Evening star., 1922-12-29
CAPITAL KEYNOTES
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS.

make the gold elastic to keep pace
with the market quotations Oh
onions and salt. cabbages and kings.
sr,IHs The Eins'en Ell theory Of rela.,yty vii
things simple when the debaters get
at the true inwardness of elastic
yardsticks as compared with gutta
percha or brass. Under the new
wheat closed on the Minneapolis
! market at $2.07A. but rather that
wheat remained wheat-"as good as
gold"-and that the gold dollar sold
yesterday was sold for twenty-seven
that United States bonds of 800 par
commanded SO many more penny
weights Of deprecated gold than they
did last week.
This is not an editorial discussion
of Looking Backward" nor the pre-
| cession Of the equinoxes; it Is just
| Il tip against hiding gold dollars In
socks.
1t is certainly new part of the
Washington policeman's duty when
he is ordered to find hiding girl
| who objects to marrying a man pick
cd out for her by her parents and.
after finding her to keep her hiding
place secret from the parents. Sym
pathy of the people goes out to the
girl. however-Chinese, but America
trained-who objects to being forced
to marry. without love. Chinaman.
at the behest of her father. accordins
| to Chinese custom. She has lived
i long enough in America to imbibe
some Of the spirit of independence or
an American girl. and. as she Is over
eighteen years of age. even the police
have no right to force her to return
to a parental home where she Is
threatened with marital COERCION.
| The only question in the relation OF
! the police to the case seems to be as
to why they should find her hiding
place There is no intimation that
she has violated any law nor that she
| has been Kidnapped nor has suicideG.
, She sends word that when the pestli
! erous wouldbe groom leaves WASH
| ington she will return. Why not cal
out the Boy Scouts to protect her:
Herbert Hoover. jr.. has an amateur
radio set with which he is able 1"
talk from Washington to Switzerland.
hear is that dad is going TO Hooverize
swiss cheese by filling up all its hole>
and standardize cuckoo clocks :"
! they will all speak American.
| Management of Washington street
| car systems regret to note that in the
! last nine months the number of fares
collected has fallen of 100000 as
compared with the corresponding
| months Of 1921. The officials are
| silent upon the question of the polic>
/ of increasing the fare to 10 cents
| instead of S. or six rides for 40 cents
| II is feared that they might have
, serious attack of lockjaw If anybodN
/ should ask their views as TO tn'
| policy of increasing revenue by re-
/ ducing the fare, as the telephon,
/ company has undertaken to do
The experts are trying TO eXplA'r
the loss of 100000 fares in nins
months by pointing to- the introdu'-
tion of busses in competition. bui
no bus is permitted to run on the
same route as street car. Tn"
busses are fulfilling the function
which President Harding assigned TO
motor trucks in relation to raii-
! feeders to the street cars. The only
other plausible explanation is tue
perfecting of airplanes and the
squs nd ering of their wages by office
clerks in eight-cylinder limousines
! to save the extortionate fares of only
six rides for 40 cents. Why not try
rate that would look like 80 cents:
+ 4 =
! Beginning January l.. there is TO o.,
a whole week devoted to thrift. Dur
ing that week we shall hear Hamlet
talking to Horatio. and Poor Rich
ard" will be popular enough TO BE-
come beS: seller in competition
with Main Street" Much will be
told uS of compound interest. budgets
and systematic deposits in savings
accounts. Somebody will advise de-
posting penny the first week and
doubling the amount each week. $"
that when one is old he can own tn"
earth-for he might. But think OF
all thu fun he would miss in the
mean' hle.
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