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Evening star., 1923-02-11
Exit ArbuckIe.

TOW could - smart = man as Will
i i Hays make the mistake Of trying
to let Roscoe Arbuckle out on parole
and into tho moving pictures? Old
communications with the gentlemen
who have their money invested in Mr..
ArbuckIe's artistic triumphs corrupt
tho usual good manner of a Presby-
terian elder. like Will Hays, or did he
Just let his sympathies overcome his
judgmentf The blast Of indignation
from the folks must have given pause
TO the whole movie world Here was
tho force that put the pop in vex-
populi and that jabbed the cense in
the censors. Higher than state movie
boards, above the gentlemen's agree
nent Of the Movie Producers Union,
over tho wrangling Of editors with
their dull but noisy pros and cons,
rose this mad blast of the folks. 1t
left no doubts about the status of
Mr.. Arbuckle.
He is Kapoet, aucgespieI. blown up,
busted and bedamned. The unofficial
censorship of an outraged people
worked. It Is not a question of the
conviction or acquittal of Mr.. Ar
buckle of the legal offense with which
he was ofiicially~ charged. That had
little to do with 1t. He was caught
in q drunken orgie;. and americans
do not permit drunken orgies IL their
OamnA VhAA = 1a 09a8 49,
Evening star., 1923-02-11
Only Obstructive Debate i'm the Senate
Stands in Way of Passage of Ship Bill

harbors bill if it exceeded the sum fixed by
the budget, butythe solons on the hill were
too wise to send up to him such measure
and put the items on bill which they telt
sure he could not afford to veto, as it would
necesstate an extraordinary session of Con-
gress.
If a proposal is ever officially made to the
Congress to vest in the executive the power
to single out items and provisions OF bills
for Veto it will meet a storm of opposition
1t is recognized by many that there is logic
in the proposal that the executive might fnd
in a general act some Objectionable feature,
the main body of the act being acceptable,
and it might be well to give authority to lift
it out.
But with appropriations it is held to be
different. The Congress is exceedingly jeal-
Gus of its control of the public funds, vested
in it by the Constitution Of the United
States, along with the power to make war
and declare peace That jealousy was re-
sponsble for the long delay in creating the
budget system, now generally accepted as
being a wonderfully salutary provision. But
Congress still retains the right to "say the
last word" even against the most earnest and
budget which takes wide survey of all the
necessities of the government
X X X X
Senator Hiram Johnson has taken the
field in an aggressive fight for his plan for
the nomination of presidential candidates by
primaries When he goes into fight he goes
in with vim, vigor and earnestness, and does
not mnce words.
Taking his own party, the republican
organization, as showing the evils of the
present convention system, as he views 1t,
he said this system is little short of out
rageous" He charged that combination OF
southern states, where he said there is no
republican party, with northern states,
where there is no honest expression OF
opinion" enables republican national con-
vention to register the choice of few IN
stead of the will of the majority.
A number of legislatures are in session at
this time and Senator Johnson's strong ar
raignment of the existing system of ncminat-
ing and plea for a reform is expected to have
important effect upon the efforts to enact
state legislation to that end
Evening star., 1923-02-11

the board signed the unanimous report. 1t
was recommended by the administration of
the party in power, passed by the House,
which is supposed to be closest to the people
and direct representatives and exponents of
the popular will.
Yet it is now facing strangulation in the
of life and death.
y X X *
With only eighteen legislative days re-
naming for action upon these and other i'm
portant bills, the time between now and
March 4 will be fully occupied, and night
sessions of Congress are in prospect. The
last of the main supply bills has passed the
Senate, the Army appropriation bill having
gone through without encountering the diff
cuities apprehended. There was fly in the
ointment for the economists, however, in the
retention and increase by the Senate of the
appropriations put on by the House for
rivers and harbors appropriations
Here is the point, having bearing upon
the clash between Congress and the bureau
Of the budget in the control and disburse
ment of the public funds, forecasting, it is
said at the Capitol, possible policy for the
future. The budget will propose, the Con-
gress will dispose. For rivers and harbors
improvements the budget recommended in
round numbers $27,Ooo,OOo The House, in its
wisdom, raised the appropriation to $780,
600.
Along came the Senate, and, in effect,
said "Why, neither of you know all about
rivers and harbors; let's take the suggestion
of the Army engineers, who know all about
the necessities" and promptly raised the
amount to s5o,UO,OOO, the recommendation
of the engineers.
1t is considered pretty safe bel that the
House conferees will yield to the superior
judgment of the engineers-especially as it
gives more money for the Improvements.
X X \ X
President Harding is represented as being
disturbed by this prospective overriding OF
the budget and to wish that he had the
power to single out this one item of the
Army bill for veto, leaving the vital and
necessary provisions of the appropriation
act intact. He would not hesitate, it is
thought, to veto an individual rivers and
Evening star., 1923-02-11
SO Disputes Settled
by Labor Department

Adjustments were reached in thirty
six of flfty-two labor disputes brought
to the attention of the conciliation
division in January, the Labor De-
partment announced yesterday in maxi
ing public report by Hugh l.. Kerwin.
director of conciliation. OF the fifty
two disputes forty-four were strikes
and eight were controversies which
did not involve cessation of produc-
tion. Adjustments were reported in
three other cases in January, these
being cases pending from December,
and sixteen disputes were left on the
docket of the conciliation division.
The majority of the labor disputes
listed were caused by attempted wage
reductions averaging about 20 per
cent in tho granite industry. About
10000 workers were affected by dis
putes arising during January, tho
largest number in any one strike
being 5000 New York garment
a
Evening star., 1923-02-11
BY N. O. MESSENGER.

~ ASSAGE by the House of the British
- funding debt bill by vote of 2ol to
l. a last Friday served to encourage
the friends of the measure and the
administration leaders in Congress to ex-
pect speedy favorable action by the Senate.
The fact that sixty-three democrats voiced
their approval of the legislation was con-
strued as being significant of important sup
port from the minority in the upper body.
The House refrained from attaching a SOL
dier's bonus amendment to the BILL indica-
tive, it was construed of recognition by the
House of the prime Importance of the pend
ing bill and necessity for its enactment into
law at this session.
An interesting feature of the proceedings
in the House was the hearty support of the
bill by the lone socialist member, Meyer Lon
don of New York In two or three minute
speech he outlined his ideas of the deep i'm
port of the legislation. He called it the "out-
standing act of this Congress-" Having cast
his vote against war, and lived through its
sorrows, he rejoiced in the opportunity to
vote for a measure which will help to pro-
mote international understanding and the
peace of the world" 1t was more than an
invitation to all the nations to pay their
debts; it was "a plea to the distracted nations
to recognize each others difficulties and to
mutually liqudate their indebtedness. It is
giant step forward, this settlement of the
debt between Great Britain and this coun-
try
The friends in the Senate OF the bill can
not see how it will be possible to make a
party issue over it, and, in the absence of
partisanship cannot contemplate the defeat
of the legislation.
x * X x
This week will witness the final effort to
pass the ship aid bill, with the odds recog-
nized to be against it, in the circumstances
Here is the situation in nutshell: It Is
admitted that if vote could be obtained it
would command majority in the Senate
Under the Senate rules governing debate
and admitting of unlimited dilatory tactics,
minority can stave off vote indefinitely.
1t is of minority rule instead of
majority rule. The bill was framed by a
bipartisan board and every democrat on
Evening star., 1923-02-11
Attempt to Unionize Coal Field
May Bring on Industrial Clash

mine workers regard him as a man Of
unusual resourcefulness and courage
and predict that this time, under his
leadership. West virginia's non-union
coal fields will yield to organization.
Mingo. Logan, Mcdowell, Mercer and
New River are fellows Spbjectives.
These fields produce tho bulk of West
virginie's non-union coal. During
a single year the mine workers spent
more than 100000 in a vain at
tempt to unionize them. Hundreds of
men have been killed in the various
efforts to convert them to unionism.
In the union coal fields operators
are signing labor contracts based on
the agreement reached at New York
between Ohio, Indiana and Illinois
operators and the union. Within the
week agreements have been signed to
cover ths aalda In ASlnnSss. Mssouz4
Evening star., 1923-02-11
BY HARDEN COLFAX.

The first big industrial clash of 1928
is expected to materialize within the
next thirty days in the non-union
coal fields of West Virginia, where
the United Mine Workers of America
apparently are contemplating another
gigantic drive to bring the $4,000
workers there into the union ranks.
The latest attempt to unionize West
Virginia coal fields, which have stood
out for more than twenty-five years,
is said by operators to be under the
personal direction of Percy Tetlow,
formerly statistician of the mine
workers organization, who is at
Charleston at the present time. Tet-
low, during the war commanded q
machine gun company dubbed the
suicide squad because Of the numer-
GUS fatalities within its ranks Tue
Evening star., 1923-02-11
Cost of Printing
Congress Debates

Those who really believe that talk
is cheap" should stop and consider
that it cost Uncle Sam $713, 3,085.79 last
year to print the Congressional Rec
ord, which carries verbatim all de-
bates in Congress, and which is an
increase Of $212,92s.34 over the year
1921 and a decrease Of $180,132.73 from
the high-water mark Of 1920. which
was established by the Sixty-sixth
Congress. The total cost Of printing
the Record for the four years 191s-22
inclusive, was $2.644.104.o1. or an
average Of $s61.o2s a year.
They should realize, too. that talk
in the House or Senate over the
economies that have been effected
through the partisan boasting Of re-
publican or democratic members
really runs up the expense.
The government printing ONCE
which cost $11.130,456.71 for opera
tion last year, was established pri-
marily for printing the congressional
debate. some sixty years ago. and the
Congresa onal Record is still the big
gest and most costly publication.
Although only 32.7o0 copies are
printed of the daily Record and about
$500 sets bound of the permanent
Record, the publication is exceedingly
expensive, owing to its great bulk. A
single days proceedings often makes
from 5Sto 100 printed pages, all OF
which have to be set, printed and de-
livered in the twelve hours between
pm. and am. of the same night
The Record for the first and second
sessions of the Sixty-seventh Con-
gress, most of which was printed
during the fiscal year 1922, makes
'27,050 type pages, as compared with
37.501 pages for the preceding year.
A saving has just been effected OF
from $4,000 to $4,000 a year by
changing the style of binding the per-
manent Record from half russia
leather and paper-covered sides te
full buckram, which 10, In fact Z
more 6mAb1o cnA4a11aA
Evening star., 1923-02-11
Page Mr.. AIencken.

THE Puritan spirit has appeared in
l. a new quarter. No sooner does
Henry Mencken get the hose Of his
wrath playing on America with some
show Of putting out the blaze of
Puritanism threatening to consume
the place than Spain bursts out In
Puritan flame. Spain has little OF
the Pilgrim blood in her veins, where
in flows tho proud Castilian suds.
But Spain is getting up Volstead
law for King Alfonso and refuses to
allow him to go to the Riviera or to
some other such branch line of the
we'll known primrose. path abhorred
by all Puritans. It seems the last
time Alphonso went down the popu,-
lar path he forgot his chains and
skidded a lot. So Spain prohibits the
Riviera and Alphonso stays at home.
Prohibition prohibits.
Now we shall delight to see Henry
Mencken lining up with the royal
bootlegger Of moro or less guilty joy.
His announcement of the straight
laced Puritaas, the long-nosed boob
cry Of tho busted community that
once ruled tho world, will give us all
Joy. In q dreary world nothing is so
meilinuous as the yips and yoddles
Of the unrighteous rage which Mr..
Mencken releases when he sees a
Puritan. And Puritan in a red sash
with whalebone stays holding up his
trousers and a ten-gallon hat over
his raven-black hair. a Puritan with
a guitar playing the Spanish fan
dango or the "Siege Of Sevastoph," a
Puritan with castenets and dancing
pumps refusing to let a poor, bored
King 20 out for q little harmless re-
taxation with the girls. will excite
Mr.. Mencken to a warwhoop that will
sound like a fire wagon singing a
duet with q trip hammer.
Evening star., 1923-02-11
= ARIOUS states are passing
laws directed at the Ku Klux
Khan and the laws seek to
check the khan by prohibitin,

it's meetings. AS a matter OF fact the
evils Of the khan result only Incident
ally from it's meetings. The evil of
the khan comes from two things: First,
the fact that any lame brain can be a
klansman IL he has money to pay the
organizer. Their organizer is an itin-
Grant peddler of bigotry, not in the
least responsible for the deeds of the
khan: he only recruits and organizes,
50 he Is chiefly interested in his or
ganization fee. That slack interest
naturally brings a lot Of fools into
tho order. Now the second source Of
evil Is that no check is provided any
where in the khan code for what the
fools may decide to do. 1t IS not the
leaders OF tho khan, but the official
heads with ridiculous titles, who are
to blame for the crimes Of the khan.
Generally tho crimes Of the khan are
planned and executed without the con-
sent and frequently without the
knowledge Of the terrors and kIeagles
and furies and .hobgoblins ana other
elected officers Of the khan. These
crimes arc not subjects discussed in
meetings. and to prevent khan meet
ings will not check khan crimes.
For the crimes Of tho khan are con-
ceived and committed by the irrespon-
sibles brought together by the greedy
organiser, keen for his fee. This cror
OF noisy dullards which tho organizer
gamers, are protected by the khan
oath which binds other fools to them
And the second and third rate minds
in any khan, emboldened by the pro-
lection Of the khan oath. and encour-
ageo in their Vaccinations by the
| inlbecility Of their associated fools
batch up folly unharnpered by the
natural restraint OF their leaders.
Hence, tho barbaric stupidities OF
he khan. These harbarlties always
| have occurred where second and third
rate minds have power and tho klar
oath gives towards courage and sc
engenders power. In legislatins
against the khan, 1t Is not the formal
meetings that should be checked, the
more Of them tho merrier. Indeed they
remove tho tragic potentialities OF q
mob spirit. But In the little side
meetings, in tho unofficial cabals. In
t,he conspiracies and In the barnyard
intrigues Of tho khan lie its danger
to society. The unchecked congrega-
ton of boys and mealy minded men
breeds the danger Of the khan.
And until the rash flames Of big
otry burn themselves out the danger
to orderly progress is genuine ir
America For tho khan by its organ
ization Is a mob breeder. It recruits
ma, NJ thA rnob mind. then by hordins
them together under a protecting oath
breathes into them the mob courage
naa6o8 ~ Oca A0010
Evening star., 1923-02-11
''AS I SEE IT."
By WiIIiar, Allen White.

Note.-In publishing this ar
ticle by the brilliant editor OF
the Emporia Gazette, The Star
does not necessarily. indorse the
views he expresses. But Mr..
White brings to the discussion
of current events a fertile mind
and an entertaining style, and
discriminating public will
place It's own valuation upon
the opinion he advances
Evening star., 1923-02-11
The Uses Of Ambiguity.

CWEET are the uses Of ambiguity!
y The Rev. Percy Grant had his
, say. The bishop saved his face. The
church is relieved Of q schism- making
heresy trial, and religious dogma may
move up q peg. 1t may be accepted
as good orthodox doctrine now that q
man may deny tho actual physical
fact Of the Immaculate Conception OF
Jesus in a Protestant church without
losing his church membership. The
whole question between the pastor
and the bishop resolves itself into
difference in words. The preacher
clearly believes in the divinity of the
Christ, but not His Deity.
The bishop holds for both. but il
not going to be too fnical about Ian
guage. What" he seems to say, "is
a Deity more or less between friends y
And SO the controversy ends. But
it lacks the conventional happy end
ing in that the fellow does not marry
the girl. This would never do for a
movie scenario where q clinch end
ing is required by all the canons of
the art. But in the church 1t is diff
ferent.
In the meantime the fact that q
man may preach "Christ and Him
Crucifled'' in an orthodox pulpit
without bothering much about the
miracles attendant upon His birth,
His life. His death or resurrection,
Is tho gain that comes with tho pro-
test, Of the parson. That is some
thing Of . good gain in fact. The
1do0fa08 a Lid H6012
Evening star., 1923-02-11

pears they proceed to throw ex-
amplary fits. 1t will do no good to
argue with the people 1t does little
good to 1ibe at them. They will have
their fits and men like Mr.. Arbuckle
who get into the midst of these popu-
lar demonstration of public approval
can do nothing better than to fade
out Of the landscape.
Why then does a people that has
such easy and unmistakable spasms
of virtue demand censor? Why
cannot the American people depend
upon their capacity for cat fits to
clean the screens as they go, with
out the aid of the state?
The answer is that this is a big
country and it takes a big episode to
cause an explosion. So the people are
fear bound. They fear to trust their
individual reactions to minor in
decencies. They are timid because
they are never quito sure Of right
and wrong, unless conviction comes
to them through the official mind.
Hence the demand for tho legal cen-
sor. Hence the popular feeling that
4 OIIlCldlQO1u IluSI lOI liiOSC " III
fear to think. 1t is a condition, not a
theory, that confronts US; this timid-
ity of individual judgment in our
countrymen and being a condition the
moving picture world which does
business more generally with the un-
thinking public than does the pur-
veyor of books or newspapers, OF
painting or sculpture or of music
the moving picture world must grin
and bear it.
But anyway. we have here one
palpaole fact-the exit of the smiling
| Arbuckle. And producers who are
| investing heavily in actors or
actorites who take their morals as
| lightly as they take their tea, should
always be ready to charge off large
i sums of invested capital to profit and
| loss when their screen heroes are
! caught philandering. The highly
| moral movie artist is the only safe
| investment. And as for art-one is nc
worse than the others.
The Washington times., 1923-01-21


spies using wireless in the Chin
ney, spies signaling at night to
German submarines in the chan
mel, spies here, there and every
where.
Because so many of the usual
criminals were in khaki-many
serving with honor, too-the duties
of Scotland Yard became largely
political, which introduces most
Of the principal spies known to
history. AS an example of the
average Scotland Yard man, here
is an anecdote of one sent to Ant
werp. Bidding his family good
bye, he departed. A few days
later he asked to be permitted to
return, but before a reply could
be sent him, in he walked upon
his superior.
had your telegram, inspec-
tor, but you left your post with
out waiting for reply He bowed
in his usual courtly manner and
replied, Yes, sir; but a fifteen
inch shell took the corner off my
bedroom, sir. and don't know
how it is, but I think I am get
ting too old for sieges."
The German afr raids caused
small excitement, says Sir Basil.
London is so vast that few knew
of a raid until the newspapers
told them the details. AS efforts
to break down the British morale,
they were dire failure. So was
everything else tried in those
days.
Rather complete is Sir Basil's
story of the ilI-fated Sir Roger
Easement, who sought to invade
Ireland with German arms and
Irishmen taken from German
military prisons. Sir Roger was
the only suspect who did not sit
down in the famous armchair at
Scotland Yard. He insisted on
standing up, though once he rest
ed himself against a table.
"I made a discovery about that
low armchair" says Sir Basil.
For some time / had noticed
that when a particularly discon-
certing question was put the sus-
pect instinctively raised himself
by the arms to reply to it. My
assistant, in peace time an emf.
nent K. c., suggested one day
that I should sit in it and be
interrogated by him. 1 felt at
once an irresistible impulse to
raise my face to the level of
The Washington times., 1923-01-21
RELIGION BASIC
. IN ALL MANKIND.
SAYS AUTHOR
inherent IN Our Remote Fore
bears, Religious Faculties
Have Been Handed Down to
Present Generation.
By MAMA TAFE,

THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION
or THE IDEA OF THE SOUL.
BY Paul Lafargue. Translated
by Charles H. Kerr. Chicago:
The Washington times., 1923-01-21
Books i'm Demand

The following list represents
the books most In demand for
the past week at Brentano's
and 10 complied by Sidney
Avery, manager Of that estab-
lighment.
FICTION.
Seven Ages Of Woman,"
Compton Mackenzie.
'Homely Lila Robert Her
rick.
Anne Severn and the Field
ings," May Sinclair.
MANS Country" Peter Clark
Macfarlane.
"One of Ours VILLA Gather.
"Wanderer OF the Waste
land" Zane Grey.
NON.FICTION.
self Mastery Through Con:
scious Autosuggestion," Emile
Coue.
Practice Of Autosuggestion, /"
c. Harry Brooks.
American Individualism, =
Herbert Hoover.
1.-THE Adventure of Living, "
J. st. Loe Strachey.
my Experiences at Scotland
Yard" Sir Basil Thompson.
Perfect Behavior" Donald
Ogden Stewart.
The Washington times., 1923-01-21
Says Rome Sc
Example for Us
Roy SoNE AND THE yvoRLp ; !. To-

DAT, BY Herbert 81 Hadley
NeW 1eRkf FutpavAsa 6efe.
EoRMER Gosernor Hadley. 81
Missouri. now professor 81
law at the University u CoIo.
rado, thinks that thsrs Il I shin
ing example sst tor. the world to-
day IN the history of Rome. IEis.
latest book ID = most readable
one. without eoing into the hiu.
toricai phase of ancient tiIi,es
too extensively.
Mr.. Eadley points ont that fhe
last haIf century Of the Pa
era and the ability 81 AueuatS.
Caesar have i deadly paxs III
with conditions III tho world
day, and that close heWing to
line followed BY the Rome
which resulted in the nlaints I.
Ing OF Pax Romano for more than,
a,century. would do much 10 4
to conditions IN the world n
The two hundred years Of pe
that resulted from the ability
the Romans Ii in more "
than one analogous to the aisliGs
don created by the. world war
he contends, and the way the
dangers of that time were auc.
cessfulIy met and peace and prcss
perity secured for the world
could be used to advantaee
at the present time.
The Washington times., 1923-01-21

JOHN BASCoM. PROPHET. BY
Sanford Robinson. New York:
g. p. Putnam's 3 Sons.