Evening Star Newspaper, September 30, 1925, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY .September 30, 1935 THEODORE W. NOYES...RBditor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Busingse Officn 11¢h St.'nnd Pennaviants Ave. New Tt dmeet IR amEnd 51, Chicaxs Office: _Tower Bullding: Buropean Ofice: - 18 Regent St.. London. Enslan The Evaning Star. with the Sunday morn- Inx edition. is delivered by 'l'arfl withi the city at 60 cents npar month: Iy only. b Cents per month: Sunday enly. 20 S on ors m i by m Telophone Main K000 Colleotion 16 made by «arrier at the end of each manth. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virgink Datly and Sunday. iy only. .. Sunday only. All Other States. Daily and Sunday. ... ¥r.. §10.00: 1 mo. 7.0 Daily only Bunday only Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Presa is exclusively entitied to the ue- for republication of all newy RiTRes predited T Tt or not ?én.;wx.T "ored: Daver T fho”lockt hew Bitvighest AN et ‘6l siiieatia herein of ana in_ave slge reserved. disnatche Impressive Aviation Faots. However much Col. Mitehsll's charges may be discounted by the seeming recklessness with which he makes them, it is impossible net to be im- pressed by the testimeny.which has been developed by the President’s air- craft board of Inquiry. Even with the inquiry only getting well ynder way, it has become apparent that many things are wrong which should he and must be righted. The public is interested and aroused in the matter of aviation as it has never been before, and when the inquiry is concluded it will have A better idea as to what is required for adequate aerial defense. It is well that this should be so, for in the final analysis the public will contrel the all-important congressional reaction ta the current investigation It is gratifying to be assured by large boys, otherwise called men, have been lured by burled treasure. Es. pecially has pirate gold a charm. There, was Capt. William Kidd, who went to sea from New York in the sood ship that became the bad ship Adventure Galley. Gardeners lsland, N. Y., has been dug up for his buried gold, his jewels, precious stones, his plate and for his pleces of elght. The shoreg of Leng Island Sound and the banks of the Hudgpn have been spaded up in quest of his ill-got booty, which 'Was quite likely all recavered by Ear] Bellamont, colonial gevernor, about the time he sent Capt. Kidd prisoner to Londan, where he was ceremanious 1y put to death for piracy May 24, 1701. All through the lower Mississippi eauntry gnd the atrangl af the Guif boys immature and heys grown um have dug for Jean Lafitte’s gold. Jean was a Guif pirate of prominence and settled a pirate colony on Barataria Island, and either because he hated Englishmen or loved Americans he helped Andrew Jackson win his great fame by beating Packenham at New Orleana, He would be 8 busy man to set down all efferts te find the buried treagure of the huccaneers, freeboot- ers, filibusters er “marooners” of the Gulf and Caribhean. Sunken galleons have been dredged for, but so far as recorded precious little of the gold of Sir Henry Morgan, Laurent, Avery, Blackbeard and Roberts has been brought back ta eireulation. ————— Constructive Reform. The Chicago Board of Trade, the great grain exchange of the country, has its chance to amend its rules so that manipulation of prices of staple taed products may no lenger be pos- sible on the exchange. A program, far reaching and constructive, has heen prepared by the members' program committee of the board, upen which the Board of Trade will be called upen ta act. Recommendations of particular im- portance by this committee call for those competent to pass judgment that our Army pursuit planes are the best in the world, but it is not gratifying to learn that we have so pitifully few of these planes compared with the great fleets of other nations. Fourteen pursuit planes for the United States and seventy-five squadrans of them for France strikes the average American as being very considergbly out of balance. One may or may not agzree with Col. Mitchell that the rem- edy lies in a unifled air service, but his determined efforts to impress upan Congress and the country the neces- sity of doing something to build up the air service are worthy of natiangl applause. Another impressive feature of the inquiry {s the unanimity with which the actual flying officers agree with Col. Mitchell, at least in the funda- mentals of his contentions. They ara in accord in insisting that the fiyers ought to be commanded hy officers who have had actual flving experience that in no other way can there be hope of solutien of the problems pecullar to this distinctive service. This could he accomplished by a unified air serv- ice or by making the flying corps sep- arate units, as the Marine Corps is now a separate unit of the Navy. An officer who had never been at sea would not be placed in command of 2 fleet of battleships, and it would seem equally reasonable that an officer wha had never been in the air should not have command of fivers. The country {s hardly ready to sub- scribe to Col. Mitchell's thesis that the Army and Navy are of little value for national defense, but there is dis- cernable a growing determination that the prejudices or nescience of Army #nd Navy officers shall not be per- mitted to hamper development of an adequate air service. So, whatever the nitimate conclusions reached by the President's board mav be, credit should and will be accorded Col. Mitchell far having aroused public interest in this vitally important question. S “Babe Ruth” has been appointed a member of police reserves in New York. This will enable him to become a guardian of laws and regulations, and vary the experience which has required him to sav, “Good morning, Judge,” to Mr. Landis. ——ea—— The negotiations of France and the T S. A. are confidently expected to come to an understanding long before a point where ““friendship ceases.” A modern consideration in finance subordinates the question of how much vou owe to that of how much ¥ou can comfortably pa. | ————— A coal strike leaves the ultimate consumer deeply interested in an scgument in which he has no voice whatever. ————— Sunken Treasure. Quest for the treasure of the Merida has been given over. at least until Spring. The ship lies fathoms deep, thirty-five and three-quarter fathoms --214 feet—below sea surface off Capes Charles and Henry, Va., and in the hulk are tons, the number being differently estimated, of gold and sfl- ver in bullion and coin. It is told that the treasure seekers found the wreck, and that divers made numerous de- scents to it. Sand is heaped arpund the Merida, and the treasure is far within a broken ship jammed with tangled, jumbled cargo. Down where she_lies it is ever night or late eve- ning, and the weight of water is ninety-five pounds the square inch. "The rough-weather seasan is at hgnd, and the undersea explorers will leave off till the time of gentle weather and calm sea comes in Spring. 3 The treasure may be found. Much treasure has been lost and some of it has been found. The treasure may never be recovered. Vast effort has been wasted in seeking buried treas- ure and sunken treasure. When treas- ure goes to the bottom of the sea the betting odds are that it will stay there. Neptune is a tightwad in holding to men's gold that falls his way. Perhapg he needs it. His wife Amphitrite no doubt needs gold for shopping gnd keeplpg house, and the mermgids and other nymphs have needs anpd extrava- gancies as their terrestrial sisters. Many small boys and § good man¥ \ the establishment of g committee of business conduct and for a rule em- powering the board of directors to clare the existence of an “emergeney’ in the case of vielent price fluctua- tions and to limit trading under such conditions. Much credit is due to Becretary Jar- dine of the Department of Agriculture, who has strongly urged upon the Board of Trade the need of amending its rules to prevent such violent Ructuations ef grain prices as occurred in May wheat last Winter, fluctua- tions which lsd ta the charge of manipulation by @ set of selfish gam- blers. Secretary Jardine, under the law, is responsible for the enforce- ment of the grain futures act, by which Cengress saught to reform the methods of trading in grain and to prevent in @ measure manipulatien of prices. For the proper enforcement of @ regulatary law, co-operation is a prime essential, and the attitude of the Secretary of Agricuiture has been benefleial in the extreme. Following the price fluctuations of wheat on the Chicago exchange last ‘Winter, an exhaustive investigation was made by erder of Secretary Jar- dine to determine the cause, and the department vegched the conclusion that manipulation was at the bottom of those fluctuations. Commenting upon the recammendations for amend- ments in rules of the Board of Trade, Secretary Jardine, in a formal state- ment, declgred he considered it im- perative for the board to institute the proposed machinery to prevent recur- rence of such conditions as prevailed on the exchange last Winter. He add- ed significantly: **A failure on the part of the board to take these steps immediately will jeave to me, under the terms of my plain obligations, no alternative than to inaugurate action looking to the suspension or revocation of the desig- nation of the Chicago Board of Trade a8 a comtract market.” The directors of the Chicago Board of Trade, it is announced, have ac- cepted the report of the members’ pro- gram committee, and the proposed amendments to the rules will be voted upon by the members October 9. The business conduct committee, which would be set up under the new rules, would have wide powers to deal with manipulgtion of prices by any of the members of the board. The | regular- members of this committee must pledge themselves, during their incumbency, not to speculate for their personal account. The amendment on price fluctugtions empowers the board af directors on ten hours® notice to declare the existence of an ‘emer- gency,” ‘and the board may provide in that event that there shall be no trading during any day in the speci- fled grain at more than 5 per cent above or below the closing price of the night before. —————— Mr. Dempsey, the eminent prize fighter, contemplates another en- counter. The cautious preliminary negotiations would be worthy the study of any diplomat. ———————— Youth’s Morals. A man who may have some way of appraising the morals of a large num- ber of persons defends the ‘‘younger generation.” The man who takes up the gauntlet for the younger genera- tien 1s Beets Pickstt, deseribed 29 “‘re- search secretary of the board of tem- perance, prohibition and public morals of the Mpthodist Eplscopal Church.” It is not clear that one can list and sort the vices and virtues of a mil- lion young persons gnd then strike 2 balgnce as to whether they gre geod or bad. "“Geed” and “had” are terms that men wrangle on the definition of. It is 2 pleasure that @ man who spe- clalizes in morals looks pn thg yeuRger geperation with a friendly eve. No matter what statistics he has gath- ered meny men feel that he has logic with him. The woof-woof of older persons that boys and girls are going to the how- wows is overdone. Hordes of the shocked moralists are men Who hgve revised their habity of life becausg of Physicgl degeneration. They havg to b careful of what they eat and drink. To stay up late makes them uifer next day. They cannot mix mince ple, sgde water, ice cream and pickles. They have forgotten how to THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGJON, D. C, waltz, and stiff joints have kept them from learning the new dances. The gayety and nolse of young persons bore them. A yeung persop who is not gay ought te be looked on with suaplelon or tyrned over to the family daoetor.. Xoyng people laugh easier and make 1nore racket tham’fgllows rusty with their years. All through the ages the older gen- sration has declaimed that the yaunger generation was not up to atandsvd, and when the younger generation has become gray or bald and been fitted with false teeth it takes its turn in lambasting the rising generation. There are gome boya ane finds {t herd to approve, but fifty vears sge thers were the same kinds of boys, and to- day many of those fellows, wearing carpet slippers and going about on crutches, insist that boys are very ‘much worse than they used to be. Mr. Deots Plekett saye, “The erotic dances are evolved by bald-headed dancing masters; the eratic plays are produced by men of maturity; salacious novels and magazines ars not the produet of yauth, but produced by the. older generstion for yeyth." Deets gives same hard knocks te the alder generation. ——— et Insurgent Wiscensin. ‘Wiscensin, faithful te the memor of Robert M. La Follette, senior, ve: terday voted averwhelmingly to send to the Senate his sen, glsa Robert M. La Follette, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Sepator La Follette. Mr. La Follette will enter the Sen- ate, as his father did twenty vears ago, opposed by the regular Republic- ans of that body, sitheugh he won the Republican Raminatian at the State- wide primaries twe weeks ago and yesterday waw® elgeted as a Repub- lican. When the senior La Follette came to the Sepate in 1905 the term “‘progressive” was unknowp. He did more than gny other single man to bring aheut the development of the progressive movement. His son has declared himself in faver of “‘carrving an” glong the trail blazed by his fathe) Wisconsin, by the election of Mr. La Follette as 2 Republican to succeed his father, is still “outside the Union” in the opinion of the regular Repub: lican organization. For years ¢l anti-La Fallette Republicans in th Badger State have striven io wrest contrel fram the La Follette forces. Their mast recent effort has proved as vain 25 the earlier efforts. Wiscensin hgs said to the party, “This is my brand of Republicanism, take it ar leave it.” 1t the more conmervative slement of the Republican party is te gain con- trol of Wisconsin it must happen through conversion of the voters in Wisconsin itself. It is expected that the regular Republican organization of the Senate will turn a cold shoulder to Mr. La Follette when he cames to Washington next December; that it will decline to recognize him as # Republican because he has gitacked the national Repyblican administra- tion and its policien and because he was one of the managers of his father's presidential campaign last year. It attempted to read the menior 1a Follette out of the party by similar tactics last Winter and Spring. But these tactics do not appear ta have| Republican | the Indeed, it sgems been impressive to voters of Wisconsin. to have made them mere sel in their | ways. e ‘When Lwo such throughly equipped men as Caillaux and Mellon confer on the subject of international finance there i8 ne chance of garelessness on either side. S SN A Segretary of the Navy soon be comes accustomed to regard an irre- sponaible resignation rumor as part of his regular job. - e An evidence of the Nation's pros- perity is given by the number of peo- ple who can afford tickets to the world series. o SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. “Legve 1t To Mg!" When 1, of dispesition tame. Grow weary of life's fretful game, T hear the call in accents free, “Leave it to me! Leave it to me:” Astrologers and men whe tell Ot things to make sick people well In chorus jeyeusly agree, “Leave it to me! Leave it to me! And vet I heard somebody siate “Man is the Master of his Fate." So let us pause gnd cautigus be When some one mays, “Legve it me!” to Balationships. “George Washipgten Father of His Country.” “He was,' gngwered Senator Sor- ghum, “and I honor him as such, even if he couldn't find 3 megRs to preyent relations from quarreling with one another.” wag thy Jud Tunkins says he thinks Barwin could have made a great deal more money If he had specialized on hand organs instead of monkeys. Caunting the Cost. It wquld efford the Human Bace Of happiness a better chance If every war that might take place Had to be paid for in edvance. Precept and Example. “Didn't you hear yvour father .say we must econemize?” “Yes,” answgred Miss OCayenne. “But he was smoking 32 fifty-cent ciggr when he sgid it.” Oficial Uneertginties. Life ig deprived of all repose And men are doomed to fret. A resignation rumor goes With gvery job you get Qbscyrgtion. “Ts this mepnshipe licker?” ‘Nope,” gnswergd Uncle Bill Bot- tietop. “It's smeke:screen licker.” “I hay hear of Napoleum Boni- said Uncle Ebed, “but I kind-o’ disappointed by de lack of evl- depce dat he was any kind of a byse ball player worlh mentionin’,* Hore is a letter from my file that has been awaiting consideration at length for some time. It requires no further explapation, - “I wrete you & pote ef appreciation for your artiales in The Evening Star some time ago. This letter is just to let you know I am gtill a regular reader and think vyou get better all the time. I am sorry that Marcus Aurelivs is finished. I suppose yoy remember one of goys articles last Winter about the Gelden Book Magazine. I want to thank you for that article also, though I am rather late doing it. If I had net yead that particylar article it might have been months and possibly years before 1 happened onto the Golden Book. “Some time when vou can’t think of anything to write about (I hardly think you will ever be in that pre- dieament), why don’t you just give a list of books and authors that you think people should read. “I should certainly value your opin- fon on such a matter. There is just one disagreement between what you have published and my tastes. If my memory serves me rightly, vou are a great admirer of Edgar Allan Poe, and I don't like him at all. How- ever, I believe in freedom of intellect, 80 I don’'t want to start any argu- ment. In fact, I am perfectly willing to admit that my taste s at fault. You have the majority in your favor. “I hope you won't be bored by this rather lengthy letter, but I've read 80 many of your articles I feel almost as though I know you In a P. S. the correspondent states “Don’t know which I like best, your articles on human interest topics or vour unusual book reviews. * % % x The task of selecting 2 list of books for another to read has a certain fas- cingtion. It has been made many times. Sir John Lubbock tried it vears ago, and a distinguished college president came out with a “five-foot shelf.” i Sir John's list of books’ is imterest- ing. byt contalng many recondite vol- umes, about which there may well be question. The famous “five-foor shelf’” was chosen with more regard te the modern poiRt of view. but also suffers from the fact that it, by rea- gon of Its very nature, imposes the opinipns of one man upon another. While we admit the epinion is a very excellent one, we still claim the right to pick and choose for ourselves. Last Autumn, at the request of a Washingtonian who wanted to do same reading glong lines that would “improve his mind without being too much like studying,’ I hazarded a list of ten great books, as follow: 1, the BIbl tgvenson's “Vir- ginibus Pueresque’; 3, Whitman's “Leaves of Grass': 4, Spencer's “Edu- 5. Dumas’ “Three Muske- 6, Lewis' “Babbitt"; 7. Frank ‘Autoblography™: 8. Dickens' “A Christmas Carol': 9, Wells' “A Short History of the Warld"” and 10. Crane’s “The Janjtor's Boy." This rather varled list received a favarable reception, and was used by more than one person (I had the pleasure of finding out) as a basis for Christmas selections. In attempting to answer my new correspondent’s letter, however, T found myself casting around for an- ather method of gelection. It seemed to me that 1 found what I sought in a small catalogue of Evervman’s Lib- ravy, that popular compilation of some ésc valumes issued by E. P. Dutton & a. Some vears ago these small, cloth- hound books sold for 35 cents a copy and mounting printing costs have only now pushed them to 80 cents a volume. Under the general editor- Vice President Dawes' friends are comparing _him to the Plumed Knight —James G. Blaine—as a result of the general's recent expedition | through the West. They assert that it was a triumphal tour and marked by scenes of “universal favor such as the man from Maine encountered on a celebrated swing around the circle 40 vears ago. The Chicago Journal of Commerce, an admirer and supporter of the Vice President, thus rhapsodizes over his conquests: “At Butte, Spokane, Seattle, Portland and Los Angeles he was greeted with great audlences that ligtened closelv to his 50-minute address and broke frequently into tumultuous applause. Indeed, sen- timent runs so strongly for his reform proposition that no experi- enced politician, or Senator, for that matter, can doubt that he has the people overwhelmingly with him. There was noticeable an insistent tide of approval of the Vice President’s general pur- pose in_ visiting the coast at this time. Next to that approval in all the cities visited was the dem- anstration of the hold he has on the public imagination, among men and wemen alike, and in both political parties.” * ok ok ok Former Gov. Frank O. Lowden of Nlinoils flitted through Washington this week, though incommunicado on politics or the 1928 presidential am- bitions said to be surging in him. Lowden is general chairman of the American Forest Week committee which held its annual meeting here. From Washington the man who put {he vice presidency from him in 1924 roceeded to Atlantic City to address he American Bankers' Assoclation n “What the Banker Can Do for e Farm Gov. Lowden is not perturbed by recent attacks in farm hewspapers, which have been alleging that interests favorable to his presi- dential hopes ‘‘wrecked” the Grain Marketing Co., which collapsed in Chicago last Summer. They charged that Lowden saw a ‘‘menace” to his aspirations to be the farmers’ cham- pion in the threatened success of the company’'s _ co-operative marketing lure, whereupon Lowdenites set about to smash it. Mr. Lowden con- tends no finger of his was ever lifted in that direction. n iRy PR THhere is known to this observer a Washingtonian of quality and of standing in the community who has just installed 3 medern equipment to safeguard the preclous contents of his liquor store. It ronsists of an ap- ratug for squirting tear gas in the ?:c. of gn intruder, either a revenue agent or a thief. According to the taker of these noxious precautions, they are the latest form of safety de- vice adopted by banks o protect the treasure in their vaults. It is guar- anteed that persoms who fllicitly turn on the gas will bg-blinded and render- ed virtually uncopscious for 20 min- utes or half an haur. R Setsuzo Sawads, counselor of the Japanese embassy, is the author of & book which is shortly !os:nlk:‘ralls 4 rance h at n an- SRR, the Jepanese Crown Prince p through Furope a year agp. in which Mr. Sawada par- ticipated the cial representative of the ’r@ forg oflce.bl"l;l;lledw;l- ume n_published in lennmnd Mnh::nrmous ciicula- tion there, largely owing to the popu- larity of the young Prince Regent Hirohitp, who is in Hy 35th vear. Mr. Sawade is much in demgpd for pub- WEDNESDAY, S8 JPIEMBER 30, 1925 THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ship of Ernest Rhys these gheap books have enabled booklovers with sTeater appreciation than pocketbooks te satisfy, in seme senms, ot least, their deaires. The catslegue, diseoversd an the counter of a loggl k e, marked In 1t by the publishers the “26_mest populsr hooks In the - brary,” the 100 mest pepylar books” and the “250 wast popular boak: Heve, then, {8 a list of books that really means something, for it is not the judgment of gRy one man, no matter how learned or capable he might be, but fs, rather, the unforced selection of many thousands of pur- chasers. It is true that some of the selec- tions seem the result of mass buying for classroom study. The Everyman's Library fs much used in high school and college classes, and such use will account for a few of the following selectiona. Perhaps I should state, in addition, that the marking of the most popu- lar boaks in the catalogue seems to have bgen somewhat hurriedly done, #0 that it is not alwayvs possible te be perfectly sure just whigh bonk is meant. A& far as I cgn make out, the list of the most popular of all is as fallows: Aesop’s and Other Thomas a Kempl of Christ.” “Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,” lated by James Ingram. “Atlag of Literary and Historical Geography,” by J. G. Bartholomew, Vol. 1, Europe. “Nerthanger Abbey” suasion.” by Jane Auste “Pride and Prejudi Austen. . “Sense and Sensibility,” by Austen. Brsays of Francis Bacon. “Lorna Daeone,’ by R. D. Black- more. “Pilgrim's John Bunyan. Paems of Robert Burns. Autoblography of Benvepute Cel- lin “Two Years Before the Mast, R. H. Dana Dante’s ‘‘Divine Comedy." Dickena' “Tale of Two Cities.” English short stories, Afteenth to twentleth centuries. Benjamin Franklin's raphy.” Oliver Goldswmith's field.” “Federalist Papers.” Hamilton and others. Victor Hugo's “Notre Dame.” Speeches and letters of Abraham Lingoln. Herman Melvill Dick.” Melville's “Omoo. Melville's “Typee.” “Tales of Mystery tion,” by E. A. Poe. Roget's “Thesaurus” (two volume: . Augvstine’s “Confessions.” “Black Beautv.” by Anna Sewell. Comedies of Willlam Shakespear Historfes and naems, Shakespeare. Tragedles, Shakespeare. “Tregsure Island.” by R. I venson. There are, then, 32 works (count ing Shakespeare as three. In the usual division into comedips, histories and tragedies) that have heen selected the most out of nearly 500 titles over a lons period of vears. That Dickens Is represented with but one work and Thackeray with none is rather surprising, although the inclusion of three of Jane Austen's stories will be welcomed by those who have experienced t charm of her novels. Most of the volumes in the above list are books that ‘“people should vead.” Indeed, their sales prove that people dp read them. After all, the “box office”’ test is @ good one. les. “The Imitation trans- and “Per- by Jane Jane Progress,' by by “‘Autobiog- “‘Vicar of Wake- by Alexander “Moby and Imagina- Ste- WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WIL lic speaking in Philadelphia. because he is a convert to Quakerism. Re- cently he addressed an audience in Willlam Penn's heme town on the globe-girdling trip of Prince Hirohito. * * * ® Edgar B. Brossard of Utah, the new member of the United States Tariff Commission, doesn’t hold out much encouragement to M. Cailigux to think that France can pay America in goods slid into the country at tariff bargain rates. Mr. Brossard predicts that the Tarift Commission “would never lend itself to any program of foisting the ultimate burden of paying the Euro- pean debts on the American people.” The Utah commissioner, who consti- stules the latest, but probably not the Jast, plum to be shaken from the Coolidge patronage tree by Senator Reed Smoot, was, like Secretary Jar- dine, a_cowpuncher on the range in his early years. Like Jardine, too, Brossard was born in Idaho. He is only 86 years old and was a star fullback ‘on the Utah Agricultural College foot ball team. Since then he hes won @ Ph. D., from the Univer- sity of Minnesota, and put in a year of post-graduate work at Cornell. Just before he was called to Washington Mr. Brossard was State farm man- agement demonstrator for Utah. * k¥ ¥ There's an interesting project afoot to bring aout the foreasic battle of the century in Washingten, with arles Evans Hughes and Willlam E. Borah as the gladiators. The sub- ject upon which it is desired to have hem clash is the World Court. If the master orators can be persuaded to put on the gloyes of grgument, the contest will be staged a few weeks before the United States Senate tackles the samie issue on December 17. Prometers of the Hughes-Borah set-ta belleve that the proposed en- counter might easily become the Lin- coln-Douglas debate of the cotem- porary era. * ¥ Some of Curtis D. Wilbur's friends, who have coms to Washington from Los Angeles, tell a story of the Sec- retary of the Navy's political nanimity at the outset of his public career. Wilbur, an Annapolis gradu- ate, :”[&ufl from the Npyy in 1§88 ito practice law in California. A gen- rerag] election was approaching the young lawyer thought he'd agpire to @ Vacancy on the Superior Court bench, though at the tims he was only a minor official in the district attorney’s office of Los Angeles Coun- ty. Wilbur made an agtive campaign. The convention nomjnated him’ after a spirited contest with a rival named CogFey. The nomingtion was equiys- lent to election, but @npur rose in the .convention angd, after thapking the delegates for the hopor they'd just conferred upop him, hegged tQ be pllowed to renounce It 9B the ground that Conrey needed the Tuage: ship more than he, Wilbur, did. Then he moved that his riygl's ngmination be made unanimous. Fhe latier was trigmphantly elected. (Copyright, 1935.) e t—— e Urges That Mitchell Run for Presidency Tp the Editor of The Star: § nomipsts Col Willisgs Mitchall 4 a te for the next President of t_h:! %fid‘ States. He is a combination of Theadore Roosevelt 3pd Grover Cleveland.” W. P. READY. % and Polhics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln Robert M. Lg Follette, i, enters the United States Benate to fiil the va- cancy caused by the death of Senator La Follette. The expected has hap- pened. The progressive strength in isconsin has again been demon- strated and at the same time the lack of cghesion among the opponents of the Follette faction in the R.Rllb lican party of the Badger State. The oppositien was eplit in the race for the Republican nomination, with three candidates running against Bob, jr. La Follette's sweeping victory in the primary, added to the attempt made by the stalwart organization in the State to swap horses in the middle of the stream—to abandon Roy P. Wil cox and to switch to Edward F. Dith- mar in the election yvesterday—made his election practically a foregone conclusion. The. attack on the La Follette or- ganization in Wisconsin, interpreted as an attack on the Jate Senator La Follette, so recently buried with the highest eulogies, made by the “stai- warts” during the campaign is con- sidered here a tactical error. It would have been better, regular Republicans insist, had they made the single issue of the campalgn the election of a Senator who would support the Cool- idge administration and the Coolidge polictes. * ok ok x Having elected Robert La Follette. jr., a Senator, the progressives already are laving their plans to carry the State in the congressional and guber- natorial elections next year. The stal- warts are counting on re-electing Sen- ator Lenroot in the coming campalgn and hope to break into the Wisconsin delegation to the House. Theyv will do thelr utmost to elect a governor, too. But the events of the last four weeks are not encouraging from the stalwart point of view. The La Follette faction has been shown to be strongly in the saddle, notwithstanding the death of Senator La Follette. The hoped-for disintegration of the progressive or- ganization has as yét shown no signs of appearing. Gov. Blaine, it i3 ex- nected, will be the candidate for the Senate against Senator Ienroot and Atterney General Ekern is the prob- able candidate of the progressives for governor. Rumors frem Wisconsin that Phil Ta Follette. younger brothgr of the Senator-elect. might make the race for governor of the State next vear are not taken seriously here by supporters of the La Follettes. In 10 vears' time, nerhaps, they say. the vounger La Follette may aspire to the governor- ship. but not now. Furthermore, it would be overplaving the La Follette popularity to attemnt to elect a La Follette as United States Senator to- day and within a vear to seek to elect another La Follette governor. Phil La Follette, howeyer. gives every indica- tion that he will be a strong figure in the political life of Wieconsin eventu- ally. He is making a rccord as attor- ney for Dane County, his father's first public ofice vears ago. He has a strong personality and makes z good speech. S Gov. Al Smith's invasion of the Middle West and his reception by a huge crowd of Democrats at Chicago has been interpreted in many quarters ag a real Indication that the Governor of New York will seek the Democratic nomination for President in 1928. There are plenty of Democrats who throw up their hands in discourage- ment at such a suggestion. Thev do not belleve that Gov. Smith could ever be nominated, or that, if nominated. he could ever be elected President Smith and McAdoo, they insist, must be forgotton if the Democrats are to get together again and stand any chance of winning a national election. But it is very clear that if Gov. Smith and Mr. McAdop are io be laid aside, it must be to follow seme other standard bearer, some other Democrat who can become 2 national figure. To date Gov. Smith over- shadows all other Democrats in pub- lc life, and none In private life are making any appeal to the popular imagination. The task of the Demo- crats. it appears. is to find an out- standing candidate about whom they may rally and with whom the differ- ences that arose at the national con- vention.in New York may be forgot- ten. * ok ox * In their fight to retain control of the Senate next vyear, the Repub- licans will find the principal battle- ground very largely in the West. the West which gave every State to Cool- | idge last year except Oklahoma, which went Democratic, and Wiscon- sin, which went for La Follette. In some of the Western States, partic- ularly the South t, the Repub- licans were aided last vear by the La Follette presidential candidacy. La Follette split the opposition. Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico are examples. Next year there will be no La Fol- | lotte ticket to hamper the Democrats Furthermore, in the Pacific coast States, Oregon, California and Wash- ington, in “off years,” with no national ticket running, Democrats have been elected to the Senate in the past and may be again. Republican Senators in the West whe must stand for re-election next year include Cameron of Arizona, Cummins of Towa. Curtls of Kansas, Gooding of Idaho, Harreld of Okla- homa, Jones of Washington. Lenroot of Wisconsin, McKinley of Hlinois, Means of Colorado, Norbeck of South Dakota, Oddie of Nevada, Smoot of Ptah, Stanfield of Oregon, Watson of Indlana, Willls of Ohio and Ernst of Kentucky in the “mear West.” Of these Curtis of Kansas, Smoot of Utah, Cummins of Jowa, McKinley of llinois, Norbeck of South Dakota, Watson of Indiana and Willis of Ohio, should gll ‘“come back” next year, provided, of course, they are nom- inated. But the others are facing real fights. Furthermore, there are seats of the late Senator Ladd of North Dakota and Spencer of Mis- sourl which must be fllled also. both t:l: by Republicans. Judge Willlams been appointed to fill the Spencer vacancy untll next year, and he may be the candidate of the Republicans in . Missourl, though this is not yet settled. It is the West, therefore, which turned its back on the Democrats in the national elections a year ago, which may upset the apple cart for the Republicans in the senatorigl elec- tions and the congressional elections next year. * K Kk ¥ Down in Alabama the number of candidates for the seat in the Senate now held by Semator Underwood con- tinueg to moupt. The announcement of Senator Underwagd that he will not seek re-electiop to the Senate brought gjt seyeral annopnce ente. Col. L. B. uggreve, a candidate against Senator Undsraend when Sgnator Underwood ran for the pomination in 1920, is opent quarters about the State, and so is J. H. Bapkhead, son of the late Benator and a brother of Repre- septative Wllltq,m B. Bgakhead. Mus- grove ran as a "dry” ggainst Mr. Un- derwood, and had support of the Anti- Saloon League in 192¢. Bankhead was a “tentative” capdi for the Senate against Sengtor Heflin in a previous el , but did become an active for the nomination. What eflip has to say in the mat- ter ted to have an i flg:!’ n_important the coming fight for th nop ‘nl? n. Alsg, the friends of Sen: stor Underwaod will have something to say in the mattey. Y B E5E * The coming session of Congress is likely Utfih be w?l? long politica) digeys: s{an, h n on various moasures interspersed. The Democr’:ln are ripng’ on “making the issges” i this m.n‘.'n fer the unlnfl&l‘elec’f ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. | Q. Are there some Btates that do not legislate against the labor of chil- dren?—%. J. B. h‘A. There sre nins States that do not Ve laws nst the employment o children unger 14 in factories and stores, The States are Florida, Georgia, Misgissippi, ntane, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Wtah, Vermont and Wyoming. Q. What is the total value of the diamonds in the world’—B. B. ‘A. They probably represent 2 value of §5,000,000,600. The United States absorbs 50 per cent more diamonds and precious stones than all the re- mainder of the world. Q. Is the fur of the sea lion of any value?—J. F. A. While belonging to the seal fam ily, the sea lion’s coat is nol com- mercially valuable as a fur. Q. What isa Berlin portrait?—G. R. A. It is a photograph to which a mezzotint effect has been given by placing a ground glass over the nega- tive during printing Q. day the same @s many P.B. L. A. In ancient times the corpse was partially consumed, the hones and ashes being preserved. Today the body is reduced entirgly to ashes in an oven or retort through the action of heated air and combustible gases. Q. What was the country life?—C. Tt A. This was a committee invited by President Roosevelt in August, 1908, to aid him in investigating the social, sanitary and economic conditions in American farms, and which in its re- port, returned January 23, 1909, recom- mended the improvement of the high- ways, the establishment of a parcels post and postal savings banks and in- vestigation into the middleman system of handling farm products and the en- couragement of a system of educa- tional extension to rural communities Q. 15 there more than one flower kpown as the corn flag?—N. H. A. This term is applied to the European yellow iris, and also to the common gladiolu Q. Are Indians allowed to bunt and fAsh out of season?—R. C A. Indians cannot as a rule kill game out of season except as specificd in a special treaty governing the par- ticular tribe to which an indlvidual belongs. There are between 26 und 30 of these treaties’ drawn up for the various tribes in this country. Under no circumstances, however, is an In- dian permitted to violate the Federal migratory bird treaty, and any pro- viglon made in @ special treaty is re- voked by the Federal act. Indians, however, are allowed the privileges of fishing. Q. Where is Rainy Lake?—B. R. T. A. 1t is on the bounary line between inada and the State of Minnesota, bout 100 miles west of Lake Superior It is 50 miles long and 5 miles wide. Through the Rainy River, its surplus walters are drained into the Lake of the Woods. 1s the process of cremation to- years ago’— committee on shortage in the Ynited States?—L. A. The Philippine Senate, Septem ber 22, 1925, passed a bill appropriat ing approximately $30,000 annually for the free distribution of rubber seeds to farmers of the Philippine Islands ‘Fhe sponsors of the bill hope thus to develop the rubber industry in the Philippines on a large scale in a few years. The bill is now before the House of Representatives. Q. Are there more deaths due to ac cidents in the United States than there are abroad?—8. C. A. The National Bafety Counell says that the United States leads othe: countries by at least 200 per cent Here the rate for accidental deaths ix 76.3 per 100,000 population: in Enz Jand it is 33 per 100,000; in Canada 54 per 100,000. Q. Was Billy Mitchell born in the United States?—J. B. A. Col. Willlam Mitchell was born December 29, 1879, at Nice, France. Q. Did the Lawrence sink after the batle of Lake Erie?—F. B. M. 4. The flagship Lawrence was practically shot to pleces during the battle of Lake Erle. It did not sink however, but was dismantled afte the war and laid up for 2 con: able length of time. It was sol the Navy on August 8, 1826. Q. What part of the United Stares 1 gets the most snow’—M. B. A. The heaviest snowfalls in the United States occur in the centra portions of the Sierra Nevada of California. It is impossible to state the exact locality having the heaviest snowfall, byt amounts for a single season above 700 inches have been reported from the station at Summit on the line of the Southern Pacific Railroad. running between Sacra mento, Cglif., and Reno, Nev. The heaviest snowfall recorded there oc curred in the Winter of 1879-80 and was 783 inches. Q. Do skunks kill poultry’—S. L. A. While a skunk may_accidentally kill a chicken and thus acquire 2 taste for the flesh of fowls, its natural fond does not_include thfs item. Usually insects of various kinds are the main article of food and these are specles that are Injurious to plant lite. (“There are four kinds of peopie tiree of which are to be wvoided aud the fourtic cultivated: those who don't know that don't know; those icic know they don’t kuow: those wiiv dow’t know that they know: and those who know they kaow” This is @ old Arabian proverb but the classifi cations it mentions still hold good To which group do you delong? Ou Washington bureau of information is prepared to give you accurate and authoritative ~ information on ey question of fact tiat you ask. It hos at nand unparalleled - resources fo: procuring information. and it is in o | position to give you valuable service if yow will only make your want known. Make use of this free educa | tional bureau. Send in your inquiry | together with two cents fn stamps 10 rubber be raised nds to relieve Q. Could not the Philippine 1 in he cover the return postage. Address The Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C.) Amevicans have followed with gen- eral, though mild. interest the roman- tic story of Oliver Henry Wallop, wealthy Wyoming ranchman. who re- cently became the Earl of Portsmouth tirough the degth of an elder brother in England. His expressed intention to continue as an American citizen has caused much delving into the law to determing whether he becomes a Briton or sfill has the rights of citizen- ship here. “If Mr. Wallop retains his American citizenship while sporiing the title of Eari of Portsmouth,” savs the Spring- field Republican, “he will not sudden- Iy hecame a menace to our republican institutions. Other American citizens have held British titles. Wyoming, Idaho and Montana could absorb all the titles held by the British nobility | and lose nothing of their Americanlsm in those great open spaces. The mo- tion picture business would thrive on photoplays having cowpuncher dukes #s the heroes and villains. We have for years brought into this country the precious art collections and an- tiquities of England. Surely we can absorb a few earls.” The Richmond News-Leader as- sumes that the Wallop family, and especially the wife, “will see 1o it"” {hat the new earl goes to England, but suspects that “there will come times when Oliver Henry will get powerfully lonesome for a Wyoming sunset. for beef that is not clad in tin or wrapping paper, for campfires and the peace of a sky that evervwhere is dripping stars.” The Richmond paper quotes a writer on the West who said recently that “Wyoming is crowded— assuming that Wyoming could ever be crowded—with vounger sons” of titled forelgners, and that ‘'virtually all seem to be as contented with their free and easy lot as they are soft and chary of speech and are resigned, in- deed, to obscurity. k¥ % “Oliver Henry Wallop could not re- nounce his title, 5o far as the English rule is concerned,” explains the Reno Evening Gazette. “because it is perma- nent so long as the male heir to it sur- vives in his family. The title goes on and on, whether the heir assumes it or not, and thus there are Italian, French bers of the British peerage. It is true that in American Jaw, since the adop- tion of the immigration act amend- ments, an applicant for citizenship must renounce his claim to foreign ti- tles, but the new Earl of Portsmouth became a citizen before the amend- ment was adopted. And even if he had renounced his British rank, he could not bind his own heirs, for any ong of them might return to England and, becoming a British subject, lay claim to a seat in the House of Lords at some future time.” Noting that Wallop way naturalized two years before the American law was passed, the Louisville Post calls attention to the fact that “the earldom did not fall on him until 19 years Jater,” and it is interested to know “‘whether he will do his cow punching in the future as Mr. Wallop or the Earl of Portsmouth.” The New Yorker who once upon a time gaid “he would prefer to be a lamp post in New York than a resi- dent” of @ certain other American city tions next year. They will attack the gdministration whergver they think it vulnerable. The Republicans, on the other hand, are planning to go to the country again with a further tax re- duction i hand and a record for gconomy. The World Court, which is one of the subjects for early consideration in the Senate, has political possibilities, glthough the people generally at the present time are myluf very little gttentlon to the court issue and do not segm inclingd to 'fil excited ahout it. Word is hrought here from Kan- 538, for example, that nobody is think- ing abeut the court, gnd up in Wis- consin, where the Democrats split in #enatorial cympaign In the senatorial nrbxwa oyer the court and League of Ngtlons, with Bruce opposing the league fiqfl cpurt and Ba’crs suppart- ing it, Rogers got less than' 200 Votes. All of which would jnd qfi,‘g thet the courf propesal 1§ not popular in Wis consin. and German subjects who are mem- ! Man Proposes, ‘Wife ‘Disposes., One View of Wallop Earldom | is cited by the Bay City Times-Tribune in voicing its belief that “Wallop, prob ably, would prefer to be a cowboy in Wyoming rather than a member of the House of Lords.” The Times Tribune adds, however, that it wouldn't be surprising if Mr. Waliop went back to England to claim wha: | belongs to him™: and that “if he should | become a member of the House Lords, he will kave to swear allegiance to England, and that would automati cally deprive him of citizenship in the United States.” No doubt he can continue to be a regular_American if he wants 1o savs the Providence Bulletin. “There is no known law against an American having a noble earldom in his posses sion if he can get it. But he will not be able to take his hereditary seat in the House of Lords unless he re-. nounces his American citizenship. His achievement in life has been as an | American, and apparently this gives him more satisfaction than the titls 1o which he has succeeded.” SIS “If the new earl wishes to spend most or all of his time in this coun try, there is no law to prevent him adds the Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tele graph. On the other hand the Grand Rapids Press feels that “it might be a good democratic step 1o declare tha any American who accepts e fore titie automatically expatriates him self.” “Americans used to claim ‘wellop’ ax an indigenous product,” the Balti more Sun remarks, “and now comes news that one Oliver Henry Wallop is the Earl of Portsmouth and that the Wallop family antedates William the Conqueror. Thus is the trusix term proved an alien in American slang. But with a Wallop among the hereditary British aristocracy it be comes at last clear what is meant by a belted earl. He is a member of some other famii Likewise the Louisville Courier-Journal holds tha the name “has all the vigorous thumping, straight-from-the shoulder quality that a real Westerner's name ought to have,” and “it mayv have been a pretty hard ‘wallop’ to the pride of the peers to have the Ameri an early spurn a seat in their midst.” However, “there is nothing in the name to suggest the belted and titled aristocracy,” observes the ‘Watertown Times. “It is not every man,” concludes the Wichita Beacon, “that is at lih erty to choose between the ownership of a great ranch in the United States and a kingly castle in the smiling meadows ot England; it's a fairy stor with a real wallop in it." ——— Stars in North Riva The Southern Cross To the Editor of The Star High in the starlit sky, the Novih ern Cross sparkles amid the constel lation of Cygnus. We have heard and read about the famous Southern Crass, but some of us have not hea:i about the large symmetrioal North ern Cross. It is situated just east ward from the bright, beautiful siar Vega, in the constellation Lyra, and it possesses, for a firmamental back round, the dim, remote MHky Wa. q‘ho Northern Cross is formed by five suns, extending, at present, in direction northeast to southwest Fhe five suns are named Deneb Albireo, Delta, Gamma and Epsilon Deneb, also known as Arided, glit ters at the top: Albireo at the boi tom. Between Deneb and Albireo there sparkle, in a line, Delta (north- west), Gammg (in the center), and Epgllon (squtheast). Of these five stars, Deneb posgesses a brilliant White color, Albireo is vellowish. u» is Epsilon. Deneb or Arided glitiers with first-magnitude brillance. Be cause of its remoteness, it dogs not shine sn brightly pn us 4s do some of the other first-magnitude guns of night. Neygrthgle: Igtqsb i3 8 ver brlilfaat star, luminpgity havins been estimated et 1000 times hright- er thfin that of qur own sun. CHARLES NEVERS HOLMBS. he