Evening star., 1923-02-22

I time. Profits due to this exploitation,
iof children are accruing day by day
to heartless employers. Their com
petttors, whether in their own states
or in other states, are obliged to
| adopt similar sacrifice Of Childhood or
| cease competition.
| These children are growing up
! stunted in body and mind. They can
never be as useful citizens in Their
Imaturfty-if they survive to ma
turity-as they should be with proper
schooling and normal childhood. Tho
| nation owes them protection. It can
give it only through constitutional
| amendment. Unless this proposed
| amendment comes to Il vote before
March and gets two-thirds of the
votes cast in both branches it cannot
| be submitted to state ratification for
| another year. America needs those
two million children now being sacrl-
hced to the voraciouE nav of mann
mon.
| Representative Linthicum is quoted
as saying that when we came to set
tie our war debt with France, after
the revolution. France said: PAY me
the principal and I will forgive you
the interest" and that we settled on
those terms. If that is accurate, the
next question which arises is as to
how long We delayed the settlement.
If we waited sixty-two years, the in
terest which was Cancelled amounted
to many times the original loan. Com
pound interest bounds up with sur
lprising agility. Senator Caraway, in
debating the British settlement, de-
clared that some insurance actuary
had computed what our loan plus
compound interest would amount to
in sixty-two years. on the terms of
the original bargain, and it exceeded
twenty billion dollars. The
principal is less than s4,6S6,0oo.
Give me the luxuries Of life and l
will dispense with the necessities" II
our debtors will only pay US the go
ing rate of interest and compound 1t
sixty-two years, we can well afford
to forget the principal. These re
marks are all mathematical, not
spiritual.
1t seems probable that the republt
can whip of the House, Representa-
tive Knutson of Minnesota, did not
expect the lash to be applied to his
lown back when he snapped the
cracker over the French for invading
the Ruhr. His appeal for sympathy
for the Germans, on the ground that
Ithey were invaded when they were
lunarmed, brought instant replies from
A. Z. r. members who had heard the
Hun cry "Kameradw before Mr.. knut-
son ATTEMPTED to echo the cry. His
latitude was most vigorously repu-
dated by members of both parties In
| the House. The war may be over, out
F! its afterclaps are not.
| The chairman of the department or
| fine arts of the Federation Of Women's
| Clubs, Mrs. Rose V. S. Berry, protests
| against taxes and tariffs on the fine
arts. She wants all imported fine art
| relieved Of its share of taxes, on the
| ground that the artists need the money
| and America needs the art specimens.
| Mrs. Berry overlooks the exemption
/ from tariff tax of all works of art that
| are imported to be put on public ex-
| hibition. Hence the plea that the tax
| is a burden on art education falls TO
the ground. How much does the gen.
| eral public get in inspiration and edu-
| cation from the galleries of the rich,
which are closed to public visit? Some
4 of the wealthiest owners of art make
| i, feature of their lives to open their
| galleries to the masses. These are not
| taxed. The taxes which fall upon the
| exclusive owner, who hides art master
pieces from the public, help protect the
| American art producer, just as any
! other manufacturer is protected" by
tariffs or taxes upon competing prod
| ucts.
| Mrs. Berry bewails the alleged nui-
sance of posters which disfgure the
!! landscape. That is a favorite bugaboo.
| But it is not merely the fact that these
| monstrosities are abroad in the land
| that is the real basis of legitimate pro-
| test. Far better protest against the
atrocio"s designs and printing or paint
| ing of the posters. Europe. too, has
posters. but in Europe a poster is a
| work of art, as may be seen in the
| samples on exhibition in our Congress
| sional Library. Their coloring is as
| tonishingly artistic and beautiful.
| They are true works of fine art, and
| when the art standard is SO high as
shown in the samples referred to, they
| are outdoor galleries" of very great
| educational value and art joy. Ameri-
| can printers would do we'll to study the
| possibilities of their own art, as there
in Illustrated. Nothing like them is
| found in American posters.
| Copyright. P. V. Collins, 1921