Evening star., 1923-01-20
CAPITAL KEYNOTES
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS.

No; the committee has had no
meeting. It could not take action
without q meeting
is 1t true that Mr.. Boyden has been
connected with the consular service
for some time?" no
No. not at all. He was appointed
by President Wilson as observsr.
that Is the only position that he has
ever held, so far as / know
have you seen a copy OF the de-
coded official report of his speech"
yes. 1 have seen 1t. The speech
Record" +oiial
And is the official report the same
as the Records reprint?'
yes. practically so.''
mhile IT Is not possible. nor proper.
20 attempt 70 forecast what the com,
mittee on foreign relations will do
nor to guess what the State Depart
ment has done in the matter, IL is an
anomalous situation for a democratic
appofntee now to be attacked by n
democratic senator and defended by-
the leader of the republican oppo-
nents OF the Versailles treaty for his
alleged indiscretion in criticizing the
treaty. contrary to the authority OF
the administration.
Aw. gimme the core, can't yu?"
There amt a-goin' to be no CORE
This fs classic. but it remains for
| the present generation to make IL
come true. The Department Of Com
| merce reports that at Abbotsford.
Canada. according to Consul General
Halstead. variety Of the Famous.
apnle has been produced that has
neither core nor seeds. The owner
ala not know that he had A new vari-
ETY.: and so kent no record as to
III h IN fAAA = n
impossible to identify the tree until
another cron is produced II is
known that Ii came from a FamauHe
| tree which had been tou-erafted on
Eabka seedlings. but beyond knowing
| that 1t is one of group II cannot be
| more closely identified. The owner
would probably not trade the one
| tree for an oil we'll
y X -
Washington has had its Cancar
| week and its Safety week and now
| Is in the midst of its Thrift week.
| Now comes one of the prominent as
| sociations of citizens with a sueees-
tion that we should devote a special
week to the consideration Of the
growing evil of narcotics. II will
shock most Americans to learn that
Americans consume seventeen times
=.
as China ever did. Few laymen
| comprehend how rapidly the evil has
| spread or how widespread IL now Is
A week devoted to informing the
masses of the enormity of the traf-
| fic and the potential addicts of tho
| horrors they are bringing upon
| themselves would be most meri
| torious.
Every few days some devoted pa
triot issues advice that home owners
should join the citizens associations
of their respective sections and the
papers tell of the good work these
miniature Legislative debating So
cieties are doing. All right, they are
good things and should be joined by
everybody. but are not their habitats
more mysterious than the summer
residence OF Santa Claus? Who
knows whence they come or whittier
they go. or where they hold their
conclaves? How will they be detect
ed. these more secret organizations
| than the K. K. X? Are their names
in the telephone directory? Are they
listed anywhere? They are too
modest by a mile. They need an
advertising manager. 1t pays to ad-
vertise. Let them keep standing
cards in the newspapers, announcing
location and time of meeting. Lets
go!'
\ y X + Et.s
The papers had scarcely time for
the ink to dry on their headlines over
the reports of the women's industrial
conference, announcing: Women In
tend to Fight Hard for Eight-Hour
Law" when Judge Gary, head Of
the steel trust, addressed his board
of directors. declaring that he favor
ed the eight-hour working time,
| when it became practicable" Per
I haps another meeting of the women
| will convince him that twenty-four
| hours are as easily divided into three
shifts as two. They might suggest
| putting all the question up TO vote
Of the workers, on a aHby-the-h
basis. and letting them choose
whether they will join an eight-hour
shift or a twelve-hour crew. OF course
! the eight-hour men will produce more
| per hour, and will earn more per
hour, and the employers, finding that
their capital investment produces
, more per hour under the eight-hour
shift, Will readily pay more per hour.
Then Ii may become practicable"
when il Is tried out. The women were
f, resolving only for the female work
er, but the influence seems to have
reached even the Steel Trust-or was
it just a coincidence?