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Evening star., 1922-12-02
New Postage Stamps.

Every one is familiar with the lit.
tie tickets which letters use to get
first-class transportation on the rail-.
roads of the world. These little tickets
are known as postage stamps. ard the
letter presenting one gets its ride
without question.
Issuance Of a new set Of tickets -
therefore, is more than a departmental
matter. 1t Is something that comes
home to the bosoms Of men, as I.crd
Bacon said, for every one uses postage
stamps some time or other. It may be
he writes regularly to his mother for
years and years, once or twice a week.
It may be he writes to his sweetheart
once q day until the time comes when
he writes no more. It may he he
writes for a job. Perhaps he writes in
wrath. Uncle Sans mails carry all
kinds.
So the new series Of stamps being is
sued by the Post ONCE Department
Evening star., 1922-12-02

on terms OF settlement which per-
mitted the conference to go ahead
with its other work. Other settlements
were predicated upon the assumption
that these agreements would in due
course be carried out.
In the history Of diplomacy Japan
could have found many precedents for
attempting to evade the spirit Of this
agreement, for yielding less than had
been expected or for delays which
would have been nullifying. Apparent
ly she has not availed herself Of any
of these possibilities, but has held her.
self obligated to interpretations which
substantially meet all the expectations
of China.
Shantung was the particular prize
which went to Japan as result OF her
participation in the world war. Her
forces wrested the province away
from the Germans, without assistance
from the other allies. In the light of
past practices she was entitled to re-
tain and enjoy the fruits OF her vic
tory. But the moral sense of the
world would not concede that leGiti-
mate capture of stolen goods con-
ferred a proper title, and 1t was made
manifest that this wrong which had
been done to China would have to be
righted before stability and peace
could be assured in the Pacific.
Japan priced peace and the good
opinion Of the world more than she
priced the loot of war, and in order to
assure peace and win good opinion
she has followed a course which will
long stand to other nations as an
example in good conduct.
Evening star., 1922-12-02
Preparing for Action.

Let US not lose sight Of the fact, nor
session of Congress has afforded. and
the short regular session to follow will
afford, opportunity for antagonists on
Capitol Hill to study and 'get onto'
each others curves and styles Of fight
ing respecting some of the issues now
before the country and likely to figure
in the next Congress and even in the
next presidential campaign.
True, many men now in commission
on Capitol Hill will go out of commits
sion March 4, and be succeeded by
men who will be taking their first
look around in legislative assembly.
But it is also true that many men
Of experience now on duty on the hill
will be there after March 4, and as
prominent in the proceedings Of the
next Congress as they have been, and
are, in the proceedings of the pres
ent one.
We are entering on exceedingly
strenuous, and some complex, politics.
The stakes will be high, the leading
players-the men directing the game
expert, and the interest aroused
worldwide Hence the value Of full
preparation by both sides. The coun-
try wants, and needs to have, every
legislator in action at his best, and for
the full term Of his service. Then,
when the play begins, under the ad-
Duration, Go to it!"' the result, what
ever it may be, will represent the
country at its best, and be entitled to
prompt and loyal acceptance.
Evening star., 1922-12-02

II you were Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States
and weighed $50 pounds. would you
walk seven miles back and forth to
work each day?
Would you get up at o'clock every
morning?
Probably not. 1 certainly wouldn't
There is but one man in hundred that
would
William Howard Taft is that hun
dredth man.
You can see him any morning, rain
or shine. trudging labored way
from his Wyoming avenue nome TO
the Capitol. Mr.. Taft is not built Tor
long walks. and the daily stunt is
hard one. But he keeps it up, though
he frankly doesn't like the idea. II
is the only exercise he gets.
He is trying to hold down to 2oo
pounds.
When he gets to the Capitol he is
STEPPED in perspiration. He also is
pretty we'll out of breath. His first
act is to go to his chambers and then
to a shower bath.
1t is necessary for him to make an
entire change of clothing after his
walk. He is the only man, perhaps,
in official Washington who has to
maintain, at all times, 2 complete and
somewhat extensive wardrobe at his
office.
A colored attendant keeps his ward
robe. Mr. Taft is the same neat
dresser that Brooks, the White House
valet, made him fourteen years ago.
The Supreme Court convenes each
day at noon Mr.. Taft has thsn been
up for seven hours. Far and away
he is the earliest riser in Washington.
The milkman doesn't beat him much.
Sometimes when he gets up at he
will telephone his longtime secre-
tary and friend. w. W.. Mischler, to
come over and take dictatton. And
1Gischier .Yalks the few blocks that
Evening star., 1922-12-02
ME other day a well known
golf enthusiast was ,strolling
through one of the pretty bits

through one of the pretty bits
of woodland, when he came
across knight of the road and, being
of a rather inquiring nature, proceed
ed to question the hobo as to his ex-
periences on the road. The tales
sprung by the tramp were Of such an
interesting character that the ques-
tioner seated himself on a rock: he
noticed, however. that from time
to time the gaze of the traveller
wandered from his stout walking
shoes upward to his shoulders, and he
was also aware that from time to
time the derelict had edged toward
him. Finally the outcast. after giving
one particularly intense look at his
foot coverings. asked the local man
what his business in life was. Squar-
ing his shoulders bit, he replied that
he was a prize fighter, whereupon the
idler stopped his forward movement
and the prominent clubman. wishing
to carry his bluff through. jumped
nimbly to his feet. Before departing
from the scene. however, he reached
in his pocket and pulled out some
loose change and as grufffy as he
could bade the waster get good
square meal. after which he remarked
that he thought he would take a jog
back to town. as he had a fight on
in about a week from then and was
doing little training. 1t was
gigantic bluff, but it got over.
X X X X
4
"A other night was discussing differ
ent forms of lawlessness of the west
with chap who had spent a number
Of years in mining camps and other
places that are supposed to contain
real bad men," She dwelt quite at
length upon the lawlessness of nu-
merous western citizens. A little later
during the evening she told of how
she had been held up by a youthful
bandit. had been robbed of her horse
by him, and how she had been COM
PEELED to walk home through a heavy
downpour of rain over muddy and
slippery roads, at the same time men
tioning that the hold-up had occurred
within five miles of her home, which
Is near Columbus. Ohio, whereupon
the man from the other side of the
Rockies was mean enough to dryly
remark: "Oh. yes. the bandits of the
west are something terrible"
X X X
\ STORY was told In the democratic
4 cloakroom the other day by
senator who was elected in November
by the largest majority that had ever
been given candidate for that office
in his state. 1t appears that the first
time he ran he was not well known
to the majority of the electorate in all
the sections of his state. His cam
paign manager had arranged for him
to speak at small town-one which
the candidate had never visited. Ow-
Evening star., 1922-12-02
HERE and THERE II, WASHINGTON
BY THE MAJOR''

ing to the fact that the chairman OF
the meeting was suddenly called away
on account of Illness in his family. the
guider Of the destiny of the candidate
concluded that he would introduce the
one who sought the favor of the elec-
torate, and. mounting the rostrum, he
proceeded to tell what was needed in
order to save the country from i'm
mediate ruin, and he became SO en-
Unused that he spoke for over an
hour, and during which time he held
the audience spellbound. Happening to
glance at his watch, he saw that but
ten minutes remained before train
time. He turned to the candidate who.
really having a sense of humor. en-
joyed the situation, and looked for a
sign as to what to do. The seeker of
votes whispered to let the situation
rest as it was. Hurried adieus were
said and the manager hotfooted it
down to the train, and while he was
buying the tickets the candidate hap
pened to overhear two members OF
the audience discussing the meeting,
and this Is what one of them said:
THAT fellow Is some speaker and
guess that we better vote for him.
but did not think SO much of that
skinny guy that was with him"
When the returns were counted 1t was
found that the candidate had carried
the town by ten-to-one vote, and the
senator in telling the story on him.
self. said: '1t is a wonderful thing to
speech like he did. and I have often
wished that l could have him do 1t
again."
* X y X
TT is a pleasing thought to know
i that there is one national figure
that not only believes in what the
flag stands for. but Is proud to have 1t
in his parlor.
If some time you visit Vice Presi-
dent Coolidge at his apartment in the
New Willard. you will see two hand
some silk flags; one is the Stars and
Stripes, the other is the flag of Massa-
chusetts. The flag OF our country was
presented to the Vice President and
Mrs. Coolidge by the Woman's Relief
Corps of Massachusetts, because the
women of that great commonwealth
appreciated the fact that Calvin
Coolidge and his wife both stand for
the high ideals which brought the
Stars and Stripes into being.
X X X X
VIyHILE all of us have appreciated
w for months that woman has be-
come very Independent, having ear
nestly entered politics and business,
yet one would hardly expect her to
throw off the shackles as completely
as did a number of the fair sex the
other night. when she and a male es-
cort matched for the dinner and the
ater tickets. while waiting for two
friends to Join them in the place
where the pretties preen, 1. e., Pea
cock Alley.
Evening star., 1922-12-02
Pershing at Minneapolis.

At Minneapolis Tuesday, under
the auspices of the American Defense
Society. Gen. Pershing spoke after
the manner, in the terms and with
the information, Of a trained soldier,
who in his own distinguished life has
shown the large value OF training, and
rendered service for training received.
He has been raised on" the SUBJ
ject Of the national defense. AS a
cadet at West Point he was drilled
with the national defense in view. AS
a young officer of the Army he was
occupied with problems of the ma
tional defense, and as the commander
in the recent war of the largest mill
tary force ever put into the field by
the United States he illustrated to the
complete satisfaction Of the country
the importance Of a competent man
fit for a soldiers duty and assigned to
a soldiers work.
Naturally. Gen. Pershing wants US
as nation to be ready at any time the
bugle sounds and the drum taps. He
is an advocate OF preparedness. In
Yesterdays deliverance, according to
the press report, he stressed again
draft statistics that show so per cent
Of the young men called out during
the war to have been physically sub
normal. largely due to defects cura-
BILE by proper training; and that one
fourth Of the persons examined were
unable to read and write our COM
mon language. and that more than
10 per cent cannot even successfully
speak English"
The reply to Gen. Pershing should
be a prompt and cordial acceptance Of
the generals recommendations.
Evening star., 1922-12-02

The reminder Of Ambassador Harvey
that it is no offense to propriety for a
nation to become creditor nation Is a
deferential suggestion to a number of
countries that have asserted them
selves in the quest of preponderant
wealth with far more aggression than
America has ever done.
Evening star., 1922-12-02
EDITORIAL. DIGEST

THE Tiger who roams the face of
America today is grand old tiger,
one of the superbeasts of ali the
jungle. He is as perfectly simple
and natural as every tiger is.
Whether he purrs or snarls he holds
our enraptured admiration. But we
shall admire him in safety only when
he and what he symbolizes is Sc
curely Gagged" The Waterloo Tribune
believes that Clemenceau stirred up
the controversy ITO get audiences
In no other way could so much be
done for him and his purpose.
The policies of Clemenceau and
MS senatorial! opponents are in
adequate" the New York Globe be-
lleves and it says further that "the
American spirit which Senator Borah
describes does exist and might have
a wholesome influence upon Euro
pean affairs. If Borah and his sup
porters really want to make their
principles effective. the way to do
it is to give America a voice and
a vote in European councils. This
is the way both to answer NJ. Glenn
enceau's singing assertion that
we have quit and to reform that
policy of force to which NJ. CIemen-
ceau StubbOrnly adheres"
Evening star., 1922-12-02

1t should be possible to hold an
Army-Navy foot ball game without
too much fear of what is pathetically
referred to by an American humorist
ing after.'
Evening star., 1922-12-02

Governmental workers have their
troubles in the U. S. A., but none to
compare with those Of man en-
deavoring to be a responsible Office
holder in Greece.
Evening star., 1922-12-02

Prohibition enforcement will be
easier as soon as every citizen who
indorsed it as a matter Of public senti-
ment adopts it as a matter Of personal
principle.
Evening star., 1922-12-02

In the early days of Texas the
shooting iron was regarded as the
symbol of the state. Texas is now the
home of peaceful enterprise. The gun
man has come east to grow up with
the country.
Evening star., 1922-12-02
SHOOTING STARS.
By PHILANDER JOHNSON.
The Dollar Bill,

The Dollar Bill.
When anybody hollers
For money nowadays,
About a billion dollars
Is what you're asked to raise.
recollect quite clearly,
With a melancholy thrill,
Respect I felt for merely
A simple dollar bill.
"a billion" Is a number
Not easy to define.
Its meaning seems to slumber
Obscurely in the mind.
We talked finance with unction,
But the greatest question still
Is the Individual function
OF the simple dollar bill.
Evening star., 1922-12-02

The Sultan Of Turkey decamped in
a manner which indicated no conf
dence at all in his ability to control
the harem vote.
Evening star., 1922-12-02

Lawmakers are mighty. but 1t is
easier for fashion to revise skirts
downward than for Congress to revise
the tariff downward.
Evening star., 1922-12-02

Peril has become so promiscuous
that foot ball is now regarded as one
of the safest occupations a young man
can undertake.
Evening star., 1922-12-02
First Congress to Have Four Ses.
sions,

For the first time in the history of
the American Congress, this, the
Sixty-seventh Congress, will hold
four sessions. The present third and
extraordinary session. opening today,
will close in time for the regular
short session to open on the first
Monday in December.
During recent years the three-ses-
sion Congress has come to be the rule
rather than the exception. the single
exception being the Sixty fourth Con-
gress-the only two-term Congress in
fourteen years. 19O9-1925.
In the Fifty-eighth Congress there
We're three sessions. as also in the
sixth and Forty fifth. FoTty-second,
Forty-first and Fortieth, Thirty
seventh. Thirty-fourth, Twenty
seventh; Twenty-fifth, Thirteenth,
Eleventh. Fifth and First.
1t is interesting to note that in the
early days the extra sessions were
held on dates fixed by law rather than
at the call of the President, Congress
itself deciding If and when extra
sessions were necessary. The consti-
vided that the Congress should as
''in every year - on the flrst
Monday in December. unless they
shall by law appoint a different day"
Up to and including May 20, 1920.
eighteen acts were passed providing
for the meeting Of Congress on other
days in the year. Since that year
Congress has met regularly on the
first Monday in December.-Hunting
ton Herald-Dispatch.
Civilization is Just a slow process
of building more emergency wards
Birmingham News.
"The man in the street" has now
become the man in the flivver."-
Illinois State Journal (Springf1eld).
Europe sees dire results of our iso-
1ation, and certainly we are getting
pretty klanish. u Philadelphia North
American.
"one-minute Welded Wife Asks for
Divorce" Too bad she didn't think of
1t one minute sooner-Philadelph
Record.
Likely the reason muffs are SO popu-
lar this year is because they make
such nice holsters. New Orleans
imes-Picayune.
Taxes are making us nation of
liars" college professor. He's right.
Taxes and Are these fresh eggs"-
Detroit News.
Santa Claus Swaps Reindeer for
Plane" headline. Hope he isn't going
to make one of those nonstop flights,
Little Rock (Ark.) Gazette.
Georgfa's grand old woman" Mrs.
FELTON,, may be. as reported. the first
old woman to hold the senatorial of
flee. but it is a statement that is open
to debate.-Topeka Capital.
'Senatress" Felton's first day is
also her last. 1t is not logical, how
ever, to reason from analogy that the
first woman senator will also be the
last.-Grand Rapids Herald.
Speaker says coal and iron in this
country will last only 800 years more.
That removes the temptation to seek
some Of these youth-renewin4 oDorA-
tions.-Peoria TrAAacripk
Evening star., 1922-12-02

New Brunswick, N. j., has suffered
an interruption to regular business.
but, thanks to the relic hunters, the
season has been rather profitable.
Evening star., 1922-12-02

Will Hays says the public must
help the movies. The public has al
ready helped very literally.
Evening star., 1922-12-02

Thanksgiving having gone it's way,
the popular mind reverts to the price
Of coal and other matters which do
not exactly call for gratitude.
Evening star., 1922-12-02

Divorce proceedings indicate that
some of the best advertised husbands
do not prove satisfactory.
Evening star., 1922-12-02

The question before the average
conference is usually this: what is
Uncle Sam going to do with all his
money!"
Evening star., 1922-12-02
Musings of a Motor Con,

Hortense Magee, caught in wreck,
Said to the Doc. in accents weak:
Perhaps might have broke my neck
If this had not been Safety week."
Evening star., 1922-12-02
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Another Reason.

would you use money in an cleo
tion?'
"Sir," answered Senator Sorghum;
II am too lofty in my ideals to think
Of such a thing. Besides, under the
present circumstances it can't be
DONE"
Evening star., 1922-12-02

Jud Tunkins says braggin' man is
likely to talk most about what he
thinks he Is, but isn't.
Evening star., 1922-12-02
Serious Delinquency.

"How did your boy Josh happen to
leave college?'
"Got discouraged" replied Farmer
Corntossel. Far as can understand
he pears to have flunked on his foot
ball."
"a contented man." said Uncle
Eben, sis good company when you's
loafln'. but he ain much encourage
ment when you needs 70 hire some
body fob actual work. -. 8,
Evening star., 1922-12-02

"Senatress" Felton's first day is
also her last. 1t is not logical, how
ever, to reason from analogy that the
first woman senator will also be the
last.-Grand Rapids Herald.
Evening star., 1922-12-02

Georgia's grand old woman" Mrs.
FELTON,, may be. as reported. the first
old woman to hold the senatorial Of
flee, but it Is a statement that is open
to debate.-Topeka Capital.
Evening star., 1922-12-02

Speaker says coal and iron in this
country will last only 800 years more.
That removes the temptation to seek
some Of these youth-renewing opera
tions.--Peoria TrA4ecrtDG o. s
Evening star., 1922-12-02

Santa Claus Swaps Reindeer for
Plane" headline. Hope he isn't going
to make one of those nonstop flights.
Little Rock (Ark.) Gazette.
Evening star., 1922-12-02

Taxes are making US a nation of
liars." college professor. He's right,
Taxes and Are these fresh eggs?"-
Detroit News.
Evening star., 1922-12-02

are reasonably supposed 10 nave been
suggested by Boccacio's 'Decameron,"
Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice"
or Marlowe's Jew of Malta But
how Interesting it would be if Chaucer
and Shakespeare had expressed them
selves on these subjects! Hugh Wal
poles most recent novel, '.The Cathe-
dral," seems to be a good example, If
not of literary influence, at least of
literary similarity. The central char
acter OF this fine piece of fiction,
| dominating all the human characters
and their lives, is the beautiful.
ter, crowning the rocky hill up which
straggles the town. Similarly, with a
Spanish setting. Ibanez has in his
novel, THE Shadow of the Cathedral"
made the great cathedral of Toledo
his central character. No one of his
other characters for moment rivals
! the great cathedral in personality.
From another point of view, Wal
poles "The Cathedral Immediately
recalls Trollope's Barchester cathe-
who are not ashamed to confess de-
votion to a secondary Victorian story
teller. AS in Trollopes novels, so
Walpole's archdeacon, canons, pre-
centor, all the ecclesiastical hierarchy
down to the vergers, with their fami-
lites, live by gossip, intrigue and
scandal. Walpole, of course, treats
the subject more seriously, more
analytically, more artistically, than
Trollope. but the source of the mate
rial is the same.
The use of some great object or
place, ina animate, yet most truly liv-
ing, as the personified hero of a piece
of imaginative literature is not alto
gether uncommon. Victor Hugo wrote
an epic of the cathedral of Notre
Dame of Paris in his "Notre Dame"
and an epic of the English channel in
wrote an epic of the Mediterranean
in his Mare Nostrum." Ernest Poole
in THE Harbor," one of the most
original of American novels, has made
New York harbor the vital, palpitating
center of the story.
X X X
The tragedy of "fausse jeunesse,"
or a pathological clinging to youth
and its excitements, is the subject
of Robert Hichens' new novel, DE
cember Love-" Because Lady Selling
worth at fifty still retained large
part of her great natural beauty and
was not a victim of "the elderly
spread" she found it difficult to take
her proper place among the "old
guard" and to resign to youth the
tumults and passions which belong to
it by right. Though she fervently be-
lieyed that "calm's not life's crown"
she came through bitter experience
to welcome calm - tAs refuGs 81 old
a0o. - q s<
Evening star., 1922-12-02

Civilization is just a slow process
of building more emergency wards
News.
Evening star., 1922-12-02

1.-THE man in the street" has now
become "the man in the flivver."-
Illinois State Journal (Springfield).
Evening star., 1922-12-02

Likely the reason muffs are so popu-
lar this year Is because they make
such nice holsters. New Orleans
Times-Picayune.