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Evening star., 1923-03-21

L. caused during the pollination period
Of trees, which lasts with US from the
Towering Of the trees until about the
LIST OF May. Formerly when a mys-
terious Inflammation Of the eyes and
membranes OF the nose and throat set
in late in summer and early autumn
men classed 1t as a "cold in the head"
Later the affliction was ascribed to
irritation caused by floating pollen Of
goldenrod, and many persons would
avoid the plant as they would poison
ivy. But goldenrod Is hard to get
away from In summer and fall. It
grows nearly everywhere in the tenn
perate zone. One must go far north
or to great attitudes to avoid this
flower. Later it was pointed out that
pollen Of the goldenrod is relatively
heavy, and that it does not fill the air
as does pollen of other plants. The
ragweed, those varieties known as
common" and "giant," were placed
under charges Of causing hay fever.
All the world knows that the pollen of
this weed Is very light and travels far
and wide in a breeze, and that it will
scatter over quite a wide radius while
the air is still. Now we are told that
many spring "colds' are the spring
type Of hay fever, and that it Is caused
by pollen of alder, birch, maple. elm
and other trees. We seem to be sur
rounded by more dangers than we
thought. Notwithstanding preventive
measures and various "cures," we
seem to have hay feves with us still,
but perhaps scientists are getting the
upper hand of it or will at last bring
the disease to terms.
Evening star., 1923-03-21
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

at the legation. and neither the min
lister nor his fair relative is to re-
turn to Washington.
X n X
Cleveland is making a strenuous bid
for one or both OF the great national
conventions in 1924. San Francisco,
which did itself proud at the San
Francisco conclave in 1920, would
like a chance to entertain the repub-
licanS on the same hospitable scale
next year. ST. Louis, Kansas City and
Chicago also are contenderS for both
the democratic and the G. o. p. pow
vows. National committees expect a
city which bids for a convention to
come forward with at least $125,000
for actual expenses. These consist OF
printing (tickets alone cost $25,000),
convention hall decorations. music,
flowers and hotel headquarters for
the extensive staff of the national
committee. Usually an additional
$125.000 for Entertainment" has to
be guaranteed.
* X X
David F.. Houston, who was alter
nately Secretary of Agriculture and
Secretary of the Treasury during the
Wilson administrations, is the very
latest democratic presidential pos
sibility." His friends say that Hous-
tons particular claim to favor, apart
from his intrinsic merits, is that he's
the only man in the field who might
be called a favorite son,at-large. BY
which they mean that he was born
in North Carolina, lived in South
Carolina. was graduated from Har-
ward, has been a university president
Missouri q
domiciled in New York, where he has
functioned as president Of the Bell
Telephone Securities Company since
1921.
X x X
And still they come-the invincible e
Davises. who are joining the Harding
quired the assistant secretaryships of
war and commerce, the clan now
sends David William Davis, former
Governor of Idaho, to be a. special
assistant secretary Of the interior
His mission, this observer is inform
ed, is to concentrate upon a vast CO.
lumbia river reclamation project.
x X x X
The Americanization of the once
idyllic land of Nippon proceeds apace.
Toxic is about to construct a network
Of subways on the Yankee model.
The Foundation Company Of New
York, an international building syndi-
cate, has obtained the contract and
an initial loan Of $4,000. 900 on ac-
count of project ultimately to cost
S40O0O,0oO, has been made by Ameri-
can and British bankers
Copyright 1921
Evening star., 1923-03-21
Straightforward Diplomacy.

There is not often found a better
example of straightforwardness and
frankness in diplomacy than the
statements given out by Mr.. Hughes,
the Secretary of State, and Col. RooSe-
welt, the assistant secretary of the
Navy, correcting erroneous impress
sions they had inadvertently given re-
garding the British naval program.
Accepting as true what they had rea-
son to believe were reliable reports,
that since the Washington conference
the British We're reconstructing their
battleships in ways to make them
more formidable, they gave currency
to the reports in a formal way, the
former in public address and the lat
ter in testimony before committees of
Congress. But now, being assured by
the British government that the re-
ports were incorrect, they frankly
acknowledge their error, and make
their amends in d way which assures
that the correction will be given even
wider circulation than the original err
roneouS statements.
Diplomacy such as this cannot help
but make for better understanding
and closer friendship between the two
nations. 1t is to be regretted that a
like spirit is not more general in in
ternational intercourse, but unfortu-
nately there has been handed down
from less enlightened times a diplo-
matte theory that it is beneath the
dignity Of a government or a states
man ever to acknowledge error, no
matter how blamelessly they may
have fallen into it. A case in point
IS the unhappy assertion by Lord
Balfour on behalf of the British gov
ernment that the United States in eff
feet required Great Britain to guar
antee war loans made to other Euro
pean allies. The assertion is disproved
by every particle of available evidence,
and has been specifically denied by the
present officials of the Treasury, by
Mr.. McAdoo, who was Secretary of
the Treasury at the time the loans
were made, and by others who had
tirst-hand knowledge of the transac-
tions. But so far the Balfour state
ment stands as the official declaration
Of the British government-not vital
1y serious matter, it is true, but a
constant irritant to Americans and a
cloud on the relations Of the two great
English-speaking nations.
There is no thought that Lord Bal
four was Intentionally misleading in
his statement. 1t is believed that he
was the victim of faulty memory or
erroneous information, but it un-
deniably has created a bad impression
that he has not shown the same readi-
ness to correct an injustice that Mr..
Hughes and Col. Roosevelt have
shown in the matter of British ships.
They accepted without question the
word of the British government that
they had been misinformed. There ap-
parently is lacking an equal British
readiness to accept the American
word.
Evening star., 1923-03-21
EDITORIAL DIGEST

ready the physicians have made many
repairs and alterations in Evelyn's
earthly tabernacle, for she has to her
credit three operations, exclusive of
the ~excision or elimination OF the hot
water bottle, one automobile accident
ana a love affair. She may not ar
rive, but she has at least taken d run
ming start for the hospital for the in
sane" Yet, while she may be an
hysterical malingerer." as described.
the Raleigh Times points out that
the common run of folks, especially
those who have experienced the dis
comfort of holding thermometer
under the tongue while the doctor de-
clded between bread pills and epson
salts Will not be able to resist the
temptation to chuckle at the Joke.
She would never have been able to
put such a thing over on veterina-
rian. But the doctors are looking
for something they can thsorize
ABOUT. So keen are they for unusual
symptoms that We sometimes wonder
II some of them do not prefer cases
Whlch they do not understand to
those which they do. But the girl is
lucky. 1t is a wonder she was not
operated on to find the source of her
heat
There is nothing amazing" saws
the flttsburgh Post that the doc
tors We're fooled at first with this
case. Practically all who summon
amem are sick, or imagine they are
ihere can be no reflection upon the
III htelllsence or the person who is de-
!! celved where there is every reason to
expect action in good faith. Thai an
abnormal person seeking publicity is
dbie Tor a time, by feigning illness TO
1901 the doctors simply emphasizes
.hat the physicians are so used to
honesty on the part of patients as
scarcely to give thought to the pos
slbility Of finding dishonesty" 1t
was suggested by the Chicago Jour
nal that this "is a case for Coue and
the incident proves once more that a
/ hysterlcal person, seeking a chance
70 pose as a freak or as a martyr,
cannot only initiate any disease
known, but can improve on nature. A
woman who will go to such pains to
deceive her friends and attendants
cannot be called we'll in any proper
sense of that term"
II All she wanted was "notoriety," !"
| the Columbus Journal feels "she Ger
fanny got that at the expense of the
, attending physicians, who must feel
sufnclently sheepish to wish the
girls temperature really had been
| LA long enough to bring results. {"
10 which the Utica Press adds, 'The
laugh certainly is on the doctors who
let the announcement Of such an alb
normal temperature be made without
making absolutely sure that 1t was
correctly taken. If sufficient atten-
ton had been given to details even a
hysterical girl ought not to be able
! TO fool those in attendance" She was
q true "notoriety craver," as, the Nor
folk Ledger Dispatch sees the case.
and lit is not to be believed that
MISS Lyons was trying to ridicule any
physician or any number of physi-
clans, and mere hysteria would not
account for her practice of deceit.
Perhaps she could think of no other
way to attain notoriety. so she select
ed the novel but childish method of
taking an unheard-of Temperature
Evening star., 1923-03-21
Raps ''Intangible'' Tax
AS Penalty on Thrift
To the Editor Of The Star:

10 the Editor OF The Star:
I read with some interest that
portion OF an editorial which ap-
peared in The Star of yesterday
which said: Anything that will di-
rect the peoples minds to saving
part of their earnings is to be COM
mended and supported" 1t seems to
me that when the people of the Dis
trict of Columbia are punished for
saving, under the intangible tax law,
which directs that a tax be paid on
money in bank, cash in your pocke ct
and on certain stocks, that the en-
couragement to save is, in part, elm
mated. Is there not some prospect
that such an iniquitous law may some
day be repealed? I have heard 1t
stated that second tax (and possi-
bly, a third taxi might easily be
exacted. ANTHONY c. ADDISON.
Evening star., 1923-03-21
Too Costly Pride.

IN their declaration that neither
France nor Germany should permit
pride to stand in the way Of a settle
ment of the Ruhr. deadlock, the inter
national labor parliamentarians in ses-
sion at Paris have hit the nail on the
head. II the nations primarily inter
ested would only put aside that pride
which impels them to uphold past er-
rors Of omission and commission, and
get down to the realities of the situa-
ton, there is no reasonable doubt that
n way to settlement would speedily be
Evening star., 1923-03-21

ment came that stamped him as a
hero. Neither was on any roll of
paper then-both on flames eternal
roll now.
Age Is not relevant here. Even Joan
de Arc became immortal at fourteeni II
it were, jackson was ten when Saratoga
was fought and fourteen when Corn
wallis surrendered. He was really a
revolutionary hero, as truly as Ro-
chambeau or Lafayette-this young
hero who q few years later was the
hero of New Orleans and President.
1t were we'll to consider carefully
before trif1ing with that old monu-
ment in Lafayette Square, gray with
years aud godlike, enshrined in i'm
mortal sentiment as holy as the stars
in our bannsg. PRIVATE DALZELIA
Evening star., 1923-03-21
HAY Fever.

The spring type Of hay fever is
something new to most persons, but it
would seem that there must be such a
malady, because it is announced that
the Women's Welfare Association
will resume it's clinic for the pre-
ventive treatment OF that disease, Of
which asthma II q frequent after.
math." It is said that much hay fever
Evening star., 1923-03-21

News dispatches indicate that the
communists, wisely despairing of max
ing any considerable progress with
their doctrines on this side of the At
lantic, are going to try to spite us by
Evening star., 1923-03-21

Yesterdays 50point rise in Piggy
Wiggly stock, which was followed by
a most abrupt break, shows what can
happen when this little pig goes to a
market frequented by bulls and bears.
Evening star., 1923-03-21

The real FrancoGerman deadlock:
Germany wants to know how much
cash France expects; France wants to
know how much cash Germany can
pay.
Evening star., 1923-03-21

Possibly it is desire to be at the re-
the worlds largest debt that is caus-
ing British emigration to the United
States to break all records.
Evening star., 1923-03-21

Mr.. Baruch advocates taking the
reparations problem out Of the realm of
politics and human emotion. If that
could be done there would not be any
reparations problem.
Evening star., 1923-03-21

A Yonkers judge declines to fine
speeders on the ground that it would
amount to selling" the privilege. No
such objection attaches to Jail SEN
.ences.
Evening star., 1923-03-21
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Nothing New.

ANohhhhS A<O"s
There's nothing new in politics,
There's nothing new in art;
The Chinese say they know it all
Before we get start.
And men who view the pyramids
And travel at their ease
Declare that the Egyptians were
Ahead Of the Chinese.
Each little jest that one essays,
Each passing verbal trick,
Is very likely to be found
On some Assyrian brick.
But why pursue the doleful theme,
Since no relief we view?
There's nothing new in telling men
There is nothing new.
Evening star., 1923-03-21

If the weather does not steady down
the odes to spring this year are likely
to be based on a combination of the
meters Of Come, Gentle Springr' and
Twas the Night Before Christmas" !"
Evening star., 1923-03-21
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The Associated Press is exclusively entitled
10 the use for republication Of all news dis
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in this paper and also the local news pub
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Evening star., 1923-03-21

Mr.. Bryan puts aside the crown. He
wants the democrats to nominate a
man not previously identified with
presidential contests.
Evening star., 1923-03-21

A Ruhr offer direct from SHINES to
France might prove attractive, as
about all Germany's real cash would
be back of it.
Evening star., 1923-03-21
The Radiator.

Oh, the weary radiator; it has toiled
the winter through;
We nourished It with soft coal and
with boards and barrels, too;
We utterly forgot it when it did its
duty well;
When it failed, our indignation twas
impossible to tell.
We were often fain to chide it as a
source Of much distress
When It used to raise q racket, just to
ease its loneliness.
We begrudged 1t all amusement, and
we thought it very wrong
For it to find a little leak and sizzle
forth song.
Ere long twill have to meet the bene.
factors usual lot;
The spring will gently blossom forth
and then twill be forgot,
And folks who turn to cleaning house
will speak in accents rude
About the room it takes. And this is
human gratitude!
Evening star., 1923-03-21
Language.

Language.
Language, whose mighty spell could
raise
Mankind from dull and british ways,
Which reaches empty air to frame
The hero-making word Of fame.
Language, which formed ambitious
plan,
When Caesar ruled his fellow man,
Which told the passion and the woe
OF lovers true, like Romeo.
Language, the first Of all our arts,
Yet simplest index OF our hearts;
Language, to which our caps we don-
u now most used in talking golf.
Evening star., 1923-03-21
Rate by MaiF-Payable in Advance.
MARYLAND and Virginia.

Daily and Sunday. Il yr, SS. 40; mo-, 70c
Daily only. yr, $500; mo-, soc
Sunday only .......1 yr., $40; no., 20C
Evening star., 1923-03-21

The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning
edition, is delivered by carriers within the city
at 80 cents per month; daily only 40 cents per per
month"; Sunday only, 20 cents per month VT
ders may be sent by mail, or telephone Main
5000. Collection is made by carriers ut the
end of each month.
Evening star., 1923-03-21

A sure sign of spring: Georgia peach
crop reported seriously damaged.
Evening star., 1923-03-21
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Imperial Valley press., 1923-02-15
UP TO GERMANY NOW

An American correspondent in Moscow says re-
gardng the French seizure of the Ruhr valley; 1.-The
Russian Reds think it is great chance, and thank
France for causing turmoil which they believe will
lead to strikes riots asSassinaons, executions, guer
rilla warfare and the economic collapse of western
Europe, and ultimately universal revolution"
Here is picture that must please the sardonic
soul of Lenne himself if that broken revolutionst is
still capable of pleasure 1t shows Boshevsm hover
ing, like buzzard dying civilization in expecta
ton of CHASTITY feast. And from the reports received
thus far since the French INVASION the picture may
be greatly overdrawn
Frances ill-judged action may concevably have
just such effects as Moscow anticipates Already the
forces of hatred, conflict and dsnegration wax
ing From almost every of Europe come indica-
tions of growing confusion.
There might be another great war; between rival
groups; there might be freefor-a fight In either
event. the result would probably be the samepoverty,
ruin, chaos
There is little hope left of a change of French
policy
The chief hope of European salvation just
to rest with Germany 1t is the possibility that
the Germans either for the sake of getting their
pleasant French overords out of the country for the
sake of civilization will pledge themselves to honest
payment of PREPARATIONS and set about in good faith
to redeem their pledge.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-02-15
BOTH COUNTRIES WRONG

One of the outstanding facts of the present
French German situation is the small of SYM
pathy shown for Germany And this in spite of the
general condemnation of Frances policy of invasion
and force
The American press and public have shown keen
discrimination in judging this particular foreign tan
GLE There is general desire to see Germany pay all
she to repair the damage done by her in the big
war; and general sympathy with France in her desire
to collect goods and money in PREPARATION There is
appreciation of the suffering and loss inflicted the
German nation by the present French policy; but that
fails stir American emotions to great extent be-
of the striking parallel affords to the situation
before the armistce. The Germans to be
ly suffering little of what they themselves inflicted
on the French and Belgians during the Morally
it seems to be slight contribution toward evening the
score. $50
Yet the French are condemned almost universally
not for wanting their coal and timber and gold, but
for their headstrong action in pursuing methods of
collection which promise little immediate profit and
threaten the embodiment again of all Europe.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-02-15
A DRY PAN-4WERTCA

One of the items to be discussed at the Pan-Ameri-
conference at Santiago, Chile, next month"; is the
progressive dminution in the consumption of aco-
holic beverages That comes something of a
prise to many citizens of the United States Prohib
ton in South American countries hasn't seemed live
issue. But the progress already made there is just
surprising.
Eleven countries in South America either have al
ready passed sort of national state dry legsla
ton have such laws under consideration. In Chile
all bars closed by law from Saturday evening until
Monday morning and on all holidays The sale of
liquor is prohibited in mining camps. Bars cannot be
established within certain distance of churches and
educational institutions
There similar laws in Peru, Honduras, Uru-
quay, the Dominican republic Panama and Paraguay.
Several Mexican states have started prohibition action.
Colombia and Argentina however have refused to act
favorable any such proposals.
The United States still stands alone in the extent
to which prohibition legislation has advanced. But
there is disconcertrg fact to be remembered by per-
who hope that it will its laws in this mat
ter-the of the civilized world is showing increas
ing interest in temperance and even in prohibition.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-02-15
THE GARDEN CANE

Time was when the back yard gardener con-
tent to sow plain peas, beans, and radshes. To-
day. with the aid of that modern work of art the seed
catalogue he chooses his garden seeds by name, with
great discrimination E# H
There are now many distinctive varieties of all his
favorite vegetables, each with its musical and
mountaineering name Joyfully he cons such terms
as EARLY Giant, "Ponderoso", Table Queen "Quite
Content, Little Marvel" and Scarlet Globe. Long
before planting time he makes it of his indoor
sports to study the catalogues and to out the spot
where the of Golden Bantam will end and
those of Black Mexican begin.
Gardening alway sswas fun when the crops turned
out we'll The who had the first green peas OF the
season credit to the neighborhood 1t is still
fun since the science of the game has been
made attractive well simple. Some people there
are who prefer golf motoring but the really wise
keep place for garden making on their recreation
nropramS.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-02-15
THE PEN FOR AuTO THIEVES

In an effort to check automobile thieyery, bill
has been entered in of the state legislatures max
ing il pententiary offense to take automobile
without the owners consent. AS than 100 motor
cars stolen i'll one city in the state last year. and
violent crimes usually committed with the aid of
stolen cars, the proposed legislation too
severe a
If in the days when horses were in common use,
more than 1000 OF them had been purloned in any
community in any year, something would have been
done about il. Automobiles more valuable than
horses ever were and their theft is more serious 1t
evident such offenses have been handled enent-
ly aud sterner measures are required:
Imperial Valley press., 1923-02-15
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
February Is, 1908

Mr.. and Mrs. II. b. Pearson are
in town today. Mr.. Pearson is
manager of Critehfield and Wool.
folk, eantaloupe shippers.
The combined freight and passen-
ger train which comes into. the val
ley each morning was so overloaded
today that after struggling along
and getting far behind, it was found
necessary TO drop half the train at
keystone siding and return after it.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-02-15
EVERYTHING READY
FOR o. E. S. EVENT

Everything has been definitely ar
ranged for the great meeting Of The
Eastern Star this evening. The
event will opoa with the banquet at
the Barbara Worth with nearly 30
Officers and many members seated.
Later will be the meeting at the
commandary hall, with exemplifica-
tion of the work for the Grand Of.
.ficers, following which there will be
dancing and q social time for every.
body. The five Eastern Star chap
tiers of the valley will participate III
the events Of the evening.