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8 * THE EVENING With Sunday Mo WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY. .. .March 24, 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES. The Evening Star Newspaper Company Tusiness O St. and Penusyly v Yorl Offln: LT Eust ki Oftice: uildine. Buropean O * Tondon, The Even editi Main 5000, dnr at the end of es. carr Rate by Mail—Pay: Maryland and Virg! S6.00: 1 mo. S5.00% 1wo All Other States y and Sundav.1yr. e ! and Canada. iated Press. sively entitled atio, of dite ' g ot ‘atnerwise cred: aber and also the 10c . emhe” MYt fof publication AiShat nes horeln am also reserve Geneva Mystery Lightening. in the ifouse of Commons | from the dramatic matter that is now Lelng turned out, there are many, whether in the “dairymaid” class or not, who think that dramatic standards and fundamentals are all wrong. The scenery warchouses in the large cities are full of velics of these essays in modernism and independence, Which have, as the stage phrase goes, “'blown up" after w few performanc The need for u new protecting con- | tract between authors and managers, it now develeps, was brought about by the reaching out, as it is explained, of the motion picture industry to swal Jow up the theater. Movie men have been buying up theaters. One big film corporation, it is said. has sub. sidized tive producers ut $25,000 exch, guaranteeing a definite smmn for pic- ture rights to the producer and totally ignoring the author. The movie men, furthermore, it is usserted, have de- duced unless it was good &creen terial, the movie scenario department passing upon all stage productions. Thus the spoken drama has been put in a position, according to the spokes- man for the Dramatists’ Guild, of a mere feeder for the films. And that, it is claimed, is not what the stage is for. Meanwhile, the public pays the bills and is wondering whether it is going to get any better materfal when the new contract is in force and Austen Chamberlain, foreien min- 4 chief delegate from Great | League of Nations, | ined in his course at the meeting by a substan- This vote made by veduce the ster a Britain to ey ¥ on David Lloyd George. ate: was tantamount to a motion to redu: he salary of the foreign min! In substance, it was a “‘no-confidence challenge, which caused the govern- ment ranks to be arrayed solidly against the opposition. The prime ster definitely made it plain to house that the course of Sir susten at Geneva had the full ap- wroval ot the cabinet, and this meant t the adoption of the Lloyd George would involve a change of in the circumstances & 1 victory wus assured, with- veaching the real issue. In the course of the dchate on the Liovd George motion reference was yude to the position of Brazil, whose demand for a permanent the league council blocked move for the admission of Ger- This s a delicate question bout which there has been much specuiation and but le explanation. Many have felt that Brazil's role at s not adopted independent- ., but was the Inspiration of other ers. Capt. Ashmead-Bartlett let « little light into this matter when he deriared {n the debate in the House of Coiunons that it was absurd to put | the blame for the fiasco for “throwing a monkey wrench into the burines when it was well known on the Continent that “the real volce hehind it all was the volce of Musso- 1le proceeded to declare that Italian on the Continent was ing that it was his country that stopped the Chamberlain sentiment. I© is signiticant that this remark elicited no demurrer from the prime minister or the foreign minister. It was allowed to stand unchallenged. No disposition was evinced to clear Brazil of responsibility or to place the blame for the collapse of the ses. sion upon another power. It has heretofore been noted as significant that in the alignment of the nowers at Geneva during the re- cent futile meeting the position of Italy was not defined. Practically every other power-member had taken stand relative to the election of Germany 1o a council seat, some pow- ers asking for permanent seats for themselves, some espousing the G man cause, some that of Poland. But Ital fur as the world knows, 1 mute. Which was not ex- pected and was not in general accord with the Italian disposition. Capt. Ashmead-Bartlett’s statement will probably not go unhecded alto- sether. well us a iy the on elegate’s 1 10 on eva W Tin .4 Rio de Janeiro and in other capitals, It will doubtless evoke dis- cussion and perhaps elicit some state. ment from the Italian dictator him- f or from representative. He Iy, however, employs no proxy. R 2 trike has been settled ultimate sumer ventures to that in addition to a Federal tax on there will be a liberal tion in the cost of fuel. It is era of optimisui. a al rie World Court has been early in oping collection of dissenting v pinions. e The New Play Contract. by the ticismi that the s' Guild, which is just enter- ement with the man- only plays written ng to establish one of its foremost nation states that no such idea is entertained. It is fight- ing, he sa) 1 contract which an body is eligible to sign and which will standardize the cthic of business be- wween playwrights and producers. He) Aroused Dramutis ing into an sugers to produc 1y its members w “closed shop,” mmembers in cxp! ways: The guild i 1o cat up doesn't stund for any way. It has believes to be a f sng every right Vody in the wide world, butcher, Yaker, candlestick make an write a play and sign one of these contructs. *fhe author need not be a member of vur guild, the initfution fee and dues of which are $5 a vear for assoclate member: But he automatically be- comes a member when he signs this protecting contract. “This puts a somewhat different light sipon the question. It indicates that swriting s not to be established victed profession for which suminations, tests and standards in addition to membership dues will be yequived, ILividently the professional authors ave not in fear of the “daii maid dramatis That will relieve & good many minds. ogre which is going majd dramatists. It | the closed_shop in vird what it n author b the playwrights have established their independence. B e Right Turns. . Hesse has ordered crossing po- licemen to enforce rigidly the right- hand-turn rule, which provides that all turns of this character should be made only on the green, or go, signal. .| This order will doubtless come aus a! | surprise to many Washington motor- | ists who are unaware that such a regulation is contained in the traffic code. Enforcement of this rule will make uniform the turning-right maneuver at all intersections. On Sixteenth street and on Massachusetts avenue, where the automatic signal lghts control traffic, it is necessary that right turns be made on the green light in order that no interference will be caused to fast traffic. It is clearly Maj. Hesse's intention to standardize the crossing regulations as far as possible. It is & moot point whether or not the left turn can be treated in the same way. At the present time on the automatically controlled streets the left-hand turn is made from the right-hand curb with the green light. At other intersections the left turn is completed from the middie of the street on the traffic officer’s signal. As far as both Sixteenth street and Massachusetts avenue are concerned it 18 the only feasible way to make the turn, as the alternative cannot be used with success with automatic signals.: The only point in favor of making the same kind of a turn at all intersections 18 to lessen confusion and to promote standardization, but it is considered doubtful if the right- curb turn would work satisfactorily on some of Washington's narrow downtown streets. At any event, it 1s up to motorists, from now on, to watch their step If they would aveid 2 trip to Traffic Court. The rule is simple and there should be no difficulty in complying with it. Right turns in all sections of the city are to be made only on the green signal, never when the red signal is against the motorist. The rule is a good one and should be re- spected to the end that the heavy traffic of today can move with the minimum of friction. ——re. Great Crops. A large oyster crop from the Po- tomac and other Chesapeake rivers is predicted next season. The man who makes the happy prediction is the Maryland State conservation commis- sloner. One gets so many reports that the oyster and the crab will be ex- tinct that it is encouraging to get this oyster message. The oyster does not play as large a part in our civilization one cannot concelve that Potomac civilization shall endure if the oyster perish. There have been alarming, or alarmist, reports that the crab is pass- ing from the scene of its triumphs. Not much joy would be left in life it the oyster roast and the crab pick- ing should fade from our echeme of things. We have survived with diffi- culty the destruction of the terrapin, and we have borne with heroism the loss of the Potomac sturgeon, but it would be asking too much of human { nature, at least the human nature of this part of the country, to get along without the oyster and the crab. How {would New Kngland feel if it were | faced with the dread 1088 of the clam | buk the clam chowder and the baked bean? Now, If some prophet will be kind enough to predict a good, green corn crop this Summer most of us will feel a sense of comfort and be able to sleep at nights. And if some prophet will say that the strawberry output will be up to standard this Spring and that green peas from the sgandy acres beyond the Eastern Branch will be plentiful we will join | in the applause, It may mnot be exactly wrong to teach evolution to people who refuse to try to understand it, but it is cer- tainly useless. R The City of the Future. A corporation has been formed and registered at Albany which plans a series of constructions in New York City that will be in the nature of a revolutionary development. This scheme is designed to evolve an ideal “city of the future.” One of the fea- tures of this great project will, it is announced, be combination office and apartment bulldings, eighty or more stories in helght. The inspiration of this project is the realization that the surface problem, already serious, will become more difficult as the years pass, and that the practical solution lies in combining dwellings and busi- ness establishments. It is also pro- Practically every theatergoer thinks that he or she can write as good a play as that which is presented. There pre some, even, who believe that they |a mnetwork of overhead causeways, | grst sight: It makes life easy s on Shakespeare. Judging with landing bases for airplanes, In’divorce lawyers, "‘ul impro posed, though this is for future con- sideration, that these new home-office buildings shall be linked together by manded that no play should be pro-| THE EWNWG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, other words, each buflding will be suf- ficlent for the needs of its occupants, commercial and residential, while in- ter-building communication will be provided by bridges or causeways high above the streets and longer-distance travel will be on the basis of airplanes, for which there will be practieal fu- cilities. Recently u competition was conduct- ed in New York for the designing of . alrplane landing stages of possible future construction. Some highly in- genious designs were submitted. Some of them involved elaborate architec- tural features. 'The unit of construc tion was {n the main an entive city block. One of them proposed a stilt- lke structure with lofty openings be neath the bady, which included acconi- wmodations for offices and apartments, ith Lroad, flat voufs for plane land inggs. It is evident that the aivplune is re garded as certain to flgure largely in the urban life of the future. The pres ent project for lofty house-office con- structions with aerfal causeways and landing stages is a definlte step. It is not assured that the newly formed corporatior. will proceed immediately to this length, but the inspiration of its promoters, who all men of | large affairs and resources, is to make {a start toward the ty of the fu. ture,” which will be u model of con venlence, though of staggering altl- tude. - e Doubts must Mnger, for u while at least, as to the political efficiency ot the Russians. There can be nu ques- tion up to the present time about their being the greatest showmen on earth. Were Larnum alive today he would meet the situation and change his name to Barnumovitch. e ra—————— Assertions that sclence has been u negligible factor in the progress of America recalls to memory the fact that the style of machinery promoted by Henry Ford was originally regard- ed by engineering experts as about the most unscientific that could have been fnvented. e Mississippl contemplates an “evo- lution trial” similar to that held in Tennessee. It will again become nec- essary to exercise putient and sym- pathetic philosophy in an effort to dis- criminate between humor and pathos. e Apparently the former Kuiser is willing to remain silent on matters of international organization and be cons tent if he can recluim enough prop- erty to give him influential standing in an assoclation of realtors. ————rwte Submitting police officers to psycho- analytic tests may bring up interest- ing data relative to whether a youth- tul copper is controlied by the law- enforcing impulse or the man-hunting complex. ot ———— — Washington is a big town now, and entitled, in the opinion of several statesmen, to the distinction of a few munieipal investigations, like any other metropolis. ——rat——————— Those who say “prohibition will not work” are compelled to admit without reservation that its promoters will do 80 most indefatigably. — e The settlement of the Stillman case makes it look as if this year's valen- tine season had been one of the most successful on record. oo Germany cannot be convinced that she should mot have new friends in the League of Nations, as well us old enemles. e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHN Hangin' Round. When snowdrifts by the winds were stirred Across the frozen ground, The sparrow and the mockin’ bird— They just kept hangin' 'round. The cardinal now comes along; The bluebird lightly trills. It will be noted at Rome as|,¢ it qia forty or fifty years ago, but|To balmy moments they belong And not to wintry ills. And so I frame this greeting word ‘With an affection true; Friend Sparrow and Friend Mocking Bird, 1 prize such I'riends as You Slightly Morose. ,“What do you think we had better do to prevent fights in the future?” “I'm not sure,” answered Senator Sorghum, “that some fights can be absolutely prevented. It's a triumph of diplomacy if you succeed in post- poning ’em for a reasonable length of time." Speed. Economy gives folks a litt If long they persevere. But Fortune brings a speedy gitt To them as profitcer. i i Jud Tunkins says & man who makes trouble mustn’t be surprised if he has Invested in a line of manufacture for which there is no lucrative demand. Setting the Snare. . “I understand Crimson Gulch is working up a real estate boon1, “That's the big idea at present,” answered Cactus Joe. “In that case, why don’'t you influ- ential citizens spruce up and look more enterprising? “We're layin’ low and tryin’ to pro- mote confidence. We want to look as innocent and unworthy as possible s0's some o' them smart realty experts will think that here's a chance to step in and take advantage of a bunch of unsophisticated villagers.” Furnishings. King Tut, poor youth, could seldom laugh Nor even dance in measures light. His tomb reveals no phonograph; There is no saxophone in sight. “When a man disagrees with you,” said Uncle Kben, “don’t let it hurt yoh feelin's. He's got de same right to favor de ideas most beneficial to his business dat you has.” The Primrose Path. From the Butland Herald. You can say one thing for love at for | school days. RCH 24, 1926 THIS AND THAT Those who have read their Moliere will recall the newly rich gentleman who discovered that he had “been talk- ing prose all his 1 Many of us, in stmilar tashion, sud- denly reulize that we are living our lives right row, when all the time we thought we would put that off until next year! t year," we hud said, “we will get that car we had promised our- selves, and do that fob of house paint- ing and attend to a tew odds and ends of personal fmprovement. “Why, next year, after we get all these n eared up, we will real- Iy begin t Just wait until next | yourt” In the meantime, what about right now? What are we doing today Why, living. of course We are living our lives, and do not know ft! We ure muking the most of ourselves we ever can, in all prob- ability, and are not willing to admit it. Our day dreawms are well enough, but our duy-by-day llving is something, too. The so-called “castles in Spain which we build for ourselves are pleus- ant in outline, but somewhat lacking in substance; the happy pictures we see in clouds are gay in hue, hut as fleeting as the rainbow. We discover, some da living life right now « ever shall, and that it if we realize it. are 5 we | s 1o the fivst place, such veulization will make us value the here und now | more, not the past und future less After ull, the now fs all we actually have, in the sirict sense, for the past 13 gone, and the future is not here yet, We need this corrective realization becuuse ordinarily we minimize, we 100k down upon, the present, the pre clous here und now, in which we live and move and have our being. To realize more fully that we are actually living our lives now will give us more respect for ourselves, our relghbors, our friends, and end any tendency on our part 1o sneer. 1f these imperfect beings—including ourselve: s they are, and prob. ably will be no different next year, next decade, shall we not have more charity, more patlence, more tolera- tion” 1f we continue to talk only of the future. to pleture the perfect perfec: tion, we will grow impatient of the faults of others, harsh toward all ugliness and weakness, intolerant of lesser ability and brains. And yet all these creatures, women, dogs, Cats, Cows, ducks, insects, are children of the Most High God, ull of them on u per petual and endless journey toward an unknown destiny which contains our highest hopes. We sometimes forget that the ani place In most fi | men, horses, mal rage has given civilized beings to o refined sneer: that the lunge of paws has been repluc by the intolerant mind; that the gap- ing mouth is now among us, a harsh word of impatient critieism, These more subtle, but no less keen, instruments bear down their burden of prey dully—and this comes about, partly at least, because men and wom- en fail to realize that they are living in the present, th; every one s “doing his stuff” to the best of his ability. » Further, to realize that we ure liv- ing now as much, in all probability, as we ever will ought to result in BY FREDERIC W Thomas Jefferson’s memory is to be signally honored in Washington und Virginia in April and in July. On April 13, the 178th anniversary of the birth of the third President will be celebrated at elaborate luncheon and dinner festivities in the Capitul. At Shadwell, Va., near Monticello, where Jefferson was born, a shaft will be erected by the Thomas Jefferson Na tional Foundation. A Democrat und a Republican-—respectively, Senator Jo- iseph T. Robinson of Arkansas and | Senator Frank B. Willis of Ohio—will {deliver addresses in glorification of | the author of the Declaration of Inde- Ipendence. At the Jefferson dinner in | Washington the same evening a nota- ble array of national Democrats will speaic and 1928 keynotes may plerce the air. Acceptances have already been recetved from John W. Davis, |Goy. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland and Gov. Harry F. Byrd of Virginia. Negotiations are pending for the ap- pearance of Gov. Altred 1. Smith of New York. Representative William ‘A. Oldfield of Arkansas, chairman of the | Democzatic congressional campaign | committee, and former Senator A. Owsley Stantey of Kentueky also will be on the speaking prozram. “Onward to Victory!"—two years hence—is to e the theme of the occasgion. L | Of a less political hue will be the | Jetfersontan commemoration at Mon- | ticello on the Fourth of July. That| date this year marks a trio of in-| teresting anniversaries. It is thel 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It is also the 100th anniversary of the| deaths of both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, who passed away with- in a few hours of each other on July 4, 1826, The address of the day at Monticello will be delivered by Frank B. Kellogg, Secretary of State, in token of the fact that ‘Thoma Jefferson was America’s first Secretary of State. Breckin- ridge Long. former Assistant Secr tary of State and chairman of the Jefferson Foundation, has arrange- ments In charge for both the April} and July festivities at Monticello. * % % Willlam_Mitchell, former assistant chief of the Army Air Service, was floored in his attempt to revolu- tionize military aviation, but appa ently not without caus.ng some phy jcal distress to a few of his adver- sarfes. Three of these are now un- dergoing repairs or damages under- stood to be more or less incident tof the wear and tear of the Mitchell fight, They includeé Maj. Gen. Dennis E. Nolan, former deputy chief of staff; Brig. Gen. Hugh A. Drum of the general staff, and Maj. Allen W. Gullion of the judge ad\ocate’s de- partment. Cien. Nolan, who is to be one of Americi’s Army advisers at the preliminary disarmament conference in Geneva, is recuperating at Walter Reed Hospital, Washington. Gen. Drum is about to go to the Army Gen- | eral Hospital at Hot Springs, Ark., for treatment. Maj. Gullion has heen at Hot Springs for several weeks. The two generals were in principal charge of the departmental work on the Mitchell case, and Maj. Gullion func- tioned as the prosecutor-in-chief. * k¥ x When John R. McCarl, controller general of the United States and ter- Tor of every Federal employe with an | expense account, needs comfort and solace, he turns to his executive of- ficer, James L. Baity. McCarl and Baity are not merely chief and sub- ordinate. They ure Damon and Pyth- ias. McCarl is a Nebraska Repub-! lcan, Baity a Missourt Democrat, but | they have been assoclated in the gen- | eral accounting office since it was es- tablished. in 1921 and maintain a friendship that has been lifelong. Even thelr wives have been comrades since girlhood, dating from common McCarl and Baity are inseparable in their office work, their Lwe can de ‘h {alibl " that he 1 {been at the concert. BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. more perfect living, intellectually and physically, us we go along. The “put oft” spirit is responsible for much unnecessary ugline un- cleanliness in physical surronndings, and none the less unnecessury ugly, disagroeable mental habits. We will not paint the house this Spring, because we can put It off until Fall—paints “set” hetter then, any- way. So we miss a tresh exterio the nefghborhvod loses it, the city loses it We will not “do” the interior wood- work this Spring, either, because it is w lot of trouble, it costs money, and will do Just as well to be puinted nest Auturn. We can put off the crack filling in the bathroow, und the repainting, r that until noxt Winter. Those good books we huve been mising ou s to read for £o i-well, smce we have to put them for five years, now, we suppose we might just as well put off read- ing until next Winter, too, The cold nights of Winter are al- ways hest for reading. Think of the snap of the open fire, and the bright light at the elbow cold blasts outside, und the ting uguinst the window— That is the time to read, my boy! So our mild ittle hell of this world fs in full operation. Tt is true that we cannot paint the house this Spring —but the house i3 living now! We do not have to paint the wood k. but ir is sealy now! We are living with it day by fuiling 1o get the ting bright paint. We cun let “feel” the bathroom go, but it makes us ashamed every time guests come! OF course, they never say anything, and we, ltke ostriche are co nt with sticking our minds in such mental sund. Why not udmit that we are growing “mentally luzy'—thut we mnever are going to read those books we huav promised ourselves to read 8o long? v %% Now the time for salvation, truly! Thiy imperfect creature that looks out at us from the mirror, this is actually us. If we criticize others, it is because we have not looked enough here, but have been intent on our day- dreams, We is ured ourselves as t (which is well; no . eam morel), but now Wil try 1o see ourselves as a plodder among the plodders of this world, And the greatest and the highest is a plodder, too, for all his sonorous voice, his “message,” his indifference to_others. He, too, would be the hetter for taking himself s he is, instead of as e thinks he is. He, along with the rest of us, is living his life now, and there is much that he could do to in- prove himself, not in the futur now, To live duy by du that this is our life, give up our dreams, our struggles for fmprovement. We have explained wurselves most woefully if any one should get thut ides Realization of the fact that we are living our lives right now ought to make us but dream the more, build more perfect castles—in—America. Let us cling to Hope, fair angel of life, but let us live now. And know it, which is the most im- portant part. have i to re: in no s WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS ILLIAM WILL. me lives, at the luncheon table and on the golf links. Incidentally, the controller gene triends describe nim as absolutely worry-proof. When the slings and arrows of eriticism are yaining upon him the hardest —which is nearly all the time—McCarl is the last word in good cheer. He cail hot water his natural element. L3 AL Sw suggested calls Senator | erat, of Viry course of the Houghton deba Senate on ) h 22 that res elations in Washington indi Germany's aspirations in the Le: of than 1o seem to be fuvored by Amer loughton fre. n under fire, hoth in America, for alleged partiality to the Fatherland. In 1924, according to Democratic authorities, Mr. Houghton withdrawn from his ambussadorial post in Berlin und brought home to drum up German- Amerfean support for Coolidge and Dawe: cago, Milwaukee and u f in the in the nt rey. Louis. An the London arded to Hough- in . usserts that it was his trd for the German-American po- wl services atorementioned. ton b €. Deming of Wyomin ) of the United States Civ Service Commission, tells & good one on a recent applicant for a technical position in the Department of Agri culture. “The power of the press, s Deming, who publishes hoth i y newspaper and & farm journa Cheyenne, “manifests itself in various vays. Not long ago persons eligible Lo the job in question were required to submit an orfginal thesis or discussfon of not more than 3,000 words on a relevant subject. Tn reviewlng the pa- pers, it was found that one of the a pirants had copied 14 pages verbatim from Capper's Jarmer. The deadly parallel did not show the absence or change of a word or comma. When the applicant wus called upon to ex- plain, he contented himself with the «l forgotten to use William i fent d quotation marks: * Isr apiro of the Near Bustern diviston of the Library of Congress, and who knows all the Oriental lan- guages backward and forward, re- cently had a call from a former Con- gressman from New Jersey. As a token of his residence in Washington, the ex-statesman desired to present to the National Museum u costly vase of rare antiquity. Before doing so, he told Schapiro, he was anxious to se- cure a translation of as Hebraic in- ription, which embellished the gem. Schapiro was obliged to chagrin the erseyinan by informing him that the “antique” was a recent product of the Bezaleel School of Arts and Crafts at Jerusalem, which turns out replicas of anclent pottery on the mass-prodic- tion scaule of a Detroit automobile fuc- tory! * K k¥ Herr Wilhelm Furtwaengler, the dis- tinguished German orchestra leader, who recently conducted w concert in ‘Washington, was guest of honor at the German embassy, following ths affair. A ncar-sighted Washington society hostess asked him if he had “Yes," sald the courtly musician, “and I enjoyed it very much.” (Copyrixht. 1926.) Dress and Drama. From the Lansing State Journal. Church and theater are reported to have joined for the uplift of the drama. That's right; get it some clothes and begin. From Coast to Coast. From the Saginaw News-Courier. Gen. Butler seems to have as much trouble cleaning up San as he bad at Philadelphia, nson, Demo- | in regions like Cincinnatl, Chi. | Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln What may be regarded as the key- note speech of the Democrati palgn for the congressionul elections was delivered today before the Demo- tic State convention at Portland. Me.. by Representative Willlam A. Oldfleld of Arkansas, chairman of the Democratic national congressiona) committee and Democratic “whip” of the Fouse. In his address, Mr. Old- field lubeled the tariff as the “vut- sunding fssue of our party,” and he proceeded to tell his Demoerutie audi- ce the iniquities of the KFordney- nnber tarlff act, declaring they placed a $3,000,000,000 annual burden the country and also have resulted in the formation of monopolies by for- elgn conntries—as in the case of coffee id rubber—which hold up the Amer- n consumer for millions of dollars. Mr. Oldtield mentioned other fssues s follows: “The do-nothing attitude of the Republican Congress and adminis- tration,” “the abuse of his appointing power Ly the President” and “the complete domination of the admints- tration by the ultra-rich and heavy unpaign contributors to the Repub- lican party.” He took a shot at the wnistration on its failure to inter. e in the dnthracite strike. * % % ¥ The picture drawn by Mr. Oldfleld with regard to conditions in this coun- try under the Republican administra- tion differs vastly fromn that painted by the head of the Republican part President Cooildge, in vecent ad- dresses. and the voters of Maine ure left to decide between the tv Oldfleld “denled the count periencing general prosperity denfed thut the administration {s prac ticlng “the strictest economy"—in fact, he denjed everything that is claimed by the Republican leader e in sisted that business was good “only in spots,” charging that the agricultural industry was beinz destroyed. that the textfla mills and shoe mills in 3 England were running only part time. In fact, the picture painted by Mr. Oldfield of conditions in this coun- v under Republican rule, when it comes to gloom, ffers nothing when compared to recently published re- ports of conditions in Liurope under the League of Nations. There are plenty of political observers who are predicting that until conditions in the United States actually become very, very gloomny, there is iittle chance for a victory by the Democrats. * % x % The Maine elections come it Sep- tember, the only State left which does not conform to the general rule of November elections. As Maine goes, so goes the Nation. has been « tradition for years—though it has not always been truly indicative of the rest of the country. lowever, It must usually be isldered more than a {straw in the wind. and the Demo; crats are going to du their “durndest’ this yesar to wake w good showing there. At present the State is rep <ented in Congress by two Republican Senators and four Republican Repre, sentatives, an entire Republican de gation. In the election in 1924 Presi- dent Coolidge ran so far ahead of Johin W. Davis and the late Senator La Follette in Maine that there was “nothing to it." He received about 140,000 votes 1o 45,000 for Davis and 11.000 for La Follette, using round { numbers. If the Democrats are (o ac- { complish victorfes in the elections of the four members of the House therc must be quite a turnover this year. Mr, Oldfield in his Malne address flayed the Republicans in Congress for not doing something for the farmers. It appears now that the on bill, advocated by many of organizations, I8 not going r, probably not out of the House committee. But the Repub- licans believe they have the farmers with them, and they feel that there s little danger of the farm vote in the West turning to the Democrats. While Mr. Oldfleld was inveighing against the Republican tariff in Miine, the Southern Tariff Assocls- tion was giving out a statement here declaring that “the South is deter- mined to hold all the protection the v-MeCumber tarifl act gave it nts more of it.” This wus demonstrated, the statement said, by the filing with the Tariff Commission of w request from the governors of nine Southern States by L. B. Jack. n, of the Georgia Bureau fof Mark that the duty on et | ble oil be not reduced. An application | for u reduction of 50 per cent in the | duty on vegetable ol has been filed with the commission by soap man wcturers, under the flexible provi- ns of the tarifl act. Secretary Jumes J. Davis of the : Department of Labor has officially set {at rest reports that he Intended to run for the Republican nomination r Governor of Penusylvania in the ries in May, He is not going to He has informed his friends in { the Keystone State that he has been | sted by President Coolidge to | 1 on the job as a member of i his | fo | prima | run. abinet. Finding a. new Secre- tary of Labor to fill Mr. Davis' place would be & tough job for the adminis- trutio «d the decision of Mr. Davis to rem fying to his chief. The senatorial campaign in Penn- syivania is swiftly under way tor Pepper and Gov. Pinchot have s far provided most of the “pepper” in the contest, issuing statements and | writing letters in the vernacular in { which they discuss the lack of qual- {fication of other candidates than themselves., Senator Pepper, it is reported, has thrust into verse. asfol- | i 1 beware A vote for Pinchot Ts a vote for Vare.™ pper seems to be angling votes, which ordin: would go to Gov. Pinchot. by tr to convince the voters that failure to support Pepper might mean a v tory for the Philadelphia machine boss, Mr. Vare, who is running on an out-and-out wet platform. The Mellons have burned their bridges behind them and stand solidly out for Pepper, as was expected. Inci- dentally, the Pennsylvania cumpaign has as its background a contest for control of the State Republican or- ganization. Some say that the “wet” and “dry” issue is but 4 smoke sereen drawn across this other con- test. But having raised the prohihi- tion issue, it may run away with the election vet. Since the death of Senator Penrose there has been n divided leadership In the State, and {no doubt there is an earnest desire on the part of several persons to | wear the shoes which were worn by i Penrose so successfully and so long. * ok ok % Senator Willlams of Missouri looks to be a ‘“sure thing” in the race for the Republican senatorial nomination fn Missouri, according to reports brought here from .hat State. He has recently visited the State and has been highly successful in huilding his fences. He has obtained the formal support of former Gov. Hyde, who might have been a formidable op- ponent, and, in addition, he has ob- tained the services of former Mayor | Kiel of St. Louls as his manager in | that city. So far only one other man has announced his candidacy for the nomination — former Representative Atkeson of Butler, Mo., who is run- I ming on a bonedry platform and is charging Willlams with being a “wet."” While Senator Williams has said lit- | tle regarding the “wet” and “dry” is- {sue, he has been regarded in some quarters as “wet.” However, he has the support of Gov. Hyde, who is dry, and probably will be considered accept- able by many of thg other “drys. on the shoulders of the consuniers of | Q. In what countries is voting com- pulsory?—E. N. A. Compulsory voting is in force in Belglum, Czechoslovakia, Switzer- land, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, New Zewland and Argentina, and nominal- ly In Spain. The law is most fully enforced in Belgium. Q. How wide Eroad street Philadelphia?—A. M. T. A. Brosad street for its entire length through the City of Philadelphia is 112 feet in width hetween house lines—having a cartway width of 69 feet and footways of 22 feet each. Q. What cities have campaniles with bells?-J. D. B. A. An official of the National Caril lon Assoctation says that “while the following may not be a complete list of the cities In which worth-while cumpaniles with carillons may be found, I think there are no others of auy consi ‘The in rable importance. largest is, of course, the new carillon of 53 bLells presented by Mr. Rocke- feller to his church on Fifth avenue. New York. There are no others any- where near this number of bells as yet. At Gloucester, Mass., is @ zood set of bells. T think 35 in numbe Another, though perhaps of lesser number, is located at Cohasset, Mas There iz w fine carillon at Morri town, . which, T believe, is p ently 1o be inereased to 35 hells, « smaller one of like quality a° mingham, Ala."” Q. How m work wear nobbed b \. One beauty specialist savs that 1,960,000 women in shops and factorts weur their hair short and t 1 accident rate has bee 15 pes cer thereby. Q. Is thero any ea: a new hole {n « sewin —IL G. A. Heat a hatpin very thrust It through the leathe: implement can then be used. | ¢ Way 10 mak machine bel Q. What is the name that has leen given to Mary Pickford’s niece who was named Mary’— A. It is reported b been changad to Gwynne. was chosen by numerology. t her name The nane Q. What sections of Germ represented by the Iess Revolutionary War?—N. . 7 A._All the German mercenaries call- ed Hesslans were not subject to the | Landgrave of Hesse - Cassel. This prince, however, furnished the larger | portion of them. The first contingent of German mercenaries was made up as follows: 1 furnished by Lin grave of Hesse-Cassel. 4,084 furnis by Duke of Brunswick, 663 f: the Prince of Hesse the Prince of V 1. Later, additional nished. s in t by Q. What trees und f found In & reproductim of & in Jerusalem of about 32 A. Among the more shrubs or emall trees of . are the olive and the almond. Other well known flowers are the narc! (lily of the valley of the Bible), o acacia, mallow, oleander, | are 15 to 20 times | tree by n | latures | members ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. (sometimes known as the ross of Sharon). The flora of Jerusalem ir cludes over 1,000 spectmens, Q. Who gave to Lily Langtry the title, “The Jersey Lily"?—N. B, A. Sir John Millais, a fellow cou: tryman, painted the actress with Jersey Uly in her hand. By giving 1t tho puinting the title he also gave the sobriquet to the famous beauty. Q. In which States have there bee: two capitals at one time?—N. A. R. A. Connecticut and Rhode lslan Hartford and New Haven were 2 capitals of Connecticut from 1701 1873. Providence und Newport Joint capituls Rhode Island 190u. Q. How price of @ cut mond compare with the price at e mines?—D. . Il A. They are sold about $1 carat at the mines South Africs while_when ready for retail sale the that price. T labor required is high grade and th» | stone loses from one to two thirds i welght in cutting Q. What i3 a be ree’—D. D A. This name Is applied to tre having trunks resembiing bottles. Tl Australian bott is the most com mon. It bas a short bottlelike trunk and dense foliage. Natives utilize the king net< of the fibers an sap in the sten £ Ly usi drink e oldest W. What | | Lett wing in A, The te re used ¢ in connection ¥ In ! there is u broad aisla ru the speaier's desi dle of the Honse o | benches of the members are arran parallel to t The ministiy the right of the position sit on In tl e sen we of 4 the: isle and f: nd its supporters S) the continental legisl arranged like presider ou the libers nd the rad front the r presides cals on bis is permin Left have come tn Le tor Conserva the differe Ly their Rig groups Have we had the pleasure o i o through our Washing formation Bureau? Can't 10 help to you in uour datly prob 157 Our business is to furnish you autioritative information, and you to ask us any questio f fact in which youw are interested Send your inquiry to The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J Haskin, dircctor, Washington, D. C Inclose 2 cents in stamps for return postage. The attempt of a Mississippi judwe | 1o prevent newspapers cir ing in| his_ county from prin the test)- | mony in a case on trial has resuited | in a vigorous defernse of the liberty of the press. The court maintained that, as several cases were related, the ev dence should not be printed. The pers successfully defied the order. The | comments on the subject extend tu similar practice, in many - courts, which emphasizes the objection to reading of reports by jure | Misstssippi judg ar, “issues an edict for the suppression of new d lo, the very news the learned judge wishes to s press spreads to every corner of the Nation! Our Guif ¢ murder trial | would hardly, of itself. attract atten tion beyond the Gulf counties, but the judge fssues an_edict to keep the news from the public, and the murder trfal becomes first-page he. throughout all the kand. Tt simpl. he done—that's all. When any authority tries to suppress news, he succeeds in creating more news. At-| tempts to abridge the constitutional | | freedom of speech and of press never succeed. They never have and they | never will." vs the! one in P Comparison with & New Jersey inci- dent is made by the St. Paul Pioneer Press. “In an attempt to suppress news and pictures of their own brutal treatment of striking textile worke |the police of Passaic and Clifton a itacked and beat ne aper photo raphers and reporters with clubs. Bay St. Louls, Miss., a judge attemy to establish Lis right to imprison newspaper men who do not submit to | his censorship of news. Judge White; who is responsible for the Mississippi affair, Is breaking no heads, but we are inclined to think that his brand | of news suppression fis the greater menace to liberty of the two. The Cossacks of Passalc broke a few cameras and raised w few bumps. but | that sort of thing is so crude that it defeats its own purpose. When star- chamber legal inquiries are made the !rule, American liberty will be at an {ena.” The New London Day feels that the Mississippt case ts sufficiently fmpor- tant to warrant a test and holds that “the failure of Judge White to insti- tute a prosecution immediately is !Jamentable. The issue,” continues the Day, “is ene which should be threshed | out, and that most completely, If the man is right, if he has the authority he seems to think he has, he has abused it shamefully, and the author- ty should be taken away from him.” «The Constitution,” according to the Houston Chronicle, “clearly and spe- clfically guarantees a ‘public’ trial to every person accused of crime, and the udge had no more right to forbid the newspapers to print the testimony than he had to forbid the people who heard the ‘public’ trial to repeat it by word of mouth. No judge has tho right to interfere with or in any wise restrict the freedom of the press, o long as it makes a fair report of the proceedings and makes No unwarrant b reflections on the judge.” The | guilty. Judge White's view wil ! pape Press Vigorously Defends Right to Print Testimony have in the u order, if not Shreveport J impossible to obtain’a fa tial tri in some other case, though it be a similar one, is an ex aggerated contention. It may be a sort of reflection on the nice of the public. All ¥ i% for jurors to pay attent the testimony and to in terpretation of the law, and then de. cide whether or not the accused i hat i n stand Tayn s anal the least of ft. 3 the Flint Daily Journal remarks that “foolis this court order app it is no so than the rule wh hars ¢ to say e in which i may be called to serve. An ignorar dolt who cannot or does not read i preferred on o jury where issues are harp and feeling is high,” adds the journal. “An {deal jur the Daytonu Beach Journal. “is likely to be found among men and womer who have read about the case. Au ideal jury would be composed of the most intelligent members of the com y, and they are bound to be per readers. And in few, if v, States is there law to prevent the judge from seeing that juries are elected from ameng such citizens. It is the court practice, judge-made cus tom, that prevents,” The Jacksor Citizen Patviot, observing that judge “has been successully defied b: * offers the comment ulation of the conte of the press by Government officlals destroys the very purpose of the de cent American newspaper—to give ite readers fair accounts of all happe: ings of more than individual interest. The St. Louis Post Dispatch concludes that “now thut the judge who march ed up the hill has marched dow: again, it may be taken as established that the press of Mississippl is still free.” while the Nashville Banner de ‘the fault lies with the law pre ing rules of evidence and meth ods of jury selection.” ———— Ostentatious Learning. From the New York Times. A veterun English litevary crith was recently giving advice to young studetits of literature who are on the way to become writers. Naturally he was strougest in telling them wha to avoid. He had quite a lttle list of “awful examples” which he held up before them as warning lights to their foet. Ome cluss of authors who, he suid, distinetly ought not to be fm tated by young aspirants is the clas that puts, so to speak. all its goods the shop window. To be more pre cise, he described them as having « fow favorite writers Stendha! or Proust, und they quote them s treely as to give an wir of rare and wonderful knowledge.” Tt was udde: that “the best critics aveid this boust Wheeling Intclligencer commends the Mississippi press because “without ex- ception it very properly and vigorous- ly criticized Judge White, who dele- gated to himself autocratic powers. The common rights guaranteed to every American,” the Wheeling paper adds, “of which none is more sacred than free speech and a free press, cost too much in heroes' blood and centuries of human struggle to be an- nulled or abridged by the whim of any individual." The New York Eve- ning Post concludes that “it is not surprising that the newspapers having | a circulation in Hancock County, Miss.—those with the widest being published in New Orleans—printed as much of the testimony as they would Walter §. Dickey of Kansas City and E. E. McJimsey of Springfield are said to be other potential candidates for the Republican senatorial nomination, though it is said to be doubtful either will enter the race in view of Kiel's gmlnlnl Senator JWilliams' campaign s | ful kind of quotation.” Is it, however, a case of pure var i Something of the instinct of dis v no doubt enters into it. It is nor alone the desire to give a fresh turn to conversation which leads a_guest to refer lightly to Croce or Keyser ling. There is conveyed a subtle inti mation‘of communing with the great est philosophic minds of the age. 3 can one easily escape the suspicion wearing his learning a little too light ly it he “drags in Velasquez" too casually, or introduces a Russian or a Spaniard to give point to his epi grams. But there is more in it than the peacock nstinet. Out-of-the-wa: information and old writers in whow the maderns have dug but a litte are congenial to & certain order of mind Tt finds its reward in doing the un usual and seeking out the exotic. So when men of this kind innocently bring forward their recondile learn ing, it is no more in a spirit of os tentation than they would exhibit iu wearing a Korean hat or an Indian turban brought béck from far jour- neyings,