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Evening star., 1924-06-03
Good Roads Spirit Grows.

South America and Central Amer.
lea will have good roads. Interest in
improved highways in those parts of
the world is being shown and. when
interest In good roads is born bad
roads begin to pass. Interest in good
roads is an appetite that grows by
what 1t feeds on. That is the expert.
ence Of every land which has started
out to build good roads. The vast
lands south Of the United States are
lacking in good roads and some of
them are lacking In any roads, but
the years will tell another story.
A pan-American highway commits.
sion Of thirty-eight engineers, finan.
ciers and economists from South and
Central American nations il in Wash.
ington preliminary to making a study
of the improved roads Of the United
States. This important commission
has been received by the President,
who. addressing the members. said:
THE tour Of inspection that you are
about to undertake and the studies
in which you are about to engage are
matters Of very real significance to
all the republics of the American con-
tinent." The President said that we
see more clearly than ever before
that the improvement OF means of
communication Is not Sonly one Of the
great forces making for cultural and
economic advance, but it is also one
of the basic factors in the develop
ment Of pan-American unity"
This is truth which is clear to mil.
lions of people and is becoming clear
to all. A country once entered on
good road building does not take a
backward step. One good road calls
for another. and this goes on until
people become unwilling to travel on
bad road or live beside one We
have not made all roads good in the
United States. but we have done a
mighty work in that direction within
ten or fifteen years and this work
goes on at an aecelerating pace.
When Central and South America
really begin to build good roads the
work will not stop until the people
achieve their aim. The time is COM
ing, even though perhaps it may not
be so close as one might wish. when
people will be making auto trips be-
tween Washington and Buenos Aires.
between Rio de Janeiro and Washing
ton and between Washington and
Santiago, just as people are motor
ing between Washington and San
Francisco.
Evening star., 1924-06-03
PERSONNEL
BY JOHN CARLYLE

Most Of the failures in life are the
failures of personnel. g..
Examine your business, analyze
your job, even view your family with
unpretudiced eye and you come ihevi-
tabiy to the conclusion that failure is
the failure. Of personnel
Machinery can be made to behave
If you can learn to make people be-
haYe. Circumstances can be handled
if you can learn to handle yourself
Barriers can be surmOunted IL You
can sur1nount yourtelf--if you can
keep your ownNbetter self In the sad
die, II the real you, who is forever
being attacked by the unreal you, can
be kept dominant
Every man is two persons One of
those persons La the better part of
him, and it functions only part Of the
rest Of the time and does q lot of
harm, a lot of pulling down when it
is in control The lesson for us all
to learrl-a lesson fundamental, in
life-is the lesson that teaches us to
keep the better man in the saddle
When our better man is dominant,
and the. better man Of those who
work for us, who are associated with
us. thenSwe have the personnel which
nothing scan hold back, which moth
Ing C<6n auT1SN OF, UlDIlAS.
We in! our various lines or business
build personnel in two wayA First.
we select the best men we can find
We surround ourselves with the
ablest we can discover. Than by the
of leadership we keep
these men at their peak of perform
ance. This IL the essence of the MAIN
tenance of personnel
Machinery cannot ofefAte a bu1i-
ness Location cannot insure sucueaA
Good luck guarantees no triumph
Brilliant leadership may prove Of no
avail Personnel is the answer to
success There Is no substitute for
The study personnel begins with
the study Of yourself and your reaa-
ton to your own business. How
much of you goes up the human Chin
nsy in smoke? How much waste and
how much production?
Beginning with yourself, move on
to the rest and apply the measuring
rod. ,nlSNsd
For failures look to folks!
Copyright. 1oz4.)
Evening star., 1924-06-03
Great Britain Seeks
To Relieve Grievance

The British government is Seek+
ing, by way of negotiation with tho
State Department, to provide al
remedy for an unintentioned wrong
which certain American legislation
has done British women. The Amer
lean law providing for the separate
naturalization of women and de-
creeing that a woman does not ac-
uuire or lose citizenship by marriage
leaves a British woman who marrfes
an American a woman without
cnuntry as long as she resides under
the British flag. The British au-
thorities consider her an American
and the American consul says she is
not The Inconvenience becomes es-
r,eciaIly great IL she desires TO leave
the country. although there are many
other disadvantages and legal dis
abilities connected with her status
The remedy sought, by agreement
with the State Department. is to
entitle such a woman, for passport
purposes only. to be onsidered an
American citizen in accordance with
common International law and thus
straighten out the tangle. It follows.
in sense, the precedent of the
liquor treaty, which also sought to
smooth out q wrinkle in the jointure
of international and American law.
It is an invitation in the line of in
ternationaf comfy for America to
relieve q grievance without sacri-
ficing the principle embodied in its
own statnte:--PhIlsdel Evening
Bulletin.
Evening star., 1924-06-03
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

Corporation cs5l; Homer L. rsrru-
son, president of the Newport News
shipbuilding Company (,s3J: Richard
II. n. Robinson, vice president of the
Harriman lJ.,1, s;s steamship lines t,ssl; / N.
polytschnic institute t7s); Dsan N.
C7s5. and DR.. A. A. Miehelson. UNI
versity pf Chicago ('73). Among men
now prominent In public life. who are
p. Wilbur. Secretary Of the Navy;
John w. Weeks, Secretary Of War;
Senator 0. T.. Weller Of Maryland and
Senator r. b. Howell Of Nebraska.
\ \
Few househo1ders in washington
have wallis adorned with q moro in
tercsting relic than the archaic mus
ket which hangs over = mantsipieoe
In the home Of Mrs. Antoinetts Funk
OF Chicago, who prcatices law at the
Capital when she isn't engaged in
Democratic politics. One Of Mrs.
Funk's maternal ancestors was .
French soldier named Bouverain, who
fought in Napoleon's army at Mos
COW and Waterloo. The musket in
home in Georgetown, washingtons
ultra Sci ect residential quarter, Is the
one he carried throughout "the Little
Corsican's" last campaign. A neigh
Sor anohss tn. %. ay ynown dTe una
Robert T. Lincoln, who Is approach
ing the end of his eighty-first year.
Lincoln Is never seen In public at
Washington. He spends q good deal
Of his time In New England.
DR.. Marion Leroy Burton, president
OF the University Of Michigan, who
will place Coolidge in nomination at
Cleveland, is q professional university
executive. Including his present post,
he has been successfully at the head
Of Smith College at Northampton and
the University of Minnesota. DR..
Burton, too. is one of the youngest
men ever to achieve important presi-
was only thirty-six when he went to
Smith. There the friendship with
Calvin Coolidge was formed and
ripened. The selection of DR.. Burton
as the Presidents nominator is still
another Coolidge gesture to the
Iowa, and his entire background Is
western.
Wayne B. Wheeler. generalissimo
of all the drys, says the Anti-Saloon
League has its eye peeled on the can
didates for Vice President in both
parties Anybody who thinks Of
balancing a ticket dry at the top with
a moist candidate at the bottom is
headed for trouble. according to the
watchfu1 Wayne. The reason for the
drys' excessive vigilance on this oc-
casion is the prospect that either the
House or Senate may elect the next
President of the United States. The
Anti-Saloon Leaguers don't intend
that any wet shall squeeze into the
White House by that circuitous route.
Copyright, 1924
Evening star., 1924-06-03

the District against extravagant ar-
propriations coming mainly from Dis
trict taxpayers and thereby unduly
and ruinously burdening the Wash.
ingtonian.
The fixed ratio plan has this merit:
1t is both an assurance Of aid, which
the District with its lack of large tax
able properties such as those possessed
by the great industrial centers re.
quires, and it is a safeguard against
congressional extravaganza with Dis
trict tax money. AS long as the United
States is obligated to bear its proper.
tionate share of the District expenses
a check is imposed upon the size of
the appropriations. With that obliga-
tion removed Congress may at any
time lower the lump sum to a small
figure and increase the Districts tax
burden to an extortionate point by a
heavy swelling of the appropriations.
Washington contends that 1t is now
adequately taxed, in proportion to
other cities. 1t has presented con-
statistics on this point, which
will bear scrutiny and study II this
matter is investigated fairly and fully.
1t does not shrink from an inquiry
into it's present tax burden or its abil-
ity to bear without injustice an in
crease in the tax revenues. 1t hopes,
therefore. for such a framing Of the
fiscal relations clause of the appro-
priation bill as will maintain the 60-40
ratio for the ensuing fiscal year. and
will, for the sake of a settlement Of
the question. refer the matter OF the
Districts tax burden to joint COM
mission with power to investigate
fully and to report at the next session
for the guidance Of Congress.
Evening star., 1924-06-03

Senate thus continues to put an OBJ
stacle in the way OF peace and un-
derstanding." Although the Duluth
Herald independently admits Ameri
can entrance would be Limited by re-
strictions which do not seem neces-
sary," yet adhesion to the court
would be a fine gesture on the part
Of this country"
The Lincoln Star independently re-
CARDS the vote to report the resolu-
tion of Senator Pepper .favoring ad
hesion to the Court OF International
Justice as a notable victory for the
advocates OF American participation
in world affairs for ''te place the
committee on record means some
thing; the fight is certain to be re-
after the November elections" The
American people wish to join the
world court. continues the Pitts
burgh Gazette Times Repubhcan).
though. they demand that the terms
of their entry be explicit and safe"
Senate foreign relations committee
has taken up the business of framing
appropriate reservations to this end
is hailed as a good augury." In any
event. the New York Herald Tribune
(Republican) is convinced "it is
something gained that Senator Lodge
is definitely disregarded by his fellow
Republicans and that progress is
sought under new leadership"
After all, while the world court foot
ball is being Kicked around the po-
litical gridiron," the Manchester
Union independent Republican, con-
cIudes. ''it can very easily be found
out whether or not the Pepper plan
is acceptable outside our own coun-
try"
Evening star., 1924-06-03
The Realtors.

Washington welcomes the National
Association of Real Estate Boards.
meeting in it's seventeenth annual
convention The 1000 visitors to the
Capital represent about 500 cities in
the United States and Canada. They
have come with almost the zest and
enthusiasm. music and color Of the
Shriners Of a year ago. Washington
has made preparations for their enter
tainment, though not as elaborate or
as picturesque as those Of 1923, but
none the less hearty and sincere.
These men who meet here represent
one of the most active industries in
the United States, the merchandising
of realty. But they are more than mer-
chants. They are builders. developers.
They represent the home-making and
city-making spirit. They promote pros.
perity by providing means of develop
ment.
The realtor, as he has come to be
known, is interested nowadays in more
than the mere vending of lots. He is
concerned in city-planning. He makes
it his business to contribute to the at
tractiveness of his own community
He is in the best sense a boomer for
his "own home town." He must be-
lieve in his town sincerely. in its pros
poets and potentialities. For it is his
business as far as he can to make the
commodity in which he deals for him
self or for others more valuable.
The realtor is a servant of the peo-
pie. He is a promoter of homecoming.
He encourages thrift. He makes his
profit out of the wholesome activity Of
a market in the first essential OF COM
munity life. 1t is his interest to main
tain that activity. -.
To q greater degree than in the past
realtors are today realizing the ad.
vantages Of civic attractiveness. the
value Of beauty in the advancement of
realty values. American cities are i'm
proving in appearance, and community
life is improving in wholesomeness in
consequence. The interest of the man
who deals in real estate and the man
who uses it are identical. This con-
vention will treat of these relation
ships, and Washington will learn
much from the proceedings.
Evening star., 1924-06-03
Asks Press Crusade
To Protect Flowers
10 the Editor Oh Thr star:

TO the Editor Of The star:
Inasmuch as the efforts of the press
seem to have been crowned with
success in the campaign to save the
"dogwood" and wild flowers In gen.
eral, may suggest that another
crusade be started in this city to the
end that private gardens may be
saved from destruction by those who
have no regard for the property OF
others?
1t is almost impossible to have
flowers In q front yard, for men
women and children walk in by day
and by night and ruthlessly destroy
rose bushes in their endeavor to pull
roses in haste, evidently thinking 1t
rare snort to steal flowers ana get
away with IL. ~
As lover of flowers and one who
spends much time and money in the
development OF a garden, may I en-
list your interest in the idea of In
stilling the principles of common
honesty where flowers are. concerned,
For apparently people Of seeming re-
spectSbility DO not consider taking"
flowers stealing
-. {, !: -, ANNIE r, MscARDI4n
Evening star., 1924-06-03
Tax Reduction, Not Revision.

President Coolidge's approval Of the
taX-reduction bill is at the same time
disapproval. He signs it, and it be.
comes law by virtue of his signature.
But he at the same time points out
its inadequacies and faults, and ex-
presses the hope that it may be amend
ed by later legislation to correct those
faults and to make it. in truth, a tax
revision measure instead of merely
tax reducing.
With the somewhat technical ques-
tons of surtaxes, gift taxes, inheri-
tance taxes and relations between fed
eral and state taxation the average
person is not Immediately concerned.
He will be mainly interested In and re.
lieved by the assurance of q lessening
at once of his federal tax burden,
which under the terms of the law will
be retroactive so far as present-year
payments go. But these questions are
of moment to all. The President sees
in them a matter affecting the ma
tional prosperity. the welfare of all the
people. He proposed to Congress a
tax-revision measure which would
have corrected certain wrongs and
faults. Congress saw fit for partisan
reasons to enact bill Of a different
nature. He has approved it for the
sake of the immediate reduction af.
fecting a large number Of people, but
does not yield in his contention that
true revision should go further.
Contention will arise between the
major political parties on the score of
the credit for this tax reduction. 1t
was initiated by the administration. 1t
was enacted by Congress, and it's form
was largely given to it by Democratic
and progressive votes. 1t was a COM
promise. probably the best obtainable
in the circumstances. 1t makes politi.
cal capital, perhaps, for both parties.
But the fact remains that the Presi-
dent and the Secretary of the Treas
ury laid the groundwork for this law,
and the former now gives it his final
sanction. Tax reduction stands as his
work, whatever form may have been
given to it by Congress.
3, Whether this Congress, in session
for three months after the elections in
November, will proceed to correct the
faults which the President notes in
his accompanying message or state
ment remains to be seen. Before it
meets again the country will have
spoken. Other questions than tax re.
vision will have been in issue. 1t may
be impossible to determine from the
results whether a mandate has been
given for further procedure along the
, line of the Presidents proposals But
there is no escaping the logic of his
recommendation that the work of tax
revision should be continued to re-
lieve capital Of the restricting hamper.
ing burdens now put upon it, to re-
lease it for industrial activity, and to
stop the mischievous issue of tax
exempt securities.
Evening star., 1924-06-03

Secretary Hughes will have two
early occasions for public discussion
Of international Affairs. On June II
he will be commencement orator At
Princeton. ana next day at the Prasi-
dents alma mater at Amherst. Prob
ably the two livest foreign issues
how before the American public
Japanese exclusion and the world
court--will bulk prominently In Mr..
Hughes addresses. Dignitaries in
vited to hold forth at college COM
mencemsnts usually get an honora-
ruin In the form Of . degree. Sec-
rotary Hughes already boasts q nota-
BILE collection of LII. DIS. With those
to be thrust upon him at Princeton
and Amherst. he will own an even
dozen. President Coolidge was be-
seeched to deliver commencement
orations at half a dosen universities
this year, but declined. for obvious
reasons. Unless he alters his pres
ent program, the President will make
no extended public utterance until
pending nomination at Cleveland.
There isn't q city In the country
with as many vice presidential pos
sibtlities" In both parties as Chicago.
The Republican list includes Lowden
and Dawes. and tho Democratic ros-
ter embraces Mayor Dever, Jim
Ham" Lewis, and Carter II. Harrison.
The Washington wiseacres expect
George Brennan to land at least sec
ond place at New York for a candi-
Illinois or elsewhere in the middle
western political belt.
\ 4
Representative Theodore E. Burton
70 Ohio, Coolidge keynoter at Cleve-
land, always wants plenty Of room
when he's Grating on a state occasion.
Usually the decks are widely cleared
for him. When Burton made his cele-
brated filibustering speech in Con-
gress against tho last pork barrel"
rivers and hArbors bill, holding the
floor for nearly twelve hours. he
walked during that period. it is esti-
mated, at least ten miles within
circumscribed area in front of the
Speakers rostrum. How the Cleve-
land keynoter will manage next week
remains to be seen. The convention
is to be broadcast, and speakers will
be required to keep In pretty direct
contact with the microphone. Per-
haps they'll rig up portable micro
phone for Burton.
X X X
This weeks annual graduating ex-
ercises at Annapolis recall that many
men who received their education at
the Naval Academy have achieved
distinction in civil life. Among them
are Winston Churchill, novelist CsD;
Frank J. Sprague, inventor of the
trolley car C7S); J. w. Powell, presi.
dent Of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding
Evening star., 1924-06-03
Delay on Retirement
Measure Questioned
10 the Editor Of The Star:

10 the Editor of The Star:
have noticed in the past year in
your columns that on ssverai occa-
sfons editorials. short though they
were, have been inserted showing the
Urgent necessity Of Congress taking up
and passing the bill in favor OF the
aryny Of retired civil service veterans
fer an increase Of annuity as provided
therein. :
AS such action requires no appro-
priation, isn't it strange that said bill
has not been voted out of the COM
- A. J. WHITAKER
Evening star., 1924-06-03
The District Bill Conference.

Senatorial conferees on the District
of Columbia appropriation bill, it is
announced, are resisting firmly the
contention of the House conferees that
the measure should stand as it was
passed by the House, in respect to the
contribution of the United States to-
ward Capital maintenance. The House,
given opportunity to do so by an ap-
peal to the technicality of the Holman
rule that the amendment reduced the
amount of the appropriation Of federal
money, adopted by the votes Of hand
:. full of members a proposal to abrosnte
fthe definite proportion principle and
to substitute a lump sum in lieu Of
gfhe governments expenditure. The
Senate adopted in substitution a pro-
vision that the lump sum should be
increased from eight to fourteen mil
lions. "or in lieu thereof 40 per cont"
Of the sums named in the bill.
The contention between the con-
terees is not as to the amount OF the
lump sum named, but as to the abro-
!. cation of the fixed ratio principle. De.
spite the somewhat eQuivocal manner
in which the Senate's proposal is
stated, that issue remains. Now the
Senate conferees are. in justice to the
District, urging that instead Of arbi.
trarily, substituting a lump sum inn.
rnediately for the fixed ratio Congress
should proceed to investigate the Dis
trict's present and prospective burden
Of taxation, to decide whether there is
y oundertaxation here and whether the
lumpsum plan is equitable, and IL 80
how the sum of the federal contribu-
: tion shall be annually determined.
The District contends that the lump
/ f.snm proposal is unfair because it car
!. ries no guaranty whatever either for a
sufficient federal contribution In aid Of
! the District, or for the protection Of
Evening star., 1924-06-03

:. Liquor that could not be sold in
America was smuggled into England,
and revenue boats Immediately pa
troled the coast to catch the rum
runners. England is by no means as
dry in sentiment as this country. But
no nation likes to have its laws de.
iberately disregarded.
Evening star., 1924-06-03

somewhat scanty bloom to weave
wreAths for victors and the others.
There must be consolation to a los
Ing company to know that It is better
to have drilled and lost than never to
have drilled at all. Also, there are
often 30 few points" between winner
and loser that judges are perplexed as
to whom shall go the bay and olive,
and it is also known that judges, even
military Judges, are men, and that
they may make mistakes. So many
persons make mistakes that there is
bit Of rubber on one end Of nearly
every pencil.
Evening star., 1924-06-03
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON
MiSapprehensiOns

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
That William Tell was but a myth
We hear with sadness grim.
So many hours were frightened with
The stories told of him,
He never pierced the apples core
When by a tyrant bid.
So many men are famous for
The things they never did.
Doc Osler never said a man
At forty years was through;
Though he should then have formed
life's plan
And know what he could do.
BY misinterpf citations free
We're frequently misled.
How many men may famous be
For things they never said.
Evening star., 1924-06-03

A great many people are conscien.
.tiously convinced that prohibition is a
good thing and proceed to enforce it
so far as their individual customs are
concerned, on the theory that every
little bit helps.
Evening star., 1924-06-03

The two Chicago men charged with
shocking crime are now accusing each
other. AS students of human propensi-
ties, neither can expect in the other a
careful sense of honor in preserving
mutual agreements.
Evening star., 1924-06-03

According to the opinions Of several
statesmen the time-honored political
machines can be kept going well
enough if they can be provided with
new parts.
Evening star., 1924-06-03

Congressman face a great deal Of
criticism, but can afford to be patient.
Many senator or representative
throws a wicked harpoon himself.
Evening star., 1924-06-03

Electricity is being used to shear
sheep in California. The bill for cur
rent will figure even in the price Of
the autumn overcoat-
Evening star., 1924-06-03
Agricultural Advantage.

The city person hurries
! To keep up with the expense.
Nobody ever worries
. II he faces indulgence.
A teardrop always giistens
At the farmers lusty wall.
At least the public listens
When he tells a hard-luck tale.
''De only reason I eees foh wfshin
old times was back" Aid Uncle Eben
els, in dat case, de comm rent day
would still be . good long wayS o." !