Evening Star Newspaper, February 20, 1924, Page 6

THE With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY.February 20, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES Editor European Ofle: The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning dition, Is delivered by carriers within the ity @t 60 cents por month: daily omly, 43 Lents per month: Nunday only, 20 cents’ per month. Orders may be sent by mail or Collection iy made by o month. riors at the cnd of Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance, Maryland and Virginia. Daily und Sunday. Daily only Sunday o Member of the . The Assoc 10 the s is exclusively entitled for republication of all news dis- patehes credited 1o it oF not otherwise credited i this paper and aleo the local news pub- ished “hercin. Al rights of publication of srecial dispatehes Lerein are also reserved. = — A Busy, Prosperous People. President Coolidge, it is stated on the authority of a “White House spokesman,” regards the general busi- ness conditions of the country as healthy. He is in a position to get the most accurate and comprehensive re- ports of the situation. Through official and unofficial channels he knows of the state of trade, the degree of em- pioyment, the various elements of in- dustry and agriculture. 1t is his busi ress to know, as Chief Executive. And ¢ is his business to judge things with- out political prejudice, without undue optimism o pessimism. When the President, then, says that according all information which he bas in hand the economic situation in the United States i the country d of the fact. There is a lively current of trade to- day, and trade means employment. 1t ans activity in manufacturing, ich means a demand for labor, The farmers ar their slack period of production at this time, and they are confronted with a serious question re- ing the acreage and the crops they will plant this spring. They are looking forward to some form of gu ernment aid, direct or ifdirect. to bet their markets and lessen their «osts. The President has already out- ned his own proposals to that end. He looks forward to such action as Congres take in the premises. Doubtle: declaration that bus ’ s good and that the prospect of the country for the coming season is brizht is based in large measure upon its expectation. The vational campaign shortly—is, indeed, already in its first ages. The people are busy, are pros- perous and are contented. They have been shocked by the disclosure of cor- ruption in public life. Their confidence has been somewhat shaken. but there ~ no reason for despair. no reason for ng faith the efficacy and in- rity of government. The very out- urst of indignation which has swept the country following the disclosures i a most wholesome sign that the pub- sience is sound. country will not brood over 1t will not despair over the of lawmaking and law en- It will proceed with its own ness, and when the time comes in national schedule it will vate calm- 1y and with discretion. —————— Gov. Smith's Victory. Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York, after many days, is tasting the sweets of victory in his contest in the legisla- ture for his reform and progressive lation. Yesterday he breached the republi < of opposition state senate and witnessed the passage of six of his measures. With this achievement to his credit he will now tackle the embattled republicans in 1he assembly, with good sround for hope of suc s, Disintegration the * republican forces in the senate enabled the demo- crats to put across the governor's bills. Twelve republicans joined the democrats in voting for the bills. The measures passed comprised reduction of the state income tax by per cent; restoration of direct primaries; compelling candidates for state oflices to file pre-clection statements of e giving voters the power to constitutional amendments; making the terms -of governor four vears; establishing an executive bud- zet system. Gov. Smith’s tussle with the legis lature has been long and persistent, the republicans up to this time having frustrated his aims. s vietory en- larges his status in the pubiic eye at an interesting period in national poli- tics. He will go to the democratic na- tional convention with added personal prestige. Although he may not be able 1o turn them to his own advantage, he 1is likely to get a heavy complimentary vote which, if it can be held in bloc, might determine the nomination. o may be w w s* can his ill open in ——— The soldier bonus gave precedence in Congress to tax reduction, which in turn gave precedence to several other matters. ————— Philadelphia’s lawbreakers are divid- ed into two classes; those who have reformed and those who are waiting for Smedley Butler to get out of town, — e The labor government in Great Brit- ain promptly distinguished itself by an attitude of respect for government as well as for labor. Theory and Practice. English radio broadcasting stations have received a jar from their woman listeners-in. The stations have been Vroadcasting cooking recipes, hints on household management, talks on domesiic economy and how to make vegetable garden pay. The women have protested. They have told the stations that much of this is bunk, 1hough, of course, bunk may not be ihe British word. They say that many of the talks on domestic economy and ©on how to run the table on & shilling and sixpence a day, or something to that effect, arc being made by women who never cooked a meal, made up a in the | ing stations for talks on politics, psychology and literature. Human nature, especially woman nature, seems to be pretty much the same on both sides of the Atlantic. The averagé American wife who keeps \house instead of delegating that im- portant work to the hired girl or a “maid” is suspicious of household *‘re- formers.” She has tried some of the proposed reforms and they did not work. She believes that some, women who make an aftistic schedule on how to run the house on less than half it costs to run it mow have breakfast prepared for them and go downtown to dinner. Wives who have sought to cut the grocery bill by substituting oats and hay for ham and eggs have found that their husbands do not come home to dinner. Hints on making a vegetable garden pay are not so well received by Ameri- can ¢ity men as once upon & time. So far from making the vegetable garden pay most of them could not even make it grow. Many of them have started out in early spring with a brilliant catalogue, radiant packages of see shining tocls and high purpose, but by midsummer have surrendered to potato bugs, cutworms and tomato worms. Englishwomen are calling for politi and literature, Many American women are that way also. Women are read- ing the papers so well that they prove | that many men are not intellectual | giants in the discussion of current questions. ————————— No National Guard Armory. Doubtless in view of President Cool- idge’s opposition, based upon co iderations of public economy, the bill providing for the erection of a Na- tional Guard armory in Washing’on will be laid aside in Congress for w3 ileast the present session. The Presi- | dent’s opposition is based. it would ap- pear from the statement of the bu- reau of the budget, upon the fuct that this expenditure is in confile, with the financial program of the *;xeccutive. In other words, the expen™cure is in excess of the amount contemplated for public building construction. Presumably the President fu | recognizes the merils of the plea for « suitable armory building for the D trict. The case, indeed, is particularly strong. Under the act creating the | National Guard the states ave required {to provide and maintain suitable armories for their guard units, with drill and storage facilities to care for organization. The District is allotted 2,400 enlisted men. But these troops are denied federal recognition as a| National Guard by the War Depart Iment because suitable armory facili-| ties are not available. Thus. under the | law, the District cannot gain recogni- tion for its citizen soldiers as part of | the established National Guard because it has not sufficient armory | facilities. and at the same denied those facilitie { Considerations of cconomy operate | to prevent the construction of nu merous buildings that are urgently | needed by the government. There is | now pending in Congress a proposai for a $50,000,000 program of I-mlding' | construction, extending over a period of ] ! ing departmental requirements. It is{ opposed in some quarters on the gen- | eral ground of economy, and in others { on the score that it does not include | urgent public building needs in other cities than Washington. Probably it is because of this situation that the | presidential veto, so to speak, has been | put upon the project for the immedi- | ! obviously required. B ‘ i this veto does not prejudice the case on its merits. The item may be re-| garded as assured of recognition | eventually, and perhaps at the mext| session of Congress. i —_———— It will be conceded by the general} public that Senator Hiram dJohnson | was one of the most active winter | candidates that ever appeared in the | | presidential arena. H ————— 1 | Possibility of another war in Burope | Imay be lessened if Uncle Sam, in ad-| | dition to being a forbearing creditor, | | constitutes himself a judicious finan cial adviser. | Turope has a few economists who | cling to the theory that the way to get rid of the debts caused by the recent { war is to start another. Oil investigations have reached a stage that leaves the public, however }it may be saddened, hard to surprise. i | i Deadly Weapons. ' Tt is indicated that there will be a | tightening up of regulations govern- ing the purchase and possession of deadly weapons in the District. The need for stringent regulation of the carrying of concealed weapons, as well as more effective regulation of the sale and possession of such weapons, has been stressed many times by the Commissioners and the | chief of police. Law-abiding citizens ! favor any plan which will keep pistols . out of the hands of weak-minded and crime-minded men. President Coolidge hasasked the Com- missioners to send him a copy of the section of the District Code which gov- erns the traffic in firearms. The very fact that the President shows interest in this matter will call more general at- tention to what is believed to be a fact, that it is too easy to buy pistols and that the punishment for carrying them is too light to act as a deterrent and to weed out the lawless men who think it a good thing to have a gun in the pocket because “it may come in handy. It is said that the President will ask the prohibition commissioner for the regulations of his office covering the use of weapons by his enforce- ment officers. The thought of the President has no doubt been turned to these matters by the deplorable shooting of Senator Greene. Senator Lodge has been quoted in The Star as saying, “This is not the first time that lives have been endangered here and elsewhere by such handling of fire- arms by prohibitien agenvs, and effec- tive measures should be taken to pre- vent a recurrence of such shootin, Other senators have also sternly crit- icized the use of firearms by prohibi- ton agents in cities. | crossing accidents. |these tragedies are on her record as {on records of states where there are EVENING STAR]time. Ther save asked the broadcast-|been mad and dangerous racing of ‘automobiles through' the streets in pur- suit of bootleggers’' cars. The boot- legger sets the pace in his effort to escape and is utterly reckless of pedestrians or other cars. The police car is under the necessity of putting on speed. If the police observed the speed limit and other iraffic regula- tions fleeing bootleggers would sel- dom or never be caught. It is an un- fortunate condition, brought about by the commonness and persistence of the crimes of making, transporting and selling liquor. There has also been shooting in the streets. It is assumed that most boot- leggers carry pistols and are ready to use them to avoid capture. If police were not ready with their ‘weapons bootleggers would laugh at them. Police and prohibition agents have been shot down here and elsewhere in the performance of their duty by bootleggers and illicit distillers. 1f the police are not ready to shoot boot- leggers, bootleggers will continue their criminal work and will shoot police if interrupted. It is a question with several angles, but whatever can be dane the better to regulate the owner- | ship of weapons and prevent or pun- {ish men for carrying them in defiance of law should be done. —_—————————— Grade-Crossing Casualties. Maryland has its share of grade- Not so many of more trains, more grade crossings and more people to be killed, but Mary- land's record is sad enough. In the past twelve months nineteen persons were killed and eighty-seven were in- jured. A significant thing is that only one pedestrian was killed end two were injured. The others killed and injured were motorists. The number of persons who walk grows smaller, and the number who ride in automo- biles increases. The automobile, rail- road train and grade crossing make a dangerous combination, and with a little carelessness on the part of the auto driver the danger is multiplied. Too many auto drivers will not stop, look and listen. Too many take reck- less chances, pay a fearful price and bring pain and grief to others. Another significant thing in the re- port which comes from the Maryland public service commission eleven accidents happened at cross- ings guarded by gates and night and day watchmen. Six happened at cr ings guarded or supposed to be guard- ed by signs and bells, and twenty kappened at crossings where there i | IN TODAY’S SPOTLIGHT BY PAUL V. COLLINS Is the United States beginning to | people to fight out within their own feel lonesome in its refusal to recos: nize the Russian. soviet governmen: ‘There seems to be a European stam- pede to give the bolsheviks recogni- ‘tion. Italy, Csechoslovakin and Nor- way, within the last month, have given their official recognition. The new labor government of Great Brit- ain is pressed by labor interests and will accept the unavoidable recogni- tion within a few days, so Prime Minister Macdonald has plainly inti- mated. * %k % On the other hand, there are sev- eral nations which long since took the step in recognition, and now openly seek a way to repudiate that action. Germany is one of the na- tions and is complaining that her Tecognition has been a mistake, since the bolshevik propaganda for social- ism persists in attempting to une mine the German republic. Turkey has notified Russia that her consuls ‘who are persisting in spreading socialistic doctrines are to be ex- priled. Hsthonia has adopted a law making the teaching of communism or an: form of socialistic bolshevism tre son against the government. Some {days ago three members of her par- liament, not elected as socialists, were urrested because they declared in favor of socialism. There was agita- tion to call a special session of par- liament for the express purpose of taking action in enforcing the im- munity against arrest held by mem- bers of parliament, but the govern- 1ment preferred to let the courts take carc of the cases, as members are immune from arrests only when par- ament is in session. = Parliament met in_regular session last Mon- day, und the question now s whether the members shall remain in the hands of the courts and be ex- pelled from parliament or whether parliament shall impeach them. * % ¥ ¥ It is a much more serious act for a country to withdraw recognition after having accorded it than to withhold it from the beginning. To sever diplomatic relations is almost equivalent to declaration of war, but to withdraw once-given recognition is practically declaration of outlaw- ing the nation and declaring war. France and Japan refuse recogni- tion on the same grounds that the United States stands upon—that no recognition will be given unless Rus- sia assumes all debts and agrees o pay them. In our case, the claim against Rusia amounts to some 3230, is that 000,000 loaned to the czar and Keren- |sky governments to help win the wai ve {no and $570,000.000 private claims of Americans whose property has been seized by the soviet government. All debts are “unnulled” by the soviets and they freely boast that they have intention of ever paying them. All private property hgj been seized by the state, whether Lelonging to were only signs to give warning. A {Russians or foreigner: sign is an ineflicient guard. There are so many signs along an automobile road that many motorists have come ot to believe in signs. It seems strange, though. that a mot hould not see and heel the familiar railroad crossing sign o It is clear that railrcads, states, counties, towns and cities must get rid of grade crossings as fast as it can be done. There is a movement in that di- rection in several states of the efforts there of push. The only cems to be a lack solution of the shall be no grada cr ———— Owing to the protests of union musicians the Viennese State Opera Company will not be heard in London next summer. Music is 80 broad in it§ scope that it becomes not only an art but also a profession, a business and a trade. ———— The Bok peace prize attracted an enormous amount of attention, and might have attracted still more it Con- gress had not suddenly found itself | with so many different kinds of busi- ness on hand. ———— A prohibition agent assumes the gravest responsibility. He should never be the type of humanity that develops a mnervous trigger finger in the zest of manhunting. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Statesman. A statesman has to lecture folks On health, fresh air and food. He now and then tells gentle jokes To cheer the public mood. A statesman’s style must not be stiff As he, in words refined, Assures us we'll be happy if We're always good and kind. A statesman with attention strict Must, as he learns to quote, Elucidate or contradict The things that Darwin wrote. A statesman for a word sublime Lets no occasion slip— ‘We wonder where he gets the time For simple statesmanship. No Heckling. “Are you going on the stump next answered Senator Sorghum. “Any speechmaking from me will be done by radio, so that my audiences won't have a chance to talk back.” Jud Tunkins says the only way to avoid trouble with the income tax is to be poor or a bootlegger. Biz for Congressional Record. 1f resignation rumors all ‘Were to come true, both great and small, Your Uncle Sam, in deep dismay, “Help Wanted” ads would print each day. “You would hesitate to martya very rich man?” “Yes,” replied Miss Cayenne. “I fear I should be tempted now and then to wonder whether his alimony wasn't worth more than his com- From Bar to Bootleg. “What has become of the bartender ‘who used to wear a white apron?” “He is still in business,” answered Uncle Bill Bottletop; “only instead of an apron he wears a bullet-proof vest."” “’Most everybody,” said Uncle Eben, “is willin® to tell de truth if it's on st | the strength of th vears. to meet the particularly press- | grade-crossing problem is that there | | | gan journalism in Europe. From the crude journals of the Netherlands and Italy in the sixteenth Ccentury and from almost equally sim- ple beginhings in England and France } walls. German threats to sever diplomatic relations with Kussia are laughed at by the bolsheviks, who well know how Germany needs friends. s similarly flaunted for the son v day but adds to stan position. v vne of the - Its government 1s tod: most stable of all ropean gov- emmerts, and there are many Amer- icans who, not realizing what Rus- sian bolshevism means, are wondering | whether 1t is not a mistake for this country. France and Japan to persist in aloofness, against such manifest stability. They argue that we fecog- . but in some | njzed the czar's government. whic s a far more cruel despotism than at of Lenin ever w; % ¥ % it should be noted, say the Amer- ican statesmen who are charged with responsibility, that this is not a ques- tion of domestic tyranny. That would be a matter only for the Russian Wi th comntry. The guestion hinges n two matn tests: Is the soviet govern- ment a responsible government whose international dgreements und obliga- tions will be trustworthy? Will the Russian_representatives—consuls and Sther officials und Red Cross repre- sentatives—attend only to their offi- clal duties, or will they enter our country under the guise of official status mainly for the purpose of in citing_revolution against the Amer. ican republic, as they have done against every other country they have entered? * %k k% Poland has just issued an official report of the Russian treason against the Polish government. It i3 called the White Book. It js in French, and its story is open to all diplomats and governments of the world &s an ar- raignment of insidious, revolutionary, persistent treason. It is a type of the experiences of every other nation i that has admitted the bolsheviks of ition of Russia. Their avowed purpose, as set forth in their own official litera- ture, is to undermine all governments, dissolve all national ties and fuse the whole proletariat of the world into one non-national organization against capital.s * %% % According to high government au- thority, there is no justification for a statement made recently by a United States senator that commun- ism was adopted by the Soviets merely as a temporary war measure. It is the very foundation of sovietism, he says. It is not the government of Russia that counts. It is the third internationale, but the personnel of the government and of the interna- tionale are identical. The third in- ternationale is the all-embracing or- ganization, and Russia is only one of the several units, as the United States would become if we permitted the socialists to gain a foothold. * ¥k x % The new constitution of that federa- tion was adopted December 30, 1922, at Moscow, with a resolution to “en- ter into the covenant for the for- mation of the union of soviet so- cialistic republics, and to adopt, as the fundamental law thereof, the covenant and constitution creating the union of socialistic republics.” Section 1 of the constitution con- tains this statement: “The efforts of the capitalist regime, in the course of the decades, to solve the question of nationalities by the joint methods of the free develop- ment of the peoples and the exploita- man by man have proven vain. On the contrary, the web of national antagonism s becoming even more entangled until it threat- ens the very existence of capitalism itself. The bourgeoisie has proven impotent of bringing about co-opera- tion among peoples.” s s Finally, the very structure of thesoviet power, which is interna- tional in its class character, calls the tolling masses of the soviet repub- lice toward a unity of one socialist tamily. “AI tively soviet these circumstances demand the unification of the republics into one federal state, powerful enough off foreign aftacks, and the secu: of internal economic welfare, as weil as the unhampered existence of the various nations.” * Opponents of the league of nations claim that it would set up a super- government, though its adherents deny that charge. The soviets make no camouflage of their purpose, which is openly declared to be to supersede all present governments of the peo- ple, and substitute a government only of 'the proletariat, nationul lines. Its flag is officially “made of red or scarlet cloth"—the sign of socialism and anarchy. (Copyright. 1924. by Paul V. Collins.) NEWSPAPERS ON THE WAY UP BY JOHN CARLYLE The Romans read their daily news from posters fastened to the city Such simple bulletins an- nounced the doings of the Senate. Caesar led his legions into Gaul and the prowess of his troops was pro- claimed in other posters on the city walls. Thus began newspapers In the Acta Diurna of the Roman re- public. Before the glory of Roman days was over professional writing men were traveling with the armies and sending back their dispatches by courier to the Eternal city. So be- in the seventeenth century, modern newspapers got their real start. Be- fore the eighteenth century was we.l begun American journalism was un- der way. Today with telegraph and tele- phone, with trains and steamships. With airplanes and wireless, one thinks of the newspaper business as vastly more dramatic a~d spectacular than it ever was. V'e carelessly credit the modern publisher with amazing ingenuity and look upon his forebears as slow. Far different is the case. When Daniel Webster was scheduled to make a notable speech in Boston be- fore the middle of the last century, a COURAGE “I am d”: master ullmy /au-.;‘L- ptain of my so [ am the capteik o HENLEY. Wrigley Often Was Broke. Expelled from school many times, going broke when away from home, undergoing three failures and being burned out of his factory twice, Wwilliam Wrigley, ir. PO hen he was ten years old he ran away to New York, arriving there With less than a dollar in his pockets. He sold newspapers, did errands and worked on boats, but sleeping out-of- doors grew monotonous and he went back to his home in Philadelphia. In public school again, he threw a pie against the schoolhouse, his edu- cation was stopped, and he stirred coap In his father's factory—wages, $1.50 a week. At thirteen, selling soap on the road, he made more money than he dreamed could be bcfl';:mr:;’n‘ing fever started him to- ward Leadville, Colo., the wind blew his ticket out the car window and he was put off at Kansas City. ‘Waiting in a restaurant and selling rubber stamps, he earned enough to get me. b e %oap omce more, at $10 a week, and married, he quit and start- ed for Chicago, with $32 capital, to open a branch office. Merchants there could not make enough profit r tailing the bars at 5 cents, there- fore he raised the price to 10 cents and gave the dealer an umbrella With every box. It won. Then he tried selling baking powder with a cologne bottle as a premium, and Went broke. Next he gave gum as a premium, then sold it, using other premiums. = Business boomed, but he kept on being his salesman, book- keeper, packer and manager. Advertising in the south was suc- cessful. Other fields also responded. Accumulating $100,000, he tried it in New York, but without effect. Saving | kn another $100.000, he invaded Manhat- tan again, with Do apparent resull i New York newspaper publisher equi: Ped @ ship with all the paraphern of printing. He furnished it with typesetters and reporters. that Webster finished his speech and the reporters came aboard, the prepa- ration of a newspaper began at sea Reporters transcribed _their notes. Printers set to work. Type was up and locked in forms before New York was reached. The presses were ready when the ship arrived. That enter- prising publisher “scooped” New York. ) Sixty blooded horses raced famous pony express to carry the stream of news of the Mexican w. from New Orleans to Baltimore, satisfy an _ingenious publisher, means of ships from Texas ports and fast horses ridden by hardy couriers this Baltimore publisher told his read- T3 of the war long before the gov- nt af ‘asl i Sipaiones ngton could receive carly American publishers char- tered ships to bring the news fram England. * No pains were spared to make journalism function. c enterprise of today's - pers is an inherited enterprive. Fae resourcefulness and the astonishing tors set the pace 's achievements. ingenuity of early edi Today's newspaper is more com- in a to By for today" plete, more accurate, more informa- | tive, more entertaining and more i spiring than it ever was. And it the healthy, growing child of sourceful forebears. (Copyright, 1924.) re- Backing off, he tried Buffalo, Roches- ter, Albany and other cities with success. Then he contracted for $1,- 500.000 worth of space in New Yori end gave gum samples away. Hag the campaign failed he would have been ruined, but he succeeded. Now Wrigley has gum factories in this and other countries, his product is sold all over the world, he Is rich —and he never has worrjed. man's doubts and fears i worst enemies,” he sags, - o0 (Copyright, 1923.) 4i¢|Scientist Traveling In Scientific Trail The latest exhibition of what a scientific mind may do when it breaks loose and runs wild is furnished by Camille Flammarion, the astronomer, earth next year. M. Flammarion p fessed himself as rather indifferent to the expeditions which are to seek suitable locations for photographing the planet and expressed the view that in course of time the inhabitants of the earth would have direct com- munication with intelligent beings on Mars by the use of psychic currents, He is sure that there are in- habitants on Mars, sure that psychic currents will reach them and sure that when they are reached the re- ult of the contact will be intelligible, 1t has not been done, of course, but it will be- done. Such is M. Flam- marfon’s message to the world, and curiously .enough, though he is a scientific man his views on communi- cation with Mars are exactly the re- verse of scientific. Science feels mod- crately well assured of what has been tried and found to work. It is never sure of the results of & new experi- ment -befors it has been tried, and uch less.is it sure when the very materfals with which the experiment is to be made remain to be discovered and studied. However, M. Flam- marion, who never saw a Martian and vever measured a_ psychic current, ows - exactly what will happen when the two come together.—Detroit . Pressy impera- ; th | Mr. McAdoo's determination to car- | candidacy was no sur- ! of warding | disregarding ail | ! ‘When th ship left Boston, upon the instant | Politics at Large BY N. 0. MESSENGER Mr. McAdoo has crossed the Rubi- con. Encouraged by the support of his followers and political managers, he has decided that his usefulness to his party as candidate for the demo- cratic presidential nomination has not been impaired, but that, on the contrary, he is the man in the party best fitted to lead the militant de- mocracy, and he is going into battle. The fact“that his encouragement was recelved from his own faction, men who attended the conference by his own suggestion and at the behest of his manager-in-chief, does not de- tract in his opinion from its value as an indication of his standing with the idemocratic party at large. He is going to push his fortunes to the uttermost. * % ok * Now, the big undertaking before jhim is to convince two-thirds of the delegates to the democratic national convention that he is the candidate most entitled to carry the banner of democracy to the polls and to dissi- pate the objection that his former connection with the oil interests im- paired his usefulness. In that effort. many democrats de- clare he “has his work cut out for 1Mm." *r x % The Chicago conference afforded him opportunity, which he promptly utilized, to place his platform before the country, getting a meed of coun- try-wide publicity to an extent which otherwise probably would not hav: been given. Reading and analysis of the measures he recommends show that he did not overlook & single Uto- pian plank. * x x % Mr. MecAdoo received a clean bill of health as to his connection with the oil interests from Senator Walsh of Montana, who unquestionably has the confidence of the democrats in his conduct of the oil investigation. A telegram to the conference from Senator Walsh said that the charac- ter of Mr. McAdoo “is untouched by any revelation made before the Sen- ate committee investigating the naval oil leases.” This is cxpected to be counted upon to satisfy democrats when Mr. MeAdoo's availability as a candidate is impugmed. * * % = A line upon his prospective cam- paign is furnished in his address to I the conference. It is evident that he expects to ride high on the wave of popular indignation over the oil scan- {dals. He sald that he would “drive corruption out of official ‘Washing- ton” and would “take the grip of Wall street” off the Treasury De- partment and the Federal Reserve | system. He insisted that “there is | demoralization government Washington. The republican party has ceased to function.” He added jthat “the condition of affairs at ! Washington begzars description. ! ry on with hi {prise to the democrats in Congress ¢ | who are either lukewarm to his can- or are convinced that it was osure of his connec- interests. Some of with him realized | didacy | damaged by d ! tion with the those who talke ¢ ay now the finish and that from this time on it_will be carried into every state upon the ground of party H ¥ while recognizing the | merit of Lis policics. But. they point out, the same policies can be adve- cated by some other candidate who [ does not carry the handicap under hich they regard Mr. McAdoo as now { laboring. On this question of availability Mr. McAdoo showed the country one set regarded as of value to a momi- nee which he still possesses. Prior to the meeting of the confercnee there was a _caucus of railroad labor lead- which adopted a resolution de- claring that “We, as representatives | of railroad labor. assert our belief ithat his availability as a candidate ers | has not been impaired and that there | air- Iis no valid reason why any { ded person should oppose Mr. M torney for the oil companie: His railroad Support has been rec- ognized as one of his strongest as- sets to the party if he were nomi- | nated, and apparently it is his own to | command. The resolution was intro- ! Quced by the president of the Order jof Railway Conductors and was | Signed by seventeen representati (of rail un organizations attending | the conference. | Mr. McAdoo's friends here say that v will be able to present sions of confidence in candidate from | proceeds th: similar _expre {his availability as a | other sources. { * ok ok x The republican national committer, {in a current statement, prophesies that capital will go o strike if Con- gress enacts an unfair tax-reduction bill: “The right of labor to quit work rather than continue under conditions which it considers unfair,” savs the committee statement. “is conceded in Ithis free country. There is no law or executive or judicial authority in America which can compel labor to remain at work if it chooses to strike. i “Capital is as independent in this respect as labor. It cannat be com- pelled to work under conditions which it regards as oppressive. It will walk s [out under conditions which it regards as unjust. Whenever, by iegislative or judicial decision or executive order. conditions are imposed upon capital in any country which capital regards ac unfair capital goes on strike. It Will not only go on strike, but will, it necessary for its own protection, leave the countr: * ¥ ¥ ¥ Continuing its argument. evidently 2imed at the proposal pending in Con- gress for an extreme surtax, the com- mittee says: “Confiscation of wealth is a vice which feeds upon itself once the machinery of confiscation is set in motion. It does not stop with the rich. Those who have nothing soon selze upon it and proceed to confiscate the property of all those who have ything. . 2 here is nothing more susceptible of proof than the fact that whenever 2 tux is laid on capital which it re- gards as unjust it immediately passes fhat tax on to the mass of the people in the form of higher interest. higher rents, higher freight rates and higher costs of living in every particular. t is a process which economists ‘generations have attempted to because cannot be stopped by any buman law thority.” OE/AHEROEHY." L o o o The democratic national committee |i.s exploiting the attempt of Repre- sentative Davis, democrat, of Tennes- see to secure-an investigation of the Shipping Board. The cémmittee quotes ‘Representative Davis as saying that 'while he chari no official of the board, there is “a general demand for an inquiry, and information in his possession indicates the need of a fhorough scrutiny of its affairs. ———at—————— Echo From Daily Life. From the New York Tribune. Scientists are going to the Alps to listen in for Mars. The rest of us will have to be satisfied with hear- ing Venus say “Wrong number. Cxcusit, please ——ee——— Misery and Company. Frem the Harrisburg Patriot. Misery loves company. They often come and go Logether. that he would not give up without a | { that it i< a fight to Adoo on account of the allegation | made regarding his association as at- | \as the campaign for his nomination | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN e Q. Where s the largest private)|and base ball., Very gradual was the telephone exchange States?—M. P. A. The Hotel Peansylvania, New in the United private telephone exchange in the world. It requires a force of seventy employes to operate it on twenty-four- hour-a-day service. The monthly aver- age of outgoing calls is 100,000, not counting long distance calls. Q. What is meant by general offi- cers in the Army?—AL M. A. This is a term used for any officer of a general's rank. Q. Please give recipe for paste used to make relief maps for the schoolroom.—k. §. I A. A paste for making these re- lief maps may be made by mixing one part salt and two parts flour with onough water to give proper consis- tency. It should be just soft enough to mold. Allow to dry overnight. Q. Which of the signers of the Mayflower Compact was the last to die?—W. C. McK. A. John Alden was the voungest of the signers of the Mayflower Com- Ppa He was also the last survivor. His death occurred at Duxbury, Mass., September 12, 1687 Q. What event caused John Bunyan to enlist as a soldier?—G. B. A. Bunyan's father married again within a r after his wife's death. The son, teen yvears old, grieved so hecause of his father's act that he ©d in the civil war, serving prob- from 1644 to 164! Q. How much does the General cation Board expend annually?— D. P. J The chief appropriations of the eral Education Board for the fiscal : 0, 1923, aggregated 11,381.93. This included $ .05 to colleges and univers for increasing teachers salari Q. Have women entered all occu- pations IS A. According to the census there are thirty-five occupations of the to- tal number of listed occupations in which no women are found. while there is bul one occupation that is without men. The last cnumeration even listed 250 men hambermaids and 11 men as nul Only one {woman was listed ax a butler. Q there H. F. A. There are but four—Massachu- setts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermon cre a lynching hus not been recorded in some community {in four ers—Connecticut, Maine, New Jersey and Utah—there has been no record of a lynching since 1839 —G. Are there any have been no ates in iynchings? Q. What golf course in the United States has the highest altitude?— G. B. A. The Ame Clouderoft, N. M., lays claim to the loftiest gzolf course the United States. The course laid out on top of the Sacramento mountains is some 8,000 fcet above sea level. Q. 1= it true that A Cary died on the same day iid not dic on the 1d Phoebe. 3L same months of each ry was fifty-c f her death and Alice wrote Phoebe ms. M novels ard Miss hymne Q. What is A. Steamers are called tramp st lers when they do not belong to any regular steamship company, but are operated by individuals. Q. What —J. 0. H. A. parent of all our modern gumes of ball, the ancestor of tennis, < the cldest game of bal The testimony of William Gibbs Mc- Adoo that his conmection with 1d- ward L. Doheny was entirely a busi- ness relationship between lawyer and client cleared the air so far he was personal concerned, in the opinion of editors who have discussed the situation. The majority, less of this fact, Mr. McAdoo's presi- dential boom has been punctured to an extent from which it hardly can recover. Because, as the Springfield Repub- lican sees it, “politics is a law unto itself and insensitive to the ap- peals of logic once a people’s suspi- cions, prejudice and emotions have been aroused” and “the chief benefit McAdoo's candidacy could bestow upon his party would be, perhaps, the prevention of the nomination of a i ble, than he is, éven after the Although “intelligent, s :Adoo_consider him’ blameless in this affair.” the Loujs- Courier-Journal holds that “in the passions and partisanship, the {ignorance and unscrupulousness of a national campaign, Mr. u be at a certain disadvantage which wise party leaders would prefer to avoid in a leader. * k% ¥ The San Franeisco Bulletin claims further that regardless of any cer- tificate issued by the Senate commit- tee “it is improbable that it will have the effect of satisfying the democratic national convention that he is a de- sirable candidate.” “Then, too, the voters have every right to say that they don’t want a man who i closely affiliated with the oil com- panies for President of the United States.” the Duluth Tribunme argue: and “Mr. McAdoo can ‘protest in dignantly’ from now until the crack of doom, and it won't change the opinions ‘of very many.” . + As it stands, the new York Time: observes “his unfortunate experienc will have the effect of being, as it were, a public notice posted above tha entrance of the office of the Mexi- can Petroleum Company: ‘Abandon (Political) Hope All Ye Who Enter Bellingham (Wash.) Herald “If McAdoo's connection asks: him unavailable as a candidate, why ies | which | ican Golfer says that | |however, are convinced that, regard- | candidate less available, certainly less | piifiioq cAdoo would | York city, claims to have the largest | Then came the | numerous | i Monroe, jble a | neath the su; I nothing to do with brin. evolution to & wame where something besides’ the naled hand was wecd fo; StrKing the ball. Wirst the land was 2overed with a glove to protect if first rude form of rac quet and bat, which underwent man: changes until the present. day racquet and bat were evolve, Q. Should gold, silver and bron printing be carried on fn a separa’ room?—P. R. D. A. The public health service cay that such work should be conducted in vooms set apart for the purpose The ventilation should be of the best with exhausts for getting rid of the dust, and etrict attention should be paid to personal cleanliness. Q. How many rounds did Willa and Johnson fight when Willard won the heavyweight title? Also Jeffries and Johngon when Johnson won the title?—J. M. O. A. The Willard and Johnson fiz Was twentv-six rounds and the . fries and Johnson fight was fiftern round Q. Is Yellowstone National Park « of the seven wonders cf the world A. This park is not number. among the geven wonders of the mod- ern world, but it it included amone the wonders of America. The ot are Niagara, Mammoth Cave, the den of the Gods, the Yosemite vall the giant trees of California Natural bridge in Virginia Q. What was the era of good feo ing?—H. C. A.In Ame history the two administrations President up to the time of the car Daign for his successor, 1817-1824 known as the era of good fecl There were practically 1o issu but one party, Monrce being unani mously re-elocted in 1820 except for the personal whim, of one elec rican political Q. Where do cels breed?—I3. 0. ] A. The bureau of fisheries says th cels breed in sait water. The Ameri- can eels breed in water deep off the southwest muda. European cel L & few miles of the same place. Th two species h never heen knowr to cros Young eels migrate to fresh No American cel ever bes nd in Luropean w nor a cel in Americarn streams. What is the chemical of the onion?—V. H. M The composition of t far as mineral cont cerned i compos o. A. veget sulphur, .00 Q steppes P, A. Both ar plains in Russ ground of the fair and tunfra ce cven in Q. What is @ trunk line? A, This is t n lin roud or o which ) brar lines diverge. bluir and have tin tur: —D. A an Tiquid cot if soap or refully rinsed from the cloth precaution is taken satisf s are certain. this « not « If this tory res (The person who loxes it 45 one who guesses. The person u gets on is alwous the ove iwho acts upon reliablc information. per emptops Prederic J. H conduct an information bureaw the public. There is no cha copt' 2 cents in stamps for T postage. Wrile 1o lam today any facts wow desire. Your inqui shouid be addressed to The Star I Hand ball is believed to be the | formation Burcaw. Fredese J. Hos Kin. dircctor, 1200 r. North Capit ) Effect of the Oil Scandal on McAdoo’s Political Fortunes that “the situation puts hi nerable position as a though it does not ref as a_man or lawyer. E tempt to involve his in the oi controversy for political purpos in the judgment of the Los Angeles “wholly unwarranted and * " This_opini indorsed by the Wichita 1o du ame, Mr. McAdoo's vote-gett the Detroit ¥ P “has had a fearful crimp put Lig a crimp that the w acres of his party are already com- mencing to speculat will the convention strength he seemed o have sewed up. o which the Loa noke World-New: e field f possible demorcruti ential nor inees is absolutely ide open on. ® * * there is no outstanding lead ership in the democratic party today The Baltimore Sun McAdoo should s v innuendo that parti respongible for bringing irto the mess, because did not determine and partisan noli ing ou regret to ployment connection nor with hi before the committee.” ever beffect on his ol % xerted by the me the employ of olicny the practice of lis p 8 not involved directly or indireotly editable.” the No “the publi it never h reason fgr doubting—that & inent presidential aspirant s ur touched by the greatest of nationa scandals.” The Omaha World-Herald declares furthermore. “if it were not that My McAdoo is a candidate for the pros denoy the attempt to make a case against him would be laughed out of the court of public opinion. and it may be so disposed of anvhow In this oconneotion the Tochester Herald says: “Knowledge of the fa with relation to Mr. MeAdoo must inevitably result in a revulsio of feeling in his favor, following th unwarranted republican attacks mad on his reputation. It will also re the members of tho present tration will discover to their n, in the riveting of public at tention on the persons whom such scurrilous tactics are intended protect from a just vengeance.” * ¥ * The Knoxville Sentimel defends hi with | connection with the oil trust be Doheny was not such as to rendery ..o . it MoAdoo regarded does he relinquish his $25.000 retainer ; an opportunity to ‘render a genuine after his connection is disclosed, and why, under the circumstances, did he quit ‘at all”’ If he were prompted to his course on the theory that the pro fessional connection is harmful to h presidential candidacy, the Butte Post insists, “the public comment will be that his resignation comes quite too late.” * k k * Granting that there may be nothing fraudulent about his actions, the Lansing State Journal questions whether “it is altogether proper for a high government bfficial, either pres- ent or former, to undertake to pro- mote the private interests of a corpo- ration in another country.” For all of this, now that he has had his day in court, it seems to the Richmond News Leader that “he has demon- strated plainly that in 1819 he un- wittingly had been compelled to choose between the presidential nom- ination this year and clients of a cer- tain type—and had chosen the cHients " T And it is his misfortune, ccording to the Norfolk (Neb.) News,. i service' in engaging to contest the confiscatory designs of the Mcxican government a8 affecting the oil prop- erties of Americans” Moreover, “it was in keeping with the polioy of the administration of which he had been a member and it was a legiti- mate and righteous cause in itsell in which to engage” 'Tho Orcson Journal feels further that publio’s estimate of Lim will bs de termi by his statement, and the pre-judgments of partis: newspapers that want him out the way because they fear strength as a candidate.” Inasr as “Mr. McAdoo's defense of himself rings true” the Sioux City Journa suggests that “the American pcople hesitato befors they condemn and convict him unjustly.” Tho New York_ Post. nevertheless, concludes “the McAdoo case is now befors the jury of public opinion. On the ver dict and on the knees of the political gods future eof Willian Gibby not rosts ths political Aadoay