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Evening star., 1922-11-29
The Railroad Question.

The railroad question goes over to
the next Congress. Chairman Cum
minis of the Senate interstate COM
merce committee so announced yes
1erday.
1t is probably a wise disposition of
the question. The present is not a
good time for its consideration. The
Senate's card is crowded. and there is
warm disputation in much of the busi-
ness. A filibuster is already in evil
dence on the anti-lynching bill, and
other bills as they are reached will
draw fire.
In such circumstances justice could
not be done to a question of such i'm
portance and difficulty as that of rail-
road transportation. The country is
expecting much from a solution of
that problem. 1t has been suffering
many Inconvenience and some heavy
losses from the railroad situation as
created and bequcathed by the war.
Hence, whatever is done should be
done with care and full deliberation.
The committee work and the debate
when that work Is taken up in the
chamber should have a generous time
allowance.
1t is to be remembered that the advo-
Gates of government ownership and
operation of railroads have never re-
taxed their energies; that they are
now as aggressive and full of hope as
at any time since they organized; that
t.very failure to give the proper serv-
ice under private ownership and oper-
alton is in the nature Of encourage
ment to them. and it is a fact that
they are today calculating as to what
another failure will yield them in the
way of advantage in their further
efforts toward success.
Evening star., 1922-11-29

from collision, He should not be forced
to jump and run to get across ahead
of an approaching motor. nor should
he be obliged to dodge back out OF
danger when a machine Is driven over
the intersection. Yet, save at the
traffic officer crossings. this often hap
pens. AT such crossings the impulses
of the traffic permit alternate move
ments north and south and east and
west. hut il Is common to find the
vehicles halted we'll over the white
lines: in fact, crowding up to the very
lines of the curb, awaiting the first
chance to get through.
When at these impulse points the
traffic in one direction is checked the
motors should be held at the far side
of the crossing space. and should not
be driven upon that space. Then the
people afoot can get across with as
SuranCe and can make their way
straight without dodging in and out
between the standing cars.
\ cross-walk rule, combining the
pedestrian to the intersections. will
never be effective unless and until the
drivers respect the pedestrians at
those points and yield them a rca-
sunahlc right Of way. Such a rule will
never he tolerated unless the walking
space is Il safe space. and it will not
be safe. the lines will not mean any
thing. if the pedestrian at such a point
is compelled to assure his security
through agility.
Evening star., 1922-11-29
Urges Reduced Speed
For Autos in Streets

To the Editor of The Star:
While owners and operators of
motor cars are very numerous in the
city, those of Us who have to get
about on foot or by the street cars
to say that most of the accidents
occurring find their victims among
US. While many of them may be
due to pedestrian carelessness much
the larger number is due to reckless
and unframed driving and to a great
er degree of speed than ought to be
permitted in city streets.
In the days before automobiles any
one driving horses at a greater speed
than ten miles an hour would have
been held up. and even that rate was
considered risky and excessive. Still
every one was able to get about and
attend to his affairs and he could do so
now if the same limit was enforced.
1t is very much to be doubted
whether there will be any considera-
BILE decrease in accidents until the
dangerous rate of speed is reduced
There should be zone established.
comprising the busy part of the city.
in which ten-mile-per-hour limit of
snead should be rigidly enforced
There is no justification for the head
long hurry to and fro of the nu-
marouS cars in our crowded streets
The little difference in time required
to get anywhere would be of no i'm
portanca compared TO the risk of life
and limb involved in greater speed.
1t appears to me. Mr.. Editor. that
the duties of pedestrians during this
Safety week are being especially
stressed. compared with those en-
Joined upon car owners. considering
the relative degrees of responsibility
involved It is. after all. as a rule
they who do the killing and we who
are the victims. and the surest way
to ameliorate the intolerable condi-
tions we have been living and dying
under is less speed.
ARCHIBALD HOPKINS.
Evening star., 1922-11-29
Rejuvenated Wedding Rings.

1t has become rather unpleasant
habit on the part of some people to
figure on a. lady's age by the width
of her wedding ring-a practice that
certainly should be frowned upon.
And besides, all the girls who married
under certain style of wedding ring
were not exactly the same age any
way.
The lady who has fairly well re-
tanned her figure. has done her best
with her naturally nice complexion
and has not permitted her husband to
become unduly fat or obviously and
irTetrievably bald. may not be par
ticularly pleased to have her we'd
ding ring state to the wise ones that
she was married in the nineties.
So art and trade have taken up the
question. There need be no further
clever guessing on the wedding ring
unspoken word as to ones age. For
the ring of the nineties may be done
over by processes that may approxi-
mate the making over of faces that is
sometimes INDUCED in. The hand that
wears it may wither bit, but the
ring. being of an imper;shable metal.
may be remodeled so that 1900 may
become 1921 if necessary-and. of
course, every one will be completely
fooled: no one will guess that the
years have passed at all; time will
be defeated and wonan's eternal
of gold. The rejuvenated wedding
ring. What thoughts must arise with
those words! Perhaps those words
mark an improvement over the times
that are gone by the times we live in.
And perhaps not.-Hartford Courant.
Alonzo b. Sees views on higher
education of women reach back sew
eral centuries B. C.-Boston Herald.
Just when people were feeling bet
ter toward Germany she begins ex-
porting musical instruments.-Colum
bia Record.
Rumored wet forces will form new
party. With wine and beer it ought
to be some party-Springf1eld Ohio,
News.
F1appers must feel some relief that
derision is detected from them in
direction Of toreador trousers.-El
Paso Herald.
Chicago hotels ask to serve mince
pie with brandy this Thanksgiving.
Some even want to leave out the
pie.-Muskegon Chronicle.
Isadora Duncan's orchestra leaders
name is Modest. A concession to the
censors-Little Rock Arkansas Ga
zette.
A gentleman named Alonzo B. See
advocates burning all women's COL
leges. He apparently feels no woman
needs to know more than A. B. See.-
Philadelphia North American.
II Mr. Mott ever discovers a New
Jerseyita who knows nothing about
that double murder he may get on
the right track.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
Evening star., 1922-11-29
The New Tariff Law.
A late Boston dispatch says:

If the first month of the new tariff
is an index the federal Treasury Will
derive more than half billion dollars
yearly from duties instead of the
three to four hundred ml!linns estl-
mated by government officials. Secre-
tary William II. Cliff of the Home
Market Club said in his address at the
annual meeting today. The enact
ment of the Fordney-McCumbe tarin
establishes the starting point of an
other era of prosperity Tor the United
States" he declared.
is not true. the fact should be easy OF
demonstration.
Those who hold that the republican
reverses in the recent campaign We're
occasioned by the new tariff law are
demanding that the law be materially
changed. if not indeed repealed, at
once. Why keep on the books law
rejected by the country ard therefore
inimical to the party responsible for
It?
But here Is testimony that. to the
extent the law was condemned at the
polls last week. it was condemned on
clamor; that the long and acrimonious
debate in Congress. which continued
until within a few weeks of election
day, swayed the people when they cast
their ballots.
If the new law is Immediately MAX
ing good and confounding those who
on Capitol Hill denounced the princi-
pie upon which it rested and predicted
it's failure, the republicans have some
thing to reproach themselves with in
permitting the debate in Congress to
continue full twelve months beyond
the time when it might. and should.
have been brought to a close. If. in
stead of few weeks. the law had had
a year in which to demonstrate itself
the result on the 7th instant might,
so far as it turned on the tariff issue,
have been different from what it was.
Evening star., 1922-11-29
Protection Given a Slave Boy
Threatened to End Army Career

woods character. 1t ~ the story Of
was ordered for court martial just
before he achieved one of his greatest
exploits-all because he lived up to
his convictions and protected zone of
the least of these'-a slave boy.
After the battle of Perryville, Oc-
tober is. 1862. the 11th Ohio Regi-
ment was encamped in the outskirts
of Frankfort. Ky. A colored boy
named Alfred Jackson, aged four
teen. a slave. wanted to go with the
Army. He was owned by Baptist
minister. He went with the regi-
ment on the march from Frankfort
to Bowling Green. Then Col. Sher-
wood employed the boy to take care
of one of his war horses. In few
days the United States marshal came
looking for Jackson, as he was worth
$500. He found him in Col. Sber-
woods tent and started to drag him
away But the colonel said: Never.
The marshal then secured an order
from Brig Gen. judah. post COM
mandant, ordering that the colored
boy be surrendered. Col Sherwood
refused to recognize the order. Then
Gen. Judah ordered Sherwood under
arrest. took his sword from him,
placed the regiment in command of
a captain and ordered court-mar-
tial to try Col. Sherwood for dis
obedience of orders with view to
dismissing him from the service.
Three days later the famous Gen.
John Morgan, with 1000 Confederate
cavalry. came swooping down on
Glasgow, ky. All the troops at
Bowling Green went to the front.
Rather than trust the 11th Regiment
to the command of a captain. Col.
to command BY 4 forced march
they reached Glasgow in time to save
the railroad from destruction by Nor
gan's cavalry.
In the meantime Col. Sherwood con-
cealcd Alfred Jackson under the seat
of an ambulance and when the regi-
ment reached Glasgow sent him to
his freedom in charge of the regi-
mental surgeon. DR.. Brewer, who was
going to his home in Hillsdale. Mich.
Col Sherwood had notified Represen-
tative Ashley of his arrest and Ashley
in towering rage demanded from
Secretary Stanton that he be restored
to his command at once, and the or
der WAS issued
Evening star., 1922-11-29
The Magic Touch.

Every SO often and all too rarely
something plays upon that strange.
eager. gay. tired. replete. aspiring.
responding. sophisticated complex
which is the mature human heart.
with magic touch. Sometimes 1t is
the sound of a voice, or the wind in
the pines. or waves on beach; some
times a glimpse of the sky, or far
hills, or a sleeping child: sometimes
the scent Of earth. or wood smoke, or
liIacs. Less often 1t is some subtler
compound Of the senses. which defies
analysis. And always we remember
gratefully.
There is today upon the New York
stage. some day to come to Washing
ton, a play which cannot fail to do
this gracious thing for it's audiences.
The play, which has recently been
produced. seems particularly COM
pelling in neither plot nor line and
goes by the title "The Romantic
Age" Yet it numbers in its cast two
individuals. whose names are neither
here nor there. who-aS they meet
and build upon their dreams the
fabric of reality-reach deep, deep
down into the hearts OF those who
watch.
There is no surface moral to this
play. Deliberately analyzed it re-
solves itself into the obvious COM
ponents of a score of similar fragile
ly charming comedies. There Is. how
ever. no surface moral to the sound
of winds, or the glimpse of sunset.
or the smell of lilacs. And as these
do strange things to human hearts.
lifting them higher for a space, so
does 1.-THE Romantic Age" as por-
trayed.
One wonders If the two who, by voice
and personality and artistry. win
this reaction from their audiences.
are aware of what they do. One Won
ders If they know that daily they are
playing with that magic touch upon
the complex hearts of men and
women, bringing to them haunting
terror for that they had almost for
gotten the dream of yesterday and
poignant gladness to find it in their
hearts once more.
One hopes they do. For in that
must be the real reward
of real afttSt2
Evening star., 1922-11-29
The Unsolved Crime.

Failure cf the grand jury Of Somer-
vile, n. j., yesterday to find grounds
for indictment in the Hall-Mills muir
der case probably puts that crime
definitely into the category of un-
solved mysteries. For two and a half
months this case has held the atten-
ton Of the country, millions reading
daily Of the developments, the finding
of "clues." the uncoverins of new
witnesses" the accusal and arrest of
a man who was promptly released on
collapse of the charge. the develop
ment Of feuds between "eyewitnesses"
and finally, after Il delay that must
stand as one of the most shameful
procrastinations in the history of
American criminal investigation, a
grand jury and-adjournment.
Originally the trouble In this case
was caused by a conflict OF county
jurisdictions. 1t was not an instance
of two counties competitively claiming
authority, but Of each Of the two dis
claiming it. 1t seemed that neither
side wanted anything to do with the
case of the murdered clergyman and
choir singer. AS result of this in
itial delay opportunities were un-
doubtedly lost for the discovery of
direct evidence, and whoever com
mitted the crime had time to cover
tracks.
Some day, somehow. this crime will
probably be solved. Maybe it will be
when the slayer dies and leaves con-
fession. Or perhaps some accomplice
will peach" or possibly some hither-
to undetected bit Of physical evidence
Evening star., 1922-11-29
Pe1shing on Preparedness.

Gen. PerShing makes an earnest
plea that America should not be
caught unpreiared in the event of an
other war. He does not See any par
tlcular war cloud tlarlsening the hori-
Zon, but he knows his history, and
cannot blind himself to the fact that
i'll each generation the United States
has engaged in a major war. Having
i'll mind the lessons Of the world war,
and lacking any assurance that an
other great conflict does not lie ahead.
nc thinks it would be criminal neg
lcct of obvious duty to permit the
Young men Of the coming generation
10 grow up without military training.
In common with all other right
thinking men, Gen. Pershing hopes
war will not come, but he is not will
Jig to accept hope for assurance. a
man who owns a home hopes it will
rot burn down. but if he is a prudent
man he inSures against loss by fire.
Preparedness for war is not only COM
parable To insurance against fire, but
il partakes also of the nature of fire
protection. There is less probability
that a nation will have occasion to
make war if other nations know it is
prepared to defend its rights.
1t is not in support Of any heavy
burden of ornaments that Gen. Perish
ing argues. fIe wants the youth of the
land trained in the rudinlents of SOL
Giering. to the end that they may not
only he in part prepared to defend the
flag, but that they may be better citl-
zens. He cmpha sizes the conclusion
If the recent educational conference
held in Washington that the training
given in the reserve elements of the
Army and at civilian training camps
CONSTITUTES an effective machinery
through which much can be done, not
only to benefit the individual from
the standpoint of his physique and
self-discipline, but from the stand
point Of his relations to the govern
,nent that protects him and which he
is under obligations to defend" In
other words. the proposed military
training makes better Americans. and
This nations greatest need today is
for better Americans and better un-
Outstanding OF what Americanism
means.
In supporting Gen. Pershing in his
demand for military preparedness
there is no thought to discourage
those earnest persons who would
bilities of humanity. They should con-
tinue their efforts with unflaggmg
zeal. but until they are able to offer
the world some better security than
hope and good intentions the United
States cannot afford to lay itself
naked to possible enemies.
Evening star., 1922-11-29
The Crime of Greece.

Greece has dealt herself desperate
blow in the act of barbaric vengeance
committed yesterday at Athens. when
six leaders of the former regime were
put to death after court-martial upon
charges of conspiring TO commit high
treason. Already Great Britain. in
token of denunciation OF this deed.
has withdrawn from diplomatic rela-
tions, and other powers may do the
same.
1t was particularly untimely for the
commission Of such an act, when the
powers are in conference at Lausanne
upon matters vitality affecting the
Greek welfare. But whether untimely
or otherwise. the execution of these
six men, however richly they may
have deserved some punishment for
, their conduct, was an act of atrocious
cruelty, wholly out of consonance with
the spirit Of this age.
The specific charge against the six
men. which the government cites as
justifying the death penalty. was that
they knowingly concealed from the
people the danger involved in King
Constantine's return to the throne;
that by terroristic methods they stifled
all public opinion contrary to them,
arranged a pretended offensive against
Constantinople land thereby brought
about the enemy's offensive and the
collapse of the Greek front in Asia
Minor, thus deliberately delivering a
large part of the army into the
enemys hands,
For the supreme blunder of the
campaign in Asia Minor, not Constan-
tine or his scheming advisers. but the
Greek government preceding was re-
sponsible, and with the urging of GER
tain of the allied powers. For the re-
turn of Constantine to the throne
certain element of the Greek people
was responsible. No small clique Of a
minority could have effected that
restoration.
The disaster in Asia Minor, it is
known, was not due to biunders on
the European side. but to mismanage-
ment in the field, through overcon-
fidenee, through Inadequate provision
ing and finally and chiefly to de-
1noralization within the Greek ranks
caused by the infiltration of bolshe-
vism from the east.
Civilization goes back a step when
a nation turns In rage upon its mis-
taken leaders and slays them for their
blunders. Greece. long ago the seat
of the worlds culture, synonym in the
minds of men today for honor and
glory in statecraft and in war and in
learning, has fallen deeply. indeed,
when it shows this sign Of barharism
and Furnishes with death acts that at
most merited but imprisonment.
Evening star., 1922-11-29

went to the White House today. a
self-invited guest. to learn for the
readers of this column how the Presi-
dent goes around the clock each day.
1 wanted to know if eating, sleeping.
working and playing in the White
House are greatly different from what
they are in other well ordered Amer
lean homes.
I find they are not. From the time
the President gets up in the morning
until he retires at the prosaic hour of
1920 or II at night he lives pretty
much the same sort of life as well
to-do business men are living all over
the United States today.
With this important exception. how
ever: He always has his own physi-
clan nearby to insure. for the good OF
the nation. that he lives balanced
life and conserves his health. That is
sound common sense. It enables him
to give the American people the best
that is in him.
In the words Of Mrs. Harding,
spoken soon after she entered the
White House: 1.-The Hardings are just
plain folks"
The President gets up about
o'clock in the morning. He just
wakes up, stretches. and presently
arises and goes to his waiting bath
1t is rumored that he snores a bit and
that he loves to turn over and get
the extra forty winks that give the
warm bath time to cool.
Being President hasn't made him a
whit less sleepy than an ordinary man
at am.
After the bath comes the daily
shave. Mays, the colored doorman, is
handy with the razor. The President
sits in an easy chair and Mays does
the rest.
Mays wanted to shave Woodrow
Wilson when Wilson was President.
Mr.. Wilson. however, attended to that
task himself. using an old-style razor
and frequently cutting his chin.
Since Mrs. Harding became Ill the
President usually has breakfasted
alone. He takes the meal I'm his lit
tie private dining room.
That private dining room is a peach.
1t is comparatively small and is on
the ground floor. The meal is a sim
pie and frugal one. for the President
Evening star., 1922-11-29
Between the Lines.

All through the downtown streets Of
,he city white lines have been painted
on the pavements to indicate the
.rossings They were placed there for
safety week. as part OF the educa-
rionaI process which it is hoped will
result in a reduction Of accidents. a
great many people who hitherto have
not observed the cross-walks scrupu-
lously are now keeping within the
lines. These white streaks are definite
reminders Of danger. 1t is impossible
10 overlook them. They should be
kept as a permanent feature.
Within those white lines the pedes-
1rian should be safe. He should have
assurance that If he proceeds directly
across the street he will be protected