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Evening star., 1923-06-17
MEN AND AFFAIRS
BY ROBERT T. SMALL.

While the United States Tariff
Commission is wrangling within it
self and with the President as to
how it shall function in examining
into the various schedules of the
F'ordney McCumber tariff act. John
T. Barnett OF Colorado. for many
years democratic national commit
teeman for that state, and probably
one of its next senators, comes out
! with a safe and sane tariff view
which could, and should, take the
| tariff out Of politics. Mr.. Barnett is
in Washington on legal business.
II do not believe in protective
tariff" he said to the writer; nor
| do 1 believe inn tariff for revenue
only.
What this country needs, in addi-
ton to a good five-cent cigar, is a COM
petitive tariff"
There is a slogan with which to win
an election. 1t could be adopted by
the grand old party itself. the party
of protection; and it could easily be
adopted by the democratic party and
serve it in the winning of those in
terests that fear always that the
democrats are going to open the
gates Of America to the dumpings
of the old world.
A competitive tariff-one that en-
ables the American producer to COM
pete on terms of equality with for
eign countries which have an ad-
vantage of cheaper raw materials
or cheaper labor cost.
A competitive tariff--the very name
implies the fiexibility which the Con-
gress attempted to write into the
Fordney- -McCumber act
A competitive tariff-it has
sound of fairness about il which
cannot be mistaken.
There is no question but that the
term protective tariff" gives to the
average man the impression that
some interest is being protected" by
the government. protected against
competition, at the expense Of the
ultimate consumer and taxpayer. The
term competitive tariff would con-
vey an entirely different impression.
The average American is fair-minded
and therefore he likes to see fair
competitive conditions established A
competitive tariff would serve every
purpose Of what is now known as
protection" for the republican tar
If makers themselves say they seek
only to establish duties which will
enable the American producer to
meet the cost of production abroad
But so long as these same politi-
clans rally under the banner Of pro
lection" there is bound to be the in
ference that they are in truth pro-
tecting and coddling certain indus
tries rather than merely placing
them on a competitive basis.
The democratic party adheres the
oretically TO the doctrine of a tariff
for revenue only, ostensibly disre-
garding the condition Of home in
dustry. with an occasional whispered
mention of free trade"
In practice and in principle. how
ever, there are few democrats today
who would be willing to write a
tariff that would disregard home in
dustries entirely. But the tradition
of the party has thrown business, as
a rule, on the side of the republicans.
could be committed at this time to a
competitive tariff, the whole political
position of the two major parties
would be shifted on this important
Issue And nothing could be more
Evening star., 1923-06-17

is an abnormal growth of tissue Of
more or less malignant form taking
many aspects, with a wide range of
location and degrees of menace to
life. Operations of removal have sue
ceeded in some cases, but usually they
are undertaken too late for cure, after
the disease has affected such wide
TO life, or after the patient has been
too far depleted in strength to re-
cover. Medicinal treatments, once ap-
piled commonly, based upon what may
be called folk remedies, have been long
since abandoned by medical science
as futile. In recent years experiments
have been made with serum treat
ments, but so far with little success,
though occasionally one Is announced
that for a time promises solution of
the problem. AT present the highest
hope rests upon the X-ray or radium
treatment.
That a close relationship exists be-
tween radium and the X-ray is now
believed. and the electric current is
being substituted for the emanations
of the costly and rare product of
pitchblende in many cases, with ap-
parently equivalent results. In this
case in New York the high-power
X-ray is definitely substituted for
radium treatment. The question in
volved in it is whether the tremen-
dous current Of light which is poured
into the body at the exposed point
will have a deleterious effect upon
the normal tissues while breaking
down the abnormal or diseased part,
and whether the system can then alb
sorb the latter without systemic
poisoning.
Evening star., 1923-06-17
Fifty Years Ago in
The Star

When the District became a terri
tory in the early seventies of the
last century i
| Economy and had a long pro
r. n gram OF public
improve m nj 5
| before it. with a heavy expend
iture of money. Eventually it ran
into serious financial difficulties
that eliminated in virtual bank
the organic act of 1878. Meanwhile
the cry of economy in municipal eH-
penditures was sounded. In The Star
of June 3, 1873, is the following com
Mt upon one phase of this demand
| for economical administration.
| THE most rigid economy in con-
| ducting every branch of the gov
ernment of the District of Columbia
| has become a necessity. The task
| of retrenchment is a very delicata
one, however, and requires the mos'
| careful consideration of the legisla
ture. The economy which would
destroy the efficiency of any depart
ment of the public service must en-
! tail much greater expense in the Ions
run than the amount proposed to h.
saved.
Instead of cutting down or cuttine
off small salaries of necessary off
GERS, thereby effecting a minute
saving, but offering a premium for
| jobbing or corruption. let the list OF
officers be gone over carefully and
all the useless ones Topped off. Re
duce the number of salaried officers.
| 1t can and ought to be done.
| "Mr. Thompson's 'retrenchment bill.
as it passed the council. was in the
main a good one, but by no means
unobjectionable. Some of its mos
obnoxious provisions have beeH
stricken out by the house of dele
gates. but the pressure brought Ia
| bear upon that body has caused them
| to carry the amending process To-"
/ far.
J zone of the most judicious amend
ments Of the house was that strikinc
out the clause which provided tina
| the board of fire underwriters shou !.
have the appointment OF two firr
commissioners in a board consistine
| of five members, a proportion which
| ought not TO nave been SerlOuSit
considered. There is no good reason
why this should be so. but many
why it should not be.
with the cooperation of one other
! member the underwriters would con
troll the fire department. What
might and probably would be the
| result, even without such co-opera
tion? A fire occurs. The energies os
/ the firemen would inevitably be
directed TO saving the property in
! our companies The uninsured
would have to burn. This might
make business for the insurancn
companies, but it is hardly a fair
| way of doing it.
"Old citizens can remember the
| time when the Firemens Insurance
| badges on a building were all-power
full in attracting the streams of water
from the engines. while property
without that talisman vas allowed
to burn. Other cities have passed
through the same experience, but all
we believe have profited by it to
divorce the fire department from
the underwriters. Other arguments
might be used against the measure.
but the above ought to be sufficient
to kill 1t. Let the fire department
be free to save all the property pos
sible from the flames. whether in
sured or not"
Evening star., 1923-06-17
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
PeryerSity.

Perversity.
Sometimes the more you tell a boy
It's wrong to swim on Sunday,
The more he finds aquatic joy
Most potent on that one day.
The more you tell of crooked games
Some tragic and some funny,
The more the bunco-steerer claims
Your Uncle Reuben's money.
And boy and man are never rid
OF grief-let none deny it.
The more some fool scheme is forbid
The more you want to try it.
Evening star., 1923-06-17

democratic than fair competition.
1t is an appealing term, that Com
petitive tariff" and If the republican
| platform writer's of 1924 are wise in
| their generation they Will seize this
| idea of Colorado's leading democrat
and put it bodily into their procla
| nation of faith
An American business concern has
just made the important discovery
| that one Of its employees in Berlin.
German with a real idea of thrift in
| his head, has cashed none of his
American checks since last Novem
! Der. Although this employe gives his
| firm only part time service. his sal
airy is $3.50 week. The firm figures
that he now has checks for thirty
weeks in his possession, calling for a
total of $4,000. German marks this
week have been selling around 1OO.-
600 to the dollar. In other words If
this German employe were to cash his
American dollar checks into marks al
this rate he would have exactly 450.-
100000 marks. or the normal equiva
lent of more than s100,0o0,0o0 for his
slightly more than one-half year of
parttime work.
One particularly interesting phase
of the case is that the checks which
are being boarded in Berlin are not
bank drafts or cashiers checks; they
are merely the ordinary private
checks of the concern, drawn on
bank here in Washington. The wise
German realizes, however, that these
tokens of American credit are ia,
more precious than the paper col
lateral of the German government
and he is acting accordingly. The be
lief is that he is saving the checks
in order to make American invest
ments. Then, even with the dividends
he collects or the coupons he clips
he can still be rhine millionaire
in marks.
Meantime that 100000, ,O00-mark bal
ance that he is holding sounds almost
like a settlement of the reparationx-
problem.
Like the motorman who spent his
day off riding around on the front
platform of a trolley car, Pat Sulli-
van Of Wyoming wandered into the
grand wild west show and rodeo
which came to Washington as a part
of the entertainment for the Mystic
Shriners. Pat Sullivan is by way Of
being republican national committee
man for Wyoming. and he is as pis
in stature and in heart as the state
from which he halls. Pat went west
as young Irish lad and grew up with
the country, grew up into wealth and
into great power in national poll
tics.
Wyoming. it must be remembered
is the real home of the real rodeo
The Frontier day celebrations at
Cheyenne have attracted more than
one President of the United States to
these marvellous exhibitions of cattle
roping. broncho busting and all the
picturesque features of the life OF the
real west. Too see a rodeo and wild
west show pulled off on a city lol
was new experience for Pat. The
show left him absolutely speechless.
but he came out of the inclosure with
grin on his face reaching from ear
to ear. For Pat Sullivan to see a
rodeo on the Union station plaza, in
the National Capital, was truly like
an old salt getting enthusiasm out Of
a painted ship on a painted ocean.
Evening star., 1923-06-17

A great many first-rate ideas are
presented in commencement essays
the general public are at present in
adequate. and powerful thoughts. like
the waters Of Niagara Falls, continue
to run to waste.
Evening star., 1923-06-17

The mysterious power Of music can
not be denied. There is no telling
what the psychiatrists might do to a
man who, in cold-blooded converse
ton. repeated the words of some of
the popular songs.
Evening star., 1923-06-17

The Industrial court proved to be
the expression of one Of those theories
which did not work out. The episode
will not discourage Kansas, which
has prospered amazingly even while
throwing one theory after another
into the discard.
Evening star., 1923-06-17
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Evening star., 1923-06-17

The wet politicians evidently regard
kind of good resolution to be dis
pensed with as soon as the headache
is over.
Evening star., 1923-06-17

Refusal Of France to quit the Ruhr
until reparations settlement is
reached may dispose of any idea in
Germany's mind that every delay that
can be managed is an advantage.
Evening star., 1923-06-17

Those who desire to purchase 100,-
900 marks for 81 are advised to buy
quickly if they do not wish to get
more for their money.
Evening star., 1923-06-17

The foreign demand for German
marks might be enhanced if they could
be issued in a form that would permit
them to be used as confetti.
Evening star., 1923-06-17

1t is not unreasonable to expect that
Col. Bryan will be on hand to propose
an anti-evolution plank for the next
democratic platform.
Evening star., 1923-06-17

AS a young and ambitious nation
Jugoslavia is disposed to pay as it
goes and establish it's credit for fu-
ture enterprise.
Evening star., 1923-06-17

Instead of sharks or sea serpents,
tse enterprisinG coast resort will now
advertise barrels and demijohns
washed ashore.
Evening star., 1923-06-17
THEODORE w. MOVES. Editor
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Evening star., 1923-06-17
QuadriIlionaire's Difficulty.

Supposing that you own this earth
'Tis plain that you will try it
How can you sell for what it's worth
Or find some one to buy il?
Evening star., 1923-06-17

The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning
edition. is delivered by carriers within the city
at 90 cents per month"; daily only. 40 cents per
month: Sunday only 20 cents per month. or-
ders may bc sent by mail telephone Main
1000. Collection is made by carriers at the
end of each month
Evening star., 1923-06-17
Value of PubIicity

The man who tolls both morn ant
night
His merit, people doubt it.
Success performs some labor slight
And raises Cain about It.
Evening star., 1923-06-17
Heard and Seen
A chapter on pleasant people

The world is so full of a number
of things, l am sure we should all
be as happy as kings" sang the poet.
But from the way some folks act
one would think they never found
anything or anybody worth while in
the world.
Crouch, crouch. crouch.
Indifference to others. lack of ele-
mental courtesy. inability to recog-
nize the good in the other fellow
| these are some of the earmarks OF
the ordinary, common garden variety
OF boor against whom one runs all
too often.
1t is, therefore, particularly pleas
| ing to recall here few of the cour-
teous, decent-acting people one may
! meet in our great National Capltal.
People met in the passing oil
Rev. DR.. James E. Freeman, Bishop
elect of the Episcopal Diocese of
Washington.
DR.. Freeman is a big, hearty. up
standing man. who can lead to Christ
not only those who normally hear
His message. but all those others
who are hard TO redcn
In carrying on his high work, the
bishop-elect does not lose sight of
the ordinary man, nor OF the or
dinary little ciyilities which men
have come to expect of men who AIM
to do the right thing.
A human fellow, indeed, is DR.. Free
man, with his little dog and his Gig
arctic; man with an outspoken
word of good cheer for all; who will
do more, / have no hesitancy in say
| ing, to lead men to the Master, IN MS
work as bishop, than hundred men
who preach brotherhood, but fail TO
exemplify it on the street.
Postmaster William NJ. Mooney.
/ Bill" as he is known to every one
presides over one of the finest city
post offices in the country.
| The new postmaster has jumped
| into control in a fashion that i'm
mensely pleaSes all his TRENDS VINO
said he could do it.
There is not a one of the 1000 en-
/ ployes of the city post offlce VINO
| hasn't a friend in the postmaster.
Every man and woman knows it.
1t is because Bill is human being,
| a man who greets you with smile,
that he is winning out in big way
| at the post office.
| A pleasant man to meet, he Is a
pleasant man when you leave him. If
YOU want to know one of the secrets
of success, listen in some time when
the postmaster says. What can l do
! for your
! And he will do it, too.
| Garland W. Powell, national direc-
| tor of the Americanism commission
| of the American Legion.
| He is that much talked of, but none
too often found person, a 100 per
cent American"
! Although he presided over the con-
| ference of patriotic societies last
week at Memorial Continental Hall
which drafted new code for civilian
usage of the flag, he was never once
| too darn busy to answer questions
asked him.
| I have seen some of the finest folks
| in the world go crazy when attempt
| ing to do anything out of the ordi-
nary Sweet women l have seen be-
come rude as f1shwives when spoken
| to during the course Of meeting
they were conducting.
But Powell, being a human being,
as most soldiers are, was never too
busy during the course of that two
lday conference to answer Questiens,
OF help out In anything he couldM8
X
Evening star., 1923-06-17
Obscurity.

Obscu-ity.
The berry nestles meath the leaf,
Avoiding human kind;
But when it's in the shortcake i
Is harder still to find.
Evening star., 1923-06-17

When the District became d terri.
tory in the early seventies of the
Evening star., 1923-06-17

One of the attractive features
in the parade of the Mobiles of the
Mystic Shrine was the historic In
dian outfit worn by Noble Haight
of Yelduz Temple. Aberdeen, S. d.
Representative Royal Johnson, who
is a longtime personal friend of
w. II. Wilson, the illustrious poten-
tate of this temple, and who per-
sonally escorted the mobiles from
Aberdeen. says that this Indian re-
gala was secured. after much diff
Guilty, on the reservation west of the
Missouri river, near Mcintosh, S. D.
According to Representative john
son, this outfit belongs to and is
greatly priced by Big Chief Wanim-
balusa C"Four Winds"), who is the
son-in-law of the famous warrior
and medicine man, Sitting Bull. He
Is one of the last of the fast-disap-
pearing aborigines of the Bullhead
band of the Dakota Sioux Indians.
He has seen the passing of many
summers and winters and he, has been
a silent witness to the ruthless
slaughter and extinction of the buff
falo and all other wild game of his
western plains.
Many times has -Four Winds
visited Washington to see the great
white father. for he has been the
official representative of his tribe in
many councils. He has seen Wash
ington transformed from a struggling
village with a few government build
ings into the city beautiful, with all
it's wonderful and very interesting
monuments. structures and govern
mental activities.
Representative Johnson says that
-Four Winds believes that the In
dian fancy dress costume which was
worn in the Shriners' parade is the
only complete costume owned by one
individual Indian on the reservation
Many of the articles of adornment
are of great age and have been hand
ed down from generation to genera
tion in his family. Only after many
powwows could he be persuaded to
allow it's use in the big demonstra-
tion here.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-06-18

Pre-Volstead Cabaret
Of Palatial Design
Planned Near Frisco

San Francisco, June 17.-Prohibi-
ton authorities admitted tonight that
they had heard of a plan said to be
sponsored by local wealthy men to
install a palatial booze palace off the
Golden Gate and outside the three
mile limit which would serve the
double purpose of providing a gay
cabaret with preVolstead refresh
ments and also a store ship for yes
sells forced TO disgorge their wet car
goes in order to enter port.
Reports reaching the. dry officers
were to the effect that the former
cruiser Buffalo. now retired, was un-
der consideration for purchase and
refitting into a palatial ocean hotel
with accommodation of hundreds OF
diners who would reach it on special
excursion ships.
If the plan proves successful, the
promoters are said TO contemplate
extension of the marine hoteP plan
TO other Pacific and Atlantic ports.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-06-18
Grand Old Summer
Seen for Capital
No Congress, President and
Cabinet on Trips. Leaves
Nation TO Run Itself.

Washington. June 1.-THE coun,
try VIII be pretty safe for the next
two months.
With no congress on the Job. the
president in Alaska. and most OF the
cabinet scattered 10 the four winds,
Il can rock along just as il pleases.
Secretary OF Commerce Hoover al
ready is enroute west and will join
President Harding. when he sails
from Seattle for Alaska
Secretary OF Interior Work and
Secretary Of Agriculture Wallace will
90 with the president. when he leaves
next Wednesday for the Alaskan
trip.
Secretary OF the Treasury Mellon
sails next Saturday for Europe TO be
gone until the last Of August.
Secretary Of Labor Davis viii leave
Washington in a few days for q sum-
mer vacation Of several weeks.
Attorney General Daugherty. who
has been in III health for five months.
viii not be ready TO resume his active
direction OF the Department Of Justice
before fall and VIII spend most Of the
intervening time away from Wash
lngton.
Secretary OF State Hughes. Secre-
tary Of War Weeks. and Secretary
Of the Navy Denly will he the only
cabinet members left on the job. and
any one of them may he slipping
or from time 10 time for a few
days rest Anyway, there are too
few IN number TO hold cabinet
meeting.
II looks like a grand old summer
in Washington.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-06-18
Large Audience
Creets Former
Minister Here
DIR. Titus Lowe. in Sermon al
First Methodist Church.
Blames Statesmen
for Unrest.

Dr. Titus Lowe. secretary of the
Board Of Foreign Missions OF the
Methodist church. was greeted yes.
terday by one OF the largest congre.
cations that attended the First Meth.
edist church. where he filled the pulpit
Of DIR. Jo W. G. Fast. who is vaca.
tioning.
So large was the audience that
many men and women were forced to
remain standing during the services.
Half OF the attendants shook hands
with the minister after services.
DR. Lowe. who was former pastor
Of the First church. took for his
text, The Nations Challenge to the
Church
DR. Lowe stated that there was a
slump in the church and a greater
defiation in idealism and charged
statesmen with responsibility for
present conditions.
Members Of the church said II was
one of the best sermons ever given
by DR. Lowe. DIR. Lowe. who lef,
last night for New York, his head
quarters, has lust completed a four
months trip In South America.