Evening Star Newspaper, February 3, 1926, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR, "WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1926. - e e e R E—— ! Kremer of Montana to succeed Chatr {man Shaver of West Virginta. The former was deposed as vice chairman WASHINGTON, D. C. of the national committee upon WEDNESDAY. .. February 3, 1926 | FeOrganization after the New York ESDAY TV 5 777 convention, and his friends havo felt resentment. At the same time, sup- porters of Gov. Smith, whose name THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. THEODORE W. NOYES = e anesiCh "1t now appears will certainly go be- TheEvening Star Newspaper COMPANY | ¢, "4y 0 4905 conventlon, are saving 11 5 nothing. They have no candidate for e or O St |the chatrmanship. They are “laying Fusopean Oflice ceat St. London. |} jow " Sufficient for the present is the ana lining up of delegates. There are those who oppose any the Sunday me fog edition. 15 drhivere: wign e Gity at ) Cenia' \Julyonie. | change fn the national chatrmanship D ot Per et SN Yy mat of |4t this time. They point to the fact tolophians Main 5000 15 made WY | hiat the chafrman is not inactive, but carrler at the end « has been hard at work paying off the Rate I{; .\II 3 ;h e lv\l \x-:ul““‘» debts of the 1924 campaign. A year G il S 120 these debts amounted to approx- Daily only AR & 11 imately §383.000, and during the past Sunday only . 1yr.$3.00: 1 twelve months they have been re. All Other States and Canada duced by $140.000, being now $243,000. ‘\.B and Sunday.Lyr. SL200. 10 %11t is the present hope of the party Suodas only ... 18e S+00 imo. 36¢ | organization to pay off this balunce Ass before the convention of 1928 opens. Member of th The Assoclated P 1t took the Democratic nattonal com nthe une 5 » mittee four years to pay off the deficlt B T e 0f $400.000 which was left at the close o reserved of the Cox campaign of 1920. Thus, the between-campaigns chair- mans Job a difficult financial iip is No Coal Reace. Coltapse of the third conference ba- |O1e and rather disheartening. There {ween the hard coal operators and|IS Do particular desire on the part mine unton leaders leaves the situa.[Of anvbody to take it over. Yet the prelimin, ry maneuverings antecedent to the actual campaign are interest hopeless deadlocky uption of operations tion in apparent RO far as the oS union lubor s « rned. Tt s |iME They at least disclose that there already 1 the opertors | Will be 1wo strongly antagonistic can- will undertake to reopen the mines|didacies in 1928 with non.union labor. in which case ————ons \ strife will lmiost ~urcly vecar in the| ITaction Merger Prospects. unthracite rest Ving evidence of progress Explanitions of the break in the|toward a traction merger in this city conference huve come from both sides, [ IS afforded by the statement given as usual. The mir chfef asserts | vesterday before @ subcommittes of that the nesotiations failed because |the Touse by the president of the the operators insi »n an arbi- | Capital Traction Company. He told tration that would resul: in a reduc- [the subcommittes that the prospects tlon of wages. The operators declare|[of a voluntary unfon of the two that the conference failed Lecause the | corporations are bright. Conferences unlon leaders refused proposals | have been in progress for two months Jooking to adjustment of wages by an | between representatives of his com- Impartial tribunal. puny and a large out-of-town cor- Evidently Lewis, speakins for the|poration which speclalizes in local union, apprehends that arbitration |vtlities securities. If a practical would result | asis for a merger is reached it wi He says, with what warrant cennot jbe presented to representatives of be determined in the absence <f a dis- [ the other local corporation. It is be a reduction of wages. tinct disclosure of all the specific lleved that the latter is ready to co- posals, that the operators would not [operate. If the merger plan is adopt- agree to & return of tne men to work [ed by the two corporations ft will save upon the basis of @ lowered {be laid before the Public Utilities wage scale. On the other hand, the|Commission for approval and then operators assert that the whole before Congress for the conclusive tlon of wages would be left to arbi- | authorization. tration, with an eminent person. Mr Il Washington hopes that a Hughes having been sugsested, as|merger of these two corporations can final umpire. be effected, on terms which will as Sifted down, it would appear that |sure good service and reasonably low the breaking point occurs upon the |rates of fare. Upon the terms of the demand of the miners that the woge | combination will depend its succ adjustment must be upward, while | Naturally each corporation will wish wnd pr seek the W1 of its properties. may determine. for the Public Utilitles ind eventually Congress, to determine highest possible ap- It will Commission, the operators ask that it may be either upward or R tors or arbitrators Resumption of mining by jownward, as the conc be on-union labor would almost lead to|whether the capitalization of the violence. In the past every attempt|merged companies is warranted by on the part of the operators to work | the conditions, immediate and pro- the mines on thut hasis has cavsed | Spective. bloodshed. The State law requires| 1t is generally admitted that public that the coal be “cut.’ 1allly | transportation conditions are chang- mined, by certified workers. The non-|ing. The motor bus, both as trunk- certified workers can only remove the | line and as feeder, has affected the coal after it is cut. I operations aye |traction service. The rapid develop- resumed, they cannot pro ced unless | ment of the individual motor car has a sufficient number of certitied runers | drawn heavily upon strest car pat break runks and leave the union. It |ronase. Whether this tendency will would not call for all of thuse whe|vontinue is a question that cannot hold certificates producs enough | be definitely solved. Those who are to coal to supply the marke:, for euch|NOW engaged in the preliminary certified miner, in normal couditione | merger discussfons are, of course, “knocks dow allotted quantics | taking these factors into constdera- of fuel within a very shurt period|1ion. The public awalts the result, each day. As a matter of tact, ope-|'opeful that merger may be effectad BAlf of the usual number of certitic | |10 the end of vielding superior serv- miners could, by work.ug over thel|ice and lower rates of fare. ordinary hours, produce cnough coal [ to suppiy the normal There is but little fear of foreign But it is doubt \ny con. | “HANglements 16 the U. S. A. An en- siderable numiber i the pepiineg | lnglement is largely a remote miners could Cnomenon which circumstances These men « © tapelled the U. 8. A. to investi- dstermined Gzl © with s view to rendering any inate the als 1 sible wid, ence as virtue! i e ————————— gangs 1 : sth ‘of the st Lnglana regards the price Uncle les in their union loydt | Sam pays rubber as quite justin- An attem ! . iy | 40k I vlew of the law of suppl with noc % . land demand. However, nobody is go- prove i TSRS ing so tur as to sugxest that “sup- would I iy and demand” ts onc of those reclosing e, | Emes In which “fricudship ceases.” eral e 4 anthra. = it is mow the privilege of Col public ut 5 upera, | itchell to speais freely so long as he tlon under the tiow. | can make his observations interest- ernment. Con e length op |i0§ t0 @ fickle public. time requited for such a drastic meas- ure to become law, it is evident No Sentiment in Kentucky. that there will probably be a0 more Bympathy and sentiment are not the Bhard coal mining this Winter. and the | rule in the tenth Kentucky district in poblic B oas wel tack to|the choice of a Republican candidate the conclusion that it wili have to|for Congress to fill a vacancy just use substitutes for the remainder of |created. This IS ihe district repre- the senson sented for a long ilme by John W. R Langley, who resigned In order to fill An automobtie <how displays inter- |4 Pressing engagement at a public in- esting information on muny points, | stituticn. On the eve of his departure but noue that leads to hope rog for his place of confinement he ap- parking spuce. i sealed to the voters of his district to —r———— | nominate and elect his wife to occupy . tic Chs the seat which he had so long held in ST W tho House. Yesterday the Republican e n nominated 4 Man on the e e 2 s ond ballot, the wife of the ading 4 in this city the cpresentative making a good e tmulited disenssion | gy put tinally meeting deteat. G wization of that| [y g pumber of cases recently the B ""_" fa | wives of deceased members of Con- o {#vess have been numinated and elect- e {ed to il out uncxpired terms, and in Avithatdinne . there | gome instances to begin new terms. e e stion of | Some excellent additions to the House fhe isipmnn of the ! com- | pave been made in this manner. But mfticel - Belnen S the question bas arisen whether these Eeisns as relatively dittle | sontimental choices are altogether fmportance. hut in the “congressional | wise. The widow of the late Senator vear” it sometimes happens that there is a lack of co-ordination between the congressional committees and the na- tional committee which seriously Irks the former. The natlonal chairman is the per- sonal chol® of the candidate for President. If that candidate is de- feated, as was the case of the democ- racy in 1924, the national chairman has less prestige than in case his candidate is elected. So it is not sur- prising that notwithstanding the fact La Follette declined to be a candidate for her husband's seat in the upper house vacated by his death, though she would doubtless have been elected had she permitted the use of her name as nominee. It does not follow by any means that the wife of a Congressman is incapacitated by her sex or her rela- tionship to succeed him capably in the House or the Senate. In fact, she is exceptionally competent ordinarily as regards familiarity with congres- that this question was not debated |sional procedure. She knows the the other night, far as reports| conditions, the duties and the respon- disclose, there is already an indica-|sibilities of the office. She is ac- tion of a movement looking ahead | quainted with the “Washington situa- to & change In the chairmanship.|tion.” At the same time it is ques- It 18 reported that the supporters of | tionable whether sentiment is the Mr. McAdoo are already grooming |safest and best guide in the selection as Natlonal Cemmitteeman J, Bruce ¢f members of Congress or any. other F b ity public officers. Certainly the Republi- can voters of the tenth Kentucky dis- | trict have decided in the negative, not- withstanding the earnest appeal of a man for whom they loyally stood during his troubles and to whom they have repeatedly given their votes of confidence. After Thirty Years. It is natural that the residents of the northeastern section should make a community celebration of the open ing of the fire-truck house at Four teenth street and Florida avenue. For they have been asking for this protec. tion for thefr property for more than thirty years. It was on the Sth of Feb- ruary, 1894, that a resolution was adopted by the citizens’ assoclation of that section requesting the establish- ment of a fire apparatus there. It was on the 7th of June, 1924, that Congress passed a bill contalning an appropria- tion for the purchase of land for a fire station, and a year later a bill was enacted which contained an appropria- tion for the purchase of a truck During that lapse of time many chunges have taken place in the sec- tion. It hus developed greatly in fm- provements and in population. But it was just as much in need of pro- tection in 1894 as It is today, despite the fact that there wero fewer dwell ers. In 1894, however, virtually all parts of the District were in as urgent ueed of fire protection. All sections were clamoring for fnstallations. The northeast, as one of the comparatively sparsely settled regions, had to walt longzer th, The persistent seeking for this meas. ure of security aguinst disaster has culminated in suce The residents of the section have been patient, though often bitterly disappointed Now they are rejoicing, and in their celebration they are manifesting an admirable public spirit. A “fire en- gine" is hailed as something that sverybody hopes will not be often used, but that every one is glad to have close at hand. Washington’s development munic- ipally has been slow and somewhat un- . owing to the fact that for many vears there were inadequate revenues for public improvements and for equip- ment. But one by one the needs are being met, and the prayer of all 1s that the development will not proceed fas- ter than the provisions for the neces sary degree of security and service. — - Neighbors in the Muscle Shoals region are no doubt thinking regret- fully of the publicity advantages that would have resulted if the projects had related to land instead of water. — e Capitalists of the first rank are lending ald to north polar explora- This fact will Inspire confidence anything ever be discovered up of investment promo- n others. ev tion. should there worthy tion. ————s Every proper citizen must hope for a prol ition enforcement so intelli gently rigid that the charge “driving while drunk™ will disappear from the police bools o Amatory fiction has become 5o prev- alent that the effort to draw atten- tion to such little things us tax re- Quetion or the League of Nations be- daily more difficult. e An exposition relating to gurage facilities might cheer many & motor owner, as an &ccompaniment to an auto show. ——ra—————— The coal situation has reached a stage where there seems but little left to do except to make faces. . SHOOTING STARS. come BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Unattainable. 1 seek a small secluded nook Where 1 can read an ancient book: A place of refuge where I know There isn't any radio— A place where I can hear the breeze Unsyncopated, in the trees; A place where I may doze, perchance And not arise and want to dance— A place far from the talk of such As know too little, or too much— A whispering demon, filled with mirth, here's no such place on Confides, * earth.” Early Authority. ~Procrastination is the thief of time.” quoted the ready-made philos- opher. “How true!” exclaimed Senator Sor- ghum. “Even the old poet was op- posed to filibustering.” Melancholy Epicure. 1 softly sighed with sentiment About them days of yore So far away. Champagne an’ terrapin has went! While pork and beans cost more Than sech as they! Jud Tunkins says his idea of a bol- shevist I8 a person who wants every- body else to be as worried and Indi nant as he is. ' New Responsibility. “The ground hog did mnot see its shadow on February 2d. “In that case,” responded Miss Cay- efine, “‘we may expect fine weather. “Certainly.” “The animal is running a great |visk. If many auto radiators freeze within the next few days fhere {c likely to be a general move for the extermination of ground hogs.” Slightly Supercilious. “Why should I evolute?’ the ape in- quired. “My present state is much to be de- sired. The cocoanuts hang free just over- head, ‘While Homo hustles for his daily bread.” T has already begun to save up foh nex’ Christmas,” said Uncle Eben. ‘Santy Claus may be a myth, but Mr., Receivin® Teller ain’ A Mistake. From the Binghamton Press. It would be a mistake to mislead people into believing that the right of free speech exists only when money talks, U] THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Those who picture poets as long- haired fanaties will be very much pleased by perusal of Shelley's ideas on_vegetartanism What they rend thers will convince them more ‘than ever that a poet Is 0 focl, and not entirely responsible for his own words or acts. The once popular superstition that @ poet is a little mad will return as they read what Shelley wrote in his n to his “Queen Mab." his is one production in which the cart runs uway with the horse. The notes, containing the young poet's rudical ideas, are much more Inter- esting than the poem Itself. Because the fight between vegetable and meat feeders seems lo be an eternal one, it fy Interesting to read Shelley over ugain upon this subject. Those who believe in the so-called vegetable diet will find his words very convincing: those who do not belleve will call them the verfest “bunk.” The diet of man has received in- tensive study in the United States Guring the past quarter of a century The necessity for more vegetables in average dlet hus been pointed out time and time again by eminent physi- clans and institutions. Shelley, a hundred years ago, made a fervid appeal for @ return to a vege- table diet. Certainly Dr. John Harvey Kellogg of Battle Creek, Mich., per- haps the most ardent modern advo- cate of the meatless dlet, could ask tor nothing better. s “1 hold that the depravity of the physical und moral nature of man originated in his unnatural hebits of life" Shelley wrote. “Tha n guage spoken by the mythology of wrly all religions seems to prove that at some distant period man for sook the path of nature, and sac riticed the purity and happiness of his belng to unnatural appetites, “The date of this event seems to have also been that of some greut change in the climates of the earth, with which it has an obvious cor respondence. The allegory of Adam and Eve cating of the tree cf evil, and entailing upon the'r posterity the wrath of God and the luss of everlasting life, admits of no other explanation than the disease and crime that flowed from unnaturai diet “Prometheus (who represents the human race) effectad some great change in the condition of his nature, and applied fire to culinary purposes, thus inventing an cxpedient for screening from his disgust the hor rors of the shambles. From this moment his vitals were devoured by the vulture of disease. “Man at his creation was endowed with the perpetual gift of youth—that is, he was not for d to be a sickly, suffering creature as we now ses him, but to enjoy health and to sink by slow degrees into the bosom of his parent earth without discase or pain. “Prometheus first tanugh® the use of animal food and of fire with which to render it more digestible and pleasing to the taste. “Man and the animals whom he has infected with his society or de- praved by his dominiun are alone diseased. The wild hog, tha mouflon, the bison and the wolf are perfectly exempt from malady, and invariab! die from external violence or natural old_age. “But the domestic hog, the sheep, the cow and the dog are subject to an incredible variety of distempers, and, ltke the corruptors of their na- ture, have physicians who thrive upcn their miseries he whole of human science is comprised in one question: How can the advantages of intellect and civ- flizatlon be reconciled with the lib- BY FREDERIC Few Unitad States Senators could bring to the job of piloting the new revenue measure through the Senate the expert business knowledge Reed Smoot possesses. The senior Senator from Utah has been a factor in the big business of his State and church for years. He has been president of a savings bank. an Investment company and an electric corporation at Provo, and director in all of the Mormons’ vast commercial undertakings, in- cluding banks, newspapers and co-op- erative department stores at Salt Lake City. Once he was interested in the Utah-l1daho Sugar Co., another Mor- mon enterprise. Probably of greater value to the Senate than Smoot's commerclal experience IS his inex- haustible zeal. Despite his 64 vears, he is the hardest working member of that body. not only in the study and executfon of legislative problems, but in driving force when the time comes to get action on them. Smoot's critics contend that he is the most “sinister” influence in Washington because of his power. industry, senlority and natural shrewdness as legislator and politiclan. He is up for re-election this yvear. Democrats and 1924 La Follette rudicals talk of beating him, but the betting odds are against them. ko % Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, who pow-wowed with national Demo- iic leaders in Washington this week while he was en route to Flori- da. is bound to be an oufstanding fig- ure in their future counclls, If Roose- velt were entirely recovered from the physical woes which prostrated him (hree years ago, he would be in the very forefront of Democratic calcu- lations. Should 1928 find him in per- fect trim, which is a possibility, stranger things have happened than that he should loom formidably as the party’s great white hope two years hence. In any event, he is a potential national chairman. A non- Catholic, he is high in the graces of Gov. Al Smith, and would inspire sonfidence as & national leader among those Democrats who are hogtile, on re- ligious grounds, to the idea of a Smith standard-bearership. Mrs. Roosevelt was a cousin, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, when F. D. married her in 1905—is a. mastertul personality and skillful poli- tician herself. * % * X Automobile builders who want to sell cars in Washington ought to have an eye to the height they give to the inside of closed vehicles. The Capital is the city par excellence of top hats in the United States. More silk lids are worn, to the square inch, in Washington than in any other place in the country. That's because of the high and mighty functions constantly occurring here.” Judge John Barton Payne, chairman of the American | Red Cross and former Secretary of the Interior, once visited a Washing- ton motor show. He looked all over the exhibition till he located a car with room enough inside to permit the wearing, with ease, of a shiny topper. When he found that kind of a buggy, he bought it without further ado. * kK Mussolini has two fair spokeswomen in Washington—one, Miss Vera Bloomn, talented daughter of Repre- sentative Sol Bloom, Democrat, of New York; the other, Miss Janet Richards, well known lecturer on cur- rent events at home and abroad. It was*Miss Bloom who bore to the Sons of Italy banquet in Washington this week a personal message from the Italian dictator, avowing that he has WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS erty and pure life? “How can we take the benefits and reject the evils of the system which is now interwoven with all the fibers of our being? L Having presented these two posers, as pertinent today as a century ago, the young poet proceeds to give his solutlon, as follows: “I believe that abstinence from an mal food and spirituous liquors would in @ great measure capacitate us for the solution of this important ques- tion. “It i true that mental and bodily derangement is attributable in jart to other deviutions from rectitude and nature than those which concern dlet,” Shelley admits, instancing the putrid atmosphere of crowded citles, “the muffing of our bodies in super- fluous apparel,” etc. But he goes on Yo, Bay: “Comparative anatomy teaches us that man resembles frugivorous ani mals in everything, and carnivorous in nothing; he has nefther claw: wherewlth o seize his prey nor teeth to tear the lving fiber. “It s only by softening and dis- guising dead flesh by culinary prep arution that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody julces and raw horror does mnot excite {ntolerable loathing and disgust. “Let the advocate of animal food force himself to a decisive experiment on its fitness, and, as Plutarch rec- ommends, tear a living lamb with hix | teeth and plunge his head into its vitals, slake his thirst with the steam ing blood; when fresh from the decd of horror, let him revert to the e ststible instinct of Nature that would rise in judgment against it and say ‘Nature formed me for such work as this.' " Shelley's appeal to the authority of Plutarch was a wise one, for if there ever was a well balanced, sane man fn the history of mankind, rlutarch was he. Whatever one nuay think of the race of poets, there can be no two opintons about the sanity of old Plutarch. pleasures of natural * x % “What Is the cause fn the animal system “Not the alr we breathe, for morbid action helley asked our fel low denizens of nature breathe the same uninfured: not the water we drink * * * for the animals drink it, too: not the eurth we tread upon not the unchscured sight of glorfous nature, in the wood, the ficld, or the expanse of sky and ocean: nothing that we are or do in common with the undiseased inhabitants of the for 5t; but som ing then wherein we differ from them: our habit of alter- ing_our food by fire “The system of a simple diet prom ises no Utopian advantages. 1t is no mere refor legislation ilst the furious ns and evil propensit of the human heart. in whick it had its origin, are still unassuaged. (Mod ern reformers, pleave take note!) “It strikes at the root of all evil and s an experiment which may be tried with success not alone by na tions, but by small socleties, families and even individuals. On a natural system of diet. old age would be our last and our only malady “By all that is sacred in our hopes for the human race, 1 conjure those who love happiness &nd trith to give a falr trial to the vegerable system' Experiments in organic chemistry, during the pust 100 vears would seem’ to {ndicate that Shelley was more Jus- tified in his plea than otherwise: that perhaps the best diet for man is not an absolutely vegetable one. however, but @ modified diet consisting of plenty of green, succulent things, milk, grains, fruft and some meat. WILLIAM WILE nothing to do with Fascism in Amer- fca. Miss Bloom has had several con fidentfal Interviews with Mussolini fn Rome during the past two or three vears. Miss Richards has also been the recipient of the Fascist leader's confidence. He conferred upon her the honor of honorary membership in the Itallan Fascismo. She wears proudly a badge attesting that fact, but is always ut pains to make clear that she is entirely disassociated with anything savoring of a Fascist move- ment in the United States. * ok o> x Mme. Frederick Nano, wife of the secretary of the Rumanian legation and _ucknowledged beauty of the Washington dipiomatic corps, is anx- lously awalting news of the fate of her ‘sister, the wife of the Brazilian Ambassador to Japan. The latter, Senora de Lima e Silva, became fn. volved on January 8 with the imperial police in Tokio because of his refusal 10 be held back while the Prince Re- gent of Japan was passing through the streets. According to Tokio news- papers just arrived in Washington, the Ambassador's wife joined in her husband’s physical altercation with the Japanese cops. While Senor de Lima e Silva was laying his walking stick across the back of a Nipponese biuecoat, Senora de Lima e Silva fs sald to have joined in the fray by kicking at the police. There are sug- gestions that Japan may ask the re- call of the de Limas befors the epi- sode becomes a closed incident. The father of Mme Nano and Senora de Lima e Silva {s Mexican Minister to Germany. B Representative Willlam S. Vare, Republican, of Pennsylvania. powerful G. O. P. “boss’ of Phlladelphia, is the subject of an anonymous bio- graphical pamphlet now being sent to every nook and cranny of Penn State. Politiclans think it's the opening gun in Vare's contest against Grorge ‘Wharton Pepper for the Republican senatorial nomination this yvear. Penn Democrats, who don’t often smile, are having great fun over a passage in the Vare pamphlet evidently meant to capture the farmer vote: He followed the plow, He milked the cow. The Philadelphia Record cratic) comments: Noble lines, at once blographical and allegorical! The plow, it may be assumed, metaphorically repre- sents the machine with which Mr. Vare has driven 80 deep and o sinuous a furrow across the fleld of local politics. But what fs typified by the figure of the cow? A creature of placid mien and gen- erous production, with inexhaust- ible patience, ylelding rich tribute to the skillful manipulator—can it be?—it must bel—that here the in- spired poet symbolizes the city of Philadelphia. Plowboy or milker, Brother Will is there with the goods. * Kk x ¥ Col. Hanford MacNider, Assistant Secretary of War, is under the guns of the friends of Mrs. Carrle Chapman Catt and Miss Jane Addams. In a speech at Boston the other day, the colonel scored these feminist leaders as ‘“‘professional pacifists,”” according to published reports. The friends of Mrs. Catt and Miss Addams accuse MacNider of forgetting that the former placed the National American Woman's Suffrage Association at the Government’s disposal for World War work and that Miss Addams was one of Hoover's most effective food con- servationists. (Demo- A ! with Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln With the approach of Spring the political ferment Is beginning to work in the Democratie party. One of its latest manifestations was the series of conferences held here last Sunday Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York as the central fizure. At those conferences. in which leading Demo crats in Congress took part, effo were made to outline to a certain de- gree plans for action and issues for the coming congressional campaign. Little concrete was accomplished. The truth of the matter is, us sub- mitted by some of the Democrats themselves, as @ national organization the party today 1s in # weak position. But In many of the States there Is a strong Democratic organization. This Is true, for example, in New York, Ohlo, Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey and many other States which went nationally Republican at the elections In 1924, One school of thought among the Democrats is that for the rest of this year, at least, every effort should center in strengthening these State organizations. By so doing the Democrats hope to gain control of the Senate and perhaps of the House. After the congressional campalsn out of the way it will be time to tall about developing a strong national wrty organization. It will be much more easily accomplished if success is attained in the Secnate and House elections next Fall. It will be far eusier, some of the leaders believe, to consolfdate and co-ordinate a group of strong State organizations and bring about a natfonal orzunization thut can hope to cope with the Re publf ns in 1928 than to start now to build up a national organization. The fear 15 expressed in certain Democratic quarters that §f an at tempt is made now to build up again the national org atlon efforts will be made to seize upon the organiza tion, particuluriy the Democratic na tional committee, in the rest of some one of (he candidates for the presidential nomination in 1928 So there 15 likely to be opposition to th plan s €d by Mr. Roosevelt while here that a meeting of the national committee should be held this Spring, and by others that Clem Shaver of West Virginia, the present natlonal chafrman, be superseded Nevertheless, there {s no getting away from the fact that some of the Democrats are restive under the mas terly inactivity of the national chiir- man and the national committee, They want to see things begin to hum. . 4o ox The soft pedal is placed by crats on talk about presidential sibilitles for 1928, and 0. candidate groomed and trained in 1 might easily be overtrained two vears tater. Notwithstanding the undoubted Dermno pos A strength of Gov. Al Smith of New York, who occupies today an out standing_ position in the country | among Democrats, the feeling per sists here that another Democratic governor—Albert chie of Maryland —occupies the most strategle position in the coming race for the Democratie nomination for Presigent. Gov. Ritchie in all likelihood will be elected a third time governor of his State, indlcating unusual popularity. He 1S geograph feally strong, neither too far South nor too far North. He is not known in the West, it is true, hut there is time for him to become known there by 1928 He {5 far enouch away from Street not to arouse susplelon West If it becames evident that where would the S V. Smith cannot be nominated, ith strensih—the New Yor ew Jersey, Massachu setts, Rhode Island and other delega- tions—be ltkely to go if uot to the Governor of Marvland? It may be mentioned here in pass. {ng that there is little probabllity the Democrats will abandon the two. thirds rule which governs presidential nominations at the national conven- tons of the party. This becauss the South will not consent to it. The outhern States insist npon having the veto power on any candidate they do not ney With some jus they point out that if the two-thirds rule were abrogated, a Democratic nominee for President mish: essily be selected by States which rarely or never cast a Democratic vote in the electoral college. * % * % The Republicans are looking with cousiderable hope to the coming jenatorfal election in Missouri. The Democratic organization in tha State has been pretty well smashed since the row between the late President Wilson and Senator Reed over the League of Natfons. Senator Williams. Republican, appointed to fill tem- porarily the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Spencer, came out strong in opposition to the World Court on the ground that it was the eague court.” If the League of Nations and World Court i can be kept alive in Missouri until next November, the chances of Senator Williams' election seem particularly good, with part of the Democrats pro- league and court and part of them antl-league and court. Representative Harrv Hawes, the probahle Democratic nominee for the Senate, will have a difficult time riding both the factions in the State, whereas the Republicans appear to be solidly together. * % ok % Within a short time the Republicans of the Senate are to he cailed upon to decide what they shall do in the case of Senator Brookhart of lowa, insur- gent Republican, whose right to a seat in the Senate {s contested hy Danlel F. Steck, his Democratic opponent in 1924, Politiclans from Towa believe that much hangs on the decision. If Brookhart is sent home, hecomes & potential and strong candidate for the Republican senatorial nomination against Senator Cummins. He be- comes a rallying post for the dis- gruntled in the State, and there are many of them. Not because condi- tions among the farmers are so bad in lowa as they have been painted, But because the farmers there have been told for years now how badly they are off and how badly they have been treated. Naturally it would be pleasing to the Democrats to have the Republicans split wide open in lowa, as well as to have a Democratic Sena- tor from that State. Brookhart at home would he more dangerous to the Coolldge prestige in lowa than Brook- hart in the Senate In Washington * ok ok ¥ The popularity of the Coolidge administration is going to be a big factor in many of the elections in the States this Fall. It will play its part in Ohio, in Indiana, in Kentuck: and elsewhere. In Kentucky it seems certain now that Senator Ernst will be nominated by the Republicans to succeed himself. The Democrats, on the other hand, are grooming Rep- resentative Alben W. Barclay for the office. It is reported that he will sobn announce his candidacy. The campaign in the State is likely to be fought out on national issues, * K ok ok With the Republicans divided, more or less, on the Ku Klux Klan issue in Indlana, and the Democrats well together, there is more hope In the State Democratic camp than ¢here has been for some time. Sen- ators Watson and Robinson in their votes on the World Court, which were attacked vigorously by the Kilan, have taken their positions. While it probably means that former Senator Albert J. Beveridge, a World Court opponent, will not enter the lists against efther one of them, there are some Republicans in the State who frankly do not care for the action of the Senators on the court matter. * X ¥ X From Pennsylvania comes the re- rt that within a short time after 5:'. State adjourns, Feb- | support and w. ANSWERS TO QU iSTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. FQ. Is there opfum in lettuce?—T. family, but the amount of opium in lettuce is not appreciuble. No amount of lettuce would produce drowsiness Q. How many Spiritualists are there in this country?>—\W. M. 5 A. The National Spiritualist clation reports in the United St membership of about 600,000 Q. How many prizes were given ut C. G. B. A. As the scheme was finally ar. ranged, there were 3,434 prizes at each drawing. Q. Where do Labrusca grapes grow” —L. V. A.The distribution of the Labrusca species of grapes is along the Alle gheny Mountains from New England to South Carolina. Q. Is alcohol H.'C: A. It is not the hottest. Oxy-hydro. gen and oxy-acetylene are hotter. the hottest fuel?—T Q. Is clean, fresh, melted snow suit- able for use in storage batteri C. S A A. Rain water or that obtained from melting snow compares with tap water for batteries. Distilled water is | | | | not evident in a single corpuscle which appears of a light straw colof, When, however, a large number of cells are seen together, the mass ap- pears bright red Q. Where is the oldest observatorg '-\l\\w-h 1= =rill In existence?-—D. M. At the meeting of the Interna- tional Astronomical Union, Cambridgs, F Tand r Frank Dyson, Astron- omer Royal, stated that the oldest ex- ;lslh.g observatory in Europe was at one time in the Louisiana lottery?— |th Vatican, Are the tramways of Australia government-owned property?—aA. T. A. There are estimated to be 621 miles of tramways, 482 of which are electrie, %6 steam, 45 cable and T horse. The governments control 468 miles, municipalities 116 miles; the rest, :»« than one-tenth, 1s privately owne Q Q. Do radio stations select thelr own letters?— L. O, A. They are assigned by the Radio Division of the Department of Com merce. Q. Please tell how vanadium looks and what it is used for>—N. M. E, A. Tt would not be easy for a lay man to determine the presence of van adium. Vanadium is an element. It does not occur native, but is found in the United States {n the minerals car- notite, metahewtyite, roscoelits, vana dinite, descloizite, volborthite, calcio | volborthite, tyuyamunite and aegtrits The great use of vanadium s as & component of the high-speed tool and {other steels. Vanadium is also used as far better. Q. What was the basis for the Billy Mitchell tr{al’—T. W. F A. Col. Mitchell was charged with | violating the uninety-sixth article of Though. not mentioned in these I disorders and neglects o prejudice of good order and mili tary discipline, all conduct of a na ture to bring discredit upon the mili tary service and all crimes or offenses not capital, of which persons subje to military law may be guilty, shall be tuken cognizance of by a general spectal or summary according to the nature and degree of the offense and punished at the discretion of such court.” Q. When was ostracism introduced into Greece?—i2. E. C A. It was instituted by Clisthenes about 510 B.C. Elian says that Clis thenes was the first to be ostracized. ter poured in it ever morning and evening. In ordinar Summer weathe, 1 this treatment the sprouts are large enough to use In about one-half w t Q. When was the ir Ireland’—T. R. B. A. The Big Wind occurred in land on the night of January 6, 1 In Limerick, Galway and Athlon hundreds of houses were blown down and hundreds more were burned by the spreading of fires from tho blown down. It s called the *Big Wind" because it is the worst of s kind known to the per Q. It : made was made old alphabet, how wa L. P A. In the Latin alphabet, the vowel “U" (00) and the consonant “U" (W or V) were both represented by the capital “V.” and not until late in the sixteenth century was the form “V'* restricted to the consonant element Q. Which of the Presidents had no children?—-R. 8. A. The Presidents of the United States who had no children were Washington, Madison, Jackson. Polk Buchanan and Harding. ple of Ireland A. The red characteristic of blood court-martial, | | | | | Tre- | a aldizer In steel, bronzes, brasses ind be metals Small quantities of vanad salls ave used in various chemical Industries. Vanadiy 1= found Coloraiio, Montana Nuvada o, Oklahoma and Ttah Q. What used to keep ships from H, © Of the various appliances adopt ed 1o reduce roliing, the most impor tant and successful are bilge keels, the general conclusion arrived at heing that the rolling is diminished by two thirds by the adoption of such keels Transversely extended water cham- bers, filled to a suitabla helght with In 488487 B.C., Hipparchus as | water, have been found to reduca roll exiled, and a few years later Xan.|ing about 25 per cent. A welght au {thippus and Aristides were banished |tomatically carried from side to <ide of in this fashion |@ ship has been found to reduce the Q. What kind of beans are used for | coome his Lemn o’ The e Sprouts in chop suey? o ing steadiness to vessels In oosih A. The bean that is in mak- | seqs - e ing chop suey Is the mung bean. In| - order to sprout these bea | Q. What is the vation of the them in a covered jur with term “Wop"’—.J. R broken through the bottom. This jur | A. It is thortened from “Wappa should be placed on some Sort of a|rousa.” a Sicilir m for a good for-nothing feilow Q. How mu the world?—E rs are thers in ere are ighout the ngaged in the va- rid miners and others ¢ rius other kinds o 1isoleum so nai 4> < derived from the icarnassus to by his it about When in doubt ask Frederic J. B kin, the director of The Evening Stay Information Lurcau. He offers him self as a target for the questions of our readers. He agrees to furnish | facts for all who ask. This is a large contract—onc thal las never been filled before. It would be possible only in Washington and only to one whe has spent a lifet in locating sources of informati Haskin does not know all the things that people ask him. but he knows people who do Know. Try kim. State your questiom briefly plainly and inclose 2 conts in s fur return posta, Address Fr Jlaskin :Ivufl?’:' The Evening star Information Bu- veau, Washinaton, D). ¢ Gallant Mercier Is W;\‘Ioumed As One of World’s e again the world recalls Cae- sar's words of nearly 2,000 vears ago, Of all these the bravest are the Bel. gians.” For Cardinal Mercier, “bra est of his race,” is dead, and his name lauded as immortal wherever men love coursge and high character. “The pussing of Cardinal Mercier is mourned the earth around,” declures the Atlanta Journal, which desc the famous prelate as “In truth a cit zen of the world; for even while he bes journeyed toward ‘a better country- that is, an heavenly'—his heart was neighbor to mankind. “We think Cardinal Mercier will take his place among those the world per- manently loves to remember. that touch of heroic nature that made him one with all the gallant ones earth,” is the tribute of the Lansit State Journal. In similar vein speaks the New York World: “Cardinal Mer- cier was one of the inspiring heroic figures of all time. The purity and no- bility of his character as a prince of the church was sufficient to win the admiration of mankind.” The St. Louts Post-Dispatch voices its belief that “history will confer on him its decree of stainless immortality.” The Cleve land News says: “"Great men belong to the entire world. Cardinal Mercier becomes a historical figure that wiil be lauded by future generations. In his death the world has lost one of its greatest figures, a rare scholar, a lofty patriot and an eminent divine.” * ok ok % “When the Germans crossed the Belgian frontler,” the Harrisburg Telegraph recalls, “Mercler was little known outside the church he served so well. But from the cloistered chambers of his unpretentious home hie stepped forth into the full glare of a world aflame, and stood throughout the awful days of the conflict as mighty barrler agalnst German brutallty. He was a tower of strength for the allled arms.” Says the Wich- ita Beacon, “His great soul was worth #_division of troops,” and the Kansas City Journal remembers that ‘the whole world applauded the dauntless manner in which he braved the ruth- less enemy that was battering down telgian forts and wreaking un- paralleled havoc upon its towns, citles nd hamlets and their hapless people.” ———e ruary 18, an announcement will be made of the candidacy of Gov. Pin- chot for_the senatorial nomination against Senator Pepper. The Pin- chot supporters would be much pleased if Representative Vare would enter the race, making It a three- cornered affair. * K % % The adminstration, according to some reports, is preparing to ditch, it it can, Senator Dale of Vermont, because he has not gone along with the President on a number of mat- ters, iIncluding the soldiers’ bonus and the postal pay bills, and the vote on the adoption of cloture to end the World Court debate. It has been said that Chairman William M. But- ler of the Republican national com- mittee is among those who believe that Senator Dale should be elim- inated, but Senator Butler insists he knows nothing. about such a plan. The name of Assistant Secretary of Labor W. W. Husband as the prob. able administration candidate for the office has been bruited about with some persistence. tle had | Immortals imes reverss of heroism to as an evidenca of which the human Mercier us be remembered it t s cupabie in circumstances of his influence on the morale of Iglans ir try was & Gremy. the New York s He ed them in earth by the lofti ess of his and purpose, He gave 1o be Driveless example which is now fest heritage.” The Charlotte Obserer adds the cor “During the us and dis- ng davs of t d War he ort and a bulwark s a pillar of com of pational’ safety.” * ¥ ¥ ¥ the “famous Referring to the cardinal's ter of December, fact that it wams pastoral let- 1914, pared by him and read in every Catholic church in Belgium. that first brought him to the attention of the world™ the Little Rock Arkansas Democrat ays it Is generally conceded that his letter strengthened the sword rm and buoved the hopes of the Belgian people.” and from that tim & hout the war he fgnored the ats of his enemies, defied d their mar And contin to exhort his peaple to resist the foe to the last” Though he was promi- nently the “man of peace,” the Okla- homa City Oklahoman observes ha ‘became the deflant voice of Bel- glum: he looked the enemy of his country straight {n the face. and courageously taught all nations that the soul of Belgium could not die.” The Seattle Daily Times regards him ‘s surelv & hero of the war as any soldier wha died on the fleld of battle,” and the Dayton Daily News dds: “So great was he in confliot for the cause he deemed right that the German invaders found him more powerful than the army they over- came. Indeed, they never overcama him.” The Birmingham News credita the Belgian priest as having been in those davs., in his protests ugainst the indignities his people suffered, “the voive of reason and consciencs for the whole world.” Says the Al- Knickerbocker Press: “Against the steel-tipped gray tide of irre- sistible savagery he marshaled the forces of Ineffable Right. And won!" * x K ¥ No American tribute could be high- er than that given by the Passale Herald when it says: “In many ways the tall, gaunt Belgian priest was Lincolnesque. Behind his gravity there was a simplicity of soul. It for sheer beauty of soul that we honor him.” Speaking of effarts which had loug enguged the attentlen of the cardinal, the Houston Chroni- cle recalls that “his very last hours were devoted to efforts to promote the work of Christlan unity, which desire he had long cherished The Williamsport Sun lauds the modesty of this great man, saying of him: “Cardinal Mercier emerged from the war an honored man, but he refused to he made the object of heroic accliim. The war over, he applied himsell devotedly to the du- spie ties to whicl hLiad consecrated his life, and it i ='=nilicinl that through- out his illness he continued at his tasks. wressinz its profound ad- miration of the unbreakable spirit of Belgium's great hero, the Charles- ton Evening Post says, “He was & splendid figure, true bishop and & veritable prince of the church.”