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Evening star., 1924-04-21

will strengthen public opinion that we
give better care to forests that remain
and replant denuded areas.
President Coolidge in his forest pro-
lection proclamation points out that
the most formidable agency of forest
destruction is fire, and that of all
forest fires reported each year so per
cent are the result of human careless
ness. There is a growing desire that
a larger area of timber land and poten-
tial timber land be brought under i'm
mediate control of the government. In
these national forest areas trees are
protected against ruthless cutting,
while scientific numbering is carried on
that the maximum quantity of lumber
may be produced without destroying
the forest. The Secretary of Agricul-
ture says that during 1928 about H.
600, 900 people visited the federal forest
areas for recreation. In the national
forests fire is the chief enemy. In the
woods of the east and the forests of
the south and west great fire loss is
caused by careless campers, trampers
and others One of the objects of Fire
Protection week is to educate people
against that carelessness which starts
fires in the woods.
Evening star., 1924-04-21
Forest-Protection Week.

We have entered upon the observ-
ance Of Protection week, and
in Washington 1900 Boy Scouts have
presented a spectacle well calculated
to move public interest in a highly i'm
portant matter. With destruction of
American forests by fire, ak and saw
the people are faced with a timber
shortage and the thousand incon-
veniences that must result. If the
course which the people of North
America have been pursuing for three
centuries is not arrested and reversed
the United States will come to be
without timber trees. Happily during
the past half-century we have awak-
ened to the danger of deforestation,
and have set in motion forest con-
servation and the replanting Of cut.
over and burnt-over lands. This work
gains in force, but the loss in trees
still far -outweighs the gain. Forest
Protection week forcibly brings the
matter before millions of people, and
Evening star., 1924-04-21
Germany and Colonies.

IF a dispatch that has just come
from Berlin is correct a campaign is to
start in that country this week for
the purpose of securing the return of
ut least some of the colonies taken
. from Germany under the treaty of
Versailles. On Thursday, it is stated,
q series of nation wide mass meetings
is to be held. at which Germany's past
achievement as a colonial power will
he discussed. that date having been
chosen as it is the fortieth anniversary
of Germany's debut in the establish
nrent of colonies. This is to he an un-
official campaign, but launched with
the full consent of the government.
Later, if Germany should enter the
league of nations, it would be proposed
that she be given q mandate over
some of her former colonial posses
sions.
1t is hard to follow the reasoning
which leads to such a movement as
this. Here is Germany not yet started
sincerely and effectively upon the task
Of meeting the rightful obligations i'm
posed upon her by her defeat in the
war, seeking to undo the treaty in one
of it's most important particulars. Such
& movement might conceivably receive
considerate attention twenty or forty
years later, after a faithful discharge
preparations. But now it, is simply to
be viewed as further sign OF in
ab{iity to realize defeat:
II is to be noted this is an "unof.
Evening star., 1924-04-21

fetal" movement These mass meet
manifestations of national pride in
what Germany has done in the past
and expressions of hope of what she is
to be permitted to do in the future.
But, of course, everybody knows that
they have the full assent and approval
of the government. Otherwise they
would not be held.
There is an important if in this
situation, of course. If Germany is
admitted to the league of nations she
may some day ask for the return of
some of her colonies. She is not yet in
the league. Possibly this Haunting of
a desire to win back the colonies may
delay her admission.
In another respect Germany is max
ing it hard for herself. Despite the suf-
ferings of some of her people, owing TO
the manipulated collapse of the cur
rency system and the failure to re-
organize on the strength of the hope
f escaping reparations. thousands of
the more affiuent ones are travelling
about the world with ostentatiouS
prodigality of expenditure. An article
printed yesterday in The Star de-
scribes the doings of these Teuton
tourists, who seem to be actuated by
desire TO rival ali others in the matter
f luxury and costliness of travel.
They are creating very had impress
sion, and making it difficult for those
who are sincerely desirous Of relieving
German suffering through popular
subscriptions and, in this country,
government appropriations.
Evening star., 1924-04-21
Indictment of Alleged Gamblers.

The law officers of Prince Georges
County have taken determined steps
toward closing illegal resorts which
draw patronage mainly from Wash
ington and exert a dangerous influence
in the county. Law authorities and
lawrespecting persons in the District
have long complained of the overtime
gambling and drinking places set up
in Maryland close to the District
boundary and therefore beyond reach
of the District law Sometimes Wash
ington has had cause to complain of
the Indifference which Prince Georges
County authorities seemed to feel
about this matter. Recently there
were a number of arrests for violation
of the anti-gaming law of Maryland.
and it is believed that nearly all, and
perhaps ALL of the overtime resorts"
have been closed and their proprietors
arrested. The grand jury for the
Prince Georges County has returned
indictments against proprietors of al
legged gambling places along the Wash
ington- Baltimore boulevard near Wash
ington and at Bladensburg, Cottage
City, Berwyn and Branchville. The
cases will go to trial, and there is gen
erai confidence that the anti-gaming
law of Maryland Will be enforced for
the credit of the county and state and
for the peace and comfort of Wash
ington.
Evening star., 1924-04-21
japanese View Backed.
Nation Entitled to Treatment
Like Others. Saws Editor.

It is difficult 10 understand why the
House failed to heed Secretary Hughes
argument on the Japanese exclusion
question when the immigration bill
was under consideration on Saturday.
Either 1t must have closed its mind to
reason or have become utterly panicky
before the picture of horrors that is
commonly drawn by the members from
the Pacific coast.
In accordance with the request of the
Japanese government, through Ambas-
sador Hanihara, Mr.. Hughes suggested
In substance that the japanese be put
upon the same basis as nationals of
other countries seeking admission to
thls country. That may sound like a
nightmare to the Pacific coast but what
does it mean in fact? Simply that under
the general terms of the immigration
Dill quota of per cent of the Japanese
IN TINS country according to the 1890
census may be admitted in any one year.
And what does that mean? Simply
that lt6 japanese might enter in any
one Year
Surely. it will not be argued that 146
Japanese a year entering the United
States, with its popu alton of over TO-
OuV.uoo persons. is a menace Such a
number might be regarded comp.acently
taken by itself. But there are large ad-
vantagtS to be gained by treating. at
that small price, the japanese as We
propose to treat the nationals of the
white nations. We save the pride of the
great nation of the orient, and incline il
to friendship instead of to resentment
and suspicion. We make the human gaS-
ture Of kindliness that may hep vastly
TO cement and make permanent the
frlendlier formal relations that grew out
OF the Washington arms conference. And
we put ourselves in far better position
to expect the aid of Japan in the pro-
lection of the open-door policy in the
orient, to which we are committed def
initely and which Japan may easily
wreck.
1t may be argued that the 146 Japa-
neSe who would be admitted each year
If japan were given the same treatment
as the white nations under the House
immigration bill. will not be all the
Japanese who will enter the country
that to them must be added those SNUG
gied in from Canada and Mexico But
whatever the number smugg' ed, no great
harm can be done by adding l46 legal
entries And il is quite probable that
Japan'S interest would be enlisted to
reduce smuggling if her pride were saved
by the terms or the immigration act
whereas she may be Indifferent to SNUG
Cling. or even encourage it, if her pride
be offended
1t is to be hoped that when the re-
publican senators meet in conference on
party policy today they will proceed
more sobery than the House, and give
thought to the plain common sense of
the Observation-Disclosures Sun.
Evening star., 1924-04-21
COURAGE
\ am the master Of my fate,
am the captain of my soul"
--HENLEY.

Early in boyhood Albert j. Bey-
oridge, though his parents were
struggling with poverty. set the
United States Senate as his goal
and it took him years of gruelling
hardships to attain it.
From the Ohio farm on which he
was born in civil war times the fam
lily moved to Illinois, where his was
a life of privations. Plowboy at
twelve, railway laborer at fourteen,
logger and teamster at fifteen, he
Joined his father in renting d wheat
aeld, hoping to get money for an edu-
cation, but the torrid suns burned
MN back to the verge of beggary.
He tried for West Point, but laughed
at Il Joke during the examination and
was penalized several points, losing
even then by only fifth of l per cent
Edward Anderson, a local lumber
man, offered hiln $50 and ordered him
Off 10 the university. Long before his
career there ended he had repaid the
loan, but only by working as steward
in college eating club, selling books
in vacation and winning many cash
prizes did he achieve a bachelors
and then masters degree at De
Pauw University
lacking 5000 for his senior year. he
de- etermined to win all the cash prizes
offered: Excepting the prize for
Latin, he took all of the awards, in
cluoing the 800 prize for oratory.
and Then carried off the intercolleg!-
ate oratorical trophy.
AS lawyer in INDIANAPOLIS he
fought the machine made money in
big Htigations, End was chosen Erited
states senator by the Indiana L4gis-
lature in 1899, when he was thirty-
SIX Reelected at the expiration of
his first term, he lost in 1910 bv a
small margin.
Becoming Progressive, he was de-
1eated for governor in 1872 Since
then he has tried in vain to return
to the Senate. In 1922 he was norni- :
mated in the primaries, but failed Of
election.
He has been an indefatieabJe
writer. and he crowned his literary
work in 1919 with the greatest life
of John Marshall. first Chief Justice
or the United States, that has been
written.
Copyright. 1924
Evening star., 1924-04-21

words of the Oakland Tribune (inde-
pendent Republican,, which says "the
President has spoken courageously
out of the needs of the time and has
voiced the national sentiment for
return of sanity and the maintenance
of constitutional and legal rights"
What is more, president Coolidge
has rendered the country a notable
service" acclaims the Seattle Times
independent Republican,.
Indeed, president Coolidge is right,
dead right" according to the Kansas
City journal (Republican), which
feels "every clear thinking American
who loves justice and wishes our in
stitutions to survive will be with him
in the stand he has taken" And pos
sibly the eXhortation from the Presi-
dent, set forth in patient spirit yet
with earnestness." the Butte Post
full purpose" The Baltimore Sun
Gndependent Democratic) believes
"the attempt to fix upon the President
a purpose of choking off all the in
vestigations is essentially an attempt
to read into his message implications
which he never thought of placing
there" On the other hand, the Des
Moines Register independent Repub-
lican) maintains "the Senate has re-
sponsibility and the question is
whether we should at this time take
the Presidents word for the conduct
of the Treasury Department as against
an affirmative vote in the Senate in
favor of making an investigation,
particularly when the national COM
mittee insisted with great vehemence
that the President stand by all his
cabinet officers and defy investiga-
tionS."
The Lincoln star (independent)
claims that because Calvin Coolidge
failed to take steps to clean up Wash
ington, waiting until senatorial in
vestigations forced his hand. his mes
sage to the Senate. protesting against
continuance of the methods has been
correctly described by Senator Walsh
as the most arrogant message sent
by an executive to a parliamentary
body since the days of the Stuarts
and Tudors,' Furthermore, he could
not have chosen a more inopportune
time to have raised the ISSUE" The
Reading Tribune (independent also
does not understand why he can re-
buke a body like the Senate for an
act that he stood by silently and
watched perform several weeks ago,
for ''it isn't quite compatible with
good repubIicanism." In addition, the
Charleston Post independent Demo-
cratic) regards his lecture to the Sen
ate as mot impressive, in view of his
own failure to take effective meas
ures against just such development
as has come about" The Omaha
orld-Herald independently admits
President Coolidge Is clever poll
Evening star., 1924-04-21
A School for Your
Boy and Girl
BY JOHN CARLYLE

1.-THE ideal school would discover
the abilities. habits, powers of judg-
ment and action. appropriations and
aspirations which full-grown men and
women need TO possess, and II would
try to develop these qualities in
young human beings"
So says Prof. Franklin Bobbitt Of
the university of Chicago Prof. Bob
bitt is engaged upon one Of the most
important pieces of work that man
can possibly busy himself with. He
is trying TO make over the schools
in certain American cities. He has
been employed to revise curricuIa.
The most hopeful of all signs OF
the times is the earnest efforts tha-
are being made in many towns and
cities to change their schools and to
mt them TO the actual needs of the
boys and girls who are sent to these
schools to get an education.
In the old-fashioned school--and
most of them are still Of that kind
the boy or girl with unusual gifts and
capacities is held back by the in
ability of the under-rate youth to GO
forward. We try to put all our lads
and lassies through the same bookish
labyrinth and we expect TO turn out =
product, uniform and useful. Or
course, IL can't be done.
In the first place the acquisition or
cold storage knowledge, wisdom from
printed pages, is not sufficient TO in
sure a youngSter what We call educa-
ton.
The ideal school must awaken the
love of knowledge, the desire to
know. 1t must awaken in the youth
the sense of responsibility for getting
his own education. He must first and
last be taught that the education he
gets out of school depends exactly on
the work he puts into school.
In the second place schools in the
future-ideal schools-will grade boya
and girls according to their natural
abilities. The quick. responsive
youngster will have the opportunity
to go as fast as he can
If he senses that he is on his way
to get somewhere and to be some
body he will be given the opportunity
to go quickly.
The duller youth, on the other
hand, will not be allowed to lose all
that an educational system has for
him by reason of the fact that he
can't keep up and droops in discour-
agement by the wayside. He, too,
will have his own chance at his nat
ural speed.
The success of democracy depends.
above all else, on the picking and
training OF leaders. a school which
develops leadership, sense of re
"ponSibilty, a sense of values and OF
judgment is the ideal school.
1t is never a school of mere maps
and multiplication.
Copyright, 1o24l
Evening star., 1924-04-21
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANpER JOHNSON.
Reliable.

The Ship Of State has swung along
On billowing hopes and fears;
She kept her course still going strong
For years an years an years!
We chose a cap'n an a mate
To mind the way she steers.
The crew has KEEP her going straight
For years an years an years.
The passengers will sometimes scold
An say she heaves an veers,
But just the same her course she'll
hold
For years an years an years.
Evening star., 1924-04-21
Reciprocity Gas-Tax Incongruities

S1t1O OCloS NdS- Ia 4uCvuS uAtlSo'
We have a reciprocity gas-tax bill
which makes no pra> son whatever
ftF reciprocity.
We have a gas-taX hill which inn
iascs upon motorists at least twice the
I.,N which in view oi the purposes of
;Ie tax ard OF local nj tionS The Dis
lrirt would, ii seif-JnXing like the
states. impose
The lax is for the wise purpose of
compelling city motorists to pay large
for making improving and repair
.ls country roads, ot which the city
motorists enjoy the maximum OF wear
.HS use. Tine tax rate is naturally
-reater or less IN accordance with the
road conditions il the state. the area
II country to be supplied with new or
b,tter roads. and the high or low
standard Of road development which
The state has adopted.
The District has minimum of
country area to be supplied with new
"r better country roads. After the
temporary accumulated needs. result
ms from war-tima neglect OF the
streets. have been mat, Washington )
urban ana suburban streets can be
kept in condition in the future as III
Ire paat from ordinary current rev
enue.
-.aa.ysis Of The ~as-taN rates tffcc-
live January ! 1924, shows that TWEEN
3}-fo,r states Fayc rates If cent per
zalion ur less THAT .s from nothing T.
; cent per gaIlonl and .wcnty-four have
rates If , cents pr gallon or more
The conclusion is Irresistible that the
District should be in the one-ccnt-per-
gallon class and not in tho two-cents-
per-calon class if it has any gas tax
at all.
The estimated revenue from the
two-cent tax in the District Is from
$500 0o0 to a million. In 1872 only
Two states in the Union derived over
u million dollars from the gas tax.
Seventeen states derived less than a
million from this tax, with $t2S.165
as the minimum.
II estimates for 1929 it was figured
that eleven states would collect over
a-ndllion dollars each in gas tax and
twcnty-four would derive less than a
million from this tax, with sill S4
rs the minimum.
Clearly Washington is in the one
cent-pcr gallon class with a half mil
lion Of revenue and not in the two
cents per-gai,on class with a million
revenue. if state precedents and con-
ditions are intelliecntly studied.
Why should Washington with
lainimum of country road needs compel
its motorists to pay in this new tax
more than all the motorists in such
states as Alabama, Arkansas, Con
necticut KentucEr Louisiana, Mis-
Sissippi. Montana Oklahoma, Tennes-
see, South Dakota. Utah, Vermont and
West Virginia?
we have tax bill so ambiguous i'm
terms OF provision as to conditions of
expenditure of the fund that the Sen
ate C0nferees construe il i'm one way
and the House cOnfereGs pave the way
tn cOnstrue it in another. We do
not know whether this tax bill vio-
iateS or does not violate the definite
proportion 63-i0 plan of the new or
.anic act of 1922.
Evening star., 1924-04-21
Coolidge Message to Senate
Considered "Severest Rebuke''

President Coolidge's admonition to
the Senate on the course it is pursu-
ing in it's investigation of govern
ment departments, particularly the
bureau of internal revenue. is re-
garded by a section of the nations
press as probably the severest rebuke
ever administered to the Senate by a
Chief Executive of the Nation. Many
editors commend the President for his
courageous message. Others criticize
him and say it will be a boomerang
that will react on both Mr.. Coolidge
and his party.
The spirit and method of the SEN
atorial inquisitors from the first, the
Chicago Tribune independent Re-
pubiican) declares "has shown that
their intent was not to correct, but
to discredit, and the Couzens pro-
posal reduces itself to the absurd"
The attempt TO oust a Secretary, says
the Boston Transcript independent
"by such means as the
Heney raid is illcgitimate if not I'M
constitutional, and it is an excellent
thing that we have n President who
is capable of telling the Senate So"
Heney would become an agent of pri-
vate interests and ''as such has no
business meddling with the affairs of
government" continues the Salt Lake
Deseret News independently, which
says "the sooner such 'unwarranted
intrusion is brought to an end the
better it will be for all parties con-
cerned." The Duluth Herald (inde-
pendenD agrees the Senate sis going
too far" If one senator can do il
"others can and the wayfaring man
though a fool can guess the resulting
chaos" asserts the Portland Express
(Republican).
= r X 4
The Flint Journal Gndependent)
insists ''there must be an end to this
hing and the precedent set by SEN
ator CouZens must not be allowed to
become established" AS the Newark
News independently sees 1t reckless
irresponsibility had been displayed
in the effort to pull Mr.. Mellon down
from the place he helds in public
esteem, and it called for rebuke." The
resignation of Prof Adams of Yale
from the position of technical adviser
of the committee because the inquiry
was to have been given over to
Heney, the Springfield Republican
Gndependent) holds. will strengthen
the administration's position so far
as muck k-raking in the income tax di-
vision is concerned" The opinion of
the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (inde-
pendent Democratic), the ST. Paul
Dispatch independently and the AL
bany Knickerbocker Press (Repub-
licanl may be summed UP in the
: 1 =
Evening star., 1924-04-21

Reference, not altogether kindly, has
often been made 10 American dollar
diplomacy. Indifference to money has
uot distinguished the attitude of any
great nation, and the position of the
American dollar i'll world currency is
aow recognized as most desirable and
Conservative.
Evening star., 1924-04-21
Conversational Compromise.

"As soon as we are married." said
the happy girl, I'VE are going to have
a radio set in the house."
THAT is very good idea," an
swered Miss Cayenne. "It is always
desirable for two people to have some
thing to listen to occasionally besides
each other.''
Evening star., 1924-04-21

The situation would be more serious
for Harry Thaw if his attention had
been occupied with pink giraffes or
sky-blue anacondas instead of the ami
mails which witnesses agree were per-
fectly live rabbits.
Evening star., 1924-04-21

Russia has pretty thoroughly con-
viuced the world that her government
viii be a success if her statesmen are
as proficient and conscientious as her
artists.
Evening star., 1924-04-21

Rumors assert that in Washington
the disappearance of liquor may be as
mysterious as it's appearance. Prohibi-
ton enforcement admittedly has not
yet reduced old John Barleycorn to
his proper status as an antique and
impalpable myth.
Evening star., 1924-04-21
Oblivion.

Nobody seems able to give me
clew as to where liquor is being OBJ
tanned in this neighborhood.'
That's perfectly natural" declared
Uncle Bill Bottletop. Zone drink of it
makes man forget everything
Evening star., 1924-04-21

Fears that Henry Ford will make
money out of Muscle Shoals are war
ranted to this extent: There is not a
chance that he will allow any enter
prise with which he is associated to go
bankrupt.
Evening star., 1924-04-21
In a Few Words


cerned with educational ideals for
refinement, leisure and culture. so
called, and not enough with the ideals
of active participation in the politi-
cal and civic life of a nation.
DIR. WILLIAM McANDREW,
Without Greek literature the world
would be pretty much what it is to-
day; without Greek mathema tics our
western civilization would not exist.
-BERTRAND RUSSELL.
Biology will set as its goal the abo-
lition of disease. Abolition of disease
Will make death physiological event
like sleep. A generation that has
lived together will die together.
j. 3. s. HALDANE.
I regard it as frankly debatable
whether ii is a greater benefit or in
jury in life to be born of a stock from
which much is expected.
LORD BIRkENHEAD.
Germany at her next elections will
select another kaiser. probably Crown
Prince Frederick William.
SENATOR TRAUFFLIEB (French
Senate).
1t is doubtful whether there will
ever be less than half a million un-
employed in England.
j. W. MUIR, NJ. P.