Evening Star Newspaper, July 3, 1924, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1924. e e e e e ey U AN g O e THE DARIEN DEADLINE BY LEMUEL F. PARTON. THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Mo g Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY. THEODORE W. NOYES. .. ing Star Newspaper Company d Peripsylvania Ave. St Yower Building, cxen $t..London, England. Chicazo Offi Eurepean Oflice: 16 unday morning with'n th iy only. 43 cents’ per mail or tel made by oo The Eveni with the edition. s crel by curriers €ty Al %0 cents per month: du cents per m month. Ord plcve Ma n Tiers ut he Rate hy Muail—Puy Maryland Daily and Sunday Daily only Eunday only 1 mo., 20¢ All Gther States. Daily and Sunday.1 ¥r., $10.00: 1 mo., $5c Daily enly 1yr, $7.00;1n.0.,60c Sunday only 1yr. $2.00%1mo., 25¢ Member of the Associated Press. this paer Lished ane. a Al r ex hersin cis of i lieaton wre uiso reserved. of Bryan's Latest Fa'lure. Mr. Brya pee ernoon in M was more noable which matter addressing vesterday Garden ison Squa th for He the was it tian it contained. Dem he packed the he leries have from bane of the several days the camy the pi added numerous terday most past twenty-eight y sought to cording to his | of the wilderness Whether Mr. Bryan's effort half of McAdoo w wise, it emphasized that in the D OCTacy . It showed clo that the p: divided into two hosiile camps. a M tailed be has been too sianchly an adhes of one of the opposing forces thr out role peacemaker belon But, there ta tention-compelling partisan of The speech ordinary cou Tt is most rare for a dele the platform to for date, for substitutes balloting is in progrens be by unanin cording to the stenographic report of the proceedings. when the chairman ed if there was objection a “noes’ t the chairman “The chair hears d Mr. Bryan to haps a courtesy that the weratic cony but the he whose rtion was ar galleries, of interest with s wndidaie against ke, Those gal the outset the for for nfused been that kas been organ hav layed th comalicities caused by Yes- m while the Democrat the ars of the party’s point the its, to a party tryin zn ceedings, to conf mads | conspicuous lictinz interests they in history way, ac way _out in be- other: e definite schism s wise o has « riy 'ty is As for int gh. of tha non-partisan the party, at- who is not a harmonizer Bryan the convention. The unfortun: is ding man force the no ouf of one of aspirants, of the convention even to take his candi itself was out ate talk wi It can only Ac- or ile done s consent us of arose, calmly exclaimed: none, permitt proceed. This was pe to the man who has been thrice his party’s for presidenc It was perhaps a despairing effort to get somewhe It had the effect, however, of precipitating a most un- seemly clamor of interruptions, turn- ing the convention into a riot of vo ciferation and even vituperation Of course a result will be reached Everything has an-end. Perhaps the end will have been hastened by the Bryan episode. If it will have been worth while. But today Mr. Bryan stands with another failure marked on his record. and nominee the e New York's Hospitality. Much was said before the Demo- eratic convention assembled at New York about the “hospitality was planned for the delegates. Elab- orate preparations had been made for their entertainment, with free shows and motor rides, trips to Coney Island and guest cards at country clubs, and access to golf links and all that sort of thing. Then, of course, there was to be “hospitality” of another kind, more fluid nature. Just how far these programs have been carried out is not of record. But now another sort of hospitality is being manifested. The convention has ‘dragged itself along to such a length that some of the delegates are out of funds. Some of them have gone home already for lack of means of subsistence. Others have wired for more cash, but some, too proud to quit and perhaps without home rescrves, are looking about for food and shelter. In this emergency & number of New York women have thrown open their homes to woman delegates and alternates who have ex- hausted their wampum. If the con- vention keeps up much longer these rescued woman delegates may be the only ones left. They might be charged with the duty of casting the ballots of their state delegations under blanket proxies, Perhaps New York did not calculate, when it was bid- ding for the convention’ and planning for it, that it might have to entertain it all summer. R — As it came through by air the Mad- ison Square music suggested a hope in the minds of bandleaders that con- tending forces would forget their dif- ferences momentarily and foxtrot. ———— Occasionally a favorite son begins to convey an impression, in the bal- loting, of being as obstinate as a spoiled child, Air Mail Service. The transcontinental mail planes have done their work, and mail from ‘Washington and other eastern cities was carried from New York to San Francisco in thirty-four hours and forty minutes, and mail from San Francisco was landed at New York in about the same time. This achieve- ment will be conspicuous in our an- nals, and would be given more public notice if the interest of so many million people were not engaged by the com- bat at Madison Square Garden. But the beginning of sky mail service be- tween the opposite coasts of the United States will surely be a matter of great historic moment and ibe tallked about when most persons have ......July 8, 1924 . Editor aft- | manner in edule, | that | forgotten that the 1924 Democratic convention was held at New York. It was not long ago that a letter was seven days in transit between | Atlantic and Pacific cities. Men not et old remember when a letter was eight or ten duys on the way, though it traveled on the fastest train and | the shortest route. The time of trains was reduced a few hours here and an hour there to about five days, and the run by some trains between New York and the Pacific coast has been cut to four days and a few hours. That was the lowest time to be ex- | pected from steam travel. At one strgke the mail time between the two coasts is cut to less than a day and a half. Mail time between intermediate cities is greatly reduced. The postage between Washington and San Francisco is 24 cents for the or- dinary letter, but nobody wili balk at that when the speed with which the letter travels is considered. If the transcontinental air service trustworthy—and there is little doubt that it will—there will be a wide extension of plane mail service in the | United States. People demand speed in the transport of letters, and the nostal authorities have always been ready to adopt the fastest means of transport they could command. It is | likely that all cities will be connected by air mail routes. Air passenger travel has made little progress in the United States, but is increasing in other parts of the world. There are air transport companies in lurope which are doing a large and | presumably profitable business. It is | said that 20,000 travelers now cross | the Enzlish Channel yearly by plane. — rmor—s Tomorrow at Cleveland. Tomorrow at Cleveland will assem- {ble a convention cailed by the so: called Conference for Progressive Po- ‘hth-al Action. Tt is well understood | that one result of this meeting will he the ‘proposal of Robert M. La Fol- lette for President, with an accom- panying candidate for Vice President: in other words, an independent ticket. It is further well understood that a statement of principles will be adopted platform. but standing in that stead— | which will recite the grievances of those subscribing against the major | parties. Judging from the preliminary news | of the meeting. it will be largely dom- | inated by organized labor. The “gal- leries,” at least, will be occupled by representatives of the labor unions. | There will be a representation also of | the agricultural interests. Nobody { seems at present to understand just | on what basis the various representa- | tions have been selected, or nomi- No primaries have been held, ! natea. | : I no state conventions have been con- | qucted Probably invitations have been issued by a central committee. A convention thus assembled can- not. of course, be regarded as a rep- resentative body. It cannot be con- | sidered as an expression of general public feeling. It must stand as a volunteer, self-promoted demonstra- tion of dissent on the part of indi- viduals and groups. The fact that from the outset of its proposal it has | been linked with the name of the | senior senator from Wisconsin gives | it a personal character. | The object of this gathering at | Cleveland is avowedly to split the two major parties in a certain aréa—the | western section—to prevent an elec- tion by the electoral college and to throw the choice of the President into the* House of Representatives, which in its present situation cannot effect such a choice. It is not conceived that La Follette can himself secure a majority of the electoral votes. It is even hinted that he does not ac- tually expect to secure any, but wishes to carry a sufficient number of congressional districts and perhaps | to gain a sufficient number of sena- torships to give his independent bloc a commanding strength in Congress. The word ‘‘progressive” covers a wide range of subjects. Under the “'progressive” banner may march all manner of dissentients, radicals, pro- | ponents of strange doctrines, advo- cates of state ownership and control, socialists, communists. Recently at St. Paul a convention of such a com- bination was held, which resuited in the dominance of the extremists. To- morrow at Cleveland these extrem- ists may seek to control. They will be met by a resistance that will prove that ‘progressive” is, after all, a loose and flexible word, covering much, but concealing little. ———————— It has been reported that some of Mr. McAdoo's relatives refused point- edly to speak to people friendly to theSmith candidacy. The bitterness of political contenti.n may in compelling numerous sccial secre- taries to revise their lists of eligibles to pink tea invitations. ——————————4 The assemblage of a singing club composed of New York policeme: for the entertainment of the convention was an adroit and tactful way of re- minding the delegates that members of the force were present. ——————— The oil indictments were handed down at & time when the news pages ‘were crowded with material relating to other subjects. Sinclair luck has not entirely subgided. Manhattan hotel proprietors are doubtless surprised to find so many business visitors who feel that they can afford to stay in town for more than a week. ———ate———— A few of the things Democrats are transitorily thinking of one another might make great material for a Re- publican campaign textbook. The Deadlock of 1860. Today at Madison Square Garden the Democratic party in .convention passed the records of protracted bal- loting established at San Francisco in 1920 end at Baltimore in 1912, when, respectively, forty-four and forty-six ballots were necessary before a choice ‘was effected. But the real record of the Democracy for continuous con- ventlon -voting is yet to be r That was the one set at Charleston, 8. C, in 1860, when the Democracy | however, —Dperhaps not in the form of a party | was sharply divided on the slavery extension question, Fifty-seven bal- lots were taken without result. Stephen A. Douglas, polling at the outset 145 votes, held his strength unshaken and even somewhat aug- mented to the end. On the fifty- seventh ballot, as for many preceding, 151 delegates voted for him. For James Guthrie sixty-five delegates were voting at the time of adjourn- ment, for R. M. T. Hunter of Vir- ginia sixteen were voting and for Joseph Lane of Oregon, fourteen. Of the 303 delegates registered many re- frained from voting, but 202 were necessary to a choice. After ten days of sessions the convention ad- journed to Baltimore, but not before the southern delegates had withdrawn and organized a counter convention, which itself adjourned to Baltimore. In the Mtter city those calling them- selves regulars nominated Douglas on the second ballot and the others nom- inated Breckinridge on the first ballot unanimously. Unless the present New York convention effects a choice be- fore today's recess the Charleston rec- ord may be reached. s In future conventions where the vot- ing runs beyond the fifteenth or twen- tieth ballot the practice might be adopted of bringing each candidate before the comvention for a few min- utes so that weary delegates may re- fresh their recollections as to person- alities and attainments. ———ate——— Panama Canal Zone delegates claimed a right to change from the unit rule when in their opinion Mc- Adoo had no chance. It was ruled, that the opinion must be based on something more than a few dark-horse hunches. — vt It will have to be admitted, regard- fess of partisan sentiment, that Sena- tor Walsh’s patience and industry this summer should have some kind of re- ward at the hands of a grateful coun- try. S —— The old-fashioned brand of states- manship that prompts a man to ef- face himself rather than engender dis. cord in his party appears to be scarcer each year. e It would take more than a little excursion on the Leviathan to enable delegates to rest up after such long and exacting sessions. oo Madison Square Garden has wit- nessed many endurance contests, but never one that attracted so much at- tention as this. —- —ees. Even when the balloting was well under way a great deal of valuable time was devoted to minority report- ing. Manhattan proceeded frankly on the theory that the ration’s Democracy assembled for the purpose of showing Gov. Al Smith the time of his life. ————— A convention deadlock is at least more inspiring than 4 congressional filibuster with long speeches. The galleries cheered Gov. Smith in a manner which showed a decided ap- preciation of home talent. - SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A Broadway Pathos. Only a delegate! No place to go, Except to a lengthy political show. At home he was hailed as a star in the troupe. At Madison Square he supe.” He's prompted for shouts that ring into the arch; He's given a banner and told when to march. He's made to report each day; When he looks at his part, he has nothing to say; And yet he’'s supposed to be happy and bright, Like all merry villagers, filled with delight. At home he held rank as a citizen proud, ‘Whoge word must be held in respect by the crowd. But even the waiter will here pass him by As he calls for a ration of sandwich or pie. He is told by hotels, when he'd rest for a while, That the fire escape's full; he must sleep in the aisle. And so through the white lights they leave him to roam— 2 Only a delegate, longing for home. Change Not Advocated. “What this country needs is more farmers in Congress,” remarked the old friend from home. “Let the farmers alone!” protested Senator Sorghum. ‘“Where they are now there's a chance of their raising something useful.” Overworked Word. And when, with the convention past, We learn who made the killing, I hope we will be rid at last Of one word, which is “milling. is rated a for rehearsal Jud Tunkins says some men are never anxious to tend strictly to their own business except -when they've been drawn on a jury. Day of Relief. On the Fourth of July We're expected to try ‘To go at a pace safe and sane. ‘With care we'll converse In monotonies terse And from politics strictly refrain. Picking the Fancy Job. “Do you intend to become & candi- date for office?” “Oh, no,” replied Miss Cayenne. “I have progressed far enough in my political studies to know that the can- didate has @ great deal of hard work on his hands. If I accept any honor at the hands of my party it'll have to be that of a local boss.” “Politics i&# mo' serious dan hoss racin’,” said Uncle Eben. “If you picks de wrong hoss you kin fohgit it, but if you picks de wrong candi- date you's liable to reme: it foh Answers to Questions BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. How many children attend Sunday school?—A. R. S. A. There are 27,709,706 puplils and 2,296,825 officers and teachers in the 287,426 Sunday schools of the world. In North America alone there are 155,944 Sunday schools with 1,697,520 officers and teachers and 17,066,061 pupils. Q. Why are refectory tables so- called?—C. W. M. A. The modern table that is so designated is a modification of the long. narrow dining table that was used In the refectory of a monastery or convent. . Q. What is the name of the guide book used in Europe?—H. J. B. A. The accepted gulde book to European countries is the Baedecker, which contains ‘detailed information in regard to historical places to be visited in all countries. Q. Why is the second crop of clover better for seed than the first crop?—>M. F. A. The Department of Agriculture says ‘that the second crop of clover produces botter seed because it is more highly fertilized by the bees; moreover, weather conditions are gen- erally niore favorable for the pro- | duction of seed on the second crop. Q. How many left-handed catchers are there In the major leagues’—A. R. B. A. There are no left-handed catch- ers in the American or National Leagues. Q. Which is higher, expert rifle- man or sharpshooter’—J. F. A. The lowest rank is marksman; above that, sharpshooter; highest, expert rifleman. Q How old was when he died?—E. E A. He was forty years old, and one of the most promising authors of his time. Q. Are sailors allowed to pets into this country?—A. T. R. A. At the request of tne Secretary of Agriculture, the Nuvy Department has issued a warning against any Navy vessels taking on board in foreign waters lambs, goats, other ruminants and peccaries. Sailors often collect such animais as pets, but with the prevalence of foot-and- mouth discase among live stock abroad, every precaution is being taken to egclude carriers of the dis- ease. Jack London bring abalone be obtained in market How is it prepared?—>M. K. A. It is understood that state leg- slation prevents the exportation of abalone out of California. The abalone Ix considered a delicacy when prepared properly, even ex- celling the allop in flavor. The meat is removed from the shell by cutting away the large central musc The Visceral mass and the mantle fringe are trimmed off, from :ne muscle, which then cut transversely into thin sl s, ach of the small steaks thus made is beaten several time: with the flat side of a meat cleaver, and when fried it is tender and de- Mcious. It may also be made into a chowder, or minced, crumbled and fried in the “patty” form. Although the abalone may be eaten at any sea- son, it is 10t obtainable in the fresh condition from the middle of January to the middle of March, the fishery being closed during the spawning season. Q. What are the names of the stars that form the big dipper’—K. K. A. The names of the seven stars in the Big Dipper, beginning at the han- dle, are Alkaid, Mizar. Alioth, Megres, Phegda, Merak and Dubhe. Q..Is the fur of an animal kept in ty as fine as one in the wild E. H. A. Sometimes the fur of an animal kept in captivity is not so thick and fine as that of an animal leading a natural life. The hide of an animal artificially propagated in a climate materially warmer than its natural habitat is not so fine as that of an animal that lives under natural con- ditions. Q. Why does the wall paper over a steam radiator become so much more soiled than the rest of the room? Can this be prevented”—M. R. P. A. The increased circulation of the aif caused by the heat radiated from a steam radiator carries the dust from the floor to the walls adjacent to such radiator. If these walls are wiped off with a wall brush once a week it will help. Q. How dM Sing Sing get its name’—H. P. W. A. Sing Sing is derived from the In- dian words for “a stony place.” The prison is still called Sing Sing, but the name of the town was changed in 1301 to Ossining. Q. What was the name of Moses’ sister who nursed him while he was being cared for by Pharaoh's daugh- ter>—C. H. M. A. Miriam, the prophetess, was the sister of Moses and Aaron, and while not specifically named, is generally supposed to have acted as nurse to him in his infancy. Q What da the letters “R. L” mean after King George's name; also “Dieu et mon droit”?—J. S. A. The letters “R. L" after the name of King George V of England stand for the Latin words ‘rex et tor,” meaning “king d em- “Dieu et mon droit” means “God and my right”; freely trans- lated, “God and my conscience.” It is the motto of the English king. Q. Please tell me what the Byzan- tine period was?—H. R. A. The Byzantine period is an era from 395 to 1453. On the death of Theodosius the Roman empire was divided, and_ his son Arcadius took the eastern half with Byzantium as his capital. This ancient city occu- pied the most easterly hill of the modern city of Constantinople. Q. Was Cardinal Wolsey put to death?—A. G. C. A. Cardinal Wolsey was out of fa- vor at court, and had been arrested by the Earl of Northumberland on the charge of high treason. While being conveyed to London in custody, he died of dysentery at the abbey of Leicester. Q. Why are lucky days called “Red Letter Days”?—B. A. R. A. In the old calendar saints’ days were marked with red letters. Q. Is there any place in America where wild horses can be found?— W. N. 5 A. Wild horses are still to, be found in certain parts of America, notably in Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, Idaho, New Mexico and Arizona. Q. What vegetables are good for the nerves?—E. S. T. A. The vegetables that stand high on the list of nerve tissue building foods are spinach, celery, parsnips, string beans, asparagus and cucum- bers. (Have yow asked Haskin? He does not know all the things that people ask him, but he knows people who do know. Try him. - State your question briefly. write MI'W G‘W flll-'loo«m 2 w stamps for return age. 8 Froderic J. Haskin, l;hwtw‘ The Star Information Bureau, 21at and C strects nortMoest.) ‘When a national convention starts to cheer, the radio fan can't tell whether the result is static, enthusi- asm_or_a worn-out battery.—Grand Rapids Herald. How time fil But _yesterday daughter asked for a nickel, and now there is no awe in her voice when she mentions flfl{ dollars.—Jersey City Jersey Journal Husbands of movie actresses prob- ably are like ?lfu at & munl c!f.l course. They have to stand im line and register for starting time.—Du- luth Herald. No. IlI—Hop Gow’'s Last So Sometfmes when there was a new moon and_the swift and purple after- 8low of the sunset was Suffused with the zodlacal lights, Hop Gow would get out his old Chinese fiddle. He would sit in the door of his cane hut with Lorita and little Hop Toy, the batik baby, and play and sing. Lorita sang, too, and Hop Toy beat time with her pudgy little fist. It was always a sad, wailing song—part Chinese, part Chocol and part Qui- chua, it seemed—for ‘Hop Gow had been in the jungle many years and his language had fbllowed the lines olTleul resistance. he sky of dee fronds of the palm '.’}‘e'é's’e'ag‘l'fi.’;z'f‘i made a solemn and beautiful cyclo- rama, embracing also the dark, jun- 8le-matted mountains—dank, polsed and impending. Hop Gow's wailing song seemed like an incantation which could stay this insatiable jun- gul!vd"the‘:; @ moment before it en- Better Than Gold. When Hop Gow, like Homer, thus struck from his lyre the cRallenge of the human spirit to the Inscrutable 80ds—who always triumph in the end, as they did here—he always had at hand a gourd filled with his own aguadiente. He could trade a gourd- ful for an ounce of gold dust, but when the ancient muse beckoned, gold became of no account, and he drank and sang recklessly. On the night when we decided to begin our Mendelian research there was a new moon, and Hop Gow played and sang. The moon went down; the gourd was emptied: the fiddle squeaks died away to an occa- sional plaintive wail; Hop Gow's song sank to a murmur, like that of the river at his feet; the fireflies came out in the jungle and Lorita put Hop Toy to bed Hop Gow slept in the door of hix hut with his fiddle in his arms. The next morning Hop Gow w plainly uader the influence of tc much singing. He was red-eyved and unsteady as he walked down to his piragua to go down the river for a boatload of yams. The piragua, made by gouging out a bongo log, rolled and bobbed perilously as Hop Gow poled it away from the bank. Some- how he managed to keep afloat. “led From Camern. We were intent on our plan. The first thing to do was to get a picture of Hop Toy and her mother. The natives were frightened and took to the woods when they saw our camera, an impressive affair, with a bellows and bulb. But Lorita, with much doubt and hesitation, finally allowed us to take pictures of her and the baby. adually the natives crept back to t that the dis- amera had done us harm They watched us with fear and dis- like. That afternoon we were developing | the ictures in a dark room which we had made out of a rubber-coated tarpaulin, when we heard an uproar in the village. Leonard chatter- ing little ape-like Jamaica man, who many, years before had made hix way into this region, had come up the river with the news that Hop Gow, starting home with his boatload of yams, had tipped over and had been drowned. . It was all clear enough to us. To perch on a load of yams in piragua is a hard enough job, even for a man who can't sing. The empty gourd in the door of op Gow's hut told the whole story. We looked down the river to see that Gaston, our black boy, had taken a piragua from the bank and was paddling like mad, with a crowd of angry natives shouting and ges- ticulating on the bank. Then we knew! At about the time Hop Gow was drowned we had been taking the picture of Lorita and the baby. It was the curse from which the others had escaped by fleeing to the woods. We had a 30-30 Savage, a Win- chester and several small arms. We loaded them and sat in the door of our hut awaiting developments. They came fast enough. We were soon surrounded with a ring of howling. dancing spotted people. They did not venture very near. We had demonstrated our Savage to them and had shown them how a soft-nosed bullet would tear a hole in a tree in which one could almost put his fist. Found Agundiente. At dusk they brought up Hop w's body. A tall, lithe pinto man poled the funeral barge up the stream. They had built over it a canopy of savannah leaves. Rush lights were lighted on the river bank |and the women were wailing with their foreheads on the ground their heads covered. Lorita sat in stolid misery in the door of her hut, holding the babbling little Hop Toy. Just as Hop Gow's aguadiente had | got us into trouble, it also got us |out again. As the pallbearers laid Hop Gow's body on a mat in his hut, | they saw his supply of liquor The tumult waxed, and at one time became really menacing, but by the time the moon was down half of this weird, spotted town was drunk. By midnight it was all drunk save for a sentry, who paced back and forth across the path which led from our hut to our canoes on the river bank. We had a bottle of gin. I ventured out cautiously and offered it to the sentry. The temptation was (oo much. He, too, was soon asleep. We' got away at dawn. But we did not dare go down the stream. as we knew there were watchers below So we poled and paddled up stream |into the decp wilderness, up to the Rio Coassi, branching off from the Balsa, hoping to find a legendary trail over the mountains to the head- |waters of the Rio Atrata, in Colombia, |ana thence down to the Atlantic. . Then came some interesting experi- ences with the Indians, which only 1 am left to tell about. But that ix as |near as we ever came to learning anything worth while about the spotted people. Perhaps Marsh with his wh ndians has now stirred things the scientists will real find out something. The moral of this tale is, of course, | for the prohibitionists. But it must be remembered that, after starting all the trouble, it was Hop Gow's agua- diente which saved us Both moral and scientific general- izations are dangerous in the tropics. (Copyright, 1924, by the North American Newspaper Alliance. ) Harrison’s Keynote Rings True, Say Some Editors; Others, “No” Readers looking for something out of the ordinary on editorial pages found it in what many editors had to say about Senator Pat Harrison's key-note speech to the Democratic convention. Praise, censure and ridicule came forth with much the same vehcmence that characterized the speech itself. Democratic papers generally lauded the militant chal- lenge of the speech. Some Republi- can editors refused to take it seri- ously. while others resented it sharply. Most of the independents were not favorably impressed. One notable exception among_ the _Democratic dailics was the New York World, which assailed the speech as an ex- aggerated partisan appeal, in which the independent voter would take no interest. “The independent,” said The World, “is prepared to believe that the party in power has been extraordinarily corrupt. He is not prepared to believe that all the vir- tues are in Democrats and all the vices in the Republicans. He dis. counts that sort of thing as bunk. On the other hand, the Evening World, under the same ownership, in_the following expresses the typi- cal Democratic view: “After the Burton whine because of the expo- sures, there is relief in the honest indignation of a Harrison. He ac- cepts the challenge of the foes of the investigation with an enumeration of the results that no one dare deny. He has properly met the deliberately framed lie in the Republican plat- form that the nauseating corruption of Republican officials is matched with similar_cupidity among Demo- cratic officials, with a direct chal- lenge to Coolidge and the reactionary group behind him ‘to name the Dem- ocratic culprit.” He meets the Repub- lican challenge on the crazy-patch tariff of all the interests with a ringing denunciation and a pledge for its repeal. He confronts the Republican pose as a restorer of prosperity and confidence with a re- minder of the pitiful prostrations of agriculture, and with the fact that 1,357 banks have failed under rule of the ‘best minds’. He places his party foursquare behind the World Court that a Republican Senate refused to countenance and fo# which, during the last session of Congress, a Re- publican President refused to fight. Thus in an inspiring, fighting speech Senator Harrison has made the most of a great opportunity, and outlined 2 plan of battle that will appeal to every enemy of privilege and cor- ruption.” * ok k% The New York Times (independent Democratic) adds, “Senator Harrison at the end of his speech showed that he was fully aware of the responsi- bility which rests upon the Demo- cratic party in the very act of its severe arraignment of its political opponents.” He seeks “neither a con- servative nor a radical plan of bat- tle,” according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer (independent Democratic), but 'a_moderate one that will appeal to Jeftersonians, Jacksonians, Roose- veltians and plain people.” Moreover, “if the rest of the convention’s work is done with as much militant spirit, with the same confident optimism that the nominee to be chosen will be the next President and that the plat- form will comprise the working poli- cies of the new administration the country will have cause for con- gratulation.” The keynote was for the most part, says the Birmingham News (independent Democratic) “con- structive, challenging, face-forward, pledging the Democratic party to further common national services such as it performed during the first four years of the Wilson administra- tion.’ Republican opinion that the speech was wholly negative and evasive is expressed by the New York Herald- Tribune, which asserts there was “no allusion to the three questions which have influenced all controversies here over platform or candidate.” ‘Not a word from the orator,” con- tinues the Herald-Tribune, about the Ku Klux Klan. Not a word about ‘wet’ or ;dry.' Not'a mention of th ns. It was an mum | produced a keynote which died aw. in a vacuum and could not reach the | hearts or stir the blood semblage in which oil cannot aspire |to the status of a major fluid and the doings of the white-hooded gentry |are an omen of graver importance {than any atrocities which may be at- |tributed to the Mellon plan. On the | other exciting subsurface issue— lentry into the league of nations—Mr. | Harrison was equally evasive. We jcan recall no keynote speech as com- pletely negative and wholly lacking in constructive appeal.” o It was a stump speech, which the | Portland Express (Republican) con- | siders “appeals to passions and preju- dices and not to reason.” As a po- litical tirade of the old school, the Kansas City Journal (Republican) of words and accusations, but, as a dignified presentation of party prins ciples, it is an utter failure that will provoke more smiles than serious thought.” To turn from the Repub- lican keynote to Senator Pat's, the Chicago Tribue (Republican) claims, “is to escape from a session of the chn_mbcr of commerce and go to a revival of Pain’s fireworks, the ‘Burn- ing of Rome.'” The Baltimore Sun (independent, with Democratic leanings) feels that Harrison's address “was marred by flippant, ‘peppy’ buncombe.” This is to be regretted, the Sun insists, be- cause “he had’ all the material at hand wherewith to build up an un- assailable case against the opposing party and in favor of his own.” As a convincing statement of Democratic aims and opportunities, the Newark News (independent) agrees, “the ef- fort falls flat.” "In fact, the Detroit News (independent) maintains, “the speech is no guidance at all fo the Democratic party, nor does it sound any cledr, bell-itke kevnote for the party to 'chorus as Ifs triumphant own—it was a very eloquent speach, but it didn't mean anything.” Some- what similar opinfons are expressed by the Springfield Republican, Duluth Herald, Reading Tribune, Salt Lake Desert’ News, St. Paul Dispatch and Detroit ‘Free Press and other inde- Pendent papers. Allies Make It Easier For Berlin to ‘Toe Mark® Germany’s decision to accede to the allles’ demand 'for a final inventory of the German military establish- ment is certain to incline them favorably toward having a German representative at the conference in London in the middle of July. It is the policy of Ramsay MacDonald and Herriot to trust Germany—with the wise proviso that if Germany then shows bad faith the allies will be all the more disposed to co-operate in punitive measures. The mere fact that a friendly atmosphere is being created should make it easier for those Germans who are earnestly de- sirous of working with the allies to attain their object. Despite the resentment of the militarist elements, they now appear no longer disposed to offer serious opposition to the Marx-Stresemann government in carrying out the necessary measures to insure the operation of the Dawes plan. As a matter of fact, the extremists find themselves deprived of their favorite ammunition by the evident wish of the French and British premliers to be concillatory. Much as they would like to paint Herriot and MacDonald as ogres of the Poincare type, it is hard to convince the moderates that this is a true picture. To be sure, it is becoming clearer to all con- cerned that there will be no material alteration of the main lines of the allied policy toward Germany. But it is also plain that the more genuine the harmony between the French and British leaders, the more difficult will it be for the Germans effectively to_withstand their wishe: Thus is the situation in Germany clearing. The Marx government is now strong enough to take definite steps in advance. In negotiations with the allies it will know that it speaks with suthority, and at the same time it will be' conscious of dealing with persons disposed to co- operate with it in return for German compliance. Bit by bit the forces furns 1n NEove are. taking h urns are 8 new = m{:rk Times and | declares, “it is a magnifiicent jumble | NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM THE SEVEN LIVELY ARTS. Gil- bert Seldes. Harper & Brothers. best of Ben in which he ushers Bert Wil- liams into the Valhalla of genius. In the vast concourse are assembled all the great actors, dead-and-gone, each in the role of his most complete tri- umph. Expectant, their looks are turned upon the huge portal swing- ing slowly inward under a cautious hand, like that of a child adventur- ing into some unknown and for- bidden room. In the scant opening a hang appears, gloved in white cot- ton, whose dangling finger-ends waggle an absurd propitiatory gesture. And on the farther side of the door an unsteady voice is say- ing, “Yes, suh. A 1i'l music, please. Som'n slow and fidgety-like.” And on this uneasy wave of sound Bert Wil- liams moves into the company of his peers. And, from the outside, we ¢ the swing and surge of the ac- m with which genius is greeting of its own * % % % that, for the moment, we 5 the author of ‘“The Seven Lively Arts” the literary habits of H. G. Wells, who, in these later years, is busy turning off new worlds —better and better worlds—launch- ing these, like omnipotence itself, in- to the far-spaces of some millennial future of human perfection. In that case Gilbert Seldes could be counted upon to create out of his theories of art ‘and artists a new Valhalla that, in a couple of hundred years—five hundred, maybe—would sheiter the shades of a new order of genius. A homey, low-lying place, this new Val- halla” Would be, carpeted with the good green earth, roofed with the thick leafage of kindly trees, lighted by sun and moon and stars. And t would echo with friendly talk, with robust Rabelaisian laughter! The place once made and fitted out, the first thing Gilbert Seldes would do would be to move Bert Williams over into it, constituting him host- in-chief to welcome those who from time to time seek this their true Val- halla. And in_that jovous company we should see Charles Chaplin and Mr. Dooley and Ring Lardner and Irving Berlin and Al Jolson and George M. Cohan and Florenz Ziegfeld, and many another of the order of Comus— Pierrot and Pierrette, Harlequin and Columbine, juggler and jester and clown. That is, we should see these in the new Valhalla, provided they had not turned “refined” and “fake highbrow” before shufling off. The single price of salvation and future happiness here would be an invio- lable devotion to the-good god of joy and laughter. * X ¥ X “The Seven Lively Arts’ is about the movies and jazz and dancing, about the musical revue and vaudevilie, about the Dooley-Lardner philosophers, about the perennial art of clowning—about the whole immortal business of fun-making. No preacher, Gilbert Seldes. Yet he does give admonition and warning. A good traffic man, rather, who sets up a “Go Slo” at this point, and that. An expert weather man_who flies the timely danger signal to projected sailings. The burden of this lively outlook upon the “lively arts” rests upon no more than one or two of the prime essentials of comic in- vention. There are certain things, one finds, which the new art can do, certain other things which it cannot do. To force it to the impossible is ruin, proved by certain outstanding results common- ly recognized. The physics, the me- chanics, of the new art defines its technic, limits its field of ‘exploitation, narrows its range of effect. Within its own limits it is influential, contagious. splendid. Within its limits it is art, Outside_them it is a hybrid, abortive at that. The bulk of the new art appeals to the comic sense. Here ‘Mr. S:ldes turns definitely to the movies which, barring their educative uses, stand as the medium of comedy and pageantry alone. An interesting discussion he makes of this claim—deeply intellectual, art full, and full, also, of a sense of the decpest human sources of all art. From discussion he turns to evidence by way of a survey of film-production history. In much_the same spirit he moves among the other branches of the new art. From this he turns toward the human in a somewhat ardent urge that we cherish the comic sense as a precious heritage from the good rude earth itself; that we respect it as a deep-seated instinct, ceansing and_ restoring, as all primai things are. He urges us to play fair with the gift of laughter, to take the funmaker to our hearts in glddness, to turn away from the seducing voice that tes to silly and vicious “culture” pre- in one appose gn to * ook x Mr. Seldes, talking: “Suddenly a great genius arose and the people of culture conceded that in his case, but in his case alone, art existed in slap-stick comedy. Perhaps only the inexpensive multitides who have laughed and not wondered why they laughed can know how fine slap-stick is. For myself, I have no greater entertainment than these dear and preposterous comedies, and all I can do is remember. The long, dark, nar- row passage set out with uncom- fortable chairs; the sharp odors; the questionable piano; and then upon the screen, in drab gray and white, jigg- ling insecurable, something strange and wonderful occurred. It was min- gled with dull and stupid things; but it had fire, a driving energy of its own—and it was funny! Against all our inhibitions and habits it play- ed games with men and women; it made them ridiculous and mad; it seemed to have no connection with the logic of human events, trusting to an pindecipherable logic of its own. A few scholars found the commedia dell’ arte living again; a few artists saw that the galvanic gestures and movements were creating fresh lines and interesting angles. And a nation cared for them intensely until the remorseless hostility of the genteel began to corrupt the purity of slap- stick. too early to write an epitaph—late cnough to pay tribute” With “The Kid” it appears that Charlie Chaplin had an affair with legitimacy, that he cast a willing_eve upon dramatic conventionality. Wherefore, Mr. Sel- des' swan-song over Charllie Chap- lin. ® * * Of certain dangers that are threatening Ring Lardner, this writer says, “But he is witty and wise and he has few compunctions about being vulgar. It is his most precious asset. For in America the fear of vulgarity is the beginning of deadness.” * X X X Of Florenz Ziegfeld and his revues: “There are, if you count the chorus individually, about a hundred reasons for seeing a revue; there is only one rea- con for thinking about it.” The Zieg- feld revue as a production ‘‘mani- fests the same impatience with half measures, with boggling, with the good enough and the nearly suc- cessful, which every great artist feels in regard to his-own work. It shows a manig for perfection; it aspires to be precise and definite; jazz or sym- phony may sound from the orchestra pit, but underneath is the real tone of 'the revue, the steady, incorrupti- ble purr of the dynamo.” Then Mr. Seldes contrasts with this perfection of movement the hit-or-miss getting together of grand opera at the Metro- politan Opera House”. Here, with the highest paid singers, the best orches. tra, the best conductors, there is “so haphazard and clumsy’ an assem- bling of these parts that a revue 80 manage ould be stoned off Broadway.” “Yet the Metropolitan is a great institution that is com- placently permitted to run at a loss, because itd_ material is art.” © LG M how" That i8 where we are now:| | year was $261,011.55, LODGE INSURANCE LAW S ADVOCATED Baldwin Suggests New Stat- ute to Stabilize Rates in District. HOPES FOR AGREEMENT Premiums Totaled $18,974,532; Losses, $6,303,070, in 1923, Report Shows. Enactment of a new law fraternal insurance in the Distriet was recommended by Thomas M. Baldwin, jr., acting superintendent of insurance, in his annual report sub- mitted to Commissioner *Rudolph day. Mr. Baldwin said one of the pu:- poses of the proposed law would b« to provide for the setting up of such reserves would make the more stable to govern a8 rates am now trying.,” said the acting superintendent’s report, “to get the various fraternal insurance interests to agree upon a new fraternal insur- ance law for the District, and belicve that at the next of the Na- tional Fraternal Congress of America Which meets in this city in August, 4 bill will be agreed upon. No provi- sion is made in the new proposed in. surance code for the District fraternal insurance law. When taken into consideration that the six. v fraternal associations or orders doing business in the District show a total of nearly seven billion dollars of insurance in force. you will agree that there should be prog adequate laws governing this cl business.” session for a Expects Code Passage. Mr. Baldwin expresses the that the proposed insurance which failed to pass at sion of Congre the coming sess ments. The report shows that during the calendar year 1923 insurance miums paid amounted 1o $18,9¢ while losses totaled only $6,303.0 This is an increase in total premi over the year 1922 of $2,07 an increase in losses of $776, Discussing fire insurance separate- Iy, Mr. Baldwin thows that theee premiums last year amounted to $2.- 442.344.58, with losses of only $§819.- a’ percentage of This Was an improvement over 1933, when fire premiums aggregated $1.9 With_losses amounting to §1 28. The percentage in 1922 per cent. For the past se premiums with losses p amounting to The total amount of in by the belief code) the last ses- ¢ be enacted at h minor amend- on wi pre- ten vears, fir totaled $14,040. 4 in that 82 venue taken insurance department last including in- and license fees. In was only $22828394, increase for 1823 of period surance taxes 1922, revenue representing an $32.727.61. —_— “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.” —HENLEY. Railroading is a difficult profession with small return for the effort, and should not be followed permanently, declared William B. Storey in his col- lege days—but he could find nothing else to do and had to stick to the transportation field Born in San Francisco, he went to public school and found it necessary to work with a surveying party on a small western railroad earn money while in high school. After graduation he toiled for a year, driv- ing stakes, at $20 a month, so as to have funds to enter the University of California. Then he worked on the railroad during vacation, so thousht he knew the profession and its draw- backs. But when he was twenty-three jobs were h went back to the Southern Pacific rajlroad. Slowly he made his way upward from one job to another; then when offers came to go into other vo- cations he could not afford to change. ‘When he left college and again was making $20 a_month driving stakes he decided to learn railroading. Within a year he was made assistant engineer, which position he held eleven years. He served two years as assistant engineer to the United States debris comm n and was made chief enginecr and general su- perintendent of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley railroad. Five years as head of the little road gave him lots of "vork and many try- ing ordeals. President Ripley called him to_the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad to be chief engi- neer. Six years later he was in charge of engineering of the entire Santa Fe system. Three years of working and waiting made him vice president, and for eleven years more he kept at his task, which often re- quired him to labor night and day In 1920 he was elected president of the Santa Fe. At sixty-six he still is president and s considered one of the best railroad men in the country And now he believes that railroad- ing is a good profession for the man who keceps everlastingly at it (Copyright, 1924.) _— In a Few Words. It we could transmute hydrogen into helium there would be sufficient energy contained in the hydrogen in a pint of water to drive the Maure- tania across the Atlantic and back t full speed. = : —DR. F. W. to graduated at arce and he ASTON. Verbally the librettos of all Italian operas are in the main absurd, and of nearly all GC;IH'A!\ operas, Wag- ’ te mer's not eXC ARNOLD BENNETT. A lady today is and always nas been a “?Omln with a_good character, @ood intentions to help the world along a bit and good manners. "Z MRS. ALGERNON SULLIVAN. The proper management of an in- ternational (or national) workshop and the full use of man's inventive genius would give him a leisure period of seventy years in return for five years of labo A s—KING C. GILLETTE. There is scarcely a_state in the Union that could not furnish a man qualified for the work that awaits the next President. The public is not acquainted with all of them, but there is nothing like a presidential campaign to extend a candidate’s ac- intance. e GS BRYAN. —WILLIAM JENN Germany is now engaged in carry- ing out tactics similar to those after the peace of Tilsit in 1807, raising a large army camouflaged by gymnas- tic associations. —PREMIER HERRIOTT. Bolshevism is, as Anatole France said of Rousseau's theories, ligion for men who never laugh, am not afraid of it in England. hllv; great faith in the British sens of umor. —ROBERT BLATCHFORD.