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Evening star., 1923-01-31
Washington Observations
BIZ FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

, Thomas r. Marshall. When thar
Hoosier sage was killing time oficians
as presiding officer of the United starea
/ Senate he once opined to this wrfese:
There are just three ways for We
President to get along financially. 6o
can live above his income; he can be
| the side" Marshall permitted himself
| to be asked which one of those paths
| he trod. He said he lectured and wrote
as a means Of making both ends meet.
but never lucratively enough to afford
an automobile.
There has recently come off the press
at the government printing Office
| bulky volume of nearly 1900 oa2aA it
\ is the official record of the Washington
| conference on limitation of ar1nasherf
and contains the verbatim proceedings
| of plenary sessions in English AMI
+ French texts The compiler or this his
| toric compendium is Gaillard Hunt, who
has been editor for the State De-
partment since 1921, and functioned in
| that capacity at the conference. Dur
| ing the war Mr.. Hunt was a State De-
partment adviser on citizenship ques-
| tions. Louisianian by birth, he is
| the author of a number of standard
! volumes American historical events.
/ Bailie Blanchard, long attached to the
| American embassy in Paris. supervised
| the French version of the conference
| record 1t can be had for 81 rs from the
| superintendent of documents at the gov
! ernment printing office. There will be
| no free distribution, as is customary
with official publications.
X X X
| Nicholas Murray Butler. president OF
/ Columbia University, whose attack on
! prohibition enforcement has agitated
| the nation. has just Instituted series
Of publications called Tracts for To-
day" They are designed to set the
American public TO thinking things
| through in various realms of political
activity. Tracts Nos. and 2 are off
the press, and deal. respectively, with
''The Nation and the States VS.. the
| Nation without the States" by DIR.
| Butler, and The Courts and the Peo
| pie" by Albert j. Beveridge. February
! tracts will deal with Senator La Fol-
! lette's Attack on the Supreme Court.
"A Rational immigration Policy.
| Should We Recognize Soviet Rus
! sia?' and What Is the Matter With
| the Railways?" Louis A. Coolidge. j.
\. Graves. jerome Landfeld and Henry
! ). Pritchett will write next months
! tracts.
| !: X x X
| a dynamic senator Of the United
States, prominent in its younger set,
| is telling a good one at his own ex-
pense. His wife. herself gifted poll
tician. is the daughter of a deceased
| and celebrated senator. Her mother
| recently was in Washington. Some
one said to her: Mrs. -, you ought
20 be very proud to be both the widow
| of a great senator and the mother Of
! very promising member of the SEN
| ate. Besides, l rather think you have
| a future President in your family.
! The old lady demonstrated. in reply 10
! the supposed reference TO her son-in-
! law: oh. l hardly think --'s am
| hitions mount that high" Whereupon
| the party of the first part rejoined
| oh, ! didn't mean your sonin law
J I meant your daughter"
Evening star., 1923-01-31
THE WAYS OF WASHINGTON
BY WILLIAM PICKETT HELM.

drew Jackson. He remembers what
lhappened one fine morning a Bladens-
| burg.
jackson liked cockfighting. He
| bought his birds with the eye of a
connoisseur. In his home state of
Tennessee there wasn't bird that
had a chance against the Jackson
gamecocks.
! When he was President he sent
home for his birds. These Hermitage
| fowls were then put into trim for a
! fight with some pretentious birds
! from Annapolis. Their heads and
! necks were plucked, their tail feathers
| were closely trimmed and their nat
| ural spurs were covered by finely
! tempered steel gaffs.
Each bird had his trainer. The
| President journeyed out to Bladens-
burg-and the Hermitage cocks were
completely wiped out by the Maryland
pretenders.
While the President was so engaged
| Mrs. Jackson, according to rumor
current in Washington society, was
! smoking her pipe in the White House.
sociates on the Supreme Court bench
used to deny themselves wine except
| in wet weather. But
Brother Story. step to the window
and see if it doesn't look like rain" F"
, was quite a common request. at their
, luncheonS.
i And Story at the window would
scan the sky.
"No, Brother MARSHALL; the sun is
shining brightly"
But our Jurisdiction" replied Mar
shall; "have you considered it? 1t is
very wide and far.
Somewhere in that jurisdiction, /
know. it is raining. l think we will
| be safe in taking a little some thing.
Just a little-for my conscience tells
me II is only a shower"
Copyright, 1921
Evening star., 1923-01-31
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Geographic Unrest.

Geographic Unrest.
Troubleville keeps movin' to all por-
tions Of the map.
You never know just when a peaceful
place will get a rap
That changes joy to gloom, while peo-
pie come from far and near
And try to take a photograph or grab
a souvenir.
The citizens may do their best for
peaceful quietude.
An accident will happen or a stranger
will intrude.
You'll think that your address is
Happy Center on the HILL.
Then you suddenly discover that you
live in Troubleville.
One day it's in New England and the
next in Jersey state.
And then it's somewhere way down
south, to mourn a doleful fate.
So let us not be boastful when we feel
a blissful thrill.
Most every town must take its turn
at being Troubleville.
Evening star., 1923-01-31
Nearing a Balanced Budget.

President Hardings announcement
that the governments income will
closely approach. if it does not equal.
expenditures for the current fiscal year
comes as pleasing surprise to the
country, which had been looking for
ward to a deficit of half a billion dol
lars or more 1t ought to operate as a
tonic to all lines of business, and
stimulation of business will increase
government income and start the
country on the way to a Treasury
surplus, something about which no
other nation participating in the great
war has even begun to think.
To effect the economies necessary to
change an expected deficit into near
~ balanced budget has been discour-
aging and in many ways a thankless
task. There is nothing spectacular in
such an operation, little opportunity
to win public applause. But the way
Is opened abundantly for criticism
from those who seek and are given
not. 1t requires much higher order
Of moral and political courage to re-
fuse TO spend the peoples money than
it does TO spend it. President Harding
generously gives Congress a large
share of credit for the economies which
have been brought about, and that
Congress is entitled to credit is not to
be denied. But sight should not be
lost of the fact that when Congress
81, .o1
diers' bonus and the civil war pension
bills. both Of which measures would
have resulted in heavy drains upon
the Treasury and put out of the
reckoning any hope of breaking even.
AS matter of fact the position of
the United States Treasury is much
better even than that represented by
the President in his message to the
budget officials. The Treasury is pay
ing interest on about ten billions of
American people and loaned to other
governments. Interest on these loans
to Europe is accruing, but very little
OF it is being paid. 1t is improbable
that all of this accruing interest will
ever be paid. but much of it will in
time be collectible. Taking the in
terest on these foreign loans into ac-
count the governments income now
actually exceeds its outgo and a sur
plus is being created. The fact that
the surplus is not Immediately avail
able does not alter the fact Of its
existence. Taken in connection with
the enormous reduction in taxation for
the current fiscal year there could be
no better indication that the country
is on its way back TO normalcy.
Evening star., 1923-01-31

seniority Representative Riordan will
hold twelfth rank in the coming Con-
gress, but he seems to be more proud
of his hometown status as district
leader than of his congressional rank.
II was back in the days when old
New York was young" that the Rior-
dan family settled down in Manhat-
tan. They still occupy the old house
at % oliver street and are the next
door neighbors and close friends of
Gov Al Smith. Although what was
once a peaceful suburb has changed
to roaring downtown New York. it is
highly unlikely that either Smith or
Riordan will ever give up his old
home.
About the time of Riordans entry
into active politics the "torch-light
parade era" was just drawing to its
close. He remembers the last big
torch light parade in New York.
Evening star., 1923-01-31

Irwin b. Laughlin of Pennsylvania,
a resident of Washington, has just
been nominated a regent of the
smithsonian Institution by President
Harding. Mr.. Laughlin succeeds the
late Alexander Graham Bell on the
board of regents of Americas ma
tional establishment "for the in
crease and diffusion OF knowledge
among men, The Smithsonian,
which celebrates it's seventy-seventh
birthday this year, is governed by a
board of regents consisting of the
Vice President, the Chief Justice,
three members Of the United States
Senate, three members of the House
and six citizens of the United States
appointed by joint resolution of Con-
gress. Mr.. Laughlin is one of the
distinguished career men" of the
American diplomatic service and is
still on the active list, though not
assigned to duty. He was secretary
armament conference. Laughlin was
counselor at the London embassy
continuously from 1912 to 1919, rem
dering conspicuous service during
the war. Previously he had been on
duty in Japan. Siam, China, Russia,
Greece, Montenegro, France, Turkey
and Germany. He is largely interest
ed in the Jones & Laughlin Steel
Corporation.
Thomas Hastings, eminent New
York architect. is en- route to Eng
land to superintend reconstruction of
the London mansions presented 10
the United States by J. Pierpont Nor
gan for embassy purposes. Two
houses, standing at Princes Gate.
opposite Hyde Park. are being knock
ed into one, with new single en-
trance. Congress appropriated Sl50.-
600 for reconstruction and furnish
ings. 1t is expected that ii will be
July !, at the earliest, before Am
bassador Harvey will be able to take
possession.
The International Lyceum and Chau-
tauqua Association, which held a nota-
BILE conference in Washington in De-
cember, is circulating the facsimile Of
letter addressed to the conference by
President Harding. Mr.. Harding has
DeeIl q CfldulduQud turn IN MS DAY,
his famous lecture on Alexander Ham
ilton having delighted many a brown
tent audience in the middle west. 1t
has been to me a personal satisfaction -
wrote the President to DR.. Paul NJ
Pearson, president of the /. L. c. A
"as well as an intellectual and spiritual
opportunity. TO be numbered among the
lecturers who have carried the message
of chautauqua throughout the country.
Indeed, one may, with much confidence.
say that this splendid educational move
ment has found its greatest intellectual
beneficiaries among those who, address
sing varied audiences in differing and
wide-scattered communities. have known
the eagerness with which the people. 10
the number of many millions annually.
seek illumination of public questions and
the broadening Of community vision"
X X X x
Nobody in the country can be taking
a livelier interest in the project TO put
adequate housing accommodations at
the disposal OF our Vice President than
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Piracy or War?

A decision was rendered in Albany
yesterday by the New York state court
of appeals which has a bearing upon
the status of the Lusitania claims.
The court held in the case of the es.
tate of Alfred G.. Vanderbilt, who was
lost on the torpedoed steamship.
against an insurance company, that
the sinking of the Lusitania was an
act Of war. and therefore the insur-
ance policy containing the particular
clause covering "acts of war" was
void and the insurance may not be
collected. That decision is in opposi-
tion to the findings of the federal
courts.
In August, 1918, Judge Mayer. in
the United States district court, rem
dered an opinion which resulted in
throwing out the claims Of Americans
against the company which owned
Lac Lusltania. Judge Mayer held that
Evening star., 1923-01-31
Succeeded His Father as Boss
OF New York Tammany Districts

which was staged by the republicans
in the Mckinley Bryan campaign OF
1896. The republicans turned out by
thousands in the afternoon and starr
ed their parade. which continued
throughout a goodly portion of the
night. "Of course, those We're pre-
prohibition times. too" says Mr.
Riordan. reminiscently They could
never have gotten those fellows 10
march eight or nine hours on water.
The democrats naturally viewed the
parade with a skeptical eye and as
serted that the republicans had hired
their marchers. A democratic but
ton gotten out after the parade car
ried the motto: Mckinley is on our
buttons. but Bryan is in our hearts
After serving in the New York state
senate for several terms. Mr.. Riordau
came to Congress. succeeding Big
Tim sullivan, who just naturally
didn't care for the atmosphere Of
Washington and pined to get back 10
Manhattan. An out-and-out Tam
manyite. Representative Riordan i
proud of the fact.
Representative Riordan holds what
is probably unique record in Con
gress. He was born half-mile from
his district. moved into il when he
was six months old and has never
been away from it six months in his
life. his longest period OF absence
being his trip with the naval affairs
committee to Europe during the war
time days of 1918. His district. the
eleventh New York, includes Wall
street. Castle Garden, the famous old
Bowery and the new Bowery Peo
pied during the old days chiefly bI
| Irish and German immigrants. it now
teens with every nationality under
the sun. Riordan's assembly district
is one of the most roCk-ribbed demo
cratic sections in these United States
1t was the only district in New York
that stood for Cox in the late republ-
can landslide of the presidential cleo
tiUnS.
Evening star., 1923-01-31
BY THEODORE w. MOVES.

All of the accountants, after audit
ing the accounts between the United
States and the District, agree In re-
porting a minimum net surplus credit
in favor of the District of $4,676,457.65.
This sum represents the minimum
net credit of the District in the
balancing of accounts between nation
and capital since 1874, however the
law of June 20, 1922. may be con-
strued in respect to statement of the
account between 1874 and 1911.
Examination of the Districts ac-
counts shows that there is no offset
or counterclaim of either a legal or
an equitable nature to this District
credit, whether action of Congress
on the Mayes and Spalding reports is
or is not. treated as settling the ac-
count between 1874 and 1911.
Analysis in detail of each alleged
counterclaim against the District dis
closes that almost invariably it is
based on some alleged blunder or
neglect or law violation on the part
of some official representing the
United States alone, for whose faults
of commission or omission the Dis
trict is not in any degree responsible
and from whose blunders the District
taxpayers of today have in no degree
benefited
II the Districts account Is reOpened
and restated fully, taking into ac-
count tas the Inv of 1922 requires)
equitable and moral as well ms legal
indebtednesses, instead of n reduction
of the Districts surplus resulting. that
surplus VIII be Increased by the dis
covery of other District credits, both
legal and equitable.
The citizens committees brief con-
Il IL 1aI,f
credits: % OF the period since 1911.
accepting action Of Congress on
Mayes and Spalding reports as set
tling accounts of period 1874 to 1911:
(2) OF the period since 1878; CD of
the period between 1874 and 1878:
90 of the period prior to 1874. so far
as the equities of this period have
been recognized and brought over
for consideration into the period be-
tween 1874 and 1878.
Evening star., 1923-01-31

His father was
district captain"
or local boss of
t h e ir assembly
district for TWEEN
ty- six years. On
his death young
Dan stepped into
his fathers shoes
and has now held
down the same
job for twenty
two years. SO for
almost half a cen :
tury the $ a m e
ia amily has con :
trolled the dis
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ECHOES FROM CAPITOL HILL
LIBERTY THROUGH
POWER OF THE PU Sc.

want senator's to remember that
there never would have been any
parliamentary and political and finan-
cial liberty amongst Englsh-speaking
peoples except from the use of the
power of the purse by the legislative
bodies of all countries.-Senator Will
liars Nississippi democrat
Evening star., 1923-01-31
IN DEFENSE OF THE
ATTORNEY GENERAL,

He who hesitates is lost. and anl
Attorney General who arrogates l.
himself the right 10 use his owr
Judgment rather than that of the Wa
Department as to what suits he ear
maintain should be impeached. Why
he ought to bring his suit at once and
then send out and see il he can find
any evidence to support it.-Repre-
sentative Nolstead, Wisconsin, repub-
lican.
Evening star., 1923-01-31
OUR NATIONAL INDEBTEDNESS.

we have an indebtedness-nat ational
state, municipal and individual-uI
from 100000, 100000 to Sl5O.0OG. 900
600. ! have attempted to ascerta il,
approximately what was the indebt
edness of the character last referred
10. The figures differ, but ] have not
any hesitancy in saying the obliga
ton of the United States. the states
municipalities and private individuals
reach the stupendous figure of more
than 100000, 200, 0,000.-Senator King
Utah democrat
Evening star., 1923-01-31
WILL RISK HIS FAMILY
RJT NOT HIS CAR.

We should sell the auto Of the reck-
less driver who runs down persons on
the street. There Is a psychology
about the driver of cars Many speed
mad persons while driving cars are
seized with the idea that pedestrians
have no rights. The speed mad man
will risk his family. but he will never
risk his car.-Senator Ashurst, Ari-
Zona democrat.
Evening star., 1923-01-31

The amount of popular attention he
succeeds in retaining entities Col. w.
j. Bryan to rank high among the pub
licity experts who lend prominence to
the beautiful land of Florida.
Evening star., 1923-01-31
PEOPLE HERE ARE HEr PLEss.

The people here are helpIess, pow
erless with no vote, no voice, in
choosing those who set these rates.
II is not fair, it is not decent, for us
to sit here and permit such an ex-
ploitation of the peoples servants as
is carried on in this District.-Sena-
tor Ashurst, Arizona, democrat.
Evening star., 1923-01-31

war 1t may be a trif1e embarra ssing
for other European nations to give
Turkey credit for trying to set a good
example.
Evening star., 1923-01-31

Those who contend that Uncle Sam
should keep out of foreign entangle-
ments are compelled TO admit that he
is already in for several billions of
dollars.
Evening star., 1923-01-31

When Hugo SHINES calls strike
the fact that he has not been pre-
viously recognized as a labor leader
makes no difference to workmen in the
Ruhr.
Evening star., 1923-01-31

The real traffic expert is the man
with a f1ivver who succeeds in getting
through the day without violating a
police regulation.
Evening star., 1923-01-31
THE Tail THAT WAGs THE DOG.

want to call attention to the fact
that there was a revolutionary
change and transformation of the
postal service when we inaugurated
the parcel post. The parcel post the
first year that 1t was inaugurated
amounted to billion. 1t is now
from five to six billion.-Representa
tive Steenerson, Minnesota, hrepubli-
can.
Evening star., 1923-01-31

The reorganization Of the demo
cratic party has proceeded to the ex-
tent of developing several distin-
suished figures as available candidates
in 1924.
Evening star., 1923-01-31
INFAMOUS TAX LAW
IN kENTTCKN.

Down in Kentucky my native state.
we have the most Infamous tax law
that is on the statute books OF any
state in the whole Union. There
money deposited in bank pays a tax
of only 10 cents, but money invested
in farms and other projects or under-
takings that the public or the people
must have bears a tax of 40 cents
Representative Johnson, democrat,
kentucky.
Evening star., 1923-01-31

The German girls who married
American doughboys hope to show the
ex-kaiser's family what a real honey
moon ought to be.
Evening star., 1923-01-31
THE PROFITEERS
ARE RESPONSIBLE,

1t is not the people clamoring for
government control: it is these ever
| lasting profiteers and greedy men
who are laying such burdens on the
people that we are driven to either
pay tribute to them in uhhoIy
amounts or turn the industries over
to the government and risk orr
chances with tnei- Sohcy.-Ss eAIsr Z
Smith. South Carolina, democrat
Evening star., 1923-01-31

There is a disposition among his as
sociates to allow the Rev. Percy Stick
uev Grant of New York to retire and
write his own religion.
Evening star., 1923-01-31

The quality of gasoline calls for gas
as well as gas taxes.
Evening star., 1923-01-31

Some men force their way into
politics and others are showed in
But Representative Dan Riordan Of
New York grew up into politics"
Evening star., 1923-01-31

Financial conditions abroad are
showing startling effects Of home-brew
currency.
Evening star., 1923-01-31
FROM THE HOU Sc
POINT OF VIEW.

Senators are always asking for ap-
propriations-Repre Madden,
Illinois. republican.
Evening star., 1923-01-31
Jud Tunkins says the only two peo.
Musings of a Motor Cop.

A highway tough in quest of loot
Said to Hortense, I'm going to shoot"
Shoot she exclaimed; "and do not
fail.'
Her courage made the rogue turn pale
Impatiently she grabbed a wrench
That lay beneath the flivver bench,
Remarking, as the miscreant ran,
II thought he was a camera man.
Evening star., 1923-01-31

Oriental taste favors altar of roses
but is not Indifferent to the aroma Of
an oil well.
Evening star., 1923-01-31

Postal conditions threaten a very
quiet st. Valentines day for the Ruhr.
Evening star., 1923-01-31
Haste.

1--WE amt like you Crimson Gulch-
ers," said Teepee Tom Of Snaketown.
when we see bootlegger we run
him out of town."
YES" sneered Cactus Joe: SOS he
won't lose no time maxim a start to
bring back more licker."
Evening star., 1923-01-31

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Hard to Please.

Your campaign manager says YOU
ought to make more speeches.
Yes" replied Senator Sorghum;
'and when I make one he warns me
against talking too much
Jud Tunkins says the only two peo.
pie who never seemed to care any
thing about the acknowledgement
controversy were Bacon and Shake
speare.
Evening star., 1923-01-31
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Evening star., 1923-01-31

"A man is liable" said Uncle Eben
ito think he has a clear conscience
when he's only forgetful."
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Evening star., 1923-01-31

John w. Davis of West Virginia.
former ambassador to Great Britain,
is being quietly talked about by demo-
Gratis of prominence who are not IA
vorably disposed to either Mr.. Nc
Adoo or M. Ford. on grounds Of their
possible lack Of conservatism.