Evening star., 1923-02-16

Boths pedestrians and drivers CON
tinue to complain of the practice OF
traffic policemen in turning their
semaphores while pedestrians and
machines are in the midst Of the
street. and are thereby trapped There
should be some rule by which the
traffic going one way could clear,
after the turning of the signal, before
the liberty of starting In the cross
way takes effect. The present plan
precipitates a clash, for which neither
the traffic nor the officer is to blame
the trouble is with the system The
semaphoTes are too inconspicuous
Why not make them fifteen or twenty
feet high and Of bright colors?
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When an expedition is sent 10 the
arctic to locate the magnetic pole
the ship contains no iron nor steel,
lest the metal affect the needle Of
the compass. 1t is a novel thing.
however. for science to do with tht
progress of mankind. "Owl cars
nave interfered with learning; there
Iore owl cars must stop and the
owls" Will ;. ride home in motor
busses, if their course takes them by
the bureau of standards.
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II is hard to keep a good voter
down. Washington is not In the
Union, when it comes to the fran
chise, and there are probably 1000
perfectly good votes which are never
cast at any kind OF election. We
might have all the tea parties" we
( want. and they would call forth no
sympathy from Congress. But there
are some $4,000 voters who are ~
Washington. but not of it. These
may vote in their legal residences
If they have been careful TO main
tain legal residence in the state
| from whence they arrived. when they
I became President or clerk.
An organization which has begun
may round up these $4,000 voters and
instruct them how 10 vote though
living in the heart of the freest re-
public in history. II the $4,000 votes
could be martialed for self-protection.
they might be balance Of power.k
which would have a mighty influence
on restoring civil rights as American
citizens even 10 all of Washington:
William Tyler Page. chief clerk OF
the House, is the president of the
State Voters Association.
the British debt settlement has not
been formally voted upon in Con
gress. there is no doubt as to it's
acceptance, ana already IneTe IS talk
of combined action by America and
Great Britain in pressing settlements
upon the other debtor nations. The
union of Great Britain and America.
holding the purse strings Of the
world, will stop war. as nothing else
has the power to do. Nations with
out money nor credit cannot make
war We loaned Great Britain only
about half as much as she loaned to
her allies. Let the English-Ameri-
can union say to the world: Pay
up. or stop your squabbles.'
President Harding comedies that
world peace, dependent upon finau
cial adjustment of the international
loans, is of more importance than
ship subsidy. SO he consents to side
track that measure of subordinate
consequence. 1t was demonstrate d.
that both measures would hardly
come to vote at this session. Al!
politics, all statesmanship--in fact
great moral principles-are compro-
mises. The American Constitution.
! itself-"the greatest piece of work
ever struck off by the hand Of man.
according to Gladstone-is the mos,
conglomerate compromise ever put
together by practical politicians.
That, in substance, is what Lord
Bryce says of it. There is some diff
ference between manly firmHess" and
''pigheaded stubbornness." The first
is when we agree with the firmness !
and the second is when we disagree
Copyright. P. V. Collins. 1927