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The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-10-31
Kind Intervention

A Vermont man tFipped over a fallen
tree and broke his leg while chasing
skunk. Providence sometimes en-
pInys hard methods to protect hunlpns
from the result Of their folly
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-10-31
Needs SkiIful RandIing

Tie human mind is 10 be treated like
a sllein Of raveled silk. where you must
cautiously secure one free end before
you can make any progress in olsen
tangling it.-Scott.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-10-31
Simplicity Passes.

Thirdly elaboration is now combat
ing simplicity. which has been car
ricd too far ana continued too long.
and White 40 modern maiden Will ever
swish through the avenues accom-
panied by anything like the encum-
hrances Of her Victorian fnrhears.
there is. nevertheless u distinct trend
among the creative spirits Of fashion
toward greater decoration. particular
~ III the evening.
Fourthly, counter move against
the 0vereXtensinn nf the sports vogue
has just been lnaugurated and while
YOU may hear from many sources that
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-10-31
Couldn't Be Worse

MISUNDERSTANDING poetry strikes
re as being rather clumsy" Buggins -
Clumsy? Why, it positively trips over
its own feet"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-10-31

BlObbs-That poor fish Sillicus is
the most credulous fellow ever
Flew Slobbs-"Yes, sometimes I
actually think lie believes in himself"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-10-31
Famous Fans

Palm leaf fans. baseball fans, an
ostrich feather fan, a golf fan. "ranned
him out" an electric fan, radio fan,
fan-tan. a tennis fan. fan me with a
brick"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-10-31
Extra Soqp P,opided2

Sign In indoor Persons
bathing for the first time are requested
TO inform the attendant of the fact -
Boston Transcript.
Evening star., 1925-03-13

camp. 1t has been done in the past to
smash filfbusters. The much-lauded
right Of unlimited debate becomes un-
der such circumstances merely a test
of endurance. If physical endurance
Is to be the dependence Of Senators,
then why not a physical examination
before a man can become eligible for
service in the Senate? Ability to hold
the floor for eight hours continuously
would he minimum requisite.
Mr.. Copeland, in his long discussion
yesterday and last night, left the sob
ject of the Isle of Pines entirely, as
other Senators usually do when they
are filibustering. and discussed TOPICS
entirely unrelated to the subject be-
fore the Senate. Obesity, yellow.fever.
mosquitoes, were some of the topics
touched upon by the New Yorker, who
is physician and was formerly health
commissioner of New York. In fact,
ne discussed at one time during the
debate" an essay which he proposed
to write entitled DO Statesmen Dig
Their Graves With Their Teeth?'' Un-
doubtedly some of the Senators have
dug theirs filibustering in wears
gone by.
Evening star., 1925-03-13
Geneva Protocol Scrapped.

Ii is only the expected that has hap
pened at Geneva. Ever since the day
when. at the instance OF Japan, there
was incorporated in the Geneva pro-
tocol u provision that even purely
domestic questions might be made
threatened war. It was inevitable that
the league project for arbitration, Sc
curity and disarmament was doomed
to failure. The British dominions
never would agree to such program;
the British government dare not agree
in the face OF dominion opposition,
and without British agreement the
protocol was worthless.
Austen ChamberIain's speech at
Geneva yesterday, in which he de-
ciared the British governments con-
sidered decision against the protocol.
had the merit of being defnite and un-
majesty's, government, he said, that
the protocol was more calculated to
be a breeder of war than a guarantor
Of peace. He saw no possibility that
it could be rewritten or revised to give
promise Of accomplishing the pur-
pose for which 1t was designed. No
objection was made by the British
spokesman to the proposal that the
league assembly for reconsideration.
.Sot obviously he regarded this rather
as a mode OF decent burial than a
hope Of resurrection.
1t is apparent. judging from the
tone Of European press dispatches.
that the belief prevails widely that
Chamberlain was preaching funeral
grafton for the League of Nations as
advancing the British program for as
surances of peace through regional
treaties Of defense under the auspices
Of the league, he suggested that if the
league covenant as it stands does not
supply adequate machinery for pre-
serving the peace 1t might be well to
alter the covenant until it does. 1t
sounded to his hearers as if the Brit
ish foreign secretary meant to say
that the League of Nations did not
amount to much after all. and to ma
tions which have pinned all their
hopes on the efficacy of covenant that
was an appalling thought
So in the passing of the Geneva pro-
tocol we have only another demonstra-
ton that the world has not yet at
tanned a state to permit the triumph
CT ideaIism over practical and selfish
onsiderations. 1t was a splendid
dream, but has gone the way of
dreams.
Evening star., 1925-03-13
The Ladybug's Mission.

The ladybug, that gentIest, neatest
and bestmannered Of insects. was
once considered only an object of
minute beauty, subject of a pleasant
nursery rhyme and beloved of all
little children. Now she-for one
always thinks of this species as
feminine-is found to be quite a hard
boiled character, relentless and in
satiable in pursuit of her chosen prey.
Where once she was regarded as
a pleasant feature of a drowsy Sum
mer's day, sung to and softly urged
into languid flight, she now is col
iected and sold at the tremendous
price OF So a thousand. for she. it is
discovered, is able and willing to con-
quer and devour the aphis, a still
smaller member of the insect world.
which, in turn. destroys apple trees.
The pudgy little bug, with its rich
brown shell-like and speckled wings.
catches the aphis by the neck. She
Is as effective as a spray. though not
so rapid. A Martinsburg, W. Va. or.
oNhCi IcCcHlly OTOeTeQ lb,UVU
of these little warriors from the ap-
ple-producing section OF Colorado, and
expects highly beneficial results from
his purchase.
Opinions change with the times.
The fly, concerning which a charm
ing and almost laudatory nursery
song was written, has been found ont
to be a villain Of the deepest dye.
The spider, another subject of ill.,
Veniie ditties, is discovered to be not
nearly so black as he is painted. The
ladybug comes out in an entirely
new character. Other faIlacies re-
sarding familiar tiny winged crea-
lures will doubtless be exposed. Who
knows but that some day the lantern
OF the industrious and prosperous
mosquito gatherer will flicker in
swamp-lands at night?
Evening star., 1925-03-13
Encouraging the Air Service.

Commendation is due the Senate
for its action yesterday in promptly
confirming President Coolidge's pro-
motion of the two world flyers of the
Regular Army and the Officers Re-
serve Corps in recognition of their
recent achievement in encircling the
globe. The public at large will be
gratified from a sentimental point Of
view by this act of appreciation by
the Government of what Sergt. Og-
den and Second Lieut.. John Harding,
jr., have done, by their promotion in
rank. The other world flyers, all OF
whom are members of the Regular
Army establishment, were moved up
on the promotion list and. as well as.
Ogden and Harding, were awarded
the distinguished service medal and
permitted to accept decorations from
foreign governments
There is another angle, Of utilita-
rian value, to the An Service gen.
orally in this act Of appreciation by
the Government and the Senate Of the
accomplishments of these men. 1t
VIII further stimulate interest in the
Air Service. There is no feature of
the military establishment of more
Importance to the defense of the Ma
tion than the Air Service, nor one in
Evening star., 1925-03-13

which there is more general public
interest. England, France, Japan
indeed, it may be said the whole
world-are recognizing in practical
fashion the paramount Importance of
this feature of military activity. In
America it has recently been the sub
ject OF agitation which has served to
attract the attention Of the country
in notable degree, awakening a popu-
lar appreciation of the necessity for
extension OF our air program.
The airmen are entitled to feel in
this act of recognition of the achieve
ment of the world flyers that a CRATE
full Government and Senate. as well
as an appreciative public, are follow
ing them with interest and encour-
agement. They can henceforth put
their best efforts into their work. con-
fident of continued future recognition
by the Congress, which must provide
appr ropriations for enlargement OF the
service. 1t is an expensive feature of
national defense, yet there must be
no hesftancy in meeting its require
ments. Unquestionably, the people are
alive to the importance of maintaining
a sufficient air force to defend the
land from attack in this newer and
more deadly feature OF the science Of
warfare and will not countenance gov
ernmental policies which would allow
the United States to lag behind in
keeping step with the rapidly shift
ing developments therein.
Evening star., 1925-03-13
TAX REDUCTION UNCERTAIN
BY WILLIAM p. HELM, JR.

meRt as the British debt France and
Italy would pay into the American
Treasury a total of s1S0,o00, 900
year That would relieve tho Amer
lean taxpayers to that extent.
Now $lS0,000.000 a year of the
present load would be equivalent to a
substantial reduetion-one approach
ing in dimensions the tax reduction
of 1924. There is no immediate pros
pect of the debts being funded under
any such desirable arrangement. Yet
when they are funded, what other
arrangement could be made. In jus
tice to Great Britain? Washington
officials regard the presence Of those
two great unfunded debts as the one
weak spot in our national finances.
Officials are fully aware of the pos
sibilities of tax reduction that lie in
debt-funding and are extremely anx-
ious to make some such arrangement,
but the subject is so delicate that prog
ress necessarily will be slow How
ever, this much is regarded as certain:
when those two debts are funded
under some such plan. another tax
reduction will Immediately become
possible.
A third factor relating directly to
the contemplated tax reduction at the
next session of Congress is the spend
ings of Congress itself The past
Congress was not a spending Con
gress, as compared with some Of its
predecessors, but it did upset the
Presidents budget plan to some ex-
tent on several occasions. And while
it didn't actually spend tremendous
amount over and above the ordinary
running expenses, it went through
the gesture of threatening to spend
a huge outlay.
Some Spendings by Congress-.
At one time there were pending in
the last Congress bills calling for
the appropriation of about $4,000
100000 in excess of the ordinary ex-
penses of the Government. The SOL
dfer bonus bill, which became law
over the Presidents veto, adds about
$TO,0O0,e00 to our annual expense
The postal pay bill, IL is estimated.
will add about $4,000, 900 more, that
sum representing the excess in salary
payments over the amount which will
be realized from higher postal rates
1t will be recalled that Congress
also passed a bill increasing pensions
This the President vetoed and the
veto was sustained. Increased pen
sions as proposed would have added
about $40,000,000 more to the annual
running expenses of the Government.
The original postal pay bill would
have added many more millions.
By enacting legislation that adds
to the Governments running expen-
ses, the next Congress can defeat
any and all tax reduction proposals
made by the President. For the
surplus cannot be used by Congress
as spending money and by the tax
payer for tax reduction at the same
time.
That factor, too, will intrude itself
for consideration when President
Coolidge proposes tax reduction. He
will be under the necessity of ascer-
tanning how much money Congress
may reasonably be expected to spend
over the ordinary running expenses
of the Government. If the amount
Is large, it's effect will be felt in the
tax reduction proposal
For Congress is the boss of the
Treasury. The White House may pro
pose all manner of economies, but
Congress has the final say. It can
upset any Executive proposal of that
sort at any time.
Copyright. 1881
Evening star., 1925-03-13
The One Man Filibuster.

The dread filibuster raised it's head
in the Senate yesterday, against which
Vice President Dawes inveighed in his
inaugural address. Senator Copeland
Of New York. Democrat, opposed the
ratification of the treaty with Cuba
recognizing the sovereignty of the
Cuban government over the Isle Of
Pines. The treaty has been pending
in the Senate for 20 years, but Senator
Copeland declared he was prepared to
speak all day and all night to prevent
action; he wanted, he said, more time
for the consideration of the pact by
Senators who have recently assumed
their duties.
There are two ways of handling a
hlibuster in the Senate under existing
rules. One is to seek cloture under
the rule, which must be voted by two
thirds of the Senators present and
voting. The other is to force a. vote
by continuous sessions of the Senate
The latter is more brutal. but before
the present two-thirds cloture rule
was adopted In 1917 it was the only
manner of handling a, filibuster. With
more than one-third Of the Senate
Joining In a filibuster it is the only
way to bring about action.
The breaking of the Copeland fill
buster was a comparatively simple
matter. He was the only Senator
willing to go through with it. The
Isle of Pines treaty was kept con-
tinuously before the Senate. Senator
Copeland was forced to speak until he
had to quit. To be on the safe side,
knowing that more than two.thirds
of the Senate were anxious TO end the
debate. the Republican leader present
ed motion for cloture, which would
have been voted on tomorrow, had
other Senators come to the rescue of
Mr.. Copeland last night with further
talk.
But the one-man fiiibuster used up
the greater part of two days time Of
the Senate. Had there been many
Senators as determined as he, it might
have been necessary to bring cots into
the corridors of the Senate, so that
Senators might sleep as in an armed
Evening star., 1925-03-13

to the people who have chosen me
TO exercise the powers of this
great Office and not to reIinouish
them, and my duty to the chief
magistracy which l must preserve
unimpaired in all its dignity and
vigor, compel me to refuse COM
pliance with these demands
Coolidge followed this terse bit OF
English with the
statement: THE President is re-
sponsible to the people for his con-
nissal of public officials. I assume
that responsibility ."
X
The Senate's case for the right to
take a finger in the making of cabi-
net pie was thus put by Senator Reed
on March 10 in the course of his til
rade against Warren:
When our fathers established
this Government they did not set
up a one-man Government. They
made the President commander
in-chief of an army, but they gave
him no army to command For
that he must come to Congress.
They made him commander-in-
chief of a navy, but they gave
him no navy to sail the seas For
that he must come to Congress.
They made him the head of all
the executive departments of the
Government, but those depart
ments cannot function for sin
gle day save Congress shall sane
tion it by the appropriat ton of
money. They gave him the power
to appoint certain officers, but in
every instance, unless Congress
valves its right, he must make
those appointments by and with
the advice and consent of the SEN
ate. Moreover, substantially all
of these executive Offices, and
particularly this office (the Attor-
ney Generalship) were created by
the Congress. We made the of
flee. The Constitution did not
make it. There is no such thing
as a presidential cabinet 1t Is a
mere name-a mere figure of
speech that has been DEVISED
X y X
AS surely as the stars spangIe in
the heavens, these United States of
ours are sitting on the edge of
epoch making history.
Copyright, 1925.) p
Evening star., 1925-03-13
Scared by Autos.
Children Afraid to Gross Street.
Writer Says.
To the Editor of The Star:

TO the Editor of The Star:
I was especially interested in the
letter published in today's Star, under
the heading Safety in Reciprocity"
because of an incident I witnessed
this morning.
Having business at the Office Of the
National Congress of Parents and
Teachers, 1901 Sixteenth street,
drove south on that street to point
opposite the office and crossed the
street at the intersection. Being
somewhat courageous, I crossed in
spite of the oncoming stream of
traffic Half way across I met a group
of perhaps six colored children, evil
IDENTIFY on their way to school They
were terror-stricken and afraid to
proceed to the sidewalk.
Having transacted my business at
1901, / returned to the intersection,
and upon reaching the center of Six
teenth street I found the same group
of children, still unable to reach the
sidewalk In safety. At the same time
there were numbers of other children
approaching the same corner.
This was about 9 a.m.-evfdently
daily occurrence. J. d. CONNOR-
March 6, 1928.
Evening star., 1925-03-13
Christian Science
Doctrine Explained
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
In your issue of last Saturday
there appeared a news item stating
that DR.. Sun Vat Sen had been kept
alive by the magical powers of a
famous Chinese faith healer who fol-
lows similar lines to Christian Sci
ence."
Christian Science has nothing in
common with faith healing but is
based on the understanding of the
operation of the law of God in human
consciousness. The power which
operates to heal in Christian Science
is not ma gicaP' but divinely natu-
raj. Mrs. Eddy, the discoverer and
founder of Christian Science, tells us
in Science and Health, with key
to the Scriptures, page 297: Until
belief becomes faith, and faith be-
comes spiritual understanding, hu-
man thought has little relation to
the actual or divine"
PHILIP KING,
Christian Science Committee on Publ
cation for the District of Columbia
Evening star., 1925-03-13
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Immeasurably more is involved in
the Coolidge-Sen hostilities that
have now opened than Mr.. Warren S
own fate. In a sense. he has offered
himself as the sacrificial lamb upon
the altar of administration authority.
In other words, Warren is to serve as
the case for testing whether Calvin
Coolidge or the "Borah bloc is to
prevail in the Sixty ninth Senate of
the United States. The White House
has been conscious for some time
that sooner or later that vital issue
would have to be thrashed out In
the immortal language Of a certain
advertising slogan, If eventually. why
not now? The President and his i'm
mediate circle of political Heutenants
like Senator's Butler. Curtis and Wat
son see no virtue in letting a bad
situation drift steadily to worse
They think a major operation. that
can nip it in the bud, Is preferable to
fostering growth that would cause
chronic consequences.
X X X X
There is that specifically political
angle in the Warren matter But
over and above the question of "su-
premacy" in the Senate is the far
more vital issue of the Presidents
mastership over his own cabinet. In
reversed circumstances the contro-
versy now current is on all fours
with the Senate's demand for the re-
moval of Edwin DENLY from the Sec
retaryship of the Navy. Then the
Senate, in effect, asserted the right
to dictate who should be put out of
y
ate, in effect Is setting up the pre-
tension that it has the right to say
who should be put in the Coolidge
cabinet.
On February 12, 1924, the President
sent the Senate his famous message
anent DENLY. which began like this
NO official recognition can be
given to the passage of the SEN
ate resolution relative to their
opinion concerning members of the
cabinet or other officers under
executive control. The dis
missal of an officer Of the Govern
ment, such az Is involved in this
case, other than by impeachment
is exclusively an executive func-
ton. 1 regard this as vital prin-
ciple of our Government"
Then, to clinch the case for his in
violable authority over his own cab
met, Mr.. Coolidge added:
I'm discussing this principle, Mr..
Madison has well said: Tt is laid
down in most of the constitutions
or bills of rights in the republics
of America it is to be found in
the political writings of the most
celebrated civilians, and it is
everywhere held as essential to
the preservation of liberty that
the three great departments of
Government should be kept sep
arate and distinct"
y X * X
After Madison, President Coolidge
quoted Grover Cleveland on the in
a1ienable cabinet rights of the Chief
Executive:
president Cleveland likewise
stated the correct principle in dis
cussing requests and demands
made by the Senate upon him and
upon different departments of the
Government, in which he said:
They assume the right of the
Senate to sit in Judgment upon
the exercise of my executive dis
erection and executive function. for
which I am solely respon sibIe to
the people from whom I have so
! lately received the sacred trust of
Office. My oath to support and
defend the Constitution, my duty