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Evening star., 1921-01-09
.FLAYS CALIFORNIA HEAD
FOR Letter ON LAND LAW
Gov. Stephens Explanation Draws
Hot Retcrt From
WeltY.

Representative Welty. democrat.
Ohio, attacked Gov. Stephens OF Cali
forn!a yesterday for sending to members
Of Congress a letter bearing on the
Japanese problem in California. Rep
resentative Welty declared he was
surprised to find governor carry
ing on a propaganda Of misrepesenta-
ton with the hope of establishing a
special national laundry to wash the
dirty linen of state
Gov. Stephens said in his letter to
members of Congress that in the de-
sire to deal with the Japanese ques-
ton effectively and justly. California
had had an exhaustive research made
Of the entire oriental problem. which
| showed that there had been tremen-
Gus Japanese development in the state
| in the past decade.
Representative Welty replied that
! some of the governors statements
| could hardly be justified by the 1920
census figures and added that mo
unbiased mind can quite unerstand
! the settlement of your land question
! in prohibiting land ownership by Jap
! anese. when the question could have
been settled without giving offense
and as effectively by making it unlaw.
full for any alien to own land"
Evening star., 1921-01-09
sound Basis for Business.

I find myself accepting the general
view that business will probably be-
gin to get better shortly after the first
of the year and continue good there
after 1t seems to me that we have in
this country all of the underlying
conditions that should bring general
prosperity. We have not, as have
some of the other great nations, lost
a million of our young men in battle.
Our country has not been invaded.
We have had no droughts, great
freshets or crop failures. We have an
abundance of everything essential to
life and industrial growth. We have
no seriously disturbing political ques-
tion confronting us, as in the case
with some of the other great nations,
we are not threatened with a change
in our form of government, and I am
told by those who ought to wnow.
that we have more real money than
any other nation in the world. Be
cause Of these things. among others. I
feel conservatively optimistic con-
cerning the future, and it would seem
that we ought to be prosperous and
contented people,
Evening star., 1921-01-09

Eetelgeuse. the giant star whose d.
mensions and distance have just been
measured by Prof. Albert A. Michel
son Of the University of Chicago, may
be twice as large and twice as far
away as announced by the Chicago
physicist. according to statement by
DIR. S. A. Mitchell, director of the
Leander Mccormick Observatory Of
the University of Virginia.
Addressing the American Physical
Society, Prof. Nicholson claimed that
by perfecting the Interference
method" of measuring star diameters,
he had determined the diameter of
Betelgeuse to be 26o.000,000 miles and
that, with light travelling at the rate
Of 10000 miles per second. the star
is $50 light years" away from the
earth.
Instead of these measurements. DR..
Mitchell states that Betelgeuse may
be 520,o00.O0O miles in diameter and
it's distance from the earth 300 light
years" He further states that the
stars exact measurements will not
be definitely known until March. 1922.
when Photographic measurements ex-
tending over a period of two years at
the Mccormick Observatory will be
made public. These measurements are
being made by DR.. II. L. Alden Of
the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia astrono-
mer fortified his assertions with the
following explanation.
"Prof Nicholson, with his magnih-
cent ability and active brain. has
succeeded in measuring the angle
at the eye that Betelgeuse subtends.
He did this with the aid Of a special
"bridge."t which, superimposed upon
Evening star., 1921-01-09
MIR. AND MRS. TAXPAYER INTERESTED
IN THE COST OF NAVAL ARMAMENT

his scheme: this chapter is merely to
gress. Whether it comes to pass or
not is another story.
1--WE are spending s275,000.000 for a
Navy on the land" is the slogan
, adopted by the proponents of the
change in system. They go on to
point out that a considerable portion
of the officer personnel of the Navy
lis now employed in and around navy
yards. armor-making plants and the
,, like. and that the force of workmen
kept on the pay rolls in order to JUS
tify the assignment of officers is un-
necessarily large. They allege that
all these great government plants
have become political assets and sub
ject to the manipulation of poiiti-
. clans Wages, hours Of labor, en-
ployment and retention of men. it is
asserted, all are becoming entangled
with politics to degree that would
not be countenanced by private en-
terprise working on aclose margin of
profit.
this question comes up in Congress is
certain The barometer is falling fast,
below 1880 already. and there is a
! heavy easterly swell. The public will
batten down matches and make all
snug on deck and aloft until the gale
blows over.
x x X X
Figures do not make interesting
reading on a Sunday. ordinarily. but
there are some facts presented by the
opponents of suspension of the naval
program which might be taken into
consideration before pronouncing
Judgment for or against the policy.
when other nations are continuing
their building programs it would be
suicidal for us to permit our Navy to
become second rate" contended Sena-
tor Frelinghuysen of New Jersey. in
the Senate. "It would be the height
of folly not to protect the progress
we have thus far made, our commerce,
our wealth and our institutions with
a Navy adequate to meet in time of
emergency any great enemy. Ma
tional ambitions have not been les
sened by the world war. Jealousies
prompted by trade rivalry may lead
to conflict unless our force is suffi-
cient to compel respect and maintain
peace"
1t has been claimed in Congress that
by 1923 the United States will have a
sea force greater than the combined
fleets of the British empire. Quoting
Evening star., 1921-01-09

the hope that throbs in every mans
bosom Of the arrival of the day when
the common sense of governments
Will respond to the common sense of
mankind for an agreement to limit
armament. nevertheless are set in
the opinion that the United States
can be in better position to take
the lead in such movement if it
has Navy as good as the best. Its
motives would. at least. not be open
to the charge of timorouAness.
Moreover. the congressman know
that. the people are proud of their
Navy and intend to stand up for it,
Assured, then, that the naval pro-
gram will be carried on, there are
some collateral questions which are
of interest. and one of these. the
manning of the Navy. is close to the
heart of the incoming President. and
domestic policy.
President-elect Harding, it is known
y some men in Congress. is deeply
intent upon keeping the American
merchant marine a live. going con-
cern, since it's marvellous, Aladdin
like re-establishment through the
exigencies Of the world war. The
plan which has been suggested to
him and which he now has under con-
sideration for recommendation as an
administration policy, is to train the
young men of the merchant marine
for two or three months on warships.
thereby making better merchant sail
ormen of them as we'll as preparing
them for possible duty in the Navy.
1t is estimated that from $4,000 to
5000 men coul be trained in this
way, furnishing an auxiliary force to
be drawn upon in time of emergency,
as well as doing the work of the Navy
meanwhile. Objections to the plan
are to be found in plenty among Navy
men, and will be presented in due
time to Congress, but the plan is in
contemplation.
and the next session to effect radical
change in the present system of war
ship and armor construction at navy
yards and government-owned and op-
ereted plants, and turn some of the
work over to private construction.
Now, wait a minute; don't be hasty.
The writer full well understands that
the mere broaching of such a subject
will bring down an avalanche Of OBJ
jections, supported by arguments,
from naval authorities, but this is not
Evening star., 1921-01-09

the figures presented in the House. 1t
cruisers and battleships built and
building and Great Britain 35, we will
have a tonnage of 1.11S.650. against
Great Britain's $4,000. In main bat
taries We will have $40 guns to 314
for the British and our guns will have
an average caliber of 14h inches to
their 1879. In a broadside our ships
will hurf 54S.4oO pounds. as against
$4,000 pounds.
In secondary batteries the British
guns will number 525 to our 4S4, but
ours will have 5.4 caliber to their 40.
and will throw 40.15S pounds of pro-
je<tiles to their $4,000. In one volley
from all our guns We will throw $685.
638 pounds of steel. as against Brit
aims 4s4OSO. While We are to have
3a2 destroyers to Britain's $50. it is
claimed that ours will be sw1iter ana
superior.
+ 4 + x
1t is going to cost money 10 90 al
this. and the money can be raiseo
only by taxation. 1t is said 10 pe
Yankee trait that the people are nut
afraid to spend money for private or
public enterprise if they consioer IL
an investment fraught with return.
The question then is for the taxpay-
ers to decide whether the ends JUSTIFY
the outlay: and, second. Whethef 'iie
ends can be reached without the oul
lay, through agreement the answer
will be made by the wise guys IN
Congress. but those same are iehoihs
an attentive ear to their constituents
so that in the end it will be the WIS
dom and judgment of the mass oi 'ie
people which will register.
president-elect Harding is expected
to deal with this broad subject anu
its ramifications in messages 10 ION
press early in the extra session oi
Congress. What gratifies congressiheA
10 evidence that he is not gong 10
take upon his shoulders indlviduai re-
snonsibility for suggested policies. out
ia comforting with representatives Oh
the people. who nave 'eeii'ie
edge upon the subject as wen as III
tuition of what the people want. his
justification for taking up the ques-
tion at this time is found in the con-
sideration that it is closely allied TO
the great problem foremost IN the at
+ention of the world at this time-ln-
ta-n.iona1 action to minimize future
wars.
Copyright. 1920, by The Washington Star. !,
Evening star., 1921-01-09
BY n. o. MESSENGER.
HARDING'S s
conferences with Senate and
House leaders in charge OIL

- conferences with Senate and
House leaders in charge OIL
military and naval affairs.
just ended, touched upon subjects
which will deeply concern in the fu-
ture the plain taxpayer as well as
the highbrow economist. Indeed. the
time may be regarded as past when
the everyday citizen intent upon his
own small. but to him important. af-
fairs can dismiss such subjects by
leaving their consideration to those
higher up" as was wont to be much
the custom in days gone by.
AS the taxpayer comes to realize
more poisnantly that he is to pay
the bill by direct and unescaDa BILE
taxation for all expenditures growing
out of national policies adopted by
"his betters,'' he is likely to scan
more critically the policies adopted
or contemplated. Are you Interested?
Well, then, here goes,
congress must, at this session and
In the extraordinary session to fol-
low early in March, decide whether
TO continue. curtail or suspend the
program of naval building heretofore
decided upon, the fruition of which.
If pursued uninterrupted. would place
the United States on an equality with.
If not slightly ahead of, Great Brit
ain since the destruction Of the
Spanish armada and the Dutch fleet,
the boasted mistress of the seas.
This purpose must be fixed. pend
ing the suggested international
agreement. for truce in naval build
ing or for partial disarmament. It's
determination cannot await the per-
fecting of an association of nations
to pevent war. The work is under
way. its hating would involve GER
tain oss and it's later resumption in
event of failure of the altruistic plans
for peace and disarmament, would be
hampered.
Inquiry in informed and authori-
tative quarters in Congress elicits the
information that sentiment in the
House of Representatives. where ap-
propriations must originate, is not
favorable to suspending the program
of naval building. It's time limit may
be extended a year or two by build
ing one capital ship less than here
tofore authorized for the next year.
but the authority for it's ultimate
construction is not to be revoked.
Those hard-boiled legislators, wise
old owls" while sympathizing with
Evening star., 1921-01-09
BACK LEHLBACH BILL.

Policemen and firemen put their
o. X. on the Lehlbach reclassification
bill at a meeting of these services
held at 1923 New York avenue Friday
night. Col. F. w. Albert presided.
The service meeting discussed vari-
Gus small discrepancies in the partic-
ular olassifcations.
Evening star., 1921-01-09

'OR the first time since the ter
~ mination of federal control,
the railroads are in position
generally to receive and move
currently all freight that is offered
them. There are probably more than
100000 surplus idle box cars in the
United States today, and the indfca-
tions are that there will soon be
surplus of open top cars. such as are
used chiefly for the shipment Of coal
and other heavy commodities. This
condition has been brought about
partly by improved efficiency on the
part of the carriers, but is largely due
to the recession in business which has
recently taken place. How long the
present recession in business will
continue is. of course, unknown. but
while it does continue. II is evident
that the railroads will be able with
their existing facilities to handle all
the freight that is offered.
Better After March 1.
There seems to be quite a general
impression among those with whom I
have talked that business will pick
Up again about thte 1st of March, and
that from that time on the railroads
will be called upon to handle much
larger volume Of business than Is be-
ing offered them at the present mo-
ment
Evening star., 1921-01-09
WAR ON ARMY DESERTERS.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,. January 8.--A
demand that the War Department inn
mediately start prosecution OF 10000
war deserters in Illinois has been
made in the name OF the ex-servjce
men of this state by William R Nc
Cauley, state commander OF the Amer
ican Legion.
Evening star., 1921-01-09
PARENTS PENALTY OUT.
District Child Labor Measure Again
Offered With Amendment.

The bill regulating child labor in
the District of Columbia. upon which
hearings were held last year before
the Senate and House District com
mittees, was reintroduced Friday by
Senator Curtis of Kansas. with sec
ton 20 eliminated. This section pen
allied parents who permitted chill
dren to work in violation of the law.
The bill is now pending before the
Senate District committee. and early
action will be asked upon it by its
friends.
Evening star., 1921-01-09
WHITE HOUSE LOSES BILL.

President Wilson informed the Sen
ate Friday that the bill creating
joint congressional committee to con-
slider reorganization of government
departments had in some way become
displaced or destroyed" and asked
for another copy Of 1t for the State
Departments files.
This was the bill which recently be-
came a law without the Presidents
signature because 1t was lost in the
White House executive offices.
Evening star., 1921-01-09
MISS STEWART HoNoRED.

Miss Adele NJ. Stewart. assistant
chief OF the examining division of
the Office Of controller of currency,
has been appointed the first woman
bank examiner in the United States.
Miss Stewart is a graduate Of the
washington College of Law and
member of the District bar.
Evening star., 1921-01-09
The Outlook for the Railroads.

enough, but was due entirely to the
fact that the carriers have not yet
been able to regain the efficiency in
operation which existed before the
war.
Evening star., 1921-01-09

1.-THE following article, written by
the president of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company, is reprint
ed from Commerce and Finance.j
Evening star., 1921-01-09
Oldham.
y. Y. Central
Pennsylvania

n. Y. Central
Buffalo (Eriel
Pennsylvania
BALTIC. o.-Reading
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-11
DR.. BARTON'S
DAuYLETTER
VACATIONS.

The annual vacation has come to
be marked feature of modern life.
Are you going away this sum-
mer?" is a question which is asked
of everyone except of those who are
known to be going away.
Perhaps statistics would show that
a minority of the people in the Unit
ed States really go away for Vaca
ton. Sc.
Perhaps if we were to take cen
sus in the summer months when we
are accustomed to hear that ''ev-
erybody's out of town" we should
learn that the town has in it nearly
as many people as usual.
Perhaps we should find that only
few, relatively, of the whole popu
lation, are actually at the seashore
or in the mountains.
Perhaps it would surprise US and
maybe do us good to learn how many
people keep steadily on the job while
others go away.
What They Do.
Nevertheless, the summer outing
is with us, and it has the grip upon
an increasing number of people.
They splash in the water, they
motor along country roads, and they
do a variety of things somewhat diff
fercnt from what they are accus-
toned to do, and they try hard to
have good time.
Some of them succeed in having q
good time. Others merely try hard.
Vacations do not do US all the
good they should. Many people
need to rest up afterward to get over
the effects of their vacation.
1t will do little good, probably, to
advise them. If they think they are
resting when they burn large guam
titles Of gasoline and burn up the
public highway, the good they obtain
is largely in proportion to what they
think they are getting.
Might Read Book.
But summer outing might be
made more profitable than it is to
some people.
1t might be the time for read
ing of a really good book; the time
for some genuinely bodybuilding
recreation; the time for the storing
away of vital energy for months toI
come.
But if people think they get more
out of their summer in the rushing,
hysterical way in which some of
them rest, it is no purpose Of mine
to take any of the JOY out of their
life by telling them they are mis-
taken.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-11
E1Dll OF<ALSA AND FEAl OREA AN1[1x
Confessions Of a Husband!
THE MANS SIDE OF MARRIED LIFE

| that implied question honestly, but l
find il very difficult. There is GER
tain sameness even in very happy
marriage.
"She amused me. 1t wasn't only
that. 1t was fattering to find that
there still was a woman who re-
garded me as a man-nOt merely
as your husband. 1t was almost
like being young again.
But that is all over. 1t Is as
dead as the dodo, and / am proving
it to you by telling you the whole
story as truthfully and frankly as
| am able.
VERY humbly l ask you to for
give me and you can do so with
the full and absolute knowledge that
this foolish little cscapade is the
only one that will ever interrupt
our married life"
No, that is not what / said. 1t
was what I imagined myself saying,
but when the time came to put it
into words by tongue rebelled. 1t
may have been shame; it may have
been simple cowardice; but | could
not utter those syllables.
On the contrary, ] heard myself
saying to Dot:
do you know, ! met George this
morning and we walked down to I'D
street before taking the subway"
And she replied: "I'm glad you
got that exercise
Very soon | was to have reason
to be sorry / had not taken that
occasion to tell Dot the truth.
Ito Be Continued.)
Copyright 1921 by Newspaper En-
terprise.)
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-11
WHATITOLD DOT.

NV first question that evening was
about Bobbie.
He had a fine day." Dot assured
me. "Thc doctor thinks he will be
able to get up in few more days.
That's great! ! won't feel that
everything, is really all right until /
see him running around again
at would have been terrible,
wouldn't it, if anything had-hap-
pened."
Brave old partner! You've had a
hard time but you've stood it like a
little major"
1T was Just as hard for you"
eyes, it was especially hard for me
because of a situation that you knew
nothing about 1t was my fault that
Bobbie became ill., ! met Edith that
Sunday afternooH-by appointment
and she was with me in the park.
I'VE were 50 busy talking together
that / forgot to put a blanket about
Bobbie when it became cool, and that
is why he caught pneumonia.
81 don't think YOU have suspected
anything about Edith, but | feel ]
must tell you everything in order to
preserve my self-respect.
"The whole truth is that | have
simply been foolish; | have allowed
myself to flint with her and perhaps
she believes ] care for her.
But ! can tell you honestly that
have merely been amused by her,
and that in my heart you remained
the dearest woman on earth to me.
'If that is so, you ask, why did |
permit this silly affair with Edith
to develop? | am trying to answer
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-11
OBSERVATIONS

How many miles per gal?
A speeder in time kills nine.
June was rare; July we'll done.
Another way to make it rain is to
plan picnic.
A rich nation finds it has plenty
of poor relations.
"To flee or not to flee'-that's
the Turk question.
Some men who voted dry in haste
are repenting in Cuba.
We can expect from Judge Taft
some weighty DECISIONS.
Railroad rate reduction would be a
'short cut to prosperity.
Noah was the first man to build
water wagon-and he fell off!
uhuSGI5
as the price of gasoline decreases.
SHUTS says the Irish question is
soluble; but independence is the only
solvent.
Maybe Ambassador Harvey can
talk up a war between the fly and
mosquito.
The trouble with some politicians
is that when they haven't anything
to say they say it.
Some people say women can't
make up their minds; but many of
them are decided blondes.
When it comes time to beat the
rugs father grants short skirts give
freedom of movement.
There are $4,000 divorce suits in
Paris; yet some foolish people claim
New York sets the styles.
Now that Caruso has found his
| voice, perhaps we can convince Ine
tenor next door he hasn't it.
The world will also make beaten
path to the door of the man who
uses his own lawn mower at a. m.
A London church furnishes con-
gregation with cough drops-proba-
bly, hoping to make them cough up
The old-fashioned girl sat on the
beach to dream, while the new-fash-
toned girl who sits there is dream
Shortly after Mrs. Smith-Wilker.
son arrives in America with her dia.
mond buttoned dress, it'll be But.
ton, button, who's got the button?'
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-11
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY


(From the Times-Recorder, July
10 and II, 1910.
AmeriCus rural mail carriers re-
jolced yesterday ~ the announce
ment coming from headquarters at
Washing to the effect that the +. f.
d. salary was to be increased from
5000 to $1,000 for the currenc fiscal
year.
With more than 100 cases disposed
of since the city court of AmerIcus
convened in quarterly session two
weeks ago Judge James A. Hixon
has practically cleared both dockets
in that tribunal and will probably
order an adjournment some time
this week.
Work will be commenced this week
on the handsome tWo-story brick
building which w. c. Carter will
erect on his Jackson street property.
The first sweet potatoes OF tie
new crop, grown OF the model farm
of Col. j. L. Sparks, were brougt
to Americas yesterday, thus break
ing another record in the harvest Of
good things in prosperous Sumter.
The potato crop this year VIII indeed
be d burner
Thirty ca'loadS-- probably consid-
erably less number-make up re
output Of the large peach orchards
in the Americas territo"y. TIE Bag
lcy-Ray orehard has about finished
gathering th,Ie,
Mrs FoweID Simmons and Miss
Kate Page have gone to Indian
| Springs and will later go to Warm
Springs as members of very deligIrc>
full house party there next week.
Miss Louise Nell, the fair guest
of Miss Gertrude Hudson, and the
recipient Of many delightful social
attentions, returned to her home in
Atlanta yesterday morning.