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Evening star., 1925-09-22

to reduce the number of applicants
by announcing that only bobbed-
haired damsels between the ages OF
10 and 90 who We're willing to dress
as pages need apply. About 1000
women began shouting and gesticu
lating wildly, declaring that these
specifications were not mentioned In
the advertisement. and therefore they
We're entitled to be paid their car
fare and for their time.
Evening star., 1925-09-22
By the Associated Press.

MARION, Ark. September 22.-
Martha Mays" 4-year-old girl, sold
two months ago at Neuhardt, Ark,
for a pair of automobile inner tubes,
few gallons of gasoline and S1.50 in
cash. will be brought into Probate
Court here today, when an effort will
be made to determine her parentage
Conflicting recognitions were made
in the case yesterday. Mr. and Mrs.
William T Horton Of Rirminrham m
Evening star., 1925-09-22
Seriously III of Poison Dose.

Max Snyder. 80 years old, 29O7
Georgia avenue, was treated at Gar
field Hospital last night for dose of
poison he was reported to have taken
while at home. His condition was
stated Mt the hospital as being un-
determined and it was said 1t may not
he decided for several days.
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FARMERS LOSE MILLIONS.
Drought and Storms Have Been
Disastrous in Virginia.
Special Dispatch 10 The Star

Special Dispatch 10 The Star - -
RICHMOND. Va. September 22-
Virginia farmers have lost not less
than S36. 900. 900 this year. according
to Market Director Taylor. due to the
unprecedented drouth that has OBJ
tained since May
In addition. there is to he added the
millions that have been lost in tho
last two weeks as result of heavy
electric and wind storms. II has been
the worst year on record for the
farmers il is said
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Assigned to Active Duty.

First Lieut.. Charles H. Burnham.
jr., Quartermaster Corps Reserve of
this city. has been assigned to active
duty in training at the general inter
m ediate depot this CITY
Evening star., 1925-09-22
SENATORS URGE EASY
TERMS FOR FRANCE
Capper and Walsh Favoring Gen
erous Spirit in Collect
ing Debt.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. September 22.-United
States Senators Thomas j. Walsh of
Montana, Arthur Capper of Kansas
and Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas 3
Evening star., 1925-03-06

/ posal for American adherence to the
Court Of International Justice.
Some of the leaders Of the Senate,
! both ma jority and minority, are said to
| be reluctant to take up the World
Court resolution, but there is strong
! belief among Senators of both parties
| that the country wants action, and
will not be inclined to excuse further
! delay. At Yesterdays session Senator
Swanson of Virginia reintroduced his
| resolution for adherence, with reserva-
| tions. and Senator Willis of Ohio re-
offered his resolution embodying the
/ Harding Hughes reservations, which
! have the approval of President Cool
| idse. AS the resolution OF Senator
Pepper, providing for World Court
! detached from the League OF Nations.
| is already before the Senate. with the
Willis resolution pending as a substi-
| tute, it would not be necessary to
| await a report from the committee on
foreign relations.
the Senate are substantially strength
ened by the House vote of 301 to 2S
in favor of adherence. The House,
of course, has no constitutional voice
as to ratification of the protocol, but
general legislation would be necessary
to make the United States member
of the court in full standing, and the
House declares its willingness to do
its share in the enactment of such
legislation.
1t is not disclosed whether the Pres
ident intends to press for consideration
of the court proposal at the special
session, but that he would welcome
such consideration is indicated from
the tone of his inaugural address. In
reiterating mis- belief that we should
become a member of the court. the
President said: Where great prob
lens are involved, where great move
ments are under way which promise
much for the welfare of humanity
by reason of the very fact that many
other nations have given such move
lnents their actual support, we ought
not to withhold our own sanction be-
cause of any small and inessential
difference, but only upon the ground
of the most important and compelling
fundamental reasons"
If there are any important and
compelling fundamental reasons" why
we should not adhere to the World
Court protocol, with reservations
along the lines proposed by former
Secretary Hughes, they have not been
publicly disclosed by opponents OF the
court. Certainly the American peo-
pie Saw no such reasons when they
went to the polls last November. for
President Coolidge had made the court
an issue in his campaign, and his un-
precedented majority was in afirna-
ton Of the World Court as we'll as
other Coolidge policies.
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rest from the public business. His
service to State and country has COW
cred long period of years. That he
will be called upon again and again to
serve the people, in one capacity or
another. even though he does not as
sumo public office, is to be expected.
When the world was still an armed
camp and there loorned before it race
in competitive arnaments that threat
ened to burden still further the masses
of the peoples, Mr.. Hughes, speaking
for America at the Washington arms
conference. sounded a note of hope.
The world will not soon forget the
message which flashed from Washing
ton when the Secretary of State, head
of the American delegation, announced
that the United States believed In
limitation of armaments and the way
to limit armaments was to limit them.
This great American. with the very
simplicity of his statement. gave to
the world the correct Interpretation
Of Americas s desire for peace and
willingness to help bring it about.
The movement-more practical than
any other in the groupings of the ma
tions toward international accord
then formally launched at the Wash
ington conference promises to con-
tinue. To Mr.. Hughes is due the lions
share of the credit.
Few men have been so honored by
the nation and so deservedly. Mr..
Hughes was twice Governor of the
Empire State. For six years he served
as associate justice of the Supreme
Court. He was drafted by the Repub-
lican party to make the race for Presi-
dent in 1916. But his public service
began before he was governor. AS
chief investigator of the gas trust in
New York City and the insurance COM
panies, he rendered great service to
the toiling masses.
During his incumbency as Secretary
of State, the United States formally
peace with Germany and
Austria. The pledges Of the United
States have been scrupulously OBJ
served with regard to all the world.
Mr.. Hughes has been granted freer
hand, his suggestions have met with
quicker approval, perhaps than in the
case of many other men who have
occupied the office of Secretary of
State. He has been steadfast in his
that the United States
should recognize no government which
would not fulfill its international OBJ
legations. On the other hand, he has
aided whenever possible in the settle
ment OF the economic and political
problems which have Vexed Europe
since the armistice.
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THE STORY OF THE FRENCH DEBT
BY WILLIAM p. HELM. JR.

funding arrangement is consum-
mated with France,
| At the present rate of per cent,
| the annual interest on the French
debt is about $146,6o06 6oO;. at , per
| cent ii would fall to about $SS, 600, 600.
a saving Of $5S,60O, 900 a year to the
French people. And as savings go,
that sum is considerable. 1t would
| mean that the present charge of
100000 a day would be cot TO S240.-
| 600; that the French government
| would pay hourly interest of $4,000
| instead of s16,500.
| France thus could save more than
| 800 a minute in interest by funding
her debt on the same basis as that
on which the British debt is funded.
| France made one step, two and one
! half years ago, to fund her debt.
Here is how Secretary Mellon de
| scribes it:
In July. 1922, the French govern
| ment sent a special mission, headed
by Jean v. Parmentier. director of
| the movement of funds of the French
treasury, to the United States to dis
cuss with the American Debt Funding
Commission (of which Mr. Mellon is
| chairman) certain data relative to
! the French debt to this government.
NJ. Parmentier placed in the hands of
| the commission certain data relative
to the financial and economic situa-
| tion of France.
"He explained the position of his
government in respect to funding its
| debt, stating that he had been
designated by the French government
TO AFFORD the commission complete in
| formation as to the financial con-
dition of his government, but that
the latter did not consider 1t possible
| at that time to enter into any definite
engagements for a funding or settle
ment of its debt.
Asked Indefinite Fostponement.
He further stated that it was his
governments desire to postpone for
An indefinite period consideration OF
this matter. until the financial situa-
| ton of France should become more
clear, particularly as to reparation
receipts from Germany. The com
! missions position on the subject was
explained to NJ. Parmentier, and es-
hpecially its desire that a funding of
| the French debt should take place in
| the near future. al
August IT. 1929, NJ. Parmentier in
| formed the chairman of the commits
sion that he had. been. keeping his
government informed of the progress
made in the. negotiations and that
he had received a cable instructing
him TO return for a-1ffIll discussion
with his government of the situation
as 1T had developed.
The chairman replied that: in his
view, IL could only be beneficial If
NJ. Parmentier should in person dis
cuss's with his government the nego-
tiations which had taken place be-
tween him and the commission. NJ
Parmentier. returned to France
shortly after this conference"
That was the first and last move
taken by France officially to fund her
debt to. the United States. The next
development of consequence was the
recent Marin speech, in the French
Chamber of Deputies, lasting five
hours, in which an attempt was made
to show that the debt should be can
celed. The echo of that speech and
the warm applause 1t evoked in the
chamber and in France generally is
still ringing throughout the United
States. .;.@..,t..7, q
(The end-l
Copyright, 1881
Evening star., 1925-03-06
The New Traffic Code.

Traffic conditions in the National
Capital should show Improvement
when the provisions Of the new traffic
code, enacted by the Sixty'eighth Con-
gress. go into effect. For the first time
in the history of the city Washington
will not only have an adequate set OF
regulations, but the funds TO carry
them out.
Briefly the new code provides for
100 new policemen, new judges, a
traffic director. drastic penalties for
hit.and.run drivers, smoke-screen users
and reckless driving, yearly operators
permits at a charge of 81 and speed
limit of % miles in the city proper
with authority to the director to raise
this limit on arterial highways. No
speed limit was provided for the sub
urbs, where the reckless driving clause
will prevail.
With 100 additional policemen Wash
ington will have enough guardians Of
the law to see that it Is not flouted;
with two additional judges offenders
will get speedy justice, and with
competent traffic director. spending his
entire time seeking constant improve
ment, there is every reason to look
toward the future with confidence.
Decent motorists will cooperate be-
cause they know that the new code is
reasonable: joy-riders, hit-and.runners,
smoke-screen users and others Of that
ilk probably will not cooperate, but as
loopholes in the new regulations, and
this type of driver will find himself
faced with penalties which are calcu
lated to discourage the most persistent
lawbreaker.
Motorists should not be nnisled by
the new speed limit. Congress. in pass
ing the bill, was careful to see that it
contained q reckless driving provision
which will adequately protect the pub
lie. Although the new limit is 20 miles
an hour, there will be no immunity for
a motorist who drives at this rate of
speed in a congested downtown section
and, when arrested, pleads that he was
within the limit. He may be charged
heavy penalties. ,-.,..- ....... -
In selecting the new traffic director
it is hoped that the Commissioners will
not act with haste. The Importance of
the new office, with the traffic problem
one of the biggest faced by municipal
authorities throughout the country,
cannot be minin1ized, and it is essen
tial that care should be used In ap-
pointing only a man who possesses
faculty Of cooperation with both pub
lie and police.
Evening star., 1925-03-06
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC EILLIAM VILE

congressional investigating commit
tee that was trying to pry, penny
wise, into Pershing's military ex-
penditures In France. No Govern
ment official, either, has forgotten
the meat and manner of Dawes
maiden Illumination as Director of the
Budget in 1921. With the entire
cabinet and hundreds of high execu-
tive officials as his audience, Dawes
talked to them as if they were a
classroom of unruly schoolboys 1t
was the tone he adopted for reading
the riot act TO the Senate,
*as !; =
One questions whether the Vice
President played wise personal poll
tics on March 4. He came into Office
with Progressive hatred assured him
in consequence of his frontal attacks
on La Toilette, Wheeler. Brookhar,
ct al. last summer. Now he has
accumulated a fresh crop of foes
among the Republican old guard. II
Dawes Intends to remain a Repub-
iican' he thus has sown enmities in
both wings Of the G. o. P Perhaps
he figures that on the Issue he has
raised, those enmities outweigh any
friendships he may have cemented by
suppressing his emotions. A former
cabinet officer from Illinois, who came
to town to see Dawes inaugurated
said: Don't let the Republican party
fool itself. Dawes will grow. He
always grows. His career reveals no
backward steps"
Dawes friends insist that he has
struck popular chord Their conf
dent guess is that he will have a
good press, from coast to coast. They
say he chose psychological moment
at which to call attention to the
shortcomings of Congress, and of the
Senate in particular. They believe
the country is ready to follow. the
lead OF man who projects a prac-
tical program for speeding up legis-
lative business at Washington. 1t is
10 years ago since insurgent leader
ship within the Republican party
swept Cannonism into oblivion. Men
like Dawes hold that the filibuster,
with it's attendant parliamentary
evils, is quite as subversive Of popu-
lar government as Cannonism ever
was. The Senate rules are clothed
in a garb Of decorous formality. But
in practice they can be just as OBJ
structive of congressional progress
as the more avowedly tyrannical
tenets of Cannonism were.
: The late Gus Karger, veteran
Washington newspaper correspondent,
went to Tom Marshall soon after the
former Vice President took office, in
1918, and said: ~
mir. Vice President, we hear you're
going to try to turn this ONCE of
yours into a real job. How about it?.
Mr.. Marshall replied: Gus, 1t can't
be done. The Vice President ALWAYS
has been the chambermaid to the
King, and that's what he'll al
ways be-"
Copyright, 1921
Evening star., 1925-03-06
The World Court.

With the Senate in special session
for the consideration of executive bust
ness, there is prospect OF action on
several International agreements which
have been long neglected The coun-
try has about equal cause for rejoic.
ing and regret that along with the ad-
journment Of Congress went adjourn
ment on numerous important matters
of domestic legislation, but there are
few possibilities of harm and many of
profit in clearing the Senate's calendar
of pending foreign questions. The
treaty of Lausanne, concluding peace
with Turkey, and the Isle of Pines
treaty, which has been before. the Sen
ate for 20 years, are scheduled to be
acted upon, and there now seems a
chance of obtaining action on the pro-
Evening star., 1925-03-06
The Real Salwanee River.

Some bright young men of the
United States Geological Survey have
gone into southern Georgia and
northern Florida to make certain in
vestigations. They have found that
a stream known locally as the
Suwanee Cor Sewanee or Swanee)
River is only an sordinary creek, af-
fordins some sort of lazy outlet to
the waters Of the Okefnokee Swamp,
and is as unimportant and unlovely
as swamp creeks usually are
That was all right and part of their
business But when these young
men-or somebody for them-went so
far as to report that the immortal
river of Stephen C. Fosters song is
little better than a mere ditch they
committed a colossal error 1t is a
olunder to which very practical men
and very literal minds are particular
ly susceptible. They have confused
the realm Of geography with that of
imagination and have fallen into the
fallacy of trying to measure with
gauges and surveyors chains some
thing which is beyond logarithms and
laughs at all the laws of trigo-
nometry.
The real Swanee River does not
rise In any part OF Georgia. 1t rises
in the highest mountains of the hu-
man soul and is fed by the deepest
springs in the human heart. 1t does
not flow through the swampy regions
of Florida, but through the pleasant,
sunny lands of M emory. 1t does not
empty into a material sea, but into
the glorious ocean of unfulfilled
dreams,
1t laves the shores Of childhood.
It's current ripples with the low,
sweet melody Of recollections, soft
ened and made, misty by distance
There is such mystical power in les
waters that whoever finds himself
wearied and worn by the struggle of
living has only to quaff and gain
nepenthe. =
1t is far. far away, but the heart
is ever turning to it, because there's
where the old folks stay. On it's
banks may he only a hut among the
bushes, but the bees are still hum
ming around 1t by day and the banjo
is still tumming there in the star
light. And so they will continue to
do while memories of home and SIM
pie hopes and affections are the. most
priced possessions of mankind.
1t was In a quaint jargon, such as
probably was never actually spoken
by anybody, that Foster first sang
about. It. Nevertheless, his plaintive
ditty has become one of the great
songs of all times. The surveyors
who would find the true Swanee
River must hunt not among the
Florida swamps but among the ma
jestic streams of infinite tenderness
and love.-From the New York Tele-
gram-Nan.
Evening star., 1925-03-06
ARTICLE IN.


France herself apparently has not
yet realized how greatly to her own
interest it would be to fund her debt
to the United States. But the official
figures at Washington tell the story
of huge savings that would accrue
to the French taxpayers if the gov
ernment of France were to make a
funding arrangement similar. for In
stance. to that already made by Great
Britain. Let the figures tell the
story:
The principal of the amount loaned
France exclusive of her notes for
purchases of war supplies) is $685.
171.672.4S. For that we hold her de-
mand notes bearing per cent in
terest. Every year the interest on
this sum runs to somewhat more
than s146, 500. 900. Every year the
Federal Government charges France
on it's books with this unpaid in
terest. 1t has been accommodating
since May Is. 1919. The total unpaid
interest now runs to more than $780,
100000, or considerably in excess of
one-fourth of the principal.
s1s,5OO an Hour Penalty.
That, of course, is at simple in
terest. 1t is equivalent to an ac-
cumulating bill of somewhat more
than $12,0o0,000 a month, 100000 a
day, s16,5oo an hour. Thus. as France
procrastinates she is storing up a
penalty which, of course, must be me
som etime in the future, of $l6,500
an hour for her :procrastination. That
figure is based on a per cent in
terest rate on her loan.
Leaving the French situation for a
moment to examine what has been
nrsk a ia
we find that she, too. was paying in
terest at the rate of s per cent until
arrangements were made TO fund her
debt. When that was done, the in
terest rate, by mutual agreement,
dropped to per cent for the first
10 years and 31a per cent thereafter.
What was the result? The annual
interest charge against Great Britain
dropped from s230.000,000 a year on
per cent basis, to about S13S,-
600, 900 a year on a per cent basis.
a saving to British taxpayers of ap
proximately ss2,oo0,ooo annually.
And so 1t came about that the in
terest charge against Great Britain,
under the funding arrangement. is
now less each year by nearly S9,000,-
600 than the interest charge against
France And Great Britain owes us.
in round figures, about S4.600.o00, 900
as compared with s2,933, 100000 Con
which the S146,600,000 annual inter
est charge is made) owing to us by
France. In other words, Great
Britain, owing us half as much again
as France, is paying annually less
in interest than the amount charged
annually on our books against the
French government.
That. has been brought about purely
through the British debt funding ar
,rangenent..
In the Cnse of France.
How would it work out in the
case OF. France? 49,.
Theretis no doubt whatever that
the. United States government would
welcome French debt funding on the
same basis as that on which the
British debt is funded. Equally.
there is no doubt that the interest
rate on the French debt, now per
cent, will drop to 8 per cent-3at
least for a 1o-year period, as in the
case of Great Britain-the day such
Evening star., 1925-03-06
a Great Public Servant.

Charles Evans Hughes, a great pub
lie servant, a great American, today
takes his place once more in the ranks
@ private .eiti=ens. For four years his
has been the hand which directed the
pxSctical operation of the foreign pol.
icy of the United States. Called to the
State Department by the late Presi-
dent Harding, Mr.. Hughes undertook
the difficult job of steering Americas s
course SO as to avoid the pitfalls of
foreign entanglements in world that
still struggled with postwar problems.
He leaves his great Office with the
policy of this Government firmly es-
tablished, with the consciousness of a
job well and faithfully accomplished.
Mr.. Hughes -goes to a well merited
Evening star., 1925-03-06
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON
Prophecy Fulfilled.

Prophecy Fulfilled.
When down the Avenue l strayed
AS happy as a clam.
In step with the discreet parade,
March came in like a Lamb.
But when a certain speech l heard
From an official scion,
1 vowed, with feelings deeply stirred,
March came in like Lion.
And so we feel the Winter blast
Amid the vernal weather;
The Lion and the Lamb at last
Are cozily together.
Evening star., 1925-03-06

Those who cherish Pennsylvania
avenue as the scene of spectacular en-.
thusiasms have only to wait for a tri-
umphant season for the Washington
ball club or the arrival of Barnum and
Bailey's circus.
Evening star., 1925-03-06

Vice. President Dawes and the
United States Senate will have to un-
derstand each other if the business
of the country is to so on. The early
interchange will no doubt prove a
means Of avoiding delay in arriving
at a working basis.
Evening star., 1925-03-06

1t is but natural for New York to
did not include AL. Smith in the pa
rade would inevitably prove a COM
paratively quiet affair.
Evening star., 1925-03-06

Play producers in New York may as
is evidently no way Of comforting the
profanity privilege as a special and
limited grant.
Evening star., 1925-03-06

The war in China goes on, evidently
having been adopted by d people of
conservative inclinations as national
institution.
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Should Help Some.
From the oineinn.t ii Enquirer.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
If they made Congress enforce every
law it passes before it passed another;
we have an idea there would be quite
some falling off in the law-passing
business. ~. X.
Evening star., 1925-03-06
History Is Explained.

From the London HumOrist.
According to- a Boston Newspaper,
the cross word puzzle had Its origin
In ancient Egypt. This explains why
the Israelites were SO anxious to nee
into the wilderness.
Evening star., 1925-03-06

The contemplation of Charles E.
Hughes as a plain private citizen is
one of the most memorable incidents
of memorable March.
Evening star., 1925-03-06

The inauguration was not an os-
tentatious affair, but. it did the work
expected of it with entire efficiency.