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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-14
Stars and Stripes
The tea tree is an evergreen plant.

The tea tree Is an evergreen plant.
R,njos which originated in India, spread to
IN. rest of the world.
Smiles are a good indication of the real nature
81 the person smiling.
Women today buy 50 per cent more SHOES
tnln they did before
Farming was the occupation of half the popula-
ion of France before the war.
People with twelve fingers and twelve toes
are common in Bandera, a Texfs town.
Personality depends six factors: Charm,
Il rec, symmetry. sympathy, optimism and
nodesty.
AIrship hospitals stationed at high and germ.
free attitudes are the suggestion OF q nerve
specialist.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-14
A Premature
Report
To the Editor Of The Times:

To the Editor Of The Times:
In the somewhat prema-
ture report" Of the senator
ial committee which has
been investigating the mill
tary occupation Of Haiti and
Santo Domingo by the
United States Il u an
nounced that the committee
has unanimously decided
that the treaty Of September
l6. 1915, viii not be abro-
gated.
The Haitian people had
unanimously demanded the
abrogation Of this treaty on
the ground that II had been
imposed upon them by mill
tary force, financial coercion
and political and diplomatic
violence. and that the legal
ization" Of its provisions,
through the raplng OF their
constitution and forcible
dissolution Of their national
congress. nullified its pro-
visions.
They had supposed. with
an almost childish faith,
that the absolute and un-
questioned establishment Of
their charges would auto
matically lead to the i'm.
mediate acquiesoence on the
part Of the United States to
their demand. They had
read Of our pious protests
regarding the high.handed
methods OF Japan in forcing
China to accept the twenty
one demands and they
thought we abhorred inter.
national violence and viola
ton Of treaty obligations.
But here comes a second
announcement report" from
the Republican members Of
the committee, when only
one side Of the case has been
presented, denouncing the
h & h-handed, strong-arm
methods Of the Wilson ad-
ministration in ordering the
marines to destroy the con.
stitutional government Of
Haiti, but announcing that
It approves Of the results
thus attained and again de-
clarins that the treaty, al.
though admittedly secured
by force and violence, will
not be abrogated.
The testimony Of the oc.
cupation officials, detailing
infinitely the lawless meth
DDS to which they resorted
to destroy the 111.year.
old independent government
of Haiti, and reduce II to
vassalage--in the interests
of American commercial ex.
ploitation--has been pub
lished.
Now the verdict 10 an.
nounced and following on
the heels Of this apparently
finished business Is the an.
nouncement that the taking
of testimony will be re.
sumed on or about the
twentieth of January and
continue through February
and that the remaining wit.
nesses will be the Haitians
and Dominicans, who have
not yet given their evidence!
Can Il be expected that
Latin America will have
confidence In the integrity
OF our motives and methods
in Central and South Amer.
lea after this? And why
pick on Japan any moref
Very truly yours,
BEL.MNA HILL WEED
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-14
Ariadne-
a Symbol

"clue."
When the enterprising Greek gen
tleman went to explore the laby-
rinth Ariadne supplied him with
spool Of thread by which he was en-
abled to find his way.
All these ancient legends have
way Of symbolizlng subsequent his
tory. .
Perhaps tradition is the egg of
history, and all the present and fu-
ture are somehow concealed in the
past. fiji,
AT any rate, new discovery
which has recently been announced
indicates that airplanes lost in fog
or darkness are enabled to find
their way to port by means of an
electrified cable.
A Mr.. w. A. 10th has invented
the apparatus and it has been tried
out with success in France. Vice
Admiral Fournier has investigated
the matter and reports favorably; as
also have M. Eynac, Under Secre-
tary of State for Aerial Transport,
and M. Guilhaumon, member of the
French Chamber of Deputies.
By means of this apparatus the
airplane will be able to depart on
time, whatever the weather may be,
even if it is black night or thick
fog, and can also make a landing
with a minimum Of hazard.
In transit from Paris to London
by airplane one must cross the Eng
lish Channel-that is to say, dis
lance of about forty-fve kilometers.
In case of darkness the airship is
guided by an electrical current as
follows:
Electromagnetic guide cables run
beneath the water. These send their
waves through the water and
through the air to a considerable
height, however deeply they are
immersed.
The cable in the Strait of Dover is
sunk at the maximum of hardly one
hundred meters, and it's electro
waves can be picked up by the air
craft at the height of thousand
meters above the surface of the
water.
The aircraft has a receiving APP
paratus and is thus enabled to fol-
low the line indicated by the cable.
What is thus done over the mar
row passage beween the continent
and England can also be utilized in
greater distances and in other places.
1t can be seen, therefore, how the
safety Of aircraft will be consid-
erably increased by this device, both
in time of peace and in time of war.
In war guide line laid across the
ground could direct a squadron of
aircraft to a given point of concen-
tration. ......
Another step has been made in
the slow conquest by man over the
difficulties of nature, another step
toward safeguarding the air.
1t took many hundred years to
make boats that could navigate the
ocean in security in all weathers; it
was a journey of many centuries
from the rowboats and sailing craft
of the ancient civilization that clus-
tered about the Mediterranean to
the majestic transatlantic liner or
the dreadnaught that now plows the
obscurity Of the vast sea spaces in
comparative safety.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-14
Collect on
British Debt

sand million dollars.
Britain, gorged with war spoils,
10 for the moment hard up and asks
for time. But she has ample money
to finance "overseas trusts" Of
hundred millions to develop South
American trade and ample funds
to organize oil companies with vast
capital under the liberal laws of
Delaware, to buy American oil
fields in California, Oklahoma and
elsewhere.
In other words, she has ample
capital for trade exploitation or in
vestment in America, Mesopotamia,
Persia and Africa, but finds it con.
venient to postpone paying even in
terest on her war debt.
In private life, when a man owes
another debt which he cannot con-
veniently pay in cash, he is expected
to make a proffer Of security or
property.
This method would be equally just
among nations.
Great Britain is Gland poor" Her
greed for territory caused her to
over-extend her holdings. For the
sake of economy, if for no higher
reason, she ought to let 60 of some
of these holdings and pay what
she owes.
Take, for example, the British
West Indies. The bulk Of their
trading is with the United States
and Canada. The vital interests of
their people would be best served
by such a political relationship with
the United States as would minimize
1.-THE barriers to this trading.
! The ties of history and sentiment
binding these islands to Great
britain are strong chiefly among
tsthe small minority Of white resi-
fdents of British ancestry, represent
ling the exploiting class. The ex-
tploited natives would welcome an
American connection.
These islands belong naturally
within the American sphere of in
fluence
In the hands of any possible
snemy they would be pistols pointed
directly in our faces. Strategically
they menace Boston, New York, the
Atlantic seaboard, the approaches to
Panama and all our communications
with Porto Rico, Cuba and the sister
republics of Latin America.
Had the era of buccaneering,
during which most Of these islands
came into the British possession,
found us a nation with our present
strength, it can, we think, be taken
as assured that no foreign flag
would now fly upon them.
. This, not so much from the lust
for soil and spoils which chiefly
prompted British Imperialism as
from perception of the Importance
of these outposts to our national
defense.
Why, then, should there be so
much hesitancy on the part Of our
statesmen in suggesting to Great
Britain in friendly words that if
it isn't convenient to pay us in
cash we should be glad to accept in
part payment a transfer of title to
these strategic islands at very
liberal valuationi
We think few students of British
history will doubt that were the
present circumstances reversed, such
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-14
TOWNE GOSSIP
Copyright. 1si2.)
BY X. c. B.

HE WAS in lower I AND ON the third.
six. morning.
ON THE first night. WHEN ! arose.
AND WHEN we AND WAS fully
changed. dressed.
ON THE second WENT again.
night.
..' TO LOWER six.
1T WAS lower seven.
AND HE'S our ~r green a" curtains 1adS
friend. ..
AND :, :o,.s wit, WAS As, suLc'Sc.
70 . w.,m.r elm. AND ! opined.
FOR . ,it.,. while. HE WAS already
AND IN the AND PINcHED the
morning. bulge.
FOR l rise early. AND THERE came
IT'S ONE of my
duties. In FEMALE tones.
TO WAKE him up. AND HEADS came
AND ON the first
morning FROM BETWEEN
the curtains.
I PoKED my arm.
,.,.,.r. :,r ALL DOWN the
BETWEEN THE aisle.
curtains. =.
AND SHOOK him AND ONE of the
gently. au'
AND HE awoke. WAS THE head Of
AND WE break 90.
tasted. IN LOWER seven.
AND THEN all day. AND BY that time.
''''' WAS beating it.
AND I got away.
AND KANSAS 81, 1885,. -
farms. IN THE dim, dull
light.
AND KANSAS
fivvers. OF THE Pullman
HuRR!rsc ON. car
OVER FROZEN AMI NJ one KNOWS
roads. EXCEPT NV fr;.ra
WITH CANS of wuo ,,uo,,r
milk. WIZ fiNCHED the
AND SACKS of
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Evening journal., 1922-04-19
THE MEMBERSHIP Is All RIGHT.

TUNHE New York Commercial. editoriazlng some
alleged activities Of the United states Chamber Of
Commerce. says:
I'm other words. the View is held by those who are
managing the activities or the United Chamber
that American importer occupies place today that
he did not hold before the 1t IL emphasized that
the European nations prosper unless exports are
encouraged This imports and thu United states
Chamber is planning accord the merchant in this
country who imports the recognition consideration
and service to which It believed he is entitled but
which heretofore he has received in full measure
The Commercial carefully limits its indictment to
those who are managing activities OF the Cham
Der April a year the United states Chamber OF
Commerce held a meeting In Atlantic City and tariff
questionable circulated the various groups
OF Interests who special session This ques-
tlonnaire was somewhat artfuily framed that how
ever It was answered It would favor the import in
terests Did the membership fan for III Not much
They called for Trainer and gave him the third de-
gree on the rostrum. He spent mighty uncomfort-
able fifteen minutes and retired somewhat crestfalen
The majority OF the United states Chamber Of Com
merce are a canny composed OF manufacturers
miners and lumbermen They may be depended upon
to defend OF the country which are theiI
own. II those who manage the activities" OF the
Chamber are begued by vain theories into wandering
far aheld they are apt hd themselves jerked back
Into the traces in short order.
Evening journal., 1922-04-19
unNEss AMONG orrIcn WORKERS.

TTOw many days per year lost annually by each per-
son engaged in gainfu occupation in the United
states has long been question In recent report the
United States Public Health Service throws some light
the subject the relation that the health
OF ONCE workers bears that OF all workers, which
should interest wilmington employers.
The figures on which the report based were very
carefully compiled by n large western corporation dur
Ing the year ending January 81. 1921 during which it
employed an average OF 12S2 Office employees An ex-
act record was kept Of work lost by each
person from sickness injuries. the sickness being
diagnosed by the medical department by the family
physician The result showed annual loss OF SIS
days per person.
This compares with the estimate made by the COM
Industrial waste OF the Federated American
Engineering Societies which reported that the a.
900 900 men and women selnfuliy employed in the
United states probably lose average more than
eight days each annually from illness disabilities"
The fact that the majority OF the 1882 ofHce en-
ployes were women whose sickness rate is usually
higher than that OF men, and that a OF about two
days per person was caused by influenza during the
epidemic OF February e2O factors which tend
to the sickness in question higher than the
average for all workers a normal year On the
other hand fact that the OF the office
employees only 2s7 years that clerical and execu-
tive work relatively free from health hazards and
that the health OF the group carefully guarded
medically would tend TO make the rate in question
than the for the gaintuy employed
Allowing these factors the author OF the report
concludes that eight-day estimate OF tho commit
the engineering societies FOR all workers prob
ably too high.
Evening journal., 1922-04-19
Russo German Alliance
CFrom The New York Herald.)

According to the dispatches from
Genoa yesterday, telling OF the treaty
between Germany and Russia. the in
evitable has happened
With Russia an outcast among ma
lions, az she has BEEN and Germany
enchained by treaty stipulations. her
territory occupied by menacing and
Irritating foreign armies. and forced
at the point of the bayonet to sign
agreements pledging her to repara-
ton payments impossible for her TO
meet the getting together OF these
two Powers In a treaty looking TO
mutual cooperation and close work
ing agreements was inevitable. Psy-
chology and analysis and human
feeling have spelled nothing else.
Moreover. disorganized. distracted,
disrupted Russia needs nothing so
much as the organizing genius OF
Germany to help in her economic
and industrial restoration. In her
ability 10 guide Russia In this re-
spect Germany can do more for
Russia than any other country can
do.
Prior 10 the war the Germans had
been conspicuous in Russian indus
/ try. Russian commerce and Russian
banking. No other big nation knows
Russia as the German nation knows
d Russia.
/ More or less familiar with the Rus
sian language. knowing the Russian
temperament and Russia's necessi-
ties, the Germans are pre-emlnently
equipped to do for Russia what Rus
sla most needs at this time
The Soviet experiment has passed.
The Russian people and the Russian
nation have paid the price OF the
equipment The price is national
Generalization economic. financial
commercial. industrial and agricul-
turai demoralization-d decentralization
OF railroads, shipping. mining, and
complete wreckage Of the social
structure together with a death roll
" many millions, nobody knows how
many millions
II has cost the Russian people MI
this 10 try out this communlsuc OK
pertinent aimed at the destruction Of
all the economic methods civilization
and time throughout the centuries
have worked out as the best for men
And now broken and bleeding Rus
STA Ia returning as was inevitable
she would return. TO a recognition
OF these worked out basic principles
OF social llfe-sacredness OF property
rights with incentive for work, FOR
thrift for achievements.
Guided by German organizing
genius. German instinct for govern
ment. for commerce. for industry
Evening journal., 1922-04-19
INTELLIGENT AND SYMPATHETIC TREATMENT
CALLED FOR

TNDER the new plan for financing the educational
u system OF Wilmington, the Board OF Education
will City Council appropriate si,2loOOo for the
or tina department and also TO sell $500 900 worth
city bonds carry out the building program the
next fiscal year. The st.2ioooo embraces an item OF
$4,000 provide for increased salaries teachers
der the merit system adopted three years
when the budget and the request for the bond issue
have been presented formally IT, City Council should
approach cy's educational interests with inte-
GENT sympathetic attitude and do what ought
done the benefit OF the thousands OF girls
sole hope FOR education rests in our public
school system.
The new order OF things anecting the financing OF
the schools IL different from that which ruled last
that comparative major would little
to the public mind. The truth OF the situation
be that the Board OF Education has pared item
IN the budget down to the lowest consistent
with ehcient educational service. The necessity for
such efficiency should be appreciated by the Council
men when the budget and the proposals come up
FOR consideration action.
Evening journal., 1922-04-19
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1922
BONUS RAIDERS ACTIVE ONCE MORE.

BONUS raiders once are aggressiveiy and per
ID nicously active in washington Having forced
their bill through the House. they now are exerting
every effort to force it. something akin IT, through
the Senate As a OF their work Republican
leaders in the Senate have conference and agreed
that the bonus matter shall be taken up at
but that it shall not take precedence OF tariff
II those who back OF the bonus raid on the Fed
eral Treasury figuring upon having in the Senate
the easy time that they had House. the in
dications that they will be mistaken. That phase
Of the situation discussed as follows by the New
York Tribune
The Senate Will take up the bonus bin at this session
bur the tariff bill will have the right OF way. This
course has been agreed at a Republican conference
1t at least gives the Senate consider bonus
legislation its merits rather than attachment
to the campaign activities OF Congressmen who are
seeking denomination and reelection. Many of the
primaries will be held before the bill can be acted on
and sent to conference.
What the country objected to most strongly in the
Houses handling OF this measure the frenzled ef-
fort to get some sort bonus through The form OF
acceptable the soldiers the public but simply
facilitate passage The adjusted compensation scheme
finally accepted is OF clunsy deferred payments.
with provision for meeting them. The soundest way
pay on an obligation OF this sort is TO set aside
OF revenue. This Is President Harding S
plan He told Congress that he would approve bonus
coupled with sales tax The Treasury has no sur
plus funds from taxation II must undertake huge re-
funding operations within the next year or two It can
not finance bonus out OF It's present resources
Congress knows this The refused 20 act on ne
knowledge The Senate Is in a better position act.
relatively few Of It's members being under eectoneer-
Ing pressure The public generally against
alton at this time The House tried please both the
soldier and the taxpayer by passing bonus bill which
would have the appearance both Of spending money
and of not spending H. But this method IL simpiv no.
iitical seght OF hand. The Senate should he
did IN Il grants bonus u ought 70 levy tax. Their
everybody would know where he stands and a clea
issue Of responsibility for the bonus we'll the
could be presented TO the voters.
But the real fact OF the matter is that 1t should no
grant the bonus and that It should be a party
putting additional tax burdens the already over
hurdened American public.
Evening journal., 1922-04-19

Russia with her 1sO.OOO.OoO people
and her boundless natural resources
will in another generation come
again to occupy her great place
among the nations of the earth
While Russia needs Germany
Germany In her distress needs reor-
ganized Russia's friendship. Russia's
cooperation, and Russia's resources
quite as much as Russia needs her
The attitude OF the Allies through
out the Versailles sessions. and ever
since then. has made for German
Russian alliance. Banishing the
sword of the victor over the van
quished, enforcing humillating con-
ditlons. imposing demands unbear-
able to a proud. self-respecting peo-
pie, the Allies, In everything they
have said and done OF this nature,
have all the while been driving the
German and Russian nations to-
gether.
This abvious fact has stood out as
clearly and as boldly to all persons
capable OF dlvorcing prejudice from
sound analysis as Mont Blanc stands
out In the bright MONDAY sunshine.
In a situation like this It is the
belief and has been the BELIEF or
The New York Herald that human
kindness will go enormously further
In Fighting after war conditions. In
/ the re-establishment OF polse and
good feeling, than harshness and
bitterness can possibly go. There Is
no such thing as making good the
( wrongs and cruelties and sufferings
OF war The MANNED soldier cannot
be rehabilitated. Life cannot be re-
stored to the dead. Bereavement.
sorrow. heartache cannot be assuag-
ed The destruction OF war Is so
much loss to the world Fighting
the war over again in our thoughts.
in our hearts. gets nowhere. The
water that has passed through the
mill will turn no more wheels. Re-
building or wreckage and the re-
building OF cordial intercourse and
friendships is the work OF the world
after a world catastrophe. The Off
cial peace that concludes a war
should mean the end Of that war
There can be no end to war when II
is constantly bought over by the
people OF both sides OF the struggle
fought over In bitterness and acri-
mony by press and politicion
] General Grant had II right wher
he said after our civil war Let u'
have peace" Peace Is what this
world wants. and that nation which
from the kindness and humanity o.
its soul does most to wipe out bitter
ness and bring peace to the worlt
will loom larger in the Great Cour
Above than any other.
Evening journal., 1922-04-19
BY j. OGDEN ARMOUR.

The world Is recovering. There Isl
evidence OF this on every hand.
Businesses which have marked time
for many months are now proceed
ing with their plans. II Is import
ant that we should all recognize
what the present facts point to-
that this is the moment of new
born opportunity.
Opportunity is more than optim-
ISM 1t is better than good cheer.
courage and noble determination
These are useful to tide us over
difficult times. But opportunity con-
slsts OF favorable conditions-actual
and arrived.
Not since the close OF hostlltles
have economic circumstances held
out so much of hopeful evidence.
The deadlock IN business has been
broken. Farm products-the basis
OF all prosperity have advanced.
with these approaching a parity
with prices of other goods healthy
business growth may now go on un-
impeded.
Evening journal., 1922-04-19
THE OTHER FELLOWS MONEY
From the New York Tribune

From the New York Tribune.
After saying that his computations
show that the railroads need SASH
900 900 in new capital W. Jett
Lauck, an expert OF bizarre ideas TO
whom the railway unions 90 for
economic counsel. says:
1--WE do not agree with the rail-
road executives that this requisite
capital Is practical unobtainable.
we believe that Il is the duty OF the
banking group which controls the
railroads to produce this required
credit or capital"
As a thrifty person Mr., Lauck
doubtless has something laid by.
Does he propose 10 lend II 20 the
railroads? He does not so declare.
Most railroad employees have saw
lnes accounts. Does Brother Lauck
urge them TO buy railroad bonds
Not so far as Is known.
No. it's the duty OF banking groups
20 produce. AIR Lauck nobly ig-
nores the fact that a bank must get
its funds from Investors who must
be individually persuaded.
Spending another fellows money
is an agreeable pastime. It is much
the vogue among Lauckian econ
omists