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North and South America

Secretary Hughes second visit to
South America-let US all hope condi
tons permit him to make it-follow.
ing hard upon the first, will testify to
the most friendly interest taken by
this country in that quarter Of the
hemisphere.
And why not the most friendly in
terest? The western hemisphere is
the new world. Advanced as it is, its
development has but. begun. Why
should not North America and South
America cultivate relations of every
kind: calculated to benefit both, and
push the hemisphere along the path
of peace and progress?
The old world is in state of dis
traction. Old sores have opened and
are discharging freely. The stu
alton is appalling, and even if re.
lieved now or soon. how long they will
stay relieved will be problem.
This carries a lesson the new world
should thoroughly learn. We on this
side the big water should not permit
our affairs to take any such direc-
tions, but should keep them sound and
in course of friendly assistance and
cooperation.
Mr.. Hughes IS the fourth Secretary
Of State within a score of years to
visit South America with a message
Of good will. Mr.. Root, Mr.. Knox and
Mr.. Colby all returned with apprecia.
tive reports of their receptions, and
Mr.. Hughes on his first visit had an
experience of like character. A sec.
ond such experience doubtless awaits
him.
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Washington Observations
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

the United States delegation at the
Pan-Amerlcan conference in Chile,
was one of Roosevelts rough riders
1t was his comradeship-in-arm with
Teddy" that led Fletcher into the
diplomatic career. Soon after the
colonel succeeded Mckinley in the
presidency. In 1901, Fletcher turned
up one day in Washington, having
been honorably discharged from vol
unteer service in the Philippines
ents for foreign service and appointed
him second secretary of legation in
China. Then came appointments 10
Portugal back to China, then as min
lister and ambassador to Chile and
finally ambassador to Mexico.
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Robert c. Morris, the agent of the
United States for presentation of
American claims before the mixed
American German commission, has
selected a couple of lieutenants who
have unique qualifications for their
jobs in respect of their names. One
is Morgan, which means morrow" in
German, and the other is Morrow
which means "norgen" in that Ian
guage.
One of the reasons impelling Her
bert. Hoover to prefer the joys he has
at the Department OF Commerce to
those he knows not of at the Interi or
Department is the amazing volume OF
business inquiries now reaching the
department from the country. When
Hoover took charge in March, 1921
Inquiries averaged 300 or 400 a day
Now they mount up to 100000 a
month. 1t is the Secretary'S ambition
to turn his department into s ef-
fective and automatically running a
machine as the Department of Agri-
culture long since became. He wants
to whip 1t into such shape that, no
matter who comes or goes, II Will be
a great mill of the government, grind
ing day in and day out for trade, in
dustry and finance as efficiently as
has done for the farming constitu-
ency.
Most Americans sat up and won
dered at recent statistics that little
Uruguay" with a population less than
that of Philadelphia. leads the world
in the supply of wool to the United
States. She sells US 2S per cent of
all clothing wool we import. The
state might well have been the do
main of Abraham. for its sheep land:
and sheep production are enormous.
In 1922 there were, rOundly, 10000, 900
wool-bearing Quadrupeds in Uruguay.
The country is bigger than either
North Dakota or Oklahoma, with its
area of 72,l50 square miles.
Copyright. 1921
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Occupation of the Ruhr Causes
Serious Apprehension.

Frances occupation of the Ruhr.
although backed by Belgium and Italy,
and the German attitude of passive re-
sistance toward it, has made the Euro
pean situation extremely dangerous. in
the opinion Of most editorial writers.
They point out that while nothing
critical may develop at this time
the seeds for future wars are being
sown, although there are a great
number who sympathize with France
and her viewpoint
Resistance in the slightest degree
will mean recourse TO arms By French
troops" the Pittsburgh Leader is
convinced. "and the result of the
opening Volley is not hard to fore
tell. Casting aside all inclination to
be pessimistic, there is sufficient
ground for believing. as result of
the movement of France and in the
recall of the German ambassadors
from France and Belgium. that. stir
ring days are ahead and that the
papers will again be called upon to
relate the horrors of another war
While the world hopes the move
ment will not result in war" the Co
/ lumbus (Ohio) State Journal says il will
feel the strain until the reaction fol-
! lowing the occupation has been de-
veloped and the results are in evil
dence and can be fairly estimated" :"
1t also must be understood, the Gin
cinnati Enquirer points out, that Ger
many is not n dead nation, but a virile
sovereignty" and the invasion. how
ever justified. may unite the German
people to dangerous resistance, may
inspire tremendous antagonisms else
where, may rekindle the flames of
far-reaching war and ultimately leave
France to meet without sympathy or
o 70 n
such a policy is calculated to bring
upon her in unhappy days to come"
While France lis riSking every
thing on the rash course she is TAX
ing" the Toronto Star seems 10 think
that 'it is possible that Britain is
not sure that hard jolt to Germany
may not have its uses in eXpediting a
general settlement" The Danville
Register sharply comments on the
sympathy" expressed by certain
papers for Germany, which it de-
c1ares is "colored in larger centers
of German population" and caters to
the pro-Germans." Because, after all.
it is very much in the nature of an
| experiment" that the French have
undertaken, the Lincoln journal re-
calls it is forgetting England in
Ireland and in the Transvaal, and
forgetting Germany in Belgium and
Alsace-Lorraine and the Israelites in
Egypt, France proposes to control
the muscles of an unwilling people.
This repeats an old and generally
disastrous experiment. Meanwhile
the Germans seem inclined to try out
on an unprecedented scale the policy
of non resistance. The world is not
often privileged to witness so stu
America and Great Britain "disap-
prove" the action the Wichita Eagle
is convinced the ultimate conse-
quences will be disastrous" and shows
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Somebody's carelessness caused the
destruction of an apartment house in
this city the other night, with the
oustar of a number of families, who,
of'course, seek shelter elsewhere. They
were extremely fortunate to escape
with their lives. Had the fire occurred
a few hours later doubtless many would
have been killed by fumes or flames.
Whether that fire was due to bad
construction or bad management, or
whether, as the records indicate, there
was delay in reaching the fire perhaps
owing to inadequate alarm boxes, the
fact stands that a blaze was started
that could have been avoided with
the exercise of prudence and with
close regard for the safety Of the
premises.
Although a little fire may be checked
fire company, there is always a risk.
The fire department works under a
severe handicap at this season. It is
hard to get motor engines started, for
one thing. The streets may be slip
perry with sleet or snow: The water
plugs may be frozen. 1t is hard to
handle all the apparatus. Efficiency,
in short, is greatly reduced and the
people are correspondingly exposed
to loss, and even to death, in conse.
quence.
All these factors put a particular
responsibility upon the householder at
this season of the year, or upon those
who are in charge of large buildings
housing many people. Furnaces and
stoves and other forms of heating ap-
paratus must be watched closely. No
risks must be run. Nothing must
be taken for granted.
Evening star., 1923-01-18

Mrs. David Jayne Hill, who has just
been laid to rest-a victim of the
motor juggernaut in Washington
served her country with Spartan cour-
age In Berlin, in the years before the
war. The pompous kaiser, fattered by
the sumptuous social regime main
tained by Ambassador CharIemagne
Tower, objected to President Roose-
Velt's appointment of DR.. Hill, be-
cause William II had heard Mrs. Hill
was modest lady who cared little
for court fiummery. The Prussian au-
tocrat had recently christened Mrs.
Tower. gifted hostess. "a Moltke of
society" and told people he under
stood MEs. Hill simply helped her
husband write international history"
Roosevelt told the kaiser that Ber-
lin would accept the Hills, or get no
ambassador at all. They came and
/ won their spurs. 1t was no easy role
for Mrs. Hill, despite her previous ex-
Switzerland. the Netherlands. She
played it bravely and successfully
and quit Berlin after three years uni
versally esteemed and beloved.
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There is a wonderful old darkey
waiter at the National Press Club
named Mcdowell, who claims to be
half Scotch. His long career as a
servitor-he is an octogenarian-em-
braces employment with Samuel ].
Tilden and Nelson A. Miles. AS a boy
in Virginia. Me" had the distinction
OF going to Sunday school under
Stonewall Jackson at Lexington He
was Il steward on Gov. Tilden'S yacht
and visited Europe with him in the
carly seventies. McDowelrs sense of
humor is boundless. The other day a
Press Club member asked him to
] amt allowed to do that. Ill go get
the liberian. He tends to the books"
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Two venerable Americans who once
were in the United States Senate to-
gether, William A. Clark of Montana
and Elihu Root of New York, met in
Washington this week for the first
time in many years. Clark was
eighty-four this month. Root will be
seventy eight on February 15. The
western multi millionaire has grown
little near sighted and deaf in re-
cent years. Root remembered him, but
the New Yorker had escaped his for
mer colleague from the Bonanza State.
Whats the name?" asked Clark. as
Root stepped up to him at the Civic
Federation conference and shook hands.
Root" was the reply, and then
Root" again, this time in a semi
shout. There was an effusive reunion
when it finally dawned on Clark who
! the stranger was.
Henry Z. Fletcher. ambassador to
Belgium, who is coming home to head
Evening star., 1923-01-18

Garner proposed to cut the state Of
Texas up into five states. He was
cartooned and denounced as crazy.
but he still believes that such legis-
lation would prove of the best inter.
est to Texas and the entire country
Another interesting incident in Gar
ner's service in the Texas Legislature
came when tax bill was under CON
Sideration. Garner spoke on one side
sixteen times and Cecil Smith spoke.
on the other side seventeen times,
THAT seventeenth speech of Smiths
seems to have been effective" says
Garner. for the tax bill was de-
feated"
During twenty years in Congress
Garner has held his record for intro
ducing the smallest number of bills
of any member He has not averaged
two bills a session for the entire
twenty years He has not introduced
a single bill for the last four years.
He never wrote speech in his life:
they are all extemporaneous. ~
He has not had single speech re-
printed from the Record and sent oef
to his constituents. during the entire
twenty years. 5
Following this same policy of keep
ing himself in the background, Rep
resentative Garner issued a formal
statement the other day in the inter.
ests of party harmony, forestalling an
effort among his friends to run him
for democratic leader in the nexf
Congress, by declaring that Repre-
sentative Finis j. Garrett of Tennes7
see will be the unanimous choice OF
the minority Tor that distinetions
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Bryan and Cochran.

Near an age and personal friends.
and members of the same political
party. William j. Bryan and Bourke
cochran Yet seem born for antago-
nisms on some public questions.
Years ago, when Mr.. Bryan was the
democratic candidate for President on
a silver platform; Mr.. Cochran was
supporting boiling movement on a
gold platform. Mr.. Bryan was de-
feated, and Mr.. Cochran was awarded
a share of the credit, or blame, just
as one is inclined to assess the result.
The money question thus disposed
OF, prohibition after awhile became an
issue. Mr.. Bryan took the dry side.
and was as. dry. as Sahara. Mr.. Cock
ran took the wet side, and in his pro-
nouncements was as wet as the At
lantic ocean.
They met at San Francisco in 1920.
Both were delegates to the democratic
national convention, Mr.. Bryan striv-
ing for dry platform, Mr.. Cochran
for wet one. Both failed. The de.
mocracy in it's deliverance lodged.
But the candidate nominated was
wet enough to suit Mr.. Cochran, and
so wet Mr.. Bryan refused to stump
for him. He did not make a speech
during the campaign. 49,. ...- ~.
Yesterday the two men spoke in this
city, Mr.. Bryan at a meeting of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
of the District of Columbia, and Mr..
Cochran in his place as a member of
the House. Mr.. Bryan's address was
militantly dry, Mr.. Cockran's as mill
family wet.
They will meet at the next demo-
cratic national convention again as
delegates probably. and the duel will
be resumed.
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The Winter Fire Risk.

Now is the time for everybody to
be most scrupulously careful about
fires. With the thermometer on the
decline there is a tendency to force
the stoves and furnaces to higher eff.
ffciency. This means perhaps over
heated f1ues, or it may be that hot
ashes are carelessly handled. What
ever the cause, it is fact of record
that the number of fire alarms always
increases with the drop of the tenn.
perature. And by an unfortunate
logic fire fighting is hardest at such
season. so that small blazes are more
likely to develop into big ones.
It is far batter to have cold house
than none at all, and yet a little care.
iessness may cause the loss Of q home:
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The Traffic Problem.

New forks traffic problem is great
and growing. rapidly in. gravity. So
many motor cars ply the streets that
congestion occurs in every section. On
the principal thoroughfares the lines
of vehicles are almost continuous, and
whenever the stream is checked to
permit crosswise movement the
blockades back up the lines almost
solidly. So serious has this situation
become that official thought is being
given to the question of limiting the
number Of licenses.
Magistrate House Of the trafic court
Is quoted tn an interview az OF the
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secutive year in the House, and at
present his party's leader on the ways
and means, the great tax-raising COM
mittee.
Garner eschews all the we'll known
publicity tactics and thereby stands
as different" among his fellows in
Congress.
When Garner went to the Texas
Legislature in 1899 he introduced just
one bill in four years, and that was
passed and promptly vetoed by Gov.
Sayres, who had previously served
eighteen years in the national House
of Representatives and been chairman
of the appropriations committee.
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SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Improvement.
January goin' strong!
What's the use o. sighin'?
February won't be long.
Swift the days are fyin'.
March will bring a stormy blow.
Then comes April's play day.
Next the world will be aglow
With the lovely May day.
So the seasons go their way,
Never tired or fearful,
Gettin' better every day
An tryin' to be cheerful.
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stituents may be
interested, pre-
pare long speech
es, have them
printed in the
Con gre s 8 ional
Record. then have
reprints made and
frank them out
by the wholesale
throughout their
home districts.
Then meet Rep
resentative John
Garner of Texas.
d democratic whip.
j u S t completing
his twADfiafb cnn-
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TOO MANY CREDIT MERCHANTS.


There are too many credit mer-
chants today, as there are too many
meat markets and grocery stores.
One-half the number Of banks now in
existence could easily and evenly dis
tribute all the credits required to meet
every legitimate demand-thirty thou
sand commercial banks means 625
banks for every state, a bank for
every $500 inhabitants, a bank for
every 500 families.-Senator Mclean
(ConnecticuD, republican.
FARMERS INTEREST THAT
OF CONSUMER.
1t will be much more equitable and
profitable for the consumer I'm the
long run to pay a living price to the
/ farmer.-Senator Mclean Connect
cut), republican.
WHAT THE FARMERS WANT.
Apparently what the farmers now
want and expect Congress- to invent
and apply is a banking machine ,of
mechanical accuracy, g. sort of auto
matte credit sprinkler, possessed of
prophetic vision and ultimate wis
dom, that will open. and shut the
, valves of credit entirely free. from the
errors and desires of human agencies,
until peace shall come as river and
glory as a flowing stream.
Mclean (Connecticu), republican.
FARMERS IN DEBT. !
The farmers of Germany are. more
nearly out of debt than the farmers of
the United States and q larger pro-
portion OF them own their own farms.
Senator Helm (AlalhaInaA democrat.
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Every business man is willing to
let a motor car park long enough in
front of his shop to permit the occu-
pants to transact such business as
they may have with him. Every car
contains somebody's customer or en-
ploye and is a factor in affairs not
to be casually disposed of with the
Cffhand cOnstabulary admonition to
move on.
Evening star., 1923-01-18

The ku Klux Klan rider may yet
be compelled to carry a license tag
and sound a horn when threatening
the safety of individuals.
Evening star., 1923-01-18

News from abroad is calculated to
persuade the American consumer to
pay his coal bill and be thankful mat
ters are not as bad as they might be-
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As a world terror spreader Lenin
is obliged to confess himself inferior
to several politicians now asserting
themselves.
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Every time trouble is threatened be-
tween France and Germany, Belgium
finds itself in a foreign enlargement.
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Evening star., 1923-01-18

Wilhelm Hohenzollern once had the
audacity to think that he was a bigger
man than Hugo SHINES.
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Believe 1t or Not, One Member
OF Congress Dislikes Publicity

Just fix it in your mind that most
men in Congress live on newspaper
publicity. introduce bills for a thou
sand and one things in which con-
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Political influence cannot avail
against plain influenza.
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The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning
addition. ts delivered by carriers within the city
at 80 cents per month: daily only. 40 cents per
month; Sunday only, 20 cents per month. Or
deYs may be sent by mail or telephone Main
1000. Collection is made by carriers at the
end OF each month,
Evening star., 1923-01-18

AS an expert forester Clifford Pinchot
proposes to eliminate wood alcohol
from Pennsylvania.
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Precious Carbon.

There's carbon in a lump of coal.
There's carbon in a diamond rare.
could not say to save my soul
Which form of carbon seems mos
fair.
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The grip germ is an. impudent
creature that does not hesitate to defy
Coue himself
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The Evening Star Newspaper Company

Business ONCE. 1lth st. and Pennsylvania, Ave.
New York once: 100 Nassau st.
Chicago Office: Tower Building.
european once 16 Regent St.. London, England
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"A kindness" said Uncle Eben, sis
soon fohgot. don't pertend to re-
member all de gemmen dat has give
me dollar bills, but kin spot a man
dat hands me = ten-cent tip foh
years an years.. j,
Evening star., 1923-01-18

Jud Tunkins says he'd gladly tell
his troubles to a policeman; only, in
his part of town, where are you going
to find one?
Evening star., 1923-01-18
Recitation.

'"Can you recite the Declaration of
Independence"
Yes" replied Senator Sorghum;
provided you can find few people
who are willing to sit still and listen
to it,
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Local. Spirit.

''I understand Crimson Gulch is
going to build new JAIL
Yes replied Cactus Joe. 1.-THE
first proposition was to build a new
hotel, but we decided that if there was
to be any further housing accommo-
dations they ought to be for the bene-
fit of our own citizens
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NOT many DloCkS distant from the
building in which the New Society is
exhibiting is little exhibition room
the Arden Gallery, wherein is being
shown group. of paintings by Rob
ert Spencer-pictures of homeIy sub-
jects such as are found in a little
Pennsylvania mill town. tenements
with their repetition of blank win
dows staring stupidity upon the. pass
ing world, factory buildings. dreary
roadsides; yet interpreted In sucb
wise that the sensitive observer finds
therein not only an element of beauty.
but significance in relation to the great
ever-present problem of contemporary
life. Mr.. Spencer interprets these scenes
in an extraordinary personal manner.
in such wise that those who see them
not only feel the emotion that he has
felt, but are made thoughtful them
selves. He opens the eyes of the. on
locker to beauty which might other
wise have passed unseen, and he does
it through his conSummate knowledge
of art and his deep, sympathetic un-
derstanding, both as man and artist
The Phillips Gallery In this city con-
tains several examples of Mr.. Spen-
GERS work.
IneIe - al dihd1lns ignorance IN
this country Of cotemporary Amer
Jean artists, an ignorance which does
not exist merely among those classed
as ignorant. Sometimes this leads to
amusing errors. A short time ago
two ladies visiting the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York stopped
in front of a painting by Cecilia
Beaux, who among portrait painters
today ranks with the foremost, not
only in America, but abroad One of
these ladies, reading the appended
label. giving title and artist. said:
"Cecelia Beaux--who is she?" To
which her friend replied: 81 don't re-
CALI exactly, but / do know. that an
art school in Paris has been named
after her."
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-08-24
False Promises Are
Duping Fmigrants

Montreal, Quebec-Wage workers
from Scotland made affidavit that
they were induced to come to Canada
under false promises. The affidavits
have been placed in the hands of of
ficers of the central body, and Presi-
dent Tom Moore of the Canadian
Trades and Labor Congress has been
asked to present these cases to the
Dominion immigration department.
The central body also recommends
that labor organizations in Great
Britain, through the fraternal dele
gate from the Trades and Labor Con-
gress Of Canada, be notified of indus
trial conditions in Canada, and that
they, in turn, inform their members
of the risks they incur in coming to
Canada, through the intermediary Of
transportation companies or other
companies interested in immigration
schemes.