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tributing points at Chicago. or on the
other side to Cleveland, Erie, Con-
neaut and Buffalo. where 1t is
scooped out Of the holds by crane
shovels and loaded into cars that carry
it to the mills. BY means Of the most
expeditions methods Of handling. ore
that is in the mine on the Mesaba
range on one Monday may be on the
stock dump at Pittsburgh or Youngs.
town ON the following Monday.
When this range was located" it
was wild country. The development Of
the mines, Of course, brought settle
ments which became towns and cities.
Where Hibbing now stands was a few
decades ago virtually a wilderness.
Now the city is to be moved bodily be-
cause the mining operations require
the excavation Of the ore lying be-
meath it. and as the Supreme Court
now by its negation affirms, the min
ing rights are paramount to the build
ing rights.
The fact that this body Of ore lies so
near the surface is what necessitates
of the settlements
above. In the region of deeper mines
there are no such needs. Yet in some
parts Of the coal region cities have
been moved, though not laterally. The
is often downward as set
Elements have occurred. At Scranton,
Pa, for instance, despite the fact that
by law pillars" of coal must be left in
all mining operations to support the
surface, the ground gives way &C.
casionally and houses are dropped
bodily. On the Mesaba range it is i'm
possible thus to maintain "pillars," for
the ore body is not sufficiently stable.
So that mining operations cannot be
underneath habitations.
Thus Hibbing, being in the way, must
move.
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Sculpture and Fuel.

A suit has just been started in a
White Plains, n. Y, court that may
turn in it's decision upon the relative
values of art and fuel. A celebrated
sculptor, leaving an apartment house
in New York city at the beginning OF
last summer, stored in the basement a
collection of busts, statues and models,
life masks and studies. During the
summer the owner Of the apartment
was fortunate enough to secure a
large supply OF coal. which was
dumped into the basement, much, the
sculptor now AYERS, to the detriment
of the art collection. In his bill Of
particulars in the suit for 100000
amages-which he says is only one
fifth of the real loss-the sculptor de-
clares that a bust Of Lincoln was
broken to bits, Thomas Jefferson lost
for a memorial statue was reduced to
the semblance Of the Venus OF Milo
minus her head, a statue OF E. ii.
Sothern as Hamlet was decapitated,
Horace Greeley was sadly discolored,
Nathan Hale lost everything but his
head and two models Of Pocahontas
were reduced to dust.
At the present state OF the fuel sup
ply there may be somewhat less OF
sympathy for the artist than in nor
NAL times Probably the tenants Of the
apartment now feel that their comfort
is Of higher value than the art collec-
ton. The landlord declares that the
collection was left in the basement at
the sculptor's risk. The latter holds
that ne had no expectation that the
coal supply would overflow the usual
bounds. Thus a nice question Is pre-
sented to the court in the determine
ton Of which art values and coal val
ues may be scrupulously weighed.
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Decided Ships Silver Unsuited
For Souvenirs for Home Folks

would mention it anyway, ThanN
you
The next day the captain appeared
again.
Gentlemen" he announced tr1-
umphantly, Il am glad to announce
that the inventory was wrong. There
are only seven spoons missing nov
and they will probably turn up all
right
Gen. Stephan did not commit him
self when asked whether he was on"
OF those who wanted to send home 4
souvenir" but he did say, in ex-
planation. that the men thought that
it was silver that belonged to tia
Germans and that ii would make
fine tokens for the home-folks
When the Leviathan finally arrived
in the Irish sea. having been joined
by a convoy of twelve British de-
stroyers. she had passed through
three days of rough weather. Waves
fifty and sixty feet high broke over
! the ship and no man was allowed to
! take off his clothes or life preservcr
| TIE men felt that nothing was NOR"
/ desirable than nights sleep aud
were looking forward to il when they
Their distress can easily be imag-
! ined when the captain of the escort
| ing tug told the captain Of the lie
viathan that you don't anchor It
all-follow me-"
| Two doughboys were standing near
| Gen. stephan.
Now amt that hard luck" one or
| them said, that fellar ought to
know that we have all been up for
! three days and nights"
| Il know why he said that" the
| other vouchsafed, who had spent
most of his life inland. "If this big
! tub anchored we would pull the
whole British Isle into the ocean.
| You can't anchor this here ship.
| His first experience with a.
raid Gen. Stephan describes as roi-
| lows
another officer and I had gotten
| permission to go to London. We Sc
lected the Regent-Palace Hotel and
| the clerk informed us that no rooms
were available. We pleaded with
| him and finally he gave us room
on the top floor. On reaching that
| eminence we were surprised to find
| that no other rooms were occupied.
The bellboy. on being questioned. an7
| nounced that only fools and Amer
/ leans were willing to sleep up here. :
That night there was q raid ard
! the building next Ia the hotel MS
| shattered. The general said that he
! could easily. understand why to0
4 floors in London hotels were not in
demand. The bomb dropped within
200 feet of their window.
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ECHOES FROM CAPITOL Hill,
DEVASTATION OF AMERICAN


DEVASTATION OF AMERICAN
FORESTS.
1t is estimated that Ave millions
Of acres Of forests in the United
States are cut and ten millions of
acres are burned annually.
Our government has done less than
any civilized country in the world to-
ward conservation of our forests and
the adoption of a comprehensive and
wise policy of reforestation.-Sena
Harrison, Mississippi, democrat
FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
MAKING MONEY.
As I understand the purpose and
object of the federal reserve system,
it was never intended to be set up
as money-making institution. That
is what it has been turned into, how
ever, money-making institution,
and an Institution to provide funds
for lavish expenditures in the way
of building palaces in New York and
other cities, in the way of paying ex-
orbitant salaries, salaries which are
indefensible. The American
people, who have necessarily to do
banking business, have been reQuir-
ed to contribute money to carry on
these extravagant and high-handed
expenditures. Senator TrammeI,
Florida, democrat,
EFFICIENCY BUREAU EFFICIENT.
1 know of no agency of the gov
ernment which, in proportion to the
amount of money appropriated for 1t,
saves to the government what this
bureau does.-Senator Smoots Utah,
republican.
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EDITORIAL DIGEST

than there would be in sending free
postage stamps from the bureau of
engraving and printing OF free pennies
from the United States Treasury" and
the practice. according to the Peters
burg NaO Progress and Index
Appeal. from being merely ridiculous
mad become a scandal"
The original purpose of this seed
distribution was comendable enough"
the Springfield Union SAYS. "It was
the theory that in this way the De-
partment of Agriculture could intro
duce and test out new varieties, and
for a time the theory was properly
applied" But sit takes old memories -
the New York Times replies ito recall
the time when seed distribution was
really experimental: when seeds of
new varieties of useful plants were
disseminated or the purpose of testing
them In various conditions OF climate
ana SOIL and introducing them if they
were found to be valuable" The
Times agrees with the Union that ex-
perimental distribution soon gave
way to the discovery that by liberal
ly dispensing seed to their constitu-
ents members of Congress might be
better regarded at election time
TIE Hudson Observer (Hoboken) finds
II worthy of comment that the action
eliminating free seeds "was taken by
Congress in which the agricultural
bloc has for the first time been a domi-
nant figure, and with the assistance of
innumerable lame ducks who had
proved in theirvown cases the faIlacy OF
the theory that free seed were potent
vote-getters. On the other hand, the
Chicago News feels that 'ff the budget
bureau is responsible for the ringing
down OF the curtain on the free-seed
farce, as some representatives affirm,
then the bureau deservs the gratitude
OF all taxpayers who detest graft and
humbug."
While '-to an age that war expendi-
lures have taught to think in terms of
billions the saving Of a mere third of a
million in government expenses may
not seem imposing" yet the PhiIadeI-
phia Bulletin holds that ''every dollar
Of needless expenditure that can be
eliminated counts" and "the saving of
s36o.o00 which the dropping Of a free
seed item from the government agricul-
tural appropriation makes is worth
while" Admittedly the amount in
volved has not been large" the st.
Joseph News-Press agrees, but Con-
gress has rarely succeeded in buying so
much disrespect for SO little money:
and the Utica Press adds, "when all the
other costs Of this little political play
are figured in''-such as clerk hire and
transportation costs-'probably a mill
lion dollars are saved to the Treasury
by this elimination
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A City to Be Moved.

Yesterday the Supreme Court of the
United States, in dismissing an appeal
for want of jurisdiction, in effect gave
authorization for the removal of a city
Of Il 5000 Inhabitants. This is Hibbing.
MIMI, located on the "Mesaba range"
from which immense quantities of iron
orc have been taken in the past for
use by the largest steel corporation.
This body of ore extends over a wide
radius 1t was discovered a good many
years ago, but was not then regarded
as Of special value, as it was not Of
the kind that yielded to the methods
of treatment then in vogue. When
certain furnace improvements were
effected, and process was developed
that permitted the use of this particu-
lar ore, it became of great value, es-
pecially as it is of friable character
and can be mined with steam shovels.
The ore body lies so close to the sur
face that stripping" half a dozen feet
I'd the top soil and loose rock cover
ing It permits the introduction q ina
ezrtnery for excavation.
This great range, almost Of solid
bra. has been one OF the marvels Of
American Industrial development The
ore Is scooped out by powerful shovels.
loaded directly into ore cars which are
run in long trains down the hill' to
Duluth, about sixty miles distant, and
there dumped into immense hopper
docks. from which it descends by
gravity into the holds of great steam
ers built particularly for this traffic.
They carry it. dow. thaeAakes-4n-diss
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Is GERMANY Armed2

In a dispatch printed in The Star
yesterday from Berlin it was noted
that in some conservative circles in
Germany regret was expressed for the
leniency Of the cabinet in dealing with
the anti-republican leaders who, it ap-
pears, are doing their best to stir the
masses in favor Of a new war Of re-
venge against France. The following
quotation from the Deutsche Zeitung
was reproduced as an example of the
openness Of the campaign for a mo-
archical reaction:
Now is the time to get your rifles
and ammunition out of hiding places
and kick the French out of the Ruhr
and the Rhinelands.
How many rifles are there in secret
hiding places in Germany? That ques-
tion is really at the root Of the present
problem precipitated by the French
move into the Ruhr. Has Germany a
secret army? Is there a latent force
there available on call for an attack
sufficient to turn back the French and
perhaps conduct another invasion?
Much has been said during the past
two years about this "secret army"
1t has been asserted that the terms Of
the Versailles treaty in respect to the
delivery Of arms and munitions have
not been met by the Germans. that
they have withheld great stores Of
ammunition and vast numbers OF
rifles, and even quantities Of larger
arms; that they have tanks in hiding
and airplanes in the making, and ex-
plosives in storage sufficient to main
tain an aggressive campaign. On the
other hand, the count Of deliveries has
seemed to tally fairly closely with the
known military resources Of Germany
at the time the armistice was signed.
Observers have been stationed through
out Germany to note the deliveries and
also the possibilities Of secret war
preparation, and according to the re-
ports that have been published there
is no ground to believe that it would
be possible for Germany to equip
great force.
In point Of personnel Germany is, of
course. capable Of creating an army.
All the ablebodied survivors of the war
are available for service. The basis of
a war organization is present. great
numbers of officers are within call to
command and train force. But an
army consists Of more than personnel,
and without arms, ammunition and
other material the German fighting
force will be a helpless mass.
1t is known that the French at
least profess to believe that Germany
has concealed a large quantity OF war
munitions and that the industrial es-
tablishments have been secretly at
work in making more. The other al
lied powers do not agree with this
hypothesis. The French move into the
Ruhr has been doubtless actuated
largely by the French fear Of an early
if not an immediate revival OF Ger
man militarism. The fact that up to
this time the German resistance has
been of a purely passive nature does
not in itself answer the question. Ger
tainly the fndiscreet publication such
as that which has been quoted will
serve to strengthen the French belief
that Germany is, in fact, prepared or
is now preparing for military move
whether in monarchical reaction or in
direct aggressive antagonism against
the present invaders.
Evening star., 1923-01-23
Street Lighting Needs.

In the course Of a discussion last
evening by the Mid-city Citizens AS
sociation OF the question of made
quacy Of street illumination in Wash
ington suggestion was made that as a
means of preventing accidents at night
lamps should be placed in the middle
OF the street intersections to throw
light upon all parts Of the crossings.
This suggests that perhaps better
ways can be found than the present
for dispelling the darkness at the
points Of greatest danger. During the
time Of foliage the lights on the sides
are shadowed by the trees, whereas a
center light, such as that proposed,
would illumine the pavement without
obstruction.
At present at night drivers are quite
unable to see persons in the streets
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The Cat-The Snake and King
Melenik Lived-Free Seeds
Are Dead

DlSregarding the warning of the
St Joseph (Mo.) News-Press to re
member how many times King Me-
ienik died. how many lives the cat
has and how, when you cut a snakes
head off at sundown 1t is apt to
snoop around and find the body by
morning." the editors of the country
are acclaiming. with marked alb
sence OF sentiment or regret, the
passing of that great American in
stitution." congressional free seeds
Unwept, unhonored and unsung, the
free-seed graft" has been definitely
killed for at least as long as the en-
suing fiscal year, and in editorial
opinion. as the Buffalo News puts It,
for a Congress that has little to
its credit" the elimination of free
seed may be counted one of its big
gest achievements"
1T was a little thing" the Gin
furnished the plot and stage setting
for the great national comedy on
which the curtain has now descend
ed-"just a franked envelope con-
tanning Seed" yet. lit had a touch Of
sentiment: because. as a rule, it could
you lived in an, apartment never
prevented your representative in
Washington from sending you little
punches of crop suggestions" 1t
was not his concern that the seeds
were born to blush unseen, to be
sown in an unsympathetic waste
basket" for the object of the seeds.
after all, was to raise votes, and
you were on the list"
The Wheeling Register raises a
lone voice to declare that much
sport" as has been made "of con-
gressional seeds. seeds a seed for
a. that" and the paper regrets their
passing, because they represented
all that thousands upon thousands
ever got out of being good American
citizens and paying their taxes for
government Congressional seeds
were appreciated and used to a
greater extent than it is thought"
"Of course, there was always a
clamor for them," the New York
Tribune answers, "as there is for any
thing that is free, but there was no
more reason for sending them out
Evening star., 1923-01-23
Washington Observations
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

Somebody in st. Louis named d. l.
Wells, who doesn't like Smith W.
brookhart, the new senator from
Iowa, Is flooding Washington with a
Itwenty-six-page booklet entitled "The
Beginning OF a Record for a United
States Senator" 1t is a caustic analy-
sis OF Mr.. Brookhart's campaign
speech at Des Moines on Labor day,
1922. particularly Of the views he ex-
pressed on the transportation act and
the federal reserve law. A note ac-
companying the booklet and signed by
Mr.. Wells says:
Van Iowa friend has Just called my
attention to the quality of this new
member OF the Senate as exhibited
at length in the speech that evidently
pleased the voters of his state. and
! am taking the liberty of sending 1t
10 you. Is 1t an indication of what
.ne future of the Senate is to be?
iron or Ignorance. reckless assertion
and MISREPRESENTATION, it certainly is
unique"
x X *
Louis F. Post, who was assistant
secretary of labor throughout both
Wilson administrations, is looking
Tor a publisher, He has prepared a
45o-paged manuscript called THE De-
portations Delirium of 1920" dealing
with the "red" crusade carried on dn
that year with such vigor by Attorney
General Mitchell Palmer Mr.. Post
and Mr.. Palmer, as all the world
Will remember, did not see eye to eye
on that acrimonious subject. To date
Mr.. Post confesses, his search for a
printing house willing to produce his
book has outrivaled Diogenes' cele-
brated quest for an honest man. He
remains invincibly hopeful his opus
VIII yet burst upon the reading world
1t consists to considerable extent
or official but hitherto unpublished
data.
x *.x*
A distinguished American who was
member of our peace mission at
Paris says it was a matter of au-
thenticated knowledge that Germany
not only intended levying stupendous
indemnities on the allied and asso-
ciated powers, but had fixed the sums
each should disgorge. The United
States was down on the kaisers little
list for s35,ooO.o0o. 900. or 14o, 900, ,ooO,-
600 gold marks. France was to pay,
In addition to the transfer Of one
or two of her eastern provinces. s4o,-
000,000,000, or 16O.000.o00,OO0 gold
marks. Great Britain was to hand
over her navy, mercantile marine and
the pick of her oversee dominions. In
1915, 1916 and 1917, when German
war fortunes were at the zenith. DR.
Helferich, then German finance min
lister, periodically buoyed up Teutonic
hopes by painting pictures of the
'kolossal" indemnities the vanquished
foes would pay.
X x X
Some OF the contributors to the ex-
tension fund of the Garfield Memorial
Hospital in Washington hope ways
and means may be found to perpetu-
ate the memory OF Adolphus S. Solo
mons. He was great admirer of
James A. Garfield and is widely cred
tied with having launched the move
ment to found a hospital in honor
or the martyred President SoIomons
was Washington printer and pub
Usher. One of his bosom friends was
the grand old man OF the State De-
partment, Alva A. Adee, second as
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until they are very close upon them.
This is true especially OF people stand
ing or moving near the curbs in the
residential portions of the city. Their
shadows blend with the shade cast by
the tree trunks, and they may sud-
denly appear in the path Of a machine
without warning.
Centered lamp posts are naturally
Objectionable on the score Of their OBJ
sruction to traffic. But in the present
conditions they may serve as aids or
guides. The traffic rule requires a full
right-hand turn on the outside Of the
midpoint Of an intersection, and in
some cases bumps" have been es-
tablished to insure such turns. A post
might serve as a more effective
marker for this purpose by day, and
afford at night better illumination than
is now given by the corner lamps.
This subject should be given the
fullest study not merely as a matter
of traffic regulation and accident pre-
vention, but for the sake of a better
lighted city. Washington is not up to
the mark in this respect. 1t has sew
eral kinds of street lamps, and a va
riety Of styles does not conduce to
evenness of illumination. The less
powerful lamps are by peculiar mis-.
fortune located in the more remote
parts of the city where, in fact, bet
ter illumination is requisite.
There should be one style Of lamps
throughout the city, and one standard
of light power, and that standard the
highest possible. Economy in respect
to street illumination is the poorest
sort, and leads to loss. suffering, crime
and even to death in the streets.
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sistant secretary Of state, who is in
his fifty-third consecutive year In our
diplomatic service. When Charles
Dickens visited Washington Solomons
mons was a republican wheelhorse
and always active in G.. o. p. poll
tics. His daughter, Miss Aline Solo
mons, is a well known Washington
artist.
Japanese newspapers recently ar
rived in America exhibit some excite
ment over a visit to China and Korea
by Ambassador Warren of Toxic. 1t
appears to be the first time on record
that any American diplomatic repre-
sentative in Japan has gone to China
Wild rumors accompanied Mr.. War
rem on his travels. The most cir
cumstantial tale was, that while he
was in Kwantung Province (the new
bone of contention between China
and Japan) he proposed that the
South Manchurian railway should be
fnternationaliZed and half it's share
capital offered to foreign investors.
Both the ambassador and the Toxic
foreign office issued categorical denials
OF that story. The American envoy
paid his respects. while at Seoul, to
Korea Admiral Baron Saito, and was
quoted as saying that the Koreans
have never been happier than at
present" Harsh assertions to the
contrary occasionally creep into the
Congressional Record in Washington.
Canada's new railway king, though
he wears the handle of British
knighthood to his name-Sir Henry
w. Thornton, K. b. Els an Ameri-
can of the most unmistakable home
grown type. He halls from the noble
town of Logansport, Ind; went to
school at st Paurs. Concord, n. H.,
and was graduated from the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania. Thornton
had a remarkable record during the
war in Great Britain. whittier he
manager of the great eastern rail-
way There was tremendous
hubbub' when the directors Of that
vast enterprise hired Thornton. All
Britain rocked with indignation over
their explanation that they sent to
the Long Island branch OF the Penn
sylvania railroad for a general man
ager because there wasn't anybody
In John Bulls islands big enough for
their job. Thornton became a tenn
British army in 1917, a major-general
two years later and ended up by be-
ing inspector-general of transporta-
tion. He's whale OF a man, stand
ing feet 4 inches I'm his stocking
feet. Canada has made him president
of the new Canadian national railway
system.
X X X X
Country cousins are bitterly disil-
lusioned when they visit the halls
of Congress and find the floors, where
statesmen are supposed to congre-
gate, conspiouously empty. Take
Monday of this week, Senator Cara
way Of Arkansas was addressing the
Senate In the dulcet cadences of his
native southwest and working him
self into a fairly fine frenzy over
Secretary Weeks denunciation Of the
Harbord retirement-pay affair Ex-
actly ten senator's We're present Not
more than six were listening. -Four
were republicans: the rest, democrats.
Seeing WaShingto visitors, attracted
Capltolward by news broadcasted
through the country that the Senate
would open the week with an an
Initiating barrage on the admins
tratoTs foreign policy. found the
chamber listleSsness incarnate