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Evening star., 1922-11-29
Nation-,uide Drive
Begun to Enforce
Prohibition Laus
By the Associated Press.


Attention of federal authorities
throughout the country has been
officially called to the necessity of
cooperating closely with prohibi-
tion-enforcement agencies with a
view to curbing the extensive vio-
lations of the statutes.
Federal attorneys have been in
structed 90 push all pending liquor
cases, and to suggest, when prop
er, the imposition of the heaviest
penalties on conviction. Their at
tention was called specifically to
reports that some cereal beverage
manufacturers were marketing a
product of illegal alcoholic con-
tent.
Evening star., 1922-11-29
RUss-TURK AGREEMENT.
Lausanne Farley Work Affected
by Resent Alliance.
nv A. n. DECKER.

BY A. n. DECKER.
By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
Copyright. 1922.
LAUSANNE, November 29.-The
delegations are awaiting with in
terest the reply Of the inviting pow
ers to the Russian request to be ad-
mitted to the conference without any
reservations. Foreign Commissioner
Tchitcherin has not reached Berlin
and an unfavorable reply will keep
him from the conference.
The consensus Of opinion is that
the British and French reply will be
q refusal and a repetition Of Premier
Poincare's note of October II. Premier
Mussolini of Italy already has ex-
pressed a desire to see the Russians
represented at all the discussions.
NJ. Rakovsky. the Russian delegate.
Continued on Page 2, Column .
Evening star., 1922-11-29
HOPES FOR EARLY CAR
MERGER LEGISLATION

Senator Jones Of Washington, who
has taken keen interest in the street
railway situation in the District, said
today that he hoped early action
would be taken by the House on the
bill which passed the Senate last ses-
sion authorizing merger of the
street railway companies, and the
Potomac Electric Power Company
with the Washington. Railway and
Electric Company.
Evening star., 1922-11-29
Hundreds Jam
Tax Office to
Auoid Penalty

Hundreds of property owners stood
in line at the District building today
to pay their taxes in order to avoid
the penalty of 1 per cent a month,
which begins December l, on all un-
paid bills.
Collector Towers announced that
those who fail to get to the Office to-
day may mail a check tonight or to-
morrow and it will be accepted as a
November payment.
Evening star., 1922-11-29
Measure Designed to Promote
Activity of American Carriers
Approved by Goodly Margin.
DEMOCRATS LAST ASSAULT
ON LEGISLATION is FUTILE
Effort Of Opposition to Recommit Fails,
2l5 to l72-AdministratiOn Scores
Over Bitter Critics.

The ship subsidy bill strongly espousd by President Harding
passed the House this afternoon by of 2S O4 with
members voting present.
The final after day OF fiery debate but the admin
traon attempt keep the and stripes flying the high
SEAS successful than expected quarters
The debate followed eleventh hour attempt the demo-
recommt the but this defeated by vote
Evening star., 1922-11-29

Fair and warmer tonight: tomorrow
cloudy and warmer.
Temperature for twenty-four hours
ended at pm. today: Highest. 46, at
pm. today: lowest. 81. at $3.50 am.
today
Full report on page Z.
The Washington herald., 1922-09-01
The Future of America.

nOGER BABSON addressing business mems
IN organization recently, was asked, do you
believe there is danger of the United States ever
being involved in armed revolution?"
NO" he replied, because / have faith that
we Americans will find the just and necessary So
luton OF our social problems in time to ward off
that evil day.
However" he added. at should be remem-
bered that 90 per cent OF the American people are
nearly propertyess, and under those circumstances
hard times, sufficiently prolonged and coupled with
labor disorders, might result in serious trouble"
1t is frequently said that "the home is the
bulwark of law and order" According to Babson,
then, the buwark is 10 per cent deep. with dan
gerous possibilities from that 90 per cent who are
homeless-"trespassers," Lloyd George once said
OF the English people, ''in the land OF their birth :"
There are two dangerous classes of citizens:
Those who, resentful at what they call social in
justices, would resort to methods which would only
result in industrial chaos; and those Others with
their own bellies full" who resist al efforts both
good and bad, to remedy faults in the social struc-
ture.
There is not, in America today, any we'll de-
fined plan of Reconstruction Minor groups, here
and there, propose this and that scheme of social
reform, but none of them has yet made sufficient
headway to crystalline public sentiment into def
mite major program America is still groping for
program, realizing that something is wrong in
civilization which fosters involuntary poverty and
near-poverty side by side with billienairesm, which
permits recurring industrial crises, but fearful of
untried plans which might deepen rather than solve
the problem
Our system of States, within the Federal
whole, provides an unexsmpled social laboratory"
TOR experimenting with plausible reform projects
North Dakota can tinker with this plan, and if it
fails it can readily be dropped without injury to
other States, or be taken up by them if it sue
ceeds. New York City and Pittsburgh can try
out different methods of tax-exempton to encour-
age building and other industries, and provide
object lessons for other cities and for the States
And
Out of all this nationwide experimenting will
gradually come rational program of social re-
form, without jar jolt, if we only have patience
and keep on trying. Eternal vigilance may be the
price of liberty, but eternal effort is also necessary
The Washington herald., 1922-09-01
Address "The City Editcr"

watch him. as with arms flying
like windmills, head almost de-
scribing a circle. he did his valiant
best to give the square deal to all
concerned in getting by.
Even at that he was In imminent
danger of being run down by en-
thusiastic motorists from the rear.
who with the good start they had
could not possibly check their mo-
mentum. Possibly they were not so
much to blame. for how were they
to know that there would be a COP
at place where one never stood
before. and anyway. didn't they
want to get TO where they wanted
to 20 in the shortest possible time
Something of a philosopher. too.
was that oficer. As the machines
whizzed by the Intellectual barrier
he nimb'y sidestepped the peril and
shook his head. as much as TO say.
oh what's the use" OF one lone
man trying to stop the primitive
instinct for speed at any price that
seems to take hold of the average
human once he gets his hands on
the steering wheel?-A. NJ. The
Ethelhurst.
The Washington herald., 1922-09-01
The Leagues First War.

4 I THE end of the world war German colo
"A NAL possessions in Africa were inundated
to Great Britain under the league OF nations.
The poor benighted savages of the jungles at last
were TO have the advantage of benignant govern
ment after the heartess exploitation TO which thev
had been subjected
Word got out. somehow or other that thew
didn't appreciate all that had been done for them.
They refused to pay dog taxes So the govern.
ment of South Africa outfitted an expedition
against one Hottentot tribe A force of ,zo
trained and armed men set out against commu-
nifty OF about 1900 savages. Few of them had
arms and fewer still knew how to use those thew
had The result was that about every adult male
IN the tribe was slaughtered all the sheep and goats
were seized and complete victory recorded for
the government. The savages had not committed
single act of violence to deserve the punishment,
they got.
The war on these poor people was the first
conducted under league mandate. British public
opinion is aroused over the affair The South
African government has been subjected to some
sharp
The league OF nations during its short and
checkered life has accomplished few excellent
results 1t has removed few minor causes oi
friction in Europe. But this is the first war car.
ried on ander its authority. 1t is not a verv hone
tul beginning for organization launched n
bring about justice between nations and between
peoples
The Washington herald., 1922-09-01

tAi. the essf cxfe:scS from ueirncrs Of Congress
to girl clerks IN tae vctcraas bureau. Few stop
20 analyzc the siiuation They lose money week
after week They GO without necessities.
Among the tracks now in operation is that at
Windsor. Ontario, just across the Canadian line
from Detroit The Detroit News. which also cir
culaes in racc-niad city, recently published some
cold statistics days racing which shonld en-.
tighten District of Columbia patrons of the book
makers.
Here was the situation at Windsor on August
~, according TO the News:
"Detrots gambling public at Windsor Tues
day, tried to beat the niathematcaly unbeatable
par-inutuel machines by playing $ozo2I on them.
"Of the total bet, the track took legal rake
of of $Ie.t7s The government took tax of S
per ccn. on the gross bet each race, totaling
SIo.54o Fo- its So,.o2I put into the machines the
public got back only $6o,3o6. II lost $3iJis-or
81 per cent OF all the money played.
"To get this opportunity of certainly losing =
great Part of its money, the crowd of gan,esters.
numbering approximately 1850, paid So each, or
total OF $3s,sso Their total loss for the after
moor was, therefore, $o7ao5. Of se.76 per cent OF
all the money played the machines and paid
at the gate. For this enormous loss they got ab-
solutely nothing in return.
Tuesday the twenty-sxth gambling
day at Windsor this season.
"In :wenty-six days Detrots gambling public
has lost the startling total OF So3oo45"
We have, of course, no statistics at hand on
Washingtons losses at~the Windsor track
But it stands to reason that, the patrons OF
bookinakers here Jared no better than their brother
and sister nnocents in Detroit.
The Washington herald., 1922-09-01

The way to test pants which are
Intended for use on the outside Of
a house where they are exposed to
light. moisture. heat and cold and
other weather conditions is 10 sub
nit them to a speeded-up imitat on
Of the leisurely processes OF nature,
thinks Harley A. Nelson, Of the re-
search laboratory OF the New Jersey
Zinc Company, who has reported to
the American Society for Testing
Materials his methods for making
such tests.
SO as To facilitate stimulation Of va
rious possible weather conditions
Panels of pine wood with three
coats of paint are suspended in this
tank. Artificial sunlight and heat
are furnished by q mercury arc
Eight. A revolving water spray ar
tihc'ally produces a beating rain
and a fne fog or mist is created by
an atomizer. An ordinary variable
speed electric fan serves to cool
the mercury arc and maintain q uni
form temperature.
Exposures Of eighty to ninety
days to this artificial weather are
required to produce cracking of the
paint. No satisfactory method has
been devised to produce the effects
Of cold weather variations, but Mr..
Nelson claims that IL 10 a mark Of
progress to know that at least some
of the physical change that charac-
terize complicated weathering can
be reproduced on an accelerated
scale.
The Washington herald., 1922-09-01
SHERIFF ARRESTS
LIEUT.. GOV. TRAPPE

OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla. Aug.
3l.-L:eut. Gov. NJ. z. Trappe. oi
Oklahoma. WAS arrested here yester-
day on a warrant from Seminole
County charging perjury and pre-
pairing false testimony. The war
rant was served by an Gndersheriff
from Seminole County.
Trappe was served with war
rants at his home here and i'm
mediately went into conference with
attorneys who represented him in
his impeachment hearing before the
State court in 1921.
The charges at that time grew
out OF a bond deal.
The Senate court threw the House
charges out on the ground thai
Trappe had not been charged with
malfessance in Office.
The Washington herald., 1922-09-01
Need Of Dry Propaganda.

IN ISTRICT police have done their work well
j during the past eighteen months. The
statistics gwen out by Commissioner
Oyster yesterday well may be source of pride
to Washington people.
During a year and half nearly 1900 per-
have been arrested for violations Of the
liquor laws In most of these convictions
OF kind another have been secured-al-
though in almost no instances have sufficiently
heavy penalties been imposed
But these figures should be sufficient to con-
vince the public that the police have sol
die-ed" on the job.
The combined forces ot the bootleggers and
the bookmakers canno: resis. this sort of work
@,nuch longer They may be defiant for time
5ut their fate is sealed III those statistics.
49, 1t is essential, however, that the police do
mot relax. There about 1900 more boot
icggers who might be arrested. AS soon as there
IS lul in the battle these people will become
more dehan. of the law than ever. There seems
be persistent idea among bootleggers that the
fo-css of law in secret sympathy with them
c. tha. they above the law and should pay
no attention to it. Many of them, also, have the
idea that the public is in sympathy with them.
1t is time for this impression to end. 1t can
be put out of existence by one drive after an
other the part of the polce-a perpetual vigil
by every member of the force.
Without doubt the bootleggers are right to
some extent Some Washington policemen SYM
pathize with them and willing to offer them
aid and comfort. These rank traitors in the
war with the legions of Kaiser Whisky
The only remedy which we see is well
organized, well directed propaganda among the
policemen themselves-propaganda along the same
lines that used during the war to make Amer
lean soldiers hate Germans to make German
soldiers hate Americans.
District policemen have been left helpless vic
Tins of the secret service of bootleggers. So far
as we know effort has been made to turn them
iato bitter, fighting haters of everything which has
:he suggestion of liquor about it.
This propaganda is possible. 1t should be
employed, not only in Washington but in every
city in the United States
The Washington herald., 1922-09-01
She Would Ban Jazz; Thinks
It's Mammon VS.. God.
TO the Editor. Tie washinrtOn Herald

To the Editor. Tie washinrton Herald:
Am sending q little "dose OF
brain food" to be taken" alike by
the rich man. poor man. beggsr
man and thief. play no favorites.
Whether this dope" will have atS
good effects at all. entirely depends
upon the patient.
"JaxI" versus melody" or NAM
mon versus God.
Some people knock the movies
tyou know the folks I meanD
And all the "actor-eens" they
criticise.
Too doEgone blind TO see a sermon
preached upon the screen
(There must be something dead
wrong with their eyesD
I know it's true. they're tagging,
up" things awful much thess
days
They're "syncopating'' everything
in life,
It's the jazz" that brings the DOL
That's the Noise too. that pays
And too much jazzin's maxim TO
much strife
so-why just blame the movies
the song. the dance. the play.
Why be too deaf to hear or blind
to see?
II you'n push awsy the jazz stuff
that noisy display
I'm sure you'll find the real love
ISABEL SHELTON HAsKINs.
The Washington herald., 1922-09-01
Declares Colored Citizens Of
South Are Denied Right .
To Vote.

To the Editor. The Washington Herald
The eyes of the people who are
interested in the good and welfare
of this country are open and look
ing 10 see what's going TO happen
on Americas next day of reckon
ing" which falls on November T.
And all ears are open TO hear the
usual sweet promises made by the
anxious office-seekers who make
nice promises before their election
only to be broken and ignored ks
soon as their election is given oF
to the country. And this writer ~
almost persuaded 20 say that there
are but few df any) "'honest-to-
goodness" politicians who mean 10
do the rirht thing by their faithful
constituents. And the voters eye
are being opened to these facts The
people should need no greater eve
opener than the election Of 1890.
November promises to be the
scene OF a political roughhouse in
this great republic. And. according
to the signs OF the political stars a
goodly number who are now on the
inside looking out may be on the
outside looking in!
IL is regretted that the colored
voters who have been as faithful 90
the Republican party as they are 70
the stars and Stripes-have been
given the wrong turn by the povS
ers-that-be in the recognition OF the
llywhite Republicans who promise
TO do the impossible-electl lilywhite
Senators and Representatives from
the South. Well. Virginia started
off first. just to show how nicely
the thing could be done, but the
leader seems to have run in con
tact with a buzsaw. So Virginia s
very much farther from being lily
white Republican TO-DAY than ever
before since the death of George
Washington.
The so-called Republicans OF tSt
South could not have hurt their
cause more than when they brazenly
ignored the Federal Constitution 10
the extent Of denying the colored
brother his constitutional rights az
an American citizen. They can't
win without the colored vote.
No one need ever expect 20 have
good luck IL he denies the color-d
brother his rights as q true Ameri-
can citizen.
Z CrTNNrNcuAM
The Washington herald., 1922-09-01
The Greek Turkish War.

THE war between Greece and Turkey stretches
i through its second year with intermittent
fighting and scant prospect of breaking the dead
lock. The Kenialists have launched new often
sive and forced the troops of King Constantine
to evacuate some of their hardest-won positions.
Next week, probably, the Greeks will win these
towns back. A few weeks ago the world was
aroused over Greek threat to occupy CONSTANT
nople Next week Mustapha Kemal may make
the same threat.
This unsettled is constant source of
irritation to the stronger nations of Europe. They
all have sympathies both sides 1t is like a
keg of dynamite under the continent which may
explode a, any moment into world war.
There seems little prospect that either side
will be completely victorious. The Turkish leader
does not represent recognized nation. In the
hinterland OF Asa-Minor he hold his own.
without much doubt, against all comers He Is an
able soldier, has excellent troops under his COM
mand and is well equipped But he cannot ex-
fect to break entirely through the Greek barrier
Even if he does the victory will be fruitless be-
cause Europe would let him stay on the
. coast
The Greeks in turn, cannot expect to win a
, decisive victory over Mustapha Kemal. They are
! -ii-eqrippsd for the task They are fighting over
difficult terrain. Transportation systems have
broken down. They are ill-traned ill-psid and
discouraged. The best they expect is hold
: their own Many believe that the entire sacrifice
has been only Tor the glory of the monarch, not
!. fo- the welfare of the country
Yet there seems to be way to stop the war
Both sides vii! fight a constantly increasing
expense, until other states step the melee and
make it worth while. Both Greeks and Turks will
rest sor a time and then fight again Neither have
; resources to support a continued action over a
period OF months
So many needles of trouble are hidden in the
tangled skein OF the Near East that Europe can
not rest in peace until the war is over and the
contestants satisfied. Is i. not time for neutral
iations TO try 10 arrange peace terms? Both coun-
Ties now are fighting to save their faces-no. be-
-ause they expec. any tangible benefit from the
var. When terms are proposed which will enable
etr TO retreat with honor it Is reasonable to sup
Sosc that both will accept Ss
The Washington herald., 1922-09-01
Criticizes New Senator fou
His Stand in Opposing
Soldier Bonus.

To the Editor. IN washington Hsrslc:
I saw In the paper that Senator
Reed Of Pennsylvsnia said that he
realizes that the large majority Of
former ser ice men want the bo-
nus, and he thinks that the former
service men deserve some kind OF
reward for what they went throuEh
during the war. But he 10 oppouee
to the bonus and 10 going 20 vote
against it on ths ground that the.
people cannot AFFORD to grant thi1
request because they are stsgser-
ing under q burden OF taxation
that has never been parsiieled n
, wonder II the former major knows
anything about the millions OF sig
natures and pecfrsons sent to
Washington by the people asking
Congress that sales taxes be i'm
posed upon them TO help The He
roes' of 1917 now the Buns" Of
isaa to get on their feet. 90 take
'em away from the public parks.
/ where they are living right now,
because they lost their homes. Jobs,
etc. TO 60 in the service when the
country needed their services. =
Senator Reed will not vote for
the bonus because he does not need
the money. He happens TO be one
of the class OF former service men
who had everything he needed
while In. and after he got out Of
the army. As a major he was
drawing good wages and good part
OF them went in the bank. and that
is why he thinks that poor enlisted
men don't need a bonus
The fact that he believes that the
former service men deserve a ry-
ward made him use his soldier rec
ord as a step-ladder to climb uu
TO the ofrice that he 10 holdinr&
Now ] wonder IL Senator Reed were
told the voters that he would vote
against a soldier bonus before Ms
election. Now that he has his re-
ward. he wants to deny others
theirs.
JOS. r. MENA.
The Washington herald., 1922-09-01

ouorATIoH FROM BOLISGBROKE.
To the rnsnd Of the People.
ago I found % g csrtain sstrsotion which is :. fol-
discovery of divine truths. One follows. Nature
works and ID his word" "s =
Us WIN you please tell Inc who wrote u7
II was written by yscount Boiingbroke ~ho
lived in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
WISCONSIN, STATE SEAL.
To Friend People;
the STAT. Sea seal 'f-wvf Of WISCONSIN! BxDaERIrE.
Gp the ss,;sI q ssrs.; ss
BRITISH COLONY.
Friend Of the People:
Where and what 10 Tasmania? E. II.
1t is British colony In Australia.
scHoNBRUNN PALACE.
To the ut -tn-P Peop...
Where IL the schonbrunn Palace locatedf
believe the peace of Vienna, signed in 1sos,s was
CONSTANT READER.
II Is a few miles from Vienna. was built by
by the imperial family during the summer months
The peace OF Vienna was signed there on october
STATE BANK FAILURES.
To the Friend u the People:
How many State banks failed during 1920 and
what were the total liabilities? Is. B.
1,s State institutons failed having iaSIlities ss
gregating 35o,7oS.aoo
sHAND HEADS BUREAU.
To the Friend Of the People:
WsS IL ea e WSs s9s, b re- OF the
JAMES d.
Miles M. shand. of New Jersey.