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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-20
UNITED STATES
In WORLD WAR
Ten Years Ago Today

Government operation of railroads,
steamships and coal mines urged in
report on coal situation made to
President by Federal Trade Commits
sion. Scheme is to form huge pooling
of resources and control them through
one Government agency.
War Departments request for bids
for $4,000 Army trucks brings offers
from 81 automobile companies.
Aircraft Production Board plans to
turn out battle planes at rate of 1000
a month by standardizing all essential
parts. President issues call
for 20 600 men to join Regular Army;
III. 1868 have enlisted since April J..
Angry crowd destroys suffrage
banner at White House gate bearing
legend. America is not Democracy,
and assailing President.
President and his advisers are work.
ing on details of the embargo procla-
nation which they believe will prove
effective in protecting this country
against efforts of other nations t.
drain America of it's supply of grains
and other commodities. .....--..----.
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THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.


June is the test of gardens.
a yard that has enough shrubs
| and perennials in 1t to look we'll this
| month in all probability will put up
go d show at any time.
1t is still too early for The ANIMALS
to cover borders and beds with their
intense Towering. What a garden
has, in its own right, comes to the
fore now.
With these thoughts in mind, the
inspection committee of the ESstee
Alley Garden Club last week reviewed
the 300 gardens of the community.
1t was a most unusual mid-June
afternoon, with a temperature of SO
degrees. when the members of the
committee sailed forth on the 1927
inspection trip. The club is now in
its fifth Summer
During these years the original ad
vantage held by the gardens in
Esstee Alley. that of priority, has
been wiped out. and today nearly all
the gardens of Gayvilla stand on an
equal footing. with the exception OF
few first made this season.
The committee this year decided to
make no comparative ratings of
gardens. it being the unanimous sense
OF the members that competition in
gardening is thing of the past.
Competition only has a place in
prodding lax yardkeepers into setting
out flowers and keeping their grass
in condition. Outside of this neces.
sary use. competition. in the garden
sense. means but heartache and dis
appointment.
Envy has no place in a garden.
X X y
the committee. as follows:
2. The yellow rose, Souvenir de
Claudius Pernet.
). Gladiolus in circular bed.
1. Terraced gardens.
8. Bathrobe cords around holly
hooks
6. A red climbing rose, probably
EXcelsa
Z. A rose arbor Of bent iron pipes
one half covered with a red rose and
the other half with white rose.
Since the members of the commit.
tee have not been able to grow sweet
peas satisfactorily, they found espe.
cia! satisfaction in discovering that
some one else had been able to do 1t.
Washington Is VIGOROUSLY poor
sweet pea territory.
w HCiCdS Tue MluUle w est sees
sweet peas Towering all Summer In
the most humble gardens. compare.
lively few vines are noted by an OBJ
server while going around Washing
ton.
The flowers discovered by the com
m'ttee were very pretty, the vines
not yet being as high as the 315 foot
fence. so 1t was perhaps too early to
credit the grower with complete sue
cess.
The test Of sweet peas in this vi.
cinity comes during the heat of July
and August. when the plants are at.
tackled by red spider. and suffer much
from drought.
Vines that do finely in the first few
weeks may suffer later. The inspec.
ton committee will keep an eye or
the good vines discovered to see
whether they continue to do we'll.
Surely there is no flower more
dainty than this" said one committee
member. And he spoke the truth.
\ X X *
The spread of the Claudius Pernet
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| rose has been nothing short OF re-
markable: 1t was placed on the COM
mercial market about two years ago.
at So per bush. The committee found
it in more than dozen gardens in
comparatively restricted area. The
price now. of course, is about half.
| The popularity of this yellow rose
| is well deserved. One member of the
committee recalled the first time he
ever saw these gorgeous blossoms.
There was a bowl full of them In a
| florists window. and he thought at
| first that they were water lilies.
! Yellow roses invariably excite the
, comments of beholders. Every flower.
| loving heart seems to go out to them.
There are other beautiful yellow roses.
of course. but none quite so yellow as
| the Souvenir"
The circular bed Of gladiolus was
the first such planting the committee
! had seen. and it attracted attention ac-
| cordingly. 1t is customary to plant
| the gladiolus in rows. or in a border.
Yet circular bed of them ought to
prove better than a bed of cannas of
similar shape.
I
| growing. Their use as landscaping
material increases year by year. Some
| of the sturdy varieties are splendid
| for mass planting, especially the
Primulinus grandif1ora varieties, such
as Alice Tiplady. Gladioli planted a
dozen or so in group make a splen-
| did foliage effect in a corner, to say
nothing of their beautiful flowers. In
the comparatively mild climate of
| Washington, no doubt. the bulbs
might be left in the ground year after
| year. if planted at least a foot deep
and the ground covered with leaves in
| the Winter.
| Much has been written against the
use of terraces, but the committee
found several yards in which the
division of the plot into two parts,
the highest next the house, had been
worked out In an interesting manner.
tremendous oaks in the back yard,
no doubt, helped the general effect.
The low portion next the alley had
been made into small formal garden
very formal indeed, as was fitting.
The effect was good and certainly un-
usual.
A bizarre note was struck in one
saruen by the use of what appeared
TO be black bathrobe cord to hold
hollyhocks against the back fence. It
was admitted by the members of the
committee that the use of this mate
rial constituted novelty and one that
was not out of keeping with the
stately dignity Of the plants.
Several specimens OF fine red
climber were seen, probably the rose
EXcelsa. The utility of the climbers
in a small yard is somewhat limited,
as too many of them make too much
foliage, usurping place that might be
better given to later Towering things.
Used with discretion, however, climb.
ers fill a need
Perhaps the supreme novelty of the
tour was rose arbor of iron pipes.
one side covered with a red rose in
full bloom and the other with white
| rose, also at it's best.
| Each color extended up it's side and
over exactly half of the arch. Ger.
talnly splendid choice had been made
of the two necessary bushes in order
| to secure this trick rose arch. Had
the bushes bloomed at different times
| the effect would have been lost.
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Scenery or Power?

In anticipation of the hearing or
the goth of July before the Fedora
Power Commission on the applica
ton Of a private corporation for the
right to develop the water power OF
the Potomac, the National Park and
Planning Commission. charged with
the responsibility of providing a prof
ect for the development of the Capital
and its environs, has undertaken a
survey of the prospective effect OF
such an establishment. In coniunc.
ton with the planning commissions
of Maryland and Virginia an ex
animation of the area certain to be
affected by the proposed dams has
just been made. and 1t is expected
that as result of a conference to-
day between representatives of the
three bodies a joint protest will be
made to the Federal Power Commits.
sion against the granting of the ap.
plication.
1t is clear that tie scheme as out.
lined in the application to the power
commission would decidedly affect
the plans for the preservation and de-
velopment of the scenic attractions
of the Potomac above Washington. 1t
is evident that there cannot be both
utilization of the water power and
beauty of Capital setting on the
nrff hal
Great Falls will be filed with a great
lake, spreading back for a consider
able distance beyond the present
banks of the river. The power dam
at the Falls will, it is asserted, de-
stroy that historic place of beauty.
The Governments interests in this
matter are twofold. The water sup
ply Of the Potomac must be preserved
from contamination and diminution,
and the unique scenic setting of the
Capital must be maintained. Further.
more, it has it's own power rights to
be considered. 1t is for the Federal
commission to determine first whether
any power project should be sane.
toned, at the cost of irretrievable
loss in natural attractions which are
a part of the Capital investment and
which with wise development may be-
come even more valuable in the near
future. II such a power plant is de.
sirable, at such a cost, should the
right to construct it be given to a
private organization for profit?
Sentiment runs strongly against
the installation of dams that will
cause the overlooking Of the banks
Of the Potomac above Washington, the
drowning Of the palisades, the cover
ing of the islands, the choking of the
Great Falls. The National Capital Park
and Planning Commission, together
with the cooperative commissions of
Maryland and Virginia, will undoubt.
edly have a persuasive voice in this
matter when a month hence the
power commission sits to hear the
arguments.
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berlin had fuel beyond their needs for
such a flight. The America is the
heaviest Of the three planes that
have now entered the transatlantic
field. Its full load is 14,500 pounds.
With the superpower developed by
three motors 1t has a range of action
which will enaGle it's commander to
try the experiments which he be-
lieves will lead to a determination Of
the safe line of flight
Should Byrd succeed in his adven-
ture he will have contributed greatly
to knowledge regarding transatlantic
flying. and 1t Is probable that in the
event of his safe landing at Paris,
which is now announced definitely as
his objective, others will quickly be
in the field to put his discoveries to
the test.
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months be honored by draft. Some
body paid the interest on that &C
count. 1t was the taxpayer who made
good in terms of heavier payments
for larger costs OF government. 1t
was the general consumer, to whom a
fraction of the cost of doing business
with the Government was passed in
terms of higher prices.
Prompt payments are not attended
by risk of loss through fraud IL the
business administration is efficient
and careful. There is no occasion for
an overelaboration of checks and
balances" in the meeting of Govern
ment bills. A business concern sell
dom loses money through failure to
check up on all accounts before re-
hitting.
This showing of economy through
the application of business methods
is one of the most gratifying evil
dences Of progress in the conduct of
the affairs Of the people through the
Federal administration yet adduced.
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States View Given
On Motor Licenses
To the Editor of The Star.

TO the Editor OF The Star:
Mr.. James F. Carlin, my local rep.
resentative in Alexandria, has sent me
copy of the editorial headed Motor
Reciprocity"
While II is true Virginia recipro.
Gates with the District and all the
States to the same extent the District
and other States reciprocate with
Virginia. owing to the fact that
Washington has a license which costs
only 81 we have more trouble with
the people in the northern part of
Virginia, who work in the District
and live in Virginia, securing this
cheap license rather than in Virginia,
the State in which they are living.
In the case of DR.. FARMLAND. as I
understand it. he rents an apartment
in Washington and also home in Vir-
ginia. and Is as much a resident Of
Virginia as of the District. Certainly
he uses the roads of Virginia more
than he does the streets of Wash.
ingtOn.
Virginia wants to be fair and we
have endeavored to do this, but have
been taken advantage of by any num-
Der of Virginia owners who work in
the District. as stated above.
If Washington authorities issuing
licenses were careful to check up, they
would find the facts as 1 have writ.
ten above. They can very easily get
close check on them by detailing
their traffic men at the bridge en-
trance in the morning and evening
and in this way will find those who
are coming to work and going home
in the evening. Of course, they will
run into some Washington cars driv-
ing out in the afternoon, but these
can be eliminated by a double check
morning and evening.
believe you will agree with us
that those people who maintain homes
in Virginia are entitled to take out Ii.
cense in this State.
JAS. NJ. HAYES, JR.,
Motor Vehicle Commissioner of Viz
ginia.
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| foreign service by promoting the
career men is in some ways an inn
| proVement on the older practice of
landing out the jobs to politicians"
| the New York World independent
/ Democratic) comedies that the policy
has been in effect long enough to
exhibit some of it's defects, and Vice
| President Dawes has done a useful
| thing in calling attention to the mat
ter. We have not solved the problem
of how to select our diplomats" con-
cludes the World merely by turning
| from the professional politicians to
the professional diplomats"
! Quoting Vice President Dawes as
saying Never before in peace time
were ADLER men in higher authority
personally participating habitually in
| diplomatic conferences lin EurOpel
and that 'if our representatives from
America meeting them are properly
to represent our interests, they also
must be our strongest men," the Chi
| cago Tribune Republican, registers
itself as agreeing "emphatically with
the Vice Presidents views on this
subject"
The Newark Evening News (nde-
pendenD thinks that Ito make the
, diplomatic service a small job for
small men, and not to count on it as
regular medium of administration
for important purposes" which it
considers would be the outcome of
following the Dawes suggestions.
would be 1.-The best way imaginable to
deprive it of all dignity and prestige
both at home and abroad, and to re-
solve it into a bureau of petty gov
eminent clerks The ST. Louis Post
~ %ol1
cum of truth in what the general
says" but notes that mot everything
is true of any school of diplomacy"
The time chosen by the Vice Presi-
dent for his utterances is regarded by
the Philadelphia Public Ledger Gnde-
pendenD as peculiarly unfortunate.
THE Dawes warning is sound in
many respects, but he chose about
the worst possible time to sound ii"
says this paper. 1.-The Geneva Con
ference meets June 20. and. despite
Mr.. Dawes assertion that he was not
aiming at anybody in particular. the
Dawes fling seems to be a criticism
of the President and of the American
delegation. BY his awkward and UNI
fortunate utterances. he may have
destroyed much of the usefulness or
the American delegation at Geneva.
The New London Evening Day Re-
publican). which finds "fallacy" in
the Vice Presidents assumptions.
suggests that the Vice President has
been so closely associated with the
Senate lately that he seems to think
the State Department ought to have
no Jurisdiction whatsoever in foreign
affairs
THAT our State Department needs
all the brains it can draft. several in
cidents of the past two or three years
have shown" is the declaration OF
the Davenport Democrat Democrat
icl. and the Utica Observer-Dispatch
independently sees the need in our
diplomatic service of strong and ca.
pable laymen, men of affairs, OF
course, with tested capacities, put
cherishing the necessity of contact
with enlightened opinion. and Tree
from the traditionalism of the dlpio-
matte corps"
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Profits From Promptness.

II the rate at which the Govern
ment has been saving money by the
prompt payment of it's bills main.
tanned during the first ten months of
the current fiscal year is kept up it
will have turned in a profit of more
than a million dollars from this source
by July j. This is according to a
statement made by Budget Director
Lord. who, in addition, points out
that during about four years this item
on the Treasury books has reached
the total Of S4,29S.44S.
Ever since the establishment Of the
budget system, and particularly DUR
ing the past half dozen years. much
stress has been laid upon the "busi-
ness" character of the United States
Government. At the occasional meet
ings of the heads of departments and
bureaus for the consideration of fiscal
matters emphasis has been laid upon
the fact that the United States is no
more nor less than a great CONNER
cial organization. maintained for the
benefit of the people of the country,
with the same obligation for strict
safeguarding of resources that is i'm
posed upon the directors of all pri-
vately managed enterprises.
In a we'll conducted business close
attention is paid to the matter of the
discounting of bills. 1t is a well known
fact that in some lines of trade the
profits are chiefly derived from the
prompt payment of accounts, saving
charges for credit. The United States
undertaken to conduct its affairs In
such a manner. Now, it would ap
pear, it is doing SO, and with profit.
Director Lord in his announcement
says that of even more benefit than
the saving of millions through prompt
payments is the wiping out of the
reputation of the Government fol-
slow liquidation, honestly earned
through the years" 1t is, indeed, ar
advance TO have the Federal business
so conducted as to enable it's creditor:
to collect without long and cost,
waiting while the red tape of account
ing and supervision and checking AM
counter-checking is unwound. Unit
not so long ago that the memory il
at all strained in recollection tn
holder of a bill against the Cnite'
States had merely claim that woul
probably in the course Of man
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Dawes Talk on Career Men"
Draws Praise and Criticism

Vice President Dawes has been con-
demned in some quarters and praised
| in others for his commencement ad-
| dress at Washington University, ST.
Louis, in which he questioned the wis
| dom of too great use of career
men" by the State Department in i'm
portant diplomatic missions.
1T is not surprising" in the opinion
of the New York Times independent
Demotratic). that the man whose
downright speech and prompt action
stirred the procrastinating diplomats
of Europe to settle the reparationS
problem should make a plea for non
professional diplomats to head i'm
portant missions sent to international
conferences. Vice President Dawes, of
course. had no special appointee or
conference in mind. His present con-
tentiOn is merely that there are dan
gers in adhering too rigidly to the sys-
tenn of appointing career diplomats
to undertake delicate negotiations"
Thus the Times believes, 1.-The Vice
President, with his usual directness,
has pitched upon the greatest weak
ness of the diplomatic service"
The Charleston Evening Post Gin
dependent Democratic, commenting
on the fact that Gen. Dawes holds that
the United States should send to these
conferences men of the highest type.
fully imbued with the spirit of the Ma
ton and with authority to speak out
American opinion" says, 1T is a
sound view," and the Rock Island
Argus independently lends it's indorse-
ment in the words, 1.-THE Vice Presi-
dent very properly, we think, sug-
xxyi%l fA he
policy of the Department of State in
promoting career men simply because
they are career men,"
Looking at the matter in a very
different light. the Baltimore Evening
Sun independently contends that 1.-The
truth is that you can't expect to build
up an informed, competent and well
knit diplomatic service unless you are
willing to reward the able men who
are developed. You can't expect to
develop intimate knowledge of the
intricacies of foreign relationships I'M
less the men i'll charge of them have
given most of their lives to the work.
Sir Esme Howard. the present British
Ambassador, is a career man. Occa-
sionally the system produces a genius.
We shall do as WE'LL
X !: X
The Detroit Free Press independently,
declaring cit is highly important that,
like other powers with which it main
tains intercourse. the United States
shall do everything to encourage tit
men to take up diplomacy as life
career, and. once they have done so,
shall give them every reasonable OPP
portunity for advancement believes
that this cannot be done if the most
desirable positions in the service are
kept closed to proved experience and
TO ability, divorced from politics. On
the whole" the Free Press finds 'Mr.
Dawes suggestion is destructive
rather than constructive"
The Providence Evening Bulletin
independently sees in the Dawes sug-
gestions 1.-The reflections of an excep-
tionally keen intelligence, which upon
more than one occasion has been bold |
and bit disrespectful OF cherished
outworn methods" Although holding
that the policy of filling posts in the
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elections. Seventeen of the 4S States
have direct primaries to elect dele.
gates TO national conventions and In
most cases to designate presidential
preferences. New Hampshire and
North Dakota lead off in March. 1t
was enormously suggested that his
years Summer White House was
pitched in the Black Hills because
South Dakota holds the first presiden.
tial primary. 1t used to have such
primaries in March. but recently
changed the date to May. Thirty-two
States will elect United States Sena.
tors in 1928. In 26 States senatorial
candidates are nominated by direct
primaries, and in s by convention.
South Dakota has "simplified" it's pri.
mary election law, but Michelet as.
serts 'it is still so involved and fan.
tastic that 1t needs careful exposition
for unravelment."
Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune, com.
mandant of the United States Marine
Corps, can now tack IN. M. 81 after
his celebrated name. Norwich Uni
versity, at Mortified, VT, made him
master of military science" at its
recent 10Sth commencement. The
general. who has been the idol of all
devil dogs since he led them into
action in their historic battles in
France. delivered a classic address on
the military art and acclaimed the
deeds of Norwich men in our various
wars.
Representative Thomas S. Butler,
Republican, of Pennsylvania veteran
chairman of the House naval commit.
tee, Is no respecter of mere cabinet
persons. The other day when Curtis
ID. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy. was
accepting an LII. ID. degree from
Pennsylvania Military College at Ches-
ter, Representative Butler. who was
on the platform, broke vehemently
into the middle of Wilbur's speech.
The Secretary was describing how the
United States, in a spirit of concili-
alton, had junked millions of dollars
worth of warships after the Washing
ton conference. "WeIl never do it
again." shouted Butler in voice that
rang all through the big college
armory in which the exercises were
being held. Wilbur wasn't caught off
That's what the man said when he
got married" the Secretary retorted.
Once is enough
X X X X
Mrs. Marietta Minnigerode Andrews.
Washington society woman, painter
and writer, is about to publish a strik-
ing book on reconstruction days in
Dixie, following the Civil War. At
first, Mrs. Andrews. blue blooded
daughter of Virginia, planned to make
her story merely narrative Of per-
sonal recollections dealing with the
trials and tribulations of the i. f.
VS. in adjusting themselves to new
and distressful conditions. But the
manuscript turned out to be history.
tCopyrignt. 1922