Evening Star Newspaper, March 31, 1926, Page 8

TH ]4} E‘/’}.‘\"NG ST[‘\R'IM:, perhaps in convenient form for With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY . ...March 31, 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES. . Business Office: 11th St and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East #Snd St. Chicago Office ! Tower Building. European Office: 14 Regent St., London. Englan, The Evening Star, with the ing edition. {a delivered by city at 60 cents per month: daily only 45 cents per month: Sunday only. sente Orders may be sent by mail or per montn y mail or elephone Majn 5000. Collection i made by carrier at the end of each Do Rate hy Mail—Payable in Advance. . Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday 00: 1 mo. Dafly only . 00° 1 mo Sunday only 3.00: 1 mo All Other States and Canada 1¥r.$12.00: 1 mo S5 0001 me $4.00: 1 mol. il Bunday only 1vr 2y Member of the Assoclated Press. The Aecociated Press f= exclusively entitled to the publieatins of all nows e atches eradited to it or not atherwise ered ted in this paner and also the local ne publishad herefn. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved Annuity Increase Due Now. T ibility that the amendment of the retirement act increasing the ennuities may he postponed because of the pros po; ive cost is causing a serious apprehension on the part of those who have been already sep- arated from the active service and those who are soon to be thus dis- missed with a pittance. Under the present condition these people, long in the service, too advanced in years to find anything else to do, incapable of adjustment to new employment if it couwd be found, are faced with it they are fot actually now suffering. They have looked forward 1o relief through amendment liberal izing the terms of the retirement law and the rate of compensation. They have had reason to be assured that something would be done in this di- rection at the present sess A long delay has oceurred in the preparation of an 1 report which has just been submitted and, with its alterna- commendation, serves her than clarify the sit- penury on. tuar Secretary We in his report on the actuaries’ findings, stresses the point that the retirement fund “was not intended to be a gratuity or char- ity to ex-emploves in want, but in- stead as having been held in trust against final separation from service.” But, as a matter of fact, the ex-em- ployes who have been already vetired are in want and through no fault of thei However the retirement ¢ be regarded, as a gratu nty, or a pension, Retirement was not by these peopie; it was forced. of them were still capable of performing their duties efficiently. They were compelled, however, to quit the Government service and to accept a fraction of their ac pay propor- tloned upon then meager salaries. Some of those thus retired have actu- ally died from the lack of sufficient means of support. No amendatory legi: ring them back to life. It is not proposed that there should be o retroactive pavment to the exist- ing annuitants at the increased rates, who are now living and ose about to retire, the . how own tion t necessi v be defined. is sur a low condition that it roposed increase now. rked out for ck of retirement, i v cannot W not in such nd atever | ng the should be fiscal basi sured that these present ann of will be relieved tribulations. their immed A Commissioner of the n a positior k f District of hich ren- n Con- Columbia ders him liable to atts iess of whet fces are entirel ory to his own community. et Paris fashions e time ago de- creed long skirt of demon strating Amerfcan isolat this country immediat shorter. n, skirts in became even No na sufficient in Wall for experience. tional prospe v secure to | Street 1 ity can be made event the lamb rom paying liberally ————- Pilule Print. Invention of a “reading machine,” which is hailed as a successor to the printing pres deeply stir the public imagination. It would ap- pear to be mere device of photog- raphy and reproduction whereby the typewritten text may be reduced to a very small compass, in which form it is readable only by means of a microscope through one eve, the other being temporarily blinded by a pad. Books may be brought to tiny propor- tlons without the use of a type font does not or “typesetting machine” and a print- ing press. Storage and transportation are greatly facilitated. Dr. Eliot’s five-foot shelf of literature might be brought down to a size to be carried in an overcoat pocket. The inventor declares that his device for reading can be folded up into space not much greater than that required by & fountain pen. But—and every revo- lutio: invention has its “but"— would it be possible to put the world's great literature by typing and phot raphy into this form at a rate to rival present prints? And, again, how about the light on the typed-photographic page as it Is peered at with one eye through a lens? Everybody who has ever used a microscope knows that illumination is the prime essential to proper vision. There is something altogether revo- lutionary in this adea of condensing literature Into microscopic proportions in order to read it by means of mag- nification—a process, in effect, of marching up the hill in order to march down again. It destroys the funda- mental concept of a book, which is an intimate, individual thing, beloved by real devotees of literature, to be taken from its shelf and treated as a friend, to be opened perhaps at any page, to be marked with the tokens of ap- proval or disapproval, to be thumbed a .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Y t | | lleves is one to ca men grave coneern. Old World permit the flooding of our markets competition and confine ours ready would have surrendered to Eu selves az as in the unres settlement that with the preceding items of the program people would have no money to lend. Havi a ing the apparent European desire for “common denominator of miser and Europe may bLe able to regain a part at least of her former affection for us ably have lost the respect of Europe and earned her contempt, but wi are these things to be v is tation of beef from the Argentine R public. mand thoritativ the demand shall always exceed the supply. i —————— Trotsky complains that America has too much financial power. having made a success of her own busin on for valuable advice to other na- tions. and with heart complications in the envi- ronment of a kitchenette and a phono- graph. changing opinions and relating their the pocket on street cars or train. A real book Is not something to be squinted at through a telescope, with the light “just right,” with one eve bandaged. obody is going to become enthusi- er the possibility of intense ition of literature into less than tabloid form, to be read by sin- gleeyed use of a4 magnifying glass. ;. perhaps ves. As a public or private, de working librar; cldedly no. vt To Win Europe’s Love. A few weeks hence the tide of American tourist travel to Europe will have begun in earnest, with in- dications that it will exceed the tides of all other years. It is only a guess as to how much money Amerivans will spend in England and on the Continent during the coming Summer, but there is no reason to doubt that it will be several times over the sums European governments will be called upon to pay this Government this year under the terms of debt settle- ments so far concluded. The American dollars to be trans ported eastwird across the Atlantic will be accorded an eager welcome wherever - they find lodgment. The American owners of those dollars are told, are going to meet with chilly reception. s they will be accorded superticial politeness while they are spendinz their dollars, but there is widespread testumony that resentment agair nd dtistike of Americans is increasing month by month and has hrcome or is rapidly becoming a chronic £ mind An article written in 1 H. Simonds and published last Sun day in The Star at length with this situation, which Mr. Simonds be- an states. a Mr. Simonds and other competent American observers are agreed that something ought to be done to win back the esteem which we ave sup- posed to have had at the time wd went to Europn's rescue in the great r. Certainly, we would like to have Europe like us, and an the bill of grievances which Burope holds against us suggests scine of the things we might to regain the frections. In the order of seeming importance, we might pro ceed along these lnus: 1—Cancel the war debts. 2—Lower or wipe out our tariff, to ana o with European goods, 3—Withdraw from foreign trade | ves 1o the American market, which we rope. 4—Abandon our program taining an American mer rine. 5—Cease our efforts to protect our- inst foreign price fixi materials at extortionate levels, se of rubbe §—Join the League of f main- int ma- raw tions and help keep the *mil tic” nations in check. A No. 7 on the list might be the ed priv countr floating loans wrdless of debt but is greatly to be feared in this carried out, the American 2 done these a lonz hi y tov L we will ird meet- It is true that we will prob- at nst eighed as spring THE EWNING STAR, WASHINGTON, B. C., WEDNESDAY. MARCH 31, 1926. THIS AND THAT phy, but professional photography, the “shooting” of news scenes and persons in the news, goes on at an increasing rate. The moving picture has conquered the world and more is heard of photography in natural color. Photographie portraiture is adding to the number of its subjects and gain- ing both in the art of representing them and perhaps in flattering them. A large number of Washington people felt a keen Interest in the convention of_the photographers and the exhibit of photographs in connection wtih the convention has been well attended. P R A Texas Tornado. Three hundred children have been reported saved from injury and possi- Lle death in a Texas tornado by the coolness of their school teacher. Bsy ing the funnel-shaped cloud in the dis- tance and realizing its devastating po tentialities, P. N. Powell, the gray- headed instructor of Orangefield’s only school, herded his charges into the auditorium of the building, gave each an encouraging pat on the head and calmed their fears while the storm tore away 4 wall and shook the struc ture with its fury as it passed by to wreak havoe on everything in its way. After swirling past the school building the tornado uprooted more than one hundred and twenty-five ofl derricks, | killed one man and injured many, and sma shed an air) SONS MAnag lane from which two ed to escape with their pe ledness in an emergency has been from time immemorial the deciding factor in the saving of hu- man life. children, as they grow older and become useful citiz of their communitie: rese ns may look back on the simple courage of their teacher in a time of stress, and perhups the day will come when, confronted by similar danger, they will seek to emu- late the example which was impressed upon their youthful minds.” e BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. The bullfrogs were tuning up for the night in their shallow pond at the foot of the hill. "Twas an idyllic spot—if one were a frog. The water was green and with trees growing out of It, s floating around, snappy living for a frog. This scene gave ‘“‘atmosphere” to the entrance to the great house on the hill, sitting halt a mile away in silent ate. The frogs, knowing nothing of their secondary use, croaked away in A Punster in Politics. oA little knowledge is said to be a dangerous thing. Likewise little humor. A man who has a git of comi- cal expression is often led into pitfulls by his disposition to get a laugh out of his audience. Take Irvin S. Cobb, for instance. He professional Joker, a contirmed, habitual humorist, who has made u ve bod living out of the American market with his whimsical wares. So long as he kept to the field of fun he has been emi nently successful. But when he turns to politics he Is in quicksands. Ad dressing a political club in New York “ is a urday on the subject of prohibi tion he attacked the “American bigotry,"” and declared that in his judgment * ity that this country ever suffered is that the Mayflower did not make a trip.” There are too many descendants of Mayflower pilgrims in this countr: for even America’s leading humorist, admired as he may be by the fun- loving public refer 1o thes cestors as having made themsel obnoxious in Europe that they were “spewed out.” He is treading on ex- tremely dangerous ground. To identify prohibition with the stern Puritanism of the Mayflower colonists is indiscreet. There are many millions of Americans who, notwith standing recent so-called polls, still be- lieve strongly in that ure who will refuse to be classed as fanati ind will resent ggestion that their unshaken fuith in the necessity drastic check upon intemperance as this eminent punster declar wrecked our personal liberty. T Natura is remorseless in reducing humanity to a common level. Even the poet statesman D'Annunzio is he greatest round to any “almi the blurbs of joy that from |obliged to call a doctor and resort to brotherly love? the ordinary remedies for “flu."” = R R Reindeer meat from Alaska is prom- It is not likely to make any nore price-lowering impression on the Jutcher’s market than did the impor- The law of supply and de- , by some means, been an- »ly interpreted to imply that America, might reasonably be relied P T Literature must have its romance fs at present struggling along e L The Photographers’ Convention. The tenth annual convention of the Photographers’ Association of the Middle Atlantic States closed today. Four hundred delegates representing a large number of men and women who make pictures have been ex- experiences in the fascinating art of fixing human features, bits of land- scape and other subjects on plate, film and paper. Washington is a fruitful field for photography. In the Smith- sonian grounds between the old tional Museum and the Army Medical Museum is a monument to Daguerre, who, although others before him had secured images by light and che nicals, has been recognized by the photogra- phers of the United States as the father of photography. As far back as the Da- guerreotype or Ambrotype goes Wash- The date of the presidential inaugu- ration is still a matter for discussion. The event has become characterized by quietude, but not to an extent that permits it to pass unnoted. ————————— China has succeeded in establishing the impression that a war may figure merely as a part of a nation’s routine busines r—or— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Mind and Muscle. The man who thinks he knows a lot Aspires to tell the world what's what And is regarded as a bore. The world has heard it all before. In vain philosophers recite, Or print their views in black and white. The world rejoins, “I'm seeking pep! Bring forth the latest Charleston step!” The Ideal and the Practical. “What do you regard as the highest duty of a statesman?"” “To serve his country,” answered Senator Sorghum. “Incidentally, it's up to him to make the service snappy and, here and there, earn a nice little tip.” Art and the Camera. “Art"” is a term that's now confessed To be quite anarchistic. ‘When Molly Miggs gets all undressed She thinks she is artistic. Jud Tunkins says a millionaire used to be contemplated as a finished prod- uet. Now he is regarded by big busi- ness as a man sitting into the game with a white chip. ington had “galleries” for the making of portraits by those processes. Dur- ing the Civil War the making of com- mercial pictures, or pictures for gen- eral sale, by fixing images on glass coated with emulsion containing sil- ver, was carried on more extensively than in any other city. A man very prominent in this work was “Brady the photographer.” Washington has been ‘“snapped” milllons of time¢. No building or monument has been neglected and few trees, flower beds and fountains have failed to invite the camera. The roads, wood trails and creeks, and especially the falls, gorges and rapids of the Po- tomac and ‘the towpath, locks and muleboats of the canal, have been pic- tured. It is thought by some persons and maybe dog-eared in use, to be|that there has been of late a falling read any tima, at night, in the morn-Jaway of interest in amateur photogra- Attire. ‘Women dress like men!” “*No,"” rejoined Miss Cayenne. “Wom- en have better sense. We would never consent to wear such uncomfortable clothing.” Offenders. ‘The burglar, going strong, ‘With danger safely flirts. The boob who parks too long ‘Will get his just deserts. Comforting Assurance. “We will give you a magnificent tomb."” “Thanks,” responded King Tut. “Royalty has its heartaches; but it at ledst knows that the housing problem will be taken care of. “De man dat’s lookin’ foh trouble,” said Uncle Eben, “very seldom knows what to do wif it when he finds it.” amphibian abandon, setting up a con- stant cholring that grated upon the nerves and soothed them at the same time. - ‘This is the happy effect of the frog chorus. As only the male frogs sing, the blend is “truly masculine, reminding one of the quartet that strolls out in front of the curtain between acts and fills the air with “Sweet Adeline.” Steadily the frogs creaked out their Spring melody. The month of March was almost over and Washington was enjoying a real Spring day The cautious might have warned against taking the weather too se- riously, but the frogs—and those who heard them there at the foot of the small hill—did not understand. It seemed Spring. Why should it not be Spring? Washington has waited many years for an ambitious me, the sort that opened early and never had a sethack Maybe this was it at last! * ok ok % The long road stretched before one, dotted hel 1d there with speedin automobiles. Cars have taken some. thing away from rambling along high ways. Where there is no si allke it Is necessary to step to one sidi car whizzes past, and then the p trian must breathe a sigh of when it is gor Watching both directions is a task, especially to those who possess not the ability to plunge on, sublimely faithful that the man coming from the rear will not run one down. Here the road dip: Along the old fence, yards and yards of honeysuckle grow, a treasure-tre for those who like to despoil the coun- tryside. This is one plant that may be taken with impunity, owing to its ability to ultiply by taking root at any place A branch touches the ground. 1t is doubtful if a4 whole city, sud denly taken with & manfa for the pos session of honeysuckle, could make S0 much as a dent in the vast quan tity of it growing wild along the roads leading into Washington. It you must pull up thing to take home. pick on the wild honeysuckle, and leave the pretty wild flowers and the dogwood and others alone in their habitat. When you get your vine home, be careful to plant it in some spot where it will not annoy the neighhors, as this plant puts out tremendous roots, and will usurp the ground for many feet around. some living % To the left the country slope and away, a rise hiding the land: to_the South. We hear a queer hill. “Left, right, left, right, one, tw three, four, left, right, left, right—"" Soldiers in the wood! What can that mean? Then we recall, This solves what had assumed mysterious proportions. For weeks on end—months, in fact— up pe sound over the BY FRE One of Benito Mussolini's men held 1+ watching brief in the United States nate this week, while the Itali debt settiement was under fire. I gnor Leonardo Vitetti, ses tary of the Italian embassy, and right- hand man of Signor de Martino, Mus- United dor to the as probably a: ic Vitetti his place in the diplom ) use of his perfect knowledge of our State: language. It is complete even to the point of permitting him to_follow “Jim" Reed, when the senior Senator from Missouri is spellbinding in hi best police court manner. Vitetti also brings to the task of reporting a Sen ate debate the talent and experience of o professional newspaper man. He was the editor of a distinguished Iralian international review before en- tering diplomacy, Vitetti is one of the voungest and keenest foreigners on duty in Washington. * X * % American stock is not likely to rise at the Palazzo Chigi, the m in Rome where Mussolini holds forth, as the result of the siings and arrows hurled in his direction at Washington this week. But he has never lavished any particular affection on us, for that matter. This observer is the sur- vivor of an electric half-hour with the “Duce” in the Summer of 1924, It must have been his day for baw out Uncle Sam and all his works, Sec- retary Hughes had just announced his inability to come to Rome, after having visited London, Paris, Brus- sels and even Berlin, Mussolini's in- dignation over that “boycott” was al- most inexpressible. America’s new immigration laws also sat heavily on the Fascist chieftain’s brawny chest. There had been, a few weeks pre- vious, the execution of some ltalian murderers in this country, on whose behalf Mussolini vainly sought clem- ency. That episode, too, left bla shirt feelings badly ruffied. It is easy for the present scribe to visualiz Mussolini's emotions when he reads the week's proceedings in the Ameri- can Senate. * K X ¥ ‘When the White House spokesman— a modest gentleman born in Vermont and whose hair is strawberry blonde— addressed the Washington correspond- ents the other day he said he feared he didn't always talk loud enough. He bade anybody who couldn’t hear him to feel at liberty to say ‘Louder!” Emile Berliner, inexhaustible Wash- ington inventor, who devised the mi- crophone and the talking - machire record, is celebrating the diamond jubi- Jea of his birth this Spring by an- other amazing invention. He calls it “acoustic tiles.” Its purpose is to make it unnecessary in the future for anybody to say “Louder!” in anv kind of a room, large or small. “Acoustic tiles,” fitted into walls and ceilings, will, Berliner has demonstrated, en- able a spoken word, uttered in a con- versational tone, to be heard the full length and width of a theater, as- sembly hall, cathedral or auditorium. * Kk ¥ ¥ One of America's great constructive citizens, John Hays Hammond, is 7L years old today, but not by the grace of President “Oom Paul” Kruger, who condemned the famous mining en- gineer to death 30 years ago in the Transvaal. Preparations are afoot to give Mr. Hammond a national testi- monial dinner in New York on his re- turn from Europe early in May. Its organizers are proceeding on the the- ory that the time to pay homage to a man is while he is still on earth, in- stead of somewhere else. Few Ameri- cans who have not held high public office can point to so meritorious a record of national and international service. Hammond might have been a cabinet officer under Taft (“Bill” has long been ‘Jack’s” closest friend), or a foreign ambassador under other Re- publican Presidents, or any number of things. But he apparently preferred WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS DERIC WILLIAM WILE. rble pile | High School Cadets had drilled on Our Street. Wheeling and turning, the boys had marched and countermarched in front of our door until we had heartily wished they would choose some othe) street. No one admires the High School Cadets more than we do, but their presence does become slightly tire- some, what with their eternal “One, two, three, four!” especially when one is trying to read or write. Now we know where when they disappeared We heartily commend the new pa- rade ground. By all means, let the hoys march in natural surroundings. It must be great deal easier on their ieet, and puts them more in touch with fighting conditlons. apoleon threatened to sweep of Paris with his gu s have not been the scenes of Rather the open country, the forests, the trenches. It seems that when men get down to such an elemental thing as battle they seek the country, where there is plenty of room. x oK ok * Gladly we leave friends in their wood, and go blithely in our new green sweater along th road, oily with automobile exudations The frog croakings have dwindle now to the proportion of “hot bug murmurs. We mount the hill, and come to a development, wher ambitious re: (e men are creating they went our blue-coated homes in the wilderness, We enter the settlement, and gaze at the honest workmen, as they laborl- ously apply stucco, smooth it off around the be ms, hurry in and out houses, through doorways not yet filled with doors, saw and plane, and do a thousand and one jobs. Ruilding a house will always re main a mystery to us. We know that the thing Is exceedingly simple, merely a matter of application, line on line, here a little, there a little; nevertheless, we do not it, and never will, for we have ferent temperament Our desire is for a house to sp up instant nd in this wish w constantly disappointed. iouses not spring up instartly. It millions of steps to miuke & house n understand Aif- The honest workingmen look at our green sweater. We look at them long eno 1 to know that their gaz is not in that th wdmiration, despite the ade is a nifty “heather, 't flecked with gray. No, we fear the toilers resent- ful of our nice green sweater, Men who work with ax and plan and maul, are apt to re | things. We have often wonder this_is, for, on our part, we do not grudge them thei terers’ overalls r picturesque plas- and their old slouch hats. Pretending great indifference to their glances at our sweater, we calm- ly calmly as we can), stroll along, admiring the curious chimneys, and the little jutting bay windows, and the evidences of skill and care on every hand Bright gleams the sun over the en tire District of Columbi Some months from now these workmen will be gone, nd, in their stead, happy children’ will play here, in the bright- est of red, green, blue and other col- | ored sweaters Here sweet women will preside, and toward these houses, in the evening men will return, for these houses will | be home then. Surely this is a job worthwhile. service in unofficial President Harding drafted Hammond's skill as a mining expert for the chair- manship of the deral fact-finding commission on coal. Hammond spends his time between his Tudor mansi ranks. In in Washington: & mmer home Gloucester, Mass., and foreign travel. * ok ok ¥ Mrs. Calvin Coolidge has just been given a new and unique ‘ank and title. She is “the next friend of the Government with respect to White House matters.” That was the scription applied to our vi Lady this week in an exalted quarter. It was forthcom during a discussion of the report | pronounced unfounded —that Mr: Coolidge intends making a nation appeal for colonial furniture for the White House. The President’s posi- tion seems to be that White Hou mistresses really have nothing to do with the furnishings of the establish- ment except to hat they well taken care of. ry President's wife has ideas of her own as to how they should be arranged, hut additions ar subtractions are not within her scope—according to the Coolidge doc- trine. One of the things Mrs. Coolidge found when she moved into the Executive Manslon was an extraordi- narily long bed. She came immedi- ately to the conclusion that it must have been Abraham Lincoln’s. Then he proceeded to move into the room some furniture of the Civil W riod that probably once belonged the suite. to ERCE an unusual number of in public life today that are reminiscent of other men and other times. In Illinois candidates for the United States Senate include William There's names McKinley (Republican) and James Monroe (Democ ). Oliver Wendell | Holmes is the dean of the United States Supreme Court. John Marshali is an assistant attorney general of the United States. Ulysses S. Grant is director of public buildings and parks. Theodore Roosevelt almost became Governor of New York again Thomas F. Bayard still adorns the United States Senate—the second of | that name and the fourth of his line. Robert M. La Follette's petuated in the same hody. Gompers is chief clerk of the Depart- ment of Labor. Henry Cabot Lodge is a_Washington newspaper man. The United States Army has an ex- ecutive officer that shows there's something In a name, A. Hero, major general, is chief of the Coast | Artillery. * ok ok ok No delegate at the Geneva disarma- ment conference ought to have a live- lier interest in its success than Alan F. Winslow, who will be secretary of the American mission. Winslow, now secretary of our legation in Switzer- land, is a one-armed veteran of the World War. He was the first Ameri- can aviator to bring down a German plane after we took the field. Capt. Winslow is a son-in-law of William R. Castle, jr., chief of the Western- European division of the State De- partment. He has been in the Forelgn Service since the war. (Copyright. 1926.) The Supreme Sport. From the Toledo Blade. Base ball is the second greatest American sport. The greatest is pass- ing the buck. Intelligence and Love. From the Waterbury Democrat. It may be that the limit of intelll- gence is reached at 16. Most people fall in love alter that. L) Politics at Large I By G. Gould Lincoln The long-awaited reports of the Sen- ate committee on privileges and elee- tions in the Brookhart-Steck contest for the seat now held by Senator Brookhart, Republican insurgent, of Towa are now before the Senate, and that body is expected within a few whether Daniel I at, 18 to be seated and art sent back to Iowa, accordance with the majority re- ock, in port, or whether the incumbent is to An his seat. Senator Stephens of Mississippt, Democrat, has filed a mi nority report, signed by himself alone, upholding the right of Senator Brook- hart to his seat. Should the Senate vote to seat Capt. Steck, the Democrats will have gained one Senator toward the hoped-for con- trol of the Senate after the elections next Fall. In other words, they will bhave to win 9 seats now held by Republicans, if Steck be seated, in stead of 10, to take over the organiza- tion of the Senate. With 27 sitting Republicans up for re-election in No- vember and only 7 Democrats States which are solidly Democ: - the task, while considerable, does not appear to the Democrats at all im- possible. * ok ok ok . Fach week brings new evidence that the “wet" and “dry" issue is to figure largely and to a much greater extent in the elections this Fall than in any electfon since natfon-wide prohibition into effect in 1920. One of the reports is that the prohibition ion is to play a part in the chusetts campaign, with former Senator David 1. Walsh, Demoerat, on the “wet” end of the lssué. Sen: ator William M. Butler, Republican, chairman of the party's national committee, in 1924, when he was men- tioned as w candidate for the Senate d before he gave up the idea of Leing a candidate for the Republican nomination in order to run the cam ign for President Coolidge, an rounced that he was for “law enforee- ment.” Whether a candidate who stands for law enforcement is to be considered a “dry” or a “wet” is a little obscure. 1If the liquor question is raised, Senator Butler doubticss will ake his position entirely clear. Senator Walsh attended a meeting of the Democratic State central com- mittee of Massachusetts in Boston recently, and was introduced as the Democratic candidate for the Senate. The statement was made more than once at the meeting that he would wve no opposition in the primaries. h, in an address to the declared that the greatest coming campaizn e “whether this countr is to be longer dominated, controlled and ruled by a small minority of wealthy men.” He critieized as “political larceny" the plan which the legislative committee as prepared for redistricting the State, saying that it was absolutely unfair to the Democrats. * ¥ ¥ ¥ The York Anti is now candidate in oppo loon League in New threatening to put a the in the field for ition Ser r Wi - Republican, who is up for re- this The drys are over the Karle-Phelps reso in the State legislature for a wines and beer, that if the Re lutfon referendum on and are threa publicans permit the resolution to go ning through, they will put their own candidate in the field for Senator. The Democrats are expected to put a “wet” in the race against Senator Wadsworth, who was one of the op- ponents of the eighteenth amendment while it was yre the Senate. The effe of a “dry” entry in this sena- torfal race is still problematical. It is possible such a candidate would ( yme Democratic votes, though Democrats in New York State are saié to be rare. The belief is that the dry ticket would cut more serfously into the Wadsworth vote. * ok ok % The Democrats are to make a bid for the.election of Senator in Penn- vania this Fall, heartened by the three-cornered fight for the Repub- liean senatorial nomination in which Senator Pepper, Gov. Pinchot and Representative W. (standing for ') 8. Vare are engaged. William son, Secretary of Labor under the Wilson administration in Wash ington, has announced his candidacy for the Senmate. He has the backing of Vance McCormick, former Demo- cratic national committeeman, and Austin E. McCullouch, former State rman. Mr. Wilson's candidacy is a challenge to Joseph E. Guffey of Pittsburgh, Democratic national committeeman, and John H. Bigelow, State chairman. . B. Zimmerman, secretary of the State committee, has filed in Harrisburg the nomination of George H. Rowley of Greenville, who will oppose Mr. Wilson. * ok k k Senator Peter Nor eck of South Daketa, running true to form, has won the Republican nomination in tha State to succeed himself at the first | primary election of the ve The | nomination in South Dakota is re- garded as tantamount to on, Whi ‘enator Norbeck is ed as a )gressive, he has supported the administration in a number of votes in the Senate in recent months, and the administration is by no means as an- tagonistic to him as to some of the other Progressives of the Senate. The only chance for a Democrat to win in South Dakota would come through a deadly split among the Republicans, and this is not looked for. * ok ok K In North Dakota a real struggle be- tween the Progressives—Non-Partisan Leaguers in that State—and the regu- lar Republicans, or “stalwarts,” is coming in June. Senator Gerald P. Nye, Progressive Republican, serving under appointment to fill temporarily the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Ladd, is matched against for- mer Gov. Hanna, who is a nephew of the late Senato: Mark Hanna of Ohio. Hanna is the candidate of the stalwart wing of the party. The election t. place June 30. There is no prims election for the Republican nomi tion, and not long ago Hanna and h friends set up a claim to Republican designation on the ticket in June. But Senator Nye and the Progressives made it clear to the stalwarts that unless they abandoned this claim, the would invoke the law and that they had the machinery to give Nye the Republican designation. The upshot of the matter is that neither will go on the ballot as “Republican,” but both will run as independents. Sen- ator Nye proposed this arrangement rather than put the people of the State to the expense of a convention, which would entail the travel of delegates from all parts of the State to the convention city. The Progressives, it is sald, are well together in support of Senator Nye, and confldently pre- dict his election. The election, June 30, is for the short term, which ex- pires March 3, next. Senator Nye is also a candidate for the long term, but will not come up for that election until November, * % % ¥ Republican National Committeeman Willlam F. Brooks of Minnesota, in Washington this week, is authority for the statement that the situation for the Republicans is looking better and better in his State. President Coolidge, he says, is exceedingly pop- ular in the State.’ Every effort, he says, will be made this to defeat the two Farmer-Labor members of the House. That party, he insists, is losing strength. In the race for gov- ernor, Mr. Brooks believes the Repub- licans will surely win. The Republi- can nomination lies between Gov. Christianson and Mayor. Leech of ANSWERS TO QU / BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. .S Q. Why does a bump follow a knock on the head instead of a dent?—E. J. A. When a person bump the soft tissues covering th Jastic and are stretched like rubber. While at the time of the bump there is a dent, the tissues straighten out again, but some of thes the side | of the bump are injured and some | even killed. Nature's way to cure the place where the injury occurred is to fill it with blood. The little white cells of the blood tuke up and carry away the dead tissues and fill this place with blood, which causes the his head 1 are e A. According swelling. |of 1524 of the Feders the and tots Q. Is it true that some flowers at- tract bees by their color?’—k. P. A. The supposition is that bees are attracted to flowers primarily by their odor, but the color does have a cer- tafn’ attraction. Blue, for instance, will atiract bees most readily. Q. Where will Old Ironsides go on B its next trip?—C. H. A. The Na rtment says that the route of the Constitution has not as yet been determined. The ship is not ready as vet to make the trip The collection taken up to reconditior the vessel has not reached the amount required. Q. How much does it cost the Gov. ernment to deport an alien?— B. A. The average per capita cost in| deporting aliens 1s 5. The pend ing bill,carrying appropriations for | the Department o inelude itemn of $600,000 for depor lons, it is the intention of the House Im: gration committee to additional appropriation of $1,000,0( for the purposs nn Q. Lenin's body lying on a couch in the open 5 B. A n' a couch in | ermetically mid of cut o tra it is there only surface, of th t one ¥ . along the its above, Q. Where was the wire less messuge sent fron A. The first paid radiogram was transmitted from the Needles Station Isle of Wight. Q. When was th sweet pea first men mon He toned in who sent an commeree peas have for more na centu and all of the vs e grown popularity for ti America between 1885 an nile the tide, which received | impetus through the introduction the waved, or beginning to bration in London in —_— | Q. Give a description of the prope lers used in modern afr R. D. ( A. Present-day proj ade type, similar propelling * ships, but longer biades. The number of blades is two, ful types are in use where t¥ e employed rate of speed (1 to the ) | as often as | that is a mat ir"," J. Haski revolutions per minute) the propelle develops a pull or “thrust” upon the alr in a directi to which, trar alrship, throug In the otion throt the air ne this ve used by t the lifts makes it Q. What is the total number of ¢ ployes, and the & t of the s, of the Fede . M. 1 of the ¢ 3 any lendar 3 il salaric 3 for the ye Q. Which royal flush is the hig est?—M. D A. Nothing beat 1 flush in poker. Another ro flush ties It sin the sui rank. Should than spoil their lucl Q. Who was n who brou Virginta clarg )r his salar penny d people to ple was his elag award of Q ed When w n Trelar 1840 to 1846, ed diet Frederic J The Evening St quiries of our re invited to cail u e case. Ask anything r of fact and the au- thority will be quoted you. There i no charge for s service. Ask what Ju want, sign your name and o dress inclose 2 cents in_stam far retur ss The Fr D. ¢ National Park Prospects Prove Gratifying to East The constant increase in the ber of tour who spend the cations getting acquainted with natural beauties of the United Sta enhances interest in the prospect that the two wonderful areas in the southern | Appalachian Mountains be | added to the list of the n: tional park Of the eed of these can be d-T'r yette Park, ne points 1 the little gem on ) all the West.” 5 resign ftself to this unequal | division if there were no exte tracts this side of the scenic attraction” suffic standing to make them eli lection as national park calls attention s tract the Great Smoky ntains of Tennessee and Nc lina, and the Shenandoah tr on the crest of the Blue Ridge Vi 5 8 g of the fc is a beautiful wilderness s of wild life, a true me the He to the Great rich in s iffs and gorges A presidents of the 1 utie gree, unmarred thus fa * ok K X ymething t Vir- North Caro. “But there is lina must do befor ss will au thorize the establis of these two national arks, Subty T d-Courier; “the; buy the park nd pre to the Government, since the ment will spend no money f purchase of land for park p There should be no question tha campaigns > ark funds will suc : phe: true seems to be horne out by recent information personal A1) to Secretary of the Interfor Wo Gov. Harry F. Byrd of Virginia, that his State had ed $1,200,000 for the purchase of 4 posed Shenandoah according to the Lynchburg Daily Ad vance, which declares that the “nest step toward making the park a realif to secure the full $2,500,000 which is necessary to purch of the acreage in the park Advance suggests that much of this balance will “be raised in other sec- tions of the East, for the park is not solely a Virginia project, but is a park for the benefit of every State east of the Mississippl River.” In regard to the proposed Smoky Mountain Park, the Charlotte Ob- server, while not discounting at all Bristol Hera mt ed the wonderful scenic beauties of that region and the benefit to the State from the tourists that will be attract- ed to its wilderness charms, still em- phasizes as of greater significance the fact that the rivers that rise in “regulation of the flow of the G eat Minneapolis, while former Senator Mg, Johnson is expected to win the Farmer-Labor nomination. The Minnesota primaries take place June 21. * ® % % Comes a report from Indiana that Ku Klux Klan differences in that State are imperiling the candidacy of Senator Watson and of Senator Rob- inson, both Republicans, who are seeking renomination and re-election. Hiram Wesley Evans, imperial wiz- ard, and George Eliiot, exalted cy- clops of the State, have locked horns, according to reports, over the World Court and other issues. Both the dlana Senators voted against Ameri- can adherence to the World Court. Elllot has been aiding Gov. Jackson, who has criticized the stand taken by the Senators against the World Court and against President Coolidge in this matter. N by the creation of lin that tion. ont it k by | Mountains s fed by ains North E ns rising will be guarante the from’ the he order that g not sweep cut the land which tous influences. It s to go back to the t of o fathers, 1t of religinus freedom, We time for Americani: expect to seek ernational peace on a substan footing until we have created good will In o Evans Hughes has no po. s to grind. He has oecupied the highest political and executive of fices within the gift of this country save only that of the Presidency of the United States. On the lambent peaks of age he can look bhack over a career that has never been sullied by a shadow of dishonesty in his dealings with Americans. He s quit publ life to spend the remainder of his days in private legal activities and in o pressing his untrammeled thought about life and its anings. It was fitting, therefore, that after such 2 speech as that resolutions wera passed asserting a belief “in the broth erhood of Jew and Gentile beneath 5 ferences of creed.” It is true that among the diners there were men of various culture religions, creeds. But these made no difference to the common spirit of the gathering. Of courss, such a limited group as that cannot be reckoned as the com- mon spirit of America. Between the oceans that wash our shores and b tween the lakes and the gulf there = much hateful intolerance calculated 1o crush this creed or that, or meant to suppress expressions of that lib- erty of religion and conscience whick all free peoples must express if t are to continue free. But it is hopeful thing to know that here and there seeds of wisdom wund tolerance are being planted that may overcoma at last the ugly and nauseous tares of bigotry. >