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Evening star., 1923-01-26
Bury Wartime Hates
Is Message to World

There Is a peculiar significance in
the effect that the order Of with
drawal of American troops from the
Rhine had. apart from Its political
bearing.
The people of Coblenz expressed
regret through the head burgomaster
in an official message to the soldiers.
And in a more personal way. we
learn. the citizens expressed sadness
that the Yanks had to leave.
1t is a strange world. Just a few
years ago an American soldier at
Coblenz would have been a target
for a shot And g. German would have
been fodder for our guns For q few
years now our soldiers have been
camped among former enemy. And
nothing but the friendliest relations
have existed.
Is that not the way that humanity
really wishes to live? Human nature
is pretty much the same the world
over. Civilized peoples want to live
In peace. Where prejudice and hate
are not fostered it Is no great diff
ficulty to obtain that.
But fear has warped the better
judgment of national governments
abroad, and the old hates and preju-
dices are smoldering In the hearts of
How did the Germans and the
Yanks manage to cement their warm
friendship? They just buried their
wartime hates and prejudices. That
Is what the world must strive to do.
Omaha World-Herald.
Evening star., 1923-01-26

The new law. 1t may he remember
| cd, provided. among chief benefitg for
the ladies, that an American woman
marrying q foreigner should not
thereby lose her American citizen
ship.
Under its generous provisions Miss
Tillie Smith of Cockeyed Center. Ind.
might marry the Duke of Disaster
and. while enjoying the title OF
duchess, still would retain the privi-
lego Of coming back to Indiana to
vote and pay taxes.
She would not become a subject OF
the dukes king. but would remain a
| free-born American citizen.
That was the way the law was in
tended to work. So far as the Ameri-
can girl is concerned it does work
just that way. 1t works also for the
American man-works in a way few
anticipated 1t would.
For, by the application of the new
law, the American man marrying
abroad no longer bestows American
citizenship upon his bride. She is just
q plain--well. she remains what she
was. so far as the United States IL
! concerned.
II she were French. she Is still
French; IL she were British. she Is
still British.
| But where American law drops the
matter. French and British and other
! laws take 1t up. These laws prescribe
that when a French woman marries a
foreigner she is no longer French
but Of the nationality Of the man she
married. So do the British laws.
Therefore the French or British
brides OF Americans abroad are
neither French. British nor American
They have no standing in any coun-
try in the world.
Because Of that they may not be
granted passports. And IL one wishes
to travel these days one must have a
passport. even IL one is a bride.
So far as passports are concerned
the bridegroom may take a wedding
trip. but the bride can't 60 along.
The American law. to make it easy
for the women thus deprived Of all cit.
izenship. prescribes that they may be.
come naturalized Americans after q
continuous residence Of one year in the
United States.
But how are they going to get here
| In the first place II they can't get q
passport?
Now that's the question that the
vor,ep ~ Auerica arc skjno the STATE
Department by the bushel of letters
every day. They have just found out
apparently, that this new-fangled Law
has ingrowing nails. and they think
It's a mean trick
Evening star., 1923-01-26
Takes Something Besides Title
To Make a Civilian a "ColOnel''

that in comparison with the military
attitude and bearing of the students
from military academies, they were
poor officers, indeed.
The crowning blow, however, fell
that afternoon. Colonel Harper and
another officer of like rank were
walking down the street. Students
were 1ocking throughout the town.
The first set of students which ap-
preached the "colonels." seeing su-
perior officers in the offing, smartly
saiuted as they passed.
What do / do now?" asked Colo
mel" Harper.
You've got me-" replied the other.
Il guess We had better watch and
see what some of the real officers
They watched, and were rewarded
by the sight OF officers returning
salutes OF soldiers and students. The
difference between returning salutes
and saluting first, however, they
failed to grasp.
The two "colonels" were "all set"
The next group of students they ap-
preached they both stopped, and, to
the dumbfoundment of the former,
gave the boys a sharp salute and
passed on. Not, however, before they
had seen glances of amusement and
VcIislOn OH tnc IdCeS OF the StuQ6ntS.
This will never do" muttered
Colonel Harper to. his companion.
I'm going to find some way to learn
how to be a colonel" He did.
For the next three mornings before
breakfast. If any one had CHANGED
to glance into a certain yard behind
q certain house in st. Louis, they
would have seen strange and un-
familiar sight They would have
seen colonel" in full-dress uni
form, come smartly to attention at
the command of fifteen-year-o old
boy in the w. NJ l. Military Academy
regalia. They would have seen the
colonel" approached the boy, the boy
salute. and the colonel" return 1t in
the most approved fashion. They
would have seen many other things,
too. such as the colonel executing
flank movements for an imaginary
company ;and they would have heard
the boys command, Company, halt"
delivered in a loud and peremptory
tone.
Suffice to say that after this in
struction. which had been given sur
reptitiously by the son of a friend,
Colonel" Harper was the envy of
his comrades. He now felt that he
was q true colonel" and that he
could now Justify. by bearing and
action, the exalted rank.
Evening star., 1923-01-26
Says Germans Must Pay
Writer Points to Indemnity Elk.
acted of French so Years Ago.

To the Editor of The Star:
Let us before indulging In ind,s-
cr,minate condemnation of the French
would have been the conduct of Ger
many and the condition Of France
had Germany prevailed in the world
war. We feel justified In saying that
France would have been reduced to
a mere nonentity as a nation. and. as
for the rest Of the world, England
would be a second-rate power and
our own country In the same condi-
! ton. as far as the old world is con-
cerned, and perhaps struggling to
! maintain its ascendancy In the west
ern hemisphere.
Fifty years ago when the German
troops occupied French territory the
people of France. instead OF making
every possible effort to avoid the
penalty imposed by the triumphant
Germans, met their onerous burdens
like men and paid off the huge in
demnity demanded and rid France
of the detested enemy before the
time fixed arrived. The brutal state
ment of Bismarck that "he would
bleed France white" Is familiar to
every one, as well as the act of
wrestling Alsace and Lorraine from
France and adding them to Germany
against the earnest expostulations of
their inhabitants.
1t may be that France is wrong
that her action Is precipitate and en-
dangers the peace Of the world But
what is she to do? What would we.
| as Americans, do under like condi-
tions? Are the French people to re-
main passive and permit the Ger
| mans to evade their liabilities by
adroit maneuvering and cleverly con-
ceived appeals to the allied nations.
who have no cause to fear, as France
i has. the future machination and
power of Germany? As France paid
the enormous sum wrested from her
half century ago, so let Germany
pay, part at least, Of the indemnity
caused by plunging the world into
one of the most barbarous and devas-
tating wars of modern times.
A. r. FOX.
Evening star., 1923-01-26


hind the Washington Auditorium
Corporation, which is building a con-
vention hall in this city; presi-
dent of the District National Bank,
former president of the Washington
Chamber OF Commerce. and a man of
many other activities, is known to
many persons as Colonel" Harper.
This title descends from the time
OF the worlds fair in st. Louis, when
Mr.. Harper was appointed on the
stan Of the Governor Of Virginia to
assist the governor in carrying out
the ceremonies incident to the occa-
sion. Along with the appointment
went the uniform, boots, braid, hat
and everything; everything but an in
struction book on the art OF being
a colonel.
Mr. Harper and the other "colonels''
on the staff were dressed up "ft to
KILL" but they soon found. to their
embarrassment, that being q colonel
was not as easy as IL had seemed.
Things were mild enough until the
first day of the ceremonies At that
time they found that, although
dressed and addressed as Colonel"
they were not at all cognizant or
military tactics; that there feet never
seemed to do the right thing, and
Evening star., 1923-01-26
Exit the Boyden Furore.

1t Is unlikely much more will be
heard Of the "pernicious activity" of
Roland W. Boyden, American OBJ
server with the reparations commits
sion. Secretary Hughes has set forth
the plain official facts in opposition to
rumors and insinuations, and rumors
and insinuations are forced into re-
tirement. The ease with which the
sensation was dispelled makes one
wonder that it ever was given coun-
tenance by responsible statesmen, who
could at any time have had access to
the information which now is their
undoing.,
The plain fact seems to be that it
has been because Of information laid
before 1t by Mr.. Boyden that this gov
ernment has been able to steer a
course which has saved the country
from embarrassments. It is not to be
assumed that when Congress forbade
American representation on the repa-
rations commission without its sane
tion it had any purpose OF cutting the
State Department OF from sources Of
trustworthy information. The most
dyed-in-the.wool "isolationist" would
hardly 60 that far. It was to ascer.
Evening star., 1923-01-26
A Good District Bill.

In every aspect the District appro-
priation bill which was passed yester-
day by the Senate, and which now
goes to conference, is a satisfactory
measure. 1t carries an appropriation
Of $24,469,9 1856, an increase over the
House bill of $2,3s1.37s. OF this in.
crease $165,S7S was in the form Of
minor changes made directly by the
appropriations committee. while $2..
225,500 was added through amend
ments offered from the floor with the
Endorsement Of that committee. These
amendments effected the restoration to
the bill Of all the items that had been
stricken out in the House on point OF
order after approval by the appropria-
tions committee.
In other respects. however, the bill
was improved as a District budget,
for the Senate committee and the Sen
ate corrected in several instances the
injustice Of putting upon the District
the whole cost of certain items Of
municipal maintenance. such as the
Fairgrounds. Despite the formal COM
pact, as It is In effect, of a division
Of District expenses on the 60-40
basis, a disposition has prevailed to
disregard the equities and to impose
upon the District 100 per cent Of main
tenance expense, now in little items
and again in large. This course Of the
Senate now in correcting certain Of
these injustices gives hope Of further
clearance later along this line.
In the scope of the works provided
for in this bill there is ground for con-
graduation. The total Is a liberal one,
though not up to the point of the esti-
mates. The hope is that there will be
agreement in conference not only
upon these added item; that We're
stricken from the bill in the House
on point Of order, despite their ap-
proval by the House appropriations
committee, but also upon other Senate
increases, and that the bill when it
comes from conference readjustment
will approximate closely the total now
carried and provide as literally for
new and needed works of municipal
equipment and development.
Evening star., 1923-01-26
The Attorney General Acquitted.

In its adoption by an emphatic vote,
2o5 to IS, Of resolution from the
committee on the judiciary the House
of Representatives yesterday refused
to impeach Attorney General Daugh-
erty. This action was foreshadowed
by the prior proceedings. The investi-
cation by the judiciary committee dis
closed nothing upon which an i'm.
peachment could be conceivably based
The member who brought the charges
failed to adduce evidence. and when
pressed to the point Of proceeding in
order refused to conform to the com
mittee's rule and withdrew. The com.
mittee could do nothing else than
bring in the report which 1t did, and
even one of the minority members so
declared in the House yesterday, al
though demurring to the committee g
failure to proceed further.
There is no likelihood whatever that
further pursuit Of the case through.
out the charges Of the complainant
with the fullest production Of testi-
mony would have altered the findings,
for there was even on the face of the
allegations no justification for the ex-
treme penalty Of impeachment and dis.
missal from Office in any of the al
legged acts or failures of the Attorney
General.
1t is serious matter to accuse an
officer Of the government of misde.
meanor warranting dismissal. Charges
should never be lightly made Of a
character to involve such a possible
course. Partisanship may dictate criti-
cism Of officials Of another party. But
in this case the officer assailed was
and is the Attorney General Of the
United States, charged with high re-
sponsibilities. To attack him was to
attack the administration, the govern
ment. 1t is lamentab!e that upon so
fiimsy a basis should such charges
have been brought, and 30 far insisted
upon that a committee of the House
and finally the House itself should
formally pass judgment upon them.
The spectacle presented in this case
Is not an agreeable one. A member of
the House OF Representatives brings
accusations which, it appears. have
been promoted by interests eager to
secure the custer Of the Attorney Gen
eral from his office. He has only the
material furnished to him. Through
perhaps conflicting counsel he fails to
conform to the requirements of the
committee to which in regular pro-
cedure the matter has been referred
He refuses to proceed in order and
quits the case. Much time is wasted
much feeling is manifested and the net
result is complete clearance of the
accused official. The pity is that the
case was ever started, but. having
been started, it is well that 1t has been
closed with such an emphatic refusal
of the House to heed unfounded allega-
tions.
Evening star., 1923-01-26
EDITORIAL DIGEST

George of England very soon to "have
little transatlantic chat in the in
terest Of science" leads the Bing-
hamton Press to suggest that people
who are minded to listen in on the
appointed. They wouldn't mention
anything as weighty as the foreign
policy of their respective govern
ments. Because George has nothing
to say about Bonar Laws foreign
Whether the United States Senate is
going to let him have one" Joking
aside, the Baltimore American In
sists that the Importance of these
experiments" cannot be overesti-
pronunciation" hampered the under
standing in the first across-ocean
tests will not matter, although sit
will be long time before the wire
less can be adapted to commercial or
general purposes. The companies
which are at work experimenting to
produce suitable instruments fully
expect to. be able to construct appa-
ratus that will insure a round-the-
world, ld,twenty-four-hour service.
While it will be some time yet before
Americans will be able to call up
friends in London, so rapid has been
the march OF mechanical invention in
the past generation that reality has
frequently outrun anything that the
mere maker of fiction has imagined,
and 1t may do 50 again"
To the historic utterance What
has God wroughtr which marked the
advent of the telegraph service" must
be added, the New York Globe sug-
gests. This is Mr.. Thayer,' the
words with which President Thayer
opened his cross talk. The
demonstration is vivid and dramatic
proof Of the giant strides in the prog
Es:s OF t.enSony ns n use Of
munication IL still some distance
away, for the number of wave
lengths available is still SO limited
that not more than four or five con-
versations are simultaneously pos
sible. But no one can doubt, in view
OF the record Of the recent past, that
these dimculties will. be overcome.
Evening star., 1923-01-26
A Vice Presidential Home.

1t has always seemed strange that
though the United States government
has provided from the outset an Of
fetal home here in Washington for the
President Of the United States nothing
has ever been done toward similar pro-
vision for the Vice President, who is
the potential chief executive. As a
consequence this official has "lived
around" 30 to speak. now in a rented
house, now in a hotel, and only rarely
in a home Of his own when he has
been a man Of sufficient private means
to afford such a dwelling for the COM
paratively brief spell of his assured
term Of Office.
Now 1t is proposed to provide vice
presidential home. Mrs. John B. Hen
derson, a public-spirited resident Of
this city for many years, has rendered
to the United States, as gift out
right, a mansion suitably designed and
located to serve permanently as the
home Of the Vice President. This gift
Is rendered in a patriotic spirit, and
is the more impressive in view Of the
fact that the only condition coupled
with 1t is that it shall be known as a
memorial to her husband and her son.
John B. Henderson was senator from
Missouri at a critical period in the ma
tion's history during and after the
civil war. He contributed richly to the
sound legislation Of the time. His in
terest covered wide range, COM
passing the foreign relations Of the
government and the welfare and de.
velopment Of Washington as the Capt.
tai city. He made this city his home
after his retirement from public life,
and was a large factor in its improve
ment, a work which Mrs. Henderson
has carried on since his death. Their
son, John B. Henderson, I'd, who re-
Gently died. was a man Of marked
ability ~ q scientist, and added ma
terAIly to the store Of knowledge by
his researches. pursued 20 quietly that
Evening star., 1923-01-26
Round the World by Wireless
Telephony Next.

The success of the wireless talk
across the Atlantic by the heads of
the American Telephone and Tele-
graph Company is acclaimed by
editors generally as a step toward
a complete -girdling expert
ment in the near future. However,
most of them voice q warning against
too confident assumption that the
day when wired communications will
be abandoned is In sight. There are
many experiments yet to be COM
pleted before wireless talking
methods will be an advance over the
present plan, they insist.
"Three thousand four hundred miles
of sea and land were bridged with
out wires" pointed out the Elmira
Star r-Gazette, land the voice on
Broadway carried as effectively
across the AtIantis as !, n,I,o Tould ia across
provements being made In this new
branch of mechanical science that
it is hard for the layman to keep the
progress fixed in his mind. No soon
or Is one great achievement reported
than another greater one follows on
its heels And much of this remark
able success Is due to the small boy,
the youths who have rugged up radio
apparatus with such bits of wire and
ten-cent-store knobs. etc. as their
limited means would provide. Fail
ing to make their improvised ap-
paratus work with one 'hook-up,'
they have tried others. and some Of
their more or less crude and some
times aimless experimenting has re-
suited in discovering methods that
had merit. Skilled electricians and
radio experts have taken the boys
ideas and worked them out scien-
tifically, but 1t was the boys who did
much Of the pioneering in radio tele-
phony." :
Reports that It Is "on the cards
for President Harding and King
Evening star., 1923-01-26
The Ruhr Deadlock.

While the situation in the Ruhr is
delicate In the extreme, and even dan
gerous, there is no actual break max
ing for conflict. After two weeks Of
French occupation q veritable dead
lock has developed with neither side at
advantage, and both sides at some dis
advantage. Insignificant conflicts have
occurred on two occasions with some
shedding Of blood. but these are of no
more moment than the ordinary police
friction, save for the fact that on the
one side is an inf1amed German temper
and on the other side a determination
on the part Of the French to persist in
applying pressure until reparation
obligations are fulfilled.
While the French have not yet ac-
complished anything in the way Of
payments or deliveries of material by
the occupation Of the Ruhr, they have
imposed a penalty upon the Germans
through the refusal of the latter to
work Much suffering has been caused
by the suspension Of labor ordered
from Berlin. The question arises
whether the patriotic spirit will per-
sist on the German side as long as that
Of the French. Already there are
signs of dissatisfaction in Germany at
the maneuvers of the government at
Berlin, which has deliberately ordered
strikes, the sole effect Of which has
been to injure the Germans them
selves.
Paris shows no signs Of discourage
ment over the failure in the first two
weeks OF occupation to effect pay
ments and deliveries. On the contrary,
the only criticism voiced is that the
ministry has been too conservative
and lenient. The reaction in Germany
Of a military spirit has had a counter
reaction in France to Justify and sus-
tain the government in its adventure.
Frenchmen are now pointing to the
frank expressions of German inten-
ton to seek vengeance as complete
warrant for the military move. They
are arguing thus: I'VE knew what the
rest Of the world did not. that Ger
many intends to strike us later If she
dares; that she is preparing even now
for another invasion Of our land; that
we are by our occupation Of the Ruhr
revealing this purpose, and we are
making for peace rather than for war
by this punitive expedition, which we
hope will not lead to bloodshed, but
will bring Germany to the point Of
meeting her obligations out Of the re-
sources which we know are available"
Certainly Germany has lost SYM
pathy in some measure by her conduct
since the occupation began. There has
been no evidence Of honest disposition
to meet the requirements Of the treaty
Of Versailles save at point Of compul-
sion. Now she Is in a fix Of her own
making, from which she can only be
extricated by French acknowledg-
ment Of failure and withdrawal, which
Is altogether unlikely. or confession
with dependable guarantees Of a sin.
cere effort to do the utmost to pay,
relying upon the justice Of the allied
powers to adjust the ultimate terms to
her actual paying capacity.
Evening star., 1923-01-26
Widening of M Street,
Georgetown, Favored

To the Editor OF The Star:
1 read with Interest your editorial
on the widening Of NJ street. For a
long time the crossing of this street
in Georgetown has been attended
with considerable danger. especially
for children. 1t becomes daily more
so. This fact is well known, and de-
mands no further expression of opin-
ion from me. but does demand imme-
diate attention from those in au-
thority. With very few exceptions the
buildings on the south side Of the
street from Rock creek to 34th street
consist of old tenements-as places of
business anything but important. and
as places of residence a menace to
health, fire traps, and a disgrace TO
the city. The lots are deep, and after
a loss of sixty feet there would still
remain land sufficient for business
purposes.
MARGUERITE DU POINT LEE.