Evening star., 1923-03-07

America refuses to recognize the
soviet government of Russia, for that
is too radical to fit into the scheme
Of civilization. A cablegram an
nounces that the semi-ciylized soVi-
cts have just executed forty-two high
officials and sentenced to prison. for
terms varying from one to ten years
$500 other officials found guilty OF
corruption in Office.
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The investigating committee Of the
Senate which is to probe the charges
of graft and mismanagement OF the
Veterans Bureau has received its in
structions from President Harding to
go the limit. The committee, consist
ing of Senator'S Reed of Pennsylvania
Walsh of Massachusetts and Oddie oi
Nevada, has the responsibility OF
tracing the expenditures of the larg-
est sum ever handled by any govern =
ment bureau. except the railroad bu-
reau under the Treasury during the
war. They might first join, the sena-
torial junket that is to go TO RUSSIA
as guests of the soviet government
There they might get pointers which
would prove invaluable.
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1t has been easy to believe the re-
ports that some parts of the Arctic
region are warming up. The adjourn
ment of Congress last Sunday was SO
warming to the Washington climate
that thermometers touched so degrees
Fa hrenheit Now If the President
should call special session next
August and the cold chills which
might cnsue ran the thermometer be
low freezing. we would begin 10 as
sumo that the world had turned over
like Il sleeper seeking relief from 3
nightmare. and that the equator was
changing places with the north pole
When gasoline goes to 81 4 gal
lon. as predicted by Senator La Fol
lette, it will be the only thing that
will go anywhere; everybody viii
stop short. never to go again. like
grandfather's tall clock. Just be-
cause there is always room at the
top" there is no use in blowing VI
like that.
The price has already gone up n
| cent gallon. and Immediately the
bureau of standards consoles us 10y
finding that the kick" in the fluid
is 20 per cent better; it no longer
| needs kindling wood to make it burn
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| 1t seems strange that Grover Cleve-
! land is one of the very few Presi-
dents Of the United States whose
/ memory is not yet honored in marble
| or bronze. There is not even a bust
of the great democrat in the Capt.
| tol.
| The busts of Arthur and Roose-
welt stand in the Senate wing Of the
Capitol. as they were Vice Presidents
| before they succeeded murdered Pres
| idents. We hav" statues Of Hayes
and Garfield. and q movement is or
| foot for q statue of Buchanan, but
until Representative Rodsnberg (re.
/ publican) of Illinois. presented his
| bill' for an appropriation Of $500. .40t
| for the purpose Of erecting a statue
| in honor of Mr.. Cleveland. who hat
! ever seriously proposed it?
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! President Cleveland was one o
! the able chief magistrates of the ma
tfon-a man of genuine force and in
/ tegrity He alienated the support o
| a wing Of his party when he stooC
| for sound money" against the Bryan
/ free silver" but as time passes
| Clevelands place in the pantheon q
! the nations notable Presidents l!
likely TO increase in public esteem
| When anarchy threatened the fre'
/ passage Of the mails, in the grea
| railroad strike in Chicago. in th'
! nineties. and the Governor of lllinol:
I sided with the lawbreakers, retuSire :
/ to give protection to public or private