Evening Star Newspaper, July 4, 1924, Page 5

Different Ideals Opposed in Voting DEADLOCK BLAVE PLACED ON WONE, Old-Time Politicians Say Fair Delegates Are Deaf to All Argument. PREVENT ANY AGREEMENT Comprise More Than One-Third at Convention and Exercise Their Power. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. NEW YORK, July 4—Ever since Mother Eve first donned the fig leaf, woman has had the inalienable and unquestioned right to change her mind. But apparently the entry of the modern Eves into politics has Lad an upsetting influence upon the dcadlier sex. The women in the Democratic national convention are being blamed for pot changing their minds. They are being charged with responsibility for the deadlock. Having made up their minds to vote for a certain candidate, nothing can induce them to break away. In the old days when ‘men mon- opolized the business of being dele- gates it was possible to get them to- gether and reach a compromise. Men would listen to reason. ‘Will Not Compromise. “There's no use reasoning with a woman,” said one of the tired and more or less disgusted delegates of the masculine persuasion today. *“They listen to all of your arguments and then shake their heads. We have been criticized for not getting to- gether in a smoke-filled room at 2:11 a.m. and agreeing upon a candidate. 1If only men were present we could do it. The women won't compromise. They are responsible for this long delay in reaching a decision.” . Women, indecd, have come into their own at this convention. More than one-third of the delegates are made up of them. At times the floor of the convention hall seems fairly 1o burst with femininity. The Demo- crats were first to grant to women equal representation on the national ccmmittee, and they also have led the Vay in providing that of the dele- gates at large from a state one-half shall be women. Now Reaping Whirlwi This has been extremely gratifying to the suffragists, but it has brought untold pain and agony of mind to the old-line politicians. ~They declared today that the Democrals are reap- ing the whirlwind of their seeds of generosity. It is impossible to bar- Fain with the women and therefore it is impossible to nominate a can- didate by the old processes which have served both parties so faith- fully in the past. The popular band tunes at the con- ventions these long July davs and nights are: inger Awhile.” Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be> We Want to Go Home.” 5 “Three O'Clock in the Morning. And, most popular of al “I'm Tired, So Very Tired.” Has Appropriate Song. Col. Jack Shuff of Cincinnati, one of the original Jimmic Cox men in 1920, just as enthusiastic for the for- mer governor today, has composed a new convention song. It is sung_to the tune of “The Old Gray Marz, She Ain't What She Used > Be” and Tuns something like this: “If you would search my once fat pocketbook, Once fat pocketbook, Once fat pocketbook, It you would search my pocketbook, You wouldn't find a damn cent there.” Members of the state delegations instructed for McAdoo have been re- ceiving sheafs of telegrams from home telling them to “stick fast” and not to give up the ship. The Texas delegation in particular has been bombarded with the messages. One of the telegrams received by a Lone Star delegate contained a "onfl_deu'ml postscript, which said: “We will send You a lot more telegrams if you think they are needed.” The delcgate sent a Feated and per- tinent reply: “Keep your telegrams,” | he said, “but send us the money. Enthusiast for Underwood. Senator Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama has an enthusiastic support- er in the galleries. Every time the Alabama delegation starts a new bal- Yot rolling the familiar cry. nty four votes for Underwood, lery god cries out, with glee: on. Oscar.” Jimmie Gerard, the former ambas- sador to Germany, who has been hav- ing things prettv much his own way as the Beau Brummell of the con- Vention, has his nose out of joint at Jast. The Honorable Jim Ham Lewis of Tllinois is back in his place just across the aisle from Ambassador Jimmie, and the effulgence of his cos- tume throws the New Yorker into the sMadows of sartorial despair. And here's a very important note for all the paragraphers: Jim Ham's internationally known whiskers can scarcely be classed as pink any more. They are tinged with unmistakable gray and the effect in the spotlight is almost one of silver rather than the once famous sunset glow. Time will take its toll, even of such an evergreen spirit as Jim Ham. During the last few days Joe Tum- ulty, former secretary to President Wilson, has been seen conferring with delegates on the convention floor. Joe's home state of New Jersey has been voting solidly for Al Smith ever since it gave Gov. Silzer of the Mos- quito state a few complimentary ballots. The tall Texan with the “loud speaker” voice has been identified and he has become a great favorite Hith the convention. ~He is State Senator JOhn Davis of Dal The convention is never happier than when Senator Davis is lending a hand at calling the roll. His booming voice makes the rafters shudder and shake. Once in every convention it hap- pens. _ But it did not happen here until about the fiftieth ballot. One of the volunteer reading clerks pro- nounced Arkansas like he would Kan- tas There followed the immediate and inevitable rebuke from the ks. OZ2IKY it Arkansaw.” velled a dele- gate, “and we will tell you how we VOl fire is a musical program post- script: Another favorite tune of the convention /is “Tipperary. “The Tong, Long Trail" also is coming into its own. (Copyright, 1924.) —————— HOME OF ILLICIT LIQUOR. Innismurray, Historic Island in the Atlantic, Is Described. DUBLIN, July 3.—Innismurray, 2 historic island in the Atlantic ofl' the coast of Sligo, and described as “the next parish to America,” has been dis- covered to be an active home of the trade in illicit whisky. ~The civic guards raided it and found eight bar. reis of poteen and large quantities of materia] with the necessary stills. The island, like some others off the T o ' Watera: Ho was sen: son of aters. - ,tenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard labor and & fine of $250. Two of his assoclates got the same iall sentences with fines of 5125 once fat Convention Seen. as Clashing Of Fundamental Philosophies Smith Represents Tolerance and Cultured Living—McAdoo Insistent on Social BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE. NEW YORK, July 4—From now on it's a new game of checkers on the board. McAdoo is out of the king row wandering about and for nine days Smith hasn't dared to ven- lture out. Each is afraid of the other. It is hard to imagine that these long days of grinding dull, monot- onous roll call, changing but a few votes from hour to hour, with little more significance in the day's changes than in the hours; these days when ten or fifteen thousand people sit around the great checkerboard, where a thousand men and women are mov- ing in what seems to be a foolish game, it is hard to imagine that all of “this rather stupid by-play con- cerns great forces in American his- tory. On the surface it looks no more important than a great base ball game at the end of the world series. There is a certain sporting element in it, a certain chance and gamble, and what seems like a cer- tain element of luck throughout the whole of the day's grind. State del- egations representing a million or | didate to candidate and back again with the agility of polo ponies at a tournament. Philosophies in Cor Yet in this game which now is dragging itself into its tenth day, certain great philosophies of life are in combat, certain fundamental policies of American government are being tested. For nine days the com- bat has been between the extremes of negation and affirmation. Smith, by reason of his environment, and no matter what he personally declares, represents broad, tolerant, expedient interpretations of the eighteenth amendment, which at the base is outer expression of the philosophy of his church, a philosophy which does not regard social efficiency as highly as it regards personal piety. McAdoo, on the other hand, stands for undefiled puritanism, which is not at base related to peity at all but which is a philosophy of social efficiency. Your puritan way back in his subconscious mind devises what he thinks is the best thing for the so- cial order, for the state, for man as an institutionalized animal. Your puritan has Yankee nose for the main chance, and when he gets the main chance well located he makes it @ moral issue. When he sees what is best for the state, he turns up with a revelation from God indicat- ing that it is a holy cause. Alcohol highly complicated civilization, SHIP USES RADIO TO FIND POSITION Steamer Mapping Pacific Waters Equipped With Most Mod- ern Devices. t. By the Associated Press SEATTLE, July 3.—Equipped with a radio position finder and a sonic depth measurer, the steamer Guide of the United States coast and geodetic survey, which has recently entered upon the task of mapping the waters off the Pacific coast to a depth of 1.000 fathoms, was pronounced in the offic® of the survey here the most up-to-date vessel for her work in the world. The devices on the Guide grew out of co-operative efforts to combat the Submarine in the world war. These efforts engaged the Army. the Navy and many American civilian electri- Clans. The study has been continued since the war, particularly by the Coast Artillery Corps of the Army. The sound laboratory of the bureau of standards developed the apparatus used by the Guide to determine her sition. 2 P Rnowiedge of the transmission of sound gained in these efforts and ap- plied aboard the Guide enables her fommander to determine her position and the depth of the water in her Yleinity without leaving her radio oom. g "o get _the position of the Guide a small TNT bomb is exploded astern twenty feet under the surface of the Water. This is done electrically. The sound wave fet in motion by the ex- Plosion travels in enlarging circles. When this wave reaches a hydro- phone (a device sixty feet under the Surface of the water and about half 2 mile from shore, to which a cable funs) the hydrophone sends a signal ashore, and a shore station automat- jcally sends a radio signal to the Gulde. Figuring from the speed of travel of the sound, the commander of the Guide quickly determines his dis- tance from the shore station and, de- termining his distance from two sta- ticns, he knows his position. The task taken up by the Guide, and on which she is to work in the summer off Oregon and Washington and in winter off California, was dropped in 1922 by the Lydonia. HEAD OF NATION SHOWS SKILL ON MOUTHORGM! Dr. Hainisch, President of Austrian Republic, Surprises Crowd at the Linz Fair. LINZ, Austria, July 4.—The head of the nation playing a mouth organ was the spectacle afforded visitors to the fair at Linz the other day. Dr. Michael Hainisch, president of the Austrian republic, was a guest at the fair and stopped before the exhibit of a musi- cal instrument maker. While the young man in charge demonstrated various instruments, someone asked the president what instrument he played. The president, in genuine Viennese dialect, replied jokingly, “I play noth- ing but fotzhobel” (a Viennese local- ism for mouth organ). No sooner had the remark escaped his lips, than t attentative young man brought fofth a box of mouth organs which he of- fered to the president and his escorts as souvenirs. A few minutes later the gaping crowd observed President Hainisch | enthusiatically ~ playing away at his “fotzhobel.” CLUB BUYS WHOLE TOWN. SAN FRANCISCO, July 4.—Instead of a clubhouse, the Delevan Club has bought & whole town. It is the vil- lage of Delevan, in Colusa County, in the rice fields. The purchase in- cludes seventy-two acres of bulldings and town lots and 2,000 acres of rice fields, which have been flooded for duck - huntlnf. The town includes a hotel, a num- ber of bungalows, a water works and a mile of streets and sidewalks. - Golf links will be bullt. The club’s activ- itles will consist of sports and diver- sions the year around. more people jump blithely from can- |8 Reform; Not Individual Happiness. makes for waste. It is bad for the social order; causes loss of life, loss of industrial hours, and it brings de- pleted savings. So'all the Methodists and Baptists and Presbyterians be- gin singing hymns about the wick- edness of the saloon and the im- morality of the liquor traffic. The puritan _has his eye on_ the main chance for this social order, and so calls on his puritan God to help him ut the main chance into his political nstitutions. Little he cares whether he goes to heaven or hell, little he cares for personal liberty, little he cares for anything in the wide and beautiful world that stands be- tween him and the main chance. here is the puritan in this Demo- cratic convention, roaring up from the west and south with about five or six hundred delegates. Greatest Game on Earth. Here they meet three or four hun- dred other delegates who are strong- ly interested in beautiful living and personal salvation and who have a nicely cultivated lust for life, lib- erty and the pursuit of happiness. So we have .the candidates repre- senting the extremes of these philos- ophies—McAdoo and Smith; we have the great checkerboard smeared over with the pink and sweaty faces of thousand anxious Americans and the greatest indoor game on eartb. The last sesston of the ninth day gave indications that a new phase of the game was coming. The dele- gates realize surely now what Smith and McAdoo are beginning to realize, that America will stand for neither of the cxtremes. If either of the candidates representing west and Catholic_or dry and Ku Klux is named the nation will reject them. So these issues, these deep funda- mental issues, must be subordinate to other and more expedient and ap- parent issuge. That means that & new checker game must be ‘put on the board. Ralston, who has certain strong political resemblances to Mc- Adoo and will inherit much of Mec- Adoo's strength, seems to be about to swing into one of the leading places. Opposed to him will be some one like Glass or Fianklin Roose- Velt or Newton Baker, who will not state the fundamental philosophy of a lighter life in its extremest terms, but will satisty somewhat the yearn ings of those who revolt at puri- tanism. In its second phase other issues will count in naming candi- dates and the old animosities of the last ten days will drop away to their proper place in the scheme of things. It was a great battle between Smith and McAdoo. It made a merry spectacle and a gala combat. a great life, but unfortunately both sides had to weaken. (Copyright, 1924, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) McADOO URGES LOYALTY. Victory “Logical” if Supporters Remain Firm, He Writes. NEW YORK, July 4—Another letter written by William Gibbg McAdoo, candidate for the Demo- ciatio presidential nomination, and addressed to state delegations friend- 1y ‘o his candidacy, was distributed today. Mr. MocAdoo asked his supporters to continue on with courage and con- sistoncy, “as we have thus far car- ried on.” Ultimate victory was as- sured, Mr. McAdoo said, adding that it was not a mere empty optimism, but; ‘the pure logic of the situation” whith inspired his confidence. —_— LEMON PRICED IN RUSSIA HIGH AS ROAST CHICKEN All Imported Fruits and Toilet Ar‘icles Worth Weight in Gold, * TU. S. Observer Says. BSRLIN, July 4.—Roast chicken, eggi. black bread and cakes and other edibles produced locally, are reasonable in price in Russia, but ‘when it comes to fruit, toilet articles, or anything else which has been im- ported, they usually are nearly worth their weight in gold, according to Dr. Willur K. Thomas of Philadelphia, executive secretary of the American Friends’ Society. Dr. Thomas recently completed an inspection trip of several weeks in Russian districts, where the Quakers' orgnization is still assisting the in- habitants. At the railroad stations on fifferent routes he noted that an entire roast chicken sold for approxi- mat*ly cents, while a lemon, whi'h had been imported, cost as muea as the chicken. *UST REMOVE WRECK. DYVER, England, July 3.—A dram- atici incident of the war is recalled by the necessity today of removing a F'ritish monitor which was sunk norh of the fairway at the entrance of Dover harbor. e vessel had just taken on board a spply of shells and was anchored near the harbor entrance, awaiting a chance to slip out to sea, when she caught fire. Anchored beside her wer? two ammunition boats. ‘The danger of an explosion and disaster on a large scale was imminent. Troops werr ordered out. townspeaple were cleared from shore. To save the har- bor and town the monitor's bottom was blown out, and many of her crew perished. MAIL SERVICE RESTORED. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 4.— Residents of the Yukon River are re. celving a weekly mail service for the first time since 1898, during the great gold rush of the Yukon. The Alaska railroad has made this possible. A train leaves Seward, on the Gult of Alaska of the Pacific Ocean, and winds its way to Nenana, 400 miles north in the interior. At Nenana the mail is transferred to government steamérs which run on a_ weekly schedule down the Tananah River to Fort Gibbon on the Yukon River. From there the boats ply the Yukon to Holy Cross, 400 miles from the river'’s mouth. \ From Holy Cross the Northern Commercial Company operates a fleet of launches to Nome and St. Michael on the Bering Sea coast, and Innoko and Iditarod on the Innoko and Iditarod Rivers in the interior. MAJOR H. ROBB OPTICIAN 2633 H STREET N.W. TRANSFORTATION 3LDO, PHONE MAIN 763 . STUDEBAKER Just Drive It; That's AL So | It was | GANDIDATES SEEK LY P P T AT AP TP - TOWINBY ORATORY "™ *= = Leaders to Speak Before Convention in Effort to Gain Support. UNDERWOOD GAINS FAVOR Denunciation of Klan and Wet Stand With Appeal to Southern Pride Boost His Stock. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. i NEW YORK, July 4.—This being a ay_of oratory, several of the lead- j&Is_planned to have all the candi- dates’ who are in New York—s: o A rk. Meadoo, Glass, Underwood, Eminmen! Javis—address the Democratic na- tional convention, the idea being, of gourse, that the delegates would be ed in their'judgment by a personal impression of each candidate. paivernight saw little change in the allot strength of the principal con- ;;nrr:;l;‘s‘. a:se McAdoo men were full e B, aTinsht & Smith camp exuded The much-talked-of conferen, compel a compromise aelecli:nceh!lsg not vet materalized. The night was spent in sleeping rather than dis- cussion. ~Neither the delegates nar the leaders seem to show any real opposition to a prolonged convention z::c(‘l would not be surprising if the ave were still Epncias in session on Disinterested leaders are aware of the danger to party harmony which the friction here is developing. But the damage seems to have been done already. It grew largely out of the raising of the religious issue and Ku Klux Klanism. The prohibition fight which it was thought would take the center of the stage was superseded by the Klan question perhaps design- edly. In the last twenty-four hours, however, leading drys hav projected the wet-and-dry issue conspicuousl and it is materially hurting Gov. Smith's chances of nomination. The feeling over the support given McAdoo from certain Klan states is such that if he were nominated, he would be obliged to denounce 'the Klan in stronger language than the minority report on platform, in order to hold the Catholic vote in the Dem- ocratic party. Indeed, the resentment vote on the religious issue has shown signs of approximating the anti- league of nations vote, which was a veritable revolution in the Demo- cratic party in 1920. Underwood Gains Favor. As a way out of their difficulties many leaders are reverting to Sena- tor Oscar Underwood of Alabama, Wwho has denounced the Klan from the beginning and who satisfies the Smith Dpeople because he is wet. His only chance of burrowing into the McAdoo strength is in the south, where there would be disagreement with him on the Klan and the liquor issue, but where pride in getting a southern man nominated, together with the fact that the south always votes Democratic, are counted on to help put him info nomination. Underwood has considerable vote- getting power in the northern states because of his position against the Klan and on the liquor problem, but he would not win the western dele- gates here. A combination of the big Western states, and the southern votes here. however. would bring him the nomination, especially as many woul be i!lclined to ned lheydenllock {nyhold. With Underwood the plan would be to run a westerner for vice presi- dent, perhaps Meredith of lowa or even Gov. Brvan of Nebraska as a way possibly of appeasing William Jennings Bryvan, though this would nresent a difficult decision for the commoner. To all the talk of Underwood, t “drys™ in the convention ey if & southerner is to be selected he should be Carter Glass of Virginia. There is a chance of a contest for the nomination ultimately between these two men. John W. Davis of West Virginia is standing up in spite of the drop in his vote and attacks of Bryan on the alleged Wall street influence behind him The Anti-Saloon League lead- ers ‘here are not altogether satisfied with Mr. Davis' record in Congress on the prohibition question, but they believe he would be for law enforce- ment and so they are not outspoken in their opposition to him. Certainly they prefer him to Underwood. Baker Boom Gal Newton D. Baker of Ohi with Davis, Glass and Robinson, are urged upon the convention as pos- sible compromise candidates by a leading editorial in the New York World today. Mr. Baker made a profound impression on the conven- tion by the sincerity of his appeal for a strong league of nations plank. He denounced the Klan. But until the Ohio delegates are released by James M. Cox, Baker has no chance of support from his own state. McAdoo managers were optimistic today that some of the favorite son delegations would swing in behind them and furnish a majority. They are counting on Indiana, Arkansas and Virginia, but this has been their unrealized hope from the beginning. Propaganda of criticism is being spread by both the McAdoo and Smith men against the favorite sons for deadlocking the convention instead of helping one or the other of the leaders. Strong denunciation is heard of the ‘“senatorial club” in which presumably are included Senators Glass, Underwood, Ralston and Rob- inson. The Indiana senator is quot- ed in dispatches as saying he has re- leased his delegates. ~Senator Glass has urged Virginia to go to McAdoo, but the delegates from neither state seem willing to abide by the wishes of their favorite sons. All of which means that the anti-McAdoo and anti- Smith feeling is so deep that the neu- tral delegations are split, and that to hold any of them as a unit, it is nec- essary to keep voting them for can- didates other than the two leaders. A decision may come late today, but it ‘seems improbable. Store Closes Saturday 2 P.M. 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