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Evening star., 1922-03-26
FITTING the Screws to Germany.

Puttlng the screws TO Germany.
Upon no problem growing out Of the
world war has there been wider diff
ference of opinion than as to Ger
many's ability to meet the reparations
terms Of the Versailles treaty. Ger
naay's policy has. been one Of avoid
ance and insistence that the terms
were utterly impossible of fulfillment.
Trance has insisted that the terms
could and should be met on the dot
andsto the letter. The British view, to
which American opinion generally has
subscribed, has been that Germany
could not pay all she was called upon
by the treaty to pay, bVt that she
could pay q great deal more than her
statesmen and financiers have con.
cedsd ability to do.
Because Of this uncertainty and diff
ference Of oplnions the reparations due
from Germany have retarded more
than they have helped the recovery Of
Europe from the ravages Of war. In
view. Of this situation. there will be
general willingness to believe that the
repArations commission has acted
wisely In deciding finally to put the
screws to Germany and to supervise
the execution Of the program laid
down. The decisions arrived at by the
coednission and notified last week to
Evening star., 1922-03-26
Fairgrounds.

The time has gone by when 1t IS
necessary to set up arguments in sup
port of the desirability of public owned
and public-controlled Fairgrounds for
children in large and close-built cities.
Country space is too far away from
most city neighborhoods to be used for
play, and besides, between the city and
the country is wide belt of suburban
territory where houses. are close to-
gether, the land fenced and under cul-
tivation in one thing or another, and
play space is at a premium. "Com-
mons in the city, the great play
spaces of old-fashioned boys, are few
and distant, and gardens" in which
old-fashioned girls used to play are
also few. The modern home generally
does not have a garden. and increas-
ing numbers Of modern homes are
flats. where the garden may be only a
potted geranium on the window sill or
a rubber plant on the fire escape.
1t is admitted on all sides that the
street is not a proper playground. Too
many children are killed in this play
ground" by traffic. Traffic is also in
terfered with. All the houses on both
sides of such playground" have
windows with glass panes in them. and
balls will break such things. 1t is
against the law to play ball in the
street. Also. many of the people living
on both sides of such playground"
are trying to raise bit Of green turf
near the front door or keep a strip Of
green "parking" between the curb and
sidewalk. In this street playground
there is no proper regulation of play
and no supervision Of the players. In
connection with that point it is signifi.
cant, according to figures compiled by
the children's bureau, that Juvenile
delinquency prevails in higher per-
centages in those sections Of the Dis
trict without Fairgrounds than in
those parts of the city where the kid
dies have wide and sufficient recrea-
ton spaces and some one to supervise
and direct them in wholesome play to
occupy their active bodies and minds"
Evening star., 1922-03-26
Ireland in Travail.

Disorders in Ireland are a cause for
regret to all welI-wishers of the Emer-
aid Isle, but they are not reason for
despair. A nation is being born, and
it is not the first time birth-pangs
have attended the emerging Of a peo-
rle to self-government. The more
perfect union" within which we Amer
leans dwell today was effected only
after a period of discord and suffer-
ing following the achievement Of in
We have no right to ex-
pect a capacity in Ireland beyond that
with which our forefathers were en-.
dowed.
The Irish people are being sorely
tried, but the world has faith to be-
lieve that a way will be found out Of
their enormous difficulties. Leadership
is being put to the test, and it must
prove its mettle or surrender its
right to lead. 1t is by way Of such
travail that strong men are given to
the world, and somewhere within the
ranks of the Irish factions, north and
south, are men endowed with the
strength, the courage and the vision
to solve the problems which are the
heritage Of centuries of misrnle and
misunderstandings. If these men Of
strength and courage and vision are
now submerged, the convulsions will
continue until they reach the top.
Then peace will be attained and gov
ernment established.
We in America know the Irish and
love them well, despite their faults.
We love them even for their faults.
They are virile breed and a turbulent
one, but they are brave and generous,
and never have they been found to
lack in patriotism, either for the land
of their adoption or for the "ould sod"
whence they came. Resistance to con-
stituted authority is inbred in their
bones, but it Is an outright and bold
dark conspiracies, and always they
have been proof against those insidi-
Gus and poisonous forms of treason
which breed in foul places hidden
from the light. The Irishman is
two-fisted fighting man who always
is ready to meet his antagonist face
to face. And it is such men who make
worthwhile citizens, once they find
themselves and settle down.
So while dark chapters are being
written today in Irish history they
are not chapters Of despair. The
British government is exercising for.
bearance and is giving Ireland every
chance. Sooner or later the Irish peo-
pie will come to the realization that
they never can make self-government
go until they have learned to govern
themselves.
Evening star., 1922-03-26
On the Wabash.

The contest between Mr.. Beveridge
and Mr.. New for the Senate ia Of in
terest to both parties in Indiana. It
puts the democrats on notice that how
ever the republican primary contest
may be decided they will have a strong
man to meet in the contest for elec.
ton. Mr.. New is an organizer and Mr.,
Beveridge an orator of a high class.
The democrats Of the Hoosier state
have not now the wealth Of leadership
they once had. At one time-forty-odd
years ago-they could boast Of half
dozen men of enough consequence to
figure in presidential gossip. Hen
bricks. Mcdonald, English, Holman,
Turpie and Voorhees, were all in the
l;melight together. Two Of them
Hendricks and English-obtained nom.
nations for second place. and on his
second nomination for Vice. President
Mr.. Hendricks was elected.
They are all in their graves, and
now only two democrats in the state
enjoy national regulations. Mr.. Mar.
snail and Mr.. Taggart are known In
national affairs. and naturally are the
most prominent in the present sena-
torial speculation, Mr.. Marshall lead
ing.
Democracy in Indiana began to de-
cline with the rise OF Harrison stock.
Then Organism came along and still
further depressed it. 1t came back in
1912, as elsewhere. not so much
through its own strength as through
republican division. Had there been no
bull moose movement that year In
diana in all probability would have
given her vote to Taft, and thus have
remained in the republican household.
Both parties on the Wabash are
perky. and we are promised an old
time Hoosier tussle for supremacy.
Evening star., 1922-03-26
Rate by Mail-Payable in Advance.
NIaH,.land md VIRGINIA
Stream Pollution.


be. recorded as one of the barbarisms
Of that scheme Of things which we
call 'our civilization The civiliza-
ton which is to come after ours will
think of our ways of sewage disposal
very much after the fashion of our
Thoughts of the crowded medieval
cities without sewers and running wa
ter, or as we think of those palaces
and castles without plumbing and
without the commonest domestic and
found in the poorest city homes to-
day. AS we find it hard to think of
princesses and queens arrayed in
gorgeous clothes and jewels, but who
had no ordinary bathing facilities and
seldom washed their bodies. so the
people who come after Gus will marvel
that we, a people OF wealth and
luxury. spending gold recklessly in
many ways. and producing great works
of architecture. painting. literature
and music. were content to pollute
every creek and river. and that COM
munities living downstream We're
content to be the heirs and assigns of
the sewage Of all the upstream COM
munities.
We have this problem put upon us
by our neighbors who live higher up
the Potomac than we do, and along
the Shenandoah and Monocacy and
the creeks that flow into those rivers.
and we add our sewage to the great
river and pass it along to the COM
munities that live downstream from
u.s. And the most positive complaint
against such conditions comes not
from men but from fish. who refuse to
live in the polluted waters.
Here is the case of Rock creek. 1t is
one Of our beauty creeks" and a
principal attraction in public park
on which probably millions of dollars
have been spent. We devise swimming
places along its course for children
and spread our picnic lunches on its
banks. Yet it is polluted by sewage.
and the pollution threatens to be so
increased that we are becoming stirred
to some sort of action. In the news
columns Of The Star it has been
written that 1.-The matter Of the pol
luton of Rock creek by suburban
sewage from the Maryland section is
in the hands of experts Of the De-
partment Of Justice, who will an
nounce the findings Of their investi-
CATION of the legal aspect of this
proposition within the next two
weeks 1t Is also written that 1.-The
office of public buildings and grounds
opened the most recent fight upon
sewage disposal into Rock creek
when it learned OF the project Of the
Washington suburban sanitary dis
trict to run sewage into a creek
which is feeder Of Rock creek"
Evening star., 1922-03-26
An Open Conference-With
Closed Program.

MILAN.-Opening the Genoa confer
ence to neutrals and former enemies
was regarded as a step forward by
Italian liberals, who despaired of see
ing anything substantial accomplish
ed through the exclusive supreme
council. But the Secolo, a leading lib
eral organ Of this city. asks whether
Genoa can accomplish very much aft
er ali, since its program has been ar
ranged by the supreme council powers
and many vital questions vigorously
excluded? The paper says:
"The Genoa conference. as it was
first announced at Cannes, was to
have been q meeting of the govern
ment heads and of she delegates Of all
ountries-conquerors, conquered and
neutrals-to discuss the economic con-
ditions of Europe and the best means
of solving the great problems. Its
Importance, its novelty. and thei hopes
which it awakened. consisted chiefly
In the facts that, although called by
the supreme council, the conference
would not be dominated by II: that
the allies would stop playing game
for their own particular advantages'
that their work and their deibera-
tions were to take the form OF a SIN
operation. But now things have taken
q turn which makes it doubtful Whist
che ra cter thei conference Will assume.
"France remains vigorously in the
orbit of the Versailles treaty ana her
whole policy aims at changing the en-
ION the other hand, what attitude
Ia Russia taking? One Of the principal
objects of Genoa was to resume po-
litical and commercial relations WHn
revolutionary Russia NOW Lenln
government. after having wsico,ae. ,aeo
~ the conference, has made no pre-.
ciae declarations on the question OF
Sahta or on the plans OF economic
reconstruction. The debts OF the car
rule are to be recognized; put Sevoiu-
tionary Russia claims indemnity IN
k.r +nrn for damages done to her by
the allies in upholdinG different ao-
yentures Of the legitimate generals.
MEANWHILE Kamenev. as president
~ tha MOSCOW soviet, declared tnat
at the Geno conference the ;d req S,ars reprs 70
nravent Russia from becoming trans
ftnrmed into a colony of exploitation
~ Soreign capital In the meantime
overtures are being made 10 France
for a Franco Russian understanoihs,
md the alarm Which thAS NsO
Snu Su,,n :. hainr made use of to set on
font S a treaty with Rathenau. a
Sss. tsns as long as
T.. ohisct was not to perpetually
Isolate M and economically paralyse Ger
which r, wGJd os se Ss Ssse eenfsrssse iss
r. IL mot possible. however. to get
away from the suspicion Of bolshe-
vist game to irritate already existing
"fioyd George has made the con-
cession Of accepting sn1 preliminary nary
meeting Of experts ,.,iH IN kondSn ion hs.is w,Is
of ' the Genoa discussions. In the
meantime Psnss prime exschns1ay.ais minister snd
So" Sa.n in paris. He spoke In the
name % Of the little entente. from whom
France has obtained support tSt espssial, R.s,.n
nrofiem. From Paris he went to Lon
don. and succeeded in conquering the
resistance of Lloyd George and hia ra-'
Evening star., 1922-03-26
Mr.. Bryan and Booze,

Is the joke on Mr.. Bryan? There
are many persons-some OF them
friends Of his-who believe it is.
His change of residence occasioned
much discussion and some protest.
Why have gone from a. state where
he had risen to eminence and whose
sentiments on public questions he had
helped to mold to one where at his
time Of life he could not hope to be
much more than an ornament?
One explanation offered was that
Mr.. Bryan was confessing to age;
that the fires of reform in him were
dying down; that Florida, being warm
and comfortable and safely democratic,
was lure for man who had amassed
a fortune, achieved fame, and as q
democrat wanted congenial political
surroundings.
Presto! MIR. Bryan, a dry-in. spirit
dry as Sahara-finds himself in the
very thick Of a bootlegging activity.
Booze, in quantities, is being brought
in from the outside. The bootlegger
controls sailing vessels. He is an
aeronaut.
"He flies through the air with the
greatest Of ease,
Like a man on flying trapeze.''
He has many other ways and means
Of introducing and distributing the
stuff from the Floridian environment,
and is employing all Of them.
/ What will Mr.. Bryan's response be?
Will he get into action himself, in his
old form, and help rid his newly adopt
ed state of the present wet reproach? ?
There seems to be as much work for
him to do if he is in the humor as
Ihe has ever found ready to his hand
at any time anywhere.
Evening star., 1922-03-26
Aviation Menaced by Neglect

France for the Benet-Mercier guns:
we hid to equip some Of our troops
with their Chauchat rif1es-not an
American machine gun. We had the
humiliation of seeing United states
troops fitted with the guns of foreign
nations that had developed American
inventions.
The United States tried to repair
this neglect with the airship. Con-
gress appropriated in feverish anx-
iety more than billion dollars, and
called in the assistance of the great
est engineers and experts America
had. But we couldn't put q single
lighting airship on the European
front with all of our power. ingenuity
and resources from the day war was
declared. April s. 1917. to the end of
the war. November II. 1918.
During the war the first equipment
the American aviators had was the
old French Nieuport machine. but 1t
could not stand up. Then we had
the spad plane. and our greatest
Amer,San aansrnsd ,,m..1t avistor, Riekesbaeher.
Paris.
Congress now 10 facing a situation
which will determine whether we can
be taught by these terrible penalties
paid for the folly OF neslectinr on
portunities offered by our inventors
and research experts-whether Amer
ican inventions are going to be ig.
nored at home only to be turned
against ourselves by the more far
sighted peoples across the seas.
The American Congress is consider
ing an appropriation Of S3.25o.o 900 for
aviation research. Japan's program
calls for the expenditure of 100000.
900 during the next seven years.
Great Britain and France cannot even
pay the money they owe this coun-
try, but France has appropriated, at
normal rstes of exchange. more than
jS4, ,ooo, 900 for aircraft production and
experimentation work; Great Britain,
At normal rates Of exchange, is ap-
year.
In emphasizing the value of re-
search work. Representative Fitzxer-
aid pointed out that during the war
the "oeiline" Of an airplane-the
highest point it could reach-was .
tribe over 10000 feet. The best planes
that the American aviators could get
barely climb 10000 feet. Ricken-
Of "a, 900 feet, almost equal to the
achievement Of the best German
planes, but that was the limit. But
,ak McCook Field, tho Army research
station, they have managed to put
i man 10000 feet of the earth.
Evening star., 1922-03-26
Politics at Home:
Lodge and Underwood.

Congratulations to Mr.. Lodge. OF
the fifty-nine republicans who re.
corded themselves on the four-power
treaty Friday, only four opposed
ratification. All the others-fifty-five-
indorsed what he had done as dele.
gate to the armament conference, his
explanations of the pact in the Senate
debate. and his parliamentary man.
agement Of the ratification question
during its tendency in the Senate.
His whole course in the business stood
at the close well approved.
Congratulations to Mr.. Underwood.
OF the twenty-three democrats who
recorded themselves. twelve-one
more than half-favored ratification.
They indorsed his course as q dele.
gate at the conference table, accepted
his explanations Of the pact in the
Senate debate, and confessed his lead.
ership all through the parliamentary
maneuverings leading up to the final
vote.
We shall probably hear nothing
further about a new leader for the
Senate republicans, and q new leader
for the Senate democrats. An item OF
the gossip current while the treaty
was before the Senate was that in
case OF it's rejection Mr.. Lodge and
Mr.. Underwood would be so much dis.
credited, each would have to give way
for a new man in the management OF
his party's interests in the Senate.
AS both have scored, both are en-.
titled to a continuation Of the con.
fidence which has raised them to the
positions they now occupy. Their lat.
est triumph is among the most signal
standing to their credit in years of
public service
Evening star., 1922-03-26
French Taxes Silence Critic.

PARASITIC Echo National. organ
of the Clemenceau group, says Amer
leans who reside in France quickly
realize that French taxes are high
enough The paper tells the story of
banker who always advised higher
taxes as a cure for Frances financial
woes-until he took up his residence
in Paris. The item reads:
1.-The Americans were of great serr-
ice to US during the war, consequently
they allow themselves to give us
little advice sometimes.
IAN American banker. who loves
the French. says to me each time he
comes to Paris: Keep up your cour-
age. Double and triple your taxes.
Get your finances in order Then You
will see that the United States will
begin to take interest in your recov-
cry
in the fable answered his school
master, First get me out Of danger
and then give me advice
But Anglo-Saxon reasoning al
ways makes an impression on
Frenchman, and his words made an
impression on me.
Now the banker has come to live
in Paris.
"A month ago I couldn't go near
him without him reproaching me for
my fiscal cowardice. Now. since a
fortnight. there is q sudden change:
he no longer approaches the subject
-he even avoids IL.
IT am told that he has just had
considerable shock on receiving his
first tax papers. 1t appears that they
are pretty hot. as they should be for
a bachelor who is making year after
year about 100000 francs-perhaps
even more.
"One of these days my American:
who Is a decent fellow at heart, Will
confess that he made a mistake and
that our treasury has heavier hand
than is generally supposed on the
other side of the Atlantic.
"I shall tell him then that it Is q
pity there are not more of our Amer
lean friendA who make this experience
with our taxes. First of all. our fis-
cal courage would be more widely
treasury would be filled all the more
rapidly.'
Evening star., 1922-03-26
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Art and Nature.

Art and Nature.
A robin singing in the tree,
A yellow blossom on the lawn,
Tell us Of better things to be
And wintry sorrows that are gone.
Men labor with untiring will
To bring a day Of happiness,
Bestowing heart and brain and skill
Their fellow human kind to bless.
Yet in no mortal works we see
. Such joy as from these gifts are
drawn;
A robin singing in the tree,
A yellow blossom on the lawn.
Evening star., 1922-03-26
Gutenberg Bible for Sale.

LoNDON.-A Berlin dispatch to tn.
Daily Telegraph says: "The Leipzig
Museum Of Books and Manuscripts.
finding itself in financial dificulties.
proposes. with the permission of the
government Of Saxony. to sell the
famous Gutenberg Bible in order to
raise money for carrying on the mu-
scum. The Rdjksmuseum of Amster-
dam has offered to buy 1t for 10000.
goo marks (about 10000 at the pres
ent rate Of exchange). The museum
authorities are anxious to retain the
treasure for Germany, and have an
nounced that the result will depend
on the German public's making good
the deficiency by public or private.
eR..f."
Evening star., 1922-03-26

Aviation. the great and controlling
feature Of modern warfare, is hang
ing in the balance in Congress, as
far as progressive development is
concerned.
The commanding officer at McCook
Field, the research station Of the
Army, Maj. Thurman H. Bane. esti-
mates that "a proper figure for re-
search and experimentation in aero
nautics would be $1o,ooo,000 annual
ly." The budget bureau approved
81, 1000 and the House appropria-
tions committee reduced this to
$3.50, 900. When the Army appropria-
ton bill came up in the House. Rep
resentative Roy G. Fitzgerald OF Ohio.
who has done more flying and applied
himself to the study Of aviation to
greater extent than any other mem
Der of Congress. led the hght for q
larger policy toward aviation devei"
opment.
The gatling gun. the steamship. the
submarine and the airship were all
invented by American genius. But
Maxim, Fulton, Holland and the
Wright brothers were SO little appre-
ciated in this country that they had
to look to other countries for a just
appreciation Of what they were do
ing for the human race. The result 10
that Europeans developed these
American inventions and America has
had to pay a terrible price.
In the first half Of the last century
ours was the greatest OF all the mer-
chant marines in the world: Our
wooden clipper ships, under sail, car
ried American products into all the
ports Of the world. The United States
had under her flag 50 per cent Of the
trade of the orient. But In the latter
half Of the century the clipper ships
were replaced by the steamships OF
European nations, which had devel-
oped marine engineering while Amer
lea slept on her opportunity.
- ~ +
When the United States entered the
world war we faced q European ma
ton, which had developed our sub
marine invention to an extent that
was astounding. 1t carried great car
goes across tho seas in them and ter
rorized the greatest navies Of the
world, and sank battleships supposed
to be efnyulnerable-to say nothing OF
the Lusitania and hundreds Of mar
chant ships.
when we got into the world war
we used European perfections Of the
machine run originally invented in
this country. We had to call on
Great Britain to furnish US with
maehins guns: We had to call on
Evening star., 1922-03-26
Masks and the Law.

Gov. Parker of Louisiana, In asking
for vigorous action against the ku
Kux Klan in that state, says:
"where great evil exists honest and
brave men will stand In the open fear
lessly to see that they are corrected
with no need of disguise"
Many great evils exist today. A
condition Of profound unrest plaques
the whole country. The regularly con.
stituted authorities are put to their
trumps to keep any sort Of order.
But the responsibility Is upon them;
and when they need assistance they
Evening star., 1922-03-26

A Chicago lady. suspicious of the
solvency of q bank, drew out her saw.
ings, which were promptly appropTi.
ated by pickpocket. The amateur
flnancier is continually making mis-
takes Of this kind: the psychological
principle involved being that on which
the wildcat investment promoter
largely depends. An impression that
money in bank would be better Off
else affords the opportunity
for which dishonesty lies in wait.