Evening Star Newspaper, April 7, 1926, Page 8

THE EVENING SYAR, WASHINGTON, D. 'C., WEDNESDAY APRIL 7. 1926 SW THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. AVEDNESDAY......April 7, 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company n Businags Office 11th St and Peansylvania Ave New York Office: 110 East 4:nd St. “rg Ohicago Office: Tower Bullding. Buropean Office 14 Regent St.. London, ae England. . The Evening Star, with the Sunday mern '{n; adition, s delivered by carriers within Y4ty a1 60 cents”per month: s} [ rents mer month: Sunday only. 20 cents Pey montn. Orders may be sent by mall or lephone Main 5000, Collection is made by CATTIAT At the end of éach month. *Rate hy Mall—Payable in Advance. . Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sundav $9.00: 1 mo. Dalr only S6.00° 1 me. Sundar only $3.00: 1 mo. | 1y iy 75 b ANl Other § ke and Sunday afly v undar oniy ates and Canada. 1vr. $12.00: 1 mo. $1,00 1V TSR 00 1 o 1¥r. $1.00; 1m0 Member of the Associated Press. The Aseociated Press is exeh t6 the uce for repunhication of al Fatches rradited (o it ted in thie paver an published b il of special o fehia of publics also rese Pan-American Journalists. In accordance with the provisions of | 8 resolution adopted by the Fifth Pan American Conference in Santiago, | Chile, three vears ago, representatives of the leading newspapers of all the American Republics are gathered in | Washington today for the opening of | the First Pan-Amervican Congress of Jrurnalis This finds the newspaper man in a new and interest- jng role. His traditional post has been on the side lines, a close observer of the actors and a critical reporter of their Now he must step down from his obscurely safe vaniage | point and iake his place in the spot- | light. He hecomes his own critic. His | snecess or failure lies within hhu!!lf.} There is much of promise and of hope In this new especially as it in this instance, the field 1 relatiéns. The impor- for | medium | avent movements. ) concerns, of Internatio tance of the p fostering 1 will and as a for the dissemination of desirable prop aganda underesti- mated. nor has the potential power for 2o0d or for evil of those who write for the press heen denied. But too little thought to the necessity of having a thorouzhly informed as well as a svmpathetically press. | Carsless or ant interpretation of | avents, regardless of the motive, can tear down in ineredibly short time all the good that has been accom- ss as an agency has 1 heen is given inclined an plished through vears of painstaki effort This Fir Jou in the many bean held in the past a tury between representatives of va rious interesis in the American Re publies. For the first time the men | wha have the power and the privilege of directing public oplnion are meet- | ing in Washington, not only o discuss some of the technical problems com- mon to them in their chosen field of Journalism, bui 1o “get acquainted to make friends and to obiain the other man's of view On this | oocaslon the guesis are from the Re- publics of South and Central America. Their hosts are the newspaper men of the United Siates. In addition to the beneAt which the guesis may from actual contact with their a tour has arr show them something of the country. The viaitors will see places which bear an historical inter sociation with traditions dear to us as A nation. They will have pointed out to them what the United States is do- ing industriaily, commercially and cul- | twrally. Tn the end they will have gained something through personal in- | spaction that oiherwise have bean Inst. They will go hack home to writa understandingiy, as well as sym- pathetically, of what we are doing in this country and of the motives under- Iving our accomplishments. But there the task undertuken in this First Conzress will have been ouly hegun. These visitors have shown flattering interest and a praiseworthy motive in eving thousands of miles to see us. It is to be hoped that the muceess of this first meeting will | rasult in a second congress to afford the newspaper men of the United | flvl‘! an opporiunity to repay lh\'} compliment. The need for a proper | understanding and appreciation of the other's country and ideals is not con- fAined to the journalisis of the South. ————s - Getting the 1. S. A. into the World Court begins look like expert selesmanship as well as diplomacy. { Pan-American Congress of therefore, takes high rank significance with which have of a cen ists imporiance and conferences arte point derive | hosts, | heen nged to st hecause of their as- | | | | | would | | [ r——— Mussolini Escapes Death. Today's attempt on the life of Mus- solini, Ttaly’s virtual dictator, Is not a surprising development. He has been in danger of assassination for several yvears, ever since he entered Rome at the head of his Fascisti, in fa Plots azainat him have been formed und | thwarted. Not many months. ago & would-be assassin was arrested as he was training a rifle on the balcony on which Mussolini was shortly to ap pear 1o address a throng. This Imme- diate attack made by a woman who gained close access to the tor as he was leaving & convention of surgeons. She fired point blank at him, but only slightly wounded him in the face. His escape from instant death was remarkable. Mussolini has challenged assassina ton. He has dealt ruthiessly with conditions that, he believes, have men- aced Italy’s nationzl life. He has msde enemies in great numbers, has .aroused fanatical hatred. "That ltaly is the better for his ministrations s not to be denied. He has put an end to eorrupt bureaucratic government, has brought order out of the chaos of maladministration, has suppressed radicalism, has sustained the throne and has revived the industrial pros- perity of the country. His methods have been drastic, at times tyrannical. He has not tolerated dissension in the ranks of his own party, and is sus- pacted of resorting to extreme meas- ures to punish recalcitrants. Thus no other man in high public atation in Furope has hecome so plain- Iy exposed to the threat of death. As- sassination, however, has been reck- ened by Mussolini as & posel- was | only. ! | work ! the | shape the bill passed the House. Ubitity. He nas made proviston for nis | “anccesaion,” having nominated those { Who are to carry on his work In the | event of his death, by disease or by Yet it In recognized that Mus | solini's successor would not command | the fidelity that is given to him by hir | following, would not wield the suthor- { crime, ity that he hax grasped and employed, | would not so efficiently administer the | 1 affairs of Italy as he has managed them ever since his dramatic seizure of power Men of Mussolini's type and charac- ter are sustained in peril by supreme onfidence in their destinies. 'They re. gard (hemselves as chosen for their | are fatalists In their view of ! their own fortunes. This present es- | cape from death, by S0 narrow a mar- gin. Is calculated (o increase Musso- ini's confidence that he ix favored by a 1 providenc on his et it will not cause any re- precautions against mis- in all linelihood, he dic- [ | wor spe o carry Ia hap, but will rather lead to increased safeguards, tRtor of Italy is not reckless, ion o e Operators’ Permits. Expressing dissatisfaction with the plan to veissue automobile drivers’ permits, the House District commit- tee Monday refused to the time for reissuance. Members of the committee were caustic in their eriti- cism of the muddled traic condition. Briefly stated, the situation is this The original trafic act now effectiv provides for the vearly issuance of operators’ p All permits were March 31 last. Although the act ordered this check-up on March 31 of this year, it was not until March 1 thai funds were made available to traffic office the additional personnel required handle the work. 1t Is apparent that one menth is too short a time to hire clerks, re. vise listx and jxsue more than 109,000 permits. On December 9, shortly after Co gress convened, a bill was introduced providing for five-yvear permits at $6 to be substituted for the annual per- mit clause in the traffic code. In ymmittee, however, the Was changed to three years extend void for to time, and in T'he permits, under this provision, were (0 be issued in aiphabetical blocks as soon as the t functioning sonnel necessary There the matter meantime District motorists ave dri g with expired permits. The Sen- ate nittee has taken no action and the course it will take in The trafic office did not have funds in time for (he reissuunce of permits March 31 the traflic not know in what shape Hy pass Con- gress, e whole matter terms of the amended code when it is passed by Congress. This phase of the situation in Washington was one of the first matters of local im- portance brought to the attention of the legislative body at the present session. Congress itself can afford the only relief for the present in- tolerable condition and Congress should act to avoid the confusion which threatens to overwheim the city, with the Increased pe: rests. n Disg uncertain, on and office does the bill will the rests on The April climate is occasioning a sense of uncertainty to when the sleizh riding season comes to a defi { nite close in this vicinity. e Faithless Enforcement Agents. It was undenlably a clever move on the part of the “‘wet” prosecution, as it may be termed, in the Senate pro- hibition hearing to call as an early | witness in the case the Government's chief enforcement officer, the Assist- | ant Secretary of the Treasury charg- ed with that duty. possible to set forth the difficulties en- countered In enforcement, and from | “n unimpeachable witness, Andrews, in -his testimony stated nothing but Everybudy has Known f Yet Gen. vesterday, - w long time ! that enforcement iy exceedingly diffi- cult, that Governwment agents have been corrupt, that court decisions ou technicalities of have ham- pered the administration, that as a re- sult of luopholes in the statute large leaks of liquor have vecurred. There Is 1o occasion for surprise i this testimony, especially that relating (o the corruption of government en- forcement agents. Perhaps, on the contrary, there is occasion for sur- prise that out of & force of 3,800 men only the circumstances of their selection for this service are taken into consid- eration. It Is well known that from the out- set certain interesis have undertaken to break down the enforcement law, by direct deflunce and by indirect methods. Those enis, with large means ut command and with' enor- mous profits i view, have spared no efforts to corrupt the agenis of the Gover nent, or Lo get their own men into the service by dint of fulse repre- sentations. The law should not be condemned because of the adroitness and persist ence with which it is fought. ‘There are Jaws which forbid the taking of the Jaw property, aguinst which criminais are | constantly at war. There is no de- mand for iheir annulment on the the warfare that is waged against crooks. A law forbids the taking of human lite. Many hundreds of murders are committed annually in this country. Yet there is no demand for the repeal of the homicide, because it s difficult in some cases (0 catch and at thmes even more difficult to comvict and punish the slayers when they are caught. "o be sure, one of the arguments advanced by those who are now being heard on the “wet” side of the case is that the difficuity of enforcement shows that prohibition is impossible. 'he fact that enforcement agents have been corrupted, have taken briben, have conspired to defeat the Govern- ment, have themselves been intempe ate, becomes & factor in the case. But, in this country to a scandalous degree in some cases, police forces have been corrupt and untrustworthy, under po- litieal influences. Policemen have fallen victima to seduction, have taken bribes, have been guilty of miscen- duct. But nobody has ever demanded score of this | flic office could begin | the | For it was thus | it facts. | 75 have proved unworthy, when | laws against | "hl aBolition of the police because of] | sueh evil happenings, Less than twenty-five per cent of the enforcement agents have proved faithless. Most of those have been made the victims of deliberate seduction b the foes of the law. It may be sug about that which today in the body politic of America is demanding the abandonment of prohibition, the re- cent so-called polls of public epinion |10 the contrary notwithatanding. R Services at Pesry’s Grave. The seventeanth anniversary of the discovery of the North Pole was yes- terday commemorated, And honor was paid to Its discoverer when repre- Aentatives of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the National Geographic Re- ciety und the Civil Engineering Corps of the Nuvy latd wreaths on the tomb of Rear Admiral Rovert E. Peary at ‘Avlington. Tt was September 8, 1909, that word came to Washington and all other parts of the world to which the telegraph leads that Peary had reached the pole April 6 In that yesr. The news was accepled as the climax of more than 300 vears of mporadic effore by adventurers of several na- tions and of more than half a cen- tury of expeditions promoted by the United Statex Govérnment and Ameri- cans, 'The expedition of 19089 was the ultimate of a series which Peary led 1o the Arctic between 1391 and 1908, and no doubt one should count back to Peury's reconnaissance of the Greenland ice-cap In 1386, Be fore Peary came be ussociated with Arctic expl the great American names connected with ad venture and discovery in the upper purt of the world were Greely, Oc- tave Pavy, Joseph Henry, Lockwood and Brainard, Schley, De Long, Chip and Melville., Peary in his several voyages added much to man's knowledge of the North. As chief of the expedition sent in 188192 by the Academy of Nutt Sciences of Philadelphia he proved that Greenland is an jslend and he discovered, roughly mapped, and numed Melville lLand and Heil- prin Land. Much of Peary's lite from 1881 (o 1908 was passed in the Arctic. One attempt after another reach the pole was beaten, but severul times he came close to the pole as Arctic distances meaa- ured. In 1906 he reached the latitude of 87 degrees and 6 minutes north, jor 208 miles from the pole. On Juiy 6, 1908, he left the United States in | the Roosevelt und the next Spring he made the dush across the ice to the pule. When the Rovsevelt in the late | Bummer of 1909 touched lund at the {Dorth limit of telegraphic communi- cation news of the diacovery was made known to the world. | Few men have been {honors as Rear Admiral t ix the custom to lay flowers on hir grave on each anniversary of { the discovery of the North P —aves to tion to iven such | now Mah-jong has lost its popuierity te a large extent; possibly because it re. jauired so expensive an outfit that the { mind wandered from the game in order to admire the jewelry, ————t Prohibition cannot be regarded as & complete success until the charge “Driving while drunk” has been en- tirely eliminated from the Traffic Court records. | | | | | | | TS | Alcohol has always-been denounced |as a poison. The denaturing process has enabled it to go from bad to | worse. . Sue. - oo SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Last Faint Hope. ! Though puzzied by the frequent legia- lation Inducing arguments both loud and long, ‘There comes anew a state of agitation That needs authority both prompt and strong. When April skies should be serene and sunny And the climate won't proper thaw We can’t be philosophical or funny— We're tempted (o request another law! provide the | There re laws abstruse concerning | mathematics ; Aud astronomic movements which affect "The weather. problematic. This year's enforcement hasn't been correct, So, once again to Congress we're applying. Though th after dark, We want & law expressly notitying ©Old Winter that he mustn't over- park: | i Rules should not be | | may have to labor Poetry of Motion. “Do you realize that dancing is the of motion?” like poetry,” answered Senator | Sorgbum, “but I'm shy about dancing. | A 800 line of classic verse helps an oration, but 1 can't imagine what | would bappen it I were to try to intro- duce a few Charleaton steps into one of my speeches.” Rough Relations, We speak about “Man’s brotherhood. To praise it all prove able, Yet wish so many brothers would Not act like Cain and Abel. Jud Tunking says it's a great thing in being a good listener, es] Ny when you're waiting for a balky nums ber_over the phone. Interference. The little lambkin loves to play At a financial bluff. The bulls and bears obstruct the way And make the game too rough. o Patronizing Airs. “Would you petronize a bootlegger?” “U'd never try it,” answersd Uncle Bill Bottletop, “All the bootleggers I know have become too weaithy and influential to be patronized, “T)e man dat’s never polite eycept when he wanta.a favor,” maid Uncle Bben, “is liable to get 86 far out o' practics dat he ean't fool M..’ Y gested that this percentage is perhaps | Peary, and | Calycanthus Floridus. Bweet-amelling shrub of my childhosd, In the wildwood, Where we met, You had an odor Sweeter than clover, In dreams I smell yvou vet; Roaes and Mliea are fragrant, Bwael is the frail mignonette; But, little brown bud, Sweet-smelling shrub, You | shall never forget! 1t waa not precisely in a wildwood that we first met our swest-smellin; shrub, but, in composing the above song, we found there ia no other pos- sibie rhyme for ‘‘childhoo ‘The popular red-brown shrub blos som smells as aweel, Calyeanthus floridus by any othe name, but monst readers will | readily recall it simply us “shrub.” It in more common in amall townsa and the country than in the cities, although it deserves, and no doubt vet will have. an wide an urban plant- ing as any of the Spireas. the golden Forsythia or other of the popular bushes, The Calyeanthus goes under various names. Tn most of the nursery books it 18 calied “Sweet-smelling Shrub,” as if it were the only shrub in the world 1o smell sweel(. Certainly none is aweeter. * ok % ok He who has not, a8 & child, erushed one of the small chacolate-brown “shrubs” in his handkerchief haw lost valuable memor Memories of odora. as the whel world knows by this time, are the most {énacions of all. We mayv for- get faces, aights, sounds, but @ cbar. acteristic fragrance, one that nas something definite about it, is held in mind forever, Can an odor he held in mind? Ve bellave it can. ‘Ine olfactory organs have the closest connection with the brain, and impressions taken in by the one remain firm fixed in the other. ‘Ihis may not be exact physiology. but it is near enough fer all prac- i tleal purposes, which, in this case, wimply mean the retention of an odor, once smeiled. It was & warm night, vears ag when we firat took a sniff ac the sweet. smelling shrub. It Is a delcious fi grance, ané %o impressed our child- iah senses. In the passing veara we have seen no reason to .aiter that im- pression. The odor of thia little bud or bles som is unique. We wonld like 1o w “most unique.”’ were that not frow ed upon by thé best authorities. (Sometimen the best authorities are terribly betherseme!) 2 The awest.-smelling shrub, then has a amell uniike any other. vet strangelv reminiacent. it reminds one of » new song, il heing “‘plugged undeubtedly new, vet we feel that we have “heard it befere.” ahrub, which we will call it for short, has a apicy. tingling odor, A fragrance that lingers. for which reason it was commoniy placed In handkerchiefs. the first sachet, one mi & ., neither too pungent nor 8o In the tuberose. for instance. ture produces g heavy. cloving oder. which some find impossible to allow delegation to the pr liminary armament conference at Geneva will sall from New Tork aboard the United Stdtes steamship Leviathan on April 30. [ 1t will di embark st Cherbourg, spend a couple of davs in Parls and then proceed to the League of Nations' headquar- ters In Switzerland. As at present constituted, the delegation, including its chairman, Hugh S. Gibson, o Minister to Switzerland. and its retary, Alan F. Winslow of the le, tion. at Bern, nufabers 10. Dorsey Richardson, assistant chief of the western European division of the State Department, and Allen V. Dulles, chief ot the Near Easter: division, Wil be Minister Gibson diplomatic coadjutors from this sid From the Army, Msj. Gens. Dennis E. Nolan and Harry A. Smith and M George Strong are going. From the Navy there will be Rear Admirals Hilgry - A. Jones and Andrew T, TLong and Capt. Adolphus Andrews. Whether any American military or naval attaches stationed in Europe will be drafted for conference gervice depends on developments at Geneva. The delegation’s plans are being per- fected from day to day at meetings in the State Department. * ok %o America. Representative Meyer Jacobstein of Rochester, N. Y.. author of the prin- cipal coal legislation now under oon- sideration in the «fouse, is the man most talked about for the Democratic nomination for the United States Sen- ate in the Empire State. Gov. “Al Smith likes Jacobstein. When “Chai ley”’ Mutrphy passed away on the eve of the 1924 Democratic national con- vention, Jacobsteiin was named = New York State delegate at large at Smith's instigation. If the young esconomist-statesman is pitted against Senator James W, Wadsworth, ir.. the Republican incumbent, i pires to re-election, there'll he 3 tle royal in central New York, whence both originate. The Wadaworth name is one to conjure with in the Genesto Vall but Jacobstein carried the Rochester congreasional district i 1924 by a majority that ran many thousands of vetes ahead of his more tamous fellow-victors—Calvin _Cool- idge, for President, and “Al" Smith, for governor. * K K K Senater William _Cabell Bruce, Democratic wet of Maryland, chief protagonist of the anti-Volateadites in the Senate hearings, has inherited the late Henry Cabot Lodge's title as the scholar in politics. Like Lodge, Bruce In a historian and man of let- ters. He has “lives” of Benjamin Franklin and John Randolph of Rea- noke to his credit, in addition to & picturesque. volume of Virginian lorg entitled ‘‘Below the James." One Senator Bruce's proudest claima to fame 18 that he once defea Woed- row Wilson in a debate, 1t was while they were fellow-students at the Uni- Virginia. The medals for the best debating and the best essay both went to Bruce. Like Wilson wan, Bruce is a Virginian, and talka with the unmistakable accent of ithe Old Deminion. > * ok ok % Julign Codman, Boston lawyer, who is general counsel for the wets in the Senate hearings, is a scion of one of the New Fngland families that look only upon Cabots, Lowells, Lodges et al. @8 their cultural and ancestral peers. For generations without num- ber the Codmans have been associated with the foremost intellectual, com. mercial and financizl traditions of Massachusetts. Any cause to which one of them lenda his name is looked upon in the Rack Ray district, and all points north, south, éast and west, as intrinsieally sound. It is the con- stitutiona) fllegitimacy of prohibition, as wets view it, that.induces a Cod- man on the present accasion to enact :h! rale ;f s crusader. One of go interegty he is Qfi“m hofere the Senate’ ittee is that of 1he Con- labeled | more into popularity. ‘The thing is pleasing. | THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. in the house. The beaugiful hyacinth, t00, 8 vather overperfumed. Nature has a perfumery tactory in which ahe brings forth everything from the cloying to the faint and dainty. The ewest.smelling shrub stands about half-way in this scale Tt is just right, if you a * ok K This aweet-smeliing ahyub of ours in a species of the genus of plants of the family Calycanthacewe. It is also knewn as the Carelina allspice, or American alispice; gometimes called strawberry shrub. It grows naturally from Pennsyl- ‘sonthward, although it can be ralsed, with care, as far north as New York. It auccesafully withstands very cold Winters of the Middle w A dry situation suits it best. It is universally beloved of children, Probably the fragrance accounts for much of this preference. One of ita chocolate colored blossoms, crushed iri the hand, leaves a stweet smell, and, as stated, placed in the handker- chief, whers the warmth of the body brings out its odor, I8 something not to he torgotten. The child is a perfectly natural being, hence it carea for the odors of flowers. Sometimés when it grows older, in some cast it finds various aweet odors distastetul. Education and surroundings have a great deal to @6 with these changes in taste. Most bo; as they begin to grow ap, acquive a disposition to reject fragrance as something . dis inetly feminine. Yet it s & notorious fact that most men of the uitra-mascuiine typs have a real fondness for per us. I tastidious, Cortainly no one. howev the Calycanthus. i ‘E B % | In the Spring plntings, therefore, | reserve a piace for this humble shrub, | Which aska nothing more than a nor mally dry spot, with plenty of air !una sunsitine, to give you one of Na ture’'s aweetest odors. Of the five senses, there is none more worthwhile than that of smell. | The gentleman who hus heen deprived of him olfactory senses—and we know one such—has lost & great deal. For him there are no violets, scent- €4 with dew and sunrise; for him no odor of beetsteak, making even the dyspeptic hungry: for him no salt breeze from the ocean. The man with & true nose, however, | enjoys life 1o the full. While dis gusting odors may find him sensitiv | he mccepts them as the necessary verse of tha picture. Everything in life, seemingly, has auch a reverse—evervihing except the love of & g0od woman, who wears but | one face. that of Love. The man with « good nose, as the saving ia, revels in the fresh fra- grance of the very wind, and the smell of freshiy, turned over earth e knows the true delights of the | table, t00, better than any man. One eminent writer. in fact, has {gone so far as 1o say that the trie | gourmand eats with his nose —that is he firat smells, then eats—and that the odor Is, in reality, the best part of the meal. Modern scientific research his gone far to uphold his curious contentions. In the list of odors, Calycanthus, | the sweet-smelling shrub, holds a no- " ble place. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS 8Y FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE, stitutional TLiberty Engiland. Easter tourist visitors to the Capi- tol this week, who came in an endlesa stream. were afforded the unusual spectacie in the Senate of a duel be- tween the two men known us the ‘‘meanest and keenest” members of that bodyv—Caraway of Arkansas and Reed of Mistouri. Both are masters of ruthleas invective. But it Is not often that they are jabbing at each other. The Brookhart seat contest was the occasion. Caraway, like Reed, has » rasping. snarling mamer in dis- cuasion that leavea the average dis- putant helpless in the face of their quirks and quibble: Roth men in private life are lawyers. On highly con- troversial ocoasions like the Brook- hart debate, thev are accustomed to handle their senatorial opponen they probably have treated many a tough citizen in the witness box at a criminal trial, * ook % Edmund Platt, vice governor of the Federal Reserve Board, has a hobby that interests him simost more than high finance. It's birds. All his life he has been a student of everything connected with the feathered tribe and knows its history, habits and haunts as thoroughly as any professor of 3 moment Platt can spare from business cycles and the other preoccupations of the Federal Reserve Roard 1s devoted to the birds. He has no recreation that affords him anything like the enjovment of = lelsured stroll through regions where they abound. Theodore Roosevelt was addfcted to the same sort of thing. So is Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Brit- ain's war-time foreign minister. Mra. Coolidge 19 said to be a bird-lover, too, and to keep several pets 6f the species in the White House. Before he was appointed to the Federal Reserve Board in 1920. Platt (Harvard, '88) was an editor a? Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and had four terms in the House of Repre- sentatives, Teague of New * K % % Representative Maurice E. Crum- packer, Republican of Oregon, has disclosed, on the best of authority, that “'dealing in fundamentals” is the secret of Calvin Coolidge’s success in politics. The other day, at a apeech be- fore the Middlesex Club in Boston, Crumpacker quoted Mr. Coolidge as saying to him: “It was one of the most gratify- ing features of the entire campaign in 1924 that my opponents at- tempted to find some utterance that [ had made throughout my entire public life which was inconsistent with my present position, but they unsuccesstul. The reason was that I have alway ttempted to desl in fundamentain.” (Covyright. 1926.) vt ‘A Winning Rule. From the Utica Observer-Dispatch. Success consists of buying experi. ence and selling it at a profit. The Cnnliig Court. From the Omaha World-Herald. Among otner things, the committes fllndn fault with Judge English’s Eng- lsh. 5 Frostproof. Oklshoma City Daily Oklahoman. ng freezes ling political m t) Unfortunately, Jaté S do net affect !l% b geniuses, Even Royalty. From the 8¢. Pavl Dispateh. ot Good bl isn't esveryi 3 . chilg o & g must be taught which - spoon te use. i S could be oftended by the spicy odor of | Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln George E. Brennan, genial Demo- eratic hoss ‘of Chicago and national committeeman for the State of Tllinois, is spending the week end in Wash-! ington, although the senatorial primary elections in which he s a candidate for the Demoératic nomina tion are to take place next Tuesday. But then Mr. Brennan occupies a Somewhat different position from either of the gentiemen who are striv- ing for the Republican nomination, Senator William B. McKinley and Frank L. Smith. He has practicall no oppoaition. Furthermore, Mr. | Brennan is here appearing betore the | Senate committee holding hearinks on prehibition. He i here to denounce the Volatead act and demand modifica- tion. Since he is making his cam- paign for the Henate on & “wet” plat-| form, how better could he occupy his | When he takes the stand in hington, with the prohibition | hearings occupying the limelight, his| remarks will be published as widely in Tllinois or more so than any speech he might make in his State. r. Brennan regards the ‘‘wet' @ ax the issue of the day. He mays it is, and emphatically. Not all the “wets” are Democrats in Illinois by any manner of means, and Bren nan hopes to get a goodly number of Republicans on his side during the campaign and on election day next November. He will need them, if he is to bs successtul. He has begun to advertise himself as “bi-partisan” candidate alréady. He and his organ- ization in Chicago have placed a num- ber of Republicans on their ticket in the past for election to judgeships, he points out. Why wouldn't he himself | reeive Republican support in Chicago, he argues. | x ok ok % . There is littie doubt that suc- cess on the part of Mr, Brennan in the nenatorial election in illinois would be a great boost for the “wet” cause the | country over. It 1s all very well for the “‘drys” to apeak of Chicago—and sven Tilinols—as “‘wet” territory. What happens in the third most populous State in the Union is bound to have iits effect in other parta of the coun- try. Furthermore, it would give the “wet” end of the Democratic party a great _boost—and Gov. Al Smith of New York might benefit thereby to a very great extent at the Democratic natienal convention in 1928. But Mr. Brennan denles firmly that he is a stalking horse for any one in his race {for the Senate. | * % % % ‘The Republican mational organiz- tion, with headquarters in this city, is taking some little sa'isfaction from confidential reports waich are fllter- ing in from North Dzkota. They are more hopeful of ecarrving the State for the “stalwart’” cindidate for the Senate, former Gov. Hanna, on June 30, the date of the special election, than they have been in the past. The reports indicate that the regulars are united practically solidly behind Han- na. There is gossip in the same quar- tera 10 the effect that Senator Gerald P. Nve, who was appointed by Gov. Sorlie to fill the vacancy cauked b; the death of Senator Ladd last Sum- mer, was sent down to Washington last December with the thought in a good many Progressive minds that he would not be seated by the Senste. on the ground that the governor was with- out authority to make appointments to fill temporary vacancies in the Sen- ate. His acceptance by the Senate came somawhat as a shock to others who might, according to the gossip, have had the appointment if they had desired. Be that as it may, there seems to be a onsidersble degree of unanim- ity among the Progressives. or Non- Partisan Leaguers as they are called in North Dakota, supporting Senator Nye. The Non-Partisan League is very strong in the State still. There is no presidential election this vear, with the added strength which a national Republican ticket might give to the staiwart candidate, In addition, Sena- tor Nye is attending to his knitting here in Wasbington and apparently is giving satisfaction to his constitu- ents at home. *oxox % The recent Republican State con- vention in Kentucky went on record as favoring the nomination of Sen- ator Richard P. Frnst to succeed himself. There is a primary election also in Kentucky in August. but it is a foregone conclusion that the primary will ratify what the convention did and Senator KErnst will be formally nominated for the place. The Demo- crats are waiting around for Repre- sentative Alben W. Barkley to an- nounce his intentions with regard to the senatorial nomination. He is re- garded as the most available timber. Kentucky has been regarded by the Democratic forecasters as one of the likely States in which to pick up a senatorial seat now occupied by a Re- publican at the elections in Novem- ber. The State. however, has two Republican Senators today, one elect- ed in the Republican landslide of 1920 and the other elected in the no less imposing Republican landslide of 1924. The Democratic hopes for win- ning control have been based largely on the familiar swing of the political pendu- lum which so frequently has caused trouble for an administration half through its term of office. Such a swing occurred in 1922, but not with quite enotigh force to take the control of Senate and House from the Re- publicans. But the present adminis- tration seems to be holding its own In the affections of the country, and it begins to 'look as though the pendu- lum tould be arrested in its swing, at least for the time being. * ko 8 The more nearly the campaign ap- proaches the more it becomes ap- parent that the contests in various States where there are real contests are to be fought out largely on the “wet” and “‘dr: issue, or on some local issue that has really nothing in common with the national party issues. So far, at least, there seems to be a dearth of national party is- B ‘The Democratic leaders have fallen back on the tfme-honored tariff [ 1ssue. But aven on the tariff ques- tion there seems to have been a con- siderable drawing together of Demo- crats and Republicans. Two f¢ Democratic chairmen of the United States Tariff Commission and the present Democratic viee chairman of that commission have testified at the senatoripl investigation of the ad- ministration of that commisGion that they believe it would cause disaster jn this country to do away with the protective tariff, althpugh they insist they are for lower tariff duties on ‘many of the imports into this country. The people at large can understand pretty well & division along the lines of protection and free trade, but when it comes to a mere difference as to degree of protection the Issue cannot be as clearly drawn. PR Fifteen months after the senatorial elections in Jowa thé Senate has finally taken up for disposition the Brookhart-Steck contest. The battle is on. Senator Brookhart, insurgent Re- publican, is to have greater support in the Senate itself than w sup- posed immediately following the re- port of the committee on privileges and elections, when by a vote of 10 to 1, with two members un- recorded that committee recom- mended the susting of Brookhart and the seating of Steck. Unless report is -n;lrfl{ “::ontl some u{fl:'he !uo%- est Republicans in that hedv are lin- ing o N “‘hfi. and ) of Senate and House | Q. How many medals and degrees has Secretary of Commerce Hoover H. R. A. A complete list has not been compiled. He has degrees from about 30 universities. Many medals and diplomas have been presented to Mr. Hoover, while streets, avenues, high ways, squares and stars bave been named for him. Q. Why are Derbles?—M. H. A. The Derby is an annual horse race at Epsom in Surrey, England, generally on the Wednesday before Whitsuntide. It is named for the founder, the twelfth Earl of Derby (1780). Elsewhere a race called a derby means a race of first impor tance. some races called Q. Do people living in cold climates have thicker blood?—J. € that there ia no truth in the state- ment that persons living in cold climates have thicker blood than those living in warm climates. Q. Were the Haviland potterles de- stroyed during the war? What about their former- patterns?>—C. B. B. A. The Haviland factorl are situ- ated at Limoges, which is far removed from the war zone and were, there- fore, not destroyed during the war. Due to the depletion of the factory's material and personnel, certain shapes and decorations were discontinued, the factory in the meanwhile operating on what could be best made during that time. Q. What is the length of the shore line of the Great lLakes?—M. A. D. A. With their connecting channels they have a shore line of over 8300 miles. The Great Lakes have an area of about 9,500 miles. | Q Please give the first words heard |over a telephone—M. R A. On one hot afternoon, June 1875, the telephone gave forth its firs: sound. a faint twang. The thing seemed «lmost finished to Alexander Graham Bell and his associate, Wat son. but such was not the case. For 40 weaks they labored with the tele phone to try to teach it to talk. Fi nally. on March 160, 1876, it inarticn {late screams, waile and gurgles sud denly gave way to a clear voice. At his end of the wire Watson heard himself addressed by Bell, “Mr. Wat- son, come h T want vou." That was the first message ever conveyed over the wires by a human volce. Q. How does the St. Loui compare with other zoos?—F. I.. P A. The National Zoological Park says that the St. Lonis Zoo cannot be compared with the zoological park maintained by the Government, inas much as the one in St. Louis is in the process of heing developed and at the present tile house. It is said, however. that when all plans are completed the St Louls Zoo will be the finest in the country. At the present, however, the New York Zoological Park, at Bronx N. Y. I8 recognized by some author. ities to be the finest and to have the {largest area. The Philadelphia and | Zoo A. The Public Health Service savs | time has no bird or rep-| ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. the Washington zoos are of ahout the same caliber. Q. How much kept now than they ago?—S. 1. C. A. One hundred years ago degrees was considered a | house temperature. Fireplace: vided the heat in those days. stoves came into use, about 70 years ago, the temperature rose to ahout 62 degrees. With the increasing use of furnaces, some 30 years ago. a heat of 72 degrees was quite usual. | Today a temperature of 70 degrees Is considered standard. armer are houses were 100 years 50 to good pro- When | Q. How much does a hahy elephant | weigh?—G. T. 8. A. The United States Zoological |Park says that the approximate | weight of an elephant at hirth is 160 | to 200 pounds. Q. How does our water supply get from its source to our water tapa’— 13. B. ¥. | A, The water supply |of Washington comes from Great Falle through the condujt to Dale carlia reservoir and then through the conduit to Georgetown reservolr, which is a distance of 2 miles from Great Falls. From here it gnes to the MacMillan reservoir and the raw water is pumped on te the filter and | passes into the filtered water reser voir. It then passes hv gravity | through various sections of the ritv Some of the water is pumped 10 Brightwood reservoir and Reno reser voir. of the % Q. What was the Bacon Rehsllion? |—R. L C. A. Bacon's movement against Sir ley, Governor of Virginia, led by Nathaniel Racon, planter. Q. | Brapevines f—o.3. | A. Tbe Burean of Plant Industr | savs that copper wire may he used {10” support grapevines hile the | copper wire ix more expensiva at firsi. some helieve that it is cheapsr in the Jong run, as it endures longer than galvanized iron. which is used more universally. The zalvanized jron wire needs to he remnved In about three vears. No. 16 wire is the size which is nsed for vinevard trellis Q. When will the Wimbledon ten. nis tournament he held’—M. M. F A. It commences Manday. June 21 1926, and lasts about 10 dave No man can take knowledge frem wou. It is life's oreatest treasure | Knowledge may be acquired hy the | simple eflort of using the free infor- mation service that The Evening Star maintains for the pleasure and proft of its readers. The scope of this | bureau is mational and international. | and no subdiect is too elementary or t0o broad to enlist the personal atten- | tion of a specialist. Send uour query with 2 cents for return postage to Frederic 1. Haskin. director. The | Evening Star Information Burean Washington. . €. Rebellion was the William Berke in 1476, a vouns Is copper wire nsed to support injurfous to the plants | Faith in the judiciary as an institu- tion and a disposition to awalit without prejudice the outcome of trial in the Senate mark comment on the im- peachment of Federal Judge George W. English by the House of Repre sentatives. The press generally ro- frains from passing upon the evidence which brought about the impeach- ment. Some of the charges against Judge English are cnumerated by the Sacra mento Union as follows: Tyrannical and unwarranted disbarment of attor- neys-atlaw in his district of eastern Dlinofs: unlawful permission to his appointee, Charles B. Thomas, referee in bankruptcy, to practice ruptcy cases: doposit of funds con- trolled by the court in banks in which the judge and referee were stockhold ers; contjnued designation of a corpo- ration in which relatives of the judge and the referee were financially int ested as the agency for disposal of assets of bankrupts, and “other im- proprieties and irregularities which thwart justice and prevent its admin- Istration.” The Jamestown Evening Journal, explaining that the alleged irregularities include jury in court and tyrannical attacks on the liberty of the press,” observes that establishment of any of the counts would justify removal. * ook % Referring to the attitude of minority members of the House committee which had charge of the case, in hold- ing that “the judge committed no un- plawful act and that his conduct ‘is susceptible to the best and most hon- est motives, if not commendation,’ the Springfield Union offers the com- diverse conclusions and reports come from the same evidence submitted to the committee when there is nothing to show that partisan or other con- siderations Influenced either the large majority in favor of impeachment or thé small minority in favor of exoner- ation.” “The pride which the American peo- ple take in the Federal whole is well founded Canton Daily News. "“The personnel of our highest court from its organi- zation to the present day has included the ablest legal minds of the times, and in their decisions the foundation stones of American law are lald and secured, against the will of wealth and the wiles of demagogue alike. In this tradition of integrity the American people have restad theii trust, some- times critical of decisions, perhaps, but never, when calm reasoning pre- valls, disposed fo question or permit to be questioned the motives of the court.” The Bloomingion Daily Panta- graph emphasizes the rarity of such proceedings and n that the case of Judge English “will be the firs one of its kind since 1913." * ok ko declares the Intimations having been made on the floor of Congress that Louis Post Dispatch was “persecut ing” Judge English, that paper ex- plains its position and concludes with the statement: “If undertaking the arduous and difficult job of investigs .- ing the judicial conduct of Judge F.ng- lish and the dangerous task of pub. lishing the evidence against him and of alding the judiclary committee in the work of ascertaining the truth is an offense, the Post Dispatch pleads gullty. Judge English must stand or fall on the evidence.' Concurring opinfons that the evi- dence is the important thing come from the Little Rock Arkansas Demo- crat, which says, “The guilt or inno- cence of Judge English remains to be determined”; the Columbus Dispatch, which declares, ““The Senate must, of course, require absolutely convincinzg evidence before it votes for convic- tion,” and the Chicago Daily News, which voices its belief that “mani- he is to have the support of a num- ber of the so-cailed progressive Demo- crats. If the Senate should uphold Senator Brookhart's right to his seat, the privileges and elections committee | will sustain a second blow within a few months. It voted against the seating of Senator Nye of North Dakota almost as decisively as against in bank- | “threatening a | ment, “It is remarkable that two such | udiclary as a | the St.| ‘Engfiéh Impeachment "Trial ~ Awaited Without Prejudice |festly. no Federal official —least of all |a judge—should he impeached on in- | sufficient or dubious evidence: only a | strong presumption of guilt varrants | impeachment proceedings.” “The architects of our Constitu- according to the Miami News, “were forehanded in their provision | for such a court. which would serve {to maintain the integrity of the Fed eral courts, even as the courts them- selves were established and consti tuted with the authority which safe- |&uards the people against the will of an autocratic legislature, tion. * o ox oW United States judge ought fo be a very superior man.” remarks the Topeka Daily Capital. “for certainly he has the opportunity to be a mast oppressive tyrant as well as corrupt.” With this opinion the Pasadena Star News agrees, stating as self-evident corollaries that “it is of parameunt importance that public confidence in the judiciary he maintained, and It |is of - vital importance that the fu- | diciary he worthy of public confle |dence.” The Fort Worth Record-Telagram | would like to helieve that the charges are untrue, for, it afirms: “We do not want our falth in our Fedaral judges shaken. There will hardly he A time in the history of the Nation that we will need that faith more than we need it during these days of uncers tainties, law violations and rapldly changing conditions.” Save the Al bany Knickerbocker Press. “The aw erage of the American judiciary is & high one and it should be sustained at its present level.” * x x % The Richmond News.Leader records that “magazine and newspaper re- ports, indicate that the Illinois judge goes into this fight with his strongest friends, organized labor and the Anti Saloon Leagie, definitely separated from him." Referring to “ludge English's Fng- lish." which is one of the points at issue, the Springfield Daily Repuh- |lican pictures Speaker Longworth as | having heen «© shocked by Judge English's English that he ruled that | House members participating in the | debate should identify his honor's blazing oaths on the bench by their, first letters only or not bring them at all into the discussion.” This paper thinks that it is hard to foretell what the Senate will do about it, hecause “Whether the precedents classify the profanity of the Mississippi River bottome ‘as ‘misdemeanors’ within the meaning of the Constitution, it is hard to say.” e ———— Scholars in Demand. From the Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph. As all are aware, collegés competé keenly with each other fer foot ball players and other promising athletes. Scouts” from the alumni and under- graduatek visit “prep” schools and | size up the material on the teams and, it has been hen offer special in- ducements in the way of expenses and remitted tuition to join fortunes with their Institutions. A dectded variation of this enstom is revorted from New Haven. Comn., where representatives of a score of universities and collezes visited the high school the other day 1o look over members of the senior class, Those distinguished for scholarship or qualities of leadership were presented with arguments why they should en- ter this or that college, whose special advantages were set forth by its rep- resentatives. The occasion, which is to take place annually hereafter, was called ““College-choosing day.” Probably we shall have a long time to wait until scholastic achievements. elicit as. mnch enthusiasm from the student body as those on the gridiron and cinder track., Some-stretch of the imagination is required to picture either alumni or undergraduates root- ing and making a hero of the student who has scored “all A's” throughout his college co k) . But_some old-fashioned folk. who hold the idea that the chief function of a college is not to turn out profes sional athletes. will be encouraged by the news that there is actual rivalry l:wnnmnl those noted for scholar-