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Evening star., 1923-02-03

doubtedly was true. No native writer
has SO intelligently analyzed our
scheme of government and social
fabric as Bryce analyzed them in his
american Commonwealth"
Had Lord Bryce indulged only in
praise Of our institutions we might
have liked him as well, but we GER
tainly would have held him in less re-
spect. That we took his criticisms in
good part IL attested by the fact that
not only did they arouse no resent
ment, but that we have profited by
them to the extent Of correcting some
Of the faults he pointed out. Were he
revising his work today it would be
necessary to alter some of his conclu-
sions, but those conclusions seemed
justified at the time he drew them,
and that they are not justified today
is due in some degree to his friendly
criticism.
Lord Bryce was a loyal British sub
ject and an able servant of the crown,
but he was, in the highest and best
sense of that term, citizen Of the
world. He travelled widely, and every
where he went he gave much and re-
ceived much in return. His ambas-
sadorship in Washington was a unique
experiment in European diplomacy. 1t
is no disparagement OF the distln'
guished men who preceded him or
those who have come since to say that
he did more to cement international
friendship than any other envoy ever
accredited to this capital. His alto
gether exceptional knowledge OF Amer
lea, his sincerity and utter simplicity,
gave him a standing wholly impossl'
BILE of attainment by the professional
diplomatist. He was just such an am
bassador as Americans like to think
Benjamin Franklin was, and he had a
success comparable to that OF Frank
lin and attributable to like character
istics.
Americans honor the memory or
Bryce because he, almost alone among
our foreign critics. understood the
thing which, for lack Of more de-
scriptive name. we call Americanlsm.
He grasped the whole of the Amerl'
can ideal and put it into a single SEN
tence when he wrote: THAT America
marks the highest level, not only OF
material we'll being, but Of intelligence
and happiness. which the race has yet
attained, will be the judgment of those
who look not at the favored few for
whose benefit the world seem hitherto
to have framed its institutions, but at
the whole body OF the people"
Evening star., 1923-02-03
NO TIME TO SIT
SUPINELY BY.

Civilization Is approaching danger.
fight is brewing on the interna-
tional world campus. The United
States is opposed to that fight If
it is to be stopped. 1t must be now.
we must not sit supinely by and al
low civilization to go on the rocks.
The lives of your boy and my bow
are at stake. Let US act vigorously
and act now.-Representativ Chal-
mers (Ohio), republican.
ANOTHER VIEW OF
THE FARM BLOC.
I was simply going to remark that
in enumerating the great benefits the
farm bloc have rendered to the coun-
try, 1 hoped the senator would not
forget to enumerate the excessively
high tariff duties levied upon raw
wool, due largely to the farm bloo.-
Senator Walsh, Massachusetts, demo-
crat.
SHERMAN WAS RIGHT.
War Is conglomeration of inequal-
tiles and a multiplicity Of iniouities.
Representative Kincheloe, Ken
lucky, democrat.
SEE THE SOWING OF THE
DRAGONS TEETH.
The invasion Of Germany by the
French military forces will not meet
the moral approval of America, be-
cause they see in this invasion the
sowing of dragons' teeth.-Senator
owen (Okla.), democrat.
GERMANY HAS CHANGED
ITS TUNE.
The bully who swaggered in 1914,
1915, 1915 and 1917 now whines be-
cause he is beaten. Every bully
yhines when he Is beaten. Are we
going TO allow ourselves to be de-
ceived by thatf-senator Reed (PAl
Evening star., 1923-02-03
Conclusion of brief of Citizens
Joint Committee.)


Joint Committee.)
r The taxpayers of today-that is, of
the period l916-l926-are weighed
down with the tax burdens of past.
present and future: Cd They are bur
dened with alleged indebtednesses of
the remote past, especially those aris-
ing from the blunders or neglects of
agents OF the federal government be-
tween 1874 and 1873. MANY thousand
dollars OF such alleged indebtedne
have been thus inequitably collected
from them, and they are now menaced
Tin violation OF the spirit of the
statute of limitations) with the reviv.
lcation to their injury OF debts ap-
parently settled or forgiven more than
forty years ago and with demand for
payment OF interest on these alleged
ancient debts. (2) They have been
burdened with the heavy war taxes OF
this decade, of which they have paid
thelr. full share, more i'll 1918-lol9 than
any one OF fifteen states, more than five
states combined. They have met all
their obligations in municipal expendi-
ture. They have been taxed municipally
so as to raise in addition to what thev
were permitted to spend several millions
OF surplus taxes under the half-and-half
law, and now the question is raised
whether they shall be permitted to
spend for their own benefit the surplus
which they have thus accumulated.
through violation by Congress, their ex-
elusive Legislature, of the literal terms
OF the act of 1873. (3) They are not
only thus burdened with the resur
rected alleged Indebtedness long ago
dead, buried and decayed, of the remote
past, and are not only thus held from
the use of millions of taxes collected
from them in the last three years, con-
stituting their tax revenue of the pres
ent, but they are menaced with imposi-
ton of the burdens of taxpayers of
the future by the requirement that in
addition to current taxes for current
maintenance they shall be taxed to
raise millions to meet the first half year
expenditure of 1928 under the new
so-called pay-as-you-go policy, recently
proclaimed by Congress. This pay-as-
you-go policy obviously exposes itself
as really pay-before-you-go policy.
What have the taxpayers of this dec
Evening star., 1923-02-03
Bad Business.

By vote of the House of Representa-
tives, the government will go on for
at least another year exposing its rec
ords and files to destruction and dam.
age, to dispersal and DETACHMENT. 1t
will not start work on an archives
building, to house the older records not
of current use, nor will it build sys-
tenn of steel stacks in the court of the
Pension building for the care Of the
semi-current files. In short, it will
leave things precisely as they are, as
a matter of economy. 1t will save the
immediate expenditure of 81, 500, 900
$1,000,000 for the filing stacks and
$5O0,000 to begin the archives building
and continue to expose to loss its
records that cannot be valued.
''Some day" the government will
protect itself in this matter. Some
day" it will have an estimate put
through the budget bureau which will
be Accepted by both houses and work
will start on these constructions, per-
haps both Of them, to produce a stor-
age place for the occasionally used
files and a permanent housing for the
records of historic value and rare use.
Meanwhile it will run tremendous
risk, a risk that no business concern
would run, and that may at any time
result in an irreparable loss.
Members of Congress who visit the
departments do not see the congestion
of the files. They go usually to the
offices of the heads, or the immediate
subordinate chiefs, whose quarters are
tions. Or maybe they go to the offices
Of the chiefs Of division, also free Of
membranes. But back Of these are
rooms that are choked with files, cur
rent and non-current, files in wooden,
rarely metal, shelving, files that are SO
stored that access to them is difficult,
packed away in conditions that in a
private establishment would cause the
fire underwriters to raise the premium
on the insurance or forbid the issue Of
policies.
These conditions are not the result
Of carelessness in the departments and
bureaus. Every chief of division knows
the value Of these papers and strug-
giles with the problem of keeping them
properly. Daily they waste time in re-
searches for needed documents. Daily
they are in terror lest some careless
subordinate, some thoughtless clerk or
messenger, throw a match or a lighted
cigarette into a corner to start q fire.
Up in the attics and down in the cell
lars are bales and boxes Of papers
that no one dares to destroy, exposed
to the mischievous attentions of rats
and mice and insects, and to the in
jury Of dampness, molding away to
illegibility or gnawed to scraps.
And because the estimates were not
formally passed through the budget
bureau and because economy Is the
word. the government will not spend
s1,500,000 to protect these papers. If
the government were a business con.
Germ some > one would question the
soundness of its management.
Evening star., 1923-02-03
Bryce and America,

Tributes paid by eminent Americans
to the memory Of James Bryce, at the
memorial services held in this city last
Sunday afternoon, testify to some.
thing very much out Of the ordinary
in the way Of regard in which q citi.
zen Of one nation is held by the whole
people Of another. It has been said Of
Lord Bryce that he was a better
American than most Americans and
q better Briton for being so good
an American. BY that was meant
only that he had better understand
ing and appreciation Of the genius OF
American institutions and this I'M
Evening star., 1923-02-03

Maj Gen. Hanson e. Ely, who will
become commandant of the Army
war College, in Washington, in June.
ran into an old acquaintance the 9TH
er day In the person of E. B. Johns of
the Army and Navy Journal. Johns
recalled that when the general was
appointed to West Point from Iowa,
In the late eighties. the former di-
vested himself of splendiferous
editorial on the military honors that
had befallen the community. The
panegyric on young Ely appeared in
the Iowa City Daily Citizen. Quoth
the general to Johns: Yes, remem-
Der that masterpiece. 1 shall never
forget 1t. 1 can recite 1t today.
somebody forwarded it to the Mill
tary Academy. I hadn't been at West
poi2t long before upper -classmen re-
quireu me to learn 1t by heart and
deliver II, in Patrick Henry style. be-
fore them in mass meeting Assem-
nieo. Maj. Gen. Ely, hero of Cam
.IsnS ana Meuse crossing. now COM
nands the general service schools
anu post at Fort Leavenworth.
X * #
Amid the trials and tribulations of
the ship subsidy President Harding
never tires of recalling how he "soId,.
lne subsidy idea to the late Mark
iiahha' when Senator Hanna was
power In Ohio and national politics
MT Harding was a young editor-noli-
ticlan in Marion county. With char
aacterlstic modesty he refrained from
Tho ~ eounsel on the best minds of
cnvr VI. " r. OF the day. but took his
courage In both hands ON a cartain
occasion. The Cleveland Plain Dealer
..b,ocratlc, was berating Hanna for
ing onto the coat-tails of Nc
hinIeys memory" and Offering tho
peopie nothing new in the pendine
er's rjrbt. mink the Plain Deal
..Hh MSrioh Daily Star to Hanna. Then:
Why don't you talk shin suhsidu
me, me farmers Will be for II, heart and
GU mamma approved the sueSes-
XII Kinio aoahdoned glorifcation of Nc
MADE subsidy the triumphant jss,a aiiu ~
ohlo that year. III
X X X
Inc London Daily EXPRESS tho
British journal of pronine,ca 81.
pposes acceptance of the American
oeot-funding proposals. is owned and
eul'ea by North Americans. The nro-
piietor is Lord Beaverbrook. a ma
I'VE OF New Brunswick Canada no.
SeM Jersey), and the editor-in-cbief
born in Wisconsin and bepan avr Was
Paper lie as Chicago reporter
'eIorook has apparently fallen
Sut with Bonar Law, also SON of
,ha,, brunswick. During the war
tney We're boon companions in poii-
tics and business. When ReaWer po,
orook became peer and was hunt
ing Tor title he chose the name of
Evening star., 1923-02-03
Washington Observations
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

rfvulet that trickles through his
home town. Beaver brook. hostile
newspaper said 1t would have been
more fitting If he had chosen another
landmark and called himself Lord
Yuba DAM"
somewhat conspicuous figure in
Washington society this winter,
though unbeknown to the hoi- -polloi is
full-fedged Prussian general, Maj.
Gen. Hans Won Below. He arrived in
the United States last year with his
wife. former Philadelphia. During
the war Won Below commanded the 51st
Army Corps Of the German army. though
he did not attain the distinction Of a
more famous brother, Gen. Otto Won
Below, who commanded an army.
The Won Below now in Washington
appears to be indefatigable in the OBJ
serVation of current American events
of international interest. He is sell
dom missing from the public galleries
of Congress when important debates
are under way. The general won
fame in South America before the
war as the reorganizer of the Ar
gentinian army. When the war broke
out he commanded the famous Kais-
erin Augusta Grenadier Guards regi-
ment at Berlin.
X X
Senator Brandegee of Connecticut,
who calculated, What the blazes is
tear" when Ambassador Harvey asked
him to tea at the White House last
month. will not popularize himself
in Great Britain by that aspersion
upon John Bulls sacred sundown
L..
tom. 1t is rite. 1t is taken as reg
ularly as the clock reaches 5. or
earlier. In office, home and factory
it is a cherished institution. The
governor of the Bank of England.
Montagu Norman. who recently was
in Washington, is as likely as not
to receive Senator Smoot or Secre-
tary Hoover over the teacups, IL the
American should happen to be pay
Old Lady of Threadneedle Street.
Lord Northcliffe Stunned tea. He
used to like to say the tea habit was
responsible for the lethargy in the
average Briton.
X *
Theodore Roosevelt, according to
Senator Arthur Capper. had a long
range and prophetic vision Of the
Importance of farm legislation for
national prosperity. Shortly before
he died" says Capper, Roosevelt
summoned me TO his bedside in the
hospital. He had recently finished
what was destined to be his last ar
ticle Inc the Metropolitan Magazine,
which dealt with the farmers plight
The elections of November. 1918, were
just over. Roosevelt said they had
one plain and unmistakable lesson
for the republican party, and that
was the necessity OF adopting and en-
acting a comprehensive agricultural
program"
Copyright, 1921
Evening star., 1923-02-03

Little cars and little tunnels, of course.
Either that, or send them overhead
And we are coming to that?" /
asked.
we are bound to come to It."
"Soon?"
Yes, I think So
I asked the Postmaster General TO
look again through our imaginary
telescope and tell me the future OF
the transcontinental mails.
I'VE are trying now to fly by night,
he said. I'VE are stringing beacons
across the western section OF the
country to guide our flyers.
"We shall know this year IL night
flying with the mails is possible"
Suppose 1t is." I suggested.
"Then New York and San Francisco
will be only thirty hours apart A
ing should be delivered in San Fran
cisco tomorrow afternoon.
"Of course" he added, I'VE should
have to make a charge sufficient to
cover the expense"
Then the pent-up question came.
And do you think, Mr.. Postmaster
General, that the government will
come to transmitting mail by the
telegraph wires?"
come. We could well use the tele-
phone too"
But that leaves no record" L said.
THE man who is to receive the
message would have notice; that
would be enough"
How would you manage the trans
mission of mail matter by telegraph"
Would you have the government con-
struct the plant, string the wires and
all?"
"It might be better" he suggested.
"to have the government arrange
with the existing companies to handle
the business"
"And have mailgrams, sent by wire
and delivered within an hour or so""
Exactly" he agreed
AT a cost Of say, the postage on a
special delivery letter..
Probably not so low, but certainly
approaching it"
"How soon, Mr.. Postmaster Gen
eral?"
He measured his words carefully.
II think" he said. that some such
plan may be recommended to the next
Congress"
Copyright. 1921
Evening star., 1923-02-03
ECHOES FROM CAPITOL HILL
WHY NOT WAKE UP.

WHY NOT WAKE UP.
We are in a brand-new world and
do not know it. We are in entirely
brand-new circumstances and do not
know it. We are in an age as
divorced from every other as if we
were in another world. and it seems
as If our stupidity is forcing US to
legislate for conditions which have
passed and gone forever, and which
our legislation will not f1t-Senator
Smith Is. c., democrat
WHAT THE MIDDLEMAN GETS.
Out Of the dollar which the labor
ing man pays for the products of the
Is not a new condition developed by
the war; 1t existed prior thereto. In
1912 the farmers got $4,000, 100000 for
their crops which they sold, but the
consumers paid $4,000, 0,000,0 600 for
them.-Senator Brookhart (Iowa), re-
publican.
MANY BELIEVE PEOPLE OPPOSED
TO SUFFRAGE AND PROHIBITION.
The stubborn fact exists that mil
lions Of our countrymen thoroughly
believe that the prohibition and
woman suffrage amendments were
adopted by cunning. by craftiness and
indirection and that the Congress and
the state legislatures were either
browbeaten into voting for the amend
ments or were induced to do 30 by
an insdious lobby.-Senator Ashurst,
Arizona, democrat
A FOREST KINGDOM.
There are twenty-nine states that
have q large forest area. There has
been withdrawn In these twenty-nine
states q forest area OF 166,837, ,282
acres OF the public domain.--Senator
Cameron, Ayixona, TepubltoaR
Evening star., 1923-02-03
Roughneck Motorists.

Washington motorists, interested in
law-observance and safety in the
streets, are asking for the appointment
''of fifty more traffic police, a judge
to preside solely over the Traffic Court
and an assistant district attorney to
devote his uninterrupted attention 20
violations of the traffic regulatiors -
for effective regulation of traffic and
for more "hard-boiled" discipline for
offenders against traffic laws Pedes-
trians are not the only sufferers from
careless and ruthless driving. People
who drive with great caution and obey
the traffic rules complain of danger
from drivers who travel so fast that
they cannot stop their cars quickly
enough to avoid collision, who cut
corners, exceed the speed limit at
from cars entitled to it. Slow and
careful drivers complain that they are
in constant danger of being run into
by the other kind of drivers. The
present police force is doing the best
it can, and it is a pretty good best -
but the police are almost powerless to
curb the offenders. If additional traf-
fic police are appointed it might be
web to make them plain-clothes men.
Police at crossings are almost uni
formly obeyed. Sight of a policeman
in uniform is a signal for the reckless
and unruly driver to affect good man.
ners. With no policeman in sight the
roughneck driver follows his own
sweet will. The streets uptown, down
town, crosstown, everywhere about
the town, are becoming impossible"
Tor pedestrians and for quiet and
orderly auto drivers.
Evening star., 1923-02-03
Barbara Fritchie Date
Held September e
To the Editor Of The Star.

The incident on which Whittiers
ballad of Barbara Fritchie" was found
ed occurred about sunrise Septem-
Der 6. 1862, as the Confederate col
umn was marching to its encamp-
ment on the Bentztown road. across
the creek from the end Of the Fritchie
house. The retreat of the Confed-
crates from the town took place about
3 am. September 10. as related by
Mr.. Buckley, who is quite right in
stating that no such incident took
place on that date. This confusion of
dates has been made before. A little
book published in 1892 by Roberts
Brothers, under the title. Barbara
Fritchie," gives the facts obtained
from living witnesses in 1875, and
points out the mistakes in the poem
It contains photographs by Byerly of
Barbara and her house, the latter
now destroyed WM II. DALI
Evening star., 1923-02-03
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

The Melancholy Million.
met a man who once was proud and
happy.
He humbly asked for sandwiches to
MUNICH.
ventured: whats the reason. dear
old chappie,
That you are dining at a dairy
lunch?"
He answered, "Since those days Of
proflteering
My fortune with the rest will not
For am only just a millionaire.
"They talk Of billions now without a
quiver.
I am supposed to have my trousers
patched.
It's probable for lack Of coal I'll shfver,
Since my financial nest egg never
hatched-
In money matters, as in starry science,
This .relativity' is brought to bear.
The fund is small On which I place
reliance,
Since am only Just a millionaire" {"
Forehanded.
what Is your reason for announc-
ing that you will not be candidate
again?'
$50 that no one else can get ahead Of
me-" replied Senator Sorghum. II can
take it back when I get ready. The
party managers might think they'd
have to rtand BY It."
Jud Tunidns says he has tried after
noon tea, but It's nothing near as re-
viving as an early morning pitcher Of
ice water.
Musings Of Motor Cop.
Hortense Magee, in accents Of despair,
Remarked on hearing the police
mans call.
'The traffic rules are still in good re-
pair,
Although thought that had broke
them all!''
Reciprocity.
"You seem to know a great deal
about politics"
"It's reciprocity" replied Farmer
Corntossel. Politicians appear to
know all about farming"
Smart men often make mistakes %
said Unole Eben, ''an' q lot Of people
think dey's gineter GIT credit foh smart
ness by ipnttattn. - mdstAhek.
Evening star., 1923-02-03

Baltimore is enjoying a season or
German opera. The opening overture
was prefaced by THE Star Spangled
Banner" which fact affords assurance
that DR.. Muck is not an influential
member Of the organization.
Evening star., 1923-02-03

1t might be easier for Uncle Sam to
solve Europe's problems If each Euro
pean nation had not on hand a plan of
solution which it regarded as needing
only responsible Endorsement.
Evening star., 1923-02-03

Shortages in the American coal sup
ply should be contemplated with pa
tient philosophy. They are but tempo
rary embarrassments, involving no in
ternational complications.
Evening star., 1923-02-03
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Rate by Mail-Payable i'm Advance.
MARYLAND and Virginia,
All Other States.


The Associated Press is exclusively entitled
To the use for republication of all news dis
patches credited 10 il or not otherwise credited
IN this paper and also The local news pub
lished herein. All rights of publicati ton of
special dispatches herein also reserved.
Evening star., 1923-02-03

Northcliffe's will provided that his
newspapers must be British-owned:
which implies that any efforts at mod
ern aggressive journalism will have to
be largely initiative.
Evening star., 1923-02-03

Workmen in the Ruhr candidly in.
innate that the situation LIS not merely
a local political problem, but labor
problem which may interest the world,
Evening star., 1923-02-03

Many a farmer is less concerned
with an extension of credit than with
the problem of paying off debts al
ready incurred.
Evening star., 1923-02-03

The fiscal relationships Of Great
Britain and the U. 8. A. are regarded
as matters for adjustment on sound
and just principles.
Evening star., 1923-02-03

Prominence given by Ambassador
Harvey to 5 o'clock tea will not efface
the old slogan Of 1.-The full dinner pail"
Evening star., 1923-02-03

The reorganization Of the demo-
cratic party would be facilitated IL Mr..
Bryan, Mr.. McAdoo and Mr.. Cox could
be brought together for a love feast.
Evening star., 1923-02-03

The dove OF peace and the ground
hog have come to be regarded as
equally unreliable.
Evening star., 1923-02-03

A prizefghter is expected to COM
bine months Of loquacity with minutes
Of pugnacity.
Evening star., 1923-02-03

German statecraft has not ignored
study Of the policies of mastery in
activity.