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Evening star., 1922-12-25
Linens
for After-Christn,as
Affairs


Affairs
Perhaps you will need
a much larger supply of
table linen and towels
than you had anticipated,
or perhaps you have some
Christmas savings t h a t
you would like to invest
in this profitable offering
Mercerized Cotton Table
Damask, II inches wide; a
heavy quality, firmly woven.
Several attractive S700
patterns. Yard. %A'oO
Mercerized Cotton Pattern
Cloths of fine quality. Va
rious designs. Size
"a inches square. G7 A
Each ............. ~-
Mercerized Cotton Nap
kins, 18-inch size, .hemmed
and ready for use. A good
quality. quality. nvaa5 Various $l.5O
White Turkish Bath Tow.
els, woven of double-twisted
yarns that readily abb CSo
sorb moisture. Each, SON
First Floor.
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Outing Flannel 27-inch and
heavy weight. Checks, plaids.
ofs' e1s'pes Yaad' and plain COL l8c
White Flannel, 27-inch; wool
and cotton mixed. Excellent
for infants wear. Yard, SIC,
z5c, $1.00.
Shaker Flannel, cotton with
wool-like finish. Medium
weight; Whitley 36 OEo
inches wide. Yard. ;. GOC
Beacon Bath Robing, 27-
inch, in attractive juvenile
patterns in pink or
Ssrd blue; Tuesday only SOC
-First Floor.
Evening star., 1922-12-25
After-Christn1as Specials in
Wash Goods and FlannelS

A good way to spend your Christmas money is to
take advantage of these afterChristas specials and
chase materials for the things you will surely little
Evening star., 1922-12-25
Clearance of
Discontinued COrsets
$2.95

because their numbers being discontinued. We have
taken them from regular stock where they in
instances double this price.
American Lady, Bon-Ton, R & G, Warmers Rustproof
Froaset and Nine Pfeil Flesh and white, with long
medium hip elastic top, low medium bust Front and
back 1acng models. Sizes 20 80 in the lot but not
each style
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Broadcloth Shirts, $3.45
Shirts of English broadcloh spell quality and denote
good taste in dress. These made in the custom man
full cut perfectly tailored to fit comfortably and
shown in excellent plain shades of blue gray green and
tan. All with collars to match. Sizes IA to II.
NelU Silk Ties, $500
shipment just opened comprises rich colorings in
many fine patterns All have easytie slip band and are
of handsome, durable fabrics.
Also Sparkingy Fresh and New
Heavy Corded Madras Pajarnas, S2.85
Corded madras paamas the most durable of sleep
Ing garments These, in white only silkfrog trimmed
goodooking, too. All Sizes and each size properly
cut and roomy
ons Seventh
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After-ChriStmaS Sale of
Desirable Black Silks

additional Christmas
Black silk usually
dependable Brother quality that
make the
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Clearance Sale for
Little Tots

Our entire assortment Of winter hats for
little folks of 2 to 10 years, including any
possible style they deem most becoming, has
been reduced to prices scarcely above cost.
Velvets, felts, beavers and many others.
81 hats reduced to 75c IA hats reduced to $3o5
So hats reduced to $1.0O 13 hats reduced to $495
&c hats reduced to 81. so 10 hats reduced to $3.50
153 hats reduced to sos
And winter coats, some of them attractively fur
trimmed, come in for sweeping reductions. Sizes
range from Ito years. 81
36 coats reduced to. ........... $3.50
Is coats reduced to. .$1O.5O
II coats reduced to. $3.50
Floor.
Evening star., 1922-04-09
A Promised Drive.

The promise a short time ago was
that with the. armament conference
treaties out of the way the path on
Capitol Hill would be clear for other
matters. and drive would follow for
action and an early adjournment.
Well, the treaties are out of the
way. One of them provoked a warm
debate Upon the whole. however.
things went well with the administra,
tion's program, leaving no great
amount Of bad feeling behind. There
appears no good reason why the ma
jority party should not get together
and begin the promised drive.
There are many reasons why 1t
should. The session is well advanced.
The contest for control Of the next
Congress is opening. Primaries are
ripening, and nominees will soon be in
the field for election.
The extent Of the republican faction.
ism is not known. Its size and char
acter may show exaggeration in popu-
lar reports. Gossip loves a shining
mark, and that Is very bright target.
But. whatever its size and character,
now Is the time to bury it. If it is not
buried, but is further fostered, the re-
publican claim on Endorsement in No.
vember will be difficult Of support
The republican vote in the House is
unwieldy. and something may be al.
lowed for that. But the trouble is not
confined to the House. 1t exists else
where, and should be removed wher.
ever found.
Evening star., 1922-04-09

things Of the world. America does big
things. and some Of the biggest things
in America are done by New York,
though in this particular undertaking
there is cooperation between the states
of New Jersey and New York.
The tunnel as means of transit is
one of the features OF the modern
world. Where people crowd together
they bring so much pressure on facili-
ties for surface transport that chan
nels have to be cut underground. In
centers Of dense population it has be-
come the thing to cross below rivers
instead Of above them: There comes a
point in the weight and density of traf-
fic where tunnels are cheaper and
more efficient than bridges.
Where traffic is light the ferryboat
will serve. The ferry increases in
speed. size and number to keep pace
with traffic growth, but at length the
boat service approaches the maximum
of its effort and efficiency, and the
traffic load exceeds it. High and stu
pendous bridges, marvels of the ages,
may then be built. Traffic is accom-
modated for time. but it grows faster
than men will build bridges.
Then, some man thinks Of digging
a tunnel beneath the wide, deep river.
1t is a dream, a pipe dream. say those
men who still have ferry minds. But
the dream comes true. Traffic finds
ease and accommodation through the
tunnel, but it continues to grow and
more and more tunnels are demanded.
The tube" has already become an old
idea, and men plan and dig and bore
as though such things were common
place. For anything we know to the
contrary, tunnels can be added as
fast as traffic needs them, but IL tun-
nels should not be able to serve the
eXactions of trade, what next:
1t would seem that with air transit,
which is bound to increase as the years
pass, and with surface and subter-
subfiuvial transit, traffic ought to find
till the end OF time.
And it would also seem that as the
world grows older the bridge will pass
out of fashion. Perhaps our descend
ants will look on long and lofty sus-
pension bridge-almost marvel in
our eyes-very much as we have be-
gun to look on tallow candle,
horse and buggy, a rowboat or the old
covered wooden bridge with a tollgate
at one end.
Evening star., 1922-04-09
Rate by MailEPayable in Advance.
MARYLAND and Virginia.
The Eve of Genoa.

There will assemble tomorrow in
the ancient Italian city of Genoa the
accredited representatives of thirty
of as difficult and perplexing a prob,
lem as ever troubled the world. That
they will find anything even approach
ing complete solution is difficult to
believe, for the problem probably is
not soluble by any process which could
be determined upon by any set of men
at any given time. But that does not
mean that the Genoa conference is
not worth while. 1t will have accom-
plished much if it does no more than
stacles which stand in the way of solu-
tion, making it possible for natural
economic forces to operate for the
restoration of industry and the stabili-
"a tion of European finances.
But thirty nations, with thirty sets
of nationalistic interests often con-
fiicting, do not constitute a hopeful
forum for the discussion Of questions
of such delicacy as will have to be con-
sidered at Genoa. For real achieve
ment there would have to be a meas
ure of unselfshness and a willingness
to be tolerant of opposing views which
have been historically lacking in all
such assemblages. The Washington
conference was successful because of
the conspicuous absence of many of
the elements which will be present at
Genoa. The gathering was smaller, to
begin with, and while selfish national
aspirations had to be reckoned with,
there was an entire lack of the bitter
national and racial hatreds which will
be on hand and working every hour at
the European gathering.
The best hope of real accomplish
ment at Genoa lies in the possibility
personality with qualities of leader
ship sufficient to Override and trample
down the selfishness of smaller men
and to mold the conference into work
able cohesion. That, of course, means
Lloyd George. There is no other man
in sight. nor likely to arise. Lloyd
George. perhaps, can do it if he is as
masterful as he is adroit. but it will
require ruthless disregard OF the de-
slres Of other men comparable to that
of Bismarck. The British prime min
lister has not shown such ruthlessness
ir the past. but he has displayed
amazing aptitude for developing unex-
pected qualities in a crisis, and the
quality he will need at Genoa may be
lurking somewhere in his complex per-
sona1ity.
The United States will not be par
ticipant in the Genoa conference, be-
cause it was the judgment Of this gov
eminent that no helpful part could be
played there by American representa-
tives. But this does not mean that
the American government and the
American people are either Indifferent
or unsympathetic. This nation will
benefit from whatever successes are
attained at Genoa, just as it will suffer
from failures there. From this there
is no escape. The American attitude,
therefore. is one Of hope and well
wishing. even if we have not been able
to bring ourselves to believe that a
wholly newborn Europe can come out
of it.
Evening star., 1922-04-09
Direct and Indirect Aid.

One fortunate circumstance attend
ing the merchant marine bill now
pending in Congress is that its pro-
visions tend to bring together two
schools of thought in connection with
government aid to shipping-that
sentiment favoring direct aid in the
form of cash subsidies and that in be.
half of indirect aid, whereby, through
favorable legislation. preference is
given the ocean carrier under the
home flag. Much of the failure Of past
efforts for the merchant marine has
been due to the clashing Of these two
schools, resulting in each contributing
in it's own way to the death Of the
particular project in hand.
The United States Shipping Board
in framing the pending bill, came to
the conclusion that proper measure
of government aid to accomplish the
purpose in mind" as Chairman Lasker
pointed out in the joint committee
hearings, could only come through
the use Of both direct and indirect
aids, throwing the burden onto the
indirect aid"
1t will be fortunate. indeed. il the
Shipping Board can bring these two
schools of thought together and elm
mate some Of the elements that have
operated in the past as barriers to
legislation. 1t is probably true that
everybody in Congress recognizes the
necessity of merchant marine, and
that differences exist only in the
method of creating it.
If the bill, when its provisions are
thoroughly understood by the law
makers who now have 1t in hand, has
succeeded in taking the curse off,
that much-maligned word. subsidy
or at least to show 1t as not applying
in it's offensive form to the pending
bill, there will be further cause for
qualification. The closer the bill Is
studied, it is claimed by its supporters
the more it will be found to be a bust.
ness measure designed for the benefit
Of the whole country, and not operat
ing in behalf of a section or a special
interest.
Evening star., 1922-04-09
American History.

An English author in recommending
to an English audience the other day
a course of study in American history
said that 1t had been neglected be.
cause Of an impression that the sub
ject was dull.
Dull? Where has more exciting
modern history been made? It teens
with achievements of the first class.
The pioneers, fighting their way to
new ground; the state-builders, follow.
ing hard after and improving the new
sites for state purposes; the growth Of
new states, and their attainments Of
consequence in the American scheme
of government Of the people, by the
people. for the people, the filing out
of the continental plan until America
has become one Of the greatest Of the
nations-al this is unsurpassed for
high purposes and their accomplish.
ment.
Take then the sort of men produced.
Where can Washington and Lincoln
particularly be matched for gifts
making them benefactors at home and
inspirations to all mankind? They are
reckoned by students and historians
among the greatest men that have
ever lived.
Even minor American characters
have a picturesque individuality and
q charm that strongly arrest the at
tention Of red-blooded readers. Daniel
Boone, Simon Kenton. Davy Crockett
and Sam Houston hold their own IN
Evening star., 1922-04-09
Mr.. Hull in Historical Mood.

Chairman Hull Of the democratic
national committee likens the repub-
lican leaders to Catiline and Aaron
Burr. The thrust will not do very ef.
fective campaign service. The average
voter will need instruction as to Gait.
line. and even Burr, although Of SO
much more recent date. will require
Identification.
In politics sobriquets are not always
felicitous. The man who dubbed
Daniel w. voorhees, 1.-THE Tall Syca.
more Of the Wabash" scored. In that
neck o. woods q tall sycamore is q
striking piece Of timber. Mr.. Voorhees,,
a giant physically. profited by the
mintage. and was glad to use it.
The man who dubbed William s.
Holman Of the same state THE Watch
dog Of the Treasury" scored. Mr.. Hol-
mans constituency became convinced
that if he were left out Of the congress
sional equation the robbers would have
everything their own way on Capitol
Hill and at the Treasury Department,
and so they sent him to the House
term after term.
Not so fortunate was the man who
dubbed Thomas A. Hendricks THE
Talleyrand Of the Wabash" Mr.. Hen
bricks had the gift of fencing with an
adversary. and, in q pinch. Of making
words disguise his thoughts. For that
reason he was likened to the famous
Frenchman. But some Of his home ad.
mirers looked up the Frenchman, and
one of them said: "Tom ought to stop
that. It doesn't Mt him. find that
Talleyrand was a measiy old codger
who never told the truth in his life"
Who is the Catiline and who the
Aaron Burr OF this day contributing
the talents Of = conspirator and a
plotter to the republican cause? And
how are they finding the going in
copying at this period what in the time
Of old Rome, and, later, in the early
time of America, made SO much noise
and yet failed so signally? Mr.. Hull,
for entertainments sake, should name
names.
Evening star., 1922-04-09
Favor U. S. Customs Outland

sion in Philadelphia. has also gone
on record as favoring free ports.
The conclusion of all these experts
on foreign trade is that permissive
legislation should be passed author
izing the establishment by local bod
proved federal regulation, of free
zones in the ports Of the United
States. 1t is believed that a free
zone ts a part OF the equipment OF a
country for doing q diversified in
American business men ought to
have made available to them. It is
believed that with free zones in
American ports the American mer-
chant marine will benefit from an
increased share in the carrying trade
Of the world: that American mer-
chants and manufacturers will bene-
fit In a variety of ways from the ad-
vantages of wide American con-
signment market for foreign prod
ucts; that the free zones will bring
needed improvements In American
port and terminal facilities; that free
zones will bring added business to
American banks, insurance compa-
nies, freight forwarders and ware
house men; that free zones will bring
about a vast improvement of the type
of facilities provided at present only
by bonded warehouses and drawback.
together with a simplification and
saving in the work of customs ad-
ministration.
X \ \ X
The United States, with its new
merchant marine, it's expanded
equipment for foreign banking. for
eign merchandising and marine in
surance, occupies a new place in the
trade of the world. The establish
ment Of free zones will be a step
forward in improving our material
equipment for building up our inter-
national trade.
Evening star., 1922-04-09
Clemenceau's Future

LONDON-The Paris correspondent
of the Observer says:
Interest in NJ. Clemenceau is per-
ennial 1t is useless for him to re-
main silent. Everybody is curious
about what he is doing or intends to
do. He does not write in the news
papers, not even in the newspaper
which he is supposed to have found
ed. He leaves politics severely alone.
But rumors are continually circulat-
ing. The latest, which I believe 10
well founded. is that he Is composing
a dramatic work for the cinema II
the film he is planning is produced. it
will certainly attract many peopls
who are not habitues of the picture
houses. So far, Frenchmen of dis
tinction have not written for the
screen. The works OF. Anatole France.
Zola. Paul Bourget, Edmond Ros-
tapd. Jean Richepin and other cele.
brated litterateurs have been adapted.
but I cannot think of any famous au-
thor who has worked directly for the
cinematograph. 1t will be in keep
ing with the whole life of M. Clemen-
ceau to break fresh ground"
Evening star., 1922-04-09
An Excited World.

Foreign comment or the situation
in this country, and especially as re-
spects the situation on Capitol Hill,
shows some hazy, and many mistaken,
notions. Writers and speakers alike
are widely astray. One might sup.
pose them recent discoverers Of Amer.
lea. tackling American topics for the
first time.
But let us not thump our breasts
and thank fortune that we are not as
the benighted Europeans are; that
while they are unable to appraise and
appreciate US, we have them and their
affairs down to a fine point, and are
doing them full justice.
As a matter of fact, we may be as
wrong about them as they are about
US. We may be failing to grasp their
difficulties. and so misjudging their at
tempts to make progress in thick
weather on an uncharted course.
Let US push the point further and
admit that, If it were possible, 1t would
be well for all peoples to suspend &C.
tivities and criticisms for q time. and
cool off. We are all In so much trouble
and in such distraction about 1t. any
thing even approaching correct judg-
ment as to one another's motives and
movements is most difficult, II not
impossible. We are all seeing as
through glass, darkly.
But as. in some form. we must all
keep in motion, let it be with as little
hurry and bad feeling as possible. and
in the hope that, If with heavy penal.
ties, we may muddle through In ia.
miliar human fashion. We must get
through.
Evening star., 1922-04-09
The Former Kaiser's Home Life.

PARIS.-Writing in the Echo de
Paris q correspondent says:
Admiral Won Rebour Pachwitz,
former aide-de-camp of the kaiser,
gave a lecture recently in which he
described the present life of the
kaiser. The castle of Doom. the ad-
miral related. is beautifully situated
and very much visited by tourists
The kaiser himself looks after the
cultivation of the garden, especially
of the roses, which came from Ger
many. The empress was particularly
fond of this rosary. The furniture OF
the castle allows the kaiser to keep
some of his illusions and to live in
the past: the furniture is mostly the
same as he used before the war. The
death of the ex-empress seems to
have cast an air of mourning over
the whole place, and an air OF sadness
pervades the castle and grounds.
LAS it is no longer possible for the
kaiser to hunt or ride. his favorite
distractions are TO walk among the
beautiful trees and rare flowers of the
park His life is very monotonous:
he rises early. and after breakfast
saws wood which is his favorite oc-
cupation. He writes his Impressions
and has the Dutch papers read to
him. Thus between reading and
walking he manages to kill time, and
at 1890 he retires for the night.
THE population of Doom and the
neighborhood often show their SYM
pathy for the melancholy exile. and
flowers are sometimes thrown into
his car as he passes
Evening star., 1922-04-09
The Word "Flapper."
From the New York Evening Post.
Wa ArA hANipp{nU 80 hA ss

From the New York Evening Post.
We are beginning to be as weary
Of the word fiapper as we were. a
few years ago, of camouhage. Flap
per. was already an old and over
used word in England In 1910.
The other evening, in the quiet
Morningside hostelry where We are
living ad interim, there was long
table Of university professors dining,
men Of wisdom and delightfulness.
but, to our horror. they were talk
ing about iappers.
One. after some remarks upon
Gengtz Khan. the French revolution
and the decay OF communism in Rus
sia. began saying, In the tone Of an
nounctnE . new discovery. that fap-
Der was simply variant Of the Ger
man slang word backhsch. This at
fected US with the same moral weari-
ness that We would have felt II some
one had said that electricity was get
ting to be mighty useful novelty.
Evening star., 1922-04-09
Women and Congress.

The widow of Representative Par
rish of Texas. who lost his life the
other day in an accident, has declined
a suggestion that she stand for the
succession. Instantly another woman
in the district has offered herself, and
is arranging to take the stump.
Elsewhere In the south women are
showing an ambition for ofice-legis.
lative office preferred. In Mississippi q
woman is a candidate to succeed Mr..
Williams in the Senate.
The south was not a leader. but ap.
peared to be a reluctant follower. in
the movement for the enfranchisement
of women. Years ago, when the
women of the north were agitating the
subject with both tongue and pen, de-
livering addresses and issuing PAM
phlets and drawing hot fire from the
opposition. the women Of the south
were either cold to the proposition.
or unfriendly. Their northern sisters
complained Of their attitude.
But since the electorate was en-
larged to include women. the southern
women have been very alert to the
opportunities. They have taken to
politics" quite naturally-have been
prominent in organization work. and
a number of them-though without
marked success-have tried for ONCE
of one kind or another.
Miss Rankin was a western woman.
Miss Robertson Is a southwestern
woman. So far the north has not
scored in the congressional field, and
she is showing no disposition to do
so this year. But there is time. and
before the primaries are held women
may be announcing for House or Sen
ate IN that section.
Evening star., 1922-04-09
Politics at Home
New York's Annual Tiger Hunt.

The annual tiger hunt in New York
is on. The big guns are In their shoot
ing tossNand the pelt is promised.
Tammany never is, but always to be.
destroyed. How many expeditions
have been fitted out with that object
in view it would be difficult to say.
But the organization still survives,
is still led az Of yore. continues in the
old course, and defles its enemies.
At present it is well intrenched in
town. 1t claims Mayor Hylan, and he
was reelected last November by the
largest majority ever received by a
mayoralty candidate.
But Tammany wants q man Of its
own in the governors chair again,
and il possible other advantages at
Albany. It is diligently surveying the
state field with the view Of cultivatinS
it in this>year's state election.
Hence the anti-Tammany movement.
Hence the appraisement Of the situa.
ton. Defeat Tammany this year, and
its Importance at the democratic ma
tional convention in 1924 will be
minimized. Fail to defeat Tammany
this year, and 1t may develop In the
successor to Gov. Miller the next
democratic candidate for President.
There are divisions in the organize
ton. Leader Murphy has his troubles.
But he is familiar with troubles. They
inhere in his place. He has in part
been educated by them; and what he
knows and practices as a politician
has come to him through that agency.
He has found the uses Of adversely
sweet and valuable, and he is still in
the prime of life.
Not all Of Mr.. Murphy's lieutenants
love him, but the least attached Of
them fear him; and with such bunch
as surround him fear works wonders
and musters the boys" in force on
election day.