Evening Star Newspaper, February 6, 1924, Page 6

THE EVENING. SVAR frusriers teoughos United States§ stitike in Idaho the! miners undertook With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. ‘WEDNESDAY. .February 6, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. . Editog The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennaylvania Ave, New York Offce: 110 East 4. Chicaxo Office: Tower Building, ‘European Offic 6 Regent 8t., London, Englt Evening Star. with the Sunday morning is delivered by carriers within the per month month. Orders may be sent by imail or tele- phone Main 5000. Colleotion i mide by case riers at the end of each month. 4 Rate by Mail—Payable in Advanye. Maryland and Virginia, Daily and Sunda v 5 Dally only Sunday only. All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1 Daily only. Sunday onl; mo., 70¢ mo., 50¢ mo., 20¢ mo..25¢ Member of the Associated Press. Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the ‘use for republication of all news die patches credited to it or not otherwise credited. in this paper and also the local news pub- MNatied herein. All rights of publication ox cial disputches berein are also reserved. The Cathedral Tomb. If it should be definitely decided to make the Washington Cathedral the last resting place of Woodrow Wilson the National Capital would for the first time in history become the sepulcher of one of the Presidents. As as noted when President Harding died, the remains of those who have held the ecutive office have been in- terred usually in the places of their cifief activities before entering or af- ter lenving the White House. They have all gone hack, so to speak, to the people with whom they lived. Mr. Wilson, however, was after his retire- ment from office definitely a sojourner in Washington. This was his hom save for his retention of voting resi- been proposed, strong opposition to thwe plan, and here seems little likelihood that such a measure will become Yaw at this time. The majority opinion appears to \ be that the government shiould gradu- ally correct ite housing* shortage, hich has been caused by \expansion administrative business and the ract that little or no gdvernment biilding has been done since our en- puitposes, all of which construction was\of a .temporary kind. Thlere is, of course, no other city in the ['nited States where the govern- Imemw housing shortage is so great as at .the Capital. If the government is to bring its housimg up to require- ments step. by step the beginning should¥be made at Washington. Con- duct of govexnment business is im- peded fhere, and this slows up the con- H duct of government buainess else where. The government's ousing de ficiency at Washington operate; against every American in every city md on every farm, and the govern- ment should put its headquarters or central office in order first. The pub- lic* housing situation in Washngton reshits in nation-wide inconvenience. Thisunatter has been gone over by the Public Buildings Commission, and the measure 'pending in the Senate is in line with\the views of President Cool- idge in his\budget message. —————————————— Wakefield. The Wakefield National Memorial Association is at work on its plan to restore the birthpace of George Wa: ington and “to preserve old Wakefield as a historical monument for the na- tion.” The associntion is to hold a meeting in Memorfal Continental Hall on Washington's birthday. There has been lack of that \nterest in Wake dence in New Jersey. his only home. So far as is known he had no thought of ever leaving here. Whether he would have made Washington his home if he kad been in perfect health at the end of his term of office may not be known. Selection of the cathedral rather than Arlingfon as the place of burial may have a significance. Mr. Wilson, though war President, was conspicu- ously an advocate of peace and of measures for insuring peace to the world. Perhaps on that score it is most fitting that his remains should rest within the precincts of the church, founded upon the injunction *“Peace on earth.” Yet at Arlington he would have lain with the nation's soldier dead, and he was a soldier, com- mander-in-chief of thé forces in the greatest war in history, head of an army that waged war for the sake of world peace. There would have been appropriateness in that placing of his tomb. So, as at present it is understood, Mr. Wilson's body will lie within the fabric of the cathedral, a place of highest honor, a place accessible to all who mhy come in the years to follow and who wish to visit it as a tribute of respect, and with him within the same precincts may lie other great Americans who, as the years pass, leave their work on earth and for whom e national enshrinement is sought. —_——— The Revenue Bill. The proponents and opponents of the Mellon tax-reduction bill .are to come to close grips over the measure next Monday, when the bill is to be reported to the House as a privileged measure .for immediate consideration. Controversy over the legislation prom- 1ses an epochal debate attended by sharp political maneuvering. It has been plainly shown that the bill could not be considered as non-partisan legis- lation. The differences of opinion be- tween the two major political parties are too acute. The republicans, discovering this fact early in the proceedings, neces- sarily went ahead and reported their own bill, to leave it in the lap of the fates on the threshold of the House. No man alive can now foretell its destiny beyond the certitude that when it has gone through the legislative mill it will haye been pretty badly mangled from its original form. With this in prospect the country can only hope that the process of al- teration will be short and soon over. “Let us have the reductions, be they What ihey may,t Will beths fervent prayer breathed by the people. Re- sults are demanded, and at the earliest possible day. Praise to the orators who will “extend their remarks in the Congressional Record” and let the House proceed to amendment of the bill by voting. The bill, as reported, contains but few material changes from the orig- inal Mellon bill. It is inevitable that with many men of many minds at work upon it there must be very ma- terial changes in the perfected meas- ure. —_——————— As was suspected when his article became public, the author of the prize- winning essay in the Bok contest proves to be a man who knew exactly what he was talking about. Government’s Need of Buildings. In the course of discussion of the Treasury-Post Office appropriation bill in the House Chairman Madden of the appropriations committee and Chair- man Snell of the rules committee in- cidentally expressed opinions of the measure pending in the Senate which would provide $50,000,000, to be spent at not exceeding $10,000,000 & year, for public buildings at Washington. They emphasized the government’s need of buildings' throughout the country. Tepresentative Snell said that in sev- eral cities mail is being sorted on the sidewalk for lack of housing. Repre- eentative Madden tnought that build- | Washington's birthplace. fleld which expresses itself in practi- cal works. About thirty years.ago the: government bought the site of the house and'a strip of land for a road, from the house site to Bridges creek, where it built a long wharf. Steam- boats ceased to stop at ther wharfiand, at length ice wrecked it. ¥ew persons find . their way ¢o One couM leave a steamboat at Wirt's whart i Mattox creek and walk abeut four miles along a farm road, or he could get a team at Colonial Beach ol Nomini and drive over as bad® roads as are 1o be found in Virginia. After the coming of the automebile thetmain road “down the northern neck” from Fredericksburg was improved, but the way from that road into the Washing- ton place on the Potomac between Popes and Bridges creeks was a pri- vate road in which an auto would\mire in wet weather and break its springs in dry weather. Recently a good read has been buiit from the highway to the Washington house site, and one can easily get there in a machine. But it is a lonely place. Waketield farm, and although Washington was “born at Wakefield” it is not likely that he knew the farm by that name. In the time of John Washington, the immigrant, his son, Capt. Lawrence ‘Washington, and Lawrence’s son Augustine, who was the father of George Washington, it was called the Popes creek farm or the farm at Popes creek. George Washington always wrote of it in that way. The place was named Wakefield by a subsequen ‘Washington owner, and it is believed: that this was done by William Augus tine Washington, who was a son of George's brother, Augustine, who in- herited that farm. Recently the Wakefield Memorial Asscciation has bought seventy acres of the farm, outside of that which owned by the government, and plans to buy a thousand acres, which was the extent of the Washington farm when George was born. The associa- tion is also taking care of the Wash- ington burying ground, which is in a fleld off the road that leads from where the house stood to where the } government wharf was. Not many years ago that little cemetery lay un- fenced In the fields, and cattle browsed on the weeds among the graves. The | Colonial Dames of Virginia in the '90s caused a stone wall to be built around { the plot. but it was in a weedy, shabby | r ; state when the Wakefield Memorial | Who tried to kidnap him if the Association took it under its care. Elihu Root is out of the hospital. There will no doubt be work of public | importance waiting for him as soon as his convalescence is through. Like Thomas Edison, Mr. Root is disdainful of repose. The cold-wave flag appeared in ‘Washington, D. C., ahead of the so- viet flag, and is regarded as a much more serious style of banner. As March 15 approaches every tax- payer hopes the plan for a 1923 reduc- tion will work fast. A Flooded Mine. A ghastly novelty in mine disasters is reported from Crosby, Minn., where forty-two miners have been drowned by a sudden inundation of the work- ings. It is believed that a small lake beneath which the mine tunnels ex- tended sprang a leak, as it were, and the water rushed into the shafts and drifts without warning. The men were caught as in a trap, and only seven of those who were on duty in the work- ings managed to gain the safety of a skip or ore elevator and to reach the surface. So swiftly did the flood in- vade the mine that within fifteen min- utes after the first movement of the water it was spouting out of the top of the shaft and the lake itself had been drained pty. % Water is in practically every mine. As the shafts are sunk and drifts are cut subterranean ] s not a village. It is the name of a)of pe: i ia few remarks: {senators as an \audience. i i ing costs are too high, and that a gen- | streams are encountered, and to han- eral government building program |dle them pumps must be maintained. ‘. would increase the cost of building |The deeper and more extensive the while people are striving to overcome | mine the greater the body of water the housing shortage to reduce rents and the heavier the pumping equip- and other living costs. He thought|ment. The pumps are never stopped. that the government building program | In larger mines are duplicate pumping should wait until housing needs of |equipments for safety. Indeed, the the people have been met and the de- | water-fighting organization, mechani- mand for labor and materials slackens. | cal and personal, is one of the most Then the government building pro-}eostly-items of mine maintenance, gram would have a tendency to take} ' In the case of a strike the question up the slack. ot manning the pumps is one of the * A geameral building program to meet | most vital to be considered. Some ‘ shepesd sf the government for jagger | Pens 859 duripg the Coux ('Alene I but the cost of en-{to call out the pumpmen. The mines werge Very deep, and the water prob- lem was a serious one. Had the pump# begn stopped the mines would have fillad, and it weuld have required weedks, perhaps months, of pumping afterward to empty them for the re- sumption of mining. The Army offi- cers tstationed there to preserve order took; the ground that these men must not Ueave their stations, because his instruictions commanded him to pro- l stayedl at their work, and the mines were kept from flooding. Durting the recent war some of the larger mimes in France were just be- fore the ammistice flooded by the Ger- mans -as a means of preventing them from being of further uge to the French. It required many months to empty them and put them in working order .again. Thisg Minnesota disaster is unique in the history of mining, inasmuch as apparently the entire body of surface water ontered the workings without warning. Doubtless some slip aurred, perhaps caused by a bla: was presumably an unavoidable acc 'dpn!. for obviously it would have been { impossilile by any exploration to d itermine the condition of the “roof” interposing between the bottom of the lake and the workings. —————— ‘Waning of the Mexican Revolt. Evacuation of Vera Cruz by the in- surgent Mexican forces is proclaimed by the Obsegon govermment as a sign that the revolt is in its last sta ;‘A;.ems of the de lg Huerta organiza- Mion, howewver, deny that this “military movement” has that significance. This ! | oc- Tt b is a wide discrepancy of view, but it would seem, in fact, that the revolt is nearing an end. The revolutionists awve not succeeded in establishing themselves strongly at any important paint save ap Vera Cruz, and the loss of that eity now deprives them of their most valuable center of opera- tions. Their attack upon the capital was thwarted, and for some weeks their campaign has consisted of de- fensive operaticus, with o steady series of re The tide was turned undoubtedly when the United States agreed to scil the Obregon gov- ernment surplus munitions of war and later consented to ow the passage wf federal troops through American ferritory. | Recently the Huertistas have been lcldiming that at least half of the arms sent to Obregon from the United States have heen captured by their forces or turned.over to them by dis loyal' Obregonistas. Apparently, how- ever, this leakage has not sufficed to check the federal canipaign, and de- spite the present denials, which are quite natural in the circumstances, it would seem that the revolt is on the eclive Withow partisanship as between | the politdal factions in Mexico, the { American people desire theirestoration . in that country. They are primarily cconcerned in the mainte- nance of stable government there. They deplove the practice of “elec- tions by revalt.” It is for that reason that the decAsion of this government to sell its surjlus arms and munitions to Obregon, tin head of the recognized administrationa generally ap- proved here ——— a Mr. Fall is nogv being urged to make with United States An oppor- not equally valued under all > decides to tell all he # what Mr. Doheny has told, the public is in for a rather 35 | melancholy campaign of education. 1 ———— Italy wants to make Gabriel D’An- nunzio a count. The procedure will not increase the poet’s fame, but it will add to the dignity of the title. —————— Senators in investigating the Bok | peace prize award may be mollified in noting the comparatively slight pecuni- ary advantage involved. —————————— So far as Bergdoll is concerned he is evidently willing to forgive_ people come back to America and stay here.: ——————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOINSON. | Since Opulence Abounds. There seems no possible excuse for grieving ‘When wealth is being passed+around in chunk: And nearly everybody is receiving Offhand at least a hundred thousand plunks. I shall henceforth avoid each mourn- ful topic. I'll take my stand with a demeanor calm, And wait for some pedestrian philan- thropic To drop a hundred thousand in my palm. H Bone. “I told Rafferty only the truth,” said Dolan, “and I tried to be as delicate as possible. Yet he took offense.” “What did you say?” “I remarked that if the rest of him ‘was all like his head he'd be as fine an ossified man as there was in the mu- seum.” Jud Tunkins says a man who thinks he knows everything is seldom smart enough to know when to keep quiet. Abundant Information. Investigating we will go ‘With purpose -steady, Although we half suspect we know Too much already. For the Sake of the Home Town. ““Why don’t you repair the streets of Crimson Guich?” ‘We've got to protect local indus- try,” answered Cactus Joe. “A few of our_leadin' citizens have started en automobile repair shop, and we aren't having enough breakdowns to keep it golng.” “Dar ain’ much satisfaction,” said Uncle ‘Eben, “in havin' de last word in an‘argument if you had to miss de Iast car to get it," tect Rife and property in the name of {60 cents per mouth: dally osly. 46 | irance to the war except that for war | the foderal government. The pumpmen willy ¥ Half-mast the flag, and ring Though his heart broke, h Did what was best, nor car Was he repaid? Does ever m: Deaf are his ea: He sees no flowers, hgars They give th M Christ loved and served, ai Then ring the beils—but rin; Hard was your task, now, —FLOREN . VICTORY Let it resound on land, and stir the ses. To listening cars ’twill seem a funeral knell, But every note bespeaks his victory. Only our God, who knows each humgn heart Is fit to judge this man of destiny; Only God knows how well he played his part When in his hand we placed our Country's key. Through storms of hell, he steered our ship of state The while he prayed for war's black reign to cease; Dared to defy men; dared to Brought us in safety to the shores of peace. We did not know that he beheld a star. Kept to his course, was guided from afar, Not till the doors are closcd within the tomb. s to all your sobs today; So has it been, so shall it ever be: Great souls are grieved, we say “But it all, they serve us faithfully, And then, dear God, we see their worth too late. nderstood—Men blame, and always will, Farewell, great statesman; softly fold his hands Over his heart, and lay his form to rest In some blest spot—where men of many lands Can come and say, “We know he did his best.” His work is o'er, the victor's crown God speaks these words—“Oh, man of destiny, the Nation's. bell! Z! sk their hate; e followed in its gleam, ed how things might scém. an repay? no cannons boom. fate.” Let us go back to grim Golgotha's hill: One perfect man, for truth—was crucified, nd in that service died. ¢ triumphantly! is won. faithful one, well done.” CE BELLE ANDERSON. N TODAY’S The agricultural crisis confronting the northwest, and to a less degree the farmers throughout the country, is =0 serious that unless Congress | devises some means of practical re liet millions of acres of abandoned | farms will become weed-grown this’ summer. Hundreds of thousands of farmers, together with bankers and merchants doing business with them are facing bunkruptey, and a fay greater number are being foreclosed and turned out in poverty, losing the savings of their lifetime. In 1910 the bankruptcies in the spring wheat states—Minnesota, the! Dakotas and Montana—were of farm- «ers, 18.8 per cent of all bankrupteles. in 1920 farmer bankrupts numbered 17.8 per cent of all bankrupts, in 1921 were farmers, in 1922 48.§ and in 1923 543 per cent were farmers. | * ok K Such a condition cannot continue without affecting the business of the entire country. Food costs are ex- orbitant today and have been so since the early part of the world war, even while food producers were going into bankruptey because cost of produc- | tion was mounting. If now there is coming a great exodus of farmers from their tields of production to the city ranks of consumers and wage kers, food e must increase be- ond possible calculation. Not even labor unions wiil able to main- tain the excessive wages which have been adding to the cost of farm pro- { duction, well as to the cost of evervthing produced in the cities— clothing, food, building rents and transpertation. {_ There are four bills now pending iin Congress looking toward solutions {of the farm problem. |, One is by Senator Gooding to fix the minimum price of wheat at $1.50 a_bushel in the terminal warehouses of Portland (Oregon), Seattle, Min- neapo Duluth, Chicago, Buffulo, Galvesten, New 'Orleans and York. The market price toda Chicago is about $1.13 a bush der_the Gooding law all wheat could not be sold on the market more than $1.30 a bushel would be tho government at that This law would expire July and therefore is intended a temporary relief. The second measure is fathered by Senator McNary and Representative | Haugen. It would establish an ex- port commission, whose object would be to buy or buiid elevators and lease els and to buy such quantities of wheat and other farm surplus as nec- essary to_stabilize the market and give the farm products the ratio of purchasing power that they had be- fore the war. The purchases would all be made at* market price, but 20 per cent of the payment thereof would be made in scrip, which would be redeemable in money only after the close of the year, when the net profits of all transactions would be known and could be divided among producers co-operatively on the basis of the scrip each then held. It is estimated that of the 800,000,000 bushels of wheat raised last year, 200,000,000 is surplus. This would be bought up by the commission and dumped upon the forelgn market as judiciously as possible, and there sold at whatev: it would bring—undoubtedly at less than present market prices abroad. The loss would be borne by all Amer- ican_wheat producers, but, through a tariff wall against admitting Ca- nadian or other foreign grain into this _country, the domestic price would be forced up to $1.50 or more, while the loss on the dumped wheat is estimated not to exceed 123 cents, S0 that the farmers would net about $1.37% instead of an average now of $1.13 per bushel. The third proposal is the Norris- Sinclair bill. This would establish a government-owned corporation, with a capital of $100,000,000, to be sub- scribed by the government. This f l Extols Warrenton for Summer White House To the Eitor of The Star. Our committee has read with a great deal of interest the article which appeared in one of your recent issues, regarding the location of the summer. White House at Warrénton. In this connection we would lite to draw your attention to an error. The elevation is 1,000 feet and not 100 feet as the text reads. The editorial in your paper of the 29th, emphasizes that which we nat- urally wish te bring out regarding this region, as being the very best location for the purpese named. We wish also to emphasize that “View Tree Hall,” the property we contrel, Ja practically a fnished product, so that a comparatiyely -small sum would have to be expended to make ib t SPOTLIGHT BY PAUL V. COLLINS corporation would undertake the functions of middlemen between pro- ducers and consumers. It would tend to do away with all other mid- dlemen, bogrds of trades speculating in food and commission houses. It is the “spread” between the producer and consumer which is grinding the | farmers into bankruptey, while bleed- ing the consumer with the “high cost according to farm experts. does not undertake to by any arbitrary stand- ard, nor to buy up surplus crops. Its aim is to economize the excessive cost of marketing, not only in the domestic market but also in foreign shipment: This would not be temporary relief, but it is planued that the net profits shall be covered into its treasury until they amount to $100.000,000 as a working capital, and all béyond that sum shall go toward refunding the capital advanc- ed by the government. The corpora- tion would be authorized to issue its bonds, based on farm products or on seourities for the long-time sales abroad of such products. The limit of the bonds would be five times the amount of its capital stock. * % * ¥ These three measures would not savé the immediate crisls which threatens country banks and over-l mortgaged farmers, but it is claimed by the supporters of the respective | measures that they would add to the profits of future farming. For immediate relief the l’rssldent! called a_conference this week of the | best minds” of farming to consult | with Secretaries Wallace and Hoover of the Departments of Agriculture and Commerce. The conference brought about 100 experts to Washington, who appointed committees on mortgage extension, on financing and on bank- ng. The outcome of this conference was support of 2 measure known as the Norbeck-Burtness bill to organize a corporation with. a capital stock of $10.000,000 subscribed by private in- vestors to finance loans to be made through the government War Finance Corporation. It is believed that the $10,000,000 will be obtained from per- sons whose interests are involved in the stability of the northwest and that with that machinery of finance some $50,000,000 loans will become available, to take care of such coun- try banks as have securities and of farmers whose mortgages are due, but whose equities are still good se- curity for extensions of loans. The foundation of all relief must be something to enable farmers to make a profit. Already credit extension has been overworked. A survey of 6,094 farms, made by the Department of Agriculture for the year 1922, shows that the results of the labor of the farmer averaged $517, plus food valued at $294. Total $1,211. Deduct the value of unpaid farm labor by family and farmer, $716, leaving re- turn_to capital invested $495, which was 3 per cent capital earning. If the family labor is counted, at the rate paid to hired men, and if interest on investment is counted at 6 per cent what is left to the average farmer is 39 a year for his own labor. That is the average for the whole United States. In the east north central region the year's earning of the farm operator is $13, and in the west north central, he not only gets nothing for his work, but Joses an average of $182, and in the western section $170 loss. ok ok K This is not the first erisis which that region has faced because of crop fail- ures. In the early days there was the grasshopper pest, followed by the Russian thistle plague. Farms were abandoned then as now. But betterl methods brought profits. It will encourage American farmers to learn that in England there i3 agi- tation to increase the wages of farm hands now averaging 23 shillings 7 pence (about $5) a week, and to pe- nalize farmers who ralse weeds in place of crops. (Copyright, 1624, by Paul V. Collins.) | 1 suitable for the ‘occupancy of our present or future Presidents. ‘We note your reference to some of the distinguished men who were resi- dents of Warrenton, but you unin- tentionally omitted to refer to some of those who are still claimed by us, and who, we are sure, are sentiment- ally and materially interested in the development of this, their native county and state. Hon. John Barton and reared in this county. Hon. Eppa Hunton, presi- dent of the Richmond, Fredericks. burg and Danville Railroad, and Hon. Carter Scott, judge of the circuit court of Richmond, were both born and raised in this town. It may in- terest you to know that the late Theodore Roosevelt made Warrenton the objective when made the notable ride to our town and re- turned the same day, & distance of 102 miles. We are prepared to show that every possible inducement is pr sented here for the summer White House, and that by gomparisoh, War- renton is more favered than any of the territory heretofore indicated. GHORGE LA’ FLETCHER. Payne was born |the Politics at Large Two Incldents of recent occurrence have served to disturb democratic pre-convention presidential politics, necessitating future realignment of candidates and re-forming of party lines. Mr. Wilson's death is expected to have important bearing on party policies, and, indeed upon candida- cles, Mr. McAdoo’s prospects for secur- ing the nomination are classed as having been impaired by his revealed connection with the oil interests. Be that as it may, the disclosures have unquestionably served to encourage his rivals to renewed efforts who think that now there is a wider field for all and a narrowing one for him. * K K % the opinion among politicians was that Mr. McAdoo stood a more than falr chance of going into the national convention with a majority of the delegates, having then only to “make the “* up to a two-thirds major- ity—a difficult task af that, but a sprouting chancy With the oil disclosures, though in no way damaging to Mr. McAdoo professionally, leading democi politicians foresaw increasing culties ahead for Mr. MeAdoo. litically, some of the men who had been favorable to his nomination ap- prehended loss of presitge growing out of the fears of delegates that he could not be “put over” in the elec- tion and that he would be a load to carry. * k x ok Almost overnight . there was no- ticeable a change among democratic politicians, and by this term is meant leaders who wleld tremendous in- fluence among the rank and file with the delegate body in ery national convention and who, when they agree often dictate the nominee. They were “getting cold feet” on the Mc Adoo boom. There was also observable a big rigse in the efforts and confidence of other candidates who, reading the signs as they saw them, felt that the candidatorial field was broadening and they would have a brighter “look in. * %X ok ¥ Supporters of Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York were the first to take aggressive action based on the sup- position that the McAdoo boom was “slipping” if not already adrift, and set out to salvaze something for the ew York candidate. A mecting was e to organizations to promote . Smith’ andidacy. Democrats from Pennsyivanis sachusetts, New Hampshire, Indiana, Illinols and New York were presen This sounds suspiclously like a re- capitulation of the “wet states,” but that point was not played up. The promoters were going out for de gates for Smith on the slozan of “Of the people—for the people.” Gov. Smith's long suit is that he “came from the people and has always stood for them. * ¥ ok % The signlficance’ of this new stimulated move for G Smith, t sudden acceleration of effort in his behalf, is believed to lie more in an effort to gather in delegates to 1 held in leash than a sincere belief that he can be nominated. It was ar- d that there will be many former supporters of Mr. McAdoo at sea. po- litically, and the men who never wanted to see My. McAdoo nominated, anvhow, thought this a good time to try to gather in these floaters. hat disposition would be made of the delegates thus salvaged would be left, it is sald, to futura consideration and determination, to conference and compromise. * ¥ % ¥ “Who is to corral the league of nations strength, made fatherless by the death of Woodrow Wilson? That Is a question on_the lips of all the national leaders. That AMr. Wil- son had a ggeat following no one disputes. But it was a personal fol- lowing as well as embracing support of the league of nations, with the democrats: while with republican ad- vocates of the league, it was ideal- tic_and not political. Can it be possible to gather in these republi- can pro-leaguers and hold them to support of some _democratic presidential candidate who the league for the league Most _ of Mr. Wilson's were of those who into_the sea.” o sak followers would follow him Who will have the urage to take up the torch where on? And will the nat tion go as far In indor: league s it might I Mr. Wilson lived? These are all questions that are alive and absorbing democratic poli- ticians at this hour. Some kind of devclopments are ex- pected in the MeAdoo campaien this week. Mr. McAdoo, coming on to the funeral of Mr. Wilson, will remain to testify in the oil investigation. He will naturally be importuned to make a_ statement on his candidacy and his future course as to the nomina- tion. There was a secret meeting in New York Monday night of his east- ern managers, who withheld infor- mation of its results. until the a rival of their chief. This would ind cate that he may g0 to New York and have a round-up conference. * k k % The republican national committee, following up the comment made by President Coolidge, in the Teapot Dome scandal that-“as I understand, men are involved who belong to both political parties.” points out the prominence of Mr. Doheny in demo- cratic national councils. The re- publican national committee’s cur- rent statemept says: “There is Ed- ward L. Doheny, who admits under oath that he made a loan of $100,000 to Mr. Fall * * % Fdward L. Doheny Is a democrat. He and Tag- gart and Brennan and Murphy were the “big four” in the San Francisco ]i;zghconventllém. He was a member of the committee on platform E convention, 2 At * ok ok % “He was one of those placed in nomination for Vice President at that convention. According to re- ports filed with the clerk of th. House of Representatives, Mr. I)ohen)e' contributed $25,000 to the democratic campaign_fund' in 1916 Wilson; $5,000 in 1918 democratic ' Congress 1920 to elect Mr. Co: * k x x The democratic national committee is out in a current statement taking all the claim for 1ifting the 11d from Teapot Dome. The statement says, in part: “Although the Teapot Dome naval oil leases made by former Secretary of the Interior Fall to Doheny and Sinclair, respectively, bave constitut- ed an gpen scandal for neaNy two years, no administration republican has assisted by word or act to bring to light any of the shameful and humiliating facts that have shocked the nation in connection with this disgraceful transaction. “On_the contrary they have sought to belittle the discussions of it and have thrown all manner of obstacles in the way of the investigators. It was not until Senator Thomas J. ‘Walsh of Montana had laid bare the rawest and the most repulsive facts that he recelved any co-operation from the republican chairman of the investigation committee. “It required & democratic resolution in the Senate to reveal the fact that these leases had been secretly made, and after the resolution was offered the Interlor Department refused to confirm to the press the report that such secret leases had been made. ‘While the matter was under discus- sion in the Senate, Calvin Coolidge was Vice President of the United States and presided over that body. Ho sat in the cabinet sessions at the invitation of President Harding, so that he might be familier with ad- ministration policies and important deppstmeatsl ARMIIW® nal conven- ent of the e gone had to elect Mr. to elect a and _$9.800 in Up to little less than a week ago. indorses | liteless hand dropped it and earry | Q. How fast can the Shenamyloah fly?—T. F. R. A. The Navy Department says ghat will hour. nét exceed seventy miles per undoubtedly go at greater speed or with no wind at all, but her en- gines will not carry her over seventy miles an hour. Q. How many elk are there { Yellowstone Natlonal Park?—H. H. A. There are over 30,000 elk, sev- eral thousand moose, a large and in cxeasing herd of buffaloes and in nwmerable deer and antelope in this paRk. Q. Where is the geographical cen- ter of the United States?—G. W. B. A. It is at Fort Riley, Kan. A monutaent marks the exact spot. in Q. HOw did men shave before the razor wad invented?—R. H. A. Razors were in use at a very arly perdod and were Known to the ont Eggyptians. time fwere merely Q. How méch difference is there in the weight* of the Ford touring car and four-dowr sedan?—H. M. M. A. The differaice in weight of a Ford touring caw and a Ford sedan he body only. The touring 764 pwunds and the four- cuor sedan 1,940 pownds. Q. What is the diWerence between coal o0il and keroseneti—0. R. A. The bureau of nhines there s no difference'}between oil and kerosene. Q. Does the Sahara desert ever freeze’—M. H. desert it ng temp that coal f does not reach ture. here are, however, mountains on theh Ahaggar plateau in the Suhara the fpeaks of which are 8,000 feet high (W which snow lies from December to March. Q. What ball uniform the most unusua® base club has used?—=". N. A. The old “Chicagos,” who were famous in the early eighties, vkere known for startling uniform: Twir white stockinzed legs were a evidence, and sometimes wide shor\ Dutch pants were worn, while at other times the tightest sort of black tichts were worn. In one season {they actually wore dress suits— stiff-hosomed white shirts and all— removing the spike-tailed — coats while actually on the ball fleld. Q. In what river are the Thou- sand Islands?—A. W. A. The Thousand Islands is a col- lection of small islands, numbering 1,700, situated in an expansion of the St. Lawrence river, about forty miles long and from four to seven miles wide, between Ontario, Canada, and Jefferson_and St, Lawrence counties, New York. They are favorite resorts for summer tourists on account of their picturesque beauty. Many are private property and contain the summer homes of wealthy Americans and Canadians. Q. When known?—T. H. A. It first appeared in the bronze age. Its original significance is un- known, but it has been used as a symbol of good fortune from early mes. While ths United States fleet swings into the tail end of its spring ma- neuvers off Panama a general de- mand is belng voiced by the news- papers of the country that Congress forget politics and take action ade- quately to safeguard the canal itself. (It is accepted -that the fate of the United States may Yet rest on that serway. The fact that at the ve outset of the fleet maneuvers it was demonstrated the existing defenses were inadequate came as an unpleas- surprise to the country. Inas much as the canal actually is.now making money, editors urge as a business proposition that this money be utilized to bring the defenses up to date. “It did not take the maneuver: make the average that the great locks and waterway would be a main objective of an e emy force, the Oakland Tribune | points out.” “Net profits of operation last year were near 3 per cent of the cost of the entire !a plant, one of the prized possessions {of this country, should be made safe from attack.” Indorsing this opinion and, in addition, poinfing out t “the increase in canal commerce since the close of the r has been marvelous,” the 1es believ “it is our duty and our right to pro- tect the canal from any source. It should not be left at the mercy of any enemy which might strike sud- den 1t should be made free from danger and the warning of the Se iretary of War should be heeded 1 ] Congres: ‘0_which the New York Times 1ds that “this year's war game again has shown that theoret- ically the defenses of the canal are far frop adequate To protect the defending fleet'must be on the right side of the isthmus to give battle. Therefore, it should have the oppor- tunity, under the fire of big guns and supported by airplanes, to get through to deep water on either side.” * k k% Insisting that the warning has been broadcast time and again that the canal, “most vital link in our national safety, was not adequately defended,” {the Milwaukee Journal summarizes the result of the tests to show that ithe warning was right and that “the lesson ought to be driven home, First and foremost is the fact that the guns of the defense batteries were out- ranged by the hypothetical enemy fleet. When shells fall short all the plans in the world go for naught, and there is nothing the defenders can do tosave the situation. 1t must be saved beforehand or never. When we think what the canal would mean to us in case of attack we can say that the plight in which it now is is nothing short of criminal negligence.” This is especially so, as the Chicago Tri- bune sees the situation, because “war is not likely to be made upon us by one power., If we are attacked it wiil be on both’ fronts, and the canal is a necessary comunication between them. It ought to be made impregnable, and can be if Congres will act upon sound to the Swastika first | Many razors at] sharpened | s An | -ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. What are Janissaries?—F. L. A. A. In 1330 the Turkish ruler, Urk- han, or Orkhan, issued an edict com- pelling each city or town to contrib- the speed of the Shenandoah, a8 Jar|yte a quota of male children, usually as the ship's engines aro concermed, | about seven years of age, for the service of the sultan. Requisitions were made about every four years At times when the shir i8)and from four to seven taken from travieing with the wind she would|each city or town. The children were given special training and the troops thus formed usually constituted the than if she were traveling against it fsultan’s bodyguard and were known as the Janissaries. They were also Irecruited from captive Christian chil ‘dren. The troops mutinied in 182 and the force was suppressed. Q. How old is the practice of den- tistry?—E. F. M. Q." How large Is the orange grow- ing section of California?—H. S. A. Ninety per cent of the oranges of California are grown in a strip ten miles wide and_sixty miles long at the foot of the Sierra mountains in the southern part of the state. Q. 1Is there more than one religic among the Chinese?—W. L, F. Thero are five religions h with many followers—Cor and Christian. _A. 1t dates back to the earliest pe- | riods ‘of history of which we have authentic records. As a distinct and definite profession, however, dentistry may be said to date from the incor- poration of the first dental college in the world, the Baltimore olleg: of Dental Sur; 'y, which received ijts charter in 18 it be sald that the imous, when only ed?—it. H. A. Bancroft, the historfan, says Sleven of the thirteen stat. gations signed the proposed Con stitution. Since the two other dele- gations had previously left the con vention, the signing was unanimou All perhaps had grave doubts abou one feature or provision or another but they had builded better than the knew and they all had the courag to sign the concrete result of then arduous work Q. What was the highest price for :0(10“ during the civil war perfod”- 0. A. B A. In 1865 cotton sold at 43 cents a pound, which is believed to he the {hikhest Drice established during the civil war period Q. Where is A. This is even states sign- ganyika?—T. H. W last African terri- tory formerly known as German E Africa. It 'is now administered b ireat Britain. Q. How long does it take to mujie. A cake of ice by submerging the weeptacle in brine?—W. B. A. With good circulation of bri it” fakes about ten hours and wi slow circulation about twenty-fo howss. Q. taxes funds A How long have Inheritance recn cmployed o raise public The raising of public funds i inheritanee taxes has been sanc tioned by Vegislation since the begin- ning of RoAnan law. (The pevyon who loses out is the one who guasses. The person who gets on iy alnays the one who actx upon reliable information. This paper emplons Fredene J. Haskin to con- duct an informion bureau for the publi There is a0 charge except = cents in stamps for return postage Write to him today for any facts | Editors Demand of Congress Safety of Panama Canal Zone principles of national polie; But the New York Post is convinced “Con- grese seems to care little—perhaps becauso there are no votes in Pan- ana. But to lose control of the isth- mus would be an irreparable national calamity.” “It was the purpose of the maneu- ver: the Omaha World-Herald says, “to dgmonstrate the weakness of t Canal Zone defenses and the urgent need of greater war appropriations. The purpose was served.” There also iz doubt In the mind of the Wilkes- Barre Record, however, whethers “a canal depending upon locks can be made safe enough to give ease of mind. Under the circumstances it would be well for the government to turn its attention to the construction of a canal acrose Nicaragua, the rights for which have been acquired— a canal bullt at sea level instead of above the level of the sea”” And the New York Herald, insisting the at- taoking foroes “thoughy Saster” than you. desire. Your inquiry should be addressed to The Styr Information Bureaw, Frede J. Naskin, direc- tor, 1230 North Capitob strect.) the defenders, points out “alrplanes and submarines proved more effective in"defendtng the canal than battle- ships,” thue reviving the old contro- versy wherher the battleship has not out asefulness. & % % % 1t would take “five years, in the or dinary course of handlng the bus ness b to properly safe- guard the canal.” ghe MolWle Reglster points out, and the Jt star likewise “the tests just madd have a ring upon the propdgitionyto build -anal throurh Nicaragua, a water- which will consist jn a large part of a natural channel, witi the locks well in the interior, and ot exposed, as those at Gatun, to ghn fire from warships at sea? N Neverthele: the Manchester Union’ holds when “Army and Navy office! join in the recommendations that Congress be asked to appropriate $10,000,000 more a year for canal de- s, their point is well taken, and\ vhat we have there to defend is werth defending thoroughly and ade- quately. Thi. tatement is approved by the Ci i quirer, whic feels convin there are few cit zens who will not favor every ad quate defensive and offensive prep- aration, including the Arm avy nd the coast artillery defenses and such enlargement of the aero- nautical defen: as would insure tl security of the nation from attack.” pecially where the canal is con- ned, the Indianapolis Star holds prudence” demands that such an in- uable 1 asset be guarded with the best of modern guns and air- planes, and it is not e of mili- arism or anticipating future hostill- ties to insist on a scale of prepared- ness in proportion to the importan of the canal” To do this is within our rights d the Worcester Gazette suggests ith the limitations fixed by the Washington treaty it becom possible to gauge the strength needed nd to attain it without any of ti former expensive unlimited compet tion between offensive arms and de- fensive armor.” World Peace Plan Cited. Fear of Entangling Alliances Also Noted by Correspondent. To the Editor of The Star: There is a well defincd expression of the people for some action of the government for compelling cessa- tion of hostile acts and leading to & continued world peace and an ever expressed fear of entangling al- liance with forelgn powers. For 100 years there has been a well known doctrine in force cover- ing nearly one-half of the world which has protected American re- publics from encroachment of for- eign powers, and it does appear a\i. wars are caused by the encroachmen of one power upon another. Now as nearly all the powers of the world, excepting ours, have joined in a league of nations for the avowed purpose of settling interna- tional disputes and preventing war, all that seems lacking is an Influence outside of the league that would compel each of the powers to com- ply with and obey its findings and demands. Such an influence could well be assumed by the government of the United States by proclaiming a world peace doctrine, and surely nome of the contracting powers would care to provoke the unfriendliness and displeasure of this government. This idea. put into_practice, would leave no.occasion for the United States to enter the league of nations or the world court for the welfare and_peace of the world, and would escape all entangling alll with other mations. A, NELSON. | o v fuctan, Buddhist, Taolst, Mohammeda . W v L]