Evening Star Newspaper, February 17, 1926, Page 8

4 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY . . February 17, 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES. . .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Compan Business Offier f ania Ave 4ona St hicage O European Office ondou, flie Sunday marn w eartiera within month- datly only nday only. 20 cents Vo sent by mail or fection is made by W month it o centa per = month Toleplions Main 5000, i of e Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. <0001 mo S0 00: 1 mo $3.00: 1 mo Al Other States and Canada. 1 Sunday. 1 ve. €17.00: 1T mo. §1.00 1 1Mo, 1 mo her of the ™ ted Press richen oro ation of Coal Peace Ratified. ng ictory.” of the mine workers yesterdav ed from a convention of miners Seranton a practically unanimous approval of their agreement with the operator: tion of Th st fan tion will son, sect wor They proclaimed the the re triumph ation in the history The hated wor nd rstor no wase for fi bax adoption otive caininzs statenients of th ion were creeted with n the vot severul spokes he organi ind wh all hut two of the present rose in assent. the others standing in negation but giving no explanation of their votes. A delezate who was de. nounced as the disseminator of red literature was chased out of the meet- fng. Today mallv si cheers, taken the agreement ed and tomorrow mining will hezin. Then negotiations will tart for the writing of agreements with the operators regarding the “effi- nd reciprocity” provisions of this new Therein is the only chance of further friction. Yes- terday President Lewis of the Unfon said of the operators Thev kne t for us to co-operate with them in the reducttfon of costs and in ‘the increasine of efficlency means the check-off. When they sien that document it means that we shall work it cut. not that we mav work it out. Ttisa mandite fust as strong as the Fneglish languaee can make it, and if 1t Is not worked out it will be a violation of the contract. will be for cieney contract Another speaker stated that in re- turn for increased efficiency the oper- ators would nt the voluntar: check-off I'mited to $12 in dues and §2 in a sments each vear on the writ- ten request of the men that such de- ductions mav be assigned to the union. This. he said. meant that “we are nearer the check-off than at any other time in our historv." A voluntary check-off or dues collec- t the written request of the men is quite different from that form of check-off that was demanded at the outset of the nezotintions which led to the strike. One of the contentions of the union last Julv and up to the time of the break was the compulsory check-off. Much depends in this mat- ter whether the written re. quest™ is to be effective only for the ning, to be col- company’s upon individ tectiv crew domin Dut these matters are all beside the ma‘n question of minine coal. The men are anxious to zet back to work and the public to have them work. Peace is assured now in the hard coal fields until at least the first of September. 1930, unless tron- ble arises over this check-off matter. Coal will hezin to move to market hy the end of the week. There will be no reason whatever for any increase of prices. The cost of mining per ton will not be any greater than it was last Summer. Any attempt on the part of the owners to recoup the lgsses due to the long suspension will ba immediately resented. From a pub- lic point of view, the miners having lost their wages for five and a half months, the mine owners must lose their share of the cost of this. great faflure. al so si or a majority of a ing all is anxious - uzanne is the tennis champion. At ast America will be permitted to boast that Helen takes the better photograph. ———— The Change-of-Date Amendment. The overwhelming vote. 73 to whereby the Senate on Monday adopt ed a joint resolution changing the date of the inauguration and otherwise revising the national calen- dar, does not necessarily indicate that this measure will have an easy passage through the House. For the “‘change of date” proposition, as it is now formulated, entails a considerabl reduction of the terms of all members of a certain Congress, whereas there hers of the House to the plan to elimi nate the short session altogether. Under the Norris amendment. as it 1s called after its proponent in the Senate, the terms of the President and Vice President in office at the time it takes effect shall end at noon on the third Monday in January in- stead of the fourth of March, and the terms of Senators and Representatives then in office shall end on the first Monday in January and those of their successors shall then begin. It pro- vides further that Congress shall semble at least once in every yvear, meeting on the first Monday in Jan- uary, unless it should by law appoint a different day. Under this procedure the outgoing Congress may continue to sit as a board of canvassers for the electoral vote. This would entall a session of the outgoing Congress at some time between election day and the first of January. Congress may determine the time of choosing the electors and the day on which they shall give their votes. That is a specification by the Constitution. Under Article XIT ihe first group of amendments adopt- s- for the immediate resump- | objection on the part of many mem- | 'od in 1803 and ratified in 1804 the electors must transmit their certifi- cates to Congress, but no date is fixed. It has been the practice under that | provision to transmit the votes in Jan- |uarv. Tt is within the power of Con- by statute to determine this | date, and hence Congress may order | that the electors shall transmit their ; votes either to the expiring or to the | | incoming House and Senate. In the | | former case the canvass would be by | the outzoing Congress, in the latter by | the incoming House and Senate. The ! Norris amendment merely provides | that if the House of Representatives | has not chosen a President whenever {a right of choice devolves upon that body before the time for the beginning of the term, the Vice President chosen for the same term shall act as Presi- dent until a choice is effected. Thus much is left to statutory def | nition. It is this phase of the pro- :‘ymxml change that evokes particular i upposition in the House, where it is felt that the practice of a canvass of the votes by the outgoing Congress is the safer plan. The main object sought by the Nor- {ris amendment is eliminate the short session of a4 Congress that may have been repudtated at the polls, and | to insure that legislation will not be enacted following an election save by the newly elected House and Senate. Incidentally, it is a distinct departure from the original “change of date™ ! plan, which sought to assure a more clement on for the inauguration. Under the provosed plan the induc- tion of the President into office must tuke place in Midwinter instead of, as { propused heretofore, in the Spring. 1 gress to se = —— Playground Opening. { There s a pleasant touch of Spring announcement by the play. | jEround supervisor that twenty-five | municipal twelve public school playgrounds will be opened March 1. ITen of the school playgrounds are those which were kept open through December Two municipal play- zrounds recently acquired by the Na- tional Capital Park Commission will be opened July 1 if Congress makes the required appropriation. That seems far in the future, but marks an advance in playground expansion. Washington has followed a long trail and met much delay and dis couragement in securing public play- zrounds, but devotion to the idea is bringing the desired result. It was {not easy at first to convert a large ! number of persons to the theory that it is a duty of the city to provide public play spaces for children. Many old Washingtonians found it hard to get away from the remembrance that no such provision was needed when they were children. Men remembered that as boys they found many com- mons and vacant lots in the city. There was plenty of play space in the suburbs. To get to the country from the center of the city was an easy walk for a ten-vear-old boy. Brooks {in which boys would wade and swim flowed through many valleys, and| and large tracts of woodland which held | tairies for little children, and where Indians, bandits, hermits and bears dwelt, in the imagination of the youngsters. There were alleys in the | city in which boys played their games without interruption by traffic. There were miles of quiet streets along which a cart or wagon came now and then. A few squares north or south of the Avenue the homes had gardens where children could play. There have been great changes. Many-storied apart- ment houses have taken the place of the woods where the Indians, bandits 1d bears lived. Steam shovels have cut down the hills and rows of houses stand where the hills were. Most of the brooks now run through sewers, and the few streams left are shallow and tainted. The auto has made the streets so dangerous that children <hould not play in them. Homes with gardens are few. and grass has be- come so precious that it Is against the ! rule for children to play in a garden. | A “garden” or “the lawn" used to be merely “the yard.” and children could have a good time there. There is lit- tle thought of plaving in the alleys. There is more going and coming of vehicles in many an alley than there was on Pennsylvania avenue when many spectacled readers of The Star were rollicking boys. Children have multiplied. It hecomes urgent that in addition to’ school- houses they should have playgrounds. There s no way to enforce prohibition against playing by children. Even if the sternest statesmen should write terrific statutes against all forms of ball, tag, hopscotch, hoops, marbles nd the like the children would flaunt them. As long as there are children, and as long as children will play, it {s |a public duty to furnish them with | public playgrounds. o | A system of traffic regulation that will prevent motorists from facing death on insecure bridges is in urgent demand. RS, Seeking to Replace Fox-Trotting. At a Luropean dance congress to be held at Brussels this month a special prize of 10,000 francs will be awarded for “the dance most likely to replace the fox trot in popular favor.” This dance must be based upon the waltz step. In the prospectus of the Brus- sels congress it is stated that “the waltz is the universal dance, a primi- tive, effortless rhythm that must have been old when mankind was young.” European dance experts declare that the Charleston has been tried and found “not wanted"; the fox trot has been endured for twenty years; the one-step has had its day; the tango has met with a mixed reception. It does not follow that the mnew aunce will, however acclaimed at the Biussels congress, supplant the fox tiot in American popular favor. At present the younger dancers, who are an the great majority, greatly prefer this jiggling combination of steps which can be exaggerated to suit any temperament and which in its more extreme forms represent the prevail- ing spirit of social eccentricity. These younger dancers are barely tolerant of the waltz and resent its inclusion in any dance program, considering it as a concession to the oldsters who are not sufficiently agile to master the combi-« there were hills to climb. There were |° WASHINGTON C, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1928. nation of hops, skips and jumps that characterizes the fox trot. So long as “jazzmania” prevalls the more vigorous and muscle-testing style of dancing will be in vogue, whatever “congresses” may vote. The does not lend itself well to the so-call- ed jazz music. It requires a smooth- ness of rhythm which is absent from the eccentric accentuation of the prevalent mode of harmonizing. Spread of the waltz or a w: m dance would be probably a symptom rather than the cause of a change of mood on the part of the dancing pub- lic in this country. e A Glorious Defeat. Defeat, but withal glorious defeat, has been the portion of Helen Wills, America’s woman tennis champion, in her first match with the temperamen- tal French star, Suzanne Lenglen, who for the last seven yeurs has reigned as the undisputed queen of the courts. Helen put up a courageous fight, but the soundness of the French girl’s all round tennjs was too much for her, and she was forced to bow to her op- ponent in straight sets with scores of 6—3 and 8—6. In her unsuccessful attempt to mount the tennis heights Helen Wills displayed the true American sports- manship. Faced by odds admittedly too great to overcome, she nevertite- less carried the game to her opponent from the first serve, and unleashed a brand of tennis that surprised even her own supporter: At one time, in the second set, she was within a point of winning at 7—3, but at this moment Suzanne, aided by a questionable rul- ing, called on her reserve and checked the onward American girl. Only four other women Wills have extended Suzanne on the tennis courts. Ielen, there fore, takes runk and, in the belief of many, passes such illustrious woman players as Molla Mallory, Elizabeth Ryan, Kathleen McKune and Mrs Lambert Chambers, who have strug gled unsuccessfully to wrest the crown from the head of the French champion There is every prospect that the two champions will meet again in the fce tournament, one month hence. Supporters of Miss Wills the world over are hopeful that with the ex- perfence gained in yesterday's match she may be victorious. It would, in- deed, be a triumph for the California girl if she was able to return to the United States with the first victory of her sex over the seemingly invinci- ble French player. ———————— All that is needed for more auto- matic traffic lights is sutficient money which is all that Mussolini requires to restore the ancient grandeurs of Rome. A large imagination and a small purse have never provided comfortable companionship. o The Riffs are primitive. but they succeed by fearless determination in prolonging the argument with highly ivilized antagonists. There is tempera ment in war, as well as in art. ——————— Immigration laws assert themselves, not only in matters of economic expe. diency, but as very serfous moral in- fluences. c resources rush of the sides Miss a R It is an unfortunate fact that the New Year resolutions in many in- stances are forgotten before the Christmas bills are paid o The average governmental econo- mist finds difficulty In making a sav- ing which fully compensates for the expense of the incidental red tape. ————— Sentiment is rapldly org: ing in resentment of the importance Tia Juana has hitherto enjoyed as a sport ing suburb of the U. S. A. ———. Tia Juana made the mistake of its municipal life when it decided to break out of the racing reports into the police news. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHN: Dashing On. Now, isn’t Existence a dashing affair! You dash off a poem in phrases so rare; And, maybe, when out in your auto- mobile, You turn a sharp corner and dash off a wheel. But, hang the expense! for the wreck You draw out your pen and you dash off a check. The pace is so rapid, there's no room for care. Now, isn't Existence a dashing affair! As you pay Transmission of Thought. “Why don't you make a speech that will echo down the corridors of time?"" “What care 1 for the corridors of answered Senator Sorghum. “A statesman nowadays is lucky if he can get ten minutes on the radfo.” Overwhelming. “A little nonsense, now and then, Is relished by the best of men.” But too much nonsense, freely spoke, Makes common sense look like a joke. Jud Tunkins says it's all right to forgive your enemies, but it's dan- gerous to forget 'em. Artistic Enjoyment. “Did you enjoy the grand opera?” “Very much,” answered Miss Cay- enne. “I was assured by a number of people that my costume was the handsomest in the entire auditorium.” Casual Observation. Investigations bring A state of mind intense— Yet seldom show a thing That makes much difference. Refinements of Vice. ‘Any bootleg licker around here?” “Nope,” top. “All the bootleggers have got rich and are now wearin’ patent leather shoes.” “I's heard 'bout a ‘gentlemen’s agreement,’” sald Uncle Eben, “and I has been wonderin’ why religion rrice can't some such- to win | answered Uncle Bill Bottle- | THIS AN BY CHARLES E. . Booklovers stand warning issued by to his son_in 1750, turn here,” he said, think that you will find something than to run to Mr. Os- at Gray's Inn, to pick up 6 books Buy good hooks the best books are and the last editions are always the best, if the cditors are not block- heads, for they may prolit of the former,” 8o he continued. | “But take care not to understand editions and title pages too well. It always smells of pedantry and not alw of learning. What curious books I have—they are, indeed, but Tew-—sl 1 be at vour service. I have | some of the O/ Collana and the Micchiavel of 1350, ware of the Bibliomanie." It will be seen thut Chesterfield Wwis not o bigot on th sl jee e had a few good old ones himself, hut put no particular store by them. e cause i ook Was musly was no recommendation to him. He had what one niay call healthy disrespect for old things and a hearty lking for the clean and new. Porhaps the world will be forever divided upon this par- deular point, as it is on many others. Collectors always have a place in the world, whether of books, china, furniture, stamps, or what have you? ., One who gets’ the old furniture bu, ince, likes to stock his home vith antiques. His Hving room resonts all the appearance of a curfo shop. He even goes to the extreme of placing spinning wheels in @ 1926 home, in need of the Lord_Chesterfield | “When you rve-f “I am apt to and read them: | the commonest, choose to pool ity ver and whither 0 extrem | nodern, | |18 vather vepelled by the old picee, [ preters u br w bedstead woud or metal Just as the the presence of inds himself them. Ty ane fo antio rather comfol ¢ »s, th other shrinking from | latter can imagine all sorts of germs in the I, and wonders | how the former dares to o to sleep upon it In the world of books division of opinion holds good, al- though with some moditic tions; for all booklovers primarily love books, basically | The bibliomanize, however, goes off | at a and while hold; true in his love for books in general con centrates his affection upon volumes in inverse ratio to th ness, | Let a bonk | i1inds it interestin | | _The question, therefore, in the| minds of others, is whether or not he | i | in this same be thoroughly old. he is so much interested books as in antiquity Certal 1 upon 5 witness the | in the tomb of Tut the mind of the is thrilled at tl the mass of mar world wide intere ankh-Amer en most_obtuse person thought ot m » sssence of time, mir usl » for th i vsical of these gene tions. served latte with real ar oldest v men cit Ain even th in ari The v Iques, beside me rests, hope of which a mere babe | ver of old books ha we Lots of people President Coolid v's birthday addeess before the su- | dence T of the Nu ation Association will take | 3 at Rupert | things that| it Washi hich tention his al-| first per- was that the | rv did not really | ence. How Hughes {reconciled that assertion before the {Sons of the Revolution with @ certain {historic doctment dated July 4 was not expluined. If Mr. Coolidge finds it appropriate to blow up that particular slander of Washington's fame with some chapter-and verse vidence in refutation, the President 'will confer a favor upon many who thought it. on the whole, the most derogatory of Huxhes' contentions. * % ok % His experience with Charles Beecher Warren a year azo this very week I evidently not stifled Calvin Coolidze’s | zest for battle with the United State: Senate. For a long time no more bel- ligerent statement has emanated from the President than the White House spokesman’s terse announcement that | Mr. Coolidge does *not intend to with- | draw the nomination of Judge Me-| Camant.” That means another war to the knife with the sen | ments that are holding up the Oregon Jjurist’s confirmation as a judge of the United States Federal circuit for the | Pacific slope. It means war, in par-| ticular, on Senator Hiram W. John- son of California, leader of the anti-} McCamant vendett When Judge | MeCament left Washington a fort- night ago, after his unhappy bout| with the Senate judicinry committee, the farewell honor accorded him was an invitation to lunch at the White House. What transpired on that so-| cial occasion was never made known until the White House oracle let the cat out of the bag on February 16, “The President has no intention of withdrawing Judge McCamant’s nom- fnation.” That spells fight. * ® * Representative William R. Green of Towa, chairman of the House com- mittee on and means, derives| comfort in these stern hours of tax| bill uncertainties from the I -ll,\" of | an old colored doorkeeper in the Cap-| itol. His name is Harry Parker. He| has guarded the portal of the ways and means committee since McKin- ley's chajrmanship and during that of | all of the latter's successors, including | Dingley. Payne, Underwood and Ford- | ney. During Claude Kitchin's regime Parker was a particularly devoted supporter of the chairman. ‘While the North Carolina Democrat hovered between life and death in his home at Washington, old Parker insisted upon keeping a night-and-day vigil on the porch outside the bedroom in which Kitchin lay stricken. Parker is a devoutly religious negro and was immersed in prayer most of the time for Kitchin's recovery. He has learn- ed to be 100 per cent non-partisan on tariff questions. * kK K Great Britain's leading public health authority, Sir George Buchanan, is in Washington on a fraternal visit to Dr. Hugh S. Cumming, Surgeon Gen- eral of the Public Health Service. Sir George is senior medical officer of the British ministry of health and sits, with Gen. Cumming, on the ex- ecutive board of the international health committee, which will hold one of its periodical meetings at Paris in May. Britain and the United States have two or three matters of mutual sanitary interest, like quarantine reg- alations, to_straighten out. One of the particular questions Sir Georgze Buchanan is looking into at Wash- ington concerns the export of Ameri- can apples to the British Isles. For some time our apple growers have Dbeen spraying their trecs with a po *sunvus substance designed to immun are in hoping that | his Washing i cted | to att lusions ¥ the 1ile Hi 2 of nght for inaeper | | the chances | folkc | very | dpples in John | expre: | idge” | aliens D THAT TRACEWELL. hers have written charmingly of himn: he needs no apology. We feel, however, for the average terfield’s warning Give us a fresh, clean copy from the press! There are as beautiful books being i today as at any time in the of writing, if one is willing Like all fine things, they cost money. That @ thing is expensive does not necessarily mean that it is good— but it zenerally does. Buy a cheap loud speaker vour radio, and you will get cheap results. Select the most expensive speaker in the store, and are 10 to 1 that you will *t the best reception. . The physical aspect of a book, how- ever, is but one consideration, involved only when we regard a book as a thing, which it is, although many good affect to disregard this side of the matter. "I don’t care about a book except for what I can get out of it,” he says. Granted that he is sincere, then we may fecl that he is missing part of hiit hooks have to offer. He, at least, | might lean the other way, and develop into a bibliomaniac, with benefit to his nuaortal sounl. . He is right, however, in his belief that the big benefit of a book comes from the “insides.” Those who would harbor expensive editions simply for their bindings are soing the d with the new- ch who library” to be in- stall>d, which will remain with uncut pages forever. Whether on good or bad all type, the true worth of mo not x1 in what they sa W they say it, what they tell u The latest edition, therefore, ought to be. and generally is, as Lord Che terfield pointed out, the best And if the best, why need farther? aper, 1 we seek TR As T write upon this constantly in my mind's eve a picture ot a certain coliection 3 in price, which may be taken as the epitome of this article. This particular “library” of books has been on the market many years, and today is better than ever. In it the honest booklover may find, at a cheap price. priceless books, fiction, poetry. e blography, etc. The books are solidly bound in stout covers of modest silk. The paper is f enough and thick enough to be hundied easily. There is no danger of he type “showing through® in these books. is properly that one of these books will never “split”” when opened. This most dis- tressing thing may happen, and often b . with The books in worked, 8o the “library” under consideration are comfor able volumes in every particular. Because of their reasonable price, one may read ©h u feeling afrald of hand- ling them. Their covers are not easil . bu it by chance it does become ined, it s an easy matter to replace he volume, if one is particular in such matters Allin all, T know of no better mod- ample of what Lord Chesterfield when he said: fuy good books and read them; the best books are the commonest.” May w o honor and love all good books, but never sneer at a volume because it is new, fresh and clean, «ud cheap in price! er WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE e the fruit against worms and in sects. It appears that the deleterious effects of the spraying process are not always removed by the time some of the - frujt reaches Furope. How to ombat the difficulty without destroy- ins the great popularity of American Bull s fislands is the question ok ok ow President Harding was an_ out- 1 foe of the project which the nate has just approved—the Norris constitutional amendment to install a newly elected President and Congress in the succeeding January. It was tHarding's view that the founding fa hers—a phrase which he popularized -were uncommonly wise in providing a coo.ing-off period for the people between' the November day they chose A President and Congress and the time these actually took office. The |late Chief Executive often said at the White House that men and parties were swept into power on a tidal wave of popular passion. He thought it might sometimes, if not always, be- better to give such expressions of | judzment by the electorate a chance to crystallize under the caressing in- fluence of time, enabling policles to be altered or abandoned if Vox Populi in the interval underwent a change of heart. * ok ok k Some pretty violent language finds fon fn an antl-World pamphlet now heing sent through the malils to members of Congress, new: paper correspondents and others en- zaged in_the consideration of public affairs. Tt is entitled “The Defection of the Unlted States Senate in B traying America Into the World Court.” The: pamphiet s subtitled “An Open Letter to the American Peo- ple.’ Tt vociferates that ‘“the vote of 76 Senators cannot and shall not put America nor place free American citizens un der the American yoke.” In the body of the booklet there's a communica tion signed by “Vida Milholland.” Miss Milholland, a New York lady once militant in the suffragette move- ment, in one passage speaks of ‘‘the autocratic leadership of Calvin Cool- in inducing men lfke Root, Hughes and Wickersham “to mislead nd enslave the people.” Then Miss Milholland closes with the “demand” that President Coolidge decline ‘“to put our Nation into the hands of the EE O These are the dog days on Capitol Hill as far as both public and Con- eress are concerned. The galleries and floors of both houses almost empty. Tax discu the routine of appropriation bills, even though they involve millions and bil- lions, have no power to charm either the multitude or statesmen. Many members of both Senate and House are away from Washington on pri- vate business, the big decisions of the session—World Court and revenue bill—having already been taken. Farm rellef proposals will find pretty full houses in each wing next month, for these schemes are loaded with politi- cal dvnamite which both parties are anxious to have exploded in their tavor. (Copyright, 1926.) A Definition. From the Omaha World Herald. A Russlan killed three physiclans who had failed to cure him. That gives another meaning to “Kill or cure.” Pa’s Pile. From the Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. The ples that mother used to make seem even more wonderful when we j consider the dough that father used to make., ubject, 1 find | sooks of far greater price. | Court | into the World Court | on and | Politics at Large l By G. Gould Lincoln Within a few days there must come a political showdown in Pennsylvania. All those who fntend to compete for party nomination for governor, United States Senator and members of the House are required to file their papers between March 4 and April 4. The primaries are set for May 1. Before leaving here to go to Flori- da yesterday, Representative William S. Vare exploded a bombshell. He announced that he was serfously con- sidering entering the primaries for the Republican senatorial nomination. If he contents himself with “consider- ing” this question, it may have no other effect than possibly linking up some support he desires when it comes o being elected again to the House. But if Mr. Vare actually en- ters the lists, and Goy. Pinchot also makes the race for the nomination, it will bring about @ three-cornered race, with Senator Pepper as the other contestant. In a three-cornered race, the political observers In Pennsyl' vania insist the governor will have a far better chance of winning the nomination for Senator than If the contest s confined to Senitor Pep- per_and Gov. Pinchot. Florida, it appears, Pennsylvanians this tary James J. Davis of ment of Lahor is expected to leave here tonight on his way to that sunny clime, seeking a rest after his efforts in the anthracite strike. Sec retary Davis has been regarded for some time as a potential candidate for the nomination for Governor of Penn- sylvania. % * One of the intere emanating from the Kevstone State 1s that former Secretary William B Wilson of the Denartment hor Lwill make the race for in conjunction with Gov ef- tort for the Senate. Mr, V Democrat, and the plan would con template a kind of fusion ticket—Ini- dependent Republican and De Mr. Wilson's name ix mentioned par- { ticularly in_this connection should the present Secretary, Davis, seek the Republican nomination for governor. The ending of the anthracite strike has put Secretarv Davis in the lime- light, naturally. because of his efforts to bring_ahout a settlement of the strike. But the suggestion that he run for governor was advanced months ago and has been discussed intermittently ever since. The Penn- svlvania Legislature closes its ses- sfon today. It has been rumored that after the close of the on Gov Pinchot would announce his candi- for the senatorlal nomination against Senator Pepper. Beca his strong advocacy of the cause of prohibition and his assaults upon ecretary Mellon. the political course of Gov. Pinchot will be followed with no little interest. An effort on his part to be elected to the Senate would be regarded in some quarters as a nossible bid for leadership among the progressives in the Republican party Gov. Pinchot was an ardent support- er of the late President Roosevelt and a prominent member of the Bull Moose party in 1912. While he was head of the Forest Service, Gov. Pin- chot hecame a member of the famous Roosevelt “tennis cabinet.” % ok x With the ending of the anthracite strile, a potential political issue und a4 possible danger to the Republican idministration has been eliminated President Coolidze has been commend- ed in many quarters for refraining from intervening in the strike. Th contention is made that Government intervention would have established a precedent that mizht in the future have risen to confound those who un- dertook it. It is fusther arzued that had President Coolidge summoned the strikers and operators to Washington as he was requested to do in the Copeland resolution adopted by the Senate, it would have led to a post. ponement of the settlement possibly for some weeks. Such a course mizht have resulted in a different settlement involving an increase in the cost of production and a consequent increase in tiie prices of coal, as the arzument goes. But that is pure speculation. The fact of the matter is that the President stands to gain because o his consistent attitude regardinz the ting ruggestions of T Bovernor Pinchot's ok ok % The Democrats of Ohio are s contemplating an effort to woman to the Senate—for time, except for the brief hours in which Mrs. Rebeccs Latimer Felton of Georgia, an appointee of former Gov. Hardwick to fill a vacaney, oc- cupied a seat in the Senate chamber. Mrs. Felton never really saw service as Senator, for Senator George had been elected to office before the Senate assembled and was on hand to be sworn in before Mrs. Felton had an op- portunity to take part in the uactual work of that body. The Democratic executive committee of County unanimously ado lution last week indor Judge Il"lflrv’m‘o E.Allenof the Supreme Court of Ohio for the senatorial nomination This is not the first time that Judge Allen has been suggested for high po. litical office. She has made a record in her State as a | er and as ; jll(llze that makes her extremely avail- able Tious send a the first s 3 5s aperson than for- mer Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, who has been in Washington for & day or two. Mr. Baker also called atten. tion to the fact that the Democrats have another good potential candidate for the senatorial nomination in the person of Cyrus Locher, State director of commerce. The State primaries ars not held until August 10. Senato Willls {s expected to be renominated without any real difficulty. The Demo- crats have but one candidate in mind for the gubernatorial nomination, Gov. Donahey. * ok o x The tenth congressional district of Kentucky has elected a Republican to fill the vacancy caused by the retire- ment of former Representative John W. Langley, who for so many year: represented that district in the House. A. J. Kirk won over J. C. Cantreil, the Democratic nominee. For years this has been a Republican district, and the uccess of the Republican candidate wus fully expected here. President Coolidge carried Kentucky in the na- tional election in 1924, and Senator ckett, Republican, was a victor over former Senator Stanley, Democrat, in the same election. Mr. Kirk's success may be considered in some quarters an indication of continued Republican success in the State, but it must be borne in mind that in electing him the Republicans have only run true to form in that particular district. Ken- tucky Is admittedly a debatable State, and usually Democratic. Senator Ernst has a real contest on his hands for re-election next November. * ok kK Representative W. A. Ayres of Kan- sas, one of the Sunflower State's two Democratic Representatives in the House in the present Congress, has announced that he will not be a can- didate for the Senate against Senator Curtls, the Republican leader of the Senate. Mr. Ayres will, however, be a candidate to succeed himself in the House. He- had been urged by some of his Democratic friends in the State to make the race for the Senate, and made his announcement that he would not do so after careful consideration. Mr. Ayres, upon the completion of his present term, will have served 10 years in the House, a longer period of service than any other Democrat sent to Congress by Kansas. He defeated Chester I. Long in 1924. had served in both branches of Con- gress, and had been president of the Ameriean Bar Assoclation. Although President Coolldge carried the eight- ilson is | use of | for the senatorfal momination. it | Q. What caused the death of little Prince Mircea, son of Queen Marie of Rumant: A. H. H. A. The livtle prince died of menin- gitls. Q. When was the Carlyslc discontinued?—G. S, B. A. It was discontinued in 1917 and the buildings were used for Army cantonments during the war. Q. How many people take automo- bile trips in one year’—N. J A. The American Automobile As- soclation says that a survey of tour- st camp data leads to the conclusion that 12,000,000 people in 3,000,000 car: took trips averaging 33 days la year. Q. How was the building of the Eiffel Tower financed?—J. B. A. The French government con- tributed $292,000 of the $1,000,000 or more that it cost tuve Eiffel, the engineer who built it, upplied the remainder of the money, trusting for reunbursement to the col- lection of a fee for ascending the tower. His interest in the tower was to terminate In 20 vears, at time—190%--the government took it jover. During the first year that it was open to the public the fees col lected nearly paid the cost of the bullding. Q monds found? L. C A. Diamonds are not found in any special locations. On the American continent, with the exception of Arkansas, the diamond has never been found in the actual matrix in which it was formed, but in gravels and earih which are the result of the breaking down of rock This rock decrepitates very readily, cracks and alters into a greenish stone like substance and then actus o a vollowish gresn powder Jines located in South Afri pipes, as they really vellow snuff on the | gradually turns into then Into a bluish grain of 1,000 feet, then becomes a black rock going down to i depth of 3,500 feet. Diamonds are usually found in octahedron shapes or some modifica- tion of the sam Q. What became of Smith, who founded a colony on cafrn Island?—H. W. A. TUnder the assumed name John Adams, Smith and eight other mu- tineers of the English ship Bounty together with some men and women from Tahiti. founded a colonv on and ahout 1788, Adams was its head. He estabiished worship and a school of a sort, and lived and died in peace, leaving a prosperous and religious people. Q of L. chool In what sort of places are dia- At what depth?—W. peridotite s inic Alexander Pit Is the commercial Florida grapefru H. . A. The Department of Agriculture says that it is. Recent tests show that cold storage improves the flavor of the product, breaking down the bitter prine 1 deerea 1eid content, but not change the sugar content. nden in that 1s, to become covered en brown sp than six weeks, Q rein A the cold storage practical?— urvey sa s not 31 Alexandre Gus- | which | | man | lished ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. reindeer herds in Alaska at the pre ent time, although a project was ca ried thr the United States B 1 several vears ago time the natives are raisins nd this industry has prov ue in that part of the cou 0, under an_ authi ppropriat At this reindecr, 3 be of v &Y reindeer at Unalikleet . WEat lar of the Itur W. D. A. Charles Upson Clark In “Great er Roumania” it 1s En Q. How high is » at Bung and Augusta, Me. P, A. The Coast and Geodetle Ays that the mean rang Bangor, Me., 13.1 feet Spring range—that is, th of new und full 1 usta -t and the much blood T from body Q. How human body?—1). A. There of blood in about ire the Q. What i ienry Ford A. The Wi the town of & familiur tav felloy ve no 1 there arn collection of 11 Henry Ford pur memorial to Le B. ( in ¢ mmorti ssem| intere sentence Bad conduet irious re sence w mustar Q. Where Is Irc A. Iron M lated kno tarins, This m specular A White House ing recent criticism in Congress to proach of the paign caused a condemnation and “For the Preside * deciares the Little Rock Ar kansas Demoerat (Democratic), again to exemplify the old saw of pot’s uncomplimer : the kettle's brunette complexion Republican C nal also remarks {the Democrats in {where have fully criticize and attack |as the Republicans have. stick to the literal will appear of the things they say will make the improver f the status quo and the general Anyway, can't be stopper But the Tope pendent Republican President was “not talking politics: he was telling the truth.” and that “were it not for hope of the political effect on voters, few speeches would he made in ‘ongress. From the Fort Worth ord-Telegram (independent Demo- tic), too, comes the statem resident Coolidge told the truth. didn't inelude himself, probably, cause he has said little, e evidently means to get the idea over that he isn't going to say any more,” ok ok The Christian Science Monitor (inde- pendent) credits the President with a non-partisan purpose when it tes that “even the severest critics of the President have refrained from imput- ing to him a selfish disregard for the | welfare of the country in a {intrench himself or his part lar favor."” In_its summary of the situation, the Wichita Beacon (Independent Re. publican) says: “The country now witnessing the biennial sl of political armies. This is the vear when congressional elections fill the off-year vaculty of politics, and, as usual, the party in power Is being f much and play If they ruth t ite Journal (inde sists that the in popu- centh district, Mr. Ayres' district, by 4 considerable vote, Mr, Avres de- feated Mr.dong by a large vote. * k k¥ The World Court as an issue in the coming senatorial elections may prove « doubled-edged sword. There has heen much talk by opponents of the court about ecarrying the matter to the people and seeking to defeat Sen- ators up for re-election who bad sup- ported the adherence of the United States to the court. of Wisconsin, who led the battle for American entry into the court in the Senate, has announced that the pro- court group in the Senate, which is much larger than the anti-court group, will not take the attacks of the Iatter lying down, but will seek to defeat anti-court Senators for re- nomiration and election, if such tactics are to be employed by the antis. Among the opponents of the court, Senators who come up for election this fall include Senator Moses of New Hampshire, Senators Watson and of Oklahoma, Senator Willlams of Missour! and Senator Nve of North Dakota. Should supporters of the World Court begin paign in some of these States to de- feat the renomination and election of any of these Senators, cries of “Prop- aganda!” would be heard from the housetops, in all likelihood. However, the anti-court group maintain that it 1s as justifiable for them to seek to versa. Senator Lenroot's idea is that is | rmishing | Senator Lenroot | Robinson of Indiana, Senator Harreld | It is possibie that some | they | i that is the ter trend n bein mon; pubiic s he Quot Pre World dependent) the 1 | the President effort to| an active cam- | | the iron nerve and fmpe Inoke Ti islon in a zood many v [ Chronicle, Preside: apostle of development The t rded his virtues es {f they permit bus: to itself powers a its right. Public in the President’s chara extend to the point done in the name of the ad ation.” Knoxville Sentinel (Independent ¢) charges that the \White spokesman tncautiously e eroached too far when warned the country that the speeches being mad. in the two houses of Congress were political propaganda to which the peo ple should not pay much atter tion.” The Sentinel conciudes thit the statement ‘‘was an impo traval of irri n on the part White House s ndicating ** ible disere nd the ¢ Roa s that e r does n pre 1 too 1t hinx tion of the magici: tain hwad been perturbe imes (Democratic) s a matter of fact, there has been less partisan politics at the present session of Congri than in any ses r: And the Muskegon Chronicle (independt says that by “talking back” the P ident, “with his own hand. was shat tering the idol the people have been worshiping. We ke to make an emperor of our President,” adds the “but we do not want hin s though he thinks he is one * * ¥ * In the opinlon of the Lynchbur News (Democratic), “For the Pres dent of the United States to cast ro flections by innuendo upon other of ficials «hosen by the people, for hi to demand unquestioning acquiescenc in all his actions and policies withoy deigning to give reasons, for all th world like a ruler divine right to tali lis good ground for the very criticis | defeat “pro-court Senators, because of | “Afr. Coolidse has no very their votes on the World Court, as vice | for some of these,” and charges that Mr. Long | what is sauce for the goose is also | gestions that sauce for the gander. A comparatively | few pro-court votes in some of these States might turn the tables an some ol de coutestgnts for re-election, S 2 he resents.” Of the President’s attitude toward cextain Government commissions, the Janesville Gazette (Republican) says, great usc his acts in relation to them cause sug “something sinister " while “the two attackin Democrats and radicals ild fssues for the comins happening parties, (k rpe to b campa