Evening Star Newspaper, May 7, 1924, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ©.. WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 192% e THE BVENING SDAR| ‘oo tnt” 1 i s sraves hnger. | vas a0 gt of bbhovonw. G| [———————————————————— Outrunning Rum-Runners ' Small Boat Work—The Chase of the Nervous Fishermen—The Careless Bootlegger Who Didn’t Run—The Mysterious Flight of the Men on the Dock. In Five Parts—Part III. E EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D.C. | WEDNESDAY......May 7, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor| The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. acd Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. Chicago Office Tower Buil | Puropean Oftce: 10 KegentSt. London, Kugland. | The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning | edition, is delivered by carriers within the cits ai 60 cents per month: daily only, erits per month day only, 20 cents per month. _Orders be sent by mail or tele pbone Main 5000, lection is made by car- | Fiers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance, Maryland and Virgi Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $8.40 only 21¥r., 36.00 3 1 moy, 5o y ouly......1yr, $2.40 c All Other St therwise cred ws pub Al rights tioa of | Aches herein a The California Primaries. this morning of the | yesterday's pr al preferen. | tia slifornin showed 1t President Coolidge had 4 majority Senator Johnson of precinet, which primaries in ¢ over three | main- votes to th ed at state for Johnson peopl he The returns were i would ¢ 20,000 ratio by about said the him inadequate to estimate h realization of ng The smacked ¢ wirid presented, if his ost own climinate the pos party and uraging the tormation hird party, thereby throwing tion of President to the Ilouse with the certainty of a deadlock in that body through in hilit; pear to command a ibility ossen the not sspect of en of o elec of either majority? Politi nator Johnson bolt the held that stage a with h Dakota vot been The | of possible been any | the Cleveland conven he will have dramatic little han cannc no occasion from the of South cla b ha dfu it he has t ted unfairly in the primaries n of favor helming to tharge that wanipulation Terdict in favor The rength emarkable spec sestion is that the to a of 1 form of th rev ation as to ntiment | shown to exist so widely and | > Union, confidence wlidge and unwilling- | anse in the govern- | The New Crime Phase. Yesterday in a New York court the *"Bobbed-hair bandit” and her husband were sentenced to a term of from ten to twenty years in prison. Having had a few months of excitement and, it would seem, small profits from crime, . they now Pass into the obsc rison life. The this case seems to have been the promcter of | the eriminal enterprise. Yet when she | was arrested and brought under ex- | amination she proved to be of very ordinary in Being in need of money, and not disposed to work honestly to get it, she and her hus band tried the trick of surprise hold- ups. It took nerve and some skill.| They were lucky. They got away with | number of robberies, which netted them a ridiculously small sum. If hey had applied the same energy and | intelligence to straight living they | would have made almost as much, perhaps more, and would now be at berty. While these two young people were | heing sentenced a girl at Waterbury, Conn., fourteen years old—and also hobbed of hair—was confessing to eight burglaries which she committed without any assistance. She carried a full kit of tools, and in some cases broke into stores through cellars and trapdoors. She was caught through the foolish display of a five-dollar gold piece to her schoolmates. This is a new era in American crime. Women are going in for high- waymanry and burglary, even chil- dren. It is evident that something is wrong with the training of the younger generation. Can it be that certain motion pictures, with their suggestion of daredeviltry and adven- ture, have promoted this development of juvenile and feminine crime? ———————— and a few days of publicit young wor N lligence Monarchists continue to assert that the only way to run a government is 10 make some one man uncomfortable and often a little ridiculous. ——————— The primaries have enabled Presi- dent Coolidge to claim a record for the carliest landslide in any presidential vear. An ancient theory of old-world diplomaey was that the object of one ‘war was to finance the next. e r———— Stalled Car, Eight Dead. The latest gradecrossing accident is reported from Amsterdam, N. Y. where @ motor car earrying eight peo- ple was stalled on a track and struck by an express train. All of the eight ‘ware killed. This case is typical of a large number’ of the gradecrossing tragedies. The driver of the car tries to get across the tracks, “chokes” his engine in attempting to accelerate his ‘pace or to back off, and is left helpless on the rails. There is no time for the wceupants to escape. ‘The roads are filled with motor cars driven by inexperienced persons, “new drivers,” as they are called. They have not mastered the mechanism. *Theyhave not reached the point of self- «<control in emergency. In city traffic = stalled car may be quite safe from weciflent, perhaps even safer than a moving car, for trafic adjusts to ft. But at a grade crossing a ear that has | the park | has | priation of $1,000,000 a v | periods, Usually the grade crossing s a “hump" in the road. It often requires change of gears to make the grade. The car may be stalled in the shifting or in acceleration. Given an inex- perienced driver, who is subject to confusion in a crisis, and this may happen any time. Of course, there is only one real cure for this evil, and that is the total elimination of grade crossings. But that is a long time off. To abolish all the grade crossings in this countr even in the closely populated eastern section, would cost an enormous sum - beyond the possibilities of several of large expenditure. But whitever the cost, that must be the ctive of endeavor. Meanwhile, all Crossing: b protected,” so that it will not be possible for any tracks when a within a range b, must road user to reach the train is approaching e aceident. drivers who go into the are of poss M country i car where grade encountered must take into rount the fact that they are liable to be Lught witiout power at these points. only one safe rule for all drivers, however experienced, and is to stop the car before going to make surc that there is no danger. If every machine thus before crossing these shocking accidents would be cut down to mall percentage. — Park Commission Bill. The Senate has passed the bill for the f park commission with to develop and extend the park svstem of the Capital. The passage of the bill liberal and intelligent interest in the present and future of American Capital and recognizes that part of the re- sponsibility for making Washington 1+ greater Capital, or the greatest Capital, rests on the whole people. This bill has also been favorably re- ported by the House District com- mittee. Its aim is to give to the Cap- park and playsround ces, to preserve scenic tracts and serve stream flow and forest near and to bring Washing- in line with other cities in these matters. The bill h the support of the American Civie As committees of that a: enting least fifty The as- ociation has said that “Washington ny areas vital to its park ystem Congress slow to act or has not acted at all,” and that “so much circumlocution is required to add a single lot or acre to stem that it is hardly re- markable that one plot after another be put to pri by its owner. & crossings There is that cross the tracks were checked ver. creation powers shows shington sociation repre- at cities. has lost n because has been e uses Lill would provide an appro- ar, and the commission would administer that fund in acquiring desirable land within t . taking over the val- ler of Rock Creek from some point near its source and the valleys of some of its principal “feeder” streams, acquiring lands on both sides of the Potomac between Washington and Great Falls, turning part of Sligo he ci { valley and perhaps part of the valley of Northw serves, de st Branch into public re- celoping a park and boule- vard along the west shore of the river hetween Washington and Mount Ver- non and preserving the ruins of a number of the civil war forts. Tract after tract that should have been reserved for public use has been built on, bits of forest or stretches of fine woods have been felled, streams dried up and hills cut away and val- leys filled. The city has been milt beyond its original bounds, with small provision for park or play space, and is growing fast, while it is powerless to take over desirable and relatively low-priced lands for public use. If this course continued the new Washington, already larger than the cid Washington and destined to be very much larger than the Washing- ton planned and provided for by the most illustrious Americans of the revolutionary and early republican will be almost a parkless town. Most cities are looking to the future and reserving lands for the use of all the people, and the Capital, if it is to hold its rank as a great and desirable city, must do likewise. e There is @ sentiment in favor of es- tablishing world conditions that will render it unnecessary for any nation to have a navy. Until these conditions are attained every nation naturally feels inclined to have as large a navy as it can afford. e D'Annunzio failed to get $5,000 each for his manuscripts sold at auction. He has had better luck dealing with the publishers than with the public direct. e — Whenever Nicky Arnstein fails to put in an appearance as legally sched- uled the idea is jumped at that he is engaged in making & fortune—one ‘way or another. Raussia and Germany. A ‘diplomatic issue that has just arisen between Russia and Germany illustrates the closeness of the rela- tionship between the soviet official government and the business enter- prises conducted under the auspices of the soviet regime. For some time past a Russian commercial delegation has been established at Berlin for the purpose of promoting trade between the two countries. A few days ago a com- munist prisoner, passing through Ber- lin in police custody, bya trick escaped in the commercial delegation offices through the assistance of the attaches. ‘The police raided the building and took a number of prisoners. Imme- diately the Moscow government pro- tested, claiming extraterritoriality, on the ground that the commercial dele- gation was a part of the diplomatic establishment. The Berlin govern- ment refused to surrender the pris- oners taken in the raid, and now the Russian embassy at Berlin has an- nounced that it is temporarily putting an end to all commercial relations with Germany, closing the offices. Going back to the first incident, there is evidence that the escape of the communist was schemed by the commercial bureau attaches. There is reason to believe, indeed, that the man ciation and of |, many appears to ba deeply resentful of the manner in which the Russian government has sought to establish at Berlin an organization which is both political and commercial in char- acter. Documents that were submitted some months ago to the Senate from the State Department in connection with the proposil to recognize the government at Moscow plainly showed the “interlocking directorate” nature of the organization in Russia. There is no branch of service over there that is not tied up directly with thé gov- ernment itself and with the com- munist “internationale,’ which is in reality the mainspring of all the en- ergies. Germany is now feeling the effect of this remarkable system. ————————— Conventions and ‘“Days.” Treasurer Upham of the Republican national committee says that the con- vention at Cleveland will probably fin- ish its work on Thursday, June 12 and adjourn. This will avoid any transuction of business on Friday, the 13th. Of course, there is no super- stition in this, simply a matter of winding up the work in short order and getting away. Mr. Upham, with a view doubtless to allaying any ap- prehension on the score of a possible scare about the traditionally unlucky . says that “it will be quite diffi | cult to string the convention out be- | yond Thursday.” lnasmuch as one ballot will probably suffiee for the sc- lection of a presidential candidate, and perhaps only one for a vice presi- | dential choice, this would seem to be | sound reasoning Democratic side a different situation prevails. The New York con vention will assemble June 24, with a large field of candidates for the nom- ination and a bitter fight in prospeet. The two-thirds rule stands in the wa; of a speedy decision. The question there will be, Can the convention be so managed as 1o effect a nomination by the 4th of July? That would be eleven days. With a recollection of what happened in Baltimore in 1912 and in San Francisco i 1920 this would not seem to be an unduly long And July 4 would be a dra- + date for the climax. On the a period. m . So here is presented the prospect of one party hurrying up its convention work to avoid a date that is associated with misfortune, and the other per- haps hurrying up its work to reach a on on a date that has a pa- igniticance. The situation is interesting in this respect, as in other way con triotic s v One of the Coolidge traits that seem to appeal to Republican leaders is his devident determination to avoid the precarious fame of the “spellbinder.” = “EmEREE A Paris author is to fight three literary reviewers. For purposes of advertisement the sword is mightier than the pen. —————— Speeches on tax reduction cannot be made sufficiently impressive to make figures of speech as popularly interesting as plain arithmetic. ————— Tt would not be surprising to find geologists hinting that the ofl supply will give out before the oil mvestiga- tion does. ————— While secking to erase some lines of investization, Mr. Harry Daugh- erty is willing to supply others to take their places. ————— According to his political friends, Robert M. La Follette has not merely recovered his health, but is ready to go into training quarters. e —e—— A *Light-Wine-and-Beer*” partywonld probably have about as much actmal influence just now as the Prohibition party used to have. ——————— A large German vote in favor of Mr. Ddwes has no effect worth mention- ing so far as he is personally con- cerned in an American election. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOENSON. Pro Bono Pub. 1t's always lofty meral ground That men assume to hold, ‘Whenever they are looking *round A reason to unfold For going on a selfish way Where they most pleasure find; “The things that we enjoy,” they say, “Will benefit mankind. And so the king put on his crown And grabbed a heavy tax. He bade delinquents kneel them down To intercept the ax. The princes—and the peasants, too— Advantage strive to take, . And vow the course that they pursue 1s for the public's sake. Self-Helpfulness, *Nations, like men,” said the ready- ‘made philosopher, “should, when in difficulty, be expected to help them- selves.” “True,® answered Senmator Sor- ghum; “but what are they going to do if no one provides money far them to help themselves to.” Jud Tunkins says he hopes the Con- gressional Record won't be called on to print so much scandal that it have trouble in getting through the mails, Humor and Pathos. ‘The comic pictures that disclose Strange sights evoked my glee. A man misformed Jike one of those One day I chanced to see, ‘With features so inanely queer + And crooked hands and teet, And Lhex\: 1 shed a human tear Of sympathy complete. Sweet Condescension. . “Were you not proud of the cheers that greeted you on the street?” “Ah, yes,” answered the motion pic- ture actress. “I was glad to be gen- erous and give the dear people a chance to look at me and applaud without paying enything.” “De man dat don’t have nuffin’ but kind words foh everything,” said Uncle Eben, “gits a reputation foh pore judgment an® loses his influ- ence”™ BY BEN McKELWAY. Three bums, hard-boiled from the crowns thelr heads to the soles of their feet, stand dejected on deck, leaning over the rail and watching the Seminole’s officers searching their captured speed boat for evidence. This evidence turns up in a package of letters addressed to various cities in One of them, written in h, recounts the writer's adven- road, and how he shipped aboard the Norwegian steamer An at Antwerp. Her cargo was cases of grain aleohol. “We Antwerp and got here after twenty-two days at sea” the letter said. “We expect to get rid of our cargo by the middle of May. Then back to Antwerp or Halifax for more. The shore is only twelve miles aw and we can o it when it's r. Our officers are good and let us drink all we want to. If you see anybody from the home town, don't tell them what I'm doing.” oarding a s withoat tha nec clearance pa- pers for enguging in foreign trade is misdemeanor. The three men raught Ly th ole had been The letters ishore testified to held and their Seminole’s tro- ters such as Ip the prohi- Keep ab o w This let- Andora ex- Farope. Swedi tures foreign v 1 at r mail are they that boat is added to the phics for the day. the ones quoted above b bit authorities to what's doing in Rum I ter, for instance, said th ted to dispose of her cargo of 15,000 of alcohol within a mionth Fifteen thousand cuses from one ves- I, and there are about fifty an- chored along 200 miles of the Atlantic coast! had to the Speed Boat Is Armed. The speed boat captured from the gentlemanly Canadian looks sea- worthy and she has already given evidence of her speed. So her tanks are filled with gasoline and the junior officer gets aboard with three men, a guard flag, Lewis mach gun, three rifles and four .45 auto- matics. The Old Man gives this writer permi go along and we leave the x or seven miles off Montauk Foint. Our rendez- vous is New London, Conn., time that night The jur is zood at small boat worl without A ago, while man erew spent t the g hi ture grees below Zero, every dashing its frozen & over the gunwales. They were Dick- ed up half frozen late the next day after an all-night search by the Semi. nole and other cutters. Only a Fishing Boat. coast 0 some minole It is not | few months | Our small boat heads for Montauk | Point to search the little bays and inlets which lie between Long Istand and the mainland. It is a fine hunt- ing ground for bootleggers, pirates. highjackers and other cut-throatin gentlemen who wish to make use of it. A glance at a chart bears this out. *There are countless little b; and which make fine harbo: and hiding places for small craft, while the i attered in Gardi- ner: 3 Bay and Block Island Sound are 1y and desolate. with few inhab We round itants. Montauk Poi nd cruise along be- hind rdiners island. A boat is headmg out into the sound off from shore, and we change our course to intercept it. They catch sight of us and speed up. We may be pirates or highjackers, for all they know, and they seem to be taking no chances One of our crew cannot rv‘s"!lllw temptation to stand u the stern ana examine the fleeing craft through the sights of his Springfield . Our officer pulls his throttle wide open, and twenty-five vards or so Sttern the other hoat we show our | finge, The pursued craft swings about | and two m and twc » ask why the «d_her, the iin, and point to the man with pringfield. They didn't know | Who we were until the revenue flag vas shown. WiVe run up Gardiners Bay and sight a speed boat ahead, making for Long fsland Sound. With throttle open we bemin closing down on her. She's Pither slower than we are, or else she doesn't see anything to run from She probably recognizes the boat a 2 rum-runner and she keeps on her “ourse without any attempt to get aw: The Old Man's rabbit foot a lands s Nepeague othir ermen. X fishermen | “I am the master of my fate, ntaia of my sonl? L s cepheimlol oy S Early in his career as a prospector, Edward L. Doheny vowed to make $100,000, and several times he was near his goal, but when he was forty he did not have $40 to his name. For twenty years he had sought under- ground riches, and, after hunting and being hunted by Indians, after being maimed in a mine and erippled by a mountain lion which he killed with a knife, he found himself in middle life stranded in Los Angeles At Fond du Lac, Wis, where he was born, he was graduated from high school at fifteen, although he had worked the greater part of each year. Heé went with a surveying party to Oklahoma when he was seventeen. Then, going to New Mexico, he made $2,000 dealing in horses captured from marauding Indians, but lost every- thing pn a prospecting tour in the Black H <. Another venture failed and he began the study of metallurgy and geology in earnest. He discovered and developed the sil- | ver district at Kingston, N. M, in 1880 and quickly garnered $30,000. At twenty-five he was mine owner and operator and partner of C. A. Canfield, mining wizard. For a few years he prospered. Then he fell down a mine Shaft and broke both legs. In the hospital he studied law, and at the ena. of six months was' admitted to rtnership in a law firm. P %0z, In Los Angeles, he took a handful of sreasy dirt from a wagon, grasped the meaning of it, and dis- Govered his first well, which was in the heart of the city. It failed, but with $400 he and Canfleld bought an- other property and found oil. Again making money fast, he was refused funds by bankers and had to trustee his property fo escape bankruptcy. At forty he was broke. Within two years he had his [‘broparulas tb‘ncl(_ in 1900, prospecting in & private car, he discovered the Tampico ofl flelds, in Mexico, which was the start of the gigantic Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Company, of which he is His wells bave produced more than a billion barrels of ofl and have made him one of the world’s richest men, . ACwprHizht 1924% . o working again. If the eutter were here now there would be a merry chase ut the boat, chugging away ahead, suspects nothing. Crew Prepares for Worst. Meanwhile, preparations are under w for the worst. The crew strap their automatics on and unbutton the holster flaps The Lewis gun is brought to bear on the enemy and the Springfields are made r The writer, unarmed, prepa; duck. But there no action. ourself in the rum-runner's place. You are breezing along, headed for the great open spaces ashore, with ckpit full of liquor, and vou nother rum-runner slowly overhauling you. Nothing to be excited about in that Merely a neighbor, sing along the way. Then imugine our friend rum my's ings whe this neighborly boat astern display simultancously, @ revenue flag, three Springticld rifles, Tewi un and four men in the uniform the United States Navy everything pointing your w itper panderionium or consternation must reign supreme, and the rummic aught in the act, stop their hoat on board. Hard-looking both of them. They offer f0r o questions are hundred cases of aleohol h whisky are stored in the ockpit, with a arpaulin ring the loof. We transfer three . suitably armed, to the ca a ssel and both boats proceed acry the sound and into the New London harbor. a e In Transportation Game. Caught with the goods, these leggers were not backward. The are in the transportation game, they and haven't anything to do with disposing of the liquor after it's ashore. They get as high as $5 a case for transporting. On 600 cases they make $3,000. Not a bad day's work And when they are arrested the bond is not usually more than $1.500. An- other da. at up Th ) the harbor and anehors i lit r we do has spent the duy hips in_the ruii Point. Ne iv coming back after anchorage during the will be coming in throush the Sailors Will boot More night Be Sailors. the New prisoners on the wptured boats de the S nt are sent to Tnited missioner in Semino lowing. T BY N. 0. MESSENGER Only seventy-five delegates to the Republican national convention re- main to be chosen. Wyoming, West Virginia, Texas, Oregon and Minne- sota will speak during May, the last primaries being held May 27. The game is up—in fact, it has been up for several weeks; the ball is over | and the country knows the result. | Politteal speculation now hinges | upon the possible and prospective | course of Senator Hiram W. Johnson | of California and the trou he may desire to make and can make. He has in his nds vast potentiality for | ®ood or evi he do with jt? ¥ * % The major opinfon among { clans that he will not walk out | the convention, for there oceasion for his actually bolting the convention. The pre-convention con- | test has been a fair fight. He has| | not been steam-rollerv any stage | | of the game, and he will be treated | with all consideration’ at Cleveland— | if he goes to the convention. | ot_much opportunity will be pre- | sentea for future unfavorable publ sm of the d inant element in cpubliean party except through the issuance of statements or unles he should take the chautiuqua stump. | % ¥ ¥ politi- t seems | But what he could do, the politi- |d cians say, would be 1o bide his t until the Democrats make their nor ination, and until it whic | way the | party movemen | either the | | | seen is t, then swing over to| Democratic or third-part to his party; what will | t hops in a possible third- | s | candidat |stven and hi own along. He that way. it is point that would enable stump and get the | the pessibility of election being throwr is being seriously cox |itical effeet of Ser his followers poss: Republican party m | account. | could troub Dec take Wher presidenti; people’s rr e Preparations for the national co vention of the Farmer-Labor party Panl June 17 are going rapidly ahead. This convention will be an effort get together disconten The in S| | to intr D wever, | success. Prediction is m ill break up in a row over i to compose so many conflic pu n Tammany r to the the ors cated by the ¢ sundry groans and | is ac that portion “forrud, curses are heard from the ship designated There the bootleggers : ng on certain unoccupied portions of the deck and every now and then a sailor stumbles over a head or & thus causing boot- e to groan loudl recl lung or somethi legger owning s One of them spoke thus the follow morning p'n. put me in the bri or put me in the hoosgow ashore, bu for Pete's sake don’t make me spend another night forrud this here ship. Every time 1 get to sleep some birg shoves me the rib with h foot. I'm sore all over.” Possibl it was unintentiopal on the sailors part. But boys will be boys i nole z over of take this in on in disp waters w e no icion, but the 7t in command decides to en- Salt Pond on Block Isiand s doing in that stirriz It is late in the afternoon, and with her uniformed crew n the cockpit, approac 1o dock, where waits a small truck. Two men forget their uniforms and stand upright. The men ashore. a tending th take one look the unifc feap into the truck, and away she ratties over the hil out of sight. HBarely has she gone when a rustv-looking Ford descends » hill, skids to a stop, and the driver gets out on dock. Evervbody standing up now the launch. d one look at the uniforms seem to satisty the man in the Ford. He bounds back into the driver's s and away he goes, traveling as only a Ford can travel, bounding from crag &, over the crest of the hill and We stick around close to the dock to get some explanation for this strange behavior, but nothing is forthcoming and nobody else puts in an appearance. The men ashore wera probably expecting a load of liquor from the fleet. They saw the launch, saw the uniforms and left for parts unknown. But it's getting late. We've ot to meet the cutter off Block Island. Walkers Vs. Motorists. Former Detroit Man Says Pedes- trians Need “Education.” To the Editor of The Star: Boing a reader of your paper for a number of years and having read in vour columns recently a great deal about the traffic situation, would liko to make a few remarks regarding the proposed “boulevard system” as suggested by some people, as con- cerns the District. T recently roturned to this city after a sojourn in the middle west and speak as both a motorist and a pedestrian. In Detroit, where this system is in vogue, you will notice that the acci- dent rate is exceedingly high. Speak- ing from the pedestrian point of view I would say that if the people of this city were as cautious and careful as the people in Detroit, the toll of life from accidents would dwindle to naught. On the other hand. speaking as a motorist, T will state that this sys tends to_promote reckless driving, cess speeding,” carelessness, otc. some of the “through streets” in Detroit, heavy commercial trucks or the liké are prohibited from running; on this score the traffic will not be “slowed up” and the streets will be preserved for a longer period. I drove a car in Detroit for three months and when T first started 1 never went more than eighteen or twenty miles an hour. But after be- coming acclimated to the conditions T was keeping up with the rest of the “gang” and twenty-eight or thirty miles an hour was a minimum rate of speed. Some people may ask, “What about the police; don’t they over bother you?” Very seldom did 1 ever see any one stopped for speed- ing in that ety, and only then in the downtown section of the city, where speeding has to be curtailed. Some one. suggested, I think, to inaugurate a system here by having the speed of vehicles left to the dis- cretion of the driver. In this case there would be very few citizens left here, because in a short time they would be resting peacefully. ‘The crying need is for the educa- tion of the pedestrians: L e., to have more “pep” and life while crossing streets. Only yesterday T was standing on the corner of 13th and F streets when a man walked across the street read- ing a newspaper, and a motorist stopped to let him pass, asking him if he wouldn't like a chair to sit on. The chances are five to_one if this “bira” pulled that off in Detroit, he would be with the angels today. JOHN E. DURYEE, inother ime n stigat to arouse sus on 5|ent at least nd | posi e Surro 1 Surro. s about tion of leade be E but_the powerful | Mayor retored, | " Aequie in Mayor position would mean & Hearst vietory, | Claim the old-line Tammany men, and | might complicate Gov. Smith's | to which Hylan's op- | p | known tween the governor : | The situation is of importance in its possi | the Smith boom, which is now go strong. | * | *Is Semator La Fol | a third-party movement?’ Tha | question agitating both Democrats and | Republicans. No one can answer it but the senator himself, and for the pres- ike Brer Rabbit, * x * is the | lay low and say nothin’." | " But some of his friends back home are not so reticent. In an addre: before the Young Men's Prosressive Association of the Stat |at Madison, May State Solomon Levitan urged the nece: of the nomination of Senator | Follette for the presidency by Republican party as t rular candi- date of the Iepublican He is a delerate at the Republican 1 conv ; address does threat of a revolt | his followers, but against the stearm | convention. not breathe any by the senator or sts a_warning roller tacties in the 1 | | | * % % % - “Steam-roller tactics,” said State Treasurer Levitan, “in the convention will be of no avail. Steam_ roller methods have put it over on the people before, but they will not alwavs put it over. This time the people want a man, not a party pawn. America wants a real leader, a man hig enough to bring us all togather, a man who can bring order out of Class has been arraved | against clas Our nation _is _torn with strife and dissension. Medieval race hatreds have broken out; blind prejudice has stalked hand in hand with the red menace of unrest and revolt. B “America needs a man like La Pol- lette to rid this country of these un- American influences, to relieve the economic burdens of the people, to set up a clean and stable government in which the people can once more have faith. “If the republican party wishes to | continue to_represent the American | people_at Washington, they must give the people 2 leader to whom they can rally, a man whom they can trust. That man is Robert Follette.” *x Upon reflection, the thought oc- curs that Mr. Levitan's apprehension of possible steam-roller methods in the conyention is a little far-fetched. There will be no need to fire up the far-famed and justly celebrated steam roller for this convention. The Republican voters have forestalled any such necessity. By a verdict but little short of unanimous they have named President Coolidge as their choice for candidate for the presi- and hardly a peep by way of is expected to be heard in the convention. e Not more than half a dozen con- | tests are staged for the meeting of the committes on credentials a few days prior to the convention, and they come from states where dele- gate contests are perennial. And the significant foature fs that these contests i between rival fac- tions of Republicans, oach of which is committed to President Coolidge's nomination. So it is like looking for a mare's nest to talk about steam-roller meth- ods in this conventlon. * ok oh o In the Democratic natfons conven- tion the first big battle will come be- tween Willlam G. McAdoo and Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York. It promises to 'be flerce and prolonged, and it is predicted by politicians that after it is over neither will find the nomination goal in sight. It is said that the delegates they have gathered in will simply be dis- tributed among other candidates and go to reinforce the others’ hands. So the energy they are now display- ing in capturing delegates appears to | recent | peace, where there is no peace national | bo a case of loves labor lost and that others ' will reap whera they "have sowny - 2 - ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. How old was Beau Brummell when he dled? John Barrymore por- trays him as a very old man.—I. C. A. He died in an insane asylum at the age of sixty-tw¥o years. He was born in London, the son of North's private secretary, and educated at Eton and Oxford. Lora was From | his father he inherited about £30,000. | oo Through a chance meeting with the Prince of Wales, afterward 1V, he became a court favorite, set- ting the styles in men's clothes for many vears. The last few years of his life were passed in abject pov- erty, the asylum in which he died being for the mendicant insane. Q. Where is the largest office build- ing in world?—M. 1. A 1 hle Trust Company buildin cw York city, is said to be the St oflice building at pres- George lars Who invented the am engin . D, N In 1717 Henry Beighton invented em of “hand gear’ which ren- rid the stewm engine completely acting. Q ste What would huppen it an irre- ‘hould meet an im- s the impossible to it is d happen if the con- what wou dition did exist. governed "—IL. demcribed as @ repub- ussian central How is Russ 1swia of committee nanimous 21 constituti est authority s the Congress of Soviets, made up o representatives of the towns, sovic and of provinch sovie The congress elects the cimtmal executivq committee of 300 members, in whose hands lie the su- prema 1 tive and administrativ Jowers, and which is the controlling ody of the stat This central tmittee forms a council of people’s commizsars for the general admin- istration. I A u Lies it [ com Q. Dn the Philippines have a Labor = A 1 is eelebrated as Philippine Islands. Labor ¥ long ait be?”—R. J. F. A fa ost beau langua. A. While this is a matter of opinion. twenty words which won in 4 ng contest are: Me splendor, IN TODAY'S BY PAUL things ing T pessim Internati the pessimists all c—and disappoin mal League for ¥ conferenc Washington stirred up so many wars within t ranks of Americans that its most fit- ting text appeared to be “Peace " The peace The ace at its in w demanded rah whi good ladies who called upen them a peaceful that disciple of nounced from the s for war—when to & oration, it is 3 war of de- fense” He explained to the daughter of Gen. John A. Logan that the Borahs had fought for their count and that the trouble with the United States was largely due to its faBure to recogmize soviet Russia. Then he told the delegates from China and elsewhere that the trouble with the world was largely due to the failure of their countries to disarm, so that it would be safe for the United also to come down to & or words to that effect. * X % ¥ >ursuing the policy Borah which demands t! nize soviet Russia, it note what that involves. Dictator Lenin is no more, voice entitled to speak Rus the family of nations Trotsky, head of her military. Trotsky, too, has made a peace talk within the last few days in which he told the world what ailed it. Russia owes many millions of dollars to the Tnited States, England and France, and Mr. Trotsky said: “The man condemned to be hanged who slips out‘of the noose does not pay for the rope. The struggle now going on ix a cautious exercise of craft—the sword and the gold, in othe: words. France and America ha not recognized soviet Russia. Both are arming, and therefove S8 strengthen her army, air foree. have become haberdashe: . - though we have learned to trade at home, we remain the same as were’ on the night of October 19177 If Russia had been different on Oc- tober there might not have been . S to send 000,000 Americans upon ar ecrusads, for up to that time less than 150,000 had been sent across the seas. * ¥ X X% The spirit of soviet Russis, as voiced by Trotsky—which, to the mind of the senator aforesaid, calls for recognition—is further elucidated by Mr. Trotsky in the same speech, delivered in Tiflis April 11, 1921 Referring to the financial aid which England is giving Russia, Trotsky said: ~But while the British proletariat tolerate the financiers, we shall take their loans MacDonald should have crushed Great Britain's most august idle rich and her lords, and so have made the toilers’ hearts beat merrily. But MacDonald failed, and the bour- geolsie from which he received office Will deprive him of it. We are still unable openly to wage armed battle, because the bourgeoisie can still in flict very heavy blows. But we have consolidated the revolution, and we must develop and harden our army. “We solemnly undertook in 1917 not to pay the tsarist debts, and this promise we shall honestly fulfill.” The question which will throw light upon_ Senator Borah's viewpoint is whether when Russia “hardens her army” so that it need no longer fear the bourgeoisie, he will count resist- ance as i “defensive war.” Just where s the dividing line that lies between fensive” and “offensive defense. he International League for Peace will keep its eye on Russia, for Mr. Trotsky further said: “The world revolution has miscar- ried, but wo must maintain our hard- won positions nd walit unt the Communists h e been sufficiently tempered to strike. “War has not been abolished. Ru mania has an army, and 5o have we. 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COLLINS ttack, but w do nc ¢ nd Rumania s Great B bruary 2 {de jure recogmition to s and since to jto holdine eor o1 what Minister oTm—Which M present perhaps, made ! rimiy | te the Russia what owes. 1 ) and obligati y the 3 To proy pracefal the future * In replving to Mr head of the Rus xy. two de, and pro; x 1 interests nothing its solution.” nd knows wha less pressure brc is that of Gen. | | | grap! | danger | tion wholly pa 1 * % the last th Nicholafev Par ad fa, with th thrqne, with Within Duke terviewed in :adipess to b | Communistic R toring tha Nicholas h a revolt a h In the Pan-German whic proved so active in tion in Germany, the a reunited | “Dentschland uber unfon of all Germans pose of creating the basis of the richt | mination. Like the Rus vision of the treaty of Vers and restoration of the ma onies. No Jews are to be give rights of citizenship and all for ers are to be expelled from Gen No one to permitted (o without workir ceived without be abolished war pre be confiscated and all are nationaliz Al nary tre ished.” That hits t “Prastic social reforms of are to be maugurated. “New which conflict the puhl fare il % | of the Christiy 1 without binding it confession. B ish materialisti Another faction or party anoot {a few days ago the Christianity and a return to the ship of Wotan. The German Nu Freedom party headed by Gen dendorff and Hitler, is the suc of the Pan-German party, b more radical and communist demands a parlinmentary dictat governing all Germany. In tl citement of last, Sunday’s elect Parliament a erowd gathered Ludendorfl’s house and said “We hope you will gain a_com; victory and that we shall liv participate when you the Rhine again.” The result of the election incly the “complete victory” of Gen dendorft, and Le Temps of Paris that the party favorable to the 1 ment of reparations will not arty national a of self-c ans, it demand pr R with Communism rampant in Ru “imaginary | tag. and Germany and an between the two countries’ spirit _of world revolution t brought by invading armies « proletariat! “Peace, peace, W there is no peace!” ACopyright, 1924, by Paul V. Collios.) nee 1t ty and liberty Rus then the two nations hav lead us o to muster enough votes in the dteic! t i |