Evening Star Newspaper, June 10, 1924, Page 6

6 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Merning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY........June 10, THEODORE W. NOYES. .. . Editor The EveningStar Newspaper Company ania Ave. Business Office. 11th 8t. and Pen: New York Office: 110 Kaat Chicago Offie: Tower Buil ding. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morming edition. is delivered by carriers withly the clty “af 60 cents per mon evnts per moath a month” Orders phone Main 5000 viers at the end of ea Rate by Ma"—l;n able in Advance, Maryland and Virgini; Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $5.40: 1 mo. Taily only 1yr. $6.00 Sunday only. ... Al Other States. Daily and Sunday.1 vr. $10.00: 1 mo., $5¢ $7.00: 1 mo,, 80c 1yr, $5.00;1mo, 25c Member of the Associaied Press. titled all news dis- patches credited to it or sot otherwise credited Dailr 1y, Sunda. The Associated Press i to the use for repu exelualvely lication In this paper and also f] Jished herein. Al local news righ 1924 Office: 16 Regent St., London, Knglasd. 1 mo., 50 1yr, $2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ of publieation of xpecial dispatches herein are a!so reserved. ———— Deficits, Present and Prospective. One of the fundamental fiscal laws of the emergencies and the rising of unex. | Ke1Y 10 shupe its course by them as pected conditions, but it must not be | SUides deliberately incurred through exces- | e— sive expenditures beyond the total of fund aliotment (Congress hus created a deficiency of vear, District fun for that begins Juiy 1 wide in the regular for the pay the by fiscal paid in lieu of such increases, acts making such advances in were formally passed by both houses and signed by the President. They are rules procedure in the administration of the United States ix that | tailing appropriation of the school teachers, the policemen and the firemen of the District for the increases of pay or, failing them, of the bonus formerly The pay e Otherwise—well, he says nothing on that score, but leaves much to the imagination. But if the senator says nothing, bis followers are saying a lot. One of them declares that if he runs inde- pendently he is likely to carry thirteen states, with a total of 144 electoral votes out of 531. He mentions, as the states that can be surely counted upon, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North and South Dakpta, Montana and Idaho. Then there is probability of carrying lowa., Nebraska and Wash inkton “quite easily,” and there is a “fighting chance™ in Michigan, lllinoi: Oregon and Ohio. As recently stated in these coluruns, it Coolidge can carry New England, W York, New Jersey. Pennsylvania. ryland, Ohio, ndiana, Iinois, Michigan, lowa. Kansas and Cal fornia he will huve 268 electoral votes, or just enough to win. The La Fol- lette program, as here stated. conflicts with that prospect in respect to lowa, Michigan, Ohio and Hlinols. One of these states. lowa. is in the “probuble” La Follette class. Michigan, Ohio and Tllinois are in the “fighting chance™ class. If La Follette, as an independent candidate, without a party or an or- ganization, can carry the states lalmed for him by this enthusiustic boomer he stands a chance to be the next President—if he runs. There are two “its" in this reckon- of Unbusinesslike Procedure. | 1t was remarked yesterday in The Star that if a business corporation did what Congresa did last Saturday, when it failed before adjournment to make the necessary provision to pay the government's bills formally incurred, it would risk receivership. The in- dictment of inefficiency und bad ed- ministration does not rest alone upon the specifications of the fallure of the deficiency bill, which contained, with others items, that providing for the increased salaries of teachers, firemen to the law today. A provision to meet|and policemen. There are numerous these increases failed by the narrow- | others matters of somewhat the same st margin in Cungress at the close of | nature. Take, for instance, the reso- the session, upon a point not related | lution appropriating money to meet to these local questions. It was the|the reclassification of about 125000 distinet intent of Congress to make | field workers of the federal service. the necessary allotment of funds. Congress having thus created a de- ficiency in advance, it is surely within asury to prevent caused by by authorizing the pay- these of District workers on the new scales out of the regular ap- the power of the Tr the injustice that wi that deficienc ment of three groups be salary warrants for propriations. Th: create a deficicne, will prospect tion. That will, technically. be trary to the letter of the law But a deficiency alr prospect. The vbject uf the restriction against creating a deficiency is prevent excessive expenditures not authorized by law. anthorizes these funds formally app: expenditures. opriated will permit thegpayments on the new s 1t s as certain from July 1. Why, then. may not icemen the new scale: 1, d priations as pr Congress to make at good the iv in those appropria- tions, to be met by subsequent legisla con- ady exists, in The law actually the Treasury with perfect legality meet requisitions for funds tv pay the teachers, firemen 9 awing upon the appro- vided and relying upon deficit when it convenes? Absolutely no harm not cale. s anything congres- sional can be that immediately upon reconvening the houses will pass @ de- ficiency bill to meet this need, to pay these three groups on the new scale | For some reason which is not quite clear the provisions to take care of these workers were not included in | the regular appropriations. It was suddenly found to be necessary to provide for them by special resolution. Such a resolution was framed and put through in a rush. It passed both houses, nobody objecting, for a wonder. and went speeding over to the printing office. Then “somebody blundered.” Nobody seems to know just who, or how, but the fact remains that at the last moment, when the President was signing measures at top speed. this particular resolution was lacking the signatures of the two presiding of- ficers, and so it could not receive the Executive approval. The hands of the reached the mark of 7 and to he | cloc] resolution failed. Thus 125,000 faithful workers of Uncle Sam, as fully en- titled to their reclassified salaries as any others, will be deprived of the in- crease and the bonus. amounting to $26.000.000. And all because some- body blundered This is not an isolated cuse. Such things huppen with the close of nearly jevery session of Congress. Bills of merit die because they have not been hustled through in time. Measures of importance are “talked to death. Time limits are set upon the proceed- ings, and in the grand rush at the s would be done. There would be none | close much unmeritorious legislation to question the propriety of the pro-|slips through. “Jokers" are injected cedure. Congress, which passed the | into bills that pass, unnoted in the salary laws and failed by a fluke to| hurry to get away. This is not to the make ihe necessary fund provision. | discredit of those who are charged would be in no position and would | with responsibility for the specific have no disposition to challenge the Treasury f thus preventing a gross injustice resulting from its own de- fault. In these circumstances it remains for the Commissioners to present the < to the controller general in terms ra of a requisition for authority the payments salary newly created That is the common sense on the meet the emergency which has arisen. The the money to pay Other proposals ar salaries are ordered them for period fore Congress m ble in the Treasury. be created anyway. in the least if made in full caused if they are not. unnecessa intervening these Let mke of right —.— Kven the best reporter in the world cannot be expected to electrify public if the event under consideration to make scales ¥ ts is actually availa- A deficiency will Nobody will suffer pavments are Much suffering will be the red tape of strict prm-edure be cut for the maragement of the proceedings. They are overwhelmed with a mass of de- tails. They cannot watch all the corners at once. They are the victims of the conditions. And when all is sald and done the conditions are not propitious for businesslike procedure. What is the cure? Longer sessions? Some think the sessions are too long even now. Less talk? Most people think and say emphatically that there ix far too much talk on subjects not strictly under legitimate discussion, and too little talk to the point and dis- tinctly pertinent, on general, unre- lated topics, teo much ‘“‘campaign- material” making. The cure is hard to find, and would perhaps be harder to apply. Meanwhile much injustice is done. ———————— to he In indicating the geographical cen- ter of G. O, P. political influence it becomes the duty of Cleveland to | strike out “0." and insert “Mass.” his Tt becomes evident that at the New fails to provide any thrills. A good| s reporter is most valuable for his cool, | ‘t""'f "‘_'":’nu:;:' l;m’ S"“‘:gf ,Bl 5y veracious perception. and becomes |t Virginia will shy at anything re- handicapped when expected to make minutes were read and trom the fact that approved read Victor Hugo. like a chaprer — “Tokio, like other cities. has its riot- ers who do not hesitate to select any pretext for their demonstrations, how- recognized au- ever embarrassing thority. ——————— La Follette's “Ifs.” to Robert M. La Follette, senator from ‘Wisconsin, is not present at the Cleve- land convention. He is in Washington, at the live end of a wire connecting him with the faithful twenty-eight of ‘Wisconsin's twenty-nine delegates. His son, referring to his absence, says, “Father does not go running around the country to all sorts of conven- tions.’ But whether he has ‘“Tun around” tothe Cleveland convention or not, Mr. La Follette is definitely there in spirit. Ama he is looking to his twenty-eight followers to put his spirit into effect. He commands them to present to the plstfarm makers and to the conven- if the platform makers ignore them, certain propositiona that tion {ftself, represent the ‘‘Wisconsin idea.” ‘wants the pronouncement of the Re- publioan party to contain condemna- then of certain recreant public officials by name. He hints that if these things are dsne, and if & progressive candi- daivgp mamed bty the party, he will gEnriute sy, -Soie—o sembling a gilded cage. — e rate the proceedings was permitting former Gov. introduce an element of Interest in heightened b; Lowden to suspense. — e The world will be pardoned if it grows a little weary of the “egocen- tricities of genius. et The “old guard” may at times con- sider itself lucky if not called on for kitchen police duty. ————— On a few stretches of road a “pleas- ure drive” is considered a complete success if there are no lives lost. Unloaded Guns. One bank messenger has killed an- other in New York with a pistol he thought was not loaded. It is even said that he "broke" the pistol, evi- denfly an old-type revolver, and thought that the cartridges were eject- ed. He was wrong. He pointed the pistol, pulled the trigger and his friend fell dead. It is an old story. Scarcely a day passes without a tragedy of this kind. Ahd these trage- dies have been going on for years. Many elderly persons, especlally those who lived in the country, re- member when a shotgun or rifle stood in a corner or hung on the wall in every home, and the ratio of pistels to Toen WaS greater than it is now. There wuy-eve- bsen. mare inten He Congress ceased to be in session. The | THE KVENING ing of men in proportion to the num- ber of men than now, but “accidental” killing was rare. Instruction in the use of shotgum and pistol, even in the old-settled country around Washing- ton, wes considered part of a boy's education, and instruction was nearly always given by a man who knew how to use those weapons. It may be recalled by old men that there were certain maxims which would be im- pressed on, a boy, and not to observe those maxims was cause for punish- ment with strap or birch. 1f some of those maxims of our ancestors were fullowed closely today there would be no accidental killing with gunas. Perhaps elder readers of The Star will recall that one of the maxims was zun is always loaded.” Perhaps they will recall such a boyhood lesson as this: “My son, never alm a gun at a man unless you mean to shoot. If you point @ sun at & man he has the rigat to kill you. You are to treat your gun as being always loaded, whether you know it is or not. A gun is a wegpon and never a plaything. You must never alm vour guu at a living thing ‘in fun. You are to re- member that there is no such thing as an unloaded gun." —————————— Storm News. Storm stories continue to come in ax telephone service is restored and as people arrive at telephone points over tree-strewn and storm-washed roads. The aggregate damage is large, but no loss of life other than known a few hours after the storm passed has been reported. Four of the fatalities were on the river. With the large number of small boats that were passing up and down the Potomac on a hot June Sunday it is remarkable that there was not more loss of life. Late news considerabliy increnses the number of houses and barns blown down or fired by lightning, the amount of live stock killed and the extent of damage to fruit trees in the region close to Wash- ington. From West Virginia come reports of loms of lite and property by rain torrents so destructive that they are called cloudbursts. People have been drowned, houses carried away, streams swollen to greater height than known before and railroad tracks washed out. We seem to be taking a place in the flood and tornado belt, and today be- gun with a sky hidden by low and threatening clouds. The weather fore- cast is that there will be showers and thunderstorms today and tomorrow with slowly rising temperature. Per- haps genial spring may come in July. e The fixed determination which frains from needless demonstration may often be mistaken for “apath; The mistake has in the past led to curious miscalculations. Between campaign and committee duties many members of Congress find themselves compelied to forego hopes'| of a summer vacation. SHOOTING STARS. | BY PHILANDER JOHNSON The Big Influence. Hundreds and hundreds of thousands ot folks Are toiling and thinking, while Folly provokes A sigh or a sob or a cynical sneer, With hearts that are true and with minds that are clear. In spite of the Fantasies reveling free In the dazzle of weird, irresponsible { glee, The Purposes high stand immutably strong And point the true course of the hurry- ing throng. Though the few who are reckless may oft seem to claim Unwarranted rank in poskessions and tame, We know life is earncst and not a wild hoax For hundreds and hundreds of thou- sands of folks. 'L‘Qmmuz JUNE CONVENTION OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE STAR, WASHINGION, . ¢ LA FORLETTE PUSHES PROGRESSIVE ISSUES Instructs Followers at Cleveland Answers to Questions BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM NWRITEN HISTOR Y. Q. Where is the Washington poor house and what are the requirements This is Mark Hanna's home town., will preseft a minority report em- to Beceme’aw inmate?—Inguiver s0 it isn't inappropriate that the|bodying the “Republican progres- | ilton. Littie, Brown & A : A. The institution is called the|greatest one-mam political show on|sivism” which, according to la 5 to Urge Adoption of Suitable Home for the Aged and Infirm and Is | earth since McKinley's day should | Follette, his state bas consistently | The Wise Man said: “In all the his- Platform Planks. located at Blue Plains. It is about|be held in Cleveland. The gentle ab-|stood for since 1908. This report | tOF!®S that have yet to be written, the two miles below the Congress | solutism with which Calvin Coolidge | will, In effect, constitute the platform | 9L¥ Lwo Dages hat will be of any Helghts car line. Application for ad- | holds sway here i . 3 on_which La Follette expects to go | importance to me ‘and to you are ¢ is amasing, and, In |90 e e e g enend RECALLS APRIL PRIMARIES those which will deal with the say- mission should be made to the Board | its way, almost unprecedented. Con " . ed. -lent candidate after nomination in " of Charities, Room 16, District bulld- |vention old-timers say that neither | this same city on the 4th of July. ings and dalngs Ml TREGES aud: yo 1 - . ing Hanna, Roosevelt, Penrose nor any *rox :;‘"?rk-.\::'".:::-u:.l;hu‘;mz:h ‘::,“ Has Not Been Candidate Since o of the rest of them ever seized com- . Niel ies . Q. How many women were dele- | 7% 0 COR Of them over s ized com-| Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, the| oneric human—an appraisal as 19186, Senator Says. gates in the national conventions in over G. 0. P. fortunes so com- | new darling of the wet gods, afirms | ;- og 4o it is both honest and sound 19207 —R. E. V. pletely, or exercised with a tyranny | that he h: i B it : 3 at he has no intention of “starting |y cosmo Hamilton promptly sets Ao fin. e «itepublicen jonal | 0 benevolent. It ix dictatorship with | n ihing” in the conventic R S Sl oomie N L ptly setS| Although the name of Robert M convention at Chicago in that year |80 iren hand, wielded from within a0 vestion on thelsbout the Bustasss OF Betting dowm |, Doohotis oo npiassnatn will Hot be ‘were 27 woman delegates und | Velvet glove. Iixternally, the Repub- prohibition issue. He apparently is|on paper his own “two pages” for|La Iof o nsin o woman aiternates. In' the Deme | lican politicians ure taking the med-|going to leave thut project to a [the bemefit of both himselt and usfpresented to the Republican national oeratic convention at San Fruncisco | icine and liking it. Whether the treat- | oo npor mon—Ralph B. An elastic two pages, since here they |oonvention assembling today in Cleve- e e P dlogutes and 200 |[ment will permanently sit well on | 3014"E alph B. Strassburger, | gtretch to the measure of four hun- ” Sere gitarnates. them remainy 1o be seen delegate at large from Pennsylvania, |dred, or thereabout. Times have[land as a candidate for the presi- ST 7here are rumblings that it will| who is basking at Cleveland in the |changed since meditative orientals | dential nomination, the progressives Q How many people are employed not. ‘Summn of the Cleveland ticket— | glory of being Gifford Pinchot's con- |used to sit around all day with|he Jeads will go into the conventicn in making sutomobiles?—R. E. G the regulars haye nowherc el to | queror. Dr. Butler is convinced that [nothing to do except (o dig up 4l . n0ed “to concentrate all their - | go. But whether they will support it | the majority of the convention is in |truth here and there and then to : A The automobile industry Kives|wiih coats off and sleeves rolled up— | favor of prohibition modification. ~He |shape it ~into words of wisdom. | energies upon obtaining the adeption employment to 2,750.000 workers. there’s the ru‘h.* + ?n vi'ea the ru‘:lo Inl nlhoul 8 to 2 om|Nowadays it takes pages und pages|of the platform of progressive prin- * at score. Rut he P : Pape . Q. Has any major league ball| o s ¢ the|tive that there is a — Ui p:rl.ur::dlo»:’o::rd“n‘:) more than | C/Ples, which received am overwhelm- player ever knocked three home runs| James B. Reynolds, one o ratio of about 9 to 1 against any|a part of his own multitudinous [IN¥ indorsement in the April pri- in one game?—M. S. shrinking violets of the Coolidgc Ben-yort of dangervus playing with fire | doings and sayings. mary.” A. There have been twelve players | cral staff, has given himself a title|in the shape of a categorical plat- R This charge was delivered by Sen- in the National Lu trom 1384 ; = jet | form pronouncement, such as Strass. : B ey Toit ks T ve e threal ) She coniventics Mo sve e s ¢ hief | er craves. Dr. Butler sharcs a| Right here we find ourselves face|ator La Follette to the delegation home runs in a game. There have ‘l" e ‘“.:"-““'" otilosves e fishes | pretiy universal view that the oon-lto face with the outstanding effect|{rom Wisconsin last night in a com- been two players in the American| By that he means that he has bee vill conten self with a| o oo s B ah e IOt o Tt T Tiia the il League who have done this. & lobio] out|more or less meaningless “luw en- |°f this personal ory. S e SR e Intrusted with the job of doling out| ¢, reement plank. everything else a record of work, an | man. Q. Why did the Empress of Can. |SeMs at mvention Hall to “the * ¥ x % account of many and varied adven- “Hemored by Veters.” J e 4 i e £« Coolidge from Ma ) e . = ada_take trip around the world?— | frionds of Culyin Coollage (T07 WUle| Somehow or other the impression [tures in one special field of industry.| “You are aware, of course. said A The trip was taken to adver- s abeut 4.000,000 and Rey- |has wide currency that Gen. Charles |That this is the field of literature [ Senator La Follette, “that while the tise Cunadu ” The ship carried (he | nolds is ready to make afiduvit that |G, Dawes cannot be mominated for |rather than, say. that of law. politics, | voters of Wisconsin have done m Canadian flug over the seven seas, | at least half of it in now Cevilandl Viee President because “labor” dis- |finance, trade, does not in any way|the honor of electing delegates w! the tour lasting Gve months and cov, ;;;x_n;»“r:‘m.h::‘ admission likes him. When you usk for a|altect (he attitude of thir author to- |have cast their votes for me as ca S Ty e mere Viatted, | “he Muswichuserts dulegation, with | bl o particulars. youre told that ward it Alert to 0ppOTLUBILY, Keeh | didate fov the Republican nomination X a bodyguard of “Cal” boosters |y o oeinized the M atic: even ! hbits ot | for President every four years since Q1 heard siation WKAQ sending | Feached Cleveland in u deiving rain- | (NG5, STEIEE L Dot Memingr | b tciion "ab “Hamitton | henaves [ 1908, 1 have not, in fact, bewn & car both in 4 forcign language wnd in | storm. but marched gavly from Lol the Herrin coal mine massacre of |toward the making of fiction much [ didate since 1916, and my name has Frglinh, “ Where is “the station lo- | station to its hotel headquart h | 1932, and once made & NERIINE speech | o' say. other sucteatul business man |nOt. since that Year, been formally cated? W. F. % hiate BaNd o0 ndcd tolet it|against the open shop. The Iilinois | does in a capable fronting upon his|Presented to a Republican uational 34 » will be a red- banker-soldier-dip i 5 | convention. Ieia at San Toan. B R retion | turns out tollie MCooliareiand Bur e D L R L o occupon, e s Thai| "Although my name was not filed in Pt by e R ave Jength and | ton.” The president of the Ui, tne highest possible favor in the |1s its undercurrent. Its & corat | presidential primaries in Wisconsin 00 Watts pawer. Yersity of Michikan is 4 strawberss | Coolidge camp. There he is described | foaure is of many changing aspects |OF Slsewhere nevertheless, the votars = = blonde, with hair of almost eXacrhivlas not fAtting quite ideally into the Fradie aspects. | of Wisconsin in the recent primaries - 7 5 . | the same color as that which sparsely | ciim” and cautious atmouphere in | \torcsting peoplehundreds of (1o [instructed twenty-eight of the twen Q. Why are the days of the week | gdorns the crown of Calvin Coolidge. | il 5% SUiinady S0 lnch ang | —come and o here in an easy| . .. gelegates to cast their votes named as they are?—W. M. R As Dr. Burton strolls through cob-|oionoi” the - President's campaign | \RUmacy of contact The inside his- | - me in the nomination of a candi A. Sunduy was anciently dedicated | vention haunts some see even a facial [ PEOROC €0 o O Gy tory of more than one novel or play | 5% M 1%, the RoMIngLion, o6 & Call to the sun.~ Monday comes {rom an | resemblance to Coolide, too. D wen ‘at the Wil nd of a Cool. |7ePS out into the open for our en- |yii(y o President Coolidge. Anglo-Suxon word meaning “day o G age ticketr = t Cool-| tertainment. Incidents and episodes , the moon.” Tuesday is from’ the . x B ket observed one Wwiscucre | jostle one another, at the center of Progressive Principles Urged Anglo-Saxon word “Tiwesdag,” de-| The greatest disparity is in the | OO, e o T e of a|each a well known character. or[ “It is my express wish that in the flveq rom e o and | neight of the two men. Burton I8|ripsnorting wild ~ west procession.” | ETOUD OF chursctars, rbuul{lhum the [ Republican national convention, as ag, meaning “day Vednesday is a vering well over six feet, | Dawes, nevertheless, has hundreds ot | Public is habitually in u ferment of| i e 10 % v from Woden or Odin, the highest god :ni;’ f“;“‘i"';‘ e e rhose | Tubporters at (leveland. They believe |friendly curiosity. ~So while, ~at M;in»b:n‘: June 10, my ‘n:me qblelno of the Germans and Scandinavians. &l e DIy 1o e ot HS¥€ | hieart, this history is the plain story |Placed in nomination request fur- Thursday was originally consecrated [ who are familiur with his platform | digacy thut note of practical idealism |of hard work, upon the surface it isfther that the progressive delegates to Thor, the god of thunder. Triday romise the convention an old- [in international affairs which they @ colorful shifting picture of current | e, e el Faionen a t 4 P! ¥ iy lected by the people of Wiscons is from frigedag, a derivative o atorical treat, Durton has |think the Republicans will need in |literature embodied in its projectors| e g Frig, the goddess of marriuge Sat- atorics - rton DA% | November. as these impinge upon this author|CORCentrate ail their energies upon urday is from urn. The Auglo- | peen a preacher in his day and is * ok k% and his work obtaining the adoption of the plat axon form was S utrnd_\K #aid to | : to turn on the heart-| (i o012nq is housing the conven- * * ¥ * form of progressive principles, :‘hh h N o throbbing and soul-stirring stuff with z % y , received an overwhelming indorse- (D Hee A great power. No individual in Cleve- |t00 i the true community spirit.| A novelist and playwright, now{ment in the April primary. (L S L Find ottracts more attention than | Every citizen is officially asked to|moving definitely on into the mov-| “I realize that the Progressives in M bureay of standards ays | L¥ung Bob” L Follette, who is here | consider himself an entertainment |ies—these are the steps along which {his convention will face terrific oddx 4 eay o 4¥5 | 1o hold a watching brief for his dis- | 5 = : - = ou must remember, ever. thati_the: welght of the locomotive | (7 A0S 8 WAL LANSL I MR QL | committee of one. Automobile owners | we follow the career of Cosmo Ham-| XS MUt femember, Romeven J0od his some bearing on its tractive ef- | SuEulshed o and b n stands 2§ |arc requested (o address anybody |ilton. Mr. Hamilton began early and |again<t you. the membership of t fort, but none whatever on its horse- | ¢ /" 1, ‘Yjllette and 1 for Coolidge. [ wearing a convention badge who|With nothing lacking of the tradi-|Republican party in a majority power. The tractive effort will ordi- | qut o e Thomas Beott of 5 et Rt A s e S A Parily equal jabout one-fourth the | The stray shecp Is Thomas Scott of {may be standing on the curbstone or |tional discouragement that ambitious| ., L5 R i weight on the driving wheels. The | GEROVELL T REREL 0 (he Con- [ the cormer, and volunteer to give him |Parents set up against the generally|convention of millions of progressive horsepower depends "".1""4“" pres- | (Chtion for the presidential nomina- |a lift. National conventions seem to|unpromising occupation of letters |Republicuns throughout the nation sure, cylinder size. speed, etc. tion, but will cast 2§ \..(.'“n-r mrg{ breed the spirit of strikes. In 1920 | But the boy wrote and wrote, finally "{"" have ’}fll‘ no l‘;;"f:o;'{;:;'i:r“';‘;f" Q. Where Is Elsie Janis Dlaying | formatly’ prevent the momination of |2t Chicago the hotel waiters laid|achleving ~Which s ~Absurd: a Satenr ‘ - Sthe P 2 o is | nOVe ore than this, he foun * . 5 now?—A. J Coolidge by acclamation or ungni-|down their aprons and trays, This | courage. ~ somewhere, to take it to “Will Look te Wisconsin.' A, She is in London, playing at the [ mously week Cleveland faces the peril of a | (PUFS&e, somewh / : i i ] t I ke, b the mayor | yin sher nwin, publisher. ‘The American peop will look to Queen’s Theater. ook ox street railway stri ut the mayor e Bt : > 2 i5 on the job and prepared to enforce | fimental | cynlelemttisher Un®in |y, gelegates from Wisconsin, and 1o Q. Where did _the saying “eight| From out of the committee on reso- | peace at least for the duration of the |(SIKIDE INaive, unsophisticated, fin- Sressiven as d : A s : : e pant, ingenlous, unconventional. Dis-|such other Progressives as may hol hours for work, eight hours for play. | lutions the Wisconsin delegation | convention. ¢ clev a s R = : T s tnctly clever—and mow that 1 see|seats in the convention, for a boid ecight hours for slecp, and $3 you, too clever. rather dangerously r originate?®—1 P Sever.®® 1 ““fact “precocious. | Stl, |and uncompromising Sght on behal A. It was the slogan of the an- Shat o vou wen > of the fundamental principles to (hFicite miners in tha 1902 strike and | §° (YSS] 1€S O ea a Teventh® heaven “the ‘youns authos | WHich you are pledged. is attributed to the late John Mitcbell. Bered A huared ponads 1% gauthor| vSome may say that out of consider- ation for party ‘harmony,’ and inas- much as the Progressives appear to be' Robert Barr, a kindly man, went to Is honey a vegetable or an an- F W P Co d d e E L. Inas went fo : s ap : imal producti—a. K. I or war or reace MNSIACT € | nire™s weekis ‘of sorts.” and asked |in & minority in the convention, ne A. The Department of Agriculture o T him to say something nice about that [EgOd, can come from a determined ays that honey Is a vegetable :oy‘sh_firl(l:onk,l ,y"g:,,, '?,,,:’,,‘:fe,, o ;‘flo.rzPr_ug\&us:‘cfeofl:;?m:me adoption is. ere is what he say: = . P Anwois is taken directly| Regardiess of whether Grindell| holding miemberships™: thus “the | * ‘Which Is Absurd! By Cosmo Ham- Aihaers ot Exssaicner: enzymes. which have an effect upon | Matthews has made a greut discov- bidding for the ray by France and |Hton. Autonym Library, Fisher Un-| -5 know this argument of expedi- SR supur content of the honey. But]ery. he hins #at all Europe and sigreat] o o - oriam may be sfectet,” aince win.—Quite so.' " The boy survived o o watate Wl bave o the final result is still a vegetable. o - 2 no government has the moral or |the critical wit of Jerome. He|€0cY an part of America talking about him|legal right to possess a new weapon | threw himself headlong into the|weight with the members of your for own use.” its The Des Moines | writing of novels and plays, or Herbert write any | s “invisible death ray,” which ; : into ation. The Repnblican party was LB I T ey ¥land his “avisible asath ray Hieeiatar contends “thers are fentutes | Lurning Gther wWrIlerd' Hovele inte|Oficgation: The Republican party wis ious operas’—E. E would destroy whole armies and make | 1 &8t CONICRAS, (Unere & re Kot e | O aC Today there is eharged i |organized in Wisconsin in 1854 by i sNatoma preduced in 1811 | wartare more diabolical than the 1n-| which make it seem probable that'the | his account long list—novels, plays, |a handful of patriotic citizens, then vith Mary Garden 2 ‘| ventors of poisonous gas ever|device is nothing extraordinary” and |films — all popular, all of ' social hopeless minority, who would was the ‘one seri ';’:’.,n“ "n -':"“‘)‘1"'5 2 ot P d‘( who | the possibility that a man with such charm and usually of social sub- ;:a:t( n‘.pfnmprom e with the exten- the dozen or more lighter ones that|areamed of. American editors ideals as Mr. Matthews has displayed | stance, in addition to their purely | Tiake B0 oo Do ery. You will re- he wrote in a period of ten or fifteen | 4o not skeptical as to the powers | hes stumbled on to an absolutely |literary quality. Amazing industry | a)j likewise, that while the plat- FERE: claimed for the "ray" see in it the|lcw principle or device is very|and clear wersaulity stang hefe for|forms submitted by Wisconsin Bave Q. Why is it thought to be un-|propable elimination of wars and the o ol KoRtoh e < e : been scornfully rejected by Repub- lucky to light three cigarettes with "‘ Blishment. of ‘world peace. "l'!h*q‘x}_umh\m Di pateh also notes *x X lican national conventions since 1808. ona MAtchi—C. 8. W e ‘,‘rh" s he ¥ p;h " ruture| Wi v been oy hetont sclentists| fThere are numberless incidents|practically every important proposs 2 : " “Thos o hope for ‘the ) sayi any- itted ¢ the Wiscons ates A. This superstition has its origin e e L thing at all, “Mr. Matthews has no|here deeply interesting o any one f,':,h‘rf,":h‘é g)~r:m:}>xbv:::&e”r‘mr:z:f;’nlv peace of the world should regard the the new ‘death in the fact that in the old Russian support in their ut O % : = 5 oted: thice althv candies PP ] utterances. ven | who writes, to any one who ever|jaw There are. indeed. only five of funeral service frenzied bidding for though he has achieved w! i & = P v Wis- were lighted from one taper. Tt was| (""" reported from Parls, as one of | claims, the New York Herald is son |t/c® {0 Write, This is one such. It|thirty-one planic bt are considered an act of impiety to make | T4 % fident “nothing has been done whicen |iS Years after that first novel. Mr. |consin during (o~ the most hopeful auguries of the mil- o A iodied in the law of the in groups of three any other lights hor could not be duplicated by scientific | Hamilton is now deep in his happy ' and. therefore, i1l luck wouald follow | lennium,” in the opinion of the |l c.qrih cisaw cated ifl o ) lanad. Such an act. Brooklyn Eagle, which says: “If the | [RSeaneh elacwbere | While the Dav. |and fruittul friendship with Charles Masx Semtiment Expresed : oncludes that “all that is needed to round out a char- acteristic Oppenheim story is that just before the thing is ready to pull off Matthews should be blown up in an explosion of his own de- Frohman. Mr. Frohman has asked him to write a play. in a hurry, a play that Seymour Hicks is to set to music. “I had no more mnotion of what to write or how to write it ray will do all’ claimed for it, war- fare has been rendered virtually im- possible. One government would paralyze its enemies and neutrals. too. Two governments against each “The principles upon which you have been elected express the pre ponderant sentiment of the mass of the common people of this country Q. Where is the Golden Horn and what is it?—K. F. A. The Golden Horn Is an inlet of the Bosphorus, forming the har- Individual Responsibility. “What do you regard as the great political problem?” “Sometimes it's one thing.” an- swered Senator Sorghum. “and some- times it's another. So far as I am per- sonally concerned just now the great problem is that of getting myself and as many of my friends as possible elected.” Psychopathy. A naughty boy, of course, is bad. A nutty boy is something sad. 1t robs this life of all its joy To meet the nutty naughty boy. Jud Tunkins says a man who puts in his time making excuses soon finds himself up against & market where the supply exceeds the demand. Looking for More Trouble. Electric currents everywhere Are romping through the earth and air. Tell us, protessor grave and gay, Is there a chance that some strange day This orb will send us all afar By sparking like a Leyden jar? Appearances. “Don’t judge by appearances,” re- marked the ready-made philosopher. *'Specially,” added Uncle Bill Bot- tletop, ““when you're lookin’ at a fancy licker label.” Playing Safe. Now .is the time to prophesy. The method's safe and plain. You merely look into the sky And say, “It's going to rain.” The bresent outlook may be clear, But in a day or two You know a downpour will draw near To make your words come true. ‘Why should 1 wise predictions bring That may prove wholly vain, ‘When I can cite & dead sure thing And say, “It's going to rain™ Even With the Game. “Didn't that slick stranger succeed in handing you a gold brick.” “We're not complainin’,” answered Cactus Joe. ‘““The brick is just as valuable as the mining stock we traded him fur it.” e way it cheers,” maid Uncle Eben, man dat knocks & home run would be eligible to any affice in ds gift-ef do o £ e il than a fantail pigeon wobbling on a croquet ball. A month was mine, however, four weeks of priceless days. It would be perfectly simple to make up & plot in the bath, on the other would promptly reach a posi- tion of stalemate. One hopes that Great Britain, France and the United States are bidding against each other for the sole purpose of bringing an bor of Constantinople. Q. What can be done for kittens having sore eyes?—M. D. B. vice, the secret perishing with hi and’ the world settling back agnin for another century of peace." Those principles are in thorough har mony with the traditions of the _R:v publican party and with the institu tions of representative government A._ Dissolve one ounce boracic acid JBUEROSE L e . s of 1 Dy o s -nd 1o war” Such an invention in woif links, riding through lonely |They must not be sa powder in one pint of boiling water | LOC [0 one or two mations WHAT Y lanes on a bicycle, practicing hoop | rendered 2nd botile when cool. Use one ounce | ROSsession, of one (F HAT DO YOU DO shots alone, walking, walking, walk- | ~[ shall confidently expect from the “would give world.” continu ning World; thus, of the mixture to one ounce of tepid water in bathing the cat's eyes two or three times daily. IN THE EVENINGS? ing. At the end of the first week, nothing; tremors of nervousness. At the end of the second week, nothing: insomnia and panic—the chance of delegates from Wisconsin such action as will preserve those principles in- Violate, both in respect to the adop-e tion of a platform and in the nom. there is possibility that science may end war by giving to some one nation. or group of na- BY JOHN CARLYLE Q. Which is the oldest cotton-pro- s i e W " y. ney taken ion of candidates for President ducing country?—G. P. M. tions, the domination of the world."| == 5 my life to ‘be missed. money taken |nation of candidut A. India, where cotton has been {{.,“‘,g,..fl‘:“f..’.gm be mutual exter- |y marck used to o to bed early.|appeared that 1 was suffering from &rown and its fiber manufactured for [ the result misht be Mmupal SSUG| He got up about midnight and ate|obliteration of the brain. I tarned at least thirty centuries, is the oldest cotton-producing country known. hard-boil over everything that 1 had written. €d eggs. Then he was T 'Went over everything that Herald, which declares “if such i“i COURAGE vention is made, civilization will|ready to work—plannin, seless. 5 i = i = & campaigns|I had mapped out to write. Hope- PQ‘.* What people are Kanakas?— :n’;:f—:m’r; 9;’(“:'{053“»“@".: ieimn orBwnu“g letters. Lol el co'nsld[e:sd several ingenious =S i oo’ fact, the Roch- yron, who was methods of suicide. And then. in the - i A, Kanakas is a popular mame|of world pescel In fRC SRS ROCRC | Loet” of his day: u!e;h:o':;::;".. idol | miadle of a night, when moths were I am the master of my fate, < ours crackling in my candles, 1 sat once more at the desk I hated the sight of and wrote on a sheet of untouched paper, ‘Cinderella of Berkeley I am the captain of my soul” given to the natives of Hawaii, New 3 —HENLEY. Caledonia, New Hebrides and other islands of the south seas. steadily fades from warfare with the development of scientific slaughter, and there is hope in that fact’' The in the evening dollin, his own hair. &SR "Ee cutled g s “science makes | Salmon P. Char 5 Q. 1= it possible to be naturalized [ Topeka Capital agrees -sc s - Chare, American states- | Square'—and never left it, even for Sias s way from povartyl ity It “| war more deadly, -but also finally | man, was = es- | Sq i g Making his way ¥ as an American citizen without sub- | war more qeadiy. But a busy man during the day, | S1€6p and meals. until the play was | FEEEE 0L B ecame an scribing to the oath of alleglance?— C.D. J. A. The naturalization bureau says it is not possible for an alien to be naturalized without taking the oath of allegiance, as this is part of the naturalization proceedings. Q. How many miles of territory did_France gain in the late war?— E. K. finished.” Interesting—and encourag- ing, though not an outcome to be relied upon as dependable. Nor does he rely upon it as a rule. x *x x Again, and this the more usual view of Cosmo Hamilton as a worker: “For myself, being fundamentally a very lazy person, who would far rather play than work, and to whom * k¥ % The Portland Oregon Journal sees in the “ray” a medium of death never before known, and it asks: “Can we go on perfecting weapons of destrue-, tion? Can we go on ‘making ‘rays that kill' and live? Is our purpose to live or to die? If to live, why not agree among nations to limit arma- then had save hi He carried many state burdens, But :Ie liked games so well that he spent any evenings playing by Ao €& backgammon One of the empresses of Russia used to amuse herself after dinner by making a fat lady of the court stand around and tell funny stories until she (the fat lady) was exhausted. The honored power in Congres: to abandon public life to business from failure Born In an emigrant wagon near Sconondoah, N. Y., while his im- poverished parents were moving from Connecticut to Michigan, he was the youngest of six children . France gained 5605 square ily se at Oneida, N. Y. mites o remrithry and alto 550,595 | ments, navies, armies, airplanes, gases | empress alwyys chose s lady whe|the freedom of the links is at all The '“:li Pd‘;’:‘i‘he Rt e il square miles in colonies and de-|and killing rays? OF shall We aban- | was both fat and witt \imes far more congenial than the|and he help : pendencies. France, with all her pos- | don peace and go on qualifying as| pary. ) ¥ slavery of the pen, I confess that a|ter he attended the district _scgoo Sessions, has 2 population almost | experts of destruction?” The Spring- €. playwright, likes to play the | rigid apd regular ‘routine, ltke that| At twelve he was apprenticed 1o his_ brother, receiving $ and “keep” for helping in the gTo cery store, and saved money. A twenty-one he had enough laid awas to buy a partmership in another brother's retail grocery at Troy. Two years later he owned the store and afterward sold out at a big profit A partner of John P. Bates in the ‘wholesale grocery business 4 twenty-five, he bought out the busi ness a year later, paying $150,000 Elected treasurer of Rensselaer County and chosen a delegate to the Whig convention that nominated Zachery Taylor for President. he ran: for Congress and was defeated. He trled again two vears later, and thirty-six was elected. and then re. of the banker and the bricklayer, is the only thing that saves me from laying truant from my desk and rom falling a viotim to that pi thetic type of self-deception that is ocalled waliting for an inspiration. As every writer knows from bitter ex- perience, inspiration is the only thing that cannot be plucked from a bush or bought over the counter of a shop, and it does not hang about street corners like the prowling taxicab or pass a given spot at certain times like the Hammersmith motor bus. It is made, on the contrary, out of a mixture of brain fag and elbow rease, if it is ever made, and per- ‘ected by @ process of concentration and prayer after days and possibly equal to that of continental United States. Q. In playing stud poker two play- ers were late in coming in and the dealer started dealing cards. Do these cards stand_or_must they be thrown away?—L H. R. A. The rules for stud poker say that if before the betting is con- cluded on a round he begins serving another, the card or cards so shown must be thrown in the discard and the dealer made to pay a forfeit, to be agreed upon beforehand. In many Jocalities this procedure Is not fol- lowed, a card being discarded trom the deck for each player who is still Pold News answers, “It is high time this universe began to think in terms of peaceful pursuits and quit dis- cussing how something new can be devised to destroy the human race.” In this case, the Miami News Me- tropolis suggests “there I8 so much that sounds like pure imagination that it is difficult to conceive of any country entering upon a bidding en- terprise for_the ‘death ray Yet the Seattle Times points out that “as fantastical as the idea may seem this country cannot afford to ignore its possibilities,” because “the possession of such an instrument by a militaristic nation might easily mean disaster to the unprotected.” The Grand ids Press, however, violin. At least he plays at it. He prefers this, it is sald by his friends, to going to the theater. He has writ- ten so many plays himself that per- haps the theater has lost its thrill, These are interesting instances, but they haven't much to do with you The things that w spare time after the reguler wan of the day is over are the things that Wwill do us the most good. They are things that we need most f development. . What we do in our evenin 1 depends on what we do in lh‘: fl‘l;o- time. 1t depends on our regular job: i thie pot. k the ways and insists “it is sugges®ive of the pos- Some men are so constitut weeks of mental struggle. Then, too, | elected. Active on . Where did the daylight-saving |sibilities of outlawing war through | they need some relaxation un“m(:h',' every writer {s in a constant fear| means committee, he 'l.‘fl‘a! emn; plan originate?—J. T. Tendering it too horrible to be con- | They need to do something that is in | that he may.'by letting down and | consulted on businese rs an national questions. and his opimions Teat wWeig! “"l"r'::g gnmo the panic of 1857, and he had to returm home to save his business. Four vears later he had $750,000. Going to New York, he foll 'in with the “St. Paul crowd interested in western railroads, made big profits, helped reorganize the Missourl Pacific and joined with Jav Gould in deals that produced still more riches. He liked to make money, and denied himself so that it Would pile up. Caught napping bv the panic of 1884, he lost $,000,000 in one day. i TUncompromising as - lender, he was called “skinflint. “miser’ and other name A crank forced his wav into Sage's office, de- manded $1.002000, and dropped A bomb that knocked Sage unconselous Sags lived until ha was ninety, and at the time of his death was on~ of the world's richest men and its largest Individual money-londes. going slack, lose the habit of work— the easiest’ thing in the world—so he whips himself into his den every morning and foroes himself to con- form to a daily time table of work.” L No, not all example and indirect advice to writers by way of self-dis- closure here. Nor all discussion of dramatic production from one point or another. There are, besides, swarms and crowds of people in this book, each one here by virtue of kaving busin here—all inter ing folks of whom we never ge: uite enough. A friendly man. this ‘osmo _ Hamilton, moving _among them, though upon occasion he does hit straight out in comment and eriticiam. Prime entertainme: this book, with a moat uncommon variety of theme It is Cosmo Hamilton him- “.mk, however, that sidered any longer as a means of settlement,” the only danger being that “a single predatory power might obtain and hide such & weapon until it was ready to make catastrophic use of it, but the very consideration of this possibility should have & salutary effect in the direction of world peace organization.” * ok x ¥ In case the “death ray” is to be taken seriously. the Dallas Journal asks, “Should Grindell Matthews be acclaimed as a world benefactor in that he has perfected a device which is so deadly in its operations as to make future wars unthinkable?” The Sioux City Journel mentions that “the league of nations has demanded that attention be given stipulations in the covenant covering the posses- sion_of new means and methods of contrast with the routine of the da However, most of us have an e: gerated idea of our need of rest and relaxation. We make it an excuse to waste hours of perfectly good time. ‘What we most need'at night is & change of mental activity. ‘e do not meed mental reat. Look into the lives- of the men whom the world calls great. You will find their success w: pretty much & product of spare tim arwin used to read detective stori for awhile in the evening, but & little later he resumed his research and his study. ] No matter how hard you work dur- ing the day you can do hard work in the evening. if it is different work. Suppose you start reading a good history of the world in the evening. it will give you relaxation, for it wi be differeat. And it will dividends that no A. It had its inception in England in 1907 in & book published by Wil- llam Willett, entitled ‘“The Waste of Daylight.” A daylight-saving law was enacted in Great Britain in 1916, and in the following year in Den- mark, Germany, Holland, Italy, France, Portugsl and Australia. . What American city is particu- larly noted for its inventors?—R. A. Waterbury, Conn.. ond was granted to a resident of Wa- terbury, and the number of patents now {ssued to people of that city is about double that which might be ex- pected from the population. Aave & question you went -w«:-“.-‘«ummlm Bwreos, J. Haskin, Di- .lmlr"-mlm The a mone §