Evening Star Newspaper, October 1, 1924, Page 6

[] THE EVENING STAR Wih Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY. . .October 1, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES. WBe Evening Star Newspaper Company Busivess Office, 11th St. and Peunsvlvania Ave New York Office: 110 East 42nd Clicugo Officn: Tower Huilding. European Office: 18 Hegent St., Laudon, Eng The Evening Staz, with the Sunday morning @dition. 1% dulivered by carriers within €1y At 60 cents per month: daily only, eear< per month: Nunday o Ction s made by car- <“at the Cud of each month Hate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryiand and Virginia. Daily and Sunday.1yr., §8.40:1mo., 7 Daily only 1yr, $6.00;1 mo., 50c Sunday only -1yr, $2.40;1 mo,, 20¢ All Other Wates, id Sunday.1 yr., $10.00;1 mo., S5c v only 1yr, $7.00:1 mo., 60c iday only 1¥r, $3.00;1mo. Member of the Associated Press. Associnted Press is e entitled Gor, Fepublic £ all news dis- | ted to it publicat also reserved Brookhart Prepares to Bolt. Senator Brookhart's denunciation n. Dawes and demand that he be hdrawn from the Republican presi- ticket, the that h t the party’s chances in is & remarkable development of campaign. Mr. Brookhart is nom- ¥ the Republican for | nator in Towa. He conducted throughout a str ¥ personal cam- palsn, ai no time saving a word that | ild be construed as favorable to the ! yarty’s presidential and vice pnsnhn—] tial nomi Wost the ina nominee has He has not aided the | tional ticket, and by his silence has | served the opposition, notably that of the third party. Recently rumors have | spread that he intended to declare | himself for La Follette. This present demand that Dawes be withdrawn is | to be interpreted as an index of that | purpose. If Chairman Butler. to whom | the demand is addressed, declines to respond or to consent—one of which, of course, is assured—M: Brookhu may silence or refusal Jus an avowal prefe La Follette. Just Brookhart t this denunc seize upon or s for of | e for why Senator layed until now to en ficati open de- | appropriate 1 he left upen n ma to the some ima; izur of m-blocer” stead, specifically proposing Norris of Nebr the determinat group to run thy lowa will perhap pivotal States in the imy tor in the its electoral , is an instance of that r) party. of min one of It isan | . with | has a the tion. ant Luatic nirtecn It Republic the 1 votes. v record unbro split, when Votes between Roosevelt gave the State to Wilson. Brookhact has a large following, suf- ficient to zive him a plurality of 160.- | 000 two years ¢ Jori in the recent Whether, if he declares for the thivd-} party candidate, he can carry his fol- lowing to vote for La Fol- lette for Presiden of the inter estinz and auestions these final ain, v & declaration will b I nominated tion of ngering 912 the division of | and Taft | Senat g0 and a heavy ma- primaries. with him of campaign. | question whether | La Follatte, which the party that v use u de- | following and the senatorial can importa weeks of the es now the for a from n, may not hix own of his | obsery | man has done the best he could, world are being recorded by selsmo- graphs at nearly all times, but they are relatively few and feeble on the Atlantic coast. They are more nu- merous and stronger on the Pacific coast. Perhaps the earliest earthquake in the East of which men have kept a record was that in 1811, which caused considerable change in the face of the country in the Mississippi Valley south of the Ohio, was felt in New York, and no doubt shook houses in Washington. In addition to the earthquake news, nd flood news comes from many Points along the coast from Georgla to Connecticut send reports of high wind, and in some places wind of hurricane force. In the Carolinas rivers have overflowed their banks because of extraordinary ra New York sends news of storm damage, and Baltimore sends reports that the Patapsco and other rivers reached flood stage. ns. s The Conquering Heroes. Washington’s ovation to its base ball club today i natural expression of gratitude toward a group of young men who have fithfully served in the name of the Capital to bring the high- st honors in the national game to the District. Many of them have pl rd “major league base ball” in no other ter Johnson, for example, has worn no other than a Washington uniform 11 of his long career in ;ague’ company. Stanley Har- manager, has carned his ser' stripes at the Capital, Othe come up dire in s have ly from minor league gements to this city’s team. In a degree remarkable in base ball history this combination of pennant winners is local in its development. It s not or how briefly t o have just won the American pennant, and who will on cross bats with the New Y have worn the W They are the “home and as such arc admired and welcomed to- day with all the honors the city can pay. The President of the United matte however, how Tor ball ers who League wurday K« uniform, ants, ington team,” | States is to reccive and address them, thanking them in the name of Capital City for their contribution Washington's history To make a gala occasion of the turn from their triumphant tour of a team of base ball players is the more because of fact that this s been so persistently throughout membership in the major leagues merely one of the “also rans.” Y The Star printed a sraphic chart showing the annual standings Washinston b its organization, in both leagues. fe when it fin- second, it has never been seri- Thi: game was tion. Those who the o the b its sterday of the two occasions, it considered of the signed to a minor pos did so did not reckon upon the new element tha ad entered the equation, the youthful leadership of a manager gifted with a remarkable degree of 1l in inspiving his men to do their Lest in all circumstances. To every man on the the eredit. All of them have helped. All of them at times during the sea- had the misfortune to err in omission or in commission. batters have failed best of the fiel crit ments, pitchers have had t But, taken altogether, Save ished year to most it ors con sk son hav in th rs havy the hest ir bad every nd the pinches, th slipped at w the hetter than teams, and it f of the Ca better than t League cham- that best best of seven now the hope and bel that that best will he of the National been other has best | pions. In on. this [ Dawes has Jkhart out- somewhat respect burst against important toral and In case ihe clec- | to make is thrown reaction. college ails choice | the election cress, and the House, divided State de e 4 President, vote for Vice come President. Brookhart will stances vote foir | sumably vot for one 1 into Con- gations, to the Senators will | President, who will be- It plain that Mr. not in circum He will an He must © two unless t whol unexpected and appar possible happens, and La Follette 'Andi Wheeer poll more electoral votes than | Davis and Bryan. Does this portend | that all the others of the farm bloc | in the Senate will vote in the sam way? Does this Brockhart denuncia- | tion, therefore, rve as notice (hnt; s the choice of the Prog the next President? | , it may have a somewhat boom- ng effect upon the voters, leading | them to vote in such manne te present no such chance to the Scnate by reason ails choose such vote dy im- | ssive- | as —————— | v vote” in September mited in the matter of reliability by | the fact that the people 1 month of busy argument | in which to think it over. i | n ahcad a SIS The use of tar and feathers as a means of intimating that a member | of the community is no lady is now | admitted to be, of itself, an unladylike action — - e mem et Earthquake and Storm. Earthquake, hurricane and flood | WMews comes from many parts of the United States, and severe storm losses | have been sustained at points not far | from Washington. Farth tremors were t throughout northern New Eng- &¥and and castern Canada. An earth @uake or tremor in that region coptible without the aid of scnsitive tnstruments is unusual, and scientific uen who follow carthquakes suy that | . ix the sharpest shock felt in New Enzland in 20 years. News of the “rocking of the earth is sent out from secores of towns in New England, and Jfrom soric places come reports of elec- Sidrical disturbance in the The Wew England scientists say that the carth’s disturbance seems to have be- _4n in the maritime provinces of nada, but there are other opinions. Mhere are no reports of damage at this time, but an earthquake any-| “Where in the eastern United States| {fsmich shakes houses so that ordinary $eople know an underearth disturb- rca i going on sets many persons to | thiaking of the Charleston carthqualke | of Aggust 31, 1856, and of the San Fraasisco quake of April 18, 1006, Jpih Smmmecp ic cur part of the per- intended as a poli {an uncomplimentary cpithet. public men. would could casily mote him as a fiction ariter. frank L of usefulness in her own busin. of the a group of lubor leaders met under | move is quite logical. question that remains to be answered. S TENET . Darrow could be suaded interest himself in minister of the gospel who far forgets himself as to commit homi he might put forward cloquent plea for one whose secludes him the world ways, and, thr nment, of a type of sceptibility, find himself lly unqualified for coping 1f Clarence to of per- a s0 an ing m nd its 1gh may, if with temptation. e La Follette managers in Ca are undecided as to whether the word socialist” as recently cmployed is al designation or ————— attracting many Gaston B. Means, if he produce an autobiography, find a publisher to pro- Literature is In estima zue of nations Japan is perfectly in considering its possibilities Gompers Backs Smith. cirday in the Mew Y American Federation of Labo: rmanship of Samue! Gompers ed to give the unqualified in- sment of organized labor to Gov. Smith in the State campaign. The American Federation of Labor having i g at its Atlantic City conference elected to this New York Yet it leaves a go into politi The American Federation of Labor at Atlantic City indorsed the presi- | dential candidacy of La Follette. Its chicfs have taken pgominent part in the La Follette campaign, and con- tributions to the La Fcllette war chest | have come from members of the or- ganization. Presumably Mr. Gompers | and those of his followers who are willing to follow him into partisan politics are earnestly and sincerely desirous of the election of La Follette and Wheeler. The Smith candidacy in New York is designed to aid the presidential cam- paign of Mr. Davis, Democratic nom- ince. Here, then, is the American Fed- eration of Labor at Atlantic City de- claring for La Follette and the Ameri- can Federation of Labor at New York declaring for Smith, and therefore stepping out to aid Davis. La Follette has an electoral ticket up in New York, as in cvery other State, under | one party designation or another. La Follette expecis the votes of organized labor November, 4 So in all honor and obligation the roster is due ! The Dest | lack of practicai | ing the desirability of ! American Federation of Labor must split its ticket in New York and voo for La Follette and Smith, It is known to a virtual certainty that there will | be some other splitting of tickets, | many voters casting their ballots for Coclidge and Smith, because of the| popularity of the governor. Does this not leave Mr. Davis In a rather pecu- liar position? 1t likewise puts a severe strain upon the political acumen of the politically minded members of the American Federation of Labor, under the guidance of Mr. Gompers, who, in addition to the role of President. maker, is now seeking that of gover- | nor-maker. ———— . Under Whose Flag? The New York “drys” bid fair to find themselves in a quandary when they come to vote for governor No- vember 4. Unless Col. Roosevelt, in his speech of acceptance tonight. suc- ceeds in convincing them satisfac- torily that he is dry—and they have declared in advance that he is not— they will .be confronted on election day wita no choice of candidate on the dry issue. Gov. Smith is admit- tedly in favor of light wines and beer through proposed amendment of the Velstead act, and the Anti-Saloon League insists that Col. Roosevelt's record has heen consistently wet or near-wet, and that the circumstances of his nomination and his association with Senator Wadsworth indicate that he is still wet The Anti-Saloon League, almost in the shadow of the Roosevelt home where he will be notified tonight, has expressed its disbelief of Col. Roose- velt's ability to assure the voters that he is not wet. Orville 8. Poland, head of the legal department of the Anti- loon League, in a speech last night declared Col, Roosevelt is “Wads- worth's puppet,” and his ans would be Wadsworth's answer. The AntiSaloon League speaker charged that Senator Wadsworth forced the nomination of Col. Roosevelt without having made a careful analysis of the political situation, and believing he “would have a pliant tool” at Albany. The speaker classed Gov. Smith as an “outand-out, straight-forward and { probably honest wet.” Col. Rooseveit, { he said, in 1920 had his choice of tak ing his stand with Gov. Smith for beer or taking a position with Presi. dent Coolidge. He stood with Smith. If that is the way the drys feel| | about the two candidates their lot will | be unhappy one on November 4. | It would seem their only alternative | will be o stay at home | an e 4 statue to base ball “should e | asily arranged for. And every | Washington, D. €., fan will allow you ! one guess as to the city in which it | ought to be located. Conserva . bserving ive society as well in disappointment in | the < predilection of | | the Prince of Wales for lobster a la| Newburg instead of afternoon te: | ———— Perhaps no more is asked of Gov. | Charles Bryan than that he will work | as hard during the campaign as his brother, W. J. Bryan, habitual works at conventions. ———— With a pennant-winning ball team in town, there are, of course, moments | when cven President Coolidge is not | expected to keep absolutely cool. | may | confess o a ces -t After November several gentlemen now discussed as candidates will be classified as myths. } —— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON And Yet— ! heard folks refer to the man we As a creature of haleful intent Who hates little children and laughs | at their woes And shing the bent. ' And vet, when 1 suw him, his manner was Kkind, His visage was gentle and sad. 1 ventured to hope that perhaps we may find That he isn't too fearfully bad. on sma statutes is | I've heard folks allude to the man we 1l sustain | As a person of merit so rare | A frivolous moment would give him a pain And add to the gray in his hair. And vet, when T saw him, the glint in his eve | Showed a jest wasn't misunderstood. 1 ventured to hope we shall find by and by | That he jsn't too awfully good. | | Cordial Formality. “The crowd cheered you wildly,” remarked the encouraging friend. | “Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum, “but a lot of those people think they | have discharged their entire obliga- | tion of hospitality by cheering, and | then go ahead and vote any way | they happen to feel like. | Jud Tunkins says it beats him to find out how much petroleum there is in the world with none of it repre- sented in his bunches of oil stock. Quibble and Quip. The quibbler in a legal quest Makes points that seem deliriou: |He's at his best in simple jest And at his worst when serious. | i Irresponsible Finance. “I understand they have a moon- shine still over at Snake Ridge.” “Don’t you believe it,” answered Cactus Joe. “Them Snake Rldgers are tryin’ to get capital interested by pertendin’ that they've at last got up some kind of a municipal enterprise.” A Way They Have. The Autumn leaves are falling; ‘Which, after all, Is not so queer. This fact there's no forestalling; They always fall This time o’ year. “I speck Congress gineter transack quite some business,” said Uncle | Eben, “as soon as it gits organized foh de same class o' team work dat's been done by dis here base ball club.” lis | and THIS AND THAT BY C. E. TRACEWELL. If there is a street in Washington with real individuality, it is Wiscon- sin avenue, that narrow, ill paved, somewhat dirty way striking out through Georgetown to Maryland. No need here for emulating the cigarette ad: Wisconsin avenue is as distinctive as Robert La Follette, bristling son of the far Western State. It has a flavor decidedly its own, redolent of old things and new things strangely mixed 1t does not belong to the National Capital at all, in one sense, yet in an- other there is no more important thoroughtare in the Capital of the Nation. Dating from 1754, with an honorahle history, it can look forward to even greater things. Wisconsin avenue does not need to set up signs declaring itself “dis- tinetive,” or “There's something about it you'll like,” or “I'd walk a mile to walk on Wisconsin avenue.” If it ever adopts any motto at all, it should be that mouth-filling, classic phrase of the organization that came near splitting the late lamented na- tional Democratic convention: “Wo were here yesterday, here row Who sighs quaint streets, home he has ¢ consin avenue Bagdad was one of the first cities o have a press agent. The guy who gOL up the “Arabian Nights” put Bag- dad on the international map. More children today know more about Bag- dad than they do about Washington. Narrow, mysterious streets of that famous eastern city appeal mightily to the imagination, but probably bore the inhabitants of tears. 1magine a romantic Bagdadian standing beneath a minaret or something like that, sighing: “Gee, if only I might travel to that romantic city on u far river, Georgetown. Oh, that I might trav: erse for a brief while that curious, odd, unique Wisconsin avenue!” This is our privilege, without tak- ing any particularly long journey. It is only our unforunate habit of al- lowing the familiar to become com- monplace that permits us to overlook Wisconsin avenue, x ok * % strect was the old name for Wisconsin avenue—a better name, in it scems to me, than its we are today, we will be here tomor- for Bagdad and its when right here at orgetown and its Wis- the days when George- part of Frederick rtered, 4 quarter of before the Revolution. 1 sttlers chose Georg town because it was on the Potomac itting picturesquely above river on its hills Henee the the “Mair the rises Airection The latt then, b Grorg. his canal Today a high from the r north, ther nd stage higher. When OUL 1O scer pos- sibly could have foreseen modern auto- mobile trattic, g0 the narrow. Roi@ building was expensi in those days us well as today, hence the necessity for keeping a road as nar- row as possib So Hizh street grew up, rambling out over the hills into Maryland, and so it has remained, usefui, pleturesue, nar- row. Of late vears the thoroughfare— Wisconsin avenue—has been widened from Massachusetts avenue to the Dis- trict line, but improvements to the rvad- bed are needed badly In town the street is far too narrow. It was all right in George Washington's day, and can struggled along with even now. but it ought to be widened and repaved clear in to how the widening pre ried out it is difficult to say. the street cars are walk that there is automobiles to pass. The way to sec Wisconsin_avenue, the Wisconsin avenue in Georgetown. get off the Toonerville trolley e werd then was ol town, County, a century t & ¥ the of High street” striking up into Maryland in kville and Freder was o existe point toward whick ton later projected num. over 1 k. R tows it Wisconsi Rising t rues fow abrupt rises higher and is abrup vl ess could be car- As it S0 near to the side- scarcely room for |at R street and walk down the street. | That way you get a taste of it not to | Le gotten otherwise. This is a high point, R street, with its 0ld houses, and the ancient reser- voir on the southeast cormer. there water still in that battlemented place? Some say there is, some say there is not.. Take your choice. Frame houses sit side by side with brick as one walks slowly along past where Thirty-third street cuts in. » the right there is the Seventh cinct station, whera Capt. Bean g . and dust mingle on Wiscon- e sand comes from the ar tracks, much of it being needed n these steep slopes, while the dust ix everywhere. [ hive never been able to make up my mind that Wisconsin avenue is actually dirty, but cer- tainly it gives somewhat that impres- sion.” Cobble stones are hard to clean. It is an old street, with old houses along it. The color of age, that inde- scribable dull, olive gray, is over all. Surely the street cleaning depart- ment neglects Wisconsin avenue! 1f the fire department would get out some day and give it a good washing the strect cleaning department give it a good scrubbing, it would look better for it. At the grocery store, a meat market, an un- dertaker's shop and a drug store, side by side, as chumr can be. On the undertaker's steps play happy children, barefooted, carefree. This is a happy street. People mind their own business here. If one wants to walk along with a bag of cookles, cating as he goes, no one will say you nay, or even so0 much as notice you. There re several old bakeries along Wisconsin avenue, so old that one hesitates to ask as to their age. Here you find old-fashioned cakes and cookies, the kind they make in coun- try towns. Tnside a pleasant girl doles you out a dozen immense cookies for 20 cents. You proffer a dollar bill. She searches the cash register, then returns. “Haven't you something smaller?” she asks. “Well, I have d@ good dime and a bent dime. I didn't want to offer it to vou, but T guess it is good.” “Oh, it is all right, thank you,” smiles the youns lady, who looks as. if she might go to Western High School, only a few blocks away. Saturday night sees Wisconsin ave- nue in its glory. Like a small tow: with its thronged Main street, George. town turns out on Wisconsin avenue every Saturday evening. Tanned men and women from out Rockville way are in to make purchases. Up and down everybody roams. The street cars come plowing along every hour or 50; automobiles thread their way along, trying to avoid run- ning into the lamp posts; children run in_and out, followed by their dogs. Sinclair Lewis would like it. To think that this has béen going on, in much this same way, since Revolutionary days! They turned out like this, undoubtedly, ‘when George- town was branded by a foreign vis- itor as a “city of houses with no streets,” in distinction from Wash- ington, “a cfty of streets with no houses.” Shades of Gen. other mighty ones walk here, throng this Wisconsin avenue, amble to and fro on M street, cutting it just north of_the river. But M strect, old M street, is dls- tinctly another story! Bagdad to | reet for | turn | M strect. Just | Is | r pit at P street stands a | ‘Washington and | IN TODAY’S So rapidly do changes of conditions develop in radio service that what were considered ample provisions for carrying on the traflic 18 months ago are today inadequate and largely ob- Bolete. Consequently, the Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoo , has called a third national radio confer- ence to be held in Washington next week for the purpose of bringing radio rules and regulations up to dute. * ¥ % X The entire science of radio broad- casting dutes back only three years. It is fortunate that in the Leginning of radio development there were no rules hampering the freedom of ex- periment by amateurs, though it would be, perhaps, difficult to define what constituted an amateur and what a qualified expert in those days. {The “experts” of 1921 are not now inclined to tell their 14-year-old sons how little they then knew of radio| and of ether waves. ** ok Much of the marvelous progress must be credited to the 16,000 regis- tered amateurs who, having no pre- conceived ideas, were free to “try anything once”—or a thousand times —without fear of beink ubscientific. Between the amateur and big busi- ness, or between the amateur and the thousands of ships that sail the seven seas, there now arises sharp compe- tition of privileges and conflicting interests. * ok % In 1912 there was an international | radio conference held in London. At that time the use of radio was lim- ited to ships, and was restricted to wireless telegraphy, in code for sig- naling the movements of vessels.| ‘There was then little thought of wireless telephony. Nor during the| war was there any radio telephony, | although the wireless telegraphic code service was extensively used. | The 1312 conference, dealing only | with ship problems, became the bi of laws in all countries, affecting | ether comn:unication, | The United States is far in advance | of all other nations in radio develop- ment. It was in this country, in 1921, | that the broadcasting of music and| speech was first made possible i * X ¥k ¥ | In 1922 Congress passed a law put-| {ting radio control under the Depart- ment of Commerce, though, cven then, it had relation particularly to marine use. In February of that year Secretary Hoover called th first conference, and in March, 1323, {a cond conferen was held. At the [second conference the country was | | zoned and in each zone certain wave lengths were assigned | Broadcasting stations have been us jug @ wave of 55 erers. All :hlhri carrying the American flag are re- ‘quired to ecarry radios, and to use a wave 300, 0 or 706 meters long, bu it is recognized that although the wave be for 600 meters, it will vary, perhaps, 10 or 20 meters above or b | {low 600. Both marine and land opera- | tors have been encroaching upon each to their serious interference 1 teurs have been assigned wives ) meters, with low now menaced by the | tly increased power of | who propose to aban- | M0 kilo- | power. incoming of lurge compani. don their present maximum of street was made | Vital Change in . From Federal Ruling Doubted | While weleoming as an encourag- | ing sign the decision of the United | States Steel Corporation to aceept | without a fight in the courts the Fed- ral Trade Commission's ban ugainst | Ithe Pittsburgh plus price system, | many editors doubt that the actual | effect upon the industry will be im- | portant. As the Birmingham News | puts it, “the ultimate effcct of the commission’s ruling—certainly so far as Birminzham is concerned—will not he great. The ruling, in other words, { will have brought about a distinction without a great difference.” 1f the effects of the Pittsburgh plus | system have been as they have been represented by i's opponents, the -veland Plain Dealer feels, “we may properly anticipate more rapid ! growth of the steel industry In the Middle West, possibly in the far West, and in the South, a growth | probably at the expense of the | Eastern steel center.” On the other this paper suggests if the n of the Steel Corporation in {defense of the practice is sound “the | result of its abandonment will be | keen competition betweon the several | stecl centers and a degree of insta- bility in the industry which in the end will prove more disadvantageous {to steel consumers than the price- | ixing policy.” Finally, however, the Plain Dealer points out that the fail- | | ure of the steel people to “carry the case to the courts is an indication that they are not greatly concerned { over the industry’s future—either the importance of Pittsburgh plus has | been overemphasized or a substitute price policy is being formulated to | take its place . i * x % % | There is a chance, according to the | Indianapolis News, “that manufac- {turers at other points than Pittsburgh | may continue to charge the old price, lor even to increase it, thus giving the i purchaser none of the advantage of the new arrangement; but the order | ! made by the Steel Corporation is de- signed as a safeguard against such a possibility.” and, at any rate, “whatever the advantage may prove to be, it is a great deal to have es. tablished a principle that is correc Should the Steel Corporation ever contest the order, the. Pittsburgh Gazette-Times hopes “the fact finding will be intrusted to a more competent body than the Federal Trade Commis- sion.” The order against Pittsburgh plus was made, the Gazette-Times de- clares, on the basis of conclusions of its effects that were wholly unwar- ranted and “the disclosures of inepti- tude or prejudice, or both, that have followed issuance of the prohibitory order have had the sad effect of greatly reducing public confidence in the commission.” The New Orieans Times-Picayune, remarking that “arbitrary additions | to steel quotations of freight charges that were never paid, for a haul that | was never made, never has been sat- | isfactorily explained,” adds: “Opposi- tion to the ‘system’ has increased from year to year, and the final line- up against it, in the proceedings be- | fore the Trade Commission was al-| most National in its sweep.” There- | fore, the Milwaukee Journal claims wisdom has directed the course of the | Steel Corporation in conforming to| the order, because “public opinion had grown =o strong against the prac- | tice that legislation against it would have been only a matter of time.” The policy of accepting the Gov- ernment order, the Detroit News aleo holds, “is one which should win the public’s friendship, not a bad thing for even the largest corporation to possess.” In fact, the Albany Knick- erbocker Press feels the “United States Steel has set a precedent, and the incident is an Interesting index of the new day in relationship be- tween the Government and business. * % % % The Duluth Herald regards the de- ! velopment as “a great victory for fair trade practices, and also a great vic- tory for Duluth, which led in the fight against the wrong practice that is now abolished, and which ought to be one of the chief beneficiaries of a reform that, BY PAUL V. | Like the doctrines of the contending | that of publishers. | nished by o |® | oli i perfect whirl of experiences without SPOTLIGHT COLLINS. watts and install machines producing 5,000 kilowatts. One firm is sald to be planning a 40,000-watt power. It is claimed by the panic-stricken ama- teurs that such a powerful broadcast- ing would put out of service all small- er instruments. The larze firms offset this statement by asserting that their service will greatly enlarge the range of listeners- in. In the.absence of & precedent, it may be left to the conference to ad- vise the Secretary of Commerce to grant a tentative license, subject to immediate revocation in case the great power operates against the general fleld. There are those who claim that, in- stead of the long wave and tremendous watt power for transmitting long dis- tance, equal results can be obtained with ‘short waves, and comparatively low power, which would not interfere with more general use of the ether. | schools of medicine, it will be inter- esting when the bhigh-power radio “allopaths” and the short-wave “home- opaths” undertake to keep the patient altve by their conflicting theories, * % % ¥ Shall broadcasting be construed to be a public utility? A public utility is something in which every citizen possesses equal rights. Is there an eminent domain in the heavens above? A certain candidate for Congress re- cently demanded the right to make his speeches over a radio, without expense to himself, upon the ground that the radio is a public utility and the public ought to have the privilecge of learning | his views on gencral governmental questions, since he was a candidate for Congre: He was told that the rates were $10 a minute, but that| his speech was not desired, as the com- pany did not want to jeopardize the popularity of its servite with unen- tertaining addresses. Did the radio company have a right to bar him, if he | was willing to pay the announced rate? *x % x i The greatest problem is how to produce a revenue without lessening the interest of the listcners-in. This question dees not seem to differ from “It pays to ad- vertise,” and advertisers will pay for the privilege. Entertaining and in- formative reading must spice the columns of publications to keep the| readers intere. otherwise, adver- tising values will cease. Similarly, | the radio, in its proximate develop- | ment, will become self-supporting | through a limited volume of ad\'v-r-‘ tisin, mingled with high-grade ar- tistic talent. A large bu es rm recently of- fered, free. the f band in New York City to play into the radio, pro- vided the announcement would be| broadcast that the music was fur-| firm. The offer was | price of 3600 hour | refused. The " ted rights to its license No | at may be its invest- « is held at the option of the Department of Commerce, sub- | jeet to revocation at any time. | Wither this danger might be curbed | court of equity in case of ar-| bitrary official power remain: tested. This is one of the problems | which will be discussed at the coming conference. Cupyrigat, 192 Steel Trade ment, sets steel manufacturing free to de-| elop where it is natural for it to de- velop.” The Oklahoma City Oklahoman believes it also is “a long step toward agrarian relie.” For, as the Minneap- | Tribune believes, “if the economists | are right in their expectations, abelition | of the Pittsburgh plus system will stimulate the steel manufacturing in- dustry in this State and contribute to a better balance of its agricultural and industrial activities. Larger industrial| employment in turn will create a larger | purchasing power and consuming ca- pacity for the products of Minnesota | farms and dairies.” The St. Pioneer Press is also sure “the way | is now open fag price reductions on| steel products in the Northwest and for a great expansion of the steel manu- facturing industry in this territory, par- | ticularly in Minnesota near the sources of the raw material which hithe i served chietly to sustain the great mills | of the Bast.” FLOWERS For the Livin 3 o Elsie Janis. BY GEORGE ADE. How do you measure life, anwway— by the calendar or by what happens? If you measure by the calendar, Elsie Janis is a voung woman, and will be for a long time to come. Now, you other girls, don't be catty! It has been several years since you saw her starring in “The Vanderbilt Cup, but she was then so voung that she was under the shadow of the Gerry law in New York. If you measure by what has hap- pened, then Elsie Janis has lived longer than any inmate out at the Old People’s Home. She has whizze through the combined experiences of Queen Elizabeth, Sarah Bernhardt, Joan of Arc and the lady who swings on the flying trapeze in the circus. She has been a theatrical star in the capitals of the world, a war hero- Ine, a globe-trotter, a little friend to the nobility, a sister to dozens of de- sirable young men, a playwright, a stage manager, a contributor to mag- azines, a composer of music, a dis- ciple of symbolic dancing, an apostle of athletic training, somewhat of a public speaker, and o on, and §o on. When she started years ago she had, among other assets, a radiant smile and a very old head on very young shoulders.” She has come through a losing her head or the smile. ‘When she emerged from Columbus, Ohio, carefully chaperoned by her mother, she was a child reciter, and they called her “Baby Elsie.” It was then she remarke “I am starting so young that by the time I am 30 years old people will say I am 80." And she did become almost an in-| stitution at an age when most girls are learning how to make fudge. Elsie Janis achieved popularity in | her profession and among the dress- coat aristocrats and with thousands| of doughboys in France because she went ahead endowing the world with | for instituting the ( *aul | j i Politics at Large BY N. 0. MESSENGER. One of the important practical problems before the Revublican cam- paign managers at this time is to stop the drift of the German-de- scended voters away from the Repub- lican presidential ticket. A careful sur- vey has convinced the managers that there ix disaffection to the Republican ticket in this class of the electorate which cannot be regarded as negligible, It is especially noticeable in Ilinois and in_ Missouri. President Coolidge has been ap- prised of the tuation and the man agers are making streruous efforts to counteract it. The aid of German- descended Republicans of national importance is being enlisted in the effort. * X k¥ A spirit of restlessness and dispo- sition to’dissatisfaction with the ad- ministration among the negro voters is discerned by the politicians, and some of the leaders fear that the national ticket is in danger of being | hurt, especially in the border and | Middlg West States. The negro voter: are said to be demanding a more out- spoken attitude on the Klan issue by the administration. There are pro- tests from the negro voters on th administration of the civil service and of alleged discrimination against the negro in the governmental de- partments, * ¥ % X From Towa come persistent reports that Senator Brookhart, who is Re publican candidate for Senator, will s0on come out in support of Scnator LA Follette for President. Strong | pressure has been brought to bear upon him to induce him to support the Republican national ticket, as he was elected as a Republican, but it/ i aid that some recent attacks upon him alleging him to be a “traitor” to his party have embittered him so as to make it very probable that he | will support Senator La Follette. x * * % Senator Norris of Nebraska is an- other Trogressive who is worrying the regulurs. He is a candidate for re-election to the Senate and is cam- paigning under the auspices of the State committec, which is organized | by the regulars. Thus far he has not jumped the traces, but nvilhtr' has he lent President Coolidge out- spoken support. The leaders would | not Le surprised to see him “fly the | c0op™ at any time, and, anyhow, his | quiescent attitude is regarded as not | Aoing th President nd the ticket any good. % * % department of la Follette from the bal'ot by the Su- Court of California and the ary of state of Louisiana is o canse a flurry in the cam- President Coolidie himseit, {ana ca: h deplored existence of a State law which used the debarment and has ex- pressed himself in favor of the full- est excreise the right of tpe YOters to register their preterences for candidates for ofhee, Chair n Butler of the national commit The electors tepublican issucd ny respon the Republican management | ornia action bility by It is regarded as these incidents will ment in the next 5 Legislatures in those States that have such laws on their statute books for their repeal or moditication as it is calculated that public senti- ment has been so aroused by thes occurrences as to create a demand for the repeal of laws which permit- ted them. cvitable that a move on of State | * k¥ *x It is said that in New York one would think the Democratic national icket is “Davis and Smith” and not U that | % t Gov. Smith, running for re-election as go ernor, is carrying a large part of the load of the national campaizn well as the campaign for the State ticket. Tomorrow night is to be a big night for the Demoerats in New York City, when John W. Davis and Gov. Altred E. Smith are to address a great mass meeting in Madison Square Garden. Thereafter the presidential candidate s to go upstate and later speak in Rhodo Island and New Jersey. Gov. Smith will also make speeches in New England before he starts on a tour of several of the Midwest States. * x x * Gov. Smith is entering into the na- tional campaign for his party whele- heartedly and will do his best to tr {to induce his followers in New Yor piit the ticket, but to give support he ex- | pects them to give m. | T Democratic politicians are awaiting | with interest the announcement of | details of that much-advertised coast- | to-coast trip of William G. McAdoo. * X * % tic managers plan to have John W. Davis exert a last herculean effort to win the Middle West. It is realied that there 1s much to be done yct in that section. The Republicans are confident that have Illinois, Ohio and Indiana “cinched” for the Republican ticket, and the Democrats depend upon Mr. Davis to shake some of that conti- Democratic gossip, how- that they do not feel at ail certain of Illinois. Their foriorn hope is that the gubernatorial con- test in Tllinois may militate against the Republican presidential ticket and that the disaffection of the Ger- man-descended vote may work to the undoing of the Republicans. The vote in Chicago is expected to determine the outcome of the elec- tion in Illinois, and there are so many factional complications in that city that the forecasters are hampered In trying to size up the outcome. % x % There is a shrewd suspicion in the minds of some of the neutral observ- ers of the campaign that after elec- tion day there will be some prophets’ regalias for salo cheap. * X %k * Senator Carter Glass of Virginia is to have a rival for re-election to the Senate, incredible as the suggestion may seem to old-line Virginians. W. N. Doak has accepted the Republican nomina- tion, and was_indorsed by the conven- tion held in Roanoke last week. Mr. Doak is the vice president and national legislative representative of the Brother- hood of Railroad Trainmen, one of the best known railroad men in the coun- try. He is a warm supporter of Presi- dent Coolidge and an ardent defender | of union labor. Mr. Doak declares he is | in the race to fight, and takes the | ground that the railway labor vote can- not be delivered. PR The Democratic national committee makes the charge that the Republican administration 15 trying to “bunk a few hundred thousand former employes into believing that it is going to put them ever, is good cheer and lighting up the dark places with her genuine Columbus, Ohfo, personality. Elsie has recelved a good many bou- quets, but another will not spoil her. it adulation and curtain calls and floral offerings could have changed her she would have gone tempera- mental a long time ago. She has been a marvelous combina- tion of girlishness and gumption. Of her almost miraculous talent as a mimic there is no need to speak, and to mention her salary when she dips into vaudeville would not be to the point. We are taking off our hats not to the dramatic star, but to Elsie Janis, American girl. (Copyright, 1924, by the Bell Byndicate, Inc.) Tomorrew: Metville B, Stona, back on the federal pay roll” The gold brick the administration is trying to sell these former employes is gilded with a_letter advising them that they are to be restored to their former civil service status without further examina- tion, and that there are federal jobs available for which they are eligible. The statement goes on to say : “The ‘gold brick' letter is advising former employes that positions are about to be opened up in the adjutant gen- eral's office in the War Department in connection with the Work of paying the bonus to former service men, and in- forms them that ‘a person who is able to do typewriting and who at any time has held a clerical position in the Gov- | from | England | ination.” Answers tp Questions BY FREDERM J. HASKIN we hirsty after ¢ ugar’—W, W. McC The reaction ok thirst comes taking inte the system salt or sugar than is yeeded ©XCess arresis the secrdtions muecuous membrane and' the resuit ing dryness is relieved Ly water which dilutes and carries off the oy cess salt and sugar. Q. How are lead pencils mads” M P R A To X t more Thi the make the wooden tube ir | which the lead s incased, the manu facturer cuts out a board about seven | inches long, the width of six peneil and as thick as half a pencil in dian eter. With a machine he then shape« it into six semi-rounded or seml hexagonal sections, and grooves one side to hold the lead. When the lead is inserted, the halves are glued to gether. The “lead” in a pencil is com posed of graphite. Q. What percentage habitants of large cities T B Baltimore, per eent: Bos 15.9; Buffalo. hicago, 25.1 Cincinnati, Detroit, $9.1; Indian apolis, 33 w Orleans, 2.2, New York City 2.1 Philadelphia, 22 San Francisco, 24.1. Q. What kind of domestic anim, makes the most efficient use of food —R. 0. A. A. The says that considering the amount of human food produced by the animal from the feed raised on an acro of land, the dairy cow leads all othe animals. Next to the dairy cow comes the hog. Q. When were fountain pens f uscd?—C. W. AL A. Fountain pens were made i : early as 1835 by Schaef for and Parker. The modern fountai: pen is based on the principle pates ed by L. E., Waterman in 1884 Q. What was the weig first base ball used’—W A. The firet base ball used, i weighed three ounces. Q. Please etate the facts regardin: President Garfield's assassination and the trial of Guiteau—J. J. P A. President Garfield was shot 9 a.m., Saturday, July 2, 1581, whil. walking through the waiting room of the Baltimore and Foto: station, at streets. Washington, Blaine, Secretary Charles J. Guiteau, the a tried before the Supreme Court of Washington, D. ¢.. by Judge Walter Cox, Monday, November 15, 1881 He was defended by George Scovill of Chicago, the plea being Insanity He was convi sentenced, and was hanged in Washington, D. C., June & 1882 of own the ir thei Bureau of Animal Industry ¥ n 1840 the o Q. Is tne of choke cherric poisonous?—1 A. The fruit of enerally inedible, although now & arge fruited variets is found U is fit for eating. The leaves .“ comon choke cherry contain prus acid and both fresh and wilted leaves are poisonous Juice Q What were the different medals awarded to the unknown ldier T A. The decorations awarded the un known soldier were: Croix de Guerre Franee; Legion of Honor, France Gold medal for bravery Virtu- tea Militara, Ruman War Cross, Czechoslovakia; Virtuti Militari, Po- land; Congressional medal of honor United States. ren of a given age . Should chi 2 t food?—O0. H. eat a fixed amount ¢ A. Child specialists inform us that between the ages of 4 and vears very active child requires double the total calories of a very quiet child. and a moderately active child requires one-third more calories than the quiet child. Because of the demands inci dent to rapid growth, all children re quire highly nourished food. Q. How many different kinds o living animals are there?—W. W. B A. An estimate has been mad which gives & grand total of $66 distinct species. the worde next to God st use indeed liness”'—M. O. R. A. They were first used by Wesley in his sermon on “Dres Johr whee Plea® no be Q. Does the outside of a travel faster than its axis? answer the question fore explaining R A. ‘Al questions in relation to speed of different portions of wheels are relative matters; that must be particular to state that the speed in relation to some definite point is desired. The !speed of point on the outside of the wheel i something greater in relation to the ground than the speed of the axis and Sometimes less. The resulting spec in a given direction is necessarily the same as that of the axis, as it sy obvious that the wheel would hav. ” to fly to pieces if one part reached a destination before the other. s or Q. Will you please tell me the sig- nificance of the third beam, sianting often seen on_the spire of Russian churches?—A. H. M. A. The third beam represented oblique on Greek and Russian cro: so placed because of a legend that one foot of Jesus when suffering, was drawn higher than the other. Thi beam is called a “suppedaneum’—a projection or support under the fees of a person crucified.” — Q. How is a French crown lining made?—G. H A. For this type lining for a ha crown, cut an oval for.the top, any size desired. Cut a cord the lengtl of the circumference of the oval and over this gather a bias strip of ma terial the length of the head size plu one inch and wide enough for seams and to allow a generous turn at the head. Sew to the oval with seams at the back, then slip-stitch the seam together. Pin the oval in place to the top of the crown, then pin to place at the head-size, turn in the raw edge and sew. Q. What is the meaning of the Italian proverb: “Saffri e toceci?'— W. S. M. A. The phrase means “Suffer and be silent.” Nor is the allurement held out exclusively to former employes, for the letter adds that ‘a person who passed a typist examination at any time within the past five vears, whether appointed or not, is also eligible for this tempo- rary work without further examination. ~ * ¥ ¥ X “At the pesk of war work, on Ar- mistice day, November 11. 1918, then were 917,760 employes on the civil serv- ice rolle. By July, 1921, this number had been reduced to 597,482, or by morv than 300,000. At the beginning of this year it had been reduced to about 540,- 000, so that during the last five years more than 300,000 employes have been let out. “The administration is now endeavor- ing to have all these former employes belleve that if they want the jobs, and will only file for them, they may be restored to the federal pay roll. As matter of fact, the adjutant general office in the War Department has ad vised that a force of only about 2.50n clerks will be necessary to do the bonus work, so that, with about 2,500 jobs to give out, the administration, through this civil service letter, is endeavoring ernment service under permanent ap- propriation as a result of examination may now be c ed to the adjutant general's offico wishgwt further exam- A by this subtle method to fool more thf 300,000 man and woman voters into be- lieving that they are going to get Gow- ernment Joba™