Evening Star Newspaper, October 24, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY. ..October 24, 1923 TH by all the men who sat in yesterday’s for the convention?' or “How much conference, has a strangely familiat ' is the convention worth to you?" ring. It declares that government in | - The claims of Washington will be the hands of a privileged class be-|ably presented, but it is believed that comes an agency for exploitation; that , the strongest argument is the size of the land of the free and the home of | the “guarantee fund.” - According to the brave is fast declining into a land of exploiters and the exploit the leadership of both the democratic and republican parties has become the New York Ofce: 110 East 42ud &t | servant of the “interests, and all Earopes e o g1apa. | that sort of thing. The time, it is de- P clared, has arrived for patriots to arise e T T ity and save -democracy: Ford fs-the one fails onls, 45 cehis IF man to lead them: he is comparable epivsme Main | only to Washington and Lincoln: And lots of people: may believe all this. Anyhow, the Dearborn boomers are setting out to make enolgh of them believe it to get their idol’s name at the head of a third party. It will be interesting to see what the Federa- tion of Labor will say, after just hav. ing turned down a proposal to tnake a labor party, und what the farmer- ahof organization in the west will say. But the most interesting develogment will be what Mr' Ford says. THEODORE W. NOYES........Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Ofice, 11th 8t and Peonsy'vania Ave. The Brening Star edition s Gelivered b at 60 e month: Sunday deca muy be ent by mail or 5000. Coliection 15 made by nd of each montl. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Mary'and and Virginia. Dafy and Sunday .1yr., $8.40:1m by only ., $0.00; 1 mo. Sunday only 2.40; All Other States. Datty and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00; I mo., 85¢ Daily only.... 00 Sunday oniy... 1 Member of the Associated Press. The Assoc'ated Press fs exclusively entitled o the upe for rfepublicatien of an news dis. patehes ciedited to it or tot otherwise credited this paper and ‘also the laca® shed berein. A special dispatebes he Oklahoma's Housecleaning. After” man eeks of mancuvering, marked at times by violence “and threats of civil waf,YOklahoma'ls:pro- ceeding in A’ regular manner to try the governor of thbe state for tmpro- prieties in official conduct, With & view to his removal from office. . Yesterday the lower house, sitting as a grand jury of impeachment, voted by over- whelming majorities to present certain ! specific accusations against the gov- { ernor to the Senate. The latter body, by @ vote of 36 to 1, suspended the overnor from office pending his trial in the charges as presented, putting the lleutenant governor in charge of he state’s affairs meanwhile. The trial will take place shortly. Gov. Walton's efforts to prevent the ature from meeting for the wowed purpose of his impeachment indicated a fear on his part that he d not muster a sufficient defensive follow itk senate. The action of ycs that he correct in this e ative strength of the administration and wdministration forces. The vote in the senate especlally showed “hat he has small chance of successful se, even though conviction may | equire a two-thirds ballot. The articles of impeachment thus adopted, and others in process of -onsideration in the house, allege a ! hocking state of affairs—that Is to v, shocking to the country at large, nowever well known the conditions may have been in Oklahoma. It is an accusation of grafting, of the appoint- ment of incompetents at large fees on the state pay rolls, of the use of the state’s money for personal service, of traffic in pardons for remuneration, The bare recital of these allegations shows that Oklahoma has a serious need of thorough housecleaning. No Lump-Sum Payment Plan. To subst lump-su; ation for Capi of a definite pRopor- tionate related contribution in accord- ice with the 40-60 ratio of our new | organic act will work injury to the Capital con By repud sound principle o definite related prop ontribution for Capital deve will destroy Was zuard against unjust and exc taxation by a taxing hody in wh the city is not represented. The only offset for the District to the burdens and injuries inflicted by the act of 1922 was continuance of the wise and helpful principle of def- inite proporticnate contribution. The substi of a lump-sum payment for national proportionate contribution ander the new ratio would rob us of our only gain. No Washingtonian will surrender the only fruit - seven-year fiscal war an inju is sub annual $opor. onate nt sife- si pment | hington's ant as if it w itution unseti 1 blessin s the fiscal | 1922, and defeats an avowed main purpcse of the new law. It plunges House, | Senate and Dmswict constituency into | he old wearisome, hurtful wrangle and thr newal of fiscal chaos The vital feature of the act of 192 carried over from the act of 1878, that it fi a definite equitable tandard ¢ onal participation in Capital-making related to the contr.bu- tion exacted in taxes from the Capital community, and does not leave this standard to the shiftings of caprice The pending proposition destroys ali relation between the national and local ontributions and, leaving all taxing power in the ".uds of the United States; depriv ¢ the unrepresented Capital of it safeguard against ex- The Jewish Community Center. On the 1st of November the Jewish people of Washington are to launch e essive taxation by a taxing body in |campaign for the raising of a quarter {of a million dollars for the construc- which it is not represented. Another practical effect of destroy- | tion of a Jewish Community Center in {the National Capital. Briefly ‘ ex-! ing the 60-10 ratio by adoption of the | Jump-sum payment plan will be to re. | Pressed, the purpose of the campaign duce to a minimum any chance of | iS to provide a common meeting place cquitable proportionate contribution | Where the boy or girl or man or wom- by the United States when our tax{an of the Jewish faith may participate surplus accumulated under the 50.50 | in Wholesome activities, educatlonal, law comes to be expended. | recreational, social and spiritual. These thoughts are claborated in| The project is one which must «ditorial correspondence printed else. | stimulate a whole-hearted and enthu- where in today's Star. siastic response from Washingtonians, i S S R L whether Jew or Gentile. Primarily ' e | dedicated to the use and benefit of & No Drug Habit Increase. | the Jewish residents of the city, it In an official report presented at the | may safely be assumed that the ap- overnors' confercnce at Washington | peal to them will need no other em- t was set down that the District of | phagte than that of its obvious advan- Columbia had o increase in the num- ! yages to those of Jewish faith. ver of drug addicts during the past| e establishment of any Institution iiscal year, but that there “Is a slight | ;0 Washington or elsewhere which Is nerease reported of drugs in illicit | gegicated to the work of strengthening hannels.” The prohibition commis- g conscious desire to apply the great ner says that he “is thoroughly con- | gpirityal and ethical teachings of ‘inced that there is no great increase | rgrgel to the problems of American life | n the use of narcotics in America,” jg much to be desired. Such an instf: «nd that Is also the opinion of the |y,tion, wherein the youth and the! flicer in charge of the narcotic sec-aquit as well of a strong element of \“iion of the prohibition unit of the in- | gur’ community life may be inspired *ternal revenue bureau. |to dircet the great spiritual energies | It s encouraging to have officials | o¢ their faith to the service of Ameri- who must be familiar with the drug | can ideals can and will play a vital ;xtuutmn in tl_\e United States $a¥ part in the advance of this or any oihat there i® little or no increase in' gipap city toward its ideals. the drug habit. Many alarmist reports | e Jewish Community Center is o the contrary have been circulated. | not an untested, theoretical scheme. It is believed that much of what has | gimjlar institutions have been estab- »een written ahout the growing num- | jisheq in New York, Chicago, Phila- ser iof drug addicts might be included | gephia,” St Louis, Newark, Kansas | inder the general head of wet propa- f City. Trenton and many other citles. | anda, and the report presented to the { gach 19 performing 8 wholesome, help- vernors' conference seems to Show | ry) function for the city it servesand to ‘he justice of the suspicion. e ietion o e whole Wor the Waan:. Some changes in the District aw on | inoton project The Star prophesies a narcotics are recommended, and the| general response which will instre awmakers should give carly and eare- | oompiate success for a sound and ad- ful consideration to the recommenda- ! i -able plan. “lons. There I8 nothing in the law to- R PR T TR day which makes possession of nar- i futhorized persons unlawful, and it s | (S s Englana the necessary to prove an unlawful dis- il i horseshoe is no luckier than ‘the { Shamrock. y ——t i —————e. Among the numerous ham.workefl! x European officials the members of the, OPerations to stop rum-runners will | guards to increase the Berlin police force are now conspicu. | €nable the coast ous. already great usefulness - of thelir e g L L careers’ as lifesavers. Henry Ford’s Boomers. ! The Rnineland republic is.a So the Ford boom for President of | gemocracy for whose welfare F' the United States is to be formally ic naturally concerned. launched as a third-party movement, | and Henry will soon have to “fish, cut bait or go ashore.” His friends and | neighbors have called a convention | for December 12, 13 and 14 to which ' will be invited representatives of the National Grange, the American Fed- eration of Labor, the Farm Bureau, the farmer-labor party and other groups The declared object of the convention is to start a movement to nominate Ford as an independent candidate. *mphasis is laid upon the statement that Mr. Ford has given no intimation that he will accept such a nomination. But he cannot continue to act the | i | | ster rance ———— National Party Conventions. The subcommittee of the republican national committee named to consider cities for the 1924 national eonvention will meet in Washington November 156 to hear representatives of various bid- ders. Probably the legitimate claims of Washington as a convention city will receive little consideration, and the city putting up the largest| guarantee fund will be chosen. The | chairman of the subcommittee has!| sent out fotices to several citles say- ing that “invitations” for the conven- sphinx very long after that conven- | tion should reach him by November 10, tlon meets, if it draws an attendance ' and‘that these Invitations shall give worthy of consideration and includes ; information as to the capacity of the men of any political importance what- | hall in which’ the convention would evar. It would not be judicions for|be held, hotel accommodations and \Ir. Ford to allow an unsponsored | rates, with an assurance that hotel wom to go bumping around in poli- { rates will not be raised, and proposals | | cently aisc! reports New York city has the lead over other cities in thatmatter. There ar 9.5d reasons why natlonal con- ventions ofpolitical parties should be held at Washington, and these reasons are as well known to the national committee as to us. Facilities for tak- ing care of a convention are heré. This is the political center and the national news center. Because of the develop- ment of railroads Washington is prac- tically as central a poirt as any other, and more nearly cemral than many cities that have been and will be chosen as the meeting place of the big- party conventions. ———————— Gov. Smith’s Jinx. Gov, Alfred E. Smith has assumed the active leadership in the democratic campaligp in New York to.carry the | assembly in the November eclections, making speeches throughout the state, and especially in New York city, where there is a hot contest over close as- sembly districts His conspicuousne: makes ‘him the target of the opposi tion to an extent that would almost have it appear that he was running for office himseclf. The wicked repub- licans are sceking in every way to fasten all his alleged sins of commis- sion and omission upon the assembly candidates. Just at present the jinx would seem to be on his track. Here comes Repre- sentative Ogdén Miils, republican, who says that Gov. Smith “bunked” the voters last year by promising light | wines and beer, when as a matter of fact “there ain't no such animal, therefore the democratic candidates for assembly must bear the blame be defeated. Gov. Smith indignantly denies that he made any such prom and Mr. Mills retorts, “Well, voters thought you did, anyhow. Then the republicans, in their ne- farious plotting, put the jinx on him. A commission has r sed a most distressing state of affairs in-the housing s tion in Manhattan and Brooklyn; there is overcrowding to a deplorable de- gree; landlords are charged with op- | pressively high rent rates and every- thing s wrong Whereupon some one digs up the fact that the governor last year refused to sign a bill the emergency rent laws: the assem- blymen who opposed the rent laws are | therefore to be flayed: an old-fashioned campaign of red fire and brass bands is on, and New York is all heated up And everything that Gov. Smith did or did not do is being laid at the doors | of the democratic assemhlyman. ‘There seems to be more than the usual amount of “bunk” in politics in New York this vear. —— According to Rear Adiuiral Sims submarines and airships make for peace. The remark has a familiar ring ; to it, suggesting the old, but not fully demonstrated theory that war can be made so terrible that men will be afraid to engage in it. ———————— The settiement ot pro.ivition en- forcement will have a decided advan- tage over the settlement of the coal { strike in that it will save numerous : i ultimate consumers real money, P — In considering a critical situation in ‘world affairs Lloyd George Indicates“ {a strong disposition to favor a coali- tion policy as between England and America ———— Lenin may now:request Russians 0 look the map over and assure them- | selves that the name “dictator” is no | longer employed as a term of re- ; proach. —————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Books and Friends, Some books have I with bindings bright and gay, And others, worn, whose leaves begin to fray. Some friends have I of dress and man- ner trim; And some plain garbed and of an as- pect grim. | The books that are with deepest pleas- | ure fraught Are those time-tried in sympathy and thought. The friends I cherish most are not the | new, But those who in the test of years prove true. Regardlessness. “When a law is on the statute books | it ought to be enforced regardless of prejudice.” “Regardless of prejudice is easy,” replied Senator Sorghum. “The ques- tion is can you da it regardless of ex- pense?” Jud Tunkins says a man who talks too much is unrelfable because he can't know enough truth to supply his conversational needs. Cured. Oh, the parlor socialist in conversa- tion ‘Was light, until his theories met the test. Now he dreads the communistic dem- onstrution And. talks of ‘“‘good old times,” just like the rest. Polite Prisoners. “What's that building on the hill ‘with-all the lights and music?” 'hat's the new jail,” answered Cac- tus Joe. “A number of the boys got enthusiastic over the municipal Im- provement and celebrated so rough they had to be put in. Just to show there's no hard feelin’s they’re givin’ a housewarmin’.” Mercenary. *You wouldn't marry 2 man because of his title’ “I might,” answered Miss Cayenne, “4if it really meant something. For in- stance, I wouldn't have any positive tics without a gulding hand. Sp if the as to defraying the expenses of the sonvention does nothing more than to| convention. The " last clause, ‘“pro- foree him to say “yes” or “no" on the | posals as-to defraying the expenses of subject of the candidacy it will have | the convention,” is the milk in the served a useful purpose In politics. cocoanut. It is the euphemistic’ way ‘The proclamation, which -was signed } of asking, “How much will you give objection to a coal baron.” “1 knew -puffickly well,” said Uncle Eben, “which hoss ought.to have wen de race, but de critter didn® have no sense of obligation.” .. housing | Xtending | E._EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, : D. C, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, IN TODAY’S SPOTLIGHT BY PAUL V. COLLiNS There is an enterprise in Washing- ton whose annual overhead expenses run into billions of dollars, yet in Some respects its efficiency management Is such as no department store would ‘tolerate for a week. Its departments | are scattered over the city In rented buildings—one might almost say in “lofts"—not fireproof and not planned | for the makeshift uses to which they are put. Shok %/ For example, one of the chief de- partments, instead of being grouped in a.set of well planned buildings, or one huge edifice, is renting twenty- H two bu'ldings erected for all sorts of | Purposes except thelr present uses. In addition to {ts own bulldings. that department alone Is paying landlords $146.710 & vear rental. L, What time is lost in travel between 'hl‘sr twenty-two buildings has neve becn computed, yet the departme: xl.mxlf. has an efliciency exnert wh published a pamphlet a few weeks ago. el'ing how many miles in extra steps & housew!fr takes when her kitchen Is large. nstead of heing comnact and well arranged. Like the housewife {he fwenty-two-roomed department s raneing all over the ecity and mus V-,l\ "w]“.r a record as a traveler whatever it s doing in Its legitimate func‘ions Lucky ave its messengers If they are never lost in the maze * % ok ok Another department of this strange business s practically a great collact- Ing aency. Tt is housed buildings, far apart, and its collectors “ay the cost of doing business ls about 30 per cent more than 1t would be If they were all together. where the cashier could consult his assist- ants when his cash does not balance or a debtor falls to remit. Then there fs a vast bookkeeping d partment Of course, when a book- keeper handles billions. he becomes {an accountant—somatimes even an pert accountant.” or auditor. Im- &ine the books scattered in nineteen buildings—rented quarters. How is even an exnert accountant going to ! nost daybook into a netty ledger. or strike @ t-fal balance, when ona book fs in building A on the seventh floor “nd the other may be In any one of the other efghteen bulldings, on the twelfth floor hack, or on the unper =helf in one of the nineteen basement vaults? They should all be kvscraper with all the labor-sav- ‘nz convenlences. like the farm kitchen as recommended by the effi- clency expert referred to. * k ¥ % The head of this Immense enterprise 50 hadly housed is Uncle Sam. The | branch scattered over the city In | twenty-two buildings s the Depart- ment of Agriculture The collection agency in nine buildings s the bu- vcau of internal revenue of the Treasury Department. The account- ants In” nineteen buildings are the general accoun‘ants of Uncle Sam. Our Uncle Sam is so easy-golng that he is losing mil'ions annually because of the inefficlency of his | housing. All experts tell the same | story. Besides, he Is paying land- lords annuaily, in rentals $524,690,000, iwith noth!ng to show for that ex- nenditure but a lot of fading rent re- ceipts. In one grand i i * k% x The value of Washington down- town spice ig increasing with dizzy- ing rapidity. Within a few years, this will be a city of a milliongpopu- ation, and all property values in good locations will multiply. For il- lustration. note the “unearned Incre- | er:l arrangement ment” on a purchase by Uncle Sam. | With He_bought the land | 1792, July 12, 1922 on ‘which are the War Trade build- ings. known as “Tempo:ary Nos 5 The controversy between Secretary dential lof War Weeks and Henry Ford be- cause of the recent sale of the Gorgas lowed by the announcement that Ford very probably will be the pro- in ninelonce { | power plant at Muscle Shoals. fol- | i however. hibition party’s candidate for Presi- {dent next once more brought the Detroit into the limelight. his attack on Secretary Weeks, has year, millionaire very much Ford. because of | utterly eliminated himself from con-: sideration by the “republicans as “presidential timber,” editors gener- {ally agree. He has “passively” lemocratic primary ticket. How far that will go editors admit they are decidedly puzzled. Now comes & strong Intimation that Ford person- |ally would prefer to run as an inde- ipendent and that a nation-wide | country in that capacity will | initlated right after the first of the year. All in all i dominates the domestic news through- out the country. So far as the sale of the Gorgas plant was concerned, It is the opin‘on of The Star. that the Ford statement attacking the Weeks motive therein “was Intended to appeal to the farmers.” and that “Mr. Ford's motive in making his ‘reckless assertion perfertly pla‘n,” especially since dications crop out from time to time that he will yet have to be accounted probably as an Independent” The Lynchburg Advance (democratic) in ts turn is convinced that “the vicious attack on Secretary Weeks and the announcement that Ford would re- turn the excess profits he made on government contracts during the war, according to political leaders, can mean only one thing: Ford wants to be President. However, some good may come out of Ford's statement. in reference to Weeks. It may force an investigation and reveal "the tru state of affairs at Muscle Shoals. Ford is an active presidential candi- date, the New York Tribune (re- publican) insists, and this fact “complicates the situation for the democratic politiclans. . The question is whether the democrats want Mr, Ford. Presumably the majority of them do not. Even the American willingn to ‘try anything once’ would scarcely lead the voters to ac- cept Henry Ford as their President. * ok kX *“qf Mr. Ford whs in earnest wanting a nomination,’ State Journal (independent republic- 1 ago and in the straightforward busi- ness-like methods he would use A | selling his cars to the public. sidewlse launching of his boom dot not seem In accord ‘with Mr. Ford character. He Is not subtle enough for that” But Ford, as the Ashe- ville Times (independent) sees him, “is a threat to existing party align- ments,” awhile the Pittsburgh Press (independent) sees in his planned re- turn of war profits something which ‘matter-of-fact souls may view as a new way of buylng the pres.dency.” Incidentally, if bis claim is true, and | he “only made a fair profit* from his war-time transactions, the Rockford Star (Independent) can see no reason for any such repayment unless “in the form of consclence money foi avercharge.” Leav.ng all this asid 4s out of the picture, however, the New York Evening World (demo aratic) Insists “the issues that .would most interest the country in a presi- 1 ac- cepted designation on the Nebraska, movement to place him before the ' opinfon of the Green Bay Press-Ga- ve ! for in the presidential race, and very . the | the and 6" and he paild $1.95 a square foot. It is the block between B and C and between 20th and 21st streets northwest. This last summer a board of disinterested experienced apprais- rs valued that block at $2.76 a square foot, which indicates a profit o the government of $75,000. The ame purchase included six other blocks adjoining, with a total “un- imed increment” in fifteen months of tbout $300,000 or more. * ok Kk The movement In Congress to con- sider & general program for deve'op- g officlal Washington began with fhe committee of the Senate headed by Senator McMillan in 1901—follow- ‘ng the celebration of the centennial of the city. It has taken on new life n recent years through a housing ommission of Congress, headed Senator Reed Smoot and Representa- tive Langley President urged action in building, but nothing materfalized President Coolidge has recently declared himself In support of a continuing appropriation of at least $5,000.000 & year to construct ve needwd bufidings, until the well considered existing plans are com- nleted and the departments of gov- cnment are housed in thelr own hul'd'ngs. Technical authorities say that it is mrracticahle to spend more than one million do'lars a year on one projeat: more than that is not efficlently spent That would mean that a three-mil- lion-dollar bu'lding should be three vears in erecting, and four or five bui dings might be under way at The temporary buildings erect- ed for war use are glving out, and none will Jast more than eight years more, In spite of heavy upkeep. They are now relleving the pressure for space. Not merely the scattered depart- nents need bulldings; there are other reeds no less pressing. In_that class 18 the archives building. There Is a diverrence of opinion as to the econ- omy of erecting a new and separate building in which to preserve the records of the government and the priceless historical documents or to utilize the court of the Pension bufld- ing by erecting therein & million 1ovars” worth of steel shelves. The argument is advanced that the Pension hujld'ne fs “fireproof.” but it is genera'lv ~uled by fire underwrit- ars that nothing is fireproof wherein are housed many workers with quan- tities of furniture and papers Another plan proposes a_granite build'ng for the archives alone, to be | erected on the corner of 13th stree! northwest and the Mall. west of Nattonal Museum, where the gov- ernment owns the site. * % % ¥ The Departments of Justice, Com- merce and Labor are all property. and It is proposed to give each a suitable building on 16th street between Pennsylvania avenue ; and the Mall—a site now owned by the government. The Supreme Court now occupying the old Senate cham- ber In the Capitol., will be given a classic building near the White House. The State, War and Navy bullding is overcrowded, although both the Army and Navy are overflowing into stucco buildings of the war construction. The plan will locate a new State building facing Lafayeite Park, op- posite the present State, Navy buflding. A tunnel will conneet it with the White House. The Treasury Annex will eventually extend to iake all the square facing Lafayette Park where now stand the Shubert-Belasco Theater and the Coxmos Club, These plans have the approval of the Fine Arts Commission together vith the adviders among the finest architerts of the country. The gen is in strict accord the famous L'Enfant - plan of on which Washington was laid out. (Copyright, 1023, by Paul V. Colltas.) Ford Seen as an Independent z In Race for the Presidencys campalgn are efficiency in government and reduction of taxes. These have nothing to do with parties save as unmeaning shibboleths. To Henry Ford and those who believe in him they have real import.” Whether, “the genius of Ford would function equally well in all lines of | human endeavor,” Is a question in the mind of the Chattanooga News (dem- ocratic), but it feels “his phenomenal success and his established habit of making the service of the public his ! first consideration makes it worth while to hear hlm when he has any- | thing to say.” * ok k% As for the Muscle Shoals situation itself. the Nashville Banner (inde- pendent) believes “Congress will be called on to take action and to say whether the fertilizer trust shall be maintained in its monopoly or Ameri- can farmers be released of the load | by giving Mr. Ford the chance he wants.” That also is very much the zette (independent), which insists !“‘there Is hardly any doubt that the Ford once again: farmer would gain through obtaining his soi] restoratives at a lower price. Mr. Ford has long passed the point where mere mercenary ends can hold any attractiveness for him.” It is the opnlon of the Roanoke Times that “Ford's statement will impress thou- sands of people In a way that bodes no good for the administration. That an investigation ultimately wili be ordered by Congress is inevitable. Whether it will definitely settle an thing one way or the other is not certain.” The Chicago Tribune (in dependent - republican) argues the Ford offer was Inadequate and he vasked the government to break its own laws and Its own pledge.” while Bristol Herald-Courier (inde- pendent democratic) feels Weeks' offer to “place all facts before a proper tribunal would seem to be necessary, as the public would like to have all the facts and hear them fully discussed.” The Ford attack on Weeks “has a political cast,” the Newark Evenng News (independent) points out, and holding that, “willy-nilly, the Ford candidacy, however unavowed, I brought Sharply to the fore by this controversy. It looks as though Mr. Ford’s hat had been catapulted into | the political arena even though it be by the winds of circumstances.” Yet, 1 a3 the Milwaukee Journal (independ- in | Congress “ the Lincoln Shoals, like the Dome oil an) feels, “he would have begun an | ernment’'s stewardship. active battle for the delegates long | been | | buying a factory or a mine or in| (independen ent) analyzes the situation, Ford's allegations and the Secretary’s an- swer are adequate reasons to have “pry oft the lid. Muscle lands, is public property, and the public is entitled -to an accounting of the gov- There has no explanation that explains the the whole thing has been han- way This_position, however, is as-, dled.” in|sailed by the Philadelphia Bulletin t republican), which in- sists the Ford allegation “has all the earmarks of = & - campal document™ and Is to be excused, any excuse ls admissible far its blatant’ demagog- uery, as a pilece of Ttampalgn litera- ture in which bunkum sometimes is carried to the point of libel.”. Yet, as the Syracuse Herald (independent) points out, “in the sphere of national politics there are at present many symptoms of an Indifferent, or rest- less, or rebellious attitude toward the two leading parties among formidable or cross sections, of the especially in the west and It is by no means pre- muture to say that these uncertain elements will be gripped by the Ford candidacy.” Summing It all up, therefore, the Roanoke World-News public has reasonable as. surance that it will hear grea: deal more about Muscle Shoals and Henry Ford from the next Congress,” Harding | in rented | War and | 1923, Politics at Large BY N. 0. MESSENGFR, . One of the governors who attended the White House conference of state executives last week, himself hall- Ing from one of the western states where radical sentiment Is supposed | to be dominant, made the assertion that President Coolldge captured the governors. courage. his modesty and the clear- ness of his statement,” said this gov- ernor, “I believe he won more than a majority of the governors.” * ok ox % The republican national committee Is pleased to be sarcastic with the lenemy, and Inquires of Chairman | Hull of the democratic national com- mittee, “What is a democrat?” The ! cceaslon for the query is stated to be 4 i the announcement by the democratic | v | national committee that it is raising « 1924 victory fund.” Whereupo republican inqulsitor goes on 1o B that “Every time during the last elghteen months a radical bearihg the label of some third party has h'een successful in his quest for office, y Chairman Hull of the democratic na- !LIunal committee has promptly come {forward with the statement that the radical's election was a great demo- cratic victory. “As a result of such victories the democratic organization is practically out of business in a great ma western ard northwestern states. Is it for the election of more third-party candldates committed to radical prin- ciples that the victory fund is to be collected and expended?” asks the r publican committee. Then, proceed- ing with the probe as to what 1s & domocrat. the republican committee says “Senator Walsh of Massachu- sotts says the democratic party must drop the league of nations If it would succoed.” Arkansas agrees with Se Needless to say, Senator Reed of Mis- souri is also of that mind. So are other democratic senators and leaders of considerable consequence and in- fluence with their party. * ok ok ¥ “On the other hand,” the republican committee continues, “former Secre- tary of War Baker says the demo- cratic party must commit itself to the league of nations and renew the fight of 1920. In this he is heartily supported by the Wilson ele- ment in the party. easily the strong- est single faction of warring democ- racy, and by such pro-leaguers as Hamilton Holt and John H. Clarke, formerly of the Supreme Court. For which of these factions is the vi tory fund to be collected? Those who are asked to subscribe ought to know In advance for what they are paying their money. “Does the victory fun publican statement asks.. “mean the same to Gov. Al Smith, Goy. Sflzer of New Jersey and Senator Edwards of New Jersey, all dripping wet, as it does to William J. Bryan and Bryan's dry taction?" The democratic national committee's publicity has a great deal to promise about the re- peal of the protective tariff in event democrats are successful. If the vic tory fund is used for that then what becomes of such demo. crats as Senator Kendrick of Wvo ming, ~ Broussard and Ransdell of Louistana. all of whom voted not lomly for ‘schedules of the Fordnev- IcCumber tariff but for the bill self? And what becomes of such senators as Ashurst of Arizona and Jones of New Mexico who voted for practically all schedules in the bill that affect any interest of their re- spective communities? T Then, getting up steam as it goes along, the republican statement caus- i tically inquires, “Does the victory |fund being collected by the demo- {cratic party have the same sig- |nificance to Mr. McAddp. iy relation {to raflroad legislation and manage- ment. as it wood, or the New York Times and Baltimore Sun, outstanding demo | cratic_publications of the Atlantic sea board? Is the conception which Senator Glass entertains of our finan- cial system to prevall if the dem- ocratic victory fund lives up to its name or Is the conception of Senator Heflin of Alabama to be indorsed? “Does Senator Shields of Tennessee entertain the same idea of what con- stitutes a democratic victory as for- mer President Wilson, who only a {few days ago branded Senator !Shields as being unworthy of public lofice? The solicitation of a demo- jcratic 1924 victory fund naturally | falses the question—What is a dem- |ocrat?” ! or Walsh * ¥ % ¥ By the time the republican natfonal committee meets in December ‘name the date of and select the city for the naticnal convention, it will {sary for the decision as to the con- vention city. National Committeeman David Mulvane of Kansas is at the head of a subcommittee which will meet here November 15 to recelve in- { vitations from the cities desirous of {entertaining the convemtion. The [cities must cross their hearts and ipromise that the hotels will not hike rates and prices and must show that there are sufficient hotel accommoda- tions available as well as a com- modious convention hall The full committee when it meets here will hear oral arguments from { 1 | %o into executive session and name the time and place. * k x % Democratic leaders. professing to see signs of a contest for the repub- lican presidential nomination against President Coolidge, are brightening up. Up to this time the democratic leaders have been “very low In spirits” over the prospect of Presi- dent Coolldge being nominated with- out a contest. and harmony prevail- ing in the republican party. But now they think their own " skies are brightening as they claim to perceive {the republlcan skies becoming over- cast. The democratic national committee alleges that “republican leaders who started the Coolidge band wagon forward two months ago in the hope that it will be the only vehicle in the procession to the national conven- tion of 1924 are visibly chagrined to behold other chariots trailing along with candidates and supporters. Tt is already seen that the President will not constitute the whole parase. “Gov. Pinchot is showing the resent- ment of the fight made on him by re- publicans of Massachusetts following the negotiation of the Pinchot pact for stopping the coal strike. It s regard- jed as certaln that Gov. Pinchot will continue his efforts to impair if not ruin President Coo'idge's chances In {the republican national convention. If | Gov. Pinchot cannot himself obtain ithe nomination it is felt by po'itical | observers he will at least do all he can 1to open the case and let other contend- ers in the fleld to challenge President Coolidge." * kxR Continuing in of a rising tide of troubles for Presi- dent Coolidge, the democratic manage- ment goes on to say, “Pronouncements {from Senator Hiram Johnson indicate that he stlil fondly regards himself as the logical leader and presidential choice of the ‘progressives. His aban- | -donment by Senator Moses is not deem- ed to have hurt his original chances, however much It may have hurt his feelings. The republican delegation from California must be progressive, Senator Johnson says, and this is tak- en to mean that It must favor and further his canddacy.” The ‘democratic management says there fs quiet but persistent propaganda for former Gov. Lowden; that Senator Watson has left the door of opportuni- ty open for himself, and closes with the confident assertion _that “politicians are now convinced that the repub icun presidential nomination 1s no longer a ‘sinch’ for President Coolldge.” “By his frankness, his: Senator Robinson of | | purpose it- | does to Senator Under- ' to | be in possession of all the data neces- | representatives of the cities and then | its cheerful forecast ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. How many official stenographers are employed by the House of Repre . sentatives?—W. H. W, A. The staff Is composed of ten men. ) . What beans should be obtained for making bean sprouts for chop suey, and how are they sprouted?—L. W. R A. Bean sprouts may be purchased in cans or may be grown at home. Soak overnight white beans or dried lima beans. In the morning wet a large cloth, lay it on a table and spread th beans on it. Keep the cloth wet Usually the beans will sprout in a day or two. Q. What percentage of the pupils Wwho enter the firat grade graduate from high school and from college?—L. W. C. | A. The bureau of education savs! +hat 12.9 per cent of those entering the first grade graduate from high school {and 2.3 per cent of those entering the first grade graduate from college. Q How is_the proper name Pepys pronounced?—D. H A. The name of the Enelish politictan who was famous for his diary Is pro- nounced peens. pips or peps. There are families bearing the name, however. who pronounce it as & two-syllable word —pep-is. Q. How long has the cherry tre heen held in high esteem in Japan? R.J. A. The emperor’s garden party dur- ng the festival of the cherrv blossoms has been held in Japan since the ninth | century. The Japanese speak of the cherry blossom as other people do- of | the biuebird, calling it “Sakuna—Symbol | of Happiness.” Q. How many Carnegie libraries have heen buflt7—H. M. A. The Carnegle Corporation savs that “there have been erected in the T"nited S'ates and Canada by Mr. Car nagie and by the corporation under his| direction 1,775 libraries. Q - A This Is a _very oid English dance. Wegs are placed on the floor at certain Aistances and the dancer, blindfolded takes his position. To the music of a hornpipe he dances hack and forth among the eggs without fouching them The ege dance seeme to be a sword Aance robhed of its danger and supplied with a comedy element. What countries used the double- nended eagle as a_government insignia i nefore the war?—N. B A. Russla. Austria and Germany sed this emblem. Q. Are there other weed-hamnered areas of the sea beside the Sargasso wea?—D. M. | A. The Sargasso sea extends from ahout latitude 20 degrees to 35 degrees How is an egg dance performed? Y THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Since the three younger brothers of {the aged Duke of Somerset have pre- deceased him without leaving any male issue, and he himself s now {hovering on the brink of the grave, past all hopes of recovery—indeed, his death may even have taken place ere this letter appears in print—it may be well to call attention to the next helr to his historic honors. a very distant cousin, Gen. Sir Edward Ham- ilton Seymour, K. B. E., C. B, C. M. G., of Ivy House. Lymington. Hants. Sir Edward Is sixth In descent from the eighth Duke of Somerset. and If the entailed property to which he will succeed fs restricted to a bare 20.000 acres, It is because the formerly vast | landed possessions of the family and | its enormous fortune were alienated by the twelfth duke. known and ex- ecrated among his kinfolks to this day as “the Sheridan Duke” owing | to his marriage to the lovely daugh- ter of Thomas Sheridan, son of Rich- ard Brinsley Sheridan. She was the “queen of beauty” of the celebrated Eglinton tourniment. This twelfth | |duke hated, with a bitter hatred, his younger brothers. Lord Archibald St Maur and Lord Algernon St Maur. nd when he lost his two sons, the | younger of them, Lord Edward St. {Maur, disappearing in a very mys- | terious fashion out in India, he went to no end of pains to bequeath every vestige of property which he could allenate from the dukedom to his three daughters, Lady Jane Graham of Netherby, Lady Ulrica Thynne, and Lady Helen Ramsden of Huddersfleld, leaving to his brothers, Archibald and Algernon, who followed him as the thirteenth and fourteenth dukes, re- spectively, merely tne relatively un- important ~_and _heavily incumbered entailed estate. The now dying duke is the eldest son of the fourteenth duke, and a nephew, therefore, of the “Sheridan Duke.” While Gen. Sir Edward Seymour, who spells the family patronymic in the fashion of the firs: duke (instead of as St. Maur, readopted by the eleventh duke as the original name of Willlam de St. Maur, who was the founder of the family in 1240), will be the sixteenth duke. * ¥ x % The Seymours, or St. Maurs, like ““e Cavendishes, the Russells and the {Telhams, were of that old nobility which rose into eminence and power after the devastating wars of the Roses. Wealth came to the Seymours from the spoliation. of the church ;ands and power and honors from the caprice of a king and the ambition of a woman. Thelr fortunes may be Isald to have been first secured when Jane Seymour, one of the eight chil- dren of Sir John Seymour of Wolffe Hall in Monmouthshirp, as maid of honor of Queen Anne Boleyn, at- tracted the attention and aroused the ‘admiration of King Henry VIIL| Queen Anne's adversaries, who were many. took advantage of this infatu- ation of .the bluebeard monarch to Undermine her position, and she was sent to the scaffold on Tower Hill on a charge of high treason. leaving o daughter, afterward Queen Eliz- abeth, Her disappearance In this tragic fashion enabled King Henry to legalize, somewhat tardily. his relations with her maid of "honor. Jane Seymour. by means of marriage. 'Queen Jane bore him & son, whu eventually succeeded to his throne as Edward VI. Queen Jane died be- fore her consort had time to tire of her. and while she still possessed his affections, and this enabled her to Atablish her two brothers. Edward and Thomas Seymour, in an abso- fitely impregnable position at court, 30 that when King Henry VIII died, 30a her son. still a minor, succecdcd him on the throne u“‘fi\:w‘xt’rdw}{l.. Seymour was seize | Edward 83 his roval nephew | reins of governmen! e NS fleof dord pro- | s brother Thomas ‘ithout the slightest come< to death withoyt (0 5 that he had Fratricide was noth- i o teetor. . putting hi a "ine ‘male line. * % ¥ ¥ 1t 18 trom the first duke, who lived to a very advanced age, that the Seymour Marquesses of Hertford are /also descended in a direct line. The ! present Lord Hertford will be re- membered In the United States in connection with his unhappy mar- | mountains when he | tment in Canda | activities riage to Miss Alice Thaw of Pitts- burgh, Pa. who subsequently oOb- tained from the English courts not a_divoree. but a decree of the nullity of the union on statutory grounds, The marriaxe of the mow moribund north and between the Azores and tha Bahamas. There s a similar_tract in the Pacific north of the Hawailan Islands between 30 degrees and 40 degrees north and between 150 degree1 and 180 degrees west. A similar tract lies southeast of New Zealand along @ beit of the Southern ocean extending from the Falkland lslands south of Africa and southwest of Australia. Q When Is Indian summer?—C. L. A. Indian mmer 18 a short sease of pleasant ther in the Central as Atlantic coast states, usually occurring in October or Novemb more rarely in December, and characterized by an al- most cloudless sky, calm or light airs, & hazy atmosphere and mild temperature in the daytime, but rather cool at night it may last one or two weeks and ma " recur two or three times during & sea n, but' rarely more than twice. Q. Ts it proper to drink consommo from a cup or to use a spoon?—M. C. A. It is proper to use the spoon for the first few spoonfuls of consomma One may continue to use the spoon or may lift the cup and sip its contents Q. What ls the purpose of experi ments with gliders?—H. L. B A. Gliding and soaring experimente look to the production of highly e ficient carriers -which will transpor heavy loads with very low hor power. This would make commercal transportation a paying proposition. Q. What color is a dlamond In the rough?—A. E. D. A. A dlamond in the rough may br any color, but diamonds In this state generally have a greasy luster. DI. ferent colors may be s he dia- mond before it is pol is fractured, but the as the famliiar ones polished stonee Q. Who made the | against a rivers and harbors bill ir the Senate some years ago?—O. J. T. A. Senator Thomas Carter of Mor tana in 1301 spoke for sixteen hou against a riv nd harbor appropr tion biil that would have appropriatec $50.000,000. meant by “eating bura A. Humble ple is properly umbl pie. The umbles of a deer_correspon to the giblets of a goose. The venisor pastry In feudal times was reservec for the lord and his principal guests For those who sat “below the salt” pies were made of the inferior por- tions, ~nd these were called umble ples. Hence to eat umble ple was tc occupy an inferior position (If you have a question you want answered send it to The Star In- formation Bureau. Frede-ic J Has- kin. director. 1220 North Capitol street. Inclose £ cents in stamps for return postage.) Approaching Death of Duke Recalls Stormy Story of Line duke was in the nature of a love match. The duchess is of Canadian birth. a daughter of the late Charles McKinnon of Montreal. Indeed. she brought to her husband who was then stationed at ifax as plain C-pt. Algernon St. Maur of the 60th Rifles and one of the commanders of the Red River expedition nothing but her good looks her charm and her eleverness by wayv of dowry. and, although of excellent birth. was oc- cupying the position of erness when her husband first her. She became her husb: rade and companion i shooting expedit gov in the with his reg nd _has published several volumes recording her trips in the far west of the Dominion the most successful and popular of her works being entitled “Impressions of a Tenderfoot.” * x x % It fs just possible that the right of the new duke to the family hon- ors may be contested by clalmants For the dying duke was subjected about twenty years ago. to a EoOC deal of trouble. annovance and ex pense in this connection. The ther claimant. who was a sexagenarfan insisted that he was the myste- rlously missing Lord Edward St Maur younger of the two sons of the twelfth and Sheridan duke. Lord Ed ward St Maur was at one time ir the diplomatic ser‘ice and attached in turn. to the embasstes of Vienma Madrid and Paris. and. finally. to the then em at Washington He wa; enormovsly interested in the war of secession then in Progress: managec to spend every bit of time that h could spare from his duties at the legation In visitine the Union front and, finally, determined to watch_ the progress of the war from the Con federate side His chief Lord Lyons. would not permit this. and so he a once resigned from the dinlamatic reice and. with the assistance of two Baltimore friends. he slippec away from Washington and found his way by what was then known as the underground route” across the Po tomac to Richmond There he called with letters of introduction. upor President Davis and upon Rober Au1A. then a varv active memhor o the working government of the Con federacy. With much = reluctanc they granted him the necessary per mission to proceed to the Confed- arate front. and President Davis gave him a special letter of recommends tion to Gen. Dick Taylor, who was great character and who wag at fi inclined to regard him as an Im poster when he presented the letter introducing him as “Lord Edward St Maur.” Gen Taylor exclaimed that he had never heard of anv such namc as “St. Manr” in the Enclish neerags his suspicions ba'ne incranaed . Tord Edward added that he was son of the Duke of Somerset. * x ¥ * Lord Edward had no end of troubl: in convincing the general that the spelling of the patronymic of th family had been changed by the eleventh duke; that Is to say, his grandfather. “Well"” growled ol Taylor, who at first had been In clined to hang his visitor as a spy and as a fraud, “your grandfather was nothing but a damned fool. I have never heard of any such pre- posterous thing. Your family namo of Seymour is historic wherever Eng- lish is spoken and where Shakespeare is read. But who has ever heard or knows anything about §f. Maur? However,” he continued, more gra- clously, “it is no fault of yours, so ¥ will be glad If you will dine with me and spend the night. and make your Self at home in my quarters.” Lord Edward’s exit from the Con- federacy was more perilous an troublesome than his entrance. The temper of the authorities at Wash- ngton Was not improves y the col- lapse of the “on-to-Richmond” cam- palgn. Venomous reports had reach- ed Washington of lLord Edward's in the south, and orders were given. from Union headquarters, to keep a strict lookoul for the re- turning Englishman. whose visit to Richmond was attributed to somo sinister mission of the English gov- ernment to the Confederale authori- itles. On his eventual return to England via Canada, after hairbreadth es- capes In the United States from prison and firing squads he left India on a shooting trip in the Him% layas, where, while engaged in a_bea Kunt, with only native attendants nd guides, he mysteriously disap- eared in 1866, the natives Insisting that he had been torn to pieces by a pair of infurlated bears in defend ing thelr cubs. After some years his death was judiclaily assumed by tho English courts, while a memorial tublet In the parish church at Maiden Bradley, on the ducal Somerset es- tate, near Bath, recalls his birth, his career and his slleged death