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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-16
The Boosters.

The annual booster outing comes
again into view. These booster out
ings began with the idea Of introduc.
ing Washington as commercial city
to the people of the lower Potomac
valley, and the effort has been so sue
cessful that the boosters now boom
Washington on the eastern shore OF
Maryland, and they have been known
to go farther afield than that.
The average citizen may think that
1t was not necessary to advertise
Washington in a district so near as
Merchants and Manufacturers Asso.
citation, of which the boosters are a
part, thought otherwise, and they
probably know what they are about.
All the people Of Northumberland.
Westmoreland. King George and Stat.
ford on one side Of the river and of
St. Marys and Charles on the other
knew a great deal about Washington.
Most of the summer boarders in that
lection came from Washington. Most
IL
whether they caught anything or
not" came from Washington. Sons,
daughters and cousins went forth from
that old country to seek their for
tunes in Washington, and going back
home now and then they told splen-
Gid stories of government buildings
and parks. But for more than 100
years the storekeepers who supplied
that large region had been dealing at
Baltimore. They knew little Of Wash
ington as a business city.
Down the Rappahannock and ex-
tending well across the northern
neck" between the Rappahannock and
Potomac" the trade was very largely
with Fredericksburg. Along the
lower Potomac people drew largely
from the wholesale houses of Alexan-
dria. They bought little at Washing
ton. These We're the habits Of genera
tons, and habits are very strong in
old settled and conservative commu.
mites.
The boosters have probably succeed
ed in showing southern Maryland and
Virginia on the lower Potomac that
Washington has goods to sell, but
whether or not they boost the COM
merce Of the city they always have a
good time on their trips.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-16
District appropriation bill becomes

District appropriation bill becomes
available.
The assistant Engineer Commits.
sioner Of the District, in charge Of the
electrical department, does not want
to have a deficit. He believes that
every department under his admins
tration should live within its means,
and a deficit looks to him as a sign
Of bad housekeeping. 1t might be re-
marked that such sensitiveness re-
garding deficits is not universal among
public officials. But in our District
the assistant Engineer Commissioner
wants the ledger to balance. and if
it does not balance he would like it to
tip slightly on the credit side. To keep
the telephone service within its al
lotment of money it has been directed
that for the balance Of the month only
twenty-seven telephones, one for each
department head and one for each Of
the Commissioners, will be available
for outside calls. An appeal has been
made to District employees to CO.
operate by making only essential
phone calls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-16
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE

the existing turmoil. in which Ii
Yuan Hung. the fleeing president, and
Marshal Tsao Kun are the chief fig
ures, Is the latest, but not the least.
phase of Kaleidoscope events in the
turbulent celestial republic. Hedges
celebrated School of Journalism at
the University of Missouri, whose
alumni dot the newspaper landscape
everywhere in the east.
Two signs were planted side by
side yesterday on the Pennsylvania
avenue front of the White House,
where the last vestiges of the Shrine
Garden of Allah" are being dis
mantled. One read "Laborers want
cd" The other said Danger; keep
out"
Women who work-51, S10,1S9 of
them were classified as "gainfully oc-
cupied" in the census Of 1920-are
soon to have a magazine devoted ex-
clusively to them. 1t Will be called
the Business Woman. One of it's
representatives. who was in Wash
ington. told this observer there are
now twenty American periodicals
dealing more or less altogether with
women's affairs. Their combined
circula ton is SO enormous that they
consume so per cent of all the print
paper manufactured in the United
States.
Friday afternoon, when 1t was hot,
the east room Of the White House
was filled with that elite company
which always foregathers when the
foreign diplomatic set attends an Of
ficial function. Ambassadors. minis
tiers and attaches from abroad came
in faultless day dress" Of cutaway
coats, patent leather shoes. spats and
high collars. They were welcomed
by President Harding and Secretary
Hughes in WaShington's summer
court costume"-Palm Beach suits.
Ambassador Fletcher was in white
duck. Fletcher, among his other
claims to eminence, ranks as the best
dressed man in the American diplo-
matte service.
The irreconcilables may soon be
claiming that the United States is
trying to enter the league of nations
through the barn door. The world
dairy congress, TO be held in Wash
ington in October. under the auspices
of our government. has asked the
health organization of the league at
Geneva for any cooperation 1t can
usefully render. The Department of
Agriculture has communicated with
the league. according to the latter's
official bulletin, and confirmed the
value attached to the congress by the
United States.
Copyright. 1921
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-16
Search for Pocahontas' Bones
Draws Editorial Criticisms.

When Edward Page CASTOR, Chi
cago archeologist, disturbed the bones
of many long dead folk of Grave
send. England, in a search for the re-
mains of Tirginia's own princess, the
fair Pocahontas, he started comment
not only among the irate citizens OF
that village but in many American
newspaper Offices. And some of the
editors are as sharp in their criticism
as the English.
With few exceptions. American
editors think Gaston's activities were
deserving of protest. Even in the
Old Dominion. where Pocahontas
played diplomat for the first per-
manent English settlers in her
father Powhatan's court, and where
one might expect to find approval OF
a move to return her bones to Amer
lea, there is disapproval.
There seems to be some justice In
the protests against the
search for the bones of the American
Lynchburg Advance asserts "Vir-
ginia could hardly expect a protracted
search of graves in England IN an
effort to find the bones"
what seems to be the most utterly
foolish undertaking of the present
century is the search for the body of
Pocahontas," declares the Norfolk
Ledger-Dispatch. Foolish, because
there is but one chance in million
of finding it or of being sure OF its
identity when found"
Massa chusetts, which has always
been a friendly rival of Virginia his
torically, goes further and revives
certain old questions relative to Poca-
hontas herself
The story of her saving the life
of Capt. John Smith is seriously
doubted. the Boston Transcript points
out, and proceeds to say sit is now
rather hard to find Virginian-to say
nothing of Pennsylvanians. Ohioans,
Indianans and Californians-who does
not claim descent from Poca-
scored by the Boston Post, which sees
in them IAN ill-advised disturbance of
the English dead, for no good what
soever" And says the Boston Herald.
"the excavations in England
are likely to bring on once again
who want embroidered history and
those who want the plain facts"
Now what ! of Chicago, of which
metropolis Archeologist CASTOR is
said to be a native? The Evening
Post has spoken: I'VE agree with the
1<Nh -
Curzon. that the Chicago gentleman
might be engaged in better business.
If the spades Of the delivers
finally turn up bones which som ebody
declares on his doctors oath were
part Of Pocahontas' framework. the
instant sequel will be the starting Of
a row as to whether it is or isn't a
piece of PocahontaS, and the row
never will be settled satisfactorily"
other editors discuss the matter
from various angles. There would be
nothing gained in bringing her body
here, says the Milwaukee Journal,
'.for Pocahontas lives on in
the minds of Americans" Let Po-
cahontas rest suggests the New
York Herald in an editorial, caption:
at is creditab Bile to the good folk of
C3ravesend that they should evidence
their sense Of outrage" the Charles
snatching it is rightly called" says
the Providence Tribune.
The Utica Observer-Dispatch can't
understand how anybody can be in
terested in such search OF course,
it admits. it would be a proud thing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-16
In the Presidents Absence.

President Harding has made it
plain on the eve of his departure on
his Alaskan trip that he will leave the
members of his cabinet free to confer
and to take such action in his absence
as may be necessary for the public
interest. 1t is not contemplated, how.
ever, that there will necessarily be
meetings Of the cabinet, but Mr..
Harding gives assurance that in case
conferences of this character are held
no one participating will be in danger
of official decapitation. This obviously
refers to an episode in the last admin.
istration which is too familiar to re.
Quire to be more than mentioned.
Certain actions Of an administrative
character lie within the jurisdiction of
members Of the cabinet, while others
are beyond the power Of any other Of.
ficer of the government than the
President No appointments to Office
can, Of course, be made save by the
chief executive. He cannot make such
an appointment by cable or by radio.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-16
Stamboulisky.

OtdluUouA1ohys
In the dispatches relating to the
death of Stamboulisky, the former
Bulgarian premier, who was shot in
the course of an attempt at rescue
by peasant supporters after he had
been arrested, the following descrip-
ton of the man IS given which pre-
sents a striking portrait:
Stamboulisky, who was forty-four
years OF age, was entirely self-edu-
Gated. He married a school teacher.
to whom he attributed most OF his
success in life. He was as rugged
physically as he was mentally, and
usually overawed those who came
into his presence by the very bigness
of his frame. He had all the elements
which in the popular mind go to make
up the dictator. He stood more than
six feet in height; his enormous head
was covered with a wealth of black.
curly hair; his small eyes looked
sharply out over an upturned. kaiser
like mustache, and his tremendous
jaw limited of his unbounded energy.
With this formidable physique went a
laundering voice
This picture of Stamboulisky shows
a man different from two famous die.
tators," one of the past and one OF
the present, Napoleon and Mussolini
both dominating in their times
through force of intense personality.
but both of short stature. Mussolini
has a big voice and tremendous
energy. Napoleon was of a quieter
domitable.
Stamboulisky, however, was more
the popular conception of a man OF
will and domination. His giant frame
and fierce aspect and believing voice
made him formidable. He appealed
strongly to the popular mind. He
made and held adherents by his strong
will and his fearlessness. He had lit
tie respect for the royal office, and
on several occasions confronted the
monarch without hesitation and in un.
diplomatic and uncourtierlike phrases
Of virtual defiance. That he was
honest in purpose and practice has
not been questioned. He was doubt.
less ambitious for great power. Pos.
sibly he had in mind and was seeking
for the real rulership over Bulgaria
But his enemies have never success.
fully impeached his good faith, nor
have they fastened on him desire to
gain financially through his office.
Stamboulisky's death perhaps, in
the peculiar circumstances in which
it has occurred, prevents a very seri-
Gus complication in Bavaria. He was
killed in the course of an attempt at
rescue, and it is not clear, and pos
sibly will never be known, whether he
was shot by friend or an enemy. He
was probably trying to escape when
he was taken into custody, and it may
be that the intervention of his peasant
adherents was unwiSe, and that if he
had been allowed to go to Sofia under
guard he would have been treated with
leniency, possibly exile. Yet Stambou.
lisky alive would remain a menace to
the Bulgarian government. His death
will perhaps the more quickly effect a
subsistence Of the turmoil into which
that country has been plunged by
revolution, and which is threatening a
revival of the Balkan troubles, always
SO dangerous to the peace Of the
world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-16
Vermont Avenue.

Proposal is made by the chairman OF
the Fine Arts Commission that Yer
mont avenue be extended from its
present terminal at 9th street and
Florida avenue direct to the entrance
Of Howard University at Georgia ave.
nue., with a circle at that point. This
proposal is IN connection with a plan
for the improvement Of the grounds of
Howard University, upon which the
advice of the Fine Arts Commission
was sought.
Extension of Vermont avenue, while
perhaps it would cost considerable in
the condemnation of now obstructing
buildings, would greatly relieve con-
gestion now suffered on Georgia ave.
nue.. 1t is one Of the direct arteries to
the center of the city. If extended to
Georgia avenue it would afford access
to the neighborhood of the White
House. At present it is an interrupted
street, unfinished and without definite
terminal.
Improvement Of Howard University
grounds is provided for in an appro-
priation now available, and it Is due
this institution that access be made to
it easier and more dignified than at
present. With a circle established at
the entrance, as Chairman Moore of
the Fine Arts Commission proposes,
1t would be given a much more fitting
setting than it has now. This plan
should be urged upon Congress
through the Commissioners, both as in
conjunction with the Howard Univer-
.sity improvement and for the sake of
the completion of Vermont avenue as
a means of improved city communica.
fioD
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-16
EDITORIAL DIGEST

to bring the bones back, but whether
the movement would amount to very
much is a question" The Oklahoma
| City Oklahoman calls this business
of skull hunting a fad" And had
the same thing been attempted in an
American cemetery" the Burlington
| Uowa) Gazette believes. "it is quite
! probable the highbrows would be rid
den out of town on rail-"
Nothing could be gained by disin-
York World. Indeed, in the opinion
Of the Charleston CIV. Va-) Mail, "one
cannot regret that those who Were
searching failed to ind
them"
The Savannah Press draws a lesson
from the episode: Psychologists.
biologists, cranks and irresponsibles.
it seems to US, are being allowed
| dead these days. We are losing. sacred
regard for a lot of things in this
| world. and loss of respect for the dead
seems to be prominent among our
other failings."
But the story is not yet told. Here's
the New York Post, which says, 1T
would be fitting to have her grave
at Jamestown" pointing out, however.
that it is much more difficult to find
and identify her bones than 1t was TO
Paul Jones, also buried abroad. And
the New Haven Register says,
Americans who are fond of ira
dition cannot but share with Edward
Page CASTOR his disappointment at
not finding the bones of Pocahontas
where he expected to find them at
Gravesend." 1t is possible, that. paper
continues. that the critics who al
along have doubted that she saved
Capt. John Smiths life will now be-
come bold, perhaps, 70 deny that Po-
cahontas existed at all"
Pointing to the outburst of protest
from the English. who recently
breathlessly followed the exploits Of
Lord Carnarvon at Tutankhamens
tomb, the New York Times asserts
"the rude cisatlantic, inclined to i'm
partiality between England and
Egypt, and feeling that our home
town girl is as important as Egypts
king. will probably hold that CASTOR
and Carnarvon must stand or fall to-
gether." and concludes what prob
ably gets under their (the English)
skins is the imputation that England
like Egypt. is a played-out country
fit only for the digging OF archie
ologists."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-16

Senator Hiram w. Johnson will
leave England for America on July
II, sailing on the Leviathan's first
homebound journey. She is scheduled
to reach New York on Monday, July
%, and presumably that will be the
date fixed by his New York admirers
for the projected triumphal welcome
to the Californian. One OF Senator
Johnson's travelling companions will
be Albert ID. Lasker. whose activities
as chairman Of the Shipping Board
will be brought informally to an end
with the docking of the Leviathan at
the end of her first transatlantic
round trip. Lasker and Johnson are
bosom friends and in 1920 were close
political associates. Lasker was out
spokenly in favor of the Californian =
nomination for the presidency, but as
soon as Harding became the nominee
threw himself whole -heartedly into
the latter's campaign. During the
Harding administration LasRer has
functioned a 'liaison officer be-
tween the President and the senator.
y
Col. Edward NJ. Houses article in
hhS SohS VI + oTclBH AFFAIR
contains the first public uttcrances
he has ever made since his break
with Woodrow Wilson. That his
toric breach commentaries it's fourth
anniversary this month. Since its &C
currence at Paris in 1919 Wilson and
House have never met. though GER
tain amenities have been exchanged,
such as the leaving of the colonel 5
card In street whenever he hap
pened to be in Washington. host
of versions is extant as to what 4
was that really estranged the one
time bosom friends, but "insidprs" in
sist the truth Is yet to be told. Some
say it will rebound to the former
Presidents credit. Others avow 1t is
ereditably. House is in Europe on
his annual hobnobbings with old
world statesmen.
Frank II. Hedges OF Missouri and
China is visitor to Washington. For
the past three years he has been an
American newspaper correspondent
at Picking and is home to renew ma
tive ties. This observer asked Hedges
for his principal reaction to current
events in China. THE fact I'm not
there right now" was the typical
journalists reply. Hedges is a bull
on Chinas future. however dark the
horizon at the moment. The Ameri-
can minister at Picking, DIR. Schur-
man." he says. puts 1t about right
when he expresses a fatalistic opti-
Inism' that somehow. some time, China
viii find herself" Hedges is sure that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-16
Objects to Making
Fetish Out of Flag
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor OF Ihe Star.
This agitation about the proper
use of the flag should, in my opinion.
cease. The idea that the flag must
be treated as we would treat our
grandmother daguerrotype Is going
bit too far. Whenever the agita-
tors get things to the point that we
cannot use the flag as a patriotic
decoration in any way we see ut, and
when they succeed in making the
flag a fetish and object for supersti-
tious worship, true respect and anec-
ton for the emblem will disappear.
If the flag Is to continue to stand
for liberty, let US begin with liberty
to use the flag when and where we
please, so long as 1t is not CONNER
cialized. AS a veteran of the civil
war 1 fought for this flag and for
what it stands for, three years and
six months. In my opinion the deco
rations on the Post Office Department
and elsewhere were beautiful and ap-
propriate. We do not need board
Of censors to educate us into respect
for the national emblem.
JOSEPH MITCHELL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-16
Prosperity to Stay.

1t is good news that comes from
Atlanta, where the National Associa-
ton Of Credit Men are in annual con-
vention, in the prediction that sum-
mary of business conditions the coun-
try over shows that prosperity is here
to stay These men, who keep finger
upon the pulse of credits in business,
are in position to know what is going
on in trade and production. The sum.
mary was compiled from question
naires sent to fourteen trade groups.
1t was announced that all the groups
showed not only an improvement in
collections and sales for May, as COM
pared with April, 1923, but held out
good prospects for business within the
next six months.
This favorable forecast adds to the
testimony coming in from many other
sources as to the apparently sound
basis upon which present prosperous
conditions in business are founded,
dispelling the fear of a temporary boom
which might flatten out suddenly. and
unexpectedly. 1t has taken a long
pull and strong pull for business to
recover from the late depression, but
the slowness of the ome-back ap-
parently has but made it the more
solid, and with greater promise of
stability and continuance.
All these favorable and promising
conditions, however, carry with them
q warning against extravaganza and
thriftlessness, so likely to arise when
times are flush," and the temptation
to spend a little more is strong in the
average man and swoman. Former
Gov. Lowden of Illinois, who add
dressed the credit men, issued a warn.
ing against extravaganza in govern
ment and municipal expenditures.
with consequent increased taxes. He
declared that taxation is increasing
faster than wealth in this country,
and that halt must be called.
Such statements as the summary
Of the Credit Mems Association, and
the forecast based on it, are helpful.
The psychological effect Of them is
calculated to encourage and to stimu-
late further effort. No one ought to
get the blues over the immediate
future in business conditions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-16
A Desperate Endeayor.

A Desperate Endeavor.
Some men there be who seem to find
Much favor in the public mind
Because they noisily deny
All that we learned in years gone by.
And even they who disbelieve
With interest ones words receive,
And fashion muhmurs that he shall
Be known as an original.
So here say, THE sun do move"
And that the earth is fiat, by Jove!
In hopes that some may bleat my
name
And let my folly pass for fame.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-16
Alphabet's Condition Shocking to Scientists.

while such letters as CO. and "x''
linger on in the language, senile and
useless.
1t is probable that the great number
Of persons will have the feeling about
this reform that though the alphabet
may be in shockingly degenerate
condition, it is after all "a poor thing,
but our own."-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-16

Certain reformers have recently hit
upon the idea that this will never be
a really happy world in which to live
until. the alphabet has been complete
ly done over and modernized. They
are. it appears, very much shocked to
discover that the letter "a" Is being
very much overworked, doing duty
for a half dozen different sounds:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-16

Fears that the movies will supplant
books as means of education should
of scholarship. Books still assert their
dominating influence. Some Of the
best movie plots are derived from the
hest sellers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-16

Considerations that seem trivial to
one generation take on the highest
significance for the next. Bar privi-
leges on ocean-going vessels now claim
the attention of the most responsible
officials Of state.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-16

There will be little hesitancy ir
crediting the assertions of the French
that the Germans have not gone out
Of their way to make it pleasant for
them in the Ruhr. The incident did
not at the outset suggest itself as an
occasion for cordial hospitality.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-16

The Chinese have a way of making
a resignation rumor assume very seri-
GUS Importance when it Is backed by
military persuasion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-16

Occasionally the New York Stock
Exchange members have to protect
themselves from intruders who mis-
take the regular Wall street assem-.
blage for flock of lambs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-16
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
A Careless Wish

A Careless Wish.
The poet sighed, as poets do,
IF all my dreams would but come
true.'
'Twould be sorry lot, no doubt,
Unless fate cut the nightmares out.