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Evening star., 1925-02-11
Potomac Flood Reports.

The mood danger has appeared in
the Potomac. and it is reported that
some OF the creeks carrying the flow
or an extensive watershed are running
swift and high. Hundreds of noun
tain brooks which add their flow to
creeks and rivers that join the Poto-
mac are showing a Spring-fiood tenn
per, and MESA ges tell that Antietam
and Conogocheague are out of their
banks. and that Wills Creek threatens
trouble. 1t must be that the Shenan-
doah and Monocacy Rivers are high
and with rain falling on thousands Of
miles OF snow a good deal Of water
Will pass under the bridges at Wash.
ington. At this time it is probable that
there will be no such loss and suffer
ing by flood in the upper Potomac
Valley as last Spring. and Washing.
ton looks with complacency on high
water In the tidal part Of the Potomac.
few years ago reports Of high water
In the creeks between Great Falls and
the Allegheny Mountains, and news
from Cumberland. Williamsport and
Harpers Ferry Of rising water would
have been the chief subject of con-
versation at Washington. With the
cutting Of broad channel for the
Potomac opposite Washington. re-
noval of the Long Bridge causeway
across the fats and the building Of
the Highway and Railroad Bridges
navfng greater height than Long
Bridge the chance OF food at Wash
ineton has been so diminished that
our people think little about 1t. except
perhaps as an interesting spectacle.
Evening star., 1925-02-11
No Lump-Sum Payment Plan.

The lump-sum payment plan should
not be substituted as permanent sub
stantive law for the definite pro-
portionate contribution plan:
i. Because it destroys the relation
between national and local contribu-
tions, the basic principle of the laws
of 1878 and 1922. which causes IN
alien taxing body in taxing an unrep-
resented community in some measure
to tax also itself. The existence of
this relation is a safeguard against ex-
cessive taxation of the unrepresented
community.
2. Because it gives back to the ma
ton its pledge of proportionate con-
tribution, which accompanied national
seizure of the Capitals power of self
taxation, without restoring to the Dis
trict this self.taxing power of which
1t had been deprived.
8. Because by destroying national
obligation to make any definite pre-
portionate contribution it imposes
loss Of millions upon the District when
the latter's Treasury surplus, collect
ed under the $3.50 law comes to be ap-
propriated and spent.
4. Because it violates wantonly the
peace settlement of the act of 1922,
which levied taxes for five years to
come, and thus promised stability on
the 60-40 basis in the fiscal relations
Of the Capital for that period. It de-
ir-ne ha n;et~ tot r~f ~
tant offsetting benefit continued to it
by this law, in order to make heavier
the new tax burdens which the 1922
law imposed.
5. If the lump-sum payment plan
comes into being on the basis Of its
insertion by the House into an ap-
preparation bill under the application
OF the Holman rule, the decrease or
elimination Of the national contribu-
ton through action on an appropria-
concerned, be invited and facilitated,
while its increase will in effect be
forbidden. The eight, nine or ten
millions of original payment under
this plan might in the hasty caprice
Of a subsequent Congress be the only
payment. Viii. the Senate sacrifice
a wise, sound fiscal principle to which
Il is additionally committed and in
the defense of which 1T is impregnabiy
intrenched in law and equity when the
only temptation to sacrifice is this in
adequate and prospectively vanishing
consideration?
Evening star., 1925-02-11

was enormously wealthy and spent
money with great prodigality. He
seemed Possessed Of a Fortunatus'
purse. Only through the Vaccinations
OF evil spirits, 1t was thought, could
he possibly be 80 rich. The killing of
500 people was regarded as an Incl.
dent, as a means Of attaining human
blood as an ingredient in his alchemy.
Last Summer vein Of gold was
found in a rock beneath the ruins OF
the Chateau de MachecouI, known to
have been one Of Giles de LavaPs
strongholds near Nantes. This is be-
lieved to solve the mystery of the
source OF his gold. The vein lately dis
covered is estimated to contain 2.O00,-
600 francs worth Of the precious metal.
Other veins probably occur in the
same rocks. II that was the source,
indeed. Of Bluebeard's wealth the
charge Of alchemy fails So 1t is seri.
ously proposed TO secure a retrial and
purge the name Of this one-time mar.
shall of France.
1t Is not unusual in that country to
reopen old cases. There are numerous
records Of retrials Of persons long ago
condemned. The fact that GilIes de
Laval was burned at the stake .in 1440
is not regarded az bar to his second
trial In the light Of new facts. So
his name may be cleared on the score
of alchemy and wicked dealings with
the powers Of darkness, although
there will stul remain the matter of
the mysterious disappearance of q
number of persons who, as in the
case Of his modern nameake, Henri
Landru, were known to have entered
his stronghold never to reappear. His
present advocates aver that the charge
OF the murder of 500 was doubtless a
gross exaggeration. If Bluebeard Ia
fully cleared on retrial one OF the
most fascinating though gruesome Of
traditional tales will lose it's historical
authority.
Evening star., 1925-02-11
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Pennsylvania now and then hears
that he closely resembles England's
celebrated trasedian. the late Sir
Henry Irving. Kelly has a claim to
fame that outranks even that dis
tfnguished compliment. He's dry
who represents an overwhelmingly
wet district, the great industrial re-
gLon of Braddock, outside Of Pitts
burgh Braddock's been returning
Kelly to Congress regularly for 10
years. He is newspaper publisher
by occupation. One Of Mr.. Kel1y's
constituents Is a. old lady with an
inexpIieabIe fondness for public docu-
ments. She is on the Congressman's
mailing list for everything he can
frank her. The other day she re-
ceived piece de resistance. 1t was
the bound volume of eu1ogies deliv-
cred In recent months on the occa-
sion of deaths of Iuembers Of the
House. Dear Mr.. K ely she wrote
the Braddock Representative. "1
thank you for that lovely book of
speeches. like books about dead
Congressmen the best OF an
r
Representative Charles A. Mooney
of Ohio has introduced a bill in the
House to erect IN VashinGton 4
$4,000 monument to the memory Of
Haym Solomon. Solomon was the
Jewish patriot and banker who
loaned and contributed to the Rev
olutionary Army and the Comtinnen-
tai Government more than $700, 900.
Not ons dollar of principal or interest,
the Mooney bill recites, WAS ever re-
paid Mooney favors = suftab Bile NOR. /.
ument In Solomon's honor as "the
very best way Of instiIlinsr patriotism
into American youth, BY emphasizing
the respect and affection that this
Government holds for citizens who
have made great sacrfhces-''
One of waxflington's interestine
official visitors, at home from abroad,
Is Frederick Achenbach, Vho repre-
sents the United States Tariff Com
mission in Central Europe, with
Headquarters at Berlin. Mr.. Achen-
bach, who has been IN the same
service for IS years, has. az impor-
tant.a mission as any one Of Uncle
Sans faithful and underYaid serv-
ants anywhere on earth. His job is
TO keep in touch with costs of pro-
duction in foreign manufactures in
order that the United States Treas
ury may have accurate data for GUS
toms tariff purposes. The Fordney-
McCumber law requires foreigners
who send manufactured goods to the
United States to expose the facts
on demand OF American Official
agents. The information fs kept
strictly confidential It never leaks
to competitors In this country. The
law is risidIy enforced. Exporters to
this country, who refuse to comply
with it, find our markets barred to
Them Every once In a willis the bars
have TO be put up. Canada imposes
ehe same rules sGainss United States
manufacturers. +
X X
Washington's latest schoolboy quib:
Younsstar. Ne.. k-Why didn't the
WORLD conpe TO an end the other day ?
Youngster No. 2ABecause Coolidge
vetoed it.
Copyright, 1925.)
Evening star., 1925-02-11
Victory for Justice Is Seen
By Press In Means Conviction

Attorney Generals conduct was
cefved with approval and avidity by
Senator Burton X. Wheeler. is found
guilty of obtaining money by pre-
tending that members of President
Harding's cabinet We're grafters and
that he was their agent in soliciting
bribes." The Cincinnati Times-Star
adds: 'Of course, CASTOR B. Means
had, in former years, been tried for
murder and different forms of graft.
But that was known when Senator
Wheeler made Means his associate.
and therefore should not be used in
forming an estimate of Means char
acter. Means now goes, the victim of
pers ecution, to join the Il caSket-
makers whom he duped."
The trial judge" observes the st,
Paul Dispatch, declined to listen to
MIR. Daugherty on the situation in
Washington. and that closed his con-
rection with the case The Dis
Npatch continues: But ii did not
close his connection with Means. One
of the interesting points developed
during the inves tigation of the De
partment of Justice last year was the
high standing in the department.
during Mr. Daugherty's administra
tion, of this man who boasts that Ire
had been under indictment for every
ioffense from murder down and who
is now under conviction on two
crimes. Probably the most Damaging
est fmony brought ont during the in
-vestigatfon was that of Means. II
was damaging not because of the
cock and-bull stories he told the
committee. which Senator Wheeler
took so gravely, but simply because
lit revealed so effectively the kind of
shady men who enjoyed the CON
fidence of the Department of Justice
under Mr.. FDaugherty"
There has always been mystery
about Means" says the Philadelphia
Public Ledger, but the greatest mys-
terry of all has never been explained.
How could 1t shapPen that such man
as Means might ever become Govern
ment enptoye and an agent of the De
;partment of .Justteer
Somehow Means enjoyed sort of
immunity" thinks the Sioux City jour
nal, though he frequently referred to
his prosecutions as prosecutions. Means
will be almost alone in feeling regretful
over 2his conviction While :the Pitts
burgh Gazette-Times reflects: His per-
sis1ence in crime can be accounted for
only on the ground, that his repeated
SUCCESS in heating the law confirmed
an opinion formed ;early>in life that he
was immune to legal processes. If Means
were to attempt to draw "a moral from
his final failure in conflict with !the law
it would probably be play a hone hand.
His undoing came when he took others
into his confidence to carry on the more
, anbitious of his operations. But for
o hers the obvious moral is be sure your
CT In >es will find you OUT
II he man may not be the most colos
sal tiar in the world" declares the
Roa, 'Se Times, but certainly he has
never s flowed This regard for the truth
to HAND cap him in any particular sex-
tent in d re battle of life. Two years in
prison isA not a very long tifne, assum-
ing that \ e serves 1T. and CASTOR b.
Means wifi. be heard from again. If this
prophecy goa awry, SO much the better"
Evening star., 1925-02-11

As in the case of Charles R. Forbes,
EDITORS of the country are very nearly
u ma imous in the belief that the con-
V vet ion of CASTOR b. Means, former
as;ent of the Department of Justice,
of conspiracy to defraud the Gov
erltr tent and his sentence to two
yeauS' Imprisonment and the payment
of a $4,000 fine, Will have a satutary
effect on regard for the law in
Anne, ica.
M. ans conviction. says the Santa
Barba "a News. was secured in spite
of the fact that powerful influences
and ns IN once associated with him in
his Of tcial capacity did everything
possiyLe to save him from prison. In
spite OF this pressure Justice has been
.vindica1 eetl. 1t has been shown once
more daat-~eyen sIre"deEfu1 Influences
cannot turn the scales of justice, and
the big crook must sometimes, at
lea st. S, fer for his offenses." The
Louisville Times thinks conviction
of Nea.ls will not swing public
opinion toward a favorable view of
the serN ce of Mr.. Daugherty and
the Iei,ien cy of President Harding in
appoin Eing his political pal Attorney
General .Che outcome of the Means
and Fielder cases will not have any
other effect than to confirm a long
standing .h lief of the onlooking
public"
journal is that the conviction of
Means "streng. hens public conviction
that Congress-. in the interest. of jus
'tice and natio nal welfare, should
cease to don the judicial robes" The
Tfmes-Journal Goa tinues: Means has
served as a 'horcihfe example of the
incompetency Of C ongress as "a jury.
Lot the future wI,n ng<ioer in public
Office suffer the sara e ordeal and en-
Joy the same justiae that are the
lot of the ordinary iawbreakers in
the criminal courts And in the
opinion of the Fargo sTribune: "Of
course, IT is strange hat such
one should have ever become an agent
of the Department of -Nustioe, hut
1t Is even more strange tIsAt Senators
thought that his testimony in the
Investigations last winte< and the
testimony of a Roxie Stinsph would
be given any credence by tine Amer
lean people" .
This man." says the Renot Ga
zette, whose testimony before' the
Senate committee inquiring into. the
Evening star., 1925-02-11

will say to the country, "Congre SIS
had the chance to help the farmer s
and didn't take it," Congress became
about as popular as a red-headed
step -child a few months ago because
1t did not support the President and
failed to put through legislation.
*k X
Out in Ohio already there is gos-
sip about the next senatorial cam
paign, when Senator Willis, Repub-
1ican, must run%again. Democrats of
the Buckeye State are talking of sew
eral possible candidates.. Gov. A. v.
Donahey. who brought the bacon
home, Notwithstanding the huge Re-
publican majority rolled up for the
national ticket, is perhaps more
prominently in the limelight for, the
nomination than others. But there
are those who look to former Gov.
Cox as the candidate to run against
Mr.. Willis. Former Senator Pome-
rene and Claude Meeker are other
Democrats wAese names are men
toned.
Evening star., 1925-02-11

Everybody who has known Calvin
CooIidse's political character at close
range expected him TO put his root
down on a spectacular inauguration
and keep it down. Pomp is repuisive
to him in itself and obnoxious be-
cause 1t entails expenditure of public
money. That is the principal reason
Mr. Coolidge determined to take ONCE
amid the severest simplicity. The rea-
son he would not change his mind
a bout 1t is that he seldom does change
his mind about anything From the
very beginning Of its efforts to induce
the President to agree to semolance
of pageantry on March 4, the inaug-
ural committee was up against
stone wall No sort of argument
ayaiIed The truth is, there is some
thing more than Mr.. Coolidge's per-
sonaI predictions involved. There
are political equations at stake, IN
his Judgment, that outweigh all
others. The President has embarked
upon an uncompromising economy
program. He Is devout believer IN
the power of example. lie thinks
that an inexpensive Inauguration Is
the only kind that is consistent with
the money saving doctrine he Is now
preaching to Congress and the coun-
try at large.
Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, woman
Governor of Wyoming, will be the
central figure in great Democratic
"est-toeether' dinner at washington
on March l. The dinner will be given
under the auspices of the National
cemocratic Women's Club. Mrs. j.
BORDEN Hartman and Mrs. John B.
Kendrick, wife of the Junior senator
from Wyoming, are in active charge
of arrangements on behaf or the
clubs board of governors. Mrs. Ross
will sneak at the dinner, as VIII
some prominent Democratic males, yet
70 be chosen. The Democratic wom-
en-. in accordance with the eternal
fitness of things. are reversing tne
usual procedure and inviting num-
Der of men to be patrons or the
function Mrs. Ross may be one OF
the State governors to attend the
Coolidge inauguration II she comes
she wants to have as her escort the
celebrated cavalry troop of musical
ponies" from Fort Russell, Wyo.,
which are famed throughout the
Army for their rhythmic prancins-
Frank w Stearns President Cool
idee's Gel. House. viii sail for
two-n1ontt visit to Europe on
March g.. When somebody said to
Stearns that tt was to be hoped he
wouldn't cause a world war, like the
other Col House" did, as a result of
his trip to Europe in 1914, Stearns ex-
uIaiued that one experience of that
kind was enough for hfm. Then he
toTd how the day after he finished a
soiourn in Europe in 1870, the Franco
Prussian war broke out. Colonel
Stearns is as different from Col.
House as day from night. House al
ways was mysterious and reticent.
Stearns always Is palpable and COM
municative He Is not old enough to
be the Presidents father, but his
manner in and around the White
House is far more parental than po-
Itical.. Undoubtedly he has a Cool
/ fdge mission I'm Europe, IT is a mis-
sion he has always had from his
poIftfcar protege-that of "sizins up
| men and giving Calvin his inside.
confidential opinion of them and the
work they're doing.
X X
Nearly everybody in Congress looks
| like somebody more or less famous.
Representative NJ. Clyde Kelly of
Evening star., 1925-02-11

election has been thrown into the
House, in 1901 and 1925. On the for
mer occasion the House was dead
locked for a time, until Thomas Jcffer-
son was chosen; on the second the
election of John Quincy Adams was
effected on the first ballot. In 1877 a
different complication arose when the
electoral votes of several States were
challenged in the House, end with
much difficulty a method Of deternlin-
ing their validity was devised and
adopted, and on the eve Of inaugura-
tion a decision was rendered. The act
OF 1887, under which Congress is to-
day acting, was designed to prevent
recurrence Of such a dangerous situa-
tion as that Of 1877.
The great change that has taken
place in American political and physi.
cal conditions since the adoption Of
the Constitution with it's provision for
the choice Of President and Vice Presi.
dent by electors in the States is attest
ed again this year by the fact that to-
udy . Gel IeHlOly III the Rouse Oh Repre-
sentatives is but a bare formality in
final contamination Of q procedure
fully known to the people three months
ago. The electoral college, originally
designed as the veritable agency of
choice, has become but a recording
body for the several States. Every
fact regarding the election is known
within a few hours after the votes
are cast on the designated November
day in consequence of inventions that
have made communication instanta-
neous, whereas 1876 years ago, when
the fundamental law was adopted,
weeks were required for the spread
OF news and the travel Of messengers
Evening star., 1925-02-11

AT present there is no way of meet
ing conditions of motor congestion ex-
cept by arresting violators of regula.
tons. SO long as parking facilities are
inadequate people will go on being ar
rested. 1t is human nature to take
chances. A satisfactory state of af,
fairs regarding traffic will not be
reached until a method is devised that
will make it, a comparatively simple
matter to meet all the requirements of
safety and good order.
Evening star., 1925-02-11

A notion persists that a Texas
statesman ought always to wear a soft
hat and Prince Albert cCat. 1t is no
more in accord with present ideas
than the English picture of
Yankee" as wearing a chin whisker
and standing in perpetual need of
haircut.
Evening star., 1925-02-11
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILAyDER JOHNSON.

T1s Reason.
Why do the actors loudly swear
With violence alarming
And give fierce, barbaric air
To scenes that might be charming
They even contravene the laws.
Their conscience? Nothing strikes it.
Oh. friend, the reason Is because
AT heart the public likes it.
Evening star., 1925-02-11

The dog has his enemies, and i'll
kept, under uncongenial conditions,
often becomes dangerous. When an
emergency arises, requiring antitoxin
in Nome, the canine has his day and
becomes a hero.
Evening star., 1925-02-11

number of Frenchmen are in
clined to favor an abandonment of the
old habit of behaving as if they were
afraid of Germany. The custom may
be hard to abolish. although it's prac-
tical value must appear problema teal
Evening star., 1925-02-11

Many statesmen retire to private
life, but when Mr.. Charles Evans
Hughes resigns there is a great deal
of political curiosity as to what he is
going to do next.
Evening star., 1925-02-11
All Other States.
Member Of the Associated Press.

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled
TO the use for republication Of all news dis
patches credited TO !. or not otherwise credited
In this paper and also the local news pub
lished herein. All rights Of publication Of
special dispatches herein are also reserved.
Evening star., 1925-02-11

People who gave their belongings
away under the impression that the
END of the world was at hand are now
trying to recover them. Pessimism
never pays.
Evening star., 1925-02-11

Having recovered his estates, Will
helm Hohenzollern is prepared to let
the rest OF the world worry about debt
Evening star., 1925-02-11
Attire.

As Fashion progresses, she leads more
and more
To the primittve styles that were IA,
voFed of yore.
In circle we travel that startles the
view, $500.
AS the new becomes old and the old
becomes new.
Some day, far away, as our steps we
retrace,
Again we may greet aboriginal grace
That contented will be with a gala at
tire
on lheaddress Of feathers. which All
will admire.
IAN envfous man." said Uncle .Eben,
"fs always imaginin' dat he could be
hsppir II he coufd make other peeple
miserable"
Evening star., 1925-02-11
Out Of the Game.

From the Cincinnn, 'Enqnirer
President Coon <ige ,prides himself on
being a man of Law words. But that
puts him out ofttt 9 cross word puzxle
same.
Evening star., 1925-02-11

The G.. o. P. evidently coptennIates
reducing insurgency as nearly as DOS
sible to a personal state of mind as
distinguished from a public demon
stration
Evening star., 1925-02-11
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Evening star., 1925-02-11
Europe Some Teacher.

From the Birmingham Age Herald
Eusope- has ar Is&st taught thi1
country TO letd no more money on
faith.
Evening star., 1925-02-11

An increase In the price of bread
VIII afford the farmer opportunity to
sympathize with people who live in
cities.
Evening star., 1925-02-11
Phhadel lpiiia.

Phnadelpflia.
City OF BFotherfy Love should as.
pire
To reform. and all eagerly grab if
fraternat affection we cannot admire
Where treatins's restored az a habit
Jud Tunkins says he bets if George
Washington had ever heard that story
about his never having told a lie ned
have nailed it as one.
Evening star., 1925-02-11

An Economist.
Are you in favor Of economy"
"Of course, I am" answered Sena-
tor Sorghum. If had my way every
body in my district would begin right
now to save up money to contribute
to my next campaign fund"
Evening star., 1925-02-11
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Tno Teoss10H q AdVant2Ee.
Have you ever thought of rupninp
for cfi1ce?''
No. answered Farmer CorntosseI
Il can't see why amt enjoyin'- N.Y.
self more havin' folks requestin' nv
vote than I would trsveiin' around re-
questin' theirs"
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