Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1925, Page 6

6 THE With Sunday Morning Edition WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY . .December 9. 1925 THEOD! The Evening Star Newspaper Company Bustness OMce Pennsylvania Ave. i i st Tower Byl 14 Rezent St. Loudon. England . 11th st New York Oft Chicazo Office European Office: The Evening Star, with the Sunday morn ndition S Tere e carriers, within = city at 60 cents per month: dany on cents Toer month: Sunday onty. =0 month_ " Orders mas e sent by mail or o nhoneSaw agdo” Coligfion 1+ o at the end onth Rate by Mail—Payable in Adv Maryland and Virginia. and Sundav £0.00: 1 mo - only 35007 1 mo das only 001 mor 2 nee. i 0 1 1y All Other States and Canadi. Duily and Sundar..1xr. 1000 iy “onty 1 sunday” only 1 o, 1mo Member of the The Ascociated P wee for renaldi es credited to it 1 in this paner and shed herein. Al special aispatehe Street Railway Merger. zress granting Al ) To vows ulieation e Under the act of Cc permission to two local street railway the Distriet capacity companies to combine . in their as a mmission, Commissioner utilities e to session has bheen mad in antieiy this the Commissioners 1sked the two corpo public auired present at the pr report Conzress the toward a regarding ress. if am merzer. ecently tion ot requirement ations as 1o ihe ird Mida ecive definite re state of the move toward cons but failed and there i lies no immediate pro o i peet of more specitic information avidence in the i Therefore of actual advance rection of @ union of th it ix will two the Com neza that likely missiones have tively. It railw an sue to report that the two companies should be united is highly desirable a basis of financing and capi talization to be cquitable to the 1 at the same time the fullest service fare with profits. A any terms would be unavailing for the correction of the present abnormal traction situation 1 the District caitsed by the disparity of the relativ ‘ning of the corpora tions. The present rate of fare i erned by the munerative of paradoxicall tial earning | wide cwners of koth ure the the reasonable public lowest compatible merger on ather powers two 2oV condition of the two systems. though it has the g wer of lines cove tively profitable fie of « vet sufficiently developed. survey recently conducted dly in the interest of a merger. at least to determine the precise present standing of the two systems and their prospective earning power: This survey naturally took count the development of other means of transportation than street cars, the the taxicabs and the private While some statisties have been published with a few dedur the have not heen disclosed. Apparently no advance the less re- ater poten. This is due 1o its expanse pros e reration e \ SUppos was into ac- husses, automabiles. tions, = net lusions Leen made toward the of the authorized by the statute \ compulsory merger is an alterna tve which should be avoided if possi Ble. It wetld not be to the interests of the community thus union the companies. upon terms which mizht be unfavorable to either or both and possibly in consequence to the people of the District in the later development of conditions. o that it is highly desirable that the two com panies get together upon terms which are equitabic which, when sub- mitted to Congress, as they must b will be approved by it. Sl consum mation permissive merger to force a and A o policeman of respect as one of the few men wh. presu esing is deserving Iy, have an accurate knowl- edge of all the traffic regulations. The flivver is luckier plane in having made early pression of a joke instead of a trag than the air the im- edy e Bituminous coal comes into all the respect and remembrance that properly accorded a friend in need are e Build the Y. W. C. A. Hi A “drive” for fun the Younz Women's iation Is now 1m pre ome! home for tian ress, with grati widespread and sincere public interest in this valuable g Asso- fving evidence orzanization. It is proposed, with the ! d of subscriptions in other cities, to secure the sum of $700,000 for the erection of a building at a central noint in this city which will be not only a housing for the local organi- zation, but headquarters for the n: tional Y. W. C. A. Washington will naturally be expected to subscribe the on of this fund, for this city will be the chief benefciary. The Y. W. C. A. of Washington, after twenty years of migrating, is to have a commodious home of its own, assuming that the funds are forth- coming result of the present campaign. It has in these two decades necupied a number of buildings, being compélled by financial and other rea- #one to move about with successive disappointments in enterprises to se- cure a permanent and suitable estab- lishment. The present plan Is the climax of this lonz period of migra- tion. In its activities the Yours Women's Christian Assoclation renders invalu- sble service to the community. It af- fords a home and a clubhouse for voung women living in tne Capital, many of them employed here at a dis- tance from their own homes. It offers broad and liberal course of study in mractical subjects. Its educational work has been definitely proved to be constructive. As a moral influence the organization is decidediy helpful. Recreation facilities, thouzh cramped the lack of adequate quarters and means, have been of service to great numbers in maintaining their health. Washington will undoubtedly do its part in this work. It cunnot con- ~efvably at this time contribute the cntine amount required for the con as hy ORE W. NOYES. . . . Editor = will be re- | systems. | EVENING STAR {<truction and mathtenance of the pro-|be used for skating. Holland furnishes posed new home. But it will surel give its ratio of the total, and thus i make certain, so far as it is concerned, of the establishment, after ‘hese many ! vears of wandering, of the Y {in suitable home t ve the Capital a aid | credit the young women of the membership. a will to o ——— Street Cars and Traffic Safety. Two serious traffic avcidents invol irg street ¢ and automobiles have cecirred” during the last few hours. Lone of them Key Dridge where an automobile was struck and dumagzed, the othe; intersection Rhode Island Pavenne and Eleventh street, he driver probably fatally ] -urcd and the machine demolished. I Tostimony in hoth of these voould indicate that the street raiwiy fexs should bear a responsibility. In the bri Ccident the street car wis udmitted hinz on the wronz track. a prac used by the companv to shuttle veaicles late at night. In the other ceident the motorist was drivinz on | 2 Loulevard hizhway, with a supposed rizht of all other traflic. L the street car was crossing this d at a rate of speed is evidenced by the that the mohile for more (hirty feet ufter the collision, It i~ unfortunate that the Public Utilities Commission turned down the tion of Traffic Director Eldridse 1 of street cars at boulevard The occurrence of last night in point. If the street stopped at the intersection. all other vehiculur trathic, there have been no collision. The compa of tratie Tiny wason badl the and was at of R in cases cem of the over, way T bouleva vod auto- was thrown than e o contr sl | car ‘ had does wenle carse us | | 1 rison hetween the amount leventh street, with its on on and all can ! oad of the latter. companies, when the applied for by Mr. that ver favor | Tre {ruling on stops w is street in Fldridze, protested so vizorousiy (heir appenl was heeded by the com Hvisvion, 1t would seem apparent i now time question of boulevard stops for sircet cars, so that accidents of such cter can in the future be ivoided. The traffic of the city cannot Wiow any exemption from an all lindusive authority in order to » street cars ax well Bl of the streets must necessitiex of maodern ! therefore, is to reopen and cmote safety as other to se: the ion. Kunning of street cars even late nizht, vse confusion. and accldents will continue long nitted. There { co-operation in the enf | traflic safety rules. Street pianies. taxi companies, public vehicles of all kinds how n the wrong track at ix certain o G as as this practice no lack of com utility private car own is should be cement car | ers and pedestrians should all work appalling death | from any togetker to lower the and accident rate. Prot of these users of the streets against | reasorable rezulations can only be viewed s a protest azainst safety. o From Hero to Dub. month azo the idol of ten sand students and the admired ! many thousands more who follow col- leze foot ball—vesterday a hired hand subjected to such plebeian and lese- majestical ejaculations the old Anglo-Saxon “Boo.” and a long drawn-out that! Such is the sudden transition in the life of Mr. Havold Granze of Wheaton, TIL, who appe ed at Clark Griffith Stadium and who., throuzh a combination { apparent indifference. lack of a line | stiff_enoush to him the benefi | of proper interference and the enthu- of an A thou P on one at | ve ridiron highw: of eizht siastic work opposing combination gathered from nd hedges, zained 2 total {vards in eleven ball-carrying attempts. Jlis appearance was on a parity with that of Babe Ruth. To see that slugzer as keen a pleasure for the crowd as vs a eminent trike out is almost to see him park one beyond the fence, that he will do what nd the probability {one or the brings {the cash customers. It is a minifestation of mob psychology thi prominent. American athlete !either a hero or a dub: there seems to be no middle ground. Grange has now matriculated in that college which has the greatest enrollment of any—name- the Univensity of Hard Knocks. what an allowance! ——————— Rivalries never cease. When {ancient tomb is uncovered another | promptly disclosed, with a Lid for pub- licity which makes the professional | archeclogist appear almost like a side- show barker, other out curious makes a i1y, i Bui, oh, boy, i | ———— As a man of silences President Cool idze has stimulated a curiosity as to what he may have on his mind. His i expressions indicate a perfect willing- to stisfy that curiosity in due son. | nes | ———— nging a minister of finance is an matter for France. Establishing a new system of finance ix more diffi- cult. i i I ——or— Ice at Venice. The residents of Northern ltaly are inclined to believe that Abbe Gabriel, the priest astronomer of Paris, is right in his prediction of the coldest Winter for many, many years. A cold wave has swept all over that sec- tion and has been, particularly severe in the province of Venezia. In Venice jtself the lagoon has been frozen, gon- dola traffic is at a standstill and all other means cof transit rendered al- most impossible. It is related that two hunters who set out in a boat from the Island of Burana found them- selves after two hours of shooting hemmed in by ice in the center of the lagoon and had to be rescued by ropes. The idea of a frozen Venice is an oddity. Tourists contemplating visits |to the city of the canals, the gem of | the Adriatic, will perhaps pause be- fore deciding. Venice, with the lagoon frozen, is mot apt to be a cheertul or comfortable place. The domestic heat- ing arrangements there are somewhat sketchy. A, canalized city in Winter time is well enough in a Northern cli- I mate where the ire I8 so thick It can al Ithode Island | the | of | THE EVENING some delightful opportunities for ur ban Winter sport, but it is doubttul whether Venice could ever be called i successful Winter resort the seore of its frigid sports. During recent years the ‘vaporetto,” power bout, has been competing {with the gondola on the canals of ! Venice for trade, much (o the chagrin and disgust of lovers of the ple- turesque. Perhaps the freezing of the s will make the miotor boat popular the only feasible {meuns of transportation. The passing of the gondoly would he deplored the world over, even thouzh its successo were quicker znd surer in all stages of the weather. on mory s where | e Bright Lights. Turn brizht lzhts and Leep them on.” shouted u policeman to the milling muss of motorists on well lighted Massachusetls avenue 4t the rush hour last eveninz. Motor- on hearinz this uuthoritative immediately slowed down, nother element o the danger- nzlomeration of bright lights, slaving lizhts, scurrying pedestrians and packed masses of cars. This policeman was doing his duty as he saw it. But he was wrong in his conception of Washington's new | headlight law, It was never the in- {tent or the desire of Trafic Director | Bldridze or Maj. Iiobert Carlson of |the Bureau of Standards headlight | division to require bright lizhts on well lighted streets. s time azo Mr. consultation with Maj. C twenty-two of the National Capital's htly illuminated thorouzhtares as & exempted- from the headlight vezulation yequirir hewm 1o show the 0 09 feet ahead. with o on those ists, conmand, adding me rison. an object a view of reduc. [inz confusion trom glaring lizhts to a {minimum. Thiz ruling still stund ! the policeman. although carry ing out his idea of the headlight rezu [ tation. was adding nothinz to the traf- {fic harmony of rush hour. Bright {lights ave required on dimly lit streets, { but are not required or desired on the well lizhted streets and avenues of the District of Columbia. | ! oo Fame is strangely fleeting. now takes any interest the Isle of Guam. Nobody whatever in o A judge who sotto voce makes a reference to testimony as “rot” neg- [ 1ec the possibilities of the English lunguage. If he had dropped a quiet jintimation that the statement was a more or less illusionary disclosure of {# mental attitude influenced by va- | rious complexes he might have sent | his hearers to their dictionaries and zained the benefit of a serious second | thought. or : e After a ecountry has changed its overnment personnel a few times on short notice, a cabiner “crisi« ZELY to appear peculiarly critical = — o It is understood that Prof. Scopes is pursuing his evolution studies in Raltimore in spite of the fact that the famous and admired old Maryland | city has no Zoo worth meationing. v Western farmers who d-cide to sup- { Iy corn for fuel may not be so badly ioft if they can command anthracite | prices. —one i There are signs of an inclination of | that eminent young statesman. Robert | La Follette, 10 zo as far as possible in | being more worried than vied. o about wor- wons For a man who is acclaimed the zreat exponent of influential silence, President Coolidge is booked for a re- markably large number of speaking engagements. .aoe—s TING STARS. PHILANDER JOHNSON. SHOO' BY Materialism, ust Thing Are these all lite brings? Houses and lots and lengthy deeds For land to fill with blooms or weeds, Walls and a roof still insecure, Cookstove and other furnilure, Vases and pictures from afar, Books and a bathroom; there they are! But the Big Idea we seek to shape Will faintly glimmer and then escape, While we struggle on for some new device ! the market and meet the | price. Are these all life brings— Just Things! Paternal Authority. ““George Washington was the father of his country, wasn't he?" “Yes,” admitted Senator Sorghum. “What I regret is that Father George didn’t live long enough to exercise a {10t of highly desfrable discipline.” Music and Statesmanship. The fiddle now a statesmzn plays ‘With most proficient grace. Will Congress Tunes seek Classic ways | Or hit a ragtime pace. | | | | | Jud Tunkins savs a strike is often a signal to quit work given by men who never did any work - the first place. | Dream of a Dress, “Why do you refer to your dress as a ‘perfect dream'?” R " answered Miss Cayenne, “It is beautiful and vet so slight in material fabric.” new Boomless Publicity. In Charleston, voices of regret Arise In tones sedate. That dance Is a delight, and vet It sells no real estate. Philanthropic Seul. “Are you the ice man?’ “T am.” “Why do you come around at this time of year?" “For the purpose of. ‘cheering you with the reminder that just at present you don't need me." “1 dreamt a faigy said she would gimme three wishes,” said Uncle Eben, “and T done wasted 'em wishin’ de alarm clock would shut up.”, & STAR. small child | WASHINGTON, I | EDNESDAY, | THIS AND THAT i | Col. Loganbel H. fcome to Washington Middle West. Breezy, big-hatted, with a voice that could be heard fromi the Treasury to the Capitol, Col. Ball talked about everything except his real mission. He talked about the growth of the city, how he never could “get the lay of ‘the land here,” how he wondered if the grand park plans would ever be completed, how the squares and cir- cles compared with the city park “back home.” Col. Ball never mentioned aloud the single purpose that had brought him tearing across wide plains and moun tulns to Union Station, in which he alighted early in December. somewhat dazed, beneath the umbrella sheds. 1i had been many years since he had visited Washington. He had been here once before. but long ago. and since that perlod time and money have done much 1o change the Capital of the Nu tion. Col. Ball all had from the great i | was | | greeably impresseed with what The Lincoln Me morial was he said: his round, red face taking on a look of tistic appreciation that was not a bit i 1 | { | Despite his hearty habits. Col. Lo ganberry H. Ball had an imaginative, poetic temperament. Perhaps it would be nearer the truth to say be- cause of them. That supreme ima- gist, Charles Dickens, had somewhat gross tastes, vet out of thelr vigor sprang many a delicate fancy, as sen- sitive s fragile flowers tinged with silver dew. Col. Ball, for all his ecrude. w: 3 {hud the heart of a Dickens in him. He was a sentimentalist, if the truth were known, although he never admit ted ft. Why fore he ever let out the slightest hint about what he wax doing in Washing- vton at this time of ves ! i * B Then one day he heard whout Mary Roque, “the girl who helps you out.” star-eved Mary, who sends out bills just like a doctor or a lawyer, “To pro- fessional service rendered. It one has i problem he wants solved. one that takes the smile of a charming Jady to “put it over,” he hunts up_ Miss Rogue. Tt was to her tiny office, just big enough for a spinet desk. a bookcase and several Windsor chairs, that Col. Loganberry Ti. Ball hied himself He looked like the proverbial bull in # china shop. ax he sat uneasily on the edge of his mahogany chair. Col. Ball thought that it did not look strons. enough to hold him. hut he was mis tuaken about that. Mary Rogue had an {mpeccable taste in chairs, and this included a sure knowledge of their construction. A real bull could have sat in that chair without mishap. His 5-gallon hat held In his huge, »d hands, Col. Ball smiled. despite himself, at the radiant picture across the desk from him. Col. Ball did not realize that the biue velvet curtains framing the window behind her made ux effective u background as ever the. uter “set” provided. Star-eved Mary. having planned and executed this effect. never bothered her bobbed blond head about it again. She xat there, slight, dainty. watching her lients. on whose faces the light from | the window plaved strongly, but not too strongly, thanks 1o the curtaine. You look like her,” suddenly blurt ed out Col Ball. Mary smiled i She ran away with him (wo years ago,” he continued, “and 1 never heard of her since. until | learned in 4 roundabout way that she was in { i 1s Calvin Coolidze becoming wordy as he grows olds His third annual mes=uze 1o Congress is about 50 per cent longer than either of his two preceding reports on the state of the Union. The President’s fyrst encyclical in 1923. when he had been at the White House but four months, was a model of terse statement. It ran to only 161; pages of printed words. In 1923 Mr. Coolidge required 1714 pages to tell Congress and the country his views of national needs. The presi- dential messaze of 1923, just =ub- mitted to the Sixty-Ninth Congress, is a _document of 25 pages, which is “Silent Cal's” most verbose reco da'te. * For the benefit of that rezrettably {larze community which never ithe time or the trouble to read the {messages of the Presidents, it may be useful to state that Mr. Coolldse tabulates 25 toples as the major problems of the hour. Here they are, in alphabetical order: ‘Agriculture, alien property, budget. civil service, economy, Federal Trade Commission, foreign debts, foreign relations, im- migration, mothers’ aid, Muscle Shoals, national defense, negro, pro- hibition. outlying possessions, rall- roads, reclamation, reorzanization. re- tirement of judges. shipping, taxation, veterans, water power, waterway de- velopment and World Court. *or ok % Mr. Coolidge does not discuss the Nation's business in alphabetical orger, put tn the order of tne impor- tance each particular issue, in his estimation, assumes. Thus nobody will be surprised to learn that econ- my is once again the top-liner in the Coolidge bill. The President elevated the economy issue to that eminence a year ago, and there It remains. Mr. Coolidge’s talent for epigrammatic ex- pression is exhibited in his references to Government retrenchment. “The power over the purse is the power over liberty” Is one of typleally Coolidgesque flourishes. “Economy is the method by which we prepare to- day. to afford the imp tomorrow theme Chief Executive is fondest of harping. * ok x * i Those who discern a coming change in America’s attitude toward the out- side world—more of participation and less of isolation—will derive en- couragement from the place and space President Coolidge gives to foreign affairs. including the World Court and our European-owed debts. These issues are dealt with in the President’s message immediately after his refer- ences to economy, the budget and taxation. They consume considerably more of Mr. Coolidge’s language than his views on domestic economlcs re- quire. There is undoubtedly more here than meets the eye. The Presi- dent’s critics are fond of saying that forelgn affairs “bore” him and com- mand correspondingly little of his real interest, compared to that which he lavishes upon purely internal ques- tions. ‘There's little proof of, that contention in the message sent to the Sixty-ninth Congress. It is manifest that Calvin Coolidge has become a d‘eep student of international rela- tions. * ok *x x In no respect is the President's lively concern in external affairs more apparent than in the message's per- suasive argument in favor of the World Court. In 1923 Mr. Coolidge devoted hardly half a page to that issue In his communication to Con- gress. In 1024 he bestowed upon it a mere quarter of & page. In the 1925 message there are three entire pages of reasoned appeal to the Sen- ate_on the subject of American ad- just | he was here a whole week be- | d to! | for pro-court Senators in the Coolidge takes | rovements of | Is another variation of the | upon which - the thrift-loving BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Washington. So | came here,” he con- cluded, simply. “Yes." breathed Mary Roque. “But I ain’t been able to locate her yet, so that is why 1 have come to you, miss. You sce, I coulda took it up with the police, but I don't aim to drag her into no police st:tion. She ain’t that kind.” “No." answered putting a_worl voice. **No.” It seemed to steady the man across the desk, who, in the full light of morning, looked a areat deal clder than he did on the street. He went on “Bill Is a good feller, but he ain't had no education. and 1 guess he couldn’t get Into the Government. be. use he zot a job ax a street car con ductor, 1 understand. Now that I am here, some way or other I kinder hate to see her. So | thought 1'd come to see you. and have vou find my daughter for me, and then— the slender girl, of conviction into her And then you will g0 (o see her,” | said Mary Roque, “Yes, that's it, that's it. 1 just hesi Late, some way or othe to meet her all of a sudden, ‘cause if she had wanted me t me, 1 guess, ‘Col. Ball. 1 tell you what let’s do- you allow me 1o mmke few pye. liminary investigations, and then we will go together and try to find your daughter. You said her name is Maisie?"” “Yes, ‘that's her name, Maisie, spelled with a S I she was always par- ticular about ft." He said it in_four long syllables, “par-ticutar.” © “Come to see me tomorrow at this time, €ol. Ball,” ordered Mary Rogue. with @ bright smle. *x % Whatt the petite investizs our was simply this: That fickle Maisie Ball, who run away from her old father had run away a second time fi voung husband when she found that he was not making enough money 1o suit her rather expensive fastes. She had left for parts unknown, after vaguely hinting at Florida, som: had once. | months before, leaving Bill as much up in the air about her second disap pearance as her fathes the first. “Not worth either one bitterly said Mary Roque her slight hand fidgeting with formal light-blue blotter on her ut what shall I tell him 1 can't— I can't— Col. Ball caught no trace of per- turbation in her pretty face, ho of them,"” the door. “Well, well™ he shouted. in a voice that sank down the elevator shaft to the first floo “Col. Ball, brightest smile, “she has gone to Florida with—ah. Bill—they will strike it rich down there, buying and selling land. you-know. big boom on,” she rushed ahead. hoping in her heart of hearts that the biz cld man would never meet 1 aboard stieet car. nd then when they have struck it rich she will come sailing home 1 see yvon some time, in limousine, and all th 110 bet vou. Col. Ball'™” Her infectious langh, her could not stop entirely appointment he gave her “Can’t we find out where thex he asked. I Fl > questioned Mary Roqu hy it is tov biz, and too booming. to find out until they write and let us know. They will, I am sure of that. Don’t you wor he's just a Jittle thing said Col. Loganberry il happy smile. Iimin The ar like von,” Ball, witn a WASHINGTON OBSERVATION BY FREDERIC I'V'ILLI. M WILE. herence to the Permanent Court International Justice set up by League of Nations. The most pro-courters ouzht to be satisfied with the almost evanzelical zeal with which President Coolidze now advo- cates our locking arms with the other nations which are members of the tribunal. The brief which our lawyer- Exccutive prestnts on behalf of the World Court is plainly intended to counteract in advance the major ob jections that will be raiged by Borah-Moses-Jahnson-Reed and the other senatorial foemen. * % x % There is plenty of light and leading of plea. One of its most telling points Is that the United States cannot expect to organize an international tribunal of strictly American architecture and construction. The President sets forth. in terms that will give the op position food for thought, that “other nations have their customs, thelr in- stitutions and their methods of life. He adds: “If a court is zoing to be Internitional fts composition will have to vield to what is zood in all these various elements."" Apart from the unanswerable soundness of the theory that Ame A has no right to tell 56 other nations what kind of an international court they may have, President Coolidge must be aware of events at the sixth assembly of the League of Nations in September. Uruguay and Denmark both submit ted proposals for changing the struc. ture of the World Court. The pro- posals were quickly rejected. The overwhelming majority of member na- | tions took the ground that the court is functioning satisfactorily. It was an indication of what would arise if America suggested radical alterations, The Harding-Hughes-Coolidge reserva. | tions meet with no objections. * ok % % As was to be expected, President Coolidge approves whole-heartedly of | the report of the Morrow Air Board. “It is thoroughly complete,” he says, “and represents the” mature thought of the best talent In the country.” The commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy does not dignify Col. Mitch- ell by s0.much as a passing reference. €ither by mention of his name or any allusion to the rumpus that has had | the country by the ears for the past three months. But there is an un- mistakable jab at the flying colonel in the presidential. remark—ua charac- teristically Coolldge shaft—"No radi- cal change In organization of the Ajr Service seems necessary.” * ¥ % * Presidents of the United States never faintly begin to touch in their messages to Congress upon all of the matters which patriots and tax- payers pester them thus to bring to public attention. If Mr. Coolidge had incorporated in his present communi- cation a tithe of the topics he was asked to discuss, there'd have b‘zen nearer 250 subjects in it than the 25 he selected. For many weeks before a President compiles his message to Congress his_time is occupled read- ing letters and hearing personal pleas from Mr. and Mrs. Vox Populi and all the rest who have axes to grind. — oo No Union Hours. From the Los Angeles Tiny Our idea of the absolute reverse of a sinecure is a job on the ecouneil of the League of Nations. Pa’s Usual Present. From the Lafayette Journal and Courier. Christmas means little in the life of the married man who already owns two pairs of house sipoers. he would have written | ! found | m her had heen over ! n aver. ! when 16 minutes later he pushed open | the | opposition | DECEMBER 9. 1925. Politics at Large By G. ;oul; L.‘mo«n Congress has been in session only | | two days and already politics is pop- !ping. Ir the first place, the Repub- ilican leadership in the lHouse has by }its maneuvers alreary solidified the progressive bloc in opposition to the administration. The Republican or- ganization in the House has a ma- | {jority, to be sure, and the progressive | bloc no longer holds the balance of | power as it did in the last Congress. Buit it is predicted that the day will ! come when progressive support may be most acceptable. The regulars have made their bed, however, and it is up to them to Ile in it. The effect of | thelr action on the congressional elec- tions in 1926 will he watched with sreat interest. {” Over on the | Capitol i Senate side of the consin still continues to be a bone of contention between factions |of the regular Republican organiza- {tlon. One faction wants him recog- | nized as a Republican and given com- {mittee assignments as such. The other does not. Kor an hour and a half yesterday afternoon the Repub- {lican commitiee on committees argued |the pros and cons of La Follette's epublicanism, and found itself dead- ocked. 4 10 4, over a proposal to re- ard him as a Republican, at least [ until some “overt act” compelled his {ousting from party councils. The four |Senators who favored giving him isnments as a4 Republican were enators McNary of Oregon, Wads- worth of New York, Reed of Penn- sylvania_and Moses of New Hamp- i shire. The four who opposed this course were Senators Watson of In- |diana, chairman: Ernst of Kentucky, {Smoot of Utah and Cameron of Arizona. Senator McKinley of Illinols, { the ninth member of the committee, rived only us the meeting was about te break up and after the vote had been taken and it had been decided to refer the matter o the Republican conference of the Renate (o settle It. The line-up in the committee is i rather sinzular, with three standpat Republicans from the Notth and xt and one Pacific Coast Senator VOtng to recognize La Follette as a Republican, at least for the present. They take the position that Senator La Follette occupies a very different | position from that of his father, the late Senator La Follette, who had run as a third party candidate for the presidency. The vounger La Follette, they point out, was nominated and elected as a Republican last Septem- ber in Wisconsin and must be regard ed as such until he actually gets him | self outside the party and joins some other. The others-—the opposition to recog- nition of La Follette—hold that in his speeches duning the campaign Sen. | ator La Follette attacked the Repub- lican organization and the administra tion and that he i~ no Republican. With Senators Wadsworth, Moses and Reed of Pennsylvania favoring recognition, it looks as though the caucus would have a livelv time, and iprobably will agree to assign La Fol- lette as a Republican to the standing committees. Opponents of La Follette say that while the Republicans of the Senate were holding their conference lust Saturday. to which La Follette had been invited. he was in conference {with the House insurgents and fepurring them on to defy the Repub- {lican orzanization of the House and to vote for Cooper for Speaker in- {stead of for Speaker Longworth. < a_matter of fact. the ousting of Lu Follette from the Republican or anization is not going to Injure him In Wisconsin, 2nd the shrewdest of the regulars realize this fact. * ko x | The World Court entered the lime light in the Senate on Monday at the | {oPening session of the Senate. Sen. {ator Robinson of Arkansas, the | Democratic leader;" obtained unani- mous consent to have made public the i proceedinze In the executive session when it was agreed last March to take up the Worid Court protacol i December And the unanimous j concent had scarcely been siven when Senator Swanson of Virginia, ranking ! Democratic member of the forelgn re |lations committee, was on his feet with zn announcement that he would | !addrese the Senate in support of ad { hesion to the World Court soon jas the protocol came up for consid cration. The Democrats are losing no Jopportunity to impress upon the | country their support of the World “ourt. Incidentally. there is consideralle interest in the leadership among the Republicans for the World Court pro- {posal. Senator Borah of ldaho. chab man of the foreign relatjons commit tee, under ordinary clrcumstances | would be the logical and certain leader {of the Republicans on such an issue But he is opposed to entry into the court on the terms advanced by the administration. Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin is believed to be the first Republican on the committee list who really and earnestly favors the admin- istration’s proposal. and he may bé Ldrafted for this leadership in the fizht [ which is soon to come. He will he opposed by his colleague. Senator La Follette, jr.. on this issue. The rank- ing Senator next to the chairman is Hiram Johnson of California. who breathes fire when the court s men. Itioned, and after him another irrecon- i cilable, Senator Moses of New Ham- | shire. " Then comes Senator Lenroot. who was one of the “mild reservation: ists” during the League of Nations | fizht in the Senate in 1912 | * ok X % New Hampshire is seethinz with !politics just now. Within the week Former Gov. Robert P. Bass. progr | sive Republican. has announced his can- { didacy for the Senate against Senator Moses next year, and Gov. John G. | Winant his candidacy to succeed him- §elf. Huntley Spaulding had earlier announced his candidacy for the Re- publican nomination for governor. Spaulding was defeated by Senator Moses for nomination for the Senate six vears ago. Mr. Bass. in his announcement, de-| clared himself a “dry” and a sup- porter of the World Court. He has been in politics for 20 vears in New Hampshire. When he entered the Legislature in 1905 he began a fight for reform legislation, attacking free passes on the railroads and the $100 | perquisite to newspaper reporters covering the Legislature, and advo- {cating the direct primary. He was a follower of Theodore Roosevelt, in the Bull Moose movement. He succeeded in getting himself elected governor in 1911 and last vear he was a backer of (v. Winant in the campaign. The line-up is expected to be Bass and Winant against Moses and Spaulding. Senator Moses has al- ready declared his support of Mr Spaulding for zovernor. It promises to be a bittér fight. If it.should not be settled satisfactorily at the pri- marfes, the Democrats might make a Berlous bid for the senatorship, per- haps with former Gov. Brown, who is _popular in the State. Bass would like very much the in- dorsement of the administration in the coming fight. But he is not likely to get it. Senator Moses has been recognized as a good stalwart Re- publcan, ane there is no indication that the administration would throw its. strength againat him. Indeed, it the national organization mixes up in the race at all, it would probably sup- port Senator Moses, it is said in well informed circles- The primaries in New Hampshire do not take place until next.September. In the- meun- time there will be a lot of campaign- ing. i | ! thereupon and eats of the onfon while it process of preparing itself for con- | TRk kK From Washinzton State comes the remory that demands for the impeach- {consisted of fish and game, ANSWERS TO BY FREDERIC Q. What States lead in the produc. tion of cotton, wheat and rice?—J. K. A. The leading States in the produc tion of cotton: Texas, Oklahoma, Ar- kansas, Mississippi and Georgia; wheat, Kansas, North Dakota; rice, Loulsiana, Texas, Arkansas and Cole rado. Q. What foods were brought over with the Pilgrims?—J. T. A. The food that was brought over on the Mayflower consisted of bacon, hard-tack, salt beef, herring, | cheese, beer or ale. For luxuries| they carried butter, vinegar, mustard and perhmps lemons and prunes. About 1630 the food of the colonists oysters, clams and mussels, beans, pumpkin peas, squash. turnips, parsnips. onions, apples and pears. grapes and huckleberries. Cranberries were not | then known. . Q. How much room would to store 1,000,000 silver dollars?— P. G.| A. Approximately, 1,000,000 silver | dollars can be contained in a space of 250 cubc feet Q. Upon what take | it Tacts is the story bused that Marie Antoineite was 1o have been brouzht to thix country by Stephen Clough?—C. H. 1 A. The mayor of Wiscasset, savs: “The only basis that 1 have found for the report or legend that | a plan existed to bring Queen Marie | Antolnette to Wiscasset is that the| ship Sally of this port, Stephen Clough, master, brought from France certain articles of furniture, etc., sup- posedly ce there which had been The bulk of the & to the possession | of Col. James Swan of Boston. as will be seen by an article upon that family published in the Boston Transeript about T3 year: ago. heing one of a series of articles by Mr. Bowditch, which articles were known as the “Gleaner” artic (“Gleaner beinz the signature to them) the articles _being afterward reprinted by the Boston record commissioners in 4 volume of their reports, which report T do not remember and have not the set before me. 1t has seemed | to me that the legend ahout the| Queen naturally crew ont of the fact which T have referred to.” | Q. Who was the first chief of cav alry iIn the Army of the United States’—G. E. A. Casimir Pulaski. He was com- missioned brigadier general Septem- ber 13, 1777, and was Immediately as- signed to the general command of the mounted force of the Army. Q. What flowers are principally grown for perfumery?—L. F. A. A report from Grasse in South ern France states that the following flowers are most largely grown for the manufacture of perfumes: Violet, acacia. Jjonqull, niignonette. rose, orange, jasmine. tnberose and carna tion. Q. Me., How many eggs a day will & queen hee lay?—F. N. R A. A prominent bee kéeper has re ported (hat at the height of her work a queen bee has been recorded as g approximately 3000 egas a day Q. What is ag does it come from?—R A. Agar-agar 1S from a type of sea red aljae, commonly called zelidium, used for gelatin and other purposes A monopoly for supplyving this was held by Japan for many ve: lately production on a large scale is Leinz made on the California coast Japan's revenue for exporting agar- | azar hus been reported as hetween ~agar_and where E. W zelatin made weed known as QUESTIONS > J. HASKIN. £2,000,000 and $3.000,000 vearly. Larsge beds of the weed have heen found on the coast of the United States and Mexico. It i used largely for culture- media and in the treatment of gastrn intestinal disorders and as a_valuable dressing for certain types of wounds besides its use in the kitchen, ph tography. ete. . Q. Where i= William C. W. A. William Penn died at Ruscombe Berkshire, England. In the vard before the meeting house Jordans. which stands in a dell. rounded hy meadows and shady trees half way between Reaconsfield Chalfont St. Giles, the leader « Friends is buried. Penn huried of am Q. What is the area of the Capital juilding in Washington? - W. }. \f A. The area of the Capitol Buildinz ,112 square feet and the srea o all the floors in the Capitol Buildinz ia 627.334 square feet, or more thar 14 acres. Q. What is plate’—C. T. V' A. Tin plate mills use brar dlinze for polishing the plate Q. Did sranulated sugar reach Civil War price level during or followine the World War?—C. F. A\. In the crop-year price of refined height of 301, cents. proach ta it since 1919-20, when sugar cents used 1o polish i mid 186364 sugar rose 1o The nearest that time was sold for the the How much food does time? —H. A. The Smithsonian Institntion ave that pythons will eat from 14 10 20 pounds of food at one time Q a pothan eat 3 Is raven artificial silk produc” Q new AL Artificial silk hack 10 the orizinal Chardonnes ent in 1884, hut commercial wil ization has taken place within the last quarter century. It has been ex timated that the total production fo the year 1925 will reach 74,100.00¢ pounds. - Q. Were sheep hrou, before 18722—J. M. S. A. Sheep were introduced from Mexico into the portion of the count now known as Texas at a very ea date. In 1572 Mexican sheep we brought in numbers into the State but at this time the industry was not prosperous. In a report of the De partment of Agriculture for 1892 it was stated that in a short period of 4y he industry had developed 11 great’ extent. and that the vield of wool per head had increased from - pounds to 6.8 pounds. This indicared that the industry was established he fore 1872 ht intn Texas (Boys and girls should not overiook the Information Burcauw. It can help them in @ hundred ways. It.can ad- vise them hoiw fo get training in an trade or profcssion. It can give them information about the birds tieir neighborhood and cxplain how to huild a bird housc. It can tell boys how to raise rabbits. guinca pigs. pigcons and ather pets. and how to sell these thinos profitably. It can teach girls how te make new Kinds of candy. We rant the young folks to gct the habit nt calling on owr Washington hurcan whencver they need help. send in your question and inclose * cont stamps fo corcr the return postans Address The Star Information Burean Frederic J. Haskin. director. Wash- Loyalty to Onion Arouses Foes of Fo vidence of American loyvalty to the utilitarian onion is ziven in the course of arguments for and against the em- bargo on narcigsus bulbs from Hol tand, which. unless further action is taken, will be effective next month. It is charzed that destructive pests are likely to be introduced in ship ments of Dutch bulbs, and that Amer- | ican onions are sufferers. The time limit was fixed three vears ago. Im porters of marcissus bulbs. at a hear- ing before the Horticultural Board. made efforts to have the order re scinded. s “The Horticultural Board claims.’ quotes the Cincinnati Times-Star. “that the narcissus bulb brings into this country the eelworm, which shows human intellizence is in sumption by man. We don't know whether the eelworm uses the nar cissus as an ambush whence it may attack the onion, but our prejudice is all in favor of the onion. ~Modest shrinking plant, which digs its wa into the ground that it may become cucculent for plucking. and cventually contribute to the gastronomic delizhts of man, the onion possesses a char- acter in _contrast-to that of the nar- | cise It is the old story of the an- tagonism between the fop and the farmer, hetween the ornamental and the utilitarfan.” * % “The lovers of the beautiful have protested,” adds the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. “and the narcissus is now heing defended. Our sympathies —our tearful sympathies—are all with the onilon. The narciseus is a pretty blogsom, but the onfon—ah! It is| monumentally contributory to the gastronomic delights of humanity— particularly male, middle-aged human- ity. And, for all its beauty, the nar- cissus, if it carrles worms about its person, it an unclean thing, to which the succulent onion ought not, on any account, to be sacrificed. The onion ment of Mayor Edwin J. Brown of Seattle are growing loud. The church people are aroused over charzes that | vice and graft prevail in the city un- | der the administration of Mayor Brown. The lutter denies the charges | agains{ him. Mayor Brown some| time ago announced his candidacy for ! the Senate next vear. planning to run as a Democratic candidase against Senator Wesley L. Jones. Senator Jones is particularly stronz in his State, it was zenerally conceded t he would be re-elected. The attacks on Mavor Brown seem to make Sen- ator Jones doubly sure of election. ok ok ok Senator Pat_Harrison of | sippi. as the Democratic choice for| President in 1928, is the editorial| suggestion of the Chicago Tribune, that Republican of Republican news- papers. The Tribune begins by de- ! claring it is not generally its pur i pose to aid the Democratic party and continues with a dig about the party | Dbeing all shot to pieces. If the party wants to try out a candidate who| would be favored in all sections, the Tribune says, “we have its candi-; date, Pat Harrison of Mississippi.”| The editorial continues: “Pat in New York, Harrison in the South, and Pat, Harrison in the West. a tongue of living flame who could be against evervbody—the ideal Democrat. He might bring solidity to what is now a dust storm by the happy expedient of being against everything that any | one possibly could be against in any | locality. People are influenced large- ly by what they don't like. It's a rare chance and asetably the only B reign Narcissu i a Thus stalwa snob. for the friend of man do we hattle azainst a stronz friend for the sturdy the self-seekinz utilitarian and delicio inst the strict!y “acorative! Referring to ‘N hitaring that held on the suhject, the Sprin Union cites the fact that among cer tain persons who attended the “danzer of insect pests was scouted as ex- \zgerated and unconvineing. Be that it may.,” continues the Union, “the a for a purely American narcissus me under a different head and. it seems to us, was entitled to kindly consideration. The feeling in favor of ive-zrown American bulhs mizht well serve as an appeal to the patriots of the country to rise up and strike off the shackles of the foreizn Tulbs " But “an embargo on this class of bul according to the At lantu Journal. “is a rather serious thine. from the standpoint of many bhusiness men. as the imports annually reacl one hundred million. To cut off this source of supply might place American grown bulbs out of the reach of most people, and increase fierists’ bills in every community. Tt is arzued. too, that all these pests ex ist_in the United States, in which lorists generally agree, and that if serions effort is to be made to prevent additions, it can best be done at the Moints of shipment.” “Careful handlinz of the situation is advised by the Banzor Commercial which suzgests that “‘perhaps the dis cursion that is now on will resnlt in a clarification of the jaw ana not permn of Lianket exclusion which might re sult in foreizn retaliation.” Two «questions also are raised by the Balti more Sun, which states: “With the narcissus fly already domesticated in the United States. one wonders why foreizn bulbs should be banned and domaestic ones allowed to move with out restriction, Or. if domestic hulbs are tc be inspected and the infected ones destroved. why cannot the s: procedure be applied to Dutch bulbs?" “American producers,” according 1o the Buffalo News, “desire a ban on the bulbs, vet they are not in pesi tion to meet the demands that would fall upon them if the foreizn supply were shut off at this time. In the cir cumstances, the best thinz that the Department of Azriculture can do ix to serve notice on the zrowers of Hol land and France to see to it that their bulbs are free of disease.”” The Phil adelphia Bulletin also feels that “there seems to he a strange lack of evi: ‘dence that either the narcissus fiv or the eelworm is actually likely to men ace the onion zrowers. It is even questionable whether the narcissus fly and the eelworm are not native to America as well as to Europe.” et “If any real danger to American plant life can he shown in the intro duction of narcissus bulbs, other than that of competition with American growers, the showing sheuld be quick ly and incontrovertibly made,” de clares the Columbus Dispatch, while the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch holds that “certainly nothing should be al jlowed to have weight with the De. partment of Agriculture except the desire to protect the purity of the bulb,” and that “unless the embargo can be proven necessary from that | standpoint it should not be allowed “Tt would be decidedly unfair to the millions of amateur zardeners in the United States,” concludes the Water town Dafly Times, “for the Depart ment of Agriculture to create a mo nopoly of American bulbs. If there ix danger of diseasee the bulbs by all means should be barred: if it is simply An attempt to create a monopoly, it is_a high-handed piece of business What the public wants to krow te ton Sudes.