Evening star., 1923-01-05

riosity get away with their discre
tion-like certain police--and that's
the result. Justice is blind, for sh'
got an especially big dose. Avoid
Just little" and you will smile. noi
weep. The good are always happy.
X X x
January II is Ben F'rankiins birth
day t1706), and that will mark the
beginning Of Thrift week through
out the United States The Post
Oflce Department is making great
preparations to honor both the man
IN whose memory the Thrift week Is
set apart and also the principles o.
thrift and saving which he taught
SO successfully. a special message
VIII be sent TO all post offices. 0"
which there are $4,000. and its theme
WIN be the Importance of saving
| thrift. The week will be marked
also by a new postage stamp bearing
rranklln portrait and some thrift
4 X x K
The Franklin School building is the
| possessor of a silver bell which used
TO ring the children in and out OF
school from 1869 to 1899, until late
sleeping society folks protested thai
it woke them up at the unearthly
hour OF o'clock, and so all school
bells were muzzlcd This silver
tongued instrument OF tintinnabula
ton has been silent for over twcnty
years-the only Washington bell eve.
known to keep stiII 50 long-but nov
1t has been invited to sing once NOR,
II may need coaXiug. though its v0ic.
is stiil clear and sweet and mclc-
GiOus.
When its voice was silcnced. b
cause the noise disturbed retired
| Army and Navy officers and society
nappers, there were no automobile
| horns. no congested traffic streets and
comparatively little changing of
street car gongs. There were tink-
Th2t silver bell rang for boys and
| girls who are now gray-headed
grandparents. Ring out. wild bell.
and tell US their pranks, What .
| pity that 1t was not released from
| Its hermitage before New Year night
| How many Of t"day's notable silver
| tongued orators did its silver throa
| train
Some critics Of prohibition arguc
that because there are many arrest
! for violataion Of the law, Therefore
| tho law is a failure. II is noted
that in Washington last year thcr"
were 2S.s11 arrests for violation Of
traffic laws and 1859 for violation
Of the liquor laws, besides 25,o77 f"r
| other offenses. Upon the argumcnf
! that laws that are violated should not
be enforced, traffic laws are the worst
of all laws. Let US suspend tho
traffic laws. Traffic recklessness
kills and mains, almost as badly a.
hootch. Nearly half OF the arrests
made would never have been made il
there were no traffic laws. What il
speeders do kill occasionally" Let the
jaywalkers look out next time
There were only a few more fatal
automobile accidents than there were
murders and manslaughters.
There are applications for pcrmis
sion 10 develop more water power
than would double the entire water
power now in use in the United
States. The water power commits
sion has no funds to investigate th'
applications. and so the progress tha.
offers itself is hampercd aud thr
power monopoly continues. Thi, I~
said 10 he due to some maliGn intit
enCc over Congress. What IL is "
hind the development does not an
pear on the surface. but over zoo
600 horses are standing in the stdht'
eating their heads off and waiting {"
be harnessed to do tho work Of tn,
nation.
x x x Z
The two great issues yet before
Congress are the rural credits bill
and the immigration question. The
rural credits bill is likely to take
precedence. Senator Carter Glass re
marked d day or two ago that there
are many statesmen interested in
how to get the farmer into debt by
making it easier for him TO borrow
but few seemed concerned as 10 how
to help him get out of debt That i
a more aphoristic way of eXpressinI
just what Capital keynotes has been
! important problem of agriculture iS
! how TO increase net profits rathcr
| than bank credits. The credits VIII
follow profits, but profits do not
| 2 lways follow loans