Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-04

Ing indifference or inefficiency. Most
OF these victims had been sent TO the
tuberculosis hospitals before the ad-
ministration of Director Hines.
There they have been intimately as
ISOLATED with tubercular victims for
many months. 1t is generally under
stood that tuberculosis is infectious.
yet, in the face OF this situation, DR..
l.. b. Rogers. assistant director, in
charge of the medical division, de-
clares that the non-tubercular men
go exposed to tubercular infection,
were in scarcely any danger OF in
lection. He claims that the danger
was of "infinitesimal Importance"
Apparently IL was the idea of the
doctors who sent them thereof in
finitesimal Importance" whether the
diagnosis was correct or not. Di-
rector Hines is undertaking to rectify
the mistakes and to reorganize hospi-
tai administration. That undertaking
does not seem to the public to be of
"infinitesimal Importance"
X X
That was an interesting correction
to an eXcusable error in Capital
Keynotes which was reported by
George F.. Mitchell, concerning the
new state flower of South Carolina.
The original news item on which the
comment was based made no dis
tinotion as to which of the two yell
low jasmines of South Carolina had
been selected Reference to a book,
Popular Garden Flowers" by Walter
r. Wright. found only one yellow Jas
mine credited to the region from
Washington to Texas. the yellow
winter bloomer, auditorium. This
cheap, easily grown and most useful
plant was introduced from China In
1914. 1t was sent home by the cele-
brated plant collector. Robert For
tune"
No mention was made of the native
"geisemium sempervirens," which the
! correspondent now informs the world
is the state flower OF the Palmetto
state. The selection of the American
flower IL most suitable. South Caro-
lima is TO be felicitated.
4
Many residents of the District of
Columbia. who have come to the Dis
trict voluntarily and perhaps per-
manently, retain their citizenship
rights In the states from which they
| came. They allege that they are not
citizens of the District; they vote in
the other states. Ownership of prop
erty In a state does not affect the
owners citizenship; many own prop
erty in general states.
Some time ago Justice Wendell T.
Stafford ruled that d California rep
resentative in Congress remained
citizen of California. If the ruling
had been otherwise, how could a rep
resentative go back TO his constftu-
ency and claim reelection after
having ceased TO be q citizen Of the
state from which he had been elected?
Most states require years resi-
dence before citizenship can be &C
luired; hence there could be no
consecutive reflections If service in
Congress automatically made the
representatives and senators all clti-
zens Of the District of Columbia.
This is not the reasoning of a
lawyer, but an inquiry Of layna n.
in the light of a more recent ruling
by Justice Jennings Bailey that Rep
resentative James OF Michigan can be
declared bankrupt under the laws
of the District. because ne lives here.
being a member of the law Eristmill
upon Capitol Hill. The representative
comedies that while he is voting IN
| Congress his children attend school
| in Washington. and also that he pays
taxes here on what personal property
| he owns here.
If that makes him citizen Of the
| District, he forfeits his Michigan Citi-
zenship and his eligibility to reelec-
ton Will il not disfranchise thou
| sands of other residents of Washing
ton who have been voting by mail?
Mr. James is taking an appeal to the
Court of Appeals.
Mr. Bryan says Senator Under
| woods chances for nomination as
presidential candidate are slim" and
the senator retorts that Mr.. Bryan is
| silly" Can both be right? Some
men would rather be right than
| President.
| When Gen. James G.. Hartford, for
mer chief of staff under Gen.
Pershing, talked by radio from Paris
| to Washington last week, his voice
was $ dry as If it were not travers-
| ing the 1000 miles of the Atlantic.
| and, stranger still. he had no French
| accent Great is the radio. chief an
| nihilator of space.
| y * y x
The United States imported p
| 900. 900 fewer bananas this year than
last, but was that justification for
| singing such a song about it? Sooner
| would we have eaten the whole
| 100000.
Copyright, 1928 by T. V. collus.l