Evening Star Newspaper, September 2, 1925, Page 6

6 THE EVENING 8 'AR, WASHI D. 5 TON, . . C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 192 5. With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C WEDNESDAY . .September 2. 1925 THEODORE W. NOYES...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Compa Business Office : 113n st b Fenmarivania Ave. New Vork gl 110 Eisdnd st RS e 16 Razent St.. London. Ensland with the Sunday morn- inz ndition. 1s delivered hy earriers within the city at 60 cents per i1y only. 45 cents per manth: Sunday only. =0 cents ner ‘month. Orders may he sent by mil or ielenhone Main 8000, Collection is mads by carrier at the end of each month European Ofiice The Eveninz Star 3 ail—Payable in Advance. nd and Virginia. Daily and Sundas. . .. ] yr. §840: 1 mo.. 70 DRty anie Sunder: o v 88801 1 ma s Sunday only 15r.82.40: 1 mo. All Other States. Daily and Sunday. ... 1 ¥r.. $10.00: 1 mo Daily ni 1Yr: % 200: 1 mo sunday only Jlyr. $5.00: 1 mo. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitle 10 the use for republication of all news dis: natehes credited 1o 1L O not otherwise cred ited in this paver and alse the loval news piblished hersin. Al rizhts of publication f soecial dispatches herein are also reserved. —— Catering to Curiosity. Next to scandal, other people’s busi- ness is probably one of the most en- trancing subjects of discus: have. This is not because it ought to he. but because of the frailities of hu- re. The publication income tax payments for the year is now under way. and the world and his wifc are secanning the fizures to see what their neighbors paid. or did not pay. There is a tain amount of satisfaction either way, it seems. Tt is hard to see what useful pur- pose the publication of these figures serves. It an opportunity to satisfy the curiosity. It enables some to visualize a little better the success or lack of success of others. But in the end, where does that get them? The intent of Congress probably w: to make it more difficult to file false returns. But the details of the returns are not made public, only the totals of the taxes paid, and there that not zleaned merely from a glance at the total of an income tax payment. The private affairs of a man woman have been protected, gen- erally spealng, in this country. al though in the scramble for sensational news stories today the veil is often rudely torn asunder. It has been con- aidered unfair to give one business man or concern a statement of a com- petitor’s busin In a2 measure the publication of the income tax returns has this result. President Coolidge, it is represented, is firmly convinced that the publica- tion of income tax payments should be discontinued. An effort may be made to amend the law in this respect when the revision of taxes is undertaken at the coming session of Congress. Sena- tor Pat Harrison of Mississippi, one of the Democratic leaders of the Sen- ate, is on record as favoring repeal of this publicity, and Senator Smoot, chairman of the Senate finance com- mittee, has taken a similar stand. The chances for repeal, however, seem remote. Opponents of repeal will charge that an effort is being made to “hide” something, and to hide we on man nat cer gives is or something, no matter what, is a sin | of the first magnitude in the eyes, and perticularly in the mouths, of some of our legislators. have already declared they will seek still further publicity of income tax re- turns than is now permitted under the law. e e An Immigration Absurdity. Execution of our immigration laws i= productive of many grotesque ab- surdities, but none has exceeded the case of Oscar Hill, a retired fur manufacturer of Long Island, who, after making his home in this coun- try eighteen years, recently went abroad. On his return the other day he was detained and sent to Ellis Island because he cannot read. Un- fortunately, he had never taken out naturalization papers, and so he was hooked as an alien when about four months ago he left this country to 20 to Vienna to consult a noted sur- meon regarding his failing eyesight. | He had secured a permit, entitling him and his wife to. re-enter the country at any time within twelve months. Yet, upon his arrival here Sunday he was compelled to step aside and go to the detention pen at the island. It is expected that he will soon be released because of his es- tablished status as a successful busi- ness man. Still, the incident shows the ridiculous length to which a rigid application of the Jaw may go. There have been numerous cases under the ratlo provisions of the exclusion act quite as absurd. The immigration executives have been decidedly exi- ¥ent in their work at New York and other ports, while thousands of un- wanted surplus allens have flowed over the borders, despite the barriers erected and the guards siationed across the lanes of smuggling. It would seem that a reasonable degree of discretion should be vested irf these officials to prevent such unwar- ranted detentions as that of Oscar HilL P s TS L If weariness of the general public were a deciding factoy the coal strike would be over without further delay. AR Stopping Credits at the Mines. Several of the large anthracite cor- porations in the Scranton-Wilkes Barre district that maintain company stores have posted notices abolishing credits to idle employes. This some- ‘what puts a crimp in the holiday mak- ing of the strikers, who are now voic- ing their denunciation of the company policies. The operators, on the other hand, argue that, inasmuch as the strike is anh act of war, a hostile move to stop business in order to force higher wages, they should ngt be ex- pected to contribute to its protraction by maintaining the strikers during their idleness. The strikers counter hy pointing out that they have “per- mitted” the maintenance of pump crews at the mines to keep them in shape for the resumption of work. This, say the operators, is not an un- selfish move by the miners, but, on the contrary, Is an act of insurance for the THE EVENING Srl‘A]{!p.-o"xpt beginning of work and wage of the | 4| s | s much | Indeed, some of them | payment as soon as the strike is set- tled. .IZ the mines were allowed to fill with water the miners would be out of employment for a fortnight or more after the settlement of the strike. So that the 10,000 pumpmen and main- tenance men now at work in the hard coal district are actually on guard in the interest of the strikers as well as the operators. There is no logic at all in the pro- test of the strikers against the sus- pension of credits at the company stores. To sustain the operatives throughout their period of iQleness would be unfair to them as well as to the employers. Unfair to them be- cause it would encourage them to ac- ‘-'lnmllale a debt which it would take |them perhaps months to discharge. To carry them on the books without {any payments for supplies throughout the strike period would be comparable |to furnishing ammunition to an {enemy in war, even though the enemy would have to pay for the ammunition afterward. | S Give Fire Engines an Open Road! | Chiet Watson of the Fire 'Depart { ment asks that a safety stop be es tablished on Fourteenth street at the |crossing where the other day a street ar collided with a fire wagon and killed one of the members of the ew. This same request had been made by the citizens’ association of the section several months previous, the corner in question being notorious- {1y dangerous. The proposal of the citizens was rejected by the utilities commission. Now it is to pass upon the recommendation of the fire chicf. | Bxperience has plainly shown that | there are certain points where; for the sake of safety, the street cars should be brought to a full halt before cross- ing street intersections. Collisions between cars and fire apparatus have occurred frequently in this city, luck- ily with few casualties, though this {latest case cost a life. Before the | “Beeler plan™ of intermittent car stops was adopted by the Commissioners, |during the war-time congestion, there were numerous compulso: stops, {which undoubtedly saved lives. Most of these were abandoned, however, and for some time there has been little security against collisions at the places where the fire engines regular- 1y pass in response to alarms. The fire apparatus should have right of way over all other trafi¢. It should have an assurance of security of tran- sit, not simply for the sake of the members of the fire crews, but for the effectiveness of the department in fighting fires. The engine that was hit by a car the other day was on its way to service. It was knocked out of commission and its absence from the fire might have caused a spread of the blaze and the loss of much property, possibly the loss of lives. | To bring the street cars to a halt at these points means but a slight delay in their operation. To allow them to proceed without check over the cross- ings where fire engines may pass at any time adds but little to the flow of traffic. One accident may mean not only the loss of life but heavy loss of property. There should be no hesita- tion in creating compulsory car stops at this and other places where the en- gines are likely to be met. Continued | refusal on the part of the utilities | commission thus to establish safety stops would be an invitation to dis- | |aster. o b a0 Ee Stranded European Tourists. Home-coming tourists from Europe are jamming the steamships. Every available space is occupied. Premium | | rates have been offered for passage.| The ships coming in during the past | few days are reminders of the condi- | tions that prevailed in 1914, when 'the outbreak of war in Europe drove thousands of Americans westward | panic haste to escape. One ship that | | landed in New York yesterday carried | about 200 more passengers than the| usual “capacity.” This was accom- plished by turning over the ship's hos- | pital and the officers’ quarters, and | some passengers even bunked in the alleyways. At that several hundred persons were left on the other side! clamoring for space on the steamer. It is estimated that the west-bound | ships are bringing back crowds one- quarter greater than last vear. All liners are booked completely full until October. This situation reveals how large a number of people go overseas early in the Summer without making provision for return. They book their outgoing ! passage perhaps weeks in advance. Indeed, they must do so in order to get accommodations eastward. Yet they do not take the precaution to book the return passage. This is in many cases due to uncertainty as to the time of return. Many are making their first foreign voyage and do not realize the importance of securing home passage in advance. Yet steam- ship agents are particular in advising the purchasers of passage tickets to| complete the transaction at the outset. ! In this present condition there will | probably be many tardy tourists. If, | as stated, the liners are booked full until October, and there are hundreds of people on the other side who have no bookings westward, it follows that unless additional ships are pressed into service—and it is hard to see where they will come from—a great many Americans will be held on the other side for many weeks beyond thelr proposed home-coming time. This will entail much hardship, because most of Yhese people will probably have spent all of their funds before they can manage to ship westward. | | “Babe” Ruth insists on asserting himself as the “enfant terrible” of base ball. Classics and Costumes. Critics are in disagreement over the merits of the London performance of Hamlet in modern clothes. Some are scorning it as an outrageous anach- ronism and others are praising it as a demonstfation that costume is not so important a factor as tradition has heretofore decreed. But even some of the latter agree that the lines of Shakespeare, written for his.own day or earlier, in point of the chronol- ogy of the play, are not suited to ut- terance by people in present-day dress. No one can believe a middle: llike “The show-ofr,’ aged man in a golf suit talking blank verse. - He is simply not a histrionic character. He is a joke. And that is why the modernization of Shakespeare | or any other classic author of several centuries azo is out of the question short of sheer burlesque. Appropriate costume is"essential to the proper rendition of any play. If, as some of the London critics aver, it is suitable to give Hamlet in frock ts and golf togs, it is equally suit- able to give a strictly up-to-date play, for instunce, in the garb and gear of the sixteenth Gflluz'}. It is just as correct to go backward in this matter as forward. Would “The Yellow Jacket” be under- stundable. it produced in a strictly Manhattan outfit? Could “Abie’s Irish Rose” be transmuted into a Hindu setting? The old saying thit clothes make the man can be correctly applied to dramatics. Clothes do make the pl Costume is strictly an essentlal. It is the height of absurdity to argue that because'a London audience was interested In the experiment of Ham- let in “plus fours” it follows that producers of Shakespeare are war- runted henceforward in giving his plays without gny regard whatever for the picture of life of the time of the action. Merchants and amusement man. agers in the coal regions expect good business as a result of the lay-off, as miners will have more leisure to spend their savings. Those who have been disputing as Lo whether the situation should be referred to as a strike or a | ckout might compromise and call it la notiday. Science continue: uss many methods of securing heat without the use of mineral fuel. By this time the question of warmth should be as com- | pletely answered as that of illumina- tion. A coal miners’ strike should be as obsolete as a candle makers' strike. | e e British Columbia area whose climate by warm spr reports a large is 0 influenced ngs as to produce a tropical valley surrounded by snow- clad hil The announcement is just in time to enable Canada at the close of a fine Summer season 1o get in Jine with Winter resort advertising. oo~ President Coolidge declares that he has been greatly benefited by his ten- week vacation, There is nothing like a good rest in a small town where the traffic regulations are still tempered by a neighborly consideration. ————— The need of impressing the fact that the vehicle approaching on the right hand has the right of way indi- cates @ mental confusion that nec tates going back 1o primary instruc tion. e Government statistics relating to the incomes of movie stars represent one form of startling publicity for which the enterprising prese agent can claim no credit. ————— In addition to her well known economy in money matters, France expects to be able, through Minister Caillaux, to set an example in time saving. r———a 1t would, of course, be a gratifica- tion to many citizens to abolish in- come tax publicity by eventually do- ing away with the income tax ———— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOH <ON P.P.C. I'm going to take a vacation And see if my verses were true Which told of the gentle elation Where blossoms and trees are in view. I'm going to turn from each duty And dwell where the breeze blowing free ¥ Brings a whispering beauty Of a world as we wish it to be. song of Afar from dissension so fretful, Afar from satirical show, Where the sunset of care is forgetful And the dawn is caressing and slow, I'll see if the dewdrops and flowers Are filled with strange beauty that gleams Through the far-off and fanciful bowers Of the work-a-day Land of my Dreams. Through the scrap book I turn and I listen For echoes of mountain and wave Where rainbows so tranquilly glisten Or storms in wild majesty rave. The bird in its tuneful oration— The sky and the water so blue— I'm going to take a vacation And tell you ere long if they're true. The New Statesmanship. “Have you decided on the subject for your next speech?” “No,” answered Senator Sorghum. “Speechmaking has become a very general accomplishment. I think I am by this time sufficiently important in aflairs to command attention by an occasional impressive silence.” Mixed Emotion. ©Oh. Income Tax, relentless debt! You cause me much distress. I'm sorry you're so big, and yet 1 would not have you less. Jud Tunkins says the income tax re- turns won't be fully informin’ until the bootleg performers can be coaxed to file returns. ' Information. “Do you see any use in publishing income tax figures? “Oh, yes,” answered Miss Cayenne. “It may help many a grass widow to check up on her alimony account.” Ruthless Base Ball. ‘When angrily our Babe doth cry, The husky base ball nurse Sings out an ill-tuned lullaby ‘Which makes Babe hoiler worse. “De man dat plays poker till sun up,” said Uncle Eben, “is de cne dat keeps bluffin’ on, tryin® to take credit foh bein’ an early riser,” the | BY CHARLES E. Perhaps it is not too early to begin thinking about Winter underwear. To wear it, or not to wear it—that is the question! Whether it were bet- ter to shiver in XYZs, or don the tick- ling woolens; or make an end of the problem quickly by compromising on 4 medium weight covering. The world largely may be divided into two camps on this momentous matter. There is one large group, | sometimes called “‘old fashioned,” the members of which swear by wool un- derwear. The other section of opinion leans as strongly to light underwear, and the more radical members even speak out strongly for exactly the same weight underclothing in Winter as is worn during Summ: The warmth of the body, these Jatter hardy individuals declare, should be governed by the amount of outer garments worn, not by the thickness of the inner. So, in the last analysis, the whole problem is up to the individual, ex- cept in the cases of little Johnny and little Susie, whose unsuspecting limbs are clothed us mammu wishes. If mamma has a fear of drafts, and that modern monster, a ‘‘cold,” she will neatly incase Johnny and Sue in heavy woolen garments. There are even mothers who will not allow their offspring to stand by the window in Winter. Honest. Other mothers refuse to put wool- ens upon their little ones, and some even zo to the extent of sending them out in the snow with bare knees. | H * % % [} “ Brinzing up children is such a trial, my dear.” savs the former | mother, as she shudders ut the pros pect of some cruel cold germ getting within the protective armor of little Gertie's woolly skirties. One may be forziven for wondering what this modern mother would have | done if she had lived a couple of zen erations ago. when the mothers | thought nothing in the world of bring- |ing up nine children, spinning all the |clothes worn by the entire family, | doing the washing. etc., etc. ! And she had no washing machine, either, be it remembered. Neither did she have the time to s=e that Johnny, Susie, Mary, Helen, Annabel, Hortense, {Genevieve, Bobbie and Lillian got their correct amount of orange juice each day As a matter of hard fact, there |wasn't any orange juice. An orange in those days was somethinz that made its appearance once a vear in {the Christmas stocking. An orange was an Event! One of the golden fruits looked big- zer in the stocking then than a whole electric train system does on the floor today. Yet progress cannot be gainsaid Nobody but the late Col. Roosevelt wanted women to go back to the days of nine children, and surelv no one would want them (o spin the entire clothing for the whole family any more. | Perhaps the ciue to woolen under- | wear lies right there. The old lindsey woolsie, as it was cailed. was the cloth | commonly spun, and since there was | nothing else but wool, it was but nat. | ural that woolen underwear sot a start It is still in the ring. too Throughont the length and breadth of this land of ours there are thou sands and thousands of men and wom en who would as soon venture out in Winter wearing nothing at all as to go_without their “woolens.” There is reason for it. too, although Bert E. Haney, who has defied Pres- ident Coolidge to oust him from the United States Shipping Board, is & native Oregonian. As politicians go. he is still a youngster, having just | turned 46. He has the build and jaw of a scrapper. Haney's fighting blood probably springs from his Intimacy with former Senator George E. Chamberlain, whom he calls his po- litical mentor. Chamberlain’s con- | troversy with another President of the | United ~ States—Woodrow Wilson—is | part of the history of the World War. | Haney succeeded Chamberlain as the | | Northwest coast representative on the hipping Board. A lawyer by pr fession, Haney had just concluded a term as United States district attor {ney in Oregon, to which he was ap- pointed by Fresident Wilson, when | President Harding_sent him to the | Shipping Board. ~The commissioner ! has long been active in Northwestern | politics. Between 1910 and 1915. he Was chairman of the Oregon Stale Democratic ~committee. Portland. Haney’s home town, has been hard hit by Admiral Palmer’s retrenchment policy. It is primarily on that a { count that Haney has been at war with the head of the Fleet Corpora- tion. * ok ok ¥ Charles Beecher Warren's friends consider that he achieved something like 2 comeback through his promi- nence at - this week's annual meeting of the American Bar Association in Detroit, The man whom the Senate rejected for the Attorney Generalship {of the United States last March was designated by the bar of Michigan to welcome the association to the State, {ana also to act as host to the chief forelgn guest, Lord Buckmaster, former lord chancellor of England. Mr. Warren was also host at his mag- nificent suburban villa on Lake St. ! Clair to Secretary Kellogg and the Bar Association’s other distinguished guests, including Charles Evans Hughes. In Michigan reports are still current that President Coolidge has high honors in store for Warren, de- | spite recent tragic events. The De- | troiter, according to these varns, Is a future cabinet probability,” either as Secretarv of War or as Secretary of | State. They also speak of him as a | possible Ambassador some day—at the court of St. James, or another emi- nent diplomatic outpost. * ¥ % % Gen. Lincoln €. Andrews. prohibi- | tion geeralissimno, has left Washing- totn for a brief vacation visit with his family at Grand Isle, Ve, Tt is iju the nature @f a rest afier his recent trials and tribulations in the reorganization of the enforcement system and by way of & bracer for the rigors that await him. Gen. Andrews and Maj. Haynes, whose principal functions the new prohibition chief now exercises, remain the best of com- rades. This observer _encountered them at luncheon the other day fra- ternizing cordially over iced tea. * ok ok % Homecoming steamers on both the Atlantic and the Pacific are bringing back Washington statesmen of high and low degree, who spent the Sum- mer cverseas. Some of them went far afield and remote from the beaten tourist path. Senator Robert Beecher Howell of Nebraska and Mrs. Fowell penetrated Darkest Africa and traveled the immense territory that lies between the Cape and Cairo. Senator Key Pittman of Nevada and Mrs. Pittman were among the rather numerous denizens of Capitol Hill who explored the Far Bast, including il&::n. China, the Philippines and ndia. * ok %k 1daho, where William E. Borah is not a prophet without honor, has just tried—and failed—to hold a Lincoln- Douglas debate on the subject of the World Court. Two modern Western THIS AND THAT lit out the next day |a grudge against WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. | . TRACEWELL. the city-bred man may wonder. You see, even the climate is civilized in a city, if no farther than by the inter- vention of tall buildings, which some- | what cut down the force of the wind. Out in the tremendous country and small-town sections. however, Nature walls full-blast all Winter long. They have a different Winter out there than we do here in Washington. One does not have to go farther than the so-called Middle West, either, to realize the tull force of the above statement. Out there the temperature goes down to zero and stays there week after week. ‘Woolen underwear comes in mighty handy in such cold, especailly if vour | work is outdoors. * e The tendency of modern city life is to discard heavy underwear, especlally when so much of the work of the city is done indoors. Modern heating has given us t0o hot houses and offices in the vast majority of cases, so that if one persists in wearing heavy woolen underwear he is likely to be bathed in perspiration most of the time and “catch cold” ‘when he goes out. Many, therefore, have cast aside their “‘woolens” for good and wear simple. light clothes the vear around. Some still find that too much of a good thing and, having tried it. have gone back to a medium weight of cotton or other material with long sleeves and legs. The writer knew one gentleman who, after seeing a picture of a gentle man bathing in the snow. hot-footed in light Summer underwear and caught the influenza, pneuponia and pleurisy all at once. Moderation almost alwayvs pavs. Perhaps most readers can recall one more experiences with heavy un How we hated to wear it in the days of our childhood! If we tralled clouds of glory”’ then, as Wordsworth says, we also were en- cumbered with woolen underwear which more than offset the glory, at| least in our young opinion. Sturdily we resisted the slowly drop- | ping thermometer. or derwe: “Aren’t you cold?” mother would ask us. “No, Ma'am!” we hotly retorted through our biue lips. We knew what she was up to! She wanted to drag | out that old prickly woolen underwear So we were never cold We would not get cold. We could not get cold. Though we froze stiff in our tracks. nothing could make us admit we were at all chilled We could, however, “take" cold, and this we proceeded to do. Then we knew that our fate was sealed. Wel could venture forth again only in woolen underwear, and woolen under- wear only of the thickest, heaviest.| prickliest brand on the market How it did itch! About noon our vocal protests went up. after our 6,000 square miles epidermis (or however many square | said we | miles of skin the physiolo; bore around with us) had been pro- testing to us all morning “Maw, 1 itch,”” was our brazen ad mission “You'll soon get over it," she said “an’'t 1 take ‘em off. Maw? Aw Maw, can't I take ‘em off 7" - “And take vour death of cold? Why. | certainly not. It will stop itching | frer a while. Sure enough. “it” did stop itching after 2 while, and we forgot about our | underclothes: bt to this day we bear | woolens,” despite | the fact that modern inventive genius has modified the old prickly material. giants of the platform, Senator Borah and Gavin McNab, California Demo- cratic leader, were to be pitted against each other under the auspices of the | Idaho Bar Association, Borah was to argue against the Permanent Court of International | Arbitration, and McNab, whose Eng- lish eloquence strongly seasoned with a Scottish burr, was to advo- cate adhesion on lines proposed by President Coolidge. Borah was pant- ing for the fray. But McNab found | that his professional engagements—he is the leader of the California bar prevented his taking the time neces- sary to match swords with the mas- ter orator Congress. * ox ok ¥ 1t's timely to recall a piece of tvpi- cally Coolidgesque diction, said to have been uttered by the President some months ago when cancellation of the European debts was hroaches “They hired the money, didn't they the President asked a prominent finan- cier who called at the White Il-n'!se or to suggest ultra-liberal terms i France, Italy, et al. That ended the discussion | i * % % | George B. Lockwood of Indiana,| former secretary of the Republican | national committee and now editor of the National Republican at ,h-l ington, has launched a cr to crush “destructive radicalism” within the G. O. P. He has organized what he calls the “Republican National Constructive League,” and its para- mount duty will be to stifle agitators and agitation within Republican ranks which while mtsquerading under the regular party label, are in fact rene- gade and irregular. Lockwood's drive ‘was started at a big and enthusiastic meeting in Indianapolis the other day and will presently, he hopes, assume Nation-wide dimensions. *x %% Representative Albert Johnson of ‘Washington State, chairman of the House committee on immigration, is one of the first members of Congress to return to Capitol Hill for the new session's duties. He has asked his committee to assemble not later than November 1, to y. the groundwork of a codification of our immigration laws. Meantime, Mr. Johnson is tr ing to analyze the results of the first vear's operation of the laws, ended July 1, and X-ray the spots where rectification and improvement are mecessary or desirable. There is some confusion on the ticklish question of Wives, children and other relations of admitted aliens, and also on the sub- ject of the rights of so-called non- immigrants to prolong their sojourns on our soil. Congressional discussion, bound now and then to be animated, is in prospect on all these points. During the recess Johnson has had his famous leonine curls clipped. The operation has rejuvenated him 10 rs in looks. - (Copyright. 1925.) A Good Judicial Example Judge Sheppard has returned to his own court in Florida, after two mem- orable months on the bench of the United States District Court in Los Angeles. And it is said lawyers and court attaches still have that dazed look. Judge Sheppard while here gave an exhibition of judicial speed and alacrity which figuratively took away the breath from all that came before him. He went at the business of dis- posing of booze Tunners and boot- leggers with a dash and vim which even those convicted couldn't help but admire. No time was consumed in needless argument between attor- ney or “taking under advisement’ cases that had been heard. The breezy jurist from the Everglades set | themselve: | crats in the election of 1926. ‘American entry into |other candidate could the Republicans | nes: fa a good example which other judges, in all the courts, might follow with benefit to the siate and everybody concerned.—Los Angelés Evening Ex- press. Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln Robert M. La Follette, jr., candidate for the Senate to succeed the late Sen- ator La Follette, his father, has put all his eggs in one basket, and is keeping his eve on that basket. He in sticking strictly to his effort to win the Republican nomination at the primaries September 15, and has de- clined to file as a independent candi- date for the office 0 as to run even if he be defeated in the Republican primaries. The date for filing as an independent expired August 30. His failure to e as an independent is in contrast with that of Roy P. Wilcox, the ‘regular” Republican candidate for the nomination, who has filed a petition as an independent candidate which will enable him still to make the race if he is defeated in the pri- maries. Former Gov. Francis B. McGovern, who also is a candidate for the Republican nomination, like La Follette, is entered only in the Republican primaries. Daniel Wood- ward also has filed for the primaries. In a measure, the failure of Mr. La Follette to file as an independent re- flects the confidence felt by his sup- porters in the outcome of the prima- ries. Advi received here from Representative John M. Nelson, who was the campaign manager of the senior La Follette during the presi- dential campalgn last vear, lare that “Bob" La Follette, jr., is m¥ing a sensation as a campaigner and (hat he will carry every county in Mr. Nelson's congressional distriet. Mr. Nelson has accompanied La Follette on part of his stumping tour. . * % ¥ % ‘stalwarts"-—the oppo- llette wing of the ivided among it seenfs that La Follette's victory is certain. The La Follette people themselves, however, are not taking any chances of defeat through the overconfidence route. They are working like beavers. - ,The_ strategy of the regulars in the efent of La Follette's nomination will be to divide the Republican vote in the election. which is to take place September 23, and thus bring ahout the defeat of La Follette {f possible Rather a Democrat in the Senate than a La Follette. A failure by La Fol lette now smashes the progressive machine. The Democrats have but one candi date for the senatorial nomination in Wisconsin, William George Bruce. Their hope is to elsct him by means of a split Republican vote in the elec tion. John Work is the Socialist candidate. There are four “independent” candi- dates in the field besides Wilcox in the event of his losing the Republican nomination. They are Edward F. Dithmar, Coolidge-Dawes Repub- lican; Arthur R. Barry. who declares himself a La Follette progressive; Gilbert Sliter, Republican, and George Bowman, Socialist Labor. The race promises to be hard fought right up to the end With the nents of the La F Republican part: Rumors Senator William M. Butler of Massachusetts, chairman of the Republican national committee. | would permit himself to be appointed | Secretary of War to succeed Secre tary Weeks, also of Massachusetts, whao is expected to retire this Fall on account of ill-health, have not been confirmed up to date. Senator Butler, before he left Washington, declared he would be a candidate to succeed himself. He mow holds the seat for- merly occupied by the late Senator Lodge under appointment by Gov. Fuller. It tx well understood that former Senato crat, will be u candidate for the Sen- ate against Senator Butler next year, and a strong candidate. Abandonment of the senatorial contest now—for it has really already begun—in the view of some of the Republican politicians here—would be.a epnfession of weak- ness on the part of Senator Butler which he would not be likely to make. | In addition to this it is well under- stood that it js vitally necessary the Republicans elect a Senator in Mas- sachusetts next vear. The control of the Senate is threatened by the Demo- What put forward who would have as good chance to win against Senator Walsh as Senator Butler? Senator Butler has the earnest support of President Coolidge, whose campaign Senator Butler so successfully man- aged last year. He is chairman of the Republican national committee which gives him a distinct advantage poli- tically. Nor is Mr. Butler the kind of man who would ield merely because he faced a stiff fight. On the other hand, if the Kepub- lican powers become convinced that Senator Walsh cannot be beaten, they might prefer to offer up some other Bay State Republican as a sacrifice and save Mr. Butler from defeat, at the same time preventing a Demo- atic victory where President Cool- idze’s interests and the prestige of his administration might suffer as a re. sult thereot. % % % The candidacy of Gov fford Pinchot of Pennsylvania for the Re- publican senatorial nomination next vear against Senator George Wharton Pepper is now regarded as practi- cally certain. The governor is stress- ing prohibition enforcement and “giant power.” The latter is a fur- ther development of the old principle of conservation of the resources of the public domain, of which, as chief forester and follower of Theodore Roosevelt, Gov. Pinchot was an ardent advocate 15 years and more ago, when conservation was a big issue. Giant power is Gov. Pinchot's substitute for superpower. The only { distinction between the two is that glant power proposes that the power developed through the waters of the Nation shall be held and used by the people instead of coming into the possession of great private corpora- tions. The Pennsylvania governor has written letters to members of Congress and other leaders in the West urging them to support the giant power plan as against the superpower system. He charges that an effort is being made to monopolize the electric power of the country and declares that such a monopoly would obtain a stranglehold on the life of the country. Cheap power and elec- tricity through a great system con- trolled by the Government for the people, he holds, will solve many problems for the farmers of the coun- try. In some quarters this activity on the part of Gov. Pinchot is seen as an attempt to seize the leadership of the progressive forces of the country. It may be that such an ambition is in the back of the governor's head. At present the country is conserva- tive. The pendulum may swing again toward progressivism within a couple of years, and in that event the pro- gressive leadership would be some- thing worth while, politically. Roose- velt, La Follette and Bryan are dead and other /leaders must take their places. Why not Pinchot? In the meantime, if he can help to keep the fires burning and also gain another political victory in the Keystone State he will be in.a strategic position to seek leadership later on. In the sen- atorial primaries, much will depend upon whether the race becomes three- cornered with Representative Vare as the other member of the triangle. Gov. Pinchot’s chances would be helped measurably if there were three or more candidates in the field, it is believed. Pertinent Pointer. From the Topeka Capital. “‘Better Stop a Minute Than For- ever,” is a suggestion for a rail. way crossing David I. Walsh, Demo- | BY FREDERI Q. How late can a ball game in a major league start”—W. H. R. A. The game must start at two hours before sundown Q. What is the name of the hook which caused the evolution trial in Dayton, Tenn?—F. A, K. A. It is “Hunter's Biology" and is a text book in use in the schools of Tennessee. Q. Do the swimmers who attempt the Channel have any support. such as a tube? Are they fed while swim ming?—A. N. M A. They have no support whatever. They are given broth and light nourishing food at intervals. Q. What has been proposed as the twentieth amendment to the Consti tution?—W. B. M. A. The amendment. which was passed by both houses of Congress, but so far has failed of ratification by the necessary number of States, was known as the child labor amendment Q. How far are Mira and Antares from the earth?—C. Z. A. The Naval Observatory says that the distance from Mira from the earth is 27 tares, 950,000,900,000 Q. In speaking of flag is it proper to say ors?"—C. E. A. “Colors” is the heard, although _either plural form may be used. Q. What is the difference between a registered ship and an enrolled ship? —M. E. the color American or “eol term usually singular or A. Shippinz in foreign trade is reg istered. while that in coastwise trade |15 enroMed Q. What kind of a climate has the Panama Canal Zone?—A. C. A. The climate is tropical, hut it is possible to live there in health and {comfort. The average temperature is |80 degrees k. anq fluctuates about 15 degrees above and below that ma The nights cooler and there is a breeze from January to April. From April 1o November heavy rains are frequent, but not continuous {includes the sugar used in candies, sweet drinks and other foods not pre pared in the home. The amount which would be used in cooking and on the table averages about pounds per person per week. The amount of sygar {consumed is now higher in the’ Urfited | States than in most other parts of the {world, the per capita having increased during the last 100 | | BY WILLIAM | ARTICLE TIL hundred wo millionaires. perhaps have answered your correspond | more | ent’s inquiry, “How may we attain | even zreater prosperity? All are {rated as successful men of business | and haul much water in their home { communities. An even greater num- ber of less wealthy business men, some of them of brilliant attainments in the realm of commerce, responded A study of the many things these above-par men advocate as means of increasing business leads to the in evitable conclusion that , they could not agree, within the span of an or- dinary lifetime. on a single simple program. _‘Each sees the problem {from a different angle. Each, doctor, prescribes a different remed. for national well being. No two ideas are alike. The majority hold little in common, save for one idea—tax reduction. That. most leading busi men agree, is a fundamental ne- | cessity for greater prosperit Prosperity Already Great. “We are already in the midst of a period of great business prosperl probably the greatest our countr: ever had,” says E. A. St. John, pres- ident of the National Surety Co., New York. Mr. St. John cites statistics |of increased production within the decade: “Manufactures from $25,000, cellent example of recent intensive do. mestic merchandizing is the $2.000 000,000-a-vear installment busines through which wage earners and sal- aried people are acquiring automo- biles, radios, music machines, house- hold furniture and muny her lux uries to an extent inconceivable 10 | vears ago. Intelligent Americans | be so anxious to increa prosperity as to keep it as it make it permanent. and thev should, for this reason, cultivate earnestly a mental attitude combining confidence with caution and economy—confidence in the long continuance of our pre: ent prosperous times: caution in es timating the extent to which our do- mestic and foreign busine tivities may safely be expanded, and econom: as against the serious wave of pel sonal extravagance which we have had since the World War."” g as you can and pay afyou go, with less installment buving and constant mortgaging of power,” is the chief thing that may be done today to win greateér pros- perity, in the opinion of another in surance head, Elbridge G. Snow of the Home Insurance Co., New York, while still another proposal outranks either of the foregoing, in the opinion of James S. Kemper, president of the Lumbermen’s Mutual Casualty Chicago. Mr. Kemper says chief public need today to business prospority is increased for eign trade. Then, too. I think we should give greater consideration than to the gene ion. Our losses through fire and accident in this coun try represent an annual property loss of over $1,000,000,000 a vear." ns Overtaxed. Out in the beet sugar country the chief need of today “is to secure a reduction in taxation, particularly in Federal income and inheritance taxes,” in the opinion of G. W. Mc- Cormick, president of the Menominee River Sugar Co., Menominee, Mich., a need that is coupled by other beet producers with maintenance of the present sugar ariff. Mr. McCormick says: “The present rates of taxation take so much of the earnings of a corporation, for instance, that it is not at liberty to make many improve- ments and extensions which would go toward increasing- business generally throughout the country Mr. McCormick would abolish tax exemption on municipal securities. The resulting higher interest rates on community borrowings, he be- lieves, ‘would tend mightily’ to cut extravagant public investments. Automobile manufacturers, now en joying the busiest season ever re- corded, as a rule, are content to have affairs remain as they are. However, some of them see chances for im- provement, even with their present i unequaled prosperity. ytain greater prosperity,” is thus answered by A. R. Erskine, president ot the 'Studebaker Corporation, South Bend, Ind.: “1. Continnatién of the sound ad- should not w ANSWERS TO QUESTI least | 0,000,000,000,000 mile sand of An-| Q. What is the average per capita consumption of sugar in the United States?—W. A. The average amount eaten . is two pounds per person per week. This | consumption | 000,000 to $50,000,000,000; farm prod ucts, from $7,000,000,000 to_$13.000 000,000; exports, from $2,350,000,000 | to $8,750,000,000: national bank re- sources, from $11,500,000,000 to §22. 500,000,000," and continues: “An ex purchasing | increase | “How to at-| ONS C J. HASKIN. |vears from 10 pounds to over 100 pounds vearly. | Q. Did some one discover a new planet recently’—R. T.. & | A, The Naval Observatory savs that vou possibly refer 1o an ohserva- | tion of asteroid No. 29, Amphitrite. The observer, who had not identified the object seen, through error an |nounced that the rate of motion wax twice what it actualy was, and this | mistake led to the supposition that a new body had been discovered | @ When were brass trimminge and | square dashboards discontinued on Ford cars’—W. W. P. A. They were discontinued in 1916. | Q. Who painted the first stormy | 1landscape?—H. C. M | _A. Giorgione has this distinction | Tt is found in his beautiful painting | called “'Adrastus and Hypsipyle | Losincl [, @ Ts it true that there are no tides |in the Gulf of Mexico or the Mediter- |ranean or ‘any body of water into | which rivers that have detlas empty? | =M. H. H. A. There are tides in both the Medi- | terranean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. | In the Mediterranean they are so slight as to be almost imperceptible; |in the Guif of Mexico they run from 215 to 4 feet. A delta is an alluvial Plain formed by a deposit of sand and mud carried down a river. As the | stream enters quieter waters the de | posit falis to the bottom and increases in area and height until it reaches | the surface and is raised by floods and | tides above the high-water mark. The | delta of the Ganges and the Brahma | putra has an area of 50.000 square miles and that of the Nile is 200 mile wide and 100 miles long. The Miesis- sippi delta. which encroaches at a rate of 260 feet a vear, has an area | of 12,300 square miles. ' Great deltas are only found in comparatively tide less seas, because the deposits would not otherwise have a chanee of ac | cumulating | ((There is no other agency in the world that can answer as many legiti | mate questions as our free informa- | tion burcau in Washington, D. C. This highly organized institution has | been built up and_is under the per | sonal direction of Frederic J. Haskin By keeping in constant touch with Federal bureaus and other educa tional enterprises it is in a position to | pass on to you authoritative tion of the highest order. Submit your | queries to tie staff of experts who. | services are put at your free disposal nforma | There is no charge cxcept 2 cents in stamps for return postage. Address The Atar Information Bureau, Fred | eric J. Haskin first and (" streets D.0.) director, Twenty northwest, Washington THE VOICE OF BUSINESS P. HELM, JR. ministration of Government at Wash {ington, with tax reduction resulting from economical expenditure of put money and a sane attitude toware business 2. Business thrives on confidenc and can take care of itself if free from unwise legislation, bureaucratic control and threats of démagogues anc | socialists. Confidence and optimisn can never exist when the governmen: is incompetent, extravagant worthy of the Natfon | By maintaining sane men it | Federal and State sovernment an discouraginz enactment of foolisl {laws. and by much stricter enforce ment of the criminal;laws in our cities." Jacob Pfeiffer. president of the Miller Rubber Co., Akron, ©hio. be- |lieves that the paramount need of the day in industry is “reduction of un- | necessary public spendings and ir. | taxation all along the line—Federal | State, county, city, town and vil- lage.” Protect Home Market. And here comes the newest infant | among our great industries, the radio. | Says David Sarnoff, vice presidens |and general manager of the Radie Corporation of America: “Americar business can be served best, first, by | protecting its home market. The | United States is not only the prize | market of the world, but the one that is primarily served by American busi- ness. Ours is tha highest standard of civilization known: that standard |is maintained in large measure by the | genius and efficiency of Amerfcan | business. The wages paid by it build | American, not foreign, homes, and satisfy American, not foreign, re- | auirements | “It can safely be predicted that it | our people fail to keep the American | market largely for themselves, our | standard of civilization will collapse |along with American business.’ | Before the World War, Mr, Sarnoff continues, Americans had ‘an in feriority complex,” which caused | them to admiz that other nations had | ‘better statesmem, better manufar turers, better stores, better writars and what not. The World War proved this complex to be unsound * * * but, in spite of that demon stration, some Americans still seem to think that foreign products are superior to ours. simply because they are foreign.” This, he says, is just as unsound as the inferiority com plex. adding: “‘Made in Ameri should mean what ‘Made in Ger l|mn\"_nl|<‘e meant. The (ime to he gin this campaign is now; the place our own country.” Urges Lower Prices. | Perhaps the most startling sugges. tions received from any manufac | turer comes from a multi-millionaire |iron and steel producer, who was per suaded to speak his mind only on condition that his name be withheld | Why he imposed this restriction can Dbe readilv seen from his statement. !which follows: “I am of the opinion that what | needed to encourage ness in this countr I do not mean lowe is sperous husi lower prices prices for far on a lower basis than the things the farmer is obliged to buy, but I think we need lower cost of transportation lower cost of mining fuel (in union !nlnesv and lower costs in the huild ing_industry. “This means lower wages on the railroads, in the union coal mines, in the building trades and in “some others which are out of line. What we need is a general leveling up of wages in order that some of the cosis which are abnormally high ‘ean be reduced and which will make it pos sible to reduce the selling values of certain products which are necessary before we have prosperous business in_this country. “It is rather a dangerous business on the part of any one to advocate lower wages. I think, however, that if we were all now on a basis of 50 per cent above 1913 and 1914 we would be about on the right level Many scales, however, are 100 per cent and some are as high as 150 per cent above this basis. “While T dread the grief that every one will go through in trying to make these readjustments, 1 believe that conditions are going to force a | readjustment before we will have a permanently prosperous condition.” It would take a hold business man to stand for such a statement as that toady. Bold to foolhardiness, and the note our.ironmaster sounds is a solo in the symposium, struck but once. (Convricht. 1098.) products, because 1 believe they are | i \