Evening Star Newspaper, July 15, 1924, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. ... July 15, 1924 The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business nd irasis Ave. The Evening Star, with the Sunday moeniax is delivered dition by carriefs within the month: daily only, 45 y ocnly. 20 cents 2; Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Marylsnd and Virginia. mo., 70¢ mo., 50c mo., 20¢ **'Daily and Sunday..1yr., $8.41 _ Daily only . 1yr., $6.00 # Supglay only . 1mo., 85¢ .04 mo., 60c $3.00; 1 mo,, 26c fated Press is exclusively entitled .10 the use for republication of all news dis- Datches credited to it or Dot othel .-in_this paper and also the local news pub- lished "be: All rights of publication of ref #pecial dispatehes herein are also rese: "~ ® Notification Ceremonies. On August 14 President Coolidge --will be “‘formally notified” of his nomi- natien..The ceremony is not essential, because the fact was made known to the President the minute he was nom- inated, and within a few minutes was known to everybody in the United States who can read or hear. But the reremony has come to be a ‘‘time- inonored custom,” and a majority of men will have no violence done such customs. They consider a notification ceremony as part of the business of making e President. In the case of Calvin Coolidge and John W. Davis therc will be notification and accept- ance speeches, and many thousands of men will strive to take their measure of the men from thdse speeches, while millions of other men will find support for the belief they hold already and which probably no argument could disturb. At the moment when this is written no time has been set for the notifica- tion of Mr. Davis, but it will be held within two wecks. And it will be that form of ceremony which is called a celebration. The “formal notification of President Coolidge will be more for- mal. Tt will be held in the evening at Continental "Memorial Hall, which seats 2,000 persons, and admission must be by card. The radio will carry ibe speeches throughout the land. and taere will be a great demand for cards of admission to the hall. Perhaps there are many men who feel a tinge of re- gret that the ceremony is pot to be held in the opcn, with seats for 2,000 apecial guests and acres of land for other guests to stand on. People look on the notification of a man that is 10 carry the banner of a party mil- -lions strong as a momentous spec- tacle. If such a ceremony were held at the base of the Washington Monu- ment a large part of the District bopulation would attend and crowds would come from nearby States. At Clarksburg the Democrats will ‘ stage a celebration. The faithful will come ‘from far and near. If the “’Weather is fair tens of thousands of the voters of West Virginia, Maryland and Virginia will be there. The rail- . xoad trains will be crowded, and per- *heps excursion trains will be run. The <roads will be filled by autos. Tt may not be much of a factor in November, but politicians seem to feel that it is good business to give crowds as much enthusiasm as they will stand. Tammany's New Leader. - @eorge W. Olvany, who by appoint- ment of Gov. Smith is serving as \.dudge of the New York court of gen- eral sessions, was yesterday selected by virtually unanimous vote as leader of Tammany Hall to succeed Charles L\-ipw to finding the most efficient man “F. Murphy. Thus Tamnany, which seught to induce Surrogage Foley to take the leadership, goes again to the “'bench for its chief. The new boss of _“Tammany has been a member of the “organization for more than 25 years ~and a district leader for 10. He has Zcome up from the ranks, es have prac- Mcally ail of the Tammany chieftains. s-Back of him stands Gov. Smith, who sould have had the Tammany leader- <hip himself had he desired, and if it lad been consistent with his holding of the office of governor, which, of course, it would not have been. Inasmuch as no salary is attached to the office of leader of Tammany the new chief will, on resigning from the bench, resume his law practice. He Ehwill be the first “big chief” of Tam- many in a long time to be of that pro- fession. Croker was no lawyer, nor as Murphy. It will be interesting to bserve how successtul Judge Olvany !s in “scrupulously complylng with the ethics of the profession,” as he promises, when he Is engaged simul- ‘aneously in the practice of law and -the management of the most powerful Jolitical organization in America. ——— e Many delegates assert that if New York insists on having another con- “Vention' they will favor taking it to Coney Island and wearing their bath- ing suits. ———— Forest Fires. * Periodically forest fires occur in this country, but such news generally From California came news that thirty-three fires were started by lightning in the Klamath national forest in Northern California ‘and following that dispatch was one that fire had broken out in three other forest reserves in that state. Every man available is fighting fire and the loss {s heavy. Fire news also comes from northern Idaho. Miles of tree lands are being destroyed, . It is a curious thing that all the outbreaks of fire in the northern ‘Cali- fornia forest region are ascribed to lightning. Man knows no means to keep lightning from setting fire to forests, and the best he can do is to provide means for quickly discover- ing a fire, keeping ft within narrow bounds and putting it out. Evident- ly our means for doing these things are not adequate. If our forests are to be saved the fire peril must be controlled. Heretofore @ large part of forest fires have been charged to careless campers, to smokers who throw hot pipe ashes or burning matches and cigarettes among the brush and to sparks from railway locomotives. A curb has been put on campers and smokers and we hear less of fires started by locomotive sparks. The state and national governments have a big job in saving forests from fire and in redeveloping cut-over and burnt-over jand, but this work must be done. It is one of our important national problems. ————————— Padlocks for Hotels. Recently prohibition enforcement officers visited the roof cafe of one of New York's largest hotels, and there. according to their statements, pur- chased wine and liquor, having no dif- ficulty whatever in securing service. ‘The drinks were sold openly, without any attempt at concealment. The offi- cers repeated their visits and had the same experience. Now it is announced that proceedings will be instituted to secure a “padlock™ injunction against the hotel, not merely the roof cafe, but the entire establishment, closing it for a year. Ordinarily closing proceedings are not started until after a third ‘criminal action is had against the of- fender. Under the law, however, a single offense suffices to render a place subject to padlock. To close a great hotel for a year is, of course, a very heavy penalty. But that penalty is prescribed by the law. It is well understood. Simply because the establishment is @ hotel of wide fame and heavy patronage and with a fashionable clientele does not justify any lessening of the punishment. One of the reasons why prohibition en- forcement has been difficult and only partially effective has been the dis- position to “go ea: on large offend- ers, to give a margin of law-breaking before applying the severest penalties. There is no warrant whatever in the law to wait for three violations before applyihg the padlock.-One of the en- forcement chiefs of the New York area, recognizing this fact, admits that it would appear to be a discrimination between rich and poor offenders if im- mediate action were not taken against the big hotel. The flagrancy with which the law is violated in certain places is an encour- ‘agement. to lesser offenders, who are caused to think that they can “get by" with bootlégging and private ped- dling. To padlock a great hotel for a year would be a wholesome object les- son in the rigor of the law, regardless of the station and influence and re- sources of the offender. Picking a Chairman. Candidate Davis is taking his time about picking a campaign manager. Having asked Representative Hull to continue as chairman of the national committee, which the Tennesseean de- clined on the ground of the need of rest, Mr. Davis is now leisurely exam- ining the field of possibilities with a for this role. He intimates that he will find a man and settle the question definitely by Friday, and that immedi- ately upon getting the chairman started on the new job of organizing the campaign he will himself leave for a 10-day rest in Maine to prepare his “opening gun” speech for the notifica- tion day. The choice of a campaign manager is always the prerogative of a candi- date. He may continue the old chair- man cr pick a new one. This is essen- tial, because of the necessity that there should be the closest relationship be- tween a nominee and a manager. Lack of harmony leads to mistakes which may cost votes. Mr. Davis is not a novice in polities. He has twice been a successful candi- daté for Congress. His two West Vir- ginia campaigns have given him a taste of the game, and he knows that much depends upon the character and the vision and the industry of a com- mittee chairman. It is sometimes hard to find a chairman of experience, how- ever, who perfectly reflects the candi- date’s views. Mr. Davis is taking his time in order that the man he chooses will meet all the requirements of an exceedingly difficult position. 13 e ———— Germany has been successful in postponing her reparations problem. In the meantime other problems which may become even more serious cog- tinue to assert themselves, ————————— Reports that liquor costs $15a quart in ‘New York create suspicion that . comes in Fall and Winter during dry *‘weather, when the forest floor is cov- ered with dead leaves and branches and there i3 little sap in standing tim- “ ‘ber.. Throughout the year we read or hear arguments for conservation of theAforests and the need of protecting ~ them ~against fire. "We read figures of the annual fire loss to timber, and the figures in dollars run wastonish- —ingly far into the millions. Perhaps in the cities are not especially -xgensitive to forest losses because they _“iehow 1ittle about forests, and feel that Gov. Al Smith is not as wet as he has been painted. 2 Another Niagara Wonder. A dispatch to The Star from Buffalo says that Bobby Leach, 70 years old, | who once went over Niagara Fallsin a barrel, will soon go over the Falls in & rubber ball. The ancient “daredevil’ said: will be in the ball:when it is dropped from an airplane flying over Nisgara River just above the cata- ract. meeting modern ideas of a “stunt.” If the old gentleman insists in going over the Falls in a rubber ball, and if police do not interfere, he will satisty his itch for fame or funeral, But he is old enough to know better. : Brooklyn Bridge and the East River used to lure many whose sanity was doubted by normal-minded ‘men, and many men intent on notoriety or sui- cide have gone over Nisgara Falls in barrels, have plunged into the whirl- pool, and all that. Persons who teke interest in such things will wish good luck to Mr. Bobby Leach. None of the latterday Niagara “daredevils” has paled the fame of Charlie Blondin. Some new readers may not have heard the name. No modern “daredevil” has carved such a niche in the hall of fame as he nor got 8o firm & hold on the affection of Americans and Canadians. Charlie's regular name was ‘Jean Francois Gravelet, and he was born at St. Omer in 1824 and died in 1897. He was reared as an athlete and specialized as a tightrope performer. On June 30, 1859, he walked a tight-rope stretched over the Falls. Twenty-five thousand spectators watched him. On July 4, in the same year, Blondin, blindfolded, according to the testimony of “judges,” pushed & wheelbarrow on a tight-rope across the Falls. On August 19, in the same year, he walked the tight-rope with a man on his back, and no doubt the name of that assistant “‘daredevil” is preserved somewhere in history, but it is not available at this instant. In September, 1860, Blondin walked his rope across the Falls in the presence of a mighty crowd, the most famous of the spectators being the Prince of ‘Wales. Blondin revisited the United States in 1880, and was with us the last time in 1888. — e The formality of choosing a chief- tain is observed by Tammany Hall, al- though Gov. Smith has made it clear that delay need leave no fear that the New York Democracy will lack leader- ship. —————————— A most liberal theater-going public will never understand why actors and producing managers should find it necessary to quarrel over a division of the box office receipts. —_———t—————— Foreign gambling resorts occasion- ally advertise fabulous winnings. It helps business, and there is seldom any one to check up the precise fig- ures in the transaction. ———e— It may be the belief of Mr. W. J. Bryan that no candidate with a run- ning mate like the Governor of Ne- braska could fail to develop the high- est qualifications. —_— et America’s athletic supremacy may make Europe willing to accept ad- vice from the New World on physical culture as well aston cconomic sys- tems. N After all, the leading political issue in every country resolves itself into that of taxes; how much, by whom levied and to wapat purpoges applied. —_———————— Farmers and laborers will ‘find it easier to get together when workmen are more abundant at the time for getting in the crops. ¥ —_——t———— Talk of throwing the - presidential election into the hands of Congress is untimely. The public is a shade weary of deadlocks. —_——————————— If the iceman is a little late, excuse him. He may have been busy en route soliciting orders for next Winter's coal. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Family Troubles. They tell me I'm related in a distant sort of way To the chimpanzee that gambols on. the bough. My latent social pride asserts inevita- ble sway. The kinship I abruptly disavow. And yet I am related in a far more narrow sense To some burglars of degree both low and high, \ To a pirate and @ smuggler and the keeper of a fence— They're human like ourselves, we can’t deny. The annals of zoology remind me, to my grief, ¢ ‘The genus homo, myself, Contains the perpetrators of some deeds beyond belief 3 And alienists who rescue them for pelf. ¢ Among the fads and fashions that so frivolously fiit ‘The demonstrations make good peo- ple sad. In summing up relationships I'm tempted to edmit o A plain old chimp, perhaps, is not 50 bad! Wwhich -includes Caation. “Are you going to take the stump in this campaign?” “Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum, “but with caution. Pecple who as- semble to hear & speaker are as a rule already of his way of thinking, and their minds.” Cautlous. A most, expensive bathing dress Had lovely Arabella. | 8aid she, “It's going to rain. I guess I carry an umbreila.” Practical Contributor. “Do ‘you think' we ought to go to the assistance of Europe?” “Certainly,” said Miss Cayenne. buy all. my dresses in Paris.” Forces, you have fo be careful ‘not to- say something that will make them change T NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM REDBURN. Herman Melville. The St.. Botolph Soclety, Boaton. They were fellow travelers—stran- &ers to each other. - One was Gifford Pinchot; deeply absorbed in the last pages of a little book, a dusky red in color and pliant to the hand.. As Mr. Pinchot gathered up himself and Rhis belongings to leave the train he, in easy and unpremeditated gesture, Banded this book over to the stranger across the way, a little smilé going along with {t. One more move, weeks » and the ‘book came to me— ‘Moby-Dick,” Herman Melville's story of the great white whale. Since then T've read “Moby-Dick” more than once, and “Typee” and “Omoo” and others of Melvili South Sea ro- mances, And always, upon taking up one of these, I reconstruct that gra- clous and friendly little drama of the train, by. way of which “Moby-Dick” set out to make new friends for itself and for its author. The very poetry of a circulating library, this looked to me then, and does now. Casual, to be sure, and, in danger now and then of missing the perfect contact hoped for it, but an original and beautiful and useful way of releasing a new pleasure to wing its course here and there till it settles for a little upon some welcoming mind and heart— then off and away again in many simyar flights, . *x % % Herman Melville missed the popu- larity that, in these later years, O'Brien and Safroni-Middleton and Maugham and Rupert Brooke and another and another writer on the South Slas, not excepting Dr. Trap- rock himself, have gathered out of this field of adventure. This lack on his part, as well as the gain on theirs, does not depend, however, wholly on deservings. . Pppularity de- mands, above all else, a theme upon which there is already a keen and general interest. Melville's romances came too early, or too late. Too late to catch the highest glory of the clipper ship era, whose romantic world sailings stirred a widespread excitement of Interest. -Too early for the modern speed of communication that has, in effect. moved the South Sea Islands up within a ship's length of the Golden Gate—easily accessible to romancer, poet, artist, vagabond. News of the islands was pouring in even before these writers began upon them. People were keen to the sub- ject. They were ready to meet even these florid stories of lovely native girls clad in their own brown skins, a flaming hibiscus nodding invitation from braids of dusky hair. They were ready for the pageantry of the sunsets, for the panorama of the Pacific dotted with these island.gems of iridescent sheen and soft seduc tion. So popularity met these adve turers of the pen more than half w Rut sober folks never did accord fo them more than a part of the depth and splendor of the work of Herman Melville. And sober folk are increas- ing in number. ing Melville. Many more are read- Many more are paying him the tribute that circumstance de- layed. The circumstance of being out of joint with his time, not that of doubtful genius and power. * ok k¥ “The book of Melville's that I love best is ‘Redburn’"—John Masefield talking. Until lately hard to get, and not nearly so well known as “Moby- Dick,” “Typee,” “White-Jacket” and “Omoo.” “Redburn” is “a boy’'s baok about running away to sea,” accord ing to Masefield. And so it Is, the “boy” being Melville himself, who, a dozen .years after that adventure, ‘wrote this clearly autobiographic a eount of it. Words and phras turned to the uses of a literal pho- tography spread out here the details of this first vovage. These details are often hideous. They are alwavs exciting and adventurous. One stands out as the very top notch of daring to me, since the last rung of a very short ladder measures the limit of my infrequent excelsior-ing. my boy,” said the old Dutch . “It's high time you.be doing omething; and it'’s boy's business, Buttons, to looze de royals, and not business, like me. No “But- up dare, just behind dem stars, dare? Well, tumble up now, Buttons, I zay. and looze him; way you go. Button: And the boy tells that, nothing else to be done about it, he jumped into d'ye see dat leetle fellow way Q. Is the Hudson Bay Company still in existence?—S. B. B. A. This company is in existencs having its main office in London, an office in Winnepeg and. forts and trading stations in the far Canadian north. This English chartered com- pany incorporated In 1670 by Charles II. In 1869, in return for a land grant of 7,000,000 acres and £3,000,000 the company Eave up fits anclent privileges and claims &nd b came a modern business corporatidn. Q. Does the fact that church serv- ices are broadcast tend to keep peo- ple at home who might otherwise at- tend church?—A. V. E. A. This is a matter about which opinions differ. A clergyman in New York whose Sunday service has been broadcast by radio for two yearssays that he {s convinced of the rich that the radio serv- Among the good thin t he says for the radio service are that ‘it awakens the spirit of religion in many listeners and leads them to become regular a tendants at church. Q. What is the size of t%e largest pyramid in Mexico?—J. M. T. A. The pyramid at Cholule, west of the city of Puebla and about sixty miles southeast of Mexico City, the largest in Mexico. Its base is 1,400 feet square and the altitude is 200 feet. Its volume is 130,666,600 cubic feet. This pyramid in Mexico has a greater number of cubic feet of masonry, although it is not so high, as the great pyramid in Egypt. Q. What_were the names of the children of the Willlam Brewster who came over on the Mayflower?— C. H. H. A. The four were named Love, tience and Fear. Q. Who gave the name Rainier to the mountain which is now to be called Mount Tacoma?—T. P. A. Capt. Vancouver was the ex- plorer who discovered the mountain. He called it Rainier out of compliment to the admiral, who was an intimate friend of his. Q. What has Colombia done with the money the United States has paid her for the Panama Canal?—W. H. C. A. Of the $10,000,000 already pald it is reported that $5,000,000 has been used as capital for the new national bank and that the other $5,000,000 will be used in building railways. children Pa- Brewster Wrestling, Q. On what day were the most men killed during the Civil War?—C. D. T. A On the second day at Antietam, September 17. 1862, the greatest loss of life occurred. Technically, this was a drawn battle, but Gen. Lee was placed at a disadvantage in that he was forced to return across the Po- tomac. Q. What is the weigh Mars and our earth?—E. _A. The Naval Observatory says that the earth weighs 5,000 millions of millions of millions of tons. The t of Jupiter, C. mass of Jupiter is 318 times that of | the earth, and the mass of Mars is 0.108 part of that of the earth. Q. What doeg the term “muirburn” mean?—I. S. L. A. In Scots law this term denotes the crime of setting fire to any heath of “muir” from April 11 to Novem- ber Q. What methods were employed by the Romans in executing mural decorations?—B. T. R. A. The principal methods. used by the carly Romans were painting in " ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN is fresco, mosaic painting and marble incrustation: Q. Who wrote the lines which the | Clemens family had carved on Susy Clemens’ headstone?—B. N. G. A. They are by Robert Richardson and - were found by the Clemens family in Ausgyralia: “Warm summer sun, shine kindly here; Warm sonth- ern’ wind, blow softly here. Gréen s0d above, li¢ light, lle light—Good- [ n:x:{ dear heart, good-night, good- nights . Q. 1Is it unlawful to use the red cross as a trade-mark?—H. K. A. It is uniawful for any one to use the Red Cross embiem for the purpose of trade or as an advertis ment, except those persons, corpor: tions or associations which were. actually using or whose assignor was actually using the said emblem, sign, insignia or words for a lawful pur- pose prior to January 5, 1905. . Are trout native to the waters of Louisiana?—E. P. A. The ‘Bureau of Fisheries says that trout are not found in the ‘waters of Louilsiana, as the water is too warm. Trout require water of a temperature of 60 or below. Q. What {is the bes! queen bees?—M. B. G. A. Requeening is generally recom- mended after the spring honey flow is over. From the 1st of July until the middle of August is best. The bees should have at least eight weeks to build up before the frost occurs. t t time to re- Q. How was the drum introduced into Europe?—J. T. R. A. The kettledrum, which is one of the various percussion instruments|at him, that more than eight decades Y | have rolled over his head, still cov- ered with a thick thatch of white. peculiar to all peoples, was probabl: brought to Europe by returning Cru saders. Q. What is a tree nail>—R. K. A. A tree nail is a long wooden pin used in fastening the planks of a|%°™ vessel to the timbers or to each| grandson. Time flies, but Grand- grher, father —— scems to stand still to watch it. Q. Did England, or did she not, recognize the South at ti of the Civil War?—S. P, A. England issued a_proclamation of neutrality May 13, 1861, by which he beginning. S. she recognized the Confederate States | Mim, feeling somewhat silly, like the This action on the|famous youngster in “Alice in Won- part of Great Britain was shortly | derland” who asked Father William how he managed to remain so supple. as belligerents. afterward followed by other Euro- pean countries. Q. a tablecloth is all linen?—T. A. Linen absorbs water immedi- ately and feels heavier than cotton. Linen if freed from dressing becomes translucent when treated with olive ofl; cotton remains opaque. If torn quickly, linen threads will be smooth; cotton threads will curl. Q. Wha sar?—K. A. Apples, grapes, oranges, black- berries, pineapples, watermelons, peaches, figs and mayhaws will all make satisfactory vinegar. Q. If the term “Post Office De- partment” is correet, why not war office or state office department?—C. 8. A. “Post Office Department” is the correct term, since it is the official title of this executive department of the Government. The departments derive their official titles from the Ehrueclogy emploved in the acts of ongress which are passed crcating such departments. t fruits will make vine- D. W. . If corn was native to America, how does it happen to be mentioned in the Bible?—L. B. P. A. The corn mentioned in the Bible was not Indian maize. which is the corn referred to as native to America. (Let The Star information buresu, Frederic J. Haskin, director. Twenty- first and C atrests’ worthwest, answer your question. The omly charge for this service is 2 cents in stamps for re- turn postage.) La Follette Cloud Frightens Some Editors; Others Igifore It The probabie strength of a third ticket in the presidential campaign has evoked a mixture of comment from the nation's editors. Some are inclined to think the La Follette pro- grame will cut no great figure in the election. Others, however, see in it a real menace to the two major parties. There is quite a general feeling that the display of radical banners behind La Follette is a compelling reason the rigging. “It was a long road up those stairs, and I began to pant and breathe hard before I was half way. But I kept at it until T got to the ‘Jacob's Ladder. which took me al- most into the clouds. At last, to my own amazement, I found myself anging on the skyvsallyard holding on to the mast; curling my feet round the rigging as if they were another From my lofty perch the sea looked like a great, black gulf. I seemed alone, treading the midnight clouds. Every second I ex- pectpd to find myself falling—falling. A gull was flying around the truck over my head; it frightened me, to hear it: it seemed So much like a spirit at such a lofty and solitary height. I heard a distant, hoarse noise from below and I sensed that the mate was hurrying me. So, trem- bling, I went to casting off the gas. kets, and when all was ready sung out, as I had been told to do, ‘Hoist away! And hoist they did, and me, too, along with the vard and sall, for I had no time to get off. It seemed like magic. There I was going high- er-and higher, the yard r#sing under me as_if it were alive. I was in a good deal of danger, without know- ing it, for it was so dark I could not see well enough to be afraid. | I only held on hard, and made good the say- ing of the old sailors that the last person to fall overboard from the rig- ging is the landsman, because he grips the ropes so flercely; whereas old tars are less careful, and sometimes pay the penalty. After this feat I re- ceived something like a compliment from Max, the Dutchman.” Deserved it, too. Weeks later, after much of ‘hardship and nothing at all of ease, the Liverpool docks came out to meet this youthful seafa: Here are pic- tures, vivid and aking, of ‘the water front, of the dark and narrow streets, of the sailors* boarding houses with their scant fare and their que: tionable diversions. In-distaste the boy turns away, remembering later that the truck horses of England made the finest sight that he W, “So grave, dignified, gentlemanly and courteous did these fine truck horses look—so full of calm intelligence and sagacity—that 1 often tried to get into conversation with them as they stood while their loads were prepar- ing” And he goes on to tell how the truckmen were improved by keep- ing the high-bred company of their horses. . * x Kk % 7 The return voyage. packed with incident and hardship; as was the ‘out- going ome, suffered the added misfor- tune of an epidemic of fever. But— fair winds and fine weather came at last. The pestilence ran itsélf out. The ship Steered ' merrily toward New York. And'as they came into the Narrows, “no more did we think and the plagué; nor turn our eyes upward: to. the- stains of blood st} “visible on the topsail whehce a sailor had fallen. Ob, he pair of hands. ‘why the campaign should be conduct- ed on a plane of serious argument ad- dressed to open minds in every sec- tion of the country. . “It is certain that Robert M. La Follette cannot be laughed down,” says the Cleveland Plain Dealer (in- dependent Dimocratic), which finds that “he is very earnest, and he has behind him a body of distinctly ear- nest men and women who are going to make themselves heard throughout the nation during the next few months.” The La Follette movement “is not to be sneered aside,” the Grand Rapids Herald (independent Republi- can) holds, because, “while La Fol- lette may be an incongruity in the picture, he will get thousands of votes that represent a ‘state of mind’ which will express itself through La Fol- lette simply because he is the only immediately available agency.” Fur- thermore, “thi ‘state of mind' has not been mellowed any by De- mocracy’s bitter debacle In New York.” The Muskegon Chronicle (in- dependent) is confident La Follette “will poll a large vote, a vote 80 large that it may- have the effect of throw- ing the election of the next President into the present Congress.” * % X % “If the leaders of the two old par- ties imagine they can haze La Fol- lette by ignoring him as in the Sen- ate they are too ignorant of the men- tal state of the country for their po- sitions,” according to the New York Evening World (independent Demo- cratic), which says: “It'is only blind reaction and intolerable blunders that make dangerously radical movements possible. These have made La Fol- lette possible now. Four years of Re- publican corruption and reaction were serious enough without blunders on the part of the Demodrats.” The Chi- cago Daily News (independent) points out “the bonds of party are now ex- ceptionally weak and the special de- sires of certain groups, blocs and fac- ‘Mr. La Follette will ind many voters to ride with him so long as he is go- ing their way,” but, “prophesies that he will- sweep the northwest, will carry Ohio and generally will rout any armies sent against him by the old party leaders are midsummer ro- mancing,” The New Orleans Times P une (independent Democratic), hoWever, feels that there is enough appearance of truth in his charges against the old partle: make him “extremely dangerous,” but this fact “may make him a real asset as an in- dependent candidate, for his entrance into the campaign will probably force upon the next administration, what- ever it may be, a far more liberal and progressive policy than would other- wise have obtained.” than the Republicans. The Ohio State Journal (Republican) finds it hard to follow the reasoning of this P3per, because “all or nearly all the states of the northwest where La Follette is expected to make a show of strength at the polis_are more likely ‘normally to go Republican than Democratic.” As the Des Moines Begister (inde- pendent Republican) sees it the La Follette. movement “has mone of the dash and determination and favorable background of the Roosevelt move- ment of 1912" The Wichita Eagle (independent) mentions that “inde- pendent movements in politics are supposed to gather their power of propulsion from much passion, but there is little passion among the population of the United States just now."” * * k% The many thousands of voters who would follow La Follette, the Minne- opolic Tribune (Republican) main- talns, “are the ones who are more bent on voting against something and somebody than on voting for something and somebody.” The sta- bility and sound sense of the electorate, the Fargo Tribune de- clares, “has been tested before,” and, “it sometimes makes mistakes, and on occasions certain sections may temporarily follow strange gods, but predominately a, majority of the whole country will be found on the side of sound government.” As the Little Rock Arkansas Democrat (Democratiad puts it, “there may be a time coming when talk of a -third party will have some ‘kick’ in it, but at_the present it is about as sig- nificant as a ‘dark moon’ is to the planting of Potatoes.” e various opinions antagonisti to the La Follette platform may. be summed up in the words of the Lamsing Btate Journal (independent), which says, “the planks are wise and unwise, gerous and foolish, ap- peals for racial and bloc support, the offer to purchase votes of special gTOUps at the expense of the Ameri- can people; imposeible ideas that would tend to chaos and the destruc- tion of our prosperity, our peace and happiness.” "In regard to the Social- ist vote, the Philadelphia Bulletin (independent Republidan) claims: ‘The opportunist policies of Hillquit and Berger, backed also by Debs, are profoundly repugnant to the middle-of-the-road party Socialists whose campaigning ardor is likely to be chilled by a ‘bourgeols’ candidate; and in any case the support of Debs and his Jlk is likely to do the La Follette cause little good with non- Soctalist radicals who might b willing to take a chance on an inde pendent pArty movement.” o ton Transcript (independent Republi can) concludes that the platform adopted by the conference at Cleve- tion lof for La Follette. The old-fashioned - girl - Kissed to make up; the modern one mak to ‘kiss.—Lyan Item: e i Advertising as an art has react P thatey A‘ an has reached land must- complete the determina- the people to h The last’ of life, for ’ mad Our Umes are in His hadd ‘Who Youth shows but half; nue with the step of & youngster, he took his eighty-two years of manhood along the historic way trodden. by countless hosts now -hidden forever from our sight. 95" 4 far west, ' was bent on'seeing Washing- nué no one paid any particular at- tention to him, and he expected none. born about the time the telegraph first made its appearsnce, was a young man grown at the time of the civil war, that in his own life he has seen the telephome, the air- plane and the men’s minds and become everyday things of use. ing at the tall, the pink f: the bl Kkindlines is Grandfather climbed Pikes Peak, with his grand- still. How can & person judge whether | He thus bore out the testimony of R eminent men, whose motto has been “to rest is to rust,” and other such strenuous sentiments. question fired at the veteran. it he knew that was expected of him. There was a twinkle in his eye. plied he. who has been through the mill of life and come out unscathed kins University and other scientists have evolved after much experimenta- tion and observation, labeling it the discovered for himself. hoart with great benefits to himself, and also to others, as no man can be pleasant if he is food-poisoned. ;or does he wear a broad-brimmed at. h see_ what it Is that distinguishes him as he walks so confidently down busy Pennsylvania avenue. '011::\- o4 .llnnz"-:mmme, st it 0 , it ot Tife, which the first ~ was saith ‘A whole T planpe: 8¢ all, nor be afraid’ Striding. down Pennsylvania ave- d, Goa: Grandfather ——, just in from the on again, As he walked along the Ave- No one knew, as I did, that he was that he radio spring out of How could they know all this. look- well-set-up figure, e behind the gray beard, beaming with g * k% % He is wonderfully well preserved, | You would never think, just to look Why, only a few years ago he now he is here to greet his great- Not that his philosophy is to stand It is just the opposite. “How do you keep so well?” I asked “I keep going,” smiled Grandfather * ¥ & ¥ “What do you eat?” was the next “I eat moderately,” he answered, as “Biit what do you eat?” “Mostly vegetables and fruit” re- “Do you eat much meat>’ Very little meat any more. “*And milk?” “Yes, but not much any more.” * % x % There you have it, from a man ‘What Prof. McCollum of Johns Hop- ‘lacto-vegetable diet,” this veteran Pruits and vegetables are about all he eats, and all he needs. Many a too-fat person might take this to But this is but half, Grandfather is_a Quaker. He doesn’t use . “thee” and “thou,” But the faith’ of his ancestors is| is. Once you know this fact, you No use to caution him. “Now you must watch the automo- bilea They have increased many times over since you were here last You will have to watch your step.” Grandfather smiles. * % ¥ X “The brooding and blissful halcyon days” of which Walt Whitman, who was fired from the Treasury Depart- ment, sang in his last years, are now the personal property of this young-old man. - How it feels when you arrive there would be impertinent .to ask. It is all right to ask a man what he eats for dinner, but other things one does not inquire into. If he wants to tell, as Louis Cor- naro did oenturies ago in Venice, all right. That ancieat wrote, when he was abéut 100 years old: “Oh, what a beautiful life is mine, and how happy my end will be!” Our modern’ professional optimists have never got out anything to beat that. They are so busy with this life they cannot so chortle about the pro- spect of its terminatfon. rnaro wrote of “this beautiful world, which is indeed beautiful to those who know how to make it so for themselves.” Grandfather is the living exemplfication of that sentiment, for he knows how to make the world beautiful for himself and others, too. Sabrina Facts Given. Bronze Statue * Formerly on Campus of . Amherst Coliege. To the Editor of The Star: If it is really true, as stated in the article entitled “Folks,” in a re- cent issue of The Star, that Attor- ney General Stone is sent into “chuckles of mirth” by the. mere mention of the name “Sabrina” then the perusal of the aforementioned ar- ticle would most certainly cause Mr. Stone to almost laugh himself to death. 5 Sabrina, called by the author of that article “The Rag Lady,” happens to be a bronze statue weighing about a ton. She formerly presided on the campus’ of Amherst -College, but when the students showered indigni- ties upon her, among other things painting striped stockings on her shapely limbs, the college authori- ties removed Sabrina from her- place of honor and stowed her away. If the writer of that.article would look up the true history of Sabrina since the time when the class of 'S4 stole -her’ from the class of '93 'he Tould find many facts which would na i tax his crédulit a. s in hiding somewhere most of ‘the time and once a year is spirited about the couritry to suddenly appear for a few the snnual banguet of one of the even-numbered classes. A couple of years ago one of the odd- numbered classes succeeded in - steal- ing her, while she was-being-carted away ffom a banquet in Boston,.but e_has since been recovered by the ren-numbered classe: o X THUR H. KIMBALL. {LABOR BETTER OFF | plled by THAN BEFORE WAR U. S. Statistics Show Wages, Wgrking Hours and Con- ditions Improved. UNEMPLOYMENT SCARCE Building Industry Bears Brunt of Pay Increases Throughout - Country. . The American workman today recelving far better wages than be- fore the war. Working conditions, generally better than before 1914, have " been improved, and notwith standing talk of much unemployment in the United States, the workman finds more opportunity for steady work at reasonable wages than dur- ing 1922 and infinitely better condi- tions than during 1913 and 1914 These facts, based on statistics com- the Department of Labor. show American labor generally to be in far better condition, as regards wages, working hours and continuity of unemployment, than in any recent vear except possibly the peak years of 1918, 1919 and 1926, when the war boom reached its crest Wages in the buliding trades, in the railroad industry and in mining show a generally higher level than in any pre vious year. “Emplogment in these thre great industries, employing millions men in the aggregate. is good, and the: i8 no sign of a falling off, particular! in the building trades, where high wage: and fteady work prevail. Not sine: 1920, when the peak of the war boom was reached and high wages and higher prices prevaliled, has the present stability of industry been equaled. : Some Lexsened Demand. There are, however, several sore spote in industry, not with respect to labor controversies, but with respect to a_les- sening demand for manufactured prod- ucts, which is reflected in decreased em- ployment. This condition obtains par- ticularly in the automobile fleld, where unemployment is increasing and wages are dropping. One great automobile manufacturer is running his plant on = part-time basis. The basic industries, according to reports to the Labor De- partment, show a general ency to- ward decreased employment, not -any radical falling off, but a steady reduc- tion in force. The building industry. steadily and with many wage incre about thirty of the t increases recorded d ing in that industry. With the ex- ception of this ind the number of wage cuts during the past four continging v dwell- the brun generally, al of fifty odd ing May com- years has exceeded the number of increases, there having been, how- ever, no serious wage reductione. while the general lcvel has been maintained by increases in railroad ing and mining. Employment in Industry. Employment in manufacturing in- dustries decreased 4.2 per cent In May, while pay roll totals droppec 5.1 per cent, the Labor Department announced, while per capita earnings fell off 1 per cent. These_figures are based on reports from 8,569 establishments in fifty-two industries, covering more than 2,500, 000 employes. Increases in employ- ment for-May were shown in ten bf the Wo Industries and increases roli totals in nine industries An average of 90 per cent of full time and an-average of 17 per cent of full capacity were operated by manufac turing establishments reporting as to their operating schedules in May. The situation with regard to employment and.operating time has not changed materially in the last forty-five days Wage rate increases were reported by Beventy-seven establishments in May ‘and wage rato decrcases by forty-eight establishments. The Labor Department has not yet compiled for final use figures show- ing the average wage in the union trades for this year. These fi are in process of compilation and will be ready within about two months in partial form. The depart. ment, however, commenting on the trend of workmen's wages, declares the hourly union wage on May 15 of last year was hicher in the United States than in an: preceding year. Increases in wage rates in the build- ing trades and railroading will ab- sorb most of the sma!l decreases that have been reported since then, it is believed, thereby maintaining the generally high level. Union hourly Wage rates were 9 per cent higher 1n May. 1823, than on the same daje in 1 per cent higher than in 1917 and 135 per cent higher than 1907. The American workman is ge: ling today more than double hic wages af fourteen vears ago, - COURAGE - 1 am the captain of my soul.” —HENLEY. Eugene G. Grace worked his wav through college, where he was a base ball star and valedictorian, but had to aek ecredit for his tuition and after he was graduated he be- came a laborer. Son of an ex-sea captain in little Goshen, N. J, the lad went to the nearby school and helped in father's store. Winning a scholarship, he attended Lehigh. Gnivers and in his fresh- man year won a prize in mathemati He became the best shortstop the llege nine had ever had, was made captain. and his team defeated Yale Princetan_ and clubs of other lar institutions. At twenty-three he was valedictorian of his when he was graduated. But he did not have enough funds to complete his cours amd the authorities agreed to defe his tuititon payments. Immediately after leaving college he went to work for the Bethlehem Steel Co., at Bethlehem, Pa., whe he worked twelve bours a day and received 15 cents an hour. He had studied electrigal engineering and was placed In charge of an electric crane. He studied at night and he practiced_strictest economy until be had saved enough to pay his Lehigh tuition. _ Made superintendent of yards and transportation he did so well that President Schwab sent him to Cuba to straighten out the company’s min- ing troubles there. Completing the task in six months, he was placed in~charge of constructing the Saucon steel p At thirty he was made general superintendent of all Bethle- hem plants, and a year later was appointed general manager and elect- ed a director of the Bethiehem Steel Company. At thirty-geven he was elected pres- ident ,of ,tWe company, three years of € One - good thing. the New’ York Donation Not Made. Times (independent Democratic)- see: about the La Follette nomination 3 ' Houses built of glass sre sal chreape! T—but just, think of (e as buying_blinds. the ex —Dayton News. | oo of :Mount Carihel Says later. "he ‘was made Bethlehem Steel corporation, and was earning $1,000,000 a year. who has never been afar, let him once go froin home to know what Hau ! Hurrah! And ten Balancing " The peasimist iz impolite—, -OR,; listen to his song; they are not directly concerned with| A good many years ago there was & Pithem, though if they think a moment | popular Summer phrase, “the silly sea- 4 Dh; { home is. ! & - : E thusiastic over his work, he went — Tealise rorest o ‘haps beca: news “was| - g platform is that “they may put sn man’ thinki & 4 1.3 En A s Comarn to then. oot Gmasrous tres | wacker in hot han ool weacher rore| | aorbars soing mpenr T | R b o i | 214 i iy A28 misicadiig dhpalts o0, moRen R eort ooz | News Report Was'in Erfor. | 1o Berope [0 amy hiovel &n (ier, 48 the timber regions of the West and | foolish things were printsd, but it 3 one has I e nich was noor wond: | gressive’ and ‘conservative’” for, “we | 301 rive Pen CAr~—Stamford | , ype maitor of The Star: fhe largest in the world, and; was winning success when the world war broke gut and killed the project. Then came five vears of driving work without” a vacation, making ammunition and iuDvlleds fn;ld;l;:\; allie; 1917 he was made pre o!‘tfie J‘!‘eth‘lehem Shipbuilding Cor- poration.- Foday, at forty-seven, he still is lt| the head of the Bethlehem rganization. s (Copyright, 1024.) South do not stir people In the cities | might be said that there are not now ““deeply. One reason is that news of | themometric limits to the silly. season. acthis kind comes so often. It is some- | However, going over Niagara Falls in _thing like news of a crop failure in {4 rubber ball, no doubt with a tank section or anpother. The.disaster | of oxygen inside; does not seem up to g e s s far dway. f the ‘1924 standard of “thrills.” ' If| ~“De man dat’ allus in’a hurry, £ Just now we are getting forest fire | Bobby would go over without thé aid | said Uncle Eben, reports from several parts of the west. | of the rubber ball it would come nearer | behindhand.” ve had a plague of half-way men and half-way measures, and perhaps Senator La Follette will do the-coun- try a service by forcing a lot of the gty A g o o gfilyo‘—’bzll:{eu-n:lw‘ (X comae- w"m’ women 0:3 thetr dresase “Om: ve already come into an |Quence they intend to do. e New bress by. a) proc‘:'l-uon of the depth and powe: ‘Herald Tribune (Republican) is|yard. in . women\ Buy X o? Herman Melvillg adventurer an “that-the La Follette candls | dresses by the inch and their bread scribe. L G. M 'dscy will hurt th by the sandwich.—Nashville Banner, - Jud Tunkins says.there . are: two kinds of people lable to exmggerate the importance of money; those who haven't.it and those 'Who have. & broad manor ia England.” Revealing as a personal confession, realistic as “Main Street,” .romaatic as lite in its high moments of inven- tion, “Redburn’ opens: the door of delight again to those who, by wa: of !:hflgb -Dick” and “Typee” and - | I 'have seen a statement in The Now 1t | washington Star of May 1, 1924, to Joeals | tho effect that a site for an American’ hospice in the Holy Land has been | donated by-the Carmetite Fathers. - Would. y0u.kindly .cantradict this AR AR I8 I gurieuntrue. NCIS LAME, *Vicar of Mt. Carmel. The world gets better. smokes at the table after ‘where formerly it- uséd—t Akron Beacon-Journal. e Democrats more