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Evening star., 1924-04-10
Censorship.

II is assumed that when the board
OF education's censorship order has
performed effectively it's function of
Rdmonition and warning to the inju-
diciously overtalkative employees. or
the inaccurate or overzealous report
er at whom the present proclamation
is specifically aimed, the board will
gradually or abruptly abandon its
sweeping censorship decree.
1t is highly inadvisable in the in
terest of the schools and OF the com
munity that there should be any per
n1anent censorship Of school news 10
be enforced by the superintendent.
Community welfare demands the
closest, most harmonious cooperation
between all the newspapers and Sthe
school authorities. There should be
no permanent artificial barriers, sug-
gesting suspicion and distrust, to sep
arate them.
Press censorship is an unpopular
and thankless task. The board ought
not TO impose it long upon Supt.
Ballou, unless il has some secret
grudge against him.
Evening star., 1924-04-10
Railroad Switching Charges.

The claim is made in Congress that
railroad switching charges in Wash
ington are far too high and bill has
been favorably reported from the
House District committee that any
railroad company having tracks in the
District Of Columbia shall have the
right to have freight delivered on two
squares near the junction of Florida
avenue and 1st street northeast on
payment Of a reasonable switching
charge. The bill recites. that IL the
parties involved are not able to agree
on what is a reasonable switching
charge the rate shall be prescribed by
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
In the. report on this bill it is said
that the House District committee has
made an investigation OF switching
charges in cities near Washington
and found that the usual charge for
switching cars from one railroad to
another within the city limits is NOM
inal as compared with the rates in
Washington The author Of the
bill,s Representative Zihlman OF Mary
land, said in support OF the measure
that "the freight rates from shipments
from one railroad to another within
the District are almost prohibitive."
Of course, almost prohibitive" is a
very strong phrase, but If these
switching rates are too high correct
i've measures should. be taken at once.
The question Of switching charges
or the charge made by railroad com-
panies or terminal companies for
transferring cars from the tracks Of
one railroad to another has been q
cause of action in very many places.
There is sometimes disagreement be-
tween railroads as to what is a rea-
sonable charge and they sometimes
agree to a switching charge which Is
unreasonable because the shipper
and consumer pay it~-Aaa- general
Evening star., 1924-04-10
In a Few Words

Judging from the size OF the brains
OF the Cro-Magnon cavemen, I have
every reason to believe they could
enter any branch of the intellectual
life of Columbia University and com
pete on equal, If not superior, terms
with any of the $4,000 students
there.
DIR. HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN.
I believe there is no natural en-
dowment that dooms a man at birth
to a life Of crime. 1t depends on how,
in infancy and youth, his propensities
are nodded by the circumstances OF
H DIR. GEORGE w. KIRcHwEY.
Borne down under the weight of
taxes, the German people are unin-
telligently turning to the old regime.
I believe that they will find no
balm in that Gitead, but for the re-
crudescence of the royalist spirit
Franco and French financiers are
rRERTRAED RIJSSELLs
Evening star., 1924-04-10
Attorney General Stone.

Harlan f. Stone, the new Attorney
General of the United States, upon
taking Office announces the policy
which will control his conduct Of the
high post he holds. He says that in
performing his duty to enforce the
laws of the United States it will be
his purpose to keep the nation "in the
straight path of duty under the law"
This declaration comes at time
when there is much discussion Of
obedience to the law. Civic societies,
religious bodies and the public in gen.
eral are aroused over the subject Of
observance Of the law, and there
seexns to be a. general ava}Iepiog Of
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Politicians expect that Hirarl John
sons presidential fortunes, already
sadly battered. will be definitely de-
termined by the primary results in
his own state on May 6. If California
rejects him, as North Dakota, Michi-
gan, Illinois and Nebraska in turn
have done, 1t is considered the height
of unlikelfhood that Johnson will
court humiliation at Cleveland. Call
fornia will give Coolidge a terrific
majority" writes a Los Angeles edi-
tor to this observer. Hiram's misfor-
tunes in the east, it is predicted, will
prove contagious on the coast. John
son has confounded the prophecies OF
his foes on more than one occasion.
In his many ycampaigns-for governor
in 1910 and 1914. for Vice President
in 1912, for United States senator IN
1915 and 1922 and for the republican
presidential nomination in 1870
Hiram piled up impE majorities.
This time he faces entirely new con-
ditions. He is deliberately trying TO
pull down a republican President OF
the United States. Unless Californians
especially southern Californians-
are nightly mistaken, johnson for
the first time will drain the dregs of
defeat in the land of his nativity.
Senators in discussion of Wheeler's
indictment in Montana recall that 1t
was Another western senator of the
United States, the late John II. Mitch
ell of oregon, who was indicted un-
der the same statute of the criminal
code as that invoked in Wheeler's
case. Mitchell's offense was not un-
like that alleged against the junior
senator from Montana. Mitchell was
in the Senate from 1873 to 1879, and
for a second term lasting from 1901 to
1906. He was publicly accused Of
and eventually indicted for, accepting
a fee of $4,000 for using his, influence
with the commi Ssioner of the general
land office at Washington TO secure
the patenting of twelve homestead
entries. On January II, 1905, Mitchell
made a long speech in the Senate in
explanation of the charged leveled
against him. In December of the
same year, while still member of
the Senate and before his trial was
completed, Mitchell died.
r X
DR.. Freeman, Bishop OF Washing
ton, expects to confer shortly with
William Jennings Bryan, Signor Mar
conf, Lee De Forest and other author
tiles with regard TO grandiose
scheme for broadcasting religious
talks. The project is nationwide in
scope. Laymen as well as ministers
of the gospel are embraced in it. 1t
contemplates a series of regular radio
sermons by eminent men of many de-
nominations, TO be relayed across the
continent from the National Cathe-
dral at Washington. DR.. Freeman
who has become an enthusiastic and
popular broadcaSter. sees vast possi-
bilities in the realization of his plans
He believes they contain the seeds out
OF which spiritual unity may one day
sprout. DR.. Freemans Sunday half
hour talks before the microphone at
the National Cathedral are reproduced
through loud speakers" in several
churches near Washington and fiIling
them with the biggest congregations
they've ever held.
4 4
There's a shrinking literary violet
in the California delegation in Con-
Evening star., 1924-04-10
4 Second Yindication.

The Commissioners have passed the
last station before confirmation and
are in sight Of goal. The delaying OBJ
structions to reappointment and con-
Jtrmation have been brushed aside by
the Senate committee, following the
precedent set by the President.
The experience of the Commission
ers under fire has been unpleasant,
annoying, painful. But since the end
Is vindication 1t is well that the dis
tress Of accusation and investigation
has been endured. Particularly is this
clearance gratifying and of special sig
nificance because the atmosphere in
this era Of Investigations is so sur
charged with scandal and calumny
and suspicion that public sentiment
tends strongly to believe evil instead
of good of every one.
At the White House and at the Cap
ftol the accusations or insinuations
against the Commissioners have been
carefully analyzed, and those protests
which raised some. real issue Of law
or fact have been separated for con-
sideration from those which in the
exaggeration of trivialties seemed to
reflect malice, or revenge, or disap-
pointed ambition, or some ancient
grudge.
The Ga pital community is glad that
this thorough survey OF the acts and
qualifications OF its Commissioners
discloses that while they are VERY
human, lacking onniscience. and with
the human liability 10 err, they have
administered their respective offices
during the term now ending with
fidelity, ability and honesty, and that
their continuance in office is dis
dnctly III the public interest.
Evening star., 1924-04-10

the public conscience to the necessity
Of calling halt to the admitted evil
Of laxity and failure Of observance.
Attorney General Stone also prom
ises to keep the Department Of JUS
tice upon a standard of the highest
efficiency which will make the Con-
stitution and laws o. the United
States the shield Of innocence, but
the swift avenger Of guilt" That
sounds good. The Department Of JUS
tice has never lacked the respect and
confidence OF the people, who feel that
it is their protection and the execu-
tive arm of the Constitution,
. The Attorney Generals announce
ment breathes the spirit OF determine
ton to administer justice infiexibly,
but without hint OF persecution Of
Legitimate business or law observers.
Evening star., 1924-04-10
SHOOTING STARS.
By PHILANDER JOHNSON
Truth and Poetry


April showers.
April flowers!
Sunny skies and blossoming bowers:
What's become OF everything
That the poets used to sing?
April raining.
Skies restraining!
Sunshine from a world complaining.
Now a freeze and then a flood
And a landscape filled with mud!
April folly,
Once so jolly,
Settles down to melancholy.
AS our hopes we vainly nurse,
Going on from bad to worse.
April tattered
And bespattered,
Leaving fond ideals shattered,
All in vain the singer tries
To brace up and harmonic:
Evening star., 1924-04-10

II there is any law OF averages ap-
plying to climate, the rain-ridden
farmer may as well prepare himself
for a future breakage Of the drought
record. Relief for the agriculturist
cannot be made certain owing to the
fact that the scientific operations of
the weather department are beyond
governmental control.
Evening star., 1924-04-10

Freer Gallery, which owns no less
than twenty-seven of his oil paint
ings, eleven of his pastels, and three
of his silver points, and there they
are to stay forever, "a fine feather
for a living artist to wear in his
cap"
But, best of all, perhaps. is the in
troductory essay, THE Critics Point
of View" which begins with an ek-
position of beauty and ends with a
denunciation of those who either
through deliberate righteousness or
mental confusion, offer to the world
an art which, to put it moet kindly,
is Vegr EradA and WoEY- -faAsas e,ss3
Evening star., 1924-04-10

The arrangements of the republican
party do not contemplate prolonging
the exercises at Cleveland next sum-
mer. Only the hotel managers will
worry over the program of neatness
and dispatch.
Evening star., 1924-04-10

The ex-kaiser is still hopeful that
the German monarchy viii be re-
stored Instead OF being a wood
chopper he now resembles man who
sits on q fence and whittles, while
waiting for luck to come his way.
Evening star., 1924-04-10

During his lifetime Lenin took care
to have enough statues Of himself
reared in Russia to compensate for
any lack of memorial trees in other
countries.
Evening star., 1924-04-10

Mexico has a discontented element
pay roll except by organizing a revo-
luton and collecting from the govern
ment.
Evening star., 1924-04-10

Every four years the plans for a
new party arrive as regularly in the
spring as the election of one of the
regular candidates happens in the
fall.
Evening star., 1924-04-10

Forecasters are confident, as usual,
that the presidential race will not close
without an interesting display Of dark
horsenanship.
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Evening star., 1924-04-10

.. The public is at least permitted to
be joyousiy confident that a tax re-
duction argument can be definitely
settled without calling in the services
ct a grand jury.
Evening star., 1924-04-10

Both friends and enemies are likely
to suspect that Hiram Johnson is as
good a candidate without a financial
hacker as with one.
Evening star., 1924-04-10

Biologists say the supply Of oil has
limits that can be calculated. This
is evidently not the case with the
flow Of oil money. .
Evening star., 1924-04-10

8 1t is now in order to consider the
future of the Attorney Generals office,
as well as it's past. .....-
Evening star., 1924-04-10
Sentiment in the Gulch.

"What became Of that bull fighter
who advertised an exhibition?"
"The sheriff got him." answered
Cactus Joe. His careless manager
booked him into the town during our
BE Kind to Animals week.
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A Step Farther.

Be kind to animals! The wise and
strong
To weaker creatures never should do
wrong.
We will be kind to animals and then
Be kinder to our faltering fellow men.
Evening star., 1924-04-10

Q. Please tell the burial place OF
Francis Scott Key. the writer of The
Star Spangled Banner."-M. E. T.
A. Francis Scott Key is buried in
the village cemetery at Frederick.
Evening star., 1924-04-10
Wild Wares.

What has become Of that old song
about "A Life on the Ocean Wave?' 4"
Rum runnin' has killed it," an
swered Uncle Bill Bottletop. "As fur
as you can see OF shore the ocean
wave Is nothin' but crime wave"
You ain gineter have much trou-
BILE wifi old Satan," said Uncle, Eben,
.'if you keeps tendin' 70 business -
cloee As ha doeSS
Evening star., 1924-04-10

Jud Tunsins says the only soil tillers
who seem to be confident and happy
are the golf course agriculturists.
Evening star., 1924-04-10

Q. How old was Maud S. when she
made the worlds trotting record?-
Z. G..
A. Maud S. was eleven years old
when she made a worlds ecord of
two minutes, eight and three-quarter
seconds. This record was made be-
fore the time of the kite-shaped
track, banked and rolled, and before
the rubber tired wheel sulky, both of
which helped to reduce the mile rec
ord.
Evening star., 1924-04-10

Q. What is the highest building
west OF the Mississippi?-A. NICE.
A. The highest building in the
United states west of the MissisSip-
pi is the forty-two-story l. G. Smith
building, in Seattle. Wash.
Evening star., 1924-04-10

.. Is II proper to say differ with"
or differ from?''-F. J. II.
A. Whether one says differ with
or differ from" depends upon what
the speaker wishes to convey For
agreement one says to the other. 'I
differ with you" If physical differ
ences are referred to. one says, she 9
differs from her sister in that she
has brown eyes and black hair"
Evening star., 1924-04-10

Q. Where are the various mem
bers oi the former kaiser's family?
C. P. II.
A. The former Kaiser of Germany
is still residing at Doom. in Holland.
The crown prince recently returned
to Germany and is making his home
at his castle at Oels. in Silesia. Vie
toria Louise, the ony daughter of
the former kaiser, with her family
has Joined the royal colony at Nun
icf. The remaining sons are also re-
siding in Germany.
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Confusion.

"a great many indictments are be-
ing called for"
YES" answered Senator Sorghum.
I'm getting confused. While COM
posing speech, instead Of referring
to the Grand Old Party began to
talk about the Grand Old Jury"
Evening star., 1924-04-10

Another academy-in- Rome man is
not only mentioned but given an en-
tire chapter. He is Paul Manship
and the Dancer and Gazelles," !"
owned by the Corcoran Gallery of
Art is repro Iuced as an example of
his best WORK.
There are chapters also. on Frank
Millet, one time secretary of the
American Academy in Rome, and first
secretary, as we'll as an organizer OF
the American Federation of Arts.
There is also a charming little essay
on Louis Saint-Gaudens. the sculptor
of the statues on the Union station, in
this city, an artist, Mr. Cortissoz says,
with a streak of inspiration in him,
but because he would not speak out
the world passed him by 1T is
sorrowful," he says, ''to think that
Augustus Saint-Gaudens could not
have seen the statues for Washing
ton. He would have been the first to
acclaim their merit, always eager, as
he was, to acknowledge his brother s
power and to crave for him the rank
that he deserved
Another engaging chapter is on the
work of Thomas w. Dewing, who, as
tha Hxitex SaXA - NAahHinAd in. kha
Evening star., 1924-04-10

V, W 90 IIIt IIUHcy IOstIIVU 10 -tIII.4
lea by France during the revolution
ever repaid?-J. W. v.
A. The United States Treasury
325.5O0 borrowed from France in the
revolutionary period. the sum OF s4.-
327.600 was repaid by 1895 and the
balance. or $2,024,s0O. was refunded
into Az per cent and 5a per cent
domestic stock. When it became
known that IAfayette's fortune was
largely depleted by the French revo-
luton Congress appropriated money
for his relief and gave him lands in
Florida
The daily worker., 1924-06-25
FLIGHT STRIKERS
U. S. IMPERIALISTS
ORDER MEXICAN co.
tspeeIaI . The paIIy workerl


MEXICO CITY.-The iron heel Of
United States Imperialism is stepping
hard and ruthlessly upon the striking
oil workers of the "El Aguila" COM
pany of Tampico. United States oil
has not permitted the Ell Aguila direc-
tors to enter into conference with the
strikers, altho such a conference was
arranged weeks ago. Each day the
directors promise to come, and each
day the committee of workers is
wearied by hours of useless waiting.
The situation in Tampico has been
critical for the workers. 1t would
would have become unbearable were
1t not for the splendid cooperation
Of the workers Of the other trades
They are giving all they can, not only
in Tampico, but in every state Of
Mexico, and order has been issued by
the Mexican Federation of Labor ex-
acting a fixed weekly contribution
from each worker to the Ell Aguila
strikers. A general strike is threat
ening and may break out any day in
Tampico if United States oil contin-
ues its high-and-mighty disregard of
the Mexican workers.
The daily worker., 1924-06-25
Holmes Heads civil LIbertIss.

NEW YORK, June 24-During the
absence of Prof. Harry F. Ward,
abroad for year, the American Civil
Liberties union announces that the
Craftsmanship Of that organization will
be filed by the Rev. John Haynes
Holmes, minister of the Community
church. Dr. Holmes has been iden-
titled with the fight for free speech
since the early days of the war, serv-
ing as a member of the executive
committee Of the union since its or
ganization.
The union also announces the ap-
pointment of wolcott H. Pitkin of
New York as counsel in place of Wal
ter Nelles, who is engaged on years
work in legal research. Mr.. Pitkin
was formerly assistant United States
attorney in the southern district of
New York, attorney general Of Porto
Rico and general adviser in foreign
relations to the Siamese government.
The daily worker., 1924-06-25
Helpless-Hopeful
"Progressives" in
New Political Game
(Hy the Federated Press.)

NEW YORK, June 24.-Open diplo-
macy and popular control of foreign
policy, which were not won by the
war, must be won in peace time in the
opinion of a nationwide group who
have organized the Emergency For
eign Policy Conference for that pur-
pose. The organization which began
in the west and Washington, ID. c.,
is becoming active on the Atlantic
coast. Information on foreign affairs
which the U. S. state department is
unable or unwilling to impart is fur
nished by the association to it's mem
5ers with the constructive aim of
world cooperation and peace in view.
Senators Shipstead of Minnesota,
and Wheeler Of Montana and Con-
gressman John M. Nelson of Wiscon-
sin are on the national executive COM
mittee. William II. Johnston of the
Machinists and Leroy Peterson OF the
New York Amalgamated Bank are
among the labor representatives on
the committees.
Essential principles of the organiza-
tion are listed as follows: Political
democracy, economic equality OF ma
tions, self determination of peoples,
international cooperation, information
al disarmament, candor in foreign re-
lations.
The daily worker., 1924-06-25
Russian Chemists Unite.

MOSCOW, June 24.-The founders
meeting of a new society called THE
Friends of Chemical Defense and
Chemical Industry" was held at the
Moscow Big Theatre today, with the
participation of Trotzky, Peoples War
Commissary, and the representatives
of the economics and scientific public
organizations of all the Soviet Union
Republics. Reports on the subjects
pursued by the Society were made by
Trotzky and Academician Ipatieff,
representing the initiative group.
The daily worker., 1924-06-25
SWABECK WILL TEACH
TRADE UNION METHODS
BEGINNING JUNE 26

"How To Conduct Yourself In
The Trade Union" is the subject Of
an interesting course of lessons
which Arne Swabeck, District Or
qanizer Of the Workers party, be-
gins Thursday evening, June 26, at
the Technical School, 1902 West
Division Street, at o'clock sharp.
The course will consist of four les
sons and will teach the rudlments
Of trade union procedure, explaining
to the students what their Individ-
ual rights are as members of a
trade union, and how to exercise
those rights even In the face Of re-
dictionary bureaucratic union Off
cials.
Swabeck knows his subject thor
oily. He is man of many years
experience In the American Trade
Union Movement and has figured
in some of the most important labor
struggles in recent history. He ls
member Of the painters union and
Is delegate from his local to the
Chicago Federation of Labor. He Is
editor of the Progressive Building
Trades Worker.
The classes will be open to all
who wish to attend, free Of charge.
They are conducted under the aus
pices Of the Workers Party, Local
Chicago.
The daily worker., 1924-06-25

tions, to the nation and to the poll
ticians in particular, as to the perma-
nent court, the League of Nations,
the worlds increasing military pre-
paledness, American relations to Mex
leo and other nations of Latin-Amer-
lea, the issue of "the flag following
the dollar" and battleships protect
ing bank investments in weak or back.
ward countries. Also our relations
with China and Japan.
1t is to be observed that nowhere
in this appeal is anything said of the
class struggle, nor worldwide pow
erty and exploitation, nor of social
reconstruction on fundamental Chris
tian lines. Yet even within the mar
row limits of its Thou shalt not kill"
Christianity, it is calculated to arouse
Dawes and Fries and Weeks and Cool
idge to set the churchmen right.
The daily worker., 1924-06-25
PreparIna AaaInst Revolution.

MOSCOW, June 24.-In an inter-
view with Rumanian journalists, Mr..
Mardaresou, the War Minister, stated
that it was necessary to re-equip the
Rumanian army, SO as to be ready for
any emergency. Accordingly, besides
the increase of the war office esti-
mates this year by 300 million as
compared with last year, the Ruma-
nian government is going to ask Par
Lament for extraordinary supplement
tary credits.
The daily worker., 1924-06-25
''Settle Strike or Be
Responsible" Miners
Order German Govt.

BOCHUM, Germany, June 24.-The
German Miners Federation has ad-
dressed a solemn warning to the Ger
man government that, unless steps
are taken mighty quickly to settle the
conflict and bring the operators to
terms, events will transpire in the
Ruhr region that for decades will cast
their shadows upon the development
of our hard-struggling German MAJ
ton"