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Evening star., 1923-01-16
Congress Should Aid British Debt
Mission.

These seems to be general agree
ment among American editors that
every possible assistance should be
given, not alone by the administra-
tion. but by Congress, to the British
debt adjustment commission 80 that
that particular set of obligations. at
least, can be adjusted, funded and
gotten out of the way.
Mr. Baldwin's frankness in stating
that the debt was such that il the
American law on the subject re-
manned in force it would mean $780,
100000 expense annually. which was
too great a burden for Britain at
present, leads the New York Globe
to suggest that his frankness was
to be regretted as it adds another
difficulty to an already delicate situa-
ton" The statement. however,
proves to the Sioux City Tribune
"the proposition will never down that
the questions of reparations and al
lied debts must be settled as one
problem" And it confirms the be-
lief of the Roanoke Times that ''it
is to the interest of both countries
to avoid, or at least minimize, any
resulting disturbance of exchange
in all negotiations and Congress
should do it's part az asked, because
there is pothing to be gained except
i'll will by pressing a willing but
temporarily embarrassed debtor. 1t
is much easier to say pay US what
you owe than it is to advance a def
mite, comprehensive and satisfactory
method of payment"
The question of abandoning the
debt long ago has beer disposed of.
the Philadelphia Record holds. and,
because of this fact, the British at
titude that debts which are not dis
honored and repudiated must be PAID
is pleasing. and "the funding of the
British war debt will strengthen the
credit of Great Britain in the finan-
cial markets of the world. The
Grand Rapids Herald feels that this
country must grant whatever the
final necessities Of the occasion re-
uuire. This is all the Baldwin mis-
sion asks. To ask less would be an
insult to British solvency and
relapse from the bases OF sound IN
Evening star., 1923-01-16
German Resistance Futile.

1t probably is a matter for surprise
that French occupation of the Ruhr
has been attended by no more serious
disorders than have so far been re-
ported. Human nature being as il is,
ii would have been too much to expect
the Germans to submit to the occupa-
tion without any show OF opposition,
but the French appear to be conduct
ing themselves with admirable re-
straint and moderation. 1t develops
that the incident at Bochum. where
French soldiers fired into a crowd. kill
ing one person and wounding others,
was provoked by the mob first having
fired on the French troops. A. single
vOlley seems to have been sufficient to
take the fight out of the Germans, and
the French were, content to let it go
at that.
The attitude of the German govern
ment and industrial leaders is aggra-
waiting in the extreme, and the French
apparently have no choice except
either to put the screws on tighter or
admit the failure of the adventure.
And the French. of course. are not GO
ing to admit failure this early in the
game, into whatever admissions flu
ture developments may force them.
Americans were opposed to occupation
Of the Ruhr. not because they did not
believe it was justified but because
they thought it unwise. The French
thought otherwise. and took action
which was well within their rights.
Having taken the step, they now are
doing exactly what any other self
respecting government would do in
like otrcumstances-they are trying
10 make occupation effective and thus
demonstrate the wisdom of their
course. II they are pushing into Ger.
many beyond the limits of their orig
inal announcement. it is because the
Germans are doing everything in their
power to thwart the French program.
However natural the resentment
which Germany feels. impartial OBJ
servers cannot but bslieve the Berlin
government is making a serious mis-
take, and one which is bound to result
in unnecessary injury and hardships.
The Germans certainly have mistaken
the temper of the French government
and people if they believe that the
placing of obstacles in the way of the
French program will cause the French
to abandon it. French penetration of
German territory will continue until
either results are obtained or the
French are satisfied that the impos-
sibility Of obtaining results is due to
something other than German ''pas-
sive" resistance.
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stock the yards for the summer and
fall purchases. 1t is naturally expect
| ed that with the present contract run
ming into September l large accumu-
lation of anthracite will be possible
during the spring and summer to fore
stall the possibility of a suspension
of work in September.
In this connections "a statement made
by the commission fn its report is to
be carefully considered. With refer
ence to the carriage of coal the COM
mission notes that there can be no
satisfactory solution of the transporta-
ton problem $50 long as the railroads
are subjected to peak loads of coal
traffic at the season when the demands
of agriculture and industry are. at
their height"
BY April the winter" demand has
been fully supplied from the mines. 1t
should be assured that coal is moved
for the next winter use Immediately.
The congestion that occurs al ship
ping points should be avoided by the
earliest possible transport of anthra-
cite to the point of retail distribution.
The coal that is put over the rails I'M
mediately will not clog the lines. That
will perhaps choke the yards, but it
is better to have the yards choked at
the. distributing end than the stock
piles choked at the preloading end.
Early buying of coal is therefore to
be urged upon everybody. If the coal
is moved Immediately from the mines.
is stored early at the distributing yard.
is ordered at once by the consumers-if,
in short, the domestic bins are filled
to capacity by midsummer. before the
crop movement begins over the rail.
roads-there will be no fuel problem"
next winter. even though strike oc-
ours on the lst of September.
The anthracite-using public. there
fore. must be persuaded to Greer early.
The situation demands cooperation Of
this character. 1t should not be diff
cult to convince the retail users of
anthracite. in view of their present
experiences with short allotments. to
take this step to forestall another
shortage.
Evening star., 1923-01-16
EDITORIAL DIGEST

ternational credit. To ask more
would be anSaffront on British honor
To, grant less would be a stigma
upon American wisdom and legiti-
ternational fraternity" Regardless
of all else the Chicago News is con-
WINGED that president Harding's sug-
gestion that Congress loosen the
shackles on the debt-funding COM
mission is wise; It ought to be
acted upon" This likewise is the
opinion of the Baltimore News, which
holds that until Congress removes
the restrictions which have been laid
upon the refunding commission, or
else reaffirms them, negotiations be-
tween our people and the British will
be purely for the purpose of killing
time"
Both Mr.. Baldwin and his chief
assistant. Mr.. Montague c. Norman
are British inanciers of the best
type" says the Nashville Banner
which feels that their standing will
make it easy for this government tc
mot be unrea easonable" in meeting the
situation because "the United States
has never been a nation to impose
undue hardships on any other with
which it has been associated by the
chances of peace or war, but it is
very properly impressed with the be-
lief that loans made in good faith
SHOuIu DC Tep4tu III the Same
1t is safe to believe that war debts
will be settled by this country or
any reasonable basis, but absolutely
without reference to cancellation az
a possibility The request that the
terms be made elastic" is a "rea-
sonable request, one that Congress
should ungruiingly grant" the Bos-
ton Transcript is assured. This is as
we'll the opinion of the New York
Post, which suggests that 'if we
shrink from the thought of Germany
in collapse. dragging down with
her the creditor nations, we cannot
contemplate with equanimity the
crippling of Great Britain's economic
life carrying with it the enfeeble'
ment of the economic pulse of the
world at large. If common prudence
and the reco gnition of the unity OF
world interest leads US to preach
forbearance toward the aggressor in
the war, there surely is, an equa
reason for practicing forbearance to-
ward an ally in the war and a nation
which not so very long ago we were
in the habit of regarding as oul
partner in the maintenance of world
peace"
Evening star., 1923-01-16

Few Americans ever had to their
credit the cosmopolitan experiences
OF George Horton. consul general at
Smyrna, now on leave in Washington.
Into seventeen years In the underpaid
employ of Uncle Sam Mr.. Horton has
crowded an eternity of hard service.
President Roosevelt sent him as con-
sui general to Athens In 1905, and
during the Taft administrations he
was transferred to Saloniki (Turkey)
and later to Smyrna. After the
United States entered the war In 1917
Horton was sent back to Saloniki be-
cause of its political Importance to
the allied cause. In May. 1919, he was
restored to his old post at Smyrna,
which he still holds. He kept the
Stars and Stripes flying during the
recent sacking of the city by the
Turk. While America was neutral,
Consul General Horton. at Smyrna.
looked after the interests of the
United States. Great Britain, France
Italy, Russia. Serbia, Montenegro and
Rumania He was the busiest man
in Asia Minor. Horizons wife is q
poulo, an Athenian.
X X X
There is due in New York today or
tomorrow for weeks sojourn on
American soil the Viscount Burnham.
one of London's great newspaper
magnates. He is the proprietor and
publisher of the Daily Telegraph
&C. H." after his name. meaning COM
panion of honor. one of the titles Gre
ated for particularly meritorious serv-
ice to the British war cause.
The West Indies is Lord Burnham's
only port of call on our side of the
Atlantic besides New York. He is
en- route to India to attend a British
imperial press conference and will
discuss empire publicity with the
Jamaicans and the Bermudans. Those
loyal subjects of his Britannia maj
esty'S oversee dominions chronically
complain of the inadequacy of COM
munication between themselves and
their mother country. Cable tolls are
IS cents a word and the mail service
doesn't compare with the facilities
or between Canada and the British
Isles. Lord Burnham, a great British
imperialist, intends lettering those
conditions, If he can. The Pilgrims
of America, of which Chauncey NJ
Depew is president, will entertain
him on January %.
y
Certain republican leaders affirm.
asseverate and aver that DIR. Royal
S. Copeland. senator-eiect from New
York, is really G. o. p man, though
he won as a democrat in the "Al"
Smith landslide. Said republicans as
sert that DR. Copeland became mayor
of Ann Arbor in 1901 on their ticket
and claim. too. that he voted for
Harding and Coolidge in 1920. Cope
land. who calls himself an ophthal-
mologist. ought to bring some useful
knowledge of foreign affairs into the
Senate. After leaving the CniYersity
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has for several, years had in hand. In
way and to a degree, he has been
in the island
But, after his stay. we shall con.
! tinue to need men of his quality and
equipment at Havana. Hence the
wisdom of making the post attractive
to such men-of paying them we'll
the salary of an ambassador is now
too small-and of investing them with
full diplomatic dignity. A great deal
Of important work will be transacted
at Havana right along.
Evening star., 1923-01-16
Next Seasons Coal Supply.

While confidence is expressed by the
coal commission in it's report to the
President and Congress that an agree
nent will be reached in the near fu-
ture to avert a widespread cessation
Of mine operations in the union fields
next April, it must be borne in mind
that this covers only the bituminous
supply, inasmuch as the contract here
in the anthracite field has been shifted
from April ] to September 1. It is, of
course, to be hoped that a similar
agreement will be made to insure hard
coal mining continuously into the next
contract year.
Under the former conditions. with
the contract year beginning April I,
most Of the anthracite supply for the
winter following was mined under new
contracts. Consequently, II a strike
occurred on the expiration OF the old
contract no hAsd coal wss mined to
Evening star., 1923-01-16
Failed to Find a Capitol Bar;
Therefore, Couldn't Abolish 1t

| denouncing the bar in the Capitol
was heard far and near. OF course,
Mr.. Harrison was heard occasionally
on the same subject. Finally election !
day rolled around, and Mr.. HarrisonF
was the winner.
When he reached Washington, one
OF the first objects of interest which
the new congressman sought out was
the bar at the Capitol Not, of course
to take drink, but merely to contem-
plate it with view to carrying out his
pre- election, pledges, If possible.
There was no bar at the Capitol. he
discovered. and what's more. there
hadn't been an open bar at the Capt.
toi for number of years.
In his younger days, Mr.. Harrison
had been a newsboy. selling papers
Miss. He was a kind of supernews-
| boy. before he passed this phase OF
| his career, making as much as 800
month, which helped him along with
| his education and finally to college.
! One day after he had come to repre-
sent Mississippi in the House. he
| found package of twenty-five
newspapers. Memphis papers, ad-
! dressed to him. They were old papers
printed years before. Mr.. Harrison
couldn't understand why they had
| been sent to him. and flung them up
on shelf. to lie forgotten. Then
came letter from friends in Crystal
Springs. 1t appeared that the old
railroad station had been torn down
and the package of newspapers ad-
dressed to Mr.. Harrison had been un-
earthed. They had been thrown
| from train and lodged beneath the
platform and there they had remained
for years. So some of his friends,
mindful of his newspaper days, had
| thoughtfully forwarded them to
Washington.
Probably thousands of his country
| think of Senator Pat Harrison as
Irish" at least of Irish descent But
they are all wrong. He is not
When he was christened his name
was B. Patton Harrison. Patton was
a family name. and his family under
took TO call the youngster patton"
| His intimates fell into the habit of
calling him Pat" but 1t was we'll
! recognized that his right name was
Patton. When he made a bid for
/ political preferment Mr.. Harrison
found that in one part of his district
| many of the people We're Irish and
| of Irish extraction. His manageT
suggested that it would be we'll to
advertise him as pat" Harrison in
] this section of the state, and as Pat
he was advertised. The name stuck.
In fact. Senator Harrison has aban-
i doned the Patton entirely. He signs
himself today simply Pat Harrison.
Evening star., 1923-01-16
Washington Observations
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

OF Michigan, he took postgraduate
courses In England, France, Germany,
Switzerland and Belgium, and is a
master OF the languages of those
countries. He has been a delegate to
many foreign medical congresses.
X u *
Solicitor General James NJ Beck has
just concluded the argument before
the Supreme Court of one of the un-
usual cases now and then brought be-
fore our tribunal of last resort. 1t
concerns the attempt of a high-caste
Hindu of full Indian blood to retain
American citizenship. His name is
Bhagat Singh Thind and he was nat
uralized over the objection of the
united States in oregon in November,
1920. Thind claims he is a white per-
son within the meaning of our stat
utes. Uncle Sam denies that conten-
tion. In a brief that mingles power
and eloquence Solicitor General Beck
quotes Edmund Burke's celebrated
address i'm the house of lords at the
trial of Warren Hastings, I'm which
Burke contrayerted the claims of In
dians to be ranked as white men.
That speech" says Mr.. Beck. was
probably well known to those who in
itiated our naturalization policy"
.
yard Kipling on the white Mans
Burden" declaring: while the prob
lem of British rule in India is not
our affair, whatever may be the white
mans burden the Hindu does not
share it, but rather he imposes it,"
The present case is not unlike II e
OZawa case, recently decided in the
Supreme Court adversely TO the Japa-
nese petitioners contention that he
was a free white person"
i y =
Advices reach America from Japan
to the effect that if Roscoe Arbuckle
is denied the right to star in filmdom
in his own country he will open a
cafe in Toxic. Arrangements TO that
end were completed when Fatty"
was in exile in Japan last year. Ar
buckle received tumultuous ovations
at Toxic and assurances that the San
Francisco episode which arrested his
popularity In America had not dim
med his Iuster in Nippon. Japanese
capital for a TOXIC cafe venture was
promised him and even the name OF
such an establishment was decided.
1t is to be "Debukun," meaning Mr..
Fatty" by which title tAe rotund
screen star is known to millions of
Nipponese.
Future citizens of the District of
Columbia--the high school boys and
girls of Washington-are alive to the
necessities and aspirations of the
community to which they belong. The
English class of the third year at
Central High School this week held a
debate on the venerable question of
the Districts right to suffrage. The
boys and girls who advanced the af-
flrmative side of the issue won. They
stressed the point that taxation with
out representation is as unjust today
as 1t was in Patrick Henry's time.
Copyright. 1927
Evening star., 1923-01-16
ECHOES FROM CAPITOL HILL
WEAK FOREIGN POLICY.

The nations associated with the
United States in the great war con-
denim as selfish the neutral attltude
we at first assumed, and they ueplore
the refusal to participate In arrange
ments for peace and the rehablilta-
zion of Europe.-Senator Robinson,
Arkansas, democrat.
THE DIRECT PRIMARY.
firmly believe that our govern
ment for its success, certainly for its
eficient functionfng, depends upon par
ties. The direct primary de-
stroys the power OF parties TO ieglsiate,
and permits a few by combination
with the minority party to either deieae
legislation entirely or to prevent the
carrying out of policies for which
that party stands pledged.-Senator
Ball. Delaware, republican.
AMENDING THE DEBT-FUNDING
ACT.
We ought to know on what basis
we are acting. and we must have that
knowledge before we amend the DEBT
commission law. So submit that
every parliamentary tactic VIII De re-
sorted to in order to prevent such an
amendment as has been suggested un-
fiji our debt commission and the for
eign commissions take. US into their
confidence. ! protest .;agssna.oe ;againsse tne
FREE SEEDS.
I appeal to the senator to let us
continue in the bill the item for
seed distribution. If it shall be con-
tinued, gardens will spring up as il
by magic; choice green vegetables
baskfng in the sun and revelfng In
the rain will rise up and call him
blessed, and when the table groans
with a variety of fruits of the garden
and the faces about such a splendid
repast are beaming with smiles. all
will gratefully remember that while
republican senators were proposing
a subsidy of $50,000.o00 to the ship
ping trust they paused long enough
to permit $360,000 to be appropriated
to encourage citizens everywhere to
raise their own vegetables by dis
tributing among. them a variety of
choice vegetable seed. appeal 70
the senator from Massachusetts to
harden not his heart.-Senator Helm.
Alabama, democrat
Evening star., 1923-01-16

sippi, and the dis
trict Whereabouts
Now Mississippi
was very dry"
even then, and. the
report that it was
possible to buy
and drink liquor
across a bar in
the Capitol caused
as much of a sen :
sation in those
p ar ( s as the
charges made by
Represen t a tt V e
Upshaw of Geor-
gia today that
members of Com
Evening star., 1923-01-16
THE FEDERAL TRADE
COMMISSION.

COmmlSS1ONs
The proposition for the Federal
Trade Commission, as originally pre-
sented on the floor of this House, was
that 1t was to be a helpful agency to
the business of the country, and, SO
far as / know, no one ever thougnt
that II would become a smelling com
mission, looking into what 1t could
find in the way of an excuse Tor prose-
cution just because somebody hao
succeeded in business.-Represen
tive Fess. Ohio. republican.
COMPETITION IN INDUSTRY.
The principal object of competition
is to drive out the competitor. Com
petition is destroying itself with the
certainly of the operation Of a mathe-
niatical law. When you have cor
poration of $20,000,000 capital in an
industry, and you have ten or nfteen
or twenty men of small capital OIL
S5. 900, these twenty men cannot exist
in the industry.-Represen Lon
don, New York, socialist.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
TALKING AND SWEARING.
I talked to a character witness who
had many favorable things to say
about my client. When I called him
to the stand in behalf of my client, to
my amazement he testified he would
not believe him under oath. was
dumfounded. do you not remember
having a conversation with me this
morning, and you said he was a man
of good character, and you would
believe him on his oath?" He re-
piled: "Yes. squire-but the situation
is different. I was talking then, and
I am swearing now."-Representa
Hefiin of Alabama, democrat.
THE BUDGET BUREAU
UNDER FIRE.
What is Congress for? Why pay
4a5 members to represent the Amer
lean people in the other branch OF
Congress IL you are going to have
a budget bureau of seven men to sii
in Judgment in these matters lagri'
cultural appropriations), and over.
ride their wi1l2-Senstor Helm, Ala
bama, democrat M
Evening star., 1923-01-16

The coal consumer cannot under
take to have an argument with the
dealer that will last as long as the dis
The wage-earners may lay UP strike
fund, but the fuel-burners have found
no way to lay up community coal
pile to be drawn against in climatic
emergency.
Evening star., 1923-01-16
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHII.ANDER JOHNSON.
Miss History.

Miss History.
Oh, Miss History, standin' on the shelf,
You keep a-tellin' stories till you must
repeat yourself.
You show how back in Eden family
trouble came to view
Oh, Miss History, tell us something
newi
Oh, Miss History a-talkin' big an
kind
Until you lose your temper and are
changin' Of your mind!
You make a happy promise; then you
leave us feelin' blue
Oh, Miss History. tell us something
new.
Oh, Miss History, you've been a-makin'
laws;
The righteous folks obey 'em and are
givin' 'em applause,
But the sinner keeps a-doin' same as
like he used to do
Oh. Miss History, tell us something
new!