Evening Star Newspaper, July 17, 1924, Page 6

HE EVENI STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY.......July 17, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor ” The Evening Star Newspaper Company Buaingss Office. 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Ofice: 110 st {2nd St. Chicagzo Otfice: Tower Building. European Office: 16 Regent St..London, England. The Evening Star. with the Sunday morning tion, is delivered by carriers within the y af 60 cents per month: daily only, 43 ents per month: Sunday ouly. 20 cents’ per mouth. " Orders ma. )y mail or tel vhone Main 5000. Collection is made by ca tion is being undyly financed. In othef words, whether money is being raised and spent for corrupt purposes. A fortnightly interval is as practical a method to this end as a shorter one. It there is a disposition on the part of a campaign committee to con- ‘ceal returns until after the election is an accomplished fact, no time-limit rule can possibly avail to prevent. But there is no evidence of such a disposition. Doubtless the chairman of the Democratic national committee, when he is named. will make the same agreement as that_of Mr. Butler. And probably the La Follette organization THE EVENING tional opera where the hero is a pugi {list, a base bail pitcher or & home run siugger. There has been American opera with the Indian as the main show, but though historians are keenly interest- ed in the Indian most of our folks do not warm to him s a hero, and the folks refuse to stand for him as a hero in a grand opera. If the patrons were small boys the Indian could be shown in opera, but if he were not shot in the foot. or plugged full of holes by the hero of the piece the opera would be a frost. There are difficulties in the way of Answers to Questions BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. Was the Republican national convention at Cleveland the first to have its deliberations radioed?—R. D. IC. A. This was the first national con- vention to he put/on the ether. On | June 10, when the first session opened, 17 broadcasting stations from the At- lantic coast to Kansas City were tied together. This fea: was practically repeated at the Democratic conven- tion in New York. GIVE THEM A JOB By DENIS A. McCARTHY. We've given them flowers, Smiles most joyous, and te: We've Voices thrilling and hearts we've given them cheers, nderest tears; welcomed them back with glitter and show, aglow; We've called them “heroes”—they grinned at th Blushing a bit 'neath the ol As day after day we swelle Of pride for e But noew that's past. 1d tin hat, d the strain r and pity for pain. Are you proud of them still? Then give them a place that a man may fill. This hero_ stuff isn’t going to last, THIS AND THAT BY C. E. TRACEWELL. Those who worry about effects of malnutrition a large city ought to take a walk along Seventh street. | If there are any children in Wash- ington suffering from non-assimila- tion or ailments, they care- fully keep off the busy thorough- fare splitting northwest Washington with a hum of business Such fat, healthy looking young-' the evil in sim AR FEATS RECALL -~ OLD PONY EXPRESS i Riders of 1860 as Much Hero Then as Maughan, Mac- Ready and Kelly Today. The war is over, the past is past: And now they stand in our crowded ways, Asking for neither our pity or praise, Heroes and demi-gods, neither, now, a prize-fight opera. We will stand for an operatic bullfighter whose arme and legs show that he could not lick Tiers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. will proclaim its revenues. Perhaps it will do so with a proud flourish of poverty if the funds are small. or Q. Should the election of the Presi- dent be thrown into the House of tepresentatives, how many votes sters as throng Seventh street ”“LINKED WEST T0 EAST ’ the best evidence in the world that the land is not going o the dogs. chubby. and for are Daily and Sunday..1 5., $8.40; 1 mo., 706 {1> only...... " 1r. $6.00: 1 mo. Sunday ou 151, $240; 1mo. All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00 1 mo., Daily only .. .1yr, $7.00;1mo, Sunday only 1yr, $3.00;1mo., Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press fs exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis- atches credited to it or net otherwise credited n this paper and also the local news pub- lished ‘heremn. ~All rights of publication of snecial dispatchs Wheeler’s Bolt. Defection of Senator Burton Wheeler of Montana from the regular Drenvratéc ticket brings a notable supporter to the La Follette side and may be the beginning of a series of acclarations separating other mem- hers of the upper house of Congress from their normal party affiliation The case of Mr. Wheeler is somewhat peculiar. For some time past his name has figured in the talk about the “La Follette ticket.” He has been proposed for the vice presidency in that connection, But now he de- clares that he would not accept the nomination if it were tendered him. But he will abandon his own party's nominee for President and support the candidate of the amalgamution of dissent. He will at the same time work for the re-election of his col- league, Senator Walsh, and will like wise support Senator Borah in Idaho Senator Norris in Nebraska. Senator Brookhart in Towa and other candi dates whom he describes as repre sentative of the “progressive thought” of the country to the other Senators who are candi- dates for re-election mean that they Lkewise and perhaps others of the senatorial progressive bloc may be found in the La Follette following? Montana has been rated as one the probable La Follette states. defection of Mr. Wheeler does therefore, materially change the sit- uation in that particular area. But it cannot be a cause of any comfort whatever at Democratic headquar- ters. Nor would the news of the de fection from the Coolidge support of uch men as Borah, Brookhart, Nor- vis, Ladd and Frazier bring any joy to the Republican campaign manage: ment. Then there is Senator Hiram Johnson, who held his Republicanism straight to the point of his defeat at the primaries of his party. Will he cast his fortunes with La Follette and try to throw California into the pro- gressive melting pot, or perhaps so aplit the regular party votes out there that Davis may carry the state? This is evidently going to be a Year of some surprises and many - changes. The Wheeler bolt is the first on the card. Will it be the signal for other defection ——————— The McLeary Murder. Fear was general that Maj. Samuel H. McLeary had been murdered. The mysterious disappearance of the officer and the publicity given it caused deep interest to be taken in the case. It is now reported that a man arrested as a suspect has con- fessed to killing Maj. McLeary, and the confession shows that the crime was most revolting. It involved treachery, ingratitude and greed, and the greed was for paltry things. It is reported that the prisoner says the major took him and another man in his car to give them a “lift.” It is likely that they asked for a ride. While in the car these men with pistols forced the officer to stop and get out, shot him to death, stripped him of “valuables” and left his body in the brush near the roadside. It is not evident that the victim had much that was of value. His clothing and some shirts have figured in dis- patches as the principal plunder. No doubt he had a watch, perhaps a ring and a small sum of money. At this time the accomplice-murderer has not been captured, but the chance that he will be taken is hopeful. It the crime Wwas us the prisoner con- tessed, there can be no extenuating circumstances and these are men of most depraved, vicious and dangerous instinct. J So many robberies and assauls have been committed by men after getting a “lift” in cars traveling along country roads that drivers are less inclined to take in strangers encountered on the way. It seems to have become a dangerous form of hospitality. nét ———— References to the Teapot Dome af- fair are no longer numerous; not because it has been forgotten, but because it is too unpleasant to talk about. e Reparations discussions ghould at- tain results soon. Everybody is tired of deadlocks. ————— Campaign Expenses. Correspondence between Senator Borah, chairman of a select Senate committ€e on campaign expenditures, and Chairman Butler of the Repub- lican national committee, leaves no doubt that the revenues of the Re- publican party for. this contest will be ftully reported. At regular inter- vals, beginning in September, the chairman of the campaign committee will furnish Senator Borah’s commit- tee with a statement of the receipts and the sources. This is not quite what the Senator suggested. He pro- posed a ten-day report, but there can be no ground for rejecting the fort- nightly plan. What is desired is that the Senate committee should, as a clearing house, be kept advised of the revenues of the political parties. The K. ! Does this reference | { with a sweeping gesture of affuence if they are generous, giving evidence of a widespread disposition to help the new party. Legitimate campaign expenses are heavy. Everybody understands that it costs money to run a country-wide canvass. There are printing bills, postage bills, speakers’ expenses. rent of headquarters and hire of cler hire of halls for meetings and a thou- sand and one entirely legitimate items of cost. The only question is where the funds to meet these bills come from and whether the donors are seeking undue advantages. Chairman Butler promises that no money will Lo taken from corporations. He does not fix a positive limit upon the size of individual contributions. but says upon the campaign expen. e wisely declines to put a positive lim- itation in advance. Nobody what will be obtained or what be necded. c ses. will R Figuring on Electoral Votes. Political prognosticators are already at work on the electoral college. Re: publican estimators are figuring out “Coolidge states” and Democratic forecasters are proclaiming sure “Davis states.” La Follette wiseacres are not definit laiming large num- Ders of electoral votes, but are talking and even of “sweeping the country.’ A consideration of all the leads to some interesting results. It is asserted on the Coolidge side that 15 states are certain. with a| total electoral vote of 224. The Davis computers claim 20 sure states, with 200 electoral To La Wollette | for purposes of argument, ceded for the present 0 votes The total estimates is ates, This leaves 6 states in doubt, that are Indiana, votes. con- | states, with of these turee with 474 votes. with These 6 states Colorado, are Ohio, The 7 states accredited to La Fol lette, for the purpose of this pre- liminary survey. are Wisconsin, Min nesota, North and South Dakota, Montana, Idaho and Washington. | “The 15 states attiibuted to Coolidge are California. Connecticut, Hlinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine. Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey. New York, | Pennsylvania, Rhode Isiand, Utah, Vermont and Wyoming. Those that are given in the reckoning to Davis are Alabama, Arizona, Arl s Florida, Georg Kentucky, Louisi- ana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missour: Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Okla- homa, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. Inclusion of New ¥ in the R publican column doubtl challenges | Democratic denial. Inclusign of Ohio in the doubtful column probably elicits Republican scorn. Democratic hopes for New York's support of Davis are based, it is understood, upon the prospect that Gov. Smith will run for another term. which is | calculated to aid the presidential ticket of the party. If New York should go Democratic the calculation that gives Davis only 200 sure votes and Coolidge 224 votes, with La Fol- lette holding 50, goes awry. But if this calculation is correct it is evident that Davis could not win | a majority of the electoral votes, while Coolidge could. Giving Davis all six of the “doubtful” states would | yield him a total of 257 electoral votes,”or 9 less than majority. Giving Coolidge all of them would vield him 281, or 15 more than a majority. For Coolidge to secure a winning margin he must carry, in addition to the 15 states rated as assuredly Republican, Ohio, Indiana and New Hampshire, with their 43 electoral votes, giving him a total of 267, or one more thari enough. or La Follette surely to blockade the electoral college he must win, in addition to the seven states named, Iowa and Kansas, or lowa. Utah and Wyoming, on the basis of the reckon- ing just given. He must get. in short, about 70 electoral votes, which meuns that he must carry at least nine states. These computations are interesting. but not necessarily guiding. Condi tions that make for “bed-rock” elec toral returns are always subject to change. If there is in the making a “tidal wave"” it is likely to overwhelm | a | even the certainties of Jul ——e— American athletes have scored in the Olympic games wjth great credit. Europe is frank in admitting that when Uncle Sam interests himself in any enterprise he does so whole- heartedly. s While fearing that John W. Davis has hed his faults in the past, Wil- liam Jennings Bryan is proud to see him keeping good company. —r———— Publicity is recognized as one of the great assets of present times. The only man who is making a real effort to evade it is G. C. Bergdoll. —————— Opera and the Prize Fight. An opera is to be produced in Lon- don in which the leading character is a prize fighter. The idea is so out of the ordinary that one might call it an original idea if there were such a thing as an original idea. So far as can be called to mind no grand opera has been sung in Washington in which the central figure of the story is a prize fighter. A bullfighter is the hero “Carmen.” and clowns, bandits and poor, but enthusiastic, lovers are heroes in several popular operas. It purpese is plainly to secure informa- | seems strange that no American com- has thought to give us & ue- that a “reasonable limit” wil be put | knows | alculations | votes | Oregon, | w Hampsbire and Delaware. | the calf of a muley cow, operatic bandits that would not have the nerve to hold up a one-armed man. But an operatic prize fighter would have to look the part. He might get through on a small voice, but he would have to have big fists. If he looked like a matinee idol, cake-eater, lounge- lizard or a lady’s pet the top gallery would revolt. And the great tenors of the operatic stage would have to stand aside. Our folks would not submit to a tenor prize fighter. Then, there would have to be a fight in one of the scenes, and if the hero came on with a tenor | voice, spring-chicken legs and feather pillows on his dainty mits the audience would demand a refund of its money. Not many of ring champs are vocalists of charm antl beauty, and not many of the sweet singers of the stage would mount to more in the ring ; e of our shucks No slight difference opinion among the Republican campaign managers will overshadow public con fidence the fact that the real responsible personage in the enter- | prise is 4 gentleman by the name Coolidge. in rooe—s. — to get as well acquainted with the new Tammany chieftain as it is with smith, whose convention speech | Gov. |implicd an impression that he is in broad terms of “large majorities,” | SOmething of a leader himself. ————— The electron is announced ceivable entity. Its turn raay come. The scientist, like the Itor, finds nothing too small to be of possible subdiv divisille. as the ultimate co re incapable S L It is, of course Iy by Mr. La Follette th receives will be limited o ber of people who send j to his campaign fund. scal expected vote he the dollar each that num- e Aviators who went to sleep at Paris “Folies” were a ment to the press agents. airman is not as easy to torill as a tired busine disappoint- A weary s man. ———— Many voters will with regret that a careful scrutiny of all the party platforms reveals no reference whatever to the parking problem. ———— will note | 1t may be Mr. La Follette's fate to find himself compelled to assume the responsibility of being bigger than several parties at once. ———— Both vice presidential candidates are prominent in the public eye. After the clection neither is likely to be so to any great degree. e The new leader of Tammany may find it no easy matter to take the Democratic spotlight away from Gov. Al Smith e The la Follette ticket does not compel delegates to linger away from home while engaged in deliberations. e The name of Bryan still continues to make Nebraska famous. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILA Insufficient Precedent. Imagination makes our ills Seem greater than they are. From fancy we derive our thrills More than from fact, by far. The chance that I might see a ghost In childhood made me fret. The things that terrified me most Have never happened yet. DER JOHNSOX I hear folks prophesy anew Conditions of dismay, Unless we undertake to do Exactly as we say. And still T cherish hopes of cheer, Remembering how I've met So many shivering shapes of fear That never happened yet. Peace. “Of course you are in favor of world peace. “Bmphatically,” answered Senator Sorghum. “In a reasonabie time I hope to see our part of the world so peaceable that prohibition agents and bicyele policemen won't have to carry revolvers. Jud Tunkins .he guesses capi- tal and labor are getting toward some kind of sociable understanding, being as only the rich can afford to hire plasterers. Billions. Some figures are too big and grand For most of us to understand. In history my mind can go Perhaps a thousand years or so: But when our science lightly dwells On “billions” as mere bagatelles 1 cannot follow; so, 1 fiee. It doesn’t mean a thing to me. If T can figure up my debts And pay them all without regrets; If 1, like fairly favored men, Can count my years three score and ten, I shall admire with meek content The intellect on billions bent That floats” with & poetic grace On mathematics into space. Matter of Location. “Is there any money in wheat?” “Some places,” replied Farmer Corntossel; “Chicago Board of Trade, for instance.” “It's gineter take a powerful sight of daylight savin’,” said Uncle Eben, “to keep up Wil mooushing waatin.,” s \ than | It may take the country some time | | The atom was once regarded as in- would cach state have?—G. G. A. According to the twelfth | amendment to the constitution, “the votes shall be taken by states, the Ir('])rt‘tx(‘n(kllnn from cach state hav- | ing one vote: a quorum for this pur- pose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice.” Q. When was Haw what sum was paid?—J. M. T A. Hawaii was annexed by joint resolution of Congress July 7, 1898, and created a territory by act of April 30, 1500. “When the United tites acquired the Hawaiian Islands he assumed the public debt to the amount of $4.000,000 instead of mak- ing actual paynie There are 20 islands in the Hawaiian group. Q. York A, ii annexed and Are there many State Y. & atistics are not dvailable as tc the number of bears in the State, but the report of the State conservation commission shows that 232 bears were ork during 1920 and preceding year. bears in New during the = general -W. C. G. Q. What Confederats te buried in New Orlean: A. Confederate Generals G. T. Beauregard. A. G. Blanchard, Harry T. Hayes and John B. Hood are burfed in New Orleans. Q. If a comet ever touches the earth, will it explode?—M. G. A. The Naval Observatory says that the mass of a comet is never large; {and the material i3, for the most part, exceedingly tenuous. It is probable that the earth, if struck by a comet, would witness nothing more than a meteoric shower. The explosions, if {any. would be similar to those hither- to observed the case of large meteorites. in Q. Who paintad the tiny portraits |of the king and queen in the throne |room of the Queen's Doll House at Wembley?—A. V. T. A One of the most celebrated of cotemporary portrait painters executed these " portraits—Sir William Orphan, R A Q Was iron ever used as money in { this country™— 1. S, W, | A After the first successful iron works in Amcrica was established at Taunton, Mass., in 1 some of its products were used as money. * Q. Why is Litte called>—3l. L. S. A. The city derived its name (origi- nally “Le Petit Roche” and “The Lit- itle Rock”) from the rocky peninsula in Arkansas. distinguished from |the “Big Rock,” the site of the Army st. Fort Logan H. Roots, one mile the city. The big rock is have Leen first discovered |and named “Le Rocher Francais” in | 1822 by Sieur Bernard de la Harpe, |who was in search of an emerald imountain; the little rock is now used {as an abutment for a railway bridge. Q | “sun prescrving” method? | A. Peaches, apricots and plums are |well “adapted for sun preserving. Fruit should be carefully picked over and wiped, cut in half and pits re- moved. Spread on racks or boards and dry in sun for two days. taking in at night. Pack in jars, a layer of fruit, then a layer of sugar, using | pound for pound and having the top luyer of sugar. The mixture should be but need not be Rock, Ark., so- to covered sealed. | @ what name is applicd to a coin ‘vullrumr and what to a stamp col- A, D. D. coin or medal called a numismatist, collector a philatelist. Q. What is the Babcock test?—M i M lector? | A A collector is and a stamp A. This is the name given to the milk fat test invented by Dr. . M. Babeock in 1890. The fat in milk commonly varies between 3 and 6 per cent. The fat is lighter in weight than other milk substances and rises to the top of the milk. Cream is made up of fat and milk serum. Q. Is the Mississippi River adding s0il to the mainland?—O. A. B. A. The process of soil building goes on steadily below New Orleans. the river adding one foot to the mainland each day. Q. How does the density of popula- tion in China compare ith that of the United States?—R. E. D. A. If the population of the United ates and 40,000,000 more were rowded into the State of Texas, the density of the population would be about the same as that of China in the valleys of the Yang-tze-Kiang and the plains between the Yang-tze- Kiang and the Hoangho. This means an average of 520 persons to the square mile. Q. Were. submarines used during the Civil War?—E. C. A. During the period of the Civil War the Union had no submarines. The Confederates had several, called “Davids.” One of the David sub- mariues attempted to blow up the New Ironsides, but failed. ~ The Confederate submarine which accom- plished considerable destruction was the H. L._Hunley, built by Capt Hunley. This submarine destroyed the Housatonic. Q. Was the Colossus of Rhodes as tall as the Statue of Liberty?—H. F. A. Pliny and Strabo place the height of the Colossus of Rhodes at 70 cubits, or 105 feet. Later writers estimate it at nearly 80 cubits. The Statue of Liberty is 151 feet high, plaged on a pedestal of 155 feet. Q. How much larger is Australia {than the island which is second in size?—N. G. M. A. Australia, containing = 2.946.651 square niles, 1s about three and a half times as large as Greenland, the island which is second in size. Q. 1s Buddhism older than Chris- tianity?—H. F. A. There are so many points of re- semblance between Buddhism and Christianity that many have believed that Buddhism was an attempt to copy that religion. Most Oriental scholars agree, however, that it arose in the north of Hindustan between 500 and 600 years before Christ. Q. Please_explain the difference in almonds?—H. N. A. A. Almonds are of two kinds—bitter and sweet. The bitter almond is cul- tivated to a limited extent in Medi- terranean countrles, and the nuts @re used in the manufacture of- flavoring extracts and of prussic acid. The sweet, or edible, almond is grown on a commercial scale in the south of Europe,- in California and in some other countries of similar climate. The nuts contain a large quantity of a bland, fixed bil, they have an agTee- able flavor and are used for desserts, in confectionery, and medicinally in an emulsibn which forms a pleasant, cooling, diluent drink. There are three classes of 'sweet almonds—the hard shell, the soft shell and the paper shell almond. The latter two only are important commercially. (Let The Star Information Bureas answer your questions. Address The Star_Information Bureau, Frederio J. Hasbin, Director. Twewty-first and O streets nortMocat, inolosing ¢ comis in astamps. for, relurn postage) | : With medaled breast and w But ‘men. Just men. And th ith laureled brow, hey scek a place In the daily toil and the daily race. Just this. No more. But the chance for a living So give them a job! Was a man-sized job. That knew the horror, the Is a boy no more. And look on life with the e Tested and tried, and found And he’s not begging from No, they're not asking for Neither cheer nor sob, that goes with a job. For the job they've had And the youngest lad struggle, the stench, He must henceforth plan yes of a man to be true. me nor from you easy snaps, These stalwart-spirited soldier chaps, But they, over there, have given the best That their lives were worth And now that the cheers an Don’t leave them looking a You liked the way that the: . that their souls possessed, d the songs die out nd loafing about. y worked in France When they stopped the wave of the foe’s advance. Well, take the fellows who turned that trick, Who ended the war and ended it quick, And give them—leatherneck Your last, best gift in the s . doughboy and gob- hape of a job! Alvey A. Adee Wins Unstinted Praise of Editors of Country High tributes are paid by the Na- tion’s press t6 the memory of Alvey Augustus Adee, Second Assistant Sec- retary of State, whoze recent death brought to an end a career unprece- dented in the diplomatic history of the country. Scarcely heard of by the public because he did his work quietly @nd without personal ambition, Adee had been the diplomatic expert as Secretaries of State came and went for more than 40 vears. When Mr. Adee was 28, Moinos Register recalls, “he secretary of the legation at and in that ecapacity and served there for seven years. ing to the United States in Lecame chief of the bureau, and he has been an ass secretary of state since 18820 Al- though he refused many offers of ad- vance! nt during the 54 vears of his connection w diplomatic serv- ice, the < Journal is sure “he has be rsally recognized as a veritable mine of diplomatic his- torical wisdom in the diplomatic field, whose Invaluable services have been eagerly sought by Secretaries State from Frelinghusen to furthermore, “his great work has besn for the most part performed in| secret, and no one knows how much | of the reputation of some gecreta of State is due to his unrivaled ex- perience and his rich Eifts as an au- thority on international law and dip- lomatic usaze “How many State papers took their finished form from his facile pen and Rifts of expression the public can never know. and has been averted and how much prog- ress has been made in friendly re lations with other countries through his great knowledge of diplomatic usage will never be recorded,” in the opinion of the Newark News, but “men in high office, inexperienced in affairs of State, have had to turn to | him to find out how to do the thing | they wanted to do and are indebted | to him bevond measure for his tact and wisdom and expert judgment.” PENEN [ Mr. Adee was something more than | 4 human phonograph, explains the Minncapoiis Tribune, because “he was adaptable to social and political change; he kept pace with world progress; he knew what paths to take and what paths it were well to_avoid when crossroads were reached in_the Nation's onwar@ movement.” So here Was & man “content to seem less Ereat than he really was, says the Indianapolis News, “doing h dut,; in a manner above criticism, and find- ing his joy in the satisfaction that omes therefrom: one knows without the became Madrid, others Return- 1878, he Hits the Communists. Element Disavowed by Farmer- Labor Party, Writer Declares. To the Editor of The Star. In your issue of the 10th Yyou carry an Associated Press dispatch on page 13 with the headline “Farm Labor May Favor La Follette” and state in the body of the article, among others, that the attitude of the Natiol Farmer Labor party formed in Paul last June toward the pre: dential candidacy of Senator La Fol- lette will probably be decided at a meeting of the executives of the party to be ratified by a conference of rep- resentatives of the above-mentioned party. The general endency of the news article in_question is to give the impression that the organization with which Foster, Ruthenberg and some other well known communists Des | diplomatic | ant | of | Hughes"; | how much trouble | his efficiency- being told that his heart was in his work; that he labored for more than dollars, and that his life was richer and better because it was true—Alvey A. Adee. quiet, unassuming, patient and sincere, has set a standard in public life that could hardly be im- proved on.” “Through four decades” the Mi waukee Journal declares. “Mr. Adee represented the thing most needed in our diplomatic service—permanence.” When it is considered that this of- |ficial actually determined man |cate matters of policy and conduc the Springfield Republican thin “the question naturally arises whether some important political posts in the Government service could not advan- | tageousiy be made ‘non-political.” for “there may be fewer Adees, b cause there is so little chance to d velop them.” Characterizing Adee not as a party hack, but solely the servant of the State.” the New Yo Evening World velloves: “In a sense |he is a symbol of the future. The time will come when the diplomatic | service will be taken out of the party | politics. ‘as in other countries. - Men | especiaily equipped by study and tem- | perament for the foreign service will !be held. Broken-down politicians and heavy contributors to campaign funds will not longer find it possible to enter | without qualifications. Adee is the first ew order.” £ x % The Cleveland Plain Dealer points out, “Politics never touched Adee. He was supposed to be a Republican, but primarily he eficient public servant, and if he gave any thought | to politics it never interfered with The public service has too few men of this kind. There can- not be too many. It is very doubtful if any one can be found adequately to fill the place left vacant. Alvey A Adee was unique.” Tn the loss of Mr. Adee, says the Columbus Disp: “the Government has lost encyclopedia of diplomatic informa- tion, such as it has had in no other one man ever connected With the State Department since its organiza- tion.” The Savannah Press prai Nr. Adee as “a faithful servant of the republic. a man who, through all administrations and under all politi- cal influences. retained his place in the public service through sheer abil- ity, application and adaptability.” The Rochester Herald tells how “it was said of Mr. Adee that he was one Of the few Americans who, previou Yo the World War, had an intimate knowledge of French village and ru- ral life, ause “he delighted traveling through France on a bicy cle, and would stop anywhere the night overtook him.” ‘and “in that Wway he acquired invaluable conta With the French people and learned their thought as cannot be of the was an “I am the master of my Tate, 1 am the captain of my soul. —HENLEY. Willys Refased to Recognize Failure. John N. Willys dreamed of being a millionaire. He gave up school and worked hard that he might make money, but often failure threatened to shatter his hopes. While -attending_public_school in Canandaigua, N. Y. where he was born, he and another boy ran a laundry, then sold it. clearing profit of $200. Money-making looked easy. Willys secured the agency for a bicycle, left school at seventeen and opened’ a bicycle shop. Sales were many when on credit, but the riders As a boy are associated is the Farmer-Labor party of the United States. This is whoily misleading and at variance with ‘the true facts. The Farmer- Labor party of the Ualted States has immediately, after Senator La Fol- lette’s unequivocal denunciation of the St. Paul convention, withdrawn from that convention almost to a man and completely disavowed that con- vention. The communist element, whose pet policy here and abroad, where it is working hand in hand with the bol- sheviki, is to work its way clandes- tinely and under pretense of giving assistance and co-operation into lib- eral and progressive organizations and labor unfons, and once they are in they start their boring from within tactics and are not satisfied until they ‘either rule or ruin. The same sort of thing was attempted with the Farmer-Labor party of the United States, and when they found that they couid not altogether smash the organization, they formed what is known as the Federated Farmer- Labor_party with the manifest ob- ject of confusing the public at large and to spread the belief that they are the Farmer-Labor party of the United States. I am sufe that it will be of great interest to you and_your readers to know that on July 3 and 4 last the natlonal committee of the Farmer- Labor party, representing thirty states where the party is organized, met at Cleveland simuitaneously with the Conference for Progressive Poli- tical Action and unanimously in- dorsed the candidacy of Senator La Follette_and adopted his party platform. Moreover, the following resolution offered by the writer to the national committee apropos to the St. Paul conference was adopted by acclamation: “Resolved, That the convention as- sembled in the city of St. Paul on the 17th day of June, 1924, purporting to have been called by the Farmer-Labor party and claiming the participation in its deliberations and actions of the Farmer-Labor party, is hereby re- pudiated as unauthirized and mis- leading. and we hereby appoint a committee to consist of Parley P. Christiansen, Western Starr, Joseph L. Tepper, M. Rychman and D. Rod- rigey to take such steps may be necessary to protect the name and in- tu:uy of the Natjonal Farmer-Labor It will be clear Lrom.the above.that, neglected to pay, and he had tv 50 out of business. Next a salesman for a rubber con- cern, he saved $500 and bought a part ownership in a sporting goods store at Elmira, N. Y.. placing a manager in charge while he continued on the road. He thought that now he would be a capitallst, but the manager ran the business to the verge of bank- ruptey, and Willys had to take charge. He made a_ specialty of bicycles, became a wholesaler, and before he was twenty-seven he did a business of $500,000 a year. Becoming enthusiastic over auto- mobiles, he contracted to sell all of the 500 cars to be put out in a year by the ~Overland factory at In- dianapolis. After selling the product, he found the company ready to o into the hands of a receiver. and all his funds tied up in it. It was during the financial disturbance of 1907. money was scarce and over Sunday he had to commander enough funds from the hotel restaurant and bar to meet the $350 pay roll shortage He kept the plant running. bought the company’'s stock and soon was president, secretary, treasurer., gen- eral manager and salesman. In the following year-the Overland company made 4,000 automobiles at a profit of nearly $1,000,000. Success came rapidly. Toledo plant at Toledo, Ohio, was purchased. Other concerns were added, and before he was forty-five Willys was a multi-millionaire at the head of six plants and employing 20,000 people. Then the world war came, and the financial troubles that followed. Willys' companies suffered with many others, and his struggle was herculean. Now it's reported that he is coming back stronger than ever. Co The Pope- he, 1 the Farmer-Labor party of the United Statea not only dissociated itself the organization consisting ally and essentially of several well known communisis, who are im- portant only In the nolse they can make and the aptitude they show for spreading misinformation, but openly repudiated them and is prepared through a committee of Jawyers, headed by Pariey P. Christiansen, presidential candidate -in’ 1920, wage battle for its name and tegrity. doa L. TEPPER. ‘Treasurer, D, C, Branch Farmer--Labor | Their elders, too, Skinny people shrink from the ordeal of passing up and down this thriv- ing way. Everybody looks well fed. Even the dogs. Bananna peddlers, lemon mongers old men, old women, young flappers, old flappers, small boys, small girls, snorting automobiles, clanging street cars, carts, horses, dogs, shoes, drugs and 'birds! s Nutrition is the keynote of Seventh street Now the spirit of our streets i a subtle thing. It is not easy to find, and, when found, it is difficult to tell | in 80 many words just why one street seems to stand for one thing and an- other thoroughfare for something clse. Ninth street is a busy place. but nutrition is not so apparent upon it. There is_another factor that strike one on Ninth strect. | Lieut. | Covered Distance From St. Louis to West Coast in Ten Days. “To the people of Utah of 1860 and 1861 press’ rider, news only as great Maughan,' from the California and the ‘pony ex who brought war a week old, t hero Paul them was almo: Revere says a bufie Washington, D. C. head quarters of the National Geogri Socicty in regard to the to which a organizati memorial tablet was re cently unveiled in Salt Luke City “The name ‘pony expre faint suggestion of romance minds toda nues the inafew But Seventh street beams. Its amplitude is like the b old Mother Eart It is a d honest strect, without any pretense | or monkey busines; The rich ride, the poor walk, and those in betwe both ride and walk. Jody lags on Seventh street. Keep up with the procession! | Whether you are hurrying on u really | important errand, or just dawdling | along looking at the things in the | windows, hurry along! | Dawdle with speed, if you expect | to dawdle at all on Seventh street. | It is a hot morning, and much work remains to be done before the dusk settles down with that peculiar haze known only to asphalt streets. % % % Take a stand here on the corner. The dark-skinned banana merchant has a stand there, too. He deals in the fruits of the earth, you shall take stock of the fruits of the spirit. An old hunchbacked woman, her face lined and seamed, passes by. Even she looks well fed. Plenty of bacon and corn bread With a swish u long limousine draws up to the curb, and a large lady therein goes through various motions of parking. Watching 4 woman park a car is one ‘of the delights of the modern gods She wears a hot looking black cape, | which, with the closed windows of the car, makes for suffocation. No wonder ‘she scems anxious to get out. She turns the wheel, cranes her neck, threatens to put the Lanana man out of business, slides forward, skids back d. comes to rest. 1t ie done! Whew. *x % % Here comes a girl with bobbed hair. 1 like girls with bobbed hair. How about you? But this girl's hair isn't bobbed right. Something is the mat- ter with it It sticks out funny. Wonder who barbered her? What a pretty girl in simple blue checked dress, “School days, school Good old golden rule days Not u single, solitary sign of mal- nutrition, either. That small boy there with the big cap carries that big paper bag care- fuily. Tt must contain a new Sunday go-to-meeting hat. By George, it does! som of wnright days. ! 3y Uncle Sam’s post office truck warps to the curb. Down the gang plank run three carriers, their sacks full of letters and papers, while the driver ®ets ready to collect from the box. Here is a sample of governmental 1o delight the heart of Somebody ought to tell him | about this, so he could be on the lookout for it when he comes back to Washington. The same wagon that collects mail transports carriers to_the beginning of their routes. Now the car drives oW, but the driver cranes his neck aroand to cast suspicious glances this way Must think an inspector is checking up! Bad fellows. those inspectors. Tinkle, tinkle, tinkle! A vellow dog, fat and sieek. like everything else around here, slides by. His tag resounds to the key of C. Here is a tp_to the District dos tag bureau: Give out the tags according to the musical scale. Then a dog fight will sound like a jazz symphony. e Oh, see the pretty girl shoulders sticking out! See the fat old woman in apron, man's trousers, and man’s panama hat, dragzing a load of lemons along in a cart. Lemons are selling for 15 and 10 cents a dozen today, the signs tell the sour world. Women., more women, all carrying short, stubby parasols. Umbrellas | always have been too long in the shaft, anyway. When is some intell gent bumbershoot manufacturer going to make a sawed-off umbrella for men? More bobbed-huair. There goes a colored girl with bobbed hai There goes the banana merchant. No, there are no vustomers. A man weighing 2350 pounds stops on the corner. He is the most ample, the best fed, the one with the leas! signs of malnutrition on all this long treet. He must be the king of Seventh street— No, he is a member of a fire com- pany, on his way home. “Yes sir. those airplane fellows have to take orders when to go up, and when to come down. Yes sir, it certainly is hotter than the devil today.” * X ¥ ¥ Real bobbed hair! In 4 car which has just drawn up to the curb sit two beautiful children. Why don't some of the women take the little ones with them to the beauty parlor, and say, “Cut mine just like this'™ % Two fat ragamufin children stop to look in at the silk-clad little ones. The rich children look out with wonder _at the ragamuffins, and the ragamuffins _look back with wonder at them. This is a mysterious world, folks. econom: Dawes, with her 2 Held Up by Locusts. CAPE TOWN.—Millions of locusts are swarming into South ‘Africa from Trains the great central desert. Trains go- ing to Rhodesia have been help up by thick swarms of the Dests on the metals. Motor trolleys have been rushed to the infested areas with supplies of poison, which will be used to exterminaté the locusts. In the meantime farmers have been Porced o trek with their cattle else- where. There is hardly a blade of grass left in_their land and all the Winter feed has been devoured. The same conditions prevail in the Orange Free State, where the locusts are| eating all the sweet grass. This| means starvation . for hordes of | cattle. Al schools are closed and | children are helping to scare the pests. In Naboomspruit a swarm five | miles wide passed over the district, the noise of the locusts’ wi re- pepbling Uis BUR Of 8B acropiase, “but with and Kell: Maughan fiying from ocean to ocean in a matter of hours; with our night- fiying postal a with our rail way (rair four da with our telegrams delivered within the hour; and hear and recog: is speaking accomplishm riders’ of & likely to simple. The establish weekly —and later semi-week] service, clipping ten dayvs from mail time across the contine however. an accomplishment treme importance. It has h ited even with keeping Califors the Union during civil war days Required Twenty-Eight Days. At the time the pony express e into being the accepted mail route t. California was by steamer from York to the Istimus of Panam across the isthmus by mule conv anoe, and by ship from Panama to San Franc the mail MacRead and mer, that cross in ¥ e as we ise a voice L6600 miles of the f “three y passed while awa arl age [ New ity-eight days. Later stage line from over the Santa Fa Trail and thence into Southe took letters between the days ide thes r ay letter and eight- day telegram schedules of the pony exDross represented s g forward as the trans. service made over ex nine vears later. “The winning of the West had vanced only as far as h River, in the central sect country, in 1860. Beyond less prairies, rugged foothills, mountains and Indians. But on, beyond the Rockie: Pacific coast and in the Grea region, were half a million Americuns building up another section of the United States far removed from i parent bloc R Railroads Ea; St Louis termi barrier Tarther the i 1 Line Limited. already conneccted i st with St. Louis, and an additional e had just been eompleted from St Louis to St. Joseph, Mo. The latter city, then, was the rail head of the United States and the ultimate we ern cutpost of the ordered tion of the East. Beyond military posts and some frontiersmen existed among hostile Indians. The problem Wwas 10 bridge this gap and tie the “two United States” together with the powerful thongs of news 'St. Jo' was al6o the western end of the telegraph line fro: East. On the Pacific side a telegraph line exten: ed from San Francisco through Sacra- mento to Placerville, near Lake Tahoe. News could be flashed from New York and Washingto Joseph, could be carried from there to Placerville by ) pony. and could immediately be wired on 10 San Francisco. This enabled the DOy express to make a two-day shorter schedule for telegrams than for mail Rail Billx Killed, Government civiliza- it a few scattered precariously 'hough officials recog- nized the keen need for a fast mail serv- ice to the West coast, id though tha westerners petitioned for it, the bills\s intreduced into Congress for Federal participation were killed. A private firm put the thing through, Majors & Waddell, owners of a freizhting sery- ice and predecessors to the big expre companies that grew up with the rai roads. They organized the enterprise quietly..and surprised the nation with advertisements in the spring of 1860 of- fering to carry letters to the Pacific in The first riders to gallop west from St. Joseph and easi from San Francisco, April . 1360, were given thustastic v send-offs, and whe ¥ 1e in—on schedule 10 days later both terminal towns su: pended business and had glorious cele- brations. ssell Hoofs Never Idle. What the pony express really diad was to stretch a ‘telegraph line' of flesh and blood from frontier to fron- tier and to keep it functioning in spite of weather, Indians and desper- adoes. Riders were mortally wounded by highwaymen or savages; but they carried on to the next station, their comrades took their places, and the mail sped on. Horses were changed every 10 or 12 miles at stations es- tablished by the servic Riders had ‘runs’ of approximately At the end of his run run a rider would be relieved, would sleep and rest, and would then be ready to carry the next mail in the opposite direction (o his starting point. Only a fraction of a minute was requircd 1o chang the saddle bags from one mount to another. Every minute of night and day hoofs were pounding somewher: between ‘St. Jo' and ‘Frisco.’ and the mail was moving at as fast a gallop as horse-flesh could move it “The route which the pony espre made famous was so well chosen that today lines of steel cover it almost exactly. Leaving St. Joseph. it par- alleled the presenth north boundary of Kansas for about 100 miles, struc across to the Platte River at i southernmost dip in Nebraska, fol lowed the South Platte Valley 1o the) present northeast corner of Colorado, went up the North Platte to Fort Laramie, in Wroming, and from thes: crossed over the Rockies by South Pass and on to Salt Lake City. The worst section of the route lay west of Salt Lake across the deserts and alkali plains of Utah and Nevada t Carson City. From Carson City it was only a few miles, though rough ones, to Lake Tahoe, and from therc to Placerville. Gave Way to Electricity. “The famous service—which of- ficially was ‘The Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company'—lasted only 16 months. In 1861 the transcontinental tele- graph was pushed ahead rapidly and at the same time the Federal govern- ment started a subsidized daily stage mail line over the pony route. For the last few months of its existence the pony express operated between the fast approaching ends of the tele- €raph line, On October 24, 1861, w the wires met and it became possible to flash messages immediately from ocean to ocean, the pony express, as romantic an enterprise ‘as American history discloses, gave up the ghosty It had hankrupted its promoters, but it had helped win the West™ 1y