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Evening star., 1925-01-23

OF Europe without regard to eeonom-
ical considerations. No national boun-
daries can be enduring which are de-
termined solely upon sentiment or
political expediency, nor are racial as
pirations an adequate foundation for
stable geography. A nation and a peo-
pie must first have the means of sus-
tanning life, and in the long run the
necessity Of such means Of life will
outweigh all other considerations, The
treaty Of Versailles made OF Austria
an economic impossibility, and SO long
as It remains in this condition 1t con-
stitutes menace both to the peace
and the prosperity of Europe.
1t is easy and not overly becoming
at this day and distance TO criticize
the mistakes OF those who framed the
treaties of peace, but because mistakes
wero made in an abnormal time IS not
a good reason why they should not
be corrected when their hurtfulness
has been disclosed. Europe now knows
that lot of boundary lines were mis-.
takenly drawn, that In this complex
age in which we live it requires
something more than racial likeness
and aspirations to constitute q nation.
Victor nations, as well as those
which were vanquished, suffer now
and will continue to suffer because OF
these mistakes. and it IS likely the
process of their correction will be a
slow and painful one. No one can
fairly blame Austria for seeking self
preservation through non-politlcal as
sociation with Germany, and it may
be that no one can fairly blame France
for ohjecting to such association, for
the German peril is very real
thing in the life of the French people.
1t is only another impressiv lesson
that all who engage in war must en-
dure its miseries, regardless OF battle
decisions.
Evening star., 1925-01-23

have been paid the leaf and those who
smoke 1t, but never a prettier one than
this. And what a blow to those bleak
reformers who have been girding their
loins to exterminate demon tobacco
They had counted largely on women
for their shock battalions, and here is
the first woman governor in her first
official pronouncement not only giving
aid and comfort to the enemy but
actually patting him on the back and
making him out first,rate fellow.
What is the world coming to, anyhow?
But what boots il 1t be wintry
weather in the camp OF the bleak re-
formers? 'Tis gladstone Summer In
the train of Lady Nicotine. Merry
King Cole may still hope to have his
pipe. though he call for his bowl in
vain. SO the "most liberal men in all
communities will line UP to give three
rousing cheers for Gov. Ma" and a
tiger for ex-Gov. Jim"
Evening star., 1925-01-23
Price of Shoes.

The aim Of many newspapers is to
give prominence to messages of hope,
prosperity and happy times. The
speaker who says that 1925 will be a
banner year for Joy and bumper
year for good things gets a column,
The soothsayer who says that the
world is coming to an end in 1925,
and that as a curtain raiser to that
accident there will be plague and
panic gets a paragraph. People like
joyous news as they like joyous books,
joyous plays, joyous pictures, Joyous
music and joyous inaugurations. But
it is impossible to keep newspaper
pages as happy as one could wish.
The Associated Press sends from New
York the news that John e. McKeon,
president of the National Boot and
Shoe Manufacturers Association, pre-,
association that the prices of shoes
will either remain firm or soar up
ward" Strict constructionists in Ian
guage would expect that IL shoe prices
than down, but there is a ray of hope
In this message. The price Of shoes
may remain firm. That is the trade
way of saying that the price of shoes
may stand still or stay put. This
eminent authority on shoes says that
the prices may soar. The message
comes at a time when many persons
are thinking of new pair of shoes;
that is, when they are just thinking
of a new pair of shoes. In many cases,
and on many feet, the second or third
soles on the old pair are thin and
leaking. One hoped that the price of
shoes was coming down, but accord
ing to Mr.. McKeon one must hope
again.
Evening star., 1925-01-23
The Future of Austria.

A Berlin dispatch to the New York
Herald Tribune says enissaries OF the
Austrian government are now in Ber-
lin negotiating with political leaders
fhere on a plan looking to the incor-
poration Of Austria in the German
economic, industrial and financial sys-
tenn. In other words, to make Austria
g. part of the imperial German repub,
Sic in all respects except actual terri
torial and political amalgamation,
witch is prohibited by the treaty of
Versailles.
Such a program is bound to arouse
strong opposition In France and
among those continental powers which
ere sympathetic with the French view
point. but It is difficult TO see what
steps could be taken to prevent such
q unicn. That Austria should seek
such association Is the inevitable con-
xHe0uence Of the redrawing OF the map
Evening star., 1925-01-23
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLLAM VILE

hang out a shingle in Washin gton,
but he will have a desk in the Offices
of Joseph Patrick Tumulty. and, pre-
sumably, now and then take a brief
and argue a case. Stanley is a grad
uate of Centre College, Kentucky,
where the famed praying colonels"
hail from. 1t is nearly a quarter OF
century since he practiced law, for
he entered the House of Representa-
tives in 1902, sat there continuously
till elected Governor of kentucky in
1915, and resigned from that Office on
election to the United States Senate
in 1918. He is & forceful speaker and
ought to be an effective jury lawyer.
;; x
Secretary Hughes has written the
foreword to the first book ever de-
voted TO Americas diplomatic and
consular affairs. The Foreign Serv-
ice of the United States" is the work
of Tracy Hollingsworth Lay, consul
general of the United States, now on
duty in the State Department. Mr..
Lays volume is the only one that
has ever attempted to describe inti-
mately the branch of the Government
that has TO do with International re-
lations. To i great extent, it will
lift the veil of mystery that sur
rounds our foreign service. at home
and abroad, in the mind Of the man
in the street. Lay pictures the seFy-
ice and it's personnel as very human
institutions, doing Uncle Sans work,
as the day brings il along, silently,
effectively, unsung. 1t is a wonder
fully true picture of how the United
States keeps its finger on the pulse
of foreign developments. The author
speaks ex cathedra. He has had many
years Of service both in Washington
and at foreign capitals.
= x
James C. Davis of Iowa. who has
just submitted his final report on the
late and lamented United States Rail
road Administration, learned more
about the railroad business and rail-
road men in the last four years than
any man ever knew before. In the
, course Of liquidating claims and
counterclaims totaling 81, loo 100000,
Davis has faced across his mahogany
desk practically every railroad presi-
dent executive vice president, traffic
manager and accounting officer in the
country. His dealings with them
often savored of poker, with the
highest stakes ever played for. Pres
ident Coolidge termed Davis report
the account of one of the most stu
pendous financial transactions on
record. One. of Davis colleagues
that the railroads and Uncle Sam
would be wrangling in the Supreme
Court for a generation, trying to un-
scramble their wartime relations.
Well, the Railroad Administration
winds up with no lawsuits and
slate wiped clean at an expense of
less than S50,000,000 to the Treasury.
x X X X
National headquarters of the prot
estant knights of America" in Wash
ington, announces that Pennsylvania
avenue, on September 81, 1925, will
resound TO the tread of marching
Protestant thousands" who aim to
duplicate and outdo the Holy Name
Society, Roman Catholic, demonstra-
tion over the same route last Septem
Der. To join the Protestant knights
you must be a "natiye-horn, white
Gentile," and engaged in "a 1eRtti-
mate occupation"
Copyright. 1e254
Evening star., 1925-01-23

bank declared net earnings in 1928
amounting to 2,767.59s.s5 pesos.
To his assertion that the Filipinos
are composed of semi -civilized tribes
speaking dialects some of which are
not understandable to one another,
we will simply reply by Quoting a
prominent Republican and a scientist:
DR.. Merton Miller, former chief
ethnologist, Philippine Bureau of
Science, in n scientific paper which
appeared in the Philippine Journal of
Science, said:
There are many different Ian
guages or dialects in the Philippines,
but all are closely related one to an
other, the pronunciation and mode
of speech vary but little from one
section of the Philippines to another
and the majority of the words are
common to two or more of the Philip
pine languages. These languages,
whether spoken by Pagan, Moro or
Christian, belong to the great Malay
Polynesian family"
Chief Justice Taft, first civil COVER
nor of the Philippines, testified be-
fore the Senate committee on the
Philippines in 1914 as follows:
"The word tribe gives an errone-
Gus impression. There is no tribal
relation among Filipinos. There is a
racial solidarity among them un-
doubtedly. They are homogeneous. |
cannot tell the difference between an
Ilocano and a Tagalog or a Visayan-
to me Filipinos are all alike"
The Wood-Forbes mission, which
reported against independence, said in
it's report:
From a number of warning tribes
Spain succeeded in welding the
Philippine people into fairly homo
geneous group, sufficiently allied In
blood and physical characteristics to
be capable of becoming a people with
distinctive and uniform characteris-
tics"
This is q vast deal more than can
be said of many Independent coun-
tries. Spain is peopled by Basques,
Galatians and Castilians; Switzerland
by French, Germans and Italians;
Belgium by French and Flemish +;
Czechoslovakia by Slovaks, Magyars
and Germans; Hungary by Magyars,
Germans, Slovaks and others; Bull
garia by Bulgarians, Turks, Ru-
manians, Greeks, Jews and other ma
tionalities, and Cuba by whites and
negroes The conditions in the United
States are we'll known; out of a popu-
lation of 05,000,000 there are over
10, 900, 900, or 10 per cent, negroes, and
over 13,000,0 900. or over IL per cent,
foreign born whites, making a total
of over % per cent of the population
who are raoially and socially differ
snt from the native-born whites.
Evening star., 1925-01-23
The Lady and the Weed.

There are many husbands who
will envy the husband Of the Cow.
ernor of Texas. Presumably he will
be free to smoke all over the execu-
tive mansion, without shifting Of win
dow curtains or other indications of
wifely disapproval Of indulgence in
the weed. For the first woman to
be made governor OF a sovereign
State officially condohes the use of
tobacco, and. by inference, at least,
cigarette. smokers rank as high in
her esteem as do deyetees Of cigar
or pipe.
In her first message to the Legis-
lature Gov. Ferguson proposes a tax
on cigarettes as a means of raising
revenue for support of educational in.
stitutions. She comedies that those
opposed to education could evade the
tax by foregoing tobacco, but she is
not inclined to think they would, be-
cause, she says, "the man who smokes
is generally the most liberal man in
the community"
A Lot Of tributes, In prose aud -poepe
Evening star., 1925-01-23
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

they. It is by their anxiety to let
you know this that they betray how
greatly they are conscious that the
opposite Is the truth
| (. Arthur Schepenhauer, you see,
never hattered anybody and that was
| where he was in error, for had he
+, dealt a little more freely in apple
| generally as the great and fearless
| thinker which ne undoubtedly was.
| Flattery, judiciously applied, oils
| the wheels of life as nothing else can.
| The amount of 1t the average man or
woman can absorb is astonishing. The
| amazing thing Is that this praise,
granting 1t is more or less true, acts
| as r. true lubricator.
| Judictous fattery makes any one
walk on air for time, I do not care
| If he be President OF the United
! States. member of Congress, governor
| Of great State, successful busine So
| man, street car motorman, street
| cleaner or ash man.
| All ranks of men respond to the
magic touch of praise. Many men
| are so greedy for it that they think
gotten their daily dozen of commenda-
| tion, they feel like shaking the fur
mace to pieces, to paFaphrase the old
| comedy joke.
The person who applies the magic
| oil of fiattsry to the mind of another
also is gamer in the transaction. Per-
| haps he Is benefited more than the
| recipient Who knows?
For In praising another he is talk
! Ing step, II a small one, along that
difficult road labeled so many years
! ago:
The Golden Rule.
DO unto others as you would have
! them do unto you"
A hard road, this, so much so, in
deed, that some have called IL i'm
| possible to travel. And millions who
have not so branded IL have acted
upon the same supposition, evidently,
| as witness the continual wars which
mankind has inflicted upon itself.
Poor, struggling mankind, thinking
| itself free, fondly believing itself to
be self-determinating, yet seemingly y
under the same influences that de-
termine the action OF the tiger in the
| junglel
One first, faltering step along the
great golden road is praise OF others
Let some call 1t "just fiattery," If
| they Will; you see in II more than
! that. 1t Is. in small way, at least,
a passport TO a better life.
! If one cannot be "a great hero, or
really self-righteous, at least he can
| give word of praise now and then
| TO this one or that one who has done
something well. Lord, how it helps!
Perhaps IL is only his duty to do It
| Well-perhaps so--but slap him on the
| back. ladle out the G'apple sauce, -
watch him later, when he does not
know you are looking-there is a
new light in his eye. a new look on
| his face.
u
| Flattery, judiciously applied, turned
| the trick.
| Flattery always turns the trick.
| II you want to pep" a man up in
his work. sling a bit of apple sauce
his way. He may know it is THE
| bunk" as you do, but he will lap II
up. just the same
If you want to get big man
| coming your way, leave your un-
answerable arguments at home, and
rely upon the good old apple sauce" {"
If Johnny falls in his lessons, In
stead of "bawling him out" lurk for
something to praise, and then spread
| on thick
| SApple sauce"
L am not sure but what the nectar
| of the gods really was just plain
| old
| Apple sauce!
Evening star., 1925-01-23

apple sauce" Is a somewhat new
slang term for fattery, which Is a
very old thing, begun in the days of
kings and courts, coming down to
us of this day and age almost un-
changed
upon something You have done, the
fashionable action If you are not too
old, is TO smile and say. modestly:
apple sauce!"
This expression is supposed TO re-
iieve your modesty, which is hurt by
the open compliment. Formerly one
gave a deprecating smile, and a
hearty, "Oh, nor
If a kind friend pats you on the
back on account of your new suit,
you must wait until he leaves, then
turn to some one standing by and
grin:
Apple saucew
Or, if you are. that standerby. you
may beat the recipient OF the COM
pliment to 1t by calculating before
he gets 4 chance:
apple sauce
Pretty soon you Will be fed up, as
the expression is, on apple sauce, and
never wish to hear about it again.
The very sight of the real article
will nauseate you.
You may abjure the term, but flat
terry Will be with you always, as long
as men are men, and women are
women.
Flattery is necessary concomi-
tant at the banquet Of life. We all
like flattery, no matter what We say,
no matter how much we grin "Ap-
pie sauce
The higher we are, the harder we
fall for it. | have yet to see a per
son who cannot be flattered. No
matter what position he holds, no
matter in what seat Of the mighty he
may be found he is susceptible TO
flattery, judiciously applied.
Flattery Is commonly supposed to
involve something OF falsehood. a
mere base statement of something
that Is not true to please great
person and win his favor.
Flattery is that, OF course, in many
cases, but the term implies a great
deal more than that. In other words,
If the praise is sincere and honestly
meant, it is f1attery just the same as
IL 1t were untrue and dishonesty
meant.
The term "fiattery" does not neces-
sarily imply falsehood or cajolery
any more than It's modern equivalent
apple sauce" does. If the statement
made is true, 1t may be called fat
terry by onlookers, as if the words
were the veriest bunk"
If it pleases you, it is good fiat
terry; if not, it is poor stuff. Is not
that it?
4; X 4
The duty OF mankind to deal
largely in this good fiattery Of which
l would speak Is commonly lost sight
| of in the odIum that has attached for
! so many centuries to the. baseles SIS
praise that is accorded a man or
woman because OF the rank which he
or she happens to hold.
Aristocracies, Schopenhauer tells
US. are OF three kinds: /, Of birth and
| rank; 2, of wealth, and, 8. of intel
lect. Happy is the man who combines
all three IN his person.
The last is really the most distin-
! guished of the three" declares Scho-
penhauer, "and its claim to occupy
the first position comes to be recog
| nized, If it be allowed time to work
/" Every one of these aristoc-
! racies Is surrounded by a host of en-
vious persons, If you belong to one
| of them, they will be secretly en-
bittered against you; and unless they
are restrained by fear, they will al
ways be anxious to let you under
| stand that you are no better than
Evening star., 1925-01-23

Who says that America is no vener-
ator of traditions? Senator Royal 5.
CoDeland of New York deposes and
saws that she is slavishly devoted to
the things of yesteryear, II certain
appurtenances in the United states
Senate chamber are a criterion. he
is authority for the statement that
the SNUFF box that must have done
duty when John Quincy Adams Dan
iel Webster, John c. Calhoun, Albert
Gallatin. De Witt Clinton and other
immortals bestrode the scene is still
in it's ancient place and working.
Who the snufftakers of the present
Senate are DR.. Copeland does not dis
close Also the Empire State 8 medic
solon AYERS that every Senator's desk
continues to be equipped with a sand
box for blotting purposes. When
Copeland came to Washington two
years ago he found his offices fur
nished with the four gargantuan
brass cuspidors which the Govern
ment supplies to every Senator He
ordered his secretary to remove them
Leave one in place, anyhow" plead
ed that experienced hand. Next day
Copeland had a call from Senator
Furnifold Mel. Simmons of North
Carolina The Tar Heel statesman be-
gan operations by making a bullseye,
although the cuspidor was feet
away. 1t has remained in place ever
since
x x X x
Controller General McCarl, Uncle
Sans top sergeant expense account
expert. makes more enemies to the
square inch than any other official IN
the Federal service. That is the rea-
son McCarl is the darling of the gods
who control appropriations on Cap
itol Hill. Stories about his paFsi-
mony, in the interest of the budget
are incessant. A distinguished mem
ber of the Federal Reserve Board is
the hero of one of the newest. He
had occasion recently to go TO Balti-
more on Federal Reserve business.
To save time he travelled on the Ba'
timore and Ohio Railroad, and, even
tually, put in his expense voucher TO
the Journey. II came back from the
Controller Generals office $50 the
story goes) with a notation some
what to this effect:
Disbursement disapproved.
should have used the electric line to
Baltimore. He will be allowed only
the cost of the cheaper route"
The saving involved on the electric
road amounted to about so cents. The
time lost if the official had gone that
way amounted to about three hours.
X X X X
Somebody asked President Coolidge,
when still Vice President, II he did
anything, in the performance OF his
duties, that involved risk of life. Con-
versation turned on the subject In
consequence of Secretary Denby's es-
cape that same week from death in
an airplane crash over the Great Wall
of China. Coolidge's rejoinder would
have had even more pertinent today
than then. "Wa-al," the Vice Presi-
dent said, Il walk to the Capital every
day."
X x x X
There's an Irresistible charm about
Washington for congressional lame
ducks. The lure of the Capital is sell
dom shaken off. One of the latest to
succumb is Senator A. Owsley Stan
ley of Kentucky, who will be priyi-
legged after March 4 to put "ex" on
his visiting cards. Mr.. Stanley, a
brilliant barristsr-at-laYs will not
Evening star., 1925-01-23
Civil War Fort Parkway.

The Senate has passed bill author.
izing the District Commissioners to
make survey and prepare plans for
a parkway to connect the Civil War
forts and fort sites In the District. II
should be recalled to newer Washing.
tonians that the Civil War defenses Of
Washington north and east Of the
Potomac River extended from the tip
Of the ridge opposite Alexandria north,
east along the ridge paralleling the
Eastern Branch to Benning, then
from Reform School Heights west of
the Eastern Branch and northwest to
Fort Stevens at Brightwood and then
west to the Potomac River at Chain
Bridge and the receiving reservoir,
Several Of the forts IN the hills above
the reservoir were in Maryland
South and west Of the Potomac, IN
Virginia, there was also a chain of
defenSeS.
The defenses of Washington were
earth forts. heavily armed and gen.
orally well manned. These, with smaller
earthworks called batteries, which In
some cases were armed and manned
and in other cases were prepared
positions into which artillery could
be moved on short notice, were con-
nected with lines OF rife trenches for
two ranks Of men. The fortifcations
commanded by their fire every foot OF
ground a distance of 2 miles from the
guns by which an enemy could ap-
proach Washington. Some of the fort
sites are now marked by worn ram
parts and bitches. Some have been
leveled and are held for building pur-
poses. and others have been partly
or wholly built on.
The linking and recovery OF the old
forts or their sites would be justified,
The fort system Of Washington should
be preserved as a matter of history
The Civil War phase OF the CapitaPs
history will make a stronger call on
the imagination as years pass, and
most Of the fort sites can be bought
now at a fraction OF the price that
would have to be paid 25 or SO years
hence. All the forts were built in high
places, generally giving an. extensive
view Of the Capital, and always giving
a splendid view of country outside
the city. The forts and fort sites along
the Eastern Branch Ridge give as i'm
pressiye views of Washington as can
be had from the Arlington Ridge.
There is need for development OF the
Capitals park system and acquisition
Of the fort sites, and connection of
them by a road has been part Of near
ly every plan for park development
There is need for auto boulevards in
and near Washington, and a. highway
connecting the fort sites would take
memory back to the Civil War, carry
men to the high places in the country
about Washington and give them
vistas that could not be had by build
ing a road over any other course. The
cost of such a work would be rela-
lively low. Twenty-Five. or fifty years
hence the cost OF such q work might
be prohibftive.
1t is matter which has passed
through every phase Of discussion.
The Grand Army OF the Republic
urged the preservation and connection
of these forts when tens of thousands
of Civil War soldiers now dead were
living. Organizations of ex.Confed-
crates have urged it. Patriotic So
cieties have recommended it, and most
Of the civic organizations Of Wash
ington have done what they could dur
ing the half century to press this mat
ter on Congress.
Evening star., 1925-01-23

The eminent Brussels archeologist,
DR.. Capart, is rendering an important
service in lecturing on ancient Egypt.
One of the important incidents of re-
lief in times Of much mental stress
was the discovery OF King Tut, and,
the public should not forget him
easily, f... -.
Evening star., 1925-01-23

Timely warning is given by oculists
to run no risk of injuring eyesight by
gazing at the eclipse. Even if you do
not see It at all you may be perfectly
sure it is there. and that it is not 60
ing to affect your interest in any ma
terial way. Excepting for astronomers,
the safest way TO study an eclipse is
in books and not in the sky.