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Evening star., 1923-04-17

by f4nes paid by reckless speed
nnanSacs ana cof'nercutters and other
Mohtors 81 the traihc rules, and would
be occupied iAter by q bailding bought,
brick BY bftck, By these eaine nnenaces
to public safety.
/, A Trasifc Court buAaing so erected
would stand as monument of warn
ing. Of course. II is desirable that the
tfAfsc i'aies shor a be 80 closely OBJ
served that no .s will ever be fined.
May the day come wiren that is the
case. But in the process of education
and correction let the dollars that are
taken as penalties grow INTO a sub.
seantiA permanent token e. admoni-
tion. beacon Of the law, so 10 speak
Perhaps If this were undertaken those
who now lightly forfeit collateral, or
pay fines, would become scrupulously
careful about observing the rules lest
they we're hastenfng the development
Of a machine of correction that would
make their offenses more certainly
end more heavily expensive, perhaps
to the point OF penitentiary terms
like that just imposed in philadelphia.
Evening star., 1923-04-17
Business Imitation

The note OF warning sounded yes
terday by Charles NJ. Schwab against
the menace Of business imitation. with
its inevitable train of economic dis
turbances, was followed by the state
ment of Elbert Fl. Gary showing the
prosperity Of the steel industry to be
at high stage, and Indicative of in.
creasing business activity in all lines.
Mr.. Schwah is chairman OF the Bethle.
hem Steel Corporation, and Mr.. Gary
chairman OF the board OF the United
States Steel Corporation, both recoe.
nized as pre-eminent among the prac.
tical business men OF the country.
It may sound odd to warn against
business being too good, but the his.
tory Of industry and the law of bust
ness economies show that invariably
when industry and business take the
bit in their teeth and run away a
smash follows.
Mr.. Schwab pointed out that 'indi.
cations are that we are entering into
a period OF business expansion, and
utmost caution must be exercised to
prevent this from developing into a
secondary imitation, which would be
disastrous" This elder. statesman
Evening star., 1923-04-17
Washington Would Be Theirs !!

1t would be a stirring and majestic
spectacle coald the Grand Army OF
the Republic and the United Confed-
crate Veterans hold their national re
unions at Washington at the same
time. 1t would be a national peace
Jubilee. But this is not to be in 1924
Perhaps it nsay be the year after.
The suggestion that there be Il Blue
and Gray reunion at Washington in
1924 was made before the Confederate
Veterans reunion at New Orleans by
Dr.. George Harding OF Marion, Ohio,
father or the President. Details of the
discussion which probably followed
the suggestion seem not to be given in
tine teiesrarhic reports from the Cres.
cent city. but there is reason TO be-
lieve that the Confederate veterans,
their children and their grandchildren
would favor the proposal Memphis,
Tenn, was chosen by the Gray vet
Grams as their 1924 reunion city. but
there were feasofls for this. Probably
the city for the next reunion was de-
brought out the idea of holding the
reunion in Washington. The plan of
coming to Washington and capturing
the capital is a proposal which the
veterans must have time to think over.
Washington would give them a glad
hand. Reunions of Confederate and
Union veterans are not new. There
was a peace Jubilee on the Bull Ran
field on the fiftieth anniversary of the
battle and one at gettysburg a few
years ago. In the G.. A. Il. reunions at
Washington there has always been
fraternizins between those who were
foes in arms from 1861 to 1855. Sixty
two years have passed since Bull Run
and fifty.eight have gone by since APP
pomattox. n the United Confederate
Veterans should vote to hold a reunion
at Washington the great city on the
Potomac would fling open its gates
to them.
Evening star., 1923-04-17
Warning to Reckless Speeders,

A Philadelphia banker has just been
sentenced to a term of from six to
ten years in the penitentiary fer kill
ing three people with his automo obile.
He was intoxicated at the wheel, and.
plunging his car through little
group, raced away without checking,
only to be later identified through a
When accused of Inansieughter he
acknowledged his guilt, ana he has
taken his penalty without demur. His
example should be a powerful deter.
rent to careless drivers in all cities
in this country.
Some such specific object lessons
are necessary to cure the evil Of
x1eed mania and recklessness in the
Streets of our city. Recently the
Washington Safety Council thus pla-
Corded the city: 1.-THE reckless driver
is criminal This truth was
bleEoned before the eyes and pounded
into the brains Of oil Washington and
it's visitors in several weeks. Now
another slogan is in evidence, Better
be Careful than a Cripple Thus
both sides of the case are presented,
the affirmative and the negative, so to
speak. The first slogan spoke for, the
protection Of the pedestrian, ana also
of the careful drivers sof other ma.
chimes. The present slogan speaks for
the careless driver himself and for
and to the jay.walker.
Every day the Washington TrAfiie
Court is collecting large sums in tines.
Would it not be an impressive object
lesson to devote this revenue to the
building OF a Trafic Court? In a very
few months at the present rate suf.
ficient fund would be available to buy
the site. Then q great sign might be
erected. stating this land was bought
Evening star., 1923-04-17

| al Peace. No better selection OF
BOOKS could have been made, which
would adequately indicate the
measure OF contribution made by this
the advancement of, the worlds civili-
zatieh. These books. which 30 well
interpret the thought, feelings and
activities. of that great people will
| continually serve lii the capital of
viii and cordial friendship toward the
peopie OF this country. In accepting
the donation. 1 wish to express the
high appreciation Of the citizens OF
Toxic for the generous and delicate
action OF the Carnegie Endo wment."
II. II. Kohlsaat. author of one of the
seasons best-sellers, From Mckinley
| to Harding" has been making one of
his periodical visits to washington. He
is by way of producing a magazine
article which, in the age Of omnipres-
ent automobiles. will read like chap
ter from medieval times, although 1t
deals with events of only twenty
eight years ago. Kohlsaat is going
to tell how he organized Americas
first motor race at Chicago in 1898.
His paper, the Times Herald, offered
$4,000 in prizes for an epoch making
competition which called for contin
uous traversing OF the boulevard
along the Chicago lake shore. Auto.
mobiles we're SO scarce and SO novel
then that they hadn't even been
named "HorseIess carriages" was
the commonest term. though prize
was won by a PERSON who submitted
sidered TOO rrenrhy." The winner
Of the Kohlsaat race, an antediluvian
called the Haynes -Apperson and no&
at the Smithsoniap Institution, rego-
tiated the flfty- three and "a half mile
and 25 minutes There were sixty
Ave entrants, and most of them broke
down. One couldn't be stopped and
smashed in collision with a street car.
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This observer is asked TO launch a
movement for removal of the sign
known soldier at Arlington. 1t is
considered by many visitors TO the
shrine a wholly unnecessary and in
decorus piece of advertising, though
kindly meant as information to the
stranger. Directors find it a jarring
note and say it mars the solemnity
and grandeur of the most impressive
memorial in the United States. The
wish finds urgent expression that the
sign may be banished before the
Shriners in mass formation invade
Arlington in June.
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One Of the most influential organ
izations in the United States. though
an infant in age, will hold its annual
meeting in Washington on April %
and 2S. 1t is the American Society Of
Newspaper Editors. formed a year.
and half ago for the purpose of eie-
waiting journalistic standards and
safeguarding professional ethics.
There will be crowded program of
business and entertainment, including
payment of respects to the editor Of
the Marion Daily Star, at 16ee Penn
sylvania avenue.
Copyright. 19a3.I
Evening star., 1923-04-17
ti6c improvements in civic conditions. |
Florida. Convict Camps.

Subletting of convict labor has al
ways led to trouble and to cruel treat.
nrent Of prisoners. Once a general
system. it has been abandoned by most
Of those states which pride themselves
on progress. The latest stories incident
to the convict lease, system come from
Florida, and it is clear that they have
stirred the conscience of the state.
The matter has come before the lesis-
lature, and although it is unsafe to
make prediction as to what the out
come will be it is worth noting that
when the people of a state have be-
come aroused on the Question of
brutality to prisoners farmed out to
private. employers they have put an
end to the system. The Florida legis-
iature is making an investigation, and
one Of the questions before it is that
or a man who died under the lash of
a convict camp boss. The Associated
Press says: "Threadbare, clothing
splashed with swamp muck, distorted
and reisnated shoes and ether Of his
garments were cast upon the floor
Of the house of delegates. and a whip
used for f1ogging prisoners was passed
from one member to another for ex-
animation" The Legislature Will con-
slider measures looking to the aboli-
tion'of the convict lease system and
the prohibition of corporal punish.
ment. II Florida Follows the lead set
BY most states of the Union it will
prohibit the floeging Of prisoners. win
abolish convict leasing and will make
other reforms in its penal system.
Evening star., 1923-04-17
ny THE MARauIsE DE FoNTENef.

III
Much trouble, both for the present
and for the future of the British
empire, has been stirred up by the
absence of the signature of Sir Auck-
land Geddes, King Georges ambas-
sador at Washington. from the So
called halibut fisheries treaty be-
tween Canada ana the United States
II Is perfectly true that if the do
minion minister of marine and fish
cries. Ernest Lapointe. affixed his
signature thereto. he did so by virtue
of letters patent Of the privy council
In England, empowering him to do
so-letters patent Bearing the Sign
Manuel OF King George.
In Canada the belief is universal
that the king did so upon the sole
advice of his dominion ministers.
Bat, In England and in the other
self-governing dependencies of the
If the king accepted the advice of
his Canadian ministers in the mat
ter, he did so only on the advice OF
the cabinet in Downing street-thaf
is TO say. the cabinet of the entire
empire, which is responsible. to par
Now the argument is put forward
that since the halibut fisheries treaty,
while signed only by Canada. by vir-
sovereign in council. is binding upon
the entire empire, although OF more
immediate concern to Canada, the
ministers of the Australian com
mon%ealth. OF the. South African
union, of the dominion of New Zea-
lANa should hacp heen CanL
suited by the crown and their sane.
tion obtained. 1t is all very we'll
that when the status of nations was
accorded to the self-governing de-
termined that in special matters in
which the dependency In question is
solely concerned. the crown should
be advised only by The ministers OF
that particular dependency, and not
necessarily By ths ,, Downing ,rasty g street set
matter of concern to the entire Brit
ish empire, since 1t is binding upon
the latter, and if, therefore. the
listers OF the South African union, of
Australia, of New. Zealand-even n
India. it is a question as to whether
the act of the crown, In according
council al :. whitehall. authorizing
Ernest Lapointe to sign the halibut
treaty on behalf of the empire, has
not acted ultrs-vires and in alliance
OF the constitution.
*
Issues such as these are certain to
arise constantly In the future. from
the very fnofnen that the dependen-
cies are permitted to carry on diplo-
matte relations with foreign powers
on their own account. and independ-
entity of the imperial government.
One can readily see how much trou-
BILE would ensue, if, for instance, the
commonwealth government of Aus
traiia were to conclude, even with
the authority OF royal letters patent
Issued BY the sovereign through his
privy council at whitehall. a treaty
with the United States in any way
ihjNriously affecting the important,
and, perhaps. vital interests or the
Dominion OF Canada. II each Of Eng
land dependencies, to which Northern
ireland and the Free StAte Of ireland
may now be added. were to Inausa-
rate, like Canada, Independent. aiplo-
matte relations with the United
States, or with any other foreign
Evening star., 1923-04-17
Upholds Principle Of Minimum Wage.

demonstrated that an employ cannot
maintain those comforts and necessi-
ties Of worthy citizenship. And ft Is
Z fact. to my mind, that the majority
Of the people are not unrea sonatle an
to what constitutes a fair minimum
wage.
AS the court reserves to itself the
prerogative of defining what shall be
the maximum rate Of interest on
money borrowed in financial trans.
actions. there also II ID within its
rights to sustain 4 minimum wage
scale. Whereas one deals with money
alone. the other Is an exchange of
service Tor money. and in substance
they are the same as regards the
peoples rights. II enc Is an extortien
of money, the other Is an extoftien
OF effort, and both arise from condi-
tioas Of human necessity.
CECIL CALVERT.
Evening star., 1923-04-17
The School Site Delay.

Final decision by the Supreme Court
Of the Unified Stares, through denial
of the Commissioners request For q
writ of certiorari in the Cpshur street
site case, closes the possibility of the
establishment OF the proposed new
school for tubercular children on that
location. The school must be erected
elsewhere on land already owned by
the District or the Commissioners
must wait for further action by Con-
sress. This action may take the form
of a specific authorization to place the
school on the Upshur street site, or
that of appropriation for another site.
In either case of congressional ac-
ton, however. there will be a loss of
many months. in all probability at
least a year, before work can be
started on this long-delayed building
II is to be hoped that the Commits
sioners will not seek to cure the Ill OF
delay by placing the school ON any
site that may be available regardless
of its suitability. Better, indeed, that
another year should be lost to secure
a proper site than to take any one
that may be. now possible without
reference to the convenience of the
children who are TO attend this school.
The school for tubercalAr cAildr-en
is designed to meet particular need.
1t is a combined measure OF sanitation
and education. The little folks who
clo or
der observation, so to speak, because
Of the possibility Of tubercular infec-
ton. They are segregated to lessen
the possibilities of a spread of the
disease. But it is vitality import taht
that. they be given the most whole
some surroundings. The present prof.
ect Of the new building developed from
the realization that the school here.
tofore assigned to this use was
totally unfit for the purpose. 1t had
been Virtually abandoned as a school
for children Of sound health. 1t was
not we'll located. the children being
required to go, in many cases, long
distances TO reach IT,
The school for tubercular children
should be of .he best model, with par
tfculAr facilities for open-air classes.
1t should be clean and sanitary in
every appointment. 1t. should be so
located that no great hardship is inn
posed upon the average attendant in
reaching it and returning home.
Therefore it cannot he put in a dis
tant corner of the District. Thus the
selection ST a site involves certain diff
ficulties and embarrassments already
manifested in the case Of the Upshur
street site.
But despite these difficulties and
these embarNssments a school for tu-
bercular children is necessary, and 1t
bercular children is necessary. 1t
must be evolved out Of these circum-
stances with the least possible delay.
Evening star., 1923-04-17
Oyerwprk.


He wouldn't 30 to meetin',
Nor to sociAbaes an such;
He hurried in his eatin',
An his meals they wasn't much.
The ridiculous didn't strike him,
Nor yet did the sublime;
Didn't want no one to like him,
Cause he didn't have the time.
Folks who make toll their mission
May find when years have passed
They're rich IN cash, yet wishin'
For smiles an cheer at last.
The haunts Of gay an dizzy
Enjoyment they may shun,
But they've somehow kept 20 busy
That they've gotten nothin' done.
Evening star., 1923-04-17
A Great American Influence.

President Harding opened the an
nltal session of the Daughters of the
American Revelation yesterday in q
speech that will be permanently re-
corded in the annals of that great Or
SaniZation as an expression OF Its
ideals and a statement of its purposes.
His presence at the first meeting was
a most happy incident. fortunately
permitted by his Engagements, and 1t
was appropriate that the chief Of state
should address the. women of this
country who are doing so much to
uphold the banners of exalted ma
SionaHsm and of ennobling citizen
ship"
Founded upon high coacept OF
American civic duty, the Daughters of
the American Revolution have become
one of the most potent forces in our
country for advancement toward the
high ideals of the founders OF the re-
public. They have, as the President
said Yesterday. preserved for US all
a lesson in the desirability for balance,
patience and tolerance" Today mem.
bership in this organization is at once
an honor and an opportunity.
1t would be desirable if the words
nf the President uttered yesterday
were broadcasted throughout this
country for intimate study by all the
people. For while. necessarily, mem
bership in the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution is limited to those
who trace their ancestry back to the
men who fought for independence in
the war Of the revolution, the ideals
upon which this society is based
should be those of every other. Ameri
can woman, of every American man
as we'll and especially of every Amer
lean child.
In practical works the Daughters
have accomplished much that is not
fully appreciated by the country at
large. The local chapters and state
units are constantly prompting spe-
ti6C improvements in civic conditions.
They are not only preserving memo
rials of the past, but are erecting
1,erma4lent foundations OF good citizen
ship for the present and the future.
In every way this splendid organiza-
ton is helping to make America bet
ter, stronger, cleaner and more fully
expressive of the purposes Of those
men who a century and a half ago
struggled for liberty.
Evening star., 1923-04-17
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC EfLLfaM VILE

Everybody who was at the White
House movie party" last Saturday
evening is talking OF Mrs. Harding's i
apparently compiete physical come
back" No one who aid not knew
1t before could ever have told she
had just emerged from an illness that
lasted, roundiy six months. Her
celor, buoyancy and old-time vivaclty
have all returned. Many think she
has grown perceptably younger In
looks. The First Lady superintended
personally every one of the details
of Saturdays entertainment, especial
iy the elaborate decoration of spring
flowers. Mrs. Harding Is under
medical restriction, as far as strenu-
Gus social activities are concerned,
though there Is about her every In
dication of capacity to resume them
on the accustomed scale. His wife's
recovery has had a marked effect on
President Harding. Only those very
near to him know what a burden he
carried while her condition was criti-
cal.
Overheard in 18th street. near D:
What's that beautiful building
into which all those badged women
are streamihg:'
That's the headquarters OF the
Daughters of the American fevolu-
ton"
And, what's that marble pile next
That's the headquarters OF the
sons OF the American Revolution"
salu the knowing one. as the rubber
neck wagon passed the Pan -Amerieaf,
Union.
Among the army Of young men and
women. from all parts of the country.
enrolled in Washington private
schools, is Miss Katherine Mitchell,
daughter of the late John Mitchell.
famour labor leader She attends
Chevy Chase School and is specializ-
ing in sociology. as she plans to fol-
low. more or less, In the Footsteps
of her distinguished father. Miss
Mitchell came into the world q couple
of years after John Mitchell. aged
twenty-nine, won fame as the leader
of the great anthracite strike OF 1900.
She Is proud of her fathers memory
pnd OF his renoun as a patriotic
labor chieftain. Mitchell went to
Work IN the coal mines of southern
Illinois at the age OF twelve, having
been at school only between his siSth
and tenth years, educating himself
at night after that He was connect
ed with organized labor from his six-
teenth year.
i i: Z r
Proudly displayed on the walls OF
the Carnegie Endowment for Inter
national Peace in Jackson place, is an
artistic silkeh scroll attached TO an
ivory roll, newly arrived from Japan.
In Japanese and in English transla-
tion the Following message is tnscrib-
ed upon it:
The undersigned mayor Of TOXIC.
Baron Shimpei Goto. has the honor 10
acknowledge receipt of the collection
of books on America donated by the
Carnegie Endowment for information
Evening star., 1923-04-17
Charting The Way Of a Maid
With a Man"
Standardized lOvlmakInt--Is thsI

oldIuarulgeu lOVemaKlne--ls that
the next thing to come out Of the
social reform hopper? That appea rs
to the editorial mind to be the point
at which the Rockefefier Bureau of
Social Hygiene is aiming the "inti-
mate" questionable which it sent TO
a selected list of unmarried college
women, asking all manner of amaz-
ing questions concerning -spooning"
and their love affairs in general. II
such Is the object OF this latest so
cial study the press predicts un-
qualified failure. apparently placing
more faith in human nature than In
efficiency charts or Standardization
blueprints. And while there is some
surprise expressed at the temerity
of the bureau OF social hygiene In
asking such very personal questions,
a n1attSr for far greater astonish- :
ment TO editors is the fact that they
received any answers, even discount
ing the value of the answers received.
There's nothing to laugh at"
warns the Norfolk Dispatch,
I'VE are considering a very serious
thing. These gentlemen of the bu-
reau of social hygiene are very much
in earnest. They are determined to
find out all about everything" so
their latest field. the st. Paul Pioneer
and when they get through with 1t
it will no longer be a mystery Dan
Cupid is being vivisected in the gaso-
line laboratory. and when the sell
entists have finished with him we
shall know a great deal more about
heart trouble than we knew about
anthrax and hog cholera.
Nevertheless, the Cleveland News
finds the statistics compiled by the
bureau from the auestionnaireb
rather more interest-eAtcAins than
figures on April rainfall in the last
fifty years, or the per capita con-
sumption of coal" and to prove ite
point it presents the data thus:
"The bureau states that 1900
American wives had answered its
aaestiennaire relative to their pre-
denied having spooned before mar
riaRe that eos claimed to have
spooned with their intended husbands
only that 375 admitted spoenihg with
other men than those they eventually
married"
"For 10 these many generations"
the Harrisburg Telegraph reminds US
1.-The man who, kisses and tells has
been a subject of seern among his
fellows The boastin6 Don Juan has
never. stood deuce high even among
those who may have been little
jealous over the favors bestowed
upon him by the fair sex And the
paper feels the same way about the
News N grants her some sxtenuatios
by asserting that "the women who re-
sl,efied to the extraordinary Ques>
tionnaire were heroines in the sacri-
fices of their privacy on the altar
une notes that some of the answers
were amazingly frank in the admiss
sions made as. to the detAilAr nature