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Evening star., 1922-02-21

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As reported in the House. the esti-
mate was even lower than the appro-
priations of last year. despite the
fact that the deterioration had been
very great in many OF the streets.
due to the heavy traffic which they
must bear.
fered materially from the cuts made
in the estimates by the bureau of the
budget and the House appropriations
committee. One of the most serious
was that for the paving of East Cap
itol street from 18th to 18th street, in
order to provide good approach TO
the Eastern High School now building.
Other items of street Improvement
which were asked for by the Commis-
sonerS and which have been chopped
off at various points along the line
are:
Repaving granite block roadway.
14th street northwest from G street
northwest to B street southwest
$4,000.
Paving Georgia avenue from Mill
tary road to Piney Branch road,
$4,000.
Paving Nichols avenue southeast,
from the south entrance of st. Eliza
beth's Hospital to Portland street
Repaving of the granite block road
way of l1th street southeast from Po-
tomac avenue to the Anacostia bridge.
$33,500.
Paving goth street from Virginia
avenue to Z street, S11.200.
Repaving of granite block roadway
on d street from 9Th to 9TH street
$11,2O0.
Paving Arkansas avenue. from
Emerson street to Farragut street
$500.
Paving Shepherd street west of 14th
street, $4,000.
Repaving granite block roadway Of
to Barry plac s33,500.
Paving of 2Sth street south of Ca
thedral avenue. $16,S00.
Evening star., 1922-02-21

Wars; Campfire Girls, Girl Scouts and
Boy Scouts will take part In the ex-
ercises Troops 81 and 33 are to give
combined drill under direction of
Mai. William F. Fischer, scoutmaster
of Troop 21.
Singing of America" accompanied
by the band. and pronouncement of
the benediction by Rev. William T..
La Rue, pastor of the Takoma Park
Baptist Church, will end the cere-
monies. Mrs. Grace Whitaker. chair
man of the committee on entertain
ment of the Takoma Park Citizens
Association. Is in charge of the pro-
gram.
Y. NJ. G. A. Program.
Washington's birthday will be OBJ
served at tho Y. NJ. c. A. tomorrow
night with a patriotic program. includ-
ing an illustrated lecture by DR.. Thomas
E. Green, entitled THE Brood of the
Eagle" The Orpheus Quartet will
give the musical program, those to
take part being Bernice Calhoun, Lii
liam Garrison BrousSeau, Helen C..
Crouch. ]. Allen Bell and George H.
Lambert. The entertainment will be
under the direction of the social serv-
ice department, will begin at : O'Clock,
and will be free to the public.
Evening star., 1922-02-21
LECTURE ON BOHEMIA.

Motion pictures of Bohemia. with
its ancient city. the new capital.
Prague, and the little, colorful Ncoun-
try Of Moravia were presented to the
members of the Cosmos Club last
evening in conjunction with a lecture
by DIR. Isidor Muller. The speaker
was introduced by Minister Stepanek
of Czechoslovakia-
The watering places of Czechoslo-
vakia, the speaker explained, are
magnets which draw hundreds OF
thousands of visitors. including many
Americans, to his country annually.
Evening star., 1922-02-21
ROYAL WEDDING PLANS
READY FOR REHEARSAL
Continued from First Page.)

what remains of the law. the society
is seeking to persuade London to try
to enjoy itself next week.
Round of Events.
In social, court and diplomatic cir
cles such a round of dances and din
ners and receptions has been planned
as London has not seen since the cor
onation. For the general public a
number of Princess Mary wedding
balls have been planned. one of them
to be held in the great Albert Hall.
Hotels and restaurants are arrang
ing gala dinners and dances. Clubs
and various societies will have house
warnings and homecomingS. The
railroads are running special eXcur
sions from all parts of the kingdom
and giving special service from the
channel ports for the benefit of con-
tinental visitors. Magazines and news
papers are issuing special Princess
Mary numbers.
No Rank Holiday.
A suggestion for making the we'd
ding day a bank holiday has been
turned down, but in the cities offices
and shops it is expected that sudden
Iy developed cases of influenza" and
other timely excuses will be number
Gus. for the wedding will be of domi-
mating interest to executive and office
boy alike. and London intends doing
its best to celebrate the event prop
eriy.
A precedent established by Princess
Patricia in displaying her wedding
gifts to the public view probably will
be followed by Princess Mary. 1t is
understood they will be shown at st.
James Palace, small fee being
charged for admission, the proceeds
to be donated to some charity. For
many, a glimpse of the wedding gifts
will compensate in a way for their
inability to see the marriage cere-
mony.
Evening star., 1922-02-21
Y. NJ. c. A. Program.
TARRED AND FEATHERED.
Store Manager Had Been Advised
to Leave Town.

MARSHALL, Tex. February 2l.-
Four unmasked men last night alb
Quoted Ray Daniels. manager Of a To-
cal mercantile store. took him outside
the city limits. and tarred and feath-
cred him. Daniels, it is said. received
a letter several days ago advising him
to leave town.
Evening star., 1922-02-21

Mrs. Matilda Skelton. one of the
few woman survivors of the Indian
mutiny. has died In England at the
age Of ninety years.
Evening star., 1922-02-21
MEASURES GIVING T.
DISTRICT VOICE IN
CONGRESS FAVORED

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SENATORS BUMPED
OVER OLD STREETS,
REALIZE D. C. NEEDS

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Lower Than Last Year.

had taken about 90 per cent off the
Commissioners estimates.
Evening star., 1922-02-21

what remains of the law, the society
is seeking to persuade London to try
to enjoy itself next week.
Evening star., 1922-02-21

(The text Of Ambassador Harvey's
address is published on page l6)
Evening star., 1922-02-21

The report on the Poindexter bill
for a District delegate in the House
said:
''The committee is of the opinion
that the defranchised people of the
District are entitled to a larger meas
ure of self-government than provided
in this bill for the election of a dele
gate in Congress.
Because of the uncertainty of en-
actment of constitutional amend
ment at this time which would be-
stow upon Congress the power to al
low the District of Columbia senators
and representatives and a vote in the
electoral college, and realizing that
should such an amendment be passed
by Congress by the required two
thirds vote long time, possibly sew
eral years. would necessarily elapse
before such amendment could be rati-
fed by the necessary two thirds of
the states. the committee believes
that for the time being election of
a delegate in Congress from the Dis
trict of Columbia is necessary for at
least the partial participation of the
people of the District of Columbia in
the national government, and that
Congress should provide, through this
bill, as soon as possible, for the 'elec-
tion Of such District delegate.
Entitled to All Rights.
Presidents Of the District of Column
bia, under our system of political
liberty and manhood suffrage, in fair
ness are entitled to all the political
privileges and rights enjoyed by all
of the citizens Of the republic, pro-
vided that exercise of such rights
and privileges does not Interfere with
the complete congressional control of
the District of Columbia, a federal
district established as the seat of the
national government, which should
by right be under control of Congress.
with such congressional control. there
Is no good reason why the people
resident in said District of Columbia
should not be allowed, as far as pos
sible, the same political rights and
privileges Of all other American citi-
sens" Il
New-York tribune., 1922-10-31

wages. Such a strike would Sc
riously interfere with the movement
cf winter coal.
Looked at from the selfish point
of view Of the captains, the time
set for the strike--November--iss
auspicious. The demand for coal
ut that season will probably be
greater this year than eyer before,
SIS a consequences of last summers
small coal output. Not only the
employers, but also the public, will
be more embarrassed by q strike
at that time than at any other.
But the public is heartily sick of
strikes for which it has to pay in
money and discomfort. The time
has come to expand the famous
phrase OF Calvin Coolidge that
"there is no right to strike against
the public safety by anybody, any
where, any time," into the doctrine
that there is no right to strike
against the public welfare by any
group, anywhere, at any time.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-31
Accomplishment vs. Bluster

Wnen Alfred +. Smith was Gov
ernor Of New York he attempted to
consolidate departments, but gave il
up because he could not get through
q constitutional amendment author
izing the kind Of consolidation he
wanted. Governor Miller found a
way to consolidate departments un-
der existing law, and did consolidate
them, with a big saving of tax
money as result.
Governor Smith talked of the
traction problem in New York City.
but did nothing to better it or to
provide q way Of betteriag it. Gov
ernor Miller appointed Transit
Commission which is now executing
q plan for necessary unifeation and
extensions--with the maintenance
OF the scent fare.
Governor Smith allowed the water
power on the canals to go to waste,
bringing no profit to the state. Gov
crnor Miller provided for it's use,
and the state will soon be in re-
ceipt of substantial income from it.
Governor Smith found state insti-
tutions in a condition Of chaotic mis-
management, and in that condition
they remained during his admins
tration. Governor Miller bettered
the stats, improved the food and
found a means to give the patients
better care at less cost.
Governor Smith, in the interest Of
what was called retrenchment, made
small appropriations for canal ter
minals and the vehicular tunnel to
New Jersey. Governor Miller in
creased these appropriations without
any extra cost to the taxpayers,
their money being saved by check
ing waste in the various state de-
partments.
Governor Smith approved law
authorizing small advance in the
salaries of school teachers. Gov
ernor Miller secured the passage of
a measure increasing this advance
by more than one-half.
If Governor Smith is elected Tam
many Hall will be secure in its grip
upon New York City and uninter-
rupted in it's plan to add eleven
million dollars annually to the bud
get.
If Governor Miller Is reelected
there will be a moral force in AL
bany that will fight for economy in
New York City, put an end to what
has been going on in the bus lines,
and quell the senseless opposition to
the building of new subways.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-31
Buses for Politicians

Regardless Of further disclosures
that may be made concerning the
city bus lines by the Transit Com
mission investigation, it is clear
that the whole system has been used,
as Mr.. Shearn, counsel for the COM
mission, charges, for the benefit of
the politicians rather than for the
benefit Of the public.
AS Mr.. Shearn asserts, the need
of flexible crosstown bus lines is
genuine. But while they are capt.
talized by family connections of the
Mayor and nephews and business
associates of the Tammany Boss, and
Tammany officeholders in the Bronx,
the busses will cost the taxpayers
far more than they are worth.
While the city has been pouring
money into the bus lines by the
buclsetful the fve-cent fare is, Of
course, fictitious. The nickel that
the passenger pays is not enough
for the politician who operates the
lines under a dummy ownership or
charges eXorbitant rates for garage
hire.
The money that goes into the
pockets of these worthless comes out
Of the pockets Of the taxpayers.
And so long as the Board of Esti-
mate can make appropriations for
buses the taxpayer has no defense.
The Transit Commission has
shown that conditions are even
worse than anybody suspected. 1t
is evident that Mr.. Hylan means to
do nothing to better them. But
they must be bettered, even if it
is necessary to bring another Lexow
committee to New York in order to
do it.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-31
Democratic Votes for Miller

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: According to articles in the
press recently, the public is informed
that Ex-Governor Smith will receive
the full support of the Democratic
vote in this election. I believe there
Is little in the facts to warrant
such belief.
That Mr.. Smith was popular
Governor and that he will poll heavy
vote are undeniable. But Governor
Miller has proved himself strong and
fearless executive and has met the
various state problems with firmness
and O statesman's attitude. His ad-
ministration is referred to by intelli-
gent and unbiased people as belonging
in the same category with those of
Cleveland, Roosevelt and Hughes. It
surely has been the cleanest, most
businesslike and most progressive in the
last decade. As an independent Demo-
crat I shall support him. Nor will I
be alone, for from many sections Of
this city and of the state reports have
come which convince me that I shall
be but one Of q sufficient number of
Democrats to re-elect Governor
Miller.
GEORGE w. VAN VLECK, K
Brooklyn, Oct. rs, 1929.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-31
Books and So Forth

WYE ARE going to write about
wv books, but we suppose the tides
OF human affairs will ebb and
now with their accustomed regularity
just the same.
We are going to write about books
three times week; not that we care
specially about books, but merely to
make conversation. It will be q con-
tinual comfort to us to realize that
we are supposed to be writing about
books. Whenever we begin to founder
and feel stage frightened and awkward,
we will find the vast and continually
growing coral reef of literature be-
meath our feet, waiting patiently for
discussion by us. It's solidity will
strengthen and sustain us, whether we
mention Its presence or not.
We are going to write about books
when we can't think Of anything
else to write about. In this we are
strictly orthodox. Illustrious men
and women whose names need not be
mentioned to this enlightened audience
have been making living by doing
just this for years past. They have
been writing Of books when they
couldn't think Of anything else to
write about, brilliant in the glare of
the self-directed limelight; awe in
spring in the long thunder Of legs
rolling hither and yon.
Are we going to join that august So
ciety of the omniscient? Are we going
to add our penny trumpet to that
strangely arranged chorus of praise,
each member asstduously blowing an
other members horn? We are not.
That sounds grand and defiant,
Actually, 1t is confession Of in
feriority. We are not qualified for
admission to the noble army Of critics.
We are too hopelessly clod tied ever
New-York tribune., 1922-10-31
What the Children's Court Needs

There are many reasons why Miss
Ruth Taylor should be elected Judge
Of the Children's Court in West
chester County, but the most con-
vincing is the fact that for the last
ten years she has devoted her life to
welfare work, and particularly to
the care and cure of delinquent
children.
The work Of judge of the Chill
dren's Court does not require extern
sive legal knowledge. Rather does
1t call for human understanding and
an intimate experience of child psy-
chology. These Miss Taylor pos
sesses. She has had no legal train
ing, it is true, but her welfare work
has made her familiar with the laws
pertaining to children, and of this
particular branch of the state code
she has made q special study.
In the final analysis, however, this
learning will probably stand her in
less stead than her own experience.
AS she herself has said, the work Of
such court is concerned nine-tenths
with the human problems of the
child and one-tenth with the tech
nicalities of the law. This has
been the experience of Judge Ben
Lindsey, of Denver, and others who
have specialized in the work Of chill
dren's courts. In most cases an in
vestigation OF home conditions and
a sensible talk with the offender ac-
complishes more than can the heav-
lest hand of the law.
Miss Taylor's candidacy, there
fore, deserves support regardless of !
party lines by reason Of her peculiar
fitness for the position for which
she is candidate.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-31
A Black-Slaisted Garibaldi

Lenine said scornfully the other
day of the change OF ministers in
Great Britain that the politicians Of
western Europe worked In shifts,
one shift relieving the other when
the latter was tired out and needed
vacation. He hardly will extend
that pleasantly to cover Italy, where
the Fascist have come into power
through a bloodless revolution. The
Communist party in the Chamber of
Deputies read the signs Of the times.
1t has had the discretion to disband.
Its members will resign. Meanwhile
the Communist and Radical Social
ist newspapers In Rome are being
put out Of business.
Mussolini is rot playing relief for
Giolltti or any of the latter's pun.
pets. The Fascist have about as
small representation in the Italian
chamber as the Liberal "Wee
Frees have in the House Of Com
mons. But they have taken over the
government through dispIay of or.
ganized force. Mussolini doubtless
VIII dissolve the present Parliament
He believes that a majority Of the
people are behind him. He has dem
onstrated that the regular army will
not fight his army and that the no,;-
ticians in Rome are afraid TO cha,.
lenge him. He expects to see Italv
purge herself Of the impurities Of
Communism. Socialism, pro- German
ism and Nittiism and become again
vigorously patriotic and nationalistic
In the old Garibaldian sense.
Mussolini is a revolutionist al.
though the King embraced the mes.
senger he sent to say that the gov-
ernnaent must pass into the hands Of
the Fascist. The new Premier has
urged violence to overthrow the YER
dict of the last elections. He NAV or
may not use repression 10 influence
the next verdict, AT present he is
dictator, who has come to Rome 10
cali ON the country TO awaken from
the pacihsm, defeatisn and lethargy
OF the neo-Giolittian regime and to
remember the glories of Italy's re-
birth as a nation.
The Fascist movement ig--in es-
sentials--a reaction against degen-
GRAFTON through Socialistic interna-
tionalism. It is rough in its meth
odss but the aims which IT processes
New-York tribune., 1922-10-31

Cutcheon than Sherwood Andersen,
and Booth Harrington than either.
We consider ulysses" written hy
some one whose name we can't remen.
ber, 70 per cent chaos and 80 per cent
smut. We don't see any reason why
it should have been suppressed on
either count.
We think that "Polyanna" is quise as
true and fine picture of life as ara
the works Of Ben Hecht But then,
we've never been In Chicago.
We think that 30 per cent of the
authors, 10 per cent Of the critics snd
81 per cent Of the writers Of free
verse get away with their stuff becauea
no one has the nerve to call them ad
demand; "Wotinel are you talking
about and wotinel do you know about
it, anyhow"
We think that the population Of the
United States is In general about
middle-grads moron and that the men
tai average might be raised trife Il
we were to emigrate.
These, among other things--ws could
continue this seif-rcvelation indefinite
ly--are reasons why we aren't going
to make even an attempt 20 mount
the pedestal of erudition. By the time
we'd settled eurseK comfortably upen
it some one would clutch as by tbs
ankles and we'd toppIs of On cur ear.
And we're getting along toward that.
age when falls hurt.
We are going to write about books.
as we mentioned before. Not with any
hysterical enthusiasm. for among the
more respectable things we'd rather
do than read are: Fish, play poker.
and watch football games, prisefghss
and the motion pictures Of D. ".
Griffith.
We are probably the J. Throek-
morton Cush Of literary criticism.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-31
More Truth Than Poetry
By James ]. Montague
AS to the Bee

AS 10 the bee
know the little busy bee
Improves each shining hour
BY bringing honey home which
he
Will not himself devour.
/ know he goes on weary flights
To gather grand collations
Which will allay the appetites
Of other generations.
A hunk of pollen now and then
Is all he has to feed him;
The honey's served in winter,
when
The younger bees succeed him.
For months they'll feed around
the hive
His relatives and neighbors-
But he, alas! won't be alive
To profit by his labors.
The busy bee is often praised,
We're bade to initiate him;
Full many a poets voice is raised
In songs to adulate him.
We're told the wasteful ways Of
men
Beneath our feet to trample,
And to observe the bee, and then
To follow his example.
But vainly do these poets ask
Of US our admiration;
The creatures labors are a task
Of supererogation.
His industry is most intense.
AS we have often stated,
But we are sure his common
sense
Is vastly overrated!
New-York tribune., 1922-10-31
Lloyd George in a Bunker
To the Editor Of The Tribune

70 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: AS the days go by and the
declarations Of Mr.. Bonar Law and Mr..
Lloyd George and their various hench-
men are read and considered, and apart
from the occasional relapses into
Limehouse by the brilliant little
Welshman, there is deadening Il, X
of anything sensational enough to COM
pete with the current murder case.
there is growing tendency to be-
lleve that there was nothing to justify
the ending Of the Coalition. / see It
stated this morning, for example, that
obviously the decision Of the Con-
servatives was based upon no clear
issue of vital principle, but was due
to party pressure. The outs simply
wanted to get all the way In"
This is a natural enough belief. and
1t is one that is shared by Mr.. Lloyd
George himself and Lord Birkenhead.
his rather raucous cheer leader. both
OF whom are very sincerely and very
greatly shocked and staggered at the
sudder turn Of events, which has
shown them that there is very large
majority in ENGLAND that does not con-
slider them as omnipotent as they
have always considered themselves to
be, holding offics not SO much because
OF the exigencies Of war as by divine
right. "The net result of the utter
anees of the rival political leaders Ii.
England thus far must be to deepen
the sense Of confusion on the part of
the electors it is written. @They are
asked to decide between two sides
which scarcely differ"
Looking Mt tho affair superncisIlv
New-York tribune., 1922-10-31

INDUCED In so many fantastic sxAibI
tions and introduced so many illegiti.
mate clubs-putting, for instance, with
croques mallets and using spades 70
get them out of bunkers, to say moth
ing Of slicing and pulling their drives
into the back yards of other countries,
going out OF bounds with hippsnf
disregard for other peoples safety,
never by any chance replacing the turf;
wasting huge sums Of money In ereet.
ing fences around the course, IN cona-
pensation of claims for wounds and N
Masking themselves extremely cor,
Portable in the clubhouse-that, at last,
the outraged spectators have kicked,
and now demand that the course shall
be thrown open to a new and mofe
honorable team, made mp OF men VINO.
not only know the game bat Will piay
it against competing team accord
ing TO the very definite rules.
We look Go Mr.. Bonar Law, IS .
Scotch Canadian with q proved record
and series of good cards, to put up
q sound, safe game, driving ssraisaA
approaching neatly and stufsng dewn
his puts with legitimate club. We
are. In fact, fed up with all spectac uisr
effects and queer gymnastics that 60
not belong to the royal and anciens'
We prefer. in short, the scoseA'
methods TO those Of tho Welsh. 1hats
all. cosMo HAMILTON,
New York. Oct. 81. 1922.