Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, WA ANUARY 17, 1923 Al 2l WEDNfidDAY!' 3 ; THE {EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNFSDAY. .January 17, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES. The Evening Star Newspaper Company Pusiness Office. 11(h New York Off Chiva Furopean Oifice 3,16 Regent St., London, g The Evening Star, with the Sanday morning | edition, s delivored by carriers within the city | a | sured 1] Maryland uand Virginia. Daily and € Daily only. Sunday only. 20«': { | 85c | 0c | ., 25¢ Member of the Associated Press. The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled | to the use for republication of Wl news dis- o otherwise r and also the local n All rights of public spatches herein mre also reserved All Other States. Dally and Suaday..1 yr., $10.00: Daily only 1 8 Litfle Chance of War. Seemingly the test of success of French movement the Ruhr whether the mines and industries of | that region can be operated under cupation. Thus far there is no doubt that the Germans are blocking the col- lection maneuver. The net production he is | into -1 | of the district since the troop move- | € ment began nearly a week ago is pr: tically nil. Workmen have obeyed orders from Berlin ters, official and unoflicial, to abstain | trom lubor, In throughout the question is how long this strike will { continue and how it will ad. 1 There is a touch of the sativic in the | latest development, with the ch commander summoning into h ence a number of the indust i hl—‘ ers and commanding them to order | their follower workmen, to get| busy on production. This is rem cent of 1914 and late en Ge went into Belgh commandecred s terials and prope rally the same the industrial arrest of four a strike pied area. pr ot many a ma- France as well And quite natu- tion has resulted, | vefusi The according to a | The | ugh” for | but it is | n and a ty r leaders of them ate dispatch. b French have their mot s been ordered “th ) in this adventure, not to be thou a moment that | they will be wough™ as were | the Germar vear T ably peared in the news ves was stated that 2 concentrated a sk advanced French lines of occupation. | But this did mean warfare aft- er all. If Germany is going to war, f she is going to fight the French on her own suil, she will surely not & so feebly as with a force of this kind, | nor so soon, with the French still with- | inave range of base and with | a productive area at their backs for supplies. It would be- the poorest | strategy to open a defensive campaign { parative handful of men- rong, fully munitioned in- vading force. Despite all of hidden muni the truth doubtless is that Ger- under- Russia for the | a defensive decidedly an un- | There is much talk | of million men, al horde ready to sweep westward | through Poland and Germany into | ance. More dependable information { puts the practicable soviet fleld force | at less than 500,000, even as low as| 300,000. Moreover, Russia u»rribl)’i deficient in supplies. The danger in this present situation | is not war, that is, immediate or earl. war, as much as it is an economic col- apse somewhere, perhaps widespread, with consequent political reactions, | maybe revolutions, wholly changing | he general situation in Europe and making for potential war in the fu-! e. Bitter as may be the hatreds of intense as may be the deter-} mination of the French to make the! Germans pay, or the Germans to re- sist paying under compulsion, neither side is in a position for war, and neither can actually wish for war in the light of the happenings of only a | few months ago. { adopted it for as fow 2 i questio a sinist ap- rd 000 reichswehr were | ance from the not i | | taken. major strength paign. And Rus certain quantity. of red my a upon cam- a e The visit made by Clemenceau did not strongly influence American opin- Jon. Nor did information he must have acquired while here exercise any great apparent influence on French opinion. ————— ‘Without suming an official title Hugo Stinnes succeeds in exercising a great deal of practical authority. ———— The t of coal is heavy in this country, hut threatens to be much heavier in Europe. ———— The Voice Across the Sea. Long distance telephony is no longer & marvel. The mechanism of the trans- mission of the voice by - wire over great spaces has been so perfected that conversations between Washing- ton and Chicago, or even Washington and San Francisco are veritable com- monplaces. But true long distance wireless telephony is not yet at the point of regular use. A demonstration, howaver, has just been made that en- courages the belief that radio telephony will soon be @ regular feature of the service. For some time past phone ‘“mes- sages” have been sent overseas with- out wires, but they have consisted merely in detached words or phrases, with ‘but brief maintenance of ‘“con- nection.”” Broadcasting has, it is true, | seen done from radio centers with the volice carrying clearly over ranges of a few hundred miles. Sunda—- New York talked to England by phone without wires for upward of three hours, and practically every word spoken at the American station was distinctly heard in Southgate, 3,400 miles away. There was no return com- munieation save by cable, as the Southgate station was not equipped ‘for sending. At intervals the receivers in England cabled brief messages ex- pressing gratification at the clearness ofthe speech which came through the air. The only criticism expressed was i earth with mes | other { terr that the American accent was hard to understand. An effort was made to find a *British-speaking™ person, but the only available one, a janitor, had gone home when the request was r ceived by cable. . Radio telephony has great possibili- ities for general diffusion of state- ments, but it will require considerable improvement to make it a practicable method of individual commynication The possibility of others “listening in is still to be considered. In wired voice communications privacy is well a: through careful organization, 1d a phone message, whatever the 19 confidential as a tele- The scientists who are working on radio telephony will naturally not be until they have circled the sages, and in view of the remarkable advances that have been made in @ very few years it is quite reasonable to expect that soon the human voice will be heard literally around this sphere without any ma- terial medium of communication. ontent B — The Only One in Danger. It i§ a pity that drivers of motor cars do not more generally recognize {the fact that the pedestrian is the| least of their troubles, certainly the least menacing of all obstacles to thel progress, The man afoot, or the wom- n, is in no sense or degree dangerous {to the motor that is being carefally | driven. A rapidly driven motor may werve to avoid striking a person afoot end then get in trouble with another r, perhaps because of the narrow in left for maneuvering. But the pedestrian himself is not a menace. It | he is struck the car can be, and often is, driven on unharmed. If all persons afoot at crossings ooked in both directions before lea: ing the curb, and made their way {with circumspection across the pave | they would be safe, so long as the mo- tors were driven carefully at those 'l points. But very few motors are| slowed down on approaching a cross- ing, unless it is under the control of a traffic policeman. There is no as- surance to the person afoot that the path will be clear all the way across. For from around the corner may come « car that was not in the reckoning when he started forth, or from across the intersecting street miay come an- ar that was at the far side when he started. All these contingen to be considered by the pedestrian, who, in practice, at the crossings assumes vi tually all responsibility for his pas- sage. ossings within the specified speed limit that® responsibility would not be “or a car going at that imit of speed is not to be feared so are | greatly as one that® is moving more | rapidly. The usual traffic casualty is caused not by the crushing of the victim by the car, but by the impact of the head in being thrown to the ground. A car moving at the limit of speed specified will not hurl to the pavement a person who is hit in a way to crush the skull and thus cause death. Only & very infirm person is likely to be badly hurt by a slowly moving motor. Moreover, the chance of dodging a car depends ! mainly upon its speed. It is difficult to gzet out of the way of a machine mov- ing rapidly, while relatively easy to do “0 when it is moving slowly. And, again, the slowly moving car is not 50 fving as the one that is speeding, and the moment of fright is often fatal in its consequences. Less speed at the corners. whether the car is going straight across the street or is turning. is imperatively necessary if the lives of those afoot are to be secured. No argument can prevail in behalf of speed, anywhere, as against the security of life. Wash- ington, made comparatively “safe” for a few days by a week of intensive demonstration and education in the matter of carefulness on all sides, has suddenly become decidedly unsafe again. Evidently the speed habit is reasserting itself, and the only people who are payving the penalty are those afoot, those who are mot dangerous to anybody and who alone are in danger. —————————— There may be a principle of rela- tivity in international affairs worthy of the study of an Einstein. What would be considered a serious war un- der gome circumstances seems placid Dby comparison with what has been or what may be. The most that Trotsky appears to be doing at the present time is mani- festing silent solicitude about Lenin's health. Old German socialists will observe with admiring interest the economic importance the humble coal passer is now Bergdoll was right in deciding that Europe i no place for & man who regulates his life strictly on the prin- ‘r‘lp]e of personal safety first. Belgium, one of the most peaceable of countries, is unfortunate in having quarrelsome and influential neighbors. Europeans have difficulty in under- standing American politics. European politics is equally hard for Americans. The Wets and Congress. The New York wets—that is, the great majority, who know more about tipple than about the law—are greatly troubled. They ' voted for Gov. Smith in No- vember in large numbers. Many re- publicans, controlled by their thirst, plumped for him. As he was wet in his sympathies, and standing on a platform favoring light wines and beer, all the wets, republicans and democrats, felt that if they could com- pass his election, the “stulf” would begin to flow freely again at once. So, after they had put him over, and by a majority so large it suggested unanimity, they prepared for an open celebration. 1A They have met with & sad and rude awakening. The governor is power- less. He cannot open & bottle or turn a spigot, and has had to confess the fact. His utmost service is to refer the wets to Congress. Imagine the disappointment, of men applying for something with & kiek in it and receiving a douche ol‘ cold If all cars were driven at the| water! It is akin to that of men re- celving a stone in response to & re- quest for bread. Congress alone can open wine and fill the stein. The fight must be made there, and the wets are preparing to make a fight. If the Sixty-eighth Con- gress refuses—as it is most likely to do—to modify or repeal the Volstead act, the issue will enter into the cam- paign next year for the election of the Sixty-ninth ‘Congress. The McAdoo Boom. Former Secretary McAdoo smiles and exclaims “Bunk!” when asked about the early launching of @ boom { for him for President. Naturally. Why a new boom? The old boom' is | still booming. In fact, it has never | ceased to boom. Had Gov. Cox been elected, all thought and talk about Mr. | MeAdoo in conngetion with 1924 would | probably have ceased. In democratic i circles a second Cox nomination would | have been conceded. | But when Gov. Cox was defeated, tand by so impressive @ majority, | thought at once turned again to Mr. { McAdoo. He had made a contest at !San Francisco which had demonstrat- | ed remarkable strength and general- ship and impressed the country, What we are now witnessing is a most interesting experiment. Can a ‘presidential boom be successfully transplanted? The McAdoo boom in 1920 was east- ern. While not specifically indorsed by the New York democracy, it bore, by reason of the hoomee's place of resi- dence, the New York halimark. The boom is now western. In mov- ing to California Mr. McAdoo packed up his boom in his little kit bag, and has since been exposing it to the west- ern air, which is said to be agreeing with it. It has ne western rival. Mr. Bryan has become @ southern man— a Floridian—and the November elec- | tion eliminated Mr. Hitchcock. The {only question is, will California for- | mally present Mr. McAdoo's name to the next democratic national conven- tion? ————————— Gov. Pinchot. A white light will beat,upon Gov. nchot in office. He is a reformer of the school of the late Theodore Roosevelt. He was one of Mr. Roosevelt's closest friends. He was one of the most influential of the men who counseled him in the move ment which culminated in his nom- ination for President ’in 1912. Had Mr. Roosevelt been elected that year, Mr. Pinchot, as he then was, would. there is good reason to believe, have been appointed to a cabinet office. About the size of Gov. Pinchot’s job there can be no doubt. It is large. Pennsylvania Is one of the largest and richest of the states, and to administer her affairs successfully, even under the most favorable circumstanc would require of him skill and resolu- tion and staying power. But the circumstances are disturbed there, as in all the other states. Pub- lic affairs everywhere are in much confusion; and bringing order, and particularly a new order, out of them in the Keystone state will tax Gov. Pinchot's resources to the utmost. He is no novice in politics. He is not a stranBer to office. He is in the prime of life. He is greatly in earnest. He was successful at the polls last vear by most complimentary and gratifying expression of the people. He | i { | i { i | | | i 1 his best, and uphold the reputation as a reformer he has enjoyed ever since his activities during the Roosevelt era. —————————— Much of the charm of Dr. Coue's style is due to his simplicity of lan- guage. He would not have made near- Iy so strong an impression if he had overburdened his discourse with «“psychotherapy” and kindred terms. ——— The enormous quantities of whisky seized in liquor raids revives curiosity as to how under the conditions of a number of years past whisky managed to escape becoming practically ex- tinct. —_——————— Russian players dre expected to show that while sovietism may have witnessed a food shortage, it did not allow art to suffer a lack of scenery and costumes. ———————— ‘Both France and Germany have re- covered amazingly. e ——e—————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOENSON. Common Experience. A small boy lingered at the feast. Next day he had 2 pain, ‘Which with each passing hour in- creased. , The doctors called in vain. Recovery was somewhat slow. His lot in life seemed tough; And all because he did not know ‘When he had had enough. Shall we reprove that thoughtless youth For conduct so unwise? Much older folk have found, in sooth, A similar surprise. And even nations have to go A way exceeding rough, , And all because they do not know ‘When they have had enough. A Frank Declaration. “The best man won when you were elected,” exclaimed .the admiring friend. “Opinions differ,” replied Senator Sorghum. “Some of my eritics say 1 ‘was the choice between two evils.” Jud Tunkins says & man needs more than one kind of wisdom. The fact that a geologist knows all about coal doesn’t guarantee him a supply. / Musings of a Motor Cop. Hortense remarked, “I may seem bold; But should I rise t6 heavenly grace I shall not ask for streets of gold, But only for more parking space.” Half True. “They tell me you have an oil well on your farm.” , “There’s some truth in it,” replied Farmer Corntossel. “I got the well.” n order foh a New Year resolution to keep fresh,” said Uncle Eben, “dar'd have to be a fust of Janniwary has every incentive, therefore, to do} THE WAYS OF WASHINGTON BY WILLIAM PICKETT HELM. Those who place little faith in prophets would do well to consider the case of Joseph 8. McCoy. Mr, McGoy is a professional prophet. Moreover, he is employed by -the United States government. Further than that, his job is to prophesy. It is for that, and that alone, he draws his pay. And he prophesies to a fare-you- well. He takes on all sorts of as- signments, bars none, and by work- ing along a system which is entirely his own, peeps into the future and comes back to the present with his answer. K Generally it is o near the truth as to be uncanny. It is rarely, 1 per cent out of the way. Mr. McCoy is the government actu- ary. He is an employe of the Treas- ury Department. He is also adviser, on request, to the ways and wmeans committee of the House of Represen- tatives on all subjects relgting to finance and taxation. Ten years ago the committee was considering the first draft of the first income tax bill ever placed before Congress. It called in Mr. McCoy, whose powers as a prophet were not so well known then as now. He sat in the deliberations, “Ot course,” said the chairman, “we can't possibly tell how much mouey uny tax levy of this sort would raise There fsn't anything to go on. We'll just have to try it out and see.” Mr. McCoy spoke up. “I think 1 could tell you approxi- mately,” he said. “I could make an estimate.” ‘The chairman laughed. you mean,” he retorted. ,* Mr. ‘McCoy sald quietly, “I mean an estimate. that will be fairly close to actual figures.” “All right,” said the chairman, uppose you try it. Go ahead.” Mr. McCoy went back to his office t. prepare his_estimate. He was follow ing an uncharted way, he Knew, but he did the best he could. He studied the ingome tax law of Prussia. Then he made allowances for the differences In wealth, earnin power, population and other factors in this country and in Prussia. Taking all these things into eareful consideration, he made out his esti mate and took it to the committee. The figures were preserved for tally with the actual yield of the law When the last payment was made it was found that McCoy's figures and the sum collected were almost identi- cal “A' guess, Just now Mr. MeCoy, his reputation &8 an income tax prophet firmly estab- lished and the laurel won in past per- formances still sitting rakishly on his brow, is figuring out for the commit- tee and the Treasury how much money the government will collect in taxes during the nxt fiscal year, Heo 414 this same stunt for the past figeal year (and the current one, too), and one of his friends in another branch of the Treasury put away McCoy’s forecast for comparison wWith the actual flgures when the year ended. When all the returns were in the friend called McCoy on the 'phone. “You predicted,” he said, “that we would collect so much money in in- ternal revenue taxes during the past fiscal year., Remember?" 5 “I do,” McCoy replied. “I estimat- ed the sum at $3,214,000,000." s, and you're off. You missed 3 that s0?” inquired McCoy, genuinely disturbed. “By George, I don’t see how that could be.” He drummed on the desk for o time walting for the friend to speak again, but the friend didn’t. Finally McCoy did. “How much did T miss it>" Jie usked apprehensively. ; “We collected $3,208,000,000,” friend replied. $6.000,000.” y laughed with relfef. “T figure I was about one-fifth of 1_per cent. wrong,” he said, “don’t’ you?” “Thaat's ali,” the friend replied, “and 1 called you up to kid you & bit and then to congratulate you.' the “You missed it by On several occasions McCoy has had to forecast ten years or more ahead vopulation of certain cities and states, He studied all factors carefully each time and then submitted his estimate. Th 1sus Bureau filed the estimates to check agalnst the actual lat In every case the s and the estimate were almost identical. Finally the bureau sent a man see_him. “We spend millions of dollars send- ng men around to get these figures cvery ten years” said the emissary. " seem to grab them right out of the air. How do you do it? “Well,” sald McCoy, “I have a Sys- em.” “Tell it to-me,” esentative to t said the census rep- “and we'll save the oV y. There isn't much i sus If you can estl {mate it. And, confidentially, I believe |¥ou are as nearly right as we are.” |” Now, McCoy's system, like many other sesame can be reduced to but words. | “Hard work plus common sense" is about the way it reads. S0 he told the census man all about t. in_detail. He impressed on the visitor the neéesajty of including every possible factor in the estimate. 1f one Is left out or skimped the whole result is awry. And when the interview ended the census man departed shak- ing his head “It can’t be done,” he said n't be done.” “But it is done him “Shut up,” replied the addled cengis r, ““there ain’t 1o such animal.” i r t “1t Just a friend reminded EDITORIAL DIGEST {This Time Sympathy Is Com- pletely Eliminated. The plight of Big Bill Haywood, erstwhile leader of the I W. W., who fled to Russia to escape a twenty- year prison sentence and now is “broke and friendless” in Moscow, at- tracts few xpressions of sorrow in this country. Editors agree that he { there are some who find a moral in his complete eclipse among the men and women he had aspired to lead into industrial freedom. “Aging, gray. lomely and disillu- sioned,” Haywood, the Philadelphia Public Ledger points out, is “learn- ing in his lonely Moscow room the bitter lesson learned by Emma Gold- man, Alex Bergman and ' a good many others who Went to red Russia to bathe themselves in the light of the red dawn. to the gray ashes of a red and vio- lent lifetime. In the future there is nothing for him. That great aging bulk will cover a homesick heart, sick for the sound and feel of the America he was ready to de- stroy. There is pathos mingled with this pleture of poetic justice. As he sowed so does Big Bill reap.” That, however, seems much too pretty a picture for, the New York Tribune, which Sees in him now, as always, only a “trouble maker” and a con- sumer of “proteins and vitamins need- ed by real industrial workers and it remarks that, while “Russia is not exporting many heavy goods to America, the soviet Chiefs may presently recall that the United !States Department of Justice has a llen on Big Bill” And the New York jGlobe further points out that “the iru'l tragedy is not his, It is that {of the much larger group of Amer- {icans who feared that out of the {exotic philosophy of European syndli- ! calistg there could come any overturn |in the Unitea States. Of such thin !stuft revolution Is not made.” i His pathetic plight will “stir a laugh nowhere,” the Brooklyn Eagle {holds, “but it will stir many reflec- itions, Conservative American thought 1!135 no toleration for the I W..W. idea. But the frank repudiation of the social contract by men like Hay- wood is more logical and.less peril- ous than the camouflage of parlor soctalists.” . The reason -for Hay- wood's failure {8 {nteresting and “not far to see” the St. Louis Post-Dis- ECHOES FROM | | l | IMPOSSIBLE TO SETTLE FOREIGN DEBTS. No human being can settle tle debts under the law existing today. ‘A request will be made, I hope, for the modification of the law.—Senator Smeot, Utah, republican, member of the foreign debt commission. POWERS OF BUDGET BUREAU ATTACKED. We have turned over the running of the government to the director of the budget.—Senator Harrison, Missis- sippl, democrat. MORE POST OFFICE INSPECTORS NEEDED. The crimes which have been com- mitted against the postal laws are imply appalling. Last year it was shown at there were thousands upon thousands of cases that could not even be investigated because of lack of sufficlent official force to do so.~—~Senator Townsend, Michigan, re- publican, THE WEST WANTS SILVER DOLLARS. I hope that if this bill (for free transportation ‘of silver dollars) is o at least 40,000,000 silver lollars will Dbe put In ecirculation thi it the west.—8enator Smoot, Utab, republican. got what was coming to him, fll(huughi Haywood has come’, in | |patch believes. “Haywoud mever [took an interest in things as they are, but as he wanted them to be. Agi- tating and administering are as dif- ferent as loafing and moving planos. There are some men in whom the ca- pacity for agitation and administra- {tion are found together. Such is | Lemin, such is Lloyd George. They lare exceptfons. Haywood is the rule. It would not have taken a wizard to have foreseen his failure in the dull piloting of an industrial machine. He was fitted by nature and trained to destroy machines.” The fact that Le “cuts a sorry figure” in the re- ports ,of his plight is evidence to the New York Post “of the resourceful ness of the soviet leadership. Hi tory is strewn with Utoplan colonies undertaken by some |very clever people. But lest the Hay- wood failure should be seized upon an indictment of sovietism In general it was deemed necessury to Write down the I W. W. leader. And so he appears in the dispatches as a help- less oaf, with a streak of yellow and a whine,” while the soviet leaders “seize upon the knocks of fate and turn them to boosts.” Although he “didn’t appreciate the blessings and privileges of this land of freedom,” when he was here, the New London Day thinks “he would have been better off if he had stayed at home and served the prison term that he so richly deserved.” In get- ting just what he deserved, the Provi dence Journal feels he also has dem- onstrated that ‘“the soviets, seen close at hand, are not what they seemed to be across the sea. The Lenin-Trotsky crowd have no -use for him in his role of industrial fail- ure. 1f he comes back to the United States he will be clapped into jail again, but, even So, he may yet pre- fer that to life and ‘lberty’ in the realms of the reds.” also the ‘“poorest sort of a any attempted industrial coloniza- tion, the Baltimore American insists, so that it was to be expected he would become*“a man without a coun- try, a leader without a party, propagandist without an audience either in the old world which he de serted or the new which for a time has sheltered him, altogether ~a broken and pathetic fi And the new nation, Russia not care whether hé Stays or goes,” points out the Hartford Courant. ‘“He may re- main if he finds means of living with- out being compelled- to work, or he may make his way to this country with the thought that he will be ar- rested when he lands. If Haywood had been an ordinary workingman, a slave to superstition and willing to do a day's work now and then, he might feel more at ease than he does now.’ CAPITOL HILL e g DISEASE MIGHT BE POPULAR. ' - He (Senator Smoot) said dirty money spreads disease. Well, there is nothing that would give the Amer- ican people so much pleasure at this time as to bring them in 6lose con- tact with any kind of money.—Sen- ator Heflin, Alabama, démocrat. SALARIES NEVER LARGE ENOUGH. Men never receive la salaries, enough according to their own judgment, because every man who draws a salary’ arranges his scale of nvms accordingly, and always ar- ranges it right up to the limit of his salary—Representative Huddle- ston, Alabama, democrat. CONGRKSS IS BASHFUL. ‘We have not courage enough to increass our own salaries, although we realize the old IMZ of $5,000 a year in the day In which it was paid had a much grester purchasing power than the '§7,600 which we re- ceive, today, when almost every con- gressman with & family has a stru e to llve o his compensation.— epresentative JHuddleston, Alabama, democrat, , - the wrecks of | al Politics at Large BY N, 0. MESSENGER. -Political haymakers foresee a pro- longed season of activity In the in- terregnum between the ¢lose of this Congress, March 4,'and the beginning of the new Congress nino months thereafter—the recess expected by reason of the intimation from the ‘White House that no extraordinary session of the next Congress is prob- able. It will be open ‘Season for the | progressives, who are to be busy dur; ing the remaining weeks of the win- ter and the summer months promul- gatng their doctrines, and especiall: putting in hard licks in the states to | securing state laws for the choosing | of delegates to nationul conventions { by selection by primaries 5 It is wmot likely that the expiring Congress will have cnacted any im- portant legislation beyond some form of relfef for farmers that could be classed as coming within the progres- sive program, so when the new Con< | gress comes in, next December, the progressives will be on hand with a still further elaborated program and the republican party, then in power in the national halls of legislation, though with greatly diminished con- trol, will have to act with dispatch to make a record of progressivism to present to the voters in the campaign of next year. * x | In the month immediately follow- ing the converting of the Sixty-elghth Congress the selection of delegates to the national conventions of 1924 will begin. It is pointed out that lack- ing a conspicuous record for progres- sive legislation, the administration and_the con tive wing of the re- publican p will be put on the| defensiye by the republican progres- | sives and the potential insurgents, who will demand the selection of | pronouncedly progressive delegates | to the republican national conven- | tior® with the end In view of obtain- ing complete control of the party, its organization and its platform of fu- ture legislation The democrats have already an- nounced that they will go before the country with the charge that the re- publican party, through its factions, is not to be intrusted with progres- sive legislation and that the demo- cratic party furnithes the only hope of giving the kind the country is as- | serted to want. The prospect is for 2 big uprising in both parties for pro- gressivism in Congress, concurrent- 1y with the heat and passion incident to the approach of =« presidential campaign, 1 } * x ¥ *x Senator McLean of Connecticut, hairman of the banking and cur- rency committee, in discussing the | before yesterday the two most { {current topics—farmers’ credits and | {politics—said: “The leaders of both ! | parties have always promised the im- possible. The ins fail to bring mil-| {lennial conditions and the outs are |given a chance. Without much re- |gard to the merit or achievement of | things possible, the pendulum swin .~[ {from one party to the other until the { disappointed citizen sees in ‘insurgency {the only hope of electing men to of- ce who can make money out of | moonbeams and philanthropists out {of profiteers. | The ardent, earnest and virtuous | progressive gets along first rate until jhe is elected in numbers sufficient to {zet control of the government, when | he, in turn, must cross the dead line nd be covered by his own avalanche he must join the ranks of th | nard-boiled reactionary enemies of | {the people. * * * Iass prejudice | and class cupldity if they continue to | strive to get even with each other sifting {gnorance through a ballot box czn bring but one result, and I| do not care whether the leadership is| hard or soft bolled.” * ok ok % Both parties and all factions in get a hold on the farmer vote for the next campaign as a secondary re- sult of & genuine desire which is the primary motive, of trying to do some- thing constructive for him in his ad- mittedly distressing condition. It would not be the truth to say that the factions or parties are merely “play- ing politics” with the farmer. The vast majority in the pr nt Congress !is sincerely in earnest in efforts to | help him. Expectation of political | and party gratitude as result is but natural and pardonable. It begins to look as if the farmer ! { will get a modicum of enlarged credit | and, what is regarded as more prac- | tical relief, a plan for marketing co- operation under government supervi- ion. There appears to be growing | indisposition to give hjm very much | more credit. This spiri! was exempli- | fied in a remark by Senator McLean, | “I do not want to_ invite the farmer to another billfon-dollar dance, at the.! close of which he will be called upon | to pay the musicians. * X X 1t appears probable that neither of the two major parties can expect to | derive exclusive credit for legislation | for the farmer, beyond the considera- | tion of how far the republicans will | be able to “get away” with the claim that whatever is done was by a re publican Congress. The record will show the votes of individuals, who | { will make their own peace with their | constituents. - The democratic party, being in the minority, is expected to claim that the majority did not go far enough; while individual demo- crats can claim a share in the legisla- | tion and assure their constituents that if they could have had their way it would have been much better. * ok x k i i | cure modification of the Volstead act s under way, under the auspices of the democratic party In the New York legislature. The democratic leaders | of the upper and lower chambers yes- | terday started work on the resolu-| tion to be addressed to Congress, in | the name of the state of New ¥York, urging enactment of legislation FR signed to permit light wines and’ beer. The press report of the launching of the movement describes the repub- licans as sitting stlent and dour dur- ing the procesdings. The question will probably be open to debate whether their attitude was depreca- tory or envious Gems of Philosophy From Common Clay Not from Holy writ alone nor from ! the great poets and prose masters of | all time_come all the gems of philoso- | phy and diction; from time to time diamonds are produced from common clay and soll of no promise whatever. The gems are fow and seldom do two come within ohe generation, as did the imperfhable utterances of the late “Wee Willie” Keoler, a base ball player of renown, and the late Rob- ert Fitzsimmans, & champlon of cham- pions in the prize-fght rin “Hit 'em where they ain't” sald Keeler when asked for the recipe for compounding a high batting average. “The bigger they are, the harder they fall,” commented uby Robert” on ggestion that some opponent was too heavy for him to handle. Philoso- phic truthé, both; each in its way a gem. Far be it from an amateur to ex- pound these two texts 6f foremost perts in their respeotive lin. Suf- fice to ly that eler’'s base ball policy well might be followed in busi- ness life with fine results and that Fits- simmons' remark well may be pon- dered by those to whom some enter- grlu may seem staggering in propor- o “Hit ‘em where they ain't” and “Th, bigger they are, the harder they fall’ might be engraved on the tombstone of their respective authors as the finest epitaphs-that could be devised. ~—Baltimore American. 4 { tull | origir {of rehabilitatin I japart jago. | stant CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS. One of the most recent important developments in public schools is the vocational school system, encouraged by the federal law passed in 19 Under this act, the government give: half the expense, if the state adds the other half and complies with the con- ditions approved by federal standards, as set up under the supervision of Mr. J. C. Wright, director of the Federal Board for Vocational Education. The- usefulness and popularity the system is attested to by th: that, within the four rs heen in operation, all states ha operated, and vocational sehools now exist in them all. The attendance has | grown to 475.828. But the ficld is only touched at its outer rim. Of the 43,000,000 children of school age, only | 21,000,000 attend regular school, t ing 12,000,000, who are in the tr on farms, with imperfect schoolir It s this 12,000,000 who are to e helped by the vocational schools, and | there are 11,524,000 who are not reached. In addition to the children outside of the schools who need voca education, there are million. tinue to attend the who need and are r. less training in the gether with their scholastic educa- tion. It is regretted that in the capi- tal there are many, many thousands of children who are not getting even school adv vocational ext has been unappre ful lack of accommodations buildings have to be give ifts of half-time pupils, acilities over the wl children. Hence for so useful a training in the useful arts and t 1t is not intended by even the nthusiastic advocates of Vo raining that it shall super regular course of the grade but that it will supplement the grad studies, especially for the strugglin poor who are obliged to quit school at an carly age to begin the lif. fight for livelihood. Tt s Intended to make the vocational training schools available to adults, i en- ing courses, in their Tespective trades. This will aid those who have been handicapped in their trades by the waning of apprenticeship s tems; in fact, the schools will & better technical training in trades than any apprentice ® Xin &l of voca! not enter s 2 the There training which the scheme of the that is the training ostensibly giv to veterans of the world war have become incz of wounds or due t for following the trad had given their livelihood the wa U'nti] very rehabilitating overliberal—or dministration. The wa rated for vocat was permitted to cho he preferred, and was ticed, without wages, operating that trade month by the gove was acquiring the te sent to some techn the terms, been abused, accs Forbe but now. that overlib al are offered only s rades or profes to find ially prey v for sueh a drastic curta g vocational training comes from is hard to . for there s been no amendment of the law. * ¥ ¥ *x 1 radio wonders ever cease? Washington scientist, €. Francis Jen- kins, has Invented a successful meth- o0d of sending pletures by radio. Por traits can be transferred through the distance that the is one phase does into servic s wh prior recently. thi s of veterans rather I ning what trade ther appren- to som and pald $100 nment while h hnique. or wa Direc fron rdi in ng to reaction ment, vete nonth course 1s and then turne loyment only su re the ether to an: Congress gre intent upon trying to!reaches (the record for even amateur | | mess 5 with- ay be re- st 00 mil in six minutes the port produced by the ! his new method rec, within the last week, in the presence of Army and naval officers. stationed at both ends—the point of transmi sion and the receiving station, mile The result. achieved in minutes, was marvelous. The ventor promises to perfect his a) paratus =o that the transmission may be accomplished in one-sixteenth of a second—which is the time required in motion pictures. Hence, within a few months we shall be able to = well as hear, events occurring ands of miles away It is claimed by the inventor that it will be possible to transmit maps as well as code messages secretly, so that no person, other than the one i tended, can pick the information of the air. The value of such a mea: of information in case of a battle or of great military or naval maneuvers can be appreciated only by military experts. The uncanniness of it s all that a layman can comprehend. Tt outrivals the very supernatural of the ildest fiction. so t 1t ten-in ges is thou P Atiother Washington scientist the bureau of standards has put to practical use a tiny electric current. whose very existence was unknowh to ultra scientists until a few years It is now known that if two of metal are placed different kinds | visible hip gave. | federal board and | who | been | shop | ed a rigid test | in contact with each other, is applied, that s electricity’ between vention takes two ver: of different metal second of an inch in diar after they are soldered io are susi The outer- plate it is'a tiny m nd heat it of i plates thirty Tor, reflecting light ont mirror X1 is S0 far aw: centuries for a beatn light to reach to the iking the t, and wh, beam of e uated & mirror, the electr of meta reby setting up the ¢ en the two k delic I stars which no tel It licate th the lighting of trayed n time andle lit 500 miles Steddy, but the brain of rather yman becomes un empting to follow of President tement {dohn of Amherst faculty confe Wi seience, ertheless t of Wi sors iin e I Pre n o es they ar 1 1t Meikle | sectarian sch {1y due to t | into_educatic {of the pupil the fin of an to destr or to hid {7ation. While e 8 Charles property atter wi in t 1o hold fic 5 of Washi jof Lafavette . These | Washinzt {ror years the institution, 1 Wn Nervous « at the chapel mi troy the pictu ve hung for protec wil and probab them. 1f 1 he lutely i yntains ¥ histo {7 university watchmen to guard its tred rot loan them to public where other art treagures eem to be many between Ameri ch warn us For example. America secking the tomb of Poc 1and, and proposes to bring the a glement bones o ome of her f descendants. to commemorate Fr | now proposes to se Frenchman. anc to be on the Place de ted before There is where and more mi rwhere re thought Adamic chington, ijournm 1M Was tue oug Concord Rabel concord first of immed tabl Aressmaker on Monument, upon a scale %o that the Monume: ed as her necedle. New then keep her little ol Needle. hat is how much we worship our or. ) How One-Armed Farmer Sang His Way to Congres Tho movement on Congress to se-| wype House will come to order. The| To cut & long. but interestir chaplain will lead in prayer, after which we will be led in a lesson of three songs by the gentleman from Alabama. Such an order from the next Speak- er of the House would meet with in-| by Representative Allgood, who v chosen at the No | vember electior to represent the seventh district of | Alabama in ‘the lower house Voice culture of §{ the piney woods type is generally ascribed as one of the principal fac- tors in putting ]nim in the House, together with a native abllity that would not be x downed. When Allgood decided to make the race, & number of astute politicians entered the arena to be chosen in the place of Lilius B. Rainey, who did not stand for re- election. Allgood knew the psychol- ogy of politics well enough to know that the man who does something difterent in the way of campaigning is the man who attracts attention. Right then, attention was the thing Allgood wanted most. If he got that, he could tell them about the other. hroughout the rural districts of the gouth, the farmer people are wont to gather on Sundays during the sum- mer and autumn seasons for ‘“all- day singings,” and popular, indeed, 1s he who is regarded as a good leader. o Miles dug out his old “Sacred Harp Song Book” and brushed up on the “fa-gol-las” and fared him forth. Soon his fame spread throughout the countryside and he was invited from far and wide. But he confined his vocal abilities to the seventh district. response elect Miles C. ILES 0. ALLGOOD. Seat g. stor hand short, Allgood won his e down, for the farmer think of no other name but Allz when they went to the polls at primdries. But they did | singer to Congres bama say. The voters not - elect simply , reports from Ala elected a real “di farmer,” who a lot of ] Yarnin'" about farms and farn and is able to combine the twao 1o great good of Alabama farmer: the past four years, as cc ton of agriculture and industries of Alp bama, he had demonstrated this the great delight of Alabama farm Allgood began life under a hand cap. He lost his right arm, but ! didn’t get a tin cup and a grind gan. Instead, he farmed and wen school. Soon after getting out -} school, he decided he would be a g0 tax fissessor and he convinced {1 people of his county of it. After tv terms in that office, he ran for stut: | auditor and was elected by an o whelming majority. While in office he originated - bill to rex corporations owning mines to pay : tonnage tax. The bill was made law on his recommendation and si ite enactment has netted tho state more than a milllon dollars in rev- enues. Under an Alabama law, when his term as state auditor expired in 1918 Allgood could not succeed himsel?, so he turned in and ran for commission- er of agriculture and industries. Ie- ing a practical farmer himself, he ha been able to bring about & great many changes in farming in his state which have endeared him to the agricultural interests. When he comes to the House, All- good will immediately line up with that element which is insistinz thz§ the federal government do more for the ° agricultural element, and will prove that, though one-armed, he is like Kipling's marine—a two-fisted fighting man. hi th