Evening Star Newspaper, August 24, 1923, Page 6

8 letters have been heart- ly idiotic love dragged into public view in balm" cases. THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. Senator Johnson, in the excerpts of his letter to his friend McClatchy in BRIDAY e wz?w'(*amurnm, said he had about amml Editor, doned any idea of entering the race | for the nomination against the late ! President Harding in the next repub- lican national convention. Perhaps he | will write another letter telling what | he proposes to do in the changed politi- | cal circumstances, and whether he| | will be a candidate against President | Coolidge. Perhaps, but it may be doubted. The odds are that any further statement made by Senator Johnson with regard to the race for the repub- nomination will be made pub- THEODORE W. NOYES ‘The Evening Star Newspaper Company Bustness Office, 11th St. und Pennsyivana Ave. New York Office: 110 Eaxt 42nd St. Chicago Oice: Tower Builiing. European Otfico: 16 Regent St.. 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The publica- tion of the Johnson letter in California serves only to show the bitter fight which is coming in that state next = | veur over the California delegation to Member of the Associated Press. fihe republican national _convention. o the ‘use for republ The Johnson faction will strive for an [peLetel Erat instructed delegation, with Johnson as their candidate. Iis opponents will seck to send an uninstructed delega- tion, which may be swung toany candi- | |date desired, perhaps to Herbert tioover, if he be a candidate In his letter to McClatchy, Senator Jolnson speaks with entire frankness in vegard to his idea of his own politi- cal strength in California and in some of the cas articularly New York. The publication of these details can fail to be embarr to the Government Building Program. The government's nd 1s pressing. and thi; great in the Capita ment otficials of set forth that the 5 have increased amd facilities in Wus! ness is to be cair and economy, and if public v to be kept and they A building progr government” shortage b Leen frequently proposed. The chai man of the House committee on pub- | lic buildings has spoken in favor of an omnibus building biil, nd many other men in Congress are favorably disposed toward the puss of such a m u! ven out in the Presi t d for building need is especially | govern ity rnent Lave st oty high anuthe wproved Kton if public Lon with etliciency Lusi rdly are senator afc ire where — The Local Coal Situation. The District Commissioners will on fooi an official inquiry to de- mine how the people of the District tand on the ceal situation, with a { view' to adopting some plan which | will, as far as possible, guard against | suffering this winter in of sus- pension of hard coal mining on § |tember 1 and a prolonged cessation of anthracite shipments. The first tep will be to learn how much an thracite has been recelved in the ! District since the close of the late ike and how it has been distributed. | can be handil t at to relieve th housing in 1t has been e at the is not agree ¥ dispised to legislation of th kind because of the cost involved, and : because public expenditures must kept the lowest figure. Representative Langley of the public | Reoaenieie mnely "¢ PUDEC fhe Commissioners have said that Euildings committes of the House they will be ared to take what said that without a building z {ever action seems necessary if a fuel bill in which > crisis arises this year. It is said that would e ‘on the seriousness of the chance for new > will depend whether the Commission- at Washington it e ers will adopt last vear's of s keeping check on the amount of coal - delivered to consum that fuel ing to the city may be fairly distrib uted. | Though complete figures ar hand, it is believed that the people {of the District are In better shapx face the im !ing than the he | possible has to seds in other reco; s situation system believes 7 Secretary who efficiency any other that the mediat housing Washington and thron try. He thinks frame a program of cc carried out over a term of yea that it should turn to earlivst practicable nomy as stron om says he is convinced should toward a man, ake im- program for facilit i hout t ng str government steps i not at government e coun uld ion to he to that € s sh ninent suspension of min ay Re- K 1 the | CAUSE of the strike threat a large num- Ji: of householde have laid in full or partial supply of coal for win- In Washington there is insistent de- 2 & gle) and this demand suffi- mand for a new building for the jete ternal revenue bureau. The offices and | 11#78 1 tkee e ]":' SuppLy St records of this k nch of the gov ‘::"?;,:l :‘rs during last spring and this ment ar number of unsuitab ¢ and iilappointed, flimsy, stru tures. The Veter. tureau needs appropriate quarters,_and many other departments and bur the same need. The annual bill which the gove Wash- Ington is a large one, and throughout the country it pays $20,000,000 in rent, and the bill by vear. The argument for lequate government building 1 strong one. w ¢ ago. and time has been ed S 3 There is no doubt that the District s still thousand tons short of its ne upr The outlook 1s | grave, and the authorities are faced with a problem which will demand | - hest that is in them. Ther sossibility that the ers and oper- rators may come to an agreement. : { There is a possibility that should they !not agree the strike may not be general as to cut off the whole supply |of hard coal, and ther the possibility that in the event of a strike {a settlement might then reached Ly miners and operators, or that one side would yield. There is the pros- pect, and it is on this that most peo- ple base their hope, that the national government will hit plan which will prevent a str r insure the production of enough coal to meet demands. As a last resort soft coal can b brought to the District in increased quantity. It would involve much hardship to turn from the use of hard to soft coal, but people could do it if it had to be done. The soft-coal oper ators recently said that they have a plan for speeding up production and shipments and are that they could take over the hard-coal market lin event of a strike. Perhaps if it were made clear to hard-coal miners and sresw.. that people used to amiiivese could turn to the use of sort it would have an effect on | the attitude of the hard-coal miners and operators. On the other hand, it might be that the soft-coal miners would strike or curtail production in support of their hard-coal brethren. Time will have to tell where the consumer stands in this matter. The {10cal authorities will exert themselves to give all aid within their power to | the people of the District, but it is the national government which must find some way of suitably dealing with the situation. 8 ———————— €aro-| propaganda has its light as well as its serious side. Two-thirds of the interest in a prize fight is due to the ingenuity displayed in bringing it to public attention. o many essary us have rent n. 2 is a nt pays i m grows higher year not S0 an i ogram is a is aiso ta be Southern Representation. The old bogey man of alleged exces- sive rep of the southern states in republican national conven tions is donning his most horritie aj parel and preparing to stalk forth upon an expedition to affright the party leaders In advance of and prob- ably during the convention of 1924. For many vears the charge that the southern exercised undue weight in the of candi- dates and the preparation of platforms has cansed the party. The cbjection was that equal weight was not displayed in of the candidates selected, as ern republican vote negligible. The 920 sou ameliorate the asserted evil of over- representation by authorizinig the tional committee to fix a new rule of apportionment. This was done in 1921 by the adoption of a rule by the com- mittee which provided for one district delegate from each congressional dis- trict that had cast 2,500 votes in the election of 1920. The committee is described in news reports as having difficulty in finding, in some of the southern states, just how many re- publican votes were cast, but has gone far enough to make it sure that the new apportionment will cut down the representation in a number of s For example, Georgia will lose Texas 6, Mississippi 8, South lina 4. At the sume time roll will be increased, and the influ- ence of the northern and wester states enhanced by the addition « seventy-four delegates at large. Th R are granted under the rule cstablished:, Adiacent conditlons are becoming by the committee allowing two ad.|Sufficiently deplorable to encourage ditional delegates at large to “!a“‘siuushla to assert that by comparison which cast their electoral votes for | SOVietism is a glittering succees. Harding and Coolidge in 1920. Mar, ————— 1and and Tennessce will also gain two, | Labor day is not yet looked to for being among the thirty-seven states | demonstrations of a kind to suggest which went republican. The fight by |an “Ultimate Consumer” day as a the southern states may be carried to | period for general rejoicing. the floor of the convention and cause ——————— a bitter conflict. : Oysters. R S T It is said in the news that ‘“Local A secrét gociety is more or less de- pendent on the manner in which i |dealers famillar with oyster culture Publicity is managed. predict that oysters will be plentiful in the approaching season.” This is encouraging, but let hope not rise to A Superfluous Letter. a dizzy pitch, for it is also said that A pen, or a typewriter, is sometimes | “Although oysters are expected to be more dangerous to handle than a buzz- | plentiful the coming season, which saw. More mighty than th® sword.|opens September 1, they will not be sntation on | ! sme i states nomination complaint in the election sure, in elec convention of 1 cost es. the convention i fairs, fon, w THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1923. T L e T ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. panned and otherwise. The oyster was looked on not as a rare and aris- tocratic bit of food, but as a plain and homely article of diet, and & man did not have to be a banker or a plumber, an automobile dealer or a bricklayer to be able to order half a dozen fried or a half-peck of steamed. The com- mon run of men could do this in an offhand sort of way. In the old days it was not a vulgar display of wealth to order oysters. Most of those conditions which we call “situations” have changed, and the oyster situation has undergone a remarkable change. When a man orders oysters now he generally does it with the alr of dignity or distinction or superiority which a ‘man used to show when he called for a quart of champagne. Only the rich or extrava- gant can now afford to order an oyster. ‘Once upon a time” the plain govern- ment clerk or other plain sort of sal- | aried man could go into an oyster house, or an “oyster saloon” of even an “oyster parlor” and take unto him- self a portion of those bivalves which have helped to place the Chesapeake and Potomac among the famous wa- ters of the world. But those were other Suspicion s waming ground that Philadelphia threa become @ wide-open town. New ¥ will not tuke it kindly if the neighbor city tries to speed up a reputation for the gay life the town buters are supposed ork at season when out-of- to require special hila ties —————— <o bar and fountain for the American patrons. the United Stat expected to carry his A British ship its installed a soda commodat of When he travels citizen tional policies with him —_——————— is na- Difficuity may regu ial traffic. The fact is not di The regulation of automobile was at first regarded as oné of 10 not be done. arise in ae aging. traffic the thins: that —_————— Whil bad state of af- 1es to ting 's policy contd willing wait and sce what the rest of the world ix going to do about i rmay depend lareely on a s —_———————— Ap from can perhaps be riv urop ide on Amer ntageous! t together and de can be practically utilized. —————— The present seems ngland deavor to ously ent Poincare ey to always en- and reply nly encou: b sten attenti is that P —— The anthrac aftord a glimpse of encouragement when it an ultima- te sitnation may is remembered that many tum ha rved as the basis of further negotiation ————————— seldom because there . but frequent. to dis- Parleys fail is “nothing to discus Iy because there is o much cues that human capacity falls. —————— Coal controversy has aroused ter the ouestion whether Pre dent Coolidge break and a deadlock simultaneous! —_——— in 1- silence in can a Foreign ¢ cannot be absolutely avoided if European condi- gnized feature of campaign discussion. tanglement tions become a re A U. 8 —_——————————————— French diplomacy often places de- pendence on a highly developed talent for breaking the news as gently as possible. SHOOTING STARS. R JOHINSON Mechanies. ve a lovely phonograph; a grand piano, too. You simply press a button, that is all you have to do— mechanism brings you almost anything you like— But they say the pick and shovel may be going on & strike! BY PHILAND] We ha Some “Oh, what's the good of classics or of jazz on winter nighi at's the good of taxicabs or of electric lights, And all the modern luxuries? pause and vainly sob, we hear the pick and shovel are no longer on the job. we'll When We blink at the electric lights out- rivaling the stars. We take an alrship journey when we tire of motor cars. These playthings cannot though so clever and so fine, With the pick and shovel hanging out Nothing-doing’ cheer us, Applause, “I notice that you have the word ‘applause’ parenthetically introduced through your speeches.” “Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum. We can't always depend on hearing the applause, but we can at least be sure people will read it.” Jud Tunkins says in these busy times a work-dodger is liable to be kept busy sidestepping sixteen hours a day. Despernte Persifiage. nto the tourist bold said he, ‘What sight do you prefer to see?” He shivered as in tones polite The tourist answered, “Anthracite.” Negotiations Still Possible. “You say you wouldn't marry the best man in the world?” ‘Emphatically,” answered haughty girl. “Then there's no use my Propos- ing.” “Oh, but you're not quite the best man in the world; are you? the The written word cuts both ways. But | cheap.” Prices of oysters, as well as ‘who would have believed that Senator | everything else, are at the top. It Hiram Johnson of California, politician | seems impossible for them to fall. par excellence, would have been a One thinks with pleasure of the victim of letter writing? Even the |time, though there is not much nutri- gods nod now and then. True, the|ment in the thought, when oysters letter was never meant for publica-|were cheap. Though money was tion, was a personal document ad-|scarcer than now, and when a dollar dressed to a close friend, and its pub- | greenback or silver certificate looked licatlon was the result, Senator John- | bigger than a ten-dollar federal re- son says, of burglary. But the fact|serve note, the common kind of mor- remalins that it was published, just as | tals could afford to eat oysters, on the burning, flaming and sometimes total- | half shell, stewed, steamed, fried, Quick Answer. “You have a few gunmen in Crim- son Guleh,” said the tenderfoot. “Only a few,” answered Cactus Joe. “Most of them have gone to the metropolis, where they have more electric lights to work by.” “Don’t lend a friend an umbrells,” #aid Uncle Ebe: 'you might jes' as well act fine an’ give it to him an’ den g0 'round an’ borrow it yohsel [ to | ended as soon | CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS “The total per capita is decreas- ing,” says Dr. L. C. Gray, land econo- jmist of the Department of Agriculture. he acreage of nineteen principal crops was nearly 2 per cent less in 1922 Jthan it was in 1919, in spite of the continued PR increase of population. The average yleld per acre of land and crops has not Increased during the past two decades.” The above statement might indicate that farming is retrograding, in spite of all the research and sclentific teaching, but it needs Interpretation The vicld per acre 1s not the test of American_agriculture, where land is cheap and men are dehr, b est is the yleld per farmer. By that test, | American farming far excels that of any other part of the world, and SHOWS Moxt encouraging progress in | the decades since selentific and prac- | tical farming became allied. * ok ko The bLeginning of the sclentific- practical ping in this country dates from the Morrill land grant to each state of 30,000 acres for each senator and representative of the respective states, the land to be sold by the states to create funds for establishing agrleultural schools. Tt did not flourish, howev before the second Morrill Lill, passed in 1850, granting to cach state a cash en- dowment of 325,000 a year, which wis doubled by an umendment by Senator Knute Nelson. In 1914 o congres- sional appropriation of $480.000 a year | (510,000 for euch state) wus made to maintain instruction and demonstra- [tion In” agriculture wnd home eco- nomics for persons not entering the Jeolleges. That fund was Increased | yearly for seven years, so that now {the ‘extension teaching costs | Guvernment $4,550,000 a year. xon If, in the face of all this expendi- ture, and the ast expense of the scientific agricultural research of the Department of Agriculture, it must be ‘onfessed that farming. in the United ates s retroszrading In efficienc it would he most astounding and dis- couraging. Thut. however, iz far | from the truth. * ok kK | Farm acreage is decreasing—as ought to decrease—because, during the war, it cxpanded into the semi- | ¥ield per man and per unit of fertil- [lizing amounted to the least. Ex- {tensive farm methods are giving | place now to Intensive farming. The | number of farm owners and oper- lators has not materially lessened, {the number of hired farm {has decreased. owing to the com- petition of hikh wages in the eities The outstanding factor in the itu- {ation is the fuct that the American furmer now cultivates more acre than does the farmer in any |country, and more than did his forefathers, labor-saving machinery and trained intelligence The department | officials oppose reclamation of {land; there is more land | now ‘than can be cultivated properly. * % ok ok Dr. Gray, the land economist of the Department of Agriculture, gives the following comparison, showing in- ereased productlon per farmer: Take the year 1870 as the basis of comparlson, and call that 100; the | vear 1920 represents 180 in farmers jand 356 on vield per acre. Inter- | preted, it means that in the Afty- year period the number of farmers {increased 80 per cent, while their {products increased 256 per cent. The nerease of production was more than in in res | ithrice as fast as the Increase farmers Taking wheat alone, for the four- | year period of 1883 to 1887 the vield may be taken as 100, for 1913 to 1917 ft was 1269, and for 1818 to 1922 jt was 1151, (That does not mean bush- son.) The production of wheat per farmer | has_increased about 25 per cent since 1857, but not nearly so acre. Each farmer i3 able to handle lar T acreage. * %k ¥ % The average American farmer is handling more ucres than formerly iand more than any other farmer, cxcept Canadian, Australian and South African, according to Dr. O. E. Baker, economist of the Department of Agriculture. The crop area per farm was fifty acres, and in 1619 it was fifty-seven acres, according to the This iner. came partly in Time Is Now Elimina A concerted demand for action which will curb the activities of the I W. W. is being volced by American newspapers. The various develop- ments In connection with the recent abortive efforts of the ‘red” organi- zation to bulldoze Port Arthur, Tex. to force general strikes in the Pacific northwest, and to compel port au- thorities in the east and west to recognize their power all are Sug- gested as reasons why President Cool- tdge should act when Congress re- convenes to secure for the federal authorities police powers to deal with such organizations. There are, how- ever, a number of papers of wide influence which suggest that, nlner 1d be just as well to allow e T W W. to STk father than take chances ~with |nte;f‘erln( with the “right of free speech.” i T‘he California plan of depriving agitators of the “right to jury trial is said by the Lincoln State Journal to be a matter of “great {nterest, because “I W. W, members are not, as a rule, averse to a rest in Jail Should twenty or thirty thousand of them elect, by some sort of demon- stration, to violate the injunction and go to jail, California would have a Serious board bill on Its hands, with doubtiess a fresh advance of the movement against ‘government by in- junction’.” But the Charleston Mail feels that if the threatened demon- stratlon In Texas had gone through, “Texans would have awakened and stretched themselves to exclaim, ‘Now life would be worth living once more. " At that, So far as the Pitts- burgh Chronlcle-Telegraph sees the situation, there is little reason to worry about the radicals, because they can be handled exactly legally and “one 200-pound traffic cop is worth more than a whole v:’lllnce committee of ‘best citizens' when it to handling a bunch of ‘wob- * % % % The California injunction s char- acterized by the Cincinnatl Enquirer as the “most sweeping ever {ssued, and “in line with the recent federal order against syndicallsm in the case of the striking rallroad shopmen's organization. It is the bringing to bear of constitution and laws against lawlessness. To be a member alone is condemnation at trial. The situa- tion in California has been intoler- able. It is as serious as ever it was in the time of ‘sandlotism' in that state. It needs to be corrected for the good of California and the whol Pacifio _coas Incidentally, the Peorla Transcript calls attention to the fact that the “membership is made up of the hobo miner, the hobo lumberjack and the blanket stiff, and the | it} arid lands of the mid-west, where the | but | laborers | other because he uses more | more | more ! in farms but ‘“‘units” per acre, for compari- | much per| 1209 | from the influence of the war. urging farmers to put more of thelr acreage into crops, and so they plowed up their pasture land for grain. The other wxpansion came in the semi- arid land west of the 100th meridian, which was converted from ranch land into grain flelds. * K ok % While the pasture land can be re- seeded in grass, the same i3 not true {of the semi-aria ranch land. When that was in the native wild grasses, for stock feeding, it was valued at £4 or $5 an acre; as wheat land it was capitalized at $30 to $40 an acre. To Iput it back now to pasture, even if it | were possible, would be to lose the high valuation and revert to $5 an acre, which means abandonment by most of the holders. Besides, no tame grasses will grow there, and it will take a weneration for the native wild grasses to catch. It is that region which faces the most serious crisis—ruined for cattle, impossible for grain. * kK & The principal ray of hope for the farmer. according to Dr. Gray, lies in the increase of world population, with no increase of farmers. The world population grows at the rate of 20,000,000 a year—and that many more mouths are to be fed. | * kK The population of the United States has not grown so rapidly in the dec- jude ended 1919 as in the preccding | dec In the last decade it grew { 14 per cent, while in the earlier period it grew 21 per cent. The in the last decade 18 attributed to the war and the influenza epidemic. T war de ot alone in the di- rect casualties of the soldiers. but in the suppression of immigration also ! From now on it is estimated that the jBrowth may get back to that of th previous rite, except as curtailed by restriction of immigration s o direct bearing on the return of prosperity to the farmers 4They can no longer count on exports | for their profits. ~ Europe is regaining jher productivity and her powers of jcompetition in agriculture. Our { farmers must depend more and more { upon the prosperity of the home mar- | ket for their profits. % ok ok There has been an apparent de- crease in farm labor, yet the farmers are handling fifty-seven each in place of firty acres. That indlcates the greater use of labor-saving ma- chinery, which has increased the effi- | clency of each farm 15 per cent, cv tin the face of a decrcase of human lahor of 14 per cent If there should be a slump in tries and construction (as Dr predicts will come in a few then there will be a rapid return farm labor buck to the farms and greater vields per farm than e perhaps a third more i How long the will hold together may be judged, ac- cordinz to the department economists by the facts that labor is dependent high wakes—and farmers |ure capitalists, whose Interests lfe in cheap wages of the men they hire { The average capital invested fn farms 1in 1910 was $6.444, and in 1920 {t was $12.084. The lowa farms averaged, in . $39.941, but that average has un- edly 1owered in the last three years, especially in lowa. x*xx % United States Senate ss. That does nor to the Army. alr service, but it has something closer home The new senator acres farmer-labor party on wages The in preparedn. to the Navy even to the reference to ! than any of thes ifrom Minnesota, Magnus Johnson. is a former glassblower, and his lungs, developed in blowing the glass, have the calliope done to a whisper. In anticipation of his few gentle Te- | marks when hig pet bills fail to pass | the Senators are fearful that he will burst forth In the ulet of his office, and nobody wants to be his neighbor, {1est he disturb the quict meditations and dictation in their own offices. In consequence a vacant room is to be provided on each side of Mag- nus, to serve #s a sound buffer. That does not relleve the te chamber, nor even the cloakrooms, where many w nap has been taken in times past. There will be no amplifier installed in the Senate, but it any inventor is clever enough to provide a soft pedal sound reducer, it Wwill be welcomed for adjustment over and under the seat of Magnus. The press gallery may be protected by cotton-imbedded partitions, but up date the members on the floor, in cluding the President pro tempore, are at the meroy of the statesman glassblower. (Copsright. 1923, 1y believes t refer Not Paul V. Collins.) Ripe to te the 1. W. W. his occupation is chiefly casual labor, the demand for which depends almost entirely upon the season and the mar- ket Only about 10 per cent of the membership are married, and most of these have lost their wives or de- serted them. Because the I. W. W, has never been forced into court ex- cept when its members were arrested for criminal syndicalism or violence connected with a_ strike, the organi- zation has been intangible so far the law was concerned. The present effort of the pecple of the state of California will make it more real us a social and economic factor to be considered both by government and soclologists.” Because this is the fact, * % ok % Regret is expressed by the Lansing State Journal that the I W. W. lead- ers did not go through with their plans to Invade Texas, because it might have been “possible to lure them to the border, where they could have been pushed over into Mexico and told to stay there” Incidentally, the Journal also suggests “not many of the I. W. W.” would have “gone in their own machines.” On the ground in California the Los Angeles Times insists “their grievance against the laws of this state appears to be that the laws will not permit agitators to launch a campaign to destroy by vio- lence the government and the Consti- tution of the United States. Violence cannot justify violence nor can mur- der justify murder.” The Providence Journal argues that because the Port Arthur authorities were ready to throw all of the mem- bers of the organization into jail they created a fear in the minds of the members which compelled them to abandon their plan, and it is sug- gested that such action would be a good thing everywhere in handling “just this sort of problem.” This likewise is very much the view of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, which feels that while “Texas has no use for wobblles at large, their persons or thelr creeds, vet, 'if they insist, Texas will improve 'the opportunity 9f Eetting a lot of disagreeable work lone."” The original plan impressed the Dayton News as “the nearest ap- proach to the development of soviet- ism in America thus far attempted, while the Albany Knickerbocker. Pre “it is not these men themselves who are dangerous, but only a few of their leaders” The Milwaukee Sentinel holds that the ar- ment “Yor twelve hours per day on he rock pile inflicts another severe blow at the liberties of the down- trodden. For not even in the holy pursult of vengeance can it be tmag- ned the I W. W. will get withi reaching distance of a day's worlk. This is also the view of the Mobile Register and a number of other southern papers. falling off ny I noticed How the Motor Car Changes the Citizen To the Editor of The Star: I note that a hacher and his lady friend have just been sentenced to seven and five years, respectively, for “luring and robbing” a citizen. 1 can- not help wondering what the sentence would have been if the chauffeur had run him down on a crossing and killed him. Judge House, organizer and mag- istrate of the traffic court of New York clty, in a recent article points out that an automobilist has no inherent right to operate his machine on the streets all—in fact, he has to have a special permit to enable him to do %o, yet on an unpoliced crossing the pedestrian’s rights are too often only the right to keep out of the way. There is something about an auton bile that seems to give its driver a false sense of power and importance. It takes the good pedestrian, Dr. Jevkil, and changes him to a Mr. Hyde as soon as lie gets behind the steering wh THe may ordinarily be o meticulous abe his health that he wears his woolens until May 13, blind railroad crossing at twenty miles ver hour and take a chance on being hit. His children are so well brought up that Willie would not dare to stand out on the sidewalk in front of Eddic's house and shriek for him to come out, but the old man himself will drive into a quiet street at 11 p.m. and toot rau- cously for his wife to come ont driven home. He may be so hearted that he hates to kill a_mouse hut he will speed through a strect ir which children are playing just hecaus: his wife told bim to hurry home with butter. . s o pedestrian he will wait patien and silently for the signal of the tra but when he is driving let him up more than a few seconds will lead « tintinnabulation of calling _out to high heaven tender v held nd he 1orns n him. o quote a House g th in from Judg er has a e destrians have no rights that mobilists are bound to respect. s idea is cured we shall And that. I think tom of the wiold dangerous cult motor traffic situation.” ~But_one way has been found to cure him. When he finds himself in serions trouble whenever he hits a pedestrian on a crossing he will respect the rights of the walking public. ~ Until this is the case conditions will _remain ahout present L. L. THWING :t nowhere. r at the bot Predicts Bryan Will Be the Next President Editor of The Star: in The Star {even article that New Yo | frienas admirers of William Jennings Bryan are arranging a din- ner in his honor in New, York in December. Let me make a prophecy, months in advance, and suggest that the committee secure Madison Square Garden, because it is going [ to be the Liggest personal demonstr: tion ever g any man, public or | private, 1iving or dead. Ana if the Commoner in his sp To th ! the other an and som ven {accept the democratic nominati he presidency i national convention will be a mere {ratification mecting, and, if he doesn {he will e drafted anvway, as he has always heen, he will_be ove Whelmingly i Novemd 1824, if he 1 living Your readers will remember outpouring of people when made hix Madison Square speech on bimetalism later on his return from his trip around the Yworld, in which his position on the | government ownership of the rafl- roads was misrepresented. These demonstrations won't be anvthing compared to what this demonstration {will be. He is a battur know |Bryan in 1823 than In 1596, People are thinking for themselves, as wit- ness their verdiet in re state elections. Not that changed, but the people have ea Jup With him in progressive n lana realize that he was maligned and represented. Much | water b sassed under the mill since 1846 and he people have dearly ned—ex- pting the distillers’ and brewers and the privileged class through Ihigh protective tariff—that the heart jof the great Commoner fs closer to {them than any public man-—repuhli can or demoerat. W. J. DWYER on for a T, the rvan Garden Cruelty to Animals And Track Gambling Editor of The Star The Star of the 19th i Frederick Dale has graciously known to the public another practiced by those who seck to gain at another's loss. The placing of sponges race horses in order that they col- lapse in the midst of a race is but one of the many tricks at cheating displeyed on the turf. With this knowledge of along with others attendant to the game, let us hope that Mr. Dale will become a member of the Society for the Prevention of Crueity to mals and use his influence with the sport- ing men to likewise co-operate with the vueus humane societies, en- abling them to aid in the capture of these night prowlers and the pro- tection of the helpless dumb crea- tures. 1 wonder if it has occurred to Mr. Dale which of the two organizat the humane socleties, as a whol {the racing assoclations, is the e to have a vigilanc operation for the needed protection? The dear. dumb animals, whether the property of the gambler or the =aint, if occasion arises for ti hu- mane soeieties to act in thelr behalf, are cared for according to their means. I dare to say that the mem- {herships of the combined humane so- cieties of the world foot the list of any other organization. Why? Be- cauge there are such a small number of persons who will consider an- other before himself. These consti- tute the humane societies, vet they aro called upon to protect the inter- est of the gambler. MARIE LOUISE To the n Mr. made cruelty stant eruelty, ROGERS. Error About Secretary Loeb Is Corrected To the Editor of The Star: Reading an account in The Star of Sunday, August 19, regarding secre- taries to Presidents, I noticed that from the service of Willium Loeb, jr. secretary to the late President Roosevelt, a Span of seven years was omitted. Mr. Loeb was not only secretary to President Rooseveit almost his entire second term, but algo his trusted friend until death. He. too, has made good, being ap- pointed ocollector of customs for New York by President Taft, and is at present vice president of a great corporation. ANNIE E. WRIGHT. The True Cause of Lawlessness Today To the Editor of The Star: I congratulate you on the editorial, “The Detroit Hold-Up,” which appeared in Monday’'s Star. It is about time some one came out and told the truth about the cause of automobile rob- bery and other lawlessness that is so prevalent. Blaming the war and pro- hibition for these evils is just about played out and it {s refreshing to have you turn & new page. The truth is that automoblle robbery is a new |y method of doing an old thing and we haven't quite caught up to its speed in law enforcement. 1 hope you will_bring_this line of thought for- ward in other editorials from time to time. REUBEN BRIGHAM. Ashton, Md, but he will come up to u | nd be | cainst this indignit that s being put | Until | and aiff- | the next democratic un the nostrils of | Q. What Vice President benefited most in a political way through the death of the man he succeeded?— & C.D A. That would be a matter of opin- fon hased upon the subsequent carcer of the men who succeeded to the Presidency. Tt may be pointed out however, that President Tyler he- came Governor of Virginia through the death of the one holdinz that office and becgme o United ator by appointment after addition to} session to ) liam Hen Q fmost ath, in Presi- y Harrison What largely rican hist Comparative data are not avaii- but said that ominent i ntry. Colur on Friday, first sighted iday and on another Friday sred the continent of Americo hington wag bhorn on I T ttle of Bunker Hill was fo Friday. Presidents Mony nd Hayes were born r -ree was inaugurated on Friday and ied on Friday. John Quiney Adams a Garfield were algo inaugurated on Friday. Tvler and Polk died on Fri day and Lincoln s shot on As the most recent important even in this line, President Coolidze too the oath of offic ¥ Q. e £ the House inds?—1L. K A The White House was restored or rebuilt during Roosevelt's a n tration, the architects being Mciim, Mead & White. Credit has been given Stanford White for the work, but as + matter of fact it was his associate, { McKim. who had the frequent co suitations with Roosevelt before the {work was undertaken day [ history {sailed n of the as archi it now sapphires and rub {rived from aluminum?—L. I A. TY re corundum, alumintum oxide, the hard exe diamond It ue rding 1o its color, sapphire (blue) 1e or orlental, ruby (red); oriental “thyst (purple); oriental rald B ntal topaz ellow) j White sapphire (colorl tine 8par is smoky bre transiuce: is very dark- rolored magnetite. Q sugar BH ! A The Department of Agriculturs {#avs that nine-tenths of Amerd 250.000-ton cane sugar crop is pro- ed in Louisiana Q Are wi nd containg What part of the total crop of cane grows in Loulsiana?—C. Was Shakespeare rich?—J. R. M. Shakesje: very pros- as_did two « r ACtOr-man- Elizabetha cs—Ilenslow i Q. A e became ed with a and then with h says he will | Q. What makes the L H A. When the water hoils, the kettle is which attempts to es {is a comparative ithe pressure of at_enough to cause Are telephones Q. Sweden’s Prime result of the death of Wii- | roadwa B K. P. A. This ha {to time found for the use of motorists’ suc meet r are bie at sueh froquen rs' homes that the 1 way telephones is neeligible to tell dycd that SPERIE e would no ion fuses? Time fue planned to bur - hefore they irge in the ra agatnst 1 projected poral juri this cuze. tive plural If you Minister Coming to the United INOY. mor BY TH DE FON ore MARQUISE E n e toward the United political and econ ent primate king and grounds, ym Inot sending to and Upsa her | Archbishop of the chancellor {university in that « icapital, which f {vears has also b tellectual all Scandinav cross the wise he hun nal center dispatehin for the pur- getting into he new Pres nistration, ant figur world of finan rdustry. He is of visits to the capitals and. not 1e to London and Paris. ded, with the approval to include Wash fon in his itinerary. a tribute t impertance of the influence whi | attitude of the United States, of its apparent alcofness fr £n entanglements., ex. | trena of international the solution of the ma problems affecting the old * a of now i pose of and personal dent, t other members of the ad s with the domi commerce gaged in a tou ous European tent with has now de of King Gus Ernest Trygger is a very who, although one of the I¢ statesmen of ding con- servative Sweden, nevertheless rules with the consent not alone of the but v of the democrats, under ex- Premier The ct of the matter is th » Minist Trygger cannot car rh any legislation or even “carry without the more yr less tacit good will of the libe and the ats, two | that do mot either « a sufficient majority to warrant their the tasic of forming an ‘]l\ ex-Premier F al-dem atic cabinet fell because it had parliamentary majc and becaus the liberals who had given it u cer- tain amount of support, ended by dif- fering from it on the subject of { clalist labor deomands for s @ nee to certain industries which | had been obliged to shut down, uWing to badness of trade, throwing many thousands out of employment * ¥ % ¥ Fortunately, ex-Premier and Ernest Trygger, though differtng on many matters of domestic policy, are, both of them, statesmen imbued with intense patriotism of a disin- terested nature. They worked to- gother in complete understanding and perfect harmony at the assemb of the league of nations at Geneva, where Branting was one of the v presidents, and both Trygger and the new minicter of foreign affairs, Mr Hederscierana, fOrmer governor gen- aral of Stockholm, were delegates. Under such circumstances, the ques- tion naturally arises as to why Premier Tryvgger, who was the con- servative leader in the upper cham- ber, did not form a coalition cabinet He endeavored to do so. But the liberals were unwilling, since to ally themsolves completely to his con- servative a@ministration would mean the sacrifice of many of their own aims and principles, whereas, by re- maining aloof from office, it wus al- ways possible for them to exercise a potent influence on the government. For the latter is prevented from rying through any rgeasure to which the lberals are opposed and against Which they vote. They are, there- fore, much more powerful ~outside than within the administration * K K K Sweden, formerly the most reaction- ary of governments, has been, since the, revision of the constitution, one of the most democratie of monarchies. Until 1866 the natlonal legislature of liberals, n o, poSSesS, them, legislativ undertaking dministration Branting | ipal in- | i faction | old i 1 L wi ; ) m he | r thony | therefore <port wind ¢ elder broth wently o that I Westmorelan For centurics th means in A wates | running have greatest tmoreland tercitorial agnates ¢ und Cumberiand. There Lowther who was and In the was in ustody of | Mary O (5, when she Arst fled across the border into England A Hugh Lowther was one of the principal captains of Henry V at the attle of Agincourt. Sir John Lowther s created Viscount Lonsdale b: William 11 for his services as loj privy seal. But the visconnty be- me extinct with its third holder. Then Sir Janies Lowther wis croated Earl of Lonsdale by George III, as the son-in-luw of Lord Lule, popular prime ui arch. Mo stili remains throughout the north of England as [ “Black James” gwing to his swarthy jcomplexion and strange charactor. Ho scems to have been much more eo- centric than wiciked and much of his lity may huve been duc to a great row In his early llifo namely, ths premature death of a poor, but lovely xirl with whom he had become tatanted, was 4 farmer’s daugi- ter, und, after her death, he caused hei body to ned and pre- erved in his library at Lowther c that he might sti)l continue to cun template her beauty. This, and other peculiarities, led people to' ascribe to him all s of evil of which hs was probably guiltiess. He was succeeded by his cousin, Sir William Lowther, who was known as “the good earl™ N Cumb ibeth h the