channels
the pressure can be applied.
Should the C. T. Co. and the w.
r. G. E. Co. combine and form a
monopoly of the railway service OF
Washington, it will mean a system
of buses, which, when they become
formidable, will be absorbed by the
the combine.
As to the improvements and con-
veniences each company is obligated
by it's charter to furnish its patrons,
there are ample laws. IL enforced,
to meet the situation compelling
the company at fault to live up 70
its agreement.
However. conditions all over the
country are abnormal. Washington
has not escaped this. no more than
other cities.
With traction conditions and IA
cilities to cope with 100000 sud
denly to be confronted with doubie
that number and more, is a problem
from which many would run. That
our system has handled 1t as well
as it has. deserves great credit.
However. TO give way to hysteria
and rush into a change, making a
monopoly in the midst OF abnor-
malcy will surely cause regret when
we are again the conservative peo-
pie Washington's population has al
! ways been, and will some day call
for another change.
Both traction companies have
handled the worst situation possible
to arise; due credit should be given
them for the manner in which they
have stood the test. Good business
will force them. in the future, to
give satisfactory service, this with
the new bus companies springIng
up and challenging for fares.
Creating a monopoly, though, Is
the very last way. Germany aimed
to monopolize the world; England
wants to monopolize Ireland; once
she wanted to include this country
in the monopoly. Perhaps there are
some who would say we would have
been better OF under this monopoly
but what of independence. Should
a company be as jealous Of its inde-
pendence as an individual?
With this question lies the answer
to a railway merger.
WILSON r. MARVEL.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-10-29
The Eyer-Present 'Gf."

THE delegates to the Washington conference
i are gathering in this city. Each country is
sending out what purports to be its program, its
basis of approach. From each capital are coming
statements of the attitude of the governments and
goodly measure of propaganda in its support
This is all very frank, with every appearance of
sincerity and in the main, there is not much to be
found between the lines but left unsaid in the
actual text.
The most significant feature in every instance
is the little word eff" Every nation is ready to
disarm eff" Everyone is willing to concede the
American point of view, eff" They are all quite
ready to agree to this governments contention, eff"
In other words the United States can have what
it wants eff" The "if' in each instance is of
course concession which would make necessary an
agreement carrying consideration Agreements
between nations with mutual considerations are
treaties.
1t is no longer difficult to reach a conclusion
to at least the initial position of all of them
Japan says and repeats, that she is ready to dis
arm, to limit her navy and her army If first of ALL
and even last Of all, she is assured an adequate
supply of raw materials just what does this
probably mean9 She is an island empire Her home
lands are not fertile as a whole. They are not
productive on the American standard Even with
rice as the chief and staple food she is not self
sustaining in food supplies. She has little coal and
iron, no cotton wool nor any, or very little, of
the other essential raw materials.
Her present population is less per square mile
than that of several of States and than that of
industrial Europe. But she must become an in
ereasingy industrial nation with sterile soil and
minimum of raw materials. Her future clearly
points to her becoming the Great Britain Of the
Far East with us difference: Great Britain has
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-10-29
.LUDENDORFF SEES
NEW WAR COMING

In his new book, War and Poll
tics- which lie 20 be published in
Germany within a few days Gen
Ludendorff appeals to the German
neople 10 rally under the old Prus-
sian leaders and prepare for the
next war. He pleads for the resto-
ration Of monarchy and for the re-
turn Of conditions as they were In
Germany in 1914. His book opens
with the following passage:
I'VE Germans BATTERED ourselves
before the war that we were mas
tiers Of men and a race Of masters
We are anything but that Our in
ternational tendency prevented our
understanding the true psychology
OF the world; we failed to empha-
size sufficiently that might makes
right and that ones own people is
everything.
.The HohenzolIerns made the
German people. Since the time OF
the Thirty Years war they nave
accomplished the titanic task OF
forming a large portion of the Ger
man people into a solid wilful body
as this world demands. The great
success of this princely house is
that IL gave the German people
special conception OF life known as
Prussianism.
Now we stand at the end Of this
epoch in German history and are
beginning the next.
I'VE must md our way back
again. We must see the world as
it is and not as we have latterly
thought and wished. Then as true
Germans we must draw the right
conclusions"
Ludendorff's argument is that the
public must re-estabIish a militarist
power to fight of a ring OF armed
enemies In a manner different from
the last war. which, he says, was
lost because the general stan heed
ed public opinion. This is how he
views the world today:
Our military achievements
brought the United States into the
war. which was a world event OF
the greatest importance.
Through the downfall OF Ger
many England lost its supposed
competitor in world trade. Germany
had q good feet, but only half the
size OF England's.
Tn America has sprung up a new
world power, the fleet OF which will
soon surpass England's. The power
and world trade Of the United state,
makes her q more dangerous com.
petitor than Germany was. This
will become more pronounced II the
United States has a naval hold or
the Azores.
TN the coming conflict between
the Anglo-ssxon powers for mastery
Of the world the military position
OF France and Japan win be Q oe-
cisive factor. Japan's world impor.
lance has grown up because Of the
strength Germany showed in the
war. France is master In Central
Europe.
she bases her power on the
strongest army in existence and or
the armies of the newly created
states In Central Europe, particu.
larly Poland and czeeho-slovalxia.
France. lying on the trade routes
OF England, with Middle Europe al
her back and with the support OF
the United states, is q very differ
emit political opponent to Englanc
! than was Germany
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-10-29
No Railroad Strike,

is to be no railroad strike. We placed our
dependence in judgment mainly upon the
plain horse sense which has always distinguished
the brotherhood leadership. In the back of our
head we had this other fact which is based upon
the ule of seniority. Just there are thousands
of railroad men, most of them members of these
unions, who laid off. They will go back as the
transportation demands return to normal They are
the younger men, those who had recently advanced
to engineers, hremen, conductors and brakemen
The older men, of the longer service are the
ones who the jobs. If brakemen, they are
next in line to be conductors, if fremen they are
next in line to be engineers If conductors or en-
gineers they have assured life job, every day Of
the year, and pension. Would these men willingly
ttrke, losing, if the strike failed, all of this advan
tage and have to start taking pot-luck? More
over, they the steadier and more conservative
They usually own their homes and have other in
vestments. Would they lower these values? They
would be victims of 'an economic hades of their
own creation.
Like members of Congress who occasionally
"hear from home" and change their attitude on
some issue, and their votes, confident the
brotherhood leaders would hear from these older
members of their organizations, and that in I'M
certain terms. Votes taken by railroad managers
disclosed that these employed men disapproved a
strike. In stating this, they did not conhne this
verdict to the railroad managers, they very surely
sent it also to their union leaders
1t would be interesting to know what proper
ton of the strike vote from the unemployed
and younger members with less at stake, and less
at interest in homes, families and vocational advan-
tages. Regardless, however, OF this, every un-
prejudiced American will be greatly grathed that
Satisfactory settlement" has been reached This is
not alone because it the country from great
losses, and further economic complications but be-
it leaves the brotherhood organizations unim-
paired Labor is human. 1t sought its own war
time advantages 1t is trying to perpetuate these,
but the whole it stacks up we'll with the rest
of US.
1t is useless to compare kettles and pots. All
are good Americans. All sacrificed proportionately
and alas average-sought to share in advan-
tages. Money mighty easy for about FIVE
years. 1t squandered most literally. Those
who had got and those who had little got
what they could. Few Americans can afford to
throw stones and it is most foolish pastime while
all must agree that from 1917 in April, to 1919 in
November, both capital and labor demonstrated
the average-a wonderful spirit Of loyalty and
love of country
This country, all others of the allied
countries, owe more than many ready to admit
to organized labor. There tremendous ad-
vantage in the period in being able deal with
labor organized bodies, to get to them in the
bulk and have united response That the unions
should be broken down. disorganized with a return
to individual contract, would be to go back twenty
to thirty years in industrial progress.
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many American papers as lone of
the sonest statesmen in Germany"
That did not speak we'll for any of
his fellow countrymen. For he
spent several years after he had
grown up to manhood in the cele-
brated lunatic asylum of Purkers-
dorm, near Vienna. There is a strong
strain of insanity in his makeup.
For the sovereign Grand Duke Louis
l, Leopold and Louis II of Baden
all suffered from mental affliction
+ Prince MACMILLAN is likewise bur-
dened through his Muscovite mother
with that heritage of insanity
which has cast a blight upon all
the descendants of the crazy EN-
peror Paul of Russia. And as IL
this was not enough, Prince Maxi
milan has as consort and as the
mother Of his children a princess of
the former reigning house of Han
over, whose aged father. the ex-
crown prince of Hanover and gen.
orally known until the outbreak of
the great war by his English royal
title of Duke of Cumberland, has
been under restraint for the last
seven years or more in his beauti-
the shores of Lake Gmunden in
Austria as wholly bereft of reason.
Prince Macmillan was in his
younger days extremely wild. The
pace which he had gone was too
rapid, even for the Russian Grand
Duchess Helene (now Princess
Nicholas of Greece>. whose father.
the late Grand Duke Vladimir, and
whose brothers, the Grand Dukes
Cyril and Boris, were not precisely
straitlaced or inclined to Puritan
ism.
She therefore felt herself con-
strained to break of her engage
ment to him almost on the very
eve Of the date appointed for the
wedding. She was and still re-
mains an extremely fascinating and
attractive woman, and there Is no
doubt that Prince Macmillan was
genuinely in love with her. Her
action in lifting him was such q
shock to q somewhat impaired con-
stitutlon that II affected his reason
and necessitated his committal to
the celebrated retreat for the in
sane Austria. near Vienna,
known N Purkersdorff.
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Msu2bnfGy
..Ooy By DAY
impressions:
bACGcMsMtpre
.iB1a|I|1lIdlilz:a

NEW YORK, Oct. 2s.-The Roar
ing Forties hears that Arnold Roth.
stein has quit. He has turned from
the gaming tables forever to settle
down In an inconspicuous but COM
Portable niche and surrender him
self to peace and quiet. Not since
the days OF Dick Garfield has New
York known such piunger. He
would gamble high on anything and
the gamblers said he was square"
Not long ago he Is reported to
have stood without batting an eye
while he dropped 100000 to Mick
the Creek" a new. plunger who
came out of the west quoting So
crates and Plato. Rothstein neither
smiled nor Minced. 1t was the luck
Of the game-and he is a confirmed
fatalist.
He Is a pale, well-built Hebrew
in his mid-thirties. Polished, suave,
he dresses more like the conserva-
tive merchant than the man who
will stake a fortune on the pip Of q
card. He has friends who are
powerful. i have seen him at
Broadway cafes dining with men
whose names are known every
where.
He IL said to be quitting with
several millions. Most Of the big
plungers shoot upward with the
mighty rush OF a Roman candle
and are. seen no more. Coal OIL
Johnny died in poverty. Bald Jack
Rose, hairless, slim and supine, IL
now exhorting at the mourners'
bench. He lives in a colorless Tenth
avenue rooming house. He used to
have a choice suite at old Rector's.
Most Of the big New York gam
blers come from the East Side stuss
joints. As boys the gambling germ
gets them. Their winnings 60 for
Hastily clothes, installment dia-
monds and they crave classification
in the stealthy Bradstreet Of aliases
to be known as The Gambling
| KID" "Plunging Joe" and the like
They are reared in q land Of side
walk garbage cans and perpetual
washing. yet when they fight their
way to Broadway's glitter they
have become oddly urbane and are
as much at home In q dinner jacket
at smart dining place as the
| noblest of the bluebloods.
The other day Monte Carlo Dan"
crept to the dark shadows of
Blackwelrs Island. His foxlIke
face was lean from hunger. He
twitched from drugs and when he
coughed a suspicious pink foam
came to his lips. At "a he was ali
In. Yet seven years ago he bouEh,
out a restaurant just for the night
and the next day gave 1t back to
the owners.
An enterprising restaurateur Is
doing a flourishing business among
stenographers and young clerks in
the shopping district. He furnishes
box lunches by special delivery at
any time designated. The orders
are taken from a menu which he
presents the day before. The charge
Is 80 cents a lunch. 1t is nor a
big lunch but It Is tempting and
well prepared.
1t would be difficult to recognize
the Astor these days. The entire
front and two sides have been given
over to a row of little Paris-like
shops-perfumes, ticket brokers.
matters. confectioners. druggists,
cafeterias, gown and millinery
shops. Even Louis Mann and his
trick collar have changed to the
other side of the street
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-10-29
Open Court Letters to The Heralk
k6ga@SfGp1e bEAn6sS>@ fE8aI

the world is multiplying so fast that
it won't be many years before we will
have to dig down in our swamps TO
feed the multitude.
We have plenty Of water and 81
seems plenty Of labor 10 handle such
q problem.
Now We come TO the financial part,
there's plenty Of money for this also.
50 why not while We have plenty Of
labor. get busy. Financiers should
desire no better securities for invest
ment and since it's for future genera
tons welfare 1t could. IL necessary
be so arranged as To be paid for by
them. / think this matter is just as
important as good roads Hoping you
will give space TO this that others
may have suggestions to make, am
yours sincerity, ,
p. T. SKINNER
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-10-29
CHEMISTS INDoRsE
ARMS CONFERENCE.

Resolutions expressing hope that
the highest aims and purposes OF
the conference on the Limitation OF
ornaments may be attained, there
by realizing the hopes OF the Amer
lean people and OF all humanity at
large, were adopted at the annual
convention Of the Association Of
Oficial Agricultural Chemists al
the Hotel Washington. The chem
lists also urged Congress TO con-
tinue adequate and beneficial leg
islation for the chemical industry
until the various chemical indus
tries in the United States have be-
come firmly established.
The agricultural and other indus
trial interests Of the country re-
alize the necessity Of a trained
chemical personnel and the sdyan-
tages arising from the application
Of chemical research TO all indus
trial problems; and the research
necessary for the solution Of aEri-
cultural and other industrial prob
lens can only be carried on with
the aid OF a firmly established
chemical industry" the resolutions
recited.
The development Of chemical
industry is one Of the great fac
tors tending toward the future well
fare OF our country, whether in
times OF peace OF in times OF wsr."
They also pointed out that the
members Of the association are en-
gagged in the study and development
OF investIgational methods as ap-
piled to agricultural and other in
dustrial sciences, all looking toward
the ultimate welfare Of our country.