Evening star., 1923-08-25
CAPITAL KEYNOTES
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS

rested that it might pay to change
stamp issues quite often.
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All the airplane transcontinental
letters which are being carried now
in the five-day preliminary test of the
new twenty eight t-hour schedule are
going for cents, for the phila-
| telists monopolized the entire output
| OF the new airplane 8, 16 and "A cent
, stamps. When the service is regu-
| larly scheduled, the postage Will run
| according to zones-like parcel post
cents from New York to Chicago, or
| intermediate points, 16 cents to Chey-
enne and "a cents to the coast.
SteinmetZ. the electric wizard.
,, prophesies will come within a CEN
tury. when nobody will have to work
| much, has already come to Capt. Pat
rick Irving O'Hay. Capt. OHay had
been given golden meal ticket by
the Society of Restaurateurs of New
York, which ticket entitled him to a
free meal. anywhere, at any time.
Just why he was to be fed up free is
not part OF this story. He was.
I Then he and a friend, travelling
westward. took a hobo into his fiiv-
yer. Would tramp appreciate free
meal, anywhere, all the time?-yes.
| The tramp stole the golden ticket,
and now Patrick would change his
name, either to .Dinnis' or Tan
talus." Mr.. Tantalus was a son of
Zeus. entitled to nectar and ambrosia
all his eternal life, but for some Of
fense was sentenced to Hades. where
he had to stand in the middle of d
lake whose waters receded from him
when he would drink, and where
fruit evaded his reach when he would
eat. Three times a day this modern
, Tantalus now finds his golden ticket
just out OF his reach.
When the Steinmetz millennium ar
rives. shall We all have golden meal
tickets?
The way of the transgressor is GO
; ing to be harder than ever. when the
, international system of chasing him
is completed which is being perfected
/ under the direction of William J.
Burns, director OF the United States
bureau of investigation. 1t consists
primarily OF an agreement with the
secret services of England, France,
Italy, Germany, Spain, the Neither
! lands and many smaller countries.
whereby all these secret services will
act as one IN detecting international
fugitives from justice.
According to the detectives this
will be worth as much to civilization
as the most enthusiastic advocates of
, internationalism have ever claimed
for their special plans. whether for
league or court. There will no
longer be "cities of refuge" for
thieves, murderers or defaulters. AS
every civilized nation is at war with
criminals. all such nations are nat
ural allies in the fight against crime.
/ Their mutual alliance in the fight
strengthens each and all.
There have been men without
country, but 1T remained for a con-
gressman to become a man of two
states at the same time. A repre-
sentative from Michigan serving the
Wolverines in Congress is officially
adjudged resident of the District
of Columbia. by court in ruling
upon his bankruptcy. The repre-
sentative is 4 legal voter in Michi
gan, has never voluntarily relin-
quished his citizenship of that state
and is in the District only officially
because he is a citizen of Michigan,
entitled to be chosen by the Michi-
gan voters to represent them in
Congress.
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Somehow il comes as surprise
that congressional privileges and i'm
munities may act in the reverse.
and trap a statesman into a citizen
ship against his choice. Is there
such thing as dual citizenship,
involving two states? II is claimed
by most authorities that no dual
citizenship as to two nations should
| be recognized, and certainly the
hyphen became unpopular enough
during the war. Now we have a
court -decreed Michigan-District- Of
Columbian. Maybe some day 1t Will
| be as necessary to accumulate hy-
phens as now it is to gather auto
mobile license tags. bas les hy-
phens.
Copyright, 1923. by Paul V. Collns.)